The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1933, Page 4

Sublished by the Comprodaily Publiching Co., Ine., daily except Sunday, at 50 Be Page Four 18th St., New York City, N Telephone ALgonqnin 4-758, Cable “DATWORK.” Address and mall checks to the Daity Worker, 50 F. 18th St., New York, N. ¥ Moscow Spo rt Parade Is Called “Loveliest Pageant of the Year” f March to Rythm of 100,00 YOUTH JOIN IN EVENT Spectacle Is Symbol of U.S.S.R. Vitality The following is a dramatic de- zeription by Anna Louise Strong, well-known journalist, of the Sports Pageant held in Moscow June 14 By ANNA LOUISE STRONG HIF loveliest: pageant of the year the physical culture parade in Moscow! Lacking though it may the stupendous sweep of the May Da and November demonstrations, it I a unique perfection of its own are no million masses of Moscow's entire working population, storming the Red Square under red banners and factory emblems, under pla- ecards of prowess or statistical charts photographs of udarniks or grote- sques of idlers. reflectin, ny- sided life of the prolet polis. Here is a scant h sand, but each of them is beauti Here is not all of Moscow, but t Moscow that is new! Here is the youth of Moscow, the “select” youth at that. Only a frac- tion of even the youth may enter this demonstration. They are not “select” by any of the pre-revolu- inction of birth or money through their own dis- which has formed bodies rhythmi- s one with their com- A Colorful Scene A hot June Sun blages down on a pageant which, in Astent and in beauty, could not be matched in any Short tity outside the Sovi Socialist Construction { |. | 2 a | | has been Daily, Worker’ Here for Munitions’ to Kill Chinese (By x Worker Correspondent) NEWARK, N. J.—On the Pas- saic River at Newark the scrap iron yards are cutting up a tramp steamer, presumably to be sent to Japan for move shells. This is the third ship to be cut up. The first was a large submarine, the second # tramp steamer. This going on about five months. They will have this ship cut-up sompletely in about. three weeks, ° SPARKS current deficit for the year is about one and hree quarter billions. During this time, the government handed out about a billion and a half to the banks and railroads through the R.F.C. Besides the $500,000.00 Army and Navy got. HE Government's that So it would seem that it would be very simple for the Government to balance the budget. If it stopped preparing for war, and if it stopped pouring a golden torrent of “loans” down the mouths of the Wall Street bankers, UT torrent B the golden undiminished. As a matter of fact it has increased under the bless- ings of the “New Steal.” through And all this boundiess | generosity to the bankers, not one cent for Unemployment Insurance for the 17,000,000 jobless workers in the bony clutches of starvation. EORGE KING sends us m “Time” of Washington the following clipping ¢ Cutting Up Ships) CALL WORKERS 10 SAVE THAELMANN the | continues | sleeveless gymnasium trunks form the prevalent costume, their color ~ varying with the different troops. Phos (ton): ahows’ Rissa site blue and orange, thus come the dif-/ ‘Port bop daraes ee eee ferent detachments. Hardly con-| '* Pos ‘Chetbnien fgg rege cealed by the short costume, brown! 2rtist, Cherbakov, for the bodies lithe, fit. beautiful, brown well- formed legs keeping perfect time. bare, brown knees rising and falling to the same beat of music. Cyclists by the thousand pass in accurate array; tennis girls with rackets raised in smart, simultaneous salute: a thousand oarsmen holding aloft their oars; boxers saluting with s; fencers with foils—all color- physically perfect, beautiful ful Then come the contests of factories filling the vast Red Square, the tug- qf-war on the rope between “Ham- der and Sickle” and “Plant 22.” the children’s parade. Last of all the climak of athletic display by the Cen- Culture. tral Institute for Physical Perfect Rhythm A thousand wellproportioned bodies stationed at set intervals across the Spartakiade to be held in 1934. AMERICAN SAILOR SEES NAZI ATTACK Worker Shouts Defi- ance of Fascist Gangs (Marine Worker Correspondent). HAMBURG, Germany, June 36..— i was off the ship for the night. An- other sailor and I were walking along the streets through the workingclass section of Hamburg. Streets were deserted when suddenly a large shiny ouare, each line knowing its task. i ae The outer groups doing gymnastics eco Sonn ares ba eae ne with long red balis, the inner groups |/0aded with Nazi troopers and 1 with long red parellel bars gular policemen, poured out of the Id up by husky vouths as the living sim- port on which soaring athletes rise still higher. Strength and skill sub- ordinate to perfect rhythm, the whole group in its various actions making a changing symphony in white and red. Then the end. when the band sud- car and into a house. In a few mo- ments they came down dragging a worker with them. The