The Workers Abroad

...The Arbeiter-Zeitung of Vienna last week published the names of 37 Socialist and Communist workers awaiting execution in the condemned cells of Hitler's Germany...

...the workers whose wages have been fixed by codes or collective agreements, and for whom a readjustment would be delayed while the cost of living would leap, and to those having savings accounts and insurance policies, most of whom are not wealthy and many of whom have no other means of existence during old age and disability...

...To appreciate the revolutionary value of this act of our Hungarian comrades, we must bear in mind that Hungary, a kingdom without a king, with a territory slightly smaller than Indiana and a population of about 9 million, is blessed with a ruthless dictatorship of a most reactionary feudalistic character, headed by a clique under the leadership of Horthy, Bethlen and Combo's, which has been in power since August, 1919, when the short-lived Communist dictatorship was overthrown, the Communists and the Socialists annihilated by the thousands, and all the previous achievements of the Revolution of 1918 "liquidated...

...Resolutions of the International in Austria "THE Arbeiter-Zeitung of Vienna * published on November 22nd the resolutions adopted by the enlarged Bureau of the Labor and Socialist International (printed in these columns last week...

...With most of their principal leaders in exile, the Socialists succeeded, nevertheless, in building up, in all of the principal cities, mass organisations with a dues-paying membership of over 150,000 men and 24,135 women...

...Chernov was thirty-three...

...All the workers of Latvia are called now to vote upon the committees supervising their sick benefit Institutions...

...In view of the feeling that has been" aroused for and against inflation as a government policy, and the difference of opinion which cuts across political lines, the Public Affairs Committee of the Socialist Party has conducted a survey for the purpose of ascertaining Socialist sentiment throughout the country...

...They called an anti-Faaciat conference for November 12th, to which came about a thousand delegates of Socialist locale and shop and factory committees, and dared the police to arrest them...

...6. Government borrowing through bond Issues, which is inflation, coupled with other inflationary measures already undertaken, justify a policy of financing the public works program, which the ne :t Congress may have to enlarge, by the issuance of currency instead of bonds—a method of financing more honest and less burdensome...

...But of special significance were the great mass demonstration...

...4. A steep increase of inheritance taxes, the income from which to be used primarily for the retiring of government bonds...

...Up to November, 15,000 Socialists snd Communists had been charged with high treason in 58 cities nndsr the Goring law, which permits the death penalty for those found "guilty...

...Out of tho 40 super* vlsers to be elected, 26 art Socialists, three sre Communists, five are Fascists, and six adherents of other parties...

...It would be a form of liquidation of excess financial burden now borne by the nation which a recovery program requires should be undertaken at once...

...The national victory had to do with the Party's campaign for a proposition concerning Old Age, Invalidity and Unemployment Insurance...

...The Party has also a large daily, "Nepszava," and three monthlies...

...Three paragraphs were sup-pressed by the Austrian censorship, and for sufficient reason...

...It will also save the nation about $4,000,000,000 for what we are now borrowing...

...The few advantages that might be gained from inflation, and the changes sought to be accomplished by those who advocate it, could" be achieved by sounder methods without incurring the dangers involved in inflation...

...As the Socialists preserved intact their strength, it is evident that most of the Communist workers went to the Fascists and other reactionary partisans of dictatorship...

...In the resolution on the world situation there appears a blank...

...In opposition to the catchwords of Fascism in Europe and in Hungary, we are resolved to fight for freedom, for work and bread, for Socialism...

...Thi« campaign was conducted in the form of an initiative law, and the Party succeeded In obtaining about 200,000 signatures (in a country of two million) within a brief period...

...One on national field and one— in a purely working class field...

...For one of the suppressed passages referred to the land of Doll fuss...

...The Workers Abroad An International Review of the Socialist and Labor Movement of the World By Mark Khinoy Socialism Under the Hungarian Dictatorship HTHE anti-Fatcist Week proclaimed by the L.8.I...

...The meetings took place simultaneously In all parts of the capital and were attended by huge crowds...

...The demonstration wag so Impressive that the police was forced two days later to permit sixteen public meetings to deal with the forbidden question of "Democracy in Europe...

...in the mother, land of counter-revolutionary dictatorship—in Hungary...

...To the extent that inflation is involved in government borrowing, and since tho administration has embarked on a. definite phase of inflation, it is the view of the Socialists that the financing of the public works program be carried through by the issuance of currency as distinguished from bonds, to dbviate an interest charge which may run as high as $4,000,000,000...

...The first election reports from the second largest city, Libau, are very favorable to the Social-Democrats...

...The Socialist (Social-Democratic) Party of Budapest ignored this prohibition...

...Such sentiment would be less likely, we felt, to be influenced by the immediate material interests of the creditor class, who stand to be the principal losers by direct inflation...

...2. Reduction of the capital structure of all business and utilities affected with a public interest, which, as matters now stand, would include all business...

