The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1934 Daily,.AWorker HFTEAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper’ FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY. EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO. INC, 30 East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥ ALgonquin ~7954. New York, W. Y. 5 National Pres Bufléing. Sout. Wells St, Rodm 705 Dearborn 3931 2 year, $6.00; 0.73 cents. 1 year, $9.00, monthly, 75 cents. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1934 The Judicial Lynch Decision RULING-CLASS and their lynch shown the world that no ng fraud so mean, no duplicity ut that they are willing and in their determination to carry y crook, legal murder of the nan took the hypocri- ernational Labor Defense mch death verdicts inst Norris had not been motions for re Haywood slogan at every meeting during International Thael- mann Week, March 3 to 10, and on International Wo- men’s Day, March 8. The demands musi be raised of Reversal of the lynch verdicts against Haywoed Patterson and Clarence Norris. Immediate, unconditional and safe release of the % Scottsboro boys, whose innocence has been proven. After Dimitroff--Thaelmann! E rulers in Germany, who at the Reichstag fire trial mobilized thieves, burglars, psychopaths and con- victed moral degenerates to perjure themselves side by side with the highest ministers of the Nazi state, are preparing to pour out a similar ocean of filth and calumny on Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist Party. Not only the working class of Germany knows Thaelmann, beloved leader of the second largest Com-~ | munist Party in the world. The workers of Germany know him through years of devoted fighting for their interests. The poor peasants of Germany know him as the untiring fighter for them against the intolerable burden of oppression of the junkers. The workers of all Europe know him, as witness the gigantic response of workers in Paris when he ad- | dressed them, opposing the chauvinistic incitement of | both the French and German bourgeoisie, and called | on both French and German workers to fight side by | side against the Versailles treaty with proletarian in- ternationalism. The hatred of the fascist murderers for Thaelmann is their hatred of the coming proletarian revolution, | the very thought of which makes them chill with fear. filled in time. extended the time in which th filed to February 24. Now he > authorit; nake such an extensi! he made a “rn 2” in grant- ing such an And the price he wishes to | exact for his ike” is the lives of the nine in- mocent boys. ded and persecuted by the State Of Alabama for nearly three years now. By his action, Callahan h orc d the ILD. attorneys into a posi- tion where work preparation for the appeal to the State Supreme Court, for which 60 days is the normal allotment of time, must be performed in six. The rr determination of the southern white rulers, |: owners, industrialists, to legally lynch the Scottsboro boys is expressed in this bare-faced at- tempi to rcb them of their legal right of appeal, through trickery. It is in keeping with the whole his- tory of the arrest and frame-up of the boys, of their continued imprisonment despite the overwhelming proof ocence, including repudiation by Ruby Bates rer testimony against the boys, and her he was coerced by Alabama officials their concocted charges of “rape” 6 nine boys. e innocence of the boys is proved! The con- attempts to legally murder them clearly expose e of the courts as instruments of the white cap- s and landlords to terrorize the Negro masses m to hunger and increasingly brutal na- ion. The despicable action of Judge Cal- ¢ serve to further warn the workers against in the “fairness’ and “justice” of the capitalist ly t he mass protest fight of the tollers of the alive these three years. Only this power will ir unconditional and safe release. The Reich- al, where verdicts of acquittal were forced the Nazi court by the world-wide protest of the boilers of the world, organized and led by the Inter- ational Red Aid and the Communist Parties, is the most shining example of this power. . ‘HERE has been a serious let-down in the mass work, the organization of the workers of the United States, to force the freedom of the Scottsboro boys. Legalistic illusions, reliance on the legal proceedings, have ap- Peared here and there. There must be an end to these illusions. Callahan's latest ruling must be exposed be- fore the broadest masses. The masses of toilers, Ne- gro and white, must be mobilized into immediate ac- tion to defeat the Alabama lynchers. id, led by the International Labor Defense | Communist Parties in all countries, has kept | The shadow of the electric chair must be lifted | trom the Scottsboro boys, by the