The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1933, Page 4

Beblched by the Comprediefiy Fabipblng G4. Unk, Gatiy eumept Séotey, of ws B Sth St, New York City, H. ¥. Telephons Algonquin 4-7956. Cable “DATWORK.” Address and mall checks te the Bally Worker, 50 E. 18M— St, Kew York, ™, 7. German Factory Workers Put! Communists in Shop Councils; United Action Stops Arrest Repe Baow | | | Monkhouse, British Spy in Moscow, Admits in Court His “Third Degree” Charge False Qe Counter Offensive Age Terror; Strikes Begin Ag SAARBRUCKEN, Aprii 6 (By Mail).—A mighty offensive has set in against the Hitler | government of murder, oppression and civil war—a movement spreading to all enterprises and factories in the Reich. At factory council elections taking pleee lnat week, hig successes were gained by the revolutionary Trade Unions. At the Spindler Dye Works the results were as follows: ainst Fascism Sweeps Work-Shops, Defying inst Hitler’s Wage Cutting | American and British Capitalist Press Continue to Emphasize His Declaration That Defendants Were “Questioned 18 Hours” And Barely Mention Monkhouse Has Retracted Statement NEW YORK.—The American press is following the line of the British press in repeating and giving prominence to the lying accusations made by the accused British engineers in the Moscow trial that their damning confessions had been wrung from them by third degree methods and brutality. Two headlinesyesterday in the New York Tribune and New York Times read: “Soviet Framed Six In Spy Case Briton Charges” and “Soviet Frame-Up Charged By Briton.” The stories under these headlines even, expose the fact that the acensed men themselves, given opportunity in the open Court, im the hearing of the whole diplomatic corps, and before the acsembled newspaper correspondents of the whole world, were unable to substantiate any of their complaints made against the G.P.U. Morxhouse, whose Principal complaint was that he had been continu ously questioned for eighteen hours straight, admitted = ——— | to the Works manage- ment and to the Police President to COMMUNISTS IN "*SSermsuriso von. [et |demand the release of the Commy- Naris—64 votes At the Kindl Brewery « revolu-| tionary list was put forward for the) pr first time, and scored the following) s5 Revolutonary list—2 seats, Reformists—2 seats, Naris—1 seat. GERMANY HOLD pany GROUND IN VOTE | th nists. Hitler became Chancellor. last elections for the factory council, majority, and the Nazis were even At the Hellers Factory in Berlin a ‘otest, At the © Red Trade Unions obtained a ik 5 able to put st. City Balloting Shows Mpapie to poe sa | Nazis Forged Returns eee tales mesial Agri atv saan atthe oe LICHTENBURG. April 5 (By mail) in General Elections At “Aceta’ the big chemical works a pa * .: % h ia tee wage cut. x . és RriEaiN ce were oe on in the a at| Factors eaiainlies were aorentet Bat apology. The records showed | the authority of ‘documents, to; Soviet Union by Richards’ subor- z las' ar. he management took| ced Paaitg sien ots aa r Aine Se oy, * pee ‘ spread on its pages tales about ‘Bol-| dinates, Thornton and Monkhoi eee elmore want anttion | every care to employ only Naxis, so| W® Workers remained firm, and the) Would Make Lying Statement in Moscow unt on the ae i longest nay | Shevik horrors. We understand the stormy feel- of storm detachments who are oc- | as to break the influence of the Com- a y nter into nego- nce Qaige 3 $ vestigation, the total time consumed} “tn the Blue Hall of the 2 ; ri se days a : cnpying in Saxony, as elsewhere, munists. But the factory. eleetion| Hitions. ‘The old wages were re- Trial; Secret Agents Prepared It for questioning, for Monkhouse Writ-| onion House, in the” presence ‘of! ive the Kenge rte ee are fil the trade union premises, the Peo- + committee which took place last week Me and the arrested comrades re- en ing his testimony in longhand, and| nearly the entire diplomatic corps seventeen wreckers who are now on pie's House, workers’ printing works, was 2 big disappointment for the eased : (From. Our Moscow Correspondent) ners and supper, was twelve) and of a great number of foreign . This, one may think, is nov the cooperatives, ete. encountered management. Six Communists were saksike Blige: Avieote: MOSCOW, Apri .16.—Sensational events marked the fourth day of © No Third Degree correspondents, the legend about well undersiood by Richards in par- strong proletarian resistance in elected as against only three Nazis, KOENIGSBURG, April 5, (By the trial of the six British and eleven Russian engineers on charges of , a third degree’ methods was exploded | ticular, whose sto after the dis- Dresden. Large protest strikes were declared in several of the biggest Dresden factories against the Nazi repression. | Force Release. BERLIN, April 5, (By Mail) —Five members of the factory council of the! Christallate Works in Wedding, Ber- lin, were arrested. Thereupon a del- egation was sent to the Police Presi- dent and the General Trade Union Council demanding the immediate | to BERLIN, April 13.