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Page Four Published hy the Comprodaily Publishing Co, Inc., daily except Sunday, at A0 By Isth St., New York City, N.Y. Telephone ALgonqnin 4-2956. Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 5. 18th St., New York, N. ¥, ete CONFERENCE COLLAPSES USSR UNIVERSITY PPVOW THE BELTS WITH DOLLAR U. S. Delegation Sa Conference Going More Vicious Seen Outbre As Result of LONDON, tee to be “decidedly morning, M. Bonnet, a message from Mr. Roosevelt, But Roosevelt's message, when arrived, was called “stronger than the first one. After the new orders from Wall House, the 1 London expressed the opinion that it would be best if the Economic Conference were to be “partial - banded.” Roosevelt's second com- murication has implanted the con- viction that it will be impossible he Conference goi: t Thieves Fall Our Conference the grave The foot met the cemetar in was practical b Roosevelt ure” of the capitalist are now bem tear: evitable outcome Conference itself rom the start on The note. ence, which and “stat with s natural the nat which 1 more war struggle powers for markets. London was a temporar, stage for the free for all tween the robber monopoly isms of the world for new en” able crocodile profits. Even auring the Confer: ence, the fight continues to rage on other fronts. Today, for exam- ple, the dollar dropped in on the British exchange to over $4.50 to the pound. This wipes out all p but 36 cents of the Bri tial advantage suing. the pound. (The $4.86.) With the bre: up of the Con Jerence, however, an increase of the most vicious forms of economic war among the capitalists can be ex- pected. A first move was taken by the French Chamber of Deputies Jast might in voting a subsidy of 5 $7,791,000 a year to the French line which competes with U. S. shipping ines on the Atlantic route. Ship- Ping subsidies, incidentally, were to whie! e | nomic STILL FALLING ; “Impossible to hace Urges It to Disband ak of Economic War -arley Break-up July 5.—A new message from President Roosevelt to the world Economic Conference was pronounced by the Conference steering commit- | unsatisfactory”. the French Finance Minister, said After a committee meeting this “We are awaiting will change everything.” ‘h, it seems, Litvinov Signs New Couvention With Lithuania LONDON y 5.—Maxim Lit- the Foreign CommRsar of the Soviet Union, today signed a Soviet-Lithuarian pact defining aggression with Vaclovas Siezikaus- ianian Minister to Lon- r the formal signature was affixed, Litvinov left for Paris where a similar pact will be signed between the Soviet Union and France. A new Franco-Russian trade agreement will al cussed Comrade Litvinoy will then take a short but well-merited holiday. have been “restricted” the Eco- Conference. European Press Hostile. Press comments on the Conference were bitter both land and France. “To many wrote the London Times “it seemed almost as Roosevelt intended deliberately to wreck the Conference.” Sir Walter Layton, the editor of the Economist, tes that “the statement of Pre at of dent Roosevelt which was issued at London, Monday morning removed the possibility of the Confers ence at- aining any of its major objectives.” ” ‘The Journal des Debats refers to Roosevelt as “an irritated prophet” lecturing the world. The Paris-Midi describes the message as “a mix- ture of impertinence, prejudices and insolence.” L’Intransigeant’ tive 1s “puerile.” t of the French newspapers. reprint Roosevelt’s pri vious message about the necessi' for curren stabilization to secure pros y, and the more recent me: sage, side by side, asking their read- ers to pay their nickel and take their choice Marine Industry Prepares jor War HE national convention of the Marine Workers’ Union, to be held here in critical time in the affair of the marine industry since the French Delegates to the convention will represent the wor rkers in| world war. gn industry that in a state of collapse, only kept alive by enor- mous government subsidies. by drastic wage cuts, by increasing Speed-up, stretch-out, and alization It is the indu which national imperialist rival clash most fiercely and most di im time of peace, and which tur most completely into auxilia “weapo: { these impe when war declared. It importance in any situation imyolving the United States The shipbuilding side of the m ine industry is at moplete stand- a Still, Despite unheard-of subsidies over a period of years, the! today not a single merchant of over 1,0¢) tons under construc- tion in any American shipyard The building of 30 more ships Fs which were to have followed the z