The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1933, Page 4

oe r Page Four 13th St ublished by the Compredaily Publishing Co. New York City, ». ¥ Ine Telephone ALgenqnin 4-7956. dally exeept Seuday, at 5 &, Cable “DAIWORE ” Address and mail cheeks (0 the Daily Worker, 50. 18th St., New Terk, N. ¥ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: a By Mait overywhere; One year, $6; six ths, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month. Ie, JUNE 2, 1988 excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New Tork City. Foreign and Canada One year, months, $5; 7 months, $3. THE FIERCE STRU GGLE THE IMPERIALISTS ARE WAGING FOR MARKETS AND COLONIES, THE TARIFF WARS AND THE RACE FOR ARMAMENTS, HAVE ALREADY LED TO THE IMMEDIATE DANGER OF A NEW IMPERIALIST WAR Soviet Union Calls Japan to Account for Railroad Acts American Support Against U.S.S.R. Asked by Ishii ‘Sure of Sympathy with Js in This Struggle’ U n In 1917 Ishii ident V Japan in a ruptive fore ganda, which have selves into the region E Appealing to the and aid of American car added: “I am sure that you symp: thize with us in this new strugg! Cor Ss on heels of s with Roosevelt panese two point there # no irrecoricilable een th Since American | m is resolutely opposed to Japanese domination of the Pacific | and China. hutely just as reso- penetration re of influence in the ar East, what can Ishii and Roose- velt have found in common in their secret negotiations? Only two things —common opposition to the Soviet Union and common struggle to ex- terminate the Chinese Soviet Repub: the two centers of the workers’ sants’ fight for liberation in r East. While the Japanesé Army was driving north to the Soviet border in Manchuria American imperialism made no protest. But as soon as the Japanese for started advancing South into North China, where Amer- ican capitalism has millions invested, Washington pulled all wires to bring the Japanese push to a stop. This is why Ishii’s talks with Roo: velt received none of the spotlight, e publicity that attended | versations with the representatives of all other powers ng the past few weeks. The dark chinations of American and Jap- Rooseve! anese impecialism against the Soviet Geen @nd against the Chinese Sov- ets cunnot sta t of day— but they come o none the ess in -Ishii speeches ROOSEVELT GOLD POLICY SCORED American Inflation Angers France PARIS, May 30.—Roosevelt’s mon- etary policy viewed in France as part of a deliberase economic war which American capital is waging against her competitors. “L'Information”.. writes “The Washington 4d ion seems less an act of collaboration than one of hos- tility. More than ever, the struggle grows between the pound and the dollar. than ever does monei: In formally re- connection with gold, in ing the id with ®@ new battle at the London Economic Confer Ame yoring her ar, s fri deliberately with On these gr he monetary policy nich the United States is adopting ems a new element of international trouble.” She Wing L'Tnformation em nt financial n ers of and reflects the desire for monetary stability (of foreign cur- rencies—France cheapened her money many years ago) on the part of French big business. Flandin, former Finance Minister, commenting on} Roosevelt's inflationary moves, writes in the Revue de Paris, that “if that is his object, it seems that he will fail, for monetary manipulation in itself does not suffice to create prosperity.” | +. 8 | Scores Roosevelt's Price Raising | VIENNA, May 30.—The present eco- nomic trend of affairs was described by E. A. Filene, at the meeting here England, | 2 (Special to "he Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 1. — The Soviet press publishes Japa ply to tl Soviet government's communication of April 16 regarding attacks on the Chinese Eastern Railway. Japan i rrogant enough to say ‘iat the Jap- anese Army and the Japanese au es in Manchuria ate “protect- e interests of the U.S.S.R. on At the sam n’s re r a) hat the Jap- 9 provoke war in hat the Jap no conn complained of by ment, even though and advisers of involved. responsibi doing e@ are Manchuria Japan Disclaims Acts of Japanese Agents The Japanese reply sieps over the bounds of sheer impudence when it s these Japan- Manchukuo's the ssume nat inasmuch ivisers ente e “of their o% at of Japan cannot for their actions. bandit raids Soviet em- , Jap- Governm responsibility As for the incessant and the pping of loyees of the Chinese Easter an’s reply evades the issue by hat Japanese roughout Manchuria, so that >an cannot shirk full responsibility p acts, note.) -Ed ect does not, how instance of “unfounded” reports. In conclusion, Japan’s reply de- clares that settlement of the Chinese Eastern conflict rests fully upon ne- gotiations