The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1929, Page 3

ens LIM, . 1929 f _Page ‘Three BECRET FRANCO-Cr FOR WAR ON ason Revealed for OE ene Franco-German PARIS, (By Mail).—The official | sean of the Communist Party, ’Humanité,” publishes the follow- *g article with the title “A Franco- erman Military Alliance Against xe Soviet Union.” On Saturday ad» Sunday German newspapers bby hed interesting details con- ie negotiations which my a new months ago between ) sh and German industrialists, } ‘aus. and soldiers. Two well- | » and apparertly well-informed | Aalists declare that towards the ya of last month a little party was i themselves ‘inking alone. | Arnold Rechberg. the nitrate king 1d Monsieur Paul Reynaud, the iend of Kerillis with eating and is, the conficent of incaré, took part in it. This no- orious patriot is said to have de- ploped a detailed programme of a franco-German Entente directed iefly against the oviet Union. In irder to win his hearers for his froject, M. Reynaud did not hesi- ate to say that France would be krepared to make considerable sacri- ces. | According to him, leading French oliticians were prepared to con- ider the return of the Polish corri- br as part-paym ent for the military Miance In Whose name did the ris deputy speak? In Berlin jour has it that he represented very important political person- > in France. In any ease, it is of est to point out here that the figd of Kerillis was at the same mentioned as the future Under- ectetary of State in the “concen- ration Cabinet,” which Briand im- gined would be so simple. It ‘is also declared in the German apital that a French general was peely connected with these bizarre gotiations. In an interview, Arnold Rechberg urries to confirm the disclosures of Der Tag” and “Ler Lokalanzeiger.” fe added only that for his part in ae negotiations he secured the co- peratior. of all German politicians. hese are the facts.. ery, well that they embarrass the Echo de Paris.” When one curses ‘ugenberg and his Stahlhelmers very days, then it is of course yery nbarrassing to have people in’ the ouse who negotiate with German enerals and German nationalist oliticians. it that is only a subordinate dl of the question. In our eyes xemmcst important significance is sa@ in connection with these nego- » ations of Poincaré’s confident, a ery definite tendency of Franco- erman policy was shown. For years the German nitrate ing, Arnold Rechberg, has been in- ‘easing hi santi-Soviet ‘activities. 1 the spring of 1927, a short time afore the breach between Great ritain and the Soviet Union, he | ent to London where he proposed | 1. Anglo-Franco-German economic | greement with regard to the min- g, iron and steel industries. With- it heating about the bush, he. de- ared that the political aim of this liance was “the struggle against 1eincreasing danger of Bolshe- m,’ Industrialists like Lord took. eld in the house of the German | jenera] von der Lippe, a pavty at) ich the participants did not con- | We understand | SOMMUNIST PAPER EXPOSES NEW A erpas THE $0 Recent German-Polish AN ACCORD . aw Bil Pact to Settle Polish Corridor Row int Military Action Planned Secretly “Toy Destroy Bolshevism” By War Melchett (Sir Alfred Mond), the friend of the leaders of the Britis | trad mions, welcomed Rechberg’s | | initiat: with great pleasures. The journey vf the German indus-| trialist was not without result. A} few we ater de Monzje took up Rechberg’s ideas as a meeting of French foreign commerce council. |them in the “Temps” and caused the Ri in _ counter-revolutionary Aug to comment upon them, in {the French Revue “Pex.” The| | French Ambassador in Berlin, Maq- gerie, disccused them with the lead- ing personages in the Wilhelm- | strasse. What was, in short, the program | of the large-scale industrialists from the other side of the Rhine? Rechberg himself took the trouble | to lay down the main lines of his program about a year ago in the “Vossische Zeitung.” nemic co-operation between France | and Germany as expressed in the formation of the Chemical Trust and the Steel Trust, crownec by a political and military alliance. Germany and France would then guarantee their frontiers mutually “against any attack from a third party.” A ratio of power would be upon between the French an armies of 5:3, that is men would mean a Ge ot 300,000 men, ment being equal. A General Staff would be formed of French and Ger- | man officers and this General Staff would command both armies. This General Staff would have the vight to inspect all French and Ger- man troops, and would work out the plans for the joint defence of the French and German frontiers. The Belgian army would be drawn into ike Franco-German, military alli- ance. And finally, the French war industries would supply the new) Germany with armaments to an ex- tent rangi from one-quarter to one-third, irrespective of whether such supplies represented the first supply cf weapons or the permanent regular supplies cf the new Ger- man army. seductive, for the French industrial- ists regard it with growing favor. Even Marshal Foch was caught ee this plan of the nitrate, indus- rialist. As the spokesman of the Comité des Forges the French mar- shall recognized the Franco-German military alliance as a valuable in- strument for the organization of a war against the Soviet Union. Al- ways under the influence of his idea of “destroying oB}shevism at one blow,” he gave an interview to the “Neue iWener cJurnal” in