The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1933, Page 6

“America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1984 Published detly, emeept Sunday, by Go., Inc., 50 Bast 15th Street, New Telephone: Algonquin ¢-7965. Gable Address: “Datwort,”” New Yort, “~Pashington Bureau: Room exth and F. St, Washington, Subscription Retese Wetlowns By Mail: (except Manhattan 8 months, $8.80; 3m, Manhatten, Bronx, Fi © months, $5.00 m By Carrier: Week and Ballyl 4 3 per cel unemp wane for the Hoover period employment in decreases, affeirs. Smaller @opper and aluminum for the state reflecti ndustries number he of emplo: rages to | z Workers, it means that tens nds lost their jobs, with ‘ospects of ea faced with @ecreased relief lists, with a few O.W.A. jobs, for which there are millions waiting vainly One of the vicious facts adm by the New York State industrial commissioner is that the increase in @mployment, though usual during October, is greater ‘his year than usual. ‘The rise in unemployment—and the greater rise to come—should be the greatest stimulus to the move- ment for unemployment insurance ‘These facts of rising unemployment should be used bo the full to mobilize for the national unemployment @onvention to be held in Washington, D, ©., January | 73,14 and 15. A Revolutionary Duty FFILIATED in the Trade Union Unity League there are unions with over 100,000 workers. Furthermore, i the A. F. of L. there are many opposition groups, Working closely with the revolutionary trade unions ia all the struggles of the workers for increased wages, union recognition, and against the attacks of the em- floyers All of these workers, and many more thousands Under their influence, and following their leadership, have been in the crux of the major strike struggles that swept the country this summer and fall. Especially in the basic industries, such as coal and Steel, where the revolutionary unions have been leading the struggles, the workers have learned of the prin- tiples and program of the Communist Party. They have | Seen its leaders in action. They have learned many Téssons of the role of capitalism, and its state power. To these workers, who have been in the front lines of the class struggle, we appeal to join the Communist DAILY WORKER, NEW YORE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1988 P. As Roosevelt’s Financial Adviser a ‘ Louis Waldman, that it is opposed to the Roosevel This wi statement signed by Norman esterday, inflation policy. ny workers who articles in the Leader, in which he has advocating a program of “controlled program which he called “partia: the New in all their proposals st e best ways to preserve the der which the Wall Street mono- polies make their huge profits. Their proposals are the revolutionary class proposals of the prole- Instead, ir proposals are always peculiarly adapted to the special needs of the capitalists at each stage of the advance of the crisis. Concretely, thei is the specific program that, at the present ht into the hands of the Wall Street ht in with the whole Roosevelt down the livin he Roosev expense: caring e unemployed. peculiarly adapted Tt is a prog apport to the Wall Street bond- is disguised behind “radical” his “The few advaniages that might be gained from inflation and the changes sought to be accomplished by those who advocate it could be achieved by sounder methods without incurring the dangers involved in inflation.” Then Norman Thomas ouilines a five point program which he offers in place of inflation: 1, Reduction of interest on all indebtedness, in- cluding farm mortgages, to 2 or 242 per cent. 2. The reduction of the capital structure of all business and utilities affected with a public interest, representing a form of liquidation of the excess finan- cial burden now borne by the nation. 3. A capital levy scientifically assessed and ap- plied. 4.A steep increase in inheritance taxes, the proceeds from which would be used primarily for the retirement of government bonds. (Our emphasis—Ed.) 5. The issuance of currency to finance the public works program ...a polcy of financing the public works program, which the next Congress may have to enlarge, by the Wsuance of currency instead of bonds .. . (Our emphasis—Ed.) * ae ° WILL analyze it step by step. The first paragraph: “the changes and advan- tages sought by the inflationists can be achieved by sounder methods.” That is what it says, doesn’t it? Now what does this mean? It means that the Socialist leaders, that Norman Thomas, and the others, are not offering any opposition to the “changes