3-028-803 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A strike of workmen in Paris, 1870. 'The popular agitation throughout France, caused by the Emperor's appeal to universal suffrage for the adoption of the new Constitutional reforms, has been greatly increased by the combined strikes of the workmen in several important trades, both in Paris and in the manufacturing towns. We have more than once referred to this subject in connection with the colliery, ironfoundry, and machine-factory of Messrs. Schneider, at Creuzot. The establishment of Messrs. Cail and Co., and others of the same kind in Paris, have been exposed to similar interruptions. The sugar-refiners, who form an important branch of Parisian industry, have once more struck work. This began in four houses at once, and the men visited other refineries in the hope of making converts. Resistance was offered, some fighting took place, and the police made a few arrests...An Illustration is given of the scene, on Tuesday week, at the sugar-works of Messrs. Sommier, in the Rue de Flandre, where the strikers became rather too violent in their striking, and several of them were taken into custody by the guardians of the public peace'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.