The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1933, Page 4

Bebliched by the Comprodeily Prblishing Ce., Ine Page Four 19th 1., Now York City, N.Y Address and mafl checks to the Daity Telephone ALso! Worker dally except Sunday inguin 4 Unble 50 EF, 13th St, New York, N. ¥. Daily. 2 orker’ Party U.S.A. SUBSORIPTION RATES By Mail everywhere: One ye excepting Borough of Mi 36; six months, $3.50; 3 months, 3%; 1 mengh, 7s, ttan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign and Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, $5; ? months, 98. WAGE CUTS, RELIEF CUTS, FORCED LABOR, CUTS OF VETERANS’ COMPENSATIONS, HIGHER COST OF LIVING, SALES TAX, EVICTIONS OF THE JOBLESS— British Bourgeois Journal Reports ‘GermanS.P. Dead’ “Time and Tide” Admits ‘Only Communists Fight Hitler;’ Reveals Socialist Betrayal We quote the following article on the behavior of the Socialist and trade union leaders in Germany from the April 9 issue of “Time and Tide,’ prominent British hourgeois weekly. (Like “Time” in America.) The de- vastating criticism of the class betrayal of the German Social Democrats made by this bourgeois magazine ts a slap in the face to the Socialist “Forward” and the “New Leader.” The “Forward” on April 21 hysterically wrote “The German Commu- nist Party is dead,” but “Time and Tide” clearly states “the Social Demo- cratic Party is dead.” The “Forward” claims that the German Commu- nisis are in hiding, paralyzed, and that the Daily Worker's proofs of underground Communist activity in Germany are “lies.” “Time and Tide” scotches the “Forward” falsehood, stating that only the Communists are fighting Nazi Fascism. The “New Leader” of April 8 says that it “is proud to present to American readers the text of the defiant speech of Otto Wels, chairman of the German Social Democracy.” Well, the article from “Time and Tide” leayes no doubt in the mind of any worker about the “defiance” of Otto Wels or the other Socialist leaders. Wels and Stampfer go abroad to stop Socialist papers from printing news of Nazi atrocities; Wels says that this news “defames Germany's good name!” Could any greater proof of Socialist betrayal of the class struggle be wanted? Every worker will realize that the “martyr psychology” of the bour- geois writer in “Time and Tide” is not the Communist, class-conscious standpoint. Communists do not “court arrest and punishment”; they stick to their posts, doing their revolutionary work in spite of the danger of arrest, torture and death. That is the heroic tradition of working class struggle upheld by Communists all over the world. That is the brave ex- ample of Harry Simms in Kentucky, of owr Communist comrades in Hun- gary, Poland, Roumania and China. The “Time and Tide” writer, as a bourgeois, cannot understand this, of course, but his damning charges and proofs of Socialist desertion and betrayal of the German working class in the hour of fits greatest need, ‘its heroic struggle, should be brought to the attention of every Socialist worker in the United States—ditor, Dalty Worker. * * * ven the most sympathetic observers in Germany have now agreed the Social Democratic Party is dead. The impressive structure built irough 50 years with working class pence and on working class hopes is Its moral death blow was the same as the Kaiser’s. The leaders fled. here may be ® monarchist restoration in Germany, but the ex-Kaiser will not ascend the throne. Simflerty, when the Socialist Party grows again in Germany, a8 obviously %# will, not one of the old names will be among its Ra No one who has not walked the streets of the Wedding and Nord districts of Berlin and talleed with the working men, can form any idea of the depth of the bitterness among the working people against these men. “We cannot go to Switeerland,” say the local leaders who are facing the after day search of their homes by Nazi guards. “But Hilferding would surely have been hanged if he had been caught,” reply the officials of the | ‘Trade Union movement, and the workmen will remind you of the 98 cas- ualties in the Grenadier Strasse and will ask whether Rudolf Hilferding at the end of the rope might not have been a more inspiring object to the workers than the gentleman so carefully preserved in a Copenhagen hotel. It does not seem to have occurred to the best known figures in the German labor movement that when the policy they have advocated and enforced since the war has been proved not only wrong, but fatal to the lives and liberty of the men and women who trusted them, the least they could do was to stay and face the consequences. Socialist Leaders Desert Fight It is the captain’s duty to go down with the ship. Their memory would have helped to rally their followers, The Nazis have