The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-03
Especial Correspondence.)

Berlin.---At the opening of the Ma t1onal Conference of the Independent Socialists, Herr Haase said the out standing fact in the political posi- tons was that for eight months they had a government which was only able to remain in powar hy means of a state siege. The government, more over, were not able to abolish the state of siege because the military had, in fact, the decisive power iE their own hands. Colonel Reinhardt had termed the government a rabble, and yet the government had not dared to call him to account.
 The governments taxation policy alone must again and again provoke the resistance of the proletariat, and this might lead to the speedy advent i, of another severe revolutionary phase. IA longer time might, however, elapse before the tide again rose to the full. They must not stake everything on one card, or give up parliamentary acttv- ity. There could be no question of participating in a government which included the bourgeoise, or of cOllab- oration with a government on the basis of the present constitution. It might be possible and fitting that the government authority should be taken over in individual States where the ] Independents had a majority.
 | He added: If Socialists of the , Right invite Us to participate in a government with them it may be ad- <-izafle, fer reasons of eXpediency, to present conditions to them, i. e., to submit our full revolutionary pdOgram for prior recognition by them- That would be a formaIity, because rejec- .tion will be certain"
 LEDEBOUR AND EICHHORN.
 Kurt Geyer, who followed, declared that they were not getting one step nearer Socialism by parliamentary methods The new revolutionary ris ing would, in any cases, he said, be long delayed. "Compromise between the Soviet system and bourgeois De Inocracy is impossible. We must set up a German Soviet Republic as our aim"
 Herr Ledebour advocated an under standing with the Communists and the cultivation of those Majority SO cia.Iists who inclined to the Left. The Independents aim, he said must be a Soviet system, but everything, includ- ing a Parliament, must be utilized to render the situation acute.
 The ex-Prefect of Police, Herr Eich- horn, said that Parliament must only be revolutionary platform. He also championed a Soviet system.
 THE COURLAND ARMY.
 vorwarts publishes a communica- ticn from a man, who is described as having been long enga ged in official work in Mitau, in which he calls par ticular attention to "monarchist prop aganda" amongst the troops there. He recounts what ridicuIously mild pun ishments are being inflicted for the most serious offences against the na- 
 who by force of arms stole two horses was fined 15O marks, although he sold one of them for 5000 marks: while a. military police officer had to undergo six days confinement to a room in the first hotel of the town for Hberating for a bribe a Bolshevist leader who was under sentence of death and for embedding army goods.
 The men are again and again heard to say: We shall stay here where we are earning money and don't need to work We shan't go back to Ger many until we are needed to put the Kaiser on the throne again.
 AMERICAN CREDIT.
 The zeitung am NIittag concludes, from the ever-increasing number of representatives of leading American banks who have recently been arriv- ing in Berlin, that the gradual inn provement of the economic and finan- cial position of Germany may be hoped for American financiers, the paper says, have got into touch with the leading financial authorities on the question of granting long-term cred it's. The paper adds that representa- lives of Speyer and Company and the Guaranty Trust Company, both o- New York, have recently visited Der
 ANTI-STRIKE VOLUNTEERS
 Bodies of auxiliary technical work. men capable of keeping vital con cerns like gas, water, and electricity works going in case of political strike. the Vossische Zeitung learns, will b. established throughout the country l.,.ezs. l....-a.