The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-19
MORE POSTAL
employees 60
OUT IN PARIS
undeIivered Letters Amount to
Millions and No Relief
Is In Sight.
BANKS WITHHOLDING
PAYMENT ON CHECKS
FUNDS FOR PROVINCIAL TRADE
HUNG UP IN PosToFFICE AND
FOOD is RUNNING SHORT,

Paris. March 1S.-There was not he
slightest indication late tonight of a
break in the deadlock between the gov
eminent and its striking telegraphers
and postal employees, nor was there any
prospect of any improvement in the sit
uation. The strike, however, will he
considered in the chamber of deputies
tomorrow and {. solution may then be
furnished.
The cabinet tonight passed a decree
authorizing the dismissal of the strikers
from the state service, and reatiirmed
its determination not to yield The
semi-official note giving the result of
the meeting announced that many mer-
chants have offered to lend to the gov
eminent their employees. This indicated
the completeness of the tie-up and the
extremity to which the government has
been forced.
The note does not mention the sensa-
tional report that the government in
tends to call the reservists to the keys,
thus gathering in practically all the
male employees and forcing them to
work as soldiers under penalty of mu-
tiny. The report is discredited
On the contrary, it is believed that
Premier Clemenceau seeks only to save
the principle for which he has contend
ed, and that if the chamber tomorrow
endorses the governments attitude the
premier will be ready for the resigna
ton of M. Simyan, under secretary of
posts aud telegraphs, and thus open the
way for negotiations to end the strike
American Mails Not Delivered.
The last two American mails have
not been delivered. The Havas agency,
which receives thousands of letters
daily, did not find any at the postoffice
today. With the failure of the carriers
to deliver letters in Paris today the
chaos was complete. The entire public
service is paFalyzed and business, both
public and private is in confusion. The
situation in the capital and the prov
4inces grows worse every hour The i'm
delivered letters number into the mill
lions, and not less than 100000 kilograms
were stacked up this forenoon awaiting
distribution. Foreign incoming mails
remain unsoTted. and only a small pro-
portion of the outgoing mails have been
sent away
The few hundred military telegrapneTs
brought into Paris are practically help
less, as they are not familiar with the
recently installed Baudot instruments,
and foreign kilograms are being sent to
the frontier for retransmission. Even
J.
discontinued in the branch pOStOfIiCes.
The government has managed 70 keep
several wires open with London and
Berlin for conducting important dirlo-
matte negotiations.
Almost State of Siege.
A few days more of these conditions
and Paris will be reduced almost TO q
state of siege as far as food is con-
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smooth-running of the provincial trade
are hung up in the postoffice, and the
supply of eggs, milk, butter, meat ard
country produce threatens speedily to
cease Already merchants have been
Obliged to send agents to the provinces
with ready cash TO obtain supplies. The
banks are Withholding payment on
checks in the absence Of advices from
their correspondents. and prices at the
stores are soaring.
A large body of strikers gathered at
the central telegraph station today and
threatened a breach OF the peace, but
when they found a company of infantry
I'm rooms adjoining the main offices,
they left without creating any disturb
ance. The real element of danger lies
in the threat of the general COnfed1ra-
ton of Labor, which is purely a revo-
Iutionary organization, and the railroad
unions to declare sympathetic strikes.
Strangely enough, amid the intense
anxiety the masses celebrated Mica
RENE day, the usual pleasure loving
crowds assembling in the boulevards to
witness the grotesque procession and
throw confetti.
The strikers gained many adherents
today, the men employed on the pneu-
matte tubes joining the movement, and
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