made full capital out of their martyrs. Their “Horst Wessel” march song is based on the death of.a gentleman whose personal record has to be properly overlooked by the poet who eulogizes his death. The Socialists had plenty of martyrs | after this Nazi “March Action,” but there are few well-known names among them. None of the inner circle of the former leadership. Where is the German Matteoti? But what has reduced the labor movement of Europe to shocked and bewildered silence is not that the German leaders should have saved their own lives—that is explicable, but their amazing efforts of propagcnda on Hitler's behalf. The Jews, in a torrent of indignation, have filled the world with their protest meetings, boycott, impressive relief funds—and the labor movement in these countries has had to be silent in face of the demands of their own members. Only now is it beginning to be known that their hands have been tied by the pleas made to them in Person by some of the leading Socialist and trade union men in Germany, who have visited the international centers in each capital, and implored them to stop any propa- ganda that might anger Herr Hitler. This was the condition that he laid down for the restarting of the socialist press in Germany. One can sympathize with the natural anxiety of the 10 or 12 thousand workers and the 200 socialist daily papers in the Ruhr to get their means of livelihood started again, but that was not given ag-the reason. “Unless we can restart our press, the movement cannot be kept together,” these impressive deputations pleaded. What sort of Socialist papers do they think they will be allowed to publish by the gracious permission of Adolf Hitler and Herman Goering, when even the moderate conservative papers are muzzled? The Commu- nists have somehow, somewhere, printed occasional issue of their Rote Fahne and put them into circulation at the deadliest risk to everyone con- nected with the enterprise. “Don’t Attack Hitler” “Don't attack Hitler and then perhaps he will let us print the Vor- waerts,” has completed the splendid record of a leadership that has shot down hunger demonstrators in the street. The leader of that activity, Herr Noske, has been successful in his plea to Herr Hitler that he should be allowed to retain his official position in Hanover for the additional three months necessary to qualify for his pension, His further request that the Nazi government should pay his removal expenses from his official resi- dence to his new home in the suburbs !s “under consideration.” Union Heads Give Nazis Funds But it is no less true of the trade union leaders who demonstrate that you simply have to shout at a German in sufficiently authoritative tone and he will feel he must obey—and one wishes one could be sure that this was only true of Germans! Certain trade union executives, realizing that | the gathering Nazi storm must soon break over their heads, liquidated as many of their assets as possible and transferred them to thelr respective international organizations for safekeeping. In each of these unions, Hitler has now placed a labor commissioner, whose first action was to examine the accounts. When he demanded what had happened to these funds, the executive had to confess his fear of being tried for embezzlerient, The leading official of each of these unions was given 48 hours to go to their international headquarters and come back with the money. It was in.vain that the international organizations pleaded with the Germans not to hand over all the funds of their members in this way to the Nazis, “If we don't, we'll lose our jobs,” was the stubborn reply in one case. “But surely if you are now safely outside Germany you can live here and pay yourself your usual salary out of these funds, At least that would keep the money out of Hitler's hands and leave a substantial balance for future reorganization.” “But that would not be honest,” replied the German leaders! The funds have been duly returned to the Nazi Commissioner and the trade union and socialist leaders in other countries are left to look at each other in bewildered silence. We are bluntly told by the most influential of German socialists, Herr Otto Wels, who has chosen this moment to resign from the International as 4 protest against “anti-German propaganda” on the part of his old friends, that in speaking of atrocities they are defaming the good name of Germany! “The situation has a wider significance than its effect on the international labor movement. For the last 38 years, in each civilized country, except America, the propaganda of the labor movement has produced a steady xmeltoration of working class conditions. Now that the economis situation i“ ’ THIS IS ROOSEVELT’S NEW DEAL—-DEMONSTRATE ON