The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 6, 1933, Page 6

Vv *. AGAINST GOEBBELS, NAZI AGENT! Dail | AT THE CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR! bine WORK : ERS! DEMONSTRATE Published by the Comprodally Publishing Ce., Ins., dally except Sunday, at 28 B 18th. B., New Tork City, Telephone ALgenquin 4-7938. Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and e Dally Worker, 5¢ E. 13th St, New York, N. ¥. New York Jews to March Against Fascism, May 10, Rank and File Force March in Spite of the| Sabotage of Jewish Congress Leaders | Workers’ Organizations Will Make Protest | Against Arrival Here of Nazi Minister NEW YORK.—The American Jewish Committee as well) as leaders of the American Jewish Congress are-trying to stifle | the planned protest march here on May 10 against the “burn- | ing of the books” by the Nazis in Germany. The rank and file | members of the American Jewish Congress, however, are com- | pelling the latter organization to sponsor this march. The| Jewish sponsors of the May 10 © ccenmiltee Tor Brsgreaive TEES Ac March have invited the Jewish | tion, Arbelter -Rrenken ami once Workers and Peoples Commit- Kasse, Arbeiter Saengerbund of the tee against Fascism and pogroms in| United States, have been asked by the Germany, the united front of numer- | National Committee to take special ous Jewish working class organiza- Page Six | Sy Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.30; 3 months, $; 1 month, 7e, exeepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City, Fereign Cas o co |SPARKS 'HE bankers have taken all their gold home from the International Bank. How they trust one another's ardent protestations of harmony and Peace, 6.) 6. HEY want us to ask for divine guidance for Roosevelt. The guid- ance he gets from Wall Street doesn’t seem to be so bad—for Wall Street. ene Cae ND do you think that Roosevelt's idea to cut the veterans’ compen- | Sation and the wages of the Federal| employees came from some divinity? | COTQAK sce |'PHE gods of Broad and Wall Street, | |1 undoubtedly. That's where the| | Morgans live. | . iB bee bourgeois economist who writes the Monthly Survey of Business| for the National City Bank thinks | | that stabilized international currency | will overcome the crisis, | Aside from the fact that a per- |manently stabilized international cur- rency is a thing of the past and will| never again be seen in the capitalist | | World, to say that currency can cure | business is like saying that a ther-| mometer can change the temperature in a room, MAST | Saws "+ _ BRO Be <i ; & i bs i 1 bk 2) F3 il ie eT ce re % D Wi \e Ff Ke i z 2 k & q £ B ba rd = at id it | Measures to mobilize their members| tions in New York, to take part offi- Slally in the march. The latter Com- inittee in turn has invited the Trade Union Unity League, the German Anti-Fascist Committee, the Italian Anti-Fascist League, the Hungarian Anti-Fascist Committee, the Czecho-| slovakian and Finnish militant work-| ing class organizations, the National| Students League, the Labor Sports Union, the International Workers Or-| der, the Food Workers Industrial| Union, the Needle Trades Workers Union, the Poalezion, left wing, to| turn out in full force and make this protest march an imposing demon-| stration against cultural barbarism in} fascist Germany. | The National Committes to Aid Victims of German Fascism has also called upon all its affiliated organ- izations and supporters to support this huge protest march. The Workers International Relief, the International Labor Defensa, the and emphasize the need for assistance of the victims of the Hitler terror. Protest Goebbels Visit The working class organizations in the May 10 parade, must make the protest against the planned visit of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi leader, to the United States, one of the chief slo- gans in their demonstration. The workers must show the Nazi mur- derers that the protest against Goeb- bels’ presence in America is so em- phatic as to force him to cancel his visit. It is of the greatest importance that all working class organizations mo- bilize their entire membership and all possible sympathizers to make this} protest march an imposing demon- | stration against the terrorization of | the German working class and the| Persecution of Jews by the Hitler re- | gime. | Turn out in full force on May 10 | im protest against Nazi Fascism! | CAPITALIST PRESS ADMITS GERMAN COMMUNIST STRENGTH New York Sun Correspondent Says ce | VER ~ Joseph Goebbels, one of Hitler’s chief lieutenants, the Fascist responsible for the murder of countless German workers, and organizer of the Nazi anti-Jewish boycott, plans to visit the United States to represent Fascist Germany at the official opening of the Chicago World Fair on June Ist. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of American workers demonstrated against the murderous oppression of the German working class by Hitler Fascism. the arch-Fascist Goebbels coming to the United States, which is a provocation of this country’s workers and a challenge to the widespread united fight against Fascism! Protest against Socialists Are Politically and Morally Dead” The “Forward”, Jewish Socialist daily, and other socialist organs con- tinue to deny that the German Social Democracy betrayed the German working class. They still claim that the Communist Party of Germany is dead. The socialists claim that the Daily Worker reports from Germany are falsified and untrue. We quote below bourgeois newspapers who ad- mit that the German Socialist Party is dead, while the Communists are still in the fight. The New York “Sun” of May 3rd prints a special cable from Germany saying: “It is notable that all their humility did not save the former so- eialist leaders from annihilation. In vain these German leaders withdrew from the Second International; in vain they pumped the world full of Nazi propaganda solemnly averring that nothing untoward had occurred | in Germany and that none of their comrades had been badly treated. “Socialists Politically and Morally Dead!” “They are today politically and | morally dead, and the organizations on which many men had worked all lives ar2 now a mere branch | of the Nazi organization.” ‘Ass for the lie that the Communist is smashed in Germany, the GERMANY AND USSR EXCHANGE ~ RATIFICATIONS MOSCOW, May 5.—The Soviet Un- fon and Germany today exchanged Watifications of a mediation treaty signed January 25, 1929, and a pro- tocol of June 24, 1931, prolonging the Berlin Treaty of 1926, | ‘These treaties are mutual pledges | of trade relations, and non-agression pacts. | er eg | The Soviet Union has consistently sought to enter into trade agree- ents and non-aggression pacts with ers of the world. The fact that 0 many countries have signed such agreements with the Soviet Union is proof to the people of the world that the Soviet Union stands firmly for peace, The Hitler government in Germany has attempted to disrupt peaceful re- lations with the Soviet Union. Soviet offices have been raided. Officials high in the German government have made violently belligerent statements about the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union has refused to be provoked and has consistently maintained a firm peace policy The present treaties have been forced from the Hitler government by the unswervingly peaceful foreign policy of the Soviet Union. Machado Plotting “Red” Frame-Up. HAVANA, May 5.—President Ma- | chado, agent of Wall Street, is plot- | ting a fake demonstration to coincide with the arrival of Sumner Welles, | new ambassador from the United States. There are to be staged acts| of violence, alleged attempts at in- tendiarism, etc., and” then the police hagi “Politiken”, leading Danish gi mt says: @ Communists are continui, their struggle secretly. The "Rote Fahne’ is still being published, | printed on clandestine printing pres- ses. Although the social democrats are keeping entirely quiet, because that party worked for many years solely along legal and democratic lines, this is not the case with the Communists. “The latter always used all meth- ods in their struggle and continue to do so. The Communists have their party apparatus in order and they can therefore continue their underground agitation. Frequently you find a copy of the ‘Rote Fahne’ in your letter box. The ‘Rote Fahne’ is still printed secretly in four pages in defiance of its official suppres- sion.” Communists Have Good Secret Organization. The Vienna “Reichspose””, central organ of the Dollfuss dictatorship cabinet, wrote on April 23rd: “The immediate danger of Com- munist rule in Germany is doubtless banned now. But can it be said that this danger has vanished com- pletely? In the last few days there has been increasing evidence that the Communists have a well-functi- oning secret organization at their disposal and that the Communist Party is beginning to recover from the first heavy blows dealt it. The visible centers have been destroyed, but Communism is now working un- der disguise and thus constitutes a new danger.” “German | Berlin correspondent of the Copen- | German Communist Central