The daily worker., 1934-07-21


groups in the Storm Troop for
nations, we quote the following
condensed manifesto showing the
rebellious mood in great parts Of
the S.A. (StOrm TrOOps) already
before the events of June 80. This
is a document Of the decomposi-
tion of the S.A., which after Hit
ler's butcheries will go on with
increased speed.
! COMRADES in Brownshirts!
y Chief of Staff Roehm has
ordered us on furlough for the
month of July. We know that
during this time there will
be important decisions about
the S. A. Hitler wants to sell
us out in favor of building up the
Reichswehr (army). We Storm
Troopers, living together with our
brothers and sisters, working with
hand and brains, we ourselves feel
daily the great want; we see with
our own eyes the chaos into which
our former leader-Adolf Hitler
our present slave driver, is drifting.
We know those Storm Troopers who
come from the working sections of
the people are no longer safe
enough for the new masters on the
top. That is why we are to be
disarmed, so as not to be danger
for them.
What good does this vacation
free of duty during July do us? We
have no money; we are hungry.
In the meantime, our "big shots"
ride around in automobiles, travel
with their luxurious women to
bathing places and squander the
money squeezed from the sweat of
the workers, as formerly the social
democratic and the Center Party
BONES did.
A GREAT awakening is going
"A through the ranks of the
Storm Troopers. Thaelmann or
Hitler-this question is being more
and more discussed in the ranks
of our comrades. Socialist revolu-
ton, happiness, liberty and abolish-
ment of the old servitude-or ty-
ranny of bosses and masters, the
existence of a coolie, deepest dis
honor and oppression of human
beings. That is the sense of the
question: Thaelmann or Hitler?
We know the Communist cells
within the S.A. are growing like
mushrooms. Hundreds of storm
detachments have already been ar
rested and put into concentration
camps, because they refused to
continue with this swindle and
chicane.
Comrades in brown shirts, COM
rades of the National Socialist
trade unions, comrades of all
groups, professions and religious
confessions: We address this pas
sionate call to you, to lift again
the banner of socialism, trampled
under their feet by Hitler, Roehm
and HimmIer.
| COMRADES, use the furlough DUR
v ing the month of July to think,
and to act. Get into connection
with your landsmen of the Com
mune, chased, hunted, prosecuted
and threatened with death by the
Gestapo and the field police. In
their program for the social and
national liberation of Germany, in
their heroic courage and their dis
daining of death for the sake Of
Communism, we have found again
our ideals.
Follow us, SA. comrades, to make
good by our deeds the sin we have
committed against the fighting
revolutionary workers. For the
greater part of our SA. comrades,
there is still time to do better. How
do we show that we are socialists
of action?
We beat up no revolutionaries,
we mistreat no political prisoners,
but help them wherever we can.
When our troop gets orders to
search house, to make a raid or
arrest, we warn the threatened
workers in time. When searching
house, we make to disappear in
crinIfnating material, in order not
to deliver our working brethren and
sisters into the claws of the Ge-
stapo (secret state police).
We take instruction in handling
arms to be able to direct some day
our pistols and rifles against our
true enemies. We do not give up
our guns if they want to disarm us.
We secure them for our revolutions
airy class, for the coming socialist
revolution.
We do not denounce anybody, but
we help everyone who works in fact
for the coming revolution. Our red
storm papers, our Red Standard,
our Commune cells within the S.A..
our oppositional groups within all
of our organizations have the spirit
of struggle, of freedom and fight
for the true socialist future, which
we want to create together with
| MIR Communist and cacial da..,n~