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Show Mine Strikes Trail Paris Peace i MOBILIZATION THREAT HALTS SERVjCE TIEUP People's Front Coup Precedes Miner Walkout PARIS, Dec. 30 (AP) A new outbreak of strikes in the rich mining region - of northern France intensified the turbulent labor situation today after firm government action brought quick settlement of the critical public service tieup in Paris. A thousand eoal miners at An-sln, An-sln, near Valenciennes, quit work this morning in protest against discharge of three miners. This stoppags aroused official concern lest the stnks spread among all of ths 16400 miners employed em-ployed by the Ansin company. Local Lo-cal government officials sought to negotiate a settlement. Threat Works Premier Camilla Chautsmps' threat to call striking public service workers, most of whom are army reservists, to the colors csueed prompt submission to his demands for settlement of the Paris strike, which threatened to undermine the people's front government. Minister of Labor Andre Fevrler was trying to negotiate the other Paris strikes, affecting food truckers, truck-ers, warehouses and ths Goodrich Rubber company plant. Six hundred sailors at Rouen, whose recent walkout tied up 35 ships, continued on strike. The agreement came in the carry hours of ths morning aftsr labor delegates had shuttled bsck and forth between their own meetings and government offices through the night. The strikers, 120.000 strong, wore notified to return to their jobs soon after daybreak. Labor leaders said, however, that all the paralysed services ser-vices probably would aot be restored to normal until noon. The city's 13 subwev lines and all bus lines started carrying passengers passen-gers again at a. m. Street cleaners and rubbish and garbags collectors stsrted hurried rounds of ths capital to catch up with their neglected work. Overflowing cans lined the streets snd there were hesped rubbish containers con-tainers sven in front of the residence resi-dence of President Albert Lebrun. Crews Swell Electric gsa and water plant workers went back to their poets, swelling the skeleton crews which hsd assured the city of st least some supplies during the strike. The settlement of the striks when it had been in effect less thsn 24 hours was bailsd in political circles st a triumph for the radical-socialist premier of the people's front regime, re-gime, whose threat to mobilise the workers as members of ths French army waa credited with breaking the workers' resistance. Under the government's threat, the strikers themselves would hsve to become strikebreakers called out aa army reserves, sent back to the same municipal jobs from which they had walked out and ordered to maintain transportation, wster, gas and light aupplies ss well as other services they had crippled or baited. Shortly before, the compromise was reached the ministries of interior in-terior and war put the finishing touches to preparations for the drastic mobilisation. Even the formal order of mobilization mobiliza-tion had been drafted and awaited only the signsturs of Defense Minister Min-ister Edouard Daladier. |