Senate Balks at Labour Code Despite Premier's Warning Paris, Mar. 1.
The French Government was tottering to-day as 7,000 labour contracts affecting a million workers expired and threatened the country with an increasingly dangerous strike situation. Parliament meanwhile was deadlocked on provisions of the labour code on which the Chautemps Government: apparently has staked its life.
The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate adjourned before midnight with small hope of breaking the stalemate arising when the Senate refused to pass the labour code bill as drawn up in the Chamber while the Premier, M. Camille Chautemps, has warned that the bill must be passed with no important provisions or the Government will fall within fifteen days, Unless a compromise is reached today, it is likely that Unionists, Socialists arid Communists will force) a vote of confidence in the Chautemps Cabinet—United Press.
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