The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1933, Page 1

EDITORIALS Proletarian Justice More contemptible than the defense put up by the wretches on trial In a Soviet cpart for sabotage, wrecking and espionage, is the reaction of the British government to the verdict. If the British engineer, Mac- Donald, pleaded guilty for himself in the court, Stanley Baldwin, Sir John Simon and the rest of the galaxy of British imperialists who comprise the Privy Council, equally exposed themselves in their reaction to the arrest and trial of the Metropolitan-Vickers engineers. When their attempts to bully the Soviet government as they would a crown colony, failed, their threats gave way to howls of rage, clearly indicating the fear that their own complicity in the anti-Soviet wreck- ing campaign would rip from their faces their hypocritical pacifist masks and expose them before the whole world for what they are—war-mongers using all forms of political banditry to accomplish their purpose. Their wild outbursts of rage can be accounted for by the fact that the trial just concluded not merely exposed them as accomplices of the actual criminals, but upset plans laid over a period of years for pre- paring armed intervention against the Soviet Union. The exposures of the British Tory government makes it more dif- ficult for the die-hards to suppress the vigilance of the British working class in its struggle against imperialist war conspiracies and in defense of the Soviet Union. ‘The much-vaunted “superior diplomacy” of the British ruling class suffered @ severe set-back as the Soviet court shed a revealing light upon their dark practices. The rantings of such papers as the London Times, the Daily Mail and other sheets sounds vapid indeed in view of proof that a prominent agent of the British “intelligence” service directed the wrecking activities and plotted how to cripple industry to facilitate a war of imperialist conquest against the workers’ and peasants’ government. So miserable was the defense that even the extreme anti-Soviet papers of other countries view !t with undisguised scorn, The New York Evening Post said yesterday: “There is something shady about the conduct of those British en- gineers...Neither in Russia nor in England has anyone issued a con- vineing defense. As for the British government's precipitate action, it onee more suggests an uneasy conscience.” A government that, when its own guilt is established by its own con- duct, goes to the extent of calling a meeting of the privy council and declaring an embargo on Soviet imports, confesses thereby its own guilt and its own bankruptcy as far as its Soviet policy is concerned. But then its present conduct is of a piece with all its infamous past. ‘The personnel of the present British government won its first victory in 1924 by putting forth the clumsy forgery of the famous “Zinoviev letter.” Under both MacDonald and Baldwin it has pursued a policy in keeping with that infamy. It is a government of forgery and provocation, where hyrecriey is developed into a system. It is this government that is responsible for the monstrous Seame- -up of the Meerut prisoners in India. This British ruling class maintains its rule over colonial and semi-colonial masses by the greatest excesses of frightfulness. It murders people in Egypt, India. It systematically bombs defenseless villages ase its Aden airport in Arabia (a supposed inde- pendent country). spreads the blight of its decay wherever the Brit- ish union jack i Such a government has the audacity to speak of f-ame-ups in 9’ Soviet court—a court in which the chief aim of the pro- sccution, the defense and the judges is to protect the defendants as well as the Soviet state. While the British government is thus held up to the contempt of the world, the conduct and outcome of the trial was a brilliant achteve- ment for the Soviet Union. The leniency of the sentences shows that the Soviet Union has not the slightest fear of such eiements. The tre- ive energy of the masses and the vigilance of the poli- ration in defense of the workers’ state is the guarantee that volutionary wreckers will be frustrated in all such at- moadous crea tical admini the counter: tempts. While (the state loathsome the capitalist press unloads vials of wrath against the G.P.U. political administration) and tries to compare it to their own spy systems, the class conscious workers of the world will not be decsived thereby. Instead they hail the G.P.U. as the mighty workers’ shield against the under-handed intrigues of the enemy class. It is a cefensive force that has back of it the million-masses of workers and peasants who are ever vigilant against the class