The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1933, Page 6

w Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Ine., dally exeopt Sunday, at 1 B. . ‘18th Bt., New York City, N. ¥ ‘Telephone ALgonquin 4-7936, Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and mail ehecks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. J. Dail DEMONST National Committee Calls to Aid Victims of Fascist Terror Tells of Savage Persecution of Workers and Intellectuals of All Races; Suppression of Their Organizations and Press Appeals to People of America to Form’ Broad United Front Committees in All Cities and Collect Funds for Relief The National Committee to Aid) the Victims of German Fascism Ap- peals to the People of America. To Trade Uni to members of all Political parties, to fraternal societies, ¢lubs, professional and social groups To individuals, to hand and brain | workers of every section of American life. Fascism has brought much misery to the German People. Workers’ institutions and organi- zations, products of many years of unremmitting toil, have been sup- Pressed or destroyed. Workers and their leaders are being Jailed, tortured and killed. Their families suffer extreme hardship. Cultural leaders, educators, scient- ists, Jews and Gentiles, pacifists, in- ternationalists, Communists, Social- ists, democrats and republicans are the objects of fascist persecution and terror. Pogroms against the Jewish people of Germany and other national mi- norities continue in full force, not- withstanding all official denials. | The right of free speech and free Press, the right of workers to organ- ize has been abrogated. All the civil rights granted by the Weimar Constitution have been com- | Pletely obliterated under the iron heel | to ‘of Hitler. | Even workers’ relief organizations | such as the German sick and death benefit societies (Kranken Kasse, | Workers’ International Relief, of which Prof. Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, Nobel prize winner, are honorary members.) ruthlessly dissolved. This Fascist terror, spreading like ® plague over entire Germany, has Jeft in its wake thousands of widows and orphans—families separated | from the’ breadwinners. The de- struction of all relief organizations leaves these sufferers helpless. 'To the: = must be added the count- and exiles scattered over These victims of German people of varying political, cul and_ nationalities need of help. are the need of the victims grow in pro- | portion. As long a in Germany, persecution and autro. | cities will continue. This is the fascist | program. | Despite the terror, the German | workers continue to struggle heroic- | | ally to defeat fascism. | Immediate and concerted effort on | | the part of the people of the entire world to aid the German people in | their fight for life against fascism in Germany is imperative. The National Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism joins | the world-wide movement for funds jand relief in support of the perse- | cuted and exiled Earnestly and urgently we appeal the American people, reg support for the victims of Fascism in Germany. Organize broad relief committees in every city. Begin collections of funds | at once, have been| Write for information and direc- | tion. National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, 75 Fifth Ave., Room 5, New York City, N. Y. Telephone—Gramercy 17-9508. and religious views, of various races in desperate ay adds to the volume and of this terror and therefore less thousands of homeless refugees fascism remains in power | | ‘ardless | | of race, creed, nationality or political | | affiliation, to form a solid wall of | PASCIST GERMANY DEMANDS RiGii TO BUILD HUGE ARMY; SEIZE.LAND Chief in Silesia Threatens War on Poland; New Terrorist Police Foree GENEVA, April 28.—Tod: Nazi in the Disarmament Conference, Germany formally demanded complete arms equality in every respect within fee years. The German delegates made these demands in the form of amend- ments to the MacDonald disarmament plan, providing for G rmany’s arm- ing up to the French level in all branches of warfare, incladi Ee np to the ® fare, including army, navy BERLIN, April 28.