PARIS STRIKE PROVES A FAILURE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 116, 14 May 1909, Page 5

PARIS STRIKE PROVES A FAILURE.

EMPLOYEES DECEIVED

COURIER SERVICES INSTITUTED

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received May 13, 11.10 p.m.) PARIS, May 13. The postal and telegraph strike proved a fiasco. There were only 465 absentees from work. The leaders bluffed yesterday's meeting by means of imaginary conversations over a dummy telephone, by which it was suggested that the provinces supported the strike. The majority of employees object to the revolutionary character imparted to the strike.Five hundred military telegraphists and electricians have been summoned to Paris. The wires are carefully watched. Twenty-four out of the 37 LondonParis wires are working. Many business firms are using the Paris Chamber of Commerce courier services to the provinces, i Hotelkeepers have organised a foreign service via Brussels in behalf of 20,000 visitors in Parisian hotels. The Government have decided to dismiss 228 strikers.