The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1933, Page 4

Page Four ith St, Vubhishsd 8) the Compredaity Publishing Ue., ims. dalty szeeps Sunday, at 2¢ & Telephone ALgu=qutn 4-798. Cable “DAIWOERK N.Y te the Daily Mew York City Address and mail checks Worker SOK. 19th M., New York, N.Y By Mail every excepting Borough Can: : One year, $6; six months, 33.50; 3 AUBSCEIFTION BATES: mths, $2: 1 month, Se, of Manhastian and Bronx, New York City, Fereign ané One year, $9: $5; 2 om $5. JUNE 19, 1933 NAZI PLAN FOR ATTACK ON U.S. S. R. ANSWERED .~ BY LITVINOFF SPEECH LONDON, June 18.—The demand ference by Dr. Alfred Hugenbersg, Industrial made at the London Economic Con- Minister in Hitler's cabinet nd representative of the Nationalist Party, for the return of Germany's ormer African colonies, and Hugenberg’s hints at the desirabi ‘ionization schemes for the Eastern SPARKS FIER vears cr Scientists of the bourgeoisie eeginning to discover tion exists in this countr; A conference of state hea’ thorities discovered that in at least 15 states there is marked “malnu- four of trition” among the children of the ist a nice way of children workers. ‘That's j saying that workers’ starving to death are F YOU w: don’t know the United that cl port of thes dernour experts: “Un- mostly among mothers are babies whose y nourished.” : So, it seems that Starving too N TURALLY, health authoriti , their job is finished ® made their report How to abolish this widespread murder of workers and their families is none of their business the mothers are these capitalist consider that when they have Science is supposed to have noth- ing to do with politics, you know. Ia the Soviet Union, the problem of starvation, the welfare of the workers is a political and a scienti- fic question. They are inseparable Separated, t le. ey are both false and st RESIDENT LOREE, of the Dela- ware and Hudson Railroad, sees, according to the papers, Depression Provides Opportunity for Gradu- ated.” Opporiunity—to pull jinrickshaws at ‘the World Fair ? Have you noticed the seraphi peace and harmony which prevails ai the London Conference? . xy capitalist power is just too eage its imperialist rivals ria aaey We see that Ghandi’s son has just got himself a bride. To produce more little for British imperialism ? Ghandi’s Aud the old man the loving air to be nd to Eritish imp rout saying. urged Ghandi OOSEVELT's “Br: Trust cer- in tainty making while the Rooseveltian sun shine: either fat or eno while urging the wo quietly Bui not brainy enough to stave off the world ocean of proletarian revo- lutior which will engulf all these little servants of the capitalist class like a wave sweeps over a mud pie. = to get its knife in the back of | ty of German t Union, met with diplomatic denial” from the Ger- man delegation yesterday. The G an delegation informed Dr. Col: chairman of the Economic Commis sion of the conference, that Hugen- berg’s memorandum ich had ob- ly been prepared as a state- of policy of the entire German government, represented his private opinions only and were not to be ta as official proposals. It was announced that Hugenberg ng London, and that he will b: Dr. Bang, financial ex- the Nationalist Party. Hug- g is expected to return at the end of next week Litvinoff Replies to German “Comedy” Proposal. n Litvinoff, Foreign Sov Union and} of the iet delegation at} London, commented on Hugenberg’s Statement that the Germans needed to expand towards the eas. He said: “It may be that the authors of | | the Hugenberg memorandum hope to| | introduce an element of comedy into the heavy atmosphere created at the| Conference by the serious problems being dealt with. Persons in close touch with the German government and, in some cases, members of ,the government itself, have lately made everal attempts to brighten up the} world with ideas that have been un parts of the Sovi Com- hesitatingly been set down as wild] | and fantastic by public opinion in countries. I am however continued Litvinoff, making onic reference to the Hugen- berg idea that the Soviet Union would be a good field for German| twards colonization, “to give the| | authors of the memorandum the| credit of supposing