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Show BERLIN STRIKERS I ARE JOLLIFIED I Go Back to Work After Gov- t ernment Complies With H Union Demands. m VORWAERTS' REPORT M Munition Workers in Three U Hundred Plants Exact Ade- H quate Food Rations. m COPENHAGEN, April 17, via Lon- IH don, April 19, 6:20 a. m. Tho latest H German newspapers to arrive here, in- H eluding the Socialist organs, confirm H the semi-official announcement that H the Berlin strike lias ended. A settle- H ment was reached after ,an almost jH unanimous decision by the metal work- H ers to resume work following the H granting of their principal demands H Among the concessions made by the H government aro compliance with the H demands of the union for the. estab- H lishment of a standing commission of H labor representatives which will have H a voice in the food distribution in H greater Berlin, a promise that strikers H will not be punished by being sent to H the front explicit assurances of ade- H quate food rations and effective meas- JM ures against evasions of the food regu- H latlons by me rich. H Vorwaerts' Report of Strike. fM Incidentally, the German papers throw an interesting light upon the ac- U curacy of semi-official reports. A cen- H sored account, which was telegraphed H abroad, declared, for instance, that the W munition industry had not been af- WM fected. The Vorwaerts today, less H hampered by the censorship, heads its H account of the strike, "Berlin munition workers on strike." MM The paper says that work ceased W completely on Monday in about three W hundred munition plants and that 210,- MM 000 strikers reported to the metal WM workers' union alone. This number W was further swelled by strikers who W failed to report and by participants in W other trades. As against these figures U the offlical news bureau, in a state- H ment for home consumption, asserted mM that the number of strikers was about 125,000. -M |