The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1934 Daily .<QWorker emPRA, COGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUMIST UITERMATIONNL® “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 15th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4 - ble Address: “Daiwork, fashington Bureau i4th and F St., Wa: Midwest Bureau: Telephone: Dearborn 3931. acca Rates: Press Bull Son tional , Room 706, Cheago, IL By Mail: $ months, Manhattan, 8 months, By Carrier: (except $3.50; 3 m Bronx, TUESDAY, JUL For General Strike in the Twin Cities HE workers of Minneapolis and St. Paul are demanding the calling of a general strike to force the employers to grant the demands of the truck drivers who after one of the most militant struggles in the history of the labor movement are being robbed of the fruits of their struggle. The rivers demand increased wages for all work tight of their union to speak for all wor' against discrimination. As we pointed out, after recent strike, the leaders of the st there were a number of Trotzkyi practically called off the strike when ¥ was at its highest point and on the verge of gaining a full victory, without any guarantee that the workers demands would be enforced. Just at the time when the workers were in control of the market, when the building trades workers had already joined in a sympathy strike, when the wo: of the entire city of Minneapolis were ready to come out in a general strike, the A. F. of L. leaders and their Trotz- kyite allies called off the strike on the mere verbal promise of the bosses that all the workers would be taken back to work, and by turning over all other questions to arbitration. As we further pointed out, the so-called agree- ment practically promised to the bosses that the workers would not fight for wage increases for one the settlement of the rike, among whom leading posts, year. These leaders explained their settlement of the strike as a “victory,” later as a “partial” victory, and tried to hide their giving up of the main de- mands of the workers under the cover of high- sounding phrases such as “retreat,” “partial vic- tory,” and “consolidation of the gains UT to the strikers who returned to work with- out wage increases, with a large number not being re-hired, with the employers refusing even to consider the right of the union to speak for some of the workers, the real situation became quite clear. They had victory in their hands—victory won on the picket line, only to have it snatched from their hands by their leaders. The workers are now demanding action. They insist on going on strike again. The organized work- ers, and the whole working-class of the Twin Cities are ready to back them up with a general strike. Now the leaders of the truckmen, including the 'Trotzkyists, are compelled to maneuver in order to try to escape the wrath of the rank and file. But can they be trusted again by the rank and file? The workers must not allow themselves to be trapped again in endless negotiations and arbitra- tions. They must insist on an immediate general strike in the Twin Cities to enforce their demands. ‘They must make sure that this time at the head of their strike stand rank and file workers who can be trusted. The workers in the other trades must not only come to the support of the truckmen with a general strike but they must at the same time bring forward their own demands for increased wages, for recog- nition of their unions. The whole working-class of the country has its eyes on the Twin Cities. They know that the workers there will fight militantly. Will they now be able to so organize the struggle that they will not only defeat the employers in the field of battle but also be able to reap the fruits of this victory? The Communists and all revolutionary workers in the Twin Cities must by their active and self- sacrificing work in rousing and organizing the struggle help to answer this question in the affirm- ative. Mobilize A.F.of L. Unions for Thaelmann! HE campaign for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the anti-fascist German masses, is taking root among large sections of the workers in this coun- try. This is already expressed in the many mass actions, picket demonstrations and other acts of solidarity organized in vari- ous parts of the country. One of the most encouraging signs in the devel- opment of the movement is the willingness of the A. F. of L. membership to join in the fight for the freedom of Thaelmann and in general in the struggle against Hitler terror. Dozens of A. F. of L. unions in New York, Chicago and many other cities have already gone on record demanding