The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-22

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aration for war. Their Magdeburg
Congress testifies to active support
of the imperialist mobilization of
Germany. They have adopted an
armament program which binds their
party to unlimited support of the
imperialist preparations for war; at
their party congress they have ig-
nored with a shrug of their Shout
ders the resistance of the workers
to the armored-cruiser policy. They
have, after their party congress,
made possible the continuation of
armored-cruiser building, and have
bound themselves to the building of
whole series of armored cruisers.
The economic policy, which the
Social Fascists, together with the
German bourgeoisie is conducting, is
war policy. The gradual liquida-
ton of social legislation, the APP
preaching restriction of unemploy-
ment insurance, the increase in the
cost of living, the tax policy in
favor of the capitalists end at the
expense of the broad impoverished
masses, the mutual efforts of the
capitalists and the Social-Fascist
trade union bureaucracy to keep
down the wages of the workers, to
increase exploitation in the shops
all this is part of the war'prep-
arations of German imperialism.
Attacks on Working Class.
Since this war policy is met by an
ever greater resistance on the part
of the working class, since this re-
sistance is strengthened by the de-
velopment in the Soviet Union, the
German bourgeoisie is passing over
with the support of the Social
Fascists and with their most active
participation-to political suppress
sion of the revolutionary prOletariat.
This is the meaning of the Fascist
methods which have been employed
during the past months against the
revolutionary proletariat of Ger
many. Here lies the root cause for
the bloody May battles, for the pro-
hibition of the Red Front Fighters,
for the suppression of the Com
munist press, and for the prepare
tory steps toward the prohibition of
the Communist Party.
If the workers of the whole world
come out on the streets on August
first then they will demonstrate not
only against an imperialist war
threatening to occur in the distant
future, but also against very direct,
imminent war measures of imperial
ism against the Soviet Union. Pre-
cisely because this new imperialist
war is today directly before our
eyes, it is the duty of the working
class to make the greatest effort in
order on the first of August to set
up against the imperialist will to
war the united revolutionary front
Of the proletariat. The Communist
Party is not organizing the workers
on August First for putsch: it does
not call for an armed uprising at
fixed date without consideration of
the objective situation. The Com
inunist Party calls for. an extensive
mass demonstration, which will and
must be all the more powerful be-
cause the danger of an imperialist
war, and indeed of a war against
the Soviet Union, is becoming great
er, because the bourgeoisie is al
ready taking direct measures against
the Soviet Union.
Prepare For August First.
Likewise the denunciation of this
mass demonstration as a putsch by
the Social Fascist press-especially
by the cleft" Social Fascists, such
as the criminal rascal KunstIer and
the editor of the Leipzig Volks-
zeitung" - will not hold back the
working class from leaving the shops
on August First and going out on
the streets.
We must begin today with full
energy our preparations for August
First. In thousands Of shops the
workers must take a stand and an
nounce their determination to make
the first of August day of strug-
gle against war, for the revolution
airy support of the Soviet Union, of
the struggle against Fascism and
against Fascist oppression, of the
struggle against the capitalist Of
fensive and for the emancipation Of
the proletariatl