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I Page Two MacDonald, “Labor” Ministry Lan jor big War Avtation PRETEND ATTACK Berlin Police Are Still Paying Ant RLIN, July 28. — Confirma- |tion of the charge by the Berlin |Communist newspaper “Rote |Fahne” that the notorious forgers |of anti-Soviet documents, Orloff and Pavlonovski are still in the pay of the Berlin police, led by the social- democrat Zoergiebel, ever since their arrest, are confirmed now. ON SOVIET PORT IN-AIR STUNTS “Labor” to Build Up Territorial Force _J. Ramsey |_ The story as first revealed in the Snowden, Lord | Berlin courts was simple. members of the; An American journalist (named Cabinet, attended | Knickerbocker) was offered by cer- © the Hendon pa-|tain Russians (representing them- val Air Force, selves as ex-employees of the U. S. t acts of the Labor S. R.) a number of documents pur- as been to decide on/ porting to prove that U. S. Senators, of the Auxiliary | Borah and Norris, the consistent ad- ritorials” of the vocates of the resumption of full ndern high-speed | relations with the U. S. S. R., had Bhi d Sixty new first- | been, in fact, heavily bribed by the 1 1 be needed to carry | Soviet Government. ‘ Knickerbocker, recognizing at once LONDON Macdonald ‘ JAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1929 Force; Bless 1-Soviet Forgers | arations) spies. All capitalist Governments, being class governments, live in constant dread of the inevitable revolt their own subject and exploited | working class, and therefore need a whole corps of spies as a defense against that revolt. Spies Interchangeable These spies (interchangeable, nat- urally, from one branch to the other) will, to make it good for their own trade, never lack evidence to show the need for employing them—even if they have to fabricate it them- selves. And since the U.S. S. R. is both a rival State and (as the creation of a successful workers’ revolt) a per- manent encouragement to the work- ers in all lands, it concentrates against itself all the activities of all need a whole corps of | of | ‘ANTLIMPERIALIST’ MEET CALLS FOR: ‘SUPPORT OF USSR, Say China Masses Will | | Fight Attacks (Wireless by Inprecorr) FRANKFORT - ON - THE - MAIN, Germany, July 23.—The second | World Congress of The League Im-| perialism opened yesterday with} 400 delegates and 2,000 guests. Maxton, chairman of the League, opened the session. The agenda in- | cluded the election of = presidium, | and reception of greetings. The presidium includes Maxton, Muen- zenberg Sen Katayama, Melnit- hansky and members of the Indian National Congress. The honorary Some of the Wall Street heavy artillery being primed for use again |British Workers Hit! | By Water Drought; Mill “SOCIALIST DAIL s are built for use of the Colonie: ypt, Iraq, ete.—who want mselves from the rule of yr use against the ants of Soviet r use against the e when these work- ploitation. sr government even be- the Air Pageant and gthe Air Force, ager to use these deadliest in modern} that the documents were forgeries, gave the producers of them (Orloff and Paclonovski) into custody and their trial for fraud followed as a matter of course. Then came the sensations. The defense first sought to prove that the documents were genuine and that complainant (Knickerbocker) was really a Russian spy. To Scotland Yard. Beaten heavily on the latter point they sought to prove that the de- fendants were “victims” of the Rus- » the workers at sian political police (the 0. G. P. 1, _ |—late Che-ka) and to prove this Labor government in- | called as witnesses sundry Russian creased the money allocated to the| “Whites,” ex-Czarist officers who Porton Experimental Gar Warfare are now employed in the German Station. It will again continue and | Foreign Office, by the Berlin police, | extend these preparations for poison! or in running a counter-revolution- | warfare, it is said. lary information and espionage bu-| The London District Committee of | reau. the Communist Party is organizing! The chief among these (one Sie- a big demonstration of protest | wert) came a very bad “cropper;” against the Air Pageant, outside the| he produced documents which were| gates of Hendon Aerodrome. Thou-| proved to be forgeries and ade | sands of workers in London did join| ally admitted that he had received the spies everywhere. Is it to be wondered at that “scare” stories of Russian “intrigue” are as common as flies in the sum- mer? Is it'to be wondered at that the secret