The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19

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challenge by shouting "Deutschl
the top of their voices. While
siding officer, by custom the old
case a Socialist named Book, q
swinging the big bell on the
speakers table. He soon found,
however, that the only way he
could swing the bell was to do it
in the rhythm of the "Interna-
tionale." The result was that it sound
ed more as though he were playing
an accompaniment to the song than
as tho he we're calling for order.
Prevent Relehstag Action.
Whereupon someone behind him
handed him high silk top hat which
contrasted strangely with the red
cotton handkerchief with which the
veteran socialist had just wiped his
brow SoIemnly and stately Book put
the cid" on and ostentatiously left the
speakers desk as mark that he had
! adjourned the session. The Commun-
lists had won their point; they had
broken up the meeting.
1t makes a difference whether par
ty is represented by seventeen depu-
ties as during the first Reichstag, or
by sixty-two as the Communists now
are! Their tactic will openly and
avowedly be that Of making parlia-
ment impossible. They served notice
in the first session that the rules of
order adopted by the house will not
exist for them. Epstein, longshore-
man from Hamburg, calmly continues
to smoke his pipe despite the admoni-
tions of the pages Of the house to de-
sist.
Demand Release of Communists.
The first clash came within twenty
seconds after the chairman had called
the house to order The Communists
Immediately demanded that, before
the house do anything else, the eight
Communists who are either doing time
or being detained for examination by
the Bavarian eovernment be voted
their liberty. The socialists said they
would support a motion for their lib
GRAFTON, but that the house must first
elect it's officers and constitute itself
4 for business. The ''voelkische," or
swastika Ludendorff- Hitlerites, sup
ported the Communists because one
of their men is also doing time. Be-
fore a vote could be taken, the sing
ing contest ensued during which the
chairman left.
Voices were not the only thing
brought along by the Communists.
They we're also in part armed with
sirens and whistles, which they en-
Iployed with particular vigor when the
names of Bismarck, Ludendorff and
lTirpitz were called. Also, they laid
upon the table of the house a pair of
blue spectacles said to be replica
of those used by Ludendorff when he
lied to Sweden in disguise during the
first days of the revolution; a glove
stuffed with paper so as to make it
look like a human hand, which was
loffered as reminder of Scheide-
mann's dictum on the eve of the sign
ing OF the Versailles Treaty, Rather
shall my hand shrivel than that sign
the treaty." and a bouquet of flowers
for the Mulch socialist leader Auer
who, when Count Arco, the counter
revoIutionist, was i'll sent bouquet
to the latter as purely human act"
having nothing to do with his political
sympathies.
Socialists Wane.
The ranks of the socialists have
been greatly thinned as a result of the
last election. They have just one hun
bred members instead OF the 40 OF
the last parliament. Tho they are the
second largest party of the Reichstag.
they give one the impression of be-
Ping "all doIled up and no place to 60"
They have at no state of the negotia-
tions over the coming cabinet suggest
ed that the socialists be part of the
coalition. This makes the old party
wheelhorses pretty sore, but the more
radical element is very much pleased
at this.
/ Speaking as a leader of this more
radical element, Tony Sender said to
your correspondent: "The best thing
that can now happen is for the
bourgeois parties to form a purely
bourgeois government including the
nationalists. Then the class lines will
be clearly drawn. am glad our party
is not wanted by them for coalition"
The socialists have declared in a
manifesto that they see in the accept
ance Of the Dawes committee recon-
mendations the only solution for the
woes OF Europe, but they insist that
the burdens arising therefrom for the
German people must be distributed in
more social" way.