The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1934, Page 4

2 SSN SSE SURES ae Page Four Ot Canadian Communist Party: Telegrams Sent to Seven if Wire te Florida Gev. Imprisoned Leaders Pledging Support By CARL REEVE CLEVELAND, April 8. — The delegates at the last night’s session’ of Communist Part After the speech om the brot Party, U. S. A., to Tim Buck. six other imprisoned leaders of the Canadian wo c rose and sanj Greetings from s izations « eZ @ GREETED BY CONVENTION Protests Murder of Citrus Picker lor, in spite of the efforts of the Central Committee, refused to correct his line. But certainly while the Central Committee has given time to Comrade Taylor to think it over, correct and repudi- | ate his line, the Central Commit tee will not tolerate that any comrade in the Party could have a different line from the general line of the Party. Our. Party has onily one Tine; it is not possible to be a member of our Party and have a different line from the general line of the Party. “T think, Comrades,” continued Puro, “I am speaking the opin- ion of the Central Committee when I state that the Central Committee will surely take very definite steps against such devi- | ations. Of course, this is not the only deviation Comrade Taylor into the conventio = : has committed. According to the | etcbeae hom! Mi —Tim Buck, imprisoned Canadian/ reports, Taylor is panie the | Mantes foncwing: inesenne Communist leader, to whom Com-| slanderous attacks of the ‘Trot~ | was read to the convention last|™ust Party of U.S.A. nixed SUP- | skyites against our German Party | night, “We are unable to send port of American workers. and other such things which are graphic greetings because quite serious. Sharp measures | strike of messenger boys against such deviations are nec- Western Union and Postal - essary, especially now.” graph. We the money th “The party, Comrade Puro Analyzes United we raised to send the tel n to pee oes Peet Front Work. buy Daily Workers to distribute on ret yg tesa rshiP/ Comrade Puro then analyzed the picket line.” « ‘es wrong tendencies in the united! Tim Buck Greeted The telegram sent by the conven- tion to Tim Buck and six other im- prinsoned Canadian Party leaders declared “To Tim Buck No. 2523, King- ston, Conada. “The Eighth National Conven- tion of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. warmly greets you and your six felow leaders of the Canadian Communist Party, and as a mark of proletarian solidar- ity, has elected you as a member of our honorary presidium. We pledge our support to the magnifi- cent battle of the Canadian work- ers, led by its growing Commu- nist Party, for your freedom.” -Earlier in the session a telegram was sent to Governor Schultz at Talahassee, Fla., protesting the lynching of James Franklin. The telegram stated, “Four hundred white and Negro dele- tional Convention of the Commu- nist Party, U.S.A., protest against gates assembled at the Eighth Na- the brutal lynch murder of James Franklin, Negro citrus picker, who was preparing for the fruit strike. We stamp vicious rape charge as a lie of landlords and as an at- tempt to disrupt the growing unity and rebellion of the white and Negro workers. We demand the arrest and the penalty of death against Joe Kopman, murderous landlord, who was freed by the lynch, landlord jury. We pledge guidance and full support to the white and Negro citrus workers.” The representative of the Com- t Party of Canada was again astically applauded when he said, “I bring you greetings from the independent to these | He related the progress of the party's work for the united front,) the Washington and Chicago con-| ference of the farmers, the estab-| lishment of committees of action, gaining the support “not only of the most militant left wing, but also a great portion of the rank and file of the old line farm organizations organized farmers. “Under the leadership of our party the sharecroppers union in the South has been organized, numbering al- and front work, especially the tendency to lose the Party's identity upon entering the united front, to hide the face of the Party, and not men- tion the Communist Party. Such tendencies, he said, lead toward a} compromising attitude to the Far- mer-Labor Party and the social fascists, and would disarm our Party. Comrade Puro also criticized the tendency not to base farm work on| the poor farmers and on the agri- cultural workers, It is only by placing our pro- seven to eight thousand defi-| 8am definitely upon the poor y organized Negro share crop-| amd small fermers, that we can also win the middie clement 2 ee which is more fcvorable, and Workers ae oie trupeles| struggle against the rich farmers, E . __.