The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER. Page Three Farmer-Labor State Fire 16,00 C.W.A. Meet Favors Wagner Strike-Breaking Bill Talks “Radical” But Praises Roosevelt Slave Codes By WM. SCHNEIDERMAN ST. PAUL, Minn.—Faced with the growing radicalization of the work- ers and farmers of Minnesota, the State Convention of the Farmer- Labor Party which met last Tues- day, Wednesday, and Thursday adopted a demagogic platform full of radieal phrases about the “fail- ure of the capitalist system,” “the abolition of capitalism,” and “tak- ing over the industries and estab- lishing a co-operative Socialist State.” The role of the Farmer- Labor Party as the third party of capitalism, however, was clearly re- vealed in the convention’s decision to endorse the Wagner strikebreak- ing bill, and its general support, behind a smokescreen of mild criticism, of the whole Roosevelt program of inflation, reduction in relief, N.R.A. AAA. and R.W. @ program of attacks on the worl ers’ living standards, of growing tendencies toward fascism, and im- perialist war preparations. The Farmer-Labor machine jammed through the endorsement of for Senator, after a bitter struggle led by the fake “left wing,” who believed that Shipstead ‘was too closely identified with Hoo- ver and Roosevelt to be able to de- ceive the masses into supporting the Fermer-Labor Party. Revise Roosevelt The platform adopted by the con- vention called for the abolition of @apitaliem and the establishment of Socialism by “peaceful and lawful means,” following closely upon a speech by Governor Olson in Du- luth to C.W.A. workers warning against “revolution as too costly,” and proposing to “abolish poverty by law.” The aim of the conven- tion platform was to throw a sop to the leftward trend among the masses, while at the same time at- tempting to divert the growing up- surge into the channels of capitalist reformism, and away from revolu- tionary action under the leadership of the Communist Party. Realizing that the events in Ger- many and Austria have shattered many illusions in the minds of the workers, Governor Olson in his key-| note speech to the convention de- clared that he was not a liberal, but “a radical,” and that “when; the final clash comes between Amer- ; icanism and fascism, the so-called Red will be the defende~ of democ-} racy.” He failed to add that pre-| cisely the defenters of capitalist | “democracy,” the Socialist and Farmer-Labor Parties, will be the best aids for the establishment of fascism, :f the workers do not or- ganize and unite under revolution- ary leadership to prevent it, as the developments in Austria and Ger- many have already shown. Olson in his speech praised Roosevelt’s fas- cist-breeding program almost with- out reservation. The so-called “left wing” played! a most despicable role in the Farm-| er-Labor convention, which was dominated almost entirely by the A. F. of L. bureaucracy and the state administration officials. While they put up a sham battle against Shipstead and others, under pres- sure of the rank and file, the fake “lefts” finally gave up the shadow- boxing and started whooping it up for the same candidates they had previously bitterly denounced as “re- actionaries.” They did succeed in introducing into the platform much of their “left” demagogy in order to better fool the masses. The Communist Party is calling 8% State Nominating Convention on June 17th, where a program of gen- wine struggle against hunger, fas- cism, and war, and for the revolu- tionary way out of the crisis, will be brought before the workers and farmers of Minnesota in the com- img state and Congressional elec- tion campaign. i ee SPRING GIFTS RELATIVES dbviet Russi? & Send a Torgsin Order to your relatives and friends in Soviet Russia and enable them to buy in the Torgsin Stores articles needed at the turn of the weather. 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Convention CHICAGO, April 2.— The }} executive committee of the South Slavic Workers Clubs, represent- ing 3,000 members organized into 65 branches in the main indus- trial centers of the country, sent its revolutionary greetings today to the 8th Convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A., to be held in Cleveland, April 2 to 8. A delegation of three will be sent by the Federation to the Party convention. A number of the clubs are composed of workers in heavy industries. Airplane Strike Continues Solid At Curtiss Plant Consolidated Plant Is Shut Tight by Mass Picket Lines BUFFALO, N. Y., April 2.