—Nazi chieftains on the eastern German border are now demanding the neutralization of Polish colonization in the Corridor | i RATE ON MAY FIRST A orker Party US.A. GAINST FASCISM SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Sy Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $5.50; 8 months, $2; 1 month, We, excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign an€ is ‘One year, $9; 6 months, $5; 7 months, $3. ND WAR Preis 10 Preanig ann, der Fohrer der reten: Ernst Thi F kensten KAmpfer fir den Sozialismus hinter Kerker fe Fal kaplitalistische Knechtschaft und Tyr nel erhebt. durcnbrandet ein Schrel de: Massenprotestes 3: Gewaltherrschat Giahend gehasst von allen TrusthOnize: Surikern und Borsenfiirsten, aber gel} und geebrt von alien Ausgebeuteten und Unterdrickten, so ist der Name Thale mann leuchtendes Symbol der unver= brichlichen Treue zum prolctarischen Freiheltskamp? wegweisendes Beispiel _ An die Arbeiter aller Lander! “Die Rrife dauert fort, dle Srwertslollplelt iment anauftSrtich wetter gu. Gunger und Glend erfeffen immer eve und neue Echidhien ber Urbeite. Die Offenfive des Rayifals nimmt immer fépérfere Formen an. Die Boure etoile bolt anim HfeTbaug ans gegen familie velitifge umd (legally Printed German Commu nist Paper Begr. Luxemburg und Liedhneent Heraus mit Thalmann und andere politische Gefangene! dee Proletariat enth York Aber bolschewistischer. Zielklarhelt und unbe- zwingbarenrevolutiondrenKampteamutes. Hier zeigen: die faschistischen Volksbe- triger hr wahres Gestcht. Sie krmmen keinem Kopitalisten ein Haar. Sie sperren keine Schieber und BorserJo! Mebten eine Siurzfiut x und nledertrAchtigste Foren den Koromunismus, ai LJ Kampf for Brot und Freihelt, allem Terror zum Troiz, fOnrend vorangehen. delat, the Werhtitigen, velgt Bure Macht! Zu tule tate Rote eonsonaon oases h beaerate ergen und Menkarm, dem kapitallstiseh rm Ni brannen Bed: Volksrarderbera cntgegen! Wo die b aunen Uestlen Aufrufderkommunistischenfnternationale Verteitist sie Gewerkschatten! tachen Nichen und poiitiiden Srrunger| Beiterbermegung mit den brutaifer: auwverien vert Dob Haupthindernle fhe dhe tngelidtrems, raubt und dle Ko» ‘erretmetboden micdere *" Illegal Rote Fahne Prints Call to United Resistance the People! Mass Communist Party of Germany, “Forward” lyingly disputes, is reproduced above. | The top article headed, “Release ‘Thaelmann and the other poli- | tical prisoners!” reads in part as “Ernst Thaelmann the leader of the Ded Party of freedom, is in With him hundreds of thousands of the best and most fearless fighters for Socialism have been thrown behind prison walls! ++. Here the Fascist swindlers of the people are unmasking their true faces. They aren’t arresting any speculators and stock exchange brokers. They aren’t touching a hair on the heads of any chains! capitalists. But they are pouring a ders over Communism, unleashing a wave of bloody persecution against all those who—like Thaelmann and thousands of nameless heroes in the battle for bread and freedom—are taking the lead in the struggle in spite of all terror. Appeals for Mass Strikes | “Now, toilers, show your might! Brown-shirted torturers and hangmen, the capitalist destroyers of the people!” When the Brown-Shirted beasts try to behead the proletariat and cast the whole working population into the abyss of the most brutal Fascist barbarism, all party barriers must fall! and no-partisan workers must stand shoulder to shoulder with their Communist class brothers. United Front of Action! Smash in the prison gates behind chains! .... “Release Comrade Thaelmann! “Free all the imprisoned fighters “Down with Fascist terror rule! “Long live the Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic!” Below this appeal there is the manifesto of the Communist Interna- tional to the workers of the world, and an article calling upon all workers to “Defend the Trade Unions!” Torturers, the Capitalist Destroyers of The first page of the illegal “Rote Fahne,” central organ of the Protest Strikes!” whose appearance the Socialist follows: flood of the vilest lies and slan- Rally in millions and combat the Socialist, Christian Mass Protest strikes! which your best comrades are in for freedom! and an early plebiscite of carefully “sifted” voters to return the territory to Germany. Otherwise, they threaten that a re-armed Germany will “en- force the will of the nation”, Bruckner, Nazi Chief for Lower Si- lesia stated, “We do not want land in the West. Our problem is in the | East. Poland knows that sooner or later we will achieve armament equality, but then a peaceful solution might be too late.” ° se BERLIN, April 28—Goering, Nazi Premier of Prussia yesterday an- nounced the formation of a state si eret police to “combat Bolshevism | “Manchester Guardian” published an and other subversive forces.” The/|article from its “special correspon= secret police will keep close tabs on|dent in Germany” giving what it the press, will tap telephone wires, | terms the “Nationalist vers and censor the mails. The formation | Reichstag fire.’ The artic of this special police department is |Teady & confession that the Nazi boasts of having completely smashed and liqui- dated the Communist Party and the anti-Fascist movement was nothing | buts bluff. | General Motors Co. mention Gets War Contract ‘=: LONDON, April testing to the British fice. According to the dispatch, the A contract for $284,473 has been | three highest i chieftain, Adolf placed with General Motors Co. by | Hitler, Capt bering and Joseph | Goebbels, met in Berlin on Feb. 27, the U. 8. War Department, according |the day before the burning, “ 28.—Yesterday’s | through the passage, donned brown n of the|Communists could be incriminated, has al-|had taken the precaution to have on raised a diplomatic tempest, | him his Dutch passport, a Communist with the German Ambassador pro- | leaflet and what seems to have been Foreign Of-|a membership card in some Dutch The dispatch states: “A confiden- | tial memorandum on the events lead- | announced by the official Pressuische ing to the fire is circulating in Ger- | Pressedienst as intended to begin a many. The terror makes any open | Bolshevist revolution.” or discussion of it impos-| Nazi Burning of Reichstag | German Nationalists’ Secret Disclosures Prove Communist Charges; Reveal Serious Rift in Fascist Cabinet uniforms and made off. They left behind in the Reichstag van der Luebbe, who, so as to make sure the Communist group. “On the following day the fire was The correspondent concludes: A scaremongering story of “An impend- ing Bolshevist revolution supple-/| mented others—an alleged plot to assassinate Chancellor Hitler, alleged discovery of Communist arsenals, to the Wall Street Journal, April 21, 1933. The War Depariment’s award calls for 386 trucks and 123 station wagons “to be used in connection with its jt to await | munition dumps and so on. Such heir fire.” It adds: the whole Reichstag fire was an act of provocation by the Hitler Fascist regime to have an excuse to terrorize the entire population of Germany. | It is further borne out by the dis- closures of the Amsterdam police, printed elsewhere on this page, re- garding the faked passport of Van Der Luebbe and the fact that the Nazi agent provocateur is not even Heraus mit dem Genossen Thdlmannt Heraus mit allen eingekerkerten Freiheits- kampfernt Es lebe die Arbeiter- und Bavernrepublik! tung gegen die faldhitif fegar mit Gating uber die friedlide Polltit werhondelt Ceidicitig Loft Leipart mit ere Siemens | | nationale,” this printed edition of | | | willngly paid | Police officials because they have | been unable to uncover the illegal Berlin, Mitte Mars 1933 Die Rote Fahne Zentralorgan der Kommuynistischen Partei Deutschlands (Sektion der 3. Internationale) Re dart en brine Partel- ‘torialdvmobratische, Dartellone Arbelter Scholter an jou Stempelstelien und in allen m DOrfern berall muss der Shevewraf Kore Maseenforderung jeder die faschistische Terrorherrschaltt Gewert{dyelisbinjes werden von faldiftildben Banden | Semetianentindre find migendut und ee worden. Gin ,Reidatommifer te die Gewertidelien folk ale fern, ibet Die LripartBrofnann geben Etitiholiecrtide Berbrechee ab. Ore at RLOD 30000 COPIES OF ROTE FAHNE SOLD “Rally in Millions to Combat the Brown-Shirt IN PRINTED FORM According to the Aussig “Inter- the “Rote Fahne” (see above) was: sold in an edition of 30,000 copies all through Germany. The demand was so great that the Party's street units in Berlin and other big cities mimeographed the issue and sold; them by additional thousands. We have previously reproduced the front page of two issues of the mimeo- graphed edition of the “Rote Fahne” in ‘the Daily Worker. The price of this illegal paper is 10 pfennigs (2 cents), but hund- reds of workers and even unemployed 20 and 50 pfennigs for the paper to aid the growth of the four-page “Rote’ Fahne.” The Berlin correspondent of one of the biggest British newspapers writes that he himself has bought copies of the illegal “Rote Fahne” in the streets of Berlin. Dispatches report that the Nazi Ministry of the Interior ‘is starting disciplinary proceedings against some of the recently appointed new Fascist printing press the “Rote Fahne.” Does the “Forward” still stick by its lying story that “there is no illegal Rote Fahne and that the German Communist Party is dead as a door- nail?” that gets out Communists Double Number of Deputies in Dutch Parliament AMSTERDAM, Apr, 27.