The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight Daily, QWorker | Winning the Veterans Plan Big Anti-War| "©? ™ 4 GOUTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUMIST MITERMATIONALS “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone Cable Address Washington Algonquin 4-795 4. ess Building, 2 705, Cheago, TL By Mail FR 6 months, 0 Menhattan, Br - 6 months, $5.00; 7% cents. By Carrier: Weekly, = SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1934 Support the General Strike! HE general strike in San Francisco has begun, with 15,000 workers already out in support of the 30,000 maritime strikers and the ranks of the strikers swelling every hour. Teamsters, wholesale ware- house workers, taxi drivers, slaughter house workers, butchers, boilermakers, jronworkers, are already on strike. Scores of local unions are now taking strike votes. swelling strike wave of scores of thousands of workers has taken place throughout the country, their picket lines challenging the terror of the government armed forces. A great wave of strikes is the answer of the working class to the bloody terror directed against them by the Roosevelt government and its N. R. A. and Labor Boards. The spread of the strike wave—the gen- eral strike—is the answer of the working class to the union-smashing, company union drive of the employers and the Roosevelt government In Minneapolis (drivers); in Alabama (textile workers); in Akron (rubber workers); in Warren (steel workers); in Butte (ore miners and smelter workers); in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Fort Worth, Milwaukee, and scores of other cities, as well as on the Pacific Coast, a vast and rapidly increasing army of workers are striking for union recognition, against the company union, for wage increases and for better working conditions. The Roosevelt government and its boards have attempted by means of fascist terror to shoot the picket lines out of existence. The National Guard, on the Pacific Coast, augmented by police armies, through wholesale murder and martial law has tried to outlaw and crush the maritime strike. The workers of the United States, striking against the company union, speed-up and union smashing edicts of the Roosevelt N. R. A. and Labor Boards, are given cold steel and bullets when they demand the right to organize, to strike and to picket. When they fight for decent wages and working conditions they are shot down. The N. R. A. stands forth in all its nakedness—Roosevelt’s New Deal means martial law, murderous terror, outlawing of unions and strikes, and sharper attacks on the workers’ living standards, A tremendou: IN the attempt to smash the unions of the workers, to render them helpless before the company unions, to rob them of their elementary right to organize and strike—the employers and the Roose- velt government have had the wholehearted sup- port of such A. F. of L. officials as Green, Wohl, Ryan & Co. In San Francisco, the workers are Striking by the thousands against the will of the San Francisco Labor Council's “Strategy Com- mittee” which has been doing all it could to post- pone and try to kill the general strike. Joseph P. Ryan, the head of the International Longshoremen’s Association, not only has treacherously prevented the spread of the maritime strike to the Atlantic, Lake and Gulf ports, but time after time has tried to break the strike of the maritime workers on the Pacific Coast. Ryan and the other reactionary of- ficials of the I. L. A. and the International Seamen’s Union, have worked hand in glove with Roosevelt's strike-breaking Marine Labor Board, and attempted to betray the strikers to Roosevelt “arbitration,” to Separate agreements, to going back to work with- out having won their demands. In Minneapolis, J. Tobin, International president of the A. F. of L. Teamsters Union, instructed the drivers not to strike, and denounced them as “reds.” William Green, after betraying the demands of the auto and steel workers, sent telegrams to the Pa- cific Coast Central Labor Unions, categorically instructing the Central Labor Unions to work “aggressively” against the spreading of the strike. These strike-breaking actions of the A. F. of L. officials were taken while workers were being shot down on the Pacific Coast and while the Min- neapolis authorities were preparing martial law against the strikers, But the workers swept aside the treacherous orders of the A. F. of L. leaders and came out on the streets, In Minneapolis the six thousand drivers and helpers, in direct defiance of Tobin, voted to strike. The workers of Minneapolis are moving for a general strike in spite of their A. F, of L, leaders, among whom are numbered Trotskyists and Farm Labor officials. In San Francisco the workers are pouring out on the streets and engulfing the Strategy Com- mittee of the A. F. of L., which is still calling for delay. 