New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-06
THE FRENCH STRIKES.
THE FRENCH LABOR AsSOCIATIONS-THEIR OBJ
JECTS AND MOVEMENTS.

The Paris correspondent of London journal
describes interview which he had with one o, are
two societiesthc international Workmcn's Association
and the Socete des Mers Parsiens he rst mas s
respondent inquired II the International Workmens Az
answered: mot yet; but the Socifte des Mtitrs
Pdrsiens has several times spent considerable sums
strike Of the bronze workers OF Paris cost ooOf Gi9
that was the most expensive strike we nave iu as Se
The strike Of the pgissiers anners In 1869 cost Sool
$4,000. We had little pecunary assistance from Eng
The further inquired II the International
Association not endeavong to bring about general
strike, and adds: IN, r.,
without answering my question categorically, he
Immediately began TO eXpatiae the effectiveness OF
such attack society, in a manner which LETT Dut
little doubt in my mind that such an extreme measure
really in serious contemplation by him ana MS
brother agtators. pointed out that 1t seemed 10 me
in such struggle seeing that the capitalists would have
the interest of their money &C., to live on IN case OF
general strike. while the workmen would not De ae 70
receive such aid as usual in ordinary strikes from the
brother workmen, since no one would be earning any az.
money, and the accumulated capital 81 the very rocsn
organized societies in France would not last week
divided among all their members. tit. ,.,ou u,
"Oh but their capital would he use without iaoor
he answered. 1T would absolutely be no more use 20
them than piece would have been TO Roo
to make the strike particularly strict and universal In al
butchers would not kill meat or the bakers bake bread
it would be a question OF who could fast longest T.,
All this sounds like the wild talk OF visionary yet II
came from the mouth Of very Intelligent weilcducand
man. who, though not himself workingman, Is IN daly
contact with the wOrklnR1ncn OF Iafs. GcIllHg
mated and forgetting his reserve, he continued:
desire street fights hut in the presence OF
strike like that OF which have spoken can they resist
But not all your societies illegalt Perfectly SO
only they widely spread that no Prefect or
Police would Ia deal with them. In fact both the
Association ItrHdtiodie and the Soci6f des Idenrs
have Prosecuted and CONFERENCE.-The one word IN
cles the other but these prosecutions caused so uch
scandal and Indignation among the workInen OF Paris
and few Of them Bouaparsts that there Is little
chance OF any OF us being prosecuted again.
think said that the head Committee OF the 1850
cidtOn Merndt0nde sat In London; that IT, OF course
for political l suppose the English Govern
interferes in the least with you Ion no. on
the contrary On occasion IL has protected two or
our members. In 1867, two English delegates to the
yearly Congress, returning from switzerland through
France, had their boxes opened, and all their papers
seized at the French frontier. When they arrived IN
England application made to Lord stanley, VINO at
demanded the papers back through the British En-
bassadOr in Paris, and soon received them Let me
tell you, Monsieur, that the Belgian or Swiss Govern
mcnt would have asked long time before 1t got them
then asked him where they proposed to hold their an
nua Congress this year. We had hoped he replied to
have held Ii fl Paris but fear that now political cir
cunstances will not permit us to do So
You mean that hoped to have had Radical change
OF ovcrnment-o have Republic in France In fact i
(he answered with q sigh) have not said otherwise.
Perhaps may hold our Congress In Germany. But
Bismarck very strOng-srOnger than the Emperor for
instance You wish, then, that all your associations
should have political well as an economical END In
view Certainly perusa of the rules or the Associa
ton VIII show you what political sentimental