Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-13
Charged With Sedition.

The arrested leaders were charged with
provoking seditious meetings and leading
in violence and the destruction of prop
erty. The government is convinced that
this move, together with the summoning
to military service as reservists of all
of the strikers, will break the backbone
of the strike.
The government succeeded today in
maintaining communication with points
from which food supplies were brought
into the city. The supply was short
but it. is now said that Paris is no longer
IN danger of a famine.
If the strike continues the transatlantic
steamers now calling at Cherbourg will
substitute BoulOgne as point for French
embarkation. Boulogne will connect with
this city by an automobile service.
Many instances of the destruction of
telegraph and telephone wires, railway
material and the tearing UP of rails are
inces.
The press, with the exception of the So
cialist and revolutionary elements, con-
demns the strike as criminal and the
cripplng of the public service, with the
inevitable paralysis of trade, as unwar-
ranted.
The National Railroad Union has sue
ceeded in thoroughly demoralizing the
service on the northern and western SyS-
TENS. but it has had less success on the
ton this morning showed little change
from that of yesterday. The men of
the Paris. Lyons and Mediterranean road
are nominally on strike and the eastern
system is badly hampered, but many
trains are being operated as usual on
the former system.
Subway Lines In Operation.
The employees of the Paris-Orleans
road and the Paris subway during the
night voted to go out, but the subway
lines are being operated as usual.
The hope Of the strikers rests largely
in the prospect of sympathetic strikes.
The bricklayers and PAYERS have voted a
general strike, beginning today. The
unions of other trades meeting and
are expressing similar intentions.
The five strike leaders arrested this
morning attempted a dramatic scene by
assembling in the office of the Humanite,
a socialist newspaper. where they passed
the night in the company of virtually the
complete socialist delegation OF the
chamber of deputies, awaiting the
rival of the police. However. when the Of
ficers arrived and the deputies began to
make inf1ammatory speeches the prefect
OF police cut the proceedings short and
hustled the leaders off in cabs, and there
was no further demonstration.
The mobilization of railroad reservists
decreed by thte government is proceeding
The men have responded In large num-
bers, but yet they have not been or
dered to take up the work of the strik-
erS.
Rain Adds to Trouble.
Thousands of suburbanites were further
inconvepienced by a deluge of rain which
made ny OF the roads leading into the
city impossible to pedestrians. As re-
suit many failed to report at their offices
and the business of the city was upset.
a canvass of the Paris Lyons and Med
iterranean road and the Paris Orleans line
showed that in most cases the men re-
mained at their posts this forenoon.
number of acts of violence against
the rolling stock are reported from the
provinces The strikers disclaim respon-
sibilities for these, saying that the dam
age has been done by persons not con-
nected with the railroads
The strike is effective on the western
road leading TO Lemans and Brest, Cher
bourg. Havre and Dieppe. and on the
northern road extending to Amiens, Bou-
logne and Calais. 1t had failed up 10
this afternoon on the southern divisions.
over which Djon. Chalons. Lyons and
Marseilles on the Mediterranean
reached The eastern road to Belgium
and German points was badly hampered,
but not wholly tied up.
The belief that the strike has been
checked was reflected on the bourSe to-
day where there was an increased de-
mand for railway shares, which grew
stronger accordingly.
Coal Miners Laid Off.
COURRIERES. France. October 49,
The coal mines dismissed 45OO employees
today because of the inability to ship
coal during the railway strike.
RERIIN October l3-PaSSeneer and
freight traffic by railway with France