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he Comprodally Peblishing Us. Page Foe: il w York City, N. ¥ mail cheeks {o the Daily Worker, HITLER MOVES FOR PRICE | RISE AND NEW WAGE CUTS | WN. Y. “At Behest of the Times Says Move Is; Heavy Industries, Which Financed Him” | | Schacht, Reichsbank Head, Plans Inflation;| Forced Labor Camps for Thousands | | By AMILTON | With the y m of the Nazi regime in| Germany, Hitler a ‘ oving to fulfill their] eampa ig s in rialists who financed tl x s Hans Luth er |} to e Reichsbank, has been forced i | who is closely iate aim seems to| National Socia P. r ernal prices, It is Oeics heen ‘ the effective Z : 3 . v est of the heavy bassadorship V need Hitler's consolation aie cuts This ld to Reichsb i nations outside ¢ Keeps Promise to Capital ils to af ampaign ctual vy sila al- a ar decreed oy tee eniteel t 1 ( Y h agreement Herman Raemmeile t yh Ru industry has erminated announced | es. The ven notice wage scale for all lue,, deity exeapt Bundey, at B. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7098. Cable “DATWORK.Y 50 I. 19th St, New York, N. ¥. | THE “PEACE” PIPE worker: Break Wage an Agreement. Commissar ted ee pay basis. | dent is| govern- pation,” the unem- word for on the} D. “New| he Since eadian of gimented labor 00,000,000 is being whi Jabor camps,” es 0 to Cabinet leaders, require| Member of Secretari: of Com- it expansion,” or, in plainer manist Party of Germany Ar- age, inflation. This inflation| rested by Hitler government. automa y ra'se fhe prices of the nec of life. Here| marized in his “Economic Prograr parallel between promised , Roosevelt and Fascist wages to the v n inflating the currency cheaper cost of livin d both “solving the unemployment ployment to the w His| problem” by compulsory military pledges to the worke: camps. The “New Deal” al- but the Nazi-National y incorporates some of the Fas- already made a sta features of Hitler's program, the cost of production i aked in “progressive” phrases. cs Communists, W ho Face Death in Nazi Jail ac-| ‘BY BURCK Lessons of the Paris Commune On March 18, the 62nd anni sary of the Paris Commune was | celebrated by workers throughout | the world. The experiences of the Paris Commune were not only a stirring example for future gener- ations of workers, but gave con- | crete lessons to the workers’ strug- | | gles, These lessons were analyzed | by Karl Marx in “Civil War in France” and later developed and applied to the epoch of imperial- ism by Lenin, What these lessons article, which should be read care- | fully by all workers. Cenirs . By F. BROWN } The first experiment of the pro-| letarian state was not without errors, | whieh are to be found in the com- Position of the Conitiune itself, di- vided in a majority of Blanquisis and in a minority composed of the followers of the Proudhon School and members of twe First Interna- tional. However, in spite of the division of groupings—the Blanquists were Socialists with proletarian revolu- tionary instinct, the socialist con- spirators and believers in the cen- | tralized dictatorship; the Proudhon- ists were the petty bourgeois social- ists of the farmers and artisans. The Commune in practice, however, was the embryo, the first experience of the future proletarian dictatorship which identified itself with the power Seated, left, William Pieck, veteran leader of German workers, com- penion in arms with Karl Liebknecht. Standing: Ernst Reinhardt, editor ‘@ the Rote Fahne. Both are in prison. LIBERAL WAVERS BEFORE TERROR | ov we wit" te conan | while centering Author Feuchtwanger Absolves Hitler In a copyright dispatc hi 1 Hindenberg has no idea of the American press, Lion Feuc rages. . And Minister Goering moted German novel absolve scarcely be suspected of com- denberg, Hitler and Gor t blame for the Nazi r euchtwanger appeals to the Nazi Germany |Government, saying: “I greatly pray He says Phe storm t the government may su d in are responsib! J calling a before the ill-treat- done. It nent 1 the slaughter of 10 of Socialists, Catholics d to a civil war such as er seen.” Goering Formerly in !men of the National Gusrd. This of the council of workers, farmers and soldiers. Mistakes of Indecision The mistakes were the mistakes of indecision. The hesitancy to Jaunch an attack upon the Versailles government, isolated Paris from the Test of France. “Our victory is your | hope,” said the Commune to the large masses of farmers. The Com- mune said to the masses that the cost of the war should be paid by those that wanted the war, namely: the defeated class--the bourgeoisie. The Commune was for a national federation of all the French Com- munes. Here and there the appeal of the Commune found response. Marseilles, Toulouse and other centers followed the example of Paris, but because of the isolation from the center and the lack of connection among them- selves, they soon capitulated. The voice of the Commune did not pene- trate deeply to the cities and coun- tryside. Thiers, the new head of the French bourgeoisie, understood very well that to subjugate the revolution it was first of