STRIKES IN GERMANY.
RUTHLESS PRUSSIAN HAnD. MOKE DRASTIC LAWS. LONDON, Feb. 11. Reutek's correspondent at Amsterdam states that the Lokal Anzeiger, published at Berlin, says that 6000 men have struck work at Gera— miles south-west of Leipsic—and it is believed that a great strike is threatened. The situation has hardly changed in the Minister mining district. . At Bremen a number of workmen are still out on strike.
• The correspondent of the Times at Amsterdam states that the semi-official newspaper, the North German Gazette, Berlin, indicates that the Government is contemplating the introduction of a more drastic labour law dealing with strikes. The newspaper.points out that tho moral support of the Socialist members of the Reichstag to the strikes introduces an element into politics which Germany must isolate.
A Berlin telegram states that in consequence of a strikers' threat to bomb the Imperial Palace arrests havo been made. r The correspondent of the Times at Zurich states that Woolff's Agency admits that 270,000 strikers in Berlin have not resumed %wk, although the Government continues to intimidate them with threats of punishment,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16783, 25 February 1918, Page 6
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180STRIKES IN GERMANY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16783, 25 February 1918, Page 6
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