The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1933, Page 6

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At the same time, | a there are rumors that the Minister of Education may be removed as he has | Fe been to stop the growth of Communist ideas among Japanese teachers | née. bas ree Coy Garon Japanese Armies Move Further Into China; Demand More ofCoast NHAIKWAN, China, April 7.— e armies advancing from | i, where they ousted | ‘al Ho Chu-kuo, are ap- | ty port of Chin- | Ho is reported to loads of re-in- | ened city. se planes hay demanding n of the triangu- the Lwan river and Wall. This would give the extra fifty miles of peasants | ©O inst th ‘ds as com- 4,000 | SUBSCRIBE yourself and get your ndlc : fellow workers |to read the Daily Go! 900 the previous year. | Worker. pre Pie cla OR RAGES INCUBAN STRIKE } Strikers Jailed; Revolutionary Wave Sweeps Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica BULLETIN , Cuba, April 7.—Carlos Fuertes, anization “Directorio Estudiantil, was arrested at 1 A. M. orning by a government secret service man and was found at nt lying in Colon cemetery, shot through the back of the head, of the student anti- ast 7% 4 “4 April 7.—A new wave of persecution and criminal acts against | ment, forming part of the almost permanent reign | ¥ Government, is sweeping Cuba. The Cuban work- | ¢ by forming self-defense and picket groups in the sugar | ons where the strike conflict is raging. These groups are rere” and. peas= ace er | ; Comrade Vivo and Comrade Joa-| Dan siinhes: | quin Ordoqui, leaders of the Cuban nia | ra! Y workers, were arrested, and he ve succeeded in} taken from jail at midnight. que acha-| “The Latin American Confederation | eve °s, and| of Labor, the Anti-Imperialist F an 1-| League, and the International Labor be i vamaican! Defense have already wired protests fhe and Haitian ning the! +o Cuba demanding the release of tow Sttike strug orkers. | these two working class leaders. ‘The ma; The” 14 t is an-| Anti-Imperialist League is planning heb = swering t struggle | a mass demonstration before the Cu- wal ver four | ban consulate to take place April 22. ital led or| Protest meetings must be held, wires pro r-| must be sent to President Machado ide: | to prevent the assassination of Vivo ade and Ordoqui, and to demand the re- leg ase of all political prisoners of the wo) scale are g | Cuban terror. Tt - —_—_—— Se ~ ee wit RT Y = INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FREES fav 420LN1 B 4QL 4 | anc thi LAST OF JAILED HAITIAN WORKERS NEW YORK.—wWith the release o Jose Grullon Anti-Im- Perialist L: s that all workers” arre oti perialism and the lackey Stenio Vin- | cent government of Haiti until the toiling masses have achieved their complete independence. All Haitians and sympathizers who wish to join should write or visit the Anti-Imperialist League Office at 799 of the| Broadway, Room 536, eampaign carr A eR pS eee Se Imperialist ue of the U. S. with . : “! Irish R. R. Strikers the co-operatio: International 'Reinstated — Despite ty Counci rug- | . { me fot. Ne s for the release the Reformist Betrayal | - alist es eee n the cart oF ste beetle | A settlement was reached today, er leagues and » Anti-Imperialist| #¢cording to press reports, in the Northern Irish railway sti The dismissed section men are to be re-| instated, but no final agreement seems to have been reached on the} question of wages. The strike, which | was the answer of the railway work- | ers to a threatened wage cut of 10} per cent, has been magnificently | fought for ten weeks, despite treach- | ery on the part of the bureaucratic trade union aders of the N.UR.., who were more afraid of the strike | spreading into Southern Ireland or England than keen to win it in Northern Ireland. , will carry for- port of the} League. of the U ward-the struggle i oppressed Hait es and by very possible means will support the Haitian masses in their struggle for Telease from their present oppres- gion at the hands of American Im- Saris Take Over Lutheran Church Ghrist Claimed As A =~ Storm Trooper rr OBBRLIN, April 7—The Protestant Church in Germany, which has thir- tyatine million members, is to be Yadically reformed from the top by the Nazis, into a more serviceable i@= weapon against the revolutionary Movement of