| against the kulak element in the Farm struggles have been carried on, Comrade Puro declared, in joint action with the workers, under the guidance, farmers aiding strikes and unemployed and workers aidi the r and struggles for re- mrade Puro emphasized the of building the Agricul- u Workers Union, which has conducted such militant strikes on the Pacific coast, and is now active in the south. These farm st gles now as- suming a high political character. “As Communists, we must be able to note the political character of these struggles and to utilize them to give political revolutionary edu- cation to the participants, to bring forward in these struggles the revo- lutiona: ims of the party. Comrade Puro then discussed the role of the demagogs and social fas- cists in the farm movement, agents of the capitalists, the “progessive beloved leader of the Canadian oe A ea ai tats working class, Tim Buck, who has| enter the’ farm field. 7 for two and one half years been im-|farmer Labor Party Dangerous prisoned for a five year sentence, | Fascist Party. together with six other leaders of| “The most dangerous of these the Canadian Party. In arresting our leading comrades, the Canadian bourgeoisie thought they were dis- persing our Party. But our Party is today stronger than ever before and 300 new revolutionary working class leaders have grown up in the past two years to take the place of our imprisoned leaders.” Report of Canadian Delegate The Canadian Party representa- tive stated that the Canadian Party will learn valuable lessons from the magnificent report of Comrade Browder and from the entire con- vention proceedings. ‘Our Party has led 300 strikes in the past year,” he said, “and over 0 per cent of these strikes have won their demands. Then thousand new members have joined the revolu- tionary unions, which now have a membership of 35,000, Successful struggles have been led by’ these unions and by our Party, among the lumber workers, the shoe and fur- niture workers the longsoremen and the miners of Alberta and Nova Scotia.” The key problem for the Canadian Party now, fhe Canadian repre- sentative declared, is to wipe out the isolation and change the methods of work so that the places where the Party is leading struggles and build- ing & mass movement will not be the exception but the rule. One of the achievements of the Canadian Party, he said, was the election of 25 Communist aldermen and 25 school board trustees. The Canadian bourgeoisie is now Preparing new attacks in order to try to make illegal the revolutionary | third party movements is the Far- mer Labor Party,” said Comrade Puro, “Mr. Olson, Minnesota Far- mer Labor Governor, now calls himSelf a red and a radical, in order to win over the farmers. The more radical phrases they use, the more dangerous they are. They are try- ing to win over the farmers who are closest to us.” “The Farmer-Labor movement is a real danger to us and we | even have concrete examples that it is trying to penetrate into our ranks. For example, the ad- herence to the Farmer Labor- movement, of Comrade Taylor, who recently was the national chairman of the United Farmers League. In his letter Comrade ‘Taylor stated that the Farmer- Labor Party can be utilized as a- movement toward revolution, if not into the revolution itself. This means that there is no need for the Communist Party. This means the Itquidation of the Communist Party. Comrade Tay- countryside.” Comrade Puro then took up the tasks of the Party districts, youth work and the farm paper. Comrade Manning Johnson, dis- trict organizer of the Buffalo dis- trict, stated that the Buffalo dis- trict has built nine locals of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Indus- trial Union, with more than 1,800 dues paying members. These local unions are organized on a mill and departmental basis with depart- mental committees. These suc- sses, and the struggles, could not have been pos- sible, said Comrade Johnson, with- out the bitter struggle conducted against the A. F. of L. leaders in the Amalgamated Association. The A. A. now has only a few members |10 o'clock, the street cars in all | station had gone on strike. |knew nothing about the strike, be- the | leading of strike} Militant mass chain thrown around plant of New York Shipbuilding Co. $43,000,000 worth of government war contracts, ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934 in walkout tying up Communist Worker Gives Eyewitness Account of S. P. Tactics In Vienna The following letter from a | member of the Communist Party | of Austria was recently received | by an American friend, whom it finally reached after successfully getting through the Dollfuss cen- sorship. It gives a vivid account of the Vienna events as seen by an eye- | witness politically mature enough to draw the full lessons of what | he saw. It adds another piece of evidence to the overwhelming picture of treachery and misleadership that has already piled up in regard to the leadership of the Austrian Socialist leaders. It shoud be of great interest to all workers, Soci- alist as well as. Communist. Pee ei 2 Dear Comrade: ‘ On Feb. 12th at 10 minutes past Vienna suddenly stopped running, because the workers in the Electric How- ever, though street car workers cause they had not been informed of the impending strike. They re- mained in their cars till night time and waited for some word from their party (S. P.) or from the administration. The