worker looked jetermined as the devil, despite his position. From the houses all around windows opened and people looked cut. No sound from the windows, just Fee ere so) & chotus of young | 50 window’ Burak a hoarse ‘Atary voices storms the air, vibrant, male. dow st a rs ts ra'*- shout. Without looking from where triumphant marching past the Lenin mausoleum Unlike most lands, where some particula health to a one-sided proficienc Soviet program of physical culture de- mands all-around development. its standard is set by the GTO tests, passing which the successful candi- date is declared “Ready for Labor and Defense.” These tests cover every variety of athletics and sport, de- manding a certain minimum profi- ciency in all rather than preemience in any . It takes more than a year to pass them. More than half a lion young folk in the Soviet Union have passed the tests JINCROW NEGROES IN TRAIN ON WAY TO LABOR CAMP Br a Labor Camp Correspondent ©. C. C.. FORT KNOX, Ky.—Today we had breakfast at about 6:30 a.m Which was two slices of white bread @ small piece of butter a spoon of fried potatoes. two spoons of ham $auce, one spoon of applesaves and Herun of coffee Later we were lined up and the officer spoke to us. He told us that ‘We were close to 12,000 boys in camp, anc 2,500 more are coming tomorrow. One boy is going to leave because he didn’t like it here, and two more Wanted to leave because they couldn’i Stand the food. The officer told them if they leave the relief of their parent would be cut off. So they said they Would wait and see. The officer also said that he thinks we will be in Cali- fornia, June 13. The colored bovs thet came here from Columbus, Ohio, Kentucky and ‘Tennessee rode in separate cars com- ing here. This morning a few whites from Co. 574 wanted to attack a group of colored boys, but they couldn't get enough white fellows to back them up, they backed out. | Sixty-one boys [rom Co. 570 got the eramps,, while ‘nost of the boys from | Tent 3, Co. 573 got poison ivy. We will be exposed to all kinds of dis- athletes in capitalist h seeks to excel] in sport, sacrificing even the eases in the forest. We are getting three shots in the arm, five days apart. We haven't any money to buy Potiave stamns, cigarettes and other little immedi~‘e necessities, and were teld that we don't get paid until shout July, 1st Some of ‘the other companies are Grilled and paraded around like army fashion. Our company 1 suppose will get this soon, but the boys are not fiven any rifles ‘ cA the sound came, the big private car red down the street and around a “It is no secret that’ MacDonald |remains in power by Prime Mover | Chamberlain’s leave. An arch-de- » |flationist and high tariff man, the | Chancellor of the Exchequer finds it | convenient to get the Cabinet’s work done beneath the camouflage of a “National Laborite” Prime Minister, PEELS, lovable, warm-hearted, etc., ete. . ee ee How cynically British imperialism | | dangles this contemptible “Laborite” #, |MacDonald as the bait for its own 44 | purposes. so * UT do not make the mistake of thinking that MacDonald's col- | leagues, who still maintain the pre- tense of believing in Socialism are | any different. Worker Describes Breaking of Terror During Ohio March oleae MacDonald's open assistance to British imperialism received the ac- tive co-operation of all the present Li th aborite leaders who now talk about e “peaceful transition to Social- ism By a Worker Correspondent ZANESVILLE, O.—The smashing |; Rae eae actions are only the i belay Nees | “logical conclusion of the theories record of the fighting first column! of the bor Party in England, of the Ohio People’s Relief March continues. This time they crushed ECENTLY the capitalist press was the opposition of the Mushingum | excited about a so-called plot County and Zanesville against the New Jersey Congressman officials. | minions had refused to} the marchers’ de- Baton who found a bomb under his car, placed there maybe, by one of his gangster friends. eae These bosses agree to any of mands. (CONTINUED PROM PAGE ON®) | bembing planes, and is preparing for a war against the Soviet Union. This is the reason why capitalism in the whole world is attempting to suppress and crush the working people. More and more thg capita)- ist governments are procéeding to | throttle the emancipation of the ex- | ploited and oppressed by means of | undisguised brute force. From Fin- |land to Sicily there exists today a __|long chain of bloody fascist dictator- against the working class and | | ships | the masses of poor peasants. | also But in those countries where the | | capitalist dictatorship is still con- | cealed beneath the cloak of “democ- |Yacy” the agents of capitalare at | work preparing for fascist dictator- | ship. Everywhere the nationalist pas- |sions are being roused as a means | to deceive the masses, to intimidate |them, to win them for the criminal |aims of