The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 15, 1933, Page 6

Published by the Comprodally Publishing Oe., Inc., daliy except Sunday, at i R 130% St., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgenguin 4-7956. Address and mail cheeks to the Dally Worker, 50 E. 1h St., New York, N. ¥. Cable “DAIWORK.” 66 the Proletarians Against Their National Bourgeoisie”--Lenin VETERANS IN WASHINGTON ENDORSE 3-POINT PROGRAM OF NATIONAL CONFERENCE Organization Being Built Up to Back Demands | of Rank and File Convention Adopt Resolution Against Savage Cuts in the Roosevelt “Economy” Act in Spite of Politicians WASHINGTON, June 13—The Washington war veterans have started a vigorous campaign for the three-point program adopted by the veterans’ conference held here last month. At a meeting sponsored by the district rank and file veterans at Stanley Hall in the United States Soldiers’ Home 500 veterans voted for the three-point program. | Various politicians, particularly members of the house of congress, ap- | pear and try to fool the veterans into e- abandoning any sort of mass strug- | certi the so-called bonus. gle: At the r ng at the Soldiers'| 2. Restoration of disability com- Home two of m—Represent pensation. pensions, disa y allow- John H. Hoeppel of Californi | ances and no curtailment in hospital | William Lemke of North Dak jand domiciliary rights. the usual two-faced way of politicians} 3. Immediate remedial relief for looking for votes, praised the rank | the impoverished farmers and unem- and file veterans and urged them “to | ployed. continue the plans”. They did not mention ca ing on the fight for what th entitled to but con- fined themselves to vague talk about carrying out plans. Didn't Fall for Bunk. —AND— | WHEREAS, a large degree of unity | was achieved in support of this com- |mon program, regardless of race, | color, creed or political affiliation, and }a plan of national organization of But the vets didn’t fall for such |the Rank and File adopted to facili- bunk. They ignored the half-baked | tate carrying out this common pro- | promises and the praise showered | gram, upon them and stood solidly behind| BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, the rank and file resident committee | that this body of veterans assembled of the District of Columbia, a part |in Stanley Hall, U. S. Soldier’s Home, of the Veterans’ National Rank and | washington, D. C., on this 8th day of File organization. 7 | June, 1933, do hereby unanimously The following resolution was | approve said common program and | adopted by the meeting: = | purpose as adopted by the Veteran’s | (EREAS, the U. S. Soldier's of Washington, D. ©., of which terans assembled here are mem- is not supported by taxes but y by the enlisted personnel of jar army, and EREAS, under the provisions of the so-called Economy Act (or, an Act to Maintain the Credit of the United States Government), dents of the U. 8. Soldier’s Home will receive a maximum of $15 per month, BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that we veterans assembled in Stan- ley Hall, U. 8. Soldier's Home, Wash- ington, D. C., this 8th day of June, 1933, do hereby unanimously oppose the curtailment of pensions, disabil- ity compensations and disability al- lowances of any veteran or ex-serv- iceman who is resident in the U. S. Soldier's Home. FRANCIS R. CHAMBERLAIN, National Committeeman for District of Columbia, U. 8. A. GEORGE H. NEAL, Chairman of the Meeting. The resolution was sent to the Vet- erans’ Bureau, and Hines announced that it would be considered. Adopt Convention Program. The resolution enthusiastically adopted endorsing the three-point Program of the convention read. as follows: WHEREAS, a convention of vet- rans was recently held in Washing- ton, D. C. and at Fort Hunt, Vir- ginia, for ¢he purpose of uniting the Rank and File of all veterans and veterans’ organizations on a common program, namely: 1. Immediate cash payment of the remainder due on adjusted service Ww v resi- | National Rank and File Convention, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we pledge our united efforts o the support of the Veteran’s National Rank and File Committee who were jelected to carry out the organization | | program of the Rank and File. | Give Leaders Ovation. i The speeches of Frank A. Flynn, | | chairman; Richard Lovelace, treas- | jurer, and H. S. Cannell, secretary of | the Veterans’ National Rank and File | Committee were