1M rapaetanag OF THE UNITED STATES! Support the heroic struggle of the Pacific Coast strik- ers. Organize the mighty protest of all workers’ organizations against the slaughter of strikers by the National Guard and police. Demand the with- drawal of the National Guard and the armed forces from the strike area. Demand an end to martial Jaw in San Francisco. Marine workers of the Atlantic, Gulf and Lake ports! Come out on the streets at once in support of your striking fellow workers on the Pacific Coast. Workers of the A. F. of L.! Organize your Tank and file opposition groups in every local union to defeat the strike-breaking treachery of the A. F. of L. officials, Fight for the right to strike, to picket and te organize! Fight against the government terror of the N. R. A. and the Roosevelt Labor Boards! Organize the powerful mass action of the workers throughout the country in support of the Pacific Coast, the Minneapolis, and the other strikers! Gl Thirteensh Plenum of the E.C.C1. calls upon all workers and the toilers of the world self- Sacrificingly to defend the US.S.R. against the counter-revolutionary conspiracy of the imperialists, and to defend the Chinese revolution and its Soviet Power from imperialist intervention.” (XIII Plenum of the Executive Cqammittee of the Communist Anternational—December, 1933.) S | AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1934 HE veterans are playing an ever-in- creasing role on the side of the work- ers in the mass struggles throughout the United States. Cases are more numerous which show the resistance of rank and file members of the American Legion to being deputized during strikes, and against mass demonstrations of the unemployed. These rapid developments indicate the increasing mood of the veterans for struggles and unity with the workers. These are the answer of the veterans to the bourgeoisie’s attacks on their standards of living, their answers to the whole N.R.A. program, their answers to the direct preparations for war and fascism. These confirm the line and perspective of the Fighth Party Convention held in Cleveland, April 1 to 8, 1934. While in the past the veterans fought only for their back pay, misnamed the Bonus, and resisted cuts in their compensation, allowances and pensions, now in addition to fighting for their immediate demands, they have raised the political level of the struggle through their united action in the recent mass convention of over 1,400 veterans in Washington. Here they supported the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, H. R, 7598, resolutions against War and Fascism, and for the Toledo strikers. In all the recent mass actions, the veterans have played an important role on the side of the masses. In Minneapolis, April 6, in the May Day Demon- strations, in the demonstrations against War and Fascism, in the International Longshoreman strikes on the Pacific Coast, the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League played an important role. In the Minneapolis teamsters strike, due to the pressure of the rank and file of the veterans, the officers of the American Legion, Distriet Council, were forced to admit that they could not mobilize their membership as deputies against the strikers. The official organ of the American Legion comes forward with a neutral policy in strikes. At the same time, the officers of the American Legion use their membership against the militant agricul- tural workers. However, this indicates the develop- ing of resistance within the ranks of the member- ship of the rank and file of the American Legion to resist being used as fascist shock troopers. THE Seventh Congress of the International Asso- ciation of Veterans of which Henri Barbusse is the Chairman (Brussels, July 29, 1934) will take up as its main issues the role of the veterans in their militant struggles against War and Fascism. The question of winning over the veterans who are involved in the various strikes, who are mem- bers of the various unions, now becomes an impor- tant question to be considered in every strike move- ment, The increased attack to break down the relief of the unemployed, at the same time the relief of the veterans, must be given immediate attention in our unemployed work. The continued underestimation of the veteran question must be broken down, A firm organizational base has been laid in the recent Convention in Washington, held between May 10 and 27th. A great majority of these veter- ans were strongly under the influence of the “red scare” when they came to the Convention. But this was defeated. The Party came out openly in the Convention as the only fighter for the veterans. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, through its leading com- rades, won over the confidence of the rank and file of the veterans as leaders and organizers in the work. The Negro veterans were on all committees and received the full support of the white veterans of the South as well as of the North. The members of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, D.A.V., accepted the policy of building the groups of veterans within these organ- izations for a common program of unity adopted at the Convention. This lays the firm base for strengthening the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, for penetrating the various veteran organizations and winning over the rank and file for struggles on the side of the masses, * * . 