The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31
DOWN HITLER"
CALL OF MASSES
General Strike Call
Issued by C. P.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,


TO defend themselves against the
erection OF a bloody fascist counter
revolution, and to pour into the
streets, leave the factories, and de-
clare q general political strike, organ
izing mass protest demonstrations,
and electing united front committees.
The Appeal declares that before the
eyes OF the entire working class, the
Communist Party again approaches
the German Trade Federation, the
Social Democratic Party and the
Christian Trade Unions with its pro-
poSals for joint organization of a
general strike against the fascist die
tatorship. The Communist Party
appeals to the millions of the masses
of the Social Democratic and unor-
ganized workers to join their Com
munist felloW-workerS in organizing
the. general strike. Rally to the
Communist Party, the Young Com
munist League, the revolutionary
trade union opposition! Stop the
blow at the Communist Partyl The
attempt to suppress the Communist
Party is a blow at the whole work.
ing class Long live the proletarian
united front against fascist dictator
ship! Down with Hitler, Papen and
Hugenbergl On with the struggle for
workers and peasants republicl
Workers Demonstrate.
BERLIN, Jan. 30.---Dying capital
ism's plans for a more brutal fascist
dictatorship against the toiling Ger
man masses evoked a tremendous up
surge OF fierce mass anger through
out Red Berlin yesterday. Huge anti
fascist demonstrations occurred in
many sections of the CITY, with the
workers fiercely protesting the move
to appoint Adolph Hitler, fascist
leader, as chancellor. Despite police
prohibition against Communist meet
ings, many Communist rallies were
held Similar anti-fascist demonstra-
tons are reported from scores of
other German cities and especially
from the industrial centers. In some
sections, the workers already are re-
spending to the call of the Com
munist Party to prepare a general
political strike in answer to the fas-
cist dictatorship.
Socialist Heads Maneuver.
The mass upsurge is forcing the
social-democrat (socialist) leaders to
new demagogic maneuvers in move
to head the anti-fascist movement
in order to behead it. The line of
the socialist leaders, who paved the
way for the fascist dictatorship, was
made clear last night when these
traitors, addressing a huge demon
stration OF over 1000 socialist work
ers at the Lustgarten, advanced a
program Of struggle" for the bour-
seois democratic republic as against
the Communist program Of struggle
for the overthrow of capitalism and
the establishment of the workers
and farmers government--the prole-
tariat dictatorship. This new tactic
of the socialist leaders was already
laid down several months ago in the
socialist press in Germany and other
countries, and especially by the So
cialist leaders, Otto Bauer and Wells.
1.-THE Communists must understand"
said these social-fascists after the
Communist victories in the Reich
stag elections, that they have now a
tremendous responsibility, and that
sit is not the Soviet dictatorship
which stands on the order of the day,
but 'the struggle for the Republic"
The speeches Of the socialist lead
ers at the Lustgarten meeting were
literally sprinkled with revolutionary
phrases. Franz Kuenstler, socialist
member of the Reichstag, declared:
"The day may concluded, it is
perhaps not far distant--when the
Berlin proletariat can decide the fate
OF Germany. Woe to the working
class if that day finds it disunited!
The day is coming when the reac-
tionary forces Of today will be swept
away as by storm, just as they
were in November, 1918, and then we
will make good the sins Of omission
which we committed at that other
time"
This social-fascist demagog ne
elected to state that those "sins of
omissions" consisted Of the DELHI
crate betrayal Of the German Rev
olution Of 1918 and the establish