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

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Demand on August first that all war funds be used for unemployment insurance. iF some maniac were to rage through the cotton fields setting fire to the crops, he would be tracked down with blood hounds and placed in a straight jacket as a menace ¢o society But from the White House comes the order that if the Southern planters wish to get a subsidy from the Government they must guarantee to destroy absolutely one third of their present cotton crop. But why is this cotton being destroyed? Is there no one who can use it? This cannot be the reason, for there are millions of workers and their children who are clothed in shoddy, who possess only the shabbiest rags. HE capitalist Roosevelt government destroys cotton Fecause of the in- credible capitalist absurdity of “overproduction Overproduction—when the working class lives in wreichedness and poverty! Capitalism is strangling with the giut of “too much” goods. And therefore, the Roosevelt Farm Administration Board has just isued an order that all cotton marked off for destruction under the provisions of the Farm Act must be destroyed “completely With the destructive passion of vandals, Roosevelt's Farm adminis- | tors take pains to emphasize it—“completely Thus, the workers will be treated to the spectacle of an army Government inspectors swarming like locusts over destroying. But the destructive fury of Roosevelt's agents is not unmixed with generosity. In certain very special cases the Government inspectors will permit the farmers to use some of their cotton stalks for fodder. only in very special cases. burned, or ploughed under. Such is the criminal ment gues criminal destruction, calmly and systematically carried out by the most “civilized” capitalist country in the world is the inevitable result of the capitalist mode ef production. What makes such insane des- truction perfectly “legal and reasonable.” It is because the enormous social means of production are the private property of a small capitalist ruling class, under whose domination the country’s industries are run, not for the benefit of the masses, but for the profits of the few. And this capitalist domination is protected by the capitalist State, by the Roosevelt government. wat a contrast to this deliberate destruction of capitalism is the giant growth of the productive forces of the Soviet Union. In the Soviet Union the workers run the factories and farms for themselves. There, the whole country is united in the most colossal expansion of the productive forces that history has ever known. Let us build ever more houses, let us grow ever more food, let us create ever more goods for the welfare of the people! Let every worker and his family share in the enormous wealth created by the wizardy of modern machinery! Such is the cry of the workers who rule themselves in the Soviet Union. By destroying capitalism and the private ownership of the means of production, the workers in the Soviet Union have destroyed the capitalist lunacy of “overproduction.”The more they produce, the more the whole toiling population consumes. Thus they have abolished unemployment and crises, and production leaps forward with unparalled speed. But in the United States, capitalism has brought to the workers exactly the conditions described by Engels, co-worker of Kar] Marx: “On the one side immeastitable wealth and a surplus of goods which the purchasers cannot get. On the other, the great mass of society proletarianised, turned into wage-workers, and on just that account of the cotton fields— By far the greatest part of the cotton must be insanity of the capitalist Roosevelt govern- incapable of taking pessession of the surplus of products. The division | f society into a small over-rich property class, and » large, proprety- less working class, causes this society to suffocate in its own surplus, | while the great mass of its members scarcely, if not at all, protected But | from extreme want. “Such a condition of things becomes daily more absurd amd unneces- sary. It can be abolished; it must be abolished.” How can it be abolished? Our Lenin, gave us the answer. The workers of America must follow the road taken by the workers of the Soviet Union, the road of Proletarian Revolution. The working class of the United States must get control of the factories, of all the means of production, by the forcible seizure of the Political power of the State. The establishing of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat—this alone can put an end to the criminal destri great teachers, Marx, Engels, and uction