organized action of the millions of toilers in the United States and through- out the world. In every meeting, in every leaflet, in the struggle @gainst fascist terror in Germany and Austria, for the | | | } freedom of Thaelmann, the fight for the release of the | | ers, who will now taste the bitter cup of imprison- | ment, carried signs praising the N.R.A. and President Scottsboro boys and against fascist lynch terror in the United States must be brought forward. Every effort must be made to organize protest stoppages in every shop, in every school, around these @emands. Leaflets must be issued for the school children specifically. Every action of the working class and its sym- pathizers must raise this protest cry and this demand. President Roosevelt, Governor Miller of Alabama, and the State Supreme Court of Alabama must be flooded with protests against this legal lynching, in telegrams, resolutions and letters. House to house canvassing must bring thousands Upon thousands of telegrams and letters to Roosevelt, Miller, the State Supreme Court, from individuals. Unions, churches, lodges, clubs, mass organizations, tiyst be mobilized into immediate action. |AELMANN, heroic devoted leader of millions of workers and poor farmers, must be liberated from the clutches of the Nazi hangman! March 3 to 10 has been set aside as = week of inter- national actions on a gigantic scale for the defense of Thaelmann, in a world-wide appeal of the International Red Aid, and its sections, the International Labor De- fense organizations o° all countries. Workers, farmers, students, intellectuals of Amer- ica, we call on you for a mighty response to this appeal! Mass in demonstrations before every German Con- sulate! Raise the question of the defense of Thaelmann in your trade union meetings, in your lozals and branches, in your shops, in your organizations. Raise the question of the defense of Thaelmann wherever there is honest hatred of the Hitler murder regime! Flood the Embassy and Consulates of Germany with telegrams and resolutions of protest! Crowd the Embassy and Consulates with delega- tions of protest! Make the Nazi butchers shake with the mighty voice of protest of hundreds of thousands! Defend E st Thaelmann! All out bexore the New York German Consulate, 17 Battery Place, Saturday, March 3, at 1:30 P.M.! Hillman, N.R.A. and Jail re MEMBERS of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers Union in Red Bank, New Jersey, began serving jail terms yesterday for violating an anti-strike in- Junction in the Sigmund Eisner Co. Mr. Eisner, owner of the company, is an official of the N.R.A. in New Jersey, and has a juicy contract for $100,000 from the United States Army. Sidney Hillman, president of the A.C.W., is an offi- cial on the National Labor Board. While ostensibly jailed for violating an injunction (which Mr. Green said had been made impossible by anti-injunction legislation) these workers were really Jailed because they took Sidney Hillman’s and Presi- . . ° dent Roosevelt's word for it that Section 7-a of the | N.R.A, gave them the right to organize. Workers who strike against $3.50 to $5 weekly wages under the N.R.A. are sent to jail. That ts what comes of Mr. Hillman’s activity on the National Labor Board. But President Weir of the Weirton Steel Co., Henry Ford, of the Ford Co., and Mr. Budd, of the Budd Auto Body Co., whom the National Labor Board helped to break strikes, and who then broke every promise made, are honored gentlemen in N.R.A. coun- cils. Of course, Mr. Sidney Hillman raises = loud howl against the arrests. He doesn’t want his part to be- come too clearly known to the workers. The ironic feature of the whole case is that un- der the influence of Mr. Sidney Hillman, these work- Roosevelt. The N.R.A. officials, among whom are Mr. Eisner and Sidney Hillman, stepped into the strike in order to smash it, just as Mr. Hillman helped to smash the Budd, Weirton and Ford strikes. Working with Roose- velt, they were united on the principle that “strikes at this time hurt the N.R.A.” The workers are now paying for this treachery by imprisonment. Of course, not one single boss has been penalized for the thousands of broken promises, the tens of thousands of discriminations, murders and sluggings. And still Mr. Sidney Hillman sits on the N.R.A. Labor Board prepared to break the auto strikes and any other strike that may come along. War orders Freedom of the Scottsboro boys must be a central | must go out, mustn’t they, Mr. Hillman? Senate Votes Down Bill for Payment. of Veterans’ Bonus NEW YORK.