—The results for the Prussian municipal elections and the provincial voting in Westphalia, Rhineland, and Saxony show that the | gt Communist Party is holding its release of the arrested workers. This ground in spite of sharp repression | united front action was successful and terror. and the workers were released, The incompatibility of the election The Margerine Union Factory in Berlin sent a delegation to the Police President to demand the immediate release of all anti-fascist political prisoners. The printing establishment of Ru- dolph Mosse in Berlin jointly elected an anti-Fascist unity committee, and adopted protest resolutions against the suppression of newspapers, and| against the Hitler terror. Workers in the Fromms establish- ment undertook protest action on the figures with the national election re- turns of March 5th show that the latter were forged in the most shame- | less and clumsy fashion by the Nazis. In every instance, the Communist Party has shown far smaller declines than the Socialist Party while in the jonal election of a month before, the socialists actually made gains (according to Nazi figures) while the Communist Party suffered a million | vote loss. The vote falsification has been so clumsy that there is a dis-, day that Thaelmann was arrested, crepancy of eleven thousand votes in| and published a leaflet demanding I the figures for the total vote for Ber- | that other factories take joint action | 17 lin as given by the Deutsche Allge- | pee oe release of all detained | meine Zeitung and as reported by | 4nti-fascists. _ the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag. | Force Nazis to Sign Demand. Reds Gain One Seat In Westphalia, the Communists in- ased their strength from 13 repre- sentatives in the Provincial Diet to | 14, while the Socialists dropped from 31 to 21, In Rhine Province, there was a/| Communist decline from 21 | seats, while the Socialists fell from | Nazi members was forced to sign his | 35 to 16 ‘name first Ei ni HITLER; APPROV The Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist Interna- tional several days age adopted a comprehensive resolution on the German situation. Reports about it, some of them misleading and garbled, ap- Heared in the capitalist press. The full text of the resolation, sent by mal, is printed below—EDITOR DAILY WORKER. . ° . Having heard the report of Comrade Heckert on the situa- tion in Germany, the Presidium of the ECCI declares that | the political line and the organizational policy pursued by the | CC of the Communist Party of Germany, led by Comrade | Thaelmann, before and at the time of the Hitler coup was) quite correct. | * * * | It was in the conditions of the tremendous sharpening | of the economic and political situation in Germany, when, on) the one hand, the Communist Party had already become a. tremendous force in the working class, and a revolutionary crisis was rapidly maturing; when on the other hand, the deep contradictions among the ruling classes themselves had | become clear and the fascist dictatorship in the shape of the| Papen and Schleicher Government was not in a position tah stop the growth of Communism and find any way out of the | ever intensifying economic crisis, that the German bourgeoisie Jelegated the establishment of an open fascist dictatorship to the fascist Hitler and his “National-Socialist” Party. | Socialist Leaders Restore Capit liom Hitler and the establishment of yossible owing to tne fo! the power of the wing ‘cumstances € Democracy, which had the support, of the majority of the n the November revolution of 1918, split the work ing class, and instead of carrying the revolution forward to the dic- tatorship of the proletanat and Socialism, which was the duty of a proletarian party, it, in alliance with the bourgeo! of the Katser, suppressed the ubrising of the revolutionary masses and laid the basis for a profound split in the working class of Germany, Under the flag of collaboration with the bourgeoisie and the tactic of the “lesser evil,” in alliance with the bourgeoisie and with the ap- Proval of the whole of the Second International, it continued this policy of severe repression of the revolutionary movement and the line of splitting the working class right up to the most recent date. It dis- banded the Red Front Fighters League, suppressed revolutionary work- ers’ organizations, prohibited and fired into workers’ demonstrations, broke economic and political strikes against the capitalist offensive and fascism, and supported the power of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie. Social democracy concentrated +) leadership of the mass work- ers’ organizations into the hands of its corrupt bureaucratic leaders. It expelled revolutionary workers from these organizations, and by