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Show STRIKE AT KRUPP'S. News conies from Germany by way of Amsterdam that 17,000 men employed at the Knipp works at Essen have been on strike for the past two weeks, their demands for more wages and increased rations .having been refused. The shortness of the rations issued is probably prob-ably the chief cause of the trouble, for it is a notorious fact that the civilian population of Germany has been underfed under-fed for months, even those who are comparatively well off complaining of hunger after consuming what they are allowed to purchase. This fact was attested by the American correspondents! I who came out of tho country after the severance of diplomatic rotations. Jj it is safe to say that v hen,' the workingmcn and their families are bound to suffer. Undoubtedly tho, German (rovernment would have increased the rations of the toilers at the Krupp works had it been possible, for it is hiphly important that the plant be kept going. The fart that the strike occurred may therefore be taken as evidence that the food situation situa-tion in Germany is becoming more and j more acute. It is said that many of the strikers have been sent to the front as punishment. These men will have one consolation. They are suro to be well fed so long as the imperial government govern-ment can furnish food, no matter what : becomes of tho civilian population. |