The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-09
Fascist Fired Reichstag


Fascist Fired Reichstag
German Fascism,' said Pravda,
reached its election results on
wave of the West proyocations. The
entire European press, even the most
radd bourgeois press, on the basis
OF irTefutable facts, arrived at the
conclusion that Van der Lubbe, the
person who set fire to the Reichstag
building, is National Socialist
(Nagi), a fascist and member Of
Efitlers party. The ReichStag arson
was perpetrated by fascist provoca-
teurs in preparation for the election,
SNd in an attempt to destroy the
Communist Party.
"When election Gay arrived there
was not one legal workingmen's paper
remaining in Germany. All agitation
material had been conhscated Work
ers' meetings were prohibited. Agi-
taGion in favor of the ReichStag cleo
ton lists Of the Communist Party led
10 arrest and even death According
to the London Times figures, about
LOO workers were murdered by the
fascists during the week preceding
the election About 10000 revolu-
tlonary workers were thrown into
prison.
"The leader Of the Communist
Party, Comrade Thaelmann, is in
prison. The German GorgulovS strive
to impress upon the whole intena-
tional reaction that in the person OF
German fsscism it has acquired a
tangman and obedient gendarmes.
Fascist Frontal Drive Halted
sThis also explains the anti-Soyiet
campaign in the fascist press. Ger
man fascism attempted by a frontal
attack to rout the German proletar-
lat. This frontal attack Of fascism is
repulsed This is the main political
result of the elections. The elections
showed how deeply the German Com
lnunist Party has taken root in the
deepest strata of the toiling masses,
in spite of and against the frenzled
persecution and tsrror.
''The elections showed that the
Communist Party of Germany re-
tanned the positions won in the
course Of recent years. The National
Socialists were unable to drive out
The Communist Party from its posi-
lion in the basic industrial centers.
The savage forms Of coercion, arson
and Justification played no small part
in the increase Of votes for the Ma
tional Socialist cut-throats.
Votes at Bayonet Point
@For example" continues PraYda,
lin Eastern Prussia agricultural la
aorers were forced under guard to
vote for the Nazis. It is also certain
that many votes for the Communist
Party were declared invalid.
'sThe increase of the vote OF the
Communist Party in the Prussian
Iandtag elections acquires tremen-
dous Importance. On this decisive
front the Communist Party won
$4,000 new votes. This is a tremen-
dous victory and opens a new epoch
in the struggle Of the German pro-
letariat.
Victory Against Great Odds
'sThe German Communist Party
aroused millions Of the masses to
struggle against fascisrn under cir
cunnstances trnmeasurably harder
than in Bismark's days. German
fascism came out Of the election
struggle laden with still greater con-
tradictions than before. Even now
it finds contradictions between itself
and the black, red and white mon
archist- iunker1 front. The basic
contradictions between financial and
sgrarian capital law have not lifted;
on the contrary they are growing.
''Tle elections OF German capital
ism were effected at time when
tremendous financial catastrophe &C.
CURED in the United States Of Amer
lea. The dollars fall caused the
crash Of crumbling financial enter
prises This is tNc music accompany
ing the victorious march Of German
reaction"
NsIis Have No Program
Pravda further states that the
German fascists "have no program
whatsoever" that German fascism
exposed in squaior and inanity its
demagogy. The German reaction
has not and cannot have a program
for struggle against the crisis. The
hungry cannot be satisfactorily fed
on prison and bullets. By their pol
icy the German fascists are doing all
they can to draw capitalisms moose
ever tighter.
'The proletarist alone can lead
Germany out OF starvation and pow
srty and smash the results Of the
criminal imperialst war laid on the
toiIers. The last word in the devel-
oping class battles belongs to that
class and its revolutionary vanguard,
me. Communist Party"
Fascist Van der Lubbe's Activity
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, March 2.
According 60 information from
the Dresden correspondent Of the
Social Democrat" organ Of the
German social-democrats in Czecho-
slovakia, in the month of June, 1882,
the person who set fire to the Reich
Tag building in Berlin Van der
Lubbe. stopped at the Serneyits
Cornmune-in the Nielsen district,
saxony-and was in relations with
Ara