The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-10-13
TIED UP.
BY BIG STRIKE
TRAINS ONLY FOR CALAIS AND
COLOGNE RUNNING FROM
FRENCH CAPITAL.
VIOLENCE IS REPORTED
Trouble Threatens to Spread and In.
volye All the Roads--800 900
Men Now involved in
Strike.

Paris, Oct. 12.-The French governs
ment is again facing a serious strike
situation. The employessof the Nor
thern railroad went on strike early
today, and tonight the strike spread
to the Western railroad, which is
owned by the state. Indications are
that tomorrow will see a complete
tie-up in Northern and Western
France. The strikes at the present
time involve about 10000 men.
The strike on the Western railroad
was voted this evening by 5000 men
employed in isaris and the suburbs.
They count upon the national unions
to tie up the provinces. 1t is report
ed that the movemsnt may possibly
extend to the Eastern and the Paris,
Lyons and Mediterranean railroads.
As is usual in such circumstances,
the city of Paris is threatened with
scarcity of food supplies. Freight.
mail and passenger transportation is
partly prostrated, and the vast army
OF working people in the Northwest
are unable to reach their places OF
business.
On Military Basis.
Military engineers are taking the
places of the strikers, and troops are
guarding the various stations and inn
portant sections of the roads. Large
military forces were hastily distribu-
ted on the first evidence that strike
had been declared, and additional
troops were ordered out tonight.
The ministry mas placed the rail
roads on a military basis ana may
muster the railway employees into ser
vice as reservists, The strikers have
voted to continue the strike until
their demands are met but they have
requested a conference with the rail-
road officials.
The more conservative newspapers
condemn the strike as indicating a
revolutionary federation Of labor try
ing to absorb the railroad unions, but
the Socialist press halls it as CON-
mendable battle to obtain needed re-
dress.
Demands of Men.
There has been i'll feeling on the
part of the employees for some time,
owing to the refusal of the Northern
railroad to increase the wages OF
the men.
The demands of the employees are
as follows:
First-A general increase in wages
to meet the high cost of living.
Second-tA retroactive application
of the employees pension law.
Third-A more equitable division
of work.
Notwithstanding Of one day off III
seven for all employees.
Fifth-Distinct employment by the
month instead of by the day.
AS soon as The company and the au
thorities learned the situation the
Paris terminus Of the. road was occu
pied by the military, municipal
guards and police.
The strike threatens to draw tC
their support the employees of the
state railroad lines.
Tie-up is Complete,
Work ceased first on the freign
trains. and none of these left the cit!
last night. Telephone and telegraph
communication was interrupted alonl
the road and thus the management
was in ignorance of what trains wer'
moving
The postal department hurriedi
prepared an automobile service t.
carry the mails in the north.
The trains left the city between
midnight and s O'clock
Mail trains for Germany suspende
operations. Others proceeded 70
Brussels after long delay.
| II was ItdlDtu llidL at 0It lytAlS poN
| engineers out of a total Of 900 refuset
| to man their engines. At La Chan
| pelle 80 per cent Of the men struck
| At some of the depots so per cent 0
the employees failed to report To-
duty.
Inquiries on lines other than tnt
| Northern, both state and private. de
veloped a decided strike sentiment,
Grave Results Feared
The effect of the strike was imme
diately apparent on the bourse. wherC
railway stocks declined, and on tnt
Bourse de Commerce, where sugaI
| jumped I franc and -four 80 centimes
The cabinet met in special session
| and voted to place the railroad on
| military basis, A decree Will be Is
sued tomorrow. and II is understood
the government will take advantage
of the law which permits 1t to mus
ter the railway employees into twenty
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