The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1933, Page 6

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Preparedness; France Checks Up Munitions WASHINGTON, May 17.—Roosevelt’s so-called peace message deliber- omitted mention of navies or warships, according to big-navy champions in Washington, and thus left the door open for the inclusion of over $100,000,000 of battleships to be built as part of the “public works pro- Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Committee expected “the | JJERE is a contribution from a man ately gram.” ministration to go ahead with its construction plans”, and ed thi pid completion of the y building program, $230,000,000 na’ It was pointed out that President Roosevelt's r sage definitely asked that no nat “increase its arma- ments over and above the limitations of treaty obligations’, which would allow the United States to build 137 warships before December 1936, with- out violating treaty provisions. Last night, War Secretary Dern, Speaking on the functions of the ar- my, that $50,000,000 would be said needed for the National Guard, Of- ficers’ Reserve Corps and military training of civilians. In a clear call for extreme military expansion, he added that the use of force was still needed in domestic affairs, as well as on the international field, and con- cluded “let us keep the realities in mind.” PARIS, May 17.—Pertinax, leading French bourgeois editor, said last night that President Roosevelt's mes- sage “serves only to prove that the United States policy has not changed ~—it wants to impose its standpoint while giving no guarantees.” Prefect of Police Chiappe yester- day ordered a check-up of the pro- ductive capacity of all factories in Paris that can turn out war materials, | The check-up includes banks and army supply plants, in addition to metal, wood, food, chemical and clothing factories. All are ordered to report on their potential production to the “Passive Defense Bureau”. Norman H. Davis, special American envoy, conferred with Premier Dala- | Sing a song of peace and friendship | Machado regime are being released What though bullets fly Angels once stood on a pin peint If they could, why not I? FRANKLIN i ROOSEVELT é fa | the dier on the French attitude to Roose- | velt’s message and the World Eco- |momic Conference. Herriot, special | French envoy to Washington, con- | ferred with the Foreign Affairs Com- mittee of the Chamber of Deputies. | PEASANT REBELS ~ DEFEAT MACHADO TROOPS IN CUBA N. Y. Mass Meeting’ to Aid Cuban Masses) | HAVANA, May 17.—Machado troops) and rebels clashed in a battle outside | | Sancti Spiritus today, with more than | | 30 government casualties. |The Machado troops operating in| Santa Clara Province near Spiritus| jare under the command of Major | Arsenio Ortiz, who is responsible for | more than 40 “unexplained” political killings in that province two years ago. | Vivo, Ordoqui and Vilar, Cuban rev- utionary workers, the latter Secre- | tary of the National Confederation, | of Labor, are held incommunicado in | Principe Fortress and daily threat- | ened with immediate execution un-| | less they sign a statement abjuring| Communism. The Machado jailers| | promise them permission to leave | | Cuba if they sign. Under arrangements with Sumner | Welles, new American Ambassador to | Cuba, all bourgeois opponents of the | from Principe and other prisons, but | aa Communists are being held in| jail. The revolt in Santa Clara Province | of the peasants, who are defeating | | government troops in many! | places is of a distinctly radical char- jacter, according to advices received from the interior. The peasant movement American intervention, which is the| | solution advocated by the bourgeois | opponents of Machado. | se | | A mass meeting in support of the | | heroically struggling Cuban masses| and in protest against Machado’s ter- | ror will be held at 1413 Fifth Ave., New York City, on Friday, May 19, at 8 p.m. Among the prominent | | speakers will be Joseph Freeman of| jthe “New Masses,” Robert W. Dunn, | jchairman of the Anti-Imperialist ‘League, and Leonardo Sanchez of the | Julio Mella Club. | ol | May 1 Demonstrations in War-Torn Colombia CheerAnti WarSlogans | BOGOTA, Colombia (By Mail) — | |May Day demonstrations were held | |here and in the ports of Carthagena | and Santa Marta demonstrations car- riéd placards bearing the slogans of the Latin American Congress against war, received cheering approval from the spectators, who reflected the |Stowing disgust with the