that they have| taker seriously my communication | to the Conference about the So: Union's import possibilities. If th: is so, there is no reason to com) if the authors of the memorandvm | wished to get a mandate from tne| | Conference over a monopoly of vne| | opportunities pointed out by me. | | Workers’ Dictatorship Condition of | Soviet Economic Growth. | “As regards the Soviet regime, we can only regret their inability | to understand that bot far‘ regime, these onr>t es would | | mot have exic. . and our country would, at present, be in the same | state of economic collapse as other | comtries, and would, perhaps, be reduced to placing all its hopes on | vilest ideas and thus becoming the laughing stock of the world.” Nazis Support Plan for Attack on| the U. S. S. R. i BERLIN, June 18—The Hugen-/ berg memorandum, while officially | “denied” by the German delegation | at London, is said here to “embody | a number of fundamental consider- | ations and economic theories which | | undoubtedly will figure in the com- ing negotiations of the Conference.” This statement was softened by an-| other which said that the memo- nmdum expressed the Minister’s| It was also denied | declaration was ed in any way at the Soviet Un- j ion. “Eastward colonization” did not | refer to the U. S. 8. R. but to the Far} | East and to South America, On | this particular piece of Nazi equivo- | | cation—consult an atlas. ‘Wk..” OF KHAKI / SHIRTS 1S FORCED 10 QUIT CHICAGO Former Associate Bares Racket of Art Smith and His Hoodlums CHICAGO, June 18—Art Smith, self-appointed commander-in-chief of the Khaki Shirts, who is now operating in Philadelphia, was car- rying on his racket in Chicago last | winter. , Ina letter to the DAILY WORKER NAVY PLANS 10 BUILD. 32 NEW SHIPS FOR WAR | WASHINGTON, June i8—Secre-| | tary of the Navy Swanson announced | that President Roosevelt has ap- | proved a new naval building pro-j| | gram, costing $238,000,000, with thirty-two war vessels to be built in | the next three years. This is to be paid out of the $3,300,- | 000,000 appropriation for “public | orks” authorized by the “industrial vecovery” The war ships to be built consis of 18 destroyers, 4 light er vs, 4 gubmarines, 2 aircraft riers and 2 gunboats | 'THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE ILLEGAL CENTRAL ORGAN OF THE GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY 16. Sahrgang Mr. 17 Preis 20 Pfennig Berlin im Suni 1933 | Die Rote Fahne Bentralorgan der Kommuniftifehen Partei Deutfehlands (Gettion Ser Kommuniftifehen Internationale) Reichsausgabe — Genosre! Lefer! Dugende aus Deinem Betannientreis {aden mene Une Gene! Sefer! Denke daran, dof dieje Feitung hinter dem Riiden von {ding on dic fampfende Front des Proletariats. - — Deoriindet von tanfenden von Spiithunden der fafdiftiféyen Reattion gefchaffen | Suge dem, der Dir diefe Feltung bringt die Udreffen Deiner Freunde Karl Liebtnedt u. Roja Lugembneg if. — Sefe fie aufmertfam durch, — Gieb’ jie weiter an Deine | und Befannten.die anf die ,Rete Fahne” watien, Durhilfft dadurcy mit on der Sammlung der revolutiondren Krdfte sam Kampf gegen den Fafdismns. Hitler tihrt Deutschland in die Katastrophe!? | Der Krieg steht vor den Toren Europas! Der Feind steht im eigenen Land. Diese Henkerregierung die Tausende mordet und foitert, die Zehntausende in Zuchthauser und Konzentrationslager sperrt, die einen blutigen Biirgerkrieg gegen alle Schichten des hungernden Volkes fiihrt, die jede frelheitliche Regung ersticken will, die mit ihrem ganzen Wewafineten Staatsapparat das kapitalistische Aus- beutungssystem schiitzen und aufrechterhalten will, sie beweist die Wahrheit der kommunistischen Lehre: Wer die soziale Knechtschaft in Deutschland aufrecht erhilt, der ist unfihig, Versailles zu zertriimmern um die nationale Befreiung Hunger, Teuerung und Terror erwiirgen das Volk! Wolun hat Hitler Deutschland gefiihrt? — in allen Haupt- stadien Europas, in der Genter Zentrale des Vélkerbundes lauten sic die Friedensglocken. Kemen Freund besitzt das kapitalisti- sche Hitler-Deutshland in der ganzen Welt, Feinde rngsum — Hab ringsum! Was zeigt die Hitler-Rede im Reichstag, die auf Téuschung der werktatigen Massen