Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 1 | Bayonets and Hunger Ending German Revolt for Fair Peace

GUIS MAY 11D0H STRIKERS ! Detachments of Cavalry and Gun Crews Col- lected in the Neighborhood Neighbor-hood of Berlin in Case of Further Trouble in the Streets of the Cap- j ital of Germany. I MEN ORDERED TO j RETURN MONDAY i Semi-Of ficial Statement Says Work Has Been Resumed at Hamburg and Danzig; William Dittrnan, Socialist Member of the Reichstag, Reichs-tag, Under Arrest. LONDON, Feti. 2. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from The Hague says that a great mimher of Socialist leaders were arrested in Berlin at the same time that Wilhelm Dittman, Socialist member of the reichstag, was taken into custody for addressing a crowd in a suburb of the city. AMSTERDAM, Fob. 2. New riots, some of them entailing; bloodshed, have occurred in Berlin and other German cities during the last twenty-four hours, but the backbone of the strike as a national movement appears broken, mainly because Philip Scheidemann, the majority Socialist leader, and other labor chieftains deserted the strikers iu their critical moment. While tho zenith of the silent revolt seems passed, it became clear today that the movement was not engineered by the government, but a spontaneous rising from the very depths of the empire's em-pire's population. The bayonet and the hunger weapon, together with the 'lack of central labor control, appear to have succeeded in crushing it. Thousands Still Idle. Thousands are still idle, however, and tho situation is critical. New disturbances dis-turbances are looked for tomorrow. Whenever tho strikers display organization organi-zation strong forces of troops are on watch. Seven munitions plants i-u Berlin Ber-lin are under martial law. The strikers strik-ers have been given till Monday to resume work or risk ' 4 military punishment." punish-ment." An extraordinary court martial has beon created.' In Hamburg. Kiel, Danzig and Dues-soldorf Dues-soldorf tin; majority of the strikers are reported back at work. Army Chiefs Supreme. How absolutely supreme reigns the militarv regime of blood and iron wa-proved wa-proved when the imperial chancellor. Count von Hertliug. the man who holds the highest office iu the empire, meekly meek-ly referred a protesting delegation, to the decision of the military. At the head of the delegation was Hugo Haase, leader of the radicals, lie insisted upon the immediate release re-lease of WilhcUu Dittmann, the reichstag reichs-tag deputy who was jailed for making mak-ing alleged incendiary speeches to strikers and Socialists. Ucrtling's answer an-swer was, in substance: ''I am powerless, pow-erless, gentlemen. You will have to see the military commander, who is in supreme charge.' Dittmann is the Socialist leader who in January, lulii, said iu the reichstag: ''Wo must destroy the pernicious mania ma-nia which only regards conquest as the expression of the will of the people. peo-ple. ' ' lie ha? a large following and his continued con-tinued detention is expected to cause (Continued on Pasre Four.l ics guns w mow down sihixehs Cavalry and Gun Crews Ready for Trouble in Berlin. . . -r " (Continued from Page One.) serious trouble. Thousands of vomon joim-d in y-:Uerikiy s atriku (icniunstra-tionn. (icniunstra-tionn. Vurw;ii'rU, cliiof or'an of the majority major-ity Sorialii-t.-:, -oriUnu'rt its campaign for the iiiiMnrdiat- run volition ol: the rcifiihtn in tp'Mal r-r..iuii, to " rfc-lii-vu Dm tension " i ucidt-iit. to the strike. JJut, throughout its editorials runs a marked note ot gradual surrender. The paper warns ii.iiit anandiy and civil war and emphasize th;it the strike is not, directed aaint tlie govrrnment, but atfaiu.it the Tirjiitzitt; ' ' J- atheriaim .arty.J' Conservative journals sueli as tlin 'Frankfurter eitung join in the press clamor for a solution of the labor crisis. A semiofficial statement from Berlin Ber-lin reiterated today the assertion that the strike movement is not serious. 'j' ho newnimper Tyd leu rn irom a reliable re-liable Bourco tlmt the rioting in Berlin on Thursday wan precipitated by a sliot fired Tvh:n the police were trying to diperHe a crowd which was proceeding toward Charlottonnurgr crying, "Peace and brpad!" A panic ensued when the shot was fired and the police, charged the crowd with drawn sabers. The strikers sought Bhelter behind overturned tram cars and fired or hurled projection at the police, who were unable to keep the excited people under control. About thirty Htrlkers were wounded and laken to a hospital. Many onlookers who were wounded were treated in dru stores. Machine Guns Ready. Crowds at various places attempted further riots. Detachments of cavalry and machine gun corps have been collected col-lected In the neighborhood of Berlin. Vewterday's issue of the Socialist newspaper news-paper Vorwaerts of Berlin say.i that, while the general committee of trades unions is remaining" neutral, it is unanimously unani-mously of tlie opinion that the political discontent which gave birth to the strike enn be removed hy meeting Justly the wishes of the sinkers. At Thursday's session of the municipal council of Berlin there was an excited debate, in which the president ordered the clearance of the visitors' gallery. The council, by a vote of 73 to 35, rejected Socialist motions requesting; the municipal munici-pal authorities to take the most speedy measures to obtain restoration of the rifiht of meeting in public assembly. Semiofficial Account. Tho semiofficial account of yesterday's occurrences In Berlin reads: "According" to accounts in the evening, newspapers, only isolated and insignificant insignifi-cant excesses occurred today. "These were more the acts of youths and mobs than actual demonstrators. The prevailing" opinion is that the strike has passed its zenith. In some factories the number of workers was increased by a thousand over yesterday. Forwarding" agents, omnibus and street car lines were able to maintain main-tain traffic In an orderly manner. All the newspapers reappeared. The strike in the printing trade is confined to private pri-vate concerns. "Street life - was disturbed nowhere. Even where large bodies of strikers promenaded, no considerable disturbances occurred today. All attempts to persuade the strr-r-t car employees to join the strike were un.--i:cce.s.-Mil. I "Work is u-;t.in proceeding in t.v.e s':.ip-j s':.ip-j yards at Hamburg and 1 a:,z.'- At Kiel work will be rcs'imed Saturday. Ti'e I strike has not attained rio'is s:-j s:-j n !!'i':i nee in !he f'.hi-rdsh Wes'.ph;j l.an coal i t'i.-! is. ( m'.y u i ::,!;; is r: ii, n v. rt. :j- rs of ; workers struck, Ti.e Krup works are in i full swum."