Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-02-08
OVER MILLION
ARE ON STRIKE
IN GERMANY
State of Siege at Hamburg and
Other Places.
SHIPYARD WORKERS ARE OUT
Socialist Leaders Arrested in Various
acknowledgement Fail to Make
Men Return to Work-Casual-
ties Reported in Berlin.

| London, Feb 1.-The German strike
Is still growing in magnitude, the Elk
change Telegraph correspondent at
Copenhagen reports. In Berlin 100000
persons are on strike, he says, $4,000 of
these being women.
According to an Amsterdam dispatch,
the strike has been extended in dis
| trictS near Berlin, especially in Tegel,
Aldershof, Spandau and MariendOrf,
where 100000 men have quit work. A
similar number of wOrkmen are on
| strike in the remainder of the empire.
A great number Ct socialist leaders
| have been arrested ii various German
| towns.
Shiryard Workers Out.
Evidence of the extent of the strike
| in Hamburg is found in the Cologne
| Gazette, which says that almost all the
| shipyard iabOrers of that city have
| quit work. After the men in the VUl-
| can yards walked out the others struck,
| declaring their solidarity with the Vul-
| can workers.
Clergymen vainly eXhorted the strik-
| ers to continue their work.
The toilers proceeded to the trades
union headquarters and adopted resO-
luton opposing the pan-German Fa-
therland party and demanding imme-
date peace without anneXatiOns or in
IDENTITIES, better labor conditions and
| improvement of the food supply.
A deputation waited on the general
| in command of the district and said
the strikers would not resort to VIC
| lence.
State of Siege at Hamburg.
Copenhagen, Feb. IA state of siege
has been declared at Hamburg, Altoona
and Wandsbeck, according to a social
| ist report from Hamburg
Altoona and Wandsbeck are in the
Hamburg district. Altoona adjoins Ham
/! burg. It's population in 1900 was 161,-
| 600. 1t is the seat of important indus
| tries. Wandsbeck is three miles north
| east of Hamburg. In 1900 it's pOpula-
| ton was $4,000. 1t has large brewing
and distilling establishments.
Casualties in Berlin.
Geneva, Feb. 1.-According to a
Basic dispatch printed by La Suisse
| there have been serious conflicts be-
| tween troops and strikers in Berlin,
with casualties.
In some places, the story asserted,
troops refused to fire on the strikers.
Dispatches from Vienna received
1xls
recent strike movement, many Aus
trian officials leading. These officers,
It was declared, tore off their insignia
and joined with their men.
A dispatch to the Democrat declared
"a revolution, not a strike" is reign
ing in Austria.
Prague messages reported that the
local authorities were unable to sup
press the strikers and that troops were
arriving to aid.
Fifty thousand WOrkmen have ceased
work at Kiel. The strike is now gen.
eral in the Chemnitz district, which is
the most important Industrial section
in Saxony.
UItimatum Insists on Peace.
Zurich, Jan. 31.-The socialist pa
per, Vorwaerts announces that the
Berlin strikers have now become more
numerous and threatening. They have
addressed to the government an ulti-
matum of which the following are the
principal demands:
1. Accelerated conclusions of a gen.
eral peace without indemnities or an
neXations.
2. Participation of workmen's dele
gates of all the countries in the peace
pourparlers.
3. Amelioration of food situation by
better distribution.
A. Immediate abolition of the state
Of siege and restoration of the right of
public meetings, suspended by the mill
tary authorities.
s. Abolition of militarization of war
factories.
6. Immediate release of all political
prisoners.
z. Fundamental decentralization of
state Institutions.
s. The institution of equal electoral
suffrage by direct secret ballot.