The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1933, Page 4

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The workers succeeded in seizing over 200 revolvers from the Nazis | 4,000 NAZIS RAID WORKERS’ AREAS IN DUESSELDORF Inhuman Tortures in Dachau Concentration Camp Near Munich FRANKFURT-ON-MAIN, May 15 (By Mail). —The Nazis of Duesseldorf organized a gigantic punitive exped- ition against the workers’ quarters of that city in reprisal for the death of several storm troopers who had lost their lives in previous attempts to raid these districts. Three thousand storm troopers and several police detactiments were mob- ilized, and on May 5 this army nearly 4,000 strong, raided the workers’ areas, ravaging and destroying everything they could lay hands on. Many work- ers’ houses were demolished. Twelve workers have disappeared mysterious- ly and several women were among the wounded Nazi victims, The of- ficial police report says that 60 work- ers were arrested. Torture in Concentration Camps Inhuman torture is still going on in the Dachau Internment Camp near Munich, the biggest concentration n Germany, where some 5,000 Ss and intellectuals are con- All leaders of working class ions are in Class 3. They d up in cellars, without beds, s or chairs, without even blankets r them. The floor ts covered vith pools of water. These comrade in Class 3 are beaten every day with 3 ridinz whip. The Secretary of the Bavarian Dis- ict of the Communist Party, Com- ce Seimler, was atrociously beaten the fascists. After another com- ra Dressler, had been murdered, the Nazis threatened Beimler, telling him his last hour had come. They tortured him for hours and then brought him a rope, saying he should do the same “as the other fellow did. At 8 o’clock you must be dead, you dirty dog, or else we shall come. Your last hour on earth is near.” Thus the Nazis prepared to assas-| sinate Comrade Beimler. That very night Beimler succeeded in making his escape, clothed only in his under- wear. The Munich Chief of Police has offered a reward for his recap- ture, but Beimler is now in safety. Organize committees for the relief of the victims of Nazi terror! Get in touch at once with the National Com- mittee for Aid to Victims of German tia 75 Fifth Avenue, New York ———— vin this mann | Army was given the job of feeding |organ of the Austrian government r in a single day Victory in Nari Factory. | In the Oldenburg Gas Works all| the workers—who had been mem- bers of the reformist union up to now—were forced by the Nazis to join the Nazi factory organization. All those refusing were fired. Then |the Nazis arranged for a factory | meeting to elect the factory council, | to which the workers agreed. The | election was held with the Red union winning 4 delegates, and the reform- ists 3. The Nazis, despite their ela- borate preparations, did not get a/ single delegate! | Women Active in Relief Work. | Women workers are very active in the Rhineland. The best workers in the International Red Aid (counter- part of the I.L.D.) are women. In a little village the Salvation | the class-war prisoners. The women protested against the bad food served and succeeded in getting better food for the prisoners. In another town the women com- | pelled the municipal authorities -to | pay them the same relief that their | arrested husbands had received. In another town, a mother who had been told that her son had been beaten in the Nazi barracks where he was confined, went there and got her son out of the murder den. Comment on Communist Activity. The Vienna “Reichspost”, official party, comments on the narrowing class basis of the Nazis as follows in its issue of May 6: “The real position is best seen in the growing tendency toward the iso- lation of National Socialism. Na- tional Socialism has no allies. All whom it cannot absorb it expels, Its quarrelsomeness within equals its aggressiveness abroad. Inner tension is increasing daily. “We must not be deluded into for- getting that, though German Social Democracy has disappeared for many years to come, Communism has at- tained dangerous strength. It is now working entirely along Russian lines what in Russian history ever since the Decabrists’ uprising is called “podpolnaya’: clandestine work, secrecy, illegal secret organizations, hidden printing presses, secret work from man to man. What is this leading to?” Socialist Leaders Denounce Workers to Police. This comment of the “Reichspost” is amplified by the remarks of the Secretary of the Hamburg local of the German Socialist Party, Kanz- ler. Replying to some socialist work- ers, who wanted him to organize meetings in workers’ flats, he said: | “Nothing doing! If I ever learn of such meetings, I'l see to it that the Police knows about them!” A little group of socialist workers in Berlin issued and circulated on il- legal newspaper, in which they de- manded the establishment of a united NAZIS PROFESS PEACEFUL INTENT. IN CITY OF DANZIG BERLIN, May 30.