in Deutschland und in der ganzen Welt berechnet war? — Sie ist ein Eingestananis der ganzen Unwahr- heit der Wahldemagogie der Nazi-Regicrung: Er beteuert die Bereitschatt zur Ertiillungspolitik. Br ver- Spricht, sich an den Buchstaben und Paragrapben von Ver- sailigs aa balten, Er verbeugt sich vor Macdonald, er begriit Mussolini, er bedankt sich vor Roosevelt, As Er ieibst erklart: ihr kinmt uns vergewaltigen, nur diirit icht fordern, daB. wit das noch einmal unterschreiben, hzeitig verkiindet Schacht die piinktliche Zahlung der leite und aller privaten Tribute an das internauonale Finanzkapital, So treibt der Hitler-Faschismus die gleiche Tributpolitik, wie sie die Ebert-Scheidemann, Hilller und Briining betnieben haben. Die Sozialdemokratie, die das Versailler Diktat ud die anderen Tributpline unterzeichnete, jubelt im Reichstag Hitlers Erfilllungspolitik und seiner Kriegshetze noch begeisterter 20 als 1914 ber Wilhelm, Sie ist zu feige, gegen den biutigen Terror zu protestieren. Sie schweassdazu. dali Hitler ihre Partei zerschlazen hat. Sie The four-page issue of the illegal “Rote Fahne”, dated June, 1933, part of the front page of which is reproduced above, features a mani- festo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany en- titled “Hitler is Leading Germany to a Catastrophe!” Under the masthead, there are two notices to the readers of the paper, reading as follows: “Comrade!': Reader! Dozens of your acquaint- ances are looking for new contact with the fighting front of the proletariat. Tell the man bringing you this paper the addresses of your friends and acquaintances who are waiting for the Rote Fahne. By’ doing this you help to rally the revolutionary forces for the struggle against fascism.” The other notice reads: “Comrade Reader! Remember that this paper is gotten out behind the backs of thousands of spies of fascist reaction. Read it carefully. Pass it on to your fellow worker. In doing you are helping to create the biggest “united front” which, under the leadership of the Communist Party will alone be able to smash the terror of fascism.” The Manifesto of the Central Committee reads in part: “War is at the gates of Europe! Hunger, rising prices and terror are choking the population. “Where has Hitler led Germany? hey are ringing the alarm bells in all the capitals of Europe, in the Geneva headquarters of the League of Nations. Capitalist-Hitler Germany hasn’t a single friend in the whole world. Enemies round about it—hate surrounds it! “What did the Hitler speech in the Reichstag, designed to deceive the working masses in Germany and in the rest of the world demon- strate? It is a confession of the whole falsehood of ihe Nazi government's election demagogy! ' “He pleads his readiness to fulfill Germany's obligation. promises io keep within the letter and paragraphs of Versailles. “He bends the knee before MacDonald; he greets Mussolini; he gives ibanks to Roosevelt. “He himself states: ‘You can rape us but you musi not de- mand that we affix our signatures again.’ “At the same time Schacht announces the punctual payment of the Young Plan joan and ail privacc tribuie to international finance capital. “Thus, Hitler fascism is pursuing the same policy of tribute as Ebert, Scheidemann, Mueller 2nd Bruening. “In the Reichstag, the Social-Democratic Party, which signed the Versailles dictate and cther tribute plans, applauds Hitler's fulfillment policy and his war incitemei't even more enthusiastically than it did under Wilhelm in 1914” ) durchzufihren, He RS es gi Our enemy is in our own country, “This hangmens government, which murders and tortures thousands, Lesen — Weit Diese Regierung, die vor den Versailler Siegermiichten kapl- tuliert hat, gibt den Reichea, den Industrielien, Agrariern und Bankiers was sie haben wollen. Sie trelbt als Fronvogt fiir das internationale Kapital die Tribute éin: sie wuchert den Butter und Margarinepreis immer hoher — sie kratzt den Arbeitern das Schinalz vom Brot — sie peitscht von den Kurzarbeitern die Lohnsteuern ein umd vom Mittelstand die Steuerlasten, sie treibt den Bavernhot in den Rum — und wozu das alles. Warum die bluugen Kommunistenvertolgungen? Nicht nur. um den