the German workers. Pastor Wieneke, a Nazi spokesman atthe-congress of “German Christ- fans,” said: “The Swastika and the Gross of Christ belong together. If Christ-were to arise in our midst to- day, he would certainly be a leader (nthe struggle against Marxism.” The new German “church militant” #S$ito-be one of “heroic piety.” It js to be built on the purest Aryan- Members who are married to Jews will be excommunicated. The Old Testament will be ousted, and from the German sagas taught its place. Nazis aiso plan to abolish the thureh: tithes, which are paid only oy church members, and substitute a jax which @veryone will have to pay, of creed or non-creed. But state subvention will not be en to the church until it has been reorganized, |Rumania R.R. Workers’ Threaten Strike and |Free: Jailed Leaders, BUCHAREST, Rumania, March 24 (by mail).—The workers of the Buch- arest railway repair shops threatened to go on strike if their functionaries, arrested during the recent big rail- way strike, were not immediately re- leased. The strike threat forced the management to intervene with the courts, and all the workers’ leaders were set free. Unemployed March by Thousands in Belgium; | 7,000 Parade in Liege! BRUSSELS, March 26 (by mail) — The trade unions of Belgium organ- ized ® number of unemployed dem- onstrations all over the country, the biggest taking place in Liege, with over 7,000 in the line of march. The demonstration in Charleroi, big in- dustrial center, was called off by the Socialist leaders “to prevent Commu- nists from using i for their own enda* AREA; WORKERS’ ARMY FORMING - The League of Nations and War in the Far East By GABRIEL PERI (Paris) On Friday morning the 24th Feb- ruary, the extraordinary meeting of the League of Nations unanimously adopted the Far-Eastern Report of the Committee of Nineteen. Only one member of the League, namely, Japan, answered with a No, and only one, namely, Siam, withheld its vote. Siam obviously did not wish: to get into ill-favour with either of the contending parties. As, however, abstention from yot- ing is regarded as the same as ab- sence, and Japan being an inte- rested party, its vote against the report is not taken into account, the Chairman, Hyman, declared the report of the Committee of Nineteen to be adopted unanimous- ly. Before the voie was taken, the representatives of China and Ja- pan once again defended their res- pective theses. The Chinese delegate, Yen, em- phasized that the views of Nanking and the Geneva were in agreement on the following points: 1. Recogni- tion of Manchuria as an insepar- able part of China; 2. Recognition of the boycott measures against Ja- pan as a retaliatory measure on the part of China; 3. Recognition of the fact that China declared itself ready to submit the Sino-Japanese question to arbitration, whilst Ja- pan refused to submit the conflict to arbitration; 4. Recognition of the fact that the events of Novem- ber 18 and 19, 1931 were not an act of self-defence on the part of Ja- pan; 5. Non-recognition of Man- chukuo; 6. China is not responsible for the events in the Far East after 18th September 1931; 7, The eva- cuation of Manchuria by the Ja- panese troops is a technical ques- tion and not subject to any poli- tical conditions; 8. Co-operation of the two big Powers on the Pacific (United States of America and the Soviet Union) is valuable and de- sirable for the restoration of peace in the Far East. | JAPANESE IMPERIALIST SPEAKS ‘The Japanese representative, Mat- zuoka, repeated the following main thesis, which he had continually put forward in his earlier speeches: China is a big territory, but not a nation according to the western sense of the word. For twenty years a revolution has been pro- ceeding in China. A catastrophe has occurred. Japan wishes to es- tablish law and order. The League of Nations, on its part, is to blame for haying supported the hopes of China and allowed it to offer fur- ther resistance to the attempts of Japan to restore order in China. Matszuoka then opposed the idea of international control envisaged in the Lytton Report, and emphasized that Japan would oppose any at- tempt to set up any kind of inter- national control in Manchuria. After the vote, which proved un- favorable for Japan, Matszuoka confined himself to declaring that the