—The Com- munist Party made a 100 per cent gain in. yesterday's elections to the Lower. House of the Dutch Parlia- ment. The Communists now have 4 deputies in the Dutch House instead of 2, the two seats gained at the ex- Pense of the Social-Democrats. The chief gains in the elections were made hy the Anti-Revolutionary Party headed by Dr. Colijn, who is trying to form a government of “na- tional concentration,” that is a united bourgeois coalition embracing the Social Democrats, the Catholics, the identical with the Dutch police spy. Protestants, and the Liberals. ‘SPRING SOWING IN SOVIET UNION DOUBLES RECORD OF LAST YEAR SPARKS LEADING bourgeois econ- . omist asserts that » SF the crisis will be over when busi- ness can begin to produce at a pro- fit. In other words, the crisis will be over when the crisis will be over. Isn’t that clev- er of him? * 'E see by the papers that Col. T. Roosevelt, Governor-General has been falsifying the budget reports of the Philippine Islands so that a deficit miracugusly appears a surplus. Well, that fully qualifies him to be a director on one of our really Against U. S. By NewTradeTreaties Both Countries Jockey for Advantage on Eve of Economie Conference; Roosevelt Demands Congress Give Him Power Over Tariffs LONDON, April 28.—The British Cabinet has worked out the details of a@ new trade agreement with Germany, providing for minimum monthly exports of British coal totalling 180,000 tons. At the same time the Presie dent of the Board of Trade announced in the House of Commons that Brie tain had concluded an agreement with Argentina providing for exchange concessions, the graft of a $40,000,000@—. 4 twenty-year loan to Argentina by tiate directly with foreign countries | big banks. Baring Brothers, thawing of British credits in Argentina, and the mutual reduction of tariff rates. These successful efforts of Great Britain to anticipate the World Eco- nomic Conference by presenting the United States with the fait accompli of completed trade agreements with @ number of important countries are being further implemented by the impending signing of trade agree- F you think that May Day is an international workers’ day of strug- gle, and is of importance to all work- ers, you are in violent disagreement with the secretary of the Socialist Party of Hammond, Indiana. The Communist Party group at Hammond invited the Socialist group to have a joint May Day demonstration and parade. This is the reply made by the Socialist Secretary: “We have more on our hailds now than we can possibly take care of during the next few weeks. You see, agreement with Denmark was signed last week. oo ie WASHINGTON, April 28.—An offi- ments with Norway and Sweden. The | _| Teaches us even before it is written. i * . * “The |the Reichstag Speaker’s (Goering’s) |residence by a subterrannean passage. Through this emissaries of Goering | program to motorize field artillery | units in the National Guard,” reports this organ of finance capital. The National Guard is being pre- pared in several districts and held in | Teadiness for use in “civil disturb- ances,” meaning strikes, demonstra~ tions and workers’ gatherings. entered the Rei emissaries, wearing civilian clothes, few minutes sufficient inflammable matter was distributed throughout the building. “The storm troopers then, the Memorandum continues, withdrew REICHSTAG BURNER NOT THE REAL VAN DER LUBE, DUTCH POLICE FIND Man Arrested at Scene Is Nazi Provocateur With Different Fingerprints, Forged Papers AMSTERDAM.—“Het Volk,” central organ of the Dutch Socialist Party, reports that the Dutch police have checked the fingerprints and passport of Van der Luebbe, alleged author of the Reichstag fire. The police found that the fingerprints do not tally with those of the real while the alleged passport is a forgery. alleged Van der Luebbe is really a@ pbs agent provocateur, and not a in, a8 Hitler and Goering have proclaimed to the world. ‘This is interesting detail, but does set fundamentally alter the situation diately after the fire exposed as a police spy, a self-confessed spy, and expelled for it from the Dutch Com- munist Party long before the Reich- stag provocation, Reichstag is connected with|appear in the Nazi Papers almost ‘stag. Each of these | geois paper confirms what the Com- went to his assigned place and in a| —— Van der Luebbe, | dral and leader of the Silesian Catho- This is further proof that the |lic Center Party, issued a formal as the real Van Der Lube was imme- | stories are still being invented and daily.” mie oe This report of a prominent bour-| munists have stated all along: that BOURGEOIS JEWS OPPOSE MARCH NEW YORK, April 28—The two leading Jewish bourgeois organiza- tions, the American Jewish Commit- tee and B'nai B'rith, yesterday came out in opposition to the proposed mass protest march against anti- Jewish persecuticn set for May 10, the day when Marxist and Jewish books are to be burned throughout Ger- many. ee BERLIN, April 28—A further rift | in the mass base of the Nazi regime was revealed here yesterday, when Dr. Otte, chaplain of Breslau Cathe- statement condemning anti-Semitic persecutions of the Nazi Party. This was interpreted as a counter- offensive of the Catholic Church against Nazi efforts to subordinate the Catholics to the National Socialist movement, Collective Farm Acreage Sown Is 18 Per Cent Above Program for This Year By N. BUCHWALD (Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 26.