—Dr. Rauschn-| ing, head of the Danzig Nazis, who flew here after the Nazi terror vic- tory in the Danzig Diet elections, is-| sued a press statement in which the} weak foreign position of the Nazi re-| gime is clearly reflected. Rauschning promised that all in- ternational treaties regarding Dan- sig’s status will be observed, that Jew- ish rights will be respected, and that the Nazis would seek an understand- ing with Poland on the differences between Poland and the Free City. Rauschning said: “We have been reproached for expressing ourselves too peacefully towards the Poles. These declarations were| absolute State necessities.” He added: “Aryan| (i, e. anti-Semitic) measures are out of the question in Danzig.” This, together with the Geneva de- bates on anti-Jewish measures in Upper Silesia, indicates that Fascist Germany is forced to retreat some- what in the face of England and France, who are using the Jewish question in Germany as a lever for diplomatic pressure on Germany to obtain concessions in other fields, such as German re-armament. | district executive of the | alist District Committee. front against fascism. The Berlin Socialist Party asked some old devoted Party officials to find out who was distrib- uting this paper. A few days later, the socialist com- rades getting the paper out were ar- rested by the police. The workers are firmly convinced that they were betrayed to the police by the Soci- Foreign Briefs ‘WAR FLARES UP AGAIN IN CHACO BUENOS AIRES, Argentina,—Th e Paraguyan War Ministry reported last night the capture of Fort Betty, a Bolivian outpost of Fort Corrales. Dispatches from Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, claim the capture of Fort Corrales as well. For the first time Paraguay is using giant bombing planes which are raining death down upon the Bolivian soldiers in the trenches. a ee AUSTRIAN HEIMWEHR FIRES ON NAZIS VIENNA, Austria.— Nazis and Heimwehr troops clashed in the streets of Innsbruck, Tyrol, last night. Troops and gendarmes were sum- moned to disperse the Nazi concen- trations. When they failed to move Heimwehr men opened fire, wounding seven nazis. The police have erected barbed-wire entanglements all thru the streets to prevent further clashes between these two Fascist groups. Worker Digs Up Savings - to Buy Soviet Bonds ‘The husky worker looked rather embarrassed. ‘You see, it’s this way,” he said. This dough is what I have bten saving for the last twenty-five years. I have been holding on to it like a man holds on to a life-line. I have been lucky enough to keep it from the bank robbers.” It was a worker talking in the of- fices of the Soviet-American Securi- ties Corporation. ie continued, “This is how I did it. I have been caching this dough in a box which I keep in the mud flats near the river. For the last couple of months the river has been over the flats, and I haven't been able to get at it. But now that the river has washed back, I got the dough. Here it is. I want the Soviet ec ceNiAEk one 1 Pn ee a Union to get it. Soviet bonds, And he shoved almost a thousand dollars of damp money |across the counter. “Tell them from me,” he said as he was leaving, “that they’re welcome to anything we can give ‘em to build a decent Worker’s government.” Soviet bonds are on sale at the Soviet-American Securities Corpora- tion, 30 Broad Street, New York City, Department A. The principal and interest rate is 10 per cent. The money is used by the Soviet Union to build its industries. The investment is one of the safest in the world, the Soviet Union being one of I want to buy some the few remaining countries that still Buk . NEWS ITEM: | The Charge of the Light Brigade! By Burck Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, president of the College of the City of New York, accom- panied by “Daughters of the American Revolution,” yesterday attacked students at an anti-war meeting with an umbrella. The Umbrella Man Goes is War | Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, professional patrioteer and incidentally President of the College of the City of New York, on Monday gave the people of the United States an exhibition which they will not soon This Tammany ward-heeler, whose election to the Presidency of City College was attended with the same politica? deals as characterize appointments to ell the higher posts in New York City’s educa- tional system, was proceeding with a group of genteel | ladies and army officers to review the annual military | show of the college's Reserve Officers Training Corps, when his blissful soul was shocked at the sight of 500 anti-militarist students demonstrating against military forget. training. The good doctor suddenly saw red, actually as well as metaphorically. The spectacle of so many students of