The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight Daily QWorker | TTR, ORAS COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST MTEREATIONNES “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE | COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5 E. 18th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin4- 7954. } - Press Building, Nat 7910. | west aed s 705, Cheago, Mm. | Telephone: Dearbor 1 Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.08; 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. i Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents. —————————OOOOOO FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1934 ——— Veterans Say, No! OVERNOR GREEN’S decision to mo- bilize world war veterans for strike- bresking duty has encountered obstacles. The Rhode Island executive commit- tee of the American Legion, while agree- ing in general to aid in preserving order, refused to render such assistance in any of th t the same time the State commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars made public a wire from the National Commander, J. E. Van Zendt, as fol- lows: “Our organization takes no part in labor dis- putes. By all means keep out of it.” All workers will greet this decision of the veter- ans organizations. It shows that great groups of veterans are refusing to beCome gunmen and thugs for the bosses. This is as it should be. The great mass of the veterans are themselves workers. Many of the tex- tile workers are veterans. They suffer from the same low wages, long hours and speed-up as do other workers. Why should they enlist on the side of the bosses, of Governor Green, of President Roosevelt. as strikebreakers? They have received nothing from these people, either in the factories as workers, or as veterans to warrant doing them any favors. They have een denied their back pay (bonus). Their own relief allowances have been cut. And even these veterans were characterized as “hoodlums,” “mobs” and “reds” when they fought against these cuts and for their bonus. Why, these veterans, whom Green invites to shoot down strikers, were them- selves shot down, gassed and clubbed in the streets of the nation’s capital. It takes nerve to ask these vets, these workers, shoot down other workers. . The fact that the top officials of the Legion and V.F.W. said No, indicates the tremendous opposi- tion to such strikebreaking activities among the mass of the veterans, -torn areas. to “Morro Castle,” A Warning SHIP, the “Morro Castle,” burns at sea, on Saturday, Sept. 8, and due to the criminal negligence of the chief offi- cers, carrying out the wishes of the Ward Live, 134 lives are snuffed out. Trnediately the cry is raised, the Communists did %! In Germany, the Reichstag is burned on the orders of the Fascist butchers, Hitler and Goering, and the cry goes up: “The Communists did it!” In Rhode Island, textile strikers effectively close wn the mills despite the huge armed forces of onal Guards and company thugs. a nmediately the governor shouts: “The Com- munists are starting a revolution! What's afl the shouting about? What are the fects of the Morro Castle disaster, and why are they trying to pin it on the Reds? When Dickerson N. Hoover, chairman of the gov- ernment investigation Board, instead of trying to find the facts about the Morro Castle fire strove to save the company some damages. At the same time, as government official, he saw an opportunity of speeding the d of the capitalists against the Communists. Earl Browder, secretary of the Com- munist Party, issued the following statement against Hoover's Red hunt: “The statement of Dickerson N. Hoover is a shameless slander designed to cover up the criminal negligence of the Bureau of Navigation, which is helping the Ward Line to hide its respon- sibility for the Morro Castle disaster. “It is well known that the Communist Party in this and in every other country is unalterabiy opposed to all acts of individual terror, arson, sabotage, etc. Mr. Hoover is merely repeating the tactics of Hitler and Goering in the Reichstag “fire. The Commumists have the same role in both these arson cases. They are picked as convenient scapegoats for criminals in the high ranks of government and responsible capitalist society.” Just at this time when Communists are among the most active fighters for the victory of the demands of the textile workers, when every Fascist agency in this country calls for a terror campaign against the Communists, the employers and their ‘government try to utilize the Morro Castle dis- aster as a convenient excuse to atatck the Com- munists. But the attack against the Communists is only the first assault on all labor, on all trade unions, on all workers who refuse to accept starvation conditions. The Morro Castle holocaust is just an instance. Should another similar disaster take place, again the same tricks will be used. In fact, it is not above the capitalist rules, when the need for a more intensive drive against labor arises, that they themselves, as in Germany, will deliberately pro- veke such incendiary plots as an excuse for Fascist