Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
NEWS FROM BERLIN.
The Coming Session of the Reiehstag Will
be Calm One.

be Calm One.
Copyright 1889, by N. Y Associated Press)
BERl IN, Aug. 31.-The coming session
of the Re chstag IS not expected to DO
stormy or sensational. Among the most
i'm portant measures 10 be introduced is
bill which the government is preparing
for credits to augment and reorg anize the
army in view OF the continual III rease OF
French and Russian ornaments. Mem
bers of the reichstag and the public are
being prepared for this bill by significant.
articles in all the Official organs. These
papers are demanding an increase of
the German forces which IL
calculated an effective force that the
new French military law will enable
France to put into the field. Several
petitions have been sent to the govern
ment from Alsace. Lorraine asking the
authorities TO be Instructed to mitigate
the rigors Of passport regulations. The
petitions thus far met with no response
from the government. The kilograms
from Copenhagen represent the King of
Denmark as surprised that his son -in-law
should nave 80 long delayed returning
Emperor Williams visit, and is most
anxious that this act of courtesy should
no Logger be deferred. Still after 80
many disappointments the statement
that the czar will come next week meets
with a good deal of scepticism, even in
official circles. The bitter articles OF the
Berlin Post and other papers may be at
tributed to the annoyances caused by
these re peated delays.
LONDON, Aug. 31.-The long shoulder
ing discomfort of the labOrers In the
london docks received q strong stimulus
by the revelations before the lords com
mittee on Sweating" last year. The
leaders of the labor movement, Selling
the opportunity, vigorously prosecuted
the campaign in the East end and famed
the embers of discomfort until the dock
men, reused from the lethargy induced
by their sordid Surroundings, submitted
to the guidance of Burns and other active
spirits, their concerted action leading to
the present crisis. The continuance of
the strike for seventeen days, and
the strikers determined attitude,
show at present that the leaders
carefully calculated the probable courseo of
the movement before notice IF the
strike was formally given. Interviews
were had today with the functionaries
whose duties bring them, in daily contact
with deckmen and those allied employ
ments show That for years past the con
dition of the dockmen's families have
been as bad as any of the worst cases re
vealed before the Sweating" committee
Local radical clubs and other organjza-
tions are fully alive TO to Importance of
striking while the iron Is hot. They are
greatly assisted by lectures and house to-
house propaganda intended to foment
the discomfort and forward what, in view
of tonight's situation, and the strike COM
mittee's latest manifesto, promises to de-
velop into an organized crusade against
capitalism in general. The strikers ad-
here to .heir full demands though the
countenapces of many who enter and de-
part from the relief committees rooms
plainly reveals sharp privation. Public
feeling both in the east end
ana in the city commercial
circles strongly favors the strikers. The
local sympathy is actively exerted to sup
clement the various public subscriptions
to sfford practical relief. Today the
employees of Yarrow Il Co., who are
under a heavy contract TO supply the
government with torpedo appliances,
struck, white 5000 iron workers at the
Isle of Dogs went out for an advance of
six pence. The dock laborers in the
strike number 10000. AS the immediate
consequence of their cessation, 10000
stevdores, 5000 lightermen, 1000 and
nearly $4,000 grain weighers and laborers
are com pulsoraliy idle. A mass meeting
will be hello il Hyde park tomorrow.
The directors of dock companies have
absolutely declined to make any con-
cession beyond what has already been
offered. Matters remain In statu quo.
The strike committee met late tonight at
Wadearms and decided to withdraw their
appeal for a general strike and to substi-
tute an appeal to trades unions at
home and abroad for fnan cial help to