his own college demonstrating slogans against the training of cannon fodder for the coming imperialist war broke down all the polite re- serve and dignity of this pillar of society and, wildly swinging his umbrella like a war club, he tried to break up the demonstration single-handed. But this little David found he needed assistance in Smiting the Philistines, and army officers and the New York police obligingly rushed to the rescue of This valiant fighter for bigger and better wars. Monday’s incident in itself smacks of the ridicu- under anti-war , lous, but his violent outbreak of patriotic hysteria is | oply the latest in a chain of systematic attacks on academic freedom, student rights and the most ele- mentary civil liberties at City College. is the worthy who dismissed Prof. Oakley Johnson from the City College faculty for radical activities. It was Dr, Robinson who expelled students for de- manding Prof. Johnson’s reinstatement and suspended dozens of others for taking part in the same fight. Dr. Robinson suppressed the student weekly news- paper, “The Campus”, for opposing the policies of the College administration. in the forefront of New York City’s red-baiters and champions of jingoistic patriotism. Not the least of Dr. Robinson's achievements was the founding of the so-called “League for Human Rights”, a supposedly liberal organization, whose first and only public activity was to denounce any recogni- tion of the Soviet Union by the United States, after which the League sank from sight. | And now to cap the climax, we lave Dr. Robinson aS @ courageous Don Quixote, brandishing his spear— an umbrella—in an onslaught upon the students his college who had the temerity to believe that im- perialist war is not one of humanity's major blessings and that the social order for which Dr. Robinson stands Dr. Robinson reactionary He has been in must be banished forever from American life. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2: ef Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. One year, $8; 6 months, $5; 7 months, $3. MAY 31, 1938 1 month, %e, Foreign and SPAR K f Anglo-Japanese HE World Fair has just been open- ed. Behind all the noise of “prog- | ress,” stands the ruthless exploitation | of the workers who have been hirec to run the Fair. S, T. of New York writes us that all guards, hands, guides, cashiers, and practically every one not in the administration offices, is hired on an hourly basis, and can be laid off in| case of rain or any other emergency | like lack of crowds, etc. Military officers are in charge of the workers. All workers must spend two weeks of full time work getting their train- ing. During these ‘wo weeks of free work they don’t get any pay. ove Washington correspondent tells us that Mrs. Crawford Biggs, the wife of the United States Solicitor General, spends most of her time| mothering her 23 prize Persian cats.) What a brain that lady must have. AND what worries she must suffer, |M Almost as great as the working class mother who is reported in to- day’s news as follow: “Sobbing through her story, Mrs. Esposito of 131 West Third Street told how she expected to have her furni- ture thrown into the street despite the fact that she has a sick husband, | a six months old baby in the hospital, and five small children. At the relief | station she said the relief investigator | told her, ‘I don’t care if you have to go into the street.’” ‘Rents TS Washington correspondent of one of the capitalist papers writes as follows of the recent Socialist Con- tinental Congress at Washington: “Manifestations of the new revo- lutionary spirit as has been created by the depression were not alarming, since the socialists who dominated the meeting place continue to place their faith in the ballot box and the parliamentary form of government. . * “Communists were seatiered about, urging an advanced program includ- ing $10 a week relief.” Sa eae 'HE socialist leaders are so nice and the Communists are so wicked. Doesn't the above demand prove it? os ee ANGSTON HUGHES, a Negro poet,. has written the following contribution for a new low-priced magazine devoted to revolutionary literature, called “Anvil”: Comrade Lenin of Russia, High in a Marble Tomb Move over, Comrade Lenin. Give me room. I am Ivan, the peasant, Boots all muddy with soil. I fought with you, Comrade Lenin Now, I have finished my toil. Comrade Lenin of Russia Alive in a marble tomb. THE TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF THE DICTATORSHIP OF JUAN VICENTE GOMEZ, IN VENEZUELA By ELISA IMAR ‘The 25th year of the monstrous dic- tatorship of Juan Vicente Gomez in Venezuela has been greeted with ar- ticles extravagantly praising the pros- perity of the country in the capital- ist press of the United States. In the New York Times, the Pictorial Re- view, the New York American, etc., articles have appeared in