LABOUR TROUBLES IN FRANCE.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CONFEDERATION OF LABOUR. LABOUR OFFICIALS ARRESTED. A GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED. STRIKE OF PRINTERS. WILD INCITEMENTS TO VIOLENCE. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, August 3. Owing to tho Compositors' aud /rinters' Unions striking in obedience k» the orders of the Labour Confederation, many Paris papers did not appear to-day. Several other tirades have struck. The Socialist Committee accuses the Government of murdering workers. The chief organ of the Labour Confederation publishes a cartoon of tbo head of the Premier, M. Clemenceau, on a pike, under the title "l'Assassin." There are many wild appeals to ro•ort to violence, but the general community urges the Government to vigorously defend law and order.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9305, 4 August 1908, Page 1
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