The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1933, Page 6

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Dail “THE FIRST DUTY OF THE COMMUNISTS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR IS TO TEAR DOWN THE SCREEN BY WHICH THE BOURGEOISIE CONCEAL _ THEIR PREPARATIONS FOR WAR AND THE REAL STATE OF AFFAIRS FROM THE MASSES OF THE WORKERS.” —RESOLUTION AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR BY THE SIXTH WORL D CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL. ne Daladier Won’t “Relax War Preparations”; Davis Sees Conference “Blowing Up” GENEVA, May 19.—Today’s session of the World Arms Conference opened with Germany’s acceptance of the Mac- Donald arms plan, in accordance with President Roosevelt’s recommendation as expressed in his message to the world. A tense atmosphere prevailed in the conference: hall, re- | flecting the rising intensity of *- Chiang-Kai-Shek in Secret Pact With Japan for Joint Suppression of Communists (JAPANESE imperialism will no doubt| agree with Roosevelt on his defini- tion of an invading nation and de- mand that the Chinese withdraw from China - = | SHANGHAI, May 19.—Three divisions of the Cantonese | Army defied Chiang-Kai-Shek’s orders yesterday and left NANKING ORDERS ARMY | SPAR K S|CONEY ISLAND |Hearst Again Fakes Photos rce, of wisdor says, “It should be| \ kept in mind that sustained activity | | ; IN RE E } loyed will be possible.” Demonstrate Against | y oo : ne AS RIVALRIES | : ploye 2° . ° ee z i fer a tera Pla other words, there will be jobs| Weidemann’s Coming |. | : a : ADS. stration against the coming to the Unitéd States of Hans Wiedemann, Canton for the North to enter the battle against the Japanese | \ WORKER from California writes: bee cote Fate coke sland. Gate FROM FRONT 10 FIGHT razeszz< ee Aue \REIVSL) Cae Wes Albccrty Exposed MIDST OPEN WAR THREATS , | icc wetted somerta'ss NAZTS ARRIVAL| Fake Was Already Exposed {I CHINESE SOVIET FORCES in industry will be necessary before | ies substantial absorption of our unem-| AEE “Tie oe, | to the United States ; ; NEW YORK—A protest demon- special Nazi representative to the Chicago World's Fair, will take place nvaders. Chiang-Kai-Shek had telegraphed the Cantonese | A medal has just been awsrded| Under the auspices of the Com- authorities demanding that the proposed Kwantung army be | to Daniel Cowling Jackling, western|munist Party, New York District, the He got the medal| workers will turn out in force to sent instead to Kiangsi Pro-¢ vince to fight the Chinese- Soviet armies. Chiang added hat he “would hold the Cantonese officials responsible if the campaign against the Communists failed thru their indifference,” but the Southwest Political Council voted to ignore Chi- ang’s telegram and send the army North. A newspaper in Hong Kong, British éolony off the Canton coast, charges hat Chiang Kai-shek has made a | copper millionaire. | for skill in getting the maximum | make Wiedemann, who is Goebbels’ amount of copper out of a chunk of | ore. his skill in chiseling profits out of the miners’ hides. ete oe 'HE following notice was seni to the| Daily Worker for publication in| the “What’s On” column. We are printing it here instead. “A Night in the Detroit Under-| |trusted HMeutenant and took a promi- |nen Jackling’s skill in getting copper} wor out of ore is nothing compared to} bun |think twice before he sets foot on) | American soil, part in the murder of German rs and Jews, as wéll as in the 1g of Marxist and Jewish books, NEWARK MEETING of Austro-Hungarian ‘Kultur’.” Above is a reproduction of the front page of the booklet, “The trail of the Hun in Austria-Hungary”, with the sub-title, “A few examples This was part of the regular anti-Ger- man and anti-Austcian war propaganda of the Allied powers. It was imperialist conflicts through-| (Sy Governor eis, tien poison gas defense measures, The training will be conducted during Summer and Fall, with special courses for instructors beginning at the end of this month to be given by special- ized army officers. % Students, teachers, government em- ployees and war veterans will be ob- liged to take the course to train the rest of the civilian population. Pam- phlets and radio broadcasts will be out the world, with many del- egates asserting that “the crisis had arrived and the next few days would result in peace or war for the whole world.” Norman Wavis, Roosevelt’s special envoy, admitted the possibility that “the conference blows up in our faces next week.” Henderson, chairman