Japanese government had ex- hausted, or almost entirely ex- hausted, the possibilities of co-ope- rating with the League of Nations in solving the Sino-Japanese con- flict, but he did not say a word about it being impossible for Ja- pan to remain in the League of Nations. Matszuoka’s only demonstration consisted in his leaving the hall, to- gether with the whole Japanese delegation, three minutes before the conclusion of the sitting. Japan's withdrawal from the League of Nations would be such an important event that one can- not neglect to deal with it. WAR IN FAR EAST War in the Far East is develop- ing at an accelerated pace. The ob- ject of this war is Jehol, the con- trol of the big Asiatic-European railway lines at their terminal points, and the setting up in this area of a basis for military opera- tion against Peiping. Further, the robber-war which was commenced in 1931 is being continued without the covering mantle of the League of Nations. But up to February 24, the Ja- panese robber-war—this is an un- disputable fact—enjoyed the plain and obvious toleration of the Ge- neva institution, The fact is, every meeting of the League Council has synchronised with a military operation on a grand scale in the Far East. The League of Nations met—when Muk- den was being bombarded. It held @ special meeting in October—when Manchuria was flooded with Ja- panese troops. Under the chairman- ship of Aristide Briand, the League Council met once again in Novem- ber—when Tsitsihar fell into the hands of the Japanese. The month of March saw the opening of a new meeting—and at- the same time Shanghai was bombarded. In Sep- tember 1932 discussion was still go- ing on in Geneva about Japan and | Chine. In the meantime, the new State of Manchukuo was formed under the protection of Japan. In December fresh discussions took | place—a few days later Shanghai- kwan was destroyed by Japanese bombs. And then, finally, the Feb- “I Saw It Mys ruary meeting of the League of Na- tions—the Japanese invade Jehol, the town of Kailu goes up in flames. The events of February 24 are, however, of very great importance. For—let there be no mistake about it—we have already entered on the period of a big war in the Pacific. The offensive in Jehol has com- menced; fighting has already taken place. Japan has recently imported enormous quantities of war mate- rial and weapons, supplied by Vi- ckers, Armstrong and Co. The Ja- Panese press reports that the Navy is being held in readiness and that enormous nationalist demonstra- tions in Tokio are demanding the continuation of the offensive. POSITION OF U. §. A. This time. however, there is a snag: Washington is no longer con- tenting itself with looking on and sending diplomatic notes. Ameri- can imperialism, if it does not wish to endanger its positions in the Pa- cific, cannot possibly allow Japan a free hand in continuing its war adventure, The Admiralty in Wash- ington has put forward the date of the American naval maneuvers, which are to take place along the coast of China. The American fleet is ready to weigh anchor at any moment, and rumors are already elf” WHOLESALE MURDER This is a chapter from the book | by the same name. The author was the imitiator of the Amsterdam Congress Against War held last August. By Henri Barbusse WAR-TALK! No one wants it now. And they have been saying so for years. And yet, so long as the old law, which wills that same causes be followed by same effects, holds good, our interest in war must be, not a thing of the past, but. of the present and future, Unless, of course, we turn round and begin attacking the causes themselves! Be that as it may, and coming to my story, the subject of War had its interest for a group of of- ficers sitting that day in the peace- ful atmosphere of a cafe, that well- known heavy atmosphere, woven of coffee and tobacco fumes. This was in Antibes, a few years ago, when the town—one of the loveliest and most picturesque of all towns on Mediterranean shores —had not yet been disfigured by the demolition of the old ramparts, by builder's plots in the central Square, and was not then visibly smeared over with speculator’s blight. One of the officers sitting there, by name Lieutenant Beranger, of the 3rd Antibes Infantry, was wax- ing sentimental about his fighting | days, talking