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TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1933,

A German MAY DAY Appeal

FORWARD ON MAY DAY THE First of May, the great day of international working-class solidarity,

lies only a few days ahead. In every factory, trade union branch, and at every Labour Exchange, the preparations for celebrating May Day

should now be driving ahead with the maximum speed and energy, in order to ensure that May 1, 1933, will witness the mighty power rnd strength of the working-class mobilised in great mass demonstrations on the streets throughout the length and breadth of the land. May Day this year will take place in a situation of raging capitalist crisis

wherein the whole capitalist world is going forward to gigantic upheavals. The desperate efforts of the capitalists to find a way out of the crisis -s bringing an enormous accentuation of mass poverty and misery to the workers and toilers, and pushing to the forefront the horrors of new imperialist wars.

It is becoming ever clearer to the great mass of the workers that capi-talism has nothing to offer them but hunger and starvation, growing Fascist terror and murder, imperialist war and criminal armed intervention against the U.S.S.R., the international citadel of all workers and oppressed toilers where Socialism is being built up. REVOLUTIONARY CLASS STRUGGLE GROWING

In all countries the revolutionary class struggle is tempestuously sweeping up, and taking on ever sharper forms. Under the leadership of the Communist International the million strong army of the working-class is rapidly forging the revolutionary united front in the fight against capitalist dictatorship.

In Germany where Fascist rule has been installed with the help of the treacherous Social-Democracy, the German working-class led by the Com-munist Party is fighting back against the Nazi murder-gangs with increasing vigour and determination.

Here in Britain the working-class is showing its growing strength in the numerous class battles being waged against the robber capitalists, winning victories in the teeth of the sabotage and disruption exercised by the reformist Labour leaders. Striding out with resolute steps along the path of revolu-tionary class struggle, the workers are turning more and more towards the Communist Party.

May 1 can, and must be made, a day of mighty working-class demon-stration and solidarity, a challenging manifestation of the inflexible and determined will of the workers to carry the struggle forward, their ranks united in action, against the capitalist offensive, against wage-cuts and starvation, imperialist war and anti-Soviet intervention.

Every revolutionary worker should strain nerve and muscle to organise the fighting united working-class front on the streets on May Day. Let May 1 see the masses in Britain pouring on to the streets in millions, demonstrating brotherly solidarity with our class comrades on the Continent, in the Colonies, and in every land. REFORMIST LEADERS SABOTAGE FIGHT

The reformist leaders of the Labour Party and the T.U.C. have set them-selves against working-class unity and the May 1 demonstrations. By their deeds they help forward the capitalist hunger drive, and seek to cloak over the imperialist war preparations by the use of pacifist phrases.

At the very moment when new attacks on the workers are threatening, when Japan is waging war on China, when the Hunger and War Government of Britain imposes its anti-Soviet trade embargo and the forces of Fascism and reaction are being everywhere mobilised against the working-class, these reformist leaders openly sabotage workers' unity and stand forth as the upholders of capitalist " democracy," and the terrible slavery it stands for,

Tho bankrupt capitalist system has nothing to give the workers but starvation and slaughter. Against it the struggle of the working-class must be intensified, the urgent immediate demands of the workers raised and fought for, and the fight for its complete overthrow carried fearlessly forward.

The workers of the Soviet Union have shown the way. Let us determine to organise the united front of class struggle, rally the millions of workers in the factories, unions, and working-class organisations together with the unemployed, and make May Day. 1933, an outstanding historic event in the forward march of the working-class on the road to proletarian victory.

Under Hitler The Nation Of Well-Fed Triumphs Over Nation Of StarvingI

FLAG-WAVING, grand parades-

CO-OPERATIVE YOUTH FOR UNITED FRONT I

A

Executive Decision After Easter Conference

T the Nat ional Execut ive meet ing of the Bri t ish Federat ion of Co-operative

Youth , held on the day following their second Nat ional Conference, a t K e t t e r i n g , on the week-end of April 16 and 17, a decision was taken to join with the Young Communis t League and I . L . P . Guild of Youth in united f r o n t act iou.

The Conference heard a f r a t e rna l delegate f rom the uni ted f r o n t commit tee , who was well received by the delegates, and the de-cision to par t ic ipa te in the united f ron t was made by tbe Execut ive following the Confer-ence.

This decision is of far-reaching import-ance, not only to the working-class youth , bu t also to the whole development of united f ron t act ion. The Bri t ish Federat ion of Co-operative

Youth have a membership of close upon 6,000 organised in over 170 Co-operative Comrades" Circles th roughou t the count ry .