which he declared: “We cannot permit a handful of criminal tyrants to rule | over more than half the European continent and over wide areas of But until France and Ger- are united, nothing is to be in the matter.” Foch con- dene cluded his interview with the words: | “Please give General Hoffman, the great pioneer of a military alliance against Bolshevism, my very best plans were however vith serious obstacles, the faced Rhineland was still occupied and | + ft SIGNATURES OBTAINED BY DL ACTIVE COMMUNISTS IN DRIVE ‘ales of Bitter Expleitation Related By Toilers Pi hie honors go to Hugh McKier- ¥]and Louis Donk! These two Ofkers gathered more signatures signature collection drive to tthe Communist ticket on the jot than any others. McKiernan ‘oke all previous records with # of 1/400 signatures. Donk ered 600. worker in one of the ic industries, is an active mem- -of the Boro Park Section of the onmunist PaPrty and collected his istrict, wheer Morris Kushinsky is .¢ Communist candidate. He work- hi mostly among Italian and Irish ers. Donk gathered his signa- tres among the Negro, Latin-Amer- an and Italian workers of Harlem. Both workers were emphatic in ring that their experiences wineed them of the growing in- ‘gence of the Communist Party. ‘T met a sympathetic respones nearly all working class ilies that I visited,” McKiernan “Many of the Italian workers rst wouldn’t sign, being sus- wlous of political parties. But n I explained that the Commu- Party is a workers’ party and hts for the workers, they readily di e Irish workers that I came As They Pledge Party Support pletely disillusioned them and they are réady for militant ‘leadership. They | also hag no faith in the three capitalist parties, but showed great interest in the Communist election program.” Donk found the workers in Har- Jom bitter against their exploiters, He secured a number of new Party members among the Negro workers, while othrs joined the Harlem Ten- ants League and a numbr of Latin- American workers became members | of the Spanish Workers Club. He is maintaining his contacts with many of the workers he met and is supplying them regularly with work- ing class literature. A beating he received at the hands of Zionist fas- cists failed to stop him in his col- lection of. signatures. McKiernan and Donk were two of the most outstanding among a large vumber of workers, who despite the intensified campaign of intimidation carried on by capitalist party hench- men and the Zionist and “socialist” terror drive, gathered 20,000 signa- tures to put the party of the work- ing class on the ballot. poke OUT EMPIRE HAT WORKERS CHICAGO, Iil.—Empire Hat Co, workers were locked out and Arn- stein Schoenberg Hat Co. workers struck to obtain union recognition, Build Up the United Front of Working Class From the Bot- the Enterprises} >. TET UNION : The late Jacques Seddoux developed | Rechberg wants to see the eco- | to say, a French army of 500,000 | many army | teachnical equip- | This proposal is apparently very | "| FOREIGN FLASHES Czech Mine Strikers Solid (Wireless By Inprecorr) PRAGUE, Nov. 5—~At Bruex riking miners was attended by 108 delegates from 43 mines. The speakers were Comrades Malik and Fried. The dominant note of the | meeting was the success of the |strike thus far. The condemned the scabs within the ranks of the union, and decided to continue the strike with new de- termination. Pgh ea Yugoslavian Communists Sentenced (Wireless to Inprecorr.) Zagreb, Noy. 5.—The supreme | court at Belgrade has sentenced the | Communists,. Petrovich and Carcich, to ten years each in prison for par- | Gcipation in a Communist congress at Dresden, Germany. The Com- | munist Mayer was given the same |term for distribution of Communist | literaty ure. Cate. ae Sccialist-Capitalist Unity (Wireless by Inprecorr) | BASEL, Nov. 5,—The central Committee of the bourgeois Free- thinkers’ political party has offered |the Socialist PaPrty a free seat on | its federal council. Party committee advocates partici- | pation and the leaders of the trade | union confederation also favor social | democrat participation, all showing the turn to fhe right of the Swiss} social ae Scialist | ‘Mayor a * rafter | (Wireless By Imprecorr) BERLIN, Nov. 4.—The ‘investi- gation” requested by Mayor Boess has been granted. and he has been “relieved” from office. Boess was received ty the public at Bremen | and Berlin with the highest. indig- nation and shouts of “swindler” and “scoundrel,” due to the bribes | proven against him received from; the Sklarek brothers. Police pro-| tected Boess and escorted him home. | EAS Fascist Referendum Yet to Win | (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Noy. 4.—Although Hu- genberg's fascist plebiscite passed in the last day the required per- centage needed to submit it to a vote, thus surprising even its own) supporters, the State Commission must decide if the plebiscite goes before the country. If it does the prospects are hopeless, as twenty million votes are required. ee ie Bacho Sacho Executed (Wireless By Imprecorr) ports from Afghanistan state that Bacho Sacho, bandit and “water boy” tool whom British imperialism used as a pawn to seize the Afghan throne in the encirclement of the Soviet Union, was executed with 11 | of his followers on Nov 3 at Kabul, by order of Nadir Khan. Reformists Plan to Sell Out 80,000 Coal BERLIN (by mail)—At the con- ference in Halle of the organiza- tions under the wage tariff for the Central German coal mining dis- trict, the opposit* nal representa- tives demanded a wage increase of two marks a shift. The reformist. majority rejected this demand and adopted instead a decision to give notice to end the tariff on the 30 of November and to demand an in- erease of 1 mark per shift. The text of the reformist decision shows \clearly that they have no intention jof conducting any serious struggle | for wage increases. 