—The Senate has de- Jeated a proposal for cash payment the veterans’ adjusted compensa- Wie certificates (cash bonus) by a ‘ete of 64 to 24. The vote was taken (Gm an amendment to another meas- + tie. The amendment called for the ayment of $2,400,000,000 due the \eterans. “President Roosevelt for the second time wrote Speaker Rainey of the House that he will veto any bill workers subscribe. still more Worker, Shoe Worker Gets 22 New Subs' in 2 Hours BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 27—A worker in a shoe Haverhill, Mass., secured 22 new subs for the “Daily” in his shop in two hours time. This worker whose name cannot, be revealed, recently joined the Communist Party. workers helped tend his machine while he went about asking the in his department to There are 60 workers in his department, and he expects to get subs for the Daily Employers Raised Own Salaries As Workers’ Pay Is Cut WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 27—A glimpse into the fat salaries and bonuses of the upper officials in leading American corporations was afforded today by the data laid be- |fore the Federal Trade Commission today. It was revealed that scores of big | executives reaped a harvest of huge bonuses as well as large salaries, and that in many cases the salaries re- ceived by these Officials is now factory in His fellow by the House or Senate call- greater, after five years of crisis and ine for payment of the bonus to the yetérans. Roosevelt’s policy is one of giving billions for loans to bankers for war purposes but not a cent fer the bonus or for unemployment issurance. wet Was that I would 1 Pai . Roosevelt Fights Bonus “Roosevelt wrote Rainey, “Naturally on I suggested to you that I could f approve of the bill for the pay- tient of the bonus certificates I did no; mean that I might let it become vlaw without my signature. I do not ‘G6 things that way. gan the House the proposal for the | veterans’ ment of the veterans’ certificates,| members and Congress eight mem- an measure, is on the floor | bers, Se 145 Congressmen, facing re- | lon. have signed a petition call-|of the commission, and, in_ effect, or a vote on the bill. ing the veterans py backing the Weideman resolution, which proposes to prevent any vote at the presen session of Congress and to “investi- gate” and report at the next session of Congress. This move of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars leadership would kill any chance of passing the bill for’ the payment of the bonus, over Roosevei:’s veto. The Veterans of Foreign War lead- ership claims to have enough votes to kill a vote on the cash payment of the bonus. What I meant} The Weidemann resolution, backed to the bill, and|by the Veterans of Foreign Wars whom you tell this to.| leadership, proposes that Roosevelt your thought on the shall name four members of ‘a com- mission, as well as a chairman, the organizations name two This would give Roosevelt control |means that the Veterans of Foreign Be reactionary leadership of the| Wars leadership is fighting against of Foreign Wars is betray- Payment of the cash bonus, & wage cuts, than in 1929, A partial list of salaries follows: G. W. Hill of the American Tobacco Co., manufacturers of Camel ciga- rettes, received a salary of $144,000 and a bonus of $491,000 in 1929. In 1932, extering on the fourth year of the crisis, he received a-salary of $120,000 and @ bonus of $705,000. E. G. Grace of the Bethlehein Steel Corporation, shipbuilders, re- | ceived a bonus of $1,263,000 in 1929 | on a salary of $12,000. Steel workers at Bethlehem get from $450-$6.00 a day. The President of the Coca Cola Co. got $100,000 salary in 1929, which the crisis so that now it is $120,000, The President of R. H. Macy and of $124,000 plus a bonus of $15,000 in 1929. Despite a long series of wage reductions and intense speed- up instituted for the workers, Strauss still gets $124,000 a year, and re- celved a bonus of $12,000.in 1932, was raised throughout the years of| Co. of New York received a salary) Cuban Sugar Crop Is Harvested at Point Krupskaya’s Birthday Hailed) By Soviet Press |Lenin’s W ido w Was) | Honored at 15th All- | Union C. P. Congress | By VERN SMITH i Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent | MOSCOW, Feb. 27.—Soviet news-| | papers hailed the occasion yesterday | |of Comrade Krupskaya’s 65th birth- | |day to comment on her long activi- | ties, as Lenin's life-long companion, | in the world revolutionary move-| | ment. | | Born in 1869 in St, Petersburg, now | |Lenin-rad, she worked with] |revolutionaries from her earliest | | years. In the nineties she worked in| |schools on courses for workmen, where she carried on revolutionary | propaganda, Together with Lenin, she participated in the organization of the “Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class.” In 1896 Kruvskaya was arrested and exiled to Siberia. In 1901 she particivated abroad in the organiza- | tion of the Social Democratic news- | paper “Iskra.” She also participated jin the work of the