The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1934 Daily -<QWorker @UYTRAL ONGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST CTERMATHOMALD “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. Building, 705, Cheago, Til TURDAY, MAY 26, 1934 What Is the Shooting For? ¥ HAT is the central point of the To- ledo, Minneapolis, the longshore and other strike struggles? What are the workers fighting for? Why are troops being used to shoot down strikers? For what reason do the bosses resort to the most brutal, the most savage violence? The workers primarily are striking for the most* elementary rights, for the right to organize. for the right to strike for a little more bread, a little bet standard, for the right to improve their Soon after the N.R.A. was passed, Roosevelt made one of his now infamous demagogie broad- which he told the workers not to struggle rights, that they would be “preserved and guarded” for them Roosevelt's rosy promises of the workers’ rights, his flowery radio speeches for the “New Deal,” for the “forgotten man,”—all turn to smoke and ashes, to the corpses of strikers, into deep wounds for hundreds, into gas-blinded eyes of workers in To- ledo, Minneapolis, and in the tremendous sweep of the longshore strike. N The N.R.A. and the Roosevelt government, whose whole aim and object has been to increase the powers of monopoly capitalism, of the big trusts, is using all its fprce and power to keep the workers from exercising their rights. © It was the Roosevelt government that set the temper of the bosses’ attack by his actions against the coal, steel and auto strikers. The Roosevelt N-R.A. administrators virtually ordered the shoot- ing down of steel workers in Ambridge, Pa. HE bosses do not need a house of bricks to fall on them in order to get the hing. When the longshoremen strike, when the Minneapolis truckers walk out, and when the Toledo auto-parts workers try to exercise their rights, the capitalists and their local géverriments resort to the most brutal and savage violence against the workers. Through murder, through terror, through | the most naked fascist violence, the capitalists want to destroy all the workers’ rights to organize into trade unions; they want to drown out in blood the work- ers’ right to-strike and picket. They want to preserve the rights of scabs by the use of the armed forces of the capitalist government. Even the slimy Mr. William Green, who because of his official*position on the strikebreaking National Labor Board bears responsibility for the armed at- tacks on the workers, admits that what has hap- pened in Toledo “will inflame the minds of the working people in this country.” the entire working class has the best reason world to be inflamed, to be indignant and d to the highest pitch. Their brothers are hot down in cold blood, by modern armies, equipped for murder, because as working- men they went out on strike to see that their wives and children could eat a little better, could wear better clothes. They went out to build an organiza- tion to protect themselves against the rapacious boss $e: y worker wants to do the same thing. Every worker knows what organization means. Every worker, some time or other, knows he must come out on strike. sé When they shoot down their fellow-workers as they did in Toledo, Mr. Green, do you want them to remain calm and yellow; to accept this inhuman, this savage assauft on the right of every worker calmly as you do? iO! The workers throughout the country must know that, by their heroic fight, by the risk of their lives, the workers of Toledo, of Minneapolis. in the longshore strike, are fighting the battle of the entire working class. It the fight for the most elementary rights of every worker—the right to organize, the right to strike, the right to picket, the right to resist the tyranny, the oppression, the brutality of the bosses. Every worker, through his organization, through Cooperation with his fellow-worker should he aroused into action. In Toledo and Minneapolis the next immediate step is a general strike in these cities! There should be no delay. The majority of the workers are for this strike, knowing it is the only answer to this brutal bloodshed! , Throughout the country the workers in their or- ganizations should voice their indignation and pro- test. They should loudly proclaim their solidarity with their murdered, wounded and nfilitant brothers in Toledo. Every effort should be made to broaden the grow- ing strike move, to let it rise like mighty rivers, joining into one vast torrent of