The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-18
Wireless Station on Top of the
EiffeI Tower in Paris Will
Attempt communi c alton
With London.
POSTMEN HAVE JOINED
WITH TELEGRAPH MEN
Situation Is Growing More
Serious Hour by Hour-0ne
Million Letters Have Been
Delayed.

Paris, March 18.-It is estimated
that more than a million letters and
twenty-five thousand kilograms are
held up because of the strike of the
post and telegraph employees. The sit.
uation is growing worse hourly. At.
tempts will be made to establish wire
less communication from Eiffel tower
station to London.
The letter carriers have joined the
strike of the telegraphers, telephone
operators and mail clerks employed by
tho postoffice department. At meet
ing they voted by a large majority to
begin a~strike after the first delivery.
Eight hundred postmen employed in
the delivery OF newspapers and par
GELS went out after the last distribu-
4iOu.
The strike movement gained greatly
throughout the day. Paris being prac-
tically isolated from the rest of
Ftance and France from the outside
world. Eight thousand strikers met
1aSt night and passed resolution to
uaa4ntainsthe struggle to the bitter end.
N1xtoO TOT FlOlSn TI8Ht'
Premier Clemnceau declares that
M government Is ready for fight
4n1 will not recede In It's determine
f11nn to force the strikers to the wall.
~ most.serious situation, however, has
ax1sen through the inability of the
sacrament to communicate with its
lureign representatives, and tonight
thO strikers cut the private telephone
wire connecting the Elysee Palace
with the various ministries.
Troops are held In readiness at Yer
0adljes to re-enforce the Paris troops
In case anw demonstrations of a SER
4ous nature como tomorrow, which is
q holiday.
There was an. alarming rumor late
last night that the secretary Of the
railroad employees union has prom
Used to order out these men in a SYM
pathetic strike.
The strike extended rapidly~all day
and at 6 o'clock last night the oper-
atOrs at the Bourse Station, who re-
manned at their posts long after the
central station IVES p4alyxed. march.
I'd out, severing tho Last Strands which
Included the French Cable Company's
New YorkBrest communication. Sim
,iltaneously the failure OF the night
shift OF telephone operators to make
their appearance~put the 1inal means
nI quick communication out OF com~
mission.
The public service employees In
most, OF the larger cities followed the
lead OF their Paris comrades.
Mails Are All Stopped.
The international and interurban
malls are at standstill, entailing
heavy business losses. Some OF the
larger commercial and financial firms
have sent agents to London. Brussels.
Antwerp, Strausbourg and other
places, whore they are receiving mes
sagee and conducting operations.
The bourses here. at Lyons. Marseil-
lbs and other centers are at stand
stilI owing to the lack of quotations
from foreign exchanges.
Threats of suspension and dismis-
sal have only served to bring the en-
ployes Of the various branches into
closer union. Reserve operators who
were summoned from the country dis
tricts to Paris refuse to perform SER
vice and the military telegraphers
who we're called upon this afternoon,
and through wnom it was expected to
re-establish wire communications.
were almost helpless before the dam
aged switchboards and instruments
which the strikers left behind.