The Archive · 1937

Violence Paris Cafe Strike

Police Intervene and Warn Rioting Mobs Paris, July 18.

The French government is determined to make the utmost effort for the termination of the hotel and cate strike, the Premier, M. Camille Chautemps, stated to-day in an interview to a Havas representative.

Disorders have taken place in various parts of Paris when strikers or agents provocateurs stoned cafes which remained open despite the decision of the union. The strike was decreed for all cafes and hotels where the forty-hour week was not applied within five days.

M. Chautemps recalled t have already intervened vi and warned the authors of the orders. "The government is deter mined," he said, "to show complete impartiality in all progressional disputes, but it cannot show weakness towards attempts against law and national interests."—Havas.

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