a general strike throughout the country. Class Against Class! OURNING their dead, and pyeparing for still more militant struggles, the workers must deeply learn the role of the various political parties in the present sharpened bloody class battle. Ruling in Washington as the executive committee of the capitalist class, par- ticularly of its dominant section, finance capital, is the Demccrstic administration, led by President Roosevelt, with the close support of and cooperation on all basic questions of the Republican Party. In Alabama, where Negro ang white, coal and iron ore ‘miners are murdered: in Louisiana and: Texas, where longshore strikers are shot dead— there the Democratic Party rules for the capitalists. In California where the*Republican Governor Rolph is in office, there is no hesitation about shooting down strikers. In Ohio, where the latest, bloodiest, and most Savage a‘tack was made on the workers, Governor White is a Democrat. In Minnesota, Governor Olson, who capitalism under the label of the -Labor Party, has just as unhesitatingly out the militia against the truckers and the building trade workers. No matter how wordy their newspaper criticism. @f one another may be, when it ‘comes down to Ed attacking the working class, the Republican, the Democratic and the Farmer-Labor Party stand indistinguishably shoulder to shoulder. When they are faced with the naked facts of the class struggle these parties invariably adopt the same brutal methods of suppressing the workers and in attempting to destroy their righ‘s. UPPORTING the capitalist parties, by means of left phrases and maneuvers is the Socialist Party. It was this party, in the ranks of the work- ers, that strove with might and main to get the workers to submit their necks to the yoke of the New Deal without struggle. It was Norman Thomas, Socialist Party leader, who, last summer, in the coal and steel strike, issued a scab slogan: “Now is not the time to strike.” The very latest issue of the Socialist organ, the New Leader, deliberately soft-pedals and plays down the militant strike-struggles throughout the country, and the brutal and victous dttacks against them in order to block the indignation of the workers, and the development of still greater struggles which may embarrass capitalism, which may block the “peaceful” methods of the Socialists in cowing the workers. Only the Communist Party, from the beginning, has exposed the real intent and purpose of the New Deal. Only the Communist Party has called for unceasing organization and struggle against the oppression of the N.R.A. and monopoly capitalism. Only the Communist Party has been unrelenting in fighting in the front ranks and in the interest of the workers, and in all of their struggles. Nor does the Communist Party rest here.. Tt calls upon all its members and sympathizers to increase their activities more energetically, to take their places in the front ranks of the sharpest struggles, to expose the role of the capitalist state and all its parties, and to win the working class for the revolutionary way out under the leadership of the Communist Party. The issue is clear. It is class against class with the Democrat, Republican, Farmer-Laborite, and Socialist Party, each taking their stand on the side of the exploiters. The Communist Party stands out as the only Party of the working class. Push H. R. 7598! AST week, the workers of Portland, Oregon, forced the city government to endorse the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill (H. R. 7598).. This was a signal victory. It forced the city govern- ment to petition Congress officially to bring the Workers’ Bill out of the House Committee on Labor and give it immediate atten- | tion, and to instruct the Congressmen from the dis- trict to sign the round robin motion to discharge the bill from the Housé Committee, bringing it onto the floor of Congress for vote: Yet, the city officials of Portland and the 34 other city bodies which have endorsed the Workers’ Bill are no more favorable to the workers’ demands than the bosses’ governments elsewhere. Why, then, their endorsement? Because genuine, *well-organized mass pressure has been brought to bear upon the city govern- ment, In Portland, the constant efforts of the mem- bers of the Multnomah County Federation .of Un- employed, a united front of the Unemployment Councils, the Civic Emergency Federation, and the Unemployed Citizens League, forced the city to act on the bill. Portland, the 35th city to endorse the bill, has a population of 301,815. Other large cities