The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1934, Page 8

; Page Eight Daily ,<QWorker GOPTRAL Cea COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A, (SECTION OF COMMUNIST MITERMATIONDES “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE >, 50 FE. 13th COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address: “Daiwo: Washington Bureau \sth and F St., Washi jational 7910. Midwest Bureau: 101 5 705, Cheago, Il. Telephone: Dearborn 39: Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except x), 1 year, $6.00 6 months, , 0.75 cents. Manhattan, 1 year, $9.00; 75 cents. SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1934 Defend the U.S. S.R. (Statement of the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A.) THE working class of this country, as well as every honest person who op- poses war, must today face the intense seriousness of the present situation in the Far East. Yesterday’s news dispatches reveal that Japanese imperialism is now talking to the Soviet Union in the undisguised, blunt language of war. No longer the hypocrisies of diplomatic schem- ing. No longer the polite, fraudulent talk of peace. But the open, raw threat of military intervention. Every concrete detail reported in the latest dis- patches indicates the ruthless organization of @ deliberate, widespread provocation along the whole border of Soviet Siberia. The brutal seizure of 50 Soviet citizens on the Chinese Eastern Railway, the insolent forgeries “proving bomb plots,” the outrageous arrogance of the demands for the Chinese Eastern Railway on terms which themselves are a provocation and a threat, the unprecedented violence of the jingoism ‘and anti-Soviet provocation in the Japanese capi- talist press, and finally the latest direct threat of war, all point to the enormous danger of the ex- plosion of imperialist war against the workers’ fatherland. Though it is ready to defend itself against the slightest encroachment of its borders, the Soviet Union has shown the world an example of pa- tience and willingness to avoid any cause for war. It has pursued with unswerving firmness a revo- lutionary policy of peace. It has offered the Jap- anese government every possible concession in the negotiations on the Chinese Eastern Railway. But the. Japanese imperialists have deliberately made all agreement on the Railway impossible. They have brushed aside every proposal, and have pushed ruthlessly forward toward the armed seizure of the railroad. Racked by deepening crisis, menaced with the approach of proletarian revolution led by the heroic Communist Party of Japan, and greedy for im- perialist loot to fill its bankrupt coffers, Japanese imperialism prepares for a last desperate lunge into interven‘ion assault against the Soviet Union. THAT this attack will mean to the masses of the world, including the toiling people of this coun- can be easily, surmised. The war plunge of » imperialism will drag the whole world ibable hell of a second world im- in‘o t: And swiftly, American imperialism, with its tre- mene. ar machine geared to protect the Rocke- ‘Morgan investments in China, and as eager as the Japanese militarists for the spoils of inter- vention, will move its war machinery into action, flinging the American masses once again into the butchery of imperialist war. Fascist Germany, plunging toward catastrophe and imperialist military adventurism under the leadership, of the Fascist-militarist servants of big capital, awaits just such a signal for intervention as an attack by Japanese imperialism in the Far East. These two imperialist powers already have an understanding for a united intervention as- sault. And this would be the signal for a world capitalist intervention against the Soviet Union, with each imperialist wolf leaping for the spoils. (E danger is real. It menaces every worker, every toiling farmer, every honest person. The masses of America must. act. The horrors and miseries of another imperialist war can be stopped by determined mass action, determined mass protest. The voices of opposition to the Japanese war provocations against the Soviet Union must rise to such thunder that the war mongers of Tokio and ‘Wall Street will not be able to escape them. Let there be immediate organization of pro- test. Let every Japanese consulate hear the pro- tests of the masses in resolutions, telegrams, and street demonstrations. Wire to the Japanese Em- assy at Washington demanding the immediate stop to all threats and provocations against the Soviet Union. In every seaport where vessels are loaded with war supplies for Japan, there must be the organization of protest meetings and the refusal to ship munitions to Japan. Socialist workers!’ Workers in the A. F. of L. unions! The united front of the working class must be welded against the menace of war! The Second International has just issued a manifesto on the struggle against war. The Detroit Con- vention also pledged to fight war. Only the united action of the working class can put these resolu- tions into life. The American working class extends its clasp of solidarity to the working class of the Soviet Union and the toiling masses of Japan. It pledges its revolutionary solidarity in the common fight against world imperialism, against the imperialists of Wall Street and Tokio, for the defence of the Soviet Union, the Fatherland of the world pro- letariat! For the defence of the Soviet Union! Against. imperialist war! For international solidarity of the working class against imperialist war and fascism! Organize the Strike In Textiles! E almost unanimous decision of the convention of the United Textile Work- ers to declare a strike in the cotton indus- try before September 1st if the demands of the workers are not granted, represents a tremendous step forward. It shows the readiness of the masses to fight against the increasing attacks of the capi-» talists. It further shows that the workers realize ™more and more that only by their own organized and militant struggles can they improye their: lot; ’ { DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1934 to Perkins’ as- Tt fw It represents the best sertion that from n rikes will decrease. confirms the ana the Communist Party that the San Francisco strike was but a beginning, and an indication of the developing mass strikes of the American workers. But every worker, and especially every textile worker, must recognize that now the workers faee a Teal danger. MeMahon-Rieve leadership will do everything pos: t p the development of the strike. And do that, they will advance make le to is impossible. Already McMahon great faith in his appeal that he places announces to President Rovsevelt. No doubt he will try to repeat his treachery of last June when the U. T. W. leadership announced a general strike for the purpose of stopping the growth of the strike movement in the Southern textile mills, only call it off at the last moment without the consent of the workers. He did this on the basis that General Johnson had promised that the leaders of the U. T. W. would ge given representa- tion on the textile code boards. Thus the appointment of McMahon by Roose- velt to the Textile Code Authority is already a step in the direction of heading off the September strike. The re-election of the McMahon leadership with the aid of the Socialist Emil Rieve, who through- out the convention gave the impression that he would oppose. McMahon for the presidency of the union, but who in the last minute supported Mc- Mahon, further shows the danger to the: strike. The role of Rieve here was to prevent any genuine opposition against McMahon from taking definite steps. or ee. 'VERY local of the U. T. W., every textile worker, must be on guard and watch the McMahon maneuvers. Only genuine representatives of the rank and file should be permitted to carry on any negotiation before the strike and after the strike is declared. Only the granting of the demands worked out by the convention can be a reason for not calling the strike. The workers must resist any attempt to call off or postpone the strike if the demands are not granted. But it is also necessary to take steps to properly organize the strike. Such a strike in the whole of the cotton industry is a very serious matter for the textile workers. McMahon has already shown that he will do everything possible to weaken the strike, in the event he can not prevent it, by his declara- tion that the U. T. W. has no funds to conduct the strike, Certainly if the strike preparations are left in the hands of McMahon and Company it will be doomed to defeat, Ae I wer is necessary to properly prepare and insure every possibility for the victory of the strike? First, that in every local union, in every mill, on a district and national scale, rank and file strike committees shall be immediately elected with full power to handle all questions of the strike, includ- ing negotiations, Second, that all settlement pro- posals shall be subject to the ratification of all strikers before they take effect. That the demands be presented to the employers and fully popularized among the mass of the textile workers. Every effort to soft pedal the strike demands must be resisted to the utmost. That every cotton worker be involved in the strike. This means that every effort must be made at once to bring the unorganized into the struggle through the election of rank and file committees in each mill, that the unorganized be