The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1933, Page 4

Published by the Comprodaily Publishine Ce. Ine, dally exeopt Sundey, at BS B. Page Four Wath St., New York City, N.Y. Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 F. 18th St, Telephone Algonquin 4-7956, Cable “DATWORK.” New York, N. Daily.cWorker’ BUBSCRIPTION RATES: ‘By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, 32; 1 month, Se, exeepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign and months, $5; 2 months, $3. Trial Exposes the — Lies of English Spies in U.S.S.R. By N. BUCHWALD. (Daily Worker Correspondent.) MOSCOW, April 19 (By Radio- gram.)—In the lobbies, buffet, and smoking room outside the courtroom, y correspondent talked with many foreigne: id Soviet citizens attend- ing the ‘As the case unravel- led, and evidence piled up, I could not find anyone who retained the f doubt of the guilt of the Metropolitan-Vickers engineers. Com- m centered the judicial wrocedure of 2 the Soviet courts. most conservative of the correspondents expressed re- ad approval for Vishi for nt direction of the prosecu- or the thorough and fair examinaton The at- Monkho! to repeat the ed by British diplom- iehard English press alleged “third degree” ended in mplete rout se, as you already know, was d to admit his “error” in having he 2 ized, he court. E of ho continuously, however grudgingly, This apology knocked and fore the last prop from under the edifice monstrous falsehoods @ of British reactior tortures Burst British Lies of Torture. When court had adjourned for the day, a few moments after Monkhouse has made his apology, an American correspondent in the lobby said jok- ingly to his British colleague: “Hur- ry up. You may still get news over in time for the late edition.” The British newspaper man replied: “It's never too late for bad news’ This bursting of the diehar. about GPU tortures was certainly bad news to Bri imperialism, but it was only one of several severe jolts voiced by lomacy and ec'}oed by the press concerning “GPU bubble received by British diplomacy ‘and the frenzied imperialist press in this trial. MacDonald's confession, coupled with the publication of Thornton's now historic testimony In which he gave away the whole game and re- vealed t ntire network of his spy- ing outfit, linking it through Rich- ards to the British Intelligence Serv- ice,—was the first and perhaps the hardest blow to the English imperial- ist camp. In the face of these revelations, the assertions made by Baldwin and other British public men concerning the “innocence” of the defendants ap- peared in the eyes of fc here as the est piece of diplomatic as 2 recent years, ‘ump of Thornton's pat- idon was to villify the to represent the Soviet 1 system as “bar- and what not. But here again the defeat of the die- hards was complete. In the course of the trial, it be- came more and more apparent that the Soviet investigators were pains- | taking in ascertaining facts, in check- | ing up confessions by supporting ma- terial evidence, in discarding testi- mony unsubstantiated by facts, ete. Vishinsi speech for the prosecu- tion summed up five days of careful scrutiny of the evidence, of examina- Defense Fails to Pierce Case had been questioned for) be- | tion and cross examination, in which attention was paid to the minutest detail, and every attempt was made to differentiate between the severity of the offenses of the various defend- ants. Far from making wholesale accu- sations against the entire group on rial, Vishinsky gaye an exhaustive analysis of the evidence against each defendant, carefully establishing the degree of guilt in each case. On the basis of this analysis of evidence, he came to the conclusion that the charge against Gregory should be ropped, and recommended setting free Zivert. Truly, the prosecutor appeared as the guardian of the in- terests of the defendants in so far as their guilt was not proved or palli- ating circumstances were revealed Another jolt to the villifiers of the! Soviet courts was Vishinsky’s in- sistence that employee's of the Soviet state should be punished more severely than British defendants, thus shattering the British lie, repeated in court by Monkhouse, that the trial was a “frame-up by Soviet employ- ees against Metropolitan Vickers”. | Visinsky again and again reminded | Monkhouse that not Metropolitan] Vickers, but Messrs. Monkhouse,| Thorton, et al, were accused of| criminal offenses and in the defend- | ants’ box. Far from making it solely a case against British subjects, the} prosecution