The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-15
E lABOR UNIONS OF FRANCE SUPPORTIN ING
 NATIONAL POLL lCIES

Paris, Jan. 15.-The relation of the labor unions to the war has been all together creditable to them, accord ing to M. Marck, treasurer of the Federation of Labor Unions of the Seine. He said the government had always, been nervous about labor T1i1- ions in case of war, and as the anti n1i1itarist campaign had reached
 a1ar ming proportions it was thought
 a serious question what might be
 the extent Of defections in case of an outbreak.
 That this had been a false alarm Of fear was evident from the fact that three Hundred thousand trades unfonists--ntot revo1utionists-ha
 raised their voice against the agres
 sor.'s
 F ..The militant union leaders are now too much occupied in the trenches. and at other points where there's patriotic work to do, to think of the fight between labor and capi- tal." he said.
 ssBut,'s he added, sbecause we're doing our duty 1t will be a, mistake 1 to suppose that after it's over we shall dfsarm and abandon our fight for the eight hour day and the Sat ] ,1rday half holiday; the fighting, in
 my opinion. will then be hotter than ever.
 'tBut that Is for later on, just now we are too busy distributing tickets for meals to unemployed, and we are short of help for most of the
 union leaders are at the frent: many of them have proven by giving their ] lives to the cause that they were as
 much patriots as those who were de- nying them the right to ba so-caH- led.
 .sChalopin, of the School Teachers' Union, has been killed, as well as
 Renau1t of the Railroad Mems Gn- fS~, 1 Union, has lost his two legs.
 s.It's not only the younger union men who are serving their country the older ones are doing their part l in different ways; five thousand of I the navies were recruited in one day to hustle the work of intFenchng the
 army of Paris when the Germans were on their way toward the gates 1 of the city, and they all went cheer fully without a nurmur; they slept in the open, just as the soldiers do, land they rushed through the work so that if Won K1uck had ever gotten within gunshot of the outer trenches, he would have received a disagree able surprise.
 ssAnether and far more disagree able duty performed by the navvies' union was the burying of the aban- l the Harne.
 .sIn the relief work we are doing. it has cost us nothing at all to take our seats in the commission side by ] side with the police, represented by I Lepine. with the priests, represented l by Cardinal Annette. with the Jews,
 represented by the Grand Rabbi of Paris, the Protestants, represented by Rev. Charles Wagner-men repre- 1 senting all the sects, while the opin- l ions and all sides of every conflict l ing issue of life are working har-
 n1onf ously to relieve the distress of war; the details devolve upon us be cause we are organized When it came to distributing relief, we told l the committee that if they would let us go at it with our organization, we would answer for the result; in AS hours IT sections of our federation l were ready and we distributed 5000 repasts the third day: today We are distributing 100000 meals day, and it is all done by ticket, so thai ] we may be certain the relief goes to