of capitalism. BALKAN WORKERS SENT 10 DEATH IN MASS TRIALS Prisons Jammed With| Workers and | Peasants BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 27—| An appeal to workers the world over, to help the struggle against intensi- fied white terror in the Balkans, has! been issued over the signatures of the | International Labor Defense sections of Greece, Rumania, Bulgaria, and ‘Yugoslavia. “In the Balkan countries, the pris-| ons are jammed with political pris- oners,” the appeal states. “Every day there are political interrogations which indicate the preparation of mew mass trials such as the mon- strous trial of 120 railway workers at} Bucharest | “Mass trials of rebellious peasants | occur almost daily in Croatia, and| sentences of death and of 18 to 20 years imprisonment passes. Many death sentences have followed brutal persecution of militant workers and peasants in Macedonia, and among other oppressed peoples in the Bal- kans. | “A dozen death sentences were pass- ed in two months in Bulgaria, be- sides the unknown number of mur- ders which have occurred, especially during the two days’ state of siege, June 25 and 26. “The persecutions against support- ers of the anti-war movement and/ the cruel sentences against soldiers are indisputable proof of the fever- ish preparations for a new imperial- ist war, a war against the Soviet Union, “We call upon all toilers for mass protest under the banner of the In- ternational Red Aid against the wave of terror in the Balkans. In the great internationa! siruggle against | fascism and white ‘or the follow- ing demands must be raised; “Release for all prisoners held since the recent macs arrests in Bulgaria and other Balkan countries, and all political prisoners in the Balkans. “Release Dmitrov, Popov, Tanev, ‘Torgler, and Thaelmann, and all oth- er political prisoners ( ( LEAGUE CHACO | MEDIATION TO BE WITHDRAWN Bolivia Refuses te Send Delegate to Parley BUENOS AIRES, July 26.—Nego- | tiations in the Chaco dispute over) which Bolivia and Paraguay are at war are to be withdrawn from the League of Nations and resubmitted to the ABCP (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru). This is the result of the | activity of Bolivia, backed by Brazil, in refusing to appoint a delegate to the investigation commission which is coming to Chaco without Bolivia's consent. Bolivia; in its deciaration of war on Paraguay, is backed by United States imperialism, while Paraguay is backed by Britain. In that area the Anglo-American antagonisms have broken out into open warfare. Around this struggle over the Chaco region are taking place alignments of other South and Central American repub- lics on one side or the other. The Bolivian foreign office, work- ing closely with United States imper- jalism, made the first assault upon the League of Nations commission that is coming to “investigate” the war. From La Paz, the Bolivian for- eign minister sounded out the ABCP powers ten days ago and suggested that the “dispute be kept in South America” by resubmitting it to those powers. Brazil immediately came out in favor for the proposal. But Argentina and Chile accepted it quite coldly. However, they are placed in such a position that if they refuse the opposition forces in their own countries, backed by United States imperialism, will raise the cry that these governments are in favor of placing the destinies of South Amer- ica in the hands of European diplo- mats. Thus Brazil was able to se- cure a leading role in the new ma- neuver As a final gesture to retain some authority in that part of the world) it is reported that the League of Na-| tions officials at Geneva, after they recovere§ from their consternation at the turn of events, proposed that the four South American countries, in handling the dispute, act for the jing to use them as scabs against the | tality and deportation. Alarmed by | | this unity, the Chinese bourgeoisie MAKE AUG.1 CALL IN LABOR CAMPS Many Cities Prepare | for Demonstration Against War MINNEAPOLIS, July 27. — The| | Youth Committee of the Minneapolis Councils is widely circulating a four |page paper, the C. C. C. (Civilian | Conservation Camp) Foresters’ Voice. | | The current number has for its lead- | jing article a call to the workers in| |the camps to demonstrate Aug. 1/ against ware | Calling attention to the military | character of the C. C. C., the For- | esters’ Voice reports on American | | war preparations, and shows that most of the work which the 300,000 workers in the forced labor camps | are doing for a dollar a day is work | | connected with war preparations. BALTIMORE, July 27.