enemies that remain from the ranks of the old rotten bourgeoisie and czarist hangers-on and counter-revolutionary interventionists who strive to weaken the workers’ and peasants’ state. The elaborate precautions taken to ascertain the precise degree of guilt of all thé defendants, thé special efforts of the prosecution to see that those against whom there was doubt of guilt were acquitted, stands in sharp contrest to the practice of capitalist courts and applies with special force occurring simultaneously with the latest stage of the in- famous frame-ups in Alabama courts against the innocent Negro boys | first sentenced to death at Scottsboro. However, it would be wrong to imagine that because of this exposure of another attempt at counter-revolutionary preparation for war and in- tervention, the danger is lessened. The exposures brought out at the trial show that the imperialist powers will go to any lengths to try to get out of the worst crisis they have ever faced by war and interven- tion to try to bring back into the capitalist world the territory under the revolutionary banners of the Soviet Union. More than ever the workers of the capitalist world and the colonial and semi-colonial masses must rally to the struggle against imperialist war and in defense of the Soviet Union. Out of the Depths of an Aroused People As the lynchers in the conviction of Haywood Patterson once more aifrm their determination to execute the Scottsboro boys, the toiling masses prepare to answer this brutal challenge. Out of the depths of the people, Negro and white, comes the spon- taaeous resolution to march upon the very center of American capitalist rule, Washinzten, with the mass demand that the Scottsboro boys shall not die. The aroused millions will send their representatives, to lay down be- fore the capitalist government their defiance of the lynchers.. The Negro people, in firmly welded solidarity with the white workers, send back their answer to the Scottsboro verdict, which is an expression of their national oppression. They demand the return of their nine Scottsboro boys from the hands of the Southern lynch butchers. They demand their Uberation as a people. ‘They demand that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments be" enforced by the government. They demand that all Jim Crowism be punished by the government. They demand that the Army and Navy be used, not to protect lynch mobs, but to enforce the provi- sions of the Civil War smendments, for which thousands ‘of Negro and white workers gave their lives. The Negro and white masses will march upon Washington, But al- ready agents of the ruling class sre trying to penetrate the ranks of the marchers. Tammany Hall, which gets fat upon the hideous Jim Crow Ghettoes of Harlem, suddenly weeps crocodile tears over the Scottsboro boys. Tammany sends its tools, black and white, among the people to distort the purpose of the historic march, to turn it into a supplicating and meek “delegation” which will whine before Roosevelt for mercy. For decades, tha Negro misleaders have been crawling before the Pres- idents as they have filed in and out of office. Contemptuously they have been listened to, while the lynchers continued to murder, and the planta- tion masters continued to sweat their Negro slaves. ‘The present march upon Washington is not some boot-licking delega- tion. It is the aroused power and anger of the people who are prepar- ing to destroy the lynch system of National oppression. ROLE OF THE TRADE UNIONS IN THE WORKERS’ ADVISORY COMMITTEE How can the trade unions maintain a closer contact with the Daily Worker reporting their day-to-day activities and their strike struggles? How can the Daily react in its columns with greater speed and clarity to the developments in the trade union movement? The Workers’ Ad- visory Committee to work with the Editorial Department which the Daily Worker proposes to organize next Saturday will consider these and many other questions which concern the unions in strengthening the ties and building closer relations with the Daily Worker. Every worker who has been in a strike struggle knows that the Daily Worker is always there to counteract the propaganda of the capitalist press, to lead and guide the workers in the struggle, to arouse the militancy of the workers against he bosses and to support their demands. If it has not functioned well in this respect in the past, it must improve. This is possible only through the active participation in editorial problems of those whose interests and needs the “Daily” represents. It is therefore of the utmost importance <hat the trade unions re- spond to the call for the’conference when the Workers