The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1934, Page 5

| | | ] | HE mind of a cop is a mystery to most of us. years for an ordinary human being to become perverted into the cop-pattern. Anyone who has ever witnessed cops beating defense- ‘ess women and children at a demonstration, or trying to batter out somebody's brains in cold blood, will never again be very sentimental about capitalism, or believe as completely in the liberal- Socialist theory that capitalism can be kissed to death. . 7 yond their immediate characteriza- | 7 Cops form a mercenary corps which is really the Storm Troop | tion, ieiigh ooo Baoy uemeed, of capitalism. The men in the regular army are paid a dollar a day; Gorki’s first working class novel, | More spenaian it Tescusacaus | ae S. | but cops are carefully nursed on wages better than most of the skilled trades. It is interesting to note that in every country the cops succumb to fascist propaganda. They have been so well trained to hate the working class, that all the Nazi doctrines find them ready converts. In New York, recently, they put up a bloodthirsty defense of the various Nazi mass meetings which are spreading under the tolerant eye of Mayor LaGuardia. CHANGE WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY 1934 AY 31, ‘Mother--1905’ Is Stirring Drama of Toledo, Ohio, 1934) “MOTHER, 1905,” at the Acme} Theatre, Union Square, directed | by Pudovkin. | Reviewed by JACOB BURCK | Pudovkin's “Mother, 1905,” based on Gorki's famous novel “Mother,” | comes like a welcome oasis in the vast desert of the American film. In “Mother” you will not find any of the stereotyped, canned charac- ters manufactured in Hollywood Here, as in all Soviet movies, the people are real, capable of eating. | sleeping, breathing, loving, suffer- ing, and struggling. Not since the end of St. Petersburg have we met in this country such an array of vital characters which go far be- Lo ae It takes and Pudovkin’s first great film, both of which ar® prophecies of the great future works these men are to pro- duce, “Mother” is the story of the struggle of the Russian working class under Czarism. It is the story of a working class mother whose son is a revolutionary, and whose drunkard husband is killed as a strikebreaker. The censors having barred Pudovkin's film for over four years, seem to have released it un- ing the International, small deco- ovation, lasting five hours. | aboard. up on deck than a hand touched | my arm, and a uniformed Soviet but firmly to follow him. We went by two others in uniforms, and they You never hear of cops “defending” a Communist meeting that way. This is how fascism came in Italy and Germany; the workers could have easily disposed of the fascists in fair fight, but the whole force of the capitalist state always intervened on the side of the black and brown shirts. But here is a letter from Providence, Rhode Island, which gives ® little sketch of cops in another kind of action. T am sure most of us have also seen this side of the cop-mind, its bullying of little bootblacks, fruit peddlers and other unfortunate human beings living on the margin of capitalist starvation: . . . . Some Heroes in Blue p™ Comrade Mike, When I was a kid I used to read the “success” stories in the American Magazine. The formula for poor hoys was, sell newspapers, shine shoes and worm your way up to bank president. Doubtless many kids still ply the first part of the formula, incidently bringing home a@ few much needed pennies to starving parents and anaemic brothers and sisters. But there must be so little room now on top of the pile that the bank presidents use their police to prevent energetic though impoverished kids from having the same chances they once had. The Capone method of teaching undernourished little Boys their place is to steal their stock in trade. Such is the dogged devotion to duty and the courage of cops that @ lone cop confiscated the shoe shine boxes of a dozen small boys, thus efficiently eliminating their chances for a stab at success as measured by the American Magazine. ' On upper Westminster Street, where some big markets have re- cently opened, I met, last Saturday morning, a bunch of thin, ragged, bedraggled boot-blacks, being herded before a beefy 200 pound cop. The kids, none over ten years, silently and gently as if rehearsed, ar- ranged their boxes, containing shoe shining paraphernalia, in a police roadster. Beefy looked the group over hurriedly and with a swagger of satisfaction got in his car and sped off with the loot. The boys