The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 22, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily ,QWorker GOUTIAA, ORGAH COMMUNIST PARTY 15.4. (SUCTION OF COMMUNIST METERMATIONNO? “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5@ E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-79 54. Cable Address Y. National ork,” New Press Building Cheago, Bronx month,’ 0. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1934 The Dock Strike Sweeps On Te great strike of the West Coast long- shoremen, seamen, firemen, masters, mates and pilots sweeps on, dashing on the rocks the bright hopes of the shipowners that Joseph P. Ryan, head of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association, would be able to lead the men back to work under terms of an agreement that would give the bosses control of the union. Building a united front from below, the rank and file longshoremen have pushed the corrupt A. F. of L, leaders aside and have taken the situation in their own hands. “It is becoming plainly evident,” said the leading editorial in Monday's Astoria Budget, published in Astoria, Oregon, “that the elected officials of the longshoremen’s unions are no longer their leaders. They hold the titles but the leadership has passed into the hands of rad- icals in the ranks.” The “radicals in the ranks” are the great ma- jority of longshoremen, who, disgusted with the class collaboration policies of their leaders, roared down Ryan’s proposal to send them back to the docks with no guarantee against discrimination, with no provisions for hours of labor, with no pro- visions for the seamen and grain handlers, and with a union dominated by the shipowners and their agents, the N. R. A. officials. These striking longshoremen have broken the hypnotic spell that the new deal magicians are at- tempting to cast over the entire working class in the U. 8. A., while they systematically slash down the wage scale. Roosevelt's sleight-of-hand is not fooling the West Coast stevedores. What stands out as extremely significant in the recent rejection of the shipowners’ back-to-work plan is the strikers’ almost unanimous disagree- ment with the plan to establish a Labor Relations Committee on which would sit employers, which would be given the right to strike members from the union rolls. ‘The longshoremen in yoting against the La- bor Relations Board were voting against a move toward building fascist unions in America, unions under the complete domination of the employers and the capitalist government. Day by day it. is becoming clear to the workers that what the Daily Worker said at the very outset of the N. R. A. ballyhoo is the absolute truth— that the setting up of government boards to decide union questions is a long step toward fascism and ruthless suppression of the working class. The longshoremen, through their action, have dealt a heavy blow at the growing fascist tendencies in America; they have set an example for workers in all industries who are beset on all sides by gentle- men of the N. R. A. and officials of the A. F. of L. The longshoremen on the West Coast must get more support from their brothers in the east- ern ports. Not a ship coming from the West Coast must be unloaded in the Atlantic ports. Seamen and longshohremen of all ports! Show solidarity with the West Coast strikers! Spread the marine strike to the East! For a United Fight for the Steel Workers Demands IHE betrayal of the steel workers is now being completed. Mike Tighe and other officials of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers have left Washington, leaving everything in the hands of Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor. They put for- ward in Washington the Green proposals for a com- pulsory arbitration board of three appointed by Roosevelt, to be in entire charge of “settling dis- putes” and of elections of the workers represen- tatives in the mills. The steel workers can now see what they are getting from the Green proposals, railroaded through the recent A. A. convention by Tighe and the Com- mittee of Ten. The Green-Tighe-Committee of Ten machine has sold the steel workers into the hands of the Iron and Steel Institute. The burning grievances, which caused the steel workers to prepare for strike, all remain. The terrific speed-up continues to take years off the lives of the steel workers. Wages re- main at a level far behind the constant increase in prices. The company unions continue to execute the will of the companies inside the mills. Ter- Torism in the mills has increased. These are the results of the Green-Tighe-Com- mittee of Ten betrayal. The A. A. officials, hand in glove with the Roosevelt government, have dropped even mention of the economic demands of the steel workers. | hie are the fruits of the policy of the Tighe machine and the Committee of Ten, based on the theory that the interests of the steel trust and the steel workers are the same. This class coopera- tion policy has tricked the steel workers out of their economic demands. But the steel workers have been only temporarily defeated. The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, a class struggle union, is in the field, point- ing out to the steel workers that only the policy of @ fight against the whole program of Green and Tighe and the