The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-17
BY PAUL NOVICk.

1t has now been clearly proven that the
majority of the organized workers of Ger
many are behind the Communist Party. There
are still millions of workers voting for the
social democrats or even for the reactionary
parties, but as far as the workers who are
organized in the old unions-yes, even in the
old, reformist unions of the Amsterdam In
ternationa-a majority of them have already
been won over for Communism
In Berlin, the Communist Party is now the
party of the working class. Berlin truly went
red for the first time. The Communist Party
for the first time tops the list of all other
parties, getting between fifty and sixty thou
sand votes more than the social democratic
party, which has held the first place in the
German capital since the 1918 revolution. The
social democratic party was smashed in every
working class district. Already in the muni-
cipal elections of November, 1929, the Com
munist Party succeeded for the first time in
gaining first place in the working class dis
tricts of Wedding, Neu-Koen and Berlin
Mite. But the social democratic party still
held first place in Berlin in number of votes.
Now that first place has been wrested from
the social fasclsts, notwithstanding the fact
that they carried Potsdam and other bourgeois
and petty bourgeois districts, it is clear that
in all working class districts of red Berlin
Hferding has been crushed.
That party was taken to account for the
blood-bath of May, 1929, when SO workers
were shot by the Berlin Socialist" police;
for beating up and shooting into the demon
STATIONS of the unemployed last winter; for
accepting and enforcing the Young Plan,
which means further exploitation of the work
ing class for the benefit of international and
German capital; for the Hilferding budget
which was in line with this Plan and which
gave the employers hundreds of millions of
marks in privileges and tax-cuts and has
put additional burdens on the shoulders of
the workers. For these and many other
treacheries, the servants of capital were taken
to account and a crushing defeat of their party
in all working class districts was the result.
Berlin Is Communist.
In Berlin majority of all workers lined
up behind the colors of Communism When
the returns of other industrial districts will
be in, may discover some more such CEN
tiers where the majority of the entire working
class population voted for the Communist
Party. But, far as the workers organized
in the revolutionary opposition and in the So
called free Gewerkschaften Amsterdam
Unions) which are officially under the control
of the social-democrats and have even con-
for the social democratic campaign the ma
jority of them voted for Communism This
is true not only of Berlin and other red CEN
tiers, but of all working class districts through
out Germany.
The official endorsement of the "free" Gew-
erkschaften of the social democratic ticket
did not help. The -entire vote of the social
democrats seems to have been about eight and
a half million, whereas the membership of
the Gewerkschaften is seven million. 1t
is clear that this membership alone, including
their families, represents a much bigger vote
than the one received by the socia-democrats
But, in speaking of ocial-democratic voters
we -. st mainly have in mind the bourgeois
and the petty bourgeois voters who probably
constitute the bulk Of the social democratic
strength in the elections. as, for instance the
Potsdam and other districts in Berlin
The % seats gained by the Communist
Party (76 deputies instead of 54) were
wrested from the ocial-democrats and some
of the bourgeois parties, like the christian
socialists" There can be no denying that the