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New York City, \. ¥. ‘Telephone Alon divers and mail cheeks to the Daily Worker, Ine dalty oxeopt Sundar, at 80 &, anim 4-788, Cable “DATWORK.” 50H, 130m 81., New Tork, N, 7 DELEGATIONS OF WORKERS TO GERMAN Elect Dilenuies to See for Themselyes Whai Is Happening International Red Aid Issues Call BERLIN June 5 —The Central Ex- ecutive of the German Red Aid pub- lishes an appeal to all the Interna- organizations in Eu- ‘ope and Am: (the International labor Defense is the Americn affil- late of the International Red Aid calling upon em to begin Paigns in all factories, office unions, and among the unemployed and the intellectua of delegates by thes n the election groups to visit Germany and see cond in Hit- | ler's Third Empire for ‘The appeal stat “Demand ntrance he German Con- delegations s. baal tell widespread protest every- where ag: system of assassina at the de- fendants - gime be granted the e! of legal coun: international for all ant PRODUCE MACHINE : GUNS WHILE WAR DEAD ARE LAUDED Decoration Day Sees Western Electric on Overtime By a Metal Worker Correspondent CICERO, Ill.—S: is the Hawthorne lar erm Electric Co., which is owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., a Morgan concer has laid off about 40,000 workers. Wage cuts and part time work are the order of the day. The Western Electric has cheat- ed thousands of workers out of the money they paid in the Pension Fund which must be about $30,000,000 now.| Produce Machine Guns For the last three months, the Tool and Die Making Departments have| een producing machine guns. The rumor has it that the order is big enough to last another five months. A few days ago additional men were | hired. The workers are working over- time and Sundays, like in 1929. In the other departments, the workers don’t get more than four eight hour and mostly three days a week. t was no more than fitting thai on Decoration Day, the day of honor- ing the war dead, the Morgan con- cern should be producing machine guns. That, it seems, is done to have more dead to “honor” in the future DEMONSTRATION PLANNED AGAINST NEWARK FASCISTS Organize Everywhere for June 24, National Anti-Fascist Day! NEWARK, N. J., June ago, Hiiler aj of New C News 15,—s me to organize rmany.” As soon as the k workers heard of this they organized a counter-dem- onstration and drove the budding Fasc: to cove Now the Hitlerites have come out jinto the open under the guise of The German - Americdn Associa- tion.” They held one meeting last Monday night at Schwaben Hall, at which a vicious attack was made upon the Soviet Union. Next Mon- day, June 19, they are to hold an- other meeting, the subject being a general attack upon Jews and Com- of Newark and vici- nity are called upon to be on hand that night to demonstrate against the Fascists’ getting a foothold in this city turn out for the parade and | June 24, N; astration Saturday. Anti-Fascist Day, | nd anti-semitism. | June 24 will start} Newark, | tration | Park E t for 6 p.m at Military NEW YORK, June 15. — A mass} vill be held Monday} , at the Communit: 5 it 110 St., New Yor! City, by the New York Allied Medical | Anti-Fascist Committee. | The meeting will be addressed by} A. J. Muste. of the C. P. L. and! Dr. Samuel Tannenbaum, Executive | Secretary of the Committee. Thi mass meeting is one of the prepara: tory rallies fe National Anti-Fascist Day, June 24. Nova Scotia Girl Who Sold 2 Young Workers | Tickets Given 30 Days uoneare BAY, Nova Scotia.— ‘Thirty n Sydney jail is meted jae to Ann Kilomac, active in the work of the labor organizations in this mining district, for the “crime” jof selling two tick for a concert in aid of the “Young Worker,” tant youth paper. A female stool-pigeon was used to induce Ann Kilontac to sell her the | tickets on a Sunday. The Nova Sco- | tia Miner, article, strongly condemns this per- secution of the working-class girl, and points out that she would never have been arrested had she been selling] | tickets for some bourgeois racket. At a mass meeting of miners a resolution was adopted, stressing that | ,other commodities are sold on Suns | | day, but the sellers are never prose- cuted. The meeting demanded the} | resignation of Judge J. J. Smith, of| | Dominion. end the immediate release | f Ann Kilomac. mili- Haye you approached your fel- low worker in your shop with a copy of the ‘Dally? If not, do so TODAY! |ments of the regular Japanese army |gent bands in Manchukuo. They ad- | and Dail Central orker Party U.S.A. Captured Manchurian Insurgents Tied With Vire and Guarded by Japanese Bayonets We Must Explain to Chinese People What (By a Worker Correspondent) OAKLAND, Cal—The Boing | Aireraft Co. sold 24 planes to the | Chinese Nanking government. | Eighteen were already shipped Jand six are now being crated. |These planes