The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1933, Page 4

<dlished oy 23th St., New York City, ¥. Address and mall cheeks te the Dalty Worker, the Loa.prugail, ming Lo. Page Four Red Armies on Six Fronts Drive Into New Areas Chiang’s ‘Anti-Communist Campaigns Are Nullified As Soviet Forces Sweep On SHANGHAI, April 10.—The armies of the Chinese Soviets are making tremendous advances which have already obliter- ated the victories of General Chiang Kai-shek’s last three anti red campaigns, according to Hallett, Abend, notoriously anti. Communist reporter for the N. Y. Times. 7 verg-© | The red armies are converg-0) it army divisions in the South in| ing on Hankow, the Pittsburgh | order to crush the peasant and work- of China, center of steel, ship | ers Soviets, while he sent only four building, and coal, along four differ-| ‘divisions north to guard Peiping tnt ing; of advance. Red armies are | against the Japanese advance. Of moving from Szechwan Province in| the eight divisions sent against the | the far west into Hupeh Province. | Communists, five are admitted by At the same time Ho-lung, red army | POurgeois sources to be already un- eader, is leading the Red Army |‘eliable. A report of serious dissatis- | troops in Northwest Hunan, and/| faction has been brutally suppressed. driving from there toward Poyang | These divisions are refusing to carry Lake which guards the Southeast-|0" the work of butchering the Chi- e pr to Hankow, From the | ese people for which they were em- Communist armies from Kiang- | ployed, and have consistently retreat- invading Hupeh Province at | ©@ before the Soviet armies. and ere approaching| Meantime, reports of Civil War| x |near Pukow on the north bank of The fourth military advance is | the Yangtse opposite Nanking led to @ serious break in the Shanghai stock and bond market yesterday. The fall of Hankow, toward which the Chinese Soviet forces are again advancing with tremendous strides, | would mean that the Yangtze Valley, through Hinkwo toward Tayeh. The red armies have captured Fu- | chow and d : mn rapid 300-mile advance Changsu which fell into the the Sovie a2 few days ago. In recently aue., . Telephone ALgonquin 4-79. Cable “DAIWORK.” Gsily waeept Sunder, al bv & 80 B. 190% Ob, New York, N. f. RR. MEN OUT FOR MORE WAGES, Struggle Spreading Thru Free State; North May Join | DUBLIN, April 10.—Workers on the Great Southern Railway went | on strike today, after a mass meet-| ing had decided to repudiate the! settlement fixed up by the trade | union leadership with the compa-| nies. The workers are demanding | an increase in wager. Five thousand Dublin raflway- men are out. No trains were per- mitted to leave the Irish capital last night. The strike is spreading through the whole Free State, and it seems likely that the entire railroad serv- ice of Ireland may be stopped since the settlement in the Great North- ern Railway strike may be repudi- ated by the workers. This strike was against a proposed wage cut of 10 per cent, and was ended only after the Northern railways had been | tied up for over nine weeks. | | | | | | | And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hantl by enforced destruction of = mass | of productive forces; on the other, | | by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploita- tion of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more exten- | sive and more destructive crises, “no. 5S Anhwei the Lotien-Hwangan-Schang- | the industrial center of China, falls chen triangle is already in the hands | under the control of the advancing | and by diminishing the means | whereby crises are preyented.—Com- | munist Manifesto. | Simon and Ovey, spokesmen ia 4 Soviet armies. of the Sovie Editor's Note:—Hankow is situ- ated in Hupeh Provincé, a densely populated industrial region in the center of Chna. Hunan is a large province directly th of Hankow. Kiangsi Province heast of Han- kow and rs Hunan on the West, while Szechuan is a large mountain- ous region the extreme west of China proper. Anhwei is northeast of Hankow and near the nationalist capital of China, Nanking. Hankow | Japan for War on is about a thousand miles directly to | the south of Peiping, 500 miles north | Roosevelt’s “Secrecy” Bill Hides War Plot Yardley’s Book Was to Show Intrigue With| to U.S.S.R. and Kalinin is chairman of Russian Congress of Soviets. charged with espionage and wrec! 1 ESMOND and MICHAEL I. KAUINDY threatening breach of relations with the Soviet Union unless the British spies and sabotagers are released without trial. Simon i minister of foreign affairs for Britain and Ovey is its ambassador Litvinov and Kalinin are spokesmen of the workers’ and peasants. Litvinoy is Peoples Commissar for Foreign Affairs, the Executive Committee of the All In the center is a picture of one of the arrested British citivens, of British