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Page Six EUROPEAN ANTLFASCIST WORKERS’ CONGRESS OPENS OWERS LEND $40,000,000 TO AUSTRIA 1,100 Nazi Officials| Arrested by Dollfuss Regime for Treason LONDON, June 16—In his efforts | to resist Nazi annexation of Austria| to Germany proper, Chancellor Doll- fuss succeeded in obtaining a $40. 000,000 loan from Great Britain, France and Italy yesterday to bolster the Austrian dictatorship financially and provide fi flotation of badly that ts might march| Bavaria,’ irresponsible e into Austria from PARIS, June 16.—Chancellor Doll-| fuss arrived by airplane from ender) en route to V! to take charge] ofthe critical azi in| Austria. He is to see French officials; to -discuss French participation in| the Anglo-French-Italian loan to Austria situation VIENNA, June 16.—A free-for-all| fight took place in the lower Austran| Diet when a Nazi deputy spoke of} “Qur Chancellor, Adolf Hitler,” dur- ing 2 debate on unemployment re- lief. Deputies raised the shout of| “high treason,” and Socialist and Christian Social members attacked | the: Nazi deputies. In an effort to smash the Nazi| nm in Austria, the Dollfuss nt arrested over 1,100 Nazi among them 81 mayors, 7 ¢s, 111 municipal councillors, and 387 government officials. Thirty- Seven of these have already been charged with high treason. retaliation for the expulsion by | Atstria of Theodor Habicht, Nazi State Inspector for Austria, and at- taghed to the German Legation, the Wazi regime in Berlin promptly ex- pelled Dr. Wasserbaeck, press attache the Austrian Legation in Berlin. is violation of diplomatic immu- is likely to lead to protests OPEN MILITARY BRIDGE BUKAREST.—The kings of Jugo- Slavia and Rumania met on June 5 tear Prahovo to lay the foundation for a new bridge over the Danube, connecting Jugo-Siavia directly with Rumania. The bridge is of great mili- tary value. T nity 3 ? | | | |} 1 |men’s Union, formerly under the | leadership of and affiliated to the International Trade Union Federa- NAZI RANK AND New York and msti by the Oompoodally Publishing Ge., Inc., dally except Sunday, ot 3 B. Otty, N. X. ‘Telephone Algenquin 4-7036. Cable “DAIWORK.” checks te the Dally Worker, 0¢ B. 12th St., New York, N. ¥, |Danish Seamen’s Union Joins Red Marine Internat’! NEW YORK.—The Danish Sea- tion, Amsterdam international | trade union body, has left the I. | T. F. and affiliated to the Interna- | tional of Sea and Harbor Work- | ers, revolutionary marine interna- | tional | FILE REVOLTING AGAINST LEADER 3,870 Storm Troopers Expelled in Berlin for “Unreliability” ZURICH, Switzerland, June The activist members of the Nazi Party,. especially the storm troop rank and file, are growing more dis- satisfied every day, according to in- formation furnished the Zurich cht” by a leading Berlin journalist. The “Volksrecht” reports that 3,870 storm troopers were expelled from the Nazi party in Berlin from May 1 to May 25, 1933, because of “lack of political reliability,” that is, because they rebelled against the capitalist course of the Hitler regime. Nazi Revolt in Berlin A violent revolt took place on May 28, on the occasion of a meeting of the members of the Nazi Party in Neukoelln, suburb of Berlin. When the district leader of the Storm ‘Troops tried to read the names of those expelled from the Nazi Party, he was howled down by the singing of the “Internationale.” The singing continued until the Storm Troop leader and his detachment were forced to leave the meeting. The members present then unanimousiy adopted a resolution expressing their solidarity with those expelled. The situation within the Nazi Party has grown 80 grave that Major Roehm, leader of the Storm Troops, was forced to issue a circular letter on May 30 to all military forma- tions, saying that “it was not the job of the Brown soldiers in the Third Reich to issue political ultimatums, or to address these damands to the highest leaders.” The circular adds: “Those taking part in such actions violate the vol- untarily adopted rule of obedience, } | You're working now for a real master, | ROM _ BIRMINGHAM, Alabama comes the following verses from H. B, a recruit on one of those| | military training camps, so delicately | |called “ref tion” eamps. |Here in God’s open spaces, | The cool, inviting, healthful places, Weakened bodies and yellowed faces, [va develop into men, Swing that axe a little faster, | Hurry, hurry and still faster, | Swing that axe again. | Hye you there, straighten that shoul- der, Ba turn you yet into a soldier, |Heave away with this boulder, Come on here and lend a hand, !