The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 1, 1933, Page 4

Published by the Compecdatiy Publishing Ce., Ine., dally exeept Sendey, of 1 5, Algonquin 4-7956. Cable “DAIWORE.” Address and mail checks to the Baily Werker, 36 5. Tih 9. New Yerk, N. ¥. ORGANIZE RELIEF FOR THE VICTIMS OF GERMAN Page Four 18th St., New York Clty, N. Z Tetephe: Call for National Anti-Fascist Day June 24, Issued Five Major United Front Committees Ask Joint Action Against German Fascism NEW YORK.—A call for a National Anti-Fascist Day all over the United States on June 24th was issued today by five major anti-fascist united front organizations: the German Anti-Fascist Alliance, the Italian Anti-Fascist League, the Jewish Workers and Peoples’ Committee Against Fascism and Pogroms, the Hungarian Anti-Fascist League, and the Balkan Anti-Fascist Fas instituted a campaign of bloody terror in Germany. Hundreds of workers, Jews and _ intellectuals have be ortured to death. Thou- been crippled for life 100,000 have been arrested and behind iron bars in prisons barbed-wire concentration amps. Th of others have een forced flee from the country and now are refugees suffering star- of all other e to par Day work- cipate in June vation and misery all over Europe.” Hitler's Anti-Semitism Decelves the Masses adds: “To deceive the starving committee has s, the Hitler govern- been 100 per it Inactive for months. ent is waging a barbarous campaign The appe S Four of extermination against the Jewish months have ce the Hitler rmany, although the sh bankers and stock § are spared entirely. of the working cla Thaelmann, Torgler, and thousands of others, are subjected to the most population of G MAP DRIVE TO \NAZIS SEEK HELP. (OF FORBIGN BANK | AS CRISIS GROWS Catastrophe Like 1923 Threatens, Schacht | Tells Creditors BERLIN, May 30.—A confession that economic conditions in Gerthany under Hitler's Fascist regime are worsening 0 rapidly that “an even greater catastrophe” than the ter- rible inflation of 1923 threatens, un- less foreign bankers come to the aid of the great German industrialists. was voiced here yesterday by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, whom Hitler put at the head of the Reichsbank Speaking to representatives of the American, British, French, Dutch Swiss and Swedish creditors of Ger- man industry, Dr. Schacht asserted that the Reichsbank’s reserves of gold and foreign exchange would fall by July 1 below 300,000,000 marks ($71,400,000), giving only 8 per cent coverage for note circulation .Plead- ing for relief from the foreign bank- ers to uphold Hitlerism, he said “Gentlemen, you will see that there is danger now that the Reichsnank’s reserves may shrink to zero.” This Is What Drove Students’ demo: fracas. The Berlin meeting was called, af- ter Schacht’s recent conferences with President Roosevelt at the White House, to discuss a moratorium on transfers of German private debt service payments. The German attitude is that her By “TRICOTRIN. AID NAZI VICTIMS Meeting Is Held Cleveland CLEVELAND. conference f in O° A preliminary relief of vis of German fascism was held in Cleve- land May 28. A city committee was elected and a picnic and tag day program outlined, as well as plans to draw in all possible organ- i to a broad united front con- in the near future. Dr. Zucker has been added to the Cleveland Provisional Committee for Relief of Victims of German Fascism, which includes Max Berger, di: trict secretary of the Arbeiter Kra ken und Sterbe Kasse; Max Hayes editor of the Cleveland Citizen, off cial organ of the Cleveland Federa- tion of Labor; S. Lesco. Painters Lo- cal 867; Alex Kloka, Blaue Donau; Leah Fay, district secretary, Workers International Relief; H. Strasfurth, chairman Branch 188, Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund; Dr. appalling torture behind prison bars. Workers’ Resistance Intact But the unspeakable Nazi terror has not smashed the power of stance of the German working class. The revolutionary workers are gaining strength for the coming gigantic struggle to overthrow Fascism. The German w class is look- The victims regime call for our help. ghty voice of the ; American working class must reach |the masses of Germany. The fam- ilies of the political prisoners and| those who fled from Nazi terror need | immediate relief. All efforts must be made to encourage the German m es in their fight against Fascism.” American Workers Must Aid “Organize local demonstrations, protest mectings, relief campaigns be- tween now and June 24th. On that day demonstrate, not as individuals, but with your organizations