The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-18
TO THE WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES!

The crisis continues. Unemployment is increasing
without interruption. Hunger and misery are Selling
everresh sections of the workers The capitalist often
sve is assuming eversharper forms The bourgeosie
preparing to launch campaign against all the political
and economic achievements of the workngcass Fascist
reaction is Selling one country after another.
The establishment of the open Fascist dictatorship in
Germany has inexoraby confronted millions of workers
of all countries with the question of the imperative need
for organizing the united front of struggle against the
Fascist offensive of the bourgeoisie and above ALL against
the German bourgeosie who, step by STEP robbng
the workngclass of all economic and political achieve
ments and attempting to crush the workers movement
with the most brutal method of terror.
The main obstacle to the formation of the united
front of struggle of the Communist and Social Demo.
cratic workers and is the policy conducted by the
Social Democratic Parties, who have exposed the in
tenationa proetariat to the blows of the class
This policy of collaboration with the bourgeose,
known the so-caed policy of the esser evil has led
in practice to the triumph of Fascist reaction Germany
The Communist International and the Communist
Parties of all countries have repeatedly declared their
readiness to join in fight along with the Social
Democratic workers against the capitalist offensive,
against political reaction and civil The Communist
Parties the organizers of the common fight OF the
Communist SocalDemocratc and non-Party workers, in
spite of the leaders of the PARTIES who
Systematically disrupted the united front of the working
masses.
many after the Prussan Democratic Government
had been driven out by Papen, proposed to the Social
Democratic Party and the German General Federation of
Trade Unions the organization of strike against
Fascism. But the Social Democratic Party and the
ADG.B with the approval of the whole of the Second
International described the proposal to organize
strike provocation.
The Communist Party of Germany repeated its pro-
posal of action at the moment when Hitler seized
power called upon the Central Committee of the Social
Democratic Party and the Executive Committee of the Ger
General Federation of Trade Unions to organize the
resistance to Fascism but again met with refusal.
Nay more when in November last year the Berlin
traffic workers unanimously went strike against wage
reduction the Social Democratic Party sabotaged the
united front struggle The whole practice of the nterna
tional Labor Movement is full of similar examples.
The Bureau of the Labor and Socialist International
ness of the SociaDemocratic Parties affiliated to this
international to form united front with the Communists
in order to fight against the Fascist reaction in Ger
many This declaration stands in sharp contradiction to
the whole of the previous actions of the Isl and Social
Democratic Parties
The whole policy and activity of the Isl, hitherto
ustifies the Communist International and the Communist
Parties putting faith in the sincerity of the declaration
of the Bureau of the Isl which makes its proposal at
moment when in a number of countries and before all
in Germany, the working masses taking into their
own hands the organizing of the united front.
In spite of this, however, the Executive Committee
of the Communist International in view of Fascism which
Enchanting all the forces Of world reaction against