means of » network of centralised workers’ organizations subordinated to it, it fettered the initiattve of the working masses, undermined their fighting powers for the struggle against capital and fasciam, and hindered them from decistvety repelling the advance of the fasoiet dictatorship and the terrorist fascist gangs. . This policy of struggle against the revolutionary masses, collabora- tion with the bourgeoisie, and help for reaction, under the pretense of | pursuing the tactics of the “lesser been the poliey of the | Second and the Amsterdam Internationals as a whole, from 1914 up to the present time. In the conditions of imperialism, an which had been defeated in the imperia had been deeply undermined by le and the generals ll more so in @ country var and whose capitalism the general crisis of the capitalist * bourgeois republic could only be a | bourgeoisie. ‘The Isbor legislation, in | tha bourgeoisie had been com~- petted te wire to the treriees fe ine yeece of ie seectution, wee mail).—In the Koenigsburg Rail’ Repair Works, immediately after the burning of the Reichstag several | members of the work’s council were the works, the workers all laid down | their tools, so that the plan of arrest- ing the council members had to be MEET TO BUILD observed throughout the world by Irish revolutionists as the 17th an- der the leadership of James Connoly, | of Dublin and held it for one week. | This week, the Irish Revolutionary At the repair works of the Anhalt} Workers’ Groups, are holding an All- Station in Berlin two Communist| Ireland Congress to form the Com- members of the Works Council were| munist Party of Ireland, which will arrested. Under the pressure of the| carry on the traditions of the heroic militant and aroused workers, even) Easter the Nazi members of the Works) struggle of Irish workers and peas- Council intervened for the release of | ants against British imperialism and the two comrades. A collection taken Irish capitalism, for a Workers’ and to 19) for the arrested men, and one of the! Farmers’ Republic of Ireland. The Irish Republican Army is well repre-| Vishinsky, The workers also sent | sented at this congress. United ‘Oil Works in Harburg Wil- in Lichtenburg, more than 260 more | helmsburg the workers struck against Two members of the ay be arrested. As the police entered x mentioned his name in giving testi- mony, Monkhouse took the stand and began reciting his little piece: “After ven up. ers Company.” British Press Knew Beforehand. Here Monkhouse was by the presiding Judge Ulrich, who C. P. OF IRELAND aster Wi eek Congress Ts Under Way NEW YORK.—Easter Sunday was time, namely wished in his own defense. Immedi- iversary of the Dublin uprising un- British correspondents, ish workers’ leader. ‘The Citizen's Army seized the city | some of the other foreign correspond- ents following them. In a few min- utes the wires were hot with accounts of Monkhouse’s statement, in the evening news came from Lon- don about the frenzied featurin; this “sensation” Again in the evening session, when | testifying in his own turn, Monk- ‘house repeated the statement about Week fighters to lead the ES POLICY OF GERM gradually taken away by the Weimar coalition that was in power consisting of Social Democrats, the Center Party and the “democrats.” Continual and gradual concessions to reaction, a gradual repeal of one point of the constitution after anothey, of one gain of the work- ers after another; the gradual fascisatiom of the whole apparatus of the state, so greatly discredited the Weintar coalition and the Weimar republic thet it lost all serious significance in the eyes of the broad masses, Social Basis of Fascinm ‘The Versailies system plundered Germany, and put the German toiling masses under the oppression of the unbearable exploitation, not only of their own capitalists, but also of foreign capital, to whom the German government had to transfer reparation payments, The oppression of Versailles, multiplied by the oppression of their “own” German bourgeoisie led to an unprecedented fall in the standard of living of the proletariat and to such an impoverishment of the peasants and of the urban petty-bourgeoisie that a section of these strata began more and more to consider pre-war Germany as their ideal, in which there was not yet the general crisis of capitalism and not such an impoverishment of the masses as now. It can be understood therefore, that at a time of the most in- tense economic crisis, which increased the burden of the external Versailles national oppression and, when, due to the Social Democrats, the proletariat was split, and consequently not strong enough to carry the urban petty-bourgeoisie and the peasant masses with it, there was bound to arise, and actually there did arise, a tempestuous outburst of German nationalism and chauvinism which considerably strengthened the political situation of the bourgeoisie, and brought