—Two pre- liminary Aug. 1 demonstrations, one at 3rd and Eastern Ave., in the heart of the steel district, and one at Chase and Eden Sts., in the heart of |the Negro section, will turn into parades which will wind up on the | waterfront at Broadway and Thames St. at 7.30 p.*m. A special Aug. Ist demonstration will be held in the morning in front of Longshoremen’s Hall, at Locust Point. . Thousands of stickers announcing the demonstration have been passed | around Highlandtown, the mill sec- | tion, and inside the Sparrow Point | mills, Pees ie Pe} DENVER, Colo. July 27.—Called | by the United Front Anti-War Com- mittee and the Unemployed Councils, the workers of Denver will’demon- strate against war in front of the State Capitol on Aug. i, at 2 p. m. de RCE Ne JOHNSTOWN, Pa., July 27.—With the ‘Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union, which gained 100 new members at a meeting last week, in the forefront, the workers of Johns- town will demonstrate against war ‘SitdeT,.afiStee on August 1 at Second and Mc- Canaughy Sts. Chinese Join Natives in Philippine Struggles ILOILO, P. I, July 27.—After a four-day strike, 130 Philippino taxi- cab drivers won an increase in wag- es. When they returned to work, however, the employers refused to pay the promised increase. They struck again, this time join- ed by many others who had not | struck before. Inspired by this ac- tion, 350 tobacco workers went out against a wage cut. The Chinese workers of the Island |of Cebu, who have hitherto been used by the bosses to play off against the Philippino workers, fo- menting race hatreds and attempt- native workers, have joined the Visayan Federation of Labor, a revo- lutionary union, and pledged them- selves to struggle side by side with the Philippinos, despite the fact) that they face special police bru- raised a fund of 1,000 pesos to hire scabs and police, but the Chinese workers are nevertheless standing solid with the Philippinos. German Ship Business Shrinks Under Boycott ard U. S. Trade War BERLIN, July 27.—German ship- ping business is falling off at an! alarming rate, both because of the international anti-Nazi boycott and because of the competition of Ameri- can lines, made possible by the de- preciation of the dollar, Nazis Tor (Editor's Note:—This is the last of a physician now a refugee in France, tortured by the Nazis in Berlin.) . . * (The author of this recital, a physician in the public hospitals of Berlin, and a resident of Ger- many since 1920, though Bulgarian by birth, was arrested by Storm Troopers on March 6, ‘suspected of being a Jew, sympathetic to the Soviet Union, and espionage. He was taken with his wife to a Mazi barracks. In this account of his experiences, of which this is the last instalment, he describes the tortures inflicted on him and upon his fellow-prisoners by Hitler's Storm Troops.) 7 A young man was pushed violently into the room. “Here's that dirty Jew Loewen- berg!” someone cried. They began to beat him terribly. “Why are you here?” “I was a member of the Reichs- banner.” (A republican organization). “Get on your backside, quick! What did you do in your banner?” “I wWas just a member.” A whip licked at his flesh in rapid blows. You might at least get up 8 when you're questioned. Sit down! Stand up!” He sat down and rose again at the command a dozen times. “We're going to teach your ‘Ban- League. ner’ what military life ts. IT oan see t NAZIS: ENTOMB THOUSANDS FOR LIFE IN CAMPS Concentration Camps to Be Permanent Prisons BERLIN, July 27. — The prison camps of Germany, in which thous- ands of revolutionary workers, So- cialists, and liberals are herded un- der conditions of starvation and ter- ror are to be a permanent institu- tion of German fascism, Immense permanent buildings of concrete are being built to replace the temporary barracks of the many camps which were hastily establish- ed by Adolf Hitler when he came to power, despite the acute condition ‘of the national budget. The thousands of inmates, who have never been tried, will be kept there indefinitely, without being *'- lowed even to communicate with their relatives, who almost never know what has happened to them. With fascist cynicism these im- mense prisons are to be called “Nazi Colleges,” and are referred to by the Nazis as “educational institutions to teach the new national religion.” Although the ordinary quarters are almost unliveable, ezeh camp is equipped with special torture celis where all prisoners who offer any re- sistance to their fate are locked up. The food is so scanty that all the prisoners live on the verge of starva- tion. “Maybe being sparing of food contributes to the eycellent state of health in the camp,” was the