The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1933, Page 4

Page Four Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc. 18th St., New York City, N, ¥. Telepl Address and mail checks te the Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th St., ALi Pravda Denounces Spy Plot to Cripple Industries That Workers Build in U.S.S.R. ; 4 Bribed Russian Engineer Working With English Spies and Destructionists; Objects of Dis- gust to Whole Working Class, Says Izvestia Ss Exposed As Scum daily oxeept Sanday, at me B, in 4-7956. Cable “DAIWORK.” ew York, N, . AGE By Mall everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, Se, excepting Borough ef Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign and Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, $5; 7 months, $3. SOLDIERS REPRESENTED AT THE ANTI-WAR CONGRESS L Carl Geiser, Delegate to Montevideo Will Re- port Next Wednesday at Irving Plaza Carl Geiser, delegate who t re-) ed that her son was not yet fourteen, of Old Ruling Class 7 | turned from’ the South American| she was told to keep her mouth shut, | Anti-War Congress, will give a de-| and the boy taken away. | tailed report of the Congress at a) “Right in Uruguay, which is con | mass meeting of workers, profession-| sidered the ‘Switzerland’ of South jals and students on Wednesday,| America, aystarved, overalled dele- (From Our Moscow Correspondent.) the defendants who are Soviet cit-; peasants—all the toilers in the U.S.S. MOSCOW, April 17.—A Pravda ar- ticle discussing the trial of the wreck~- ers and spies writes: “Of the eighteen ts, eleven are Soviet citize Who are they? They are shadows from the slave days in the Russia of yesterday. They are left over frag- ments of the pre-revolutionary ruling further gives some bio- graphical data concerning those of CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST SOVIET UNION BACKED Says Dail (From Our Moscow Correspondent) MOSCOW, April 17—The conclu- sion of the testimony phase of the trial permits us to make a review of he evidence presented and of the general character of the case. Of he 17 defendants, 12 have pleaded guilty, fully confessing to acts of bribery, espionage, wrecking, and the plotting various criminal acts cal- culated to undermine the defensive power of the Soviet Union in the case of war. Among those who confessed n open Court is MacDonald, one of the employees of the Metro-Vickers Co., who admitted his own part in the business of espionage and wreck- ing, and also gave evidence which in- volved Thornton and other Vickers engineers, as well as some of he Soviet engineers on trial. Thorn- on’s earlier testimony constituted a complete confession of his counter- revolutionary wrecking and spying activities, and contained the decla- ration that the espionage work had been guided by the British intelli- gence service through Richards, ex- intelligence officer in the British in- terventionist army of the Archangel expediti now Export Director of the Metro-Vick Company. Though Thornton made futile attempts to deny truth of his earlier testi- mony, crushing evidence has been brought out which completely proves t They Hated Workers’ Rule. The Soviet engineers and employ- ees on trial are by their own confes- sion a gang of counter-revolutionary | sabotagers who deliberately took the path of wrecking and disorganizing Soviet industry, striking at its most vital part—the electric power sta- tions—in order to undermine the de- fensive capacity of the U. S, S. R. and disrupt socialist construction In varying degrees these counter- revolutiona criminals were actu- ated by motives of material gain, but all of them knew and approved of the anti-Soviet intent of the activi- ties in ich they had engaged Among these self-confessed counter- revolutionary wreckers and spies are men like Gussey, Sokolov and Laba~- nov, who hated the rule of the work- rs and peasants, and were only too vager to avail themselves of the op- portunity of doing wrecking and espionage work under the expert di- rection of the British engineers who are now on trial. Gussey and Soko- lov had in 1918 been fighting the reyolution in the white guard army of the bandit Kolchak. Lobanov had | dreams of restoring the capitalist regime, and eagerly embraced the chance of engaging in counter-revo- lutionary work. The others fully re-| alized that they were embarking on| the road of high treason, but were, willing to risk their necks in order to| obtain some ill-gotten money and to| give vent to their grudge against the | triumphant proletariat. PROVOCATIVE CAMPAIGN AGAINST SOVIET J. apanese White Guard Pre: Soviet Campaign on Chinese Eastern | BULLETIN MOSCOW, April 17.