The Workers Abroad
Khinoy, Mark
The Workers Abroad An International Review of the Socialist and l abor Movement of the World By Mark Khinoy I Battle for Socialization Starts in Belgium DY a roll-call vote of 563,451 ...
...It was his nonSocialist deputy Bernard Weiss who did accept...
...Van der Lubbe confesses that he was guilty of laying the fire...
...Since the Socialist movement in Rumania has grown considerably since 1928, both on industrial and political field, its present setback would seem bewildering, If we did not know the special conditions under which the present election took place...
...Hitler's Viilkischer Beobachter is already agitating for^a new trial...
...Submitted by Selma Hchupper, 2432 Dickens Ave., Far Bocka way...
...who win* thlst week's prise...
...The Chief Public Prosecutor himself had to admit that the guilt of Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff I could not be proved...
...It reached the highest point of enthusiasm at/the special Christmas congress of the party...
...There were, according to the latest informations 60,000 members in the Nazi Party and 110,000—in their 20 "unions...
...Doctors claim the Socialist deputy is out of danger, but his convalescence will be very long...
...and in no case is it enough to compensate for higher prices...
...The veteran president of the party and president of the Labor and Socialist International, Emile Vandevelde, declared at the close of the session that this congress was the most important the party held in 25 years...
...The worst judicial murder was planned for th(e\Communist Torgler...
...This, at least, is the impression one gathers from a private letter that just reached this desk from Paris, where Comrade Grsesinski is still busy reorganizing the revolutionary forces of the workers in Germany for the struggle against Hitlerism...
...It found its expresson at the- conferences of all the Federations of the party that were called during the last six weeks to discuss and vote on the plan—and adapted it almost unanimously...
...And although the Chief Public Prosecutor himself had to admit that he knew nothing whatever as to the form of Torgler's alleged participation in the laying of the fire, he demanded Torgler's head in obedience to (idling's orders...
...The Workers Abroad An International Review of the Socialist and l abor Movement of the World By Mark Khinoy I Battle for Socialization Starts in Belgium DY a roll-call vote of 563,451 against 8,500 absteniou* the Labor Party of Belgium made its own Henri de Man's Plan of Action for the immediate socialization of banks, heavy industry and transportation...
...Th* official Communist Party, writ** a Lovestonite Elian Ward in the Communist Worker* Age (issue of Dec...
...No, of course I ain't got a job...
...olic workers and their unions, among the small shop- and ttorekeepers, and amonp the great mass of farmers, now under the political control o' the Catholic Church...
...1 .THOUGH .witnesses were terrorized and intimidated in 1 lie most frightful manner, and although the accused have been deprived of the assistance of independent counsel and denied access to the indictment and important documents, the charge against the Communists collapsed ignomoniosly before the end of the trial...
...INTERNATIONAL FLAYS THE CONDUCT OF LEIPZIG TRIAL {Statement of the Executive of the Labor and Socialist Intel - national...
...We appeal to the workers of all countries to protest, passionately and energetically, against this trial, which is symbolical of the National-Socialist system of terror, and we recall that before the beginning of the trial the International Alliance of Socialist Lawyers pointed out in its appeal to world public opinion that, Circumstances abundantly suggest that the Reichstag was burned by National-Socialists with the approval of persons in positions of authority in the Party and the State, in order to overcome the opposition of the President of the Reich and of the Reichswehr to the vesting of dictatorial power in Herr Hitler...
...But their lives are still in danger...
...All of them are now dissolved and their relatively great funds—VA million crowns cash—were confiscated...
...In fairness to the German comrade, I must say that the report on which my comment was based --jk not a correct one...
...Since the Joint Council of the party and the unions on November 16th put their approval on the Labor Plan, a real revivalist spirit is manifesting itself in the movement...
...He could do j no other than withdraw the charge against the three Bulgarian Communists...
...Th* two parties— the Czech and the German—together with th* unions they control forced the government first to outlaw tt« Nasi Vut$ •nd then the Nasi unions...
...30th a report by the "U...
...In the previous election (June 1981) the Communist Party obtained 73,000 votes and 5 deputies and the Social-Democratic Party— 05,000 votes and 7 deputies...
...A Workers' Setback in Rumania THE New Parliament of Ru*¦ mania, chosen in the general elections of Dec...
...It seems it was a case of mistaken identity...
...The Nazi union leaders were not sent to prison and concentration camps, those of them that wish to work have even been given union cards, but they are deprived of the right to issu3 to their followers unemployment cards which entitled them to the state unemployment insurance grants...
...The lives and liberty of the three Bulgarians will be in danger as long as they are still on German soil...
...And a little further: "Th* immediate situation in Spain demands the forging of complete unity of the working masses without which the victory of * worker*' revolution i* impossible...
...What is at issue in this trial, therefore is not only to establish whether the accused are guilty or not, but also— and this is the essential thing —to discover the real criminals and thereby to reveal the legal and moral foundations of the Hitler dictatorship...
...WISDOM of the IMIOH FISH I ain't no Socialist because they want you to give up what you got and Bhare...
...One of the three Communist parties in Belgium—the Trotzkista—came out for the plan and on Trotzky'a advice appealed to Its members to suoport the Socialist Party in this campaign...
