The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1933, Page 6

a i Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1933 “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 10984 Published dedty, exvept Sunday, by the Comprodaiiy Pubitehing Go., Ine., 80 Kast 13th Street, New York, X. Telephone: ALgonquin 47955. Dable Address: “Datwork,” New York, N. % Nashington Bureau: Room 94, Nations! 14th and G. St., Washington, D.C. Subscription Rates? Press Busting, Ry Mail: (exeept Manhattan and Bronx}, t year, $8.00 6 months, $3.90; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 78 conte. Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canaéa: 1 year, $9.00; 8 months, $5.00; $ months 3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 eents; monthly, 78 cents TUESDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 14, 1933 The Farmers Must Fight On| IXCEPT for announcements of “violence,” the capitalist press has grown suddenly silent on the latest developments in the Western Farm strike. sporadic But this silence of the capitalist press by no means ean be taken to mean that the struggles of the farm- ers have ended It is true that the arch misleader of the farmers, Milo Reno, stands convicted again of having betrayed the farmers, by his policy of sending the farmers into the strike without the slightest degree of preliminary preparation, and by his policy of discouraging and sabotaging all organized farm picketing. It is true that because of this treachery of their misleaders, fused and do not know which way to turn. But, in many instances, the picket lines are or~ ganizing their own leadership, and the leadership of the United Farm League is steadily growing, a leader- | ship which is fighting militantly and earnestly in defense of the farmers’ interests, The roads are still closed. One thing is certain, that Roosevelt’s. farm pro~ gram as presented by Wallace at Des Moines will not lift the intolerable burdens from the ruined farmers’ back one bit If they are to win agamet the oppression of the fall Street. monopolies, if they are to stop the fore~ closure of their farms, and the destruction of their crops, the farm fight must go on. ‘T IS this which makes the coming Farm Conference Chicago of such overwhelming importance to the fighting farmers. At this Conference, to meet on November 15-18, over 600 delegates from 40 States will gather to ham- vher out a fighting program. It will hammer out a United Front platform upon which ali Sgricultural wovkers, small and ruined farmers can unite. teno asks for inflation. The Conference will de-~ mend CANCELLATION OF MORTGAGE DEBTS, not inflation! Tt will show that inflation means deeper ruin for the farmer. Reno asks for an N.R.A. code for agriculture. The Conference will show that this will mean even worse imnoyer'shment for the farmers. The question of the leadership of the farm strug- gies is of greater importance than ever. The militant groups of the Chicago Farm Confer- enco, the United Farm League, the Farm Commit- tees of Action, and all the ‘members of the various farm organizations, must unite on a fighting platform of rank and file leadership, militant mass, organized picketing, and unity with the city workers. This unity can beat the Wall Street monopolies. U.S. Plays a Crafty Role MERICAN imperialism is playing a crafty the complicated developments of the Far East. The United States imperialists, who are sinking their roots deep into the control of the Nanking gov- ermment of Chiang Kai-shek, look with hatred and fear at the advancing power and influence of Japanese imperialism in Manchuria and southward toward Nanking, Japanese and American imperialism face one an- other as deadly antagonists in the imperialist struggle for mastery of the rich loot of China, for the oppor- tunity to wring enormous profits out of the oppressed | millions of China. That explains the peculiarly provocative, inciting note of the leading article dated from Washington, D. C., that appeared in this Sunday’s New York Times regarding the possibilities of war between Japan and the Soviet Union The Times article lists five reasons for the “mili- tary inferiority” of the Soviet Union, and points out ' to the Japanese that during every hour of delay, the Soviet Union is getting stronger. States the Times: “...it has long regarded Russia as the enemy it must ultimately fight, and now appears to be the time, it is said, particularly before the Russian air- _ plane development becomes a factor that can destroy _ the flimsily built Japanese cities...” -» This leading article is a characteristic example of Roosevelt's imperialist