The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1934 Daily,.QWorker | A2vTmAi Oncax COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST UNTERMATIONAL? Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y- “America’s Only ALgonquin 4- 7934. New Yor Telephone Daiwork Subscription Rates: SATURDAY JUD The Steel Workers An Capitalist Democracy REMARKABLE in the meaning of capitalist democracy is now being enacted in the struggles taking place preparations the steel lesson real for around st About 500,000 steel workers want a little more money in their weekly pay en- velopes to buy more food and clothes for their h and miserable families. They want some les of the killing drive that burns the men um in the mills. They want recognition of their That ts all t these steel workers fighting for bread union But agains and a better life swiftly lines up the whole brutal power of the capitalist dictatorship and its sup- po The steel. workers cannot meet—the steel trust thugs and state deputies. break up meetings. The steel workers have no press, except the press of the revolutionary movement. The capitalist press in every city is pouring slander and poison upon the steel wo The radio, controlled by the very same J. P. Morgan which controls the steel corpora- tion, is a sluice of hatred and viciousness against the steel workers fighting for bread. The movies all set to picture the “barbarism and riot” of the steel workers. OOSEVELT, the leading figure of the Federal overnment, tries to strangle the ike with his new bill maneuver. At the same time he has the troops ready to murder the steel workers, as they were murdered at Toledo and Minneapolis, ‘Frisco and New Orleans The State government warns against picketing and mobilizes its militia against the steel workers. The mayor of Pittsburgh, McNair, threatens all workers who picket with immediate arrest. The steel workers cannot congregate. As for the big “democratic” parties, the Demo- cratic Party is the party of Roosevelt, the strike- and Senator Wagner (Dem.),. sponsors an- rike-breaking trap in his new bill. The\Republican Party.is the party of the Steel ith closest ties to the steel barons. Mellon, breake: u an Party. nd the Socialist Party does its bit to kill the strike by ‘maintaining a cold silence on the militancy of the men, and the strike-breaking treachery of the A. Fy of L. leadership. Little less than a year ago, Norman Thomas sang hymns of praise to William Green for his manuevers around the steel code. Now William Green is called in to break the steel strike.- And Thomas is silent APITALIST demo¢racy is seen to be nothing but cloak that conceals the fact that ev capi- government, no matter of what form.or kind, statorship in the interests of the ruling class. iterally, less than: a score of rich Steel Trust magnates have the entire force of the State power mobilized behind them to protect their profits against the demands of more than half a million steel worters. A handful oppresses the vast ma- jority under this “democratic” capitalist govern- ment. All this mobilization of the Roosevelt govern- ment, the N.R.A. slave codes, the strike-breaking intervention ef the government, the tie-up of the A. F. of L. officialdom with the capitalist State power—all this is the evidence of the steady march which the American ruling class is making to- ward open fascism. Only under a proletarian dictatorship, where the working class owns. the factories, the press, the meeting halls, and controls the entire government apparatus, can the workers have real democracy. The steel workers can win against this line- up of interests defending the steel menopolies only if they weld their unbreakable unity in the mills. Unity and strike action can win the steel workers’ demands. The fight against the Steel Trust becomes a fight against the Wall Street dictatorship for real working class democracy. the t isa Can Such Creatures Be “Libelled” REPRESENTATIVE of the office of Tammany district attorney William Copeland Dodge appeared before the New York County Grand Jury the other day and demanded the indictment of C. A. Hatha- way, editor, and Harry Raymond, staff writer, of the Daily Worker, on charges of er:minal libel. Promptly and obediently the 24 gentlemen on the Grand Jury acceded to tne District Attorney's re- quest and handed down the indictments. Just. what is the “crime” committed by Hatha- way and Raymond? It consists in Raymond's having written a series of articles in the Daily Worker exposing the strike- breaking activities of the Sherwood Detective