Advisory Com- mittee will be established at 35 East 12th St. on Saturday, April 22 at 2pm. Trade unions should send their representatives. Active trade unionists are urged to come. AN workers’ organizations should have their aeleaates present. | Daily, Central Org gs of the Communist International) Entered as New York, Vol. X, No 95 cee “tae act of Maren a ir) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1933 | Roosevelt Stops wale Definitely Off Off WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19— Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, has announced that he will hold a conference tomorrow with governors of the Federal Reserve Banks with {the express purpose of quickly forc- Reserve Bank notes provided for b: the Emergency Bank Bill. This nc currency, of which there is already over $19,000,000 in circulation, can be | issued on the basis of “bank assets.” They are not redeemable in gold. 1 Credit Inflation , Following the announcement of the | conference with the Federal Reserve | Governors, Woodin that the administration is preparing to “release as soon as possible” frozen ted to be over $6,000,000,000. How the Administration's plans to release bank | | deposits that are tied up with the nae posals to issue new currency, will uy soon be known. Woodin has stated that the admin- | {istration will attempt to force the banks to be more liberal in the exten- | {sion of credit. This is inflation by way of credit expansion, since it in- volves the pumping of credit a enterprises whose financial po: i Teally does not warrant eave | loans, This will undoubtedly |e rise in prices. Commodities Rise | In response to these inflationary | developments, commodity prices con- | tinue to rise. The rise affects all | | commodities, sugar, wheat, cotton, | rubber, and oil. The Moody index of commodity prices is now the highest in the season, and is higher than | the same period last year. | The weakness of the American dol- lar on the international money ex- change became more intensified to- day. Following the first break in the dollar on Saturday, the Treasury is- | sued licenses for the shipment of | gold, about $600,000 being shipped on | Monday and $3,999,400 yesterday. But | these shipments have been of no Fe ail in stopping the fall in the dol- ar. | Record Dollar Decline |. Foreign currencies rose to record | | highs at the expense of the dollar. | The dollar closed at 24.60 francs, a new low since 1925. The pound sterl- ing rose to a new high for the year, $3.53. The French, Dutch, and Bel- gian currencies were so high in re- | lation to the dollar, that if ae | sion were granted by the Treasury, huge amounts of gold would be going out of the country. Roosevelt Stops Shipments Roosevelt has issued a state- ment putting an end to all gold shipments. This, therefore, confirms the fact that the United States is definitely off the gold standard, both internally and externally. To Issue Paper Currency Secretary Woodin has said that che rise in wheat prices is not due to inflationary tendencies, but to de- creased wheat supplies. The fact is that world visible supplies of ‘wheat | are the greatest on record, the In- ternational Institute of Agriculture predicting that supplies of wheat “will experience a further and very ap- son. The trading in commodities grows more heavy as prices continue to rise. No better indication could be found that we have definitely c. tered period of inflatfonary price | rises. The cost of living for the masses will go higher as the inflation proceeds. The embargo on gold. meaning as it does, the abandonment of the gold standard, will result in further weak- ness of the dollar. This will result | ,in a rise in cotumodity prices. It will also enable /.merican imperial- | McGRADY GETS DEPORTATION JOB Farley, TammanyPost-| master, Appoints A. F. of L. Misleader WASHINGTON, April 19.-Edward F. McGrady, legislative agent for the American Federation of Labor, was announced by Postmaster General Farley on April 17 as chosen by the Administration for Assistant Secre- tary of Labor. He will replace Robe Carl White or W. W. Husband, or McGrady’s appointment is the re- ward given him by the capitalist government for his fidelity in dis- organizing rank and file resistance within the A. F. of L. to the bosses’ wage-cut program. He is also known for his activity as an adherent of the Matthew Woll tariff-lobby group. McGrady is now given the chance to continue his dirty work on a wider scale, His special job will include the deportation of militant foreign- born workers who dare to resist fur- ther wage-etrts jing into circulation the new Federal | also announced | | bank deposits which are now admit- | cause | preciable increase” in the present sea- | U.S. Off Gold Basis As Commodity Prices Rise; Dollar Drops Reno Placing U. S. Gold Standard ' ism to make a better fight for for- | eign markets. The coming Economic | Conference will devote much of its time to proposals to fix the ratios of foreign currencies in relation to the dollar. America will use its position #s a creditor nation in an attempt | | 0 enforce some currency agreement | with France and Britain which will | undersell European business. At the | same time, the imperialist powers struggle to hold on to their gold hoards for use as a credit base in the event of war, The whole series of inflationary trends which we haye been witness- ing since Roosevelt took office are | attempts to lower the cost of pro- | duction, to raise capitalist profits, by | reducing the burchasing power of the | | dollar. The administration's plans to | raise prices are an attack against the people, | POSTAL WORKERS | GET PAY SLASH '10,000 Rural Mail Car-| riers Lose Jobs | WASHINGTON, April 19—How he | plans to_cut $72,000,000 from the post | office budget—which means nearly that much taken from the incomes |of postal workers—was explained in ‘a radio broadcast April 17 by Post- | master General Farley. He. said $30,000,000. would -be .ac-/ counted for in the reduction in rates) jo of pay. Miscellaneous savings would! |reach $20,000,000. Ten thousand | |Tural carriers” jobs are to be abol- ished—this process being gradual,| unless the policy is changed. Then, in the railway mail and city and _ town delivery systems, the number | of clerks and carriers is to be re- |duced and the remaining ee are) | to be worked on a share-the-work) |basisr He siggested that it might be possible to abandon the delivery ser-| | vice in small towns, and curtail it) in cities. In any case, he declared, |the budget must be balanced. The post office, he said, has lost one- | third of its business during the de- | pression. permit American manufacturers to| | Soviet 3 Judge The speci: Worker will c A short th to Daily Worker, Business Office, New York, N, Y. ROUTE SET FOR SCOTTSBORO MARCH ON 28th Norker the-Cominynist Party U.S.A. jal May Day edition of the Dall; ontain articles on many of the prob- lems facing the workers today. \An eight-page tabloid size supplement will included besides the regular four pages Rush orders immediately 50 East 13th St. ime is left. CITY EDITIO! N "Price 3 Cents FINAL Judge Ulrich, one of the three Soviet judges who passed sentence at the trial of the British and Rus- sian wrecke O’Brien Vv ranishes at St. Luke’s Lorie National Scottsboro March Recruiting on for Capital Trek Action Committee Reports | Seottshoro Parade in Harlem Saturday, State Communist Position MARCH C ONFERENCE | itty DAY its headquarters at 119 W. jnational Progressive Labor Action; Roger Baldwin, ditions in Harlem Struggle Started keciaue the Existing Jim-Crow Scottsboro Con- NEW YORK.—Concrete directions for carrying out the Free the Scottsboro Boys March ‘to Washington were issued last night by the National Scottsboro Committee of Action from 35th St. Among the members of the National Committee of Action are; William L. retary of the International Labor Defense; A. J. Muste, of the Conference for of the American Civil Liberties Union Patterson, Rev. A. Clayton Powell, of the Abyssinian Baptist Church; Samuel Patterson, of the Caribbean Un- f the Scottsbo: ion; Hamilton Lodge, of the Odd Fellows; Harry Heywood, of the Communist Party; Mrs. rom te Scottsboro |b. J. West, of » local; Bishop | Collins of the Episcopal Synod; es W. Ford ‘Sympathy’ Meeting ot tne trace Uni satis: : esa 2 sipeitiirs iarity ro people a f Delegates. t e 7 f the S of the solidarity of Negro people and Feeding o' tee YORE. Mayor’ O'Brien ood. Broun, ot nee white masses in the demand for the; “Each organ ‘ing nelas mee meni Oi eae ee | }B Matthews, of the Fel-| mediate freedom of the Scottsboro |porhood ¢ id make of the National Scottsboro Action + F eRe pe Ob ae boys and the enforcement of all) provision for the fe: f | Committee yesterday afternoon. | committee, composed of Patterson of the ILD, A. J. Muste of | the C.P.L.A., and J. B. Matthews of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, had made an appointment to see the r or at 2:30 p.m., to ask him to giv concrete form to the expression of “sympathy” .tvith the Scottsboro De- | fense which he made in Arcadia Hall, Brooklyn, Sunday nig! Slogans of March The following slogans will be 1 by the Free the March: 1. Demand the immediate, uncon- ditional and safe release of the Scotts- boro boys! 2. Demand the safeguarding of the Scottsboro boys, and of defense at- torneys and witnesses! 