The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-07
SOCIALISTS RUN THE STRIKE.
NEW DEVELOPMENT IN GER
MANY'S LABOR WAR.

Farence Almost Certain to CODsc.
Movement ON Foot to Suppress
PendinE Startling Disclosures in
the Trial of the Editors.
convrght, 1896. by the United Associated
Presses.
Berlin. Dec 6.-Passing from its initial
rbase as a mere industrial agitation in
nnrsuit of higher wages, the strike of the
dock laborers at Hamburg and elsewhere
has become a matter of political import
arce Behind the local organizers of the
Hamburg strike. as it has now been re-
,,ealed are the executive committee of
the socialist party, who are working. not
81 much in the interests of the laborers,
a. in the interests of the social democratic
,artv. The executive committee of the
socialist party are now established in head
quarters al Hamburg, and they have man
aged to get the trades unions throughout
Germany to supply funds for the support
of the strikers at all the Baltic ports.
What is called a ''laborers' common re-
sistance fund" has been formed, to which
the socialist associations in every great
center are contributing. The object Of
this movement is less to conquer the en-
Movers than to foster the socialist propa-
panda If the dock laborers at Hamburg
had been left to themselves they would
have speedily settled their dispute with
the masters, who proffered to their old en-
Moves concessions equal to what the
strikers originally demanded. Since the
socialist leaders have intervened, how
ever the demands of the strikers have in
creased until now the employers find them
sslves face to face with the real issue.
which is that the entire shipping indus
try of Germany must obey the die
tates Of the politico-social organization
or fight out a supreme battle to the end.
The rejection by the employers of the
proposal to submit the dispute to a board
Of arbitration was due to knowledge by
the employers of the fact that the men
behind the strikers would not eventually
accept the decision of the arbitration tri-
buual which, as proposed, conceded only
one member to represent the employers.
Il was not the absence of adequate rep
resentation on the tribunal that caused
the employers to reject the proposal, but
it was their conviction of the futility of
the whole proceeding.
The movement is now seen to be a COM
bined socialist attack upon German COM
merce and German capital, in which the
government will soon be bound to inter-
fere.
The emperor sent an agent to see per-
sOnally Senator Hachmann Of Hamburg,
Herr Hinrichsen, the president of the
Hamburger burgherschaft, and Herr
Noack, the president of the Hamburg
Chamber of Commerce, all of whom ad-
Vised the formation of an arbitration tri-
bunal to which the dispute between the
employers and the strikers should be sub
mitted for settlement. The kaiser himself
strongly favored the earliest possible SET
tlement of the difficulty until he was
SHOWN that the socialist politicians were
managing the strike, when, it is UNDER
stood, his majesty advised the home Of
nee to await the developments of the sit
uallon, but not to interfere. In the mean
ume Gen. Won Schlewitz, commanding the
troops al Hamburg, has been instructed
10 take full measures to maintain order.
lhe best journalists of Germany, those
whose probity cannot be impeached. are
hopeful that the grandest result from the
revelations of the trial of the five editors
baron Won Luetzow and Herren Ploetz,
IoeImar, Leckert and Berger, for libel
ing Baron Marschal Won Bieberstein
Irince Alexander Won Hohenlohe and
count August Won Gutenberg, will be the
extinction of the gang of members of the
German press who are feeding upon
douDtful official information If larger
.autude were allowed to press criticism
less corruption would be practiced. the
independence of the press would be great
er and the position of earnest and self
respecting journalists would be enhanced.
nile the foreign office or any others of
the government departments continue to
influence the newspapers, melting them to
publish this, that or the other, bribing
newspaper men, by giving them informa-
uon which is sometimes true and often
laise according to the interests of the de-
partment furnishing It, there is little hope
OF reform of the existing abuses. The
leading public men who are getting their
names smirched by the revelations of the
present trial may be led to recognize the
TACT that their support Of the repti.ians of
me press endangers themselves more than
IL hurts anybody else.
A protracted conference was held last
evening at the chancellerie, between the
imperial chancellor, Prince yon Hohenlo-
ne. Baron Marschal Won Bieberstein, min
lster Of foreign affairs; DR.. Schoenstedt,
minister of justice, and Freiherr Won der
hecke Won der Horst, minister of the in
terror. The conference was held at the
COMMAND or the KAISER, Tor the purpose
OF arranging a limit to the developments
of the trial of Baron Won Luetzow and his
associate defendants, as, for reasons of
state, 1t is regarded by the emperor as
desirable that the revelations shall not be
pursued much, If any further. 1t is whis-
pered that Baron Won Tausch, the chief
OF the political police, who will probably
he accused Of being accessory to the forge
res aud frauds committed by Baron Won
Luetzow, had hackers or the highest in
iuence in connection with the part he took
In the scandalous acts. and II is rumored
that this fact furnishes one Of the strong
est reasons for a desire to suppress
further revelations.
Apart from the trial Of the five editors
ana the scandals attached thereto, the
chief topic of discussion In Berlin social
circles grows out OF the circumstances Of
The production OF Herr Wdenbruchs
Naiser Heinrich at the Berliner theater
on Tuesday last and Garhardt Haupt-
mann's Sunken Bell at the Deutsche the
ater on Wednesday,, Since the emperor
awarded the two Schiller prizes to Herr
Whdenbruch, overruling the decision Of
lne committee in favor OF Hauptmann. the
ieud which broke out between the parti-
sans Of the two authors has become most
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