about them to his companions, two majors. Lieuten- ant Beranger’s recollections were tinged with a certain pride. And well they might be—for he was boasting how he had finished off some wounded Germans with the butt end of a rifle. But Battalion Commander Mathis | in charge of Cagnes Camp, had two more stripes on his sleeve than the Lientenant. And so, as was on- ly right, his story went one better. It was the other major—he be- longed ‘to a very different class of men—who treasured up his noble confessions: “I was captain: then,” said Ma- this, “commanding a battalion dur- ing the February offensive round Fleury. Two hundred German pris- oners were captured in the Powder Gully. When the scrap was over, Z had the prisoners lined up with- out arms in two files; I picked out twenty and sent the remaining 180 back into the trenches. Then I had them done in. My men hesi- tated, of course, to begin with, but when I repeated the order they went for the prisoners . . .” tt the monologue at this point to think a little and to allow you to think of le real meaning of these words which were caught up into the air of this cafe in Antibes, round the marble tepped tables, in the ccrner of a rcom where one or two country figures formed the background, while an obliging waiter hurried to and fro with cups and glasses clinking on his well-loaded tray. The slang expression “doing them in,” a kind of pirouette in words, was used by Major Mathis to avoid a clear description of the butcher's work he was talking about. What it really means is this: men—one hundred and eighty of them, an endless line—standing up in a trench, without arms, trembling, seare-eyed, guilty, by all accounts, of nothing more than obedienq: to their leaders; and at these young victims other men armed with bay- onets and knives were to rvsh, slit throats and stomachs in cold blood, without any “flying start,” as runners say. Imagine the scene. The blood- thirsty command is given. The sol- diers hesitate. Kill all these young fellows, never seen before, stand- ing a few yards away? It was too much; their Umbs are paralysed. The majcr remembers how titey hesitated—a point very much in his favor, since he overcame 14 triumphantly. They must obey. Promises, threats. What were his gesticulations in that moment? What did he yell? Then, no doubt, a push, and he sends off one re- luctant soldier down the hill; one of them summons up enough de- termination to lay hold of a living body standing before him, slits throat or runs him through the belly. Then off starts another, and another, and another, seized with black and hideous frenzy, goaded on by the screams, by the fresh blood streaming from these and mangled bodies. te in circulation that the 31st Infan- try regiment is to be dispatched to China. In order to master the Japanese rival, President Roosevelt is adyo- cating the setting up of an. anti- Japanese united front. He has al- ready discussed his project with representatives of the big Powers, LESSON TO WORKERS February 24 has also another les- son for the workers. It has proved that the imperialist Powers observe and obey the “great principles” of the League of Nations only 50 long as these “great principles” serve their interests. If the League had forbidden Poland to seize the capi- tal of Lithuania and Upper Silesia by force, if the League had raised its protest against the bombard- ment of Corfu by the Italian fleet, against the occupation of the Ruhr area by the French troops, against Great Britain’s robber-campaign in Egypt and France's robber-cam- paign in Morocco and Syria, then Poland, Great Britain, France and Italy would long since have turned their backs on the League of Na- tions. Contrary to the stupidly blind be- lievers in the League of Nations, this episode must be regarded as a further confirmation of that cri- ticism which the international Communist movement has for years levelled against the Geneva insti- tution of the imperialist war-mon- gers. In addition, however, we must not forget that war is already raging and that another is ap- proaching with terrible rapidity. Never was it more urgent than now to rouse the vigilance of the work- ers, LIST OF AIRSHIP DISASTERS By HOWARD CRAIG NEW YORK, April 6— The de- molition cf the Akron, climaxes a Jong series of similar accidents, that