deutschen -Kapialisten fett zu macucn, nicht nur flr ibre Krippenfiger 4md die braunen Volksauspltinde- rer. sondem ebenso. um Zins una Zinseszins an die auslandischen Imperialisten pinktlich zu bezanten, Alle uregefiihrten Volksmassen. die {ruher an Hitler glaub- ten und ihm zujubelten, beginnen heute einzusehen;, Urbeitstolegen, Du hilt dadurch ‘mit die grofte ,,Ginheitsfront ju fchaffen, die unter der Siihrung dee Komtmuniftifehen Partey allein in der age fei wird, den Cerror des Safdismns gu bredhen. Kampit gegen den Krieg. indem thr regen die iaschistische Re- aktion. kiimpft! i { Kiimpit gegen den Krieg durch Strelk fiir Lotnerhobung, durch Massenaktionen gegen dic Hitlersche Lebensmittel verteue- } rung! Kampit gegen den Krieg, indom ihr jede Arbeitsdienstpflicht unmégiich macht! Kamoit gegen den Krieg. indem ihr euch in Massen dem Ter- | tor der Nazihorden entgegenwerit! Kampit gegen den Krieg, Indem thr gegen die yerriiterische, bitlertreue Sozlaldemokrasie kimp{t! Der Ausbeuter, der Kapitalist, der Borsenschieber, der Jun- ker, der Stat, das ganze System der Ausbeutung, Unterd:i kung und des Krieges ist nicht gestiirzt, sondern noch schirit_ worden. Entlarvt die Lige von der, ,,iationalsoziali Schen Revolution" und der ,,Systemanderung™. Hitler hat alle seine gutgliubigen Wahler verraten! Hitler hat alle seine Wablsprechungen zerrissen! Hitler und mit ihm das ganze kapitalistische System muB verschwinden! An einzigen Ausweg aus dieser verzweifelten Lage Deutsch- lands aus der wachsenden Krise, vor dem drohenden Krieg, das ist der Kampf um den Sieg der proletarischen Revolution. Und dieser Kampf um die soziale Befreiung ist der einzige Weg zur nationalen Freiheits Die deutsche-Arbeiter- und Bauern-Republik wird yom ersten Tage ihres Bestehens an verbunden sein mit 170 Millionen Arbeiter und Bauern der Sowjetunion, Der deutschen Arbeiter- und Bauernrepublik gehdren vom ersten Tage ihres Bestehens an die Sympathien aller Arbeiter, aller, Werktatigen, aller unterdriickten Kolonialvalker der anzen which locks up tens of thousands in penitentiaries and conceniration camps, which is carrying on a bloody civil war against all classes of the starving population, which is trying to stifle every freedom-loving trend, which is trying to protect and maintain the system of caplialist_exploita- | tion with its entire state machinery of armed force, proves the truth of | the Communist doctrine that: | | “Whoever maintains intact social enslavement in Germany is incapable of destroying Versailles in order to carry out national emancipation. “All the mislead masses of the people, who formerly believed in Hitler and cheered him, are now beginning to realize that: “Hitler is the profit-collector for German tribute-squeezer for foreign capital!” ‘ capital and the “Fight against war by fighting against fascist reaction! “Fight against war by striking for wage increases, by mass ac- tion against Hitler's raising the price of food! “Fight against war by making impossible all compulsory labor! “Fight against war by opposing en masse the terror of the Nazi hordes! “Fight against war by fighting against the treacherous Hitler- loyal Social-Democracy! “The exploiter, the capitalist, the stock exchange profiteer, the Junker, the State, the whole system of exploitation, oppression and war, has not been overthrown but intensified even more. the ‘National Socialist revolution’ and the ‘change in the sy “Hitler has betrayed all his credulous voters. “Hitler has torn up all his election promises. “Hitler must disappear, and with him the whole capitalist system! “The only way out of this desperate situation of Germany, from the growing crisis, from ine threat of war, is the struggle for the victory of the proletarian revo m. And fhis struggle for social emancipation is the only road to national freedom. “From the very first day of its existence | THE GERMAN WORKERS AND PEASANTS REPUBLIC 1 Will be allied with 170 million workers and peasants of the Soviet Union. From its very first day, the German Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic will have the sympathy of all the workers, all the toilers, and all the oppressed colonial peoples of the world.” By * At the bottom of uhe front page, the “Rote Fahne” demands. “Freedom for Ernst Thaelmann! And for all imprisoned anti- cists. Strengthen the fight for their release!” * EUROPEAN ANTI-FASCIST CONGRESS ENDS, PLEDGING RESOLUTE STRUGGLE Rally on June 24, National Anti-Fascist Day, oi at a CLOSE THE ANTI. | FASCIST RANKS | ism, as that in which it opened. iy, in Supp ort of the German Workers’ Struggle for the Over- throw of Fascism and Establishment of the German Workers and Peasants Republic By W. M. HOLMES. PARIS, June 7.