word of the S. P. to the workers, however, was —in so far as there was a word given out—‘Remain at home, do |not venture on the streets.” ‘Therefore, on the first day of the |“uprising” one saw only excited groups of petty bourgeois on the | streets. The 8. P. had not even workers into the strike. The union \nad, therefore, presumably given | the order for the general strike, but in reality the only ones who knew |about it were the workers in the and its leaders are discredited. Work was carried on both inside and outside the A. A. The Negro workers were brought forward in the building of the S. M. W. I. U. and in its struggles, Com- rade Johnson reported. The strug- gle against white chauvinism must be intensified, he said. The mere bringing together of the white and Negro workers into the same union is not the end of the work among Negroes. Comrade Johnson then gave the tasks of the Party in the steel industry. The most glaring weakness has been the failure to} build the Party in the course of the} union work, he said. We failed to} meet the red scare properly and to bring the Party position boldly for- ward. The aircraft strike now going on, of 2,000 workers, was led and or- ganized by the Communist Party nucleus, he said. More than 150 marine workers have been organized | in a short time into the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, and a waterfront nucleus built. Comrade Johnson criticized the district com- mittees which do not properly co-| operate in the building of the revo- lutionary unions. The Veterans’, Struggle Comrade Levin, of the Workers’ Bx-Servicemen’s League, dwelt on (Continued on Page Five) E power plant and the gas workers, }and the workers in a few other | industries, e. g. Anker Bread, Sammer bread, etc. | In the Graf and Stift factory, | Brann and Bovary and in the | Siemans factory the workers had |already spontaneously gone | strike in the week before the |of February, | Masses Without Orders | The 8. P. was therefore satisfied to mobilize the Schutzbund | military organization of the S. P.) but completely overlooked the im- portance of the proletariat for a forceful overthrow, or, at least, up- rising, whereas the workers received | no instructions (aside from the well | known admonition to remain at | home and not to let themselves be provoked), and no pamphiets | Were distributed (it was not even attempted to take over a printing press). The Schutzbund men re- | ceived instructions to defend the | Gemeinde houses (the workers | houses built by the S. P.). Instead of going out in the streets and drawing the workers into the fight, they were locked up in the | Gemeinde house. They (the Schutz- bund) lost all contact with the other besieged houses and with the masses, because the workers who did not live in the Gemeinde houses were not able to come to on. 12th o attempted to draw the railroad | (the | There was neither a central lead- ership, because the 8. P. leaders, with the exception of Bauer and Deutsch, were arrested Monday {noon, nor was there a leadership in the respective Gemeinde houses. Wherever there were Communists |in the besieged houses, they fought | side by side with the S. P. workers and showed the character of our) party. The fight in the Gemeinde | houses lasted two to’ three days. In some places the fighting went on for four days. Whenever the | police entered the captured houses, they found them empty. The Schutzbund men escaped through back doors. Even in Karl Marx Hof, which was half destroyed by the | artillery, and where the fighting | lasted three days, not a_ single | Schutzbund member was there to} be arrested. In the gas work Leopoldau there | were 3 workers’ representatives, 2 from the S. P. and 1 Communist. Both the S. P. delegates gave them- selves up to the police on Monday, but the Communist led the strike and this strike lasted longer than any of the others in Vienna. To- day the police have placed a re- ward on his head, but they will not find him. Also in the provinces the Party showed its nature. The adminis- tration has today lifted the martial law after having hanged 15-20 rev- olutionary workers, and after hav- ing given long prison terms to many others. Well known 8S. P. func- tionaries and many Communist in- tellectuals are today left without any legal defense, as in Germany. (The government has arrested all the lawyers who were known to be! sympathetic to the revolutionary movement), Through accident a C. C. member was arrested. The workers are terribly bitter and full of hate and, in those places where the ©. P. is too week, some of them are going over to the Nazis. | But the C. P. is gaining very many new members among the workers mistakes which arose out of the ideology of the S. P. | is ipso facto lost. The order of the/| 2—The order for the general strike was given without the work- ers having had sufficient smaller strikes beforehand. In addition, the word was not generally given. 