to the surface the most demagogic nationalist party—the Party of the “National Soeialisis.” Sovial-Fascist Leaders Disrupt United Struggle Against Fascism ‘The Communist workers organized and carried on a struggle against the capitalist and fascist offensive. They supported every, even the slightest action of the social democratic workers ay nst capital, wher- ever such actions took place. Wishing to restore the revolutionary unity of the working class, they, long before the victory of fascism, repeatedly proposed to the social democratic wor the lower social democratic organizations that a United Front be formed for the struggle against the bourgeoisie and their lackeys, the fascists, But the mass of the social democratic workers, who carried with them the majority of the working class of Germany, were ‘eee by their social democratic leaders, who were opposed. to the - tionary united front, and who maintained their reactionary united front with the bourgeoisie, rejected the united front with the Com- munists on every occasion, and disrupted the struggle of the working class. While the Communists insisted on a Mevolutionary united tront of the working class against the bourgeoisie, against fascism, the social democrats on the contrary, impelled the workers in the direction of @ reactionary united front with the bourgeoisie, against the Communists, against the Communist workers, destroying and repressing Communist organizations whenever and wherever this was possible. Social Fascists Surrender Prevents General Strike Against Hitler's Accession In pursuing its line of struggle for the revolutionary unity of the working olass against the social democratic united front with the bourgeoisie, the Communist Party, as the only revolutionary leader of the German proletariat, in spite of the strike-breaking tactics of social democracy in the matter of the united front against the bour- weoisie, called on the working class for a General Political Strike on July 2, 1932, when the fascists dispersed the social democratic Prus- sian Government, and on January 30th, 1933, when Hitler came into power in Germany; and in order to carry on this strike proposed a united front to the Social Democratic Party and the reformist trade unions. The development of the struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie and fascism, combined with genezal strike; would have cal the hesitating toiling masses of peasants aud the urban pevty- bourgeoisie to follow the proletariat. But the Social Democrats, continuing their previous policy, and ovientating themselves to further collaboration with the bourgeoisie, fettered the initiative of the masses by the network of centralized which followed their lead, first of all the reformist trade iebenfered with the organizations of a general strike and dis- | jing, which include ately as Monkhouse concluded the re-| house to write out citation of his prepared piece, the! his own hand, plus an hour’s rec apparently| each for lunch and dinner, having foreknowledge of this event, twelve hours; made a dash for the press room with) time did the a | longer than about two or three hours | pee a stretch. Dazed by this irrefut- able record, Monkhouse attempted a| and later} la: Type of Machinery the British Engineers, and their Hired Russian strike was organized when Sabotagers, Plotted to Wreck When Invasion of U.S.S.R. Began. Charge of Third D womze| [tself Was Framed British Press Forwarned Engineer Monkhouse spying, wrecking power station equipment, and bribery of Soviet officials, Apparently guided by British agents operating behind the scenes, Monk- house came into Court with a prepared statement in himself of the customary privilege @—-—-——_____. of questioning any defendant who} him out. the defendants was concluded,, Vi-| | Shinsky requested, and was granted| listening to Sukhoruchkin’s evidence! permission to make a statement on| and to that of other Soviet citizens,| this subject, in view of the above- I wish to say that this case is a! mentioned assertion by Monkhouse, frame-up of the Metropolitan-Vick-|anq in told him that his statement was ir-| th, relevant to Sukhoruchkin’s testimony | h, and out of order. At the proper | e: prison he had no watch, & Of) not tell how long the in the British press, | lasted, question—how did Monkhouse know | that the having been questioned for eighteen | hours, hours on end, saying that Prosegutor! Monkhouse in the end was forced to who had conducted the; admit his misstatement, and gradg- preliminary investigation, could bear| ingly apologized to lander Soviet justice through the —testimony spreading of this and simil interrupted | hoods. ave been held for the preliminary co xamination. tonight, the Judge wired yest added, he would be given the oppor-| two days Monkhouse had been in the cantly | tunity to make any statement he) prison, egree jthe statement made earlier by tinuously. lish reactionary