—The sowing campaign throughout the Soviet Union | is making increasing progress, By April 20, 34,600,000 acres were already sown compared to 16,000,000 acres at the same date last year. The Ukraine has sown over 8,600,000 acres by April 20, compared /to 4,900,000 acres at the same date last some 5,000,000 acres, more than in 1932. The sowing cam- paign is progressing with especial rapidity in the Volga region, the Central Black Earth Belt, and the Tartar Republic. The Lower and Middle Volga regions have sown about 10,000,000 acres compared with only 700,000 acres by the same date in 1932. The Tartar Republic has sown some 1,500,000 acres, while last year the sowing had scarcely com- menced there by April 20, Collective Farms Forge Ahead. The collective farms of the U. S. S. R. have sown over 29,000,000 acres or 18 per_cent over this year’s gen- eral program, while last year only 12,000,000 acres had been sown by this date. The machine-tractor grain stations sowed over 12,000,000 acres, or 21 per cent of the total plan, which is more than last year’s accomplishments. Sowing is progressing very success- fully on the State farms, ‘The State considerably #—— year. The North Caucasus has sown farms in certain regions of the Soviet Union have already sown about 50 per cent of their program. Socialist Compet tion Counter-Plan, The sowing campaign in the Tar- tar Republic has been brilliantly ef- fected, as illustrated by the fact that collective and State farms have al- ready completed their grain sowing campaign in a number of districts, The collective farms in five districts of the Tartar Republic are now sow- ing wheat as a counter-plan to the program, greatly exceeding the initial plan. The socialist competition between different collective farm brigades hes | taken on extensive scope in the Tar- | tar Republic. The spirit of the masses | of workers on the collective farms is particularly high. Reports are pour- ing in from all over the country of production quotas being exceeded, with the workers voluntarily going we are giving several entertainments and dances. . . . We just ‘have so many meetings on hand at’ present’ that we don’t know whether we are cial communique terday that President Roosevelt is introducing a tariff resolution in Congress, empowering him to nego- announced yes- Britain Fortifies | for lowered tariff rates. This step { was taken after Roosevelt's talks with Herriot, French delegate, in which it was agreed that France and the United State would press for re- duced tariffs both before the World Economic Conference and at the Conference in London, : May 10 has been provisionally set as the date for a conference at Gen- eva of experts from the four big capitalist wheat-producing coun- tries: Canada, the United States, Australia and Argentina. The Soviet Union is significantly excluded from this conference. This conference also dovetails with pending negotiations between the United States and Can- ada for a trade agreement between the two countries. coming or going and we ‘can’t take care of them. Knowing that this May Day celebration will require a lot more of our time, which we just can- not spare, we will be obliged to decline your invitation. . . It will be impossible for me to go to your meet- ing tomorrow (to arrange for May Day—Sparks) as I have to meet with some Radio entertainers who are go- ing to assist us with our program. success, etc. . .” Hoping YOUR May Day! Enter- tainments and dances! Radio En- we can spare! Ch a ae H Reet is how the Socialist Party at Hammond, Indiana, enters into united fronts for May Day celebra- tion. RN Be the way, what has become of the proposal to guarantee bank de- posits which was heralded with such hallelujas?, Ce Reet ‘OU may have noticed that Burck’s powerful drawings have been. somewhat reduced in size the last few days. So many important events have been breaking, and the Daily is so crowded for space that this has been unavoidable, Things have reached such a state, he can rent our column for space for his drawings. We don't think our admirers would stand for. that. working class newspaper, like the Daily, needs much more space than it now commands. We must bend every effort to enlarge the Daily. her ear ‘HICH reminds us that Burck has the distinction of having painted in his mural “The Chinese Red Army” the only picture of a Bol- Lshevik that really looked like a Bol- shevik. The painting of the Chinese Bolshevik leading the army of Chin- ese peasants seemed to us a master- piece. The painting was recently ex- hibited at an exhibition of the New York John Reed Club. We would like