The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1930, Page 1

| ~ YOUNG AND ADULT WORKERS! ATTEND LIEBKNECHT MASS MEE T TODAY AT MANHA TTAN LYCEUM ‘The Communist Party of China Not Only Lives, , But Is Victoriously Advancing! That in Three | Kwangsi Districts It Has Led the Proletariat { to Power Means That Tomorrow It Will ' i ' Rally the Chinese Masses to Seize Power Everywhere, Hail Soviet China! aily Entered as second-class matter at the st Office at New York, N. Y., under the act o FINAL CITY EDITION Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, ) Published daly except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing «Qi» a1 New York City, Ne ¥. Outside in New York by mail, $8.00 per year. New ,York, by mail $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cent ol, VI., No. 288 NFW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1930 | Organize for Mass Action DAY OF VICTORY USSR Sailors Against Unemployment | The economic crisis continues to take its toll of the working class. || In Jess than half a year a vast army of over six milion workers was | hurled into the maw of starvation. As the economic paralysis in- | ereases day by day, new thousands are being added to the number | of unemployed, Everywhere the crisis is hammering the inescapable | truth into the minds of the workers that capitalism lives at the expense of the working class. To the workers, the crisis has only one mean- ing: Unemployment! Hunger! Desperation! As the crisis continues to spread, unemployment will multiply. In spite of the cheap “optimism” about an early recovery, peddled both by the capitalists and their agents in the A. F. of L. for the con- | sumption of the masses, the capitalists have a sharp sense for what \s before them. They understand very well that unemployment is the supreme problem’ of American capitalism which it is unable to solve. 8. C. Forbes, publisher of Forbes financial magazine of New York, | expressed the hopes and fears of the financial oligarchy when he | predicted that the year 1930 would be satisfactory for business but les for employment. To this capitalist ideologist, unemployment is the “supreme problem challenging America’s industrial, financial and busi- 8 statesmen. nm || tion, threatens to be the bete noir (black bear) of America’s future.” In their Unemployment, involving political and other agita- ' enormously by the present crisis. employed 9,000 less workers than. embrace millions of workers. erisis tempo. Trade Union Unity League are power with more inhuman, life wrecking speedup. | » Capitalism creates, but it cannot solve unemployment, | attempt to make up lost profits, the capitalists will cut production costs still further, and introduce still more drastic reductions of man driving workers out of industry by the thousands is being hastened The process of Last year the American railroads in 1928, This is only an example of what is happening in every industry. The capitalists know the American working class. They are pre- "paring for sharp struggles on a mass scale. ‘Will see an increase Of the scope and depth of mass resentment. tnilitant resistance of the unemployed which is already showing itslf in various industrial cities will reach out over the entire country and The immediate future The The class struggle is sharpening with In this situation only the Communist Party and the -revolutionary mobilizing the unemployed masses together with the employed in a struggle against starvation forced on the workers by capitalism. The response of the unemployed has con- vinced the capitalist class that an attack against the Communist Party is a vital necessity for them. Every possible means will be used to split the unity of interests between employed and unemployed. Every ‘weapon of repression will be used against the Communist Party to Seprive the ralicalized masses of effective leadership. At this time it is of the greatest jmportance for the working class » have a clear program of actio1 | selves of every remnant of illusion. | speed its preparations; the class struggle will not wait. jland unorganized workers alike are involved in the wholesale unem- ‘working class must do. form. irevolutiona’ ations. The Trade Union Unity niting the organized force of the Trade Union Unity League. lof the working class into revolutionary industrial unions is one of the \basic conditions for transforming the economic struggle into a successful political struggle against the capitalist system as a whole. all times, the members of the Communist Party must understand the drive ever-greater masses into action. sg of mighty demonstration by America’s unemployed in unison with ; it is absolutely vital to free our- The Communist vanguard must Organized ‘ployment. The fine example of the heroic Illinois miners who showed their