The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1934, Page 6

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1 ‘Butcheries Bring Doom of Fascism Nearer (Continued from Page 1) and after, it was clear throughout Germany and the world that the millions of Storm Troopers, closely connected with the petty-bourgeoisie and the working class, were no longer reliable props on which fascism could continue to maintain its dic- tatorship. It could no longer use them as 3 mass base to continue its forecasted greater depredations and its policy of increased starvation for the at- tempted preservation of capitalism in Germany. The majority of those who helped fascism to power, who hoped for so much from its promises, ‘were turning against it. The big capitalists, the kings of the iron trusts, the banks, the rich land- Jords decided that the Storm Troopers must be disbanded in blood and fire, in a frenzy of butchery and slaughter. A section of the gangster leadership of the Storm Troops, the despicable Roehms, the Ernsts, the von Helldorfs, who were, however, close to the rank and file of the Brown Shirts, were attempting to exploit the tremendous and growing discontent in their own ranks, just as Hitler had when he rose to power. They were moving into action to utilize the Storm Trooper’s unrest to come to power themselves as the fascist dictators, to refurbish the tarnished promises to the petiy-bourgeoisie. These gangsters of the Hitler brood thought they could best deflect the mass discontent in the Storm ‘Troops and among the petty-b isie for a new @dition of the Fascist Dictatorship, and attempted to start from the beginning again. They tried to use the same phrases and demagogy that Hitler used before he came to power. Hitler Moves Against His Own Followers But in a most ruthless fashion, in view of the dangerous situation of German capitalism, in view of the tremendous and deep-rooted rise of revo- lutionary sentiment, feeling and desire for action among the German masses, Hitler moved swiftly against his own followers. He slaughtered them mercilessly left and right. He chopped off one of his own rotten arms. And at the same time, he cut a deeper chasm between himself and the mil- lions of his petty-bourgeocis followers who hoped for “reforms” of fascism through the so-called “second fascist revoli¥ion.” In shooting the very leaders who were instru- Menial in winning mass support for fascism’s rise to power, he at the same time smashes the unity of these forces, and drives streams of them on the road to support of the proletarian revolution. Hitler's execution squads mowing down the Storm ‘Troops leaders in reality aimed their fire against the masses who supported fascism and demanded it keep its promises. There is where the greatest Casualities were inflicted, and it is there where fascism inflicted a mortal wound on itself. Having narrowed his base, Hitler now proceeds to solidify his armed forces with the help of the Reichswehr, the Schutzstaffle, the picked murder gangs of the Nazis, and the reorganized Steel Helmets. He now more openly bases his dictator- ship on the armed forces built up by German finance capital, with the aid of the Social Demo- cratic leaders when they were in power in Germany. This by no means ends the tremendous clashes within the ranks of the ruling strata in Germany. Hitler’s murderous attack on elements of the ruling forces opens the way for still greater slaughters and depredations in the ranks of the German bourgeoisie. The result of this tightening of the fascist dic- tatorship, its discarding of its orignial demagogic ‘work, will rapidly dispel whatever illusions still exist among millions of duped followers of the Nazis. At the same time, it will intensify the catastrophic crisis in Germany. Unemployment will ~grow tremendously, and is already being stimulated deliberately by the fascists to help the profits of the Krupps, Thyssens, etc. Inflation will speed Bhead, impoverishing the petty-bourgeoisie and driving the workers still closer to starvation and famine. Will Move To War At the same time, the fascist dictatorship, rest- ing more openly on the naked bayonets of its Pick~| armed forces, facing further isolation through its foreign policy, will move more rapidly to war as the final most criminal way out. The present events in Germany more alarm- ingly than ever before bring a new imperialist slaughter of the greatest ferocity closer. The en- __ raged fascist dogs are now planning this new war, and to win the support of the other imperialist bandits who fear the rapidly rising proletarian ~ revolution in Germany, are aiming their war ma- chine against the Soviet Union. In the catastrophic situation in Germany, with ~ the endless inner and bloody battles of the German ruling class, the greatest possibilities and oppor- tunities are opened up for the proletarian revolu- tion. The workers who have been gathering strength under the heroic leadership of the Communist Party of Germany will be able to win new allies among the petty-bourgeoisie, among the duped Storm _ Troopers, among the impoverished