The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1933, Page 4

Page Four Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Ce., Ime., dally exept Sanday, al 34 @ 13th St., New York City, S. Y. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956, Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 5@ E. 18th St, New York, N. ¥, ¢ Struggle Ag ns Roosevelt Builds ainst Giant Navy While He Talks “Peace” Forced Labor, Military Training, ‘Public Works” All Part of War Plans By The Roosevelt administration is the next imperialist war. Judging b; ernment believes the war to be not about Treaty ships, the Navy is now JAMES CASEY. grimly placing itself in readiness for y its study efforts, the raw-deal gov- far distant, Behind the yeil of talk engaged upon a scheme to raise the vessel-stragzth above Britain’s and move ahead of its nearest rival in that military category. Simultaneously. the War Department is methodical]: building up the largest “peace-time army in the history of the nation. On top of this, a wide movement has been launched to organize labor throughout the country on a military basis. Having accustomed themselves to demagogic effusions from the White House, millions of starving worker can evince no surprise over the fact that the war preparations are mov- ing forward while Roosevelt js bleat- can find poor consolation in being told that in the next war they will be blown to pieces by twelve-inch in- stead of sixteen-inch guns or vice a. But this is only one part of e story. Citizens’ Military Training Camps To further militarization, the War Department is making more elaborate plans this year than ever before for ihe Citizens’ Military Training Corps. For the first time, schools haye been War Daily, orker’ Berty BS.A By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six w Must Be Carried on Now, Daily, Hourly’-Lenin excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Canada: One year, 39: 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 menth, Wn Foreign aed nibs, $5; 7 months, $3. ‘ Barbusse to Talk Here On Fascism Will Lecture Against Nazi Terror Regime NEW YORK, May 16,—Henri Bar- busse, internationally known author and opponent of imperialist war, has accepted an invitation from the American Committee Against Fascist Oppression in Germany. 551 Fifth Avenue, New York City, to come to 'U. S., France Protest Eac h Other’s Trade Bars; Japan Invades Aus PARIS, May 16.—The trade war, masked by the so-called world tariff | tralian Market | truce, continues practically unabated. The United States Embassy in Paris today protested to the French Foreign Office against the new Franco- | Italian-Belgian import turnover tax agreement as 2 discrimination against | American trade. While American diplomacy was protesting this French trade offensive, France in turn protested against the new California law prohibiting the use of foreign materials on public contracts, which bars French other goods from California. s 8 SYDNEY, Ausiralia, May 16. Japan’s penetration of the Australia market is growing day by day, dis- placing British exports to the Domi- nion, Japanese exports to Australia for the last half of 1932 totalled nearly + AUSTRIA EXPELS NAZI MINISTER | |2,400 Austrian Nazis Arrested by Heimwehr | | VIENNA, May 16—Austria and Germany were near the breaking | Point as the Dollfuss Fascist gobern- |ment expelled Dr. Hans Frank, Nazi, | $10,000,000, or 30 per cent more than! and Bavarian Minister of Justice, in the previous six months, The from Austria. | Japanese are aided by the drop of} Chancellor Dollfuss also charply the yen from a per value of 50 cents to 30 cents, enabling them to cut below even the preferential Ottawa duties granted British Empire goods. SPARK s| Chinese Retreat As | Japanese Army Captures Fengjun |Last Stand Prepared 13 Miles from Peiping Refugees Flee South, Choking Roads SHANGHAI, May 16.—The Japanese armies occupied Fengien todem, | as the Japanese sweep towards the Northern capital continued. [feos New York, 8. H. writes that when the capitalist politicians ad- | vise the 17 million unemployed wor lers to go back to the soil, they mean back to the soil—six feet under- ground. at ND J. B., a fine comrade, heeds | 44 our call for contributions with the | following: * BS roads are filled with marching | | men today | In war-torn uniforms that once were | new and bright. No glittering trumpets lead them on | their way Into the battle that new they go to i fight. men today Whe tune they marca to is a different | dr one, alright | { The Chinese defending forces we desperate stand along a line through 13 miles north of Peiping. Japanese planes and artillery continue to bomb and shell the retreating The roads are’ filled with marching | Chinese forces, while Nanking troops © north of Peiping were being with- awn south. A verbal offer of a Chino-Japanese re in retreat and digging in for a tneh Tungchow, Shunyi and Hwai-fu, onky Over 7,500. ‘square miles of Chinese territory below