Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-01-31
Clashes Between Soldiers and
Strikers in Suburbs Of
Capital Reported
Refuse to Fire in Some
Instances---Revot En-
braces Government and
Private Shipyards, Mining
Centres and Numerous
Important Factories.
HAMBURG ALSO TIED UP
BY DEMAND FOR PEACE
Socialist Party Leaders Call Upon
President Of Reichstag to Sum-
mon That Body Immediately
in View of Alarming Events
of Past Few DAYS.
ALLIES ARE SkEPIlCAL


IN The industrial sections Of the north,
the strike movement is spreading and
more than 700 900 workmcn are reported
die. Strikers and soldiers are reported
To have collided in a suburb OF Berlin
and lives were lost. In several instances
the trocps are said 10 have refused 10
fire on tho strikers.
Hamburg and Berlin appear to be the
most seriously affected. The workers
in government and private dockyards at
kicl have joined the movement as have
more workers in the industrial cities
and towns along the Rhine and in West
phAlia. In the important Bavarian
manufacturing towns Of Nuremburg and
Furih the ~orkmen arc out.
Three important Berlin newspapers.
including the Socialist Vorwaerts. have
been suppressed The head Of the great
Nrupp works and Field Marshal Won
Hiudenburg have appealed to the work
crs 10 STAY nj their tasks, the field marshal
declaring that the strikes must cease.
Before its suppression Norwaerts print
ed an ulfimatnm To the government IN
ahich the workers demanded a general
peace without annexations, ameliorai'on
of the food situation, the lesssning Of
military Law and the characterization Of
state institutions.
Holland arc uncertain whether the strike
movement is real or manufactured One
SAYS the government is behind il in the
hope Il will affect the Entente Allied
countries and bring about peace, while
another believes the government de-
>ires to use the movement 10 break of
the negotiations With Russia. The Swiss
frontier has been closed and II is expected
there that the strike situation in Ger
many soon will reach crisis.
By Associated Press 20 Every Evening
LONDON, Jan. 81
The German strike is still growing IN
magnitude, the Exchange Telegraph cor
respondent at Copenhagen reports. In
Berlin, 100000 persons are on strike, he
reports, $4,000 OF these be.ng women.
4 great number of Socialist leaders
nave been arrested IN various German
towns. according TO this authority.
The fact that Berlin Is wrapped IN q
thick foe has made IT impossible for the
authorities 10 prevent the dissemination OF
pamphlets, the reports state.
Clsshes between soldiers and strikers
N the suburbs OF Berlin, in which lives
we're lost, are reported IN a dispatch from
Geneva TO the Daily Express. The troops
IN some cases refused to fire on strikers,
the dispatch adds.
The strike movement embraces govern
ment and private shipbuilding yards, the
mining centres and numerous important
factories IN the Berlin district. There Is
also news of the formation of workmen 5
-auncil on the model Of the workmen {
and soldiers councils II Russia. Herr
WalrsH. Minister OF the Interior, has
tsen asked 90 sanction the worknen
council
According 10 some reports. the strike
nvolver 3 number OF munitions iactor1es
and some submarine wbaryes, but up
20 tins time the railway and transpor-
.ation services have not been involved.
The German Union OF Labor, an E.a-
change Telegraph dispatch from Amster-
dam SAYS. has ISSUED an anfi-strlke leaf-
let. declaring England and America
await only the moment when Germany
e weakened by internal strife 10 fall
Ipon Germany and rum her trade and
smash German competition The ap-
peal says.
We want no hunger peace. There
iore, down with mass strikes Our
'uture Is az stake
HAMBURG WORKERS ALSO oUI
The cessation OF work in Hamburg
now Is virtually complete. according to
Daily Telegraph dispatch from Rot
terdam. The strike has extended from
he Vulcan Shiobuilding Works in Ham
hurg 20 the works nf Blohm and Voss
another large shipbuilding concern. The
strikers demand an immediate peace on
he hasis Of no annexations and no in
ieInnJties
Clergy1nen valnly exhorted the strikers
u Hamburg Yesterday TO continue tneir
work. the Cologne Gazette sayE The
workers proceeded 10 the trades union
headquarters and adopt peace with
lut annexatIons or indennitIes, better
labor conditions and improvement Of The
food supply.
A deputation waited on the general ~
e0niInand Of the district and sald the
strikers would not resort to violence.
The Socialist part y cs.ders IA Germany
according 10 q statement IN the Berllner
1ageblatt forwarded by the Amsterdam
correspondent o. the Central News, have
aSkad President Kaempf, Of the Reich
stag. 10 summop the Reichstag imraedi-
.ttely in siew Of the charming events
oi the past few days.
40 a meeting Of the Berlin strikers on
Wednesday, the Tageblatt adds, reso-
luton was passed declaring the stTlkers
would oppose TO the utmost Of their power
any reprIsais against their readers q
representative
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