The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-12
GREAT PARTISAN STRUGGLE.
The City Has the Appearance of q Big
Military Camp.


Military Camp.
New York. Oct. IA dispatch to
the Herald from Paris says: Paris Is
slowly aking on the appearance or a
huge camp. Troops are to be seen ev-
erywhese. Detachments Of infantry or
cavalry are on guard at every spot
where a building In being constructed
or demolished. Every heap OF stones
hides a sentry. and miniature camps.
formed OF half a dozen p~ioupious, with
stacked rifles. add a picturesque touch
or color to the streets. Along the
Cours de la Reins. the Champ de Mars
and Champs Elysee. groups of cuiras-
siers may be seen riding about slowly.
The soldiers cause no fear In the peo-
pie. Even the strikers hail them with
cries of "vive rarmie." At some places
where work Is still coins On on such
as the exposition buildings, recalci-
ran workmen hobnob, joke and rgu
politics with khe troops there to see
that they do not modest the non-strik-
ers.
As for Parisians in general, they seem
to look upon the troops as forming
part of a spectacle specially arranged
for their benefit Every family has
brothers or sons in the army. Conse-
quently there is a deep and sincere af-
lection linking the people and the mill
tary together.
II a crowd of these strikers who hail
the troops with heartfelt cries OF "vive
rarmie,' were to bare their breasts to
receive the rifle balls. the soldiers,
backed by the tacit approval Of their
officers. might throw up their weapons,
and II they fired at all would fire In
the air.
There are at the moment on strike
5000 ~navvies. 1000 laborers, 500 carriers.
1000 wharfingers, 5000 locksmiths, 5000
masons, $500 stone cutters, $500 house
painters. $500 plumbers. $500 carpen
tiers. 1000 mechanics and $500 cabinet
makers. In all. some 40 900 strong men
are idle in Paris to-day. These num-
bers may be enormously increased to-
morrow. Not only have various partic-
ipating trades decided to continue the
strike, but strongly worded appeals
la been sent out to those unions that
have not yet Joined.
Among these is the railway MO 1t
is feared. however. that the strike may
soon spread to this important associa-
ton. Already. with a view of meeting
such a measure. the government Is pre-
pairing to utilize a branch of the mill
tary. while. should the bakers join the
ranks of the disaffected, bread may
have to be made in the forts around
Paris. The government has X
steps to protect such men as choose to
continue their work.
There is a growing spirit OF opposi-
ton among the strikers. They resent
as an attack upon their chief strength
the abstention of any department of
the building trades from their strike.
Where persuasion has failed to induce
h%esitating workmen to join them, a
mild sort of violence has been tried.
Some stone cutters working upon some
sculpture on the Champs Elysee hotel.
were disagreeably surprised the other
day to find a group of strikers calmly
saving through the poles supporting
the sc%affolding on which they were
working. They fastened to get down
to solid earth as quickly as possible,
where they were Informed to put on
their coats and join the strikers in the
name of the solidarity of labor
In spite OF the optimistic prediction
OF the end of the strike being near, the
strike continues to spread. The city,
however. Is perfectly quiet. but the
enormous increase in the strength OF
the garrison points to the fact that the
government fears political rather than
labor troubles. The strikers central
committee Is a political and revolution
airy organization and is engineering the
dispute as II IL were a strike OF the
proletariat. No conflict between the SOL
diers and strikers has occurred up to
the present. Not since 1870 has Paris
l.alxaI a IN xrarlfEn