The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 3, 1933, Page 6

Published by the Comprodally Publishing Co., 13th St., New York City, N. ¥. Page Six Address and mail cheeks to the Daily Worker, ine. Telephone Algonquin 4 dally except Sunday, at 58 B 6. Cable “DAIWORK.” 50 E. 18th St., New York, N. ¥ Daily, Worker’ CANTON AND CHIANG ANTI- RED PACT Japan Plots to Set Up Anti-Soviet Mongolia State SHANG , June 2, government of General i- Shek has begu mies in ni Yenking-L two days Tangku ag ese invaders Not only the “ J ic of e Ku be- Canton Militarists Bribed to Support Chiang. $90,000 troops a. Chen Chi- clique, has a pointment dit suppression five southern means he will join Chiang Kai-shek in new attacks on'the Chinese S of workers and peasants. U.S. Planes in China to Fight Reds. The first of eighteen fighting planes imported from the United States, bought popular subscrip- tion and pr ed to the Nanking national defen “for was put through its paces here ye terday before a large crowd by Ma- government jor James Doolittle, ex-U. Army flier. The fact that not a single one of the government’s military planes has ever been used to resist the Jap- nese invasion indicates that the “na- tional defense” slogan in this case also is a fraud, and that the new plans will be used solely against the heroic Chinese Soviet armies. Feng Recruits Soldiers With Japan’s Aid. General Shih Yu-san, who since his revolt two years ago has been living in Shantung Province under the protection of its powerful war- lord, Governor Han Fu-chu, is re- ported to be recruiting soldiers for General Feng Yu- g at Chin- obviously with Japanese on since that area is occu- ied by the Japanese. This report, | true, makes it certain that Feng’s| intrigues at Kalgan, in Chahar Prov- fmce, for an “anti-Japanese” revolt inst Nanking are actually spon- the Japanese militarists, who find him a willing tool. Feng’s ambition to become over- lord cf North China under Japanese | patronage received a check yesterday, however, when 47 North China gen-| erals issued a circular telegram de-| nying support to him, The Cantonese compromise with Nanking was ex-| plained partly on the ground that the| Canton faction found Feng’s finan-| cial demands too heavy, but chiefly] because of agreement on joint action | against the Chinese Soviet areas. Japanese Plan Drive West to Soviet Area The Jap’ are expected to use| a large part of th ,000 troops, re- | | British Army to Use Autogiro Plan As Observation “Blimp” LONDON, June Air Ministry is expe the latest type wingless autogiro plane a substitute for “blimp” observation balloons used by the army. The plane will carry radio, ma- chine guns and a crew of five. The autogiro, which was hailed when first introduced as the truly “peaceful, safe plane” is now be- ing employed—like most inventions under capitalism—in the service of killing more millions more effici- ently than in the last war. —The British menting with as OPEN RUPTURE Differences in the ABC Bloe Foil Mediation in Chaco War BUENOS AIRES, June Tension between Argentina and Bolivia over e former's ban on arms shipments is increasing daily with informed cir- 1 ‘ed ng the likelihood of an 1 rupture. Under British pres re, Argentina is maintaining the Sending uninterrupted protests inst this. B within the group, poy the ers (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru) is abandoning efforts to med- the} | ms blockade intact, while Bolivia | A.B.C.-Peru | |SPARKS ELL, the big Chicago World’s Fair is on. A century of Progress? 100,000 people have ap- jobs since the thing started. The total number of employees is not more than 300. T Geneva, where the Disarmament (don't make me laugh) Confer- ences are going on, the delegates have | decided that they have been jawing | long enough. down to business. They are going into secret session, “to speed up the can’t get anything done. | In secret session, they get down to| | brass tacks, and go about their real! | job of guaranteeing bigger and better armies and navies ° ENATOR GLASS said yesterday at the Morgan investigations that “he might try to qualify” as the law- yer for J, P. Morgan. | What a nice ambition for a Morgan “investigator!” Now they are getting} | aturally, in public sessions they | Me: O'SHEA, the Superintendent of | the New York City schools is | making touching pleas for the “wel- | fare of the children.” What he has in mind is that the | New York teachers should begin to} | Prepare themselves for the next wage cut. O'Shea has a lively feeling that the |New York school teachers should | make “sacrifices.” | How about suggesting “sacrifices” | to the bankers? Go away, you must | be a Red. 3p Coe day “fast.” | ever. | Five Indian workers have just died Looking better than | ‘ause of growing differences| ¢,HANDI has just finished his 14-| iate in the Chaco warfare between] from the effects of a 6-day fast and| Bolivia and Paraguay. Bolivia hints that it would accept arbitration that included the Washington Commission of Neutrals, dominated by the Uni- ted States. With Chile and Peru differing sharply with Argentina over stopping the supply of arms to Bolivia, pup- pet state of Yankee imperialism, the A.B.C.