The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1930, Page 2

cage - IMPOSSIBLE TO SOLVE IMPERIALIST RIVALRY AT HAGUE CONFERENCE Evacuation of the Rhineland Resisted by France Under Tardieu Government . Reparation Robbery of German Workers by Young Plan, A Prize for Rivals By A; DE VRIES (Amsterdam) When the Hague Conference, after endless debates of unusual menée, came to an end last August, it was resolved that it should meet again in October. Called to discu’ the Young Plan, it had not com- pleted its work, Hence various com- missions were appointed to clear up the remaining questions. The most important was the commission that met at Baden-Baden, Germany, com- posed of leading financiers, to draw up ‘statutes of the “International Bank.” «But the work of the commissions dragged enc nd instead of yond Hague Con- now in January. The leng' duration of the com mission se: , the long time in preparation for the Conference, are| not so much due to technical diffi-| culties as to the political changes | which-have taken place. . Among these the new French cabi- riet takes first place. Briand was ayerthrown by a coalition of the + and the Nationalist Right. This | Jatter, the Marin group, desired the fall of Briand’s ministry for the! reason that, in their opinion, Briand had made both Great Britain and| Germany: too many concessions at the Conference at The Hague. Thi were especially dissatisfied with Briand for his promise to evacuate the Rhineland. ae Evacuation Upset. “At The Hague, the evacuation of | th® so-called “third zone” of the Rhine country by June 30, 1930, was agreed on. This was opposed by the ‘whole Nationalist Right, the repre- sentatives of the military and of heavy industry. They based their views on the (probably intentional!) | ambiguous formulation in which FYance undertakes to evacuate the Jast zone by June 30, but solely on the condition that the Young Plan, be approved by the parliaments and put into force! “Whe French nationalists cite these Words and assert that it does not siiffice for the German parliament to undertake the burden of the Young Plan; the plan must be put into force, that is, the “International Bank” must begin its work. Not until this bank, by the pledging of German ‘payments, has placed its first Joan and thereby enabled the Frerich bougeoisie to pocket the first frbits of the enslavement of the working masses of Germany under the: Young Plan—not until then will the nationalists evacuate the Rhine country! Briand -did not wish to have his hand tied. But his Right opponents demanded clarity. And when, in parliament, he again evaded a clear statement, Marin, Mandel and their adherents, voted against and overthrow the Briand cabinet. last ‘October, ti ference is mee Tardieu Policy. ‘After a long crisis, the Tardieu government took power. Although Briand has again taken the Minis- tty of foreign affairs, Tardieu is dependent on the support of the s eeh and has accepted in ell es- séntials their policy on evacuation. Whilst Briand ke, openly declares tha’ ent, Tardieu the date of| Lenin Memorial Meets | Being Arranged in All Parts of the U.S. A. ‘The: following is a partial list of | the Lenii:Memoriai meetings: “District One. ‘Tuesday, Jan. 21, 8 p. m., Frank- |» lin Union Hall, Alexander Trachten- _. burgy speaker, Boston, Mass.; West | Concord, N, H.; Quincy, Mass.; Long | Cove,"Mass.; Fall River, Mass.; | Fitchburg; Mass.; Gardner, Mas: Haverhill, Mass.; Keene, N. H Lanesville, Mass.; Lawrence, Mass.; Mass.; Newton Upper Falls, Mass.; Norwood, Mass.; New- port, N, H.; Peabody, Mass.; Prov- idence, R. I.; Wilton, N. H.; New Bédford, Mass.; Manchester, N. H.; Lynn, Mass, ; District Two. “Wednesday, Jan. 22, 7 p. m.: New York City, Madison Square Garden, speaker, Robert Minor; Perth Am- be N. J., Ukranian Hall, 752 State St ‘Friday, Jan. 24, 8 p. m., Broadway | Atena, Broad and Christian, Phila- dejphia, Pa.; Sunday, Jan. 26: Scran- ton, Pa.; Minersville, Pa. ‘ District Five. | Friday, Jan 17: New Kensington, | P4.; Saturday, Jan. 18: E. Pitts- burgh, Pa.; Ambridge, Pa.; New tle, Pa.; Sunday, Jan. 19: Pitts-| burgh, Pa.; Monessen, Pa.; Wednes- , dan. 22: Canonsburg, Pa.; | Pa.; Clairton, Pa.; Friday, Masontown, Pa.; Browns- a; Saturday, Jan. 25: Johns- , Pa.; Daisytown, Pa.; Bentley- Pa.; Sunday, Jan. 26: Portage, Roeks, Pa.; McKees- om 2 . District Seven. Detroit, Mich., Sunday, Jan. 19, vehe-| |} come more acute during the endle: ;June 30 is not valid unless the | Young