The Sentinel=record., 1918-02-01
RADICAL SOCIALISTS
 BACK OF STRIKE.
NEGOTIATIONS REGARDED AS RESPONSIBLE FOR STIR.
 RING UP MASSES.
At All Points Where Strikes Are Re ported the Industries Are Given Over to Making War Munitions Government Socialists Join the Radicals.

New York, Jan. 31.--A correspond ent of the Associated Press who was stationed at Berlin until America en- tered the war and who recently re- turned to the United States from Copenhagen, where he went after the outbreak of hostilities has written the following statement of the effect strikes in German cities is likely to have upon the productions of muni- tions.
 Strikes at Adlershof, the Berlin suburb mentioned in today's dispatch, will affect one of the important cen ters of the German military airplane and balloon industry. Important war chemical works specializing in the manufacture of constituents for muni- tions are also located in the Berlin suburb which was the scene last sum mer of disastrous explosion.
 ''Spandau, where the strike also h reported spreading, is the site of one of Germany's big arsenals and cen ter for the manufacture of ammuni- ton as we'll as of electrical plants devoted to war work.
 "Spandau and Adlershof differ from the usual German industrial centers in that large numbers of men of mili- tary age. skilled workmen exempted from military service because of their greater value in war plants, are em- ployed there rather than the women and youths who make up a high pro- portion of Germany's industrial army in war time. These men of mature age, and politically active, are largely
 enrolled in the ranks of tho radical socialist party under Haase and Ledebour and have been restive and dissatisfied with the government for 8 long time.
 The Spandau workmen formed the backbone of Germany's first political protest against the conviction of Lebknecht, the radical socialist mem | Der of the reichstag, and held out the longest of any strikers during the April protest against the reduction oi | tn bread ration The Spandau strike | lasted almost a week after the other | strikers in the Berlin region had re- sumed work.
 Conditions of the present German political strike are significant Tn that | for the first time the leaders of the majority or tame socialists under Schiedemann are aligned with the radical socialists. During the strikes | occasioned by the trial of Mebknecht and by the reduction of the bread ration in April, 1917. the whole in = fluence of Scheidemann and the other
 majority socialist leaders was thrown against the walkouts and they co-op- erated wholeheartedly with the gov
 ernment in inducing the men and
 women to return to work. Majority
 socialist endeavors were also primar- fly responsible for the failure of the socialists attempted to launch on May
 1, 1916. Now Scheidemann and his assistants are represented on the general strike committee with Haase and other leaders of the radical ele- ment.
 This change of heart on the part of the government socialists appar- ently has been brought about by the spirit shown by the government in the Russo German peace negotiations al Brest -Litovsk; in the treatment of the Prussian franchise reform and also by the swing of tho socialist masses away from the moderate program of
 the Scheidemann forces to the radical stop the war at any price demands of the radicals.
 The detection of thousands of fol- lowers and even of reichstag deputies to the extremist wing has compelled
 the moderate socialists to shift to the left and aling themselves in the strike
 movement in open and pronounced op- position to the government on an is sue havig an apparent bearing on the further prosecution of the war" -------------( -(S----------------