—The European Workers’ Anti-Fascist Congress closed tonight in the same igh spirit of enthusiasm, of determination to build | the united front and to carry on the fight against fascism, war and capital- ANTI-FASCIST commenting on Sfnith’s activities in Chicago, one of his former supporters said: “Having read your article on the Khaki Shirts and haying been one of its ‘leaders’ here in Chicago. where the national headquarters was established last winter, I take pleas- | ure in attempting to expose these | | An additional | $9,362,000 from the same so | made for 290 airplanes tha with the 32 nayal ships. department announces appropriation ‘To Build 290 New Naval Planes of urce Was t will go The navy that whe. fekers. Smith a Bit Queer. "While these ‘saviors’ operated in this city, I joined them and became Art Smith’s ‘adjutant.’ It was then that I became familiar with the character of the so-called command~ er-in-chief. He is a victim of de- mentia praecox, having been ex- amined by psychiatrists. \ Being Sought for Swindling “after swindling the members, he was forced to leave town, three war- rants having been issued for his ar- rest. He is now operating in Phila- | toe 17 war ships now under construc- tion and the 32 ordered are com- pleted the naval strength will still be 204,830 Lons short of the limit | fixed by the naval treaty Talk Peace; Prepare War | This naval building program and | the strengthening of all the war ma- | chinery of the government, combined with the building of a reserve mili- | tary machine through the militariza- tion of young workers in the forced It also exposes the hypocrisy of the Jabor camps, emphasizes the drive of American imperialism toward war. FOR JUNE 24!) The workers of America — with, | the inspiring example of the Euro-| |pean Workers’ Anti-Fascist Con- | gress just concluded in Paris before | | them—must make June 24, National | | Anti-Fascist Day, a mighty demon- stration of solidarity with the heroic | German working class. Europe has already formed its ranks for the grim anti-Fascist struggle. America still lags behind. Thousands of dollars have already been collected all over Europe—in francs, rounds, kronen, schillings and marls—for aid to the victims A fund of # quarter of 2 miltion marks to fight fascism was proposed by Brother Papworth, of the London busmen. Two hundred delegates from Labor and Socialist Parties made a joint declaration condemning the tactics of their party chiefs and taking their The final act of \he Congress was the adoption of the manifesto, the | main lines of which are givex below, calling the working men and women | and the youth of the world to struggle. peace talk that various international that are being held and are aration, delphia, his home town. If he re- turns to Chicago I'm certain he will be arrested.” Here in Chicago there 4s little left of that organization. All honest workers and others who for a time were fooled by Smith and his hooli- gans have repudiated him and his outfit. Smith evidently did not get any backing here for his venture, but those formerly associated with him get a big laugh out of the geme of graft he is working in Philadel-| phia, where it is reported he collects | $2 membership fee, sells trench caps {or an enormous profit and deals in | wher such equipment as he can find to his dupes. t which will struction. nees Railroad. 