The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 13, 1933, Page 6

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Cable “DAIWOBK.” Address and mail checks to the Daity Worker, 5¢ E. 18th St., New York, N. ¥- Daily, Worker’ NAZIS TO KILL TORGLER _™2» of War Zone ; AND CALL IT SUICIDE, CZECH PAPER REPORTS | | PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Apr. 27 (by mail).—A Berlin | dispatch to the “Sozialdemokrat,” central organ of the Czech Ernst Torgler Young Communists Demonstrate in ,Many German Cities JULD anything be funnier than treads ‘‘ British Release Ghandi; Fear He Will Die.” pi |That would be a Socialist Party, states: “Your correspondent has received ‘ Distribute Leaflets in Department Stores, Call information from Nazi circles that the storm troops plan to eh “imperialist Drive to Peiping Meets a Fi . i F cis U ited Front i} do away with Ernst Torgler, Chairman of the Communist | Py ode ett With Stiff a for Anti-Fascist United Fron | Reichstag depugles io eet tn With Stit MOC BERLIN, April 30 (By Mail) —Three great anti-fascist youth demon- | “It will be pretended, of course, that he committed lecuuiadie iss bas e a antics, while Brit- ish imperialism can go cutting the hides off the In- dian peasants and workers. | Si Sete bag ALKING to work the other day, .vttations were held in Hamburg during the past few days. “Singing the Internationale” and carrying big posters with anti-fascist slogans, these young Communists demonstrated for the release of Ernst Thaelmann, the three arrested Bulgarian workers and all imprisoned anti-fascists, The COMMUNISTS WIN | police, though reinf by : ant | t | suicide. Attention must be called to this point, so that in case news of this ‘suicide’ is circulated, the workers may know that this is not a voluntary death of Torgler’s, but a brutal murder committed on one of the Communist leaders.” This report is to be taken very earnestly because it is becoming known that no material whatever can be produced SHANGHAI, May 12—The ‘Japar nese offensive today moved against i the Chinese lines south of Nantiene men, on the Jehol-Peiping highway, while other Japanese brigades - ade | vanced westward from the Coast to |cut off the retreat of the Chinese Communist League!” g communist spoke exposing Hitler's role as the troopers, was unable to to th young communist. to the f the we noticed a sign on a Church|forces defending Peiping on. the gon co ts weet > workers to organize | which read as follows: “A shack with | dene * 3 a Kon K pl astel ‘ She work ganize | T af ‘ 4 i ; | Which read as follows: “A shack with EES th roe vege a Kaut- sistan as eh fascist Gate: IN D U CH OLL with the incendiary burning of the Reichstag. CHACO DRIVE B | without religion j @ shack.” x of about 10,000 men each, with full the big Tietz, id Kaut- anc scis I Y nt stores. ributed haus des Weste Hundreds of in these stor The leaflets ca workers to t ina firm against the also exposed of the E the young action in arre: the three Bulgarian revolutionary Workers Play “International” After the leafiets had been di tributed, the “Intern on phonograph recor f th e store. In some det Trades made s! ing the release of These Y.C.L. a sympathy amor though the police were q the spot, no one was arrested. In Stuttgart On Friday night, April 21, in Stut- tgart, revolutionary young workers demonstrated against the Fascist dic- tatorship. The demonstrators shout-| a “Long live the Communist and “Long live the Young with much Al- on sses. Kly REICHSTAG S WAR England Invokes Versailles Treaty to Prevent) German Re-Armament BERLIN, M Goering toda; 12.—Capt. Hermann | convened the Reich- session May 17 to take | Geneva disarmament | the refusal to permit tings were held grave Geneva The con- ered so impor and Gen. von Blomberg, Reichs- Wehr Minister, flew by plane from Munich to attend them. LONDON, May 12.