Evening star., 1938-11-26
By the Associated Press,

der 10 promote t1dr material pro.
duction.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Nov. 26.-Government au-
thorities. declaring strikes in North
ern France virtually terminated"
today, disclosed $4,000 striking
miners had been modified and that
all occupied factories and mines had
been evacuated without disorder.
Ofhcials said military and police
action had reduced to less than TO-
600 the number of strikers and that
all had been forced to quit their
plants.
Apparently accepting the fact
that strikes are not permitted by
the government, labor representa-
tiveS issued orders for miners of the
great Amin coal basin to begin work
Monday as usual and for metal
workers to 60 back to their jobs
Monday provided no penalties are
exacted by employers.
Aliens Activity Banned.
Special instructions from Paris to
Valenciennes authorities ordered
immediate expulsion" of foreigners
who engage either In strikes or in
agitation.
This would affect principally
about 5000 Polish coal miners who
work in the region. The govern
ment order was designed to prevent
trouble from foreigners who cannot
be mobilized into the army and thus
compelled to work.
Labor representatives said work
had been started by small number
of employees in several metal plants.
Military authorities declared 506
railway workers on the Amin line
who did not comply with mobiliZa-
ton instructions yesterday would be
tried by newly set up military
courts.
Army Chiefs Called.
Army leaders were summoned to
confer with the Premier on meas
ures to cope with the general strike
called for next Wednesday by the
General Confederation of Labor.
The confederation has 100000
members.
Members of his cabinet said M.
Daladier was ready Ito employ
every method to prevent" the gen.
eral strike Gems. Victor Bourrest
and Jules De Camp were instructed
; to have the army in readiness.
Growing seriousness of the domes-
tic crisis, which started as protest
against M. Daladier's financial de-
crees raising taxes and abandoning
the 40-hour work week, was stressed
by the Socialist ex-Premier, Leon
Blum.
. Bluntly telling M. Daladier to
"get out" or face the possibility of
revolution, M. Blum wrote in the
newspaper LIE Populaire, "You have
chosen route with only one exit
violent social conflict,
Blum Arrest Plan Reported.
M. Blum's warning came after
Deputies reported M. Daladier was
planning to arrest M. Blum if labor
agitation increases and also to take
into custody Maurice Thorez, Com
munist leader, and Leon Jouhaux,
president of the General Federation
of Labor.
They said he was ready to apply
a state of siege to the nation, mean
ing control of the entire country by
the army.
Incoming and outgoing cables and
kilograms were subjected to censor
ship. Paris railway stations were
patrolled by armed mobile guards
to prevent a recurrence of railway
workers demonstrations against the
Premier.
Hundreds Are Jailed.
Hundreds of strikers were Jailed
throughout the nation on charges
ranging from disorderly conduct to
armed rebellion"
Despite the formal demand from
the Socialist party, largest in the
Chamber of Deputies, for his resig-
nation, M. Daladier studied the
possibility of mobilizing into the
army all railway, post office, trans
portation, water, gas and electricity
workers. Using such a wartime
measure would make workers, in
cluding women, subject to severe
prison terms if they failed to COM
ply.
M. Blum is scheduled to broad
cast to the nation at 1890 pm.
G:30 pm. E. S. T0, but it was
reported in Chamber circles that
the government was considering
banning his speech. Finance Min
lister Paul Reynaud is to make a
radio speech and it was reported
the premier, too, might broadcast.