The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily. Worker AUPTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y Telephone 954 ALgonquin 4 - 7 The Betrayal of the Fisher Strike ) Cle Body and the Roosevelt government unbroken united front, to prevent a gener: he auto industry The Cleveland to work without granted. This betrayal flows out of tt Agreement eered perso: gether with the A. F. of L tional Auto Chamber of Comr On April 15 the Roose by the A. F. of L. leaders, w ceeded in diverting a general the auto w an mands of the auto worker ay, for union recognition, against the t ic speed-up, etc. The no- ke agreement prevented a general ree. rnment, great difficulty assisted , suc= e,,demanded by nting aside the de- er: strike in the auto in try at the peak of produc- tion, the most effective time for the workers to strike. It weak the partial strikes by post- poning them un the busiest production period had passed, But the Fisher Body workers struck in Cleveland, St. Louis and Tarrytown. Friday both the Kansas City and Flint, Michigan, locals. of her Body voted to strike if their de- mands were not granted. Monday became a crucial day in the a industry. The sell-out of the Cleve- of L. officials carrying through the strike- breaking action for General Motors and the Labor Board. Now Board even more strikebreaking authority. is the A. F. of L. officials, led by national organ- the proposal is to give the Auto Labor And it izer William Collins, who make this proposal. The fascist attacks of the Roosevelt government on the ‘auto wo! are to be sharpened. The Auto Labor Board of Roosevelt, backed by the police and hired thugs of General Motors, are exerting every energy VAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1934 ike of Fisher Body workers from factories ng of strikes, the forcing of the com- of Fisher Body down the throat of the he consistent policy of the Roose- through in the present P t purpose of the of the General Mot the Auto Labor Bos A. F. of L the z actions of the A ry worker. The Roos ito Labor velt goy- Board concern ev ernment is attempting to apply its no-strike edicts to steel, to coal, to all industries, to smash the workers’ ions and to bring in the company unions. The militant Auto Workers Union and rank and the auto industry are meanwhile of all Fisher body workers in all eight he plants are located. to defeat the strikebreaking maneuvers of the Auto Labor Board, the A. F. of L. official- dom, and the auto manufacturers, it is necessary to y thr th more energetically the program f the fighting Auto Workers Union. The building of rank and file oppositions in all A. F. of L. locals becomes essential to defeat further The strikebreaking purposes of the conference now going on in Detroit can be defeated by the rank and file, by the carrying through of a fighting, class struggle policy, by presenting a fighting united front of all auto workers, by preparing strike action on the basis of the fighting program of the Auto Work- ers Union. A Revolutionary Guide M[HE most important revolutionary pub- lication in the world, the “Communist International,” official organ of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Communist International, is now being published in the United States. This is an event of great importance for The whole working class revolutionary movement. The “Communist International” is the storehouse of the accumulated revolutionary experience of the world struggle against capitalism. It is the pro- foundest Marxist-Leninist analyzer of the world situation available. In its pages every reader finds the penetrating evaluation of contemporary political and economic developments that only Marxism-Leninism can give. To read it is to have an invaluable guide for the Bolshevik direction of our day to day struggles for a Soviet America. It should find its way into the hands of every fighter for the overthrow of capitalism and the Wall Street dictatorship. The Daily Worker gives its revolutionary greet- ings to this organ of the world revolution! We welcome with enthusiasm this powerful organ of our great theoretical weapon, Marxism-Leninism! We urge everyone to order copies from the Work- ers Library Publishers at 50 East 13th St., or by writing to them at P. O. Box 148, Station D, New York City. It sells for 10 cents. Socialist Competition Is Incentive For Soviet Workers, Says Pravda In 14 Weare Have Done Wonders in Industry and Culture)? By VERN SMITH Toilers | developed! It can be seen in their rapid and splendid growth! shock-workers personify humanity | competition, with the assistance of purifying itself of the dirt of cen- | uries of society exploitation! The ideology of capitalism, de- lution new relations are established The | between men. It is only in socialist jcollective groups, that each worker received the opportunity of really developing his strength and talents. wpatoersenntee © Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent | MOSCOW, April 30 (By Radio). — The entire press comments today on | the anniversary of the institution | of socialist competition, the new) form of