The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-05-23
Labor Strike In Germany.

The excitement in the Dortmund district
in Germany rapidly increases, and the
strikers, despite the fact that the region is
overrun with troops eager to obey an order
to fire on the disorderly crowds are becom-
ing bolder as the strike progresses. The
hatred of the troops has reached the boiling
point. and the soldierly, perhaps in view o.
the act that the orders given by the militia
ry authorities in Berlin to the local COM
mauders do not extend beyond their preven
ton Ot disorder, are openly dehed. Every
where they are goaded to evaporation by
taunts of cowardice and their temper has
been clearly shown in the number of fataIi-
ties resulting from their obedience of orders
to fire on the mob Nor have the rioters
stopped at this, but have resorted to every
conceivable means of provoking the troops
into aggressive action, with the OBJ
ject OF creating popular sympa-
thy with themselves. The mum
Der OF killed and wounded in the several col
lisions which have taken place is unknown,
and ii is impossible even to form an approx
mate, rs great many of the dead ana IN
jured have been hastily removed from tH1
scene o! battle by their friends, and secFetHd
i'll out Ot the way places. Col. Mlchaels is IN
supreme command OF the troops IN the dis
ordered districts, and is literally carrying
out the orders he received from Berlin, other
wise the destruction of life would be much
greater than it has been. The Dortmund
dealers, owing o the increasing scarcity 0i
coal. have sold out all of their stock at thc
unheard OF price of 10 marks II ton. uerr
Herrfurth, the prussian minister OF the in
terror, has returned t. Berlin from Gelsen-
kirchen, and the gravity OF the situation as
reported by him is shown i'll the fact that
the government i'm .nediately tele9raphed
orders to prohibit the gigantic mass meet
ing which was to have taken place at Gelst IL
krchcn on the II .ofMay The popularsympa-
thy with the strikers has resulted III RAISING
Il great outcry against the provisions OF the
antisociulst bill, which public opinion now
deems or pro esscs to think entirely too
drastic and altogether impoitic. The whole
garrison of Dusseldorf is now on duty i'll the
vicinity of the coal mines for the purpose OF
preserving order among the striking miners
An oil factory at Lleren.eld, which was con
sumed. The Mulheim and Duisberg miners
have ioinrd in the strike. At Schleswig u
number of pit men attacked their foreman
with da@gers and he had to flee for his lite
4 body OF infantry arrived there when the
rioters, who had formed into two bodies
took re uge behind a railway embankment
and jeered at the troops. Three times they
were called upon to dspersc. but they refused
to obey. The soldiers then fired into the
crowd, killing six persons, one of them atOur-
yNar-old child. AwOman was also wounded.
After the firing the mob dispersed The dis
trict bristlps with troops The first shipment
of Belgian coal has arrived at Berlin. The
mine ownc!s held meeting ut Essen, which
was attended by government officials, and
resolved TO raise wages OF the miners, but
they firmly decline to cOncedC eight hours
as a days labor. At a meeting of miners at
Essen 1t was decided to cease work in forty
two colipries The coal mine owners and
the striking miner have appointed commit
tees to confer together and arrange set
tlPment of the dispute.