Many members of tho organisat ion are act ive in the t r ade unions, unemployed, and other sections of the movement , and by par-ticipation in united f ron t action upon the im-mediate issues in tho present s i tua t ion , can great ly assis t in car ry ing forward the s t ruggle for the defence of the in teres ts of the youth } JO the present capital ist offensive.

Part icular ly can the members of tbe Co- , opera t ive youth movement play a big pa r t in the campaign aga ins t the embargo by the ;

National Government upon Soviet imports ! in to th is countrv, which i-; par t of Bri t ish capi ta l i sm's prepara t ions for armed interven- ; tion upon tho Soviet Union.

Tbe National United Front Committee { great ly welcome th is don- ion and will as ?

speedily a« possible carry out diseusw&ious « i t b representative* of the Federat ion of Co-opera- | f ive Youth on how they can throw the i r j whole weight into united f ront activities.

Great progress is al«o being made in breaking down the decision of the Labour League of Ycuth leadership against par-t icpation in the united front From repor ts rereived more than one-third |

of tbe membership have ei ther decided for, j or a r e actual ly t ak ing par t in united f ront * activit ies.

Members of the National Admini*trat iv» >

torchlight processions, -these are the means

with which Hi t ler , Hugenberg and Papen announce the inaugurat ion of the " Third Empi re . " Seventeen million Nazi electors believe t h a t t he day of their emancipation f rom years of misery and slavery has come.

They celebrate the " emancipation of the nation " which has been achieved by t h e " nat ional revolut ion."

But look around and you will see t ha t under Hi t ler ' s Government the nation of the well-fed t r iumphs over the nation of the s tarving,

Hi t le r has not repealed a single one of Papen ' s and Bruening ' s hunger decrees. In-stead of increasing the meagre unemploy-ment benefit, he reduces i t still f u r the r under the cloak of " reorganising " the unemploy-ment insurance.

Work? Yes, for the Nazi bureaucra ts , who formerly made such an outcry about t h e jobs in the S t a t e appara tus being given only to members of tho Social-Democratic P a r t y , but have now secured sof t jobs for themselves.

New police aud government presidents , new mayors and town councillors wi thout end, but for you there is left unpaid, forced labour on a diet of potatoes and herring.

LOOK AROUND YOU, SMALL SHOP-K E E P E R S AND ARTISANS! Xo reduction of the unbearable taxes on

small businesses, but remission ami cancella-tion of t he t axes on luxurious motor-cars. Hi t ler has expressly guaranteed full protec-tion of the big stores.

Nothing is done to the rich Jews , but t he working-class ant i -Fascis ts are mishandled and to r tu red .

Under tho Fascis t Mag the number of those who could buy your goods and pro-vide you with work by placing orders with you is becoming ever less, as heavy customs duties aro f u r t h e r reducing the purchasing power of the masses.

LOOK AROUND YOU, WORKING PEAS-ANTS! The agrar ian policy of the Hi t le r Govern-

ment does not benefit you, but only the rich junker , who pockets the enormous profits from the customs dut ies and t.ho millions pro-vided by the East-Elbian Relief

Who benefits now, when a pound of margar -ine costs 25 pfennigs mure r N o t you, and no t the worker, but the owners of the big es ta tes .

Your exorbi tant ground rents and out-goings remain. The price of fodder is rising.

Acting on the orders of the financiers and t rus t magnates , the Reichstag has passed an Enabl ing Act. Not only the national Social-ists, but also the Centre , t he big capi tal is ts

Council and members of the divisional coun-cils, part icularly from the industrial areas, are wholeheartedly in favour of t he united f ront .

In 20 different areas branches of the Labour League ot Youth have discussed the question of the united f ron t and voted in support of i t .

The big question, however, is for our ; in the German People's pa r ty , and even the Y.C.L. comrades to intensify thei r activit ies j coupon-clippers in the S ta t e par ty have given among the mass membership of the Labour j the Hit ler Government full powers. League of Youth. ! The Communist deputies , the only spokes-

Too much reliance is placed nron corres- , men of the working people, are forcibly re-pondenee and nothing more. I moved from all governing bodies, while the

If The New Blasphemy Bill Becomes Law!

I K J

A vigorous call for May Day is sounded in this appeal of the German Communist Party, issued at the end of March.

