FRANCE: FRENCH STRIKERS AT CITROEN WORKS IN PARIS DRIVE AWAY NON-STRIKERS

Record ID: 342054

  • Title: FRANCE: FRENCH STRIKERS AT CITROEN WORKS IN PARIS DRIVE AWAY NON-STRIKERS
  • Date: 10th June 1968
  • Summary: STRIKERS OUTSIDE CITROEN FACTORY; PLAYING WATER-HOSES; STRIKES WITH BANNERS. Initials RM/V/CCT/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 25th June 1968 13:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVAD9QZOUFTJRTMURFDP8M00WN7I
  • Story Text: FRESH TROUBLE BROKE OUT IN THE FRENCH MOTOR INDUSTRY TODAY (MONDAY) COINCIDING WITH THE OFFICIAL START OF CAMPAIGNING IN THE GENERAL ELECTIONS CALLED TO RESOLVE THE MONTH-OLD NATIONAL CRISIS. AS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FRENCH WORKERS ENDED THEIR STRIKES THIS MORNING, PICKETS AT A CITROEN CAR FACTORY IN PARIS DROVE AWAY NON-STRIKERS WITH STONES AND WATER-HOSES AND SCUFFLES BROKE OUT AROUND THE GATES, BLOCKING TRAFFIC IN THE LEFT BANK BALARD DISTRICT.

    TALKS ON A SETTLEMENT OF THE STRIKES A PARIS CAR FACTORIES APPEAR TO HAVE REACHED DEADLOCK, AND THERE IS SAID TO BE CONSIDERABLE RESISTANCE IN THE MOTOR INDUSTRY TO THE BACK-TO-BACK MOVEMENT. AT THE FLINS RENAULT FACTORY TODAY, MANY OF THE 3,000 EMPLOYEES WHO RETURNED TO WORK WENT HOME AGAIN, FEARING NEW CLASHES WITH THE POLICE.
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