Paris, May 14.
Just as the revolutionary extremists damaged their cause putting forward Sadoul, the Bolshevik, as a candidate at the general election, so the General Labour Confederation has played into the hands of its adversaries by ordering a succession of strikes, which have only been partial and have merely served to exasperate the public. It will be remembered that the movement was started by a small. majority of the newly-elected executive of the railwaymen, who called a strike, not for concrete advantages in the form of wages but to obtain the nationalization of the railways. To support the railwaymen, the Confederation executive ordered a strike of miners, sailors and dockers, apparently reckoning on something like implicit obedience in the name of trade union discipline.
It is quite possible that the attempt would have had con-
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