which Ve- nezuela is spoken of as “A paradise on earth,” “a country governed by a noble statesman in which all the in- habitants are happy,” “a country which has escaped the convulsions of the world crisis,” etc. And as a final argument to convince the readers of the truth of their assertions these publications triumphantly bring for- ward the fact that Venezuela “is the only country which has no foreign debt.” The great oil concessions granted by Gomez to the imperialists involve not only Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell rights to exploit the pet- roleum deposits, but also to enrich themselves at the cost of the blood and sweat of the Venezuelan work- ers. With the coming of the crisis and the restriction of oil production, the coffers of the big operators were full with what had been squeezed out of the thousands of Venezuelan and ‘West Indian workers employed in the oil regions. At the same time the wages of these workers, even in the famous period of prosperity, had been so meager that when many of them| were discharged and had to return to the cities and haciendas from which they had come, they did not even have enough money to pay for the trip back. Venezuela has not escaped the crisis because it has no exterrial debt. ‘This can be proved by glancing over the bulletin published in Caracas by the Chamber of Commerce of that coun- try. From the end of 1929 up to the present time this Bulletin, which is interested in presenting the economic situation of the country in its most favorable aspects, cannot help de- claring that month by month and year by year commerce is being crip- pled, that the production of oil has been restricted and continues its downward trend, that the price of coffee continues to fall, that the fac- tories are closing, that the activity of the various enterprises and com- mercial houses is slackening, and the bolivar is losing in value. This means the continuous growth of hunger and misery among the peons and all of the toiling elements of the city and the countryside. And to the common lot of all the toilers in the countries rent by the world crisis it 1s necessary to add the conditions of wild terror which are found in Venezuela. The Terror of the Bourgeois Landlord Government The main manifestations of this terror are the large number of ar- rests for trifling reasons, the recruit- ments (reclutiamentes), and forced labor on the roads. The recruitments meets its external debt obligations, ‘and above all work on the roada ; (these roads which have brought so much praise to Gomez) are the hor- ros of the Venezuelan toilers. The roads between Caracas and Valencia, and the Caracas-La Guayra highway have cost the lives of ten of thou- sands of “colorados” (prisoners dressed in red who work with ball and chain). ‘The Trans-Andian highway in the region of Mangan alone, (State of Trujillo), has buried 1,500 workers. ‘The Eastern Road took thousands of prisoners from all the jails of Vene- zuela who arrived hundreds at a time, every three months, to the deadly region of Palenque. Today this is going on in the region of Los Cocos and in the construction of the port of Turiamo. In this road work the men succumb rapidly due to the miserable food, the brutal treatment (for political prisoners especially), the length of the working day at forced labor, as well as the deadly climatic conditions against which no precautions are taken. On holidays, when peasants enter the villages, local authorities carry out collective recruitments, capturing the piisants as if they were animals, Once recruited, the workers and peas- ants are forced to do military serv- ice, the term of which depends only on the caprice of the “chiefs.” The soldiers encamped in Coigne, Ocu- mare, Choroni, etc., eight to nine thousand of them, are forced to work in the haciendas of Gomez for two bolivars a day. (The bolivar is worth @ little less than twenty cents in gold, but at present its value has dropped to from fifteen to sixteen cents.) Political Prisoners Right now. thirty-five men are in- closed in a narrow’cell of the Rotun- da in Caracas, without air, without light, sleeping on the floor and weighed down with irons of as much as eighty pounds each. These thirty- five prisoners, the majority of whom have been incarcerated for more than two years, are accused of being Com- munists. Among them are workers, peasants, soldiers, students and professional people. Some are not even twenty years old. They have not ‘been granted trial, they are not permitted to have visitors or lawyers, and me- dical attention is not given to them even though many are suffering from serious diceases. They are now not allowed to receive food’ which is sent by their families and friends. This inevitably means slow death by hun- ger, as it is impossible to subsist long on the “rancho,” the nauseating and meager rations of the