stressed from the very beginning that the Soviet employees | among the defendants should receive | the severest sentences. | Vishinsky pointed out that the Soy-| iet employees involved had committed treason against the proletarian state; he disallowed from the very begin- ning the excuse of certain Soviet de- fendants that they had been seduced by foreigners. As tre crowd gathered in the lob- to await the verdict, there considerable speculation on tw : one concerning the nature of mtence of each defendant, the other concerning the further actions of British imperialism on the case. A humorist said: “I am not so much concerned as to what British policy will be ext as what excuse they will find for continuing the same policy.” Used for Anti-Soviet Drive. Surely this trial was seized on as an excuse for opening the present anti-Soviet drive by the British dip- Jomacy and press. As the record of| the Litvinov-Ove; conversation, shows, the British were actually little ec ed over the fate of the ac-j cused. Ovey did not avail himself) of the opportunity to have the men released at once on bail, but dragged | on for two weeks. The merits of the| SPARKS J. P. Morgan’s private little news- paper, the New. York Evening Post; | carries a picture of Mussolini and MacDonald shaking hands. Obvious- ly, with mutual admiration. ‘Two illustrious gtaduates from the school of the Socialist Second Inter- national! * Capital is international, said Marx. It takes no regard of national boun- dries. It goes where it can make the most profit. Here is a startling ex- | ample of this. During the last world slaughter, | when the workers of the allied coun: tries were fighting for “democracy, jand the workers of Germany and Austria were “defending their Fath- | erland,” the English War office was buying lenses for the telescopic sights on their guns from Austrian manu- facturers, who transacted the business by way of Holland! There's patriotism for you. Think of that, workers, the next time they try to steam you up against “the enemy.’ . Here's a blistering one for the war veterans; especially those who got ® taste of their “country’s undying grat- | itude” on Hoover's Bloody Thursday: ‘While the sick and starving vet- | erans had their compensation reduced | by almost one billion dollars: General Pershing continues to draw $13,500 a year as a retired general. In addition the general gets $8,000 a | year “in allowances.” $ That’s over $400 a week, boys. How | long are we going to let them get away with it? And talking about pensions, Al Smith, who is near the head of the class as one of the country’s fake “friends of the people,” draws $6,500 a year from the state of New York | as ex-governor. Of course, this is only pin money for Al who has his fingers in many a Tammany racket. But Al is opposed to unemployment insurance because it will be a “bur- den for business.” And Al thinks it rich. Al is adored by all our liberal in- tellegentsia as one of the country’ leading “Jeffersonian Democra’ One of our precious possessions is a picture of Al kissing the boots of the Pope’s Apostolic something-or-other who: visited our shores not so long ago: Governor Lehman has emerged as a great believer in the minimum wage principle. The Governor has had a long training in enforcing min- imum wages. He is connected with the Wall Street banking house of Lehman Bros. which has large in- vestments in department stores, ray on factories, and textile mills. In these capitalist dungeons, Lehman Bros. pay the workers who are driven at killing speed the princely wage of |The British Official White Paper Couldn’t Cover It Up | | | | By ROMAIN ROLLAND | ‘HE world today presents the spec- tacle of an inferno. The man who | would be very sinful if we soaked the | detaches himself from the narrow| against the criminal laxity of its circle of the privileged nations and | within these nations from the classes, | and within these classes from the privileged castes, sooner or later dis- | | covers that every civilization in which | he rejoices and of which he is proud jrests upon the atrocious, degrading | and murderous exploitation of nine- tenths of the peoples of the earth.| | When this revelation has pene-| | trated his being, the joy of living |dies within him till the moment) when he resolves to do battle to de- | | stroy this canker, even though in the | combat himself must be destroyed. . .