¥ou with that confounded band, jeans as if you owned this land. |Get ready for drill; Be prepared all of you, One, two, three, four, one nd two, Lunge parry two by two Snappier there, and more bolder; Lunge, parry, lunge and parry, Every Tom, Dick and Harry, And you there, singing canary Should make yet good soldiers. Good feeding for the guns, | Kids like you stopped the Huns, | Kids like you and the rest of the | bums | Stopped the German swine. | Hold that gun a little higher, jait back into line. . # * |"WHE NAVY is elated. Roosevelt has | | given them the right to go ahead on the biggest Navy building pro- gram since the last war. Rear Admiral Emory Long cannot hide his joy. He says, “This is the first jtime since the World War that we | have had a definite policy. We know |now what to expect.” Behind Roosevelt's bland grin is the snarl of a rabid imperialist big Navy war monger. ‘The Admiral knows what to ex- |pect. The workers also know what |to expect—slaughter to protect the profits of their exploiters, Penier peers YUT the Rear Admiral will make the unhappy discovery that the workers have learned a lot, and will learn even more in the coming events. and make themselves guilty of en- dangering the National Revolution.” |The journalist states that dissatis- faction is also growing among the civilian members of the Nazi Party, particularly among the peasants, who demand that a beginning should be made at last with the heralded Nazi agrarian program. Dail orker’ Porty US.A. By Mall everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $5.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, Be, Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Canade: One year, $9; 6 months, $5; ? months, $3, BUBSCRIFTION RATES: JUND 47, 1988 Foreign and ASK LEIBOWITZ. DEFEND TORGLER AND DMITROFF |Nazis Arrest German Defense Lawyers, ‘Verrorize Others NEW YORK, June 16.—The families of Ernst Torgler, head of the Com- munist Reichstag deputies and Georgi Dimitrov, Blegoi Siminov Popov, and Basil Constantinov Taneff, Bulgarian Communist leaders, accused by the Nazis of having set the Reichstag building on fire February 27, have asked Samuel S. Leibowitz, defense counsel for the I-L.D. in the Scotts- boro case, to come to Germany and defend the accused Communists. The cable message from the fami- lies of the defendants reads in part: “Highly important you intercede in Reichstag fire trial. Popov, Ta- neff, Torgler, Dimitrov are innocent. German lawyers cannot defend be- cause of threat of imprisonment and suppression. We urge you to join this cause.” Leibowitz stated that he would first find out from the German embassy whether the Nazi government would permit him to enter Germany before deciding whether to undertake the de- fense of Torgler, Dimitrov, and the other accused. SiN ae: German Defense Lawyers Terrorized. No lawyer has been found in Ger- many willing to take the case, as any defense of Communists, Jet alone the defense of the Communists charged with the Reichstag arson, is as much as a lawyer's life is worth. Only two weeks ago Attorney Werner Hege- wisch, who had been retained by Frau Thaelmann to consult with Ernst Thaelmann in his cell concern- ing details of his defense, was sum- marily arrested and confined in the same prison after leaving his client. Tartars, Russians, Ukrainians, Germans and Jews in Friendly Competition During Spring Sowing By NATHANIEL BUCHWALD Daily Worker Correspondent I.—MOSCOW—EVPATORIA MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R—Late in| March snow was still clinging to the edges of the fields in the central region of the U. S. S. R., making its Jast desperate stand against the early spring. But in the Crimea, I knew by the papers, the spring sowing cam- paign was in full swing. I, therefore, decided to go straigi&tt |to Crimea without stopovers and to work my way back through the Ukraine by easy stages as the spring sowing got under way in that section. The countryside traversed by the Moscow-Sebastopol express is rather monotonous in appearance, especially im early spring, when the fields are still bare and the variety of crops has not yet painted its checkered designs upon the vast stretches of fiat land. The absence of forests and of large bodies of water makes the landscape less attractive. Green Patches Appear Here and: there