The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 20, 1933, Page 4

xe the per thr wa the all a str: at Str age fro to del Jay ord AIT ‘| chi fer ler to aD me the sh: ing of pl ve, thy ers sic we wublished by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., 1 13th St., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgoi Address and mail checks te the Daily Worker, Page Four ine., daily exept Sunday, at SO. mquin 4-7956. Cable “DATWORK.” 0 B. 13th St, New York, N. ¥. NAZIS ORDER CELEBRATION Roosevelt, Remember the Forgotten Man! OF NEW REICHSTAG OPENING Country Must in Fete, Decree States: Hitler Backer Heads Reichsbank Join Fascist BERLIN, March 19.—Compulsory celebrations is the latest wrinkle in the National Socialist terror program. . Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, appointed by Hindenburg as head of the newly created “Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda,” has issued an order that the German people celebrate Tuesday, when the w Reich onvenes, as a national holiday The manifesto and the Nazi swastika flag toe be displayed everywhere. Bon-| the ci Seventeen were pro- fires to be lit } y iding Izvestia, at night, and ; vernment, and torchlight prc the Com- instructs isten seremonies opening All sc of in} Fascist Backer Heads Reichsbank Dr. Hans Luther Reichsbank, Dr. Schacht has been put in and Luther has been given ation post as Ambassador to d Si Dr. Schacht es- connections with the onal Socialists several years ago ing ent of the lor Hitler. ‘The army and na tary parades and 4 s To Rule Without Reichstag nev i . been one of their ae, aad Lag tae About two years ago Reannischist + A United States and was deputies will b red e mecca eS ee National Socialist-Nat coali- | ican for loans to the tion a free hand to send the Reich- al stag on a long vacation. In his statement on taking over The National terror con- | the presidency of the Reichsbank, Dr. inues un: resorted to the usual Na- out the protes ocialist demagogy about aid- masses. All offi small man,” and criticized corporation who racy of big concerns.” | n talk that the Nazis have ded millions of the lower middle putting them more firmly into of the big industrial and opposition to t been ordered di to the gag rul correspondents 0) been taken to bar papers and period HOW COMMUNIST LEADERS WERE ARRESTED AND TORTURED BY NAZIS sor Felix Halle and Egon Er- in Kisch, noted writer. fa Thaelmann Held Incommunicado Berlin police refuse to state er Thaelmann or Torgler are ed or not. They are held in- | municado, and when we remem- by| ber the murders of Leo Jogiches and | Karl Suelt in the corridors of the | Berlin Police Headquarters some years ago, the gravest fears must be entertained for their safety. Torgler in Hospital The New York “Evening Post” re- ports that “a Herr Progler (meaning Comrade Torgler) is in a hospital in a serious condition.” It also reports from Prague that Dr. Apfel, the at- torney mentioned above, “is believed Comrade Ernst Thae man of the German Communist ty, was arrested in th rc machinist in Charlo rade Torgler, head of t Reichstag deputies, custody when he appeared police headquarters, accom his attorney, Dr. Rosenfeld against the charges that the Commu nist Party had i ted the Reich- stag fire. The Hugenburg-owned Berlin ‘Tag’| reports that in the subsequent w spread raids the police and N troopers seized Comrades Memme Kasper (chairman of the Communi: deputies in the Prussian Diet), Walter Stoecker, Dr. Auslaender (school pri Berlin} cipal) and many other Communist} to have died of maltreatment.” Fur- Reachstag deputies | ther, “a Communist lawyer is report- Other Communist leaders arrested] ed to have been so monstrously beat- en in the face that he is no longer recognizable.” were Dr. Schminke, Berlin City Coun- eillor and director of all hospita Berlin-Neukoelln, the attorney The Vienna “Arbeiter-Zeitung of! I n and Dr ch 3rd reports that the Commu- Renn, wo Deputy Gerdes was lured home in Oldenburg at 5) , beaten over the head, shot five| and fatally wounded. novelist (autho! aging editor Savage Tortures by Nazis Told by Capitalist Reporter Further confirmation of the savage torture of revolutionary workers and Jews under the brutal fascist regime in Germany is ¢ontained in a dis- patch to the New York Sun from its Berlin correspondent. The correspond- ent declared that with the opposition press “banned or intimidated,” the German People may never learn “how exactly the murder of Potempa, which shook Germany last August, ® has been imitated other misled| The correspondent reports acts of youths to whom re: sible Ministers | the wildest terrorism against Jews, like Captain Hermann C 1 of Polish nationality. cist head of the police) allowed f ment runs from sell- liberty. ‘otection’ at the point of a “The fact that the Potempa mur-| pistol through blackmail, robbery, derers, who took an unresistin n- | kidnapping and imprisonment to tor- munist from bed and tw In some cases helpless Jews him to death with their he beaten with a kind of improved now been pardoned, seems indicative | blackjack consisting of a lead ball of the official Nazi attitude toward | mounted on a steel spring affixed to such actions.” !2 wooden handle.” Hitler Government Opens rders the monarchist black, white and red | tic Socialists have suc- | Drive to Reduce Wages Inland Transport Workers Cut 7 Cents an Hour Slash Made Ready for Municipal Employes BERLIN, March 19.