The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1931, Page 4

Published by the Comprodally Publishing Co., Inc, dally except Sunday. at 50 Rast lath Street, New York City. N. Y. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cable: “DAIWORK.” Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street. New York, N. ¥ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: “El By mail everywhere: One year. $6; six months $3: two montns, $1; eavepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York Ctiy Q-reizn: one vear. $8+ six months. $4.50, ; Page Four Central Party U.S.A. , ~The Fight f or By ALEX BITTELMAN, e white s of the United States wants masses non fodder for the coming im- war, especi. for the military intervention against the Soviet U But the er same as the oppres true condition. Es- ace since the impe i the workers revolution in Ever la s of Negroes everywhere, are awakening t pecially has the aw Yialist war of 1914. Russia in November 1917. in the United are coming to realize that their st enemy is the white ruling class, American impe- and that their greatest friend is the Soviet The lynchers and oppressors of the Negroes are now preparing for war aga it the only country in the world that has abolished capit: exploitation and that has realized in full national equality. The Hoover adminis- tration is busy o: zing the capitalist powers of Europe for a joint imperielist attack upon the Soviet Union This is what Stimson and Mellon are doing in Europe to day. This is what Hoover wants to accomplish with his plan for a one-year nsion of inter-governmental war debts. Remember the War of 191 When the American ruling class, repri time by Woodrow Wilson, had joined late im war, it depended considerably upon the Negro m: ‘The Negroes were to supply proportionately the larg number of conscripts for the army. The Negroes wer expected to be placed at the most dangerous and diffi- cult positions at the front. The same as in peace time. the white ruling class of the United States was preparing the worst deal for the Negro mass 1918 sented at that At the same time, the Am imperia were holding out all sorts of hopes to the Negro masses. Equality, the abolition of Jim-Crowism and lynching the establishment of a “new era” in the relation between the oppressors and oppresed—all this was dangled before the eyes of the Negro masses as “reward” for partici- Pation in the war of 1914-1918. The Negro reformists were helping Wilson to create these illusions in the minds of the masses. What happened in reality? All these promises of the white ruling class turned out to be sheer deception During the war the Negro masses were treated with the utmost brutality, at home as well as at the front. Yol- lowing the conclusion of the robber peace, the govern- ment of the United States began “to deflate the Negroes” of their illusions that their participation in the impe- Tialist war will bring liberation to the masses. The awakening and resistance of the Negroes was met by the ruling class with lynching, court martials, engineered race riots and intense persecution generally. All the violence, discrimination and oppression that the Negroes are subjected to in peace time were repro- duced manifold for the Negro soldiers in the training camps and on the battle field. Negro soldiers were almost entirely commanded by white officers. So out- rageous was the treatment of the Negro soldiers in the training camps that Emmet Scott, one of the Assistant Secretaries of War, felt compelled to write the following “Ecriy in the Summer of 1918, a flood of com- plaints reached the War Department from many of the camps, the burden of which was that the Negro soldiers were being grossly mistreated by their white efficers, oftime physically assaulted, and that the co- lored men were forced to work under thé most un- healthy and laborious conditions.” The conscription law was applied with special dis- Negro Rights and Against Daily,.A\ Yorker’ Ongo This is the ninth article in Comrade Bittelman’s series on the war danger and how to fight it. Read and spread these articles! imperialist war and intervention! Make August 1 a day of mighty demonstration against who were disabled or had large families, were “fixed up” in order to qualify them for service under the law. ‘ed men unfit for military service under the law were railroaded into the army Col An official inv gation into conditions in a typical Couthern Camp—Camp Lee—disclosed the following outrageous conditions Lack of medical care, Erutality on the part of the Miltary Police. Heavy penalties for minor infrac- tions. Soldiers working with civilians at the same work were paid $30 per month, while the civilian whites were paid from $3.50 to $5.00 per day. egro soldiers were placed in tents, while white were liy in barracks. This was in winter time with the result that it was a common thing to men out every morning frozen to death, as was ander, Va s riots occurred in the camps where Negro ained for the imperialist slaughter. brave outbreak of the protest and revolt Negro soldiers in Camp Houston, Texas. the answer of the white ruling class? soldiers were executed, 41 imprisoned for life, 9 ieceived short term sentences. Negro offic e lower rank were made to pay ft and blunders of their white superiors. of the well known battle in the rd (Negro) regiment was sent equipment, without maps, signals and ing of the barbed wire. The order. to without previous preparation and a terrific