Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-07
PARIS FULL OF TROOPS.
From the Provinces Go, 900 Have
 Been Poured In.
STILL MORE RIoTING IS EXPECTED

The Labor Unions win Not Join the Mob.
 but Will Order a General strike-omni-
 buses Burned In the Streets and More
 Fighting Last Night.
 PARIS. July T.-There was some serious trouble at the Place de Ia Republique. in which pistols were brought into use by the rioters against the troops, who charged the mob with fixed bayonets. Several omni- buses were overturned and set on fire, and the street railways were pulled up and the tram cars upset
 It is the general opinion that the disor- ders will continue and become more seri- ous.
 The labor syndicates, representing 26O 100 workmen, have decided not to make any manifestations, but they propose a general strike.
 The government has closed and occupied with troops the Labor Exchange, where the syndicates Of the workingmen held their meetings in order to discuss among themselves and with their employers the conditions and wages of work This Labor Exchange was a creation of the Municipal council of Paris, and its closing has great l ly angered the working classes of the city, so that serious disorders are possible The government has assembled troops in Paris from every direction and there are now no less that 6O,O00 men massed in the barracks of the city. For the present every | thing is quiet.
 Gangs of rowdies made disturbances in | the Rue du Chateau d'Eau around the Labor Exchange and in the nearby streets | By g o'clock the rioters had become hu- | morous and belligerent. They upset and partly smashed five tram cars and broke | many windows. The police eventually were | able to hold them in check, but not to dis perse them.
 In the fights between rioters and police | several rowdies and two policemen were | injured. Few students took part in the riots. The Students association has pub | lished an appeal to students to abstain from any further participation in the riots The closing of the Labor Exchange has | caused intense excitement among [ he work | ingmen- As soon as the action of the gov | ernment became known, thousands of workingmen came to the building from all parts of the city. They were restrained from violence by several companies of mili- | tary and the strong force of police The auxiliary Labor Exchange in the Rue Jean | Jacques Rousseau has been closed also and | is held by troops.
 Not Ready For Revolution. The labor leader Allemane. in speaking | at the main exchange, warned his hearers against resorting to open fighting with the government. More than 25, GOO troops have
 been brought from the provinces to Paris | within the last five days. If the working men should go into the streets to obtain
 their rights, they would be moved down | by the military. Their fight would be tu- tile, as the country was not yet ripe for the | revolution.
 Allemane's statement concerning the concentration of troops in Paris is acknowl- edged generally to be correct. When the municipal councillors heard that the gov ernment had closed the Labor Exchange | NJ. Humbert, their president, invited the | deputies and senators to meet him for con | ference at tbe city hall At the time set
 for the meeting the senators and deputies
 who answered M. Humbert's invitation
 found the city hall surrounded by troops | who would allow only the municipal coun- cillors to enter. They adjourned their con- | ference, therefore, to the largest of the | nearby cafes They remained in consulta- tion until very late and declined to say
 what their final decision was. | Premier Dupuy informed the cabinet council that the street disturbances had l be repeated. All precautions had been
 taken, he said, for the immediate repres-
 sion of any further attempts to start riots Closing of the Labor Exchange.
 At the clearing of the Labor Exchange | 100 policemen, under instructions from the
 ministry of justice, marched to the build ing about the middle of the afternoon and
 drove every body out. The doors were then | closed.
 Three hundred policemen were left on guard The exchange was closed because
 the syndicates using it refused to comply | with the law of 1884, requiring them to l register themselves The syndicateS of the
 exchange gave warning to the government
 through the municipal council that unless
 this attempt to compel them to register | was abandoned they would proclaim a gen
 eral strike Nevertheless M. Guerin, min
 ister of justice, told the senate that all lA-
 bor syndicates which had been constituted
 illegally or were proceeding illegally would
 be prosecuted. The Labor Exchange, he
 said, had become q ho; bed of revolutionary propaganda and had defied the laws hence
 the government had closed it. The gov
 ernment would not be deterred by threats
 from enforcing the law.