drawn into the unions. That a real fighting united front of all textile workers be established. Especially must the greatest attention be made to unite the Negro and while textile workers, to give full representation to the Negro workers on all strike committees and bring forward their special demands growing out of the present discrimination against the Negro workers, In the same manner attention must be given to the task of uniting native and foreign- and the raising of the special problems of the women and young workers. Steps must be taken to publish in all localities strike bulletins that will regularly inform the strikers of the developments of the struggle and also keep the masses of workers in the community informed, so that they can be fully mobilized in solidarity with the strikers. It is necessary to set up machinery at once for strike relief. The workers throughout the country will gladly give their maximum support to the textile strikers. This is being demonstrated daily in every strike. This is the best answer to the ssabotage of McMahon, who tried to pour cold water on the strike with his statement that the national organization has no funds for the strike, . Pacers I IS necessary to forewarn the workers against every attempt at provocations that will be made by the employers, who will have behind them the full force of the government in their effort to break the strike. Here the textile workers must Jearn the lesson of the great San Francisco gen- eral strike. They must defeat the “Red scare,” which will be used as a weapon to break the strike. The Communists, as the San Francisco workers have learned, have no interests separate and apart from the workers. The workers must organize from their own ranks a defense organization to block the attempts of the armed gangs and fascist bands to break the strike, to attack their organizations and their own mili- tant leaders. Nor must the strike be limited to the cotton industry. If the strike is extended to the entire textile industry the workers will naturally be ina much better position to force the employers to grant their demands, . . . Te workers throughout the country stand ready to support the fight of the textile workers. Not alone San Francisco but also Toledo, Minneapolis and Milwaukee have shown that the solidarity spirit of the workers is very high. This arises from the fact that the workers understand the issues in every struggle today, the fight for wages, the fight against speed-up, the fight for the right to or- ganize, the fight against the company unions, are the burning issues facing the whole working class. This requires that from the beginning the work- ers in each community be acquainted with the is- sues of the strike and that they be drawn into support through mass picketing and relief. It is urgent that the unemployed workers be mobilized on the basis of the striking workers sup- porting the demands of the unemployed and the developing of the joint fight for the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill. It is necessary that every Central Labor Union, every T. U. U. L. center, every independent union, and all workers’ fraternal organizations be rallied in support of the textile strike. The Communist Party will do everything possible to rally the support of the masses behind the strik- ing textile workers. The Communist Party calls upon all its members in the textile industry to get into the unions, to develop the unity of the workers, and work with maximum energy for the development and the winning of the strike. We cail upon all left wing and revolutionary workers in the textile industry to unite their forces for the carrying through of the above program, which alone can bring victory to the textile workers. We call upon all revolutionary workers’ organ- izations to rally to the support of the textile work- “ers. We call upon the whole working class to make the fight of the textile workers the fight of the whole working class. A victory for the textile workers will be a tremendous step forward for the entire working class, iW | : | Drops Again | Report Shows | Unemployment Grows in All Capitalist Countries NEW YORK—Further intensifi- cation of the world economic crisis. |despite some advances in produc- tion in various countries, is revealed | by the latest bulletin of the Foreign | Policy Association. | The complete failure of any of | the capitalist countries to solve the | problem of unemployment is par- ticularly noted by the bulletin. Despite the temporary ival }of production throughout the | world.” the bulletin states, “there lis a lack of corresponding improve- |ment in the unemployment situa- | tion.” “Official figures on unemploy- ment are, of course, in no