in mighty united a: Fascist front! See to it that your union and your branch | join the local meetings as well as the| united working class on this issue! foreign private indebtedness can be liquidated only if she gets opportu- nities for expansion of exports. Ger-| man imports were greater than ex- ports from 1924 to the summer of 1930, Dr. Schacht pointed out, and since then, after a temporary rise,| export surpluses have again de- creased. In April, the export. surplus dropped from 68,000,000 to 60,000,000 marks, | and this drop would have been great-| er if recourse had not been had to) an 11 per cent reduction of licensed | imports. The Nazi Ministry of Eco-| nomics has ordered the June import) (Formerly Associate Editor of City College Mercury) When Dr. Frederick B. Rdbinson. now president of the College of the City of New York, went over the top with his umbrella against the stu- dents’ anti-war demonstration. his eye was fixed on higher things. In this. the learned doctor was only following out the tactics of a life-time. When Dr. Robinson in 1917 or so was a humble instructor (humble only to his superiors whose jobs he covet- ed) in public speaking, he won ac- claim (from Tammany grafters, etc.) for his campaign against students the Umbrella M tration against war at City College of New York which started President Robinson on the rampage. He charged the stu- dents with an umbrella, which they took away from him during the The Rise of Dr. Robinson quotas cut 50 per cent in an effort! who dared to make radical speeches| to prevent a catastrophically unfay-| orable balance of trade. | Since Gertian imports consist! duction necessarily involves curtail-| ment of food imports and further) lowering of the living standards of} the German masses. | in his classes. On the crest of the war hysteria, he thus went over the top against radicalism—and lifted liargely of food supplies, such a re- himself up to be a professor of eco- nomics, AS an economic professor, he con- tinued his way over the top against socialism, shattering the theories of | Karl Marx—and stealing the func-| The German demand for export) tions of Professor Guthrie, the head} June 24 demonstrations. There should) opportunities (tariff favoré and re-|of the Department of Government | be no splitting or division of. the| storation of colonies) is expected to] and Economics. be stressed at the World Economic Then, Dr. Robinson rested and till- H. C. Cohn; Dr. B. Ginsberg, and E.| J. Laibman, John Reed Club. “Everybody out Soviet Collective Farmers Greet Comrade Thaelmann The Collective Farms of the Middle Volga send their fraternal greet- ing to the German revolutionary workers and their leader Thaelmann, in- carcerated in the dungeons of the fascist bandits. We are following our German comrades, who struggle against against the bourgeoisie and landlords with the greatest attention. We grect your heroism in face of the fascist terror. fascism Remember, friends, that always with always for you. Every shock-brigader of the collective farms understands very well that he works for the cause of the world revolution, that we are buliding soci- alism in our country in order that throughout the world the power of the Soviets, the power of the workers and peasants shall emerge victorious.” This resolution was adopted at the Congress of the Collective Shock we are you. in the streets on} June 24th against Hitler Fascism!” | Brigaders of the Middle Volga and Tartar Regions held May 15th in the | City of Samara. evict Worle: ‘Murdésed by Fascist White Terror Rush Relief Funds for Aid to Victims of German Fascism At Once BERLIN, May 20 (By Mail). —The wave of Nazi murders continues prac- tically unabated, although the foreign capitalist press (including the Amer- iean press) suppresses all this news. Even the German Nazi-controlled press is compelled to prbtish accounts of the slaying of workers, and it is evident that the murders reported are but a fraction of the total number, most being wholly hushed up by thee-——- murderous Nazi government The Berlin “Vossische Zeitung” of May 5 reports: “The body of an un- identified man was found in the Ha- vel River at the so-called Grashorn near Geltow. The body was wrapped in military blankets and tied up with cord. His legs and knees were tied together. The chest was wrapped in a red-stripped blanket. The dead man is about 30 or 35 years old and must have been n the water since the mid- Gle of April. The Potsdam District Attorney has confiscated the body.” The “Vossische Zeitung” of May 6 “The Communist Spangenberg, of the Templin