services of the world are stuffed with Russian “Whites”? Is it to be wondered at that wise workers everywhere fear a (spy- forgery fomented) concerted capital- jist attack upon the U. S. S. R. even| before the all but inevitable clash between British and American im- | perialism? ATTACK BRITISH PUPPET AT KABUL |Afghan Tribes Defeat Bacha Sakao in Battle PESHAWAR, India, July 23, — Launching a new and presumably presidium includes three of the ac- cused at the Meerut trials in India and one Indonesian.political prison- er. Muezenberg brought the combined | greetings of France and Germany. He stated that the Congress origin- ally was intended for Perris, but was prohibited. Holding it in England was impossible b:cause of the Labor Party government. ASSISTSFASCISTI Hampers Fight Against Worker’s Deportation “Tl Nuovo Mondc ” the “socialist” | Companies Close Down LONDON, July 23.—Workers in the woolen mill district of York- shire are especially suffering seri- ;ously from the water famine which becomes more pronounced daily throughout England. To ward off | the effects of the threatened drought | The Kuomin- | Italian daily, continues. to expose it-| mills are being closed for one week tang and Lansbury had become|Se!f as an enemy of labor in the} next week, thus adding to the plight traitors since the last Congress. At the last Congress, there were no (forts of the New York Distiict of the| of a week's wage. |fight it has started against the ef- of the workers who will be robbed The layoff is | elected delegates, while at this Con- | {nternational Labor Defense to pre-| styled by the companies a “holiday.” | gress the representatives have been | Vent the deportation of Mario Gilet-| Only immediate rain will save electd by millions. The Soviet | ti, an anti-fascist work In addi- | Boston from a repetition of the wa- |Union is represented for the first |tion to spreading misinformation | ter famine in which hundreds. of | time by the trade unions, The lead- |COncerning the Giletti case, “Il‘Nuo- | workers’ families suffered in 1921, | |ing interest today is in the provo-|V°, Mohdo” has stooped to a cam-| when supplies had to be brought | | cation by China, Muezenberg said, | Paign of vilification of the I. L. D.|from a neighboring center by rail. | | 2 * Jof the lowest sort. | Water shortage may prevent ade- | | League Backs USSR. | The Department of Labor has re-| quate fire fighting service in many Maxton spoke next, interpreted | fused to grant the request of the |urban centers. by Edo Fimmen. He stated that the |I. L. D. to permit the voluntary de- | |League’s greatest successes were |/parture of Giletti for some’country| of the case, to “Il Nuovo Mondo,” due firstly to the awakening of the |other than Italy, and Shorr, Brod- | giving the true facts, it merely re- |working classes through rationalisa-|sky and King, attorneys for the I.| sulted in a scurrilous article attack- |tion and consequent greater need|L. D., are now appealing the case to Wall Street Is Priming This for Use Against the U.S. S, R. nst the U.S.S.R. when the imperial- ist nations attack the workers’ republic. These mounted guns are now at San Francisco. The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 2°! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Ru ° funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. REBEI. SOLDIERS SENTENCED. ATHENS (By M. martial in Jiannina sentenced eight soldiers to a total of eight and a half years’ imprisonment for hav- ing conducted revolutionary propa- ganda amongst the troops. The trial was adjourned on a number of occa- sions. because, as officially a: nounced, “the necessary proofs were missing.” ail) ‘REVOLT AGAINST GOMEZ REGIME IS CRUSHEDIN BLOOD Widespread Discontent in Venezuela CARACAS, Venezuela, July 23.— Repeated outbreaks in Venezuela, despite the bloody suppressions of the Gomez dictatorship, give evi- dence of the widespread discontent, ev among sections of the bour- | geoisie, with the Gomez regime. (General Gomez, though officially “petired” from the presidency, is still the actual ruler of the country.) Though the outbreaks and the vio- lent reprisals following them are generally denied by the government, the latest one has been officially ad- | mitted today in an announcement |that. an insurgent movement in }eastern Venezuela has been sup- pressed. This movement, though OP- posed to Gomez, was under reaction- ary leadership. The announcement said Arevalo \ Cedeno, reactionary leader of an in- —The court | surgent band, had been defeated in battle by Gen. Lucio Diaz, president of the state of Anzoategui, 50 miles from Ciudad Bolivar. The federal | troops took numerous prisoners and horses. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! TOURS t0 Soviet Maneuvers :\ i a == this protest and gave a good|them from the defendants. powerful military drive on Kabul, kick-off to the London Campaign; He was proved, too, to have,|the Afghanistan armies combined] for the International Anti-War Day | while in the employment of the Ger- | under Nadir Khan defeated troops on August 1, jman Government, sold important/of the British puppet king, Bacha the main feature of the |documents to Poland, to Hungary,|Sakao, near Khusi and killed prob. | Royal Air Force Pageant was an at-|to Scotland Yard, to the French Po-| ably 600 soldiers. tack by bombing planes on an oil-| lice, to the Aubert League ({counter-| Belated advices received here told! well anid refin This year a port, revolutionary Fascist) in Switzer-|of the battle which started July 15) with shipping made of canvas was land, and to a news agency. jand lasted 16 hours. It was be- being*btown to pieces. jlieved that Nadir Khan’s forces— Last’year even the Daily Herald formerly supporters of the exiled commented on the similarity between! All together he admitted having,|King Amanullah—are prepared to the main target and the Soviet oil) while in German Government pay,|march on the eapital, Kabul, with| centngs,. This year the similarity | acted as a spy for eight different|fair chances of overthrowing the| was Jamtias striking, for there was | countries! |British hireling who seized the| a big"€8#k on the quay which could| What the document was which he throne last winter, only be intended to represent an ojl | Sold to Scotland Yard did not appear | Capture Arms. container, and the port “buildings” |in evidence. But one can guess—| he battle near Khuski, which were made to represent the steel and|all the more certainly because the|was a severe blow to Bach Sekao,| concrete type of structugegnow being | €xpert witness, von Voss (who testi-| advanced. .the forces under Nadir put upsin Russia. _== —— fied that most of the Orloff-Paylon-| Khan to “Shinkai Lashkar, where Ing @eder to add reality ‘to. this|Ovski documents were forgeries) | twey are now camped. “Shamakmud représefitation of an attack on a|Totndly declared from the witness| Khan, lieutenant of Nadir Khan, Sovi&t=port, a squadron of naval|box that “the Zinovieff Letter was|jeq the victorious troops. Consid-| seaplanés for the first time took| an absolute fabrication.” — ‘erable arms and ammunition were| part in the display. | This, and the influence it had up- Expert’s Opinion jemancipation. | verting the imperialist war into civil |for the League, and secondly be- the circuit court of appeals. “II Nu- cause the League is active. | he Soviet Union, he said, since | China is the tool of imperialism. India is represented by the National Congress, India lacks the freedom to fight for economic and political | Th> restoration of | relations between England and the | Soviet Union is imperative and Eng- | land must impose no terms, Max- ton declared. Chiwito from China stated that|fense sent a written statement by the Kuomintang and Nanking are openly imperialist, but the masses will reply to the raid of the railway by strikes and armed risings, con- war. Criticizes Maxton. Melnitschansky stated that the trade unions “of the Soviet Union criticize Maxton for omitting to For the workers to leave contro! 0m the British General Election in captured from the troops under com-| state that the Labor Party govern- mand of the bandit-king. |ment is to blame for the persecu- over these murder-machines in the hands of Macdonald and the other militarists, is to commit suicide. Workers build these machines; workers keep them flying; workers | must control their use and employ | them only against their own class | enemies. Socialists Help Abolish Protection | 1924, he advanced as proof that these forgeries have, in fact, effect- ed a great influence in European polities. .. .! To counter the effect of these damaging disclosures the defense tried to turn the whole trial into a propaganda attack upon the U.S. S.R.—calling for this purpose a whole string of ex-Czarist officers, many of whom proved to be in the pay of the German Government. =n Finally the defense raised the con- for Vienna Tenants tention that the accused were both in the pay of the (Social-Demo- VIENNA (By Mail).