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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1934 Page Seven tent of his “disarmament” pro- Dosals, especially as set forth in his recent Woodrow Wilson Foundation speech, Presenting again the theme of the Various schemes advanced by the United States delegates, from the last year of the Hoover regime, to the first year of the New Deal, Roose- velt appealed for the destruction of # “offensive” weap- 3 ons. “Let every nation agree to eliminate over a } short period of years and by pro- Bressive steps, every weapon of defense in its pos- xssion and to create no addi- ‘ional weapons of offense,” said the man who is busy forging a navy “second to none.” The so-called Geneva Disarma- ment Conference consumed a great deal of its futile discussions in debat- ing whether this or that type of| armament should be called “offen- " or “defensive.” Each country, of course, insisted that its own most necessary brand of weapon be con- sidered purely defensive, with the ex- ception of the Soviet Union which, exasperatingly enough for the im- Derialist “disarmament” delegates, actually proposed the destruction of all armaments, “Is my proposal prop- aganda?” asked delegate Litvinoff of the Soviet Union. “Certainly, prop- sganda for Peace.” * West. Specifically, did the United States regard as offensive weapons | which ought to be scrapped by all nations? First of all, it proposed that everyone do away with poison gas, a suggestion which bourgeois profes- sional humanitarians greeted with great approval. On closer examfria- tion, however, it eventuates that all the U.S. wanted was to forbit the use of poison gas in war. But at the same time it fought against any proposal to destroy these gases or to stop their manufacture. It did this because it wanted to continue the building up of ever larger stocks of new and more deadly gases. Secondly, the U.S. proposed the actual abolition of tanks and heavy artillery, superficially a generous offer from an imperialist government, But to anyone who knows anything about the high degree of develop- ment of American capitalism and the degree to which {it has been fitted into the schemata of the elaborate Wer erit Industrialization Plan, it is clear that with its immense factory equipment (the destruction of gun and tank factories, of course, was not suggested) the US. could get off to a much quicker start in build- ing these armaments at the begin- ning of 3 war than Japan, France or Great Britain. Finally, the, United States delega- tion included bombing planes on the list of armaments to be scrapped. This constituted a demagogic appeal to the masses of workers who in- Seymour Waldman WALL STREET’S CAPITOL By SEYMOUR WALDMAN. 'ASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—President Roosevelt’s tremendous war machine, his hundreds of millions for one of the greatest naval programs in history, the many millions for mechanization, motorization, increase of the naval personnel | and what not, explain the con-?— stinctively associate airplane raids with modern war. It was also a crafty —_ Greetings from CONEY ISLAND SECTION. INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE and its Branches: Coney Island & Brighton Beach Ave. Bill Heywood, Meets every Ist and 3rd Thursday ‘Harry Sims, Meets every Ist and Sra ‘Thursday Wm. Hoshker, Meets every Thursday Lawrence Emery, Meets every Mon. TE LTE DTT TIT TED proposal, for military planes are a two-edged weapon, Being relatively cheap, even small countries can afford them and with good marks- manship and daring a few planes canj do a lot of damage, although greatly outnumbered. One need only think of what a single bomber could do to the Panama Canal. To get rid of such @ menace to the U.S. is of no small importance—especially when the U.S. War Department has plenty of fac- tories blue-printed and ready to start into mass manufacture of these planes at a moment’s notice. Such a treaty, needless to say, would not apply in case of war. OOSEVELT’S $238,000,000 naval construction program and _ the pending Vinson bill authorizing $513,- 000,000 more for the construction of 100,000 tons of destroyers, 35,000 tons of submarines, an aircraft carrier, and, in addition, under a general clause, the replacement of all of the $30,000,000 battleships, many of which have just been reconditioned at an expense of approximately $7,000,000 to $10,000.000 each—all this brings up the question of navies. How about navies? Navies—battle- ships, cruisers, airplane carriers—are not “offensive” weapons, at least when made in the United States. And as to submarines—well, perhaps the uniformed lieutenants of