The French general strike which was ordered for May Day
was from the first a failure. But the General Confederation of Labour, which ordered the strike, did not admit its defeat till Friday week, when it invited its members to resume work. The police on arresting the strike leaders, found abundant evidence that the more violent of them were in -correspondence with Moscow and had planned a Bolshevik revolution. Citizen Monatte was cast for the part of the French Lenin, and expected -sixty thousand desperadoes to help him in massacring the " bourgeoisie." The plot failed with the strike, and some of the worst of these ruffians are now under lock and key. The Chamber, after -debating M. Millerand's measures against the strike, gave him a vote of confidence on Friday week by 525 votes to 00. Even that large majority, we may be sure, -does not 'fully -express the general detestation •of Bolshevism! in France. Many of the Socialists in the minority doubtless voted against the Government in 'the interests of "party unity."
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