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Show STORY OF SERIOUS TROUBLE 1 BERLIN NEW YORK, March 10. (Mail.) Serious disorder attended tho general strike in Berlin during the last week of January and the first fow days of February, according to German newspapers news-papers of that period received here. For a time the trolley car servico was interrupted In various parts of Berlin because the strikers had repeatedly re-peatedly cut the wires. Street car passengers pas-sengers were attacked, women conductors con-ductors were abused strikers throwing throw-ing stones at the women and pulling them from the cars. Traffic was blocked block-ed by strikers who ran cars into one another at full speed. Meat stores were pillaged, bakers were forced to supply breat without bread cards. The striko came as a surprise to the leaders of the social democratic party, said the International Korrespondenz, a socialistic organ, which stated that tho party leadership had not been consulted con-sulted regarding the strike. Later the party leaders were requested by tho strikers to assume charge of tho striko, which they did in an endeavor to end the strike as soon as possible and to see to it that the interests of labor were safeguarded. The strike temporarily paralyzed all war industries in Berlin and vicinity, especially the airplane plants. The Prussian Diet was also affected, as tho compositors and printers there also joined the strike thus interfering considerably with the proceedings owing ow-ing to the delay in tho printing of bills and other documents. |