The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight Daily AreTeaL oncam COMMUNIST Worker g RIY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERMATIONALD s Oniy Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPROPAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th “Amer SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1934 Empty Promises ITH Congress nearing the close of its y on, and the net total result for so clearly increased President Roosevelt, master of the most putrid demagogy, resorts to one of his orgies of empty promises. Washington it is forecast that ten days Roosevelt will deliver a message leading with points close to the heart ire working c But at the same time, age will speci! indicate, “Not to be In other words, Roosevelt is again merely certain sures that the workers through ma. uuggles have been demanding, and 1 ue to fight for, regardless of whatever promises or does. forthcoming Roosevelt se In message will talk The about unemployment, old age, and sickness insur- ance. It will contain weasel words about raising the coolie minimums in the N.R.A. codes that Roose- velt himself signed and enforced against the workers. Then, finally, it will hold up the promise of a new Labor Board, since the old strikebreaking in- strument run by Senator Wagner has so clearly rejected by the working class, through its tant strikes. Roosevelt specifically will provide that Congress these measures at the present session. hould not fool the workers. Roose- sed unemployment insurance during his ele m campaigns. When it came to action, he gave the workers the N.R.A. with its starvation he provided the C.W.A., only to snatch it ain, in order to save profits for the bosses. He found billions for the big trusts, for war prep- one cent for unemployment in- ain, with Congressional elections je a speaking point for his lick- he again will repeat the dema- gogic phrases about social insurance. + * * 3 OCSEVELT’S aim, mainly, is to stem the rising, militant strike struggles; the growing action by the wor to win for themselves increased wages, against the N.R.A., as shown by the Alabama coal and ore ike; and by the brilliant and militant 's strike. He wants to hold back the ind H. R. 7598 for real unem- ce. He no longer can totally evade sue, but meets it in his usual slimy, slippery Roosevelt's message bringing “gifts” to the work- ers, sheuld be looked upon with the greatest sus- all workers. It comes from the hands of ef the N.R.A., which has lowered the ing of the whole working class, and Profits of the bosses. The N.R.A., t velt’s tirade of demagosgy, with its for the “future” we must rally the working id the program of strug- to day mands, for higher wages, nt insurance (H.R. 7598), against the ‘am of the Roosevelt regime, and against move of the Roosevelt government. Win the Youth! ‘HERE are millions of young workers who have never known what it is to have a job. There are millions more in the factories, who feel the double lash of exploitation and discrimination. Most of these young workers have for- gotten, if they ever knew, the deceptions s of the last imperialist war. is hits. them cruelly. They are shut off . They are herded into C.C.C. camps. They are hounded by police all over the country as they tramp the highways and farmlands looking Ss they particularly that Fascism tries hardest to win for its organizations and gangs. It is the youth who are being exposed to the Poison of jingoism, as part of the Roosevelt prep- arations for imperialist war. It is the youth whom the bosses are trying to use as strikebreakers. But the young workers are part of the army that is fighting for the overthrow of capitalism. To ignore them, to neglect revolutionary work among them, is to do the most serious damage to the whole working class. The youth are militant fighters. They are among the most fearless fighters against Fascism and exploitation. It is not an accident that one of the leading Yeports of the Central Committee delivered to the Eighth Party Convention, was precisely on the need for a complete overhauling of the Party's work among the youth. Our whole fight against the Roosevelt imperialist war drive will be futile with- out decisive work among the youth. There must he an end of the most serious neglect of this vital phase of Party work. ~ May 30 will be National Youth Day. This must be a day for demonstrations of young workers ‘all over the country. In the preparation for this day every Partyqgmember must take active pert. On this day, the Roosevelt government will celebrate “Memorial Day.” Jingoism, chauvinism will pour over the land, as Roosevelt gets these young men Yeady for the next imperialist slaughter. “Let this day be for us the beginning of a dead earnest campaign to mobilize the youth for the Struggle against war and fascism. Join the Communist Party] 35 EAST 1TH-STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Piecse sond ms mecve information cn the Coramu- A Ring of Silence RING of silence. That is what the coal and iron operators of Alabama