govern- ment’s war policy. Léaders of the revolutionary work- ing-class movement were jailed but |the demonstrations went through | suiéceSsfully. U.S. EXPLOMS PARLEY 10 AID OWN EXPORTS, FRENCH CHARGE CURRENT book notice states that Roosevelt’s book “Looking For- ward” is very popular among the farmers of Argentina. As fertilizer? [ORMAN Thom- as is amazed to find Jim Crowism in Washing ton, D. C. Soon the Reverend will be “amazed” to dis- cover that there are such things as lynchings in this country. Fu 2) of action, Forrest Jackson, a farm- er who led a fight against a farm foreclosure. He was locked up, and while in jail on a hunger strike, he penned the following lines: We pray, dear Lord, for Jesus sake, Send us down a “TI” bone steak, Our arms are short, our cell is square Put pork chops on the bill of fare, Take my soul—we want the steak And for Christ’s sake, don’t let us wait, oe, ete | Wee reminds us that there will| take place at City College Audi- torium, this Sunday, for the first time in America, a Workers Music Olym-| piad. | In preparation for this event, all the | workers’ choruses of the city are prac- | ticing day and night. One of the Italian workers ap- | proached a Jewish worker, both mem- bers of competing choruses: “You just waita and see. We gonna makea you look like monkeys on Sun- | That’s real Socialist competition for | you, | E spent all night reading the In- ternational Publishers’ marvelous new edition of Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program, Marx’s sentences in | Workers’ and Peasants’ Leaders Reviewing Moscow May Day Parade LEFT TO RIGHT: Y. M. Molotov, ¥resident of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Union of Soci- alist Soviet Republics; Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Emil Yaroslayski, head of the Atheist Society, and (the man with the beard) M. I. Kalinin, chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the All Union Congress of Soviets. a MOSCOW, May 17.—Spring sow- ings in the Soviet Union totalled 62,500,000 acres, compared to 37,000,- 000 acres in 1932. The program was than 15 per cent on the same date last year. Sowing was also running far ahead of the corresponding period | two years ago. Detailed estimates of sowing by re- gions as of April 25 show that the this pamphlet are like the sweeping of a keen sword. | In this booklet, Marx annihilates| the opportunism of the German So- cial Democracy. And in the process | of doing this, he lays the basis for| the solution of all the political prob-| Jems arising in the transition from) Capitalism to Communism. It is sim-} ply magnificent, s 6 OOSEVELT smuggied in a forced-| labor military camp scheme under the lyric title of “re-forestation| camps.” | Now he is trying to slip through a Sales Tax, alias a “re-employment” * * ENRY MORGENTHAU, Jr., who has been appointed by Roosevelt to administer the newly-passed farm relief bill, announces with exultation that 44,000 farmers who borrowed money from the Federal Land Banks will save more than $11,000,000 a year in interest payments. That means that every farmer who is now wondering where the next meal is coming from will have to pay about $220 a year less in interest payments. The largest part of the debt burden remains. We are afraid that the farmers will not be any too enthusiastic about the whole matter. o ONG ‘HE Women’s League for Peace and Freedom, a pacifist organization, is. making its annual crawl to the White House to ask for peace. And when the next war breaks out, they will be selling Liberty Bonds to help save the world from the dread- ful Bolsheviki who eat little children and drink the blood of capitalists. Blum Elected Leader of French Socialist Deputies in Chamber PARIS, MAY 17.—Leon Blum, no-| torious reformist, was elected leader of the French Socialist deputies last night by a vote of 64 to 36. The vote indicated that the advocates of So- cialist entrance into a coalition cab- inet have over two-fifths of the So- cialist deputies lined up behind them. | German Exports Down, Berlin Bankrupt; Economic Conference Called Failure PARIS, May 17.