The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1934, Page 6

Page Six D. AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1984 Daily,QWorker | (GSEVRN ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY LSA (S1CTION OF COMMUNIST IUTERMATIONNES “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE | COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 16th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7954. Cable Address: * Yerk - Washington Bure: National Press Building, 1éth and P 8t., W Midwest Burea St., Room 705, Cheago, TL Telephone: Dearborn Subscription M a By Mail months, (except $3.50; 3 76 cents. 27, 1934 What Kind of Anti-Nazi Boycott ? a from Jewish labor unions yesterday voted resolutions, with the approval and support of William Green, Charney Vladeck, Joseph Schlossberg, etc., calling for a boycott of German products. | The question is, what is the significance | of these resolutions in the fight against the monster of Fascism? Do these resolutions really | mean that the top officialdom of the A. F. of L., the Greens, Mahoneys, Lewises, etc., is really strik- ing a blow against Fascism? The workers hate Fascism. The Jewish workers, no matter what their political sympathies, are all ready to strike a blow at the hideous rule of the Hitler Fascists. But do these resolutions, passed by the A. F. of L. Officialdom carry out the wishes of these anti-Fas- cist workers? It is a remarkable fact that these paper resolu- tions allegedly against Fascism do not call for the slightest actions to free Thaelmann and the anti- fascist fighters of the revolutionary working class. On the contrary, the Greens, Vladecks, Mahoneys are the most vicious attackers of the very people who are leading the revolutionary struggle against Hitler. 'HE Communist Party is the very front rank of the fight against Fascism, abroad and at home. Communists support and assist any and every move- ment which truly strikes blows at Fascism, no | matter what the political connections of these movements. But the Communist Party mercilessly exposes any and all attempts of people who are trying to put over a fake fight against German Fascism in order to cover up their support for the reactionary government at home. Of such a character are these resolutions passed with the support of the William Greens, etc. In the first place these resolutions remain | nothing but paper resolutions, not the slightest Measures ever being taken to guarantee the execu- tion of these boycott resolutions. In order for the boycott of German goods to be effective these A. F. of L. officials would have to organize and lead transport strikes right here at home, they would have to call for marine and rail- road workers to strike wherever Nazi goods are carried or delivered, forming a real economic blockade of Germany. But this is one thing they never do. They pass paper resolutions, which hurt No one, but strangle any attempt to actually carry through the boycott in action, in strikes. ‘ASCISM is the rule of the big capitalists, based on open military violence. Every capitalist class, whether in Germany or the United States, is ready to unleash its military terror against the masses if i¢ cannot maintain its dictatorship through the frauds of capitalist democracy. It stands to reason that a person who supports the reactionary rule of the capitalists here at home cannot be a sincere fighter against the capitalist class abroad, This is precisely what exposes the paper resolu- tions of the A. F. of L. on the boycott. The William Greens, etc. use the anti-fascist hatred of the masses here to bind them to the rule of Wall Street. Green and the Socialist Party leaders urge the masses to depend on Roosevelt to “protest” against Fascism, thus concealing the fact that in this coun- try it is none other than Roosevelt who is ushering in the preliminary steps toward American Fascism. Further, these boycott resolutions come in very handy to the American manufacturers who are thus given an advantage in robbing ‘tlie Argerican con- sumers. The Greens, etc., would be the first ones to stop a real boycott that expressed itself in strikes, because this would hurt the interests of the Amer- ican Wall Street capitalists! = SUPPORT a real boycott. But we point out that this alone will not overthrow Fascism. We point out to the masses who hate Fascism that the boycott must be supported and extended by trans- Port strikes, by street demonstrations, by mass cam- paigns, by shipping strikes, by refusal to load or unload ships carrying Nazi goods. But such militant actions, which are directed against the reactionaries both