The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06
WORKERS QUITTING THE GER
MAN SOCIALIST PARTY


indignation over the betrayal of the
Socialist leaders in the Berlin traffic
strike has scarcely died down in the
ranks of the German Socialist Party
when the news of Leipart's remarks
in his interview with the correspond
ent of the Paris Excelsior" eXplodes
like a bomb in the Socialist ranks.
Factory workers are again leaving the
Socialist Party in droves. For exam
pie:
The Socialists had 100 party mem
bers working in the Charlie, famous
Berlin hospital. During the past few
weeks more than 80 of them have left
the party, refusing all offers to return.
Many of those resigning have Joined
the Communist Party.
WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT!
When the agents of the capitalist
class begin to quarrel among them
selves the workers are always likely
TO learn the truth. The nationalist
"Deutsche Zeitung" of Berlin is being
sued for libel by Otto Wells, national
chairman of the German Socialist
i Party.
l According to the Berlin Socialist
! daily the "Vorwaerts", Wells testified
1 verbatim as follows
I'm reality nobody did more to
carry out the slogan: The Father
land stands above the party!' For
the Socialist Party sacrificed ev-
erything for the Fstherland: even
4 the unity of the party, as it had to
1 suffer a split of the party because
| Of its attitude towards the Father
land!"
Wells is defending himself against
khe charge that he was traitor to
his country" during the war. To dis
Drove that, he is citing all the proofs
bf the Socialist Party'S chauvinist role
kuring the World War. First the noto-
Hious Ebert libel case in Magdeburg,
/ lind now the Wells libel case in Ber-
lin. The working class may coneratu-
\ hate itself on these opportunities to
hear the truth out of the mouths OF
tlcoundrelS.
JAPANESE sEANIEN WIN STRIKE
4 TOKYO, Nov. 25 CBy MaiD The
,FKissen Kaisha shipping company
4 went back to work today after a
strike lasting several weeks; the
shipping company has been forced
to grant all the seamen's demands:
1t is also reported from Toxic that
the street-car employees are about
Ito go on strike under the leadership
lof the revolutionary union. On Nov.
!, 25th the street car company dis
charged 1877 employees, announcing
through the press that they were dis
charged for theological reasons;
that is, the influence Of the Left
trade union federation among the
transport workers had to be broken.
The Transport Workers Union has
protested against these discharges
and started preparing for a mass
strike. These reports of class
struggle in Japan are not carried by
the Associated Press or respectable
capitalist papers like the "Times"
or the"HeraId- Tribune. "Interna-
tional Notes. will consider its mis-
sion to print items of class war all
over the world that are conveniently
forgotten" by the bourgeois press.
RED UNION WINS ELECTION
REICHENBERG, Czechoslovakia
(By MaiD The Red Metal Workers
Union won a smashing victory in the
shop elections in the Trinetch iron
works. OF the 3848 votes cast, the
! Red Union polled 2188, or a clear
majority, gaining 10 delegates. All
! the other Socialist, Nazi, Catholic
! and Nationalist unions together
seated only delegates. The Red
majority in the shop council was
maintained, despite the large num-
Der of workers laid off because of