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finance capital, the president of the Reichs-
bank Schacht, receives today, apart from ms
other sources of income, with which am not
acquainted, an annual salary of 100000 marks,
In addition there is the fact that each OF his
sub directors who it is true receives less than
he does, draws an annual salary OF lSO,OOO
marks, and that at the Reichsbank 1t is the
practice that when any member OF the poard
of directors is dismissed on account OF proved
ncapability or any other reason, ne receives
on leaving sum amounting to eight times his
annual salary An ordinary director would
therefore receive a lump sum of 1,440OOO
marks, and Herr Schacht, if he were to resign
today, would receive no less than 2,720.OOO
marks. These and other people do not lose
anything under the Young Plan.
/ should like to supplement these scanda-
lous figures by pointing to the fact that we
have in Germany more than 100000 unem-
ployed who do not receive any unemployment
benefit. These people numbering more than
10000 are, as result of the fresh cutting
down of the public welfare services, driven to
the greatest misery and to despair. What is
an unemployed worker who has run out of
benefit to do when even the welfare institu-
lions refuse to grant him any relief
The old age pensioners and injured work
ers must as result of the measures of this
kitchens provided by the public welfare insti-
tutions, which food in the last few years was
given to the needy people gratis, but for
which a charge of % pfennig is now made.
Thus an injured worker who, for example, re-
ceives an allowance of 700 or 800 marks a
year, must therefore today, if he has three or
four children, pay from l to 1.25 marks for
this food.
Great as the differences between the parties
in the Preparations question may be, they are
all united in this House in the fight against
Communism and the proletarian revolution.
Today, when it is question of carrying out
the inner Young Plan and robbing the work.
ing people, there exist no serious differences
between the Nuremberg Bloc and the govern
ment parties. l should like to say to the
German nationalists, that at the meeting OF
the industrialists in Dusseldorf, the members
of the German National Peoples Party
Enthusiastically spoke and voted for the indus
trial program which is necessary IN order to
carry out the Young Plan.
We Communists are the only Party which
has set up against the Young Plan the slogan
of the proletarian revolution. That is why we
are illuminated; that is why they wish to
suppress us.
The law for the protection of the republic,
which will be discussed here in the next few
weeks, is the inner political sword with which
it is intended to crush the rebellious masses
who are fighting against the Young Plan.
With the law for the protection of the repub-
lie it is intended to suppress the Communist
press which tells the truth in the fight against
the Young Plan. Those who are fighting for
right and freedom are to be thrown into prison.
1t is to such means that the ruling class in
Germany has to resort; but it will find that
it is running it's head against brick wall.
The social democratic bourgeois coalition
the Young Plan.
We Communists, the Party of the proletar-
ian revolution, have made it our task to pre-
vent by every means the carrying out of the
Young Plan and to render its fufilment i'm
possible.
That is the reason for the unbridled CAM
paign of calumny on the part of the bourgeois
and social democratic press against the Com
munist Party. The social democratic Prus-
sian Minister of the Interior Grzesinsky, OPEN
ly declared the other day in the Prussian Diet
that he intended to prohibit the Communist
Party. And in the face of this the impudent
assertion is made that the leaders of the Com
munist Party are striving themselves for the
illegality of the Party.
l declare in the name of the Communist
Party, that this assertion is miserable, con-
temptible canard
We not only fight up to the last minute for
all legal possibilities of activity, we call to
the German working class: Defend the Com
munist Party with all your powers against the
attacks of the social fascist government coali-
ton. We declare, however, at the same time:
we not afraid of illegality, for Severing
and Grzesinsky will never succeed in forcing
the Communist Party, the Party of the million
masses of the German proletariat, to its knees.
They will never succeed in separating the
Communist Party from the proletarian masses
Today we can declare with pride that the
Red Front Fighters League still lives and car
ries on the fight, regardless of every prohibi-
ton. We must not forget that the suppress
sion of the Red Front Fighters League was a
shameful act on the part of the present rulers
This prohibition cited the provisions of the
Versailles Treaty in order to deprive of its
rights a revolutionary organization of the
German workers. The bourgeoisie relies on
the Treaty of Versailles. We are the enemies
of Versailles, and the Young Plan is the Sec
ond Versailles.
The Young Plan is not only Pact of hun
ger and suppression against the toilers Of
Germany, but it is also war pact against the
Soviet Union. The Young Plan is the war
program of the world bourgeoisie against the
state of the proletarian dictatorship. Never
were ornaments being piled up so feverishly
in all countries as today. That is shown by
against the imperialists who, in spite of their
mutual antagonisms, are unite against the
indanandonce yooveuoeur IF tho Cpprnnuo nan.