the Great Wall | already in Japanese hands, and the; “We want the bonus”, “Give us our | armistice was rejected by the Japan- | State officially that “they will hok back pay”, Each foot beat marks the time, “Back | the | pay, Back pay”. ese Legation in Peiping today, and Japanese-Manchukuo invaders prepared ‘to push further south: All roads icading south from Pei- |rebuffed the official German protest | phe yoads are filled with marching Ping and Tientsin were choked with jagainst the unfriendly reception of |Nazi leaders in Vienna the day be- |fore yesterday. | men today ox-carts, wagons and trucks, as re- | Who fought a battle once that was fugees fled from the battle area with | not theirs. whatever possessions they could car- on to it until the final settlement of all outstanding Chino-Japanese | problems, | Japanese plans for the establish- |ment of a puppet state in North | China took on tangible shape again | with the arrival of General Hwang Fu, known as pro-Japanese element Nearly 2,40 Nazis were arrested | But this—the battle for their due "Y With ther jin the Nanking regime. opened for the drilling of youth for BERLIN. May 56 G emany will | “world peace,” ang about monY the summer military camps. Of- | the United States in June and lec- ; ; yesterday throughout Austria in a| back pay, | Se OB Segre among nations,” “international co-! ficers in charge say that the schools ture against the Fascist Hitler re- te a evar 2 reap adel and | concerted drive by the Heimwehr The fight for bread, the right to live A 1 operation,” ete. One can take, for) have been established to better pre- | Sime. ae ped Le a ke 5 oer th a. of | Pro-Italian government to clear out; = —is theirs. A nk fi example, the last public pronounce-| pare the men for their future train- aren eet chenE Oele cetera | the. pmschlinet': adusrente, | May, Reichsbank officials announced | ment of the President. over the radio, he told the that the first objective of the admin- | istration is “a general reduction of ing. Hand in hand with these ac- tivities, the authorities are extending their efforts among units of the Jun- ior Naval Militia Cadets. armaments, thrgugh the removal of | fear of invasion and armed attack. and, at the same time a reduction in armament costs, in order to help i the balancing of government budgets and the reduction of taxation.” But at the moment he was giving false assurances to his listeners, his political and economic advisors were With 250,000 men being enlisted for the milit labor camps, the im- pending increase in the Citizens’ Mil- Training Camps, and the su- ne greatest part of the public works program by the War Department, Roosevelt is moting @ general mobilization of labor in order to have the workers prepared REBELS SEIZE CUBAN TOWN Revolting Pe asants Clash With Troops HAVANA, May 16.—A band of 200 jallow the transfer of only such | | amounts as Germany's rapidly van- | yesterday, Foreign creditors will be “asked” to deposits credits due them in Ger- man marks at the Reichsbank, which will hold these funds on deposit and ishing export surplus will allow. A creditors’ meeting has been called for Berlin on May 26th, but it is un- likely that the foreign creditors will participate, as they will be faced ‘Soviet Scientists ‘Plan to Beat Picard’s ‘Stratosphere Record | MOSCOW, May 16—Dr. Abram, | Joffe, world-famous Soviet physicist, | | and four other scientists will make |an ascent to the stratosphere next | monty in a Soviet-designed and So- HIS is how, in the interests of ac- curacy, E. L. C, would re-write the American Constitution: WE, the Simon Legrees of the Benighted States, in order to form a new inquisition, insure mass ex- ploitation, promote our own self- ish welfare, provide for the starva- tion of millions and secure the white meat of freedom for all save TREATY TO THE SOVIET UNION Proposed Pact Aimed at Official Relations With Manchukuo to Block Sale of Railway By N. BU (Moscow Correspondent MOSCOW, May 16.—The Shangh: agency, wites that on May 11 the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Nanking ‘CHWALD. ite” the Daily Worker) ai « rrespondent of Tass, Soviet news i) moe fuses: dpon the ‘shoulders’ of| fOr induction into the regular army |S7Med insurrectioniss attacked and| with an accomplished fact—the mo- | mie Cee ee aeoaasesckert fac the Bhghted | Proposed {o Soviet Ambassador Bogomolov that nezotiations be commenced the workers for the payment of ad-|8t a moment's notice. seized the town of Taguasco, on the | ratorium. : i |The Soviet scientists will seek to) oft ee aT rita | for a non-aggression pact between China and the Soviet Union, At the’! | f ditional armaments. The question of U. 8. Supports Bolivian War Santa Clara-Camaguey border yes-| This German step is considered a | rise above the height record set by | same time the Foreign Minister submitted to Ambassador Bogomoloy the | these armaments will inevitably bob| ‘The palpably militaristi cposition | *°T4@Y- |move to strengthen