END OF STRIKE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10545, 23 March 1920, Page 6

END OF STRIKE

TERMS OF SETTLEMENT. EIGHTS OF LABOUR AGAINST MILITARISM. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 22, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, March 21. The Coalition parties, at a conference with the Commisb.on of Trades Unions, accepted the louowing conditions for the termination of me gen- ‘ oral strike(l) Representatives of the workers to participate in the reconstruction of the Cabinets of Germany and Prussia while preserving the National Assembly's constitutional rights. (2) All disloyal troops to be disbanded and formations drawn from reliable sections of the Republican population. (3) Socialisation of such industrial enterprises as shall admit of the pro(4) All implicated in the late rebelHon to be disarmed and punished, and all known reactionaries removed from the Administration. Public opinion is that, although the Kapp movement has been a great misfortune to the people, it will _be largely compensated for by this victory, by which Democracy will he strengthened and the rights of Labour against militarism affirmed. a ray oFhope. LONDON. March 20. The announcement that the German strike is settled affords a ray of hope that the chaos will be ended and constitutional Government firmly established; but earlier messages to-day indicated -an alarming drift towards civil war and created doubt whether tne Extremists will recognise the settlement. The storm centre of the revolt shifted yesterday from Berlin to the industrial west; where the Spartacista and Communists, ’’'taking of the unsettled conditions, are making efforts to establish a form of Bolshevism. They have already overrun the whole of the Ruhr and have mob with a' remarkable series of suc- ’ nesses, in consequence of which the "Red Army" has now swelled to 10,OQO men, armed with guns, and armoured cars, and even tanks.