capitalist imperialism king of Soviet industry. ‘ULRICH TO PRESIDE AT TRIAL OF ENGINEERS ACCUSED OF SABOTAGE of Canton) ek, leader of the Na- butcher of ts in 1927, left Y FROM JAPAN stiffening of Defense Due to Mass Pressure TIENTSIN, China, April 10—Sudden Chinese resistance to the Japanese advance has led to the recapture of Chinwangtao, and the disorderly re- treat of the Manchukuo forces from Hiayang and Liukang to Shihmenchai The Japanese are attempting to maintain their lines here, while the Chinese fore effert to force them through the Chi- | amen Pass and outside the Great Wall eniiment Ss which has jationalist Gov: ermm leader Chiang Kai- Shek. The Chinese Soviets offered are making a decisive | Soviet Territories | By HERBERT BARNES. | WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10.—The bill passed by the| | House recently providing for drastic penalties for disclosure | | of state secrets was aimed primarily at stopping the impending | publication of secret messages exchanged between the Wash-| ington administration and Tokio. Its second purpose is to clamp a censorship on govern- | | ment employes and newspaper- |men in order that the Roose- | velt government may pursue its anti- | working class policies internally and | its imperialist designs abroad with- | out the knowledge of the public. | The bill was drafted by the De- | partment of Justice on @ hurry-up | call from Secretary of State Hull. In | the house, the bill was passed 299 to | 29, under a special rule limiting de- | bate. Admunisrat‘on spokesmen re- | fused to divulge the reason for the | jtutes which could be used against | Yardley. He was released, and his manuscript returned to him. Secretary of State Hull for | Yardley, and in conference here at- | tempted to persuade Yardley not to! publish the book. Yardley refused, | and the state department hurriedly | pushed the present bill through the | house. Hardly had the bill passed the | | house before a storm of protest be- | gan. This protest has already as- sumed such proportions that the ad- | MOSCOW, April 10—The six Brit: wrecking and bribery were served with a 77-page indictment today. The Soviet government is still allowing five of them to remain out on bail. trial is to commence at noon Wednesday, pointed to preside at the special supreme Court sessions before which the men will be tried. ish engineers charged with espionage The and Vasily Ulrich has been ap- VON PAPEN ASKS | POPE FOR DRIVE. ON COMMUNISTS In Rome to Bargain for | A Crusade Upon | Workers’ Leaders | ROME, April 10—Von Papen, Hit- der’s Vice-Chancellor, who arrived in Rome yesterday, and today visited) the Pope's Secretary of State, Car-) dinal. Pacetti, was sent to secure the | enactment of an agreement between the Roman Catholic Chureh and German Fascism “for the extermina~ tion of Communism.” The collab- oration of Pope Pius XI is to be asked in the anti-Communist pro- gram under way in Germany. Goer- ing also arrived in Rome today, and Hitler is to follow shortly, after necessary arrangements have been made between Von Papen and Mus- solini, for his reception. eh eer ow These visits of the Nazi and Na- tionalist leaders to the Pope, and to Mussolini, are signs of the united front that is being constructed be- tween Fascism and the Church. The} opiate is being backed up with the club. At the same time the “na- tional” Fascisms of Germany and taly are engageing in maneuvers cen- tering around the so-called Peace Plan of Mussolini. It is rumored Hitler is willing to trade the aban- donment by Germany of union with Austria. for Italian support on the abolition of the Polish corridor. 100,000 WOMEN STRIKE IN INDIA. Wave of Strikes; Hit) Meerut Sentences CALCUTTA, India (By Mail).—A} strike wave is raging in the jute| mills at Calcutta. One hundred thousand women workers are on strike in the rice mills—the strike is| now in its ninth week. Workers’| leaders are prevented from entering) the strike area. Demonstrations, pro- test meetings, hartal and strikes are being organized against the atrocious) Meerut sentences. After the staggering sentence passed on the Meerut prisoners, the Police have begun the ruthless sup- pression of the working class move- ment by mass arrests of Communists and workers’ leaders, American Social-Democracy and Its Treachery in the World War |But the Revolutionary Movement in the United States Is Immeasur- ‘ 4 | By | Measure, except to say that the State | ministration has promised to revise 1 Department desired it. it in the senate, President Roosevelt | tne ataaes aetie. PEL Gace ‘ne | War Plots. has denied responsibility for the | to the world war, at a time when| measure, and there ts an attempt give the impression it. to Bel k | chind the hasty passage of the that he | | bili, however, les the story of im- perialist intrigue between tne United