The Archive · 1936

Strike Crisis in France Over

Premier Reports to Chamber of Deputies who internal crisis provoked by Boris, Aug. 7 the recent slay-in-strikes has now been entirely overcome," M. Leon Blum, Premier, declared yesterday during @ debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the strike situation.

"The Government is well entitled to be proud of its activities which, by conciliatory and purely peaceful means, put an end to a most serious situation," M, Blum added, 'M, Blum took the floor after M. Roger Salengro, Home Minister, replying to a Rightist deputy, had given a detailed account of the Strikes, which showed that only 4,100 workers are still participating in the stay-in-strikes, as compared with a {otal of 1,000,000 strikers during the Peak of the movement.

Following the explanations given by the Government, the Chamber, by a vole to 381 to 197, expressed its confidence in the present Cabinet Havas.

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