the release of Thaelmann. Among them are the build- ing trades locals, bakers’ locals, textile workers, ete. How great is the readiness of the A. F. of L. workers to fight jointly with the Communists for the release of Thaelmann can be seen from the - actions of the National Convention of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union, which went on record demanding the release of Thaelmann. This motion was carried despite the fact that many of the Socialist leaders of the union did not favor this motion. But they did not dare oppose the will of the delegates. But these important actions of the A. F. of L. workers which generally express the sentiments of all organized workers as shown by the fact that not only the unions of the T.U.U.L. but also the independent unions (Mechanics Educational Society, locals of the Amalgamated Food Workers, etc.) are Still too few. Why? Because the Communists and the revolutionary workers generally in the A. F. of L. unions have not yet with sufficient boldness taken up this campaign in the local unions, They haye not yet exposed sufficiently the role of the Green-Woll leadership which is trying to hide its failure to mobilize the A. F. of L. workers in the Struggle against fascism with lip service to the boyeott of Nazi goods. It is clear that the rising sentiment fer the in and the uggle against cted up with the realization A. F. of L. workers of the in the U. S. as expressed r against the workers in the the struggles of the unemployed ruggles, The Communists and the revolutionary oppo- sitions in the A. F, of L. unions must come for- ward in all local unions, in all central bodies with the anti-fascist campaign and the demand for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, This cam- paign can become a powerful weapon not only in support of the struggles of the German masses bat also for forging a powerful united front in the struggle against the attacks of the capital- ists and the terror campaign of the government. For the General Strike in All Ports, West Coast Cities | HE general strike of marine workers in all ports of the nation, in solidarity with the Pacific Coast maritime strikers, is necessary at once, if victory is to be achieved. The strike must without delay be spread to all industries on the West Coast, The national guard troops, hundreds of police and armed guards are shooting down pickets. Through murderous terror, the government armed forces are trying to rob the Pacfiic Coast strikers of the right to picket, to organize, and the right to strike itself. The guns and tear gas of the government have been launched against the strik- ers to open the ports, to break the strike, and to rob the workers of their demands. The A. F. of L. national and district leaders are leaving no stone unturned to thwart the will of the workers on the Pacific Coast. These mis- leaders are preventing the general strike in the Pacific port cities, William Green, president of the A. F. of L,, takes the lead with a strikebreaking letter to the Central Labor Council at Seattle, in- structing the A. F. of L. locals not to go on a sympathy strike. But Ryan and Green do not speak for the rank and file members of the A. F. of L. Many local unions on the Pacific Coast have already voted for the general strike in support of the maritime strikers. Only the treachery of the A. F. of L. leaders, maneuvering for postponement of the general strike, has prevented the strike from taking place thus far. . . . ‘VERY member of the A. F. of L. must raise his voice instantly in support of the heroic Pacific Coast strikers, Every local union of the A. F. of L. generally, and every workers’ organization, should bring pressure on the Central Labor Union of San Francisco (and the C.L.U. of other Pacific port towns) to strike now in support of the maritime strikers. The A. F. of L. locals throughout the country and A. F. of L. members, as well as other workers’ organizations should flood the San Francisco Cen- tral Labor Union with telegrams, resolutions and letters demanding action at once by these A. F. of L. misleaders. The A. F. of L. members, and local unions must force the hand of those mis- leaders who are, in the face of the bloody terror, postponing the general strike. In every port throughout the country, the seamen, longshoremen and other maritime work- ers must swing into strike action behind the great fight of the Pacific Coast strikers. In every port, the marine workers must act in defense of their striking brothers on the Pacific Coast. The call of the Marine Workers Industrial Union for general strike of all marine workers, in sup- port of