and advantages” sought by the Roosevelt government. They do not attack or criticize the objectives of the Roosevelt inflation! Not one word of criticism of these objectives is mentioned in the document. They | merely advise Roosevelt that the same “advantages Party. Join the Party of your class. Join the Party im the vanguard of the struggle against capitalism on all fronts (OU workers who have shown your militancy and courage in the face-of the mobilization of all the | gunmen and thugs of the steel and coal trusts know that it is the Communist leadersh t has been most stalwart d unf aleo know that in your economic str for better living condit s, against the drives of the Dosses, all of the political forces of the bosses were brought into action against you. ‘Many of you have the greatest resp and sympathy for the Communist Party. You have seen it in action and know it is fighting for the overthrow of capitalism and the victory of the American toilers. We appeal to.you to lend your force to the Con Party. By entering its ranks a it will we able to speed the w We appeal to you no’ & member of your Party Tuggle. You in the fight to join our ranks, to become and to take a more leading part in the struggle against capitalism and for a revo- Tutionary way out of the crisis. [ANY of these workers we know feel close to the Communist Party scious driving force nec Party. This becomes the tions within these vu But there was not that con- them into the sk of the Communist frac- se trade nm leaders and confidence, pre- cisely because they are Communists, are the ones who Rave the greatest responsibility in actually recruiting these workers. Especially in the basic in ies where the Party Fhust be rooted have we seen the lack of this conscious, ting among the workers in the great struggles hhaye taken place. We have not sufficiently been ‘@onscious of the necessity of mobilizing these workers into our Party, as pointed out by the Open Letter @ddressed to the Party membership by the Extraor- dimary Party Conference held last July, just before Phe outbreak of the huge strike wave. At that time, the Open Letter declared: oe “It is idle chatter to talk about the revolutioniz- ping of the working-class by the Party, unless the _ Party conquers a firm basis for itself among the miners, metal and steel workers, railread workers, guto, marine and textile workers. 22 “The working-class will be in a position to fulfill “its role as the most decisive class in the struggle against finance capital, as the leader of all toiling masses, only if it is headed by a Communist Party yhich is closely bound up with the decisive strata -the workers.” #%-To you workers in these decisive industries who Have been engaged in struggle and are convinced of the’ necessity of overthrowing capitalism, we appeal— Join the Communist Party! *=To the leaders of the revolutionary trade unions aha the leaders who are helping the opposition forces dn the reformist unions, we say—recruit for the Com- ‘Taunist Party! Build the Communist Party into a Maes proletarian revolutionary Party of the American working-class! iy Join the Communist Party / * 3s EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. Please send me more information on the Commu- Party. and changes” can be accomplished by “sounder” methods. What are the “advantages and changes” that Roosevelt is deliberately trying to accomplish by his N.R.A. and inflation policy? It is the cheapening of the buying power of the masses through depreciated paper money in order to protect the profits of the Wall Street monopolies. This has already resulted in a 10 per cent slash in the real wages of all wage workers! It is the intensification of the exploitation of the workers, the assistance to Wall Street imperialism to drive outward against imperialist rivals, the assistance to Wall Street monopoly capital in the swifter cen- | tralization ef monopoly control of industry, Already, Roosevelt's objective, WHICH THE SOCIALIST STATEMENT DOES NOT CRITICIZE, BUT ACCEPTS AS PRAISEWORTHY, has given the monopolies a 450 per cent increase in profits in the last six months! Look at article 5, for example. An analysis of this proposal reveals that the Socialist Party leaders, behind all their talk against inflation, are in reality, now urging upon the workers the very inflationary proposal which is the logical development and con- tinuation of the present Roosevelt inflation program. They are, in fact, urging upon the workers, that kind of open, crude inflation that Roosevelt himself has not yet dared to foist