—Leo Kara khan, assistant Commissar of For eign affairs made sharp verbal protest to the Japanese embassy yesterday against anti-Soviet pro- vocations carried on in Manchuria. by Japan. | A Soviet whart was seized by the | Japanese in Manchuria April 11, | and murders and robberies of Sov-. | jet citizens are frequent occurences, Karakhan told the Japanese em- The Commissar demanded immediate reply Japanese will provocation: an on what action take to stop these MOSCOW, April 17.—Izvestia re- printed a dispatch from Chita in Eastern Siberia, yesterday, accusing Japan of preparing to seize the Chi-| nese Eastern Railway on May 1. Telegrams from Khabarovsk, a/| Soviet town on the Manchurian bor- der, to the Moscow press, state that| in recent days the Japanese White | Guard Press, headed by the semi-| official Kokytsi Agency, has been stirring up a vicious anti-Soviet cam- paign directed against the Soviet di- rectors on the Chinese Eastern Rail- wey adrAinistration The basis for this proyocatory cam- paign is the allegation that engines Y system. Japanese officials on a Correspondent in Moscow Metro- | izens, showing that all of them in the past were either white guards, bourgeois or kulak. | The article in Pravda continues: | “Look at this human refuse, these scoundrels selling themselves whole- sale and retail to the interventionists. “We Build—They Destroy.” | “They wanted to deal a blow in the| most sensitive place. They caused a} great deal of damage. We build up,} and they destroy. The workers and| BY GREAT BRITAIN: } They committed these dastardly) }acts of treason against the socialist fatherland the more easily since they | | Yrealized that they were being backed | up by foreign agents and agencies.| MacDonald, for instance, had prom- ‘Output Rise Baa | U.S.S.R. Exposes British Press Lies MOSCOW, April 17.—It is sig-| | nificant that while the British im-| | perialists are claiming that the| | Metro-Vickers trial is a device of} | the Soviet Government to cover) | up the economic failure and col- | | lapse of the Soviet economy; the | production figures in the basic in-| | dustries of the U. S. S. R. show| | steady and day by day improve- ment. period April 8 to 12, inclusive, as| | follows: April 19 at 8:30 p.m., at Irving Plaza,| gate, representing an Unemployed Irving Place and 15th St. hes S eaaare of the foreign spies who were caught | “Gang of Counter-Revolutionary Sabotagers”,, | R.—keep secrets of national impor- tance, these people divulge them. We) inerease the electric power stations, they try to diminish them. We strengthen the defensive power of our country, they attempt to shat- ter it. “Workers, pezsants, Communists of the U.S.S.R.—be vigilant. It is neces- Sary mercilessly to punish the wreck- ers, spies, destructionists, brought to light by the trial. The class enemy must be exterminated.” Izyestia on the Spies. An Izyestia editorial discussing the trial writes: “The examination of the defendants is nearing an end. The, bourgeois papers, craving sensations, were primarily interested in the fate | redhanded. But the public opinion In an interview with the Daily er, Geiser said, “The most im- thing about the Congress | at a large proportion of the | 466 delegates were directly elected from anti-war committees in shops and factories. Poyerty-stricken work- ers of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru sacrificed from their meager wages to send these delegates through military and police terrorized areas | to attend this great Congress.” | Great Majority Worker-Delegates ; “Of the 466 delegates, 392 were | Workers, 45 students, and the re- mainder professionals and intellec- tuals. Most of the delegates had to rested on their way home. | cases, | | come illegally, and many were ar-| In many} meetings to elect delegates] | were broken up, and delegates ar-| i the} Council, told about the enormous sums the Uruguayan government spends for munitions, but not a cent for relief. Despite his thin, weak