Paris, Apr. 16, Labour troubles in France were tically completely liquidated yesterday when the executive of the engineering and metal workers union accepted the terms of M. Remadier, Minister of Labour, providing for the resumption of work on Tuesday by 158.00 striking members and for the immediate evacuation of factories occopied by sit-down strikers M. Ramadier will call a round-table conference of employers and workers aday to try to settle the question of collective contracts before April 30. It is agreed that there will be no victimization of strikers, An agreement governing wages and conditions in state-owned and private arms factories is said to have been already signed.
After acceptance of M. Ramadier's terms, which declare that in the interests of national de'erce, it is the Government's ixperetive duty to end the dispute, sit-down strikers in engineering and. metal industries in Paris began evacuating fzcicries Jast night, By midnight 39 of the smaller metal factories had already been evacuated.
Men remaining in the larger factories, insist that the premises be first cleaned, but evacuation is expected io be completed by morning, when gas and electricity supplies will be restored, The Director-General of Public Works has appointed an independent arbitrator to give an award later in the dispute,—Reuter.
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