all necessary to prevent the union of the Parisian proletariat with the masses of peasants, and he speedily asked for the liberation of the prisoners, with the view to re- build the «rmy. Should Fave Attacked The Versaities | Government its strength upon the defense .of Paris, did not enter upon a direct attack against the Ver- sailles Government, an attack which could have been started by the Com- munards, 300,000 strong, with the would have opened a passa go towards the peasant masses of Prance and the other insurgent cities. Another mistake made was the| |“high respect” used by the Commune ‘in regard to the Bank of France, | which should. have constituted th’ biggest hostage in the hands of th proletariat against the French bour- | geotsie. The latter, in order not to| Asylum, According London ‘Daily Her that he makes no ens of thousands of and LONDON, M Herald,” or: a fact Party, print e leaders of Stockholm cc iu 1 of the work Captain Her n ¥ n e beer til) are Nazi “Minister of the Int brunt of the Nazi as- President of t! : &, W fined to a Swe uchtwanger meration of the & dangerous & ‘ 0 present reign ‘The “Daily ve preached | photostat of 5 re ] h bloody € mination of the} State Insane Asylum in S n.} 33 is the typical liberal | The record alle r ing from the field | ald and instig with the: ex- terror now raging ‘ , alone, as confined in the a « P tember 1 to Novembe 1 H I s the usual liberal vhen beeame so violent that he ot-| betrayal of the workers’ cause, doubly tempbed to kill his guards, He was| disgraceful at a time when the’ Ger- then temwferved io a private asvium|/man working class is fighting Fas- wheme ae wen aeteboed remit 1027. i with ite back to the wail. | llose its money, would have been | brought to a more yielding position | toward the Commune, and in this manner have given the Commune a breathing space to strengthen its own rosition. Mistakes of indecision were made in regard to hostages; too much leni- ency towards the assassins of the proletariat, indecision in conducting the war uhtil the last moment. More- over, the forces of defense were weakly coordinated. Marx on the Paris Commune It is known how a few months be- fore the Commune, Marx put the workers of Paris on guard against the premature attempt to overthrow the government, an attempt which at that moment would have constituted a “desperate stupidity.” But later, in 1871, When the strucele was im- posed upon the workers of Paris, he greeted the proletarian revolution with the grentest onthustsem; since | tion of the worke | tained in the Communist are is discussed in the following | “ he recognized that this attempt was of the most vital historic importance. On the basis of the revolutionary ex- | periences of the Commune, Marx de- veloped his tactical teachings, per- fected his theory of the emancipa- , developing the arian democracy con- Manifesto theory of prol On this n the last preface to the new n edition of the | Manifesto i Marx and Engels declare that the Manifesto was ‘aging in some points, that the Com- mune showed how the proletarian class cannot simply take ps ssion of the existing State machine and put it into motion for its own pur- s In 1847, on the question of royed State mechanism e been substituted, Marx answered: “With the organi m of the proletariat as the ruling class, with the conquest of democracy.” In 1847 he had not yet said con- cretely how the proletariat should organize itself into the ruling cl On the basis of a deep analysis of the experiences of the Commune, in his penetrating broch The Civil War in F he red this question most definitive! Accomplishments What did the Commune do? For it appearance only, “a wider demo —eligibility to elec- tion and recall all public offices. They replaced: the bourgeois demo- the destroyed State mechanism, in substituted cratic machine by an _ institution based on a principle esséntially dif- ferent. There was no more liberty of the minority for the repression of the exploited class, but liberty of the majority from capitalist exploitation, for the suppression of the defeated bourgeois minority; liberty for the. transformation of capitalist society into 2, classless society. No more parlia ¢cntarism, but the Commune which’grew out of the Civic Coun- cil elected by the toiling masses in the various districts of Paris, respon- sible and subject to recall, composed of a majority of workers—no more talk-festivals, but an active body with legislative and executive power at the same time. In the Commune we find the em- bryo, the organization of industry by the workers, which utilized what cap- italism created; the draft of a na- tional organization insofar as the Commune “should have elected also the national delegation” which should have centralized the power of the Covic Communes of all France. First Form of Proletarian Revolution. For Marx it was clear already, be- fore the Commune, that the ‘State must disappear and that the “prole- tariat organized into the ruling class” ould have taken over power, in the period of transition leading toward the disappearance of the State. The Commune