50 million rubles annually i: port costs, and will manganese, molybdenum, grain, 4 a in, tap the mineral resources of Ossetia. accompanies the conferences in prep- Highest Electrified Wailroad The Transcaucasian Sumit line, cut the Moscow-Tifits | trip by a day, is now under con- It is the world’s highest line, higher than the famous Pyre- It is expected to say in trans rich Silver, iron-ore, lead, ete., will be shipped out, and cloth, sugar, machinery, ose,| knowledge thai’ America, ton, joins of German Fascism. It is up to the workers of the United States to live up to what the intrepid German anti-Fascists expect of them, The slogan of battle against Fas- cism can unite all the workers of the country, no matter what their political or union affiliations, on a unified platform to smash Fascism June 24 must be made into a giant emonstration of united struggle, | whieh will help to build the anti-/ Fascist movement throughout the United States and which will hearten the heroic German workers with the the ranks of the workers of Europe stand for the united front, i Then, singing the International, the delegates dispersed to begin their return journeys to the various countries of Europe where, in ac- cordance with the conclusions of the Congress, the fight against Fascism in its various forms must now be strengthened. German workers who slipped through to join in consultation with their comrades of other lands will now face the dangers of the return to take up with renewed courage and determination the task of secret agitation in the factories, among the masses of the workers, to prepare for the united front of revolt against the Nazi terror. Workers and peasants from Po- Jand and the Balkan countries, some of whom tramped furtively through forests for days and nights to cross the frontiers and reach this Con- grest, now set forth likewise to strengthen the struggle against their Fascist governments. The sight of this huge hall, packed with workers and peasants of # score of nationalities, and of as PEN cavalier tions, standing wit® upraised fists, singing the revolutionary hattle- song, and the thought of what riske many of them had now to face, im- presses more forcibly than anything else can the appalling savagery of the conditions which now exist in so many European countries. But this demonstration also deep- ens the conviction of the invincible power of the working masses whom these two thousand and more dele- fiates represent. The Congress is, in fact, the launching of a great campaign. United front is the main slogan of the campaign which the Congress has launched. Unity not only in aiding the victims of Hitler’s teror, but in fighting the terror in our own countries. The solidarity of the workers of all sections in aiding the Germen workers was strikingly demonstrated during this last evening of the Con- gress by the frequent interposition of the chairman, Comrade Raca- monde, to announce contributions of money from trade unions to the fund, MEET IN PHILA. {To Demonstrate Against Police Agent Thugs PHILADELPHIA, June 184-A big! iudoor mass meeting is being ar-| ranged by the Communist Party on) Thursday, June 22, at 8 p. m, at! the New Garrick Hall, 597 So, ath! Street. Its purpose is to protest against the activities of a gang of thugs calling themselves “Khaki Shirts.” In Philadelphia, the police department is giving full support to these gangsters, encouraging them to carry weapons with which to attack workers. A week ago Sunday about 2,000 of these Khak, Shirts demon- strated at City .H. Plaza, under protection of the police, and carried Jead pipes, heavy clubs and other weapons with which they boasted they would attack workers on picket lines in demonstrations ,etc, ANOTHER EVEREST ATTEMPT MOUNT EVEREST, June, 16:—For the third time this season the Bri- tish expedition will try to conquer Mount Everest, the highest peak on! earth. No man has eyer sot foot on its eummit, The weather is bad and th® mountain is heavily: covered with sn@w above 20,000 feet, but it is hoped there will occur a break that ‘will enable the expedition to attempt PLOTTING AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION IN THE NAME OF “SOCIALISM aT. % But it is not only to hide the ignoble collapse of German @ocial< Democracy, that Abramovitch writes in the New Leader. He repeats ex~ actly the anti-Soviet provocations which the New Leader featured amd then “disclaimed” a few weeks before. Abramovitch, too, urges the work- ers of Europe