Title | Twelve days in Germany |
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Publisher | The Union Publishing Co. |
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Date | 1921 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 77 pages; 19 cm |
Original Item Location | HX276.Z45 1921 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304528~S5 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | Public Domain: This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 28 |
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Transcript | 26 for a White terror against the workers. If the white tumid officers of the "Orgesch" will once more shoot down and lynch the best leaders of German Labour as they did in January, the blame for it will be Ledebour's as well, since he, by his speech, has prepared a justification for such action on the pari of the Orgesch. Up till now many regarded Ledebour merely as an old fool. But from what we have stated above it is clear that he is a bloodthirsty fool at that. The class struggle in Cermany is so bitter that these so-called eccentricities of an old "democrat" of the 1848 brand become in the eyes of everybody open counter-revolutionary appeals. The other leaders of the Right Independents are less noteworthy. Some of them are only fit to be musical comedy heroes. Take for instance Louisa Zkitz—"Schltimmertante" as she was aptly dubbed by one of the Left comrades. She has been for some reason or other appointed the spokesman of tbe Central Committee of the party, although in reality she is only fit to frighten birds from an orchard. She is utterly ignorant and exceedingly spiteful, and she clings to hen- bit of influence in the party like a drowning man at a straw. All criticism from the revolutionary workers directed against rtie Central Committee which Aunt Louisa Zeitz adorns with Iter presence regarded by this old bureaucrat as a personal affront. The Central Committee is ** much her personal property as her apron, her wardrobe, or her old overcoat. Take Rkiiakd Liimxskv. the "venerable" bureaucrat of Leipzig—a typical office-rat. He knows all the rules and regulations of the party by heart. Hut he sees nothing beyond this. He does not understand the conflict of principles. He only knows that he has been secretary from times immemorial, that he gets a Gehalt (salary) of so marny marks a month, that he owes obedience to Hilferding and Crispien, that wicked people want to violate the beautiful "order" and routine established by long efforts in thte ranks of the German Social Democracy. Why he is not on the side of Seheidemann — heaven alone knows! He in no way differs from a "respectable" Scheidemannist He will now, of course, be one of those who |