The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 8, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1934 Daily <QWorker @TETRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ULS.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERBATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 THE 13th BY 50 E PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC. Street, New York, N. ¥ ALgonquin 4-795 4 Telephone Subscription Rates: TUESDAY, 1934 MAY 8, Socialist Workers vs. S. P. Leadership JOTHING could illustrate with more N startling clarity the growing cleavage between the sentiments of the rank and file members of the Socialist Party and the policies of their leadership than what has just happened in Bridgeport. News has come that the central com- mittee of the Socialist Party in Bridge- port, with the Socialist M: Jasper McLevy, as one of its leading mbers, was finally compelled to give its pledge o! pport to the Workers Unem- HR. 7598. ployment Insurance B: Not, on was the leadership at this meeting of the Bridgeport list Party forced to pledge its support, but it was subjected to a fierce barrage of indignant and angry criticism from the ranks of the Socialist Party rank and file workers. In unmistakable terms, the Socialist workers let the Socialist leaders, McLevy and Brewster, know what they thought of their open sabotage of the fight for relief and unemployment insurance: This is a development of extraordinary im- portance. It reveals how false, how slanderous, is the theory that the Socialist rank and file workers are “hopelessly tied to their leaders,” that these Socialist workers are all “little Norman Thomases.” The action of the Socialist workers in Bridge- port reveals that the biows of the crisis, as well as the work of the Communist Party, are having their effect in making clear to the Socialist workers them- selves how hostile to any real working class struggle are the upper leaders of the Socialist Party. The breach that exists between the Communist workers and the Socialist workers must be closed. The breach that is growing between the Socialist workers and their leaders must be widened. For it is just these leaders who bend all their efforts to restrain the working class from any real struggle against capitalism and its starvation. Comrade Dimitroff has told us that “the fascists speculate on this split between the Socialist and Communist workers, on the wall of distrust and suspicion that the Socialist leaders have built up between them.” We must break this wall down. With comradely patience, sincerity, and friendliness we must dis- cuss all our differences with the Socialist workers. We must do more. We must come to them with the frankest, most comradely offers ot united front action on specific issues, such as the fight for relief, for H.R. 7598, against war, and Fascism, Bridgeport shows us how the fight for the Immediate, day to day needs of the working class is the link that must be seized in order to weld the unbreakable steel of the working class United Front. It is in this common struggle, side by side, ‘hat we will be able to break down the wall that ‘eparates up from our class bri rs, the Socialist vorkers. Bridgeport is a sympiom. Strengthen the fight Yo win the Socialist workers away from the in- Auence of their leaders! Force Congress to Act on H. R. 7598 ASS pressure must be brought to bear on all Congressmen who have not signed the round robin petition to bring the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) out of the House Com- mittee on Labor and onto the floor of Congress for vote. Every indication today points to the closing of the 73rd session of Congress on June 15th. Should the present Congress fail to bring the Workers’ Bill CH, R. 7598) up for vote, the bill will be killed in the House Committee on Labor, which would neces- sitate the introduction of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill again next year under a dif- ferent house resolution number, new hearings on the bill, and the beginning again of the campaign to force Congressmen to vote favorably on the bill. Every organization of workers and poor farmers will have to intensify the mass campaign for the Workers’ Bill. Open-air meetings in each Congressional District, at which Congressmen must be exposed if they have expressed opposition to the Workers’ Bill, should send resolutions to the Congressmen, demanding that they sign the round robin petition and vote favorably on the bill when it comes up on the floor cof Congress. ARIOUS state “reserves” bills, each inadequate in seope, each of which totally ignore the present army of unemployed, and each of which thrust the entire burden upon the shoulders of the workers and poor farmers, have been introduced in the legis- latures of various states. The so-called “model” bills, such as the Wis- and Ohio plans, have embodied in them, all ures of the Wagner-Lewis bill which char- them as not giving unemployment in- In the Wisconsin bill, there is added a two-year residence requirement in the state, a e which limits the minimum to $5 a week, and payments only so long as the “reserves” shall last. In no case can the worker draw insurance for more 1 weeks in the year, and the present un- ed are totally cut off from benefits. In all should even this totally inadequate legis- acterize