strategy of inciting Japan- _ ‘ese imperialism to attack the Soviet Union as soon as possible. _ American imperialism, acting through the Roose- yelt government, is thus striving fo kill two birds with one stone. By provoking Japanese imperialism into a war with the Soviet Union, American imperialism _ hopes to see its Japanese rival beaten in a war, or ‘at least terrible weakened, and distracted from the flefense of its possessions in Manchuria and China, thus giving Wall Street full scope for expansion. - And at the same time, American-Wall Street im- perialism will be delighted to see the Socialist power ‘of the Soviet Union forced to defend itself against _ capitalist intervention. Thus the extremely aggressive and belligerent imperialism dangles before Japan the bait ff easy victory against the Soviet Union, warning it ‘subtly that delay means disaster. It is in the light of this strategy that the recent ion of Secretary of the Navy Swanson ordering Pacific Fleet around Hawaii to retire to the At- ic takes on sinister meaning. It is the presence on U. S. Fleet near Hawaii that makes the Jap- anese fearful of leaving Their back door open when ter attack the Soviet Union. Roosevelt's latest order is part of the strategy of provoking the Japanese to at- q “tack! At the present moment that is the center of | American imperialist policy In the Far East. %, . « “MAY surprise some that American imperialism should be arousing and provoking Japan to inter- jan against the Soviet Union at the same moment the farm pickets in some cases are con- | role in that Roosevelt Litvinoff. But in these two actions there is no contradic- tion. For as much as American imperialism hates its imperialist Japanese rivals and plots to defeat it, it hates and fears the Socialist system of the Soviet Union still more, particularly at the present time when the Socialist triumphs of the Soviet Union are such a vivid contrast to the devastating and intensifying crisis in the capitalist world. It must be insisted again and again that the ad- vancing strength of the Soviet Union, due to its eco- nomic triumphs and the building of Socialism, which forces the capitalist countries to barter for its trade and to sign non-aggression pacts with it, does not in the least diminish the danger of imperialist inter- vention. is discussing Soviet recognition with On the contrary, the sharpening of the imperialist { antagonisms among the great capitalist powers, inten- sifies the dangers of intervention against the Soviet Union! For, at the back of all the devious imperialist plotting and manoceuvering is the dominant thought that perhaps they can settle their differences by uniting against the Soviet Union, their common hated enemy! And much as they strive to assas- sinate one another, as America is now doing with Japanese imperialism, they still strive for a common solution at the expense of the Socialist Soviet Union. ‘The Hugenberg Memorandum made public by Hit- ler’s envoy to the June London Economic Conference, in which Hitler calls upon the imperialist powers of Europe to unite for the military conquering and re- division of the Soviet Union, is a typical example of this stirring of the imperialists to settle their differ- ences temporarily at the expense of the Soviet Union. And one needs no better proot that American imperialism, with Roosevelt at the head, is fully pre- pared to play an active part in the coming im- perialist world slaughter, than the incessant war preparations, the huge military and naval expendi- tures, and the definitely war-like speeches of Dern, Secretary of War, which we printed in yesterday's Daily Worker. IS the task of the American working ciass to ex- pose the purpose of these manoeuvers of American imperialism to their fellow workers, to show that Roosevelt is preparing to hurl the American workers into war, just as the Japanese rulers are sending the Japanese workers on to the battlefields, to increase and protect the profits of the Wall Street finance masters. We must show that the Soviet Union is the fatherland of the working class of the world, to be defended to the death by the workers everywhere. We must make it clear that the capitalist enemies of the workers in this country, as in all capitalist countries, are trying to increase their strength at the expense of the Soviet Union, the better to drive down the workers at home! Against imperialist war! Defend the Soviet Union! Las A New Smoke Screen A sharp attack on all flanks has been launched in the past week against the militant Needle Trades ‘Workers’ Industrial Union. The bosses, the A. F. of L. officials, with