are to be used | against the Chinese Soviets, They are to be financed by donations by | the Chinese in the U.S.A. For this purpose 75,000 pins are being made. They are to be sold for $1 each. This will certainly be connected with a lot of propa- ganda agains tthe Chinese Soviets | and the Soviet Union. | We ought to carry on a cam- paign against this in the Chinese neighborhoods in all cities. Worker at Boing Aircraft Co. Insurgents in Pitched Battles With Japanese in Manchuria Japanese Begin to Incorporate North Chien Area Into Manchuko and Jehol As Nanking Looks On SHANGHAI, June 16. activity in Manchuria has broken out on a large scale again, according to dispatches from Mukden. Detach- under Lieut. Gen. Koiso report the killing of 350 rebels in their new campaign to exterminate the ins! nit the loss of 20 Japanese soidiers | slain. | The Japanese forces, armed with| trench mortars and machine guns| aided by airplanes, reportedly killed 250 rebels in a major battle near Lake Chingoo and another, hun-} dred in a pitched battle between Hi: Cheng and Panshan, near the bor- der of Jehol Province. Over 20,000 Japanese troops were} ecently withdrawn from North China after the conclusion of the truce there to reinforce the Japanese- Manchukuo forces battling the insur- gents. General Koiso is at the head of the new “Central Peace Preserva- tion Association,” organized to cen- tralize all Manchurian operations | Tilden High School Seniors Refuse to Sign Loyal alty Pledge | NEW YORK, June 15.—A n | Tilden High School in East Flatbush yesterday refused to sign a pledge of loyalty to the Federal and State governments. John Loughran, prin- cipal of the school, announced that jcontinued refusal to sign would de- prive them of their diplomas. The pledge was passed around in each classroom. Out of 500 students, at least 100 are known to have left blank spaces next to their names. This pledge, demanding “absolute and unconditional loyalty,” was | drawn up by John L, Tildsley, district superintendent of schools in charge jof high schools, in 1919, when the |Palmer raids were in progress and | general ities was at its height, |an article published in the for large | Socialist press in order to allay the mber of seniors at the Samuel J. | indignation of the Soci: ese Insufgent ; against the insurgent forces. The Japanese are already begin- ning to “Manchurize” North China. Extension of the “sovereignty of | Manchukuo” over the area south of} the Great Wall as well as “annex- ation to Manchukuo of the popula- tion of the entire district along the Upper Lwan River has been decided | Province, headed by a Manchurian | upon,” according to the semi-official | Japanese news agency. Province of Jehol. Reports from Harbin state secret negotiations have begun Changchun for realization of the Jap- anese plan for foundation of “an in- | dependent government” of Hopei| | General. 5. Deputies Voted Willing ly for Hitler Loebe, Ex Reichstag President, Denies They | Approved Speech BERLIN. June 3.—On behalf of the Socialist Reichstag deputies, Paul | Under Compulsion Loebe, Socialist ex-President of the Reichstag, has sent an official state- ment to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, in which he disavows the statement made by Friedrich Stampfer, former editor-in-chief of the Ber- lin Socialist “Vorwaerts” |in Chancellor Hitler on May 17, Stampfer had made this claim in ion t workers jor of the Ger- at the shameful behavi man Socialist leaders. Loebe emphasizes that ine Social- ist Reichstag caucus voted confi- dence in Hitler without any external compulsion, as they were guided by the fact that “the Hitler government had displayed an unconditional will for peace, and had taken a stand for equality for Germany and the dis- armament of Germany’s enemies.” Loebe also encloses the declaration of the Socialist Reichstag caucus | published on May 17, which tried repression of workers’ activ-/ to defend the caucus’ vote of confi- dence in Hitler for the same reasons. How German Workers Fought Wave of Nazi Terror; Disarmed Brownshirt Murder Gangs HITLER GERM, NY, FROM THE INSIDE— ARTICLE IIL. By EDWARD JAMES (Correspondent in Germany British Daily Worker) (The two articles previously pub- lished told of the Social-Demo - eratic Jeaders’ treachery when the Navis were bidding for power, and the burning of the Reichstag.) of the In the days following the burning of the Reichstag, the Nazis concen- trated on rigging the coming elec- tions. They hoped for a clear ma- jority, and failing that, at least, a/ combined Nationalist-Nazi majority. Orders were issued prohibiting all Communist and Social-Democratic electioneering, including the posting | up of placards, the printing and dis- | the holding of | tribution of leaflets Meetings and the organizing house-to-house propagande. The entire Communist