patches of timid greenish down relieve the prevailing brown of the soil. These green patches, [which look like delicate pastel daubs against a background of muddy browns, are the first visible Tesults of the winter sowing. As the train proceeds further south, the greenish patches occur more fre- quently. Apparently much of the area in these parts was sown with winter wheat and rye, and the plentiful snow has obviously served as a warm blanket for the seeds, making it cozy for them to undergo the first changes in the cycle of their life. Villages | with their straw-roofed houses streak | the landscape at frequent intervals. | In contrast to the American farms, the population of Russian rural com- munities live in villages, with the | figlds a considerable distance away from the settlement. Except for arti- ficial hedges or other boundary marks, there was nothing to indicate the individual holdings of the peas- ants—when individual holdings were Still the rule.. The land of the entire community was generally one un- broken area, and this circumstance no. doubt facilitated the transition to Gollective large-scale farming. ‘The relation of the settlement to its land remains the same, only the inner boundary lines have been erased. It is this scheme of farming that adds to the bareness and the sense of end- lessness of the Russian counteyside. Between one village and another | there is nothing but land. A Worker on Vacation In the train I made the acquain- tance of a young worker ‘from West- ern Siberia. He had been six days making his way to Evpatoria, a sea- shore and health resort on the Cri- mean coast. In recognition of his | work he was given a six wecks’ jtion with pay. His fare to Ey- | Patoria was also paid by the factory, and at. Evpatoria there was a place feseryed for him in one of the best | Daily Worker Correspondent Tells of Burst of Activity Beginning Line of Melting in Crimea, Following Snow Northward capital of the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic. From there to Evpatoria was only three hours’ ride, but it involved a change of trains and a stopover of several hours. We arrived at Simferopole at 5 o’clock in the morning. The weather had suddenly turned cold, and a mix- ture of snow and rain made this dawn in a strange city not exactiy pleasant. All restaurants were closed, with the exception of one, which looked bright and cosy, and contained tempting breakfast items. My friend ffrom Western Siberia was made welcome at this restaurant and was served breakfast, while I had to be content with a mere wel- come without breakfast. It was ex- plained to me that the restaurant was really not « restaurant but a rest station for vacationists and con- valescents on their way to the rest and health resorts of Crimea. Ob- viously, outsiders could not be served. The commercial restaurants, I was informed, would open about 9 o’clock, which gave me ample time to inspect the city. The rain had ceased, affording a chance to walk the streets in com- fort. Simferopole is a most charming city. Not being an industrial center, it is relatively little touched by the building boom of the Five Year Plan. Its houses of old-style architecture with ornate balconies and balustrades edging the roofs, are uninterrupted by the bold modernistic structures which one sees in other sections of the country. An arcade facing the main street of the town attracted my curiosity. I found it to be a waiting station and @ ticket office for rail and bus lines. The people at the waiting sta- tion presented a cross section of the Crimean population. No one nation- j ality in Crimea forms a majority of the population, though Tartars form a plurality. In the buzz of languages at the waiting room I could discern Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, German and an unfamiliar tongue which must haye been Tartar, judging by the facial features of the people who spoke it, No One Is Hungry Barring the difference in language and racial features, there was little to differentiate these people. Ap- ere Photo taken in the middle Volga region, Soviet Union, right sits the accountant of the collective farm, Before him stands a brigade leader, telling him what work and how much of it was accom- plished by members of his brigade, This is entered in the “workers’ homes, also free of charge. both got off at Simferopole, the wha Hooks apd 'on te bowls of fais, the Distribution of Profits At a Collective Farm On the wages are