Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, the Czech crisis and the ominous maneuvers of 1,300,000 German soldiers beyond the French frontier, placed French Communists and Socialists in a corner. Premier Daladier's proposal to emasculate the 40-hour law was a slap in their face but they dared not set out to wreck his Cabinet...
...fairly early date." If the pugnacious Premier does so, then, as Chicago Daily News's Edgar Ansel Mowrer cabled last week: "Everything seems to be set for one of the finest political battles France has witnessed, even in these eventful years. . . . By denouncing the 40-hour law (TIME, Aug. 29), without asking any so-called equivalent sacrifices from French capitalists, Premier Daladier smashes the Popular Front or what was left...
Actually, the Premier had not called for outright repeal. What M. Daladier demanded fortnight ago and would ask the Chamber, if summoned, to approve, is supplemental legislation or administrative action to draw the sting of the 40-hour law. He was last week in such a position as Franklin Roosevelt might be, were the U. S. President to put Recovery ahead of Reform instead of Reform ahead of Recovery. Premier Daladier calculated that with living costs rising, millions of French workers would rather increase their earnings by working 48 hours (with 10% overtime after 40 hours as offered...
...whose General Confederation of Labor boasts 5,000,000 followers. It is a trade union setup separate from the Socialist or Communist parties who eagerly look to it for votes. Last week M. Jouhaux, visiting in the U. S., announced that so long as "repeal" of the 40-hour law is excluded and its "principle" maintained, French Labor will not attempt to bar modifications in the law...
...July 1937. Delighted, a bureau spokesman announced: "It is hoped that next year's birthrate in the Ostmark will be at least double that of 1938." Since August 1, however, more than 10,000 applications for divorce have been filed in Vienna. Reason: under papal law in Austria, a marriage in which one spouse was Roman Catholic was indissoluble by divorce; now that the Ostmark is under German law, divorce can be had easily on such grounds as refusal to have children...