States and Japan, and the immedi- ate danger of these war plots being revealed. Yardley, author of the book “The American Star Chamber”, and former {member of the intelligence service of the army, had written a book on Japanese secret diplomacy, based on It is possible that mass pressure | will force a revision in the present | form of the bill, but not sufficient | revision to lift the ban on Yardley’s | book. ‘The capitalist government | cannot afford to have either other | imperialist nations or its own wo. ingclass know what bargains it has | we are in transition to a new round of wars and revolutions, it is neces- sary to consider how far we have advanced as a fighting force against capitalism and war. Sixteen years ago, when the ad-| ministration of Woodrow Wilson hurled the youth and young man- hood of this country into the shambles of the world war, there was no Communist Party in this country. io unite with all forces ready to carry| code messages between the Wash- on @ war against Japanese imperial- | ington government and Tokio which ism. The answer of the Nanking| he had, in some manner, intercepted. Government was to direct its forces,!In New York City last month, Yard- not aganst the Japanese imperialist| ley was taken into custody by the invasion, but in a last attempt to/ federal district attorney, and his crush the Chinese Soviets in order| manuscript confiscated. The federal to curry favor with the imperialist! government was then perplexed to powers. ‘discover that there were not sta- WESTERN AUSTRALIA VOTES TO SECEDE FROM COMMONWEALTH Action Indicates Further Loosening of British cooked up behind the scenes for the division of China and for war on the The Sociglist Party was supposed to be the revolutionary leadership of Soviet Union. Whatever modifications are made in the bill, it will remain a vicious censorship law, restricting freedom of press and speech. RAID AND ARREST COMMUNISTS IN MANY COUNTRIES ESTANBUL, Turkey, Mar. 27. (By mail).—Sixteen Communists—chiefly workers in the local rug factories— the working class, but its leaders saw to it that never, at any time between the outbreak of the war in Europe in 1914 and the declaration of war by |the United States in 1917, was there | any real struggle against imperialist: | war, From August, 1914, until April 6,/ 1917, the day the United States gov- ernment declared war, there was no question that the official leadership of the Socialist Party in the United States was merely an echo of the monstrous betrayals of the German ee ee Kaiser social- Hillquit’s Apology for Traitors. Morris Hillquit, in a series of ar- ticles in the Metropolitan Magazine Empire Ties PERTH, Western Australia, April|try in the world), and the heat | 4—In a referendum yote the state | growers, who have as their political of Western Australia voted yesterday | expression the Country Party and| to.secede from the Australian com-| certain elements of the Nationalist | monwealth. The renegade laborite Party Joseph A. Lyons, National prime mi-| Shattered by Economic Crisis | nister, who personally travelled from | Gadberra, the capitol of Australia, to Australian capitalism was hard hit ery ae, campaign against seces- | PY the economic crisis interwoven with “2 m the | the agricultural crisis. The moet from. t oor was virtually hooted from the | rerocious drives were made against British Sympathizers Win the working class, initiated by the | Although regarded as a victory for | federal labor government of Scullin thactip-called primary producers ‘eho and carried to great extremes by the : Hi labor government of Premier John T. in 1915, denied that the international socialist movement had suffered in any way from the actions of the Kaiser socialists and the social- patriots in other countries who rushed to the defense of their im~/ perialist governments. In the March, 1915, number of that magazine Hill-| quit said “The great bulk of the five and | # half million Socialists and So- cialist voters of Germany and Aus- tria spontatieously and simultane- | ously rallied to the support of their countries as soon as war had.been | declared. They had no opportunity for mutual consultation. They were arrested today in Broussa, which | the police conser the center of| Communist activtty in Turkey. | HELSINGFORS, Finland, Mar. 27. (By mail).—During the extensive po-| Uce raids throughout Finland, 27) more Communists were arrested to-| day. The total number arrested is| now 110, including many women.) Most of those arrested are to be tried | tor high treason. * BUCHAREST, Rumania, Mar. 27.—| (By mail).