The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1934, Page 6

Page Six rere cocan COMMUNIST PANTY HAA (SECTION OF COMMUNIST InTiBEATOMAL) “America’s Only Working Class Dally Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC,, 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4- 7954. nw. Y Cable Address: al tag Bs Washing! Br onal Building, Midwest Bu , Room 705, Ohcago, Hi Telephone: Di Subscription Rates: n Bronx 1 year, 96.00; 1 month, 6.75 cents. and Onnada: 1 year, $8.00; HURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1934 Daily QWorker | Congress Does a Good Job for Wall Street HE 78rd Congress which has just folded up its tents to steal silently away to the pickings and pleasures “back home” did a pretty good job—for the Wall Street ruling class. In the 126 days during which it set aside about $18,000,000,000 for present and fu- ture expenditures (expenditures to be wrung from the masses in tax extortions), it did not pass one single measure effecting the improvement of the living conditions of the daily life of the millions upon millions of workers, toiling farmers, small producers and professionals who make up the vast majority of the population. On the contrary, in every single act, this Congress, like every one of its predecessors, acted contrary to the interests of the majority of the population, and in the interests of a handful of powerful Wall Street capitalist monopolies, This Roosevelt Congress revealed itself to be what the whole Federal Government is, nothing but the executive committee of the capitalist ruling class, the committee through which the biggest capitalist monopolies and exploiters carry through their dictatorship over the toiling masses. Every single action of this Congress showed how mecessary it is, if the hunger and misery of the masses are to be ended, to overthrow éhis govern- ment of the Wall Street monopolies and to set up & new kind of government in the interests of the vast majority of the people, a Soviet Government, a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. * i divead Congress has raised the cost of living for every single workers’ family in the country by at least 16 per cent, thus cutting a hole in the pay envelope of every man, woman and child draw- ing wages. * * As a result of the work of this Congress, bread, milk, sugar, clothes, have risen in price at least 20 per cent. This Congress created the biggest war machine ever seen in the history of the country. It spent almost two billion dollars for war machines, for bullets, cannon, and poison gas. This Congress, at the same time, spat in the faces of the 16,000,000 jobless, and disabled vets, by refusing to grant one cent of Federal Unem- ployment Insurance to guarantee the jobless and their children against the agonies of hunger and insecurity. This Congress slashed $500,000,000 from the vets and the Federal employees in order to pay off the Wall Street banks. This Congress granted more than four billion dollars to Wall Street banks, mortgage holders, in- vestors in farm mortgages, etc., by guaranteeing the investments of these Wall Street banker usury sharks. . * . 'HIS Congress intensified the misery and degra- dation of the vast majority of the farming Population, through the Bankhead Bill, driving thousands of sharecroppers, Negro and white, off into utter destitution. This Congress approved the destruction of 40 per cent of the wheat crop last year, 20 per cent ef the corn crop, thus coining profits for the speculators and big farmers on the hunger of the T™Masses. This Congress carried through the Roosevelt Program of tightening the grip of the Wall Street monopolies on the whole economic life of the coun- try. But this Congress supported the system of lynch terrorism against the Negro people. ‘This Congress witnessed a steady growth of fas- sist reaction throughout the country, a steady fas- tization of the whole State machine through the building up of a huge military apparatus, a nation- wide system of strikebreaking Labor Boards, the unleashing of bloody terrorism against strikers in Toledo, Minneapolis, etc. In its every act this Congress worked against the interests of the vast majority of the toiling Population, and in the interests of the ruling class, the millionaires and billionaires, 'E MUST get into this Congress to tear the mask off its Wall Street servility. We must get into this Congress to gain a forum to broaden the fight for the needs of the masses, for bread, for security against unemployment, to expose their imperialist war preparations. Comrade Browder, speaking to the Bight Party Convention, said quite bluntly: “We still underestimate the value of revolu- tionary parliamentarism. We are at a moment when it is quite possible for large masses to swing ' over very quickly to the support of the Commu- nist Party, especially in the Congressional elec- tions. Therefore there is no utopianism in sug- gesting the possibility of many successful Com- munist candidates if we work correctly and make & serious campaign. .. .” The Congressional elections come in the Fall. ‘There must be serious thought given