Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-01-24 | Page 11 | Many Strikes Disquiet Berlin

i I 1 OI ij IT I 8 BERUN UN I Even the Socialist t Leaders II Are Alarmed by Labor Labor Labor La La- I bor Dema Demands ds I IBy By Associated Press BERLIN BEnLIN Jan 24 The The epidemic of strikes in Berlin is beginning to disquiet disquiet dis dis- quiet even the Socialist leaders In common with the bourgeois press the Socialist points out the disloyal disloyal dis dis- loyal loya nature of the strike of the electric workers by which hundreds of thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands suffered great hardshIps The of the city gas works who were granted an hour eight-hour day I only recently have now under a threat to paralyze the gas supply compelled the grantin grantin- of a six-hour six day and allI an all I increase in wages amounting to 12 marks marls annually I Herr Richter the police president of Berlin who is a Socialist d declares clares that the tendency of the workers work worl- workers I ers was to convert the revolution into I Ia a wage movement which would endanger endanger ger all of Germany Herr Katzenstein I a Socialist alderman said that the recent re recent re- re cent strikes indicate that we have progressed from exploitation by the re-I re capitalists to exploitation by the proletariat proletariat proletariat prole prole- with the distinction that the capitalists capitalists capitalist cap cap- were to reckon more than six weeks ahead He added that the were exhibiting utterly utterly utterly utter utter- ly and that a great part of them had demonstrated that they were not yet jet ripe ripe- for So- So Socialism So So-