Germany's bar- ap Orca en eee and to remain HE children of Governor Miller of | dtaft of a non-aggression pact con-¢ — as up at the Geneva “disarmament” | of the mment is well illustrated | ‘They overpowered and disarmed | Saining power for concessions at the | at a height of over ten miles for) |the Rural Guards, confiscated all| Coming World Economic Conference— | twelve hours. arms and ammunition, requisitioned | another instalment of the open trade food and supplies, and cut all wire| war raging throughout the world. | 2,500 Greek Gov’t conference Thursday. in its attitude toward the Bolivian- ' : ; ‘isting of eleven articles, also provid- ; Rodsavalicdulel| Lied pro- | ment for recourse to conciliatory pro- | + | test which have been pouring in from | (aire, ON § E RE Giant Navy Program Paraguayan conflict. | have put LO} he sla ering | . As things now stand, the Navy will | o¢ op Ps iS | Magdalen | lines as they retreated to the hills. begin construction this year of thirty | “6 | The government troops are unable to | a i ‘ jican countries had he so desired. } ‘ | & more warships. These will include | toon assuming the presidency, the catch the numerous rebel bands oper- | “9 20 destroyers, five cruisers, four sub- | administration could have invoked ating in the region, as the rebels en-| | Defense League Scores ‘Seizure of Tim Buck’s | all over the world. i | There is no doubt that this makes} The draft treaty contains the usual ; their collection the most comptehens- pened rena! of aaa ihe ee pacts | | Tegarding the renunciation of war, marines, and one airplane carrier. The Navy Department has already | completed plans to spend $230,000,000 on new battle craft. Secretary Swanson cails for 119 more war vessels. He wants eighty-nine destroyers, twenty submarines, seven | cruisers and three aircraft carriers. The cost of this work would amount to more than 4 billion dol- lars and the workers would be made In addition, | and enforced the provisions of the Kellogg Pact. Bolivia and Paraguay | would have hesitated to send work- ers to their death if warned of an economic boycott and a halt in the shipment of munitions. But the Roosevelt administration | has carried out the will of the Rocke- fellers, the Guggenheims and other | American interests whose invest- ments in Bolivia embrace ownership joy the active support of the popu- lation, which is bitterly hostile to the Machado regime. Delayed reports tell of sharp fight- ing between government troops and | Cuban peasants who are fighting | against starvation and the landlords’ oppression. clash took place at Finca las Tosas, 210 miles southeast of Havana. The | movement of revolt among the Workers Score Nazis ATHENS, Greece, April 27 (By Mail).—A meeting organized by the revolutionary trade union of civil ser-| vice employees and attended by 2500 government employees voted a resolu- On Sunday a violent| tion protesting against the” reign of terror against the workers in Fascist Germany, SUBSCRIBE yonrse¥ and” sot your ‘Copy of Prison Report *< in tne aS |the refusal to participate in hostile) Payable in Dollars on paceat aii ; acts in aid of a third power which is | * TORONTO, May 2.—The National| AND we are sure that the governor | #¢' etl! Committee of the Canadian Labor / learned more about geography | the aggressor. Sedge ie take ve in} Gold Basis Defense League has addressed a pro-| than he ever learned in his life. | greements directed at the violation | u test to Hugh Guthrie, Minister of} etters demanding the release of | of the territorial integrity or Political | ‘The Soviet Government bonds are j Justice, against the act of the au-| tne scottshoro boys came in from the | /;Gependence of ie other party tO now being sold in the United States, | thorities in taking away from Tim|yiost out-of-the-way j Se ‘treaty, and mubuel retusat to ins | The issue is of the Fourth Conclusive | Year Issue of the Five-Year-Plan in | Four Loan. The bonds are gold |bonds, payable in dollars on a gold | } 5 villages and/,_. P pal . | Buck, 8 copy of Gane), Ormcrd's| conntrigs, from ancient villages in| fante | 1 Ono Rated ebomern® feet na Dee Mant detense docu. | ida and the Far East, Africa, Ice- | re ie a as port is an important liand and China. In ad ition to the ar icles usually ment and the action of the govern-) contained in non-aggression treaties, | ment was calculated to prevent an/ And it was the I. L. D. that aroused peasants has grown by leaps and! t for every cent of construction. Should. th a bounds during the last few months. Should the Wall Street imperialists go ahead with this program, Great Britain would take up the naval race | by building ships totalling more than fellow workers ito read the Daily the Nanking government included in | of silver, tin, lead and copper mines. Yorker, | Not so many months ago United States Ambassador Culbertson con- i , “f is and bear 10 i . [effective defense by Buck. ‘this hurricane of world anger. | tha draft treaty an