The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily -<QWorker AENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY 5.4, (SECTION OF COMMUNIST [HTERRATIONAL? “America’s Only Working Class Dally Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED: DAILY. EXCEPT SUNDAY. BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC, 50 East 13th Street. New York, N, ¥. Telephon: A}eonanin 4-7 954 Cable Address Washington Sur iéth and Fst, By “Mail 6 months, “$3 5¢ BESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1934 R. R. Concentration HE VERY FACT had to step in w MW necessary to extend their 10 per cen! Yond Jie 3, 1934. ws the tremendous bosses and the government must set in mo’ the railroad workers. Why is si an array Tailroad workers are aroused Gepths against to Wages at 2 time when the cost of living Is Ing. Powerfully organized been kept in check by Brotherhood officials. All signs point fallroad ‘industry Meanwhile, the negotiations are going on in Wash- ington between the railway labor executives, the Roose- velt government and the railroad management. These forces are pretty well agreed on Roosevelt’s plan of | extending the wage cut. The strategy has already | been worked out. Roosevelt first sent his message for @ continuation of the 10 per cent wage cut. Then | the railroad managers issued formal notice insisting | ona 15 per cent cut. To make matters look right, the railroad labor executives put in their usual protest, and are ready to “compromise” at 10 per cent, President Roosev the railroad ms force necessary? and of The stirred he railroad workers the government acting wi shave | the to the tremendous struggles in the IN THIS SITUATION, we must ask every Party Dis- trict, every Party Section and Unit, concentrating on railye rk if they are straining every effort to ituation. Or are we to find that the tre- | wave of struggle in the railroads will pass | heads? Open Letter meet this mendous addressed to the Party mem- he figeaitty of establishing a solid | y amongst the decisive elements of letariat. Is there a more decisive erican proletariat than the railroad when nearly 1,000,000 railroad workers are | im Terment, are discussing every day what is to be | 4 the threatened wage cuts, is when our rough correct day to day work, by active | ¢outentration, can become a leading factor among the | Yealroad workers. But that cannot be done in a haphazard fashion. | annot expect the ratlroad workers to look for v*% even if they are being betrayed by their leaders, en if they Bailes it is up to the Party Districts, Sections and Units, who haye the responsibility of concentration on the | failtoads, to take advantage of every golden oppor- | tunity now to win over large sections of the railroad Workers; to show them that we have the correct an- | Swer, the correct program for them; to work with | them in every way to defeat the wage cuts. By these | means we can become’ a force in arousing a struggle, | in taking part in whatever action takes place, in | are prepared for the most militant | helping the railroad workers defeat the impending wage | out, and above all, in winning over some powerful forces for the Communist Party among the railroad | workers, There is no time to be lost. What little work has been done must be intensified hundred-fold. Where mone has been started, steps must be taken to pick out concentration points on the railroads — round houses, depots, railroad lodges, or whatever turns out to. be # decisive concentration point. Here before us is one of the highest political tasks im the preparation of the struggles on the railroads. The whole imperialist government of Roosevelt is in { the situation flatfootedly. It is not only a struggle | @f the railroad workers against the bosses; but in- tegrally and directly, the railroad bosses are tied up with the state power. ‘That is why it is so important for the Party to | give leadership and explain to the railroad workers the | elass forces they face and how to defeat them In this way we will be carrying out the Open Let- ter on the railroads and beginning the serious tasks of rooting our Party among these decisive American wom | W. A. layoffs and wage cuts, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUES) Workers! Unite Against Roosevelt’s C.W.A. Firing TT * ROOSEVELT government's Hunger Program of ng all C.W.A. workers from their jobs is being noaeind through. Roosevelt shows daily his mination to abandon the unemployed C.W.A workers to starvation. Roosevelt's relief director, Hopkins, has already fired 900,000 workers from C.W.A. jobs. Another 572,500 are