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Pudieisd by ibe Coipicindy Cues city vv. Page Four Preparing to Repeat the Betrayal This week, the official organ of the I Party, the New Leade prints with evident satisfaction and approval, a momentous article by one of its correspondents, writing from Berlin onclusions n precisely This article. nd implicy Significant because it staieg in unir so sinister in its explicit a ably clear terms wha manner the Socialist Parties of t id intend to decoy the workers of the world into the next imperialist world slaughter The immediate occasion for the article is the recent approval by the French socialist deputies of the French budget, of the most notoriously swollen militaristic budget in Europe, provi#ting for an enormous strength- ening of the French military machine. The author of the article in the New Leader, and obviously, the editors of the New Leader, defend the action of the socialist deputies as a justifiable and honorable action. More than this, they defend the strengthening of the leading military machine in Europe as a necessary Socialist action And the reasons given are truly remarkable. For, they parallel with extraordinary fidelity the reasons given by the socialist leaders in 1914 for the support of “their own” capitalist governments who sent the work- ers of Europe to slaughter one another in the struggle for world markets. forces, declare the Why? Because and naval Leader France must have powerful military French socialists and the editors of the New a world war is impending. And what will be the fundamental issue in this next worki slaughter? Will it be a fight for the redivision of the world? Will it be a fight among the imperialist wolves for the redivision of China? Will it, per- chance, be a concerted attempt of the capitalist wolves to crush the Workers’ Fatherland, the Soviet Union? Not at all, say the socialist leaders. 1 will be a war to defend Bowr- geois Democracy Against Dictatorship! The editors of the New Leader and their Berlin correspondent wish “to call the attention of all socialists to a great difference between the last war that was supposed to make the world safe for democracy and the war that now threatens to break over France. The es- sential difference is this—the world war was a struggle for export markets between capitalistic mations of all political complexions. The war now threatening will be more purely political in its nature and will be in fact a struggle in which the bloc of middie- European dictatorships seek to extend dictatorship as a political aystem by force, into the democratic countries of the West...Capit- m is forcing the final conflict and this is taking the form of t dictatorship attempting to crush bourgeois Democracy.’ Today, 15 years after the event, the Socialist leaders make the be- lated discovery that the last worid war was an imperialist slaughter. al fasc’ In 1914, they urged the workers of the world to bayonet one another in defense of the fatherland” against “German barbarism,” against ‘Czarist op; m,” and “to make the world safe for democracy. Tn 1914 the theoreticians of the Second International, with Kautsky at their nead, denied that the last war was “purely an imperia war Today, of course, the Socialist leaders can no longer parade before be workers of the world with this deception. 1 war was an imperialist war. ut the next war? That will be different. That will be a “political wa That will be a holy crusade in defense of bourgeois democracy! And French imperialism will lead this holy crusade against “fascism and dictatorship”! In these words, the Socialist leaders once again are pre- paring to defend their own capitalist class under the guise of defending democracy. In these words, once again, the Socialist leaders betray the struggle against their own capitalist class by urging the workers to unite with their own capitalist governments against their “common enemy.” This is exactly the same theory with which the Socialist leaders de- fended their support of the imperialist world slaughter in 1914. Yes, now they will agree that t Notice how the New Leader writer attempts to destroy the prole- tarian solidarity between the German and French workers by describing the German masses as being in the grip “of a mass psychosis. He does not attack the Hitler fascist dictatorship. He does not show how the fascist propagandist machine is attempting to arouse this mass psychosis among the German masses. He says nothing about the heroic fight which the German working class is making against