The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1934, Page 6

AY 3, ge AITDY WORKER, NEW YORK. THURSDAY, dtermal oncan co: Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 America’s Only PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New ¥ N. ¥ Telephone: ALgonquin 4- 7954. 705, Cheago, 1 Ei $6.00 i * $0.00 The Longshoremen’s Strike IGHTEEN THOUSAND longshoremen, 4 members of the International Long- shoremen’s io (A. F. of L), have e on strike in Louisiana and Te: horemen of the en- gulf ports. The long tire Atlantic coast are preparing immediate strike action. Joseph P. Ryan, president of the I. L. A. and “adviser” to the ship- N.R.A., in spite of his utmost n the sweeping strike both long- do movement try shoremen a leadership of ustrial Union. The walked out in New > of the M.W.1.U. The Prince crew York under the lead marine workers, led by t Marine Workers Indus- trial Union wages and working tions on the coal boats in Boston, in more than es on the Munson lines, in dockers’ strikes Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other ports, on the Ore and other lines. The swelling ke wave takes place at the moment when the Roosevelt government, through General Johnson and the N.R.A., is attempting to enforce the slave shipping code. This slave code proposes to set @ pauper wage scale of $50 a month for able-bodied seamen; to outlaw strikes, and to make it impossible for the seamen to get pay for overtime, and sets up lower, Jim Crow rates for vessels in the inter-island trade of Hawaii and Puerto Rico.” The shipping code proposed by the Roosevelt government aims to drive thousands of longshore- men off the waterfront through the infamous “decasualization plan,” which discriminates also against foreign born and Negro longshoremen- No definite wage scale is provided for the longshore- men, the plan being to hack down conditions piecemeal, with the longshoremen split by ports, dominated by the National Shipping Labor Board, with strikes outlawed. While the Roosevelt gov- ernment, for months, has heen maneuvering to enforce this pauper code, the shipowners have been attempting to shove down wages, put over company unions, and worsen conditions. The A. F. of L. 1 "s, notably Joseph Ryan (a crafty Tammany leader, by the way), have yorked with the Roosevelt government to put over ihis strikebreaking code. Ryan, as “adviser” to the N.R.A., helped to draw up and is fighting for, the establishment of this pauper N.R.A. code. Ryan ‘ecently forestalied the strike of 12,000 Pacific Coast yeamen; he kept the Gulf longshoremen at work as iong as Ryan, unable to prevent the ‘ongshore s is now endeavoring to confine the lemands only to recognition of the union. The strike of thousands of longshoremen in Gulf ind Atlantic ports, and the increase in local long- shore and ship crew strikes under the leadership of the M.W.LU., follows on the heels of the meet- ing of the National Committee of the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union in Baltimore on April 14 and 15. The M.W.LU. has led the fight against the strikebreaking slave code now hanging over the heads of the seamen and longshoremen, which is backed by Ryan. The Marine Workers Industrial Union calls upon all seamen and longshoremen, regardless of their union affiliation, to at once set up UNITY ACTION COMMITTEES ON EVERY SHIP AND DOCK, to prepare strike action and to prepare for the united front national Unity Conference, to be held on September 1 and 2 in Baltimore. Longshoremen! Seamen! Do not allow the mis- con! 40 s in St. Louis, 1¢ A. F. of L.—the 1.S.U. and the LL.A- ‘0 prevent you from striking in solidarity with th gulf port longshoremen, and for decent wages and leaders of working cond Demand minimum $1 an hour for longshoremen. Demand a minimum of $62.50 a month for seamen. Demand time and one-half for overtime. Demand increase in gangs for longshoremen. Demand enactment of the Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). Guard against sell-outs of your strike by Ryan. Set up Unity Action Committees on ail ships and docks! Elect delegates to the Unity Conference called by the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union for Sep- tember 1 and 2 in Baltimore to prepare for mass strike struggles! ions War Notes in the Far East HE unwritten meaning in the diplomatic note of the Roosevelt government to Japan is that Wall Street is ready at | any moment to plunge the American work- ers into a war to preserve the American bankers’ privilege of plundering and ravag- ing China. Nor did Roosevelt leave