The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

NO MAY FIRST is so engraved
" with letters Of blood in the
hearts of the German proletariat as
May First, 1929. Long before May
First, the workers in the factories
IND labor exchanges had determined
HAT this May first at last must be
tarried through under the slogan
Of the united front of struggle
against the ever sharpening terror
ist trend of the democratic coalition
government. Many workers we're
ready to adopt the slogan; Unity
Of the Proletariat for Struggle"
which had been raised by the Com
munist Party.
In the factories the workers
adopted resolutions and demanded
. united fighting demonstration on
Hay First under the slogans of the
Communists. May First committees
Jere formed in all parts of Berlin.
Daily discussions took place at the
labor exchanges with the Social
Democratic officials who we're work
ing there, and who called the police
to disperse the spontaneous demon
strations of the unemployed.
In some factories, as for instance,
the General Electric Plant at Brun-
nen Strasse, (this is the Red We'd
ding of Berlin), some departments
went on strike against the unheard-
of treatment Of the unemployed,
and at the same time demanded
that the unemployed be given work.
The proletariat of Berlin eele-
brated May First every year under
the Red banner of the United Front.
The demonstrations of the Commu-
mist Party modified the majority
of the revolutionary proletariat. It
had become a tradition that in Ber-
lin the demonstration on May Day
under the banner of the Commu-
mist Party of Germany was held at
Lustgarten. It had become tradi-
ton that the Social-Demoerats did
not have a demonstration on this
day, but only called upon its voters
and members to take walk to the
Treptow Park and participate in the
dancing and beer drinking in the
evening. But this year the demand
of the masses of the workers for
united fighting demonstration was
so strong that the Social-Democratic
leaders were forced to consider seri-
ously what they could do in order
to prevent q united fighting demon
stration of Communist and social
democratic workers. And they used
one of the mostly dastardly means
in order to carry this through,
ALTHOUGH many weeks before a
a permit for the Lustgarten dem
onstration had been asked for from
the Berlin police chief, the Social
Democrat Zorgiebel = although al
ready hundreds of resolutions had
been adopted in the factories, call
ing for a united May First demon
stration, the infamous Socialist
chief of police declared, week be-
fore May First. that "the demon
stration of the Communist Party of
Germany on May First at Lust
garten is prohibited because the
ASocial-Democratic Party has already
, of Berlin had only one slogan, Joint
demonstration of Communist and
Sooial-Democratie workers would
endanger the safety of the State"
A storm Of protests swept through
the Berlin factories. Shop meet
tngs, unemployed meetings, meetings
of women and young workers spen-
taneously took place in large num-
bers and expressed the sharpest pro-
test and indignation over the action
Aof the chief of police. The workers
of Berlin had only one slogan; Join
demonstration-Un 'FRONT.'" But
1.-THE Soeial-Democratic leaders, wells,
Stampfer, Severing and zorgiebel,
declared. Safety Of the State of
democracy is endangered by such a
united demonstration,
Those gentlemen knew very we'll
what it meant if the workers sue
ceeded in getting together and
marching in one united front. They
knew very we'll that the hundreds Of
thousands of workers would acquire
new courage and determination and
would again realize that they are
strong and invineible army If they
marched in a united front not only
in the street, but in the factories
and strike-a mass strike. zorgiebel
did not listen to the rank and file
of the workers. He told delega-
ton of Social Democratic workers
that they we're misled by the Com
inunists, and had them thrown out.
But throughout Berlin the message
went from mouth to mouth, from
house to house, from factory to fac
tory Neither Bismarck nor Janut-
sokak were able to take May First
away from them. How could zorg-
iebel. who calls himself democrat,
prohibit us from marching, asked
the workers. We will march any
way, despite him, in united front
on May First to the Lustgarten.
MAY FIRST came zorgiebel stuck
Al to his prohibition of the DEM