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} WAL By SEYMOU! inland empire,” is one of most forthright admissions the Roosevelt administra- n’s intensifying drive against 1 unions, r listing many details of the lustrialist - landowner-government rror being inflicted upon the awak- hed agricultural workers, and even fistantiating many of the charges 1 the workers’ “jting =Cannery Agricultural Yorkers Industri- Union, the mm issioners ctually ~N n of the ns of the bul- t and tear ~- gas by proposing the, strikers riven into the yer - con- A. F, of L. SeymourWaldman able” aliens be “repatri- i (deported), and that the Ameri- /2 Legion, admitted by them to be he of the leading terrorists, be used }$ Ohe of the “media” for promoting Program of “social and economic ion” under the auspices of the employers’ California State Department of Education. The National Labor Board commis- loners, appreciating the extent to their own Board has used y against the militant work- sives the’ California fascists a esson in this Hitler art, Don't lie so much, caution the commissioners. They explain to the growers that is “whistling in the graveyard” to tter such palpable lies as they pub- ished on Jan. 9 and 23 by the Braw- Cal.) News: “The Mexicans are ell satisfied with the treatment ac- rded them by the growers and ship- and “Vegetable workers as a le are contented, anxious and will- g to work, and in perfect under- nding with their employers.” How- mers write, “we is whistling in the , for privately some of the r rmed us they were fear- i that trouble might break out again t the time of harvesting the cante- oupe crop.” tn fact, the commissioners continue, this r may be warranted by” sey- ral “civeumstances,” among which undesi We have been informed that as nany as 30 men in prison have been ng precisely what they are to on their release, and that the has become a virtual ‘normal ol’ for training in the technique crganizing and striking.” (Sounds a ogarist police report!) e Filipino group is actively or- aizing. The leaders assured us that * h will be made to join with all other groups of workers, re- zardless of race or color, ‘Only by the most tactful handling as the Vegetable Packers’ Associa- ion (affiliated with the American edevation of Labor), probably all United States citizens, prevented from vassing a strong resolution of sym- vathy with the Mexican strikers,” ‘Organization werk is now going on pong the Mexiean workers, pre+ nably under new leadership, “There is no evidence that the sup- Wessive activities on the part of the police are retarding in the least the organization plans ef the ‘Can- nery and Agricultural Workers In- justrial Union, allegedly Commu- nistic. ‘here is a lack of open and effi- cient leadership among the work- ers.” (This after explicitly stating hat the terror has forced much of he organizing underground.) “The menace of further disturbance varrants immediate action looking oward the removal of those condi- tions, real or fancied, that create and encourage discontent.”: (To re- moye which, the commissioners be- lieve it necessary to delegate the American Legion as one of the weepons for faszist “social and eco- nomic education.” 5 + a ( al ae MEET these “circumstances” the commissioners “specifically” recom- mend “that the United States De- partment of Labor send representa- tives who can sveak Spanish to aid the Mexican and Filipino groups, and others, to organize for the purpose { collective bargaining”that is, so hat the Mexicans, Filipinos, Japan- se, and other foreign workers fight- ng under the banner of the C. and : U, may possibly be weaned and ricked into the A. F. of L. And, of course, you fools, you are not ready to openly deny the y strike!” Thus, the recom- mendation that “the Federal Govern- ment encourage the organization of workers, in order that collective bar- ining may be effective in matters wages and condtions, both work- and living, and that the right strike and peacefully picket shall maintained.” Q . . “HE report does not hesitate to re- T ci‘e the conditions under which he agricultural workers are fighting to get 35 instead of as little as 10 cents an hour for pickers and pack- ys, equal pay for equal work for men and young workers, recogni- of their union (the C. and A. w. I, U.), all hiring through their union, clean drinking water, a guar- intee of five hours work when called to slave in the fields, abolition of the iF ract system and free transporta~ to the fields. folowing, taken from the spe- chil reports, is what the tear gar, clubs snd pistols of the police