District, committed suicide by hanging himself in the Prenslau Prison. He was arrested on suspicion of having committed a bomb outrage.” Workers Murdered and Thrown Into River | The “Vossische Zeitung” on May 13: “The body of a man found in the ‘Teltow Canal has now been identified. Ut is the 35-year old worker Willi Plenske of Manteuffelstrasse 97.” See lice have found the body of a man on the Maybachufer, who evidently| committed suicide some time ago. The, body has not been identified as yet.” Two Brothers Shot Dead “Der Tag,” of Berlin, on May reported ‘Two brothers, and Joseph Vobis, both unemployed were found shot to death near the Olex gas filling station in Heerdt near Duesseldorf. It is said that the two were politically unreliable, both of them having been members of the Stahihelm and later joining the Com- unist Party.” | On the same day it adds: “Johann | Lopau, former Socialist Senate mem- | ber, who was business manager of the | ‘Volksblatt fuer Lueneburg und Um-| xeburg’ for many years, commited suicide on Friday.” | “Der Tag” reported on May 17: | “Hermann Riedel, former Spartacus leader, commited suicide in Gladbeck by hanging himself. Riedel played a prominent part in the disturbances in Emscher Lippe after the war.” 14 Christian The same paper reports on May) Nazi Gangs Kill Workers 16: “The lawyer Franke) died in St.} “Der Tag” of the same date: “Jo- Norbert Hospital, Berlin, as a result) hann Bardt, 30 years old, workman of an attempted suicide. Frankel had/| and his 20-year-old brother William been released recently from “protec-| were attacked by unknown persons tive arrest” in Dortmund. For a long! and critically wounded.” (Both have time he had been legal counsel for since died of their injuries.) the Locomotive Engineers’ Union. His| The Berlin “Germania” of May 15 Jaw partner, Elias, committed suicide reports: According to the Deusseldort in Dortmund some time ago.” police, several persons persuaded the On May 17 the same paper reports: | roofer Henseler to go with them into “The body of a man was found last the house at Lessingstrasse 21 last month in the Tegeler See. The body Saturday night. Soon after neigh- has now been identified. Tt is Wal-| bors heard several shots. Henseler ter Eckart, barber, 28 years old, of was found critically shot in the at- pone i irs in Hohenneven- tic, He was taken to a hospital where, And on Ma 16-16 adie ‘eine 0 | : Me lt nad a) ia \omea “Se 7 ned mae | Conference at London. ‘ed the soil of the land he had con- an Wild NANKING AND! | | JAPAN SIGN ARMISTICE To Set Up North China Buffer State and Combat Communism SHANGHAI, May 31.—Japan and Nanking formally signed a truce in North China warfare at Tangku. The. terms of the armistice provide: 1.—Demilitarization of the whole} region bounded by the Great Wall,| the Peiping-Mukden Railway, and| the Peiping-Siuyuan Railway | 2.—Dissolution of all Chinese vol- unteer forces within this area. | tween Peiping and Shanhaikwan at the Great Wall. | Reports from Tokio state that the truce has heen confirmed by the War | Ministry there. The names of the Chinese dele- gates to the negotiations were not! made public as the Nanking govern- ment fears the indignation of the Chinese people will be wrecked upon the betrayers of national defense against the Japanese invasion ee Tokio Reveals Feng’s Role. Dispatches from Tokyo confirm the planned establishment of a pro-Jap- anese puppet state in North China and also elucida the role of Feng- Yu-Hsiang's mysterious “revolt.” According to the Nippon Dempo news agency, Feng, who is now at Kalgan west of Peiping. is organizing an army to fight Chiang-Kai-Shek and declare the independence of No China. Many of Feng’s former sub- ordinate generals are now in Peiping with their troops and they are :re- ported to have conferred with Feng Secretly on Sunday. agreeing on the following four points: 1—tLaunching of a campaign against Chiang-Kai-Shek on the pre- text that he failed to resist the Jap-| quered, until his department had grown into a regular business college, of which he was the head When Dr. Mezes, the president of the college at that time, went abroad. Dr. Robinson rushed in to hold the fort—against “radicalism.” A man who knows how to convert a simple article of defense like an umbrella into an aggressive weapon of attack also Knows that if he holds on to the umbrella long enough it may open out and lift him up to—| who knows? | Dr. Robinson. playing on his cello. at home, dreams of a brilliant fu-| ture, going over the top, to greater| anese invasion. Feng’ will use this/ and greater heights, in his lucrative! as a cloak, in actuality, abandoning | war on radicalism, | all anti-Japanese actions. | | 2.