UNREST IN GERMANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17293, 17 October 1919, Page 7

UNREST IN GERMANY.

15,000 STRIKERS IN BERLIN ■ ] FOOD SUPPLY ENDANGERED. SOCIALISTS IMPLICATED. Bv Telegraph — Press Association— Copyright. (Received 11.50 p.m.) A. and N.Z. BERLIN, Oct. 15- j The food supply of Berlin is completely disorganised owing to a i strike of 15,000 members of the staff ' engaged to deal with the rationing j system. Great public indignation I has been aroused. The strike has ' arisen owing to a refusal of the I strikers' demand for an increase of ' salaries by 250 marks a month, to be i retrospective for five months. Such ' an increase would involve anVadditional annual expenditure by the ■ municipality of Berlin of 45,000,000 ! marks. The authorities threaten to dismiss the strikers unless they resume work on Thursday. Although it has no apparent political motive, it is significant that the strike, originated among the Independent Socialists.

STRIKE MOVEMENT SPREAD MORE DISORDERS FEARED. A. and N.Z. BERLIN. Oct. 15. Spartaeists fomented a general strike at Ludwigshafen, in the Palatinate of Bavaria. Machineguns have been placed on different points, and it is expected that the town will be proclaimed in a state of siege. The national tribunal at Munich" sentenced Kammerstetter, one of the Bavarian Soviet leaders, to death for the murder of a hostage, and three of his accomplices to 15 years' servitude. , Fifteen thousand food supply employees in Berlin struck for higher i wages. The trarawaymen in Berj lin have joined the metalworkers' strike.