Roosevelt government, the program of the steel mill owners, will win something for the steel workers. _ The steel workers must now rally around the call of the S.M.W.1.U. for united action in the mills. The splitting tactics of the Tighe-Committee of ‘Ten machine must no longer divide the steel work- ers. On the basis of their economic demands for higher wages, against the speed-up, against the _ yganized—in every mill and prepare immediate _ Struggle for these demands This is the only road ‘whereby the steel workers will make any gains. Inside the Amalgamated Association the rank | file should continue the fight, on a program unity with the S.M.W.LU. and with the un- steel workers, on a program for prepar- strike action. In the November elections of < , DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 193% the A. A. rank and file candidates and the rank and file program must be put forward. The Tighe machine, the Committee of Ten, have shown that they do not represent the steel workers but, on the contrary, the will of the employers and their government. They must be cleaned out of leadership and swept aside. The steel workers will hav to elect their own rank and file unity commit- tees in every mill and take the struggle into their own hands. The unorganized steel workers can now see that only the S.M.W.L.U. is a fighting union, at every .step representing the interests of the steel workers. The S.M.W..U. should be built into a mass union of the steel workers. The Closing of Schools and the YCL Convention N IRONIC contrast with the announced graduation of 1,856 students from the College of the City of New York is the decision of the Board of Higher Education in New York to discontinue the issuance of free text books in the three city col- leges there. “It was decided,” the announcement reads, “at a meeting of the Board of Higher Education to request no further funds for text books in the budget.” The touching solicitude of the Board of Higher Education for the city budget is equalled only by its callousness toward the thousands of students who will be compelled to forego the benefits of a “higher education” through inability to purchase the required books. Mr. Mark Eisner, chairman of the board, es- timates that this bit of self-sacrifice on the part of the board will save the city approximately $35,000. It is as clear as day that this decision is com- pletely in line with the whole policy of the capital- ist class to “cleanse” the universities and schools of all working class students through raising the financial requirements for attendance. It The “cleansing” of the universities, coupled with savage attacks on the revolutionary students and their organizations, is part of the plan to create an even better base for fascism in the universities than exists now by still further reducing the propor- tion of working class students. This development emphasizes the necessity of winning the youth away from the fascist schemes of the bosses and for the revolutionary program of struggle against capitalism. In this connection the Seventh National Con- vention of the Young Communist League, which opens in New York City today with a huge mass meeting at the St. Nicholas Arena, is of tremen- dous importance. The Young Communist League, as the best helper of the Communist Party in the struggle for Soviet power, and as the transmitter of its revolutionary influence among the broad masses of youth, is playing and will continue to play a decisive role in the mobilization of the youth for the struggle against fascism. The deliberations of the Seventh National Con- vention will occupy+itself to a great extent with an analysis of the rapidly developing tendencies to the fascization of the youth organizations and schools, an exchange of experiences in the struggle against this trend and the formulation of policies for strengthening the struggle against it. All workers and their organizations shouid turn out en masse to greet the delegates to the Seventh National Convention this evening at the St. Nicholas Arena. ’ Trained People’ ‘ OOSEVELT, getting a degree at Yale University yesterday, philosophized mellowly. “We will continue,” he stated, to an appreciative audience, “this practice of calling on trained people for tasks that require trained people.” Roosevelt was defending his “Brain Trust.” Trained people? Trained for what? Roosevelt called on William Green to break the auto and steel strike. Certainly he was eminently “trained” for the job. Roosevelt called on Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, to devastate about one-third of the country’s agriculture, so that the price of bread * would be about 20 per cent higher. This was an expert job done by a “trained” servant of the land- lords and wheat speculators. And how about the remarkable “training” of Roosevelt's members of his Industrial Advisory Board on the NR.A.? There is Mr. Du Pont, bil- lionaire munitions manufacturer, and Mr. Swope, multi-millionaire industrialist of General Electric, etc. And how remarkably “trained” are the Brain Trusters, who evolve the plan to gyp the American working class of about 15 per cent of its weekly wages through the simple expedient of fixing wages at a low level through the N.R.A. codes, and then jacking prices up—through the N.R.A. codes! And