—Mili- tant picket lines kept the Consoli- dated airplane factory here closed tight and defeated the company’s attempt to run the plant with scabs, in the strike of more than 2,000 employes of the Consolidated and Ourtiss companies for higher} wages. Picket lines have also been in- creased at the Curtiss airplane fac- tory. eae oe (From a worker correspondent in Bristol, Pa., comes the report that the Curtiss airplane factory in Buf- falo is calling for strikebreakers through Philadelphia papers, and through the Keystone Aircraft Corp. of Bristol—Ed.) Will Tour Whole Country in Nazi, Scottsboro Protest Mrs. Wright, Gallagher in Pittsburgh Area This Week NEW YORK.—The Scottisboro- Germany speaking tour of Mrs. Wright, mother of two of the Scotts- boro boys, and Leo Gallagher, I. L. D. attorney in the Mooney case, the Reichstag fire trial in Germany, and the “sedition” trial of the head of the Canadian Labor Defense League in Toronto, will be extended to cover the United States from coast to coast and from North to South, in a three-month period, the International Labor Defense an— nounced last week. Mrs. Wright and Gallagher, who have spoken in Boston, New York, New Jersey, Baltimore and Phila- delphia, will be in Pittsburgh and the surrounding district next week, it was announced. From Pittsburgh the two will con- tinue their tour through Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wis- consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Washington, Ore- gon, California, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Spic and Span Laundry Workers Out on Strike NEW YORK.—Recognition of the Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union and payment of back wages due the workers were won recently by the union at the Boulevard Laundry, 2079 Southern Boulevard, Bronx. The union also forced the rein- statement of a worker who had been fired at the Snow White- Yorkville Laundry, and also won recognition of the shop committee. Workers at the Spic and Span Laundry, 304 W. 127th St., are now out on strike against pay that is so low that it doesn’t fulfill the New York Minimum Wage Law for ‘Women, which provides for 31 cents an hour. The Negro and white workers in the washroom depart- ment have to work 70 to 80 hours a week for very little pay. There will be a special meeting of the Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union on Thursday, April 5, at 8 p.m. af the Estonian Hall, 29 W. 115th St. ll Welnvite All Metal Workers to the Amalgamation Ball Celebrate the Amalgamation of 70,000 Workers in the Shoe and Leather Industry Saturday, April 7th —trM — Central Opera House 67th St. and Third Ave, New York District United Shoe & Leather Workers i Dnion ce New Folding Chairs JOHN KALMUS CO, Inc. 35 W. 26th St. Men in Cleveland; | Relief. Cut by 4) Workers Organizations| To Demand Cash Relief, No Cuts By a Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 2—A relief cut of at least one-third will | go into effect in Cleveland andj Cuyahoga County here today. At present, there are 28,122 fam- ilies on relief here. In addition, 16,000 of the 22,000 who were on} C. W. A. at the close of last week will be fired, Roosevelt's C.W.A. of- | ficials stating that only 6,000 will be | given jobs on Federal Work Relief. Besides the 16,000 who lost C. W. A. jobs, more jobless are daily ap- plying for relief than at any time before. In order to keep these un- employed workers off the relief, a vicious campaign is being carried on against the Negro and foreign-born workers, by threats of deportation and arrest, and by open discrimina- | tion and intimidation. Only $913,000 is “available” for relief during the month of April. | Out of this, $176,330 is set aside for administration costs for this month, leaving $736,670 for relief; $149,000 of this still has to be raised for re- lief through the sale of tax antici- pation bonds. Plenty of Money—For Bankers There is plenty of money avail- able. In 1932 and 1933 Cuyahoga County paid out nearly $6,000,000 on bonds and interest to the bankers. Millions more were paid by Cleve- land and other villages, townships and school boards to the bankers on bonds and interest. 