its socialist leadership, and the capitalist government, are jointly conspiring to annihilate the Industrial Union. The fur department, the strongest section of the union, is being made the main target | of their blows. Twenty-eight leaders and active rank and file members of the Needle Trades Union, including Ben Gold, Louis Hyman, I. Potash, A. Winogradsky and J. Schneider, have been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury on frame-up charges of “restraint of trade and terrorism.” As a smoke screen for this effort to crush the In- dustrial Union, the Grand Jury belatedly raises the issue of racketeering, indicting also real racketeers and criminals, the 78 fur firms, members of two fur em- ployers’ trade associations and several A. F. of L. fur union officials. It is significant that the indictment against the Teal racketeers came about as a result of the initiative of the Industrial Union, which, as far back as last August, produced evidence of a series of atrocities against the fur workers which had been perpetrated by the fur bosses and the A. F. of L. fur union offictals. The union demanded action against the bloody terror. + Among the many outrages which the socialist leaders of the A. F. of L. fur union and the bosses jointly had executed, were the bombing and murder of Morris Langer, organizer of the fur dyers and dressers, and the gangster attack on the headquarters of the union, aimed at killing the leaders of the union and resulting in the murder of a fur worker and the wounding of many others. For months the local and federal gov- ernment agencies were silent until last week, when the indictment handed down included those who had been victimized by the gangsters and racketeers, as well as those guilty of perpetrating the crimes. e. # HY has this Federal indictment been issued against the Industrial Union? Why also at this time does the A. F. of L. fur union desperately seek to get an injunction against the Needle Trades Union to deprive the majority of the fur workers in the city of jobs in. Associated fur shops, while vainly attempting to force the A. F. of L. workers into their company union. Behind the Federal indictment and the injune- tion move, is the alliance of the bosses, the A. F. of L. fur union officials, and their socialist and Love- stoneite friends to strike a fatal blow against the In- dustrial Union, to finally smash the heroic resistance of the fur workers and pave the way for lowering the workers’ standards. The Industrial Union is a thorn in the side of the bosses. It alone has exposed every treacherous manoeuvre to destroy the living standard of the fur workers and has fought to a finish for improving the conditions of the workers. It has fearlessly exposed the Blue Eagle as an instrument directed mainly against the fur workers’ conditions and against their fighting union. By indicting the Industrial Union leaders, the government hopes to weaken the case against the racketeers, and divert attention from the main issue of jailing the criminal elements responsible for murderous crimes against the working class. ‘The fur workers have met the bosses in battle be- fore and have come out victorious. Today 75 per cent of the shops controlled by the Associated Fur Manu- facturers, who led this attack, recognize the Indus- trial Union in fact. The masses of fur workers are members of the Industrial Union and nowhere else can the bosses get the workers whose toil assures their profits. The solidarity of the fur workers and their loyal support to their union is to be tested in the coming counter-offensive which the union must organize to effectively defeat the latest attacks. On Thursday, thousands of needle trades workers should turn out to ST. NICHOLAS ARENA to mobilize their strength to smash the frame-up and establish the right of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union to exist. ‘Ov er Thr ee Milli on | | THE GOVERNMENT’S OFFER! German Votes Show Opposition to Nazis |Nazis War Policies En- | dorsed in Terror-Con- ducted Elections BERLIN, Nov. i 13.