The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-01-06
/. REDS PLAN TO
CAPTURE REINS
|. OF G0VERNMENT
Jnmolested in Germany as
Long as They do Not
Use Violence
ORGANIZE WORKERS
Seek to Link Small Farmers
OF New Republic in
Movement
By Milton Broner
NEA Saff Correspondent

4>r-h bouIl Correspondent
Berlin, Jan. Germany is today
country where Communist Reds
have full liberty so long as they do
not use physical violence
In writing and speech they have
freedom which causes wonderment
to people of our republic.
German communism is not only n
party, but menace. 1t has members
IN the Reichstag. considerable press
and number of book publishing
firms. Pamphlets that would lead
among us, to action against those
responsible for them, are taken as
matter of course here.
On the news stands all over Ger
many | found a 1928 Communist
calendar addressed to laborers on
the farms. For each month there
was violent cartoon. For instance,
for April there was a brutal looking
landowner threatening his workers
with his cane. Under the picture
was a fhyme which literally trans
lated reads:
"The landowner gazes threaten
ingly,
"The wage slave silently bend to
their work.
This same publication contains an
article on Russia, painted in ideal
colors.
There are perhaps dozen Com
munist papers in Germany, the lead
ng one being ode Rote Fahne"-
The Red Flag-founded by Kar!
Liebknecht and Rosa Luxumberg,
who were killed during the Com
munist riots in Berlin three years
ago. 1t is said the sheets are subsi-
died by Russian Soviets.
In the present Reichstag there are
ii Communist members, including
the picturesque old firebrand, Frau
Clara Zedkin, representing suburb
of Stuttgart.
1t is significant that the Reich
stag Communists are not only from
industrial cities where there is much
discomfort and poverty, but also
from Jena, seat of the famous uni
versity, and from Hanover, where
Hlndenburg lives, supposedly, d
stronghold Of the junkers.
To MaxX Doerr, an editor of the
Die Rote Fahne," l put the ques-
ton whether they aimed to bring
Germany the paradise" of Russia.
Doerr, a member of the Berlin
town council, to whom l securing ad-
mission after passing number of
doors which were unbolted and re-
bolted, as it is said the Berlin police
try to walk in on him at times, said:
I'VE aim at government by the
workers and mainly for the workers,
because heysconstitute the bulk of
the people. They overthrow the
monarchy, but have never had
government entirely by them
ut is untrue that most of our
financial support and our theoretical
inspiration come from Russia. For
years before the Russian Soviets ex-
listed, we had an active Communist
party in Germany.
"Our biggest internal policy is TO
protect the eight-hour day, which the
factory owners are trying, to take
away. Externally we consider the
French workmen our brothers and
are willing that German work and
goods shall restore war ravaged
nOfInern france.
But we want to be sure that our
French brothers get the benefit. A
contract between the French Luber-
sac and the German SHINES for this
work reads we'll. But we notice that
SHINES is to get six per cent. Per-
haps lot of French contractors are
.also six per cent patriots"
GLOW about the riots in Cologne,
Dresden and Dusseldorf. They say
your Communist leader stirred them
up?"
"That is wholly untrue" declared
Doerr 1--WE want for our party the
small peasant farmers and small
shop-keeping class. If they identify
us with these plunderers we will lose
them. You will find no Communist |
advocating Sl1ch diract act;op