2 The city of Cleveland has just | deposited $4,000,000 into Cleveland banks, at the same time cutting re- lief, laying off street cleaners, cut- ting down school service, etc. The Cleveland Unemployment Council sent a delegation to Mayor Davis today, demanding that this $4,000,000 be turned over to provide adequate relief to the unemployed and that the Mayor endorse the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598). Delegations are also being elected in the locals of the Unemployment Council and other workers’ organ- izations to go to the County Com- missioners and the County Relief Board. Preparations are being made for a county action with the demands of the workers for: 1), Smash the relief cut; 2). Increased relief im oash; 3). Public works at trade union wages; 4). No discrimination against Negroes and foreign-born workers in the giving out of relief; 5). Youth demands and single workers’ demands; 6). Endorsement of the Work- ers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598). Machinists Draw Up Demands in Waterbury WATERBURY, Conn.—The A. F. of L. Machinists’ Local 1336 at the recent extra meeting draw up the following demands to be presented to the companies: A six-hour day, 5-day week, wage raise to $43.20 a week for highest skilled mechanics, both men and women, $38 for next grade, etc. with $20 for unskilled workers such as machinists’ helpers, apprentices, etc.; union recognition. The time for presenting these de- mands, however, is to be decided at the next meeting. Rank and file members are warned to see that the A. F. of L. leaders do not kill the “LAND OF THE FREE” ‘This worker, carrying an American flag in the demonstration to protest ©. W. A. lay-offs in New arrested near a Second Ave. project York, Thursday, is shown being for disorderly conduct. Atlanta N.A.A.C.P. Loaders Hit ‘Herndon Defense, Aid Lynchers ATLANTA, Ga., April 2.—Writh- , ing under the exposure of their col- | laboration in the legal lynching of John Downer, Negro worker exec- uted at Milledgeville March 16, the} leadership of the National Associa- | tion for the Advancement of Col-| |D. of Downer. This betrayal of Downer was ex- posed in a leaflet issued by the IL. immediately after the fact of Downer’s impending execution be- came public, The N.AAC.P. leadership has ored People here has launched an| responded with a broadside attack attack upon the defense of Angelo Herndon, young Negro leader of the white and Negro unemployed sen- tenced to from 18 to 20 years on the chain-gang under an ancient slave law. Downer was “defended” by A. T. Walden, local N.A.A.C.P. president, who abandoned him at a crucial moment, failed to raise any of the basic issues in the case even though Downer’s conviction was once re- versed in Federal Court on the basis of the U. S. Supreme Court deci- sion won by the International La- bor Defense in the Scottsboro case, and kept all the proceedings hushed up to avert mass action in defense | upon the Herndon Defense Commit- tee, issued in the name of the Rey. |J. Raymond Henderson, calling on jall Negro pastors to close their churches to the Committee and to |the ILD. The Rev. J. A. Baxter, | Pastor of Central M. E. Church, in which an Angelo Herndon Defense meeting was to be held Sunday, im- mediately announced that his church’ was closed to the meeting. Answers Facts With Mud-Slinging Henderson’s broadside makes no effort to disprove the charges made | by the LL.D. on the basis of the facts, but besides hurling slander Jand vilification merely excuses the N.A.A.C.P. leadership for its parti- Labor Board Fails To Stop Ballbearing Strike in Phila. | 900 Work: | AFL Strikebreaking | Efforts | ers Also Repel (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.— The 900 | workers on strike at the S.K.F. Ball- | bearing Co. have flatly rejected the |the plea of the A. F. of L. j breaker James McDey |of the Philadelphia Building Trades | Council, not to strike. The strike is| | still solid despite mass arrests | ring Work- jers Union has seen the treachery of the A. F. of L. and has decided not | to affiliate with them. | The company is advertising |scabs, and company officials are personally visiting the strikers, but | the strikers are defeating these at- tempts with mass picketing. for Messengers Strike in Minneapolis |Telegraph Boys Build Independent Union | | | | MINNEAPOLIS, March 31, (By| Mail).—A strike of the Postal Tele- | graph messenger boys of this city which started yesterday has tied up the entire system. Tomorrow the Western Union boys are going out, thus tying up the entire telegraph system of the city. The strike, which started spon- taneousy, is for higher wages. The boys have been working five hours a day for 15 cents per hour. The strikers are demanding 30 cents per hour. Great militancy prevails} among the young strikers, with| scabs being pulled off the jobs and being put on busses headed for home. The boys are building up their own independent union under rank and file control. cipation in the legal lynching of Downer by the statement that, al- though Walden, its president, was the legal “defender” of Downer, the organization never officially took over the case. The attack by the N.A.A.C.P. lead- ers, in which they openly defend their legal-lynch policies, will spur the I.L.D. to more intensive efforts in the defense of Angelo Herndon and all class-war prisoners, the local leaders announced. BOSTON.