paid parently most of them were farmers, for the conversations generally re- volved about village affairs. They were a sturdy lot, with nothing in their external appearance to support the weird inventions lof bourgeois anti-Soviet propagandists about star- vation in South Russia. ‘Throughout my travels and visits in the Crimean countryside I did not notice @ single instance of race preju- dice or antagonism. Jewish kolhozes (collective farms). work amicably alongside of Russian ones, Tartars vie with Germans as to the best showing in the spring sowing, and despite the difference in language and racial background, all of them speak the same tongue of collectivism and think alike in terms of Soviet socialist economy. Chance for Every Nationality The different nationalities in Cri- mea (as everywhere in the Soviet Union) are given the fullest oppor- tunity to develop their own culture in their own language (“national in form, socialist in content.”—Stalin). It is this sense of freedom and equal- ity that went a long way in stamping out racial animosities and prejudices. There are no “superior” and “in- ferior” races in the Soviet Union, and certainly no incitement of race hatred. On the contrary, race chau- vinism in any form is regarded as a most disgraceful thing and is com- batted with the utmost severity by all the agencies of proletarian public opinion. Among the collective peasants in the Crimea you can sometimes hear humorous, good-natured “kidding” of persons on account of their nation- ality. Speaking of the excellent work of a neighboring Tartar kolhoz, a Jewish farmer repeated an old Rus- sian saying, “You don’t have to be born fortunate if you are born a Tartar,” but he said it with a smile and in a tone of voice that discred- ited this old gag, adding with great earnestness, “There is a lot these ‘Tartars can teach us.” In the Evpatoria district there is a rural Soviet comprising three Jew- ish kolhozes which conducts its af- fairs in Yiddish as the official lan- guage. The school of this rural Soviet also uses Yiddish as the main lan- guage, with Russian as the secondary one. Yet, both adults and children in this Jewish community seem to prefer speaking Russian among themselves, and at the meetings called by the kolhoz or the village Soviet or the Party nucleus Russian is more in vogue than the |official language, Yiddish. The same condition may be observed in the older Tartar jand German communities in Crimea. This, then, is the “racial” and the “national” background of Crimea, and it is against this background that I shall attempt in following articles to sketch the collective farms of that section with particular em- phasis upon the sowing campaign of the first spring of the second Five Veux Plan, Racamond Opens Congress. Racamond, Secretary of the Revolutionary French Trade Unions opened the Congress with @ short address, in which he ex- tended special greetings to the Ger- man delegates, who had crossed the frontier at the risk of their lives in order to take part in the Congress. After pointing out the characteristic feature of the Congress—the fact of its composition which expresses its united front character—Racamond emphatically stated that the Anti- Fascist movement has nothing in common with the chauvinist anti- German campaign of French im- Perialism. He added that the Anti- Fascist French working class is car- rying on. its struggle against fas- cism chiefly through fighting its own bourgeoisie. Presidium Elected. On behalf of the Organizing Bu- reau, @ German delegate then sub- mitted nominations for the presidium of the Congress, which were voted unanimously. The presidium consists of five Ger- mans, among them one Socialist worker, a young worker belonging to the Young Socialist League, and a woman worker; seven Frenchmen, in- cluding Gazeilles, secretary of the Alpes Maritimes district of the French Socialist Party; Cazaubon, secretary of the independent Civil Service Union with 40,000 members, and the well-known novelists, Andre Gide, Henri Barbusse and Romain Rolland; five Italians, three English- men and two Poles. Thaelmann Honorary President. ‘The honorary presidium consists of Ermst Thaelmann, whose election unleashed a giant storm of applause; Torgler, Dimitrov and several others. After these elections, Mueller, head of the Central United Front Anti- Fascist Committee of Germany, spoke on the struggle against fascism and the offensive of capitalism. He be- gan with the