The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-13
BERLIN Meet IN
DISCUSSION or
COMMUNIST Task
Demonstrate Against
Visiting Monarch
Continued from Page One

Cial democracy is the strongest
part of the bourgeois repressive ap-
paratus. The growth Of the social
democracy and the petty bourgeoisie
produced social fascism. The social
composition of the social democracy
was progressively changing from the
proletariat to petty bourgeois.
Thaelmann attacked the conciliators
and charged them with maintaining
their previous attitude towards So
cial democracy in the face of the
May Day bloodshed, the Mayed
burg congress prohibition of the
Red Front Fighters and Rote Fahne.
The conciliators had utterly failed
to see social fascism. The left wing
social democrats were the strongest
enemy of the congress inside the
working class and the strongest
lever of social fascism. Thaelmann
described the increased labor strug-
giles since the Essen Congress. The
workers were commencing to an
swer the capitalist offensive with
counter-offensives. The new tactics
of the Communists consist chiefly in
a great change in Trade Union pol
icy whereby new organizational
forms are found. The new policy
resulted in breaking through trade
lnion discipline, arbitration decisions
and tariffs previously misused by
the reformists. The main weight of
the work is now in the factories
and mass organizations. The strug-
gle against reformism is not only
tactical but also an organizational
problem. The network of revolu-
tionary shop councils in the factories
must be extended. The struggle for
the majority of the German prole-
tariat represents the essence of the
new tactics. A merciless struggle
must be conducted against reform
ism, social fascism and deviations
from the Party line. After the ex-
pulsion of the right wingers, the
conciliators are continuing their
former role. Where the Party en-
ergetically carried out the new
trade union tactic great successes
were achieved. Thaelmann then
dealt with the Berlin May strug-
giles; the masses developed e. higher
stage in the class struggle. The
social democrats bear the exclusive
guilt. The social democrats wanted
to provoke the Communist Party
into new March action and rem
der the Party incapable of fighting
for long period in which the bour-
geoisie could then prepare for war
against the Soviet Union unhinder-
ed. Hundreds of thousands followed
the slogan Of the Party, Demon
strate on May Day." when police
brutalities compelled the workers
to adopt the offensive. The workers
demanded arms. The Party was I'M
able to grant the demand because
the general situation was unripe for
armed instruction. The Party acted
correctly in issuing the slogan for
the mass strike. Although the
strike was only partially successful
it expressed nevertheless The soil
darity of the proletarian united
front against the bourgeoisie and
social fascists. Concluding, Thael-
mann enumerated the tasks of the
Party in the struggle against i'm
perialist war and for the defense of
the Soviet Union, against reformism,
against the capitalist offensive and
for the dictatorship of the prole-
tariat.
After a report by Habisch on the
work of the Young Communist
League the session closed.
Today's session of the congress
commenced with speech by Over
ZACH on Party work among women.
The speaker stressed particularly
womens' activity in the Berlin May
struggles.
Discussion on Thaelmann speech
commenced with delegates from
Berlin, Saxony, Wuerttemberg, Sill
esia, Thuringia, Rhineland, Ruhr,
etc., expressing themselves as I'M
reservedly for the Party policy. u
BRIGHT, member of the Central Com
mittee, declared that the May strug-
giles broke through police prohibi-
ton for the first time since 1923.
For the first time the workers
adopted the political mass strike
and barbados in self defense. The
May experiences were exemplary
for future struggles. By barricades
and self defense against police
terror the Berlin workers showed
the broad masses that police were
not invincible and this increased the
confidence of the workers. No revo-
lutionary situation for armed insur-
rection existed, but organized resist
ance was necessary. The Party
would do the same again. The
struggle against police terror for
the streets won US valuable expert
ence necessary for the overthrow of
the bourgeois power.
Owing to the presence of King
Fuad in Berlin the presidium pro-
posed the issue of declaration of
solidarity of the Egyptian workers
and peasants. The delegates rose
singing the International, and the
session closed.
IMPERIALIST CONFERENCE.
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