Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
Bayonet Filled, Berlin in No
Mood for BoISheviSm and
Soviet Delegates Become
Furious at Extremists,
LiEBKNECHT'S RASH
ACT FATAL MISTAKE
BoIShevik Move of Trying TO
Run Over Conservative Ma
jority Referred to as Bold
Russian Tactics
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Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publish-
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Berlin Doc, % (via Copenhaen.)--
For five days the city has been filling
with troops, fully armed. They re-
turned fro mthe front in no mood to
trifle with the Bolshevki With this
support Herr Ebert has been able to
take clear position in favor of the.
earliest possible meeting of constit-
uent assembly, which shall establish
real democracy based on the rule
Of the majority.
This general statement will clarity
recent events when DR.. Kari Lieb-
knecht tried a typical Bolsheviki move
at the opening of the National Arbeit-
erSoldatenrat (workmen's and SOL
dters' council), with deplorable results
TO himself and the Spartacus group
with which he is identified.
Picked Worst Time for Claims.
When the assembly opened he led
Il mass of perhaps about 5000 work.
men through the streets to Abgeorge-
neten hall and sent in delegation to
insist upon an immediate hearing. The
president of the Vollzugsrat. which is
the Berlin committee nominally in
control Of the government, was at the
moment in the middle of an address.
He yielded the floor to the SPARTA
Gus delegate, who declared complete
Bolshevik program, which had al
ready been published in the Rote
FGtilne lsed tlttE, Oh san of this ex-
tremists)
only bad Judgment can explain
this move, for the body before which
the Spartacus delegation appeared
had been elected by workers and
soldiers who were alive to the dan
gers of Bolshevism and were de-
termined to avoid them.
a majority of those at the meeting
showed themselves unfriendly to the
Spartacus intruders and were barely
willing to hear them. When the Wis
itors demanded that the workers be
armed and that a red guard be formed
of the soldiers. the delegates cried
"Out with themi" and the hearers be-
came furious when the Spartacus
speakers denounced the national as
sembly. The situation was aggravated
by the further demand that all the
power Of government be wasted in the
Arhaiter- Soldatenrat.
1t must seem strange to the outside
observer that resentment was ex-
pressed over the proposition of the
Spartacus speakers to vest fun powers
in the body they were addressing.
which sounded flatting; but the whole
political situation in Germany lay
there.
Likcned TO Russian Tactics.
The ArbeiterSoldatenr which is
just meeting. was elected on the issue
of a constituent assembly Majority
socialists, who wish the country as a
whole to decide upon the exact form
Of government, won on the issue by a
large majority Socialists have thus
declared themselves for a constituent
assembly and against the dictation of
the proletariat. 1t was against this
very body, so eleeted,v that Liebknecht
tried his Bolshevik move. have
heard many members of the body re-
fer scornfully to his course as
Russian tactics"
The situation which has been de-
veloping constantly for several days
has shown political wisdom on the
part OF the government, for it has
been tending toward real democracy.
Previously the government had been
continually harried by socialists who.
by reason of lack of elearness in their
program, had been able to hold the
balance of power. The presence of
soldiers from the front, on one side,
and the bad generalship of DR.. Lieb-
knecht, on the other, in forcing an is-
sue. has led the independents to de-
clare their position. Then II became
vious that half the independents
would support the government and
that the other half were at heart Boil
shevists.
Further camouflage must be inef-
fectual. DR.. Liehknecht had been
gaining strength rapidly among the
industrial elements but this last rash
move has ruined his chances politi-
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