Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-03-23
EBERT DEFIES
BERLIN REBELS
Unconditional Resignation of
Leaders of New Govern
ment Demanded.
KAPP TO EXECUTE STRIKERS
Men Who Act as Pickets in General
Walkout Called as Protest Against
Reactionary Revolt Threatened
With Oeath-Famine Feared
in Capital.

Stuttgart, March 16-Refusal TO ne
gotiate with the reactionary faction
headed by DR.. Wolfgang Kapp, head
of the new government at Berlin. was
decided upon here by the council of
the old cabinet, over which President
Ebert presided.
Unconditional resignation of the
leaders of the new government was
demanded by the Ebert cabinet. which
arrived here by special train from
Dresden.
The national assembly will meet in
this city Wednesday afternoon at A
O'Clock.
'The constitutional government"
reads an official announcement, "re-
fuses to negotiate, being responsible
to the people for the maintenance
of the constitution and negotiations
would only occasion distrust and con-
fusion and would prolong disorders"
Berlin. March 16.-Men who act as
leaders or pickets in the general
strike called in this city as a protest
against the reactionary revolt are
threatened with the death penalty in
proclamation issued by DIR. Wolf
gang Kapp, the new chancellor.
The order of inf1iction of capital
punishment will be effective after A
O'Clock this afternoon, and is based
on the decree prohibiting any strike
or passive resistance in any vital
service. The chancellor's proclama-
tion follows:
"Ringleaders who are guilty of acts
specified in the decree for safeguard
ing important services and for the
protection of labor and peace will,
as well as strike pickets, be punished
with death. This decree took effect
Tuesday p. m"
There is intense anxiety over the
prospect of a continuance of the strike,
with a possibility of famine and cpl
demic resulting from the lack of SAM
tation and the stoppage of water sup
ply.
No world capital probably ever be-
fore experienced such a complete pa
ralysis of all its living and CONNER
eial facilities as Berlin did.
The Hotel Adlon made heroic eff
forts to provide food for the Ameri-
can, British and French missions and
newspaper correspondents, but it gave
up the task when the last of the
kitchen force walked out, leaving for
eigners to shift for themselves.
1t was common spectacle subse-
uuentiy to see frOck-coated diploma
lists returning to the hotel from for
aging expeditions carrying brown pa
per parcels, foodstuffs, oil stoves and
other necessities.
London. March 16.-The national
strike on the German railways began
on Tuesday morning, says a Berlin
message to the Exchange Telegraph
company.
The railwaymen's officials have de-
clared themselves in solidarity with
the workingmen of the country.
The railwaymen's central commit
tCC, ouUo INC hhCE'oooO' 10 uiVf4io ANAA'
place to place, fearing arrest by Off
Gals of the Kapp government.
Matthias Erzberger, former finance
minister of the Ebert government Of
Germany, has been placed under ar
rest, according to a dispatch from Ber-
lin
The dispatch states an official COM
munique has been issued by the Ebert
government at Stuttgart declaring !:
The new rulers are trying to make
the people believe the constitutional
government has entered into negotia-
tions with Doctor Kapp, General
Merker acting as mediary. This is
untrue"
Eighteen meetings of communists
and independent socialists were held
at Leipzig. Monday night, and general
strike was proclaimed In that city, ac-
cording to telegram received here.
After the meeting had been dis
missed street fighting took place, and
several persons, including two street
ear conductors, were killed. When
this news reached other workers all
street car employees left their posts
leaving the cars where they stood.
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