and vigilan- tes, deputized thugs and American Legionnaires of the Imperial Valley ire attempting to perpetuate, ‘A strike was declared by the C. ind A. W. I. U. for January 8. A mags meeting for all workers in the valley was cailed for El Cen‘ro next day. As the Brawley contingent was forming, to proceed to El Centro B Pa trucks and cars, it was broken up L STREET’S CAPITOL | R WALDMAN } /ASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—The recommendations of the report -cently made by the National Labor Board’s Special Com- on appointed to investigate the agricultural workers’ s in Southern California, especially in the Imperial Valley, & peace officers, city, county and state, and tear-gas bombs were used. On| this day and later, many arrests were made, The Inquiry Commission has & list of 87 such arrests. “On January 12, several hundred Mexicans gathered in Azteca Hall in Brawley to hold a meeting. The chief of police of Brawley with policemen, sheriff's deputies, and state traffic of- | ficers, went to the Hall, allegedly to! capture five persons for whom he had warrants, Claiming that the au- dience would not permit him to per- form his duty, he and his aides threw several gas-bombs into the over- crowded hall. The police failed to capture any of the persons for whom they held warrants, though they did make arests five days later in the vicinity of the hall. “,.. The heat in the field reaches| temperatures of 120 degrees and up-| wa “Living and sanitary conditions are ® serious and irritating factor in the unrest we found in the Imperial Val-! ley .. . Words cannot describe some of the conditions we saw. “. . . Many workers are not able to earn sufficient to maintain even a primitive, or savage, standard of living “We uncovered sufficient evidence to convince us that in more than one ins‘ance the law was trampled under foot by representative citizens of Im~ perial County and by public officials under oath to support the law. “... Indiscriminate arrests are not likely to increase respect for au- thority, 1 “In‘imidation . . . prostitution of | the state vagrancy law ... the police unwarrantedly used tear-gas bombs . .. the right of free speech and as- semblage was denied... actual ab- duction . . . Imperial County news- pavers do not reflect a liberal or legal attitude .. . ‘The American Legion is to be commended for its readiness to go to the bat if an extreme emer- gency arises.’ (Brawley News, Jan. 1, 1934) . . , ‘Back of the officers stands a large group of citizens, the vigilantes, ready to assist in cleaning the Valley of the undesirables at a moment's call.’ (Brawley News, Jan. 18, 1934.) . . . A news item in the ‘Calexico Chronicle’ of Jan, 12 re~ ported that ‘Brawley’s American Le- gion reserve was mobilized to keep down the rising tide of strike sen- timent’.” In spite of all this; Commisstoners J. L, Leonard, Will J. French, and Simon J, Lubin weep that “it is regreetable that men who have put heroic efforts (other men’s, the work~- ers—S. W.) into the reclamation of desert wastes are threatened with the loss of their hard-earned fortunes.” However, they feel that smashing the workers in Hitler fashion may save them. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDA Austrian Fasei Y, FEBRUARY 24, 1934 Terror tay a ! ot @¢ HIN E dvded EXPORT JF . 7 (Above) A group of Viennese Schutzbund members, captured by the fascist state forces, being taken under guard to prison to face the court- martial which will order some hanged and condemn the others te long years at hard labor, (Below) Women worker prisoners of the Viennese fascists being taken under armed guard out of a patrol wagon into prison to await their fate at the hands of the Dollfuss terror squads. The 1917 By SI GERSON d pogens are naive people, even in this day and age, who wonder wistfully “why the Communists are always at- tacking the Socialist leaders,” Particularly on the question of war and the attitude of the Socialist leaders towards war. ‘This is a legitimate question, At this moment, when the flower of the Austrian working elass has been mur- dered by & combination of Dollfuss artillery and the insidious of the treacherous policies of official leaders of Austro-Marxism, Now when the world literally teeters on the pre- cipice of & new world slaughter, this question is peculiarly timely for American workers. An examination of the war record of the Socialist Party leadership is particularly instructive. Now, in the very midst of the jingo Preparedness Week, with the newspapers, movies and radio full ef war talk, it is highly