Hitler. He lumps together the French capitalist class with the French working class, and places them in opposition to the German capitalist class and the German working class, as opposing enemies. According to the Socialists, as in 1914, the fight is not between the international working class and the capitalist rulers, but between the whole population of one country against the whole population of another country. In these words, once again, the Socialist leaders violate the internationalism to which they give lip allegiance. What a contrast treachery to the proclamations issued by the German Communist Party to the French workers, and the proclamation of the French Communist Party to the German workers, pledging one another to international working-class solidarity in the fight against their real common enemies the masked dictatorship of French imperialism and the open military dictatorship of German capitalism. What then are the reasons for which France must arm to the teeth? is it to defend the Versailles Treaty? Is it to prepare intervention against the Soviet Union? Is it to protect the far-flung colonial empire? Is it to crush the Chinese peasants in French Indo-China? No, say the Socialist leaders. It is to prevent “the bellicose and reckless Hitler leaders from scrapping all treaties...Germany is in the grip of a mass psychosis.” What treaty is it that must be so fiercely defended by the Socialist leaders from the ravages of the “reckless Hitler leaders”? It is the Ver- sailles Treaty, the infamous treaty which has enslaved the German workers, not only to their own capitalist exploiters, but to the exploiters of the victorious allied imperialist countries. It is the treaty which rests upon the monstrous reparations tribute which German capitalism wrings from the backs of the German masses. It is this treaty, which lists as one of its signers the present leader of the Belgian Socialist Party, Van- dervelde, which the French socialists leap to defend, with the approba- tion of the editors of the New Leader. This is the first reason why the French socialists support the French imperialist army. his of 1914 _— Me. Wali, Garey sedans, art Bs ‘Mth St., New York City, N. ¥. ‘Telephone ALgenguin 4-708, Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and mail checks to the Dally Worker, 5¢ E. 18th St. New York, N. Vall Che sabeead |Hindenburg, Hailed by Norman Thomas As | “An Honest Republican” Taking the Fascist S Leader: alute in Berlin Left,:—photograph of Presi- dent Hindenburg of Germany taking the fascist salute from the Nazi storm troopers and others assembled by Hitler’s order on May First. Above:—Hinden- burg riding with Hitler through May 1, bowing “dem- ‘0 the storm troopers and other Nazis. On March 14, 1932, Norman Thomas wrote in the New “Tt was a bitter dose for socialists all over the world ity to contemplate the nece: the German Social-Democracy felt to vote for Hindenburg in order to beat Hitler. Never- theless Hindenburg has at least heen honest and loyal to the Republic.” (Our emphasis.) These shameful and trea Thomas, leader of the Americ of the Reichstag presidential elections. placed Comrade Thaelmann, w | date of the working class. ers cherous lines were written by an Socialist Party, at the time The Communists ho is now in jail, as the candi- Preaching the theory of the “lesser evil”, that the work- should vote for the monarchist Hindenburg to “beat Hitler”, Social-Democracy has disarmed the working class and prepared the way for fascism’s coming into power in Germany. The present surrender of the German Social- Democracy to Hitler is only the logical step after voting for 10 ‘; Party BSA BATTLE RAGES ‘AROUND PEIPING IN CHINESE WAR ‘Chinese Resistance Slows Down Invaders TIENTSIN, China, May 15.— With Shihsia occupied, the Japa- nese advance is now concentrated on Miyun, forty-odd miles north- east of Peiping. Meanwhile in the| east, Lwanchow has fallen, and the, Japanese are well past the Lwan| River triangle, rapidly nearing| Tangshan on the road to Tientsin. | The Chinese resistance has been! unexpectedly strong. Poorly equip- | jped and decimated Chinese troops | | were holding their lines against | | deadly Japanese attacks although | | the Japanese heavy artillery has/ | already been moved up within! | range. A new Japanese thrust has | | been made today through Hsifeng-| | kou Pass, thus adding a new column | |to the existing ones carrying the/| | attack westward onto the flanks of | te Chinese positions. | | Every kind of Chinese military | | and political