—Lord Hailsham, British War Minister, stated in the | House of Lords yesterday that any attempt by Germany to re-arm in| Violation of the Versailles Treaty would be considered a breach of treaty | “and would bring into operation the | sanctions which the treaty provides.” ‘This would mean the re-occupation of | the Rhine by French and British | troops. st Party called a mem- in Rendorf, suburb 2 Indonesians Elected But since the police and the Hitler government said that they had proofs of Torgler’s.guilt, they now want to get rid What a clever justification for Hoo- vervilles! But you'd have to make war equipment, operating below.the Great Wall, and the Japanese frorital The Communist local learning of this, at once pointed ee comrades to attend} e meeting and submit an offer for} ited front action. Although the} Socialist chairman and the Socialist | officials protested against our com-| ong convincing victory at the recent rades taking the floor, the rank and) pariamentary elections, nearly doub- file members demanded that our com- ting its votes and electing four depu- des be heard. The offer of united|tjes| The Social Democrats lost two action was then accepted. seats. Defense Corps The total Communist vote in this In the Ruhr region, where the Nazis little country was over 118,000, com+ had repeatedly raided workers’ homes| pared to 67,500 in 1929, Besides the two and where the police had said that|Dutch comrades, deVisser and Wyn- they were unable to protect the work-|keep, the Communists for the first ers’ s and property against the|time elected two East Indian com- Nazi gangsters, the workers decided |Tades, Prawiradirdja and Sardjono, to to form a mass defense corps. the Dutch Parliament. As Communist Vote | Doubles ROTTERDAM, April 28 (By. niail). —The Communist Party of. Holland | it to prove that Comrade Torgler was in any way connected | of him, to avoid exposure of their frame-up. _ PARAGUAY ARMY. Nazis Forbid Jews to Own Land; “Suicides” Continue German Woman Given 21 Months in Prison for Telling of Nazi Atrocities BERLIN, May 12.—Continuing their anti-Jewish drive, the Nazi govern- ment of Prussia announced yesterday that on May 15 a law will be enacted forbidding Jews to own land. Owners |Colombia Accepts the | League Plan for | Leticia Settlement BUENOS AIRES, May 12.—The/| Paraguayan army is attacking in| |foree in the Gondra sector of the} | Gran Chaco, according to a commu- | nique issued by General Hans Kundt, | Bolivian commander-in-chief. He ad- | mits that the Paraguayans succeeded | in breaking through the Bolivian | attack had already reached a ‘point | only fifty miles north of Peiping: ° The Chinese, entrenched at Hsink« jailing, are reported to have repulsed ers are beginning to kick back|thtee Japanese infantry assaults, ‘ale makes us pelleve hey don’t think| though 20 armored cars aided “the much of the turn-the-other-cheek| Japanese attack. i philosophy. | Japanese planes again bombed sthe * . * Chinese hospital at Chihsien, forty R the pie-in-the-sky consolation,| miles north of Tientsin, killing ten either. A second Ja= Christians out of the 17,000,000 job- less first. Policy ae ND the way the farmers and work- jand wounding twenty. . * * panese plane flew over Peiping, dtop- pe. ligt " s y | ping leaflets warning the population FOEee erent thon ae mony that Peiping would be taken by force MacDonald, as Great Britain and the | Utless all resistance to the Japanese United States every day build more | °°4sed- : bombing planes and battleships. Japanese Plan Buffer State ~ rely ena of land will be unable to sell, mort- | jines at one point. gage or transfer it, and it can be inherited only by his eldest child. Only the children of “race-pure” marriages will be able to inherit land. | Communist, Socialist and Christian workers joined at once, members of the Catholic Center Party being es- pecially eager to join. They helped to provide rooms for workers who were being looked for by the police. In view of the infamous sentences in the trial of the “Zeven Provincien” | mutineers, this victory is of the ut- | most imporance for the anti-imper- | jalist struggle in the colonies, The Communist Party made its biggest gains in Rotterdam, where its Even the local priest offered to hide vote rose 300 per cent. The Commu- the persecuted workers! Me eae _|nist vote doubled in the Groningen ~~ |textile district, as well as in the This marks a revival of the bar-| | baric land tenure system of the Mid-| dle Ages, and will reduce the Ger- | man peasantry to the status of medi- | eval serfs, Frau Gerda Goehring, the German| flancee of a deported Polish Jew, was| sentenced to 21 months in prison for| telling of the tortures of Jews by the Nazi storm troopers. She said Horrors in Canadian Prisons Exposed By | Worker Facing Trial | TORONTO, May 2.