Brreav. As editor of the Daily Worker and re- cconsible for its contents, H: is indicted with Raymond as an accomplice and abeitcr. Who was “libelled” by the articles in the Daily Worker? If was a notorious characte- named George Wil- p ota yood employee, who has a long record of anti-working-class. activities, including strike- breaking and thuggery against pickets. Hailed before Judge Rosalsky in General Ses- sions Court on Tuesday, Hathaway and Raymond both pleaded not guilty and were released under $500 bail pending trial. The comparatively small bail should not delude workers into thinking that this action of the city authorities can be taken lightly. The campaign of the Communist Party and the Unemployment Councils for relief has aroused the Mayor La Guardia to blood-thirsty incitement against these leaders of the unemployed. Clearly La- Guardia is immune from: libel suits. when he characterizes courageous leaders of the jobless as yellow dogs,” but in an action against the Daily Worker the city authorities join in defending the seamy “characters” of professional thugs and strike- breakers! It is interesting to note that District Attor- ney Dodge was one of the few high Tammany of- ficials placed in office during the last city election, and it is an open secret that the La Guardia forces did not actively oppose him as a result of a deal made with Tammany. The workers must defeat this Tammany-La- Guardia combination which plots to send Hathaway and Raymond to prison for long terms. The Daily Worker, on its part, will continue to expose the murderous, strikebreaking activities not only of the professional agencies of the Sher- wood type but of the city administration which not only does not expel them from its confines but ever jealously guards their unsavory reputations. 4 Support Y CL Convention! HE Young Communist League holds its Seventh National Convention on June 22 in New York City. The National Con- vention will bring together delegates from all parts of the fighting youth front. It will enable the youth to make clear plans for future work. It will be a step in build- ing the youth movement. The conyention will re- veal a growing youth movement which. has been a great aid in the general struggles of the working class. The Y. C. L. has taken an active part in many of the recent strike struggles, it has organized many militant actions of the youth in the Civilian Conservatioa Camps against forced labor conditions, military training, etc. The Y. C. L. has been an active force in building the mass resistance of the youth. against imperialist war. The large partici- pation of youth in the historic U. S. Congress Against War, the mass anti-war parades on May 30 this year, the students’ anti-war struggles, were made possible in the main through the active work of the Young Communists. At present, American capitalism seeks a way | out of the crisis through an aggressive program of war and fascism. For purposes of war and for its terrorism against the working class, the rulers of America strive to win the youth. The revolutionary movement in America, seeking a solution to the crisis in the interests of the working masses, cannot do so without winning the youth to its side. That is why the Communist Party at its Eighth National Convention and since has placed such great empha- sis on building a mass Young Communist League. The Y..C. L. in America has established its place as the only youth organization in America that has @ program that points to a way out of the misery of the young generation. It is the only youth or- ganization that steadily works to carry out that program in life. But the Y. C. L. is still a small organization. It must be built into a powerful force that will rally the masses of youth to destroy the system which strives to chain them to hunger, war and fascism. It must have the full support of every working-class organization, of all revolutionary workers. At the moment support for the Y. C. L. must take the form of donations from workers’ organi- zations and individuals to enable the revolution- ary youth to meet the financial burdens of their convention. Mail your contributions to the Y. C, L. National Office, P. O. Box 28, Station D, N. Y. C. New York workers’ clubs and organizations are asked to make their donations now or at the mass opening rally on Friday, June 22, at the St. Nicholas Arena Central Committee, C. P., U. S. A. The Thompson Report HE capitalist press gingerly and in the greatest haste handled the statement of W. 0. Thompson, member of the Dar- row N. R. A. Review