upon the masses! iy Thomas, in this article, urges the workers to accept as wages on another public works program, floods of new, cheap, paper currency! And it is pre- cisely this kind of inflated currency that has already raised the living costs of the workers, and will send prices soaring still higher, still further reducing the buying power of the workers! This is exactly what Roosevelt is heading for! The Socialist leaders, behind a fraudulent “oppo- sition” to inflation, are preparing the way for Roose- velt’s next inflationary attack against the American workers, They are the advance publicity for this next Roosevelt inflationary flood of cheapened cur- rency! They propose to reduce the interest debt of the | small, ruined farmer from 5 to 2% per cent. They are | very careful to avoid the proposal to CANCEL the | mortgages held by Wall Street! They are very careful | to avoid’ touching the sanctity of the private invest- ments of the Wall Street banks in the mortgages of the ruined farmers! They propose a reduction of interests, the better to enable the mortgage holders to keep their investments, the better to break up the fight of the impoverished farmers for COMPLETE CANCELLATION OF THE WALL STREET MORT- GAGE DEBTS! The Socialist leaders propose an inheritance tax. But for what purpose? To provide unemployment insurance for the workers, perhaps? Not at all. BUT TO PAY OFF THE GOVERNMENT BONDS HELD BY THE WALL STREET BANKS AND INVESTORS! They say so themselves, without any shame. They propose a reduction in capital structuré, But this will not reduce the wage slavery, the capitalist expioitation of the workers by the Wall Street mono- polies one jot! Actually, this is a proposal that glso fits in with the present needs of the Wall Street monopolies in order to keep them from bankruptcy! And the proof of that is, that only two days ago, one of the biggest Wall Street banks, the National City bank, reduced its capital structure in order to be in @ position to receive a $50,000,000 subsidy from the Roosevelt R.F.C.! It is to protect the capitalists from | bankruptey that the Socialist leaders make their “radi- cal” proposals! « ‘© HERE we have the Socialist program against: in- flation! It turns out to be deliberately calculated to fasten the chains of the Roosevelt Wall Street inflation program upon the masses. It is the program which serves not the class interests of the workers in their fight against Wall Street exploitation, but which attempts to prepare the road for the. workers” acceptance of just this Wall Street program. Here the Socialist workers can see the truth of the Communist Party charge that the Socialist Party is in reality a Party for the preservation and strength- ening of the capitalist system, a Party which tries to solve the problems and difficulties of the capitalist class. Gy a declared iy latest program, allegedly against | standards of the | g the Roosevelt, government to continue | THE MEAT GRINDER General Smedley Butler | Helping the Daily Worker through bidding for the Original drawings ef Burck’s cartoons: Long Cove Unit, Tenants Harbor, Me. wins yes- Lays War to Bankers.”’—News terday’s drawing, Item, N. Y. Times. with a bid of $11.56. Other bids, roup of Office Workers, $6.25. Total to date, $524.45. | || Moscow Scientists || Isolate Typhus Germ MOSCOW, Dec. 1i.—The Metch- nikovy Institute of Moscow an- | | nounced yesterday-that it had suc- ceeded in isolating the typhus germ, They expect as a result to eliminate the typhus menace in the Soviet Union and other eastern countries. This marks a tre- mendous step forward in the an- nals of medicine, Typhus is a contagious disease which has plagued Europe for centuries. Socialists Assist in Wage Cut Plan of French Government | PARIS, Dec. 11—With the Social-| ist deputies co-operating with the | government by abstaining from vot- | ing, the Chautemps Ministry yester- day secured the adoption by the| Chamber of Deputies of its budgetary | program for increased taxation, and} drastic cuts in the wages of civil employes and in unemployed relief. The pay-cut proposal was adopted | by a vote of 345 to-150, with the So- cialists abstaining. The new tax pr | posals and cuts in fhe social service | were voted by 282 to 191 and 292 to 224. The Communist deputies vigor- | ously assailed all three proposals and | voted in a united bloc against them. ‘The adoption of the plans of the |new ministry to balance the budget | at the expense of the toiling masses is meeting with wide hostility and re~ sistance from “the workers. ‘he petty-bourgeois masses are also pro- testing against the new taxes. The } Federation of Civil Servants has sent }out a call to its members to hold themselves in readiness for a gen- | eral strike against the proposed pay cuts, Huge Canal to Connect Moscow W ithCaspianSea MOSCOW.