—The United States is trying to exploit the World | Economic Conference for unloading American exports upon other nations & meeting at Belfort. | cessions at the conference, and should. not allow its import quota system to | be altered. | ‘The “Journee Industrielle,” lead- ing big business organ, attacked the whole conference idea, writing: “If the governments were sincere, they would adjourn the World Economic Conference. It is better to say so loudly than for everyone to think it silently.” This chorus of opposition to the Conference is augmented by the note of anti-American and anti-German hostility. Henri Berenger, ex-Finance Minister, writes in a leading financial news service that “the economic con- ference does not look as if it is go- ing to be all joy. Neither the United States nor Germany is making it any easier.” “6 @ BERLIN, May 17—The catastro- phic German economic crisis is re- flected in the April foreign trade fig- ures, just released, showing a 10 per | cent drop in German exports. Ger- | many’s export surplus was maintained only by cutting imports 11 per cent, ‘as the Daily Worker predicted some time ago. | German bankers state that this ex by establishing the “tariff truce”, ExPremier Tardieu charged yesterday in Tardieu added that France should be very cautious in making any con- ichsbank decision to call for a Reicl moratorium on foreign payments, as | the surplus was achieved only by the device of cutting foreign trade to the bone. Berlin’s budget deficit for 1932 ex- ceeded 313,000,000 marks. The city is virtually bankrupt, though the Fas- cist Hitler government does not pub- lish these’ facts. | The Reichsverband der Deutschen | Industrie, leading German industrial- ists’ organization, estimates that 40 million marks is a conservative estim- | ate of the loss to German trade in Europe alone since the Fascist Hitler regime took power. * WASHINGTON, May 17.—Presi- dent Roosevelt appointed Seretary of State Hull, Senator Pittman, violent anti-Soviet advocate, and former Governor Cox of Ohio as America’s delegates to the World Bconomic Conference in London on June 12. The State Department told Con- | gress today that “the Secretary of State would regret exceedingly if Congress passed any legislation on the matter (the remonetization of silver internationally) which tied the (port surplus will not affect the hands of the delegation.” while the North Caucasus was at lasi) | year’s level. | On April 20 the grain seed reserves of the collective farms, which now 26.7 per cent fulfilled as against less| cultivate 70 per cent of the sown area,| spare parts | totailed 5,900,000 tons, or 3 per cent | ever the estimated amount required | for the whole spring campaign. The | state farms had 96.4 per cent of their freee requirements already, and only | the individual peasants, who cultivate | Ukraine, tiie Middle and Lower Volga| about 20 per cent of the total land | regions were far ahead of last year, | area, were lagging behind. ! What Is Happening in Germany? (Continued from last issue) By FRITZ HECKERT That revolutionary united front which the Communist Party has pre- | pared and organized in hundreds. of places on the basis of @ real fight of the working class, the social-fascist Trotzky recommends should be re- placed by the reactionary united front with the bourgeoisie; and he recom- | masses of the social democratic work- ers are, owing to their bloody exper- jence, recognizing all the conse- SOWING CAMPAIGN IN SOVIET UNION ALMOST TWICE LAST YEAR’S FIGURES An important factor in the good start made in spring sowing this year is the work of the tractor factories and the plants producing tracior During the first four montis of 1933 the Stalingrad and Kharkov plants turned out 20,266 tractors, compared to 16,745 in the Saine period last year. Spare parts totalling $17,000,000 in value were marutactured in the first quarter of 1633, or 20 per cent over the program set. | Nanking’s willingness to compromise Japanese Capture Tangshan, Center Of British Mining |Kaiping Also Falls; Chinese Lines Hold at Miyun; Nanking Ready to Compromise SHANGHAI, May 17.—The 28th Brigzde of the Japanese Army, under Major General Hiraga, occupied Kaiping, 70 miles northeast of Tientsim today.. The Chinese troops were retre: huge British Kailan mining interests, the Japanese. The Eighth Japanese Nishi, was consolidating its positions® north of Miyun, in preparation for a fresh attack on the Chinese entrench- ments, The Japanese Army Command an- nounced today that if the Chinese forces retreating from Tangshan ap- proach Tangku, port of Tientsin, Planes from the Japanese aircraft! carrier Kamoi will bomb them. While the Japanese invasion con- | tinued, Wang-Chin-Wei, president of the Nanking government, wrote in the Shanghai “People’s Tribune” to- day that China's policy towards Jap- | an was “neither peace nor war, but | armed resistance coupled with dip-| lomatic efforts for peace.” This