MORE PAY OR NO-LIGHT.
' ' ' PATJSW3 COOP. (By Telegraph.—Pkbb Assoclaaon.-CoßJirlcM.) Pnriv November ,30. ; During a gala performance at tho Opera t ; House in honour of King Manocl of Portugal, the agitator Patand secured a rise in ilia - ' wages of tho olectricians omplqyod in tho building by threatening to-have tho-supply of . - light cut off, ; In consequence, the poriormanco-<v-as-dclnyod for half an hour. ' KING OF DARKLESS, j , "King PaUud" ilgrirod mueh in tho news-; papers in connection with the strike of Frcneli' postal employee? earlier in tho year.. Accord- i ing to one writer, ho t does not control tho . ,' policy of tho Confederation of and is, in fact, "rather a spoilt child, a pot of-the- , ' Parisian journalists, who are. grateful for tho ; diversion ho affords. Ho is a light-weight' i put up to tho crowd, and to occupy : the journalists." \ But it ib admitted that, as secretary oMbs " Union of Electrical Engineers, M. Patind can, and has, cut off the clcctrio light. It is this power which enabled him to plunge Paris in > darkness at tho time of the postal strike, and which has now enabled him to raise wages at the poinf °f tho pistol. Pataud is King of ' Darkness. ,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 679, 2 December 1909, Page 7
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199MORE PAY OR NO-LIGHT. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 679, 2 December 1909, Page 7
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