surance. cla events, lation go into effect, payments will not begin before July, 1935, The Ohio bill likewise has all the re- strictions of the Wisconsin bill. In the list of 127 fake bills which have been in- troduced into Congress and the legislatures of dif- ferent states this year is the Cannon Bill which has the support of many Congressmen. It would provide not for the ordinary wage earner, but for workers earning in excess of $1,000 a year, to be paid from “reserves” out of their own wages, only when a “district unemployment crisis” shall have been officially declared to exist by the assembled Senators and Representatives from that state! The Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, alone of all the legislation introduced this year, offers adequate unemployment insurance, and has the mass support, of workers everywhere. Force every Congressman to sign the round robin petition! Force every Congressman to support the Workers’ Bill on the floor of Congress! Republican Strategy and the N.R.A. HE Republican Party is getting ready to capitalize on the opposition that is growing to the Roosevelt N.R.A. program. This opposition comes from two sources, from the working class who have been robbed and plundered by it, and from sec- tions of the capitalist employers who find that part of the elaborate legal structure of the N.R.A. hampers them in the unleashing of the naked, brutal drive which they now need for the mainte- nance of their monopoly profits. Not that the N.R.A. hasn’t given these capitalist, industrial monopolists the fattest profits they have reaped since 1929. But they are now pressing on the Roosevelt government for more speed, more tuthlessness in the government's measures to beat down wages and working standards in the factories. They feel that it is now necessary to substitute for Roosevelt's “New Deal” demagogy a new kind of demagogy that would more directly and consciously accelerate the Roosevelt development toward Fas- cism, The industrial monopolists of the Manufac- turers Association and the National Chamber of Commerce, having tightened their monopoly grip on industry through the N.R.A. codes, are now eager to press forward to a further monopolization of industry without any further delay. Having strengthened their position through Roosevelt's Wall Street program, they now wish to make fur- ther gains by pressing for certain alterations in that program. . . . Ho is where the Republean Party comes in. Acting as one of the wings of the capitalist party rule, as one of the sections of the Wall Street dictatorship, it attempts to utilize the pressure of the biggest industrial monopolists for alterations in the N.R.A. which would speed up the whole fas- cization process for its own special party purposes. At the same time, however, it is also striving to place itself at the head of the opposition to the N.R.A. that is ripening among the masses. It is striving for its party purposes to pretend that its opposition to the N.R.A. is the same as the mass opposition! The opposition of the masses !s directed against the intense exploitation and wage cutting of the N.R.A., against the super-profits which the monopo- lists wring out of the hides of the workers. The “opposition” of the Republican Party is directed toward increasing the profits of the monopolists through an even intenser exploitation through the N.R.A, codes! This must be made ciear to the masses in the fight against the Republican cam- paign. And no doubt, the Democratic Party will pre- tend that the Republican Party opposition proves the social-progressive character of the Democrats! Actually, they are both faithfui wings of the capi- talist rule. Tt mass faith in N.R.A. is breaking down. The mass resentment against the slave codes must be organized and welded into the political struggle against Wall Street dictatorship whether at one moment headed by a Republican or a Democrat. Right now we must get ready to stop the usual trick of the American ruling class which it always puts over with it’s two-party system—dangling the other before the masses when the one in power is too fully exposed as a capitalist tool. American capitalism is now grooming the Repub- lican Party for this time-honored historic trickery if it's Democratic servant becomes too compromised in the eyes of the masses, The working class can fight the attacks of the capitalist employers only by relying on its own class Party, the Communist Party, against all other capitalist parties. No matter what servant it is of the Wall Street dictatorship who is in office, the drive on the living standards of the masses will go forward. Class against class, the Wall Street parties against the working class Party—that is the only line that can be drawn by the working class in its fight against starvation and exploitation. 1000 March on May Day in Toledo, 0; Force Release of 2 Workers from Auto and Other Industries Participate LOLEDO, Ohio.