—Sam Behan and other Kingston prisoners before the courts on charges of rioting, etc., | IMMONED AS BRITISH MINISTER THREATENS FORCE WORKERS PARTY WINS IN BULGARIA Gets Biggest Vote in | Ni. As soon as Lord Hailsham made | this sensational declaration, German Ambassador von Hoesch rushed over | to confer with Norman Davis, Amer- | ican Ambassador-at-large now in| London. In Geneva, the steering committee | of the disarmament conference gave up attempts to break the deadlock jareas, Ten per cent of the total vote jmwegen, Limburg and Leyden terdam was cast for the Com- candidates, Dubnitza Elections SOFTA, Bulgaria, Apr. 28 (By mail). —The Bulgarian Workers Party has just won a splendid victory in the made’ startling declarations last week to the effect that the most horrible practices are carried through against prisoners by the authorities. Evid- ence, was brought out which showed that prisoners have been unmerci- fully beaten and kept in the black hole in some cases for over a year. Defense ‘Attorney Nickle has suc- ceeded in exposing the lies of prison authorities and of the Bennett gov- ernment who declared there were no “holes” or cruel punishments. During the testimony a number of prison guards attempted once ‘more to weld the vicious ring of the frame- up against Tim Buck. Sam Behan, however, asserted that Tim Buck es- that she herself had seen the white hairs pulled out of the beard of a paralyzed Jewish old man as he sat in his wheel chair unable to move. An acquantance of hers had been murdered by storm troopers by being hanged naked from the limb of a/ tree. A child of Jewish parents had| been: found dead with stab wounds| in its back, Professor Ernst Kromeyer, famous | skin specialist, 71 years old, commit- ted suicide yesterday afier being dis-| missed from the university faculty. His wife also committed suicide on learning of her husband’s death. The Nazi press lyingly reports the | Dispatches from Asuncion, Para-| guayan capital, claim that a Bolivian! regiment had been routed west of | Fort Gondra, 70 Bolivians were killed, | | ere ie | GENEVA, May 12—The League ot|T Nations’ plan for settling the unde-} clared war between Peru and Colom- bia over the Leticia peninsula on the} Upper Amazon has been accepted by} Colombia, A Colombian high official | is flying to Lima, Peruvian capital, | tomorrow, to negotiate for peace. Manchukuo Arrests USSRCustoms Officer; FramedupMurder Case) ‘HARBIN, May 12—Manchukuo po-| lice arrested Commissioner Oloyov of | the Soviet Customs Service at Pog-| ranighnaya today. He is being} brought to Harbin to face trumped- up charges of “embezzlement and| aiding a homicide.” | The Japanese are already grooming OOSEVELT promises “controlled |General Han Fu-Chu, Governor of inflation.” That is like a man | Shantung, as the head of their pro- promising to stop himself midway | posed North China puppet state, with cown after he jumps off the Empire State Building. | *« 8 * | HE official attitude of the German | Nazis toward the Negro people is | clearly indicated in the following quo- the possible active support of. Yen- Hsi-Shan and Feng-Yu-Hsiang, who led the 1930 uprising against the dom- ination of Chiang-Kai-Shek, The Japanese plan envisages the rapid establishment of the puppet tation from the “National-Socialist-| State to enable the Japanese armiés ische Monatschrift,” which says: |to retire quickly to Jehol and Man- “Im each Negro, even in one of the | °PUTia, in order to avoid conflicts with latent | British, French and American inter- “suicide” of Dr. Ernst Eckstein, for-| This is the latest in a chain of Mer Socialist Reichstag Deputy and| Manchukuo provocations of the So- jJeader of. the Left-Wing Socialists, kindest disposition is the brute and the primitive man, who can be tamed neither by centuries of slavery nor by an external varnish of civilization. All assimilation, all education, is bound to fail on account of racial inborn features of the blood. “One can therefore understand why in the southern states (in America), sheer necessity compels the white race to act in an abhorrent, and per- | haps even cruel manner against the | Negroes. And, of course, most of the Negroes that are lynched do not merit any regret.” ests concentrated in the Peiping- Tientsin area, aya WAR MATERIAL SHIPPED: (By a Worker Correspondent) ~ HOUSTON, Tex.