The strike situation in Northern France remains for the time being the most interesting and important of all subjects of discussion in French press and political quarters.
So far from weakening, the strike, which on Monday entered upon'its fourth week, is growing in intensity and is moreover broadening into a national issue which is chiefly due to the intransigeant attitude of the textile employers who curtly turned down all suggestions of mediation, a stand which is severely criticized by the majority of the newspapers including "Lo Petit Parisien" which champions. the workers cause and condemns the:
loyers, declaring that the strikers are fully justified in th demands—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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