Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-25
SITUATION IS THREATENING.
Paris Garrison Being Strength
ened and Precautions Taken
At Other Centers.
Some Newspapers Assert Labor Move-
ment is Prelude to Revolution to
Overthrow Existing Regime.

semi official statement made by high
functionary of the prefecture of po-
lice today the military and police are
prepared to meet every eventuality
May /. He said the police canvass
shows that 10000 men have stopped
work of which number the disorder
ly element does not exceed 10000.
Against these can be massed $4,000 to
1000 troops namely 10000 infantry,
10000 cavalry and 10000 to $4,000 Re-
publican guards and police, with large
additional reserves. The police Will
endeayor TO localiZe the manifestation
TO the Place de Ia Republca. which Is
the great labor center This will pre-
vent the manifestants from gaining
the center OF Parts or getting west OF
the Place de la Concorde into the
residential sections of the Champs
Elysee or Passy. 1t IL expected the
strength of the military and police will
readily enable them TO confine the
disorderly element within its section.
thus reducing the demonstration TO
Isolated spots. easily controlled.
The police are convinced that there
is no danger of lack of food supplies
owing to the strike in the provision
trades. They declare that the dealers
in provisions are reaping a harvest by
spreading alarmist reports The po-
lice are IN favor OF closing the stores
altogether
In conclusion the official of the
prefecture stated that the situation.
while serious. does not warrant being
represented as tragic. The painters
have decided to stop work May ! and
to remain out until granted an eight
hour day and a weekly holiday.
STRIKE SITUATION.
The cavity OF the strike movement
throughout the country. which assumed
alarming proportions last week during
the height of the excitement caused by
the San Francisco disaster. has mo-
mentarily improved, but they have been
wrought up to a state OF apprehension
concerning the imniinence OF a crisis
May I, when all the ranks OF labor will
make a gigantic elght-hour demonstra.
ton.
Whether this will be accomplished by
violence and bloodshed is only conjec-
tural, but the people are intensely
alarmed and the authorities are adopt
ing extreme military and police precau-
tons. The garrison at Paris Is being
rapidly strengthened and II Is expected
that $4,000 troops Will be available here
May l. In the mining regions there II
another camp In which an army corps
Is ready for eventuallties. and similar
precautions are being taken at other
centers.
PUBLIC ALARMED.
The labor organizations do not con-
ceal the fact that II Is their intention
to make a supreme effort, These bodies
are partly composed of anarchists ana
reyolutionlsts, who counsel violencs.
but the responsible leaders insist that
the movement has pacific object. sim
ilar to the American eight-hour demon"
STATIONS. Nevertheless II Is feared thai
the lawless element may get the uppei
hand, and this inspires the public with
feeling Of terror bordering on panic.
REVOLUTION PREDICTED.
Some Of the newspapers freely as
sert that the movement II the prelude
of a revolution In which the proletar-
fat intends to overthrow the existing
regime. The alarmist rumors add to
the real danger OF the situation, Some
of the reports picture the business and
residential parts Of Parts "a about TO
be sacked, the streets barricaded and,
I'm brief, a veritable renewal of the
commune. This has had the effect
Of greatly alarming the more nervous
people some OF whom are sending their
valuables abroad and are preparing
their residences 10 resist attack.
WHAT STRIKES MEAN.
The strikes In the north, where 40,-
00n miners are still out; in Paris,
where thousands OF book printers and
employees of the jewelry and paper
trades are on strike; at Brest, where
all branches OF labor have voted for
general strike and at other points, are
Of - Nnftnnai Ia
hor movement to be inaugurated May
/, when IL Is expected that the entire
proletariat will quit for a day and per-
haps for longer period Of time The
masons and many other branches OF
labor decided today TO quit from May |
60 May I 8 without violence. Employees
Of grocers, dairymen. butchers and
bakers and all puryeyors OF food sup
plies as well as hotels are meeting to-
night and there is promise OF a de-
cisiou for similar cessation OF work.
A complete suspension Of operations
throughout the building, food, indus
trial aud commercial and other
branches is probable. Fears are en-
tcrtained that the gas and electricity
and other utilities on which the pub
lie Is dependent viii be affected, but
the companies assert that they have no
fear OF interruption of metropolitan
and other means OF communication,
In the meantime the government ap-
pears 10 have awakened to the necess-
ty OF stern measures. This Is indicat-
"a by the assembling Of troops,
ELECTIONS APPROACHING.
one Of the CHIEF difficulties Is the fac.
that the approach OF elections makes
the political elements hesitate to Of
fend labor by the threat OF severe re-
preston. However, the early temperls
ing with the disorderly miners In the
Pas de Calais district has been succeed
ed By vigorous measures, the masslns
Of troops and the arrestng OF disorder.
~ persons.
NJ Clemenceau. who as minister OF
interior bears the brunt OF the respoh-
siblllty, first sought To avoid interven.
ton by the military but now Is ener-
getcally gathering the civil and milf
tary forces When three Of the chief
agltators visited NJ. Clemenceau yester,
day he brusquely declared that they
were outside the breastworks, as thay
had favored violence. and he therefore
refused to treat with them.