A SUCCESSFUL PROTEST.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Peer* Amooiation.] Paris, June 24. The Senate’s rejection of the postal employees’ demands for improved working conditions resulted in a sudden revolt, at the Central Post Office. Two thousand postmen barricaded the building, utilising mail hags and postal vans, and refused to allow mails to he despatched. Five hundred police cleared the gates, but were unable to gain admission to the building. the Minister of Commerce harangued the men from the street, but the postmen shrieked the speech down. A hundred thousand letters for Britain, America and elsewhere are held up. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Phris, June 24. The postal strike has ended, the postmaster agreeing to receive a deputation.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 54, 25 June 1914, Page 6
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116A SUCCESSFUL PROTEST. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 54, 25 June 1914, Page 6
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