New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
Socialists Stirring Up
National Movement to
Demand Release
of Comrades
END the War"
Is Their Demand
Martial Law Declared
in Seven War Facto-
ries; Troops Massed
Near Berlin

LONOON, Feb. 2.-Wilhelm Dit
mann, one Of the Socialist minority
leaders Of the Reichstag, was arrested
When he attempted to address a crowd
IN a suburb of Berlin during The strike
disorders, according to Berlin evening
newspapers received in Amsterdam.
Dittmann is one Of the signers of
pamphlet issued by the independent So
cialists in preparation for the strike.
This pamphlet calls on the people to
show its will to finish the war"
A Munich dispatch to the Frank
furter Zeitung" says that several strike
leaders have been arrested there. in
Guiding the writer Kurt Eisner and
Frau Sarah Lerch. The troops pre-
vented a demonstration which was at
tempted before Wittelsbach Palace.
where the King resides.
Tumultuous scenes occurred at So
c'aiist meetings. The general situation
is little changed.
A national demonstration is being
! organized in Germany as a protest
against the arrest Of Herr Dittmann,
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch re-
ports. Hugo Haase, leader of the Mi
nority Socialists, appealed to Chance-
lor Won Heruling to obtain the release
of Herr Dittmann. The Chancellor
said he was powerlcss, as Berlin vas
entirely in the hands of the military.
Seven Berlin factories have been
placed under martial law and the strik-
ers ordered to resume their work by
O'Clock Monday morning at the latest,
| according to Central News dispatch
from Amsterdam Their failure to re-
turn, it is announced, will be punished
according to military discipline.
Mob Attacks Soldiers
Serious rioting on Thursday in Span
dau, where important German war in
dustries are located, is reported in
German newspapers. Soldiers were at
tackled by a mob. A policeman was
dragged from his horse and beaten.
Four thousand men who have been
strike, these reports say. Strikers cut
the railway leading to one of the fac
tories
At Semenstadt, a suburb of Span
dau, tramcars were overturned.
A mob stormed a bakery and COM
PEELED the proprietor to distribute
bread without bread cards.
| kilograms from Berlin reaching the
Dutch press say that the discussions
between the government and the So
cialist Deputies who are members of
the strike committee were resumed to-
day. 1t is expected that the con-
ference, in which Friedrich Won Payer,
the imperial Vice Chancellor, is par
ticipating, will attain good results.
ing part, having demanded that direct
representatives. of the strikers also
shall be heard.
Coal Miners Resuming Work
According to a dispatch from Essen,
IL per cent of the workmen are on
strike to-day. In Rheinish Westphalia
the number Of strikers in the coal dis
trict is constantly decreasing. A tele-
gram from Breslau says that a meeting
attended by 1000 workmen unanimously
/ resolved to resume work after a strike
that lasted one day.
According to the "Fremdenblatt," of
Hamburg, strike has begun in all the
large industrial works in Lubbock.
A copy Of pamphlet issued by the
Independent Socialists. which has
reached Copenhagen, shows that the
strike in Germany was prepared by
them. The pamphlet points out that
peace negotiations and the future of
Germany into great danger.
Admiral Won Tirpitz, leader of the
Fatherland party, after an interview
with the Imperial Chancellor declared
that he was satisfied with the govern
ment's plans concerning the East. Such
declaration, says the pamphlet, proves
that the government is in collusion with
the advocates of violence, and Just at
this moment the Reichstag. the only
place where the annexationist policy
could be attacked, is closed and other
means of criticism made Impossible by
the government.
Press Gagged, Says Pamphlet
"Our press is gagged. our comrades
are imprisoned and the factories to a
still greater extent are militarized.
: continues the pamphlet. MEN and
women of the working classes. there
is no time to lose. After the horrors
and horrible sufferings we have under
gone new and frightful disaster
threatens our people-yes. even the
whole of humanity
only peace without indemnitie,
and annexations can save US, and the
hour has come when you must raise
your voice for such u peace. At this
moment the German people must b,
means of powerful demonstrations
manifest its will to finish the war"
The pamphlet is signed by Edouarc
Bernstein, Hugo Haase. Wilhelm Dit
mann. Georg Lederbour and other lead
ers.
The "Rheinische Westfalische Zeit
ung" published a Munster dispatch