slaughter followed. For this criminal blunder of the white commanding officers, a dozen Negro offi- cers of lower rank were railroaded to the gallows by court martial for the mistak advance was gro Reformists in the Service of the White Ruling Class The Negro reformists were helping the white ruling class to deceive the Negro masses and to drive them to sla This is important to remember. Especially now when the same Negro reformists are helping the white ruling class to railroad the Scottsboro boys to their deaths and to prepare the coming imperialist war and the military intervention against the Soviet Union. Where was the NAACP in the late imperialist war? What were these “friends and leaders” of the Negroes doing when American imperialism was forcing the masses to forge new chains for their own slavery? The “Crisis,” official spokemen of the NAACP, was calling upon the Negroes to sacrifice their lives for the And in order to make the Negroes white ruling class do it willingly, these Negro reformists were helping Wil- ad the lie that it was a war for liberation. t the “Cri hed to sey in the Summer of read 1917, when the United States entered the late imperi- alist war. “ So will the black men fight against Germany for Am a. God grant us freedom, tco, in the ena.” (Cr May, 1917). The Negro reformists of the NAACP were exploiting the dearest wish of the Negro masses—freedom—in or- der to help the white ruling class of thé United States to prolong and continue the system of lynching and Jim- Crowism. These traitors could find nothing within the United States with which to prove their fake about the liberating nature of the imperialist war. Hence, they were deceiving the Negro masses with the “democracy” of France and Great Britain, the imperialist robbers that were associated with the United States in the late war. ce » we point on the one hand to the splendid democracy of France, the recent freeing of our fellew sufferers in Russia, and the slow but steady advance of principles of universal justice in the British Empire and in our own land; and on the other hand we point to the wretched record of Germany in Africa and her preachment of autocracy and race superiority.” (Crisis, June, 1917). Deceipt, bluff and hypocricy. The Negro reformist traitors— the NAACP and others—were representing the oppressors and murderers of the masses in Morocco and Indo-China as the “splendid democracy of France”; they were representing the oldest and bloodiest colonial exploiter—British imperialism—the despoiler of East Africa and the hangman of India as the champion of ‘universal justice”; they were representing in the same light the lynchers and oppressors of the Negroes in the United States; they even appropriated the Russian Re- volution of the masses AGAINST the imperialist war— in order to induce the Negro masses to give their lives for American imperialism These Negro reformists of the NAACP are: con- tinuing in the service of the white ruling class. They are the White man’s Negroes. They are helping the champions of “White Supremacy” to prepare the mili- tary intervention against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is the Stronghold of National Freedom and Equality The Soviet Union is the only country in the world that knows no national oppression. In the Soviet Union live numerous nationalities and races in complete equality and fraternity. The victorious workers’ ‘and peasants’ revolution of November, 1917, which overthrew the rule of the capitailsts, landlords and imperialists, had freed the oppressed nations, realizing the principle of complete national equality including the right of separation from Russia. The Soviet Union is a FREE AND VOLUNTARY UNION of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics in which the toiling masses, and all nationalities, are collaborating in the building of a socialist society. Extraordinary efforts are made in the Soviet Union to facilitate the economic and cultural development of those nationalities whose growth was retarded by the former rule of the capitalists and landlords. The Soviet Union fights without mercy against all ideas of national “superiority” and tendencies for na- tional oppression and discrimination. In the Soviet Union the Negro is received and greeted not only as an equal but as the representative of an oppressed nation— such as they are in the United States—whose revoltu- tionary struggle for liberation plays a histori¢ role in the liberation of -'l oppressed and exploited from the yoke of imperialism. It was because of this fact that toiling masses of the Soviet Union were so quick to resent and condemn the expression of “white superiority” by some of the Amer- ican technicians working in the Soviet Union. This condemnation was in line with the whole Soviet system, Armed Intervention with tie fundamentai principles of the working class revolution, which are the the complete abolition of im- perialist exploitation and the realization of complete national equality. The Fight of the Negro Masses Against Military Intervention The fight of the Negro masses for complete equality is inseparable from the fight of all oppressed and ex- ploted for the defense of the Soviet Union. The white ruling class of the United States is or- ganizing military intervention against the Soviet Union in order to save the present system of capitalist exploit- ation and imperialist oppression. Hoover and Company are now waging an economic wai against the Soviet