The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
"Order" In Berlin


"order" established volcano!
German capitalism had been for years bleeding the
proletariat to retain big profits for themselves at home
and also make PREPARATION payments under the Dawes
Plan few months ago they began bargain for changing
the of the agreement The monarhst foreign minister
Stresemann and the socialist finance minister Hferding,
thru their running dog Schach for weeks trying to
find plan that would be favorable to German CAPT.
taism and still suit the foreign mperalsts.
While the parasites 'gassed about" in richly appointed
quarters in Hotel George Fifth in Paris the police fercey
attacked the gigantic meetings of the workers that were held
May Day.
The Berlin proetaria under the leadership of the Com
munS Party with hand to defend themselves
against the socademocratic- monarchst combination.
At this distance and with the reports available
in many respects impossible to draw the lessons of the
struggle especially insofar the tactics used concerned
Some things are, however, already clear
The herosm of the Berlin proetarat in itself too great
to be enhanced by words They displayed ability which showed
the benefit of the experience gained previously in the srug
giles led by the beloved Sparacus leaders, Karl Lebknecht
and Rosa Luxembourg and later by the established Com
munist Party they displayed leadership which showed the
advantage of organized vanguard of the working
The extent of the powerful forces aTrayed against the
workers indicated the dispatches which report that the
most modern machine guns newly invented pound rapid
fire artillery aeroplanes etc. used Against
these the workers had only the barbados few revovers
bottles and bricks But with these for four days they
drove back the police who under the leadership of the social
democrat Zoergibe shooting housewives and children
well as demonstrating workers
The example of the Berlin proletariat will remain for
the hearts of the workers of the world who learn
ing how to treat their enemies whether they capitalists
smooth talking socialists. The Berlin foreign office
raises the cry of Russian nstgaon They protest
pecaly the banners carried May Day by the Moscow
workers supporting the demands of the German workers
They cite the banner which described the German govern
ment thus:
Eighty million marks for a cruiser a penny feed
4 ing children; and bullets for the unemployed"
To the Hindenburgs Stresemanns and Hilferdings
say You idiots if you think you break the unity of
the workers of the world with diplomatic The work
the u S. R. the nstgators of the Berlin revolt
only in the that the contrast between their improving
conditions under the Proetarian Dictatorship and the
senng conditions of the German working under your
bourgeois government is the inspiration which guides the
workers of Germany and of the world in their struggle
against capitalism
In the u S. the socialist well the capitalist press
attacking the heroic Berlin proeariat The Jewish
Daily Forwards well the New York Times label this
mighty struggle riots both feature the fable of Rus-
SIAN agents and both hide the murder by the police of house
wives and children we'll workers in the last lines of
their stories overlook these facts entirely
The capitalist and socialist press of the world exult
that order is reesabshed The prophetic words of Rosa
Luxembourg written before she murdered by these
socademocrats who direct the murder of work
from the cabinet who carry the murders chiefs
of police is the best eptaph to the martyrs who fell in the
fighting
"Order Bin thugs.
is built sand The Revolution will bristng
to the heights and will sound forth the
call: was am l am to be-!