The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-02-02
RIOTS THROUGHOUT
| GERMANY SPREAD
SOLDIERS ORDERED TO sLAY AS
OUTBREAK GROWS, BUT PEo-
PIE SEE RANKS DlsoREY.
Men Quitting in Capital Number Half
MilIion--Socialist Parties Unite to
Press Demands, and Workmen's
Council of 500 Is Launched.

western newspaper Union news SerVice'
London.-A dispatch to the Daily
Express from Geneva reports that
there have been clashes between sol
diers and strikers in the suburbs OF
Berlin in which lives were lost. The
dispatch adds that the troops in some
instances refused to fire on strikers.
Amsterdam.-The German censor
has ordered the Berliner Tageblatt,
the Vorwaerts and the Berliner Post
to cease publication, according to a
dispatch received here from Berlin.
The ban was placed on the newspapers
owing to their attitude toward the
striking workmen in Germany, says
the dispatch. The Rhenische West
falische Zeitung, of Essen, q copy of
which has been received here, reports
that Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
| has warned the strikers in Berlin to
cease their movement Immediately.
He told them, according to this news
paper, that they were being misled,
adding: EVERY hour you lose means
the weakening of Germany's defense.
You are committing a crime against
our army and an act of cowardice
against your brethren in the front
| trenches"
Amsterdam.-A strike of empire
wide scope has been, and apparently
is, sweeping Germany. One of its i'm
mediate results was the first step to-
ward Cancellation between the ma
jority and minority wings of the So
cialists-the Scheidemann following
and the Haase-Liebknecht faction
which may lead to their reorganiza-
ton into powerful united party. "A
Council of 500" has been created in
Berlin as nucleus for such recon
structed party. The circumstances ant
7fataa psEssazsaagsll Ell. this body Asaf sttFib
ing resemblance to the germ from
which Russian Bolshevism blossome(
forth into its present dominating po
sition.
But Vorwaerts, the official German
Socialist organ, significantly points
out in a general editorial, 1--WE Ger
mans proceed slowly but surely" and
leaders in speeches emphasize thai
German patience is long suffering
but there is an end to it." PHILIP
Scheidemann and Hugo Haase are
members of the Workmen's Council.
An action commission" Of 10 men and
!. women has been named. The commits
sion, it is stated, asked Herr Wallraf
the Minister of the Interior, to grant
permission for the holding of meetings
Herr Wallraf, it is stated, declared he
would not negotiate with the workmen
but would receive Socialist members
of the Parliament.
Herr Schiedemann, Herr Haase ant
two workmen went to the Minister Of
the Interior and informed him of the
action of the commission, demanding
unanimously that the negotiations take
place in the presence of the workmen
The result of Herr Wallrafs delibera
lions is not yet known, but the Loka
Anzeiger states that important nego
tiations are proceeding between hin
and General Won Stein, the Prussiar
Minister of War. AS to the strike, dis
\ patches are conflicting. Most of then
represent it as exceedingly grave ant
state the empires whole war industr!
is tied up. On Monday half million
workers were idle in Berlin alone.
It Is not quite clear from the vague
news the Berlin censor allows to pas!
whether that was the crisis In The
labor unrest, whether it was settled
or is still growing.
At last accounts all the importan
plants in Berlin and its suburbs hat
been virtually shut down, the shiI
workers in Hamburg had walked out
the navy yard men and munitior
workers in Kiel-where the foremos
German naval shipbuilding plant, Ger
mania, is located-had struck, ant
workers in the Rhineland and West
phalia were walking out by the thou
sands.