important that every worker—and especially the Socialist workers—shall review the whole question and see who the true anti-war fighters are, and what was—and is—the position of the leaders of the Socialist Party on war, ‘We do not have to discuss abstract~ ly, The record of the Socialist leaders highog the World War is here for all see. ise that @ great anti-war sentiment ex~ isted in the United States in 1915 and 1916, Uppermost in people's minds was the war question. It became the central theme of the 1916 presidential elections, Woodrow Wilson a was de- beast Bag mte eae the eT St eect weak wae his Republican opponent, was obvi- OU die tea rank und fle of the Se- cialist Party the current ran strongly anti-war. Playing on the anti-war. sentiments among the masses, the Wilson cam- workers. ene sae On that und e might imagine under such the war as a Well Street war, an im- perialist war, unmask the pious hypo- cricies of Wilson, sharpen their agita~ tion and use every possible weapon to mobilize the toiling masses against the war. Words and Deeds Had not Morris Hillquit, leader of the Soeialist Party, at the Interna- tional Socialist Congress in 1912 af- fixed his signature to the Basle Anti- de justified by even the slightest pre- ‘ext of being in the interests of the people?” Did not Hillquit vote for this manifesto which pledged the Social~ Dollfuss Presses Terror Campaign Against Workers VIENNA, Feb. 23—The ninth sum- mary hanging of a worker captured during the anti-fascist fighting last week took place last night, at Linz. Two others, sentenced with him, were commuted to life imprisonment. While the government announces the official hangings of the courts- martial which are sitting all over the country, it does not announce the savage sentences of imprisonment at hard labor which are being imposed on hundreds of its worker-prisoners, In a series of mass raids last night, 600 more workers were arrested In Vienna, and taken to the barracks where, with or without trial, they are | tortured, and tormented by lack of | Water, food, or room to sleep, At ® dinner given him by the cor- respondents of the foreign press, Chancellor Dollfuss spent two hours | attempting to persuade them that he was “deeply distressed” at the murderous terror which he was “forced” to employ. “First of all,” he said, “the govern- ment must maintain order.” He also made great efforts to as- sure the correspondents that there was no disacreement whatever be- tween himself and the fascist Heim- wehr leaders. The Socialist leaders have insisted, in defense of their | policy of a united fron with Doll- | fuss, that he did not really agree with the fascists. A concentration camp organized on the same plan as the Nazi concen- tration camps in Germany has been established at Bruck - am ~ Leitha, | | | Why Sociali Communi t Lead t Critieci Page Five ers Fear m of Their Policies and Deeds in Austria Revolutionary Lesson of Workers’ Battles By OTTO LESSNER INDER. the heading “While Austrian Workers Fight and Die. ,” the |“New Leader” of Feb. 17 prints an|and Waldmans are article, filled with hatred, against the Communists, because of their attack {against the policies of the Austrian | SocialDemocratic leaders, in connec- |tion with the Austrian situation. | Yes, it is absolutely true that we jattack the Socialist leaders, that we Communists do not draw the conclu- |sion from the events in Austria that |the workers should now support Nor- |man Thomas, Dubinsky, Woll, Green, jetc. It is absolutely true that we jdraw the conclusion from the Aus- trian events that the American work. ers must all the more quickly drive these Social-Fascist leaders from their draw the revolutionary consequences from the Austrian events and show these revolutionary lessons to the workers. Austrian Revolutionary Lessons ‘What does Austria teach us? That} the working class must see clearly | {that it cannot expect anything else} jfrom the bourgeoisie but exploitation| and oppression, that the working class! | must systematically be organized and) jeducated for revolutionary struggles) for the overthrow of capitalism, That! the working class has no other hope of fighting its way out of the crisis, against fascism, agains imperialist war, but revolutionary mass action. That the road to the victory of the) working class is not the road which} German and Austrian Social-Democ-| racy took, but the road which th Russian Communists, the Bolshevil Party, successfully took, The policies of the German Thomases, Dubinskys, Wolls and Greens led to the seizure of power by Fascism in Germany. The