and Social- Democratic Press was suppressed, in- of cluding the “Left”-wing “Berlin am Morgen,” and the “Welt am Abend.” The Communist election posters were defaced throughout the country. Raids succeeded in confiscating hun- dreds of thousands of Communist leaflets Nazi storm detachments and police went through the streets armed to the teeth, and forced working-class families to take in their Red Flags and their election posters, until finally nothing but the flags of the Nazis and the election propaganda of the “National Front” were sti visible. Jn numerous cases where workers refused to take in their flags the | doors were forced, the flags torn} down and the rooms wrecked, the | men, and sometimes even the women, being brutally maltreated. Stream of Lies At the same time those mildly lib- etal bourgeois newspapers which dared to voice disapproval of the Sweeping terror were threatened and intimidated, and, if that did not pro- duce the required result, they were Suppressed for a time as a warning. A newspaper which relies on the loyalty of its working class readers, on théir persistent efforts to keep it alive, on their sacrifices and on their ehergy, can stand a few bouts of suppression without going under. The obst: » determination which kept it go! again gs it out vhen the peo ‘od of suppression is yer. However, a bourgeois newspaper which relies on its advertisers and vhich has nothing behind it but Susiness prineiples must go under al- ’ together twice uation, The offending papers were told quite plainly that they would have | to change their tune or be suppressed continually until they had ceased to exist. They changed their tune. In the week between the Reichstag ‘fire and the general elections, there- | fore, one huge stream of lies and in- citement poured out from Govern- }Ment sources, from the newspapers, through the wireless programmes, on ithe hoardings, at public meetings. | And on the other hand not a loop- |hole was left open for the other side to answer. It is clear, therefore, that the petty-bourgecis and peasant masses were overwhelmed. It was the old trick of the Zino- viev Letter on an intensified scale, and supported by a wave of official and unofficial terrorism hardly ever excelled, I was on the streets very much in those days, both in the working-class quarters and in the West End. On the Kurfuerstendamm and Unter den if it is suppressed once or And this was exactly the sit- Linden there was not much to he seen, * The Communist election posters had disappeared. No flags but the Hakenkreuz and the old imperial bl , White and red flag were visible, “Down With Hitler” Neither Communists nor Social- |Democrats could distribute leaflets. Armed policemen, accompanied by armed brown Bhirts, patrolled the streets, But within ten minutes on the Un- ter den Linden I counted Zive police lorries passing through 7 their way to the Police Presidiv™ at Alexander Platz, all of them with a load of heavily guarded civilians, vorkers and intellectuais who had been rounded up ‘u the raids, In the werking-class quarters there was more to be seen, more police, more armed brown shirts, more ar- rests and more trouble, ‘The atmosphere was tense. Groups |of workers gathered at the street corners. Shouts of “Down with Hit- Jer!” resounded, Communists Active | | The Communist Party organized 2! number of lightning demonstrations which were broken up by armed po- lice, but without serious losses, Leaf- let. distribution was going on, na- ,turally, surreptitiously. Hitler might be in power, but brown shiris could | {not yet show themselves singly in the side streets of “Red Wedding.” {police were surrounded suddeniy by groups of determined workers and disarmed. Dangerous ‘work, but car- ried out with speed and energy. I know of one case in which two | young Communists of my acquaint- ance held up a group of five armed Nazis. One of the young Communists carried a hot-air apparatus and the Nazis mistook it for a machine pis- tol, according to plan. The arms were stowed away in a safe place, Scores of such actions were carried out in the working class quarters, but no reports ever appeared in the news- papers. There are tens of thousands of such revolutionaries in Germany and it is their spirit which will hold | up the Red Flag until it is once again , the rallying standard for the masses of Germany in a final drive to yvic- tory. But for the moment the tide is flowing in the other direction and the nights in Berlin, Hamburg, Cen- tral Germany and the Rhine and Ruhr districts are nights of Fascist murder and savagery. The local Nazis | know their men, Death Lists Ready for Years For years previous! their pro- scription lists have been prepared, continually extended and brought up to date. During the night the mur- der gangs arrive, usually provided with a locksmith to open the