was the first form of the proletarian revolution, the only one able to lead to the economic and poiftical emancipation of the -work- ing class. In his “Critique of the Gotha Pro- gram,” Marx said clearly, “Between the capitalist and Communist sys- tems of society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. This corre- sponds to a political transition period whose State can be nothing less than onary, dictatorship of the proletariat.” On the basis of the Commune ex- periences, Lenin not only brought back in its completion the Marxism that was distorted by the revision- ists, but he continued the work of Marx, developing the theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the epoch of imperialism, Enriched by the experiences of the 1905 revolu- tion, the Russian proletariat, led by Lenin, could overthrow Russian cap- italism in 1917, building a more per- fect Commune, the Union of the Soviets, the Union of the Communes that made ‘one-sixth of the world into the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Heroism Not In Vain. Tie heroism of the Communards was not expended in vain. They gave the first example of how to overthrow capitalism. This is the reason that the revolutionary prole- tariat all over the world remembers the Commune, the heroic struggle of its combatants and commemorates its martyrs. On the 62nd eniversary of the first Commune, more’ than ever be- fore, when we are faced with “a new round of, big clashes between classes and between States, of a new round of wars and revolutions”, the Com- munists, the class conscious workers, must study the teachings of the Paris Commune, the teachings of all the Communes, The red flag of the Commune is waving victoriously over one-sixth of the world, where the dreams of the Communards are realized. It waves in the battles of the Chinese Com- mune. The day is not far away when in all countries it will be raised by the phalanxes of the proletariat and it will wave high and victorious over the Communes of the world. Barricades in Paris—1871 a" SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail everywhere: One vear, $6; six excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. One year, 99: 6 months, 35; Canada: 3; 1 month, %e Foreij months, $5. months, $3.50; 3 months, WALL ST. AGENTS OPERATE BEHIND LINES OF DEFEATED PARAGUAYANS) Take Advantage of Military uebosh 6f1 of U. S. Puppet, Bolivia, to Try and Seize Paraguay Too; Peru Halts Colombian Advance BUENOS AIRES, March 21.—The Bolivian forces, |through to Kilometre Seven (Campo Jordan) yesterday, and the Paraguayan forces are This represents the worst defeat for Paraguay since the undeclared war in full retreat. began last July in the Chaco region. The Paraguayan forces, have stubbornly held the Boliy. ians at Bay since December. Trying to Change Government. American imperialist agents who are working closely with the Bolivian government are now striving to organize a clique of Wall Street hirelings in Paraguay to take advantage of the break in morale, civilian as well as military, which was suffered as a result of the mili- tary defeat to unseat the Paraguayan government and place in power ele- ments favorable to the United States Bolivians Receive Equipment Within recent weeks Bolivia has received additions to its military equipment which enabled it to in- tensify its drive against Kilometre Seven, and rout the Paraguayan for- ces. Since Wall Street is directly in- terested beaause of its heavy invest- ments in Bolivia, it is certain that money for this equipment came from the United States. A few months before last December, just afier the original Bolivian push, the forces of Bolivia were steadily retreating. Dur- ing that retreat they lost thirty forts and other positions, but eventually rallied at their general headquarters at Fort Muroz, and equipped with Belgian mortars bought with Amer- ican dollars began pounding at the Paraguayan lines. Then on March llth began the general advance which routed the Paraguayans, Columbian Advance Halted LIMA, Peru, March 21.—The Wall Street backed Columbian advance into Leticia was halted Friday by a sharp rally of the Peruvian forces. The Co- lumbian warship, Pichincha, advanced in the Cotuhe River, landed troops and started a terrific drive, forcing the retreat of the Peruvians, who fell back to a second-line position, made a stubborn stand and halted the ad- vance of the Columbian forces. This was followed by an air attack on the Columbian troops and ship, dameging and putting the war vessel out of commission and forcing a precipitate retreat, with heavy losses. COMMONS HOWLS DOWN QUESTIONS Refuse to Consider Guilt of Engineers LONDON, March 21.