-Peru blo effort on behalf of Paraguay have been paralyzed and according to dispatches from Santi- ago, Chile, this group is turning the whole matter back into the lap of the League of Nations, where British influence is relied upon to aid the Paraguayan cause. V Give a fellow-worker your copy af- ter you are through with it. Discuss the day’s news with him. Point out leased by the Tangku truce, in a new| to him the difference between the drive westward into Inner Mongolia,|b0SS Papers|’ accounts of the where they have been intriguing for| ews and the Daily Worker's stories. imprisonment in one of the Indian jails. Doesn’t that suggest that there is quite a difference in the way the British police treat real revolutionary workers and a fake “revolutionary” decoy for tne Indian masses? * ‘HEY take pretty good care of Ghandi. They need his services too badly, to let him get into any | Teal trouble. * | NAVAL Board's Policy Unchanged by | Akron Crash, reads a headline. | They'll just go on building rotten air- | ships as before, | eae ee | “JE have the factories’! Who is | “we"? The capitalist class. The workers are thrown into the street because the owners of the factories cannot make any profit out of the work of the workers. Let the work- ers take the factories, and their will be work for all. The workers in the Soviet Union have abolished all crises and unem- ployment by simply taking the run- ning of things into their own hands. Leticia Commisssion Dominated by U. S. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.—Col. Brown, high army officer, has been appointed American member of the Commission of Three set up by the League of Nations to govern Leticia, Upper Amazon port disputed between Peru and Colombia. As the other two on the Commis- sion, Spain and Brazil, are minor powers, this means that the United States will virtually dominate the Leticia conflict. Get a subscription from every Get him to subscribe! | itions of the Marxian classics. --FROM “PRAVDA”, Every capitalist nation is busy cutting off the trade of its compe- | titors—Roosevelt calls it a “World Tariff Truce”. 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It may be obtained at all workers’ | manding that By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, 7he, Foreign and Chicago Workers | Force City, Fair To Disavow Nazi Weidemann in Hiding With Day and Night | Police Escort | CHICAGO, June 2.—Hans Weide- | mann and his mysterious “compan- | ion,” sent to the World's Fair at Chi- | | cago as “artistic envoys” of Hitler's | Fascist government, are not finding} the kind of welcome they bargained | for. Spirited away from the Brook- lyn pier to evade the protest dem- onstration of New York’s workers, Weidemann has ever since found himself the “guest” of a police escort almost every minute of the day and night. Weidemann Arrives Secretly. When Weidemann and his “com-| panion” secretly arrived in Chicago by plane, they were rushed off to a secret destination under heavy police escort. Before Weidemann ever ar- rived, the workers of Chicago had made known in no uncertain terms what they though of the Hitler en- voy’s visit. A delegation of 25 representatives of trade unions, language groups and intellectuals, elected by a united front anti-Fascist conference representing 45,000 Chicago workers on May 22, went to the Fair headquarters, de- “no representative from the Hitler government be offi- cially received or allowed to speak.” “No Official Standing” The Fair management assured them that Weidemann had not been invited and was not to be received aS an official guest. The delegation made a similar demand at City Hall and were assured by the Mayor's of- fice that Weidemann has no official standing in Chicago and had not been invited by the City Administration. The delegation protested to the German Consulate against Weide- mann’s presence in the city and handed him a resolution adopted at a@ public mass meeting, condemning the “bloody reign of terror instituted by the Hitler Fascist regime in Ger- many.” At a large meeting of Chicago's ar- tists, called to discuss certain art problems in connection with the Worlds Fair, a resolution denouncing Weidemann and the government he Tepresents was carried by a large ma- jority. Thus the World’s Fair says that the “artist” Weidemann is not its guest, the City of Chicago says the same, and so do his fellow artists— all through the mass pressure of Chi- cago’s workers. And the workers would just like to ask him a few questions, if he can get