the matter at the diplomatic literary stage. Secret orders were given to speed up the vast and tremendous | war preparations that go under the name of the | New Deal. In order to speed this war develop- | ment, all relief measures of the government will | be cut; more money will go for war, less for wages, | veterans and unemployed relief. Recently the writers of the syndicated daily column, “Washington Merry Go Round,” gave an inkling of the huge war preparations Roosevelt is speeding specifically for war in the Far East. They said “Probably Franklin Roosevelt has got more hard-boiled about foreign policy—except re Latin- American—than any man in the White House for decades, . . But this policy of apparent pacifism | is deceptive. Coupled with it, Roosevelt is prepar- ing quietly for any eventualities—if necessary for war in the Orient. Roosevelt loves ballyhoo, but there is no ballyhoo connected with his naval program, Every shipyard in the country is work- ing near capacity—but few people know it. The Public Works budget provides for 20 warships—but | little is said about it.” Behind the barrage of diplomatic notes, Roose- velt takes every step to drive the American workers to war against Japan, in order to decide that Yankee imperialism is more fit to enslave the Chinese | masses than Japanese imperialism. At the same time, the American capitalist press begins its campaign of chauvinism against Japan, stirring up the hatred of the American workers against the Japanese people. In Japan, the Jap- anese militarists follow the same game, stirring up the Japanese toilers against their American brothers. In Japan the war-lords, at the same time, keep on flooding Manchuria with troops and air bases for war against the Soviet Union. They leave no stone unturned to deflect the inter-imperialist conflict to a united struggle against the Soviet Union, The forces supported this action of Japan among the American capitalists are increasing their bold- ness, and have strong supporters among the Roose- velt regime. The Roosevelt government is spending millions helping the butcher Chiang Kai Shek in his efforts to destroy the Chinese Soviets. Roosevelt's note declared that there would be no let-up on Wall Street's militarization activities in China. A thick veil of secrecy surrounds the tremendous- ly rapid moves of the Roosevelt government to war | in the Far East. That war may explode at any | moment. No time can be lost now in arousing the American masses against this war, against the Wall Street imperialist policy in China, which is directed against the Chinese Soviets, against the revolution- ary Chinese workers and peasants, against the vast majority of the Chinese people, the exploited masses. We must fight energetically against every chauvin- ist blast of the Roosevelt government and its capi- talist press directed against the Japanese people, showing its real purpose. That can be done best by rallying the united front of all workers against the immediate war pre- parations program of Roosevelt, demanding that the money go for unemployment insurance, for the vets’ bonus, for relief. We must arouse the whole work- ing class on the alarming danger of a new imperial- ist slaughter, and in every strike, in every economic struggle, raise the issue of fight against imperialist war. (Diplomacy Is ‘Mask For War) ‘Move In China| | “Closed Incident,” Says| | Washington, But Opens | Naval Arms Race | TOKIO, May 2.—The provocative American note, declaring that the | Roosevelt government will go to any |lengths to preserve the American} | bankers’ interests in China, is in-| creasing the war spirit in Japan. |Foerign Minister Koki Hirota said |he may reply to the United States | | declaration today. Japanese militarists are stirring| |up resentment against Secretary | Hull’s declaration of Wall Street's | | policy in China, In the press they | | state they consider the American |note as “interference in Oriental | affairs.” | Recognizing the American note) jas a threat of military action to} | bolster up American capitalists’ plans for militarization in China| | and extension of markets, a virtual | war council was called by Emperor | | Hirohito. Many leading militarists |were called, including Prince, | Saionji, the “elder statesman,” who | is the closest advisor of the em-| |peror on such matters. Saionji is} |rarely called in except when major | Policies of Japanese imperialism are | | involved. | | ea Sar. WASHINGTON, May 2—The | State Department announced that it would consider the change of} notes on the Far Eastern situation |“a closed incident,” unless another jcommunication is received from the | | Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota.| | That the incident is not so “closed” jis seen in the increased war prep- | | arations ordered by Roosevelt, | especially the intensified building | of warships. | Nothing can be gained by further | discussion, was the State Depart- DOWN WITH IMPER? ALIST W. By Burck | ment’s opinion, which means thas ‘action, in the matter of war prep- arations and war alliances, is the next step, with actual warfare im-} | minent, | Cable Afghanistan | Demanding Release :. of Comrade Singh \Tortured at Behest of | 5,000 Paris Workers F ight 4 Off Fascist Police Attacks (Continued from Page 1) Seventy-three mu- Augburg. ely beaten and tor-) is, who set fire to} | British Imperialists | stag. in Afghan Jail NEW YORK—A cable to revolutionary who is held in jail in| Anti-Imperialist League today. were arrested while crossing the | border from India into Afghanistan. | Although not a scrap of evidence! was found on them at the time of their arrest, the Afghan govern-| {ment has held them for almost nine months without bringing charges or | proceedings against them. | In accord with the wishes of| |British imperialism, the Afghan| |government is attempting to kill Gurmuk Singh in jail through bru- tal treatment. Throughout the in- tensely cold winter, when the| weather at times reached 15 de- }grees below zero, Gurmuk Singh was given neither adequate clothing nor blankets. His only food con- sists of stale bread and cold water, and he is constantly tortured by the heavy shackles he is compelled to wear. His health is now com- pletely broken and his life im- perilled. All organizations should immedi- ately send cables and resolutions ghanistan, declared whether the fire, which gutted the} the! structure within an hour, was laid Afghan government, demanding the purposely or was due to spontane- release of Gurmuk Singh, Indian} ys combustion.” Kabul, Afghanistan, was sent by the} gommi An inquiry here held by the Nazis it could not “ascertain At first the Nazis blamed the] ists. They are now talking] . | about “spontaneous combustion” in Si 2. ; eal Gurmuk Singh and @ companion order to hide their own criminal} deed. : ously in five different places and purned the hall capable of seating The fire started simultane- means of a police airpane scouring —_ | the countryside on the lookout for with the Nazi incendiary act} {in burning down the big meeting |hall at workers, accused of being C | nists, were arrested throughout Ba-/ varia, and si tured by the the building as they did the Reich-} demonstrations which could not be discovered by the regular police force and Heimwehr. Prince von Stahremberg, who led the Heimwehr troops in shooting} down workers last February, on May} Day, was made Minister of Public Security, in charge of police and other armed forces. ale dant 2 MADRID, Spain, May 2—One worker was killed May Day, and three seriously wounded by police at Fuente del Maestre in Badajoz Prov- ince. Civile guards, the hated re-| actionary police, attempted to break | up a Communist demonstration. The! workers resisted bravely but were | | met with gunfire. Ay ius: 5 OVIEDO, Spain, May 2.—Eleven | workers were injured when the Civile 8,000 to the ground in one hour. * guards attacked a demonstration of VIENNA, Austria, May 2—Numer-| Cemmunist and Socialist workers. cist Austria, The largest was in a forest near Vienna, where 2,000 men and women massed to declare their ous May Day meetings and demon-/ A group of workers in retaliation strations were held throughout Frs- | massed at the fascist headquarters ef Popular Action and wrecked it. | er te | | BOMBAY, India, May 2.—Hun- | dreds of workers suffered injuries : yesterday throughout India when j they bravely attempted to hold a | May Day demonstration and express | their international solidarity. At} Delhi, the most militant demonstra- demanding the release of Gurmuk/| regime. interna tional’ tion took place. More than 100 work- revolutionary) ers were sent to the hospital. Police solidarity, and to! in Bombay viciously attacked a May mobilize the} Day demonstration with their long workers’ forces, Staves. A for the oyer- : y j Prince throw of the] LONDON, May 2—A May Day Stahremberg —Dollfuss fascist) parade to Hyde Park and demon- Despite the large number] stration was held here yesterday. A Singh to Nadir Khan, Kabul, Af-| present, the government was able/ resolution was passed demanding the to discover the meeting only by withdrawal of the government’s un- N.Y, Anti-Nagi Conference May 5 To Mobilize All Forces Against Fascism NEW YORK.