—One thousand workers from the auto and other Industries here marched in columns from various sections of Toledo. and assembled in Courthouse Park, in the heart of the metropolitan area, So listen to speakers from the vari- ous organizations which answered the Communist Party’s call for a united front May Day demonstra- jion. Speakers pointed out the in- ternational revolutionary signifi- tance of May Day, linking it up with the local relief situation and the growing wave of strikes, Pickets € who were arrested for violating the injunction issued by the local capi- talist court in the Bingham strike | struggle were cheered by the dem- onstrators. Two committees were elt | the demonstrators: one to Socialist Mayor Klotz, Republican, to protest against the present in- adequate relief and against the pro- posed forced labor relief gardens, the other to see Sheriff Kreiger, Democratic “friend of the working- man,” to demand the release of two members of the Unemployment Council of Holland, Ohio—Walter Byers and Sam Leffler, arrested by Krieger's deputies for “disturbance” on the picket line at Bingham’s, having been asked to participate by Bingham strikers. Following the demonstration, workers formed in parade file and marched across the Park to the county jail, where Byers and Leffler are imprisoned. The workers car- ried their placards calling for re- lease of jailed pickets, the right to strike, the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, Soviet America — stopped before the jail, sang the International and cheered long and lustily for Byers and Leffler. As the demonstrators marched toward the jail, a deputy dashed from the sheriff's quarters and locked the gate to the jail grounds, while workers young and old booed him. Because of the mass pressure and solidarity of the workers of Toledo thus convincingly shown to the city, and county lackeys of the ruling class, Byers and Leffler were re- ‘leased on May 3. Both Byers and Leffler were not permitted to have any visitors and were in “solitary” for almost the entire week they were imprisoned. The arrested men were not even permitted to see their wives and children, and were given very little food. Toledo workers adopted resolu-! tions for passage of the Workers; Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598), immediate and unconditional release of the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon, unconditional par-! don for Mooney and Billings and the; rescinding of the resolution of the Export-Import Bank of the United | States (set up for carrying on trade between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.), | 374,000 unemployed, 90,000,000 | Acres Planted In U.S.S.R. Tremendous Gain Over} Sowing of Last | Year Recorded (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW. May 7 (By |Radio).—Over 90,000,000 | acres of land had been planted | with crops throughout the So- viet Union by May Ist this year, reports received today ‘show, as against 62,500,000} acres planted last year by the same time, A number of regions have fully| | completed the spring sowing. The| ‘first place is taken by Moldavia, Cabardino and Balkaria which have | far exceeded the plan. | An article in Pravda, organ of the | Communist Party, Soviet Union, de- ; voted to the course of the spring | sowing, which is marked by great successes, emphasizes that the achievments were gained as the re- sult of the reorganization period in agriculture which has been com- pleted. And as Comrade Stalin said: | “Agriculture now stands firmly upon its feet.” Last year—the first year after the completion of the reorganization ' period—it was apparent that the pe- | riod of the rapid growth of agricul- ture was beginning. This year the spring planting was started under the slogan of mass competition among collective workers. Millions of people under the! guidance of the Party organizations and the political section worked and still work with unprecedented en- thusiasm, with a great desire to ob- tain a prosperous life this year at all costs. t The productive activity of the col- lective farming masses, their devo- tion to the Communist Party, and; the Soviet regime, has added to the organized leadership of the Party further organization of the masse Such is the explanation of the suc | cessful course of the sowing. War and Fascism Opposed By United Michigan Students [Resolution Is Adopted | Against Detroit | Police Terror (Special to the Daily Worker) ANN ARBOR, Mich.. May 7. — | About one hundred and twenty-five! | delegates from high schools and col- leges throughout the State gathered at the Michigan Anti-War Con- ference, held here Friday night and Saturday, adopted a program of. action Against War and Fascism jand decided to affiliate with the American League against War end Fascism. A prominent part in the con Fascism. A prominent part in the conference was placed by the Na- tional Student League. Though delegates represented various political tendencies—Social- ist, liberal, pacifist, Communist, etc., with Communists definitely in .the minority—they found it possible to | unite in series of resolutions and in setting up organizational machinery that offers possibility of developing a powerful movement throughout | Michigan high schools and col-} jleges against war and fascism. A Committee consisting of one del- egate from each institution repre- sented wiil carry on work till next) conference. The conference voted resolutions | Supporting the peace policy of So- viet Union, demanding abolition of R._O. T. C., against American ex- ploitation of colonial countries and huge war expenditures under the guise of “National Recovery,” | against the growth of fascist ten- dencies in United States and at- tacks on Negro