to see it reproduced and distri- buted over the country. vee comes from Paris that the Academy of Education and Social Aid of which Monsignor Baudrillat of the immortal French Academy is President offers a prize of $2,000 to the author of the best novel on Bol- shevism, And the Chairman of the judges committee is none other than our fat friend G. K. Chesterton, the Eng- lish novelist, who thinks the two greatest things in the world are war and prayer. The foul odor of the winning novel | A BRAND new way of cutting work- | ers wages has been discovererd | by Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. The bosses’ keep part of the workers’ wages as a “loan.” Sidney has put this ingenious ‘scheme into effect in Rochester, New York. And one of the largest clothing manufacturing firms in that city | “rejoices” that the old truth about overhead (wages) that it is an in- | Soluble problem has been entirely ex- ploded.” Hillman’s job, apparently, is to solve the “insoluble problem” of over- head for the bosses. The Hitler government is going to show how much it loves the German workers by choosing 75 of them who have the longest records as good members of the Nazis, and letting them stay for one day at Berlin’s finest hotel. But where will these workers live for the rest of the 364 days of the year? And who lives in the fine hotels the rest of the year? Hitler uses the same technique of showing his love for the work- ers as the American railroad kings who hand out a $5.00 watch to a work» who has completed fifty years of service and whom they heve exploiting very profit- ably for fity years. be The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental out to the fields an hour or two be- fore the time fixed for starting work. veil, and has reduced the family ‘relation @ mere’ money rela- tion —Communist Manifesto. OF ANGLO-U. S. MacDONALD’S “FAREWELL” A EULOGY FRIENDSHIP MYTH Lofty Sermonizing to Conceal Drive of Decay- Hoping your May Day may be a tertainers! Too busy! More time than. greatest imperialist bandit powers of American cooperation and good will. He validity in contemporary experience in an attempt to cover up the clash that Burck has asked us whether! All of which goes to show that a ing Capitalism Toward Imperialist World War By H. M. WICKS. Before 1,000 members of a reactionary jingoist outfit called the Pilgrims of America, the British prime minister, J. Ramsay MacDonald, delivered a “farewell” speech Wednesday evening befor he departed for London. With his customary srmonizing he marshalled an array of pious plat- itudes from his arsenal of hypocrisy to try to conceal the sharpening an- tagonisms between United States and ¢- British imperialism. by the Negro majority in the Black Belt of the South; nor in the colo- He spoke of that mythical tradi- | > s rs wo | Dial_and semi-colonial possessions of tional friendship between the two Yankee i nla: MacDonald proved to his reaction< ary audience that British imperialist butchers are as adept in the use of lofty language to conceal their band- itry a8 are the political lackeys of Wall Stréet who, like the-later Woo- drow Wilson, said it was the “mani- fest destiny” of American imperial- ism to bring its “blessings” to weaker peoples. One of the most. repulsive features of all imperialism is that its spokesmen pretend that their mis- sion is to uplift the colonial and semi-colonial masses, while it has never done anything than deprave all lands it touches. India, Nicaragua, Hatt ‘This disgusting lackey of British. imperialism, who is personally res- ponsible for the Meerut prisoners suf- fering in jail, who maintains an army of professional butchers to shoot, bomb and blast the blessings of Brit- ish imperialism into Egypt, Irak, who strike to suppress with the, greatest excesses of ferocity every struggle for independence, had. the brass-faced audacity to talk about his government and the ruling class thet government represents standing for. the world. His theme was Anglo- le harped on a tune that has no of interests between the two powers in every part of the world. Concealed Facts of Conversations Not once did the British prime minister refer to the world wide eco- nomic conflict that rages between the United States and Great Britain. He was silent on the armaments race. He never mentioned the underhanded diplomacy with Mussolini in Rome which was. the. beginning of an at- tempt to build around Italian fas~ cist and British Tory policy a com- bination embracing Italy, . Britain and Germany. Nothing was said about the unleashing by the Tory government. of a new vicious anti- Soviet campaign to cover up the ex- posures of the criminal complicity of his government in instigating and directing wrecking and spying