Evening star., 1923-10-18
BERLIN PREPARING
TO RUSH TROOPS AS
SAXONS DEFY RULE
Socialist Communist Minis
try Refuses to Obey
ReichsWehr Orders.
GENERAL STRIKE THREAT
IF MILITARY ADVANCES
Cabinet Upheld by Margin of Three
Votes-Sixteen Battalions
Mass on Border.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, October lS.-The fire.
quency of rioting in Saxony and the
defiant stand taken by the socialist
communist ministry at Dresden are
causing such concern here that the
central government is prepared to
send additional troops into Saxony
should the situation require them.
Advices from Munish indicate that
Bavaria also is watching the affairs
Of her neighbor state, inasmuch as
some of the disorders in the Saxony
Industrial districts have occurred
close to the Bavarian frontier.
The Central government Is making
every effort to maintain its authority
IN Saxony, and Gen. Won Mueller, COM
mander of the reichswehr in the state,
is demanding assurances from Pre-
mier Zeigner that the DEGREES of the
military dictator will be respected.
However, the Saxon government
seems inclined to go it's own way, and
in one notable instance at least the
edicts of Won Mueller have been dis
obeyed. This was the meeting of the
Saxon proletarian defense organiEa-
ton, which WAS held against his or
ders.
Confidence Is Voted.
The Saxon diet last night rejected
motion of lack of confidence in the
government by a vote of 48 to As.
The concert of socialist trades
unions at it's session yesterday passed
resolution advocating the proclama-
ton of a general strike in the event
Of armed action against the Saxon
and Thuringian proIetariat." The
resolution was adopted after stormy
debate.
For the present, Dresden Is the
storm center of Il battle going on
between Premier Ziegner and Gen.
Won Mueller. the latter demanding
peremptory assurance from the Saxon
government that his edicts will not
be interfered wttn or sabotaged.
Saxony without prejudicing-Its pres.
tige with Bavaria, the German gov
ernment is repeatedly determined to
maintain order throughout the Saxon
Industrial districts where rioting and
terrorism are being freely indulged
by radical elements who are black
mailing the induStrialiSJs into money
1evies and grossly usurping authority
in the big plants.
IndustriaIists Protest.
Delegations of leading industrialists
have been arriving in Berlin for the
past few days to protest against con-
tinuation of the intolerable condi-
tions; they threaten to shut down or
dispose of their plants unless they
are assured of production by the GEN.
tral government.
Armed intervention by Bavaria also
is viewed as an eventuality. as much
of the riOting now going on in the
Saxon industrial sector is occurring
close to the Bavarian frontier.
With two notorious communists
like Heinrich Brandler and Herr
Boettcher occupying the posts of di-
rector OF the chancellery and minister
of finance, respectively, Saxon indus
trialiSts and financial leaders declare
that the states economies are wholly
exposed TO the arbitrary dictates of
oUtspoken bolShevists, whose presence
in Zeigner's cabinet suffices to nullify
the less radical attitude of the So
Demand Financial Reform.
\ resolution demanding immediate
currency and financial reforms, on the
ground that a fixed currency is the
only basis on which the necessary in
crease in production can be obtained,
was passed at the first general meet
ing of the central committees of the
socialist workers and officials asso-
Citations, held here yesterday.
Another resolution asked that pri-
vate concerns directed against the
common veal be ruthlessly suppress
ed. While 1t was asserted that Wig
orous opposition would be offered to
attempts to alter the eight-hour day,
the delegates said they were ready to
make arrangements regarding over
time in certain industries.
The workers also demanded seizure
of the harvest as a measure for re-
Jieving the food shortage, and asked
the imposition of severe penalties on
food hoarders and profiteers. They
Furthermore demanded credit agree
ments guaranteed by the Industrial
lists, land owners and commercial in
terests. so that the masses might be
provided with their winter supplies.