General Hugh Johnson? Was he not remarkably “trained” in the last war as a servant of the Wall Street imperialist war makers? Cer- tainly that fitted him by “training” to tighten the monopoly grip of the Wall Street billionaires on the throat of this country, through the intensified wage slavery of the N.R.A. codes. And how about Roosevelt's own “training”? Cer- tainly the ruling class millionaires and monopolists chose a highly trained demagogue to sugar-coat the latest plunders of the Wall Street exploiters. CAPITALIST Government is a collection of people trained to serve the interests of the Wall Street robbers. The real experts, the really trained people, the engineers, the chemists, architects, scien- tists, are flung into the streets to starve, or serve unknown and underpaid. Capitalism cares little for these truly trained people who could be so valuable to society, and who are permitted to function freely and creatively only in the Soviet Union. The capitalist conception of rule by “trained people” is a reactionary conception. By “trained people” the capitalists mean people who are faith- ful to their ruling class interests. In a government where the exploitation of the majority by a capitalist minority has been ended, the tasks of government become tasks in which every worker, every toiler, takes an active part. Such a government is a Soviet Government, a goy- ernment of Workers’ and Farmers’ Councils. In a form of government where the rule is the ex- pression of the interests of the working class and not of an exploiting class, “every cook must take part in the government,” Lenin said. It is a government of the working class, a gov- ernment that will destroy capitalism and the ex- ploiters, that will permit the masses to rule them- selves. In such a proletarian dictatorship, every toiler in factory and farm will gladly take his place in running the country. That is the kind of gov- ernment we must establish in this country by put- ting an end to the rule of the “trained people” of Wall Street. Soviet Union|) “ERNST THAELMANN IS NEXT!” Strengthens Defense Corps C. P. S. U. Reorganizes | Forces, Emphasizing Peace Policies | (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, June 21 (By Radio).— | The Central Executive Committee of the U.S. 8. R. has just ‘published | a decree regarding the reorganiza- | tion of the War and Navy Com- missariat of Defense, following the general organizational lines laid down by the decisions.of the 17th Communist Party Congress (strengthening the centralization of Management, liquidating the col- legiums in non-elective organs, etc:). The government thus liquidates | the collegium of the Commissariat | of War and Navy, and also the Revolutionary Military Council. The Commissariat of War and Navy was renamed Commissariat of Defense. The two asistants appointed to him are Gamarnik and Tukhachevsky. Isvestia, organ of the Soviet Gov- ernment, in an editorial on the transforming of the Commissariat | of War and Navy into the Commis- sariat of Defense, writes that: | “A great political idea underlies the renaming of the Commissariat. It stresses the idea that the whole military art of the U. S. S. R. is a matter of defense, excluding any | desire for aggression, attack or ex- pansion. By their very essence the Soviet Army and Soviet Fleet | naturally never were or could be | weapons of attack. This could not | be more graphically stressed than) in the naming of the Council of La- bor and Defense. Now this is again emphasized with all force in the} | renaming of the War Commissariat | itself. | “Litvinoff, in one of his recent| | speeches, has already stated that} | the Soviet military are the most} | ardent agents in the policy of peace. | |In this respect there is no resem- | blance in the U. S. S. R. to the capitalist countries, where the gen- eral staffs are specialists in a mili- tary corporation, usually constitut- ing a nucleus of a so-called “mili-| tary party,” mostly inclined toward adyenturous attack upon neighbors; toward a policy of “firm mifitary hand”; toward a solution of all or | | any problems “by fire and sword.” | | Firm Peace Policy “This occurs because specialists of military art in the capitalist coun- tries represent a military caste which extends the policy of even} their own. class beyond the necessary limits; therefore they mouthe; \‘More royalist than the king’— | ‘Nothing common is observed with! us.’ “Since the ruling class of the Soviet | country are the proletariat they are| | conducting a policy of peace which} is opposed in principle tc aggres-| | sion, which is expressed in the en- | tire general foreign political life of | the party government. The Soviet eee have no special policy, do not constitute any “military party.” This does not mean at all that the Soviet Army is “outside the policy.” It is the agent, and conscious agent |of the party government policy.| | Being a gigantic school, the great | | labor and cultural force of the So- viet country, the Soviet army, Soviet) fleet are ready at any moment to defend their socialist fatherland. | “But all forces of technical and} | economic manpower resources which | | the Soviet Army possesses constitute | | the reserves of the Soviet country) | for peaceful construction, and are not, as is the case in capitalist coun- tries contrary to it.” by Limbach N. Y. Delegation Hits Jailing of 2 in Afghanistan’ Asks Release of Gurmuk Singh, Prithvi Singh from Consuls NEW YORK.