'HE Central Committee is determined to break down the underestimation of revolutionary work among the veterans that exists within many sections of the Party and to point out sharply the serious shortcomings in this work. No serious preparations were made by the Dis- trict Committees in preparing for a mass movement to Washington. Even last minute letters to the Districts, were in the main disregarded until the representative of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League came to their cities. Some Districts did not even keep themselves informed of the leaving of veterans from their city, nor who the Party members were. The Party fractions in the W.ES.L. continued, in the main, to follow a narrow, sec- tarian line and did not carry on any activities within the reformist veteran organizations to have direct representatives of groups of the various posts of these organizations at the Convention. The campaign for the International Convention of the 1.A.C. (International Association of Veterans) has not yet been brought to the attention of the veterans as a whole, confining itself only to the report to the members of the W.ES.L. who were delegates at the Veterans National Rank and File Convention in Washington, The Central Committee reaffirms the line laid down in the Open Letter and Eighth Party Con- vention: We call upon the Party members who are vet- erans or close sympathizers in the mass organiza- tions, in the labor unions, in the veterans’ organ- izations to devote continuous and systematic at- tention to winning over the broad strata of the veterans for united struggle of the masses, bi dae fascist goyernment of Germany, which is the chief instigator of war in Europe, is provoking trouble in Danzig, in Austria, in the Saar, in the Baltic countries and in Scandinavia, and on the pretext of fighting against Versailles, is trying to form a bloc for the purpose of bringing about a new bloody carving up of Europe for the benefit of German imperialism. Imperialist blocs, headed either by France or Italy, or by Britain, which intrigues behind their backs, are being feverishly reorganized around the key-points of imperialist contradictions, Europe has become a powder-mag- azine which may explode at any moment. Sritish and American imperialists availing them- selves of the war alarm in Europe and the events in the Far East, are increasing their preparations for a decisive imperialist struggle for world hege- mony in the Atlantic and in the Pacific.” (XIII Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International—December, 1933.) Demonstrations on August Ist and 4th Hold 25 Neighborhood | Meets in New York to Prepare | NEW YORK. — Twenty - five| neighborhood conferences to plan| for one mighty demonstration | against war and fascism August 4| are being prepared under the aus- Pices of the American League Against War and Fascism. These conferences will be held before July 18 to allow sufficient | time for preparation for the dem- onstration. Some have already) been held, others are being held| this week. | The conferences will mobilize the | workers of the neighborhoods for} a@ march from Columbus Circle to Madison Square Park where prom- iment speakers will address the demonstrators. | August 4th marks the 20th an- niversary of the outbreak of the) World War. 1 moe toe | Plan August 1 Demonstrations CHICAGO, July 10.—Plans for| | two great anti-War demonstrations | in Chicago on August 1 were an-/ nounced today by the Communist | Party. One will be held at Wash- ington Park, 51 and St. Lawrence, jand the other at Union Park, | Ogden and Randolph. Party leaders here stressed the| j importance for a tremendous out- | pouring of workers to these dem-| onstrations as a powerful means} of retarding the militarist plans of | | the Roosevelt government. } | Need for such a demonstration | was shown by announcement in | the local press yesterday that a greatly increased number of Iillin-} | ois youth will be mustered into the military C. C. C. camps within the next few months. Over a dozen working ‘class or- ganizations have already indicated their support of the demonstra- tions. Prominent speakers will at- tend both meetings. Mobilize for Conference j HAMTRAMCK, Mich., July 12— |The Hamtramck League Against | War and Fascism is calling a spe- | cial conference for July 16th at the | Yemans Hall, 3014 Yemans Avenue, | | Hamtramck, for 7 p.m. | All organizations that have pre- viously participated are urged to {attend to prepare for the united front Demonstration Against War} and Fascism that will be held in Detroit in August. | Chicago Meet Plans ‘Anti-War Actions |City Committee Meets Monday, 7:30 P. M. (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, July 13. — Plans for |the second United States Congress Against War and Fascism, to be held in Chicago next September, and for an anti-war and anti-fascist dem- onstration on Aug. 4, will be dis- cussed at an important city com- mittee meeting of the American League Against War and Fascism on Monday, at 7:30 p.m. All members of the American League and sympathizers are asked |to be at room 818, 185 N, Wabash, at that time. |Mother Bloor Guest of Honor at Banquet for Women Delegates (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) | CHICAGO, July 13. — Mother |Bloor, recently released from a |Grand Island jail, will be the guest | of honor at the send-off banquet for | five Chicago delegates to the Inter- national Women’s Congress Against | War and Fascism in Paris. The banquet will be held at Hen- ricis, 71 W. Randolph, on July 20. Tickets are one dollar. | SPs Sida FOS OAT PSR (34 Re By Burck pie Hitler Sustains Wholesale Murders (Continued from Page 1) upsurge in Germany by stating there was a general condition of unrest throughout the world. “There are groups in Germany promoting this unrest and rebel- lion, particularly the Communist organizations