farmers, The &nti-fascist front is broadening at a tremendous sweep. The working class has already shown its growing anti-fascist feeling through the recent fac- _ tory council elections when thes definitely rejected ‘the fascist lists. use Under the leadership of the Communist Party _ of Germany now, a new and rapidly maturing “perspective for the proletarian revolution opens, The diversified struggles, the passive and active ‘Tesistance against Fascism which have been going on all over Germany, will pass over into a broad, mighty anti-fascist revolutionary front, that will gain momentum and force each day. . Bloodthirsty fascism, with its murderous reign of terror, with its new, more tightly-knit armed bands will struggle to the death to attempt to keep capitalism and its bloody fascist rule in power. ‘The struggle against fascism, for the overthrow of Capitalism, and the establishment of Soviet Power tn Germany, is not an easy one. It is beset with ‘ the greatest difficulties, requiring the bravest and “most stalwart leadership of the Communist Party ‘of Germany. The Communist Party has been steeled and tested by the most vicious persecution and terror af unden the fascist regime, and is pr itself fully equal to its hard task. It is leading the great and growing anti-fascist struggles onward, gaining tremendous new forces, who now see that all its forecasts, its program of struggle were the only correct ones, and that the revolutionary path on which it led is the only one to end the rotten and decaying bestial capitalist system. The fascist fiends who rule Germany—the facade of finance capital—have made it clearer than the bright sunshine, that no criminal deed is too das- tardly for them to commit to maintain the rule of diseased, rotten capitalism. Their fury will be whipped up to a more maniacal frenzy against the forces of the pro- letarian revolution, and the outstanding victim picked is our brave and stalwart comrade, Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned and tortured leader of the Communist Party of Germany. Now, in the United States, in view of the tre- mendous sharpening of the situation in Germany, we must with the greatest energy and force increase our struggle against fascism, forging the most pow- erful united front to come to the aid of our German brothers in their rapidly maturing battles for the overthrow of fascism. The central rallying point in this battle must be the demand for the freedom of Ernst Thael- mann and all other anti-faseist fighters, Around this rallying cry, we can mass hundreds of thou- sands, yes, millions, into a mighty force behind our German brothers and help deliver a death blow to fascism! What Is Americanism--A Thought for July Fourth HE necessary first step for the estab- lishmbent of Socialism is the setting up of a revolutionary workers’ government. The capitalists and their agents shriek out that this revolutionary program is un- American. But this expresses not the truth, but only their own greedy interests. Today, the only Party that carries for- ward the revolutionary traditions of 1776 and 1861, under the present day condi- tions and relationship of classes, is the Communist Party. Today, only the Com- munist Party finds it politically expedient and necessary to remind the American working masses of how, in a previous crisis, the way out was found by the path of revolution. Today, only the Communist Party brings sharply forward and applies to the problems of today that old basic document of “Americanism,” the Declara- tion of Independence. Applying the Declaration of Indepen- dence to present day conditions, the Com- munist Party points out that never was there such a mass of people so completely deprived of all semblance of “the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.” Never was there such “destructive” ef- fects upon these rights by “any form of government,” as that exerted today by the existing form of government in the United States. Never have the exploited masses suffered such a “long train of abuses” or been so “reduced under absolute despot- ism” as today under capitalist rule. The “principle” which must provide the foun- dation of the “new government” men- tioned in the Declaration of Independence is, in 1934, the principle of the dictatorship of the proletariat; the new form is the form of the workers’ and farmers’ councils —the Soviet power. The “new guards for their future security,” which the workers must establish, are the installing of the working class in every position of power, and the dissolution of every institution of capitalist class rule. (From the Manifesto of the Eighth Con- vention of the Communist Party). We Canand Must Save Herndon, Scottsboro 9 EATH by torture on the barbarous Georgia chain gang faces heroic Angelo Herndon unless the International Labor Defense is able to put up a bond of $15,000 within the next two weeks for Herndon’s release on bail, pending appeal from the recent decision of the Georgia Supreme Court upholding the lower court’s sentence of 18 to 20 years on the chain gang against Herndon. The I, L. D. must have another $1,000 to pay for the printing of the appeal in order to take the fight to the U. S. Supreme Court, The honor and class interests of the toiling masses, white and black, are involved. The vic- tory won by the mass fight in forcing an Atlanta court to grant bail for Herndon will be turned into a defeat for the working class and the Negro people unless this money is raised within the next two weeks. The nine Scottsboro boys, for whose lives and freedom millions of workers throughout the whole world have fought for the past three years and more, will be burned in the electric chair unless the mass defense fight is intensified and funds forthcoming to enable the I. L, D. to carry the fight once more to the U. S. Supreme Court. A minimum of $15,000 is required to print the record in this case and for other vitally necessary defense activities. Two of the boys, Haywood Patterson and Clar- ence Norris, are already slated for execution on August 31 by the monstrous decision handed down by the Alabama Supreme Court, upholding the lynch verdicts of the Decatur trial, presided over by the Ku Klux Klan Judge “Speed” Callahan, last Fall. Only quick determined action by the working class and all forces opposed to lynching can stop this prepared mass massacre. Every organization, every worker and honest in- tellectual, must respond immediately to the I. L. D. appeal for funds, Rush contributions at once to the International Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 East llth St. Advance Liberty Bonds where possible to provide bail for Angelo Herndon. Save the Scottsboro boys and heroic Angelo Herndon. For- ward resolutions and protests to President Roose- velt, the U. S. Supreme Court, Gov. Miller of Ala- bama, and Goy. Talmadge of Georgia demanding the immediate, unconditional and safe release of Herndon and the Scottsboro boys, demanding a reduction of bail for Angelo Herndon and his re- lease to secure much-needed medical attention and care, ‘Patterson, From Sick Bed, Appeals For Thaelmann | LL.D. Head Says Fight Against Terror Must Be Intensified NEW YORK.—From his cot in a New York hospital where he is con- | fined as a result of strain and over- work in the leadership of the de- fense struggles against world fas- cism and terror, William L. Patter- son, National Secretary of the In- ternational Labor Defense, yester- |day dictated the following appeal |to the workers and anti-fascists | throughout the country for intens- jified action on behalf of Ernst |Thaelmann, Angelo Herndon, Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro boys: The drive for the freedom of Comrade Ernst Thaelmann must be | intensified. It must become one of | the greatest objectives of this his- |toric moment. It must become a | task subordinate to none. It calls | for all of our heroism, fortitude and leadership, Every move we make to free Ernst all international and national con- | tradictions behind it. That is why our smallest demonstration before a German consulate or embassy, each every militant expression of hatred | against fascism, every expression of | international working-class solidar- ity, becomes an act of vital interna- | tional significance, By the same token these solidarity expressions can become a lever rais- ing the burdens of the crisis off of the backs of the millions of Amer- ican workers, white and Negro, na- tive and foreign-born. Link up the fight for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann with the fight for bread and work, the gigantic struggle for the freedom of Angelo Herndon, Tom Mooney and the innocent Scottsboro boys. That is the very content of the task confronting us. Ernst Thael- mann must be freed! The freedom of Ernst Thaelmann will be another blow to fascism! Only international working-class solidarity can free national working-class solidarity! ‘Mass Pressure Wins Release of 2 Canadian | Leaders \I, L. D. Hails Victory of Sister Body and Canadian Workers TORONTO, Canada, July Mass pressure organized by the Canadian Labor Defense League won a tremendous victory yester- day when a C. L. D. L. delegation to Ottawa effected the release of Sam Carr and Matthew Popovich, two of the sick working-class lead- eis in Kingston Penitentiary on sick parole. The delegation also wrested a promise from the gov- ernment to consider the release of the other prisoners when half of their time has been served. The other prisoners still in King- ston Penitentiary are Tim Buck, Secretary of the Canadian Com- munist Party, Tom Ewen, Malcolm Bruce, John Boychuk and Tom Hill. iat tale NEW YORK.—The International Labor Defense, sister organization of the Canadian Labor Defense | League, today sent the League a telegram hailing its victory in the name of the American workers and farmers, Thaelmann has the added drive of | protest cablegram and resolution, | Ernst Thaelmann! Long live inter- | eal “HEIL, HITLER !” Cable Tells of Thaelmann Peril (Continued from Page 1) | other Communist candidates for the state legislature. ae CHICAGO, July 3. — Infuriated with a gun, tore the gun from his hands and chased him out of the park, during a combined Free Thaelmann Meeting and election rally, last Friday night. Herbert Newton, Negro Commu- nist candidate for Congress against Oscar De Priest, will speak regu- larly at the weekly meetings of the forum, which are held Fridays at 7p. m Replaces Arrested Pickets In Phila.; Hold Meeting In Nazi Community PHILADELPHIA, July 3.