Visitors to Disneyland Paris will have to get along without Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and other Walt Disney characters as costumed performers voted yesterday to continue a strike over pay and conditions.

The strike, which began on June 24th, was the first long labour conflict since the amusement park opened in April, 1992.

Union officials said that 300 employees, mostly staff members who dress up as Disney characters and wander about the theme park as well as technicians, were involved. Management representatives said that only 55 employees were on strike.

The theme park employing 13,000 staff has remained open to visitors since the strike began. Set up in 1992, it has an average 35,000 visitors a day during the summer.

Costumed employees were seeking to be reclassified permanently as performers. Union representatives said they had turned down a management offer for reclassification when they were on stage, as opposed to appearances "on parade" in the streets of the theme park.