New-York tribune., 1895-10-17
THE GREAT STRIKEIN FRANCE
NJ REssEGUIER, OF THE CARMAUX
GLASS WORKS, WOUNDED BY SHOT.
NJ JAUREs SOCIALIST DEPUTY. SAID TO BE CON-
NECTED WITH THE AssAULT-A CURIOUS
FEATURE OF THE BEGINNING OF THE
LOCKOUT - WILL THE GOVERN

FEATURE OF THE BEGINNING OF THE
LOCKOUT WILL THE GOVERN
MENr NOW SEND TRooPs7
Paris. Oct 16-M Resseguier, manager or
the Carmaux glass works, whose employees are
on a strike. was fired upon with revolver
while passing the rendezvous OF the strikers
committee last evening and slightly wounded.
His assailant escaped.
"Ie Journal des Debats' says that NJ
Jaures, Socialist Deputy for Tarn. In which
department Carmaux is situated and CHIEF or
ganizer Of the strike. will soon De arrested ior
his connection with the AFFAIR
The police later learned that the would-pe muir
derer was a vender of Socialist newspapers haneo
Guihem. He has been arrested
London. Oct .16.-According to the Paris cor
respondent of "The Morning Post" there is little
svmpathy expressed for NJ. Resseguer he having
made himself obnoxious alike TO the employees oi
the glass works and to his employers
The correspondent adds that the police nave
seized the books and funds OF the strike COM
mittee.
The Carmaux strike has already lasted FOR three
months, and in regard to questions OF Govern
mental policy and of social economy IT Is the most
important OF all strikes which have ever occurred
In France. The glass works OF NJ Hesseguier en-
ployed about 1900 men, Some time ago two OF the
represen tatives OF their trade union apseh'eu
themselves IN
porative congress- Or their return. they were dis
charged by their employers; and consequence
a strike was ordered by the glass workers syn
dicate. But conciliatory ideas soon prevailed ana
the workmen resolved first. not to ask FOR the re-
instatement OF their two discharged comrades, to
whom they voted funds equivalent TO the wages
lost by them and secondly. to ask for the reopen
ing OF the works. VI. Resseguier then declared
that his employees could return only on certain
conditions, which impaired their former situation
and shut the doors OF the shops upon some OF
them, the leaders in the strike. These conditions
were not accepted by the men, and the strike was
then transformed into a lockout.
The whole Socialist party in France was aroused
by the revolutionary papeFs and by the socialist
where they counsel.ed moderation. while advising a
se E ana bo tn take again
workmen the conditions which formerly pre-
France invited the laborng men to subscribe one
cent each every day for the support OF tneir
published daily the list OF al the subscribers. and
at the latest news more than one hundred thousand
francs have been raised for the support OF the So
A tremendons agitation has been kept up all the
time TIM by se seat senense e. who
found guilty OF counterfeing an Invention OF one m,
friend, the vicepresIdent of the company NJ sirven
had resigned his office In order not to become ha EN-
Government. accused of being partial toward the
employers, was threatened with interpellstions when
Il should reopen the Chambers, october Z .
Among the Socialist Deputies who take the side
of the strikers is VI. Jaures distinguished pro-
fessor OF philosophy. who belongs 10 the region or
Carmaux, and whose speeches have been rather
moderate and conciliatory, up TO the latest news
by mail from France. u
The attempt upon the life OF NJ. Ressegu.er Will
be charged undoubtedly. by the revolutionary
papers to the account OF some agent 'provocateur
or police agent. whose action was expected to
pronote a crisis in the affair OF the strike, and TO
compel more direct intervention Of the Govern
ment. At any rate, the question of Carmaux Will
cause in the Chambers some violent debates and
force the Conservative Republicans 10 give one
more vote OF confidence to the Ribot Cabinet The
question is whether or not a jorlty will be
secured against the Radicals and the Socialists