MAY FIRST AGAINST ROOSEVELT'S HUNGER DRIVE! Communist Nr. 40 ll. Internationale snd dem Verau nen, Beselzung ao Eigentum proletarie Feigat ad-p ae io Bit -| uschen Arbeiter tn dis Komuni | den ungeheuren Vi 2. Aprilwoche: &in ernates Wort an allie Mitgileder der Soziaidemokratisohen Parte! Ein neuer 2. August der SPD Parteivorsitzender der-Soziaidemokratie, sozialdemokratischen Arbeiter-internationale aus Otto Wels, Zurickweichen vor dem Faschismus jetzt hinein In die antifaschistische Einheitsfront! Bereitet gemeinsam mit den Kommunisten den 1. Mai vor. Wa4hIt Delegierte zum Europdischen Kampt- kongress gegen die, faschistische Diktatur. Verrat und Kapitulation “earer Fiber sor] ben Verzweilung nd Panik bel euch. aus-| t von einer Arise erfaft, ist aktiousan- ‘Schiltbruch erlittes disser Parole werden wtr dan Kampinat begehen. Die SPD* tollstet den letsten Bruch mit der malt, re volutiondre Traditionen besonders aus der Lelt des Sozialaten- Wiedergebrt und Enicichlang in der Rommuniaii- | Past a lat ein Broach mit den Sehandbeschiud von weilgeher Tregueite, Darum misees Me iache Partel die Antwort ex win, ia ot Sta Neue Enthuilungen Reichstagsbrand ite bat exh oll vs det Lib un stloe Kom de Frellassung des FUhrers der KPD malar] beachleusigte threa ProseB der Bolechewisierung Sela Rat und eine Tat sind nicht aur fir dae deutsche Proletariat, sondern aeciungl Iasvung dee Genowen Thilmana an. Nur die mulige Tat, ear scbea Pastel ruiteal Derum alle Kraft angeepasat tte die Frat Iaseung dea Genoeses Erout Thslmase, Paper in Hamburg Appears in Spite of Nazi Suppression Hamburger Volkszeitung 10 Pfg. tritt aus dern Buro der Bruch der SPD mit der SPD-Arbelter Her zur KPD Heraus zum§Kampt, far; die Ernst Théimann! Bereta seit Woches let der Fuhrer der Kommuniottochan tel Devtacblande, Geoome Thilmana, is deo Kiauen dew Festigung dee Fabrecia dea Proletariate, der KPD, bet and der asiea Interationsie asarkaaat und roo grofer Be- Entellt den Fabror der Arbiter der fatchtlachen Kerae le) Nehmt In dew Betcieben, in dem Organlagiones, oul den wepeltelien Regolotionen ued Kanpfbeschiaee {tr die Frei- ‘8ite Entechlowsenbeit kana dea Fohewe der komma Illegal Communist Paper Calls Socialist Workers, Deserted By Their Leaders, To Join the Communist Party | The illegal four-page “Hamburg- er Votkszeitung,” Hamburg news- paper of the Communist Party of | Germany, part of which we repro- duce above, is headed by an ear- nest appeal to the Socialist workers of Germany, reading as follows: “An earnest word to all members of the Social Democratic Party. A new August 2 of the German So- cial Democracy. Otto Wels, chair- man of the Social Democracy, re- signs from the Bureau of the So- cialist and Labor International. Socialist Party breaks with the Sec- ond International. Retreating be- fore Fascism. Socialist workers, now join the anti-fascist United Front! Join the Comnmnist Party, Prepare for May 1 together with the Communists, “Elect Delegates to the European Congress for struggle against the fascist dictatorship. | | | “The desertion, open treason and | capitulation of your leaders to Fascism have caused despair and panic among you. Our Party is in the throes sof a crisis, is para- lyzed, while the policy of your leaders has failed miserably. The new decision to break with the Sec- ond International has led to more confusion in your ranks, “The times are bitterly seriows. The naked Fascist dictatorship has been ruling for two months with revolver and dagger, with rob- bery amd murder, torture and im- prisonment, the suppression of Czech Socialist Paper AdmitsWels Treachery ‘The Jewish Daily Forward has re- peatedly stated editorially that “the | Communists lie when they say that | Otto Wels, chairman of the German | Social Democracy, has betrayed the heroic, fighting German working class.” To refresh “Forward’s” mem- | ory, we are reprinting comment from a Czech Socialist newspaper, the “Duch casu.” The editorial says: “There is no use in denying that the resignation of the Chairman of the German Social Democracy from the Executive of the Labor and So- cialist International because of the jatter’s decisions is a deliberate de- sertion from the battlefield of the proletariat’s class struggle, a weak- ening of the fighting strength of the working class, and an objective sup- port of the Hitler dictatorship.” The workers will ask the “Forward”: “Who's lying now?” Item for “Forwards”: | | newspapers and the effort to smash proletarian organizations, the sei- zure of union headquarters and the confiscation of proletarian property. “Times such as this demand of the proletarian party, iron deter- | mination, a clear Marxist policy, | international struggle and the for- | mation of the proletarian fighting | united front for the overthrow of | the Fascist dictatorship. This is the | Position of the Communist Party. Where does the Social Democracy -stand? “The break of the leaders of the Social Democracy with the Sec- ond International is a break with the workers who are members of that party. It is a disgraceful de- cision of profound national and international significance. There- fore the answer of the Socialist workers to the unheard-of treason of their leaders must be their transfer en masse from the Social the Communist Other articles deal with new dis- closures regarding the Reichstag fire, a call for the release of Ernest Thaelmann, news of workers’ ac- tivity against Fascist rule, an anal- | ysis of Hitler's foreign policy, and other subjects. | (By an American Worker) How do the workers of the Soviet | Union connect their daily life and tasks with the whole of immense so- | cialist construction, of which they are a part? How is the life of one fac- | tory directed by the decisions of the |Communist Party of the Soviet | Union? Wishing to find a concrete answer to these questions, the writer spent some days in a great new factory in Moscow, to study how its workers are | realizing in life the decisions of the |January Plenum of the Central | Committee of the C.P.S.U, | The central task of the first Five | Year Plan, in the words of Comrade | Stalin, was “To transform our coun- | try, with its backward, and in part, medieval technique, to the path of | mew modern technique.” After sum- | ming up the accomplishments of the | First Five Year Plan, successfully | completed in four years, the January Plenum of the Central Committee has set forth the new tasks of the second Five Year Plan. So characteristic of the entire work of the Bolshevik Party, the Plenum took hold of the main link in the |chain of problems confronting the | country and stressed the most out- standing points of attack in the sec- ond Five Year Plan, The most out- standing ones are: mastering of technique and raising the quality of | production; greater productivity of labor; decreasing the costs of pro- cultural level of the toiling popula- tion, s Regarding the task of mastering technique, the Plenum pointed out: “The mastering of new enter- prises and new technology, how- ever, presents greater difficulties than the utilization of old recon- structed plants and factories where the technological processes have already been mastered. More time is required to raise the qualifica- tion of the workers (our emphasis) and technicians and to gain the ex- perience necessary for the utiliza- tion of new equipments and new methods.” The significance of these deci- sions and problems thus set forth becomes clearer after a careful study of even a single factory. Here one also learns about the seriousness with which these decisions are taken by the lower organs of the Party, and generally by the workers. The Factory Under Consideration The factory which we studied is a new one. It is a product of the giant enterprises of the first Five Year Plan. It is the Soviet Ball Bearing Plant. It was opened in March, 1932. This factory produces all kinds of bearings for railroads, automobiles, tractors, airplanes, etc. Previously, all these products had to be imported from foreign countries, and therefore this factory fulfills an important task in the second Five Year Plan—to free the Soviet Union from foreign im- | duction; raising the material and ' ports, has halted that progress, what message has been conveyed to the working class in the different countries by the activities of the German leaders? Is it that the official labor movement is merely a body whose bluff can be called any time by a few rebuffs and the sharp word of command? | Only Communists Fight Hitler | Sul more sinister is the feeling among even pacific elements of working class organizations that only Communists can fight, that the Communist leadership courted arrest and punishment, that the Communists have | made no compromise with Hitlerism. That is not strictly true—many Com- munists have gone into the Hitler ranks—but the sudden change in the A Soviet Factory at Work In 1932, the factory produced one million bearings, and saved two mil- lion gold rubles for the Soviet Union that would otherwise have been spent on foreign markets. In 1933, it will produce eleven million bearings, sav~ ing 22 million gold rubles. By the end of the second Five Year Plan, the factory will produce 24 million bearings, entirely freeing the Soviet Union from the need of any such imports. The factory now employs 8,000 workers, and will employ about 30,000. The Problem of Mastering Technique Since this is a new and young en- terprise, the working force is also new and young. Hence, the