—The Conser- yative majority of the House of Com- mons refused absolutely to hear questions asked ithe cabinet under- secretary reporting breach of trade negotiations with Soviet Russia. The questions proposed brought out glar- ingly that the MacDonald govern- ment was rushing to the defense of the British engineers arrested in Moscow, without any consideration as to whether they were guilty of wreck- ing Soviet machinery or not. The Questions. George Lansbury, Labor Party, asked how Capt. Eden, reporting for the Cabinet, could call the charges against the British engineers unjusti- fiable when he stated in the same breath that he had been unable to Jearn what the charges were. Capt. Eden made a point of the fact that the Soviet Government had refused to allow British lawyers to defend the accused. He asked: _“Would Russians arrested in Brit- ain be allowed to have Russian law- yers in a British court?” Eden refused to answer either of these questions, confining himself to the statement that Great Britain had broken off trade negotiations. eet ne American workers will remember the celebrated Schachty trial of sabotaging Russian engineers in Mos- cow, who were proved to have had French support in their efforts to wreck Soviet industrialization. ‘The British Cabinet's silence in the face of the telling questions asked in Commons beyond a doubt that the arrest of the British engi- neers in Moscow is merely the pre- text seimed by Great Britain to forge another link in the anti-Soviet front now being welded in capitalist Eu- rope. Sir John Simon's cynical sup- port of Japan in the League of Na-~ tions; MacDonald’s trip to Rome, and the breaking off 6f trade negotiations with the Soviet Union are all part of the preparations for war feverishly going on throughout Europe. Hungarian Writers in Call for Fight Again German Fascist Terror NEW YORK —The Hungarian Writers Alliance of the U. S. A. has issued an appeal to all Hungarian cultural organizations, calling upon them to send protest telegrams to the German Embassy and to participate in all demonstrations against the Nazi terror. Signed by J. Roman, secretary of the organization, the national organ- fention, has dispatched a wire to the German Embassy denouncing the fascist terror and demanding the re- lease of Thaelmann, Torgler, Rem- mele, Ludwig Renn, Egon Erwin Kisch and other revolutionary lead- ers and intellectuals now jatied and tortured in Nazi prisons. Rell 2 workers correspondence ereup im your factory, shop er Raighbeokood. Sand regwinr Setiers ene cil guttion representing a government ba backed by Wall Street, smashed eked by British imperialism, Chancellor Puts Police VIENNA, March 21—The “Arbei- | ter-Zietung” publishes sensational disclosures of Heimwehr preparations for a coup d'etat in Austria within | | the next few weeks. Heimwehr regi-| ments are being moved on Vienna, and are being quartered in villages around the city. | The Vienna railroad authorities haye ordered outlying railroad offi- cials to provide transportation of 12,000 Heimwehr troops by special trains to Vienna at an unspecified future date. Smaller Heimwehr detachments are being brought to Vienna daily. The Heimwehr forces surrounding the city are patrolling the roads with fixed bayonets. Nazi Threat to Austria, The semi-official newspaper, the “Reichspost,” organ of Chancellor Dollfuss and the Christian Social Party, reports that Frank, Nazi Min- ister of Justice for Bavaria, had said yesterday that General von Epp, Reich Commissioner for Bavaria, “might have to take immediate ac- tion to protect the freedom of our fellow Germans in Austria.” “Whom is Frank trying to frighten?” asks the “Reichspost.” Vaugoin, Austrian War Minister and high Heimwehr official, warned in a@ speech yesterday that “no one can touch our boundary posts. Re- member the fate of Bavaria, which FASCIST REGIMENTS ARE MASSED AROUND VIENNA; WAITING WORD in Heimwehr Charge; | - Austrian Fascists Divided Over Hitler did not mobilize its forces in olf and now has lost its independence’ Take Over Police. The Heimwehr haye forced the resignation of Vienna’s Chief of Po- lice and Chancellor Dolfuss has placed the city police under the con-~ trol of Major Fey, Minister of Se- curity. Fey is also head of the mon- archist Heimwehr, so that now the army and the police forces of the entire republic are in Heimwehr hands. The “New York Evening Post” re- ports from Vienna that the Dolfuss dictatorial Cabinet, taking a leaf from the Roosevelt bank program, has granted a $20,000,000 loan to bol- ster the failing Austrian banks in a desperate effort to avert national bankruptcy and prevent the Hitler- ites from seizing power. Hitlerites Against Heimwehr. The Austrian Hitlerites, who are seeking the union of Austria with Germany under the Nazi banner, ani therefore oppose the Heimwehr | forts to establish a united Austr Hungarian Fascist regime under Hapsburg King, charge that Majio¥ Key is planning the seizure of power with Italian and Hungarian support Eye-witnesses report that Hun- garian troops and volunteer forces are concentrating on the Austrian frontier, acting in concert with the Legitimist Heimwehr. By LEO GRULIOW Traveling on the same boat with | Andrew Mellon, Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese spokesman at Geneva, is on his way to the United States to seek American approval of the rape of Manchuria and Jehol. He will arrive tomorrow. Matsuoka Claims to “know Ameri- can psychology’—which means he knows what to say to