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SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $8. months, $2; 1 month, Se, excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign an@ © on fT months, $5; 7 months, $8, Pekiied by the Comprodsily Publishidy Ce., inc., dally oxeopt Sunday, at 59 B. th O., ew York City, HY. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7936, Cable “DAIWORK.” Adérese awd mail checks te the Daily Worker, 5¢ E. 19th M., New York, X. ¥. Defend t Page Fear he Soviet Union! Defend the Chinese People! Demonstrate May 1 SES MacDonald Leaving May Day Hereafter Will Be German Goering: With Anglo-U. S. Tension Greater Economic Conference Set for June 12, Just Three Days Before Debt Payment Is Due WASHINGTON, April 26.—Discussions between Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald of England, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, ended Monday and today MacDonald left for New York where he will embark for London. The only thing definitely known to have been agreed upon is that the World Economic Conference? 5 will open in London on June, Hungary was 12th—three s before the) much as t he inter-allied the Fre d States Ameri certainly lata fs 1 brought by the En os 6 about e MacDonald the Wrench representative, former | 7+) m naatiee aavitain Premier Edouard Herriot = % F Inve his maneuver, how- Words Conceal Thought ever, is the difficulty of devising some Thus, while the Roosevelt adminis- | formula that will a ig Italy tration is still striving to strengthen | closed to the sphere of British im- the position of American imperialism, im conference with representatives of forty other nations, the British gov- ernment will cencentrate upon align- ments for the London conference. Before MacDonald left Washington & joint statement with Roosevelt was issued which said: “During the day the Prime Minister and the President have discussed the problems of the | debts of the British government to/| the United States government. Both | have faced the realities and the obli- gations, and both believe that as a yesult there is laid the basis of a clear understanding of the situation affecting the two nations.” = That this is fuss so much camou- flage to try te cover up the increas- ing antagonisms between these two mperialist bandit powers is seen tn | perialist policy, inasmuch as for years the United States has been striving to align Italy behind its attempts to | take the leadership of world reaction. Silent On Soviet Union No reports thus far have men- tioned the Soviet Union, but that by no means indicates that the victori- ous advance of socialist construction and the brilliant victories in facing difficulties from within and without, has not given rise to attempts at new plots toward war and interven- tion. On the contrary, the fact that Roosevelt deliberately Soviet Union in his invitations to the ns” shows sions were not take up the intended seriously to world economic situation because no such thing is possible without con- the conclusion that: “After the | sidering the Soviet Union, and that Prime Ministers departure thess con- | the failur invite the Soviet Union versations can well continvs tm Lon-| was an ij ation to all the powers don and Washingtew.” Silent On Other Yovess _ The veil of sectecy was carefully kept over all other questions—arm- aments, international currency, ter- fis, revision of boundaries, ets.—that certainly were topics of discussion at the MacDonald-Roosevelt confer As to the question of war, there is no chance of their ever | paid in full, but American im- lism uses them for political and | military purposes to try to get its rivals to cut down their armed forces and to try to align the smaller debt- | or nations behind the predatory pol- | of Wall Street in its international schemes t is also plain from the evasive | atement issued by MacDonald and Roosevelt that the British do not in- tend to yield to the attempt of the United States to take leadership in the arena of world politics, which was obviously the intent of the Roose- velt invitation to the powers to send | delegates te Washington for “pre- iminary” discussions Canada, Under Pressure there is a bitter struggle or England and United ic Phat betweer the to éry to reach e basis of agree- ment for a new anti-Soviet drive BENES THREATENS WAR OVER TREATY PRAGUE, April 26—Foreign Min- ister Benes warned the revisionist powers of Ceniral Europe that “they| could expect trouble if they persisted in their efforts at treaty revision,” in & speech in Parliament yesterday. Be- nes said that he had recently told Sir John