Washington, under provisions of the % Jones-White Act, has been aban- doned. Tied up, like the Leviathan, are ships whose tonnage amounts to more than one-third of the en- tire “United States merchant mar- ine. <-Over 2 1-2 million tons of q ships have already been scraped | This amounted to 24.9 per cent of | the merchant fleet 5 Ev vessel built under the Wones--White Act, and this means mearly every vessel bufit in the past four years, is fitted for imme- conversion to a naval auxiliary im’ time of war. & The need for ships to transport Sittoops, munitions, and food, dur. im the World War caused. the es- fablishment of the United States ~ Shipping Board. whose function was re “a build quickly a big merchant Smarine. The s thus built. were paid for through government subs' Bs, and in the 14 years of ipping Board's existence, over fio dollars of public mones ee: ated for its use FIER the war the government followed the policy of transfer- ring the Shipping Board fleet into cavers: hands as rapidly as possible. wored capitalists got the biggest @hare of the graft. Most of the ships of the International Mercan- tile Marine Co., the largest American Shipping concern, were Shipping “Board vessels. The I. M. M. is Mor-| controlled. “So is the American line, another Shipping Board - greated fleet; and many others. The | "American marine industry is almost a in the hands of monopoly ts. - In 1931, as business began to get for the United States Line the jpping Board not only took back three million dollars’ worth of aaa. up, older ships, but also can-| celled outright an eleven million dol- which the line owed. his is an outstanding, but ‘not an isolated case * In 1628 the United States govern- ment presented its shipowners with ; Bethe thost generous subsidy bill in World shipping history. This was the Wones-White Act. It provided for ap- Industrial July 16-18, comes at the most the American own- of $250,000,000 for ips for propriatior building of ers, and for ann ing to more than $28,000,000 to lines which carried mail for the govern- ment Under this act the private com- panies paid one-fourth of the cost of buil hips. The government | uted the other thre id back at low interest in he fi new “Santa” e Line, which have been ing munitions for the wars in h America, and which cost $20,- 000,000, were built with money from} fund. The Grace Line put up 000,000, the cost of one ship, got the other three free Another provision of the Jones- White Act was that the plans of all ships built with its aid, first had to be approved by the Navy Depart- ment, which passed on their suitabil- ity for conversion to naval auxiliaries. Vessels rebuilt or reconditioned with money from this fund had to have their decks specially strengthened to bear the weight of guns. Officers working on these ships were com- pelled to serve, without pay, as mem- bers of the U. S. Naval Reserve. In the face of all these cash favors to the shipowning capitalists, the con- ditions of the workers in the marine industry became not better, but worse. Technical rationalization had been hitting the marine workers for years, with the conversion from coal to oil burners, from steam to diesel and diesel-electric engines with highly mechanized loading and unloading, conveyor systems and other methods. bit into the marine in- | the ipowners grabbed with both hands On one side} they took millions from the govern- ment increasing hours, speed-up system, the lines are down to one-third of their former level. On the Manhat- tan, to give an instance of a ship built with government aid, the hours of the deck crew were increased from 8 to 12, and wages were cut on top of that. The crew's quarters are be- low the water line, and are very cramped. The ships of the United Fruit Co., which received more than 18 million dollars for building its “Great White Fleet,” and which gets almost two million dollars a year from |mail contracts alone, are notorious “hungry ships.” | During all this time when the | United States merchant marine has |been growing at the expense of the and introduced the | American people and of the exploited | marine workers, the other imperialist, maritime nations of the not been idle Italy launched a subsidized build-! ing program which put such vessels as the Conte di Sa Grande, the Rex, and oth trans-Atlantic trade. France ships, too, and is at present aiding ¢ ® the break up| if President | adjec- | fourths, | + liments over a period of | boats | and | On the other they cut wages, | Wages on many of | world have | TO CELEBRATE ITS XV ANNIVERSARY Great Art Opening Shows Exhibition in Moscow High Level By BUCHWALD (Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker). MOSCOW, U.SS.R., July 3. (Spe- cial Cable).