socialist organization of la- bor which led to the greatest ex- pansion of the creative energy of the proletariat, the proletariat which threw off the yoke of capitalist ex- | ploitation. | In an editorial headed “Glorious | Anniversary,” Pravda writes: | “The five years of socialist com- petition is a noteworthy epoch in| the history of proletarian revolu- tion, Five years ago when the Par and its leaders were preparing the transition through the most difficult and intricate stages of the revolu- tion—the First Five Year Plan— collectivization and the liquidation | of kulakdom as a class—when right | oppositionists and Trotzkyists sought | to turn the wheel of history back- | wards—in this unforgettable period | and from the depths of the working | class arose the wave of socialist | competition. The working class and | toiling peasants voted the means for this socialist competition, for the Party, for its Leninist leadership, the banner of Lenin and Stalin, for | Communism. | . “The appeal of the 16th Party “Congress for the organization of the competition began a movement, which has involved millions, which has had no antecedent in world his- | tory. | “The competition resulted in gi- gantic industrial plants, in new re- gions of collective and state farms. A new, remarkable tribe of men} @rose—the tribe of ‘shock workers’! It is they who under the leadership of the Central Committee and the} leader of the Party, Stalin, con-| quered the Dnieper and erected the; Kuznetsk and Magnitogorsk bla furnaces. They covered the sky with the steel and aluminum birds of the | powerful Red Air Fleet. | “It is they who stood and stand at conveyor, tractor and automobile works, mastering technique. It is} they who are establishing socialist agriculture and in struggle against | kulak safeguard sacred, inviolable public property. It is they who con- verted the country into an invin- cible fortress, who fulfilled the First | Five-Year Plan in four years, who| are mastering science and technique | in the Second Five-Year Plan. | Labor a Joy Under Socialism | “Labor under capitalism was and Yemains a curse for workers. Under | Socialism labor becomes a joy. Un-| der Socialism there exists a con-| gciousness that work goes for the} fatherland which has forever} thrown off the weight of the ex-| Ploiters. It is work for one's own | class, for oneself, and it instils one with vigor and assurance, with fire | and perception, with aptitude and! talent. “What new consciousness Social- ism creates can be seen in how widely and fully the workers and seasants of the Soviet Union have ‘ ‘ \ \ Fert More os | against now 125 newspapers are published, Turkish language alone. niversary of the seizure of Soviet fending material interests, defend- ing its class and its slave-owners, maintained that Socialism destroys initiative, destroys the desire to work and create. It asserted that Socialism is equality, ineptitude and the extinction of talents. ‘Those brought up under capitalist mar- kets, where plunder takes place un- der the name of competition, where the cruel, bloody struggle of all all continues, where bestial tusks continue to be the most con- vincing of arguments, controlling mutual relations between people— these bourgeois scientists and think- ers do not suspect other motives and imulus could reflect upon their ac- tions. ew Relations Between Men” “Socialist competition inflicts a crushing blow to bourgeois ideology. It shows that after proletarian revo- ‘Capitalist competition says: Sup- press backward elements in order to strengthen your rule. Socialist com- Petition says: Help backward ele- ments that they may overtake the best and strive for general improve- ment.’ (Stalin.) “Five years of socialist competi- tion confirm this at- every step. These five years are one after an- other a triumph for the revolu- tionary Marxist-Leninist conception of the world. “Under the banner of Leninist competition the shock-workers tri- umphed over the most difficult con- ditions. Under the banner of Lenin- ist competition, under the great leadership of Stalin, the country will achieve during” the ~ Second Five Year Plan unprecedented de- velopment and growth of prosperity and culture.” \PravdaShows | Nazi Baltie | War Plotting Tear Hitler ‘Arguments’ Against Non-Aggression Pact To Pieces (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 30 (By Radio).