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Page Four Published by the Compredaliy Prbdishing Oo., Ims., Galby exept Sunday, ot Bt 19th &t., New York City, N. X. Telephone Atgumquin 4.7956, Cable “BATWORK. Ad@rees and wail clrecks te the Daity Werker, 58 E. }#th S41, New York, N. 7, “We Dail Make Their Plans tor War......” --- Lenin Perey USA. Cana: SUBSCRIPTION BATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $9.50; 3 months, $2; excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. One year, $9; 6 months, 36; 7 months, 33. 1 month, Be, JUNE 12, 1938 Foreign and Must Tell the Masses the Real Facts About the Profound Secrecy in Which the Governments PRIETO CANT Rueggs on Hunger | GET CABINET IN SPAIN Coalition Efforts of Socialist Leaders Fruitless President Appoints Radical Socialist As Premier BULLETIN MADRID, June 11.—After vainly trying to get a Cabinet together, Indatecio Prieto, socialist leader, today informed Pr: lent Zamora that he declined to try to form a Cabinet. Late tonight President Za- mora asked Marcelino Domingo, leader of the petty-bourgeois Ra- dical Socialists and Minister of In- dustry, Agriculture and Commerce in the late Azana Cabinet, to take the Premiership and form a Cabi- net MADRID, June 11.—The Executive Committee of the Spani#n Socialist Party agreed today to allow Indal- Prieto, Socialist leader and r of Public We in the late na Cabinet, to accept appoint- as Premier by President Za- ment t leaders played a big gana Cabinet, as in every cabinet since the overthrow of Alfonzo in 1931, in collaboration with the bourgeois Republic: and Left Radicals. They took part in crush- ing mass stzil in almost evel trade all over Spain. In Bilbao, the mining center, in Seville, in Barce- lona, Valencia, Malaga and many) other cities. Secialist Leaders and Martial Law. Socialist Cabinet Ministers signed orders for the establishment of mar- tial law, and countenanced the Shooting of hundreds of militant workers in clashes with the strike- breaking Civil Guards. They ruth- lessly stifled the efforts of the land- gry peasantry to divide the huge lan ded estates of the nobility and the Church Now, when the class conflict be- tween the increasingly revolutionary w rs and poor peasants and the| rich bourgeoisie and the Church is| the growing more acute day by day Spanish capitalist-landowning calls upon the Socialist leaders, with this record of class treachery be- hind them. to do in Spain what the/ Ebert-Scheidemann-Noske Socialists | did in Germany after the November} 1918 revolution. | FRANCE LAYS IN STOCKS FOR WAR Zine, Lead, Copper, Crude Oil Imports Rise Sharply PARIS, June 11.—French offici: import figures for the first four months of this year show that France has been following a policy, since the mew year especially, of laying in heavy stocks of raw materials for| War purposes, and materials that would be difficult or impossible to obtain in time of war. Although industry as a whole has retrogressed in the last year, imports of war materials have sharply risen At the same time, food imports have fallen. French capitalism is thus ac- tively preparing for war at the ex- pense of cutting down the food sup- plies available for the workers. Metals for munitions production showed the steepest increases. Im- ports of lead bars for the first four months of 1933 were 44,388, as com-| pared with 29,300 for the same period | in 1932, Imports of nickel similarly| rose to 653 tons, as compared with 387 in the previous year. Imports of | Taw copper jumped 3,000 tons, and imports of copper alloys rose from 1,743 tons to 5,942 tons Zine im- ports increased from 1.607 to 14,545 tons, the figures again being for the first four months of 1932 and 1933 respectively. Crude oil imports rose from 136,000 hectolitres to 618,00 hec- tolitres. Imports of raw cotton and wool both nearly doubled in the last | year, although French wool exports | fell by 50 per cent. | In French business circles it is not denied that these purchases are for war purposes, and a well-informed business source is quoted as saying) that “France is not the only nation | with a fever for building up stocks— other countries are doing it as well—| I think we caught the fever from Kwei-Tang, in their campaign to z , joccupy Kalgan, extending Japan's Sanitary buckets pth kept in the rule over the Province of Chahar,| Prisoners’ rooms. ‘The prisoners can Strike in a Filthy | Nanking Prison Sentenced to Life Imprisonment; World-Wide Protest to Save Gallant Class-War Fighters NEW YORK, June 11.