Evening star., 1918-02-02

Four thousand men who have been
EMPLOYED at the harbor works are on
strike, the dispatch reports. Strikers
cut the railway leading to one OF the
factories.
At Siemenstadt. a suburb of Spandau
tramcars were overturned.
4 mob stormed a bakery and COM
peIled the proprietor to distribute bread
without bread cards
One of the leaflets which was CIR
culated in Berlin and helped TO cause
the strike in Germany has been OBTAIN .
ed by the Amsterdam correspondent OF
the Daily Express. The leaf1et calls
the governments expressed desire Tor
peace only a mask. and declares that
the only way to end the misery and the
wholesale massacre is to overthrow the
present government and establish a re-
public.
Cites Necessity Of Strike.
The 1eafiet says further:
"OnIy by rising en- masse. only oy a
general strike that shall put a stop to
all tndustial activities. and especially
the war industry; only by a revolution
and by Wrestling from a,,1hnc the hands far Gepl
MANY. can a halt be called TO the IN
ternational butchery and general
peace be brought about
workers! Let us prepare Tor an I'M
mediate. stiff-necked and determineo ae.
end the torments and misery we are
"T,he batt,e cry must be Down with
a separate peace" Delay no longer
carnan workers. men and women allke,
hut act, and act with vigor, sparinS
none Above all we must not DELAY
Now is the time to strike formloaoie
blow
Vorwaert's Explanation.
The same correspondent sends an ex-
eernt from an editorial in VOrwaerts,
which appeared again Friday after be-
ing suppressed. The vorwaerts says:
eve do not want the disruption of
Germany or civil war. We want the
to understand the stand
noif,t of a majority of the people. 1t
IS a simple quarrel between those who
want piece by might and those who
want peace by understanding
The Colokne Volks Zeltung, denounc-
ing the socialists says:
The Cologne Vo1ks Zeitung. denounc-
ing the socialists, said:s
"It is evidence that the social de-
oocracy consider the time has come to
raaIize its program of acts of violence. |
# wants to tear the reins from the hands |
,f the government and decide the des- |
-injes of the country itself. But the So |
cialist leaders are not yet rulers of the |
.aThe men to whom the fate of the !
.ountry is intrusted In these grave |
ines are at their posts and are deter |
mined to show everybody who does not |
<now it who the rulers of Germany |
lre."
Council Is Dissolved.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
.raph from Copenhagen. quoting Berlin
Ldyices, says the commander-in-chief
n the Brandenburg district, which in
ludes Berlin, has dissolved the council
# five hundred appointed by the work.
nen to watch over their interests dur
ng the strike. The dispatch adds that
he commander also has prohibited the
of any organization for di-
ecting a strike movement
A demand that the German reichstaE
,e summoned to discuss the strike was
made by the Vorwaerts in a leading
rticle Friday, an Exchange Telegraph
company dispatch from Copenhagen
friday says. The Berlin Tageblatt, 1t
8 added. declares that the civil power
will not grant the wish of the social
Ats and summon the rei0hStAg, aS the
adical elements would only be given
n opportunity to preach strike propa.
r.u1a IN fhA raS9iament