Seven million French workers from both the public and private sectors of the economy went on a 24 hour General Strike on iay 17th for higher wages and shorter working hours, This is the biggest industrial action taken by French workers in recent years, The stoppage affects gas, electricity, public transport, postal services, banks, and the chemical, metallurgical and textile industries. The public service workers are demanding a 6% wage increase, while the Govermmant is offering 43%. The workers in private industries are hit by layoffs, mergers, and closure of non=-profitable enterprises. French workers have been staging a series of these strikes Since the beginning of ‘arch,
The WeekThe Week Vol. 5, No. 21, 26 May 1966
Seven Million French Workers Go Into Action
The scan: The Week v5 no21.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)
Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Tesseract OCR) from a scan of a stencilled typescript and has not been corrected. Expect misread words; titles in particular are often garbled where the issue printed no contents list. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: capitals heading; heuristic; title from the OCR of the heading.