The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1933, Page 4

Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Uo., Ine., daity exeapt Sunday, at bo & Page Four 18th St., New York City, N. ¥ Address and mail cheeks to the Daily Worker. =—_ Telephone ALgonquin 4-7835. Cable “DATWORK.” 56 E, 13th St, New Yerk, N. ¥, Prices Are Rising, Production Falls In Fascist Germany All Hitler’s Promises to Workers of Work and Food Are Flagrantly Broken BERLIN, May (eee Wes Tale e Hitler rule is continuing tastrophe. Accordin coal production dur 26 Mail).—The decline of German economy under The German coal industry is on the way to ca- to information issued by the Union of Mine Owners, has dropped from 6,543,000 tons in January to 000 tons in April Figures for sales show the same tendency. The ® Rhine - Westphal Coal Syndicate a tel 7 following sales figures NAZIS MURDER se Sains Apr 4,000 tons. 97 | al ] 37 IN DACHAU 2 er u Fa J a8 when we turn to f coke. These 000 tons in tons in March, PRISON CAMP Concenti Camps Being Enlarged Sey eps ania tere cas y to 40,000 in the FONICH Jommu- fourtl AUNICE it Commu nd 51,000 in the fourth week Owners issues e even of the res West Upper Silesia— c 1es bay. Low Saxony—Mar have become worse in April, Saxony—Markets continue to be very unfavorable. Lower Bilesia Coal production increased here from 81,000 tons to 88,000 tons during t weeks enaing May 15 to 21, As against t the stocks of coal in- creased from 178,000 tons to 183,000 1 te This mea: that nearly the not complete fied with the | whole of the s uction had t to be stored, because no buyers could be found. cident” Subsidies for Ship-Owners visit the Cabinet has granted a shot 000,000 ma: to the big ion companies. The subsidy is that | intended to put the bankrupt ship- ft these | Ping companies on their feet. The| given | Cabinet has also raised the prices of \fats, thus robbing the population of millions of marks. Horsemeat for Workers on the consumption of have just been made w that the German popu- as been consuming Jess Ineut last three gaqnehe xceptiok, agim@ in the cuse of D ; the first quarter ion ca 1 . inst 5,331,000 during the been taken o u of 1932, ment and will be en-| A Ca ic newspaper, “Germania,” 1 S rease in the con-| so much due sumption of k is not to the rise rices, but to the in- creased inability of the masses to buy Thi: king development is du: to the raising of fat prices, which is taxing a part of the population so heavily, that it has to restrict its meat consumption. in Cuban Congress Rivalries within the bourgeois one oceasion, to shovtings in the Cuban Congpess. Representative Oscar Montalvo being helped c@ of the Cuban Parlia- ment after being shot by the brother of a Senaton Montalvo was so badly wounded that he died the next day. camp in Cuhy have led, on more than This picture shows 80 Political Prisoners on a Hunger Strike in Cuba Machado Offers Compromise to Bourgeois Opponents of His Regime HAVANA, June 8.—Eighty political prisoners in the Isle of Pines pe- uitentiary went on hunger strike yesterday in protest against their incarcer- Mtion for months without a hearing. Many of the prisoners, most of whom are university students, have been imprisoned for two years without trial, Indications of a secret compromise between President Machado, Cuban Corrente —————-——# dictator, and the big business Men- My *. }ocal and Gi iti py yazis Arrested in | Wire sen wc auimee tte ty Austria ‘As Germany | Machado outlining his plan for’ the Closes the Frontier | immediate election of a vice-presi dent and for changes in the Cuban | Constitution. VIENNA, June 8—The _Dollifuss TANT eet m xovernment arrested today on a iali iti | tharge of high treason 40 soldiers Socialist Coalition ind government officials who had Azana Cabinet Quits saken part in a secret Nazi meeting we Lary : i « MADRID, Spain, June 8.—The So- le same time, Nazi Germany 2. floged "the Austro-Clerman. front? cialist Coalition cabinet of Premier ‘© all Austrians who are not mem- | Manuel Azana resigned today. | fers of the Nazi party. This is a| Land reforms—the distribution of | reach of a special international | the sian! estates of the nobility and reaty and of a hundred-year-old | the Church—and other elementary demands have been consistently sab- radition of free travel between the to countrie joteged by the Azana regime, | — Dail +4 Porty U.S.A. | TEN MORE YEARS OF ‘PEACE’! —By Burek The Signing of the Four Power Pact Is Hailed by War-Monger Mussolini as Great Peace Move | ROME, June 8.