The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-30
Communists in Germany
Go to the Masses" and
Make Big Forward Stride
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the figures finally arrive the municipal elections
held in Berlin last Sunday showing that the Communist
Party made the biggest gains This fact accounts for the ST.
ence of the cables that bring foreign news to the edtoa
of the capitalist daies. Maintenance of complete
silence was method of keeping this information
from the workers OF the United States
It is we'll to remember this is kept press
that gave much publicity to the declarations German
socialist trade union delegation of fifteen that attended
the convention of the American Federation Of Labor
and is touring the country that the strength Of the
German Communist Party rapidly waning, Here is the
to the profit press and to the visiting German
socialists
But the Communist victory In Berlin, in more than
doubling its representation in the municipal parliament goes
hand hand with the successful carrying of united
action with the socialist rank and file in this electoral stug
ge the heads of the Berlin socialist officadom On
the basis of the workers against the bourgeose the Com
munts and socialists carried united fight that has put
labor block of 11S members in the city council against o7
for all bourgeois parties, clear majority The victory of
this united front the of the German Communists
in developing with the socialist still under
enemies of the workers. This the German Communists
failed in the presidential POLL resulting in linden
bergs election suffering ISOLATION as result
The results Of the Berlin elections indicate that the
caldemocratic in way satisfied with the
Dawes plan and the Locano security pact both accepted
by the Scheemann the Loebes and the Bescheds
foundation stones of the capitalist peace Growing
unemployment bitter conditions of work. and of life gen.
orally developing left ferment that should get be-
You'd the control of the socialist bureaucracy with its vicious
antiCommunst grip upon the German trade union
ment. .,i
1t is not Inconcevabe that the upheaVaI from be-
low in the British trade unions Arthur A. Purcell
fraterna delegate to the American Federation of Labor
convention demanding world trade union unity the basis
OF the Ango-RussIan negotiations may soon find its
fu counterpart developing out of the misery and struggle
of the German working class.
The Berlin elections indicate that the German Com
unst Party better prepared than before to take
advantage Of such encouraging development 1t this
apparent swing to the left that will make linden
bergLuther hesitate before dsovn pres
ent reichstag and calling for elections It being
rorced to 90 largely on account of the Locarno affair
This of the German Communists to develop
contact with the workers should be an in
sPiraton to Communist parties in other lands especially in
the United States Thru the labor party this country the
LETT wing will tighten its grip those working class ee-
ments growing in numbers, that reaconary A. F. of L
ottcadom thru its non-parisan policy trying to hold in
ne 1or the capitalist parties Repeated victories for the
and OF the Communist international to the Masses"
in many countries, in Germany, indicate the trumphs
that may be won in those lands where has yet been
put effectively into force - '