Evening star., 1938-11-14
Da|adier ATTEMPTS
To Quiet Foes of
Finance Reforms
Second Set Of DEGREES
Abandoned in Effort
To Calm Opposition
BACKGROUND

bAC n h1nOONO-
French defense ueakness re-
pedled at time OF Csechoslopak
crisis led to grant of decree poU-
erS to Ddladier government in
october to carry out SWeepinq
financial and economic reforms
Nth the purpose OF strengthen
ing detenseS. Saturday Premier
Ddlddler issued 80 DEGREES, re-
ualulng franc and modifying 40
hour Weck in practice. Decree
po1UerS erpire tomorrow.
bs the Assoc:a ateo Press.
PARIS, Nov. l4.-The Daladier
government undertook today to quiet
opposition to Finance Minister Paul
Reynauds financial and economic
program by limiting its immediate
operation to the 80 decree laws
adopted Saturday and published this
afternoon in the official journal.
With his basic financial decree
powers expiring tomorrow, Premier
Edouard Daladier had been expected
to call cabinet meeting today to
issue second series of measures
for guided" French economy with
government direction of business
and industry.
No More DEGREES Coming.
However. a communique from the
premlers office announced that no
more DEGREES would be formulated
and any further reforms found nee
essary would be submitted to Par
lament for enactment. No date has
been fixed for the return of Parlia-
ment.
FINANCIAL sources expressed the
belief that the expected second
series of DEGREES was dropped to
avoid another split in the cabinet
such as that which occurred earlier.
causing M. Reynaud to replace Paul
Marchandeau as finance minister.
The government also was under
stood to be seeking to avoid arous-
ing any further animosity from
Left Wing Socialists and Com
munists already protesting the eco
nomic DEGREES as favoring capital at
labors expense.
The General Confederation of La
Dor, now holding a convention at
Nantes. is expected to express SINH
lar opposition
Call for Fight on Daladier.
The official newspapers of both
Socialist and Communist parties
which together hold 228 seats of the
618 in the Chamber of Deputies
called for fight to the finish"
against the Daladier government
and declared the General Confed-
Grafton of Labor, with 100000
members. would join them.
Both the Socialist LIE Popllaire.
edited by former Premier Leon
Blum, and the Communist LHu-
mantle declared the Leftist parties
would seek immediate convocation
OF Parliament where they would
try to overthrow Premier Edouard
Daladier.
Spokesmen of the leftist parties
declared the measures hit workers
harder than other classes.
N. Blum, speaking at Lille yester-
day, called the program "a simple
political exhibition and charged the
DEGREES seemed to have preserved
only little" of the social legislation
passed under his first Peoples Front
government in 1886.
Called 3-Year Plan.
M. Daladier, who intimated he
expected to remain in power, called
the program "three-year plan"
and declared in effect that it marked
the last chance under democratic
methods to save the nation from COL
lapse.
M. Reynaud himself painted pic
ture of financial and economic COL
lapse, with the franc at 80 to the
dollar, unless the program is sup
ported by the entire nation.
Although comment was generally
laudatory in the press. most of which
has close ties with the government,
many bankers and economic OBJ
servers called the program "just
another plan" pointing out that its
features have been embodied in most
government projects over the past
few years.