The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-06
REVOLUTIONARY UPSURGE
IN GERMANY

THE aggravation of class antagonists has
been proceeding in Germany during last
few weeks at rate far surprising all eXpecta-
tons. Unemployment figures which today al
ready exceed the figures of last year, are IN
creasing from week to week. The total num-
Der of unemployed amounts already to over
8 Million so that, including the dependent al
most 10 million people experiencing the
miseries of unemployment. Thanks to the Young
Plan and the first efforts of the American
crisis mass dismissals are taking place IN all
branches of industry, so that in the near III
ture continued increase of unemployment is
to be expected. American finance capital and
its agent in Germany, Rechsbank President
Schacht, who are barring the credits to Ger
many. are simultaneously parayzing all con-
structional activity and thereby still further
aggravating the crisis.
At the same time great wave of high prices
has set in as a result of the artificially en-
HANGED customs and taxation policy of the
coalition government and of the intervention
of Schacht. The era of the Young Plan is
characterized by brutal offensive against the
toiling masses The standard of living of the
German working class is being Systematically
depressed
Parallel with the starvation offensive of
the bourgeoisie and the development of the
economic crisis there is proceeding the develop
ment of the masses to the Left.
To the extent to which the Young Plan no
longer appears to the proletarian and the petty
bourgeois masses as hazy picture of plan
for extracting tribute, but with all the harsh
and palpable brutality of an every day fact;
no longer in the form of the million figures
of the "annuities,' but the Pfening increase
for every journey on the street cars or motor
bus, gas and electricity bill and the house rent,
to the same extent the nationalist demagogy
of the alleged Opposition" of the fascists to
the Young Plan loses its effect.
The fight against.the Young Plan is recog-
nized by the masses as class question, as
a social problem. Hence there is bound to be
an increase in the influence of the only Party
| which raised the question of the revolutionary
class struggle and shows the way out of pow
erty and the crisis: i. e., the most obstinate de-
tense of the proletarian class interests until
the present order is overthrown; the Party
which advocates the struggle for socialism.
The Communist Party of Germany is able to
continue it's struggle for the decisive sections
of the proletarat much more successfully and
determinedly. There no longer be any
doubt: Germany is actually approaching new
1928"
The German bourgeoisie and social DEM
ocracy are aware of this development. The
bourgeoisie itself speaks today of "Germany's
Kerensky period and thereby recognizes how
soon it expects the advent of the Red October
of the German proletariat.
The social democracy, which already during
| the course of the last year was severely de-
| feated in the most important industrial dis
| tricts by the Communist Party of Germany,
| realizes that a decisive stage has begun in the
struggle between the Conmunist Party and
social fascism for the majority of the working
class.
| Bourgeoisie and social democracy can see
only one way out: the application of the most
brutal measures of terror to suppress the rev.
dictionary working class Hence social DEM
ocracy is pressing for the passing of the law
for the protection of the republic, drafted by
its Minister for the Interior, Severing, by
means of which the Communist Party is to be