scoundrel is now rep-| | resented at Tientsin, as various| | sorts of adventurers, from monar-| | chist supporters of Henry Pu Yi,) | Manchukuo regent, or of Yuan Shih | Kai, down to the latest renegades | from the Chinese nationalist move- ment. Former generals, Premiers jand Cabinet Ministers, are gather-_ ing in order to get their share of the graft and patronage which is | expected when the Japanese set up their puppet state in the Peiping Tientsin area. i The Japanese have announced | their intention to retain control of | over 7,500 square miles of Chinese territory south of the Great Wall) | which they have succeeded in oc-/ cupying. “We will hold all gains,” | | said the Japanese Peiping Legation. | In time with their continuous ad- | Blee it liva Akita Sy Mall everywhore: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, #7: 1 meet, Ma excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign and Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, 35; f months, $3. > [sPARKS| 'HE other day we watched a street magician make a dollar disap-| pear by @ sleight-of-hand trick. | When it comes to making dollars disappear, it will be pretty hard to beat Roosevelt, | RMER Mayor of Detroit Frank Murphy says that he is now broke. We are willing to bet that |ex-Mayor of Detroit Murphy will not} depend for his existence on the re-| lief being handed out by his relief | commissioners. | We are right. Roosevelt has given | Murphy a good job as Governor-| General of the Philippines. HERE has been a tremendous drop in unemployment, we are glad to} announce. Where? Roosevelt’s son has just gotten a fat job with an. airplane company. Would it be very wicked to suspect that United States air mail contracts | have something to do with it? ROM R. S., we get the folowing: “Control of the police and armed forces can be attained through par- liament and through no other| means,” says George Lansbury, leader of the British Labor Party. And in the New Leader, American socialist paper, he is quoted, applauded and) approved by William Fiegenbaum in| an article he calls “Still Maintain | Democracy Is Socialists Best Weap- on,” Here is how things would have hap- pened in Russia if there had been no Bolshevik party and Feigenbaum, Lansbury and the international so- cialist leaders would have had their) way. Time: October 1917, workers ready | to take revolutionary action against the Provisional Government, betray- ers of the revolution of ‘February, 1917. Scene: Norman Thomas, James O’- Neil, Feigenbaum and other Socialist Jeaders huddled together. Outside the thunder of workers, “Bread, land and peace.” | Enter soldier. | vance, the Japanese continue to give ‘4 ‘capitalism, we workers and peasants out statements saying that the ad- of the army want to take control of vance will be halted at the next| the armed forces and use it to fight | Soldier: We are tired of dying for! the monarchist Hindenburg. ‘Urge Delegation to Anti-Fascist Meet to Be) Held in Copenhagen and labor locals in the city, is an- othér example of how the great united front movement is sweeping the country. 'Thé English “Daily Worker” writes: “The working class does not want, to listen to sermons on ‘demo- cracy and dictatorship.’ It realizes the terrific menace to its own standard of life involved in the attack on the German unions. It wants united ac- tion in support of the German work- ers. It knows that the Embargo (against the Soviet Union) will throw 60,000 workers out of work, and thai it is the first step to a war on the Trades Council of Bradford, | Eng., Votes for Unity Action | LONDON, May 6 (By Mail) —The Executive Committee of the Brad- ford Trades and Labor Council yoted to recommend to the Trades Council | that it participate in the United Front with the Communist Party and | | the Independent Labor Party. Bradford is one of the largest textile mill | towns in Yorkshire, and this move on the part of the Trades Council, which | is the federation of all trade union¢— town, unless further “provocation” is given by the Chinese, Thus they say that Peiping and Tientsin will not be entered “unless the Chinese force us to.” Together with this comes an unconfirmed report of a new Japanese ultimatum demand- ing the evacuation of Tangku, on the Po Gulf, sixty miles south of Tientsin itself. The importance of | this area lies in the fact that Tang- | shan is the center of a coal mining | district, and that Tangku is the seaport from which the coal is ex- ported. The principal financial in- terests in this area are English. Haitian Negro