Committee BERLIN, April 26 (By Mail). — The Central Committee of the Com- Tmunist Party of Germany has sent |a letter of greetings to Comrade Thaelmann on his birthday, which he spent in prison. The letter says: “Comrade Thaelmann! Although persecuted and hunted by the whole pack of bloodhounds of the despic- able Hitler dictatorship, you, at the head of your (and our) Party, never thinking of yourself, unceasingly and courageously up to the last mo- | ment, organized the resistance to fascist dictatorship against the op- pression of the toiling masses. “You did not cowardly desert ers opened the way for Hitler. to the very last minute that you re- mained at liberty you remained with your class, with the revolutionary workers of Germany, with the Party which under your leadership has ‘followed the road of a Bolshevist Party. “You Remain Our Leader.” “Therefore you will remain our leader even though you are behind prison bars—one of the best Bol- sheviks, self-sacrificing, revolution- ary, and devoted to the working class, and at the same time a bril- liant example to the millions of so- cialist and union-organized work- ers. “Your example and your stead- fastness in that fire of counter-revo- lution will restore their belief in the unconquerable strength of the revo- lutionary proletariat, which the mer- cenary and cowardly surrender of the reformists and the German Fed- when the shameful and infamous | treachery of the social-fascist ser P eration of Labor robbed from them. | “We pledge that we shall do our best, despite all terror and calumny, despite all the bloody crimes of the fascist dictatorship, to awaken the revolutionary resistance of the mas- ses, to prepare and organize the proletarian revolution and to lead | them to final victory. Greets Thaelmann As Fearless Fighter “On behalf of the whole German working class, the Central Comm: tee of the Communist Party of Ger- many sends you, the intrepid, rev lutionary leader of the Communist red army of freedom in Germany, the living example of unbroken anti- fascist fighting courage, three thundering ‘Rot Fronts’!” THE MAY COMMUNIST IS READY THE ROOSEVELT PROGRAM—AN ATTACK UPON THE TOILING MASAES cL csaisyeeeonsacernciee MANEUVERS TO SABOTAGE A THE SCOTTSBORO STRUGGLE .. . . Editorial FRONT OF STRUGGLE By C. Hathaway ta eecemcseeses ..-By James S. Allen UNITED THE WORLD POLITICAL BACKGROUND OF THE ENGINEERS’ TRIAL .. Weeedecmedettcesceees By Peter Bolm COMMUNISM AND THE JEWISH QUESTION IN GERMANY THE CONFESSIONS OF AN AMERICAN “MARXIST” By M. Childs and H, Yaris THE TASK OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF MEXICO IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE END OF CAPITALIST STABILIZATION By Gonzalez (Mexico) MARX AND WORKING CLASS UNITY . MARXISM AND THE PEASANT QUESTION ».By Andre Marty +«+.By H, Puro THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC CRISIS A Monthly Review by Jorn Irving BOOK REVIEW Toward the Siezure of Power—Lenin—Review by M. Olgin |. elses ANDERSON'S play has| been awarded the Pulitzer prize | “for its educational value.” | ‘The moral of the play is that the principle of representative govern- ment, all democracy, whether prole- | tarian or bourgeois, is a joke. What | we really need, is the implication of | the play, is good strong rulers who can get things done. When a play has such a fascist | implication, it is “art.” When a play | exalts proletarian democracy, it is “propaganda,” oe ate of the direc- tors of the In- sull Company says that the victims of the Insull fi- nancial crash are unjust in their denunciations o f | Mr. Insull, since | Insull is a noble | soul who is deeply | touched by the | sufferings of his | victims. That's adding | Insull to injury. | ND the poetry prize -vent to Archi- bald MacLeish, a poet who nob long ago made a fascist prayer to} | Fascism in art is becoming in- jcreasingly popular with the ees | in polities. | Raat aa 'HE Chase National Bank thinks scrip is money. They have in- |cluded various kinds of paper scrip jin their currency exhibit. | The Chase National Bank may | butcher seems to believe that it is so | much paper. As far as the workers are con- cerned, the latter's opinion is far more important. | |. Y. of Grand Rapids, Mich., writes | us that despite all the ballyhoo | about the end of the bank’s mora- | torium, there are only two banks open in his city. men and bankers are conducting a thunderous whispering campaign against the “whispering campaign” of the Communists against the banks. He writes that the ears of the busi- ness men have practically doubled in size and are