The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-20
NEW SPARTACIST UPRISINGS NOW
 IN PREPARATION
Govt Thinks They Will Take Form of Pillaging
 Campaigns.
PLAN DESTRUCTION
 OF THE HARVEST
Many Lower Officials Have Joined Independent
 Socialists.

pL. ernment announces in a statement issude at Weimar that 1t has re- ceived from various parts of Ger many incontestable proofs that fresh l Sparta cist risings are in preparation. l These risings, the Government ex- plains, will take the form of strikes, pillaging campaigns intended to de- stroy the harvest, thefts of agricuI- tural produce on a large scale, at tacks on farmhouses, and interruption of traffic, and the Communists are confident that their efforts will be seconded by economic difficulties caused by lack of coaIs and by dis inclination of the lower classes of the population to pay the heavy taxes which are shortly to be collected. The independent socialists have unfortunately been joined, according to the Government statement, by many lower officials. who, although they have been helped pecuniarily in several ways by means of special grants and increase of salary, are still discontented. The situation pro- duced by the scarcity of coal. and especially by the reductions in traffic seem to the Independents, the state ment adds, to provide a favorable op- pOrtunity for the arrangement of fresh disturbances, whose object is to overthrow the Government. and the occurrences in Upped Silesia, Breslau, and Frankfort seem to be precursors of still more serious events.
 The Government announces that it has taken all possible precautionary measures. but 1t admits that, in view of the ever-increasing discontent of the working classes and in view of the imminent dismissal of a very large number of workers owing to so many workshops and factories having to close down in consequence of lack of coal. the situation is ex- ceedingly serious. It will be still more serious in the course of a few weeks, especially if the strikes in Up- per Snesia continue.
 DisinciinatiOn To Work.
 This Is undoubtedly not a false alarm for there is abundance of signs and symptoms that a Sparta cist outbreak on a large scale is i'm minent. Disinclination to work is
 ninifested all over the country, and the insistance on the part of millions of workmen on the fulfiment of their | is bringing Germany to a standstill. The situation is furthermore agra vated by the prospect of a strike among millions of ordinary clerks, bank clerks, and of lower and inter- mediate officials in every department of public life who have not profited by the war as so many munition workers have, and now declare, and obviously with justice, that they can not possibly feed and cIothe them selves and their families on the sal aries they are now receiving
 Unless a miracle happens practi- cally all the workers in Germany will be on strike before the end of the autumn and the Communists will not be slow to expliot the em- bitterment produced among the broad masses of the people by the knowl- edge that they were so systematically deceived during the war, and so ruth lessly bled by ''profteers' of their own nationality. This embitterment is universal and will prove to be a serious factor if circumstances. permit or encourage its manifestation
 Professor Francke, weH-known economist who is not given to ex- aggeration, said a few days ago at Essen that the next three months will decide the fate of our Father land and will determine whether we continue to exist as a nation"
 The Government has announced that unless an improvement Is rap idly made, the passenger traffic on the railways, which Is being reduced every day, raust be stopped altogether in order that the goods traffic, l. e., ha .1f necessities, to the towns may be maintained. It has warned the work CTS that they and their families will be the first to suffer by a suspension of the traffic and has promised the miners the immediate redress of all sorts of grievances. but apparently all this avails nothing
 The Communist agitation is well organized and the working class on the one hand is so infatuated and on the other hand so exhausted and list less, that the work of the Communists IS rendered comparatively easy.
 Forced Labor in Mines
 The vast army of agricultural workers all over the country is also in a state of discomfort and ferment. They have great grievances and are realizing that the time may have ar rived when they can throw off the fetters of semi-servitude that have bound them to the Junkers for so many generations, and the Commu- nist agitaitors have found ready ears in their ranks.
 Die B-resheit, the Indepenant So- ciaIist newspaper, is probably correct in stating that the only reports of the Upper 6ilesihn war that can be trusted are those announcing that the strikes are spreading. The Govern ment is trying compulsory labor In the mines, with what effect cannot be judged, but the experiment has not yet improved the situation.
 How the Poles come to be involved in 1t is not clear, but the Conserve tive Kreuz Zsitung boldly declares that the epaFtaeists who promoted ths strike and are now conducting 1t, have established communication with Polish troops In order the more suc- esssfuiiy to carry out their own aims.
 The situation in Upper 6ilssia IS fprtheF complicated by the action of the railway employees in the Bresiau district, who demand increased wages