street doors. Heavy blows delivered at the doors of the living-rooms have roused thousands of working class families. A refusal to open means the smash- ing down of the door or firing to chatter the lock. Werkers are dragged out of their beds, beaten bloody in front of their wives, often given no time to dress properly, but dragged of? with a coat round their shoulders. Women have been beaten, children threatened. And when the murder gangs have gone, the police arrive—sometimes. “Did the men wear the white arm- lets of the auxiliary police? They did? Oh, then that’s all right. They didn't? Well, then, of course, it’s nothing to do with us. Come round to the sta- tion in the morning and we'll take cown the particulars.” Men Shot Dead Some of turned, or rather their relatives have found them days later with terrible wounds in the local hospitals. Others |have been found by their relatives, | in reply to a curt note from the au-| Vance guard of the working clea, Auxiliary | thorities lying on the bare tables of the Commmerdat iarty i at ite pom, these workers have re- | the mortuaries. Still others have dis- | appeared completely, and have not been heard of since. Distraught mothers and wives with haggard eyes, worn out with crying, are jour- neying day after day from the police to the Nazi quarters, from the pris- | ons to the hospitals, from the mor- tuaries back to the police again striy- ing to hear a word about their ne est and dearest. Corpses And, in the first weeks of the ter- ror at least, the newspapers published short items. “Three unknown men were found shot dead in a copse near Berlin this morning. Over 30 cart- ridge cases were found near the bod- ies. No papers were found en the dead men, but to judge from their clothing, they were of the laboring class.” “Early this morning the corpse of a young man was fished out of the Treptower Canal. It was fully dressed, but mo papers were found. The young man had been killed by a bullet in the back of the head.” “A mounted patrol found the dead body of a middle-aged man dressed only in a shirt and overcoat in a field outside Berlin this morning. The body | showed several bullet wounds. Iden- tity has not yet been established.” Working class fathers, working class sons, dragged out of their beds and shot like mad dogs for only one crime, the biggest crime in Hitler Germany, an unswerving loyalty to their class, a refusal to submit to Hitler’s gangsters, a refusal to sur- render and abandon the fight for a workers’ and peasants’ republic, Werkors Fizht On But the murder gangs did not al- ways find hanie. Hundreds and thousands of Ger- many’s best are living in other places, changing their rooms continally. “On the run,” is the expression, but it is a bad one. They are not on the run, They are fighting and working still. The walls and hoardings, the pavements and doors show their handiwork. Their hurriedly produced leaflets pass from hand to hand in the factories and at the Labor Ex- | changes, More than one Red Flag proudly flying on a tall factory chimney has shown the masses on their way to work in the early morning that the battle is not yet lost, that the final battle is still to come, that the ad- that the Socialist Reichstag deputies acted bia a | Pressure when they voted confidence @————-———— S.P. Leaders Abjure Marxism; Communist to Police the district officials of the Gérman Socialist Party. The last circular is- {sued by the Duesseldorf Sub-District Executive of the Socialist Party states: “They are trying to get rid of us by saying that we are a Marxist Party. We are not so foolish as not to see what is going on. At present theeretical Marxist principles can- not help us. We must stop theorizing; this does not heip us get on. We must accommodate ourselves to present conditions.” With these words the lying “Marx- ist” phrase is finally abolished. The German Socialist Party used M: ist phrases only as long as they jcould be used to keep the workers |from joining the class front and go- ing over to Communism. Socialists as Good Patviois In their endeavor to capitalize the chauvinist wave unleashed by the Nazis, the Socialist leaders add: The front soldier plays a great role again. Well, didn’t thousands of Social Democrats and millions of our voters fight at the front? Weren't | we in the trenches? Weren't innu- merable members of our party hon- ored with war medals? Are we to be- izens? This we cannot and shall not allow. Here is where we must cammence our ac- tivity.” In order to prove that they are still serviceable in the Fascist efforts to smash the Communist Party, the cir- cular adds: Dencunce Communists to Fascist Police. “A word about the Communists. ‘They are trying to reach our mem- be: veh illegal leaflets. ete. The ‘Signal’ illegal Communist pamph- let, which is said to have been got- ten out by Social