ENDS IN A FIASCO.
STIRPKEIRS BL-UETiEiD BY ÜBADEIRjS. (Received 13th, 11.-50 p.m.) PAIRiIS, Mtoy 13. The strike was a fiasco. There were only 465 absentees. The leaders bluffed yesterday's ■meeting with, imaginary conversations tihroiiffh a dummy telephone, whereby it wag suggested the provinces supported the strike. '. A majority of employees object to the re.volutionß.ry oharatotef impartod to. the strike. Five hundred .military telegraphists and electricians were summoned to Paris*. The wires were carefully watched. 24 out of 37 London and 'Paris wires were working. Manly bu»inesß firm® were usin? the Paris Chamber of cfourior services to the provincesl. Hotelkeetpers orpraniseid a for.vd^ service via Brussels on behalf of 20.000 visitors to Pnirisiah notnls. The Governmtenit has decided to dismißS 228 strkersi.
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Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10421, 14 May 1909, Page 3
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