aiticle siviag the ber ie i me per seed interest, | pact. special importance connected | Both the principal and interest will | with the events in the Far East, | be paid I dollars on a gold basis. | mamely refusal to recognize de jure | This means that if the dollar is in- - ferred with officials of the Chilean Government to learn if the latter 79,000 tonnage in order to maintain parity. projects to burden the workers. Government will place taxes The nf at t another billion dollars within the next five y to pay the tests of naval shore establishments. As has been ali pointed out in the columns of the Daily Wor the proposed saving in the na pudget of about $53,000,000 is only a gesture to mislead the American masses. It will be a saving only in the form of tricky bookkeeping—the sort of bookkeeping that is resorted | to by the bankers when they prepare *o close a bank and rob the deposit- ors of their last pennies. The Navy is willing to reduce its departmental budget know that the cut will be more than counter- balanced with money from the three and a half billion dollar public works fund. Secretary Swanson is to re- telve more than $200,000,000 from his fund—another sum velt has decided must taxation of the workers and farmers. It is thus clear that when th powers convene to discuss disarma- ment, the United States, in view of its huge military program, will not be in a position to ask any nation to} This conference, reduce armaments. as all preceeding ones, will simmer down to a discussion as to whether warships should carry sixteen-inch, twelve-inch or six-inch guns. And certainly the workers of the world Nor are these to be the only upon the masses of the American people shipments of muni- to Bolivia from the United (Shipments of munitions to st pass through Northern The Chilean Government, at time, advised the United States that such shipments would be permitted. Subsequently the State Department informed Bolivia that munitions would be moved from the United-States to that country, It is true that these conferences were carried out during the Hoover administration. But Roosevelt has own himself to be in full accord with the policies inaugurated by his would permit tions | predecessor. | Incidentally, these conferences on the shipment of munitions give ad- ditional c mation te the state- ment of the Communist Party that the Bolivian-Paraguayan war is a major manifestation of the world- wide clash veen American and through the war d pegging taxes for the r enslavement of the American vorkers and farmers, Roosevelt hopes that by glib phrases he will lull the masses of the people into silent sub- mission. In his last speech, Roose- velt said to the citizenry: “Throughout the depression have been patient.” Roosevelt nopes that this patience | will continue. But Roosevelt and his instructors—the bankers and big in- dustrialists—are due for a most dis- agreeable surprise! you CHICAGO WORKERS PROTEST AGAINST GOEBBELS COMING TO WORLD FAIR Ma ss Meeting ‘on. Ma Goebbels y 19 to Mobilize Anti- Campaign By BILL GEBERT. Bloody Hitler, butcher of thousands of proletarians in Germany, was ready to send to the United States his representative, Joseph Goebbels, as German ambassador to the Century of Progress World Fair in Chicago. At the first news of the appointment of Goebbels, the toiling masses of this esonuntry very decisively declared that the fascist Goebbels will not set his foot on American soil, On Wednesday, May 10th, more than 25,000 workers paraded in the streets of Chicago through the Loop to-Grant Park, in front of a Century of Progress exposition grounds and from. beginning to end they declared that bloody Goebbels will not set foot in Chicago, The next day, Rufus C. Dawes, president of the world’s fair, issued a written statement declaring that: “We have received no report of the appointment of a commissioner {meaning Goebbels) from Germany and do not expect to receive any German representative officially.” This declaration of Dawes shows that the pressure of the masses forced nim to make the statement. As the first step toward mobiliza- ton against Goebbels coming here, he United Front Anti-Fascist Com- nittee Priday, May NERS ieee ATED, 20) SMA ; Buren, to mobilize the workers of |Phicago in a huge protest campaign to prevent Goebbel from setting foot jin Chicago. |. Invitations have been sent to the | locals of the A. F. of L., the Chicago | Workers’ Committee on Unemploy- ment, the Socialist Party, Young Peoples Socialist League, and other working class organizations, There will be well known and influential working class leaders and liberals as speakers at the meeting. The United Front Anti-Fascist | Committee is planning a campaign | | of resolutions and delegations to the | | City Council demanding that Goeb- | bel should not be received by the | city of Chicago, A number of work- }ing class organizations already have adopted such resolutions. As a re-| | sult of this, the “Chicago Daily News” | prints a news