to en- dorse the bill are: Milwaukee, 578,249; Minneapolis, 464,356; Buffalo, 573,076; Toledo, 290,718; Canton, 104,906. In all, 27 out of the 35 cities listed in the 1930 census have a combined population of 3,119,413. With Congress headed for an early adjourn- ment, it is necessary at this time to intensify the drive for the enactment of H. R. 7598 at this ses- sion of Congress, The campaign must not be per- mitted to lag! Every Congressman must be forced to sign the round robin petition until the re- quired 145 signatures are secured. Every city body must be put on record on the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 798). We Are Here to Stay! “1)\HE Southern Worker is here to serye as the tribunal for, the demands of the Southern toilers. It is here to give them Communist leadership in their struggle. _We are here and we will stay.” Thus spoke the Southern Worker, or- gan of the Communist Party,.in its first issue of August 16, 1930, published in Birmingham, Alabama. And it remained! In all the great struggles of the South of recent years—struggles which were landmarks in the Amer- ican revolutionary movement—this practically illegal paper helped to fire the enthusiasm of the workers, to create the bonds of solidarity between white and Negro, to give them leadersrship. Black and white workers are today uniting in a common struggle in Birmingham, the , biggest heavy industrial center of the South! Here is be- ing welded that power which alone can lead to vic- tory both the workers in the cities and the peons on the plantations. No wonder the bosses and the planters have let loose a vicious reign of terror, kill- ing four strikers at Birmingham, three dock work- ers at New Orleans and Galveston, hounding the organizers of the Sharecroppers Union in the Ala- bama black: belt, raiding working class districts in Birmingham, seeking out Communist leaders, ach- ing to throttle the Southern Worker. But the Southern Worker, that doughty and per- sistent. fighter which is able to find its way into the hands of the toilers despite all the vigilance of the enemy, stays on. “We are here and we will stay!” The financial aid of the workers of the North made it possible for the Southern Worker to fulfill its promise until today. Today, it is more. important than ever be- fore that the paper stays on and fights, appearing regularly no matter how ferocious the struggle be- comes. The present is the most important stage yet reached in the progress of the’ revolutionary movement in the South. Our paper needs to stay, Help it! Funds are needed immediately! Rush contributions to the Southern Worker Station D, New York, N. Y. * | 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Piease send ms mote information on the Commu- nist Party. <« NAME Emergency Fund, ¢/o The Daily Worker, Box 136, ‘Join the Communist Party’ Officials Refuse Permits for Youth Day Parades lay 30th For’ Patriots, Say Boston Po ice Plans for “Rallies ony Gil Green Speaks Here Tonight PATERSON, N. J., May 25.—With! thousands of young workers plan- ning to come from all parts of New Jersey to demonstrate on May 30, National Youth Day, the adminis- tration of this city last night re- voked the permits to parade and meet at Peerless Oval. The parade will be held whether or not a permit is given, it was said. In the demonstration will be the Young Communist League, Youth Against War and Fascism, National Textile Workers’ Union and others. All mass organizations are asked to send protests against this pro- voking move to Mayor Hinchcliff and the Park Commissioner . of Paterson, aes ea For Patriotic, Say Boston Heads BOSTON, May 25.—With excuses | that May 30 “is the day when pa- triots commemorate the dead,” city officials and police of three Mas- sachusetts cities have refused pa- rade or demonstration permits for National Youth Day rallies against war and fascism. The Youth Section of the Bos- ton branch of the American League Against War -and Fascism. has inaugurated a campaign to force the Board of Street Commissioners to issue a permit. The parade is planned from Douglas Square, Tre- mont Street on Wednesday, 1:30 p. m., through the South End to Dudley’ St. Opera House. ee ae Worcester Officials Refuse Permit WORCESTER, Mass., May 25.— No parade permit of any kind will be issued for May 30, city officials informed the National Youth Day arrangements committee. The committee has issued peti- tions demanding a parade permit. A mass meeting of everyone in- terested in National Youth Day has been called for Wednesday, 1:15 p. m, at Finnish Hall on Heard- sleigh St. Cee See Says May 30 Belongs to G. A. R. HAVERHILL, Mass. May 25.