| | This terror which now weighs on| | very part of the earth delivered over | to capitalist exploitation, has as-| sumed gigantic proportions in the | ‘great territories of India and of the | Far East, where it sucks the blood of | millions of human beings. It is in- | herent in fatal character of the crime case show that the British diplomats | $5 to $6 a week. There is many a|that the bloodsuckers cannot release could not have poss tainty of the “innocence” of the ac- cused which they claimed. It is evi-| dent that this trial has been used} merely as an occasion for starting the| | Present anti-Soviet dsive which in| the last analysis spells ® war attack | against the Soviet Union. This trial} certainly smashed the pose of “right- | eous indignation” which the British! imperialsts had been assumng, but their enmity to the U.S.S.R. remains unabated. Therein lies the gravity of the present situation. Against British Engineers (From Our Special Correspondent) ; ton was stronger than against Greg- MOSCOW, USSR., April 19 (By | Ory, Braude tried to prove that ail Radiogram).—The trial of English and eleven Russian engin- eers accused of sabotage and spying, in which, as reported, all were found guilty except the two British en- gineerw, Cinarles Nordwall and A. W. Gregory, ‘was featured yesterday by a bwilliant summing up made by the Russian defense counsel for the ac- cused. The defense, undertaking the ar- guous task of weakening the crushing weight of evidence, made the most of whateter weakni s they could see in ti case. The most outstanding lawyers In the Soy- | iet Union, having assumed the bur- den of refuting what appears to the layman to be the unshakable case of the state prosecutor, divided their line of defense into two categories: Plead Extenustion In the case of defendants who had pleaded guilty, the defense pleaded extenuating circumstances Im the case of the defendants who had pleaded not gililty the defense attempted to refute or weaken the evidence against them. Tn the latter category belong the speeches made this morning by At- torney Braude for Thornton, by Dol- | matowski for Nordwall, and by Lidov for Cushny. These three British subjects, accused of wrecking, espion- age and counter-revolutionary plot- ting, certainly can have no com- plaint as to the calibre of the de- | fense offered in their behalf by a5 shrewd and gifted lawyers as ever pleaded against overwhelming odds om the gravest possible evidence. Argues For Thornton Perhaps the most outstanding speech for the defense was made by Braude for Thornton. Braude is one of the most distinguished known before the revolution, and is even more famous today as a pleader before the Soviet courts. Braude admitted the weakness of his case, but argued that Thornton had not the same evil genius as the other defendants. The most serious charge against Thornton 1s sabotage, he stated, and “IT can wnderstand Thornton's rejection of the accusa- tion of terror.” Me declared that although Thorn- ton had confessed everything else during the preliminary investigation, he had not admitted sabotage. He veminded the court of the recom- mendation by the prosecution of the acquittal of Gregory. (Editor's Mote:—As reporsed in yea- ferday’s ieenr, Grogery ws seguit- fed, while Thosnton wovhometed to war Ey Adenine he Fatal lawyers | j |r the six| the defendants had attempted to save themselves by testifying against | Thornton. Referring to confessed | counter-reyolutionists, Braude asked, ‘Are such people incapable of com- |mitting crimes without coming un- der the influence of Thornton?” To his question he replied, “They are | capabl collection of milit- Braude contended ; at have gathered information unwittingly be- €, owing to the social ownership | |of the means of production in the Soviet Union, the meaning of “state secrets” and “espionage” is here dif- ferent than it is in England. In England, Braude pointed out, it is a common practice for one firm to try to steal the other firm’s secrets. | Bribery Common to Capitalists | Regarding the charge of bribery, | Braude asserted the English law ap- | plies only to state affairs, and that | bribery is a common method in Eng- | ish economic and industrial prac- tice. Me admitted that Thornion and | the others “might have brought cap- italist corruption into ovr country, | and might have regarded the state as private employers. Lidov, veteran barrister, in his de- fense of Cushny, discarded the tricks | of oratory, of which he is no small master. He tried instead the keen weapon of cold logic and searching | analysis. Bxamining the nature of the evid- ence against Cushny, Lidov attempt- | ed to show that most of the evidence consisted of sheer testimony, and