...The Baltic press reports the sensational arrest of Yershov, leader of the Communist deputies in the Parliament of Latvia...

...Especially when it is remembered that the petition had to be signed in ¦ public office before a state official...

...Bern, Geneva and Zurich are not the only cities in Switzerland where Hitler's advent brought new adherents to the Social-Democratic Party and great victories st the last poll...

...It is one in spirit with the proletariat of Italy, Germany and Austria and desires to take its part in the anti-Fascist demonsrations which are being held to protest against the actions of those who are destroying the democratic and social rights and liberties won in the Revolution of November, 1911, The working class remains unshakeably convinced that the suffering of the masses of the people can be abolished only by the victory of Socialism...

...Socialist Party Jakes Stand Against Policy of Inflation OPPOSITION to inflation as a policy is expressed in a statement by the Public Affairs Committee of the Socialist Party, Norman Thomas and Louis Waldman...

...Good and Evil Results Conceding that some advantage to certain sections of the population, notably in the agricultural area, may temporarily result from a process of inflation, the sentiment expressed was that any good that would come of it would be more than offset by the disastrous consequences to at least three groups of the population: the civil service and wage and salaried workers, whose incomes are fixed...

...It says: "At the present moment the most energetic action must be taken against the dictatorial terror and in favor of the civil and political liberties t'n Austria, where the competition between the two kinds of Fascism is threatening the liberty of the people and the peace of Europe...

...Since the Parliament Is against the proposition, it will have to go to s general referendum...

...73 per cent of all the workers took part in the elections, and of those 65% voted Socialist and only 8%—Communist In the previous elections (1930) the Communists received 12...

...But thanks to the loyal stubborn* ness of her lesders and devotion of her leaders, the Socialist Party has s parliamentary representation of 14 deputies (oat of a total of 245...

...Protesting against this seal of the government, the Arbeiter-Zeitung remarks that "since the wsr, no manifesto of the Socialist International has . . . been suppressed in Austria...

...The committee recommends: 1. Interest on all indebtedness, government and private, including farm mortgages, should be reduced by legislation to 2 or at the most 2% per cent, to equalize the amount received by the holder of the bond to the amount intended to be paid by the borrower at the time the obligation was incurred...

...Two Victories and One Stool Pigeon in Latvia THE Social-Democratic Party of Latvia has just recorded two important victorias...

...In Lausanne the Socialists received 48 per cent of all the votes., In Montreil all the elected Councilmen are Socialists...

...8. A capital levy, scientifically assessed and applied, is inevitably bound up with any sound system of taxation...

...A notable illustration of one of the worst weaknesses of our finance set-up is disclosed in the report of the steel industry...

...He wss "isolated" eleven years ago, a young student of 22, when he was arrested for his activities in a Socialist youth organization in Leningrad...

...Since then he spent all his years in Polit-Isolators (special prisons for non-conforming Communists, Socialists, and other radicals) or in exile...

...Labor * and Socialist International) for November 9th-November 15th was observed all over Western Europe...

...There is now in preparation s monster trial of mors than 1,000 Socialist snd Communist "traitors" in order to frighten other rebellious elements In tho Reich...

...Four Socialist members of Parliament, including the Party leader, Buchinger, were the principal speakers...

...There all demonstrations were forbidden by the head of the dictatorship, Herr Combos, present leader of the openly Fascist anti-Semitic party...

...In view of the fact that the Initiative was sponsored only by the Social-Democratic Party, the hug* number of signatures Is really amazing...

...There were 7 Communists and 21 Socialists in the Latvian Parliament of 100 deputies...

...Soviet Union.—-Boris V. Chernov, brilliant son of the eminent leader of the Russian Social Revolutionists, Victor Chernov, recently died in the wilderness of Western Siberia, where he had lived a political exile...

...When in the political prison of Cheliabinsk (on the border line of Ural and Siberia), where he was kept for three years, he contracted a malignant maleria that brought on meningitis, the causa of his premature death...

...In no other way can we hope to escape the terrific load placed on our shoulders by the past and present generations...

...There is no secret ballot in Hungary and the election terror surpasses everything Tammany ever did...

...Yet, under the code, the cost of the product is fixed to als > cover the unproductive 67 per cent of the plant It is a false financial structure, to preserve which labor costs are cut to the bone...

...No other party succeeded in electing a single candidate...

...It seems that Yershov was arrested on November 26th in Moscow and placed under charges of double-crossing the Party, since he, the Communist firebrand and most popular leader, was also a stool pigeon, a paid agent, of the Latvian police...

...Like, their comrades of the working class throughout the world, the workers of Hungary are prepared to endure the heaviest sacrifices in the carrying on of that fight...

...During three good months under the NRA the industry used about 43 per cent of its plant...

...At nine of these meetings a uniform resolution was adopted, which Included the following passage: "The working data protests against the Fascist dictatorship...