has caused the deaths of many young workers, and the futile des- truction of millions of dollars, wan- tonly squandered by world-wide imperialism. Of such major disasters in recent years, four have occurred to ships owned by the United States. The 2ZR2, constructed in England at a cost of $2,000,000, crashed while ill there in August, 1921. It car- ried 44 men with it to oblivion. The Roma costing $1.250,000 went up in flames in Hampton Roads, Febru- ary 1922, killing 34. The Shenan- doah, which was wrecked in a storm over Ohio, September 1925, caused the deaths of 14. To build this ship American Imperialisus ex- treesed $2,000,000 from the workers. Finally the Akron, largest of them all, which cost $5,375,000 to build, exclusive of hangar costs, exacted the frightful toll of 75 lives, 73 being members of its crew, and 2 who were killed in a rescue attempt in which a navy blimp was demo- lished. Other such mishaps that have happened elsewhere are: Zeppelin LI—Gcrman—destroyed September, 1912-15 killed. Zeppelin L2 — German—exploded October, 1915—28 killed. Airship and airplane collided. Vienna—June, 1914—9 killed. NS II—British—struck by light - ning—July, 1919—12 killed. Blimp fell in flames, Chicago— July, 1919—10 killed. Dixmude — French — struck by lightning—Dec., 1923-52 killed. Italie —TItalian — crashed near North Pole—May 1928—8 i:l/led. (9 lost lives in rescues). R-101—British—exploded — Oc- tober, 1930—46 killed, The cost was $3,000,000 to build. |camps are being opened. Berlin BERLIN, March 28 (By 2,000 workers were arrested, all the prisoners, At this camp, two Communist Party officials from Wangen are re- ported shot “while trying to escape”. One of the local leaders of the So- cial Democratic Party who is interned in this camp was so badly beaten up by the Nazi gangsters that he was unrecognizable. In Berlin, the City Council, now in the hands of the Nazis, has closed down all convalescent homes for workers’ children, and is going to use them as Nari barracks. NEW YORK—A letter, written from Germany and published in the New “Republic”, has the following passage: “At the end of the Fried- richstrasse is one of the storm troop barracks. For several days after the elections the neighbors and passers- by heard the screams and moans of people inside, until at last demands were made that the regular police take action. The police broke into the place, and in the barracks they found seventy Communists, some beaten.” MEXICAN POLICE SEIZE ANTI- DANIELS LEAFLET GUADALAJARA, Mexico, April 6.— Illegally printed Communist litera- ture attacking United States Am- bassador Josephus Daniels and de- manding his immediate expulsion were discovered and destroyed here by police yesterday. 2,000 More Jaile In Baden; Kill 2 Communist Leaders Convalescent Homes for Children Turned Into Nazi Barracks dead, some nearly dead, and all badly |. Workers’ Mail).—More stories of Nazi atrocities committed against the fighting leadership of the German working class continually come to hand. In Baden, and taken to concentration camps. At Heuberg, where the internment camp cannot hold two more ¢=—-— WORKERS DEFEAT NAZI TROOPERS AT MOERFELDEN | Fascists Invaded to “Punish Red Town” Met With Arms News sent by mail, delayed but still sHpping through the fascist dic- tatorship, brings further confirma- tion that the German workers did not, as the Nazis sought to misinform the world, peacefully accept Hitler's dictatorship. The last week of March was filled with strenuous res'stance to the dictatorship in many citics, with bloody street-fighting in some cases. Several such cases were pub- lished in the Daily Worker Yester- day. oe Le. FRANKFURT, Germany, March 21 (by mail)—In Moerfelden, ‘near Frankfurt, where there has for a long time been a Communist majority on the Town Council, a division of Nazi storm troops who had been sent there to punish this “red town,” met with a determined resistance from the in= habitants, who heroically with wea- pons in their hands threw the Nazi bandits out of the town. Seize Motor Trucks of operatives before March 31, money invested after that date. The workers’ co-operatives. Confiscate Trucks ‘The motor trucks of the co-opera- tives in Wittenberg, Halle and Merse- burg have been confiscated by the police on the ground that “they might be used for the transport of illegal arms.” When some of the cap- italist creditors of the co-operatives intervened, the police turned back the trucks, with the stipulation that ® policeman should always ride with the chauffeur, Finally, even this per- mission was withdrawn “because the chauffeurs might murder the police- men.” All the business managers of the co-operative stores in the Schwarzen- berg area have been arrested by the Nazi police, Cat a Dueling Cor BERLIN, April 7.