The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-13
GERMANY AND THE YOUNG
PLAN
Speech Delivered by Thaemann at the Meeting Of the
Reichstag February H. 1880.

the leadership OF America, are increasing theif
war preparations against the Soviet Union.
The world Preparations bank is fighting
organ of the international finance capital in
order violently "to open up the Russian mar
ket," to break through the socialist monopoly
of foreign trade to establish an economic
blockade and directly to finance the war
against the Soviet Union.
Schober and Mussolini conclude pact OF
aggression The Pope breaches a crusade
against Bolshevism. Mexico sewers relations
with the Soviet Union and arrests the am
bassador of the workers state. In Germany
the Chervonetz forgers are acquitted, the
Reichswehr and police budget reaches the
enormous sum of 1000 millions Armored
cruiser A is being followed by cruiser and
then and d. The main portion of the Ger
man fleet is stationed in the Baltic against
the Soviet Union. The anti-Soviet war incite-
ment is assuming unprecedented forms IN the
whole world.
"The Young Plan means security of peace!
declared the social democrats when they
signed the Plan at the Hague This assertion
is of just as much value as their phrase about
the Young Plan being an instrument of free
dom and a step towards alleviating the bur-
dens.
The German-Polish liquidation agreement is
of special Importance. There is thereby firm
the united front of German and Polish imper
ialism against the Soviet Union. In spite of
the great and crying need of the toiling popu
lation in Eastern Germany, the German gov
ernment of which the social democrats Brett
scheid, Rauscher and Lobe are the agents,
allies itself with the fascist murderer of work
ers, Pisudski, and this precisely at the present
time in order jointly to organize intervention
against Soviet Russia.
We declare that from the Press center Of
the Minister for the Interior there is being let
loose in the whole country, simultaneously
with the calumnies against us Communists,
deliberate war propaganda against the Soviet
Union. We declare from this place our brother
ly solidarity with the Communist Party of Po-
land and the Polish working class, which, in
profound illegality, is conducting heroic life
and death struggle against bloody fascism
We are united in our endeavor to hasten the
time when the sinister agreement of the Ger
man and Polish counter-revolution will be
destroyed when this international conspiracy
against the Soviet Union will be crushed by
the revolutionary union of the emancipated
masses Of Germany, Poland and the Soviet
Union.
Against the predatory Young Plan we are
fighting for the Bolshevik solution of the rep
arations question, for the program of the
proletariap revolution. (The President threat
ems to forbid Comrade Thalman to speak fur
Their. Loud protests from the Communist
| benches.) As the President wishes to take the
| opportunity of preventing me from speaking,
| l should like in conclusion to point to that
| world-historical act of emancipation which was
accomplished by the Russian workers and
| peasants.
The Soviet Power has annued over 10000
| million roubles of czarist debts by means of
rpVOufion The RIG of a.
Union has not paid and never will pay to i'm
| perialism a single penny for debts, interest
| or reparations. On the other hand there is
| being accomplished in the land of the prole-
tartan dictatorship that magnificent work. the
heroic struggle to build up socialism. Whilst
| in Germany five year finance plan of in
tensfied plundering of the masses is set up,
the Soviet Union, with the help of the magni-
ficent Five Year Plan is VIGOROUSLY building
up socialism. In capitalist Germany the Young
Plan prevails against the workers; in the So
Wet Union the Five Year Plan rules for the
workers and peasants
The proetarian emancipation fight against
the Young Plan is indissolubly connected with
the daily fight of the whole working class.
In the fight against the Young Plan the prole-
tariat employs all forms of the revolutionary
class struggle, whereby the weapon of the
political mass strike begins to play decisive
role. We place ourselves at the head of the
fight of the workers in the factories and of the
unemployed.
We can imagine government in Germany
which will ruthlessly annul the Young Plan by
revolutionary means It is the German Soviet
government, the future government of the
victorious German proletariat (The President
interrupts the speaker by continually ringing
his bell. Disturbance in the whole house. An
plause from the Communists).
When the dictated peace of Versailles was
on the point of being concluded the Commu-
mist international declared in its appeal Of
it's first World Congress to the workers of all
countries, written by Lenin:
y THE dictatorship of the proletariat and
the establishment of the Soviet Power-that
4 is the only conclusion for the proletariat Of
the whole world to draw from the lesson
of Versailles" fDss
We German Communists will draw this
lesson, this Bolshevik conclusion and act ac.
cordingiy at the head of the working class.
Whilst in Germany fascism is coming into
power, there exists in the Soviet Union the
red army of the armed proletariat. We are
proceeding on the road to the creation of =
revolutionary state power to the overthrow of
4 all exploiters. The bourgeoisie and social
fascism are leading the country to disaster.
we, the Communists, will prevent this dsas
Ter. When we are in power we will break
the yoke of international capital and annul
all separations obligations We will see To IL
that the workers who have been thrown onto