—The Transport Ministry has given noti | to end the wage tariff of the inland} is f water transport workers in State und] take municipal employment, with a view} down to reducing wages by 7 Pfenning} -- (about enny ar) per hour. AS| ,7, . *. already reporves, the Prussian con-| Nature Friends Join Militant Sports Union missar has taken similar action with | regard to the wage tariffs of the} “ In Answer to Hitler municipal workers in Berlin in order to carry out wage cute NEW YORK.—The Nature Friends, North Eastern States Convention, has oted as a direct answer to the Hitler ror, to join the Labor Sports officials of the Berlin municipalities nd municipal undertakings and it ed that similar action will be to secure the same leveling BERLIN, March 19. stance of the Commissar fo the. fascist Goering, nc giyen to end the wage 12000 municipal employer ,| Union. The convention has just f ; ; Jended. Tt was held at 12 E. 17th st. view t utting throug! Vite ihe agian aereemer with 31 delegates, representing 1,000 tains a clause according to w | nembers, about half thelr member- municipal employees who were Delega es re present from as ployed prior to the October 1, 19 4s Milwaukee . &, the overwhelming majority) The Nature Friends belongs to an joy higher wages than those who we nlernational organization of nature employed after this date. ‘This dif-| {friends with headquarters in Vienna, led by the Social Demo- ferentiation is now to be abolished, | and cont naturally not in favor of the lesser|crats. Syracuse local made the mi yaid workers. Wages are to be level- | tion to join the L, S. U., and it car- od. down. ried against all opposition by the so- A similar situation exists for the cfalist | § | | | By F. BROWN Over the snow-covered Chinese Wall and on the burning soil of the Chaco region in Latin-America, the bodies of hundreds of thousands of | workers and farmers in uniform are lying—all for the “glory of capital- ism.” In Europe, with the advent of Hit- ler into power, the war atmosphere is tense. The first skirmishes that flow out of the sharpening contradictions are taking place. The Polish Army is mobilized in the Corridor; the Czecho-Slovak Army in the Bormen- wald and Erzgebirge; the waters of the Rhine again become turbulent; more Jugo-Slav troops at the Italian frontier; feverish war preparations in Italy. While war is going on, the comedy of the disarmament conference is developing into a farce of low-grade circus type, MACDONALD SEES MUSSOLINI MacDonald, the ex-Socfalist, is rushing to Rome to shake hands and | | talk things over with Mussolini, “hoping to form a nucleus of prime ministers of good-will to dissipate the fears and settle the grievances now upsetting Europe.” At the same time Mr. Baldwin in the House of Com- mons, referring to the arrest of the British saboteurs in the Soviet Union, is talking about “unfortunate con- sequences to Angio-Soviet relations.” Because some British engineers paid by imperialist gold, again under protection of the English government, strive to hinder the development of socialism and weaken Soviet indus- try, precisely uc the moment that the imperialists are waging new attacks, the British gentlemen become furi- ous, New “atrocities” of the Soviet re- gime—bece":se the arrested are well was forced to state. New Soviet “crimes"—because the British Am- bassador was granted permission to see the arrested, some of whom were | released in a fortnight, | CROCODILE TEARS gentlemen all over the World, grieve for the suffering of the “poor people.” The moment that a saboteur is ar- rested in the Soviet Union, the cap- italist geese all over the world begin to cackle about the need of averting the danger of the “collapse of cap- italist civilization under the hoofs of Mongolian hordes.” But when thou- sands are killed on the battleflelds in Manchuria, in Jehol, when the hoofs of Japanese horses are stamp- ing over the fields of North China, then these hoofs are “bringing aivil- ization to the Chinese people,” When in Germany thousands and thousands are jailed, hundreds of them tortured, eyes plucked out of their sockets, young boys and girls mutilated, intellectuals beaten into unconsciousness, because they dare to fight against reaction for 2 new civilization that will stamp out once for all the putrid hypocrisy of bour- geois civilization, then the ears of the bourgeois