—A letter to the Youth Section of the Massachusetts branch of the American League Against War and Fascism, signed by Col. F. W. Rowell for the com- manding general of thé First Corps Area of the U. S. army gives the Ne to Saturday's statement George H. Dern, Secretary of War, that the Civilian Conservation Corps is not a military organiza- tion. Answering a demand of the Youth Section of the League for an ap- pointment to protest the militariza- tion of youth in the C. C. C., Col. Rowell wrote, on March 21: What Colonel Wrote 4 struggle by continuous delays. “The Corps Area Commander desires me to inform you that the | rs by | Is CCC Military? “Say No, * Orders Dern, But Boston Commander Has Already Said “Yes” Civilian Conservation Corps is being administered by the Army in accordance with the orders of | the President of the United States, | and that he does not see that an | interview on the subject preposed | in your letter would serve any useful purpose.” Ten days after this letter was | written, on March 31, Secretary of | War Dern sent the following mem- | orandum to the Chief of Staff of | the U. S. army: | What Dern Wrote | “Misrepresentations are con- stantly being made to the effect | that the C. C. C. movement is a | military organization in disguise. “I am confident that every | member of the Army organiza- tion will be happy to renew its vigilance in the dissemination of information concerning the Army's part in the C. C. C. work and will ail himself of every opportuntiy to refute misleading propaganda.” The letter of the Massachusetts army officer plainly shows that Dern in his memorandum is call- ing on his officers to lie about the jreal character of the C. C. C. | Despite the refusal to see the del- | egates from the League Against | War and Fascism, the delegation | will call on Major Fox Conner, Bos- j ton head of the C. C. C. army or- ganization, on Tuesday, April 3, at | | | membership meeting of the Mexican grass to keep from starving. 11 a, m, Chi. Loop Demand C Relief and Easter Buying Drops Far Below As Last Year }| Prices Advance y expectations al of Com- merce report failure of any buying to develop du period, when sales are usua! a peak, the total retail busi for March will be below last y the Journal reports. The drop in ret direct result of the buying power of the prices rising to new hi Thus a reported 10 per increase in dollar sa the first two months this year realls cloaks a sharp drop in the actual amount is passing from producer to consumer. Consum- || ers are now paying more moni for less goods than before Roose- || velt took office. The result is that the menace of unemploy- ment and unsold “ ) is now greater than ever, with the prospect of further deepening of the crisis. cent for | Ohio Relief Heads | Plan To Deport Mexican | Workers) Aim To Deport Foreign- | Born on Relief To Save) $200,000 Monthly By a Mexican Worker TOLEDO, Ohio.— At 8 general Cultural Society held last week in} Swiss Hall, the secretary, Mr. Gon-| zalez, told the 150 members present that he had been requested to an-| nounce that all those desiring to} return to Mexico would be provided} free transportation. He added that he thought that it would be a good thing for the unemployed members (and they are nearly all unem- ployed) if they would take advan- tage of this offer. If the plans of Maj. E. O. Braught,| chairman of the Ohio Relief Com-| mission, are successful, 1,000 Mexican workers, and thousands of other foreign-born’ workers will leave Ohio “voluntarily This will save the Ohio Relief Commission $200,000 | monthly. The great majority of the Mexican workers are in Northwest- ern Ohio. Mr. Gonzalez says that it would be a “good thing” and of course is purely “voluntary.” In 1931 when 35,000 were deported to Mexico; the local press carried stories at that time saying that when they arrived in Mexico, they were forced to eat Those who are on relief have been | told by the representatives of the relief commission that if they do not accept this offer that they will) be refused relief. These workers were brought here by the railroad companies and sugar beet companies to sweat