80,000 workers are involved, the reparations problem was still unsolved. It is clear that Rechberg would gladly have speeded up mat- ters, and that he was working feverishly for the liquidation of, the last wur in order to organize- his new anti-Soviet war. Rechberg came to the experts conference in Paris. He was to be seen¥in the hotel where the conference was held, but he was also to be seen on the Quai d'Orsay and in the rooms of the Prime Minister whgre “The great Lorrainer” gave him a friend- ly welcome. Shacht made the ni- trate king his most important co- operator, and the German Ambassa- dor von Hoesch took advantage of his services. By the way, Rechberg did not come to Paris aione, but was ac- companied by General von der Lippe (the gentleman in whose house. Paul Reynaud’s little party took place). This General presehted his plan for a joint military action of the Euro- pean powers against the Soviet Union to the Entente diplomats. The adoption of the experts plan and the agreement in The Hague are the trump cards in Rechberg’s geme. Some people become indig- nant when we declare that the agreements come to in Paris, The Hauge and in Geneva were directed against the Soviet Union. These people should take a look at the happy face of the German Nitrate king. The Hague Pact worked out by Hilferding, Snowden and Henderson and praised to the skies by Leon Blum, does not mean a triumph for peace, but a triumph for Rechberg ard his fellow con- spirators. : The insignificant _ hindranlps which prevented a participation of Germany in anti-Soviet adventures yesterday, have been abolished to- day. The path for war lies open. But upon this path millions of French and German workers will arise, workers who have allied themselves with their Soviet broth- ers who hold power in the first workers State, and who form a revo- lutionary breastwork against the oy. 4 the district conference oi | conference | The Cocialist | TEHERAN, Persia, Nov. 5.—Re right-wing Latvian nationalists are Miners in Reich Pits, = NANKING LIES FLOPS AS FENG ARMY ADVANCES Chiang Kai Shek Only. | A Dud Strategist | SHANGHAI, Nov. 6.—The armiies| [of Feng Yu-hsiang have exploded} | the continued lying claims of Nank- jing and routed Chiang Kai-shek’s forces north of Hankow, which is now on the point of being captured. iang’s troops are mutinying so widely that German officers (whom Nanking has hired to furnish Chiang Kai-shek with military stra- tegy which he never has possessed) are returning to Hankow in disgust. News from the North states that Feng Yu-hsiang also explodes Nank- ing claims that Yen Hsi-shan, the |“model” governor of Shansi who |tricked Nanking recently with the j}yarn that he had “captured” Feng, is or ever was loyal to Chiang Kai- shek, Yen and Feng have worked| | together against Nanking, is Feng’s statement. RECRUIT WHITE GUARDS TO WAP ‘Bands Gather From all| Lands in Manchuria | MOSCOW (By Ma Mail).—Since the | seizure of the Chinese Eastern Rail-| | way, the Russian monarchists in all| jcountries have developed very great | activity. Formations of Russian monarchist officers are gonig to China from all countries. Accord- ing to the press in Rega, recruiters have appeared in Latvia, in order ito obtain volunteers for the white |guardist army in China. This ac+ | tviity is carried on secretly. They {have succeeded in winning a few! {dozen volunteers who have already left the country. Thése volunteers are promised good wages and good positions in the anti-Bolshevist tarmies. In the next few days a second consignment of volunteers |will leave Latvia. The extreme | participating in the recruitment. Polish White Terror Metes Out Heavy Jail Terms for Militants, | ish white terror in operation against |the Communist and other militant workers is shown in the folowing cases: * * * BIALYSTOCK: The County Court of Bialystock sentenced M. Wrobel to two years and Sofia Schabad to five years’ improsinment for having distributed Communist literature. POSEN: A young worker, 24, Franz Siborski, has been sentenced to six years hard labor in the County Conrt of Posen for possess- ing a few Communist leaflets. Sar PO aE LOMZA: O trial against 18 young workers and peasants has been |opened. The accused are charged |the Young Communist League. |'They have been in jail since March, | | 1928, for “investigation.” The political prisoners in the jail of Wronki, about 100, have started a hunger strike against the brutal treatment in the prisons and Pil- sudskis new prison rules. In all other pails of Poland politi- cal prisoners are also fighting the new prison rules which have brought about even worse conditions in the jails as heretofor. Not only has the forged the weapons th to iteelfs it has al existence the men wi Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From’the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! near ae 3S: ORD moet nealing COME WITH YOUR COMRADE To THE GAYEST, MADDEST PROLETARIAN FROLIC IN SIX STATES AND 66 COUNTIES. 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