The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-12
TWENTY-FIVE KILLED
lin DUSSELDORF RIOT
Three Slain at Danzig When
4; Troops Fire on Abusive
g Crowds.
OUTBREAKS IN 81 CITIES
Berlin Bank Clerks Fight
Spartacans in Attempt to
Enter Building.


CoPENHAGEN, April II. - Fresh out
breaks of spartacans and Bolshevist
sympathixers are reported to-day in des-
patches frog Dusseldorf and Danzig. In
the former city the Government troops
used machine guns to dispense the riot
ers. and during the fighting twenty-five
persons were killed and an equal num-
guarding the square in front of the rail-
way station fred on a crowd after hav-
ing been. according to the despatch re-
porting the clash. subjected to abusive
moderation during the entire day" Three
persons were killed and several wounded.
A despatch to the Acht Uhr BIatt Of
Eerin from Danzig says the railway
men there declared a political strike.
with the idea of removing the Ebert
scheidemann Government. establishing a
Soviet government and entering into re-
lations with the Soviet republics Of Rus
sia and Hungary. Twenty thousand dock
and factory workers of Danzg are re-
ported to have gone on strike yesterday
afternoon.
"a The LokaI Ankeioer OF Berlin says that
d crowd of several thousand assembled
before Spartacan headquarters in Dussel-
dorf In the afternoon. The police or
dered the crowd to dispense, whereupon
there was some shooting. While soldiers
were being brought up the crowd erected
barricades In the streets After the
Fighting in which the casualties were
Sustained the Spartacans fed.
+ Dusseldorf, the newspaper adds, was
in complete darkness last night. the gas
and electric works having ceased opera
tons. Trains and street cars' stopped
running.
~ Project Is Frustrated.
Il A despatch from Berlin says the
proclamation Of Soviet republic was
contemplated yesterday in the Ruhr dis
trict but that the plan was frustrated
by special means. particularly the oc-
cupation OF Essen by Government troops.
Seventeen members of the Mulheim-on-
Ruhr Council who voted at the last
meeting in favor of Soviet Government
Rave been arrested charged with high
treason.
The strike in Brunswick is reported to
be general and the railway station there
strikers have sent an ultimatum to the
Diet demanding that all powers be
handed over to the Workers Council.
=, Workmen in thirty seven other towns
have gone on strike in favor Of introduce
ing the Soviet system.
BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 10 (delayed) In an,
effort to prevent the threatened strike
Of railway employees the Prussiau Gov
eminent has issued an announcement to
the oficials Of the roads pointing out
on the one hand that as they are off,
Gals they have no right to strike and
may incur a penalty by doing 50, and
igp the other hand appealing to them for
the sake Of the sick and weak babies,
children and women not to take action
which would tie up the delivery of food.
The announcement expresses confidence
that the oficials would continue their
loyalty In these times 'of hardest trial
and need"
A railroad worker writing in the
Td1ebldtt asserts that the men will
never strike, because they are loyal. but
that their present financial situation Is
due for consideration when better times
come. He shows that old employees in
responsible positions receive II married
and having one child, the equiv alent of
$40 annually, while a common work.
man similarly situated gets from $l,354
TO 1880.
unit of soldiers from the Reinhardt
volunteer Brigade streams of water from
fire hose, improvlsed blackjacks and
knives played par to-day in prevent
ing employees OF tlio Deutsche Bank
who had voted to continue work from
entering the main Office. The strikers
also extended their efforts To other banks
and the seven largest banking institu-
tons in Berlin we're closed to-day.
strikers Fight Bank Clerks.
Strikers pickets appeared at the
Deutsche Bank at s O'Clock in the morning
while the would-b workers came on the
scene a little later. A struggle ensued
when the clerks who wanted to work at
tempted to force an entrance. The
strikers. although in the minority, were
reinforced by Spartacan volunteers.
Some adventurous strikers entered the
building with a fire hose and directed
II at the struggling crowd outside.
Bludgeons and knives we're being used
freely when company of Reinhardt
troops arrived and dispersed both the
strikers and the workere
Tho director OF the trutsche Bank
issued n statement de,la ing that A
majority of the employees OF the .lnk
had been overpowered by a minority,
making IL necessary TO close the bank,
The cause of the strike Is declared to
be the dissatisfaction OF the new and
unframed employees because of the
discrepancy in wages and other pre-
negatives existing between them and
the older workers. Tho newcomers who
entered the banks during the war with
out serving a period of apprenticeship
and among whom are many women, cen :
stitute the more radical elements. They
are using the wage question to bring DO
litlcai issues into the present contro-
versy and demand the getting 10 Of
workers councils for regulating the
questions of wages, promotions, sick
benefits and pensions.
In addition to the Deutsche Bank the
Dresdener, Dsconto. Darmstadter. Com
nero und Disconto and the Middle Ger
man Credit banks and the ReIchsbank
are closed.
Leaders OF the strikers, directors of
the various banks and the Minister OF
Labor conferred to-day In an effort IA
fettle the strike.
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