in order to destroy the unity of the German nation.” German nation.” Without listing them, Hitler stated that he supervised the slaughter of 77 of his own hench- men, including members of the Storm Troops and of the Schutz- staffle, picked Hitler guards. He declared that these men were not satisfied with the achievements of the Nazis, and were attempting to foment a “second revolution.” He said the “National Socialist phi- losophy did not believe in a per- manent or continuous revolution,” and that therefore all their deeds were against the interests of the state and had to be ruthlessly smashed. He further declared that the groups within his own ranks who were dissatisfied with the working out of the fascist regime were “plotting with a representative of a foreign power.” Again Hitler dealt only in the vaguest generali- ties, depending for emphasis on the most hysterical shouting. He said that he knew these men were plotting because they met the said foreign representatives outside of office hours, and he was sure they did not talk about the weather. Hitler admitted that throughout the Storm Troops tremendous dis- satisfaction had sprung up; and discussions were going on over the fact that the promises made by the Fascists before they came to power were not being carried out. He told of three separate groups being formed within the Storm Troops, He absolved von Papen from any blame in the socalled plottings, while especially heaping the blame on General von Shleicher and munist Party of Germany |Minor to Present Analysis of Nazi Crisis at Chicago Meet (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, July 13.—The real truth of the present situation in Germany will be told by Bob Minor, member of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party on Monday, July 16. server of world affairs will rip aside all the falsehoods and perver- sions about the so-called “Second Revolution” and give a real working class understanding of the present and future condition of Germany. Bob Minor will speak, not from the point of view of an arm-chair philosopher, but as a front line fighter in working class struggles, as one who has seen the Communist Party of Germany in action. The meeting will be held Monday, July 16, at North Side Turner Hall, 820 N. Clark St., at 7:30 p.m. All funds raised at the meeting will be turned over to the Com- This able ob- Ernst Roehm, supreme commander of the Storm Troops, both of whom were among the butchered. Hitler declared he had argued and pleaded with Roehm to see the error of his ways, but all to no avail. He added that it was neces- sary to be particularly severe with the top leaders of the Storm Troops, because they were respon- sible to the Nazi rulers. Hitler admitted that in the course of the wholesale murders he found it necessary to shoot three of his 8. S. men, the picked armed guards, because of their fiendish tortures of arrested Storm Troopers who were later themselves executed. Again and again, Hitler ham- mered the speakers stand declaring that he as supreme ruler of Ger- many had decided it was necessary to “let blood be spilled in order to check the revoli in the Storm Troops in its infancy.” “It is \clear,” he added, “that the state could be defended by only one man. I had to oppose this danger. “If you ask why judges were not called to judge the men at this moment, then I can say that I my- self was responsible for the fate of the German nation and there- fore I acted.” Hitler further admitted whole- sale corruption within his own ranks, The whole of Hitler's speech was an attempt to justify the wholesale slaughters on the ground that he himself had seen the necessity of them in view of the growing resist- ance within the ranks of his duped followers, and that therefore they were fully justified and should no longer be questioned. He tried to draw a narrow line between his old followers, and those who flocked into the Storm Troops after Hitler came to power, indi- cating that after their “mouth’s vacation,” the storm troops would be re-organized on a narrower basis, with the most reliable murder gang retained, and the greater bulk de- mobilized. Berlin was heavily guarded, espe- cially along the route of Hitler's trip to the Reichstag. A solid double cordon of his, picked S. S. troops were placed on the streets leading to Kroll’s Opera House. The guards were armed with rifles. In his speech Hitler summed up the opposition to the Nazis (which he said had been liquidated by the June 30 purge), .as composed of three parts. He put the’ Commu- nists at the top of the list, ad- mitting that they had not been entirely liquidated by the Nazi “Revolution.” Next he named the Conservatives, under the title of kickers and grumblers. And finally he referred to the “revolutionary elements” within the National So- cialist Party itself. Strikes Against Fascism By PAUL GREEN 'VERY day, news is flashed to the four corners of the valiant fight- ing spirit displayed by our French | comrades in their struggle against that vicious enemy of the working! class—fascism, The February 6th attempted fas-| cist riots in Paris culminated in the | i first victory of the French prole- | tariat against fascism. The Party | appealed to all workers, irrespective | of political affiliation, men and wo- men in all walks of life, to rally | around its anti-fascist slogans. The Communist Party of France succeeded within