here and in Europe, the fake signers of paper boycott resolutions will @lways knife in the back, Because they’ fear that the militancy of the masses will begin to hit the Roosevelt reactionaries at home whom they support. A boycott isolated from such mass struggle is a swindle calculated to deceive the masses and keep them from real mass struggle against Fas- cism, to lull them into a feeling that a blow is being struck against the enemy they hate. Nothing but a simultaneous struggle against the Fascists right here at home, the Roosevelts and the Johnsons, as well as a struggle against German Fascism can be of any use to the German working class and to the working class here. Dangling Bait Before the Jobless HE shrewd publicity experts at the White House are not losing any sleep as the Roosevelt government gets ready to appear once again before the masses in the November elections as a “social- minded” government. The latest move is the announcement by Roosevelt’s relief administrator, Hopkins, of a new four-point program for “social welfare,” a program | that repeats some of the points Roosevelt trundled out several weeks ago in his “social” program de- signed to catch the votes in the Autumn Congres- sional elections. | Hopkins talks about the need for some kind of ‘unemployment insurance,” about old age pensions, and what he calls a plan “to decentralize industry.” The most significant admission in Hopkins’ re- port is the statement that the starvation of the vast army of unemployed is not the “temporary” phenomenon which it was cheerfully described to be last year, but a permanent feature of American life from now on. American capitalism has reached the stage in its crisis where it can no longer find a place in its profit economy for about 10,000,000 workers and their families. A vast army of jobless permanentl? facing starvation—this is one of the results of the development of the most highly de- veloped capitalism in the world. Nothing could be a more damning indictment of the entire system, and more eloquent evidence of the need for smashing it than this admission of Roosevelt's relief official. | OPKINS, of course, has not the slightest inter- est in the public of any intention of providing adequate relief and insurance for them. His ac- tions during the past year have been sufficient evidence of that. He has carried through Roose- velt’s relief program, which is the Wall Street pro- gram of giving the starving as little as they will stand for. Hopkins is opposed to the only bill that really would give the jobless relief, the Unemployment In- surance Bill. This alone exposes his “social pro- gram” as vote-getting fraud. Hopkins’ “decentralization” plan for industry, harmless as it looks, masks a brutal, reactionary program of tying the workers to the factories of the Wall Street monopolies in isolated districts, where the workers will be forced to grow their own food, in addition to slaving in the factories, a plan calculated to drive the workers’ wages far below their present starvation levels. It is a plan to in- crease monopoly profit, like all of the Roosevelt government “social” legislation. Roosevelt has not done a thing to feed the drought-stricken impoverished farmers or the job- less army in the cities. His sole concern has been to keep the Wall Street bill for relief as small as possible, His latest “Social” schemes are only the callous, heartless trickery of a Wall Street agent, who will traffic in starvation to get votes for the coming Congressional elections, Support “Der Arbeiter” NE of the most urgent tasks which the working class of the United States has before it in its decisive fight against the growth of fascism in this country, is the mobilization of the German-speaking work- ers, as part of a powerful, nation-wide Anti-Fascist front. Hitler’s agents are | making every effort. to bring the small tradesmen and the workers of German descent into their Nazi organizations. Ambassador Luther and his agents | are spending millions for the financing of these Nazi activities as even the investigating committee of Congress had to admit. The Nazis in the United States are closely connected with all reactionary and fascist elements here in the United States, like the Silver Shirts, Hamilton Fish, etc. Be they German or American, the fascists are brothers under the skin. In order to fight this fascist offensive, to win the German-speaking masses for the Anti-Fascist front, to uncover the empty boasts of Roosevelt's “New Deal” and for the revolutionary way out—the struggle for a Soviet America—the working class needs a powerful, widely circulated fighting