The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 28, 1933, Page 4

srpotished by the Comprodafly Prblishing Oo., Ine. dafly except Sandsy, at B88 A. Page Four 1 Sth St., New Terk y,N. ¥. Telephone ALgerquin 4-7956. Address and mail checks to the Daity Worker, 50 E. 18th St., Cable “DATWORF.” New York, M. T. Daily, r’ ) Dada rker By Moll everywhere: me year, 96; six months, $8.50; months, $7; excepting Borosgh of Manhattan and Brena, New York City, Canada: One year, $0; 6 months, 36; ? months, 38, U. S.-Lati Trade Pact Report Stirs Co Further Attempt to U Forward Tariff W ar, n-America nference ndermine Great Britain, Feared it in London LONDON June 27. Ey day sees sharper conflicts emerg the world economic conference as erican tapes The an elopment today is the ication from Washington of a report that a' me United States Department of series of bilateral tariff with Latin-American coun s given to this fact that the United States “delegati ion ha: Id _ confe: ences with numerous represent of the Latin-American countries. See New Pan-American Drive. Convinced that there is slight pos- sibility of breaking the deadlock at the conference and that the only sults that can be expected accruing as a result of secret deals with the American delegation is devotir most of its time to such t Representatives of other powers view the actions of the United Sta’ tes de- legation and the cabled reports from} Washington as indicating that Wall . Street has definitely launched a new! "OLY MOLEY, Roosevelt's travel- drive for a Pan-American trade al- ling brain trust, will arrive in lance London today | Added emphasis is given to this) The first hardship he will have to view because af the appointment of | face to submit to one of Mac- Hugh Gibson, former Ambassador to| Donald's suffocatingly sweet speeches Belgium and one of the most astute| about “harmony.” of American diplomats, as Ambas- Rin Ge are sador to Brazil. As Gibson, in Furope. HEN he disinfects himself from was the central figure among Am- the effects of that, he will be erican delegations to numerous con-| able to get down to work—to apply- ferences, he is expected to play a|ing the screws to the French and similar role in Latin-American re-| British delegates. lations e ig " Further Blow At Great Britain Be eee ae an ee ieves in God and Herbert Hoover. This “pan-American” move is 4) thinks that the advance of science | further blow against the trade pos tion of Great Britain and imperialist powers in South America Britain is waging a counter-attack by also trying to reach preferentia trade agreements with Latin-Ameri-| ean countries. She has for various economic agreements with the Argentine republic and only cently signed a preferential and is now negotiating other pacts. Fight to Retain Gold Standard ‘The piratical threat ‘by the United| States delegation of an extension of| the world-wide trade war countries going off the gold standard ‘The Dutch florin hit the toboggan} makes sharper the conflicts that have been Taging for years between these two years | fense maintained a powerful position thru| Justice wanted to spare Harriman even though they knew that engaged in plundering his deposito because they wanted to avert a bank cr Well, now that is a most charming excuse. That is like saying that, they didn’t want to disturb the crook in his work for fear of alarming the other crooks ARRIMAN who bought himself the dullest fe he could find, and *|then timed his attempt at “suicide” with the arrival of the photograph- displayed a much sharper skill| when it came to flaying his deposit- ors. He made some very deep in- ns in their pockets will put an end to war This is part of the poison gas emit- | ted by the “scientific salesmen of the| capitalist class.” 'T is part of the dialectics of his- torical deyelopment that. newly discovered instrument calls forth a weapon of defense. The wars of the future will only be more frightful 1 of of- re-| than in the past tariff | agreement with that country on beef Only the abolition of the cause of MS can stop war. ND if the workers refuse to trans- port ammunition, and train their has| guns on those responsible for the war brought things to a pass where there is momentary danger of one or more} —then that will also do an awful lot to stop the coming imperialist war. | NE of the great lessons of the Rus- yesterday and a conference of those | V sian revolution is “Turn imperial- nations still on the gold standard| ist war into civil war.” was hastily called. It was attended | * by representatives of France. Ho ESTERDAY we spent a most. en- jJand, Belgium, Switzerland and Ge: joyable hour (after work, please many. Representatives of the central pociember) looking at the bargains in banks of those