—Three Japanése ships, the “Take Toya Mart,” the “Akibosan Maru,” and the “Atoga Maru,” just fecently left this port | loaded with scrap iron and other raw material for war munitions, ge< ing to the Far East. ye —Member of Marine Workers Industrial Union. PUBLIC WORKS MONEY TO 60 FOR over Germany’s demand for re-arma- |municipal elections at Dubnitza, an ment. It is possible that the four Big |important tobacco center, in spite as Powers, Britain, France, Italy and the | the most rigorous persecution ani United States, will endeavor to reach |Mass arrests of the most militant an agreement among themselves, | members of the Party. leaving Germany to face the conse-| ‘The Workers Party topped the poll quences of @ breach of the Versailles | With 1,025 votes, the government bloc Treaty. lof four parties polling 988 votes, the Oe es |Zankoff party getting 573, and the Socialists only 195 votes. While Roosevelt and Schacht issue platonic statements on the need for pecially stressed that violence should be avoided. Tim Buck's trial will take place in June. The National Committee of the Canadian Labor Defense League has called for mass protests, for strengthening the anti-frameup con- ferences and for support of the Tim Buok Defense Fund. Eckstein, who had been jailed sin March, died,.the police say, of “in- flammation of the lungs and incipi- ent insanity.” é The body of Adolf Biedermann, Socialist Reichstag deputy, was found on. the railroad tracks near Reckling- hausen. He had “fallen” or been thrown from a speeding train. | disarmament, the conflicts between | the rival imperialist powers flare out | anew in Europe, threatening open | S armed conflict. | Happening pe care asa eR Sl EY rs in Germany? viet Union at Pogranighnaya, which| is the border town between the Soviet | territory and Manchuria at the jeastern end of the Chinese Eastern |Railway, 90 miles from Vladivostok. | SUBSCRIBE yourself and get your { fellow workers |to read the Daily Worker. WASHINGTON, May 12—At the same time that much is being made} of so-called reductions in the Naval expenditures, it was announced today that the Navy has been assured of at least $32,000,000 of shipconstruc- tion under the public works program now being supported by Roosevelt. This: grant really makes the expendi- tures for Naval construction higher this year than last. POWERS JOCKEY IN TRADE WAR AS TARIFF TRUCE IS SIGNED LONDON, May 12. Conference unanimously adopied the ‘The Organizing Committee for the World Economic proposed tariff truce today, providing that tariffs not be raised until the conclusion of the proposed conference. The agreement was reached at a special session with Great Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Norway and Japan repre- sented, — _This tariff truce is only « sham, | Jewish and Socialist after most of the capitalist powers | had already signed exclusive trade|Students Beaten Up Austrian Fascists agreements securing trade privileges b vy in many parts of the world. VIENNA, May 10.—Forty Jew- ‘While Germany signed the truce ‘agreement in London, the Berlin gov- etmment announced that in June only| ish and Socialist. students were Sper cent of the scheduled import | besten up by the Nazi stud ‘ Hicenses would be granted. This| Beri Sy eeh SoUg et means cutting German imports in| mobs at the Anatomical Institute half, a much more violent measure of | of the Universit f Vi yes- protectionism than the highest tariff |? i. Wee ai heen, conceivable. The import cut is a di-|*'day, among them nine Ameri- rect consequence of the grave eco-|cans. The latter have filed pro- nomic crisis in Hitler Germany, with | tests agai i the “trade balance “unfecoreny’ qth | tests against their maltreatment tesult of international boycotts and | 8t the hands of the Nazis with the the genera! world economic crisis, | American Consul-General who = * romised “he would look into tl WASHINGTON, Mar. 12.