The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
statement of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Germany

Communist Party of Germany
FIVE million workers and toiIers have expressed
a bold determination for revolutionary class
struggle under the leadership of the Communist
Party on March IS in the presidential elections
Under the slogan Glass against class" the Com
munist Party has reused millions of workers to
the struggle against the boss offensive, to the
struggle against the bourgeois dictatorship to the
struggle against the new imperialist war The
election results, the five million votes cast for the
candidate Of the Communist Party, constitute
great muster OF broad sections Of workers who
are ready to fight for the revolutionary way out
of the capitalist crisis under the leadership Of the
Communist Party. The Communist Party OF
Germany has won about 100000 new votes among
the workers,
During the election campaign extraordinary
activity was shown by all classes and sections
This is expressed, for instance by the great
number Of votes cast. This increase in the num-
Der of voting is in turn sign Of the increasing
difficulties and insecurity of the position Of the
bourgeosie in Germany. The sharpening Of the
capitalist crisis has brought about such a stu
alton that the desire for change, for doing away
with present conditions is growing among the
millions Of toilers. The increasing contradic-
tions OF the capitalist system and the growth Of
the political background against which the pre-
sidential elections took place.
The economic crisis in Germany is sharpened
by the unbearable burdens imposed by the serf-
dom Of Versailles An army of six million I'M
employed are walking the streets Of the German
cities Now after the wage-cuts and the other
starvation measures of the fourth emergency
decree, finance capital, with the most active
support Of the social-democrats and trade union
leaders, is preparing fresh attack on the stand
ard Of living Of the working class-what remains
Of the unemployment insurance is to be abolish
ed another ruthless wage-cut is to take place
through another emergency decree, ETC. The
armed terrorist bands of the Hitler fascists are
doubling their violent deeds and murderous at
tacks against the working class. The social
democrats are participating in all these attacks
Of the counter-revolutionar bourgeoisie with
new deceptive nanoeuVres.
In the struggle against all forms Of the bour-
geo-s dictatorship, the revolutionary labor move
lneat, under the leadership of the Communist
Ia - is strengthening, and the red united front,
Nni5n today already embraces many millions,
a. which is snatching ever greater masses of
sal democratic workers from the influence OF
Is bourgeois dictatorship and its agents, the
5alloclatic leaders, is growing.
The overlooking demonstrations and meetings
OF Uae Communist Party in all parts Of Ger
many; the heightened activity OF all Commun-
Isl organizations, of their members and of our
revolutionary mass organizations; the fact that
during the elections thousands Of workers joined
the Communist Party, that the Party has been
able to organize great number Of new bases
OF support in the countryside, that it has gained
a firm foothold among the village poor, that it
is penetrating deeper and deeper into the ranks
OF the administrative employees and the toilers
of the middle classes-au this demonstrates the
fighting determination and active energy of that
part of the working class which follows the lead
ership of the Communist Party. The devoted
activity of the tens of thousands Of red election
workers deserves the revolutionary thanks OF the
Party
The five million votes which were cast for the
candidates Of the Communist Party are of
greater significance than the votes cast in the
Reichstag elections in September $780, They are
votes which were cast in the sharpest antagon-
ism to the social-democratic policy of the ''les-
ser evil" for the leadership of the revolutionary
class struggle for the fight for Socialist Soviet
Germany.
The Social-Democratic Party with the as
sistance Of the hypocritical manoeuvre repre-
sented by the slogan Defeat Hitler" succeeded
once more in deluding great sections of the
working class into tolerating the Bruening-
Severing- Dictatorship; masses who still do not