the West Coast strikers, must be heeded in every port in the land. The fascist terror is raging in the Pacific Coast ports. Strikers are being shot down and killed and wounded by the government’s armed forces. The right to strike, to organize and picket is involved. The workers of the entire country must come to the aid of the Pacific Coast strikers, Workers’ Organizations! Show solidarity with the Pacific Coast strikers! Rush protests to the mayor of San Francisco and to Governor Merriam of California against the murderous terror! Demand the immediate withdrawal of the national guards, the police and other armed forces! Support the right of the Pacific Coast strikers to strike, picket and organize! Send funds to the Pacific Coast Strike Committee! For an immediate general strike in all Pacific Coast cities! For general strike of all marine workers in every port in the country! For the right to strike and to organize and picket! Defeat the sabotage of the A. F. of L. leaders! Against the murders of the Pacific Coast strikers, The Arrest of Lawson eo desperately the Alabama ruling classes are trying to suppress any real exposure of their vicious rule of terror against the Negro masses and the white workers of that state is shown in the latest arrest in Birmingham, Ala., of John Howard Lawson, noted playwright and writer. Lawson, a member of a delegatoin investigating conditions in the South, including the bestial tor- ture of the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon by their jailers, is charged with “printing and cir- culating seditious literature.” The charge is based on his exposures in the Daily Worker several months ago of the murderous attacks by mine owners, their courts, police and fascist thugs on the heroie Negro and white mine strikers struggling against intoler- able conditions. At that time Lawson was also ar- rested and ordered to leave the city, The arrest of Lawson is directly aimed at sup- pressing the last vestiges of free speech in Alabama, at police censorship of the workers’ press and, in particular, at driving the Daily Worker out of the South, where it is playing a tremendous role in unit- ing the Negro and white toilers in joint struggle . against jim-crow oppression of the Negro masses and its accompanying degradation of the white workers, and in defense of Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro boys. Every workers’ organization, every person sin- cerely opposed to lynching and the violent suppres- sion of the rights of the working-class must raise a thunderous protest against the arrest of Lawson, against the attack on the workers’ press, against the proceeding fascization of the state apparatus of Alabama. Rush protest wires and resolutions to Governor B. M. Miller, at Montgomery, Ala., to Commissioner Downs, Birmingham, Ala. Demand that the charges against Lawson be dropped! De- mand abolition of the police drive to censor the workers’ press and bar the Daily Worker from Ala- Refuge for German Seaman Is Sought By N. Y. Workers | Death Awaits Eggaling | Tf He Is Returned | To Germany | NEW YORK, July 10—Working | class organizations were asked yes- | terday by the National Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born to join in an effort to save Theodore Eggaling, German sea- }man, from the Nazi axe which | awaits him if he returns to his native land. Eggaling, visiting in Yorkville during shore leave from the Ham- burg-American liner “Albert Bal- lin” on June 6, publicly expressed anti-Nazi sentiments and was at- | tacked by Nazi thugs and beaten. | He was arrested for disorderly con- | duet. After his release from jail | he was seized by two private police- | men of the Hamburg-American line | and shanghaied aboard the Albert Ballin. An ILD. representative, | | who witnessed Eggaling’s virtual kidnapping from the steps of the Yorkville Court, succeeded in rescu- | | ing Egegaling from the ship's brig | | with a writ of habeas corpus a few | | minutes before the ship left its pier. Eggaling is still in grave danger, | it was explained yesterday by the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, unless the Immigra- tion Bureau can be compelled to give him permission to remain in this country. The committee, whose fight for | Eggaling has been endorsed by the | American Civil Liberties Union, is | | also pressing for the introduction | into Congress of a bill granting the | right of asylum to all political | refugees, pointing out that walle Tzarist refugees are permitted to| enter the country, political, racial | and religious refugees from fascist countries are systematically ex- | cluded. FORWARD! (Continued