Paris, June 21.
Following all night negotiations, an accord has finally been reached" between striking" department—store workers and their employers, by the terms of which the 26,000 workers who have refused to function at their Jobs for the past eighteen days will return to their regular tasks to-morrow morning. A similar accord was also reached regarding chain stores.
At the same time, pourparlers which were being carried on between dock workers and. their employer thas struck a serious snag,—and negotiations have been broken off for the present, The metallurgical industry is back in full swing again in the Depart ments of Loire and Bas-Rhin in Alsace, as are electrical plants in Montpellier and Marseilles, "Instances where the strike has broken out within the past few days in every concern only small enterprises Havas,
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