Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-22
General Strikes
Continued from Pace Ons)

critics seized or whose officials were
among those arrested and the seizure
OF mines extended only to state pos
sessions.
The strikers based their principal
demands on the rclease of the proper
ties and officials, though they added
that occupation as whole must be
lifted before work is resumed. They
refused to ply the pick in the shadow
of the French or Belgian bayonet.
Representatives of all the railway
men in the district will meet at Fiber
field tomorrow to decide whether they
are ready to cease work in a body
which would mean the stoppage of rail
traffic in territory where normally 30
, zee carloads OF freight alone are NOV
ing daily.
1t is understood the trial of num-
Der of the directors under arrest will
take place at Mayence Tuesday. and
according to French sources, the pro-
ccedings Will he open to the public.
Notices will appear on the private
banks iii Essen stating that they will
remain closed until the city branch of
the Rtichbank is freed from the pa
troll, which tonight still guarded its
doors On the whole. the occupying
forces UP to the present have" flan-
| tanned firm and orderly hold on the
territory, and Germans in passing for
eign officers in the streets invariably
tip their hats.
\ message from Chancellor Cuno to
Fritz ThySsen has heen made public.
in which the chancellor praises Thys-
sens loyalty ana declares: The more
brutal the might. the stronger will lie
our rights and hope"
Several thousand persons attended a
Communist meeting here 1CninIt
Dortmund. Jan. o. Gy A. P.)-
The railroad men declared a strike at
noon TO-DAY. Ali passenger and
freight traffic has ceased in the re-
slon Of Dortmund, Lansenbreer and
Bochum.
The service is normal in other
parts of the Ruhr.
Nationalist demonstration took
place in Dortmund today and tho city
was decrecd "a danger zone" hy' the
lied and neutral nationals in the R,lhr
were warned to keep away from
Dortmund. They were informed that
they would enter the city on their
own responsibility.
Ere nch troops Were ready to inter-
fore in the event of clashes between
the Nationaists and the Commune
lists.
RcclllinGhausen Jan. 81. By 4. P)
The miners and workers in the
coke ovens, which are state property
and which were rcQniSitioned Friday,
have informed the French that they
will not report for work tomorrow.
They number 10000.
Berlin. Jan. 21-CBy A. P)-Minis-
ter of Finance Hermcs has issued an
order forbidding the payment of Gus
tens and coal tax and export dues
to any account other than German
The Association of German Iron
and Steel Industries has decided to
carry on no business relations with
France or Belgium as long as the &C.
cupation of the Ruhr continues.
Dispatches from Munich report that
$50 Italian and Czech workmen, be-
lieved to he bound for the Ruhr area
as strike breakers. have heen held up
in Munich and not permitted to pro-
coed to their destination.
The Reichsbank has fixed the pur-
chase price of the twenty mark gold
piece for the present week at 10000
paper marks.
CoblenZ, Jan. c1-(By A. P.)-Suh-
commission will begin tomorrow new
steps to secure large quantities of the
paper marks which will be requted
in case the French are Obliged to pay
the German miners and others in
connection with the taking over of
the Ruhp.
One of the main and immediate OBJ
iects of the three ordinances promul-
gated for seizing the receipts from
the customs and forest and coal tax,
was to secure an abundant quantity
of marks. This plan failed partially
because the branches of the Reichs-
bank already had sent their supply
Of marks to unoccupied Germany.
AS matters stand, until new col
leetions are made, there may be a
local scarcity of marks for large OPP
eratiOns.