Simon, British Foreign Sec- retary, that “Czechoslovak territory could be taken away only by war.” Warning Mussolini against the Italo-German plans for territorial re- vision, Benes added: “Italy under- estimates the power against which she sets herself. She forgets we also can reckon on the expansion of our| youth.” He added that the Little En- excluded the | NAZIS DESECRATE FIRST OF MAY Workers Will Use It to Protest Nazi Rule BERLIN, Aprii 26—The Nazis have | announced that May First, traditional holiday of the revolutionary working | class, will be celebrated this year un- | der Nazi auspices as the “Day of) | German Labor, rescued from Marxists | and Bolsheviks.” |the works of 28 professors whose, tested at the Tyrol mpt to pervert q ay Day, founded 1889 by the national as a day when the workers demon-/ strated their strength and their de-| termination to advance the class} struggle, may have all the armed | forces of the government behind it, | but it will not be able to prevent the | militant workers in Germany from| observing May Day in their way—as) a day of mobilization for the revolu-| tionary struggle, for the overthrow ot | | the Fascist Nazi regime. | the Police RaidCommunist Homes in Malta; Jail 6| MALTA, April 25—The police of| this tiny British colony in the Medi-| terranean yesterday raided the homes | at t Huge Burning of Books May 3 in Germany: Nazi Culture! BERLIN, April 26- jazi Germany is preparing the biggest “burning of books” since the Inquisition consigned “heretical” books to the flames in the Middle Ages and the Arab armies burned the huge library of Alexan- dria, Egypt, more than a thousand years ago. Naxi students are busily removing from the shelves of every Germane- university, to be nailed to a “pole of shame” erected on every campus May 3. Kiel University students yes- | terday confiscated over 2,000 books, | truckloads of Marxist pamphlets, and ousting they demanded. | On May 10 all “Marxist books and | hose by Jewish authors” will be pub-! Uciy burned in a solemn bonfire In} every city in Germany. Belle-Alli-; ance-Platz has ben selected for the) book “auto-da-fe” in Berlin. Thou-| sands of books, including the works of Karl Marx, Lenin, Magnus Hirschfeld, Thomas| Mann, Lessing, Emil Ludwig, Meh- ring, Kautsky, ‘ Jewish Students Limited. The Nazi law for the limitation of Jewish students in high schools and universities to 1 per cent of the total enrollment went into effect yesterday. Twenty-six Jewish professors were dismissed from their chairs in Prus- sian universities yesterday by the Nazi Rust, Minister of Education. tente would refuse an invitation to! of nine Maltese suspected of Commu-|pelied are officially called “merely the Four-Power Conference for treaty The raids were made| ist activities. | The forty-two professors already a the first installment in a general] | revision, saying that he would “refuse| under a Governor’s warrant based om | Aryan housecleaning.” to at a directors’ meeting of a aided in conce not Er here En: ges with detriment of the United y of weakening of Canada to try to force that country further from Britain. At the same time the Can an bourgeoisie, which itself list power, trie: U Against Farmers id United States are trying to come to an agreement on limitation of acreage of wheat grow- the North American continent r to aid the grain culators prices to consumers and get 1@ enormous surpluses they have on hand. Steps in this direc- tion were taken last October when the entire October wheat surplus was carried over to the May market. Thus, while the masses of both countries re facing starvation, the stock ex- change gambles withthe surplus that s equal io an average years’ crop. Similar proposals will be put forward n conferences with Argentina and Australia two other capitalist ons the wheat growing rriet Conferences Begin at 20 The economis position of France is made particularly difficult by the abendonmenmt of ths gold | standard fm the United States, which | Two British Generals and Secret Officer Head Firm That Sent Spies to Moscow By JAMES CASEY thing nder a crushing dip- lomatic setback at the hands of the Sovie 2 imperielists feeble effort the 6 drown the’ nd ging a noisy reception icted engineers, in London. 