to be fired this Friday. But Roosevelt is attacking not only the unem- ployed in forcing through his program of liquidating the C.W.A. Wages of all O.W.A. workers still on the job have been cut to 30 cents an hour. Those C.W.A. workers still on the job will thus receive the munificent es of $4.50 a week in rural areas and small towns, and $7.20 a week in the cities and industrial areas. Skilled workers are to get unskilled wages. The firing of millions of the C.W.A. workers brings he workers face to face with the necessity of imme- diately achieving a broad united front on the basis of @ united fighting program demanding C.W.A. jobs, cash relief and the enactment of the Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill (HR7598) A united front of the employed and unemployed e fight against C.W.A. layoffs and wage cuts, re- gardless of the disruptive attempts of the social fascist misleaders, will prevent Roosevelt from going through with his program of firing millions of C.W.A. workers. That this unity can be achieved was shown in the New York demonstration of 10,000 C.W.A. workers from nine organizations. The Socialist Party leaders such as David Lasser were powerless to prevent a militant demonstration, in spite of the fact that they tried to sidetrack even mention of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill and tried to protect the city administration of LaGuardia from the pressure of the demands of the unemployed. Lasser, in his speech in Union Square failed to mention the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, wt spoke for unemployment insurance without refer- ence to any specific bill, He told the Daily Worker he wanted to study the question further before en- dorsing any particular bill. In his Union Square speech, Lasser stated that the demand for C.W.A. jobs was not s.city matter and therefore the jobless made no demands on LaGuardia, This united front, led by the Unemployed Coun- cils, must enlist the masses inside the A. F. L. unions, inside the socialist controlled unemployed leagues, etc. In spite of the splitting tactics of the soctalists, Musteite and renegade misleaders, the unity of the workers will force the Roosevelt government to stop the C. W. A. firing. The unemployed and employed workers, have be- fore them only the road of struggle, of mass protest | and mass organization, on the basis of complete soli- darity, if the hand of Roosevelt is to be stayed and the firing of the C. W. A. workers is to be stopped. | The united action of the employed and unemployed in spite of social fascist misleaders who are trying to prevent any fight of the unemployed for their de- mands, is necessary if these demands are to be won. The united front of all workers against the C. should include par- ticularly the rank and file members of the A. F. L. unions, Over the heads of William Green and Mathew | Woll, who support Roosevelt's Hunger program and oppose real unemployment insurance, the rank and file inside the A. F. L. must be brought into the united front against C. W. A. layoffs and wage cuts | and for the demands of the jobless. Employed and unemployed workers:—Only a broad united front of all the workers, based on a fighting program, can defeat Roosevelt's Hunger program of Unemployment and Wage Cuts. Organize the C. W. A. workers on every C. W. A. job to protest against any more firing of C. W. A. workers, Demand continuation and extension of ail ©. W. A. jobs. Organize jobs committees on all C. W. A. projects. Protest at the C. W A. headquarters | against the firing of C. W. A. workers. Protest against the wage cuts and stagger system on C. W. A. jobs. Demand union wages and conditions on all C. W. A work. Demand jobs or relief for every unemployed worker. Organize protests at all relief offices demanding cash relief for all those without C. W. A. Jobs. Organize mass meetings, delegations, marches and demonstrations at all C, W. A. and relief headquarters. Can Roosevelt condemn sixteen million jobless to starvation without a protest? Those delegates to the National Convention Against Unemployment recently held, as well as the Unemployment Councils and C, W. A. Workers Unions, should take the lead in or- ganizing these protests. Organize a broad united front of all workers for jobs or relief. Fight agdinst discrimination against Negro and foreign born workers on C. W. A. jobs and in giving out of jobs and relief. Demand the billions now being spent for war pur- | poses and for loans to bankers be immediately turned over for unemployment insurance. Demand the im- mediate enactment by Congress of the