Evening star., 1938-11-28
DaIadier Divides
Workers, Called 10
General Strike
Opposition Increasing
To WoIkout Within
Workers Ranks
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Ne1D social conflict has arisen
in France as result OF Premier
Daladier's notification of 40-hour
week and other social reforms.
Powerful General Confederation
of Labor has called general strike
for Wednesday. Premier Ddlddier
has Uarned he 1Dill use against
strikers po1Der to mobilize work.
ers as part OF the military.
By the Associated Press.
! PARIS, Nov. 2S.-The Daladier
governments campaign today open
ed gaps in labor lines drawn up for
a 24-hour strike Wednesday.
| Labor Minister Charles Pomaret
announced he had received assur-
ances that department stores, banks
and insurance companies all would
remain open despite the strike call
issued by the General Confedera-
ton of Labor
Independent unions. including the
General Confederation of Christian
Workers, also proclaimed opposition
to the strike. called to protest Pre-
mier Daladier's labor finance poll
cies.
The deadlock between the gov
ernment and the principal unions
persisted. however.
The unions determination to
strike and the governments in
sistence that public services be
maintained aroused widespread ap-
prehension. Appeals were made to
both sides to avoid any dangerous
action.
Among the main unions are those
OF factory workers, miners and pub
lie service employees, including rail-
road, subway and bus workers.
May Mobilize Workers.
M. Daladier has been given decree
authority to mobilize railroad work.
ers-in effect. to place them under
array discipline and subject them
to army penalties-but he has not
put his power into force.
Deputies of the Socialist union
| 6A0A JOAAACN wal VCVC1 dllS AL Oil dpe
peal to both sides for peace. The
Socialist union proposed to send
a delegation to the Premier asking
a session of Parliament December
IL to rule on the decree laws and
to Leon Jouhaux, head of the Con-
federation of Labor, to ask a post
ponement of the Wednesday strike.
Labors impatience was shown.
however, by new strike at Dunk
cirque. where 5000 metal workers
struck in protest against the gov
ernment's policies.
Interior Minister Albert Sarraut,
returning from the funeral of Kamal
Ataturk, late President of Turkey,
at Ankara resumed his Office and
conferred with the Premier.
The government was understood
to be preparing to follow up its
weekend appeals to the nation
against the strike and to be pre-
pared, If necessary, to puts subways,
buses, telephones and radio under
military control.
q. The National Confederation of
War Veterans, representing 5000, 900
members, called on M. Daladier to
seek all means of calming the ma
tons emotions and of appeasing the
social conflict"
The labor unions were asked to
reconsider the danger Of general
action, which, pushed to the limit,
would compromise the security of
the nation"
The situation this morning in the
industries crippled last week by
strikes was more nearly normal
Thirty thousand miners returned
to the pits near Douai and Valen-
ciennes, under instructions from
their unions to work until Wednes-
day.
Two thousand railroad men, man.
ming lines from the mines to canals,
worked normally after having re-
sumed service Saturday under mill
tary orders
The metal workers unions author
lied a return to work in factories
where employers would agree to dis
cussion on the problem of longer
hours and promise not to penalize
strikers. About 1000 of total of
$4,000 metallurgists resumed work.
Face Five-Year Terms.
Railroad workers were notified by
the government they would face
penitentiary terms up to five years
if they refused to work after being
mobiliZed into the army.
/ A step toward compromise was
seen last night in Premier Dala-
dier's radio broadcast The Premier
disclaimed all wishes to become a
dictator and declared that the un-
popular decree laws could be
changed by Parliament when it
meets in December If the Deputies
| chose.