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Last December hulking, grizzled Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (6,000,000 workers), and six members of his General Council flew to Paris on an Imperial Airliner, dined & wined with French Labor Minister Charles Pomaret, returned to England in state aboard a French destroyer. Subsequently Minister Pomaret clamped down on French labor with a set of drastic wage-&-hour decrees and Sir Walter Citrine agreed to a proposal by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon that pay rises in Britain be stopped. These things caused the London Daily Worker to publish a series...
...Paris, the Daladier moves at once brought the resignations of Labor Minister Paul Ramadier and Public Works Minister Ludovic Oscar Frossard. These two members of the Union Socialist-Republican Party were promptly replaced by the Premier with two other members of their party, new Labor Minister Charles Pomaret and new Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie. Speculation at once began: would the Union Socialists read Pomaret and de Monzie out of its ranks for standing with Daladier...
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