—A delegation rep- resenting 15 New York organiza- tions Wednesday visited the British Consulate and the Turkish Con- sulate, representative of the Afghan government in New York, to protest the brutal treatment and continued imprisonment of Gurmuk Singh and Prithvi Singh, two Indians who have been held in jail in Kabul, Afghanistan, for more than nine months without having charges or proceedings brought against them. A small army of LaGuardia’s “finest” met the delegation at the Turkish Consulate and prevented many of the delegates from enter- ing the building, giving as a reason that the building was “private prop- erty.” The protests of the delega- tion finally resulted in a commit- tee of three being permitted to see the Vice-Consul, who stated (in English) that he was unable to un- derstand or speak English. After the protests and demands of the delegation had been made; he stated that he would transmjt them Disheind Many Storm Troops | As Discontent Shakes Nazis BERLIN (Via mail by under-} ground route).—The mood among} the Storm Troopers is getting more} and more dangerous for the Fascist | government. Not only individual Storm Troopers are expressing their growing discontent because of low} to the Afghan government. A no less impressive committee of police and plain clothes men awaited the delegation at the Brit-| ish Consulate. Here they tried to} permit only two to enter, but were | finally compelled to let five see the Consul. The British Consul, a very | | suave gentleman, professed to have nothing whatsoever to do with the case and tried to get the signatures | of the delegates. Through this trick | he hoped to get the name and han¢- | writing of an Indian representative | on the delegation for the British | police records. The delegates re- fused to give their signatures. BRITAIN’S NAVY PROGRAM LONDON, June 21—Great Britain | will launch a naval building pro- gram along with Italy’s project to} build two new 35,000 ton battleships, it was announced today. | The first installment of the pro- gram will include three 9,000 ton} cruisers, three submarines, and a} number of smaller craft. i wages, heavy duty and war training | requiring great bodily exertion, and | their refusal to serve, but also whole | corps have lately been disbanded | and their supposed leaders put into concentration camps. In Berlin-Reinickendorf, at the end of May, a group of Storm} | Troopers gathered for presentation | of colors. The whole troop was com- | posed of “candidates,” that is, of men who had only recently joined. The leader and his adjutant were old Nazis. All had been arranged | for a festive act, a military band was present, as well as a large crowd of eager onlookers. When the flag was unfurled, instead of the expected swastika, it bore a red flag with a hammer and sickle. The leader, red with rage, drew his revolver and com- manded the men not to move from their places. Onlookers were prevented from leaving. A large number of Storm Troopers were arrested. Among the working classes and the middle class there is growing discontent, due to the steep rise in food prices, and the difficulty in ob- taining foods usually imported. Everybody in a position to do so is stocking up with food and clothing. New suits and overcoats disappear from the stores rapidly. | “Break the Connection With England” Is the Aim By SEAN MURRAY 'HERE is a big battle going on in Ireland for the freedom of the country from British rule. The Trish people in this struggle look to the workers of America for assist- ance in their fight. They look for the aid of all American workers, but particularly to those of Irish birth and extraction who have in the past stood behind the Irish cause. It has come to a serious state of affairs in Ireland. Kither forward | to a united and free Ireland or} backward to greater misery and en- slavement—such is the situation | now facing the masses of the Irish people. We must make certain that | | our march is forward. | The 1921 “treaty” settled nothing | |in Ireland. Quite the reverse. It) | carved the country into two states. | It put England as overlord over! | both. It imposed millions of dol-| | lars of tribute annually to England | from the Irish farmers and workers. | It made the Irish pay for the police and judges who had been their ene- mies in the independence struggle. It imposed oaths of allegiance to the English monarchy on all polit- ical representatives of the people. It handed over all political and economic power, not to those who fought for independence—the work- ers and small farmers—but to those who fought against independence, who stood by imperial England, the big businessmen and grass lords. The arrangement was foisted by armed force on the masses of the Irish people with the Irish capital- ists leading the fight for the im-| Pperialist side. The whole rotten structure is now | tottering. The people cannot live vnder such a yoke of national and | social enslavement any longer. | They have stopped taking oaths of | loyalty to King George and paying | tribute to land stock holders, They | | are gathering their forces for a | great effort to end once and for all) | English imperialist