wore badges. They did not appear frightened but seemed nonplussed and helpless as they gazed after their rapidly disappearing chatles. I asked them why and wherefore. “We gotta come after our boxes next week,” was the chorused answer. About 100 feet away stood a sergeant, six foot and some extra inches radiating satisfaction with the efficient, snappy get-away of his subordinate. T asked him what rich man’s law had the kids abused to be so treated? | “These store-keepers pay ninety dollars a month and kids mustn't interfere with their profits,” the sergeant angrily replied. “There are no shoe shine stores in sight,” I remarked, “all you did was to deprive these kids of struggling for a few necessary nickels.” “These store-keepers pay ninety dollars a month, is the way we look at it,” the circus horse insisted more angrily. rr And thus cops eliminated “unfair competition” and child labor until next week. “G, ©., Providence, R. I.” June 3rd... Another NSW THEATRE NIGHT (Stars of Broadway, Harlem and 14th Street ) @ 3 NEW PLAYS by Workers Lab. Theatre @ DIMITROFF by Group Theatre Members @ ARTEF Scene from “Yegor Bulitchey” @ KYKUNKOR Native African Opera Reserve Tickets at: 25e, 35e, 55e & 99e ine. tax New Theatre, 5 E. 19th 8t., New FIFTH AVE, THEATRE Masses, 31 E. 27th 8t., Workers Book Tickets at Box Office 28 St. at B’way Shop, 50 E. 13th St. theatre collective OPENING Labor Temple Theatre TONIGHT 242 East 14th Street and Second Avenue “MARION MODELS, Ine.” A collective play by O. Shapiro, J. E. Bonn, J. Shapiro On the Struggle of a New York Needle Trade Shop Only 3 Performances this season: May 81; June 1; June 2 Reserved Seats 30 and 50 Cents Tickets on Salec Workers 12th St., Box Office 9-1 P.M. JUNE 1° JAMBOREE ( | Air Cooled RENAISSANCE 138th St. & 7th Ave. \ GROUCHO MARX—BILL ROBINSON and Others For Benefit Performance Call GR. 5.9076. Book Shop, 50 EB. 13th 8t., W.L.T. 42 8. TICKETS ON SALE ON National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners 156 Fifth Avenue (20th St.}, Room 584, Chelsea 2-9893, and Workers Book Store, 50 F. 18th St. General Admission (incl. tax): T3e, Box seats: $1.10 GROUCHG CAMP UNITY IS BUZZING WITH ACTIVITY We're busy preparing for the grand opening. Beeause June is Communist Party Month in Camp Nitgedaiget, opening is postponed to JUNE FIFTEENTH For full information phone AL 4-1148, or write the city office at 50 E. 13th St. or direct to Camp Unity, Wingdale, N. Y. ‘ON AT CAMP UNITY THIS YEAR PLAN YOUR YACATY | Hollywood hacks. | conscious of his strength. wittingly at a very appropriate time. Inside the little theatre the spec- tator witnesses a drama of which he is a part in 1934. It 1s.almost uncanny to discover how closely the parallel of the strike in “Mother,” written in 1905 follows that of the strike of the Auto-Lite workers in Toledo, Ohio. The same treachery of the manu- facturers, the same provocation of the scabs, the same terror, the same action on the part of the govern- ment—and perhaps, the last chap- ter of Toledo, which is as yet un- written as this review appears, may not be far different from the ending of this film. Our writers and artists in this country who are trying to produce working class art have but to take this film as a guide. To the American movie-goer Pu- dovkin’s film assumes an added im- portance as a chapter in the devel- opment of the Soviet cinema which has until now been missing. In this Picture we witness the genesis of the cinematic technique which was later | to become the stock-in-trade of the There are many flaws in this film, but they are due to the awkward- ness of a young genius becoming It is a silent film, with superimposed dia- logue written by Michael Gold. To this reviewer the synchronization is utterly superfious and becomes an annoying obstacle in appreciating the fine acting and the mounting emotional tenseness of the play. The acting of this marvelous cast. of Soviet artists, many of whom have appeared in subsequent Soviet. masterpieces, becomes almost as powerful a vehicle of Gorki's genius as Gorki’s own written word. Espe- cially Vera Baranovskaia, as the mother. She looks and acts not only as the Mother in the story—but as you sit and watch you begin to feel that you have seen that haggard face before. The expressions of suf- fering, joy and hope on her face become peculiarly intimate. You think of your mother — of your friends’ mothers—and finally decide she is all of them. She is every- body’s workingclass mother. The picture should have been left in its original form—a silent film. Gala Affair June 1 To Be Given by LW.0. Followers of the Trail NEW YORK.