The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-07
IMPE RIAL PALACE
TARGET FOR BOMB
GERMAN MILITARY FIST cRusHEs
THE STRIKE.
WORKERS RETURN TO SHOPS

Glass Bitterness Is stirred.-Leaders
cowed by Death Threat of Gov
ernment-socialists Punished.
Dittmann Gets Five Years.
Geneva, Feb. German strikers
threw a bomb against the imperial
palace in Berlin according to dis
patches received from that city today
by the Journal. No details were given.
Strike Has Failed.
(By Jan Brunna.)
The Hague, Feb. 5.-Germany's
first political strike was falling off
today.
1t reached its highest point in the
Generalization of the Germans Friday
according to the very best available
and reliable information received here
today.
On that date ten per cent Of the
workers employed in the munition
factories walked out.
The future of the strike is problem
atical. 1t is certain however that the
tie ups created bitterness between the
laboring classes and the so called mid
die classes in Germany.
The strikers demands for food were
received with indignation by the
other classes.
Stirs "CIass" Strife
Everybody knows in Germany that
the Iabor's rations are much better
than those which the average middle
class salaried man can afford.
The food and other articles cannot
be bought by man of average means.
His salary has not been increased any
where near that Of the worker has
advanced.
From careful compiled information
reaching here the main center of the
strike was held in Berlin and Ham
burg.
The percent of the workers out in
Sielesia was not high nor in Saxony
where most of the employees were
working. .......
In the Rhineland surrounding Saar
Bruchen only part of the miners were
out.
Strike Plan Frustrated
From authoritative reports learned
that the independent socialists of the
central empire had intended to strike
simultaneously in Austria and Ger
many under sort of an /. w. w.
leadership. But the careful telegraph
censors of Austria prevented dispat-
ches of the pass word. From the
explanation of are SOCialits democrat
and the trade union leaders the Ger
man strike broke outS spontaneously"
Probably this means that the lead
ers abandoned the idea of a joint
Austrian-German strike after the fail
ure of the Austrian strike.
II appears that they desired to wait
for a more favorable moment. But
when the spontaneous outbreak did
come" the adherents of Philip Scheid-
mann socialist majority leader feared
that the minority socialist party under
charge of Doctor Haase, which was
supporting the strikers might gain too
strong hold on the workmen.
Socialists Figures
Zurich, Feb. 1.-The war has cost
Germany alone one million three hun
dred thousand dead and as many more
wholey or partially incapicitated. Soc
ialist leader Segitz declared today. in
the Barayion diet according to dispat-
ches received here,
Feared The Military
Amsterdam, Feb. "a copy of the
Vossiche zeitung received here today
declared that the Sunday night riot
leaders had cancelled resumption of
the workers strike in the face of the
death threats of the military officers. |
In Magdeburg and other towns it is
said the strikers followed the advice |
of the military officials and flocked |
DdCh 10 the ldcllrleS.
Leaders Are imprisoned
The Vorwaets described the first
military court martial of the strike |
agitators in a suburb of Berlin and
said that the building was heavily
guarded by military men and that the
civilians were excluded.
The first case that was called was
that Of Socialist Independent who
received six months imprisonment for
distributing strikers literature.
German Arms Supreme
London. Feb. 5-German militarism
is still supreme in the central powers.
It's iron heel today has crushed out
the last yestiage of resistance between
the starvation and the slowness of the
people.
Cowed by the threats of the firing
squad and fearing the fate OF the
children and women through the re-
iuctfon OF their already meagre rat