statement that the German workers had never stopped their anti-fascist struggle, and to- day are carrying on the intensified proletarian class struggle with all the weapons at their disposal. “If today fascist terror is raging worse than ever before, it is not an indication of the strength of fascism but of its weakness. But it is also a sign of the rapid rise of the revo- lutionary wave. Why Fascism Won In Germany. “The German workers, who know that the victorious struggle against fascism must be carried on interna- tionally, reply as follows to the fre- quent questions of how it happened that fascism was able to win in Ger- many: Because of the Versailles Treaty, which was one of the chief godfathers at the cradle of fascist dictatorship, and because of the pol- icy of the German Socialist Party, which disarmed the working class, stifled all revolutionary action, and split the working class. That is why fascism was able to force the revolu- tionary proletariat to retreat. “When the ‘left’ Social Democrats, such as the Austrian Social Democ- racy, ask why the Communist Party of Germany did not resort to an armed uprising, we can answer: “The Communist Party of Ger- many fought tirelessly, altho con- stantly blocked by the German Soci- alist Party, but a call for an armed revolt, which the German Socialist Party would have rejected even more than it did the repeated united front offers of the German Communist Party, would have been a crime against the working class. “After describing the terror, which has cost the lives of 500 workers, and during which more than 10,000 have been beaten up, 60,000 arrested, 40,000 interned in concentration camps, and more than 100,000 fired from their jobs in the factories, Mueller painted a picture of the whole situation, especially of the masses’ resistance, and emphasized that the starting point of the struggle for the fascist dictatorship must be struggle against any impairment of the workers’ standard of living. “Beginning with partial struggles, the offensive must be carried through political mass strikes to the gen- eral strike, thus bringing about the overthrow of the fascist dictator- ship. It is not the Socialist Party's slogan, ‘Back to Democracy,’ that can solve the problem, but only the struggle for all power to the work- ers and peasants, that is for a free Socialist Soviet Germany.” Barbusse Speaks. The next speaker is Henri Bar- busse, speaking on behalf of the Am- sterdam anti-war movement, and greeted with a thunderous ovation, Barbusse says: “We make no dis- tinction between the struggle against war and the struggle against fascism; that is why we are affiliating our- selves 100 per cent with the Euro- pean Anti-Fascist Workers’ Congress. We offer it our fraternal support and are ready to work together with it very closely. Unity of action is the sole guarantee for the victory of the proletariat, which is identical with the salvation of humanity.” Protest Telegram Against Altona and Chemnitz Death Sentences At the instance of Pankhurst, Brit- ish delegate, Prof. Prenant of the Sorbonne, the Czech Professor Ne- jedly, Andre Gide and Henri Bar- busse, the Congress voted to send a sharply worded telegram to the Ger- man government, protesting against the death sentences handed down against the Altona and Chemnitz Anti-Fascists. The French delegates informed the congress that the Paris workers intend to support this pro- ‘JUNE 24, A DAY OF UNITED BATTLE AGAINST FASCISM. Aid to Heroic German Workers Being Rushed | All Over Country Reports of preparations for June 24, National Anti-Fascist Day, con- tinue to come in from all parts of the country. At a United Front Con- ference in Boston, Mass., on June 14, 80 delegates, representing 44 or- ganizations, decided to hold a mon- ster demonstration on Boston Com- mon in protest against the Hitler terror on Saturday, June 24, at 2 p.m. The conference also yoted to arrange Tag Days for the victims of German Fascism on July 23, 24 and 25. An Action Committee of 23 was elected to prepare for the tag days and the demonstration. A -huge demonstration will take place in Chicago on June 24 against the crimes of German fascism against workers, Jews, Catholics, and intellectuals under ‘the auspices of the Chicago Anti-Fascist United Front Committee. The demonstra- tion starts af these three points: North Side: Ogden and North Aves.; West Side: Blue Island and Roose- velt Rd.; South Side; 22nd and Wentworth, marching through the