—Presi- ae 9 Tn th bs hil oe dent Roosevelt and Dr. Hjalmar| yee an theater paki cana kon Schacht, German Reichsbank Presi-| man Davis, American Ambassador- gh ay issued a joint statement! at-large, confers officially with at the end of the German-American | i stler’s a éeonomic negotiations. ‘They stressed| *°senbere, Hitler’s special repre- the need for “economic disarmament | 8¢Mtative, and New York police together with military disarmament”| raid the National Committee for at the same time that Hitler in| ,; Ficti Geneva was insisting on the right to! pole ' ihe | Nictionn), of \ Garman increase its arms enormously. They added the pious wish “that the World Economic Conference may | be successful,” admitting that “quick and far-reaching solutions are nec- essary to save the economic life of the | (capitalist) world.” | Wow le PARIS, May 12—The Prench Cab-| inet yesterday decided to ask the Chamber of Deputies to authorize the payment of the overdue Dec, 15 in- stalment of the war debt to the Uni- ted States, provided America agreed to a debt moratorium during the World Economic Conference when the June 15 instalment will fall due, The French government also re- jected silver remonetization at the level proposed by America. It also refused to pay the war debt in silver, Claiming that this would automatic- ally raise the silver price to intoler- able levels. The Rhone metallurgical indus- fries have demanded that France aise the bars against metal imports still higher. These industries also| asked that the government reach a trade agreement with the Soviet Un- jon, enabling the acceptance of big| Soviet orders, which have been wait- tng for the proper credit facilities. Fi Socialist Meeting Endorses F. S. U. Recognition Campaign CAMDEN, N. J.—The usual Sunday forum of the Socialist Party in this city last night was addressed by speakers who called for recognition of the Soviet Union. More than 300 packed the hall, cheering the speak- ers, and endorsed the recognition campaign of the Friends of the Soviet Union, Norman H. Tallentire, national or- ganizer of the F. 8. U., outlined the reasons for recognition. He con- trasted conditions in the Soviet Union, where the workers are build- ing Socialism, with conditions in this country, where 17,000,000 workers are unemployed. An appeal to the audience to con- vert their enthusiasm into . practical form by joining the F. S. U., which carries on a continuous fight for rec- ognition and defense, was made by the Philadelphia representative of that organization, Many filled out pplication cards, a j J f Comrade Fritz Heckert was one of | the founders of the Red Interna- | tional of Labor Unions, a founder of the Red Trade Union Opposition in Germany, and for years a mem- ber of the Presidium of the Com- munist International, He is one of | the most prominent revolutionary | trade unionists of Germany, having been one of the leaders of the Building Workers Union.—Editor.) Caine eras | By FRITZ HECKERT (Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany) The bourgeoisie has let loose the | civil war against the proletariat, and | in doing so it has given the signal for @ new wave of world-reaction and at- |tacks on the part of capitalism. It | Was the first to shoot and thereby | it is intensifying all class conflicts to |the highest pitch, shattering the | social-democratic illusions as to the | Possibility of peaceful evolution, and | proving once again that violence -is the chief “argument” of the bour- | geoisie. The events in Germany are |an extremely important stage on the road towards the ripening of the re~ volutionary crisis in the very centre of Europe, on the road towards the approach of the decisiye struggles be- tween labor and capital. What is happening in Germany to- |day shows clearly with what means | the bourgeoisie will fight in the mo- |ment when the question of prole- tarian revolution is the order of the day, and with what means the pro- letariat will have to fight against the bourgeoisie and its watch-dogs. Foreshadows New War The events in Germany demon- strate, at the same time, what kind of picture the capitalist world will present in the event of a new im- | perialist war and particularly in the ‘event of a war against. the Soviet | Union, what position social demo- cracy, which has now gone over to the side of the fascists in Germany, | will take up, and why the Commu- nists have for the last three years been designating the social democrats as social fascists. Finally, the events in Germany as- sume an even greater signficance in so far as the seizure of power by Hit- ler opens up for the capitalist world a period of new imperialist wars. The entire international proletariat is looking on spellbound at the events in Germany, and the class-conscious workers in every country are being stirred up by the same questions. (a) Why has Fascism succeeded in attaining to power in Germany? (b) What are the prospects of fur- ther developments in Germany? (c) Was the policy of the Commu- nist Party in Germany correct? 