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...accuse especially the professional agitator Balliere!" After going to work again, the 6,000 proletarians at Brest Arsenal showed where they stood by abruptly stopping work for an hour in a "folded arms protest" against the 10% wage cut decreed for state employees by budget-balancing Premier Pierre Laval (TIME, July...
...Hang Laval!" and "Laval to the Stake!" was the cry at Toulon two days later as a minority of 700 workers at the State gunpowder plant marched out singing the Internationale. They were joined by Riviera rabble which swept through the streets smashing windows, robbing shops, cutting electric wires and wrecking lampposts to make looting easier in the balmy darkness. As police and steel-helmeted Gardes Mobiles rushed in, they were sniped at from the housetops. Shrieking Communists ran about encouraging everyone within earshot to "Build barricades against the Cossacks...
...earn, the seamen answered with a roar of "Oui!"', rushed back to their ships which sailed with all speed from Havre, while the French Cabinet announced Depression-busting decrees (see col. 3). General grumbling and unrest in French ports last week, with some rioting and shouts of "Hang Laval!" at Cherbourg, showed that the Premier was acting none too soon...
...Because the Flandin Cabinet fell while he was at sea and a rival politician on the spot in Paris copped his job of Minister of Merchant Marine in the new Laval Cabinet. Friends on the Normandie warned M. Bertrand that this would happen, urged him to call up M. Laval by radio telephone. ''That is not done!" exploded French M. Bertrand. "I cannot remind the President of the Council that I exist, by telephone...
...black nostrils of France's earthy, peasant-born Premier snuffed trouble last week as Communists in French naval ports incited restive mobs with shouts of "Hang Laval...