appearance, he spoke in a voice of steel when he talked of the organi~ zation of the unemployed to fight for relief and against war. Negro and White Seamen Embrace “One of the high spots of the Con- gress,” said Geiser, “was when a Negro marine worker from Brazil and the marine worker delegate of the American Committee for Struggle Against War, Naylor, embraced on the platform. This was received with enthusiastic approval by delegates as well as visitors in the gallery, not only as a demonstration of Negro and white workingclass solidarity, but as a symbol of solidarity between the workers of oppressed and imperialist nations.” | of the Soviet Union draws different! | since the trial has been diplomatical- | | ments: “Litvinov, in a conversation on | | | March 19, expressed to the British| Today’s Pravda gives the figures| | Ambassador his willingness to try to ot pig-iron production for the | Secure the permission of the prosecut- | bail of some of the arrested British|on a steely shee: Thousand | | Subjects. The ambassador evaded a! story of Arseny Congress. | Geiser concluded the interview by 200 Argentinian Soldiers Represented | S4Ving, “There is so much to be said “One delegate represented 200| about the South American Congress, soldiers in the army of Argentina,| that it is impossible to tell it all in This delegate reported that these| # few words, I urge the workers, pro- soldiers are working within various| fessionals and students of New York army units to win the soldiers over| to attend the meeting next Wednes- so that they may turn their guns| Gay, where a full report and message against their own oppressors, instead| from the South American Anti-War Sone to prevent their reachin ne out nae eeheinel aed} Berlin special police and Nazi troopers starting on a terror “party” through working-class and Jewish conclusions about the criminal activ-| i trucl vy rifles for their bloody campaign. ity ofthe Russian aetenaani | districts, Note the high powered trucks and heavy rifles fot ly campaign, “The depositions of several of the | defendants show a tendency, which is| both naive and contemptible, to ex-| plain their crimes as having been} Prompted by foreign citizens. | “A state employee serving as a spy| and agent for foreign imperialism, | can only be the object of peculiar disgust and indignation to the toilers | of the U. S. S. R. These criminals | cannot expect leniency from the} aroused proletariat.” Talks Show English Trickery. Soviet newspapers print today an} of shooting down their brother-work-| Congress will be given.” Ti ¢ hd “A woman delegate from Paraguay | Struggle Against War announces that own nto oviet ommunity reported that house-to-house re-| additional speakers’ at next Wednes- |teen up is being conducted by the| include Donald Henderson, Leonardo |army. In one case that she knew| Sanchez who will speak in Spanish T mi ransforming A Company « | ers of other countries. The .New York Committee for cruiting of boys from the age of four-| day’s meeting in Irving Plaza will here the mace of a boy. plead-! and William Simons, Chairman. (How the Russian workers trans- formed a company town into a old man good-naturedly and have | %, | tremendous respect for his status as With this institution of espionage, Morozov combined many features of ee een ae z ‘ “ fons| Soviet Community. Remarkable | modern capitalistic paternalism. He | a veteran of labor. IRISH REPUBLIC ‘AN ARMY ( ALLS ed ee ose Deen Suet | aolilevements in indastty, educa | affected a great concern for the wel-| But these remnants of the Morozov | the Commissar for Foreign Affairs of| tion, housing, health and child | fare of the workers. He had barracks regime are few and far between. care in the village of Gluhovo, With the younger generation the | where a textile baron was once the absolute ruler.) By NATHANIEL BUCHWALD Daily Worker Correspondent I ER voice suddenly grew hard and her kindly smiling grey eyes took | | built for them and in the barracks | he had installed central heating and | pre-revolutionary days are fast !y- | electricity. (A description of these | coming a dim legend of the past. ‘Tne | barracks will be given in a subse- | older generation are too busy build- | quent article.) He built a school for|ing their socialist community to| | the workers’ children, a dispensary, | bother