The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1933, Page 8

Page Right DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1933 Dail rer “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 except Sunday, by the Comprodaily Publishing ©o., Inc., 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795, Cable Address: New York, N. Y, Published daily “Daiwork,” Washington Bureau National idth and G. 8t., Wash Room 954, Press Building, ington, D.C. Subscription Rates: By Mail: pt Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00 € months, $3.50; 3 $2.00; 1 month, 76 cents. Mavbattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada year, 98.00; @ months, 0; $ months $3.00. By Carrier 18 cents , 15 cents SATURDAY, NOVEMBER. 25, 1933 _—— Roosevelt’s Forced Labor IN the short period that the so-called Civil Works (ferced labor) Program of the Roosevelt adminis- it apparent beyond a doubt that every one of the high falutin’ promise Roosevelt and Federal Relief Director Hop- kins have been broken. The Civil Works Program is al- | into practice, means not only millions of | off from relief. It means forced labor at nee level. 200,000 were promised jobs. Ten thousand u oloyed stormed the relief offices and not one was given a job. Workers are being “regis- tered” and given more promises of jobs in the future. This occurred not only in New York City. In Lynn, Massachusetts, where two-thirds of the shoe workers are jobless, Roosevelt's program operated one day and then all Lynn workers on forced labor were fired. In Nebraska and Arkansas two-thirds of the unemployed are deprived of relief and deprived of forced labor | dobs as well. tration has been in effect, it is already rea iobless c Wages belc In Nev ‘The promises of Roosevelt of steady work for mil- | lions are seen to be false right from the start. ‘The promises given by Roosevelt of a fifty cents | an hour minimum rate for 30 hours a week, has proved as empty and false as all of Roosevelt's promises to the unemployed. Thirty thousand New York State unem- ployed are already told that they must be herded into state “conservation” camps at $25 a month, less than | $l°a day. The unemployed women have been told by Hopkins that their wage is to be nine dollars a week. There is no minimum wage for the unemployed put on forced labor. The promise of 3@ hours work & week has also been broken. . * . HE unemployed workers, cut off of relief lists, and | put on forced labor at worse than starvation wages, | inelude skilled and semi-skilled workers, mechanics, carpenters, building trades workers, teachers, etc. The federal, state and city governments are taking the unemployed, and puttin; them to work at non-union pay on necessary construction work for which the city would of! se have to pay the union scale. La Guardia already is providing for this by announcing + the subw will be built by the cheap forced labor of the u yed and not by union labor. The unemployed workers, with a bottomless level of wages, will be at the absolute mercy of the gov- ent and the officals and foremen, and when fired will not be returned to relief lists. Hopkins, the spokes- man for Roosevelt, cynically stated that he did not care what happened to those fired off forced labor jobs. The Roosevelt program has definitely revealed itself as a scheme to entirely abolish all relief given by the government, For their protection against the attacks of Roose- velb the unemployed must immediately set up com- mittees on all forced labor jobs. These committees have t task of at once forcing the government to grant union wages and union conditions on all forced labor jobs. These committees, linked up with the Unen d Councils, will have to lead strikes against Roosevelt's cheap forced labor—strikes which will en- force union conditions. The trade unions especially must at once take part together with the unemployed in the fight against the Roosevelt program. The forced labor plan, now going into effect, is aimed not only against the unemployed by reducing their relief, but against the employed as well by lowering the general wage scale of the employed through sup- plying cheap labor. The revolutionary unions have the immediate duty to take leadership together with the Unemployed Councils, in fighting for union con- ditions on all forced labor. The campaign for the enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill is the answer of the workers to Roosevelt’s wage-smashing, relief-cutting, union-breaking drive. Unemployment insurance and relief, not at the expense of the workers, but at the | expense of the government and the employers. With the cold of winter here, with relief cuts and forced labor imposed on workers by the Roosevelt program, it becomes imperative to intensify the cam- paign for the national convention of the unemployed on Jan. 13, in Washington, to build a united, solid front of all employed and unemployed organizations in the fight against starvation. So On Fundamentals -- United! his customary hypocrisy and craftiness, Roose- velt in the current inner-capitalist dispute over