Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-02-06
OVER MILLION
ARE ON STRIKE
IN GERMANY
State of Siege at Hamburg and
Other Places.
SHIPYARD WORKERS ARE OUT
Socialist Leaders Arrested in Various
Towns-clergymen Fail to Make
Men Return to Work-Casual-
ties Reported in Rerlin.

Amsterdam. Feb. 1.-The military
commander at Hamburg has ordered
cessation of the strike there. says the
Cologne Gazette. The dispatch adds
that the commander also ordered that
future strikes be avoided.
100000 on Strike in Germany.
London, Feb. 1.-The German strike
is still growing In magnitude, the Ex-
change Telegraph correspondent at
Copenhagen reports. In Berlin 100000
persons are on strike, he says, $4,000 of
these being women.
According to an Amsterdam dispatch,
the strike has been extended in dis
tricts near Berlin, especially in Tegel,
Aldershof Spandau and Mariendorf,
where 100000 men have quit work. A
similar number of workmen are GA
strike in the remainder of the empire.
A great number of socialist leaders
have been arrested in various German
towns.
The fact that Berlin is wrapped In
a thick fog has made is impossible for
the authorities to prevent the dissent
nation of pamphlets.
Shipyard Workers Out.
Evidence of the extent of the strike
In Hamburg is found in the Cologne
Gazette, which says that almost all the
shipyard labOrers of that city have
quit work. After the men in the Vul-
can yards walked out the others struck,
declaring their solidarity with the Vul-
can workers.
Clergymen vainly exhorted the strik-
ers to continue their work.
The tOilers proceeded to the trades
union headquarters and adopted a reso-
luton opposing the pan-German Fa-
therland party and demanding imme-
diate peace without annexations or in
IDENTITIES, better labor conditions and
Improvement of the food supply.
deputation waited on tse general
in command of the district and said
the strikers would not resort to vio-
lence.
State of Siege at Hamburg.
Copenhagen, Feb. IA state of siege
has been declared at Hamburg. Altoona
and Wandsbeck, according to a social
list report from Hamburg.
Altoona and Wandsbeck are in the
Hamburg district. Altoona adioins Ham
burg. Its population in 1900 was 16t.-
600. 1t is the seat of important indus
tries. Wandsbeck is three miles nopth-
east of Hamburg. In 1900 its popula-
ton was $4,000. 1t has large brewing
and distilling establishments.
Casualties in Berlin.
Geneva, Feb. 1.-According to a
Basic dispatch printed by La Suisse
there have been serious conflicts be-
tween troops and strikers in Berlin,
with casualties.
AT some places, the story asserted,
troops refused to fire on the strikers.
Dispatches from Vienna received
here asserted that soldiers started the
recent strike movement, many Aus
TRAN officials leading These officers,
1t was declared, tore off their insignia
and Joined with their men.
A dispatch to the Democrat declared
"a revolution, not a strike" is reign
ing in Austria.
Prague messages reported that the
local authorities were unable to sup
press the strikers and that troops were
arriving to aid.
Strikes Spreading.
Amsterdam, Feb. both in Berlin
and the provinces the strikes are
20
edition of the Koelnische Volks lei
tung, which reports that representa-
tiveS of labor In the various cities in
the industrial region were expected
to meet in Berlin on Tuesday.
The copy Of the German socialist
organ, Vorwaerts, received here, CON
tanned declaration of sympathy with
the strikers signed by employees of
the paper and another declaration,
signed by the editorial stats, disap-
proving of it.
Call for Reichstag.
London, Feb. 1.-The socialist party
leaders in Germany. according to n
statement in the Berliner Tageblatt
forwarded by the Amsterdam CORE
spOndent of the Central News, have
asked President Kaempf of the reichs-
tas to summon the reichstag immedi-
ateIy in view of the alarming events
of the last few days.
Opinion in Geneva, the correspond
ent s2ys Is that the strike movement
will reach a crisis soon. II is felt
that the movement either win collapse
or take a turn which may force the
German government to its knees.
The military authorities in the Ber-
lin district, according to the Berlin
of the Copenhagen Po-
lItiken, have prohibited all meetings
to discuss public questions
as we'll as workmen's meetings and
Fifty thousand wOrkmen have
ceased work at Kiel. The strike is
now general in the ChemnitZ district,
which is the most important indus
trial section in SaxOny.