to the choos- ng of candidates, and truly energetic preparations @ wide, popular, election campaign with a few in principal demands based upon the needs of masses, in the crisis. In the Congressional campaigns, we have the _Breatest opportunity to make clear to the masses the need for a new kind of government, a Workers’ ‘and Farmers’ Soviet Government. Through the ‘election campaigns we can give the greatest mass ‘explanation of our main slogans toward Soviet Power. ‘ The “Impar | tial Board” in Steel 10 COMMUNISTS, as was shown in the statement of the Central Committee on the situation in the steel industry pub- lished yesterday, it was perfectly clear that President Green of the A. F. of L., Mike Tighe of the A. A., President Roosevelt, General Johnson and his N. R. A. “con- ciliators,” and the now defunct and disgraced Com- mittee of Ten, had no intention of helping the steel workers at any stage of the game. The American Iron and Steel Institute and the steel companies it represents have been permitted to force their employees into company unions and take “strike” votes of their employees with the threat of discharge and blacklist hanging over every steel worker. Now that they have been allowed to flood the columns of the press with news steries and other inspired publicity to the effect that steel workers are in love with company unionism, the support of the plan for an “impartial” board of three to be appointed by Roosevelt—the agent in the White. House of the steel companies and monopolists—by Green, Tighe and other A. F. of L. officials becomes even more sinister. The “impartia] board” will be a new weapon in the steel company arsenal. The strike movement under the leadership of the A. A. has been halted. The surrender of Green and Tighe and the Committee of Ten, their in- sistence on purely formal union “recognition” and the dropping of the other basic demands, has been and is still being used by the steel companies to attempt to discredit the A. A., and the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union. The steel com- panies are carrying on a nation-wide campaign in the plants and milis and newspapers against “out- side” organizers. They are picturing their company unions as pure democracies. They are trying to make a case for company unionism—for fascist unions. 'HE efforts of the companies are aided first of all by President Roosevelt. He stands by the revised steel code, which gives the American Iron and Steel Institute practically unlimited powers. He permitted the steel companies to recruit private armies of thugs—and to arm them against the steel workers. He permitted the steel companies to prepare for the use of civil war methods against the steel workers and their unions. For the time being Secretary of Labor Perkins has been delegated to handle the steel situation. Green and the A. A. officials continue to talk about “collective bargaining,” elections, under “govern- ment supervision,” etc. All this maneuvering is intended to prevent the steel workers from rally- ing their forces to build powerful and militant unions and a united fighting front of all steel work- ers for their demands. The Steel and Metal Workers Union is not per- mitted by the government to represent any steel workers in Washington. But it goes ahead organiz- ing workers and exposing the defeatist policies and maneuvers of Green, Tighe, Johnson, Perkins and Roosevelt's N. R. A. — Right now the most effective way of aiding the S. M. W. I. U., the rank and file of the A. A. and all steel workers is for the Party districts and sec- tions to reprint and distribute large numbers of the Central Committee statement in the principal plants and mill centers. It will be far more difficult to betray the steel workers the next time as a result of disgust of steel workers with the leaders who put over the sur- render. Communists must expose these steel com- pany agents so effectively that no further betrayal by them will be possible. The Central Committee statement is a powerful weapon in this struggle. Legislative Corruption NE of the New York State Senators, Warren T. Thayer, has just been found guilty by the State Senate of “miscon- duct” in regard to his relations with the big utility companies of New York State. Thayer resigned before the verdict was handed down, The corruption of a Thayer is not iso- lated in the legislative halls either of this State or of the whole Federal Government. The capitalist legislators are bound to big capital, to the Wall Street monopolies and utility companies by an infinite number of bonds, financial and social. There is not one of the Senators who voted against Thayer who is not stained with the same corruption. Corruption is part and parcel of the whole sys- tem of capitalist democracy, where the government, despite its “democratic” trappings, is only the servant of the property class. And as Marx, great leader of the revolutionary working class, pointed out long ago, there is no place where corruption is more open and cynical than in a democratic re- public, The filth of capitalist corruption reeks through every government