—1.W.O. Branch 600, | Followers of the Trail, is arranging an affair on Friday, June 1, at Irv- | ing Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. in support of the concentration work of the Communist Party among the workers of the General Electric Co. in Schenectady, N. Y. Included in the attractive pro- gram will be the Workers Labara- tory Theatre, presenting “News Boy,” the Freiheit Mandolin Trio, the Ukrainian Dance Group, and the Negro Quartet (members of the cast of Stevedore). The only speaker of the evening will be Comrade C. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, What's On Thursday SWIMMING, Tennis, Baseball, Dancing, Hiking and more at the Daily Worker Day and Moonlight Excursion, June 9th, to Hook Mountain. Get your tickets now at all Workers Bookshops. SOVIET CHINA —The Famous 1925-27 Hong Kong-Canton-Strike, lecture by C. Young at Friends fo the Chinese People, 168 W. 23rd St. Room 12, 8:30 p.m. Adm. 15¢. OPEN FORUM, Dr. A. Gilman of Inter~ Professional Association for Unemploy~ ment Insurance speaks at Pen & Hammer, 114 W. 21st St., 8:30 p.m. THEATRE Collective at Labor Temple Theatre, 14th St. and 2nd Ave, “Marion Models, Inc.” 8:45 p.m., 30¢ and 85e. & PHOTO League, 12 E. 17th St., 6:30 p.m. Open Forum, Indictment A Mann-Brand,” Nazi Anti-Working Class Film. Adm. free. OPEN MEETING of Edith Berkman Br. LL.D. at Boro Park Workers Club, 4704- 18th Ave., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Meeting protesting the Toledo massacres. I.W.O, English Speaking Branch meets at 4046 Broadway at 170th St, Room 2. Lecture on “Darrow Report.” Friday GROUCHO MARX, Bill Robinson and others at Juhe 1 Jamboree at Renaissance Casino, 198th St. and 7th Ave. Auspices: National Comm. Defense Political Pris- oners. DANCE and Entertainment at Writers Union, 11 W. 18th St., 6:30 p.m, Adm. 25c. SPRING FESTIVAL at Hotel Newton, 2528 Broadway (94th St.) Saturday, June 2, 9 p.m. Delightful Concert, Elaborate Buffet, Good Time for all. Auspices; West Side Br. F.8.U. Adm. 35¢. CONCERT & Bal! celebrating Red Wed- ing at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place é& isth St., Saturday, June 2, 8:30 p.m. Aus- Ploes Br. 4 1.W.O. Adm. IT HAS HAPPENED! The Literature Department because of increased business has moved to larger quarters at 35 E, 12th St. to the Sth floor. Please be advised that Feuerbach by Engels is now out and thet many new books and pamphlets are now on Go at the Workers Book Shop, 50 E. 13th Bt. . ee | SATURDAY, June 2nd — Anti-War Rally and Track and Pield Meet. Max Bedacht, speaker. Movies, side show, mass games, dancing till dawn, Ulmer Perk, Brooklyn. Tickets at all workers clubs and at gate 28¢. Philadelphia BANQUET and Dance given by Bact. 4 LLD. on Priday, June 1. at 2110 W. Nor- sooner or later reverted to the same By HELEN SHERIDA | WAS the tail-end of the sum-| mer of 1928. I was returning to America after several months in| the Soviet Union, and had booked passage on a small freighter going to Hamburg. When I arrived at the Leningrad dock, I was astonished to see thou- | sands of people at the pier. Red flags were waving, a band was play- rated boats were eruising around our ship. A burst of cheers. Some— At last I was permitted to go! No sooner had I stepped | official was asking me courteously down into the boat, to a small state-room. There we were joined began to question me. - Innumer- able questions of all sorts, which ones: Have you ever been to Ger- many? Do you speak German?| Have you ever seen any one of the | passengers before? My answers to the mild “third degree” satisfied my interlocutors, and with handshakes all around, and a friendly slap on the back, I was permitted to return on deck. The strains of the International be- came fainter and fainter, and we) were off. At dinner in the small dining room that night, the dozen or so passengers had their first oppor- tunity to observe each other. There were five or six Germans, two Rus- | sian men and a Russian woman, a French girl, a Georgian, and my- self. Opposite me sat a big, strap- ping, blond fellow, ruddy, jolly, | wearing a collarless workers’ shirt. He laughed easily his blue eyes twinkling gaily. Every movement of his was dynamic, and his pres-| ence dominated the entire room. I understand very little German, but. this man’s manner was so engaging and his good humor so infectious, that I found myself laughing with the rest at his remarks. 