New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
Troops Kill 25
In Red I prisingg g
In Dusse seldorf
Machine Guns Are Turned
on Rioters; Electric and
Gas Works Shut Down:
All Trains Are Stopped
Strikes in 80 Towns
Soldiers Prevent oviet
Proclamation in Ruhr
District; Leaders Held

District; Leaders Held
COPENHAGEN. April l1.-In a new
Spartacide outbreak at Dusseldorf ves-
'erday twenty-five persons were killed
and twenty-five wounded when govern
ment troops used machine guns on
Spartacidc demonstrators, says the
"Lokal Anzeiser,' of Berlin.
crowd of several thousand mad as
sembled before Spertacidc headouar-
ters. The police ordered the crowd dis
persed, whereupon there was shooting
While soldiers We're being brought CD,
the crowd erected barricades in the
streets. After the fighting n which
the twenty-five persons were killed the
Spaltacides fed.
Dusseldorf the newspaper adds, was
IN complete darkness last night, the
gaa and electric works having ceased
operations. Trains and streetcars
stopped running.
The strike in Brunswick is reported
to be general and the railway station
there IS closed Leaders Of the Bruns-
wick strikcrs have sent nm ultimatum
TO the Diet demanding that all powers
be handed over TO the Workers Coun-
ell.
Strikes in 81 Other Towns
Workmcn in thirty-scvcn other Ger.
man towns have gone on strike in favor
Of introducing the Soviet system
a dispatch from Berlin says the
proclamation of n Soviet republic was
contemplated yesterday in the Ruhr
district, but that the plan was frus-
trated by special means, particularly
the occupation of Essen by government
troops. Seventeen members of the
Mulheim on Ruhr Council, who voted
at the last meeting in favor of So
Wet government, have been arrested,
charged with high treason.
BERLIN, April 10 (By The Associ-
ated Press "a unit of soldiers from
the Reinhardt Volunteer Brigade.
streams of water from fire hose and
lmprovised oiackjacks and knives
played part to-day in preventing en-
ployes of the Deutsche Bank, who had
voted 10 continue work, from entering
the main Office. The strikers also ex-
tended their efforts to other banks. and
the seven largest banking institutions
in Berlin were closed to-day.
Spartacides Aid Strikers
Strikers pickets appeared at the
Deutscne Bank at 6 o'clock in the
morning, while the would be workers
came on the scene a little later. A
strugg lie ensued when the clerks who
wanted TO work attempted to force an
entrance. The strikers. although IN
the minority. were reinforced by Spar
taclde volunteers. Some adventurous
strikers entered the building with a
tire hose and directed it at the struo
gung crowd outside. Bludgeons and
knives were being used freely when a
company of Reinnardt troops arrived
ana dispersed botn the strikers and
the workers.
The director Of the Deutsche Bank
salu majority OF the employees of the
bank had been overpowered bv q
minority, making it necessary to close
the bank N090
ne cause of the strike is said 10 be
the dissatisfaction of the new and un-
trained employees because of tho dis
crepancy IN wages and other prerooa-
tlves existing between them and the
older workers. '-'N
New Employees Radicals
ne newcomers who entered the
panAs during the war without serving
period of apprentice ship, and amon9
WhOm MA
more radical elements. They are
using the wage question to bring no.
lltlcal issues into the present contro-
versy and demand the setting un Of
workers councils for regulating the
questions of wages, promotions. sick
benefits and pensions.
In addition to the Deutsche Rank
the Dresdener, Disconto, Darmstaedter
Sommerz und Disconto and the Middle
German Credit banks and the Reichs-
bank are closed
Leaders of the strikers, directors Of
the banks and the Minister Of Iobor
conferred to-day in an effort TO settIa
the strike '''9
In an effort to prevent the threat.
ened strike of railway employees the
ffusslan government has issued an an
nouncement to the officials of tho
ROADS pointing out, on the one hand
that as they are officials they have no
right to strike and may incur penalty
by doing so, and. on the other hand
appealing to them for the sake Of tho
SICK and weak babies. children and
women not to take action which would
tie up the delivery Of food. The an-
nouncement expresses confidence that
the officials will continue their lovaltv
in these times "of hardest trial and
need" '''''
Grave Diggcrs Strike
a railroad worker, writing in the
Iagcblntt,' asserts the men will never
strike because they are loyal, but thai
their present financial situation il due
for consideration when better times
come. lie shows that old employees in
responsible positions receive. if mor-
RED and having one child, the equiya.
lent OF %l,2IQ annually. while com
mon workman similarly situated gets
from ) ,55i TO $3.50.
The grave diggers in Stettin have
gone on strike. AS consequence the
bodies of many dead remain unburicd
PruSsian authorities