organ in the German language. The “Arbeiter,” published by the German Bureau of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. is today the only fighting organ of the German-speaking workers in this country, but it must reach more tens of thousands of workers, in order to really become the agitator, the organizer of the whole working class. The press is our strongest’ weapon in our struggle for a proletarian world. It is up to the German workers in the United States with the help of all other workers, to build the “Arbeiter” into a mass paper which reaches every shop where German-speaking work- ers are employed, every home where German is spoken. The “Arbeiter” has begun a circulation campaign, to gef 3,000 new readers by September 1. All efforts must be made to reach and surpass this goal. This circulation campaign must be the starting point of increased efforts to bring the “Arbeiter” to a point where it can be published as the only daily workers’ newspaper in German. Only if every reader makes this circulation cam- paign his own personal affair, himself gets new readers and spreads the “Arbeiter” wherever Ger- man-speaking workers congregate, shall we be able to make our German Paper the thousand-tongued voice of the revolutionary anti-fascist movement in the United States. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, ©. P., U. 8. A. Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League) Veterans, Jobless To Demonstrate Crosbie to Preside At Vets Conference Tomorrow Night NEW YORK.—On Thursday even- ing, June 28, at 8:30, the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League will hold a mass meet- ing at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. A mass meeting will be held in Union Square and the veterans will march from Union Square to Manhattan Lyceum. At the mass meeting a report will be given on the Veterans National Rank and File convention that was will give the report on the conven- tion. Paul Crosbie, of the American Legion who exposed Police Com- missioner O’Ryan’s spy system will be the chairman. A report will be given on the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League in New York City by P. V. Cacch- ione, chairman of the city commit- tee. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League has called upon members of the American Legion, Veterans of| Foreign Wars, Disabled American | Veterans and all other veteran or- ganizations to come to this meet-! ing and hear how to build rank and) file committees in their respective | Posts. The three point program of the Washington convention is: 1—Payment of the bonus. 2.—Repeal of the Economy Act. 3.—Passage of the Workers Un-| { recently held in Washington, D. C. Emanuel Levin, chairman of the 4 employment Insurance Bill. | onstration by coming out and voic- NEW YORK —Post 204 of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League and the Unemployed Council of Wil- liamsburg will hold a demonstration at the Williamsburg Home Relief Bureau today. This is the begin- ning of a campaign to force recog- nition of their relief committees and for the removal of the leading offi- cials of the relief station who have been using all sorts of intimidation to the workers who come for relief. They will also demand the removal Of police from the relief bureaus. All unemployed of Wiiiiamsburg | and veterans of the American Le- gion, Veterans of the Foreign Wars and all other veteran organizations are called upon to support this dem- ing your protests against the miser- Anti-Soviet Campaign in Japan Press Papers Fake ‘Charges ;’ Anti-U.S.S.R. Film Is Shown (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 26.—The Japan- ese press is continuing its wide anti- Soviet campaign directed openly toward aggravating Japanese-Soviet relations. Sunday’s newspapers | published a number of Tokyo re- ports regarding the latest fabrica- may be explained as quite calculated conscious aspiration to provoke pub- |lic opinion in Japan against the| U.S. S. R. This time the Tokyo police and detectives chose the “Friends of the Soviet Union,” as the object of their Anti-Soviet campaign. “The Friends of the Soviet Union” was organized in 1931 on the initiative of the Jap- anese writer Akita and a number of other educators and public men of art and science, existed legally and openly published its journal “Friends of the U. S. S. R.,” which gave objective information concern- ing construction in the U. S. S. R. In 1932, an independent group was formed from this society—Jap- anese-Soviet Society for Cultural Relations—which is still existing, while the “Friends of the Soviet