The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-11

| Wish TO preface my remarks by declaring
that the Communist Party, which on prin-
ciple adopts hostile attitude to the capt.
talist system, also in the PREPARATIONS questions
advocates on principle it's revolutionary stand
point before the working masses against the
policy of this Parliament from Versailles to
the Young Plan.
In these weeks, in which the Young Bill has
been discussed in committee and in Plenum
up to the third reading, decision of great
historical Importance is being made. This de-
cision means nothing more nor less than
that the working class, for three genera
tons, up to the year 1888, will have to pay to
foreign capital sums amounting to- milliards.
This fact alone is sufficient reason why this
slave-pact should be fought most bitterly in
this Parliament as well as outside it.
Let us call to mind the years 1918 and 1919,
when the working population confronted
with the question of liquidating the world war.
Also in that Hateful hour, two points of view
confronted each other. At that time the view
represented by the opponents of the Commu-
mist Party was crowned with the Treaty of
Versailles. Today it is question of the Sec
ond Versailles, of the Young Plan, which ac-
cording to the will of it's originators shall con-
stitute final" solution of the Preparations
problem. Here also today two fronts face each
POo-
sessing class and of the social democracy and
on the other side the front of the fighting
proletariat under the leadership of the Com
munist Party.
In the year 1919 the Spartacus Bund the
young Communist Party, set up against the
reparations policy of the imperialists the slo-
gan of the proletarian revolution. We can say
today: If the Communist Party had at that
time achieved the victory Of the proletariat,
then the Versailles Treaty would never have
been signed Preparations would never have been
paid, then there would have been no need for
us to discuss the Young Plan in the Rechstag
today. But the German working class, like
the Russian working class, would be building
up socialism.
The social democracy in the year 1919 wanted
otherwise. They beat down the German revo-
luton with the aid of the Noske soldiers. They
rejected with mockery and scorn the offer of
the Soviet government of an alliance with the
German revolution. Only when the millions had
been subjugated, when thousands of workers
had been shot, when revolutionary leaders like
Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht had
been foully murdered by the white guardist
soldiers, was it possible to proceed to the sig
nature of the peace of Versailles, this counter
revolutionary peace.
Who does not remember the many promises
which were made to the working masses at
that time by the people commissars, by the
government of Ebert and Schedemann. / be-
lieve that the German workers have learnt in
IL years of bitter experience what these prom
Uses were worth. l pick out just few ques-
tions.
Where is the "ful specialization" regarding
which in 1919 the placards proclaimed in the
streets of Berlin and in the Ruhr district $50
calsm is marching! Socialism is here!"?
The second question: Where is General dis
armament" the securing Of world peace"
Turning to the social democrats You gave
a suitable answer to this question at your
Magdeburg Party Congress in the debate on
the armored cruisers.
put the third question: where is work and
bread for everybody" as was solemnly guar
anteed? This question is being answered out
side this Parliament by the four and half
million unemployed.
Fourth question: Where is the "free Re-
public? At nearly every great unemployed
demonstration the police make use of their
firearms in order to proclaim "the freedom Of
the Republic"
With equally lying phrases, with the same
tissue of lies and hypocrisy the present social
democratic government is carrying out the
Young Plan. What was said regarding the
two sessions at the Hague and the Paris Con-
ference by the government representatives? 1t
was declared that the Young Plan meant
step towards freedom, towards Tightening the
burdens and securing peace.
We declare from this tribune and everywhere
that the Young Plan is not bringing freedom
but slavery.
The social democratic government asserts
that Germany is winning back sits indepen-
dence" Nothing of the kind. The financial
control is assuming other forms than at the
time of the Dawes-Plan, at the time of the
London ultmatum and previously. The repara-
tons agent disappears. The control over the
railways is formally abolished. The pledges
are formally abolished. But in their place
there comes the much worse, more brutal, mere
oppressive control of foreign and home finance
capital which weighs upon the shoulders of the
working masses For months the German
working class has felt this unlimited Dictator
ship of finance capital in Germany. This die
tatorship is carried out by Schacht, the agent
of Morgan. Almost everything that Schacht
demands is carried out Internationally by the
social democratic government. This govern
ment constitutes the most obedient tool that
finance capital in Germany could desire.
The government refers to the fact that the
French troops are being withdrawn from the
Rhine. The German and French Communists
have during the last IL years fought together
against the occupation of the Rhineland and
the Ruhr district.
What, however, under the Young Plan, has
taken the place of the French troops in these
districts? The German police, who, under the