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Show LABOR TROUBLES RENDGQtMANY Workmen in Big Vulcan Shipbuilding Works Demand Increase in Wages. DISTURBED SECTIONS Deplorable Events in Hamburg Ham-burg Bremen, Essen, Dusse-dorf Dusse-dorf and at Penzburg. COPENHAGEN, April 4. via London, 7:19 a. m. Tho Berlin Tageblatt says that labor difficulties havo broken out in the big Vulcan shipbuilding works at Hamburg. Tho workmen demand a one-third increase in their wages. The Vulcan works aro where most of Germany's Ger-many's great ocean liners have been builL Labor difficulties and strikes have been reported from various sections of Germany in the last few months. Trouble of a serious nature in Hamburg Ham-burg was reported from various sources following the Russian revolution. revolu-tion. These reports were substantiated by statements of Socialist deputies in the roichstag referring to "the deplorable deplor-able events In Hamburg and Bremen." A strike occurred in February in the Krupp works at Essen, the heart of I Germany's munition and artillery industry. in-dustry. More recently strikes have been roported among the munition workers at Dusseldorf and among the coal miners at Penzburg. These strikes were said to have been caused by the food shortage, which was also credited credit-ed with being responsible for serious riots in Berlin and other big German industries. |