Evening star., 1935-12-01
BRITAIN EXPECTED
TOPREVENT STRIKE
IN COAL REGIONS
Scheme for Export Bounties
Regarded as Probability.
Steel Included.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, November 30-Cables
and radio dispatches to Business Week
give the following survey of business
abroad for the week ending today
LONDON-"TheB British do not ex-
pect now that the demand of the coal
miners for wage increases will result
in strike. If employers and miners
are unable to come to terms, 1t is likely
that the government will intervene
London is beginning to believe
however, that the determination oi
the miners to win wage increases will
result in some scheme for export
bounties which will apply to steel as
well as coal.
This will enable Britain to retain
its export markets without having to
attempt to keep miners on an impos-
Sible low wage scale. The government
is prepared to go so far as to national
ize the mines if necessary to prevent
the rearmament program from being
retarded or halted.
The rumor a few weeks ago that
Britain is likely to abandon govern
ment broadcasting is not confirmed on
talks with authorities. There is some
possibility that one broadcasting sta
ton outside the British Broadcastine
Corp. will be allowed, but its programs
will be strictly censored by officials.
There are now % British films ir
course of production in the London
area, comparing with IS at Hollywood
| 1t is twice as many as the number ir
production in any other country out
side the United States. 1t will be in.
creased by the year and when the two
largest British companies-Gaumont'
British and British International
have completed their schedules"
France Faces Crisis.
| PARIS-"France is face to face with
an internal crisis which has, for tht
moment, pushed every external prob
lem into the background.
1T is political. The Laval govern.
ment is supported mainly by the Radi'
cal Socialist party. There are thre,
distinct elements in the opposition
Far to the right is the powerful
though not numerically large, Croi1
de Feu. They are the Fascists d
France. Far to the left are the Com
munists and Socialists who have com
bined, for the moment, in the Common
Front. They are far more numerou!
than the Fascist group and have de.
manded repeatedly that the govern.
ment ban the political leagues, which
means principally the Croix de Feu. i
the two elements of the common from
could bury their differences and agree
on program. they could grab the gov
ernment. For the moment they art
trying to push Laval as far as possible
toward accepting their various de-
mands without really unseating him
with this critical political tension
at the breaking point. the French franc
is again weak. Gold has drained out
of Paris for several weeks, in spite
of the steady increase in the discount
IdVC W, ulVLlldtC4yJ PCl NCAe' -
Laval weathers the storm, Paris au-
thorities believe that France will be
able to cling to gold at least until the
end of the year and some new situation
develops. If he is replaced by gov
ernment of the Left, it is quite possible
that France will be forced to place an
embargo on gold experts"
Reich Business Worried.
BERLIN.-"BusineSs has been stirred
this week by the announcement oi
the Reichsbank that only 20 per cent
of Germany's current exports now
bring free devisen to the country, and
half of this is earmarked for current
interest, 'standstill', and similar pay
ments. This means that barely 10 pei
cent of the proceeds Of exports are free
for use by the Reichsbank to pay fol-
raw materials which cannot be secured
in countries with which Germany has
clearing agreements.