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Show jl FOREIGN NEWS. SOCIETY NEWS DESERET EVENING NEWS. SECTION THREE II - I SATURDAY MAY .1 1920 SALT LAKE MV AIWA Crtsea. Williams. Howard ms CITY UTAH R-s- W. C. Alfred Cr- vl Wsldron, . vOr sod Pevld Danger of Revolution In France Less pph rnS t ' J Are Busy , But Bulk of Nation ft Despite Labor t Hostility Toward Capital , and Sente of Mastery on, Part of Workers , All Signs Seem Against Bolshevist Unheaval in Near Futures-AgitatFrenchmen Are of Violent Vast Set Majority Stolidly Change Government's Ability to Call Reservists Among Strikers to Colors Alwt servative Handful of Extremists Noisy, Bat Against of on Public Services Perfected arid Carrying A Strong Weapon, Volunteer Organization Capable Rapidly Being Agricultural Workers Have No Taste For Extreme Political Experiments, V'T ors ( Special Correspondence.) tude of free-a-n laborer .which on the part of th" a it implies. Probably'thi Parftrflrnr- - "France for the French" ia a- cry alwayl'rUnf'orSppraObC j the naturalization laws are rigidly exclustVd; and badly a the country may need population in the future, the foreign immigrant may almost be left out of account in considering la- Frenchman. - no one else. They have no notion of all wing .outsider to float the proposition first and invite them as it were, to join the board after allotment. So the general strike, which the railroad firebrands counted on, was never proclaimed- - When the C. G. T. was cal led. in, It acted like a Wise physician, and af te. taking the petients temperature, ordered him back to bed. . A still more important reason why the missed fire was the very simple and sufficient ' . x in men who have served tneir time in a European army thvt even the moat revolutionary among? them still hedtate twice and thrice before defying She law. M. Briand, when ha was prime minister, broke a railway strike by this method ten years ago and the present premier, M. Millerand, again had partial recourse to it. He called up all the reservists on the P.'L. M.. system, on which the trouble broke' out, and according .to official statistics over 90 per cent responded. , The mens' leaders dispute - these French wjth a first class war plant which started out after AR1S, April 2L The workman is probably the most ftfnn'8tice to produce a cheap automobile in com- and independent of petition with Detroit could, if it chose, tell an inter- He is his class 'in the world. ggjinj et0Ty on this subject. At any rate, begin- bor conditions today. cheerful and im- ningwith a selling price for its cars of ?15b0 (at the WORKER FEELS HIMSELF MASTER. : rr patient ofrestraint; he detesta alt old exchangejit hasgot the figure Up, in less than his So we have the French workman .withrules and regulations, especially a year, to $3,400; and not all the increase is due to hi acute of sense his individualism, those made for his own good, and one of his favorite raw material, exchange or the cost of living. In highly defcgbiped restricindustrial of his and own value, impatience amusements is to engueler. le patron, which may Eastern France, near the Vosges there have, it is 1 into .itu.tk,. wh.r.l. M V itic count be roughly translated as "jawing the' boss." absolute true, been fairly successful experiments in mass pro- feels - himself to be absolute master. - Add to this lutkm- - 1 hTe etched all the great, political Vrises ' ment could not in ver in him, duction of such things?as "clocks, typewriters, bicycles, the is At device one There is very little malice or calculated best, compliance. which . the third French. Republic has lived his exasperation at the injustice of a war which he through to exasperate men already disaffected. But it has is not cantankerousness, coffee-milhowever and his "back-talk- " and even of automobiles. Being close was taught would never happen; -P- anama; ffoulanger, Dreyfus and the Great Wa-rand not want did also the offset of giving the but merely love for argument plus a desire to affirm to two or three frontiers, these factories attracted In a and hard among of time, Peace, disappointing spite . . his bitterness, against' capital and the privileged in and out of season that all men are equal, espe- - good deal of cheap foreign labor, but neither m price w an wide-sprdiscontent I believe there, is less the strikers a sound excuse for returning to work u v considers t ousrht" to have foreseen ClUSSt WIiO, and of stiffening the resolution of those who have of- - calamitous upheaval In the hear future dally himself," as an Irishman might say. Of his nor quality was the pre-woutput remarkable. and forearmed ' against the conflict, instead, as so danger -. not ' quitted it. s critical several quickness of mind and his tilent for unravelling dif- . High protective tariffs just enabled the goods to other in was than at there periods many of them have done, profiting financially by it; VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION READY. ficulties there is- - no need to speak The most beset-- . struggle against the customs-strangle- d . The nearest recent foreign ar-tithe Frances country history. Is rather surprising, not that there is so of his faults is what the French call jetnen- - tide. The best class of French labor, however, would and it Still, mobilization can 'never be but a doubtful af--. to was has insurrection ever. got open perhaps that there is not more unrest than Jfichisnve" which is a polite euphemism for a collo- - be wasted in manufacturing on the American plan, .much, but ter: Nivelles bungled spring offensive in 1917, when remedy. Where vital public services are threatened On the whole