—Many organizations in and near New York City have already sent in their credentials for the United Anti-Nazi Conference to be held Saturday, May 5, at 12 noon, at Irving Plaza Hall. The May 5th conference will take up specifically the question of or- ganizing all anti-Nazi forces in New York so that a really effective cam- paign can be carried on to stop all Nazi activities in this country and raise funds to aid Hitler victims. Among the organizations sending in credentials are the Womens In- ternational League for Peace and Freedom, Bnai Raphael Society, Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Society, several benevolent societies, several locals of the Amalgamated Food Workers, several teachers’ or- ganizations, Workmen’s Circle, In- ternational Workers Order, Nature Friends, Mctal Workers Union and scores of others. | Among the speakers at the con- ference will be James Waterman Wise, who will speak on “Nazism and the Jew,” Anna Schultz, who will speak on the question of Women and Fascism and War, and other | outstanding speakers, employment bill and the new sedi- tion bill, calling for a united front against fascism and war. The chief speakers at Hyde Park were Tom Mann and Harry Pollit, Communist leaders awaiting trial for “sedition” for speeches at the recent Hunger March, James Maxton and John McGovern. A red flag was nailed to the 130- foot flagpole on Eastham Hown Hall. May Day Raises Burning Question of Fight for Working Class Unity By MILTON HOWARD T WAS strange. The Socialist workers hate Fascism. The Communist workers hate Fas- cism. The Socialist workers hate capitalist and wage cuts, as munist workers. They both are flesh and blood of the working class, the class that exploitation as the Com- alone can lead the fight for the smashing of capitalism and the building of Socialism. And yet these two groups of workers were celebrating the great day of working-class solidarity in separate meetings, one in Union Square, the other in Madison Square. Yet on May Day the united front of the working class, the united front with which we should haye confronted the Wall Street masters, was breken. This was a crime against the working class, whose results, if not corrected in time, will cost the working class of America heavy penalties when the ruling class enemy lets loose Its Fascist gangsters. I looked about me at Madison Square, at these workers, Socialist and trade union, cut off from the immense power that was beating through the masses at Union Square, segregated by the orders of their leaders from their class comrades at the Square whose name ich with the history of prole- tarian demonstration. All around me were Socialist c “These are my _ class I thought. “We are tation. We are the ones who will smash this system. And yet these workers look upon me with suspicion, with enmity be- me feceaeintet ite “If we do not unite our forces | against our common class enemy, we will both go down in defeat be- fore the monster of Fascist reac- tion. Yet on May Day, we who | belong together are separated.” | Who is respomsible for this crime? | I thought of the words of our great working class hero, George Dimitroff, who wrote only three days |ago in an appeal written especially | to the Daily Worker: “Millions of Social-Democratic | workers, under the blows of events in Germany and Austria, now stand at the cross-roads, they have lost confidence in the cor- rectness of the path of social-de- | mocracy, the path of the Second | International, but have not yet sufficient confidence in the cor- rectness of the Communist path, the path of the Communist In- ternational. “A wall of distrust, condemna- nation and prejudice, separates these social-democratic workers from their Communist class brothers. Social-Democracy and the bourgeoisie speculate on this, Fascism builds its hopes upon it. The wall must be shattered to. its foundations in order to realize the revolutionary unity of the working class. “The key to the successful strug- gles against fascism guaranteeing the victory of the proletariat over the bourgeois, really lies here.” And yesterday, standing near the speakers’ stand in Madison Square. I repeated to myself, “Yes, the key to the successful struggle against Fascism that will guarantee the victory of the proletariat over the bourgeois really lies here.” HAT is a united front? Does it mean the uniting of two groups on a common platform merging themselves nto a new organzation? Does if mean that the