that the remaining evidence was in- direct, giving grounds for reasonable | doubt. Had Right to Report to Thornton | As to gathering information, which | } Cushny had admitted in his own tes- | timony, Lidov thought his clent was | well within his rights to report to his superior, Thornton, about conditions in the localities he visited, even about tire political sentiments of | ‘workers. Similar reports to a foreigner by Soviet citizens, Lidov pointed out, would be a crime and evidence of evil intent, but Cushny had a right to| discuss with Thornton his impres- | ; sions of conditions in order to e: | lish the general background of the | | country where iheir firm was doing business. Asks Verdict of Not Guilty | 2 verdict of not gustty | eitent, Lidov stated that much | Seg a apt comics howe s | eral Hapgood is doing? from dividends sweated from the Gov ernor's “minimum wage.” The workers do not want a min- imum wage. They want the maxi- mum wage. In other words, they want to exterminate the “investors” who thrive on the workers’ minimum age. ee ete All the capitalist papers are crow- | ing with happiness at the proposed reductions in the Army and Navy budget. “See how peaceful we are,” they boast. When the capitalist press grows lyrical about peace, it is time for the workers to watch out. Ex- amine the new Army and Navy “economy” bill and what do we find? ‘It is the opinion in high adminis- tration-querters that the efficiency of the Army, can be markedly im proved by the economy measure,” writes the N. Y. Herald-Tribune. The “peaceful” economy measure turns out to be an efficiency measure for | the improvement of the Army! The old swivel chair officers will be re~ tired upon nice pensions, and the fighting machine will thereby be pol- ished up ready for instant action. eae me And what do you think Major-Gen- you know? The general is respon- sible for the new “economy” bill. Yes- | terday’s news carries the information | the formation of the Girni Kamgar that the General has perfected a |method for training soldiers in ‘ten | days instead of from six months to | implacable. three years, as formerly. “We teach them to lie down in a trench before we teach them to stand at attention; we propose to put infantry into line of battle within ten days after they are inducted into service.” ‘Well, fellow workers, we'll be in the trenches ten days after they sign us up. Bni the General may be sur- prised. He may discoved that the workers who were rushed into the trenches in ten days will be shooting in a direction different from what the General would desir pered in Russia in 1917, by Depression | LONDON, April 189—The annual | report of the Liverpool Chamber | of Commerce, published yesterday, js another evidence of the bank~-/| ruptey of the capitalist class and} its lack of belief in itself, sunk into a defeatest mood under the impact of the ever-worsening crisis. The report says: “We have | already passed the stage where we {have started to neglect trade. Al-| |most every nation totters on the |brink of the chasm of insolyency.| |The negation of trading has al-) |ready brought the world to a con- |dition of distraction which, if| |pursued, must eventually bring! | consequences of the direst sever- | tee" i reasonable doubts exist. Cushny was later ordered expelled from the Soviet Union. An able defense was also made by Dolmatowski on behalf of Nordwel The lawyer in the main followed the | same line of argument as Lidov, maintaining that Nordwall had gath- ered information im a casual way. withont eriminal intent, and that de- | ‘would once mors prove thet | fendants testifying agains Nordwall | CR wrk apemk eye worth. Why, don't | sed that Cer-|eoupon-clipper who has waxed fat | their victims without perishing. England has subsisted for a cen- tury upon the body of India, bled white; her prosperity already totter- ing, would collapse in the very hour that her prey should escape her. The corpulent ease of Holland rests in the same way upon the substance of the Dutch Indies | which nourishes her. i France has made of her Empire of | Indo-China not only a source of super-profits, but a bastion of war which her proconsuls of armed fi- | nance, like those of ancient Rome, of the Republic of publicans, have | made their base of operations for the | | forthcoming struggle in the Pacific, | now preparing, and for the partition | | of China.... © lgng as the oppressed reacted | against the oppressors only by in- termiftent and piecemeal spasms of jrevolts, coercion prevailed against | | them swiftly and noiselessly. | All