—Confined in one of the world’s vilest and cruel { lest. prisons, Paul and Gertrude Ruegg are slowly succumbing to the un- bearable conditions in Nanking jail where they haye served two years of a life sentence for the crime of helping the Chjnese workers and peasants organize themselves for struggle against a regime of exploitation, oppres- sion, and poverty On flung into the noisome | @ new wave of mass protest) _ e workers of the world can | dungeon with his wife as a result of the Chinese government to re-| his militant activities as secretary | fighters in the |of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Sec- | | retariat. | Labor Defense,} So terrible has existence in the jail ved harrowing de- | become for them and others confined | incredible brutalj- | there that they have begun a hunger | © which Nank- | strike. Smuggled information from | subjected, has | the prison indicates that despite their | ation of h a|own sufferings, they are heartened | immediately | by the news occasjonally reaching = - them that workers on the outside are ry fighting for them and are achieving APANESE PUSH | victories in the struggle against op- TO KALGAN AND = . | have ceased to be a human D> venega d e Chinese | You no longer enjoy any pression and terrorism, | What the Rueggs are enduring is nalc id j | rights . . . Stubborn prisoners are | Generals Aid m the brought into the prison office, bound | Japanese Drive ationa which has just tails of the almost ties and the tort ing prison inmates a called for mobili: mass protest illustrated by an article recently ap- pearing in “Ta Kung Pao”, in Tient- sin. closed behind you,” it said, being. hand and foot, and belabored with) pectiae | bamboo rods until they bleed from Ss | innumerable wounds. SHANGHAI, June 11.—The Japan- | rs Ses, ese are using the armies of the Chi- lM ret A Nagano nese renegade generals, Tang-Yu-Lin, | former Governor of Jehol, and Liu- | “Underclothing is not changed for many months, so that many prjsoners | have skin sores all over their bodies, hardly breathe and have frequent + | = Mongolia |attacks of giddiness in this damp Chahar Province borders on Soviet | ang stinking atmosphere. Outer Mongolia, and the new Japan-|" “qf prison inspection is an- ese drive is a spearthrust aimed di-| nounced, the floor is immediately rectly at the Soviet frontier. With | covered with lime and sprinkled with | have mortgages and bonds in your | name. | “As soon as the prison gates have | T “You | diminshed zeal. human | ph, Roosevelt's “Industrial Control Bill.’ the seizure of Chahar, the Japanese armies will be within striking dis- tance of Urga, capital of Outer Mon- golia, besides cutting off all direct carbolic acid in order that the in- | spector shall not be overcome by the bad fumes, giving the prison a bad name.” From this cess-pool of a jail, the | | Rueggs must be freed by the clamor and protest of the working masses communication between Urga and | China proper. | The Southwest Political Council at Canton has cabled the Reconstruc- | tion Finance Corporation at Wash- ington, protesting strongly arranged by T. V. Soong, Chiang- Kai-Shek's brother-in-law and Nan- king Finance Minister. Canton charges that the proceeds of the loan will be used solely for a new civil war, instead of strengthening Chi- | nese resistance to the Japanese in- against | | the cotton and wheat loan to China |of the worlg,. ®uch action saved | | them once’ from Chiang-Kai-Shek’s Sallows, but an even stronger pro- test must free them from thjs living hell The International Defense Com- | mittee for the release of Paul and | Gertrude Ruegg, with such members at its head as Henri Barbusse, Ro- main Roland, Prof. Albert Einstein, | Maxim Gorki and Theodore Dreiser, | vasion, which they charge Chiang with having sabotaged. Soong, the Council adds, had added over one billion dollars to China’s public debt to consolidate the rule of the Nanking dynasty | re CORRECTION | A serious typographical error ap-| peared in hte article by Milton Flow-| ard, “A Marxian Masterpiece” which | peared in the Saturday's “Daily One of the sentences read,” Lenin | revised ang developed Marx and Eng-| els’ teachings,’ etc. | This, of course, was written and) should read “Lenin REVIVED and