The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1934 Daily,.QWorker JOPPA, ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY 5.4 (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTEREATIONALD “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 4 E, 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4 - Gable Address Daiwork, Ea Washington Bureau Room Press Building, 4t nd F St. Washington, s Leyton Bures h Wells St., Room 705, Cheago, Til. Telephone: De Subscription Rates: ear, $6.00: 0.78 cents 1 year, $9.00 monthly, 75 cents 18 cents “SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1934 Moley Is on the Spot With The Mayor and Police Chief HE campaign for ousting Police Com- missioner O’Ryan and the driving from public life as a “liberal” of his chief La- Guardia must not be allowed to obscure the decisive part played in the terror drive against Communists and the unemployed by Raymond Moley and the Chief Execu- tive whose closet advisor he is. It was Raymond Moley, editor of the magazine “Today,” financed by the millions of Vincent Astor, who gave the signal for this drive of brutal reaction. It has been a long time since New York City has felt such a white hot wave of mass anger as that now sweeping around Mayor La Guardia’s throne, swirling around his brutal Police Commissioner O’Ryan, making both these demagogues sweat. Perhaps La Guardia and O’Ryan will remember now such cases are that of Patsy Augustine, striking food workers’ leaders who was beaten, burned with cigarette butts, given “the water cure” and tor- mented for 10 hours in the best fascist style. Cer- tainly they will not forget for a long time the series of planned and bloody attacks by their police on ‘the unemployed. La Guardia and O’Ryan must go! The varied social classification of the people whose names are on the police “red list” show it for what it is—a fascist list! It includes hundreds of names of people who, in spite of the fact that the great majority of them are opposed to Communism— and most are bitter enemies of the Communist Party —have some regard for science, the arts and culture in general. The police secret list is medieval in its all-embracing character. It compares only with the lists of the great inquisition and those of Hitler- ism and Italian fascism. It is doubtful if La Guardia and O’Ryan would have had the nerve to start the armed police as- saults on unarmed and hungry unemployed, under the guise of quelling the red menace,” if they had not believed they had the backing of the Roosevelt administration. “Never has the art of provoking police offi- cials been developed to the extent used by Com- munists,” wrote Moley in “Today” for May 26. “Most of the rioting in the squares of our larger industrial cities, around factories and before relief offices and police stations, is kept boiling—more of- ten than not it is started—by card-carrying mem- bers of the Communist Party,” wrote McAlister Cole- man in “Today” for May 26 in an article procured by Moley and paid for out of the Astor millions. The first bloody clubbing of the unemployed oc curred on June 2. Three pages of the May 26 issue of “Today,” unofficial mouthpiece of the Roose- velt administration, were devoted to slander of and infamous provocation calculated to incite the police to murderous attacks against Gommunists and all who support their program or any part of it. The Mirror took its cue from Moley. The Herald Tribune, never at odds with any administration in drives against the working class or any section of it, outdid itself in seconding the Moley motion for terror and suppression and the Mirror amendment for “extermination” of the Communists. The Herald Tribune, absolving the police from all blame, tried to picture Communists as gangsters: “The authorities are here dealing NOT with a social doctrine but WITH ORGANIZED CRIME, for which it would be a costly folly to make any more allowances than they do for THE CRUEL AND VICIOUS LIBERTIES THAT THE U WORLD TAKES WITH THE PUBLIC.” phasis ours—Editor). The stage was set for wholesale attacks on the unemployed, strikers and their sympathizers—while the police force gave complete protection to open fascist activities. UT the attempt to solve the problem of hunger and want by police clubs and mass atrocities failed. The Daily Worker exposed the criminal con- spiracy. It called on New York workers, employed and unemployed, to organize and smash it. Mayor La Guardia and his police commissioner have been caught redhanded—we use the word ad- visedly. Their backers, Raymond Moley, the multi- millionaire Astor, and the Roosevelt mouthpiece “Today,” are also exposed. Meanwhile the conditions of the unemployed Masses get worse. Some 25,000 are to be dropped from the relief rolis, This must not happen. ~\, The administration of relief must be placed in the hands of committees elected by the mass or- ganizations of the unemployed. La Guardia and O’Ryan must go! They have shown themselves to be the little tyrants of the big bankers and employers. Sweep them out of office on a wave of mass anger they