The city was isolated from the: rest of the world for two hours when shortly before noon all telephone and telegraph operators quit work in order to press home their wage demands.
The strike, while short, produced something resembling chaos at the stock exchange and other commercial offices. Other large provincial centres, stich as Marseilles, Lyons and Bordeaux, went through similar experiences.
Following the strike the leaders of the Postal Workers' Union announced that unless the Government acceded to their wage demands a strike of night letter carriers would also be called for Thursday night. May 16.
It is feared that the whole country is now on the eve of a general strike of all postal-workers, who are ly to receive support from other categories in the civil service, Despite the Cabinet's threat of all striking that the was the I nient, It is stated that unless their: wage demands are accepted immediately, a general strike will soon be proclaimed. At a mass meeting of Government clerks in Paris a solution, declaring solidarity with the postal employees in case the latter resorted to a strike in order to enforce their wage demands, was adopted.
Meanwhile the movement, from being purely an economic affair, is gradually becoming tinged with Communist sentiments. The Communist wings of the two unions are shot iereased activity by distributing handbills containing dras-tie resolutions in an attempt to fan the flames of discontent.—Tr Ocean Kuo Min,
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