FRANCE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XIX, Issue 737, 10 June 1907, Page 5

FRANCE.

LABOR LEADERS SENTENCED. [Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.] [Press Association.] PARIS, June 3. Two men, named Levy and Bousquet, labor leaders and anti-militar-ists, have been sentenced to two years' imprisonment at the Seine Assizes for inciting workmen to pillage ; also for complicity with the strikers' acts of robbery .and destruction of property. The Public Prosecutor declared that the Paris May-day demonstration in 1906, organised by the accused, cost the Treasury £140.000. Recently they attempted vo organise a general strike.