Fights With Pick-Axes, Clubs, Knives And Even Wire Whips

Wanganui Chronicle, 23 May 1949, Page 5

Fights With Pick-Axes, Clubs, Knives And Even Wire Whips

BERLIN, May 22 (Recd. 7.15pm). Fierce fighting, with pickaxes, clubsknives, and even wire whips, continued in the early hours of this morning as *rikers f - . the control of Berlin’s railwa. stations The headquarters o the striking railwaymen in Berlin reported that ten trains, carrying 3000 Russian zone policemen, were moving toward Berlin in an increased effort to break the strikers. One train carrying Russian sector police entered Neurollen. an elevated station in the American sec tor of Berlin, early this morning, ana opened fire on strikers, wounding a number of them. Russian sector Ger-

man police, barricaded in the big Wannsee railway station, opened fire ; with pistols when scores of the strikers tried to sneak across the darkened railway tracks to capture the station. The strikers wer e beaten off with one casualty. Strikers gained complete control of Schoeneberg, an elevated station in the UnPed States sector. Two Russian officers controlling the Schoeneberg power plant, which supi plies most power for the elevated railway system, formally turned over the plant to officials of the striking union i in return for a protocol confirming that the plant was in order.