The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1933, Page 6

FOUNDED i904 ty aay Recess as getty Povtetans Oe, Ine, W Telephone: dbcetheag 4-7968, Cable Address: “Datwork,” Now York, ™. wi Bureex: Room 9% 1ith and B.S, Washington, D. © Subscription Ratese Re k _(eaeegt Manhstian and Brons| © months, $8.80; & months, $2.00; 1 month, %5 Manhattan, Foreign and Canada: 1 © months, $5.00; $ months $3.00. By Carrice: Weekly, 18 tome! ; monthly OOBEVELT made another speech yesterday. % was not ind any of his others in hypocrisy and smooth disregard of facts. I is exceedingly ch teristic of Roosevelt that tae covers the most reactionary deeds, the most ruth less carrying out of the program of Wall Street with @ veneer of the most “progressive” and even “radical” utter phrases For examp! We have ealled on enli on under: standing labor riculture to pro- the abundant life mmunity vide a more equifabl between all elements Now, the most brutal in these h judgr: ~—what “Enlightened ent’ is that? Is that the 450 € ease in profits j ported by the et monopolies? is tt the huge increases in Wall Street dividends paid out: this year « Roosevelt, took office? Is Roosevelt referring here to the fact that the heads of the United § 1 ‘Trust have private conversations with draft the steel code in their interest? Or is he referring to the fact that Morgan’s bene- ficiary of the “inside” stock lists, was his personally chosen Secretary of the Treasury? Or maybe he is referring to the fact that Norman H. Davis, Morgan's office boy and insider on all the big deals, is now Roosevelt's personal diplomatic rep- Tesentative abroad? Or maybe Roosevelt is referring to the faet that about four weeks ago he “had tea” with J. P. Morgan at the. White House? U DERSTANDING derstand? nean by that? The answer is = te labor” what did Roosevelt What is labor supposed. to “un- not difficuk. Every one of Roose- velt’s assistants, as well as Roosevelt himself, has no. room misunderstanding on this point. his speech over Gomper’s grave, several weeks Roosevelt toki the American workers that they Be warned them that, as during the 4 of 1917 “unruly horses were corralled,” so jon to the N-R.A. slave codes would meet a, similar fate And the shooting down of the striking pickets at Ambridge, Pennsytvanta, mre the workers an idea of what he meant! z, threat, and pleading with the work- tor with ‘end wage » not to strike against the increased ‘Wall Street profits, Street masters wa the workers to “understand.” Who. is. this telligent. labor?” Is it the thou- sands of coal miners who faced the bayonets of the National Guard troops in Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Ilinojs, striking aga‘nst the slavery of the N.R.A.? No. It is the high-salaried officials of the A. F. of L., the Greens, Wolls, Lewises, and McGradys who have openly become part of the Government machine for the. breaking of . It is these labor lieuten- ants of the Wall Street employers, who have exerted t energies to binding the workers to the N.R.A, N.R.A. strike-breaking Labor type of labor faker who of the employers by the es of the workers that Roosevelt iculture what does that mean? { the Roosevelt government has 3500,000,000 on the destruction of It m s that the Roosevelt ide er $50,000,000 for cotton and for the coming that Roosevelt's milk codes are rob- cit proper milk supply, on. of year. It bing-the ities of were called in to | him on how best to | William H. Woodin, | ike against reduced living standards | has been the key-note of the | Roosevelp pelicy—this is what Roosevelt and his Wall | “understands” And | righteously against “those while permitting the milk monopolies to reap huge profits at the expense of the small farmer. It means the clubbing, and shooting down of milk strike pickets in Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and New York. OOSEVELT handed out his usual stuff about “social control for the common good.” He inveighed against 1 privilege” and “special power And such is the appalling rottenness of this man’s speeches, such is the crafty service he does his Wall Street masters, that only 2 few honrs before he hypocritically uttered these words, he had signed @ bill abolishing the recently passed special taxes on high Wall Street incomes, dividends, and corporation surpluses! And at the same time, he had extended the $600,000 000 Hoover excise taxes, which are paid for by the masses in taxes on antos, gasoline, radios, cigarettes, ete. And