New-York tribune., 1918-02-01

have walked out, closing down huHc
munition plants. The Central Strike
Committee has been in session con-
tinuously since noon Monday. according
to Geneva adviccs. They are said to
have received assurances OF support
from many districts and to have de-
clsred they would oppose to the utmost
any rcprisals against their leaders.
Ask Summoning Of Reiehstag
The Socialist party heads have ap-
pcaled to President kaempf of the
Reichstag TO summon that body I'M
mcdiately in view of the crisis, accord
ing to the "Berliner Tagcblatt."
Meanwhile. in Hamburg the strike
has extended to include all the ship
yard laborers, the Cologne Gazette"
reports, and the men have adopted
resolution opposing the Psn-Gcrman
party and demanding Immediate peace
without annexation or indemnities, bet
ter labor conditions and improved food
supply. The Socialist "namburg Echo"
reports that state of siege has been
declared in Hamburg and its suburbs,
Altoona and Wandsbeck The military
commander Of the district has ordered
Il cessation of the strike and the avoid
~ &C Of future strikes, says the Cologne
Gazette"
Fifty thousand men have quit work
at Kiel and the strike has become gen
eral, in the great Chemnitz district of
Saxony and in Nuremburg and Furth,
Bavaria, other dispatches say. A semi
official statement issued in Berlin con-
tradicts all of these reports. however,
declaring there has been no appreciable
however, and adding that there have
been no disturbances anywhere in the
empire"
German.Swiss Frontier Closed
No one has been permitted to cross
Tuesday morning, according to The
Daily News" correspondent at Geneva.
| rivate reports received in Swtzer-
land represent tke strike situation as
having taken a serious turn late Tues
day night. The refusal of Herr Wall
raft, Minister of the Interior. to confer
with the strike leaders is said to have
infuriated the strikers.
Opinion in Geneva, the correspondent
says. is That the strike movement will
reach q crisis soon. 1t is felt that the
turn which may force the German gov
crnment to its knees.
The report of q strike in the works
at Essen is not confirmed, but the
Munich "Post" says that DIR. Krupp
Won Bohlen has issued d statement to
the workmen in the Krupp Works urg-
ing them "to keep steady nerves in this
moment Of crisis and to remember their
brothers in the field"
Only few kilograms have arrived in
Copenhagen from Germany, an EX-
Danish capital says, and news is scarce
owing to the fact that most of the inn
portant Berlin newspapers have not
been published.
Public Meetings Prohibited
The military authorities in the Ber-
i'm district, according to the Berlin
correspondent of the Copenhagen "Poli-
tiken," have prohibited all meetings
convened to discuss public questions as
we'll as workmen's meetings and demon
strations.
The "Germania," Of Berlin, says that
Herr WalraT. Minister of the Interior,
still REFUSES to meet delegates of the
workmen and the strike continues to
grow.
Both in Berlin and the provinces the
strkes are spreading, according to
Wednesdays edition Of the "Kolnische
Nolks-Zeitung," which reports that
representatives of labor in the various
cities in the industrial region were eX-
pected to meet in Berlin on Tuesday.
Agitation for a general strike in
Munich is said to haze failed after
stormy meeting, but the movement
spread to Nuremberg and Furth, the
largest manufacturing towns in Ba-
yaria. The newspaper says that the de-
mand OF the Fatherland party for the
continuance of the war and the bad
food supply in the towns were the rea-
sons given for the strike at several
meetings.
The number of strikers in Berlin is
estimated at about 10000, according
to the semi-official statement issued in
Berlin yesterday.
Berlin Streets Quiet
The Berlin newspapers, with few eX
ceptions, have been published, the
statement says. The streets of the
German capital, the statement adds,
show no signs of strike. All traffic is
proceeding quietly and undisturbed.
The fact that Berlin is wrapped in a
thick fog has made it impossible for
the authorities to prevent the dissent
nation of pamphlets, other reports
state.
The workers in Spandau, Tegel, AL
dershof and Mariendorf, all suburbs of
Berlin, have quit, according to Amster
dam advices.
Important war industries are located
in Spandau, a city Of some 10000 in
habitants, . nine miles west Of Berlin.
The government has large establish
ments there for the manufacture of ar
tillery, firearms and ammunition.
The cessation of work in Hamburg is
now virtually complete, according to a
Daily Telegraph" dispatch from Rot
terdam. The strike has extended from
the Vulcan Shipbuilding Works, in
Hamburg, to the works Of Blohm G.
Voss, another large shipbuilding con-
cerr.
German Press Condemns Strike
The German press generally con-
demns the strike and warns the strik-
ers that they have gone the wrong way
about getting an early peace, and are,
instead. harming their own country.
So.ne Of the papers, however, blame
the government. The Magdeburg
"Volksstimme." for example, says that
there is limit to the patience of every