Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
PARIS STRIKERS DEFIANT
Speakers Declare Movement is Now
Purely Revolutionary.
CALL FOR GENERAL WALK0UT
Building workers and street bigger
Vote to strike--MOre POST
men Are Dis
missed.
CALL FOR GENERAL wALKoUT

PARIS. May IA tone of defiance and
desperation marked the meeting of str1k-
ers last night, which, despite the steady re-
turn Of the postal employees to work, voted
to keep IN the struggle to the bitter end,
at the same time calling on all comrades
in France to strike on Monday. Several
speakers boldly declared that the move
ment was now purely revolutionary. The
meeting ended with an accompaniment of
many shouts OF Long live the revolution
AIRY trike
NJ. Paurcn, one of the postal leaders,
issued a warning that all postal employees
VINO refuse TO STOP work on Monday would
later pay dearly for it..
The federation Of building workmen and
street diggers tonigh voted a general
strike, leaving the date to the committee,
Notwithstanding the support promised from
this and other quarters, the general opin-
ion is that the situation will be normal
on Monday. unless the various labor or
CARNATIONS enter upon sympathetic strikes.
The cabinet today considered the strike
Of the postmen and approved the dismissal
OF 33 additional employees accused of in
citing TO revolt.
The text OF a new bill definitely regulat-
ing the right of state employees to form
associations, but specifically excluding the
right to strike. will be submitted to par
lament. Moreover, the cabinet has agreed
10 ask the senate to proceed to the con-
slderation Of the workmen's pension bill
early in June. According to official sta
tistics Sl postmen in Paris returned to
work today. This leaves l.l37 still on
strike.
There are fewer than 30 men out in the
provinces.
Jap triker stiH Out.
HONOLULU, May IA determined ef-
| fort is being made to break & strike of the
japanese plantation laborers' OF whom
moro than 100 have walked out to en-
force demands for increased wages. Six
hundred strike breakers composed of Ha-
waiians. Portuguese, Porto Ricans and
Chinese. have been put to work in the
large mill in Honolulu plantation grinding
cane which already had been cut when the
japanese went on strike.
The mills. on tne Iva and Oahu planta-
tons are still idle, but 1t Is expected thai
the latter will resume grinding next Mon
day. So far no disorder mas marked the
strike and the japanese have conducted
themselves peaceabS. Two fires broke out
on the Iva plantations Friday night. but
there was nothing TO indicate that they
we're %incendiary. In botn instances th'
fire was extinguished before any damage
was done. The Japanese merchants vii
ask the planters TO make some concessionr
to the striking lsoorers and grant an in
crease in their wages
RiOtinE In Banana Fields,
WASHINGTON. May l6-Trouble exist
al Bluefields. on the east coast of Mica
ragua, and the gunboat Marietta, now a
Porto Cortez, Honduras, has been directe
10 proceed to the scene The difficulty
which has been attended with ssrious dis
turbances. apparently has been hptwos
the laborers on the banana plantations an
the interests controlling the export Of tn
rruit. and from Euch reports as are a
hand il believed 70 have had its inceptin
over the question Of wages, Plantation
containing several hundred acres Of fru
have been destroyed and the Blustisld
Steamship company with headquarters
New Orleans. which operates a line 10 BLU
fields, has been prevented frnm se1ing 4
cargoes.
Through the efforts Of Vine Cons
Clancy al Blusfields martial law ms
osiensibly been established hui Appsrsntl