the exact kind of financial robbery to clamp down on the American masses, styles himself an enemy of the “Tories.” ‘To continue his pose as a “liberal” fighter against ‘Wall Street, he hints meaningfully at the “powerful influences” of the anti-inflation group af capitalists. He tries to give the impression that in his fight for inflation robbery he is fighting against the wishes of the Wall Street masters whom the masses hate, that ruling clique of finance capital against whom Roosevelt falsely promised to fight when he was ask- ing for presidential votes. But it is unfortunate for him. that his so-called “Tory” enemies have already confessed publicly that their purposes are exactly the same as his—the pro- tection of capitalist profit, and the maintenance of capitalist wage slavery and exploitation. Here is the latest statement of Dr. O. M. W. Sprague, one of the “Tory” financial experts: . “Iam very sorry about all this, because I am my- welt a liberal, and am greatly in favor of the social changes sought by the President. It is the means used in the effort to attain these ends that I cannot agree.” S So here we have the spectacle of the so-called money “Tories” confessing their complete unity with Roose- velt on their fundamental purposes, the purpose of guaranteeing the Wall Street monopoly capitalists their profits and interest payments, the purpose of increasing profits by driving down the wages of the American toiling masses to the lowest possible levels. “Tt is only in the methods used” that these capital- ist exploiters differ. On the capitalist “social ends” they agree. And it is significant that both of these capitalist groups are anxious to appear before the masses as ye) | by talk of fighting against the “Tori enemies of the open capitalist reaction mbolized in the people's mind by Hoover— better to continue and intensify the Hoover policy th capitalist exploitation, Roosevelt’s attempt to sugar-coat his new infla- tionary attack on the living standards of the masses, ” and “the power- ful influences” is a clumsy fraud, Even his capitalist | colleagues expose him. The monetary hubbub among the capitalists over inflation should not conceal from any worker their fundamental unity on driving down the living standards of the workers, on their unity on adding to the direct wage cuts, the indirect assault of rising prices, part-time, etc. Against both, the toiling masses must organize for | mass actions, for strikes against wage cuts, for higher wages, for resistance to the whole capitalist attempt to increase profits at the expense of the workers. A.F.L. Members in Action wet @ well organized rank and file movement inside the ranks of the A. F. of L. locals and spirited working-class initiative can do to defeat the racket- eering practices of corrupt A. F. of L. officials is excel- lently illustrated in the action of the Painters’ Unions in New York this week. Rank and file painters are acquainted with the notorious record of William Zausner, who eluded ar- rest for misappropriation of thousands of dollars of the union's funds with the aid of the bosses and was driven out of the Painters’ Union by an aroused membership. His comeback was effected with the support of strong arm men and the usual coercion and intimidation in the art of which A, F. of L. leaders are well trained. For three months Zausner and his official clique in the District Council collected a daily tax of 50 cents from every working member of the union. The tax was imposed on the membership after the leading members of the rank and file had been driven out of the union meeting at the point of guns. The tax netted the neat sum of $125,000 and was said to be for the purpose of pushing the union's organization activity. . . * HAT did Mr. Zausner, who is so nobly defended by the Socialist daily, the Jewish Forward, do with these funds? The funds went for the purpose of hir- ing gangsters to beat up members of the militant Alteration Painters’ Union, who were on strike, for hiring scabs to take the jobs from these strikers, for strongarm men to intimidate and terrorize the mem- | bership and smash the Alteration Painters’ Union. The funds went for strengthening and building the strong arm squad whieh would insure Zausner in office in- definitely and make the lucrative business of fleecing the rank and file permanent, Did Zausner do anything to compel the bosses to carry out the paper agreement he concluded with the | | bosses after the sb-called strike? It is generally known | | in the union that the bosses are violating the agree- ment and that the ~cale of $9 a day for 7 hours of work is nothing more than a paper scale. Not a cent went to the relief of unemployed painters, or which there are large numbers in the union, ‘When the painters realized the purpose for which the funds were being used they decided to stop paying the tax. At their own initiative 400 painters met and voted unanimously to go to their locals and put through official action against the tax. Zausner, who came to the meeting, was completely repudiated by the painters. Four local