enthusiastically re- ceived by the meeting. Other speak- |ers were Francis Chamberlain, local |veteran Rank and File Committee, and George H. Neal, inmate of the jhome, who was chairman of the | meeting. | The action of the wounded and dis- |abled veterans will bring about a | stronger united front of veterans, un- | employed, workers and farmers. The | two resolutions prove they mean busi- ness. Organizing Work Goes Forward. Intensive organization work is go- jing on throughout the District of | | Columbia and adjacent territory. | Francis Chamberlain, the national | committeeman, representing the Dis- | trict of Columbia, has organized 250 | veterans working in shops in this vi- | cinity. | | The Negro veterans of Georgetown | jare being organized and are taking | | an active part in the work. | This shows that the veterans are | sick and tired of the hot air promises | of the politicians and are realizing | that only mass action can force the Roosevelt government to retreat from | their slashing assault upon the vet- | | érans of the country. By Social Patriotism We Mean... to Justify the Alliance of the Socialists With the Bourgeoisie and the Governments of Their Own Country, and the Ref By Ma everywhere: Oue year, $6; six months, $3. inal SUBSORIPRION RATES: ; 3 months, $2; 1 month, 7e, New York City. Foreign and JUNE 15, 1998 usal to Preach and Support the Revolt of}, Philadelphia’s Fascist Braggarts in Salute x | | | | The individual to the extreme right with hand upraised in the fas- cist salute is Art Smith, self-appointed “general” of the “Khaki Shirts.” Their aim is to help the bosses defeat the workers, It is a nice racket for Smith who gets $2 for every membership card and who sells over- seas caps, shirts, coats and other regalia at an enormous profit. The officers of this outfit wear spiked helmets with eagles on them, and the rank and file are armed with pieces of gas pipe. ‘The picture shows one man with such a club. Philadelphia Fascists Stage Plaza Meeting Operate With Police and Boss Politicians| Against Working Class Organizations PHILADELPHIA, June 14.—Organizing under the name of “Khaki Shirts”, and apeing the fascists of Europe, a group of hoodIums under the leadership of one Art Smith are collecting dollars from their dupes by sel- ling cheap costumes, helmets, and other regalia. The chief aim of the Philadelphia fascists, according to Smith, the self-appointed “general” of the Khaki @————_______ Shirts, is to stamp out Communism.| The Khaki Shirt movement is not On Sunday a motely gang of ap-|nearly as strong as it claims to be. proximately 2,000, many of them) It is a plain lie that millions belong wearing spiked helmets, surmounted} to the organization, by an eagle and shield emblem, like Raking In Money For Smith the old German imperial army, i marched to Reyburn Plaza and held |, Smith seems to be the whole works. an open air mass meeting. Most of | Membership requires a payment of them were armed with pieces of gas-| $2, of which Smith gets a dollar from pipe and clubs which they boasted| #1 places outside Philadelphia, In were “for fighting the Communists.” | this city he gets the whole amount. That this display was held at the| Like the old racket of the organizers Plaza is regarded as significant be-|0f the Ku Klux Klan who used to cause that spot has frequently been | Sell night shirts for $6 to its members, the scene of fierce combats with the| Smith sells cheap shirts, hats and | ment of the balance of the bonus! | is scorned. Not one congressman or ‘SENATE PASSES _ ROOSEVELT.CUT AGAINST VETS Final Act in Hunger | Drive Before Both | Houses Adjourn WASHINGTON, June 14—On the eve of adjournment the senate adopted the administration’s propos- als to drive into the ranks of the destitute of the nation the war vet- erans. More than $400,000,000 year- ly is to be slashed off pensions and compensation; the demand for pay- senator raised the question of the} payment of the bonus, in spite of the fact that during the election campaign many of them promised they would support the demands of the veterans. Sham Fight of Senators Ends, Because of the insistence of war veterans in bombarding senators and congressmen from their states and districts with vehement protests against the bandit attacks of the Roosevelt proposals many senators pretended to oppose them. How Sincere their opposition was is now seen in the acceptance of the Roo- sevelt proposals. As the bill stands in its final form