have aroused. ‘They are the enemies of every worker! He Had His “New Deal” oc in the village of Waterloo, New York, lie the charred bodies of Claude Reynolds, 44-year old farmer, and his three children, shot by their father, who could see no other way to escape the sufferings brought by the drought and starvation. There is bitter, brutal tragedy in the way this farmer, whose sweat for years coined nothing but mortgage payments for the banks, finally faced, in the good year of Our Lord Roosevelt and the blessings of the “New Deal,” stark hunger and destitution. Reynolds, a typical small farmer, breaking his back on his acres in the desperate, year after year struggle to keep the clutches of the mortgage rob- bers off his throat, saw his farm destroyed by the _ drought that is now burning the crops of the farm “lands throughout the country. S Reynolds could find no assistanee from the gov- i} 4 ernment A.A.A, authorities, as he saw his children, his crops, everything that gave his life meaning and purpose, crushed by the searing heat, withered and stricken both by the blight of nature and the brutal indifference and callousness of a capitalist government to which he had been taught to look as his protector. What indescribable bitterness and suffering there is in the sardonic words he penned before he mur- dered his children and himself: “This is my first and only contribution to the morning mail.” “By the time this reaches you, I will have had my ‘new deal’ and I will take my three children with me.” This small farmer had his taste of the Roosevelt “New Deal.” It brought him tragedy, He took the only road out that he knew, RB" it was not he who is responsible for the murder of his children. It is Roosevelt. It was the Wall Street government which ruthlessly destroys the life and happiness of millions so that the profits of the capitalist class can be protected. . * * * OOSEVELT, smiling hypocrite, has left the vast majority of the small and middle farmers to the deadly mercies of the drought. Roosevelt, seek- ing to strengthen the class position of the richest farmers only, ruthlessly hunts the drought-stricken small framers off the land. Literally, just as literally as Claude Reynolds slew himself and his children, the Roosevelt gov- ernment, by its failure to come to the relief of the drought-stricken farmers, doing the service of the money-masters, is sentencing hundreds of thousands of ruined and impoverished farmers and their families to disease and death. . . . Soviet Government, a government of: workers and farmers, a government that had broken the back of the exploiting class, that had wiped out the rule of the bankers and Wall Street monopolies, such a government would not have permitted the Claude Reynoldses to face the drought unaided. A Soviet Government that had smashed the rule of the capitalist parasites, would have given Claude Reynolds the full power of its cooperation in the fight against the drought, enemy of the welfare of society. Because such a government would have been the expression of the interests of those who labor, and not those who exploit and plunder. The road that Reynolds took is not the right road. It is the read that leaves the power of the brutal parasites untouched and unharmed. The road that the drought-stricken farmers must take now is the road of struggle for immediate relief from the Roosevelt government. In the Farm- ers Emergency Relief Bill of the Communist Party, the stricken, impoverished farm population has a mighty weapon to win relief from the anguish of the drought, the yoke of debt slavery, and the miseries of poverty, There is a desperate need for action. “The Western Worker’ and The Dock Strike NE of the outstanding factors that has served to weld a strong united front of the seamen and longshoremen in the great strike which continues along the enttfre west coast of the U.S. A. is the Communist paper, the Western Worker. Early in the strike the longshoremen’s strike commit- tee agreed to accept the Western Worker as the of- ficial organ of the strikers and statements of the strike committee appeared regularly its columns. Thus the Western Worker played a great role in the strike, not only reporting news of the strike and breaking down the “red scare,” but giving concrete guidance and leadership to the strikers. It is due to the untiring work of the Communists and the Western Worker that the strike has reached its present high level where the rank and file members of the International Longshorenien’s Association have repudiated the sell-out agreement worked out by Joseph P. Ryan and the shipowners. But the Western Worker, in the course of its good work, mede a serious opportunist mistake in its failure to expose and criticize sufficiently the role of Joseph P. Ryan immediately after he signed the strike-breaking agreement. This mistake was pointed out in the Waterfront Worker (Vol. 2, No. 15), published on June 12 by the rank and file op- position in the I. L. 4., where it said: “We find it hard to believe the statement made by the Publicity Committee, and published in