and the United States to once more submit to imperialist Slaughter “in defense of Democracy and Freedom.” Abramovitch, too, wishes to defend world capitalism under the guise of defending “demo- cracy”. And it is the Soviet Union which the New Leader's honored ose< respondent depicts as the main enemy of the international working class, He attempts to break the firm policy of the Soviet Union by the crudest provocations. He writes: “The news that the Soviet government has recently renewed the ‘treaty of friendship and mutual assistance’ with the Hitler government, reacted like a thunderbolt upon the entire working class movement in Europe .. . Many socialists . .. were convinced that the Russian Communists would earnestly struggle against Ger- man fascism; and it was hoped the Soviet government would; for, according to the Communists, it is ‘the hope of the revolutionary workers of the world’, All these hopes have been shattered.” What are these treaties of “friendship and mutual aid”, which the Soviet Union enters into with capitalist governments? Why does % sign these non-aggression pacts with capitalist countries? These treaties are nen-aggression—trade treaties. They are treaties in which the capitalist countries pledge themselves not to attack the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is surrounded by an iron ring of implacable capi- talist enemies who plot incessantly the destruction of the country where the workers and peasants are building Socialism. This means that the toilers in the U. 8. 8S. R., with this power, are eliminating all the capitalist elements from the life of their country, that they are, by their control of the means of production, build- ing for themselves a far higher and better life than has ever been known under capitalism. : Now, the fight of the workers in the Soviet Union against the capi- talist elements in their cwn country, their fight to establish Socialism is, in actuality part of the whole fight against world capitalism. If Socialism were Cefeated in the Soviet Union, the fight for Social- ism all over the world would suffer a tremendous blow. It is by building Socialism in their own country, firmly and unshakeably, that the workets of the Soviet Union strike the hardest blow against world capitalism and fascism. Anythi; which weakens or hinders the building of Socialism in the Soviet Union is of the greatest assistance to world capitalism and fascism. The demand of the social-fascist interventionists that the Soviet Union stop building Socialism and begin to wage war against Germany, is not a blow against fascism and capitalism, but is, on the contrary, the greatest service to fascism and world capitalism! < For years, Abramoyitch, and the social-fascists of the Second Inter- national have been plotting the wrecking and destruction of the Soviet, Union. If the present correspondent of the New Leader had been suc- cessful in his attempts to overthrow the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union would now be a colony of the capitalist imperialist powers. The present attempts of the social-fascists to break up the non- aggression pacts is only a continuation of their defeated attempts to smash the Soviet Union by their more direct wrecking activities. As to the revolution in Germahy, this can come about primarily by the actions of the German workers themselves. The social-fascists who now wail despairingly of the revolution in Germany, have themselves done everything in'their power to hinder and crush this revolution, from their drowning of the 1918 revolution in blood, to their refusal to fight against the accession of Hitler. a Now they demand that the “Russian Communists fight in Germany”, and if the Soviet Union does not respond to this crude provocation, then the Soviet Union is responsible for the accession of Hitler to power! For years they have been slandering the defensive. preparations of the Soviet Union, the building of the Red Army as “red imperialism”. ®ow, when the Soviet Union insists on keeping within its own borders, it comes as a “shock” to the social-fascists. In 1931, it was shown at the trial of the “Industrial Party” engineers that he and his