Plan comes into force at onee, adding: “Should this not be the case, then there will be no more talk of a] further evacuation of the Rhine- lands,” With this, Briand practically joins forees with Tardieu and Ma- ginot; and it is simply the usual yeformist swindle when the social democrats make out that there is a difference between the “nation- u and Briand, the ange! if Briand were not t such another cham- ench imperiali: and his colleague: Problems Ahead. The Second Hague Conference therefore, will not be confined t mere technical details. On the cor trary, the great questions are sti unsolved. The\antagonisms have ie precisely j pion of F militarism Pol ciseussions. French imperialism ha again made uncertain the definite promise to evacuate the “third zone,” and it will depend on the compliance of the other partie whether this. evacuation wil! take place. Tardieu will demand, as a price of evacuation, not only the sub- |crdination of the German Reichstag to the Young Plan, but the issue of a loan by the International Bank, | of which the lions share will fall to the French bourgeoisie! The second Hague Conference will face other questions. The com- mittee for organization of the Tn- ternational Bank has chosen Basle, itzerland, as the Bank’s head- quarters. This frustrates Snow 2 hopes, who wanted it in Léndon. Who Gets the Bank? But Switzerland is a compromise. French imperialism is anxious to have this important weapon, the Infernational Bank. quite under its control. “And, therefore, Belgium, the” vassal state of France, refused to yield to them on this point. The Belgians insisted the Bank locate in Brussels, and it will advance this demand at The Hague. The commissions appointed last September” have not accomplished ir aims. The question of “eastern reparations” in particular has no been settled, Hungary and Bulgaria refuse to take the burdens thrust upon them by the, first Hague Con- ference and this if still unsettled, Linked to Neval Intrigue. One of the chief reasons of: the French delaying the second Hague meet until now, is the desire to establish a connection between the Hague Conference and the London Naval Conference. The French bourgeoisie fears the combined pressure of England and the United States. It is not ready to give up the submarine weapon, to recognize the parity with Italy, or to renounce further armaments. Therefore, it does not wish the Hague. Conferenze to be finiched hefdte the-Naval Conference begins. Britain wants the evacuation of the Rhineland, therefore Tardieu wilt use the Hague negotiations to in- duce the compliance of the British in the naval question, is “Superior” Bullies The “Pravda’s” eartoonist on U. S. imperialism’s hypoeracy. .... Uncle Sam: “God damn it! We won't let anybody violate the, Kel- | logg Pact!” WAR PROFITS BOSSES; WAR CRIPPLES PROTEST. BRUSSELS (By Inprecorr Mail Service).—Yesterday evening a na- tional demonstration took place here against the stinginess of the gov- ernment in taking care of war crip- ples. Hundreds of war cripples on crutches and in invalid chairs took part in the demonstration. §. Flower St. San -Francisco, Calif. Tuesday, Jan, 21, California’ Hall, Turk and Polk Sts. 2.30 p. m., speaker, Wm. F. Dunne. : District Eight. jicago, Ill, Tuesday, Jan. 21, id Auditorium, speaker, Max ht. District Thirteen. s Angeles, Oalif., Tuesday, Jan. 7.30 p.m, Columbus Hall, 612, Oakland, Calif,, Tuesday, Jan. 21, Fraternity Hall, 7th and Peralta Sts. Distriet Four. Buffalo, N. Y., Sunday, Jan. 26, Workers Under Arms 4 nn The foreign policy of tl DAILY WORKER, N {W YORK, SATURDA Y, JANUARY 4, 1930 for Their Government s a policy ef ped But as the iato the vasion, r cease sending spies. and, saboteurs et Union and continually threaten it with war and in- peace for the Soviet Union depends upon a strong Red Army and peasants. When the imperialist nations through the Stimson Note the Soviet Union, hundreds. of thousands of t viet Union demanded -the -right-to -j the Red Army. re tens of thousands of women w The lower pictur of thenmtraining. as. machine gunners. Delegates to Pacific T.U. Meet Outwit Imperialist Watch-Dogs A By HARRISON GEORGE Seldom in the history of the re- ment has an} tended with such tion and come y as did the Pan- imp So ist powers ne wor war Jin the “Second Section” at Shang- hai! The pelled, of course, to meet secretly volutionary labor move i co “Second Seetion” was com- tion opr ccessful ni enormou it so s But there attended {t