Communists have to become Socialists and the Socialists Communists? No, it does cause I am a Communist, not mean that. That would not be a united front. That would be a merger, a disappearance of the old groups and the consolidation of a new one. A united front takes place when two groups with different platforms agree to get together on certain limited, specific demands upon which they can both agree, without giving up their broader, funda- mental platforms. For example, Socialist workers have one idea of how to fight for Socialism, Communists another. But they can form a united front against a wage cut, against Fascism, |against imperialist war, for more relief, for unemployment insurance, etc. The united front is the acid test of the sincerity of any group’s in- tentions. A group may talk its head off on fighting against wage cuts, against Fascism and war. But if it sabotages any effort to form united fronts on these questions its claims are proven to be hollow and hypocritical. Ro ew HY, then, was there no united | front of Socialist and Commu- |nist workers on May Day on the fundamental needs of the working class, against imperialist war and fascism, against wage cuts, against any reduction in the standards of living of the masses, and for un- employment insurance? All work- ers, Socialist and Communist, agree on these questions, at least as far as fayoring them or opposing them is concerned. Why then this ter- rible split in the ranks of the work- ers on May Day? The United Front May Day Committee urged and invited a united Union Square demonstra- tion on the following minimum demands: 1. Higher wages and hours. 2. For the passage of the Work- ers’ Unemployment and Social shorter Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). 3. For immediate cash relief. 4. Against compulsory arbitra- tion, for the right to strike, against company unions, for the right to organize, for recognition of the union of the workers’ choice. 5. For equality for the Negro toiler; against all forms of dis- crimination, fer the right to all jobs at equal pay. 6, Against Fascism. 7. For solidarity with the Ger- man workers, for the freedom of Thaelmann and all anti-Fascist fighters in the Nazi torture cham- bers. 8. Against imperialist war, for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China. These were the demands upon which the Socialist joint Is there one of these demands that does not meet with the wholehearted support of every Socialist worker? Is there one of these demands that cannot find the approval of any person inter- ested in getting the workers an immediate rise in their living standards, interested in carrying forward the fight against the Wall Street and world-capitalist offensive? These are not “Com- munist demands.” These are the basic, immediate demands of the working-class movement through~ out the capitalist world. Every class-conscious worker is ready to fight for them. Yet the Socialist workers were separated from the workers, The Socialist leaders re- stay in Union Square side by side with Communist workers demon- strating for these basic demands. Don’t the Socialist leaders want to fight for these demands. But in their speeches, they say they do, Why, then, did they separate the and _ trade union groups were invited to hold a united front demonstration. Communist fused to accept these demands, re- fused to permit “their” workers to Socialist workers from the Com- munist on May Day? Wan Nee T Madison Square, Norman Thomas flung a jibe at the Communist meeting in Union Square, calling it a “factional meet- ing.” This was strange, seeing that the Union Square. demonstration was more than twice the size of the Madison Square meeting. The Socialist leaders justify their splitting by every kind of devious charge and theory. They accuse the Communists of “bad faith,” of lack of “honest good will.” This is, for example, what Norman Thomas said at Madison Square yesterday. They say the Communists “abuse the Socialists with name-calling.” They say the Communists want to “run the whole show for them- selves.” They say the Communists “attack” the Socialist leaders, etc., they give. None of these has any basis in fact. The Communists have never broken one single united front pact. On the contrary, it was shown in the recent Tom Mooney and Anti- War Congresses that it is the So- cialists who broke their united front agreements with the most brazen “bad faith.” But the real heart of the So- cialist leaders fear of the United Front on the very issue they claim to be fighting for is the fact that the Communists