gentlemen are stuffed, their eyes are closed. American and other citizens are beaten in Germany and jailed, but the protest of the representatives of the treated, as the English Ambassador | Oh, how these bourgeois full-hearted jcountries is only platonic, surface manoeuvers to satisfy public opinion. GESTURES AND DEEDS Bourgeois hypocrisy is flourishing in its full splendor. With the hand of Washington it is making a gesture of protest for the safeguarding of its own citizens to show its bourgeois patriotism; with the other hand of Wall Street it is sustaining the but- chers of the German toilers for the safeguarding of American millions. At the Austrian border the refugees from German fascist terror are sel- ected: “Free entry for the respect- able bourgeois anti-fascists and re- jection of Communists and workers” pursued by terror and death. Full pages of stories in the social-demo- cratic press of Austria, France and other countries on the heroic escapes of a few harmless people, a part of the German bourgeoisie which at this moment disagrees with fascist meth- ods; but silence on the danger to the lives of Comrades Thaelmann, Torgler and hundreds of thousands of workers, lined up to be tortured | in the German prisons. | THE ROOSEVELT DIRTY DEAL | In America an orgy of patriotism, | of hosannas is built up for the Great | Savior, who but a short two weeks | since his declaration against. infla- | tion he is leading on the path to | inflation, to the cutting of veterans’ | compensation, to the increase of | prices, cuts in relief, etc., covered by the projects of unemployed camps, | of reforestation, sprayed by beer. Under the flag of democracy, the | flag of the stars and stripes, Negroes are lynched, the eight innocent Scottsboro boys still face death, hun- dreds of foreign born are deported daily—leaving the country under the hypocritical eyes of the Statue of Liberty, in svite of the “liberal” Madame Perkins. “FOR THE PEOPLE” An orgy of “democracy” all over the world in different forms, under the slogan “For the People.” ‘The sun flag of Japan reached the Chin- ese Well for the greater future of the “Japanese people.” For the bene- fit of “the people,” for the safety The European’ Atmosphere | Smells of Powder [Secret Session of MacDonald and Mussolini, Baldwin’s Anti-Soviet Provocations, Hitler Terror, Show Capitalist Drive to War of China, the Chinese flag is re- treating. The reappearance of the Kaiser’s flag, of the flag of ““Deutsch- Jand ueber alles’—also “for the people.” All over the world an out- burst of patriotism, of chauvinism— all under the hypocritical “welfare of the people.” The days are approaching when America will appeal for the safety of democracy; Italy for the safety of Roman civilization; Germany for the primacy of Teutonism over all Taces—each one massing the people behind false doctrines. The capitalist world, divided into the revisionists of Versailles and its defenders, will cry again on one side for the defense of culture, of civili- zation; on the other for the safety of democracy. And both will unite under one flag, long hailed by the social democratic leaders, for the de- fense of “democracy” against prole- tarian. dictatorship — against the “Mongolian barbarism” of the Soviet Union and for the “glory of present civilization.” The European atmosphere smells of powder. The atmosphere is tense. Only the proletariat, in alliance with the farmers, raises the real banner of democracy—democracy for the majority, free from the exploitation, whether it is under the flag of fas- cism or the hypocritical flag of bour- geois democracy. Only the prole- tariat will stop the hands .of the hangmen of the working class, will smash war once for all, transforming the imperialist war into civil war. Forward for assistance to the struggle of the Japanese and Chin- ese workers, of the Latin American workers and farmers. Forward to the assistance of the German toilers. Forward in the struggle against the capitalist offensive which again is putting the burden of the deepening crisis on the shoulders of the work- ing class, while babbling about de- mocracy, about the “forgotten man,” and preparing for war. Tear down the mask of bourgeois hypocrisy which covers the real ogre of present society. PAPER FORESEES quirer.” Tammany Hall, and prob- ably Hearst journal, yesterday ap- peared with a headline reading in part: “War Within 60 Days.” It re- lated “confidential advices” sent out from Washington through “a confi- dential service to a group of impor- tant stockholders in securities and bonds of the Continental govern- menis, advising them to relinquish their investments immediately. The Enquirer also states: “Meanwhile American mobilization of defense plans are more complete than ever before, with plans per- fected for the calling of two million men within 24 hours.” * * « e Tenseness In Europe. The British proposals on debts and “disarmament,” followed by increased tension in other parts of Europe, with Germany and, Ceechoslayakia boycotting exchange’ payments be- tween the two countries, Payments for goods by checks and draft and also interests, service and dividends have been stopped by decrees of the two governments, Relations between Yugoslavia and Italy are particularly tense. The French vassal Rumanian Government. festerday moved to project itself into bourgeoisthe situation with an offer to “medi- WAR IN 60 DAYS Hearst Press Claims Inside Facts NEW YORK.