The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1933, Page 4

Page Feer ‘Telephone Al; Published by the Comprodaily Pubtichtag Co., Ins, dxfly exeopt Sendsy, at 8 5. Yoth St., New York City, N. ¥. juin 4.7956. Cable “DATWORK.” Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 5@ E. 15th 8t., New York, ¥. ¥, 12 in All Admit | Wrecking of the Workers Court Opens with All Health, Disproving MOSCOW, April 12.—Vaasily A. Ust power station in the Urals, now day, and was corroborated by MacDonald, that the two of them plotted with Thornton, another defendant, plotting was done in the private office of Gusev. serap iron into the transmission and Gusev said he received 3,000 rubles MacDonald who introduced Gusev our boys.” (From Our Mosco MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., April H. Macdonald, and eleven of the Russian engineers employed | _ e by Metropolitan-Vickers Co, pleaded guilty today of sabotage| TAKA and espionage when they were Halil” of the Trade Union House here today. themselves guilty on all points of the indictment. Thornton, Gregory, Monk- house, Nordwall and Cushny, British officials and employes of Vickers, pleaded not guilty The trial opened at noon before a special session of the Supreme Court of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics. ‘The Indictment. The indictment charges a whole group of engineers and technicians, including six British subjects, em- ployes of Metropolitan-Vickers, with Wrecking equipment and disorgan- izing production in several power Plants in U.S.S.R. The earlier actions of the indictment also contain charges of gathering information of military and state importance for anti-Soviet use The court session was opened by Presiding Judge Ulrich, sitting be- tween two other judges: Ludwig Mar- tens and Dmitriev (Martens was de- ported from U. S. A. in 1921 by the Wilson Administration.) whe prosecution staff was headed , prosecutor of the Rus- Federated Soviet Re by sian public, with The defens lawyers, representing individual defendants or groups of them, included outstanding Soviet lawyers like Smernoy, Braude, Hom- utov, and Dolmatov. No Sign of Bad Treatment, Five minutes before noon the de- fendants began entering thé defend- ih: ants’ box. First came the Bri 4 ‘Thornton, MacDonald, Nordwall, Gregory, and Monkhouse. tis the head of the Moscow branch of Metropolitan-Vickers. Some displayed marked neryous- mess; other affected calmness and nonchalance, but all defendants, British and Soviet citizens alike, ap- Peared in excellent health. This at ence belied the absurd inventions in the bourgeois press abroad, particu- larly in the British, concerning “tor- turing” of the defendants by the OGPU during the investigation. ‘The opening session was marked by the presence of a large number of foreign correspondents and diplomats. October Hall, where the trial is held, seats only about 500; more than half of the seats were occupied by for- eign correspondents and diplomats. Simple formalities marked the opening of the trial. The audience stood up at the request of the court attendant when the judges mounted the platforr the rear door. Presiding Judge Ulrich then asked the audience to be seated and de: clared the session open. Calling the names of the defendants, and ask- ing them routine questions concern- ing their names, age, occupations, etc., consumed only a few minutes. The defense offered no objection to the composition of the court, and the trial was on. One of the defendants could not appear and his case will be tried Separately at a later date. With the exception of Gregory, all of the British defendants speak Russian, and dispensed with the aid of an interpreter. About 10 minutes past noon, the de- tense clerk began reading the in- dictment. Upon presentation of the indict- ment, the court adopted a motion of the prosecuting attorney, the defense not opposing, as to the order in which questions would be considered begining with consideration’ of questions concerning the Zilatoust | Power Station, then the remaining | power houses, concluding with the Machines Defendants in Good “Torture” Slander Gusev, formerly chief at the Zlato- one of the defendants, testified to- to ruin the power station. The They then threw power machinery, disabling motors. from MacDonald for this. It was to Thornton, calling him “One of »w Correspondent) 12.—The British engineer W. | called to trial in the “October | They confessed | Se point in the indictment concerning ANDREY A. VISHINSKY Soviet Prosecutor SHI BAL T TRIP TOKYO, April 12—The Japanese government is having difficulties se- lecting a delegate to confer with Roosevelt preliminary to the arms and economic conferences. Former Daily, qorker BRITISH SABOTAGER CONFESSES WITH USS.R., BRITISH GOVERNMENT USING TRIAL 10 FRUSTRATE TRADE RELATIONS | IZVESTIA CHARGES (Cable From | Our Moscow Correspondent) MOSCOW, April 12.