unions have confirmed the action of the 400 Painters who paved the way for this revolt and the revolt is spreading by the organized activity of the rank and file. BY MEANS of such concerted, organized action A. F, of L. workers will throw off the racketeering and treacherous leadership of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy. The first step in the direction of consolidating the forces of the A. F. of L. rank and file workers in New York in a unified opposition movement will be taken at a conference of the rank and file today at Irving Plaza. The conference should strengthen the A, F. of L, members in their struggle for relief for the jobless and for the elimination of many of the abuses existing inside the union imposed by the A, F. of L. misleaders, It must mark a step forward in establishing a real center of all rank and file members in the New York A. F, of L. unions for the purpose of guidance in forthcoming struggles and for building a strong move- ment for unemployment insurance and relief. New Leader “Marxism” I recat Mew teeter, so. ati etioxil, gives its readers a short lesson this week in the funda- mentals of Marxism. And not only does it make itself ridiculous by a dis- Play of ignoranée, but displays its hatred of the revo- lutionary overthrow of capitalism by a downright dis- tortion of a fundamental axiom of Marxism, Says the New Leader: “Class interests occasionally result in a clase struggle. When the workers clearly understand that they belong to a definite class in society with their own interests to advance, they are class-conscious, That is, they know how to fight for their interests in- telligently. ... The class struggle, supplemented by So ne ee ment So class interests result only “occasionally” in the class struggle! It is too bad for the “Marxism” of the New Leader that Marx wrote of a class struggle that exists not only “occasionally” but which js the most fundamental fact of modern capitalist society, and of all previously existing societies. Marx described the class struggle as the inevitable product of the capitalist mode of production, # struggle which is carried on “... in an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open, fight, a fight,” Marx says, “that must end im the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or the common ruin of the contending classes...” The New Leader talks of class consciousness as if it were something that is pasted on to the proletariat from without, and not, as Marx repeated endlessly, the product of the material development of capitalist society itself. ‘The New Leader talks of the class struggle as if it were something that the leaders of the Socialist Party can “accept” or ignore as it pleases them, that it can ignore it as Norman Thomas did before the crisis broke, or vote to “recognize” it as the “Socialist” leaders did when the radicalization of the masses forced them to pay lip-service to it. The New Leader fails to mention that Marx also heaped contempt upon those christian sentimental “Socialists” who “recognized” the class struggle without at the same time recognizing the necessity for the es- tablishment of a firm revolutionary Party to lead the oppressed masses to the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. And it is this that explains the significant reference of the New Leader to “intelligent” action on the part of the working class. For, many times in the past, the New Leader has always used this word to justify its betrayal of the working class revolution. ‘New York Workers ‘to Celebrate Soviet x Scheduled for | Next Week NEW YORK.—The victory of the |Soviet Union in establishing diplo- |matic relations with the United States will be celebrated next Wed- nesday night, Nov. 29, at the Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. and West Farms, |the Bronx. The Friends of the So- viet Union in conjunction with the |ICOR have prepared an. elaborate Recognition Victory. 'Two Mass Celebrations | | | ROOsevELT BRAIN TRUST | | | |program of entertainment and phom- jinent speakers. | Among ‘those who will speak and | |point out the facts behind the recog- |nition victory will be M. J. Olgin, jeditor of the Freiheit; Corliss La- mont, Louise Thompson, Countee Cul- len, Dr. Harry F. Ward, S. Almazov, |H. Goldfrank and M. Katz. Carl {Brodsky will be chairman, | ee ee Unions to Celebrate To celebrate the victory of the So- viet Union in forcing recognition | Trade Union Unity League and the American Federation of Labor will hold a concert on Friday, Dec. 1, ‘The |program will include the following \speakers: C. A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker; Ben Gold, Na- tional Secretary of the Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union; Dr. Reu- |ben Young, who has recently returned from the U.S.S.R. and K. Radzie, leader of the Russian workers in New York. Andrew Overgaard, secretary of the Trade Union Unity Council, will act as chairman. Dickstein Hides | Quiz Transcript Hathaway Testimony ‘on Nazis Is Suppressed | By Daily Worker, Washington Burean ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24.