interference in Treland and get the country united under one government. | "To break the connection with! Ti rish People Look to U. S. Masses for Aid in Struggle England” is the slogan of Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen. This is what our efforts are directed to at this moment. Those Against It But not all the Irish are for the independence of their country. The| “big fellows”. are dead against it. They have made money out of the “English connection.” The sale of every small farm, every eviction for debt over the past 80 years, has helped the growth of a class of cap- italists and speculating sharks. Our respectable middle class are more SEAN MURRAY, Secretary, Communist Party of Ireland concerned about “making their for- tunes” than freeing their country. They only want as much elbow room as will enable them to have labor- ers to make profits for them and servants to attend them. They, that is, the Irish capitalists—have deserted the fight for independence, because they are afraid that in really independent Ireland they would not be the top dogs. They ere afraid that the working masses, having dislodged the English, would not go back to their slums and) hovels, but take over the rulership of the country and set up a workers’ state. | main as the incorruptible inheritors | of the fight for freedom in Ireland,” /as in Germany. This is the hell of sre? ® ‘HE only reliable forces in the; fight for a free Ireland are the, tolling masses of the nation. On| these we must consciously build our | movement and take direction of af-| fairs out of the hands of the} lawyer-politicians, spokesmen of the | propertied classes who have always} deserted at the critical hour, made! compromises and betrayals. The! shameful land “settlement of | O'Brien and Redmond in 1903, the Home Rue sell-out, the 1921 treaty, are instances of betrayal within the memories of most of us. This} served to show that dependence on} middle class nationalists for lead- ership leads to nothing but disaster. “Only the Irish working class re- said James Connolly, the revolu- tionary working class leader exe- cuted in 1916. | I said at the outset that we are) facing a critical state of affairs in Ireland. This is no mere figure of speech. A 1934 edition of the Car-| son Volunteer movement is being organized—this time in the south- ern part of Ireland. The upper classes, seeing the capitalist sys- tem tottering all over the world, are in danger in Ireland by the growing movement for national lib- eration. They have organized a fascist force, copying the methods of Hitler in Germany and Musso- lini in Italy, the two lapdogs of im- perialism. All the forces of ascend- ancy and PEvRee including the British ruling class, are behind} them. The DeValera government is | letting them do what they like, | holding back the working masses | who are against them and jailing the Republican workers who will! not idly stand by and let bloody fascism plant its dictatorship over the Irish people. Surrender for Favors The declared aims of the O'Duffy Blue Shirt Fascists are: Surrender to the English imperial demands in| return for business favors; destruc- tion of the Republican movement, | f the workers’ trade unions, of the! ommunist Party and the estab-_ lishment of a fascist dictatorship misery and poverty by which the! Irish capitalists hope to preserve their ill-gotten wealth and privi- | leges in Ireland. | Against the menace eyery Irish) worker at home and abroad must Trish. Workers’. Clubs| Can Help in Fight for Freedom be roused. A powerful fighting movement of the working class must be built up. Connolly, the disciple of the great Karl Marx, and Padraig Pearse, Republican nation- alist, formed a united front against | the fascist imperialists. Let us get the points of agreement which unify the workers and organize the fight for them. This is Redism. To be} sure! Whosoever is scared at being | labelled a Communist cannot fight for Ireland today. The Irish Com- munist. Party is the successor of Connolly, of the Irish Citizen Army and the Irish Socialist Party of which he was the leader. It is the! combination of the best traditions of the United Irishmen, the Fenians and Irish Republicans. It is draw- ing, as only it can, the Orange/| On the World Front By HARRY GANNES Notes on Cuban Loans Graft in High Finance “Stirring Up Peace” Unconquered Communists ALL STREE'T bankers haven't the slightest fears that the Mendieta gov- ernment will repudiate the | $60,000,000 loans to Machado. They understand Mendieta as well as they did the bloody Machado. The Cuban people over- threw the corrupt and murderous regime of the Wall Street mercenary Machado in order to get rid of slavish exploitation and the whole- sale tax robbery to pay the Wall Street bankers. Mendieta has to , appear con- ‘cerned about these matters. The report of Mendieta’s com- = mission on the debts to the * bankers is for internal cone sumption. Roose- velt, who rules * through Men- dieta, will take care of the MACHADO | | bankers. They can always count on him and Mendieta, Let us dig up a few of the de- tails of this $60,000,000 loan. The only money that ever reached Cuba out of this sum was the millions that Machado, his son-in-law and some of thé murderous Porrista gang got. The rest remained in the treasuries