between the governments of the Soviet Union and Manchukuo. and that “the Japanese government sincerely wishes the speediest just settlement.” Soviet Note Holds Japan Responsible The reply of Sokolnikov. Deputy Foreign Commissar, on behalf of the Soviet government, nded to the Japanese Ambassador yesterday and published today, says in part: “The Soviet government takes note of the Japanese Government's re- assurances that will respect the rights and interests of the US.S.R in Northern Manchuria and the Chinese Eastern Railway.” The Sov- iet note places full responsibility upon Japan for anti-Soviet actions in Manchuria, continuing “These as- sura: xclude the possibility of the Government of Japan relicving itself of responsibility for violation of the int of the Soviet Union under the formal prete: that this belongs within the competence of Manchu- kuo.” Brands Japanese Silence on Soviet Controversy ion. The Soviet gov that the Japanese government's ex- Planations...do not refute the facts mentioned by the Soviet government. It expresses its conviction that the Government of Japan will take steps for the discontinuance of actions in- Juring the interests of the U.S.S.R.” The Soviet note then exposes the Japanese pretense raised in the Rosta charges, saying that “since the Jap- anese reply contains no concrete in- stances of allegedly slanderous re- borts by the Rosta agency about ac- tions of the Japanese command, the } 1 regarded as | com: valid, Soviet Union Ready to Sell Railway aint cannot be For Sake of Peace Commissar Sokolnikov’s reply adds jthat the Soviet gove ent—by its read: to commence negotiations for of the Chinese Ei m sted its a ground for confiic with ¢ Railway—has to el y Armies, which Nanki Japan Turns Army Towards Soviet Union’s Borders Nanking Keeps Planes; for Anti-Communist Campaign SHANGHAI, June 1.—With the Nanking-Japan armistice giving them control of most of North China, the Japanese imperialists today turned their efficient war machine towards a new goal—invasion and conquest of Chahar Province, on the border of Soviet Outer Mongolia. This would bring the Japanese war threat very close to Chita and Irkutsk, chief cities) in the heart of Siberia. ‘The balance of the 50,000 Japanese troops now in North China would be used against volunteer insurgent forees now active in Manchuria, and threatening Japanesé control of many points. Reports current here state that there are a number of secret points in the Chino-Japanese armistice not mentioned in the published truce terms and covered by verbal under- standing. The Nanking government, though it possesses scores of war planes pur- chased with contributions lured from the Chinese people “for defending the country against the Japanese invad- ” has not used a single plane the Japanese, abandoning the e front-line troops to repeated bombings from Japanese planes, and preferring to concentrate all available pment against the Chinese Red i ng has been vain- ly trying to crush for the past two years. Now that the Nanking surrender to Japan is practically complete, both the Japanese and Nanking armies ad- vance against their one common foe —Japan against the Soviet Union’s borders in Northwest China, and Chi-| ang Kai-Shek against the Chinese Communists—with Japanese support. ITALIAN SEAMEN FORBIDDEN TO GO ON SOVIET SHIPS Fascists Fear Sight of Conditions Would Arouse Envy NEW YORK.—Italian members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union reported the following here last week. (We hold such news until several ships of a fascist country have come end gone in order to protect the sea- men of any ship from suspicion.) In Italy, a special police officer 1s sent to guard tl angplank of each Soviet ship unloading or taking on cargo. Special permits have to be is- sued to the crew before they can go ashore. Visitors are not permitted, and Italians who have business on board must first be examined by the fascist political police. g x ee conditions of semi-serfdom on the barons and the native landlord su; gime. The overwhelming majority to go barefoot, and live in crude tl above. Vomen and Children of Cuba This is one of the thousands of Cuban peon families living under —FROM THE TWELFTH PLENUM OF THE CO UTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL. be plantations of the American sugar gar estates, including those of the Menocals and Co., who profess “opposition” to Machado's bloody re- of the white and Negro peons have hatched shacks like the hut shown The picture was taken at Guanajay, Cuba. Women and children both work long hours in the tropical sun in sugar “and tobacco fields. E see by the papers that J. P. Morgan has been passing the plate in the Episcopalian Church | where he promises to renounce