The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-11
Speaking Of StabiLitY

Where is the evidence of the recovery Of Europe
an capitalism from its rapid downward trend since
the world war?
The yellow socialist press Of Europe and America
constantly play up the recovery of capitalism, but
fails to bring forward any proof of sterilization
except the Dawes plan upon which the reformist
betrayers of the European revolution now stake
their hopes.
All of the evidence contained in the news of the
last three months has been REPUTATION of the grow
ing stability of capitalism and the last two weeks
have shown a remarkable collection Of facts prov
ing that only the most ruthless suppression of the
masses of workers and peasants prevents the com
plete collapse of capitalist production and ex-
change.
In Belgium the coal miners fought for two
months with arms in their hands and finally forced
an increase in wages which ended the conflict
temporarily while the miners prepare for a more
bitter struggle.
A general railway strike in Austria disrupts
the national economy while the league of nations
and Zimmerman, its bailiffin-chief, fume help
lessly.
In France there has been strike after strike
with the Confederation Untaire 1.-THE section of the
Red International of Labor Unions) in the lead.
Immense Communist demonstrations have put the
Herriot government in hot water.
In Italy the antifascist movement gains head
way every day with the Industrial workers and
landless peasants rallying to the Communist Party
In Bulgaria the bloody Zankov government
hangs only by murderous repression with the
masses against it and its overthrow looming in
the near future.
The Horthy dictatorship in Hungary confronts
growing mass movement that is accelerated by
the expulsion Of opposition deputies from parlia,
nent.
In Germany the industrial workers in the
strategic centers-coal and iron-are against the
Dawes plan and even the ontlawing of the Com
munist Party, the arrest of its leaders and mass
terror thruout Germany has resulted in an actual
increase in the Communist vote, altho they lost
deputies in the reichstag
In Poland the governmental terror has i'm
prisoned 5000 trade union officials and Com
munists. Only bayonets and machine guns main
tain the hold Of the lackeys Of French capitalism
on the state power. The nation is ruined insofar
as industry and agriculture is concerned.
In Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Jugo- Slavia
and Roumania, the governments hold power by
terror alone. There is no such thing as mass
support of these terroristic states. They live on
subsidies from the allied notions
Even in staid old England, the foundation of
reaction and the bulwark of European counter
icfOlutlOn, great leIC wing movement SHOWS itself
in the trade unions India and Egypt must be kept
down with an iron hand. They are no longer held
by the leading strings of the empire
Overshadowing all else is the program of unity
Of the world trade union movement brought for
ward by the Red International of Labor Unions.
1t has received grateful reception from the or
gained masses that frightens the reactionary
leaders whose program is that of complete sub
mission to the Dawes plan.
The economic recoyeries of capitalism that are
cited from time to time are only within the gen
eral cycle of capitalist decay. They represent
temporary gains made by capitalist ofensves, but
the mass movements Of the European workers and
particularly their response to the unity slogan Of
the X. i. l.. IT,. is conclusive proof that the last
line of captalism's defense-the reformist and re-
dictionary trade union oficials-are being swept
away by the rising tide of revolution.
The only stable government in Europe is Soviet
Russia
The only stable and growing labor movement
is the Red International of Labor Unions and the
Communist International