of the Chase Na- tional Bank, the National City Bank of New York and the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago. For instance a huge slice of it was supposed to go for the building of the National Highway, a road that runs about 600 miles from one end of the island to the other. The road was built so that American marines could travel more quickly from the Guantanamo base to the various sugar mills to shoot down rebellious Cuban workers. Machado could also use it from Havana to speed his troops against the rev- olutionary masses. eo ee 'VEN at that, not half of the money was used for actual ma- terial and wages. Talk about your super-profits. The Chase National Bank can write a few lessons on this matter. First they charge huge sums for “floating” the loan. Then they get the contract for construc- tion. They make a huge profit in handling these contracts. All that is left is a road that isn’t worth a third what it was supposed to cost. The rest of the money never leaves New York City. Another matter: Machado de- cides he wants to build a new capitol. The American bankers are never loath in these matters. They see graft in every dollar of this “construction.” Architects have es- timated that at the maximum it would cost some $4,000,000 to re-pro- duce this capitol. Machado expended $18,000,000. How much did the bankers keep and how much went to Machado? The Chase National Bank helped Machado/steal $9,000,000 of money belonging to Cuban pensioners. There is a letter in the Senate files showing thai U. S. Ambassador Gug- genheim and the Chase National Bank authorities knew Machado had spent for himself nearly all of a $9,000,000 trust fund for old and disabled government employes. But they all decided to keep quiet about. it so that the enraged masses would not overthrow Machado and thereby endanger their grafting loans. Now these crooks want to be paid. And Mendieta will find some means of trying to force the Cuban masses weeds . . The Cuban “loans” will be repudi+ ated—by a workers’ and peasants’ government. . N June 24, there will be national protest demonstrations through- out England against the nefarious Sedition Bill, which is a British edi- tion of our criminal syndicalist llaws. On June 10, over 1,500 dele- gates met in London at Memorial Hall to plan a mass campaign against this fascist measure. A cen- tral demonstration of all working class organizations will take place in London at Trafalgar Square simultaneously with demonstrations throughout the country. “The gov- ernment doesn’t want people going round stirring up peace,” said one of the delegates at the anti-Sedi- tion Bill conference. The Sedition workers of Ulster into the fight for Bin, under the guise of making it a free Ireland, A united front be. et : i tween the Labor, Republican, Com- | Se peean Bi Sase Se Gatar ao ee | munist and Orange workers against | cpens the way for an attack against aganda among the armed forces, fascism is the need of the hour. Let al) revolutionary propaganda and us get busy and create it. There is| no time to lose, The Irish Workers’ Clubs in the} U. S, A. are the place for every | Irish worker. The political bosses here in America are the greatest curse of the Irish masses. Only working-class organizations can de- stroy their influence and bring the Irish workers to an honored place in the labor movement of America.) The grafting labor bosses’ company unions and political racketeering outfits must be replaced by power- ful, honest labor unions under the workers’ own control, led by the trusted fighting men and women from their own ranks, and by the Irish Workers’ Clubs which will serve as the centers of political and social enlightenment for the Irish working masses. This is the only way to safeguard wages, jobs, and do away with long hours of work} to unite the Irish workers in common especially against the fight on the imperialist war preparations. ee ,QOME of the foreign capitalist press who expected Hitler to destroy the Communist Party now must ad- mit that they were wrong. For ex- ample, the Dutch religious weekly of Amsterdam, “Tijd en Taak,” on June 18th wrote: “Communist prop- aganda in Germany is extremely active, and one is filled with ad- miration at the intelligence, the tenacity, and the patience, and most of all the ethical courage with which the unconquered Communist fight- ers, day in and day out, risk their liberty, their health and their lives to undermine the brutal dictatorship of the Hitler bandits “We know a lot of naive souls who argued as follows a year ago: ‘We are far from admiring the fascist regime, but at least it has destroyed Communism.’ (Trotzky argued along |the same line). And what has hap- effort with those of all other na-| pened? The Nazis have annihilated tionalities and colors, to roll back a good deal ip Germany: personal the drive of barbarous capitalist re- freedom, religious freedom, the sov- action which is heading for fascism, | ereignty of law, humanity, in short, to help Ireland gain freedom, achieye the end of generations of heroic sacrifices for Ireland, to end the rule of millionaire imperialism in America itself to} almost all the achievements of the _ mind in the centuries of struggle against barbarism. But the only thing it has been unable toe destroy seems to be Communism” |