The Archive · 1938

New Decree-Laws Show Budget Surplus

Paris, Nov. 29.

The budget estimates for 1939 provide for a surplus balance of Fre. 26,000,000 with a total revenue of Frs. (06,346,000,000 against "expenditures totalling Frs. 66,317,000,000. "This does not include the extra budget of expenditure which is covered by loans. The estimates were forwarded yesterday by the Government to the Cham= ber's Finance Commission.

Before the new decree-laws were promulgated, the total deficit was estimated at Frs. 90,000,000,000.

Investments for National Defence amount in the new budget to Fre. 25,551,000.000, an increase of Fre, 9,600,000.000 over that of the current year—Havas.

Jdustries. By this afternoon strikers were locked out of about 90 per cent. lof 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 Jout to them. Most of them have: already filed' applications for unemployment relict.

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