Show LA I REIGN OF TERROR INAUGURATED AT 1001 Social Agitators and Workmen Clash Workmen Being Forced Into Idleness Idle-ness and Riots Follow Lodz The situation hero Is rapidly becoming acute Sanguinary encoun tors are frequent six persons having been killed and twelve wounded In ono day The authorities at first supine aro now more active and are preparing prepar-ing to meet all emergencies It Is generally anticipated that the workmen work-men will eventually secure the upper hand over the Socialists drive out tho agitators and resume work within a few days The principal Polish banks say they do not Tear any financIal dllUcultles among tho firms which have been forced to close down their works Owners of seven of the largest factories fac-tories here employing 100000 persons have announced their intention of closing their establishments becauso of tho system of tarrolsm begun by the extreme Socialists Tho announcement caused great excitement ex-citement among the Inhabitants and tho factory employees fear that when the great army of unemployed begins to feel tho want of bread rioting will occur Tho factory employee as a rule aro without means of support of themselves and their families during dur-ing the hard winter A mill owner said the employers were compelled to close down because the Socialists and militia control the entire city and arc murdering all those who do not accept their demands which makes the continuance of business busi-ness impossible The Socialists have murdered BO less than a score of Nationalist workmen work-men in this city and vicinity and they threaten to organize street riots and compel citizens at the points of revolvers re-volvers to feed and lodge the unemployed un-employed |