Show BLUMS BLUM'S REGIME 1 1 IN NEW CRISIS PARIS March 24 pi Wide Wi-Wide- Wide Wide- spread pread strikes es with occupation of factories were decreed today by French Trench labor leaders as a warning against efforts to replace the peole's peoples people's peo- peo pies ples le's les front government with a dictatorial dic- dic public safety cabinet While strikes es broke out in the Paris and Lille districts five senators senators sena- sena tors ors called upon Leon Blum the socialist premier to resign in favor of f a national union government The strikes strikes although although linked ed with labor abor support of the Blum government govern govern- ment combined ment-combined combined with financial and ad political difficulties to confront the leftist regime with a new crisis Demand Made Senate debate on Blums Blum's latest proposals brought five speakers to their feet to demand that lat he step down in favor of a national union umon premier Wild applause greeted a a. declaration declaration declara- declara tion on by Abel Gardey reporter of the ic senate finance committee that the he bills would lead to inflation Gardey and the other four speakers speak speak- ers rs agreed that the government should hould have an extra francs to pay current exp expenses but opposed granting permission permission permission per per- mission to take francs from the stabilization fund und for defense needs peeds Defense Bill Dill Passed Meanwhile the chamber of deputies deputies ties ics unanimously passed a bill providing providing pro pro- viding iding for total mobilization of France in time of at war war war-a a response to o Defense Minister Edouard Dala- Dala appeal to make the nation ready eady threatened European con- con li c t. t The strikes which embraced the Citroen and other large factories in n the Paris district were limited chiefly to symbolic movement with work halted for only a few hours ours Almost all the strikers sought ought a clause In their collective contractS pinning wages automatically automatically cally ally to any rise in the cost of of living ving |