Holiday Threatened By Strike. Outside the closed gates of Montparnasse railway station, Paris, intending holidaymakers gather with their cases - waiting hopefully for a resumption of transport, snarled by the 24-hour strike if railwaymen, civil servants, and public service employees throughout France today. Thousands of British holidaymakers were affected by the strike, the worst in France since 1936. Paris, France. 07 August 1953.