The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-17

i shifted positions in the recent cleo
lions are the middle classes. One mil
lion and half of this group broke
with the SocialDemocrats. About the
same number parted company with
the Folkspartei, the party of the heavy
and concentrated industry. And over u
million left the Democratic party, the
arty of merchants and manufacturers.
What's become of them? More then
one-half lover million) went to the
Centrum, the party of the well-to-do
farmers and the Catholic middle
classes generally. The remainder d.
vided itself almost equally between
the Deutsche Rationale and the
Observation-Disclosures, the two parties
which represent the great landowners,
the reactionary junkers and the old
military caste.
THESE facts are full of significance.
/ They show that large portion of
the poor middle classes is totally dis
gusted with the present republican
regime and with the so-called parties
of the Republic which include the
SocialDemocrats, the Democrats,
and the Folkspartei. That is why
so many of the middle class vot-
ers have now cast their votes for the
monarchist parties of the reactionary
junkers and the military, and for the
neutrality-suspicious. Centrum. The
middle class elements Of Germany
have lost faith both in the parties of
capital and in what they believed to
be the party of Labor (Social-Demo-
cracy). Instead they have turned to
the parties of the rich farmers and
large landowners. Clearly, a turn to
the right. 1t remains now for the
working class of Germany, under the
leadership of the Communist Party,
by deeds and action to convince the
oppressed middle classes that their
salvation lies not with the monarch
list reaction but with the successful
struggle for the proletarian dictator
ship.
THE result Of the elections in Ger
1 many can be summarized as fol-
lows: The working masses have moved
to the Left. The middle classes
to the Right. The SocialDemocratic
party is beginning to decay and will
soon be relegated to position of
very small Importance. The leading
role in the proletarian class-struggle
is being assumed by the Communist
Party.
N dictatorship Of the Right (big In
IA dustrialists, junkers and military
or the dictatorship of the proletariat
this is the lineup in the class-strug-
gle of present day Germany. The
recent elections and the still more
recent events in Halle are proof
sufficient.
Big Capital Regulated in France.
THE defeat Of Poincare means the
i reputation of the rule of Big Cap
ital-the heavy industrialists and
large bankers. Poincare ruled in the
name of these two capitalist groups.
He ruled openly and brutally in their
interests.
LIS entire German policy was no.
! thing more than an attempt to
put into effect the will Of the indus
trial and financial magnates of France
to get possession and control of the
wealth Of Germany and Europe gem
orally. This, Poincare and his Black
National did their best to accomplish.
And they have failed, mainly because
Of the jealousies and intrigues of the
capitalists Of England and America.
Furthermore, in his attempt to
achieve what turned out to be the
impossible, Poincare has brought
France to the verge Of bankruptcy.
His financial policies, dictated by Big
Business and designed to make the
poor classes carry the entire burden
Of war, rehabilitation, have antagon-
ized against Poincare and his govern
ment all classes and groups except
the small clique Of big financiers and
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