3—The 8. P. understimated the} strength and importance of the pro- letariat and overestimated the strength of its small military troop, the Schutzbund, The S. P. did not take allthe illegality seriously, so that nearly all the leaders were arrested on the first day (without the necessary precautions having been taken to prevent it) and every sort of leader- ship was missing. The organization was destroyed in the moment when the party was declared illegal. Out of these principle mistakes arose the many tactical errors, as for instance: the failure to take over the radio broadcast station at Bisamberg (which is not tar trom Floridsdorf); the failure to pull up the railroad tracks, despite the fact that the Schutzbund was in a posi- tion to do it; the failure to take over a printing press (during the entire time only Communist pam- phlets appeared), etc. Ont of all this one sees the strength of the proletariat, a small part of which, despite these | grave errors, was able to hold out | against the entire forces of the government and the patriotic de- | fense organizations for 3-4 days. The work is progressing wonder- Comradely, (Signed). | | (By a Miner Correspondent) | POTTSVILLE, Pa.—Local 920 of ord to endorse the Workers Unem- | ployment and Social Insurance Bill | CHLR, 7598) and to send the en- dorsement to Congressman F. G. Brum. subject, a noted labor misleader, Thomas Howells has showed his double face again. At first he said: | “This bill is a good bill, I have fought all my life time for the labor bills.” Then he twisted his face and said: “This bill is asking only $10 a week which is not sufficient for a big family to live on. Father their ald. Coughlin will propose a better bill | the U.M.W.A,, in its regular meeting | on March 19, 1934, has gone on rec- | Pottsville Mine Local 25,2 © | with full wages whether you work or not.” Carl Herma took the floor and quoted the paragraph of Workers Bill H.R. 7598 where is states, “Equal to average local wages. In no case shall the unemployment insurance be less than $10 per week plus $3 for each dependent.” | Father Coughlin has no kind of While the miners discussed the} insurance bill introduced in Con- gress. He has made a demagogic speech through the radio only. All members voted in favor of the | bill, but T. Howells, a Socialist in publican ballot in his right pocket, a ; Democratic ballot in his left pocket | and a Socialist ballot in his inside coat pocket, voted against the bill by himself. and intellectuals. | Defeatist S. P. Ideology | The mistakes of the uprising were| yejion 1—A revolution on the defensive) shot down S. P. was “don’t attack, defend.” | too old to slave. fully, and is exceedingly satistac- | charter,” | tory. | | last election campaign, with a Re-| WALL STREETS? CAPITOL By SEYMOUR WALDMAN WASHINGTON, April 8.—Reaction has notified dema- | gogy that it does not need all its services, for the present at least. Having gotten over the bad case of jitters from whic! | it suffered during the greater part of the Roosevelt regim | literally flushed with the tre- | mendous increase of the 1933 |profits which it extracted |from the workers by consistent at- |tacks on their already low standard of living, and cocky over its tem- porary victory in the automobile in- | dustry, big business is now opposed to the continuation of the demagogy about the workers’ right to organize {called a Kerensky by some Brai Truster—Roosevelt with his Astors, Taylors, Swopes, Harrimans and Johnsons!—Wirt is simply telling |the boys and girls of Bryn Mawr, | Harvard, Columbia, Yale et. al. to pick up their marbles, hoops and nortar boards and go home to their classrooms. Thank you, s | Tugwell and Frankfurter, but you've Played your part and are now in and the mj ab a yes |\terious ne W | Wits, say the Morgans, alias Barca Ape =| Phrased formally in the “Fort | seca tg ‘alke fe. |nightly Summary of National Busi| ine. Boouta aee = | ness Affairs,” issued by the bourbon stract unemploy- nent insuran Such. stuff, sa | rowing reac - jtion, is un- | welcome because jit instills more lusions into | workers. Workers of the United States 3teel _ Corpora- tion, General Motors, the varied interests, the Rockefeller and other giant monopolist exploit- ers, are things to be sucked dry, when militant and thrown on the hellfare heap when Creating illusions means delay and expense for bullets and machine guns. In fact, these eymour Waldman even company unions. ‘That is why the big corporations opposed the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill despite its provisions for com- pulsory arbitration and _ strike- breaking. That is why finance ca- pital has seryed notice on Roose- velt; that the so-called Brain Trust is not necessary at the present time, welcome. Much nonsense is being written |about this Brain Trust. To clear away some of the rubbish one need only repeat what is known to in- formed people. Considered frankly as “nice boys” by Roosevelt, they were allowed to chirp all over Wash- ington about their “planning” and other capitalist abstractions so that they might divert the militant class consciousness of the workers. ‘They were necessary demagogy for