of the con- ference, pointed out that only 19 days pag ced here shows, by “The Crecho- | *° @ to aid th Caeeeae which restr = “ ” | ASCISM. published, as the cover page reproduced | ms were left before the convening of| use a ie gas campaign w Pee the Jepanene in which Poa gf cerita Soh Or es RELEnE| AGAINST F 2 Slovak Army and Relief Committee of Pittsburgh, Pa.” From page 20 | the world Economic Conference. He| will be under the direction of Jean fee ee binaries Uae Be. Fee to ae wap | of this book Hearst took the picture of an execution of Slav civilians | aided that “the conference cannot| Chiappe, Prefect of Police, Rice North Chine ioster cocoa Ma ee mall SUND. AY M AY 21 by the Austro-Hungarian army during the world war, and has now | continue indefinitely.” nocal ey ae by Japan. In return, Japan agrees S Wand do.you: atan “enghests one} ’ twice reprinted it as “An exccution by the Cheka, now the Ogpu, In | “Nadoiny, chief German delegate) PRAGUE, May 19—Dr.’ Meissner, to support the Nanking government against the Chinese Soviets and to vepeal the Chino-Japan “unequal treaties.” The central columns of the Jap- anese forces yesterday reached a vil- @ only six miles from Tungchow, tumes”? Does the head of the Ford) sluggers run around Detroit in an| apache costume? Whose conception | of the underworld is this, anyhow,| Leave this to Hollywood—it’s their| picture. It's absolutely necessary that the NEWARK, N. J., May 19.—An an- | ti-fascist mass meeting will be held | here tomorrow, May 21, at 8 p. m. at | Kruger’s Auditorium, 25 Belmont | Avenue. The meeting, at which A. J. Muste of the Conference for Pro- Soviet Russia.” |HearstRenews Slander Campaign on USSR. repeated that “the Germans continue to demand disarmament of the heavily armed states and equality in arms,” glaring at the French delega-| tion as he spoke. | The rivalries between the various} Czech Minister of Justice, announed in Parliament yesterday that Czecho- Slovakia would lodge a formal pro- test with the German «government against the passage in Hitler's speech in which he condemned'the trial of the German Nazis in Bruenn. ” . i: .| imperialist camps, with the powers} 4 The Hearst magazine sec. pe oor mgperralcay, eats a big suburb thirteen miles from Y.C.L. have entertainments, etc. for| gressive Labor Action, Rebecca ; | under French and British leadership| The Czech authorities continue Peiping itself. self | " rs in ; izer | tions of Sunday papers, start-| sharply lined up against America and| arrest members of the Nazi move- ae ee WiER: ees Suman itself and the young workers in the| Grecht, Newark District Organizer | | ment, 23 being seized “9 ay in ops advanced westward and forced to a point only 30 miles ir Ww vAS: y Roosevelt's message or Nadolny’s} ji nha | fTAKIJE KOBAYASHI the form of entertainment for young] will speak, is under the auspices of if i es, d 19. Pasig Bt elirgttines Seed auto workers in the largest automo-|the United Front Conference Against will continue publishing or has Pees sito baad deter “delle: | Rinsatoee oe Maen CVE A Sige tching 180 more scldiene tone | bile manufacturing center in the] Fascism and Anti-Semitism. already published in all his pa-| Rene Massigli, chief Fre B-| 3 v | tion Guard. 450 soldiers stationed in the of Peiping, while 500 United Marines are also stationed in The British now| Mass Memorial for | Japanese Communist |_ A mass memorial meeting will be | held for Takiji Kobayashi, noted Jap- factories. But is that all that the Y¥. C. L. in Detroit can think of in world? | UR. friend’ A. ‘Writes us: “While | driving through New Haven, I | stopped at a crowd of unemployed to | find out where I could get a Daily of the Communist Party, and Pro-| fessor W. H. Nunn of Dana College | J. F. Martin, representative of the | Essex County Committee of the So- cialist Party, who had consented to speak at the meeting, withdrew say- ing: “I refuse to speak or participate ed publishing May 14, 1933 in New York, and undoubtedly pers’ magazine sections thru- out the country, a vicious, ly- ing attack on the Soviet Un- lion, entitled “Russian Police Germany, were again revealed when} the conference failed to applaud ate, replied to Nadolny, saying “the time for words has passed; the time has come to act.” ® * PARIS, May 19.