com- ment of Deputy Commander Lippert, Fiendish “Are you scared, you Jew?” What, is your oceypation?”” ‘ “I'm unemployed,’ a tailor by trade.” “What? A Jewish tailor? Can that be true?” “Of course.” “Don’t you Mnderstand yet that you have to salute when you answer?” ‘They gave him a torn coat to show that he could sew. He mended it, but every time he finished it, they tore what he had done apart and made him start all over again: eo 8 'e A new group of prisoners arrived, from Coepenick. They were all beaten. After midnight, several men came to drag me to the interrogation chamber. There I found my wife, pale as a ghost. She whispered to me in her mother-tongue: “I can't stand it any longer. I'm going to throw myself out of the window. It’s too much for me. They are going to accuse you of being a Cheka spy, so as to murder you!” “Don’t be silly! Control yourself!” ‘This dialogue infuriated the Nazi ture Men and Women in Blood-Spattered Room Children Pay Tribute to Harry Potamkin, Revolutionary Writer NEW YORK, July 27.—A tribute of workers’ children to Harty Alan Potamkin, revolutionary poet: and critic who died last week, is con- tained in a resolution by the chil- dren of Camp Wo-Chi-Ca, Wing- dale, N. Y. The resolution follows: “We, the children of Cap Wo- Chi-Ca, have read the news of Harry Alan Potamkin’s death in the Daily Worker, and at the loss of our dear comrade and friend we wish to express the deep feel- ing of grief that rests within us. “We have read, played, drama- tized and sung his works, which have been, are, and will always be weapons with which to combat the capitalist class. “We have chosen Harry Alan Potamkin as the name of one of our squads in honor of this prole- tarian author, critic and fighter! “We, the workers’ children of Camp Wo-Chi-Ca, stand ‘Always Ready’ to fight against the sys- tem that has deprived us of our beloved comrade. We further pledge that out of our ranks shall rise a second, a third, an innu- merable amount of Harry Alan Potamkins.” Treland Strikes Back at British Import Bar DUBLIN, July 27.—In retaliation against the British resirictiors on the importation of pigs and pig products from the Irish Free State, the De Valera government has given the Irish Minister of Agricul- ture wide powers to control exports to any country which restricts im- NAZI KILLERS GET 3 MONTHS Minimum Sentence for Murder of Two KONSTANZ, Germany, July 27.— Four Nazi youths who killed Alfred Rotter and his wife, Gerirude, while attempting to kidnap Rotter and his | brother Friz, Jewish theatrical pro- | ducers, were let go with sentences of three months, A fifth was acquitted. Muto, Japanese War Lord and Dictator in Manchukuo, Dies | TOKIO, July 27.—Field Marshal | |Nobuyoshi Muto, Japanese war |lord, and chief dictator of Japanese imperialist policy in the Manchu- Imo government, died at Chang-| chun, Manchuria, today following a | sudden attack of jaundice. Muto, who was 63, had been an active war lord directing the wars for colonial plunder in China and Korea. After the seizure of Man- churia he was sent there to act as the supreme representative of Jap- anese imperialism. He set up a pup- pet Manchukuo government, but he was the virtual ruler. He had been an officer in the Japanese army for 40 years. At one time he was gov- ernor of the Formosa garrison where he slaughtered rebeliious natives. ports from Ireland. foreign market that Ireland has for |Call Workers to Raise | utive Committee of the International | drive in anti-Fascist week, and to }nounced to take place July 26, but | was postponed. Exports to England is the only | ANTI-FASCIST- WEEK PUSHED BY WIR, LD. Funds, Defend Communists NEW YORK, July 27—The Exec- Red Aid, parent organization of the International Labor Defense, and the International Central Commit- tee of the Workers International Re- lief, have issued appeals to all work- ers to support the American Anti- Fascist week. This week of Protest, Defense, and Relief of Victims of GeGrman Fas- cism will be from July 31 to Au- gust 7 in New York, and from Au- gust 7 to 14 throughout the nation. The W.LR. was instrumental in organizing the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, and the LL.D. is taking an espe- clally active part throughout the country in the anti-Fascist Week. “The last document written by Clara Zetkin, one of the founders of the W.IR., before her death, was a rousing appeal to all workers and their organizations to save Thacl- mann, Torgler, and the other im- prisoned Communists, and to aid all victims of German Fascism,” the W.IR. appeal said. “No better mem- orial can be erected in her name than a deep-going mass movement to free