Furthermore, it was decided that the working hours in war industries would be brought up to sixty per week instead of the present forty. In all branches of industry, orders col zeining national defence will enjoy priority over all others. A number of technical measures aimed at increasing the efficiency of the present defence system were also decreed.
A series of law-decrees provide for drastic cuts in the nations expenditure was passed upon the initiative of M. Paul Reynaud. They provide cor a reduction in the number of ivil servants and a ban on the cre sion of new posts within the various administrative organs, the suppression of several public institutions such as he Academy of Music and certain specialized high-schools, etc.
After the Government meeting Juring which those measures were adopted, the Premier, M Edouard Daladier, attended an important con-terence at the War Office, together with General Lebeau, Governor-General of Algeria; M. Eric Labonne, Seneral-Resident of Tunisia, General Auguste Nogues, General-Resident of Morocco, and General Antoine Colson, Head of the General Staff of the Army.
Among the decree laws published in "Lo Journal Officiel," particularly noted is the one compelling uw employed on relief to accept jobs in enterprises working for national defence. Salaries will be paid in accordance with the average pay for the given profession and region. In the event of refusal, the unemployed person will not be given any relief for a period of one year—Havas
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