Union, in preparation for military intervention, in order to perpetuate the system of White Supremacy, the system of lynchings and Jim-Crowism—the system that pro- duces Scottsboro and the whole policy of national op- pression. Scottsboro is no accident. Nor is it an ordinary “miscarriage” of justice. There exists a most intimate and organic connection between the “legal” lynching of the nine innocent Negro young workers and the anti- Soviet activities of the American capitalist class. Scotts- boro expresses the determination of the white ruling class of the United States to keep the Negroes in slavery for the purpose of maintaining capitalist and imperialist rule. The economic war of the same white ruling class against the Soviet Union, preliminary to military intervention, expresses the determination of American imperialism to crush the rule of the workers and peasante for the same purpose of saving capitalist and imperialist exploitation. This organic connection between Scottsboro and military intervention is seen also in the activities of the Negro reformists of the NAACP. It is no accident that the same NAACP that helped American imperialism to corral the Negro masses into the imperialist war of 1914-1918 and that is now helping the white ruling class to railroad the Scottsboro boys to their deaths, is also combatting the revolutionary movement of the masses against military intervention in the Soviet Union. The Negro reformists, the same as the white refor- mists, are the servants of the imperialists. Their special job is to deceive the masses with nice words in order to make it easier for the ruling class to defeat the re- volutionary movements and struggles of the masses. The NAACP—Pickens and Company—is fighting the ILD, LSNR and the Communist Party which are leading the mass struggles to save the Scottsboro boys. In this way the Negro reformists are helping the white ruling class to maintain its domination. In the same way, by combatting the revolutionary movement among the Neg- roes, the Negro reformists are assisting the white ruling class to prepare the next imperialist war and military interve-tion against the Soviet Union. My Intervention against the Soviet Union, pre- pared by American imperialism, has as one of its aims to break-up and crush the revolutionary struggle of the Negro masses for equal rights and national equality. The NAACP is telping American imperialism to carry out this crime against the masses. The Negro workers and farmers will increasé their efforts manifold in the fight against the white oppressor. ‘The Negro masses under the leadership of the Communist Party of the United States, will unite with the white workers in the revolutionary struggle against military intervention, for the defense of the Soviet Union, to save the Scottsboro boys, to realize the principles of crimination against the Negroes. Ratings of Negroes. Negro rights and complete national equality. \ Starvation, Stabilization, and the Lesson ot Illinois By BILL DUNNE in the Southern Illinois \ situation coal- % fields— especially Franklin, Willia nm and Salina counties—which is marked by the recent Strike of 2,200 miners in Orient Mines Number 1 and 2, is the latest and best example of the rapidly worsening conditions in the coal fields created by the continuous drive of the coal operators, the government, and the UMIWA of- ficials upon the wages and living standards of the miners and their families. In Mlinois we have, in the strike of these 2.200 workers in the biggest and most highly mechanized mines, perhaps the best example of all the recent strikes against starvation. These miners struck against the Peabody Company proposal to discharge some 1,100 men—against Mass discharges, to use the formulation of the Executive of the Red International of Labor Unions and the Trade Union Unity League. In Tilinois we have also an example of a tendency on the part of some comrades to confuse this strike with previous strikes—as in the anth cite—under the slogan of “equal division of work,” to fail to see in this strike practically all the main characteristics of the struggle Against starvation and slave conditions now Taging in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio ‘nd the Panhandle section of West Virginia. or- ganized and led by the Rank and File Strike Committees of the National Mine One of the outstanding characteristics of the Milinois strike, in itself vastly more important than the numbers involved indicate, is the rank fand file nature of the strike and its leadership. In Mlinois, the UMWA, by giving the most ser- vile assistance to the speed-up drive of the ‘coal operators, coupled with serious mistakes made in the strike of December 9. 1929, by the Na- tional Miners Union, has succeeded in retaining . the check-off and consequent machine control of the miners. It has maintained a nominal ‘wage scale which has little if any relation to the present income of the great majority of the miners since they work short time and complete unemployment for thousands driven out of the industry following the Jacksonville rationaliza- tion and union — coal operator cooperation @greement in 1924, has become permanent ‘The miners at Orient Number 1 and 2, after being deluded for years by UMWA fakers of varying calibers from Lewis, Farrington, and Fishwick to Walker, and played one against the other by the company, in the face of threat -0f starvation to 1.100 of their number con- ‘tained in the proposal for this mass ousting of them from their jobs, held a meeting. voted to seirike, and elected » rank and file committee ‘to lead the strike. The strike committee was Union. composed of both UMWA and NMU members. 