—The practice of duelling is not only to be re-estab- lished, but will be required by law according to the “Voelkische Beo- bachter,” official Nazi organ. The Prussian gentleman “should take a weapon in his hand to avenge an in- sult instead of going before a judge and having his honor measured by legal paragraphs,” the paper com- ments, This 1s part. of the Nazi attempt to give the German upper Class a militaristic training and tradition to prepare them as officer cadres in the coming war. It also serves to empha- size class divisions. FASCISTS ORDER GERMAN WORKERS 10 WITHDRAW FROM CO-OPERATIVES Co-ops in Three Cities; Make Dueling Compulsory LEIPZIG, March 26 (By mail).—The Nazis have stuck placards up all over the city, demanding that the workers withdraw from the workers’ co- threatening that they are liable to lose their Naxis, whose boycott of the big stores has failed ignominiously are now concentraiing ail their forces to smash the NAZIS AND BIG. ~ BUSINESS TAKE TIGHTER CONTROL BERLIN, April 7—The biggest German capitalists today pledged support to the regime of their repre- sentative, Hitler. The Executive Com- mittee of the Federation of German Industries, which includes the great industrial barons of Germany, met under the chairmanship of Krupp yon Bohlen, and unanimously adopt- ed @ resolution “welcoming the de- cision” to reorganize the Federation, and “expressing readiness fully to support the labors” of the Hitler goy- ernment. To make such reorganiza- tion easier, the entire executive has resigned. The reorganization of German ip- dustry is a pretext for the further consolidating of business in the hands of the big monopoly concerns, Under fascism, we thus find an. ap- parent more direct control of busi- ness by the state, but with it, actu- ally, a more direct control of the state by big business. Americans to take an aititude of moral indignation, Hitler said: “The draw the practical political conse- quences from the ineouality of races. Through immigration laws Arerica barred undesirables from other races.” Another example is the reply of a Nazi, head of the National Soc'al- ist student organizations, to the quesiton—“Do you approve of tor- ture for the Jews?” “I do not,” he answered, “but we must make it as disagreeable as possible for them, so that as many as possible will leave Germany, and then the rest we should like to treat about the way you treat your Negroes in the Southern and the Macon, being buili, which cost $2,450,000. Moreover about $4,000,000 has been expended on a dirigible base at Sunnyvale, Cal. and a similar amount at Letzchnurct. Tt is estimated, $40,000,000 has been squan and more than 360 young men, who could have occupied useful posi- tions in society perished as a result _ A the Los In addition the United States has Angeles stored at Lakehurst of the stupendous naval programs of the world imperialist powers, American people were the first to NAZIS DECLARE AMERICAN RACIAL PERSECUTION TO BE THEIR MODEL Would Treat Jews, “About the Way You Treat Negroes,” Says Hitler Lieutenant | BERLIN, April 7.—Hitler’s first staz¢oment on anti-semitism since he be- came Chancellor was made yesterday in a speech to the German Federation of Medical Associations, from which Jews have been excluded. He confessed. himself a student of American methods. Defending the Nazi persecution of the Jews and attzcking the right of PRY {States in America.” The lynch rule in the South and the discrimination shown in UL 8. immigration laws against Chinese ‘and Japanese workers, are claimed Tenis a5 a justification for cf oppression, * Gesman Facc'sm is taking lessons from the lynch tzaditions of Ameri+ can capilali Military Training Is Decreed in Chile far All Schoo] Children ant: 6s, * Tha oMeal cxpianetion ooys that this je “to combat Communist agitation, the schools”. _"