Stockholm and | London Congresses of the Party. | During the imperialist war she par- | ticipated in the preparation of the | Bern, Zimmerwald. Kienthal confer- ences, and was active in the work of the first international women’s con- ference. } | | burg, where she did active Party work | She has lately been active in educa- | tional work in the Soviet Union. | She has also done great work in connection with the organiza‘ion. of |the International Women’s Move- {ment and among the youth. At the | 15th Congress of the All-Union Com~ munist Party, she was elected a mem- | ber of the Central Committee. The | Order of Lenin has been conferred on | her in recognition of her work. She is one of the oldest and most ener- |getic members of the Bolshevik | Party. ‘France and England Plan Vast Increase ‘in Their Air Fleets PARIS, Feb. 27—Immediate butld- ing of an air fleet second to none | has been ordered by the Doumergue government. Its program calls for | appropriation of four billion francs (about $260,000,000) to build new planes. 2 eel LONDON, Feb. 27—Doubling the | Present British air fleet is a “prac- tical certainty” in the near future, says the “News of the World.” The program will be brought f ward immediately on the return of | Capt. Anthony Eden, who is on a | tour of European capitals, attempt- ing to organize a military’ united front of the major capitalist powers | of Europe. Germany, Poland in ‘Deal Against USSR BERLIN, Feb. 27—-A new step in | the -Nazi-Polish negotiations work- ing toward an alliance against the Soviet Union was taken yesterday when an agreement was announced by which each country agrees to permit no propaganda against the other. Censorship of press, radio, books, | moving pictures and plays is agreed on by each country, in an attempt to cover up the long-standing bitter antagonisms between Polish and | German groups over the Polish cor- ridor and trade rivalries, in order to prepare public opinion for an open anti-Soviet alliance. In the spring of 1917 she returned, | together with Lenin, to Si. Peters- | Senstor Wagner | | | | | | ann -oe ‘OW YOU WON'T SEE IT! MILWAUKEE. — The Socialist Party of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Nazis and the Association of Com- merce carried out a campaign of in- timidation and slander against the anti-fascist meeting Feb. 21, at which Lord Marley, chairman of the Inter- national Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, was the chief speaker. Marley is the head of the organiza- tion which prepared the “Brown Book of Hitler Terror,” has provided homes in France to hundreds of orphans of Hitler victims, and supplies thousands of families of Hitler victims in Ger- many with food and clothing. He is on a nation-wide tour of America to raise funds to support this work. While the Nazis mailed copies of a vicious editorial in the New York Herald-Tribune calling Marley a “suave Bolshevist” to the members of the. Marley reception cortmitter, the Socialist Party threatened expulsion to any of its members who remained on the committee. Hoan Quits Committee. Socialist Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, and all the leading Socialists on the committee suddenly resigned without | giving any reason, and Marley wes | barred from broadcasting over station WIMJ. Despite this joint campaign of the Socialist Party and Nazis, Marley ad- dressed a crowd which overflowed the Auditorium, and contributed nearly $1,000 to aid victims of Nazi fascism, and was guest at an enthusiastic banquet. Although Marley is a member of the British Labor Party, labor whip and deputy soeaker of the British House of Lords, and chairman of a committee composed almost exclus- ively of non-Communists, the Social- ‘sts publicly declared their opposition to him because his work is supported by Communists as well as by many others. Socialists Threaten Expulsion. The attack on the antt-fascist united front was carried on. with ru- mors that the money collected by Marley went to the Communist Party, and that Marley was a “Communist in_ disguise.” Milwaukee S.P.and Nazis Attack Marley Anti-Fascist Meeting with Lies, Threats of discharge against employees of the Socialist administration, in decimat- ‘ng the official committee, without, however, weakening at all the anti- fascist fervor of the workers of Mil- waukee. The campaign against the anii- fascist struggle carried out by the Socialist Party and its paper, the Milwaukee Leader, has aroused a tremendous amount of discussion and resentment among the rank and file workers, as well as lesser municipal officials and employees who attended the meeting nevertheless, and con- tributed, showing their eagerness for an anti-fascist united front. An idea of the widespread discus- sion which the Socialist attack on Marooned Soviet