— Samuel Dickstein, chairman of the House Immigration and Naturaliza- tion Committee, before whom Clar- ence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, publicly exposed the murder, terror and propaganda machinations of Nazis operating in this country, still refuses to release the transcript of Hathaway’s remarks to the press though it is nine days since they were made, On November 15, the day Hathaway testified at the invitation of the Com- mittee, Dickstein denied the press the official transcript on the pretext of wanting to “punctuate” it, He said he needed two days for his gram- matical labors. Last week the excuse was that Dickstein had left town without giving the clerk of the Com- mittee written authority to release the transcript. This morning, the Committee clerk, when asked by the Daily Worker correspondent for the testimony, replied: “I have not writ- ten authority from Mr. Dickstein.” “But hasn’t he returned from New York since my twenty requests last week?” “Yes.” “Did you ‘speak to him about the matter?” “Yes.” “Well, may I have the transeript today?” “Mr. Dickstein left no written au- thority for its release.” “Where is Mr. Dickstein?” jfrom the United States, members of | trade unions affilated both with the} “He went to New York City yester- day. You can reach him there.” “I understand.” {U. S. Worker: “How Do You Do It, Brother?” | | | Soviet Worker: “I Use Helping the Daily Worker through bidding for the original drawings of Burck’s cartoons: My OWN. Head!” Tl, $5. Gus House Party wins yesterday’s drawing with a —By Burck bid of $8 Other bids, Branch 100, LW.O., Berwyn, Total to date, $288.47. Nazi Lawyer Sent to Spy on Torgler, Arson Trial Shows (Special ot the Daily Worker) AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, Nov. 24 (via Zurich, Switzerland).— A Nazi lawyer named Wolff, posing as an “author writing a book on pri- son psychology” visited Ernst Torgler in prison, it was revealed today, on the forty-third day of the Reichstag arson trial. ‘This secret agent came to the pri- son without the knowledge of Dr. Alfons Sack, assigned by the Nazis to “dfiend” Torgler. Torgler said, “I hope the court will draw its own conclusions,” and Dimit- roff protested vehemently against these frame-up methods of the pro- secution, The prosecutor at this point be- came enraged and charged that Di- mitroff “misrepresents.” A witness, Méyer, testified that he left the Communist Party before March, 1933, because it was “getting too dangerous.” ‘Three waiters from the Aschinger Restaurant where Popoff and Taneff had supper the night of the Reich- stag fire before they went to see a cinema also testified today. Popoff charges that the confrontation with waiters was deliberately sabotaged by Kynast and the inquiry magistrate through Popoff demanded immediate confrontation. “Identification” eight months later is obviously ridiculous, he pointed out. The three waiters were uncertain whether they saw Popoff and Taneff on the night of the fire, but did admit its “probability.” Another jailbird witness for prose- cution, Weinberger, now serving a sentence for bribery, testified that he met Popoff in prison. Popoff, he said, told him he hadn’t participated in arson, but feared sentence for high treason, and manipulating foreign securities. Popoff vigorously denied having made statements to Weinber- ger about securities. The presidin judge declared that Popoft commis- | sioned Weinberger and asked his wife to destroy notes in Popoff’s rooms be- fore police search. Popoff denied this categorically. Another witness, Mrs. Kuessner, states that she saw an unknown man leave the second portal of the Reich- stag shortly before the fire. 17th Congress C. P. USSR Opens Jan. 25 MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Nov. 24—By ‘Wireless).—The 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party will open on Jan. 25, 1934, according to an announcement issued here today by Joseph Stalin, secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. ‘The agenda for the Congress, the official announcement stated, will include the following points: “1, The report of the Central Com- mittee of the All-Union Communist Party by Stalin, the report of the Central Control Commission—Work- ers and Peasants Inspection, by Rud- zutak; the report of the Central Re- visions Commission by Vladimirsky; and the report of the delegation of the All-Union Communist Party to the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International, by Manuilsky. “The second report will be on the program of the Second Five-Year Plan, by Molotov and Kuibyshev. “In the third report, Kaganovich will speak on the organizational questions of the Communist Party and the Soviets. Fourth will be the elections of the central organs of the Communist Party.” Anti-Lynch Meeting The Porto Rican Anti-Imperialist Association is calling @ protest meet- ing against lynching and discrimina- tion on Suns at 240 Columbia St., at 3 p.m. Speakers in Spanish and English. Roosevelt Sets $9 Weekly Wage for Jobless Women (Continued from Page 1) you've set a scale of $15 a week wage for even rperuaet ees _ “That's only the minimym,” Hop- | kins admitted. That is, the minimum for teachers, dieticians, artists, nurses—all of the 50,000 to 75,000 who are working on special women-projects throughout the country. These projects are un- der the direction of a special “wo- men’s division,” of the Federal Relief Administration—which is right in line with the archaic attitude toward women which pervades the adminis- tration. The “Women’s Division” {s in charge of Mrs. Ellen Woodward, Mts- sissippi socal worker and welfare worker. In accord with her social-worker background, Mrs. Woodward fosters the practice of keeping women at their regular professional activities— but at “prevailing” wages, based on the $9 a week minimum. She has sponsored, for example, the practice of putting hichly trained women art- ists at work lecturing—on art—to small children visiting museums, French Cabinet, Unable to Balance War Budget, Falls PARIS, Nov. 24—For the fourth successive time since June, 1932, a French Cabinet has fallen, due to inability to balance the budget, swol- len with war appropriations, The French Chamber of Deputies today refused to give Premier Sarraut @ vote of confidence in his pronosal to reduce the wages of government employees and further increase taxes. Sarraut’s ministry, less than a month after its formation on Oct. 27, fell on the same issue as that of his predecessor, Daladier. CUBAN GOVT BUYS TANKS, GUNS, BOMBS Prepares for War On Rising Struggles of the Cuban Masses (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Nov. 24,—As a result oy the rapidly rising revolutionary ac- tions of the masses, the Grau San Martin government is rapidly pre- paring for open war and suppression against them. The government has already bought 1,500,000 hand grenades for street fighting. Today it was announced that the overnment had ordered 16 armored tanks and thousands of gas-bombs from British armament firms. All these instruments are especially adapted for street fighting. Revolutionary organizations are mobilizing the masses for protest against the expenditure of govern- ment funds for war purposes while hundreds of thousands of workers and Peasants are starving. So great has been the pressure of mass protest against the recent raid on the Confederation National (revo- lutionary trade union group), by Ser- geant Chamizo, and the arrest of Cesar Villar that the government continues to make lame excuses, even going so far as to promise a court- martial trial for Chamizo, for un- warranted attack on the workers cen- ter. It is well-known, however, that Chamizo was ordered to proceed with his attack by the government itself, Stop Lockout The wave of indignation and solid- arity which is rising all over the country has already resulted in de- feating the attempt of the tobacco employers to declare a lockout. Exceedingly important is the de- velopment within the Habana Feder- ation of Labor, the reformist union controlled by renegade officials, where the secretary of the organization, who is at the same time president of the Tobacco Transport Union, was forced to resign as the Union decided to affiliate with the revolutionary unions in the Confederacion. Stop Evictions After large teachers’ demonstra- tions, the government was forced to grant their demands. The government has also been forced to accede to the demands of tenants. The government extended the moratorium on evictions for an~ other two weeks. Hold Scottsboro Meetings The Young Communist League successfully arranged demonstra- tions in front of all the American Wall Street Compzny offices, de- manding the immediate release of the Scottsbcro boys. Many offices were smashed by the demonstrators. Among the offices affected are the American Embassy Ward Steom- ship Line, the United Fruit, the United Light and Gas Company, and many others. The meetinss were all timed to take place at the same time, thus preventing the police from being able to make any arrests, It is expected that this exemple will soon be followed everywhere. A wave of enthusiasm is spreading among the poor and middle class students for the Ala Izqueria, the revolutionary student group, which through its committees for free tui- tion, has gained its demands in the Intsitute and the University. Yesterday a delegate of the Na- tional Student League of the United States addressed the Central Com- mittee of the Ala. On Saturday he will speak at some big theatre in the center of the city. Plots to Unite in War Against U.S. S. RB. By J. K. ZKY has spoken again. This time this leading ideologist of the international counter - revolution places himself beside the “moderate” imperialists of Japan and cautions the “swelled heads” that Japan is in- capable of waging such a large-scale modern war as that which Japan is, nevertheless, preparing to wage against the Soviet Union and against the United States. But further, and more important, ‘Trotsky fulfills the task given him by his masters, of disarming the watch- fulness of the world