The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-29
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More Details on Berlin
ii May Day Terror
BULLETIN,


2S.-Chancellor Hermann Mueller,
head of the social-democratic
party, won a victory here today
when the party convention decided
to continue its treacherous bid
ding for bourgeois favor in the
formation of a coalition govern
ment and in the second appropria-
ton for the new German cruiser.
The vote was carried. 256 to
'13S, after demand had been made
that the party withdraw from the
coalition agreement on which
Mueller's cabinet is formed. The
strong opposition vote shows that
many of the socialist" leaders
fear. the resentment of the masses.
Mueller addressed the conven-
ton, defending his actions and at
titude. He said further opposi-
ton to the cruiser construction
would mean another govern
ment crisis" meaning that the big
industrialists might lose patience
with their socialist" footmen and
kick. them downstairs.
MAGDEBURG, Germany, May %
Serious internal disputes, centering
chiefly around the May Day murders
and the imperialist parliamentary
tactics of the social-democrats
marked the opening of the national
congress of the social-democratic
party here.
The so-called cleft" social-demo-
Gratis, unable longer to quell the in
tense indignation of their working
class supporters, are going in for
heroic grandstand plays in an effort
to cover up their own acquiescence
In the treacherous policies of the
bureaucratic leaders. They criticised
The ban on the May Day demonstra-
lions and the coalition policy of the
party, particularly the approval by
the four social-democratic cabinet
members of the cruiser appropria-
tions which aroused storms of pro-
test from hundreds of thousands of
workers.
Loyal to Treachery.
Lest there be any suspicion that
they actually want the German
social-democratic party to serve the
interests of the workers instead of
the bourgeoisie, the cleft" social
democrats fastened to affirm their
answering loyalty to the party and
their determination to continue to
work under its traitorous banner.
The May Day murders hang like
a pail over the congress which not
even the flag-waving, organized
cliques and the buster of the
socialist" leaders can dispel. All
the star performers of the social
democratic party were trotted out on
The opening day in an effort to
make the rank and file forget the
barty's unparalleled treason. Chan
cellor Herman Mueller, Paul Loebe,
chairman of the Reichstag, and
Braun, premier of Prussia, were
among those who spoke. Their
speeches consisted almost entirely
of lyrical serenades to themselves
and to the GLORIOUS" achievements
of the ocial-democratic party.
c. P. Exposes Traitors.
The Communist Party of Ger
many, despite the suppression for
he second time of it's central organ,
he Rote Fahne, is using the social
democratic congress to expose be-
lore the German masses the treach-
rous face of German social-dem-
,cracy, whether fright" "csntrist"
n cleft" The Party is making spe-
ial efforts to reach the deluded
ocial-democratic workers and is
Meeting with considerable success.
More Details of May / Murders
BERLIN, May 9s.-The news
aper "Welt Am Abend" relates the
istory of one of the deaths on
erlin's bloody May Day when the
ocial-democratic chief of police,
oergiebel, sent his armed blood
ounds into the workingclass section
shoot to pieces the May Day dem
nstration of the workers.
The correspondent of the Frank
lrter Zeitung" tells of the shooting
, death of the social-democratic
inctionary, Gemeinhardt,. by Zoerg-
bells bloodhounds, who were out
kill and shot one of their own
aders by mistake. From this re-
,rt can be obtained some idea of
e ruthlessness of the police who
ere out for blood at any cost. The
rrespondent relates the following:
Raise Terror Cry.
On May /, at 2:20 p M, the police
ormed into Kosliner Street with
cry: "Clear the streets, close
indows, we are shooting!" Even
fore some of the inhabitants could
,se their windows, the revolvers of
police blazed. At Number 10 on
,sliner Street, the sociaf-democrat,
meinhardt, looked out of the win
W, beckoned to a policeman and
lied: