The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-04
By HEINZ NEUMANN (Berlin).

II Tor US communists parliamentary elections
are never mere struggles for votes but in
dicators of the forces in the class struggle,
this applies more than ever to the present
Reichstag elections in Germany. The election
fight which has been called forth by the dis
solution decree of the semi-faScist Bruning
Government is in reality parade of all the
fighting class forces, formation of the So
cial fronts, which is of the greatest importance
for the whole future development of Europe.
The whole of Europe, the whole world is
watching with strained attention the present
election fight in Germany. The toiling masses
are grooming under the consequences of the
economic crisis and under the burdens of the
Young Plan. Germany, which only few
years ago broke the record in regard to bour-
geois "stabilization" and praised as an
outstanding example of the vitality" of CAPT
talsm, is now experiencing the most severe
economic and political crisis since the end of
the war. The ruling class of Germany, their
ministers, their spokesman, their lackeys and
their newspapers speak of the danger of
collapse of the present social order.
A collapse of German capitalism, however,
would undoubtedly mean the end of the whole
capitalist Sterilization and would cause a no
less profound shaking of world imperialism
than that caused by the Bolshevik October
Revolution in 1917. Therefore the world bour-
geoise whose fate is bound up by thousand
threads with the fate of German capitalism,
is following with bated breath the course of
the class struggle in Germany
The dominating factor in the economic and
political development of Germany is the Young
Plan. The existence of the German bourgeoisie
depends upon whether it will succeed year by
year in squeezing average 1000 million
gold marks reparation payments and 1900
million interest in debt, i. e., a total of $500
million marks out of the blood and sweat. out
of the bones of the toiling masses of Ger
many as tribute to foreign capital
Six Months of Young Plan.
1t will soon be six months since the Young
Plan came into operation. These six months
have already shown that the Young Plan leads
to disaster for German economy, to the shak-
ing of the bourgeois class rule, to millions of
unemployed, to wage cuts in all branches of
industry, to the most frightful impoverish-
ment of the working peasantry, to the ruin
of innumerable petty bourgeois in the towns.
The resistance of the toiling masses, the re-
bellion of the working class, the indignation
of the INDECENT middle strata in town and
country are assuming increasingly sharp
forms. The Young Plan, which has been in
force hardly six months. is now threatened at
its very foundations.
The Young Plan is proving to be an insolu-
BILE capitalist contradiction threatening to re-
suit III q violent ehplOSlOH. i ne 1lTSC VlcClm
of this contradiction is bourgeois democracy.
The bourgeoisie from the extreme Rights to
their most Left Coalition Party, formerly the
democratic party, recognizes that the Weimar
Republic, parliamentary is completely incapa-
bic of securing the carrying out of the Young
Plan and of holding back the threatening adj
vance of the revolution. Therefore the Ger
bourgeoisie is doing away with the last
remnants of the democratic system. Hence it
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means of the dictatorship, Paragraph AZ.
Hence it causes Parliament to be dissolved by
President Hindenburg Hence it is using all
its political and organzational power to let
loose the fascist tendencies and is armng the
Nationalist Socialist terrorist bands against the
working class.
The overthrow of the Herman Muller coali-
ton government by finance capital was the
first signal for the setting up of the fascist
dictatorship. The social democracy with min
isteral jobs is to be converted into a social
democracy without ministerial jobs in order to
proceed all the ruthlessly against the
revolutionary proletariat. The peculiar fea-
ture of the fascisation of Germany is that the
decisive groups of finance capital, with Hin
denburg at the head, are setting up the die
tatorship themselves and at the same time
making for this purpose of the social
democracy and the fascist bands For the
bourgeolse the question is not FaScism
social democracy, but fascism with social
democracy Thus there arises the peculiar
situation that in the Reich the bourgeois Hin
| denburg parties in the government while
| in the Prussian Government the same linden
burg parties share office with the social dem
building of effective city and state Trade
| Union Unity Councils becomes of major i'm
| portance. This important organization, of
which none yet exist that function as they
| should, is the artery of the Revolutionary
| Trade Union Movement of the cities and the
! states is the coordinating, directing organ
| ization which solidifies the workers of all in
dustries in Joint strike struggle. Popuarize
| the demands of the striking workers. rarti-
| cipating in leading capacity on all strike
committees, not superceding but BRINGING for
ward the strike committee as the leader of
the strike organizing demonstrations against
! the fascist betrayers against police terror.
| against the state organizing mass working
| class violation of njunctions. SPREADING class
| theology and raising financial support for the
| strike, and eventually drawing larger masses
of workers into joint strike Struggle on con-
! crete demands.
The United Front.
The successful carrying through of the
| united front from below during strike must
| be carried forward after the strike and the
| revolutionary industrial unions and leagues
have boep hri1t into powerfr1 oroopc of tho