6 hie 5s 'HE next day I was sitting on deck reading. The Russian woman sat down next to me, and engaged me in conversation. She was mid- dle-aged, conventionally and rather | expensively attired, and had a bored, weary voice, “So you've been visiting Moscow? And you really liked it? How could you? Why, it’s so dirty! Now Ger- many, ... ..” She was married to a German business-man, lived in Hamburg, | and had been visiting relatives in Russia. But oh, how glad she was | going back—why Moscow's so dirt Just then the big German passed, waving a friendly good-morning to us. “You see that man?” said the woman. “That's Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist, Party. Imagine him President of Germany, if you please. Why, he’s only an ignorant peasant! His mother has a small green-grocer’s shop near our place in Hamburg. A little shop—a dirty little shop. . . So you really liked Moscow?” The weary voice had become un- bearable. I walked away and leaned over the rail... reflecting .. . how wise the Soviet Union had been to get rid of this smug, weary woman and all her kind. I visualized the time when millions of “ignorant peasants” and workers like Thael- mann would crush similar soft white grubs underfoot on their march to seize power in Ger- many. ... | One of the Germans who spoke | English came over to talk to me. Thaelmann and the others joined us. Stories were related about the | ing German Communist Party, how 'A Glimpse of Thaelmann, German C. P. Leader, on A Soviet Ship in 1928 ch it had maneuvered at such and such a time, how ingeniously a certain kidnapping of a Socialist broadcaster had been effected, and a Communist put in his place, Ernst Thaelmann spreading the message of Commu- nism to millions of listeners before the plot was discovered. Soon we were all singing revolutionary songs. A balmy evening had set in. Someone found a rusty little grama- phone. It wheezed out an old waltz|ers pay to send you to school. tune. Thaelmann was goaded on| You've no right to go into any by the others to dance with the| nigger neighborhood. You lousy “American” comrade, and to the] pups. get out of here! Get out, great amusement of the rest welall of you !” lurched around and around the small boat in a clumsy old-fashion- ed waltz. Finally Thaelmann gave up—dancing was not his forte. 3, Ce ia HE next day we began to ap- proach the harbor of Hamburg. We were sailing through what ap- peared to be a wealthy summer re- sort. Yachts and sailboats dotted the water. Our gramaphone was hastily produced, and the Interna- tional rattled out loudly across the water. Field glasses and lorgnettes were pointed our way. Small boats came near us—glassy stares—cold, expressionless faces—the Interna- tional played on and on, .over and over again. The Russian-woman-married-to- a - German ~ business - man was ec- static. “Isn’t it delightful,” she | proy affiliated with the League | gurgled. “How wonderful Germany ace’ beeaae sent telegrams ay is—everything so neat and clean!” | president Roosevelt, protesting Now we were passing close to a half-built ocean liner—the enor- mous Europa in construction. The workers on the boat crowded the rails to see the Soviet ship. Sud- denly a shout went up. Someone had spied Thaelmann! In a moment, Thaelmann was leaning over our rail, shouting greetings to the men. Arms were thrust for- ward as if to grasp his outstretched hand. Hats waved—feet stamped ords were shouted ‘Rot Front!” The air vibrated with their echoes as we sailed on. Now I understood why this man had been so carefully protected by the Soviet Union, I understood the reason for the tremendous ova- tion at the Leningrad pier. I had seen and felt the devotion of the Hamburg dock workers to their powerful and tried leader, a Ham- burg dock worker like themselves. Passport red tape over, and we are ready to step into a launch to take us to the Customs. I look around for my new German friends. They are not with us. Then I hear someone call out. I turn in time} to see the five German comrades sailing off by themselves in a small| boat. Ernst Thaelmann is stand- up, strong. laughing, uncon- querable, a glowing symbol of the German working class. He is wav- ing good-bye. I wave and wave like mad, until the boat is only ® speck in the distance. STAGE AND SCREEN “Mary Of Scotland” Moving To Guild Theatre Monday Maxwell Anderson's play, “Mary of Scotland,” which has been play- ing at the Alvin Theatre since November 27, will be transferred to the Guild Theatre next Monday night. “Ah Wilderness,” the Eu- gene O'Neill play now current at the