are placing around the strike area at Birming- ham. First they tried to cut off the Daily Worker from the use of the Western Union telegraph offices. Now the police and gangster hirelings of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company have ba d John Howard Lawson, noted playwright Daily Worker correspondent in Birmingham, the strike area. from A ring of silence around Birmingham. And be- hind this sinister silence will rage terrorism, slug- ging, kidnapping, thuggery, and murder, That is t the Tennessee Coal and Iron, subsidiary of the J. P. Morgan Steel Trust wants. This is a challenge to every worker, every toiling farmer, who himself is bled by these Wall Street- Morgan plunder monopolies. It is a brutal defiance spat into the faces of the whole American people, the toilers, the intellectuals, all who respect the rights of the toiling masses to struggle against the yoke of starvation and exploitation. Here it is a question of the defence of ele- mentary civil rights against the intolerable trranny and ruthlessness of a capitalist monopoly, a mo- nopoly that harshly proclaims that it has the right of life and death, the right of sole arbiter of the lives of its wage slaves, Against this monstrous brutality, it is im- possible that any honest person, any hater of oppression in any form, can be silent or passive. The workers of Alabama, Negro and white, fight- ing bravely against the whole weight of the Steel Trust, against the hideous poison of Jim-Crowism and lynch mania, need our help! We cannot per- mit the steel barons to choke their voices! Workers and all opponents of terror must voice their vigorous protest. Protest meetings are necessary. Resolu- tions should be adopted in all workers bodies and sent to Roosevelt and Governor Miller of Alabama. Demand an end to the suppression of news from the strike zone. Demand an end to the terror against the strikers. Draw In the White Workers! NE outstanding lesson has been gained in recent experiences in the fight against jim-crow eviction orders against Negro workers living in buildings with white workers. That lesson is that the fight against racial segregation cannot be effectively carried on, cannot be won with- out forging the unity of Negro and white in the struggle. This fact arises now in connection with the struggle against the order evicting 14 Negro families at 1636-40 University Ave. Bronx, solely in a-move to segregate these Negroes. Racial segregation is one of the most effective means by which the ruling class splits the ranks of the working class, thereby hampering effective united struggle of the toiling masses against their worsening conditions. In evicting Negro workers from houses where white workers live, if the white workers are not drawn into the struggle to prevent the eviction, the result is that the landlords are able to spread their chauvinist poison. ‘There are some valuable experiences gained in the fight against the growing number of such jim- crow evictions. In New York City, precisely because Negro and white workers were unitedly rallied for the fight, the eviction of Comrade Briggs by the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank for the purpose of establishing racial segregation at its 6th St. building, was effectively defeated. The struggle was successful because most of the white tenants in the building were mobilized for action, including a rent strike, against the jim- crow policy of the bank. In the Byrnes case in Brooklyn, where little effort was made to rally the white tenants, the landlords were able to carry through their vicious discrimination eviction. ’ . * now in the present important fight, the League of Struggles for Negro Rights, and the Bronx Section of the International Labor Defense, are organizing the 14 Negro families to resist the jim- crow eviction order. So far, however, the weakest link in the fight is the fact that one of the white tenants in the two buildings have been drawn into the House Committee. These tenants, nevertheless, are re- ported to be sympathetic to the struggle against the segregation policy of the property owners. This is a weakness which must be overcome! The lesson is crystal clear. Organize the white tenants in the buildings into the House Committee. Mobilize the entire neighborhood for the most ag- gressive fight against segregation and jim-crowism, against the attacks to split and weaken the work- ing class! Flood the neighborhood with leaflets and the landlord with protests! Hold protest meet- ings! Draw the white and Negro workers and their organizations into the struggle! Beat beck the ris- ing fascist atiacks on the Negro masses! Build the fighting solidarity of Nesro and white workers! On Financial Problems fee raising of finances by the revolu- tionary movement is by no means an unimportant task. Without funds the major political work of the movement. suffers. This is particularly true at the present moment. The vast wave of strikes, the militant struggle on all fronts, confronts the Communist Party’ with the task of broadening and intensifying all its propaganda and organiza- tional work. All this increases the need for funds. The need for greater financial resources is now urgent in every section and district. In the New York District, workers are urged to support the five-dey Festival and Bazaar, which will be held in Manhattan Lyceum May 23 to 27. This. will serve to aid the New York District in financing its increased revolutionary activity. In the other districts similar finance raising affairs of the Communist Party should have enthu- siastic support DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1934 *~ Fight Latvian | THAELMANN MUST NOT BE NEXT! | Fascism, Calls | LL.D. Appeal Call for Protests at the Latvian U. S, Consulates NEW YORK.