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Show SIX BIG UNIONS I IN FRANCE TO : SHOW STRFJiTII PARIS, April 16. If the decision of thj six important unions in France is adhered to, Ma 1 ill be obsen eri by a general abstentation from work. The delegates of these unions tho railroad workers, miners, dock workers, work-ers, metal workers, sailors and gener- al transport workers at a meeting yesterday decided lo unite in efforts to obtain recognition of the demands of the workers, especially an eight-hour eight-hour day and nn increased scale of wages. Delegates recognized that the demands de-mands of Individual unions had been satisfied in many cases but decided that members of Ihe unions should not work on May Dny in order to show the power ol the orgunlzed working classes and the spiirt of solidarity with the unions in a less favorable position. |