Board, who has just sent in his resignation to Roosevelt. Throughout the land you will look in vain for any extended discussion of this extraordinary statement of a leading government expert, based on the findings of a government in- vestigating commission. The reason is simply that the Thompson state- ment is a blistering exposure of the Roosevelt N. R. A. as the tool of Wall Street monopoly and the wedge of advancing American Fascism. Here isthe way an expert, appointed by the Roosevelt government to evaluate the N. R. A. on the basis of an impartial study of the facts, writes about the Whole Roosevelt N. R. A. program: “The trend of the National Recovery Ad- ministration has been and continues to be toward the encouragement and development of monopoly capitalism in the United States. “Thus the N. I. R. A. clearly reflects its class character as an attempt of the capitalists to find a ‘way out of the crisis’ by passing the burdens onto the shoulders of the masses of workers and farmers. The N. R. A. reflects the inability of so- called ‘enlightened capitalism’ to operate a ‘planned econom;’ to improve the living standards of the masses. ITS. DEVELOPMENT DAY BY DAY REVEALS MORE CLEARLY A MARKED TREND TOWARD FASCISM IN THE UNITED STATES.” * * * We not this the analysis which the Communist Party, basing -itself on the Marxist-Leninist teachings of the Communist International, gave of the Roosevelt N. R. A. exactly one year ago? Does not this confirm, with proof of tripie-brass, the predictions and warnings of the Communist Party against the N. R. A.? Whom. has history proved to be correct? The Darrow and Thompson statements, and the bitter experience of the masses, have swept aside the Thomas and-Green glorification of the N. R. A. as an infamous fraud perpetrated upon the masses to lull their vigilance against the assaults-of the rul- ing class. The Communist Party has been proved cor- rect. It has been proved to be the truest and surest guide of the masses. Its line has been proved to be the only correct guide for the daily struggle for bread and higher wages. * ® ‘ wus utter frankness, Thompson proclaims to Roosevelt that “only a chaage in ciass relation- ships .. . can eliminate poverty and raise the liv- ing standards of the entire population.” But it is only a proletarian revolution which can effect this “change in class relationships.” Only the overthrow of capitalism and the set‘inz up cf the dictatorship of the proletariat, cf a Covics America can bring this change about. . It is, in other words, the revolutionary way out of the crisis, the way of the Communist Party, the way of Bolshevism, the way of Lenin, taken by the workers and peasants in the 1917 October Revolu- tion, which can “end poverty” and the miseries of the present. crisia Tries to Kill USSR Envoy To Finland British Subject Shoots | Soviet Employe in Embassy MOSCOW, June 15 (By Radio).— An attempt at assassination of the Soviet Ambassador to Finland and employes of the Soviet Government | was made in Helsingfors yesterday | |at the Soviet Embassy here by a’ British subject, Herman William | Broun. | | On the morning of June 14 an | unknown person entered the Em- | bassy and demanded an audience | | with Ambasador Stein, or the re- | sponsible deputy. He was asked by) a courier to state the aim of his/| visit. In reply, the unknown visitor | fired two shots, one of which wounded the courier. The assaitant then rushed into the apartment of | the employes of the Embassy. Again he shot at employes who attempted to seize him. The nature of the attack shows that the assailant intended to kill the Ambassador or other official representatives of the Soviet Union. The assailant, Herman William Broun, is a British subject who has recently settled in Helsingfors. | |. The Embassy of the U. S. S. R. | has made representations regarding the occurrence to the Finnish gov- | ernment. ‘Chicago C.P. Names ‘Negro for Congress (Continuel from Page 5) 2739 W. Division St., 2552 W. Di- vision St., 2134 W. Division St., 2322 W. Chicago Ave., 2457 W. Chicago Ave., 1815 W. Division St., 1632 Mil- | waukee Ave. 2733 Hirsch Blvd., 2238 W. Lake St., 4825 N. Kedzie Ave. 3069 W. Armitage Ave.. 4112 W. Armitage Ave., 1145 N. Spaulding Ave., 1611 N. Artesian Ave., 526 W, Division St., 548 W. Wisconsin St., 2409 N. | Halsted St., 3301 N. Clark St., 6352 Addison St., Mansfield and Fuller- ton Sts. U. C. Headquarters. 