drives on Communists and all militant labor. The facts of the Morro Castle disaster are so clear now, we want only to recount the most essential details. (1.) The fire started in a locker available only to the officers of the ship. (2.) John Kempf, a New York City fireman for 14 years, of Engine Co. 288, who was aboard the ship, declared: “There is no doubt in my mind DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1934 that the fire started at 12:45 A.M. awakened by smoke in my room.” (3.) Not untf 3:15 was a stand-by signal sent out; and not until 3:23, according te the testi- mony of Chief Radio Operator Rogers, was an SOS sent out, 2 hours and 47 minutes after the fire started. (4.) Every life on board could have been saved were it not for the efforts of Warms, acting cap- tam, te follow company instructions to save salvage costs. Even when 134 people had been murdered due when I was .to these criminal deeds, Warms would not accept a tow line fram the Coast Guard cutter, “Tampa,” until he was told it wouldn't cost the company anything. We quote his own words, as testificd to Rogers, radio operator. When the “Tampa” crew said the towing would be free, Warms said “O. K. fellows, You heard that. You heard them say it won't cost us anything. The ship is is in peril and it won’t cost us anything for salvage. Sometimes they forget their offer later, you know, so remember what they just said.” Warms here is speaking the language of his capitalist masters; the language of capitalist, sordid greed that destroys lives, espécially lives of workers in order to make profits. Yet they try to blame Communists for this criminal deed. In the Soviet Union where the Communist Party led the workers and farmers to a victorious revolution, the watchword is the construction of a new life, of a new, classléss society. There when the “Chelyuskin” sank with 104 on board, the whole country was mobilized for the rescue. And 103 lives were saved! Not one speck, not a scintilla, of evidence was ever brought out that Communists set fire to the Morro Castle. All of these charges were delib- erately framed by the Ward officials with the help of government agents. That they failed miserably to cast the blame on Communists will not stop them. Every worker should be warned against the real reason for these attempts to blame Reds, Com- munists, for these criminal deeds of the empioyers, the capitalists, They want to destroy the Communist Party. In this period of mass strike struggles, in this period of growing economic crisis, when the Roose- velt government is preparing for war, the em- ployers and their government are using more and more fascist methods against the workers. ‘They Slaughter textile workers and other strikers for the crime of demanding and fighting for a little more bread for their families. They know that the Communist Party is the most militant, stalwart, the most experienced fighter in the interest of the workers. They feel the sooner they can destroy the Communist Party the easier will it be for them to carry forward their hunger, war and fascist plans. The “Morro Castle” Red frame-up is a warning and a threat to every worker. Though they have failed thus far in their frame-up, every worker must be alarmed about the danger of the growing Fascist attacks. We must unite in our struggle for the defense of every work- ers’ organization. Socialists, Communists, A. F. of L. members, all workers, regardless of political or religious beliefs, should mobilize their forces in one united front against these growing fascist threats. Protest against these frame-ups. Fight against Fascist terror and incendiary plots. Defend the Communist Party, the revolutionary leader of the workingclass. Defend the most elementary rights of every workers’ organization. Join the Communist Party! Deecstneeceeeeenond “We'll Vote As We Strike!” EVER even in war days had Hazelton, Pa., seen such a monster parade as was called forth by the one day general strike last Wednesday in support of the textile workers. We want to dwell here with the significance of one of the slogans carried in the march by coal miners, textile workers, truck drivers, and others, It read: “We'll vote as we strike!” That's a splendid idea. But we must ask con- cretely how is this to be carried out? In nearly every state in which the textile strike is on, the * Democratic or Republican governors have called out the militia to shoot down workers. “To vote as we strike!” is to vote against these parties, the parties of the bosses. Roosevelt's New Deal is the cause of the miser- able conditions of the textile workers. Roosevelt himself promises to use Federal troopers against the strikers, Supporting Roosevelt are all sorts of self-desig- nated “friends of labor.” There is Upton Sinclair, Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot in Pennsylvania, who, know- ing the sentiment of labor, often come to the picket. lines to get the workers to vote for them. But to vote for them, when it ts remembered Governor Pinchot helped break the coal and steel strike, is not to “vote as we strike.” * . . VOTE as the textile