—A canal which will in- | volve almost as much work as the Panama Canal and more than seven times as much as the Baltic-White Sea Canal, and which will open di- rect water routes from Moscow to the Caspian and eventually to the Azov and Black Seas, is now under construction over a distance of 81) miles. | The project is scheduled for com-| pletion by the end of 1935. When it is finished, Moscow will be encircled | by a deep, wide river. Upon ap- proaching the city, the canal will branch in two, to the east and north- west, forming a circle around Mos- cow deep enough for steamers carry- ing 18,000 tons of cargo, Through other canals Moscow will be linked up with the Baltic and White Seas. | The project involving clearing 203,- | 000,000 cubic yards of earth, com- pared with the 221,000,000 on the Panama Canal, and the pouring of 45 million cubic yards of concrete and ferro-concrete—three times as much as was consumed in construc- tion of the Dnieprostroi dam. At present Moscow consumes gallons of water per head daily, The new project, which includes the building of many reservoirs, dams, locks and bridges, will increase the| supply to 132 gallons. The Volga| will thus supply the buik of Mos- cow's water, amounting to a flow of} 8.25 gallons a second The great advantages of the new canal include economies in distances. From Moscow to Gorki, the new canal cuts the distance from 654 miles of hard sailing to 512 miles of easy travel. Leningrad today is 1,579 miles from Moscow by the extremely poor Mariinsk water route; the new canal will bring it within 962 mi 621 miles nearer the Baltic, and by means of the Baltic-White Sea Canal, to the White Sea. i 38 | e U. 6, Outpoints British Rivals in Montevideo Meet MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. 11— For the second time since the con- vening of the Pan-American Con~- ference in this city, the imperialist rivalries dictating the program of the conference are sharply emphasized in a fierce battle raging in the two- year war between Bolivia and Para- guay, whose. puppet governments represent respectively the United | States and British imperialism. Paraguayan forces are reported to have surrounded 13 regiments of oBlivian troops, which are in acute danger of being cut off from the main body. The Bolivian forces are also in retreat from Alihuata, after a crushing defeat by the Paraguans.| County, workers yesterday stoned an jautomobile in which William T. Cos- Meanwhile, the U. S. imperialists won a victory against their British rivals by a vote in the conference to- day to remove from discussion the question of co-operation with the League of Nations, to which the UO. S. delegation, headed by Secretary of State Huti, was opposed. The proposal to co-operate with the League included a project to invite | the League to send an observer to the conference and was promoted by the British through the Uruguayan delegation. The vote against the League was made after a secret conference yes- terday between Hull and Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas of Argentina, at which Hull is believed to have offered Argentina tariff con- cessions in exchange for Argentina’s support for the U. S. program at the conference. } | jarmy, to show Welles that he is wor- LETTER EXPOSING COUNTER- REVOLUTIONARY PLOTTING Cuban Army Head Aids U. 8. Utility Against Union Men’ Maneuvers With Wall St. Ambassador on Government HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 11—Colonel Pulgiencio Batista, head of the Cuban thy of recognition as a tool of Wall Street, yesterday appeared before the electrical workers in Havana mand or- dered them to grant an extra week to the Cuban Electric Co. to consider the demands of the workers. Batista threatened to use the army against the workers if’ they struck before that time. At the same time, Batista, President Grau and others in the present re- gime have been holding conferences with Wall Street's ambassador Welles with a view of forming a coalition government which would be better able to increase the attacks on the workers. One report here states that there is @ crisis in the Grau regime, with An- tonio Guiteras, secretary of interior and war, Fernandez Velasco, secretary of labor, and Carlos Havia, secretary of agriculture offering their