is changed since, in these lat-/ ter years, the working masses and| the peasants have realized the need | to organize themselves in a fighting | | revolutionary bloc, resolved to trans- | |form the social system. A new era} hhas opened in the revolt of the op- | pressed world. In_ British India it dates back! | hardly more than five years to the | Bombay textile strike of 1928, and to Union. | Repression followed, immediate and | In British India the judicial ma- chinery endeavors solemnly to falsify legality, instead of strangling it, as in Indo-China, behind closed doors. | It has btought to an end, by the | scandalous judgment at Meerut, a |monstrous trial. For four years, |from June, 1929, to January, 1933, | this process dragged itself out, under |a mountain of paper, comprising | | more than 2,600 documents and tens | of thousands of printed pages. The sentences are of such revolt- | |ing injustice that even the Itberal/| opinion of moderate English people) has been dismayed and {s endeayor-| ing to utter some timid protests. } But it is necessary to arouse the opinion of the world; for this trial | is not merely the trial of 27 con- demned persons: it is the trial af the system of Government which has passed judgment upon them. | As one of the condemined, R. S. | Nimbkar, general secretary of the All- India Workers’ and Peasants’ Party, has clearly established, English ltb- eralism is not only powerless to re- pair the verdict, it is even incapable of conceiving either the illegal pro- ceedings which have become current) or the exceptional laws which the! imperialist terrorism of Great Bri-! tain applies to one-seventh of the) people of its Empire, to one-sixth of the population of the world. | The Labor Government which; knowingly made use of these meth- ods, or at least permitted them to | continue under its auspices, became | itself the prosecutor of this trial. It thereby trampled under foot all the doctrines of middle-class Liberalism, of which the Labor Party was the outcome, | More serious still %t deliberately | | speculated on the passivity of the) workers’ movement in England, and wittingly pandered to this passivity, | making of it an accomplice, in order’ to exterminate the movement of the Indian workers who form six-tenths | of the British Empire. Buch is the scheme of which the workers’ movement in England and in| | Zneope must eteanse iteeé, i The —~ weight of this shame will fall fatally upon the workers’ movement, if it does not at once arise and peace of- ficials, The Trades Union Congress is at this moment making a great stir about the coming celebration of the, centenary of the martyred laborers of Dorchester who, in 1834, were trans- ported for having commtted the crime of torming a trade union, and who are commemorated today as the foun~ ders of British Trade Unionism. ‘Three generous Englishmen, Philip | Spratt, B. F. Bradley and Lester Hut- chinson, have associated themselves with the Indian workers in the spirit ot brotherhood, and have been tried with them at Meerut. After four years’ during which one of the accused died, the trade unionists of Meerut have been sentenced to transportation un- der murderous conditions, one for life, the others for 12 years, ten years, seven years and five years. Their only crime is that of laying the foun- dations of an independent trade union organization in India. The aim of British imperialism is to nip in the bud every effort, every chance of the millions of Indian work~ ers, who are struggling in an inferno, to band themselves together in their| the Meerut trial and we address to/ own defence. ‘Will the world of labor allow this to be accomplished? Will the world of intellect remain silent? We appeal to both, to the workers and to the intellectuals. We de- nounce the fearful exploitation of Indian labor, which keeps the peo- ples in a state of undernourishment and of exhaustion, which makes them sweat ont with their blood the gold which is lost in the bottomless coffers of the British Empire. imprisonment, | Japanese SHANGHAI, April 19.—The trian- gular area bounded by the Great Wall on the north, the sea on the east, and the Lwan River on the south and west, has now been com-| pletely occupied by the Japanese.