—On receipt of the | information that in Latvia the fas- cists have instituted their dictator- ship under the leadership of the | “democratic” president Albert | Kviesis and the “Farmers’ Union” |—servants of the Latvian bour= geoisie and rich landowners — the International Labor Defense, which has in its ranks a number of Lat- vian branches in various cities of the United Sta‘es, issued a call for immediate united front actions against this latest attack upon the workers and toiling peasants of Lat- | via. The I. L. D. calls for the imme- | diate organization of s‘reet protest demonstration in front of the Lat- vian consulates in New York, Bos- ton, Chicago, San Francisco and in other cities where such consulates may be located. The local I, L. D. city organiza- tions should take the initiative and | the general charge of these demon- | strations in closest cooperation with the local I. L. D. Latvian Branches, drawing into these united front | demonstrations alt other local or- ganiza‘icns of the Latvian workers, all unorganized Latvian workers and those who belong to reaction- ary Latvian organizations, as well as mobilizing for these demonstra- tions all anti-fascist working masses —American, Esthonian, Lithuanian, | ete. Besides this, in all cities where any organizations of the Latvian workers exist (especially where 1.) L. D. Latvian Branches are organ- | ized) there should be organized Ac- tion Committees Against Fascism in Latvia on the widest united front basis possible, drawing in not only | representatives from all Latvian or- | ganizations, which sincerely desire | to participate in this fight, but also groups and individual workers from other Latvian organizations and unorganized Latvian workers in general, These Action Committees should apply themselves immediately to the organization of mass protest meet- ings in all these cities. Not only that, but they should prepare and organize for the continued moral and financial support to the vic- tims of Latvian fascism and to the anti-fascist struggles in Latvia in general, The I. L. D. statement also points out that the rise of fascism in Lat- via accentuates the war danger to an extreme degree, and the Eu- ropean situation is now, fraught with the danger of intervention in the Soviet Union, Flood the Latvian Consulate | | General with these protests, ad- dressing them to Laivian Con- sulate General, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, New York. Organize protest action in every working class organization. Rally | to the defense of the victims of Latvian fascism. Down with fascism! Build a united fighting front of | the Latvian workers and all anti- fascists! |Mary Beard, Historian, To Broadcast, May 20, ‘Fight Against Fascism’ NEW YORK.—Mary Beard, his- torian end co-author of “The Rise of American Civilization” will speak on Women and Fascism as part of a@ symposium on “Women’s Fight) Against War and Fascism” over Station WEVD, Sunday, May 20, at 10 p. m. Mrs. Beard is a member of the National Executive Commitiee of the American Section of the In- ternational Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism convening in Paris, July 28, 29, 30, 1934. The other speakers in this sym- posium are Babette Deutsch, well- known poe*, and Mrs, Harry F. Ward, wife of the chairman of the American League Against War and Fascism. Both speakers are also members of the American Women’s By Burck | “Rote Fahne” Tells How Nazi Troopers Torture Thaelmann NEW YORK.—Badly wourdied about the face, chained hand and foot in a pitch black cell, Comrade Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Ger- man Communist Party, bravely faces his torturers, an article in the latest issue of the illegal Commu- nist Party organ “Rote Fahne” just arrived here declares, leader of the German proletariat, was taken from Moabit prison to Columbia House, Goering’s notorious torture chamber, immediately after the assassination of his closest friend, John Scheer, and the lat- ter’s three comrades,” declares the illegal official organ of the Com- munist Party of Germany. “Thaelmann was supposed to tes- tify regarding the fake evidence given by the police spy, Kattner, especially regarding his connections with the Communist International. The leader of the German prole- tariat refused to give any testimony to Nazi