3 ers and war mongers of Great Britain had laid out an ela- borate program to’ weaken and dis- integrate the wo! land of the world ia But through the inexor- gilance of the Ogpu and the superb expose of Prosecutor Vishin- sky, this criminal scheme was kicked full of holes. And now statement issued by on the Moscow to shed more activities of the Metropolitar Electrical Company his organization added to the official the Soviet Union it is appropriate light on the militarist bh ist erated wreck bribe cou and promote general ¢ Unior t the imperialists felt. they Makes War Arma: ts it of the Associated Com- , the Vickers concern is 2 large menufacturer of amente, It is “quite natural” for of- As & panies, Ltd. war arm- ers’ and peasants’ | Vickers | enables the powers off gold to grab | ficials, whose capitalistic business it advantages in the world market at|1s to make money out of human the expense of those with higher cur- | slaughter, to be interested in the rencies. It is quite certein that | “defensive and offensive facilities” of France—the last remaining bulwark |the Soviet Ui It is also “quite of the gold standard—will be forced tural” for these officials to express to declare a gold embargo, which | “confidence” in their engineers in the means to go off the stendard. This|fece of the outright confessions of would be followed by Holland and | McDonald and Thornton and the Switzerland and other smaller coun- | self-convicting admissions of the ex- tries whose gold standard is precari- | pelled defendants. ous, ft must be brought out here (the Boundary Question te the Fore | Whole capitalist press has, up to this Tt is quite certain that economic | Writing, painstakingly concealed the questions will be eclipsed in the con- | fact) that the principal directors of versations with Herriot by the ques-| the Vickers company have held the tion of alteration of boundaries ag | highest ranking posts in the British ‘was proposed in the MacDonald-M imperial army and are in closest) lini conference recently held in| touch with the affairs of the Mac- Rome, where the “four pow e= Donald In } rat me ing England. many and ace was brought for- or these directors ward. The tion of France to pro- 0! ished additional proof posals to cut into the Polish corridor ; *h#! inderlings worked under the shave off territory from Jugo-| instructions “from above,” but also Slavia, Cwecho-Siowakle and Rou- | 's! leading figures of the Brivish | out of the bag by announcing the | the sedition ordinance. The police; made six arrests, including the secre ‘ tary of the Malta Labor Party. { gigantic intrigue. It is no wonder, | | then, that the exposure of the Ogpu | Sent the British imperialists into a fit| of hysteria Two British Generals | _ Directly behind the operations of! the Vickers organization are two British army generals and colonel of | | engineers, besides C. S. Richards of} |the British Intelligence Service, | whose name wes mentioned frequ- | ently in the course of the trial. These generals and colonel not only share responsibility for the plot, but, ; as it happens, they are vehement | enemies of the working-class and for many years fought labor in their own | country, | One of the prime movers in the ac- | tivities of the Metropolitan-Vickers Company is General Sir Herbert A. Lawrence. Lawrence has received medals from | the King and Queen of England for his services in helping to enslave the ers of South Africa and Egypt s of the world war wrence was named chief of the leral staff of the British army in After the war he became a a@ British railroad and of t he that the has honored 2 medal | Company € him with | Fonght Coal Strikers | | When in the Fall of 1925 England was faced with a general coal strike in the fight on starvation wages, Lawrence was appointed a, member of the Royal Commission to intimidate | the workers and arrest the militant | movement of the miners. | His avaricious appetite for war and!/ | More personal riches at the cost of! | workers’ lives ran amuck during| March, 1928, while he was chairman| | of the Vickers Company. About this | time the capitalist press was flooded | With the same hypocritical talk of disarmament that even today has sent President Roosevelt and MacDonald into a huddle at the White House. Lawrence unwittingly let the cat plans of the Vickers Company, the| same concern whose engineers were paid to injure the Soviet Union, tefusing to curb the manufacture of mui ons, Lawrence announced that “despite any. development in our commercial business which we can bring about, the result ot more re-| duction in armament orders would he | t mania for She henett of Aqatee and SOM rnmiont were fully aware of the, sorte w | become too lazy to get out of their| Tagore’s Son Jailed The Munich police announced pes- terday that the Hindu arrested Mon- - fore this announcement, the Vickers Yompany had declared an 8 per cent dividend to its shareholders. Demanded Wage Cut for Miners On March 11, 1928, Lawrence aimed another blow against the living!