The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17


Unions opened the Congress
with short address, in which he ex-
tended special greetings to the Ger
man delegates, who had crossed the
frontier at the risk of their lives in
order to take part in the Congress.
After pointing out the characteristic
feature of the Congress-the fact of
its composition which expresses its
united front character-Racamon
emphatically stated that the Anti
Fascist movement has nothing in
common with the chauvinist anti
German campaign of French inn
perialism. He added that the Anti
Fascist French working class is car
rying on its struggle against faS-
cism chiefly through fighting its
own bourgeoisie.
Presidium Elected.
On behalf of the Organizing Blu
reau, a German delegate then sub
mitted nominations for the presidium
Of the Congress, which were voted
unanimously.
The presidium consists of five Ger
mans, among them one Socialist
worker, young worker belonging to
the Young Socialist League, and a
woman worker; seven Frenchmen, in
Guiding GazeilleS, secretary of the
Alpes Maritines district of the
French Socialist Party; Cazaubon,
secretary of the independent Civil
Service Union with 10000 members,
and the well-known novelistS, Andre
Glide, Henri Barbusse and Roman
ROLAND; five Italians, three English
men and two Poles.
Thaelmann Honorary President.
The honorary presidiun1 consists of
Ernst Thaelmann, whose election
unleashed giant storm Of applause;
Torgler, Dimitrov and several others.
After these elections, Mueller, head
Of the Central United Front Anti
Fascist Committee of Germany spoke
on the struggle against fascism and
the offensive of capitalism. He be-
gan with the statement that the
German workers had never stopped
their anti-fascist struggle, and to-
day are carrying on the intensified
proletarian class struggle with all the
weapons at their disposal.
IF today fascist terror is raging
worse than ever before, it is not an
indication of the strength Of fascism
but Of its weakness. But it is also
a sign Of the rapid rise of the revo-
lutionary wave.
Why Fascism Won In Germany.
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that the victorious struggle against
fascism must be carried on interna-
tionally, reply as follows to the fire.
quent questions of how it happened
that fascism was able to win in Ger
many: Because of the Versailles
Treaty, which was one of the chief
godfathers at the cradle of fascist
dictatorship, and because Of the pol
icy of the German Socialist Party,
which disarmed the working class,
stifled all revolutionary action, and
split the working class. That is why
fascism was able to force the revolu-
tionary proletariat to retreat.
when the left Social Democrats,
such as the Austrian Social Democ-
racy, ask why the Communist Party
Of Germany did not resort to an
armed uprising, we can answer:
1.-THE Communist Party of Ger
many fought tirelessly, altho con-
stantly blocked by the German Soci-
alist Party, but a call for an armed
revolt, which the German Socialist
Party would have rejected even more
than it did the repeated united front
offers of the German Communist
Party, would have been crime
against the working class.
"After describing the terror, which
has cost the lives of 500 workers,
and during which more than 10000
have been beaten up, 10000 arrested,
10000 interned in concentration
camps, and more than 100000 fired
from their jobs in the factories,
Mueller painted picture of the
whole situation, especially of the
masses resistance, and emphasized
that the starting point of the struggle
for the fascist dictatorship must be
struggle against any impairment of
the workers standard of living.
beginning with partial struggles
the offensive must be carried through
political mass strikes to the gen.
eral strike, thus bringing about the
overthrow of the fascist dictator
ship. 1t is not the Socialist Partys
slogan, Back to Democracy that
can solve the problem, but only the
struggle for all power to the work
erS and peasants. that is for free
Socialist Soviet Germany"
Barbusse Speaks.
The next speaker Is Henri Bar
busse, speaking on behalf of the AM
sterdam anti-war movement, and
greeted with a thunderous ovation
Barbusse says: I'VE make no dis
tinction between the struggle against
war and the struggle against fascism
that is why we are affiliating our
selves 100 per cent with the Euro
pean Anti-Fascist Workers Congress.
We offer it our fraternal support
and are ready to work together with
it very closely. Unity of action is
the sole guarantee for the victory of
the proletariat, which is identical
with the salvation of humanity"
Protest Telegram Against Altcna
and Chemnitz Death Sentences
At the instance of Pankhurst, Brit
ish delegate, Prof. Prenant of the
Sorbonne, the Czech Professor Ne
jedly, Andre Glide and Henri Bar
busse, the Congress voted to send a
sharply worded telegram to the Ger
man government, protesting against
the death sentences handed down
against the Altoona and Chemnitz
Anti-Fascists. The French delegates
informed the congress that the Paris
workers intend tO SllpDort, this prO-