1, Why has Fascism Succeeded in Attaining to Power in Germany? It is impossible to answer this ques- tion unless a sober analysis is carried out of the relation of the class forces in Germany. if s \a What, then, is the. relation of the class forces in Germany, and what is the nature of the role which the social-democratic party has played in iy setting up of the fascist dictator- ship? t First and foremost, with regard io ie proletariat. 3 Socialists. Split Proletariat - In Germany the resistance of the Proletariat against fascism was weak- ened owing to the fact that a part of the proletariat, the greater part of it, was Licks penitc the social demo- crats and followed the lead of social democracy, while “social democracy waged an untiring fight, in alliance with the bourgeoisie, against the other, smaller, part of the proletariat, against the Communist part of the Proletariat, which formed the ‘only active and militant force in opposi- tion to fascism. The more the in- figmnee of the Pires Party and organizing forces grew, the more furious became the attempts of social democracy to isolate the ©. P. G., and in this way to disarm even the masses of the workers with regard to the onslaughts of fascism. The fact tht* vocial democracy has succeeded “4 Germany a splitting the revolutionary unity the prole- tarlat paralyzed, and is, paralyzing, the successful warding-off of fascism by the working class. By carrying out the social demands of the bour- Beoisie social democracy has divided the proletariat with the very object of weakening its capacity for fighting. In the course of. the fourteen years of its participation in the government of Prussia, social democracy, which had at its disposal the machinery of the State and, above all, of the police, persecuted to the utmost and inde- fatigably the Communist vanguard; in |. doing this it knew that it was weak- ening the proletariat in. its entirety, assuring the dictatorship of the bour- geoisie, and @ ground for fascism, At the same time, social democracy, supported by the ap- paratus of the bourgeois “state, strove to consolidate its influence on.’ the wotking class and to prevent the revolutionary unity of the proletariat as a class, After the: shooting. of | workers on May 1, 1929, by the Berlin police président Zorgiebel, the social democrats banned by the R. F. B. (Red Front Fighters’ League) and at the same time assured for the Stahl-| helm (Steel Helmets) and the 8. A: (Storm Troops) complete freedom to’ organize. They delivered up all armed forces of the state to the ab- solute control of the feudal-monareh- istio Reichswehr officers. The-police selected by Severing now.served fas~ cism as loyally as they had setyed the Prussian government of the social democrat Braun in its fight against the class movement of the proletariat. Side by side with this so-to-speak military disarming of the proletariat the social democrats also disarmed phrases about “the State that stands | above classes,” and by surrendering} step by, step all the gains that. the! proletariat had wrested for them- selves in the revolution of 1918-1919. After social democracy had, at one Stage, drowned the proletarian re- | volution in blood by the agency of} Noske, ‘after it had, in the second | stage, consolidated the position of the bourgeoisie ‘by supporting capitalist rationalization, and after it had, again, put all the burden of the con- Sequences of the crisis on the backs | of the workers in the form of its) Policy of “toleration” towards the Bruening government and of its policy of “the lesser evil” in the! period of the economic crisis, it pre-| pared the ground for fascism and has | now ended by openly going over to it.