| The Chinese headquarters has been withdrawn to Tangshan, on the rail- way line which runs to Tientsin. Every indication now is that the! Japanese will continue to advance! until the entire territory north of the | Peiping-Tientsin line is in their} For the Meerut Prisoners We denounce the arbitrary arrest of the men whose hearts desired to put an end to these crimes, against whom, as was admitted by the gov- ernment of India itself in the Legis- lative Assembly in March, 1929, no unlawful action would be proved. We denounce the bad faith and the ridiculous ignorance on the commit-/ tal order which charged Spratt, as if it were a crime of high treason, with? having spoken of “the nationalization of the means of production and dis- hands. | | Eugene Chen, former Foreign Min- | jister, in a speech given yesterday,| | urged the Chinese government, to at-| \tempt to shut off the life blood of| | Japanese power by organizing a| ; Joint American-Chinese-Indian boy- | | cott of all Japanese products. Speak. jing for the Chinese native bour- | geoisie, which wants to exploit the| | Chinese masses itself, and without | the help of the Japanese, Chen is| | anxious to profit by the sharp an- tagonism between American and Japanese capital, to weaken the} economic position of the latter. The | | sphere of influence in China of Great | Britain and the U. S. A. is being} | continually narrowed as the area of | | Soviet China extends in the south| |and center of the country. Hence the insistence of the two imperialist | robber powers on the maintenance of “the open door” in north China, an open door which Japan is getting ready to slam in their faces, as she adds Manchukuo to Korea, and | Invade Chihli to Manchukuo. Already Manchukuo and Japanese troops have attempted to cross the Lwan River, reports being that so far the Chinese defenders are hold- ing their positions, Japanese mili« tary officials, disclaiming any idea of further advance, nevertheless say in the same breath, that if new Chi- nese bases are established south of the Lwen River, “these also will be destroyed.” Two other hints of the intentions of the Japanese imperialists to con- tinue their advance, with the ulti- mate aim of taking from China the whole province of Chihli and either incorporating it in Manchukuo or making it into a new puppet state, are supplied by the following news: irst, the bombing of the walled town of Tungchow, which is only ten miles east of Peiping; secondly, the bomb- ing of Miyun, some fifty miles north of Peiping. Tungshow is a town of strategic importance, astride the modern high- way that joins the old Chinese cap- ital to Tientsin. Leaflets were dropped over Miyun, which read: “The Chinese and Japanese people both belong to the yellow race. The Chinese have been enslayed by the whiys and Japanesa troops have come to free them from the oppres- sion of the whites.” The efficacy of this propaganda was spoiled by the fact that the Japanese airplanes dropped bombs on the Chinese popu- lation along with the leaflets. WORLD UNITED FRONT MOVE GROWS IN SUPPORT OF Workers International — Workers’ Groups in U. &. to Join Struggle The Central Committee of the Workers International Relief (WIR) has issued a call to all organizations and | T.ULULL., LW.0., etc. to form an all FIGHT ON FASCISM Relief Calls for All sympathizers, Socialists, A. F, of L., -inclusive united labor front for the tribution,” as every working man may) support of the struggle of the German laboring classes against fascism im | Germany and for the aid of the thousands of homeless refugees now spread legally do, and as the Prime Minister of England did before he denied his principles. We denounce the charge of at- tempting to deprive the King Em- peror of his sovereignty, which, if such a wish be a crime, would make all Republicanism criminal. We denounce the stifling of trade unionism in India by the country of trade unions. We denounce the attacks which are | being made upon the internationalism | of the working-class, which is for the | Workers an essential right and a duty, | a very necessity of existence in the | Presence of the internationalism of oe forces of exploitation which are | destroying them. | We demand the public revision of > | the prisoners our greeting of sym- | pathy and of alliance. They are for us the living symbol of those thousands of victims in great combat which today is being fought throughout the world to break the yoke of imperialism. All these | victims make a victory, for they bear witness to the iniquity which is crush- ing them, and to the irrestible rising of the new revolutionary forces which | are awakening mankind. Nothing henccforward will | them. arrest JESUIT AND LABOR MISLEADER FORM UNITED FRONT TO SLANDER USSR. Patriots Talk Against Union; Bar Wo WASHINGTON, April 19. — Anti- | Sovietism in its most vicious form|F. of L., was ‘Tevealed last night at a meeting ican Legion. An all star cast of no- torious Red-Baiters was assembled | to the thoroughly exposed and utterly | for the purpose of slandering the Workers’ Fatherland in a desperate effort to counteract the growing de-| “Do not,” he said, “surrender princ-| Clected a labor member to the House mand for recognition. Labor and Recognition of Soviet rkers from Hall | Green, infamous misleader of the A. launched a venomous at- j tack upon the U.S.S.R. Unable to | held under the auspices of the Amer-| find any solid basis for his attack on | the first workers’ republic, he resorted \ ridiculous charges of “ 1 labor”, | “dumping” and “unfair competition”. \iple to mere gain’. Not one word *;won by the Communist Party in COMMUNIST GAIN IN SOUTH WALES COAL FIELD AREA \Labor Party Majority | Cut in By-Election | to 3,000 | | MAESTEG, South Wales, April 5 | By mail)—Over 11,000 votes were | cast for 15 Communist candidates im | the South Wales Urban District | Council elections. Two seats were | Maestag, and one each at Pontypridd | and Ferndale, These were all at the | | expense of the Labor Party. | | Remarkable scenes were witnessed | when the results of the poll were de- | clared. Thousands of workers had | assembled outside the Council cham- | bers. Confident of victory, the work- | ers of Maestag marched down the | | valley soon after the polling booths were shut, singing revolutionary songs | | and shouting slogans. A tremendous | | reception was given to the newly | elected Communist councilors. ‘The results in Maestag are the more | heartening when it is remembered | that these seats have been contested |by the Communist Party only once | before. These results in an area | which, as a consequence of the closed {down coal mines, is nearly derelict, | show that the tide is flowing strong- | ly towards Communism in the mining | districts of South Wales. | These successes come immediately {on the heels of the by-election in | East Rhondda. This place has always |of Commons. The figures in last ~® over Europe. In New York the National Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German Fascism has already been set up with headquarters at 75 Fifth Ave. British Group Formed In London, intellectuals and lead- ing members of workers’ organizations have formed an English National Committee for the relief of these vic- tims. This group, constituting itself as the organizational committee, recent- ly distributed subscription lists from which collections amounting to 1,000 pounds have been raised to date. Within two days of its appearance, representatives of more than two hun- dred workers’ and intellectuals’ or- ganizations as well as many well- known individuals have registered their sympathy and support by sign- ing the manifesto against fascism. Among them are such well-known writers as Louis Golding, Havelock Ellis, Hugh Walpole, Mrs. Hadon- Guest. Ellen Wilkinson, Bowman. Professors Eddington of Cambridge and Levy of London. Lord Marley, chief whip of the Labor Party in the House of Com~- mons, was elected president. Others on the board are Herman Oat, sec- retary of the English Pen Club, Hugh Walpole, Havelock Ellis, Professor Ed- dington, Professor Levy, Fenner Brockway, Louis Golding and Mra, Hadon-Guest. Action in France In France, similar action has been taken by leading organizations an@ individuals. The first meeting, in Paris on April Ist, set the sum of 100,000 francs as its goal to be reach- ed by May First. The Executive Secretary of the French relief section is Francis Jour- dain, well-known architect.. Among the other leading members are Henri Barbusse, Romain Rolland, Madame Gabrielle Duchene (Ligue Interna- tionale des Femmes pour la Paix et la Liberte), Jean-Richard Bloch, the French Deputies Gaston, Bergery, Andre Berthon, Gabriel Peri, Doctors mass organizations were conspicuous | from this watch dog of capitalism! week's vote were: W. H. Mainwaring | Dalsace, Paul Mineur, Hans Altman, by their absence. It was a hand| | Picked audience. To avoid embarras-| about the famine, disease and mass about the 17 million unemployed, | (Labor), 14,127; Arthur Horner (Com- | | munist), 11,228; W. D. Thomas (Lib- | sing questions workers were barred. | destitution now stalking this land. Not) eral), 7,851. | In a speech seething with hatred | one word of Roosevelt’s forced labor | ,of the Workers’ Government, Father plan and peonage in the South. Edmund Walsh, S. J., Catholic Priest, dience not to be betrayed by the lure of monetary gain. It did not matter he said, that