the big U.S. coporations might agree to get rid of them. But the lieutenants of the big French and Japanese cor- porations have reams of speeches and \documents ready to prove that submarines are entirely defensive and make it clear that they will not abolish them until their rival imper- jalist junk their “defensive” battle- ships and cruisers. Why this seeming comedy? For the simple reason that submarines, like airplanes, are re- latively cheap and can operate ideally as “lone wolves’—they are poor na- tions’ weapons. On the other hand, only the richest capitalist countries have enough | wage slaves and natural resources to exploit for the maintenance of huge fleets of warships. It is, therefore, to the interest of Great Britain and the U.S., to maneuver French and Jap-/| anese imperialists out of compar- atively cheap armaments while hold- ing on their expensive ones. IS, one can see that Roosevelt’s demand for the abolition of all “offensive” weapons amounts to a demand for the scrapping of some of the principal weapons of the great land powers, especially France, while refusing even to consider the scrap- ping of the largest weapons of attack in the entire world—the battle fleets of the great sea powers. In the face of all this, the liberals and pacifists greet the “disarma- ment” schemes of the U.S. with en- thusiasm, setting up a smoke screen behind which the clear-purposed im- perialists go on exploiting workers in peace that they may be able to bleed and slaughter more of them in war. Every time Roosevelt spouts about peace and scores the mean politicians (of other countries, of course) who oppose peace, a new warship slides down the ways. That's part of the New Deal. FAREWELL PARTY riven by —DOWNTOWN BR., F. 8. U.— SUNDAY, JAN. 21st, at 6:30 P.M. at 168 West 23rd Street Ym Honor of Our Shock Brigader Sophie Warnick, leaving for the Soviet Union ADMISSION 250. Refreshments, Entertainments, Includes ts, Dancing WORKEERS--EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1688 PITKIN AVENUE ‘Near Bopkinsom Ave. Brookiyn, ®. T. Cars Say Comrade! How About Climbing Mount Beacon? REAL WINTER SPORTS AT NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. ¥. 2700 BRONX PARK EAST - EStabrook 8-1400 American Working Class (Continued from Page 6) lized economy; ng the powerful re- workers and peasants learn to bui: ® new life, learn to do without capi-| / talists; only thus will th new trail—through thousands of o! stacles—to a victorious Soc. 2 In carrying on their revolutio work mistakes were made by o | peasants who abolished all priva le by our So-/ landed property at one blow in | ed back in| nivht, Oct. 25-26 (old style), 19) Be of the workers and are a new type of state, aj er type of democracy, | the dictatorship of the Now, month after month, overcoming |" tremendous hardships and correcti: themselves, they are solving in practical way the most difficult tas ‘ i of organizing new conditions of eco-|Proletariat, a means of ruling the nomic life—struggling with kulaks, state without the bourgeoisie and} securing the land for the toilers (and|##2inst the bourgeoisie. For the first not for the rich people) and bring-| ‘me seryes the: ames, ing about the transition to a Com-| ne Scene ee oe munist large scale agriculture. |mocracy for the rich, as it still re- mains in all the bourgeois republics, In carrying on their revolutionary|even the most democratic ones, For. work mistakes were made by our|the first time the popular masses are workers, who have now rationalized,| deciding, on a scale affecting hun- after a few months, almost all the|dreds millions of people, the task major factories and plants and who|of rea’ g the dictatorship of pro- are learning from hard, day-to-day |lctarians and semi-proletarians —a work the new task of managing|task without the solution of which whole branches of industry; who are! one cannot speak about Socialism, For the first time democracy serves the toilers. Let the pedants, or people hope-;not care about formal equality of lessly stuffed with bourgeois-demo-!monarchists with republicans. When cratic or parliamentary prejudices, | we speak of the overthrow of the shake their heads perplexedly about | bourgeoisie, only traitors or idiots will our Soviets, for instance, about the|seek to concede to the bourgeoisie | lack of direct elections. These peo-| formal equality of rights. The “free- ple forgot nothing and learned/dom of assembly” for workers and nothing during the period of the| peasants is not worth a cent when great upheavals of 1914-1918. A union|the best buildings are in the hands of the dictatorship of the proletariat| of the bourgeoisie. Our Soviets took