Workers Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598.) Y, FEBRUARY 2 1934 Strike Outlawed, Reign of Terror * Rages in Cuba Brownsville Plane Big Mass Meeting. to Fight Jingoism Anti-War Youth —— Conference Is Called for Feb. 23 RK — Plans for the iarg , parade and ma: Boston | meet ting war and fascism | ever held in Brownsville are being | Jcarried out by 40 organizations for | Washington's birthday, Thursday Feb. 22 The demonstration and meeting is called by the Brownsville Provisional Committee Against War and Fas- cism, as a counter-blast to “National | Defense Week,” the week of jingo da which comes to a climax hington’s birthday. |. One hundred thousand leaflets | | have been distributed by the organ-| izations forming the Provisional | Committee, 25,000 more by other or- ganizations. One thousand posters | have been put up in Brownsville, East | |New York, and Crown Heights. | The march will begin at 7 pn.| Thursday, from four mobilization points, and will end up at eee | Palace, Rockaway and Fulton Sts., where the mass meeting will take, place. The mobilization points are jat Pennsylvania and Sutter, Hins- dale and Sutter, Stone and Pitkin, and Hopkinson and iPtkin Aves. . . Boston Conference Friday | BOSTON, Feb. 19—The Youth Sec- | tion of the Boston branch of the/| | American League Against War and| | Fascism has called a conference | | against war and fascism, to be held, in the Bradford Hotel Feb. 23, at} 8 p.m. The call to this conference has | |been sent out to all young workers, | students, Negro youth, employed and | unemployed, to all youth in C. C. C.,| R. O. T. ©, and C. M. T. C., to all! members of clubs and fraternal or-| | Lacie Avo Babee org Anti-Fascist Body to Help Victims of Dollfuss Terror | Committee. Sends Wire Pledging Support to Austrian Workers | NEW YORK — Denouncing the | brutal murder of working men, women and children by the Austrian fascists land declaring solidarity with the | Austrian working class fighters, the | National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism issued a call yes- terday to the whole working class of | the U.S.A., to all sympathizers of the | struggle against fascism, to rally in | gigantic protests throughout .the | country in defense of the victims of | fascism in Austria. | Speaking for 27 organizations, which include the Communist Party, | trade unions, fraternal, sports organi- | zations and workers clubs and frat- \ernal organizations with a member- ship of over 400,000, the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism sent the following cablegram of protest to Chancellor Engelbert Dolifuss of Austria, “The National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism speak- ing for affiliated organizations con- taining 400,000 workers and sym- pathizers, demand that you imme- diately stop your fascist murder of Austrian workers, their wives and children, who are heroically fight- ing against poverty and starvation and for freedom. The working class | and its sympathizers the world over are uncompromisingly opposed to your fascist terror regime and will mobilize world opinion against it as *“VIENNESE WALTZ” Dy Burk —By Burck | Prince Starhem berg Daily Worker Opens Mid-West; News Bureau in Chicago, Ill. News Bureau in Heart of Steel, Railroad and Meat Packing Centers NEW YORK —Forming a news bureau in Chicago, the heart of vast steel, coal and grain regions, under the ‘very nose of the big wheat pit gamblers, the Daily Worker con- tinues its policy of becoming a better news-gatherer and organizer of the | American working class. effectively as we did against the Hitler fascist regime. We join in solidarity with the Austrian work- ers and shall aid them with all means to defeat your attempt to enslave, persecute and torture them. We demand the immediate liberation of all imprisoned workers and im- Mediate stoppage of the hanging and execution of workers who have fallen into your bloody fascist hands.” ‘The protest was signed: National Committee to Aid Victims of Ger- man Fascism. Affiliated Organizations: Arbeiter Kranken und Sterbe Kasse, International Labor De- fense, Workers International Reliet, Con- ference for Progressive Labor Action, Jewish Workers’ and Peoples’ National Committeo Against Fascism and Pogroms in Germany, German National Anti-Pascist United Front, Communist Party, International Workers Order, Trade Union Unity League, Arbeiter Saengerbund of the United States, National Miners Union, Nature Friends of the United Amalgamated Food Workers, Jewish Party, A. F. of L. Committee For Unemployment Insurance, Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, Shoe