| Show Strike Rioting Hurts In Germany BERLIN May 21 UP Rus PI-Rus- Rus Russian sian machine gunners macJ gunners ne-gunners w were e ere r e posted aboard trains of oC the strike bound elevated railway system after hours hour of 01 bloody rioting in west Berlin and part of the s system stem resumed opera opera- tion BERLIN May 21 UP UP Sixteen thousand housand west German railway rail strikers Saturday halted virtual virtually ill all service on the Soviet bosses Berlin railways fought bloody street battles with Communist strikebreakers and stoned Russian officers At least persons persons' were injured injured in in- lured as the non-Communist non strikers strikers ers rs battled strikebreakers with iron ron bars clubs fists and ever even tome some guns Twenty-three Twenty persons were vere hospitalized Western Vestern German police arrested S 28 persons and took 40 Soviet Soviet- directed German railway police nto into protective custody Six Soviet So So- viet net officers were stoned at Schoenberg erg berg station and another at Neu- Neu coelin koelin Western estern police pollee escorted hem them all to their cars I Brush Opposition A Ad Aside tide e I Strikers brushed aside slight op- op op-I op position from the Soviet-controlled Soviet I German Berman railway police and captured cap eap- capI I tired the important Schoenberg elevated railway terminus tonight The Che police fled Even worse rioting seemed in prospect Leaders of the strikeBreaking strikebreaking strike- strike Breaking Communist trade union voted noted tonij tonit t to occupy all elevated ele- ele rated railway stations in the three vestern western sectors as well as the vestern western sector of Berlin according to o the Soviet-licensed Soviet German news lews service Russia called on the western powers lowers to help quell the rioting Soviet Maj Gen P. P P A. A boss toss oss of Berlins Berlin's transport under a abig big tig four agreement demanded at ata a power four-power meeting m eting that the United States Britain and France ake take steps to restore order in their sectors Only a short time earlier strikers had jeered and spit at and several other So i Soviet t officers on an inspection tour said the rioting was endangering Soviet ions Gen George P. P Hays deputy American military governor go told See Page 2 Column 7 1 i Germany Riols io Continued from Page One newsmen however that he would not use American troops unless it is clearly shown sho that German police cant can't handle the situation An unconfirmed report carried carrie by the licensed American-licensed Dena news news agency said Russian troops were moving into Berlin from the Soviet zone A A. source close to the Soviet zone German administration said the tho Soviets So were considering sending troops into the western sectors to maintain railroad communications communications com corn linking Berlin and the Soviet So zone of Germany Hays said Russian troops and police might go on ra railway property property property prop prop- erty in the western sectors because they are responsible for the rail rail- ways But Bu he said if they go beyond such property we will take appropriate action Ev Every ry elevated railway train in western Berlin was halted Virtually Virtually Virtu Virtu- ally all rail traffic in and out of Berlin also ceased despite desperate desper desper- ate Soviet attempts to keep it rolling Strike e Altogether railway raIl workers workers workers work work- ers from the three western sectors were on strike They demanded that the SO Soviet et administration which controls the railways pay them in western marks instead of eastern marks which arc are worth only a quarter as much The Soviet administration called on railway workers from the eastern sector to keep the trains running but the loyal workers work work- ers appeared to be fighting a losing losing los los- ing lag battle Strike headquarters claimed a l complete victory Scores of slugging matches broke out Sometimes several were raging at a single station Passengers Passengers gers gels found themselves in the middIe middle middle mid mid- dle dIe and many were injured Struggle In Vain Tain German police poUce struggled in vain to restore order As soon as they would quell one disturbance two or three would break out else else- where With sirens shrieking ing their riot squads rushed from station to station A special German police was given several Russian officers when they visited the scene of a severe street f fight near Tempelhof airfield in the American sector |