working class centers and combining into one column at Franklin and Randolph to wind up with a giant mass meeting In Grant Park. Tag Days will also be held in Chicago on June 24-25 to collect furfis for the victims of German fascism. In preparation for a big anti-Fas- | cist demonstration in Bridgeport, Conn., on June 24, the Communist Party there is holding a number of open-air meetings. Hundreds of So- cialist workers took part in an anti- Hitler United Front meeting right outside S. P. headquarters. Peavey Sonne ‘The nation-wide campaign for! June 24, National Anti-Fascist Day, | must be pulled with the greatest in- tensity, building the serried ranks of workers of ajl political and nion af- fillations across the country in the joint struggle against fascism. Col- lect relief funds and rush collections to the National Committee for Aid to the Victims of German Fascism, 15 Fifth Avenue, New York City. proletarian solidarity. Fascism In Italy. After the protest telegram was adopted, the leader of the Italian Anti-Fascist movement gave a terse picture of the ten years of experi- ence of the Italian working class un- der Fascist rule, which gave neither work nor bread as it had promised, but a 30 per cent wage-cut, a 12-hour day, practically no unemployment re- lief, etc.” . “While the Socialist Party demor- alizes the masses with its defeatism, the dauntless Italian proletariat has been fighting for the past ten years and will continue its fight until its successful termination.” (Applause.) Pilsudski Fascism in Poland A leader of the Anti-Fascist front of Poland then gave an extensive description of the situation of the Polish workers, peasants, middle classes and the oppressed national minorities. He described how the mass struggle is rising unceasingly in spite of the unprecedented terror, which is why fascism is resorting to various maneuvers, “In spite of the few delegates present from Poland, their election was preceded by a very big campaign which succeeded in Mobilizing the masses on a very wide front.” The speaker ¢losed with the assurance that the iron fist of the Polish working class would smash Piisudski. Bulgarian Terror A Bulgarian delegate then por- trayed the bloody rule of Bulgarian fascism, and told the Congress of the experience gained in struggle by the Bulgarian workers, the majority; of whom, together with large sec- tions of the poor and middle peas- antry, is already fighting under rey- Olutionary leadership. Congress Not Solely Communist Affair The presidium then read a state- ment signed by Bergery, Langevin, Laugier, Dalsau, Malarte, Etcheverry, cazaubon and Barbusse, protesting against the claim of Chiappe, Paris’ Prefect of Police, that the Congress is a purely Communist affair. The statement pointed out that the ma- jority of the French Organizing Committee for the Congress are not members of the French Communist) Party. After a declaration by the Social- ist Party of Italy (Maximalist wing) affiliating with the Congress, Salan, a Spanish delegate (brother of the revolutionary fighter murdered un- der the Berenguer dictatorship) spoke. Fascist Peril in Belgium He was followed by Deputy, Lahaut, leader of the Belgian miners, who pictured the fascist peril in Bel-~ gium, He characterized the emer- gency powers of the Belgian govern- ment as a step in the direction of fascism, and reported on the progress |the first year of the second Five- IN PARIS don Conference stating: “The Soviet a distinct position. way out of the crisis, for the simp! which has been raging for the past four years throughout the capitalist world stopped short at the Soviet! frontiers. During these four years,| the U.S.S.R. accomplished tremen- dous tasks, It completed the first Five-Year Plan, and entered upon Year Plan.” Soviet Union Uniouched by Crisis The editorial quotes the following passage from Litvinov’s speech: “Due to the peculiarities of the economic structure of my country, the world crisis can in no measure influence it, and does not influence its economic growth, which is proved by the ab- Sence of such phenomena as over- production of commodities, accumu- lation of stocks that find no market, unemployment, increase {n foreign indebtedness, bankruptcy and fall of wages.” Continuing, the Pravda states: What can Messrs. Capitalists reply to this statement of the Soviet delega- tion? They dare not, of course, deny these facts which are the most vivid illustration of the advantages which the Soviet