capitalism. Avowed reaction in the person of Herbert Hoover had been defeated. The masses thought they were really electing basic im- provement by sending Hoover back to Palo Alto and bringing Roose- velt from Hyde Park. Hence the show had to be arranged so that it would seem that something was being done for the workers. And so while the Richbergs, Wolmans, | Wagners, Perkinses, Dreisers and other liberal fronts chanted about the “New Deal’ and labor's “new the Johnsons, Gerard Swopes, John L. Lewises, William Greens and Sidney Hillmans went about the systematic work of codi- fying starvation—establishing a wage scale, for the overwhelming majority of workers, lower than that And the \forced under the “New Deal,” the more shameless and the more stri- glove. Now that the profits have been | greatly restored and the workers | have been given wages they fought | against twenty and thirty years ago, |the liberal act is considered over. The owners do not even want their sleight-of-hand men around to re- mind them of what tricks were pulled off on credulous workers. | ih J | dent became the ballyhoo. Bit by ac S L bit more of the fist was revealed junderneath the proverbial velvet | tional spotlight of the hitherto ob- scure Dr. Wirt, Superintendent of town which breathes only at the whim of the United States Steel | Corporation, is not an accident. torical comparisons Wirt. may con- tinue to make, he voices the senti- ments of finance capital’s most. powerful segments. Stripped of all the blather about Roosevelt being Struggles Loom in Germany, Anna Schultz Tells Convention > ap-| CLEVELAND.—Midst great plause and cries of “Red Front,” the following speech was made by Anna Schultz at the Eighth Con- vention of the Communist Party in Cleveland on April 5th. Comrade Schultz, who is the widow of John Scheer, recently murdered by the Nazis, was at one time secretary to rulers don’t want any unions, not }, that in short it has overstayed its | Thus the entrance into the na- | Schools of Gary, Indiana, the steel | Despite whatever ridiculous his- | | United States Chamber of Com- | merce, such people are now hamper- | ing “the need of business for op- portunity to continue movement. Tt is true that capital is stronger than it was some months ago. But so is the worker, stronger, for one of several reasons, because he knows the true nature of the New Deal, mows that it is a slave deal. With the lines clearly drawn be- tween labor and capital, between exploited and exploiter, it wil be easier for labor to strike a heavier blow. STRIKE is the word. The West Virginia miners, Indianapolis hosiery workers, and Detrott auto workers have already spoken. its’ forward Success in Struggle Requires a Party | of Tron Diseipline | Beyond question, almost every one knows by this time that the Bolsheviks would not have been able to hold power for two and a half years, nor even for two and a half months, had there not been the strictest possible discipline, a truly iron discipline, within the Party; nor would they have been able to hold power without the whole-hearted support of the entire mass of the working class, or at any rate the full support of all the members of the working class, who are class-conscious, sincere, de- voted, influential, and com- petent to lead those who are compatatively back- ward or attract them into the forward movement. The dictatorship of the proletariat is a hard-fought | fight against the forces and traditions of the old society; a fight that is both |} bloody and unbloody, both || violent and passive, both || military and economic, both || educational and adminis- trative. The power of ha- bit, ingrained in millions and tens of millions, is a terrible power. Without the Party, a party of iron || which has been tempered in | the struggle, a party that enjoys the confidence of all the straight-forward mem- bers of the working class, a party able to understand and to influence the psy- | chology of the masses, suc- cess in such a_ struggle would be impossible, | —LENIN. arise. I also found evidenced every- where & readiness to struggle for the rights of the Negro masses. As far as the work among the working women is concerned, the tempo of the Party is still too slow. unions, the mass organizations and | the Y.C.L., as well as the Party. The | Party is answering with the united) she is now in the United working class front of the masses. | States, taking a leading part in or- The main instrument in the drive| sanizing anti-fascist actions and toward fascism of the Canadian| siding in the support of the victims bourgeoisie is the social fascist lead-| of German Fascism—EDITOR’S ers. The united front policy of the | yy yi Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany. ‘the relation of Party has won masses of workers away from the social fascist party, and it is in a state of disintegration. The Canadian Party has had to fight within its ranks tendencies opposed to working within the A. . of L., and opportunist tendencie: 6) eee | By ANNA SCHULTZ Comrades, I have the great pleas- |ure and honor