office, through every act of the government. In his contact with the police, with the government offices, etc. the worker finds that the power of capital dominates everywhere. It is necessary to get working class candidates into these legislative halls to expose in those halls the ties that bind the capitalist legislators to the ‘Wall Street billionaires. In the Soviet Union grafters and crooks in the state apparatus are sent to jail or shot. That is because the Soviet Government is the rule of the masses against the exploiters, not the rule of the exploiters against the masses, To end corruption, the power of capital must be ended. Only a proletarian revolution and work- ers’ state power can do that. Meanwhile, we fight the capitalist legislative crooks, those who are caught, and those who are “respectable.” Join the Communist Party) % FAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. | Piease send me more information om the Commu-_ Mist Party, | Tht esse eeeer onsen seeeerereeeseaeanee DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1934 U.S.-Cuba Loan ‘Of$50,000,000 ‘Went to Graft But Mendieta Regime Is Maneuvering With the Banks To Pay kt HAVANA, June 20.—Declaring that the $60,000,000 loans con- tracted by the Machado regime |from various U.S. banks were made | “illegally,” a government com- | mission here recommended yes- | terday that they be not paid to | the banks and that conferences be arranged with representatives of individual bondholders for a re- | adjustment of the loans. The Mendieta debt commission, however, failed to point out that the butcher Machado regime re- | ceived millions of dollars in graft | out of these loans as did the bankers that floated them. Faith- | | ful to its Wall Street backers, the | Mendieta regime does not repu-| diate these loans which the Cu- |ban people never received. The loans were made by the | Chase National Bank, the National | City Bank of New York and the Continental Illinois National Bank jad Trust Company of Chicago. The money was supposed to be used for “public works” but was squandered by Machado and the bankers for their own purposes and for supporting the armed forces against, the Cuban people. The Wall Street bankers in a statement declared the loans were “legal” and that they would un- dertake measures to enforce their Payment thhrough the Roosevelt government. The Roosevelt re- gime is backing the Mendieta government, and matters of pay- ment will be arranged. The loans were made with the help of the United States State Department. ‘Pittsburgh Women ‘To Hold Anti-War’ ‘Conference Sunday | Delegates to Come from | Mine and Steel | Districts | oeSeae, |_ PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 20.—A | Regional Conference of women | Workers will be held Sunday tfter- |noon, June 24, at the Irene Kauf- |man Settlement here, where dele- gates to the International Women’s Anti-War Congress, which will be held in Paris, France, July 28 to July 30, will be elected, announces the American Legue Against War and Fascism. Among the delegates will be women chosen by the Ladies, Auxil- iaries of the United Mine Workers of America, A. F. of L. There will be women delegates from the Tin and Plate Factory in McKeesport, Pa., where members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, A. F. of L., participated in a meeting to- day, BUGARIA BANISHES PARTIES SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 14— Premier Kimon Georgieff, head of the fascist government Tues- day issued a drastic decree ban- ning all political parties and pub- lications and instituting an all- embracing censorship. The decree tore off the last veil and left the new Bulgarian gov- ernment an undisguised military dictatorship. | Hf Mrs. Roosevelt Isn’t In, We Wou!d like to Interview Mahatma Gandhi’’ | by Limbach NEWS ITEM: “Noted Citizens Listed as Reds in N. Y. Police Commissioner O’Ryan’s Radical Roster.” Barbusse Sounds Call to War Vee Thrnout World for Int'l Congress to Be Held in Paris o The following is the full text of an appeal just issued to the war veterans of the worid by the great French writer and fighter against war and fascism, Henri Barbusse. It is the appeal of the special Committee of the world vets’ organization, “International des Anciens Combattants,” for the coming world convention of war veterans to be held in Paris during the last week in July, on the 20th anniversary of the he- ginning of the last World War. . . By HENRI BARBUSSE Today, twenty years after the declaration of war, the voice of the survivors is raised more strongly and powerfully than ever. And more than ever is it necessary to do so. Events have followed their course. The bourgeois empire has shown its instability and its harmful char- acter. In every country governed by it, the economic crisis has in- stalled itself, unemployment and want as well as political persecution are rampant. And the day after the most terrible of wars, we are on the eve of one still more ter- rible. Just as between the people of the world two broad currents have been formed, that of the enslavers and their tools, and that of the liberators, a