The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-02
10000 WORKERS
/. QUIT IN BERLIN
Serious General Strike in Full
Swing, Backed by
Spartacans.
PURELY POLITICAL
Sabotage and Food Riots
Raging-Many Killed in
Street Fighting.
AIMS PURELY POLITICAL

0apotage ana ROOD klots
Raging Many Killed in
Street Fighting.
Copenhagen, April "A serious
general strike involving 10000 work
ers is in full swing at Berlin, said
a dispatch from that city today.
A state Of siege has been pro-
claimed in the Ruhr district, where a
strike is in progress.
Bloody street fighting has taken
place at Frankfort on the Main.
In Westphalia large number of
towns have been occupied by govern
ment troops.
No food relief is being sent into the
affected districts.
Sabotage and food riots are raging
throughout the Ruhr district follow
ing the declaration of general
strike. In many towns the Spartacan
leaders were arrested. leading to vio-
lent rioting. Many factories were atY
tackled and damaged.
Three -fourths Of the whole indus,
trial district on the Rhine are ir
volyed. =.
The Spartacans in Berlin are car
ryfrg out measures of reprisal" for
the arrest of Ernst Daumig, Of the
soldiers and workmen's council.
German papers are limiting that a
cabinet crisis Is imminent.
At Stuttgart. in south Germany,
the middle classes have declared a
counter strike against the red lead
ers. -., RS,
I The revolutionary movement on the
coast is growing and advices from
Wilhelmshaven today said fears were
felt there that 1t would become gen.
eral. ~. E
The strike at Berlin and in the
Rhenish industrial belt Is probably
the threatened coup of the Sparta
cans to start an Industrial revolt"
On two previous occasions the Ger
man reds have begun a serious revo-
lutionary movement and each time
the uprising was preceded by a gen.
eral strike.
It had been generally expected that
the Spartacans would wait until May
day before beginning another move
ment. However 1t is not yet certain
that the present strikes are the pre-
cursors of another genuine political
uprising.
1t is significant to note, however.
that German papers believe that a
cabinet crisis is imminent.
The Ruhr district spoken Of in the
cablegram contains numbers of coal
mines. as well as industrial plants.
Troops and Workmen Clash.
Berlin, April 2.-(via' Copenhagen.)
In a collision between strikers and
troops at Stuttgart on
Tuesday three persons were killed
and many others wounded The DEM
onstrators were eventually dispersed
and order restored. The labor lead
ers in Stuttgart have declared a gen.
eral strike there.
Mob Plumbers Stores.
Frankfort, April 2.-(Via Copen-
hagen. )-Rioting broke out here again
this afternoon. The mob plundereu
The provisions stores. All the avail
able military forces were rushed to
The scenes of the disorders.
AS this dispatch was sent, the
lighting was continuing. Demonstra-
tors searching the chief burgomas-
ter's house discovered large stores OF
meats, eggs and -four.
IrdVeSt FIour YET.
London, April 2.-Describing the !
outlook in Germany, the Berlin cor
of the Mail says the crisis
which is rapidly approaching seems
certain to be graver than either the
January or March outbreaks.
"One of the storm centers Is Ba-
,aria, especially Munich" he writes.
The situation in southern Germany |
las completely changed during the |
ast three weeks. Thousands of peo- |
lie, including many women, ATTENDED |
mass meetings at which unaduiter-
tied bolshevism is advocated and
are made for the abolition |
# the selection of parliament. p
,olitical section has arisen that Is
ven stronger than the Spartacides.
rhe members of this party call them
elves syndicatists and are appar-
ntly led or inspired by terrorists who
scaped from Dusseldorf when gov
rnment troops occupied that CITY
fter the last uprising.
"Bolshevism is working in Ger
nany by propaganda as 1t DID IN
hungary and is wrecking Industry
nd removing opportunities lot
york." .oo
paris. April 2.-(havas.)-A DIS
,atcb from Zurich states that in the
lots at Frankfort Monday eleven per
ons were killed and twenty-five
founded. The police have made 4oo
rrests in connection with the oisoE-
ers. 1t is said. -
In the Ruhr basin the number OF
triters is estimated at 100000.
here have been riots in Wurttem-
erg. according to report. The Matln
avs a general strike is on at ber-
n, being as serious as the one re-
ently held in that city.
All Labor Affected.
Rerlin. via Copenhagen. April =
lmost all the labor. forces OF GER
,any are either striking or threaten
~ 10 strike as a result of agitation
3rried on by independent socialists
nd Spartacans who are succeeding
, their efforts to induce workers TO
,ake increasingly impossible de-
lands. They have partially per-
laded mine guards on duty IN the
uhr district to protect the pits I
gairst the Spartacans to prevent
liners from descending.
The situation everywhere is con- 4
dered serious and II is said the aim !
: the Spartacaps is purely political,
aving as its object the overturning d,
I the present government and the
of bolshevisn. San
uinary engagements have occurred
Kastrop, In Westphalia. according )
the Tageblatt. A procession of c
liners which was on its way TO the l
flee of the Kastrop Anzeiger c1ashed c
ith puhlic security guards and sew | [
al were killed and wounded on t
9TH sides. it is said.
Fourteen Killed.
Geneva April Fourteen persons
ere killed by machine gun fire IN a
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