The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-09-22
GERMAN FOOD RIOTS.


 Reports of German food riots have continued for some time, In directly they have been confirmed, but it may be admitted that it is difficult matter to determine the extent and the general seriousness of the conditions which provoke these riots.
 The German imperialists insist that some of these riots are tomeht- ed by Entente money and British gold is saddled with responsibility for a good deal of the unrest.
 This charge has a strangely ia miliar ring. and reversing the sitaa- ton We discover American plutoera- tic journals charging the workers with accepting German money to strike and thus disturb the industri- al situation here.
 Regardless of these charges We may take il for granted that there is substantial basis for the popu- lar unrest in Germany as in Amer ica and in Germany the acute food shortage without doubt is respons- lble for the seriousness of the situa- ton as far as we know.
 There is food in Germany. Ac- counts all agree that the rich man. inc man who has money can easily get what he wants although he may find that to some extent the usual hill of fare has to be altered to sult the war time conditions.
 Tn any event it has to be insisted that far more important than re- norts of Entente successes in the field. the reports of domestic unrest and food riots in Germany stimu- late the rapid approach of the close of this awful war.
 Without a doubt hunger, as has been often said is the true revolu- tionist. Police and soldiers have been unable to qucll it's discontent and it's desperate determination. Sc ii may well be that what will shat ter the control of the Bureaucracy in Germany will be the discontent and revolt that the hunger of the people will foment.
 Germany has done marvellousll well to withstand the desperate si- tuation that has confronted it. lso' lated from access tc foreign mark cts. this self contained nation by the exercise of a rigid system oi food organization has managed tc stave off famine which would have otherwise disintegrated it compete ly.
 That it has been staved off merel! and not for ever destroyed, the events daily accommodating gradually reveal. The longer the war goes on, the worse becomes the situation and the more the masses will be in clned to dare against the forces ot government which heretofore have well and successfully held them il the leash.
 The exact situation can best bt stated as follows: In Germany there is a large quantity of food. This food is primarily held for the us' of the fighting men at the front. is not that their standard is as gooC as it was when the war started, bu it is as good as is necessary to main tain the fighting spirit of the men.
 The soldiers have experienced the decline in the richness of thei rations, but it has beer relativel. slight
 In Germany On the other hant the masses have experienced aston ishng cuts in their food snprly Neutral citizens who went to worl in Germany because of the attrac lively high wages offered coming back say that they could not live Ol the r2tions They gave in all case as their reason for leaving the fac that spending all their hard earned but relatively high wages on foo' in addition to the daily ration al lowed they wore still furnishing
 This condition has been goini from bad to worse and the foot riots that broke out last year wer exceedingly desperate.
 The army and navy are still rela lively well supplied. and some re