The Cairo bulletin., 1905-10-05
ARMY AWAITS
STRIKE ORDER
PLANS FOR MARTIAL RULE ARE
UNDER WAY IN BERLIN
WHERE THOUSANDS OF MEN
ARE ON VERGE OF WAR.

Berlin Oct 4.-This city is today in
a srate Of anxiety and fear. The confer
ence between employers and employees
ot The great electrical works failed 10
icad 10 an under landing. and the
creates strike that Bertha has ever
seen may begin any moment.
Tnc cit. is full of troops that are
sept in readiness TO take action when.
ever it should prove necessary All the
hremen Who are organized on a mill
tary basis are also prepared to pre-
serve order, and cavalry and artillery
arrive on every train as fast as they
can reach here from the great man
4eNers which have iust ended
The wei4ers are iuil of confidence
lia tncir ability 20 carry the strike to
ia successful end They have plenty
Iof furls and have been promised help
from every trade union in Germany.
/ Fifty thJusaud workiugnen will
leave % r work aa soon as the order
ITO strike ia given and $4,000 more win
Follow H few days Firemen and
engineers employed by the electrical
works have also decided to join their
jte.tow workers, and altogether 10000
Imen will be Idle before the wook ends,
/ The Government Labor Bureau n
maain4 efforts TO irdue the two SIDES
Ito submit 90 arbitration, pointing out
lto them ihe great responsibility which
ithey have taken upon themselves by
beginning q flght which will leave the
lcity ~ Berlin practically without any
] light turing the night and which will
Iencouag outbreak of thieyery and
violence There is little or no hope
that the Bureaus efforts viii be sue
cessful.
/ Tctlay the strike extended to two
i irore factories and the tetal number of
men now out is $4,000, No disturb.
ances have occurred Enough men
fhavs been obta ned % supply Il earrer.
sufficient to keep two thirds Of TIC
4 street cars going.
/ Several members Of the strike com
mifee weni 70 Mayor Elfschner today
1 to ask him q ncdia1o betWeen he
/ men and their employers The mayor
Isaitl ne would do. so only on condi
ion that the committee write and off
IeSally request him TO act as media
/ tnn. Later, however, the committed
took the matter under consideration
and voted against involving the inter
Yention Of Mayor Kirschner.
The strikers held twenty-five meet
ings in the city and suburbs tonight
which were largely attended by strik
ers. The speakers at these meetings
generally adopted confident tone
and predicted success OF the strike
within two or three weeks.
meeting of the employees Of the
Berlin Electrical Works. however
showed less confident tone. That
group of the strikers is depressed be
cause their leaving work has not caus
j ed suspension Of street car traffic
For electrical lighting, The employees
lot this company are only partly out
Owing to the large force of reserve
Ifremen and engineers which was held
y restliness for an emergency the
strike at this concern seems doomet
to failure
| Herr Won Schultz, president of the
Government Bureau of Arbitration. ii
an interview tonight said he tried tC
persuade the locked-out men of the
Ieeelrcal companies 10 accept the
t1ms offered hem, since they had Z
weak case and would be unable tc
stand long strike.