The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-14
PROVE DELIBERATE PLOT TO CRIPPLE THE SOVIET DEFENS
Socialtst Paper
Praises Crtngtng
Speech of Wells

"WeIs De1es Hitlers Terror Such
is the brave headline IN this week S
New Leader. The New Leader is
proud to present to American read
srs for the first time the text Of the
defiant speech OF Otto Wells. Chair
man Of the German Socia1-Demo-
cracy.
Thus the New Leader. What Is
this defiance
Upon Hitlers accession to power
otto wells resigned from the Second
International The Central Commit
tee Of the German Social-Democtsti
Party in decision approves the re-
signation Of Wells from the Second
International, saying that it was sb-
solutely justified.
Nearly half the Socialist deputies
In the state Diet OF Braunschweig
resigned from the Diet and from
the SociaI-DemoeraUiC Party. Their
letter OF resignation stated that
They had no desire TO stand in the
way OF the National Revolution" and
inst they recognize the hopelessness
Of further opposition"
Otto Wells, writing to Won
P2peu, sent d letter to tie govern
nlent protesting that the patriotism
of the Socialist leaders sis as good
as that Of the Nazis," denying that
they intended to overthrow the pre-
sent government in Germany.
Upon the resignation OF Otto Wells
from the Executive Committee OF the
Socialist International, the N. Y.
Times wrote, that the Social Demo-
cratic Party is undergoing a trans
formation that will bring it more
nearly into harmony with the new
order Of things" adding that it is
now up TO the Party TO discover
p formula that will ensure it a place
in the third Reich"
Otto Wells and other leaders Of the
Socialist Party denied that they we're
sending out "atrocity stories" thus
admitting that they were making no
real protest against the fascist ter
ror.
The Central Organ of the German
Socialist Party declared: We will
assume the position of constructive
criticism, and will do everything in
our power that the good name of
Germany shan not be harmed in
foreign countries"
Wells PLEADS
WITH NAZIS
Listen to Wells speaking to the
Nazis and Hitler in the Reichstag.
He says, Our work for the rebuild
ing of the country, the rehabilita-
ton Of its economic conditions. will
90 down in history. We demanded
and we secured equal rights for all
the people and we established social
justice"
eve established social JUSTICE!
The plundering Of the German
people through the Dawes Plan. The
further robbery and extortion Of re-
parations through the Young Plan.
the restoration of German capital
ism and wage slsvery-it is of this
that Otto Wells, leader Of the Ger
man Social-Democrscy Is so proud.
Thus does Otto Wells defy the rs
senbled Junkers and fascist butchers
of Germany
we saved Germany from 3 pro-
letarian revolution. We established
equal rights and social justice for
al the people'-by restoring Ger
man capitalism TO power From
their own mouths, We have the truth.
German Social-Democracy considers
the e-ssta blishrnent 0f CAPITALISM in
Germany after 1918 as the establish
rnent of equal rights and social jus
tice"l
In his grotesque and disgusting
pleading before the assembled fas-
cists, he even groveled so low as to
revive that cheaply cynical legend
with which even our own American
capitalism can no longer dope the
pecple-the bait that the lowest can
rise 10 the head OF s5e atase," that
even the poorest hoy can become
president some dayl
SUPPORT CAPTThTFsF
CONSTITUTION
We stand by the principles Of the
Waimar Constitution establishing
equal rights and social justice for all
the people! The Waimar Consti-
tuition. that bourgeois constitution
establishing the right Of private pro-
perty and the exploitation Of labor!
The Wennar Constitution, under
whose provisions Ebert, Eoske and
Scheidemann shot down the workers
in The streets of Berlin The Weirnsr
Constitution, under whose provisions
The capitalist class Of Germany since
1918 has driven The working masses