Evening star., 1942-10-18
Fighting French Urge
People 10 Resist
Nazi Labor Draft
Broadcast Asks People
To Organize Opposition to
Moves Of 'Viehy Gong
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE Fighting
French tonight famed the growing
discomfort in France by direct ap-
peal to people of the France oc-
cupied by Vichy" as we'll as to those
of the German-occupied zone, to
offer organized resistance against
attempts of "the Vichy gang" to
supply French workers for the Nazi
war industry.
The appeal, made on French
language broadcasts of the British
radio, urged the French Empire and
the French fleet ito throw all their
power into the balance of victory"
1t called especially for a cam
paign of sabotage in all possible
forms.
THE employer who prevents his
workers from being conscripted, L."
it said, "the farmer who engages
unemployed, the patriot who aids a
worker to escape, the functionary
who misplaces a document, the po-
liceman who sabotages an order
from Vichy; in brief, the French
man who places a grain of sand in
the wheels of the internal machin-
cry has been faithful to France"
No Zones In Resistance.
Declaring there are no zones" in
resistance, the broadcast said "the
France of today is in open war with
the anti-French of Vichy on the
same basis that it is with the en-
emy"
The appeal came as reports from
the continent said German execu-
tion squads continued their pro-
gram of pacification" in occupied
countries and that unrest was grow
ing hourly in France where the
population was beginning to rebel
against sending their workers to
Germany.
In France, where the police and
legionnaires of the Laval govern
ment were attempting to force
arbitrarily selected workers to go to
Germany, at least SIS persons have
been killed in disorders, the London
Times reported. Several hundred,
it was said, were injured, and both
occupied and unoccupied sections
started the week end in a restive
mood
The Times said the killings oc-
CURED at Lyon and Amberieu. This
evening Vichy officially denied that
"55 had been killed." but the state
ment indirectly acknowledged there
were strike troubles" at both cities.
More Killings in Belgrade.
Additional executions were re-
ported from Belgrade, capital of
Yugoslavia, while German authori-
ties threatened "severest reprisals'
if disturbances, acts of sabotage and
opposition continue.
In Belgium the threat of re-
prisals and the holding of hostages
backfred when Germans attempted
to force striking coal miners at
Roux, Souvret, Anderlues and Ba-
scoup back into the pits, the Bel.
gian news agency said, The Ger
mans, this agency reported, seized
hostages. But the miners, instead
of yielding to Nazi pressure, threat
ened to call a nationwide strike,
and to prevent complete stoppage
of coal production the Germans re-.
leased the hostages.
The miners, the Belgian news
agency said, struck in protest
against dangerous working condi-
tions and long hours. Because OF
lack of materials there were in
sufficient pit props, but the Ger
mans need for coal was said to be
so great that they insisted on oper-
ating the mines despite the hazards
involved.
In London the unrest in France
was attributed in part to the world
wide strategy Of the Allies to pro-
mote internal disorders in all regions
occupied by the Axis. The indie
pendent French news agency,
mouthpiece of the Fighting French,
called this "a most critical moment
in the war" and SAID dissatisfaction
had been increased considerably the
last month under direction of Gen.
Charles De Gaulle's French National
Committee.
No Reference to Arms.
The French agency made no refer
ence to the alleged dropping Of
arms and explosives over France
by Allied planes, as was charged
yesterday by the Vichy cabinet.
Should the Nazis resort to force
to. drag French workers to Germany
"they will only introduce into their
own war factories as many enemies
and potential saboteurs as laborers, -
the agency observed,
British correspondents of the
French frontier were suggesting in
dispatches that the labor conscrip-
ton troubles may be the beginning
of the end of Pierre Laval An i'm
preston grew that If he does not