the Western Worker—that even Ryan changed his mind—the men having convinced him that his agreement was finky.” This criticism of the Western Worker by the rank and file opposition was just and correct. It is clear that the Party organ and Party leadership should not under any circumstances be lagging behind the rank and file opposition in their exposure and criti- cism of the corrupt leadership of the I. L. A. It must be made clear to all workers that Ryan has not been convinced that his agreement is finky (scabby). Ryan is still working and will continue to work to betray the strike. He has been asked to call out the east coast longshoremen and has refused to do it. In fact, his gangsters chased pickets off the New York waterfront who wanted to spread the strike to the coast-wise docks in the east. There can be no letting up on the criticism of Ryan. Ryan must be further exposed and driven from the ranks of the longshoremen if the dockers are to be successful in their struggle for better liv- ing conditions. Greetings to the New Liberator Editor HE revolutionary Negro paper, the Liberator, will hold this Sunday eve- ning, a celebration banquet at Lido Hall, 146th Street and 7th Avenue, to greet the arrival of its editor, Ben Davis, Jr., of At- lanta, Georgia. This is an event of political importance which deserves the support not only of the workers of the city, but of every person who is willing to aid the fight of the oppressed Negro people for libera- tion from Jim-Crow oppression. The Liberator, under its new fighting editor, who already has won a place for himself as the staunch defender of Angelo Herndon, will be the paper which stands as the spearhead of the fight of the Negro people against oppression. The fight of the oppressed Negro people is flesh and blood of the fight for the liberation of the whole toiling population of the country from the yoke of the Wall Street money lords. Only in revo- lutionary unity can the Negro and white masses break their chains. The affair on Sunday night marks a new stage in the growth of the Liberator. All efforts to make it successful! The Daily Worker greets Ben Davis, Jr., as the new editor of the Liberator. Open Fascist DEFENSE ARM OF THE WORKING CLASS Drive Against Greek Toilers Jail Two Communist) Mayors Suppress Newspapers ATHENS, June 22—Fearful of the growing strike. struggles of the Greek workers, especially the dock- ers and tobacco workers, the Gov- ernment here has opened up a vi-| cious fascist attack on the Commu- nist Party of Greece. The govern- ment has removed the Commmu- | mist Mayors of Cavalla, center of | the Greek tobacco industry from office, and of Serres, after they were elected by a large majority of the workers. A Dill is being introduced by the | Minister of the Interior, along the |lines of the British sedition bill, | only with a few more drastic provi- sions, declaring. that “agitators”| among students, sailors and national | | minorities will be subject to im- prisonment for five years. { Action Aimed at all Labor Groups| All Communist organizations, un-| | der the bill, will be subject to dis- | solution in the fashion carried out) by Hitler. Not only does the new} law, receiving suport of all cap-| | italist parties, and the many fas- cist groups, aim at suppression of the two Communist dailies. This} | action is seen as aimed not only at| | the Communist organizations but} | subsequently at all workers’ organi-| | zations, but declares all anti-fascist | | organs illegal. | ‘The action came after a strike of 14,000 workers in Piraeus had been smashed by the most bloody terror |and the workers driven back to | work. The government is threaten- | ing to send all arrested Communists and anti-fascists to the Island of | Anaphi which is to be a concen- | tration camp. Fascist Coup on Deck Preparations are being made in Greece for a fascist coup under the leadership of the Minister of War | General Kondylis. ‘There are a large number of other fascist group- ings, especially the group around the reactionary newspaper “Hestia,” | which receives huge sums and main- | tains open relations with the British embassy. The fascist gangs have found it | difficult to unite their forces, due to | the great and growing mass dis- j content, and the strong resistance | by Limbach Big Powers Speed Navy Armaments; In New Maneuvers for War Alliances 6 By F. NEW YORK. — In London and ‘American imperialists seek to force | Britain into an alliance against |of the workers under the leader-|TOkio the big diplomatic guns are | Japan; and the British aim to gain | ship of the Communist Party. How-| | ever, in preparation for the fascist | coup, which the recent anti-Com- | munist laws show is rapidly matur- ing, the E. E. E,, which hag the con- | ican naval experts are jockeying to | American imperialism a pact aimed | | fidence of the largest number of capitalists, and is aided by the Venizelos, is already attempting to| in action blasting the road for a|debt and military advantages from | huge naval arms race in prepara- tion for the 1935 naval conferences. In London, the