working-class solidarity by striking against the dismissal of a part of their comrades; the iron unity of employed and unemployed workers in Chemnitz, Germany, are concrete illustrations of what the “3 United action of employed and ‘unemployed is.a basie necessity | for the entire working class. The resistance of the working class | will proceed from an elemental economic to a conscious political | F Unemployed councils must be organized under the leadership of the The economic organization Now, of . tant role of the Trade Union Unity League in the mounting lass struggle. The Communist Party does not displace revolutionary dustrial unions; on the contrary, it must build them into mass organ- League is the concrete means of employed and unemployed workers. The paralysis of capitalist economy, the standstill in capitalist pro- duction does not mean that the working class will stand still. On the February 26 must be made a ‘he unemployed workers in every country of capitalism. But February 26 is not the end of unemployment. ‘come the further rallying point for ever-larger class actions. It must be- It must ‘become the basis of a vast upsurge of the toiling masses against the capitalist system. Every Communist steeled for action! don’t starve, fight! Form Councils Workers, of Unemployed! Organize the unorganized, unite the employed with the unemployed factory-gate meetings. | Demonstrate on February 26! ‘AKE INJUNCTION j JSED ON CLERKS ight Wing Clique Has ug Serve Summons Without legal injunctions, the Hebrew Trades and the mar- continue to have work- and clubbed under old to with police aid them on pickets Clerks’ Industrial fact that_the Mil- Steve Katovis op- making arrests. ‘Yesterday the Hebrew Butcher lorkers sent scabs to the shop at “Bilder St., Bronx, where the me use was made of the old in- ons against Food Clerks’ pick. and one was arrested to be tried night court on “Paragraph 600” jolation of an injunction). The trial of 6 Millers Market kets under Paragraph. 600, which s te come up yesterday was post- | to Feb. 1, jous intent, , | | | |contrary, the crisis itself, in the form of unemployment, partial em- ployment, increased hours, lower wages and an insane speed-up will International Wireless News GENERAL STRIKE LOOMS IN GREECE. (Wireless By Inprecorr) ATHENS, Feb. 6.—General strike agitation is spreading rapidly. The executives of various unioris have al- ready decided to prepare to strike. Factory meetings are ealling for strike. The railwaymen’s union meeting decided to form a united front and prepare for strike. * * * GREEK CHURCH BISHOP QUITS; KIEV FOR DISSOLVING. (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Feb. 6.—The Bishop Grushevski' has publicly resigned, declaring that the Autocephalous (independent) Greek Orthodox Church actually is an instrument of anti-Soviet agitation and that the heads of the church, including Met- Topolitan Lipovski, have commited anti-Soviet acts. The Church Council at Kiev has | supported Grushevski’s statements, ,jand has decided to dissolve the church altogether. * 8 4« GERMANY SURRENDERS TO YOUNG PLAN. (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 6.—The Reichsrat, embodying the representatives of all German states, has adopted the young plan, forty-eight against six votes, with twelve abstaining. Thur- ingia, Silesia, Pomerania, Branden- burg and Fast Prussia voted against accentance. The opposition was purely specatular and without seri- } FOR INDUSTRIAL Dozens of Battles Won Against Thugs; Many Bosses Yield \Toilers Rally to Union (3,500 Cheer For Ran and File Committee NEEDLE UNION | torious clashes with the I. L. G. W. in Boston Show the Way to Live BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 6.—“Clean shaven, jovial, excellent musicians and excellent sailors,” is the grudg- jing praise given by the capitalist | press to 60 seamen from the Soviet | Union who are now waiting in Bos- | ton for the repairs to be made on | two of the 25 ships recently bought | from the U. S. Shipping Board by | the Soviet. Government, before they | man them and take them ‘over the | ocean. | The capitalist press comments in |amazement on the fact that the sailors receive the same pay as the Yesterday was a day of failure | officers, and that most of this pay | for the company union International | is untouched as yet, for they are Ladies’ Garment Workers leaders of | Siven $5 a day living allowance. |the fake strike, and a day of vie-| The Soviet government has es-| {tablished a headquarters in Boston, | thugs for the Needle Trades Work-|9Pened a bank account, and began jers’ Industrial Union. j day of dozens of shop strikes won | by the N.T.W.LU. It was a day of |enormous street demonstrations | which the police were unable to sup- press, for the Industrial Union. It | Was a day of