THE PARIS WORKMEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2367, 7 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE PARIS WORKMEN.

fto small stiir was caused recently in the Faubourg St., Antoine, Paris, by die following extract being posted there from the deposition of a furniture dealer named Dirkx, before the ParliiitiienturyOo.nmitteenanjed to enquire into the cause of thetrale depletion in Paris' " I shall only speak," said M. Dirkx, "of the cibinat-raakina trade, which is ruined by the dishonesty idleness, and drunkenness, of the workmen. They struck when orders came in beviwse jealous of their omployers, to whom 'hey do all the evil possible by dawdling at thair work, and spoiling the material which they are unable to steal. If. thoy tippled less and did not.let their wives go about io search of gallant adventures, and their children run loosp like vagabonds, they would be happier than their employers; but they like better to go on the loose, and then when they starve blame everybody except themselves. In Holland, my country, ther<' is also trade depression, but workmen do not vote, and there is a king who knows how to ga» the obstreperous ones." About 3,000 of these bil's were posted. The working population of the Saint Antoine quarter improvised an indignation meeting at which some cabinet makers proposed to lynch M, Dirkx on the top of the Bastille Column. A crowd went to his bouse to ask for an explanation. He denied that he had ever made such a deposition, and appealed to the police commissary, whose office was a few doors off, to bear out his denial, Thut magistrate suggested that counter b,IL, signed M. Dirkx, should he at once printed and posted, protesting' against the mendacious ones on the walls.