about past memories. Asked | | churches, a bath-house. by the writer to tell him something |THE WORKERS PAY | about the time when Morozov was All this was done by way of beney- | the owner of the plant, an elderly | She began her | Olence, and in return for this beneyo- worker replied ‘What is the use of | vanovich Morozov, | lence Morozov expected and extract- | bringing it une Ww . ae pay. ot oan khozyain (boss, owner, ruler) (2 respect for the khozyain and long | khozyayeva (plural of khoz} a the Union and Sir Esmond Ovey, British Ambassador in Moscow, who FOR FIGHT FOR REPUBLIC NOW Will Develop Fight Against De Valera Forces As British Imperialist’ Supporters DUBLIN, Ireland, April 17.—Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Silgo were scenes of the principal parades in the annual Easter Week commem- oration organized by the Irish Republican Army. At all places there were who fell in the heroic Easter rebellion ly” sick in London. Pravda com- | H ing attorney for the liberation on/ low tons positive answer, which was given only) forme: April 8 18.8 | after two weeks, when the Metro- 19.1 Vickers Company cecided to bail out 19.2 | | the prisoners. Evidently, two entirely | > 19.4 | | different aims were pursued, having | April 12. -. 203 nothing in common with the inter- These figures show the steady| | ests of the defendants or their ‘de-| regular increase in production from the low level of the begin-| ning of the year, the figure then| being around 15,000 tons, towards | fense’.” In the second place, atten- tion is drawn to the conduct of the only immediate liberation of the pris- | of Gluhoyo—her personal story. She was a child of ten when the whipping incident occurred. It was | church in his carriage. For some rea- | son she failed to bow to the khozyai | and Morozov was quick to notice it. hours of work at miserably | wages. | Curious remnants of the Morozov in, | Worker in the entire community, told | * | the writer that Arseny Ivanovich was | British ambassador in demanding not} i | @ “good man” who “took care of the | rights as an exploiter of workers, he ee Ehua: tasesine overs che eeiey | workers,” and the “bad ones” among | was nevertheless free to walk the | everything is different now and bet- ter.” | | SON EMPLOYED on a Sunday, and Arseny Ivanovich | rule are still in evidence. An old,| AS AN EXPERT | Morozov was returning home from | 8rey-beared worker in the spinning | , mill of Gluhovo, probably the oldest | rozov was allowed to remain in the | By the way, Arseny Ivarfovich Mo- neighborhood after the workers took over his plants. Deprived of civic SOVIET ARMIES: MOVE ON HANKOW Japan Sends Warships services over the graves of the martyrs against British imperialist tyranny jin 1916. Calis for Republic Now. | In connection with the commemo- ration, announcements were made |everywhere the demonstrations were |held that there must be a relentless fight for a republic distinct and sepe arate from England now. Much to the objective of 20,000 tons, now! | oners, but their complete rehabilita-| | | tion.” The ambassador is thus trying | to seci ised Gussev that he would arrange| lishment of a regime of extraterritori- his escape abroad in case of detec-| ality for foreign citizens such as ex- | tion. The others had been promised | ists in China. Sir Esm reached. and passed. protection by the British wreckers, | including promises of a good job at the London office of the Metropoli- tan-Vickers Company. The Soviet employees on trial, knew, or took it for granted, that behind Thornton there was someone more powerful—| in repeating his impermissable and | out of place threats. the prisoners are innocent. ry: sured Litvinov that ‘not a single man) ;* could be found in London who would! tereq something about a bitch With his whip he struck her twice | the workers he would punish“ like a | streets of the town of Bogorodsk | : in | father.” (now Nokinsk) and do as he pleased | aah peace on op oe “Did you know Morozov person- | with himself, One of his sons fled | teaching her respest for her betters. ally?” the writer inquired. The old | the country, taking some of his When she came home crying, her | 8 threw out his bony chest. “Why, | father’s plunder with him, another other, upon hearing the story,|#e Would stand talking to me just | hed proved his loyalty to the Soviet thrashed her again for having | like you are standing now. He would | rcgime and is now employed as an aroused the displeasure of the kho- | shake hands with me and say, ‘Good | cxpert in the textile industry. The | Her father was grimly silent, |™0rming to you,’ and would inquire | old Morozov died only a year ago in then he left the house he mut- | @b0ut my woman and the kids.” | the town of Noginsk. In his last days . : | the dismay of the British im} fal- to Fight Communists lists ana their agents in Ireland the Irish Republican Army also pledged SHANGHAI, April 17.