resigna- tions. Meanwhile, the army is becoming a more independent force, with greater actual military and political control of the island. | Colonel Batista is taking a more prominent part as one of the leading figures in the government favoring a concentration government, represent- ing all of the various factions of the Cuban landlord-capitalists. Batista has increased the army from 8,000, its strength under the Machado regime, to 12,000. Welles is favorably disposed to Ba- tista and is helping to strengthen his hand, hoping to make an alliance with | the Grau-Batista regime and the counter-revolutionary A.B.C, Irish Workers Stone Cosgrave Government Protects Fascist Chief DUBLIN, Dec. 1i—In protests against h’s fascist activities, Donegal grave, former president of the Free State Executive Council and organizer of the fascist Blue Shirts, was travel- ling. Cosgrave’s car was preceded by a car-load of Irish fascists and followed by another car carrying detectives as- signed to guard him by the Free State government which a few days ago made a gesture of outlawing the fas- cist party. The fascists and detectives fired on the workers. At Ballyshannon last night Gen. Owen O'Duffy, head of the Blue Shirts, defied the government ban and appeared at a meeting wearing a blue shirt. After the meeting he disappeared without any attempt of the government to arrest him, al- though a number of his followers have been arrested during the past two days. For Decisive Action | Against Nazi Murderers This is the conciysion of an ar- ticle by Comrade Bela Kum, which is of special importance to the American workersy The recent con- vention of the American Federation of Labor adopted: a resolution to boycott German goods as the method of struggle of the American work- ers against German fascism. The attitude of the leadership of the American Federation of Labor and the American S, P..on the struggle against German Fascism is part of the same treacherous line as that of the entime Second Socialist In- ternational. Comrade Bela Kum gives the Communist position on the boycott movement and presents the working class revolutionary methods of struggle against Ger- man Fascism and the Fascism of their own bourgeoisie. —EDITOR’S NOTE. eae By BELA KUM Member of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (PART Tl) Revolutionary workers, anti-fascist toilers, whether they are non-party, or are still members of the class-be- traying bourgeois labor organizations, can in no event allow themselves to be placated by the Social-Democratic and reformist deceptive maneuvers concerning the merchandise boycott against Fascist Germany. ‘The international struggle against the bloody fascist dictatorship of finance capital in Germany can he conducted successfully in each coun- try, only if this struggle is directed simultaneously against one’s own bourgeoisie. | Communist Position on Anti-Nazi Boycott How can one believe that the merchandise boycott against Fascist Germany, which is announced by a party like the French Social-Demo- cratic Party or by the reformist trade unions whose representatives vote for the war budgets of their respective imperialist governments, in whose ranks we fird neo-fascists like Mar- quet, Marcel Deat and others, who openly aspire to the fascization 07! France, who have entered into a re- actionary united front with their own bourgeoisie—that a boycott resolution coming from such quarters represents an act of international class strug- gle? What else is the significance of the boycott resolution of the Austrian trade unions and the Austrian Social- Democracy which actually support the Heimwehr-fascism which relies upon Italian fascism, as being the “lesser evil?’—what else is it if -not participation in the action of the Dollfuss government and the Heim- wehr-fascists? This joint action of the Austrian bourgeois and Social- Democratic parties is apparently di- rected ageiinst the German fascists, but, in reality, against their own working class in the general course of suppressing the proletarian revelu- tion in the interests of the defense of Austrian capitalism. Merchandise Boycott Swindle. The duty of the anti-fascist work- ers follows, however, from what has been said, namely, that the merchan- dise boycott proclaimed by the Social- Democrats is a swindle: continue the veal struggle already commenced by the workers against bloody German Fascism in all its manifold forms, such as protest demonstrations against the various manéfestations of fascist terror, boycott of the agents of German Fascism, etc. The organized