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a ene Page Fight Daily <QWorker (QRUTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY 1.5. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONARS | “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. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address Washington Bur Press Building, 14th and F st x Midwest Burea 705, Cheago, I. Dearb Telephone. 6 months, $5 By Carrier: SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1934 What Hinders Unity? URELY, every class conscious worker, every honest person who hates war and fascism, must have welcomed the recent news that in at least two places, Camden, N. J., and Brooklyn, N. Y., Socialist Party groups accepted the united front offers of the Communist Party. These joint actions of Socialist Party locals in united front with Communists against their common class enemies are only a beginning. ‘They point the way to the path that must be taken. Why must the united front be restricted to Brooklyn or Camden? Why cannot the united front be achieved throughout the country as it has been achieved in France? The Communist Party has sent two Open Letters to the National Executive Committee of the So- cialist Party proposing a joint meeting and discus- sion for the arranging of a practical program for fighting imperialist war, fascism, terrorism, wage cuts, etc. Why cannot the Socialist Party leaders enter into public discussion with the Communist Party for joint action? AS THE Socialist Party workers in Brooklyn point- ed out in their statement accepting the united front, fascism grows in America, the menace of war is more sinister every day, terrorist strike-breaking grows more widespread. Against these capitalist attacks there must be the united strength of the working class. Do not the Socialist Party leaders wish to join in the world fight to liberate Thaelmann and all anti-fascist fighters? Do they not wish to defend the elementary rights of the workers, the right to strike, organize, Picket? The proposals of the Communist Party are open and above board. They can stand the light of day and absolutely free and open discussion. Why then has the Socialist Party ignored thus far all invitations to meet Communist Party rep- resentatives for joint action? Certainly, the Socialist Party members of Cam- den and Brooklyn, as well as in every other city and town in the country deserve an answer, Into LaGuardia’s Lap! HEN Mayor LaGuardia told Police Com- missioner O’Ryan to withdraw the fas- cist union-registration scheme, he did so with the air of Perseus going forth to slay the serpent-haired Medusa. The fair maiden involved was the workers. The Mayor urged that “it be made clear that the laws of this state protect workers in their rights of peaceful anl lawful picketing.” That this was one of the most slimy, most yen- mous and hypocritical lies of the many he has ut- tered since he assumed office is proved by the state- ment of General O’Ryan. The Police Commisisoner, after declaring with equal hypocrisy that “the at- titude of the Police Department, not only in letter but in spirit, has been one of complete impartiality in regard to labor disputes .. .” went on to say that: “Neither the Police Department nor the Police Commisisoner had any part in formulating the proposal or had any knowledge of it, until word from the Mayor was received that a plan of the character mentioned might be helpful to the unions and that the police department should cooperate.” Thus the Mayor stands exposed as the real prime Moyer of this anti-labor scheme, a scheme original- ly proposed by the Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, headed by the arch- fakers Sidney Hillman and Joseph Schlossberg, The Mayor himself, who now talks so sweetly about the rights of workers, was the one who originally ordered this brutal club to be held over New York workers’ heads. It is another of the dog-fights which, together with underhanded and lying, but nevertheless vi- cious, attacks on the masses of workers, has char- acterized the Fusion “progressive” regime. O’Ryan got sore when LaGuardia tried to duck out of his share of the blame for this measure. O’Ryan got 80 good and sore that he let the cat out of the bag—and it scampered straight into LaGuardia’s lap! 'HIS should not be surprising to those who have watched closely the antics of the Fusion gang. LaGuardia has dipped his dagger in oil and per- fume whenever he thought he could get away with it, stabbing the working class with his sneaking demagogy. In the union registration affair, which the work- ers of this city squashed by their immediate and. powerful protests, LaGuardia first praised the meas- ure by claiming it was meant only for “check-up,” etc. When the absurdity of this statement was exposed, he tried to shift the burden solely on the shoulders of his own police department. What is he going to say next, now that his latest lie, his latest attempt at sliding out of responsibility for a direct anti-labor move, has been so utterly ex- posed? We can rest assured that he will again attempt to squirm out of the mess. But we can be just as certain that he will not lift a