proletariat for the defense of the country of Pro- letarian Dictatorship, by assurance that there does not really exist any danger of armed intervention by Jap- eed imperialism against the U. S. . Re We refer to tribution (well-paid), to that five- cent weekly of jingo liberalism owned by Bernard MacFadden, and known as “Liberty.” ‘Trotsky’s article is featured in the November 18th issue of “Liberjy” and is entitled: “Will Japan Commit Suicide?”, with the significant sub-title, “By the Man Who Once Led the Armies of Soviet Russia,” Nearly a year and a half ago, when the Japanese Army, as today, was then threatening the borders of So- viet Siberia, Trotsky gave similar “as- surances.” He now repeats them. And at the very moment when a dispatch informs us of eight Japanese war planes daring to cross the border and fly over Soviet territory. Let us ex- amine Trotsky’s article, ar ante whole viewpoint of the article is thoroughly anti-working class in character. Indeed, the Japanese proletariat does not appear in the picture at all, and its revolutionary struggles are not merely discounted, but totally ignored. How does he start his article? “The greatest human tragedy (em- phasis mine—J.K.), of the post-war world is the spectacle of Janan’s ir- resistible plunge toward the same ae which swallowed Czarist Rus- ” ia. So! Tt is a “human” tragedy, Trot- ’s latest con- | staff. WEAN Conceals Imperialist) sty, as bents » counter-revolutionary, discards the viewpoint of class, and adopts a humanitarian standpoint. But what is of greater significance, is the fact that “the man who once led the armies of Soviet Russia,” here plainly laments the overthrowal of Czacism as 4 great tragedy! And this, at a moment when the toilers of the Soviet Union, together with those of the whole world, are cele- brating the emancipation of the Rus- sian toilers from Czarism and capi- talism! To Trotsky, the success of the dictatorship of the proletariat is “tragedy.” a Z Trotsky lists a number of weak- nesses of Japan (he does not dare, except once, even to use the term “Japanese imperialism”), namely, the Jack of many raw materials, the low Tevel of business (!) development, dissatisfaction among various socal classes (without mentioning the pro- letariat!), inferior internal quality of the army, poor soldier material (men- tally as well as physically, he says), officer corps, equipment and general IS unnecessary to argue these points. Some of them are facts too well-known for Trotsky to lay claim to as their discoverer, But what does he conclude from these facts? He concludes that Japan (he carefully isolates Japan from world imperial- ism, by saying not a word about im- perialist relationships), cannot suc- cessfully wage a major war at all! But, whether Japan can or cannot, wage a major war single-handed is not the question. Lenin said that it could not, and for that matter no nation in the period of imperialism wants to wage war single-handed. The question is, can Japan wage war in alliance with some other imperial- ist power or powers? Say with England, Germany or France? ‘This is precisely one of the ques- tions faced by Japanese inaperialism today in its war moves against the USSR. Yet facts shout aloud against Trot- sky's counter - revolutionary “assur- ance.” Do we not see that, while Japanese army planes are sent over the Soviet border in provocation, the decision of the United States to transfer its battle fleet, now stationed in the Pacific, to the Atlantic, was so sharply at rivalry with Japan as America! The fact that Japanese imperialism has many and grievous internal weak-' nesses is not a guarantee, as Trotsky would have his readers believe, that Japanese intervention against the Soviet Union is not an imminent pos- sibility. On the contrary! Trotsky’s “Permanent Revolution” in Reverse According to Trotsky, in his article in the Magazine “Liberty” of Nov. 18, Japan is far from being a country of highly concentrated monopoly cap- italism, rotten and decaying and’ threatened with the rising proletariat. Trotsky has the nerve to assert that it is “the middle classes” that have “adopted aggressive foreign policies,” the theory of “permanent revolution” and the worst underestimator of the revolutionary potentiality of the peas- antry, now flops into reverse gear and opines that a revolutionary peasantry in Japan is quite enough to spell revolutionary victory (he totally ig- nores even the existence of a prole- tariat), while labeling the October revolution and the triumph of the Russian proletariat as simply the world’s greatest farm revolution!” 