Evening star., 1923-08-13

cratic party of Theodore Wolff refused
, to receive him into its fold.
| Cndaunted by the rebuff, Stresemann
proceeded to organize the German
peoples party, which presently be-
| came known as the industrialist ST
| party. because IL was no secret that
Its organizer had recruited the new
, party out of the ranks of the indus
| trialists following, and won for it their
! material suppor.
J The working out of the post war
| problems gradually resulted in Great
/ ing a right and left wing in the party.
! Stresemann being commonly viewed
| as the champion of the liberal fac
| ton.
Friendly Toward Big Business.
When the Wirth cabinet retired
! nine months ago the united socialists
J refused point blank to enter the
coalition government in which the
German peoples party was represent
! ed. Just what has prompted the So
! clallSts to abandon their erstwhile
| prejudice against or suspicion of Dr.
! StreSemann's party in connection with
| the present crisis is not yet apparent
but the promptnesS with Ttlicn they
| consented to enter into coalition
| with II suggests to political onlook ers
! that the new chancellor evidently is
! In fuil accord " it'll the demands put
! forward by the united socialists with
! respect TO the new governments in
ternal policies.
DR.. Stresemann grew up wholly in
an industrial environment.
The new chancellor's outstanding
| political virtue. as his friends see it,
is his ''pliable adaptability'' in meet
ing political situations-a faculty
! which frequently showed itself in his
speeches before the reichstag, of
| which he has been member since
/ 1907.
/ As the new cabinet represents a
! purely partisan government ii is in
teresting to note that the united So
| clalists enter the new ministry with
| tag members. as compared with a
total OF 1873 claimed by the three
| bourgeois parties with which the
| socialists are now allied.
| More Trouble Brewing.
| The designations of Chancellor Will
helm Cuno and his entire cabinet were
accepted yesterday by President
Ebert.
F.: DR.. Gustav Stresemann, leader of
the German peoples party, was COM
missioned by President Ebert to form
a new government.
| Provincial centers of Germany re-
| ported that the food prices and scar
| city of money are leading to serious
trouble in many places. Thirteen
persons have been killed and a mum
! ber wounded in collisions between
! the police and infuriated demonstra-
tors at Neurode. near Breslau. AT
GlatZ, Silesia, riots were suppressed
easily, but at Hanover three were
killed and forty wounded when the
police attempted to disperse crowds
which We're plundering the shops
! The strike movement in Berlin and
elsewhere has taken a serious turn
Because of the dismissal of workmen
from shipyards and other industries
at Stettin general strike is expect
ed there today. Ignite miners at
Meuselwitz. near Gera, are on strike
and all the mines and industrial
works at Stassfurt. Saxony. are idle
A fight occurred there between
strikers and nationalists. one man be-
ing killed. At Frankenhausen, near
! Erfurt. looting of shops on a large
scale is going on.
General Strike Called.
The general strike proclaimed by
! the communists in Berlin has brought
1 cessation of work in the municipal
plants. the gas and electricity supply
in some sections being cut off. The
| waterworks are still in operation.
Abandonment of the chancellor by
! the socialists was commonly accepted
as concession to their radical fol-
lowing and as counter-stroke tc
| the communists, who are utilizing
the nations distresses as a means OF
Imobilizing the working classes around
the red flag.
Hang SHINES In Emgy.
1t may be said that Herr Cuno was
purely a victim of the economic
crisis, as the three middle parties
supporting him were still inclined to
stand by his government. But at last
they realized the futility of maintain
ing him in the position of chancellor
| in the face of two hundred hostile
labor votes in the reichstag. The
chancellor's political supporters and
President Ebert finally impressed him
with the hopelessness of such pros
pect and he concluded to resign.
Three times communists at Roett-
hausen, near Gelsenkirchen. erected
gallows with effigies of Chancellor
Cuno and Hugo SHINES swinging
from them, but each time the police
tore them down. The proceedings
ended in an ugly rush on the police
by the crow, in which one policeman
and five of the demonstrators were
killed and ten wounded.