some workers would find | employment if recognition were given the USSR, What is more important, he cried, is honor. Walsh praised Senator Borah for his activities as special prosecutor for the Coal Barons, against Bill Hay- ‘wood and other labor leaders, but denounced the senator for advocat- ing recognition. Hitlers bloody regime, Mussolini’s reign of terror, were defended by Father Walsh. “Soviet Terrorism”, however, shocked him. That is, terror against work- ers and Jews is all right but the ex- propriation of priests, capitalists, and | kulaks is very wicked. Outdoing even Father Walsh, Wm. So weak and contradictory was , denounced the Soyiet government. Green's tirade, that, despite a super- | This well fed Jesult exhorted his au-| patriotic audience, he received but ttle applause at the conclusion. ‘This anti-working class meeting was endorsed by such reactionary organizations as the i. A. R., Daughters of 1812, the National Se- curity League, the National Civic Ped- eration and the like. ‘The speeches were broadcast ‘over the radio ‘ Denied the privilege of radio, preas and other means of communication, the Friends of the Soviet Union are nevertheless carrying on an intensive campaign for recognition. ‘They call upon all sympathizers to join them. The offices of the F.S.U. are at 80 East 11th St., Room No. 330, Meet- ings and demonstrations are being arranged for the purpose of getting one million signatures to a petition for recognition. | ti WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS! PREPARE FOR A UNITED MAY DAY > a M $10.00 a Thousiind SEND MONEY WITH ORDER ¢ Celebration Order your AY DAY BUTTONS from your disirict, C. P,, U. 5. A or from ommunist Party, U.S. A. T. 0. Box 87, Station D, New York, N. Y, H the | The Communist Party has eut the Labor majority from twelve thousand | ‘at the previous election, to less than | three thousand at this one: Horner's ‘vote is the largest ever received by | a Communist candidate in a Parlia- | mentary election in England—up to | now. H. Dejust, Christian Dupinet, Chale Jaye, Han Ryner, Andree Viollis, Leon Werth, Von Egon Kisch, Brecht, Weill. Every city and town should estab- lish its relief commitices. Necessary information can be secured from the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, 75 Fifth Ave., New York City. Collection of funds should be started at once. Under direct pressure of the mem-~ bership of the Amateur Athletic Union and the demand of the Labor Sports Union, Avery Brundage, pres- ident of the Amateur Athletic Union, yesterday hinted that the United | States would boycott the 1936 Olym- | pics in Berlin becauge of discrimina- | tion against Jewish sthletes and Jew- ish athletic officials. The statement of Brundage came in reply to a di- rect question from K. A. Miller, man- | aging editor of the Jewish Times, a Baltimore paper. “My personal, but unofficial opin- jon, is that the games will not be held in any country where there will be intereference with the fundamental Olympic theory of equality of all races,” stated Brundage in his letter. This statement came only after Dr. | Lewald, president of the German Olyinvic Committee, bad been re-~ moved b ce one of his grand- parents was a Jew and the displacin > of Dr, Daniel Prenn, one of Ger- | many’s ranking tennis players, from | the Davis Cup Team, also pn the basis of Jewish descent. _ LSU Started Boycott Movement | Labor Sports Union officials, when _ interviewed yesterday by % represen: _ Move Result of Pressure from Athletes tative of the Daily Worker, pointed out that the LSU was the first or- ganization to raise the question of an Olympic boycott against the Hit~ Jer terror. S, W. Gerson, Natl Sec- retary of the Labor Sports Union, told the Daily Worker representative that: “The L.S.U. demanded this voy- cott in a statement released March 23rd. Pe demanded it, further, in a letter to the Amateur Athletic Union in the same week. We are also reliably informed that a num~- ber of A.A.U. clubs have adopted resolutions and have demanded ac- tion from their leaders, We, how- ever, are not satisfied with Mr. Brundage’s statement. We must fight to have all arrested labor sportsmen in Germany freed and the ban remey 4 from all Iaber and Jewish sport organizations in Ger- many.” % ‘The announcement of Brey «AS come like a bombshell utiletic world. Rumors are f} aout that , ‘the Olympic games wil, transferred to Rome or Tokyo, capitals which are straining every resoures be ek fe North China; Plan | New Puppet State } y | i RS US. MAY BOYCOTT BERLIN OLYMPICS