Democrats, is be- ing distributed in Duesseldorf. In this torth, is proposed to us. We have nothing to do with such things. Re- fase every contact with the Commu- nists. “AML those receiving the ‘Signal’ should throw it into the fire unread, or hand it to the nearest police sta- tion. We have nothing to do with it | and do not want to expose any of our members to danger. Those found pect arrest. We believe that all our comrades agree with us on this ques- tion. We have no more time for Com- munist experiments in Germany.” And so on. Is any further proof needed that the German Socialist leaders don’t think for a moment of fighting the Fascist recime? Does any worker still doubt thet all tre efforts of the German Soci ers are devoted to fighting the Communist Party and to preventing their working class tmembers from uniting with the Com- munist workers in the common strurgle avainst the Fascist dicta- torship? Let the socialist workers decide for themselves. SHOOT CHINESE WORKERS SHANGHAI—Two workers were killed and sixteen wounded when guards fired on a group of workers demanding that the Peking coal syn- Gicate, controlled by British capi- talists, pay them in silver instead of copper. When workers in the tex- tile factory ia "aap et ey deni- ae ates d#Prending the reinstate- ment of the dismissed workers tie Co ne dnd or, the oarmen| of the lanes] the orem.” | These PlanesAre For) This district | has already been incorporated in the| that | in} Denounce ‘The same attitude is being taken by | pamphlet a united front, and so | with a copy of it on them may ex- | By Mall everywhere: One excepting Borough of Cannda: One year, ERE'S a charming piece from the newspapers: SCRANTON, Pa., June 13—Michael | Wolohowicz, who has served as a di- |rector of the- Dickson City School | Board for seventeen years as well as | board treasurer for a long time, testi- | fied in court that he could not read or write and thet he never went to SPARKS| school a day in his life. He draws | | $4,000 annualiy. i | er | | Well this politician “educator” is | about as qualified to be a school di- rector as the capitalist class is qual- ified to run the industries. . Well, now Morgan can go telling all his friends how he was “investi- gated.” The laughter must be loud | and long. CONTRIBUTOR who signs him- |Al self “Food Worker,” sends us the | | following news item and his com- | ment: | BROOKVILLE, L, I.—J. P. Morgan| | won the silver cup award here this | | afternoon in the sweet pea scctior | on the first day’s judging of the | Summer flower show of the Nassau County Horticultural Society i | Thoughts on Morgan's Sweet Peas He never saw them But he won The silver cup award For flowers that Hl Both night and day A worker slaved in fertilizer. “His” sweet peas grew And basked in ' A precious sun —Oh glittering profit gold And spread in the warmth Of a worker slaving At a Bessemer. To Morgan’s prize From war swept lands Throughout the world Came wart rains Of toilers blood As workers died | For Morgan Dainty flower-be careful | ‘Twas the best of them ail | As @ baby cries for milk In an East side tenement And a worker siaves For Morgan J. P.’s plant wins at flower show While far away | One hundred and sixty | | Million ‘ | Soviet workers Plant But not for Morgan | “He” won the silver cup | With sweet peas He never saw. NAVY 10 HAVE49 NEW BATTLESHIPS, BY END OF 1936 WASHINGTON, June 15.—A $238,- | 000,000 naval building program was’ officially announced by Secretary of! the Navy Swanson today. The pro-| gram calls for the construction of 32) new warships in the next three years. The building of the ships will be pushed “with all the vigor we have” said Secretary, Swanson. Under} original plams the department ex- pected to spend $46,000,000 in the} first year, $105,000,000 in the second) and the rest in the third, but the} government's plans now are “to in- crease these totals substantially” in) order to rush through the program to| speedy completion. The “peaceful” | demagogue Roosevelt is speeding up | | American preparations for the com-)| ing war, as it was revealed that at al meeting of the high naval authorities with Swanson and the President. | held yesterday, Roosevelt “expressed the desire to start construction im- mediately.” Swanson, commenting | on these new military preparations, said—“This program is for the pur- pose of putting people to work.” SENATE STILL MANOUVERS ON CUTS FOR VETS WASHINGTON, Ju June 15.