many *of the t-proletarian Jeaders-of the Far East, trom:Japan, China; thé*Philip- Pacific Trade Union Secretariat. at to conference. Supposed Vlad ok, a sho the ure of the C! the delegations a, the of Labor its center at Singa- Straits. Seftléments; after Eastern Railway, were met by a united blockade of all imperialist powers. h,. from in‘. the pore unites the trade New Guinea, the, Celebes, y Peninsula, Burma, Siam Seme were arrested, some turned ome forced to detour for nds of miles, some out-witte imperialist blood-hounds Borneo, he Mal and Indo. the slipped through the blockade. —E 3ut while this deserves unstinted praise, y equal admiration should go to those delegates who, unable to/i break thr the blockade and meet on oviet soil, defied the watch-dogs of imperialism and met under their very noses in Shanghai! Not only did they meet, but they displayed genuine _ revolutionar initiative and, knowing the agenda of the conference going on at Vladi- | vostok, carried on discussions and adopted decisions as the nd Section” of the Pan-Pacifie. Trade Union Conference. This ond 338, of the Pan-Pac- ecount of: this ction”, 3. which met .at Shanghai. in of. the swarm, of imperialist No. American worker. -who to understand. the world la~ movement can afford.to miss \reading the Pan-Pacifie Monthly. Other important items in the eur- rent (Dec.-Jan.) issue are “those the center of on- The Bursting of | its 1 Street Bubble ng to World ‘Eabor,” ions of Sumatra, | of the P| historic in the | labor mo of the w imperi ini » defeated, and all delegates who were elected by trade unions in the various countries, with the exception of those of India who ticle free from’ boresome but interesting and vite items of t Vladivostok A. Loso The issue has 64. p: bought at your hoo! Join the Party of Your Class!’ Join the Communist | Party! } | which were revealed in the inter-| SOVIET — CHINESE were not permitted to leave “India, | cents, or through the~Workers Li-| CONFLICT, and one Philippine delegate arrested | brary Publishers, distributors for by Japanese at Dairen, South Man- | the Pan-Pacific Monthly (at $2 per , either took part in the Vla- | yearly subscription) address 89 East stok Conference or participated |125th street, New York C : a ; A “Lahorite” Lunches With Bosses. (By Inprecorr Mail-Service) |pithead if this is necessary to 2 at the Coal|enable him to pay decent and fair LONDON 4 wages to the miner.” Trade Luncheon Club yesterday, ote te Ben Turner, the secretary of state eid this: ib: "The oata for the mines in the labor govern- ie HOW “able?” to pay des ment, declared: cent wages. But they don’t do i “The coal owner is doing, ‘the Nor will they willingly do so when right thing in raising -priees at the | prices are raised. 5 | Berlin Police Answered With Stones, mie | (By Inprecorr Mail Service) | ganizations. | BERLIN.~—Fiye powerful protest | The police attacked the demon- demonstrations this evening showed | stration before the headquarters ot the ‘fighting spirit of the Berlin |the Party, Karl Liebkne House, | workers against the social democrat using their batons brutally. The | Severing’s new law for the Defense | workers answered with stones,’ A lof the Republic which is. directed number of police: were injured and jagainst the Communist Party and|many workers arrested, ‘Collisions laloo ocktened: ab Lacuitasr, Plath ‘all revolutionary working class or- \Those “Poor” G | | a ~The three who were “interviewed” ZMAN How often. was this “interyiew” Emigrants from USSR j2n4 a eine and answers re- arsed- re t rs ‘Turn Out as Kulaks ond tillmann and a rich bencanh and Fillmann and a rich peasant, - Bergens. (By Inprecorr Mail Service) The latter declared that he had HAMBURG, Germany.—Last Fri-|owned 30 horses, 15 head of cattle day the Hamburg Radio broad-/and many calves, pigs, etc. and casted an interview with three of that he had been offered . 