...For the party still has great masses of wage-earners and gainfully employed to conquer before it can actually control a majority of the population...
...Unfortunately, air the Communist parties together have there hardly more than 500 members...
...The threats uttered by GSring when he gave evidence before the Supreme Court may be carried out even yet...
...The Road Ahead "THEIR conquest becomes now the princpal task of the * Socialist movement...
...According to the Petit Parisien, he had a severe attack of pneumonia complicated by an urimie...
...Hourly wage rates average higher by b'/i cents per hour, but in many cases this is not enough to to compensate for shorter hours...
...Apart fromvthe evidence of a renegade the'proceedings did not provide any serious indication whatever that there was any relation between Torgler and Van der Lubbe...
...20th, does not contain a single representative of labor...
...A judicial murder is to be committed upon this admittedly highly disagreeable but also thoroughly mysterious defendant...
...All are for the plan and for the great mass-action it promises...
...to mobilize around tilt Labor Plan (Plan du Travail) all the victims of Big Finance and Big Business among the Cat...
...The Socialist Grsesinski did not accept the invitation of-the Kuomlntang, or Chiang Kai Shek, government of China...
...Th* Communist Party organization in th* Spanish capital is controlled by th* Left Oppostion—Trotzky follower* and they are no more fooled by the Stalin talk of "8ocial-Fa*cism...
...What the plan proposes is a solemn engagement to change fundamentally tlta structure of the present regime the very day the Socialists will take over the government...
...Communists in Spain THE mystery of the strange behavior of the Madrid Com* munists supporting Socialists on the second ballot in the' recent Cortes election* is now definitely cleared up...
...Pierre Renaudel, veteran Socialist leader of France and spiritual head of the newly organized Opposition Party, is gravely ill...
...Terror, intimidation and wholesale fraud reigned supreme...
...No "Socialists in Shanghai" THIS column recorded on Dec...
...And there is reason to expect that the coming parliamentary election will bring the Belgian workers power and a great measure of socialization...
...Indirectly the Labor Plan has already accomplished one good thing...
...Th* Labor Plan of Immediate Socialization, by its forceful appeal to the anti-capitalist interest of workers, small farmers, small shopkeepers and intellectuals, seems to me admirably adapted to the purpose...
...In the case of the only defendant who really had anything to do with the laying of the' fire the , Chief Public Prosecutor admitted that he was simply a too) in the I hands of the real culprits, and that in order to provide an alibi for them he was posted at" a spot where it was utterly impossible for him to avoid arrest...
...The party has, in a country of less than 9 million, 600,000 dues-paying members in its political branch, 550, 000 in its industrial trade union branch, 300,000 in its cooperative branch and 500,000—In its mu'.ual aid societies...
...to capture the soul of the unemployed and save it from fascist inroad...
...Trotzky-Communists of Czechoslovakia went further than their comrades in Spain and Belgium...
...The principal objects of the plan as I understand them after a diligent study of the rich and extremely interesting literature relating to the subject, is to meet the challenge of Fascism with the challenge of a militant battle for Socialism...
...By the tame vote the special congress of the Belgian Socialists, meeting in Brussels December 24th and 25th, made i the eminent scholar first vice-president and actual head of the party machinery in Its daily struggle for full power and , the immediate realization of the most important aims of Socialist construction of society...
...1st) . .. with it* daily calls to Insurrection, contributes to the great confusion already existing among the workers, With it* theories of 'social-fascism* and 'anarcho-fsscism' it play* into th* hands of the counter-revolution...
...1 But the party leadership does tuff- care to forget that there still are in Belgium millions of working people outside of the International Socialist movement...
...Tlu first was done on October4th, and the last—on November 27th...
...he is not to suffer the penalty provided by law, however, but is to be condemned to death "retrospectively" on the demand of the Public Prosecutor...
...P." and the local Communist press to the effect that "Albert Grzcsinski," former Chief of Police of Berlin," is "said to have reached Shanghai" whither he was invited in order to reorganize the Chinese police system...
...Neither the Social-Democrats nor the Communists succeeded in accumulating enough votes (2% of the total national vote) without which a candidate of a minority party is not recognized, even when elected in a parliamentary district...
...It almost erased the difference between Right, and Left, Marxian and non-Marxian members of the movement...
...There can be no doubt that a verdict of guilty, for which the justification is sought in sueh more than dubious proof, would appear to the world at large as an outrageous murder...
...The unions themselves were actually scab organizations and therefore received liberal support from the industrialists...
...It controls also 40% of the national elector itt...
...They just signed an agreement to support the Social-Democratic parries and union* in their struggle against fascism...
...It says in so many words that, "In order that the Bulgarians may be proceeded against for high treason a new accusation must be made...
...to do this through the psychological effect of an actual effort to abolish unemployment...
...I ain't got nothing...
...The fire trial suffers from the fact that it has to be fought out in accordance with existing laws by liberal methods...
...The course taken by this trial, which lasted for months, has made it-clear to the world whose tool Van der Lubbe was, and that the real incendiaries are not standing in the dock but are to be found in the Hitler party...
Vol. 17 • January 1934 • No. 2