problem of mastering technique, of raising the productivity of labor, etc., are central issues for this factory, as they were set forth in the January Ple- num resolution. A glance at the com- position of the working force in the plant will clearly illustrate this prob- lem. Fifty-seven per cent of all workers are of peasant origin, in industry for the first time. Fifty per cent are youth from 20 to 23 years, also with no previous industrial experience, Twenty-five per cent are women. Only 30 per cent are workers with previous industrial experience. At a meeting of shock workers, leading functionaries of the plant, and managers of various sections in the departments, questions of produc- tion were discussed. Sohck-workers spoke, explaining the obstacles in the way of fulfillment of the production plan. One of ‘these workers stated: “Notwithstanding all my desires and’ efforts to fulfill the plan, I cannot do it. I can only work three and a half hours productively in a day's work.” And why was this so? From more discussion in the meeting, and from further talks with workers, we found the answer, When the factory was built the comrades had too little ex- perience, and as a result, the organ- atmosphere, particularly to Paris, i one. of the disquisting features of 0 x ization of-the factory was very poor. ‘The machines were not pieced im | Donen We see by the papers that Nicholas Murray Butler's daughter has zed her life’s ambition and got married to a real English fox-hunting gentleman. The same day Columbia University announced that its Home Economic Department had perfected a 50 cents a day menu. Do you think that the new happy couple will live on the newly-discov- ered starvation menu? EMEMBER Roosevelt's _ election promise that the R. F. C. would} be transformed from an instrument in the intere of “the money changers” into an instrument “for the people?” Well, the R. F. C. made the following loans $3,500,000 to the Missouri-Pacific | when it was apparent to all that the} railroad was going into bankrupicy.| $7,000,000 to the New York Central | and $5,000,000 more to other roads. | And what do you think will be done | with all this money which is taken | \ directly from the people? | It was loaned so that the roads} can pay interest to their bondholders jon time. | Meanwhile the Rooseyelt adminis- tration has put forward a plan giv- ing a Railroad “Co-ordinator” full) power to institute “economies” on the | roads through speed-up and driving | down of living standards of the} workers. | HE despised “money changers” | seem to be getting along ‘very nicely under the “New Deal.” 'TUART CHASE has been picking up easy dough going around the country lecturing to women’s clubs} on economics, Like many another bright young graduate from the school of liberal- jism he is finding a hearty welcome | —~ |among the more enlightened of our |big bourgeoisie who see in him a \likely assistant to Walter Lippman in fighting Communism and Marxism in | America, 'TUART'S latest utterance: “Presi- dent Roosevelt has a remarkably flexible and experimental mind and no antiquated economic philosophy. |I am watching him with great inter- est and sympathy.” . It is with “interest and sympathy” | that a liberal watches the most cun- |ningly hypocritical servant of Amer- ‘ican imperialism who has in the last |eight weeks launched a hunger drive \against the masses that makes Hoo- | ver's look weak-kneed. . 6 * | ACCORDING to a survey just com- | pleted, there are thousands of upper middle class families who spend every year: $2,600 for clothes, $3,000 |for city limousine and car for golf club, $4,000 for theater and entertain- ment, $5,000 for horses and stable; | $3,500 for pocket money and after- |noon lunchés. The crisis has hit us all equally hard, hasn't it? [ARRIMAN fleeced the depositors of the Harriman National Bank. The bank was forced to close. The World-Telegram’s heart is broken over this incident. It says: “The Federal Government owes a | special duty to the Harriman Bank depositors.” Why the “special duty?” Because there were no small depositors in the Hebe es Bank. Capitalist Rulers Prohibit May First Meets, Many Cities Argentine Government Prohibits Display of Red Flag VIENNA, April 30.