driving out of the National-Socialist agents abroad, as happened in London, is also an ap- propriate method of struggle against Fascism if this struggle ts linked with the struggle against one’s own fas- cists. bandits as well as against one’s own government, against one’s own au- thorities. These include the Social- Democratic party and trade union leaders in such countries as Czecho- slovakia, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland, which daily violate the once sacred rights of Democracy, the right to extend hospitality to political fugitives who have been driven from their own countries by counter-revo- lution—and are now driven back across the border. Methods of Struggie Against Fascism The great activity displayed in sup- plying material aid to the victims of fascism in Germany and moral and political support to the anti-fascist German emigrants is aimed Against Hitler, as well as against one’s own bourgeoisie and its social-fascist ser- vitors; and so much the more so because the Social-Democratic and reformist party and trade union bu- reaucrats try to cause a split also in this activity by extensively advertis- ing the Matteotti fund which has long ceased to exist. Boycotting German merchandise may also be included in the manifold forms of struggle of the foreign workers against bloody German fa- scism. But, in the first place, this boycott. must be linked consistently with the boycott of their transport, that is, must bear the character of an economic blockade of fascist Ger- many. Second, this blockade must be or- ‘ter of fact, nothing more nor less ganized at a moment when the revo-|than a diversive maneuver whose aim lutionary mass movement in Germany |it is to sabotage the real struggle has already reached a high level, sojagainst German that fascism is confronted with its|the fascism of one’s own country. direct collapse; the revolutionary workers carry out the struggle against |leader, the Communist 5 German fascism in full accord with the revolutionary militant activity of the German proletariat, conducted Refusal to work on ships flying the swastika flag, the struggle for the right of asylum of German anti-fa- scist fugitives, the struggle against any violation of the right of asylum extended to German anti-fascists are all directed at the same time against the Bloody dictatorship of the Hitler under the leadership of the Commu- nist Party of Germany, the only real anti-fascist party there, correspond- ing to the degree of the revolutionary class struggle in Germany itself at the given time. ‘The German proletariat is prepar- ing for the struggle to overthrow the Hitler dictatorship, Its leading party, 4 | Socialist Boycott Reso- lution An Empty Gesture the Communist Party of Germany, is the party which conducts the day- to-day struggle without fear or hesi- tation wherever these preparations are being made. But the incessant, indefatigable day-to-day revolution- ary struggle against the Hitler dic- tatorship and all its political and eco- nomic measures must be conducted not only in Germany, but also abroad, against this unbridled bloody terror ‘ary organizations of the workers in if it is to guarantee decisive aid to the German proletariat in its struggle to overthrow the Hitler government. The Germany Communist Party—the Leader of the German Proletariat The struggle against the German Social-Democratic Party is an integ- ral part of this struggle. By splitting the working class, this party not only lifted the Hitler hordes into the sad- dle but is now about to widen this split in order by this means to help prolong the life of fascism in Ger- many. The fight against the Social- Democratic swindle is an indispens- able condition of this anti-fascist struggle. ‘This swindle maneuver would have ‘us believe that the Social-Democratic Party is an anti-fascist power, while its merchandise boycott is, as a mat- fascism and against The German proletariat Sage ve every right to demand the entire international proletariat that it dis- play a solidarity which is not to con- sist merely in passing resolutions which are tantamount to serving the ends of one’s own bourgeoisie, but that it display its solidarity in deeds, in militant activity. Nothing but a own and against German fascism can be of any avail to the German work- ers, Decuments Expose Aid by Wall St. to ABC Counter-Revolts By HARRY GANNES NEW YORK.