to bring to the 8th | National Convention of your Party the sincerest revolutionary fighting | greetings of the Central Committee I am of the opinion that the 8th National Convention must pay at- tention to this sector of the battle front because the 13th Plenum of the E, ©. OC. I. shows us clearly the rising tide of new revolutions and new wars. In Germany already to- day, women have replaced the mur- dered or arrested masses of work~- ers. *The most important link in the chain of work of our Party among the working women must be the organization of delegate meet- ings of working women from the shop on the basis of the united front from below. The meetings to do away with illegal work. The of the German Party and of all the| of women delegates from the shop Party has defeated these tenden-| German anti-fascists. The German | are the most important lever for cies and is recruiting new members| Communists and anti-fascists wish the mobilization and the organiza- and bringing its position and lead-/| your deliberations the greatest suc-| tion of the women workers. Tt is ership to the mases. The Party realizes its tremendous responsibilil ties in the fight against imperialist war and for the defense of the So- viet Union. The Canadian Comrade concluded with the slogan for the establishment of Soviet Canada and a Soviet of North America.” Comrade Puro’s report for the Central Committee on the Agrarian work of the party dealt first with the struggle of the ef | in the U.S.A., and since I have had the opportunity to get acquainted | |with the American Party and the} | American workers in 12 of your dis- | | tricts, you must permit me to give you my impressions of the U. 8. A. ‘There is evident a very deep pro- cess of radicalization in all stratas of the population and especially among the industrial workers and farmers with the struggles of the|the farmers. Everywhere, I found workers. “The industrial and agrar- great readiness for struggle and real this lever which will enable us to ince I am already five months| mobilise white and Negro women for the mass struggles against im- perialist war, against fascism and for the solution of the immediate problems of the workers, I made the acquaintance of many valiant proletarians among the min- ers, among the textile workers, the auto workers and the farmers. Sees. Progress Here It is my conviction and the con- vietion of the Central Committee of fan crisis are interwoven,” he said.| internationalism and solidarity. We | our German Party that the Amer- In answer to the crisis the “toiling| farmers have shown a great desire are going through a development. and readiness for militant struggie.” ican workers have made great prog- out of which many young leaders| ress under the leadership of the of the American working class will | Communist Party of the United States of America. Our German anti-fascist front is especially thank- ful for the successful anti-fascist ac- tions you have organized against Hitler terror and for the continu- ing of solidarity which has already resulted in the turning over of $5,000 to the support of the struggle against the dictatorship, against Hitler and against his war prepara- tions. It is our conviction that the Party in the U. S. is rapidly pass- ing through its process of bolshevi- zation which will enable it to win millions of workers, working youth, working women and the farmers into a united front for mass strug- gles, for the solution of our im- mediate problems and to develop out of these struggles the struggle for power and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the U.S, Our beloved leader, Ernst Thael- mann is suffering already for more than a year, tortures in Hitler's dungeons. His best friend, John Schehr, was murdered together | with three other comrades by Hit- | ler's secret police, but in spite of all that, our leader, Ernst Thael- mann, continues to inspire the mil- lions of German workers in their struggle for freedom. They know that the torture cannot conquer Thaelmann, who is one of the best sons of the German proletariat, who has put his life to the service of the working class and of Soci- alism. Ernst Thaelmann, who is also with us in this gathertug, because in your convention here, the center of at- tention is required by .the same problems, the struggles, the same aims for which our leader Thael- mann and with him many hundreds thousands of anti-fascists are today suffering in the fascist jails. The same great historic tasks are con- fronting you here in America to fight against capitalism, especially against imperialist war and to develop the struggle for the dic- tatorship of the proletariat. This aim, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, we can only achieve if we get the first base in the application of our tactics of the united front from be- low. Comrade Thaelmann has again and again put this task as the first before our German Party so that over the road of struggle for the daily bread of the workers, we should be able to develop the strug- gle for power. The struggle