— | Declaring that the German fascists are carrying on work in the Baltic} States in an effort to undermine | the non-aggression pact signed by | |the Soviet Union, the Soviet press | here yesterday scored the German | government's refusal to sign the Baltic non-aggression treaty. ra organ of the Communist | of the Soviet Union, in a} jing article under the heading, “German refusal is weak in argu- ments, but frank,” comments on the exchange of no‘es between the | Soviet and German governments in | connection with the proposal by the Soviet Union for a mutual agreement to guarantee the in- violability of the independence of | the Baltic countries. Pointing out that the German} refusal takes place shortly after all Baltic States willingly, and without hesitation, agreed to the Soviet proposal for a ten-year extension of the non-aggression pact, Pravda emphasizes that in the light of the German refusal, it is a well-known fact that undermining work is be- | ing carried on by German fascists and their agents in all Baltic States. This, says Pravda, now takes on new significance. The Soviet newspaper goes on to state: “German diplomacy is un- able to conceal the contradictions between the deeds and words of Fascist Germany, between the pro- gram of expansion in the East, and | the jabber about the benefit of peace, and the harmfulness of war, which is consigned for export, but which does not suit the newborn fascist. pacifists. ‘he German government, in its reply to Litvinoff (Commissar of! Foreign Affairs in the U.S.S.R.) left unstated and could not state a/ single argument in the least con-| vincing against the Soviet proposal. They failed to explain their re-| fusal, | “However, the diplomatic sophis- | try which accompanies the German reply, and the refusal to accept the peaceful proposal of the U. S. S. R.,| to a certain extent characteristically and frankly reveal the line of Ger- | man policy in Eastern Europe. And it makes it worth while to consider the reply more closely.” The German note alleges that no menace exists for the Baltic States, and that, therefore, “the Soviet | proposal has no real political} ground.” The authors of this sweep ing statement had better ask the! Baltic States themselves, and find} out how they regard the systematic provocative undermining work car- ried on by Fascist agents in Estho- nia, Latvia, Memel, etc.—‘“work” whose main aim is a clear way for outside aggression, for liquidation of the independence of the Baltic States. Does there exist, asks Pravda, in the whole capitalist world, which is openly preparing for a new world slaughter, a single corner, especially if small countries are considered, where peace is not threatened? Really one must have a very queer sense of humor, in order, under these conditions, and especially on behalf of fascist Germany, to make such careless “pacific” statements about the absence of the war menace! “It is possible that the German government has forgotten certain literary exercises of its ideologists, exercises which are consigned to the archives, but appear in the German press as frequently as be- fore, and depend on the mood and situation of the map of Eastern Eu- rope—so far only on paper—but come out every time in a new fash- ion?” Considering the “argument” of the German reply which states that the Soviet proposal allegedly is no || Hitler Gov't In Secret || Sessions With Wall St. \| Bankers OnBondDeht 30.—In open one of the nd the toll international bankers,” financial officials of the |] Reichsbank are now in secret 2 representatives of American Wall Street banks to |] arrange for payment of the |] $700,000,000 debt Germany owes |] to American bondholders of German bonds. Wall Street banks, including the Rockefeller Chase National and the J. P. Morgan National City Bank, hold close to 50 per cent of the total German bonded debt. The Hitler government is now paying’ interest on these Wall Street investments in Ger- many, partly in German marks and partly in scrip paper. These enormous interest payments to the Hitler's from the German masses through taxes. 300 at Outdoor Mecting | Support China Soviets, and Protest War Danger | NEW YORK.—Over 300 Chinese and American workers held an out- door demonstration here Sunday in the Chinese district for support of the Chinese Soviets and against the war danger in the Far East. Among the organizations repre- sented at Mott and Bayard Sts., were the Marine Workers Industrial| Union, by Orville Blackwell; the| Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, | by William; the Chinese Anti-Im-} perialist Alliance, by Lin; the Com- munist Party by Klein and Popper; and the Chinese Unemployed Coun-| cil by Wu. The crowd enthusiastically re- sponded to the appeal for May Day.) Resolutions of protest against the terror and intervention in China were adopted, to be sent to the Chinese and Japanese ambassador in Washington, and to Roosevelt, Orders to move the meeting by po- lice were repected by the crowd. | The dictatorship of the prole- fariat must be a State that em- bodies a new kind of democracy, for the proletarians and the dis- possessed; and a new kind of dictatorship. against the bour- geoisie—Lenin, good as a means of improvement of Soviet-German relations, and that those relations are worsened due to the unfavorable attitude sumed by the U. S. S. R. tow: the nationalistic regime in Ger- many, Pravda states: | “Certainly the peoples of the So- ‘iet Union regard the national 50- | cialist regime of Germany according to its merits. But entering on nor- mal diplomatic-economic relations | with capitalist countries, the toilers | of the Soviet Union are well aware | that these are countries where in| one or another form—masked or) unmasked—the dictatorship of the} bourgeoisie exists, “Normal diplomatic relations ex- ist between the U. S. S. R. and a number of