ac- tivities carried out by Metropolitan- Vickers engineers inside the Soviet Union. He was likewise silent on the part played by British imperial- ism in Backing the drive of the Jap- anese imperialists against the Chin- ese masses. Doesn't Mention South America Of course, no one could expect MacDonald to bring up such a deli- cate question as Anglo-American re- lationships in South America, In that part of the world the talk of diplomats is drowned out by the roar of cannon as Paraguay, backed by British imperialism, tries to resist the offensive of Bolivia which car- ries. forward the Wall Street policy of imperialist aggression. Colombia, the most servile of all puppet gov- ernments fo American imperialism, is involved in a war with Peru, at the same moment the Wall Street agents strive inside Peru itself to weaken and destroy British influence. Such are some of the facts that refute the fiction of Anglo-American imperialist “cooperation.” Glorifies Imperialist Depravity No greater blessings, said Mac- Donald, could come to the world “than that Great Britain and Am- erica should remain in affectionate relationships.” Continuing, he said: “I would like to take this op- portunity, on behalf of my daught- er and myself, to send a parting message of good will to the Am- erican folks who speak our langu- age, who are inspired with the geniuses that both of us claim as ours—Shakespeare, Milton; a great political philosophy of liberty, in- dependence, which you may have asserted against us, and whilst you took it, we blessed you for the ser- vices you did to us.” The patriots who listened, applaud- ed this observation of MacDonald. Then they sang “God Save the King” and some verses of the Star Spangled Banner. But they Gidn’t sing that portion of it that dealt directly with the situation under which it was written —during the second war to keep the English armed forces off American soil. MacDonald would not exactly have “blessed” these words written during that war: “Where is that band who so vaunt- ingly swore, that the havoc of war, the battles confusing, a home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their fou! footsteps pollution; no refuse could | save the hireling and slave from the | terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.” These sentiment apply today to both British and American impe- “liberty” and “independence.” MacDonald also knew he was talk- ing to people who uphold American imperialism which first Jearned from and then taught other bandit pow- ers of the world in its ravaging of. Cuba, the Phillipines, “Haitf, Sante Domingo, Nicaragua, Panama, Co- Jombia, etc. But he wasn’t talking to express his thoughts. His job was to conceal what took place at Washington and to cover with a rhetorical smoke- screen the rotten secret diplomacy that brought him to Washington and that impels the action of all those now in Washington or who will he in Washington in ionnection with “preliminary conferenées” in an effort of American imperialism.” to take the lead in world reaction at. the Geneva arms and the London world economic conferences. : Silent On Anti-Soviet Plots Not once did MaiDonaid refer to the Soviet Union, which was excluded from the Roosevelt ices, al~ though it is a certainly that that question was one of the principal points of discussion in view of the fact that the MaiDonald-Baldwin Tory and die-hard government is openly trying to provoke war and in- tervention against the Soviet Union. to coincide with the new Japanese provocations and military movements. toward the Soviet borders in Siberia; This visit of MacDonald, the con- versations which are being held at Washington amidst the most closely guarded secreiy registers terrific tng tensification of all the antagonisnfs of decaying capitalism. It is a warn+ ing to the toiling masses that not a moment can be lost in taking up» the struggle against the whole hun ger and war program of capitalism, That the capitalist class perceives that already we are facing momen- tous events is plain by the comments © of their press. This was set forth in last Monday’s New York Evening Post which announced with alarm: “The last showdown is approaching.” Whether it is the last depends up- on the action of the toiling masses, Tt is the working cirss and its allies, the formes, thet ‘rill have the de« cleive vord in the last showdown, - MacDonald Ceparted for London; where the next stage of diplomatic intrigue is being prepared under the name of the World Economie Con- ference, but which will mark another rialisms, Those who sing it Pe anerae listened to MacDonald, wot r welcome similar sentiments expressed stage in the mad drive ‘toward at- tempts to solve the crisis in a vio~ lent way, the way of imperialist war, {