Earlier in his speech, the Marshal outlined the French Government's social programme.
"The part the State will play will be merely to give the necessary impelus to social action, to la; down the: principles and meaning ai action, to stimulate and guide i tives," he said, In her present misfortune, it is in work that France will find free and worthy. living conditions as well as grounds for life and hope, the Mar-shai stressed, Under present circumstances, he added, workers, technicians ' and owners have to face new difficulties every day, "It is therefore -imperative that they be given the possibility of defending their rightful interests, of expressing their needs and their aspirations," the Marshal went on. "It is urgent that organizations be formed which can speedily solve problems ich may crop up or, if unable to find a solution themselves, to give the workers the means to do it without their decisions being cramped by an insufficient knowledge of these problems, This is the object of the first law on professional organization: to create simple organizations which will be social committees and not class organizations, Owners, technicians und workers will solve present problems together in a common desire for justice and a determination to help each other out in order to alleviate the sufferings and anguish of the present hour."—Hav:
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