like separation has taken place between the men who escaped the massacres of 1914-1918, The International des Anciens Combattants has brought together all those who fight against war in a logical and loyal manner, by fighting against reaction and im- perialism, the fomentors of war, by fighting for the establishment of a |better society, a society of work, peace and justice. World Convention The I. A. C. is about to hold its ‘ith convention. Now more than ever has it a mission to perform— j its special mission. In the growing disorder of the world, in the midst of intensified peril and menace, the men who were the witnesses ‘and actors in the last war have some- thing to say, and should make themselves heard. They must be heard especially since so many veterans have fallen under the in- fluence of the official authorities, who, with great pomp, exploit the betrayal of the former soldiers towards the cause of their past and future brothers, and the enslave- ment by the profiteers who deal in human flesh, the charnel house speculators, The Committee of the I. A. C. bids you examine, from this very moment, the nature of the 7th Con- vention of the I. A. C. which is to be held at the end of July, on the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, and which is to be a huge and sensational demonstration. It will study particularly, aside from the ever more wretched lot of the maimed and disabled of the war, fight. their parents and children, the development of imperialist war and fascism, and the redoubled efforts incumbent upon us for the united front of struggle of all workers against these two plagues. Fight Imperialist War From this moment too, for there is no time to lose, it is fitting that you participate in the most active and energetic way in this struggle, by getting in touch with the Fight- ing Committees sprung from the International Convention of Am- sterdam against war and the European Convention of Paris against Fascism. The Committee of the I.A.C. asks you likewise to consider the forma- tion of a delegation of disabled veterans and the conveyance of a group of sick into the U. S. S. R. It also asks you to immediately un- dertake-a task which is of material advantage in the actual fight: all the material which you can obtain concerning reactionary veteran or- ganizations, fascist or pro-fascist, and also statistical documents on legislation, provident measure and assistance for victims of war and occupations, in the various capital- ist countries. The attached circular will give you some detailed indica- tions of the immense, coordinated and systematized task, for which the moment of undertaking has come, Once again, and more fervently {than ever, we summon you to the Whole City Is Thrilled On Return of the Arctic Heroes By VERN SMITM (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 20 (By Radio) — Hundreds of thousands of Moscow Workers began marching through Red Square shortly after seven this morning, and as this is being writ- ten, late in the afternoon, they are still continuing their demonstration of welcome to the heroic Chelyuskin expedition of 104 members and their rescuers, The workers are carrying masses of flowers and photographs of the Chelyuskinites and the rescuing pilots in whose honor this tre- mendous outpouring of the popula- tion is held. The workers handed and threw bouquets to the Chel- yuskinites until their booth was banked high with blossoms. The workers’ demonstration was preceded by an hour's march of special delegations of factory work- ers, the best udarniks, etc. Old partisans, military academies, tanks and airplanes participated along with sports organizations and the school of physical culture, both men and women athletes in white or red making a very colorful display of sturdy, marching workers. Auto Flower-Covered The marching was preceded by a meeting opened at 6:15, when 70 autos, smothered in roses, espe- cially the leading car, which was completely covered with flowers by a model of the icebreaker “Chel- yuskin,” brought the heroes_to the Red Square from the Baltic Station Comrade Stalin and heads of the government and the Communist Party stood on the tribune. A short speech was made by Quibeshev, head of the rescue commission, who officially extended greetings to the | Chelyuskinites, who were that time standing in a special booth before Lenin's tomb. There were also speeches by Comrade Bulganin, Happy Moscow Throngs chairman of the Moscow Soviet, greeting them in the name’ of all Moscow organizations; by Professor Otto Schmidt, leader of the expedi- tion; by Captain Varnin, of the “Chelyuskin,” and by the rescuing flyers, Kaminin and Molokov, and by Lepidevsky, the first to reach the camp, saving the women and children, and by Bobrov. Floats Express Enthusiasm The sun broke through the clouds as the factory workers’ part of the march began and flooded the square with lights in which the floats car- ried by the marchers glittered. The floats expressed the attitude of the crowd toward their proletarian heroes. Thousands of pictures were carried, many made‘ with laborious care with