workers are striking is to vote for the Party most active in fighting side by side with the workers in the picket lines—that is, to vote Communist! When the capitalist press wants to besmirch the | strikers, to express the hatred of the profit-grabbing employers who want to defeat the demands of the strikers, they call them Reds, Communists! That is because they recognize the Communist Party is the most militant fighter for the workers. The Red cry was raised very prominently in the textile strike. It becomes one of the outstanding issues. In the present crisis of capitalism, a struggle for better wages, for better conditions, for union recognition, becomes a struggle not only against the individual mill owners, but even against their government, the state armed forces, and the Fed- eral oppressive forces, Hence again, in this situation to “vote as we strike,” it is necessary to vote Communist! This sentiment of voting, of acting politically, as the workers see it, as they strike, coming from the midst of 25,000 workers in a magnificent general strike demonstration, shows that the workers every- where are thinking deepiy on the elections. They connect the strike struggles with the elections, The Communists must not lose this opportunity of bringing the Communist Party election program to the workers and explain to them that in their strike struggles, in their unemployed struggles, in the fight against hunger, war and fascism, when they say: “We'll vote as we strike,” wHy they should vote Communist! | bread; one loaf to ten men. They French Soldiers Fight Against Starvation BOURGES, France, Sept. 14— The soldiers of the 95th artillery regiment, garrisoned in Bruges, pro- voked by the increasing brutality of the summer's concentrated prep- rations for war, demonstrated in their barracks recently. They had just returned from a Gay of drilling in the rain. The colonel in command gave orders for & night-watch. Supper consisted of | rebelled. Under-officers, protected by po- lice, were unable to quell the dis- turbances, in the course of which window-panes were smashed. Fin- | ally, the “leaders” were arrested. | All but eight were later released. Th soldier chosen as the instigator was brutally beaten. On the follow- j ing day, the colonel’s answer to the | militant disgontent of his men was \a heavy day of drilling and insult. During the last winter, numerous | soldiers from the ranks died as a result of undernou-ishment and the !lack of medical attention. Notorious Gen. Araki May Lead ‘War’ Army (Specie to the Daily Worker) PEIPING, Sepi. 14 (By Wireless). —In connection with the present situation in Manchuria, the notor- ious Japanese General Araki has again appeared on the scene. Japanese newspapers state that General Araki will probably be ap- pointed commander of the Kwan- tung army, now occupying Man- jchuria and feverishly preparing a | North Chinese base for a future “big war.” g Arms Sold to Roosevelt Bars Data at Inquiry (Continued from Page 1) less, contains much that the Sec- ond American Congress Against War and Fascism, in Chicago, at the end of this month, will use to| forward the revolutionary fight against this threat. The Senate Committee is bent upon develop- ing evidence to show that the mu- nitions makers foment wars — whereas their own testimony al- jready shows that the munitions| business is tied to basic capitalist | industries so that to “control” the| arms makers necessTate abolishing | private profits in all industry. Bland and Self-possessed in their assurance that their methods are} no different from other business men’s, the du Ponts. when asked about the paying of special “com- | missions” as bribes, declared this| is “a general practice all over the! world,’ but that it is not “a policy” of their corporations. ‘Then the| committee's investigator, Stephen | Raushenbush, produced communi- cations from a du Pont agent in Argentina reporting that one An- tonio Caremes was “indignant at our offer of $1,500” for Caremes’ work in .bringing about “cancella- | tion of the powder plant” for the Argentine government. | Irenee du Pont, head of the firm, | interrupted here to justify tis oper- | ations, He challenged Raushen-| | bush: | “If you think its wrong for us | to keep Argentina from having a | Powder plant, why did you ques- ' tion our selling to Japan?” | “I’m just trying to get at how | you can help or hinder the goy- }ernment's military defense,” re- plied Rauchenbush. “If we can make money by show- ing the Japs how to make hydro- fen cheaper. why not?” DuPont came back, “And if we can make |money by selling powder (instead | of the powder plant) to Argentina, | why not?” | How vital a subject the Senate | Committee has put its foot into was reflected today when news ar- |rived from Chile that American | manufacturers will not get no more | |contracts there, and Argentina an- | nounced it is appointing its own! naval committee to look into the Senate Committee's findings. Late yesterday the Committee | read a letter from Sir Henry Mc- | Gowan, British arms king and an| (associate of the duPonts, applaud- ing the Roosevelt