Worker “The united front in Britain should receive the full attention of all workers. Unity can defeat Fas- cism, and of paramount importance will be the sending of a trade union delegation to the Anti-Fascist Con- ference at Copenhagen.” . ‘of Scottsboro Boys | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. —The | fight for the freedom of the nine in- nocent Scottsboro boys is linked in the program of the newly-formed ‘the United States, for higher wages LONDON, May 15. —Sir Oswald | and the eight-hour day, the abo! Mosley, ex-Labor Party member °f | tion of peonage in the island repub Parliament and present leader of the i. and the fight against the evic- British Fascisti” claims that his or- | tion of tenants and farmers. ganization is 500,000 strong, but he} The ‘first ‘meeting ofthe newly- could only muster 400 all told: for aj} — 2 i “march” in London yesterday, and | formed party, in the Artibonite Val- PartyDemandsFreeing for Socialism. Feigenbaum (aside) Horrors, what will happen to us? (To the soldier) My good man, are you not aware that |this is against all Democratic pro- cedure? Have you consulted the par- liament? Soldier: Certainly not. Mulikov, Kerensky. the cadets all workers’ enemies now hold power in the par- | lament. | Feigenbaum: (sighing with relief) How unfortunate, now we can’t have | our cooperative commonwealth, we)! will have to wait. (socialists sit down with an air of resignation and prep- arations for a long wait). Soldier: Wait? What for? We are hungry, the workers are ready, the army is behind them and we can take power from the capitalists. Fiegenbaum: Oh horror that would bé a dictatorship! Soldiers: Why not, a workers’ and} farmers’ dictatorship. | Fiegenbaum: (othey leaders in chor- | us) Democracy (capitalist) where art thou (to the soldier) Now there be Negro Workers Party of Haiti with nice, go back and fight for your|erican economic counter-offensive to the. stvuggle for independence from | fatheriand until we leaders get you a Britain’s trade agreement policy was nice majority in the parliament somedays | | Soldier: What fight for the capital-| vists, then give up these guns and be) ‘a slave again, like hell! | | Fiegenbaum: Oh these unreason-| ing workers. (to the soldier with a) show of sterness) Don’t you know) | yesterday. Soviet Union.” these heroes had to be protected by | ley, adopted resolution praising tna: George Lansbury said we can | Despite sabotage of the Labor | Party leaders and Trade Union offi- cials, the movement initiated by the Communist Party is making huge progress. Councillor MacIntrye, Dis- trict committee-member of the Trans- port and General Workers said: (Continued from last issue) By FRITZ HECKERT The development of the crisis in Germany bodes no good to fascism In | the two months of Hitler’s rule a fur- | ther impairment of market conditions | has been observable. In the month of | February the production of pig-iron | fell 17.7 per cent, of steel 14.1 per | | cent, coal production 18.1 per cent, |and the production of coke 9.2 per ‘cent. The building industry is com- pletely at a standstill. During Feb- {ruary the machine industry further reduced its number of workers as against January. At the same time, in March 1933, there are 275,000 more Union | 4() police against the indignation f the workers. Police protection was | provided for the Black Shirts as 3 result of the incidents last Sunday | the efforts of the International Labor | | Defense in the United States in dem- | | onstrating before the Haitian consu- | [late against the imprisonment and | take control by parlaimentary means | only. that otherwise it would be un- constitutional. The scene closes with the Russian} when groups of fascists were badly | starvation of Haitian workers’ lead- workers and peasants brushing the frightened when they clashed with aj ers, and pledging to fight in Haiti-for | Hillquits, Thomases, etc. aside and cadilly Circus. | Scottsboro boys. of the impoverishment of the small farmers, Fascism will help the pet- | ty-bourgeoisie of the towns neither vision of the frontiers have been up [till now merely a feeling out of the ground, for the German bourgecisie crowd of Jews and workers in Pic-| the freedom of Tom Mooney and the | rushing forward to establish a Work- lers’ Soviet Republic, European political atmosphere reeks of gunpowder. What influence will the seizure | Von Papen Rattles Sabre; U. S. Eases Pressure on Nazis Davis Tries to Block Anglo-French, Stand Against German Arms PARIS, May 15.