—Sverdlovsk Univer: a now known as the “All-Union Com ;munist University of Agriculture,” |has just had celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of its existence. The university was named |Sverdlov, the first | Central Executive Committee « | Soviet Union. It is the highest Com- munist school in the country. Thous- ands of the leading Communist Party workers, important Soviet offi- cials and chiefs of machine and trac- tor stations received their training in this school. At the anniversary celebration, the leaders of the Soviet Union govern- ment and of the Communist Party paid glowing tribute to the work iof the Sverdlov University graduates. after The celebration was held in the Bolshoi Theatre in Mo: |movitch, secretary of the * political |committee in charge of tractor sta- | tions, made the principal speech In addition to education of the sort typified by the Sverdlov Univer- sity, art is flourishing in the Soviet Union, as was once more proved.by an exhibition just begun in three different places in Moscow. The whole exhibit covers the period since the Bolshevik revolution, and includes painting, sculpture and placards prod- uced in the Russian Socialist Fed- erated Soviet Republic, part of the Soviet Union. Paintings are shown in sixteen rooms of the Museum of History, Sculpture is displayed in the State Museum of Art. | Of the 339 artists represented by more than 2.500 items of art, only |77 had exhibited any of their work before the revolution. The entire range of art in the So- viet Union and its various currents and tendencies is represented in this | exhibit. While at the beginning the Soviet \artists considered revolution in art |forms as equivalent to revolutionary lart, this erroneous view has gradu- ally lost ground and as a body the Soviet artists now emphasize the socialist content. They allow for a variety of old and new forms, what- éVer is capable of expressing this content. / Moscow workers are showing great enthusiasm. over these exhibitions, jand also over another, which is de- |voted to the fifteen year history of |the Red Army. ‘Imperialists) | War Designs Are Exposed | France, the strongest militaristic nual handouts amount-| power on the European continent and | | one of the strongest in the world! | France possesses the most powerful war industry in Europe and occupies the first place in the world in the exportation of munitions of war to other countries. France is the guard ian and pillar of the Versailles Treats |of robbery which keeps tens of mil lions of toilers in chains | International Solidarity of French | Workers. Therefore, the struggle of the | French workers against .its “own” |imperialism, against war prepara- tions and intervention is of special | significance for the toiling masses of | the whole world and particularly for |the Soviet Union, That’s why the | active struggles of our French class brothers appear to be one of the glow- ing expressions of that international proletarian solidarity of which we can proudly speak today, the day of in- ternational solidarity, May Ist. Here we will touch upon only one phase of this anti-war struggle—the correspondents of L'Humanite, the worker correspondents. On its pages, the Worcorrs expose the intensified preparations for war, the intensified production of ammunitions for war, the preparing of the youth for war and many other things about which | silent, to hide from the wide masses, wih government funds the comple- tion of what will be the largest’ ship| | Normandie, In May the German ship- | owners, through their fascist govern- | ment, made themselyes a gift of 20,-| | 000,000 marks as compensation for losses in freight revenue caused by ard by Great Britain and the United States. Exemption from taxes, from the burden of payments for so- promised, England, whose merchant fleet has not grown very much since 1913 promised the Cunard line financial lassistance in finishing an uncom- | pleted 70,000 ton giant liner, and in building a sister ship of the same | size. Now the imperialist powers, recog- nizing the futility of purely economic struggle for mastery of marine trade, are turning more and more to war. Only the Marine Workers’ Indus- trial Union has offered any fighting opposition to the shipowners, program of wage cuts, rationalization, unem- ployment, and starvation. The Ma- rine Workers Industrial Union is or- ganizing, on the ships, on the docks, in the yards, against the war for} which the capitalist government is preparing its marine