from Page 2) held. Over a hundred thousand | |German workers including foreign | seamen in the port of Hamburg. |Thaelmann came all the way from Berlin to address his Hamburg| comrades. He spoke in this great |demonstration about the Scotts- |boro boys and led the demand for| |their release. Thaelmann was the | | conscious leader of the defense of |the Scottsboro boys in Germany \and helped to organize the tour of |Louis Engdahl and Mother Wright | jin Germany. Along with Thaelmann, as a | friend of the Negro people, is another Communist leader who is |with us tonight, Comrade Willi | Munzenberg, leader of the League | Against Imperialism and for Na- tional Independence of the colonial masses. So when Hitler and his fascist bandits imprisoned Thaelmann and threaten him with medieval execu- tion they figure against the logic of the whole forward development of mankind, against Communism. which unifies all the oppressed against fascism, against capitalist- |imperialism and for a new society. In the United States we find a parallel to the ancient medieval | methods of Hitler fascism, in the | persecution of the Negro people. | We find examples of the most bar- ‘barous torture to enforce the spe- |cial oppression of the Negro peopie. | If you want to look for what fas- | cism means just take a look at the | plight and torture of the Negro | people in the U.S. A. at the hands lof capitalist-landlords and their | bandit thugs. Take the Scottsboro case which has behind it a history |of thousands of known lynchings and tortures of Negro people in the U. S. A, to say nothing of the “unknown” lynchings over a period of years; which has behind it decades of national oppression and bloody terror of the Negro people. If you want to have examples of the oldest forms of bourgeois and medieval reaction just take Prin- cess Annee, Maryland (of which there are thousands of examples), where a Negro was dragged by the neck with a chain through the streets. If you want to find the | most callous contempt on the part | Nazis’ Chauvinism, Vilest Instrument of Capitalism of people take the action of Pres- | ident Roosevelt who ignores bore boys for their release, to say nothing of the judges and the gov- ernor of Alabama. And the idealism of Communism and its meaning in the lives of millions | of Negroes, then take the action of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. in stirring up the entire world and millions of white workers and middle class toilers to the sup- port of the Scottsboro boys. The Scottsboro case represented to the Communist Party the oppression of Negro people in America. The strug- gle for the freedom of the Scotts- boro boys was brought forward as a symbol of the struggle for the national liberation of the Negro people, who are allies in the strug- gle against bourgeois reaction. Fascism Intensifies Lynch Terror The oppression of the Negro people is nothing new; the lynch- ings and brutal terror against the Negro people is nothing new. What is new in this period of fascism in other parts of the world and fas- cist tendencies in the U. S. A. is that fascism intensifies the oldest, lowest medieval lynch terror; it in- tensifies these old forms of bour- geois darkness. There is no more deliberate bourgeois callousness, medieval darkness than the new de- cision upholding the death sentence against Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, for execution on August 31. In the U. 8. A. also you find the most vicious rule of bourgeois terror applied against Negro and white workers who dare to organize to- gether to better their conditions. The white rulers of the South tremble at the rising movement of Negro and white workers in the very heart of the black-belt and they bring forward the most vile acts of terror and torture against the leaders. The Georgia ruling class sentenced Angelo Herndon to 18 years on the chain-gang, the worst form of bourgeois terror and per- secution in the South, it is the old- est form of feudal slavery: persecu- tion, Angelo Herndon was forced to sleep in a cell with a dead convict; they used the most brutal and re- the | plea of the mothers of the Scotts- | if you want to understand} 4 lof a bourgeois ruler for the rights ,Volting relics of the past to terror- ize and torture. But here the bour- geois landlords see as the fascist bandits saw at the Leipzig trial) what leaders Communism produce.