—The four Power Pact was initialed yesterday. This brings to an end a period of two months of maneuvers and counter-negotiations during which Mussolini’s or- iginal text has been whittled down until now the pact is merely a collection of platitudes, sanctimoniously phrased, which avoid the mention of any of the subjects of dispute be- tween the four powers. Mussolini hailed th before the Italian Senate, in ‘Which he reopened the ques- |tion of treaty revision. Musso- | lini began by saying the pact “secured at least ten years of peace to Europe.” | Germany, under the rule of Hitler, | was described as “a bulwark of peace.” Mussolini also denied that the “fund- amentals of the Pact” had been changed, although thé final text “omitted references to arms équality” and made it clear that “treaty revi- sion must be undertaken through the League of Nations.” Through the League means in reality not at all, since League procedure requires un- animous consent of all the nations— a quite impossible condition. Sets Up European Junta In another part of his speech, Mus- solini warned against “imbecile op- timicm,” and admitted that the Pact created “a kind of hierarchy of nz- tions.” A European directory of this kind is exactly what the Little En- tente powers and Poland most objei to about the Pact, so that Mussolini's warning about “optimism” would | seem to be in place. | Treaty Revision Up Again | “™tussolini’s specific reference to | treaty revision, the question on which | the first negotiations broke up, give | his speech, despite its pacific wording, |@ warlike sense. “Some countries,” | he said, “have been particularly noisy | in their opposition, but even Eduard | Benes of Czechoslovakia, who is | spokesman for the Little Entente, has | admitted in a recent speech that he jis not opposed to the revision of the | treaties forever and under all condi- | tions.” Mussolini omitted to make |mention of the enormous warlike | | demonstrations that Have taken place |in all the Little Entente countries | within the last few days against ing everywhere, contrasts wit! the Senate yesterday that “The war | chapter is closed.” The preamble of the Pact signifi- cantly refers to “the state of disquiet which obtains throughout the world, and then goes on to state that the four powers are “mindful of the rights of every state, which cannot be af- including in Italy, fected without the consent of the in- | terested party.” serted at the instigation of France, to quiet the opposition of the Little Entente powers and Poland. Article 1 declares that the signatories will pursue their ends “within the frame- work of the League of Nations,” as desired by France also, Article 2, on treaty revision, does not even so much as mention the world “revi- sion,” but refers guardedly to Articles 10, 16 and 19 of the League of Nations | covenant, The third article of the Pact contents itself with a vague gen- erality about the “success of the Dis- | armament Conference” and reserves , the right to all the signatories (6 “re- | examine” the arms question, Article 4 affirms that the four powers will concert together on economic matters. The signing of the pact in its pres- ent changed form by the European rivals is an act directed against the United States on the part of the chief European debtor nations, At the time of the first discussion ‘of the four-power pact MacDonald and Mussolini made speeches con- taining open and implied threats against the Soviet Union. The pact is in the first place directed gainst the Soviet Union, * Poland May Leaye League WARSAW. Junc 8.—Poland’'s early resignation from the League of Na- tions, was intimated by the official newspaper Gazeto Polska in its com- ment on the French signature of the | treaty revision. The rise of war feel- | Mussolini's cry before | This phrase is in-| e ceremony of initialing with a “peace” speech longer the League” said the newspaper,| should the Pact materialize.” ie Berlin Unenthusiastic on Pact BERLIN, June 8.—Opinion here is not enthusiastic about the signing | of the Pact. Germanys claim to arms | jequality is not explicitly enough | | acknowledged in the document, and} the best that official spokesmen can/| | find to say is that France's demands | | for arms supervision are also omitted, | thus effecting a compromise along the | time-honored lines adopted by the} | ostrich of fable who avoided adopting! an opinion by burying his head in the! sand, | ee ee | LONDON, June 8.—Liberal opinion | SOVIET PROTEST 10 JAPAN ON _ RAILWAY BREAK TOKYO, June 8.