134 “company sucke: —men holding pri leged jobs and various on of the com- pany and the UMWA machine—voted against the strike. Following the strike, the Peabody Coal Company paid for a leaflet signed by twelve of its stoolpigeons, invoking the UMWA consti- tution and demanding another meeting on the grounds that a majority of the men involved had not been present at the first meeting. The strike committee and the miners gener- ally organized for this meeting and the strike vote was endorsed by a majority two or three times as large as at the first meeting. The determination and initiative of the miners is shown by these instances. The strikers later adopted a resolution call- ing upon the sub-district of the UMWA to call a strike to support them and also asked all locals in the subdistrict to strike. The reply of the UMWA district officials was to order the miners back to work, The stand of the UMWA officials placed them clearly with the Peabody Coal Company and left no doubt as to their strike-breaking policy. Before the recent strike, due to the terrible conditions in the mines and the betrayals of the UMWA officialdom, a so-called rank and file movement developed under the lea of Edmondson, one of the official family of the Belleville sub-district. The leadership of this movement, ostensibly in opposition to Walker of the district UMWA, and having strong connec- tion with the new Lewis-Howat alliance, has as its purpose the direction of the growing resent- ment and militancy of the miners into official UMWA channels, Up to the time of the Orient Strike its task was made easier by the tendency of some comrades to look upon this as a genuine rank and file movement, and to confine the activity of the NMU forces to work within the constitutional limits of the UMWA local, sub- district and district organizations. Such a pol- icy, which limited the initiative of the miners and hampered the development of indepéndent. leadership against the UMWA officialdom, has its origin in an underestimation of the tremend- ous pressure placed on the miners and their families by the constant speed-up and growing unemployment and of the readiness of the min- ers to fight back against the bosses and their official strike-breakers—the UMWA officials. In addition to struggle for official positions, the criticism and exposure of the UMWA of- ficials, and the bringing forward of local de- mands in connection with the whole struggle against starvation, it was necessary to form, by election if possible, rank and file commit- tees of action entirely outside the official ap- dership | | paratus. The possibility and the effectiveness of this tactical line was shown clearly by the Orient strike which has changed the situation by putting the Walker district leadership, and the Edmondson fake rank and file leadership, on the defensive. The strike hes shown that there is no es- sential difference between the conditions of the miners in Illinois and those of the miners in the main strike areas. The strike is destroying the illusions fostered by the fact of a nominal wage scale and so-called “union conditions.” Even with a wage scale of six, eight and ten dollars per day in the mechanized mines, the great majority of the miners and their families are hungry because of part time work or com- plete unemployment. They have to fight for the right to live just the same as the miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. This does not mean that the same low level cbtains in every mine and it is here that the working out oi specific local demands assumes great importance. But it does mean that the similarity of conditions is such that the struggle against starvation becomes so necessary that even without skilled leadership, and without a program, important strikes take place The organization of rank and file commit- tees for strike action, the working out of local demands, merciless fight against the demagogues who are attempting to seize the leadership of the developing struggles and throttle them, will bring thousands of Illinois miners to the sup- port of the Orient miners and increase the ranks of the 40,000 miners now in the fight against starvation led by the Rank and File Commit- tees of the National Miners Unicn. The Rank and File Conference held in:Belle- ville, Ill, Sunday, July 28, laid the basis for the broadening of the struggle in Southern Illinois by the election of a responsible committee to organize meetings and conferences at all mines, work out a program of action and unity and es- tablish local rank and file committees. At the Belleville sub-district convention to be held July 6, and which will be controlled by the Edmond- son faction, the proposal for a strike in sup- port of the Orient miners, for the preparations for general strike action against starvation con- ditions and unity of action with the Pennsyl- vania, Ohio and West Virginia miners will be the central issue put forward by the NMU forces and their growing following of militant mine workers. It is in this period and by this form of work and struggle that the National Miners Union will be built in Southern Illinois. 