RELENTLESS WARFARE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 9

RELENTLESS WARFARE

FRENCH SOCIALISTS

AVENGING VICTIMS OF STRIKE

REPARATION DEMAND

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) PARIS, December 3. Socialist leaders throughout Fiance, in impassioned speeches, declared war against the Government today. M. Blum, leader of the Socialist Party, told a party meeting that he would not rest till he had obtained reparation for the strike victims.' M. Paul Faure, General Secretary of the Socialist Party, declared that the acceptors of M. Daladier's measures were ripe for every kind of slavery and loss of rights. He was resolved on relentless warfare while a single strike victim remained. The Premier, M. Daladier, in a statement, said that though the events of November 30 legally broke individual labour contracts they did not modify or suspend collective contracts. Consequently they would not change the material conditions of work, which the Government hoped would be resumed normally. WATERFRONT STRIKE. M. Daladier has requisitioned ships in the harbour in an attempt to break the strike at Le Havre. Dockers and seamen strikers at Le Havre exceeded 5000 and over 20 steamers are held up. : It is believed that the strike may tie up all ports in addition to Le Havre. Boulogne, Bordeaux, and Dieppe are already affected. I The authorities have arrested two secretaries of the Seamen's Union and issued a warrant for the arrest of a third.