The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-01
State OF Siege
FOR HAMBURG;
Strike SPREADS
Military Commander Orders
Cessation of Strike at Big
Shipyards.
SOCIALIST LEADERS ARE Held
Casualties Reported in Berlin Follow
ing Clash Between Troops and
Workers-Revoluticn Report
ed in Austria.

London, Feb. 1.-The German STRIFE
has now spread to Munich, Bavaria
where the big Mauser armament works
are involved, and some of the printing
works engaged in the newspaper trade
in Berlin have struck, according to dis
patches received here.
Orders Strikers to Work.
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 al
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 rMariendorf,
where 100000 men have quit work. A
similar number of Workmen are on
strike in the remainder of the empire.
A great number of socialist leaders
have been arrested in various German
towns.
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.
A deputation waited on the general
in command of the district and said
the strikers would not resort to vio-
lence
Nc~s~ VI SiSSC a.
Copenhagen, Feb. IA state of siege
has been declared at Hamburg, Altoona
and Wandsbeck, according to a social
ist report from Hamburg.
Casualties in Berlin.
Geneva Feb. 1-According to
Basic dispatch printed by La Suisse
there have been serious conflicts he
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
trian officials leading. These officers,
it 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 SUD-
press the strikers and that troops were
arriving to aid.
Call for Reichstag.
London, Feb. 1.-The socialist party
leaders in Germany, according to a
statement in the Berliner Tageblatt
forwarded by the Amsterdam CORE
spondent of the Central News. have
asked President Kaempf Of the reichs-
tag to summon the reichstag immedi-
ately in view of the alarming events
of the last few days.
Opinion in Geneva, the correspond
ent says, is that the strike movement
will reach a crisis soon. 1t is felt
that the movement either will collapse
or take turn which may force the
German government to its knees.
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.