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Show STRIKE ORDER IS DOOM TO FAME GOVERNMENT REGARDS AGITA-, AGITA-, TION AS REVOLUTIONARY. j Life of Paris Normal In All Respects Today and Threatened Strike Regarded Re-garded as Fiasco. I Tarls, May 19 The life of Paris J was normal in all respect.? up to noon today, and the strike decreed to commence com-mence today with the building trades promises to be a huge fiasco. The movement, which was to be followed by strikes on tho present of all the other trade unions of France, was voted by the hotheads against the better judgment of the conservatlvess. who realized that the time was not ripe for such action, and that the hole proletariat movement, which has been preparing for so long, was likely to be compromised for years to come by failure. The government now regards the agitation as puprcly revolutionary, and us foredoomed to failure. A soldier on duty at a branch post-office post-office was attacked last night and almost stabbed to death by three discharged dis-charged postmen. Only a fraction of the diggers and masons qv.lt work at noon, and a meeting meet-ing held this afternoon was attended by not more than 1,500 men. Nevertheless Never-theless the speeches delivered by the leaders were highly inflamatory. They assured their followers that the "mobilization" "mob-ilization" of the proletariat had begun, be-gun, and soon would sweep everything every-thing before it. M. Pauron, the principal agitator among the postmen, has been dismissed. dismis-sed. A congress of the Seamens Unions tonight decided to Join tho movement move-ment inaugurated by the general federation fed-eration of labor In aid of Jho postal employees and an appeal has been pent to all the seamen at large and small ports to cease work Immediate- The copper moulders and cabinet workers also decided to strike. The gas men rejected the strike projected by a large majority. |