—The Siguranza, the Rou- | the nation lies in a draw, a cessa- fought against the policy of the Au- | stralian government in maintaining | the highest import tariff in the whole | world, the secession in reality indi- | cates further difficulties for Britain, | inasmuch as it shows that the big states of New South Wales and Vic- toria, In which are located the big cities. of Sydney and Melbourne, will more completely dominate the Com- monwealth government. It is quite certain that big British interests, such as Dalghety & Company, were giving active support to the sec jon movement. It is hardi; thatthe Commonwealth will permit complete separation. The Australian Conflict. For years, especially since the world war, the capitelist class of Australia has been moving away from Britain. Its capitalists have played off British imperialism against American imperialism to gain advan- (ages for itself. The industrialists, whose political spokesmen in New South Wales, Vic- | ‘orig. and Queensland have been the Labor Party, have erected the highest ariff walls in the world in order to ‘protec! their infant industries.” "This has affected the big pastoral | ‘oncerns, the rich owners of sheep} tations, the wool deelers (Austrate, Lang in New South Wales. But the Australian workers are magnificent class fighters and heroic- ally fought back. The bloody mine struggle that was marked by the Rothbury battle, in which one of the mine leaders was murdered by police thugs, was a landmark in labor’s struggles. Under the leadership of the Com- munist Party and the Unemployed Workers’ Movement there was a series of mass fights against evictions that echoed around the world and forced the New South Wales government to stop evictions. The Militant Minor- ity Movement has great influence among the workers organized in the reactionary unions. oa Communists Gain In Adelaite. ADELAIDE, So. Australia, April 10. —Saturday’s elections resulted in the defeat of the Parliamentary Labor Party by the Liberal and Country Parties. In Adelaide, the chief city of the state, the Communist Party candi- dates made big gains as a result of workers being disgusted with the notorious strike-breaking tactics of|is now raiser by the terror-stricken| the Hogan and Richards “labor” gov- government—bhit ernments in the waterside wegkees| neeet dangerows pert af Ms political that the wer is the result of @ clash ocrtices, (empty. a teperialist 8 the greatest wool-predweing coum. | and other manian political police, claims it has discovered 2 Communist students’ or- ganization in Kishinev, capital of Bessarabia. Six men students and four girl students, from 12 to 17 years of age, were arrested, alleged to be members of the central committee of the Kishinev students’ organization. Many more arrests are expected. 9 Cavalrymen Arrested. SOFIA, April 10—Nine cavalry fourteen soldiers of the garrison at Nikipol were arrested yesterday on propaganda among their comrades, A special session of the War Council was held ir: Sofia to consider the situation created by the formation of Communist cells in the Bulgarian army, « 6s e ‘This follows the recent dissolution by force of the Sofia, Municipal Coun- cil, to which an almost complete slate of Communist deputies had been elected; and the arrest of two Com- | munist members of the Sobranje, or National Assembly, for organizing Communist units in the army. The question of the expulsion of all Com- | munist deputies from the Sobranje bourgeois in the the aemy. ‘ troopers of the Rahovo garrison and) charges of engaging in Communist | acted on impulse, which broke through with elemental force. It was not 2 decision, not a policy— it was history, and history cannot be scolded or praised. It must be understood. “Neither England nor Russia is seriously threatened by hostile in- vasion or occupation of its terri- | . “Physically the Socialist Interna- | | tional lies bleeding at the feet of | the Moloch of capitalist militar- | ism, but morally and spiritually it | Temains unscathed.” | Hillquit tries to conceal the be-| trayal of the social-democratic lead-| ers by the contemptible slander that the millions of workers who sup- ported social-democracy were respon: sible. He does not say that at the time they needed leadership their leaders went over to the side of the war-mongers and hid behind the po- lice censorship to escape the fury of | the betrayed masses. Berger in his Milwaukee Leader, | was as outspoken as any German chauvinist against. England, declaring on August 23rd that the “action of England is the most contemptible of |any nation in this bloody struggle.”