The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-23

sign itself out OF Office.
work was resumed in Berlin only
partly today. An attempt II being
made TO pick up the threads OF a
badly demoralized and disorganized
business life.
After eight days OF terrible hard
ships. light, heat. gas. and water are
provided again insofar as the short
age of coal does not prevent the
power stations from resumfng opera :
ton.
AS yet there are no street cars or
subway trains running. Til ma
iorHy OF factories continue TO be shut
down.
Workingmen's councils are meet
ing today all over the city TO elect q
central executive COMMITTEES which 1t
is planned. win demand certain
supervisory powers over the gove1n-
ment. III the government rejects the
iemand the strike viii be continued.
Through the weapon al tho general
STRIKE. the labor uRlQnA - such
aase auddcnly- jumped To tn frcnt
la pciat cf Importance and politI-
nj power IS distinguished from the
~o Socialist parties There II now
! strong political rivalry between
narty leaders. ana so far the labor
,hiefs have had the upperhand.
Macmillan Harden expressed bis
conviction to me today that a gov
srnment controlled by organized
workingmen. on modified soviet
plan. though not necessarily COM
munistic. Is one of the things which
probably will have to be reckoncd
within the near future.
DEFENSIVE POLICY
The Ebert government proposes to
only morally and politically. Mill
tarilv it will pursue strictly defen-
ave policy.
Such Is the program finally decided
upon today by the Bauer cabinet for
the remainder OF its ofiicial life
whose days are probably numbered
The decision was reached after
many hours of discussion which be-
gan Immediately after the Ebert
Bauer regime had slipped hack into
Berlin. as quietly and unhearalded as
stole away = week ago Saturday.
BY this decision the social demo
cratic government Acknowledges that
II is powerless to suppress by force
tho radical movement let loose BY
the Kapr-Luettwitz coup, and that II
Toes not wish to assume the moral
responsibility for what It considers
useless b1oodshed. For machine gums
will substitute moral argument and
the power OF persuasion-ln other
words. Propaganda.
Instead Of sending a large military
FORCE against the RED" army m
Westphalia, the government sent to-
lay two cabinet memhers-Hefr
braun. PrussiAn minister OF agricul-
Sure, tsocial-deHocratl and Herr Gle
hert, national minister OF posts and
,eleEraphs tCentrist3 to begin a YER
bal campaign against the Red"
forces in the big industrial districts
These two ministers have been en-
contact with the radical leaders and
try to begin negDtiations~
ARGUMENT. NOT ARMS
In explaining OF this new method
" putting down an armed rebellion
It Is ollcially declared that the Kann-
Luettwitz military Dictatorship has 70
aroused all claSses OF tho German
people against militarism and, in-
Iced, against everything of i military
nature. that the anti-militarist rem
iment today Is so great ana "a con-
4 solidated that other means must ~
found to bring the rebels Is their
lensee,
Arguments. l was oAicially told.
viii be attempted as q new measure
In place al military force, IN the pres
mt political crisis.
The Ebert Bauer government nro-
9oses the withdrawal OF nearly ali
ySycrnment troops from WestphAlia
md IN Berlin. from a considerable
part OF the workingmen's sections.
instructions along this line are heing
despatched also to other parts OF the
A country wiseYe troops and workers.
have riashed.
The execution Of twenty four sup
posed communists caught with arms
IN the lighting III Adlershof Saturday
night contributed to this decision.
It developed that Of these twenty
Four men aaHmarily stood against !
wall and shot were considerable
number ct soci4l democrats Known
AZ goyernment socialists, not Reds,
but tk1t they had taken np arms
aEainst the government troops out
~ nure haired Of the military.
This hatred OF the unif0rn, the
Eovernn,ent claims. has . Welded al
the partiesa ox tlSs iptp u sols
an 9i,1f M asssreS