forces. The! | working masses, organized in militant Conte | opposition under the TUUL and the tons of appliances each and easily . into the | Communist Party, caw stop the trans-| fly with that load to London, Rome | built | portation of war materials, and avert | or Berlin, | impending imperialist. war. Yd president of the | the bourgeois press prefers to remain | in the world, the 73,000-ton, 1020-1 Beicedl the abandonment of the gold stand- f and } cial insurance for the workers, are also | Butte NEWS ITEM: in line with the Roosevelt National Recovery ginning to increase the price of bread from 1 to 3 cents. By Mail everywhere: excepting Borough Canada: One year, $6; SUBSCRIPTION RATES: six months, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, of Manbattan and ironx, New York City. Foreign and One year, $9; 6 months, $5; 3 months, $3. 75, | Act, the bakers are be- | Minine Wikskers Will Hold Anti-War Demonstration in Baltimore An Anti-War Rally is being held in Japan. where a war is bee carried Baltimore, July 14th, at the Finnish |0M against the Chinese people. This he So- Hall, by the Marine Workers Indus- | 8" may soon be directed at the So: A A ii ie d-off | viet Union! trial Union, which will be a send-off) 115. antiwar Rally is part of the for the delegates to the National Con- | | ti New York: | fight against imperialist war, and the vaion th: es | delegates will come back with a plan! The imperialist nations are at pres-| of action to stop shipments of muni ent rushing through their war plans, | tions on the docks and ships. and the working class must intensify preparations are going full speed its fight against’ war. The marine} ahead to make this Anti-War Rally industry is one of the key industries|a great success. Every worker must in @ar, and the marine workers are | take a part in the fight against im- #e ones who must stop the shipments | | perialist war, by supporting this Anti- of war material. Right today ship| War Rally and thé National Conven- after ship is carrying war material to | tion. We must fight against imper-! ialist war before it breaks out! The answex of the working class, to the! war plans of the capitalists must in- clude the building of a powerful Ma- | rine Workers Industriai Union, a real, | weapon against war and for the de- | fense of the Soviet Union. Support} \the Anti-War Rally, on to the Na-j | tional Convention, July 16, 17, 18, for a strong Marine Workers Industrial Union! Go to see every subscriber when his | subscription expires to get his re-| newal. | 2 HOW WORKER CORRESPONDENTS OF | Worker Cawesbondond! The accompanying article tells how the worker correspondents in France, writing to “L’Humanite”, the Frenclr Communist paper, carry on | the struggle against imperialist war preparations and against the war of » the Soviet Union. They report on in- creased production in munition works and shipyards. They report on how | the young workers are being prepared for war. The Daily Worker also frequently receives reports from workers on war preparations. Most of these reports are on shipment of munitions. are very valuable and we want more of them. But we wish to stress the importance of receiving information from the workers in the shops where these munitions are being manufactured, and from camps and organizations where youth are being trained for war. We particularly want news from shops where peace-time production is being supplanted by war producticen, and where increased production is duc to orders of a war nature, American worker correspondents should enroll in the international army of worker correspondents who are fighting.in international solidarity against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. ried on. Rising at a height of 3,500 meters (outside of the range of gun) the airplanes using an old vessel as a target, threw down 50 bombs, ten of which struck the vessel and shat- tered it. Two such airplanes could rapidly destroy two fair-sized cities. Transport of Munitions Reported. In the port af Havre, according to the information from a Worcorr there, war materials were shipped to Pol- and (appliances manufactured? in the Schneider Creso factories) and for Rumania (aviation ports) at the end of March. Another Worcorr writing about the loading of torpedees on a A few facts, taken from only tWo is- sues of “Humanite” in April. War Production Increases During | Crisis. A worker correspondent of one me- | tallurgical factory in Paris (the name | | of the Worcorr is not given for ob- | | vious Teasons) writes that in that fac- tory “peace” production is evermore | | being displaced by