45,000 \the Russo-German emigrants. rubles for his property. The. eare- Despite the efforts of the inter-|ful leading questions of the inter- viewer to make the whole affair as Viewer were directed to presenting anti-Soviet as possible, the facts the situation in the Sovict Union is unfavorably as possible. } view showed once again that the | * emigrants are not poor German] Organize Shop Nuclei. speaker ‘Platt: Rochester. N. Y., Sunday, Jan. 26, | speaker Platt. | peasants but kulaks who left the} Write About Your Conditions. Soviet Union because they dis-| for The Daily Worker, Become a agreed politically wiih socialism. | Worker Correspondent, PRAVDA REVIEWS COMMUNISTS BATTLE IN FOREIGN policy CEAMAN REICHSTAG ON: LAW AGAINST WORKERS OF THE SOVIET War Danger Exists as) - Long as Imperialism ip MOSCOW. (By -Inprecorr . Mail’ Service),—In- comment upon the re- of the Soviet Union, the “Pravda, official, organ of ‘the Communist ; Party of the Soviet Union; declares: | That the twelve years existence of the proletarian State has proved that the Soviét Union sincerely de- sires peace and takes“all measures to secure it, at the same time reject- jing the provocative attempts of |other States to disturb the peace }and plunge the Soviet Union into war. The Soviet Union has also proved that it is not prepared to abandon its work for the building up. of socialism under pressure from out- | side, nor is it prepared to abandon {the principles of international pro- | letarian solidarity. Imperialists Disappointed. The idealogical collapse of the right-wing and the capitulation of its bourgevisie and social democracy |for the internal disinte; | the Soviet Union. Whilst:the great achievements the socialist constructive work are winning the sympathies of broader ;and broader masses of the inter-- the international t/ national proletariat, it must not be | forgotten that on the other harid | they produce an active wave of anti- soviet activity on the part of the | enemies of the Soviet Union, a wave | which has not yet reached its cul- | minating: point. | The British Diehards, the Frenc’ bourgeoisie and -social .democracy ‘and the increasing activity of the | German bourgeoisie against the | Soviet Union, not to mention the | insane hatred of the German social ;aemocracy against the Soviet Union, clearly show the danger. | The bourgeoisie of fascist Poland was also increasing its militar preparations for an attack upon thi | Soviet Union anc was conducting aj) | feverish diplomatic activity in the Baltic States in order to form an} anti-soviet block. The attitude of the western pow- | ers, the U. S. A. Great Britain, | | France and Italy in connection with | | the counter-drive of the Red Army | into Chinese territory also clearly | gent report of Comrade Litvinov on} the foreign poliey of the government) « vice).—The picture of the Reich- leaders -has disappointed the’ Storm from Communist in Gallery Prevents “Socialist” Speaking | BERLIN (By Inprecorr Mail | stag session where recently the first point on the agenda was an emer- }gency motion of the Communist Hfraction can be seen from the fol- lowing: The emergency motion of the} Communists was to remove the |diseussion of Severing’s new draft |of the expired Law for the Protec- | |tion of the Republic from the| agenda, and to substitute a dis- |cussion of the great swindle of the banks with governmental assistance. The Communist deputy, Torgler, jspoke in favor of the Communist | motion, which was rejected, the | House proceeding to the first point | of the original agenda, the new draft of the Law for the Defense | Heckert and Torgle: were then also | |expelled and a number of people | of the Republic. | The first speaker was the Com-} jmunist deputy, William Pieck, who | sration. of (Anti-socialist laws and concluded | prevented him. with an appeal to the workers to lation by mass action. | The next speaker was the Ger- |man Nationalist deputy, Everling, | who spoke against the provisions of | | the bill from the standpoint of his | Everling was followed by | | party. |Severing in support of the draft. |the shout: “Down with Severing’s ‘our Times Severing Silenced by Cries of | “Murderer!” and “Police Minister!” Members and Workers and from the public gallery, and there were shouts of “Police Mini- ster!” “Murderer!” The disturbance was so violent that the president closed the session. Upon the re-opening of the ses- sion, the president announced that three Communist deputies would be expelled from the sittings of the Reichstag for eight days. Sever- ing’s second attempt to speak in favor of his draft was again lost in shouts of proteest and the session | was again closed. At the third attempt to let Sever- ing speak the Communist deputy Koenen was expelled, but refused to leave the session. President ordered the clearing of the public gallery. The Communist deputies Stoecker, in the public gallery arrested. At the fourth attempt of Severing declared that Severing’s draft was |to speak in support of this bill, the | the cells, he met numerous