lying by the capitalist press about “Reds fight. pickets,” | “big I. L. G. W. strike,” ete., when | there were no pickets at all only gangs of hired I. L. G. W. gorrillas | trying to stop the Industrial Union | distribution of leaflets, or force the ;company union into shops which |\the Industrial Union has already | won for union conditions, and which | the workers defended, victoriously |in every single case, against the | thugs of the I. L. G. W. Conspiracy in Albany. At the end of the day, President Schlesinger of the I.L.G.W., was sneaking off to Albany, where he and the bosses meet with the gov- jernor today, “to settle the strike,” | which means to announce the settle- | ment already arrived at before the strike started. Roosevelt's confer- ence call was printed a few hours after the fake “strike” began, proof that it was ready before, and that it was announced so early because there was no strike. The Jobbers’ Assoctation yester- | day began to back water, announc- | (Continued on Page Two) TAKE OVER THE DRESS “STRIKE!” 'TUUL Statement Calls) For Workers to Act | “The craft unions in the needle | industry, in conjunction with the clothing bosses, the banks, the state | It was a) the first few hours-Twesday proved | from the beginning to take extreme |care of the health and comfort of + the sailors. It demanded from the lodging house real spring cots instead of the regulation U. S. government cots already there. The officers live with them, and regular meetings, in which the-seamen decide on all pol- icies and actions are held. (Continued on Page Three.) 2000 IN ANGELES DEMONSTRATION Defend Filipino Toilers Struggle With Police Today at 8 p. m. there will be held a mass protest meeting against the butchering of Filipino workers in California and to unite Filipino and American workers for a fight for Filipino independence, under the auspices of the- New York Branch of the Anti-Imperialist. League. The Filipino Youth for the Inde- pendence of the Philippines has ar- ranged a parade and demonstration for Saturday, February 8, at 1.30 p. m. at the Battery. All workers are urged to come to this demonstra- tion and unite with thé Filipino workers in their struggles. * «© 6 LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 6.—- A huge demonstration of some 2000 workers was held at the city Plaza Sunday, Feb. 2 at 2 p.m. A large number of Filipino and Mexican workers and many other national- ities responded to the call of the Communist Party for a demonstra- tion of solidarity with the Filipino workers and in protest against the attacks on them that had been or- ganized by the San Francisco Cham- ber of Commerce, | and city government and the na-| tional leaders of the A. F. of L., are) \carrying on an open conspiracy to j try, The aim is to reestablish the | discredited craft organizations and| About fifty workers gave their names to the committee gathering names for the Communist Party. | company-unionize the needle indus-; Among these names at least twenty | were Filipinos, The situation with regard to the The seamen astonished the head ORK OR WAGES T.U.U.L., Form Council to Demand Relief Newark Organizing Unemployed Council; Feb. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 6.—The southern | here with a number of unemployed workers attending. wonderful to se2 the militancy of the jobless worker: are completely behind the T.U. Wages.” | workers walk the streets abso-| lutely starving, and sleep on! the bare floor of the concrete |basement of the City Hall. This meeting today was a Coun- cil of the Unemployed, and you should have heard the pitiful stories of tramping the streets and roads looking for jobs that are not to be found because of the speed-up hav- ing put some on the street while a few are driven crazy by the slave- driving bosses. | The new machinery, too, which | should have made life easier, as it has done in the Soviet Union, only makes it worse in this damnable capitalist system of speed-up and stretch-out. The workers and their families are actually starving. In every industry here in Chat-| tanooga, each worker is doing two men’s work, toiling for ten and twelve hours a day for $10 or $12 a week. The workers all want a union, with the employed and un- | employei united. The T. U. U. L. headquarters here is at 2207 White- side Street. Good connections here are being made hy the T. U. U. L,, about 40| workers joined..the T.U.U.L. the} first day and we are having a mass meeting Saturday evening advertis- ing the new hall and office, located | in the heart of the metal industry. | (Continued on Page Three) | CHARITY HIDES G8 CRISIS FACTS, Bi! Fig Leaf Concealing Mobilize for Feb. 26 to Capitalist Hell | Widen Campaign The Charity Organization Society of the City of New York is doing its best to cover up the amount of dis- tress