Evening star., 1936-06-06
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, June 6.-FranceS Socialist
premier, Leon Blum, went before Par
lament today with a new deal pro-
gram intended to satisfy labor's de-
mands, revive business and relieve the
farmer
Peace for all Europe through COL
lective security was announced as his
foreign policy in the ministerial
declaration to Parliament.
simultaneously Blum took action to
break a nation wide strike of nearly
one million workers, to revise the gov
ernment's financial structure and to
coordinate Frances national defense.
Blum warned Parliament he would
ward of any ATTACK on democratic
institutions"-meaning an attempted
dictatorship-"with a force in propor-
ton to the threats or the resistance"
He told Parliament his STRONGLY
Socialistic cabinet, ''in full co-opera-
ton with you, seeks to revive French
economy, to wipe out unemployment,
to increase purchasing power and to
provide little well-betng and security
for those who, by their labor, create
the real wealth"
New strikes were started in many
sections Of the country even as the
premier spoke.
Workers Joined the strike ranks in
Versailles, st. Gernain, Meudon. st.
Cloud and in other Paris suburbs.
In the neighborhood of Rouen more
than $4,000 workers struck At Arras,
in the north, the strike reached the
coal mines. A few plants in and
around Paris settled the strike this
morning, but at least so others were
added to the striking list.
Strike Spreading.
Steel mills, synthetic gasoline plants,
chemical factories, dye works and
power plants Joined the movement in
the north in a series of towns and
cities.
Blum failed to make any mention
Of war debts in his declaration.
He promised to publish within a
few days "the first balance sheet of
the economic and financial situation"
Said Blum: THE government is not
fooling itself on either the nature or
the seriousness of the difficulties
awaiting it. 1t does not intend to
hide them from the country any more
than from ITSELF"
Blum warned against ohStructionist
tactics and suggested Parliament
would understand how perilious it
would be to disappoint the eager hope
OF the entire nation for relief. chance
and renewal"
To Parliament he handed the task
Of passing labor laws granting three
demands of striking workers whose
numbers were estimated near 1,000.0 900.
On the financial front, he ousted
Jean Tannery, veteran financial ex-
pert, from the position as governor of
the Bank of France and installed
Emile Labeyre, attorney of the Gen.
eral Court of Accounts.
Under former Premier Edouard
Daladier he co-ordinated Frances ma
tional defenses in the first decree
adopted by the new Socialist cabinet.
Aid for Needy.
The Ieftist administration also be-
gan consideration of aid for needy
families Of strikers. Blum, Finance
Minister Vincent Auriol and Labor
Minister ]. 3. Lebas considered q plan
to reimburse communities for funds
spent for relief.
Labeyre, the bank chief, Is SO years
old and former secretary-general Of
the ministry of finance. He Travelled
In Indo- China on a financial mission
In 1902 and later became head Of the
permanent staff of the colonial min
istry.
The possibility that Premier Blum
was looking to the Bank of France
Tor funds to keep the national treas
ury running was suggested In finan-
cial circles, where 1t was said the
bank already was covering a growing
deficit by printing new bank notes.
Authorities estimated the bank is
holding more than $4,000, 900 900
francs (ss58. .o0o,oo0) in treasury
bonds or drafts.
One critic of imitation predicted
the Government some day would have
to choose between outright devalu-
alton or currency restrictions. He
said the massive created Of new bank
notes" as well as the high prices in
france compared to the price level
OF the rest Of the world was causing
pressure on the franc.
Premier Blum announced he would
introduce into parliament next week,
oils providing for the following:
Po1tical amnesty, demanded parti-
cularly by the communists: a 40-hour
week for labor; collective labor con-
tracts; paid vacations; q public works
plan including scientific laboratories;
sports facilities and tourist attrac-
tions; naturalization of the arma-