The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-01-30
Factories Engaged in War
Work Hard Hit by
Walkouts.
10000 QUIT IN BERLIN
Report Says Editor Of ''Vor.
waerts- Has Already Been
Taken Into Custody.
CENSORs COVER FACTS
LabOring Men Restivc Under
Delay to Pass the Prussian
Reform Bill.
$4,000 QUIT IN BERLIN
cENSORS COVER FACTS

I.oNpoN, Jan 2s-9eneral strikes aso
in progress throughout Germany in large
factories engaged in the manufacture q
war supplies. especsas:y afrplanea. ac-
cording to dispatches received to-day
from Switzerland and Holland. In Ber-
lin and the suburbs so,o workers have
Quit, and the situation throughout the
country generally 10 much moro serisUs
than the censored oflicial Dispatches
from Germany admit
Forohe last FEW days the Independent
Socialists have carried on an active
propaR anda. and the movement appescs
40 serious that meetings have been pro-
hibited in the Industrial centres. The
arrest Of six Independent Socialist lead
ers has teen ordered by the Govern
ment. and included in the list arc three
members OF the editorial stan Of the
Leipzig TolksseitN~p. II also 10 re-
ported that Adoiph HOFFMAN, editor Of
rorVaerts, the Berlin Socialist daily.
and independent Socialist leader in the
Reichstae. has been Arrested.
TorSpaerts has been outspoken several
times against the Government. and IN
commenting on the recent speech OF
Count Won Hertling. the German IInpe-
rial Chancellor, before the main COM
m.ttee OF the ReiehstaE said:
This would have been an act for the
del.vernnce Of the world IL II had shown
clearly that no egotistical asterthought
In regard to domination wAa hidden be-
hind the German desire for peace. This
It has not done. Some parts Of the
speech viii increase our opponents dis
trust Of the sincerity OF the German dec
lara atious"
Advsces received by the Central News
via Amserdam say that almost all the
warkmen ia the Daimler Roersie, Lud-
wig and General Electric works are o.
. strike. Trade unions arr reported not
70 b at the hsad u The strike, but sew
e.al Trades Are At . complete sandstil.
ThA x8fskc movement has spread to th1
Soehuih mining district, only nine mila1
from Essen, the home o; the krupP
WORKS
in the snbarbs Of Lichterfelde. Her
uessio'f aitd Jonlsthai, where electric
works and airpiane fac: cries are situated
the situation II grave. In the Rhineland
and Westphalia strikes also have been
ordered Amsterdam dispatches say
mat no; a single incident connected with
The strikes was given ou; in Berlin or
Monday. although 10000. principally
youthful workers of both eeSea, failed TO
A despatch to the Exchange Tele-
sr2ph Company under date OF January
IS says that = thoroughly trustworthy
repoi; from kiel declares the workers
IL The torpedo factory At Friedrfchsor.
struck work on Friday afternoon. In
'ohsepuence nt this n number OF -
mems leaders are being called to Join
the army The employees at the Ger
mania osSyar rds struck Friday. the dos
patcA adds.
The E'onkf,arSr Zrauno says that the
strike movement Is directed against the
delay IN passing the Prussian .eform bill
and 'Ac asita,ion recently conducted by
ne Fatheriand marty for q continual ion
or the wa
The Ko,-rspondensblnr, the organ Of
lhe Genera! Commission of Trades
tn.ons of Germany. says tina; the trades
IN ous demand as reply 10 Premier
Lloyd Georges speech a definite state
ment OF GermARy's war aims in the
west
iorwocrts. under the heading Ger
many Take Heed" SAYS: THE move.
men' going through the masses rests on
deep moral grounds ii Is horn Of the
fta- taat they have been misled''
Forcnerts adds that they will not 10,
themselves he persuaded that their hap-
pness : TO he sought by defeat and
ciNil Wa. hut. 1t continues: They want
food and peace and Germany free out.
wardiy and inwardv. And any attemp,
TO hold them by force Ia dangerous
All thoughts Of an attempt to force or
TIE peopl aims which pro!ong the war
aims FOR which they never fought o.
TO keep from the people their promised
rights can only work AS ds.ntegrati tins
factors. Tha, to-day is our creates,
danger