—The United States today took diplomatic action t¢ modify the sharp opposition of Great Britain and France to Germany’t demand for re-armament, Norman H. Davis, American special envoy, conferred with Paul- French Foreign Minister, in an admitted effort to “take a mild stand’ towards Hitler's arms demands. 3 ee Over 6,000 members of Hitler’s warlike spirit, he added, “Others Special Guards staged a review in|to understand the ancient Get Duesseldorf, near the French. border, | fear of a peaceful death.” which revealed the high military pre-| This speech, coming on the eve ef paredness of these troops. | Hitler’s momentous pronouncemenj ‘Twelve airplanes, a motor corps,| before the Rechstag special sessi cavalry and engineers’ units took| foreshadows that Germany part in the display. The guards were | maintain its position on re-arming, reviewed by Police General von Hey-| Should Germany, feeling Americay denkamp, commander-in-chief inj backing behind it, continue to asseri Western Germany. its arms demands, the Disarmament Across the Rhine, Vice-Chancellor | Conference, already more dead they von Papen made a “blood and thun- | alive, will be dealt its final death. der speech” in Muenster, Westphalia, | blow, and with that the World Eco- glorifying war and re-asserting Fas-| nomic Conference planned for Lon- cist Germany's reliance on armed|don in early June also collapses. force to achieve its aims. Von Papen ie 7] said: “The battlefield is for a man} LONDON, May 15,—Sir John Sim, what motherhood is for a woman.) on, Foreign Secretary, told the House Mothers must give themselves to the| of Commons today that a British bearing of children and fathers must | warship would be dispatched to Dan- fall on the battlefield to ensure aj zig, scene of the recent anti-Naz future for their sons.” Praising the} general strike, on a “courtesy v'sit.” U.S., Britain in Trade Pact Race; Germany Can’t Pay French Gold Standard Menaced, Paris Ceills for Conference Postponement LONDON, May 15.—While the capitalists plunge headlong into a new world war, the open trade war between the major powers continues un- checked. Great Britain today signed trade agreements with Sweden and Norway at the Foreign Office, giving England preferential rights in trade with those countries. Negotiations are being rushed to complete exclusive trade agreements with other coun-@———————-———_____-__ tries before the World Economic Con-| PARIS, May 15.— The first voiee ference opens on June 12. ee ee of the fibre re nomic Conference was raised yesters The Manchester Association of|day when L’Intransigeant editorially Importers and Exporters warns the; demanded the postponement to a capitalist world that it is rushing) jater date as “the economic confer= headlong to destruction, in its an-/ ence is condemned to failure in ad- nual survey of world trade issued | vance,” The survey says: Former Finance Minister Flandin “Distrust aad animosity prevail| today warned that France faces the everywhere, making it akin to des-| danger of going off the gold stand- tructive military warfare. Every | @Td as its trade balance shows a loss, country is feverishly devising mea-| While the budget deficit, is mounting | sures to decrease imports and in-|to threatening heights. He asserted crease exports, the cumulative effect | that the huge French gold reserves being an all-round shrinkage of trad- | re inadequate protection for France's ing and industrial operations which, | financial stability while the Treasury if carried to its logical conelusion,| as to meet over six billions in mat- means that each country is clamor- | Wing obligations during the months ing to give its production away for| to come. nothing, which must finish in ab-| - solute bankruptcy.” | BERLIN, May 15.—The warning 4 (aes pehiy nee gad! that un- a less Germany’s foreign debtors made BARCELONA, May 15.—The Am- considerable concessions, Germany roule declare a moratorium on its | forei; i 5 launched yesterday when Claude) ee nce sein tee said that Bowers, new American Ambassador | pr, Schacht’s statement in New York to Spain, announced yesterday that’ «clearly revealed the difficulties Ger- the United States will negotiate @! many faces. These difficulties will new trade agreement with Spain. be laid before the creditors and we the present time France has | shall see.” preferential treatment in the Spanish | Hugenberg’s papers admit that “it market, even at the expense of cer-/ will be impossible for Germany this tain Spanish manufacturers, such as| year to raise the necessary foreign automobiles, ‘exchange for its foreign