all | earthly things every Sunday. | J. P. has been passing around a| plate into which the whole working | class has been forced to drop tribute. What do you say, shall we kick it | out of his hands? HERE has been little news on the front page about gangsters, these last few days. ‘The reason is that they have been crowded off by the biggest chiseler | of them all, J. P. himself, the pride | and admiration of the capitalist | class, the college professors «.nd the | ambitious little college boys from | | Harvard. | | What Is Siusneey We lles Doing in Machado Cuba? By ELISA LIMAR. The appointment of Sumner Welles as the White House Ambassador to Cuba shatters definitely the naive hopes entertained by some individ- uals who again and again fall v tims of illusions ts to the “lib- eral” policies of the Democratic President Roosevelt. These illusions are not only deliberately spread by the paid agents of American bankers in the United States, but also by the Jackeys and tools of the bloody Yan- kee oppressors in Cuba—the bour- \geois and landlord native exploiters of the masses. The Machado faction in power ac- claimed Roosevelt's appointee and gave a royal reception to the Messiah of the “economic reconstruction” of Cuba, while the militant workers of Havana, headed by their heroic lead- er, the Communist Party, staged a revolutionary protest demonstration upon the arrival of this open hater and enemy of the colonially op- pressed peoples of the Caribbean, “Op ion” Tinsions No less insidious have been the il- lusions spread by that faction of the Cuban bourgeoisie and land- lords who stand in “opposition” to Machado and whose leaders are Menocal, Mendietta and the whole consortium heading the fake revolu- tionary Junta. These leaders who are busily engaged in their belly-crawling promises to Wall Street sugar mag- nates and the White House to best serve the Yankee interests in Cuba as substitutes for the bloody regime of Machado, speculate on the contra~ dictions of American imperialist in- in the island. These confli ted in the struggle be- ational City Bank and the National Bank, each trying to inroads in the control of the economic life of the country. Seek Capitalist Way Out Previous to the appointment of Ambassador Welles, Wall Street |made it known through th | White House that a “strong man’ develop civilization and progress in general but also by purely selfish | motives) for what better protection | can there be for the U. S. in the event of foreign menace than the presence throughout the continent of strong governments maintained in power by the concent of the gov- cerned, well disposed toward the United States.” (Emphasis ours.) No better choice could possibly be made by the “democratic” President, especially at a time when a stronger icy is, necessary in order to safe- guard the, $1,500,000,000 invested in Cuba. It is important to note that | | wife, and we spent nearly the whole |night reading it. The Wall Street capitalist vultures are sharpening their teeth for war- feast. The bulletin of one of the big Wall Street brokerage houses say: “The airplane is the musket of the | future . and authorization to the president to buy planes for the Navy up to the limit of the London naval agreement .. . offers hope on which purchases of airplane securities can be justified.” | | ‘HE airplanes drop bombs murder- | ing workers and their wives and | children. | And the capitalist speculators rake | in the profits. | AST night we were up to one of our usual triexs. We began to ad the “reminiscences of Lenin”, just put out by the International Publishers, written by Krupskaya, his e simply could | not put it down. It is fascinating. HERE are unforgettable pictures of | Lenin . . . standing over the stove | to see that the milk doesn’t run| over . getting up early in the | morning to shine Krupskaya’s shoes | . walking through the mountain | ‘forests to regain his health... . five members of the Roosevelt cabinet | are connected with American sugar interests in Cuba. Program Against Masses Stripped of the demagogic altru- statement has no other meaning than his outspoken abt ne? for the Cu- | ban maasses in whose behalf hé so maliciously steps out to guide them and help them develop and prosress. His guidance and help only mean the maintenance in power of a government well disposed toward the United States, toward the Amer- ; ican dollar. It may be necessary in the future for the American dollar and business interests in Cuba to pave the way for leading, guiding, the Bolsheviks | through their struggles and Sea | ties . . . working tirelessly, ardently, indomitably for the revolution .. . mecting workers from Russia . . . planning with them . . . always eager for the struggle for the