during his administration, the RFC. has handed out money to the banks and Wall Street, mono- polies faster than they did under Hoover. This master of capitalist salesman blarney talks high places who seek 0 line their own nests with other people’s money.” And only two months ago, kis own personal friend, Jesse H. Jones, who is now the appointed Chairman of the R.F.C., plundered the B.F.C. treas- ury of $60,000,000 for his own little bank in Oklahoma! He talks against “special privilege’—and he has poured $11,000,000 000 into the Japs of the Wall Street monopolies through the N.R.A. and R.F.C., in order to protect their interes; payments and loans! And all the while he has refused to give one penny to the 17,000,000 jobless for unemployment insurance! And while he prepares to clamp down another huge tax of $400,000,000 on the masses to pay off the Wall Street loans, he refuses to have anything what- ever to do with a capital levy or heavy surtaxes on the fortunes ef the rich! And he denies the jobless veterans their bonus “in order to balance the budget,” while he spends one billion dollars for war preparations within the space of six months! THAT js this “social control" of Roosevelt? It ts the attempt to organize production in the interests of Wall Street monopoly capital. It is the clamping down of the N.R.A. codes, so as to freeze wages at starvation levels, while prices soar, giving the mono~ polies high profits. It is the organized destruction of small business, small agriculture, through the N.R.A. | and the A.A.A. in order to solidify the strength of Wall Street. monopoly capital. It is the organized subsidizing of the Wall Street banks in order to protect them from the effects of the crisis, on their investments and Interest payments. It is the cenfralization and militarization of the rail- toads in order to permit the Wall Street railroad barons to grind more profit out of declining trafic, at the expense of the farm shippers and the railroad | workers, “For the common good?” This Roosevelt program ot assistance to Wall Street monopoly capital has raised the cost of living faster than at any other period of the country’s history, raising the cost of food 16 to 20 per cent! It has driven the living stand- ards of the mass below the Hoover level. It is at- tempting to drive the jobless into forced labor camps in order to reduce for the Wall Street monopolies the expense of supporting the jobless. Roosevelt’s program is the program of Wall Street. Tt is “control” in the interests of Wall Street profits. | That is the reality behind his sieek, lying phrases about “the abundant life.” EEE More Dictatorship eed Roosevelt. government is tightening its strike- breaking N.R.A. agencies. That is the meaning of the latest Roosevelt order creating a new centralized agency that will penetrate deeply into the States and country ‘localities. The new agency of the N.R.A., Roosevelt pointed out, will show people how to “take advantage of the N.R.A.” “In the almost necessary confusion of the emergency work, many people did not know how to utilize its new advantages and opportunities,” he said. That has one meaning. It means that the work- ers who have gone out on strike are now being told that they must “take advantage of the new oppor- tunities” provided by the N.R.A. Instead of striking, they must “take advantage of the new opportunities” for “information” and the “mediating of grievances” —and stay on the job. The new N.R.A. agency is a deliberate move to penetrate into the localities to break strikes and disorganize and crush resistance to the N.R.A. slave codes, It is another step along the road toward the fascization of the Roosevelt government, toward the cementing of the capitalist dictatorship, toward the fusing of the State political machine with Wall Street monopoly capital to protect the interests of that mono- poly capital. | papers to find out what was hap |to rally the reactionary elements, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECRMBER 8, 1988 Hears U.S. Secret Diplomacy Scored. Hull Brings Pressure to Foree Shelving | of Debt Question MONTEVIDEO,. Uruguay, Dec. 7.