—The Soviet | itself to immediately begin the de- armies of China are driving against | velopment of “attacks against the in- Hankow, industrial center of China,|ternal enemies of Irish freedom.” simultaneously from the north and | This is taken as an incitation against the west, A large Red Army is ad-/ the police and other armed forces of vancing toward Hankow from Sze-|the Irish Free State, chuan Province, while Ho Lung,! Denounces De Valera G ) Commander General of the Commun- ure in the U.S.S.R. the estab- ond persisted | ry, He said that He as- but | cumstances UNION B y J A P A N munutraton program of taking from Eastern Railroad an and rolling stock belonging to the| work of the Soviet administration, | Chinese Eastern Railway have been) which is taking all measures to main- | (wansferred to Soviet territory and| tam the normal movement of trains | low nre being used on the U.S.8.R. rail-|on the Chinese Eastern in spite of | ther unceasing he ministry of the Manchukwe rait- dite,” eto, that behind this British wrecking! crew there was a mightier foreign; agency | These spies, wreckers and traitors | of Soviet citizenship, in their acts | reflected and expressed the last des- Perate attempt of the remnants of the former exploiting class to resist the triumphant march of socialist construction, and expressed the hopes of the former landowners and capi- talists to regain their privileges with the aid of foreign intervention. In the eyes of the Soviet workers and peasants, in the eyes of the vast majority of the technical intelli- gentsia, there are no extenuating cir- for these deliberate wreckers and traitors. They were aware what would be the punishment for their crimes, and the severest sentences that may be pronounced ASHINGTON —B; in their case will not be found ex-| yo” TOstiie Hmipsrof Weve ive by i: vote of 252 to 110 the House of Rep- Soviee ae ene marron Ot the| resentatives today adopted the arms soe | embargo resolution which gives the | president power to declare an em- bargo on arms to any nation with- out consulting congress. This is a further step in the ad- the charges against the prisoners were ‘laughable’. How do such people look now, after the procedings in the court have fully confirmed the find- ings of the preliminary examination?” ARMS EMBARGO VOTED IN HOUSE 'Gives Roosevelt Power for War Action congress powers formerly exercised | by it and placing control in the hands of the executive. It was roundly de- nounced by many opponents during ss Stirring Up Anti- member of the Culture and Edu- cation Section of the Fabcom (Fac- | tory Committee) of one of the plants of tha Textile Combinat (works) of Gluhowo. She has no outward marks of he office and does not even carry a brief-case. Her peasant garb, in- cluding a shawl draped over her head and tucked away under her coarse winter-jacket, contrasts strangely with her vocabulary of an educated person,—a abulary in- cluding such words as “prophylactic,” “normalization” and “disproportion.” At times she lapses into her peasant ways and addresses the comrade from America in the familiar “thou,” which is, indeed, thrilling to the comrade from America, MONUMMENTS OF MOROZOV’S RULE There are monuments of the Moro- zov rule in Gluhoyo—the ugly bar- racks of red brick, three churches, of which two have been put to bet- ter use, a garden where the khosyain used to spend his leisure and where workers’ children are now free to frolic, a club house built for Moro- zov's white-collar trusties and now used to better advantage by the pro- the howse debate as a measure against Japan. It gives the president authority to declare an embargo against any nation which he con- siders an aggressor without consult- ing anyone. Needed In War Intrigues