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

casion, too, Severing attempted to
procure a backing in the hostile
foreign countries" The Red Front
Fighters League was forbidden on
the grounds that of of it's members
had taken part in plain clothes in
the May demonstrations of the c. P.
G. and that, as a military organiza-
ton, it had infringed the enactments
of the Versailles Treaty. Again it
was the "Temps" for whose praise
Severing was fishing; the reply he
received, however, was that natur-
ally such military organization as
the Hitler Guard, the Steel Helmet,
the "Jungdo," and the rolling COM
mandos of the Reichswehr did not
infringe on the Peace Treaty at all.
Right Renegade in Plot.
The offensive carried on by the
Social Democratic Ministers for the
trial of the Communist May-Day
criminals" has not met with the de-
sired effect, unfortunately" as all
men of the Severing stamp will be
sure to think. The Communists had
in most instances to be acquitted for
lack of evidence. This was certainly
not the doing of judges who sympa-
thized with the accused, as in 1918
the public prosecutor Jorns did with
the. Social Democratic Ministers
Wolfgang Heine and Landsberg in
the trial of the murders of Lieb-
knecht.
To judge by the jubilation of
Kunstler, chairman of the Berlin So
cial Democratic Party, who accused
the government of slackness in its
treatment of the Communists when
speaking at Cologne and Hamburg,
one would think the S. P. G. had won
regular Tannenberg victory over
the c. P. G. The latter, it would
appear, are absolutely floored. This
is how the renegades of the Brandler
group also argue. These previous
Communists" and "revolutionaries"
really covered themselves with glory
before and after the first of May.
They furnished the Social Demo-
cratic and bourgeois butchers with
arguments for their justification of
the arbitrary police measures. In
issue No. 81 of the publication
"Gegen den Strom," Paul Frolich
announces that the G. P. G. and the
Comintern have the intention of. pre-
pairing fresh "putsch" for August
1st. This method is not new.
Part of War Drive.
But what are the problems facing
the German bourgeoisie, the S. 2.
G. and the working class? We shall
briefly enumerate them here. The
complications at the Paris Repara-
lions Conference furnish good illus
tration. From this position the bour-
geoisie sought to issue by means of
an offensive against the working
class and by participation in war
against the Soviet Union, for which
it is now preparing. Growing COM
petition, the payment of debts, and
ornaments are all things that cost
much money. This can only be
drawn from the marrow of the
workers.
For this operation the S. P. G..
is indispensable. Hilferding's budget
therefore provides for new duties
and taxes on mass consumption and
e C o n omy in social expenditure,
while Wissells draft of the workers
protection laws envisages the ten
hour day. Unemployment relief is
to be restricted and emergency relief
abolished. Wissells apparatus of
arbitration must avoid strikes and
bind the working masses by long
termed contracts. 1t is up to the
trade-union leaders to get the work.
ers to work more, to work cheaper,
and to work for two extra hours
daily. Any workers rebelling at
such "march into Socialism" will be
dismissed from the unions.
Severing. Grzesinski. and zor-