—Soviet Ambas-| sador Yurenev protested to the} Japanese Foreign Office yesterday against the cutting of rail connec- tions between the Chinese Eastern| Railway and Vladivostok at Pograni-| | tehnaya. Ambassador Yurenev also) | objetced to Japan's specious claim) that the cutting of the railway is a “local matter to be settled between) the Soviet Union and Manchukuo,”| and that Japan is not responsible for the acts of its puppet state, . GENEVA, June 8.—The League of | Nations’ advisory committee on Manchuria yesterday adopted a re- port recommending that Manchukuo not be recognized and be excluded front international conven- tions, sucR @s those on the mails, telegraphs, aviation, sanitation, opium | and weights and measures, ‘The capitalist Powers in the league make this pretense of opposition completely hollow by providing tht) | they may continue to maintain con- sulates in Manchuria, JAPAN IN TRADE WAR WITH INDIA { | | | “Will Shift Military Or- | ders to U.S, OSAKA, Japan, June 8.—In reply to India’s 50 per cent increase in ta- riff duties on non-English cotton cloths announced June 6, the Federa- tion of Japanese Cotton Spinners have decided to cease buying raw cotton from India, and to increase ‘their purchases of American raw cot- ton, During the past three months, Jap- anese imports of raw cotton from India have greatly exceeded her im- ports from the United States. This move on the part of the Japanese spinners {s another in the trade war that is developing between Japan and | Gteat Britain, On April 10 last, India | denounced her trade treaty with | Japan, The tariff increase is one of | the first results of this action. Japan is a large importer of raw) cotton, to feed her cotton textile in- | dustry, and for the purposes of her jenormous military machine, which | Reeds cotton for the manufacture of be interested in belonging to; in England takes the view that the| signing of the Pact expresses the con- viction of the four powers that the Geneva Arms Conference is as good as dead. Japanese Refuse to Abolish Air Bombing GENEVA, June 8.—At the expiring sessions of the Disarmament Confer- ence, Japan declared through its del- egate, Admiral Sato, that she would refuse to accept the proposal for abo- lition of aerial bombing. Only if agreement was reached beforehand for the destruction of all aircraft car- riers (several of these ships are at the present moment under construc- tion or planned for in the United States) would Japan consider sub- scribing to the clause for the prohi- | ion of aerial bombing. By Mall everywinee: Ome your, 90; xix exeepting Borough of Manhation a: Canada: ths, $3.50; 8 ments, 92: Bronx, New York City. ‘One year, 99: 6 months, 9%: 7 wonths, $8. |SPARKS| OSES HITLER, a Polish Jew, has | | ML been having a bad time. His ten- | year-old son was beaten up at school ; by the other boys. The’ other -son aged 22, has had a sweet romance | blasted’ because his. fiancee refused to take a chance on being called | “Mrs. Hitler’—and we don't blame |her—the idea of a Mrs. Hitler is a , | little absurd, seeing how the beautiful | | Adolph’s tastes go. And Moses him- | Self was boycotted by the local stores. | JOWEVER—all’s well that ends well | |42 —a Warsaw District, Court has | just given Moses permission to change | his name to Hiller. /(\UR romantic readers will watch | this column for an announcement | that the course of true love is again running smooth in the Hiller family IOMRADE BUTLER of Columbia, | |% known to his intimates as Nick, | and to his more distant acquaintances | as Miraculous, uttered some pregnant words at the Columbia commence- | ment exercises—from which we quote: | | “Control of money and. constant | association with money is perhaps the | most demoralizing of human occupa- | racks | JT certainly seemed to demoralize | J.P. Morgan. Why—he even forgot | tO pay his income tax three years in | & Tow. OTES On The Alarming Speed Of IN Disease Of Bolshevism In The| South and West United States 'EACHERS and students of Com- monwealth’ College, labor school. | | Near Mena, Arkanasas, have donated | | thirteen (13) cents to the library of | the University of Oklahoma for the | purchase of a copy of the Communist | | Manifesto, EPRESENTATIVE Brooks Fletcher of Ohio seems to be as broke as the University of Oklahoma, judging by a letter sent by him to Upton | Sinclair, which reads in part as fol- lows: “There is such a long waiting list at the Congressional Library that it is impossible for but a small number (Congressional grammar, not ours) of Congressmen to enjoy the privi- lege of reading the book... .” The book in question i: Sinclair’s “Will- iam Fox.” “Therefore I am writing to inquire whether there is a possibility of your publishers supplying the Con- | gressional Library or the Congress- men with