The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-12
GERMANY AND THE YOUNG
PLAN
Speech Delivered by Ernst Thaemann at the Meeting of the
Reichstag February H. 1880.

the deficit of 700,000000 in the budget the
Finance Minister Moldenhauer announced that
up to the year 1882 credits will be taken from
the employees, insurance and incapacity in
surance in order to meet the necessary out
gongs for unemployment insurance. With the
increasingly growing number of unemployed,
which on world scale already exceeds 15,000,-
600 and is growing rapidly, particularly in Ger
many, this measure means the liquidation and
ruin of the whole social insurance.
There is no country in the world which is
marching forward and making magnificent
progress in the sphere of social policy and
social welfare, with one exception The Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics, where the pro-
letariat has the power and the workers rule.
We have today more than 8 y million unemlt
ployed. If we include their families, we find
that today ten million people without breadA
and work. That is about one-seventh of the
whole population of Germany. To this is to
be added 100000 permanent invalids, 2,000,-
600 war Victims 100000 in receipt of pensions
on account of accidents, and the smaller rem
tiers who have been ruined by the initiation
1t is against this great proletarian army,
which suffers the most deprivation, which is
most ruthlessy exploited, that finance capital,
which is carrying out the Young Plan, is di-
recting its fiercest and first attack This bru-
tai unbounded exploitation, which cannot even
be described in words, which we call the Gin
ner Young Plan,' will rage even more fright
fully and disastrously than at present and will
hit the whole proletariat. Under the murder
effects of the Young Plan there suffer the
100000 workers in the factories as we'll as
the 80 million unemployed the female as Well
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workers
And not only the proletariat, all strata of
the working middle class in town and country
are suffering under the Young Plan. The
small shopkeepers and business people, the
artisans, who overwhelmed with taxes,
who are losing the last penny of their savings,
who are squeezed by monopolist capital and
by the big multiple shops-they are all groan-
ing under the burdens of the Young Plan.
This government and the capitalists who are
behind it completely incapable of annulling
the debts to foreign capital. But government
of a similar composition, and the same German
capitalists, had sufficient courage and determi-
nation, simply by annulling the inner debts, to
rob those millions of subscribers to the war
loans who had given their last penny for the
benefit of the imperalist state.
The lower officials and employees who, as
a result of naturalization, are dismissed in
hundreds and thousands from the public offices,
the factories and business houses, are likewise
the victims of the Young Plan. To these vic
tins are to be added the hundreds and thou
sands of small peasants who are being starved
out by industrial capital, the banks and big
landowners. They being deprived of their
last cow and the most necessary farming equip
m are na 10 ho foyo
demanded of them for the Young Pan And
if small peanut attempts to resist he is |
dubbed and batoned by the police just as the J
Communist worker in the town.
I call to mind in this connection the happen
ings in Schleswig Holstein and in the Rhine
land.
Today two fronts face each other in Ger
many: The victims of the Young Plan and those
who benefit by the Young Plan. The victims
are toilers without exception. The benefici-
aries are all exploiters, along with their social
fascist and national socialist agents.
The victims of the Young Plan are to be
seen in the statistics regarding sickness and
accidents, the increased child mortality the dali
~ increasing number of suicides, the misery and
starvation in Germany. The beneficiaries of
the Young Plan are to be seen in the provoca-
tive figures regarding wealth, which will not
fail to submit to this Parliament Of the pos
sessing class l merely mention the fact that
while we have increasing misery and frghtful
poverty Of the masses, it is still possible to-
day, in Germany of the Young Plan that direc-
tors of the Steel Rolling Trust receive 10000
marks, every director of Kfupp 10000 marks,
the director of the Steel Works Association
; 10000 marks, the directors of the l. G. Far
ben Industry 100000 marks and General Direc-
tor Cuno of the Hamburg American Line 6Oo,-
900 marks annually
(To be continued.