Evening star., 1923-01-24
Part of Strikers
Back, Berlin
Reports.
ESSEN FIGURES
100000 ARE IDLE
Sentence of Chiefs
May Call Out
Half Million.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ESSEN, January Alt is
stated on French authority that
the occupied territory Of the
Ruhr will be completely isolated
from unoccupied Germany to-
morrow.
By the Associate Press
BERLIN, January 24-After a
twenty four hour protest strike the
workers in the Thyssen and SHINES
mines In the Ruhr resumed work to-
day 'fn order to continue the produc-
tion OF coal for unoccupied Germany"
it was announced
100000 ON Strike.
By the Associated Press
ESSEN. January 24-1t was stated
here today that the number Of indus
trial workers and miners now on
strike approximated 100000, in addi-
ton to the personnel at the railroad
stations which are occupied by troops.
If the French court-martial passes
sentence on Fritz Tryssen and other
mine directors 1t is declared that $780,
600 miners will consider strike action
The workers who left their jobs in
cluded. 1t is said. 100000 miners from
the SHINES pits and So. 900 steel work :
ers from the Thyssen plants.
The mines owned by the Thyssen
interests, employing SO, 900 men. have
not yet ceased to operate. All the
state mines are working as WELL
The French authorities have given
an Essen priest 100000 marks with
which to buy food for poor children.
1t is announced that 500 cases Of food,
valued at 75,ooe,ooo marks, are being
shlpped shir here from from the, the central relief
The Ruhr Echo, published in Essen,
has been suspended for three weeks
by the Berlin goyernment because pf
a recent article declaring that the
Cuno cabinet had recourse to sabo.
tage and provocation In order to
ity.".
The Ruhr coal miners today re-
ceived wage increase OF about 80
per cent over the January scale. ef-
fective February !. The extra allow
ance for the increased cost OF living
will be almost doubled.
The first news of the court-maftiai
verdict will be awaited with keen
anxiety: on It may hang the imme-
diate fate of Germany's richest in
Of about $500 square kilometers,
which last year produced approx
imately 100.o0o.o00 tons of anthracite
coal. besides supporting inestimable
wealth in industrial plants.
1t Is widely believed in German
quarters that if the mine directors
are sentenced to imprisonment the
mining implements in the Ruhr's two
hundred or more mines will be imme-
diately dropped and hundreds of thou :
sands of miners will swarm out of the
pits in a protest strike.
People Unified.
One prominent civic leader in Essen
went so far as to say that France
had actually done Germany a service
by occupying the Ruhr. adding that
it would never before have been be-
leved that such unity could be achieved
among the people.
Political competition had vanish ed,
he said. and the Ruhrians were CO.
operating virtually to a man in OBJ
structing the common enemy" He
cited a. manifesto issued today by
representatives of all the mines in
owned-in which hearty Endorsement
was expressed for the stand taken
by the arrested directors
The statement declared the sigma
tories hold the same loyalty to tho
federal governments orders as do the
accused magnates and that, even IL
further arrests were made, II would
not change their attitude or Induce
us to negotiate against the father
land"
Even If all the present heads of
the Ruhr mines are robbed of their
liberty" continues the manifesto, I'VE
know the individuals who will then
take their places will not negotiate
other than we have done.
IF the occupational authorities be-
iieVe we can be made amenabIe
through attempted intimidation they
snail find they are biting on granite" !"
HOPE IN RAIL STRIKE.
By the Associated Press.
DUESsELDORF. January 24.-The
Germans are making every effort to
snIorce the railroad strike, for they
ciosing down of all the mines In
the district within flve days.
One thing they are considering
is the possibility of making the
strike effectiYe only In the CoIorna