Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1910-10-13
Six Strike Chiefs Who
We're Barricaded in News
paper Office Arrested.
ALL RAILROADS TIED UP
Masons and Allied Trades
Have Ordered General
Strike--Subwaj Men.
BOTH SIDES ARE ARMED
Action of Governm ent lin
Arming konunion Men Has
Aroused Strikers.
BOTH SIDES ARE ARMED
Special by United Press Wire.

Special By United Press Wire.
Paris, Oct. 13:-Premier BRAND
announced today that the backbone
of the railway mems strike had been
broken by the military organization
of the employees. He declared that
he believed the strikers would obey
the call to the colors and man their
own trains
Six hundred railroad strike chiefs
were arrested today in the Office of
a socialistic newspaper. Serious
conflicts between labor leaders who
were barricaded in building, and
the police, were threatened, but
when the laborites saw the deter
mination Of the police, they sur
rendered.
The tie-up Of the railroads
through France is becoming com
plete. 1t is predicted that not a
train will be running by tonight. 1t
is thought that the ministry may
suspend the constitution and declare
martial law. Strike leaders are be-
Ing arrested By the wholesale.
The strike now includes five great
trunk lines. Depots along the lines
of these roads are occupied by
troops
Paris faces a food famine. The
government is commanding all the
liver boats available, with the inten-
ton of sending food into Paris up
the Seine. The present food supply
cannot last more than seven days.
Many Americans in efforts to get
out of Paris to the seaports to catch
1steamers are paying exorbitant
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Of these automobiles have been at
tackled by the strikers. The govern
ment is preparing. to prosecute
strike leaders on the charge of rem
dering railway traffic dangerous to
life. II convicted they may be sem
fenced to death or penal servitude
for the leaders.
The masons and allied trades
have ordered a general strike in
sympathy with the railroad men.
Employees of the Paris subway have
been ordered to strike, but the time
has not been set. A serious phase
of the strike was precipitated today
by an order issued by the govern
ment allowing all non-union rail-
way employees to arm themselves for
the protection. of their lives and
their trains. AS a result there was
an immediate movement On the part
of strikers to secure weapons, and
today there are thousands of armed
men in the streets. The slightest
untoward act is expected to precipi-
tate serious rioting.
The premier said the strike has
been called while negotiations were
going on through himself and the min
lister of public works for an adjust
ment of grievances, and he promised
that the instigators Of the strike would
be criminally prosecuted.
Much destruction has been wrought
on the Western system, where the
strikers and their supporters have held
up and wrecked trains, blocked tracks,
DESTROYED signals, ripped up rails and
cut telephone and telegraph wires
The government has ordered the ar
rest of score of the strike leaders,
and instructions have been issued to
the troops to use severe measures
wherever occasion required.
The losses to commerce already are
tremendous. Scores OF trains have
been stalled along the roads, many of
these carrying food supplies, which
even now have become unfit for use.
The passengers on the steamship Gee
anic, who took the train at Cherbourg
for Paris, are blocked at Mantes-sur-
Seine, about thirty six miles from Par
is.
Many Americans have been com
PEELED to remain In this city or to pay
fabulous sums to reach the coast, SO
that they might embark for England
Seven hundred sacks of American mail
afe-new being transported from Havre
to Paris up the Seine, and the French
steamship line viii employ a tug TO
convey the passengers for the steamer
La Touraine, sailing on Saturday.
NJ. Jaures, leader of the Socialists in
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