production of war | materials, particularly machine-gun stands and apparatus for aiming and | correction of shooting field pieces. At | |the time when other factories suffer ‘vom the crisis, this factory received |@ war order, and extended its pro- duction two times, The big aviation factories of the | workers to struggle against the trans- Fotman Co. in Billancourt are work- | portation of war materials for Poland | and Rumania and other countries which French imperialism is arming The bourgeoisie is devoting tre- mendous a ‘ention to militarizing the youth. Sam E. Maru, a worcorr writes: “The government is carrying on intensified war preparations. In every village, brigades of gendarmes are recruiting youth at the age of 18 to 20 years for war exercises. I must say that many workers are zeal- ously learning the handling of arms, of course, not for the purpose of play- ing into the hands of the imperial- ists but in order to utilize this knowl- edge for the cause of the revolution. Getting Ready for Mobilization. A characteristic indication of the imminent war danger appears in the report of a Worcorr from a small city of the department of A-Lavora. He tells of what the mayor of the locity said: “Lately 1 often receive Not long ago, experiments were car- sealed government envelopes with the 6 ‘ ; ing day and night in connection with the imminent air maneuvers in May 1933. The factory—the Worcorr writes—is making ready for an | enormous amount of appliances for | bombing planes of the Forman sys- jfem. These airplanes can lift, six Report War Preparations! intervention being prepared against | These | transport for Poland, calls upon the | for an attack upon the Soviet Union. | _ FRANCE REPORT WAR PREPARATIONS | ‘L'Humanite’ HasCorps | | of Workers Keeping | It Informed inscription ‘to open only when mob- ilization is declared.’ I already have a considerable number * of — such | | packets.” | The worker correspondent writes uch of mobilization and militari- zation of industry, of preparing and | ransforming factories manufacturing peace articles for the manufacture of | articles for purposes of Chauvinist | war propaganda (the so-called | “moral” preparation for war, etc.) | As to the. methods used to propa- | gandize the workers, the bourgeoisie | ported by a Worcorr from Havre, a group of high army officers, colonets | and generals visited a series of mil- | itary and ship-building enterprises of Havre in the beginning of April. “The first visit”, the Worcorr writes, “was of course given to the Schneider factory. The newest cannon and other murderous instruments the gentlemen officers great joy, But | | if they expected 2 wasm. reception on ‘the part of the workers, they surely: | were disappointed. The workers look upon this visit as a provocation. When officcrs passed by one vessel, delighted with its technical perfec- | | tion, they were met with outcries, ‘Down with War” and with the sing- | ing of the International. These sol- | diers are convinced that the workers | Are not yet ripe for war and they left | with sour faces. Police Cannot Step the Worcorrs. Such kind of correspondence of the ‘Humanite” worker correspondents ; has frequently called forth fits of rage in the bourgeois press, which is wailing of “military espionage” of the worker correspondents, of state treason, etc., and demanding decisive interference on the part of the police. ‘The police frequently raids the “Humanite”, hoping to.find the lists of the worcorrs there, but without success, Regardless of police repres- sions and threats, the worker cor- respondents boldly carry on the struggle against war and interven- tion. The wailings of the bourgeois press only show that the blows of the | pens of the worker correspondents hit | the right spot. When the. imperialists make up their mind to start a new war or an attack on the Soviet Union, they will nee more convince themselves. —J. Masin. | strate against the new United States | | Ambassador, | in | the reformist leadership of the C. I.} | A. D. E., which tried at every turn to | | tionary | this small | Yeformist leaders were afraid to let | the socidl-refarminte have. leat Seeae ‘ tions,” end military training, against jingo- ;for introduction into school curricu- jlums of the history cf the working cannot boast of great success. As re- | “gave | The second congress of the Confederacion Ibero-Americano de Estudi- anets (Latin-American Students Federation), held May 7 to 14 at San Jose Costa Rica, went on record as affiliating itself with the League Against Imperialism and >» National Independence and with the World Committee for Struggle Against War; condemned the attitude of President Roosevelt and the acts of the authorities of Alabama in the Scottsboro case, and | sent a protest Gemanding the imme- | diate release of the nine innocent Negro boys; declared the support of jthe C. I. A. D. E. for the percan| .