The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-05

workers who rsked their lives to plaster the walls
OF Berlin with posters and leaflets demanding the
release Of the Communist defendants?
In short, 1t not that the Fascists were forced
by the resistance Of the stop their murder
plans in the Leipzig court2
On mol, says Trotsky. It was the generosity Of
the Fascistsl It because the Nazs decided that
the German Communist Party was no longer for
mdable enemy! 1t was because, to quote his shame
less words:
The key to the riddle Is this The Communist
Party did not take the road to instruction. It was
not wrecked in battle, like the Paris Commune or
the Russian proetariat Of 1906 It turned out to be
incapable Of struggle"
He sorrows that the German Communist Party
held firmly to the true feminist policy Of avoidance
Of all adventurist uprising he that the Ger
man Communist Party did not hurl itself against the
Fascists to "be wrecked" In crimnaly premature up
rising. He sorrows that the German Communist Par
ty, following the feminist line is roofing itself in the
factories fighting for majority Of the toing masses
Cementing its leadership the In prepare
ton for the revolutionary overthrow Of the Fascist
dictatorship.
Only one VINO is poisoned by 2 Fixed inyeterate
counterreyoutionary hatred OF the Communist revo-
utiOnary pretend to in the Reichsteg fire
frameup major political assault Of Fascism against
the proletarian revolution
But Trotsky in the failure of the Fascist court
to carry through its frame-up not defeat them
in the face of world mass protest but only glowing
proof Of the strength Of the Nazs Of their generosity
and forgiving kndnessl He sees in it not sign of
the strength of the revolutionary movement OF the
world proletariat, but proof Of its weaknessl
AND THEN from this depth of vleness Trotsky sinks
n even lower. Can one read the following words
without revulsion2
Since the time of the fire, tens Of thousands
have managed to desert from the ranks Of the Com
munist Party to the Nazis in order to escape the
terror. Such tTncoas have figured in the trial as
chief witnesses for the prosecution In several Of the
concentration camps, the majority Of the prisoners
voted for Hitler"
Where did Trotsky get these fantastic items of
thousands" of Communists who deserted? From
what sources Of counter revolutionary imagining did
he fish them up? What evidence, what proofs, does
he offer? They come only from the fertile lying Of
a shameless sanderer who does not hesitate to
at the iron Bolhevik struggle and discipline of the
German working class led by the Communist Party
Trotsky finds satisfaction that in several concen-
traton camps the majority voted for Hitler" He ig-
nores what the most extraordinary feature Of the
recent "electons-the contemptuous way the working
class prisoners in these camps flung their delber-
ately voded ballots into the faces of the Nazi officials
He ignores what joted the whole world into admira-
ton He accepts instead the official Fascist figures
of the election" bona de the result not of ter
rorism and perjury, but of voluntary choicel
Yes, indeed, there have been deserters. But it is
to the refuge of Trotskyism that they have fed It
is the TrotSkyites in Germany who cover hope
lessly before the temporary advance of Fascs wall
ing about the beginning of long period Of Fascs"
TROTSKY sneers at those Communists who became
"turncoats" at the Leipzig trial. Is he referring
here perhaps to those Communist workers who were
dragged from the Nazi concentration camps to be
State witnesses at Leipzig and who upon their return
to the camps braved certain torture by boldly giving
their true testimony for the defense!
Is he referring to the Bolshevik heroism OF the
defendants?
Trotsky is silent Dnitroff. He is blind to his
Bolshevik heroism He is blind to the enormous moral
victory that Dmitroff has won for the world revo-
luton and the Communist Parties of the world.
Instead, as the Nazis find themselves demoraIized
and their prestige severely shattered it Is none other
than TrOtsky who PUSHES into the breach to cover
up the tracks Of their confusion to their
feat into victory for them!
1t is none other than Trotsky who performs
signal service for the bourgeOisie for world Fascism
by rushing in to cOunteract the revolutionary effect
of the victory of the Communists at the Leipzig
court!
ONE MORE item from this prostitute journalist mask
ing as revolutionary, and then will leave him
TO Ills own IouleSS inquire Tor Whom the world work.
ing class has only contempt:
eff in its place there had been another party
capable Of assuming the defensive it would have had
choice of different ways and methods of struggle
but none of them would have led through the burn
ing of the Reichstag. And if contrary to all sound
political sense revolutionary party did decide to
set fire to the Reichstag it could not have chosen
mysterious Dutchman.. the member of the
parliamentary fraction. two young Bulgarians
unable to speak German. . nor a member Of the
presidium OF the Communist International. -"
So Trotsky leaves his final drop of posonl He
dares to leave a doubt In the minds of his readers
as to the innocence Of the German Communist Par
ty. And if it did decide to fire the Rechstag .. he
hints!
What is he doing here If not playing directly
into the hands Of the FasCsts, whose main con-
tention is that il the Communists are not guilty
of this particular crime their "terrorstic principles
make them morally guilty!
What Is TrOtsky doing here If not to falsify and
diStOrt the basic policy Of the Communist Inter
natiouaI fndfvidraI;StJc faprcVJxro oil advax,