case |complete and the total number of | jobless is probably much greater | than is indicated in the official | tables.” The figure given in the tables |for world unemployment in all | capitalist countries is 22,000,000. It \is probably close to twice as much as that. | Foreign Trade In foreign trade, another indi- cator of the state of the economic jcrisis, the bulletin reports further | declines to new record lows. ‘“De- | spite some increase in the move- |ment of raw materials, world trade in 1933, measured in terms of gold | was 9 per cent lower than the previ- ous year and 65 per cent under |the 1929 level . . . little progress | has been made in restoring foreign | markets . . . the decline was most |severe in the United States and | Canada.” i | Government’s Orders | Held Up By Brooklyn | Metal Workers’ Strike BROOKLYN, N. Y.—A walkout of the majority of the workers at Quanti Products Machine Co., 341 39th Street, yesterday completely tied up production at the plant here, which is working chiefly on govern- ment orders. The strikers, led by jthe Steel and Metal Workers In- j dustrial Union, are demanding: 10 cents an hour wage increase; fur- ther additional adjustments for spe- cial workers; time and a half for overtime; division of work during |slack periods; all grievances to be |referred to the shop committee of union representatives. Prior to the walkout a committee representing the workers attempted to discuss the demands with the management, but were refused | recognition as the official represen- tatives of the workers. Attempts of the Regional Labor Board to settle the strike by arbitration have been rejected by the men, who are hold- ing out solidly for their demands. Nazi Newspapers Lose Heavily in Circulation BERLIN, Aug. 17.—At the end of this month the once so mighty Ullstein publishing office, long since reduced to a misérable remnant, will be swallowed up by the offi- cial publishing concern of the Na- | tional Socialist Party, the Eher publishing office in Munich. Hitler plays a leading personal part in the management of this publishing office. With this the Ulistein concern meets the fate which its cowardly readiness for co-ordination has | justly called down upon it. The Berliner Ilustrierte is tobe merged in the National Socialist Ilustrier- | ten Beobachter. The amalgamation of the BZ am Mittag with Der Angriff is planned | as a means of stemming the | Steady dwindling of subscribers to | | | Goebbels’ paper. Today it may |be stated with absolute certainty that the circulation of the merged papers will not by any means reach the level totalled by the sep- arate papers up to now. Another pian, that of reviving the extirict Vossische Zeitung in the form of a “representative paper of the Na- tional Socialist Party abroad,” is inevitably a still-born child. Nazis Impose Heavy Sentences on Workers BERLIN, Aug. 17.— Thirty-five Communists, working men and women, have been brought up for trial in Wiesbaden on charges con- nected with Nazis which took.place a year and a half ago. The trial of 56 Communist workers from Niesky, on the charge of preparing for high ‘Breslau special court. In Bremen eight workers have re- ceived sentences of one to one and a half years. A workman from Duesseldorf has been sentenced by the Kersruhe high court to two years imprisonment for importing | illegal literature. \Big Graft Discovered Among Nazi Officials BERLIN, Aug. 17—Embezzlements on a large scale have been discov- ered in the district office at Zehlen- dorf, Berlin. Seven Nazi officials are involved. Six have been ar- rested, one committed suicide. The chief culprit is the head munici- pal inspector, |Heinrichs, who is stated to “have wormed his way into the confidence of the com- petent municipal authorities by his long years of membership in the National Socialist Party.” The sum total embezzled exceeds | 300,000 marks. Our Readers Must cpread the of All Macs and Fraternal Organ- izations As a Political Task of First Importance ‘orld Trade | treason, has commenced before the a HEADING FOR A FALL! By Burck Herndon, One of First Scottsboro Defenders, Fight to Save the Nine rae EY Girds Now for Biggest He Organized First City Conference on Boys’ Frame-up By ELIZABETH LAWSON NEW YORK. — Angelo Herndon was one of the first defenders of the Scottsboro boys. From that his- toric day in 1931 when a certain train stopped at Paint Rock, Ala., and nine young black boys stepped off into the arms of a bloodthirsty lynch-crowd, the current of Hern- don’s life has been one with the fight to free them. Even in the black hole of Fulton Tower, Herndon did what he could towards the Scotts- boro fight. His thoughts, his heart, and his whole working-class soul has been in that