prison: which still hoped Only to be compared with Bismarck’s | shouting and interruptions again | a suffering from tiberculosis ‘cone CLASS JUSTICE OF CAPITALISM IN BULGARIA French Lawyer Tells of Trial of “52” | BERLIN (By, Inprecorr Mail | Service) —The French lawyer and member of the French’ Chamber, Berthon, who passed through Ber- jlin on his way back to Paris from _ | Sofia, reported to. German press rep- | resentatives concerning his exper- iences in Bulgaria, where he at- tended the trial of the 52” at the instance of the International Red Aid. He dealt first with a visit to the Sofia Central Prison, where huh- dreds of political prisoners are serv- ing life sentences or long sentences \for political offences. The prison- ers, he declared, were held in ait- less and gloomy cells and wete chained hand and foot with’ irons | political prisoners had been charged jfor the most part with being mem- |bers of the Communist Party ,or with having aided political fugitivest Political prisoners were treated, even worse than common criminals. |In the prison hospital, and also, in, The Communist deputies Muenzenberg, Raedel, of prevent the new exceptional legis- | Overlach, Dahlem, Geshke, Putz,| was a thirteen-year-old child: ‘Thé Hoernle and Maddalena were then | a5. of full responsibility commences ejected from the session. The rest of Severing’s speech was subjected to continual interruptions. The Communist deputy Wilhelm Pieck concluded his closing speech with Immediately. a storm of protest | anti-Communist Law! Long live the arose from the Communist benches | German Soviet Republic!” ‘Daily Improved’, Says Worker, But Must Grow Still Better Ce Lice iii sme Eee Saddled and Bridled, Led to Intervention Comrades: There is no doubt that the Daily | Yorker is decidedly improved. Only hose who are blind cannot see it. Or shall it be: all counter-revolu- tionaries and enemies of the work- ing class will not admit it It’ is too much of a blow which knocks cold all traitors in and out of our ranks. A Good Issue. The Saturday, December 14 issue of the Daily Worker is an achieve- showed the intentions “of the inter-|ment. It is a good issué. However, national bourgeoisie. For twelve) years Roumania, the ally of Poland and of France also, nad occupied Soyiet Bessarabia without protest on the part of these powers, British Spies Still Busy. There was no sign whatever that the feverish activity of British agents in Persia, Afghanistan, West China and Turkey. against ‘the Soviet Union had ceased with the accession of the =>-called Labour government. The fact that the war danger had not yet culminated in an -interna- tional capitalist intervention against the Soviet Union was due to the growing economic and political con- tradictions of the imperialist system |and also to the revolutionary move- | ment in the capitalist and colonial ‘countries and to the tireless peace | policy of soviet diplomacy. The Two Nehru’s in the Indian Movement In Wednesday’s Daily Worker, in the article on page three concern- .|ing events in India, the name of Jawaharlal Nehru was mentioned in connection with the action of the Indian National Congress a year jago declaring for Dominion Status junder the leadership of Nehru. But |this was Motilal Nehru, the father of Jawaharlal Nehru. The elder Nehru has led the ex- treme Right Wing of the Congress, \his son has figured prominently in \the Left Wing, with Mahatma |Ghandi in the center. It is the | younger Nehru which has been put |up at the head of the present Na- \native bourgeoisie, as an attraction |for the masses to win them away, if | possible from following the revo- | lutionary working class’ in @ real fight for independence. Yet this young Jawaharlal Nehru has shown his anti-working class position by counseling “caution about such \things as’ strikes. The leader of the recent split, Srinivas Aiyengar, mentioned in re- cent press dispatches, has been, among the Indian bourgeoisie, one of the most consistent in demand- ing complete independence. It is this ‘leader who heads the so-called “democratic party,” now formed at the Lahore Congress. French Chambermaids: Strike for Demands Paris dispatches report that the chambermaids, the domestic serv- ants who are supposed to be humble and servile, are on strike. Hundreds met yesterday and drew up a list of demands. Among the demands is such a simple thing as a fixed wage, yather than being paid whatever the. employers feel like. Refusal to do certain