—| setret diplomacy.and maneuvers | of U, 8S. imperialism behind the| seenes of the Pan-American Con- | ference were sharply. attacked yes~| terday by Mexican Foreign Minister | Puig Casauranc,. whose charges that | the delegates had to'go to the news: pening at the Conference threw the | parley into a furor. ‘The head of the.Mexican delegation | declared that the United States was concealing its aims behind a veil of | secrecy and small _ sub-committee | meetings. He read extensively from a story in “La Prensa” of Buenos | Aires, Argentina, exposing 4 secret | meeting of the steering committee at | | which U. 8. Secretary of State Huil| brought pressure to: bear to force the | shelving of the: debt question which | many South American delegations} had insisted should be on the Con- | ference’s agenda. ~ The steering com- mittee likewise shunted to the Inter- | | sal by the Mexican delegation for a | mental debts owed to United | banks and financiers: | Alfonso Lopez, of Colombia, backed the Mexican delegation with an ap- peal for the democratization of the conference “to give small countries an equal position with the large ones.” The struggle between British and United States imperialists for con- trol of the conference sharpened yes- terday with Secretary of State Hull opposing a request from the League | of Nations to be permitted to send an observer to the conference, and the proposals by several delegations that Spain and Portugal be invited to sit in on the conference as “mother” countries of the South American na~ tions. He also voiced sharp opposi- tion to the threat of the Haitian dele- gation to offer a resolution for the invitation of France as “mother” country of Haiti. On a motion by Hull, the proposals on the League of Nations, Spain and Portugal were referred eh ea &@ sub-committee, Tokyo War Office Creates Pretext To Invade Mongolia. Reports “Uprising” in Drive To Widen Base For Anti-Soviet War TOKIO, Dec. 7—An announcement that “civil war had broken out” against the Peoples Government of Outer Mongolia was given to the press eee by the Japanese War Of- ice. While the report is not confirmed from other sources, it is well known that Japanese agents have been busy in Mongolia for the past two years fomenting strife against the Peoples Government which, with the toiling population, is sympathetic to the So- viet Union. These agents have tried priests and former big landowners expropriated by the masses, for an attempt to overthrow the Peoples Government and bring Mongolia un- der the influence of Japanese imper- jalism, which is seeking to widen its base in Manchuria for military inter- vention against the Soviet Union and its victorious Socialist construction. The Japanese are reported to have set up a new puppet government at Dolan Nor in Chahar, Inner Mon- golia, as a base of operations against the Peoples Government of Mon- golia. The “uprising” story is put forward as & basis for Japanese in- Montevideo Meet | American High Commission 2 propo- | 6 to 10 year moratorium on govern- | tervention in Mongolia, | LEGAL 1 Helping the Daily Worker through bidding for the original drawings of Burck’s cartcons: | City, $6.25. _Ghleago Workers’ Schoo! wins yesterday's drawing | Belgium to Build Chain of Forts on German Frontier Imperialists in Rush’ for New Ailgnments for Next War PARIS, Dec. 7.—The Belgian gov- ernment announced yesterday it would immediately begin construc- tion of a chain of huge fortresses and concrete shelters along the German and Dutch frontiers. Minister cs Na- tional Defense Deveze told the Sen- ate that the fortifications would be of sufficient strength to stop an in- vader until allied help might arrive. He declared that plans had been per- fected to enable the mobilization ot 12 army divisions within a signal day. France has completed a similar chain of fortifications along the German frontier. ‘The international situation is more critical than in years, Arthur Hen~- derson, ident of the “disarma- ment” conference, stated in Paris to- day. “Our recent experiences in Geneva and my conversations with the delegations from many countries have convinced me that the inter- national situation is, at this moment, more grave than it has been for sev- eral years,” he said. Italy has thrown a bombshell into the camp of its rival French im- perialists with the demand of the Fascist Grand Council for the reor- ganization of the League of Nations and revision of the Versailles Treaty. ‘The Italian alternative of bolting the League is interpreted by the French bourgeois press as a death blow to the League, whose structure and aims, they declare, cannot be revised. The newspaper ‘“Intransigeant” sees French military hegemony in West- ern Europe threatened, and declares: “If the League goes under, our for- eign policy goes under, too, and it will be necessary to seek another basis for it. At this moment France and Great Britain seem to believe still in what is in reality a phantom. But they will soon be compelled to drop this comedy.” On all sides there is a frantic rush by the imperialist powers to estab- | with a bid of $1.70. Total to date, $479.04, By Burek Oiher bids, 5-7 ty || Nanking Accepts | Japan Offer to Aid | Anti-Soviet Drive SHANGHAI, Dec. 7.