Workers In- dustrial Union, Food Workers Industrial Union, Italian’ Anti-Fascist Committee of Action, Arbeiter Turn und Sport Bund of United States, German Workers Ciub, Fin- nish Workers Federation, Cultural and Pro- fessional Committees Against Fascism in Germany, Youth United Front Ageinst Ger- man Fascism, Hungarian United Front Against Fascism, Workmen's Circle Branches (14) of New York and other local organiza- tions. Alfred Wagenknecht, Executive Secretary, The Mid-West Bureau of the Daily Worker will have offices at 101 S. Wells St., Room 105, daily. On Sunday the bureau can be reached at the Workers’ Bookshop, 2019 W. Division St. In line with the recent Open Letter of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, cailing for the greatest attention to the heavy in- Gustries, the Daily Worker Mid-West Bureau will give regular reports of the struggles of the workers in the steel, coal, railroad and packing in- dustries. The Mid-West Bureau also sends first-hand news of the move- ment among the farmers in the corn belt and the milk producers of Ili- nois and Wisconsin. Dan Davis of the Daily Worker staff has been placed in chargeof the Bureau. Workers’ and farmers’ or- ganizations wishing to communicate news to the Mid-West Bureau may oS in touch with Davis at the Bureau Office. PLAN WAR GAMES FOR FLEET SAN PEDRO, Cal., Feb. 19.—Start- ing today the fighting fitness of the seapower of the United States fleet will be put to a rigid three-day test off the Southern California coast. NEW LOW ON STATE DEATH AND BIRTH RATES ALBANY, Feb. 18—Dr. J. V. De- porte, director of the Vital Statistics Department of the State Department of Health, revealed today that the death rate in the state for the year 1933, was the lowest known, being 11.2 per 1,000 population. He also re- ported that the birth rate for that year was the lowest ever, showing a drop of 25 per cent since 1927, Int'l Socialist Head. Girovels in Praise of. Slave-Owning King Vandervelde Hopes New| King Will Carry Out | Father’s Program BRUSSELS, Feb. 19.—As prepara- tions were being made to bury King Albert of Belgium, Europe's biggest slave owner, Thursday, and to crown his son Leopold king on Friday, the Communist Party of Belgium is re- ported to have called on all Belgian workers not to recognize the new monarch, and to demand a republic. At the same time Emile Vand«r- velde, chairman of the executive committee of the Socislist Interna- tional, groveled in obeisance to the dead slave master of the Belgian Congo and his successor, and said: “T see no reason why Leopold IIT should not carry out the program of his illustrious father. I think King Albert was the foremost statesman of Europe.” INSULL IN SECLUSION, REPORTED ILL ATHENS, Feb. 19.—Samuel Insull still remains in strict seclusion, only doctors and immediate members of his family being allowed to visit him. The attending physician reports the patient to be “extremely ill,” but re- fuses to make further comments. WOMAN OF 60 DIES IN FIRE NEW YORK, Feb. 18—Mrs. Mary Howe, 60, of 2042 Ryer Ave., Bronx, crippled and unable to move with- out assistance, was asphyxiated by smoke early today by fire in her home. Her daughter and six others from the two-story building were rescued by firemen, but Mrs. Howe was found dead when reached in her room in the rear of the second story. | of the Massacre Is | Prepared at Preston Mill Hospitals, Jails Filled As Mendieta Moves to Crush Masses ecial to the Daily Worker) Feb, 19. — Presidem his de- strikes s with a brutal ipa of terror. ‘tywhere thousanis of workers fill the i: fhe most brutal at- tack so far is against the workers eston sugar mill, property ‘ited Fruit Co: y, U.S. Ambassador Caffery’s old friend. The workers of Preston haye been shot in dozens, dragged out of their homes to prison. The hospitals are filled, They appeal for immediate help. of the serion chief of staff, went there himscif, accempaiied by President Mendi- eta’s milliary aide. Preparaticns are being made for another massacre like that at Camp Columbia at Preston, to “teach the workers a lesson.” The Mendieta government is con- sidering an emergency law “for the defense of the republic” which equals the decrees of Hitler, pro- hibiting all meetings, propaganda, strikes. We appeal to all American work- ers, trade unions, and workers and students’ organizations to tak» ac- tion saab I - Scab Shoots Striker in California Pea Pickers’ Walkout Police and_ Vigilantes Open Reign of Terrorism EL CENTRO, Calif., Feb. 19.