| Workers Congress to be held in New | York in September; and sent greet- | | | ings to the revolutionary students of | Mexico for their attempt to demon- | CZECHS ELECT RED MAJORITY IN WORKSHOP Revolutionary Trade Union Wins 5 Seats Out of Eight PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, June 23 Josephus Daniels, who | 1914 ordered the slaughter of | workers and peasants at Vera Cruz. | These results were achieved despite | | stifle the demands of the majorty of |the rank and file for definite, con- | | crete action against imperialism. and ji | imperialist war. Because of the terror which is being carried on in the | votes and 5 seats; Latin-American countries against the | unions 113 votes and 1 seat; yellow genuinely anti-ir.perialist and revo- |trade union, 86 votes and 1 seat; lutionary students, only four revolu- | Czech fascists 75 votes and 1 seat. students were present; yet |The Red trade unions have therefore revolutionary opposition | Wo seats more than the rest com- was able to force the adoption bt Panes sy earacites Moke Jast Seen sev i jelections, the red factory council ma- several of its demands, because the |Shtiton oy ee consolidated, while tions at the Mautner textile factor) « in Gruenewald had the following re- sults: The Red Trade Unions, 3 themselves be exposed in their trpe | role before the rank and file C. I. A D. E. membership. The countries represented in the congress were Spain, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, and one seat to the fascists. were adopted: student participation in workers’ demonstrations for eco- nomic demands, Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico and the | for economic demands, in demonsira- United States (Dora Zucker, delegate | tions for democratic rights (freedom of the National Student League). The | o¢ semblage). if dem- i EAH Ounion ip nanieaa peech, press. a Mexican branch, ‘which 3s inant | onstrations against imprisonment of in the C. I. A. D. E, leadership, 4s | yorxers for political reasons, and sup- controlled by V. Lombardo Toledano, | port of the fight for liberation of “Socialist,” director of the C. R. O.| class prisoners; students to help in M. (Mexican A. F. of L.) and out-/| the organization of workers’ schools standing demagegue. It was Tole-| and to serve as lecturers and teach- Gano who called off the revolutionary | ers of the history and science of the students’ demonstration. against | working class. - Daniels, on the ground that he) Despite the Anglo-American im- “should be given an opportunity to | perjalist wars now being carried on in show his sincerity and good inten-| South America -between Paraguay and Bolivia, and Peru and Colombia, In the congress discussion of edu- | the congress disctission of war cational reforms. the revolution }brought out many liberal and re- opposition had the support of the | sormist illusions, especially a com- delegates of Honduras, Spain and | pletely pacifist line urged by the Puerto Rico, with the result that the | Mexican delegates. The revolutionary C. I. A. D. E. adopted the following | students, nevertheless, were able to points to fight for: against religious istic propaganda, for government support of poor students and for greater governmental appropriations, for the liberation of oppressed colo- the following program for the strug- gle against war: The National Student class and its struggles. After a debate on social aciion, in which the revolutionary delegates clearly exposed the imperialist role of the reformists, the following points August 1, 1914-- August 1, 1933 UGUST FIRST will mark 19 years since the world was plunged into an imperialist slaughter. Millions were murdered in the war “to end all wars”. Millions are still today lying in the hospitals, maimed and crippled for life. Millions were left orphans and widows. And the capitalist class made fabulous profits. Today, 19 years since the beginning of the last war—a new world war is in the making. The whole capitalist world is mobilizing its forces for war. The whole capitalist. world is like.a “sinking Titanic”, each capitalist country trying to find the only possible way out from the de- vastating crisis, at the expense of his neighbor. The robber war of Jap- students against imperialism, war terror and reaction, seeks to estab- ' CIADE on this