Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-19
While Gaunt Soldiers Show
Anger at WeIl-fed Boufgoise
Socialists Fonnent General
Strike,
WORKERS TURN GUNS
UPON EACH OTHER
If Soviet Idea Takes Firm Root
Bourgoise Element Is Strong
Enough to Cause Long Civil
Conflict.
BY Arno DOsch- Fleurot.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co

ing Co.
(The New York WORLDLY
Especial Cable Dispatch to the World
and Albuquerque Journal)
Berlin, Jan IS (via Copenhagen. y
Although the Ebert government now
has the situation in Berlin in hand,
its troubles are not ended. Every
where | go [ feel class war in the air.
/ see women with pinched faces, star
ing with hard eyes at their, less unfor-
tunate sisters.
Going out from the hotel ! saw six
miserable, gaunt soldiers turn eyes of
hate on a fat bourgeois in a handsome
town car. My own automobile has
been taken from me by the red guards.
Wherever government soldiers appear
on the streets, when off duty, one may
see workmeh and other soldiers entie-
ing them to join the soviets.
Even If the government should sue
ceed in holding the constitutional elee-
tions, tfe- class hatreds win not die.
Russian Bolshevism has made at least
that much permanent headwag in Ber-
lin.
The issues in the situation are max
ing clearer every day that the real
struggle Is between the democratic
idea of q national assembly and a So
cialist soviet Standing for the assem-
bly,, the government IS steadily getting
increased support fro mthe bourgeois
element and lessened active socialist
support.
Communists are capitaiizing this
distinction by trying to impress the
people that Ministers Ebert and
Scheidemann are bourgeois The so
Wet plan of government has so al
lured the masses, especially the ele-
ments that are intent on seizing the
national wealth, that a struggle that
might lead TO civil war, as in Russia,
seems more likely than was the case a
few weeks ago. Only actual sessions
of national assembly, with a prompt
constructive industrial program, can
save the country.
Factory workers belonging to the
independent socialist group have de-
clared for general strike They were
urged to this measure by their lead
ers, ostensibly as a means to end the
civil war, but really because the in
dependent know that they have host
militarily and are trying to win out
in another manner. They started this
trouble by demonstrating with armed
Spartacus workmen last Sunday, Civ
ing them courage to attempt a Bolshe-
vik coup, and now they are adroitly
trying to shift the blame on the gov
ernment and accuse it of bloodthirsti-
ness against the workmen.
Under the heading "a Protest
Against Brother Murder" the Frei-
heit, independent socialist organ, an
nounces the decision for a general
strike. A general strike now, with the
country exhausted and demoralized
would bring final ruin. Like the inter-
national menshevik in Russia, they al
ways say one thing while they mean
another They pretend to support the
national convention, but are knitting it
now with threatened general strike.
The truth is that they do not want
q national assembly, but hope to es-
tablish soviet regime or wreck the
country as they did in Russia.
Rcfuddled Workers Slaughtered.
The Spartacus group is much more
candid, as they have boldly an
nounced the Bolshevil program that
I wired to the journal recently The
pathetic part is that the workmen are
acting in good faith and are right now
shooting one another down through
out Berlin because part or them Is
led one way by one group of socialist
leaders and the rest are led against
them. %.tr
The independent socialist workmer
mean to do right. They have the old
doubt regarding the present govern
ment because some of its leaders
voted war credits during the war
and they believe they helped prolone
the war. Consequently they are easily
convinced that the present govern
r,ent is q bourgeois stalking horse in
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