Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
BLOODY FIGHTING
INESSEN STREETS
Soldiers and Workmen
Now Down Spartacides
With Machine Guns
THREAT FROM GROENER
Declares He Will Seize Berlin
il Order Is Not Re.estab-
lished Shortly
THREAT FROM GROENER

zurich, Dec. E3.
Bloody street nghting at Essen be-
tween the forces OF Workmen and Sol
diers' Council and the Spartacides was
reported in dispatch received today.
There were many casualties rhe Spar
tacides apparently were defeated
Rioting started when the leaders of n
strike at the Bottorr mine were ar
rested by agents OF the Workmen and
Soldiers Council. The SpartacIdes OBJ
tanned e-enforcements, attacked the
prison, released their comrades and inn
prisoned the Soviet representatives
Shortly afterward an armed mob
marched upon the Moiller mine and at
tempted to destroy the plant. Work
men and Soldiers forces, planting ma
chine guns at strategic points. met the
rioters with a deadly hre and dispersed
them. Many fell.
Zurich. Dec. 23.-CBy A. PD-The
Ebert Government in Berlin is reported
10 be faced with another crisis through
the resignation Of the minority members
Of the cabinet.
Political circles in Berlin, another
report says. are agitated by rumor
that General Groener. who succeeded
General I.udendorff as chief quarter
master general has threatened to seize
Berlin with troops that have remained
faithful II order Is not re-established
there shortly.
DR.. Carl Duisburg OF Leverkusen,
head OF the German aniline dye in
dustry, is reported to have fed to swift
zerland Or. Duisburg was generally
looked upon as the connecting link be-
tween business" and General Luden-
dorff and was one of the most active of
the pan-Germans
The bourgeolse parties in Germany
are striving TO erect a solid front against
the majority Socialists in the coming
elections to the national assembly. The
elections are only four weeks away and
the former Right and Center parties are
still much disorganized
The Socialists have an intact party or
ganization and have a strategic advan-
tage because they now are in virtual
control Of the Government. An added
factor Is that the Ebert -Haase Govern
ment has been strengthened in its posi-
tion by the action of the recent revolu-
tionary congress. which not only widened
the Jurisdiction OF the cabinet, but
placed at its disposal a serviceable CEN
tral committee OF Soldiers and Work
mems Councils. This has been inter-
preted as marking the defeat OF the
ultra radical tendencies championed by
the proletarian extremists.
The Provisional Government will use
the time before elections for alleviating
economic conditions.
As the Majority Socialists are virtu-
ally in command of the central govern
ment and dominate the local govern
ments throughout Germany, they prob
ably will enter the election fight as
solid ma jority irrespective OF the future
action Of the Independent Socialists or
the Spartacus group.
The national assembly will be called
TO order ten days after tie elections,
which will be held January 10. This
period viii be used in collating the vote
and arranging technical details The
session will continue eight weeks. Cities
which are urging that the national as
sembly meet there are Frankfort. Cas-
sci. Erfurt. Bayreuth, Weimar and MI
remburg. Berlin Is likely TO be over
looked, as the progress OF the congress
held last week convinced the out-of-
town delegates that Berlin is too noisy
All Bavarian industries employing
more than ten persons have been ordered
to shut down from December % until
January 2 for the purpose Of saving coal
The workers will receive 80 per cent Of
their ordinary wages, of which the en-
ployers will collect two-thirds from the
communities in which they are located.
under State Treasury ruling made for
the purpose of guarding industries.