away from his policeman friends for a little while. a LONDON, June 2—Pians for placing German professors ousted by the Fascist regime in posts in other countries took tangible shape yes- terday when the newly-formed Aca- demic Assistance Council announced that four German acedemicians had been invited to teach at the London School of Econontics: The fellows of an Oxford college. are. to. contribute part of their salaries to finance an extra German colleague. Rush relief funds for the victims of German fascist terror to the Na- of German Fascism, 75 Fifth Avenue, tional Committee for Aid to Victims New York City, Organize inclusive anti-fascist united front committees in your city or town. Prepare for ‘the National SUBSORIPTION RATES: New York City. $5; 7 months, $8. JUNE 3, 1938 FORCED. LABOR PROGRAM OF HUNGER AND SLAVERY ANNOUNCED BY HITLER Work Without Wages on Public Works to Be Financed by Enormous Currency Inflation BERLIN, June 2.—The Hitler Cabinet yesterday published its Jong- awaited “relief program”—the most barefaced plan for the organized starva- tion of the working class ever devised The plan contemplates the institu workers employed at no wage at all. in any capitalist country. ition of public works with some 400,000 They are to get the starvation unem- ployment dole plus one warm meal daily, in addition to scrip of 25 marks (six dollars) a month which must be used BELGIUM UNDER WAGE CUT RULE EconomyProgram Hits Pensions and Relief BRUSSELS, June 2—The Belgian government has Just been voted full powers for a period of three months | to establish an “economy dictator-| ship”; and has issued a series of de- crees in order to place squarely on the backs of the working class the full weight of the financial crisis. Al- ready reductions have been an- | nounced in the pay and allowances of government employees. Old age pen- sions, veterans’ pensions, and unem- ployment benefit, have all been re- duced. The export trade. and the small professional men, are to be as- sisted by new taxes which will be paid mainly by the poorer classes. Dumping of exports, and the conse- quent putting out of jobs of workers in other countries, and lowering of the standard of life of those who re- main in employment, are to be ef- fected by further depressing the standards of the Belgian workers. Workers’ ReSistance Growing. The veterans’ organizations have already acted, and are planning a demonstration Sunday against the re- duction in their pensions. Great un- employed demonstrations are taking place, under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Red Trade Unions. The cuts affect hundreds of thous- ands of government employees on the State railways, tens of thousands of ex-soldiers, countless numbers of un- employed workers. The Communist Party of Belgium has already placed itself at the head of the mass resict- ance of the working class to this frontal attack by the starvation dic- tatorship of Jaspar. Costa Rican Workers Demand Freedom for Nine Scottsboro Boys PORT LIMON, Costa Rica.—Negro and white workers here have sent the following telegram to President Roosevelt and to Governor Miller of Alabama: “We, Negro and white people of Port Limon, Costa Rica, present at a meeting of the U. N. I. A. Hall, convinced of the innocence of the nine Scottsboro boys, denounce the actions of the authorities of the state of Alabama, and the refusal of | the president of the United States) to take action to liberate these boyz. We demand that the Scottsboro boys | in purchasing commodities, Workers drafted for these public works projects will face total loss of their unemployment relief if they refuse to work without pay. Less Than 8 Per Cent Affected There are over 9,000,000 unemploy- jed in Germany today, with even the | official Nazi figures admitting over 5,000,000 without work. Even with this “relief program” in operation less than 8 per cent of the officially admitted unemployed total would re- ceive jobs. Even bourgeois foreign journalists | in Berlin express their fears that the German working masses will not take kindly to the Hitler starvation forced labor plan. “Labor Trustees” to Dictate in Factories In order to stifle any workers’ la- bor protests against these forced la- bor conditions the Reich Cabinet has adopted a law creating “labor trust- ees” who are empowered to take over the place of the big trade unions in settling the working conditions and wage scales which “shall be binding on all parties concerned!” ‘This law deprives even the Fascist trade un- ions of the right to conclude wage agreements, a right which is con- ceded even by the Fascist “corpora- tions” in Italy. Apparently Hitler does not trust the workers — even those in the Nazi organizations—to swallow his starvation and slavery program without resistance, Inflated Currency to Finance Project The projects are to be financed