big capital. The terrible events ‘in Germany and Austria are a warning to the workers in all capi- talist countries. Therefore, the campaign for’ soli- darity with the victims of fascism must become a fighting campaign, the solidarity week a fighting week | against fascism, hunger and misery, ‘against imperialist war. It must become a week of struggle against | all those who, in a concealed man- ner, are supporting the criminal pol- \iey of capitalism, against those who talk of a fight against fascism and the danger of war, but who at the same time sabotage and prevent the of the workers and | united front toilers. Fascism Rages In Germany Blood-stained fascism is at present raging most furiously in Germany. |More than 50,000 fighters for the | emancipation of the toilers from the | | clutches of decaying capitalism are |pining in the prisons and concen- | tration camps. Workers and all who |™arch. Its officials have been joud the Congress. lare devoted to the emancipation 1 their praise of the Roosevelt gov-' mittee for the Congress in its call| | struggle are being tortured and killed | every day, The barbarity employed | against the imprisoned workers is | frightful. The fascist murderers in | Germany are surpassing anything ever thought of in the history of humanity in the way of cruelty and baseness. The lives of the best cham- | Pions of the proletariat who are in | prison are in constant danger. Hit- | ler and Goering, stigmatised through- out the world as the instigators of the fire in the Réichstag, aré pre- paring the most revolting and con- temptible farce evér known in his- jtory. They announce that a trial | Will be held of the “Communist | criminals.” The leader of the Com- raunist Reichstag fraction, Comrade |'Forgler, as well as the Bulgarian | | Communists, Dimitrov, Popov, and | Taney are to be “accused.” Comrade | | Thaelmarin, thé leadér of the Com- munist Party of Germany, as well jas of the German working class, is| only pay half of the debts due to| The plan | foreign creditors, Hjalmar Schacht,| leaders of | head of the German Reichsbank an- | the working class, to causa them “to | nounced today. Dozens of cases foreign capitalist creditors 350,000,- | also involved in this trial. | exists to murder these ‘commit suicide.” of such “suicides” have occurred in | By Mail everywhere ting Borou, Cana ‘Use Machine Gun to Disperse Food Raid of Jobless SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb.— Shouting, “We want something to eat” starving workers raided a’ . food market at 919 Dakota Ave, Officials were immediately sum- moned. Mayor Charles Skidmore, County Attorney Smith and Pa- trolman C. Clinkenbeard hurried to the scene with a machine gun. The workers dispersed as there was only about a hundred and thwarted an attempted slaugh- ter, Forty were arrested. The news aroused such bitter- ness that officials had to drop all charges and released them. This is the second raid in six | weeks. Previously starving work-| ers attacked the Council Oak store and took food. VET ENDS LIFE SQ FAMILY CAN OBTAIN “BONUS” Suicide Is Oneof Many Caused by Roosevelt ‘Economy’ Act 2 PHILADELPHIA, July 2.—Ending his life with gas so his family m‘ght have the miserable balance due on SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ¢ One year, $6; six months, 33,50; 8 months, $2; 1 month, 750, sh of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. da: One year, $9; 6 months, 35; 3 months, $3. JULY 3, 19° Foreign and WORLD POWERS PREPARE: FOR INTL CURRENCY WAR | Roesevelt’s Veto of Conference Proposal Adds Fuel to Struggle for Foreign Markets Reduced Wages, Cheap Dollar, Rising Prices, Used As Weapons in WASHINGTON, July 2.—Rrusqu Imperialist Rivalries ely and decisively, President Roose~ | velt rejected the latest comprviiie proposal of the World Economic Con- ference for some form of currency stzbilization and for recognition from the United States, if even only in principle, of the desirability of main- taining the gold standard. Thus, with one sweep, 13 U. S. YOUTH GROUPS SUPPORT ANTEWAR MEET Congress in Paris August 5-7 NEW YORK.—Thirteen American youth organizations have already en- dorsed the World Congres of Youth | his “bonus,” Daniel W. Thornton, a| 48ainst War and Fascism in Paris geologist and former army captain left a letter to President Roosevelt, denouncing a change in the latte prozram for the veterans’ disability cuts. “Suicide,” he wrote, “is the only way I can provide for those depen- dent on me, by making available to |them the $275 due me on my ad- justed compensstion certificate.” Thornton was a major-general of the Khaki shirts, an organization | August 5-7. Among the organiza- | tions backing the Congress are the | Young Communist League, National Student League, War Resisters Lea- | gue, Green International, Fellowoship | of Reconciliation, Converence for Progressive Labor Action, the Am- erican Committee Against War and