additional copics of the book.” . |e N SINCLAIR Presenis Will- | iam Fox” sells for three dollars. You can buy it in book stores. But) once a Congressman, always a Con- gressman, Panhandling seems to get into the blood. * ee | ee A newspaper heaclline reads “Rich Publisher Dies; Human To the End.” Surprising, isn’t it? Another bright one is in today’s napers. “Mitchell Sought Profit, Is Charge.” What a. wicked capitalist! How different from the other nine cap- italists who just hate profits. What Mitchell did is that he magi- | cally erased the savings of hundreds | of his bank’s customers. But for this, ' not trying him. the government is JUNE 9, 1088.1" : 1 month, 8s, Foret and Couzens Takes New to Londo German Debt Transfe Trade War Threat n Parley r Moratorium Declared Polish Government for Default WASHINGTON. June 8.—It has been decided here that President Roosevelt has sufficient power under the old Hawley-Smoot tariff act to secure American bargaining strength at London. Fifty per cent reductions can be made under this law by the President withont Congressional au- thority. BERLIN T0 HAVE 1936 OLYMPICS American Delegates By SI GERSON Berlin will have the 1936 Olympic Games. on the sports world at Vienna Wed- nesday, It came after a sham battle in which the American delegates to the meeting of the International Olympic Committee had placed a heavy paper barrage against anti-/| semitism in Germany. Brig. General Charles H. Sherill, one of the two American delegates, had stated that he would ‘“stoutly maintain the American principle that all citizens are equal under the laws,” upon which the American Jewish Congress immediately cabled him its congratulations for his firm stand. Sherill’s’ remark came after much ballyhoo on the part of American sport writers which had led thous- ands of American sportsmen to be- lieve that the Olympics would un- doubtedly be transferred from Berlin to some other city in protest against} Nazi anti-semitism. , Betrayal by Boss Sport Leaders At the last moment the German delegation, undoubtedly after having reached a backstairs agreement with the American delegates, issued a statement, with government author- ity, that “As a principle, German Jews shall not be excluded from German teams at the games of the eleventh Olympiad.” The Amer- icans are now hailing this “victory” and the American Olympic Commit- tee is wrapping itself in the newly- found and much-needed moral cloak. Workers Lead Real Olympic Boycott However, there are many who have not been deceived by the cunning maneuvers of the Amateur Athletic Union and the American Olympics Committee. The movement for an Olympic boycott will continue—right in. the ranks of the Amateur Athletic Union and other so-called “official” sport organizations. Thousands of athletes will remember that none of Hitler's assurances against anti-semitism will bring Nelly Neppach, the German woman tennis champion who com- mitted suicide because of Nazi per- secution, to life. They will remem- ber that Hitler's assurances have not freed the worker sportsmen, Grube, Zobel and Prietzel from Nazi dun- geons. Much of this anti-Olympic feeling will be channelized into sup- port of the 1934 Moscow Sparata-) kiade, the only world meet where op-} pressed peoples; Jew and Gentile, Negro and white, will meet on a plane of equality and genuine frat- ernity. THE MFANING OF THE NATIONAL “RECOVERY ACT” By CHARLOTTE TODES. The , Roosevelt National Recovery Act which has already passed the House and is now before the Senate combines most of the features of the Roosevelt program to rescue the Super-profits of the giant capitalists at the expense of the working class. It is part of a frenzied drive to find ® way out of the crisis. At the same time, by building up hopes in the outcome of the program, the Roose- velt government expects to check the moyement for unemployment in- surance and the developing strike movement for wage imereases. Behind the smoke screen of de- magogic phrases, the bill is being pushed through for the atttainment of definite objectives to the advan- tage of the monopolists. It consists of two main sections, The so-called “industrial control” action which gives the president sweeping power to “promote the organization of in- dustry for the purpose of coopera- tive action among trade groups, to maintain united action of labor and management under adequate govern- mental sanctions and supervisions, to eliminate unfair competitive prac- tices” and to control wages, hours and working conditions. “United Action of labor and man- agement” is the central theme of this section of the act. It is the