—Feng accepts the Japanese prin- | 150,000,000 Rounds of | ciple of the “Asiatic Monroe Doctrine” | ‘Ammunition Ordered ; | and will work for active Co-operation | with Japan. i} (Worker Correspondent4 3.—All warlike operations against | BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—The the state of Manchukuo will be aban-| ? | | doned, and the question of its rec-| | Western Cartridze Company has | TBA fe ” | ‘received an order for. 150,000,000 | | Snition “postponed. |rounds of ammunition. Similar) | 4.—Feng will seek Japanese assist- | orders have been placed with three, | ANc¢e in suppressing the Communists and the Soviet government through- out China. | other cartridge companies. By Mail everywhere: Ome year, $6; six months, $3.58; 3 mi 3.—Resumption of rail traffic be-| | || Norman Davis, a few days ago SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ths, $2; 1 month, Te, Foreign and FASCISM! Arms Meet ‘Halts As England and U.S. Clash Again British Empire Demands Bombing Planes to Use Against Colonial Peoples GENEVA, May 31.—The deadlock at the Disarmament Conference is now so complete that it has been decided to abandon general meetings for the present and take refuge in secret hold-and-corner conversations in back rooms, until new “formulas” and “agreements” can be hatched ont that are respectable enough for public exhibition. Difficulties have developed on every subject which is under discussion, iN Ta eS ~* definition of aggression, limitation of | | armed forces, reduction of war ma- terial U. S. Move Against British Empire | Roosevelts general non-aggression, | or “no-force” idea was given another airing by Norman H. Davis, thus bringing the American delegation into a head-on collision with the English. England is all for the scheme, but only if it extends to Europe, instead | of to the whole world. .On the ocea- sion of the Briand-Kellogg Pact, En- gland signed with reservations which were intended to protect her right to use force in certain parts of the world where her imperial interests | were held to be at stake. She has not | departed from this attitude, but the U. S.. under the specious pretext of con- sulting the interests of the Turks, | Persians, Afghans and the like, is | urging that the “no-force”’ proposals should be made world-wide in their scope. America’s motives are quite obvious, in view of her recent clash with the British oil magnates in Per- sia. JUNE 1, 1983 ) Roosevelt To Give Trophy To Bombing Plane — | WASHINGTON, May 31.—Pres-| ident Roosevelt will present the} | Collier Trophy for “the outstend-| | jing development in Amer.can aeronautics” to Glenn L. Martin, | |for his firm's manufacture of the |latest, fastest, and most deadly |bombing plane yet constructed. | | The Glenn Martin factory is now| | working on a $2,000,000 ‘contract from the Army Air Corps for the |construct’on of 38 of these 200- jmile-an-hour planes. || | |at Geneva, stated that the United States was in favor of the com- plete abolition of air bombing. | HOTCHKISS ARMS FIRM REAPS HIGH ibaiaies Sek Need Bombing Planes ta Police Colonial Countries LONDON, May 31.—George Lans- DIVIDENDS IN 1932 bury, leader of ihe Labor Opposition, raised the question of air bombing. — The British government is urging the PARIS, May 31.—Hotchkiss and Co.| abolition of air pene in times oe ” ‘ J | War as .most of the largest Englisl one of the largest munitions firms in towns are within casy bombing range the world, announced a 60 franc divi- of the continent of Europe, this is dend on the basis of its excellent) ynqerstandable, but has made a re- business last year. | servation to permit the use of bomb- The president's reports said: in| ing planes for “police purposes” in response to many demands the com-|“certain outlying districts.” These pany had developed more powerful | certain outlying districts are British automatic machine guns. which) colonial territories where bombing could be used equally well by land,| planes are regularly used for the col- sea or air “forces. “In the field of| lection of the iniquitous hut and oth- automatic arms firing infantry cart-|er taxes. Stanley Baldwin, leader of ridges Hotchkiss has noticeably| the House, replied to the question, brought to a high degree of perfec-| that the English policy has been de- tion its rifle machine gun which dur-| cided on only after the most careful ing the course of particularly severe| consideration, and that he was con- tests has demonstrated its qualities.” | fident that the reservations made by These are arms which can be espe-| His Majesty's government would not cially useful against street demon-| upset the general plans under discus- strations in the hands of the police.