| standards of the coal miners of Great Britain. Speaking for the Royal Commission, he recommended a re- duction in wages. As an excuse for this reactionary brazenness, Law- rence said the commission favored a} wage cul to save from dismissal hun- dreds of thousands of men. Either take a wage cut, or lose your job, was Lawrence's injunction to the workers. And this pronounced enemy of the masses of toilers has heiped to direct the operationg £% the convicted en- gineers. One of Lawrence's close colleagues | in directing the activities of the Vick- | ers Compeny is General‘ Sir Phillip] Nash. This man is the managing director of the company. Nash, who} during the World War served as in- pector general of transportation in the British also is a violent for of the wor Tn England, he has callously fou; against relief for the jobless and t arving | On a visit to New York several] eats ago he was asked to comment} on unemployment conditions in Eng-| land. Nash said emphatically that| the unemployed should not receive help from the governmnt, and he ,Particularly denounced the thousands upon thousands of veterans who had risked their lives for British im~- perialism, “These young men,” said Nash, referring to the veterans, “have own way.” | Just as Roosevelt today is driving} unemployed youths into military camps, so Nash at that time favored the rounding up and shipping of unemployed British workers to South Africa and New Zealand. On April 27, 1931, Nash made an agreement with a representative of the Soviet Union for the manufacture of machinery in’ the plants of the All-Union Electro-Technical Com-| bine.’ Certainly, Nash did not hint} at that time that he would have “confidence” in engineers, who were found guilty of espionage, brili piracy to perpetrate machinery! jowns, The present chairman of Metro- politan-Vickers is another faithful! servant of British imperialism. Sir Pelix Pols, whe aloo eniovs (he mili: | Rosa Luxemburg, | | all “Marxist, Jewish and alien books” day “on suspicion of plotting against Hitler's life” was Soumyandra Nath Tagore, son of the world-famous poet and Nobel Prize winner, Rabindra- nath Tagore. Young Tagore was ar- border and brought to the Munich jail, charged with being a Communist: \Forty Communist | Meetings in Week in 1 Berlin District PARIS, April 14. (By Mail).— More than 40 meetings of nist locals were held in Wedding, working class district of Berlin, during the first week of April, ac- cording to the Berlin correspond- ent of “Humanite.” The Berlin correspondent of a bourgeois London paper, quoted by “Humanite,” states that “it is absurd to think the resistance of the German workers has been fin- ally broken as Goering asserts.” | He adds that the Nazis do not feel) | safe in working class districts, and that “it is a mistake to think that! | Hitler has uprooted Communism.” Service tary title of colonel, has held many important government posts. As a} member of the Government Indus- trial Court, he was’ placed in a posi- tion to fight the claims of British workers, Headed Scab Campeign On May 3, 1926, as the general manager of the Great Western Rail- ways of Great Britain, he warned the workers under him that they would be fired if they dared to give assis- tance to miners then on strike. Call- ing on the railroad men to move coal mined by strikebreakers, the chair- man of Metropolitan-Vickers said: “Remember that your means of living and your personal interests are in- volved.” Thus, you have a skeleton picture of still another man, who has officially welcomed home his under- lings expelled from the Soviet Union | for dastardly crimes, It must not be thought for an in- stant that Prosecutor Vishinsky did| not have full knowledge of the type of men behind the Metropolitan- Vickers Company and behind the ex- posed engineers, But it was Vishin- sky’s function to try the engineers, who were caught red handed, and not the company. Vishinsky subsequently performed his duties with = mastery that won him worldwide acclaim. Neither should it be conjectured for @ moment that the Soviet Union was not cognizant of the calibre of men that ruled the Vickers Company. In negotiating with the Vickers concern for the manufacture of machinery, the Soviet Union had . once again shown an intention to further its peace policy. As for Britain, it has sought to halt any possible negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union for the establishment of diplomatic relations. The British imperialists have tried to weave an alliance o: nations in a war against the Soviet Union. In a word they had tried to smash the U.S S..R, And, when.all