The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELEC-
TON IN GERMANY

centres are being covered BY Gloss network Of
barracks of the fascist storm detachments The
murder columns Of fsscisn are continually or
ganizing punitive expeditions against working
class quarters, where under the protection and
with the support Of the police they undertake
raids and attacks upon the revolutionary prole-
tsriat In this atmosphere Of murder there is
as is to be expected, a growing protest and will
to resistance on the part of millions OF workers
and also of those who hitherto have been in the
camp of the social democracy and OF the Reichs-
banner, In this atmosphere OF active revolu-
tionary struggle OF the workers against 1ascism,
the social fascists set up the so-caIled Iron
front against fascisrn," With which they are at
tempting, by claiming to fight against Sascism,
to prevent the workers from going over to the
revolutionary camp, This "1ron 'front.' Is at the
same time to be a means with which the So
clal fascists tnstend to carry out the linden
burg election and also the PrusSian elections
which are due to take place in May.
In actual fact however, collaboration in the
fascist united front OF Hitler with Groener, and
Groener with Severing, Hugenberg with Bruen-
ing and Bruening with Otto Braun, finds below,
in the fight against the working class Its re-
Elections in the attitude OF the police troops,
lead by social democrats, towards the armed
storm attachments of the Hitler fascists For
example, after the fascist bands with the sup
port of the police broke up and prevented
number of Communist meetings in Berlin the
social democratic police President C7rzesinsky
threatened to prohibit all Communist meetings
in the future. Here there is clearly shown how
the fascist united front Of the national fascists
with the social fascists wishes to destroy the
last political rights Of the working class.
In spie of the cowardly and treacherous at
Af hJa1f
in spite of the social fascist police terror and
in spite of the savage sentences passed by cap
italst class justice with the open approval OF
the social fasCists against workers who have de-
Tended themselves against fascist murderers fas-
cism in Germany Is encountering the steadily
growing and firmly organized resistance OF the
German proletariat. Throughout the whole Of
Germany the red united front is being welded
ever more firmly, and red unity committees led
by Communists are being formed against the
offensive of the fascist hirelings in the service
of finance capital
In the gathering OF the broad proletarian
masses in the revolutionary united front in the
fight against the Bruening- Severing dictatorship
In the fight against Hitler fascism, in the fight
against all enemies and betrayers Of the Ger
man proletar1sts the million masses OF the Ger.
man working class are raI1ytng to give their
Party, Comrade Thaelmann. The deceitYul
nanouvreS of the social fascists whose iron
'front.' already few days after its birth proved
to be an Sckly abortion, are proving Of no avail,
In the face OF the growing power of the revolu.
tlonary united front against fascism At thou
sands OF membership meetings Of the social
democratic party indignant protests by social
democratic workers are being raised against the
support OF Hindenburg's candidatrre BY the par
ty leaders. In workshops and factories at the
Labor Exchanges and even at hundreds of
meetings convened by the social democratic par
ty, the workers adopt decisions and proclaim in
resolutions that they Will never accept Field
Marshal H1ndenburg the peacemaker of fascisrn
as their candidate, but recognize Comrade Thael-
mann as their candidate. Thus the candidate
Of the Communist Party is becoming the real
raLying centre Of the intensified fight OF class
against class.
In no political campaign or action in the past
has the clear open class character OF the fight
been SO plainly revealed as at the present Pre-
Adentlal election. Never was the alliance of all
political tendencies Of fascism so clearly evident
IN Germany. The outstanding characteristic
feature OF the present election campaign Is that
the class differences the class antagonisms are
more apparent and more marked than was the
case IN any political struggle in the past The
Presidential election thereby becomes for the
revolutionary proletariat of Germany the start
ing point for rallying all the revolutionary for
ces under the leadership Of the Communist
Party, for the victory Of the working class
against the fascist united front,