National Student Committee for Ne- gro Rights. Edward Johnsen, secretary of the committee on Militarism in Educa- |tion and representatives of Pioncer |which grew out of the first bonus| Youth of America have also endorsed | | ernment. The American Com- states in part: Roosevelt This suicide is’ one of the many, “The growing danger of a new resulting from the government's order depriving between 400,000 and pensations, allowances, pensions, hos- pital and domiciliary care, GERMANY WILL PAY ONLY HALF OF HER DEBT! ‘Economie Crisis For c- ing Hitler Gov't to Bankruptcy BERLIN, July 2. — Germany will Germany will pay marks in foreign currency, and the German prisons. There is no Will keep in her own vaults the other doubt that most of these alleged | $50,000,000 owing to the foreign cap- “suicides” have been slain or stran- | ‘*élist creditors. gled by the fascist bloodhounds. rey | the growing financial bankruptcy of | Tra A storm of ntotest must sweep over | the Hitler government, is evidence of see ne Section of the American bene further deepening of the crisis in | the Eurepe and the whole world. The | international proletariat, all toilers, all the enemies of fascism and. of | imperialist. war, must stay the arm ef the fascist hangmen in Germany. |In thousands of factories, from the | This step, which is indicative of world markets. Schacht ex- plained that “If German exports do | not obtain freer markets than here- tofore, payment of Germany's private debts will become wholly im) possible.” But. co r. When we got back to the ship I told of this happening to another This sailor reported of a sim- Marching, and carried in relays by their two trucks, the marchers finally r happening he had scen in an- reached the outskirts of Zanesvill other part of the city. And many Where some 40 or 50 police were more of these terroristic practices are waiting. | being carried out by the Nazis Baton is the ex-minister who ad- vised his nephew who was studying ‘or the ministry to enter the oil busi- | ness with Rockefeller. “There is more than one way of serving God,” said Baton. to ows yee millions of unemployed, at the meet- | Germany's creditors want | jings of the trade unions, of worker | to sell to Germany, not to buy her| sportsmen, in the villages, the cry of | f00ds. This means that the German protest must be heard, the helping | fancial crisis will undoubtedly set,| | hand stretched out, the pledge given | Worse, and” thet, the: complete ‘non-| | ‘ | Payment of all German debts will | to conduct the united, determined soon become a distinct Possibility. world war faces the youth of every | country today. It threatens to de- | 500,000 veterans of disability’ com-| Prive them of their rightful oppor- | tunity to live, develop and create. It not only imperils their very exis- tence, but also jeopardizes the life and development of humanity. An- other world war would kill and maim | | taillions of young men and the wortd ; will gain nothing by their sacrifices. Fascism Breeds War “The rapid spread of fascism today | brings before youth another serious | | problem one which is closely related! |to war. Fascism for youth means jforced labor, militarization, lower | standards of living and narrow re- | stricted culture. It sets youth in | one country against youth in another ‘country, and it even divides it into racial groups in each country which fight against each other, instead of uniting for joint action to solve their common problems.” A delegation representing many youth organizatons among whom are |the War Resisters League, National Student League, Printers Junior International League for | Peace and Freedom, Young Com- |munist League, Youth Section Metal Workers Industrial Union |Dress Department of the Needle Workers Industrial Union | Committee for Struggle Against War, visited Camp Bear Mountain, one of | Roosevelt's Reforestration Camps on | Saturday to investigate conditions |there, as to militarization, discipline, food, etc. Report to Conference This delegation will report back to a citywide Anti-war Conference, or- ganized in support of the World Con- gress of Youth Against War and Fas- |cism on Sunday, July 10 at 1 p. m. | at the Church of All Nations, 9 Sec- Appren- | tices, Affiliated with the A. F. of L.,/ roughout ‘Germany. Chicago Cops Fail to StopJohnReed Exhibit CHICAGO, July 2.