out profits for the bosses. They and their wives and children toiled long hours in the beet fields and on the railroads Now they are no longer needed, they} are told to go back and face star-| vation or they will starve here. | ficient, Marchers WA Jobs, H.R. 7598 Fire Thousands as CWA Work Is Ended in THinois Daily Worker Midwest Buream) CHICAGO, IIl., April 2. Shouting “We demand jobs the Chicago C.W.A. marchers stopped at the City Hall in their march from Union Park tt the Loop, and for 40 min- in disciplined p the workers’ del- ion The workers’ delegation of thir- teen, who presented the C. W. A w ds to the mayor, de the City Hall by the Corporation Counsel Sexton, who represented the Emergency Relief, and Mayor Mayor Kelly had left for quad and Sexton, despite the fact that he was obviously frightened when word came that the march had halted ide the City Hall, delivered the they intended r than that which mcy Relief Bu- announced. But at the same time local relief bureaus began calling workers to get relief. C. W. A. officials who had eartier telephoned that they would meet the delegation at the maror’s office, failed to show up. At the last meeting of the THi- nois Emergency Relief Commission,” said Sexton, “we appropriated seven and a half million dollars for unem- ployed relief.” When the workers’ representatives pointed out that this was by far too little an amount, the corporation counsel admitted that i was insuf- but said they should be “satisfied with that much.” Sexton asked the representative of the single workers what he was get- ting. “My relief has been cut off and I have been notified to go to a flop house,” said the worker. “Well that’s all single workers. can expect,” was Sexton's answer. The delegation reported back to the workers later when the march- ers massed at Grant Park. All along the line of march work- ers crowded windows of factories and offices. Showers of paper filled the air thrown by sympathetic workers. In an attempt to keep workers from demonstrating, C.W.A, au- thorities had ordered several proj- ects which were to end last Thurs- day to continue work until Satur- day afternoon. Of the 65,000 who lost their jobs today, it has been announced that only 35,000 of these will be put on “work relief.” These workers. will be “reinvestigated” by social work- ers with instructions to cut all but those who can prove themselves actual paupers, off the lists. The same morning a C. W. A. worker, Frank Roth, 50, of 3000 W. 103rd St., was killed and four others and a women hurt when a C.W.A. truck crashed while speeding to the last day’s work. Veterans and Fired CWA | Workers Join Peoria Unemployment Councils PEORIA, Ill., April 2—The Peoria Unemployed Councils had registered 250 veterans and fired C.W.A. work- ers up to March 25, Steps are be- ing taken to form unemployment branches in the North and South Side. Communist International in Letter to British LL.P. Membership Exposes Sabotage of Fenner Brockway and LL.P. Leaders Against Shows That Leaders Defy Open Wishes of Rank and File The following document, a let- ter of the Executive Committee of the Communist International to the British Independent Labor Party, is not only of historic im- portance, but of peculiar impor- tance at the present time. It sums up the negotiations which have been going on between the LLP. and the Comintern since last year regarding the possibility of work- ing out some form of co-opera- tion between the two. The leadership of the LL.P., headed by Fenner Brockway, rep- resents a political tendency that is not confined to England. In the United States it is represented in the activities of Muste, and his newly-hatched American Workers Party. It is significant that Brockway recently visited the United States and spent some time with Muste. The purpose of both is similar in one respect—to keep the masses from méving toward the Party and the Communist International. The exchange of letters between. the LLL.P. and the E.C.C.I. grew out of the decision of the Derby Conference of the LLP. held Jast year, at which the pres- sure of the LLP. rank and file forced the LL.P. leadership to make overtures to the Comintern for affiliation or cooperation. This action met with strong opposition from the LL.P. leaders. The decision of the L.L.P. rank and file for getting closer to the Communist International was de- liberately sabotaged by the LL.P. leaders, particularly Fenner Brock- way, who launched a campaign of slander against the Soviet Union and the Comintern. The following letter of the Sec- retariat of the