The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-05
SOCIALISTS OF
GERMANY bow
TOI.P. MORGAN
Endorse DGwes' Plan
To EnsIaUe Workers
BY LOUIS P. LocHNER.
(staff Correspondent Of Fed. Press)

By LOUIS P. LOCHNER.
(Staff Correspondent Of Fed. Press)
BERLIN, (By Mail.)-The ma
tionaI convention of the Social
Democratic Party of Germany,
which met in Berlin June 11-14,
was under the absolute donina-
ton Of the conservative wing.
The radical minority of approxi-
mateIy tWo-fifths of the dele
gates was fIattened out on every
motion.
When the minority consisting
in the main Of the former indie
pendent Socialists, asked that a
speaker for the opposition be
given an equal place on the pro-
gram with Herman Mueller, APP
pointed by the party executive
to report on the parliamentary
delegation, the request was
turned down by 22S to Ill. That
showed the relative strength OF
the two factions.
Class Collaboration Issue.
The great issue before the con-
vention was whether the Socialists
shall take part in coalition govern
msnts with bourgeois parties.
The majority, headed by Otto Wells,
Hermann Mueller, and Philip Schei-
demann, is Of the opinion that "coall-
tion poiittcs is not a question OF prin-
cipie but of tactics. The multi-party
system since the revolution has COM
uelIed the Social Democracy in the
reich and in the provinces to take
mart IN governments and cabinets"
This faction believes that the repub-
lican issue for the present overshad-
ows the Socialist issue, and that the
party must be free to join coalition
IL that seems the only way to save
the republic.
Minority Fights Coalition.
Minority Leader Robert Dissmann,
president Metal Workers union, in
troduced a resolution absolutely de-
cIining coalition with bourgeois par
ties, and urging the Socialist policy
be solely that Of class war. His re-
solution was defeated by zz6 10 10
after one of the most heated debates
ever staged in the Socialist party.
- ~ k2nd with this motion Went
-ronosal by the Frankfort delega-
s,on that Fritz Ebert, president OF
.ha German republic, be excluded
s-om membership in the party be-
cause he signed the decree declaring
state Of emergency and investing
oen. Won Seeclt with dictatorlal pow
arc This motion was ruled out py
the president, since exclusion ron
tha nartv is the business Of the To-
Gals. 49,
Another motion which showed the
rift within the party was to instruct
the parliamentary delegation 10 vote
AGAINST the military appropriations
bilI. It was defeated by 24s to SS'
Nate Revolutionary Party.
The convention was bitter In oe-
nunciation Of the Communists IN
no country Of Europe is the ngnt De
tween Communists and Soclansts do
49, a. in Germany. The convention
,varsu in every way to separate from
.rvtning having a Communist flavor
Txereafter membership in the lnterna-
tionai workers Aid will be consi-
aered incompatible with party mem
hershsu. Until recently Mathilde
yvurm. Socialist deputy in the reicn-
Gag was a leader in the Information
Al workers Aid, and she presided
ever several congresses Of that or
ganisation. A day before the passage
~ this resolution she and hurt no,
aenfeld announced their witndra"ai
from that organization.
The executive was authorized 10 eX-
mel any comrades found guilty OF IN
,roducine motions or carrying on agi-
tot,or AT the behest of some otner
marty. Members in certain locals nao
Introduced motions that the local
leave the Socialist party and JOIN
the Communists.
For Dawes-Morgan Plan
In an address on party policy hu-
aolnh Huferding, minister of finance
in the first Stresemann capineI seoou
souarely for acceptance Of the Dawes
reparations report. His view was
shared by the convention, which IN
dorsed the parliamentary delegation
Of the party for supporting the pres
emf Marx cabinet in its fulhllment
policy.