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FRENCH SOCIALISTS
ARRIVE Df AUSTRALIA.
DELEGATES TO THE WORKERS
31. Paul Thowsen and 31. Adoir-Hodee
(two members of the French. Mission who
were held up by the quarantining of the
? ?'--r.ni) landed in Sydney on Saturday.
Tip two new arrivals are both Socialists
and mate no pretension to l;e other than
; working men.
31. Thomsen, when Inlerriejvcd, said
; that liis first abject would lie to eom
. pare Freueh and Australian social legis
. lation.
Both gentlemen ocinjiy important i>osi
t.ana ia the 1" ranch trades u:i'iou move
ment- 31. Thomsen is judicial counsel
.to the Associated -Trades Unions of t3ip
Seine. By calliner a woodcarver. he has
studied lair, and acts as adviser in in
dustrial disputes.
31. Hodec Is secretary of the Union of
: Gardeners of the Seine. Himself a sar
? £cner, he has studied that profession
thoroughly, and , has been some yeans
in the I'aris Botanical School in a respon
sible position.
Although their stay will te short the
visitors 3iope to get into touch with union
leaders here. Arrangements fyr that
purpose have lx?en made. 31. Thomson
ejieaks a little Enelioli,. and 31. Hodee
i= heginniug to learn the Hngnage.
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