9) ele Comrade Dunne's article was written before July 6th, but its publication was delayed several days after it was received due to space diffi- culties. For the same reason it has also been necessary to publish Comrade Dunne’s article in two instalments, The second instalment will appear tomorrow. The Socialist Party of USA Helps Prepare War Against USSR. By EARL BROWDER 'HE chief delgate from America to the Vienna Congress of the Second International is Mr. Morris Hillquit. This gentleman is the out- standing leader of the Socialist party of Amer- ica, and occupies the post of “international sec- retary.” He has attended all Congresses of the Second International for many years. In his own person he symbolizes the w le counter- revolutionary role of the Second In. -rnational. Mr. Hillquit is a practising attorney-at-law, and a wealthy capitalist, his chief investments being in the coal industry. On the eve of his departure for Vienna, Mr. Hillquit appeared in the United States Courts to file a law-suit. On behalf of a number of Russian monarchist emigres, former owners of Baku oilfields, Hillquit demanded that the courts should order Standard Oil Co. and Vacuum Oil Co. to pay thirty million dollars to his clients on account of oil purchased from the Soviet oil trust, which Hillquit claims was “stolen” from the Russian capitalists. This court action was exposed by the “Daily Worker”. Thereupon Hillquit was asked by the socialist paper, “New Leader,” to issue a state- ‘ment against the “Bolshevik perversion” of his position. Mr. Hillquit’s own words in reply are more revealing and damning than any comment. we can make. He said: “The actions do not involve any question of socialist principle, A number of Russian corp- orations who owned oil lands in the Baku region are suing the Standard Oil Company and the Vacuum Oil Company for an account- ing. The actions arise from purchases of oil by the American companies from the Soviet oil trust. Similar purchases were made by the Dutch Shell Company, which set aside a cer- tain percentage of the purchase price to pay the original owners of the oil wells. The Standard and Vacuum were invited to join in the arrangement but refused, and these ac- tions are brought with the view of forcing them to make similar provisions... “The preseni cases rest on the technical ground that Russia is not recognized by the government of the United States and that our courts give no effect to its decrees... “If and when our government will recog- nize Soviet Russia there will no longer be any basis for these actions. é “It might be argued that the present ac- tions will serve as a stimulus to the powerful oil interests of America to urge early Soviet recognition, but that would smack of hypocrisy and I prefer to rest on the simple ground that the actions are of no political significance; that they are ordinary cases involving disputes over property rights, such as constitute ninety per cent of the regular work of the general practitioner in the legal profession.” Mr, Hillquit claims it is of “no political sig- nificance” when American courts are petitioned by him to restore the socialized property of the Russian workingelass to its former capitalist owners. He also thinks the same about the solidarity of himself and the Socialist party with the wreckers of the “Industrial Party” and the Mensheviks who were exposed before the whole world in the famous Moscow trials last year. When the Soviet Union smashed the wreckers’ plots last year, the Socialist party and Hifiquit were deeply disturbed. During the “Industrial Party” trial in Moscow, the socialists organized a protest meeting in New York City. This was held in the palatial Hotel Pennsylvania, resort of the upper circles of the bourgeoisie. The speakers were such leaders as Oneal, Lee and Hillquit of the Socialist party of America, and Ingerman of the Russian Menshevik emigres. ‘The Reverend Norman Thomas sent a letter ex- pressing his solidarity. Mr. Hillquit made the main speech. Defending the wreckers and at- tacking the Soviet Union, he declared that war would not be worse than the toleration of Bol- shevism, He said: “Soviet Russia is today guilty of acts of despotism as terrible as those in the days of Czarism...Russia today is a government of a small minority which has taken advantage of special conditions to gain and hold power. It enjoys power through force and terrorism. Its teign of blood is almost as abhorrent as war among nations.” For the Socialist party of America, the confes- sions of the wreckers “were arranged by the O.G.P.U. as a “farce” to strengthen the Stalin dictatorship.” (“New Leader,” Dec. 13). The infamous Fish Committee, the purpose of which was to prepare war against the Sovict Union, ‘praised highly the aid given to capital- ism by the Socialist party and the American Federation of Labor. The Socialist party openly helped to finance the wrecking operations of the Mnsheviks in Russia, which was carried out under the direc- tion of the French General Staff. The “social- ists” knew exactly what they were doing in this campaign. They held consultations with Abra- movich in 1925, 1928 and 1930, and collected funds for his party. In January, 1930, Abra- movich spoke to a socialist party, meeting, say- ing: “The next year or so will bring great sur- prises to those people who have become per- KGa By JORGT. eemmremmmen | Refer It to Senator Smoot “Dear Jorge:—I notice that the first item in Prexy Hoover's 20-year plan, is an increase of 20,000,000 in population. “Now, this is a figure larger than the ordinary rate of increase would justify. Therefore, I am wondering just what means the Great Engineer has in mind for the production of the éxtra crop of babies. “Perhaps he plans to create “rugged individu. alism’ shock brigades just as the Five Yea? Plan has its socialist shock brigades. But I’m afraid that in our prudish nation, these would indeed be shock brigades. Please enlighten me.