by the issue of one billion marks (over $270,000,000) in unsecured currency under “the sole and authoritative supervision” of Dr. Schacht, Presi- dent of the Reichsbank. Schacht is notorious as an inflation advocate and the issue of these Treasury notes without any backing~> whatsoever marks Germany's first plunge down the steep and slippery road of cur- rency inflation. The recent “purg- ing” of all non-Nazi elements from the German currency printing bu- reau means that the Hitler regime wants no check whatever on the amount of currency printed. Subsidize Marriages to Breed Soldiers Another 500,000,000 marks of un- | secured paper money is to be used \in reducing interest rates 1per cant jon loans made to the big agrarian interests, as well as to subsidize mar- riages, with the announced intention of stopping Germany’s falling birth rate. The Hitler regime wants more cannon-fodder, openly saying that it regards the dropping birth’ rate as “especially menacing to national de- fense.” Additional funds to pay for the marriage subsidy will be raised by a Special nation-wide tax on unmar- ried men and women, Bond Conversion Adds to Inflation | Dr. Schacht also plans to convert the billions of dollars of Germany's foreign private debts into German government bonds, payable in marks. “a months for the support of the Mongol member of your organization. In this work Marx devotes a very ' tional Publishers, 381 4th Ave. N. Y.| Anti-Fascist Day, June 24! be released immediately. Since the gold reserves of the princes. | : ee - |Reichsbank now total only 8 per Travelers returning from Chahar cent of the present circulation, this report great activity by numerous Japanese secret agents, who e or- ganized a “Pan-Mongol” movement} designed to undermine the Chinese| authority and set up a new Japanese puppet state called “Mongokuo”! (“Mongol country”), similar to Man- ONLY THE W ° By KARL RADEK. Thirteen years have passed since the signing of the Treaty of Ver- Sailles: chukuo (“Manchu country”) | the Entente Powers, who together Mongolia As arte for War on Soviet| with the United States defeated the inion The major purpose of this new in-| Powers of the Triple Entente, set vasion would be to establish an ad-| @bout “regulating” the state of the ditional “place of arms,” or military| world. The Peace Treaties of Ver- base, for an attack on the Soviet|sailles, Trianon, Neuilly, and Laus- Union. Inner Mongolia borders, for| anne, pursued the aim of creating hundreds of miles, on Soviet Outer} suck prerequisites for the further ex- Mongolia, which is closely allied with | istence of capitalism as would enable the Soviet Union. Moreover, a “Mon-| the bourgeoisie to skim the cream off gokuo” under Japanese hegemony| the milk. Everything the Communist would constitute a buffer state be-| International has written with regard tween China and Russia, cutting off| to these treaties and the position aris- “The relations between the two countries (Great Britain and the | U.S.A) are beginning to assume the | same character as the relations be- | tween Germany and England before the war.” (House, “Intimate Papers,’ | Vol. Iv. p. 495). Capitalist Contradictions Without knowing all this, simply as the result of a Marxist analysis | of the situation, Lenin, in his draft | for a pamphlet on tax in kind in | March, 1921, drew up the following all land communication except through Sinkiang in Central Asia. Thus Mongolia, after seven centuries of obscurity since Genghis Khan's hordes swept out of it to conquer| most of the known world, may rl become the center of a world conflict. Submarine Sailors | {ing out of them, everything that/ ‘ble for the mutual relations of the imperialist powers after the war:— “The Entente against Germany, America against Japan (and Great Britain), Lenin wrote on the Treaty of Ver-| sailles, has proved itself to be the| stern truth. Who would now dispute | those words of Lenin, which he wrote | ‘America against Europe, ba may 21s ia , | The imperialist world against Asia.” The collapse of the capitalist gov-| Since then, of course, a number of ernment is inevitable, for everyone! concrete changes in the mutual re- can see that a new war like the Great tations of the various capitalist pow- War is unavoidable, if the imperial-| ers have occurred. It is still im- ists and the bourgeoisie retain power. New quarrels and conflicts are grow- | possible to say quite precisely what objectively will be the grouping of Listen to Anti-War |ing up between Japan and America. the imperialist forces in the event Talk in Baltimore BALTIMORE, Md., June 2—An anti- | war parade and demonstration was | held on the waterfront here as part! of the National Youth Day campaign. ; Taking the police wholly by surprise, the workers marched over to where six submarines were anchored 20 feet off shore. Over 100 sailors were lounging