412 E. 47th St., 1326 E. 55th St., 10 W. 47th St., 3847 S. State St., 2941 Wentworth St., 2642 Wentworth St., 3116 S. Halsted St. 2822 S. Michigan Blvd. Workers’ School, 4003 Indiana Ave., Workers Book Store, 1209 S. Karlov St. Liberty Hall, 1405 S. 49th Ave., Chicago, Ill. : NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 15.— Close to three hundred delegates are expected at the Nominating Convention of the Communist Party, District 15, which is being held Saturday and Sunday, June 16- 17. These delegates will come from trade unions, language, youth and Negro organizations all over the State. Delegations of strikers are counted on to appear from New Britain and Bridgeport where the revolutionary trade unions are now |carrying on a determined fight for ‘higher wages and better working conditions. Workers from shop nuclei in the war industries of Con- necticut will also attend. Saturday evening at 7 p. m. there ; Will be an outdoor mass meeting at Main and Cannon Sts., Bridgeport— followed by a parade with banners and slogans to St. George’s Hall, 396 Stratford Ave., where the con-| j vention will be held. Of especial importance will be the appearance at the convention of Richard Farber, former leader of the Socialist Party and Y. P. S. L. of Hartford, long active among the workers of his city, who last week, declared himself disgusted with the reformism of the Socialist Party and who has | joined the Communist Party as the only party of the working- | class. In all probability he will “Don’t Strike Brothers! Let’s Arbitrate!”’ y Burck Ella Bloor Speaks at | Omaha Women’s Meet | OMAHA, Neb., June 14.—A com- mittee of 15 women was elected at a meeting called by the Omaha Branch of the American League Against War and Fascism, who will lead in the work of mobilizing women for the support of the July 1 Convention at Grand Island where a farm woman delegate will be chosen to go to the Women's In- ternational Anti-War Congress in Paris, France, to be held from July 28 to July 30. Ella Reeve Bloor, veteran farm organizer, spoke on the war danger and on the conditions in Arkansas C. C. C. camps, where boys are dy- ing like flies. run for an important office on the state ticket. SEATTLE, Wash.—The Commu- nist Party in District 12 launched its election campaign at a workers’ picnic. Following up the picnic the District Committee and Section Or- ganizers met and planned out the campaign. As a result of making the campaign a part of every day mass work, in the shops, in our unions. and other mass organiza- tions we set the goal of 1,000 new Party members as a result of this election’ campaign. George Bradley, the Washington chairman of the Unemployed Com- mittee of Action, was endorsed as candidate for U. S. Senator. James Murphy, National Secretary of the National Lumber Workers Union, was endorsed as one of the can- didates for Congress. Harry Cor- rell, the State Organizer of the United Farmers League of Oregon was endorsed as candidaate for Governor of Oregon, ‘Negro Liberator” Speaks of Paper (Continuel from Page 5) ruptibility could make these organi- zations into real fighting ones for the winning of Negro equality. “Through the Urban League I be- came the assistant director of a Jim Crow Boy's Club in Brooklyn where the white and Negro had always been together. It was the Urban League specifically that Jim Crowed the boys. I broke the Jim Crow rules deliberately. And or- ganized the mothers and fathers of the neighborhood to demand that Negroes could go into the very fine Flatbush Boys Club (part of the Boys Clubs of America) just two blocks away. “Due to this activity, and to the fact that I exposed the Urban League’s efforts to reduce the re- lief of Negroes by making them take relief through the Urban League instead of the Prosser Fund for home relief, and giving them just beans, spaghetti, etc. I was fired. But I had learned by lesson. I had learned while in their organizations that they were conscious mislead- ers. Consciously in the employ of the foundations which backed them, Rockefeller and Carnegie, etc. “I then joined the Unemployed Councils, and later the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, as the only organizations which were hon- estly fighting for the Negro workers, both black and white. “The importance of the Negro Liberator, which we are launching, is explanatory by my story. There FOREIGN BRIEFS JAIL COMMUNISTS IN EGYPT | CAIRO, June 15.—Police arrested 42 Communists yesterday following | a search of over 100 homes. Com- munist literature was seized in the| raids. | POLISH MINISTERS HOT WARSAW, June 15.