pensions will be paid only to vet- erans of the Spanish-American war, the Boxer Rebellion and the Philip- pine insurrection, provided they are| more than 55 years of age and can| prove that they are 50 per cent dis- abled and unable to exist otherwise.) Then they will be given only $15 a month. This is what the capitalist press refers to as a “compromise.” In a statement to the senate Byrnes, administration spokesman said the house will adopt the bill and that Roosevelt will sign it. Macfadden Brings Up War Debts. The attack on the veterans is the sole remaining piece of legislation in the Roosevelt “new deal” which from the beginning to the end of this session has advanced to ever more vicious attacks against the workers, the farmers, the small home owners, the impoverished professionals _ and all the toiling masses. It is expected that congress will adjourn sometime this evening or early in the morn- ing. Representative Macfadden of Pennsylvania brought up in the house the demand that congress re- main in session until the question of payments of war debts by European nations to the United States is set- tled. In the senate there were charges that the administration was anx- ious to rush the hour of adjourn- ment because it did not want the senate in session during. critical de- velopments at the London economic conference. Administration leaders fear that something may come up that would evoke embarassing ques- tions about the secret intrigues that are going on behind the scenes at London. None of the attempts to prolong police who attempted to smash Com-| Other decorations for exhorbitant munist demonstrations. Less than a| Prices. year ago, during the election cam-;__ the sessions will avail as the ma- chine is still in good order | ARE delighied to see that Bar- bara Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth millions has finally got) herself a husband, A nice Prince or| something or other. ed New digs se | She likes him because he doesn’t have to work and can devote all his time to his wife. He is charming and interesting, says Barbara. | ° * | Now, isn’t that nice? All the working class girls who slave in the Woolworth stores for $6 a week for @ ten-hour day are jubilant that their toll and agony will support the love feats of the Prince and Bar- bara. | ND do you think that the new! couple will buy their wedding) supplies in the Woolworth stores ? ete ve Some nice cheap perfume for the | Prince, let us say. cpa rag for Or a nice cheap dish Barbara. eo COMRADE from Conneciicut sends us the following illumi- nating item about jim-crowism in the North: HARTFORD, Conn.—The recent refusal of Federal Judge James A. Lowell to return a Negro to Vir- ginia for trial becruse Negroes do not serve on juries there, brought out the information that no Negro ever has served on a Connecticut jury. Court officials said here the use of Negroes on juries would be im- practical. They said there was no doubt they would be challenged. No person connected with jury selec- tion servicé would say, however, that any person had been left off the jury Usts because of his color. alas eae) IS confirms what we Commu- nists have been saying all along —that it is not only the Southern slave-drivers, but the whole Amer- ican ruling class. which is united in oppressing the Negro people. The fight for Negro liberation must go on almost as flercely in the North as in the South. In the North, the oppression of the Negro people is a little more hypocritical and moré masked. eels UT the poison of jim-crowism pervades capitalist courts in the “liberty-loving” states of New Eng- Jand as well as in the lynch courts of Alabama. ‘Nazi Empire’ Planned Asserts Swedish Paper | STOCKHOLM, June 14.—A Berlin dispatch to the newspaper “Social Demokraten” charges that the Hitler government intends to spend $10,000,- 000 on a propaganda campaign in Austria, Holland, Flanders, Luxem- bourg, German-speaking Switzerland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, de- signed to combine these countries into'a mighty Germanic state in Cen- tral Europe, .The dispatch says the first step in Sweden will be the pro- duction of a Nazi newspaper paign, the Communist Party finally | established the right to use the Plaza | for meetings. | Police Back Fascist Thugs } The appearance of the Khaki Shirts | on Reyburn Plaza shows that the| city authorities are going to try to| EDITOR’ E— use other methods to keep worker®| second! Intell ovr Pf Saadded ye away from that place, which is in the! articles written by The British heart of the city. | Dail Workers are indignant at this in-| Gitnany| See ee solent challenge and openly state that described the treacheries of the DOLLFUSS ASKS AID FROM ENGLAND AS NAZIS PREPARE AUSTRIAN REVOLT Tension Grows As Hitler Plans for Greater Germany Meet; Stiff Resistance BERLIN, June 14.