Expedition Seen Safe from Peril Stalin Greets Struggle of Scientists. in | Ice Field Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Feb. 27 (By Radio). | The government commission for as- sisting the members of the Wrangel Island scientific expedition, whose ship, the Chelyushin, sank, maroon- ing them on the ice in Bering Strait, reports that the ice-field drift which endangered them has practically ceased. The fear of specialists that the ice- fields bearing the 101 members of the expedition, including women and children, might be forced into the far north, is therefore ungrounded. A radio message received from Pro- fessor Otto Schmidt, head of the ex- pedition, announced that they were able to transport their airplane across ice floes to an even space suitable for ‘The Socialists succeeded by imeans of threats of expulsion, and threats the heating of the huts they built. Because the ice-field has cracked @ take-off. They have also improved | anti-fascism has aroused 1! this city can be gained from the fact that the Milwaukee Sentinel spread the story with a big eight-column line on its front page, reading, “HOAN SNUBS LORD MARLEY; Mayor Sidesteps Greeting British Socialist Leader; Suspicion of Communist Leanings Blamed for Cool Reception Given English Statesman.” The fact that Marley’s campaign is to raise support for persecuted mem- bers of the German Socialist Party as well as all other victims of Hitler, as the Milwaukee newspapers point out, made no difference in the hys- terical fear of an anti-fascist working class united front on the part of the Socialist Party leaders of Milwaukee, who took the side of the Nazis rather than help a cause which Communists support. Despite the combined campaign of. the Socialists, the Nazis, and the As- sociation ef Commerce, only some of the Socialis; members of the com- mittee were affected, and practically all the non-Socialist intellectuals and, vrofessionals continued their active support of the Marley meeting. Graduate Body Warned HANOVER, N. H., Feb. 26—Warn- ing of faults in the furnace, leaks from which took the lives of nine Dartmouth undergraduates over the week-end, went unheeded by the | Graduate Body, who were warned to replace the furnace by the janitor of the Theta Chi fraternity house. in several places, the expedition has transported its food stores to safer places, spanning crevices by sinall bridges. A radiogram has been sent to them, signed by Stalin, Molotov, Kagano- vich, Voroshilov and others, as fol- lows: “We send the Chelyushin heroes our fervent Bolshevik greetings. We are admiringly wa*ching your heroic struzgle against the elements of nature, and are undertcking oil possible measures for your assist- ance. We are confident of the suc- cessful ivsue of your brilliant expe- dition. You are writing a new and illustrious pave in the history of the struggle in the Arctic.” of Bayonet Force Strikers Back to Work Machine Gun, Food Blockade ! HAVANA, Feb. 25.—The Zafra, the Cuban sugar harvest, is belng carried through at the point of the bayonet, In an effort to prove its worth to the Yankee bankers and the Roosevelt , | administration, the reactionary coall< ¢ tion government of Mendieta, thee AB.C. and Batista, tutored by the.» United States Ambassador Caffery, is straining every resource toward this end. Details of ‘the situation in the sugar centrals and plantations which are reaching this city, reveal a state of military seige against the sugar worke ers. which outdoes in horrors the assassin rule of Machado. In the United Fruit Company’s sugar cone trol “Preston,” in the province of Oriente, wheer a strike is being led by the National Sugar Workers’ In- dustrial Union (SNOIA) a force of 200 drunken soldiers last week as- saulied the barracks in which the workers live in an attempt to force tiem to work. Women and children Were beaten and wounded by bayonets, ‘Men were dragged out of the barracks and threatened with shooting if they refused to work. When these actions failed to break the strike, the workers’ Settleemnt was blockaded to stop the |peasants in the surrounding region | from bringing in vegetables and meat, | Machine gun detachments were posted at every possible entrance to the Central. Peasants Break Blockade | The peasants contrived to smuggle provisions in by way of a small Stream, but they were discovered and turned back at the point of machine guns. Scores of wounded workers are without medical attention, the com- pany’s hospital being closed to them. The resistance of the workers in Preston, Tacajo and other centrais in this region has been such that Batista, Chief of Staff of the Army made a personal visit to supervise the military operations there. The second ‘strong-arm” of the governs ment, Colonel Granero, is stationed at Preston in direct charge