due to unemployment, follow- ing out thus the line of lies and | bunk ordered by Hoover to keep the} unemployed workers deluded with the belief that their particular case is an exception and that nothing is | wrong with capitalism, but with ment Relief! & Nicholas Peters, wh in the militant jobl tion in Boston. beaten by the police for dema ing work or wages for the jobl Wien a delegation from the Un- employed Council tried to see Gov- ernor Allen, he:grabbed his hat and coat and slunk out of the back door, letting his official gun- men do the dirty The work= ers resisted the p took part A ‘ Pre of ,000 IS THE DEMAND Chattanooga Employed and Jobless Alike Hail; 26 Demonstration to Widen and Continue Fight | District Headquarters of the Trade Union Unity League was opened It was} They | ay. J.L. demand of “Work or { Great numbers of penniless Fought for Unemploy- French Bosses DICTATORSHIP Of Back Czarist pp eTARIAT IK War Maneuver vewten oF CHIN, PARIS, Feb. 6.—‘‘General” Ivan | Miller, czarist white-guard succes- ‘sor to A. P. Koutepoff, who disap- peared with money of the czarist | organization in Paris, is instigating | ‘further anti-Soviet scurrilous arti- | | cles in the capitalist press here. Several wild, hair-brained stories | comes were handed out to the press by | x ce ezarist agents concerning the mur- \A New Wave Is Risin; der and burial of Koutepoff. Dili- | gent search by the Paris police, who | are acting with the enemies of the |Soviet Union, proved these tales | false. Kwangsi — District Controlled by the Communist Party Kuomintang Terror I Being Shattered (Wireless By Inprecorr) SHANGHAI, Feb. 6.—Communis forces have established the dictator ship of the proletariat in three dis | Meanwhile the French imperialists e leaning toward a break with the |Soviet Union in furtherance of the jwar plans against the U.S.S.R. be- jing devised at the race-for-arma-|tricts of Kwangsi province, Bosso {ment meet in London. Premier |Naning and Linchow. jAndre Tardieu is keeping in close} The peasants are supporting th: farm- | [touch with developments, he an- nounced, and the semi-official newspaper, Le Temps, openly de- mands a break with the Workers’ | Republic. Mass meetings are being called by |the czarist and Kerensky groups to |incite further hatred against the So- jviet Union. Active support is given |these elements by the capitalist | newspapers. RUBIO RENEWS TERROR REIGN /Wall St. Tool Pushes | Drive on Workers " —— | MEXICO CITY, Feb. 6.—Daniel lores, young intelectual, and follow- jer of the petty-bourgeois candidate |Jose Vasconcelos, for the Mexican | presidency in the last election, de- clared that his attempts on the life of the Wal Street tool, Ortiz Rubio, Was a personal act. Using as pretext of the attempt- |ed assassination by Flores, the Rubio government is instituting a wide- spread reign of terror against the revolutionary workers and peasants. More than 20 people have been ar- |rested up to date. Their names | have not been published, but un- doubtedly Rubio will order an in- creased suppression against the ; Communist Party, Young Commu- nist League, and revolutionary trade unions who gre most active in ex- | posing his affiliations with Morgan & Co., Hoover, Lamont and Morrow. The deepest sympathy was ex- pressed for the heath of Rubio, who lies in a hospital, apparently out of danger with a bullet-hole in his jaw, by the most reactionary elements of | Mexico and the United States. The Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz F Flores, Popish delegate, who cemented the bonds between the feudal church and the Gil-Calles-Rubio government. Dwight Morrow, Wall Street ambas- lor to Mexico, now in London pre- |Communists who have expropriate: {the rich and are distributing lanc }amongst the poor peasants. Letters from Woochow bear thc stamp of official Communist censor- | ship. | * 8 * | All reports from China give signs jof a new rising revolutionary wave. |The Pan-Pacific Red Aid quotes the “North China Daily News” corre- spondent in a South Kiangsi city to the effect that although Commnmnist |propaganda is being severely re- |pressed it nevertheless was growing | rapidly. | Ina town near the correspondent’s lcity, “six people were arrested yr linciting the workers to rise, to de- |mand higher wages,” ete. While in |the city itself a city-wide search |was suddenly ordered one night. | The city gates were closed, The |city was divided into sections, No one was allowed to leave a section ‘until it was closely searched. After |being searched, each house was (given a certificate to that effect. It jis said that revolutionary literature was found in-some-of the’ students’ mail boxes, but those involved had | disappeared. At Wenchow, the president of one of the peasant unions has been con- victed of doing “Communist