The Workers Abroad
Khinoy, Mark
The Workers Abroad An International Review of the Socialist and Labor Movement of the World -By Mark Khmoy Labor Victory in Tasmania COCIALfiSM scored heavily in the recent elections...
...The report also shows that the Socialist Youth Confederation has 1*5 branches with six thousand members...
...machinery practically dismantled...
...There are in addition 12 Nationalists, 2 Independents and one unattached Socialist The latter has promised cooperation with the Labor Party and there will therefore be an absolute majority for a Socialist government...
...We expee*,* th*r wr\u, maneuver or attempt to split our ranks, for we are determined to negotiate only through our International...
...It will snap, as it snapped in 1918, when the great and seemingly indestructible German empire went to pieces before a deluge of misery and starvation...
...It is a regime by murder and assassination, a regime which considers machine guns and wholesale killings the solution of its problems...
...Three Polish opposition deputies, long-term prisoners in Pilsudski dungeons, were released one June 24 "because of poor health...
...Dr...
...Russian Socialism also suffered this week a great loss...
...It possesses 272 libraries, 19 educational centers and a school of social sciences...
...The statei elections in that Australian state, reported on June 15, gave the Labor Party 15 out of a total of SO representatives...
...This is no government in the universally accepted sense...
...His death has robbed Ukrainian Socialism of one of its most prominent and deserving pioneers...
...They saw In this technological development the very doom of capitalism...
...He died of tnberraessie si the spine, sa alhwent H*J t^rf I ft ft ftO'V ift^ pTsfO ft ssaWs 1st was eeeorted ia IfCT...
...Thanks to the machine, every form of drudgery and hand-labor would speedily disappear...
...Siecjfried Upschltz Director, Transatlantic Informer turn Service / {Radio address over Station WEVD, Saturday, July 7,) A LMOST simultaneously with America's national holiday, Germany was the scene of a reign of terror unexampled in recent history...
...The conflict did not come as a surprise...
...The party is also active in local government and has secured control of the municipal governments in seventeen cities...
...The tension has become too great...
...Two delegates, from Austria and the Polish Bund, preferred an immediate acceptance of the Vienna motion...
...A New Industry rvUKING the last decade engi**' neers, technocrats, scientists, and others, have written voluminously about our great machine age...
...In Parliament there is a bloc of 43 deputies and two senators...
...He was aware of the rising waves of discontent within the nation...
...Grumblings are heard everywhere...
...It was decided, instead, to inform the Austrian comrades that the problem of "proletarian dictatorship during the transitory period to Socialism" and the proposal of a "new direct offer to Moscow about unity at least in the fascist-ridden countries" are of such paramount importance that- they must first be considered by the individual parties and then only referred back to the International Executive for final action...
...Another opposed it completely (Great Britain, Holland, Sweden and Denmark...
...Stupid, like all arbitrary regimes, and unmindful of lessons of history, it can not see ahead...
...Seizing upon the pretext of an intended revolt, he had his former cronies shot and the whole S.A...
...I spoke at a Socialist picnic In Reading, Pa.„on July 4th, and there some coal miners picked me up for another speech in Mount Carmel, some 60 miles north in the anthracite territory, OB passed i way, bat in a pat greater li coal fleU . Sick of ment asi with u* occasions' the mis project ' utterly existence Boards, finally I own hsi working by BO01 What...
...He knew that he had to make a clean break with those who helped him into the seat of power if he wanted to retain power...
...But now, thanks to the depression, the New Deal, and the Blue Esgle, all these profound speculations are turning out to be plain boloney...
...With firing squads and foul assassination, with hired murder bands and the laying hare of a stinking pool of corruption, the Nazi regime celebrated that "new" and "great" and "united" Germany of which Hitler and his agents abroad speak in glowing terms...
...For months observers in Germany and abroad had predicted a showdown...
...Cofounder with Lenin, Martov and Dan #f the new famous Social Democratic Union in St Petersburg (ISM...
...PotressowStarover, pioneer of Marxian thought and Social Democratic activities in Russia, died on July 11, a political exile in Paris...
