Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-01-30
Ninety Thousand Reported Idle
in Berlin and Its
Suburbs.
WORKERS DEMAND PART
IN PEACE NEGOTIh TIONS
Said That Editor Of Vorwaerts of
Berlin Has Been Taken
Into Custody.
CENsORs COVER FACTS
ny Associated Press to Every Evening
I.oEnoN lax 10


LONDON. JAN 30
While some morning newspapers fen
ture Swiss and Dutch dispatches repre-
eenting the strikes IN Germany rs being
on a grcat scale tho Rotterdam corre-
spondent Of the Daily News warns against
an exaggerated Idea of the size and I'M
portance Of the Industrial upheaval.
Other newspapers report that the work
mon IN forty war material factories IN
Berlin alone have struck and that many
strikes elsewhere have been accompanied
by grave disturbances.
The Daily News correspondent saYs
that the cessation Of work N Berlin ap-
| parently was not general in character.
| The central committee 0f the trades unions
| intended general strike, but. according
| tn the latest information reaching the
correspondent in Rotterdam, this was
revoked after the speech made bv Dr
Won kuehImnnn. the foreign secretary
with which the labor leaders professed
10 be satisfied temporarily The strikes
which occurred consequently were spo-
radio, tho correspondent SAYS
In any case, he adds, tho trades unions
committees made demands very mild in
character The demands were
First An answer b. the German gov
ernment % the speech made bg Premier
Lloyd George 70 British trades unions
Second 4 statement on German war
uims in the west
Third Direct representation Of the
working class interests in the peace negOtia-
tons IN proportion 70 the representation
OF captaistic interests
Fourth No. further postponcment 81
Pru8sian franchise reforms.
REPORT 90,O00 oUT IN BERLIN
According to dispatches received from
Switzerland and Holland strikes Ne IN
progress throughout Germany in larPe
factories engaged IN the manufacture of
war supplies, especially airplancs. IN
Berlin and the suburbs 10000 workers
are said to have qlrt, and theisituation
throughout the country generally i much
more serious than the censoIed oiTie i'll
dispatches from Germany admit
For the last few days the Independent
Socialists have carried on an active prop
aganda. and the movement appears 50
serious that meetings have been nr6h-
hited IN tho Industrial centres The
arrest of six Independent Socialist leaders
has been ordered bv the Government
md included IL the list are three mcfnher-
of the editorial stiff 0f the Leipzig Falk-
szcrtmg II also is reported that Ado!ph
Hoffman editor df Eorwaerts the Berlin
Socialist daily, and Independent Socialist
leader in the Rcichstag has bern arrested
MOVEMENT NEAR KHUPPs WORKS.
NorNaerts has been outspoken several
times against the government, and in
commenting ON the recent speech of
Count Won Hertlipg the German I'm
perial Chancellor, before the main com
mittec OF the Beiehsta4 said
This would have been an act for the
dcliverance Of the world If II had shown
clearly that no cgotistical aftcrthougbt
IN regard to domination was hidden be
hind the German desire cor peace. This
it has not done. Some parts Of the spccch
will increase our opponents dtstriLst
Of the sincerity Of the German declara-
tious
Advices received b. the Central News
via Amsterdam say that almost al the
workmen in the Daimler. Bocrsig. Lud-
wig and General Electric works are on a
STRIKE Trade unions are reported aot
10 be at the head o} the strike but ses-
eTal trades are 1t 4 complete staudstlll
The strike movement has spread to the
Buchum mining distinct, onh nme niles
from Essen, the home Of the kgupp works
Ia the suburbs of Iichterfelde, Her
ingsdorf and .Ionisthal, where electric
works and airpIane factories are situated.
the situation IS grave. In the lthlneland
and Wcstphalia strikes also have been
ordered. Amsterdam dispatches say
that not a single incident connected with
the strikes was given out in Berlin on
AIondas, although 10000 principally
youthful workers OF both sexes, failed 10
appear for employment on that day
The Frankfurter Zeitung says that the
strike movement is directed against the
delay in passing the Puussian reform bill
aud the agitation recently conducted by
the Fatherland party FOR a continuation
of fhp war