con- | firms previous dispatches reporting | with Japan. A Chinese patriot today threw a bomb against General Hwang-Fu, | Nanking representative, who has} come North to assume charge in North China. The bomb failed to in- jure Hwang, who is suspected of readiness to compromise with the Japanese Army, but two of his body- guards were wounded. Hwang's mission is connected with Nanking’s abandonment of North China, working classes in the capitalist coun-, tries a rude shock. | Fascism Teaches the Masses Need for) Break With Legal Methods | Fascism will, like the imperialist) war of 1914-1918, teach the masses| the necessity for breaking with bour-| geois legality and for passing over to| the methods of violence and civil war.| And these lessons that the working} class in Germany have learned by) | Second International without impun- | ity. They will undermine its influ-| ence on the masses exactly as the! termined by three conditions: 1. Did the Communist Party of Germany adequately estimate the rapid tempo of the offensive of fas- cism, did it mobilize the masses un- der its leadership in sufficient time to resist this offensive? 2, Did it perseveringly, systematic- ally and untiringly keep to the line of the drawing in the broadest mas- ses possible of social democratic and mends that at a moment when the| their sufferings will not pass by the|non-Party workers for the struggle j against fascism? 3. Did the Party, under the new conditions of unheard-of fascist ter- | | ciliability of Comrade Thaelmann has imperialist war of 1914-1918 and the| sor reorganize its front, fighting October revolution did. ~ The Second International has en- Fesrauard) Sctlons) Bid eaten eae | tered the period of its decline. The ‘chti process of the disruption of the Sec- | ~ PSA te Neda em Porat si aa ond International will proceed fr ee oe an tbat ue on a oh mass trade unions.” And this at a|@bove and from below. It will pro-| (Ai salt tile Ganges 0! a or uae 4 time when Wels openly and cynically| ceed from above as a result of the| YAneme, tat ‘i warned the bros declares in the fascist Reichstag that Te-grouping of the forces of social im-| masses of this danger, that it mob- it was the social democrats who had|Perialism around the struggle of the |ilized the masses for the fight against made it possible for Hitler to reach| C@Pitalist countries for and against|1t at all-stages of the offensive of his present position, and that the so-| Versailles. The social democracy|fascism? The seizure of power by cial democrats fully and completely| Which strives with all its might to| Hitler aid not come upon the C. P. G. quences of this reactionary united front, He sirives to persuade the workers of Germany that the irrecon- es in the given conditions? | its ranks with the least possible los- | supported the foreign policy developed | by Hitler in his declaration. This, at the time when Wels, Stampfer, and others travel abroad at the request of eries Hitler to this rotten, traitorous rabble. But Wels and Leipart -have not come alone, they come to Hitler with Trotzky. This same Trotzky, | however, strives, in carrying out a social demand of Hitler, to throw mud at the only party which is fighting against fascism in | conditions. | ‘We see how deep unprincipled peor ple of the stamp of Trotzky can sink! But social democracy is also being beaten now. Yes, it is being beaten. But it is the social-democratic work- ers who are being beaten first, and not Wels, Leipart and Lobe; no one has laid a hand on them, and will not do so, for they are people in the sec- ond ranks of the “national revolu- tion.” If the fascists are persecuting social democracy as a party, they are beating it as a faithful dog that has fallen sick, They are beating it, be- | cause they know that it is incapable | of resistanc>, \uat, when it is beaten, it will come forward all the quicker | to the service of the bourgeois dicta- | torship, even in the open fascist form. ‘This method of politically cowing the leaders of social democracy is also | calculated to awaken amongst the | workers the impression that» social | democracy is being beaten owing to its defense of the workers’ interests. Social democracy is thrust on one side, since its services are no longer needed in their earlier form. But fascism needs the trade unions, and | it takes the social democratic bureau- crats into its service. Bankruptcy of Socialist Party The bankruptcy of social demo- eracy, the strongest party in the Sec- ond International, is the bankruptcy of the