The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-05
By SAUL AUERBACH

While we observe the Fifth An
niversary of the Daily Worker and
prepare ourselves for an even more
intensive struggle, we might keep
in mind the Communist newspapers
in Europe, which have much the
same problems to face as we have,
and which are the organs of the re-
volutionary struggle on it's Europe
an front.
Although we know that our strug-
gle is an international one and that
workers all over the world are fight
ing for the overthrow of capital
ism, to pick up copy of Human
ite," the organ of the Communist
Party of France, or the ''Rote
fahne," of the German Communist
Party, or the Workers Life" of
the English Communist Party, is
to become convinced of the unbreak-
able bend that ties us to our class
brothers.
Big Circulation
The "Humanite" is the third
largest newspaper in France, and
is the main working class COMPETE
tor of all the bourgeois newspapers
combined. In the words of sailor
just come to port, "At Marseille,
the 'Hunlanite' is piled UP this high
on the stands and the sailors buv it
like hotcakes."
One can truly say that the "Hu-
mantle" is mass newspaper, fight
ing for the mass of workers, sup
ported by them, and the bugle call
to revolutionary action in France.
There is not an event which affects
the working class that does not find
it's response in Humanite. Every
struggle Of revolutionary workers
against speed-up or wage cuts finds
expression in the voice of the French
masses. The textile strikers in the
Lille area welcomed the Humanite
with open arms, looking to it for
Interpretation of events.
Expose Anti-Soviet Plot
The Vaccinations of the French
imperialists in alliance with the
British in preparation for an ag-
gressive war against the Soviet
Union are met and combatted at
every point, in the Humanite. 1t ex-
posed Brands maneuvers at Geneva
when he tried to excuse the frantic
war preparations of the French gov
eminent by irtimating that there
was always danger of class war and
invasion" by the Soviet Union. 1t
showed how the French war depart
ment trains and finances the armies
Of Poland and Rumania and YIELDS |
them into an anti-Soviet bloc. 1t |
rallied the workers against the
Franco-British naval pact and tai
lies every move of the imperialists
with a cry of Organization for the
revolutionary movement and down |
with the imperialists!"
The Humanite is so open to all |
events which affect the working |
class that its pages seem to be able
to mould themselves to every need |
and demand of the workers, to every |
on the part of the master |
class and it's reformist allies to fur |
Their subdue the workers.
Fights Socialists"
The "Rote Fahne" is an equally |
powerful paper, taking up the fight |
Of the international proletariat on
the German front. In the Ruhr met
al lockout, in the shipyard workers
strike, in the Hamburg dock strike,
in every major workers struggle in
tie factory it has been a guiding
post.
The German social-democrats,
those supporters of German imperi-
alism, the open enemies of militant
workers movements, the allies of
the bosses as the Ruhr situation has
shown, are the real
enemies Of the German working
class and the "Rote Fahne" spares
no words to express their real role
and points out the way the workers
must travel.
Against Reformists
During tn, cruiser building CAM
paign Of the German government,
of which the Socialists" are an in
tegral part, the "Rote Fahne' was
the daily written expression of the
Communist campaign against the
new German imperialism. 1t never
loses an opportunity to rally the
workers against reformist leaders in
the trade unions, against the war
maneuvers of the government,
against the attempt to give Wall
Street more power as the shylock
of the German workers. 1t rallies
it's readers-and its readers extend
into hundreds Of thousands--ar around
the revolutionary movement.
Many Features
eBsides, the "Rote Fahne" like
"Humanite," also carries on its work
On the cultural field, training the