The Washington times., 1923-08-31

CapituIation to France Will
Be Signal for
Coalition.
BY MINOT SANDERS.
Copyright. 1898. by Cosmopolitan
NAnza SArYicel

Copyright. 1898. by Cosmopolitan
News Service.)
BERLIN, Aug. 31.-The ex-
treme left and the extreme right
IN the political factions in the
Reichstag are flirting gayly.
They are holding a gruesome
rendezvous in Germany's political
graveyard.
Two Graves Ready.
There, besides q tombstone
marked "Cuno," are two open
graves-one just dug and the other
long since ready. The first Is for
Chancellor Stresemann; the other is
for the greatest political sham of
modern times-the Social Demo
cratic party-to which handful OF
politicians only recently gave q
new but probably short lease on
life by joining the government coan-
ton.
It IL nonninally and numerically
the strongest party in the Reich
stag. It's strength dates from the
time the republic was formed on
the. shattered ruins Of the dis
credited imperial regime.
II an election were held tomor-
row. the bulk of the registered
members would be found voting
the communist ticket Around this
only two parties that have re.
NAMED consistent throughout the
last few years turmoil now hold
their spooning parties.
Politics Drives Them.
The flirtations of the Nationalist
and Communists are timid, as the
antics of young romancers usually
are, but the trend OF German poll
tics is driving these two strange
bedfeI1ows closer together.
The vision of their .'clasping hands
across the grave" no longer Is
fantastic. The commemorative cry
I'VE have been betrayed" will be
raised the moment the government
capitulates to France. Already they
have a common cause-opposition to
the government.
Overshadowing all other facts In
the present crisis In Germany is the
willingness of the economic mag
mates to talk business with France
upon conditions determined by the
business angles, while labor is in
clined to talk business on conditions
based chiefly on labor viewpoints.
The Ruhr workers are solidly
against France, animated by an IRON
wflled determination not to work at
the point Of bayonets and equally
determined not to yield to any settle
ment reached at their expense and
without their consent.
Labor Has Tasted.
Labor in the Ruhr has tasted
power. Germany's remaining weapon
has been its passive resistance.
But the workers would as quickly
and stubbornly turn this weapon
against their employers if they felt
they are being cheated.
Berlin cannot call off passive re-
sistance. Only the workers them
selves can do that. It does not
care or Stiness or committees do,
the final decision rests with the
Ruhr workers. Six months ago,
Cuno-then enjoying the whole
hearted support of the nation. in
GLIDING that Of the Ruhr laborer-
said:
battle is won labor win present its
bill"
Triumph Seemed Sure.
Cuno was speaking with the
glow Of sure triumph. The Ruhr
light had just begun; the eleven
million workers in the Ruhr had
hardly commenced to feel the bur-
dens and sacrifices which since
have put the rest Of the country
TO shame.
what their bill will be they will
say when it is known what the
costs of the prospective settlement
between the German and French
magnates will be. The costs must
ultimately be borne by the workers.
They will feel all their efforts
have been in vain, and they will
marvel over their cocksureness and
unbelievable optimism of February
days-now turned to blacklist pes
simism. tinctured by what is known
as wartime "defeatism" in unoccu-
pied Germany, particularly Berlin.
For eight months the eleven
million workers of the Ruhr have
been getting full-time pay for
few hours work daily. They are
In no mood to let anyone-whether
it be SHINES, Stresemann or ne
Socialist party-sign any settlement
over their heads.
The fate of Germany, perhaps
that of Europe, is not to be de.
termined in Berlin or Paris, but
in the Ruhr where the workers
have tasted power.
BRITISH BIOLOGISTS BODY