The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-12-19
BY United Press.

SStsAAp 1OS. 4ts-oCtlll " aWditiLk
expectantly the outcome Of the I'VE
ton Of the reichstag by it's president.
konstantin Fehrenbach, In defiance OF
the Ebert aase government.
The meeting was to be held today
somewhere in the Rhineland."
The present government which in
tended to summon the reichstag here
later to give the ministry parliamentary
support has announced that any dep
uty attending the proposed insurgent
session will be guilty Of reason.
Wild Rumors Many.
Wild rumors are afioat concerning
the significance Of Fehrenbach's move.
IL IL reported hat Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg will send troops to pro-
tect the meeting.
The Ebert Haase government at
tanned its ascendency through the
election Of delegates to the national
workmen's and soldiers council, In
which the S~partacus group failed to
gain a single representative. Chan
cellor Ebert's majority socialists led
with seven workmen and -four soldier
delegates. DR.. Haase was next with
i've workmen and two soldiers.
Demand Action.
The government has issued a rroc-
Iamation calling for volunteers lor O
peoples" army; 1t also has urged de-
mobilized soldiers not to remain UNI
employed. but to go to the country.
where labor is scarce and food more
plentiful.
want strong action against
the spartacus group and a quick peace.
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SAFEGUARD pEyoItyr,oN
Amsterdam, Dec. 1.-THE Spartacus
group, according to a Berlin telegram
to the Handelsblad, has drawn up the
following program OF immediate steps
for safeguarding the revolution:
Disarmament of all police officers,
non-proletariat soldiers. and all men,.
bers Of the ruling classes.
Aiming Of all grown up male proie-
tariats and the formation OF q work.
ers' militia.
Confiscation by the soldiers and
workmen's councils Of arms, munitions
and armament works.
The formation Of q proIetariat rcd
guard.
Abolition of the rank OF officers and
non-commissioned officers.
Removal OF all military officers from
the soldiers and workmen's councils.
Would Take Fortunes.
Replacement OF political organs and
the authorities Of the former regime
by representatives Of the soldiers and
workmen's councils.
Abolition OF all parliaments and mu-
nfcipal and other councils.
The election of O general council,
which will elect and control the ex-
ecutive council Of the soldiers and
workmen.
Cancellation Of all state and other
public debts, including war loans, down
to a certain fixed limit Of subscription.
appropriation Of all landed estate,
banks, coal mines and large industrial
works.
Confiscation Of all fortunes above a
certain amount
London, Dec. 16.--Marshal Foch has
refused to recognize soldiers and work
mems councils In occupied portions OF
Germany, according TO advices here to-
day.
Amsterdam dispatches declare that
the strike In Berlin has reached seri-
GUS proportions, only two newspapers
being printed, these being small leaf
lets. Three hundred and fifty thousand
worlgmen have stepped work. The dig
patches say.
POLAND OFF OF HUN.
Amsterdam, Dec. 1G.-+PolanJ has
severed relations with Germany. ac-
cording to a telegram received IN Ber-
lin from Warsaw.
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SOCIALIST QUITS.
Geneva, Dec. 17.-George iedcbour
socialist, is reported to have resigned
from the German government.
Herr Brockdorf- Frtzau has arrived
in Berlin from Copenhage:r-aud prob
ably viii succeed Foreign scnratasy
Solf. =.
WOULD CONTROL MAXINE.
Copenhagen, Dec. l~t.--t;ontro' ot the
merchant marine Is demanded by %
sailors council formed at liza z:ourg,
according TO 81 Berlin diapatob ID the
~E:erlingskc Tidende. Of this city Che