The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1934, Page 5

ew “Parties of the Second International DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK. SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1934 Page Five Hitler Murders Ordered) By Krupp, Thyssen; False Nazi Unity Is Shattered Fascist Split Proves Communist Analysis; “Rise ~f the Forces of the Proletarian Revolution Is Proceeding with Seven-League Boots” NEW YORK.—Before thousands of workers gathered | in Madison Square Garden in eral Secretary of the Communi explained the Communist position on the recent events in Germany. Analyzing the social forces operating in Germany he said, | “The forces of the proletarian rev- | olution are advancing with seven-/| league boois.” | The full text of his speech fol- lows: Friends and Comrades: | The Daily stories of murder that have poured out of Germany for {5 months, have, in the past week, een varied from the usual in the| jype of victims. The leaders of the | Brown Shirts, the Hitlers, Goerings, | Goebbels, Roehms, Heines, Hell- forfs, etc. in true gangster style, have begun to murder one another. Here at least we need waste no} sympathy on the victims, who were | among the most bestial, most sa- | listic, most perverted of their Nazi | Party, whose leaders are the em-) bodiment of bestiality, sadism and perversion. Last week’s gang war within Hit- fer’s top ranks, has, however, a very Sage interest for all anti-fascists. is event, predetermined -by the whole corrupt system of German Fascism and its history, marks a} fee stage in the maturing of | e pre-conditions for the prole-| ‘arian revolution in Germany. It/| arks the ripening of that catas-| ophe which the German Com-| unist Party and the Communist | nternational warned the German | masses could be the only fruit of itlerism in power. False Pledges to Masses. Hitler rode to power on the basis wf the wildest promises to the de- tlassed petty-bourgeoisie, white col- lar workers, impoverished peas- intry and the strata of young un- tmployed workers who never had the training of work in factories, that he would relieve their misery. e bloody smashing of the Storm ‘roops is the open and final rejec- tion of their claims for the honor- Ing of those promissory notes. It would be wrong to say simply ‘Hitler did not keep his promises.” He kept those he made to Krupp nd Thyssen; he defaulted on those ie madé publicly to the masses, Hitler promised to réstore Ger- man economy and to regain for) Germany her old international posi- sion of “equality” among the im- perialist powers. But 15 months of Nazi rule had plunged the econ- ymy into new depths, shattered the turrency system, destroyed foreign trade, and isolated Germany inter- nationally as she had never before | been isolated, while hastening all | Europe to the brink of war. | The rising mass movement) against Hitlerism on the part of the bverwhelming majority of the workers who have always opposed it, emboldened the petty-bourgeois followers of fascism to demand their promised rewards. A section of Hitlers’ lieutenants, typified by the unspeakable Roehm, conspired to make use of this mass movement to | taise themselves to the position of ruling clique. Under the slogan “second revolution,” they tried to use against Hitler the s&me tricks whereby Hitler came to power. But they forgot that the real ruling tlique was Krupp, Thyssen Schacht, for whom Hitler is only the paid thug. The real rulers of the Nazis, German finance capital, gave Hitler his orders last Friday to clean up these conspirators for fear that the break that they would crate in Nazi ranks would provide the opening for the revolutionary upsurge of the deeply disillusioned | and revolting German masses. | Crack in Brown “Unity.” | But the bloody “cleansing” order- | ed by Krupp, Thyssen & Company, the German counterpart of our steel, oil, auto and shipping mag- nates, in order to ward off one dan- ger, has created new and greater dangers; at one blow it has split open the boasted Nazi unity. It has shattered the mass base under the Nazi regime, exposed the whole rotten heart of Hitlerism. The dan- ger of the Brown Shirt masses who took sericusly Hitler's promises, is suppressed at the price of creating more favorable conditions for the revolutionary masses to prepare de- cisive blows against it. Events of the last week-end proved the cor- rectness of the Communists who pointed out the impossibility of unity in one Party of bourgeoisie, petty-bourgeoisie and workers. They revealed already great breaks in the crumbling base of Hitler’s rule, and forecast its early doom. When Hitier took power, the bour- geoisie