—In retaliation for the arrest of Theodor Habicht in Austria, the Hitler government ordered the arrest here of Dr. Erwin Wasserbaeck, press attache of the Austrian Legation in Berlin. Dr. Was- serbaeck, who is a Catholic priest, was arrested on an order signed by Goering, and expelled from Germany. Mgr. Orsenigo, the papal nuncio, as dean of the Diplomatic Corps, will file a formal protest since Wasser- they will disarm these thugs and see | that they do not carry out their boast | to break up demonstrations, At the Sunday meeting Art Smith | and the leaders were on horseback.| He announced that the horses were |“borrowed” but they looked suspici- |ously like the well-groomed police horses, Smith Would-Be Dictator Social Democratic leaders while the Nazis were openly boasting of the terror they would establish as soon as they got power. eke fe (Continued from Yesterday.) By EDWARD JAMES The telephone bell shrilled in one pane party offices in Berlin. Half a dozen comrades were in the room. After the meeting when asked|One of them took up the receiver, |about the aims of his organization | “Hallo. Who's there?” A moment’s | Smith said: silence. The comrade listened. The “We are out to put a dictator over | others stopped talking for a moment, | America. We -are going to march to| “What's that? Repeat it. Are you Washington and take over the gov-| sure?” ernment. | We shall keep the Com-| ‘The others noticed that something baeck’s arrest violates the principle of diplomatic immunity, * . . LONDON, June 14—Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria, leader of the Nationalist - Catholic government which is menaced by the Austrian Nazi party, which works in close co- Operation with the German Fascists and aims at the union of Austria with Germany, is in London for the Economic Conference. He had an interview yesterday with the English Foreign Minister, Sir John Simon, and is reported to have outlined the present dangerous state of affairs in Europe, giving reasons for his belief that the Austrian Nazis are acting under orders from Berlin. Dollfuss asked for British intervention against Germany in the case of @ coup d’etat against the Austrian government. Although not admit- ved “by the Austrian Legation, it is known that the Chancellor made similar requests to the French and Italians. Dollfuss urged immediate action on the part of the powers if Germany was to be prevented from engineering an overthrow of the Austrian government with the use of storm troops operating across the German frontier. ae Nazi Commissar Arrested. VIENNA, June 14—Karl Vaugoin, \ustrian Minister of War, put sev- ‘val’government measures into effect igainst the Austrian Nazis today. |munists from butting into anything. the German Reichstag, and Hitler’s| appointed “Nazi inspector for Aus-| tria,” was seized in his barricaded home in Linz, Many other Nazi Jeaders were arrested but the lead- er of the party, Alfred Frauenfeld, who is a member of the Senate, was Jet alone, the authorities respecting his Parliamentary immunity, These arrests, and the decree of the gov- ernment prohibiting soldiers, civil servants and police from being mem- bers of the Natjonal Socialist Party, follows on a Nazi campaign of ter- rorism in Austria, This morning Nazis threw a bomb at a Jewish store, and also bombed the Catholic Boy Scouts Club in Vienna, Vienna has become an armed po- lice camp. The Socialist Mayor has been turned out, and the preserva- tion of order placed in the hands of a Federal Commissioner, Eugene Seydel. Commissars have been ap- pointed by the government to head each of Austria’s nine provinces. Franz Rehrl, Governor of Salzburg, has resigned in protest against this action. The threatened dissolution of the National Socialist Party has not yet been proclaimed, it being said that Chancellor Dollfuss had telephoned to Vienna from London. Have you approached your fel- low worker in your shop with a copy of the ‘Daily?’ If not, do s0 Theodor Habicht, a Nazi member of TODAY! y That's why our shock troops carry these clubs.” “Whom are you going to set up as dictator?” he was asked. He did not answer that question. The reporter persisted: “Presum- ably you are the man who will be dictator.” He dodged that sug- gestion too, “How is it that the police allow your men to carry these clubs, while Communists would never be allowed to carry clubs?” he was asked. “Well, we are on the right side,” he said, admitting that he was on the side of the police. But it is significant that the more important political leaders are with them, One of the men on the plat- form at the open air mass meeting here today was former Mayor Harry A. Mackey, who is a product of the crooked Vare machine. Another of their leaders 1s John W. Glover, so- called “independent” Republican of the Forty-Second Ward. There is a definite tle up between the Khaki Shirts and the Spanish American War Veterans, R. G. Morgan, who is “pa~ triotic inspector” of the Spanish Am- important was coming through. They could see the face of the listening man and hear the voice buzzing in the line, “Der Reichstag brennt!” ‘The Reichstag is on fire. The assemb- led comrades looked at each other and at first felt inclined to laugh, but an older comrade’s face was suddenly grim, A Danger Sign. He had seen the revolution and counter-revolution in Hungary, been forced to fly the country, had seen the march on Rome in fascist Italy, been forced to fly again. He was an old hand at the game. “There’s nothing to laugh about,” he said. “That’s a danger sign. If I’m not mistaken that’s the prelude to Hitler’s coup. If you take my ad- vice any of you who are known in your districts won't sleep at home tonight. Turn on the wireless,” The wireless began to blare out a brassy military march, “Fridericus Rex, unser Koenig und Herr...” A pause followed and then a sharp voice with the German military nasal erican War Veterans, calls himself | Pesan “commanding general of the staff” of the Khaki Shirts, Some of the rep- resentatives of war veteran organiza- tions, notably Franklins, of the V. F. W., and O'Neill, a regula officer of the United States Army’ in uniform, not only sided with the fascists but joined the Khaki Shirts in giving the Roman Salute, “Achtung! Achtung! Special Ra- dio News Service.” And a Jong har- rangue followed. The Communists have set fire to the Reichstag. A foreign Communist has been arrested, All Forged Documents Ready. Between the military music, the mews items were pumped through. shirt, but kept his passport and Party book ready for the police to find when they arrested him. Hitler orders the arrest of all Communist leaders. Torgler seen talking to the fire-raiser, Thael- mann, Stoecker, Koenen, Kaspar. Name after name of the well-known Communist Reichstag Deputies was given through. The listening comrades hardly knew whether to laugh or curse. It sounded like news from a lunatic asylum. The older comrade smiled, but there was no mirth in his face, “It's exactly as I feared. It’s Hit- ler’s coup. What does it matter if it’s too damned silly for intelligent people to believe? What does it mat- ter if the whole world knows the truth in a month or two? By that time the work will have been done, Untrammeled Terror. “Do you think the scared and hys- terical petty-bourgeois masses want intelligent propaganda? The real terror is going to begin. Probably has already begun. This is the signal to let the storm detachments loose. «+. On us.” He was right. Tt was the begin- ning of the untrammeled brown terror. From the moment Hitler was appointed. Prime Minister the Communists in the districts knew that the local storm detachments were being systematically armed. Report after report came through. This storm detachment received so and so many revolvers yesterday. That one is at target practice. Arming the Storm Troops. ‘Wedding, Neukoelin, Prenzlauer Berg, Friedrichsbau and the other overwhelmingly proletarian districts of Berlin knew that the Nazi “storms” were being armed feverishly and re- inforced by other “storms” from the petty-bourgeois districts and by young peasants from all round Berlin, and as far as the little towns on the Bal- tic. The police knew and winked. The gevernment knew and encouraged it. The Social-Democratic leaders knew, and refused to stir. So long as it’s all constitutional, we can do nothing, but wait, com- Hitler Germany--From Inside! A Dutch Communist did it. Lost his]made what preparations they could. United front defense groups were formed with the Social-Democratic workers in the districts. Socialist