The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1929, Page 1

II THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week aily Watered as second-cla nyatter at che # ¥., ander the act of M. jareh 3, 1879. Company. tne. Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodally Publis! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York by mail. 88.00 0: Outside New York. by mall. 86.00 per year Vol. VI, No. 227 26-28 Union Square. New York City. N. For the Revolutionary Line of the Communist Party! NQUESTIONABLY the knowledge of support high in the coun- cils of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union did much to stimulate the international right wing groupings in the Communist Parties of many countries to organize their fight against the line of the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International. The right wing opportunists in every country (Brandler, Ewert & Co., in Ger- many; Jilek and Hais in Czecho-Slovakia; Kilboom & Co. in Sweden; Lovestone and-Pepper in the U.S. A.), were speculating upon the strug- gle in the Communist. Party of the Soviet Union, in which the oppor- tunists were led by Bukharin, Tomsky, and Rykov, basing their plat- form upon the difficulties of socialist construction. It was this that furnished the necessary rallying-ground for the final crystallization in- ternationally of the right wing forces. These speculations have now fallen with a crash. The foremost leaders of this international crystallization, Bukharin, Tomsky, and Rykov, have just signed a declaration admitting that their struggle against the Party has been an error, accepting completely the policy of the Communist Party, and promising to fight together with the Party against all deviations from the line, particularly against the right wing and conciliationist dangers. This recognition of error, belated though it may be, and coming only after the facts of life itself had finally and definitely settled against them and upon the line of the Party.the cen- tral questions involved, is still a heavy defeat of the opportunist ten- dency and the relinquishment of the struggle by its most influential leaders. Chief among the factors hastening the collapse of the Right ten- dency.is the enormous success of the first year of the Five Year Plan of socialist construction. All the opportunist prophecies of disaster to arise from “too fast a pace” of industrialization, and of growth of col- lective and Soviet farming, became ridiculous in the face of the facts— a mighty advance even beyond the figures considered “too high” by the opportunists. Continued stubbornness in their errors by the leaders of the opportunist tendency could have had but one result—complete elimination from the future development of the Party, which had ac- complished its mighty task under the added burden of struggle against these leaders instead of with their aid. A second factor hastening the recognition of error by the leaders of the Right tendency, assuredly must have been the corrupt nature of the assistants that rallied around them internationally. Certainly it must have caused Bukharin serious doubts in his own line, to find springing forward as his chief champions—Pepper, Lovestone, Brand- ler, Jilek, Hais, Serra,-et al. And then, when his disciples proceeded in every country to draw the logical conclusions from his line—and when these opportunist conclusions led them out of the Communist Interna- tional, into open struggle against the Party, against the Cominern, against the Soviet Union, into the camp of the enemies of the prole- tarian revolution, Bukharin and his associates had an additional big reason to stop and to re-evaluate their own past theories and prac- tices which had played such a large part in stimulating the activity of the renegades. If there is still a handful of honest workers who were taken away from the Communist Party by the demagogy of Lovestone, who were blinded by ‘Lovestone’s use of the prestige attached to the name of Bukharin and his past services to the Party, and thereby led against their own best instincts into the marsh of Lovestone’s opportunist ad- venture, let them ponder deeply upon this latest development. Let them realize that they must cut themselves loose from the corrupt leadership of such enemies of the revolution as Lovestone, Wolfe & Co, if they do not wish to be completely and irrevocably lost to the movement. History does not await upon any individual or group. Decisions of the deepest importance allow of the least delay. The Communist In- ternational and its sections march forward at the head of the advancing working class toward great battles and new victories. There will be no hesitation or turning back to wait for cowards or waverers. Al] who go forward with the Comintern must fall into line. The recognition of their dangerous error by Comrades Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky must be regarded as a signal for the redoubling of the energy of our revolutionary Party to root out from our ranks every trace of the petty-bourgeois ideology which would otherwise paralyze the