finger against the Police Rifle Regiment, that he will do nothing to stop the attacks against workers and unem- ployed. Except for his progressive perfume (which be- gins to smell stale and putrid as his successive lies are exposed), there is nothing today which dis- tinguishes the odor of Fusion from that of the Tammany Tiger's tail. Build the Young Worker! HE Seventh National Convention of the Young Communist League, held in New York June 22 to 27, set as one of its most important tasks the transforma- tion of the “Young Worker” from a bi- monthly to a weekly by International Youth Day, September 1st, and the build- ing of a circulation of 35,000 by the end of this year. With the Roosevelt government making furious efforts to win the youth for war and fascism, the “Young Worker” drive assumes major importance. Thousands of unemployed youth are being herded into C.C.C. camps; other thousands are forced into the slave transient camps; a network of forest camps for jobless girls has been established; plans are underfoot to extend this network of militarized forced labor into every section of the youth. These camps, under the direct supervision of the War Department, are intended to recruit and train new soldiers for the next imperialist war and to create organized nuclei for fascist groups. In the tremendous strike struggles now taking place, the youth play a major and in some cases a decisive role. In all strikes the youth demon- strate great militancy on the picket line and other fronts of the struggle. i The millions of American working youth offer to the revolutionary movement an inexhaustible reserve for the struggle against war and fascism, for Soviet Power. The struggle for Soviet Power can never succeed if we do not win the masses of toiling youth for the revolutionary way out of the crisis, . . HE struggle for the youth grows continually sharper. In California, we observe concrete examples of how the fascist leaders try to lure the youth into their “vigilante” fighting gangs by the use of the most unrestrained demagogy. The overwhelming majority of National Guardsmen in use against striking workers is composed of working and farming youth. The working class must not surrender its youth to the class enemy for use in its fascist attacks upon the workers’ organizations and living standards. The best way to defeat the attempts of develop- ing fascism to corrupt the minds of the youth is to build the “Young Worker” into a mass organ and to build the Young Communist League into @ mass organization. The “Young Worker,” as the only fighting youth newspaper in the working class movement, has played an important part, and is destined to play a powerful role in this task. We appeal to every reader of the “Daily Worker,” to every Party member, to every member of the mass organizations and trade unions, to all sympa- thizers and intellectuals, to do all in their power to support and build the “Young Worker!” For a weekly “Young Worker” by International Youth Day, September Ist! Support the drive for 35,000 readers of the “Young Worker!” Build the Young Communist League into a mass organization! CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C. P., U.S.A, pea | Jein the Communist Bary) | 3% EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. | Please send me mere information on the eee dl Lm Communist League following an.don and the Scottsboro boys were Opponents of War Will March Teday (Continued from Page 1) States’ preparations for imperialist war will be held Saturday in Reper- tory Hall, 264 Hunt Ave., under the @uspices of the American League Aganist War and Fascism. Professor H. W. L. Dana will speak on his experiences in Europe at the outbreak of the World War. There will be other speakers and features, Workers Ignore Fire Engines DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 3—The city | Fire Department failed to break up a meeting of 300 workers demon- strating against imperialist war Au- gust first in the park. Workers lis- tened to the speakers and refused to be annoyed by speeding engines Tacing around the park with sirens Screaming and bells clanging, al- though there was no fire around for ‘miles. Communist candidate for Con- " gress, Jones, of Hamilton, was the main speaker. Nine Join Party, Y.C.L. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Aug, 3— Six workers joined the Communist | open air meeting against imperialist war held August first. Three hundred were at the meet- ing and enthusiastically cheered the speakers, Casmir Zimmers, Y.C.L.; Frank Di Sario, Federation of Ital- ian Workers Olub, and Sam Wise- man, organizer of the Communist Party here, The demonstration was specifically a protest against the war production materials in the Morgan-controlled General Electric plant here, 200 in Portchester Meet PORTCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 3.