—In connection with Sir John Simon’s | reply in the House of Commons to the question asked by Mr. Cox concerning the arrest of Izvestia writes: officially published. “The fascist regime in Ger- many also arrests British subjects, but states no definite charges, con- fining itself to vague accusations | about the preparation of high treas- on. | “How does the British Foreign Min- | ister react to these two events? The | accusations made by the Soviet gov- }ernment are proclaimed in advance to be unfounded. The accusations | made by the German fascists deserve | confidence. The arrest of British cit- | izens in the U.S.S.R. calls forth im- mediate and unfounded protest, ac- | companied by threats; but the Brit- | ish Foreign Minister considers it su- | perfluous to protest: against the ar- the Moscow Bureau of Metropolitan-| Premier Takahashi was proposed, but| rests in Germany. It is not difficult Vickers. The President of the court! he pleads that he is too old to take|to see that with regard to fascist questioned the defendants one after the other as to how they plead. 13 defendants, including the British «engineer MacDonald, plead uilty on all the points of th indictment. engineer MacDonald, pleaded guilty |on all the points of the indictment. Thornton, Gregory, © Monkhouse, evening. COMMUNISTS IN PHILIPPINES WIN TWO SEATS Elect Candidates t Representatives, Despite Terror 0 MANILA, Philippines, March 26 y Mail).—Two Communist candi- have been elected to the Phil- | victory was achieved in spite of re- | Peated attempts to drive the Phil- |ippine Communist Party into illegal- |ity, and in spite of the closing of Communist headquarters in Manila, The Y¥.C.L. answered this suppression by working under cover through the Andres Bonifacio League. Comrade Robles, who was running under the Communist banner, for the governorship of the province of Bulacan, was defeated by a narrow margin. Due to conditions of partial illegal- ity, the two comrades elected were | forced to run on a nationalistic plat- |form. This omission was remedied | by explaining by word of mouth to all workers the Communist basis of | the Philippine struggle for freedom. The election of two Communist vepresentatives out of a House of | Representatives of ninety represents an enormous achievement. To the | Philippine Party belongs the honor of having elected the first Commun- ist on a national scale within the | present territory of the United States. Children Protest Nazis Saturday NEW YORK—The following or- ganizations issued a call yesterday to their members and local branches to support the children’s parade and protest demonstration against fas- cism and pogroms in Germany, to be held this Saturday afternoon. The demonstration will march to Union Square from Seventh St. and Ave. A at 12 noon. The organizations also call upon their affiliates to discuss the protest meet at their meetings prior to Sat- | urday and to urge all their members| to have their children participate: City Central Committee, Ini | @ trip to Washington, , Germany and the Soviet. Union the “The government of the U.S.S.R. has arrested several British subjects, and has presented to them definite accusations which have been¢—————————— the six British engineers, the British Minister uses two measures, adopts two tactics. “It is furthest from our intention to prompt England to these or those tactics against Germany. This whole affair interests us merely as one new and sufficiently striking illustration of the fact that the anti-Soviet cam- paign of England in connection with the trial of the Metropolitan-Vickers | employees, and the measures intended by the British government, are dic- tated by motives which have nothing | in common with the interests of the | British subjects who are the defend- ants in the trial. “The British government is obey- | ing the wishes of anti-Soviet circles, | and is making use of this trial to frustrate trade relations with the | U.S.S.R. and pursure an open course | of policy hostile to the Soviet Union.” | KING ALEXANDER Murders Jugo-Slay Workers STUDENTS VOTE ON WAR NEW YORK, April 12—The Inter- | collegiate Disarmament Council, with | headquarters in this city, announced Monday that it had begun a poll to determine how students in 730 col- leges stand on the question of par- ticipation in war. The ballot limits| the vote to three questions (1) Oppo-}| sition to all war; (2) Support’ of war if mainland of U. S. is invaded, and} (3) Support of war approved by the President and declared by Congre: Students who suppo the revolu-j tionary movement will vote against) all imperialist war, but will also state | that they will fight in a revolution-| ary war and will support wars of| oppressed peoples against the im-) perialist powers. i By NATHANIEL BUCHWALD Daily Worker Correspondent | ne | need denying the food difficul- ties in the Soviet Union. The basic foodstuffs are still rationed out, | and many items of food are hard to | obtain. There is a shortage of meat, | fats, eggs and dairy products. While | the Soviet workers eat three meals a day, the very process of obtaining | tood is sometimes irksome, and takes | up much of the leisure of the workers. | Does that mean that with respect | failed? By no means. There is more produced