payments.” Workers’ Leaders Starved in Venezuela Prisons ate Workers Revolt Against Starvation and Deat! What Is Happening in Germany? in Forced Labor Camps : CARACAS, Venezuela, May 6. — A The commander rejected their de~ group of 35 political prisoners, several; mands and the men went on strike, of them Negroes, confined in Le Ro-| Soldiers at once charged the concen- tonde, the Gomex prison in Caracas, | tration camp. Fierce fighting ensued, are being subjected to daily torture! and hundreds of the men fied to the with pogroms against Jewish busi-|knows that Germany will be in a nesses nor with attacks on large | position to raise the question of the stores. It cannot make provision for | frontiers in its entirety only when it the million De ee ee would | is openly armed. like to be the “coupon-clippers” of | yn what direction will German fas- the “Third Empire”. The Storm | cism’s impulses towards expansion be Troops and the bandits of the “Na- | iurned in the immediate future? It} | tional Revolution”, who have eaten | their fill of the state fleshpots, are a heavy burden upon the state bud- | get, which already has to carry a | deficit of two and a half billion marks, The disappointment of the masses a $ unemployed than in December, 1932.' and their estrangement from fas- The second reason is even more sinister than this. Writes the New | What Can Fascism Offer the Masses? | cism are inevitab! And this Leacer What, in these circumstances, can | estrangement from fascism will im- The outlook is made more menacing by the fact that Russia y the fascists. offer to the masses? A} pede the establishment, of the fascist ts vast natural resources and man-power lies adjacent to the dicta- torships of the East...All dictatorships are brothers under the skin.” In these words, the Socialist leaders lay bare what really lies behind "ida fight against “dictatorship.” The Socialist leaders are get- the propaganda machines for the imperialist intervention fi the Soviet Union. il Re The Socialist leaders cannot endure the existence of the r proletarian dictatorship of the Soviet Union. The vital question is whether a dicta- torship is of the capitalist class against the working class, or the dicta- torship of the working class against the capitalist class. They defend the capitalist dictatorship under its “democratic” guise. In Germany, they voted for Hindenburg as a “great democrat.” Now Hindenburg has taken his place in the open Hitler dictatorship. The Socialist leaders all over the world attem; pt to discredit the pro- Ietarian dictatorship of the Soviet Union by hinting that the Workers Fatherland is in league with Japanese imperialism. To the Socialist leaders, the Soviet Union is a “menace.” To the Socialist leaders, the masked capitalist dictatorship of bourgeois de- maseracy 4s something which the workers should defend against the “me- nace” of proletarian dictatorship. That 1s how they attempt to tie the workers to the capitalist State machine. The Socialist leaders want the workers io defend “Bourgeois Demo- ¢racy.” This is only another way of saying that they want the workers to defend the bourgeois dictatorship. The article in the New Leader is a public confession of the Socialist traitors that they intend to betray the struggle for the overthrow of vapitalism in the same way that they betrayed the workers in 1914 In the words of the New Leader, we can already catch the sound of the propaganda machines which will thunder in the ears of the young work- evs of the world when the enlistment drives are going on as the impe~ kialist semiex hurt themectver against the Soviet borders, yfurther lowering of the standard of living of the working class, the liqui- dation of social insurance, the in- | troduction of conscripted labor at a | datly wage of 40 pfennigs, a prison regime in the factories—will Hitler by these means win over the German workers to the “Third Empire”? The entire social pyramid of capi- talism is bearing down with. all its weight upon the proletariat. The whole parasitic machinery of the fas- cist dictatorship, already grown to formidable size and threatening to expand still further. sucks from the class of the six million workers who are still engaged in production, a substantial part of its surplus value. ‘That is to say that the German bour- geoisie, in order to ensure the main- tenance of the average level of its profits, will exert further pressure on the working class. By the introduction’ of higher pro- tective duties on the most important | articles of food, fascism has in