The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-11-21
Full Liberty and Univeral SUI
iraqe by Both Sexes
Announced.
ALL OFFICES ARE ELECTIVE.
Amnesty for Political Prisoners and
Auxiliary Army Service Annuiiec.
Ebert Heads New Government
Composed of Socialists.

Berne.--A dispatch received 1ere
from Berlin says the new government
has published ils program In proc
lamntion The dispatch adds that the
program enforccs many notifications
toward democracy and liberty, eco
nomically and politically
The proclamation announces that
the state Of siege has been raised
that there is to be full liberty for all,
even funciionaries, TO form associa.
tions: the censorship, including that
on theatricals Is abolished, there are
10 be freedom OF speech and Of writ
ing. amnesty for political ofrenses, an
nuImcnt on the law OF national aux
Hilary service, an eight hour work day
and universal direct secret suffrage,
with proportional representation for
both sexes about twenty years OF age
for elections 10 all public bodies.
The proclamation concludes that the
victims OF the fighting during the past
few days inside greater Berlin shall
be buried together In the cemetery
whore the Victims OF the 1913 reyolu-
ton are buried
The new Berlin government, accord
ing 10 the Frankfort Zeitung. after
some resistance from the Independent
Socialists, has resolved that as soon as
gha hu1lpass prnvro IN hos hnan SattfaI
IL will take up the question of the con
vocation OF national assembly.
News reaching here seems 10 show
that serious effort il being made in
Berlin TO maintain order and 10 pre-
vent the movement from degenerating
Into anarchy The vosslsche Zeitung |
publishes "A notice to the public that |
persons again viii be permitted In the |
streets after dark until $ y. IN. The |
same newspaper announces the arrest |
OF two civilians and thT~e soldiers Cor |
pillaglng They were sentenced TO
death.
The government has been organized |
with the following cabinet members:
Premier and Interior and Military |
Affairs Friedrich Ebert
Foreign Aitai Hugo Ilaase.
Finance and Colonies = Philip
Scheldemann
Demobilzntion. Transport, Justice
and Wilhelm Dittmann.
Publicity, Art aud Literature Herr
Landsberg
Social Policy Richard Barth
The new government is composed
entirely OF Socialists The majority
Socialists, who supported the imperial
government during the war, are repre-
sen,ed by Ebert, Seheidemanu and
Landsberg. while the Independent So
ciallsts are IIaase Dlttmaun and
Barth.
Herr Dittmann, who sits In the
reichsiag as a deputy from Hamburg,
was sentenced 10 Imprisonment last
February IA connection with labor
troubles In Berlin He was released
by the imperial government few days
before It's downfall.
According 10 proclamation issued
by the new PrusSian government, the
entailed property Of the Prussiau
crown VIII be placed under the admin.
istmtion of the ministry Of finance
Property which is not entalled. but
which IS personal to The former king
aud his family will mol be affected
Declaring that the new democratic
state Of Bavaria Is nor responsible for
the faults of the old regime In Ger. {
many. a manifesto has been sent from
Munich 10 the new federal government !
of Germany asking that complaint over {
The conditions of The armslicc be sent !
10 the entente powers II Is said that !
the terms agreed 10 hy Germany in i
hos,iIi,ies are ~ such a ia.
ture as to prevent rapid re-eslablish. I
meut Of order IN Bavaria t