The Archive · 1938

Domestic Needs

The Premier then referred to the} domestic situation in France.

provided for receipts to total Frs.

pointed out that the 1989 budget 6,000,000,000. and" expenditures to each' Fs. 102,000,000,000, 'To remedy this situation "it is a most imperative necessity that there be an increase in national revenue, ud therefore an increase in produetion and trade exchanges'

this connection, he attacked Communist propaganda in, the social sphere and justified the demand for! supplementary working hour "By refusing to give the country the Work necessary for its salvation, the workers might only bring about bankruptey and disorder, and raise against, them all the forces in the nation," "he. declared.

"We do not intend to repeal the forty-hour work. ing week law but it Is indispensable that it be adapted to the exigencies of economic life."

The Premier then announced a series of social measures, which touch notably upon the right to hold strikes by the institution of a secret ballot, and sanctions giving compulsory power in arbitration, "We will not admit any foreign forces, whatever be their origins and' inspirations, to interfere in our national, life," 'M, Daladier declared in conclusion, after another violent attack against the Communists, Paris, Oct. 28.

The majority of the rightist and centrist press here praised the strong] speech made by the Premier, Edouard Daladier, at the Radical [Socialist Party Congress in. Marseilles yesterday, although some rightist, radical and leftist papers criticized haig violent attack against the Com-

"The Radical-Socialist Patty Congress made an effective rupture of the Popular Front," said "Lo Journal."

Jdier' should be praised for his speech (ie Figaro" stressed that Bf: Dalaand emphasized that it was "the voice of, the Government."

"One fact that remai Petit Parisien," is that eace, put an end to the twenty-year "ne Populaire," official organ of the Socialist Party, ertiized the address "We expected' a plan of astian, but M, 'Daladier spoke hazy. The' Pre+ Miers position. shocked certain see long' of he Congress and several Radical-socialist heads disapproved his attitude. piabtadess JOrdre™ stressed that "the ant ICommunistic tone of the speech can for hide the defects of the: Munich ettlement and the deficiencies of the Government's recovery plan."—Havas French Socialists Win New Senate Seat

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