The picture above shows our imprisoned Cotnrade THAELMANN, leader of the German Communist Party, speak-ing at the May Day demonstration in Berlin last yea

Social-Democratic Party are a miserable pic-tu re of the most shameful capi tu la t ion.

Has Hi t le r caused the Enabl ing Act t o bo passed in order to fulfil his national and social promises?

Did he demand full powers in order to tear up the reparations treaties, to expro-priate the kings of the Stock Exchange, to repeal the starvation decrees? Noth ing of the kind, but , ins tead, a

Balkan t e r ro r aga ins t t h e only pa r ty of f reedom, special courts and gallows for sin-cere ant i -Fascis ts , sha t t e r ing f t h e t r a d e unions and fighting organisa t ions , de-s t ruct ion of collective agreements and tho whole of the social welfare ins t i tu t ions , com-pulsory labour for the unemployed, g igan t ic subventions for the capi ta l i s t s and j unke r s , insane a rmamen t s .

I t was for th is t h a t H i t l e r obtained full powers.

And this is what they call na t ional emanc ipa t ion? I t is no th ing else bu t an a t t e m p t to save dying capi ta l i sm f rom decline, an a t t e m p t to bar with blood and iron the only way out f rom tho crisis of capi ta l i s t collapse. Under the swastika flag t h e people a re

s ighing under the s lave-fet ters of t i n Ver-sailles repara t ions system.

H i t l e r promises punc tua l payment of t h e debts t o the foreign capi ta l is ts . The prole-t a r i a n revolution will annu l these promises!, t e a r up tho t r i b u t e pact and break the slave yoke of t he German and foreign financial magna tes .

Under the swastika the j u n k e r s chea t the working peasants of t h e f r u i t s of the i r labour. The prole tar ian revolution will ex-propr ia te the j u n k e r s and give the land to the poor peasants .

Members of the Red T r a d e Union Op-position, whether prohibi ted or not , s t reng then the R . T . U . O . ! E n t e r the re-formis t and Chr is t ian Trade Unions in masses in order to develop the mass power of t he Trade Unions aga ins t Fascism and social reaction !

WORKERS OF UNIONISTS! I t is only a few days to Red May Day,

1933. At the behest or the capi ta l is ts t h e Fasc is t leaders and thei r representa t ives in the factories will a t t e m p t to suppress t h e Socialist will to the freedom of the German working-class by bloody terror aga ins t t he Red May Day, by unbounded demagogy, bv a '„" holiday " and fest ivals , to mak« use of t h e Socialist t radi t ions of tho working-class, for a German May Day , " in order to glorify V ascist capi tal is t exploi tat ion.

P reven t t he desecration of your f ighting d a y ! Form unity committees m preparat ion lor May Day I

Decide to abstain f rom work as a protes t aga ins t Fascis t te r ror , social r eac t ion ; and, in place of the Fasc is t uni ty of t h e people with the exploiters , p u t forward in factory meet ings your class s t ruggle demands for bread and work, aga ins t t he shameful Ver-sailles system and the capital is t exploiters in your own copntry I

Long live the anti-Fasclst united front of the German working-class for the defencse of freedom of organisation, combination and the right to strike!

Long live Socialism! Long live a Germany without junkers and

capital sts, a Germany ot emaneipated labour, the German workers' and p e a s a n t s republic, the dictatorship ot the proletariat !

Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany

BERLIN, March 30. 1033.

7HE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS

BEKLIN, Monday, — F u r t h e r ou t rage a agains t J ews aro reported. During t he n ight persons who have not been identiBed broke into the residence of a Jew named Cussel, in Wiesbsden, and shot him dead, r iddling body with bullets.

Ent ry was also forced a t pistol point into the house of li J e w named Rosens t ranch , who

Exchange Telegraph.

GERMANY, TRADE

Wednesday, April 26, 1933

A Worker's Notebook

fell dead from shock.-

Comrades Of The Nazis

A M A N is known by his friends. one news item connected with the

t u r n t o England of the convicted depor ted Metropolitan-Vickers' engine*! deserves r a the r more prominent record tta i t has received iu the capitalist uewsptpen

F o r , hen Monkhouse, Nordwall, C u S and Gregory arrived at; Berlin last SaturdJ they were met , not only by officials of TC Br i t i sh Embassy, but by official Nazi rep*, sen ta t ives .

