The Archive · 1938

Swift Reprisals

The Government, in swift reprisal measures, today ordered all strikers in the nationalized and requisitioned industries to be locked out of the plants.' The Governments example was followed by most private industries, By this afternoon strikers were locked out of about 90 per cent. of the heavy industries plants in the Paris industrial suburbs, as well as from aircraft and chemical factories at other places.

ThrougHout the provinces reports showed that long columns of strikers were visibly shocked by the swift severity of the punishments meted out to them. Most of them have already filed applications for unemployment relief,

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