means by wMich the government will at- tempt to defeat the struggles of the workers against its attacks, The other section provides for a forced labor public works program of & military nature costing $3,300,000,- 000 to be financed by a tax levy ex- torted from the toiling masses. The machinery which the bill sets up for “industry control” indicates clearly that it is designed as pre- paration for an imminent war. enables the government to mobilize the working class with the utmost speed for war service and to turn industrial enterprises, almost over- night into instruments for the con- duct of war. This is further made clear by the fact that even before the bill has been adopted in Con- gress, Roosevelt has appointed as administrator, General Hugh John- It the world war. He was also the ad-| ministrator of the’ selective draft law | in 1917. Public Works for Military Purposes Under the guise of a program for the unemployed, the public works program provides for the construc- tion of 34 new battieships, forts, naval bases and army barracks. Spe- cially designed ships for use in Chin- ese waters are also included in the | plans. The military program will go into effect before, any other aspect | of the public works program. A central objective of the “indus- try control” feature of the Act is the attempt to overcome whatever legal restrictions in the anti-trust laws are irksome to big capitalists. By this means it will make it easier for the monopolists to tighten more firmly their grip over industry by concen- trating their control in fewer hands, | and by driving out of swallowing | their smaller competitors. “Voluntary” Trade Agreements | Industries are ordered, by the bill, | to get together through their trade associations to draw up trade agree- ments or codes of “fair competition” which will restrict production, raise price levels and set wages, hours and working conditions to allow maximum profits. The codes are subject to the President's approval, after which, when accepted, they are applicable to their industries and are enforceable by governmental machinery. A pen- alty of $500 is provided which is sup- Feed to force into line those who violate the codes, and licensing pow- ezs are given to the President to enforce them. Employers abiding by the codes are granted exemption from the Sherman anti-trust laws. An additional clause provides for the es- tablishment of an industrial planning and research agency which will undoubtedly be used to extend the markets and effect economies for the industrialists. The voluntary trade agreements and the so-called planning agency has called forth columns of prop- | urge such! plans for capitalist gov- ernments, For examples, Nicholas Murray Butler the jingoist pacifist of the Republican Party, recently de- clared that planning is necessary if only “to prove that capitalism is a superior system to communism.” “Planned Destruction” The proof. will not be forthcoming. For under capitalism, planning is im- possible because the pursuit of pri- vate profit interferes with any at- tempt to restrict production. It is for this reason that the bill is doomed to failure as a means of promoting planned production. Already sharp differences have arisen regarding the inclusion of compulsory measures contained in the licensing provisions of the bill to force industries to abide by the yol- untary trade agreements temporarily threatening the whole Roosevelt pro- | tram, For years the trades associations in the big industries, such as lumber, steel, coal, sugar and oil, disregard- ing the anti-trust laws, have met and drawn up plans for price fixing and reducing output within the limits of available markets. But, even with government aid, they have been unable to control their mem- bers. Witness, for example, the sit- uation in Texas and Oklahoma, where state militia could not force the operators to stop pumping oil. Five hundred dollar penalties in the bill will not deter monopolists from violating codes as soon as they see ready profits in a market they want to capture. How Capitalists Want to Plan Economic planning can only be successfully carried through where the means of production are owned by the workers as in the Soviet Union! Here the objective is increas- ing production that the standard of living of the masses may be raised, that all may benefit. Under cap- italism, on the contrary, employers want. to pian only for the curtail- ment of production to serve their own conflicting selfish ends, for bol- stering up their profits by degrading the living standards of the majority of the population to the level This decision was