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Show COAL STRIKERS IT VIOLENT Mine-Owners Refuse to Confer. Trouble DiscUssecl in German Ger-man Reichstag, Without. With-out. Results. . Government Preparing Bill to Give Corporate Rights to Trade Unions.. BERtlK, Jan. 21. Interior Secretary Von Posadowsky-Wchnor, replying today to on Interpellation of the Agrarians In the Reichstag as to when the new commercial com-mercial treaties wore likely to be laid be-foro be-foro the Houso, said tho treaty with Aus tria-Hungary was not yet conciuucu. oxpected to bo able to reply further next week. It Is understood unofficially that tho' treaty Is on tho vcYgo of completion. Drafts of pollco from most of tho Prussian Prus-sian cities and detachments of mounted constabulary are being sent Into the strlko district today, but only as a precaution becauso no violence is reported. The mine-owners' association, In consequence conse-quence to tho criticism of their refusal to meot the strike representatives aver that such persons represent only a port of tho workmen and possess no discretionary discre-tionary power, thus conferences with them would bo purposeless. Tho strikers nnswor by quoting the utterances ut-terances of Emperor William to Hcrr Grablcr, a mine-owner, and his associates during the strike of 1SDS that ovon if strikers' delegates represented only a part of tho worklngmcn "that makes no dlf. Terence, becauso an attempt to reach an understanding has a high moral value, ' In tho Reichstag. Tho Reichstag took up tho coal strlko Interpellation. Herr Ducmor. National Liberal, said ho had received telegrams from the strlko district narrating tho terrorism ter-rorism spread by tho strikers against working miners. In one caso twenty-eight miners complalnod that they were unoblo to approach the mlno for work, and In another twenty-two wero not allowed to work. , , Herr Molkenbuhr, Socialist, replying to Count Von BucIow'h speech, donled that tho labor Unions were primarily political organizations, nnd said that tho harmonious harmo-nious co-oporatlon of tho Christian, Cnth-ojlc Cnth-ojlc nnd Llboral unions, also Socialists, proved the non-polltlcal character of the strike. Thcso organisations wero economic econo-mic and served the samo ends for labor-era labor-era as do the trusts for tho employers. Ho asserted that tho coal syndicate purposely pur-posely provoked the strlko In order to ralso coal prices on January 4, tho beginning begin-ning of tho new business year, Junt like American trusts Initiate strikes to promote pro-mote certain financial manipulations. Nationalization of Mines. Tho speaker recommended the nationalization national-ization of tho coal Industry eventually; not now, becauso Prussia already owns mines which treated tho workmen worse and manipulated prions more freely than tho syndicate. Hcrr Kardorff. Conservative, favored an Imperial law which would prevent mine-owners mine-owners shutting down mines within pre-Bcrlbcd pre-Bcrlbcd limits. , . , . . Dr. Stocckcr mado a speech which attracted at-tracted many expressions of approval from hlB enemies, tho loyalists. He had procured oxact Information regarding labor la-bor conditions In tho mining districts. Chancellor Von Buclow, ho eald, was mistaken mis-taken In saying that tho strlko was duo to Socialist agitation. "A thorough Inquiry In-quiry among my friends has not revealed a traco of such ngltatlon," said Dr. Stocckcr. Sto-cckcr. If social poaco Is to bo preserved, ho added, sovereignty of the employer must glvo place to constitutional, relationship rela-tionship between capital and labor. "Kings have had to put up with constitutions; con-stitutions; let the trusts do likewise," he said. Mightier Than the State. Tho Hlbernla affair had created tho Impression among miners that the coal syndicate was mightier than the State, and this conviction ha3 omblttercd them. The Government must bring forwnrd a bill establishing courts of arbitration, where employers can bo compelled to-ap-pcar. Hcrr Gothlcn, moderate Radical, an old mining engineer, asserted that tho sympathies sym-pathies of tho public must attend tho strikers. Tho mlne-ownors' associations otandpolnt of rofuslng to meet the .miners' .min-ers' representatives is "Industrial feudalism feud-alism of tho worst sort this standpoint is equivalent to saying that the miner Is our slave," said Herr Gothlcn. Tho Government Gov-ernment apparently would do nothing more, now that the association had rejected re-jected Us intermediation. Herr Mosller, Prussian Minister of Commerce and Industry, summarises tho speeches In the House as convincing the mine-owners that public opinion was against them and announced that the Government was proparlng a bill to organize or-ganize so-called labor chambers to represent rep-resent tho Interests of laborers In legal form. Tho Government, he said, hopes to lntroduco both bills beforo the end of tho session. |