...For the present the secretary of the L.S.I., Friedrich Adler, was instructed to answer the Austrian comrades in hi* own name...
...The economic basis of the German people has dwindled to almost nothing...
...The Hitler regime, loaded with the dynamite of contradictory interestsand unfulfilled promises, was ready to blow off...
...Potrciaow, a brilliant writer and thinker, remained for 90 years an active Social Democrat and Mcnsne-rth...
...In ««me Industrie* we have returned to eighteenth century methods of making things...
...Roman Jarosewitch, 78, founder of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party in Eastern Galicia (in 1899) and its honorary, president since last March, shot himself as - a result of personal persecution by the Pilsudski government...
...There have been severe clashes between the police and the embattled farmers...
...DETURNING to the memorandum of the Austrian comrades, of which I wrote at length last week, let me start with the assertion that the daring demand for a radical reorientation was not repudiated by the Executive Committee of the Labor and Socialist International...
...Carmel f believaw at work, formed tl cite fleldi busily « They hsi •the coal they h« diggies*These tested- 1 rout, tea rote, .am1 •«•».*», HITLER'S DAYS ly Dr...
...Our times have aeen the beginning of a great mechanical and technical revolution...
...It does not know that it-is doomed to death, bat it feels it...
...And a third group hunted for a formula that would satisfy both the Austrian ("radical") and the English-Scandinavian ("reformist") tendencies of the L.S.I...
...The federal capital, Buenos Aires, accounts for four thousand of these members...
...Party in Uruguay and editor of its organ, El Sol, was deported to Argentina in March, 1933, after the President dissolved Parliament and began to play dictator...
...The Arbeiter-Zeitung, official organ,- of the outlawed Austrian Social Democracy, in its issue ol June 24, reports that the local Y.P.S.L...
...The farmers are the victims of Nazi corruption and political racketeers...
...Most of them are being kept in a "concentration (prison) camp" near Libau...
...This is why General von Schleicher was killed and why dozens, perhaps hundreds, of innocent people were sent to their death, Schleicher and many others commonly classified as rightists, were killed for good measure and in the belief that by doing away with them, the tottering regime would also strike terror into the ranks of those to whom it had just sold out...
...One was in complete agreement with the Austrian memorandum and wanted to make its ideas obligatory upon all Socialist parties of the world...
...The occasion was the so-called Roehm Revolt, or better, the second Nazi revolution so bffen announced and threatened by the Nazis themselves...
...But unscrupulous and panicky with fear as the regime is, it struck also against those not of his own group whom it had good reason to fear...
...It is only a question of time until the great monster is destroyed...
...The boycott is tightening- The farmers are restless...
...I believe 1 am still fairly sane...
...He, too, had been warned of the growing disappointment within the brown-shirted formations...
...Austrian Memorandum Before the L.S.I...
...Discontent with the new governmental crop regulations is general...
...And, by heck, by the end of the Roosevelt regime we will, most likely, get back to the neolithic period...
...Hitler, who is essentially a weak man, could no longer evade the issue...
...Backed by powerful industrialists and the military clique, he confronted Hitler boldly with the question What to do next...
...He knew the time had come to face the future and to begin the painful process of cleansing the German body of a contagious disease which he himself and financial interests behind him had helped to create...
...One has to go far back to find a parallel to the reign of despotism and murder which shook the German state structure to its Very foundations...
...1 The fact that the Austrian proposal was taken under consideration and not immediately rejected augurs well for the proposal...
...These reports are supplemented by similar-unrest among other classes...
...Socialists also went into ecstasy on this theme...
...It did, but all it, brought to Hitler and his Frankenstein monster was a complete emasculation of its forces...
...The second act of the Nazi drama began with von Papen's speech at Marburg, in which he admonished the Nasi rulers...
...Their idea was to offer a resolution that would admit one road far the fascist and semi-fascist countries and another for'those democratic countries in which there is no immediate danger of fascism...