on the decks. Paul Kline, organizer of the Com- munist Party mounted a box right at the water's edge and spoke dir- ectly to the sailors, showing that the Reosevelt government is preparing for | @ new world war to make new bil-/} lions for Morgan and his millionaire | “Inside friends.” He pointed out that while Roosevelt is spending $230,000,- 900 for new warships, he is cutting the sailors’ pay 15 per cent. Kline reminded the sailors that they too \ge members of the working class | and that their first duty is to sup- port the workers’ fight. The sailors listened closely to the | wpeech, some of them waving their ands in approval of the demonstra- tion's slogans. Their officers scurry- mg about on deck, not knowing what jo do. Finally the ran ashore to call the police, but the bluecoats came too ante. the bases for which have been creat- ed during a decade of the history of the diplomacy of the two countries, War is unavoidable on the basis of private ownership. The war betweer Great Britain, which has acquired colonies by robbery, and France, which f itself to have been de- frauded, is inevitable. No one knows where and how the war will break out, but it is a matter of common observation, knowledge, and conver~ sation, that preparations for a new war are inevitably being made. More Facts Available When Lenin wrote these words there was much that he did not know that we know today as a result of the voluminous literature that has appeared since that time in the form of memoirs, and as a result of the mass of documentary statements that have become known since then, At that time Lenin could not know all this, He could not know that Clem- enceau on his return from India com- plained to Lloyd George, whom he visited in London, that Great Britain had turned round upon France and that Lloyd George smilingly answer- ed him: “Great Britain has only re- turned to her old policy. Why should that astonish you?” At that time Lenin could not know of the letter written on July 30, 1919, to Wilson by his chief adviser, Colonel House. who had travelled to London after | of the war. But the outlines, as well | as the causes of the impossibility of {maintaining the conditions which arose as a result of the war in 1919, are clear, Festering Wounds, The policy of reparations is bank- rupt, for reparations enormously intensified the post-war crisis for capitalism, The burden of interallied debts is a rope round the neck of international capital that it cannot Shake off. The frontiers that were drawn with the sword cut to pieces the living bodies of a number of | European nations and the wounds caused thereby are festering and causing a continual fever, The colonial policy of the Great Powers is perpetually on a volcano. For not one moment has India set- tled down. - If British imperialism succeeds from time to time in smoth- ering the growing wave of the people's movement by acts of brutal repres- sion, all the social forces unite in the struggle against British imperialism that are destined to prepare the end of the rule of British imperialism on the great continent of India, In the clutches of world imperialism China cannot solve the problem without whose solution it must die of hunger and become the source of severe shocks for the continent of Asia. Still more, there exists this eon- tradiction in the Versailles system: that French imperialism was victori- ous with the help of. British and American imperialism, ‘whéreas the latter, since the war, have no longer any wish to defend what France has gained for herself by her arms. A number of imperialist powers were left unsatisfied at the end of | the war. Italy and Japan demand a | re-division of the world..The United States, the greatest and Nehest im- perialist power, ha$ nét. only no | colonies worth mentioning, ‘but also has no naval base for its fleet, which after the war set itself the task of achieving equality at least with the British fleet. © Revision and Division The complet= =_vision. of the Treaty of Versailies is demanded’ by the capitalist countries that were beaten in the war. These are no longer in 1933 what they were in 1919. They have restored their economic and | grown up in these countries that does | not remember the defeat; but is real- ising its consequences. _ Asa coun- terblast to the cry for revision of the Versailles Treaty, behind which lurks the watchword of a fresh, wholesale division of the world, can be heard the cry for the preservation of the status quo. Even such a question as that of reparations and inter-allied debts, for the solution of which the simple economic fact should serve-as a basis, that no country can pay. its debts otherwise than with its-exports, and that therefore every country on whom the burden of debts is placed is com- pelled to harm its opponent by dump- ing — even this question cannot be solved on the