dangerous work such as climbing ladders to polish windows, anda rest period of 15 minutes each morning, with double pay for Sun- days and holidays are among the demands. ts Bis we must not rest on our laurels in this particular question pertaining jto the Daily Worker. It can be seen |that on days when the front page is interesting the second and third page are dry and visa versa. That is, the Daily Worker is fluctuating. This is impermissible and the Daily | Worker staff must keep up a steady general line. This was pointed out |by the decision of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party and | published in the December 10 issue jof the Daily Worker. The seven points of that’ thoro-| going resolution must become the {bible of each and every one on the \editorial staff of the Daily Wor |By following and obeying these i structions of the C.C., especially | |point 3 (shorten every news item) | and point 5 (give the facts accu- rately. They are the best argu- ments, that is, they speak for them- selves, each and every one of them an indictment of the capitalist sys- | tem of society) the combined force | of the editorial staff will succeed in. making the four-page Daily Worker much more interesting and attractive than the 60-page capital- ist papers which give “all the news fit (read unfit) to print.” In order to accomplish this the | ‘habit of carrying over most news litems from one page to the other, | lespecially from the first to the next | jtwo pages, must be cut out. The| | paper then automatically turns into | \a living newspaper as all the pages | \become interesting. Therefore, “car- | |ry over as little news items as pos- sible from the first to the next page” shall be the motto of the pub- lishers of the Daily Worker. The jnot only occasionally but all the |time, day in and day out. | On Worker Correspondence. | The letters from workers in the shops, mills and mines should be published under the headline “Work- er’s Voice” with the information “By mail” done away with, and the \“worker correspondent” at the bot- tom of the letter and not at the top as it is being done now. If the name or initials of the worker cor- responent can be given still better, All in all, the editorial staff of the Daily Worker is already doing good work, and it must be carried Jon daily. This can easily be done, lif the seven points in the resolution of the C.C. are carried out to the let- ter by all those writing for the paper. Then the sacrifices of the comrades in the editorial staff of ithe paper (who for the last five years have given up everything for the sake of building up the Daily Worker as the best weapon, next to a strike, in the hands of all class conscious workers in the U.S.A.), and the work of the Communist Party comrades who. are risking their liberty while distributing the perer will not have been in vain. With the comrades writing for the Daily Worker doing their best to improve the paper it is high time for the comrades in the circulation | and assure 7 “Today, unexpectedly reminding itself of the existence of our So- viet Union, the ‘independent’ Republic of Panama also worries about defending the Kellogg Pact. We could only wish that this Pact of Kellogg should defend Panama its independence.”— From the speech of Litvinoff, of the Foreign Commissariat of the Soviet Union, reporting to the So- viet Central Executive Committee. AUSTRIAN WORKERS FIGHT FASCIST LAW. VIENNA (By Inprecorr Mail Ser- vice).—The parliamentary commit- tee on the proposed constitutional “reforms” had held its last session. Speaking for the social democrats Danneberg declared that the draft containel nothing which might be termed dangerous from the point of view of the S.D.P. The speaker for the government declared, however, that the present draft was only a first step. The draft will now be hurried through parliament. The Communist Party distributed leaflets to the workers calling upon them to leave the factories an hour earlier than usual and to demons- trate against the law in front of |tional Congress by Ghandi and the |paper then will become interesting the parliament building. The police announced that all meetings and demonstrations before parliament would be broken up. Despite the large forces of police which had been mobilized and bands of fascists armed with blud- geons supporting them, several hun- dred workers succeeded in penetrat- ing into the parliament square and protesting against the fascist law. A speaker