The daily worker., 1934-05-17
On the
World Front
GOebbel's Boast
A Factory Answers
Gone, the Fear of God
By HARRY CANNES

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CTANDING in the very
~ Reichstag building which
his cohorts later burned, chief
of lying Nazi propaganda
Goebbels, on March, 1888,
made a boast which the Ger
man fascists have since been
forced to eat.
TN fifty years time" beloved
Goebbels, mo man in the world will
know any more that Marxism ever
existed. The world idea of fascism
will march and the Communist
Party Of Germany will be finished
for ever"
Now let's see about that Herr
Goebbels. The well-known Dutch
capitalist newspaper of Rotterdam
'Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant,"
a little more than year after the
Nazi boast, discussing the situation
in Germany, editorialized:
"The Nazi government has sup
pressed many things: political
parties, spiritual freedom, church
institutions which their system
does not like, the most elementary
conceptions of tolerance. the con-
fidence of citizen in citizen. But
the thing that suffered least from
it is Communism. 1t seems that
in the same degree to which the
economic situation in Germany
becomes more difficult. the more
the fear Of Communism is grow
ing in government circles"
Let us take for example the Sic
mens-Schuckert Works. factory
employing 5000 workers in Berlin
which Hitler himself picked out
last year after Goebbels' boast to
start his "labor battle" fraud. On
May End Of this year the overwhel-
ming majority of workers demon
strated their opposition to fascism.
Out of 5000 who were entitled to
vote in the elections to the Conf
dence council" in the factory. 5000
refused to touch the ballots; 300
deliberately defaced them with
slogans against Hitler and his hang
men; 300 accepted ballots and
turned them back blank, as a sign
Of protest; 400 voted for the revolu-
tionary candidates who risked their
liberty and life to run in the cleo
tions; and only 500. or 10 per cent
Of this Concentration" factory Of
the Nazis, voted for the Nazi slate.
THE Nazi May Day demonstrations
1 however, we're a test that the
Hitler government had occasion to
rue. 1t takes long time for news
to get past the Nazi bayonets and
censorship. We now have, never
theless, a fairly accurate balance
sheet of what May Day showed to
the Nazis in Germany,
Hundreds of revolutionary Nav
Day demonstrations were held under
the leadership of the Communist
Party in Germany, under the very
noses Of the huge military concen-
tration of the Fascists. In the fifth
municipal district of Berlin, about
300 working men and women
formed parade and marched from
the Strassmannstrasse to the Frank
furter Alice. Communist leaflets
were distributed in the ranks of the
official Nazi May Day parade.
At Mayence, where the chief Of
police boasted last December, that
the last Communist was arrested,
Communist leaflets were distributed
with lightning speed in the official
May Day parade and snatched up
greedily by the workers. The chief
of police took his vengeance on the
non-existent Communists by ar
resting $50 of them.
Right at the Nazi May Dav DEM
onstration where Hitler spoke. the
workers so openly showed their re-
sentiment, their bitterness and
hatred to the Fascist scoundrels.
that the entire world capitalist
press, through it's correspondents,
were forced to admit that they could
feel something wrong.
It is this fact that made the Nazis
come out, like infuriated hell
hounds, on May 2nd and institute
their new reign of ferocious terror
whose first outstanding victim is
already slated to be our heroic COM
rade Ernst Thaelmann, leader Of
the Communist Party Of Germany.
CPACE does not permit here full
~ quotations from the leading
world capitalist newspapers on the
boomerang of the Nazi May Day.
We quote only few:
N. Y. Herald Tribune: "Hitler's
speech was received with lukewarm
and scattered applause by his pre-
dominantly working class audi
ence." London Times: "This years
manifestation was lukewarm. The
Nazi leaders who are listening with
much strained ears, should know
that the masses are getting rather
tired of repeated marches" Paris
Journal: "Of course the leaders
speech was applauded, although
one had very much the impression
that the tired masses did not al
ways understand the speech very
we'll. and were not following the
chancellor for the fear of god"
Danish Politiken: When the min
lister of propaganda Goebbels went
to the speakers tower. he declared
that over 1000 900 had come on the
anniversary of the hour in which
Hitler proclaimed the grandiose
project which is called the Nazi A.
year plan.