The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-20

giebel must continue to drive the
workers from the streets and to
maintain the peace. The prohibition
of the Red Front Fighters League
and the sanguinary May-Day were
merely the beginnings. If the So
cial democrats are to remain in the
government, they had to promise the
Centrum the concordat and buy the
consent of the Volkspartei to this
reactionary step by concessions of a
social nature, while at the same time
abandoning all resistance to expendi-
ture for ornaments.
In spite of all these sacrifices at
the cost of the workers, the bour-
geoisie are not content with the re-
suit. Therefore there is deficit
of two thousand millions in the
treasury. The employers call cate
gorically for thrift. Saving means
getting more out of the workers and
giving them less for it. To save the
bourgeois apparatus from financial
ruin, Hilferding submitted the plan
of loan of 500 millions, which even
the spokesman of the German Ma
tional Party considered unparalleled
in history in its callous deprivation
of the poor for the enrichment of
the very richest.
The Social Democrats are not only
ready to commit this act of piracy;
they are even willing to pay the
rich for being allowed to do it. On
the day on which the loan was
passed, the "Bergwerks-Z eitung" de-
clared it to be "the duty of every
patriotic German not to subscribe to
it." Hilferding, it said, should raise
the money by pairing the expenses
of the social budget. Meanwhile the
"Borsen-Zeitung," the organ of the
Berlin financial capitalists, declares
ION May 24th) that 'the government
is snubbing the subscribers to the
loan" by making no suggestion as to
. the restriction of the social budget.
This, too, the Social Democrats are
willing to do for the sake. of retain
ing their position of authority in the
government.
Such are the prospects after the
Social Democratic victory of May
LIST. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" is
therefore right in it's fear of the
social DOGGY" The bourgeoisie
knows that in such situation the
workers would not run away from
the Communists, as the Brandlerites
proclaimed at all street-corners. The
masses are urged towards the C. P.
G. by their present position. There
fore both the German" and the
Hugenberg press call for a prohibit
ton of the C. P. G. Severing, the
Dictator of the Coalition with Para
graph 49," is willing to pay this
price too for his seat in. the Ministry.
S. DIS May Lose Posts.
Nevertheless, most of the big S.
P. G. bugs are bound to lose their
well-paid positions in the govern
ment and the municipalities. When
they have served their turn they
can go. The sleek bourgeoisie has
plenty of candidates in it's own ranks
for well-paid positions and more in
telligent people than the comrades"
that have risen to such positions Of
dignity. But even if the great
majority of the professional hood
winkers Of the working class are
ousted by their bourgeois colleagues
in the Coalition, the Social Demo-
cratic Party will remain what it is,
the corruptible strumpet of the bour-
geoisie.
Under circumstances such as these,
the greatest tasks arise for the revo-
lutionary workers. They must recog-
nize the full complication of the posi-
ton, SO as to prepare themselves for
the solution of the tasks before
them; they must train the entire
working masses for the inevitable
fight and lead them to victory.
From the sanguinary May-Day of