storm troopers. “That very evening John Scheer was murdered, and the following day the Nazi sadists tortured Thaelmann in the most horrible fashion.. At Goéring’s and Hitler's orders they beat him with whips, rubber clubs, iron bars, end heavy buckles. The torture lasted for days, “It took weeks for the wounds in Thaelmann’s face to disappear. Then they returned him to Moabit prison. The secret police sent a stool-pigeon, who posed as a sym- pathetic comrade,’ into his cell, and when this failed, Thaclmann was tortured again. Thacimann has been in solitary confinement, ever since, chained hand and foot in a pitch black cell. Only two secret police officials are allowed to see ‘im, “The international working class, bound to Thaelmann by revolu- tionary solidarity, must rise as one man to defend the life and free- | dom of this beloved leader. “They are trying to destroy our leader, even before his trial comes up. They are giving him poison, just as they did with Van der Lubbe, the Nazi tool in the Reichstag fire trial. The Brown hangmen want to kill the leader of Germany's anti- fascist mass movement through horrible torture without a trial, be- cause he is the standard-bearer of the fight for a Soviet Germeny. “Workers of. the world! Protest Congress Committee. ° against the threats to Thael- “Comrade Ernst Thaelmann, the) | mann’s life, Flood the German embassies, and the warden of Moa~- bit Prison, Berlin, Germany, with your mass protests, telegrams, and resolutions, Get your shop- mates to join in this protest, Fight for Thaelmann’s retease, which is part of the fight for the overthrow of the Hitler dictator- ship, for the establishment of workers’ power, a Soviet Ger- many!” Admit Huge Decline In German. Exports Drops 21 P. C. in April Below March Figure BERLIN, May 18.—A catastrophic | drop in German exports was offi- | cially admitted in a report made by | Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, in conference with representatives of foreign bondhold- ers here. Nazi Schacht declared that the value of foreign trade in April, 1934, dropped to the unpre- cedented level of 315,800,000 marks, a decline of: 21 per cent below the preceding month, Imports remained unchanged at 398,200,000 marks, due mainly to the importation of war material, but leaving an unfavor- able balance of 82,400,000 marks, Schacht at the same time reported a rapid depletion in gold coverage on German finances. The actual gold reserves are juggled, however, and even the capitalist press ad- mitted that Schacht was not telling the truth. Meet Against Fascism Called in Bensonhurst NEW YORK.—In response to a cell issued by the Bensonhurst Club Against War and Fascism, delegates from many different political, social, cultural and athletic organizations in Bensonhurst will convene at 2127-82nd Street, Brooklyn on Sun- day, May 20, at 4 p. m. to organize @ neighborhood Anti-War Council and to discuss means of preparing and rallying the youth for parti- cipation in the National Youth Day demonstration. 100 College Heads Tell How to Screen War by Peace’ Talk Letter to President Is Palmed Off as Being “Against War” OBERLIN, Ohio, May 18.—What is being palmed off in the press as a letter “aganst war,” sgned by 100 college presdents and addressed to President Roosevelt, is in reality advice to the Wall Street govern- ment how to pursue its war aims, taking into account the rapidly growing anti-war sentiment among students. ‘ While calling for an “embrago”) on arms to belligerent countries, the letter suggests that in the event of war the President of the United States be given absoute fascist power in order to carry through the war successfully for American im- perialism. The same section of the letter also suggests that 6 per cent be the maximum fixed for profits on war supplies. The object of this, of course, would be to make war cheaper for the American govern- ment, and the capitalist class as a whole, ‘The concluding portion of the let- ter, which contains the main reason for writing it, opens the way to full support of any imperialist war by these 100 college presidents, pro- vided the Roosevelt government covers its war preparations with sufficient pacifist, demagogic man- euvers, This portion of the letter reads: We desire to express our belief that unless our government has made complete use of every avail- able agency for peace and taken every possible step to prevent the coming of war, it has no moral right to ask of the youth of America the sacrifice in war of themselves, their opportunities for the future and the companionship of the men and women of their generation whom they hold dear, or to subject them and their chil- dren to a renewal of the post-war cenditions which have so impoer- ished and degraded the only life they have known. It is our judgment that support and aid in the conduct of a war cannot rightly be asked unless every effort possible to human in- genuity has been made to prevent such war, (Continued from Page 5) signatory of “The Appeal of the 47,” proclaimed it to be “to stay within