on two fronts against the capitalists on one hand; against, opportunism and against deviations of the Party by rigid self-criticism, was Thaelmann’s service to our Ger- man Party. This is also your task. Comrade Thaelmann has carried this struggle on both fronts in the sharp- est form. He put this in the fore- front of the battle against capital- ism, He fought against opportun- ism and against all forms of de- viations from the straight Bolshevik path of our German Party. It jis because of this persistent struggle that the German bour- geoisie does not succeed in destroy- ing our Communist Party; although that destruction of our Party was the main task of the German bour- geoiste put into the hands of the Hitler fascist dictatorship. Hitler will never succeed in this. Our German Communist Party lives. It lives more than ever. With our German Party, the Communist movement lives all over the world. Those who do not believe it should listen to the revolutionary rumblings of the general strike in France, of the uprisings end struggles in Cuba, in Spain; they should look at the successful struggles of the young Chinese Soviet Republic; they should Jook at the heroic struggles of our Japanese Communist Party; they should regard the workers in Brit- ain, in America—everywhere organ- izing the struggles against hunger and for a chance to live. They should learn the lessons from the heroic struggles of the proletariat in Vienna as well as from the more than 400 strikes which only recently were carried through by German workers in spite of Hitler terror. They should learn from the heroism with which the German workers continue to issue their press, bring out shop papers even in the face of threats of exe- cution. Our support to the International Red Aid must be intensified. An in- ternational movement must be de- veloped, overshadowing in intensity even the international actions of the past in the Sacco-Vanzetti case and others in freedom for Thaelman and for all imprisoned anti-fascists in all capitalist countries and the de- mand for the freedom of the Scotts- boro boys. Recent Strikes in Germany Comrades, the present situation in Germany is characterized by a new upward swing into revolutionary mass movement under the leader- ship of the Communist Party of Germany. Thirty per cent of the Party members of the underground and illegal German Party are former members of the Social Democratic Party. This is proof that the Ger- man Communists learn in spite of mass terror to apply the united front tactic from below. The recent strikes in Germany are proof of the growing ripeness of the Class struggle in Germany. They are proof of the growth of the revo- lutionary determination of the Ger- man working class. All these strikes in the industrial territory of Berlin, of the Ruhr and on the waterfront increase the dissatisfaction forced by the wage cuts and terror, increase the bitterness and hatred of the masses against capitalism. Today there are as yet few big strikes in Germany, but there are a great. number of serious struggles, with a strong political tendency against the Nazis and against the Hitler government. In the basic in- dustrial territories in the Ruhr, in one of the establishments of Thys- sen, who only recently contributed a million dollars to the Hitler Party, 1,200 workers struck against a 10 per cent wage reduction. The day after this reduction became known, little scraps of paper were handed out demanding, “Elect delegates.” The next day delegates were elected, 20 workers frfom all political affilia- tionstions, including Nazis were to the management and were elected. They presented themselves thrown out. The next day stickers were passed all around the establishment. with the word “strike” printed on | them, The day after this the strike |became a fact. After at least six hours passed, the management re- felled the 10 per cent wage’ reduc- tion, The result of the strike, on the one hand, was the material results, having defeated the wage reduction; on the other hand, the political result was that even the Fascist fac- tory nucleus had to be dissolved in having become politically unreliable for the boss, and the nucleus of the revolutionists increased 300 per cent. In the forced labor camps, where Hitler is making an effort to mili- tarize the proletarian youth of Germany, refusals to obey orders and strikes of the youth increased to the point where Hitler had to liquidate some of these camps. In the last four months alone 280 such strikes occurred. Comrades, the growth of the revo- lutionary upsurge is also shown ir the storm troops of Hitler's brown army. The disappointment about the policy of the Hitler government against a second revolution, the dis- appointment about the continuation of oe Power and rule of monopoly capitalism growing even in the ranks of the storm £2) , is rampant. Hitler has not only 200,000 anti-fascists in the concen- tration camps; he even now has concentration camps. for his own storm troopers, whom he tortures (Continwed on Page 9)! and murders with the same bestial-