[57] See Chapter III.
[58] Max Schippel, Schicksalstunden der Arbeitsgemeinschaft, Sozialistische Monatshefte, 1920, p. 328.
[59] It has been changed by a law of May 31, 1920. (Reichsgesetzblatt, 1920, p. 1128.)
[60] Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, April 29, evening.
[61] In the discussion that arose on this subject an expression used in it has achieved popularity and is in current use. The strikers demanded and obtained the “anchorage” of the Councils in the Constitution.
[62] See p. 307.
[63] It will be recalled that in order to obtain increase in authority for the Factory Workers Councils, the Independents organized a great manifestation in Berlin in January, 1920, in the course of which about forty of the participants in the manifestation were killed on the steps of the Reichstag.
[64] These enterprises are: Stock companies, limited joint-stock companies, mutual insurance companies, and eventually limited liability companies.
[65] See Paul Umbreit, das Betriebsrätegesetz, Berlin, 1920, pp. 20-21.
[66] It met for the first time on June 30, 1920.