The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES -
The Nazi Earthquake
Some Animals Thrown Up
Australian Incident

THE new earthquake that
L seems to be shaking the
Nazi superstructure losses
into the air all sorts of
animals. Not only strong-arm
men like Heimuth Brueckner. gov
ernor of Silesia, are given the boot,
but the exodus reaches the sacred
precincts Of Nazi culture"
Wilhelm Furtwaengler, conductor
of the Berlin Philharmonic Or.
chestra; Hans Knappertsbusch. di.
rector and Erich Kleiber, conductor
OF the Munich state opera find that
they can no longer play in tuns
with the Nazis.
But the list grows every day. 1t
is sort of dry purge" following
the June Both bloody cleansing. On
Dec. 6, Gottfried FEEDER, the very
founder of the Nazi party, who first
enlisted Hitler himself to join the
gang of cut-throats now ruling
Germany, was ousted from both the
party and his well-paid government
position
FEEDER was the drafter of the Nazi
party program, and its chief ECO
nomic theorist." Just before him,
Count Won der Goltz, Commissar of
Economy, was persuaded to quit by
means of the dry road.
This ceaseIess bubbling and boil
ing Of the Nazi cauldron arises
from the subterranesn fire sweeping
among the masses in Germany.
EVERY section of tie Nad super
Il structure is swaying and crack
: ing-the church, the instruments Of
culture, the Storm Troops, and the
Schultz Staffle, the leading Nazi
cadres.
The chief reason, of course, is the
sharpening of every contradiction
of German capitalism, due to the
catastrophe economic crisis. The
masses are going hungry while Hit
Ter prepares for war. While wages
are Slashed wholesale, the Krupp
arms firm can report it's greatest
profits for many years. No wonder
Hitlers economists are forced to
quit.
Having kicked away the chief
props of its mass support in the
last bloody purge, Hitler finds the
conflict among the remnants of
these forces still left in the Nazi
ranks grows sharper and sharper.
The clashes among the various Sec
tons of the bourgeoisie grows more
intense, as the crisis intensifies.
Hitler is striving to keep the vari-
Gus conflicts from cropping out
more intense as the crisis inten-
| SITES.
Hitler is striving to keep the various
| conflicts from cropping out more
drastically and violently now, hop
ing for a favorable outcome for
Fascism of the Saar plebiscite. He
feels that with the seizure of the
Saar some pressing problems may
be solved temporarily.
But regardless of how bitter the
inner conflict of the Nazis may be-
come, no matter how the whole
structure shakes, it will not toppple
of its own weight. The worse con-
ditions become the closer will the
Hitler regime draw to war
Only the organization and prepa-
ration of the masses for the revolu-
tionary overthrow of the fascist die
tatorship, as pointed out by the
Communist Party of Germany, can
defeat and destroy German fas-
cism.
The Communist Party of Ger
many has just issued an open let
ter to all workers on the question
of the united front, developing the
broadest mass actions in the fac
tories, shops and in the Labor
Front against the fascists. THE
joint struggle against fascism and
the capitalist offensive" says the
open letter, must become the unit
ing bond to which the differences Of
opinion which still exist must be
subordinated."
THE danger of war is particularly
L acute now on three fronts. First
there is the Saar, with the Nazis,
despite hell and high water, pre-
pairing for armed seizure. Next
there is the growing conflict be-
tween U. S. and Japan over naval
ornaments, which means domina-
ton of the Pacific colonies and
markets. Norman H. Davis has
issued an open war threat to the
Japanese. Third, there is an ex-
tremely bitter conflict between
Hungary and Jugoslavia, that is not
disconnected with the Nazi's war
preparations. The war spirit is
being whipped up in both Jugoslavia
and Hungary over the deportation
of thousands of Hungarians from
Jugoslavia The last word on the
assassination of the tyrant king
Alexander has not been said, and
it will be said with the mouths OF
cannon.
THE struggle against war and fas-
cism has caused constitutional
crisis in Australia. When Egon En-
win Kisch went to the Australian
congress against war and fascism,
he was prevented from landing by
the authorities. But the higher
courts declared that this move was
unconstitutional. The constitution
provides, in good inperialist spirit,
that only immigrants from Asia can
be prevented from landing.
Because of this, the government