prison. Terror In the Haciendas Most often the owners of the ha- ciendas or big plantations (hacenda- dos) are at the same time civil chiefs, or political officials in their own ter- ritory and when this is not the case such functionaries are named by them. This business—political con- nection—helps to bring about. bar- barous terror in the countryside. Bruno Sanabria, « big landlord local government official near Santa Lucia in the State of Miranda, or- dered that Cupertino Manos, a 15- year old agricultural laborer should be recruited for forced labor because the boy had tried to collect-17 bolivars which was owed to him for work he had done. Manos has already done two years of military service. Antonio Pimentel, one of the most powerful Venezuelan landlords, coun- sellor and intimate friend of Gobez, has a favorite diversion: raping the young peasant girls in the region of Guacara, afterwards forcing a peon to marry his victim. Many times he buys the daughters of the hungry families on his estates at the current price of 300 bolivars. The peasant Mirabel Sanchez, who was about to be married, was captured by a group of Pimentel’s foremen, while another group forced his sweetheart to the home of Pimentel. Mirabel has now been prisoner in La Victoria for 3 years. Luis Calles, the owner of a cattle ranch near Cua ordered the impri- sonment of the peon Monico, because he had hurt a cow in order to save the life of a woman who was being attacked by the animal. Monico was a prisoner for several months and was then forced into the army. How Agricultural Workers and Tenants Are Bound to the Land Faced with the fierce conditions in the haciendas, the agricultural work- ers and peasants try to emigrate to the cities, but the landlords utilize various methods to keep them tied down to the land. Most often this is done by means of debts owed in each hacienda, or estate, there is a store, or commissary, which sells on credit to the agricultural workers and ten- ants at exorbitant prices. As the miserable wage which they receive never enables them to pay for even the elementary necessities, they find themselves always in debt. This is easy to understand when we con- sider that the wages of the agricul~ tural workers in the Colon District (State of Lara) for example, are not more than 1.50 bolivars weekly plus two cheap drill suits a year,. This wage amounts to less. than five cents in gold daily. Thus debts force them to remain on the estate for an in- definite time. In the State of Lara the “Habilitamiento” is used. That is the peasants are forced to sign a document before the civil chief in which they recognize the debt and pledge to pay it with work. As a rule the debt, far from decreasing, grows and the peasant upon death gives over to his children as a herit- age the debts which he has con- tracted with the land owner and they in turn remain condemned to work on the estate. The landlords of Be- bures in the State of Zulia have a firing squad shoot the indebted peas- ant who tries to escape. Many of the estates in this region belong to Gomez himself. Guayana the dice, with indebted ‘peons in place of money. - * Another method of subjecting the laborers and tenants to the land is through the terror rule of the “Guardias de siguise” (in each haci- enda there are groups of peasants bribed by the boss, who are known by the names of siguises, espalderos, caporales, etc. and who constitute small armed guards to carry out the wishes of the owner). In Yaracuy the landlords Jimenes send these “siguises” to assassinate peasants with whom they have differences. The Casados and Espanas in Guay- ana have armed guards with shot- guns who forces the pickers of ba- lata, sarrapia, etc, to work. The landlords Montiel, Alvarado and others in Bebures, used to arm their guards during the time of the oil boom to kill agricultural laborers and tenants who tried to escape to work in the oil region. Semi-Slave Labor. In the states of the Andian region of _ Venezuela, there abound the “Cebachados”, workers primarily of Indian origin who are not paid any wage whatsoever. They receive only a miserable portion of food, and rags to cover half their bodies in return for their work. They sleep huddled in “Caneyes” which are flimsy shel- ters without walls. In Guyana there are also large numbers of Indians living in such conditions. The mis- sionary monks of Caroni ask the lo- cal landlords for Indians for the purpose of “catechizing”. They put them to work in the estates of the missions and give them only a miser- able feod rations When the day's work is done a missionary makes them kneel and pray, finally bles- sing them, saying: “God will pay you”, _All this is only a small part of the crimes which are committed daily in the “Venezuelan Paradise”, which the bourgeois press of the U. S. A. and other countries praises so lov- ingly. The actual