STRIKE IN PARIS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3144, 23 March 1909, Page 5

STRIKE IN PARIS.

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Received March 22, 10.20 a.ra

PARIS, March 21.

The French Chamber of Deputies supports the Government in its determination to suppress the strike of the postal, telegraph, and telephone employees. M. Barchou, Minister for Works, announced in the Chamber that he had given the strikers twenty-four hours' warning, ac the end of which, if they had riot returned to work, the whole 8,000 on strike would be dismissed.

No despatches have reached King Edward, who is at Biarritz, since Tuesday last. There has now been organised a courier service between Paris and Brussels, whence the authorities are enabled to keep in touch with officials throughout the world.

Soldiers are repairing one hundred and fifty provincial wires which were cut in the neighbourhood of Paris.

DISMISSAL OF AN OFFICIAL DEMANDED.

SIGNS OF THE STRIKE COLLAPSING.

Received March 22, 9.55 p.m. PARIS, March 22.

M. Clemenceau (Premier) has informed a deputation of the strikers that their demand for the dismissal of M. Simyan, Under-Secretary of State, was inadmissible, and that it was a question solely for Parliament to deal with. He strongly appealed to the strikers to resume work in their own interest and the general interest of the country. He and M. Barthou would promise that in the event of the strikers resuming work to consider their grievances. A large meeting of strikers afterwards unanimously rejected the Committee's proposal to resume work, but there are signs of a collapse of the strike.

The telegraphists are gradually resuming work, and the telephone and pneumatic postal service of Paris is already working.