Guild, will close this Saturday night. “Hedda Gabler,” by Ibsen, will be revived on June 4 at the Roer- ich Theatre with Giovanne Bor- gese in the title role, “Furnished Rooms,” a new com- edy by Ragnhilde Bruland, opened at the Rita Theatre last night. Vicki Cummings, John F. Morris- sey, Frank Reyman and Violet Barney head the cast. Hall Skelly, producer and lead- ing player of “Come What May,” now playing at the Plymouth Theatre, is planing a number of plays for next season including a musical comedy. Harry Cort and Charles H. Ab- ramson announce “Saluta,” a new musical play by Will Morrisey, scheduled to open here on June 25. Frank D’Armand composed the music. Bartlett Simmons, noted singer, has replaced Everett Marshall in the cast of the “Zieffeld Follies,” at the Winter Garden. “The Black Crook,” a revival of the 1866 extravaganza, is now an- nounced for June 12 at the old People’s Theatre, which has been renamed the Bowery Gardens. Nita Naldi, Ann Pennington and Lew Hearn will play leading roles. “Manon” To Be Revived At Hippodrome Saturday Puccini's “Manon Lescaut,” will be revived by the Hippodrome Opera Company on Satuaday evening with Alfred Chieti, Alles- sandro Granda, Panfilo Testamala and Santa Biondo in the leading tis St. Good Food and Swell Music. include “Lucia di Lammermoor,” tonight, with Marinelli and Gran- da; “Andrea Chenier,” Friday evening with Lola Monti-Gorsey and Ferrara; “Cavalleria Rusti- canna” and “Pagliacci,” Saturday afternoon and “Un Ballo in Mas- chera” on Saturday evening. Boston hs G, Artiste Protest Police Attack On Anti-Fascist Meet BOSTON,—Artists of the John Reed Club have sent the following telegram of protest to Judge Charles 8. Sullivan of the Municipal Court, Charlestown, Mass.: Boston artists members of John Reed Club regard arrest and pros- ecution twenty-one workers and students last Thursday as out- rageous attack on rights of free speech and assemblage. We con- demn cowardly unprovoked brutal assaults by police and consider their actions open support of fas- cist barbarism against which Bos- ton people were peacefully demon- strating and will continue to demonstrate. We demand imme- diate unconditional release of all twenty-one workers, John Reed Club of Boston Artists Group MARION PEARL, Secretary. New Labor Bookshop To Open in Boston BOSTON, June 30.—The Inter- national Bookshop will open at 216 Broadway, offering for the first time in New England a complete line of labor literature, including the basic works of Marx and Engels. During the opening week of June |Speak in Cleveland, O. |Get Out, You Pups, 'Red Squad Chief, iTells Students| By Federated Press. CHICAGO. “You lousy get out of here! Get out, all of | you!” angrily shouted Lieut. Mike Mills, chief of the red squad or lindustrial detail of the Chicago police. In this fashion, as the bruisers |of his squad moved menacingly | forward, the lieutenant closed an interview in his office that he had| granted to University of Chicago | students regarding police brutality and interference with freedom of assembly. From a verbatim report of the interview the following reports are | taken Student: Why were three stu- dents picked up on Wednesday? Lt. Mills: Anytime you go into a nigger district you'll get hit with a club, You've got no right to pa- rade with niggers. If you don't} stay where you belong you'll get a/ kick in the pants. | Student: Why has there been discrimination against Negro work- ers? Lt. Mills: That building [new high school for Negroes] is a P. W. A. project. It employs union la- bor but not niggers. The niggers | can be bricklayers. Student: Why do promote race hatred? Lt. Mills: I don't try to promote race hatred. I like niggers myself. A lot of my friends are niggers. But they are not any better than anybody else . .. You kids were born here and your damfool fath- pups you try to Members of the red squad joined in and yelled,“Get out of here!” and as the students went down the elevator the detectives shouted after them, “You ought to be thrown down the shaft.” Dances Portraying Struggles at Recital On Saturday Night! NEW YORK.