France's Big Coal Strike

Paris, Oct. 10. - Dispatches received here from the coal mining regions indicate that the strikers numbered about 60,000 men, the departments affected being the Nord, the Pas de Calais and the Loire and the Carmaux coal field. The government has issued rigorous instructions to prevent disorders. The miners' central committee has written Premier Combes declaring that the strike is due to the refusal of the companies to grant their employees' just requests and asking the government to intervene and also to place the men's demands before the chamber of deputies immediately after it reassembles.