-The Sunday “En- ate” between its Yugoslav ally and Italy. The latter is expected to re- ject the offer. ‘ The Belgian War Minister de Veze has asked additional funds for the construction of new forts on the east- ern frontier, facing Germany. The request is put forward with the usual pretext of affording work for the un- employed. The Belgian Government recently spent more than’ 125,000,000 francs (about $5,000,000) for fortifica- tions along the Meuse and at Liege and Namur. The French have also constructed an elaborate chain of forts along the German frontiers. CORRECTION In the call of the Communist In- ternational for united front struggles against hunger and Fascist terror, two mistakes have crept in, ‘The two sentences should read as follows: A—The Communist Tnternational and the Communist Parties of all countries have repeatedly declared their readiness to join in a common fight along with the Social-Demo- cratic workers against the capitalist offensive, against political reaction and the war danger. B.—Proletarians of ail countries, unite for the fight against the capi- talist offensive and Fascism. -WORKERS, JOIN THE PARTY O BRITAIN'S British Subjects tion of the acting prime minis‘ mons in connection with the firm. After listening to Ovey’s replied that the practical meaning of the British claims is reduced to the proposal to exempt from Soviet jurisdiction all British subjects, guaranteeing them immunity from the consquences of .any crime or delinquency, and that in the event any Englishman is ac- cused of crime the investigation should be stopped immediately, de- spite proofs and even depositions of the arrested as soon as his govern- ment expresses its conviction of his innocence. Cannot Accept Such Demands | Litvinov pointed out that it is suf- ficient to formulate these British pro- posals to make it plain that to any government of an independent coun- try they are unacceptable and can- not be discussed. In the event of the existance of proofs of crime being committed by anybody, the authori- ties charged with enforcing obser- vance of laws and the safety of the country are obliged to take measures toward preventing crime and to verify by investigation such data and proof. This is the only way to es- tablish guilt or innocence of the ar- rested and also to establish by trial the motive for the crime. Such is the inevitable procedure in all coun- tries. Some Practice in Other Lands Quite recently there occurred in other countries arrests of foreigners and their sentence. These people occupied prominent positions. There were also arrests and convictions of leading bankers. Such cases can- not be avoided, and should not in any way influence international re- lations, which are determined by much more important and profound considerations than the interests of individual citizens of firms. Many Foreigners in U.S.S.R. There are living in the Soviet Union hundreds and thousands of Germans, Americans and citizens of other countries who suffer no per- secution. During all the time there have existed relations between the USSR. and Great Britain hun- dreds of Englishmen came here, lived and left without once being subject to arrest. Finally the rep- resentatives of Metropolitan-Vickers themselves lived here nearly ten years and nothing happened to them. Such measures as arrests and pro- secution by our authorities were adopted only when faced with seri- ous causes and when such action necessitated the safety of and safe- guards for state property. It would be exceedingly wrong, declared Litviov, for such episodes to affect the political and commer- cial relations of the Soviet Union and England, relations equally pro- fitable to both couniries. Threats Will Not Work In firm tones the Soviet foreign minister told Ovey that no pressure, nor threats can induce the Soviet government to refrain from action in such cases or to relax its enforce- ment of its laws against British sub- jects. If the British government and the embassy are so certain of the in- nocence of the arrested, the alarm they express at their fate is incom- prehensible. At the request of the British am~- bassador Litvinov informed him that the arrested are accused under clause 58 dealing with wrecking and sabotage to injure Soviet indusiry and the Soviet state. The investi- gation is approaching its end and the State Department has therefore decided to transfer the case to the next session of the supreme court where the case will be fully examined. /EMPIRE DOMINANT IN INDIA SCHEME Exclude Three Fourths People From Bailot LONDON, March 19.