— Over 200 workers met here in a demonstration against imperialist war under the auspices of the Port- chester Committee Against War and Fascism on August Ist. Bill Miller, of the American League Against War and Fascism, and A. Fried of the Communist Party, were the main speakers. Socialist Workers at Mect BRIDGEPORT, Conn., August 3. —Four hundred workers, including many members of the Socialist Party and Young Peoples Socialist League, massed in Washington Park August first to demonstrate against imperialist war and fascism and cheered I. Wofsy, district organizer of the Communist Party, when he called for a united struggle against war and fascism. Resolutions calling for the free- Party and three joined the Young dom of Mooney, Thaelmann, Hern- enthusiastically adopted. Dave Kap- lan, Y.C.L. organizer, and Abe Spi- vack, Communist candidate for Con- gress, also spoke. M. Russo was chairman, Other Connecticut August Ist Rallies STAMFORD — Three hundred in demonstration. Speakers: C, Cley- enger, Milly Burba, J. Milton and M. Epstein. NEW HAVEN — Six hundred at Central Green. Speakers: Davis, Joe West. All Daily Workers sold out. WATERBURY—One hundred and fifty at Soldier's Monument. Speak- ers: Ben Compton, G. Borgnis. NEW BRITAIN—Over 300 at out- door meeting. Speakers: I. Abra- hams, Gale Brown, Loomis and Dick Farber of Hartford. Many joined Communist Party and Young Com- munist League. HARTFORD—About 800 at Tun- nel Park, after parade and meeting at South Green. Speakers: Abe Barr, George Brunswick. Several joined Party and Y.C.L. NEW LONDON — Demonstration at Memorial Place, with over sixty present. Speakers: M. Liss, J. Jackson. . NORWICH — Thirty-five in out- door meet. Speakers: M. Liss, J. Jackson. SPRINGFIELD — Three hundred in mass meeting. Speakers: Powers, Sylvia Sachs, Bill Taylor. CHICOPEE—Five hundred in en- thusiastic demonstration. Speakers: Sylvia Sachs, Spellman, Bill Taylor. TAILY WORKER, EW YORK, SATURDAY. \UGUST 4, 1934 China Red Army Near Army Beats Nanking Troops | SHANGHAI, Aug. 3—A Chinese Red Army of workers and peasants numbering 5,000 is now within twelve miles of Foochow, seaport city in the Kiangsi province. This means that the Red Army is consolidating its recent victories over the troops of the Chiang Kai- shek government. The Nanking government of Chiang Kai-shek is getting financial support from Wall Street in its successive anti-red military campaigns, six of which have already been defeated by the Red Army of the Soviet districts. Many mass desertions to the Red Army from the Nanking armies have taken place, and government Officials have admitted helplessly that the Red Armies have the full support of the worker and peasant | populations. Japanese and American warships are anchored on the Yangtse River in the interior of China near the Soviet districts to protect the im- perialist investments and to be ready to assist in crushing the Chinese revolution. Inflation Grows In Germany BERLIN, Aug. 3.—The Reichs- bank statement for the week end- ing July 31 was released today. The total reserve had increased by 100,000 marks, but an increase of currency in circulation of 260,000,000 marks sent the reserve down to a new low of two per cent. Total fiduciary circulation is now | 5,712,000,000 an increase of 175,000- | 000 over the figure for July 31, 1933. | This indicates steadily growing inflation in Germany as a result of | Nazi police, an inflation which will further impoverish the masses, Detroit A. F.L. WouldRemove Green’s Aide (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Aug. 3.—The Central Labor Body of the Detroit Federa- tion of Labor, at its meeting held August 1, voted unanimously to de- mand the removal of William Col- lins, A. F. of L. organizer in the auto industry. A letter will be sent to the national office of the A. F. of L, embodying this demand. This action expresses the disgust and dissatisfaction of the rank and file of the A. F. of L. federal auto locals at the sell-out policies of Col- lins. At the same time it is also an expression of the internal strug- gle among the A. F. of L. leaders, the struggle between the Martel- John L. Lewis clique and the Green- Collins machine. The same meeting of the Central Labor Body also railroaded to its death the question of a demonstra- tion on Labor Day by referring it to the Board of Directors despite the fact that a previous meeting had voted for this motion, which had been proposed by militants. Foochow Workers and Peasants} | Put Your Energies Behind Our Revolutionary Pr ess! From Shops, Farms, in Group of 35 Thirty-five women from different. parts of America are today sitting in a great hall in Paris among women from the four corners of the globe. For today the Women’s Interna- tional Congress Against War and Fascism opens. The thirty-five women compose the American dele- gation to the Congress. They rep- resent half a million American ‘women who have pledged never to allow another world slaughter. to destroy their husbands and sons, homes and lives without the mighti- est struggle of resistance. These women will swell the mighty roar of the toiling masses of the world, women and men, with the cry of American women against. another bloody imperialist war and the breeder of war, fascism, AS a group, these women repre- sent a true picture of the American women, Their ages are from 19 to 72. Their occupations are from stock-yards worker to well-to-do so- ciety dowager. They come from California, Alabama, Chicago, Mex- ico City, New