| sion at Geneva. The leading socialist newspaper in the United States, the New Leader, is making efforts to crawl out of a desperate situation This week's New Leader contains an editorial entitled “Merited Critic- ism” in which the editors of the New Leader attempt to make amends for a recent too biunt attack on the Scyiet Union, and a too open support of the coming imperialist world slaughter. Behind the New Leader's editorial] is an interesting history. On May 13, the New Leader printed an article called “Social Demo- cracy Is in Danger’, written by one of their members, who is their regular correspondent from Germany. This correspondent has been contributing regularly to the New Leader, and his position on political questions is thor- oughly familiar to its editors. The article of the New Leader's correspondent was nothing more nor less than an incitation to war against the Soviet Union. The article of this socialist correspondent was nothing but a repetition of lies very similar to those with which the socialist leaders of the Second International urged the workers of the world to slaughter one another in the last world war. This article, printed by the New header, contained the following as- sertions: That the Soviet Union is a “menace”. That an alliance between the Soviet Union and imperialist Japan and fascist Germany “for a war on Republican France ... seems practically certain.” SOCIALISTS VOTE FOR WAK BUDGET. The article in the New Leader affirmed that the silpport which the French Socialist Party has just given to the French war budget, the largest military budget in Europe, is justifiable as a socialist act. The reason given is that the French Socialists now consider that France must have a strong army “as a defense against fascist invasion”. The French Socialists voted to support the French imperialist army because “the outlook is made more menacing by the fact that Russia .. . lies adjacent to dictatorships on the East,” and that these dictatorships “seek to extend dictatorship as __ a political system by force into the democratic countries of the West.” The article in the New Leader said that the coming world war will be a final conflict in which fascist dictatorshin will attempt to crush bourgeois democracy. According to the New Leader article, “there will be a great differ- ence between the last war... and the war that now threatens to break over France . .. The war now threatening will be more purely political in its nature.” The coming world war, said the New Leader, will be a war in defense of democracy against those countries ruled by dictatorships, who are preparing io attack “Western democracies.” EVADING THE REAL ISSUES. Tt was these statements which the Daily Worker exposed before the workers two days after they appeared in the New Leader. At first the New Leader attempted to laugh off the Daily Worker analysis as something comical. In its May 20 issue, the New Leader called our analysis the “Bray of the Week”, However, the exposure of the “Daily” caused such a fiood of protest from workers to descend upon the editors of the New Leader that they now have been forced to attempt a more serious reply. In this week's editorial, they defend the printing of the opinions of their German correspondent in the following way: “It (their correspondent’s article—Ed.) was not as carefully read as it should be owing to the large amount of material that had to be edited that week, and it slipped by us. We join our critics in dis- agreeing with it, as it does not represent the New Leader's editorial policy.” ‘This is conscious and hypocritical evasion of the real issues. ‘The printing of the above opinions is not due to careless editing. It is not a trivial “slip” due to haste. The statements made by the German correspondent do not differ in any way from the policies which the New Leader has been enunciating all along. * The German correspondent of the New Leader defends the voting of the French war budget by the French Socialist Party. Does the New Leader accept this defense? If not, why does not the New Leader repu- diate this action in its latest editorial? Why is the New Leader ‘silent on this in its editorial? The Daily Worker charges that this recent action of the French. So- claliet, Party parallels exactly the action of all the Sociaitst Parties of the Second Mternational during the world war in 1914, when