Policies of the Austrian Thomases,| Dubinskys, Wolls and Greens led to} the establishment of fassism in Aus-) tria, The poleies of Thomas, Dubin-) sky and of their friends Woll and/ | Green in America are heading to the| intensified, cruél exploitation of the| workers, to the strengthening of the! fascist elements in America, and will,| if not successfully prevented by the/ working class in America, also lead) to the establishment of Fascism, | There are many honest young and older Socialists in the ranks of the Socialist Party who, at first, are em- bittered against us because of our) merciless criticism of the policies of) the Socialist leaders, These Socialist | workers are filled with shame over the policies of German social-democ- Treachery of the American So cialist Party Leaders great general strikes against the war|leader in a period when the American] and to take advanage of “the eco-/ruling class was doing everything in nomic and political crisis” and/its power to stampede the American “hasten the downfall of capitalist | people into the World War? The an- elass rule?” |Swer to the question lies in the con- But the words of the Socialist lead-|tent of the article. Hillquit’s article ers were one thing—and their deeds|Was part of the mobilization of the quite another, While the rank and file| Working class by American imperial- and its beloved idol, Eugene Victor| ism, and an integral part of the cam- Debs, took seriously the slogans of|P2ign to disorganize the anti-war internationalism and fought against|forees. American imperialism needed the was. even tho in an unclear, non-|2n article of this type from the leader Leninist manner, the late Morris Hill-|of American Socialism at this time, quit, the real leader of the apparatus|!¢ solicited the article, got it and pub- of the party, was conducting a typical |lished it. .deception of the membership. lee see es at the Setoky | headlines, whic! emselves ehar- indy ine Daly Worker publishes | acterize the whole political course of time treachery of Hiliquit. The re- |Hillauit and the majority of the So-) preduotion of an article by Hillguit | Ialist leaders. “Socialists in U8. Op-| Published in an adjoining column, |P0S®d to War, Will No} have ache assuring the American capitalist | ‘tly in Armies, But Will Not Handi-| class of his real policies and the |°2P the U.8. Government By Strikes. roal policies of the Socialist leader- |(Zmphasis ours—S. G.).. Here you ship, gives but another proof of the have it—the “opposition” to way double dealing methods that are the |Words and the pledge that he “will “ stock in trade of the Socialist Iead- |20t handicap the U.S. government by ership. Every worker should examine steikes,’ a pledge ae Li giee this article very carefully, jmen lived up to baldag touching fidelity. This article appeared in the New| _ Supported Wilson; Supported York Times magazine section of Feb.) oonevelt zs 11, 1917, about seven weeks before the| Fully aware of the fact that the en- Emergency St. Louis Convention of trance of the United States inte the the Socialist Party and about eight War was just a matter of weeks, Hill- weeks hefore the United States en-| (uit, instead of tearing the mask off tered the World War! the pigusly hypocritical Wilson, fawn- The very circumstances under|ed before him in despicable fashion, which the article -is published should| We quote from the above-mentioned make any worker Suspicious. Why] article: would the largest and most influential) “E believe we have a president newspaper in the country want to} who will approach every problem of prblish the statements of a Socialist | progressive legislation with an open The New York Ties Magaries, Febreary m4 i. illquit Will Not Fascsimile of article appearing in Feb. 11, 1917, New York Times, in which Morris Hillquit, Socialist Party leader pledged not to handicap the Wall Street gov- ist Parties of the world to organize ernment by strikes during the World War. * Socialists in U.S, Says Morris Hillquit. Opposed to War Armies, But Will Not dica anentinis us the coal supply and the and sympathetic mind.” This st a time when Wilson was | organizing the war forces! And, further, Mr. Hillquit continues in his spicing up of the war, in mak- ing it palatable for the great maases of workers; “I take it for granted that there are many men who, under the stress ef war, would support nation- alizing measures, that they would scoff at in a nomal t'me. And it is unthinkable that all the advance in social legislation which this country or any other may be forced into by a great