—Several at- tempts on the part of police and hood- lums to break up the Outdoor Fair exhibit of the John Reed Club ar- tists here have been frustrated by the etermined resistance of Club mem- bers and sympathetic spectators. Visits by the police, the Fair Di- The leaders of the marchers called | a meeting right under the noses of} the officials. This method of open} meetings in the hearing of the terror | has been found to be a powerful weapon, The situation was explained. Here the marchers had been walking ali day in the sun. Were they going to let themselves be run through the | city? No! They roared their defiance. We march through the city! And 1.L. of Newark remarks that now the identity of God is definitely established. * 'D NEWHOUSE comments: ‘“Of- ficial announcements from Madi- son Square Garden set the gross re- ceipts of last week’s fight «ac $198,- 289. Sharkey ‘received $69,000 while | Il Ponderoso, the Fighting Fascist, | crew down $16,379. The Garden Right through the center of town | cleared approximately $40,000 on the the marchers went, shouting their) show and the Milk Fund for whose slogans and singing their songs. as-| benefit the thing was ostensibly run, serting bravely that their aims and| fight Zanesville: also, rector, and finally the Park Commis- sioner, each created a miniature mass meeting resulting in discussioris of free speech, local conditions, the At the county fair grounds the Paintings on view, etc. An unem- marchers were refused food, but! ployed worker, returning from New | workers of Zanesville came by dozens | York to Los Angeles after a fruit- despite the iron bar of gunmen| less search for a job appointed him- self a one-man defense corps and spent several days examining the pictures and protecting them from assaults placed at the main gate. The workers | merely found another entrance and | came anyway, bringing food some of | them, and mingling with the march-| ers, i White Sea Canal Completed in USSR; Huge Engi were those of the workers of | « was vaguely announced as having ‘got a good share.” ee REVOLT AGAIN FLARES UP IN SANTA CLARA VILLAGE, 2.—Rural guards | HAVANA, July i battled rebels at the village of Meyer, Santa Clara Province, Sat- urday, according to word reaching the capital today. Three rebels were reported to have been killed and two rural guards wounded. | struggle against fascism ,and imperi- | | alist war. | 'Grace Line Ships | to South America NEW “YORK, July 2.—The Ss. S. | Santa Barbara of the Grace Line \sailed for South America from this |port last Friday at midnight with ten Curtis fighting airplanes and two | |large tanks. Practically every ship | |of the Grace Line is loaded with mi- |litary equipment for contending pup- ! | Pet governments. Longshoremen and seamen who are loading and transporting war material must be mobilized to stop shipments, To achieve this, a plan of action will be worked out by the Convention of the Marine Workers’ | Year | It has been estimated that 50 per,/ond Ave. At this Conference dele- cent of Germany's private debts are | held by bankers in the United States. Soviet Press Grows Carry War Material | Before the war Russia had 959 papers, with a circulation of 2,700,- 000. By 1932 there were 6,700 papers in_83 languages, with a circulation | of 38,000,000... Many nationalities that hadn't a written language be- fore now have their own press. Last year there were also 1,400 magazines, issued in 390,000,000 copies annually. A third of these were published in the languages of 38 national minori- ties. Since the revolution 400,000 titles have been published, compared with 250,000 in the whole preceding century under tasrism, and durii the past 15 years 5 billion copies of books have been sold. Capital investments in the print- ing industry during the ‘First Fi ive~ Plan were 85,800,000 rubles | Industrial Union to be held here | ($44,187,000), over 26 per cent above Suby 16-17-18, the quota originally set in the plan. Cuts Ship Time from) tikewise unique in‘ another way. ; a 1 . | Much of the construction work was ie mney ad to Whi te done with the aid of former ines y av: elements, who, in the course of thei sea to Three Days employment, were turned from en- Ee ge =e emies of the working class into up- By et BUCHWALD right energetic, creative workers (Moscow Correspondent of the | themselves. | Daily |. Worker) A remarkable work of reeducation MOSCOW, U. S.S. R., July 2 (Spe-| Of these persons was achieved in cial Cable) —The White Sea Canal | connection with the building of the System has just been completed, one| Canal. The G. P. U. (State Poli- of the great engineering feats of this; tical Administration) which anti- century, and of immense importance | Soviet writers like to represent as to the industry of the Soviet Union, | S0me kind of inhuman monster, here The White Sea Canal system es-| is seen in its true role. The G. P. U. tablishes an inland waterway from) Showed in this canal-building job a Leningrad to Archangel. It provides|Temarkable ability to bring out the a direct and safe route which takes best creative efforts of former crim- three days to traverse, instead of the | inal elements. Hundreds of shock former seventeen day route over 2,800 miles of treacherous water, all around the Scandinavian peninsula, fornier thieves, swindlers and other i types of criminals Builds Men, Too Prefer Stay In addition the new canal system Many of the built opens to economic and cultural de- velopment a vast inland territory which formerly had bad