—The British Government, headed by the sociai- imperialist, Ramsay MacDonald, en- gaged in a new gesture of extending “self-government” to India with the publication last week of a White Paper. The plan offered in the White Paper retains in the hands of the British Viceroy full control of India’s army, foreign relations and finances. The White Paper proposes the set- ting up of a central (federal) Legis- lature with a Cabinet of Indian Min- isters and similar Legislatures for each of the 11 provinces, The Vice- roy is given sweeping veto powers over these Legislatures and can override his Ministers should they ever balk at carrying out the Brit- ish instructions. He is also given power to force collections of British debts in India and to protect the stranglehold of British industrialists. He must give his consent before any important bill can be introduced in the Federal Legislature. ‘The White Paper proposes @ very limited suffrage, confined mainly to the Indian bourgeoisie and landlords who, with the princes, constitute the main social bulwark of British dom- ination in India. Only 27 per cent of the adult population is to be ac- SUBSCRIPTION BATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; $ months, $2; 1 month, 7h nd Bronx, New York City. Foreign amé : One year, 39; 6 months, $5; 7 months, $8. SOVIET GOVERNMENT FLATLY REJECTS PLEA T0 FREE SABOTAGER |MacDonald’s Ambassador Made Insolent Demand for Immunity for in Vickers Firm Charged With Wrecking By N. BUCHWALD | MOSCOW, March 19.—The Soviet press is publishing a report from the international news agency, “Tass” stating that on March 16th the British ambassador, Six Esmond Ovey, yisited Litvinov, commissar of foreign affairs and brought to his knowledge the declara- ter of England, Stanley Baldwin, in the British house of com- arrest of some representatives of the Metropolitan-Vickers Britain Would Protect Criminals a recital of the details of the Baldwin declaration, Litvinov CHINESE TROOPS SURPRISE JAPAN FORCE BY COUNTER OFFENSIVE Invaders Had Relied on Chiang Government to Paralyse All Resistance In defiance of the non-resistance policy of the Kuomintang Nankin} Government, Chinese volunteers and regulars launched a sharp counter- offensive against the Japanese invaders in Jehol Province yesterday. The Japanese command, dencgding upon the Nanking Government to end Chi- nese resistance, was entirely caught off guard when Chinese forces ap- peared suddenly in the Huerling and: Fanchiajow areas and launched their surprise attack. The Japanese posi- tions were badly battered before re- inforcements could be rushed up. Chinese forces were also active near Lingyuan and Chienpin. ‘The Nanking Minister of War, Ho Ying-ching, conferred with the Japa- nese Charge d‘Affaires at Pieping yesterday. The conference was fol- lowed with the announcement that “future amicable — conversations” would be aranged looking toward an understanding “regarding mainten- ance of peaceful conditions in North China.” This new move by Nan- king to betray the national revolu- tionary struggle against the robber imperialists has evoked a storm of protest throughout China. The toil- ing masses are sharpening the anti- Japanese trade boycott with increas- ing reprisals against Chinese mer- chants carrying Japanese goods. Chinese staffs of several Japanese firms, including the Yokohoma Spe- cie Bank, resigned en bloc yesterday. Foreign. observers in North China report growing indications of a Jap- anese move to invade the Tientsin- Peiping area, one of the largest U. S. spheres of investments in China. Three Japanese divisions are held in readiness aboard transports, it is re- ported. The threat of Japanese ac- tion in this area has resulted in a terrific sharpening of the antagon- isms between Japan and the Wall Street Government during the past few weeks, with an increase in the tempo of the frantic war prepara- tions of the two bandit imperialist powers, Montevideo Anti-War Congress Delegates Jailed in Argentine BUENOS AIRES, March 19.