press pinned its en- English. Availing “~~ | preliminary investigation, and par- ticularly upon the falsehood about the eighteen hours of continuous questioning of Monkhouse; the rec- ords of the G. P. U. prison and Monk- house’s admission of their correct- | ness constitutes a shattering blow at a X the entire scheme of the defendants the campaign to! of repudiating their earlier testimony in which they had con- bery, espionage and sabo- When the cross-examination of all| view of lar false-| fessed to tage acti He then made public the records of ‘e GPU prison where the defendants att These records, as T self in a web of glaring contradi terday, showed that during “ tions, 5 asked: the longest day of question- man at present in Moscow that d time for Monk- coached you to tell these untruths?” his cepositions in| Whether he had in view a Briti ess lawyer ting the de: lasted the scen showing that at no of high authority, ctual questioning last state. + Smash British Official Defense. MOSCOW, April 16.—Pravda, in an rticle headed “Exposed Criminals,” and could writes: “Already the first two days questioning of the trial of the wreckers has declt a crushing blow to the official con- ception concocted in London about the ‘innocence” of the defendants. ime explanation that in«the GPU a Whereupon Vishinsky shot back the © questioning lasted for twelve | if he had had no watch. the Court. rupted it, thus encouraging the further attacks of the fascists on the proletariat. As a result, the vanguard of the revolutionary wing of the German proletariat, the Communist Party, was deprived of the support of the majority of the working class. Under these circumstances, the proletariat was not in a position to organize, and in fact failed to organize, an immediate and decisive blow against the state apparatis, which now for the purpose of fighting against the proletariat, absorbed the fighting organizations of the fascist, bourgeoisie: the Storm Detachments, the “Steel Helmets” and the Reichswehr. The bourgeoisie was able, without serious resistance, to hand over the power of government to the National Socialists, who acted against the working class by means of provocation, bloody terror and Political banditism. Conditions Not Ripe For Uprising In analyzing the conditions for a victorious uprising of the prole- tariat, Lenin said: “A decisive battle can be considered as fully mature,” if all the class forces which are hostile to us have become sufficiently entangled, have sufficiently come into conflict with each other, have sufficiently weakened. themselves by a struggle which is beyond their strength.” If “all the vacillating, hesitating, unstable, intermediate elements, i.e., the petty bourgeoisie, petty bourgeois democracy as disinguished from the bourgevisie, have sufficiently exposed themselves to the people, have sufficiently disgraced themselves by their practical bankruptcy.” If “among the proletariat mass sentiment has begun, and is rising strongly in favour of supporting the most decisive supremely, bold and revolutionary activity against the bourgeoisie. Then the revolu- tion has matured, and if we have properly taken into account all of the conditions mentioned above . . . and have properly selected the moment, our victory is assured.” ‘The characteristic feature of the circumstances at the time of the Mitler coup was that these conditions for a victorious rising had not yet managed to mature at that moment. ‘They only existed in an embryonic state. As for the vanguard of the proletariat, the Communist Party, it did not wish to slip into aciventurism, and of course, coulf not com- pensate for this missing factor t own actions. “Tt is impossible to win with the yanguard alone,” Lenin “To throw the vanguard alone into the decisive fight, while the whole of the class, the whole of tle broad masses, have not occupied the position either of direct support of the vanguard, or at least of friendly neutrality towards it... would not only be foolish, but a crime.” Such were the circuinstances which decided the retreat of the working class and the victory of the counter-revolutionary fascists in Germany. ‘ Socialist Support of Bourgeoisie Responsible for Fascism Thus, in the last analysis, the establishment of the fascist cic- tatorship in Germany is the result of the social democratic policy of collabcration with the bourgeoisie throughout the whole period of existence of the Weimar-republic. The Social Democrats repeatedly stated that they would not object to Hitler's coming into power in a “constitutional” manner. After Hitler assumed power, “Vorwaerts” on February 2nd, stated that without social democracy a person like Hitler could not have become Reichs Chancellor. Wels stated the same thing on March 23rd, in his declaration in the Reichstag, in which he said that the services social democracy had rendered to the “National Socialists” are very great, because it