CLASS WAR ADVOCATED

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 7

CLASS WAR ADVOCATED

EXTREME COMMUNISM GAINING GROUND BOURGEOISIE MUST BE DISARMED. , ■ . (Received December 5, 10.30 a.m.) THE HAGUE, 3rd December. The situation at Bremen grows more acute, and it is typical of much that is happening in' industrial centres, where ' extreme communism •is gaining ground. A Radical Socialist namedKnief, addressing an open-air demonstration, advocated a class war. He declared that the establishment of the National Assembly was only to help the bourgeoisie to regain supremacy. The workers must have their own army to secure predominance and disarm the bourgeoisie, which was collecting on the, ruins of the old army for the purpose of as-, serting its claims. By a majority the meeting voted against the summoning of the National Assembly, and unanimously approved of the arming of the proletariat. ' A subsequent meeting of the Bremen Soldiers' Council was twice interrupted by extremists from- the streets, where a huge and threatening crowd had assembled. Knief secured order. The Council voted: by --7 'to 56 in favour of the National Assembly, and it also rejected the proposal to disarm the bourgeoisie and arm the proletariat by 100 votes to 19. The announcement of this decision outside evoked roars of "Shame!" but the chairman explained that the vote was necessary for the sake of the country's food.