The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-31

Letkln, veteran COMMUNIST lex
ing the impeachment of Presto
ministers as she convened the
Reichstag this afternoon.
political power" she said,
''has been seized by a cabinet
formed by elimination of the
Reichstag. This cabinet is the cab
met of big industrialists and land
owners. 1t is moved by generals"
United Front, Need of the Hour
After pointing out that, despite
it's all powerful character, this cab
met has failed miserably to solve the
economic crisis, Clara Zetkin said
that to "take impeachment to the
Supreme Court is like indicting the
devil by his grandmother. To over
throw the cabinet by parliamentary
methods can only be the signal for
mobilizing the toilers outside par
lament"
Predicts Workers, Peasants Govt
1.-THE need of the hour" zethn
continued, sis a united front of all
toilerS to throw back fascisn1 and re-
turn to the workers the power of
their organizations"
Clara zetkin, pointed out that the
Reichstag is now meeting in a stu
alton of extreme crisis and COLLAPSE
ing capitalism, and that 1.-THE millions
of the workers and peasants are en-
during extreme privation while the
small business men are experiencing
a rapid process of becoming pYole-
tarians."
Tells of War
She told of the threatening world
war which flames up In the Far
East, but is famed from the capitalist
nations of the West. "They make
this war in order to swallow up the
Socialist construction now going on
in the Soviet Union" she stated, and
went on to show how the war would
involve Germany and how its hor-
rors would place the last world war
in the shade.
zetkin accused Capitalism of plung-
ing whole peoples into the present
terrible crisis
"The impotence Of the ReichStag
and the all-powerfup presidential
cabinet" said Zekin, reflects the
collapse of bourgeois liberalism, and
accompanies the collapse of the capt.
talist productive system. The So
cial Democracy based on the bour-
geois order of society is also collaps-
ing" She attacked the Socialist
leaders for their treachery to the
workers, and appealed to the workers
to fight the capitalist crisis by fight
ing for a Socialist solution.
The veteran Communist compared
the hopeless situation of industry in
capitalist Germany with the rapid
socialist progress of the Soviet Union.
In ending her Is minutes speech,
Zetkin declared: Il open the Reichs-
tag in fulfillment of my duty as Sc
Nor president. hope to live to see
the happy day when as senior pre-
sident 1 can open the first workers
and peasants Congress Of Soviet
Germany"
When the speech was over, crowds
in the galleries burst into unrestrain-
ed applause which was not only an
of the political imph-
cations of the speech but tribute to
the physical courage of the old re-
Gets Red Front Salute
The Nazi (National Socialists who
had threatened to forcibly prevent
Clara zetkin from opening the Reich
stag, did not dare to carry out their
threats.
AS Zetkin entered the rostrum, Wis
IDLY not yet recovered from her re-
cent illness, the Communist deputies
in the Reichstak arose and shouted
the Red Front Salute.
Fascist Elected Permanent President
Hitler's national socialists, who in
preliminary caucus had taken the
oath implying the pledge not to take
orders from anybody but the Nazi
chief, fastened to elect Wilhelm
Goering as permanent president Of