Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone who is really for Democracy and hates Right & Left -isms had good cause to stand up and cheer last week, as Premier Camille Chautemps fought and won the greatest battle of his career. The grave crisis the Premier faced was really three crises rolled into...
...some 7,000 labor contracts, affecting workers in every part of France. Ugly signs of labor unrest have been appearing for several months, and last week there were grounds to fear another wave of sit-down strikes and stand-up riots such as burst forth under Socialist Premier Léon Blum (TIME, June 15, 1936), today Vice-Premier...
Revolutionary Crisis: Since last November, in view of the great quantities of arms, ammunition and bombs seized by the French Secret Service, it has been certain that there are in France sizable groups determined to overthrow the Republic by force. Proletarian leaders have not hesitated to accuse Socialist Vice-Premier Blum and Middle-Class Premier Chautemps of restraining the Ministry of Interior from making use of evidence which might condemn two Rightists, whose names are household words in France, the No. 1 munitions maker, de Wendel, and the No. 1 tire maker, Michelin. On the other hand, exasperated Frenchmen...
...parliamentary battle was waged around six bills which Premier Chautemps calls his "Modern Labor Charter," and which represent a great constructive effort to create, by democratic means and with democratic checks, a French State authority strong enough to arbitrate and enforce peaceful settlement of disputes between Capital & Labor. The 7,000 contracts expiring March 1 were not permitted to expire last week while the parliamentary battle raged, for the Chamber & Senate calendar was kept day after day at February 28, and thus officially time stood still...
...case a strike is about to be called, a plebiscite on the issue must first be held among workers in the plant concerned, by secret ballot. Coercion by trade union leaders or employers is thus theoretically held at arm's length. The Premier believes that this will result in the workers themselves democratically blocking hundreds of incipient strikes...