. The Saturday evening post. , and on May eleventh they set to work unloadingships. University students and business men composedthe bulk of this early strike-breaking force, but the ideacaught on so quickly that within a few days the Com-munity Aid could summon all the men it needed. Thedaily average of volunteers was fifteen hundred, and aconsiderable percentage of these consisted of workmen,mostly nonunionized. To make proper provision for the substitutes, and alsoto prevent clashes between them and the strikers, a largeliner was turned over to their use—the Oskar II. This wasconverted into
. The Saturday evening post. , and on May eleventh they set to work unloadingships. University students and business men composedthe bulk of this early strike-breaking force, but the ideacaught on so quickly that within a few days the Com-munity Aid could summon all the men it needed. Thedaily average of volunteers was fifteen hundred, and aconsiderable percentage of these consisted of workmen,mostly nonunionized. To make proper provision for the substitutes, and alsoto prevent clashes between them and the strikers, a largeliner was turned over to their use—the Oskar II. This wasconverted into a boarding house, and on it most of thevolunteers lived during the strike, thereby avoiding con-tact with the men who were out. Very soon the Community Aid was in a position not onlyto load and unload ships but to man them with crews, for,directly they saw that adequate protection would be given,hundreds of seamen joined. Many vessels sailed fiomDanish ports, notable among them being the FrederickVIII, bound for New During a Trolley Strike In Berlin Never had such heterogeneous crews sailed the highseas. There were college professors scrubbing decks, andmen of wealth sweating at the furnaces, stripped to thewaist as they fed the fires. And the Aid had a sufficientnumber of technical volunteers to fill all the posts requiringexperts. Upward of two hundred ships were manned, witha total personnel of nearly four thousand men. Surprisingly few disturbances occurred. They had someminor troubles between the police and strikers in Copen-hagen and several provincial harbors, but no serious con-flicts, possibly because the protection given was equal toevery demand made upon it. And after little more than amonth of it—on June fourteenth, to be exact—the strikefizzled out. As soon as it collapsed the volunteers with-drew. As we shall examine the German organization later it isunnecessary to go into the workings of the Danish Com-munity Aid in detail. It is sufficient to say
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