British and Amer- be in an advantageous position for the forthcoming preliminary naval conference soon to take place in | Wall Street. | Tokio Offers Anti-Soviet Pact Tokio, meanwhile, has offered jat the Soviet Union, in exchange |for navy considerations and divi- | Sion of the markets in China. “The come to a general agreement. with| London, and for the 1935 confer-| Tokio government,” cables Wilfrid | the other fascist cliques. They are |arming their followers making ready for a bloody attack against) | the working-class and the inaugura- | | tion of a fascist dictatorship, ‘One Day’s News Tn the Struggle Against Terror (Continued from Page 3) place to place by 100 ranchers, Police and local sheriffs who “ride herd” on them as if they were | Steers. In New York, Theodore | Eggaleng, an anti-Nazi German | sailor is thrown in the brig of the | steamer “Albert Ballin,” to be car- ried in irons to almost certain death | in Germany. The I. L. D. saved Eggaleng by forcing his release twenty-two minutes before the ship sailed. In each of the other cases, the I. L. D. was in the thick of the fight, taking advantage of every) maneuver of bourgeois lay — but! above all, organizing protest, mobil- izing pressure. I. L, D.—Voice of Millions I mention these varied cases for @ particular reason: it happens that all of them were reported on a single day in June. Each day brings its evidence of the accelerated tempo of terrorism and open fas- cism in the United States. The I. L. D. is leading the fight on a hundred different battle fronts. Each day its tasks become greater. The I. L. D. is everywhere—where heroes of the class struggle sit in lonely dungeons, where men labor on chain gangs, where workers are attacked on picket lines and clubbed in demonstrations. Against this terror there is one mighty bulwark. The I. L. D. is strong because its ence. Meanwhile, the United States, London and Tokio are speeding their naval building programs. The United States delegates aim to come to some agreement with the leading competitor of Wall Street on armaments in order to meet the demands of the Japanese. The British in return presented the American naval experts with a de- mand for a tremendous increase in the British navy. A statement handed to Norman H. Davis, United States Ambassador at Large, by Ramsay MacDonald, for transmis- sion to Washington, puts the British position as demanding first of all 70 cruisers in ‘place of the 50 provided in the 1930 London naval treaty. U. S. Holds Club The American imperialists hold up the club of the Vinson Bill and the authorization for the construc- tion of 102 war vessels by the United States. The naval confer- ence maneuvers, however, cannot in the least cover up the sharpen- ing conflicts between the United | States and Britain, on the one hand, and the United States and Japan, on the other, Behind the naval talks go on the bitterest rivalries for markets, es- Pecially in the Far East; conflicts over war debts, tariff reprisal schemes, financial conflicts, all rapidly leading to a new imperial- ist ‘slaughter. The aim of ‘the preliminary conferences is to gain | advantages from each other in armaments, to force alliances. The voice is the voice of millions of workers. The thunder of their anger can open prison doors, The voice of these millions is stronger than the judge with his gavel or the cop with his rubber hose or the deputy with his rifle or the klansman with his rope. The I. L. D. is the voice of these millions. | Fleisher, Nerald Tribune Tokio cor- |Tespondent, “wants a bilateral | treaty with Washington, but would oppose its extension to include other Far Eastern nations or pow- ers interested in the Far East, | which would give it the character of a pan-Pacific non-aggression pact.” The same cable goes on to admit that the pact would be aimed at the Soviet Union and China. The fact, however, is not mentioned that the Soviet Union has offered Japan and all other powers non- | aggression. pacts, and that the Japanese imperialists have deliber- ately rejected this pact. The Japanese move, which with support of the British who are the main organizers of the Anti- Soviet war front, is an attempt to direct the growing imperialist conflicts into the channels of united action against the Soviet Union. Steel Company Union “Elections” (Continued from Page 4) a phone call from Pittsburgh Fri- day morning that the strike was off.” (Green spoke Friday morning at the AA convention in Pittsburgh). It was on the basis of the com- pany union “elections” and strike “votes” that every newspaper in the steel area wrote pages declar- ing that the workers did not want to strike, and praising Tighe as well as the company unions. The Youngstown Vindicator, in a typical editorial entitled “No Strike” hailed the sell out of the AA convention. It said, “A strike would injure their |own cause since the public realizes how much the companies have done for their men during the past year and would resent the harm that a dislocation of business would do to other workers and to the country itself.” The companies, have