FRENCH POSTMEN STRIKE.
CAUSES A LOSS OF £400,000. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! XUnited Press . Abbociation.J ■ Paris, June 25. A million letters were held up hy the postal strike, and the foreign 'mail service was dislocated.
The Minister in change of the Postal Department, replying to a deputation, complained of the doss commercially of £40,000. He saidi'hWwas prepared to call out the military if f; necessary to protect Paris commerce. The men's action, ho said, and all.the resources of the State would be requisitioned to avoid interruption of the mails. [IVLk. OUTNUMBERED AND STARVED. 1,. Paris, June 25. There was much disorder at the Central Post Offico until late in the afternoon, when there was a sudden truce. The'rhalcontents, mostly junior postmen, kept the seniors, who (had declined to strike, within the building for seven'hours without food. The latter lowered cords for the purpose of hauling up food, but the police cut the cords, believing they were stopping the strikers' I 'supplies.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 55, 26 June 1914, Page 5
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160FRENCH POSTMEN STRIKE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 55, 26 June 1914, Page 5
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