a very short time to rally and expand its united front of action against fascism in every corner of France. The C. P. knew that the February 6th fascist events were only an in- dication of what was yet to cofne. The subsequent events proved that the C. P. was correct in its estima- tion and tactics. We have seen throughout these months, and only a few days ago, what happened in Paris, Toulouse, Lorient, etc. Hun- dreds of workers were attacked, beaten, shot at, murdered in a cold- blooded way by the police, the Na- tional Guards, the Garde Mobile, the fascist gangs. Proletarian casualties were great. Seventeen workers killed in the revolutionary | | struggle against fascism. | | The anti-fascist reply to date is” |impressive. About four and one-| |half million workers took part in demonstrations, in the general strike of February 12th, in manifestations for the liberation of Comrade Thael- 4,500,000 In Feb. 12/, mann and against the government of decree-laws. Just a few specific facts: * February 12—150,000 workers par- ticipate in the general strike; February 12 — 100,000 workers demonstrate against the govern- ment; February 17—200,000 workers par- ticipate at the funeral of comrades assassinated by the police; ‘April 11 — workers of Henin-_ Lietard rout Leon Daudet, the royalist leader, and his “Camelots du Roi”; April 20—40,000 civil service em- ployees, war veterans and unem- ployed demonstrate against decree-laws of the government Doumergue-Tardieu, clashing with the police and the fascist gangs; May 20, 21—3,500 delegates repre- Senting some 56 regional congresses and thousands of organizations, par- ticipate at the national convention of the Congress Against War and Fascism, adopting unanimously the “Charter of United Action of all anti-fascists” in spite of their dif- ferent ideologies and political dif- ferences, and resolving “to maintain with persistent and practical action the union of their forces against their common enemy, the capitalist system and its bloody fascism”; May 27 — For five hours at a stretch, 100,000 workers in a mon- ster united front walk past the Wall of the Communards at the cemetary Pere Lachaise; they march singing the International, crying in splendid unison: “Down with the decree laws of starvation,” “Down with police brutality,” “Down with the fascist | leagues,” “We demand unemploy- ment insurance,” “Against war preparations,” “For a world Soviet,” “United action from below,” “Our comrades will be avenged.” the | Everywhere the fascist hooligans are aided by the police, the Garde Mobile, the National Guards, at the order of that brutal murderer Sar- raut who is now Minister of the Interior and a member of the Radi- cal-Socialist Party. How is it then that in spite of the armed fascist henchmen and in spite of the armed assistance of the government, the workers not only are able to resist them but no fascist meeting can be ‘held, no fascist speaker can utter from his bloody mouth the words that spell fascism, no fascist can ‘sell his prostituted newspaper. { The Toulouse Struggle. One of the most violent struggles, which occurred at Toulouse on June 19th, will give us the answer since it is typical of other such battles. Taittinger, the leader of.a fascist, Sang, chief of the murderers of Montargis, came to Toulouse to speak. He brought with him his henchmen of the “Jeunesse Pat- riote” and Sarraut (the official as- sassin) sent him 1,200 Mobile Guards who charged and shot at the workers. The toiling masses held the streets during the entire night of June 19th. One hundred and seventy workers wer injured, with four probably dead. The latest report tells us that one of our com- rades, Rene Roussel, 58 years old, died due to perforated intestines. But the victory, in spite of these fierce attacks, in spite of the shoot- ing, in spite of the casualties suf- fered, was that of the workers. Why? Because “Communist and Socialist workers, trade union work- ers belonging to the revolutionary trade unions (C. G. T. U.) and the workers belonging to the reformist union C. G. T. fought shoulder to Shoulder.” From barricade to bar- ) How the Héoic French Workers Fight Fascism United Action Is Basic Feature of Anti- Fascist Fight ricade the. workers held them in check and fought. An incident described in L’Humanite by a re- porter indicates the general attitude pervading the French proletariat. The reporter asks a Socialist. com- rade at the scene of battle, “Well, comrade, you found yourselves re- united in the battle?” “Yes,” an- swers the S. P. member, “and the Communist comrades were first on the fighting line.” - A Communist comrade from Toulouse, who was accompanying the reporter, inter- rupted: “But you too, Socialist workers, fought with them.” Then he cites an example: “And we won over thousands of unorganized workers when they saw that there was a real united action.” Wherever one goes, the same thought, the same sentiment pre- vails. At Roubaix, Marseille, Tours, Paris, etc., everywhere. At the hospital at Toulouse, the wounded workers were suffering in agony from the injuries received at the hands of these bloody fascists sent by Sarraut. There the reporter saw the painter Rene Revel, who is gradually growing completely blind. The Mobile Guards, after arresting him, “hit him in the eyes with the butt ends of their muskets.” Yet, in spite of their sufferings, one heard all over the hospital the