propa- (Continued on Page Three) GOAL MINERS RUN FARRINGTON OUT Miners Joining N.M.U, Make 19 Demands WEST FRANKFORT, IIL, Feb. 6, —Frank Farrington, bribed by the | Peabody Coal Co. for $25,000 a year while president of the Illinois Dis- trict of the United Mine Workers of ;America, expelled for it, and now readmitted and acting as District |President Fishwick’s chief advisor, came to West Frankfort and left leaders in the industry and to carry attacks on Filipinoes organized by | through the bosses’ program of|the respective Chamber of Com- more wage cuts, more speed-up,| merce, American Legion groups and workers” stated the National Com- mittee of the Trade Union Unity League, yesterday, and continued: “The latest step in this process of company-unionization is the present New York dress “strike.” In this ‘strike’ it is aimed to do what was done in the recent cloak ‘strike,’ to dragoon as many workers as pos- sible under the control of the Schles- inger bureaucracy of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment <Workers’ Union, which means under the dom- ination of the bosses. The dress ‘strike,’ which is in reality a lock- out organized by the united front | of employers and A. F. of L. lead- \ers, was openly endorsed by the | clothing bosses, the police, the so- cialist party, state and local Tam- many Hall politicians, etc. The ‘capitalist press gave it the widest publicity. They Distrust A.F.L. “But only about 5,000 workers out of a total of 45,000 in the in- dustry ‘have responded to the call, and most of these were actually locked out, forced out of the shops by the gangsters. This miserable showing indicates that the workers refuse to follow the leadership of the discredited Schlesinger union. | The workers in the dress trade suf- fer from the most burning griev- | ances, but they know that the A. F. ‘of L. will not fight for their inter- {ests. The very combination of po- \ lice, politicians, employers, capital- ist newspapers and corrupt union offictals behind the “strike,” is suf- ficient proof for them that the so- called strike is not in their behalf. They refused to put the halter around their own necks. They realize that only the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union repre- senis and fights for them. more slave-like conditions of the! That is’ (Continued on Page Two) i other reactionary forces continues to be just as tense. “SPLENDID GAINS Foster, Just Back, To Give Details At Meet “The Five Year Plan of the So- viet Union is a real revolution in itself,” said William Z. Foster, gen- | eral secretary of the Trade Union | Unity League, just back from the | U. S. S. R., and ready to make’ his first report to the workers of New York. “The whole working population of the first workers’ republic is back of. this plan to put the industries of the U. S. S. R. on a first class ‘basis, to solve the farm problem and guarantee sufficient food and a surplus, once and for all; to wipe out the remnants of capitalism, and |to make their country, their indus- tries, and their collectivized agricul- ture so strong that it will be in- | vincible against any attack,” said | Foster yesterday, ‘ The T. U. U. L, general secretary jhad many opportunities to witness. the vital outburst of workers’ crea- tive energy during his stay in the U. S. S. R. He has many colorful details of this tremendous struggle of revolutionary construction, . to present to the workers in his first New York meeting, to be held in Central Opera House, Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 8 p. m. * Five thousand new subscribers to (Continued on Page Two) t lit puts it, to “socially minded per- jto conceal the facts from the pub- = them, personally; also to kee the masses of jobless from organizing | and fighting for relicf, In a letter privately circulated to lists of “charitably inclined,” ox as sons,” the great increase of unem- ployment is noted, together with the | desire of the Charity O egnization | lie, Tt shows that in December, 644 families applied for relief, as against wage laborers, 3¢ Joble! Not only is the mass jobless situa- ion, which has thrown over 6,000,000 i out on the panied with wage cuts, (Continued on Page Three.) ANSWER WAR 343 families , December, a year ago, an increase of 87.7 per ceat. In January, 850 families applied for (Continued on Page ?10) ALL CAFETERIA TOILERS TO MEET Irving Plaza, Tonight The Cafeteria Workers Union, which has just won the bitterly con- tested strike in the Monroe Cafe- teria, against bosse>, _olice, A.F.L., gangsters, and all, in spite of club- bings and arrests and shots fired at the mass pickets, is calling a meeting to outline a further drive into the unorganized cafeteria. been carrying on an intensive prepa- ration for a broad organization drive | in all hotels, restaurants and