Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-02
R|0TINC AND
STRIKE HALT
WAR PLANTS
Government Will Punish
Workers if They Do Not
Go to Work.

London. Feb. 2-ScriOus riOtfng
on Thursday In Spandau wher$
important German war industries
are located, is reported In German
newspapers, an Exchange, Tele.
graph dispatch from Amsterdam
says. SOullers were attacked by
a mob. A policeman was dragged
from his horse and beaten.
Four thousand men who have
been employed ut the harbor
works are on strike, the dispatch
reports. Strikers cut the railway
leading to one Of factories.
At Siemenstadt, a suburb Of
Spandau, tram ears were over.
turned.
A mob stormed bakery and
compelled the proprietor to dis.
tribute bread without bread cards.
Seven Berlin factories have
been placed under martial law and
the strikers ordered to resume
their work by Z o'clock Monday
morning Mt the latest, according 10
Central News dispatch from Am.
sterdam today. Their failure to
return, It Is announced, will be
punished according to military dis.
cipline.
A demand that the German
reichstag be summoned to discuss
the strike was made by the VOr.
waerts In a leading article Friday.
an Exchange Telegraph company
dispatch from Copenhagen Friday
says.
A national demonstration is being
in Germany as a protest
against the arrest of Herr Dittman, ar
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
reports. Hugo Haase, {
Socialist deputy, appealed to Chan
cellor Won Hertling to obtain the re
lease of Herr Dittman. The chan
cellor said he was powerless az Der
Lin No. entiraly in the hands OF tn,
military.
Arrested for Speechi
Amsterdam, Feb. Berlin eveninI
newspapers just received here stat,
that Wilhelm Dittman, Socialist mem
Der of the reichstag, was arrestet
when he attempted to address Grove
in suburb of Berlin.
The main centers Of the strike move
ment, according to a semi-officia
statement from Berlin, are the dis
tricts of Berlin and Altoona. The lat
ter includes the armament centers o
Hamburg and Kiel The other arma
ments manufacturing districts, tn
Rhineland, Silesa, the Saar distric
and the kingdom of Saxony. have beel
comparatively quiet up to this time.
More Workers Quit Jobsi
The frontier correspondent Of tn
Handelsblad speaks of secret meeting
held in western Germany to decid
whether to join the strike. Should tn
decision be in the affirmative tn
workmen are declared to be determ
ined to make the cessation of worl
general
The koelnische Zeitung declare
that majority of the workmen II
Cologne are opposed to the strike.
The newspaper Tyd learns from
reliable source that the rioting in Der
lin on Thursday was precipitated by
shot fired when the police we're tryinl
to dispense a crowd which was pro
ceeding towards Charlottenburg cry
ing peace and bread" A panic en-
sued when the shot was fired and tn
police charged the crowd with draw
sabres. About thirty were wounded
Strike Threatens Holland.
While the police and military ar
preparing for a general strike ii
Amsterdam on Monday there are indi
cations that the movement probabl
will not assume serious proportions
The strike movement is said to b
backed by Socialists with Bolshevih
tendencies and is declared to be Al
outward sign of the discomfort Of tn
working classes, arising out Of priya
tons due to the war.
Americans Warned.
New York, Feb. "A warning t
American workmen not to relax thei
efforts in shipbuilding and oths
trades because Of the strike disturb
anees in Germany was issued Aerea
day by the United States employnS
service
THE unrest In Germany may
quelled any minute" the statemel
says in part, "and the war is not oy,
yet by any means. The United Stat,
must build ships this year above e
erything else and men OF skill shou
enroll now SO as to be available I,
this patriotic service whenever Il
chin rdc 70 randi, for 4hoxsa