openly and publicly criticize the policies of the Socialist leadership. When we criticize their policies they call it “name-calling.” But it is the criti- cism that they are afraid of. Does a United Front do away with all discussion, with all criti- cism? Such a united front would be nothing but a dead, tyrannical yoke on the development of the very struggle it was ostensibly called for. If one of the parties to united etc. There are many other reasons | the objectives of the united front it is the duty of all the other groups to subject that group to the most open criticism. That is the only way the fight can be carried forward. The Socialist and Communist workers have serious differences on many questions. It would be foolish not to recognize this. But these differences can only be resolved in the most comradely discussion, in common struggle for certain specific objectives, in the give and take of frank, open discussion. Where there is no democratic discussion of vital is- sues, there can be no clarifica- tion or progress, The United front is the most powerful wea~ pon for just this discussion, this clarification, that there is avail- able to the working class. In the fight for the Issues listed aboye the Socialist and Commu- nist workers belong side by side. Only in this way can they forge the true weapons for their strug- gle against capitalism. But the Socialist leaders object to this discussion, this criticism. Upon every conceivable pretext they try to escape it. Pick up any issue of the New Leader or the Jewish Daily Forward, and you will find in it some utterance on “how impossible” it is to discuss with Communists, on how “use- less” it is, etc., The right to criticize is basic to a united front, The Socialist leaders have the same right as anyone else. Why are they fear- ful of exercising it? Why do they fear the give and take of open discussion before “their own” .workers? ar ee ‘0 CELEBRATE May Day, to talk eloquently of the co- operative commonwealth and the new social order, as the Sociztist speakers do, is meaningless un- front agreement fails to fight for right here and now for such demands as were listed above by the United Front May Day Com- mittee, The strategy of Social-Demoz- racy all over the world is to split the Socialist workers away from the Communist workers through the tactic of choosing some “lessen. evil’ in the form of a “temporary” coalition with some “better type” of capitalist. In Ger- many the Socialist leaders de- nounced the Communists for “splitting” the German working class away—from what? From voting for Hindenberg, the Fas- cist-militarist! . It is the Socialist leaders who stand in the way of the working class uhited front. This united front cannot be won unless the influence of these leaders is broken. The fight against Wall Street, against the advancing tide of American Fascism, against the im- minent menace of imperialist war, against the whole Wall Street drive that is beating the masses down into tee swamps of misery and hunger, will be surely de- feated if we do not weld the work- ing .class united front. “The Fascists speculate on the wall of distrust and suspicion that has been built up between the Socialist and Communist workers,” Dimitroff says truly. And this gives the full measure of the crime of the Socialist Party leaders who build and seck to raise this wall higher. For it is this which permits the iron wedge of Fascism to move for- ward. This May Day disunity must never again be repeated. It is a crime. Every worker knows and feels that is a crime, a crime for which the Socialist leaders are re- sponsible. No obstacle must stop the fight for unity, for united front of the working class. It requires On the i | | World Front —— By HARRY GANNES —— | Trade and Bullets | Dollfuss’ Thanks to Bauer | 7,453,000 Copies | Tokyo War Reporting | WERFUL enemies of the J |* Union in the United States are | demanding that the workers of the | Soviet Union now pay for the bul- lets and ammunition the White- guard General Kolchak used to | slaughter their fellow workers in |the bitter civil wars of 1918-21, | Otherwise, they say, there must be |no trade between the United Staj and the Soviet Union. | After Soviet recognition by ts | United States. a special bank w | set up to finance U. S.