400,000 STRIKERS

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19904, 5 June 1936, Page 7

400,000 STRIKERS

TURMOIL IN FRANCE. LIFE IN PARIS DISORGANISID. NEW’ GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER(By Telegraph—Press Association.) (Received June 5, 1 pm.) PARIS. June 4. I-‘x'uncc‘s new Left Government. hmulr-ll h,\' lhe .\Vealmy Socialist, .\L HIIHII. lu-Ik uw‘r from M. Sal‘l‘auf. 10— nighl, amid industrial turmoil unparal—lvllnd in recent years. The city's life was utterly disorganised to—day. Ii is estimated that at least 400,000 have stopped work in lhe city and Its environs.

Food is scarce and prices are prohibitive. while sup-plies of gas and petrol are becoming short. Newspapers are so rare that copies are passed from hand to hand. - \Vork has stopped in most of the film factories and many chain stores. Paris was relieved to learn that the lorry drivers who bring provisions from the goods yards to the market have decided to return to work, so that the position may the eased to-morrow, ihough it cannot be brought back to normal immediately,

Au uuusuAL onml'r. ‘ \\"ILL MEET ON SATURDAY. ADMISSION OF THREE \‘VOMENUnited Press Assn—Elem Tel. Copyright. {Received June 5, 1.5 p.m.) PARIS, June 4. A feature or .\I. Blum's Cabinet is its size, its admission of three women, and its unusual offices. The biggest French Cabinet hitherto was .\L Clemenceau's wartime Cabinet with 32 Ministers and Under-Secre-taries, and the smallest was that of M. Poinmrc in 1926. which had 13, compared with .\I. Blum‘s 35, of whom twenty are Socialists, eleven Radical Snr‘ialists, one Communist and three women who are not members of Parliament.

_\[, 111 nm says he will broadcast tomorrow regarding the Labour confllct. In thé maanlime lhe Ministers of the Interior and Lafiour will take over their offices to-night.

’l‘he newvcghinel will meet in the Chamber on Saturday.

PRESIDENT OF CHAMBER. .\l. IIEfIRIOT ELECTED. THE FLIGHT OF GOLD. United Preu hum—Else. Tel. Copyrlflu (Received June 5, 11.0 am.) PARIS, June 1:. M, Hen-lot has been elected Presi—dent of. the Chamber. France has lost £5,000,0000 worth 01‘ gold in a week. _— FOOD SUPPLIES SHORT. IIELU UP AT STATIONS. .\‘u FISH FOR FAST DAY. ..._... United Press Assn—Else. 'l'el. Copyrlgut. gllecciVed June 5, “.0 am.) PARIS, June 31. There is a likelihood that Paris will be without lish to-morrow, which is (l fast (my. Unix 1:» tons of fish were delivered to the market to—Llay, and these. were quickly sold out, together with 81 tons from Cold store. .\[ust of the great stations are piled with rumistutl's, \\'hirh cannot he [mm-1| ”wing: In the lack of motor \\'uggnus. .\l. iiium‘s .\lintstl')’ \\'ill take up unit-I- 111-night. MIMI it is suggested that it \\ill ln~xi>lute immediately it, end ”I" >tl‘iiit‘. 'l'ht- nvgutiutiuns tor a settlement of the Im:i:l|i\ll':."il':ll .\‘lrilxe Imm lu'uketl tttmn,