their ma- chine guns and tear gas inside all of the large mills of the Pittsburgh and Youngstown area, to “do the men good” in case of a strike. The companies have the company union jin each mill, to prevent the work- jers from organizing into a real | union, to maintain the speed-up, and spy and blecklist system. Not Elections But More Pay As one Pittsburgh worker de- clared, “When a worker signs in the company union he has to sign a program which declares that the employe has no say whatever in the firing and hiring. It is part of the workers job to join the company union and to vote for company stools in the elections. If he doesn’t, he is fired and often blacklisted. The company union takes up questions of increasing production but nothing regarding bettering wages and working con- ditions of the employes.” Any “election” controlled by the Roosevelt government board, will have the same element of terror which now existes. ‘These coming “elections” wil saddle the workers with the company union, backed by the force of the Roosevelt gov- ernment. On pain of loss of job and blacklisting the worker will be forced to participate in the com- pany union election. This is what the Green-Tighe proposal aims to force on the workers in place of a fight for recognition of the union. And Tighe and Green talk “elec- tions” in order to hide their treach- ery in dropping any struggle for the economic demands of the work- ers. ; Not government controlled elec- tions leading to strengthening of the company unions, but a fight for the economic demands of the work- ers! Such a fighting policy, call- ing for preparations for strike to achieve these economic demands, is put forward by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. The S. M. W. I. U. calls for the unity of all steel workers in united mill committees to prepare strikes for these economic demands. “Us Im” Was Founded in 1909 by Workers Fleeing Czarism 'HE 25th anniversary of “Uus lim,” Estonian revolutionary working class weekly is a victorious triumph over obstacles and opposi- tions of tremendous proportions, Uus Tim was established on the 20th of June, 1909, by those revolu- nionary workers who were com- pelled to flee from Estonia after the revolution of 1905. Those refugees were mostly workers and poor farm- ers, and because of their lack of knowledge of the language and of the new conditions they had to suf- fer many hardships. On the basis of experiences in 1905 they com- menced to organize, in order to bet- ter their conditions. Along with the growth of organizations there came the necessity for their own news- paper. Thus there appeared in New York the first number of Uus Im. It was a four-page weekly. The publication was a risky enterprise, especially from the economic point of view, since there were only about two to three thousand Estonians in the country at that time, and they were scattered all over the United States. But because the enterprise was backed by six workers’ organiza- tions the paper has continued to appear for 25 years. The greater part of the work was done collectively, without any pay, only the editor received a small salary. From the very beginning Uus Iim had many enemies to fight,—at first there were religionists, with Pastor Rebane at their head. Then there were some hoodlums, paid by bour- gois circles, who tried to abolish the paper through terror. But because Uus Ilm had from the beginning a strong proletarian foundation, the majority of Esto- nians here being workers and poor farmers, all efforts to destroy the paper failed. The paper gained in influence when Hans Poogelman gave to the paper a more distinctive course, following the left wing of the American Socialist Party, be- fore the establishment of the Com- munist Party. It succeeded during 1913 in build- ing up the Estonian Federation, which consisted of nine organiza- tions. Uus Im now became the official organ of the Federation, which helped to secure its position in general. At the outbreak of the World War, when the nations were drowned in chauvinism, it became very diffi- cult for Uus Ilm to maintain the Proper policy. At that time Com- munist literature was very scarce in America. The paper nevertheless fought mercilessly against the im- Pperialist war. The gigantic turmoil of the Russian Revolution took Comrade Poogelman from the Uus Im, His place was taken by J. Palmer. As a result of the Russian Revo- lution there was a change in the working class movement in Amer- ica; mass radicalization commenced. The organized Eastonian workers also became more revolutionary. Revolutionary enthusiasm was so strong that the bourgeois Estonian Society fell to pieces, aithough this had long been the centre of Esto- nian nationalism here. The program of the Third Inter- national was soon accepted by the majority of Estonian workers in America, aftes its publication in Moscow, 1919. Uus Iim declared it- self an orgen of the Communist Party and as such she has existed up to the present. Since then it has been a fearless fighter against all class enemies, against all rene- gades