Party in this period of colossal class struggles. Imperialist Murderers Parade the Bodies of Their Victims OR reasons which we can afford to give, and they cannot—the capi- talist newspapers are not giving as big publicity as would have n expected to the arrival at New York today of the bodies of seventy- five American soldiers who died in the territory of the Union of Social- ist Soviet Republics during and after the world war period. The reason is found in two very important. issues which the Wall Street government and the ruling class of this country cannot afford to say much about. If the American ruling class is readier to shed tears about the deaths of these boys than about the deaths of the revolutionary worker and peasant soldiers of Soviet Russia who also died in successfully driv- ing the invading imperialist army out of Soviet Russia—then we must interrupt to ask: Who sent these boys on the imperialist murder-ex- pedition into Soviet Russian territory? .The answer is that precisely these same American capitalist class and government, conscripted and forced them into as criminal an expedition as ever was known to his- tory—to murder and destroy all they could in the revolutionary land and to lose their own lives, as well, in the coldest-blooded interests of the profit-makers at home. These boys were sent as conscripts in an imperialist war against the interests of their own class. After reaching England they were suddenly re-routed through the Arctic Ocean into the northern wilds of Russia (without knowing where they were going) and then told to fight against their own best friends (since they were themselves mostly of the working class)—the Red Army of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. But the dirty, lying organs of the capitalist class are not telling the truth about this. The dead bodies are brought back to furnish material for hypocritical war propaganda on the part of the murderers who sent them to their deaths. And it is particularly a dangerous subject just now because the same government of Wall Street war- makers is at this moment engaged in a somewhat similar criminal raid upon the territory of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics—through their mercenary agents of the Chiang Kai-shek government of China. The defeat of the mercenary armies hired by Wall Street in China may very soon cause the United States imperialists again to resort to the sending of American conscripts to fight the Red Army. So the capitalist press would be embarrassed in explaining why these 75 men were sent to Soviet Russia. Another point is just as interesting: These 75 dead soldiers belonged to the Michigan regiment which furnished one of the most epochal events in the history of this country. It was this regiment of men from Detroit and other cities of Michigan which added to the glory of American working class history by refusing to fight against the Red Army of the workers’ republic! Why don’t the lying capitalist newspapers tell about that? Several times, in a more or less obscure and guarded way, some of the smaller capitalist newspapers have printed admissions of the fact that this regiment of Michigan conscripts was so heavily influenced by the conciousness of the imperialist crime for which it was sent, and by the frank propaganda directed toward them by the Red Army, that. they “had to be” brought home. The truth is that they encountered on every hand the printed greetings of their fellow workers of Russia (often dropped from Soviet airplanes) and learned who their friends and who their enemies were. Some of them were captured by the Red Army and learned another working class lesson when they (the private, conscripted, soldiers) were given full liberty with jobs and the right to vote in the workers’ republic, until they were sent out. The American capitalist government want to conceal such facts and TUUL Drives VEPRESSION IS in Food, Autos,» and Building TEEPENING SAYS which organization tactics and meth- | ods were worked out by the na- ANE itional executive board of the Trade | Utilities Bosses Meet j Union Unity League at its recent | sessions were food, automobiles and building. | The Amalgamated Food Workers’ | convention is December 7. The |Lore group, organized around the New York Volks Zeitung and led by | certain renegades to the militant la-| Wagcists B bor movement in America, is fight- K ing hard to control the offices in on December 5 this union and carry it into class | Saas | collaboration and defeat. There BULLETIN. | will be a clear cut struggle, the| WASHINGTON, Noy. 27.—Act- board was told, over the question of |ing Secretary of War Hurley today adopting the militant policies of the |directed all corps area and depart- T. U. U. L. at this convention, The | ment commanders to begin immedi- Hoover on Crisis Problems Production is Down | | | | | ma | ody Meets majority in the Amalgamated Food Workers, as evidenced by the vigor and determination of the rank and file in the recent cafeteria strike, will be for the T. U. U. L. program —the Lore officials will oppose it. lately the initiation of army con- struction and repair work for which |funds are available. This active |war preparation was the only con- lerete step which came out of the |Hoover economic crisis conference Organize Workers. today, The T. U. U. L. stands for an en- | ergetic campaign of organizing from the bottom, not of arrange- WASHINGTON, Noy. 27.