— The Merrimack Valley National Youth Day Provisional Commitee was refused a permit for an anti- war meeting in Ws ton Square May 30 by the Haverhill City Coun- cil and Marshal Jones, Memorial Day, May 30, belongs to the G. A. R,, stated Alderman Bernard L. Durgin, refusing to sanc- tion a permit. Jones said he had “good reason” for refusing a permit. Cee ear Gil Green Speaks in Yorkville NEW YORK.—Preparations for National Youth Day by the York- ville branch of the Young Com- munist League will take the form of an expression of solidarity with the revolutionary youth of Ger- many, when Gil Green, national secretary of the Y. C. L., speaks on “What the Young Communists Are Doing in Germany?” at the German Workers Club, 1501 Third Ave., tonight, First hand proof of the revolu- tionary struggle now being car- tied on by the young workers of Germany will be offered in the form of illegal literature. The May 1934 numbers of the Rote Fahne, and the Junge Garde, of- ficial organ of the German Y. C. L., will be auctioned off. Dancing and entertainment will follow. en Hold Rally To Prepare N. Y. D. DETROIT, Mich, May 25.—To prepare for National Youth Day, young workers of the Ford plant, unemployed, students and others will hold a big youth rally Satur- day, May 26, at Martin Hall, 4959 Martin St. Drills for the West Side parade on May 30 will be held. Dancing will follow, with a program of entertainment by the Ukrainian Toilers, John Reed Club, etc. The affair is under the auspices of the Ford Section of the Young Communist League. HAVANA, May 25.—A one-hour strike demonstration was staged in various parts of the city here against Secretary of Labor Miguel Gots and the fascist anti-strike Ws. Pictures that tell the story of Below, troops with fixed bayonets flamed from the auto strike war in Toledo, Ohio. a screen of tear gas over a road littered with rocks hurled by embattled strikers. Top left, Orville the battle that charge behind The Blue Eagle Claws the Toledo Workers Kane, struck by exploding tear’gas bomb, led from scene; center, Frank Hubay, shot in the neck, bleeds to death on the sidewalk; right, injured National Guardsman carried from the battlefield by companion. Two strikers died, seven were shot and scores injured. ATHENS, Greece (By Mail). — When soldiers at Kalmata, learned that seven dock strikers and one; woman were killed in a strike struggle here recently, they threw down their rifles and refused to continue to shoot at the workers, After five hours of fighting against 300 dock strikers, supported by 5,000 other workers, it was the rank and file soldiers, despite the orders of their officers, who forced a@ stoppage to the massacre. Two of the soldiers and a sergeant were arrested by the police for this mutiny. The history of the bloody events at. Kalmata is one of the -most dramatic episodes of the class struggle in Greece. Three hundred dockers were out on strike against the results of the rationalization {measures speeding up the work of loading and unloading the ships. The shopkeepers: along the quay closed their shops for two hours as a sign of solidarity with the strik-| jers. To this was added the strike) of hundreds of mill hands for) higher wages. Five thousand work- | ers were in the streets, proclaim- ing their solidarity with the strix- ers. The police called to their aid| |not only the foot and mounted gen- darmerie, out a regiment of in- \fantry and two machine gun de- tachments. When the ship “Limni,” loaded with grain, ran into the harbor, the strikers endeavored to prevent the mechanical unloading. A group of strikers took a boat and rowed to the ship. Immediately the machine guns were brought into action and killed two of the men in the boat; \others were severely wounded, and the rest plunged into the sea to j avoid the shots. Hundreds of women and other demonstrators made’ flags of their red shawls (the ordinary headgear of the women of Kalmata), and demonstrated in the streets, carry- ing the bodies of the murdered men. The bloody struggle had lasted for five hours, and cost the demon- strators’ seven murdered working men and one woman, 15 demon- strators severely or mortally wounded and dozens of slightly wounded. The indignant demon- strators demolished the dwelling house of the industrialist Patras (who was not at home), and pushed their way into the bank of Athens, where they demolished the counter hall. Greek Troopers Throw Down Rifles After 7 Strikers, 1 Woman Are Killed by Gunfire > more disastrous massacre of workers had the soldiers not thrown down their rifles during the fifth hour of the fight. Two soldiers and @ sergeant were arrested by police. After this terrorist action was carried on chiefly by the gen- darmerie and the police. Groups of strikers stormed the belfries of the churches, flew flags from them, and rang the bells in an endless tolling for the dead. During the afternoon a number of demonstra- tion processions marched through the streets under the slogan of “Down With Fascism!” All over the country the utmost indignation has been aroused, | FOREIGN BRIEFS LONDON, May 25.