developed Marx and Engels’ teach-| ings, ete.” is still active. Under the chairmanshjp of Mme. | Sun-Yat-Sen, widow of the founder | of the Chinese Republic, a Shanghai | Defense Committee was organized. | In other parts of the world too the demand for their freedom is being rajsed. On behalf of the Defense Committee Dr. Jean Vincent, Geneva lawyer who defended the Rueggs, | protested to Wellington Koo, Chinese government representative at the| League of Nations Council, against their continued imprisonment and the treatment accorded the Rueggs. Workers! Protest against the Ku- omintang terror against the workers! Demand the unconditional release of | Symenoglu factory, demanding work.| the Rueggs! RAND SCHOOL A By ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG purveying liberal opinions to a chain (Continued) | of newspapers. He has taught social Liberal World-Telegram Also Sup- | sciences for many years in American ports Rand School colieges mainiained by capitalists But not only the reactionary capi- | talist press has come to the rescue| the Rand School. He tells the capi- of the Rand School. The liberal capi- | talists that the Rand School would talist_ press has also volunteered its| be a better investment now, believ- assistance and for the same reason.| ing that its teachings will be a bet- The feature writer of the World-| ter bulwark against revolution than Telegram, Dr. Harry Elmer Barns,| the out-and-out capitalist schools. wrote quite a piece the other day in| The last have been exposed and,| behalf of the Rand School. It should) anyway, workers seldom manage to bring good results from the sources| enter those schools. The Rand School} Party educa-| interested in the success of the educa-| and similar Socialist tional work of the Rand School, cor-| tional rectly outlined by Dr. Barnes. workers and “the doctrines that are Rand School—“Safeguard of Order” taught” there “will be more effective Under the appropriate heading) in staving off revolution than the “Safeguards of Order,’ Dr. Barnes) teachings in thouSand of convention- writes in his department, “The Lib-| 4! institutions.” eral Viewpoint”: | The conservative Times and the “If liberalism fails successfully to | liberal World-Telegram agree upon meet the crisis, the next line of | the reasons of their espousal of the defense against extreme radical- | Rand School. The first, because it ism will be the moderate Socialism | is “anti-Communist in the very real taught at the Rand School of So- | sense,” and second, because the So- cial Science. This institution in | cialism that is taught there “is the New York City is the only impor- | next line of defense againse extreme tant unit in American higher edu- | radicalism.” The writers of the Times cation which is designed to give | and the World Telegram like the So- endeavors are attended by and is familiar with the teachings at} Germany. | instruction in Socialist doctrine.” amare | Having recognized in the Socialism 2 Communists Shot of {Be Rand School “the next, line by Bulgarian Fascists | ism” it is but natural that Dr. Barnes | should favor the maintenance of SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 90. — The | “not one, but a score of Rand Communist Poppandoff, Sofia alder- | Schools.” After endorsing the fund man, and the Communist Party func- tionary Natan were shot dead in a Sofia street by Macedonian fascists yesterday. The Bulgarian govern- ment is using these fascists against the Communist movement to an in- creasing extent, resorting to more and more deserate methods against the rising tide of Communism, Wf thore is a story. editorial or car- toon yon think your feflow-worters wotld be interested in, cut it ont and | mp where they com we | appeal of the School “to maintain its work unbroken,” Dr. Barnes con- cludes with the following terse words: “The ineulcation of such doc- trines that are taught at the Rand School will he more effective in staving off revolution than the teachings of a thousand conyen- tional institutions that fail to come to gripe with the realities of to- day.” Be knows whereof maa Son ae Fa he ‘ cialism of the Rand School and of the Socialist Party, and use their papers to support both. When Norman Thomes receives an honorary degree from reactionary Princeton, when his candidacy is boosted by the Liberal World-Tele- gram or when he is declared to be harmless by America’s