Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-13 | Page 14 | French Veterans Oppose Pay Slash

FRENCH VETERANS OPPOSE PAY SLASH PARIS April 1 A l'-A breach with war veterans over proposed penn pen slon cuts which caused rumors the minister of finance might resign and falling prices on the stock market developed toda today coincident wIth the first of a serIes of demonstrations by government against cond contemplated con con- salary reductions Police guards watched while 1800 government swarmed the courtyard and stairways of the maIn telegraph bureau at the noon hour Communists among them shouted their hostility to the government and chanted the Andre minister ot of com said the leaders would be punished A stormy sc session slon between Premier and representatives of war veterans failed to close the wide breach between his sug suggestion that their pensions be slashed 3 per cent nt and their steadfast stand aga against t a I cut The Thc veterans stood firmly on their ultimatum that the government must clean up France before cutting their pensions and Ind that the they would do the cleanup clean up work themselves U if Uthe the government did not