addressed the workers but was prevented from concluding his speech by the police attacks. rades, apply in practice all the in- structions on “Build the Daily Worker into a mass organ,” given in December 13 and 14 issues of the Daily Worker. Stress should be laid on point 11; that is, while a general distribution is always in place, the more effective means to increase the circuiation of the paper is to spread, distribute it among workers on strike in this or another part of the country. Also on point 18,'that all Communist Party speak- ers must not come off the platform without boosting the Daily Worker, telling their audiences that it is impossible to speak to them every- day; if they want to know more of our aims and aspirations let them read the Daily Worker. With all best wishes for the Daily ‘Worker, I remain respectfully and department to show their stuff. That is, with the help of the Party com- comradely yours, HARRY LEFT. tracted in prison. ee Amongst the political prisoners’ lat twelve in Bulgaria. | He also reported that many..pris- | oners were held in punishment cells below the ground ‘in cells without windows and wihout bedding. These prisoners slept on the floor and ex- isted on bread and water. Capitalist Class Justice. The trial of the fifty-two workers leaders who were charged under the law for the protection of the State with belonging to the illegal Com- munist Party, or even to the lega’’ “Workers Party,” was held ir barracks heavily guarded by troops and not in the usual court buildings, Despite all the precautions of the |authorities they had not been able’ to prevent public opinion learning of the frightful tortures to which the accused had been subjected.’ It had been proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that a number of the accused were murdered before the trial or committed suicide in or- der to escape from the continual |torture and maltreatment. During the trial, a number of the aceused produced pieces of their own flesh, which had been torn from’ their bodies during the tortures. |These tortures had taken place for* the most part in the police’ prison, where the prisoners had been held? for two months instead of ‘the: per-- missable ten days. “ ay AS | During the trial the judges. re- jected, at the request of the prose-+| ‘eution, all the witnesses called- for \the defence. The trial would end with terrible prison sentences for {the accused unless the international |eonscience of the world were suf- | ficiently aroused. The trial had been. organized in lorder to destroy the leaders of the working class movement which was becoming more and more dangerous to the ruling classes. | In conclusion, Berthon expressed \his pleasure at the fact that the In- |International Jurists’ Conference, which is at present taking place.in {Berlin and in which lawyers of all | shades of political opinion are par- \ticipating, unanimously decided to |send a telegram of protest to the |president of the court before which ithe monster process against the “52” was taking place. POLICE TO AID Exposed at Own Meet’ in Detroit DETROIT (By Mail).—Oscar de Priest, Negro politician, misleader, and millionaire, had a worker ar- rested for distributing leaflets ex- posing De Priest, at a méeting last Friday at the Detroit Armory, in which De Priest defended the mur- der of Negro workers and peasants in Haiti and the occupation of Haiti» by the Wall Street government. The American Negro Labor Con- « gress distributed to the few hundred Negroes who came to the De Priest meeting, a leaflet exposing De Priest’s treachery to the Negro workers, and showed him up as an enemy of both American and Hai- tian Negro masses. 4 When De Priest learned what tl contents of the leaflets were, he asked police to arrest all the mem- bers of the A, N. L. C. who gave out the leaflets. Alfred. tz, @ member of the District Committee of the Communist Party, was ar- rested, Goetz is active in organiz- ing the Negro workers. “het The attendance at the De Priest meeting was very small, for the hall holds several thousands, The small attendance showed that the Negro masses are beginning to un-_ derstand that De Priest is an enemy of race equality and against the in- terests of the Negro workers, Mel Splendid response has been given _ by the Negro workers to the meet~ - ings of solidarity with the Haiti. workers held by the Communist Party, and others are planned for the near future, weighing about forty pounds. The * DEPRIEST CALLS