— Confirming the increasing war preparations of the German Nazis, aided by the British die-hards, against the Soviet Union, is the arrival here of the Ukrainian Skoropadsky will confer with hig! British officials. that of the Nazi envoy General Ribbentrop, who was closeted with Sir John Simon for several hours Pee tae BRUSSELS, May 25, + Belgian miners who went on strike Wednes- day against dangerous mining con- ditions, and for higher wages, re- turned to work yesterday, it was reported here. Fire still rages in the long no- torious Paturages au Fief mine at Lambrechies that claimed the lives of 52 victims on May 16, in addi- tion to a number of injured. The disaster occurred on a day set by miners in the entire mining region of Belgium for a strike vote against a proposed five per cent wage cut to-take effect on May 20. Reminded that the Paturages mine had a bad reputation follow- ing the death of seven workers in a fire-damp explosion five years ago, the operators countered that they had hesitated to close the mine because it would increase unemployment, ~ Forty-eight miners were trapped in the first explosion, of whom five were brought out alive and forty dead. ¢ The mine was ordered flooded but seepage is gradual and tons of | There would have been an even earth have not put out the blaze. 4 the} Hetman Skoropadsk { His trip follows) the) Trish C. P. Leader To Address Final Meetin NY May 29 Speaks Sunday in Jer- sey on Irish Work- ers’. Struggles NEW YORK.—4Just returned from an organization tour in behalf of the Irish Revolutionary movement and the Irish Workers’ Clubs of the United States, Sean. Murray will address his final New York City meeting at 845 p. m. Tuesday, May 29, at Park Palace, 110th St. and Fifth Ave. Fire at the Lexington Hall, for which the meeting was originally announced, necessitated the trans- fer to Park Palace. Besides exposing the O'Duffy blue- shirts (fascists) as agents of the British empire and Irish capitalists and cattle ranchers, Murray will analyze the work of the new Re- publican Congress movement. Jersey City Meet Tomorrow Murray’s Jersey City meeting will be held at Fairmont Hall, 718.Ber- gen Avenue, corner Fairmont Ave- nue, Sunday, May 27th at 3.30 p. m. The farewell Murray banquet for which organizations are still urged to send contributions immediately to the Murray Banquet Committee at 50 East 13th St., New York, will be held at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, Tuesday evening, May 29, Earl Browder, representing the Communist Party of the U. S. A. Murray and a spokesman of the Irish Workers’ Club of New York will speak. Inspired by Muyrray’s tour, Irish workers are laying the base for a fighting Irish Workers’ Club move- ment in the United States. Out- of-town delegates and members and friends of the New York clubs are® preparing now for the confer- ence on Sunday, July 3. Lexington Hall, announced as the meeting place in the first conference call, will have to be cancelled because of the fire. Delegates will be in- formed of the new center by the committee in a few day’s time. Preparing for Soviet Power in Cuba Communist Party of Cuba Holds Its 2nd Congress MHE Communist Party of + Cuba yheld its. historic Second Congress on April 20 to 22 at a time of great de- velopment of and perspective for the agrarian-anti-imperial- ist revolution in Cuba. In spite of the ferocious terror unleashed by the national con- centration government of Mendieta, in spite of the savagery of Col. Ba- tista, army head, who attempted to prevent the congress with bayonets, 67 delegates from the provinces, rep- resenting the lower organizations of the Party, militant workers stesled in the struggle against Machado and | the lackey governments which suc- ceeded him, gathered at the Con- gress, This meeting marked a great step toward the clarification of the basic tasks which confront the revo- lutionary movement in Cuba, for the rreparation for and