The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07

Germany.
Analysing the social forces
operating in Germany he said,
"The forces of the proletarian rev.
oluSion are advancing with seven
league boots"
The full text of his speech fol-
lows:
Friends and Comrades:
The Daily stories of murder that
have poured out of Germany for
Is months, have, in the past week,
been varied from the usual in the
type of victims. The leaders Of the
Brown Shirts, the Hitlers, Goerings,
Eoebbels, Roehms, Heines. He'll
SORTS, etc, in true gangster style,
have begun to murder one another.
Here at least we need waste no
bympathy on the victims, who were
among the most bestial, most sa-
Iistic, most perverted of their Nazi
Party, whose leaders are the en-
bodiment of bestiality, sadism and
perversion.
Last weeks gang war within Hit
hr's top ranks, has, however, a very
ipecial interest for all anti-fascists.
This event, predetermined by the
whole corrupt system of German
Fascism and its history, marks a
Ief1nite stage in the maturing of
he pre-conditions for the prole-
Iarian revolution in Germany. 1t
marks the ripening of that catas-
hophe which the German Com
nunist Party and the Communist
International warned the German
masses could be the only fruit of
Hitlerism in power.
False Pledges to Masses.
Hitler rode to power on the basis
If the widest promises to the de-
tlessed petty -bourgeoisie, white COL
hr workers, impoverished peas
lntry and the strata of young I'M
employed workers who never had
The training of work in factories,
hat he would relieve their misery.
The bloody smashing of the Storm
Troops is the open and final rejec-
hon of their claims for the honor
hg of those promissory notes. 1t
would be wrong to say simply
Hitler did not keep his promises"
He kept those he made to Krupp
md Thyssen; he defaulted on those
he made publicly to the masses.
Hitler promised to restore Ger
nan economy and to regain for
Germany her old international posi-
lion Of equality" among the i'm
perialist powers. But Is months
pf Nazi rule had plunged the econ
pnly into new depths, shattered the
currency system, destroyed foreign
trade, and isolated Germany inter
nationally as she had never before
been isolated, while fastening all
Europe to the brink of war.
The rising mass movement
against Hitlerisn on the part of the
overwhelming majority of the
workers who have always opposed
It, emboldened the petty bourgeois
followers of fascism to demand
their promised rewards. A section of
Hitlers' lieutenantS, typifed by the
unspeakable Roehm, conspired to
make use of this mass movement to
raise themselves to the position of
ruling clique. Under the slogan
second revolution" they tried to
use against Hitler the same tricks
whereby Hitler came to power. But
they forgot that the real ruling
clique was Krupp, Thyssen Schacht,
for whom Hitler is only the paid
thug. The real rulers of the
Nazis, German finance capital,
gave Hitler his orders last Friday
to clean up these conspirators for
fear that the break that they would
crate in Nazi ranks would provide
the opening for the revolutionary
upsurge of the deeply disillusioned
and revolving German masses.
Crack in Brown Unity"
But the bloody cleansing" order
ed by Krupp, Thyssen & Company,
the German counterpart of our
steel, oil, auto and shipping mag
mates. in order to ward off one dam
ger, has created new and greater
dangers; at one blow it has split
open the boosted Nazi unity. 1t
has shattered the mass base under
The Nazi regime, exposed the whole
rotten heart of Hitlerism. The dam
ger of the Brown Shirt masses who
took seriously Hitler's promises, is
suppressed at the price of creating
more favorable conditions for the
revolutionary masses to prepare de-
cisiye blows against it. Events of
the last weekend proved the cor
rectness of the Communists who
pointed out the impossibility of
unity in one Party of bourgeoisie,
petty bourgeoisie and workers. They
revealed already great breaks in
the crun1bling base of Hitler's rule,
and forecast its early doom.
When Hitler took power, the bour-
geoisie of all countries hailed his
advent as opening a new era for
German capitalism. The Socialist
Parties of the Second International
joined this chorus, together with
their contemplate adjuncts inc
Trotskyites and Lovestonites by
p.oclaiming prolonged era of
fascist reaction" and the "irrepar-
able defeat of the proletarian revo-
luton" Social-Democracy, after
paving the way to power for Hitler,
and after being repulsed by Hitler
in their abject pleas for corner
under his dictatorship, within Ger
many, where Hitler could reach
them, licked his bloody hands, while
outside of Germany they barked
heroically from a safe distance.
Communists Lead Fight Against
Hitler
But the Communist Party, which
fought Hitler uncompromisingl
from the beginning, continued this