these prisoners, to help the German workers defeat Hitler and his Nazi murderers, to aid the thou- sands of their victims.” * * * Socialists Join Anti-Fascist Front MINNEAPOLIS, July 27—In prep~ aration for National Anti-Fascist Week, August 7 to 14, 27 Organiza- tions sent delegates to a United Front Anti-Fascist conference. For the first time the Socialist Party was officially represented in a unit- ed front conference. Farmer-Labor, A. F. of L. and Socialist organiza- tions, including the Y.P.S.L. and the LID. were represented. The conference decided to make a big organize a mass demonstration when Thaelmann, Torgler, and the other Communist leaders go on trial in Germany. Two German Fascists who tried to disrupt the conference were thrown out. CAMDEN, N. J., July 27.—The Anti-Fascist Committee of Camden will hold a mass. meeting at Fourth and Chestnut Sts., on August 2, 8 pm. This meeting was first an- Einstein, Nazi Victim, Cheered in Commons LONDON, July 27—When a bill to allow German Jewish refugees from the Nazi terror to obiain Brit- ish citizenship in Palestine was of- fered in the Hous? of Comimons, Al- bert Einstein, who was in the gal- lery, was given a tribute while the its farm products, and the: British quota regulations have been a severe blow to Ireland. Hitler regime was scathingly attacked by Commander Oliver Locker- Lampson. three instalments of the narrative a! Wife of Physician Near Suicide in Fascist Horror Chamber — Imagination Inspires Attempts to Extort “Confession” in charge of the interrogation. He was so tired he could scarcely stand. They took my wife away. ‘The wall-paper in this room was covered with splashes of fresh blood. A little table. in a corner was com- pletely covered with | blood. “Will you speak, or won't you, doc- tor?” the Nazi asked. “If you don’t, you see what will happen to you,” he said, pointing to the bloody splashes. “Your wife has confessed every- thing,” he added. “I have told you everything there is to tell. I am a member of the Association of Social Medicine, and of the physician’s union, two organ- izations without any party ties.” While I spoke, the Nazi almost dropped to sleep, his fatigue depriv- ing him of whatever efforts of thought he was capable. He was in no state to continue the examination. He rose and left. Once more I was taken back to the torture-chamber. ant nate At eleven o'clock that night, five men came into the room, bringing my wife ang another woman pris- oner. Two of these men were in me with clenched fists. “Faker! I'll make you confess!” {he cried. “It is a quarter after eleven. You have until midnight, three quar- ters of an hour, to think. After all, you want to live, don’t you?” The other four men left. “Well, will you talk?” he cried. He raised a chair over ‘my head as though to brain me. He leaned over me. His breath siank with liquor. “Do you think, you bastard, that the grandeur of Germany can be frustrated by you, you poor corpse? We'll be throwing you irito the street in a little while!” He took out his revolver. “Three shots,” he shouted. “One into the forehead, one in the mouth, and one in the belly! Finished! And_| out into the gutter!” T Jay silent, without moving. “You have only to answer!” He grew more and more excited. “Do you know who is talking to you? It’s I, army commissioner and govern- window, head down. A few minutes more and I'll leave the room, and it will be too lale. Confess! What is the Cheka doing? What is the G.P.U. doing? Confess!” I lay motionless. He gave me a kick in the belly, and’ I lost concci- ousness. . I don’t know how long I remained unconscious. When I came to, I saw in the room the uniformed physicia. and another man. They gave me injections in the left arm. I remember also my wife's cries: “He's dying! He's been murdered!” She touched me. “Do you know me? Do you know who this is? It's me, your, (she called me by my pet name).’ She rubbed my hands. In the Buried As It Fails to Overcome Crisis Fight for Markets Between U. S.-Britain Wrecks Attempted Currency Stabilization LONDON, July 27.