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Show the technical emergency aid stepped in and oporated them under protection of the Reischwebr troops. So successfully was the coup carried out that after a short time tho regular firemen and machinists returnod to work and the ngitntors conducting tho strike saw torn from their hands the weapon upon which they had counted certain for victory. The few hours' experience the residents resi-dents in parts of Berlin and its suburbs had without electric light and power won the day for Noske not only here, but in other sections of Germany, where steps were being taken to establish estab-lish units of technical emorgency aid. The plans went ahead swimmingly and now it is declared tho technicnl aid is ready on an hour's notice to man the electric, gas, and water plants and to operate the railroads in any part of Germany Ger-many where need mav arise. FOLLY ADMITTED. Berlin dispatches indicate that German Ger-man Socialism has been forced to admit ad-mit the folly of one of its leading principles, prin-ciples, Ihe theory of the unrestricted right of labor lo strike. Not only is it forced to admit that n linn must be drawn, but it openly has given the protection pro-tection of armed fores and has gone into the business of strikebreaking whenever the line hns been crossed, ft avows wholeheartedly that tho strike hammering and paralyzing of vitally necessary public utilities upon which depends the provision of water, light, heat and power will he fought tooth and nail. The decision has been somewhat, of a disconcerting bit of news for Use average flerman Socialist, but to tl"' Unprejudiced it is one more hopeful sign that the radical Socialist schemes loudly promised last winter and spring will not. be enforced to upset tli; nation's na-tion's activities in the namo way that its railway and postal service has been Wrecked. Responsibility, or credit, for the new attitude must be given to Otis tav Noska?, minister of defense and one of Ihe six majority Socialists' in the Gentian cabinet. From the days of the revolution until un-til a month ago the policy of tho cabinet cab-inet toward strikes was ono of noninterference. nonin-terference. During those ten or olova.it months it made no difference whether a strike was purely of an oeonotnir.nl character or obviously and admittedly nothing but a politics movo. Hut gradually came a tightening on the strikers who hold outdoor mass meetings, parades ami ojaui air demon-stralions. demon-stralions. Then Minister Noskn discovered dis-covered the radicals had "had every thing set." for a strike that would shut down H"rllii's gas and electrical plants and throw tlir city into darkness. The first indication the. public had of the situation came when the Hotshcvik section of the press began to rave against secret recruiting for tbe tech' nieiiJ emergency aid organisation with which Nosiv proposed to fight this form oT Strike. Bui iholr attacks were without effect, Minister Nnslto stood pal when Hie inctjil workers succeeded in calling nut tin firemen ami mneliin isls from scleral electrical phials nud |