—Parliament cratic) Berlin chief of police, has adopted the new tenants law|Zoergiebel. A high police of- | which abolishes the tenants protec-/cial called to testify to this| tion provisions of the former law. point could only announce that his | Parts of the new law were unan-|chief refused to permit police offi- imously adopted and the other parts cials to give evidence except on spe- with a majority vote, whereby the cial points submitted to him in ad- social-democrats made no resistance | vance! worth talking about. ; The police official was, however, In a number of Vienna factories | allowed to make the statement th: a protest movement made itself felt | he did, as “Rote Fahne” alleged, visit | today against the acceptance of the/one of the accused in prison, but new law. Several factories sent pro-| that it was to examine him as an test delegations to parliament and|accused person, not to consult him in two factories demonstrative|as an expert. strikes took place. The demonstra-| This, at any rate, partially con-| tion before the town hall which was |firms “Rote Fahne’s” allegations | prohibited by the police, the prohi-| which were that Orloff had been em- bition being confirmed by the social-| ployed by the police even since his | democratic Landeshauptmann Seitz, arrest(!) took place despite the prohibition.; The moral of the whole case is The police arrested 28 persons. ‘clear even so far as it has gone: The socialists have boosted of| All capitalist governments live in Vienna, which they control, as ajconstant anticipation of war, and “model housing city for workers.” therefore (as part of their war prep- Nadir Khan has now ordered 8,000 Jaji tribesmen to Sarkha, about five miles from Zorkhand and another force composed of 1,500 Mangas and Ahmedzais are) marching towards that point. Near! |Jalalabad, Hasham Khan is mob-| jilizing a force of 1,800 Khugianis at Tezin and a force under. Gul! | Mohammed has started from Hasark | jto Tezin. All of these forces—most | jof them under command of Nadir Khan and his brothers—are ex- pected to converge for the drive on| Kabul. The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial starts July 29! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief Week July 27—August 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Lat r Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. WORKERS SHOT DOWN. | ATHENS (By Mail).—During the | strike of the dockers in Athens seri- | ous collisions occurred between the | police and military and the strikers. | _ The military fired upon the work- ers and seriously injured six per-| sons, A state of siege was then| rroclaimed. } The working ¢! tny hold of the achinery, and wield purpo: Thin ne Commune (Paris Commune) breaks the modern state power.—Marx. not simply dy-made state) it for its own =SPEND YOUR VACATION IN THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP. — Educational Activities Under the Direction of JACOB SHAEFFER Director of Dramatics JACOB MASTEL DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Li BEACON, N. Y. Telephone Beacon 731 CAMP NITGEDAIGET 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS cents. Take car direct to Camp—20 cents, CAMP NITGEDAIGET New York Telephone Esterbrook 1400 | and others. tion in India and the Meerut trial.” We must distinguish friends from has, through a puppet organization, | the League for the Rights of Man,! started a counter-campaign of its own in which it is spreading the} deliberate misinformation that Gilet- | ti has already been granted the right | of voluntary departure and at the | same time asking for funds to pay | for his passage. | When the International Labor De- Isaac Shorr, who is in active charge | | the same time, the growth of the| | revolutionary movement is evidenced by the growth of the revolutionary movement-is evidenced by the grow- | ing resistance against the Kuomin- | tang, the rising in Indonesia, the | struggle against compulsory labor in. the French Congo, the fresh fights in North and South America, Mexico, Morocco, and so forth. The | simultaneous radicalization of the workers in the mother countries foes,” he said. “Our principle is against imperialist war, not against all war. We want no war, but we are armed. No white guardist shall enter the Soviet Union.” utive committee; proposed a resolu- ti of solidarity with the Soviet Union. Barbusse welcomed the Congress jin behalf of