capitalist countries, so far as their maintenance suits the interests of both parties and are required for the general peace. The absence of any, even the slightest convincing arguments in Germany's refusal, compels the Soviet Union to come to the conclusion that other, more real motives, exist which are unstated in the German reply, but which are dictated by this refusal. The chief reason evidently is German fascism’s unwillingness to bind itself by obligations which might interfere with its aggression against Baltic countries. “In the exchange of opinions be- tween the governments of the U. S. S. R. and Germany, there is re- vealed with exceptional clearness and unexpected frankness, the fac- tors which motivate the German foreign policy. “Therefore, the peaceful initiative of the U.S. S. R. is not fruitless.” | | Wall Street bankers are wrung || | | | of the coal industry. Soviet Freighter | Tear Gas eae se for May Day Cuban soldiers being trained to use American made tear-gas guns, of a type used in the Ambridge strike against American workers. The whole Cuban army has been mobilized in an effort to prevent May Day demonstrations in Havana and other leading cities of Cuba. Gains in Soviet Agriculture and Industry Reach New Heights (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 30 (By Radio)— News of the victories of the build- ers of socialism are coming from all ends of the Soviet Union by wire to Moscow. One hundred and thirteen blast furnaces in the U.S.S.R. start- ed operations in Voroshiloysk with a daily capacity of 900 tons. In Dniepropetrovsk, the aluminum plants yielded their first production. The first turbine of the central electric and heating station at Semipalatinsk, is starting opera- tions, with a capacity of 3,000 kilo- watt. The erection of equipment for a steel foundry and a large metal- lurgical works at Tiflis is completed. In Leningrad, the pneumatic works introduced the manufacture of new types of pneumatic machin- ery, important for the development The first automatic telephone, the main line from Moscow to the Donetz Basin, starts working today. The Donetz miners will be able to telephone Kharkov and Moscow di- rectly from their lodgings. The collective farms report end- less victori By April 25, about 28,000,000 hectares were planted thruout the Soviet Union, against 18,000,000 on the same date in 1933, Shock-workers in industry and on the collective farms are making ever firmer progress towards a well-to- do agricultural life. New, light, | roomy dwellings for workers in| place of the old, dirty, unsanitary blocks which capitalism forced the working class to live in are being pulled down. A night sanitarium for shock-brigaders and builders will be opened May First in a number of towns in White Russia. Tuberculosis night sanatoria are being opened on collective farms, In the Donetz Basin, workers will be able, May First, to move into new houses especially built: for them. In Constantinovka, 70 new lodges have been prepared for May First; 3,440 square metres of roads built; 2,450 square metres of side- walks; 58 trees and shrubs planted. The toilers of the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics are cele- brating May First by new victories | in the struggle for a cultural, well- to-do socialist life. “Komsomol” Docks: in N. Y. Harbor NEW YORK—The second ship to fiy the Soviet red flag in New York harbor, the Komsomol, docked Sat- urday night at Pier 3, Hoboken, after a 22-day trip from the Black Sea. The freighter carried a cargo of paraffin, wine, ore and mineral waters. The Komsomol, which is the Sov- iet word for “Young Communist League,” slipped into the bay at 7:30 p.m. Several of the crew of 35 men and two stewardesses left for a tour of Broadway by automobile with Captain Cepuvit. Unloading of cargo will begin today. After a few | days’ stay, the ship will depart for Baltimore. As on the Kim, each seaman has his own stateroom, paneled in cream color with oak trimmings and equipped with a radio loud speaker. The ship has a library well- stocked with Marx and Lenin books, and which contains a statue of Lenin. The Komsomol was built at Leningrad in 1932. It is an oil- burning vessel powered by a Diesel engine and having a displacement of 7,500 tons, Hangman Dolfuss Convokes His Rump Parliament. VIENNA, April 30. — Today Hangman Dollfuss summons the | hand-picked parliament into session | in order to “legalize” the deeds of the Heimwebr in slaughtering the Austrian workers and setting up a fascist regime and to adopt a “con- stitution.” 1 Former Chancellor Ramek will! summon parliament into session to | give its rubber stamp OK to the new fascist constitution. The rump parliament will then commit poli- | tical suicide. | The fascist constitution will pro- vide for “a corporative christian and authoritarian state,” garbed in oily phrases of Pope Pius XI’s encyclical known as the “Quadragesimo Anno.” In reality, the Austrian fascist gov- ernment will be basically similar to Hitler's and Mussolini’s murder, re- gime, but will piously cover its terror with holy phrases. Before passing the constitution and annihilating parliament, the deputies will attend mass in the Vienna Cathedral where they will receive the blessings of the church. They will then approve en bloc all the decrees submitted to them by Premier Dollfuss, Hitler the Little. Azerbaijan Celebrates Its 14 Years (Special to the Daily Worker) BAKU, U.S. S. R,, April 30 (By Radio).