of all countries hailed his advent as opening a new era for German cépitalism. The Socialist joined this chorus, together with their contemptible adjuncts — the Trotskyites and Lovestonites — by p:oclaiming a “prolonged era of fascist reaction,” and the “irrepar- able defeat of the proletarian revo- lution.” Social-Democracy, after paving the way to power for Hitler, and after being repulsed by Hitler in their abject pleas for a corner under his dictatorship, within Ger- many, where Hitler could reach them, licked his bloody hands, while outside of Germany they barked heroically from a safe distance. Communists Lead Fight Against Hitler But the Communist Party, which fought Hitler uncompromisingly from the beginning, continued this fight without faltering. Its funda- mental analysis was different, its action was different. The Com- munists, using the fundamental teachings of Marx, Lenin and Stalin as their guide, never failed to see the real class forces at work in Ger- many. They knew the difference between Hitler's national-socialist, d@emagogy and the class policy of | ruled | tiation among these intermediary | standing among these was the de- this city, Earl Browder, Gen- st Party of the United States, the Krupps and Thyssens which it from behind the scenes. This consistent Communist under- standing and policy was expressed last December at the 13th Plenum of the Cominunist International, in the report of the Executive Com- mittee, in the following words: “It is not true to say that capitalism has managed to stabil- ize its position with the aid of fascism as many Social-Democrats assert. This is what the world bourgeoisie WANTS TO DO; this is the aim of its policy of fasciza- tion; but the results are altogether different. We say revolutionary development is simultaneously hindered and accelerated by the fascist fury of the bourgeoisie. This dual character of the ob- jective consequences of the policy of fascism must be understood, otherwise it will not be possible 0 see the perspective clearly. . . “Amidst the conditions of totter- ing capitalism, even the fascist terror of the bourgeoisie cagnot for long restrain the masses of the workers from decisive action. The terror arouses anger, even among the majority of those workers whe up till now have followed the Social-Democrats, and if only the Communists are able to approach these workers properly it will be much less diffi- cult than formerly to win them over to the side of revolution. Even fascist demagogy can now have a twofold effect. It can, in spite of the fascists, help us to free the masses of the toilers from the illusions of parliamentary democracy and peaceul evolution; and the other bait that fascists use in place of these illusiéns (small private property, national interest) can be exposed by show- ing what the ruling fascists do for the benefit of the class interests of the bourgeoisie and the land- lords. When the big bourgecisie tries to convert the peasantry and the urban petty-bourgeoisie into a reliable prop for themselves, they accelerate the process of differen- classes, even where the bulk of the masses of these exploited classes at first swing over to the side of fascism. The ruin of these classes by fascist rule quickly creates the soil for winning them over to the side of the revolution- ary proletariat.” With this clear-cut revolutionary perspective, and with the greatest determination and heroism, the Communist Party of Germany went forward with its revolutionary work. It quickly adapted itself to illegal conditions of work. Illegal groups were created in factories, in workevs’ neighborhoods, and even within the fascist organizations themselves. An illegal press was established, turning out millions of leaflets, newspapers, and pamphlets, which has never ceased to work. The correct approach and fearless work of the Communist Party re- sulted in deep penetration into the ranks of the Social-Democratic workers, who had been dessried by their bankrupt and cowardly. lead- ers, Tens of thoussnds of Social- Democratic actives, joined the Com- munist cells or allied themselves with them in carrying on revolu- tionary anti-fascist work. Reichstag Fire Trial—A Nazi Defeat The only decisive victories won by the workers against fascism were those won under the leadership of the German Communist Party. Out- cisive defeat of Hitler in the Leipzig Court. Backed by the revolution- ary masses of the world, the heroic Communist defendants in the Reichstag Fire Trial hurled defiance in the face of the Nazi butchers, ripped open their corruption for the whole world to see, and showed boldly to the German workers the only road to the