Evening star., 1923-10-09
SHINES DEMANDS
SWEEPING POWERS
Of FSUPER-D|CTATOR
Gives Stresemann Four Hours
to Meet UItimatum, Order
ing Abdication.
CHANCELLOR IGNORES
UKASE, WAITS ACTION
1ndustrialists Call for Tax Repeal
and Power to Negotiate
Settlement.
by HIRAMK. MODERWELL.

BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
BERLIN October 9.-Hugo SHINES
industrial commission" which is but
private committee which SHINES
and his friends organized for the pur-
pose. today sent Chancellor Strese-
mann a four-hour ultimatum demand
ing virtual control of Germany. The
chancellor promptly pigeonholed II
and let the time limit expire, after his
cabinet had agreed that even to ne
gotiate over such an ultimatum would
be equivalent to abdication. The next
move is up to SHINES.
In the meantime Chancellor Strese-
mann is proceeding to lay before the
reichstag his own legal dictatorship
law, upon which vote should be tax
en- tonight or Wednesday morning. 1t
is now questionable, however, whether
he will get the necessary two-thirds
majority to make, the dictatorship ef-
fectiye.
Already about one fourth of the So
cialist delegation have DECIDED not to
support the cabinet. Shines faction
of the peoples party also will refuse
its support, and this faction may
prove to be majority of the party
The result, then, would be that the
chancellor would not get the neces-
sary majority and the government
would be left helpless. facing an eco
nomic and political crisis unprece-
dented since the end of the war.
Ukase Unprecedented.
The SHINES ultimatum is almost
without parallel in history. These
men, who are almost the only rich
men in Germany. have demanded re-
peal of taxes and the laws of the
nation, payment of large sums OF
money in addition to the vast funds
already received from the govern
ment, have broken their formal con-
tract with the workingmen regarding
the etght-hour-day and have as
sumed authority to negotiate with the
French on reparations.
Not only this, they demanded that
Chancellor Stresemann give his as
sent within four hours to a program
which he could not legally approve,
If at all, without the express author
ization Of parliament These men
who demanded that passive resist
ance continue while millions were
starving; whose press daily instilled
into the German people hatred
against the French; who received vast
sums of the peoples money for losses
due to Ruhr occupations; who received
huge prices for their coal from mines
III unoccupied territory; who receiv-
ed high freight rates on coal which
had to be imported in their ships be-
cause of the Ruhr occupation; who
issued millions of dollars in private
money with which they bought labor
and materials, and are redeeming this
money at one-tenth or one-twentieth
of it's value when issued who have
fought every attempt to cease infia-
ton and stabilize the nations curren-
cy; who raised raw material prices
until the manufacturing industry
was brought to the edge of ruin; who
have paid taxes in deprecated cur
rency while adding the full amount
of tie tax to the prices of their goods
these men refuse to pay to the gov
ernment taxes which are desperately
needed to bring some degree of stabil-
tty to an impoverished country, ter
rified at the approach of winter.
Demand Full Powers.
More, they demand that they be
given plenipotentiary powers over
property belonging to the state. They
claim the price Of coal--which is the
basis of all other priests neces-
sarily far above the world price be-
cause of the high cost of production.
But it has never been satisfactorily
explained why the production cost
was so high when they for years
have been paying their workers at
low rates.