—Despite the} widespread intimidation and terror} under which anyone who did not vote “Yes” knew he was jeopardizing | his safety, if not his very life, 3,352,289 tive” ballots. A negative vote on this ballot was impossible, since there | was only the Nazi ticket. jthe voters on whether they sup- ported the Reich’s withdrawal from | |e definite “No” 790,000 turned in ballots which were reported as defective, to vote despite threats of Nazi re-| 618,147 in “support” of the govern-| ment, a vote the validity of which } can best be judged when it is known | | that the people were under strict or- | ders to vote, and that members of | Nazi groups, Storm Troopers, etc., were on duty throughout the day “rounding up” every eligible voter. | The meaningless of this vote, as| far as the true sentiments of the | German 3973 concerned, can| 2 judged i: 2 clever and dis- torted manner in which the question | was put. While the Fascist govern- ment played upon the hatred of the German masses against the Versailles Treaty in formulating the question, their real purpose—that of preparing for a new war—was cleverly con- cealed from the masses of voters. The Nazis mean in this way to ob-| tain the semblance of popular sanc- | tion for their war aims. | The question appeared to ask merely for the approval of the Reich’s withdrawal from the League of Nations and the disarmament con- ference, but it was so formulated as |to include sanction of the Nazi gov- jernment’s war plans, 302 Polish Farmers. in Mass Trials for Resisting i¢ Eviction ITerms Equal to Death! Asked by Fascist | | Prosecution | { CRACOW, Poland-Fascist Poland | |is demanding maximum sentences of |imprisonment in . torture-chambers equivalent to death for 302 Polish |peasants in three mass trials, while | |similar trials are being prepared for |thousands more. The charges are—| | resisting evictions, sales of goods for} taxes, and outright landlord robberies. | The largest group of peasants is on trial at Ternoff, where the prosecutor jis demanding the severest penalties | against 141; in Cracow, 105; in Rutch, | 40, and in Lapanoff, 16, are on trial. | These trials are intended to be exem- |plary, to intimidate the peasants and | check their struggles, While the trials, on which the eyes of all Poland are fixed, expose the facts of brutal terror, exploitation and robbery, the Polish Red Aid (I.L.D.) is mobilizing the masses for struggle against terror and fascism. The Red Aid of Poland is at the same time appealing for support in | these struggles by the toiling masses of all countries, through protests made to the Polish embassies and consulates. | | | ly German. voters recorded their oppo- | sition to the Nazi-nominated Reich-! stag yesterday by turning in “defec-.} In answer to the question put to; the disarmament conference and the | League of Nations, 2,055,363 recorded | and an additional, Of equal significance is the fact | {that over 10,000,000 Germans failed | |prisals against those abstaining. | | The Nazis recorded a vote of 40,-| ‘Plan Protest Meet | Nazi ambassador, 1 | | | | | | it evel R cap REOUNG wy Bc, Helping the Daily Worker through bidding for possession of the original drawing of Burck’s cartoons: bein, N. ¥., $1. Yesterday’s bids: A, Jacobson, Madison, Wis., .50; Tri —By Burek Land Light, Kalamazoo, $2, (winner); Wm. Muschen- Total to date, $109.78. ‘Against Nazi Talk — At Columbia College Students and Workers Mass at 116th St. and Bway., Wed., 7:30 NEW YORK—When Hans Luther, | arrives here to| speak at Columbia University tomor- row night, he will be greeted by a mass remonstration organized to pro- test his speaking. The New York Committee to Aig | the Victims of German Fascism has | joined the National Student League in rallying the students and workers of the city in protest against the | Hitlerite’s appearance at McMillan | ‘Theatre where he is sveaking Wed- nesday. The demonstration will mass at 116th St. and Broadway at 7:30. | A call to all united front organi- zations to mobilize their membership for the demonstration was issued yes- terday by the New York Committee. The Young Communist League yes- terday decided to join in this pro- | test meeting. Among the speakers Wednesday | night will be Maria Halberstadt, German school teacher, who recently escaped from the Hiilerites; Walter | Orloff, U. S. student, imprisoned and tortured by the Nazis; Addison T. Cutler, Columbia instructor: Joseph Cohen, National Student League, and cthers, The New York Commitiee sent a telegram yesterday to Nicholas Mur- ray Butler, president of Columbia University, protesting the welcome | given to the Fascist representative and demanding that he not be al- lowed to speak. Clarti, French Work- ers’ Club, sent @ protest wire to Luther, protesting the “contemplated assassination of Dimitroff, Torgler, Increased Canadian Nickel Exports Show the Proximity ofWar | | OTTAWA. — Canadian exports of | nickel, an essonttal metal in the| manufacture of war munitions, have more than quadruplec during the past | six months. During the six months, ending October 1, shipments to Hol- land alone totaled 1,407 tons as com- | pared with 551 tons during the same | period in 1932. Holiand, which uses| very little of the nickel itself, is an} important port of entry into Fascist Germany. Canada is the chief world | source of nickel. ‘Colombia Sr Spends. Over Two Million Dollars in. Preparations for War. BOGOTA, Oolomibia.