overthrow ca |capitalism ... stic imperialist humbug, Mr. Welles’ | T last the true cause of the de- pression has been brought to light. This time it is the magazine “Liberty” | which makes the discovery. | civilization | - “We are as rich as we ever were. | We have all the machinery, every thing we had in the heyday of our colossal prosperity. But we have lost | our faith. Our enthusiasm has | burned out.” i are Well, suppose the 17 million uxem- | ployed all sat down and said to them- | | Selves, “We are burning up with faith Machado’s substitution and pick out! soother servile tool’ from among the bourreois-landlord “opposition” or a follower of the same. A Wall St. Background Welles is not a novice in the im- perialist intrigues and marine inter- ver in the Caribbean. He wa i able a mission tant to General Crow. in Cuba sent there ¥ House to devise election 1 now in force, these same laws aiming at maintaining “strong governments in power well disposed toward the) United States.” Machado, for in- stance, is the genuine creature of | Crowder’s laws, so was Menocal, the orrupted President of Cuba who was the instrument through which Cuba The authorities do not want the| would be selected. Welles, immedi-| entered the World War. | Italian seamen to see conditions on| ately upon his appointment, hastened | As a reliable imperialist emissary, | | board Soviet ships, for fear it will| to declare that his going to Cuba will| Welles has done other good jobs for| | spur activity among them against| aim at improving of the economic) his masters. In fact, he has had a their own miserable conditions. GIANT GROWTH 0 SOVIET PRESS The growth of the Soviet Press has been unprecedented. There now lare 6680 daily newspapers being printed, or eight times the pre-war Russian level. The daily newspaper ; cirenlation in the Soviet Union totais 000,000 copies now, or an increase of 1,400 per over the culetion of newspapers in cent total cir- Ozaris! status of the country because “amy improvement in Cuba would be im- | mediately reflected here.” In plain \language this means that American \imperialism will seek, through its ‘new ambassador, a capitalist way out |of the crisis, at the expense of the toiling masses of Cuba. What are the underlying motives that moved the American sugar mag- | nates in the selection of this “strong }man’? Let this imperialist emissary | himself state his reactionary view. As early as September, 1924, Welles ‘made the following statement in the Atlantic Monthly: “The policy of the United Stat with regard to Cuba is necessaril a policy which applies to other countries of the Caribbean. Our | only by its altruistic desire to help The World’s Largest | Caterpillar Tractor Plant Opens in U.S.S.R. By N. BUCHWALD. Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker MOSCOW, June 1.—The giant Che- lyabinsk caterpillar tractor plant opened today with festive, enthusi- astic ceremonies and greetings from leading government and Party organ- izations. The message of greetings from the of the International Chamber of} Central Committee of the Communist Commerce. Mr. Filene referred to! Party of the Soviet Union to the Roosevelt's inflation program for rais-| shock brigade workers who built the ing the cost of living to the workers.| plant emphasizes the enormous im- He said: “Efforts are being made to| portance of the new plant for the boost prices, although prices are so n now as to be out of reach of the t masses. The real problem is to create new purchasing power.” (This would mean giving more money and goods to the workers and farmers, which is the one thing that capital- ism cannot, and will not, do.) Mr. Filene concluded by saying that Areas Whereas we once drifted blindly into| “Not only in the steppe regions of war. we now seem to be drifting into| the Ukraine and the Northern Oau- it with open eyem? | casus, the Volza Basin and the Urals, The message states: “The Chelya- binsk tractor plant, producing cater- pillar tractors, should play a decisive role in the reconstruction of our agri- culture, doubling and tripling agri- cultural output. Caterpillar Tractors Open Up New Kazakstan and Siberia, where the caterpillar tractor is the only way to ensure early sowing, but in the north-| ern districts of the industrial regions evelopment of Socialisé agriculture. | of the Soviet Union in Europe, new millions of acres of fertile land can be cultivated only by means of cater- pillar tractors.” Chelyabinsk Plant World’s Biggest The new plant is the biggest in the world for the manufacture of cater- pillar tractors. Its annual produc- tion capacity is 40,000 machines. This year only 2,000 are scheduled, but in view of its excellent design and the experience gained in the Kharkov and Stalingrad