—The World Economic Conference, so joyfully hailed | by the Roosevelt government and the new era of “international co-operation” and world prosperity, crumpled te pieces today, dying » ludicrous and shameful death. The Conference adjourned indefi -@ even decide a date for reconvening. capitalist press, as the dawning of a nitely, unable, in its helplessness, te No one knows, or cares, when it will meet again. And it is no secret. that all the delegates agree with the state- ment just issued by Mussolini ex- pressing the belief that from now on it will be impossible for the capital- ist nations of the world to cver meet again in world conference. The con- ference is, thus, to all intents and purposes, wholly dead. Fight for Markets The conference was a meeting of the leading imperialist countries ep- gaged in a bitter and ruthless strug- gle for markets. In particular, the conference was the battle ground of Britain and the United States, each seeking to gain commercial advan- tage through a favorable settlement of the ratio between the dollar and the pound. But the rock upon which the con- ference was doomed to be wrecked was the irreconcilable contradictions between the two leading antagon- ists, Britain and America, At the very moment that the Con- ference was meeting, the capitalist countries were feverishly raising their tariff walls against one an- other, in the efforts to preserve their markets from foreign competition. During the most eloquent expres- sions of co-operation, Britain was arranging for special trade treaties with South American and European countries against the United States. And throughout the conference, ‘the dollar was plunging downward as American plunged deeper into the currency was' for commercial advan- tages. While the imperialists were discussing “co-operation” they were at one another's throats, The break-up of the Conference thus heralds even fiercer struggles among the imperialist countries than habe yet been witnessed, conflicts which will inevitably intensify the world economic crisis, and which tend with greater speed towards world war. Capitalist Politicians Predict War It will be remembered that Roose- velt and the other leading repre- sentatives of Britain, and France proclaimed that the failure of the World Conference would mean eco- nomic disaster. Some of the most influential politicians of France and Italy before the Conference met, openly stated that the failure of the Conference to come to some agree- ment regarding price levels and the partitioning of the world market, would inevitably intensify the danger of another world imperialist war. To- day these capitalist statesmen are silent. Roosevelt Sends Hypocritical Mes- sage As fitting gown to the absurdity of the whole procedure, the Confer- ence was treated to the reading of a last-minute message from Presid- ent Roosevelt congratulating Mac- Donald for his “guidance” of the Conference, and comforting the de- legates upon their failure. Roose velt said that “Results are not of- ten measured concretely.” In the light of Roosevelt's whole series of twistine maneuvers, yegin- ning mn Mis statement that the Con- ference had the already essential task of stabilizing international ecur- rency, down to his last statement, bidding permenent farewell to the gold’ standasd, the delegates seceived his message with extreme coldness. In reality, Roosevelt's message to the Conference is nothing more tnan an extremely lame attempt to hide fro mthe workers the failure of the Conference, from which he promised such glowing results, the enn of the crisis. Soviet Delegate Talks ‘The most accurate evaluation of the Conference was mane by one of the’ Soviet nelegates to the Confer- enie, Jean Maisky, who said, “The results of the Conferenie are some- thing like zero. Its cherished off- _ spring, corrency stabilization, rising prices, lowering tariffs, and develop- ing public works, have been placed in cold storage. : : The only lesson of the Conference is that contradictions of the caplit- alist system have grown so great that they no longer permit even external reconciliation among the imperialist powers” — room, I could see Dr, Kramer, the de- tachment physician. I regained full consciousness in an ambulance which took me to the prison section of the state hospital. I lay in bed four days and four nights. My skull was swollen and covered with scabs. The fourth day, a man in civilian clothes but with Nazi insignia, came in. He told me that I was acquitted, and that there were no more charges against me. He regretted that he had not learned ment agent. Confess, you son of a bitch!” I did not move my lips. “A few minutes more, and IH hang. you, there, to the ber of the 4 sooper of my case. He had made a casefl investigation and had learn- ed all about me. It was a misun- derstanding! Boston to Hold Mass Memorial Tonight for Zetkin, Gussev, Stokes BOSTON, July 27.—A mass mem- orial meeting for Olara Zetkin, 8. Gussev and Rose Pastor Stokes will be held at the Dudley Opera House, 113 Dudiéy Street at 8 p. m. tomorrow. Speakers will be John J, Ballam and Eva Hoffman. ‘ ‘The meeting, in the preparations for which the United Councils of Rekpeed Class tr have haged very ive, is under the ausploes: the Commemtst Party :