York and Fitchburg, Mass, Most Are Workers Most of the women are workers. There’s Martha Lewandowska, nine- teen-year old Chicago stockyards worker, pretty and_ vivacious. There's Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, 72 year old fighting veteran of hun- dreds of workers’ and farmers’ The recent action of the Hudson Local in breaking from the A. F. of L. was discussed by many of the old die-hards before the meeting opened. This insult to their Alma Mater was the reason for the letter to Billy Green demanding the re- moval of Collins, a sort of slap on the wrist to Billy, At the time the A, F. of L. de- cided to organize the auto workers early last Summer, Martel was a step ahead and already had a com- mittee formed to do the organizing. The struggle in the A. F. of L, ma- chine resulted in Martel being frozen out and Collins being sent to De- troit. One factor that the fakers are overlooking is that the auto workers are seeing the light, as is evidenced at the last A. F. of L. auto confer- ence held in Detroit, where the rank and file delegates raised the slogan of collective action and a rank and file control. This must be the im- mediate task of all honest trade unionists in the Federal locals. Only the unified action of all auto work- ers, A. F. of L. rank and file mem- bers of the Auto Workers Union and Mechanics Educational Society, against the N.R.A., against company unions, low wages and speed-up, for relief and the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill can win better conditions and establish one united union in the industry. The discussion on the Labor Day Parade again took all the skill of the Martel machine to direct it to their policy. One thing that stands out in all of these struggles between the opposition and machine is that we are getting more support at all times and that the machine is forced to become more and more ireactionary and use the steam-roller tactics at every occasion. When the parade was voted by. the Central Labor Body two meet- ings before by a vote of 97 to 45, Martel thought he would kill it by calling for a ballot in all the locals. At the August 1 meeting Martel began reading out that certain lo- cals had voted against the Labor Day demonstration. But some of thees locals had actually voted for it. At this piece of trickery he was caught red-handed in the instance of Painters Local 37, Martel humbly apologized, saying: “It was just one of those things.” Then another local struggle for bread. Mabel Byrd, Negro woman social worker, who recently resigned from @ government position in protest against Negro discrimination under the NRA. Maggie Pritschau of Ravenna, Nebraska, vigorous, sturdy farm woman who has been very active in the United Farmers League, the other farm organizations. Equile McKeithen, Negro share- cropper from Alabama. Mrs. Jes- | Sica Henderson, member of the na- | tional executive of the National Women’s Party. Mrs. Lola May- erick Lloyd, one of the leaders of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Negro Head of UMWA Auxiliary Anna Barnett, active member of the Women’s Auxiliary of the In- ternational Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation in California. Helen Barr, wife of a college professor and member of the League for Peace and Freedom, Lela Jackson, Negro woman from the heart of the Penn- sylvania steel area, and president of a Women’s Auxiliary of the United Mine Workers of America, elected by a conference of 40 organ- izations representing 30,000 women. Dorothy Chertak, Dorothy Mc- Connell and Lucille B, Milner of the Civil Liberties Union—all accredited by the National Committee of the Women’s section of the American League Against War and Fascism. Dorothy Ida Kunca, member of the Auto Workers Union in Detroit. Clara Shavelson, New York house- wife. Elizebeth Nicholas, San Fran- cisco agricultural worker. Mildred Phillips a language teacher of Port- land, Maine. Jennie Palermo, member of a large New York local of the International Ladies Gar- ment Workers Union, Mary Ray- side, Negro woman, member of the Domestic Workers’ Union of Harlem, Rubber Worker Represents 50,000 Millicent Sapolsky, elected by the International Seamen’s Club, aux- iHary of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union. Olga Botchvaroff, 19-year old rubber worker from Akron, chosen to represent 50,000 organized workers by the national convention of the Macedonian Peo- ples League. Ida Haltunnen of Fitchberg, representing 4,000 organ- by Burck ters in U.S. At World Anti-War Congress Opening Today $ & Negro and White Toilers| Nebraska Holiday Association and Unite with Women from | All World in Paris Gathering ized Finnish women. Henrietta Gordon, social worker of New York, Clara Bodian, well-known leader of the United Council of Working ‘Women, one of the chief moving forces in organizing the delegation. From Mexico comes Consuela Uranga, national secretary of the Trade Union Federation of Mexico, who while only 23 years old, has been nominated on the Workers’ and Peasants’ Bloc for the office of national deputy — although women are not allowed the right to vote in Mexico! Eleven Observers In addition, eleven