—Acceptance by the Nanking Government of a Jap- | anese offer to help finange Nanking's Sixth Offensive against the Chinese Soviet Republic has evoked a furious rm of anger among the anti-im- alist masses of Chine. Demon- i strations against Nanking’s open col- |Jaboration with the Japanese invaders |of China, plunderers of Manchuria and Jehol Province and murderers of tens of thousands of Chinese civil~ ians, are being organized by workers’ organizations in this and other cities, | with the Chinese Communist Party jas the driving force. ‘The Japanese-Nanking financial ar- rangement is directed aginst the only force in China that is resisting the plans of the imperialist powers to| partition China. It is also in the nature of a reward to Nanking for its surrender of Manchuria and Jehol Province to the Japanese imperialists and its betrayal of the heroic defense of Shanghai in January, 1932, when the Japanese wiped out the populous proletarian district of Chapei. Sim~- ilar loan arrangements have been made by the United States imperial- ists. The Nanking Government has paid | $2,000,000 to the Canton leaders in the move to bribe the Canton clique |into withdrawing its support for the | Fukien Province sessionist regime. No fighting was reported yesterday in the new civil war between the Fukien regime and Nanking, although huge troop movements continued in South- ern Che-kiang Province where the hostile armies clashed several days ago. lish new alignments for the “next war,” which they openly admit to be “inevitable” and for which they are rapidly arming. Nazi Germany has hailed the Itelian attack on the Ver- sailles System and sees in fascist Italy a potential ally against France. Great Britain opposed to French military hegemony in Western Eu- rope, is increasingly lukewarm in its support of its French “ally” and is reviving the old British policy of a balance of power in Europe, by sup- porting the German demands for arms equality. Detroit Conference Launches League to Fight War, Fascism 70 Organizations Send Delegates; Endorse Anti-War Program DETROIT.—Seventy-five delegates, representing 70 labor organizations, with a combined membership of about. 10,000, at a conference in the Y. M. C. A., Adams and Witherell, Satur- day afternoon, unanimously endorsed the program of the United States Congress Against War and launched the Detroit League Against War and Fascism. J. Schaaf, of the League for Indus- tria Democracy, was elected chairman of the conference; Lonny Williams, young Negro worker, who was. a dele- gate to the Paris Youth Congress Against War and Fascism, was chosen vice-chairman, and Iimi Pintilla, of the Finnish Youth Club, secretary. Morris Raskin, secretary of the arrangements committee for the con- ference, gave the main report. He dis- cussed the significance of the U. S. Congress Against War, pointed out the steadily increasing menace of war and fascism, not only in foreign coun- tries but in the United States too, and called for the setting up of commit- tees in shops and factories and all organizations to wage a determined struggle against imperialist war and fascism. A. B. Magil, tor the Com- munist Party, pointed out that Mich- igan and Detroit are centers of the war industry, which makes it of de- cisive importance to build a strong anti-war movement in the factories of this city and state. He exposed the fascist and war features of Roosevelt's N. R. A. program, and declared that any struggle against fascism must in- volve a determined fight to free the Scottsboro boys and to smash the growing wave of lynchings that are part of developing fascism in the United States. In the discussion Delegate Curley, @ member of the American Rifle As- sociation, stirred the conference with concrete information showing how the ‘Milwaukee Plants | Picked Secretly for War r Airplanes Airport Experts | Appointed to State CWA Staffs i planning represen< y air corps, began in Milwaukee of plants turned into airplane, aerial bomb factories. | These manu: iring plants