The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-25
AC|TATORS SEIZED
THEIR OPPORTUNITY
Food Riots in Northern France
Quickly Turned Into Rev
olutionary Movement.
PREMlER'S GOOD WORK
Cheaper Housing and Lower
Cost of Provisions I'm
prove Conditions.
.PREMlER'S GOOD WORK

PARIS. Sept, 24-The revolutionary
character Of the so-called food riots
in northern France is no longer 10 be
que STONED To all outward appearances
the trouble began spontaneously as IL
seemed when hundreds Of housewives
in small towns and villages started
boycott of the local markets. In most
cases the women did not hesitate TO
resort to direct action by laying vio-
lent hands upon all the farm and dairy
products offered for sale
But the movement was not twenty -four
hours old before il was taken out ot the
hands OF the women, and, in the language
OF French observer, from behind VI
shelter OF the pettcoats emerged the
professional asitators OF the revolutionary
general confederation of labor. In the
casc Of France the organized propaganda
against the produce brokers who nave
been made responsible for the Socialists
and their revolutionary allies dates back
10 last year
NJ BRAND, who was prime minister at
the time, instituted an inquiry INTO the
methods OF various groups Of spectators
who we're suspected of attempting 10
create corner In meat and other com
modities. But he quickly realized thnt
the agitation was far more political and
revolutionary IN character than economic.
Opportunity Seized.
The general confederation nf labor.
which for several years past has more
and more been losing It's hold upon the
masses OF working classes. believed that
by raising a hue and cry against dear
food and high rents it would be able 10
rcha biIItate itself These calculations
were disappointed by the premature out
break OF the railway strike last autumn.
While the difficulties To which the rail-
road strike gave rise and its ultimate
failure temporarily paralyzed the &c
tiYity uf the revolutionary headquarters
in Parts. thc seed which the emissaries
OF tho general confederation Of labor had
sown was maturing. Its fruit became man
ifest In the scenes OF rioting and of the
champagne riots this spring. which have
to large extent suspended the economic
life OF an entire region.
But the rinsleaders ~ The movement
were taken by surprise by the suddenness
OF the outbreak. \ sharp upward move
ment in the price Of various necessaries
OF life In consequence OF the drought TINS
summer and OF local epidemics OF foot
and mouth diseases sufficed to fan the
smolder,ng embers into a blaze.
Posthaste NJ. Yvetot and a number OF
other nrebrapds arrived on the scene In
order TO add fresh fuel TO the flames.
In the mining districts and In industrial
cenicrs their intervention has been sue
cessful In oustng the genuine housewife
from all part In the movement.
Action of Premier
After fortnights examination Of the
CApGUle0lS DN HSdnS Oh WHICH f1e fTCnGn
premier, NJ. CalllauX, seeks TO solve. par
TALLY at least, the problem raised
throughout Europe by the, revolt of the
working classes against the rising cost
OF provisions, a considerable Improvement
in feeling Is manifest among the house
wives artisans and farmers Of France.
Especially popular In towns Is The pre-
mlers scheme TO assure cheap housing
TO defeat the excessive rise Of rents.
Parliamentary sanction would be neces-
sary II the project is 10 be carried out
on a scale as large as some of the en-
thusiasts advise: but this probably would
DC given and. II II were withheld the
municipalities could act independently.
To increase the meat supply by grant
ing facilities for importation of colonial
cattle and lifting in part the embargo
as TO cattle from the United States and
South America was the boldest policy
the government could have adopted
with regard TO The sentiment OF the
powerful "meat kings In France
The proletarlate better understands the
permission given the communities 10 par
ticipate In cooperative butcher shops and
stalls, Under the latter arrangement
prices have been cut down 80 per cent
this month