In general, in the east and south part of the Ruhr, the less radical Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) was dominant, whereas in the west, syndicalists and communists were stronger.
The other participants were the executive councils of the rebels, city governments, the regional presidents of the regions Düsseldorf, Münster and Arnsberg, the trade unions and the political parties from the political centre to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
Whilst Braun and Giesberts tried to make as few concessions as possible, Severing kept to the 9-points-program, which the chairman of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (General German Confederation of Trade Unions) Carl Legien had agreed with Friedrich Ebert, which provided for a strengthening of the political influence of the workers' movement in German politics.
With respect to the disarmament, the negotiators agreed on cooperation between the local authorities and the workers' executive councils.
The government delegates agreed that, if these measures were complied with, the Ruhr would not be militarily occupied by the Reichswehr.
The moderate forces including the USPD and the central body in Hagen supported the agreement.
The regional military commander Generalleutnant Oskar von Watter then tightened the provisions of this ultimatum regarding the surrender of weapons so much so that it was not even technically possible for the rebels to comply with them, even though they were willing to do so.