The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-05-13
MOVEMENT HAS APPARENTLY
GAINED NO HEADWAY IN
FRENCH CAPITAL.
TELECRAPHERS AT WORK
Night Shift at Central Telegraph Bu-
reau reports for Work and the Mail
is Being Handled With But Com
paratively Little Trouble-Cabnet
Dismisses Many Employees.

Paris, May 12.-The first day Of the
postal strike passed peacefully. No
disturbances We're reported and the
movement appears to have gained no
ground. The service in Paris and
throughout the provinces tonight, with
the exception Of that Of the railway
mail clerks, is normal and as result
there has been no need to take ad-
vantage of the preparations made BY
the various business organizations
and commercial bodies to carry on Il
private letter service.
The cabinet tonight sum marily dis
missed 228 men under the decree IS
sued on March IS, which auth orizes the
discharge of strikers from the state
service and made other provisions for
dealing with recalcitrants. The minis
ters are confident that the removal of
the principal fomenters Of the agita :
ton will crush the movement.
The strike leaders experienced an
the miners congress at Lens to vote
a sympathetic strike. and thus far
none of the trades unions has given a
sign of joining the movement. At
the same time the government is hur-
rying the preparation of its promised
bill regulating the. status of state en-
ployes which will be presented to y
committee Of the chamber of deputies
Monday Official figures place the
number of strikes in Paris at 465 out
OF 11,000. owing to the detection of a
majority of the mail clerks, the out
going mails are more or less stranded.
Operators Report.
The hotbed of the previous revolt.
the Central Telegraph bureau, is quiet.
the night shift reporting for duty an
usual.
Reports from the provinces show
that the movement has not made much
headWay except at Havre, where a
special service arranged by the cham
Der of commerce will be inaugurated.
At Bordeaux, Tile and Chartres, con-
dltionS are normal. In some cities.
notably Lyons and Chambery, the pos
tai employees have openly expressed
tkeir disapproval of the strike. There
is some anxiety at the Paris hotels,
'iiN'N ith'lNl Jus tAIlltl l1elliS arc eX-
pecting letters containing bank drafts.
A mass meeting of postal employees
tonight was not SO We'll attended as
that Of last night. The meeting, how
over, adopted Il resolution to continue
the strike. 1t was announced that the
number of strikers was growing rap
idly both in Paris and the provinces,
an instance being given of the mail
clerks on the Lyons mail. who had
quit on the road
No Violence.
DUNG a long speech M. Lauron de-
clared that violence or destruction OF
property by the strikers would not be
tolerated. He said the men would fin
ish the tasks on which they were now
engaged.
Two detachments of naval mechan-
les, summoned from Brest by the min
lister of marine, have arrived here and
are now stationed in the machine
rooms of the central postoffice and the
central telegraph bureau. The hotel
keepers union has arranged to take
The mail of foreign guests to Brussels,
whence it will be sent abroad. They
are also devising a scheme to deliver
incoming mail.