premier jin- goist, General Pershing, it is because they like the Socialism of the leader of the Socialist Party and it is be- | Cause they see in him an able mis- leader of the working class. | Honest workers who go to the Rand School or follow the Socialist | | Party, upon reading the opinions of | the capitalist press quoted above and | examining the activities of these or- ganizations in the labor movement, 1 ae understand the reason why NE of the first duties of a good writer is, at least, to be clear. Especially, if he is writing for a work- ing-class audience, which has no time| to wrestle with pretentious jaw-| breakers. | Now read this blurb, written to) advertise a new Soviet movie in a workers’ newspaper: { “What has been assailed as “‘propa-| ganda” has been only the statement of a world-view by an entire nation. | Now, the cultural thesis has been as-| similated until it is the breathing fragment of the individual's life. The | world view, made personal, and ex- pressed subjectively, has replaced the | objective, cerebrated promulgation.” ae ee After such an “arty” blurb, we are just dying not to see that picture. | ey pwc | Please, comrades, we are not writ- ing Ph. D theses. Don’t forget that. eon Denyer comes the news that a farmer toiled nobly all summer, and got a good crop. Then came the day of settlement—/ and he had to pay $250 to break even. Toil, and ye shall be rewarded— with debts. That's capitalism. | UT do not toil—and ye shall be, rewarded with an income—if you| That’s also capitalism. Eanes agar 'HE capitalist press is continuing its | fake prosperity campaign with un- | The Journal of Commerce prints a eadline: “Retail Sales Rise.” And the news story reads: “The first twelve chain stores to report for | May showed a decline of 2.1 per cent) in sales as compared with a year ago.’ ‘HE New Leader, official organ of the Socialist Party, in its June 3 issue puts Mr. Green of the A. F. of | L. as the knight who is fighting the class collaboration proposals of the * . FORTUNATELY, for the New) Leader’s reputation for honesty,| however, Mr. Green has already ex-| pressed himself too many times on| the subject of collaborating with the} capitalist class. * Green’s latest expression of love for| the capitalist class is in this week’s| issue of “Liberty,” where Green asks the question “Shall We Work For) Less??? tive. He answers in the affirma-| And he states, “Basically there is| an identical interest (Green's bold face) on the part of investors, man- agement, and wage-earners in the| general readjustment which I am) convinced we are about to make.” qosnee & Socialist hero for you. Unemployed Tobacco Workers Storm Big Factory in Saloniki SALONIKT, Greece, June 9.—Hun- dreds of unemployed tobacco workers demonstrated in front of the big After breaking through the police cor- | don, they forced their way into the factory and beat up the manager. Strong police reinforcements had to be summoned to clear the factory, many workers, men and women, being arrested, Turning on the Switch at Dnieprostroy S..P. Sports Leaders Sell Out to Hitler PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Mi 31—The Reichenberg “Vorwaerts” | prints two documents illustrating the unprecedented betrayal of the soci- | alist leadership of the Workers’ Sport Association In Germany. The first document is a letter written by the Association's president, C. Gellert, to | Dr, Frick, Nazi Minister of the Interior. Gellert points out tiie Associ- | ation’s continuous battle gainst the¢- x Say APE FASCISTS with 100,000 members were expelle PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The Khaki) in 1928, and requests that the Nazi| Shirts of America are trying to build measures taken against the Asso- ciation be revoked. Gellert says in an organization here. Every Monday) night recruits are drilled at the na- his letter: tional headquarters, 4420 N. Broad St. | “Never Hostile to Government.” | “Training of the young was con-) sciously in support of the State and) never hostile to it, which explains) our conflicts with the Communist-) prijs are outdoors. | Bolshevist tendencies .... The AS-| Ope when questioned, | sociation and its local organizations | never combatted the government, neither before the War nor in the private, boasts there are five million mem- bers. A “major general” member ri-| diculously claimed seven million. He | pated