3. Demand service ef Negroes and white workers on the jury! 4. Demand a new trial for Haywood, Patterson! 54 Demand enforcement of the rights guaranteed the Negro people in the 13th, 14th and 15th amend- |ments to the constitution. 6. Raise funds for the defense of the Scottsboro boys! 7. For the solidarity of the 8. On to Washington, April 2 Moscow Trial Is — Sign to Workers (From Our Moscow Correspondent) Ulrich began reading the verdict in) the case of the six British and eleven | Soviet engineers charged with wreck-| jing, espionage and counter-revolu- | defensive strength of the Soviet! Union and cripple its industry. With | the exception of Gregory, found not) guilty on the score of insufficient! evidence, a verdict of guilty was re- turned by the Supreme Court of the} U. S. S. R. against all the accused; jand the following sentences pro-| nounced: Thornton, three years im- | prisonment; MacDonald, two years; Nordwall, Monkhouse and Cushny, expulsion from the U.S.S.R. within three days; Gussev, ten years’ im- prisonment; Sokolov, eight years; Labanovy, ten years; Sokoruchkin, ten | years; Kotlyarevsky and Zorin, eight each; Krasheninikov, five years; |Oleinik, three years; Lebedev, two years; Kutuzova, one and a half | years; Zivert, guilty, but set free owing to extenuating circumstances. | After the reading ef ie verdict, Thornton was arre@e« by order of | the Presiding Judge. The reading of the verdieg, which, according to Soviet law, was written out by the judge in his own hand, was a tense moment, and brought to a close this dramatic trial which reverberated throughout the entire world. The courtroom was filled on hour before the judges entered. The dip- lomatic section was fully occupied. About fifty correspondents hung on the words of the Presiding Judge as| he read the sentence of the Workers’ | and Peasants’ Republic against its! wrecking, plotting and spying ene- mies, both domestic and foreign. Though the relatively mild sentences had been forecast in the speech of | the Prosecutor, since the damage in-| flicted by the wreckers and spies had» been slight owing to the strength of | the Soviet Union and the Birend pepe of the proletariat, dissppointment | eis } “third degree methods” To Be On Guard © Contrast Between veen Soviet Justice and Corrupt Courts of Capitalism ; Was plainly written on the faces of | t MOSCOW, April 19—At 12:50 in| the audience, that such vicious ene-| into changing the prison sentence of | the early morning Presiding Judge! mies of the Soviet fatherland could| the two sabotagers into banishment. the | get off so lightly. Fair Trial The trial was remarkable, not only as a revelation of the plotting, wreck- tionary plotiing to undermine the) ing and espionage activities of the|U. S. S. R., a withdrawal of the| British agents, but also as a demon-| stration of the fairness, thorough-} ness and non-yindictiveness of Soviet | justice. The campaign of villifica-/ tion carried on by British diplomats and the diehard press concerning has_ been shown up by this trial. The British defendants were forced to admit in| of cny kind, had been used against them for the purpose of obtaining their testimony. The} William L.| Scottsboro. Boys ship of Reconciliation. ‘This mass march has as its ob- ace before the govern- es in Washington the the immediate, uncondi- elease of the nine j Jee m | demand | tional and seaf for the enfi of ree c tional gu: es for the Negro} | pore as set forth in the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Consti-| | tution.” the program of the march ounces. “Mass marches shall be organized | from the following cities: New York, | Trenton, Phil- | Norfolk andj t other cities that and white workers! are far from Wast agton, delegations | | will be elected to go to the capitai representing workers’ organizations, frat nal organizations and various | ‘The march is to be a ceful but | vigorous and militant demonstration BRITAIN BANS SOVIET IMPORTS fie ade War a on USSR New Lies of Tory io LONDON, April 19—The British| | Government today placed an embargo | }on 80 per cent of all Soviet imports, | | using the conviction of the six Met- kers engineer-w) ckers | At action was taken | Council, following the glo-Soyiet trade a and hastened by the pEaceanive campaign of the English tory press. It means a trade| to England of approximately £12,000,000 and a_ withdri 1 of a3; 000,000 of credits to the USSR., of which £10,000,000 were backed by the British government. The bar goes into effect on April | 26th, giving Britain an opportunity | to try to blackmail the Soviet Union| |The British loss of prestige in the trial has been very great, and while the real motive of