As has been the case in any strike of magnitude, the news from France up to the very end of the railway trouble was decidedly conflict One telegram stated that 'a revolutionary organization had been found to be fomenting the railway trouble, that backed by this, the railwaymen were standing firm, and Paris was in danger through shortage of coal and food. It is only too much to be feared that this report of a revolutionary society is correct. The Extreme Left, the socialists, went Bolshevik at the last French elections, and over the case of Captain Sadoul, who had already joined the Reds in Russia, gave prominence to their opinions. That they lost heavily at the elections will by no means have tamed their extreme desires, and therefore quite probably they, or others of their kidney, were at the back of the present trouble. Besides this sinister report of revolutionary aims came other telegrams which took a decidedly more hopeful view of matters, and in fact indicated that the strike was unpopular not only with the country at large but also with a goodly section of rail-wayman. This may have been the result of the revelation of the existence of this revolutionary organization. By its association with undesirable extremists Labour its different forms has time and again alienated support, and we should imagine that in the case of this particular strike it again did so.
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