President Roosevelt and America’s 59 masters. He was educated in American uni- versities and lived here many ears. Therefore he expects less difficulty in assuring Ameriéa’s “59” of the eco- nomic advantages of recognizing Manchukuo than he had in facing the League of Nations recently. | After addressing the Japanese Chamber of Commerce here, he will visit Boston and Philadelphia, con- fer with Hull and Roosevelt in Wash- ington, journey to Chicago and seil from San Francisco for Tokio in mid- April. His avowed purpose is to propa- gandize for recognition of Japan’s puppet-state of Manchukuo. What will happen behind the scenes of his diplomatié sight-seeing tour—how many financial magnates he will “propagandize”—will be kept secret from the workers. What appeals will he make to them? In a remarkably frank interview on leaving Geneva, Matsuoka geve indications of what he will say. Uncle:.n Hands Across the Sea An open appeal to American impe- rialism will be his task. In the Ge- neya interview, in which he prac- tically addressed American finance- @apital with a plea to join Japan, he exposed the fact that the U. S. and SEJM IN POLAND HAS ABDICATED “Intense International Situation” as Reason WARSAW, March 21.—The Sejm today authorized the Cabinet to rule by decree without Parliainent until Nov. 1, 1933. The reason given was that “the tenseness of the interna- tional situation is such that at any moment swift and unhampered ac- tion by the government may be ne- cessary.” This is part of France's answer to the Hitler regime in Germany, The clouds of war hang low over the Ger- man-Polish frontier, and the Polish General Staff wants fullest freedom of action to strike at the shortest notice. Jobless Conference in Towa Scores Hitler DES MOINES, Iowa, March 21.~ Two hundred and ve delegates gathered here Sunday in the Iowa State Unemployment Conferenc> adopted a resolution unanimously condemning the Hitler Fascist ter- ror. They voted to mobilize all their borganizations against it. MATSUOKA ASKS U. TO HELP SMASH CHINESE SOVIETS Japanese Imperialist Agent Coming Here to Offer American Capitalism a Share in Loot §. CAPITALISM other capitalist countries cannot take ® saintly pose about the seizure of Manchuria after setting the example for Japan by its exploitation of the masses of the Philippine Islands, of Haiti, of Cuba, and of Central America. He followed this up with the state- ment that the Nanking government lacks the “unifying power” which he says China needs—and declaring the puppet state of Manchukuo has that power. “The only ctvil government in any part of what was formerly Chi- na,” he termed Manchukuo, di. garding the fact that it is a military not a civil government. A direct request for American cx) italism to join in the spoils was mad next. “There has been a setback American trade with Manchuria account of recént disorders, but soon as stabilization comes—anit will come quickly now—American trade will begin to recover,” he pr ised. Trump Card The trump card he will play, he indicated, is to openly blazon Japan's acts in Manchuria as part of a holy war against Commrrism, both China and the USSR. “We want no extension of Com- munist @ontrol in China.” he said. “The Communist movement now con- trols as many provinces as does the Nanking government. Now we find Sovietism right in the heart of Chi-} na, influencing an area six times as large as Japan. Will it stay limited | to the present area? Whv has it not~ spread? The answer is: There stands Japan. If Japan’s position is weak- ened you may be sure that Soviet- ism will reach the mouth of the Yangtze River in no_ time. Our action in recognizing Manchu- kuo was the only and the surest wav for us to take in the circumstances.” In other words, Japan's ruline ela. fears the Japanese workers will turn on them and overthrow their system, and therefore they hope to smash the Chinese soviets, and, eventually, the Soviet Union, before the Soviet ex- ample is followed by Japanese work- ers—and Matsuoka leaves the hint that Ameria and other countries should join her for the same reason. He is in America only on a “diplo-~ matic sight-seeing tour,” capitalis: newspapers are saying. But what bar- gains will he make with American capitalism when he tours in Wash- ington? Newspapers admit confidentially thet the Nanking government will not “embarrass” the League of Né tions by asking it to enforce the Kel- logg Peace Pact. Now that the farce has been played and the workers have been told by press, radio and speeches that the League has dhas- tized Japan, the Nanking government is prepared to surrender to Japan while the Chinese warlords make bar- gains with Japanese imperialism over which shall get the most of the Chi- nese Soviets when they are con- quered and divided up. The League will not act, and the Nanking trai- tors will join Japanese capitalism ir attacking the Chinese workers’ gov- ernment. Chinese workers know how to an- swer the Nanking bargains with Je- pan. American workers must answe" the Washington bargains which will soon be made between Matstioka and Secretary of State Hull {