—The toilers of Azerbaijan celebrated on April 28 the 14th an- niversary of the foundation of So- viet power in their country. This year, Soviet Azerbaijan has achieved remarkable gains in living condi- tions for the workers as well as in the cultural field and in construc- tion, It was the consistent follow- ing of the Bolshevik National Pol- icy of Lenin and Stalin which made possible this tremendous develop- ment of the productive powers of the Republic, and the formation of new branches of industry in the conversion of this former Czarist colony into an advanced Soviet Re- | public. The external appearance of the villages here has radically changed. Under the control of the Workers’ and Farmers’ Government, large scale collective farming and the use of modern agricultural technique has replaced the semi-barbarous economy of Czarism, and this So- cialist reconstruction was made pos- sible because of the proximity of in- dustrial centers to the sources of raw material. The greatest achievement in Azerbaijan is in the field of cul- tural construction. This republic, because it has many nationalities, now conducts its general elemen- tary, political and technical educa- tion in 14 different languages so that villages which 14 years ago were completely illiterate, now read and write and in the Latin alpha- bet. In Azerbaijan, where before the revolution only two newspapers existed, both printed in Russian, which figure includes 64 in the} The celebration of the 14th an- Historic Letters Are Found in Archives of Soviet Union MOSCOW, April 27.—The let- ters of George Washington and Edmund Burke and the Duke of Wellington, Shelley, Adam Smith and Robert Southey, which have been found in the Historical Museum, illustrate how carefully documents of historic interest are preserved in the Soviet Union. Under the proleterian govern- ment steady progress is being made in uncovering those items which in the reign of the Czars lay unrecorded and unheeded. It is significant that Arthur Fletcher, the American teacher in the Institute of Foreign Trade, who took part in the dis- covery, was examining the first draft of Walter Scott's “Talis- man,” which, too, was recently anearthed. Evicted Hudson River Colonists Won't View Regal Mansion Again NEW YORK.—'They were not: bad neighbors. We visited back and forth,” said the saddened chairman of the board of the Bethlehem Steel Corp., when he found out yesterday that the city had ordered the eviction of the squatter colony living in make- shift huts along the Hudson opposite his palatial mansion. Apparently these starved out people were “great friends” of the steel magnate. He made the Statement that he was sorry, following a long sojourn abroad pice he stepped off the Liner x. Power here coincides with the May Day celebrations throughout the world, and the greatest: enthusiasm and joy is to be seen in the whole Republic of Azerbaijan, (This is the second and conclud- 7 ing article on the fascist groups in France, their aims and sup- porters.) peas eee By PAUL GREEN P. Vaillant-Couturier writes in a special article in the “Humanite,” Official daily organ of the Commu- nist Party of France, that Coty, the founder of the fascist Solidarite Francaise, a fascist organization, has built at his Chateu de Louve- ciennes three stories of caves. For what purpose, if not for storing arms and ammunition? It is published in the Paris press that stocks of guns and cartridges have been bought from Switzerland for about 12,000,000 francs. The de- livery is granted on the basis of a diplomatic passport. These are sent sometimes to Roubaix, sometimes to other parts of the country. In Paris, at 5 avenue Friedland. there is a fascist nest. It is at this address that the brigades of the Solidarite Francaise are equipped with arms. On the page where the article is published, there is a photostatic copy of an “ordre de service” for a member of this fascist organization. It instructs the above member to call at this address. Comrade Vaillant-Couturier goes on to say that the three under- ground stories built by Coty were at that time carefully protected by special guards assigned by Coty himself to watch the workers and, according to eye witnesses, no one was permitted to approach the grounds. This reminded one of the fortifications in the East. Has the government taken the trouble to investigate this arms depot? asks P. Vaillant- Couturier. Is the government taking any action against the firms L. Dieu and Le Masson, which two firms are known to have received cases of automatic pistols of Spanish manufacture? On April 2, this same writer de- scribed in an article the type of French Government Help Nazi Firm Supplies Mauser Revolvers and Bullets for French Fascists s Them With Munitions; arms — mitrailleuse ' pistols, with handles of 7.63 meters and a lift capacity of 1,000 meters—which were beifg sold in Paris by a large local firm. He noted the strangeness of such procedure at a time when the traffic in ‘arms was being strictly limited and wondered why there should be such a large increase in these stocks. Did anybody deny his statements? Did any newspaper cry out against it? Why, not even the “Populaire” (the Socialist Party organ of Mr. L. Blum). Vaillant-Couturier points out that “it was our lot instead of the examining magistrates’ to show up these goings on.” “But,” he con- tinues, “we are doing this in order to enlighten the workers.” The following telegram was dis- covered to have been sent on April 5, 1934, by L. Dieu: Mauserweke Oberndorfneckar — Your telegram today wire price of pistols with only twenty bullet loader. Ten bullet loader un- necessary.—Dieu. The German firm which furnishes the ammunition is Mauser, while Dieu is the exclusive agent in the service of the French “patriots.” A few days later another telegram was sent by Dieu to another German firm: Berkawerke Karlsruhebaden — Wire lowest price fob Anvers in sterling and time for delivery five hundred thousand igue—Dieu. The 500,000 “iguc” mentioned are the 500,000 cartridges for the Mauser pistols 7.63. Does the government do anything about this? Are they not informed? and Sarraut and Petain keep quict. This situation does not exist in Peuple,” a weekly from Lyons, tells the same story. It is revealed that the inspector of Lyons Scotland’ Yard, Nicollet, is the instigator of the fascist group of the Solidarite Francaise in Lyons. The General Staff of the Croix de Feu in Lyons (Mr, Marchal, president) has ob- tained permission to use trucks from the factory Berliet in an eventual march on Paris. i It is found that the following white Russian officers, in collabora- tion with French officers in active service, have at their disposal arms and cliques of hired anti-Commu- nists: General Melnitski, 4 Montee de la Butte, and Colonel Lutik, 14 Chemin de Saint Isidore, at Lyon- Monchat. As in Paris, so in the provinces the police work hand in hand with the fascist. bands. In the growth of fascism and the intensified struggle against it, we can say in France, in the words of Comrade Stalin, “It is a symptom of a symptom of the fact that the bourgeoisie is already unable to rule by the old methods of parlia- mentarism and bourgeois democracy, and, as a consequence, is compelled in its home policy to resort to ter- roristic methods of administration.” Against the terrorism of the fas- cists the workers of France, under the leadership of the Communist Party, are forming a united front. Stalin at the 17th Bolshevik Con- gress said that “the victory of the revolution never comes of itself. It must be prepared and conquered. Only a strong proletarian party can prepare it and conquer it.” That only a strong, well organized | proletarian party can lead the work- Paris alone, Information received by ‘LHum” /% som “La Voix du ers to victory; that only a party the weakness of the bourgeoisie, as| French Fascists Get Arms From Many Countries fight the enemies from within has been proven time and again (look at Austria, Germany, Italy; read the articles by Comrade Browder in the “Communist,” for April, 1934, as to the Role of the Socialist Party Leaders in the Struggle Against War and Fascism) that we do not need to enter into it, but a specific case happened in France about two weeks ago, which we think will in- terest the rank and file of the American working class, The Role of Jouhaux The leader of the reformist trade unions (C. G. T.) called a big meet~ ing. Alll trade unions elected their delegates, thinking they could pre- pare to fight with them the fascist enemies of France. What happened? Jouhaux, the leader of the C. G. T. had a private meeting with Dou- mergue and, subsequently, the meet- ing was called off. It was apparent from the size and character of the delegation representing the rank and file that the scheme to bring about a social-fascist program would not work, so Jouhaux, showing his true label, walked out on the work- ers and joined the Doumergue-Tar- dieu fascist gang. As in 1914, when he served the war barons, so in 1934 he serves the fascist gangsters. After that event we noticed that hundreds and thousands of workers and intel- lectuals are joining the Communist Party of France. Under the lead- ership of the only proletarian party, day after day strikes are being or- ganized to fight the decree-laws .of Doumergue-Tardieu. Mass meetings are being held all over France in order to fight the fascist bandits. These strikes will culminate in a general strike that will take place May 1. May 20 a National Anti- Fascist Congress will be called by the League Against War and Fas- cism. And so, workers of America, only by a united front under the lead- ership of the Communist Party will you bring about the destruction of fascism and replace the capitalist built on Marxist-Leninist tactics can en pamee system with a Soviet America, On the World Front By HARRY GANNES | FESSERS Hirota, Emau, Simon