Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-14
Trouble Starts When Socialists Are
Charged with Being Reactionaries.
TR1KERs ARE UND1sMAYED
Leaders Predict that Today Will
Show Big Increase.
SERVICE IS NEARLY NORMAL
Less Thnn One-Tenth of Employees
in Paris and Department
of the Seine Are
out

PARIS, May 13-The turbulent session of
the chamber of deputies today ended In
a signal victory for Premier Clemenceau
when the governments policy with regard
to the postal strike was emphatically en-
dorsed by vote of 454 to SO, including the
governments lnsistence that postal en-
ployes and other functionaries have no
right to strike. Immediately afterward
the chamber passed vote of general con-
fidence in the government. $50 to 159
The strikers received the chambers re-
buke with a shrug OF the shoulders. de-
claring that it only served to bind closer
their forces, which would soon startle the
country by the big increase and rapid
extension of the general movement On the
other hand, it is intlmated that the gov
eminent las other plans In view to Off
cial any serious growth of the strike.
IIr to midnight there was no change In
the situation. If anything 1t was in the
direction of a weakening of the strike SEN
timent. The general conviction Is that II
the movement does not make vast strides
tomorrow 1t is almost certain of complete
failure.
NJ Barthou. the minister Of public works,
posts and telegraphs, asserted during the
debate that only 2.967 out of A,205 postal
employees in Paris and the department of
the Seine are out and that conditions in
the provinces were even better.
Premier Clemenceau, in a typical epi-
grammatic speech, coolly concluded the
exciting session with the declaration that
it was merely case where France must
choose between revolutions on the one
hand and progressive evolution on the
other, or between work under republican
law and order and spirit OF adventure
calculated to disorganize and rend the
republic
wild Scenes I'm Chamber.
There were wild scenes in the chamber
of deputies this afternoon when the gov
ernment asked fol- a vote of confidence on
the attitude assumed by II In the strike of
the government erploves. NJ. sembat and
NJ. Jaures warmly defended the stand
taken by the postmen. and the latter de-
clared that the battle which had begun
would not end until the functionaries we're
possessed of the same syndicate rights
as private workmen. He charged that for
years parliamentary majority had en-
couraged "syndicatism."
NJ Combrouse, radical republican. inter-
vened and virtually charged the socialists
with being the tools of the reactionaries
He declared specifically that NJ. Morel owed
his seat to the Duke D'Uzes. Instantly
the chamber was in uproar. NJ. Morel
tried in vain to make himself heard and
NJ. Brsson, president of the chamber,
clapped his hat on his head as a sign that
the session was closed.
The tumult, however, continued. The
socialists began singing the Information
ale," to which NJ. Baudry D'Asson and his
royalist colleagues standing on chairs, re-
piled by singing ''Vive Henry W."
Finally the public and the press galleries
were cleared, but there was frantic de-
lirium both inside and out OF the Cham
ber of Depeties. Outside in the corridors
several persons who raised the cry "Vive
lie Roi," were almost mobbed. Premier
Clemenceau finally had DAsson elected
and ordered the steps to the tribune closed.
Service Nearly Normal.
The number OF striking government
employees showed no appreciable in
crease this morning. The services are
FORMAL, and at some places, notably Bor-
deaux, the telegraphers who went out yes
terday, have returned to their posts. The
concerted efforts of the strikers stationed
at various bureaus in Paris to induce their
comrades to Join the movement, have been
without effect The authorities are con-
fident the strike will be over In a few
days. On the other hand, the leaders of
the strike claim that the government is
"bluffing" and that its figures regarding
the number Of men are ridiculous They
and that the General Federation of Labor
win soon make a dramatic appearance on
the scene.