Workers. Come Over. Leaflets were hurriedly turned out and distributed. Material was brought into places of. safety. The illegal organization came into operation. The Social-Democratic workers began to curse the inactivity of their leaders and cry “treachery!” They came of their own accord to their Communist comrades. Our party won’t move. The Iron Front is asleep. The Reichsbanner leaders refuse to order us out. The government turned the Nazi storm detachments into auxiliary police. Brown uniformed Nazis ap- peared in public armed to the teeth. Lorry loads of armed police and Nazis drove through the streets. Mass arrests began, Mass raids. Mass searches, The cells of the police presidium at the Alexander Platz were filled to overflowing. The same was true of the other big prisons. Those members of the storm de- tachments who were not auxiliary Police, seized buildings on. their own account and turned them into prisons, grounds of the Ulap amusement fair in Moabit, the exhibition hall of the fancy goods trades in the Alte Jakob Strasse. Clubs of Steel and Lead. ‘The official terror scoured the town for the leaders and prominent officials and deputies of the Communist ruten”, the favorite weapon of Hit- lyer’s gangsters, a tightly coiled spring of steel with a knob of lead on top and with a leather-covered rades, wait, wait, wait, wait. The Communist workers knew, and steel grip. PROVOCATIONS CANNOT HIDE THE BETRAYALS OF GERMAN SOCIAL-FASCISM r § The leading organ of the American Socialist Party, the New Leader, prints this week an article called the “Truth about German Communism and Its Tactics”. It is written by one, R. Abramovitch, a man Whose name is hated by every class-conscious worker who knows who this man is, Abramovitch, a member of the Menshevik clique which is still plot- ting counter-revolution against the Soviet Union, was directly linked with the wrecking plots of the “Industrial Party”, a group of counter-revolu- tionary engineers who were caught systematically sabotaging the building of heavy industry in the Soviet Union. The financing of these plots to cripple <he esonomic construction and the military defense of the Soviet Union, the international connections of Abramovitch, go straight to the foulest White Guard cliques in Paris and to the French military staff! An avowed wrecker and schemer of White Guard intervention! Such is the man whom the New Leader presents this week as its champion against the heroic German Communist Party and the revolutionary move- ment in this country. ‘The first thing which this veteran counter-revolutionary scoundrel attempts is to strive to conceal the cowardly, utter collapse of the.whole Social-Democratic Party in Germany—its complete rottenness- and treachery, He says: “At the very moment that the Social Democracy is wrestling with fascism, the Communists are occupied with assault- ing Social-Democracy and weakening it.” Wrestling with fascism! Let us see how these Social-Democratis Politicians “wrestle with fascism”. Was it not only the other day that the overwhelming majority of the Social-Democratic members of the Reichstag voted their support of Hit- ler? Did they not rise up with the whole assembled group of fascist depu- ties in honor of Hitler, raising their hands in fascist salute, shouting their loyalty to the bloody fascist leader who contemptuously smiled his ap- proval of their “loyalty to the Nation”? Did not Wels, the leading socialist member of the Reichstag, whine before Hitler asking that the fascist dictator permit them “to save ‘their honor” by retaining the position of a “legal opposition” within the fascist" dictatorship? * . ' Did not the socialist members of the Braunschweig Landtag resign like cowards when this body met, because to oppose Hitler openly might bring “disapproval” upon them? * Did not Wels, the leader of the German Socialist Party, declare that the open military dictatorship of the capitalist class, led by the fascist Hitler, was “legal and constitutional’? Did he not plead with Hitler for some reward by boasting that a person of “proletarian origin” like Hitler’ never could have come to power were it not for the “democracy” estab- lished by the German Social-Democracy? This is how the Social-Democratic traitors “wrestle with fascism™! ‘They have prostrated themselves before Hitler’s generals and his Junker politicians. They are now clamoring for places in the fascist state ma- chine. Co. ae . Social-Democracy