cafe- terias in New York. Tens of tHou- sands of leaflets have been distrib- uted, acquainting the workers with the union policies, and calling on them to support. The Monroe is not the only recent victory either. In addition hundreds of new mem- Big Organization Drive! VETS BUNK 1Y. C.L. and Pioneers | Call For Struggle In response to the boast of the | Veterans of Foreign Wars, who have |a post at 82 Union Square, that they intend to win Union Square away \from the “Reds” and to “offset the ;menace of the Soviets and the Com- munists,” the Young Communist | League and Young Pioneer League of New York has issued a statement, which reads in part as follows: “The statement of the New York County Council of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, attacking the Young Communist League and Young Pio- neers of America for their active participation in the struggles of the |Workers, only shows how panicky |the agents of the bosses are becom- jing at the growth and increased |militancy of the youth and children’s The union has for several weeks movement in New York City. “The growing militarization and danger of another imperialist wan, is also felt by the young workers and working-class children. The Coughlin Bill in the New York Leg- islature kas as its purpose the mili- tarization of school “hildren from the age of ten to eighteen, and is part of the general-preparation for war, especially against the Workers bers have been secured. The work-! ers are in a mood to strugele. The meeting is to be at Trying Plaza} Ex" tonight, at 8 p.m, | i Republic the Soviet Union. The Veterans of F veign Wars are wor- ried ¢ -er the militancy of the young (Continued on Page Two) streets,* under police guard to prevent him from being torn to pieces by angry |miners assembling for that purpose, as Du 9 ring war plans on the Soviet Union, were among those who sent telegrams of condolation. At the time the 30 members of the |Central Committee of the Commu- | MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Feb. 6. . iS .., ;~Lhe 700 miners at the Alexander nist Party and Young Communist | and Glen Dale mines of the Paisley League of Mexico were arrested and linterests, continue militant picketing tortured in Rubio's prison dens, | twice a day, under the leadership of there were some 30 or 40 Vasconcel- | tno National Miners’ Union: “At-one | ists imprisoned. These were brought | o¢ the first meetings 180: quiniew | before Portes Gil, then acting presi- |who had not already joined the |dent, and given their liberty on the | union signed up for membership. jPromise of support to the Ortiz! A” union committee at the Alex- Rubio government. The Communists | ander mine has sent the boss a let and revolutionary trade unionists | to, stating: , ee tal aan eee on “For some time conditions have o imprisonment. | (Continued on Page Three) ° STIMSON M AKES \Farm Wages Collapse, (Labor Market Crowded READY FOR WAR’ WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—A gen- eral and sharp lowering of farm | es jlaber wages is reported by the U. | a |S. bureau of agricultural economics. \Demands Par ity, On All The supply of farm labor is 15 per Ships Immediately jcent higher than the demand, on —— Jan. 1, the bureau states, and it LONDON, Feb. 6.—Secretary of | considers this due largely to the un- |State Stimson, at the intervention |employment in industry, which of President Hoover, after three | drives the city workers into the |weeks of tense secrecy, is coming | country. up for air tomorrow long enough to} Since the statistics were gathered, |make American imperialism’s plans/the city unemployment has got for war plainly to be seen in an’ worse, and conditions on the farms announcement of what America de-| are also worse. mands in the way of warships. Af- | ter sending a message “to President | about “parity,” and demands that |Hoover” (which Hoover had already | not only battleships, but all classes |sent to Stimson) and getting Hoo- | of ships be equalized. And not only ver’s “approval” (!), Stimson an-| that, but the two fleets must be nounced he will propose: |made equal by 1931, evidently so “Immediate” parity with Great | that by 1931 America can feel that Britain, evidently pressing the mat-|it has a better chance in carrying ter of time in view of the expecta- | its war for markets and colonies in- tion of imminent war. This “parity” |to the field of armed action from the is to be had by Britain scrapping | field of diplomacy. Since the Wash- two battleships; or Britain scrap-|ington Conference on Arms, pro- ping five, while United States scraps | vided for parity in 1492, and Stim- three, whichever Britain prefers of }son demands it in 1931, the mean- the two. : ing of the haste is obviously a But Stimson has further ideas speedy preparation for war. : \