—Hitler’s little puppet in Philadelphia, Arno Mowitz, Philadelphia lawyer and German consul here, continued locked in his office yesterday to avoid workers’ delegations demand- ing the release of Ernst Thaeclmann, front of his office building, Walnut St. Yesterday morning pickets from the International Workers Order paraded in front of the building protesting the Nazi murder plans fascist fighters. Police arrested them, but they were immediately workers swarmed around a hoodlum | who threatened a speaker at the|at the Garrick Theatre, Broad and Newton (formerly Ellis) Park Forum | but could not avoid the pickets in| 1420 | ganized throughout the city by the | replaced by other pickets, Last Saturday night, a mass meeting was held at Germantown little Nazi community. H. M. the U. S. Senate from Pennsylvania, analyzed the situation in Germany intensify their fight for Thaelmann and against fascism. A mass trial of fascism, with the audience as final judges, will be held Friday evening, July 6, at 8 o'clock, Chestnut Sts. former minister of justice in the Prussian Social Democratic Cabinet, and Lord Beaver, Labor member of the British parliament, will be the main speakers. On Thursday night, 8:30 o'clock, H. M. Wicks, will deliver a radio speech on fascism over Station WPEN, Se ayes 3,000 N. Y. Workers Cheer Bob Minor At Free Thaelmann Meet NEW YORK.—Over 3,000 work- ers, assembled Monday night at Columbus Circle, roared their pro- tests against the threat of the Nazi butchers to murder Ernst Thael- mann, leader of the German work- ing class, and against an attempt by LaGuardia’s police to disrupt the protest meeting. The meeting, one of a series or- | American League Against War and |Fascism, as a reply to the bogus ‘People's Courts” set up by Hitler |to carry through the exccution of Thaelmann and other anti-fascist representing the Central Committee of the Commu- Kurt Rosenfeld, | ,nist Party; Bill Dunne of the Daily | Worker, Oakley Johnson, Stevens and a New Orleans longshoreman. }and Lehigh Aves., in the heart of | Aare « | MINERSVILLE, Pa., July 3.—At | Wicks, Communist candidate for |its meeting June 23, the American |Lithuanian Literature Society | Branch 14 of Minersville, adopted a | today and called on the workers to | resolution demanding the release of | Ernst Thaelmann, Be ene Hartford Negro Workers Pledge Solidarity |To Ernst Thaelmann |_ HARTFORD, Conn, July 3.— | Resolutions demanding the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann were adopted and sent to the German Embassy at Washington by a meeting here last Saturday night at Main and Windsor Sts. An outstanding feature of the meetirig was the presence of many Negro workers who expressed their solidarity with Comrade Thael- mann, these workers not forgetting that Thaelmann and the German workers welcomed the Scottsboro Mother and joined the world-wide fight for the freedom of the Scotts- boro boys. "8 Workers Hoist Free Thaelmann Flag On Bay Ridge High School BROOKLYN. — A “Free Thael- mann” flag, hoisted last night by workers, flew from the flagpole of the Bay Ridge High School the | greater part of this morning, at- tracting the attention of hundreds | of ‘passers-by to the world-wide | mass fight for the freedom of Ernst against Thaelmann and other anti-| fighters in Germany, was addressed | Thaelmann, leader of the German |by Bob Minor, | working class in its fight against (the Nazi murder regime. By GEORGE DIMITROFF Ov great political battle against fascism in Germany, a moral vic- tory over this power of darkness and reaction, lies behind us — the Leipzig Trial. The whole world has seen that Fascism’s plans can be foiled if the enemy is attacked in the right way. The acquittal of the Communist defendants in Leipzig was not ef- fected by Hitler’s “sense of justice.” It was compelled by a combined struggle within Germany and abroad, Human beings, and particularly the political leaders of decaying capitalism, don’t do what they tike, but what they have to. Hitler did not turn us over to the ex- ecutioner, sending us on the “last mile” like van der Lubbe, but not because he desired to do so—he was forced to. After the overwhelming majority of the German people, including thousands upon thousands of Nazis, was convinced @f our innocence and rejected the framed-up, provocatory indictment, after the indignation of world public opinion at the bold-faced frame-up had penetrated through innumerable channels into the whole German Population, after Hitler saw that he was hopelessly isolated throughout the world on this issue, it was no longer politically advantageous to the Nazi government to murder us. It had to realize that destroying us would, on the contrary, have seri- ously menaced its demagogic influ- ence upon the masses, even in