following \Temarks: “They hit like savages, and all that to defend the fascists. It doesn’t matter, they saw at Toulouse that the workers don’t want fascism.” A socialist. comrade added: “We will always be united in this struggle.” ae = On the World Front By HARRY GANNES Gen. Johnson’s Stomach Acutely Class Conscious United Front in the Saar ENERAL HUGH §. JOHN- SON, keeper of the Blue Eagle, in speaking on recent |events in Germany, reveals he |has a weak, but acutely classe conscious stomach. Engageé here in the United States in paving the way to fascism, and in directing fascist attacks on the American workers, he gets a sicke ening feeling when he sees his prototype, General von Schleicher and his wife shot down. For instance, what is more damning to Hitler’s excuses for his butcher- ies, and to the prestige of all fascist scum in the eyes of their petty - bourgeois adorers, than the death cry of the Nazi victims: “Heil Hitler! They were faith- ful servants of fascism to the end, but their end was required in order to bury some of Hitler's promises. * * 8 no’ General Johnson, to cover up some of his own fascist meas- ures, “cracks down,” verbally, on the Nazi butcheries. “A few days ago, in Germany,” he said out in Waterloo, Iowa, where the farmers face famine under Rooseveit’s New Deal, “events occurred which shocked the world. I don't know how they affected yo but they made me sick—not figura- tively, but physically and very ace tively sick. The idea that adult, responsible men can be taken from their homes, stoop up against a wall, backs to the rifles and shot to death is beyon expression.” But this general has a very con- venient stomach. When innocent Negroes are dragged out of their homes and are burned at the stake or hanged and riddled with bullets by Southern white lynch mobs, the General can be eating the most sumptuous dihner at the Ritz and his stomach won’t turn a teeny- ES ERS J / Von Schleicher weeny bit. Alabama coal miners, Pacific coast longshoremen, Philadelphia hosiery workers, Ambridge steel workers, Toledo auto workers, can be shot by the score by armed gang= sters or militiamen, and the’Gen- eral’s appetite won't be interfered with in the slightest. It is only when those close to his heart (tHe fascist dogs in Germany) are shot down by their own masters that the General's gastronomic equili- brium is upset. PRE eae AGUARDIA'S police can club a pregnant woman and kill her un- born infant, but the general’s hardy soldier bearing doesn’t quiver in the slightest. Hungry, starving unem- ployed may be clubbed, beaten, tor- tured, jailed and die for lack of food, still the general refuses to let his stomach flinch. Only when a pack of degenerate perverts, who themselves slaught- ered hundreds of workers, and Com- munists, get a few of the bullets they had meant for the revolution- ary working class, does the general become politically seasick. iis ar 'HE inner conflicts in Austria among the Fascist scum has reached a stage of open violence. Bombings go on incessantly, sort of punctuating the fact that fascism rests on a volcano. But one poli- tical bomb that exploded was not reported in the American capitalist newspapers. The former Social- Democratic town councillor of Vierfna, Julius Lindner, a henchman of Otto Bauer, one of the leading “constructors” of Austrian social- ism, such as the Karl Marx House, etc., has gone over bag and baggage to the Dollfuss government. In the newspaper “Workers Sunday” he now openly lines up with Dollfuss and the fascist trade unions. Very much in the style of Norman Thomas he wrote: “Social rights can only be ob= tained intellectually. Whoever wants to fight and think socially or humanly must refrain from violence because this always brings back violence and disturbs social life, However difficult it may be to for- get the past it is more important to secure the workers’ rights in the present: Yn the new state they will have only those rights for which they struggle, and therefore cannot stand aside but must accept and reckon with the present.” ¢ aoe Ye Tr Communist Party of the Saar has sent a proposal for united front action against fascism to the Social Democratic Party. In this appeal for joint action, the Com- munist Party of the Saar writes: “Hitler must be beaten in the Sear! The anti-fascist workers must prevent the handing over of the Saar toiling population to the fascist bloody hangman of the Hit- ler hunger regime. The annexing of the Saar to Germany would mean murder and imprisonment of hun- dreds and thousands of fighters, destroying all political rights of the workers; complete enslavement, the closing of the mines, increased un- employment; war, with the youth transformed into cannon fodder, and misery for the mide'e class and the small peasantry.” They then make the following concrete proposals for united front action: (i) Immediate fighting measures to be initiated for the liberation of Ernst Thaelmann and all im- prisoned anti-fascists. (2) Organizing of mass defense in all factories and workers’ resi- dential districts. (3) Fight against all restrictings of the right of free assemblage, free speech, free press. (4) United mobilization of the workers for their economic de- mands. (5) Forming of joint fighting committees against Hitler’s an- nexation plan, and in case of Seeset voting to keep the status quo, as a more favorable fight basis for the working class. ‘