Evening star., 1922-02-05
Berlin CALLS RAIL
STRIKERS TO WORK
Dismissal Threatened on Re-
fusaI to 0bey-Telegraph
! Workers Quit.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. February 4.-Ipstruc-
tions have been issued by the i'm
perial traffic minister to the man
agements of the railway companies
requesting them to order all en-
ployes to resume work, and to an
nounce that failure to obey win make
the men liable to dismissal.
The committee of the striking
railroad men was in secret session
until late tonight, but failed to ap-
prise the labor federation of the out
come of its balloting regarding the
resumption of work.
Neither the government nor the
Berlin police secret service was able
to ferret out the strike headquarters.
and both the central government and
the officials of the general federa-
ton of labor unions were tonight
wholly in the dark as to the strikers
attitude.
Berlin Utilities. Tied Up.
In the meantime the radical ele-
ments among the employees of the
gas. water and power plants in Great
er Berlin succeeded in carrying
strike resolution, despite the munich
pality's conciliatory attitude, and an
nounced a ie-up of public utilities
beginning at midnight.
notwithstanding the rebuke ad-
by the general federation of labor
and allied organizations, the railroad
tie-up throughout Germany showed
an extension in all branches OF the
service, many of the metropolitan
centers being forced to reckon with
the stoppage of milk and cattle
trains.
Americans MaF0oned.
Some of the Americans marooned in
Berlin are making efforts to find
way of reaching the transatlantic
liners on which they are booked to
sail.
At Bremen the situation has" be-
The railway unions in the Frankfort
on-Main district have decided to call
strike. Krupp works at Magdeburg
have been forced to close down,
owing to lack of coal.
Telegraph workers in Berlin struck
today, but the service is not yet in
danger Of stoppage. Builders and
house repairers also went on strike.
The social democrats are endanger-
Sng their existence by unreasonable
and unnecessary strikes. says the
Taseblatt today, adding that sooner
or later, If such tests of power as
the locomotive engineers nave insti-
tuted continue. the government. in a
helpless economic state, will face the
bitter necessity of turning the in
dustries back to private ownership.
"Sooialistic undertakings should be
exemplary businesses" continues the
paper That means there should be
sane balancing of incomes and ex-
penditures, and business with a
chronic deficit cannot endure"
1t then points out the necessity OF
reorganizing q railroad management
system which is piling up high deficits.
Ebert Elected From Union.
President Ebert, on his ffty-hrst
birthday, today was again thrown
out Of the saddle-makers' union. A
general meeting of the union at CO.
logne voted 200 to 8 in favor Of his
expulsion on the ground that his ao-
tions had been damaging to organized
labor.
The Rote Fahn (Rad Flag) today
attacks President Ebert in an appeal
to the proletariat to support the rail-
way strikers. saying: Ebert earns
1000 marks yearly and has 400, 900
moro to entertain. but not the work
men. Do you wonder that he forbids
tho hungry railroad workers to
strike? Stand by your fighting
brothers"
President Richter Of the Berlin po-
lice force today was read out Of the
metal workers union because of his
attitude against tho railroad strike.