—A con-| ference of house democrats this af- ternoon voted 170 to 35 to insist upon refusal to restore the $38,000,000 of | the $400,000,000 cut imposed upon the) veterans by the independent offices | appropriation bill. They will go into, conference with senators to try to) reach an agreement so the bill can | be pessed and congress adjourn. | Roosevelt Threatens Veto | | Last night the senate passed the cutting - Stewar amendment that | would reduce toe cut by $38,000,000, | | in spite of the fact that Ploer Leader Robinson of Arkansas. had advised | them that it would be vetoed by| Roosevelt. Senator Cutting anounced that if it were vetoed he would not try to wage a fight to get the two-thirds’ vote necessary to override the veto "Ths vote in the saate was 51 to 39 for the amendment. Nineteen dem- ocrats joined -one rejub- licans end one far ing up the Pon Rocsovelt proposals. Stewar Favors Cuts for Vets In a speech yesterday on the amendment Stewar of Oregon, co- author of the proposal, openly de- clared he was in favor of the most slashing cuts in pensions and com- pensation for the war veterans. Others pointed out that when hun-— dreds of millions were involved that! igure was not of great significance. ; The whole thing resolves itself into a game wherein the politicians are, trying to save their faces so they cat, appeal in the next election for the: veterans’ vote and try to arrest the| growing movement against ali cuts! | Tae Sar Mtiewte sateen of pow, SUBSCRIPTION BATES: $3.50; 3 m New York City. ths, $2; 1 month, Ts, Foreign ant year,’ $6; six months, Manbattan and Bronx, JUNE 16, 1938 s|A DEFENSE OF FASCISM UNDER THE GUISE OF DEFENDING ‘DEMOCRACY’ i. In this week's issue of the New intervention against the Soviet Union, Abramovitch, shining light of the Second International, strives to do his share to infect the German and Leader, the “Socialist” plotter of the international workii writes: “For the German workers, the events in Germany became an inner spiritual tragedy and they are broken in spirit and morale. A terrible disillusionment, spiritual tumult and bewilderment has spread among them.” This is a slander against those millions of German workers who in their daily encounters against the Fascists are steeling themselves for the revolutionary overthrow of German capitalism.” Thus does Social-Fascism attempt to identify its own utter col- Japse and defeat with the whole German working class. If it is broken in morale, then it assumes that the eniire German working class is also defeated. ng class with hopelessness and defeatism. He What cheek it is for the Social-Fascists to wail about the “digillusion- | ment of the German workers and their spiritual tragedy.” Who, if not the Social-Fascist leaders, are responsible for whatever bewilderment and disillusionment which may exist now among the German workers? Who, if not the Social-Fascist leaders, have been luring the German workers into the clutches of Fascism with their smooth talk of the “peacetul, demo- cratic transition to Socialism”? The German working class is not “broken in spirit.” It is recovering from the treacheries of Social-Democracy and the “plows of Fascism. Already, it is reforming its ranks. Already the Ger- man workers are preparing to answer the challenge of their capitalist exploiters. With one stroke, the Social-Fascist interventionist, Abramovitch, slyly tries to accomplish the forgiveness of his German Social-Fascist col- leagues, and the besmirching of the heroic German Communist Party. He writes: “From many cities come complaints that the higher officials of the Party and the Red Front have proved to be proyocateurs and spies of the Nazis. An overwhelmingly large percentage of the mem- bers are going over into the Hitler camp.” This is the most damnable lying treachery. This is the talk of an agent-provocateur, a Fascist agent sent into the ranks of the workers to poison their minds with fear and doubt, to rob them of the leader- ship of the only revolutionary party in the world. He says this of the Party one of whose leaders, Torgler, defied the Fascist butchers by openly walking into their headquarters to demand the release of all the workers who had fallen into the hands of the Fascist. jailers! He attempts to besmirch this Party, ten thousand of whose members now lie in the torture chambers of the Nazis, and whose leader, Thaelmann, is in the hands of the Fascist torturers. He ignores the 5,000,000 Communist votes recently cast in the face of open Fascist terror. He ignores the fact that the Communist vote increased in Prussia during the last clections, with Fascist murder gangs patrolling the polls. ‘The Communist Party has not yielded one inch in its fight against Fascism. Hardly a week after Hitler’s unbridled terror began to sweep through the strects of Berlin, when 300,000 copies of the Rote Fahne appeared in all tie working class districts, at a time when the mere possession of one copy meant execution at the hands of the Fascist murder gangs. It is the Communist Party of Germany which alone fights ceaselessly for the everyday interests of the German workers against the onslaughts of German capitalism, against wage-cuts, against the reduction of un- employment benefits. It