policies because they would further, he said, inter- national indusiries—meaning, obyi- ously, his and duPonts’ profits. Sir Henry didn’t say anything about what the Roosevelt policies did to} workers’ real wage, nor about how |they increase the war danger. | “Red” Scare | Bogey Raised in Capital (Continued from Page 1) the San Francisco ‘Red’ scare tactic, | isn’t it? Isn't it as clear now as it was then that the Communist Party is fighting for the economic demands of the workers?” your cor- respondent asked Gorman. “I'm against Communist disrup- tion,” Gorman replied, “Is it disruption to offer the U. T. W. a united strike front? Do you know that in some towns the local U. T. W. and the National Textile Workers have effected a united | frnot?” “There can be no combination be- tween the N. T. W, and the U. T. W. | Their ideals are different from ours,” Gorman answered. When queried about the Rhode Island Governor - employer drive against Communsits, Gorman fumed: “We'll support. any one against the Communists. They are greater enemies than the employers.” ; The U. T. W. announced here that “more steps will be taken to | strengthen the strike” by “appealing to all transport workers to stop ship- ments of textiles to the United States from other countries” and by “calling upon workers in the United States to refuse to handle imported textiles in every case where such textiles are imported to replace products that normally are made in this country.” In answer to queries whether this meant a change in the A. F. of L. anti-general strike policy, Gorman declared that he is “still against the general strike,” explaining that he is simply calling on the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association not to handle textiles. Hosiery Strike Gains in Allentown (Continued from Page 1) | militant young silk worker who an- nounced to a silk workers’ mass ; Meeting today that a call has been issued by the union for 3,009 throw- sters in Paterson who are still working, to join the general strike. This worker announced that already | the throwing plants in Pennsylvania have struck. A mass meeting for all Paterson | throwsters is being held tonight as a beginning for their strike here. C. P. Fights Terror Silk workers are planning to con- centrate next week on the plant of the Dundee Silk Co., at. Clifton. It was announced that both the New England and Southern branches of this plant have struck 100 per cent. Tonight, a mass mec*- ing to protest the strike terror in Rhode Island has been called by | the Communist Party and ihe Young Communist League. Speak- | ers will be Jack Stache] and Prank | | Carlson, District Organizer of cant Yc. L, Japan to Speed War BALANCED! A a. RNG SY ae ant te ROT eee The Most Burning Question--- Unity of Action By BELA KUN Member of the Presidium of the Communist International (Seventh Installment) 4, THE LEGEND OF THE “NON-AGRESSION PACT” 'HE Populaire of June 23, published an article by Leon Blum entitled “Unity of Action”—an article in which he expressed himself against unity of action. The editorial board of the Populaire, of whick Leon Blum is political head, supplemented this article by a trick. On the pretext that the editors of the paper, “in view of the armistice of the bourgeois parties,” desire “the armistice of the proletarian parties,’ it published two docu- ments side by side: the text of the Franco-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and the draft of a “So- cialist-Communist Non-Aggression Pact.” If I were a member of the French Socialist Party, I would have answered this article of Leon Blum and the trick of his editorial board as follows: “Dear Leon Blum and dear editors of the Popu- laire: “I am in favor of the unity of action of all French proleiarians, whether Socialists, Commu- nists, Confederatives or Unitarian trade unionists. I am in favor of it with my whole heart and with my whole understanding. I demand of the lead- ers of the Communist Party of France, as well as of the leaders of my own party, that they take this unity of action, and also us individual workers, seriously. But I protest against the fact that you, dear Leon Blum and the editors of the Populaire, are so little disposed to take us seriously that in the central organ of the French Socialist Party—surely not with the intention of forging a document—you haye reprinted the Non-Aggres- sion Pact between France and the Soviet Union in a falsified form. Among the names which are here produced as signatories to the pact, the name of the Soviet Ambassador in Paris, Dovgalevsky, is preceded by that of Comrade Stalin, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. We Socialist workers, too, know that Comrade Stalin is a statesman of world historical importance, but we know equally well that he is not a state functionary of the Soviet Union and therefore does not sign any international treaties. ATTACKS BLUM’S FRIVOLITY. “We would prefer it if the editors of the Popu- Jaire, upon such a serious occasion, did not dis- Play such frivolity. “But still more strongly do I protest against the fact that the editors of the Populaire