The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
socialist" Defenders of Capitalism

measureless sacrifices have been made by
workers 10 win them"
Speaking about assumption" must con-
clude that the American socialists" write as
above under the impression that they can get
away with brass-faced lies about what is going
on in Germany, because it Is across the Atlantic
They assume that American workers will swal-
low the lie that German socialists" support the
Bruening republic" because 1t allows freedom
of organization, of the press, Of elections, of
demonstrations"
Tell us. you Socialist" scoundrels, who for
babe the workers demonstrations in practically
every German city against war on August l. this
year not three weeks before your editorial was
written?
Dare you deny that--under the Bruenlng ire
public"-the Police President of Berlin, one Of
your own Socialist tribe, Herr Grzesinsk, pro-
hibited demonstrations in Berlin? And who led
the workers in the fight for the right to DEM
onstrate? The Berlin capitalist paper, the Dor
senszeitung" told us in their headline: Com
muniSts Break Demonstration Prohibition"
The German workers have, indeed, made
"rneasureless sacrifices" for the right to DEM
onstrate, but what sacrifices more bloody than
that of May First, 1929, when the then Police
President of Berlin, zoergibiel-again one of
your Socialists" had 80 workers murdered in
carrying out his orders against demonstrations!
Freedom of organization" under your pre-
cious republic? With the workers organiza-
ton Red Front outlawed and the Communist
Party offices occupied by the police!
Freedom of the press under your republic?
With so per cent of the Communist press
throughout Germany suppressed and your $50
cialst" cabinet in the Prussian state command
ing all papers of whatever politics to print in
specified sized type on their front pages the cleo
ton propaganda Of the government in support
of itself! Perhaps this is your free elections"
tool
But what does your darling republic" really
stand for if it prohibits all these freedoms" you
lie about? Let us make list of definite amounts
of what the N Y Times, in the quotation noted
above correctly called sacrifices for the work.
ing class to which the German socialists"
agreed:
Marks
Wage cut for government workers . 308 900
Cut in pensions OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 85OOO,OOO
Cancellation Of wage tax refunds. .... 100000
Cut in unemployment relief ......... 100000
Tax on the workers, called "The Cri-
sis Tax NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1856 100000
Wage cut by part time for office
workers ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 100 600
Reduced education and health ex-
penses ........................ 100 900
Cut in relief for seasonal workers -. 100000
Abolition of special relief for tobacco
workers I0UUU,UUu
There are plenty more, such as the cut in real
wages by way of increased cost of living through
higher tariffs and taxes on food, and higher
street car fares, etc. Also, the beloved "repub-
lie" helped the capitalists by reducing their
taxes, loading them on the workers.
But these concrete items of what the German
socialists" support would be missing something
if we did not add that the Bruening Emergency
Decree" also abolishes the right to strike! And
establishes Forced Labor against the unemployed
for any relief given!
The American socialist" effort to lie about
Germany fails! And quite correctly even the
purblind liberal" New Republic comments on
such socialist" defense of capitalism: when
disaster Ito capitalism is feared it means pro-
tecting the system against anyone who wants
to overturn it." In short, it means counter
revolution and fascism under a fog Of words
about "the republic" and social interests, it
means SociaI-fascisrn.