basis of this simple consideration, Against the liquidation of inter-allied debts the fact tells that these debts would. fall on the shoulders of the American taxpayer, were France, Great Britain, etc., to be freed of them. The only solu- tion, namely the cancellation of all war debts, would mean an enormous blow for the coupon-clippers, and for finance capital—and hence the bour- geoisie will not agree to it.” Thirteen years have passed since the Treaty of Versailles. Unfortu- nately it was impossible for the pro- letariat of the leading capitalist coun- tries in these 13 years to go the road that the proletariat of the Soviet Union has gone. It was stil impos- sible for it to wrest the power from the hands of the capitalist cliques military machinery. A generation has | and to take into its own hands the} solution of the question of the life and development of the peoples. And imperialism, which has failed in the attempt to force on the world the conditions of Versailles, is not in the Position to give the world conditions of life differing fundamentally from those of Versailles, The best proof of this is the fact that it is the fascist governments that are the standard-bearers in the cry for revision, the governments that oppress the masses in their own coun- tries in the most ruthless fashion, the governments whose ideology harks back to the Middle Ages. The mere fact that the revision of the treaties is bound up with the victory of fas- cism shows how much this revision has to do with the national interesis of the peoples who are designated as “inferior” by the fascists. A New World War The paih of revision of the robbers peace of Versailles is the path to the new world war, All the attempts of the interested parties to represent the matter as though it were a ques- tion of peaceful transformation of the old treaties, cannot deceive us. The diplomatic fuss with regard to the revision of the Versailles Treaty is only one of the forms for the pre- paration of the war, The word “revision” is only another name for the new world war. It is therefore not to be wondered at that one of the basic demands of the re- visionists is the demand for the right to those armaments which are for- bidden by the Versailles Treaty. The discussion with regard to revision is the smoke screen behind which im- perialism is preparing the most hor- rible, cruel war which the human brain can imagine, a war that will completely put in the shade all the horrors of the imperialist war of 1914- 1918, What has been said suffices to de- termine the attitude of the interna- tional proletariat with regard to the clamour about the capitalist revision of the Versailles Treaty and what 1s actuallybehin d this clamour. The international proletariat con- tinues to be the enemy of the Ver- cailles Treaty. Only its own victory, however, can replace this treaty by peace treaties based on the right to self-determination of peoples, by peace treaties which take into tion the national needs of even most backward peoples and clear way for the common struggie ageinet want, misery and. ruin’ which have heen brought about by post-war capi- But this will be a socialist revis‘on. No new grouping -of imperialist Pow- ers and no redivision of the world on the basis of the predominance of 2 new imperial'st: group over the vic- torious Powers can bring about a just Only the victory of the proletarian revolution and ‘of; the» revolution of the colonial peoples can rid the world of the herrors of a. new. imperialist war, and can pave the way for the true and peaceful solution of the ques- tons at” issue. Apart from its attitude towards im- perialism, towards the question of the self-determination.of peoples and to- wards imperialist wars, the. interna- tional proletariat—the enemy of the Versailles Treaty—cannot. range it- self on the side of those imperialist Powers who wish to carry out a re- division of the world amidst the con- flagration of a new imperialist war. The fight against the peril of a new imperialist war will be the cen- tral task of the international proletar- iat. With it is closely bound up the struggle against fascism. The historic function of international fascism con- sists in postponing the moment of the complete overthrow of capitalism by means of the complete enslave- ment of the masses, in order to drive them into the shambles of a new im- perialist war. Soviet Union Leads Fight for Peace. The proletariat of the Soviet Union is the leader of the international pro- letariat in its fight for peace. The Workers’ and Peasants’ State came to birth in the struggle for peace and has not only stood firm, during all the fifteen years of its existence, as the guardian of its own peace, but it has always with the utmost consistency @ppeared in the international arena as a champion of peace, The Soviet State is fighting for peace, not only