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Show EXTREMISTS HOLD NUKE OF POWER li Oil DISTRICT Workers Forced to Leave Jobs . and Join Red Army, Holland Papers Declare OPPOSITION TO STRIKE DEVELOPS IN BERLIN German Government Grants More Time to Masses to Act Upon Ultimatum I ESSEN, April 1. Decision to continue con-tinue the general strike here has been reached by the workmen's committee (in view of the failure to reach a settlement set-tlement with the government. The vvorkmen insisted that no additional terms be inserted in the Bielefeld agreement. General Leitner, commander-in-chief of workers forces here, raid last night the situation was clearing. clear-ing. ! ExtremiGts In Power, j THE HAGUE, April 3. Most of the I towns in the Ruhr district are in the j power of the extremists, who are fore-.i fore-.i ng-tW-wor ker-srt o $.iIVt?f h tflrtjbUftlhiir .join tho red army, according to the (Dutch press. The burgomaster and the leaders of , the majority Socialist and center par-, ts at Duisburg have notified the gov-1 ernment that the condition of tho town '. is so bad there Is no hope of the, po- ; lice preventing plundering and other j loulrages by the mob, dispatches state.! ' Only governmental action can save the 1 ' town, it is declared. An official statement issued by tho , headquarters of the government itioops, under date of Wednesday, says j that after the expiration of the time i limit on the government's ultimatum i the advance of government troops be-, gan on a small part of the east front, j Strike Is Opposed. COPENHAGEN, April .1. The revolutionary revo-lutionary executive strike council at, Berlin, whoso members belong lo the i extreme radical group yesterday decid- J ed against the calling of a general strike In Germany a a result of the Ruhr valley situation, pending the result re-sult of the negotiations with the Ruhr norkingmen's organization at Muens-ter, Muens-ter, according to advices received here. , This action was taken, it was said, owing ow-ing to the attitude of the Berlin workers work-ers on the question. More Time Granted. t PARIS, April 1. The German gov-eminent gov-eminent has granted leaders of workmen's work-men's forces in the Ruhr district a! 1 48-hour extension of time in which to i 'either accept or reject the terms included in-cluded in the ultimatum sent to Essen last week, according to advices received receiv-ed here from Berlin. , Negotiations between representa-r lives of the workers and government delegates aro proceeding at Berlin and, it Is said, it is believed the conflict in the Ruhr valley may be settled without farther hostilities. nn |