The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-29
uEAN L|NLN IS SCARCE
PARlS WAsHERW OMEN TAKE AD-
VANTAGE OF EXPOSITION
NEEDS AND STRIKE
LAUNDRYMEN MADE FURIOUS
Have Made Contracts Away Ahead
Order Out OF Chaps at the Big
ExpOsitIOn-Cardina Rich
ards Snuhbed.
Copyrighted hx the Associated Press

| PARIS, April 2Ss-A famine of clean
| linen is more disturbing ito Parisians than
! the incomplete condition OF the exposition
| grounds. Eight thousand Taris washer
women have struck for higher wages ard
shorter hours and serious inconvenience
| has already been caused. The hotel man
! ayers and keepers of restaurants bitterly
| complain that half their linen is not re-
| turned from the wash, and private
! families are also feeling the pinch The
| strike commenced at Boulogne-sur-Se
! and spread to several other environs
! where launderieS are situated Tne5
laundry work people in Paris number be-
| tween 10000 and 10000, and if the strik-
| erS succeed in securing their adhesion
| the mass Of Parisians will have to go I'm
washed. The fact that the influx of visi-
| tors to the exposition has begun neces-
! stating heavy demands on the laundries
gave the washerwomen an opportunity to
| put the screws on their employers who
| naturally. are much iEcensed by this at
| tempt to force their hands now when they
! have already concluded contracts in many
| cases with hotels. restaurants and other
establishments for the exposition season
| at detailed rates.
The masters offered a partial increase
| of wages. but the strikers thus far have
| refused to compromise. Bands of workers
| gather in the neighborhood OF the laun,
| deries where work is still partially con-
| hnued, and try to persuade the nom
| strikers to join them. No serious disorder
4 has yet occurred, but the police are maxi
| ing precautions and detachments CT GER
| darmes have been drafted to the districts
where trouble Is possible
SERIOUS POSSIBILITIES.
This ebuliition of labor difficulties calls
| attention to the serious pOssibilityof much
| graver disturbances arising from the
| throwing 10
thousands of workTneni by the completion
| or the exposition and of the central por-
| ton Of the new Metropolitan railway
| These great undertakings attracted to
Paris vast numbers of provisional carpen-
! ters, masons, painters and unskilled la
horers, and the prospect the government
now has to face IS the dispersal of these
laborers throughput the country, or to
| have great labor crisis in Paris, the
| consequence of which 1t would be diff
/ ficult to foresee. The first measure of tho
government has been to post at all cen.
| ters of work, placardS enumerating un-
| dertaktngs in the provinces, directed by
! the ministry of pdblfciworks 1t is esti.
mated that three daYSrWill absorb about
l2.O00 free transportations given to the
| places where men are required There
! still remain large residuni for whom
| jobs are wanted
The acting secretary of labor exchange
| calculates that $4,000 workmen came to
Paris last year. OF this number, perhaps
tWo-tmrdS intend to return to their
homes. The secretaries of the severa!
| trades unions take a more pessirnistic
view of the situation. The secretary of
the painters organization p for instance,
reckoned that the completion Of the ex-
I position will leave over 10000 painters.
! alone, unemployed. while a committees
/ &n of the unskiAed solaborers' union
the.
] will be thrown on the market will reach
/ 2e,e00, few Of whom will consent to go to
/ the provinces. This latter reluctance Is
| an important factor OF the crisis as tic
countrymcn, Intoxicated by the glitter of
/ the metropolis are disposed to hang on
es long as possible. .
ORDER OUT, OF CHAOS,
The fertnight's work on, the exposition
since the opening has Gone much to bring
! order out of the chaos which obtained
when President Loubet declared the expo
sft1en opened Perceptible progress is be-
| ing made daily, and sightSeerS can find
sufficient to repay them for the trouble
OF visit. The galleries are filling up
with. the exhibits, which are being rapid
| ly installed. The foreign sections in this
respect are farther advanced than
Frances own building, and the American
exhibits are keeping. well abreast of those
|
national paviiiOns now on, the eve of in
| auguration and several have been opened.
Bosnia and Hungary being the latest to
J unc1ose their doors. Both of these offer
charming entertainment and are charac-
| teristically representative of their re-
sDectiye countries. w.
CARDINAL RICHARD sNUBBED.
/ A fresh conflict has arisen between the
cabinet and Cardinal Richard. whose ac-
| ton at the time of the Assumptionist
| fathers trial brought him into serious
trouble with the e,goxeEnment He was a
| notable absentee from the inaugural cere-
! mony of the exhibition. no invitation hav-
1 Ing been sent him. He was very indig-
nant at this neglect. and referred the
| matter to the papal nuncion here, Mgr.
A R1naldini. who declined to intervene.
! This week Cardinal Richard announced
has intention to visit the exhibition in
order to bless the pavilions of the Catho-
Tic missions. The government refused
MN permission to do so. according to
| the ciericais, at the inst:gation of the
SOCIALIST ministers of commerce. M Mil
Iefand, Who Is said to have characterized
/ the cardinals intention as 'ta manifest
! attack upon the government and a c.eIi-
cal protest against the democratic spirit
! OF the governments labor policy" Car
d1nai Richard will now appeal to the
| vatican, whose acton is awaited with in
terest.
The oldest cafe in Paris, the Cafe Pro-
cipe, which was founded in 1889 by a
Siciiian. Closed its doors this week. The
cafe was situated in the Latin quarter,
and at one time was great political CEN
ter and rendezvous. Among it's patrons
| were Voltaire and Rosseau and Arat,
Danton and Hebert who used it as a
revolutionary club. Napoleon was fire.
| quent client, and there Gambetta, F1eury
and Flouet often spoke against the re
elme The latest habitues of note were
! the Poet Paul Vertaine and Paul Arene.