! | _ ‘The leadership of the American Socialist Party, instead of showing | powers, af ef whom ably Stronger Than in ate responsible, tried to foster the} fiction of aggressor nations attacking innocent nations. The New York} Call, in August, 1914, said: “German Socialists have taken the stand that it was necessary to repel the Russian invasion; that Russia, as a reactionary power, threatened the Socialist cause more than any other factor. But this | does not mean that they are re- | conciled to German imperialism | and militarism. It is, in their minds, a case of choosing the least of two evils, and no Socialist is hypocritical enough to make s vir- tue out of necessity.” On January 9, 1915, Comrade J. Louis Engdshl, editor of the “American Socialist,” published an editorial in support of Karl Leib- knecht’s vote against the Kaiser’s war credits and attacked the official leadership of the German social- democracy. For that he was threat- ened with removal by the National Executive Committee. While carrying out such open sup- port of the social-democratic leaders of Germany and of other countries it was necessary for the Socialist Party leadership to indulge in pactfist gestures to maintain leadership over the rank and file Socialist Party members and supporters. This was done by adopting a “peace policy,” which demanded an ‘end to the war with everything remaining just as it was before. This was stated by Hill- quit. in the Metropolitan Magazine articles, as follows: | “From the true Socialist view- point the most satisfactory solution | of the great sanguinary conflict of tion’ of hostilities from sheer-ex- haustion without determining any- thing.” it is clear that such a position is & mockery of any effective anti-war} struggle. There is not the faintest| semblance of anything relating to the class struggle in such a policy. It is, of a piece with the viewpoint of Trotsky, who put forth the. slogan “neither victory nor death,” as against Lenins demand to utilize the eco- nomic and political crisis arising out of the war to turn the war between nations into a civil war against capi- talism. Such a slogan is the same as stand- ing on the platform of a social- chauvinism. It means to abandon the class struggle and to defend “one’s own” government from de- feat. Denounced Fighters Against War. As against such capitulation to im- perialism the Bolsheviks, under Lenin, put forth the only correct revolu- tionary policy for the fight against war; that was that it is the duty of revolutionists to fight “their own” capitalist class, to do everything pos: sible to bring about the defeat of “one’s own” imperialist. government— thereby weakening the ruling class so 1917 of the heroes of the Second Interna- tional the revolutionary vanguard of the working class has moved forward, organized the Communist Interna- tional and, today, the sections of the Communist International carry out in practice the Leninist position— that is to say, the only revolutionary | Position—in the fight against im-} perlalist war. | As the United States imperialist | power plunges toward war greater) demands for organizing the struggle | against capitalism and war imposed | upon the working class and its revo-| lutionary vanguard, the Communist Party of the United States. In spite of all the weaknesses of the revolutionary movement, no one can deny that we are so immeasur- ably stronger today than we were on the eve of the declaration of war in 1917, that comparison seems al- | most grotesque. First and foremost we have a Com- experiences of the World War and the Bolshevik revolution in old Russia; a Party that was born in the midst of the struggle against the treachery of the leaders of the parties of the Second International. Fight “Own” Ruling Class. It is this Party that is the guaran- tee to the working class that at every step leading up to imperialist war, and during its course, there will be carried out an implacable struggle to cripple the war machine, to weaken “our own” imperialist power and to fight to turn the im- perialist war into civil war. It is the guarantee that the working class | will not be left without leadership in this war. This fight against war Is not some- thing in the future. It is a funda- mental problem of today. Nothing could be more dangerous than to underestimate the approach of an- other world war, the danger of inter- vention against the Soviet Union which grows greater with the ever- sharpening conflict between the im- perlalist powers themselves. We Can Defeat War-Mongers. While we have learned much about how to fight against imperialist war, to expose and combat the treachery of the social-fascists, there are aris- ing new illusions that need to be fought. One of the worst of these, and one that is quite prevalent, is the fatelistic illusion that war is bound to come and that with war | only will come revolution. Such a conception can only meen that we renounce the fight. to prevent war and that we abandon revolutionary activity until war comes. In prac- tice it means to stop all struggle. In this connection Comrade Kuusi- nen, in his report to the Twelfth Plenum of the Executive Committee of ‘the Communist International, stated: “If such an opportunist attitude was wrong four or five years ago, that more devastating revolutionary "8 could be delivered against it. se members of the