A SOCIALIST PROTEST.
AOAINST ST.VItVATION
Australian and N Z. Cable Association
(Press Assn.—-Reed. 9.15 p.m.)
AMSTERDAM, December 0
Further, disclosures of r.h,o food position have been made- in the Prussian Diet by the Socialist, Hcrr Stroehel, who urged increased wages for minor state officials. He declared the mass of the people were starving, especially the railway employees, whose wages were insufficient to buy even their allotted food. Herr Stroehel condemned those making war profits and said shells were not the only thing required. "We want food," he said, "and if the Finance Minister cannot increase wages let him endeavour to shorten the war. We long for peace."
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Northern Advocate, 11 December 1916, Page 3
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107A SOCIALIST PROTEST. Northern Advocate, 11 December 1916, Page 3
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