FRENCH STRIKE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 136, 6 December 1938, Page 12

FRENCH STRIKE

THOUSANDS STILL IDLE

TRADE UNION ATTITUDE

FACED BY WAVE" OF

REPRESSION

(By Telegraph -

Press Assui'iation-

-Cnpyriglit.)

(Received December 6, 2 p.m.)

PARIS, December 5

The industrial upheaval caused by the genera] strike has not yet t died down. Many thousands of workers ara still idle, though the vast majority ara again working. , Most of the textile workers in. the ! Lille, Roubaix, and Tourcoing area preisented themselves for work, but many ! decided at the last minute not to enter !the factories. • j Four thousand engineering workers ; have been taken on at St. Nazaire, leaving 10,000 still idle. Pickets, prevented men entering the ironworks at Nantes. The dockers at' Le Havre, Dieppe, Boulogne, Marseilles, and Bordeaux are working, but 600Q seaimen have decided to continue the i strike until the arrested leaders are (released and the penalties removed 'from the workers who struck on November 30. The Minister of Merchant Marine, Viscount Chappdelaino, refused to see a delegation until tha seamen return to work. I M. Leon Jouhaux, at a meeting of v the executive of the Federation of Trade Unions, declared: > "We ara facing an obvious wave of repression. The Government and employers ar» evidently trying to decapitate the trade union movement."