| Angelo Herndon flung into their faces courage and defiance. He de-| clared: do what you will with me, thousands will come to take my place. Contrast the policy of fascism in Germany and the oppression of th Negro people in the U. S. A. with the policy which has led to the freedom of nationalities formerly op- pressed by the Tzarist regime, with the present policy in the Soviet Union, where the right of self-de- termination and the equality of races and nations is based on the voluntary union of all races, color and nations on the basis of prole- tarian solidarity. The policy of the Soviet Union is directed towards the rapid de- velopment of industry and culture; the policy of fascism is directed to- wards the distruction of culture and the use of industry to enrich the capitalists. Contrast the policy of fascism where Jewish| people are defiled, with the setting up of an autono- mous state for the Jewish people in the Soviet Union, at the time when Hitler attacks against the Jewish people were at their height. Those who fail to see the great gulf between fascism and the Soviet Union fail to understand the great- est political event in the history of the world. Contrast the policy of the Soviet Union with the deliberate cultiva- tion of race prejudice in America by | the capitalist press, the theatre, the schools and the courts. Pogroms are impossible under the Soviet regime, while lynchings of Negroes are rapidly increasing dur- ing the period of the capitalist crisis, Fascism operates on the basis of the oldest reactionary social forces. Bourgeois exploiters and fascism re- cruit their leaders from among the corrupt and the scum of their so- ciety. Among national groups and oppressed people, they seek out the most corrupt elements either of the previous ruling class or the present declassed elements. For example, among the Negro people the bour- geois, to receive and mislead, recruit the scum and the petty bourgeois Negro national reformists who act as propagandists for main- taining the rule of the white capi- jane over the Negro people. | George Schuyler, a writer for the Pittsburgh Courie: controlled by the Roosevelt admin- | istration, declares in the columns boys can thank the I. L. D. and the Communists for their plight. “Mass pressure and international ballyhoo and stupid legal defense did the trick,” he says. These are the words, objectively, of an agent of the ruling class who at the same time is a leader in the ranks of the so-called Musteite American Workers Party; it is their contribu- tion and aid to the ruling class against the Negro people. ‘Neither are the Socialist leaders in the U. S. A. behind their broth- ers in Europe in helping the ruling class to break the unity of the workers. I recall that from this platform a very unusual incident took place a few months ago. At the height. of the anti-fascist struggle of the workers in Austria who had been betrayed by the leaders of the Socialist Party, the Com- munist Party and its leaders were carrying out with great energy plans for unifying the broadest forces in support of the Austrian workers. From this platform a Negro lead- er of the Socialist Party, in an at- tack upon leaders of the Commu- nist Party, who always stand in the forefront of the struggle for Negro rights—this Negro leader of the Socialist Party declared that “Communists are pigs because they have the nature of pigs.” We can now declare with the fullest logic of facts of recent events that So- cialist leaders are scavengers for the capitalist class, or to use the very appropriate words used by Chinese workers: ‘They are running dogs of capitalism.” Comrades, now we are in the midst of the greatest campaign for the release of Thaelmann, the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Hern- don. Not a moment’s rest for the judges and governors of Alabama and Georgia and for President Roosevelt as long as the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon are im- prisoned! win See Pleas and Feasts Not Mass Poverty By SAMUEL WEINMAN IDENT ROOSEVELT off on! a vacation journey, visited the Virgin Islands—the Pearl of the Antilles. The capitalist press bal- lyhooing the stunt with customary fervor, and proclaimed that the “streets, stores and houses were deeorated with bunting and bou- gainvillea, recalling the old days when the island was famous for its carnivals.” In the headlines, at “Virgin Islands Hali Roose- velt.” What have the 22,000 Virgin Islanders, over 90 per cent Negroes, to hail Roosevelt about? Seventeen years have passed since immedi- ately prior to the World War, the United States purehased the islands from Denmark to strengthen the approach to the Panama Canal, The poverty of the island masses is so deep and widespread that 65 per cent of the population receive pauper burials. The death rate per 1,000 is 21, as compared with 12 in the United States. Infant