countries also attend-| the New ed. They agreed to place their fo- reign exchange at one another's dis- posal. It is considered that this wll wemporarily relieve Holland. At the same time it weakens the | general structure of the gold stan- dard countries, with the probable re- sult that all of them will crash at ene time. Then will ensue a further free-for-all scramble for marke’ with not-one currency in the wor that maintains even a semblance of stability. VETS EXPEL DISRUPTOR: AY a rt 85, Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. on May 11, 1933, a hearing was held 4m the case of Sam Dworkin. Dwork- in, who has been a member of the Post for over a year and previously was a member of Post No. 1, has been circulating false rumors con- cerning leading comrades of the W.E. 8.L. accusing them of misappropri- ating funds. The testimony of the comrades who were the objects of Dworkin’s attacks, showed conclusive- ly that the charges were without foundation whatever. Dworkin was expelled because he has allowed himself to become the source of false and malicious state- ments directed against leading com- rades of the W.E.S.L. His action in spreading these stories and refusing to come before an investigation com- mittee brands Dworkin as a disru ter. His. expulsion was unanimously agreed upon by the Post member- chip. (Signed) Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, Hushka-Carison Post, No. 35, 4215 Third Ave., Bronx. Morris Klosner, For the Executive Committe, Post 35. Walter M, Trumbull, Nat’l, Sec, Court Orders War Drill for Maryland Students | BALTIMORE, “June 25.—The Court ef Appeals of Maryland ruled on) Wednesday that military training is compulsory for all male students at the University of Maryland. Revers- ing @ lower court’s decision, it up- held the university president in ex- pelling Ennis H. Coale, conscientious cbjector, for refusal to undergo mili- tary drill. Judge Pattison, who wrote the un- animous decision, suggested that Coale might have been less influenc- ed by conscience than by the Com- mittee on Militarism in Education, which largely conducted his defense. The judge described the Committee | as seeking to “defeat the government mits attempt to be ready for war £ forced upon the country by pre-| viding military training in Federal-| aided educational institutions.” Mave you approached vour fel- low worker im yorr shop with « copy of the ‘Dalle? If not, do a0 TODAY! York Workers Book Shop | They are having one of their 20 per |cent reduction sales, and we picked up many of the books and pamphlets | we have been wanting to buy for a jong time Union. Remarkable the conditions in the U.S.A. Stori jeconomics, magazines. Travel ma azines from the Soviet Union. Lit- | erary magazines from John Reed Clubs, pamphlets on A D a maryelous collection of the s: of Marx. Engels and Lenin. And, simply packed full of nour- hment, the second volume of Stalin’s| ‘Leninism.” Ex-Servicemen’s Post! At an enthusiastic meeting held at the Needle Trade Workers’ Indus- i es 1 Centér, 131 W. 28th St., a Work- Ex-Servicemen’s League Post was organized last week. The in- stitution of the post was auspicious for its enthusiasm. Fifty ex-service- men signed up immediately. x next meeting will be at the Industrial Center of the Needle des Workers, Thursday evening 5:30 p.m. Canadian Labor Camp) Workers Attacked | FOR™ WILLIAM, Canada trike started in a labor camp baat when officials fired two men who were organizing the workers. When an attempt was made to evict the men from the camp they r&sisted. They were attacked by a policeman fire ranger and a number of foremen, who used a fire hose against them. Pick handles and rocks were used by the workers to defend themselves. $50, 000 | a Year ‘Grease’ Paid to Canada’s Press QUEBEC. June 25.—The fact that the Canadian government had been “greasing” the Canadian Press, domi- | pion news service corresponding to the Associated Press in the United States, at the rate of $50,000 a year up to 1924, was brought out at the recent Canadian Press convention here, The chief of the press associa- tion claimed that this graft increase was fo longer paid at present, and sought to excuse it as a “war meas- ure,” although it lasted several years after the war ended. MINNE! APOLIS CORRECTION In the June 19th issue of the Daily Worker on the front page there is a news item about the Minneapolis elections with the following heading “30 ner cent Growth in Minneapolis Red Vote.” ‘This is incorrect, as the sent increase over the last mi @ections two years ago, every | corresponding | Dozens of pamphiets on the Soviet | Moley Arrives In England, Has No Comment To Make COBH, Ireland, June 27.