FRENCH CHAMBER EXCITED.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1006, 22 December 1910, Page 7

FRENCH CHAMBER EXCITED.

LATE RAILWAY STRIKE. M. BRIAND REFUSES DEMAND FOR CLEMENCY. VOTE OF CONFIDENCE. By Teleeraph—Press Association—Couyrixtit. (Rec. December 21, 10 p.m.) Paris, December 21. An excited debate lias taken place in. the Chamber of Deputies in consequence of. the Socialists advocating clemency for the railwaymcn disnrissedt.after tho recent strikes. The Prime Minister, M. Briand, announced that he had invited companies to deal with each case in a spirit of large-minded justice. The companies, lie declared, had not dismissecj any because they were trades unionists or strikers, but only if they had committed violence'or sabotage. ... In tho interest of the country lie-de-manded that no clemency should be shown those defying tho mobilisation order. Tho-Government in tho interest of discipline would not extend a general amnesty to the dismissed strikers. A vote of confidence in tho Ministrywas carried by 354 votes to 106. PENSIONS FOR RAILWAYMEN,

NEW BILL INTRODUCED. Paris, December 20. ' The French Government is preparing a Bill granting supplementary pensions to railwaymen, based on service for a number of years not hitherto entitling to a pension. The annual cost will be seven million francs (£280,000) for twenty-five years.