The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-07-02

with ~ action committees- IN ths
vogtland to put . speedy end to
Hoelx's doineA This statement wss !!
made at general meeting Of the shop |
councils Of Chemnits. whereupon q res
olution was adopted calling for arm |
ing the workmen and declaring that !,
q general strike would be proclaimed |
at the irst attempt Of the government |
to send troops through Chemnits. The
executive committee had promised sew
eral days before this that II would set
tie the vogtland troubles by peaceable
means. and Minister Gradnauey was
still promising mild treatment for
Hoelz and his gang.
This attitude of organized labor At
Chemni,s corresponded to the attitude
Of the more extreme socialists else
where. The independent socialists
either excused or openly encouraged
Hoelz. Their leading organ at Dres-
den declared that the workmen would
resist an armed Intervention by every
possible means, and "the responsibility
would fall with full weight upon the
government" And the Freiheit. the
national organ Of that party. saw moth
ing worse In Hoelx's doings than a
breach Of party discipline. He was
"acting contrary to the interests Of
the revolutionary proletariat." PRO
letarian campaigns" this organ con-
tinued. Require closed ranks at the
battle front. obedience to general or
ders: and all dancing out Of ones turn
means weakening and hurting the rev.
olutionary struggle"
Decide to Fight Bandit
Finally about three weeks after
Hoelz had been in possession at Fal-
kenstein. Gradnauer decided with ex-
IRENE reluctance. that he would have
to ask the Berlin government to send
the Relchswehr against the maraud-
err. His hopes that the wOrkmen II
the vogtland would come and say
"The thing can't be done without the
Reichswehr," had not been realized
An attempt was made by Plauen work
men, indeed, to shake Holz. but with
out success at first. The action com
|, mittee there called four big meetings
at which a resolution against him wal
to be proposed; but Hoelz himself
} boldly appeared at the meetings, ant
, by means of his usual fiery harangue
defeated the resolutions.
As the troops began to move. how
, ever, the laboring people began to al
! sert themselves. At Chemnitz, tn
! decision Of the shop councils to cal
. general strike in support Of Hoell
I was nullified by large majority on
a general vote Of the entire laborin
!. population and about the same TIM
|, conference of the communists 9
;. Chemnitz voted to expel him froI
a their party On the other hand, abor
= the time when the troops were DRAWN
= their net around vogtland col
:. ference Of socialists at Gera, attend
70 by delegates from many Thuringi'
:. towns, voted unanimously to demar
that the troops be recalled, otherwi
to declare a general strike for all &c
!. many.
"a Hoped to Make Escape.
10 But the troops gradually gather
r. around the vogtland, coming in wi
l. many apologies and explanations I
At the part Of the Dresden governme
at and the general. Airplanes we
ID sent in advance to scatter handbi
ga designed gently to soothe the fea
~ of the workmen. Moreover, CT
al commissioner was sent along with I
as troops to restrain their thirst to k
n,y on sight Hoelz and his band.
III Hoelz scented the danger from AFT
M but he made good use Of the few da
he Of grace still left him. He did r
90 remotely dream of making sta
Of against the troops. When they we
ist still several days march from Falk'
as stein he shifted his headquarters o,
,ot to the little town Of Klingenthal, viii
ro- lies Immediately on the Bohem
emit frontier.
in. On the last day Of his stay
gal Klingenthal he made hay in two wa
its He sent detachment Of his for
once more into Plauen to raise MOI
by going into the leading restaura
- and emptylng the pockets not only
~ guests, but even Of walters. Then
'aS Klingenthal he summoned fifteen
~, - the leading manufacturers to a c
.n ference at the town hall, demanded
NC them 100000 marks before night
..e ana locked them up as hostages til
"'o should be produced. Later he deci
- to let them 60 out and make II
arrangements to obtain the money.
the appointed hour they returned
counted out the money for him
the big center table.
Burns Mansions Before Quitting
Before quitting Falkenstein HI
had set fire to the mansions Of
leading manufacturers, after he
&s' been mulcting them for several w
M to meet the expenses of his "arr
He also ordered the detachment
G went to Plauen to rob the restaura
$50 that they also burn several fine VI
x there, but this was apparently
;sssl done; the valiant band conten
~ themsolvas instead with Dillaging