item that it is doubt. | femnle Hal, Marshfield quod: Van! zations hostile to tax 2mm Py) , (EDITOR'S NOTE—The first sentence below refers to German Social Democracy, which in the last issue Comrade Heckert pointed ont, bad continuously opposed a reac- tenary united front with the bour- | geoisie to the revolutionary prole- _ farian united front for which the Communists struggled.) | (Continued from last issue) | By FRITZ HECKERT At the presidential election it con- cluded an alliance with the monarch- ist Hindenburg, in that it opposed lenburg to Hitler as the defender of the achievements of the November revolution and the Weimar Consti- tution. It supported in actual fact the Papen-Schleicher government, by which it was driven out of the Prus- sian government on July 20. It pre- pared the way for the seizure of power |by Hitler, in that it preached to the | Masses that it was better that Hitler | should come to power by constitu- | tional means without opposition from |the workers than as a result of a | bloody battle. Step by step it helped Hitler to force his way to power, in |that it, with its party and trade | union organization, suppressed all at- tempts on the part of the workers to jorganize a mass struggle against fascism. The more the fascist danger grows, the larger the number of social- democratic workers who feel that its leadership leads the working class to disaster. More and more vigorously sthey demand that social democracy and the trade unions should accept the repeated proposals of the Com- munist Party fo: the organization of a united front against fascism. But social democracy defends its reac- jtionary froat with the bourgeoisie, | particularly in the form of the famous “Tron Front.” Social democracy de- |clares, in a decisive moment, in order to pacify the workers, that it is ready to fight against fascism, but only at a suitable opportunity. One must bide one’s time. The chairman of the |Metal Workers’ Union, Urich, re- {quests the workers not to begin the fight until Hitler has infringed the Constitution and gone over to meth~ jods of violence. This is said at a |time when fascist Storm Troops are lalready laying waste the workers’ (quarters, and are killing and mal- treating not only Communist workers, but even members of the Reichs- banner, On January 30 Hitler succeeded to power and the whole State machinery together with the Storm troops fell upon the workers. To suffocate the primitive forms of resistance against the fascists which were now developed by the workers, the Social Democrats | implored the workers to “keep to the | constitution” and to answer Hitler with their “votes.” Rejecting the pro- posal of the Communist Party for the organization of a joint political strike, “Vorwaerts” wrote that participation in such @ strike would mean the fir- is calling a mass meeting on | {ul if Goebbel will come to Chieage | ing into the air of those rifles that 1sth, 7:30 ». m., at] in view of the protest, of the organi- | \ would be needed for 2 more serious moment. On February 28, the tasciste iginanatl HINDENBURG HITLER organized the burning of the Reicn- stag, and immediately an unbridled orgy of terror directed against the working class set in. On March 1, the Social Democrats declared it was al- ready too late to oppose fascism, that it was necessary to wait until fascism brought about its own ruin. What do all these incontestable facts, which have taken place before the eyes of all the workers, prove? Firstly, they prove that the Social Democratic Party has remained loyal to the last to its reactionary united front with the bourgeoisie; secondly, that social democracy has systemati- | cally paved the way for fascism step by step, and has carried it to power; thirdly, that it has systematically dis- rupted the struggle of the working class against fascism, and hindered the formation of the revolutionary united front of the working class against fascism with all the means at its disposal; fourthly, that the social- democratic policy of a reactionary united front has accelerated the open defection of Wels and Leipart to! fascism, The Communists Foresaw the Fascist Evolution of the Social Democracy Did the C.P.G. and the Comintern foresee the inevitability of this fas- cist development of social democracy? Did they warn the workers of it? Yes, they foresaw it and issued their warn- ing! As early as 1924 Comrade Stalin gave a definition of the development of social democracy into fascism that in its exactness and its clear-sighted- ness is unsurpassed, a definition that was made the basis of the program of the Comintern and the policy of the C.P.G,:— “Fascism—said Comrade Stalin— is a fighting organization of the bourgeoisie, an organization that. rests on the active support of so- cial democracy. Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There exists no reason for supposing that the fighting or- ganization of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in their struggles or in their leadership of the country without the active sup- port of social democracy. And there is just as little reason to suppose that social democracy can achieve decisive sucesses in its struggles or in its leadership of the country without active support by the fighting organization of the bourgeoisie. These organizations do ‘not contradict, each other, but com= plete each other. They flotes, hut wine. L tee What Is Happening in Germany } All that has happened in Germany | completely confirms the correctness of | Comrade Stalin’s prognosis, Hitler does not reject the support of social} | democracy, The social democrats are already showing their readiness to participate in all the bloody crimes | of fascism against the working class Trotzky As Defender of the Social Democrats ‘The enormous treachery of the so- cial democracy has called forth such workers of all countries that other parties of the Second International in their defense. But the social dem- | ocrats have found one ally. And this working class movement he has noth- cist boots, calculating that he can make people talk about him, with the object of.re-appearing from his poli- tical oblivion for even one small hour ing marauder he creeps about where the blood of workers has been shed in order to ferret out some political quarry. The working class in Ger- many have made bloody sacrifices, hundreds of Communists have been killed in German; | munists, mong them the finest lead- | Comrade Thaelmann, are in prison, | | social democrats in Germany from | ing the blame at the door of the | Communists. In the “Manchester Guardian’ of March 22 the social-fascist Trotzky | Bave as the cause of Hitler's seizure of power the fact that the C.P.G. had not formed a united front with the social democratic party on a platform exclusively acceptable to social demo- cracy: “The defense of parliament- ary government and the mass trade unions.” In an endeavor to smuggle in this scoundrellous platform, which not even a Wels dared to suggest to the Communists, even after the seiz- ure of power by Hitler, he informs the revolutionary workers of Ger- many with the plolixity of Daudet’s ‘Tartar that “ it is impossible to con- | ceive of social democracy without a | parliamentary government and with- | out mass trade unions,” and that social democracy is distinguished from fascism precisely by these two factors. What, however, this Hitler-Trotzky platform of “unity” which was in- vented for the purpose of justifying the social democracy in fact repre- sents, the facts and events that were taking place at the very moment when Trotzky wrote his article prove. | 'Trotzky proposes as the first point a storm of indignation amongst the | have even decided to come forward) is Trotzky. As a political zero in the | ing to lise; he slobbers over the fas- | at any price whatever. Like a thiev- | er of the working class in Germany, oe. Ernst Thaclmann, now in a Nazi prison. As leader of the Commu- nist Party he many times proposed a solid united proletarian front against capitalism and fascism. The Socialist leaders preferred a united front with capitalism | | against the workers, lof Leipart’s trade unions as the sec- y, thousands of Com-' ong point for the united front of) | the eracy. Communists with social demo- At the same time, however, p | Leipart, Trotzky’s ally, delivers up the | | While the ally of Wels and Leipart—| trade unions to Hitler, declaring that | tion of the trade unions according to are confronted must be fulfilled in- dependently of the form the regime of the State takes. That the trade | unions are always ready to co-oper- ate with the employers’ organizations; | Trotaky—is bent on exculpating the the A.D.G.B. accepts the reorganiza-| | their responsibility for the seizure of | tie Italian pattern, and writes that, power by the fascists and are plac- | the tasks with which the trade unions| \that they will recognize State con-| i trol and accept State arbitration. following telegram has been sent by stag) the help of their knowledge and experience. The facts, then, have in cruel fash- ion unmasked the counter-revolu- tionary meaning of the “platform” of the social-Hitlerite Trotzky, who has striven to prove that social-democracy and fascism are not twins, but anti- podes. But what would such a platform for the united front have implied, even if the social democrats had been ready to fight for it in reality? It would have implied nothing else but the defense of the government of Bruening, of Papen-Schleicher, a de- fense of the trade union bureaucrats of Leipart. It would haye meant for the Communist Party a defection to the position of Wels and Leipart, a retreat from Marx and Lenin, a de- fection to Hindenburg. It would have meant a transition to the posi- | tion of a reactionary united front Apparently this article is aimed at hindering the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway as well as mainten- ance of official relations with the | state of Manchukuo. Ambassador