Show 7 f. f 9 t i f- f 1 I f HE THE HE BE T I. I tacit Cek of or Work and I ek of or rood Food the Caus Causes Causs s. s T Last Saturday tho the police of or Berlin ordered citizens not nt to t loiter loler on tho the streets street The order was wa although albough in one Instance In Rosenthal strasse a t working workIng- workingman man a n carpenter carenter by trade asked the tho police policeto to t arrest him and said h he would do violence If i they did not not On n being belg questioned as a to t his reason he ho said he be had had not had bad anything to t eat cat and wished to be Imprisoned as a he be could not bear the sl sight ht of ot and children starving Ills Is story etory stry WD wap was Investigated and proved to t be tre true Ills His Is story stry Is that thousands of families are either cither absolutely y starving sting or dependent for n charity Misery among the poor por this winter has bas been greater than at any ani time tie for tor years past pat The municipal authorities following the lead of ot the tho burgomaster Herr Forkenbeck have bave trusted to repression rather than palliation palaton for dealing with the desperate and poverty poverty- stricken populace Relief Relict when asked for has been given gien grudgingly and men have been I told that if It they persisted d In applying for I aid they would be sent to t te the called so-called tramp colonies and made to t work as a prisoners prisoner This meant separation from Olives and children md ted the breaking of ot associations and ties tics tes as a lear lea to i the poor as a to the rich The answer md ted threat theat were generally accepted as a denial jf t f relief and at the last th the unemployed gave ip Sip looking to t the local authorities for any aid 1 It I was was was' this frame of ot mind that prevailed on Thursday last lat when someone probably a agitator suddenly suggested to t a stat starved stared shivering crowd Why not ap- ap ap jeal Jea to t the Lct Let us march to t the and ask the father of ot the land for york rork and bread |