E.C.C.I. is exceed- MUrrar Hill 4-3447 Office and School Equipment NEW and USED ingly valuable for its crystal clear way-Muste, etc. tendencies all over the world, tendencies which represent the efforts of the “left” agents of the bourgeoisie to stem the tide of world Communism. It should be studied carefully by all workers. * Moscow, February 20, 1934. To the Independent Labor Party Comrades: The National Administrative Council of your Party has sent us yet another letter, this time signed by Mr. Brockway. This letter, which formally enquires about the condi- tions of affiliation to the Commu- nist International, consists for the most part, however, of anti-Com- munist and anti-Soviet slanders. This proves that the N.A.C., already at Derby opposing the line of as- sisting in the work of the C. I. which the Coriference adopted, still continues its resistance against this line, In our two letters answering the questions raised by the N.A.C., we have already stated our opinion in detail’ as to how the decision of the Derby conference could be car- ried out. But as the members of the Independent Labor Party, now discussing the question of affilia- tion, are particularly interested to find out the details about the con- ditions of affiliation to the Com- munist International, we willingly explain this question. A party that does not accept the 21 conditions and the program of the Communist International is not a Communist Party and conse- quently cannot be accepted by the Communist International as one of its Sections. But a Socialist work- ers’ party, which has not yet be- come a Communist Party, like the ILP., may, according to the statues of the C. I. (Clase 18), apply to the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International to become af- filiated to the C. I. as a party sym- pathizing with Communism, with the right of a consultative vote. 21 conditions by this Party, upon whether the party in ques- sympathizes with Communism. the E.C.CI. became convinced of this and found that the affiliation of such a party to the C. I. in a sympathizing capacity would be ex- pedient, it would be able to parti- cipate in all the Congresses of the C. I. and meetings of the Execu- tive Committee through its dele- gates, with a consultative vote, to present its proposals and suggestions and to express its opinions. Such a party is not bound by the discip- line established by the statues of the C. I. for its Sections, but it has to prove in practice that it is as- sisting the work of the Communist International. Necessary Conditions The Party connot be regarded as sympathizing with Communism un- less it carries on an irreconcilable struggle against the bourgeoisie and for this purpose participates in the organization and development of the united front of the workers to- gether with the Communist Party on the basis of a mutually agreed platform of the class struggle de- mands. A party cannot be regarded as sympathizing with Communism unless it fights against the treach- erous social democracy, against the Second International and the re- formist leaders of the trade unions and comes out decisively against all attempts to create new interna- tionals. A party cannot be regarded as sympathizing with Communism unless it sympathizes with the slogan of Soviet power and supports the Soviet Union. Without these political perequi- sites the basis for the affiliation of a party to the C. I. as a sympathiz- ing party would be lacking. We, of course do not doubt that political analysis of the Brock- The acceptance of such an ap- the majority of the working-class members of the I. L. P. really sym- plication by the E.C.C.I. does not depend upon the recognition of the but tion is a workers’ party that really If pathize with the Communist In- ternational. But we know that among them there are still many who think that it is possible to sym- pathize with the C. I. and at the same time to solidarize with “left reformists like Mr. Brockway, who wants to collaborate with all sorts of open enemies of the Comintern. If the members of the I.L.P. would make an attentive comparison be- tween the content of the letters of the N. A. C. and the letters which we sent to the I. L. P., it will not be difficult for them to discover two fundamentally different political lines—the one revolutionary and the other reformist. It is possible poli- tically to sympathize with one or the other, but not with both of them. We direct attention particularly to the following three main questions on which the Brockway letter re- veals the position of the