Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1920 — STRIKERS, SOLDIERS SLAIN [ARTICLE]

STRIKERS, SOLDIERS SLAIN

Workers Who Seized Post Office and Railway Station Driven Off by Troops in Czecho-Slovakia. London, Dec. 16. —A military dictatorship has been imposed in some of the industrial districts of Czecho-Slo-vakia and a “proletarian dictatorship” has been established in several others, according to a Central News dispatch from Vienna. Many casualties have occurred in conflicts at some points, It is declared. At Bruex, adds the message, five strikers were killed and fifteen others injured. At Goeding, Moravia, the workers seized the postoffice and railway station and proclaimed a general strike. They disarmed many soldiers, say the advice, but fresh troops arrived and killed and injured many of them.