Socialist! who put forth demands ap- proeching the Leninist position were roundi; denounced as “anarchists, “disrupters” bent upon swaying “so-| Jism” away from “civilized meth- | ods” of struggle onto the path of it would be a hundred times more erroneous in the present situation, with tie stabilization of capitalism a thing of the past. As far as it will not be any war first at all! It will come to reyolution before the bourgeoisie begins the war-— this is the way the question 1s put Communist i of view. dow net depend SUS CRIPTION narEsi m se ad mois: besiae alerts etc excepting Borough of Manbstian and Bronx, New York City. Porsien ond Canada: Ome year, 99; 6 months, 35; 7 months, $8. Leaders of German — Right Wing Unions Kneel to Fascism Wish to “Serve the Government With Theiw Experience” and “Recognize the State” BERLIN, March 28 (By Mail).—The General Council of the reformist federation of labor (the A.D.G.B.) has issued # statement defending the wage scale agreements and declaring} that these agreements “had always served the cause of indus» trial peace. By recognizing and using the governmental arbit- | cal of the Friends of the Soviet Union munist Party that grew out of the; depends upon our struggle, there | ration machinery the unions demonstrated their recognition of the right of the State to in- tervene between workers and employ- ers when national interests demanded it.” The statement continues to say: “The trade unions are quite pre- pared to cooperate with the employ- ers’ organizations in questions beyond the field of wages and working con- ditions, State control of such joint work can be thoroughly advantageous, could increase its value and facilitate its application. Politically the task of the trade unions can only be to represent the workers’ desires to the government and Parliament, and to | serve Parliament and the government | with their experience.” “The trade unions demand no mo- | nopoly. A real trade union, however, | must be independent both of the em- ployers and of the political parties.” The Labor Federation executives Oa have forwarded this declaration #&@ Chancellor Hitler. i “To serve parliament and the Le | ernment with their experien means that the reformist union offtg cials are willing to become part of the Fascist State. They “recognize the right of the State (that is, Hit- ler's terror regime) to intervene be- tween workers and employers.” The German trade unions, founded by the German Socialists on a class- struggle platform in the 18th cen- tury, now abjectly claim that they “must be independent of the employ- ers and the political parties. The Leiparts and Tarnows of Ger- man union officialdom are taking the last steps toward fascism on the road that D’Aragona and Modriglani took ears before towards Mussolini. Let he bureaucrats desert to Hitler—the rank and file of the organized Ger- man working class wiil not follow, but will join the Communists in prepar- ing for the overthrow of the Nazi Fascist regime. NATION WIDE PROTEST INCREASES AGAINST GERMAN FASCIST TERROR Workers of Wisconsi n, and in Rochester Demand Release of Workers’ Leaders The volume of working class protest in America against the Fascist ers continually grows. Meetings of wo | terror of Hitler's regime of murder and torture against the German work- rkers and farmers all over the United States testify to the determination of the American proletariat of factory and field to stand shoulder to shoulder in the fight against Fascism. Ceee Vahey NEWPORT, N. H—A mass meet- ing of New Hampshire workers and farmers in Newport passed the fol- lowing resolution: “We protest against Fascist dictatorship of Hitler, con- demn his reign of terror, and demand immediate release of ‘Thaelmann, | Torgler, and other class-struggle vic- | tims of Hitler's fascists.” ee. ee SUPERIOR, Wisc.—The Working Women’s Club of this town was unanimous in deciding to send a tele- gram of protest “against the vicious Fascist terror which the present gov- ernment is directing against the Ger- man working class.” eT Sy eee ROCHESTER, N. Y.—A protest meeting was held on Washington Square in Rochester, called by the Communist Party, and attended by about 300 workers. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the Hitler Fas-~| cist government, and also the Roose- | velt scheme of forced-labor camps under military supervision. 4 oe oe CHICAGO, Il.—-The Chicago Lo- have begun a series of mass meet~ ings against German Fascism. The first of a series of six was success- fully held yesterday. o 6 © ALLOUEZ, Wis.—A large meeting of workers gathered in Allouez de- clared itself “in deep sympathy to- ward the working class of Germany in its struggle for its class rights un- der the leadership of the German Communist Party” and demanded “that the German government imme- diately publish information of the whereabouts and condition of Ernst Thaelmann and other leaders of the workers, and unconditionally give them their freedom.” A telegram to this effect was sent to the German embassy. | DAVIS VISITS HITLER | BERLIN, April 10.