Menshevik colleagues were actively implicated in eo- operating with the European imperialists in plotting intervention. These allies of imperialist intervention—they~take it upon them- selves to sneer at the peace policy of the Soviet Union—the name of Socialism! In March, 1931, at a meeting in Berlin, Abramovitch said, “The eld ‘Tsarisr: was not as bad as Communist Tsarism.” Now, the social-fascist interventionists call upon this Soviet Union which they consider “worse than the old Tsarism” to come to fight against fascism in a hostile imperialist country! Let us suppose that the Soviet Union were to commit such a folly, then would not the social-fascists attempt to arouse the German workers against the “foreign invader”? In his article, Abramovitch asseris that the Soviet Union is a menace to Socialism and “democracy”. Would not the social-fascists attempt to rally the German workers against this enemy? No. The attempis of the social-fascists to lure the Soviet Union into a war with Germany are not in the interest of the fight against fascism. They are only part of the continuation of their fight against the revolution of the workers against capitalism. Now, as to the non-aggression treaties. The Soviet Union has no illusions about such treaties. It knows full well that peace treaties will be trampled on as scraps of paper when the imperialists are ready to discard their pacifist talk and enter upon the next imperialist world war. The Soviet Union is fully aware of the fev- erish preparations which go on day and night for intervention against the Soviet Union in those very countries which haye signed non-aggression pacts with it. Of course, the preparations for intervention do not grow less with the signing of peace pacts. The Communists and th workers support these pacts, while clearly understanding and explatging to all toilers that no treaties can eliminate the immediate danger of imperialist inter- vention against the Soviet Union, But it must be obvious to every worker that the existence of non- aggression pacts with the Soviet Union makes it more difficult for them to attempt te place the blame of the coming imperialist slaughter upon the Workers’ Fatherland, the Soviet Union. The signing of non-aggres- sion pacts with imperialist powers, is thus not the surrender of the fight against capitalism but part and parcel of the firm and unshalasable peace policy of the Soviet Union. ¢ But even just as important, the Soviet Union's non-aggression pacts with the imperialist powers are one of the strongest obstacles to the spreading of war propaganda among the workers of the capitalist coun- tries. The Soviet Union's unshakeable peace Policy is one of the strongest forces for world peace. vs ‘The social-fascist struggle against these non-aggression pacts is, thus, not only the attempt to conceal their own betrayals, but is a direct aid to the preparations for intervention, to the preparations for the coming imperialist war. : two climb further, SHANGHAI, June 8.—The Shang- hai police, led by a member of the Kuomintang Executive (and with the aid of the foreign police of the In- ternational Settlement) murdered the proletarian authors Tin-Tingu- Nian and Tin-Ling, according to an eyewitness story in the ®hanghai “Evening Post.” The Chinese police seized the two writers in the terri- tory of the Shanghai International Settlement. The writer Ting-~Shu-Sheng was also kidnapped and murdered by the police. The Secretary of the Chinese League for Civic Rights, in a letter to the “Evening Post,” states that Tin-Ling was sehot without any court ‘proceedings, an a resolution passed 3PROLETARIAN WRITERS KILLED by the Shanghai “Office for Publis Security” (the Kuomintang secret P NEW. YORK, June 18.—Only $360, 000 out of a total of $10,000,000 con- tributed by Chinese and Koreans liv- ing in the United States for aid to the Chinese Nineteenth Route Army ever reached its intended destination, according to Dr. Kiusic Kim, of Peiyang University, Tientsin, who spoke at a mass meeting last night in Chinatown. Dr. Kim refused to say what had become of the remaining 97 per cent. of the fund, but it was intimated that the money had into the pockets of the fy) ‘