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Last week, four years and a few days after Erzberger's murder, President von Hindenburg issued another decree. It allowed ex-service men to wear their uniforms at all social celebrations and on patriotic or funeral occasions. The Reichstag had been debating such action, but von Hindenburg anticipated it...
In Marseilles, where bank clerks have been on strike for several weeks demanding 100 francs a month more pay (they have been getting 500 and 600 francs a month), a 24-hour general strike was called. Everything in industry and transportation stopped dead. Firemen, and gas and electric workers were...
6) Pay during illness, quarantine or funeral-attendance.
Much political capital was made out of the death. Socialists were accused by their opponents of murdering the young lad during recent political riot. This was denied, but nothing could prevent the Pan-Germans and Catholic bourgeoisie from making the funeral into a political demonstration against the Jews and Social...
A feature of the giant procession, which fortunately led to no untoward incidents, was the carrying of the colors of Imperial Germany. Not an Austrian flag was seen in the whole funeral procession, which of course made of it a demonstration for the union of Austria with Germany.