Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1936, Page 7

STRIKE INLILLE ENDS WITH RAISE Mills Promise 6 Per Cent if Workers Will Never Again Occupy Factories. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 18.—Strikers’ representatives carried back to the Lille textile region today this message from mill owners: “Promise never again to occupy the | factories and we’ll raise your wages 6 per cent.” | Tentative settlement of the “folded | arms” strike at Lille was announced last night in Paris after a series of lengthy conferences which followed the refusal of 33,000 employes to con- | tinue with their jobs. Both sides | claimed victories. Demand Held Met. ‘The workers, who were summoned to meet today to ratify the agreement, declared they received the pay raise they asked for. The employers asserted they won | the “right to be masters of our own | property” by the implied promise from their employes not to camp in the establishments and halt produc- tion. ‘The workers’ promise, however, was contingent on the mill owners’ ob- servance of an agreement to raise ‘wages further if living costs go higher; without reductions, in any event. Political circles regarded the settle- ment of France's largest strike as an | important victory for the harassed | government of Premier Leon Blum. | International Problems. ‘ With the Lille walkout ended, these | sources declared, officials may now turn their attention to international | problems revolving around the League ' of Nations Council meeting at Geneva. | Other textile employes in Epinal, in | Northeastern France, evacuated the | plants they have been occupying, leav- ing only picket lines. Negotiations be- | tween workers and employers con- | tinued under the supervision of Marc Rucart, minister of finance. Other small scattered strikes still | persisted—including those of metal | workers in the Douai and Vitry-Le- | Francois regions—but officials ex- | pressed hope these soon would be | settled. i Spal:i;lr (Continued From First Page.) foreigners had engaged in Fascist espionage. At the same time, the government poured Syndicalist reinforcements | from autonomous Catalonia into the fighting west of Toledo and claimed | it had repulsed Fascist advances from | Siguenza, northeast of Madrid, and in the mountains north and northwest of | the capital. | The Syndicalists were left out of the cabinet when Premier Largo Caballero assumed power recently. They agreed | to continue their support of the So-| cialist - Communist - Republican gov- ernment, but indicated they would not be satisfied with anything less than a gloves-off drive to exterminate fas-| cism. Demands for Workers. Included in tne Syndicalist demands | was one for a revolutionary govern-| mental system to give workers a dl-l E : : 303020303033 330 M M- rect share of the administration of public affairs. The Syndicalists would socialize banks, railroads, industries and church properties and would place public or- der in the hands of the militia. Under the program, regional enti- ties would supplant the provincial sys- tem of government. The judiciary would be reorganized and the council of national defense would be the sole arbiter of matters of public order. All forms of domestic indebtedness would be canceled, to “give the people a fresh start, unencumbered by bour- geois obligations.” Universal conscription, the Syndi- calists said, would swell the ranks of the militia by forcing laggards into the military service. So far enlist- ment has been purely voluntary and thousands have refrained from taking arms. “This solidarization of all groups in an effort to eliminate fascism will become an international movement of the world proletariat to destroy its common foe,” the Syndicalist ultima- tum said. Mass meetings were called for Suh- day in Madrid, Malaga, Valencia and Barcelona “to permit the people to voice their united approval of our great program.” Under the Syndicalist plants, the National Council of Defense, with headquarters in Madrid, would be composed of five Marxists, five Syn- dicalists and four Left Republicans. Premier Caballero would be presi- dent of the council. ; Instead of ministries, there would be “departments” of foreign relations, public order, war, air and navy, com- munications, propaganda, education, treasury, agriculture, industry, trans- * Theyre Not THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, portation, commerce, supplies, public works, labor and sanitation. This reorganization, the Syndical- ists asserted, did not mean the office of the President would be vacated, but the man now occupying it, Man- uel Azana, “would continue exercis- ing his duties with the same spirit shown at present.” The ministry of interior, in the de- cree applied to foreigners, ordered all of them to leave their docum~ants of identity with civil governors or the director general of public safety with- in seven days beginning Septem- ber 20. Te Fix Limit of Stay. After the documents are examined they will be returned to the foreigners, who then will be informed how long they may remain in Spain. All foreigners entering the country must, within 48 hours, present their passports and other documents to authorities, and all those whose docu- ments are not approved by September 27 must leave the country forthwith. At the same time, the interior min- istry banned all radio reports of meet- ings, parades and concentrations of the people in order to prevent Fascists from learning the movements of civil or military populations. Further officlal war communiques will not disclose staff plans, such as the sending of reinforcements. Today’s communique announced the daily duel for the possession of Fas- cist-held Oviedo, in the north, was continuing, and said Fascist reinforce- ments, coming from Galicia, had been put to rout. . It also was announced that a colonel and four officers had been sentenced to death in Madrid and that the Enough.l T IS impossible for even the most powerful fingers to exert pressure that will reach down to the deep-lying tissues and blood ves- sels that surround and nourish the hair follicle. Even if they could, there would still be lacking the alternate vacuum action that draws the reviving blood into the starved tissues. 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Another Fascist broadeast from Tenerife, Canary Islands, asserted crews aboard government warships off the coast of Malaga clashed during & sea conference to discuss possible surrender to the Fascists, ‘The broadcast declared shooting broke out during the discussion and 250 Socialist sailors were killed in the fight. The squadron later re- turned to Malaga, the Fascist radio station ‘asserted, after the government supporters forced their decision on the dissenting group. The assistance of the Catalan col- umns, composed of recruits from the four northeastern provinces of Lerida, Gerona, Barcelona and Tarragona, was arranged by Premier Francisco Largo Caballero in conference with the National Syndicalist Committee. Action on the various civil war fronts apparently was held up as the domestic conflict ran into its ninth week today. The war ministry, in its official report, claimed these gains: Madrid Troops Advance. An advance by government troops to within two miles of the Fascist pro- vincial stronghold of Teruel, in the northeast. Capture of the village of Pelegrina, together with insurgent munitions D. C., - |dumps in the Siguenza sector, in|lems, including Syndicalist obedience Northern Guadalajara- Province. Capture of munitions trucks and prisoners in a Socialist advance near Buitrago, in the Guadarrama Moun- tain sector north of Madrid. Socialist gunners also were asserted to have shot down two Fascist bomb- ing planes near Montoro, in Cordoba Province, The union between Socialists and Syndicalists carried with it probable solution of difficult government prob- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936. to orders from the Madrid war min- istry. These difficulties were = believed ironed out in a series of official con- ferences - between cabinet ministers and Catalan officials, resulting in re- inforcement with eastern recruits of the depleted Socialist forces. 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