the ranks of its own fighting troops. And because the Nazis were com- pelled to take this atmosphere into account, Hitler had to yield and give up his original plans. Eyen more so than in the Leip- zig Trial is it now necessary to create such a situation both within and outside of Germany in the fight for Ernst Thaelmann that the Hitler government — for its Dimitroff Shows How Thaelmann Can Be Saved “NOT A MOMENT’S REST FOR HITLER’S AGENTS UNTIL THAELMANN IS FREED!” own political interests—will find itself constrained TO ABANDON THE PLAN TO MURDER THAELMANN. “Ernst Thaelmann must be won like a battle,” our great friend Henri Barbusse has said. -In Germany profound ferment against the Brown Shirts’ rule is permeating the working masses and a large section of the intellectuals. The expressions of the masses’ re- sistance are increasing in spite of all the terror. Dissatisfaction is spreading to wider groups of the population and is even penetrating into the ranks of the Nazis them- selves. The number of “critics, kill- joys and religious agitators” is grow- ing so rapidly that Herr Goebbels is compelled to interrupt his ser- mons on the undivided harmony of the whole people and its loyalty to the “Leader” and to announce a large-scale campaign against the “grumblers.” Out of this ferment we must create a movement against the murder of Ernst Thaelmann so tremendous as to become an insup- erable obstacle to the realization of Hitler’s dark plans. The fight for the freeing of Ernst Thaelmann must become the mightiest cxpres- sion, the embodiment of the dis- satisfaction and the protest of the majority of the German people against the bloody Nazi rule. Hundreds of German workers and intellectuals were sent to the con- centration camps and jails at the time of the Leipzig Trial because they spread the truth about the Nazi frame-up in spite of all the dangers facing them. During my stay in prison I met many of these courageous fight- ers. I was deeply moved to see over and over again that those arrested displayed not a trace of discouragement, but were proud | to have fulfilled their duty as fighters and honest men. IT am convinced that now, when the freedom of the leader of the German workers is at stake and when the experience of the Leipzig Trial and of our success is part of us, the number of brave fighters for Thaelmann within Germany will be increased manifold. Soot Le S the Leipzig trial proved, the movement within Germany is struggle. But the anti-fascist fight- ers inside Germany will go to work with more ardor and with greater success if they are supported by a mighty mass movement abroad. The German people must not merely infer the existence of this mass movement—it must not learn of it solely through the dis‘orted |aganda. It must actually get to feel it itself. All. conceivable ways must be population learn that the prole- tarian world, and all honest people with it, are manifesting brotherly solidarity, warm affection and reso- lute activity for their rescue to Ernst Thaelmann and the oppressed German people. No enemy of Fascism abroad should visit Germany, or allow a friend or relative to travel to Ger- many, or send mail to Germany, without utilizing the opportunity to carry the call: “Free Ernst Thael- mann” into the Third Reich. No travel tour, No students’ trip, No steamer, No lecturer or traveling sales- man, No No dent, should reach another coun- try from Germany WITHOUT getting the deep impression—in one form oer another—that there are millions of people around Germany solidly behind the slo- gan: “LET THAELMANN GO!” All the official and semi-official actor or conductor, exchange professor or stu- decisive for the outcome of this; reports of Goebbel’s atrocity prop-' found to make the whole German) representatives of the Hitler gov- ernment, of the fascist organiza- tions and institutions, of Nazi art, literary and scientific circles, who live abroad or who travel abroad, must every single day get to realize that they will not have a moment’s rest as long as Ernst Thaelmann remains imprisoned in Germany and is in danger of death. The representatives of Hitler Germany at congresses, conferences, exhibitions and other gatherings must be placed under moral press- ure as long as Hitler keeps Ernst | Thaelmann in jail and threatens him with death, | The newspapers that are hostile |to the movement for Thaelmann’s freedom or are even merely indif- ferent, no matter in what country, | must find that honest men will re- | fuse to buy them. No opportunity must be missed to raise and press the issue of freeing Ernst Thaelmann end to brand Hitler the executioner in parlia- ments, city councils, and all sorts of public meetings. The matter is quite clear and cannot be obscured: EVERY THINKING PERSON MUST DECIDE WHETHER HE WANTS TO STAND ON HIT- LER’S SIDE OR ON THAEL- MANN’S. There is no neutral position on this issue. Anyone remaining neutral helps Hitler the executioner, whether he wants to or not. Anyone who doesn’t lift a fin- ger to save Ernst Thaelmann shares—whether he wants to or not—the guilt for his sufferings in jail, for his physical