in | cratic Workers’ Party, and was with | strike, and:in the 1903 March dem- | tee and was among the followers of ADMIT FUTILITY post-war period. Our energetic at- tack against Communist tendencies) is sufficient proof of the samic.” In another letter the Assdciation’s Executive demands of its subordi- nate organizations that they not ac- cept sport sections of the Reichs- banner, of the Young Socialist League or other forbidden organiza-| tions as members. It also forbids] the wearing of buttons and the car- rying of flags or pennants during hikes. “Sincere Desire for Cooperation.” In a circular letter to all district and county sport leaders the Exec-| utive says: “The national upsurge in Germany has caused a complete overturn in all fields of public life. No one can ignore this fact. Our Association also acknowledges the new state of affairs..... titude to the new State is one of sincere desire for cooperation with it.” In conclusion, the leaders of the} Workers’ Sport Association in Ger- many were all leading members of the German Social Democratic par- ty. Their cowardly belly-crawlling before the Nazi overlords is of a piece with the total failure of the German Socialist leaders to carry on any fight against the Fascist terror regime. Our at-/| very frankly says the Khaki Shirts | are an American fascist movement. | Oné newspaper, when printing their photograph, describes them as “a “semi-military anti-Communist or- ganization Captain Art Smith, bonus march betrayer, is the commander-in-chief and lives here. There are three meet- ings weekly in different sections of the city, few of them well attended. Evidently the boys’ hero is Hitler, for their salute is the arm stretched out in perpendicular fashion. Little blue| on ihe question of debts, tariffs, the caps reminding one strongiy of mes: senger boys are worn with “khak: shirts” in yellow. The self-appointed | officers have an oval insignia. In the | middle of the oval is the phrase: “Khaki Shirts, Awake!” which cer-| tainly swells of Hitl Their program includes: | 1. Minimum of 70c an hour for la- | | bor. 2. Compulsory | to be denied the right to sti | 3. Universal compulsory military | training, | | 4. No one allowed to make over} $100,000 a year. This fascist movement, due to strong anti-fascist feeling throughout the country, is being soft-pedalled, | but it must be dragged out into the) light to show this danger, spreading | like fire, to all workers, —R. C. arbitration (labor ike). _ PREPARING WAR’ Histor Gusev-~the Life y of a Veteran Bolshevik (From the Big Soviet Encyclopedia) (Drab- | GUSEV, Sergei Ivanovitch | kin, Jacob Davidovich}, born 1874,| prominent political figure, Commu- nist, Gusev began his activities in the} social-political movement while still a} pupil in the technicum in Rostov-on- the-Don. In 1896 he entered the} Petersburg Technological Institute. That year also, he entered the Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of} the Working Class, participated in} the organization of an illegal print-| ing shop, printed proclamations, dis- | tributed illegal literature, etc. On March 4, 1897, Gusev partici- the demonstration at the Kazan Cathedral in Petersburg (this demonstration was in protest against} the suicide of a woman reyolutionist, Vetrova, in the Peter and Paul for- tress). On March 21, 1897, Gusev} was arrested and at the end of Sep-j tember exiled to Orenburg. At the| beginning of 1899 Gusev was trans-| ferred to Rostov-on-Don on parole. From 1900 to 1903 Gusev partici- pated very actively in the Don com- mittee of the Russian Social Demo- those who fought on the side of the “Iskra.” He participated in the leadership of the famous 1902 Rastov onsiration, after which he was com- | pelled to emigrate to Geneva. At the second congress of the Rus-| sian Social Democratic Party (R. S. D, W. P.), in 1903, Gusev attended as a delegate from the Don Commit- Lenin. After that congress he car-| ried on a sharp struggle against the mensheviks. At the end cf 1904 Gusev began to work as secretary of the Petersburg Committee of the R.