entire policy of collaboration with the bourgeoisie which has been pursued and is being pursued by the Second International. And this is the bankruptcy of the Second Interna- tional. The present fascistization of Ger- man social democracy is no accidental | interlude, but the road that all social democratic parties will go under cir- cumstances similar to those in Ger- many. The seizure of power in Germany by the fascists means at the same time the bankruptcy of the social- democratic legend of the conquest of power by the working class in a par- liamentary, peaceful way. After the experiences in Germany it will be clear to the broadest masses of the bourgeoisie will never permit the working class to become rulers of the country, even if the working class at- tain a parliamentary majority, should this ever be possible. The events that have occurred in Germariy will give the illusions of the social democratic workers that the) | be included into the system of fascist | dictatorship, has already been speak- ling openly on questions of foreign | policy in the same language as Hitler | the imperialist policy | geoisie in the form of the thesis on | t] \fascism.” The accusation that the | social democracy capitulated before | fascism will serve as an additional | argument in the mouths of the mem- the most difficult | bers of the Labor Party and of the| French socialists for the aims of the | imperialist policy of their own capi- | talist governments. But this decay in the Second Inter- national will not decide its fate. The mortal blow will be dealt the social- fascist international from below, by those social-democratic workers who have been numbered among its mem- bers during the course of many years and who will draw their political con- | clusions from the fateful experiences of the workers of Germany. This tendency amongst the workers is be- ginning to express itself in the urge towards a united front with the Com- munist workers and will express it- self even more strongly. In the work- shops in Germany a united front of struggle of the working class of Ger- | many is already being formed against | fascism. Such a united front was formed in the giant plant of the | A.E.G, (General Electric Company), | when, after the distribution of Com- munist leaflets, fascist Storm Troops made an attempt to occupy the plant, and were hounded from it by the workers. It was formed in dozens of places, where Communist and social- democratic workers acted in conjunc- tion with non-Party workers in the defiance of their class organizations, their arrested comrades, eic. The ber of countries, in which workers are expressing their solidarity with the | proletariat of Germany on the basis of the proletarian united front. In these circumstances a, still great- }er role snd importance attaches to | ant support of the international Pro- \letariat aaginst world reaction, In the consciousness of every worker the proletarian dictatorship in the land of the Soviets will be opposed more |Plainly than eevr to the bourgeois dictatorship in its naked, fascist form. ‘The bankruptcy of the German social democracy, the unrestrained terror of the Hitler dictatorship, the destruc- tion and misery which the bourgeois | dictatorship causes the masses, whether it is in the form of the Wei- mar Republic or in the form ef Mit- ler’s “Third Empire” or all this will force *the millions of the workers on the only right road, the road of strug- gle for the proletarian dictatorship. TIT. Was the Polley of the Commu- nist Party Correct? | The correctness of this policy in the given concrete situation is de~ |same thing is happening in a num-| | the Soviet Union as the most import-! suddenly. power by Hitler the Party carried out | with its own forces about 300 political strikes in all those places in which | (the Hhine-Ruhr area, Saxony, Cen- Hitler, to beg the workers to cease| At the same time the social democrats| its influence seemed adequate. After |tral Gérmany and Berlin) have is- their protests against the fascist ter- | Of France and Great Britain are cre-| the seizure of power by Hitler, at a|sued an appeal, circulated illegally, ror. “You come late, but you come,”| ting a new ideological ventilator for | time when the fascist bands were ar- {calling upon the German workers to of their bour- | yanging a blood bath in Eisleben |defend their unions. Even before the seizure of | | when every day they were killing in| | belonged to the anti-fascist front, | the revolutionary workers, under the |leadeiship of the