GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1922, Page 1

GERMAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. STRIKE IN GERMANY. 350,000 WORKERS OUT. BERLIN, Feb. 3. The general railway workers have now joined in the German strike. It is estimated the strike is already causing a loss of 190,000,000 of marks daily. The municipal employees and the Postal and Telegraph employees are now threatening to strike, and the situation is very serious. The Government’s decree (as cabled) has aroused fierce anger among a vast army of the subordinate State employees, because it denies them the right, to strike.

The unions* arc also up in amis against a seizure of (lie union funds.

Negotiations arc commencing between the Chancellor (Herr Wirth) [ and the Trade Union leaders. Unless I these are successful, Germany will lie plunged into a general strike. There are 350,000 workers already idle. The strike fever is spreading. Many of the municipal workers are striking ! for a new scale of wages. Berlin city to-morrow is likely to be without trams, gas. electricity or water. LIONS CAUSE SENSATION. Berlin, February 3’. There wak a big sensation created in the city of Hamburg. Forty-five circus lions were left in a goods station during the strike. Aladilened with hunger, they tried to break their cages. A party of volunteers finally made the lions secure.