7 # 8 UT ‘Trotsky’s shameless counter- revolutionary analysis does not stop there. He voices a deep con- tempt of the “ignorant” masses. The tremendous initiative of the masses, which will burst forth at the time and that this was done before they “cut the knot of medieval serfdom” —as a result of “historical conditions and forces,” This serves only to under-estimate| the imperialist designs of Japanese imperialism in the Far East, particu- larly at the present moment. As an ideologist of counter-revolution, Trot- sky is not interested in pointing out that it is not only the landlords and bureaucracy of aristocratic origin, but also the highly developed finance capital, which is interrelated and in partnership with the monarchy, and which subordinates to itself industrial and agrarian capital, that is today pushing the policy of foreign plunder, and oppression. © Therefore, Trotsky asserts that the force which will ultimately wreck the Plunder plan of Japanese ruling classes does not lie in the working class of Japan and its leader, the Communist Party (which, by the way. is putting up a real Bolsehvik fight against war and intervention, as well as a constant struggle against the bourgeois-landiord monarchy of hun- er and terror), sees the main revolutionary “danger” as coming carefully: “Japan's peasant farmers pay their landlords about three-fourths of a bilion yen ($375,000,000 at par) a year. Why, the Russian peasantry, under the Ozars, two and a half times as numerous, paid their landlords less than half a billion rubles ($250,000,- 000 gold) a year; and this tribute |Proved enough to arouse the Russian interpreted (and correctly) by Jap- anese imperialism to be an encourage- ment? And from an imperialist power muzhiks in the world’s greatest farm revolution.” Thus Trotsky, ardent propagator of! from the peasant masses. Read him/they ignored by him. Thus, while refer- ting to the quality of the Japanese soldiers, the rank and file, as basically unfit to fight in a nationalistic war, he ascribes such inferiority to them as would likewise unfit them for rev- olutionary action, saying: The Japanese army read: soldiers. —J-K.) of today lacks and can no- where obtained such qualities as in- dividual initiative, resourcefulness, and ability to make decisions at, one’s The fact that 300 Japanese soldiers at the Shanghai front ‘refused ‘to fire on the Chinese masses at the risk of their own lives—and some of. them were actually shot to death; the Fu- shun mutiny; the fact that Commu- nist cells were found in various army units and on many navel vessels— to the great astonishment of the Mikado’s officers; the mutiny in the Takasaki Regiment, etc., etc.; all this revolutionary initiative and heroism is ignored by Trotsky. As to the political situation, Trotsky offers the following “revolutionary” analysis: ‘The middle classes resent the power of the war lords upon whom y depend. The generals snarl at their capitalistic associates (so the military Is against the capitalists!— JK.). Everybody is dissatisfied with everybody else.” (Not the exploited against the exploiters!—J.K.). An then, according to Trotsky: “If war should come, the profes- sional army officers will be swamped by a mass of officers, recruited from the educated classes; and from these will come revolutionary leaders for the farmers and for the army itself.” Leaders of revolution from the of revolutionary upheaval is totally | > Trotsky Hides Japan War Moves Against Soviet Union Counter-Revolutionary Article in “Liberty” Ignores War Danger “educated classes!” Revolutionary mutiny led by the officers! are the workers? Nowhere! ... Trot- sky recollects without bitterness, the days of Narodniki and the Social Revolutionaries, the late eighties and nineties of the last century in Russia! Truly, Trotsky now earns the title of “vanguard” leader of counter-rev- olution. Before concluding, we must empha- size two points: First, Trotsky serves the interests of world imperialism, disarming the vigilance of the world proletariat in defense of the U.SSR., through virtual assurance that it is in no danger of attack from Japanese imperialism or needs no help if it is attacked. Second, Trotsky gives signal assistance to the ruling classes of Japan, the exploiters of 30,000,000 Japanese peasants and 5,000,000 Japanese proletarians, 25 well as exploiter and oppressor of 50,000,000 colonial people in Korea, Formosa and Manchukuo—not to mention the vast millions of China— by: deliberately concealing the role .of the proletariat in the coming Jap- anese revolution, by hiding the fact that no revolution is possible, unless ‘led by the political party of the pro- letariat, the Communist Party of Japan, and by seeking to divert the masses from following such leader- ship through asserting that the peas- antry, army officers, and the intellec- tuals will play the leading roles. Let us close by quoting Trotsky's own advice to the rulers of Japan: “The Mikado’s statesmen (Trotsky is too polite to say “imperalists’—~ J.K.) should remember what happen- ed (to Czarism) and avoid the risks of war and revolution .. . For mod- ern Japan lacks (even with the rice riots and Communist Party leader- ship?—J.K.) the social experience to survive (!) the external disaster.” The ideologist of the international counter-revolution now bids for a new position, as minister without portfolio in the Saito cabinet of imperialist Japan, as erudite adviser to the rul- ing classes of an empire which is the leader of counter-revolution and the gendarme of world imperialism in the Far ‘op Trotsky is making “pro-