The Metro-Vickers ' engineers, with the Br i t i sh d ip lomats s tanding smiling u l istened to an address by a representative J t he Naz i " technical auxiliary service,"

The Nazi greeted Monkhouse and Com pany as "comrades who have gone through similar experiences in Moscow, at the Nazis have in Germany, where, at last Communist terrorism is broken," 1

1 th ink comment is unnecessary.

The " E x p r e s s , " Moscow And Meerut

LAST Thur sday ' s "Daily Express,3' editori-ally commending; the Government for

imposing the anti-Soviet embargo, deciared t h a t tho " t r a v e s t y of a trial is not an isolated ins tance of Russ ian barbarism."

In the same issue the society oolumnj^ wro t e s : —

"Now t h a t t h e Government have «x» pressed, promptly and practically, their dis-approval of t h e Moscow convictions, I wonder if they will tu rn their attention to a c&a« t h a t is more int imately their conoerti: Meeru t .

" I t was a month or two ago that incred-

ibly savage sentences were pronounced, a f t e r a t r ial which would have been con, sidered highly irregular in an Ecgli&h cour t , on th ree Englishmen and a number of Ind ians who were alleged to have ex-pressed views which would be highly r*. spectable in England .

" T h e charges aga ins t one a t least oi the Meeru t prisoners was insignificant M®. pared with t h e Moscow charges: the Beat-ences were f a r heavier. " T h e Moscow prisoners were allowed bail;

t h e Meeru t pr isoners were not. " A n d in con t ras t with the expeditiousness

of t he Moscow t r ia l , the Meeiut prisoners were kept wai t ing for nearly four yearn, in t h e he.at and squalor of an Indian jail, before the i r case was h e a r d . " The Pacifists Of Burnley

TH E following repor t , in a local paper, t ho last monthly meeting of th*

Burnley branch of t he League of Nations Union, is a classic instance of the confci"® and fu t i l i ty of pacif ism: —

M r . J . R o t h m a n raised the subject of tl» a r res t of tho Bri t ish engineers in Moscow,«M said t h a t du r ing the past few weeks there iii beer a very serious tension created between Grea t Britain and Russia owing to the forth-coming t r ia l . Ho thought that they ought to express in some way their apprehension o? tbe danger of war owing to tho seriousness of the m a t t e r .

The secretary , Mr. Alec Clegg, remarked t h a t he was very doubtful as to whether the re was any danger a t all, and he thought t h a t t h e less they worried about the matter tho less danger there would be. The Chairman ( the Rev. F. T. Buckingham)

sak1 he agreed very largely with Mr. Roih-m a n ' s point of view, and there was danger with regard to ourselves and Russia, hut it wa-5 doub t fu l as to whether they could do any-th ing useful .

Fascists Half-Price

A N E W S AGENCY reports the following

.vtory of t he visit of 12 British Black-sh i r t s to Rome with Sir Oswald MosJey;-

Two vouug Br i t i sh Fascists entered a shop. " How m u c h ? " they asked of a eerU»

a r t i c l e .—" Twenty l i re ," replied the shop-keeper . „

" We are Fasc i s t s . "—" Fifteen lire-" Br i t i sh Fascists ."—A pause-" Are Br i t i sh Fascists against the Je™

the two young men were asked. " N o , " thev replied. " Ten l i r e , " decided the shopkeeper.

N o t Against The Jews < Tho s t a t e m e n t t h a t the

Br i t a i n a re not against the Jf*« to me

highlv dubious. Anti-Semitism an in tegral p a r t of Fascist demagogy-

And I have before me a s e r i e s of " s t i cke r s , " emana t ipg from F a s c i s t so which square ill with this statement;

Theso " st ickers l egends :— ,, " The 4 Red Flag 5 is a JEW ^ . „ " D o you know that Bol «bs«®

J E W I S H ? " m * " When Edward the First

J E W S , Br i ta in found & " T h e w a r was a r r a n g e d by J b f BIIE«

the peace !" (as good an e x a m y ing tho best of both worlds, as see!) r¥r\V C0>''

" B E W A R E ! This * , e j

T R O L L E D . " And so on and so forth

T w o Bi r thdays ^ y t r O-DAY is tho b i r t h d a y of t w o ^ ^

men. one a figure of hi»w»7> still living. . ***

On April 25, 1599, Oliver born. Headers ill ^ f j . ^ f rom his speech dissolving t h ^ (favs ment given in this column • Cromwell was the area test figu"^ geois-Democratic r e v o l u t i o n and one or the very revolut ionaries in all h i s t o r ? f i ? i at*

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