| What effect did this policy of so-| cial democracy have on the other} front—in the bourgeois camp? It is well known that in the 1918-1919 re-| volution the social democrats ai-! tacked the privileges neither of the | bourgeoisie nor of the Junkers, who! openly supported monarchist reaction | in Germany. The bourgeois republic | of Weimar was established by the so- | cial democrats on fundamentaily the same social and. economic basis as that on which the Hohenzollern mon- arch rested. This circumstance alone served to make the bourgeois democracy of November very un- stable,.and paved the way for the wth of chauvinism and fascism. entire post-war policy of the social democrats, moreover, als) fos- tered the consolidation of the econ- omic and political positions of the} bourgeoisie. the uzban petty-bourgeoisie and of the peasantry. Had the proletariat not been weak-| ened and split by the criminal policy of class-collaboration of social demo-| cracy with the bourgeoisie, its revolu-| tionary influence on the urban petty- | Expenditures for the Navy last year} were $356,000,000. This year the budget provides for expenditures of} $309,000,000. However, the assurance of from $32,000,000 to $42,000,000 from the Public Works program indicates that there will be reduction in Navy bourgeoisie and on the peasantry,| expenditures. | who have been ruined by the crisis and driven to fight against the vio- lence of trust capital, could have been assured. (LO BE CONTINUED) The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of fuedal society, has not dune away | with class antagonisms, It has but established new classes, new condi- struggle in place of the old | ones.—Communist Manifesto, The widely advertised reductions in navy expenditures affect mainly the) 1,000 civilian employees in the navy yards, and the rank and file of the Navy. Civilian workers will have their wages cut or be fired. The Navy | plans to make the ship crews do the| | work now being done by the navy) | yard employees. | In addition, the cuts are being made | | not in expenditures for actual war! equipment, byt in the wages of the MAKING NAVAL WAR MATERIALS Budget Reductions Do Not Affect Actual Fighting Equipment; Cut Workers’ Wages sailors. Most of the cuts are being made mainly in the land services of the Navy, not in the sea forces, whic are being increased. Secretary of the Navy Swansoii is $240,000,000 be set aside to permit-the Navy to build up to the maximum limits provided by the London Naval Treaty. President Roosevelt, who was ) Assistant-Secretary of the Navy dur- ing Wilson's administration, is Te- | ported as being in favor of this plan. Navy officers admit that the present pian will increase the efficiency of the Navy. The expenditures for naval fighting equipment are greater than ever. The present claims of uc™ tions are made to conceal this fact. DEMONSTRATE AGAINST ROSEN< BERG IN HIS LONDON HOTEL LONDON, May-12—Two Commu- nists in the restaurant of the exclu- sive Claridge’s Hotel distributed leaf- lets and shouted protests against. the presence in the hotel of Dr, Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler's personal oy. Tables were upset and vases 5! as waiters ejected the two - strators. Soviet Union Willing to Sell demanding that a special find of #* cae U. 8. S. R. Was Ready to Sell the Railway to China for Years Nanking Unable or Unwilling to Buy By N. BUCHWALD. (Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 12.—The Moscow ment between China and the Soviet) Union.” Litvinov stated that for the last 18 ownership of the railway. “The Soviet government has always been .prepared to sell the Chinese- | press publishes a Tass interview with | |months, the Nanking governmen, had | eee Age led by wie d Buy ceased to be a partner with the So- | /atter tbe he int, ‘presersibg ti viet Union in the Chinese Eastern| Vie? Sovernment, p | t ocialists Aided Capitalist Wage Offensive In the economic sphere this was shown on the one hand in the faci | that the social democrats supported the systematic plundering of .the working class by the bourgeoisie (owering of wages, cutting down of social services, raising of taxes); on other hand in the fact that they supported the policy of direct tinan-| cial assistance to the big indusirial- | ists and the azrarians. In .the political sphere the social democrats systematically established, in the