Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-10
LAVAL THREATENS
DICTATORSHIP IF
STRIFE CONTINUES
Yelled Warning in Demand
That Recovery DEGREES
Be Accepted.
FATE OF REGIME AND
OF NATION AT STAKE
Rioting at Toulon and Brest
Blamed to Professional Agi-
tators by Officials.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, August 10.-Premier Pierre
Laval gave warning today that dc
tatorship of France was not unlikely
If present measures fail in the en-
forcement of his recovery DEGREES,
which have already caused disorder
and bloodshed.
The warning, yelled but unmistak-
able. was contained in his inslstent
demands that his unpopular DEGREES
be accepted.
The fate of the regime and the life
of the country are at stake, he told
a gathering of all but one of France
IS projects Lacking dictatorial pow
ers himself, the premier made the
provincial governors share the re-
sponsibility of preventing the "dra-
matte situation"
Fear of further disorders over the
governments effort to find way
out of the depression through de-
flation subsidized, however, as investi-
eating officials blamed few profess
sional agitatorS for the rioting at
Toulon and Brest.
Guards Sent to TOulon.
ReinforcementS of 1000 mobile
guards were sent to Toulon to guard
against a recurrence of last nights
rioting when we're killed and from
so to 200 injured. Other ports ap-
peared to have settled down to normal
work.
Trade unions deplored the dis
orders because they were exploited by
their "adverseries" Appeals to end
the street fighting were made by the
Socialist and Communist parties in
posters in Toulon. The posters said
there had been enough bloodshed."
Opposition to the DEGREES continued,
however, as left wing and popular
front" posters urged the workers to
hold themselves in readiness to fight
for their demands. A meeting of war
veterans scheduled for Sunday at
Toulon to protest the DEGREES and the
cutting of pensions was officially for
pldden.
It is the governments intention to
carry out its recovery program, official
utterances indicated. The real work
ers' were exonerated from all blame
for the outbreaks in numerous state
ments by officials, while Laval asked
the country's confidence in DEGREES
designed to revive trade, reduce the
cost Of living and stimulate employ
ment
Whether the DEGREES will succeed is
problematical, say even moderate COM
mentators, because of their unpopu-
larity, but they are generally termed
the first real effort to combat the
depression in France" The govern
ment, having promulgated them, has
indicated its conviction that they
must be firmly enforced. Any alter
native would be to risk even more
serious trouble than the recent spo-
radio outbreaks.
Liner Champlain Sails.
The strike of the French Line ended
with the sailing of the liner Champ
lain for New York. More than 800
passengers were held up two days by
the strike. The line agreed to COM
pensate the sailors for the wage cuts.
Police sought out the leaders of the
disturbances in Toulon and arrested
40 persons.
Premier Laval summoned the pre-
fects to organize them in the cam
paign to see that living costs are re-
duced in line with the wage cuts. A
committee was appointed to set the
tariffs, much in the manner of Great
Britain.