Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-25
PARIS BAKERS WILL STRIKE.
They Demand the Abolition of the Registry
Offices.

They Demand the Abolition of the Registry
Offices
PARIS, June ga meeting composed OF
about 5000 bakers took place in this city today.
Several speakers addressed the bakers assem-
bled and it was resolved to strike Immediately.
The bakers are in arms against the registry
offices, and insist, as the price Of their return
ing to work, that these Offices shall be sup
pressed.
After the strike resolution had been unani-
mously adopted the bakers who attended the
meeting formed into procession and, with
much cheering and inflammatory cries. tried
to march upon the labor exchange. They were
headed by a number of their leaders and by
men who bore aloft the banners of the bakers
societies. The police. however. gathered in
force across the intended line of march, and
when the bakers reached convenient
point the police officers ordered tie
procession to halt and further insisted that the
bakers should dispense and air their alleged
grievances in more orderly and less demon
strative manner. To these propositions the
bakers demurred. claiming that they had per-
feet right to march through the streets to the
labor exchange and insisting that they were
only. calling attention in an orderly and legal
manner to the wrongs from which they suf-
fered.
DISPERSED BIZ THE POLICE.
demonstration, and upon the police attempting
to enforce the order to dispense the bakers
procession free fight between the authorities
and the bakers followed, and some lively scenes
we're witnessed. The police eventually won the
day, scattered the striking bakers, who fed
ignominiously through the side streets Of the
neighborhood after leaving their most agitated
leaders in the hands of the victorious police
men, who triumphantly escorted the prisoners
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AND NOW THE BUTCHERS STRIKE.
As if it was not putting the public to a suf-
icient degree Of prospective annoyance to
have the bakers Of this city striking and riot
ing, the butchers Of Paris have Just announced
that they also have determined to strike for the
settlement of several real or fancied wrongs
from which they claim to be suffering.
THE GRoCERs JOIN THEM.
And now at $50 p. m. in comes the startling
piece of news that the grocers Of this very CAV
capital have joined the bakers and the butchers
in the strike movement. The situation of af-
fairs thus brought about, it must be admitted,
IL peculiar, interesting and alarming. II
the fight of the striking employees is car
ried on to serious lengths it will not
be long before Parisians will begin to
.'se froter le yentre.' as an amisble garden de
la paix, who had taken an active part in dis
persing the bakers procession, pointedly put
It, Without bread, meat or groceries,
green and otherwise. the regular inhab-
itants and visitors to this city seem
likely to be placed in an interesting position
Happily, the city not being invested by the
Prussians. there is no danger of any repetition
Of the scenes witnessed during the famous
siege. when hideously compounded black bread
Was almost worth its weight in gold.
tits also probable that, should the bakers,
butchers, grocers and others push their strike
to degree warranting such a step, the au-
thorities will place several thousand troupiers
from the line regiments at the dis
posal Of the master bakers, butchers
and grocers, and that the various halles, mar
kets, forts de la halle (market porters) and
commissaires. male and female. for the latter
may Join in the movement, will have their work
performed temporarily by the red-breeched in
fantrymen of Paris.
is regarded as a huge joke. but there is no dis
guising the fact that Wholesale and prolonged
strike of the bakers, butchers and grocers of
this city or of any other city would certainly
cause considerable Inconvenience, to say the
least.
COUNCIL OF MINISTER'S.
Later.-That there really is a serious side to
the bakers, butchers and grocers strike may
be set down as fact, for this afternoon meet
ing Of the council Of ministers was held at the
ton of the present labor disturb
ance from all it's points was fully
discussed. The result was that it was decided
that in the event Of the strike extending the
master bakers, butchers, grocers and other
suppliers OF food must take measures to pro-
vide Paris at least with the quantity of bread
required for the daily use of its Inhabitants.