still growing, trying | vainly to catch even a faint rumor | about the banks. The situation is so | Serious, he says, that if they continue to listen for whispering campaigns much longer, they will begin to re- semble ji S. the young men of Wall Street to come | out and rule over us. | think scrip is currency. But the| He writes that the local business| Although more than 7,000 revolutionary workers were arrested in Japan in the past few months, the Communist Party of Japan has continued its active anti-militarist work in the army and mayy. The picture above from the “Asahi,” one of the biggest newspapers in Japan, shows the photos of three comrades in the Japanese for carrying on revolutionary anti-war work. K. Nishikawa of the Nagato, ¥. Yoshihara of the Yama- shiro, and K. Kawata of the Haruna. rae According to the Japanese Naval Inspector’s Office in New York, 1 Madison Ave., the Nagato, Yamashiro and Haruna are first-line dreadnaughts, among the biggest battleships in the Japanese fleet. All three comrades are 22 years old. They were arrested at the Yokosuka naval base, near Yokohama, and were tried at court- they are: martial. They have been ‘senten ment. The heroic work of these Japanese comrades should be an ims spiring example to the American workers in their revolutionary anti= war activities, March 29th issue of the Tokyo Navy, who have just been arrested From the top down, ced each to six years’ imprison- JAPAN DRIVES TR ‘MANCHUKUO; ARMY MENACES PEIPING Japanese Legation Declares No More Warning Will Be Given ADE RIVALS FROM Before Attack PEIPING, May 5.—British advices from Manchuria state that British and other important British firms h: | in Manchuria. | The “Open Door” is being rapidly |closed in Manchukuo, not formally | but by an annoyance policy, restrict. jing the free movement of | business agents in the Japan | pet state. surances of “equal opportunity for all |mations in Manchuria” evoke ridicule in Peiping foreign capitalist circles. | pan Plans New Army Drive ie Japanese legation yesterday nnounced that no further warning | would be given “of the outbreak of jlarge-scale hostilities immediately {north of Peiping.” The Japanese | forces plan to make a powerful at- | tack on the Nanking divisions con- pup- to prepare to shut the firm’s branches o—— - forsign | The recent Japanese as-/ and other foreign capitalists are rapidly being forced to vacate Manchukuo in spite of Japan’s recent pledge to maintain the “Open Door” policy. The Hongkonk and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Jardine, Matheson, & Co. ave already ordered their local staffs jcentrated near Miyun, north.of the former capital, and it is./@&pected hat the Japanese will push“Ca to ecupy both Peiping and Tiemtsin. Japan To Bar Fereign Oil TOKYO, May 5.—The Japanese | Cabinet is planning to establish an | cil monopoly in Japan, restricting the j activity of all foreign oil: companies |in-Japan. This will hit the Amer- | ican and British oil trusts. particular- jly hard. | One plan provides for a govern- | ment monopoly of drilling, manufac- | ture and sale of oil, while the other | sets up rigid control of all. off im- | ports. January Ist, according to Col. Hierl, ship rights, nor will they be allowed to marry, until they have done this By A. S. BOSSE Birobidzhan Five Years Old Birobidzhan celebrated its fifth an- niversary at the end of March. This | new Soviet homeland for the Jews the Far Eastern Region, which will Jater becomes a national territory. | It has vast natural resources. Half @ billion tons of iron ore, 600,000,000 tons of graphite, and millions of tons of magnesite have already been found. In the northern section are 30,000,000 tons of coal, as well as ope el asbestos, slate, marble, e In the past five years the popula- tion has grown from 33,000 to 54,000, and the cultivated farm area has doubled with eighty-five per cent of it held by collective farms. It has half a dozen state farms, a number of experiment stations and farm col- leges, a teachers’ college, and a dis- trict Soviet Party school. Industry was non-existent five years ago, but today Birobidzhan has a number of factories (furniture, building materials, sawmill, etc.) and others are under construction. Lum- bering, power stations and coopera- tives are making progress. Stalingrad Stepping Up Production All tractors now being turned out at Stalingrad are equipped with a new lighting system which makes possible night plowing, according to Frank Honey, American shock brig- ade worker at Stalingrad and cor- respondent for the Moscow Daily News, At their