Defy DeGaulle: French Miners Continue Strike
Defy DeGaulle: French Miners Continue Strike
The coal mines of France are idle as 200,000 workers defy orders from President Charles DeGaulle to return to their jobs. After a hard winter coal is in short supply and the strike is aggravating this. DeGaulle threatened the minors with server penalties - heavy fines and imprisonment and the strikers expressed outrage demanding a shorter workweek and a pay boost. Throngs gather and unite against the coal mines. The closed down coal mines, camera pans showing the result of the abandonment by the coal miners. MCUS - Strikers posting strike-signes. MSOH - Striking minors march united. MS - Street level, the striking minors walking in unity. CUS - Striking coal minor holding a sign; (De Galle - Des Sous!). Shot looking down from a balcony - A back of a head, throngs gathered in the towns square.