—A wave of terror by police and vig- ilantes has broken out anew in Im- perial Valley near Calipatria in the area of the pea pickers’ strike. One striker was shot by a mob and both were placed under arrest, the scab under police protection. No peas left the valley today as there are only 50 scabs at work while the picket line continued to number 1,000 and over, day and night. The Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union estimates ten thous- 1 out on strike. One thousand Mexicans and a few Americans are being held prisoners by fifty armed deputies in San Diego camp, Twenty deputies guarded four scabs on Young’s ranch. A state patrol car appeared in the strike area today, also @ civilian car taking pictures. Elmer Stackney is the wounded striker and his assailant is named Martin. Hutton and Thompson, ar< rested Saturday, have been released, Twenty-five Filipinos camping in Calipatria were arrested charged with “improper sanitation” and brought before Judge Grubel who informed them Young (a big grower) would p&y their fines if they would go to work as scabs. These workers refused. Thursday morning, according to the report of the union vigilantes raided a Mexican camp, attacked the striking workers, kicked one pregnant woman and injured her seriously, tore down the workers’ tents and threat« ened-to burn the camp if the strike ers did not return to work. Growers admit the fields are paralyzed, the workers are demand- ing increased rates, sanitary condi- tions and recognition of their union. Austrian Events Show Struggle Teaches Workers to Fight for Power, Says “Pravda” ¢ 4 4 (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 19 (By Radio) — Under the’ ‘title, “The Lessons of the| Armed Struggle of the Workers of | Austria,’ “Pravda,” daily newspaper | of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, wrote yesterday: ‘The February armed struggle of the Austrian proletariat revealed how far tie progress of the ripening rev- tignary crisis has gone, how deeply | ie entire system of capitalism is} shaken, how firm is the resolution of proletariat to break this system. ie “atthosphere of the capitalist sone” has become superheated. ‘Masses Will Not Be Restrained ‘Social Democracy will not succeed in keeping back the masses from ic; resolute action, even from armed struggle for power for the “working class. The European and world bourgeoisie {!s finally en- tangled in its contradictions. It the road of imperialist wars, of civil wars against the class. ‘if-the bourgeoisie selects the of war, the working class of ““This' means that the rev- erisis is ripening, and And the revolutionary is ripening, and will ripen. And the revolutionary crisis will ythe faster, the more the eaisie become embroiled in its inations, the more fre- resorts to terroristic ‘of. struggle against the class and toiling peasants.” | firmation of the position of Com-| | rade Stalin that “the idea of storm- | ing capitalism is ripening in the con- | sciousness of the masses.” How did these evenis develop? | workers behave on the eve of revolt? | How did the Social Democracy be- have? ‘We find the reply to these ques- | tions In an article which appeared on Feb. 15 in the Prague “Social Democrat.” The editor indicates that this article was penned by “one of the leaders of Austrian Social Dem- | ocracy.” It is a damning document, exposing these leaders. (Citing large excerpts of this article, “Pravda” continues:) We have here docu- mentary confirmation that the lead- ers of Austrian Social Democracy, having found themselves between two fires—the pressure of fascist re- action and the tremendous, steadily growing pressure on the part of the working masses—were forced to agree Strike Despite Leaders The general strike and the armed struggle of the Schutzbund and the | Austrian workers against the Dollfuss | government grew from the attempts of the leaders of the Social Democ- | racy to protest within the frame-/ work of legality, within the frame- | work of the law, against the disarm- | How. did the masses of the Austrian | S. P. Leaders Expose Selves | to the declaration of a general strike. | | ament of the Schutzbund and the} | dissolution of the municipal adminis- | | tration of Vienna. } | We know now that the strike began | at a time when the Socialist Party | | leadership was still discussing the| question whether or not a should be declared. The question | | Social Democracy Can No Longer Hold Back Wor kers Determined to Fight, Says the Organ of the Communist Party of Soviet Union—Events in Austria and France Show Wide Masses Are Ready to Follow Bolshevik Slogans, Talk to Ruling Class in Language of Bolshevism themselves compelled to take the