Communist Party, put up an embittered resistance to the fascists. Strikes such as those |in Strassfurt, Harburg and “Luebeck | were models of a real revolutionary fighting front, the Communist work- jers drawing into the fight by their | example social democratic and unor- | ganized workers. The funerals of | the workers killed by the fascists | were turned into powerfr’ demonstra- | tions at which members of the Cen- | tral Committee of the Commynist |Party of Germany appeared as | speakers. Despite the cruel terror the Party | organized a mass meeting during the j election campaign before February 28, which was threatened by a fascjst massacre and at which Comrade Wil- helm Pieck spoke. On January 25 the Party organized an excellent demonstration in Berlin with regard to which the good-for-nothing Stampier wrote in “Vorwaerts” that it was the mightiest spectacle that he had ever seen. Even after Febru- ary 28, when a wave of arrests, mur- ders, and tortures of Communist workers poured forth, numerous fights against the police and the Storm Troops were carried on by the work- ers in the streets of Hamburg; in dozens of places the workers, led by Rees Murdered Nationalist Head to ‘press repert that Dr. Oberfohren, [leader of the German Nationalist Re'chstag deputies, committed suicide is a Nazi propaganda lie. Dr. Oberfohrén was murdered in his home by Nazi storm troopers. He had been forced to resign his Reich- stag leadership because a search had disclosed that he had col- |lected material on the burning of \the Reichstag. Oberfohren had kept the foreign press supplied with details of the ceed preparations for burning the Reichstag and had written the fam- ous memorandum (récently quoted in the DAILY WORKER — ED.) on which the sensational “Manchester Guardian” disclosures were based. Oberfohren was a dangerous enemy of the Nazic—that is why they as- sassinatéd him. Hide Arson, } BERLIN, May 17, — The bourgeois he “struggle of democracy against! tne strects dozens of workers who |/eaders of trying to comé to a work- | | police |Communists as members of our union? |only possible), in which others be- jand fréedom, for Socialism!” ann Tait Communists, offered resistance to the fascists. While the Communist Party mob- ilized the workers adhering to it, it never lost sight of the necessity, at any single stage in the struggle, of drawing the social democratic and non-Party workers into the struggle. By persevering work it created a net- work of anti-fascist committees in the largest districts, and of self-de- ferise organizations (where this was sides Communist workers partici- pated. (TO BE CONTINUED) GERMAN LOCALS ASK DEFENSE OF TRADE UNIONS BERLIN, May 5 (By Mail).—Rep- resentatives of 27 locals from the big- gest industrial centers of Germany The appeal accuses the reformist ing agreement with the Fascists, as | well as handing over the unions to the | present Fascist rules, and going over | to the Fascist camp themselvés. ‘The appéal continues: “In spite of this cowardly behavior of the reform- ist leaders, the fighting determina- tion of the rank and file is wroking day by day. “The militant union functionaries and local leaders cannot afford to be inactive for anothér hour. All meetings of locals, and factory meet- ings must discuss the plans of the Fascist government and must take fighting decisions. Fighting commit- tees for the defense of the unions must be leected in all local meetings. “The trade union press, which ap- peals for support of the Fascist dic- tatorship, must he boycotted. De- mand the exclusion of Leipart, Tar- now, Scheffel, etc. Ask all trade union officials whehter they are will- ing to fight with the masses against the Fascist plans. Dismiss them with- out hesitation if they side with the treacherous reformist leadership. “Fight in a comradly but deter- mined manner against downhearted- ness in your own ranks, against re- fusal to pay trade union dues, and against voluntarily quitting the trade unions. “Fight against the tendency to es- cape Nazi térror by joining the Nazi factory cells. In these momentous days you must convince the best class-conscious workers that they must join the ranks of your unions. “Long live the fighting united front of the German working class against Fascist dictatorship—for work, bread | Compare with this the treachery of the Social Democratic leaders. The Duesseldorf districi leader of the Caterers’ Union said to a Communist: “You are oné of those who always disturbed our work. If I had my way, I'd have you stood up against a wall. The most important thing for us is to keep the unions intact. No, I'd sooner have Nazis in thes!” Nazis HidePropacanda in N. Y. Library Books The head librarian in one of the) New York City branch public libravics has discovered that pamphlets printed in Germany and viciously attacking Jews have been inserted in books on the library shelves by American Nazi sympathizers, ating behind Tangshan, enter of the which has already been’captured by Division, under Lieutenant-Generah ‘SAVE THAELMANN, TORGLER, POPOFR AND DIMITROF Nazis Plan to Hang 3 Bulgarian Leaders MOSCOW, May 17.