crisis will be lost with the ending of « crisis,” And still further; “And the latest step, the prac- tical results of which we hardly know yet, was the industrial mob- ilization, This was first proclaimed in France, and then adopted, in even more concrete form, as the Policy of Germany, “By adopting all these measures, the warring governments have firmly established the principle of com- munity interest and collective soc! responsibility, None of these meas- | ures, once tried, has been aban- doned. “These various things must serve te break down the prejudices against collectivism and secialism, because the world now knows that collectivism and socialism work,” In short, the war, along with all its evils, brings some good with it, and the dog isn't entirely a bad dog. Gold Star mothers may console themselves with the fact that the Enlist Voluntarily in i u Hi H | 4 jai | Labor Board of Sam -Gompers and | Co.—that Hillquit hailed as steps to- | seription, of course, we will have | from them, “firmly established the | principle of community interest and | collective social responsibility. . . .”) Lenin, the leader of the Russian workers and farmers, writing in the preface to the first edition of his work, “State and Revolution,” bite | terly attacked the opportunist theory | that capitalist war-time regimenta- | tion was “socialism.” Lenin stated: | “The imperialist war has greatly | accelerated and intensified the transformation of monopoly cap- italism into state-monopoly cap- italism. The monstrous oppression of the laboring masses by the state —which connects itself more inti- mately with the capitalist com- bines—is becoming ever more mon- strous. The foremssi countries are being conyerted—we speak here of their ‘rear’—into military convict labor prisons for the workers.” | And it was this prison Socialism, | this “monstrous oppression”—which | the American workers felt in the| strike-breaking hand of the War} wards Socialism, just as he recently | hailed the N.R.A. of Roosevelt as steps towards Socialism—the N.R.A., the clearest expression of American capitalism's mobilization for war! Was Against General Strike But this is not the worst yet. The crowning point in the article—and the one correctly featured by the editors of the Times, who were very clear about their reasons for pub- lishing the statements of Hillquit—is that one in which he pledges hi self to do his strike-breaking best; “If the armies are raised by con- to serve as other citizens, I do not | Yesterday it was Wilson and the World War. Recently it was Roosevelt, and the N.R.A. In 1917 it was Wilson “who will approach every problem of progressive legislation with an oven and sympathetic mind.” In 1983 it was Roosevelt who was to be congratulated on the NRA. fundamental ap! is the same, and workers should see it as such. Hillquit Policies Remain ion of the workers by the Socialist leadership did not die with Hillquit. The basic policies of decla~ mation against war and in practice support of the N.R.A. war machinery and sabotage of such movements as the American Congress Against War still remain, Yesterday they fooled the workers in one way, today they try another. One thing has changed, however. That is the fact that where- as yesterday there was an unclear left wing within the Socialist Party, ® confused tho militant Gene Debs, ew Leader” Hides the’ But : We ask these So What are the con Thomases, Dubinsky |the Austrian eve |re |8 |to d jto and f a r which they fence | honest rai Socialist pe |pe 2 Mary Fox and J. B. ing petty-bourgeois intellect Juse the first pretext to « he fighting front against and war back into the Thomas, Dubinsky and tt rs of wayer- als who rt from Fascism arms of {ranks, It is absolutely true that we} Woll and Green, The d jdo not for one moment have the/ such elements is a gain for the s jillusion that Thomas, Woll, Du-! gle. For t! pose themselves in \binsky, Green, Waldman, etc., will/time. And the working class recog- nds! to preve: Social Fascism Main Enemy of Revolution in Workers’ Ranks overwhelming majority of the work class was following Austrian so- democracy, is the most striking le how the tremendous latent of the werking class is wasted nder the leadership of the Or does anybody doubt that one million / an workers, really pre- ized for revolutionary a clear political leader- not have been able to trian fascism and to es- the power of the proletarian ? The masses of Austrian work- possessed by a tremendous ighting spirit. The united Austrian proletariat under a really revolution- ary leadership would have