—-Cotombla has spent $2,132,000 on its national de- fenses during the last year, according to government statisticians, The money was used for building strategic highways, constructing transports, gunboats and cruisers and in military maneuvers. To keep up a six-page “Daily Work- er,” the circulation must be doubled.! Do your share by getting new sub- seribers. Popoff and Taneff.” The National Student League is organizing a picket line Wednesday noon in front of the faculty luncheon where Herr Luther will be enter- tained by Columbia faculty members. The students will bear placards urg~ ing the instructors to boycott the luncheon. In addition to protesting the speak- ing of Hans Luther, the demonstra- tion Wednesday night will demand the release of Dimitroff, Torgler, Po- poff and Taneff, the four Commu- nists threatened with murder at the hands of the Hitler maniacs. ‘Canadian Worker Faces Prison for Anti-War Activities Masses Demand Repeal | of Vicious Anti- Labor Code OTTAWA, Noy. 13.—The approach- | ing trial of Joe Derry, young Toronto Communist, has aroused consider- | | Sbis agitation once more for the ra- | peal of the notorious Section 98 of the Canadian criminal code. Derry, 19, was arrested in April, when he participated in an anti-war demonstration. If he is found guilty, | his will be the tenth conviction of radical labor leaders under Section 98. This law, rushed in 40 minutes through the Canadian House of Commons and Senate after the World War, has been used in the last three years to railroad Communists and other workers active in strike strug- gles. Originally intended to operate against leaders in the Wiinnipeg gen- eral strike in 1919,-it fell in disuse until the Canadian government out- lawed the Communist Party In_ 1931, eight Communists, headed yy Tim Buck and Tom Ewen, were sentenced to five years each in prison under the section Later Arthur Evans, Workers’ Unity League organ- izer in the miners’ strike in Prince- ton, Ont., was convicted and sen- tenced to one year. MORE JOBLESS THAN EMPLOYED TEACHERS, LANSING, Mich.—Seven thousand teachers on the rolis and 12,000 teach- ers unemployed. This is the record of overproduction of teachers in Michigan, according to figures re- leased by the department of public instruction. 19 Arrested Opposing White Guard Meet in Boston FSU Urges Workers _ to Pack the Court Thursday Morning |United Ukrainian So- | ciety Aids Nazis in | Anti-Soviet Activity BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 13.—Nineteen | workers were arrested here yesterday jin a counter-demonstration against |@ white guard meeting’in the Muni- cipal Auditorium called by the United Ukrainian Society against Soviet rec- | ognition. ‘The workers will come up for trial | Thursday morning in Pemberton Square Court, Room 105. An attempt |by the police to postpone the trial ;to prepare anti-Soviet witnesses was frustrated by the International La- for Defense, which is defending the workers. The United Ukrainian Society is an organization of white guard Rus- |sians who work hand in hand with Nazis in raising funds to support sabotage in the U.S.S.R. and to fin- |snce white guard military activities in Manchuria. They are supporting Hitler activities to seize the Ukraine, under the guise of Ukrainian na- tionalism. They operate on a na- tional scale, spreading ppndeeeeyne the Soviet Union and*anti- is | class propaganda here. | The Friends of the Soviet. Union | and the International Labor Defense are mobilizing workers to pack: the court Thursday. They urge all or- | ganizations to send wires of protest | to Mayor Curley against the arrest, fingerprinting and photographing of |the 19 workers, ‘4 ars NOW waite Guard Meeting- NEW YORK.—A_ counter-demon- stration called by the Friends of the Soviet Union will chalienge the pro- posed mecting of the white guard United Ukrainian. Society Thursday morning against Soviet recognition. The F.S.U. issued a call to all or- ganizations to mobilize their member- | ship ‘Thursday at10° a.m. at Wash- ington Square, foot ‘of Fifth Ave. | where the meeting will be held, Workers Celebrate . 16th Anniversary of Soviet Progress Hold Achievements Up In Contrast to | Misery. Here CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 13.