Un- jon” ceased to exist early-in 1933. Now the Japanese press accused the former chief of the press de- partment of the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo, Galkovich, of giving the sec- retary of the cultural relations so cieties “various information and material including photographs con- cerning the U, S. S. R.” The authors of this “charge” ap- parently did not think that the task of the press department of any em- bassy in any state is to disseminate correct information about the coun- try it represents. Accusing Galko- vich of rendering “assistance to the Communist movement in Japan” is still more absurd. For according to reports in Japanese papers, this “terrible accusation” is founded on the fact that Galkovich was sup- posed to have paid 35 yen for ten copies of the magazine published by the Society to which the embassy subscribed. Moscow newspapers further de- scribe in detail the contents of a new anti-Soviet film, “Supreme Will.” which was exhibited recently in the biggest cinema theatres in Tokyo. The film is calculated to stimulate the militaristic, anti-So- |viet moods of the svectators and openly strives to inculcate into the minds of the Japanese people that it must prepare for war against the U.S. S.R. The Soviet ambassador at Tokyo has lodged a protest to the Japan- ese government egainst the new anti-Soviet campaign in the Japan- ese press and the showing of the anti-Soviet film. Commenting on the new anti- Soviet campaign, the Soviet press writes: “Japanese imperialists are un- scrupulously employing any dirty methods in order to put the U.S.S.R. in disrepute in the eyes of the broad masses of the population of Japan. | The peaceful policy of the USSR. in. striving for friendship with neighboring countries, _ especially with Japan, displeases the most re- actionary and militant groups of Japanese imperialism. That’s why of late these groups have intensified their anti-Soviet campaign.” The Daily Worker gives you full news about the struggle for unem- ployment insurance. Buy the Daily Worker at the newsstands. Three cents a copy. Seek Volunteers To Aid Campaign for Thaelmann’s Release NEW YORK—The National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, 870 Broadway, yesterday issued an appeal to all unemployed office workers, typists and addressers to volun- teer their services in connection with special work on the Free Thaelmann campaign. Volunteers are urgently needed to carry out the program of in- tensified struggle to save Thael- mann and the thousands of other anti-fascist fighters coming up for trial on July 2 under the lynch , tribunals so-called “Peo- ple’s Courts” many. in Fascist Ger- tions of Japanese imperialists which | SOMETHING FOR HIM TO WORRY ABOUT by Limbach sani FRONT Cfascism Leading Socialist Worker Joins C. P. (Continued from Page 1) worded in the most abstract form possible, The lack of a farm policy call- ing for collectivization, etc., was an- other point of the heated debate between several of us who were sin- cerely trying to forge a real revo- lutionary program and the Love- against the “Iron Heel” of Fascism, The weakness and insincerity of the paragraph on the “United Front” was obvious. There were many other undesirable features in the Revolutionary Policies Commit- tee program and many important questions were evaded entirely. Some of us lent our names and energies to the advancement of this program, in spite of its deficiences, in the endeavor to formulate some semblance of a unified faction of militant workers in the Socialist Party. We realized the necessity of exposing the obvious truths about the Socialist Party and ‘its reactionary leaders. Few, if any, of us held any hopes of even this minimum program be- ing accepted by the Socialist Party convention. Now, after the bicker- ing and arguments of the delegates have been studied and analyzed, we find that the opportunist and re- formist elements, who call them- selves “militants,” have stolen many of the radical phrases from the Revolutionary Policies Committee. These terms, minus all substance, were accepted with great acclaim by the convention. Don’t Fight Fascism These militant phrases will at- tract many workers who have come to realize that the present system offers no hope and that they must organize and fight capitalism and its terroristic aids, War and Fas- cism. The workers thus attracted will be exhorted to fight against Communism. Then, when the rul- ing class decides to clamp down on all protest, the workers under So- cialist Party leadership will find themselves unprotected and helpless against the “Iron Heel” of Fascism, proving