The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES

lTedcneEy III the S3aF
Rake's Progress of Recovery
Maisky's Warning
A S MARCH 1 draws near,
"A the date set for the COM
plete blanketing of the Nazi
plague over the Saar, the
united front of Socialists,
Communists and Catholics,
remains firm.
Despite all difficulties, the ar
better zeitung," the anti-Fascist
paper, still continues to appear. In
one of its latest issues to arrive
here there is the story of the
treachery of the Social Democratic
leader Pfaff Herr Pfaff declared.
after a visit to Berlin, that the
Social Democratic Party in the Saar
will be dissolved as soon as Hitler
rides in.
"Self-evidently," says the 'Arbei~
ter zeitung, "the appeal made by
Pfaff to the Social Democratic
workers, to maintain loyalty and
neutrality towards the Hitler die
tstorship will be rejected with con-
tempt by these workers. The words
of traitor are nothing to them.
The Social Democratic workers will
continue to fight in the united
front with the Communist workers"
Max Braun, Socialist leader
whose part in the united front has
earned him the undying hatred Of
the Nazis, speaking to the capitalist
press representatives at Geneva,
said:
"The united front is still there,
the fight is going on"
WHEN Comrade Stain said we are
" now in depression of a special
kind, leading not to a new era of
prosperity, but to further deep
ening of the general crisis of cap
italism; that this depression, while
above the lowest levels of the crisis.
is not leading to the previous levels
of normal capitalism, some people
were confused on the meaning of
this Characterization.
Now about six months after
Stains brilliant estimation, we
have a concentration of this theo~
retical Characterization of the press
ent stage of the capitalist crisis.
England was the country which
best illustrated the depression of a
special kind. That is to say, in
England, the capitalist had gotten
out of the deeper rut and believed
and confidently proclaimed that
they were heading for a new era Of
prosperity"
Let's see what is happening now?
Sir William Beveridge, director OF
the London School of Economics, in
a radio speech last Tuesday night,
asked the question:
rs Great Britain on the brink OF
another depression?"
Here the word depression" really
means crisis. And his answer is
quite definitely and emphatically,
"Yes!" He said that the recovery
which was in evidence from the
middle of 1892 had come to an
end" He pointed to the increase
of 239,558 in the number Of the
unemployed.
Our last recovery" he said, has
brought us back to II per cent Of
what we are being asked to call the
good year of 1994-to II per cent,
the bottom of the depression in
1922; that is our rake's progress Of
unemployment.
IF II per cent is the top Of the
recovery, where will we be in the
next depression?"
In other words, each recovery"
brings the capitalist economic sys-
TEN to a level below the last crisis.
A few more of these Pyhrric "re-
coveries" and the past lowest level
of the crisis will seem like pros
perity."
WITHOUT mincing words, the So
w Wet ambassador to London, Ivan
NJ Maisky, declared that Fascist
Germany and Poland were delih-
Grating working for war against the
Soviet Union
Speaking in London, where the
British richards are working for a
united war front against the Soviet
Union, Ambassador Maisky showed
that Germany and Poland we're
maneuvering with Britain for q
war alliance while speaking about
peace" If it's peace they want.
Maisky said, why don't they sign
the Eastern Locarno pact. without
peace in Eastern Europe there can
be peace nowhere. He said the
reply of Berlin to the British pros
posals lis rightly the cause Of very
serious apprehension.
Every friend of the Soviet
Union in and around New York
should be sure to be present at
the Madison Square Garden
meeting Monday night where
Congressman Lundeen and others
will speak on the growing war
danger directed against the Soviet
Unicn.