their plans had collapsed, the British government became panicky. The MacDonald government's em- bargo has been adequately answered by the Soviet Union with a counter- Lan on British shipments, And while the Soviet Union stands for peace, the workers’ and peasants’ Republic has vigorously let it be known that | it will countenance no interference with her internal affairs, British imperialiam now knows thr, «hea made ® voluse! | anything at all. [spa RKs|Chicago Tribune avarecec'a | CaughtinVery Act ° of Slandering USSR tures over the “defiance” of Otto| Wels, German Socialist leader who “defied” Hitler by declaring tear-| fully what a loyal German citizen he was and how he doesn’t mean | | — — - 2 i nueconi venmemcotatne Scr | Correspondent Donald Day Falsified News who ea els z. $. . aveecuy Bk alge ered ae Ie Given Him By Returning Worker, Who Now nea, . F This week's New Leader writes Repudiates Day’s Account of the ' it is “more pleased that Wels had TInt . | spoken at all than by what he| ntervlew said.” | * ae eae z ‘Ab, first the New «Leader, wae The Daily Worker is printing herewith photographs and proud of what Wels said. |a letter from Floyd Barnwell, an American worker just re 1 Now they are proud that he said| turned from the Soviet Union after working there for two years, which speak for themselves. Soon they will be proud that Wels Gidn’t sign a membership | cara in the Nazi Brown Shirt army. ee he Here are some facts wh: have some bearing on the sin In 1914, the United States had 6 military airplanes. Today, it has over 10,000. | In 1918, the United States had| 280 tanks. | Today, it has over 8,000. Getting ready, apparently, for a nice long era of peace. oes The other day we printed a piece of joyous news about General | Pershing’s $13,000 a year pension. | Here is another scorcher. The | following patriots contributed | $1000 or more to the National | Economy League which was so} | active in getting the compensation | | of the war veterans reduced: | ‘“dward Harkness of the Stand- | ard Oil Company +» $1000 John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,. .$5000 | Mrs. Marshall Field » $1000 | Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim. . $1000} There are many more such. Spending a few thousands in or- der to get a reduction of almost | a billion is good business. But not for the vets. | a ae w Nicholas Miraculous Butler of Columbia University has let us in on a little secret. The newspapers carry the report that Nicholas. Mi raculous does not think that stu- | dents are an important part of a university. Anybody who has watched the fat little educator’s career, so: full of futile’ ambition for the prizes of the political conventions, will ‘agree that he has followed this | doctrine in practice. Big endowments? Yes. Fine new buildings and big annual banquets for the Board of Trustees. But students? Poch. All they have to do is pay fees and-do as they are | told. A worker, H. C., in one of the Wall Street brokerage offices, | | sent us the following letter: ! | “An order to buy $1,000,000 of | | Czarist bonds on the New York| market. The order comes from En- gland. The name of the buyer is! not..disclosed, but the order is to) be executed by @ trading company organized by prominent financial interests connected with the bank | of England. Czarist bonds gen-| erally rise with the increase of ru-/| mors of war against the Soviet | | Union.” | | The {nternational wolves are, | sharpening their teeth against the Worker’s Republic. And the inter-/| | national jackals are sharpening | their appetites for rich pickings. | But they'll get the surprise of | | their lives when they try it. | | ‘The movie critic of the Dail | Worker commented on the fact | | that Kuhle Wampe, the new Ger- | man movie about the unemployed) | German workers, differs from the) | usual Hollywood Garbo love scene. | The movie critic of the New York} | Times is disappointed with the film because it does not contain any real love scenes in the Hollywood style. That is the difference good movie critic and capitalist | hack who misses his daily excite- ment, Here is an example of govern- ment in the capitalist style. The papers report that “After defeating three local, bills sponsored by Aldermanic President nh V. McKee yesterday, the | Tammany-controlled bloc in the | Board of Estimate placed the/ | stamp of approval on three other | measures sponsored by Mayor O’Brien, which contained no es- sential difference from the McKee bills.” The O’Brien bills had the same difference as the McKee bills. Cuba Police in Panic | Mix Their “A-B-C.’s”. HAVANA, April 25.