The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31

hNA ANASRoNs
ment of a bloody terror against the
revolutionary German workers as
part of the socialist effort to save
capitalism. He attempted to cover
up the consistent betrayal of the
working class since carried out
by the Socialist leaders, their
support of Hindenberg under the
sham slogan of "the lesser evil"
their support of Won Papen and
his ruthless attacks on the rights
and living standards of the toiIing
masses, and their more recent
federation of the infamous Schlei-
cher cabinet, a liberation openly
expressed by the socialist editor-in-
chief of the "Hessiche Volks-
freund," who, in an editorial in
that paper, declared:
Let Schleicher go to work! We
are not interested in the overthrow
of the Schleicher government.
Schleieher has gotten in touch with
the great socialist labor front, and
We should not hinder him In the
making of this experience, specially
since this is the only road leading
anywhere at the present time.''
The revolutionary road out of the
crisis was tabooed by the socialists
then, as now.
In an attempt to cover up the role
of the Social Democracy as the main
social bulWark of capitalism, Kuenst-
Ter made an appeal" in his Lust
garten speech ito Socialists and
Communists alike to forget old quar-
rels and form a united front against
their common foes on the Right"
For Unity of Toilers.
Bat the united front the socialist
leaders have in mind is bloc Of
leaders, the abandonment of the
struggle for Communism by the Com
munists, the salvation of capitalism
under the flag of Saving the Re-
public" Such a bloc of leaders, the
Communists rightly reject and call
instead for a united front from be-
low, of rank and file Socialist work
ers with the Communist workers for
the revolutionary way out of the blind
alley of capitalism, for the establish
ment of the proletariat dictatorship.
To conceal their role of lackeys of
the fascist dictatorship, the role of
the instrument which leads the
masses of the German proletariat be-
meath the axe of the fascist dictator
ship, the socialist leaders for the
past month have been busy sowing
illusions among the German workers
that "the ballot box has defeated
German fascism." In this, the Ger
man social-fascists have been ably
aided by their fellows in other coun-
tries. Otto Bauer, Austrian social
fascist leader, exclaimed after the
recent Reichstag elections, zone
thing is now clear. Germany will not
be fasciSt!'
Warned Against Deceptions.
The German social-fascist press,
while admitting its own losses in the
elections, utilized the Communist
victory to declaim with great energy
of the victory of the proletarian
Marxist 'front.'" of the successes Of
the working class as a WHOLE The
German Communist Party correctly
warned the masses against these de-
ceptions practiced by the social-fas-
cist leaders, and exposed these decep-
lions as move to disarm the vigil
lance of the masses against the i'm
pending strengthening of the fascist
dictatorship.
If any further evidence is needed
Of The shameless treachery practiced
by the social-democratic leaders it is
contained in their support OF the
anti-Soviet war preparations of the
German bourgeoisie in alliance with
the imperialist powers which bene-
fitted from the war tributes exacted
from Germany under the vicious Ver-
sailles System.
Supported Boss War
This support is openly admitted In
the testimony of Otto Wells, national
chairman of the German Socialist
Party, in defense of charges raised
by the bourgeoisie that he was u
traitor to the bourgeois gvernment
during the World War. The Berlin
Socialist daily "Vorwaerts" quotes
from Wells testimony:
In reality nobody did more to
carry out the slogan: "The Father
land stands above the party For
the Socialist Party sacrificed every
thing for the Fatherland, even the
unity Of the party, as II had to suf-
fer a split of the party because of
ITS attitude towards the Father
land"
Indeed, the Socialist Party leaders
did sacrifice everything" for the
bourgeois Fatherland. They sacri-
feed millions of workers to the
shambles and butchery of imperialist
war. They sacrificed the German
Revolution Of 1918 to the task Of say