—As an expression of their protest against the fascist terror now raging in Toledo, Ohio, the New Dance Group will perform a dance entitled “Toledo, 1934,” at the Workers Dance League Festi- val and Competition at Town Hall on Saturday evening. June 2nd. All against the use of national guards- men and demanding their imme- diate withdrawal. Other dances to be performed on Sat. eve, include: “Kinder, Kuche, and Kirche,” a commentary on the fate of womanhood in Nazi Ger- many, to be presented by the Na- ture Friends Dance Group. “Van der Lubbe’s Head.” by the New Dance Group, “Scottsboro,” by the Red Dancers, “Contempo * * * Scenes Under Capitalism,” by the Rebel Dancers of Newark, “Red Tide,” by the American Revolu- tionary Dancers, “Bruno Tesch Memorial,"by the New Duncan Dancers, “Pioneer March,” by the Junior Red Dancers, and others. A committee of judges. consist- ing of outstanding revolutionary dancers and critics, will award prizes to the best dance composi- tions of the evening. The judges are Fe Alf, John Bovingdon, Nadia Chilkovsy, Sopia Delza, Mike Gold, Carl Sands, Harold Edgar, Harold Elion and Rose Wortis. Dr. Rueben s. Toure to CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Dr, Reuben S. Young who has recently return- ed from abroad, visiting Australia, Africa, Europe, and the Soviet Union, will speak at two meetings here, on the subject of “National Minorities in the Soviet Union,” on Friday, June 1, at Public Audi- torium Hall B, at 8 p.m., with Dr. Charles Herbert Garvin, trustee of the Howard University as presiding chairman, and on Saturday, June 2, at Woodland Center, E. 46th St. and Woodland Ave., at 8 p.m., with W. O. Walker, editor of the Cleve- Jand Call-Post, as the presiding chairman. These lectures will be given under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union, TUNING IN 7:00 P. 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MANUILSKY: The Revolu- tionary Crisis is Maturing (Re- port to the Ith Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.) 48 pages. Price 10 cents. Reviewed by BILL GEBERT pase on the decisions of the 13th | Plenum of the E. C. C. I. which munist Party of the Soviet Union licates the immed: Comrade Manu n his bril-| liant report, draws a picture of the} te perspect Stalin, who gave the perspective of the victory of world proletarian revolution in the following man- ner: “The masses of people have not yet reached the stage when they storming it is maturing in the minds of the masses—there can hardly be any doubt about it.” Comrade Manuilsky, in his port, says: “This and ‘suddenness’ of the revolution- ary explosions is a partisularly characteristic feature of the pres- ent situation.” To see how correct this is, it is sufficient to mention the class struggles that took place in France, the barricades in Aus- tria, the struggles in Spain and in Cuba, and the present upsurge of the masses in the United States, with armed clashes on a number of class battiefronts. “During the five years of world economic crisis, the capitalist system,” says Comrade Manuilsky, “has gone to pieces to such an ex- tent that the objective prerequisites for a revolutionary crisis are al- ready ripe in the weakest links of re- nies and dependent countries oc- cupying commanding positions.” “The breaking in the capitalist chain in its weakest link,” Comrade Manuilsky points out is taking place in China, “with the formation of Soviet China, whose strength is growing and being consolidated each day.” And, what is more im- portant, Comrade Manuilsky points out that “Soviet China is what to- and dependent countries crushed by imperialism.” Analyzing various class battles and armed uprisings, including fer- ments in the armies and navies, Comrade Manuilsky points out, “The broad masses are learning the science of revolution and they are learning it very quickly.” The report deals at length with the situation in Germany and the lessons drawn from it by the world proletariat, and declared the revo- lutionary perspective for Germany: “With the transition to fascist dictatorship, the crisis of the power of the bourgeoisie does not disappear; it hecomes intensified. . « . The bourgeois dictatorship, by dismissing social-democracy, is narrowing its mass base and roll- ing further into the precipice, like Russian Czarism when it rejected the support of the Liberals and Constitutional - Democrats. .. . The German fascists wanted to kill by bloodletting the desire of the German proletariat for revo- lutionary violence, but they have undermined the social-democratic workers’ democratic illusions and the prestige of bourgeois lawful- ness, and are making the German proletariat a supporter of armed uprising against bourgeois dicta- torship.” In the light of the experiences in Germany and the treacherous role of German Social-Democracy, Com- rade Manuilsky declares that the Second International remains and is “the chief support of world re- action.” He characterized this in the manner, pointing