and transform the Socialist Party.” This is also the aim concerning the Second International. Under the slogan of “back to revolutionary so- cialism” this group in the U.S.A. and similar groups in other countries are trying to rejuvenate what Rosa! Luxemburg once called “the stink- ing corpse” of social-democracy. How does the R.P.C. appraise the role of the S&cond International? Has it really learned the necessary Political lessons from the German and Austrian events? No, it has not. The R.P.C. admits that the policies of the German social-democracy “led to deati.” Other “lefts,” like Kantorovitch, say: “The German tragedy is the tragedy of sociel re- formism all over the world.” But the R.P.C, misrepresents and con- ceals the real reasons that brought about this situation. The R.P.C. says in its program, “The middle road was taken in Germany and led to death.” In other words, the sole crime of German social-democracy is that it steered “the middle road” between capitalism and socialicm, botween the interests of the workers and the interests of the capitalists. Of course, this is not tre. This is white-washing German social-de- mocracy and hiding its real crimes. No, German social-democracy did not follow the middle road but the capitalist road. Not between the workers and the caritalists, but with the capitalists and against the work- ers. Not between the capitalist State and the workers, but 2s part of the capitalist State and at times as the capitalist State itself breaking strikes ani defeating the struggies of the workers against capitalism. Not between rising fascism and the workers, out with fascism, paving the way for fascism and crushing and disarming the struggles of the workers against fascism. This was the road of social-democracy, not only in Germany, but also in Austria —of the Second International as a whole. % 3 The R.P.C. implies that after the Second International will get its “spanking” for following “the mid- dle road” and is given a new dress, it will again be accepted and fol- lowed by the workers. In fact, the R.P.C. states in its program, that the Second International, if in- jected with a dose of “revolutionary principle,” will become “the effective instrument in promoting the world revolution.” This is exactly the role of the R.P.C. It is trying to restore: the confidence of the tciling masses! in the discredited and crumb‘ing Socialist Intern: tinue its old t-eacher 3 to Roscue S.P. Likewise the F..¢. gram that if the American Socialist Party “chi s its present principles and tactics,” then it also “can be- ‘ / me@!, only to con-| cys in its pro-| Coming S. P. Confab Reveals Confused Trends come the effective instrument for bringing about socialism” in this country. ‘The R.P.C. wants the American workers to believe that if the S.P. will mouthe a few stronger phrases against the “profit system” and give lip service to “the dictator- shiv of the proletariat” and “so- cialism,” etc... . that this will trans- form the SP. from a kite of the “New Deal” into an “effective in- strument for bringing about social-| ism.” The R.P.C, wants the dis- contented rank and file S.P. mem- bers and the American workers in general to believe that it is possible for publicity agents and promoters of the N.R.A., for the allies of La- Guardia, Woll and the entire A. F. of L. bureaucracy to become “effect- _ive instruments for bringing about socialism.” This was tried in Ger- many before Hitler came to power, and it served only to shield the treachery of the German social- democrats and to disorganize the revolutionary struggle against fas- cism. This is what the R.P.C. is try- ing to do in the United States. It aims “to block especially the more redicalized workers from going over to the sid2 of Communism” (Res- elution 8h Convention C.P.U.S.A.). eteristic thas the ing to say about the oticies of the SP. wever, find fault with the Communists. For example, on the united front, the R.P.C. says: “The ‘united front from below’ tac- tics of the Communist Party have been proven to be disruptive to the devélopment of a revolutionary movement,” but the united front with LaGuardia, Woll. ctc., and splitting workers’ heads because they propesed joint struggie against fas- cism, are condoned. Where the R. P.C. does speak of the past policies of the S.P., it is not in order to ex- pose them and fight against them, but in order to remake the S.P. to be able to “meet the opportunity which confronts it today.” Using revolutionary phrases, re- peating here and there some revolu- tionary principle will not change the American S.P. from what it was and ts teday. The R.P.C. hopes that by such means the treacherous deeds of the S.P. will not be so easily de- tected by the working class. The renegade Lovestone is flabbergasted and amazed how “any section cf the Sccialist Party” can today of adopting some “revolutionary” pro- posals. Class conscious workers, however, know that this is done “in order thereby to win the confidence of a section of the working class and to b2 in a position more shame- fully to