regard our relation to our Communist class comrades as identical with the relation between the Socialist Soviet Union and the bourgeois Republic of France. Do you not think that this is an insult to the Socialist workers? “Despite the vast number of articles by O. Rosenfeld published in the Populaire, we know that the Soviet Union is a proletarian state. Despite the articles of Frossard, we know that, France is a republic of French imperialism. We also know that the Soviet Union, as a proletarian state, has made the cause of peace its own cause. It is in- terested in doing so since peace is necessary for the continuation and completion of the work of socialist construction, To me it is quite clear that the Soviet Union concludes treaties with all bour- geoisie states in order to secure peace. This also serves the interests of the whole international pro- letarian. We know likewise that the Soviet Union cannot overthrow the capitalist world by itself, and it is therefore compelled, in order to prolong the period of respite which has set in after the termination of militafy intervention, to come to agreements with imperialist states as well. It will be compelled to do so until the contracting parties, for example in France, are no longer Herriot or Doumergue, but representatives of the French working class. The Soviet Union and the capitalist world exist side by side, but they are also opposed to one another. The represent two hostile classes, two mutually opposed systems—the working class and the bourgeoisie, the system of socialism and the system of capitalism. “Can you wonder, dear Leon Blum and the editors of the Populaire, if I feel insulted at the fact that you pretend that my relation to my work- mates who are organized in the Communist Party is the same as the relation between the Socialist Soviet Union and imperialist France? Can my re- lation and the relation of my party to the Com- munist Party of France and to its members, be considered as similar to the relations between Lebrun, Herriot and Barthou on the one hand, and Stalin, Litvinov and Dovgalevsky on the other? Are we, my comrade at the work-bench and I, two diffement representatives of two hostile classes like Stalin and Lebrun, Litvinoff and Herriot, Dovgalevsky and Barthou? “I have placed great faith in you. But how can you expect me to believe you when you try to represent me, a class conscious French worker, as an equally great enemy of my Communist work- mate as the system of capitalism is to the system of socialism? “No! I do not agree to this! An armistice, a non-aggression pact is not enough for me. Such methods are right when applied to the relations between the proletarian Soviet Union and bour- geois France. But it is a form of sabotage of unity of action when this system of non-aggression pacts is applied to the relations between Socialist and Communist workers—members of one and the same class. It is not an armistice or a non- aggression pact which we must conclude with the Communist Party. The growth of the fascist, dan- ger in France, the increase of preparation for war throughout the whole world, demands some- thing quite different. What existed between us Socialist workers and the Communist workers be- tween February 6 and 12 this year, was not an armistice, not a diplomatic treaty, not a non- aggression pact. During these days we Socialist and Communist workers stood shoulder to shoulder in armed ailiance against the attack of fascism. With brilliant. success we repulsed the impudent attack of fascism (supported by M. Chiappe), and proceeded to take the offensive. We workers are proud to have stood shoulder to shoulder with. our Communist brothers in united action against the bourgeoisie, So let us leave diplomacy to the diplomats. Let us avoid giving even the outward impression that the relation between members of the Socialist and Communist Party is that of two opposed classes. Throw aside diplomatic tricks and let us honestly grasp the fraternal hand of the Communist Party in order to defend ourselves in common against the common enemy.” (To Be Continued) Dr. Neubauer, German Freed by World Protest BERLIN (By Mail)—Dr. Otto Neubauer, former Communist der- uty to the Reichsiag, held in a con- centration camp since March, 1933, has been released. Dr. Neubauer was often cited as a witness for the defence, during the Reichstag-fire trial by Ernsi Torgler, his colleague. Comrade Nenbauer’s name has often been as- sociated with that of Thaelmann. His liberation came after the in- ; tervention of a delegation of pro- | fessors from Oxford and Cambridge. Again the world-wide struggies of millions of workers has succeeded in loosening the grip of Nazi hangmen from the leaders of the proletariat. FUNCTIONARIES TO MEET NEW YORK. — Charles Krum- bein, district organizer of the Com- munist Party, will report on the election campaign at a meeting of all trade union functionaries and actives, Party and non-Party, Mon- day, 7 p. m., in the Main Hall of the Workers Center 49 E, 13th St. Belgian Miners Fight Five Per Cent Pay Cut BRUSSELS, Sept. 14—The owner of the Borinage mines