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FRENCH LABOUR MEtf ADMIT FAILURE, COVERNMEHT WINS. "SWAN SONG" OF REVOLUTIONARY AGITATORS. (BT MtIOBiPH—rRKSB ASSOCIATION—COPIWaHT.) (Rec. May 18, 10.67 p.m.) Paris, May 18. The disillusionment caused by tho failure of every strike patronised by tho General Confederation of Labour, which for months past has bluffingly professed that it is able to paralyse society and government, '' explains tho collapse of tho postal workers' strike in Paris. Mr. Niel, secretary of the confederation, addressing tho Miners' Congress at Lens, sorrowfully admitted that tho organisation merely oxists on paper. He urged tho workers to make it a reality. Tho speech is interpreted as the swan song of tho present revolutionary agitation.' Forty-six moro postal strikers have been dismissod by the Government. TBlnff would seem to be a considerable faotor in French labour disputes. It was recently cabled that a meeting of postal workers was blnffod by tho lenders by means of imaginary conversations over a dummy telephone, whereby if was suggested that tho employees in the provinces supported the Btrike—which they did not.] . ,
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 511, 19 May 1909, Page 7
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