FRENCH POSTAL REVOLT.
EMPLOYEES BARRICADE THE
BUILDING,
i FIVE HUNDRED POLICE CALLED OUT.
PARIS, June 24
The Senate's rejection of the postal I employees' .demands if or improved 1 conditions resulted in a sud- ■ den revolt, at the Central Post Office. Two thousand postmen barricaded the buildings, utilising mail bags and r postal vans, and refused to alloAV the mails-to' be/despatched. Five "hundred police cleared the rgates, but were unable to gain admission to the building. The Minister for Commerce harangued the men from the street, ■ but; the • postmen shrieked" the speech "down. One hundred thousand letters from \Britain, America, and elsewhere. are Theld up.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147, 25 June 1914, Page 5
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