Postmen on Strike
CAUSES A LOSS OF £4oyooo.
Times and -Sydney Sun Services, Received 25, 8.5 p.m.
Paris, June 25.
A million letters were held ,up 'by the postal strike, and the foreign mail service was dislocated.
The Minister in charge of the Postal Department, replying to a deputation, complained of the loss commercially ot £40,000. lie said he was prepared to call out the military if necessary to protect Paris commerce. The men's action, he said, was madness, and all the resources of the State would be requisitioned to avoid interruption of the mails.
LOYAL WORKERS OUTNUMBERED AXD STARVED. . By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 25, 11.5 p.m. Paris, June 25. There was much disorder at the Central Post Office until late in the afternoon, when there was a sudden truce. The malcontents, mostly juttw 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' supplies.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 31, 26 June 1914, Page 5
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175Postmen on Strike Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 31, 26 June 1914, Page 5
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