| S. D. W. P. and in the “Majority Committees Buro,” participating also (9905) in the publication of “For- ward.” In May, 1905, after escaping arr Gusev cam2 to Revel and from there to Odessa, where he became secretary of the Odessa committee of the R.S.D.L.P. (C)—Zolshevik group. In 1906, having come to Moscow, he was a member of the Moscow Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. (b), at first working in charge of propa- ganda, and later as organizer in the railway district. In the spring of 1906 he was delegated from the Mos- cow organization to attend the IV session congress of the R.S.D.L.P. (b) in Stockholm. That year he was ar- rested and sent to prison, after which he was exiled to the Ferezov Tobolski Gubernia for three years, After stay- ing in Berezov one year, Gusev was transferred to Toholsk, from where he escaped to Moscow in 1909. On Military Front. During all of 1909 Gusev travelled throughout all the cities of Russia on the instructions of the Central Committee, to carry on the struggle against the “recallists” and “liquida- tionists.” At the end of 1909 he worked together with Syerdlov in Petersburg, but shortly afterwards, in order to avoid arrest, came to Terioki. In Terioki Gusev became ill and it was this sickness which made it im- possible for him to participate in any party work whatsoever straight through to 1917. During the Novem- ber revolution, Gusev was secretary of the Military-Revolutionary Com- mittee of Petrograd. After the No- vember revolution ke held a num- ber of responsible party and military posts. In 1921-22 he was alternate to the Central Committee of the V.KP.B. (All Russian Communist Party), and in 1923 secretary of the Central Control Committee of the V.K-P.B. and a member of the colligium of the Peoples Commissars, Workers and Peasants Inspection of the U.S.SR., in 1926 head of the Party History Division of the Central Committee. From 1928 Gusev was head of the Press Department of the Central Committee of the VK.P.B. At the present time (1930) he is a member of the Presidum of the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national. OF LONDON MEET; (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) conflict with its greatest rival, Eng- land, en almost every point on the Conference’s agenda. This conflict, levaluation of the pound and the dollar, will be the determining factor) in the Conference. French Aim Last Minute Blows Against Rivals PARIS, June 11—On the very eve of the London confei ce, the French government has ta'#1 measures to increase her bargaising strength at| the parley and at the same time de- liver a smashing attack on her eco- nomic rivals in general and the United States in particular. The first of these measures gives exceptional pow- ers to the cabinet: for the raising of | tariff rates by decree. The second | is aimed at the dollar, and imposes) a special surtax of 15 per cent on all American imported goods. The text of the bill reads: “With a view to- Communists and belonged to the} Communist League for which they wrote the famous Communist Mani-| festo. It was for the same reason that Lenin, witnessing the debacle] of the 2nd International and the be-| trayal of the cause of Socialism by the leaders of the Socialist Parties during the war, proposed to revo- lutionary socialists to call themselves Communists and their parties Com- munist Parties. i. The Rand School During the War | The Rand School, organized some 27 years ago as a Socialist School, | needed funds on other occasions. But | the capitalist press did not come to its aid then. On the contrary, it was attacked and represented as an en-| emy institution. The publicity which the capitalist press accorded the School during the years when it serves best the interests of workers’ education, brought to its doors bands of hooligans, who tried to organize pogroms (May 1, 1919), and secret service agents, When the*Rand School conducted a drive in 197 to purchase the build- ing it now occupies, it raised $100,- 000 under the banner of support of the Russian Revolution and of a mil- itant anti-war position. The writer of these lines, then a member of the teaching and administrative staff of the Rand School, travelled in behalf of that campaign, lecturing on the Russian Revolution and pledging the Schools’ support to the Bolshevik program, During the years 1917-1919 the Rand School became the haven for teachers expelied from colleges and schoo’ for their socialist and anti- war views and activities. When Scott Nearing was expelled from Pennsyl- vania University, he was invited to hecome a member of the staff. When Harry Dana was thrown. out of Co- lumbie, be teach at the Rand Gepost the case of Calhoun and several