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!; -t.oris n!' German food riots
hav. continued for sonic time. In
direct!;. they have tieeu confirmed,
hut it may he admitted that it is a
difficult matter to determine the
extent and the general seriousness
of the conditions which provoke
these riots.
The Grman imperialists insist
that some of these tints are foment
ed by leniente money and British
gold is saddled with responsibility
lor a good d al of the unrest.
This charge lias a strangely fa
miliar ring, and reversing the situa
tion we discover American pluto* ra
ti. journals charging the workers
with accepting German money to
strike and thus disturb the industri
al situation here.
Regardless ot these charges v,e
jiuy take it for granted that there
is a substantial basis for the popu
lar unrest in Germany as in Amer
ica and in Germany the at ute food
shortage without doubt is respons
ible tor the seriousness of the situa
tion as far as wt know.
There is food in Germany. Ac
counts all agree that the ri h man,
the man who has money can easily
ge- w hat lie wants although he may
tind that to some extent the usual
bill of fare has to he altered to suit
the war time conditions.
In any event it has to he insisted
that far more important than re
ports of Entente successes in the
tit id. the reports of domestic unrest
and food riots in Germany stimu
late the rapid approach of the (lose
of this awful war.
Without a doubt hunger, as has
been often said is the true revolu
tionist. Police and soldiers have
been unable to quell its discontent
and its despotate determination. So
it may well he that what will shat
ter the control of the Bureaucracy
in Germany will lie the discontent
and revolt that the hunger of the
people will foment.
Germany has done marvellously
well to withstand the desperate si
tuation that has confronted it. Iso
lated from acres te foreign mark
ets. this self contained tt.it.on by
the exercise of a rigid system ol
food organization lias managed to
stave off a famine which would have
otherwise disintegrated it conipete
ly.
That it has liei n staved off merely
and not for over destroyed, the
events daily accumulating gradually
reveal. The longer the war goes
on. the worse' becomes the situation
and the more the masses will tie in
dined to dare against the forces of
government which heretofore have
well and successfully held them in
the leash.
The exact situation can best be
stated as follows: In Germany there
is a large quantity of food. This
food is primarily held for the use
of the fighting men at the Iront. It
is not that their standard is as good
as it was when the war started, but
it is as good as is necessary to main
tain the fighting spirit of the men.
The soldiers have experienced
the decline in the richness of their
rations, but it has been relatively
slight
In Germany on the other hand
the masses have experienced aston
ishing cuts in their food supply.
Neutral citizens who went to work
in Germany because of the attrac
tively high wages offered coming
back say that they could not live on
the r’.tions They gave in all cases
as their reason for leaving the fact
that spending all their hard earned
but relatively high wages on food
in addition to the daily ration al
lowed. they w^re still famishing.
This condition lias been going
from bad to worse and the food
riots that broke out last year were
exceedingly desperate.
The army and navy are still rela
tively well supplied, and some re
rent arr,...'- from Germany report
that if a iarson have money
ear. live Very well indeed. Coffee
is still to i had tor money. Butter
may ev n he pure based—-for eon
siderahle money. Game, meat, of
all kinds. fish and so forth art
available for any who can afford
the high rates which are charged.
Now in Germany this war has
done very well with an enormous
numln r of people. They have ac
quired through government con
tracts great wealth. They can af
ford to pay two hundred ami
two thousand per cent more for
their total, and they cheerfully tit,
so. In tie- rich man's expenditures
food a- he -1 is a natively small
item. The price of an auto of a
higher grade will keep a working
man's family in food and clothing
for several years. Hence although
prices for food soar beyond any
thing before heard of it. is scarcely
a fleets the rich man at at all.
Certainly this fact is being real
ized in Germany with complete
suffering by the poorer elasses. and
we art told by careful and certain
ly by no means prejudiced writers
that it is widening the lines of
cleavage between the rich and the
poor.
in passing we may point out that
the rise in the price of food stuffs
in America presents to a different
degree the very same phenomena
and will effect the very same re
sult.
When starvation becomes chronic
the result upon the individual may
not lie worth considering. He may
sink deeper and deeper into Poverty
slough and there end his days in
silence. unknelled, uncoffined and
unknown. But when starvation,
chronic starvation passes beyond
the condition when it affects mere
ly individual types and becomes a
type of the certain class be ho
worker or lie he peasant, the result
is quite different.
