The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-26

Berlin, Sept. 26-The Sparta cists, with whom are now associated the | Independent Socialists and Commun- ists, are working very methodically. ! They have failed twice, but they | know the causes of their failures. They have proflted by their expert ence, and they feel so certain that they are now adopting tactics which promise success that during the past few days the words "Spartagus-Sieg Doch" (Spartaous will, nevertheless, be victor1ous) have been painted on the walls of the entrances to the un- derground railway.
 The success of the demonstration organized by the Independent Social ists proves also that Spartacus has
 many adherents. Fifty-four meetings were held in Berlin and the suburbs, which were attended, the Independ- ents themselves estimate, by over 100000 persons, while 1t is certain that all the halls taken in Berlin
 were filled to such an extent that overflow meetings had to be held. The bunker Peril.
 The following extracts from a reso- | lut-on, passed unanimously at all the
 meetings, disclose the main points. of
 the Spartacist plan of campaign: After months of preparation the military Monarchial counter-revolu- tfon is showing its cards with most delightful frankness. Thanks to the ! policy of the government, which is l un-Socialistic and inimical to the workers, Junkerism has recovered it's former power. It controls the admin istration and the army, it terrorizes the population in agricultural dis tricts, and through them the towns, and is spinning a net of counter revolutionary conspiracies over the whole country.
 Great financiers and industrial leaders support the machinations of the counter-revoIutionis Loyal to the Kaiser, the bourgeois parties and their press offer no opposition, be- cause they fear the proletariat, while the Majority Socialists and their men
 in the government serve for the pres ent only as screens behind which the counter-revolution is preparing. The government, three-quarters of which is composed of Majority Socialists, has opened the door by neaAs of its traitorous policy to a cOunter-revolu- ten, and has rendered the workers | defenceless.
 "One of the methods of preparing for the counter-revolution Is the de- velopment of shameless anti-Semitic propaganda, and another is the for nation side by side with a mercenary army in the interior drilled by Kaiser loyal officers of counter-revolutiOn- ary army in the East. which is di-
 rected against the Russian Soviet Republic on the one hand. and
 against the German Republic on the l other. The newly-formed Prussian- Russian Junker alliance looks forward ] to recognition by the Entente as the price of Overthrowing the German and Russian revolutions"
 | The resolution summoned the Ger man proletariat to gather round the | banner of revolutionary Socialism, which will lead them against the | counter-revolution, and contained various protests, but the extracts give the main lines of the present Sparta | cist agitation.
 Noslxe's Prohibitions.
 l The government Socialists retort | that there is no counter-revolution in preparation, and declare that the sole aim of the Independents is to prevent | restoration of order in Germany. The present government, it declares, is ! 1 by the revolution, and accuses the
 Independents of striving for the es- | tablishment of a dictatorship. l One of the contentious of the Inde- pendents is that Herr Noske takes | too high a hand with his Imperial | Defence Army, and uses the latter to | suppress brutally the efforts of work | CTS to obtain a fair wage and decent i conditions of work, while not only the | Conservatives but also the Centre party blame the government for not acting with greater energy against ] the Spartacist agitation.
 1 Herr NOsk~ is showing, however, that he accepts the challenge. He has | ordered the total prohibition of the
 purchase and sale of weapons. He | has threatened to suppress Die Frei- heit, the Berlin organ of the Inde- pendents, unless it alters the tone of its articles. He has forbidden the printing and distribution of leaflets of all kinds in Berlin and it's outskirts and in Spandau, and has ordered that no newspaper or periodical shall be issued without the consent of the military authorities.
 Catastrophe Imminent. With all this the public does not see or does not heed the fact that the ! sword of Damocles hangs over it's head. Economic chaos on which the Spartacists are depending and for
 which they are working may involve Germany in catastrophe even before ! the winter, when it was half expect, ed that this would happen. The h.
 dependents have undoubtedly post i poned a general strike until they are sure it will work with deadly effect, and the economic structure of the Empire is being zealously and system atically undermined in the hope that the whole fabric will collapse when the final pressure of a general strike 1 is brought to bear on it.
 The coal strikes have been persist 1 ed in with supreme disregard for the terrible consequences for the nation, and a sidelight is thrown on the
 workings of the agitators by the fol- | lowing statement which appeared in l the newspapers a few days ago: "On August 22 an Imperial con-