been able he establishment of fas- cism. Such are the grim facts which he Social-Fascist leaders try to hide Tried to Hold Workers Back But have not Otto Bauer and |nizes in time that such tricks have|Deutsch themselves admitted in | 100,000 members. It controlled dozens }them dailies of large circulation, like indeed if he followed the path of | these worthies. He therefore adopted nothing in common with revolution- ary struggle against Fascism, Social Democracy Breaks Unity The workers, especially the Socialist followers, must understand that the] Austrian events again prove the com-| plete bankruptzy of social-democracy) and of the Second International. Let us hear the “New Leader.” In the quoted article it declare; “Had the Communist movement been successful in dividing the Aus- trian proletariat, the Fascist ban- ner would have been victorious throughout Austria within 24 hours after the struggle began,” | But the truth is that the Fascist banner is erected over Austria not) after 24 hours but after 4 days, be- cause the Conimunist never succeeded in uniting the majority of the work-| ers for a “evolutionary policy, because} —the Austrian social-democrats were able to prevent the masses of work- ers from going over to Communism.| Austrian social-democracy was in | control of the trade unions, the | benefit societies, it had 600,000 | members in Vienna alone; it had | 60 per cent of all voters. But just because Austrian social-democracy has been successful since 1918, in “uniting” the Austrian working class under its policy, was it possible that | the whole power which the pro- | letariat had in its hands in 1918 | was systematically turned over to the | bourgeoisie. Just because Austrian social-democracy has, since 1918, bean successful in being a bulwark against Communism was Dolifuss | able to establish the Fascist dicta- | torship and to defeat the Austrian | workers, i Austria in particular, where the) | munist Party, steeped in the revolu- | tionary anti-war teachings of Lenin and Stalin, a party in its very es-| gence internationalist, a party that) Systematically exposes the deceptions} of the Socialist leaders. During the last war, the Socialist leadership dissipated the enormous influence it had and the possibilities for anti-war agitation, The Socialist Party had, at about the time the United States entered the war, about of newspapers and periodicals, among the New Yerk Call, the Milwankee Leader and the Jewish Daily For. ward. In short, given correct revolu- tionary leadership, the masses in and around the ‘Socialist Party in | 1916-17 represented a force. Despite this tremendous infiu- ence, the S.P. leadership, at the head of which was Morris Hillquit, did not} wganize the struggle against the} war, Part of the leadership, people like John Spargo, William English Walling and Charles Edward Russell, openly supported the war. But Hill-| quit, a shrewd politician, sensing the| anti-war sentiment among the So- cialis, Party masses, consciously went along with this sentiment—in order to beray it later, as the article quoted above and his actions abun- dantly prove, Hillquit very Well understood that it would be fatal to his continued existence as a Social- ist to adopt the openly pro-war course of Spargo, Walling and Rus~ sell, He knew that his usefulness to American imperialism would be smal! the policy of being against the war in words and for it in deeds, a policy| concerning which Lenin wrote to a comrade in a letter dated October 17, 1914, regarding Hillquit’s German prototype, Karl Kautsky, and Kaut~-/ sky’s attitude toward the war: “The German Center, with Kaut- sky at its head, a hidden evil em- bellished for dipiomatic purpose and dulling the eyes, the intelli- sence, and the consciousness of the is more dangerous than anything else.” Must Expose 8. P. Leaders Anti-war fighters must understand that in order to carry forward a genuine anti-war struggle against war, to develop a mighty united front movement against imperialist war, the deeds of the Hillquits and those who bear his legacy must be merci- lessly exposed. Socialist workers especially should weigh the matter carefully. They. will realize that our persistent strug- gle against the Socialist leaders is not one arising out of some venomous malice, but a struggle resulting from an historical appraisal of the treach- erous role of these people. Those who really want to fight imperialist war effectively must fight in the | fascis' Communist way and must struggle ruthlessly against the leaders of the Socialist Parte. their interview with the