battle. For the last few days Angelo Herndon has rested his tortured body and mind at a quiet farm in upper New York. He has accepted one of the hundreds of invitations that had come to him from friends and sympathizers. In these hills, he breathed once more the fresh air that had been denied him for 19 months; he slept in a clean bed instead of on a filthy hay mattress; he ate food that was wholesome after two years of poisonous fare. ‘Thinks Always of Scottsboro But even, in this place Herndon could not forget. His mind ran on the class fight, on the struggle of the Scottsboro boys, on the fate of the prisoners of the general strike in California. Sitting under the trees outside the old farm-house, he talked about it—and constantly his talk recurred to the past struggles for the Scottsboro boys, the per- Spectives of the fight yet to he waged, and his passionate hope and desire for their release. The first word of the Scottsboro case came to Herndon when he was an organizer of the marine workers in New Orleans, “One morning,” he said, “I picked up the capitalist paper and saw that ‘nine black brutes had raped two little girls.’ That was the way the paper put it. There was a dock strike on at the time in New Or- leans—7,000 Negro and white long- shoremen out against a slashing wage cut. The New Orleans bosses would have been glad to see this issue—the Scottsboro case—used as a method of whipping up hatred of white and Negro longshoremen against one another. They would have found it just that much easier to break the strike! Recognized Frame-Up “I knew the South and the American bosses well enough to know at once that what we had to lo with here was a vicious frame- up. In Birmingham, the district center, and in the Communist Party center in New York, steps were be- ing taken to fight this case, But even before I heard from them, I got in touch with the comrades in Birmingham about it, “I got to work at once organizing | committees among the workers of New Orleans. We visited clubs, unions, churches to get support for the Scottsboro boys. We asked these groups to elect delegates and we held a city-wide conference. I believe that this New Orleans con- ference was the first city conference for the Scottsboro boys held in the United States. “On May 31, 1931, I went as a delegate to the first All-Southern Scottsboro Conference, held in Chattanooga, Tenn. There were three delegates from New Orleans, I was one of them, having been elected | by the Trade Union Unity League. The other two fellows were white. “The hall in Chattanooga was; surrounded by gunmen and police, but we held that conference just the same, The bosses and dicks were boiling mad because we had Negro and white meeting together, sitting together — and saying very plainly that the whole Scottsboro case was a rotten frame-up. I spoke at that conference, Fought Misleaders “While I was in Chattanooga that trip, I went to a meeting in a Ne- gro church, addressed by William Pickens. Pickens made an attack on the International Labor Defense. He said we shouldn’t get the gov- ernor and the courts mad — we should try to be nice to them. He said: ‘You people don’t know how to fight. Give your money to me and to lawyers and we'll take care of this’ Then he attacked the mothers of the Scottsboro boys as being a lot of ignorant fools. “Well, I was so mad I hardly knew what I was doing. I spoke up and said that the Scottsboro boys would never get out of prison until all the workers got together and brought terrific pressure to bear on the lynchers. I said: ‘We've been polite to the lynchers entirely too Jong. As long as we O.K, what they do, as long as we pat them on the back, as long as we crawl to them and assure them we have no desire to change their institutions—just so long we'll be slaves.’ “After that I had a lot of ex- perience—in Chattanooga, Birming- ham and Atlanta—with white and Negro misleaders who try to keep us from putting up a real fight for the boys. What these misleaders want is a nice quiet time so they can go on picking our pockets. “I followed the Scottsboro case the best way I could while I was in jail. Every time I got a paper —and that wasn’t often—I looked eagerly for news of the Scottsboro boys. Every time the jailers let someone into the jail, I asked them about the Scottsboro boys. I was uplifted, brimming with joy over the Splendid fight we made in Decatur. I could hardly contain myself when I saw how the workers were mak- ing the Scottsboro case a battering- ‘Now Is Touring To Help| Raise $15,000 for Appeal Costs ram against Jim-Crowism and op-! pression.” | “Were you surprised at the lynch decision after the first Decatur trial?” I asked Herndon. “Not a bit!” he answered em- phatically. “Yes, I