THE LABOUR WORLD.

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 October 1910, Page 5

THE LABOUR WORLD.

SOCIALISTS DENOUNCE THE MINISTERS.

OVER RAILWAY STRIKE

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PARIS, Oct. 30

The action taken by the Government in mobilising the railwaymcn to break the recent strike was the subject of a bitter scene yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies, and there was a disorderly and passionate debate. Mr. Janeis (the Socialist leader') in condemning the Ministry, referred to the decision of the Minister of Labour, M. Viviani, to resign from the Government. M. Jaures asserted that M. Viviani was resigning because his colleagues were prisoners to the forces o. money and reaction. M. Viviani denied M. Jaures’ statement.

The Premier, M. Briand, amid constant interruption, spoke in justification of the Government’s mobilisation of the railway men, when he asserted, they were only too glad to seize such a pretext to escape from the oppressive tyranny of their leaders. It was impossible for the country in the case ol

such a strike to keep her frontier; open. If necessary, lie declaerd, the Government would have had recours to illegal measures to suppress tin strike.

The extreme Left thereupon sb"'-! their fists at Briand, shouting “ Dictor, resign!”

M. Briand, who remained on the Tribune for half an hour, was the tarest of continued Socialist abuse, which necessitated the adjournment of the debate.

The Premier, in his speech justifying fixe possibility of extra legal steps, recalled those taken at the time of the Fashoda incident and when serious difficulties occurred with, Germany over Morocco

Later. —The scene in the Chamber w? unparalleled, being reminiscent of the crisis over the Panama, Boulangina anu Dreyfus. Deputies struggled with attenlants in their efforts to storm the plat'Ann. There were several resorts to fisticuffs. Resuming on Sunday, M. Briand was conciliatory. The Chamber rejected the censure vote by 384 votes to 155.

THE AMERICAN TROUBLE. NEW YORK, Oct. 29

The strike of the expressmen of Long Island is spreading. Further rioting has occurred, and the strikers have attacked the strike breakers.

Later.—Nine' leading Express Companies in Now York are affected by the strike. The militia will probably be calk'd out. A special police reserve of 9,000 has been formed for any emergency. The riots continue. Fifty were injured' in a fight with the police who were armed. Some 5,000 men are idle. A huge quantity of undelivered goods, is perishing. FRENCH RAILWAY STRIKES. PARIS, Oct. 29. . The Minister of Railways, M. Millerand has announced that France is coyping Britain and Canada’s methods of settling railway conflicts. Secretary Day, of the Labourers Union, has been sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment. Numerous other exemplary sentences were passed on strikers convicted of violence toward s n on-strikers. A STRIKE SETTLED. MELBOURNE, This Day. The street sweepers strike has been settled. Received this day at 1.50 p.m. A STRIKE RIOT. BERLIN, October 30. —A disturbance in the northern quarter arose over the dismissal of a butcher’s assistant owing to his late arrival at work. A mob of several thousand hooligans and women ‘ attacked the shop at night and pelted the police with stones. The police charged with drawn swords, wounding many. The crowd retaliated with beer bottles and fragments of balcony railings. They also sang the Marsellaise and smashed the street lamps.