destruction of Hitlerism and to working class power. These men—Popoff, Taneff, Torgler, and the giant of them all, Dimitroff, showed to the world the steél-like qualities of revolutionary fighters who stand firmly on the program of the Communist Inter- national. This trial signified to the world that Communism in Ger- many had not been defeated, that it would not be defeated. It was a powerful factor in stimulating all the revolutionary work within Ger- many and the world-wide mass sup- port behind the German proletariat, The giganiic victory of snatching Dimitroff and his comrades out of the hands of the Nazi murderers, was the first delivered under the Leninist leadership of the Commu- nist International. It was no accident that the up- heaval in the Nazi top ranks took place just three days before the in- famous “Peoples Court” of Hitler was scheduled to open with the legal farce of the lynching of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German working class—at a moment when again the world proletariat was gathering its forces in a mighty second blow in support of the anti- fascist struggle of the German workers in the struggle for the re- lease of Ernst Thaelmann. Thaelmann Trial Stirs Masses Within Germany itself the ap- proaching trial of Thaelmann, to- gether with the deepening miso: and catastrophic condition of the masses, was creating a tremendous revelutionary stirring among the masses, The depth of this can be appreciated by the outcome of the} recent factory couztcil elections only a few weeks ago. Thore, by Nasi admission, and in the face of in- I | 'VERY day mountains of steel are riveted and welded into destroy- ers, cruisers, submarines and air- craft carriers. Airplanes soar into the clouds carrying tons of bombs. New poison gases crowd the shelves of imperialism. New guns stand ready to spatter death among work- ers and farmers at record speeds. Fleet reviews and war “games’’ re- hearse the approaching conflict for Profit—the profit of the Morgans, Bakers, Teagles, Astors, Rockefel- lers, Guggenheims, Baruchs, Du-| Ponts, Harrimans, Schwabs, Taylors | and Mellons. As «he armaments pile rises higher and higher and billions of | dollars flow through the pipes of| the Roosevelt New Deal into war} preparations for the threatening} imperialist struggle for new markets | and for the redivision of old ones, the breast-beating “patriotic” ora- tory, over the radio, in the press and on the public platform, becomes more fervid for war and more fran- tic against the mounting ant-wir| sentiment of the masses. | Machine guns and tanks, bombb- | ing planes and warships are manu- | factured for avowedly imperialist | purposes affd as a supposed war) preventive. Norman.H. Davis, in-| sider with General Pershing on J. P. Morgan & Company’s favored- | customer lists and Hoover-Roose-| velt “disarmament” spokesman at| Geneva, advances the familiar United States proposal for the abolition of certain “aggressive” | weapons, possessed by its imperial-| istic rivals, as “a method of dis-| armament” which “constitutes a realistic aid to peace.” On the very same day, Secretary of War Dern,| Utah banker, urges the Military Af-| fairs Committee of the House of| Representatives to recommend pas-| sage of the Thompson Bill to in- crease the enlisted and officer per- sonnel of the Army at an addi-/ tional annual cost of $35,000,000. | Thus Roosevelt's War Secretary ex- | plains the imperialist war meaning of the Roosevelt “disarmament” ex- pert’s concern for “the general peace and progress of the world.” President Roosevelt himself show how thin is the pacifist cloak und which -he launches gigantic war preparation measures. What's all this war talk about anyway, he says, before signing the billion dollar naval construction Vinson Bill. Why, this bill doesn’t appropriate one penny; it simply authorizes me to go ahead and build up to London Naval Treaty strength. Then, three weeks later, he gives the word to} go full speed ahead with the first destroyér-submarine building under | the Vinson Bill—the $40,000,000 cost of which is to come ou: of “Public Works.” And, concluding his Get- tysburg Memorial Day speech, on the eve of reviewing the greatest “peacetime” armada in the history of the country, he gives “renewed assurance that the passions of war) are mouldering in the tombs of Time and the purposes of peace are flowing in the hearts of @ united people.” New worker and farmer cannon fodder is wanted. Workers beware and prepare—AGAINST war. I The alimentary canal of the Blue Eagle is a sixteen inch gun. The producer of this bristling bird is Franklin Delano Roosevelt, war- time Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson (who “kept us out of war” to “make the world safe for democracy”) and Big Navy man. ‘Total allotments. under the guise of “Public” and “Civil” works, for direct and indirect war vreparations and the total authorizations and tensified terror, the decisive major- ity rejected the fascists’ lists. It was this workers’ movement which stimulated and gave the foundation to the broad movement of resistance to fascism among mid- dle-class elements, expressed in the churches, among the peasantry, and even among the lower ranks of the Brown Shirts—the fighting forces | whereby Hitler achieved power — under the slogan of “the second revolution,” which for them meant relief from the class policies carried out by Hitler on behalf of Krupp, Thyssen and the landlords. Revolutionary Forces Grow It was in the midst, and as a result of this situation that the| events of the past week took place. | In this light it is clear, not only | that the original Communist anal- | ysis of German fascism was correct, } but also that the breakup of the fascist regime and the rise of the forces of proletarian revolution is proceeding with seven-league boots. The persistent heroic work of the Communist Party in the factories, in the fascist trade unions, among the Storm Troopers, among all the strata of the exploited population against the Hitler dictatorship, against the demagogy, against the detestakte anti-semitism which is the German counterpart of the stink of the slave-market that is constantly stirred up in this country against the Negroes by the white ruling class—these things were and are tremendously important factors in the beginning of rebellion by the masses deceived by Hitler: We Communists, who never in the darkest days lost our heads, who at all times foresaw and foretold its inevitable and early breakup can now confidently as- sert that our German Communist | Party, with the help of the world proletariat, will more than ever give leadership and organization to the rising revolutionary up- surge, will meet and overcome the tremendous difficulties that still lie in the way, will finally cut through the jungle of fascism. Just as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Stalin is victorioulsy building a new world of Socialism, overcoming all obstacles, so the Communist Parity of Germany, | under the leadership of Thacl- | mann, fer whese freedom we ar2 fighting, will smash the old world | which in Germany shows its final and most detestable form, and es- tablish a free Soviet Germany, | SSreRE Bs A ES I On the Altar of Morgan’s Millions This is what we Communists mean when we say that the | workers were used as cannon fodder in the last wa rto protect the loans of Morgan and Company to the Allies. This photo was taken in a base hospital. Another such war is in preparation. Only the united power of the workers can prevent it and overthrow the capitalist system | which breeds such wars. | appropriations for military pur- velt’s plan to construct a navy poses conclusively demonstrate the| “second to none” and for dotting war character of the Roosevelt Ad-|the clouds with thousands of Army | ministration—the instrument which | and Navy long distance planes cap- | at the same iime reduced the | able of fiying to and returning from standard of living of the majority |the Far East. of the workers and erected a huge | government strike-breaking appar- lsaioaeneei: War, DepaAOAnE Ab atus. | sriati is | propriation for the fiscal year be- |ginning July 1, 1934, or on the | Navy's $284,658,799 (more millions, j called deficiencies, will be added at the end of the year), the War and | Navy Departments have already Roosevelt, up to May 7, 1934, al- lotted $747,950,775, or more than 22 per cent, of the $3,300,000,000 Emergency Public Works fund for direct and indirect war prepara- “4 tions, exclusive of the $248,366,908 | been given’ $1,333,670,718, given to the War Department en-| Compare this with the $114,000,000 gineers for rivers and harbors and| appropriated in 1916 (typical pre- flood control, a substantial part of| war year) for the purely military which goes to seacoast defense for) activities of the War Department channefling and dredging and sur-| and the $37,000,000 appropriated for | veys of the ocean floor for sub-| its rivers and harbors use. Com-| marine operations in addition to| pare Roosevelt's $561,757,723 (“Pub-| serving to supply military engineers | }j¢ Works” plus the regular appro- | with continual war training. et priations) with the $152,000,000 ap- | is also exclusive of the $50,000,000) propriated in 1916 for the Navy De- allotted to the Tennessee