—Premier Daladier| ultimatively rejected any cut in war Hultschin on a charge of sedition. ae ie to Finland, sailed yesterday for Nor- way after the complete failure of Nazi propaganda here. The Finnish press, resenting Alfred Rosenberg’s proposals ‘for’ German expansion along the Baltic coast, ——————— | reli i Tet ime. i d directly at anese revolutionary and novelist, at « ily|in any activity where the Commu. Methods.” The article is a re-| expenditures today, telling the French | which it feels are aime I 583 Sixth Avenue, New York City,| Waker Sround there. “Iam a daily) otis are involved.” He demanded hash, brought “up-to-date” | Senate that “we can have confidence] Latvia, Esthohia and Finland, received EV OLT N\ READS under the auspices of the Revolution-| gaily workers, but we have no work,”| that the posters and leaflets printed hash, broug! ID - in the army.” He stated that this| Bogs very coldly, referring caustically AS CUBAN REBELS SCORE SUCCESSES Machado Troops Join Well-Armed Rebels HAVANA, Cuba, May 19.—The re- volt spread today from Santa Clara and Camaguey Provinces, with clash between rebels and Machado forces in the village of Omeja in Oriente Province. The seized a Rural Guard post and car- ried off all arms and ammunition. Between 75 and 100 have been kill- ed in Sancti Spiritus, center of the present revolt, which is considered the most serious armed revolutionary uprising against the Machado regime since the unsuccéssful 1931 outbreak. Government soldiers in various dis- tricts are deserting and joining the rebels, according to a report from an American sugar mill manager in Ca- Maguey Province, who called for the replacément of a guard of 15 soldiers that had been guarding his mill and had suddenly vanished. All isolated government outposts are being called in to avoid their capture by rebel forces in the revolt aréa. The insurgents haye been smug- gling in arms in small quantities at a time through small harbors on the South Coast. It is reported that they are now over 2,000 strong, fully equip- ped with modern weapons. The notorious Machado com- mandeér in the revolt area, Major Or- tiz; is hanging all captured rebels to the nearest trees after a drum-head court-martial. LEAGUE TO SEND COMMISSION TO CHACO WAR ZONE GENEVA, May 19.—The Council of the League of Nations voted yes- terday in a secret session to send a commission to the Chaco region to seek tite cessation of hostilities between Pa. _.ay and Bolivia. The League Council also decided to ask Paraguay to rescind its declara- tion of war, and asked its commis- sion to follow thé procedure of the Lytton Commission to the Far which failed to stop the Japanese inyasion of China. “IRISH WORKERS’ VOICE” OUT AGAIN DUBLIN, May 6—After weeks of silence due to the wrecking and burn- ing of Connolly House, headquarters of tHe Revolutionary Workers’ Groups, by Irish Fascist gangs, the “Irish Workers’ Voice” again appeared to- day. The front page reports the victory for mass pressure achieved in the }reeing of Charles Gilmore, Irish Re- publican Army man, who was charged a ig firearms because he took part in the three days’ heroic defense of Connolly House. “The “Irish Workers’ Voice” calls upon all Irish-born workers all over the world to aid its regular publica- tion by subscribing and by contrib- to its Defense Fund. Send all 2 insurgents | sanguinary skirmishés near | ary Writers Federation, John Reed | Club, National Student League, Jap- | anese Workers Cultural Federation, | and the Chinese Workers Club. | Among the speakers at the mass | memorial will be Sugino, J. Z. Wong, | Alexander Trachtenberg, Wallace Phelps and Edmund Stevens, Kobayashi was one of the most Prominent novelists in modern Japan, |many of his works having been | translated into several foreign lan- guages. He was arrested on February 20, | 1933, and tortured in Tokyo police | Station, in an-effort to force him to reveal the names and addresses of Communist Party members. Four hours after his arrest he was found | dead, with his skull crushed in and | his forehead branded with a red-hot iron. The day of his murder has been set aside in Japan as annual | Proletarian Cultural Day. | said another. “We carry our own tools and you can get us for your | own price.” Within an hour I got | them some Daily Workers and dir- | ected them to the Unemployed Coun-| | cil. Now, there will be a different} | kind of “Daily Worker.” | a) SaaS | \ NEWS item informs us that pub- } lic schools are being closed all ever the country because the local ‘banks refuse to lend money for their upkeep. When it comes to a choice between having free public schools and protecting the profits of bankers, American cities inevitably choose the latter. We used to be told that every school boy had a chance to become President of the United States. Now, hundreds of thousands of working class children are denied the by the United Front Committee bear- ing his name be destroyed. This Socialist Party effort to split the united ranks against fascism should be answered by a thundering turn-out for Sunday evening’s mass | meeting, to show the socialist Jead- | ers that the working class will not stand for sabotage of united action. 