—Assis- | tant Secretary of State, Raymond Moley, personal representative of Roosevelt, arrived here today, but, instead of flying to London, as was first announced, proceeded to Plymouth, from whence he will take a train to London, arriving there about midnight. When asked if his mission was to correct state- ments made by the American de- legation, Moley replied: “I am not aware the delegates have said | anything they were not authorized to say.” ee GROWTH OF “GERMAN ILLEGAL WORKERS’ PRESS Communist Papers Appear In a Dozen Big Cities June 23.—In the deep the German Commu- BERLIN underground dous activity. Even the most bitter | enemies of Communism are forced} to recognize this fact. The illegai press is the militant sector in the heroic work of the German Commu-! nist Party The central organ of the part; “Die Rote Fahne,” in the last fe weeks has been coming out more regularly, and also in 4 sonnidetaey larger size. In external appearanc | the illegal “Rote Fahne” is not | different from the former legal paper. “Rote Fahne” Circulation Rising. The circulation of the illegal “Rote Fahne” is kept on the level of 300,000 to 350,000 copies. It is the legal “Rote Fahne” [euecon of 2,000 or 3,000, paper is now distributed in 8,000 to | 10,000 copies. hada cir- Papers in Munich, Hamburg, Cologne. gart. (The bourgeois press a few days ago announced that the High Court of Stuttgart had imposed pri- £on sentences on a number of work- ers who were distributing the ille- gal “Sueddeutsche Arbeiterzeitung.”) The Police President of Bremen declared with amazement that, re- gardless of repression, the Bremen Communist. newspaper “Arbeiter Zeitung” not only continued to ap- pear but had the “audacity” to pub- lish its latest issue in six pages. Aside from the printed Commu- nist newspapers, Germany is covered at present with a great network of now to be seen in all neighborhoods of Berlin without, exception. The tremendous interest of the working masses in the Communist press is strikingly illustrated by the fact that a small shop nucleus where there are only ten or fifteen Communists is distributing 200 to 250 copies of the regional paper. Even in the agricultural areas of Germany, illegal Communist news- papers i begun to be published. Paris Hears of Revolts ose wouine ot Poet xo. Needle Workers Form in 3 African Colonies PARIS, June 25.—Rumors of dis- orders and disaffections in French colonies in Africa, although denied by officials, mounted to syueh a pitch today that Herriot’s Radical Socialist Party decided to question the Dala- dier government in the Chamber of Deputies. Deputies asserted, despite the official denials, that Communists were “fomenting trouble” in Algeria, |that the French had clashed with | Italians in Tunis, and that rebellious | | uprisings had occurred in Morocco, | | with disturbances in Rabat. nist Party has developed tremen-/ characteristic that in cities in which| the illegal) Alongside “Die Rote Fahne,” doz-; ens of other Communist printed newspapers are appearing. The “Hamburger Volkszeitung” appears} | regularly, as do also the “Neue Zeitung” in Munich, the “Ruhr Echo” in Essen, the “Sozialistische Republik,” in Cologne, the “Sued- deutsche Arbeiterzeiung” in Stutt- | illegal regional and shop papers, | “hand-made” by mimeograph or other methods. Such papers are Peasant Ww omen from Collective Farm at Rest Sanitarium, Odessa | brought about by the revolution, RaEaNE SONS ‘HUGENBERG Quits; § NAZIS DISSOLVE HIS BODYGUARD. | Resignation. Upsets | Legal Basis For Hitler Cabinet BERLIN, June 27.—Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, Minister of Economics resigned from the Hitler Cabinet today. President Paul von Hinden- burg accepted the resignation, which had been expected ever since Nazis began to turn against their “allies” who helped them seize power. | Nationalist party would soon be pro- hibited entirely. Legally, Hitler's Cabinet now loses the right to govern without the | Reichstag, which surrendered its law- making powers to “the government as at present constituted.” No one expects, however, that the Nazis will pay any attention to this additional bit of unconstitutionality; or if they do, it will be only an empty formality, | | since all Hitler's opponents have been ousted from the Reichstag. The conflict in the government between . Hitler and Hugenberg reached its climax last night when | the Nazi political police prohibited a | meeting of the Nationalist Association of the Industrial Middle Classes at which Hugenberg was to have been the chief speaker. Previously, Hu- genberg had been called home in disgrace from the London economic conference, and the Kampfstaffel, or “fighting rings” of the Nationalist party, had been ordered dissolved. Religious persecution was charged in a secret appeal issued yesterday