—Polish Min- ister of the Interior .Bronislaw was shot in the head today by unknown assailants. His condition had not been reported when the attempted | assassina‘ion was made known. TIE UP NEW ZEALAND PORT for restoration of pay cuts. organizations because they believe that they can get equal rights through their organizations. They must be shown and proven the cor- rect way out. The Negro Liberator can do’ this.” Merrill C. Work and Benjamin Davis, both Southern Negro work- ers, are to be in charge of the new Negro Liberator. Benjamin Davis defended Angelo Herndon, and is well known throughout the South. He is to assufie the editorship. A banquet to greet him on his arrival from the South will be held at Lido Hall on Sunday, June 24. The con- ference this Saturday is to obtain the backing of Negro and white or- ; Sanizations in the building of the Negro Liberator. All organizations are urged to send delegates imme- are hundreds and thousands of Ne- groes who are in these misleaders’ diately to the conference and to the banquet. “On the Eve C. P. Issues Declaration On 15th Anniversary of Its Founding - By R. H. Communist Party of Germany on the 15th Anniversary of the foundation of the Communist Party by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Lieb- knecht, has restated in its program for the salvation of the German working class that the only way out of the crisis is the seizure of power by the working class. This program, a restatement of the program for the social and na- tional liberation of the German working people issued by Comrade Ernst Thaelmann in September 1930, on behalf of the Party, is a powerful weapon in our hands to smash the fascist demagogy of race theories, patriotism and lying prom- ises. This program of the Communist way out has an importance, stretch- ing beyond the frontiers of Ger- many. This program of social and national emancipation holds good practically word for word for the United States of America, and a comparison with the Manifesto of the Eighth Convention of the C.P. of the U.S.A. shows that the basic problems faced by the C.P.’s of both countries differ only in the degree to which the crisis of capitalism has progressed further in one country than in another. The program for the social and national emancipa- tion of the German people, for the People’s Revolution follows. it ae cae “The program of the Communists is the program of revolution, There is no other Socialist program upon which the establishment of Social- ist planned economy and the estab- lishment of a classless society are possible. We Communists declare to the workers and all the toilers in town and country that we are de- termined to overthrow the Hitler dictatorship and to take over power take the road to freedom and to well-being under the leadership of the Communists. The development of Socialism in the Soviet Union furnishes definite proof that only Communism brings salvation for the working masses, and that the Soviet power is the only way out of poverty and starvation, When the Communists Seize Power “The Communists, after they seize power, will carry out the expropria- tion of the capitalists and Junkers, of the bankers, of the big depart- ment stores and big real estate own- ers without compensation. the over- throw of the rich, the do-nothings and the parasites. They will abolish all. the indebtedness of the workers, the peasants and the middle classes to the banks, big capitalists and big land owners and annul all taxes. “The Communists will confiscate all the mansions, houses and homes of the rich, forcibly dispossess the idlers from them and turn their dwelling, together with all their fur- niture over to the unemployed and the workers living in miserable tenements today. “They will confiscate all the gov+ ernmeni’s and the big capitalists’ supplies of food and articles neces- sary for life, turning them over to the unemployed and all those in need of them, and putting their distribution in the hands of unem- ployed committees. “We shall open the universities and laboratories to the young work- ers and guarantee them an assured future. “The Communists will confiscate without compensation all the land belonging to the landlords, the churches and monasteries, the Ho- henzollerns, the princes and all other big landowners. This land, together with all its inventory, will be distributed without cost among the peasants and azricultural work- ers, “Only our program, through tak- ing over all the means of produc- tion, will set up the necessary con- at the head of the po'siariat. The workers of Germany must decice to ditions fer an unpreesdented flour- ishing of the country in the inter- selves, establishing