...The central body of obi Austrian youth on June 17*addressed a letter to the Communist Youth International in Moscow with an ardent appeal to "inaugurate negotiations with the Socialist Youth International about a non-aggression agreement and united action in the countries where Socialist and Communist organizations are illegal...
...Like a cornered rat it snaps and bites at everyone actually or supposedly trying to disturb it...
...Add to I of inflat complies as never It is una1 but it kj money ill havs the the rami Uticali the rut body I corrupt must h world I THE C MA SSI The a only beg, yet ente: are witn time to < several i and-deoM...
...In the debate that consumed four sessions, as reported last week, there came to light three tendencies...
...Many arrests have been made...
...The Workers Abroad An International Review of the Socialist and Labor Movement of the World -By Mark Khmoy Labor Victory in Tasmania COCIALfiSM scored heavily in the recent elections in Tasmania...
...Adler's response to the "Vienna Central Committee of Revolutionary Socialists" is published in the July issue of Kampf, theoretical magazine of the Austrian Social Democracy...
...We are rapidly returning to the primitive...
...A fourth, the Socialist deputy Stanislas Dubois, refused to benefit from governmental "magnanimity" and remains a prisoner...
...Any attempt to disrupt our organization or our International or our cooperation with the Labor and Socialist International in Zurich will be considered by us as an attempt to weaken the fighting power of the international working class and will be repulsed unhesitatingly," * * ' * ' Dr...
...The middle class is discouraged and rapidly disintegrating...
...For every day brings additional proof that the lessons of the last 18 months were not lost on the European part of our movement A careful observer cannot fall to note manifestations of revolutionary realism even among the leaders of the most orthodox Social Democratic parties...
...Hitler ism's doom is inevitable,.not because it faces enemies on the right and left—every regime must contend with these forces—but because the same economic and social trends which helped it into the saddle are now running against it...
...Strong as the regime may seem, it is only the image of an iron god resting on feet of clay...
...Emilio Frugoni, leader of the Socialist...
...I have several reports from Germany which describe the growing opposition in the ranks of the German peasantry...
...organisation has already made an attempt to realize the "unity" part of the Austrian memorandum...
...To the same Category belong the stand of the Estonian party when it supported the anti-fascist coup de'etat of the liberal President against the democratically expressed will of the population...
...He was prepared to swap horses in midstream...
...He chose in a fashion characteristic of all dictators...
...Labor is recovering from the Nasi blows...
...43 Socialist Deputies in Argentina ACCORDING to a report of the executive of the *" Argentine Socialist Party submitted to the party conference at the end of May, there are 23,779 duespaying members and 552 branches in the party...
...The aaM-zaaetst laws recently | passed by Social Democrats in Czechoslovakia and Sweden are symptoms of this new trend...
...Actually, our industrial progress 1a becoming atavistic...
...Papen did not act from newly-awakened consciousness...
...Since the general election of April 19 vindicated the two Socialist deputies—Frugoni and Troitino—and returned them both to Parliament, the government was forced to permit the return of the Socialist leader to Montevideo...
...About 2,000 Social Democrats have been arrest since the fascist coup d'itat in Latvia...
...This, however, was voted down...
...Its press includes five central organs, 93 provincial publications and a press Bureau ("Social Press...
...After a reiteration of the arguments given in the letter to the Socialist International and a restatement of the Socialist aims of the present movement in Austria and the revolutionary tactics it advocates before, during and after the coming overthrow of the fascist dictatorship, the letter asfca tor an honest, ram dsmasjsgfcej aaewwt...
...The majority, including those who personally agreed with the Austrian proposal, preferred a preliminary and more thorough discussion' among their own members...
...Among them is Comrade Bruno Kalnin, leader of the Socialist sportsmen, who was wounded while shooting at the police during a raid on his residence...
...Threatening waves smash against it...
...The party is putting great stress on educational activities...
...The very basis on which Hitlerism rested is destroyed...
...No, deer comrades, I have not suffered a heat stroke...
...It is a sickening spectacle...
Vol. 17 • July 1934 • No. 28