fact granted large subsidies to the agrar- | Hitler has at the present time dis-| jans and big peasants but it has closed the fact that he has an active | Union, must | thereby at the same time lowered military force of almost a million relations with | machinery of violence and will hasten its disruption, This disruption will, {in all probability, proceed in the | shape of an internal struggle between the three forms of the armed forces of fascism: the Storm Troops, the Steel Helmets and the Reichswehr. A disruption will then begin of the “leading groups” in power, who will come forward with their nostrums for the salvation of Germany, International Ounook for Fascist Germany. E now pass to the prospects of fascism in Germany in the sphere of international relz‘ions with the capitalist governments and with the Soviet Union, The German bourgeoisie has sys- tematically reduced and finally dis- continued the payment of reparations and is now, under Hitler, carrying through quite openly Schleicher’s pro- gramme for the arming of Germany. | Preparations for a new imperialist war are taking place a feverish pace. is to be expected that first and fore- | most they will be directed towards the “Anschluss” (the union of Austria with Germany). As things have turned out in the international sit- uation, the plan for the “Anschluss” appears .to German imperialism, which fights shy of an immediate conflict with France on the question of Alsace-Lorraine, or with Poland on the question of the Corridor, to be the easiest proje: to carry through. | But, contrary to the expectations of the fascists, this road is indeed by no means easy, for it involves a war against Czechoslovakia and against Yugoslavia and, therefore, a war against France. If fascist Germany belives that it will emerge from its isolated posi- tion with only the help of Italy, who views with suspicion the claims of German imperialism with regard to Austria, which opens the door to the Balkans, it will soon experience dis- illusionment. The failure of the Four- Power Pact, the draft of which was put forward by Mussolini and Mac- Donald, shows that the revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means is impossible. I‘ is not out of the question that German imperialism will receive some few concessions, but they will not overthrow the yoke of Versailles. i ! I say nothing of the fact that an acceptance of the Four-Power Pact, which is directed against the Soviet inevitably impair the the Soviet Union, still further the standard of con- men (300,000 Steel Helmets, 120,000 | Which. on all other grounds, cannot sumption of the workers and the members of the Reichswehr, 500,000 Temain indifferent to the fact that urban petty-bourgeoisie. With the Storm Troopers, not to mention the | the German National Socialists are temporary maintenance of the mora- Police, who are armed with the most , declaring war on World Bolshevism, torium for private debts and taxation | modern weapons known to military |@nd thereby on the work of construc- of agriculture till October 1, fascism | | will solve neither the question of the indebtedness of the peasaniry nor ‘of the taxation burdens which op- ‘press the peasants, nor the question technique). It is quite clear that fascism does not need these armed millions merely for the fight, against Communism, The demagogic es speeche of Goering and Hitler about the re-! many, ail the more soap an the entire 4, (70 BE tion in the Soviet Union which is being, carried on by the Bolsheviks. ‘The path to war is the likeliest path in’ the fascist’ development; of ‘Ger- of power by the fascists in Germany \ have on the re-grouping of forces) | within the Workers Movement as he- ‘tween the Social Democrats and the | Communists? | | The open defection of the Social Democratic Party to the fascist camo is bound to have decisive importance \for the undermining of the influence ‘of social democracy on the working masses, and this not only’ in Ger- many, Since August 1, 1914. the So- cial Democratic Pariy of Germany has pursued a policy of a reactionary united front with the bourgeoisie against the proletariat. It has, in the different stages of bourgeois dic- tatorship in Germany, worked with | various fractions of the bourgeoisie, for the defence of capitalism and | fought against the proletarian revolu- tion. On this reactionary front more |and more reactionary circles, one | after another, of the bourgeoisie and the landowners, with the Inclusion of tne Prussian junkers and thorough- going monarchists of the stamp of