—L. F.” Firstly, it is lese majeste to ask what the Great Engineer meant. Secondly, we refer you to Gas- ton B, Means’ book, “The Strange Death of President Harding” as the capacity of latter- day presidents as well as latter-day saints to be- come fathers of their country. Thirdly, we re- mind you that America is becoming the princi- pal nation of Catholicism, where priests can move about more freely even than in the shod- ow of the Vatican. What more do you ‘want? A Rat Squeaks Perhaps our fellow traveller, Theodore Dreiser, is taking note of the avalanche of hostile com- ment that has been raining around his name in the capitalist press since he dared to speak up for the mine strikers amd against the coal operators and their A. F. of L. strike-breakers, The first time he opened his mouth through the United Press, in the miners’ behalf, the Uni- ted Press put an introductory note over his ar- ticle expressing emphatic disagreement with wwhat he said. Then F.P.A., the columnist of the Herald- ‘Tribune of the N. Y., suddenly came to life with the “discovery” that Dreiser isn’t and never was a good writer. The N. Y. Times picks him out for editorial comment cleverly designed not to say anything very hostile about him, but to infer that he is a sort of foolish generally. But the most despicable sort of attack was gotten out on July 1, by the fake “socialist” Heywood Broun, a “lumpen bourgeois” pickled in gin, who writes a drivel column for the N. Y, World-Telegram. ’ The historical forces which are driving all honest intellectuals into active sympathy with the revolutionary masses who must revolt or die, leaves Broun untouched. And’for the good rea- son that he is neither intellectual nor honest. But it has touched Dreiser, and it is to his credit that he responds, unclearly at yet it may be, but genuinely and with complete honesty. Broun, the “socialist,” aping his betters, throws mud at this honesty. Content to be a clown of the rich himself, he hates those sin- cere enough of his class who repudiate such knee-bending. He writhed in silence when Dreiser spoke up against the Scottsboro legai lynching, himself a white chauvinist, admittedly. He hates Dreiser more for openly stating that the Daily Worker was the one paper which champions the only cure for human misery. But when Dreiser broke into the United Pres: with a passionate plea for the miners striking against starvation and a vitriolic condemnation of the A. F. of L., Broun the “socialist” had to say something nasty. So he “analyzed” Dreiser's literary ability. The result: Broun’s ‘opinion that “people of discern- ment refuse to recognize Dreiser as oné of our great writers.” And from this ridiculous prem- ise Broun make the charge that: “In his (Dreiser's) effort to keep himself before the public he has done little more than make himself ridiculous: In taking up the cudgels for the downtrodden, he has fallen into that class known as parlor Bolsheviks,” and so on. So this “socialist” rat in the garbage can of capitalist journalism figures that the “public” is one thing and the “downtrodden” another. Also that Dreiser has lost his ability to write, questionable in the first place, because he has “taken up cudgels for the downtrodden.” Very nice comment for a “socialist” to make! But our opinion, born out by history, is that if Dreiser’s writing ability ever did slacken, it will be reborn by his mixing up with the vital force of the class struggle. Any writer who has been in touch with the revolutionary move- ment and then deserted it has lost his ability. suaded that the Bolsheviks will remain in power forever.” Abramovich was referring to the French Gen= eral Staff plan for intervention in 1930 or 1931, He was part of this conspiracy as was fully proved in the Moscow trials. And the Socialist party of America, especially its chief leader, Mr. Hillquit (now in Vienna in the Congress of the Second International) was hand in glove with the whole international gang of wreckers and war-mongers, id Today the socialist leaders are fulsomely praising the latest war moves of Hoover and Mellon, and pledging their completej support, No doubt in Vienna, Mr. Hillquit will make many moving speeches for “peace” and for “sup- port of that great lover of peace, President Hoover.” For that also is a part of the regular duties of a “socialist” lawyer, “international secretary” of his party, and representative of the former capitalists of Baku who were driven out by the victorious Russian workingclass. The workers of the U. S. are rapidly awaken- ing to the treachery of their misleaders of the American Federation of Labor and the Socialist party. They are rallying in hundreds of thou- sands to the Communist Party, and to the In= ternational Day of Struggle Against War and for Defense of the Soviet Union on August Firat. E WAR FRON T AGAINST THE SOVIETS! DEMONSTRATE AUGUST 1! SEES Hoover and Mellon plan war against the Workers’ Republic. Mellon’s police shoot miners in Pennsylvania! Plenty of funds for war, but the bosses refuse one cent for relief! Funds be turned over for immediate unemployment relief! . Demand the War