oth- ers. The Rand School was known then as the Red School, although it fell short of being a really revolu- tionary school in the Bolshevik sense. It attracted thousands of workers to its classes. Over 5,000 annual regis- trations were recorded during those years—the best the School ever had. The PerSecution of the School The School was tried and con- vieted during the war under the es- pionage law for publishing an anti- war pamphlet. It, published under the editorship of the writer the first Lenin pamphiet in English issued in this country which went through many editions. The school was raid- ed by the notorious Lusk Commit- tee. Legislative body investigating revolu- tionary activities with the aim of| voiding the corporate charter of the School and prosecuting its officers) and staff. When a High School teach- er was dismissed “for supporting Bol- shevism,” his dismissal was approved by the Lusk CommStee which dc- clared “that the accusation was ac‘- curate was shown by his subsequent open connection with the Rand School as a teacher of revolutionary Socialist doctrines.” Association with the Rand School denoted, according to the N. Y. State Attorney General, connection with “a preparatory school for extremely revolutionary organiza- tions.” SKS AID AS “THE BEST BULWARK AGAINST REVOLUTION” Times, World-Telegram, New Republic—Conservative Capitalists, Liberals, Socialists and Renegades Alike, Solicit for Foe of Communism Marxism-Leninism. Under the} guidance of Hillquit, the School re- | moved the “left” elements from its) governing body, although they consti-| tuted a majority, and proceeded to | “improve” its standing. No one could teach or work at the School “who advocated or believed in proletarian dictatorship” under the threat of Hillquit’s refusal to defend the School | in court proceedings which it still had | | pending against it. Failure to ap-| prove or support the platform and | program of the Socialist Party dis- | qualified one the teaching staff or administretion | of the School, although the School} | officially reported to the Garland | Fund that “no teacher or lecturer in| the Rand School has ever been dis- ciplined or subjected to any pressure | whatever by the Society (American Socialist Society which governs the School—A.T.) or the Board on ac- count of his opinions” The cleansing begen in 1921 under | Hillquit’s tutelage soon left the School free of any militant elements and in complete gontrol of the re- actionary elements A Story Of Betrayal ‘The post-war history of the Rand School is a story of the betrayal of the workers who helped to build the School as a proletarian educational center. The masses of workers who made the School throb with life and hum with activity during the war rom connection with | We Ge Gi ortee 0 0 years, have deserted it. Petty-bour- geois elements, trade union burea- crats and 8. P. functionaries tend to the affairs of the School now. There was a time when the Rand The Break With the Past The heads of the Rand School like | to dwell on this period of the School! when it suits their purpoces. But a) previous record of service in the cause} of working class emancipation is only! Pertinent if it has been consistently | orints an editorial maintained throughout. The activities, ‘Rand School Meneced. of the Schooj since that period shows | world of difference in this attitude. a definite Weak with the previous) Has the Times changed? No. It is record of ati honest workingclass in-| still the reliable servant of the capi- atitution, although 1 was not con-|talist class. Jt Is the Rand School Now the Times nder the capitalist press. There is a | revolution, Schocl was considered a menace by’ the title | | ers The Workers School Now Center for Proletarian Education | ‘The Workers School of the Com-| mwnist Party has become the rally- ing center of the young workers seek- ing revolutionary education and training for the class struggle. With the teaching at the Workers School! based upon Marxism-Leninism, the! workers combine their studies with revolutionary activity, aiming to equip themselyes to be better fight- ers and leaders of the working mass- | es. It is the task of the Workers School also to attract those working- | class elements who still may go to! the Rand School in the belief that| it is conducted in the interest of workers’ education. The true char- acter of the Rand School must