Business: Argument ad Hominem

As neat and efficacious an "argument to the man" as ever broke an industrial strike was applied last week to the 20,000 idling employees of the French Renault automotive works.

At Billancourt, just outside Paris, the rows of shops of the Societe Anonyme des Usines Renault had been shut down for nine days. Baggy trousered watchmen, caped gendarmes paraded warily 'about the works. At street corners and at the cafes of the workers' quarter morose workers in felt derbies, flattened peaked caps or black sailor straws, harangued one...

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