—I have just returned from Havana, where U. S. Ambassador Benjamin Sumner Welles is preparing new ‘counter-revolutionary armed up= riaihgs to install another form of the Machado regime under the hegemony of the native landlord-capitalist ABC. While in Havana I learned of two important documents showing Welles impieation in all of the armed up- risings;.and particularly his connet- tion with the Machado armed forces in their struggles to smash the Cuban workers’ and peasanis’ organizations. ‘Thess? documents will be available Saturday. One of these documents ds a letter signed by Welles himself to a friend in Néw York. The other, supporting Welles” imperialist, bankers’ and counter-revolutionary policy, is a let- ter written to the same person in New York by the ABC Iéader Juan Andres Liiteras. Both of these documents are being published. in Havana newspapers, They have been printed in leaflet form by the Communist Party of Cubs and are being circulated throughout! the ‘island to expose the murderous plots of. Roosevelt's ambassador Wel- les inorder to fasten more firmly the: bloody rule of American bankers on'the Cuban masses. Saturday the Daily Worker will publish these sensational documents in English and Spanish. Never before, since the butcher Machado was overthrown, and Amer- ican imperialism has been preparing armed intervention to prevent the workers and peasants of Cuba from seizing power, have such documents comé*to light. They throw a bright light:on many of the dark deeds of the-Reosevelt regime in this strategie watbase and Yankee colony. These documents will make a furor in Guba. Every worker should read them to see how the American bank~ ers Maneuver with the army of Cuba preparing to shoot down striking workérs and wipe out the revolution- ‘ & se@ of blood. With one of the figures in the Grau Tegime, Secretary of War and Interior Guiteras, mentioned in these documents, the AmericanAntf-Imperl- akst-Delegation had an interview, Guiteras is a left faker, parading un- der.t-he demagogy of a struggle agairist imperialism, in order to wring Wall Street recognition for his regime. On-the one hand, he ovenly attacks Welles. On the other, he crawls on his “Imees to Welles for recognition, Guiteras told us that though he knew Welles plotted with the ABC in the National Hotel and Atares Fortress uprising, he had no documentary proof of- this fact. . Saturday the Daily Worker will , print documentary proof that Welles | supports the ABC and promised them if they should start an_ uprising, American battleships would be held in readiness, but would not prevent them. The Daily Worker on Satur- day will print documents to show that Welles urged the ABC to seize power by any means, in order to crush the revolutionary working class, and that they would get the sup- port of the American bankers. These documents will make history in Cuba, and no one should miss ob~ taining & copy of the Saturday’s is~ sue of the Daily Worker to read the private opinions of Wall Street’s am- bassador fin Cuba and the policy that guides Roosevelt's bloody attack on the Cuban masses, to be exclusively printed in the Daily Worker. France Plots War inSecret Meets with — the Little Entente PARIS, Dec. 11.—A series of secret conferences to speed up the war preparations of French imperialism and its “little Entente” allies were opened this week with an exchange of ‘Visits between the Foreign Min- isters of Rumania, Czéchoslavakia and Jugoslavia. Foreign Minister Benes of Czechoslovakia has been invited to come to Paris to confer with the French Foreign Minister, Joseph Paul< Boncoti.” Benes will confer with For= eign Minister Titulescu of Rumania next Sunday. The Little Entente has joined France and Poland in attacking the Italian proposals for revision of | League of Nations constitution which is based on the maintenance of the Versailles Treaty. Paul-Bontour de= clared. yesterday that France would oppose the Italian proposals and will resigt’ the “least.dimunition of the League” (read; Versailles Treaty) “which remains ahd will remain the basis of French policy.” Se Tokyo Cabinet Asks : More Power To Push Trade War on Rivals TOKYO, Dec. 10—The Japanese — Government yesterday asked the Diet for power to make tariff réprisals y executive decree against its imperial ist rivals in the bitter trade war ng between the imperialist powe ers for control of the diminishing . woe market. Government spokes | mef expressed fear of concerted ine ternational action by the United | States, Britain and Italy against the | flood of cheap goods exported by Jay Concern was also. expressed over the growing prestige of the So- viet:Union in the international field, and the recent trade talks between Li and the Ttalian governs —