Evening star., 1923-10-17
BERLIN RIOTS END;
UNEMPLOYED GIVEN
FREEFOOD ANDFUEL
Quiet Restored by Promise
of City to Supply Needs
of Idle Thousands.
OLD SOVIET TRICK USED
TO INFLUENCE P0PULACE
Communists Program, Should They
Gain Control, Contains Drastic
Measures.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, October 17.-Measures an
nounced by the municipality to aid
the unemployed were followed today
by quiet in the trouble centers or
Greater Berlin, where mobs, COM
posed OF thousands of idle workers.
engaged in food riotinG yesterday
resulting in the wounding OF more
than a score and at least one fatality.
To-day there was no sign of disorder
in any of the districts where yester-
days disturbances occurred.
Among the measures announced by
the city authorities in the way of
relief were the immediate opening of
fourteen feeding kitchens for the dis
tribution of free meals and free al
lowances of wood and coal.
The Berlin police charge that a trick
similar to methods they declare had
been used in Moscow and Petrograd
to incite the crowds to violence was
successfully worked in the rioting
near the town hall yesterday. Man
stretcher bearers. followed by women
in nurses attire and carrying first-aid
Satchels. accompanied the demonstra-
tors, the police report.
They contend that everything was
comparatively orderly until the trick
sters placed perfectly sound man
upon the stretcher, covered him with
sheet and began parading through
the crowds, proclaiming the man to
be d victim of police brutality. The
trick worked like a charm. say the
police, and soon afterward the rioting
began.
1900 Attack Hall.
SIobs estimated to aggregate 10000
unemployed, accompanied by women
and youths, besieged the town hall
in the heart of the eastern section of
the capital. and the rioting which
followed continued internationally for
four hours. and was quelIed only
after police reinforcements used
their bayonets and fired volleys to
awe the crowds.
A bonus of ten billion marks for
each OF the unemployed, free fuel and
free food were among the demands
made by the demonstrators
Many of the demonstrators today
were wearing the soviet star in their
buttonholes and talking in broken
German. Some groups when driven
the "Internationale." They knocked
off the hats of people who refused to
uncover. Many tram cars were held
up and their occupants molested.
Communist Plans Drastic.
What the policy of the communists
would be should they ever gain DOW
er, says the correspondent. was re-
Iealed at a secret sitting of the CEN
trail committee of the party, where 1t
was stated that with the advent of a
communist government the peasantry
viii be required to deliver grain and
foodstuffs voluntarily. under penalty
of confiscation by armed workers
should they decline to do so. The
entire communist press would be
suppressed, and all non-communist
leaders arrested, while all opposing
the communist government would be
punished by death. One speaker at
the meeting remarked there is no
object in filing the prisons; whoever
lies in a cemetery is no longer a
rebel"
In order to safeguard the supply of
bread during the winter the govern
nlent has issued a decree increasing
the quantity of bread grain to be
kept in reserve from 100000 to
100000 tons. Should the farmers
make trouble about delivering their
share of grain the government will
take forcible measures to secure sup
plies.