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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 9

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German Strikers Refuse to

Return to Work.

SERVICES GUARDED.

H (Received 2 p.m.)'

BERLIN, Tvovemher 4.

The tramway strikers defied the resumption order and only the barest skeleton of services is running under an armed escort. Strikers removed the rails in some places. The gas workers "will take a strike ballot to-night.

The arrest of 52 members of the strike committee and the apprehension also of 100 pickets, followed by the suppression of two Communist newspapers, cooled the ardour of the! strikers. They were notified that they must resume work at 2 p.m. to-day or automatically be dismissed.

A party of police and strikers exchanged 8? rots at a suburban tramway depot and one of the strikers was killed.

Trams and omnibuses are still idle. TJe threat of dismissal caused only 2500 of the to resume work.

Clouds of cyclists, shouting abuse, accompanied vehicles which attempted to J* 10 - > Many windows were broken. Escorting police hemmed in the stone throwing crowds and fired, killing two and seriously wounding others, including two women.

Herr von Papen, in a final election broadcast, declared that strikes which Nazis and armed Communists were provoking in order to disturb economic P«ace, were a crime against the nation. Herr Hitler had disappointed the hopes of those who expected him to combat Marxism and assist in the rebuilding of Germany.