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deputy sheri1s is held in readiness IN case OF an
emergency. No trouble OF any hiu' "o"e'0'' %
feared by the officers of the road
TIE.UPS NOT KNOWN IN EUROPE.
LABOR AGITATION ON THE COMMUNICATING!
THAT PRECEDED TIE DOWNFALL
OF NAPOLEON III.

OF NAPOLEON ILL.,
With the exception of few railway strikes in
England. the Giving up Of railroads Is never
practscd by the worken OF Europe in their unceasng
war against capital This Is because railroads there
even those which are not yet "sta'e ROADS ana
0p'~Itcd by Government employees, but when oelohs
to waite corporations nevertheless considered by
g., Governments and by tho worknen who operate
tcm as public service and portion OF the hatIohai
domain. Besides railway men in Europe as RUE
have not been affiliated with the International AS
ISOLATION Of Worklngmen. which, until 1871, uhtl INC
collapse Of the Paris Commune Its offspring was AZ
the bottom Of every labor movement there Inc
societies unions existing among railroad eihploScS
In Europe social ORGANIZATIONS ana whenever
a society flnces that its members have some grievances
It lays them before the Minister OF PnDhc NorNs oi
It's country who acts a powerful mediator between
the laborcrs and the companies. This mediation has
acted safety valve mp 10 the present tifhe' o"'
t would not be safe rely too strongly on It's power
Another explanation Of the conc Dry p rit prevailing
i'm the minds OF European railroad employees Is the non
existence of large groups Of them. The bnlK OF inc
traffic IS not concentrated in America, III COM
paratvey small number Of immense depo'S OF
terminal stations, where hundreds OF worHhch AT"
congregatcd The railroad men, not bcing maSSea IN
three or four localities would find II dhcult 10 con
sttuto strong unions or brotherhoOds.
Again, politics has always had so much to say IN
purely labor associations In Europe that they could
not live long economical societies. The best IN
stance Of this is furnished by the international asso'
citation founded by Karl Marx, which, under the IN
nuencc OF BakOunine, led the workmen OF Paris 10
the assault the Imperial Government and the
establishment Of the Commune. LInternationale hah
deyiatcd from its economic programme. which was
applauded the start by such men jules slmoh'
who enlisted in its ranks as No. OOb, but VINO
would have been shot by his former brethren II they
had captured him when he fed 10 Versailles with
Theirs. In Germany the purely social theories Oh
Karl Marx and Lassallc, though supported by Bebel
and Lleblmccht are spurned by schppel and the
young members OF the Labor party. II is true that
the laboring classes in Europe have been taught
through experience that the promises Of soveregns arc
not to blindy trusted. Napoleon III prepared during
his captivity I'm the fortress Of Ham book on Inc
Extinction Of Pauperism,7 strongly tinted with inc
>oclallstic idea, Of the epoch This did not prevent
him from rrpreSsing with awful ricOr the strikes which
June 1870 about 30 900 masOns and paSterers struck
work A. Mulnol.,. General ~ >8uvour. commander
Of tho Imperial Gendarmes, who had been sent ron
Paris To occupy IN" Akatlan cry, Wa suuucna D'
the frontier nearby, which the Prussian army hdi
iust eros ,ed. The wOrlmen, In face OF the na'Qna
danger. Immediately ceased their >tr!kc ana a'Aed -
be lie against the enemy. y little before tht IN:
workshops. iron and coal mines and the foundrcS Of
lie Crcu,ot. the largest gun, iocomo'Ve ann iron
bridge works in France. were closed Tor Two months
rs the result Of strike Of the $4,000 worhmen OF
that French Essen. The chief Stockhold"r ana the
director If lie Cf-.l>Ot VI. schneider the speaker
u hc Chamber Of Deputies. The leader Of the strikers
wa A.. y no wa, one year later President OF the Paris
Commune. The wOrimrn were forced 20 submission
hv .,arvaton. aud after many Of them had been I'm
pIsOnod had He'd from the country About the same
kept up a strike for nearly three months. These labor
disturbances were not without Influence upon me
rany in the hope OF divertns public attention from
the unsatisfactory state of things at home