Aviation Workers Strike in France Against Retrenchment
Thirteen thousand workers are striking at the National Aviation Industry plant and 20,000 at the Renault plant in protest at the standing down of 1700 employees following a Government order to reduce Government pay-rolls. One thousand strikers clashed with 500 police near the centre of Paris to-day when strikers demonstrated outside the headquarters of the National Aviation Industry afer the company executives had refused to see them; The strikers reformed each time the police broke them up. They tore up iron grilles round tree-trunks, broke them into fragments, and threw them at the police. Thirty strikers were seriously injured and 15 police were taken to hospital. The rioting subsided after an hour.
Government’s Confidence Vote
' PARIS, Sept 15. The National Assembly gave Dr. Oueuuille’s: new Government a confidence vote of 335 for and' 225 against on its first appearance before Parliament.
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Grey River Argus, 17 September 1948, Page 5
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