again the historic mission of social-fascism. This makes the So- cialist Party a much mote impor- tant adjunct to the fascist groups which are espoused by the capital- ist_ class, Because of these facts, I appeal to every militant socialist worker to throw off the shackles of social-fas- Tass Brands Japan’s Slander of ‘‘Secret Agreement” As Lie (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 26—A new version of an alleged secret agreement betwen China and the U, 8. S. R., reported by a Jap- anese News Agency six days ago, was again emphatically and categorically denied by Tass, the Soviet news agency, here Sunday. Tass said these reports were absurd, malicious fabrications, with not one word of truth. The same Japanese news agency had reported a similar “secret agreement” on May 17, the existence of which had been immediately denied by Tass. The new version of the same fabrica- tion had now been published in all Japanese newspapers as the latest anti-Soviet sensation. FOREIGN BRIEFS GREAT FLOODS IN INDIA CALCUTTA, June 26.—Thousands of families were homeless today as floods washed out whole villages in Bengal and Assam. ACTIVE DIPLOMACY WARSAW, June 26.—The visit of General Maxime Weygand to Lon- don, where he contacted British military chiefs, coincided with the visit of General Debeney, former French Chief of Staff, to Poland, observers here noted. Weygand's return to Paris was immediately followed by flying calls of Rumanian military heads to Paris, from which it was apparent that France's “peace plans,” which involve desperate defense of all the spoils of the last war, are being perfected. cism at once and to enter, as I have done, the ranks of the Communist Party. Don’t wait until it is too late, as our valiant Austrian com- rades were forced to do! Realize that the new “left-wing” ideology of the so-called “militants” is more misleading and destructive than even the reactionary “old-guard.” Surely, even the famous “red-bait- ing” and “flag waving” attacks of Joe Sharts against the “Red Inter- nationalists” is less deceiving than the misleadership of Krzyski, Thomas and Co. Join the Communist Party Every militant socialist worker, who really desires to see and work for a Workers’ Republic and true democracy, must throw off the chains of social-fascism and destroy the barriers which are used to divide the working class! Recognize the historic facts which prove that only the united, militant action of the masses of workers in a revo- lutionary struggle can achieve vic- tory! Align yourselves with the only revolutionary workers’ force, the Communist Party, and expose the sectarian misleadership of the rene- gade Lovestoneites and the other. social-fascists! Join the Communist Party, the only Party which is waging or can wage a real fight against the de- structive forces of war and fascism. The Communist Party gives the only honest militant leadership in building a Workers’ Democracy: A Soviet America. (Signed) Donald Reiff U.S. LOAN FOR ‘IMPROVEMENTS’ SHANGHAI, June 26.—Reports of @ new $30,000,000 American loan for “improvements” in several prov- inces coincided today with an- nouncement that the Governor of Kwei Chu had called on Nanking for arms and supplies to put down the Communists and General Chan Chi Tang, governor of Kwangtung, announced completion of plans to “exterminate the Reds.” German Refugee to_ Address Anti-Nazi Conference Tonight NEW YORK.—Kurt Rosenfeld, famous lawyer, exiled from Ger- many, and Mrs. Annabelle Ellis, English journalist. are to be the speakers at the Conference of the Anti-Nazi Federation to be held at 8 o'clock tonight, at the New School for Social Research, 66 W. 12th Street. Dr. Rosenfeld will report on the changes which have taken place in the administration of justice under Hitler and on the conditions of political prisoners in Germany. Many of these prisoners have been held for more than a year with- out charges and are soon to be tried before the People’s Court which will be inaugurated on July 2nd. Foremost among these is Ernst Thaelmann, former Commu- nist Deputy in the Reichstag and recognized leader of the German workers, Division Wiped Out; Army Grows In the month just past, the efforts of the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army have met everywhere with significant successes, from Fukien to Szechwan, giving the lie to the false Kuomintang reports on its vic- tories, The defeat of Chiang Kai-Shek in the Kiangsi Province called for a change in his tactics. As a re- sult, he has moved part of his troops into. Fukien, and is hoping to attack the Soviets from that di- rection. But the Red Army