Show 1 PREMIER WINS VEINS IN THE French Deputies Endorse Ac Action Action Action tion of the Government in Strike Matter Paris March 19 Premier ier Clemenceau and nd his colleagues faced the strike in In tho the chamber of r deputies S today determined to secure endorsement of the governments position In the tho prem premises pr lass or retire from office They won for tor the chamber rejected by a vote of or orto iJ i ito to ISS a resolution providing for a com corn commission commissIon mission to Investigate the causes cause of or the strike The Socialists centered l their assaults upon M L Simyan undersecretary unde of or posts and telegraphs but they the also reproached Premier Clemenceau with having shifted his position since he had reached the theother theother theother other side of the barricade The Tue Conservatives declared the govern government government ment was as reaping only what It hd h d sown They pointed out that the Ute government for or years had encouraged the state to form associations and that M 1 Vivian Viviani minister of or labor and M Simyan had voted und under r the Dupuy ministry to recognize reco nize nizo the the right of the postmen to strike Charges Denied M r Simyan In his defense denied the charges of or favoritism which he lie declared had been brought by the be because l cause he had refused to accept their rec recommendations He said the th loaders leaders tor fr 11 months had been preparing to strike Tu Tumult Tumult molt followed when the undersecretary declared that the principal loaders leaders of the strike had been endorsed by from ten to fifteen members of or the chamber hamber of dep deputies deputies Name them shouted the members of the Right in high glee Subra president of the Gen raf f Asso Association AssocIation Association of Postal Telegraph Employee has bas nine endorsements he replied Name them repeated the Right but when M Simyan turned In that direction and shouted that the endorsers came from the Right as well as from the Left there was no further insistence that names be mentioned Government Cannot Yield After an hour of oratory Minister of Public Works mounted the trib tribune tribune tribune une and painted d the gravity of ot the situa situation situation situation tion and the Impossibility of or the govern goern government government ment yielding to the employee The minister said the government was always willing to discuss the grievances of or the employee but that to treat with them upon a footing of or Would be bethe bet the t e commencement of ot administrative a an anarchy anarchy archy arch Nevertheless he lie indicated that it was the governments government s desire to leave the thedoor thedoor thedoor door open for the employee to return to duty dut Much applause greeted M 11 speech which was ordered placarded throughout France Francl |