and consumed now in | ippine House of Representatives. This | to food the Five Year Plan has the Soviet Union than before the war. Then why the shortage? The answer is simple: there is not enough of everything for everybody. In the “good old times” of capi- talism and Czarist rule it was quite “normal” for the great majority of the population’ to live in a state of | perpetual semi-starvation. In the re- | gions hit by crop failures (a fre- quent occurrence in old Russia) | peasants died of starvation by the | thousands. | When crops were good, the peas- ants had to give up most of their grain and produce in payment of taxes and rents. The peasants toiled | so that the landlords and the capi- | talists might eat. Hunted Jobs in Winter After harvest time the peasants | were forced to look for winter em- ployment in the cities in order to | keep body and soul together. In the | cities they joined the ranks of the unemployed or miserably underpaid workers, Starvation, unspeakable congestion and perpetual want—this was the lot of the peasants and workers alike. In | those days there was no food or goods | shortage on the market. As in the | capitalist countries today, the stores | were fairly bursting with food and | good things while the mass of the | population starved. The market had | enough goods to supply the needs | of the well-to-do, but the masses of the toiling population could not af- ford to still their hunger or satisfy their elementary wants. ‘The “good old days” are gone, never to return. The millions of So- viet workers and peasants would fight to’ their last gasp to beat off the danger of a return of the old re- gime. Under the Soviet rule, all those who work can afford to eat and wear | clothes and shoes. Before the Revolution only the kulak, the hard-driving exploiter of the village, could afford to wear tional Workers’ Order. Unemployed Council ef Greater! New York. ! United Council of Working Class ‘Women. Trade Union Unity Connecil of Greater New York. Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union. City Committee of the Workers’ Clubs. 1coR, WORKERS WRITE Du Pont Starting New Rayon Plants inWash.; Can Make Gun Cotton (By a Worker Correspondent.) ANGELES, Wash.—The Olympic Forest Products Co. has shipped in 500 tons of new machinery purported to be for the manufacture af celophane and rayon. There is barrage of demagogy in regard starting up soon. a to Lord Esmondon, Naval) Advisor for England, Buying Ships Here (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y—tLord Es- mondon, formerly Sir Frederick Lewis, long active in the shipping and industrial life of England, has! been engaged during | months in buying up all the ships jhe can lay his hands on and charter- | ing those he cannot buy. | the price of a pair of boots. Home-made Japti (sandals made of bark) and coarse homespun clothes used to be the rule in the Soviet village. Now they are the exception. Demands w Greater ‘The living standards heye risen tremendously, the demand for food and goods has grown to such an ex- ya 2 that at the present stage of reconstruction it is still impossible “Every Indication of World War,” Says Regular Army Officer BUFFALO, N. ¥.—“Every indica- | another world war,” said Col. Charles | H. Morrow, commandant of the 28 the last several| infantry post at Fort Niagara, in ad-| dressing an Army Day luncheon. “You can almost hear the throbbing | Some comrades here, including; The press recently reported one| thunder of the war drums of Cen- myself, link up celophane and rayon | phase of his work in negotiating | tral Europe.” with gun cotton and other muni- tlons. Also Du Pont controls the patent rights on these two products. ‘The above, in conjunction with the initiation of the new state relief set up this week, and the organizing of the United Veterans a couple of! weeks ago, smells like fish to us, and we in the Unemployed Council are| consolidating our to fight the faerke: etre te irks dts- . merger of the Cumard and White! Star Lines Esmondson's ity in acquiring all the available shipping in England is so extensive that {t reminds one of similar activity by Lord Kylsant,| England's former shipping magnate, in 1914, before the World War. Lord Esmondson’s action % the more significant since he has re cently been appointed civilian ad- acti in ; “The peace agencies of the world Stard at the bar today. They say there shall be no more war. Where do they get thet philosophy from?) From past history? From the Bible gteat wars are raging in dif- universa) peace,’ he de- elared. Jeather boots. Now every peasant has | From the Successful First Five-Year Plan, Soviet Workers Pass to the Second | to satisfy all of the needs of all of | the population. ‘This is the explanation of the sit- uation, but an explanatign is in it- self not a solution. The Soviet work- ers are out to solve this shortage of food and goods and to meet the grow- ing demand which came into being with the improvement of the living standards. The Five Year Plan was designed precisely for the purposes pf making it possible to satisfy