STRIKES IN FRANCE
TRADE UNION LEADER ADMITS FAILURE INDUSTRIAL SITUATION IMPROVING. REJECTION OF AMNESTY PROPOSAL. { By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. PARIS, December 7. A confession of failure was made by M Jouhaux, secretary-general of the Trade Union Confederation, at a meeting of the trade union executive today. He said it was useless to persist with the weapon of occupation of factories, to which public opinion was opposed. Similarly the Labour attitiide to strikes needed revision. Labour was too prone-to regard them from a spectacular point of view. M Jouhaux expressed the opinion that the confederation would enter a period of impotence if it supported a continuance of agitation. Meanwhile, the industrial situation throughout France is improving. In the Valenciennes district 180,000 men are working out of a total of 250,000, but there are still 18,000 strikers in the Lyons area, including 2000 dismissed men.
Disturbances occurred in Denain today, where strike leaders were arrested, including one of the seamen’s leaders at Havre. •
The Finance Commission of the Chamber, by 26 votes to 16, rejected a proposal to submit a Bill to Parliament for a general amnesty for all connected with the strike.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1938, Page 7
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