—Fif- teen hundred workers here jammed the Prospect Auditorium to celebrate the 16th Anniversary of the. Bolshe~ vik Revolution. William Patterson, I. L. D. Organizer; Ben Gray, of the Y. C. L., and A, Onsla, Secretary of the Cleveland Unemployed Councils, | spoke. John Williamson, Communist Party District Organizer, was chair- man. Speakers contrasted the So- cialist achievements of Soviet Rus- sia. with the growing misery in the United States. . Pan i NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 13.—Nine hundred workers celebrated the 16th | year of Soviet Socialist building when they filled the Y.M.H.A. auditorium Wednesday. Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker; Ethel Brown, Negro, Communist Party member; Al Fisher, T.U.U.L. orga- nizer and F. Carlson of the Y. C. L., suoke. R. Grecht was chairman. The workers extended an_ enthusiastic welcome to M. Lityinoff, Soviet for- eign commissar, o bere | PORTLAND, Me., ‘Nov. 13.—Soviet: | achievement was stressed at a 16th Anniversary Meeting of the Russian Revolution which 200 workers at- tended. The colebration was held at the Warkers’ Hall, 82 Union St. Edward Stevens of Boston and D, Halpin spoke. Recognition “T will permit myself to express | the opinion that the abnormal sit- uation which you rightly point out in your message has an unfavorable effect not only on the interests of the two interested States, but also on the general international situa- | tion, by increasing the elements of | unrest, complicating the process of consolidation of universal peace and encouraging the forces directed towards the breaking of the peace.” (Kalinin to Roosevelt.) * Te “Observer,” the prominent | paper of British imperialism, | which, as is known, possesses an ex- | cellent understanding of world polit- | ical questions, describes the negotia~ | tions initiated by Roosevelt for the | recognition of the Soviet Union as “one of the biggest events that has | taken place in forefgn policy since the War.” Surrounded by powerful capitalist | States, the Russian proletariat, with | the support of the peasantry, in an economically backward country, con- quered political power and opened up @ new epoch in. the history of hu- manity. The capitalist States mob- ilized against it the whole of the old world; civil war within the country and intervention from outside. The proletarian revolution, bleeding frcm a thousand wounds, remained the victor. The capitalist powers. however, did not wish to recognize it. On the fifth anniversary of the victory of the revolution, in October, 1922, of the big countries Germany alone— which at that time could not itself be reckoned among the great capi- talist powers—entefed into normal diplomatic relations with the Rus- sian Socialist Federation of Soviet Republics. Later Great Britain, and also France, followed suit. But none of the capitalist powers really be- lieved in the existence of the Soviet power, To # certain extent as the | ist conditions, | United States, for fifteen years ob- and the Enemies of the Soviet Union \So Long as Capitalist State States 28 Have the outer To Recognize or Not Recognize, Peace Cannot Be. Finally Secured symbol for the restoration of capital- the. most powerful capitalist country in the world, «the stinately refused to recognize the proletarian power. And now at last Roosevelt proposes negotiations, But better late thaf never! * * . { IS step is in fact of enormous| importance, but only because it} has been taken after the proletarian | power, in spite of all capitalist forces, | has maintained itself victoriously for | sixteen years. and with the comple- tion of the Five-Year Plan and the collectivization of agriculiure, Soviet | Russia, regarded even from the eco-| nomic standpoint, from being the most backward country has become one of the most advanced countries in the world, and at the same time has succeeded in developing and equipping a powerful Red Army, so that it can now rely uvon a powerful military force. T_ these circum- stances the juridical term “recogni- tion” acquires a further importance. The Soviet power has been able to command respect. * * * iE reverse side of the policy of non-recognition was the constant encouragement and also the active support of the forces inside and out- side of the Soviet Union who wish by sabotage, insurrections and war of intervention to bring about the over- throw of the Soviet Power. The raid which Joynson Hicks, the British Home Secretary, undertook on the Arcos in London, and which was the prelude to the breaking off of diplo- matic relations between Great Britain and the Soviet Union, was followed by | posed at the trial of the so-called | in Ambassador Warsaw. In this; atmosphere the Shakhty sabotage | reached its highest