ate being |Selected for designated types of war |materials manufacture so that in an “emergency” a telegram from the war der $, would start them turning out necded equipment. Arangements have been made for the A. O. Smith Corporation to turn out bombs, utilizing its highly devele }oped welding process. The Seaman | Body Corporation has been chosen to | make army planes, Arrangements d with the aukee Parts Corporation, makers airplane engines, for motor con- J. Ott, manager of the |tative of the | Secret surv ‘that coul {motor and | industries divi: jof Commerce has been working on these deals with Lieut. Jordan. A survey of the Curtiss Bikport on Highway 41 and Silver Spring road and its highway approaches has also been compieted for the purpose of turning that port into an arniy base and airplane test field, Arrangements have also been made with Maj. Stan- E. Piasecki, manager of the’ Mil- | kee County (Socialist) airport, for the use of those facilities if needed. |No Socialist member of thé Milwau- kee County Board of Supervisors raised his voice in protest over these war preparations which involve the use of land oyer which they. have jurisdiction! | Because of Milwaukee's diversified | manufacturing many other plants here will be utilized. in war time, | Lieut. Jordan stated, This means the Falk Corporation; Allis-Chaimers Steel etc »i3feuat dNo ~gen ?rne Nordberg Manufacturing, Pressed Steel, etc. ete C.W.A. Picks Air Experts WASHINGTON,—One hundred and {seventeen aeronautical advisors have been appointed by the Federal Ad- ministrator of. Emergency Relief to serve as aids to the state Civil Works Administration in the selection of airport sites, it was announced yes- terday. a Clearly demonstrating the tse of C.W.A. funds for war preparation purposes, the announcemnt makes no mention of the number who will be employed or of the total amount of money to be expended on these proj- ects. Most of the money, ‘however, will be used to purchase the expensive hangars and airport materials, and very. little will go into salaries for jobless workers. port experts, New Jersey 2, Con- necticut, Delaware and Rhode Island one. each, and Pennsylvania five. About 250 additional appointments are planned. These men will have the duty of passing on all~civil work projects before they can be approved by the state C.W.A. youth were being prepared for war. William L. (Bud) Reynolds brought Farm Conference. The conference sent resolutions to President Roosevelt. and Governor Miller of Alabama détianding the im- mediate release of the Scottsboro boys Resolutions were also adopted de- manding the freeing of Torgler, Di- mitroff, Taneff, Popoff and all anti- fascist fighters in Germany, demand- ing an end to American interyention in Cuba, demanding the repeal of the Michigan criminal syndicalism law and the dropping of charges against four arrested farmers, and protesting against the formation of the Knights of Dearborn, an anti- Communist, fascist organization. An executive committee of about 25 was elected to carry on the work for the future. —$—____—. Behind “Radical” Talk Fenner Brockway, the I. L. P. Head, Sabotages United Front Struggles (Continued from Page 1) ies, Why does Brockway himself ad- votate a trading agreement between | she Soviet and the National Govern- | ment?. Are the Conservatives and | fliehards friends of the Soviet Union? But. possibly Brockway, who is not) bs dined to British capitalists making some profits out of Soviet trade, will | argue that Britain is not yet a Fas- sist. country and therefore trade Is permissible. Why, then, does Brock- denounce only the Soviet rela~ fons with Germany and not those a with Fascist Italy or Fascist Poland? | His Exceptions ‘This chairman of the LLP. does hold very consistently to his new- principles regarding Soviet for- trading relations. Singularly he makes exceptions precisely oases where it suits the in- British capitalists, who are relations with Poland, but miltaristic as~ pirations and anxious to see her com- pletely lined up in the anti-Soviet front. And although the British-Ger- man interventionists have failed so far, it 1s not because of lack of as- from the Second Interna- ional, the parties of which conducted furious campaign against the pro- igation of the Berlin Treaty, and id everything in their power to dis- sredi¢ the Soviet Union and under- nergy al mine its policy. (The campaign | was acti initiated by the organ of the At Soctal-Democracy, the