—Before |handing over government functions in the present crisis to the National | (Fascist) Economie Council, Hoover today met with the leading bosses jof the public utilities industries. (Continued: on Page Three) After the conference, the usual jfairy stories were issued about prosperity in the future and big con- BEFORE LOCKO T struction projects. | Owen D. Young took a leading |part in the conference. His ability |in throwing the burdens of repara- tions on the German workers is jbeing utilized in directing the wage cutting drives on the American |workers in the present crisis. Among the leading capitalists in |the utilities industries who met with Hoover were: Trying to Frame-Up Bressler Shoe Workers Two injunctions against the shoe strikers came up in Judge James Dunn’s court yesterday, on pleas of the Tados Shoe Co. and the Schwartz and Benjamin Shoe Co., that temporary orders be made per- manent. It is clearly evident that | the application for these temporary} injunction orders could not have been signed, as they were, two days after these companies locked out |their workers unless previous to that lock-out an arrangement had been made with the judge. The injunctions, due to technical matters, were not argued yesterday, but there are also six more stays granted against the shoe workers, all by the same judge, on flimsy evi- dence. In some cases only two affi- davits were presented to get the Owen D. Young, General Electric Company; Samuel Insull, Common- wealth Edison Company; S. Z Mitchell, Electric Bond and Share Company; Charles L. Edgar, Edison Electric Illuminating Company; Frederick L. Dame, North American Company; W. A. Jones, Cities Serv- ice Company; B. C. Cobb, Allied Power and Light Company; Thomas M. McCarter, Public Service Electric and Gas ompany; C. E. Crosbeck, Electric Bond and Share Company; }Maljord Erickson, Byllesby Engin- leering and Management Corpora- ‘tion; George M. Kidd, American Gas and Electric Company. | Hoover considers the present crisis {recent election for Judge Dunn. | berg, the attorney for the bosses’ or- CS eee oh coe Ur eee ganization, called the Metropolitan Shoe pentane Association,| Mass Meet of Cleaning was the campaign manager in the! and Dying Toilers This Sunday at Irving Plaza) A mass meeting of all workers in.| the cleaning, dyeing and laundry | Jacques Buitenkant, attorney for! the union, yesterday pointed out | that there is absolutely no legal} reason for these temporary injunc- | tions, and of course, none why they | industry of Greater New York will | should be made permanent. be held Sunday, Dec. 1, 3 p. m., at} It appears that the elections are | Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and | over, and judges can serve the shoe 15th St. Prominent speakers of the | (Continued on Page Two) |T. U. U. L. will address the meeting. | A special call issued for the mass | meeting states that “in the hundreds of cleaning, dyeing and laundry! plants there are over 50,000 unor- | ganized workers, adult and young, to Conscript Workers for Army at All Times |fien and women, Negro and white, who are drained of their energy to WASHINGTON, Noy. 27.—Intro-|make more profits for the bosses. duction of permanent conscription of |The workers are forced to work as workers for the army is proposed by |much as 10-12 hours daily, without General C. P. Summerall, chief of | pay for overtime, while the average staff, in his annual report. wage in most of the plants is less The report also emphasized indus- | than $15 a week. The bosses every- tria] mobilization for war “without | where are now engaged in new wage delay.” cuts.” Summerall Proposes Southern Bosses Use Terror to Keep ‘Daily’ trom Toilers Answer of Workers Must Be to Rush the Daily Worker South Two militant seamen, members of the Marine Workers League, were yesterday arrested in New Orleans for distributing leaflets and copies of the Daily Worker to the workers of the McInnis Cotton Mills. The arrests of Victor. Aaronson and W. Davis was part of the ship- ping bosses drive by which they hope to crush out the militant M.W.L. Besides the ship owners, the mill bosses and the reactionary A. F. of L. misleaders, as well,, are behind this terror. The Southern mill bosses fear the effect of Communist leaflets an the Daily Worker on the workers whom they have been exploiting so long. The anti working class drive started by the Southern mill owners | orders, They are still to come up of such a momentous nature that it in court. The whole affair indi- ; will be given first place in his mie cate’s collaboration between the |sage to Congress. courts and the bosses. Not at all coinciding with the} Boss Man Elected Judge. jnewspaper tripe about “prosperity” It is reported that Milton Hisen-|PTospects, is the statement just <=: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1929 Chief Imperialist! Hoover will Thanksgiving dreds of thousands of unemployed eat dinner, @ sumptuous while hun-. workers starve. Hoover will be happy today knowing that his wage- cut drives have the support of the A. F. of L. leadership. “SOCIALISTS” OK HOOVER PLANS Unemployment Plan Same, Says Nat’l Sec’y Clarence Senior, the college boy secretary of the “socialist” party, announced that Hoover is adopting the unemployment program of this third capitalist party. Senior said that Hoover's recent action with regard to proposed pub- lie building, etc. is in reality the program of the social-fascist organ- ization which still goes under the name of “socialist” party. Hoover can now expect valuable aid in his planned nation-wide wage ist” party. The statement by Senior follows the line of the New York conven- tion of the “socialist” party held last Saturday and Sunday, when steps were taken to make the social- fascist. outfit more acceptable to anti-labor elements. | A campaign for the Hoover plan will be carried on by the “socialist” |party. This was the effect of de- | cisions made at a meeting of Senior, Morris Hilquit, national chairman; Jasper McLevy of Bridgeport, Conn., James O’Neal and Norman Thomas. Under the guise.of a program for unemployment insurance and old jage pensions, the “socialist” party is preparing to aid the National Fascist Economic Council in its) drive on the working class, The tween Hoover and Muste. The program of the “socialist” party is identical with the policy of the American Federation of Labor whose leaders also support Hoover enthusiastically in his wage-cutting drive. NoY. Textile Workers Strike Against Wage Cuts; Led by N.T.W.U. ers’ Union, workers of the Treeo Knitting Mills, 24 West 25th St., are on strike. The mill is completely shut down; all the workers have joined the union, and a local was organized last night at the New York district headquarters, 16 West 21st St. The strike was called when a knitter refused to do.a job for the price set by the boss, and was fired. The strikers are determined to stay out until the worker is rein- stated and their other demands are won, Because of widespread unemploy- ment in New York, many knitters answered the advertisement the boss put in the papers. When they found the mill striking, every one, without exception, gave his name and ad- dress to District Organizer Michel- son, and promised to join the union. The strike shows again that textile workers of New York are showing their willingness to struggle against the vicious wave of wage cuts, speed- up and unemployment. “Labor” Gov’t Bars Gastonia Striker The Daily Mail, of London, today announced that incoming ships were being watched to take into custody two Gastonia strikers who plan to tell the British working men of the Gastonia strike. and shipping bosses will be answered by a greater drive to organize the unorganized Southern mill, dock and ship workers. | One of the principal ways in which militant workers must aid the | struggles of the Southern workers against slavery, and terror is by aiding the “Drive to Rush the Daily South.” to pretend that such things “couldn’t happen.” But in the next im- perialist war they will learn that, not merely one Michigan regiment, but entire armies of American boys will learn by the experience of imperial- ist war to turn their fighting face toward their own Wall Street ruling class. The arrival of the dead bodies of these victims of U. S. imperialism is an occasion for thought on the part of the whole of our class to which they belonged. i ¥ The national office of the Interna- tional Labor Defense declared, con- cerning the incident, that K. 0. By- vers, one of the Gastonia strikers, who | faced the electric chair until charges were dropped against him, was en- route to England from the U. S. S. |R. where he attended the 12th An- niversary of the Russian Revolution. He had been sent upon request of the International. Class War Pris- oners’ Aid to tour the country and to speak at a huge mass meeting at Trafalgar Square. slashing campaign from the “social-| “socialist” party is the bridge be-| Led by the National Textile Work- | 75 DEAD FROM 1919 ATTACK ON USSR ARE HERE | Lives Lost in Wall St’s Vain Attempts to Smash Soviets Was ‘Rebel Regiment’ | ImperialistsUse Bodies in Anti-Soviet Drive The Liner President Roosevelt to- jday is bringing to New York the \bodies of seventy-five American sol- diers who died in the invasion of lthe Soviet Union by the imperialist Pifty- [five of the bodies are unidentified. powers in 1918 and 1919. The soldiers lost their lives in| the effort of the imperialists of the United States, Great Britain, France, and other countries to overthrow the Soviet government of workers and peasants. The bodies of these soldiers, most- ly workers, who were victims of the imperialist war against the first workers government, will be utilized today as the center of a militarist demonstration in general prepara- tion for the next war. Lieutenant Col. J. Brooks Nichols, commander of the imperialist forces onthe