point. Tardieu’s | efforts at intervention resulted in Stern’s attempt on the life of the German Ambassador in Moscow, and as a by-product gave rise to the | sabotage conspiracy which was ex- “Industrial Party.” | ‘The most important result of I ognition is the discouragement of the | | eromies of the Soviet Union. It is interesting in this connection to read | the declaration of the Japanese For- | eign Minister, Hirota, which he caused to be issued through ‘the of- ficial “Rengo” press bureau, after the exchange of messages between Roosevelf and Kalinin was made known. According to this declara-| tion, it was his, Hirota’'s, desire to bring about an understanding be- tween Japan and the U. S. 8. R., the United States and China. That, he declared, had always been the chief aim of his policy! We know now from the recently published doc- uments regarding the machinations of Japan in Manchukuo that Jape- nese foreign policy pursued quite other aims. On the other hand, it is also true that these aims can rap- idly change—according to the force which the Soviet Union throws into the scale, [ is probable that the negotiations which Litvinoff will conduct in Washington, will end with the de jure recognition of the Soviet Union, There could be no greater mistake, however, than to draw from this the conclusion that we can now lessen the attempt on the life of the Soviet our anti-war propaganda, If noth- ing else does, the shots in Lemberg | must teach us what dangerous forces are at work in order to bring about war against the Soviet Union, These forces are working at a time when the crisis of the whole capitalist sys- tem is becoming more cute every day, when the antagonigms between the various countries are accordingly becoming deeper, causing tremendous foreign-politicai tension, rendering sharply obvious the antagonism be- tween the system of Socialism and the system of capitalism, and when, | finally, in all capitalist countries forces are being concentvated on war, which the imperialist powers regard more and more as.the only way out! of the crisis. In these circumstances the strengthening of the Soviet Union | through its recognition is all the more important for the maintenance of peace, and in fact it will be able to do all the more for peace the) mere generously it is supported in} ‘is work by the international prole- | tariat and by all the oppressed, aren bed 4 IN the period of declining capital-| ism, in the epoch of imperialist war and proletarian revolution, the Soviet Power was the first world-his- torical victory of the international proletariat which is struggling for its emancipation. The Soviet Union Is not only the joy and pride of its in- habitants, not only the joy, the pride and the inspiring exuinple of the ad- vance-guard of all c:oited and op- pressed, but is also the powerful guardian of peace. In the meantime, it is still isolated in its capitalist en- vironment, which constantly breeds war. Therefore, peace cannot be finally secured so long as the capi- talist States are in a position either to recognize or to refuse to recognize the Soviet Union. Only the international victory of the proletarian revolution, — the brotherly union of Soviet Republics achieved on @ world scale, will free humanity from the scourge of war. Vienna Is Tense as Troops Patrol City ‘Socialists Arrested at Demonstrations VIENNA, Noys->13.—Police ané Heimwehr treops armed with rifles and bayonets, surféinded public buildings, railways and bridges to enforce a decree against any celebre- tion of the 15th'anniversary of the Austrian Republito The situation ‘here Is very tense, Strikes are expected to break out momentarily. Two hundred >and twenty-five Socialist workers” were j arrested for demonstrating, Many John Reed Club To Hold Fun Party for “KR Céckeyed “Worle i NEW YORK— Party” wiil be held by the John Reed Club of New York.this Saturday night at its headquarters,.430 Sixth. Ave. the proceeds going to the” Dally Worker's $40,000 fund, . eames ‘This event is promised to be “a revolution in baal ta a it~ tee of Good Sai be on hand to care for. those crippled ‘with laughter. Everyone at the “party will have a chance “to drive a few nails into Hitler's coffin,” one of the hundred thrillers promised by the arrange- ments’ committee. Among those expected at the party are “Doc Spinach Tnattinger,’ ” “What World Mike Gold,” “Home Sweet Home Helen’ Luke,*°*Kid Newhouse,” sports writer for Mie Daily Worker: Jacoly Burck, Daily Worker staff cartoonist, .and .“Big Bad Adolph Wolff,” John Reed-Gluly sculptor, But who is afraid of the big bad “wolff?” Admission only 15 penta LET's Go! * |