Jacques Bonhommea exists. actually second-rat- e to m be found the to labor native . and there funk and file of the army was eo exasperated that with stoppage, the tendency ia France in future, enough quialexpressionthatisnot iJ... . nj aw'j fltmoo jlnTro conspicuously standard dictionaries. "Je men fiche" is an expres- - make such propositions practicable. The appalling- - a o waa .for a general flare-up- . Con. ynlIbe;to7ey"eflT0lui)leer8lfroniIptiier.ni0glI come out on top. He has struck work again slon that one hears a hundred times a day in fact must be borne in mind that the war cost France less There is ditions are much a rather than on strikers camouflaged as soldier. serious. today and will no doubt go on striking. The labor France. - The nearest, translation"; is perhaps "I 57 per cent of its men between the age of 19 and 34! again -bout Bolshevism and revolution, Steps are being taken by private patriotic bodies to deaI map of France today is blotched with these indus- - 8nd the should worry; but the peculiar attitude of mind of, a' handful of .extremists enroll and organize willing workers in view of fu8trn LITTLE HOPE OF DILUTION." trial plague patches. - Miners, textile workers, ma- -kind- which it represents in the French workmen voIume which 18 llttIe conf'ising ture national emergencies. A Civic Union notably ' of M1 ' of swaggering disregard' for other peoples concerns Nor is there much likelihood that in the near Bonsr hricklayersr bakers : one has sometime. to the plain man; but the faces of the vast major-- ., has been formed, the members of which undertake to is on strike.- - But it do certain work when called on. -- is difficult to convey. It gives enormous variety . future French labor can be usefully "diluted" by ini- - sensation that all France ity of Frenchmen are stolidly set against violent one is troubles All these not true. (wkh exception "In future, said one of the organizer to me, and Interest to the work of those who have to direct migration from other European countries, though localized professional' change. It is within the bounds of possibility that " zZ and handle him,, but it does not add to the ga"yetyofV8nch dilution is probably the only 'solution of the to which we are coming) are Incendiaries might sueceed in starting up , a "France, if our plan succeed, will not , again be few a warfare, and not aif attack wage disputes, guerilla Before the economic war France. strike Situation, in revolutionaries. Hundreds lives. Jlheir fire. There might even J af firsF a very alarming caught napping by French industrF benefited more by the immigration on the political citadel Bolsheviks and internabut as soon as the first scare was over, all . of thousands of us who were not manual workers blaze, NO SPEEDING tip FOR FRENCH. 0f casual labor than is generally known. It was tional anarchists are trying to convince the French the best elements in Franc would combine 'to ex- - learned trades in the army during the war. I, for Modern industrial speeding up systems and largely of the sporadic and nomadic type. It made workman iat he has another and final Bastille to example, who was a bank cashier in civil life, was tinguish it. ;rr7 Z !, its little' "pile and went back home with the spoil overthrow before he is free. Well, up to the "present -- Other devices for increasing production do not find electrical entffigering, and every man who taught WHY RAILROAD STRIKE FAILED. a congenial soil in France. They had some vogue There are few attractions in France today for this they have no( Succeeded. passed through the sappers and other technical ' All thesame, we have hjd our little attempt at in munitions factories during the war, and were class of worker. During the three days the trouble lasted the branches of the army learned a trade. Millions did Wages are high, but so is the -- much written about in newspapers; but French labor cost of living; and then there is the exchangei When labor evolution. The recent railroad strike was railroad men had a very bad press and public ani- hard day laborers work who never handled a spade highly. Instructive' to "those who desire Id estimate" mosity against them was not confined to those who" before. 'And apart from J inclined to .resent them as an interference with per- - the1 Swiss of Spaniard comes to turn his savings '.there are few , was it men who have not some smattering of a mechanical . libertyl The French workmans sense of his per- - to his home currency he discovers th at be has lost the future. It was the-- first frankly revolutionary were directly affected by the stoppage-No- r. sonal liberty Is very acute, and to give him the 60 or 70 per cent on the deal. As for the alternative strike in Francei There seemrid"be''ndparficuTa r merely that the putdleknew that the men . had trade. If all this skill is properly sorted out and idea that he is merely one little link in a long of settling down in France, it must be admitted that reason why a railroad worker should be more of a fewer genuine grievances as to pay and condition organized it will be impossible for any body of mat- firebrand than say, a butcher or baker, but in than most workers, their, wages having at least, contents to hold a pistol to the head of chain of mechanical operations is probably one of the country today offers small seduction to Eurothejpatinft. France at ' any rate he is often the most ardent of .kept pace with th in prices. , What th revolu- Our object Is not to indulge in amateur strikebreakthe worst methods of using his special qualities. - In pean "neutrals. fact, absurd though it may seem, he Is quite capFrance has won the war, but