Adkangel front in the North- ern part of the Soviet Union, and Captain O. J, Odjard, under whose command the soldiers endured the greatest suffering and suffered the heaviest losses—both of whom were thoroughly hated by the rank and \file of the conscripted workers—will lead the hypocritical ceremonies. Colonel Nichols represents the governor of Michigan, from which stage most of the soldiers were |forced to go to Arkangel for the at- tack on the Soviets, and ‘Captain! Odjard will represent the Mayor of{ Detroit. Reactionary capitalist organiza- tions will be called upon to lower! flags to half mast today and flags | on government buildings will be law- ered as the bodies of these worker- soldiers are brought back, despite (Continued on Page Three) Imperialists Demand Gunboats as They Hail Day of Thanksgiving CHICAGO, Noy. 27.—John Janis, an unemployed worker with seven foodless children, was shot twice in the leg today because he believed himself to a turkey. * * The Charity Organization Society, the One Cent Coffee Stands, the Bowery Mission and Zero’s Tub— every organization pledged to give |coffee to the starving in an effort |to dull the sharp edge of capitalist | exploitation and its attendant mis- leries—have their field day as | Thanksgiving Day opens this morn- | ing. Thrown on the streets by speed- up, the unemployed workers will be interested to learn through the New York evening Post that Thanksgiv- ing dinners can be had at $7.50 each at Sherry’s. The Post, incidentally, has organized a special Thanksgiv- ing fund to help teach outcasts of capitalism just how much they have to be thankful for. While pious churchmen extol the glories of the era of peace and good }will for which they are especially thankful, the Navy Department: of |the U. S. Government is opening its bids for the repair work on the Philadelphia Yard to hasten con- struction of five new cruisers in preparation for the imperialist war. Thanksgiving is only one of the means used by U. S. imperialism to divert the minds of the millions it exploits away from the gunboats of imperial conquest to the accept- ance of its rule. GERMAN. COMMUNISTS GAIN. BERLIN, Nov. 27.—The Commu- nist Party held twelve mass meet- ings for recruiting new members. The result ‘was 300 new members for the Party. { The socialists are dumbfounded {here on the tremendous gains of | Communists, in the elections. The meeting of the national ex- ecutive board of the National Min- ers’ Union, which took place Sunday in Pittsburgh, after carefully re- viewing the charges brought against the national president, John Watt, decided to remove him from office. Watt nad been charged with crimes against the miners by the Illinois state convention of the N. M. U. at Belleville and by the executive of the Illinois district of the union. ee ee eae ||More Right Wingers Abandon Positien: Accept Decisions | : ¢ | Wireless By Inprecorr} | MOSCOW, Nov. 27.—The right | 9 wingers, Eichenwald, Hatveyev, and <oselev made declarations abandon-| ing their right wing errors and sub-| ordinating ther ves completely to the party majority and approving| |the decisions of the November Ple-| U1 ULF SHIPPING BOSSES JAIL 3 |Seared by Influence of | M. W. L. er year by FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents SOVIET UNION SMASHES RAIDS BY MILITARISTS Isvestia Says That Provocation Was Intolerable Stimson, Labor Party, Aid Militarists BULL LONDON, Nov the TINS .—Joint action powers against imperialist | the Soviet Union was considered to- NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. day by a cabinet meeting, Arthur \Forming a united front with the| Henderson said in the House of open shop shipping bosses of the} Commons today. Henderson re- Pacific Coast, who caused a raid on| vealed that the British ‘labor’ im- |the Marine Workers League head-| periali had communicated with quarters in San Pedro, the open shop| Washington on the subject of Man- shipowners of the Gulf Coast yester- | churia |day had two militant seamen, mem-) \bers of the M.W.L., arrested on a) \charge of “causing a riot and at-| |tempting to overthrow the govern-| | ment.” | The two seamen, Victor Aaronson and W. Davis, were arrested while} |distributing leaflets to the workers| of the McInnis Cotton Mills here. | | Bail of $500 is demanded for their | |release, and the International Labor |Defense expects to release them to-| | night, | Thoroughly scared by the grow-| ling influence of the militant Marine | (Continued on Page Three) HOFFMAN ADMITS WORKERS REVOLT Marion Strikers Came} WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. — The Japanese ambassador, Debuchi, con- ferred with secretary of state Stim- }scn on the Manchurian question. The representa of Japanese im- perialism told imson that the American Gover nt might act independently. Debuchi reported to Tokio that the United States “felt | any concerted action on the part of the combined imperialist powers would be too slow.” (Wireless by Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Nov. 27.