PROTEST STRIKE
BY WORKERS IN LYONS AGAINST SUBSERVIENCE TO GERMANY. LAVAL’S LATEST ORDERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, October 15. Workers in Lyons, in unoccupied France, have come out on strike as a protest against M. Laval’s efforts to send them to Germany. Only last week the Mayor of Lyons was arrested on Laval’s orders.
(With a population of over half a million, Lyons is an important industrial and commercial centre).
Laval was recently informed by the Reich that compulsion would be used if 150,000 French workers did not volunteer for Germany by today. Now he has been publicly given another 16 clays to try again. The indemnity payable by France to Germany during the first half of 1942 amounted to about £315,000,000, according to a statement, in the House of Commons by Mr Dingle Foot. Of this sum probably £100,000,000 was spent on the upkeep of Germany's army of occupation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1942, Page 3
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151PROTEST STRIKE Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1942, Page 3
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