masses, urging build- ing of anti-war committees in schools and colleges and opposition to manufacture and transport of munitions through strikes, demon- strations, etc. Heated discussion took place on resolution condemning police attack on University of Michigan delega- tion to Detroit May Day demon- stration. Several delegates under “DEFAULTER! By Burek B. Awe Rear rin tate Fo Socialist influence demanded that; this be withdrawn on grounds it had nothing’ to do with the aims of the conference. For a while it looked as if the conference was in danger of splitting. However, mili- tant delegates, mostly members of National Student League, pointed out that after adopting the resolu- tion against Fascism, to evade the question of attack on the May Day delegation would mean refusing to act against manifestation of fas- cist tendencies directly affecting students. The resolution finally carried by more than two to one. Exposes “Pacifism” One of the high points of the conference was a speech on “pacifist devices,” made on the opening night by Prof. L. E. Cole of Oberlin Col- lege, Ohio. Cole exposed various type of pacifism, including the “So- cialist” brand, and declared that only the Communist program of- fered an effective way of fighting war. Cole received a tumultuous ova- tion. Another speaker Friday night was Philip Nash, president of Toledo University, and chairman of the Regional Labor Board in Toledo, who has been active in smashing strikes in auto parts factories. Nash's speech, under the guise of pacifism, was actually a cynical de- fense of American imperialism. He attacked student demonstrations against war and urged support of the imperialist League of Nations and the World Court. Communism the Way Out Just before the conference closed Saturday evening A. B. Magil spoke in the name of the Communist Party. Magil exposed the war and fascist character of the New Deal and contrasted this with the con- sistent peace policy of the Soviet Union. He showed the insepara- bility of war and fascism as twin children of capitalism and pointed out that only the Bolshevik path, revolutionary siruggle for Soviet power, offers the way out for hu- manity and can insure lasting peace, freedom and prosperity for all. He called on the students to demonstrate against war and mili- tarism on National Youth Day, May 30. By HY KRAVIF (Labor Research Association) E is a brief summary of the status of the German working class after slightly over a year of Hitler-Nazi rule. It is taken from Labor Fact Book, Vol. I, by La- bor Research Association, to be pub- lished in May by International Pub-} lishers. Unemployment; Official Nazi fig- ures for February 1934, report 3,- or 2,630,000 fewer than the year before. These figures do not include as unemploy- ed those in so-called “voluntary” la- bor or work-camps, emergency and relief laborers. Nor do they cover those who have replaced political and Jewish refugees and the mar- ried women ousted from their jobs by Nazis. The actual number of un- employed in February 1934 is there- fore estimated at 6,000,009. Wages: Real wages (what work- ers receive in relation to the cost of living or what they can buy with their earnings) in Germany are lower today than they have been in 50 years. The total wage reduction for German workers in 1933 is estimated at 400,000,000 marks, de- spite official claims of increased em-| ployment! Average hourly wage rates of German workers declined | 20 per cent since 1931. Furthermore, the state now deducts 27 per cent of all wages for income tax, unem-| 5 Ployment and sickness insurance, as cates ® | Wages Lower Than They Have Been In 50 Years; . What Hitler Brought to German Labor : & British Order Quotas Put On Japanese Goods In Trade War LONDON, May 7.—Definite steps to speed the trade war between Britain and Japan were taken when Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, announced in the House of Commons today that tariff) measures would be applied to limit Japanese textile and other imports into British colonies. An effort to come to an agree- ment on quotas, however, is being made with the objective of push- ing the Japanese into United States markets in Latin America, “The government is ready at any time,” said Mr. Runciman, 3 Filipino Strikers Sentenced to Death NEW YORK —Three taxicab strikers have been sentenced to death in Manila, Philippine Islands, on a charge of killing a scab, ac- cording to a cable received here to- day by the International Labor De- fense. The I, L. D. and the Anti-Im- perialist League has called on all workers’ organizations, and _espe- cially the taxi unions in the United States, which have conducted mili- tant struggles, to send protests de- manding revocation of the death penalty, to Secretary of State Hull at Washington, D. C., and to Gov- ernor Frank Murphy of the Philip- pines, at Manila, P. I. Pelee eae NEW YORK.