Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1909 — CLEMENCEAU’S POLICY UPHELD [ARTICLE]

CLEMENCEAU’S POLICY UPHELD

Strikers Receive Rebuke of Chamber With Shrug. NO CHANGE IN SITUATION

Premier Declares It Is a Case of France Choosing Between Revolution on One Hand and Progressive Evolution on the Other, or Between Work Under Republican Law and Order, and a Spirit of Adventure Calculated to Rend the Republic.

Paris, May 14.—-Th& turbulent session of the chamber of deputies ended In another signal victory for Premier Clemenceau, when the government’s policy with regard to the postal strike was indorsed by a vote of 454 to 59, including also the government’s insistence that the postal employes and other functionaries have no right to strike. The strikers received the chamber s rebuke with a shrug, declaring that it only served to bind closer their forces, which would soon startle the country by a big increase and a rapid extension of the general movement. There was no change in the situation. If anything, it was in the direction of a weakening of the strike sentiment. The general conviction is that if the movement does not make vast strides today it is almost certain of complete failure.

Premier Clemenceau coolly concluded the exciting session with the declaration that it was merely a case where France must choose between revolution on the one hand, ami progressive evolution on the other, or between work, under Republicrj. law and order, and a spirit of advenXre calculated to disorganize and rend the republic. At the meeting of' the postal employes another resolution was adopted to continue the fight to a finish. One of the orators indignantly denounced those of his comrades "who come to the meeting to cheer the strike, but who go to work as usual,"