of the troops, Throughout Oriente province, civil authorities are reporting that jails are filled to capacity with striking sugar workers. At each mill which is grinding, troops are stationed, with machine guns planted and, in many cases, with trenches dug. Protests Pour In Messages and delegations of proe test against these atrocities are bee ginning to pour into Hayana from organizations all over the island. In several cities in the interior general ~} strikes are under way demanding the release of all arrested workers, The Offices of the United Fruit Company in Havana were smashed by groups of young workers and students. The workers of the Northern B.R. are refusing to transport sugar from those mills at which workers have been arrested, until these workers are freed. Té will be recalled that United States Ambassador Caffery, who is at present inspiring a massacre of the workers in Preston, was U. 8. Minister of Colombia at the time of the slaughter of 2,000 striking work- ers on the plantations of the very same United Fruit Company in Santa Marta, Columbia, in 1929, JAIL MORE UNITED FARMERS’ LEAGUE LEADERS. SISSETON, S. D.—Julius Walstad, South Dakota secretary of the United Farmers’ League, and 16 other farme ers were jailed in a relief demonstrae tion here. Each is held on $2,000 iI. ‘These arrests come within a week of the conviction and jailing of Or- \ganizer Alfred Tiala and State Or- | @anizer Jesse Hann of the League in ‘Indiana. German Communists Are Struggling Against Fascism Daily By IL. permanently by force alone.” stated Hitler in his Reichstag speech on Jan. 30. Three days later the world received the news of the brutal murder of hostages, our four brave comrades, Scheer, Schoenhaar, Stein- furth and Schwartz. A regime which endeavors to persuade the world that its rule is consolidated for centuries, which pretends to have united the whole people in a new conception of life and to have abolished all oppo- sition, finds itself unable at the end of s year of power to maintein itself except by the methods of the most savage civil war. What do these fresh orgies of Nazi terror mean if not that in Germany a latent civil war, is going on, and that the rulers are only able to supvress the growing re- sistance of the workers by the most bru‘al employment of their fascist army? Communists Fight On Goering’s State police state openly that they regard the murdering of these four champions of the German proletariat as an act of vengeance for the shooting of a Nazi spy, who ‘had already been exposed as such in the illegal press of the C.P.G, The | police write of a “secret Communist apparatus,” of the illegal district committee of Berlin-Brandenburg, which issued circulars warning the working population of Berlin against this police spy. These same police, so proud of their successes in combat- ing the Communists, have ‘been obliged to report from Freiburg, in (O government can maintain ltself | tod: Breisgau, that they were unable to arrest a single one of the revolution- ary workers who distributed anti- fascist leaflets at the Nazi demon- stration on Jan. 30, and therefore seized as hostages workers who had been’ released from preven‘ive cus- iy. One Party Not “1 P But on Jan. 30 Hitler proclaimed in his Reichstag speech: “We have extinguished the parties. What are legislative actions of centuries in But the admissions of the Nazi police themselves show this “achievement” to consist obviously of the fact that the Nazis have ousted their bourgeois competitors, including the social democrats, from the poli‘ical stage. But they have been unable to “extit suish” the sole anti-cemitalist, anti- fascist fighting Party, the sole revo- Jutionary Party of the prole‘arist, the Communist Party. And no acts of violence which they may commit can prevent the growth of Communist influence among the toiling masses. Hitler Admits Communist Effectiveness Again it is Hitler himself who con- firmed, in his boastful Reichstag speech, the fact of the effectiveness of the Communist propaganda. He spoke of the antifascist newspapers published in the German language abroad, of which millions of covies are brought over the frontier. But not long since the S*ate Sccret Police was obliged to admit, in an official notice, that the greater part of the Communist material circulated does not come from abrogd, but is pub- lished in Germany. This is what the “achievemen:” really looks like which Hitler is al- ways boasting about—that “victory” over Communism which he insists comparison with this achievement?” ! upon most of all, in the hope of gain- ing favor in the eyes of world capi- talism, Let us see what the other Points of his balance-sheet look like on closer inspection. At the “historical” Reichstag ses- sion devoted to the anniversary cele- bration of