economic system has over capitalism. These advantages which| find their material expression in the continuous economic rise of the country of the proletarian dictator-| ship, may be seen from the fact that the U. S. S. R. is the only country | which. consistently fights all forms of economic aggression: embargoes, | tariff barriers, etc.” The Soviet Union Does No Seek Isolation Pravda gives the following pas- sage of Litvinov’s speech: “Having full possibility, due to the successful accomplishment of the first Five- Year Plan, to develop its construc- tion independent of imports, my government nevertheless, has no in- tention of fencing itself off from the outside world, new economic barriers, and encasing itself in its own eco- nomic shell. In contrast with other countries, along with the enormous increases in our own production, we do not seek out archy and don’t re- ject advantageous imports of foreign goods.” Proposes Economic Peace-Pacts The editorial proceeds: “Through Litvinov, the Soviet Un- ion not only proposed at the Con- ference, economic non-aggression pacts, not only demands the abolition of all special duties, restrictions, boy- cotts and other forms of economic aggression. The chairman of the Soviet delegation made another con- crete proposal concerning the exten- sion of foreign trade relations be- tween the U. S. S. R. and capitalist countries on the condition that they extend corresponding credits to the Soviet Union. One Billion Dollars—such are the immediate import capacities of the Soviet Union. What similar capital- ist country can make similar enor- mous trade deals? The fact is that the orders of the Soviet Union placed under prcper conditions would amount for different goods from 25 to 100 per cent of the existing world supplies for which no place can be found, and the absorption of which could give work to millions of unem- ployed workers. Sec’alict Construction Triumphs Only the Soviet Union which gig- anticcily developed its productive forces, which beat off all attacks of the hostile capitalist world, is in a position to absorb such colossal quantity of goods, The capacity of the Soviet market is unlimited, for our potentialities, the development of our productive forces, and the growth of the welfare of the city toilers on the countryside is unin- terrupted.” Pointing out the failure of the capitalist world to defeat the Social- ist construction in the Soviet Union, Pravda continues: “In our country, during the last four years, there came into being, giant plants and factories, new oil fields, coal basins, new thousand- mile Jong railways ,and continuous growth of our population. In cap- italist countries during the four years of the crisis, there have grown up; enormous armies of men, huge sup- plies of commodities and tremendous machines which Messrs, Capitalists cannot get rid of it. At the same time sixty million persons are doomed to starvation of extinction as a re- sult of unemploymeni. The clear) question posed by Litvinov “For or Against Economic War?” will have to be answered clearly by the Tep- | resentatives of the capitalist world. | The ruthless econom:c war waged by the capitalists is a prelude to a new world imperialist w: ‘The em- bargo of ‘> din-hords against the ods of the Soviet Union is the first Step towards organized intervention.” U.S. S. R. Can @uy 1 Goods” tost of “Surplus A paragraph in the Izvestia also) comments on Litvinov's speech in an editorial entitled “From Geneva to London.” Reviewing the history of the Geneva Conference, and the im- pudent demands which the capitalist representatives made that the Sovict Union recognize the ownership title of foreign capitalists to plants, mines and lands nationalized by the Octo- ber Revolution, the izvestia points out the change that has taken place in the years which have elapsed, of the united front despite the re- the ‘reformist leaders. test with a giant demonstration of! sistance with the Soviet Union having grown in economic might, while the capital- f Moscow Pravda Shows That Socialist Economy of Soviet Union rortifies It Against Capitalist Crisis lee reason that the world economic crisis [s : ARK 5| 2,000 Delegates Pledge United Efforts SOVIET UNION COULD to Smash Fascist Dictatorships PARIS, June 4 (By Mail)—The European Anti-Faseist Congress, prepared for by the workers of Europe for months, opened today in the Salle Pleyel, with thousands of Parisian workers in the audience. Delegates exceeding 2,000 in number were present from almost all the capitalist countries of Europe. The entrance of the big German delegation, composed | almost entirely of factory workers from all parts of the Reich, was greeted with a storm | of cheers; the Congress arose and spontaneously started to sing the “Internationale”. mS BUY MOST OF ‘SURPLUS’ (By Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., June 16.