out that Ger- man Social-Democracy had at its “Idea of Storming ‘unexpectedness’ | the | the capitalist system, in the colo- | morrow will bring in the colonies | 1 Matures of Masses’ ifficient to defeat 9 s ; forces and organi« 2a! fascism, He dex clares “Social-Democracy could have blocked the way to fascism even under the Bruening government in 193-32, for it had at its dis- posal five million trade union members and it had the state ap- characterized the present world sit-| Paratus of Prussia in its hands, uation that we are enter! a new) After all it was the members of round of Revolutions and Wars,”| the Social-Democratic Party who Comrade Manuilsky gave a report; manned the police tanks and | to the 17th Congress of the Com-| armored cars; the Berlin police was recruited from among ‘demo- in behalf of the delegation of the! cratic’ elements by Grzesinsky Cc. P. 8, U. to the Communist In-| and Severing. If the Communists ternational. This rep had had at their disposal one- most thoroughgoing tenth or one-twentieth part of present international si these arms which were in the revolutionary optimi: and Bol-| hands of the Prussian Social- shevik self-criticism, and clea N-| Democratic government, there would be no fascism in Germany ocial-Democracy did not use revolutionary upsurge of the masses power. Why? Comrade Man« ital answers it as follows throughout the capitalist world, an ea dsores Wah) Aheuch-dinavene cast . because it stood on the : : 4 | Same ground as fascism — the steadily pressing forward, as is ‘ . y | preservation of capitalism — be- shown in the report of Comrade | cause it knew that the fight which the working class had begun against fascism would go over ita head and take the form of a revo- lution directed against the domi- nation of the capitalists.” : OMRADE MANUILSKY, in his are ready to storm the citadel report, treats in. detail of the ef capitalism; but the idea of weaknesses in the work of the Com munist Parties, owing to which they have not yet completely defeated social-democracy Although “the | crisis of social-democracy is first. of all the result of the struggle which the C. I. and its sections, have for many years been waging against the Second International. However, the International Communist move- ment, in spite of shortcomings and | Weaknesses, is growing and forging forward “The Comintern now comprises of 860,000 Communists in the capitalist countries, but the point is not only the numerical growth of the Com- munist Party, but also the growth of their influence.” | Comrade Manuils y in his report also speaks of the enormous inter- national importance of the great victories of the Soviet Union “At the present moment, when the bourgeoisie is driving the world into imperialist wars, when it is hitting the disarmed working class of the capitalist countries, it is particularly clear what the theory of the building of Social- ism in a single country means for the revolutionary movement of world. It has been and is the theory of the great proletarian solidarity, of the great interna- tionalism of the C. P. S. U, Armed with this theory, the pro- Jetariat unceasingly prepared, and. continues to prepare, for the vie~ tory of the proletarian revolution throughout the world. Lenin led the toilers to the October Revoin- tion in Russia, Stalin will lead them on Lenin's path to victory the world over.” 'N VIEW of the sharpening war danger in preparation for a coune ter-revolutionary war against the fatherland of the world proletariat, Comrade Manuilsky points out that the workers in the capitalist and colonial countries will rise in de- | fense of the Soviet Union, declaring: “Let the bourgeoisie today try ta arm the masses in the capitalist countries as it armed them at the last imperialist war. It will under- stand then what armed peoples |Signify for the fate of capitalism and how armed peoples hasten the development of the revolutionary crisis.” The report of Comrade Manuilsky is written in a popular and inspir= ing manner, at the same time giv- jing the Bolshevik interpretation of _ the present situation and perspece tive. No Communist, no worker, can afford to miss reading the report: Tt is one of a series of separate | pamphlets on the 13th Plenum of--* the E. C. C. I. published by The Workers Library Publishers. The > series includes the report of Stalin to the 17th Congress of the Com=" munist Party of the Soviet Uniot, Other pamphlets of the series con= — tain Reports and Resolutions of the. 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