the rising demand of the masses of the population, and the Five-Year Plan has proved successful precisely be- cause it has created the basis for a vast extension both of agricultural output and the production of goods of immediate use. Basis for Progress Laid Y already pointed out in a previ- ous article that the upbuilding of the “heavy” (basic) industries and the reconstruction of agriculture on @ socialist basis (elimination of the exploiting kulak-class, collective and | State farms, large scale production, | chinery, etc.) have created the pos- | sibility for a still more rapid devel- | opment of the “light industry” pro- | ducing articles of consumption) and of the farm industry producing food- stuffs and raw materials for the | “light industry.” | The “Samotyok” Policy But it would be a dangerous mis- | take to think that the increase in the production of foodstuffs and raw materials will come of itself, as an automatic result of collectivization. | It is precisely this mistake that has | | resulted in much damage on the farms and has hindered the very development and strengthening of the Solhozes (collective farms) and sovhozes (state farms). In the So- | viet Union they have a special word to designate this policy of letting | things take their natural course. They call it “samotyok,” and the | “samotyok” policy has been the bane |of agriculture in many a@ section of | the country. Now, what is the situation on the Soviet} farms? The Five Year Plan has resulted in tremendous gains, in great triumphs of the socialist form of agriculture. The collective and state farms now embrace 60 per cent, of the entire peasantry, with nearly 80 per cent of the total sowing area, About 160 thousand tractors are available for the Soviet fields and farms. The production of fertilizers, though still in its beginnings, is al- ready sufficient to increase greatly | the productivity of the soil. | New Sources of Power. | The development of a vast electric | power industry has made it possible | to utilize new sources of power for | the extension of farming. The sow- ing area has been increased by tens of millions of hectares in the course of the last four yea: In a word—the Five Year Plan has created the possibility of increasing the farm output to such an extent as to satisfy the needs of the entire IN OF NEW WAR PREPARATION Green Presides at Launching of Most Deadly New Cruiser NEW YORK.—One of the modern | tion on earth today points towards! ships to be built under the Washing- | ton Naval Treaty, the “New Orleans,” ‘as launched yesterday at the Brook- yn Navy Yard, while newspapers were carrying reports of the sailing | of twelve destroyers for » “war game” ‘ft the coast of North China. | Among the notables who attended was William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, who favors help to the unemployed by building thirty new battleships. The trea imits the ship to 10,000 tons and everything has been built of aluminum, including the furni- ture, to save as much weight for the | From their knowledge of today?| unusual heayy guns. It is a most | unimpressive grey steel ehtp, with » | ferent parts of the earth today and single funnel built at an angle to the still comes the cooing dove-note of | deck, permitting quick camouflagiiz into an innocent tranip steamer or | pleasure yacht | | the use of modern agricultural ma- | { population with much to spare. Yet farm production still lags be- hind, the productivity of the soil is still low. ‘The collectivized farms and the use of modern machinery and agricultural methods have apparently not brought the results they might have brought even at this stage. What is the reason? The reasons are several, but one of the principal ones is the fact that the class-struggle in the villages is not yet at an end. It is here where the policy of “samotyok,” of letting things take their natural course, has done much damage. Aiter the ku- | laks had been defeated as a@ class, after their open resistance to ¢ol- lectivization hed been shattered, the majority of them joined the kol- hozes. Relaxed Vigilance ‘The leading’ elements in many of the kolhozes committed the costly error of supposing that with the in- clusion of the former kulaks into the kolhozes the class struggle in the vil- lage was over. The Class-vigilance | was relaxed and the kulak elements | took advantage of it. | Within the collective farms proper | they began developing their own class policy of disruption. The former en- | emies of the collectives now began parading as staunch “defenders” of | their kolhoz or sovhoz, urging the | }mass of the peasants to “protect” | | their kolhozes against the proleta- | rian state. Many a half-baked Communist in | the rural sections has slipped up on | this counter-revolutionary conception of considering the interests of the collectives as distinct from the in- terests of the Soviet State. A good many of the former kulaks succeeded in penetrating the administrative ap- paratus of the collective and state farms and even the Party ranks in order to carry on this counter-revo-~ lctionary disruptive work within the | kolhozes. | Obstructed Expansion Tt goes without saying that this | counter-revolutionary viewpoint has been 2 hindrance in the development of some of the kolhozes. For one thing, the kulak elements obstructed the extension of production. They ar- gued that a large share of the crop had. to be delivered to the state at fixed low prices, so why bother pro- ducing more than the kolhoz needs for its own use? They managed to influence the most backward elements of the kol- hoz membership, playing upon their imdividualistic proprietary _senti- ments and sowing among them the | idea of contradiction of interests as between the kolhoz and the Soviet State. From this to direct sabotage and | swindlimg the state was but one step. |'The sabotage expressed itself in in- tentionally poor work, in failure to sow. the allotted area, in failure to | harvest the crops on time, etc. The | swindling expressed itself in falsi- fying figures about the extent of the crop and in hiding some of it. Organized Pillaging ‘There have also been cases of or- ganized pillaging of kolhoz prop~ erty by kulak elements within the kolhoz. While in most districts the schedule of grain deliveries to the state has been fully met, in others the kulek tactics were success‘u! both | in curtailing production and.in re- | ducing the state deliveries. | It has been proved in the course | of this year’s grain collections that wherever the local Party leadership has been on guard sgainst the kulak disrupters, the kolhozés and sov- hozes worked well and had no trou- ble in meeting the state quotas, with plenty to spare for the needs of the kolhoz and for the free market. A number of districts fulfilled their grain obligations to the state ahead of time, and the peasants in those districts brought quite a bit of their surplus to the market, : On the otier band, it bas been es- it wherever the collective badly and failed to fulfill the pragram, the failure was directly traceable tu *kulak influence, some of which has iound its way even into the local Pariy organiza- tions. steageie Must Continas In other words, the success and fase of war, | immmtaenine ok Tay of the ep}jes- | cultural machinery myst be devel- | | tive farms still depend upon the con- | tinued class struggle against the ku- | lak influence in the villages. The | class. of kulaks has been defeated, now the kulak influence in the col- lectives has to be wiped out. This ap- pears to be the first and foremost task now facing the leading ele- ments ‘in the villages. ‘The results of the open class war- fare against the kulaks, when the latter resisted the collectivization movement, are beyond doubt: the masses of poor and middle peasants won out and the socialist form of production triumphed cver tho u- scale capitalist form. But the costs of that phase of the class struggle are still felt. The wholesale slaughter of cattle carried out by the kulaks in their fight against collectivization resulted in aj) Shortage of meat and dairy products, which is still serious. It will be a) couple of years before the extezsive program of catile-breeding will be developed to a point of assuring the | entire population a plentiful supply | of these staples. The meat situation, however, is getting better and better. as may be seen by the increasing meat rations for industrial workers and their families. Ready to Realize Possibilities ‘The Five-Year Plan has created | the organizational and material basis | for a vast extension of agriculture, | for a greatly increased productivity of the soil with a consequent increase in the total output of foodstuffs and raw materials. It is during the sec- ond Five-Year Plan that these possi- bilities will be fully realized. ‘The collective farms need strength- ening not only politically (eliminat- ing the class influence of the ku- laks) but also technically and or- ganizationally. More farm experts and skilled mechanics are needed; the production of tractors and agri- | | oped still more to meet the needs of the entire country. The fertilizer in- dustry, too, is only in its beginnings. ‘The further extension of the heavy industry (coal, metal, auto and ma- chine building) is still an urgent ne- cessity' in order to realize fully the possibilities of the reconstructed rural economy. But the achievements of the first Five-Year Plan have already created the basis for a great increase of the agricultural output with a consequent further improvement of the material level of the population, The Five-Year Plan, too, has cre- ated the basis for an enormous ex- tension of the light industry with a view to meeting the constantly in- creasing demand (a result of the improved living standards) of the entire population. (The shortage of SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mall everywhere: One year, $6: six months, $5.00; 3 months, $2; 1 month, 7e, excepting Borough of Manhatten and Bronx, New York City, Foreign and Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, $5; ? months, $3. ae Jugo-Slav Naval Sailors Mutiny in 2 Main Bases Government Fearing Army Will Revolt Hires White Guard Russians to Patrol Borders Savage Repression and Arrests Visited on the Communists and Nationalist Groups VIENNA, April 12.