—William Patterson, of the International Labor Defense, and Manzon, chairman of the dele- gation, to protest the treatment of political prisoners in the Philip- pines, will speak at a meeting and concert of the Filipino Anti-Im- perialist League and the Interna- tional Labor Defense on Saturday, May 12, at the Brighton Beach Cen- ter, 3200 Coney Island Ave. “to give the most careful con- sideration to any proposals which the Japanese government may desire to bring forward.” A United Press dispatch released here says: “It also may possibly mean aggravation of Japanese- United States competition in South America, where Japan is likely to divert much of her exports because of barriers in the British colonies.” Mr. Runciman announced that the Japanese quotas sought by Britain “should as far as possible be the average of their imports from 1927 to 1931.” These are con- siderably lower than the present amounts being exported to British colonies, and would leave a tre- mendous surplus to be dumped elsewhere. The actual quotas, Mr. Runciman added, would go into effect today. Increased duties on Japanese silk coming into Great Britain are also being considered, as a lever to force lower quotas on goods to the col- onies. Pressure for this action came from the Lancashire textile indus- try which was being completely un- dermined by Japanese competition in India, Africa, Malay, China and other colonial markets of Great Britain. U. S. and Japan Fight in Other Markets While the trade war has reached an open stage between Japan and Great Britain, more serious clashes are impending between the United States and Japan over Latin America, Chinese, Philippine and other markets. A typical example of the bitter- ness over trade rivalries between the United States and Japan in Latin America is given by Argen- tina. Japanese exports to Argentina in 1933 increased 90 per cent, and export from that country to Japan rose 130 per cent. All of these gains were made at the expense of Yankee imperialism. The Japanese purchases in Argentina, particular- ly, are in preparation for war against the Soviet Union. 174,000 Are Jailed By Nazis compared with deductions of 13 per| cent for those items in 1932. Cost of Living: In March 1934, it was reported that since April 1933, prices of prime necessaries had risen 10 per cent. New York Herald-Tribune (December 3, 1933) reported that “many German food prices have shown considerable in- crease since Chancellor Adolf Hitler came into power.” The dispatch said that price of margarine more than doubled since February 1933; that butter in Berlin rose from 2.40 marks to 3.40 marks a kilo since April 1933; that cheese rose 30 per cent and cream 25 per cent. As a result of these price increases, one statistician estimated that average; real wages in September 1933, were 31 per cent lower than in 1900. The Labor Law: The “law for the organization of national labor” was promulgated January 16, 1934, and becomes effective May 1934, al- though many of its provisions have already been put into practice. The law prohibits strikes, abolishes trade unions, collective bargaining,’ and the right to organize. It abro- gates 11 laws previously in effect, laws which had been won through ers are regarded as the followers and the employers as the leaders with the right to fix wages and working conditions without consul- tation of workers, Only so-called “confidence councils” or company unions are to be tolerated, their leaders being appointed by the em- Pployers. * Thirteen labor trustees appointed by the government for the large in- dustrial districts have among their! duties the right to try workers who “through malicious agitation en- danger labor peace within the shop, deliberately interfere with the man- agement or make frivolous com- plaints to the labor trustee.” They may impose fines or discharge workers for violations of the law. Suppression of Labor an@ Civil Liberties: On May 2, 1933, all cen- tral and local offices of the German trade unions were captured and their officials arrested and im- prisoned. Trade union and labor banks, newspapers, funds, buildings and other institutions were seized. The “German Labor Front” was created and some 8,000,000 workers were arbitrarily placed under its coercion. On March 22, 1934, an_ interna- the pressure of German workers. A system of “leader” and “followers” in the factory is created; the work- tional committee, headed by Andre eours IU) Peyodat ‘s0UeI JO apID | Backed by Prussian landlords January 31, 1933, 3,000 German anti- fascists had been murdered; 119,682 were crippled or otherwise wounded. The number of political prisoners in state and police prisons, concen- tration camps, storm troop bar- racks and workhouses was estimated at 174,000. Conservative estimates place the number of Jewish exiles from Germany at 60,000. Most of the 40,000 who were arrested and placed in prisons or concentration camps following March 1933, were | Communists and Socialists. Cooperatives: The Central Union of German Consumers’ Societies had in 1931 nearly 3,000,000 members and 985 affiliates; another three quar- ters of a million were organized in- to 270 societies which composed the National Union of German Con- sumers’ Cooperatives. (The Co-ops in Danger, by W. Fox, Labor Re- search Department of pore hated the agricultural co-ops, in- dustrialists who opposed consum- ers’ groups, insurance companies anxious to seize or control insurance cooperatives, and merchants seek- ing to crush producers’ groups, Hit- Jer's Nazis succeeded first in “liqui- dating” many cooperatives and then in placing Nazi officials in the lead- ing positions of those remaining. Organization of a new Nazi cen- tral body of cooperatives is now be- ing planned. The officials, of course, will not be chosen by the vast body