FRENCH TAXATION

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1933, Page 6

FRENCH TAXATION

STRONG OPPOSITION EXPRESSED

WIDE PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS

(United Press. Association—By Electric.

Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received this day at 1.32 p.m.) PARIS, February 19

An appeal. to. the country to he calm, reasonable and disciplined was made by AJ. Daladier in the Senate., when condemning the shopkeepers for closing yesterday owing to till© civil servants threatening to strike as tt protest against the Government’s economies and taxation.

He added -that neither-fhe Government nor Parliament intended to deliberate milder; menace# oi those demonstrations... ■ “It .is unnecessary for the Government to prove.th e interest-We take id all .classes of citizens. The strike of the c(vi:l servants, who have a contract with the state which' is in an unwelcome financial position, is less black than it is painted. The moral -crisis is r e allygraver than material.” Meanwhile " civil servants throughout thp country are determined to demonstrate ltd-morrow against the five to ten per cent, cuts, The Government offices will cease work fo r an hour; board schools for half an hour; and Trams, buses rind railways for ton minutes. Ik is declared that these are on\y the prelude to more drastic methods. -Ex-servicemen - are ‘orgariisiog a march through Parisian streets,^ Businessman -in Marseilles, following a monster meeting, decided to finally warn the Government oi' its resolution to oppose every means of further taxation. Delegates of shopkeepers and manufacturers' ’‘ throughout 'the south have supported, the resolution.