—Referring to the situation in Manchuria, “Isve- stia” declares that the Soviet Union showed superhuman patience in the face of constant provocations on the part of Chinese militarists, white guardists 1s, firings, ete., which made the situation of the civil pop- lulation on’ the Soviet frontier intol- erable. | The Soviet masses demanded ac- |tion from the military authorities, The limits of patience on the part jot the Soviet Union had been over- |stepped and decisive military action was taken. Chinese troops are thoroughly de- moralized and are fleeing into the |interior of Manchuria. Soviet opinion j@pproves completely the action of |the Far Eastern army which was made necessary by the failure of all Out in Spite of Him BULLETIN. | MARION, N. C., Noy. 27.—The | court took a recess this afternoon | until Friday, giving up the at- tempt to finish the Marion textile case tonight. * “ * MARION, N. C., Nov. 27.—Every |ot’ x ttempts to restra?- the Chi- attempt is being made to rush the |ne-~ militaris Marion trials of three strikers and) On one part of the tern front | Alfred Hoffman, U. T. W. organizer, /alone t’e Chinese militarists suf- to the jury tonight. The judge an-/f -ed the ioss of four divisions. Many ticipated an early verdict by de-jof ‘he Chinese soldiers are fleeing Hoover's prosperity bunk and helped | jcreeing a night session so that the | and “spend Thanksgiving at home.” | The three besides Hoffman are | |Lawrence Hogan, Del Lewis, and | Wes Fowler. They are charged with Hoffman finished his testimony | yesterday, making it clear that he| ‘a bosses’ point of view. He swore | he ordered the strikers to carry | weapons, that he was not at the| picketing of a scab’s house on which that the strike in the Marion Manv- | facturing Co. Mills was a walk-out! sent, and after he had sent them back with their case “settled.” Dunne Accepts A. F. L. Challenge to Speak at) William F, Dunne, in the name of | cepted the challenge of A. F. of L. officials to appear before a meeting day at Harlem Terrace, 210 FE. 104th Street. concentrating an attack on the T. U. U. L. demands that the subway 16,000 underpaid and exploited sub- way construction workers instead of strikers in the Bronx, as is being done by the A. F. of L. fakers. struction workers has been called by the Building and Construction Sec- Sunday, at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. Wm. F. Dunne rioting. was a most inoffensive person from | Bibles and hymn books and not'| |the present charges are based, and of the mill hands, without his con- | Subway Workers Meet | the Trade Union Unity League, ac- | of subway workers at 10 a. m. Fri- The A. F. of L. officials have been strike should be a struggle of -the being restricted to the few hundred A mass meeting of subway con- tion of the TUUL for 2:30 p. m. and Al Fisher will speak. National Miners Board Tells Why John Watt Was Removed |The statement on Watt issued by |the N. M. U. national executive board says: Fight All Enemies. “We will fight militantly all en- emies of the coal miners: U. M. W. |A. fakers, coal operators and all Tories, enemies, be they inside or out- |side the union. Only by a sharp fight, abiding by the class princi- ples of our union, will we be able to (Continued on Page Two) jury could get the case late tonight | ; | inte the Mongolic> stepres. There is complete panic among the Chinese troops. Hailar was evacuated by the Chi- nese, anu their headquarters were removed from Hzrk’ to a point further east. Soviet losses were small. see WASHINGTON, Noy. 27.—Secre- tary of State Stimson still “conti- nues to regard the situation in Man- churia as serious, nd before leav- ing for New York for Thanksgiving, instructed the State Department to keep in close touch with develop- (Continued on Page Three) RENCH RULERS MASK WAR PLAN Naval Conference Part of Preparations PARIS, Nov. 27..—An important meeting of the Frenca cabinet, to- gether with the ch f of the Naval General Staff, Admiral Violette, was held yesterday to prepare a | Program by which the French dele- gation at the naval “disarmament” conference may appear in a_paci- fist role and at the same time con- tinue war preparations. While the meeting was secret, the joutline of the decisions became pub- lic. The first decision was that the |plans for naval increases, like the |Kellogg pact, must be masked be- |hind the slogan of “defense.” This “defense” must he adequate for struggle against any imperialist ES |power, and to keep the vast colonial empire “defended” against both the native population and imperialist nee will oppose any effort to restrict submarine construction, {which England is expected to insist upon, as her huge flees dominates jthe European coast and submarines jare her greatest menace iv war. |The French also demand abolition jof “rati which would make it | possible for France to engage more openly in the race for naval su- premacy. The French program is additional jevidence that the so-called “disarm- ament” conference will be a confer- ence to prepare for war, and that the main problem will be the effort to postpone the struggles between he imperialist countries while they unite against the Soviet Union