Valley’) partment. Administration, the greatest part of which is involved in the construc-| Add the $39,000,000 received by the tion of the world’s largest integ-| War Department from the sale of old rated electrical power production) Clothing, which is to be used for new system, obviously a huge power re-| Clothing and equipment, and we serve for war plant operations. | obtain the staggering total of $1,-| | 372,670,718 as a mere introduction | to the war building now being blue- |printed. Such as the acknowledged | jwar bill (S. 3182), favorably re- ported to the Senate by the Com- military activities of the Army and) mittee cn Mines and Mining, which Navy for the current fiscal year) would set aside a fund of $200,000,- ending July 1, 1934. Nor does this | 000 “To provide for the purchase of $747,950,775 totel include the $40,-| the surplus copper, heretofore mined 000,000 (allotted from new P. W. A.| and processed in the United States funds) which Roosevelt got for two|... for the use of the United States heavy and twelve light destroyers, | in constructing military and naval and six submarines authorized by|equipment and...” Or, among the Roosevelt-backed Vinson Bill, al the hundreds of war preparations measure which gives the President / bills brought before the House Mili- blank authority to build, above and| tary Affairs Committee by its Chair- beyond the program already under} man and member of the War Poli- way, an armada of about 102 war-| cies Commission, John J. McSwain ships and 1,184 war planes. This of South Carolina, the proposal for Vinson Bill program, incidentally, | the establishment of a separate air- also authorizes in general terms the | plane flotilla of 2,000 war planes, replacement of all ove (20 | the addition of 400 officers and 6,200 years old or over) warships under| men at a cost of about $80,000,000. the terms of the naval troaties.|Or, among many other war plans, This means that authority has been | the enlargement of the Army and This 22 per cent plus is also separate from the $585,719,943 ap- propriated by Congress, before the creation of the P. W. A. for the | A—War Department | searched given Roosevelt to build an en-| Navy personnel. tirely new fleet of 15 battleships at a minimum cost of $45,000,000 each, since all the U. S. battleships are either over-age or nearly so. The $40,000,000 war slice brings the “Public Works” warship total to 52 —an eloquent forerunner of Roose- ‘These figures are necessarily con- servative because it is impossible to estimate how many millions (un- itemized) under C. W. A, (its funds came from P. W. A.) control went to the reconstruction of Army forts (those around Niagara Falls, for Bess) A War Moauer and His Agent J. P. Morga, billionaire banker, | for whose profits the United States entered the last war, For the swelling of his profits and those of his fellow-workers another war is being prepared. NRA Boosts War Chemical Firm’s Dividends Over 150% By A. B. MAGIL DETROIT.—Profits of the Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., one of the largest. manufacturers of war gases and materials for war gases in the country, were $5.29 per share during the past year, ac- cording to an announcement of the company. $2 per share for the previous year. These are the largest peacetime earnings in the history of the company, the announcement states. laid many golden eggs in the Dow nest as a result of intensified |) war preparations. * mysterious war chemicals. company jacks up profits. The announcement of the huge profits of Dow Chemical comes shortly after the death of two workers in the Dow plant, killed by Low wages, speed-up and failure to pro- |) vide proper safeguards for the workers are other ways that the Secretary of War George H. Dern, head of the Washington war machine being geared for a new war, This compares with Evidently, the Blue Eagle has \In N.J. Farm Strike by Seymour Waldman instance) or to segregate the ac- tual war millions which went into such enterprises as the C. W. A.