TTER AFTERMATH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1938, Page 6

TTER AFTERMATH

;KOUT FOLLOWS STRIKE 4 . IN FRANCE * .aRGE EMPLOYERS ALLEGE / BREACH OF CONTRACT. TENSION IN INDUSTRIAL TO WlnS. By Telegrapn— tress Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) PARIS, December 1. The aftermath of the strike is proving bitter for thousands who obeyed their union leaders. Many big employers throughout the country contend that the strike was a rupture of collective agreement, entailing dismissal and re-engagement under a new contract. The workers refuse to agree to this, on the ground that they would thus lose the right to twelve days’ paid holiday and must begin afresh to acquire seniority. Lockouts have been proclaimed in many works and factories until the situation is cleared up. Strikers in some industries have been summarily dismissed. The result is a strained atmosphere in a number of large industrial towns, where the police and Mobile Guards are still guarding the factories. A body of 2500 dismissed strikers at Grenobles fought through a cordon of police and did considerable damage to the works.

The admiral in charge of the L’Orient Arsenal has ordered the dismissal of three thousand men, who must apply for re-engagement. The strikers at the Naval Arsenal at Brest lost two days’ pay. Ten thousand workers at the naval .shipyards at Saint Nazaire unexpectedly struck in the afternoon, owing to the authorities relusing to re-engage some men who are allegedly agitators.

Roubaix workers demonstrating against the new contract agreed to submit to Government arbitration. Three tnousand men, allegedly agitators or pickets, were dismissed in the Toulouse district. A number of aeroplane and metal works at Marseilles have not reopened. Twelve hundred demonstrators marched against Raismes, stoning the Guards, who used the butts of their rifles until reinforcements drove off the attackers. M. Jouhaux, secretary-general of the Trades Union Executive, affirms ’hat the- Confederation of Labour will pursue its policy until the decrees against the workers are withdrawn. STATE ACTION AGAINST PUBLIC SERVICE STRIKERS. DISMISSALS & SUSPENSIONS. By Telesraph—Press Association—Copyright , (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) PARIS, December 1. M. Daladier, after a conference with the Minister of Justice and others, issued a communique which, after stating that the strike in the public services, though small, cannot go unpunished. cancels the appointments held in the Bank of France, Railways and other State organisations, of State officials who disobeyed the requisition order, dismisses a few civil servants and assistants belonging to the General Administration and suspends the cay of others pending a final decision. It is understood that after this order, M. Jouhaux, who is a director of the Bank of France, and M. Semard, secretary of the Railwaymen’s Union, who is a director of the National Railways, are dismissed from these posts. M. Daladier has decided to summon Parliament on December 8, subject to the Finance Committee's examination of the Budget being sufficiently advanced; consequently the Socialists have cancelled their meeting on December 2.

M. Reynaud, in a speech at the American Club, dealt optimistically with the financial position and stressed the fact that capital was flowing back to France.