[18] See Heilfron, Die deutsche Nationalversammlung im Jahre 1919, vol. ii, p. 1176.
[19] See Julius Kaliski, Der Kern des Rätegedanken, in Welt-Echo, June, 1919.
[20] This is the exact text: “1. For the immediate formation of the cabinets in the Empire and in Prussia, the questions of individual appointments will be decided by the political parties in agreement with the organizations of workers, salaried employés and civil servants taking part in the general strike, and a decisive influence will be accorded to these organizations in the new policies of economic and social legislation, all with the view of safeguarding the rights of popular representation. 2. Immediate disarmament and punishment of all those guilty of participating in the pronunciamento or the overthrow of the constitutional government, as well as of all civil servants who placed themselves at the disposal of the illegal governments. 3. All public and industrial administrations must be radically purged of counter-revolutionary personalities, in particular of those who participate in the management, and these personalities must be replaced by trusted elements. Re-employment of all the representatives of organizations in public services who were made the victims of disciplinary measures. 4. The earliest possible realization of administrative reform on a democratic basis, with the co-operation of the economic organizations of wage-workers, salaried employés and civil servants. 5. The immediate execution of all existing laws and the enactment of new social laws that will accord to wage-workers, salaried employés and civil servants complete social and economic equality; and the immediate enactment of liberal legislation in behalf of civil servants. 6. The immediate socialization of the branches of industry ripe for socialization on the basis of the decisions of the Committee on Socialization, in which representatives of vocational organizations shall take part. The immediate convocation of the Committee on Socialization. The transfer to the Empire of the coal and potash corporations. 7. More effective appropriation and, if need be, the expropriation of available necessities of life; more vigorous war against usurers and profiteers in the country districts and in the cities; guarantees that obligations of deliveries will be executed, insured by the organization of societies for delivery of goods, and the establishment of definite fines and punishments for all violations of these obligations due to ill-will. 8. The dissolution of all counter-revolutionary military organizations that did not remain faithful to the Constitution, and their replacement with organizations recruited from the masses of tried republican population, in particular workers, salaried employés and organized civil servants, without favour to any class whatever. In this reorganization the rights of all troops and organizations that have remained faithful shall remain intact.”
[21] Retreat of the Berlin troops to the line of the Spree; the lifting of the state of siege; no attack on armed workers, particularly in the Ruhr; negotiations with labour organizations with the view of recruiting of workers in the troops of Prussian safety police.
[22] The principal of the new “Nine Points” are: 1. The troops of Reichswehr remain in their position and must not advance on the industrial area except with the express authorization of the Cabinet. 2. The red army dissolves and gives up its arms. 3. Adequate police is assured by the constitutional authorities, supported by “committees on public order” and of “local armies” composed of workers, salaried employés and civil servants of all parties. 4. The “committees of action” and the “executive committees” are dissolved.
[23] Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, March 28, 1920.
[24] Lokal Anzeiger, April 8, evening.
[25] Lensch, Erwünschte Nachwirkungen, in Der Tag, No. 83.
[26] Preuss, Deutschlands republikanische Reichsverfassung.
[27] Session of July 2. (Heilfron, op. cit., vol. V, pp. 2960-2961.)