know we proved complete innocence. We showed that the boys didn’t have a thing to do with the girls. We piled up evi- dence that would have staggered an impartial court. Only, of course, there isn’t any such thing as an impartial court. Evidence means very little—it’s useful only to show the frame-up, to convince people what kind of case this is. But all the evidence in the world wouldn't mean anything to the lynchers. What counts is the protests, the meetings, the resolutions, the tele- grams, the marches and demon- strations, I saw that in the Scotts- boro case, and I saw it very clearly in my own case.” “What do you think of the chance of getting the Scottsboro boys free?” someone asked. “We've got to get them free— there's no question about it,” Hern- don said at once. “But how? The; last U. S. Supreme Court decision in the Scottsboro case raised illu- sions with some people that the Su- preme Court is fair on these mat-| ters, and will give a verdict of in- nocence. As a matter of fact, when you look carefully at the Supreme Court decision in this case, you see | how little faith we can place in that court, They avoided all the ques- tions of principle. They had to re-| verse the verdict because the pro- tests were deafening, but they re-| fused to say a word about the right of Negroes to serve on juries; they didn’t say anything about the lynch- spirit that pervaded the courtroom, and the lynch-crowds in and around “From now on we can expect the U. S. Supreme Court and all the other courts to be even more vicious in their decisions. We can expect the misleaders—of the type of Pick- ens, and the others we had to deal with—to be busier than ever. And we've got to answer with increased activity. I got out of jail because the workers organized, and demon- started, and protested, and got to- gether money, and raised hell gen- erally. Well, the Scottsboro boys will get out that way—and no other way! “I’m glad to be going on a tour for the Scottsboro boys now. This Herndon defense, and a real deluge, a flood of protests to the Supreme comes up soon—and there will have to be more hell-raising if we expect a favorable decision.” 26 Yonkers Teachers Leave Their Classes In Fight on Wage-Cut NEW YORK.—Twenty-six school teachers conducting summer even- ing sessions in the Yonkers public schools waylked out of their class rooms on Thursday nigh: in protest against a twelve and a half per cent wage cut. When they reported to their classes they were confronted by) their superiors and asked to sign statements indicating their willing- ness to permit their present weekly salaries of $16 to be cut to $10, The teachers refused. Several of them have expressed Daily Worker Among the Members| their determination to fight the cut to a finish. One said: “The evening sessions are our only source of income at the mo- ment and the reduction in wages means that the School Board is asking us to live and to support our families on $10 a week. It can’t be done and we don’t intend to try.” The teachers will seek the support Yonkers and may try to line up the of others in their profession in backing of their studnts if the Sehecl Board attempts to enforce the cut. NASSAU TO HOLD PICNIC NEW YORK, — The first picnic ever held by the Communist Party in Nassau County, Long Island, will take place on Sunday, at Paschak’s Grove, Jerusalem Avenue, near Uniondale Avenue, Hempstead. There will be sports, dancing, games and a boxing exhidition. Admittance is 25 cents. A promincnt New York working class leader will speak on . + . Hearings in Chicago (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Aug. 16. — The no- toricus congressional committee in- vestigeting ‘foreign propaganda’ in the United States will open hear- ings in Chicago next week. The committee is raising as a smoke screen for itse anti-werking class activities, the excuse that it is investigating Nazism as well as Communism, * The ferocious anti-red campaign being conducted in the Chicago weeks gives a good indication of the type of ‘evidence’ which will be presented to the committee. Unemployed? |denberg and Hitler. | rich Court and to the Alabama officials. | The appeal to the Supreme Court ‘id not at the time understand his \House Anti-Communist Commitiee Will Open’ | On the | World Front By HARRY eS |Hindenburg’s Will Thanks to Socialist Leaders “Only Step by Step...” GREAT deal has and will be written about the so- called Hindenburg political last will and testament. What we want to write about and emphasize is the revelations of this old corrupt ally of the Socialist leaders of Germany re- garding his protection of the Wei- mar constitution, of capitalist “democracy.” To the very last, the German so- cialist leaders