Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 4 | Strike at Essen

Strike at Essen. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 2. Telegrams from Berlin reaching the Dutch press, say that the discussions between the government and Socialist deputies, who are members of the strike committee, were resumed today. It is expected that the conference, in which Friedrich von Payer, the imperial vice chancellor, is participating, will attain good results. The Independent Socialists are not taking tak-ing part, having demanded that direct representatives of the strikers also shall be heard. - According to a dispatch from Essen, 12 per cent of the workmen are on strike today. In Rhenish Westphalia, the number of strikers in the coal district is constantly decreasing. According to the Fremdenblatt of Hamburg, Ham-burg, a strike has commenced in all the large Industrial works in Lubeck.