STRIKE A FIASCO

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 507, 14 May 1909, Page 5

STRIKE A FIASCO

AGITATORS' TACTICS.

DUMMY TELEPHONE MEBBACEB. FRENCH POSTAL WORKERS WILL NOT . BE CATSPAWS. (DT TSLEOIIiPn—PBESB ASSOCIATION—COPTETQET.) . (Reo. May 1.3, 11.10 p.m.) Paris, May 18. ' Tho threatened strike of poßtal employees is a fiasco. Only 465 employees absented themselves. from work. ■ , The leadors bluffed yesterday's meeting with imaginary conversations over a dummy telephone; whereby it was suggested that tho employees in the provinoos. supported the strike. The majority of the employees objeot to tho revolutionary character which ha 6 been imparted to the strike by tho intervention of the Confederation of Labour. Five,: hundred military- telegraphists - and olectricians have been summoned to Paris. Tho wires are being carefully watched. Twenty-four. out of thirty-seven LondonParis. wiros are working. Many business firms are using the Paris Chamber of Commerce courier services to the' provinces. 1 Hotolkeepers ! have, organised ' a foreign service, via Brussels, on behalf of 20,000 visitors to Parisian hotels. The Government has decided to dismiss 228 strikers. \ MILITARY PRECAUTIONS. Paris, May 12. Troops are holding tie Paris Post Office. Republican guards are paradingf tho streets.