initiative in their own hands, cer- tainly did not think for one moment | about a struggle for the dictatorship | of the proletariat. They wanted to frighten the bour- | geoisie a little, to frighten the fas- cists and force them to “a peaceful, constitutional solution of the political crisis.” This maneuver failed. The logic of actual events and the objective situation were seen to be stronger than the Social Democratic leader- ship; the protest had grown into a tremendous armed struggle of the workers against the bourgeoisie. Masses Ready The revolutionary determination of the workers is now so great that the “well-intentioned” Social Demo- | cratic liberals are losing control of | the movement whenever they attempt to bring the workers out into the streets, and the iron logic of the struggle takes command. The situation in capitalist Eu- rope is revolutionary to such an extent that at the slightest appeal the masses throw off the liberal prattle of the Social Democracy | and begin talking to the ruling classes in the language of Bo!- shevism. The example of the events in France is indicative in this regard. strike | The leaders of the French Socialist Party did not, and do not think Under the pressure ngade Stalin at the 17th Party| jority of only one cratic leader, was decided by a ma- | of the rank and file they were com- vote. dous general strike occurred in which, according to incomplete data, four million workers and toilers participated. A tremendous movement of the proletariat has been started under the slogan “For | Soviets.” In France also, the | workers are throwing off the bour- geois radical phraseology of the leaders of the Socialist Party, and are raising the slogans of Bol- shevism, The events in Austria and France once more confirm the correctness of the thesis of Lenin that under the conditions of present-day monop- Olistic capitalism the struggle be- | tween classes can only be carried on either for the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, or for the dictatorship of the proletariat. Social Democracy Helps Bourgeoisie The middle line, the line of Social Democracy, constitutes a deception | of the workers, which only helps the | bourgeoisie to consolidate its dom- | ination. This is very characteristic |of the modern situation. This Is characteristic of the Austrian events and of the events in France. The international Social Democ- | racy is attempting now to utilize the revolt of the Austrian proletariat |in order to cover up with workers’ blood the black spots of the treach- ery of the Second International. Is it not clear that the revolt of the Austrian proletariat constiutes an of the strike, according to the state- | about struggle for the dictatorship of | indictment against the entire inter- ‘Austrian: events are a most| ment of Otto Bauer, Social-Demo-/| the proletariat. national Social Democracy? Is it not clear that it was due to its treachery that the Austrian working forces finally to smash fascism in Austria? What Did Workers Lack? What did the Austrian proletariat lack in order to completely utilize its forces to defeat the enemy? They lacked real revolutionary leadership, correct revolutionary slogans indicat- ing the way, and mobilizing the masses. The leaders of Austrian Social Democracy have so far succeeded with the aid of the most dexterous demagogy to keep back the masses from joining with the Communists. When the revolt began, the Social Democratic leaders again betrayed the workers. ‘The Austrian Social Democracy in reality wished neither a general strike nor an armed revolt. During six days of battles by the workers of Austria, it never ceased td speak of the necessity to restrict them to a defense of “democracy,” thereby disorganizing the ranks of those who had revolted. Masses Aim Beyond “Democracy” The objective of the wide masses of the Austrian proletariat aims far beyond bourgeois democracy. This objective has been propagated, and is still propagated only by the Com- | munists, who fought in the first ranks of the revolt as the most de- voted fighters of the working class. But the small Ausirian Commu- nist Party was unable to create a united, centralized revolutionary leadership of the revolt which ex- tended over the entire country. Con- sequently the rising workers’ self- Social Democrats educated by Social Democracy in the spirit of the de- fense of legality allowed the Dolifuss government to divide the rebels into isolated parts. Workers Draw Conclusion The working masses now draw a corresponding conclusion from the Austrian armed revolt. It serves them as an object lesson of how to