by the Rev Friedrich von Bodel- schwingh, elected a month ago to the post of Reichsbishop by German Protestant church groups, who urged | his followers to stand firm against Nazi political domination over the church. Meanwhile the general su- perintendent of the . Evangelical Church, Dr. Friedrich Dibelius, who in April defended the Nazi regime in a radio broadcast to America, was sent on “leave of absence” by Dr. August Jaeger,’new Nazi commissar of Prussian Evangelical churches. Nazi police arrested all the Bavarian Pegple’s Party (Catholic) members of rich Himmler, Nazi Chief of Police of Munich. This is a further step in the Nazi campaign (> wipe out the remnants {of the bourgeois opposition parties. and leader of the Nationalist party, | the] ALL NAZI LEADERS It was understood reliably that the| MUNICH, Bavaria, June 26.—The | the Reichstag and the Bavarian | Landtag today at the order of Hein- | Rapidly recovering their health; amusing themselyes by playing dominoes. Existence of such sanilariums and treatment for farm women marks a tremendous change in the. status and well-being of peasant women _ “Nation,” Liherat \ Weekly, Takes Nazi Advertisment NEW YORK.—While the editorial pages of the “Nation,” self-styled {itera weekly, “deplore what is hap- | pening in Germany,” it is not above jtaking Nazi money for adyertise- ments asking its readers ness |Germany.” The |of the “Nation” June 7, carried a quarter- ing by the Nazi-controlled German Tourist Information Office. AUSTRIA TO SEIZE: | Vaugoin Orders Attack On Hitler Planes VIENNA, June 27.—The Dollfuss government has deprived all Au- strian Nazi leaders of their pass- ports, foreshadowing their early ar- rest after the expected withdrawal | this week of parliamentary immu- nity from those who now possess German automobiles carrying con- cealed arms from Bavaria for Au- strian Nazis have been stopped at Salzburg. War Minister Karl Vaugoin told a gathering of young Catholics at Linz last night that he had stationed military aviators at. several airports, junder- orders to attack any more German Nazi propaganda planes; which may try to scatter leaflets! over Austrian cities. ‘Thousands Drowned as Flood Razes Tungjen;, Cannibalism in Shensi SHANGHAI, June 27.—The city of | Tungjen, in eastern Kweichow Prov- ince, was destroyed a week ago by cloudburst and flood, according to meager advices reaching here. Thou- sands of persons were drowned when a wall of water swept through the Mayen River Valley and struck Tung- jen while the people slept. The swollen Yangtse River at | Hankow has reached a level of nearly |48 feet. The chief engineer of the | National Flood Relief Commission declares, however, that “fear and | anxiety will be justified only when | the rise reaches fifty feet.” Cannibalism is reported spreading in Shensi Province, north central | China, as famine intensifies after a drought that has: lasted since 1928. |In five years 3,000,000 persons have | starved to death, and 2,000,000 more are expected to die of starvation this year unless aid is rushed. to “Wit- | the rebirth of a natoin—New/| 1933 issue | page advertisement with that head- | HITLER'S ROAD PROGRAM FAILS TO MATERIALIZE Nazi Adherents Look in Vain for Tangible Results of Promises BERLIN, June 26.—Chancellor Hit- ler's promises to spend $1,375,000,000 on road building to relieve unemploy. {ment is beginning to be a millstone about his neck. Hitler's failure to | redeem this promise is making even | his. own followers skeptical about the | value of the promises distributed so recklessly by the Fascist chieftains. Road-building and forced labor service were Hitler's two major pro- mises in his May Day speech on Tempelhofer Field. There is no sign of a road program and nobody knows | where the money for the latter is coming from. Even members of the Jessness at the failure to fulfill these big-sounding pledges. Some Nazi experts advocate infla- tion to raise the funds, but the Ger- man masses, who have had a deep draught of inflation from 1919 to 1923, when the mark dropped to one- eight trillionth of a dollar, are ter- rified at this prospect. \and credit is scarce enough as it is without the banks having to grant over one billion dollars for the road program. Spaniard Arrested i in Rome for St. Peter’s| Bombing on Sunday + Nazi Party are showing sings of rest- | Moreover | the budget shows a persistent deficit, | Se SOR, | | | | | by Japan Kamchatka Landing 1 month, Be, JUNE 28, 1938° Foreign and Protests } Warship Sokolnikoy Calls Destroyer’s Actions “Out. | By N. BU MOSCOW, June information from the Japanese gove: POLICE ATTAC K CHICAGO MEETING To} Two FSU Leaders Be Tried July 7 CHICAGO.