was thanks to the policy that social democracy pursued, that Hitler was able to come to power. ‘There is no need to mention Leipart, Loebe and other social democratic leaders who completely support the fascists. The Communist Party was right in giving the name of social fascists to the social democrats. Fascism Destroys Democratic Mlusions But the fascist dictatorship, basing itself on armed gangs of Na- tional So ts,” 1 commencing civil war against the w 3 of the proletariat, the same time hing the Social Democratic theory that it is possible to win a parliamentary majority by means of elections, and to develep peacefully towards Socialism without revolution. It is destroying the social democratic theory of class collaboration with the bourgeoisie, and the policy of the “lesser evil,” and is destroying all the Democratic iMastons among the broad masses of workers. It is proving that the Goremment is not ® super-etructure rising above cteases, bat a weapon Confronted with the records Monkhouse was forced to admit his misstatement and grudgingly mumbled a.¢— ———— — = In view of the fact that the Eng- and blown ai yay like dust. tire case on the theory of “third de- sabotage didn’t utter a sound about gree” methods supposedly used in the it. When Thornton this evening again | several minutes of amusement. tempted retractation of his earlier | it wasn’t at Thornton that they were mfession, and again involved him- laughing. Prosecutor Vishinsky signifi- | chosen by Thornton—and not by him | “Who is the English-| alone. s, ot another British person! fered | fa Vishinsky did not from the ‘Whi | the official documents of the Eng-| himself volt | lish government—the ‘White Books’—| in the network of espionage activity | |issued by the Foreign Office to en-! created in the U.S. S. R.). We now) to Columbia Broadcasting Co. at 485 ‘able the diehard press, leaning on know the kind of help rendered the ' Madison Ave., New York City. COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL DENOUNCES SURRENDER OF GERMAN SOCI that it had been really only twelve hours, and that he had been given ample time out for meals. The other charges also, one by cne, evaporated under the forceful and indignant questioning of Vishinsky, | and at the end, all that remained for the Englishmen to do, | and reveal themselves once again—as liars. was to make abject apology to the Covrt MOSCOW, April 16.—A crushing defeat was sustained by British diplomacy and its | White Book campaign of fantastic fabrications about Prosecutor Vishinsky produced the records from the G. employees had been held for preliminary examination. the G.P.U. “third degree’ when P.U. prison where the Metro-vickers These records completely disprove Monkhouse that he had been questioned for 18 hours con- “The British subjects accused of gence seryiee’ crowd. Blow to Diehards, Gale of Laughter. “The defendant Thornton declares that the confession made by him at the preliminary investigation on, March 13 was not made because he was in an y forced to do it, but merely because the official who con- ducted the examination requested him to make a confession, and he, Thornton, couldn't ist the tempia- tion to comply with this request. The public present in court enjoyed But cross-examination of only the fi few defendants. tracks in Londen. help stop the public trial. lished testi y their ¢: conte: of the defendan opinion. Every outburst of laugh- liars before the whole world ter was killing the defense system) diehards were in such a position.” White Book Fairy Tales. ‘Columbia Network “Thornton's position is a miniature, of the position of the British die- hards, 4 t es by the dic-hards, ite Books,’ even after these have been refuted by the very men who were the alleged victims of the ‘G. P. U. methods.’ The stupid position in which the diehards now| quandary. cause for them to despair, (Prayda| ing the Soviet Union. here quotes from the document whch | AL DEMOCRACY TO AN COMMUNIST PARTY LED BY THAELMANN of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, that the real State power is the armed bands of storm troops, “Steel Helmets,” police and officers, who are governing in the name of the bourgeoisie and the Junkers. ‘The working class is actually becoming convinced that the Communists were right, when for a number of yeers they fought against democratic illusions, the Social Democratic policy of the “lesser evil”, and col- laboration with the bourgeoisie. Mass Misery Grows—Hitler Leads Germany To Economic Catastrophe Meanwhile, the frantic dictatorship of Hitler, which has started civil war in the country, cannot solve a single political and eeonomic question of contemporary Germany. The poverty and want of the masses are increasing day by day. The position of industry is grow- ing worse because the adventurist. policy of the government is only accelerating the contraction of the. home and foreign market. There are