communica- tions with important industrial cen- ters. The White Sea Canal system is) have had_ citizenshi result of their excellent showing, but the majority of thgse prefer to re-. of others. More Steel and Iron Meanwhile, within the last few days the Soviet iron and steel in- dustry has maintained its high level of production, and in addition, has shown a gradual upward trend, The daily output of pig iron from Soviet furnaces now averages 22,000 tons with 22,600 tons as a recent record for one day. The steel output is now above 20,000 tons a day. ~ The third furnace at Magnito- k, the Soviet steel and iron cen- in the Ural mountains, has just been put in operation. This, with general all around improvements in the steel industry stimulated by a wave of socialist competition, .indi- in the steel and iron industry. The same continued progress is taking place in agriculture. Har- rs of this canal vesting has begun in some regions| and camps, r | have been granted tMeir freedom and/ while elsewhere energetic prepara- i tions. Tens of thousands tour the) restored as a tions for the harvest are under way. country and get every facility for) Hoeing the Grain Production of harvesting 188 main in the commynity and to help is double for the first half of the|up for children remaining in the work of hugnan rehabilitation | year what it was in the ftret half ef| city. Numerous parks efford last_year. This year, for the first time, the grain crops were hoed on a large scale, to kill weeds and improve the yield. Over 54,000,000 acres have been hoed. Plowing for autumn sowing amounted on June 25 to nearly 35,000,000 acres, whereas on the same date in 1932, only 10,000,000 acres had been plowed. The greatly improved quality of field work this year, and the better organization of work in collective and state farms with rather favorable weather thus far promise a bumper crop in the Soviet Union. Is for the Workers ‘The workers who are carrying on this tremendous burst of industrial brigaders and conscious builders of | cates there will be very soon a still | and agricultural activity are reaping socialicm were developed from among further rise in output and efficiency the rewards. Millions on Vacat'on Millions of children and adult _ Workers are now in summer resorts | travel, rest and recuperation. There are special Le akan ag aet the excel. neer ‘* spending their vaca-) ing Feat Workers Enjoy Fruits of Gigantic Raise in Production lent conveniences for recreation; with tens of thousands of workars visiting them daily in Moscow alone. Parks Everywhere On holidays, the attendance at the Moscow central Park of Culture and Rest and at the beaches is around 150,000. Athletic grounds, rest homes, amusement pavilions, open air thea- tres, libraries and scientific labora- tories for amateurs are some of the outstanding features of this remark- able Park of Culture and Rest. The Park is accessible to all the workers Ing | | gates will be proposed to go to Paris, | for the World Congress, August 5th, | 6th and 7th. These delegates will be | ratified at a mass meeting the evening of July 16th at 8 p. m. at | the same church. Prominent speak- ‘ers and entertainment will be in- | cluded in the program. <All workers’ organizations are | urged to send delegates to the Con- \the mass meeting, The City Com- mittee has ready buttons and col- |Tection lists which all organizations are urged to obtain, help raise funds for the New Y delegation. For further information communi- cate with the committee at 104 Fifth Avenue, Room 1610. BOYS AT FORCED LABOR APPEAL TO PUBLISH FACTS (By a Labor Camp Ci dest) CIVILIAN CONSERVATION GAMP | 1303, EAST WATERFORD, Pa.—I am sending this letter as a representative of this camp in the state forest of Pennsylvania. By it we are striving to contradict the theories that we understand are believed by our fam- ilies and all other readers and to ac- quaint them with the real conditions | of this camp. ‘We hope by doing this that people us obtain better food, for this is one of the only conditions which we feel confident could be bettered by the help of tite people. Up until this time we felt that we were getting good food but not enough of it. But after eatitig a breakfast of creamed potatoes that were sour and being forced to eat it or get noth- ing, we weel that they would push anything on us. For the rest of this ; meal we had a tablespoon of egg, a | slice of bread and coffee. | We-dgsure you that it is very few ference on July 16 and also attend | will take an interest in us and help’ actually declares that the United -~——@States will not yield one inch in ik j Opposition to any attempt to estab |lsh the American dollar at som: | definite ratio to the pound and franc |The proposed declaration whic! | Roosevelt rejected stated, “that stabi lity in the international monetar field should be obtained as quicki as practicable.” Conference Collapsing Roosevelt's rejection