Protesting
The freeze on salaries, which was sustained by the Occupation forces and the Ministry of Finances, the combined effect of official non-respect of collective conventions and the ban on strikes prevented the unions from resorting to traditional mechanisms to channel workers' demands.
Although the clandestine press could provide some publicity for illegal practices that were in fact subject to censorship, contemporary analysis has shown that RG reports were a more willing source. They lent everything that moved or threatened to move to the communists and people's committees. Nevertheless, strikes that were part of explicitly formulated global directives that were intended to counter the occupying forces were rare. In such times of occupation and material disorganization, the combativeness of workers within firms expressed itself at the most basic level They occasionally scored a point, however.