correspondg- ent of the New York Times that théy witnessed attack after at‘ack of the without doing anything, and hat they used all their influence in order to hold the workers back from the fight? Did they not themselves admit that they went from Pontius to Pilate, from one capitalist leader to another, in order to effect a com- promise with the bourgeoisie at a moment when this same bourgeoisie was getting ready to strangle the working class, when the bourgeoisie was systematically disarming the workers and was making all preparations for the crushing of the working class? Did they not themselves admit in their inter- view that they were even ready to | allow. the establishment of a fascist dictatorship, with s few Commis- sions as @ fig leaf, just as German soclal-democracy supported the Bruening dictatorship? Did they not try, even at the last moment, to holg the workers of Linz back from the struggle with “Remain quiet, keep your cool head, let yourseves be disarmed; if we in the party headquarters could stand it, then you in Linz can do it too”? It is true, the Bauers and Deutsch: were not successful in this attempt to prevent the struggle, but this does not change the fact that they did everything they could in order to prevent it, But the workers began |to fight. They did not let themselves be strangled without a fight, They forced Social-Democracy to declare the general strike, They fought heroically. By their deeds they ne- Bated the policy of their leaders which was @ policy of dealing with the enemy generals for the purpose of surendering the army. Yes, it ts true, much teo long did the socialist workers allow themselves to be misled by the Social-Democratic policies of their leaders, This is the lreason why, after four days of heroic }war, even if it did take their sons, there is today an American Com-| fighting, the fascist banner is now aloft over Austria. But not for long. For the strug- gle of the Austrian working class shows that it is beginning on the barricades to estabish revoutionary unity for the struggle against and for the destruction of Austrian fas- cism. Unity Alone Can Destroy Fascism Yes, unity of the proletariat. That is the only possibility to destroy fas- cism and the bourgeoisie. But unity of the proletariat under Green destroys the power of the pro- letarian class, Unity under the lead- ership of Thomas, Dubinsky, destroys the power of the proletarian class. For the meaning of such unity would not be the systematic defense of the workers’ interests, the systematic prep- apartion and education of the work- ers for the big class battles, but would lead to the submission under the | power of the bourgeoisie. Social-Fascists Crushed Revolution. After Germany, Aus‘ria is the sec- ond striking example where the poli- cies of social-democracy are leading the working class, And the Austrian events throw an even more glaring light on the whole, dastardly treach- ery of German social-democracy. The leaders of German social-democracy in 1919, 1921 and 1923, crushed the revolutionary workers with the same means, as Dollfuss the working class of Vienna and of Austria. The mas: murder commit*ed by the Do!fss fascsts against the Austrian work~- ers can only be compared with the mass murder committed against the German workers, organized and led by the social-democratic leaders, Ebert, Noske, Scheidemann, Severins, who had 20,000 revolutionary Ger- man workers, among them Rosa Lux- emburg and Karl Liebknecht, mur- dered. With the same means, with the same knavish phrases about “saving civilization” with which Dollfus: crushed the Austrian workers,. with the bombardment of houses, with the use of cannons and howitzers, with the murder of women and chil- dren, with the execution of captured workers, the German Social Fascists carried out the policy of saving cap!- talism from Bolshevism, for fascism. And when German fascism raised its head, after the revolution had been crushed under the leadership of the German social-fascists, then the German social-fascists used all their ‘influence, all their » all their organizations to hold the workers ‘Yack from the struggle. Yes, Ger- man social democracy succeeded in doing this. ead” of the Prussian. goverament b of the government, ‘hey controlled a well-armed police force of 60,000, they were in control of the trade unions, they had organ- ‘zed a big defense the Reichsbanner and the Iron Front; ‘ut when the Communists proposed to the Social Democrats to mobilize all the power of the working class © bs for a general strike against the — (Continued on Page 8)