plants full capacity pro-| duction is expected soon. The Chelyabinsk plant is the largest of three tractor-manufacturing giants built during the Five-Year Plan. It will turn out 60 horsepower tractors. The first trial tractors produced in May stood up excellently under tests. With the Stalingrad plant going full blast. turning out 144 tractors daily, and with the Kharkov plant nearing capacity, with a daily output |of 120 tractors, in addition to the impressive production of the Red Put~ ilovertz plant, prospects are bright for the rapid equipping of Soviet agri- culture with sufficient mechanical power to meet the needs of rising pro- duction of grains and industrial crops. Rapid Progress of Agriculture Agriculture is already making rapid strides, this spring marking a big turn in the direction of greater productivity and efficiency. On Mey 25, spring sowing exceeded the schedule for the record year 1930. Upward of 175,000,- 000 acres or 75 per cent sown, com- pared to 158,000,000 acres or 68 per cent in 1930. On the same date plowing for au- tumn sowing was 2,500,000 acres ‘ahead of last year. | wards achieving Stalin's new slogan about “making all collective farmers ) prosperous” and towards improving | the general material conditions of the | workers, t | The big crop! | anticipated this year will go far to-| |Jong training in the school of the | Latin. American division of the State Department. He was sent to Santo Domingo by Harding when country was occupied by American that | and enthusiasm”, do you think this | would turn one wheel of industry or | provide one cents worth of markets? | HE only kind of enthusiasm that will give the workers work is revo- | lutionary enthusiasm to seize power and set up their own government War cet | stiffly . Socialists Leaders Vote for Hitler; Nazis Applaud News in Foreign Socialist Papers Gives Lie to “New Leader’s” Shameless Fabrications The “New Leader”, official weekly organ of the American Socialist Party, continually reiterates that the “German Socialists hold ranks despite Hitler terror”, as their headline puts it in the May 20th issue. The truth about the German Socialists “heroic fight against Hitler” smashed the “New Leader” lie in the face. SOCIALISTS AS “GUEST MEMBERS” OF NAZI PARTY. At the first session of the newly-elected District Council in Stuhm, Prussia, the Social Democratic mem-* bers declared that they wished to attend the meetings of the Nazi cau- cus as “guest members”. The “New Leader” prints a long | report of the “brave act” of the Ger- man Socialists in holding a national conference in the Reichstag building, but what the Socialist Reichstag deputies did during the recent one- day session when Hitler made his “disarmament speech” makes it clear | why they were able to hold their conference with impunity. Socialists Rise for Hitier. The Berlin correspondent of the Copenhagen “Politiken”, biggest cap- italist newspaper in Denmark, sent his paper the following report on the Reichstag vote following Hitler's speech: “All the deputies jump from their | seats, even the Socialists. This causes a sensation. When the Socialists rise the beams of the spotlights are turned upon them... Old and young. they stand t from the tribune and from the mi erial benches. Even Hitler is ap- plauding, as well as the Crown Prince | . .. This applause is meant for the Socialists ... May not some of them feel this thunderous applause as a lash of the whip!” How Socialists “Justify” Hitler Support. This “heroic action” of the German Socialists is explined as follows by the Berlin corresxondent of “Het Volk”, central organ of the Dutch Socialists, giving the artuments used by the German Socialist deputies to j fy” their support of Hitler: ‘A policy which is acceptable from an impartial standpoint may be sup- | ported, even though it is followed by the enemy. On the other hand, it was feared that 4 Socialist demon- stration in the Reichstag—as de- manded by the Central Committee— would have become a pretext for the unleashing of a new terror wave by the Nazis, whose victims would have included many more besides the So- cialist deputies. This argument made a big impression. 70 Socialists Vote for Hitler. “Other deputies who did not agree with the majority in the Socialist Reichstag caucus (the majority fay- | oving support of Hitler) thought they | tyvere bound by Altogether 70 members were present and voted solidiy for Hitles the majority vote. they ‘Undeilies : Pact, Daladier Shows BULLET PARIS, June 1.