new conditions for the development of foreign trade, primarily with the Soviet Union, and assure work to all the unemployed. Will Repudiate Versailles “In alliance with the interna- tional proletariat and with the powerful Soviet Union, the victori- ous proletarian revolution will de- clare the dictated treaty of Ver- Sailles null and void, and abolish all teparations and treaties based on force. The Communists will guar- antee full freedom of organization, assembly and the press to all work- ers, and will eliminate all national and social suppression of the toiling Masses. “Only Soviet power insures the carrying out of the program for the salvation of the working people. The Soviet power is the dictatorship of the proletariat for the overthrow of all exploiters. It is the organized state power of the armed proletariat in alliance with the working farm- ers for the carrying out of Sociatist planned economy. . What Soviet Power Is “The Soviet power is the most far reaching democracy for the work- ers, soldiers, peasants and all other toilers. It is the untrammelied right of self-determination for the pro- ductive population. It is the leader- ship and control of economic life by the working class and the toiling population. “The Soviets are the elected or- gans of the working class and all toilers; they are legislative and ex- ecutive organs at the same time and are the direct fighting organs of the proletariat during and after the conquest of power. That is why only the Soviet power insures the development of the creative forces of the toiling masses freed from capitalisny. ‘ “It is possible to obtain and re- tain Soviet’ Power only under the leadership of the Communist Party, which unites in its ranks the best, the most courazecus, the most celf- sacrificing and the most selfless of the German Proletarian Revolution” est of the working masses them-|A Program of Social and National | Emancipation workers, who—equipped with the theory of Marxism, Leninism, with the experience of the Bolsheviki and of the whole world revolution- ary movement—act as one and never compromise with the capital- ists. Only such a Party can lead the proletariat through revolution- ary unity to victory. “Workers, toilers of Germany! “You stand on the threshold of the German proletarian revolution! Only the proletarian revolution as a real revolution of the people, only the taking of power by the workers and peasants, creates the prerequisites for abolishing starva- tion, want and misery . . . The vic- torious proletarian revolution is not one single spontaneous action, but @ process, beginning with a victor- ious struggle for your elementary. day-to-day demands, with the extermination of the bour- geoisie, The victorious proletarian revyo- lution is not a process seizing the majority of the toiling masses in a day; it is a process in which the masses must be brought step by step, in the struggle for a piece of bread, for the workers’ rights in the works and factories, for their press, for the right of free assembly and independeht contro] of their own organizations, forward to the decisive struggle for power. Do not let yourselves be discouraged by the difficulty of the task) realize that a few more years under the yoke of fascism will cost the German work- ing class more sacrifices than the es proletarian revolution will cost. “We Communists call upon you, working men and women, hand and brain workers, to join the fighting front of the German proletarian revolution! Central Committee, Communist Party of Germany me and ending On the World Front € “(VENTLEMEN,” we can say to Hitler and Mussolini, paraphrasing the words of | Comrade Knorin, "you may feast and be feted today, but you are sick to the death; be- fore you get home the plague of the financial crisis will seize both of you.” The Nazi debt moratorium, merely the sympton of a rapidly spreading, deeper financial cancer of Fascism will not only have its political con-4 sequences in Germany, but will reverberate through the weakly propped financial structure of world capitalism. One of the financial writers on an American capitalist newspaper asks: “If a much smaller .event, the Credit Anstalt failure in Austria in 1931 could considerably aggravate the whole European crisis and lead Nazi Financial Disease Its World Effect What Hitler Proposes | directly to England’s suspension of the gold standard, what drastie effect, will the German moratorium, a virtual bankruptcy of German government finances, have?” We are witnessing now only the first lightening flashes of