not and there cannot be any prospects of a serious reduction of unemployment. There is no possibility of giving work and employ- ment to all the adherents of the National Socialists. In place of the National Socialists who are giving jobs, other workers will be dismissed. The continuation of the moratorium until October and introduction of quotas on imports of agricultural products, can only satisfy a small section of the most well-to-do peasants for a very short period, but cannot stop the growth of want, poverty and discontent among the broad peasant masses, The demagogic attacks on the big stores and Jewish capital cannot help tie impoverished petty-bourgeoisie, whose Position will grow worse prop»rtionately with the further fall of the purchasing power of the home market. The giving of paltry help to the needy with bread and pork was only a son for the elections. In view of the worsening economic situation, the increase of unemploy- ment relief by 2 marks a month, connot but be taken back. It is be- coming clear thai Hitler is leading Germany to economic catastrophe, which is becoming more and more inevitable. German Fascism Increases War Danger The National Socialist movement grew up first of all as a nation- alist and Chauyinist movement of the petty-bourgcoisie and part of the peasant masts, led by offic nd government. officials of the Kaisor, against the Ve sailies treaty. The two months iw ‘which Hitler has been in power is just one chativinist tirade against proletarian in- ternetionalism and against “world Bolshevism.” It is a policy of shatpening relations with all countries without discrimination. Such @ policy will not only fail to strengthen Germany, but will ~veaken t+ still further and isolate it. The attempts of the government to violate the Versailles treaty under such conditions and to obtain successes in foreign policy, even if only unity with Austra, so as to raise its prestige among its followers, will only lead to a further sharpening of the whole international situation and a tremendous growth of the war danger. Every day of the Hitler government will reveal with greater clearness the manner in whic: the masses who follow Hitler have been tricked. Every day will show with greater clearness that Hitler is leadimg Germany to catastrophe. Communist Party Prepores for Decisive Revolutionary Battles The present period of calm after the victory of fascism is tem- porary. The revolutionary upsurge in Germany will inevitably grow in spite of the fascist terror. The resistance of the masses to fascism is bound to increase. The establishment of an open fascist dictator- ship, by destroying all the Democratic illusions among the masses and liberating them from the influence of social democracy, accelerates the rate of Germany's development towards proletarian revotetion. ‘The task of the Communists must be to explain to the masses that the Hitler Government is leading the country to catastrophe. It is now necessary to warn the masses with greater energy than ever before that the only salvation for the toiling masses from still greater poverty and want, the only way to avoid catastrophe, is the proletarian revolu- tion and the dictatorship of the px Tt is necessary to strive to rally all the forces of the py: ond form a united front of : 1a and Co: 's fer the : vuggle saainst the class enemics, It is necessary hen the F.:ty and strengthen all the mass organizations of th> prole-ariat, to prepare the masses for decisive revointionary battles, for the overthrow of capitalism and for the overthrow of the fascist dictatorship by an armed rebellion. In view of all this, the Presidium of the ECCI approves the pro- gramme of practical activities planned hy the Gentrel Comeivese ef the Communist Party of Germany. graceful collapse of his organization, has badly dropped among the ‘intelli- “The diehards know what a blow this trial has dealt them, even by the That is why they are so strenuow Jy covering up the But this won't The put fecsions, and first of all the ions of the two Metro-Vickers empleyes—Thornton and MacDonald -#ill completely shatter the feverish efforts being made to cheat public These men are revealed as “It has been a long time since the Slandering U.S.S.R. NEW YORK.—As part of the effort to defeat the campaign for recogni- tion of the Soviet Union being con- ducted by the Friends of the Soviet Union, C. J. Hill, broadcasting over fin Ives, i | the Columbia network on Monday, Bape ce eS * | Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday eve- “To tell the truth, there is enough | 2ings, has been consistently slander- The F.S.U. requests that all com- | Thornton himself wrote at the pre-|Tades, sympathizers and friends of “‘Third degree’ methods figure in| liminary investigation, wherein he| the Soviet Union write or telephone luntarily revealed his part} Protests to the broadcasting studio. Phone, Wickersham 2-2000 or write §