with a new democracy for the toil- | away all the good buildings from the ers—civil war with the broadest in-|rich both in town and country, and volving of the masses in politics—| turned over all these buildings to the | -@- leave 10:30 AM. Daily, from Reduced week-end fare Polish Organ of ON ITS TENTH TRYBUNA ROBOTNICZA 5762 Chene Street Detroit, Mich “TRIBUNA ROBOTNICZA” The only Working Class Paper in the Polish Language, Sends its Greetings to our Central Organ of the Communist Party, U.S.A. the DAILY WORKER Cc Pp, U. 8. A ANNIVERSARY ‘Yearly Subscription $2.50 Six Months ——— 125 Revolutionary Gre of the World Long Live the etings to the Fighting Prole- tarian Organ the “Daily Worker’ from the Madison Proletariat On Its 10th Anniversary! Long Live the Revolutionary Fighter “Daily Worker.” Long Live the Only Proletarian Party of this Country— The Communist Party! Long Live the Communist International, the Vanguard Proletariat! Soviet Union! such union is neither to be achieved at once nor is it to be fitted into the dreary forms of routine parliamentary democracy. A new world, the world of Socialism, is what rises before us in its contours as the Soviet Repub- Uc, And it is no wonder that this world is not being born ready-made and does not spring forth all at once, like Minerva from the head of Jupiter. While old bourgeois -~ democratic constitutions spoke about formal equality and right of assembly, our proletarian and peasant Soviet con- stitution casts aside the hypocrisy of formal equality, When bourgeois re- publicans overthrew thrones they did workers and peasants for their unions and meetings. That is our jfreedom of assembly—for the toilers. | | That is the idea and content of our | Soviet, Socialist constitution! And this is why we are so firmly | convinced that our Republic of So- |viets is invincible no matter what | | misfortunes befall her. It is invincible, because each blow | of frenzied imperialism, each defeat | Which we suffer from the interna- | tional bourgeoisie, calls to struggle new strata of workers and peasants, teaches them at the price of the greatest sacrifices, hardens them and gives birth to few mass heroism, Appeals to America: n workers for help. | We know, that help from you, comrades, American workers, will Probably not come soon, for the de~ velopment of the revolution proceeds with a different tempo and in dif- ferent forms in different countries (and it cannot be otherwise). We know that the European proletarian revolution also may not blaze forth during the next few weeks,* no mat- ter how rapidly it has been ripening lately. We stake our chances on the inevitability of the international rev- olution, but this in no way means that we are so foolish as to stake our chances on the inevitability of the revolution within a stated short pe- Tiod, We have seen in our country two great revolutions, in 1905 and in 1917, and we know that revolutions re made neither to order nor by} agreement. We know that circum- stances brought to the fore our Rus- sian detachment of the Socialist pro- letariat, not by virtue of our merits, but due to the particular backward- ness of Russia, and that before the outburst of the international revolu- tion there may be several defeats of separate revolutions. Despite this, we are firmly con- vinced that we are invincible, be- cause mankind will not break down | under the imperialist slaughter, but will overcome it. And the first coun- try whith demolished the galley jchains of imperiaist war, was our jcountry. We made the greatest of sacrifices in the struggle for the de- molition of this chain, but we broke \it, We are beyond imperialist de- pendence, we raised before the whole world the banner of struggle for the complete overthrow of imperialism, We are now as if in a beleaguered jfortress until other detachments of the international Socialist revolution jcome to our rescue. But these de- |tachments exist, they are more nu- | merous than ours, they mature, they grow, they become stronger as the bestialities of imperialism continue. The workers sever connections with their social-traitors—the Gomperses, Hendersons, Renaudels, Scheide- manns, Renners. The workers are |going slowly, but unswervingly, to- wards Communist, Bolshevik tactics, |towards the proletarian revolution, which is the only one capable of sav- ing the perishing culture and per- ishing mankind, In a word, we are invincible, be- Shipyards Under Navy’s Supervision By JAMES CASEY launched its final drive in prepara- tion for the new war. Significant transfers and appoint- ments of high military officials are| being rushed. Major operations for armed conflict are being executed by the