The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-27

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New York Herald Special Gable Service. Copy.
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raght 1875, by the New York Herald. J.
/ Paris, May 26.-The second ballot
for the election Of members Of the
chamber Of deputies took place last
and the rout of the antirepublican
groups. The former majority gained
forty one seats and lost 81, the net gain
is therefore thirty-fve seats. Sunday,
May 6, at the first ballot it had already
gained twenty-three seats. The total
gains therefore are ffty-eight seats.
The, following is as nearly as possible
the composition Of the new chamber:
The chamber contains 59l deputies,
Of whom 5S5 are known at the present
time. The results Of some of the col
onial elections are still unknown. The
majority consists Of All and the oppo-
sition Of 174. In the former chamber
the majority was only 358 and the op-
position was 262, which gives fifty
eight. seats lost by the opposition and
won by the majority. The nationalist
party suffered most. All the chiefs Of
Paris were defeated, including Colonel
Marchand, who would have been better
advised if he had not compromised the
fame he won in the colonies by this
Among the interesting elections is
that Of Monsieur Dietry at Brest. He
is president Of the confederation of
"Jaunes.'' This is the name given to
the antisocialist -workmen who oppose
the socialist workmen who style them
selves "Reds.'' At the bottom the
"Jaunes' and Reds'' ask for the
same things under different forms. The
"Reds' demand socialism Of property
that is to say the substitution Of col
lective property for individual owner
desire to maintain Individual property,
but they desire to transform the facto-
ries into limited liability companies
and distributed part Of the shares to
workmen. In short, with the "Jaunes,'
as with the "Reds,' the employers
would be more or less partially dispos'
sessed. -
Dreyfus' Friends Elected.
Other elections equally interesting
are those of the protagonists Of the at
fairs Of Captain Dreyfus.. Joseph
Reinaeh i ELECTED deputy as is h;
is also elected a. deputy. One remem.
bers that in the ministry, and notably
| at the ministry Of the interior, there
figured leading defenders Of the famous
captain, and one is forced to admit that
things are changed for him after
twelve years of martyrdom, and the
question arises whether the court OF
cessation Is not going to profit by these
circumstances next month to terminate
the famous process by acquitting Drey
fus purely and simply as the procur
the reporter councillor, while proclaim
ing his innocence demands that he bf
sent before another courtmartial.
may add that well-informed people
offer to bet that Dreyfus would be this
time acquitted by. court martial, pre-
cisely on account Of the elections Of
officers having no longer any interest,"
to put. themselves in opposition to tn,
sentiments - of ~, the political world
backed up by universal suffrage.
Strikes Continue. T.
The elections have not, unfortunate
ly, put an end to the strikes. Their,
are still $1,000 strikers in Paris, O.
whom Il, 900 are in the automobile in
dustry, to the great detriment of thi
branch Of Industry in France and t,
the great: Joy Of the Belgians and Ger
mans. -,s.-.,ss
+ It is to be remarked that this atti
tude of the workmen themselves, VIII,
are terrorized by the more violen
among them, grouped under the it'll
Of the COME Iteration de Travail, ha;
suggested to employers plans Of resist
ance and solidarity. At Paris thi
week, employers Of Industries which
work in metals, from tin can to loco
motive, have founded resistance fun,
!, and have decided to support one an
other against the demands Of the worl
people.
u This attitude should be compare,
with that of the German metal work
ers, who have taken the defensive an
are going to lock out, on June {
so per cent Of their work people, o
, 10000 men. In France, similar at
: titude has been adopted by certain en-
q ployers in the east, notably at villa1
/ eupt, where 1900 workmen have bee
dismissed and their employers have mu
: tually undertaken not to take ther
:, back. The government has intervene
: by allowing help to the workmen an
l others and in addition criminal invet
3 tigation has been opened against thi
combination by employers to interrup
the liberty Of work.