organization of Soviet power. Called at the moment when the Mendieta government was con- fronted with a wave of mass protest against his fascist decrees evidenced Jin a series of militant strikes against the decrees, the Second Congress drew up a balance sheet of the period of ‘development the Cuban Party since, the First Congress. It made a-critical analysis of its ex- periences through the revolutionary | battles of the Cuban masses headed by their leader, the Communis: Party, toward opening up the road toward the agrarian anti-imperialist revolution. - . ‘ .Strnggle for Soviet Power Comrade. Martinez, general secre- tary of the Commuhist Party, in his penetrating analysis, pointed out as the central perspective the rapid sharpening of developments leading to decisive struggles for Soviet pow- er in Cuba, calling upon all the Party through the delegates to forge a Belzhevik Party as the cnly force capable of leading the proletariat in alliance with the peasantry and Negro masses to the overthrow of the power of the exploiters and the yoke of yankee imperialism, to the only way out of the crisis—the revo- lutionary way. The development of strikes during the Congress confirms the perspective given by the report of the Central Committee in the Na- tional Congress. The strike of the telephone work- ers accomnenicd by. tremendous mass symvathy end violent discutes with the armed forces of Mendieta- Batista; the occupation of the Aus- tria. mill; the militant strike of the workers and employees of Sarra in Havana; the preparations for a gen- eral strike of the railroad workers; “spontaneous uprisings of. the peas- ants, especially in Oriente; the bat- tles of the omnibus workers of Ha- vana, demonstrate the inability of the Mendieta government sucess- fully to apply its anti-strike decrees. All this, together with the wave of popular sympathy for the hunger strikers, first victims ‘of the decrees, proved the appreciation of the Con- gress of a greater revolutionary up- surge for which the Party must multiply its forces in order to give political and organizational direction to the decisive battles whch are de- veloping. The report of the Central Com- mittee was very informative on the tremendous advances made by the Party since its first constituent con- gress in 1925, During a profound si- attention of the delegates, they lis- tened for two and a half hours to a report of all the stages of develop- ment of their Party. Since its beginning the Communist Party of Cuba, which was then only @ sectarian group, isolated from the masses, has forced itself through the struggles of the proletariat and un- Jer the leadershin ‘of the Communist Internationa!, applying in Cuba the great experience of the world prole- tatiat and especially the experiences of the Russian Bolsheviks, into a Party with mass influence which is ° lence marked by the concentrated | Program Is Outlined for Agrarian Anti-Imper- ialist Revolution now entering on the road toward the winning of the majority of the working class. The political thesis presented by the Central Committee underlined the fact that the development of the Party has been possible only through the heroic struggle carried on against the dictatorship of Ma- chado and Yankee imperialism, and through a ruthless strugzle against all the tendencies foreign to Com- munism. The Party has achieved great re- sults in its efforts to clarify the ap- plication of the line of the Com- munist International in Cuba, pu- rifying its ranks of opportunist ele- ments of the right or left. The im- placable struggle against the Trot- zkyism which sprang up in Cuba a little before the fall of Machado and which held the counter-revolu- tionary theory of. the impossibility of a revolution in Cuba without a vroletarian revolution in the United This has worked out in practice as a constant collaboration of the Trotzkyites with the govern- States, ments which followed Machado, in their carrying out a role of strike- breaking. (To Be Continued): | World Front By HARRY GANNES | The Navies Race to War Talk Will Not Decide End of 9-Power Treaty ‘OR the third time since the closé of the last world war, the leading imperialist powers are preparing for a naval conference. These gi- gantic scrambles for naval arms always take place at the most critical periods of capitalist world conflict, and are themselves factors in intensifying these antag- onisms. The next naval conference is sup- Posed to take place in 1935. Never- theless, for the past two years secret maneuyers have gone on among the leading bandit