Trouble in Lille began when several hundred strikers outside the Labour Exchange stopped tramcars, removed the drivers, and forced the passengers alight. "The strikers then amastied the windows in the ears until troops ud Gardes Mobiles cordoned off thi area and engaged the strikers, making many arrests. A number' of the Gardes were injured in the fighting.
At Toulouse iron and steel worker pi¢kets attempted 19 close the doors big department stores. They were helped by a crowd of 2,000, who ternately sang the Marseiliaise and the Internationale, when—fighting broke out, and reinforcements of the Gardes Mobiles were called up. The doors of the stores were closed, but the stoffs remained Inside.
The Michlin Tyre Works at Clermond were requisitioned by the Government, after thousands of workers arrived "at the factory to find the ales locked, the management refusing. to open them.
"Daladier, the Premier, then telephoned to the plant, and read the requisition order.
Albert Sarraut, Minister of the Interior, announced that' 495 arrests were made in Paris, M, Sarraut added, "All is going' as well as possible, there is no. Incident. to. report. Pcblie services are working."
Premier Refutes Charges M. Edouard Daladier, the Premier, ing statement yesterday afternoon, replied to charges that requisitioning was illegal. He declared. that the Government had acted by virtue of Acts of Parliament of 1877 and 19%, by which requisitioning could. bs ordered by decree, Such a decree, 'M. Daladier does not wish to be hampered by Parliamentary debates until he has seen how the ancial Decree Laws are working.
He must, however, summon Parliament before the end of the year {or the Budget debate—Reuter,
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