GAS WORKERS STRIKE - NO SOUND

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Channel: British Movietone · 2015 · News & Politics

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(12 Mar 1963) 

The 13-day old strike of some 200,000 mine workers faces President De Gaulle with the first major labour crisis of his administration. Other industries have come out in sympathy: at Lacq, near the Spanish border, the workers in the French Government natural gas installation have decided to continue indefinitely their strike that begun on March 8th. They are asking for a wage adjustment based on the eventual agreement reached with the miners, and the negotiation of a special statute relating to petroleum extraction and research workers.

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