New-York tribune., 1912-03-14

constable reports seven hundred families
in immediate need of relief, and in all
the mining towns Cnow that the strike
nav of the miners has been cut down by
the miners unionl there will he need for
assistance.
The men on the railroads and those
connected with other industries are now
being discharged daily by hundreds the
notices to quit which were given them
when the coal strike began now expir-
ing. The notices generally ran for
fortnight.
II is stated on the authority of mem
tiatiCns between the miners and the
mine owners he continued on the lines
opened mp yesterday settlement OF the
Industrial war would be reached rapid
". Several weeks. however must pass
before the trade Of the country can be
restored to its normal condition.
Berlin. March 13-The coal miners strike
in the great German coal fields of West
phalia continues to spread. There are more
than 10000 men now out. and the situation
is becoming worse everywhere. It has
taken most serious turn in several dis
trfcts. and has resulted already In q fatal
conflict with the police In the district OF
Herne. The feeling among the men is In
creasing in intensity, owing to the rigid
repressive measures Of the authorities. At
any moment troops may be called to quell
the disturbances. %
1t is officially stated here this evening
that the provincial authorities have been
instructed to call out the troops II the
police prove inadequate to deal with the
situation. The cavalry regiments stationed
at Dusseldorf, Krefeld and elsewhere are
held in readiness for orders, and the men
are not permitted to leave the barracks.
The police president of Bochum, the centre
of the strike region. has forbidden the sale
of spirits, and the saloonkeepers have sent
to the government a vigorous teegraphlc
protest.
Disturbances have been reported from
various districts. The most serious Of
these occurred at Herne, mining village
five miles from Bochum, where a number
of strikers threw stones and fired revolver
shots at a detachment of armed police
marching along the streets to the mine
where they had been ordered to protect
the non-strikers; The police replied TO the
attack with their revolvers and one OF the
strikers was killed.
Conditions are tending more and more
toward a strike among the miners in Lor-
raine, SaXony and Silesia. where the men
are all pressing their demands for Is per
cent increase in their wages and for short
er hours.
The answers OF the mine owners. includ-
ing the Prussan state, which runs its own
mines, are now coming in. The owners
take the same stand as those in Westpha-
liza. saying that financial conditions do not
permit the granting Of the full increases
Of wages and the other demands of the
miners.
Four interpretations concerning the
strike have been introduced in The Prus.
sian Diet besides that in the Reichstag
which Clemens Delbrueck. the Prussian
Minister of the Interior and Vice-Chau-
cellor Of the Empire. has promised to
answer tomorrow
Essen, March bah the Westphalian
morrow that they have been discharged
on account Of breach Of contract and six
days pay will be withheld from the wages
due. A meeting Of the mine owners to-
day declared that the police protection for
the workers was insufficient. miner was
shot dead by a gendarme at Buer.
strassburg, March 13-Twenty~three hun
dred miners employed in the Prussian state
mines have struck Twenty hundred
other miners have made demands which in
all probability will be refused.
Saarbrucken, March l3.-The managers
OF the Prussian State mines in the Saar
region In replying to-day TO the request of
the miners for increases Of wages, said that
the mems pay was now higher than in
1903 They also declared that the miners
could expect with confidence a further in
crease. They, however, gave no definite
figure as TO the amount.
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