STRIKERS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3234, 7 May 1917, Page 2

STRIKERS.

I HOW THEY ARE DEALT WITH IN GERMANY. Berne, May 4. The closing of the Gorman frontiers has been partially explained. Owing to the refusal of tho Independent Socialist leaders not to interrupt work on May Day, the military authorities informed them on April 28 that they would bo arrested for high treason and probably shot unless they gave the required pledge. The stalwarts collapsed, and the pledge was given. Thereupon the military, next day, arrested 1000 of tho unruliest Labour leaders at Berlin, Leipsig, BresTau, Madgeburg, Halle. Dresden, Stuttgart and Kiel whore May Day strikes threatened. The rank and file of tlio party, being leaderl-ess, found placards on Monday staring them in the face warning them of full penalties under martial law for all strikes and the whole movement collapsed. The Independent Socialists went to work on Tuesday.

Tho whole of the Grand Duchy of Baden has boon proclaimed a war zone under the severest martial Jaw owing to unrest among tho workers.