68 Arrested in Italy for Anti-Fascist Work ROME, May 19.—The Italian Fas- cist authorities arrested 68 young in- intellectuals, including the son of Dr. Quirico, physician to King Victor Emmanuel, in Rome, Milan, Turin and Florence yesterday. They are opportunity of even becoming school boys. charged with distributing anti-Fascist literature. By E. P. GREENE. On May 10 Paraguay offici.lly de- | clared war ajajnst Bolivia, although fighting has been going on between these two countries since July 30, 1932, This is the first official declaration | of war which has occurred in South | America since the War of the Pacific | in 1879, and the first “official war” | anywhere in the world since the es- | tablishment of the League of Nations jin 1919! | War more than nine months after the beginning of actual warfare? Since the economic situation of Bo- | livia and Paraguay, and the relation- | ship of British and American imper- |ialism to this war have been very | completely dealt with in an article by Maggi in Inprecorr No. 36, 1932, and | in another by Sinani in No. 2 of the Communist International, 1933, I shall here analyze only the role of the Commission of Neutrals and the A. B, C.—Peru bloc. The Commission is the instrument of American, while the A. B. C.-Peru | bloc is the tool of British imperialism. |It is from the maneuvering of these two blocs, instigated by British and American imperialism, that the pres- ent critical stage of the Bolivian-Par- aguayan war has developed, In 1929 the Commission of Neutrals was formed under the lead of the United States to settle the dispute over the Chaco between Bolivia and Paraguay, which even in 1928 nearly | turned into a war. This bloc, of which Francis White, former United States Assistant Secretary of State is chairman, consists of the .U. 8., Mex- feo, Cuba, Colombia and Uruguay. The governments of Mexico, Cuba and Colombia, have for several years been puppets of the U. S. A.; Uru- guay was only with difficulty detach- ed from the orbit of Great Britain through political maneuvering. When war broke out last July this bloc at once became active and strongly sup- ported Bolivia, a country completely dominated by American imperialism. On August 6, 1932, the A. B. C.-Peru Bloc entered the field, openly sup- porting Paraguay, a country domin- ated by British imperialism. This bloc is unofficfally headed by Saav- edra Lamas, Foreign Minister of Ar- gentina, and consists of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru. It is through this bloc, which tends toward Great Britain, that British imperialism is fighting its main rival for hegemony in South America, “Arbitration” as a War Weapon The ostensible purpose of these two blocs has been the settlement of the present Bolivian-Paraguayan “‘dis- pute” through arbitration. Scores of fake plans for arbitration have been put forward by each bloc, the plans ittances to Connolly House, 64 Great Strand St, Dublin. put forward by the Commission of Neutrals always obviously to the ad- Why. this declaration of| it Paraguay Declares War! vantage of Bolivia, and those of the | A. B. C.-Peru group just as obviously to the advantage of Paraguay. When, last fall, the Paraguay army was gaining victories and advancing in the Chaco, the A. B. C.-Peru group was silent, and the Commission of Neutrals was frantically suggesting arbitration. For the past few months, during which time the army of Para- guay has suffered defeat after defeat, is the A. B. C.-Peru bloc which |has put forward the plans for arbit- ration. Bolivia, at the instigation of the U. S. A., is demanding that two- thirds of the Chaco be handed over to it, and that the remaining third be submitted to arbitration. The growing conflicts between Great Britain and the U. 8. A. have been reflected in the growing antag- onism between the blocs. Argentina has on several occasions told the Commission of Neutrals that the latter's intervention lacked legal basis. On Nov. 19, 1932, Argentina accused the Commission of Neutrals of at- tempting to obstruct intervention by the League of Nations. On Feb. 2, Bolivia announced that it would not entertain any proposals of arbitration from the A. B. C.