—Alexander Darin, local organizer of the Friends of the Soviet! | Union, and John Davis, a Negro work- ler, are to be tried here om charges of “unlawful assembly” and “inciting to| jriot” on July 7 They were arrested | June 20 when police brutally broke | jup a street meeting of the F.S.U. at} the corner of Lawrence and Spauld- ing Aves. Kicking the speaker's box from un-| der the feet of Darin the cops at- itacked him with = their clubs and} seized him and Davis, taking them | | subjected: to insult, and where Davis was struck a terrific blow in the ribs. Brought before Judge Haas, spending the night in jail, i Darin stated he was not ready for trial, that | | he had not been allowed to consult | his attorney. Both Davis and Darin | were released to await trial, In refusing to grant a permit for, | thé meeting which was broken up, {Commissioner James P. Allman jevaded a direct answer to the per- mit-request by submitting the follow- ing report by Lieutenant Make Mills! of the Industrial Squad: “Chicago, M., June 15, 1933. “From: Lieutenant Make Mills— Industrial Squad. "To: Commissioner of Police. “Subject: Permit request to hold open-air meeting. “Referring to the attached com- munication from J. Strong, Secre- tary, Friends of the Soviet Union (Communist), wish to advise that I have answered request of J. Strong (Communist) under date of July 8th, recommending that per- mit be NOT GRANTED on corner of Spaulding and Lawrence Ave. “As I stated in the previous let- ter the above spot is burdened with i place was the scene of much trouble last year. “(Signed) MAKE MILLS. African Giraffes Disrupt Phone Lines NAIROBI, East Africa, Jiine 26.—- | Giraffes grazing on the African veldt_ have caused so much static on telephone lines by rubbing their necks against the telephone and tele- rageous Violation” (Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) 27.—The Japanese Ambassador in Moscow infermed Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs Sokeinikov on June 21 that three Japa- nece fishermen had been shot at Cape Kronotsky, Kamchatka, according te ———-® shore and the fishermen were killed to the police station, where both were | after | heavy traffic, and in addition this , CHWALD. tment. Rifle fire was opened from jit is alleged. | Vice-Commissar Sokolnkov agreed j to the Secretary of the Japa Consulate making a trip to the spot where the incident is alleged to have occurred to investigate the circum- stances. It was later discovered, however, | that the Japanese destroyer Tachi | kadze, without awaiting an investi- | gation by Soviet representatives, or | the visit of the Japanese Consulate | Secretary, took unlawful steps in the | area of the accident. It entered Soviet | waters, landed a part of its crew on Soviet territory and arbitrarily reconnoitered the shore area. Sokolnikov's statement to the Jap- anese Ambassador on June 26 em- phasizes that there is no Soviet fron- tier guard in the Cape Kronotsky area, according to information re~ ceived from the Far East, and the incident is therefore perplexing. The Soviet government is making a further investigation. “The Soviet government strongly protests against actions of the Jap- anese destroyer which are an out- rageous violation of legal for Moscow Archbishop to Refute Lies of U.S. White Guardists Fri. NEW YORK.—The Russian Church in. America~ will--be exposed as & | counter - revolutionary organization working hand-in-hand with the White Guardists when Archbishop Benjamin of the Greek Orthodox Church speaks on “Religion in the Soviet. Union” Friday, June 30, at 8 pm. at the Labor Temple, 14th St, and Second Ave. Archbishop Ben~ jamin ‘recently arrived’ here on @ special mission from the Metropoli- jtan Sergius, head of the Russian Church in Moscow. Bonchi M. Frictiman, secretary of the local Friends of the Soviet Union, will also speak. Dr. 8. Le- Roy will be chairman. The Archbishop’s purpose in visit- ing this country is to urge members jof the Russian Orthodox Church in the U. S. A. and Canada to refrain from attacks on the Soviet Union, and to refute the lies of the Ameri- can church officials about the Sovigt Union, These officials, together with the White Guardists in America, tried unsuccessfully to prevent Areh- bishop Benjamin's entry into the United States. 5 | | }. | cee hc ate ceNRREEE eR ane | | | partment has ordered all poles in the | bush and desert, country to he raised | three feet. Then even the tallest gir- ROME, June 26.