Word: besancon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commander of the special task force of the Gendarmerie Nationale looked at his watch (probably made by the famous old French firm of Lip S.A.), then gave the order to move. In the predawn, 30 busloads of police surrounded the Lip factory at Besancon, 25 miles from the Swiss border. They quickly overwhelmed the 50 worker guards and shooed them out. Law and order and the sacred rights of private property had been restored. Thus ended the first act of a drama that had enthralled Frenchmen for months and raised political passions on both right and left. The question...
...Paris government ordered the police into the Besancon factory without informing the local Socialist mayor, surprising the 50 workers guarding the plant during the night...
Other French workers are expected to support their comrades in Besancon if the government offensive continues. The watchworkers were starting to build socialism, and the right had to use force to protect its lie that only businessmen can manage industry...