Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-01-31
Immediate Ending CT War, Workers
Part in Pariey. Called Tor
by Socialist Leaders.

Copenhagen, Jan. $l.--AccorcNns
, to the Hamburger Echo, a Socialist
newspaper, the commanding genera:
of the Hamburg section has .'de-
clared state Of siege at Hamburg,
Altona, and Wandsbeck.'
II Geneva, Jan. 31.-According to a
Basic dispatch printed by La Suisse
today, there have been serious con
fiicts between troops and strikers HI
Berlin, with casualties.
At some places, the story asserted,
troops refused TO fire on the strikers
Dispatches from Vienna received
here asserted that soldiers starred
the recent strike movement, many
Austrian Officers leading. These Of
-ficcrs, it was declared, tore off their
Insignia and joined with their men.
! 4 dispatch TO the Democrat &c
clarcd "a revolution, not strike" IS
raging in Austria.
Prague messages reported that tile
! local authorities were unable TO sup
press the strikers and that troops
we're arriving to aid.
. Amsterdam, Jan. 3l.-A strike OF
empire-wide scope has been, ana ap-
Jarent!y still IS, sweeping Germany
Scheidemann and Hasse. represent
.ng the radicals and workers tcoun-
Gil Of 800, warn the interior 9linl3
-er. Equal suffrage and Genloccariza
lion of state institutions among other
.eforms are called 1t once-Kiel and
hamburg shipyards are closed IN
:endiaries burn Vienna grain ware
.louse-Nliners and other workers JOIN
m the Str!ke-"No anneXations, or
.ndemnities" are insisted upon The
above express present conditions.
Zurich, Jan. 31.-The socialist pa
per Norwaerts announces that the
Gcrlin strikers nave now become mo:e
aumerops and threatening. They have
addressed to the government an o.
,imatum OF which the following arc
;he principal demands:
b;rsC--Acceleiatc conclusIons OF e
general peace wiSAoat i!d~maities o.
lnna&ati0ns.
Second--Participation Of worknen's
delegates Of all the countries IN s:1e
oeaec pou!parIcrs.
Third-AneIioration Of the food
.ituation by better distribution.
Fourth--lmmcdiate abolition Of the
tate Of siege and restoration Of Ire
ignt Of public meeting, suspended by
he military authorities.
Filth--!Abolition Of rrilitariZation
If war factories.
Sixth-immedi@tc release Of all
political prisoners.
Seventh = Fundamental democra-
:;zat;on Of state institutions.
Eiphth-Thc institution Of equal
,lecrora! suffrage by direct secre: ha!
OF.
These are the principal causes De-
lind the labor unrest:
Food shortage.
2--opposition to lenschenln& the
var for purposes of conquest
Delay in granting the Pruss'an
franchise reforms.
Failure Of the government .
ell frankly what it purposes TO q"
With regard to Belgium. German
'abor IS convinced this failure IS ore
+ the chief stumbling blocks on me
read TO peace).
demand Of guarantees Vha'
German labor viii have full repro
,antation at the peace conference.
The poch.making action OF the
british Labor party in virtually
rafting Britain's peace terms for 'S'e
royernment, sihce Lloyd George
,doated them almost in full, has
made a profound impression upon
! German labor. They now demano
4mIal freedom of action and influence
n the affairs Of the nation
! London, January 3l.-The German
strike is still growing in magnitude.
me Exchange Telegraph correspoh-
dent at Copenhagen reports. Ii 'eI-
lin 100000 persons are on stnKe' he
reDorts. $4,000 Of these being women
The cessation Of work IN HAMBURG
i now virtually complete, accoFdiHs.
10 a Daily Telegraph dispatch 1roh1
pct+erdam. The strike has extended
from the Vulcan shipbuilding worGs
in Hamburg to the works OF Blohla
and Voss, another large shlpouiio"
IT., clr,tar1 demand ar