flowers. Others, painted on canvass, showed the whole ice- bound camp, with the “Chelyuskin” sinking, and the flyers going to the rescue, The airplane factory workers especially outdid themselves with their ingenious models of planes of the latest types. Even the Chel- yuskinites’ faithful sledge dogs were carried in images, reminding of the humanitarianism of the fliers, who rescued the dogs as well as all of the humans. Numerous colored balloons were released before the re- viewing stand, and countless naval signal flags were carried aloft. Altogether, it was even a more colorful procession than any pre- ceding, and the tremendous out- burst of popular enthusiasm made it a magnificent popular holiday. Huge “Chelyuskin” Model Red Square was decorated with a huge model of the “Chelyuskin” in the ice, and a big blue and white map of the regions around Schmidt camp hung on the huge building at the west end of the square, accom- panied by a red banner carrying Stalin’s slogan: “There is no fors tress that Bolsheviks cannot take.” Cpposie the reviewing stand huge banners hung under the pic- tures of Lenin and Stalin with the Slogans: “Hail Chelyuskinites, he- roic fighters of the Polar expedi- tion,” “Long live the great Party ganizer of victorious construction of socialism.” “Hail heroic fliers and rescuers of the Chelyuskinites.” These slogans, especially the one giving credit to the Communist Party, together with the applica- tion to join the Party by the non- Party members of the expedition and the rescuers, show the feeling of the masses of the Soviet Union, that under the leadership of the Party they are part of the whole glorious historical episode. The feeling extends to foreign workers in the Soviet Union, as a letter published in today’s “Prayda,” central organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, from a Danish seaman, indicates, The letter says: “One must envy the country which has such heroes and envy the heroes who have such a country.” The “Pravda” editorial today aiso quotes a letter from Leningrad from the Red Putilov workers which ad- dressed the Chelyuskinites with warm and fervent brotherly greet- ings. Proletarian Heroes “Pravda” quoted liderally from such letters and points out: “In that formula, with its many un- known quantities which we call the rescue of the Chelyuskinites, there is one entity known to us, but un- known and inaccessible to the capi- talist world. That entity is the art of struggle and conquest of diffi- culties taught by the Communist Party and millions of toilers. In the Soviet land there are no crea- tions of heroic myths. Our heroics are real.” “Pravda” contrasts this with the police and gangster heroes of capi- talist lands, and draws the conclu- sions that the proletarian heroes of the Chelyuskinites learned them- selves on the ice, and the millions watching them learned also the art of conquest of difficulties.” The newspaper “Za Industrial- izatsiu” (For — Industrialization), points out that the Chelyuskin ‘Tescue was also the child of the two Welcome Chelyuskinites of Lenin and Stalin, leader and or-{ 'They Show Socialism Spurs the Highest Initiative Five-Year Plans; and that it would have been impossible without them and without the Party and the masses who created the technique and the material basis in the form of airplanes, oil cracking plants for gasoline, without the aluminum works and the radio industry. “The Philistines of capitalism,” continues this paper, “kept saying socialism means barracks and low- ering of individual initiative and daring. But the rescue of the Chel- yuskinites demonstrates that social- ism has raised high the banner of human daring, of individual initi- ative, of self-sacrifice for the com- mon good. Under collectivism in- dividuality develops and all forces blossom out. Our individualism means heroic readiness and ability to give all forces to the good of collective effort.” the station by heads of the gov- ernment and the Party. There were Maxim Litvinoff, Commissar of. Foreign Affairs; Professor Samoilo- vich; the artist, Brodsky, and many other outstanding figures. Yesterday I went to Pushkino residence in a town a considerable distance from Moscow along the toad which the Chelyuskinites came, and found every little station deco- rated and aroused with interest, though the Chelyuskin train did not stop at any of them. Similar evi- dence of eagerness to honor the heroes was shown by an incident the night before when I saw a whole performance of an operctta in a popular theatre at the Hermi- tage halt all actors on the stage, and the star announce to the sur- prised audience that they had just discovered that Ushakov of the Chelyuskin rescue mission was in the audience. Tremendous ap- plause broke out until Ushakoy had to rise and acknowledge it. { The Chelyuskinites were met at; On the World Front By HARRY GANNES Von Papen, Mouthpiece Devising a New Mask The Nemesis of Faseism HE severe blows given toe the Nazi regime through the Fascist reverses in the elections for factory “confi- dence councils” over a month ago are now having repercus- sions in the visible cracks in