Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-01
Division OF Sarge Estates and
All Farm Animals Demand
ed and Loss Of Confidence
Expressed in Republic,
CLAIM PROMISES ARE
NOT BEING FULFILLED
Immediate Reports in Division
of Lands and Passage Of the
Laws Desired Are Made in
Manifesto to Government,
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Pub
fishing Co.
(The New York WOrld)
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| Especial Gable Drspatch)
Paris. March 26.--The World has
received by telegraph and courier the
| following despatch from specia.
correspondent in CZecho-Slovakia. 1t
was written before the fall of tae
| Hungarian goverhhcot, but it will be
! noticed that the Soc list demands
now pressed in Prasna IRE strikingy
similar to the Bolshe st aims, 1t is
! the first despatch to give an adequate
narration of conditions IN Czecho-Slo-
vakia. The despatch heats q Prague
date of March 20, and reads as fol-
| lows:
The political situation in Czecho-
Slovakia remains threatening. Far
the most sensational tIing that has
happened has been the u!timatum de-
livered recently to the government by
the United socialist parties. This
coarse, old stuff ultimatum was
phrased In this manner,
"We soc c'alists have lost all faith In
tho present government, and we do
not believe It will be able to carry out
its program of Jan. 8, Efforts of the
socialist members of the cabinet have
not resulted in success, for they have
not led the government to take de-
cisive steps for the appropriation of
=
Promises Unfulfillcd.
The minister of agriculture has
not made the necessary Investigations
and the government has done nothing
toward taking control of the coat
mines. The executive committee has
decided to demand, as part of tho
government activities, that all the
mines and all the industries having
the character of monopolies be taken
over. Promises OF tho government In
this respect have until now remained
unflilfilled, In addition. the govern
ment has denied the full right Of
mevting bgii OF froe anuocli.
eve do not relinauish our pro-
gram of Jan s. We authorize our
club executive committee to inquire
Of all parties In the National Assem-
bly, whether they are willing to carry
out the January program without
modification. We demand:
1.-"That within fourteen days
law be proposed recognizing the prin-
ciple Of appropriation of great es-
tates and providing for the same;
2-"That within fourteen DAYS a re-
port be made on the appropriation of
mines and another report on the ex-
proprlaton of monopolistie indus
tries;
3---Tbat a law he passed govern
ing workingmen's insurance against
illness.
1--WE demand immediate passage
NJ law assuring freedom of assem-
bly, and of the press, and freedom in
forming associations
5-"That provision be made for inn
mediate local elections"
This Is rather large program
isn't 1t? Yet, to understand the COM
plete situation here and the s,gnifi-
canoe of this ultimatum. one must
have some knowledge of the political !,
lay of the land. The national assem-
bly, at the present time Is constituted
on the basis of the old representation
of parties under the Austrian rule.
The present assembly was not elect
ed, but each party was given a num-
Der of delegates proportionate to its
strength before the revolution.
BY a certain amount of cleverfiess
and by compromises the bourgeoiso
party controls the government at this
time. Now very strong parties of
Agrarians. social democrats and ma
tional socialists are getting ready to
dispute the politica! front with the
bourgeose. Then there are the cleri-
Gals and other small groups outside
of Slovakia that are quite powerless.
In Slovakia, however. tta clericals are
very strong and well organized, and
1t appears that they are actively
fighting the proposed union with anti
clerical Bohemia snd Moravia.
This ultimatum oI the socialists
puts an end to the honeymoon of tha
republic Partly, thttr program runs
with that of the Acrsrians. the party
of which the middle class farmer ,s
the backbone, He wants distribu-
ten of the estates, provided the unir
hy which they are to he divided shalt
not be so small as TO teduce his own
ptetty good sized bit
Already large properties which
lIave been deeply overlaid with leases
and sub-leases have been sub -divid-
ed, in the calculation oi the peasants
know of an amusing case in which
people in town. who ed to get fool
from their relatives In the country.
now fare very badly. The peasants
won't let anything go off he property
Even Pigs Divided.
Recently a pig was to be slaugh-
tered by lessee but the peasants
forbade It, 1--WE have decided" thay
said, that when the division comes
this pig will 90 to Jan Slav'nsky.
You must not touch his property.
Similarly, every COW and every horse
has already been assigned to future
owner. Every field has been sliced up.
IN the Planning, to meet the hearts
desires of the peasants.
My friends tell me that in all this
planning the peasants remain per-
fect'y polite. hut firm. Here you have
bit of the frame of mind of the
-'rv an1 'thereir lies the strength
of the agrarians. Only among the very
smallest farmers and farm laborers
do the socialists find adherents.
On the other hand, The socialists
get their strength ~ the cities and in
the mines aud factories, Just now
hunger is driving the workingmen n
bit toward BoIshev'sm. rood scarcity
continues unabated. The American
food to come from trieste and more
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