Vienna “Arbeiter Zeitung.”) ‘On the other hand, these very parties are in raptures over the suc- signing of a Four-Power Pact, the imperialist powers. Let wery. worker think over why it is that the Social-Democratic Parties viciously denounce the Soviet Union Prolonging its treaty with Ger- for ensuring peace, but enthu- ly greet a pact between Britain, Germany and Italy. , @ pact between these warmed capitalist powers, y whose “disarmament” conference is their own condemnation, cannot be |for peace but for war. Protecting the British Diehards Brockway states that “The Russian | acquiescence in Japanese imperialism in the Far East, by its recognition of Manchukuo and its offer to sell Japan |the Chinese-Eastern Railway, is a |second example. Russia does not | want war. That one understands. | But international working: class op- | position to imperialism must not be. | Sacrificed even to the interests of | Russia.” Does Brockway really want the readers of the “New Leader” to |believe that he, the editor, does not |know that this offer was made pre- , cisely as & new demonstration of the peaceful policy of the USSR. to hinder the organization of provoca- tions against her by Japan? Brockway, who does not devote a line in_his article to the exposure of the Four-Power Pact, or against the embargo of the British diehards, is openly joining in the anti-Soviet campaign on the Second Interna- tional. He writes against “both in- ternationals” and asks for a “new mind and will,” but on the vital question of war and the Soviet Union he is already standing with both feet in the camp of the Sec~ ond International. All of his protestations about the importance of an economic boycott against Fascism serve Brockway very little. If he is so eager for the fight, why did the I.L.P. refuse to be represented at the International Anti-Fascist Congress in Paris? Also, in his en~ thusiasm for the boycott, which would merely have the effect of certain Ger~ man markets falling into the hands of the capitalists of other countries, Brockway calmly overlooks the mighty force which, day in and day out, is waging a merciless struggle against Fascism. Brockway will have his readers believe that the German Com- munist Party is dead. “The blunt truth is,” he writes, “that the inter- tee patin te national working ¢laes movement has collapsed before the fact of Fascism in 1933, just as it collapsed before the fact of war in 1914.” With a lofty impartiality he an- nounces that “both the Labour and Socialist International and the Com- muinist International have been proved bankrupt in policy and action by the Fascist triumphs in Germany.” ‘You are wrong again, Mr. Brock- Way, it is only the Second Interna- tional, to which you belonged, which. has collapsed, The Heroic Communist Party Brockway tries to prove his “case” by the simple method of ignoring the Communist Party of Germany, the Party which has never shown any signs of collapse, either before, or after, the Hitler dictatorship. Un- der the leadership of the Communist Party, the revolutionary workers fought against every step toward Fas- cism. The Communists struggled against Bruening, Papen and Schlie- cher when the Social-Democrats were welcoming those governments as “les- ser evils” than an open Fascist dic- tatorship. The Communists organ- ized the street fights of the workers against the armed bands of Fascism, they organized the united front in action—strikes and mighty demon- strations, Today the illegal Communist Party is leading the daily fight of the mass- es against Fascism despite hideous persecution and repression. Its illegal newspapers are spread everywhere, organizing and leading the fight, its leaflets are flooding the big factories, and revolutionary workers are not afraid to demonstrate on the streets. Brockway often claims that the T.L.P. is revolutionary, but is it carry- ing out one fraction of the activity of the Communist Party of Germany? Not Compromise But Treachery Brockway’s lying picture is nothing but an attempt to conceal the role of the Second International, which alone carries the responsibility for the advance of Fascism to power. Ac- cording to Brockway, whose “im- partial” article is practically 100 per cent against the Communists, “com- promise had rusted the machine of the German Social-Democratic Party” and therefore it coHapsed. Compro- mise! Brockway certainly lets his friends off very Nghtly. The policy ot the “lesser eyil,”~the voting for Hindenburg