The Premier then referred to the domestic situation in France.
He pointed out that the 1939 budget provided for receipts to total Frs. 66,000,000,000 ang expenditures tol reach Frs. 102,000,000,000.
To remedy this situation "it is a most imperative necessity that there be an increase in national revenue, and therefore an increase in production and trade exchanges."
In this connection, he attacked Communist propaganda in the social sphere and justified the demand for supplementary working hours.
"By refusing to give the country the work necessary for its salvation, the workers might only bring about bankruptcy and disorder, and raise against them all the forces in the nation," he declared. "We do not intend to repeal the forty-hour working week law but it is indispensable that it be adapted to the exigencies of economic life."
The Premier then announced a series of social measures, which touch notably upon the right to hold strikes by the institution of a secret ballot, and sanctions giving compulsory power in arbitration.
"We will not admit any foreign forces, whatever be their origins and inspirations, to interfere in our national life," M. Daladier declared in conclusion, after another violent attack against the Communists, Germans Cold to
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