has no desire to struggle against fascism. More than this, it systematically prepared the way for Hitler’s seizure of power. Already in 1931 and throughout 1932, the leading organ of the German Social-Democrats, the Vorwaerts, was continually insisting that the German Socialist Party would have no way of fighting fascism if Hitler seized power “legally”. On July 20, 1932, the fascist von Papen dissolved the Social-Democratie Prussian government. The Communist Party of Germany made a pro- posal to the Social-Democratic Party and the Federation of Trade Unions of Germany for a general strike as a reply to this step forward in the fascization of Germany. But the Social-Democratic leaders contemptuously rebuffed this offer of a united struggle against oncoming fascism. It described the attempt of the Communist Party to form a united front of struggle against fee~ cism as a “provocation”! On January 30, the Communist Party again attempted to form # united front with the Social-Democrats to resist the appointment of Hitler as Reichs-Chancellor. But the leading Social-Democratic paper in Germany spurned this proposal for united struggle against fascism by saying: “Hitler came to power legally, we must wait and see what he will do. To act now would be shooting in the air.” A third time, on March 1, 1933, the Central Committee of the German Communist Party appealed to the Social-Democratic Party and the Federation of Trade Unions of Germany with a proposal for a joint struggle against fascism. And this time, Social-Democracy which “wrestles with fascism” by licking its boots, did not even deign to reply. It had nothing to say. And with Hitler's seizure of power the socialist teaders, who had spoken so blusteringly of their “struggle* sgainsc fascism, attempted to break the revolutionary fighting spirit of the German workers. The Social-Democratic leaders of the trade unions submitted a dec- laration to the Hitler government which pledged their support of the fascist dictatorship. In this report, they stated that the trade unions must submit to all the decisions of the state. For years they had been preaching to the workers that the “Democratic German State” was no longer, as Marx and Engels had said “a weapon of oppression by one _ class of another.” Therefore, they said the trade unions must “coalesce with the state.” ‘ With Hitler's coming to power the Social-Democratic trade union leaders carried over their loyalty from the bourgeois democracy, the masked dictatorship of the capitalist class, to the open dictatorship of the capitalist class, the Fascist state machine. s On March 21) the Social-Democratic leaders stated that Hitler's fascist government has “the right of decisive interference in disputes be- tween labor and capital.” . < And as if this complete surrender ef trade unions, one of the main weapons of proletarian class struggle in«o the hands of fascism were not enough, Leipart, the socialist leader of the German trade unions, pledged that he will co-operate fully with Hitler “to work out together the prob- lems and working condiions.” : ae The fusion of Social-Democracy with the fascist dictatorship goes on with accelerating speed. ws 4 San BH It 1s no sudden collapse of Social-Democracy that brings it into the camp of fascism, It was Social-Democracy that went over to the bloody imperialist masters in 1914, sending the working class to butcher one an- other for “democracy” and “in defense of the fatherland”, It was Social-Democracy that saved German capitalizm from the proletarian revolution in 1918, when the Social-Democratic president, Ebert, sent the Kaiser's generals and Prussian batallions against the revolu- tionary workers who were attempting to set up a Workers’ Government in Germany on the ruins of the Kaiser’s monarchy. It ‘was Social-Democracy which co-operated with the German capitalist class to establish the “Weimar Republic”, which was. nothing more than the masked “Democratic” dictatorship of the German bour- geoisie, : e And now that they openly plead for the embraces and the favor of the Fascist State government, they, at the same time, attempt to drug tha German masses into “patience” under the Fascist Dictatorship, 'They whimper with despair. All is lost, they cry. We must wait. We must en-. dure. This is their program now for the German workers, ‘They “wrestle with Fascism” by cowering in terror before it, whining for-its blessing, (10 BE CONCLUDED TOMORROW), \ | | | | ci Se fi " »