-Soviet trade, the Export-Import Bank, Then the Johnson Bill came up, prohibiting loans to governments defaulting on loans. Officials of the Bank, work- ling with the most vicious enemies of the Soviet Union, those who seek |to rupture relations and institute | war, brought up the matter of the Kerensky loans. | The Wall Street-loans to Kerensky |smell like the Stavisky scandals in | France, only worse. The U. 8. gov- jernment gave Kerensky’s agent in the U. S, Bakmetiev, and later Serge Ughet, $187,000,000. Du Pont, Morgan and Mellon got the money for ammunition to help the allies and Kerensky carry on the war for plunder. “I am frank to say to you,” said Congressman L, McFadden of Penn- Sylvania, “that the examination which I and other members of the committee made indicated that very | little of the $187,000,000 went to Russia.” He pointed out it went | to buy war munitions here. “Then | the goods did not go to Russia, and | were resold and manipulated ,.. What became of the money?” It went into the pockets of the coun- ter-revolutionists who were decisive- ly defeated by the Soviet Union, | The Soviet government has never defaulted on its loans. No friend of the Soviet Union can remain inert in this situation. Those stopping trade have more nefarious aims that chime in with those of Hitler, Sir John Simon and the Japanese | War lords. | The friends of the Soviet Union, at 80 E. 11th St. urge all workers’ organizations to pass resolutions against the action of the Export- Import Bank in stopping trade and credits to the U. S. S. R. Copies should be sent to Roosevelt, to the Bank, to Senators and Congress- |man, and to the Friends of the Soviet Union. ae ce The courts of Hitler the Little, Herr Dollfuss of Aus- tria, paid tribute recently to | the service of the Social-Dem- ocratic leaders Otto Bauer an |J. Deutsch. For contrastin, |the conduct of these worthie to that of the Social-Democrat Koloman Wallisch, who stayed and fought against the Dollfuss fascist regime for which Bauer, Deutsch & Co, paved the way, a mechanic |named Ludwig Wagner and a la- borer named R. Seldhofer, have been sentenced to five and three months imprisonment. aot ee A series of lectures that becam{ a hook issued in 17,453,000 copies i} the story of Stalin’s “Problems Leninism.” Just a little more than 1! years ago Comrade Stalin delivered a course of lectures at Sverdlov Uni- versity in Moscow. These lectures together with other works by Com- rade Stalin included in the first |volume of “Problems of Leninism,” were translated into Chinese, Japa- nese, Mongolian, Korean, Arabic, Uzbek, Armenian, Finnish, Tradjik, and 20 European languages. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the book, an anniversary edition of 500,000 in Russian and in twenty other languages was published. A vivid sample of Japanese news- | paper perversion of the role of the Soviet Union and Japanese im- perialism is contained in a report of |@ conversation between the Soviet | Ambassador Yurenev and War Min- ister Hayashi. The report is sent out by the Denpo Tsushin news agency of Tokyo, and is an example of the vicious fairy stories fed by the Japanese war lords to the Japa- nese toilers. The conversation. is set forth as follows: “Yurenev: There has been war talk since last February, and there was tension in the mind of the Soviet population, It was all very regret- able. The present situation of the U. 8. S. R. does not permit of war. Neither has it been the intention of my country to make war on Japan. In your country, too, since the com- ing to office of you who are pacifists, the possibility of war has lessened, “Hayashi: Ever since its founda- tion, Japan never invaded any other country. This will hold true for- ever . . . Love of peace and arma- ment do not contradict each other.” dor Yurenev calling the war-mad Japanese militarists who are ready to fling their forces at the Soviet Union “pacifists” reads like a line from Gilbert and Sullivan. The Japanese press realizes that the words of the representative of the victorious proletarian revolution are Scanned with an eagle eye by the exploited masses of Japan. Hence the Japanese Hearsts find no diffi- culty in putting words in his mouth. But the most blatant piece of hypocricy is Hayashi’s window- dressed declaration that Japan since its foundation never invaded any other country. The only theory on | which Hayashi probably has himself represented as saying this without crossing his fingers is that put for- ward in the Tanaka document, namely, all the world rightfully be- Jongs to Japanese imperialism, and the invasion of Korea, Manchuria and China is invading territory al- patient, skill, persistence. But it is less one puts up a stiff fight indisnensable, ready allotted to the huge trusts of the Mitsuis and Mitsubishis by the ‘The idea of the Soviet Ambassa-* 'y | a