situation in Venez- uela is best characterized by the words of the Venezuelan workers themselves who have created the popular modification of Gomez's slogan: “Peace and Work”—‘“Peace in the cemetaries and forced work on the roads”. But while the powerful figures of the capitalist world, even including the Sanctity of the Pope, cover the tyrant with flowery praise, the Venezuelan people, subjugated but not defeated, fight resolutely for their emancipation. The outstanding feat- ure of this struggle has been the es- tablishment more than two years ago of the Communist Party which, while still in its infancy, has succeeded in living through the onslaught of most Rivalry Leading to Trade Break LONDON, May 3 cheap textiles is rap tions. ly producing a “irrevocable injuzy”. ports of rayon to India jumped from | 50 pounds in 1929 to 23,502 pounds in | 1930 and 2,120,375 in 1932. Conference Move Fails. The British government is now ported to be considering the denunci ation of its trade treaty with Japan Efforts were made first of all to call a conference of Japanese and Eng- lish business men to discuss the in- | dustrial competition between the two countries. The Japanese in reply insisted that their depre yen should be maintained, that only British icnpire markets should be} discussed, that no further treaties! should be abrogated by England, that| England should make no further | tariff increases, and thet any agree- ments arrived at should be guaran- | teed by the British government. These conditions were rejected and the British government is now con- sidering, not only the scrapping of the Japanese trade treaty, but also defensive measures against Japanese dumping in the British Empire mar- kets. Indian Treaty Already Broken. | The demand for aggressive trade action on the part of Britain against the Japanese comes principally from Lancashire, the center of the English textile industry, which is up against severe competition in the Indian market, and in Egypt, from cheaply produced Japanese goods. India has already denounced her commercial agreement with Japan, and England has withdrawn the West African colonies from the. scope of the exist- ing trade treaty. The most miserable wages are paid to the exploited Japanese workers. This, by reducing cost of produc- tion, gives the Japanese manufac- turers an advantage in selling their goods in the foreign markets. Starvation Wages. The report, just published, of the Commercial Attache to the British Embassy in Tokyo, reveals that the highest average wage paid in all Japanese industry is $1 a day. The average wage of a woman worker in the silk industry is 15 cents a day. The highest recorded wage in any trade is only $1.40. In the match industry wages average 13 cents a day. In the rayon industry, men workers get 31 cents for a ten hour day. This starvation level for the Jap- anese working class is the main weapon of the Japanese big business interests against their capitalist riv- als in the struggle for markets. But to it, they add the weapons of depre- ciated currency (further cutting of wages), and dumping. Attack on English Standards. In the new trade war that is open- ing between England and Japan, the the English will attempt to make use of the “misery standard” that exists in Japan, to depress wages and conditions in England, in order to compete with the cheaply pro- duced Japanese goods. Samuel Courtould, millionaire owner of the biggest rayon enter- prises in Ergland, recently told his stockholders that the company paid its women workers eight times as much as the Japanese textile work- ers received, and pointed out the necessity for the company reducing its labor costs. Starvation Level of Japanese Workers Is Ex- The flooding of British markets with Japanese ctisis in Anglo-Japanese trade rela4 Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, in a speech during the week-end, said, that England would have to face the “urgent” problem of Japanese trade competition, unless British and Indian trade was to suffer Japanese ex- @—— -———— Nanking in Truce Parley; Japanese Rush New Troops Japan Incites to War Against Soviet Union in Feng Charge SHANGHAI, May 30.