oper. ating there upset Chiang’s plan by capturing the cities of Yin-an and Kweihua last month, annihilating the 52nd_ division under the com- mand of Lu Shin-pun. At the same time, the seven counties along the coast ef northern Fukien have been Sovietized, thus creating a serious situation for the K. M. T. author- ities at Foochow, the capital of Fu- kien, This section of Fukien is com- monly called East Fukien, and covers seven counties, all located able conditions that exist at the home bureaus, close to Foochow. The “local com- mittee,” which was organized last SHANGHAI, China (By Mail) —| Same ® Cities Captured,Nanking| year to fight the taxes, forms the nucleus; and there has been a sub- sequent formation of a multitude of Soviets in the neighboring coun- ties. A powerful force of about 000 red guards has been organ- ized. And about 60,000 peasants and workers have joined hands with the red guards, The red force is composed of more than 10 units, each with 600 or 700 men, all un- der the command of Comrade Fan Teh-mien, Strong Red Military Unit The military organization has evolved into a strong unit, with strict discipline. Attached to the regular army are the political de- partments and the G. P. U., under the leadership of Comrade Hung Shao-yin, a girl. The G. P. U. units are each provided with three motor boats, and 60 or 70 junks. The red guards have two arsenals and make @ certain amount of ammunition. The peasants are willing to stand in the van in any battle, although they bear only swords and spears, because of the lack of firearms. Sixty per cent of the erea in each county has been brought under the domination of the Soviets, with the subsequent division of the land. The mountains in ‘this part of the province offer obstacles to the ap. proach of the K. M. T. bandit troops. The struggle in these regions has recently hecome more violent, caus- ) , ing great anxiety to the K. M. T. government at Foochow. Tawanpao, the magistrate of Poochen, northern Fukien, requested in an urgent tel- egram, sent May 19th, that more soldiers from the provincial author- ities be dispatched, in an attempt to rout the attack of the red army under Comrade Fan Teh-mien. The Red Army in Hupeh On May Day the red fighters, un- der Comrade Kao Yin-son, attacked Yanglu Sze, an important point on the Changsha-Wuchang railway, and succeeded in disarming the K. M. T. garrison. On the same day, another portion of the Red Army captured Shaszekai, Luyang, which lies only 30 miles from Changsha, capital of Hunan. Two days later, the Red Army occupied the Taolin station of the line just named. The Red Army in Honan has built up strong bases around San- chen County and recovered bit by bit the territory lost to the K. M. T. during the gigantic offensive last year, In the middle of May, Lotien, a county in East Hupeh, fell into the hands of the Red Army. The neighboring city, Chisui, was men- aced, resulting in the exodus of al- most all landlords and capitalists, Red units in Anwhei also have been active apparently operating in con- junction with the Red Army in East Hupeh, On May 6, about 100 militia Chinese Red Army Spreads Soviet Area to Coast Peasants,'Workers Form Big Red Partisan Detachments in Lukiang, Anwhei, mutinied and joined the red forces there. Activity in Hunan and Szechwan In April, the Red units in south- ern Hupeh displayed more activity. As the Hunan government concen- trated its forces in East Hunan, in an endeavor to stave off the attack of the Red Army, the red partisans under Comrade. Li Chun-pao have hed a freer hand in Southern Hu- nan. Comrade Li effected a con- junction with Comrade Li Lin in Tsenchow and the units elsewhere, threatening to cut off communica- tion between Hunan and Kwang- tung. In_response to the activities of the Red Army in Northern Szech- wan, the radicalized peasants and soldiers in Southern Szechwan (An- jai, Pookiang, Ya-an, etc.) have or- ganized anti-tax partisans. Enlist- ing the sympathy and support of the peasantry, they have become increasingly active, and have led the aggrieved masses to battle against the blood-sucking militarists and their agents. According to another report, red partisans are operating in the horderland lying between On the World Front By HARRY GANNES Whither Germany? “Plebian Fascism” False Prophets the growing anti-fascist, upheaval in Germany is a crop of false prophets in the United States. In this case, however, the prophets are not without honor, as their prophecies are pus forward for spes cific purposes. Von Papen’s speech of “criticism™| was as much for foreign export asl for internal consumption. It mits the