FRANCE: French metal workers lock themselves in factories and demand forty-hour week (1936)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Sixty thousand metal workers in France locked themselves in factories as they demanded a reduction in working hours to a forty-hour week after the election of the Popular Front on 3 May 1936. Full Description: FRANCE: Paris: EXT General view of closed factory gates and people gathered outside / Close shot of sign for ’Farman’ aircraft factory / High angle view of workers behind factory gates and people on street / Workers behind locked doors / Renault car factory and people gathered outside gates / General view of barrier coming down at entrance to factory / General view of workers in the streets / Close shot of Communist workers raising their arms in salute / Various views of workers on roof raising arms / Various views of men taking in crates of wine and loaves of bread (French sticks, baguettes) for striking workers in locked building / Worker putting bottle of wine in ba