fight and conquer. One object lesson consists in this, that the ranks of the proletariat must be cleared of the traitors, the Social Democratic leaders. The armed revolt of the Austrian workers is the first stage of a new phase of gigantic class battles of the proletariat against fascism, for Soviet power. The Dolifuss victory is a pyrrhic victory. Austrian Fascism under- stands this, and this is why Fascism has unleashed so great a reign of terror. Austrian Fascism brings to life the darkest crimes of Thiers, Galliffet, and MacMahon, the butch- ers of the heroic Paris Commune. It is striving to exceed the crimes of these executioners, whose very names eall forth a curse from every worker. ‘The miserable, despicable Austrian bourgeoisie wishes to enter history as the most ferocious, bloody -watchdog of capitelism. Austrian Proletariat Not Aione However, the Austrian proletariat does not stend alone. Its immortal exploits of heroism ave a burning bright light over Europe. The world and exploited masses of all countries of the world are expressing their fighting solidarity with the Austrian proletarians who demonstrated the gigantic strength which is latent in the working class. The revolt of the Austrian work- ers demolishes all the arguments of the social-fascist deceivers that the working masses do not wish to fight against fascism. In the light of the struggle of the Austrian the activity of the German Social Democracy appears _ increasingly criminal. Although it had in its con- trol not only the main organizations of the workers, but even the state machinery and the police, it refused to struggie under the pretext that the working class “needs no struggle for power, but only agreement with the bourgeoisie. The armed revolt of the Austrian proletariat further demonstrated that the working class is able to carry on a struggle against all the modern military engines of the capitalists. It established the real united front of rank and file Social Democratic workers and Communists, and in the progress of the struggle it showed that where there is a revolutionary struggle the Communists are always in the first ranks. The events in Austria are of great in‘ernational political import- ance, They show the bourgeoisie what awaits it in case of war; how shaky and feeble is its rear. They testify to the change of attitude of wide masses toward the strug- gle against the capitalist system and for the dictatorship of the proletariat. They show how great is the in- fluence of the example of the Soviet Union on the entire international vroletariat: They show what great forces are latent in the working class. | show the whole world that while the bourgeoisie is adopting the course of war the class struggle ci the workers of the capitalist coun- tries is increasingly acuie forms, The front of the fighting classes is constantly extending. The aims of the struggle are becoming higher. It is a question of strug- gle for power. Civil war between the bourgeoisie and the proletarizt is becoming the order of the day. The workers of France and Aus- tria, strongest and weakest of capitale ist countries, prove the reality of how high the revolutionary wave has risen in Europe, how great are the contradictions between the classes, how near is the proletarian’ revolu- tion. Only One Way for Workers There is only one way in this struggle of the workers and toilers against the bourgeoisie, namely, the overthrow of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The middle line, the line of Social Democracy, as events in Austria and Germany testify, means the decep- tion of the workers, and leads to- ward Fascism. Workers Must Be Merciless The working class must realize that the bourgeoisie in its struggle for power knows and Tecoz= nizes no mercy toward the working class; that it is ready to apply every kind of Terocity to keep the workers chained. The working cls inss must realize that it also faust be merciless toward the bourgecisie; that 2 merciless strug- j sie. eth ‘the bourgeoisie and its chained doge—the fascists—is the command whieh it must carry out to the utmost, if it does not wish to remain the slave of the bourgeoisie. If the workers of Europe realize this truth, they will win. Such are proof of the analysis given by | | Delled to declare a general strike. They are a brilliant con- What was the result? A tremen- proletariat is siding with the fight- The Bauers and company, finding class could not utilize its tremendous! defense detachments of rank and file |ing Austrian workers. The oppressed ‘The eventa in Austria and France | the lessons of the Austrian events