—The Rome police | graph wires that the Post Office De-| affe can’t get at the wires, |arrested a Spaniard today, charging | | tim_with haying planted the bomb | which. exploded at the central gate | juring four persons. Spanish Government, which recently passed stringent anti-clerical legisla~ | tion. Las Palmas Red Unions Declare General Strike MADRID, June 25. — A general strike, to last for an indefinite per- jod, has been called by the revolu- tionary trade unions of Las Palmas. in the Canary Islands. At Santa Cruz, in Teneriffe, the National Fed- eration of Labor has declared a 24- heur general strike in sympathy with the locked out cigar-makers. Busi- ness is paralyzed in both cities. No violent clashes with police have oc- curred. | JUIKIN, Kiangs! | Soviet China, huge concentration of troops of Chiang Kai-Shek, the Central Soviet Government issued a May Day mes- | sage of greetings to workers through- out the world, to the Chinese peas- ants groaning under the bloody rule of the Kuomintang, and to the thou- |sands of political prisoners tortured jin the Kuontintang prisons. The May first declaration of the provisional government of the Soviet Republic of China, signed hy Mao Tse Tung, president and heroic leader of the Chinese Red Army, and |by Han Yin, and Chang Kuo Tao, vice-president, says, in part: The further advance of Japanese imperialism, the ever-increasing dan- ger of complete dismemberment of China, the deepening of the all-na- tional crisis, induces us to appeal again to all those who struggle for | the interest of China and its toiling | masses, | Japanese Imperialism Advances. | “The present situation is charac- terized by the fact that Japanese | imperialism advances unhampered |into the Peiping-Tientsin area. At |the same time British imperialism is | advancing into Sinkiang and through Communist vote was 30 per cent of | its Tibetan and other puppets is pre-| of t¥ | the total vote, and showed a 500 per | paring the seizure of West China sme acd “In the, nae Nagy Negotiations, con- between the Japanese gousmn-- (Central District By Mail) —While car-! | rying on a persistent war against the | PEOPLES’ WAR ment and the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek has made another deal with the imperialist robbers. , .'. “Chiang Kai-shek did not go to the north to fight the Japanese mili- tarists, but to take over the inherit- ance of his friend, the chief and traitor Chang Hsueh-liang. Nor do the Southwest governments and the Fukien militarists oppose the Japa- nese and other imperialists. “Why did Chiang Kai-shek return to Kiangsi? Why did he desert the army in the north, leaving it with- out equipment, barehanded to face the Japanese military machine? Why does the Kuomintang and its governments concentrate huge arm- jes, all aeroplanes and_ technical equipment against the workers and peasants in Kiangsi and the other Soviet districts? Because they are conspiring with the Japanese and othe imperialists to sell China like a piece of personal property; because they hope that Japanese and other imperialism will accept them as pup- | pet-rulers of a few provinces. cause they want to butcher the Chi- nese people in order to maintain the rule of imperialism, of the landlords, bankers and big capitalists. The Oniy Mass Rule. the Provisional Government Soviet Republic of China and the \®orkers’ and Peasants’ Red Ar- mies Of China, sre the esta Tule and azmed tomes. opnosina : “We, Be-| | imperialist invasions. | ‘We are fighting for the interests of the toiling mass% of all China, tegrity of China. The need of the hour is to fight against Japanese and other imperialism; those who oppose this fight must be swept away. Victories of Red Army. “During the last three months the workers and peasants of iiangsi and’ their Red Armies have defeated nine divisions of the enemy. More than 30,000 prisoners and rifles, besides huge stores of other equipment, have been captured in a number of bat- tles. Nine thousand Kuomintang soldiers have voluntarily joined the Red Army in Kiangsi. “In Honan, Hupeh, Hunan, Szech- uan, our forces are growing. So deep is the disintegration of the enemy forces that the captured staff of the 52nd and 59th Divisions in Kiangsi have issued a declaration, denouncing the Kuomintang and Chiang Kai- shek, repenting their past crimes against the workers and peasants of China, and asking the soldiers and officers to stop fighting against the | Soviet districts and to turn against, |the Kuomintang traitors of the | fatherland. For a Revolutionary, People’s War. "Tt is on the basis of our victories that we repeat again our offer of for the independence, unity and in-| roe tak a SOVIET CHINA MANIFESTO CALLS FOR |Red Armies and the workers and| | Bee sants of the Soviet Districts pre- | vent, an active and effective resist- anee against Japanese imperialism. We recognize that if our proposals are acepted, it is immediately pos- sible to resist the invasions of the Japanese and all other imperialists. Therefore we repeat again our pro- posals to the whole Chinese people: Red Army Ready to Fight. “The Red Army is roady to enter into fighting operative agreements with an army or military detachment in the fight against Japanese inva- sion under the follo ving conditions: 1, Cessation of advance against the Soviet Districts. 