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BREAK UP FRENCH STRIKE PARIS, France, Oct. 7. For the first time since the popular front was created, the government sent a detachment of 400 mobile guards to break up a strike of 2,100 workers at the Salmson automobile factory, who laid down their tools in protest over the discharge of an employe for alleged insolence. Nine hundred workers seized the plant in a sit-down and the remaining 1,200 formed picket lines. The government promptly sent troops to the factory. The workers were forcibly evacuated and troops occupied the building.