—All May Day demonstrations have been prohibited in several countries throughout Cen- tral and Southeastern Europe. The Austrian Government has forbidden the May Day parade in Vienna, while the Budapest police announced that they had arrested the whole execu- tive of the illegal Hungarian Com- munist Party to prevent any May Day demonstration in Budapest. Twenty members of the illegal Communist Party were arrested in Yugoslavia, and all May Day demon- strations have been forbidden. In Bulgaria, where the May Day cele- bration has been prohibited, the po- lice arrested 200 members of the revolutionary Workers’ Party to pre- vent any demonstration. Eighty workers were arrested in Sofia alone, including most of the 32 Communist deputies recently excluded from the Bulgarian parliament, the Sobranje. oa € . BUENOS AIRES, April 30. — The government has issued a decree for- bidding the display of red flags and Communist emblems on May First. The Argentine Socialist Party promptly cancelled its scheduled na- tion-wide celebration in obedience to governmental orders, but the Commu- nists will hold their May Day dem- onstration regardless of police sup- pression, The special anti-Red decree just voted in Chile, giving President Al- lesandri extraordinary powers to cur- tail civil liberties in suppressing the Communist movement, will be used to prevent any revolutionary May Day demonstration, dispatches from San- tiago reported today. getting material from machines that are far away from where it is noed- ed. Many defects of this kind were pointed out at the meeting, and in talks with workers in various de- | | France and Great Britain “seem to be \ sp ARK S|Washington Talks Fruitless; Open Trade War Begins Dollar and Pound Fight for World Marketes U.S. Tries to Win Canada and Argentine » from British Rival ‘The conversations in Washington between President Roosevelt and | Minister MacDonald of England, Premier Bennet of Canada and M. | of France are over, and instead of the promised stabilization of world ese nomic affairs, we see the development of open trade war in the world market, | While MacDonald was’ still on the high seas travelling to Washingtem, { the United States dealt a severe blow ®— to Britain’s foreign trade by going off the gold standard. And while Mac- Donald and Rooseveit were issuing meaningless statements of mutual admiration in Weshington, America’s economic offensive was continued with the authorization of unlimited inflation of the dollar. Borah Admits Failure In Washington yesterday, Senator Borah as much as admitted that the international negotiations preliminary to the scheduled World Economic Conference in London have been a failure insofar as they have not suc- ceeded in reconciling the profound’ conflicts between the United States and its major imperialist rivals. While the American press has been flooded with optimistic official statements, Borah is forced to concede that going forward in a determined effort to manipulate the currency so as to gain a decided advantage over the United States in trade.” Borah also stressed that the Euro- pean powers are omitting any provi- sion for the payment of their war debts to America from their budgets while retaining increased expenditures for armaments. In so doing, Borah gives expression to the American im- perialist policy of using the financial power of the United States to strengthen America’s imperialist posi- tion by forcing reduction in the arma- ments of other powers in exchange for debt reduction or cancellation, while American war expenditures con- tinue to rise. Dollar and Pound Rivals. When Great Britain went off the gold standard in 1931, it was a signal for increased British exports, while American exports fell sharply due to the advantage enjoyed in foreign markets by the depreciated British pound, | England’s huge exchange equaliza- tion fund, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars during the past year and a half to maintain tha pound below parity with the dollar has been a weapon directed at a vital point in America’s foreign trade. Neville Chamberlain, Chancel- jlor of the Exchequer, in presenting | the new British budget to Parliament, | provided another $250,000,000 for this fund. What does this mean? It means that Great Britain is deter- mined to keep the foreign trade ad- vantage enjoyed as the result of the depreciated pound and that it will match the depreciation of the dollar cent for cent as American inflation progresses. Thus we see in the financial field the most violent and intensive con- flict between the dollar and the |pound for the control of the foreign markets so vital to capitalist economy. But this is not all. The British of- fensive against America’s initiative in the world economic field has just succeeded in obtaining preferential trade agreements for Great Britain with Denmark, Germany and Ar- gentina. Negotiations for British trade agreements with Norway and Sweden are on the point of being signed in London. These trade agree- ments ensure Great Britain preferred treatment in tariffs, and in mini- mum quotas for the importation of British-made goods. Battle for South America. Even the American capitalist press admits that America’s going off the gold standard and the