mortal- ity per 1,0 children amounts to 145, as compared with 69 on the mainland. Sugar production in St. Croix and | shipping in St. Thomas were once the mainstays of economic activity. Since 1930 the West Indian Sugar Factory. the LaGrange Sugar Co, and the Central Sugar Factory have been tightly shut down most of the time, St. Thomas, located on a direct line between Burope and the | quate wages, and even hunger ap- pear on every hand.” eee oe & AND, the life-blood of an agricul- tural people, isa monopoly in Panama Canal, used to be a bustl-| the hands of a few, mostly absentee ing trans-shipment point. Today) the harbor is almost deserted. In addition to the disastrous effects of the general crisis of capitalism the port has suffered from the Prohi- bition Amendment, and the closing of the local Hamburg - American! while on St, Croix 70 per cent of | Line offices since the World War. Women employed carrying 90- pound baskets of coal from the wharf to the vessels earn 60 cents a day, or $1.20 a week, since an average of only two ships a week call for coaling. Even pre-crisis wages at the high- est in the cane and sugar industry were 20 to 40 cents for a nine-hour day. The seasonal character of the industry made further inroads into the workers’ income. “It is needless to say,” official in- vestigators asserted, “that with a wage scale as low as this, housing conditions could not well be worse. In the majority of cases the homes | of the laborers consist of a single room—dining room, living room and bed room in one. .,. The principal, and in most cases only, article of food is fungee, a primitive mess of corn meal and fish boiled together, unpalatable and lacking in nutri- tive value. reflected in the weakened physical condition of both infants and adults. . » « Unemployment, inade- | owners. This lack of food is! bears the Of all the arable land 90) per cent is held by 1 per cent of the families; and of 5,873 persons engaged in agriculture only 273 own farms. On St. Thomas 60 per cent of the land is held by 12 owners, | the land is held by 14 owners, The per capita wealth in the islands is less than $350, as com- pared with ten times that average in the States. Only 10 per cent of the population has enough money to pay taxes. There is a property qualification for voters stipulating that voters must haye an annual income of at least $300 or a prop- erty income «§ $60 a year. Only 1,300 men out of a population of 23.000 qualify for the franchise. The stock phrase, “funds are not available for this purpose,” recurs frequently. School teachers receive a salary of $40 a month. The an- nual federal appropriation for the islands is $400,000, or less than 25 per cent of the interest on the money invested in a single battle- ship._ The leper colony on St. Croix is a classic example of how Wall Street. “white man’s burden.” The governor reports that the col- ony's buildings are in a sad state of repair, including cracked walls, Roosevelt Goes Slumming in the Virgin Islands | Gevernor Tells Sick to Buy Luxuries on 3 Cents A Week | leaking roofs, rusted screens and | sewer line destroyed. Private in- | dividuals are asked to donate out- moded and outworn bathing suits in order that the lepers may take | treatment in the sea. Here’s the punch line: “Three cents a week is made available for members of the colony, with which they may buy such luxuries as can be secured for that money.” [This sentence is on page 24 of Governor Pearson’s re- port for 1932—S. W.] President Roosevelt is especially interested in the Virgin Islands as @ naval base and coaling station for Wall Street’s fleet. The Virgin Islands, strategically situated to protect the Eastern end of the Panama Canal, is only one of a string of naval stations that the President will give the once-over in the course of his trip to Hawaii. Mr. Roosevelt's itinerary is not en- tirely designed for a rest-cure or a pleasure jaunt; it is a part of Roose- velt’s armaments race and war preparations. The “St. Croix Tribune,” in be- half of the local petty bourgeois elements, is hammering away for a change of governors. Virgin Island toilers can rest assured that should the Hoover-appointed Pearson be replaced by a Roosevelt choice, there will be no improvement. a Negro paper | {of that paper that the Scottsboro | orld Word Fron W By HARRY GANNES | “Putay” and Trotzky | Their Refrain on Germany | In Place of Roehm’s Name ler’s piano player, who recently left these shores, can carry back with him the cold comfort that both his and the Trotzkyite’s conclusions on recent events in Germany | coincide on the main point. “Every day in every way