tried to retain the illusory division between von Hin- Even today they believe that if the Hitler boil were lanced, the healthy organisinjy | of German capitalist “democracy” would cleanse itself, and history; could be hurled backwards instead of forward. For example, the il- legal socialist paper, Socialistische Aktion, on July 29 declared: “Hitler has preached murder, He bears the chief guilt, Hitler is the enemy.” a ge ‘(OULD matters change if Hitler croaked or was croaked? Is it a question of the individual, Hit- ler? Or is it the class behind Hit ler, the finance capitalists and the landowners? Read Hinden- berg’s will and he reveals that his |aims were always the same as the | bloodiest fascist murderer. Hitler is the symbol, the personification of the brutal, savage, murderous dic- tatorship of German capitalism; but he is not the chief enemy. The chief enemy is German capitalism, which must be destroyed for the revolution of the German toilers to | triumph, for tyranny to be ended and socialism built in Germany. Even now the Socialist leaders want to mislead the German toil- ers, want to direct their fire and hatred against an individual instead of against the whole rotten class that stands behind him. 9 EUS Bo let us see what Hindenburg has to say his aims were in the office of president where he was placed with the help of the Social- ist leaders of Germany. It must be remembered that the Socialist leaders urged the German workers to vote for Hindenburg as the protector of “democracy,” as the enemy of Hitler. They were Hin- denburg’s shock troops against the Communist candidate Ernst Thael- mann, Thaelmann now rots in the living tomb of a Nazi prison, from whence he can be saved only by the world pressure of the toiling masses, “I was aware,” the old fossil Hindenburg wrote, “that the basic law of the State (the Wei- mar constitution) and the form ot government that the nation gave itself in the hour of great distress and internal weakness did not correspond with the real needs and characteristics of our people. “Khe hour was yet to ripen when this knowledge became pub- lic property. ‘Therefore it seemed to be my duty to lead the coun- try through the valley of out- ward oppression and humiliation, internal distress and self-flagella- tion without endangering its ex- istence until this hour dawned.” fae ie IN other words, this “lesser evil” of the Socialist officialdom was waiting for the first opportunity to trample the Weimar constitution into the garbage can and establish the open, brutal dictatorship of his class. This was the sole reason for taking office, and in this he was nobly assisted by the Socialist lead- ers, Who told the workers that Hin- denburg’s only purpose in assum- ing the presidency was to protect the comedy of “democracy” he had sworn to destroy as quickly as con- ditions matured, Aa eae even tells how he did it with- out arousing the revolutionary resistance of the proletariat—for which again, thanks to the Sociale ist leaders. “Only step by step, therefore, without provoking an overpower- ing opposition, the shackles that fettered us could be loosened.” Here is a great lesson on how the Socialist leaders protect the “democratic” rights of the working class. They support a Hindenburg, or a Roosevelt, (or his NRA and other deeds) or a LaGuardia to guarantee the “democratic” rights of the workers, when persistently and consistently these good agents of capitalism “step by step,” “with- out provoking an overpowering op- position,” tear to shreds the filthy rag of “democracy” that covers their naked dictatorship under- summer and fall have got to see; neath. $15,000 raised for the Scottsboro-| BWR |) veda adi posthumously a= pologizes to some of his finance capitalist and junker followers who acceptence of Socialist. cooperation. “If many of my old comrades,” he speaks from the grave, “at that time could not understand the necessity of this course, history wi!l judge more justly how bitter, but also how essential in the interest of the maintenance of German life, many of these measures signed by me have been.” His greatest joy before his death was to have seen the victory of fascism (of which, according to the Socialist leaders, he was the great- est. enemy). ‘ * : “| THANE providence,” he writes, “for permitting me to see in the of my life the hour of jones. I thank all those who in unselfish love of the Fatherland have cooper- ated in the work of Germany’s resurgence.” Messers. Wels, Leipart, Braun, Severing, Hilf the “lesser ferding evil” thanks you, along with Hitler, from that grave into which the pro= letarian revolution, led by the Com= the strike wave, Join the Red | Builders! 5 munist Party of Germany, plunge German capitalism