the trade war is \to stir up war sentiment against the) prison sentence will doubtless mean the end of the trade ban. Spread Lies on Trial. The English capitalist press is using the Metro-Vick trial to stir up provo- cative anti prejudice. The| Morning Post declares that ‘so long as two British subjects remain in a Russian jail, there can be no renewal |court that no methods of coercion | of friendly relations with the Soviet | Government. The nation will not for- | sive the ministers if they attempt to ‘palter now.” Viscount Rothmere | . | to d | Wages, rights guaranteed the Neégro people by the Constitution. provocative measures will be resorted to by the forces of reaction, bigotry | and prejudice and their agents, in an attempt to discredit the march and rt its purposes. All marchers ed to be vigilantly on guard against such attempts.” Route of March “The ropte of the march shall be | as follows: The New York contingent | shall leave Union Square at 10 a. m. April 26th. This contingent should arrange to arrive at Trenton at 4 o’-/ clock, being joined by the Jersey City, Newark and other New Jersey contingents there, arriving in Phil- | adelphia the evening of the same day. The marchers will remain overnight in Philadelphia. They will leave | Philadelphia together with the Penn- | sylvania contingent on the morning of April 27 and arrive in Baltimore in the late afternoon of the same day. The marchers will then remain over-| | night in Baltimore. They will leave) Baltimore in the early morning of April 28 and arrive in Washington not later than 12 noon the same day. In the case of the Baltimore contingent, they will either attach themselves to the New York, New Jersey and Phil- adelphia contingents or arrangements | shall be made that they leave by foot in advance of the other contingents in order to arrive about 12 noon in | Washington. The Norfolk and Rich- | mond marchers shaJl make avrange-| ments to arrive in Washington at! 10,a. m., April 28. This also applies to’ the delegations from all other cit- ies where mass marches are not being arranged. In every city where the marchers arrange to stop overnight, street demonstrations and meetings shall be arranged to greet them. Spe-~ cial emphasis must be made on these demonstrations taking place in Negro neighborhoods and recruiting there additional forces to the march. Unquestionably | | delegates on the march tions are ad | mo guarantee on this F {committee should be | organization for th must be understood |marchers who regis! march must take care of th \during the period of the lis impossible for the Natio: Committee to assume respons for this task, or to cive any guaran- tees about the feeding of the march- ers. | Scottsboro Funds. “Especially during the period of the march the greatest intensification of work in connection with raising fi- nances for the Scottsboro case shall be undertaken. Full force should be | thrown behind the National Tag | Days, organized by the I. L. D., on April 28, 29, 30. Only the I. L. D. and the National Scottsboro Action Committee are authorized to receive |funds in connection with the defense of the Scottsboro boys (the I. L. D. and the National Scottsboro Action | Committee have authorized the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Union and th NAACP. also to collect f Each local committee is warned to exercise extreme care in issuing cre- dentials for the collection of funds. “Transportation: Appeals must be made in the press with special em- phasis to the Negro press, for dona- tions of trucks, cars and other means of transportation. “Transportation committees should immediately be set up, to visit truck- ing companies and get donations of trucks; to visit the city government to get the use of city trucks and buses and supplies of oil and gas; purpose. 1 that individual ) to visit gasoline ions for dona- tions of oil and o visit bus come panies for donations of buses and other vehicles; to appeal to members of organizations sympathetic to the | (CONTINUED ON PAGE [WO) Government Control of Hours, Output in 30-Hr. Stagger Bill Change | WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19.) | Seeretary of Labor Perkins yester- day proposed a redraft of the Black| 30-hour stagger pian bill to the House Labor Committee which now has the bill before it. In proposing certain amendments the adminis- tration is calling for virtual dicta- torial power to determine the hours and wages of the workers in each industry. Most ségnifi- cant of all the proposals is one "The records of this trial now lie/ also regards the Soviet Union as a/caling for centralized control of open before the world, and the toil- ing masses of all countries can