—Ten Japan- ese trainloads of troops, artillery and munitions have reached Kaiping, 70 miles north of Tientsin, from Mukden, according to dispatches from Tient- sin last night. This move is a pre- lude to another Japanese advance, as foreshadowed by Japanese statements in Tientsin that “through trains would be running from Mukden to Peiping within a few days,” although the Japanese front now is at least 60 miles north of Tientsin. | Japanese Try to Involve Soviet Union, The Japanese garrison command in Tientsin is making use of the Feng- Yu-Hsiang’s revolt at Kalgan to stir up anti-Soviet agitation, saying Feng is obtaining Soviet assistance through Urga, Outer Mongolia. The Japan- ese command declares “our possession (+ of Kalgan is necessary to ensure the safety of Jehol,” presaging a new Japanese offensive in the Northwest of China against Feng. Chiang-Kai-Shek, Nanking dicta- tor, left Nanchang, where he is dir- ecting the latest anti-Communist campaign, for a conference with Nan~- king officials near Kiukiang regard- ing the threatened rebellion of Can~ ton and South China against Nank- ing domination., The Canton military leaders are exploiting the rising tide of indignation at the terms of the North China truce to advance their own plans for military domination. Nanking Heads in New Parley With Japanese. Hwang-Fu, special Nanking envoy, and War Minister Ho~Chu-Kuo, ar- rived in Tientsin yesterday from Peip~ ing for further negotiations withthe Japanese High Command regarding details of the armistice in North China. All of Nanking’s troops have been withdrawn south, but the refusal of many North Chinese troop concen- trations in the front lines to obey the Nanking order for abandonment | of the battle against the Japanese invasion is frustrating the final con- clusion of the Nanking-Japanese ~ truce, FINLAND FORBIDS RED FLAGS HELSINGFORS, Finland. — The Finnish Cabinet has issued a decree forbidding the display of red flags all over the country on the ground that “they are likely to cause political disturbances.” 3 This decree follows the hauling down of the red flag at the Trade Union Congress here by a mob of Lapuan militia officers. (The Lapua is the Finnish Fascist organization, which is terrorizing the country with open governmental approval.—Ed.), Have the DAILY WORKER at ev- ery meeting of your unit, branch, union, or club. wall on both the question of security state, with or without a declaration of war, the bombing of foreign terri- tory, naval blockade, and the equip- ment or protection of armed bands of invaders of a foreign state. The French, in conflict with the Italians and the English, claim to support the definition, under the pre- text of their usual “security” talk, a policy which tries to make use of this definition of aggression in order to maintain the national frontiers of Europe in their present positions, and avoid any disturbance of the Ver- sailles peace settlement. ‘The Soviet peace policy brings out by contrast the tangled aims and in- evitably warlike manoeuvers of the imperialist powers. The U.S.S.R. is interested in working out a formula which will point clearly to the aggres~ sor nation in any conflict, whether that country be France, defending the gains of Versailles against Germany, or any other country. Norman Davis had been expected to speak, but re- mained signficantly silent during the debate. French fears center on the Hitler celebration of the anniversary of the Battle of Jutland, which is tomorrow, and the French allies, Poland and the Little Entente are also saying that the place where the full force of Hitler’s movement for a “greater Germany” will be felt, will be right on their own frontiers. The Nazi election successes in Danzig have strengthened the general feeling of whole the | vails in the “Security” Commission. tollers ofthe United States-to sup-| Meantime the plan of shutting ‘port the Masses in their | down the Geneva Conference while cage Sor _” fie Landon Conference is on, gath- GENEVA, May 30.—The Disarmament Conference has run into a brick unrest and uncertainty which pre-| DEADLOCK IN ARMS CONFERENCE ON USSR’S DEFINITION OF AGGRESSOR Imperialist Powers Fighting Against the Peace Policy of the Soviet Union i and that of reductions in armaments, In the Security Commission, the Soviet Union's definition of an aggressor state is stubbornly blocked by England and Italy. The formula presented by the U.S.S.R. for determining an aggressor nation, defines aggression as the invasion of the territory of another > ~ — ~ ers strength. The American dlega- tion wanted to push on, but is now saying that this should be done “only if the Conference is getting some~ where.” It has been suggested that the Lon- don Conference be moved to Geneva after a few sessions in London, on the grounds of cutting the expense involved in runing two corps of trans lators — bringing the Conference “home to Geneva to die,” as one dis~ illusioned diplomat put it. TREATY REVISION BARRED IN TH MUSSOLINI PACT GENEVA, May 30.—According te reports here, the countries of the Little Entente, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, will be safe. guarded by a Frencn declaration, te be made simultaneously with the signing of the Four Power Pact, which lays down that the Pact does not af- fect any treaties at present existing between France and the Little En- tente, and that any moves toward treaty revision will keep strictly to the League of Nations proceedure and the unanimity rule (which naturally means no revision), Go to see every subscriber when betting eroiren te, ts a —