— P. W. A. War Department construc- tion of Fort Lewis, near Tacoma Washington. Th Fort, which ha little if any strategic value, is ob- viously being prepared for a con- centration cemp. Following is the way just a few floors of the Blue Hagle siaughter | house (including funds for hospitals and cemeteries) is subdivided: DIRECT WAR PREPARATIONS (as of May 7, 1934) n P.W.A. Air Corps (airplanes) Seacoast Defenses Insular Ai 1,500,000 jonal Guard 2,238,264 | ammunition) 6,000,000 ignal Corps 176,170 Quartermaster Cory and Technical © Motorization National Cemeteries Funds from C. W. A. (part of P. W. A. fund) 25,000,000 Total $12,209,720 B—Navy Department | Aeronautics 7,500,000 | Engineering 712,500 | Ordnance 330,225 Secretary's Office (machine tools) 2,850,000 | Supplies and Accounts 205,662 | Yards and Docks: Physical | Improvements (Including | Construction at Shore Sta- tions and Storm Damage) 150,537 Naval Hospital, Philedéipnai 2,380,000 Navy (statutory) —for con- struction of 32 warships ordered, by President Roose- velt 2 Total C—National Committee for Aeronautics TOTAL DIRECT WAR $247,944 PREPARATIONS $397,556,588 INDIRECT WAR PREPARATIONS from P.W.A. Emergency Conservation Corps Purchase of land Current Expenses Panama Canal Coast Guard 323,325,000 301,037,315, Total $2: DIRECT WAR PREPARATIONS 304,187 FROM | OTHER SOURCES | Amount already appropriated by Congress for military uses cf Army and Navy Army recoipts from sale of old clothing to be used for purchase of new clothing | and for transport $5385,710,943 | lows. j olutionary movement. “How Long Can Hitler Hold Out and Who Will Succeed Him?” “Purging” Will Not Strengthen Hitler, Nor Will His Regime Collapse Automatic liy; It Will Be Overihrown By the Workers and Their Allies Led By the Communist Party NEW YORK. der in Italy of 1924, C. Worker, central organ of that only the C would selve s of Party of Germany the problems of the mass that nation. “who is r Hitler?” he asked “To the Commur Party belongs the honor,” he answered. The full text of his speech fol- Comrades and Friends Last Saturday’s bloody deeds in| Germany made clear to the whole world the impending downfall of} Hitler and his murder gangs. This is no longer questioned. Today on all lips are only the questions, “How jlong can Hitler hold out?” and “Who comes after Hitler?” To the question, “How long?” there are two typically wrong an- swers. First, is the argument that | just as Italian fascism had its crises and cleansings, its Matteoti case etc., out of which Mussolini emergéd stronger than ever, so Hitler will come through and maintain him- self for a long time even against universal condemnation. This argu- ; ment has the fatal defect that it forgets that Mussolini arose at a time when world capitalism was re- gaining strength after the post-war crisis, that Mussolini maintained hi f by enormous loans from America, that Italian fascism arose | }in a time of ebb of the world rev- Hitler has — none of these advantages. He must Total SUMMARY: ations Other Sources Indirect War Preparations $1,372,670,718 Charge Lawson | With Libel in Ala. (Continued from Page 1) Grand Total and arrest of reporters whenever stories sent to newspapers favor the working class or disagree with the politics of the police depart- ment. This time the charge against me | is “printing and circulating sedi- | tious literature.” Detective Mozer of the “red squad” in making the| arrest based it on my story wired by me to the Daily Worker appear- ing in issue of May 17. I pointed) out to Mozer that this article was | printed and circulated in another city but he disregarded this fact, saying that copies of it reached | Birmingham. The irony of this arrest lies in| the fact that it followed a cordial noncommittal conversation with Commissioner Downs who, while refusing to give definite assurances on civil liberty, stated that he knew of no cases of interference with the rights of citizens in Birming- ham, and that he believed in free- dom of the press unless, of course, the stories printed were lies. Downs denied any _ personal knowledge of homes of white and Negro workers being invaded and without warrant, al- | though we showed him a list of 14 cases with names and addre As we were leaving Downs’ of- fice a few thugs standing in the corridor whispered, “We'll get the license number of their car and run them out of town.” Following these threats Mozer took me in custody. The delegation unanimously states, “Lawson’s arrest raises clear the issue of press censorship in a form practically unheard of in a free country, The charge in- volves solely Lawson’s professional activity as a newspaper man, and is a clear violation of the rights of the press. If the police can misuse their authority in this way against reporters no newspaper man is safe.” Bullets, Tear Gas, (Continued from Page 1) of the small local farmers have pledged their support of the strike. These local farmers are robbed and gypped by Seabrock who increased his large holdings at the expense of the smaller farmers. At present he is buying up delinquent tax claims in order to be able to seize more small, ruined farms. The United Farmers’ League, with Dief Dahl, organizer, is active in uniting the farmers for the support of the farm workers’ strike. More than 400 workers are