which Jet in Hitler, the open voting for Hitler:in the Reich- stag on May 17th~ is not Ria mise,” but downright treachery, Mr. Brockway. A party which tights against the revolutionary united front, specifically Tejects the proposals of the Commu- nist Party, and joins @ united front with capitalist governments, thereby splitting the workinig-tlass, is a party of betrayal, an accomplice. of Fas- cism, The very disorganization of the workers’ ranks; caused’ by this policy, -neouraged the Fascists to strengthen their attack. Brockway lets off Itis’ Social-Demo- cratic friends witha ‘caution, but he Pours out all the vials:of his wrath on the Communist. International, on the grounds that “It»shared in the des- truction of the possibility of effective united working clas resistance to Fascism by splitting the trade union Movement, arid treating the Social- Democrats as no” less the enemy than the Fascists,” ~ Has Brockway forgotten that the German Social-Democrais, like the British Labor Party, began the split in the workers’ ranks, by supporting the imperialist war in 4914,- and: collab- orating with the capitalist class ever since? Workers who fight for a class policy are always called. splitters by the reformists, just as the Labor leaders called the I.L.P; workers spiit- ters when they broke away from the Labor Party last year, The only and actual splitters are those leaders who bureaucratically imposed their policy of defending capitalism on the trade unions and expelled thousands of members who ted the fight against it. Who Sabotaged the United Front Brockway is also indignant at the Communist International estimation that Sociai-Democracy belongs to the Fascist camp. Why the tears? After the rejection of the Communist pro- posals for united front action, after the unanimous Reichstag vote for Hitler and after the advice given by the Social-Democrats to the workers to participate in the Hitler May Day, there is little need to argue about the tole of Social-Democracy. Still, -| Brockway must be corrected on one point, The Communist International never treated the Social-Democrats as no less the enemy than the Fascists, but always drew a clear dis- tinction which showed the role of Social-Democracy as Social-Fascists, pacemakers for Fascism. Moreover, the Comintern always stood for a united front of struggle with the Social-Democratic workers and strove to unmask the policy of the leadership, which was concealed with socialist phrases. His “Left” Reformism Brockway's boasted impartiality is really nothing but an attempt to save the face of the treacherous Social-Democracy by slandering the Communist International, ‘To con- ceal the fact that only the Second International has collapsed and that the Communist International continues to lead the mighty struggles of the working class throughout the world. What sort of “new mind and will” is this? There is nothing new in this attempt to conceal the role of reform~- ism. It is merely the old, old position of “left” leaders, who mouth such phrases to hide the fact that they belong body and soul to the reformist camp. Brockway has proved himseif to be nothing else than a servile apologist for the Second International, (Hardly a fitting role for the chair- man of @ party which proclaims itself to be revolutionary!) ~ Brockway concludes. his .. article, which was written immediately after he had attended a conference of “left” Socialist Parties in Brussels, with the declaration that: “These problems indicate the reel ior an international socialist policy which shall break with the past poli- cies of both the internationals.” This is Brockway’s way of stating that he is opposed to a fighting alli- ance with the Comintern, as decided upon by the I. L, P. Conference, and that he is out to form a new “inter- national.” Judging by the composi- tion of the associated Socialist Par- ties it will hardly bea two-and-a- quarter, let along a two-and-a-half International! Of the seven parties, only the Norwegian Party can claim any sort of membership, the German Socialist Labor Party liquidated it- self even before the Hitler coup, while the Italian Socialist Party is noth- ing but a figment of ae imagina- tion. Hiding the Character of the ‘Second International Is there any Independent Labor Party worker who thinks that the cause of Socialism will be advanced in Britain, or any other country, on. the basis of Brockway’s so-called plat- form? Such a platform, based on the view that the “International working-class movement has col~ lapsed,” would isolate the militant LL.P. workers from the Soviet Union and the fighting Communist Party of. Germany, and rob them of any revolutionary perspective; by its at- bee on “both internationals” it euses confusion regarding the differ- eg of principle, and conceals the real role of reformism as a capitalist ideology which paralyzes the struggle of the working class; it is a barrier in the way of those workers who are mcving forward from reformism to Co: »munism, | Thus Brockway’s “impartiality” | is again revealed to be a means of hiding the real eh’ ter of the Second Internati and assist- ay its counter-revolt Honary activ- In Britain, s “new mind and will’ can only have the effect: of undermining the united front; firstly, because his attack is aimed against the Communists, who are in the front ranks of the united front struggles, and secondly, because he comes to the rescue of the British section of the Secand International, the Labor Party, which is viciously sabotaging unity and co-operating with the National Government (e.g., World Economic Conference, Indian Constitution, etc.). British Reformism Follows Path of German Socialists British reformism is following the same path as German Social-Dem- ocracy, even to the point of ad- vancing the slogan of “Against Fas~ cism and Against Communism.” Brockway’s formulae are not contra~ dictory—but merely a variation of this line, He obligingly recognizes the class struggle in: words, but he con-" demns the activities of the parties of the Communist International, the only parties which lead.the.fight,.and. his censure of Social-Democracy is made only in order to give some plausibility to his repudiation of revo- lutionary policy. Thus, at the very moment when the capitalist offensive against the workers, especially the miners and unemployed, is intensifying, Brock- Way covers up the role of the leaders of the Labor Party and trade unions, who are trying to cripple the fighting power of the workers by preventing the building of the united working class form of struggle, and by de- Iuding them into relying on the so- called democratic parliamentary in- stitutions which, as Germany proved, serve to cover the dictatorship of the capitalist class, and to prepare the way for open Fascist dictatorship. Finally, it is necessary to ask, how does Brockway manage to write this article without a single reference to the decision of the Derby Conference of the LLP. to assist in the work of the Communist International? “The members of the LLP. should demand a tits | ' Wis, Dec. 7A few Hil es B. Jordan, Chie ) Vo mm ne greetings from the great Chicago | and the prosecution of all lynchers. | senha seaeae a a ee New York will have 17 of these air- | = cee eee ‘that the © ‘an answer to this question, and they should seriously think over the-posi« tion of the chairman of their. party, who so flagrantly violates majority decisions, and whose methods and Policy are so harmful to the working clas movement. Brockway did not speak on the O., resolution at Derby. Was it a diploma- tic silence? It seems to have been method of silent opposition, as he can hardly claim that, facts have changed since then. The Derby Conference took place after the coming of Hitler to power, after the passing of German, Social-Democracy to the camp of Fascism, and atfer the Labor Party had rejected the united front. Indeed, it was precisely these facts that led the membership to take their-fighting J decision. i There is no avoiding the conelusion ‘ views expressed in Brock- Way's article were also held*by him at the time of the Derby Conference, and ‘that he left the Second Interna- tional from expediency, aude: not by conviction. In the light of the situation ‘oreated by Brockway’s article, we ask the members of the LLP. the following questions: 1, Has the resolution of the Derby Conference b2en annulled or mat? 2. If not, why does the” Party chairman dare to write against it, and, instead of showing. how co- operation shall be carried out, begin to orgaoize a fight against: Com= munist International? 3. What will be the political line and the programme of the’ two-and- a-quarter, Internationa}, and who wal be in it? 4. Is it the job of the British workers to support the atteck on the international. reyohitiona: ey of a hor movement? $ Will Brockway's antici ‘helps ot eee eee harm, the building up of tha front-in Britain em@ in other coum- tries? ek aE