and men- tal ruin, for his eventual murder. Join in freeing Ernst Thael- mann! Saving Ernst Thaelmann in- volves the honor of the interna- tional proletariat and is the moral : On the |World Front || By HARRY GANNES Fascism on a Sinking Ship | Growing Forces of Revolt Our Task in the U. S. |MHE full effect of Hitler's | gory operation on the dis- | eased body of fascism will not be felt immediately. More and worse is yet to come. The burning of the Reichstag and the rivers of blood in Munich, Berlin, Lichterfelde and Stadelheim show that at each stage of the ine tensification of the crisis of Ger man capitalism, the savagery of Fascism passes all known bounds. Swelling the river of blood in Ger« many from the veins of his own faithful followers will not, however, be able to supplant currency infla- tion. For each Storm Trooper killed tens of thousands will be thrown into unemployment and to face starvation. As Hitler draws the lines of the ruling clique smaller and smaler the fights within the ranks of the goaded furious rulers of Ger- many will grew more ferocious and bloody. rte ge E “mutiny” of the enraged, bes trayed and duped Storm Trnop- ers, and the blood and iron answer of Hitler takes place on board the sinking ship of German capital- ism. Whoever takes the helm will go down in the angry waves of the rising pro- letarian revolu- tion. Every wozker who has followed events in Ger- many since the rise of fascism can now see the temarkable bril- liance, the keen accuracy of the un- derstanding and analysis of events made by the Communist Interna- tional. : To read the reports and thesis of. the 13th Plenum of the Executive: Committee of the Communist In-. ternational on German Fascism now is like reading a record of events’ after their occurrence. Nearly one, year ago to the day, Comrade O. Piatnitsky, one of the leaders of the Communist International, writing’ on “The Present Situation in Ger-) many,” with Marxist-Leninist clarity, forecast present events in Germany. In July, 1933, he wrote: 7 ame tte O. Piatnitsky Waateve may have been the{ nature of the ‘truce’ between, the Hitlerites and the National-) ists, between the Storm Troops” and the Steel Helmets, at any, particular stage, that does not) check the inevitable intensification, of the mutual struggle in the, camp of the ‘victors.’ There are, differences between the vari groups of capitalists that cann: be ironed out. [Not even now by Hitler’s rivers of blood.—H. G., Thus the interests of capitalist, working for export and those work « ing for the home market, etc., ar’ at. variance. Likewise, the in ts of the capitalists and th landlords, of the landlords and tL banks, clash, These differenc:_ which were temporarily force into the background by tl menace of the proletarian revolt, tion, are again rearing their hea’ with renewed vigor... x “The masses will inevitably de sert the fascists and act agains them. The decisive factor in th. respect wil be the increase in th radicalization of the working clas and the change in the relation ship of forces between the Com. munist Party and the Social- Democratic Party. e “Hitler’s party cannot save th German bourgeoisie. On the cou trary, the fascists will only hast! its doom. They will bring dow catastrophe upon the heads of -’ German bourgeoisie.” | uy b) 4 bares catastrophe which u here will be int blood-bathed Fascist di The important casualties under the fire of Hitlen: squads are not the Roehms, ers, the Ernsts and Helld putrid officers of the great hordes of Storm Troopers, but the mass base on which Hitler rode to power, the whole lying, demagogic program of the Nazis, the lurid promises to the petty-bourgeoisie, to the farmers, to the workers. The butchery which grew out of the catastrophic economic crisis that fascism had brought on Germany, will, at the same time intensify this crisis. a EATER unemployment, starva- ~ tion, wage cuts will now become the lot of the great majority of the German people. As a result, the up to tremendous heights in a rev= olutionary battle against fascism, with the mililons of duped petty- bourgeois and farmers moving rap- idly into the ranks of the revolu- tionary forces under the leadership of the Communist Party of Ger- many. World capitalism is already flocks ing to the support of Hitler, prais- ing his “courage” and swiftness in lopping off those of his followers who, were identified with the masses of, petty-bourgeoisie, Y The oncoming proletazian revolu- tion in Germany will have its fight-* ing front in all countries, and it is our duty now to rally our forces for the mightiest anti-fascist strug- munist Party of Germany and for the freedom of its brave leader Ernst Thaelmann. It is around the campaign to free Ernst Th: 4 that we can now build the most widespread support for the rapidly maturing proletarian revolution. Now more than ever the slogan: “Free Thaclmann and deliver a deadly blow to fascism!” becomes the central rallying cry in our fight behind our German broshers. against the Fascist butchers Germany, y class struggle in Germany will flare gles, for support to the heroic Com= _