The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-07
WORKERS RULE
is CRUSHED BY
ASAXON YELLOW
Socialist Premier De.
stroys Labor Unions
Bv LOUIS p. LocHNER.
(StaR Correspondent Of The Federated PRE-


DRESDEN, Saxony. - "Law and
order" have been re-established in
Saxony, next to the Rhine and Ruhr
regions, the most important indus
trial areas in Germany. Capitalist
law and order, of course. We were
assured of this again and again dur
ing three-day visit arranged by the
Foreign Press Club of Berlin. The
Saxon premier, Heidi, a right
wing Socialist, Military Commander
Mueller, the president Of the Sax
ony Manufacturers Association, and
numerous other men in the industrial
and commercial and governmental
life Of Saxony made it a point to
assure US that the last vestiges of
the "Zeigner era" when Socialists
and Communists formed a coalition
government, have disappeared.
c. P. Illegal.
The radical workers government
has been crushed. The Communist
party as such is Illegal A new coali-
ton government has been formed,
made up of Socialists, Centrists,
Democrats, and the Volkspartei, party
of big business. The unheard of
situation has developed that the So
cialist deputies in the state assembly
have undertaken to form and sane
ton this coalition despite the fact
that state party CONVENTION rev
days previously specifically instructed
them not to do so. They took orders
from Berlin, however, from the ma
tional executive, in preference to or
ders from their own rank and file
assembled in convention.
At social gatherings we were
showered with attentions by the hos
pitable Saxon folk the uniform was
much in evidence, as were also deco
rations and iron crosses and other
insignia of military glory. One felt
that these festivities were possible
only because they rested upon bayo-
nets.
Yellows Lose Seats
During the last day of our stay
municipal elections took place thru
out Saxony. Everything was or
derby and quiet. The military saw
to that. But the result was a total
upsetting of the political apple cart,
Dresden Socialists, thus far repre-
scented by 80 out of the ~ members
Of the city council, have lost IL seats
q to the Communists, 2 to the In
dependent Socialists, and / to the
Democrats. The German National
lists, formerly represented by 80,
have lost seats to the Deutschvoel-
lSisch party of extreme nationalists.
In other words, the real winners in
the election have been the two par
ties that have been declared illegal
the Communists and the 'VoGkis-
che" One may conjecture what might
have been the result had these two
parties been able to put their whole
propaganda apparatus into play.
In other cities the Socialists lost
] heavily, while the gain for the Com
munists was not sufficient to assure
a working class majority. All in all,
there has been enough of swing to
the right to make possible a non
working class majority in almost
every city council in Saxony.
On the surface, therefore, every
thing seems to be headed in the d.
rection Of intrenching an era of capi-
talist law and order But the mill
tary commander, General Mueller, is
not as confident as he seems to be. 1t
so CHANGED that was seated opposite
him at one of the informal gather
ings, and that a Dresden textile man
ufacturer next to me suggested to
him that it was high time he "clean
up" the industrial town of Chemnitz.
Fears Propaganda.
THAT'S very red nest" the gen.
eral replied. "and / don't think ii
would be very wise to quarter our
troops there. The contact with the
poulation might weaken the disci.
pline in the army"
On another occasion General Meul-
Ter admitted that military force
while capable of restoring law and
order, is unable to bring peace and
bread. At a reception to the for
eign newspaper men, General Muel-
Ter, after sounding the praises of the
troops in establishing a normally
declared:
"There remains for me one enemy
whom l cannot fight with guns and
cannon--it is distress. There is ter.
rible distress turnout Saxony." He
then proceeded to give a catalog OF
facts and figures regarding condi-
tions in Saxony that left no doubt as
"a the appalling nature of the catas-