French Premier says 40 hour week must be modified. A declaration that the 40 hour week would have to be modified so that all employees would work extra hours if required, was made by M Edouard Daladier, the French Prime Minister, in a broadcast addressed to the nation. As M Haladier May Day speech, Senegalese troops and French sailors took over control of the Marseille port, where a strike is in progress, and action resulting in the reported resignation of M Fressard, Minister of Public Works and E Ramadier, Minister of Labour. Photo shows, M Daladier , making his broadcast speech in Paris. 22 August 1938