—The hysteria | of the bloody Machado regime caused the arrest of the editor of a bour- geois Cuban weekly, “Carteles,” yes- terday. He was sentenced to incom- municado imprisonment in Principe Fortress because the weekly published the Audit Bureau of Circulation cer- iticate, stating its nei paid clrcula-| ii clip din s of the bureau are the same as that of the secret ter rorist organization. and the hysterical | police refused to accept proof to the! contrary. “the Chicago ee Sticren a | Tyim Mounes. | The deliberate omissions and distortions of Barnwell’s espondent in Riga are another instance to prove how consistently the capitalist press twists and per- | verts all news from the Soviet Union. of the capitalist countries which | travelogue lecturer, tells from the lecture platform that travel- have been talking peace for so long. | ers from the Soviet Union are aways approached by bourgeois | Journals and magazines, who are ready to print anything they “if only it is against the Soviet Union.” story by the reptile corr write... Julien Bryan, noted The Chicago Tribune, owned by the multi-millionaire Me- Cormack family, is one of the foremost vilifiers of the Soviet Dail, Wether Duar Comrades? 1 werksd in the wrrhere ps HY Marek 1933, ee + told Donald Day, Chi fries Re r | braun the hfe | Union. We are able to catch it red-handed in its lies this time, 625 KEEP AVE. ELGIN, devinoss Apel 15,1933 , Savistland, from Apr 1931 of the werkwve, Whim foils whaices Lt RAT halve. These, in am inberitar, fot the Gollin | eranbre ama for SSP, tomsthing ff Sevcah Life. | musuliensd TE ak % 6 thee he, 5 weaks. thus emofidower inn tRewsthee an 2 cleat, te rvtahan than confines. ian thyir Leader, thar rigemget off the woete perelitens, the Comonumish nbsimational te ascwrily ond hafhinase sade Hair Guilial Gramittin, ard Le, fasdir Guosade obas ie aght om beltoriag thal Inia b the usur Chesshece arviah, , Auduvshipy of the Bobshovihe , Stn. Floyd Barnwell Photograph of beginning and end of Floyd Barnwell’s letter to Daily Worker. Full text is given belom onaTEST aily Tribune ERSRAPEE Above is a photograph of the Chicago Tribune “masthead” showing the date on which the lying article by Donald Day was published. Be- Jow, right, is a photograph of the beginning of Day's article, and below, left, ix an autographed picture of Floyd Barnwell, sent by him with his letter to the Daily Worker, repudiating the lies by Donald Dey about getween a le |service for workezs, rising employ- Day's interview with him. Following is the exact text of Floyd, Barnwell’s letter to the Daily Worker. 625 Keep Avenue; Figin, Tlincis April 15, 1993 Daily Worker Dear Comrades I worked in the workers’ father Jand, Sovietland, from April 1931 till) March 1933, two years. I knew tus life of the workers. When I hae} back to help support my father, who wes blinded while I was away, I) passed through Riga, Latvia. There, in an. interview, I told Donald Day, Chicago Tribune correspondent for the Baltic countries and for USSR, something of Soviet life. I mentioned hunger, free metiical ment, yearly vacations with pay for workers and for pregnant mothers before and after childbirth, workers’ access to all culture and education, measures in industry to strengthen discipline, crowded living quarters, scarcity and high cost of clothing. The interview as published in the} ‘Tribune made no mention of free medical treatment for workers, of va~ cations for workers and mothers, of the spread of culture and education | through the entire working masses of city and country. The interview chose only the dark colors from So- viet life, emphasized them, and omit- ted my explanation of the causes be- hind them It is an example of the deception | common in greater or less degree to all bourgeois newspapers, It is de- vention attempted on the warkom to Elgin Youth Comes Out Penniless and Hungry. BY DONALD DAY, {Chicago Tribune Press Service.¥ RIGA, Latvia, April 2.—A litte Imore than two vears ago, Floyd Barn- well, then 22 yeera old and ® drafts man employed by the General Mo- tors Truck corpo: whose home was. at 625, Keep Ri, nislead them, to split their remks, to weaken their confidence in themn- selves as a class, to weaken their eon- fidence in their leader, the of the world revolution, the Commu- nist International. The American working class ts right in believing that Soviet work- } ers are fighting stubbornly through to the new classless society, to se- curity and happiness under the lead- | ership of the Bolsheviks, their Cen- { tral Committee, and its leader Com- rade Stalin. Comradely youre, (Signed) FLOYD BARNWRLE, Sis