and Roosevelt may or may not have read the 13th |Plenum Resolution of oH | Communist International. Bu their actions in behalf of their im- perialist powers fully confirm it. From the fanflare of explosive pub- licity, the war maneuvers of the Far East over the question of who shall swal- low the biggest slice of China has now entere~ the stage of s¢ cret treaties, st cret and tr mendously rapi arming a mobilization for war and war alliances. Not one word of the news from the Far East can be read without remem- Harry Gannes national said at its 13th Plenum: “The growing uncertainty of the bourgeoisie as to the possibil- ity of finding a way out of the crisis only by the intensificd ex- ploitation of the toilers of their own countries, has led the im- Perialists to put their main stake on war. The international situa- tion bears all the features of the eve of a new world war.” The latest news from London Tokyo and Washington add a littl more light to the recent Japanese declaration that the rape of Chine is its exclusive function. Presiden! Roosevelt has been intensivel; studying the problem of war and plunder as a means of propelling American capitalism out of iti crisis. In preparation, he has sanc- tioned the arming of the butcher Chiang Kai-shek against the Chi- nese Soviets, making sure at the same time that Wall Street military bases were established throughout China for an armed conflict with Japan. Increasing the power of the trusts at home through the N.R.A., plun- dering the American workers, Roosevelt has his eye on foreign markets. At every turn he meets Japanese and British capitalism bent on the same object. * * « ‘pee. the diplomatic notes is the brutal drive of the imperial- ist bandits for a redivision of the colonies, markets and spheres of plunder. “An aggressive, driving program of economic expansion is set under way by Japan just at a time when the United States is preparing te enter strongly into foreign competi- tion,” declares the United States News, a spokesman for the Reose- velt government. A special report made to Roose: velt shows that Japan is making great headway in Latin Americar markets. “They are occurring in A | field that this country hoped sed | win,” complains the United States News. IR JOHN SIMON, foreign min- ister, speaking before the House of Commons yesterday, somewhat illuminated the position of British imperialism, regarding the latest Japanese manifesto. Simon sai¢ that Britain considered the incident closed. In other words, the efforts of American imperialism to ITIVE oy at joint action with Britain against 1 the Japanese policy breaks on the | rocks of Anglo-American conflicts ) Sir John Simon referred to “Jap- an’s special rights in China, recog: nized by the powers and not shared by them.” This, said the United Press, mystified Far Eastern experts Treaty banned such exclusive rights. The Nine-Power Treaty resulted from the Washington Naval Con- ference of 1921-22, when Wal Street, militarily and economically strengthened by its plunder in the World War, was able to rupture the then existing Anglo-Japanese al- liance. The treaty opened the door for plunder to all imperialist powers but gave Wall Street an edge which later events quickly blunted. alliances. All of the powers are dis- membering China. Japan has seized Manchuria. Britain is driving into Tibet and Szechuan provinces, in- Hong Kong to Hankow; French im- perialism is making rapid inroads into Yunnan province, and Ameri- can imperialism, through its ait forces is concentrating on the ter- ritory under the thumb of the Nan- king government, and in Fukien province, near the British preserves, Nor can one overlook the bit- ter conflict between Britain and the United States in Latin America, over debts, world financial domina- tion, and the new tariff war. Sir John Simon’s declarations are not mystifying when these facts are borne in mind. While the imperialist conflicts bubble over like a volcano, ready to burst, the greatest cfforts are made to direct the flow of the dead- ly war lava towards the Soviet Union. For an example of this, we have the article of Yosuke Matsu-r ~ oka, Japanese diplomat, widely pub: lished in the American press. Mat, suoka points out to the imperialist: that the plunder of the world or the redivision of colonies is an un- safe venture for any of the imper: ialists without first destroying thei / common enemy, the Soviet Unior and the Chinese Soviets. At the same time, Hitler refuses to sign the clearly showing the rapidly advans- ing war alliances against the Sovie. | Union in the East and the West. ( Imperialist war is on the order i of the day, and only the revolu- tionary action of the working whole war policy of the Roose- velt regime, against the N-.R.A. and its low wages, against the huge war budget, and for unem- ployment insurance, can stop Wall Street from plunging the American toiling masses into a gigantic slaughter to preserve de- caying capitalism from doom, who hold that the Nine-Power { ——<———— Baltic states non-aggression pact | ¢ bering what the Communist Inter- © | There is now a shifting of war j i]