Trouble in Lille began when several hundred strikers outside the Labou: Exchange stopped tramcars, removed the drivers, and forced the passengers to alight. The strikers then smashed the windows in the cars until troops and Gardes Mobiles cordoned off th area and engaged the strikers, making many arrests. A number' of the Gardes were injured in the fighting.
At Toulouse iron and steel worker pickets attempted to close the doors of big department stores, They were helped by a crowd of 2000, who alternately sang the Marseillaise and the Internationale, when fighting broke out, and reinforcements of the Gardes Mobiles were called up. The doors of the stores were closed, but the stoffs remained inside.
The Michelin Tyre Works at Clermond were requisitioned by the Government, after thousands of workers arrived at the factory to find the gates locked, the management refusing to open them.
M. Daladier, the Premier, then telephoned to the plant, and read the requisition order.
M. Albert Sarraut, Minister of the Interior, announced that 495 arrests were mede in Paris. M. Sarraut ad-
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