Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-12

'fmbecies.'' A general strike under such,
conditions was nonsense. The duty OF
the party was TO bring the people TO the
party and avoid blunders. The speaker
concluded by offering a resolution i'm -usS
above sense. exhorting all t. consecratc
their efforts to perfect without ,leavipG
their political ard syndicsi orgsnizatiopss
Her Bernstein, the father of stpe ytss
visionists. attackedN with ss6Yuefce The.
principle of the general rstrihNe 1t wss
necessary to conform to- national trani- =
tons. Germany had no great revolutions
in her. history Her genius was prgpaii-
yation. II would be a crime 10 tribe With
organizations which had rendered such
services and led them 10 inevitable ruin
In such an adventure as general strike.
-. 1
The Terrible Rosa Luxembourg other-
wise known as "the Red Rose" was ac-
corded a half hour to defend
The Red the extreme left. OF which she
D. Is an important member. Rosa
As0'e' did not limit herself 20 the
support OF her radical amendment in ia
vor OF the general strike. She attacked
with biting irony the bureaucrats of the
conamittee, and chief among these. Herr
Scheidmann. The committee, she said.
had done nothing; IL had not profited NY,
the discomfort OF the masses TO direct.
them clearly into the revolutionary way :.
il had only played parliamentarism; IL
had not even the courage to organize a
popular demonstration 70 protest against
the fetes attending the imperial jubiiee
and against the Visit to Berlin of the
Red czar.' Ns
Herr Bauer. vice president of the syn
dicate or the central commission at Bcr-
lin, retorted that the general strike
rhymed with nothing reasonable; the
words uttered We're vain and hollow.
German socialists had much TO lose By
entering into a general strike. They
would leave to. Rosa luxembourg and her
friends revolutionary gphraseology.
These might defend in public reunions
such ridiculous motions. for Example, as
those which recommended. Eerman pro-
letaires to abstain during five SSadH from
creating children. GermaW' sy ilqicalism
thus arranged would resemble Prsnln or
Italian revolutionary ssndicAlis N srkhich
had only resulted In the ifnpgtRAx OK
the workman and the Ffsfssss ssr tho.
bourgeoisie. suygSsLlS
Herr Frank, <reyisipnist deputy from
Mannheim, was the.f to launch thel
idea of general strike after the elections
to the Prussian landtag. He declared
that, all parliamentary means gnatsnk
failed, II was necessary To have srscnnrHt
to all revolutionary means TO get ~ OF
a shameful electoral system. S@s
Herr Frank was partisan OF the geileT&
strike as the ultima ratio for the cygt
quest of. political equality: The we1nslM
Bauer wera the most regrettable hr bHi
ever heard. and If Rosa Luxembourg haH
made Revolutionary phraseology Bauer
and his syndicatists made "reactionaiy
phraseology.v-
Mavence, opposed the general strike He
was convinced that il would LEAD German
socialism to a catastrophe. we forstt,
he said, THAT we are in a minority II
we have four and "A half million votes.
our adyersaries have eight millions. The
masses are against us. and our adyer-
saries. who control the police and the
army. count upon an act of STUPIDITY on
our part TO crush us s.s.
* e -.
Herr Scliedmann. I'm his quality as
chairman, recommended at the closing
meeting the passage or his
Chairman motion. He seized the &C.
casion to take Rosa Lux
necuhe. embourg to task. He. re-
preached her as being theorists On .so-s
cialism withoutfcontact with the falyerAAS
masses, ignorant Of their aspiration aiKl
sometimes disdainfur of their ignofuilce.
He was not an adversary Of the gener4l
strike. He was an adversary Of an m
opportune propaganda The -strike~souldr
only be possible with a working class
very solidly organized.
The .yote-on the radical, motion. Of 1soss..
Luxembourg resulted IN 1913 votes against.
AZ ad for, u,,. ID ,,sas.,s
,titude OF the socialists fn the sreidhst Stag
in voting financial measures sand, "eoNR
formally to the decision taken at Nurefi1-
berg in 1908, the deputies in: the reichstag
should refuse to, vote the budget every
time the government was hostile to the
projects of the socialists, Unless the re-
fusal of the budget brought about more
unfavorable conditions for the labor class
than its acceptation." And Herr Wurm
added:
"Our party is too great to remain in
active; 1t is not sufficiently great To i'm
pose all its wishes. IL was NECESSARY To
observe the conduct of our adversaiSSs
and to arrange our action on theirs. lIt
that way we will succeed in eonquering
them" - - I'd
THIS declara ticn must be tal1en as the
future watchword of the German soSiaust
party. 1t is a remarkable evolution from
the party of revolution, of 'ths last twenty
years. Herr Wurm, il should be sand. had
been radical and one of the captains of
the left. His detection like that of Herr
Schiedmann. Is proof positive that We
have to do henceforth with a part tnat
has learned wisdom by contact with its
two million syndicated workmen. party
no longer controlled by small men and
women and small interests, but 4 party
decided to play an inportant T,oiiticai
role as the party of new socialism
Rosa Luxembourg, undo unted by defeat,
returned to the charge and said WHY
deny that there are two camps In the 500
cialist party? Wurm has passed from left
to right in less than q rec months. Ills
evolution surpasses in rapiditt ~ known
records The Wurm motion places US on
a dangerous incline The struggle against
militia rism is an essential question. The
deputies in the reiohstaS nave failed Ia
their duties"
motion from Herr wurm giving en-
tire latitude 10 sooialistic deputies IN fis-
cal alters was
Wurm's Motion promptly accepted by
a., vote Of 33s against l41,
Aoopted. Thus the victory OF
the reyisionists-who may now take the
title of opportunists-is complete -
The congress closed it's session on the
10Th ultimo. leaving 20 the bureau the
choice Of the place of the next meeting.
The president affirmed the strength and
unity of II e party. He invoked the mem
DRY of BebeL who would remain the
never to- be forgotten master OF German
socialists. The audience rose and stahu-'
ing sang the workman's AIarseillaise and
the congress was closed.
The Gazette Populaire l6e CoioPne al q
firms that the German socialist party has
become opportunist. II Germany should
be defeated in Europeans war al asserts Z,
revolution would surely follow.