Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-03-26
ORDER IS BEING
BROUGHT ABOUT
IN THE SkXONY
INDUSTRY ZONE
Worknen Are Captivating
and Calling OFF StrikeSi
Military Forces Take Over
Some of the Cities,
BUILDINGS RIDDLED
BY FLYING BULLETS
Effects of Fighting Which
Began March II Are In
Evidence; Correspondent
Gives His Experiences.

tnY MORNING. JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wtRHl
Gotha- Sake -Coburg- Gotha, March
"a (by the Associated Press Or
der is slowly emerging out OF the
confusion and chaos of the last ten
days in the industrial Centers of
SaXony. The workmen are capitu-
lating and calling off the strike and
the military are taking over consid-
erable of the cities.
The strikers, who for several days
held the upper hand in Gotha, laid
down their arms today. The garri-
son of fifty men who were driven
out of the city last week will return
tomorrow
Fighting has been going on here
continuously since March II, 1t is
estimated that ninety persons were
killed and several hupdred wound
ed. Eighty workers were buried to-
day.
A wall in the room of a leading
hotel where the Associated Press
correspondent is writing this dis
patch was pierced by bullets from
the daily fusillade. The story of the
happenings here. typical of the
clashes in many places in Germany,
makes an interesting chapter In the
history of labor's protest against
DR.. Wolfgang Kapp's attempt to es-
tablish reactionary government
When the news of the military
coup at Berlin was received the
workmen here, as elsewhere, imme-
diately struck. Statements obtained
from both sides substantially agree
that this is what happened The
workmen offered to cooperate with
the police to guard the city, and
posted notices that looters would
be shot. They then consulted the
major commanding the garrison
He declared that the soldiers would
support Kapp and proclaimed, mar
tial law. He sent to Erfurt, a few
miles distant, where 1000 troops
were stationed, for reinforcements
The workmen from the munition
plans In the outskirts of the city
began to converge on Gotha, having
seized quantities or arms and sew
eral armored cars. The forces en-
gagged in fighting after the work
men had killed two soldiers who in
terfered with a boy tearing down
the martial law proclamation.
The workmen lacked organiza-
ton, but were strong enough to eX-
pei the small garrison. According
to one of their leaders they real
lied that they would be unable to
resist successfully massed attack
by the soldiers coming in from Err
furt and yielded in order to avoid
further bloodshed.
Their opponents admit that the
workmen did not attempt to inter-
fere with the municipal authorities
or establish a government of Their
own. There is no talk whatever of
a soviet, although the conservatives
assert that bolshev1k agents ar
rived and tried to induce the strik-
ers to organize one.
Continuing his tour of investiga-
tion in Saxony, the correspondent
visited today every trouble point be-
tween Leipsic and Gotha. There ex-
lists apparently only one issue,
military control. Tho
workers everywhere announce as
their principal demands abolition of
law and the re-ereation OF
the civil guard composed of repre-
sentatives of all classes to replace
"Noske's reactionary army"
In the country districts there are
still a few small bands of armed
workmen who have not yet been
rounded up. Such a one stopped
the Associated Press automobile at
1t consisted of about
a dozen uniformed men who were
quartered at a wayside inn. Most of
them were mechanics or carpenters
from Naumberg and other nearby
towns. They said they had heard
that four of their number had been
captured by troops and executed
this morning because they refused
to give information concerning the
of their comrades.
Fifteen minutes later on enter
ing Naumberg the correspondent
passed a squad of cavalry and a
orry with machine guns, leisurely
setting out to clear up that band. |
Further on he overlook several SOL |
iiers bringing in two captive work
men whose hands were pinioned
behind their backs.
Considerable fighting has oc-
cured at Naumberg where the
entrenched themselves in |
he fortress from which they We're
only after the garrison |
,ad been reinforced by troops from
Weimar. Historical old Weimar
Itself did not escape the disorders |
Several workmen We're killed, but |
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