CIVIL SERVANTS AND REVOLUTIONARIES.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12506, 6 April 1909, Page 3

CIVIL SERVANTS AND REVOLUTIONARIES.

menacing french alliance. General strike threatened [Press Assoolvtcon^-Ccpyeight.] Received April 5, 9.30 p.m. Paris, April 5. A proposal by M. Clemenceau to legalise Civil Servants'. Associations, but denying them the right to strike, led to a grqat protest meeting, in Paris, many postal and other State servants fraternising with tho revolutionary Confederation of Labour. Many subversive speeches were delivered, and'a secret mixed committeeof twelve, representing civil servants and' the ordinary. trade- unionists,' was , formed, to organise a general strike, with^ a view to compelling Parliament to yield to extreme demands. ..:. : ======