N. A. C. or its majority. Slanders Against U. S. S. R. The first question: The acute dan- ger of a counter-revolutionary war against the Soviet Union is of the most important international signi- ficance at the present time. As is known, Japan is openly preparing an attack upon the Soviet Union in the Far East, using the support of British imperialism, and fascist Ger- many, also encouraged by British imperialism, is developing pillaging plans for carving up the European teritory of the U.S. S. R. But what does Mr. Brockway say in the letter of the N. A. C. against the threatening war plots of the Japanese, German and British gov- ernments? Not a single word! Is that an accident, “forgetfulness”? No, that cannot be an accident We already had to remark about this same “forgetfulness” on the part of Mr. Brockway in our last letter to the I. L. P. Besides that, he now continues, in. the name of the N. A. C., the cam- paign of slander which he began in against the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist | International. Only he now replaces | these insinuations with new and| more up-to-date ones. Just as at| that time he stated that we com- pelled our sections in the alleged in- terests of the U. S.,S. R. to come out| for “acquiescence in Japanese im- perialism” and to contribute to the victory of Hitler, so he now alleges| that we make them come out for) acquiescence in American imperial- | ism and Italian fascism! | Is it not significant that the anti- Communist slanders that Mr. Brock- | way has brought up to date reflect | the present interests of the foreign Policy of the British government; its conciliation with Japanese expan-} sion its support of Hitler. its dis- content with Italy's insufficient ag- gressiveness against the U. S. S. R. and its antagonism to the United} States? The anti-Soviet character of the} slanders contained in the letters of | the N. A. C. is not easy to recognize | at first glance because they are brought out under the mask of friendship to the Soviet Union, and hid behind the phrase: “the defense of the U. S. S. R. by all means available.” But we must ask: By what means is the U. S. S. R. de- fended in the letter of the N. A. C.? Instead of attacking the predatory war policy of Japanese, German and British imperialism, this letter con-| tains an incitement against the/ Comintern because it supports the| peacé policy pursued by the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Thanks to the brilliant successes of the Soviet Union in warding off the provocative acts of the im- perialist powers, thanks to the unswerving peace policy of the Soviet government, its struggle for dis- armament and the conclusion of numerous pacts of non-aggression, and thanks to the solidarity and support which the toiling masses of his notorious articles last summer all capitalist countries the United Front I. L. P. Leaders Follow Line Like Muste’s Against C. P. U.S. S. R., it has been able to pre- vent the outbreak of a new world war. In England, too, the workers have clearly shown by their struggle against the war danger, against.the embargo, etc.. that they realize that the peace policy of the Soviet Union fully accords with the class interests of the workers of all countries and they are therefore enthusiastically supporting it. Attacks U. S. S, R. Peace Policy But it is precisely this fact that does not please such a “left” re~ formist pacifist as Mr. Brockway, In full conformity with the anti- Soviet slanders of the counters revolutionary traitor Trotsky, he is endeavoring to create a contradic- tion between the peace policy of the Soviet Union and the interests of the workers’ movement in other countries. In the letter of the N. A. C. he tries to suggest to the members of the I. L. P. that the peace policy of the U. S. S R and of the C P. S. U. allegedly means “temporarily sacrificing the revolu~ tionary movement” of other coun~ tries. He has the effrontery to make the slanderous assertion that “the C. I. is being driven to the position of holding back militants in some countries” and “of promising to re- pudiate the essential activities of its own sections in others.” Every section of the Comintern knows that these assertions are nothing but shameless lies. We must ask who has empowered the N. A. C. to write such unparalleled slanders and what do the members and the organizations of the I. L. P, say about it? Their elementary rev~ olutionary duty demands that they should decisively dissociate them- selves from these anti-Communist, anti-Soviet slanders. (To Be Continued) / a