the “na‘ional revolution,” the law on the unification of the Reich was adovted. There exist some strange “anti-fascis*s” who see in this Reich reform, in the co-ordination of the powers of the Reich, an “ad- vance” for which the German peop'e should be thankful to national social- ism. This “advance” possesses as little positive meaning as the other “advances” characteristic of the age of the rule of financial cavital. The trust is a higher form of organiza- tion than the individual capitalist under'aking, But the rule of the capitalist trust, which strangles pro- duction, hampers technical progress, and lays idle the most important pro- ductive power of all, human labor, by causing unemployment on a scale in- volving miltions, does not reresent any social advance. It is, on the con- trary, an element of the reactionary and narasitic economic system of im- verialism. The centralization of State power in the hands of a pow- erful fase'st government naturally significs the strenzthening of the apparatus of political power of finan- | cial capital agains: the workinz peo- |ple; it is an “advance” of the kind represented by the provision armored cars and gas bombs for the police, Inner Antagonisms Grow, ‘The internal antagonisms in the na- tion are not weakened by these fore- ible measures, but strengthened, as is invariably the case with reaction- ary acts of violence. The cancella- tion of State power in the different 4 of} provinces of Germany has been ac- companied by a demagogic campaign against “monarchist” reaction. Hitler, &@ few bombastic ohrases in his Reichstag sneech. It has been rightly pointed out in our press that the main object of this demagogy is to distract the attention of the maszes ‘rom the reactionary measures of the fascist government, especially from that culmination of all capitalist re- action, the labor law. Neve-theless, it would be wrong to deny the ex- istence of monarchist currents, The adherents of the Hohenzollern res- toration possess a firm footing in the Reichswehr and among the higher Prussian bureaucrats, including the circle around the President. The disbanding of the German national party, it need scarcely be said, did not destroy the traditional monarch- ism ef these strata. The meaning of Hugenberg’s demonstrative absense frem the Reichstag session is clear. But in Prucsia the monarchisi mbve- ment is so unponuler among the masses, so confined to the uppermost stratum, that ii repvesents no, seri- ous competitor to Hitler fascism, even thouvh bankruns social democracy has indicated, by its repeated at- *empts to conciliate Hindenburg and the Reichswear, that under certain conditions it would be prevered to recognize the Eohenzoliern monarchy xs the “lesser evil.” Monarchisi-Catholic Opvesition, The monarchist movement is a much more serious mater in Bavaria. “Crown Prince” Rupprecht hes carc- fully avoided taking an open stand anywhere in favor of the national- socialist regime. It is clear that the Catholic opposition against national- socialism now growing under the pressure of the mass anti-fascist feel- teo, participated in this campaign in | The Balance Sheet of One Year of Hitler Fascist Dictatorship Hitler Fascism Only Aggravates Crisis in Germany ‘ng—en opposition which was not ‘Sroken by the disbanding 0° the Bas varian people’s party and of the centre party, and will not be broken “wv the arrest of Catholic priests—will find expression in a separatist-mon- archist movement in the case of & jerious crisis in the fascist State. The ‘ascist rulers have this possibility in mind when they rai] against mon- archism, and when they. endeavor fo, strangle any independent ten- dencics in the different provinces by ‘means of the centralization of State power. ‘The complete dissolution of { “he Steel Helmet organization in con- « ection with the breaking up of the “Kaiser's birthday celebrations, and “he final merging, even externally, of ‘this orgenization in the Storm Troops ‘by the abolition of the fleld-grey uni- “orm, was essentially a blow against “hat monarchism which has grouped itself more around the conservative winy of fascism, around Hugenberg “nd his circle. . Crisis Within Ruling Class. ‘Just as fascist terror cannot elimie mate class antagonisms, but a7gra- tes them to the peint of civil war, ‘n the same way it cannot bridge the intemal a‘ategenisms within the rul- Ss, but only renders them more Stas’ crisis intensifies. It is Reharaetatictic thet the law on the unificciion of the Reich has as- “ume the character of an Enabling Act, ally, according to Hitler and his satellites, giving a free hand for the. reorganization of the Reich, but coniaining no concrete and final re- division or re-formation of the Reich. joer ro Be Concluded.) Peasants Break Through . —By Burck Aymy Sent to | re