the on- coming economic catastrophe of German. Fascism. The Nazi crim- inals who rule Germany virtually shiver in their boots at the thought of the inevitable inflation that is approaching. What was brilliantly foretold by leaders of the German Communist Party as far back as December 1933, is now coming true to the letter, At the 13th Plenum of the Execu- tive Committee of the Communist International, Comrade Wilhem Pieck forecast with unerring ac- curacy: “Hitler's policy, which is the policy of monopoly capital, must necessarily lead to a rapid transi- tion from the hidden inflation al- ready present to an open inflation, The declaration of bankruptcy in regard to foreign countries, the standstill agreement, the reduction of payment of interest on foreign loans by one half and the cur- rency control have, it is true, pre- vented open inflation for the time being, but the large sum of in- terest payments and of repay- ments of debts, the subsidizing of bankrupt parasitic economy, the financing of the production of war material and the adaptation of in- dustry to war are leading ever closer to open inflation.” 'HE sensational bankruptcy of the Nazi financial structure, and its consequence on world capitalist fi- WELLINGTON, New Zealand,| ances, is emphasizing the fact that June 15,—The Stewards Union had| fascism is not a sign of strength, ; this port completely tied up today | as workers supported their strike | but of weakness and instability of the whole capitalist system. Serious diseases require major op- jerations, and it is for that reason that Hitler rushes to Italy for con |sultation. As the Nazi press com- |ments on Hitler's visit to Mussolini jshow, fascism is preparing for a | major blood-letting at the expense jof the Soviet Union. Alfred Rosen- jberg, the most open and rabid of |Hitler’s anti-Soviet war mongers, | writing on his master’s trip to Ven- ice, clearly makes the main issue one of attack against the U.S. S. R. Is the Nazi organ, the “Voelkischer Beobachter,” he predicted that the conference would “turn the hub of world events,” but the wheel is to grind at the expense of the work- ers’ fatherland. “Hitler's visit to Mussolini,” he said, “comes at a time when Communism had issued instructions to European organiza- tions for estranging fascism and national socialism.” With this perspective in mind we can be sure that part of Hitler's conversation with Mussolini will concern itself with that portion of the Nazi policy expressed by the Hugenberg memorandum to the London Economic Conference which demanded, “the Russian Ukraine as @ colonial area owing to the space needs of the people,” and more fully stated in Hitler’s book, “My Strug- |gle.” wherein he says: “For Germany the sole possi- bility for carrying through a sound land policy lay in the winning of new land in Europe itself... . If one desired land in Europe, this, generally speaking, could only be done at the expense of Russia, and the empire would once again have to begin marching along the road of the former knights, in order, with the German sword, to give soil to the German plough and daily bread to the nation.” Both the onrushing inflation ana the criminal war plans of the Nazi fiends, already resulting in starva- tion and desolation for the German masses, will be answered by a fresh revolutionary upsurge, led by the Communist Party of Germany. Louder than ever, more penetrating than ever, throughout Germany will resound the call of the Communist Party: “Rise, workers, rise deceived German people, against the bloody fascist rule of capital, and its fascist dictatorship!” IN THE United States, we must ine crease ten-fold our struggle against fascism, rousing the widest. | united front of all anti-fascist forces against the Nazi butchers, especially for the freedom of the leader of the German Communist Party, Ernst Thaelmann. As the difficulties of the Nazi madman intensify, the danger to the life of Comrade Ernst Thaelmann grows immeasurably. The Nazi hangmen know that the world-wide campaign for the re« lease of Thaelmann and other anti- fascist fighters is becoming one of the mightiest weapons outside of Germany aiding to deal a death blow to German fascism, and to the advance of fascism in other capi- talist lands. . . . During Hitler's and Mussolini's visit to Venice, the whole populace was treated as an enemy, with a war mobilization massed to safe- guard the two fascist dictators. The fascist criminals have every reason to fear the rage of the masses; and that rage is being fanned to the heat of revolt. i \ a f ’ Nd