Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1918 — STATE OF SIEGE FOR HAMBURG [ARTICLE]

STATE OF SIEGE FOR HAMBURG

Military Commander Orders Stop of Strike at Big Shipyards. ' ■ ■ ■ • < SOCIALIST LEADERS ARE HELD Casualties Reported in Berlin Following Clash Between Troops and Workers—Revolution in Austria. London, Feb. I.—The German strike has now spread to Munich, Bavaria, where the big Mauser armament worka are Involved, and some of the printing works engaged In the newspaper trade in Berlin have struck, according to di»« patches received here. Orders Strikers to Work. Amsterdam, Feb. I.—The military commander at Hamburg has ordered a cessation of tlie strike there, says the Cologne Gazette. The dispatch adds that the commander also ordered that future strikes be avoided. 1,200,000 on Strike in Germany. London, Feb. I.—The German strike Is still growing In magnitude, the Exchange Telegraph correspondent at Copenhagen reports. In Berlin 700,000 persons are on strike, he says, 58,000 of these bring women. According to an Amsterdam dispatch, the strike has been extended in districts hear Berlin, especially In Tegel, Aldershof,' Spandau and Marlendorf, where 500,000 men have quit work. A similar number of workmen are on strike in the remainder of the empire. A great number of socialist leaders have been arrested in various German towns.

Shipyard Workers Out. Evidence of the extent of the strike In Hamburg Is found in the Cologne Gazette, which says that almost all the shipyard laborers of that city have quit work. After tlie men in the Vulcan yards walked out the others struck, declaring their solidarity with the Vulcan workers. Clergymen vainly exhorted the strikers to continue their work. The tollers proceeded to the trades union headquarters and adopted a resolution opposing the pan-German Fatherland party and demanding immediate peace without annexations or indemnities, better labor conditions and Improvement of the food supply. A deputation waited on the genera* in command of the district and said the strikers would not resort to violence. State of Siege at Hamburg. Copenhagen, Feb. I.—A state of siege has bpen declared at Hamburg, Altona and Wandsbeck, according to a socialist report from Hamburg, Casualties in Berlin. Geneva, Feb. 1. —According to a Basle dispatch printed by La Suisse there have been serious conflicts between troops and strikers In Berlin, with casualties. At some places, the story asserted, troops refused to fire on the strikers. Dispatches from Vienna received hare asserted that soldiers started the recent strike movement, many Austrian officials leading. These officers, ft was declared, tore off their insignia, and joined with their men. A dispatch to the Democrat declared M a revolution, not a strike,” is reigning in Austria. Prague messages reported that the local authorities were unable to suppress tlie strikers and that troops were arriving to aid. Call for Reichstag. London, Feb. I—The1 —The socialist party leaders in Germany, according to a Statement In the Berliner Tageblatt forwarded by the Amsterdam correspondent of the Central, News, have asked President Kaernpf of the reichstag to summon the reichstag immediately in view of tlie alarming events of the last few days. Opinion in Geneva, the correspondent says, is tliat the strike movement will reach a crisis soon. It is felt that the movement either will collapse or take a turn which may force the German government to its knees. Fifty thousand workmen have ceased work at Kiel. Tlie strike is now general in the Chemnitz district, which is the most important industrial section in Saxony.