Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1920 — HERE’S NEW INDUSTRIAL MIX [ARTICLE]

HERE’S NEW INDUSTRIAL MIX

Germans Insist on Holiday Work, Then Strike When Brigade of Troops Arrives. Berlin. —Possibly the strangest development yet found In the German Industrial situation has appeared at the aniline dye works, located at Wolfen, near Hoile. Workers there demanded the privilege of remaining at their posts on German Memorial day, and when the firm refused to pennit this the workmerino the number of 400 forced their way into the office of the director and compelled him to keep the plant open. Gustav Noske, minister of defense, fearing trouble, sent a brigade of troops to Wolfen, whereupon the workers struck because of the fact that martial law was imposed by the presence of the troops. Employees of the electric plant at Rltterfield, near Wolfen, which supplies Berlin with current, have struck in sympathy with the men at Wolfen, so that Berlin is threatened with loss of her electric snpply. Martial law in the district has been ordered by the authority of President Ebert and Minister Noske.