—Jugosiay sailors have mutinicd on warships sta- itoned at Ragusa and Cattaro, according {o capitalist press dispatches. This news has led to a renewed wave of repression by the Jucosiay reyal dice tatorship. Personal letters to Jugoslay residents here show the sifustion to be as follows: —_—— Russian White Guards have been sent to patrol the borders and guard the railroad lines, displacing the regular gendarmerie. Herzegovinan troops are being transferred for ser- vice in Serbia, while Serbian reg ments have been shifted to Herz The wave of arrests has spread from the extreme left to the center and right. The leaders of the boure landlord parties, who advocate a constitutional kingdom, are suppressed and imprisoned. In govina. The government fears that 2ddition the most prominent leadera the revolutionary movement will suc- | °f the bourgeois-revolutionary move- ceed in bringing the army over to its, ™enis are in jail side. The Balkan Anti-Fascist Commit- tee is holding an indoor protest dem- %, at 0 pm, W. 24th St. New York City. Mass Arrests Mass arrests of Communists taking place daily, as the onstration on May at 108 among the Croats and Slovenes, the . Me Subject peoples of Jugoslavia, is in- ja is a member of the tensifying, while sections of p= ontrolled Little Entente. bian population are being dr With the growth of the Ttaic the struggle. One hundred and six! prisoners belonging to the revoluti ary Serbian organization recently de- German politi preparing for the basis of cor clared a hunger strike against the} tatorship on mor fascist abominable conditions of torture pre- lines. The upsurge of the revolution- vailing in the prisons. The dictator- of the peasant and ary movement ship has tightened its grasp to such) 1 masses, fianked by na- an extent that it is impossible to olutionary activity in travel ten miles in Jugoslavia with-| Croatia and Herzegovina, therefore out a passport. The population of insurgent districts, especially Croatia, is being terrorized by the gendarmes. Houses are being burned and cattle becomes even more dangerous to the Serbian rulers than before, and rouses their most extreme efforts at sup- pression. RED UNITY LIST WINS IN GERMAN SHOP ELECTIONS DESPITE TERROR in Nazis Launch Campaign of Atrocities Revenge; Stewards Jailed, Abused BERLIN, April 12—On March 21) ries of special police appeared, occu- the election for the factory commit- | pied the works and arrested all mem- tee of the Osram Works took place.} bers of the factory committee, taking In spite of the Nazi terror the Red|ihem to the building of the Military Unity List won a convincing victory.| Command in the Papestrasse. The The results are: examining official called the secre- Red Unity List—768 votes, 5 seats! tary of the reformist Metal Workers’ (formerly 3). | Union and declared that the Social- Reformist List—876 votes, 6 seats| ist members of the factory commitiee (formerly 10). | would be released if they agreed noi Nazi List—336 votes, 2 seats. | to put up a list in the coming elec- * bi s | tions. Urich at first refused to give SAARBRUECKEN, Germany,|a definite reply. The official de- April 12—The. Communist Party is|clared that he would give him four distributing hundreds of thousands of| days to resign voluntarily, if not, illegal leaflets, and is leading the} then—he made an unmistakeable struggles of the factory workers. | gesture toward the cellars whence The workers of Danneberg’s at) cries of pains and groans of the ill- Karlsruehe prevented the victimiza-| treated prisoners could be heard. tion of two revolutionary workers by| Under pressure, all members of the proclaiming their readiness to strike.) factory committee signed a paper In Berlin-Neukoeln, the workers | agre( to resign “voluntarily” from. went on strike when storm troopers| the committee and not to run in mutilated a well-known revolutionary| the coming elections. After this they worker. The police were forced to| were released. tree the worker from the fascist pests. | Pistols At Temples. The Red Unity List has obtained) Nazi storm troops occupied the considerable successes against the| buildings of the Berlin Bewag (Pub- Nazis in several factory council elec-| lic Transport) at the Schiffbauer- tions, e.g. in the Gas Works of Ber-|damm. All members of the factory lin, in the Textile Works Wagner in| committee, with the exception of the Berlin-Freiderichshain, in the Weay-| two Nazi stewards, were arrested. ing Millzell (Westphalia), etc. | They were forced to march with re- * > bi | volvers placed at their temples for BERLIN, April 3 (By Mail).