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...Ruhr, still occupied by French and Belgian troops, miners were locked out. During the week, numerous meetings took place between employers and employes. The Government intervened and busied itself with trying to effect a settlement of whether or not the miners should work overtime on regular pay, and whether or not they should work eight or nine hours...
...Ruhr district, miners struck for a shorter day and more pay. Other strikes were reported from Saxony and Silesia. Berlin Bolsheviks urged the metal workers and railwaymen to join their Red brethren. Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), Berlin Communist journal, proclaimed a new wave of struggle against the hated capitalist system...
...sudden increase in Red energy was said to be by way of celebrating Communist gains in the recent election (TIME, May 12). The Ruhr strike was embarrassing to the German Government, because the industrialists were prevented from making coal shipments to France. It was feared that the French Government would immediately begin to exert pressure. As far as the Ruhr is concerned the French Army can enforce law and order, but Red riots in other parts of Germany were causing serious apprehension...
...said to have been planned for Hugo Stinnes by the so-called German Cheka-but Stinnes' death (TIME, April 21) foiled the Red plot. In Paris, it was persistently declared that the "King of Coke" had committed suicide. For the first time since the French occupation of the Ruhr, President Ebert is to visit the occupied area. The occasion is the Cologne Industrial Fair. Herr Penfick of the National Liberal League and Professor Meyer, "another politician," have testy tempers. Penfick attacked Meyer in a speech, which so enraged the latter that he dashed a glass of water...
...According to report his entire fortune was left to his widow, Frau Klaire Stinnes, nee Wagenknecht; but the direction of his vast estate was placed in the hands of his two eldest sons, Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes and Hugo Hermann Stinnes, the former to be in charge of the Ruhr and Rhineland properties, the latter to oversee the family's interests in Berlin, run the shipping business and care for foreign properties...