of this pre position, which is really the funde mental purpose for which the Cor ference was called. means the con plete shattering at present of a | hopes for the return of the intern tional gold standard, and reveals tt utter futility of all the Conferenc proposals for the stabilization of ir ternational currency. The stabilization Conference, upe | whose success Roosevelt himself d+ | clared depends the “peace and pro perity of the world,” is, thus, 1 | longer a stabilization conference, ar :is faced with the possibility of tn j minent break-up, It is now clear that Moley’s vis | to London, and his apparently tac | approval of the latest proposal, w: nothing more than a strategem t disarm European rivals of America | imperialism in preparation for Roose yelt’s latest action, which, once an for all, proclaims to the British an French delegations that the Unite States is determined to go ahea at all costs, with its own currenc, inflation program. Inflation Program Enriches Speculators Roosevelt's rejection of the stabili | zation plans of the Conference, eve: in principle, will undoubtedly pro duce in tite next few days a con- tinued sharp decline in the dollar on the foreign exchanges. It has already caused a terrific rise on the stock exchanges, bringing tremendous speculative profits to the stock spec- ulators. Roosevelt's pragram is, thus, bringing the greatest benefits te those “speculators” whom he de- nounced in his election speeches. Like the Geneva Disarmament conference which. just adjourned again without accomplishing. one of its ostensible purposes, hopelessly deadlocked by imperiaiist rivalries, | the present London Conference is fac- | ing immediate collapse. | French Ready To Leave The French delegation and news- | papers are openly saying as much. |The French spokesman said when | Roosevelt's answer was received, “The conference may go on, but the con- ference is dead.” And the following statement from a leading French paper, L’Echo de Paris, is typical of all the leading French journals, “The continuation of the. London Conference: is no longer justfiable.” Already many countries are pre- \paring to erect still higher tariff (barriers against the influx of Amer- |ican goods which will result if the American dollar continues to The bitter hostility of the / delegates can be understood the fact that Roosevelt’s esl statement has given great strength — to that section of the British dele- gation which favers the further in- flation of the pound, that is, an open currency war with the United States. For the French, this would mean the impossibility of staying on the gold standard, since Brit- ain would have to begin selling its large holdings of francs, Starting Currency War. |_ At present Srivatn’s holdings of ’ Frexi vance {S giving some sup- port. rvance against the United States. But Roosevelt's statement forced the imperialist powers to, fight desperately for their own skins. An open currency war, with a rate to see which currency can be cheap- ened more, is definitely signalled by | Roosevelt's uncompromising stan? « for inflation. To Make the Workers’ Pay. ¥ Roosevelt's stand is dictated by the fact that his mage: purpose of his inflation program is to increase the profits of American capitalism iby reducing by inflation the real wages of the American workers, «) iraising the prices of commodities in |the domestic market, and strength- — ening the competitive at American imperialism in the inter- national markets. ‘The saereney Hey is 2 fight for | markets, and perialist power ‘ is attempting to down its rivals a¢ the expense of its own workers at home. Roosevelt's latest statement means the further intensification of the | drive against the buying power and the living standards of the Ameri- can Workers. 4 ‘LETTERS FROM OUR READERS Dear Sir: A news clipping in the Daily Worker of June 12, page 2 has been brought to my attention by one of your readers. I wish to thank you for giving space to the incident ah oes to one of my brothers ) of the boy ice-cream peddler held in $600 .) bail. The Daily Worker gave a full report of this police brutality case, of Mescow, and is only one of six! meals that we get more than this,| Whereas other newspapers printed the similar recreation grounds and a!and we do not get more than this,| boy almost caused a riot and was dozen or so smaller places for Mos- | cow workers, where one goes boating, pienfeking, takes one day river ex- cursions, . Similar recreational platas are fea- tures of every city and town in the Govigt Deter” % and we do not get more than one slice yead at any of them. | ®uess every one will understand how disappointing this is to us after all day with a pick or shovel. Trusting that will publish this r Company 130° disorderly, also carefully leaving out that the cop hit the boy with forces, which made it necessary to call an ambulance for treating wee ‘They also didn't print of bail, eat es |