they, too, voted STILL PREPARING TO REPEAT THE BETRAYAL OF 1914, Party? Does it approve of the reasons given by the leading French soci- alists for this support, of the French imperialist military machine? Why is the New Leader silent on these questions? The German correspondent of the New Leader declares that the presence of the Soviet Union is the cause of the enormous armies which the capitalist countries of Europe keep ready for instant action, that the Soviet Union is the real war “menace”. In its latest editorial, attempting to disclaim the article of its German correspondent, the New Leader is utterly silent on these statements. It does not repudiate these state- ments, Does the New Leader approve of the action of the French Socialist | | | | | CALLING FOR WAR AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION. Why are the editors of the New Leader silent on this question? ‘They must be silent because they are fully aware that these statements repre- sent exactly the position on the Soviet.Union which they and the Soci- alist leaders of the Sezond International have been consistently maintain- ing for the last 15 years. Only on last Sunday, May 28, the Jewish Daily Forward, socialist sister paper of the New Leader, said: “Democratic countries as a rule are anti-militaristic even though they are compelled to maintain a standing army and a big navy. The dictatorship governments, however, are militaristic even when they speak of peace. Stalin, just as Mussolini and Hitler, continually ridicule the soft-headed pacifists and bring up their citizens in a military fashion.” And did not the leading socialist newspaper of Germany, the Vor- waerts, write in September, 1931, at the beginning of the Japanese of- fensive against Manchuria: “It should not at all be doubted that Russia will not fold her | hands in her lap. And in this fact exactly tes the great danger ripening rapidly in the Far East. It is sufficient to recall the brutal military offensive of the Red Army in 1929, in order to have a pic- ture of the violent solution of conflicts in the Far East.” THE SOCIALISTS DEFEND THE “DEMOCRACY” OF’ | IMPERIALIST COUNTRIES. These are the official opinions of the socialist leaders of Europe and America as expressed in their leading papers. According to them, it is the Soviet Union which is militaristic. They hide from the workers the determined consistent peace policy of the Soviet Union. They hide from the workers the fact that the Soviet Union alone has offered time and time again a proposal for universal and immediate disarmament. They hide from the workers the fact that the imperialist powers of the world contemptuousiy and cynically spurn these proposals, According to the soctalist leaders, the capitalist class of France, Britain, Japan and the United States are “anti-militaristic’, and love peace. France, which has the largest military machine in Europe—t'rance whose bayonets and machine guns enforce the slavery of the German workers to the Versaiiles Treaty—this France, according to the New Leader. and the French socialist leaders, loves peace and is anti-militaristic, ‘The United States and Great Britain whose colossal navies ae now stationed throughout the world to defend the profits of the Morgans and Wall Street—these countries who have the largest fleets of bombing air- planes in the world, whose ammunition factories work day and night— these “democratic” countries are anti-militaristic, say the leaders of the Socialist Party. And when in 1929, the invasion of Soviet territory by the armies of the Chinese war lords, financed by American, French and British imperialism, was heroically repulsed by the workers’ Red Army, this is described by the socialist leaders as a “brutal military offensive’. And notice how the leaders of the Socialist Party strive to conceal from the workers the difference between the wo. ers’ dictatorship in the Soviet Union and the fascist dictatorships in Germany and Italy. When the workers of the Soviet Union prepare to defend thems Ives from the coming intervention of the imperialist armies, the socialist leaders proclaim to the workers that this is “militaristic’. To the socialist leaders, whose treacheries paved the way for ‘he Hitlers and Mussolinis, the rule of the workers, and proletarian democracy as exemplified in the rile of the workers’ and peasants’ Soviets is the same as the fascist rule of the capitalist class. The “danger rmpening rapidly in the Par Mast’ is not due to the Savage imperialist rape by Japan of Manchuria, nd Japan's building of | capitalist class. “danger” of war