Bogomolov has sent | the proposal of the Nanking govern- | ment to Mose ‘Open New Bridge Over ‘Volga; Exceed Tartar Republic Grain Quota MOSCOW, May 4 (By Mail). —The big new bridge over the, Volga at Gorki (formerly Nizhni-Novgorod) was opened to traffic on May First. The Tartar Soviet Republic finished its spring sowing on May 1. Nearly 3,500,000 acres were sown, while only 187,000 acres were planted last year. The wheat plan has been fulfilled 112 per cent, bean sowing 101 per cent, and barley has topped them ail with 120 per cent of the program sown. | any de facto situations created by | flated the holders of these bonds will | the aggression of a third power. | be paid more in dollars exacti; | ail proportion of the per centage of in- | lation of the dollar. Thus these ' | bonds are a guarantee against loss as a result of the inflation of the dollar. ‘The bonds contain an endorsement by which the purchaser is given the right to re-sell them to the State Bank of the U.S.S.R. at the par value of the gold rouble, at any time after ce Rabe from the date of purchase. This feature of the bonds acts as & | guarantee against any possible de- crease in the price of the bonds, for why should anyone sell them below the par gold value when the State Bank will repurchase them at par. ‘These bonds can now be purchased in the United States through the Soviet American Securities Corpora« tion, 30 Broad St., New York City. | For information write to Departe ment A, Subscribe for the six-page Sat- urday feature edition—52 times a Communist International year for $1.50, js "i “ Greets I. L. P. Affiliation Calls for Revolutionary Unity on Basis of Irreconcilable The Independent Labor Party wing of the British Labor Party, Al Class Struggle for years was the socialist political bout a year ago it resigned from the Labor Party because its membership refused to support the reformist, class-coliaboration policy of the lat ° MOSCOW, May 2 (By Mail).—The | That they offer the government and | the secretariat of the Communist In- parliament (that is, the Hitler Reich- ternational to the National Admin- istrative Council of the Independent Labor Party: “To the Independent Labor Party of Great Britain: — “The Secretariat of the Commu- nist International welcomes the deci- sion of the Forty-first Annual Con- ference of the Independent Labor Party to leave the Second Interna- tional and to approach the Commu- nist International ‘with a view to ascertaining in what way the LLP. may assist in the work of the Inter- national.’ ‘5 the last few weeks, the TLP. has taken part i2 united front activity with the Communist Party against fascism in Germany and the menace of a new imperialist war, and | L.L.P. now the conference has decided to follow the example of the Lancashire and London districts, where the ILP members also agreed with the Com- iter * any Jonger.—EDITOR'S NOTE. * has demonstrated the bankruptcy et the policy of class collaboration pur sued by the Second International and its sections, including the Labor Party of Great Britain. “Under these conditions of IL.P.ers have realized from own experience the necessity for unity of all revolutionary proletarian forces which base themselves on the Boney of irreconciliable class strug: gle. “The unity of all the revolutions ary proletarian forces in Great Brite ain on the basis of irreconciliable class struggle, upon which the pro-« gram and tactic of the Communist International is founded, would be a turning point in the history of the British Labor movement and would open up an international perspective for the revolutionary workers of the U “The Secretariat of the Commu. nist International is firmly con« vinced that the decision of the con+ ference majority in favor of ap~ ue wat: amide RS P | Munists to extend the fighting united proaching the Communist. Internas | tional will meet with the warm syme pathy of the members of the I.L.P, and of all advanced workers in Brit» ain. | in his platform of “united front” the | defense of “parliamentary govern j ment.” At the same time, however, the social democrats in the Hitle: Reichstag, deciphering Trotzky’s pro-| j With the bourgeoisie, in the last in-| soo or the workers, to the vital | stance to Hitler, The accomplice of ‘question of the struggle confronting Hitler, Trotzky, strives, under the ap- | . rf ‘the unemployed, the railway workers, Pearance of a wnited front, to force Tea steRulie: deemmttiak, ates upon the working class of Germany | posal, ase recognizing the fascist mur- ‘social=! “4 * struggle with the, ‘The Secrevariat of the Communist “ti der-bunds, the mortal enemies of the | evi. that reactionary. united front | Communists has taken place al, a , for its part, working class, as “a constitutional | tha), has brought iHitler to pores; | time when German’ social democracy | its readiness to c government.”} 7" “ jhas passed over to the camp of {ors hithp tape: fcepee the: «LATO BS SONRBERDY "aud when the menab of erent tes Goma