course of the whole post-war'| period, the power of the capitalist state (the police, the Reichswehr, the building of cruisers, growing terzor against the working class), This po- licy of the scciel democrats facilitated the welding of the forces of the big capitalists, who in the moment of the sharpest crisis have found in the fa3- cist dictatorship the most concen- -trated form for the state apparatis of terror end violence avainst the working class and all toilers. Here lies the key to the under- standing of the reasons why the bour- geoisie at first “co-operated” with social democracy, and why it has now to go over to the open forms of fascist dictatorship in Germany. the tariat politically by lulling tanidonp Sts: vighans ty’ ara ot I shall now pass to the question of | Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov |regarding his recent conversation | With Japanese Ambassador Ota on the question of a possible sale of the Chi- nese Eastern Railway. Litvinov declared that during his conversation with Ota, they’ discussed |the grave situation created on the Chinese Eastern Railway which threatens to complicate the relations between the Soviet Union and Man- churia. During the conversation Lit- vinovy mentioned the question of the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway to the Manchurian authorities as one of the most radical methods of settl- ing the conflict. Nanking’s Claims Void Litvinov stated that the Nanking government disputed the right of sale |of the Chinese Eastern Railway to any one but the Nanking government. Litvinov also said: “The arguments raised by the Nanking government , corvespond neither to the formal un- derteking of the Soviet government nor to the actual state of affairs, “The agreements with China do not resirict the rights of the Soviet Union to sell the railway to anyone espe- cially to the de facto power existing in Manchuria and carrying out the undertakings binding the Chinese party to the Peking-Mukden agree- é | Railway, as it has been deprived of the opportunity to carry out its rights, or to fulfill its’ obligations.” It has no representative on the railway’s board of directors, it is unable to in- vestigate complaints of violation by the Manchurian authorities of the rights and interests of the Chinese- Eastern Railway or to insure the rail- way’s normal operation, “The Nanking government's non- fulfillment of its cbligations in ac- | deprives it of formal or moral right deriving from these agreements.” Why Soviet Union Ready to Sell Litvinov dwelt on the motives prompting the Soviet Union’s agree- | Railway: “In building the railway in Manchuria, the Czarist government pursued imperialist aims kick the So- viet government cannot have. After the October revolution, the Cuinese- Eastern Railway lost its dominating importance for the nations compris- ing the former czarist empire. “However, the railway was con- structed with the labor and funds of the nation’s inhabiting the Soviet Union and therefore the Soviet Gov- ernment found and still finds tself obliged to protect its interests in the cordance with ' existing agreements | ment to sell the Chinese-Eastern | | of ownership of the railway and tak- ing into consideration the fact ‘that |it crosses foreign territory, f¢ fair to grant the masters of this | vitory parity rights in the me ment. of the railway and half profits. em ecm Sale Removes Source of Friction” | “Nevertheless, the Chinese | Railway has become a source of: | tion between the Soviet Union, jand Manchuria. Everyone . ;bers the conflict on the $i) Easvern Railway which arose.in. | through no fault of the Soviet”' \. “With a view to removal .of ‘the source of conflicts, the Soviet ‘govern- with a representative of the Ni | Mukden government igre | sale of the Chinese-Eastern Those negotiations broke down -Owit to the Manchurian events in the au- j tumn cf 1931. ead | “The question of the sale’ of Ort 1 way has. ‘again matured. Ovt of these consid- | erations we made a proposal: for the | sale of the Chints-Eastern Rat | Our proposal,” Litvinov conel another demonstration of the § Union's peacefulness, and only will object to it who are interasted. the aggravation of Soviet-Japa and Soviet-Manchurian relations”... # Bah ment conducted negotiations im 1930 see J. ~