FRENCH RAILWAY TROUBLE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1114, 29 April 1911, Page 6

FRENCH RAILWAY TROUBLE.

$ .— -.' THE DISMISSED MEN, By Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. April 28, 9.35 p.m.) Paris, April 28. The railway companies have informed the Government that for reasons of general interest it is impossible to reinstate the dismissed men.

THE POSITION EXPLAINED. I JI. Jaures, the well-known Socialist leader, recently declared that tho submission of the railway companies to tho Government demands regarding reinstatement would mean a great victory to the workers. M. Jlonis, the new French Premier, shortly after taking office, pointed-out that the State railways had spontaneously reinstated the greater part; of tho railwaymen dismissed during the recent strike, and 'announced that a prudent reconsideration of such cases would bo continued, of course, to tho exclusion of men who had been sentenced for violence or crime, or whose Anarchist practices had- endangered public security. "If rumours .that are current havo any foundation," says the "Daily News," "the policy, of the new Government in regard to the reinstatement of the railwaymen dismissed in consequence of their participation in tho general strike is likely to meet with opposition from tho railway companies. On the West-State line, of course, the Government can do as it pleases; it will be less easy to impose upon the companies a line of conduct of which the directors do not anprovc, particularly as there is certain to be in Parliament a strong party to support them. According to the 'Paris Journal,' should the Government insist, the directors of the companies will resign rather than yield."