Navy, while the land forces are being augmented through regimen- tation of the men in the C.C.C, camps, those at work on C.W.A. projects, and also by members of fascist groups springing up in all parts of the coun- try. Governmental departments “have been instructed to cooperate directly and actively with the nation’s largest industries to speed production of war equipment. Open mobilization of labor is soon to be an established fact, Out of the great maze of plans, stands out the the projected shifting of Rear Admiral Paul B. Dungen. The rear admiral is now industrial man- ager at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and one of the nation’s leading technical experts on warships. On March 1, he is to become inspector of all work for the Navy Department at. the| Bethlehem Shipbuilding Plant -at Quincy, Mass. Herein lies a complete story in itself, but at this time only the bare facts will be outlined. Schwab Is Placed in Charge This shipbuilding plant is a sub- | sidiary of the Bethlehem Steel Cor- poration, of which Charles M. Schwab is chairman of the board of directors. | And Schwab is also a member of s rather secret Advisory Board of the War Department. The function of | this board is to study and recommend ways and means for quick mobiliza- tion of labor and industries “in the event of an emergency.” ‘To the Wall Street government, the word “emergency” is just a polite name for war. In assigning Dungan to Schwab's plant, the Navy Department {s con- fident that Congress will act favor- ~ 6 | Roosevelt Goy’t Placing) | x revolutionary| ‘The New Deal administration has) | cee ™ hip for use in defending the invest- Part of Roosevelt’ ane s “Public Works” | ments of Wall Street in China, Latin America, and Cuba. The Navy has received over $600,000,000 from the Roosevelt government in the last six months. Another $450,000,000 is being proposed in the present Con- gress, indicating the rapid preparations of the Roosevelt government for imperialist war. Lenin’s Letter to the Big Capitalists, Navy Men Work Together | For Huge Profits in U.S. War Building | Workers in War Indus- |tries Being Mobilized for War Production Associated with Schwab on the Ad vistory Board are General James G Harbord, chairman of the board of the Radio Corporation of America and former Secretary of the Treasury Woodin. This board has held confi ences with leading industrialists the question of plant mobilization The Transfer of Naval Officers Coincident with Dungan’s appoini- }ment is that of Rear Admiral J. J or Rahy. He has been ordered from the Charles (8S. ©.) Navy Yard. to command the Naval Operating Base at San Francisco. This transfer. |which has to do with the fleet the Pacific waters, is to take effec | Feb. 28. It is pertinent to point ou: at this juncture that Japan, fully sensible to these movements, is mak ing violent attacks on the plans o: the United States government through Vice Admiral Su ‘ Naval commander-in-chief. | On the heels of these attacks conies jthe meeting next week of Japan's | Diet, at which time the largest mili- tary budget in its history will be | adopted. But Rahy’s transfer is not the only |one that relates to the war-breeding Pacific area. A commander and two | Meutenant-commanders have been or- dered from duties here to the Asiatic Station. Commander A. M. Charle- ton is to leave Schenectady (N.Y. for the Orient. Lieutenant-Com- manders F. D. Powes and J. A. Ter- | hune will leave the U. S. S. Antares | and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, respec- tively, to take up duties at the Asi- {atic Station. Captain C. A, Dunn has been de- tached from Puget Sound to replace Dungan at the Brooklyn Yard. Lieu- | tenant-Commander E. F. Barker also jhas been ordered to the New York depot, The Brooklyn Navy Yard will ably upon its request for # $500,-) the contracts to be awarded for war-| receive a number of large contracts 000,000 appropriation. By the same ship construction. Dungan’s appoint-| for new war craft and repair work. token, Schwab, as a member of the | ment actually means the forthcoming | Senator Copeland has told officials ai war board, is certain that his corpo-| militarization of labor at the private| the yard that he will seek an imme- ration will receive a large share of | yards of the Bethlehem corporation. By VERN SMITH (Special te the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, USSR, Jan, 18—I visited the house in which Lenin lived and died, in the little town of Gorki, near Moscow, today. The Lenin residence was the former man- sion of the textile magnate Morosoff, given as a dowry for his daughter's marriage to Rainbot, Governor Gen- eral of Moscow. The house {s similar in architecture and size to Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington in Monticello, Virginia. It is located in a birch forest. Other houses, nearby, form a workers’ rest home. Lenin’s room is maintained exactly as he left it, with documents, news- papers still lying untouched on the great leader’s work table. On this table a calendar lies open at a page bearing Robert Minor’s cartoon show- ing Clemenceau talking with Lenin. ‘The caption under this cartoon reads: “Clemenceau: Where will you get the soldiers? “Lenin: I will use yours.’ The original of this cartoon was first published in the old “Masses” |cause the world proletarian revolu- ‘tion is invincible. about 15 years ago. The living room next to the bed- Room Where Lenin Died Now Preserved Just As He Left It Workers from the Whole World Sent Him Gifts to Cheer Him During His Last Illness room where Lenin died contains many gifts given to Lenin in his last days. ‘German workers presented him with @ box carved like a book; children gave him letters of greeting; Bukha- rin gave him a landscape painted by himself; Japanese workers two b: reliefs in wood and cork, showing Japanese scenes. In the room below the tables are a small house nearby as a rest place} piled with sheaves of oats and wheat, because Lenin, in his last illness, de~ manded to know the results of the Soviet Smelting 24,000 Tons of Iron Ore Daily MOSCOW, Jan. 17.—Notwith- standing the severe winte: weather, the metallurgical fac- tories of the Soviet Union mad: &@ record smelting of 23,400 tons daily. During the same period last year the daily smelting of fron ore wavered between 14,000 to 17,000, | walking at midnight. Pizan followed him, urging him to sleep, “ You must rest,” I told him,” Pizan said, But Lenin continued his midnight waik and returned to work afterward. It was here that Lenin recovered after the shooting of 1918. He used during brief vacations until 1922, when he moved into the large house permanently because of the increas- | diate appropriation of about $23,000,- 000 for construction work. “Public Works” for War Purposes The activities of the Navy Depart- ment are bound up closely with the | Federal Emergency Administration ‘of | Public Works. The government: has | denied that the Public Works Admin- jistration is involved or engaged in | Promoting a military program. Never- theless, high Naval officials have been jordered to duty, embracing the su- | Pervision of “public works.” Lieuten- ant-Commander L. F. Gaffney has been shifted from the Brooklyn Navy | Yard for work with the Public Works | Administration. Lieutenant - Com- ;mander T. F. Darden, Jr., also has | been ordered to work wi ministration. | In the face of the: Great Britain has inay, ted a mo of its own, which will culminate in |@ demonstration of Naval strength | WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE OF VESSELS OF THE UNITED STATES FLEET. Even as these lines are being writ- j ten, an armada of the most powerful harvest, This room also contains a/ing gravity of his illness. During his | Ships of the British Navy is about motor wheelchair presented to him by the Communist Party of Great Britain. The staircase has a double rail; Lenin, though a very sick man, wished during his last days to walk without assistance, The telephone room contains four phones, one connected directly with the Kremlin. The caretaker now, named Pizan, was commandant of the Lenin house throughout the great Bolshevik’s res- his right arm paralyzed, learned to|covered. During this period Lenin | nature write with his left, thereby continu- ing his work. P Once, Pizan related, Lenin went stay he kept in close contact with |the peasants in surrounding villages. His companions were Krupskaya, two sisters, a nephew, a housekeeper and Pizan, Pizan continued his account of Lenin’s last days by telling of the |hardships during the civil war and the blockade; the small house was used because the large one was un-| heated. Once, in 1921, the entire household was removed to a village 20 miles away, because a new plot |lived in an unheated room with no chen; the water was frozen every ‘morning, You Will Be Given Guns : Urged Young Workers to Master Knowledge for Use in Class Struggle . By MAO WEISS proletarian youth movement is essentially @ product of imperialism. Its growth and development were stimulated by the three-fold effect of imperialism leading special youth. (2). The increasing militarization of the youth as a result of the growth of militarism under imperialism, leading to the struggie of the youth against capitalist militarism and im- perialist war. (3). The political awakening of the