—Norman Davis, Roosevelt's unofficial ambassador in Europe, visited the Nazi cut-throat, Chancellor Hitler recently to get fascist support for United States im- tions of defending Wali Street in- | vestments in Germany, | | | upon us alone, but also upon the | objective factors of the revolution~ ary crisis; and, im the event of the bourgeoisie beginning the war, de~ | fore we can begin the revolution, we, nothing daunted, shall utilize | the war to accelerate the revolu- tion; we shall do everything in our power to convert it into conquest of power by the proletariat. is how the question is put in a Len- inist manner.” ‘This means that today, in com- batting the war-mongers, it is essen- tial that we take up with the great- est determination every struggle against capitalism. Especially should the need for such a policy be plain today, when the Roosevelt adminis- tration more and more resoris to military measures and forms of mili- tarism in the intensified drive against the standards of life of the toiling masses. United action of the toiling masses is essential for the carrying forward of this struggle. In this situation those reactionary leaders of the So- clalist Party of this country and of other countries in the world who try © perialist policy, and to take up ques- | with their militant German comrades REPORT LUDWIG RENN IS KILLED Nazi MurderCampaign Continues Full Force BERLIN, March 28 (By Mail). —~ A dispatch from the International of Proletarian Esperantists states thas Comrade Ludwig Renn has been murdered in prison by the fascist butchers. Comrade Renn was one of the leading revolutionary writers im Germany; he was active in the anti- war fight of the International Revo- lutionary Writers’ Federation, and was President of the Association of Revolutionary Esperantist Writers. BERLIN, March 6 (By Mail).-~ ‘Two leaders of the Communist Party in Essen were “shot while attempt- |ing to escape” from prison, accord- ing to the Lokal Anzeiger. Comrades Longueville and Klassen, who were imprisoned with 400 others, were taken to the courtyard of the tem~ porary prison and murdered in cold blood by storm troop guards. The phrase attempting escape” is the international police phrase for these killings. ier ee BERLIN, April '0.—The Hitler Goy- ernment will mobilize all youths be- tween 17 and 18 in a nation-wide compulsory labor system under mili- tary discipline. Even bourgeois press correspondents recognize that this plan is aimed not at curing unem- ployment but at building up a trained reserve army for the coming war. sida ene | BERLIN, April 10—Fearing larger revolutionary demonstrations of the German workers, Hitler has declared May Day a national holiday. But an attempt will be made to turn May Ist into a day for Nazi demonstrations, Pere | PRAGUE, April 10—A German Communist, Martin, who had taken | refuge in Czecho-Slovakia, was kid~ | napped last night by four Nazis, and |taken across the German border where death probably awaits him. | Storm troopers have been instructed to form secret units in Bohemia with the purpose of wiping out “Marxism” | there. ‘Japanese Government Orders 250,000 Tons of Coal from Mexico ‘The Wall Street Journal reports that the Japanese government has ordered 250,000 metric tons of coal on a trial basis from mining come panies in the state of Coahuila, Mex- ico. The report has been confirmed by the Mexican Ministry of National Economy, which states thrt the coal | will be taken on by Japanese governs ment freighters at west coast Mez- ican ports. The Ministry declares that Japan will place further aud perhaps larger orders if it finds this coal suiteble. Why Japan skould seek to import coal from Merico, which is thou- sands of mile¢ away, when it can ob- tain all the coal it requires for its ordinary, legitimate needs from to prevent the building of a united front to fight against fascism, capi- talism and war, are yet today, in other circumstances and with other forms, actually alding the capitalist } class in its drive toward war. The heaviest blows against the | War-mongers can be delivered by @ | the every-day fight, turns the ier- | Working class that, on the basis of | nearby Munchuria, can be answered only by the closeness of a major con- | flict with the Soviet Union. Japan {is building up its reserves of such an essential war commodity as coal in order to be fulty prepared when the war finally materializes, The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family iis sentimental rific offensive against the toiling masses into 4 counter-offensive ageinst capitalism, veil, and has reduced the family relation Tela- \ y ae ey BI y i}