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to everybody. The strike spread like wildfire.

The most spectacular parts of it, although economically speaking not the most important, were the sit-down and stay-in strikes of the employees of the great department stores in the center of Paris, such as Le Beaumarchais, Le Louvre, and all the other big ones. The salespeople just plain wouldn't leave the store, men and women alike. Also, the employees of the big dress-making and tailoring establishments all did the same thing. They sat there and wouldn't work, but wouldn't leave. It was very spectacular with regard to the department stores because the whole community could see those. If there was a strike out in the big metal-working establishments out in the outer rim of Paris, only people who lived there saw that, but this was obvious to every visitor and to every resident of Paris. People would look in the windows and there would be the girls who ordinarily sold goods waving their hands at them. There would be the men who sold furniture loaning out of the windows, waving their hands at the crowds below. The newspapers, and others who looked into the situation, described them as having utilized all the materials and all the provisions in the furniture department to sleep. They took turns sleeping on the beds, mattresses and