powers for war al- liances, for bargains over naval strength. Not a moment has been lost by or Japan in building their navies to their highest capacity in prep- aration for war. Roosevelt has in his hand the club of the Vinson bill, providing for more than 100 warships. The Japanese have a tre- mendous navy budget and a war building program rapidly under way, as have the British. Naval bases are being built secret- ly and openly, within and without existing treaties, in Singapore, Ma- nila, Guam, the Aleutian islands; in the Yap Islands, the Kuriles, the Bonin Islands — anywhere that a naval battle may decide which im- perialist power will dominate an important colony. a ee UT the race becomes so furious that it not only risks exploding capitalism into a war but because of the huge cost, because of the tremendous vicious expansion re- quired in naval arms races, it threatens to undermine completely the financial stability of each of the powers even before they go to war. Hence the conferences are called to bargain, to browbeat, to bluff, to maneuver each other into a less advantageous position. The .1935 naval conference may, or may not take place. The naval experts, instead of discussing the relative values of the various war- ships, may try to decide the matter in a, more decisive way. Certainly, all the capitalist newspapers admit that the forthcoming naval confer- ence is fraught with greater danger and bitterness than the historic 1922 Washington arms conference. At the Washington arms confer- ence, the United States, which came- out of the last imperialist war with a swollen navy as well as an apo- plectic bank account, with its chief rival, Britain, weakened, was able to rupture the British-Japanese al- liance and for the first time to de- clare itself as theoretically on a par with the naval strength of Britta- nia. 5 The 1922 conference gavevirth to the Nine-Power treaty, which supposedly opened the door of China to all imperialists equally to plunder as best they could without any ex- clusive rights. That was a victory for Wall Street. Now Britain and Japan expect to reverse that victory, and have their naval arms ready to do it. Roosevelt has built the U.S. Navy to a point where Ameri- can capitalism is ready to plunge. the American workers into war to guarantee the American imperialists the right to rob China through an open door. ee ae ee E HAVE an interesting Japanese view of the Nine-Power treaty which came out of the 1922 confer- ence. It comes from the. secret memorandum of Baron Tanaka, which forecast the Japanese war plans in Manchuria and the rest of China. Written in 1927, it has been carried out to the letter, with the exception of the war against the Soviet Union, for which Japanese imperialism is rapidly preparing: Says the Baron: : “The Nine Power Agreement ts exclusively the refiection of the spirit of trade rivalry. England and America wanted, by means of their great wealth to smash our influence in China. The proposal for the limitation of armaments is merely a means of curtailing our military power and depriving us of the possibility of conquering the huge territory of China, ..- The proposal of Minseito to leave the Nine Power Agreement in force and pursue a trading policy towards Manchuria is nothing but a policy of suicide.” Actually, the Nine-Power treaty has been wiped out. New war al- liances are being,made. All of the imperialist powers are rushing to war in order to®decide the redivi- sion of the colonies, markets, spheres of plunder and the size of their navies in order to accomplish these ends. The second post-war naval con- ference in London took place in 1930, at the beginning of the world economic crisis. The present one takes place in the period of a new round of wars and revolutions. Conferences -can decide nothing, as even the treaties arrived at are prearranged through secret maneu- vers before the conferences are called. The Geneva arms confer- ence cannot even be called, so sharp have the rivalries and war dangers become. All the open and secret official conversations concerning the 1935 naval conference between the imperialist powers will serve only to heighten their conflicts, to speed the day of war—unless the working masses, through revolutionary ac- tion can stop them, can prevent the war-mad exploi-ers from rushing to a new imperialist slaughter. SHANGHAI, May 25.—Five thou- sand workers went on strike, pro- testing the lockout: of a number of workers in one of the British-Amer= ican tobacco factories here, ) either the United States, England, . M Sas