The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-20
BY ISRAEL AMrER.

This is the heyday of Social-De-
mocracy. Six years in Germany, sew
eral months in Great Britain, pro-
spective labor government in Dem
mark, fill the heart of the leaders of
the Social-Democratic parties with
joy. In France, the Socialists; in
Hungary, the Social-Democrats in
Italy, the right Socialists, are ready to
cooperate with the bourgeois govern
ments. This is the "age of recon-
struction," and the workers must as
sist'
The six years of Social-D Democracy
in Germany should have been warn
ing to the Socialists the world over.
These have been six years of defeat
and destruction of working class
forces. The so-called workers revo-
luton" in Germany on November s.,
1918, demonstrated that a "revolu-
tion" under the leadership of the So
cial- democrats is the modern form of
capitalist reconstruction. The Social
Democrats demanded and obtained
the eight-hour day as compensation
for their work. For six years the cap
italists tolerated this measure, and
then flung it on the scrapheap
Kill a-Hour Day
The Social-Democrat protested and
then gave in. To be sure, they did it
gracefully; only in specific cases and
when conditions demand it for linn
tied time, will the eight-hour day be
sacrificed. But the Preparations COM
mission stepped in and now the eight
hour day is forlorn hope. Germany
must produce and reduce expenses:
these demands will be placed at the
door of the workers.
The bosses stated in unmistakable
tone that they can accept the Dawes
report only if the eight-hour day is re-
voked. With the destruction of the
eight-hour day will begin the capital
list offensive against the trade unions.
The trade union bureaucracy is de-
termined to maintain the policy of
collaboration; but this collaboration
is completely at the expense of the
workers. The revolutionary workers
are determined not to give up the
eight-hour day. This means strug-
gle: hence the unions are faced with
the alternative of fight or complete
submission.
Red and Yellow
The capitalists will not interfere in
the fight; they have their henchmen
in the oficialdom of the unions
Leipart and Dittman, who are con-
Quoting the struggle against the rev.
dictionary workers: the trouble
makers" in the unions are being ex-
PEELED. Compression has penetrated
the Amsterdam international and the
intention is to exclude all Commun-
lists and their sympathizers from the
trade union movement At the recent
congress of the German textile Work
ers, Gompers' and Lewis methods
were in full swing. Credentials of
opposition delegates we're not recog-
MED; local officials of the machine
were substituted in their place and
seated in the convention. Appeals
were unavailing; the machine ruled,
screeched, yelled and denounced the
Communists and Moscow, and defiant
ly declared that no Communist or op-
position would be tolerated within the
union.
The fight in the German Metal
Workers union is in full swing. All
over the country the challenge of The
Red International is being met with
Expulsion. The splitting of the move
ment is of no moment to the trade
union officialdom, whose motto is col
laboration with the capitalists.
Cooperate With Nationalist.
Despite bowls of protest against the
destructive deeds of the Nationalists,
the Social-Democrats of Germany are
prepared to cooperate with them in
running the government. The price
will be the further suppression of the
workers. In their national elections
Communists were arrested on all
sides. Parliamentary immunity count
ed for nothing: the danger of large
Communist opposition in the Reich
stag filled Ebert with apprehension.
PaPCAo WClO supp CDoCuS
meetings forbidden, May Day demon
STATIONS prohibited. Unity of the
people" was to be achieved at the cost
OF the working class. France, Eng
land and Belgium demanded it.: Amer
lea demanded it. The loan that Ger
many expects depends on it: Germa-
ny's workers are to pay the price, if
the social-democrats succeed.
Macdonald, the Header" of the Brit
ish Labor party, sells out one demand
Of the workers after the other. He,
the arch-pacifist, builds cruisers; he,
the friend Of India, threatens the In
dian revolutionary nationalists with
force; he. the friend OF the British
working class, surrenders the house
ing problem for a proposal Of the lib
erals. He is determined to hold to his
post, in order to convince the bour-
geoisie of Great Britain that the Brit
ish Labor party is capable of assisting
in capitalist reconstruction, despite
what they had thot to the contrary