meeting in celebra- are to enter and “disperse” their own rows tion of the Paris Commune foreign comprises 70,000 square kilometers in| NOTES ON THE U.S.S.R,; workers and their Russian comrades | pledged to attain an output of 1,700 | tractors by May 1. The program for | March was set at 1,275, but by the | 25th 1,226 had been turned out. It is interesting to note that only | 1,210 of the 1,348 motors scheduled | for March were manufactured; it is still more interesting to note that the reason for the shortage was the breakdown on the third operation of a Vickers crankshaft-turning ma- chine, causing the small conveyor to lag. This may or inay not have any relation to the trial of the Vickers engineers in Moscow for espionage and sabotage, but it is worth noting. ald Socialized Livestock Breeding During the 4 1-4 years of the First Five-Year Plan the number of cattle on state and collective farms in- creased 23 times (reaching a total of 7,600,000 at the end of 1932), that of sheep and goats 10 times (to 10,000,- 000), and of hogs 46 times ( to 3,500,- |000). There are now 2,000 state stock farms and 90,000 collectives, with well over 20,000,000 head between them. Between 1880 and 1909 the number of cattle per 100 of the population in Russia dropped from 37.2 to 30, and during the World and Civil Wars this Joss was increased greatly. Quality of breeds also degenerated much. When the Five Year Plan began, one per cent of the country's stock was on socialized (state and collective) | farms. Progress in the past two or) three years has been great, both quantitatively and qualitatively, es- pecially in supplying meat and dairy BUILDING S On many collectives, the average annual milk yield per cow is three or four times that on individual peasant farms (non-socialized). Last year state hog farms turned over to the government 4 1-2 times as much meat as in 1931, and collectives 1 1-2 times as much milk and pork, aside from sales to individual institutions and restaurants, Scientifically much progress has also been recorded. There have been established in this period 180 live- stock research institutes, which have done remarkable work in hybridiza- tion, artifical impregnation, prophy- lactic treatment, feeding methods, improvement of breeds, etc. ra eee Histories of Soviet Factories Over 100 factories are having their revolutionary histories written. The work was started last summer at Gorky’s suggestion and the workers of Stalingrad have the first volume in the press already. The authors are workers in the plant and “Pravda” is supervising the writing. The “Trekh- gornaya” textile mill in Moscow is also finishing its first volume, dealing with its role in the 1905 revolution. The Moscow tool factory, the “Karl Marx” textile-machine works in Len- ingrad, the “Red Putilov” machinery plant in the same city, and others are well advanced in their writing. ne age Soviet Iron Production Recently the “Daily” carried a story of the great advances in Soviet heavy industry and in agricuture, While OCIALISM IN these are significant as evidence of the steady progress being made by socialized economy, they are equally significant as compared with the situation in this country, We would like to compare, for example, the out- put of pig iron in the two countries. At the end of March iron production in the Soviet Union was functioning at the rate of 19,000 metric tons daily, while the average for March in this country was only 17,484 tons. Since the beginning of this year, Soviet iron output has gained 30 per- cent, while that in the U. 8. has de- clined 5 percent. For the first quar- ter of this year, American production showed a drop of 43 percent; in the USSR, at the beginning of April, it was 26 per cent above, the average for the first quarter of 1932, which in turn was 28 per cent greater than in the corresponding quarter of 1931. So goes socialist construction, and so sinks capitalist economy. What is true of pig iron is similarly true for steel, coal, machine-building, agri- culture and every other phase of the economic and cultural life of both countries. Con aa) World’s Largest Peat-Burning Station The first 50,000 kilowatt turbine is now operating at the Dubrovka State Power Station (known as Nevdub- stroy while under construction). It 4s located on the Neva River, at some distance from Leningrad, in the midst of virgin forests far from any habitations, and was built practically without foreign technical assistance. It will be the largest peat-burning station in the world when completed, with a capacity of 204,000 kilowatt. This is two-thirds of the