see the true intent of the British anti-| British colony. His organ, the Daily Mail, goes on to state: “This trial has shed a burning light on the Soviet drive, begun on the pretense) | methods of Soviet justice and what | of protecting “innocent” spies and} Soviet judges consider to be evidence. | saboteurs. While legally a sentence |It is justice which is based upon | has been passed only upon the de-| fraud and torture of human beings. fendants in the case, morally, it is|The Daily Express repeats the same @ verdict of guilty against the British | lies about torture of the prisoners, | industries to “stabilize production” and to “prevent hardships” to owners resulting from “overpro- duction and unfair competition.” This action is to be taken by forc- ing those plants working excessive- ly long periods to close down in the interests of the others in the and all the other imperialists who! are plotting war against the .Soviet| Union. In the person of Thornton, all the sinister forces of capitalism were found guilty of planning the destruction of the rule of the work- ers and peasants. In the persons of Gussev, Sokolov and the rest, the remnants of the old exploiting classes, the remnants of the degenerate fringe of the technical intelligentsia, have been doomed. In this trial it was once more shown that the Soviet Union has made tre-} mendous strides towards the build ing up of Socialism, and is unafraid of its enemios. At the same time, the wreckers’ trial is a warning for the exercise of even stricter vigilance against the foes of the toiling masses of the U. S. S. R., against the plot- ters of counter-revolution and for- intervention, the horrors of the G. P. U., ete. Unfortunately for the Express, the convicted engineers have already stated publicly and freely that they were well treated while in prison, and when Monkhouse wired to England that he had been questioned con- tinuously for eighteen hours and given no opportunity to eat, these lies were promptly nailed, and Monk- house forced to repudiate them, The Daily Heraid, official organ of the! | Labor Party, is afraid to join openly in the coucerted capitalist attack on lions of workers who believe that it is a socialist organ, but it takes a very equivocal stand: }ment’s action cannot benefit the prisoners. At best it is an act of re- taliztion—an attempt to damage the | the Soviet Union because of the mil-} “The govern- | | same industry. With the official employment index showing a de- cline of over 4 per cent during the month of March when seasonal in- | dustries usually start up and with | wages down 30 per cent further since last year the proposal of centralized control indicates that the Roosevelt administration is | heading straight towards a fascist | dictatorship as a way out of the | crisis. This will lead to greater repression of the workers and |sharper onslaught on the ‘standards of the masses. — Like Hitler's, this dictatorship will be established in the name of bene- fits to the masses. Roosevelt is al-| Russian people because of Russian! ready claiming that centralized injury to British citizens,” control is necesoamr Because of arg, aE living | j“grave national emergency affecting |the lives and health of the peopie of |the nation”, | That the move is part of Wall St.’s program and will receive the fullest jbacking of the leading industrialists. is evident since the oil, textile, lum ber, coal and other industries, have repeatedly called upon the former Hoover administration for govern- ment assistance in bilizing the |industry” by driving out the smaller competitors thus gaining a firmer ‘grip on the industry and to assure them greater profits by driving down the working and living conditions of the toilers. The redrafted measure also calls for some modifications of the Black 30-hour stagger plan but in no way changes its essential feature of a nation-wide staggering of employ- ment at the expense of the workers now employed. The amendment would establish “Hours-of work” boards in each industry which may increase the number of hours to be worked where necessary. A further proposal includes the set- ting up of minimum wage boards of 3 members in each industry to es- tablish the “bottom wages” for the workers. It is frankly stated that the |wages will be determined on the con- ditions of the industry and on the |locality,, In other words the mini- ‘mum wage will in no way raise the living standard of the workers to the level of a wage providing decent food \shelter, clothing and other neces- saries for the workers. It will rather depress the general wages to a com- | mon low level. Hearings on the re-drafted meas- es) en will be held in the house begin- 4