-Peru bloc unless | they were made in collaboration with the Commission of Neutrals. The York Times of March 28, reported: “Tt is said that the neutrals, especial- ly the Washington Government, are maintaining a cool attitude toward the A.B.O.-Peru efforts to bring about peace between Bolivia and Paraguay.” On Feb. 1, there took place in Men- doza, Argentina, an important meet- ing between the foreign ministers of Chile and Argentina, At this meeting the A. B. C.-Peru group was offi- cially constitutéd a permanent body for the purpose of settling the Bo- livian-Paraguay “dispute” and any further conflicts which may arise in South America, and to settle them without the assistance of the United States: Since this Mendoza Confér- ence, Argentina and Chile have tak- en a particularly aggressive attitude towards Bolivia. On April 27, Argen- tina and Chile peremptorily called upon Bolivia to ceasé fighting, in a note which the New York Times re- ferred to as an ultimatum. Why Is Chile Opposed to Bolivia? How does it happen that Chile, a country in which the U.S.A. has in- vested more $700,000,000, is now in- volved in a disputé with Bolivia, a country long dominated by American imperialism? In the first place, there is a deeply rooted antagonism be- tween these two countries which goes back to 1879, In that yéar a war broke out between Chile and Bolivia for possession of the nitrate fields ~f the province of Arica, which at that time belonged to Bolivia, and which afe now a part of Chile. Chilé won the war of the Pacific and took from Bolivia 30,000 square miles of ni- trate lands in Arica, This district had previously given Bolivia a sea- coast, which was now cut off. For the last 55 years Bolivia has felt this loss keenly and has looked for an opportunity again to get an outlet to thé Pacific. The chief means of communication at present between La Paz, capital of Bolivia, and the outside world are the Antofagasta- Bolivia Railway and the Arica-La Paz Railway, both of which run through Chile. It is over these two roads that Bolivia has been recéiving all of its war materials and muni- tions. Under a treaty signed in 1904 by which Bolivia officially ceded the province of Arica to Chile, Bolivia was guaranteed free transit over both roads, It is in order to stop this transit of war matérials to Bolivia that Para- guay, facing, facing economic and military collapse, has made an offi- cial declaration of war. This will give Chile, as a “neutral” country, an ex- cuse for refusing to allow further transit of munitions over these two roads. Bolivia has notified Chile that an embargo would constitute an abroga~ tion of the treaty, and that it would therefore reassert its claim to the province of Arica, Should Bolivia take this action, it would inevitably involve Chile in thé war. The Object of Paraguay’s Declara- tion of War As long ago as March 6, the gov- ernment of Paraguay passed a law authorizing President Ayala to de- claré war whenever he considered the moment opportune. It is hoped by Paraguay that Argentina, which will also become a “neutral,” will place an embargo upon foodstuffs, destined for Bolivia, ‘Thus the menace of war reaches a@ new stagé, with the possibility of all the countries of South America being within a very short time forced into war, through which the impe- rialist powers and these bourgeois- landlord governments hope to find a way out of thé catastrophic crisis, ‘The wars in South America be- tween Colombia and Peru, and Bo- livia and Paraguay, in which more than 170,000 have already been killed and wounded, just as the war in the Far East, are an organic part of the présent world situation in a time when capitalist stabilization has end- ed. We must redouble our efforts in the struggle against imperialist war, and carry this struggle to a higher stage ABOVE is thé part that repro- duces best, of a picture that Hearst published Sunday, August 31, 1930, in all his Sunday magazine supple- ments throughout the country. He published it with wording under it: “An execution by the Cheka, now the Ogpu.” The Daily Worker, on September 4, 1930, exposed it as a | forgery. Hearst kept the photo and published it again last Sunday, with only slightly changed wording: “Part of a wholesale execution by the dreaded Cheka, now the Ogpu.” The picture we use above is the same oné we had made, photo- graphed from Hears%'s paper of 1930. Any one can compare it