because the proletariat of the U.S.S.R. needs peace in order to build up socialism in its territory, which has been freed from the yoke of the bourgeoisie; it is fighting for Peace because it is deeply convinced that peace is the best prerequisite for the victory of socialism on a world scale. The miserable defenders of the international bourgeoisie have always plating. war, and ‘hoping Ghat’ by P war, means of the disturbances of war the victory of the international * ORLD PROLETARIAT WILL SMASH THE VERSAILLES TREATY iat will come to pass. This nonsense does not merit a seri- ous answer. War means not only the unleashing of the savage bourgeois- nationalist dogs of war, but it will, on account of the nature it has as sumed in its latest developments, bring about such a destruction of pro- ductive forces that the victorious pro- letariat would have to, struggle to build up socialism under the most dif- ficult conditions. The immediate interests of the So- viet proletariat and those of the in- ternational proletariat dictate cate- gorically a policy of peace; they dic- tate categorically to the Soviet State @ policy of non-interference in the criminal struggle of the imperialist cliques and they dictate categorically the defense of the peaceful work of the Soviet territory against every ef- fort to drag it into the whirlpool of imperialist affairs. The capitalist world is not in a Position to settle a single one of the problems which confront humanity, either by peaceful or by warlike methods. The Soviet Union has act- ually shown, as a result of the carry- ing out of the Five-Year Plan and of collectivization, that it is in a po- sition to solve the fundamental prob- | Jems of mankind through the build- ing up of socialism. The Soviet Union has shown, by means of its national) policy, which makes it possible to utilize all the productive forces of the whole enormous country for the benefit of all the people living within the Soviet frontiers, that it is in a position to solve the national problem. The development of even the most backward peoples in the Soviet Union, who before the revolution did not’ even possess an alphabet, shows that the victory of socialism means not only the solution of the economic, but also of the national problem of which capitalism has made a tangle of irreconcilable contradictions. Tf world capitalism turns against the Soviet Union, in order to accom- plish its downfall, in order to call down a rain of blood upon socialist territory, then the Soviet proletariat will be confronted with the tas of placing itself at the head of the world proletariat in the fight for the solu- tion of the problems which world capitalism has not and will not be able to solve. Then the Soviet pro- letariat will say to the world prole- by|tariat and to the colonial peoples: If there ts to be a revision, let it be ® complete revision, is an added factor making for tre- mendous inflation, as these negoti- able bonds, plus the unsecured notes to be printed, will raise the currency total enormously. | Conflicts in the Nazi Camp Splits Capitalists | VIENNA, June 2.—The Nazi gov- | ernment’ has placed General yon Schleicher, former Chancellor of Germany, under arrest, and impri- soned him in Kuestrin Fottress, ac- cording to dispatches from Berlin. The “Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung,” of Berlin, leading big business organ, has been suspended for three months for protesting against the imposition of the 1,000 mark tourist fee on visas vie, Two of the members of the board of the Deutsche Bank, srmenn and Frank, both Jews, e been forced to resign, These reports are taken to indicate that all is not well within the bour- geois camp in Germany, with an- tagonisms within the bo.wgeois camp breaking out ints sharp open conflict. ‘CRISIS ALSO HITS DUTCH CURRENCY ies Colijn Urges General » Devaluation | THE HAGUE, June 2.—The deficit in the Dutch budget for next year is estimated at $124,000,000, with nation- al wealth decreasing $600,000,000 in the last year, revenue from trade fal- ling, and unemployment insurance taking $9,000,000 a month, The Dutch East Indies have also a deficit of | $62,600,000. Despite a gold stock which still covers 83 per cent of the currency | issue, the chances of Holland stay- ing on the gold standard, while in the foreign markets she is competing with so many depreciated currencies, are becoming less and less. According to a statement by Prime Minister Colijn, Holland would welcome an interna tional all-around devaluation of mon- items on a fixed ratio, Such cormational junified would be welcomed by other capitalist governments beside the Dutch. But if all the capitalist countries cheapened their currencies by the same amount at the same time, none of them would reap that differ- ential advantage which they all seek in the trade struggle. and @ alee