women went as credentialed observers, among whom is Helen W. Ford, head of the Department of Child Welfare, Kansas State College. Three women representing the American Jewish Congress, one of whom is Mrs. Stephen S, Wise, are also in the observers’ group. Could a delegation more repre- sentative of American women have been chosen? When these wornen return in a few weeks they will bring back with them the decisions of the Congress—methods of work in the organization of women against the rising hordes of fascism and war. They will also bring with them a spirit of new determination—a de- termination to put an end forever to the human tragedy of war and to the conditions which breeds war. And like seeds carefully planted in fertile land, these ideas and di- rectives will take root among the masses of women of America and blossom forth in concrete anti-war work in the factories and shops, homes, offices, farms and schools until the mass movement of the toilers against war rises as an in- penetrable barrier »efore the path of the war-makers, 1,000 Strikin NeW YORK. — One thousand painters, led by the strike commit- tees of locals 499 and 848 of the Brotherhood of Painters, marched in a militant picket demonstration yesterday throughout the Yorkville section of the city, The pickets were joined with members of the Alteration Painters Union, who are striking in solidarity with the Brotherhood men. ‘The demonstration was the great- est one held during the course of the general strike. With banners and placards announcing the de- mands of the strike, the painters marched from the 83th Street La- bor Temple at 11:30 a.m, up Fifth Avenue. At the mass meeting the strikers reaffirmed their previous decision to remain out on strike until the employers were forced to live up to the agreement. It was learned that Zausner is attempting to levy the work tax on the membership once more. He is not asking for the usual dollar. This time he has lowered the ante to fifty cents a head, Members of locals 499 and 848 voted unanimously not to give a cent to the present District Council Jeadership, The Zausner gang has made evezy attempt to halt militant picketing. Only locals 499 and 848 and the locals of the Alteration Painters Union are on the picket line. Tomorrow afternoon the painters have called a mass strike meeting in the 84th Street Labor Temple. On Monday afternoon there will be also nailed him on the same ques- tion, a meeting of the wivos of the strik- g Painters Demonstrate on Fifth Ave. of the painters will be organized to work jointly with the Workers In- ternational Relief and to broaden the relief apparatus of the strike, Zausner has threatened to revoke the charter of local 499 because the membership does not recognize his crooked leadership. The number of open shops on strike under the Alteration Paint- ers Union almost doubled the num- ber of the shops being signed with the union. Over one hundred of these shops are carrying out effec- tive picketing all over the city, The Alteration Painters Union is calling a mass meeting of all or- ganized and unorganized painters for Monday, Aug. 6 at Irving Plaza Hall 8 p.m., where a report on the general strike will be given by the general strike committee of the union, Roosevelt Prepares For War, Japan Says TOKYO.—The antagonisms be- tween Japanese and American im- perialism today found more open expression in statements issued by leading official and naval experts of both countzies, each calling for the other to reduce its tremendous armaments for war. for its “blustering gestures” and exposes the persistent war ma- neuvers, the New York fleet dis- Play, the Alaska airplane flights, and the projected 1935 air force maneuvers in Alaska, ers at the same hall, Here the Wives On the other hand, Secretary J Hillsboro, IIL. Hearing Set For August 6 (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Aug. 3.— Mass pres- sure has forced the Montgomery Count authorities to decide to panel @ grand jury on Aug. 6 to hear the case of the eleven Hillsboro workers facing charges of conspiracy to overthrow the government. The Grand Jury was not sched- uled to meet until November. This condemned the workers to six months in jail without having any trial, Strong defense committees in towns throughout the state, with great influence among the coal min- ers, have been a great factor in forcing the calling of a grand jury. Terror against known. militant workers. Ethel Staples, of Nokomis, wife of one of the prisoners, re- ceived threats recently. Andy Neuhoff, district secretary of the International Labor Defense today urged that all workers and organizations rush demands for the freedom of the eleven leaders of the workers and for the dismissal of charges against them, to Governor Horner in Springfield and Judge Jett of Hillsboro, Til. Hull, striving to beat down the The Tokyo paper, Yomiuri, today, war strength of Wall Street’s Far rebuffs the Roosevelt goveinment; Easte:n.rival, has asked for a re- j duction of 20 per cent in Japan’s navy. This growing disputes indicate that there will be a crisis in the relations of these two rival imper- jalist powers when the Naval Pact. expires in 1935. On the |World Front By HARRY GANNES-. OR, denburg was President of Germany. And in his last term, when he openly es. poused the cause of fascism and put Hitler into power to serve the needs of German capitalism, he came to office with the help of the leaders of the So- cialist Party of Germany Von Hindenburg, the Hohenzole lern general, the faithful watchdog of the most corrupt forces of Gere man capitalism, was held up as the very epitome of honesty and liberal- ity by the German Socialist Party leaders The Severings, the Wells and the Leiparts, leaders of the Socialist International, very readily made a united front with von Hindenburg, but fought against a united front with the Communist Party in sup- port of Ernst Thaelmann as cane didate for the presidency. HE theory of the “lesser evil” was most avidly put forward by the Socialist Party officials in the 1932 presidential elections. In March 13, 1932, there were four candidates namely von Hindenburg, repre- senting a coalition of the capitalist forces: Duesterberg, leader of the Stalhelm fascists; Hitler for the Na- tional Socialist Party and Ernst Thaelmann for the Communist Party. The Socialist Party officials de- clared they would support von Hin- denburg against Hitler—‘“better the ‘lesser evil,’ the honest, upright von Hindenburg than the fascist Hit- ler” They urged the workers to vote for von Hindenburg as the preserver of the Weimar constitution, as the defender of the democracy, as the enemy of Hitler. They bitterly at- tacked Comrade Thaelmann, de- claring that by running in the elec- tions against both von Hindenburg and Hitler, he was aiding Hitler. Pee Saks. HE first elections did not bring an absolute majority for von Hindenburg. Another election had to be held. Duesterberg dropped out leaving the field to his associates, von Hindenburg and Hitler. Again the Socialist leaders raised the cry: “Smother Hitler with ballots for Hindenburg.” They more viciously attacked Comrade Thaelmann, de claring: “Every vote which is given against von Hindenburg is a vote for Hitler. Every vote which is wrested from Thaelmann and cast for von Hindenburg is a blow against Hitler!” This is how the Socialist Party heroes fought fascism and Hitler, They aided Hitler and the German bourgeois in attacking the Com- munist Party, built up the forces of reaction, playing the game of the capitalists in trying to make the workers think there was a great deal of difference between von Hin- denburg and his protege, Hitler, They told the social democratic workers “von Hindenburg was and will remain impartial.” Ser oe On January 30, 1933, the “im- partial” von Hindenburg, the So- cialist Party's bulwark against Hitler and fascism, appoined Hit- ler chancellor and gave him carte blanche in the bloody attack on the German working masses. With bloshevik foresight, With bolshevik foresight “Pravda” central organ of the Com= munist Party of the Soviet Union, on March 17, 1932, after the first presidential elections, commented editorially as follows: “It is characteristic of the tran- sition of the bourgeoisie to the open forms of the fascist dic- tatorship that the most reaction- ary candidate at the presidential election in April 1925, namely, the monarchist and Hohenzollern General, von Hindenburg, has now become, as the social democ- racy proclaims, the ‘candidate of the advanced part of the bour- geoisie against its reactionary part,’ the candidate who, it is al- leged, stands for the remnants of bourgeois ‘democracy.’ “Von Hindenburg and Hitler, who at bottom are synonymous, were represented by the social democracy to the politically inex- Perienced masses as being an- tagonistic.” * nine years von Hin- * * announcing Comrade Thael- mann as the only candidate of the German proletariat, as the only representative of the anti-fascist front, the Communist Party of Ger- many pointed out what has since been proven to the hilt, that Seve- ring, Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia, was working hand-in-glove with the von Hindenburg forces to pave the way for Hitler, Severing has since received his pieces of silver in the form of a pension from the Nazis. The program on which Thael- mann ran and received over) 5,000,000 votes, stated: 1, Class against class; 2. Revolu- tionary united front against reac- tion from Severing to Hitler; 3. Vote for the revolutionary workers candidate against the candidate of the capitalists, fascists and social democrats; 4. Vote for the sup- porter of social and national eman- cipation and against the tribute and reparations candidate; 5. Vote for the candidate of the poor against the candidate of the rich; 6. Vote for bread and freedom and against poverty and slavery; 7. Vote for a free socialist Soviet Germany in alliance with the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics of Russia and the world proletariat against the candidate of bankrupt cap- italism. AUTO WORKERS TO MEET DETROIT.—The Auto Workers Unicn has started a drive to organ- ize the young workers. For this purpose @ conference will be held Sunday, Aug. 12, in the union headquarters, 4210 Woodward Ave. All organizations are asked to send representatives to this conference,