has an- nounced that miners in all pits will | be given pay-cuts of 5 percent, ef- fective Sept. 16. The Central Committee of the Revoluticnary Miners’ Union has declared that the miners will accept no wage cut, A program of meet- ings has been shaped for action, | World Front On the By HARRY GANNES. Crisis on Top and Bottom in Cuba Otto Bauer Again ig CUBA, a fifteen-minute general strike of street car, |railway, electric, gas. water plant and other workers in support of the discharged Cuban Telephone Co, jem- | ployes. took place ap simultancously with a severe crgsis in the Mendieta cabinet. The factors or a new revolue| tionary crisis are rapidly maturing, despite Roosevelt’s efforts to stae bilize the Mendieta regime by phony reciprocity treaties. In the camp of the native bourgeoisie and landlords, the splits and fights are growing more severe. The ABO Fascist group, which at first backed Mendieta, foreseeing his impend- ing collapse, his inability to ride the stem of the crisis, left the Cabinet, hoping to seize power for theme selves. ieee ner’ T the same time, Grau San Mare tin, president for a while before Mendieta, leader of the Revolu- tionaries Autenticos (“Authentic’ Revolutionaries) is angling for power; but ao-operates with Men- dieta in order to stave off the armed uprising of the workers and peas- ants. On the other hand, a chip off the Grau block, Antonio Guit- eras, has organized his own “left” section of the Autenticos, who ped- dle revolutionary phrases about a@ real struggle against American ime perialism, and a revolutionary gove ernment. The growth in the strike strug els show that the Cuban masses are not fooled by Roosevelt's dema- gogy and trickery. The reciprocity treaty which provides the Cuban bourgeoisie with an extra $19,000,000 through lowering the tariff on sugar actually worsens the conditions of the Cuban workers and petty bour- geoisie. LEE HE $19,000,000 which is collected in the United States is just Roosevelt's way of paying the Amer- ican bankers the interest and in- stallments on their grafting loans to the Mendieta butcher regime. Furthermore, the reciprocity treaty provides that the Mendieta governs ment lower ‘tariff barriers to Amer- ican exporters, Now during the early days of the Machado dictator- ship, when the sugar business was good, the tariff barriers on certain products coming into Cuba wera put up high enough to allow a cer- tain amount of light industry to de velop, such as textiles, shoes, etc. The Roosevelt reciprocity treaty aims to smash this local industry, ruining the petty-bourgeisie, cause ing greater unemployment among the Cuban workers. (Foae Sete TTO BAUER is hard put to it to explain his treachery to the Austrian Socialist workers. Unable to defend his position of collabora- tion with the Dollfuss regime, his disarming of the workers, his pre- | serving of the capitalist dictatorship in 1918, he is now resorting to the most picayune arguments of “distor- tion of news,” and utilization by the Communist Press of the Doll- fuss manufactured statements. His articles on “Communist ‘History’ of Vienna Uprising,” appears without criticism or comment, except that it is “remarkable,” in the Socialist “New Leader.” Readers of the Daily Worker who remember the reports on the heroic fighting of the Austrian workers will remember that the greatest condemnation against Otto Bauer utilized by the Daily Worker came from the mouth and pen of Ott¢ Bauer himself. The best answer to Otto Bauer's contortions comes from Ernst Fisher, former editor of the Vienna Social-Democratic “Arbeiterzeitung,” Ernst Fisher was one of Bauer's close associates, but because of the treachery of the Social-Democratia Jeaders, and as a result of the les« sons he learned in the Austrian d fensive struggles, he joined the Communist Party. We urge every Socialist to read this article of the former editor of the most influential Austrian Social-Democratic news- paper, We er ele “AND Otto Bauer?” he writes, “He, and the few who as hithere to continued to hold to the concep tions of Austro-Marxism, fatalise tically awaited defeat. Their di belief in the power of the proletaria® was converted into the completely despairing conviction that ‘We are in a counter-revolutionary situation, In this situation fascism is advanc- ing irresistibly and _ invincibly. Whatever we may do Will be a mise take and will have fatal consee quences. Right up to the last min- ute we shall try to come to an agreement with counter revolution, although we consider this agree ment impossible. At the last, min- ute we shall throw ourselves into the fight, although we consider vic- tory to be impossible. We shall die with honor.’ All that remained of Austzo-Marxism was the gloomy sense of doom and internal capitu- lation to dying capitalism. The homunculus helplessly crumbled to dust, while revclution rose in a powerful wave.” Whoever fails to read this article in No. 15 of the Communist Inter- national loses one of the most pro= found analyses of Austro-Marxism and the Austrian events in general, and of Otto Bauer in particular, from one of his former comrades,