Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-27
RIOT lNFRANCE.
Stage Drivers Giving the Police
Some Trouble.
BLACK-LEG DRIVERS HO0TED.
An Anti Foreign Mob Destroys Christian
Mission at Sanl<in-The O'Shea
Divorce Granted-German Mil
itary Barracks Burned.
Stage Drivers Attack the Police,

PARIS, May 26.-The strike of stage
| drivers continues to-day throughout Paris.
| There was rioting this morning when the
| stage company, assisted by the police, made
an endeavor to run several stages. No
| sooner were the stages well out OF the de-
| pots than they were greeted with volleys of
stones, accompanied by perfect storm of
| hoOtiug and jeering. Though the stages
| were escorted by policemen, the strikers
| watched their opportunities and at signal
| agreed upon charged furiously upon the
| stages, swept away the police lines, dragged
the blackleg drivers from the boxes, pounded
| them vigorously, cut the traces of the
horses and in several cases overturned and
| seriously damaged the stages
The police did the best they could to pro
tect the company's employees and property,
but their efforts were nearly useless in the
| face of the overwhelming, powerful rushes
of the mob
At II O'Clock numbers of the stages are
standing deserted in the streets. blocking
traffic and showing how well the strikers
are holding their own. The strikers ask
for twelve hours work per day and rein-
statement of drivers belonging to their
union who have been discharged for agitat-
ing this movement.
Popular sympathy, as already stated, Is
undoubtedly with the strikers and in one
case this was illustrated i'll manner some
weat disgusting TO the 'black legs" Two
stages were stopped by the strikers at q
certain point and the horses were as usual
unhitched and led away amid the jeers of
the crowd who witnessed the onslaught of
the strikers. When the black legs drivers
and conductors were pulled from the stage
the inhabitants of the neghborinC houses,
male and female, nearly smothered the
black legs with showers of dirty water.
filth and refuse. When the sblack legs fin
ally escaped they were almost filthy rs it
is possible for men TO be. Squads of police
attempted repeated charges upon the
strikers and their supporters to protect the
stages issuing from the depot on boulevard
Bourden, but the crowds responded by at
lacking and overpowering the police.
The strikers then pulled the blacklegs
from the stages, severely maltreated them
and compelled the stages TO return into the
depot The police later on, We're reinforced
and made many arrests among the strikers
who had been prominent in riOting. GauloiS
to-day says that the stage company asked
NJ. DeEreycinet, president of the council and
minister of war, TO allow troops to take the
places of the company's drivers and enable
the company to run stages loaded with SOL
dierS through the streets of Paris. NJ De
F'reycinet, Gaulois adds, refused the com
panys request. Later they sent some of
its officials to the hotel DeVille and requested
the municipal coun Gil to intervencc in
behalf of the company. After some deliDer-
alton the municipal council consented to
formally receive and hear the complaints of
the stage company officers this afternoon.
Eighty additional arrests of strikers
We're made this morning. This makes
about one hundred and thirty strikers who
are in the custody of the police. The
cabinet has been seriously considering all
the aspects of the stage-drivers' strike and
has been discussing the ACCESSIBILITY of
winding up the stage cOmpany's affairs or
of taking the company's business in the
hands of the government for the present.
The central labor commission has adopted
a proposition forbiddirg public convey
ance companies to employ men for more
than twelve hours per day.
LATER.
1t is announced that the government has
decided to intervene in the stage drivers
strike. 1t is added that the government
determination to interfere in the strike is
solely for the purpose of assuring convent
ence for the public which naturally suffer
considerably from total suspension of the
stage service.