betray the lasting interests /of the working class, particularly | bargo” On the World Front ‘—_—— By HARRY GANNES “The Great Hunting Ground” Arms and Imperialism Rockefeller, Stimson, Roosevelt THE British-American of 1812, when the “ems issue arose, it was popularly reversed to signify “O, grab me!” Nothing is more applicable to the prese ent-day “arms embargo” gib- berish going on over Latin Amere ican colonies. war Through the thick maze of hypocrisy that surrounds the arms embargo, diplomatic chatter in Geneva, Lendon and. Washington, one piercing ray of light shines out. The real principles in the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay, have now come into the open. The two foremost imperialist robbers, the United States and Britain, now enter the stage of the bitterest conflict over Latin America. And the whole struggle is hidden behind the most dis- gusting mask of “peace.” For over two years Bolivia, egged on by the Standard Oil Co, and the State Department of the United States, has been waging war against Paraguay, puppet of British imperialism to decide which imperialist power shall rule the rich Gran Chaco (“The Great Hunting Ground”) region. Now when the war danger throughout Latin America, between the United States and Great Britain, reaches a higher pitch, the imperialist bandits resort ta “peace” maneuvers as a part of their greater, and more villainous war preparations. Britain, through Anthony Eden, Lord of the Privy Seal, representa- tive to the League of Nations Councils, calls for an arms em- bargo to prevent the “senseless” war. For two years, both blood- thirsty imperialist powers have been, making fortunes supplying arms for this “senseless” war, and have been anxiously wait- ing for their puppets to throw. the spoils into their laps. Wash- ington, also, suddenly evinces a desire for “embargoes,” ee ae THAT is behind the embargo talk? Each of the imperialist warriors want to cripple the oth- er's help to their puppet powers in Latin America. Then each wants» to lessen the war prepara- tions of the other for the coming, more decisive war over Latin Amer- ican domination. At the same time, under the cry of “embargo,” new war alliances are made, and the whole inter-imperialist con- flict is sharpened throughout Latin America. Through the Chaco war, the British carry a step further the maneuvers begun by Roosevelt over the war debt question, and the general gigantic world struggle for markets, financial domination, and first position in arming for the coming war. “Peace,” “embargoes,” become the hypocritical slogan for the most drastic, the most far-flung prep- arations for a new imperialist slaughter. In the United States, the Roose- velt government will strain its every nerve to arouse the chau- vinist sentiment of the American masses behind its war building program, under the slogan of “embargoes.” In England, the British imperialists use the “em- bargo” and “senseless” war issue to stir up nationalist hatred against the United States. It would be well here to re- count some of the background of the Chaco war which will not reach the capitalist press, who, through its “peace” piffle, will try to blind the eyes of its readers to the real forces and factors in- volved. ee Te THE United States has the dom- Linant hand in Bolivia, with an investment of $122,700,000, while the British have only $12,512,000 In Paraguay, the British invest- ment is $18,247,000 as against Wall Street's $15,000,000. But the role of the powers in these two coun- tries far transcends the figures of their investments. The Standard Oil Company back in 1925, purchased several million acres in the southern part of Bolivia in the Chaco region. Large oil deposits were discovered there. Successful trial borings were made, and refineries built in the town of Tarija. More oil lands were purchased in the Cocha-bamba desert area in Central Bolivia. After consultation with Mr, Henry Stimson, Secretary of State under President Hoover (and yes- terday conveniently closeted with President Roosevelt to discuss Wall Street's Latin American war strat- egy) it was decided to build on American-controlled railway to connect these Rockefeller oil fields, filched from Bolivia at the expense of the Bolivian people. An “in- ternational railway line was also projected from the industrial cen- ter of Bolivia, La Paz, to the Chilian harbor town Arica, on the Pacific Coast—another source of conflict. Both the British and American capitalists instigated their puppets to war moves in order to’ decide which imperialist would have the right to dominate the rich oil fields, and control the routes through which the booty would flow. in the midst of decisive class bat- ties.” (From. Comintern program.). We shall now examine in more detail the concrete program of the Revolutionary Policy Committee. (To be continued is the next article) In 1928 armed conflict was barely averted. Diplomatic relations were broken off in December, 1928, and only after tue intervention of other Latin American countries, resumed in 1930.