The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS
OF GERMAN ELECTIONS


National Socialists. All parties in Germany
therefore, with the exception of the Commu
nists are coalition parties, government par
ties All parties in Germany with the excep
ton of the Communists are therefore YounlI
parties, who, supported by the government
power fulfill the Young Plan at the cost O
the toiling masses.
Against Young Plan.
The German Reichstag elections are de
csion of the masses for or against the Youns
Plan. Herein lies the international impoI
tance of the elections The fascists are at
tempting to win broad masses by means O.
the false flag of fight against the Young
Plan. They have achieved certain successes
lately in their policy. The petty bourgeois |
masses and that part of the working class who |
vote for the national socialists in so doing ex.
press not their satisfaction but their dissatis
faction with the EXISTING capitalist society
their hatred and their bitterness against the
Young Plan. The Strengthening of the fascists
means, however, at the same time a strength
ening of the German bourgeoise, which is
carrying out the Young Plan with all means
Therefore the Communist Party is throwing
all it's energies into the fight against fascsm
We exposing the national demagogy OF
the Hitler party. We are combating the
threatening enslavement and exploitation Of
the German people by the fascist dictatorship
by proving before all to the toilers in town
and country that the national emancipation of
Germany can be accomplished only by the So
cial revolution, by the overthrow of the bour-
geoise in Germany itself. The coming Ger
man Soviet Republic will declare the Versailles
|. Peace, the Locarno Treaty, the Young Plan, asI
we'll as all the other imperialist treaties /
agreements and plans to be null and void The
German Soviet Republic will not recognize
frontiers that bava hoe Il Will 81
regard 10 the right of self-determination oil
the peoples and without the approval of the
overwhelming majority of the toilers. TheI
German Soviet Republic, in closest economc|
and political alliance with the Union of So
cialist Soviet Republics and supported by the
brotherly solidarity of the proletariat in the
victor states and of the oppressed peoples of
the colonies, will oppose all acts of violence
on the part of world imperialism.
The German Reichstag elections are deci-
sion of the masses for or against imperialist
war. The policy of the government party, the
imperialist policies of Hindenburg and Brun-
ing, Hugenberg and Hitler promote the danger
of war in the whole world. The mperalist
German bourgeoisie, supported by the social
democrats and fascists, is actively taking part
in the preparations for an intervention war
against the Soviet Union We embody the
common class struggle of the workers of
Germany, France, Poland, Italy and Great
Britain against the common enemy-word
capital.
Fight Fascism.
The German Reichstag elections are de-
cision of the masses for or against fascism
Through the whole of Europe there is sweep
ing wave of fascist reaction, which has been
| let loose by the ruling classes as their last
| resort against the rehabilitation of the pro-
| letarat, against the advance of the socialist
| revolution. Whilst the fascist relationships in
Italy, Spain, Latvia and Poland are being
| shaken by the world economic crisis and the
| class struggle of the proletariat, new fascist
| relationships have been set up in Yugoslavia
Austria and Finland In Germany, the great
est industrial state in Europe, fight is rag
ing between fascism and proletarian revou-
ton. The bankrupt bourgeois democracy and
| its chief representative, the social democratic
! Party are in this fight Internationally on the
| side of fascism. The Reichstag elections are
trial of strength for the inevitably approach
! ing decisive fight between revolution and fas-
cism in Germany which will be of the very
greatest Importance for the future develop
ment in the whole of Europe.
The German Rechstag elections are a de-
| clsion of the masses between Communism and
| social democracy. They an important
stage in the fight of the Communists for win
! ming the majority of the working class. The
social democracy, in the one year and nine
! months in which it participated in the coal-
! ton government set its approval to the Grim
| inal Young Plan, placed enormous burdens
| upon the working masses and Systematically
! created the pre-condtions for the establish
/ ment of fascist dictatorship. The elections
| will represent settling of accounts with the
| party of Hermann Mueller, Severing and Zoer-
| giebe They will be an important indication
| of the rehabilitation of the German proletariat,
| of the advance of the Communist Party. --
Fight Wage Cuts.
| The German Reichstag elections are, finally,
an important decision on the standard of wages
/ of the international proletariat. In Germany
the employers offensive against the standard
! of living of the working class, for the purpose
| of carrying out the Young Plan is in full swing.
| If the German capitalists succeed in reducing
! the wages of the German proletariat by ten,
! twenty, thirty and forty per cent it will mean
! powerful incentive to immediate wage cuts
| in America Great Britain France, Italy and
! all other countries The predatory character
/ of the Young Plan lies precisely in the fact
| that its realization inevitably results in lower
ing the standard of living of the proletariat, in
| threatening Of the very existence not only Of
| the German workers but of the workers of all
countries.
The worli bourgeoisie realizes the meaning
/ of the German elections. The French govern
! pent journalist Sauerwein published in the
prayer Presse" Of August IL an article en-
| titled "the German Unrest, in which he de-
| scribed the danger of a proletarian revolution