It is clear that the bill is a part | goneeming this, Tevestia writes: of that whole system of legislation | This provocatory campaign shows that has been iiitroduced under the that new efforts are being made by| general formula that the crisis con- certain Japanese adventurist ele- ments in Manchuria to handicap the | stitutes an emergency equal to war, work of the Chinese Eastern Rail-| way. The provocatory character of | the campaign appears from the fact that the locomotives concerned were ased in America by the Russian| 5 openly support this campaign. publishing provocatory charges &ainst Soviet representatives on the se Eastern Izvestia Warns Japan. Now that there has already begun in the Far Fast the imperialist war for a redivision of the world between the big capitalist powers the United nment for the tailways of the! states gov 5 ; 1 f 8 government insists uvon be- eine Union, and were stuck on the ing in arpontdae to act quickly, Under lese tert 18-1 aipad| é the Militrcy enone 119 during | the old conditions only congress could intervention against the USSR. Kumetsov, the President of the Administration of the Chinese} Eastern Railway, | thoroughly ex-| plained the substance of th | declare an arms embargo, but now, if the senate follows the action of the house, the president can declare e matter | Sth an embargo without consulting at the proper time, stating: “Thig is| CONSTess, or without even calling not the first time the aotices have | Sonsress inte session in case there been on Soviet territory and we are! surprised at the uneasiness from the| Wl Ask Power To Wage War Chinese ide. ‘The ‘Chinese _ side| _ $s, Teemonised that Legian knows that these engines were stuck | final step toward investing e on the Chinese Eastern Railway, and | President the cated 2 declare war. after this there is no room for re-|1n fact a number of congressmen clamations against us from the Chi- charged that under certain circum-| noe side. ee renewed provocative bei ad Spree aes rags Ise over these engines must be re-| barso can lea ctly to war inas- garded as a new attempt to agera-| Much as the very declaration brands Vate the situation of the Chinese|@8 an aggressor any nation against | id to handicap the | Which it is directed, with the greatest attention fur- efforts on the part of adventur- ist elements to complicate the situa- ‘thom is the Par Best.” suspicious activity, “hen- The Soviet public wih tot |letarian youth of Gluhovo, a school where workers’ children were once taught “respect for their betters” and are now instructed in the funda- mentals of socialism in theory and practice. Comrade Kotikova animates these monuments with her stories and ex- planations. The Morozoy rule was a subtle one and Arseny Ivanovich himself was a strange mixture of modern ¢apitalist and old-fashioned religious bigot and tyrant. He he- longed to a dissenting sect of the or- thodox-catholic church, and he sur- rounded himself with fellow dissent- ers. He had a gorgeous church built for his sect, and it was part of the duty of his workers to sing in the choir. A SPY SYSTEM Members of Morozov’s sect received preference both on the white collar staff and in the ranks of the workers. But it was not only a matter of re- ligion, for Morozov's co-religionists were also his stool-pigeons. It was they who helped spread ajoong the workers the myth of the kind and generous and god-fearing khozyain, it was they, too, who reported to the Kkhozyain every instance of heresy and grumbling on the part of the workers. The Morozoy trusties were planted | in the barracks, were strategically aistributed in the shops of the plant. They were a crude, home-grown yet effective spying outfit, run and di- rected by the khoryain himself. The work of these stool-pigeons was not |. obvious to the mass of workers, and | James | recognition. | achievements of the Soviet Union, |to pension at full pay, but the old man would not give in. He likes to work, he likes the new order, but he thinks that the young generation has gone to the dogs, what with their lack of religion, easy living and all, The young workers in the shop tease the coming articles to describe the | changes that took place in Gluhovo |in the course of the 15 years since | | the workers dethroned the “benevo- jlent” tyrant and exploiter and de- | clared ‘themselves masters of their ‘ own destiny. Moscow Cable Giving | .NEW YORK—Educators, intellec- tuals and representatives of mass or- ganizations, speaking to a capacity audience at Webster Hall, Sunday |afternoon were applauded and cheered as they called upon all pres- ent to carry on a vigorous campaign for recognition of the Soviet Govern- ment by the United States. The atidience was electrified when @ telegram from A. Heller, editor of “Soviet Russia Today,” was read. an eye-witness account of the pres- ent trial of the English wreckers of | Soviet industries. The telegram gave {startling disclosures of deliberate | plans by British spies to destroy k | industries. It revealed the sinister ti | up of several of the Englishmen with manufacturing concerns in England. Henderson Speaks Professor Donald Henderson, ex- pelled recently from the faculty of Columbia University outlined the rea- sofis why this government should recognize the workers’ government of the U.8.S.R. He pointed out it was a stable government, that recognition would be mutually helpful and that there was no adequate reason why recognition should not be granted. Rising to « tremendous ovation, W. Ford, vice-presidential candidate in the last election gave the Communist Party's viewpoint on Showing the great its great cultural and umterial ad- vances as contrasted with the great decline in capitalist countries, he called for a broad campaign for rec- ognition. Among other speakers were Susan ‘Woodruff, Smith College graduate, a recent visitor to the Soviet Uniot Dr. Harry F, Ward, of Union ‘Theo- logical School; Carl Brodsky, of° the National Committee, Friends of the Soviet. Union, under whose auspices the meeting had been arranged, and others. Malcolm Cowley of the Edi- Board of the New Republic, omiy the advanced among them had suspicions of the existences of the Spy erste * = t nition campaign, pledging his un- thee ¥one f mreal be MEETING FOR RECOGNITION LAUDS ACHIEVEMENTS Heller, now in the Soviet Union, sent | OF SOVIET UNION Eye Witness Report Read to New York Gathering ing planned by the Friends of the | Soviet Union in its cnpaign to col- lect + illion signaturag demanding |recoginvion. The offices of the | Friends of the Soviet Union are at 80 E. 11th Si., Room No. 330. POLISH STRIKE WARSAW, April 1 (By Mail).— The striking textile workers of Lodz repudiated by the overwhelming vote of 1,300 to 7, the demand of the mist leaders that they settle on | the basis of a 15 per cent wage cut The leader of the reformist trade un- | ion, Szczerkowski, who is also a pro- minent member of the Polish Social- ist Party, addressed a meeting of all factory delegates in order to push through the scab proposal. He was voted down by an overwhelming ma- jority, and continuance of the strike was decided on. At the same time mass demonstra- tions against fascism occurred in the Streets of Lodz. Ten thousand work- ers marched to the offices of the rr 2ctionary newspaper, “Kurier Lodzki,” and smashed all the windows. The demonstrators, killing one woman and seriously wounding fiye workers. The workers defended themselves with stones against the police attack, overturning street cars, and erecting barricades. so The Lodz strike has become the signal for a wave of strike actions which is sweeping Poland. In Lwow, | the street car men struck for several | hours against “rationalization.” The miners of the pit “Josef Pilsudski” in the Cracow area partially pre- vented dismissals. In the pit “Jani- na,” the miners are striking against layoffs. The Cracow unemployed en- gaged on relief work, downed tools WAVE SPREADS police made a brutal attack on the | in protest against reilef reductions | will and organized demonstration in | treme of the bewildered by the rapid Communist | advances along several fronts. It has been forced to concentrate its | best troops, including the crack 48th | division, in the neighborhood of Nan- | chang, thus leaving the road to Han- | kow fairly free. | In the last week Japan has doubled | her gunboat strength in Hankow, and | now has twelve vessels concentrated | at Hankow. Japan is using the strong boycott sentiment in Hankow | as a pretext for military concentra- tion. In reality, as the bourgeois | press concedes, she is using Hankow as a military base for an attack against the peasants’ and workers’ | soviet. republic. j * . | An official report of the results of the 1932 anti-Soviet campaign show that 91,280 rifles, 34 cannon, 1,090 machine guns, 6 airplanes, and 13 | radio trensmitters fell into the hands |of the advancing red forces, Kuo- mintang losses this year have been even more sensational. * PEIPING, April 17.