be! made known to these workers and they must be helped to find their way to our Workers School. Nearly 5,000 registrations were recorded in) the Workers School during 1932-1933 | school year and the educational needs | of the movement are growing. Must Expose Rand School The present support accovded soj| lavishly to the Rand Schoo] by the; capitalist press must be made widely known among the workers. Honest workers will undersiand that the Rand School was hounded before be- cause it was true to the class inter- ests of the workers. It is praised now by the same elements and every assistance is offered to it by them, because it is no longer true to the class interests of the workers. In-/ stead of a revolutionary beacon light it has become a_ bulwark azainst Instead of being a source | of enlightenment and for the devclon mont of clacs-con:cic workers, it aims to retard th ress on the path of struggle. must shun such an ution and) join the educctional activities of the Communist Party — The Workers Schools—of couses conducted by the militant trade unions and other ducted entirely in apirit ac-| that has changed. So that the Times sqund 9p sjeum Jp itp beheld, } revolutionary fraternal or cultural varity, wards answering measures taken by foreign governments and exceptional and unforeseen circumstances of a nature gravely hampering French production and commerce, the gov- ernment is authorized...” etc. The aggressive nature of the bill and its part in a definite trade war of the nations, is clearly shown by this quotation. 8. To Maintain Depreciated Dollar LONDON, June 11—That the fall- ing value of the dollar will be used as a club at the London Conference was made clear by a statement by Ralph Morrison of Texas, member of the United States delegation here yesterday. “Unless the tariff situa- tion is improved (he means — until the European countries modify their tarifis against the United States) any stabilization of the dollar will .be purely temporary.” Asked whether the administration had been depress- ing the dollar, Morrison replied: “I think that the administration has felt that some move in that direction would be beneficial to our internal situation.” In other words, the ad- ministration feels that the internal situation is helped along by infla- tionary wage-cutting. But by thus cheapening costs, American. foreign trade also reaps an advantage over its economic rivals by dollar deprecia- tion, and it is this aspect of Roose velt’s {nflation policy that England, and espeSially France, objects to. In reply to these people, Morrison says thet there is *not the “slightest be- lief” in Washington that the dollar will be allowed to go back to its did Uw. ae MOE French Default Certain, PARIS, June 11.—Finance Ministe? Bonnet, one of the leaders of tha French delegation to the Econom‘c Conference, in an interview with the Paris Soir, said: “It is no longer possible to maintain massive paye ments from one nation to another.” The reference was to the war debt payments which France owes the United States, and which falls due on the 15th of June. He added, | “The Lausanne Conference solemn- ly condemned such pay’ ts and we remain true to its decisions.” This is the clearest indication that the French government has yet given that they intend to default on the payment. English Reported Planning Part Payment, LONDON, June 11.—It is reported that a majority of the cabinet is agreed on a policy of part payment of the war debt due the United States. The plan is to submit a de- finite propesel to the White House, and await the American reaction to this partial offer, which the English will probably suggest should be made in silver rather than gold. The Sunday Times, which usually follows rather closely the mind of the Foreign Office, corroborates this today, saying that Great Britain has requested the United States to sus- pend the war debt payments due on June 15 until a final settlement was negotiated. If negotiations would be made more easy by a token payment, this would not be ruled out, though England tekes the po- sition that since it now recsives nothing from its cebtors or from ree pavations payments, it should be relieved of war debi, payments to its creditors. The Sunday Times concludes by writing that “In the event a token payment is rejeeted there will be no payment by Great Britain in respect of the instalmens — new due" ) ees | | | | |