—The/ hours singing “Deutschland Ueber Nazi drive to control the trade unions) Alles.” Before being released, they is being carried out by means of in-| were forced to sign a paper stating tensified terror, and is developing | that they had been well treated. The mass resistance on the part of the| arrested men stated that about a German proletariat and local united| hundred workers and intellectuals fighting fronts in the factories. Doz-} are held prisoner in the barracks, ens of cases of Nazi arrests and tor-| Many of the prisoners are in such ture of Communist and Socialist shop; a bad condition that they could not stewards are being reported every| be recognized on account of the ter- day. | rible beatings they received at the On March 30th a Jarge group of| hands of the storm troops. All the Nazis raided the Osram Works in) time the 135 Bewag workers were de- Berlin East, Warsaw St. Three Com-| tained, the cries of the prisoners con- munists leaving the building were/| tinued. hiker eae) placed under arrest. The Nazis de-| clared they would return to get the’ BERLIN, April 12—In Spandau, a | young worker who joined the Com- rest in a few days- munist Party in 1931 was arrested by Bar Communist Stewards. On the same day, Nazis raided the | the Nazis on March 11. He was ter- Siemens Plania factory in Lichten-| ribly beaten with iron bars until his berg and searched for Marxist litera-| skull was broken. He was found dead ture. Communist and Socialist can-| next morning in the Karolinenhoche didates were forbidden to run in the estate with twelve bullets in his body. coming shop steward elections. | In Falkensee, three socialist func- In the Knorrbremse works of Ber-|tionaries were beaten with batons and lin-Lichterfelde, a delegation of five| kicked until they were unconscious. Nazis demanded that the red shop) After six hours they were found and stewards be expelled from the factory taken to the hospital. committee. The committee refused. In Berlin, a 57-year-old worker was The Communist and Socialist mem-/| taken to the Nazi home in the Pank- bers decided to call a joint meeting) stvasse. There he was beaten with of functionaries of the red trade, clubs and threatened with death. He manufactured goods and the prob- lems of thé light industry: will be | discussed in a succeeding article.) : unions and the reformist German} at present in a hospital, All his Metal Workers’ Union, An hour be-| ha bloodshot; his eyes are swol- fore-the time of the meeting, two lor- len, and he has a five-inch wound MOSCOW, April ‘12 (From | Our, Moscow. Correspondent)—With re- gard to the forthcoming negotiations |, to be‘held et Washington, the new: paper “For Industrialization” write: “The very list. of countries to: whom invitations were sent shows that at ‘Washington not only the debt situa- tion will be discussed, but the whole complex of economic questions now nting the world, and also a number of political questions beyond the limits of the agenda of the future London World Economic Confer- ence. ‘ “Tt ts by no means impossible that} the calling by the U. 8. A. to Wash-| ington of representatives of various | states to carry out preliminary work! for the London Conference is con-| nected with the State Dopartment’s pean Directory, which the next attempt at the organization lof a ‘united European front’ against | America.” U. 8. 3. B. Not Invited. worries over the scheme of a ‘Furo-| the whole globe? American | public opinion cannot help seeing as/ | | “Washington Conference Without Us, Against Us’, Says Moscow Press tion” calls attention to the fact that) its international political and eco. the U. S. 8, R. has not been invited | nomic importance. to participate in the Washington! al rs negotiations. It writes further: “It is| , BS Om the Alert! quite natural that this circumstance “One of two things must be true: cannot help arousing perplexity in! either the members to be present at the Soviet Union. It is incompre-| the forthcomiig Washington nego- hensible to see how it should be pos-| tletions treat these negotiations with sible to discuss, with any chances of | # complete lack of seriousness, be- success, world economic problems, leving that there is scant possibility with the U. 8. 8. R. excluded. How,|0f achieving any concrete results; or for example, can you speak of in- else these States are striving to at- ternational ents in the world! tain objects which would be rather wheat market without one of the | @Wwkward to discuss in the presence most important world-exporters be-| of the U.S.S.R. ing present? “In these circumstances, it is na- “How is it possible to outline in any| tural that we cannot but be greatly seriousness schemes for the €.pan-/ ning the forthe sion of the international trade (urn-, comin t over without the participaon of 1 country which occupies 0} th of This exclusion ‘s; sore probien apitalist world the more difficult to untierstan, at the expense of the U.S.8.R. Our since the capitalist world is becom-! rich experience in the past gives us ing ever increasingly submerged in sufficient reason for thinking that a crisis, while the U. S. S. R., after! similar attempt will be made this successfully fulfilling its first Five- time. Public opinion in the Soviet Year Plan, is still growing and buiid~| Union is justified in saying: ‘With- ing, and thereby steadily increasing oul us—Comsequently against ws’*