in the Far East is provided by the fact that the Sovte’ ‘Union “will not fold her hands in her lap”, as the imperialist wolves pre- pare to attack her! It is in this way that the Socialist leaders urge the workers to wup- port the armies of *heir capitalist governments. The very latest official declaration of the International Federation of Trade Unions, the leading European Socialist Trade Union organization of Europe declared on May 18, 1933, that “in the struggle between the democratic political conception which has made Europe great and the worship of force which in the course of her history has so often brought Europe to the brink of ruin, the LF.T.U. is ranging itself on the side of : democracy and thus on the side of peace.” THE DEMOCRATIC RULE OF MOKGAN, What is this “demccracy” for which the socialist leaders are pre- pared to fight and which they urge the workers to defend? It is the “democracy” of the capitalist governments of France, Britain, Japan and the United States! It is the bourgeois parliamentary democracy which serves as the mask for the ruthless exploitation of the workers by the It is the democracy of the rule of Morgan! It is the democracy of British imperialism which crushes under its heel India and the colonies. It is the democracy of American imperialism which sends its navy to China and its marines to Nicaragua, the Philippines, and Cuba. The socialists want to defend the democracy of French imperialism against the fascism of the German ruling class. As if theré were any difference between the capitalist class of Germany and the capitalist class of France. As if both of these imperialist powers were not preparing to leap at one another's throats for the division of coal mines, colonies and foreign markets! In the world war of 1914, the Socialist Parties of the world fought side by side with their capitalist governments in defense of “democracy”, against the “German Huns”, agains, “aatsertem”, against “the tyranny of Czarism”, etc. This is how they concealed the imperialist character of the war. To- day, they are doing the same thing. Between. the coming imperialist slaughter and the last world war, there will be a “great difference”, says the article in the New Leader. “The war now threatening will be more purely political in its nature .. .’, says the article in the New Leader, It will be a war in defense of “bourgeois democracy”, says the article in the New Leader! How familiar to the workers is this sentiment! For it is exactly the same as the propaganda with which the socialist leaders and #¥e capital~ ist governments led the workers into the last imperialist bloodbath, What is it that forces the socialist correspondent of the New Leader to proclaim that the coming imperialist war will be “different” from the Jast imperialist slaughter? Because the memory of the treacherous promises about the “fight for democracy” in 1914 still burns deeply in the memories of the workers all over the world. In order to lead the workers into the next slaughter, they must say that the coming war will be dif- ferent. And the imperialist capitalist rulers say exactly the same thing, But the truth is that the coming war will be even more brutally im- perialist, more reactionary than the last, for it will be directed not only for a redivision of the markets of the world, but against the workers’ fatherland, the Soviet Union, where the working class is building the foundations of Socialism! It is in support of such a monstrous slaughter that the socialist leaders now vote support of war budgets, and proclaim that the next war will be “more purely political”! ‘The present ‘propaganda of the socialist léaders differs only slighuy from their propaganda of 1914. But their actions are wholly the same. PREPARING FOR WAR IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY. Under the guise of defending “democracy”, they are defending t rule of the capitalist class, e The New Leader cannot lightly bruch aside the articier o. its German correspondent. The printing of these articles was not dus to hacte. New Leader printed this article because the opinions @ iis German cor- respondent are its own opinions and the official opinions of the leaders of the Second Socialist International, ae We repeat our charge against the New Leader and the leaders of the Socialist Party. They are feeding the American workers with prow paganda that is calculated to line the workers np in defense of capitale ism in the next world war and for intervention against the Soviet Union, They are preparing to repost their treachery of 1914 i The . 4) HH] OR aR I,