SPLIT ON POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1938, Page 5

SPLIT ON POLICY

TWO FRENCH MINISTERS RESIGN NEW LABOUR CONDITIONS CRITICISED VACANCIES AT ONCE FILLED By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 10.5 a.m.) PARIS, August 22. As a result of Mr Daladier’s broadcast address, M Ramadier, Minister for Labour and Mr Frossard, Minister for Public Works, have resigned. They complained that they had not been consulted about the speech, in which labour policy was radically altered, and they objected to any modification of the forty-hour week. They also complained of the calling out of Senegalese troops to unload ships rendered idle by the Marseilles Dockers’ strike. Mr Demonzie (Public Works) and M Pomaret (Labour), have been appointed to the vacancies.

VIEWS OF PARTIES. RIGHT WING AND POPULAR FRONT. PARIS, August 21. The reference by M. Daladier, French Premier, to stabilisation and the gold coverage of the franc is interpreted here as an intention to revalue the Bank of France’s gold stocks, which would enrich the country to the extent of £110,000,000, apart from the profit derived from writing up the exchange equalisation fund. Right Wing papers welcome the broadcast, but the Popular Front condemns the jettisoning of the 40-hour week, accusing M. Daladier of selling the workers to the moneyed classes, who are the real betrayers of the country, by currency speculation and the sending out of capital. GENERAL STRIKE. THREATENED BY DOCKERS. MARSEILLES, August 22. The dockers are threatening a general strike at all French ports owing to resentment felt at the employment of troops to unload ships.