—The Foreign 01 ffice here asserted that the signing of the Four Power-Pact may not take place for another four or five days, as last minute “adjustments” still had to be made. The German, English and French ambassadors are still waiting instructions in Rome. erie . Socialist Reichstag | | This is the “heroism” of the | cialist leaders in their “brave fight! against Hitler.” Cowardice, fear for | their own skins and betrayal of the | dauntless German workers, who are | fighting for the overthrow of the fascist dictatorship. Socialist Papers on Socialist Manenvyers, It is common gossip among for- eign journalists in Bezlin that the o-called conflict between the Central | Committee of the Socialist Party and the Socialist Reichstag caucus is merely another maneuver. They allege that the Central Com- | mittee demanded that thé Reichstag deputies stay away, or if present, ab- stain from voting. This was reported by a number of foreign socialist newspapers, such as “Het Volk” of Amsterdam, “Le Peuple” of Brus- sels, “Populaire” of Paris, and the “Arbeiter-Zeitung” of Vienna. | The Reichstag caucus, in its May | 17th meeting. decided to vote for the, Hitler resolution. It is now stated »| that this whole “conflict”? was staged | in order to appease the Hitlerites, “f | the same time making the anti-Fas- ist rank and file membership of the Socialist Party believe in the sincer- of the Central Committee's anti- | fascist stand. | Socialist Testimony on Communist Activity. | And as for the “New Leader's” | charge that the German Communist Party is inactive and dead, it so hap- pens that a Swedish Socialist col- league of the “New Leader” forces it to eat its own lies. A Socialist woman writer of Sweden, who returned from Germany three weeks ago, has pub- lished a long article on whet she saw there. She visited a number of German Socialists, writing as fol- lows: “All I noticed of any secret polit- ical activity were some copies of the ‘Rote Fahne’ which is published il- legally every. week. It is sold at five pfennigs (one cent) a copy and I am sure that every copy is read by many hundred workers. It must be said that the ‘Rote Fahne is much better, | now than in the legal period, accord- ing to what my (Socialist) friends tell me. It contains many articles on acts of terror, caricatures on the Third Reich and much theoretical | material.” : This woman says nothing about ' supposed “activity” of the Socialists, ‘although she was in contact on i with Social Democratic circles. is all the more significant that she found—among Socialist officials—the Communist “Rote Fahne”. Here the contrast is so clear that even the blind may see it. On the one hand Socialist deputies voting for Hitler and asking to be taken in as “guest members” of the Nazi cau- cus. On the other the heroic fight lof the German Communist Party, whose illegal central organ is cher- ished by the working class, and even finds its way into the homes of So- | ciatist Party functionaries, who have ‘to admit its uncompromising snirit land propaganda excellence. The PARIS, May 31.—The final text of the Four Power Pact was approved | American working class can judge _ by the French cabinet yesterday, and instructions to sig~ the pact were | for itself! sent to Ambassador Henri de Jouvenel at Rome. Before the pact becomes | | binding upon France it will have to be passed by the Chamber of Deputies. marines. It was Welles.who brought | about the sending of the Dawes Commission to Santo Domingo which “rehabilitated” the finances of that country,: meaning by this that the seal was finally put on the financial | control of the island. This necessi- | | tated, of course, another government,” the Trujillo dictator- ship, better to enforce the conditions of slave labor cn the sugar planta- tions and the construction of roads for the Wall Street masters. “Mediated” Against Honduras Masses In 1924, Welles was in Honduras, busy, very indeed, mediating between zeois-landiord factions engaged warfare, The Provisional resulting from in Government this mediation was again a | “strong government well disposed to- {ward the United States,” concluded | at the expense of the Honduras work- ;ers.and to the great advantage of the United Fruit Co. These are a few instances of the long string of Welles’ imperialist in- | trigues. We know beforehand, there- | fore, his plan of “economic rehabili- will be to tighten the economic and political control in behalf of the su- gar magnates and the American bankers, to help and guide the re- gime of terror and the enslavement of the Cuban masses whether this is to be carried out by a “strong govern- ment” headed by Machado or by the “chosen” creature of the bourgeois- landlord opposition, destined to be equally “strong.” But the Cuban masses, the peas- ants, the city poor, the Negroes and the revolutionary students will raise | higher and higher their banner of struggle against American Imperial- ism and their native exploiters, un- der. the hegemony of the