proletarian youth due to their growing participation in the class struggle leading to the struggle for the political self-education of the On all three points the revolution- ary youth movement found itself in viol conflict with the oportunist leaders of the Second International. economic demands of the lution, played a powerful role in shaping this movement. The con- nection of Lenin with the revolu- tionary youth movement was not limited to working out a general program for the entire working class with a program for the youth im- plicitly contained in it. He paid serious attention to the special prob- lems of the youth. In his article on “The Interna- tional Of Youth,” written in 1916, Lenin said: “Frequently representatives of the generation of middle aged and Learn to Use Them,” Lenin Told Yo Y | sity are compelled to progress to- | wards Socialism by other paths, in | other forms, and under other cir- cumstances than did their fathers. For that reason, we must uncondi- tionally support the ORGANIZA- TIONAL INDEPENDENCE of the youth leagues, not merely because the opportunists are afraid of this independence, but because it is necessary in itself; for without complete int the youth will be unable either to train them- selves into good Socialists or train themselves for the purpose of Socialism further. “We must stand for the complete independence of the youth leagues but we must also stand for com- plete freedom to criticise their mis- takes in a comradely manner. We must not flatter the youth.” Here we see the recognition of the special character of the youth move- ment. From the understanding that “the youth ... are of necessity com- pelled to progress towards Socialism by other paths, in other forms and under other circumstances than did their fathers,” flows the whole method of formulating spectal youth demands and organizational forms for the economic and political strug- gles of the youth. These arise, not merely from the super-exploitation of the youth as unorganized, unskilled labor, but also—and most important —from the special needs of the youth due to their special physical, mental, and cultural requirements. “elationship Between Youth and Adult Revolutionary Movement From this understanding flows also the establishment of a correct re- lationship between the adult and youth rovolutionary movements—or- ganizational independence, but poli- tical subordination. On the question of the struggle against capitalist militarism and im- perialist war, Lenin paid the closest attention to the youth movement. As early 2s 1907, he scrutinized very carefully the work of the Interna- tional Conference of Soolalist Youth Organizations which was called in on the initiative of Karl Liebknecht. the mouths of their proletarian He sharply criticized the semi-j| mothers in the folowing words: anarchist position of Herve, who then enjoyed great influence over the revolutionary youth, In ec same article referred International of Youth,” Lenin once again returned to the mistakes of the youth move- ment on the question of war and In 1916, in the to above, “The sic, written expressly around the mis- taken position of the youth on “dis- armament,” still remains today as the basis for the anti-militarist position of the revolutionary youth. “You will soon be grown up. You | will be given rifles; take them and learn to use them. Military science is indispensable to proletarians, but | not for shooting at their own brothers, or on the workers of other as in the present war, and are advised to do by the traitors, You must learn how fight against the bourgeoisie of own country, so as to put an te exploitation, poverty and not by pions resolutions, but overcoming and the bourgeoisie.” i e 3 s9hitt Thus, Lenin taught the revolution- ary youth that neither empty, ab- stract cries about “replying to all wars by sirikes and rebellions,” re- gardless of the character of the war, or the crisis caused by the war, nor pacifist demands for disarmament were the correct method of fighting against militarism and imperialisi war, Only by analyzing the class basis of each war; by fighting against re- actionary wars and supporting pro- gressive wars; by struggling against the outbreak of imperialist wars, but utilizing the crisis caused by imper- jalist wars to hasten the overthrow of capitalism; by fighting against capitalist militarism, but learning the use of arms for the purpose of turn- ing them against the bosses; by fight- ing for the international solidarity of the working class against the social- patriotism of the Second Interna- tional; only by following this path could the revolutionary youth carry on an effective struggle against