Companions in misery arc usually
companions in desperation. And
the result of associated starvation
is usually very serious.
The results of this general con
dition are usually sharpened by
the fact that the workers or pea
sants are continually compelled to
compare their ill-favored condition
with tiie lot that falls to the well
to do.
It is hardly possible to properly
appraise the sentiments must ani
mate the industrial and other work
ers in Germany wjien they see the
rich able to gratify every appetite
by the wealth which is theirs.
Quite a lot of rubbish is written
by patriotic editors about the com
mon chare of all people in the re
sults and responsibilities of war.
The fact is that war is a born ari
stocrat and favors these who havr
money and weighs with leaden fctt
upon those who have it not
The condition that pro
vails in German} as a re
sult of the war is merely an inten
sified repetition of the condition
that prevails in every country. The
very rich contractor!, in Great Bri
tain says a press dispatch were only
prevailed upon to abandon their
entertainments and their wine sup
pers by reason of popular sentiment
against such a state of affairs where
suffering and shortage was other
wise general. It is impossible to!
believe that in the food shortage :
that may follow an effort upon the!
part of America to feed the Allied
nations as well as herself, that
shortage will tali upon rich and
poor alike. The war is productiv
of no such economic equality if the;
ec onomic equality has not pre- ;
vailed before the war.
The Germans will naturally expe-1
ricnce the inspiration to revolt
which the harsh experiences now
undergone will compel. They will
see as their enemies those who pro
fit by the war, just as much as in
the Entente they have heretofore
seen them. The war and the suff
ering which it entails were the
hotbed which produced revolt in
Russia. That hotbed is overcoming
the natural end highly disciplined
sense of law and order in Germany.
It is forcing the growth of revolu
tion. There is hardly any doubt
of this. The bald reports that food
riots are occurring in many cities
may read not important. But they
are full of significance. When be
fore the French revolt peasants
marched through the counry fam
ishing and desperate for the food
their labor produced but of which
they were robbed by the feudal
system, none thought it significant
or important. But it was. It showed
the direction of the mass sentiment
and tiie mass sentiment is tlie only
massed attack that cannot he re
sis' ed by machine guns and ar
tillery fire.
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DEADLOCK SHIP
STRIKE STILL
SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.
Th > ship yard strike here is dead
locked with no sign of a willing
ness on either side to eompromis
the situation.
The street car strike remain
tint hanged.
SAX FRAXCISCO, Sept. ‘'1
Gavin M'Xahb, an attorney here,
received notice to act for ivlwar
Hurley, chairman of the shipping
hoard as his representative to en
deavor to settle the strike in the
shipyards.
M'Xabb tonight announced that
he had appointed a hoard of three
members as mediators with u viev
of settling the strike.
This board consists of one labor
man and two capitalists.
' These ;ire Mayor Rolph of this
city, who has been himself inter
ested in the construction of ships,
Mortimer Scissacker a banker and
former mayor McCarthy now Pre
i sident of tlie Building Trades Coun
cil but no means popular with the
iron workers.
it is hoped that this board will
; effect a settlement.
SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. :! 1
The situation in the shipping strike
I is somewhat better tonight, if the
expressions of opinion one hears
is any criterion Mayor Rolpli's ap
pointment on the mediation board
ought to go far towards bringing
about satisfactory terms.
The conditions which will form
the basis of a possible agreement
have not been mentioned.
WILL PROBE GENERAL
LABOR CONDITIONS WEST
' WASHINGTON*. I>. r.. Sept. 21 —
! The appointment of a commission
I to investigate labor conditions in
the W.est to endeavor to bring about
industrial peace upon the part of
President Wilson may be taken as
a determination on Hhe part of Pre
sident Wilson to get at the facts of
the case.
While the Department of Justice
is energetically suppressing the I.
VV. W. for trying to suppress them,
the labor unrest is marked by
strikes in every direction to the
complete disintegration of steady
production.
It is felt that there will have to
be a radical and complete re-adjust
ment. of labor's remuneration espe
cially for the unskilled throughout
the entire country.
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