The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-29
MussOlini

MussoIini for the ills Of
capitalism.
Speaking before the hand picked
Fascist Chamber of Deputies Sat-
urday afternoon, MuSsolini proposed
a tremendous increase in arma-
ments. To pay for it, he declared,
the standards of living of the
masses must be lowered.
I'VE are probably moving to-
ward a period of humanity re-
posing on a lower standard Of
life. We must not be alarmed by
this prospect. Present-day hui
nanity is very strong and Ia
capable of asceticism such as we
perhaps have no conception of
Then, Mussolini echoes the words
Of Odon Por, the fascist theoreti-
clan, written in his book "Fas-
cism," published in 1928, "The diff
ference between Fascist organizers
and reformist trade union organ
izers," declared Ior, rs that the
former say frankly that, for the
time being, wages must be reduced.
owing to present conditions in in-
dustry, while the latter are unwiII-
ing to recognize the necessity
(p. 243).
On Saturday last, Mussolini, JUST
flying his huge war expenditures,
declared.
TT is easy to go to the workers
and tell them their wages are to
be increased. Such an announce.
ment is sure to be greeted with
applause. But the duty of the
Fascist is to say to the workers:
Make this sacrifice because it will
enable us to face competition in
the international market"
Nor does the fascist stop with
argument. He uses the most open,
naked, violent instruments of the
capitalist state to force the workers
to accept lower living standards;
smashes their organization, their
right to strike, very much as the
bosses in Toledo, Ohio, are attempt
ing to do, but under the guise of
safeguarding law and order" under
democracy"
HAVING smashed down the living
III standards of the workers, and
preparing even still worse condi-
lions, Mussolini, plans to immerse
the toilers into new bloody
slaughter in order to win world
markets for the Italian capitalists.
For fascism, imperialist war be-
comes the highest ideal, the great
est glory.
1.-THE terrible question mark that
has weighed on the minds of the
multitude from the dawn of his
tory to today is this: will it be
peace of will it be WARP" Mussolini
answers Enthusiastically that it will
be warl
How true, how prophetic are the
words of the 18th Plenum of the
Communist International, adopted
less than six months agol
"The growing uncertaint of the
bourgeoiSie as to the possibility
of finding way out of the crisis
only by the intensified exploita-
ton of the toiIers of their own
countries, has led the imperialists
to put their main stake on war.
The international situation bears
all the features of the eve of a
new world war The bour-
geoisie wants to postpone the
doom of capitalism by criminal
imperialist war and counter
revolutionary campaign against
the land of victorious socialism"
A LITTLE over eight and one half
n years ago our Hungarian COM
rade and leader of the Communist
Party of Hungary, Matias Rakosi,
was sentenced to the cruelest bar
barrie, disciplinary punishment.
Bravely, Comrade RakoSi bore his
Imprisonment He lived through
the Severest tortures, endured the
hardest, most back-breaking labor.
On Apr. "A last, his sentenced
ended. But Comrade Rakosi is still
in jail. The Hungarian bourgeoisie
has its pound of flesh, but it regrets
not getting Rakosi's life blood with
it.
At first, the Hungarian author
tiles remained silent about the con-
tinued imprisonment of Rakosi.
Under pressure of growing world
protest they were forced to look for
a new frame-up.
Comrade RakoSi, who was Peoples
Commissar in the Hungarian Soviet
Republic of 1918, is now charged
(after he had been tried, convicted,
and served sentence on every crime
the prosecution could then imagine)
with the murder of 1856 people, be-
sides few robberies, counterfeit
ings, and whatever else the fertile
imagination of the Hungarian per-
secution could discover in the
criminal code.
Hungarian fascism, fearing a new
spectre of Hungarian Soviet, is
forced to attempt new trial and
conviction of Conrade Rakosi. This
time they wans to supplement- the
eight and one half years of torture
with freedom on the gallows.
Only the most vigorous protests
to the Hungarian consulates and
embassy in the United States by
the American workers can help the
world campaign to free our brave
Comrade Rakosi, who has paid even
the vicious penalty exacted from
him by Fascist scoundrels whose
crimes are written in vile and
bloody letters in the histories of
the most utterly depraved.