proletariat and under the leadership of the he- roic Communist Party of Cuba. In this strugglesfor national emancipa- tion, the Caan masses will have the support of the revolutionary move- ment of Latin America and the United Statest tation” of Cuba. His mission in Cuba; “strong | At present the Chamber seems favorable, if we are to go by its defeat of a motion of the right-wing leader Louis @— Marin by 434 to 135. Martin had pro- posed an immediate discussion of the| tagonisms that exist between the four | pact negotiations, which the govern- ment wished to postpone till after the signing. Daladier, the French Prem- jer, brought the Chamber to its feet, cheering, when he answered his crit: ics and explained the government's attitude to the peace pact. Daladier clearly showed up the war-threat na- ture of the pact manoeuvers when he said: “No man who holds the respon- sibility for governing this country has over been able to accept the idea that the bloc siretchte* ixom the Baltic to the Mediterranean should be or- ganized against the country which stands with her back against the stretch from the Mediterranean to the Raltic, and France stands with her! back to the ocean, This is a good| reason for entering into a “peace pact,” but Daladier forgets to men- tion that the pact fs also directed against the Soviet Cnion on the po- litical front, and against the United States on the finara al. French adhesion. to the pact has| not been won excwt at the price of) substantial remodelling of the pact. A report from London discloses the fact that no less than six drafts have been made of this pact during the ten week long bargaining that has preceeded the working out of a text that all the four powers can subscribe to. Guarantees Robber Versailles Treaty. The pact, as it now stands, contains the references, insisted on by France, to articles 10 and 19 of the Covenant of the League of Nations. Article 10/ guarantees the existing territorial and | political arrangements of Europe. Ar-_ ticle 19, which mentions the possi- | bility of the revision of the post-war | treaties, is safeguarded by the provi- | sion that requires unanimity for any: action to be taken. The pact in its present form oan hardly be regarded as a “victory” for any of the powers thet are going to sign it, on the contrary, all the an- powers have been made more acute in ¢he haggling and bargaining that has gone on. Only on the negative side, on the question of common hos- tility to the U.S.S.R, and financial leverage against the United States. has a sort of unity been achieved. Little Entente Powers Accept, PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, May 31 —At the end of yesterday's session of the conference of Little Entente pow- ers; a statement was issued by the Foreign Ministers of Czechoslovakia, Rumania, and Jugoslavia to the effect that the new text of the four power pact was satisfactory to them Chile Won’t Stop Bolivian Munitions Opposes Argentina’s Action in Blocking Arms Imports tl BUENOS AIRES, May 31,—The Government of Chile will not inter- fere with Bolivian war imports thru Chilean ports, the Chilean Minister informed the Bolivian Foreign Office at La Paz yesterday. ‘This is in sharp contrast to the Ar- gentinian closing of the Bolivian frontier to munitions transports and apparently indicates that Chile is sid- ing with the American protagonist. Bolivia, in its battle for the Chaco yvegion with Paraguay, which is Brit- ish-controlled. low worker im ahop with a Th coral If net, do Central American Workers Fight on 5,000 March in Panama Jamaica Vets Protest NEW YORK.—Central American delegates of the Marine Workers In~ dustriel Union have brought in ree ports of struggles taking place re+ cently in the West Indies, Panama and British Honduras. May Day in Panama was observed ‘by more than 5,000 workers, many of them women, who marched ur {hindered by the government, which |feared the united front mobilization achieved by the Communist Party. After the demonstration, however, six of the leaders were arrested. One of them was a woman needle-worker who led in the rent strikes of the | last year. 4 In Kingston, British West | 500 World War veterans mart Tee cently on the Governor's palace, de. manding relief. The Governor tried to put them off with promises, but the veterans used their march to lay British imperialists in fe war, In British Honduras, despite the lack of a revolutionary organization, a historic strike occurred recently. Banana plantations are the colony's chief industry. The dock workers, who load the United Fruit Company ships, struck for better pay. Tha company gave the government $40,000 to break By gine, Inegh iver were forced to do ‘wor! chips tor." week, whe. te td went back é | | n 3 beg