Fascism is getting |stronger and stronger.” That is | “Putzy’s” and the Trotzkyites re- | frain. | “The German proletariat as a So | cial force,” says the Trotzkyite sheet | in its latest vomitings on Germany, | “has played no role as yet.” Every capitalist newspaper has admitted that one of the most powerful factors precipitating re- cent events was the rejection by the German factory proletariat of the Fascist “confidence councillors” in |the recent factory elections. An- other fact widely admitted is that the Storm Troops have been honey- combed with Commynist activity and propaganda, helping to under- mine this fascist base. Spot ee ET all the facts shriek out against it as they will, the Trotzkyites follow the path of consoling the jharassed Hitlerites, “At the | present moment,” they write “its | (the bloody carnage’s) main signi- | ficance is contained in the strengths | ening of capitalist reaction.” Some- what like Lovestone’s firm love for |the strength of American imperial- jism, despite the hammer blows of the crisis. Another gem of Trotzkyite erudi- |tion: “Today the remnants of the Stalinist party (the Communist Party of Germany) remains as rot- ten as before, except that it is smaller and has no influence.” No open agent of the bourgeoisie, not the vilest class enemy of the American and world proletariat has dared utter such putrid lies. The “rottenness” of Ernst Thaelmann and other leaders as well as the rank and file of the Communist Party of Germany consists in their heroic Struggle against fascism which is not to the liking of the Trotzkyites. * a} OR example, “Miles,” the “left” Social Democrat, in his pamphlet jon “Socialism’s New Beginning,” in |which he launches a_ broadside against the Communist Party, at |least has the spark of honesty to admit the bravery of the Commun- ists. “With amazing fortitude and extraordinary devotion to their cause,” he writes, “they hurl them- selves with bared breasts against a vastly superior enemy.” This in the eyes of the Trotzkyites is rottenness.” Now let us see how the enemies of the proletariat who do not con- ceal themselves behind “revolution- ary” phrases estimate the influence and activity of the Communist Party of Germany: The New York Times, July 8, 1934: “The Communists have never ceased their operations in the Reich. It is said that they still maintain their headquarters somewhere in Germany and their cadres and cells are functioning at full speed. One of their favor- ite devices is to stage “lightning descents” at busy thoroughfares of industrial cities, when no enemy seems to be in sight. “The general impression is that | the Communists have got the better of the Socialists by being | more alert and audacious. This has led to the belief, now widely held, that if Hitler falls popular favor may turn to the Commun- ists.” AN. Y. Herald Tribune dispatch on July 8, 1934, from Paris, admit« ting that a revolutionary struggle is maturing,“ already puts the forces of reaction and the forces of the Communists in aposition, on an equal plane so far as strength and Possible outcome of the battle is concerned. “At oresent it seems to: the French,” says this dispatch, “that Germany is destined either to go into the hands of im reactionaries and big business (which, of course, has been the case since Hitler came to power) or into the hands of the Com- munists.” Another capitalist writer, Johan« nes Steel, in the New York Post, on dune 28, 1934, wrote: “The United Anti-Hitler Front of the left is composed of Com- munists, liberal catholics, liberals | and socialists. IT MUST BE | DULY ADMITTED THAT THE COMMUNIST ELEMENTS ARE DOMINANT.” The fact remains, that every capitalist correspondent in Germany \has admitted that the Communist Party, grown stronger, more power- ful, bolder, has become the most dangerous force against fascism, rapidly bgt ts its doom. ZKYISM ks become the faithful ally of Hitler, Goebbels and Goering in slandefing the Com- munist Party of Germany. When Fascism begins to crack, when the proletariat of Germany moves into action against the bloody fascist regime, the Troskyite sheet strives with might and main to decry, be< little, and befoul it. They do every thing possible to keep the worl n other countries from mol their forces behind the Ge! workingclass, and its leader Communist Party of Germany, Being unable to keep their vile filt on the head of Comrade Thaelman, they remain utterly silent about him. We would recommend to the Fas+ cists, when the name of Ernst Roehm is scrapped from the Nad honor knife, it could be fittingly replaced with the name of L. D Trotzky. I" UTZY” Hanfstaengl, Hit- Sunday sti