—Under the headline “For or Agsinst Economic War” Pravda today comments on Litvinoy’s speéch ‘at the Lon- Delegation at London occupies quite At the’Conference the Soviet Union does not seek a pr are in the throes of The editorial states: “The Soviet delegation at the London Conference, in Litvinov’s speech, did not éngage reminiscences -ebout. the miscal- culations of capitalist world. Lit- vinov ci almly point out the smoking stacks of the Saviet factories and the ‘uished furnaces of the capitalist . He. could calmly point out the total, disappearance of unemployment in our country, while the capitalist world. seeks, but can- not find a way out of the crisis. The representative of the Soviet govern- ment is no medicine man. He could not propose to the capitalists rem- edies that would save. capitalism, But Litvinov was in a position to tell the capitalist world that the Soviet Union was ready to place a billion dollars worth of orders, in ad- dition to current orders,.if the cap- italist_world which is in need of ex- tending its markets for the disposal of its goods, will extend to. it the same credit conditions as it gives all such large transactions.” FACES JAIL FOR ANTI-WAR WORK | Girl Gave Lea flets to Guardsmen NEW YORK.—Rose Stein, member of the Young Communist League, who was arrested for» distributing leaflets in front of -the National Guard Armory at Columbus Circle was declared “guilty” of “disorderly conduct” and will come up for sen- * tence today before Magistrate Burke, at the 7th District Magistrates Court, 314 West 54th St. Burke, notorious labor hater, sen- tenced jobless workers.in the Bronx up to 40 days in jail on a “disorderly conduct” charge after their arrest for demanding relief. The leaflets called upon the Na- © tional Guardsmen to fight against the refusal to pay them. for drilling during July and August.and to join hands with the working class in their struggles against wage cuts, hunger and war. Because of the nature of the case, the court will make every effort to railroad the young worker and the International Labor Defense who is defending her calls upon all workers, especially youth, to support the mili- tant young fighter by attending court in large numbers this morning. LEAGUE COUNCIL CALLED ON CHACO Bolivia Rejects Truce and Arbitration Plan GENEVA, June 16.—The League of Nations committee ong, the Chaco war between Boliviasand Paraguay decided today to recommend a spe- - cial session of the League Council before the end of July in an effort to compose the conflict, © A note was received -yesterday from Bolivia, which is backed» by United States imperialism, Trejecting the League's plan for cessation of hos- tilities and arbitration sby League appointees, and demahding that an arbitral tribunal be férmed consist- ing of the presidents of the Supreme Courts of the American nations. A Paraguayan note .was received which accepted the Ledgue’s scheme. Since Paraguay is acting as the agent of British imperialism, which is powerful, in the League, this should surprise no one... 7 The Paraguayan note described the Bolivian memorandum as “ab- surd and inacceptable,” while the Bolivian note characterized Parae guay’s territorial claims as “mone strous.” Paraguay offered to cancel its declaration of war if troop re- tirement and “immediate reduction cf military effectives asa guarantee against_new aggression’ was carrieé - cut by Bolivia. cou Workers at Soviet Paper Factory Score Scottsboro Frame-up NEW YORK.—The Russian lang- uage weekly, “Novy Mir,” has. re- ceived the following communication from the workers of the Bolochin Paper Combine, in the Soviet Union: } “The young workers do not forget their class brothers, ue ‘ “We, the Young Conimunists of the Bolochin Paper Combine, strong- ly protest against the.brutal mise treatment of the nine-innocent Ne= gro youths, and we-.demand their liberation from the dungeons of Ala- bama. eit . The resolution is. ‘signed, by @ workers’ committee. composed of Lebedev, Mirushkin, Rozov, Nefodov, Chemisov, Toropoya, Bubikova, Mashirov. peace