ELECTRICAL STRIKE IN PARIS.
Received March 11, 8.49 a.m. PARIS, March 10
The strike in the Electrical Power Works has ended. The strikers are satisfied on most points. As a result of the strike, water accumulated in the cuttings of the underground railways. Electric lifts and telephones were disorganised. Several morning papers only appeared in the afternoon.
Received March 11, 9.43 p.m. PARIS, March 11
Public indignation, combined with the threat of M. Clemenceau, the Premier, to light Paris with the aid of the military, overawed the strikers.
The city in darkness presented amazing scenes. Parisians enjoyed the fun until losses, inconveniences, and danger became acute. Many ingenious devices were indulged in to obtain light, steam engines, automobiles, and motors being utilised in the street to generate power. Candles sold like confetti at a carnival. The strikers caught the companies and public quite unprepared.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8378, 12 March 1907, Page 5
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144ELECTRICAL STRIKE IN PARIS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8378, 12 March 1907, Page 5
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