THE STRIKE IN GERMANY
125,000 WORKMEN PARTICIPATING. CAREFULLY ORGANISED BY INDEPENDENT SOCIALIST PARTY. WOMEN, OLD MEN AND BOYS IN THE PROCESSION. MILITARY GUARDS CHEERED BY THE DEMONSTRATORS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received April 18, 9.30 p.m. LONDON, April 18. Official wireless 'messages from Berlin admit that a general strike, in which 125,000 workmen are participating, has occurred. A wireless message received in Berne states that the general strike in Berlin, with accompanying orderly demonstrations, were very carefully organised by the newly-formed Independent Socialist Party, hitherto the Socialist minority in the Reichstag. All the factories, including the munition works, were closed. Herr Ledebour and other leaders addressed the strikers outside the factories. Twelve converging processions, in which the majority were women, old men. and boys, marched through the Unter-den-Linden, where there were dense crowds of strikers, singing revolutionary songs and shouting, "Give us food." A noteworthy feature was that the strikers cheered the military guards before the palace and those inside the Brandenberg Gate. Ultimately the demonstrators separated in perfect order in procession.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13464, 19 April 1917, Page 5
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