—The Interna+ tional Red Aid, parent organization of the International Labor Defense, today called for a widespread came paign against thé threatened hang- ing of George Dimitroff and two other Bulgarian working class lead- ers, who are being used by the German Fascists as scapé-goats for the burning of the Reichstag building last. March, The ILD. also calls.for protest against imminent danger to the lives of Torgler and Thaelmann, Commp- nist leaders of the German workers, held incommunicado: by thé Nazt terrorists. Dimitroff, Blagoi Popoff, and Basil Taneff were arrested in Berlin on March 9 and accused. of complicity, in the burning of the Reichstag build~ ing with Van der Lubbe, representéd by the Hitlerites as a “Communist.” Van der Lubbé turned out to be a paid agent of the Nazis, and proof is now at hand that he was bribed by leading Hitlérite officials to set the Reichstag building on fire as @ signal torch for the wholesale per= secution of militant workers, work- ing class leaders and Jews. In order to foist their story on the German public, thé brown shirts have again unearthed the exposed Zankoff forgeries in an effort to re-establish the myth that these three Bulgarian Communists participated in thé ex+ plosion of the Sofia. Cathedral in 1925. The three men were ‘political re- fugees to Germany, Dimitroff was sentenced in Absentia, oncé to death and at another time to 15 years im- prisonment because of his activities as |Seneral secretary of the Revolution- ary Tradé Unions in Bulgaria and for his leadership in the workers’ and peasants’ uprisings of 1923. Popoff was sentenced to twelve ar i a half years imprisonment by the Mushanow-Gitchew government be- causé of his militancy in the revo‘u- tionary workers and youth moveme! ¢s, Taneff has also been victimized by the Bulgarian fascist government ! p~ cause of his participation in the rev- olutionary movement. in Bulgaria. MOVE TO OUTLAW CANADIAN Y: C.L. Action Seen in’ Arrest of Joe Derry TORONTO, May ~—— A direct threat against the working youth of Canada is seen in the“arrest of Joe Derry, young, Silverthorne worker charged under Section-98 with being a member “of an WEul associa- tion, to wit, the Young Communist League of Canada.” Derry was ar- rested some days after he had ad- dressed a public meeting, His home was raided and personal effects seized. It will be remembered that during the trial which outlawed the Communist Party, Mike Gillmore, member of the Y. C= LL. was re- leased. Apparently at that time the authorities were not ready to outlaw the ¥. C. L. With the growth of the League as & militant youth organiza= tion, the authorities: are being al- armed, and efforts a’ “now being made to outlaw the League. Derry’s brother, John Derry, has been arrested on chafges of “de- facing private property.” He is charged with the responsibiilty for posting protest leaflets regarding his brothers arrest. The crown has in- timated other charges, may be laid against him, Both are fi] appear in court on May 2. Sl During the last few: weeks meas- ures are being taken-by provincial authorities to attack workers and their organizations in the; suburbs of Toronto, on account “of the rapid growth of militaney."altong those workers. em ey Reactionary elemen’ ve tried to whip up jingo sentiment t use some of these protest leaflets. were pasted on a war memorial. ; Members of the Canadian Labor Defense ‘League and other militant organizations in Sil- verthorne have p-ctested: that they are not responsible for’ pasting the leaflets on the monument. Arrested for Shout: ‘Ha‘lMoseow,’ as Nazis Vail Socialist’ Leaders EDRLIN, ) 17.+As-a number of | Socialict le: idluding ex-cabinet ministers, w being. transported from prison in Kavlirijke to a con- centration comp near ‘Kiéslau, work- ers shouted “Hail Moscow!” They were arrested and carried to the con- centration camp together with the Social Democrats, — | a é | : i] | i a i s e b |