Paris, June 14, 'A pleasant week-end feeling of re~ lief follows.the settlement of the major strikes in France, though some sectional strikes have not yet been veoncluded, Events, however, are tending to bear onl! the prediction of Int. Leon Blum, the Premier, to the effect that all will be normal ut the beginning of the week. to make the curbing of monopolies one of the outstanding principles of his Administration.
Speaking informally at a luncheon here tonday, the President definitely pledged that the United States wax Snot going to get tangled up" in the diMeulties besetting certain nations of Burope and A:
This country, he declared, hoped to the helpful in international affairs by setting an example of unity, coration and friendship, but added.
help is going to be confined to moral help."
Later in the day, addressing an audience of cheering thousands at the Cotton Bow! stadium, Mr. Roosevelt bluntly Issued a warning that unless monopoly is curbed, the United States Will be faced with the prospect of becoming a nation of boardinghouses Instead of homes. Attacking the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, he pledged himself to the protection of small business and labour.
Democracy Being Restored net result of monopoly of econo and. financial control in the inds of a few has been the owner~ ship of labour as a commodity," he declared. "If the people ever' submit to that, they are saying goodbye to their historic freedom. Men do not fight for boarding houses, but they fight for homes."
The President's remarks were intorpreted as a forthright defence of four years of experimentation with economic reform. "To-day we have restored democracy in government. We are in the process of restoring democracy in opportunity," he declared.
his speech, Mr, Roosevelt reerated that certain complex problems ate so broad that they can solved by Federal action alone. The more progressive states may do their share, he said, but, unless the action of the states is substantially uniform ard simultaneous, the effectiveness of the reform is nullified and erippled "by the chisellers who, like Trany other evil-doers are, alas, still with us."—United Press.
Now strikes are beginning to break out in the provinces, but in Amiens, Toulouse, Toulon and elsewhere the owners of big shops have vraferred to tive thei star allah. sin close their premises instead oF risking a The movement has now sprend even to Moroeeo—Reuter, Eyen in the lunatic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, Marion A, Zioncheck, Washington's eccentric Congressman, continues to make news. On June 9 he smashed a Window and screens in his hospital Foam, and, in the absence of his male nurse, jumped a few fect to the ground and strolled through the has pital grounds in his bare feet. He was wearing a flowing bathrobe and smoking a large black cigar
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