the top ruling strata of the German Fascist dictatorship. The speech of the Nazi Vice-Chancellor, Franz yon Papen, heralded in the world capi- talist press as “criticism” of the Nazi: regime, is really designed as a light- ning rod to catch the thunderbolt of the oncoming storm. Von Papen’s object is to direct the ever-mounting discontent, rising with the fury of a volcano about to burst, against only certain sections of the Nazis and not against the bloody fascist dictatorship of the German capitalist class, Von Papen may or may not be sacrificed. But von Papen is only the mouthpiece of Hitler, von Hinden- berg, Goering, Thyssen and other powerful forces of German capital ism. The game is to trim the sails of the Nazi pirate ship in face of the rising hurricane in order to out ride the storm. Mass discontent has reached deep into the Storm Troops, the armed hordes of the Fascist dictatorship; and the German bourgeoisie, in the face of inflation, in the face of an economic catastrophe, in the face of its defeats in its war-ridden foreign Policy (due chiefly to the peace pole icy of the Soviet Union) wants ta divest itseif of as much excess bage gage as it can. In this aim, they retain the services of Hitler and Goering; while Goebbels, chief Nazi propagandist, whose task of turning out demagogy is made more hercu- lean daily, and Rohm, who is faced daily by more impoverished storm troopers expecting the heavens to open for them with the advent of Hitler to power, balk somewhat at the necessary maneuvers. A new council of war is soon to be held in Germany among the Nazi chiefs and their supporters, German finance capital, to plan the best methods to reach the onrushing catastrophe. Along with yon Papen’s speech we learn that the Nazi ame bassador to Moscow, Rudolph Na- dolny, has quit. Dr. Hans Luther, Nazi envoy to Washington, has packed: his baggage and is on his way to Berlin. (If he carries all of the protests against the bloody fascist rule and for the release of Ernst Thaelman he received here, he will need several extra large and strong trunks). There is also the report that Hans Adolf von Moltke, ambassador to Warsaw, has resigned and will go to Berlin soon for the conclave. All of these gentlemen will bring reports of the growing world disgust and opposition to the Nazi butcher regime, and will recommend that the ugly face of fascism be painted with a new mask. aac ara | bea other than the blustering, threatening, Goering, the fire- brand of the Nazis, has admitted that the Nazi regime has lost the confidence of those who formerly supported it. “I hear,” he said, “so often that confidence has faded and discontent is growing, and when one examines the state of affairs, one must recognize the fact that many reasons for dissatisfaction doubtless exist.” In other words, the demagogy has been stripped. The bloody Nazi dictatorship now faces a population discontented, and a working class that has thrown the gauntlet of rising struggles. Von Papen, then, is chosen by von Hindenberg and Hitler to open a safety valve for the petti-bourgeoisie, the persecuted religious groups, and possibly the Jewish bourgecisic, The deep crisis of German capi- talism, intensified under the Fascist dictatorship, s makng it more dffi- cult for the bourgeoisle to rule: is intensifying all of the contradictions of German capitalism; the contrae dictions between the exploited mas- ses, and their exploiters, covered with blood and filth, oe yo PAPEN is hung out by the Nazi leading ruling clique as an offer to garnish an intensified, bloodier dictatorship against the working masses, especially against the Communist Party, with trim- mings of the rights of regimented criticism for some of the discon tented sections of the bourgeoisie, the rich peasants, the religious sects, the Jewish exploiters, and the petty bourgeoisie. Von Papen is sacrificed to aid those who argue that it is poss sible to turn back to a limited capie talist “democracy,” in order to avoid what is in store—the rising struge gle for the proletarian dictatorship, for Soviet. Power Fascism wil not fall of its own weight. It wil not collapse with an intensification of the crisis, no mat. ter how severe. Von Papen in prace tice is trying to prove what Lenin long ago declared: “There is no crisis from which the bourgeoisie have no way out.” Only the vic- torious proletarian revolution, led by the Communist Party can deliver capitalism its death blow, and for- ever wipe it from the face of the earth. i While the news is slow in trans- mission, we can be a thousand times certain that the Communist Party of Germany is rallying new tens of § - thousands to its ranks, stirring the | masses into action, exposing every criminal move of the fascists, steel- ing the masses for the inevitable struggle for the overthrow of fas- cism, daily sinking its roots deeper among the discontented masses, That is why, along with speeches of von Papen’s stripe, there goes daily beheadings of Communists, increased preparations to slaughter Comrade Ernst Thaelmann, whom the Nazis see as the greatest sym- ree of the rising forces of revolution "