capi-| talist militarism and imperialist. war. | On the third great problem of the youth—its political self-education — | Lenin developed, fully and completely, the ideas already contained in his) article on the “International of Youth” in the course of a speech de- livered to the 3rd Congress of the Young Communist League of the So- Lenin speaks to the youth through | vies Union, uth TYoung Workers’ Needs | Differ from Those | of Older Workers | Lenin placed the task of political | self-education as the main task of | the youth: “The tasks of the youth gener- ally, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organizations, particularly, may be expressed in one sentence: The task is to ac- quire knowledge.” However, while placing this as the central task of the youth, Lenin launched a scathing attack on all ten- dencies to bookish learning by mem- ory of formulas separated from ac- tive participation in the class struggle. For Lenin, the task of acquiring knowledge was intimately connected, in fact, inseparable, from participa- | tion in the struggle of the working j class, Today, when the eyes of hundreds of thousands of American youth are | turned towards the Soviet Union as the living example of the liberation of the youth from the horrors of capitalism, it is our task to popular- ize widely the great heritage of Lenin to the youth. In particular, the young workers and students now in the Young Peo- Ples Socialist League, must be ac- quainted with the teachings of Lenin. We must show them that the path of Kautsky, Thomas and Hiliquit lead to fascist reaction; that only the path of the Party of Lenin leads to So- clalism, Applying in practice the teachings of Lenin, we must go forward to the organization of a mass Young Com- munist. League, which will be able, guided by the Communist Party, to lead the struggles of the youth against hunger, fascism and war, and together with the whole working class | fight for the overthrow of the rule of the capitalists and the establish- | ment of a Soviet America, | to steam out toward the Wesi 1niés, | The flagship of this squadron is the giant battleship Nelson, built ab ea | cost of $35,000,060. | The British fleet will reach the | Caribbean waters at a time when the | heroic Cuban workers are struggling | to free themselves from the Wall St. | imperialists and their la ey regimes jand to establish their own gov | ment. Officially, Great Britain's | Ministry has characterized the fleet | Movement as a “cruise” to its Ca idence here. He told me how Lenin,/ against Lenin's life has been un-| bean possessions. A cruise of such a ordinarily would consume | three weeks’ time, or, "at the most, ;3 Month. But the British armada is \leaving the Gibraltar with food and | coal to last three months, AND PRE- PARED FOR ANY EMERGENCY. This demonstration is to be a mean- ingful gesture for the benefit of the Wall Street bankers and industrial- ists, and similar to the one the United States Navy has recently staged for | Japan. With the Geneva disarmament con- ference having completely collapsed, | the imperialist powers are frantically | Jockeying anew for trade and arma- | Ment advantages and concessions. The | fierce economic battles, which are having their echoes in the capitalist | Press, already have crystalized in | Clashes in South America, that have Sent thousands of workers to their death. These clashes are but glaring manifestations of the acute trade rivalry between the United States and Great Britain, and emphasize the acuteness of the war danger. Again the arrest on Tuesday of five Japanese taking Photographs of airport and shipyard sites on the New Jersey coast and the alarm evinced by officials incident thereto, further stresses the steady drift to imperiai- ist_ war. President Roosevelt, while appeas- ing the pacifists with his sinter on the preservation of world peace, has energetically started the “dig Push” for a carnage of death that will make the last war seem like. skirmish by comparison. he The war plans of Roosevelt and his Wall Street’ bosses can be halted only vid bet solid, determined and united ‘ront of opposition on the part of the workers and their class allies. It is the duty of every worker, intel- lectual, student, and small business man to immediately get behind the program of the American League Against War and Fascism, : ALVARADO DIES IN VENEZUELAN CELL NEW YORK.—Captain Rafael Al- varado, et nearly six years a | the International Labor Defense has just learned. Alvarado participated in an army uprising at Caracas in April, 1928. For the last few years he had been shackled to Lieut. Barrios, another political prisoner, who is dying of tu- berculosis