of cooperators, but by Hitler agents, On the World Front By HARRY GANNES “Our Aim the Same” Austrian Heirs A Last Refuge | HERE could be no more ap- | propriate. title for Otto | Bauer’s latest article than that given it in the May 5th issue of the American Social- ist organ, “The New Leader.” “Our aim is the same, though our methods may change.” The aim of the Austrian social democratic leaders has been, by whatever method, to keep the Austrian work- ers chained to capitalist rule, February took to the barricades, boots of Dollfuss, offering him a two-year fascist dictatorship and complete disarming of the Austrian Schutzbund, the workers armed de- fense corps, the Social Democratit leaders realized the old methods were dead. New methods of treach- |ery had to be devised. The Austrian workers who fol- lowed the path of the Communist International in action on the: bar- ricades are not following that path in thought and organization. Proof of this is given in the recent statement of G. E. R. Gedye, New York Times Vienna correspondent: “Many of the Socialists, how- ever, feel that Dr. Bauer and Dr. Deutsch, by pursuing a pacific policy overlong, despite Fascist threats, and by muddling the prep- arations for final resistance, have forfeited the workers’ confidence and that even Dr. Bauer's belated conversion to the theory that a Socialist revolt must be followed by a Socialist dictatorship before the reinstituting of demecracy, cannot restore it. “These, embodying the bulk of the former Republican Defense Corps members, have joined with the Neo-Communists in a new- born ‘Red front’ with more radi- cal and revolutionary aims.” eo ge ae ee conditions require, not a change of aim of the Bauers and Deutschs, but a change of methods. As an experienced political confi- dence man, Herr Bauer now talks about the “revolutionary dictator- ship of the proletariat.” “This dictatorship.” he writes, “can be conquired by no means other than revolution.” But the Schutzbunders, the great majority of the social democratic workers who paid by deaths, impris- onment, torture and the Dollfuss dictatorship, because of Bauer’s un- changing aim, remember once be= fore when Bauer spoke about “pro= letarian dictatorship.” In 1918, the Austrian toiling masses were fighting for the prole- tarian dictatorship. They were armed, and ready to establish it, Otto Bauer tells all about this occa- sion in his book: Revolution of 1918,” from which we quote the following: “There was deep ferment in the barracks of the people’s army. The people’s army felt that it was the . bearer of the revolution, the van- guard of the proletariat.. .....The soldiers, with arms in hand, hoped for a victory of the proletariat... ‘Dictatorship of the proletariat!’ ++. ‘All power to the Soviets!’ was all that could be heard in the streets. “No bourgeois government could have coped with such a task. It could have been disarmed by the distrust and contempt of the masses. It would have been over- thrown in a week by a street up- rising and disarmed by its own soldiers. “Only the Social Democrats could have safely handled such an unprecedentedly difficult situa- tion, because they enjoyed the confidence of the working masses. + ++ Only the Social Democrats could have guided the people’s army and curbed the revolution- ary adventures of the working masses, .. . The profound shake- up of the bourgeois social order was expressed in that a bourgeois government, a government with- out participation of the Social Democrats, had simply become unthinkable.” When the masses of Austria were ready to establish the proletarian dictatorship, wanted “all power t« the Soviets!” Dr. Bauer and com: pany, in the interest of preserving the capitalist dictatorship, won the confidence of the masses ané steered capitalist rule to the safety from which it could establish its fascist dictatorship! - aim has not changed, but ths methods must change. The masses are now moving along the path of Soviet power, and the slimy Bauer who in 1918 sided with thc bourgeoisie, against the proletarian dictatorship, now becomes the ad- vocate, in words, of the proletarian dictatorship—with plenty of lawyer- like conditions. “We,” says Otto Bauer, who dis- armed the Viennese proletariat and ordered the Linz workers to submit to disarming on the very day that the Dollfuss Heimwehr were shoot- ing them down, “are the heirs of Weissel, Wallisch and Munrichter. The banner of Social Democracy which fell from their lifeless hands is taken up and carried on by us.” The barricade fighters of Austria and the 300 members of the Schutz- bund who chose to go to the land of the victorious proletarian dicta- torship are the heirs of the Austrian revolutionary heroes. The great mass of barricade fighters in Aus- tria, whom even the New York , Times correspondent says are not, swallowing Otto Bauer's lates! croaking about the proletarian dic: tatorship that he defeated in 1918. are the inheritors of the glorious tradition of the Aus‘rian proletariat. The last refuge of a traitor is patriotism; and the last refuge of a Social-Democratic betrayer is revolutionary phrases. But Herr Bauer, the Austrian proletariat will see, as the New Leader inad- vertently puts it, your “aim is the same,” When the Austrian workers last &™ while Otto Bauer was licking the |j “The Austrian by ie SI i$ fi ¥