The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-04-28
PARIS Police search
HOMES OF ARISTOCRATS
DRAMATIC TURN TO THE WIDE
SPREAD FRENCH LABOR
AGITATION

Wholesale Investigation Designed to
Unearth an Extensive Plot Against
the Public Security-Search Includes
Offices of Labor Federation, Homes
nent Royalists and Bonapartists-
Authorities Have Proof of Plot.
Paris, April 27.-The widespread labor
agitation took dramatic turn to-day,
when the police executed a series of
wholesale searches designed to unearth
an extensive plot against the public Sc
curity. The searches included the Of
fees of branches of the labor federation
and the homes Of labor leaders, proni-
nent royalists and Bonapartists, and
also a number of anarchists. The sus-
poets among the royalists and Bona
partists include the heads Of several
aristocratic families, among them
Count Durand de Beauregard, Count de
la Regle, Baron de Taradel, M. Bacon
nier, president OF the royalist advance
guard; M, Thouvenel, an intimate
friend Of Prince Louis Napoleon, and
Major Feuillent, formerly commander
of the Imperial Guards, while the la
borites who were subjected to search
include the conspicuous heads. of the
movement planned for May /.
The ostensible purpose of the searches
was to discover if encouragement had
been given to the rioting in the mining
district in the north; but the authorities
expected at the same time to uncover
the entire plan Of the present labor ag-
itation, including any menacing feat
ures of the demonstration which is to
take place May l. The searches were
operated simultaneously early In the
morning. The results in many cases
were negative. There is. however, off,
cial authority for the statement that
documents were received which proved
that royalists and Bonapartists in
trigued with the labor leaders and lib
orally financed the revolutionary and
strike movements. The labor federa-
tion has refused to hand over its books
to the police.
The searches caused a sensation in
labor and soeialistic circles. In the for
mer they are denounced as d device to
discredit the labor movement. The OPP
position press also characterizes the
searches as an electioneering move-
ment.
In the meantime the public has be-
come more tranquil regarding the pos
sible events of May /, owing to the
completeness Of the military and police
precautions. The city is rapidly filling
with troops, embracing thirty-nine bat
talions and forty-eight squadrons,
drawn from the various army corps.
They have been rendezvoused at the
Ecola Militaire and Galerie des Ma
chimes, which have been temporarily
transformed into extensive barracks
A significant decree has been published
giving the right to the military to req
uisition food and lodgings within the
department of the Seine beginning to-
morrow. Complete quiet In the strike
centers tends to reassure the public.
The Temps editorially points out the
absurdity of people hastily leaving the
city or laying In stocks Of provisions,
and says the government has taken
very complete precautions. Revolutions
ary movements, the article says, never
succeed when heralded in advance. 1T
is patent fact that the government
has recognized the impossibllity of dis
arming society before anarchy, and
must dssipate its fears" The article
says; Apparently the government has
taken a lesson from the United States,
where pillagers, trying to profit by the
catastrophe at San Francisco and prao-
tice their profession, have been meroi-
lessly shot, by which the inhabitants of
the unfortunate town took courage and
resumed their normal life. We do not
believe that Parisians are more cow
ardly than Californians. Nothing sus-
tains public confidence like the certain
ty of possessing government which is
resolved to do its full duty"