with the picture used in Hearst's papers last Sunday. The only difference is that there are two womén hanging to the right of the men in the Hearst pictures, and in the original from which Hearst stole the pic- ture. These two women’s bodies did not ré-photograph well, and we have omitted them. BELOW is the same section of the original picture. It is on Page 20 of the booklet, “The Trail of the Hun in Austria-Hungary.” We pho- tographed it from the pamphlet (omitting the womén’s bodies for the reason mentioned above) and anybody can see it is the same pic- ture Hearst is using. Some of the printing on the original pamphlet shows under the picturé below. The pamphlet, “The Trail of the Hun in Austria-Hungary” can be seen in many city libraries, and a copy is in the possession of the National Office, Friends of the Soviet Union. France Ratifies Soviet Non-Aggression Pact; Negotiate About Trade PARIS, May 19.—The Chamber of Deputies yesterday ratified the Soy- jet-French non-aggression pact. Comrade Doriot, leader of the Communist deputies, pointed out that France was ratifying this treaty only because of its fear that the Versailles Treaty is collapsing. Former Premier Herriot admitted that a nation of 160,000,000 could not be ignored forever, and added that economic negotiations with the Sov- jet Union for the conclusion of a trade treaty would be initiated soon. with references to the trial of ‘the Metro-Vickers’ engineers, of a similar article that ap- peared in the Hearst magazine sections of Sunday papers in August, 1930. In it such slan- |ders are made as that Dzer- jinsky, head of the “Cheka” was poisoned by other Com- |munist leaders, that» the So- ciety for Cultural Relations is ia “Women’s section of Red |Russia’s Spying System,” and ‘that “swarms of homeless chil- dren serve as Ogpu spies,” and that the Ogpu carries on “mass execution of Russian workers.” We reprint herewith proof that the pictures used. by |Hearst to back up these lies |are faked, and that they have |been once before exposed by \the Daily Worker as: frauds. This did not prevent the | Hearst editors from saving up \the pictures and printing them jagain, alittle later, as part of ‘a new slander campaign against the U. S. S. R. Another picture used both times by Hearst shows what purports to be one of the “homeless child spies” and is really |a photo used by the American famine relief expedition in Russia, of a child applying for relief, in 1921. was the considered opinion of the army chiefs in the Supreme War Council. After Daladier’s speech, the Senate immediately repealed the 5 per cent cut planned in the war budget. Daladier added that “the Disarma- ment Conference may achieve some- thing, but we would be fooling our- selves if we relaxed our war prepara- tions.” Tardieu, former French Premier, in an editorial yesterday attacked Presi- dent Roosevelt's message saying that “what he proposed is the exact op- posite of what France and the League of Nations have been defending for thirteen years.” This brusque rejection of Roose- velt's arms proposals, which the French war machine feels is aimed at France’s military hegemony, was followed by an order from the Mili- to Rosenberg’s reception in London and inviting Bogs to leave the coun- try. s . « LONDON, May 19. — The British Grand Fleet will hold sham war maneuvers in the North Sea next week. No expense is being spared in fuel and ammunition, with no speed limits on the warships, despite the general economy: drive. ° . The young workers of America will rally on May 30, National Youth Day, in a giant united front of opposition to imperialist war and war propa- ganda under the leadership of the | Young Communist League. On May 30, the traditional anniversary of past wars, the young workers of the United States will raise their ~ battle-cry: “Down with Imperialist War!” Kalinin Answers Roosevelt; Asks Universal Disarmament Denounces Exploitation of Disarmament Idea for National Policy of Imperialist States (From the Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, May 19.—Mikhail Kalinin, President of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union today sent the following message to Presi- dent Roosevelt in reply to the latter's recent message on disarmament and the world crisis, President Kalinin said: rs “I have received your message of political and economic peace to all States and I feel sure that it will® meet with warm response from the peoples of the Union of Soviet Social- ist Republics. The Soviet Govern- ment, expressing the will of the peo- ples of the Soviet Union, has never ceased, at all international confer- LONDON, May 19.