The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-21
On the
World Front
by HARRY CANNES
United Front News
Catholics Join in Italy
Situation in Germany
Rv HARRY CANNFs


fascism is bearing new fruit
throughout tn e world. In
Milan, Italy, where the So.
cialist and Communist Par
ties formed a united front, now
Catholic groups have entered. An
agreement has been arrived at bee
tween the three groups for a strug~
gle against fascism, exploitation,
and war. A joint appeal has al.
ready been issued and distributed in
great quantities, signed by the
Communist Party, the Socialist
Party and the Catholic group of 1
workers.
FOLLOWING the resolution of the
a Communist Party of Germany
for more intensive efforts to estab-.
fish the united front against Hitler
fasciSm, the first victory was gained
in the Hessen-F Frankfurt district.
There the Social Democratic and
Communist Party addressed a joint
appeal to the toiling masses. This
Joint appeal is a mighty document,
boldly advancing the united front
which will sweep away the bloody
Hitler dictatorship.
This appeal declares:
United anti-faScist action is the
call of the hour! Social Democratic
and Communist workers are already
standing shoulder to shoulder in
the struggle everywhere today.
Already anti-fascist unity organs
are forming everywhere, especially
in the works and factories, for the
leadership of the struggle In
the sincere endeayour to intensity
this will of the masses towards the
militant united front, that it may
sweep aside all that has hitherto
divided us and form the invincible
front of anti-fascist struggle which
will overthrow fascisrn, the illegal
district committees of the Social
Democratic and Communist Parties
have resolved, in a joint conference,
to join together in united action,
with the aim of strengthening the
daily struggle of the exploited for
wages and bread, until broad mass
struggles against fascism, and
against the profit-greedy exploitive
class promoting fascism, are inten-
sified to the point of the revolution
which will annihilate that class,
and will then go forward to the
establishment of the dictatorship of
the working class, enabling real
socialism to be built up with the
aid of the whole of the toiling
masses"
THE appeal passes on to the prac-
teal measures to be taken. The
district committees issuing the APP
peal regard the rebuilding of the
free trade unions on the basis Of
the proletarian class struggle as the
first and most important task Of
their united action. 1--WE call upon
you Social Democrats and Socialists
to form at once, in. all the works
and factories, joint illegal trade
union committees, to be composed
of the most experienced and reli-
able workers, who establish contact
with the various departments Of
the factories through the agency of
illegal functionaries, and build up
department groups of the trade
union
I'm order to stem the flood of
fascist terror, and to increase the
self defensive powers of our class,
we further call upon you to take
up the work of forming illegal anti
fascist mass self defense groups in
all house blocks and districts. One
of the tasks of these groups is to
influence the dissatisfied elements
in the fascist organizations, such as
the Storm Troops, Guard Corps,
Hitler Youth, etc, and to win them
over for our anti-fascist struggle.
Besides this, join your forces
everywhere in united committees for
the release of the imprisoned anti
fasciSts In the rural districts, form
ulllUCO pCoOd1lto lOl b1lo
defense of the standards of living
of the rural population. Form I'M
employed committees at all labor
exchanges. Form united youth and
women's committees for the struggle
against compulsory labor service,
against the Land Aid, against mill
tarization, against the elimination
of women from the process of pro-
duction, and for the payment of the
same wages to women as to
men ="
BISHOP LUDWIG MUELLER, the
u Nazi pope, has just decreed that
all Protestant and Catholic groups
must join the Nazi church or face
extinction. This grows out of the
growing opposition of the Catholic
masses in the Saar and in the
South of Germany to the fascist
depredations. 1t will still further
intensity these battles.
The religious cloak has always
covered what are mainly economic
and political issues. This is es-
pecially true in the history of Ger
many. The Catholic workers and
petty bourgeois masses express their
grievances over pay cuts, over
lowering their living standards,
under the guise of a struggle for
their religious rights.
The Nazis also recognize the
church in some proletarian districts
particularly as source of opposition
to a great many measures of Fas-
cism. Many of the catholic priests
put themselves at the head of this
anti-fascist movement of their
parishioners, very much as A. F. of
L. leaders put themselves at heads
of strikes-to keep movements from
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