the French and Soviet Union workers. An Indian woman delegate, Yussuf, read a resolution expressing the solidarity of the Con- gress with the Meerut accused. Addresses were made by represen- tatives from Japan, Latin-America, Mexico, the Balkans, French Asia, Telegrams from Swe- and America were den, read. Pollitt made the chief speech of the Congress on the political situa- tion and the tasks of the League. The more acute oppression in the colonies demands greater League activity. Imperialism has advanced since the Brussels Congress, but, at Holland The Dramatic ENTIRELY REBUILT Director of Sports, Athletics and Dancing EDITH SEGAL ine Boat—twice daily— 75 Sy eae a vivid picture o; CWE Ferguson, in behalf of the exec- | creates the task of coordinating the ‘movements, Pollitt said. | “Imperialism is strengthened by ;two. supports,” Pollitt declared; \*first, the native bourgeoisic, and second the international social demo- jeracy. The bourgeoisie strives to {gain concessions from imperialism and retain the leadership of the la- hor movement. The national bour- geoisie of India, Egypt, Indochina, | Syria, North Africa, ete., capitulate to imperialism. Social democracy |actively supports imperialism. Left } social democracy is the most danger- | ous mask of imperialism. “Unconditional support must be \given the Soviet Union agains‘ Nonking. Future tasks of the | League are the purging from split | ters, the fight against imperialisir | for the organization of colonial peo |ples, against the white terror, fo: liberation of political prisoners, for a better standard of living. The workers and peasants of the colonics are the sole guarantee of an effec- tive anti-imperialist movement.” Story of the Mountain People of Carolina TOLD BY ELLA FORD f class struggle ARE MILL PEOPLE” In the August Issue of a | NEW MASSES Features also by MICHAEL GOLD—UPTON SINCLAIR—JOHN DOS PASSOS — GROPPER — LOZOWICK — TAMAYO — BURCK 15 On all newsstands o+ on Union Square or the -— AND MANY OTHERS Cents at the Workers Book Shop any workers book shop in country or NEW MASSES—39 Union Square—NEW YORK Subscription $1.50 a year ing the International Labor Defense, ceusing it of fooling Giletti and! On the |ovo Mondo,” ignoring the fact that|using him to gather funds for the| |China question the League sides with | the I. L, D, is handling this case, | Communist Party and repeating all the lies and slanders on the I. L. D. made by the most reactionary ene- mies of labor in the past. The New York District of the I. | L. D. calls the attention of all work- ers to this new anti-labor act of “Tl Nuovo Mondo” and appeals for | the utmost support in its fight to} save Giletti from being delivered | into the clutches of Mussolini’s | hangmen. Never before has the De- | partment of Labor refused to grant | the right of voluntary departure in | such a case, and if a precedent is set, which “Il Nuovo Mondo” is try- | ing its best to achieve, it will be used against all militant workers of | foreign birth in the future, the I) L. D. declares, a VIA LONDON—KIEL CANAL—HELSINGFORS AND 10 DAYS IN LENINGRAD and MOSCOW TOURS FROM $3 85. Sailings Every Month NEXT SAILING —— AQUITANIA —— AUG. 21 Visas Guaranteed—Permitting visits to any part of the U.S.S.R. INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, INC. 175 FIFTH AV E (Flatiron Bldg.) | NEW YORK, NY. Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6656 BS SS Solidarity Demonstration with Gastonia Workers ! Saturday, July the 27th, 1929 (From Noon Until After Midnight) PLEASANT BAY PARK, THE BRONX Fifth Avenue Buses will go direct to the Park from East 177th St. Subway Station Admission Fifty Cents 50,000 Workers Will Demonstrate with the 15 Workers Who Go on Trial in Gastonia Monday Speakers: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER JULIET STUART POYNTZ WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE Pinang oe WAGENKNECHT ; and others ' Symphony Orchestra of Fifty Men YASCHA FISHBERG, Conductor Motion Pictures—Open-Air Dancing Fireworks, Campfire-Other Features THE SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION TAKES PLACE TWO DAYS BE- FORE THE OPENING OF THE TRIAL IN GASTONIA AND WILL BE THE FINAL NEW YORK RALLY. TRADE UNIONS AND FRATER- NAL ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD ATTEND IN A BODY AND BRING ALONG THEIR ORGANIZATION BANNERS. COME IN MASSES! Local New York, Workers International Relief N. Y. 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