—“Great Britain and the United Statés’ are driving the whole world into, by their appalling policy of high tariffs, quotas and other damnable actions,” | Sir George Paish, noted British eco- nomist told the Liberal conference in Scarborough yesterday. Prime Minister MacDonald has ;|mamed outspoken high-tariff advo- cates as the British delegation for | |the coming World Economic Confer- jence. .With such Tories as Lord Hailsham and Cunliffe-Lister, and Neville Chamberlain heading the dé- |legation, it is apparent that the British intend to make the confer- \ence a battleground for pushing their expansionist trade policy. | er WASHINGTON, May 19,—Passagé by Congress of the Wheeler resolu- tion instructing the American dele- gates to the World Economic Con- ference to press for the remonétiza- tion of silver was urged today by Chairman Somers of the House Coin- age Committee, This resolution represtnts an én- deavor by silver producing interests to raise the price of silver through its legal use as money, js Secretary of State Hull admittéd that the taxes on coffee, cocoa and NOTED BRITISH ECONOMIST SAYS, “GREAT BRITAIN AND U. S. ARE DRIVING WORLD TO BANKRUPTCY” France Builds Trade Wall Around Colonies As. Germany Bars Exports of Funds Douglas would violate the terms of the so-called “world tariff truce,” but this is not keéping the United States trom this trade offensive, which is also a blow at the standard of living of the American Masses. ° * PARIS, May 19.—The French Co- lonial Conference for setting up a high trade wall around France's co- lonial empire, opéned here yesterday. Andre Hesse, former Colonial Min- ister, opening the conference, said that the continued raising of tariff walls throughout the world was “forc- ing’ France and its colonies to rely moré and more on their own mutual trade exchanges.” a ate BERLIN, May 19.—The embargo on the transfer abroad of money, gold and other precious metals was made still more stringent by new regula- tions issued by the Economics Min- istry yésterday.’ The regulations provide for a body search of all tourists, native-born or) foreigners, leaving Germany. All shipments out of Germany by rail, plane or ship as well as letters and packages sent by mail will be cub- Jéct_ to search as well. Violations of the embargo regu- Jations punishable by fines and imprisonnfent at hard labor for ten tea, by Budget Director years. ences in which it has, for over ten years, taken part, to draw attention to the necessity for universal-disarm- ament as an indispensible premise for Peace between nations. 5 *} “The Soviet Government itself pro- posed and supported at Geneva defi- nite projects for univei - disarma- ment, especially those which=provided for the utmost reduction <of arma- ments, at the same time exposing unworthy attempts to discredit the idea of disarmament by exploiting it in the interests of the national policy of some states against others. “The Soviet Government also pro- posed and supported measures aiming at preventing or at least impeding any kind of aggression or any.attempt on the part of any state to enlarge its territory at the expense.of others, “The Soviet Government, has con- cluded non-aggression pacts with most of the countries with which it is in official relations and can there- fore only welcome your proposal for the conclusion of a pact of non- aggression by all countries. . “The same may be said of the Soviet Government’s policy with re- gard to economic peace, It is common knowledge that, bearing in mind the economic interdependence of coun- tries in all continents, we proposed at Geneva a pact for economic non- aggression. woote “Aggression, whether military or economic, on the part of one country against the other, affects the interests not only of the two countries con- cerned, but also of all other countries, by adding to the existing economic chaos. The Soviet Government in- tends to continue its efforts in the spirit of this policy. It will willingly co-operate with governments inter= ested in the realization! of. such # policy, whether at the Gerieva Dis- armament Conference or at the Lone don Economic Conference,” RADIO NOTE Will the reader who wanted te know. how to hook-up his, radio to veceive programs from Moscow please teil us how we can get in touch with him so that we can put him ‘in touch with several radio experts who have offered tneir services to help him?— Editor. pt