2. Granting of democratic rights to the people of China (free, speech, free press, rights of assem- bly, demonstration, organization, Parag of all political prisoners, Oa abaday oth daavputios the creation of armed volunteer de- tachments to struggle for the de- fense, independence and unity of China. diers {® work for the acteptance of our national revolutionary policy amongst the broad masses, amongst the military units and the volun- teers... We appeal to — ye Soha masses and soldiers to te “tl gore ao of St. Peter's Cathedral yesterday, in- | “We appeal to all toilers and sol- | beticxs to The bombing is being made the | basis for violent attacks upon the | Dear Comrades: ‘The May 27th issue of the “Daily” carried an editorial entitled “Japan and U. S. come to. grips. at Geneva.” In my opinion, this editorial is not wholly correct, and should be cor- rected. Firstly, it is incorrect to refer to Japan’s demand for “ceremonial (!) burial” of the Washington and Lon- don treaties as “the. greatest disrup- tion, the most clear and open break, that has taken place .. . in the camp of world imperialism,” not to speak of “in many years.” When this or that imperialist power openly ¢: mands at an international conference revision of certain treaties, certainly it does indicate the sharpened char- acter of inter-imperialist contradic- tions as well as changed co-relation of forces. Nevertheless, such demands jin itself, cannot be termed “the greatest disruption.” Only those who regard inter-imperialist treaties as | something sacred could defend such |a careless statement. Secondly, «because of .the above mistake, the “Daily” editorial failed to bring cut sharply Japén’s present robber war in its proper light. For, if anything in recent years was dist ruptive, it was not the shouts of Jap- anese diplomats at Geneva, but the guns, the airplanes, the tanks and their actions under the command of Japanese imperialists against the Chinese people. Failure to empha- sige properly Japan’s attack upon the Chinese masses would lead to the inevitable underestimation of the heroic struggles of the Chinese mass- es against the invaders and conse- quently to a weakening of our sup- port for them in their fight against the imperialist exploiters and Kuo- mintang betrayers. Thirdly, the “Daily” editorial, de- spite the reference to “American ag- gression,” etc., lacked concrete ex- posure of American It Japanese imperialism openly de- manded, as it did, parity with the U.S. in naval armament now, it was not because Japanese imperialism is worse than, let us say, American im- perialism. The “Daily” should have enumerated the Japanese “excuses” and particularly the role of the U, S., Le., America’s feverish war prep arations in the Paoitte, The “Daily failed in this, thereby unwittingly Sha it appear that, Japan was the offender ior huuttal" et “demanded” teenties,-ahe ‘the Editor Reader Castionis on “on. May lay 27 Editorials “Japan and U.S. Geneva” Come to Grips at threatened to refuse to sign a new agreement if her demands were not granted; etc), and that American imperialism is better (she “defends” the London and ‘Washington treaties, etc.). There are some other points of correction—some incorrect statements of fact. For example, Japan's. 1932 export, instead of decreasing as stated, in- creased 23 per cent over the previous year; the ruling system of Japan is not a simple rule of the big bour- geoisie as implied, but of a compli+ ated Inndlord-bourgeois bloc headed by a monarchy, @be. The editorial, however, was weal primarily becauge of Its failure to ex- pose concretely American im |and because of its legalistic orienta~ tion in seeing the “greatest disrupe | tion” in the imperialist camp at con= | ferences, rather than in the wars taking place. Comradely yours, K. Kita, * . j ‘Comrade Kita is correct in his criticisms that the editorial while -speaking of the aggressiveness ¢ American imperialism did not | concrete facts to substantiate buried on the battle fields of churia, Shanghai, etc, and took place in Geneva was merely a “CEREMONIAL burial.” = Comrade Kita is quite right for naval parity with the U. 8. Britain. It would be correct to that it marked a “great of previously established | tions, but of course, not the est.” We believe that Kita’s misunds ling phrase “ceremonial burial” him to the wrong conclusion the editorial suffered from a by: galistic orientation.” We accept the other points the letter! At the same time, we: vite our readers to freely criticisms and opinions aie