imper- jalist press in other countries to argue against the growing ant i - fascist struggle. It holds out, through Von Papen, the il- lusions of the possibility of the fascist dictator- ship “reforming” itself in the image of capi- ‘alist democracy Von Papen ' or, at least, an “orderly” military dictatorship sans anti-Semitism and with a cir« cumscribed “freedom” of the press, The foreign capitalist press begins to lay the basis for coming to the support of the German fascists against the rising revolutionary up- surge of the German toiling masses, For instance, we have the plethora of prophesies by Johannes Steel, a former economic adviser for the German Ministry of Economics, in @ current series of articles in-the New York Post. He declares the Nazi dictatorship will be succeeded by a military dictatorship. Long ago, the German Social-Democratis leaders held out this Perspective as a “progressive” step. Herr Steel's prophesies, which are sensationally peddled to American readers as the real inside dope, are as worthless as his analysis of the rise of fas- cism. This “economic expert” puts forward the ridiculous notion that fascism grew out of a struggle be- tween two trusts for the domination of the electrical industry. The im- Portant factor in Germany is not the top maneuvers in the ruling class (though this shows a tres mendous increase in the bitter ¢on- flicts between the various capitalist groups) but the growing struggles of the masses in Germany against fascism; the desperate economic situation. and the impoverishment of the German neople; the rarid disillusionment of the rank and file of the Sterm Trooners, the crowing mutinies. In the face of this situ- tion. the German hourgeoisie cer- tainlv will attempt to dress its fase cist dictatorshin in different clothes, but it will not and cannot change its aims, ner its whole basic policy. * 8 8 ‘HE Nazis representing finances capital, the Krupps, Thyssens, Duisbergs, Rochlings, Schachts, came to power under the smoke- screen of the most unabashed demagogy, and with the support of vast sections of the petty-bour- geosie. The demagogy has been stripped from the naked, brutal dic- tatorship, and the bourgeoisie is at- tempting to put a new cloak on this ugly carcass. The Trotskyites who croak mourn fully only of the strength of fas- cism, and foresaw a long period of reaction in the victory of the Nazis, with the utter destruction of the Communist Party in Germany, now develop the idea of various degrees of German fascism. What is really in power now, they claim, is “plebian fascism,” that is, a fascism of the toiling masses and the petty-bour- geoisie. This, they say, the von Papens, von Hindenburgs and the big German land owners do not like; and this “lesser evil” of “plesian fascism” is to give way to the greater evil, the rule of the junkers (rich landowners). They go on to picture the Von Papen incident as actually a strug- gle against Hitler, who is supposed to represent the middle classes, when in fact Hitler has endorsed Von Papen’s speech and in no in= stance has uttered a word against it. The Trotskyites, along with the capitalist press, attempt to conceal the real class nature of the fascist Tegime—the most open, brutal, chauvinist rule of German finance capital, along with the junkers, whose interests are intertwined with finance capital (and nowhere more concretely than in the very person of Von Papen). ME The whole inner crisis of the Gers man bourgeoisie is not one of which section shall rule, but how best ta preserve the existing fascist. dicta- torship against the growing revolu- tionary upsurge of the German masses, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Germany. wither Lr. is well here to recall the words of Comrade Kuusinen spoken last December at the 13th Plenum of the Communis: International on the role played by Trotsky with re- gard to fascism in Germany. “Trot sky wrote,” he said, “that a ‘cates- trophe’ occurred and that ‘in Ger- many there was maturing, not a proletarian revclution, but a pro- found fascis: counter-revolution.’ Trotsky’s song is an echo awakened by the greeting of the fascist storm troopers—‘Heil!’ But the over- whelming majority of the toilers of Germany are thinking of something different. Never before have they been imbued with such profound class hatred as they are a’ the pres- ent time. Verily, the situation in Ger- many today is accurately de- scribed by the recent manifesto of the Communist Party of Ger- many to the German proletariat: “You stand on the threshold of Szechan, Kweichow and Yunnan, the German proletarian revolu- tion!” NE of the by-products |