—The Japanese forces advanced into the seacost re- gion to the cast of Peiping today, scattering Chinese defending troops into a disorderly retreat. Peitaiho, famous sea resort, fell into Japanese ands. The rich northern mining district, with heavy British and Am- jerican capital investments, is falling under their military control. Meanwhile, serious disaffections have broken out among the Man- chukuo troops in the districts to the west and southwest of Mukden. Large numbers of Manchukuo troops have gone over to the Chinese de- fending armies. These revolts are eccurring in the region around the gulf of Liaotung, seize by the Jap- anese last autumn, end regarded as completely “pacified” after several months fighting. A spread of rebellion among the Manchukuo forces will tend to cut the Japanese lines of communication, and isolate the main Manchukuo ad- vance from its military base of oper- ations, Nazi Machine To __ Absorb Stahlhelm BERLIN, April 17.—The StshThelm. the organization of German World War veterans is to be absorbed into the Nazi Party machine. Minister of Labor, Seldte, the present head of the Stablhelm is discussing the exact terms of the amalgamation with Hitler in Bavaria. Presumably, Hitler { and| . Ptitther inquiries revealed the fact | he was reconciled to the workers’ sig Seas iene ment Ane), Ei A proclamation from the Army believe that these men, so well knOWN | one of her offspring riding in a| that this man had worked an average rule, admitting the superiority of ae Bd ity ae yang has al-| Council of the Trish Republican Army in England, could possibly be guilty of | carriage. | of ten hours a day for twelve roubles H their management of his plants. pel A ey A f Rene wets was read at all demonstrations which engaging in wrecking activities, or| ~ ‘ eee he | @ month. Now he receives 100 roubles} With this background of the past | eady eA Oya 5 | denounced the De Valera government spying and so forth.’ The ambassador | OMRADE KOTIKOVA is now a/| Working seven hours. He is entitled|in mind we shall proceed in the The Kuomintang Government {s|as follows: has deemed it proper to declare that “Those who thought the change im | the Free State administration a year |} ago was a step toward the republie are being disillusioned. ‘The connec- tion with England is being upheld and representatives of the govern~ | ment have attended British Empire | conferences in Ottawa. Instead of | the republic being restored, there was great danger of the treaty surrender | of 1921 being pruned of all its most humiliating features and to glorify a revised treaty. “The people’s desire for attainment | of a republic manifested in the last | general election is being restrained and discouraged.” BOLIVIAN ARMY IN NEW DRIVE Principal Paraguayan Fort About to Fall FORT MUNOZ, Gran Chaco, Apral | 17.—Another stage of the Bolivian | army drive to capture Fort Nanawa, | the principal Paraguayan stronghold in the South, With increased forces | and equipment bought with American money the Bolivian forces have ; Smeshed the main Line of defense of | the Paroguayans. Telephone lines | have been cut so that a part of the | Paraguayan army is isolated from its command, Flanking Movement Under Way. For more than two months the Bolivian forces have concentrated on this fort and in the campaign have separated the northern and southern Paraguayan armies, obviously intends ing to deal with them seperately. In a flank movement both north and south the Bolivians now have Fort Nanawa in a tight spot and ts fall is imminent. Explain So.-American Conflicts, NEW YORK, April 17.—At re | Plaza Wednesday (tomorrow) at 8: > | | mittee for Struggle Against War speak on the results of the congress and the wars in South America. Donald Henderson; recently drop> ped from the Columbia university faculty for his anti-capitalist activity, will speak at the same meeting. Wile liam Simons of the League Against Imperialism is to be chairman. There will also be other ¢peakers in Spanish and English,