The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-11-17
LAUNCH new PLAN FOR
.S0VlETS IN GERMANY
Extreme Left Wing of Social
lists Makes Move But Work.
! 4 ~ ..f Ar
-, ers Are Relied Upon
BY Carl D. Groat
Omitted Press Correspondent

Berlin, Nov. s.: (By Mail. )-Germ-
any's Observation-Disclosures COM
munists, as the extreme left Of the
Independent party is called since the
Halle convention-want to start put
ting Moscow principles into practice
in Germany.
They believe with Sinowjew, Rus
sian agitator and demagogue,, that
they can get dictatorship Of the
proletariat and a soviet regime in
Germany. And, their leaders say,
they are prepared to undertake the
fight at an early date. AS this is
written, the new communists are
busying themselves with the task of
Selling Independent party treasures
and trying to get control of party
organs. They started in Immediate
ly after the Halle convention, grab
bed the party paper in Halle, "Das
Hall esche Volksrecht." threw out the
right-wing editor and put in Moscow
disciples. They likewise sent force
of strong-armed youngsters to the
central office OF the Independent par
ty here to seize party documents. A
courageous night Waterman drove
them off. This is merely the first
step in the pro-Moscowites fight. ~
They call themselves Independents
still, just as the right wingers do.
But. they propose to get the party
machinery, especially the party Or
gans like the influential "F'reiheit"
here under their control. Thereaft-
er, according to- their ideas> they will
be ready for their battle against their
"enemy. the capitalists.'
If one takes the left-winger5' talk
seriously, one can picture u dire and
dreadful winter in Berlin and other
sections OF Germany.
But, the truth of the matter as
seen by careful observers probably is
not as black-or as red--as the new
communists paint things.
They are regarded as strong
enough to undertake some reign of
terror at various points and times.
But, on the whole their strength is
everywhere estimated as too small to
upset the present order of things.
Brcitscheid of the right wing, for in
stance. forsees that the red; will at
tempt to put thru their terroristic
program, but he adds confidently
that the moderates will have their
innings directly afterward.
The creation of new communist
group in Germany has not the dire
significance that many persons would
attribute to it.
American authorities here are in
clined to take this view of the sit
uaticn namely: 1--that the left
wing formation merely separates the
sheep from the goats, 2--the crea-
ticn of a party favOring force and
terror is not a, new thing, for the
persons who now cast their lot with
Moscow are the people who have al
ways preached terror and practiced
it when they had a chance.
And, above all, is the general spir-
it Of the German worker. He has
reached the point where things go a
little more smoothly for him than
for the last few years. Unemploy-
ment has decreased slightly since the
first of September. The German
workers as a whole want sanity and
sound conditions rather than the
doubtful experiment of Miscowism
Admissions of even the demagogue
sinowjew that Russia's internal
plight is bad have given the worker
food for thought.