The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-22
Danish socialists" in Power

The Danish workers are blessed
with social-democratic government
for the second time, although they
are beginning to ask themselves
what is the difference" The
social-democrat, which is the strong
est party in Denmark, still exercises
great influence on the Danish
workers, but their betrayal will fl
nally be exposed by their own acts
in the period now beginning.
The 1924 social-democratic gov
eminent under Staining can very
we'll be called the first phase in
capitalist sterilization after the end
Of the war. After the German mark
was stabilized by American finance
capital in 1928 the next turn came
to Denmark and it was the role of
the social-democratic government to
lead in this sterilization.
The kronen was stabilized by the
social-democratic government at the
expense of the working class with
The result that the rich doubled their
fortunes while the income of the
working class and the poor farmers
was cut in half. Especially in the
part of the country coded back to
Denmark from Germany at the end
of the war was this felt by the
workers and poor farmers. The
farmers who had mortgaged their
property when the kronen was worth
so, now had to pay back their debts
on the basis of 100. The result was
bankruptcy after bankruptcy of
these poor farmers. And of course
the workers who don't own property
and have to face double expenditure
in the buying of food and clothing
found themselves worse off after
this sterilization carried so success
fully through by the capitalist
lackies, the ocial-democrats.
Unemployment Grows.
The second achievement of the
social-democracy in power was that
unemployment increased from 1912
per cent in 1924 to 22.3 in 1926 and
today, on the eve of social-democracy
again taking power, one-third of the
Danish working class is idle. When
the workers began to fight against
these int -lerable conditions and
threatened general strike, the So
|cial-democratic government answered
with strike provisorium which for
bid the walkout, or the state power
would be used against the workers.
Only due to the betrayal by the
trade union leaders who called off
the strike at the last minute were
these social-democratic traitors able
to defeat the working class.
Just after this betrayal we enter
into the second period Of capitalist
sterilization when the bourgeoisie
had utilized social-democray to the
limit and decided to take over the
offices themselves. This second Pc
Rod was especially utilized by the
capitalists to abolish the social laws
won by the workers through many
years of struggle, to cut the wages
of the state employees and in gen.
eral lower the standard of living Of
the Danish working class.
The military program which had
already been prepared by the social
democrats was further developed by
the conservative government. The
only question they differed about
was the amount Of money to be
spent in certain military adventures.
We find thus that the social-demo.
Gratis openly state "Our natural
enemy which used to be toward the
South (meaning Germany is no
longer our enemy. For our present
enemy we must look toward the
East"
Path for Britain.
The social-democrats in their 1924
period of government had already
proposed to deepen the Sound, which
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