To [Support Seamen in Protest Demonstration Paris, Dec. 4.
While the three great liners, Nor-manche, Ile de France and Paris, as well as thirty other ships were tied up in Lo Havre and Boulogne today, dock-workers considered plans to stage a strike in sympathy with the seamen. If the strike eventuates on Monday as planned, it would tie up all major French ports on the Atlantic.
The Ministry of Marine has ordered judicial action against the leaders of the Normandie strike, after having ordered the dismissal of all Normandie workers who struck.
In the Paris region river bargeman protested against the Government's action at Lo Havre but the bargeman withheld definite strike actión.
Government officials today insisted that 80 per cent. of the nation's workers would be at work tomorrow, although the situation was still acute in Lille, Valenciennes and in other industrial zone areas.
It was announced that the Renault automobile and arms plants planned to resume operations tomorrow with 30000 workers.
The Government also said that striking dock workers at La Pallice and Dieppe would resume work tomorrow.—United Press,
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