PARIS POSTAL STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2186, 26 June 1914, Page 7

PARIS POSTAL STRIKE

A DEPUTATION, Hy ToiecraDh—J*rtis AsosriattoM-CoiW-rJclit ' Parts, Sum ii The strike at the Coß'tral Post Office., in consequence of the Senate's rojeetton of the'employees' tfe/inauds :l'oi' .iiiipruva! conditions, has ciid«l., the Mbis'ter «f the Postal Depai-tm.elit agvoeiug to receive a deputation-, MINISTER TAKES PUHf STASB. , "Times" and Sywiiey "S.iitt" feivtatA, Ulec. Jains i'o, 6.6 p.nt/j PiiFlSj June 25, , A.million letters ive.f« iiekl up by the postal strike, «lid titcs, feeijjjt uiai{ sfcrvice was disloeated. The Minister of the Postal iDeparfuteiit, re])lying to a. tfcpviifftiou, eaiii* plained of. the ■ ios.s, ■ c6m«erei.aSy oi ! £40,000, and said lie was p-ropaiwl to call out the- nitlitaj-J" if necessiiH-j tb protect Paris eoiftitteiee, Ilia iineit's n:c'ti<la all. the resources of the State ivsuki •lietiiequisitiwi.etf to avoid any inten'ujitiijn of. mails. :..' THE MALCoSriStS JtiKLORS. -' (Rcc. Jiae 25j" 1.3 jj.ra-.) . ParlSi June 25,' Tliero was lftueh diswder sfc tlic Central Post Office uJitil fete in the afternoon, when a stidtfes twice was agreed upon. , . , The malcontents were raostly junipr postmen. They kept, the s.etiioES, whodeclined to strilie, within tins hmhttog for .seven liours without, food. ili.o l&t----tev lowered cdr-its for t|io iKtrjiosd of hauling up food, but the police cur the cords, believing that they ivere. s : tojsp.i% the strikers' supplies-, ■ "