is the Communist Party which alone fought against the abolition of every democratic right which the German work- ers wrested from the German capitalist class by herole struggles after the war. It is the German Communist Party which today stands alone in the leadership of the German masses in the fight against Fascism and for = revolutionary dictatorship of the working class. . * . In the face of the revolutionary heroism of the Communist Party, Abramovitch writes: “The Communists cannot, for political reasons, fight against Fas- cism sincerely, because they cannot wholeheartedly defend the demo- cratic institutions they unceasingly attack. The ill-concealed thought in the back of their minds is: Let Fascism come, it will prepare the way for us . To the Communist strategists, the failure to fight Fascism . Was a conscious policy derived from their false theory.” Here is the most shameless sophistry! In his opinion, to attack the “democratic” instituions of capitalism, to expose the class character of bourgeois democracy, as Marx, Engels and Lenin did, is to make one incapable of fighting Fascism “sincerely”! Under the guise of defending democracy, the Social-Fascigts defend’ capitalism, The Communists ceaselessly expose the capitalist Aetatership which lies behind all capitalist “democracy.” It is the Communist Party alone which fights day in and day out for the basic democratic rights of free assemblage, etc., whieh the work- ers are denied just as ruthlessly in the “freest’” capitalist demoeracy as in the monarchies, and constitutional republics. And it is precisely in the exposure of the capitalist dictatorship whieh lies behind all bourgeois democracy, in wevealing to the workers the “swindle of capitalist democracy” (Marx), that the working class is mobilized for the struggle for real democracy, for proletarian democracy. * * . The Social Fascists still strive to keep the workers from revolutionary struggle for the overthrow of capitalism by preaching “the peaceful tran- sition to Socialism through peace and freedom, thraweh democracy.” In 1918, the Social-Fascists promised the German workers that the “democratic” Weimar Constitution would lead “gradudfly” to Socialism, And what has been the result? The result was the gradual abolition of all democratic rights, and the development of Fascism, ~ Wherever Social-Democracy has achieved political eminence through democracy, it has served merely to assist the bourgeoisie in consolidating its reactionary forces, in preparing the way for Fascism. ‘In England, the Labor Party, with MacDonald, the arch-exponent of the peaceful transition to Socialism at its head, did precisely this service for the Brit- ish bourgeoisie, . In Germeny, Social-Democracy also performed this function for the German bourgeoisie. The Weimar Constitution, proud “democratic” bulwark against pro- letarian dictatorship, strengthened every capitalist property relation which was in danger of being swept away by the revolutionary masses, It restored the tottring rule of the German Junker landlords. It permitted the German bourgeoisie to retain their hold on the industries and fac- ioriés of Germany, safe from seizure by the revolutionary proletariat. The bourgeois democracy establishe~ by the Social-Democratic lead- ers in 1918 was exactly what all bourgeois democracies, are. In the words of Marx, the bourgeois democracy of the socialists is nothing more nor less than the “concealed dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.” And the development from this bourgeois-democratic government could only lead straight to fascism. 4 As German capitalism sank deeper and deeper into crisis, it was in- evitable that the German bourgeoisie would discard the trappings of “democssey” end attempt to crush the rising revolution of the German workers with the naked military dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, with fascism. And in this progress from the concealed dictatorship of the capitalise class to the open fascist dictatorship of the capitalist class, cracy played a leading role. By its theory of the “lesser evil” it disarmed the German proleteriat against the onrush of fascism. The Socialists urged the German workers to support Hindenburg as a “lesser evil.” In the United States, Norman Thomas hailed Binden- burg as a “great democrat.” By the theory of the “lesser evil,” Social- Democracy robbed the German workers, step by step, of every democratic righ’, of every advance in wages and working conditions, which they had won through bitter struggle. ‘The fruits of the theories “of Social-Democracy, the theory of ithe “Democratic State” which stands above classes, the theory of the “Lesser FNM,8 the theory of the “Peaceful transition to Socialism” through . liaméntary government—oli these wencheries inevitably pregeced Ree areaT aT rsaE eT