France has got to the Reds. The pretext of the suspension for two tionary section of the striker found themselves up ing s a sport We shall not Interfere in labor disof a union official who left his work without against was the cool determination of the community putes unless they menace orderly government or are able of breaking the chain by exercising his right foot .the bill and the prospect of sharing its crush- days at inopportune moments of going Out to have a drink. ing taxation leaves the foreign worker cold. The leave to attend a labor congress was seized on to eall to. break the revolt even if they were compelled tem- intended to hamstring th commerce and industry of There are workshop managers to whom this" may remarkable thing is that so many have already found a general railroad strike. Some 200,000 men are porarily to drop their own jobs and take up trans-'po- rt the country. seem a pest. It 'is nevertheless a fact that sevwork in order to keep the country going. As In considering the 'prospects of industrial it worth while to come. It is a fact, however, that said to have responded and if the, stoppage had lasteral French trade unions enforce the right ef their in the devastated regiOiia' many thousands of for. ed ten days, coal and raw material in the big In- soon as the government asked for volunteers it was heaval in France, one factor, lh members to go out for a drink whenever .they choose. eign nomads are at work. Recently a popular dustrial centers would have been exhausted and half overwhelmed with application. The students of the peasant must not be overlooked. Two-thirpf th the country rendered idle. This would have pro- government engineering and technical schools. volun- - wealth of France is agricultural, The manager of aq Important printing works in, newspaper raised the outcry: its Verdun duced exactly the explosive conditions on which at workers are tillers of the soil Th French peasant Paris which during the war largely employed Ameriteered en bloc and wei jiftt being set by the Spaniards." This meat- - that a number of the movement counted. With so much g can and English labor was shocked at finding hjs of contractors from Spain have bought when the bottom dropped out of the is intensely conservative and has no tarte for violent up the reprevolution. Th extremist journals published photo- - political experiments. He showed what he thinks linotypes and rotaries standing idle in the middle of aration rights of local residents and set to work inflammable materia! lying around, a spark, it was Bolshevist at th general election last Kovem-trad- e working hours and tried to fight this privilege. He to rebuild. For some" reason, even before the war calculated, would be produced, which would Wow no. graphs of the youthful student learning their-- of no such conflagration' oc, That and tried to make th publics flesh creep at her. If necessary, he would tight it with somewig beaten, the French union threatening to close Eawtern France had a peculiar fascination for the ciety sky-highi work if he denied to his foreign Workmen the small Spanish trader. In towns like Belfort, the for- curred' was due to several reasons. th daftgers it wsr running.. Possibly these pic- - thing hesrier. thsn a ballot paper. His sacrifices tures did s much as anylhing else, however, to eon - in the trenches while so many teens workers wrr LABOR LEADERS PRUDENT.; Tight enjoyed by their French comrade to gtj Put-sid- e eign Visitor Was astonished To'count Ihe humber of to lake their thirst or smoke their pipe whenthat a national hold- - earning high pay wfely in munition factories ha i or Genera! La- - Vince the revolution-mongeSpanish bars and groceries. Even in a country like . Ia the first place, the jb. - , .. ever they thought fit. There is, of course, was impossible. creased his bitterness against industrial strikers anI tacit France, flowing With wine and honey, the Spaniard bor Confederation, which, j roughly speaking, that these excursions TOund th cor- - had- managed to find in A hand th of any French trade anion agitators. A .land of small peasant market for his thick trols all th labor unions in France, was dot offipowerful weapon when it existence refused is is its proprietor all ef whom are reasonably and many sweef vintages and T) fruit and dried fish. and its leaders threatened the moyericjA, government cialiy bhmd But .neither the Spaniard not the- - Italian nor to be stampeded by the rs among the raij-an- y ability to call to the colors all th reservist among of them unreasonably prosperous, and who have ns ether stranger 1 popular with the native work-Mapolitical grievance whatever, is poo sod i road men. If there Is going to be a revolution, the striker. - Th men are given red hrmlet and to which back to ordered grow revolutions. their and and .however jobs. They at once fall onder, production in these conditions, as tnay be man, loudy he may aing the Inter- th high "'chief ef th C. G. T, Messrs Johaux F. G. FALLA. court-martilaw and eool to nationale" and refusal who order with mean in ia men the brotherhood able o Franc are of military ; hampered, that is, obey very imagined, hampered proclaim Bidegarray, man, very Obedience to military order is so ingrained (Copyright by the Edward Marshall Syndicate, lae.) ot by any individual trad custom but by the atti- - worker ia more jealous of hu national prrrileges than beads, intend that it shall be their revolution and light-hearte- d quick-tempere- d, ' ti. - . ..r . 7 ls half-heart- el ar qg ,e is-h- and" ' touch-and-g- - in-so- J-is- -- ds two-thirdr'- of s train-runnin- - rs G.-T- - fire-eate- ere ss . r al. 1 V |