The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28

Is all that which has been going
on in Germany for more than
year purely German affair which
has nothing to do with the social
structure of other countries, which
is essentially alien and impossible
for other countries?
The official statesmen, the poll
ticians, and legislators of your
countries take the same attitude on
the question of fascism as they take
on the question of war; they exert
themselves to prove that neither
war nor fascism are part and par
Gel Of a bourgeois social system
the social system which exists not
only in Germany, but in all the big
western democracies.
The stencil of decay is given off
too distinctly by war and fascism,
they are too obviously embodiments
Of barbarism, for any democratic
politician to dare not to associate
himself from them at the moment.
On the first page of our little
book we touched the question of
whether the events in Germany
might not tomorrow or day after
tomorrow be repeated-on your own
persons, on your own works of lit
erature, art, and science.
Tua res agitur-your own case Is
concerned when you work in behalf
of the German intellectual workers
who have been prosecuted, tor
mented, driven to suicide, by fas-
cism; and when you work for all
those who, in spite of the brutal
terror, fight on against that fas-
cism.
UOW should you fight against fas-
IL cism in your own country? That
is a question which cannot be an
Swered here, since it goes beyond
the boundaries of the definite aims
we have set for ourselves in this
booklet-to help our friends in Ger
many.
What can you, should you, do for
them?
Be sure that your voice has an
echo and your name a weight in
Fascist Germany. Give up your 81
lence, your passivity in political af-
fairS-use the sole weapon which
you have, the weapon of the word.
Use it where is it effective and
where it cannot be denied you.
The saying whoever holds his
peace shares the guilt" is well-worn.
But it is truel 1t was never so true
as it is todayl
What can one protesting voice ac-
complish? On ten? Not very much.
Hundred, thousand, hundred thou
sand, mean more. Do you think that
the Nazis would have permitted
Dimitroff to use the Leipzig court
room for three months as his own
accuser's rostrum. had they not felt
on them the pressure Of these thou
sands, millions of voices?
Write-wherever piece of print
able paper is at your disposall
Speak-wherever you possess for a
moment the attention of people
Protest - wherever you get to-
gether with professional colleagues
from Nazi Germany
Demand an accounting from the
official representatives of the new
Germany who are SO brazen as to
appear at international congresses
and conventions
And not least: Try to get in
touch with our tortured brothers
and assure them of our sympathy
by encouraging them: Look-your
fight, our fight, is going on!
Gather fundsl Not one writer or
journalist living in Germany can
earn cent unless he "Hitlerizes"
completely. Our friends
are slowly starving. Gather funds
and send them! With the money
you will help not only their phys
ical eXistence-with the money you
send you will help to build up and
spread the underground anti-fas-
cist literature.
Don't let the itmelsip. gig
Don't let the time slip by unused.
The fight against fascism is the
fight for your own intellectual ex-
the fight for culture, for