consequent rise in the Argentine peso and other South American currencies marks “the beginning of a battle royal be- tween Britain and the United States for the South American market.” In this battle, Great Britain has a very important advantage in that British investments in Argentina far exceed American capital invested there, while the present dictatorship govern- ment of Argentina is a pro-British regime established through a coup- d'etat that overthrew the pro-Yankee Trrigoyen government. America is countering this with opening new negotiations with Argentina for trade advantages, On the other hand, the negoti- and Premier Bennett of Canada, with Bennett asking for tariff reductions on lumber, copper, oil, cattle, whet potatoes, dairy products, fish coal, in return for preferential treat~ ment to the United States in Canadian tariff, reflect Ci growing independence of Great Brit~ ain in the world market. Any even tual tariff concession in Canadian American trade will necessarily im volve the weakening of British dom nation of Canadian economy. Britain Supports Gold Frane. Another point at which Britain » trying to weaken American financial hegemony is the status of the French franc, at present still on the gold standard. From the standpoint of financial domination, Wall Street interested in having France go the gold standard so as to retain for New York its position as the world’s money center, despite the deprecia~ tion of the dollar. France’s gold standard franc haa been one of France’s major weapons in combatting Anschluss in Austria, Italian - Hungarian rapproachment and fascist Italy's penetration of the Balkans. The British exchange equalization fund has accumulated billions of French francs in its con~ tinued effort to keep the pound ster- ling depreciated with regard to the dollar, Britain is now lending the Bank of France $130,000,000 by a6» cepting that much in French goverme ment bonds instead of gold, repre senting British credits in France aid the franc to remain on the standard. Britain lending Franee sum of this size at the present with the United States. In spite of Britain’s determined ede fort to aid France in staying on the gold standard, it is unlikely thas France will be able to maintain gold franc in the face of the crisis ‘and the disadvantage it for France's foreign trade. © French Foreign Minister recentéy, stated that “France belit in | sound currency, even if which is practically a duplicat Roosevelt's statement that America’s departure from standard. Soviet Union Excluded not invited to the preliminary Wash~ ington negotiations, nor to the World Economie Conference in London om June 12, shows that in spite of the increasingly bitter inter-capitalias rivalries the anti-Soviet front of the imperialist powers is still the chief bond that they have in common. entails The essential issues.’ to blind the masses to the severity of imperialist conflicts be tween these big capitalist powers. The events of the last few days in Washe ington and elsewhere have served to confirm the Communist Internation al’s warning to the masses that—far trom an “era of stabilization”—we are facing a period of growing rivalries, with the danger of im ist war greater than ever. Revolt Rages ’Gainst Machado; Insurgents Capture Three Towns HAVANA, April 30. — Reports: filter through the censorship that a revolt has broken out in Oriente Province, at the eastern tip of the island. The towns of Songo, San Luis and Boniato are reported in the hands of the insurgents. Troops with machine guns f being rushed to these towns from|- Santiago, and all streets in San- itago, capital of the province, have been cleared of traffic. All com~- munication between Havana and the interior is under strict censor- ship and news is gotten out ations between President Roosevelt secretly. Pie craps % ‘PURGING OF COMMUNIST PARTY — OF SOVIET UNION STARTS JUNE Ist | Any Non-Revolutionary Element Who Has Crept in Will Be Ousted After Investigation (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 30.-The Central Committee and the Central Contred Commission of the All-Union Communist Party have published the decrea for the purging of the Communist Party throughout the Soviet Union, _ A Central Purging Commission has been appointed, with Radzutek ag chairman, The purging is to commence June 1 and be concluded not later than the end of November, 1933, © @--————_-_—____________ The decree reads: “In proclaiming Se Serra ub ot Pune ae “The purging,” the Party the purging, the Party was guided by | states, “will unite the masses of work the resoluiton of the Second Con-|ers and the peasants on the gress of the Communist International) tive farms still closer around for the ae It will strengthen the i ; the be