Hindenburg, became allies of social democracy. This signifies the going over of social democracy to an in- creasingly reactionary policy. | Sliding down the steep slope, it re- jorganized the “state which stands above the classes” in the further di- rection of fascism, whereby it more and more undermined the position of the proletariat and established the forces of bourgeois dictatorship. Both in the pure “Socialist government” after the November revolution, by rescuing the bourgeoisie from the re- volutionary masses who demanded the liquidation of capitalism, as well as in the coalition government of the period of capitalist stabilization, and also | outside’ the government in th= era of ithe agvicultural crisis, social demo- ‘cracy in all cases rigidly opposed its ‘reactionary united front with the bourgeoisie to the revolutionary pro- letarian united front for which the Communist Party fought. It sup- ported the emergency measures of y » Which. set, we : BE CONTINUED), and in so doing has in all cases stood | ‘jcommander’s staff, demanding cash - decent’ living ..qaarters and starvation. The 35 accused as Communists are ‘confined in a prison cell, 30 by 20 fect, forced to sleep on the floor, and |have been held for almost a year | without ever being placed on trial. Since April 20 they have not been al- lowed to receive any food from their |friends on the outside, and when | prisoners in Venezuela are not fed by | their friends, they are not fed at ail. ‘The prison rations, the “rancho” ‘consists of: a few sips of unsweetened ‘guarapo and three pread crusis at 5 aan.; a bit of half-cooked, unsalted ice and beans at noon; and a bit of “mazamorra’ «corn-iiour paste), watery and unsweetened, in the eve- ning. une prisoners write that “one of jthe worst things, besides the lack of food, is the lack of air, as the windows and openings of the dungeon have been stopped up, and there are mom~- ents when we feel that we are being suffocated.” Another writes: “Some of us are in iron chains (grillos, weighing 80 pounds, without cots and we are given food only three days a week. Anemia, stomach diseases, and wrecked lungs are commun, some al- reaay incuraue. ‘Lhe staie of heaith of most oi us is getting more danger- ous every day.” Gomez, dictator of Venezuela, and buicher of the Venezuelan masses, has now committed another mass at- rocity. To do the construction work at the port of Turiano, which is be- ing refitted for the American Navy, Gomez's military police raided work- ing-class districts and jailed hundreds of workers on charges of vagrancy. ‘They were all sentenced to work at Turiano. The port has no sanitary facilities jand is fever-ridden. Dozens of work- ers die every week of fever, hard labor and rotten food. They are forced to | sleep outdoors, wherever they can find |a bit of ground. Despite these conditions, the man were organized by the Communist Party of Venezuela. Last month, they massed in front of the military and wages, food. . | mountains, taking captured arms with | them. They are reported to be en- | @aged in guerilla warfare with troops | sent after them. Peasants and workers from nearby | towns are rallying to their headquar- | ters in the mountains to join their forces. Thirty of the leaders were | caught and are in jail, however. | Gomez boasts that his country owes \no foreign debt. He is permitted to rule by the Standard Oil Company, |Which exploits the huge Venezuelan | oil fields. The Standard Oil pays = Gomez a fixed royalty per barrel and © ‘he provides them with slave labor. ‘Heimwehr Parade Against Nazis Dolifuss today reviewed 46,000 uni- formed members of the Heimwehr, the Austrian fascist army which opposes the other fascist force, the Nazis, who are fighting for Hitler’s “Anschluss” plan of joining Aus bie to Cermeny Waesnnes ‘oll= ‘uss appeared in the full mili regalia of the old Royal and i perial Army, a deliberate me of the Republican constitution whiel was taken as an indication that th Dollfuss regime would not be op- pee to the return of the Haps Large mobs of Nazis rioted in the streets, sometimes .drownii out the noise of the military bande with their song — Horst Wessel. | Over 400 were arrested in the dem- onstration against the Heimwehr | parade, | Mussolini’s fascist Italy is un- | willing to allow Germany to ap- proach the Adriatic, through a union with Austria. The Heimwehr are not only fascists, but monarchists the cry: “Austria shall never be- come & an p! e.” The ex- eg eke ae as i m Aus! VIENNA, May 15. — Chancellor . and extreme nationalists who raise '