in- volved in the strike which has for its main demand the maintenance of the 30 cents an hour rate agreed to by Seabrook in a contract signed with the union in April after a suc- cessful strike. Many Negro workers are on the picket lines and take a prominent part in the Strike Committee of 15 which was elected by the workers to lead the struggle. The workers live in miserable shacks on the landlord’s ground for which they pay high rents. Child labor was rife, the children getting 5 cents an hour. Seabrook wants to restore the old 17 cents an hour scale for the workers. Stop depending for news and information on the capitalist press that favors the bosses and is agzinst the workets. Subscrib> to the Daily Worker, Amcrica’s only working-class daily news- paper eettonen enero | overcome the | ers had forfeited the confidence of \ world crisis, or fail. He must ask for vasi loans at a mo- ment when he must repudiate the old loans, and when the world credit system is paralyzed. He must defeat} not only the rising German prole- tariat, but also the revolutionary movement rising throughout the world. He has no way out but sup- pression and hunger for all who la- bor and war. To accomplish these tasks, Hitler would fail even though he were ten of the Mussolinis who today is also forced to admit the bankruptcy of his system and) plunge the Italian masses into hun-| ger and war. No Automatic Collapse The second wrong answer to the question, “How long?” is that which now predicts the immediate and automatic collapse of the Hitler re- gime. The leaders of the Brown} Shirts are now assassinating one another, but they will not finish the job. That must be done, not by these degenerate and declassed elements, but by the crushing force of a really revolutionary class led by a revolutionary Party. The question, “How long?” must be answered, therefore, that it will be just that time necessary for the German working class and its allied anti-fascist forces, with the help of the world proletariat, to swing its| forces into action, and, through a series of struggles, finally win} through. | “Who comes after Hitler?” Who will lead the German workers and toiling masses to victory? Will it be one of a combination of bourgeois parties, the churches, etc.? But these parties and their lead- the masses, even of their closest adherents, already before the rise of Hitler. Each and all of them at one time or another had actively collaborated with Hitler. Their fate is indissolubly bound up with that of the Nazis; they make no serious pretense of independent life. Will it be the Social-Democratic Party, the party of Wels, Severing, Leipart, Noske, Stampfer? But these people publicly delivered themselves | to Hitler when on May 17, 1933, in| the Reichstag, they voted confidence | in the government of Hitler, and) many of them are at this moment | on Hitler's pension-roll. Even “our| own” Norman Thomas is forced to| wash his hands of this discredited carrion. | Will it be the new “left” Social- Demecrats with their Trotskyist and Brandlerist allies? These “heroes,” whether in the refuges of Prague and Paris, or in Ger- many of the “New Beginning” group of “Miles,” are all marked by a common feature, namely, their energetic refusal to take part in any active fight against the Nazi regime. They accuse the Communists of “committing sui- cide” and even of “provocation,” because of their unremitting struggie; they are “preserving themselves” for that fine day | when Hitler will fall antomatic- | ally, and, “in a moment of chaos,” | the masses will “call them to Iead- | ership.” No, not with such instru- | ments is history made. | There remains the Communist) Party. To this Party belongs the} honor, at the head of the German toiling masses, of being the only possible broom to sweep clean Ger- many from the Nazi filth and pes- tilence. The German working class, with the Communist Party at its head,| having crushed the Hitler regime and its reactionary allies, having established the Soviet power, the dictatorship of the proletariat, will proceed to solve the problems of the German masses. It will end the whole system of capitalist exploita- tion, which has paralyzed German economy. | It will take over the banks, the factories, the mines, the railroads, Just as in Germany, Hitler can be destroyed only by the victorious working class under the leadership of the German Communist Party, so in the United States we can de- and put them all to work to satisfy the needs of the masses. It will end the barbarism of book-burning and the destruction of culture, and Pointing out that the recent butcheries of Adolph Hitler could not be ¢ A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily the Communist rmunist ®———— | of | [Workers Welcome open up a acw era ef enlighten- ’ ompared to the Matteoti m Party, declared ment. It will restore Germany to the position of a nation have ing the respect and confidenc: t peoples of the world. establish a firm alliance with victorious working class of the So- viet Union, which has already laid the foundation of a socialist eco- nomy, and present to the imperialist world an invincible proletarian power. Only the victory of the proletarian revolution in Germany can save, only the German masses from phe, but also Europe and le world from a disastrous g t in his own ranks, a rising revolutionary move- ment, and sharpening international antagoni. is moving not towards peace and conciliation, as the morons of the capita pres tell u is more than ever impelled ir- tibly toward sharper terror at home and imperialist adventures abread. Only the victory of the Ger- man workers can destroy the Mad Dog of Europe and save the world from the catastrophe of a new war. Many professed supporters of peace in the capitalist governments, knowing full well that Hitler is rushing the world towards war, nevertheless are one and all éx- pressing great apprehension at the threatened downfall of Hitler. That is use they know, and publicly admit, that the only possible suc- cessor to the fascist regime is Bol- shevism. These “lovers of peace” fear and abhor the victory of the working class more than they do the unbridled slaughter of fascism and world war. Hitlerism in the United States It is these same people, who ex- press horror and disgust at the atrocities of German fascism, who steadily hélp develop more and more the same fascist tendencies in the United States. All the features pre-Hitler Germany which marked the preparations for open fascist dictatorship, are now show- ing themselves in the United States, Just as Hitler resurrected medieval anti-semitism, so the American bourgeoisie is using the traditional Ku Klux Klan terrorism of lynch- law against the Negroes, as well as importing the anti-semitism of Hitler, and instigating a wave of chauvinism against the foreign-born masses, Just as the Social - Democrat Grzesinski, preparing the way for Hitler, clubbed and shot the work- ers of Berlin, so also the “liberal progressive” LaGuardia, advance agent of the American Hitler, is daily assaulting the workers of New York. Just as Bruening, Schleicher, Von Papen, crushed the strikes of the Ruhr miners, and the Berlin metal and transport workers, pre- paring the rise of Hitler to power, so in California the state troops are firing upon striking marine workers, killing 3 and wounding over a hun- dred yesterday alone. Pennsyl- vania cossacks shot down the Am- bridge steel workers, Ohio troops fired on the Toledo strikers, Min- nesota militia broke the Minneapolis truck drivers strike, Milwaukee po- lice beat up and jailed the striking street-car workers, New Jersey troops and police are smashing the agricultural and furniture workers strikes and cancelling all civil rights, Alabama armed forces are shooting down Negro and white miners, all under the banner of Roosevelt and the New Deal. Do you realize, comrades, that in. the last few months in the United States over 30 workers have been killed in cold blood on the picket lines, and several hundred have been seriously wounded? Did the | regime of Bruening and Severing in Germany do any better than this in paving the way for fascism? Have Hitler and his murder-gang anything worse on théir record than the weekly lynchings of Negroes in the United States, or the decisions for the legal murder of the Scotts- boro boys and Angelo Herndon? On the Road to Fascism Clearly, American finance capital is rushing forward on the road to fascism. We must learn all the lessons of the tragic experience of the German masses. We must rouse: and organize the broadest sup- Port in America to the German anti-fascist struggle. We must make of this solidarity movement, at the same time, a struggle— against rising fascism in this country, and defeat it before it ever eomes to power. feat rising fascism only under the leadership of the Communist Party of the U. 3. All of you, workers, professionals, intellectuals—white and Negro, join the fight to free Ernst Thaelmann, the fight against fascism, in Gere many and the United States, to de< feat the forces that are threatening © the destruction of the human race, Join the only organization that is really fighting effectively every day and that can finally defeat this bestial, bloody reaction of fas- cism. 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