— ‘Thirty-one Argentine delegates to the Anti-War Congress just con- cluded in Montevideo, were arrested and imprisoned when they returned to Buenos Aires Friday. The prisoners, including several young women, were charged with Communist activities. These arrests are a continuation of police attacks made upon delegates to the Anti- War Congress, where, nevertheless, some 500 delegates from various countries met to plan an effectve struggle against wars now raging in Latin America. This extensive police interference further proved that the Congress was not a mere pacifist gathering, but a militant body determined to unite the workers of Latin America in common siruggle against impe- rialist war maneuvers and for the defeat of both, the native and fo- reign oppressors. BOLIVIAN DRIVE ON 10 NEW WAR Victories May Draw In Argentine, Chile The Bolivian forces swept forward yesterday in a new offensive against the Paraguayan line of forts in the Gran Chaca, capturing Fort Jordan and opening the way for a drive against Forts Arce and Boqueron. The Bolivians had captured Fort Alihuata last Monday. The war has now entered a nev stage, with the Bolivians wiping ou’ the gains made by Paraguay in the first stage of the war and now push- ing forward with the announced aim of occupying the Paraguayan capital, Ascunsion. These victories for the Bolivian bourgeoisie are also victories for the Wall Street imperialists who egged on Bolivia into the war, as part of their fierce struggle with their British rivals for the diminishing South American markets. A general South American war be~ comes more imminent as both the U. S. and British imperialists fran~ tically strive to line up the South American governments !n their op~ posing camps. The governments of Argentina and Chile are showing a marked tendency to enter the war on the side of Paraguay. ‘The growing drive for war reflects the deepening crisis and the desperate hunt by the national bourgeoisie off South America2 and the imperialist powers for a capitalist “way out” of the crisis. The foreign trade of Chile, for in- stance, has dropped 86 per cent 1929, and is now at its lowest level since the World War. The nitrates and copper markets have collapsed) under the hammer blows of the; crisis, thus depriving Chile of ita foreign markets. Throughout South America, the toiling masses are on the march in the life and death struggle against starfation. In Argentina, where over 100,000 impoverished farmers are ort strike, the farmers are planning a vrotest march on Buenos Aires to demand relief. 25,000 farmers are exe pected to join in the march. Numer+ ous strike actions are reported front Uruguay, Chile and other countries. The Ecuador Government, alleging plans for an uprising in that country, arrested hundreds of Communist workers yesterday. In Cuba, a tre- mendous struggle {s raging against the bloody rule of the Wall Street dictator Machada, In Brazil, a new revolt against the dictator Vargas is brewing, according to reports from the State of Rio Grande do Sul. League Endorses Columbia War on Peru; Battle Starts States Under Wall Street Influence Sponsored Action; Peruvian Bolts League Session GENEVA, March 19.—The League of Nation’s Council adopted a report yesterday condemning Peru and upholding Colombia in the undeclared war in the Leticia region. The League's action, taken on the pretext of seeking “peace,” had had the desired result, of giving new impetus to the ago, corectly interpreted a previous report by the League as sanctioning an armed attack on Peru. Such sahction also had been given by the United States Government in @ sharp note against Peru. Adop- tion of the report represents a victory for Wall Street imperialism, chief in- stigator of the wars in South Amer- ica, over its British rivals in the fierce struggle for control of South Amer- ican markets and resources. The report was sponsored by a group of small powers under U, 8. influence, including Mexico, Panama corded the right to vote for the pro- vincial Legislatures and less than 5 per cent for the lower house of the Federal Legislature. ‘Finally, the whole plan is made contingent on the approval of the majority of the In- dian princes. ‘The proposals have evoked a storm of resentment throughout India, in- cluding large sections of the Indian bourgeoisie, who do not consider the concessions offered them sufficient payment for their betrayal, through Gandhi and other leaders, of the na- tional liberation struggle. military activities of the Colombian bourgeoisie who, already several days Oe and Guatemala. The U. S. Departe ment of State has expressed itself as highly pleased over the results. Francisco Calderon, Peruvian delee gate to the League, bolted the meete ing on the adoption of the report, paralleling the Japanese action of walking out on the League after = similar victory for Wall Street die plomacy and high pressure bargain- ing on the war debts several weeks ago. The League has issued an invle tation to the governments of the U. S. and Brazil to help enforce its decree against Peru, Adoption of the report was followed immediately by the first serious Gght- ing in the Leticia district since tuary 14, with the Colombian @eum- mand launching a fierce attack on ® Peruvian outpost at Ticunas and bombing several Peruvian towns. In @ counter-attack by the Peruvians, the Colombian gunboat pice eee was damaged by Peruvian airplanes. Thus, thanks to the “peace” efforts of the League of Nations, directed in this instance by U. S. imperialism from behind the stage, the war has been resumed in full blast. F YOUR CLASS. JOIN THE COMMUNIST PARTY!