sprung Hence Roosevelt will not ask Congress for special tariff powers, ~® as had been previously sug; gested. New Trade War Threat. Senator Couzens, delegate to the London World Economic Conference, expressed himself as “hopeful rather | jaban optimistic” that the conference | would be able to do anything to im- prove world trade. ‘The threat of American trade war is being held over the conference unless results satisfactory to the United States are obtained. The Senator said, just be. fore sailing “If no agreements are arrived at or entered into by the members of the London conference I shall then return here a rabid isolationist.” He added that in the event of failure of the conference, “Sé will then be up to us to protect ourselves without regard for other nations,” The question of intergovernmental debts is one on which the conference |may easily break up, but from the White House it was urged that “undue emphasis” had been placed on this problem by the European na- tions. Monetary stability, the offi- cial Washington view states, is not seriously affected by the debt ques- tion. There are reporis that the English government has - decided ‘to offer a small payment to be made in | silver, as a token of good faith, but | | |no statement ‘will be made at Wash- ington until a formal offer has beep ' received. Pane Ireland Asks American Aid. COBH, Ireland, June 8—American delegates to the London Conference arrived here yesterday and wers greeted by Frank Aiken, Defense Minister of the Irish Free State. Secretary Hull toasted President de Valera as “President of the Irish Republic” in champagne, during the festivities that followed the arrival of the delegation. Mr. Aiken, on be- half of de Valera, urged co-opera- tion between America and Ireland for the best. interests of both coun- tries. England and Ireland are at pre- sent engaged in a bitter economic and tariff war. German Moratorium Declared BERLIN, June 8.—Germany today declared a transfer moratorium on all long and short term debts, ex- cept on the debts already covered by the stand-still agreement. A transfer moratorium means that payments on the service of debts will be made, but fictitiously, by crediting the account of the creditor, though not allowing the transfer of the amount abroad. This scheme of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, presented by him to @ cab- inet meeting today, has been accepted and the moratorium will go into ef- fect on July 1 next. The moratorium is an index of the extreme instability to which the Ger- man currency has been brought by afew months of Hitler rule. Free reserves of gold and foreign cur- rencies in the possession of the Reichsbank have already dropped so low that the stability of the mark “is threatened. One of the principal factors producing this state of af- fairs is the declining surplus which Germany is receiving from her for- eign trade. New Inflation Threatened Schacht has also threatened that without release from all debt pay- ments, a new inflation would have to be begun “with consequences even more disastrous than those of the 1923 inflation.” One clause in the stand-still agree- ment reads: “A declaration in Ger- many of a general foreign mora- torium in whatever form shall au~ tomatically terminate this agree- ment.” If Germany's moratorium is hnet@ #9 come under this clause, Ger- many will again Wgpome liable to pay all the interest pyments which ‘were postponed. Raia & the stand-still two years ago. It * significant that a meeting of the stand-still creditors has heen called to meet in London June 13. ' Poland Defaults Debt WARSAW, June 8.— The Polish cabinet has decided nob @ mect the June 15 war debt payment due the United States. The sum due is $3. 559,000. The default will be made on the ground that the economic sit~ uation has not improved since De- ~ cember 15, on which date Poland also defaulted. . New Oil War Starts PARIS, June 8—The oil agreement » veached at a conference here a little - while ago was broken today officl- ally by the Rumanian Petroleum As- sociation on the ground that the United States was already breal the agreement itself. A note to Mr,-. Arnott, head of the Oil Conf ‘ stated: “We have noted that Amer- ican production has risen above 2,000,000 barrels a day agreed upon as their limit, and likewise we have noted the continual fall in prices. In view of this injurious situation, we cannot prevent Rumanian corftpe- nies from protecting their interests,” Gross crude oil production in t! United States averaged 2,675,000 bar- rels daily during the last week. —— GUELPH WORKERS CONVICTED TORONTO.—J. Molner and J. Nagy,