basis. (by mail) —The factory council clece/ reformist trade \ in demonstrations block a proposal to condemn all wars (which would include just warsp nial peoples) and to force adoption of League, © determined to build a united front of lish permanent relations with the & ¥ Z anese imperialism in China, the war between Bolivia and Paraguay im \ South America, are only the first omens of the drive towards a war for the redistribution of the world among the chief imperialist bandits. Roosevelt speaks peace. The capitalist press fills columns with talks of peace. The words of peace only cover up the vigorous actions for war. More battleships is the cry. Immediately a provision is made to spend $238,000,000 for a huge naval construction program in addition to nearly $600,000,000 already appropriated for the army and navy, The forced labor camps, established under the guise of unemployment relief, are in reality camps for mass military training. The war factories are working full shifts preparing the means by which to wage war. The whole Roose- velt program is a war program directed to reduce the living conditions of the workers, to slash wages, to raise the cost of living, to smash the fighting organizations of the workers. American capitalism is taking measures today through its Industrial Recovery Act to prevent the work- | ers from organizing any resistance to the vicious attacks upon their | living standards and against the war policy of the American bourgeoisie. Why these armaments? Why this frantic race of one capitalist country against another to arm themsclves to sae teeth? These are not for amusements. These are the weapons for an armed conflict which is on the immediate order of the day. Let us take the World Economic Conference. Here the spokesmen of the capitalist governments. said it would be a conference to “establish economic peace”, But the pending collapse of the World Economic Con- ference exposes the bitter conflict between the imperialist powers. In the center of these struggles, stand the Anglo-American rivalry. These countries faced with shrinking inner markets and a curtailment of world trade, are trying to grab a larger share of the restricted world trade at the expense of the other. The struggle over tariffs, over the depreciation of the dollar—are the struggles over the weapons in conducting this eco- nomic war. The bitter economic warfare between the imperialist powers is only the prelude to the armed warfare for the redistribution of the | world which is drawing closer and closer.. | Just as in 1914 the bitter strife between England and Germany for | markets culminated in a war which embroiled the entire capitalist wort! —so the struggle today betwae England and America, the conflict be- tween Amorica and Japan over mastery of the Pacific, the clash between France and Germany—place war on tig order of the day. * * * INDERLYING the struggle between the imperialist powers, is the eager hope of capitalism to at least temporarily postpone the violent solution of their inner conflicts at the expense of the Soviet Union. The gigantic successes of socialist construction in the U.S.S.R., the successful carry- ing out of the Five-Year Plan, fhe abolition of unemployment, the con- stant improvement in the economic and cultural life of the workers, is a direct contrast to the anarchy and chaos of capitalism. Capitalism sees in the growing strength and expansion of the Soviet Union, the advance of the world revolution and its own inevitable destruction. At the World Economic Conference, German fascism which is brutally beate ing down the rising revolutionary struggles of the masses, made a bid to “demolish” the Soviet Union. Only the firm and determined peace policy of the Soyiet Union, only the vigilance of millions of toilers throughout the world and the strength of the heroic Red Army have thus far pre vented capitalism from realizing in practice its active preparations for, war against the Soviet Union. The workers must not be deluded by the capitalist talks of peace. ‘The drive towards war is moving ahead rapidly. Only the united sistance of all toilers—Negro and white, organized and unorganized, and can defeat these war maneuvers. “i ‘On August first, throughout the entire world, workers will mass in demonstrations againsi the imminent world slaughter and for the de- | fase of the Sovict Union—the fortress of world socialism. ‘The American , workers. must join hands with the international proletariat in a world protest against the danger of war, against, the Roosevelt, hunger and | war drive and for the defense of the Soviet Union. . ) Se