entire power now consumed by Leningrad, Its four 50,000-kilowatt turbines and 60,000-kilowatt generators will be built by the Leningrad “Stalin” and “Electrosila” plants. The largest tur- bines of older peat-burning plants did not exceed 44,000 kilowatt. so 8 Achievements at Dnieper Power Plant e The Dnieper plant generated 76,000- 000 kilowatt-hours of current during the first quarter of the year. During February and March there wasn’t a Single instance of interruption in supplying electricity. The first of the Soviet-built generators at the station has passed preliminary tests success- fully and will shortly start operations. (The first five of the nine generators are American-built, while the other four are Soviet). The station is now being run altogether by Soviet en- gineers, the best foreign specialist having left some time ago. All equip- ment is bein assembled and operated by Soviet workers, who have fully mastered the necessary technique, * « «@ World’s Highest Road The highest len the world is to be completed October in south- ern Kirgizia, linking up Osh and Korog. It will be at an average of 4,000 meters (about 4,440 yards) above sea level, with the highest point 4,700 meters above. Its length will be 785 kilometers. Construction a THE CITY AND COUNTRY is difficult due to deep snow and cold weather all the year round. The building of bridges over the swift mountain streams is also a problem. Other new roads include one of 278 kilometers in northern Siberia, | mainly though the taiga (swampy woods), opening up new stretches along the Lena River. Another is being built for 603 kilometers in Oira- tia, Siberia. A motor road will con- nect Tashkent and Stalinabad, in Soviet Central Asia, which will shorten the distance betweeen these important cities by 1, kilometers. It will reach an altitude of 3,500 meters at times, and will have tun- nels aggregating 8 kilometers. Part of the higher wild stretches traversed are now inaccessible even to camel caravans, The finest motor road in the coun- try is to be built from Moscow to Gorky (Nizhni formerly). It will be 440 kilometers in length, covered with macadam and asphalt, and equipped with the most modern signalling devices, e 8 Education in Far East t a time when proud Alabama and the rest of our South is virtually “canning” education. Kamchatka and Sakhalin, farthest east of Soviet re- gions are making elementary educa- tion compulsory, Many schools have been opened, a pedagogical seminary is being organized, and five libraries opened this year. Soyuzkino (state movie trust) has sent eight traveling cinemas for the nomad people of the Far North in these regions, NAZI MINISTER BOASTS OF 350,000 | INFORCED LABOR CAMPS BY JAN. 2 Youth Will Then Be Drafted Into Army; Not Citizens and Can’t Mariy Until They Finish BERLIN, May 5.—Compulsory labor service will be established, by next , Nazi Under-Secretary of Labor an@ | real head of the ministry. Three hundred fifty thousand men will be come seripted into concentration camps, where they will have to serve*from six months to one year doing compulsory work. They will not possess cltizen- | conscript labor. Ss }) Col. Hierl said that it is planned to have the period of compulsory work followed by conscription inte the army. He added that 100,000 Nae zi storm troopers are being: trained now to act as subordinate leaders of the labor army, sone epee ated Growing German Isolation The leaders of German key indus- tries and finance capital openly admit by now that Fascist Germany ts nearly completely isolated, ‘The Ber- lin “Deutsche Allgemeine, , organ of heavy industry, writes: “The ring which we now-see clos« ing around Germany is an imprese sive and clear bab It ved use for us to continue repeat } mighty and united we ddeigs Sood itp we are isolated—with the excepe tion of Italy—for the present, - “Countries with which we: Were om friendly terms, and with which our trade balance was strongly favorable to Germany, are now limiting their imports from Germany to the amount which we purchase from them. oats “We are left in the dark regatding foreign policies, Of course, »every strong German government has to vesxon with these difficulties, and we are convinced that they will be sur- mounted, but it would be blind to ignore these facts in silence, nor ts it patriotic to deny their existence.’ ” me Tornadoes Sweep Southern, States. MONROE, La., May 5.—Tornadoes swept across Louisiana ~ Mis- sissippl today for the . time this week. Tallulah offi “state that two Negroes were killed ‘and 1% injured as the shacks in- liye collapsed upon them, | «J