Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-04-09
FACTS AND COMMENT

ny IGdSOH VI lfle VI 1lleItStS
VOWED makes secrecy imperative. !
Should Italy be disappointed. in her |
hope to control the Adriatic, Orlan- !
dos government might well go down |
with more or less disorder. This re- |
suit may be brought about by fu- F.
NOR of coming disappointment no less
than by an actual adverse decision.
Even Clemenceau might not be able |
to retain his place, should he be I'M
successful in securing all thu France
desires Reports that Hungary is to
be dismembered have already occas-
stoned the fall of the fall of the gov
eminent and the establishment of So
Wet control. varia also is on the
hands of the .soViets and the Weimar
government is not. steady enough to
withstand premature rumors of what
Germanys fate may be. The secrecy
maintained at Paris is therefore es-
sential until the final terms are set
tied.
Germany has yielded to the entente
demand that the Polish troops in
France be shipped back to Poland via
Danzig. This demand was among
the terms of the armistice but oppo-
sition was made on the ground that
disorders might arise if Poles should
set foot in the nort that they are
claiming as their own. Germany is
dreading that Danzig may be finally
allotted to Poland and she is there
fore doubly eager that no Polish troops
set foot in that city, lest that pos
session which is nine points of the law
may be used as an argument in the
decision. Marshal Foch, in whose
hands lie all matters having to do
with the armistice, summoned the
German delegate to meet him at Spa,
and there laid down the law to him in
such I'm 1istakable terms that there
was not: z for Germany to do but &C
quiesce. At the same time she pro
posed that the Polish troops be sent
across by rail, q procedure that had
| already been pronounced Impossible,
| in view of the strike threatened by
German railway men should they be
called upon to transport enemy troops
1.-THE entente had all along been DESTROYS
Iof sending Polish troops home in this
way, for it was much quicker than to
! ship them around by the Baltic. The
proposition was therefore accepted by
Marshal I'och with the reservation
that Germany acknowledge his right
to use Danzig and the assertion that
that route would he used in case there
was any difficulty in shipping the
| troops across country.
Strikes are prevalent throughout
Germany, some with the deliberate
! purpose Of embarrassing and over
throwing the Ebert government, 9th
era because OF ordinary labor disputes
Strikes of the former class are politi-
cal matters and must be dealt with by
the military forces, but the latter clas;
Of labor troubles are in many cases thu
I result of ignorance that cannot dis
tinguish liberty from license. Free
/ dom to the slaves Of the south mean
forty acres and a mule and Their
We're years OF cruel disillusionmen
and poverty before the misguided
freedmen came to know that the price
less gift of freedom meant liberty t.
work for themselves and to own Wha
their own toll produced. So at pres
ent in Germany, thousands of labor
ers freed from Prussian CONTROL be
lieve that life is to be lived on thei
own ter J.. All sorts Of inpossibl
, demands are being made and a refus
al of these means a strike. Thus tn
miners are demanding a large increaS
| of wages and a six hour day, in tn
face of the fact that all Germany i
, suffering for coal and an adequat
supply cannot be produced in 81
, hours. When the mine owners stat
the impossibility OF granting sue
terms, the cry is raised for rationale
alton of the mines, and this is indee
the promise of the present socialis
governments Meanwhile faCtOrj"s ar
closed, industry is 1T a standst : an
thousands Of WOrkmen are unempiOyc
to the distress of their families, tn
embarrassment of the government an
the possible downfall of what remain
OF the social order All this is occur
: ring because the newly emancipate
German workman thinks liberty is tn
r right to work as little and exact q
7 much as he wishes TO vote for him
: self.
This problem is of peculiar signif
, canoe to America in these days ate
the war as she confronta the unsoly
ed problems of labor. Our system
; gomernment has put into the hands {
= labor the power to enforce its demand
but has not supplied the conscienC
= necessary to restrain those demands
+ what is just and reasonable. The ma
= who demands more than his service
: are worth to the public is bolshevi
> in that he expects to exact the unearr
= ed portion Of his wage from other
e | These others either are forced to cor
4 tribute from what their fathers hay
Z, saved, OF are compelled TO accept Les
q than their OWN services are worth
the community. gre II Il TACT ., IN
the American Working1nan is Willir
: to acquiesce in this arrangement whe
S once he understands the situatio
d democracy would not be safe for Il
n WoFlu. ne lio oi IoI ue mo
me assumption Iildt ialoI wa act d
Il cofoliiS 70 me HsHI that IS Slieu
the uue feIallon between employ
Q ana ehpIoye'
: The problem of making the Wor
d safe for democracy is really probe
in education The laborer must
made to understand what his own IL
aided services are worth, how mu
more thew are worth if app1i