The record-union., 1896-12-21

BERLIN, Dec. 2O.-(Copyright, 1896,
by the United Associated Presses. 1.-The
parliamentary dinner given on Wednes-
day last by the imperial Chancellor,
Prince Won Hohenlohe, did not attract
the attention of the press as has been
the rule heretofore upon the occasion of
this function, and consequently less
than usual is known of what actually
took place there.
The reason for this is the fact that
the representatives of the press were
entirely excluded from the banquet
hall, whereas hitherto they have been
especially invited to be present, but the
presence of the Kaiser, who mingled
freely with the guests, conversing here
and there upon subjects of the strike
of the Hamburg dock laborers, the re-
lection of the provision for the reform
of the judicial procedure by the Reich
stag and upon other important ques-
tions, have lent piQuancy to the hearsay
reports of the proceeding.
While the dinner was in progress one
journalist managed to get into the ban
quet-hall upon his presentation of
discovered and unceremoniously ex-
PEELED. Reliable echoes of the Emper-
or's conversation at the banquet agree
that his majesty's sympathieS are en-
tirely with the Hamburg employers,
and he is represented as saying that the
employers are wholly lacking in their
sense of the Importance of working
general coalition of employers against
the unions of the workingmen, and ad-
vising the cooperation of the German,
English and other employers in devils
ing a scheme of international communl-
cation upon the conditions of trade,
which would benefit not only the en-
pIoyer, but the employe a. sseal.
In regard to the Hamburg strike, ii
may be said that all of the prospects of
the success of the strikers are extremely
gloomy. The dispatches which have
been cabled during the past week, while
giving a general outline of the situation,
really told nothing Of the actual condi-
ton of affairs. The fact is that the
strikers and their families are suffering
terribly for lack Of food, clothing,
shelter, etc, and it is reported that the
amounts contributed by subscription
from various sources have been very
iniudiciously distributed or not paid at
all.
In consequence of this state of things
the men are losing heart and many of
them are seeking reinstatement, but the
masters remain obdurate and refuse to
permit any of them to return until the
strike is finally ended. At the begin
ming of the strike the employers offered
to pay the men four shillings six pence
for a day of twelve hours, including
meals, but the strikers demanded five
shillings day with overtime.
The employers are now denying their
offer, together with the other matters
in dispute, to the court of inquiry sug-
gested by the Hamburg Senate, with a
view Of preparing a method OF setting
disputes by negotiations between the
employers and employees, and 1t is prob
able thate despite the fact that the bal
loting at ysterday's meetings of the
strikers resulted in favor of continuing
the strike, the offer viii be accepted in
the early part of this week.
There were 275 ships loading and un-
loading at Hamburg yesterday. and
2.777 men were employed in the work.
The Emperor at Prince Hohenlohes s
dinner on Wednesday conversed Tor
some time with Herr Won LevitZow, for
Ynerly President of the Reichstag, and
tt Is supposed that the subject OF dis
cussion was the matter of acceptance
nv Herr Won LevitZow of the Presi-
aency of the PruSsan upper house,
u,l,ich has been declined by Prince
Zolms- Hohensolms Lich on the ground
of III health The Prince was elected
to the office, but he positively refused
to serve.
The scandals which resulted in the
arrast of Major Baron Won Tausch.
C,b;af of the Political Police, for tor
gerry and perjury, upon which charges
he is now in Jail awaiting trial, are stlil
baing generally discussed in the news
naners and in the cafes and other rlb-
IL r1aces The 'Berliner Tageblatt
which paper was shown up during the
trial of Raron Won LuetzoW as the nome
of ono of the agents of Tausch, how
+urns daily somersauits in an endeaTor
10 demonstrate its loyalty 10 the + cr-
eien Office and vehementiy dehouhces
the at one time supposed connection OF
Tausch with Prince BISMARCK ana
Count Herbert Bismarck as the gross
est calumny against the eN-Chahcelior
and his son.
The "Tageblatt." the Hanover Cou-
rier' and other newspapers llisPiiep
from common source. are conducting
an agitation with the object OF ootaih-
ing the arrest of Normann Schuinai'h'
alias Mundt, who was for a long diiie
an active agent of Tausch ana at me
same time an occasional correspondent
of a New York newspaper ana a secret
agent of the Porte. Mundt MAINTAINS
n villa on Lake Lucerne in SWitze'iahd
and has long enjoyed the conhoehc" OF
the German Embassies in Rome ana
Constantinople. He has reaped tlch
harvest as a secret agent all founu ana
has been able TO effect the expulsion
of foreign journalists from Beriih u
they became obnoxious to MIN. Mohas