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Show FRENCH POSTMEN TRY1 ' ' TO GET BACK POSITIONS Strike Has Collapsed and Leaders Are Throwing Responsibility for Failure Upon Each Other. Paris. The curtain was rang down upon tie general strike on Friday, amid recriminations by the leaders, who tried to throw the responsibility for the lailure upon each other and the defeated postal employes. The end came when a few hundred laborers voted to resume work. The general federation of labor then threw up the sponge and issued a manifesto trying to cover up nlieir retreat, explaining ex-plaining that the postal employes were over-confident of the success of oheir second strike, "which everything every-thing shows was prepared and insti gated by the government, which was desirous of an opportunity for avenging aveng-ing itself against the leaders of the first strike." The statement adds that the strike of the excavators and other workmen N having sufficiently demonstrated the solidarity of Che proletariat and the postmen, there is no reason to call out other unions, notably the electricians, elec-tricians, who had expressed their willingness to enter the fight.. - With the surrender of the federation federa-tion the strike of the postmen col-" lapsed entirely and the few still on strike decided to try to secure thetr old positions. The postmen and a few of the other unions are now raising rais-ing a fund from which to give the dismissed postal employes $30 a month until they can obtain other employment. |