The sun., 1918-12-22
SOCIALISTS GIVE
EBERT CABINET
FULL SUPPORT
Executive Committee of q
Soldiers and Workers
Has Veto Power.
WILL SEIZE COAL MINES
Control of Other Industries
Put OFF to Await Result
of Experiment.
WILL SEIZE COAL MINES
b. the Associated Press.

~ the hsSociufcd PrSss.
BERLIN, Dec. 20 delayed The
revolutionary Parliament, which ad-
journed this afternoon. gave the Cab
met tho fullest authority to manage
affairs. The prestige OF Chancellor
Friedrich Ebert and Philip Scheide-
mann has been greatly enhanced by
the appointment OF a national central
executive committee OF twenty-seven
soldiers and workingmen. comprised
wholly of majority Socialists.
The committee is largely a body
with parliamentary functions on a
small scale. 1t can eject obstreperous
Cabinet members and has a restricted
veto power.
The congress devoted its closing
hours to problems OF socialization. 1t
approved state control for such indus
tries las are ripe" for the experiment,
and a start will be made with the coal
pits. Afterward the steel and chemi-
cal industries and the alkali mines will
be in line for seizure, although the bulk
Of sentiment was for leaving such COM
plex problems to the National AS
sembly.
Barth Urges Prompt Action.
Emil Barth of the Ebert Cabinet
urged that an immediate start be made
with the coal mines on account OF the
economic situation. as industries were
being menaced by the chronic unrest
/ in the Silesian and Rhenish mines
Herr Rickelt proposed weimar. capt.
tai of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Wei-
mar Eisenach. as the seat OF the FIRST
! Constituent Assembly.
The general makeup Of the congress
was pronouncedly mediocre. as the
majority of members were from loca
soldiers and workmen's councils hur-
riedly organized in the early days oi
the revolution. The fact that the con-
sress convened in Berlin was respon'
sible for some embarrassing episodes
such as invasions by soldiers and la
borers.
Herr Scheidemann was loudly
cheered by the country members when
in the course of his address. he as
serted that Berlin was not Germany.
Krupp Dividend is Passed.
The Krupp Company at a genera
meeting decided to-day not to pay I
dividend this year. The great arm
concern paid a dividend Of IL pc
cent. in each of the first two wa
years and 10 per cent. last year
II was announced at the meeting
that when a balance was struck at tn
end OF June the directors decided t
pay a 4 per cent. dividend this year
a part OF which must be taken from
the surplus Of 1916. Recent de
velopments. however, so unfavorabl
affected the economic situation tha
| the directors were unable to recon
mend the payment OF any dividend.
The Socialist newspaper ToriCdert
predicts that the main part of the dis
closures of Adolph Joffe, formerly Bol
shevik Ambassador in Berlin, wi
shortly be forthcoming. in view o
Joffe's assertion that he no longe
owes 20 Hugo Haase, Foreign Ministe
in the Ebert Cabinet. the considerable
Herr Haase jettisons Joffe by assert
ing that the latter merely supplied hir
with data for speeches in the Reichs
tag.
Where Russian Money Went.
The categorical denial by the Inde
pendents that they were beneficiarie
of the Bolshevik rubles which We're a.
7 legged to have been scattered profusel
about Berlin while Joffe was ther
leads to the suggestion In some quar-
, ters that the Spartacus group wa
financed out of funds deposite
here to the order OF the leader of til
independents, Oscar Cohen, a formt
Reichstag member who is now unde
secretary to the National Ministry {
:, Justice. Cohen left here yesterda
;. for Moscow, ostensibly on official bus
! ness in connection with the transfc
:, Of Russian prisoners.
=
says Money Was Sent Here.
: The fact that NJ. RAdek, who cor
ducts the Bolshevik propaganda bl
q reau, was in close touch with the ol
p Ranization headed by DIR. Karl I.iel
?. knecht is generally accepted as pro-
e that the funds furnished by Joffe wei
e literally placed at the disposal of Il
: Spartacus element, who suddenly we
= put In n position to establish an of
Q. cial organ and otherwise conduct q
d extensive terrorist campaign.
The correspondent has been inform'
d that Radek on the occasion OF his r
" cent visit to Berlin boasted that "tl
y money sent to Berlin to finance Il
l. revolution was as nothing compared
N the funds transmitted to New York 4
l. the purpose Of spreading Bolshevis
70 In the United States"