and opportunists. During the World War the head- quarters of the papers were plun- ‘Made 25th Year of the Estonian Revolutionary Weekly Many Gains in Its 25 Years of Struggle dered by American government of- ficials. The government of Canada barred Uus Ilm for the workers and farmers there; the Estonian gov- | ernment has on many occasions ap- pealed to the American government. to forbid the mailing of Uus Ilm to ia. During the past year, when fas- cism moved across the Baltic States and consequently many fascist or- ganizations were founded in the U. S., the Estonian Workers’ Center was burned down twice. But such ‘actions only intensified the struggle of the workers, and at present Uus | Im and the Estonian Workers Cen- ter are stronger than ever before. In the near future Uus Ilm will be published in six pages; recently it began to publish a monthly paper for working women, entitled Naist- ooline The Working Woman). | All this displays clearly the | Strength of Uus Ilm and shows to jus that it, together with other na- tional papers fighting along with the Daily Worker are guiding the masses toward a new and better ex- listence, toward a Soviet America, On the World Front By HARRY GANNES |Goebbels and Trotzkyites On Soviet Peace Policy Litvinoff’s Proposal | NHE Soviet peace policy did nore than get under Sir |John Simon’s skin and drive |him to open ranting and rage, \[t was expected that the Brit- jish Foreign Minister and die- jhards, leading organizers of the anti-Soviet war front, would froth at the mouth. The Soviet peace policy threw stumbling blocks in the way of German fascism on which it is breaking its shinbones)| But’ in’ their rage, the Nazis and,! the Simons and Hirotas have some amusing bed-fellows. Supporting Goebbels in his fullmina tions against Lit- vinoff’s peace Proposals at Geneva we have the New Re- public, H. N. Brailsford, and the Trotzkyite sheet in the alte United States. rc @ie tibasal Sir John Simon Brailsford, writing in the New Re- public (which also has an editorial supporting his views) accuses the Soviet Union of following the policy of Carist imperialism. The Trotzkyite sheet in its seeth< |ing hatred of the Soviet Union writes: “Goebbels has already broadcasted throughout bleeding Germany that the Soviet Union has formed a technical military alliance with the thoroughly hated France against the German people. And thus the last drop of revolutionary blood is drained from the veins of the German workers. This is the final stab in the back.” There is not the slightest differ- ence between Goebbels broadcast |ing and the Trotzkyite slanders | against the Soviet Union. But the | Trotzkyite’s hopes are not being re« |alized. The .peace policy of the | Soviet Union has become one of the \ greatest factors intensifying the | Nazi crisis, increasing the favorable |situation for a revolutionary over- throw of the fascist dictatorship. . . For all the verbal destruction of the Communist Party by the Trotzkyites, we find today that the Communist Party of Germany is recognized as the greatest, most powerful, living revolutionary force leading the fight for the overthrow of the fascist dictatorship. After tha Trotzkyite sheet has to its own sat isfaction seen the “last drop of rev- olutionary blood drained” in Ger- many, we turn to the latest cable from Germany by the capitalist news correspondent, Tom Wilhelm, International News Service Staff | Correspondent (June 21) and read: “The ‘second revolution,’ if and when it comes, will be aimed at the capitalist classes, those who take the pessimistic view of the situation believe. These observers cite the increasingly turbulent ac- tivities, of the Communists as in- dication of the growing gravity of the internal situation.” Now what are the facts about the Soviet’s present peace policy? The Soviet Union has grown and be- come a tremendous power through Socialist construction. It has be- come a gigantic power for peace, and for a revolutionary peace policy. The imperialist powers are rushing to war, but not at an even pace, not with the same ends or for the same purposes. The antagonisms between the imperialist powers deepen. Ger= man fascism wants a war immedi- ately to overthrow the Versailles peace ‘boundaries, to re-establish the empire of the Kaiser and to gain new territories at the expense of the Soviet Union. Japanese im- perialism has already perfected its war machine against the Soviet Union in Manchuria. British im- Pperialism supports both the Nazis and Japan in their aims for imme- diate war. In this situation the Soviet. Union makes security pacts and proposes @ permanent peace conference. The ; Security pacts while made with France and the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugo-Slavia, countries which exist by virtue of the boundaries fixed by Versailles) do not exclude universal pacts. * posted poz. this mean that these capi- talist countries who enter into the pacts are any less capitalist. or imperialist? Of course, not. It is only that these governments are not interested in the forcible revision of the Versailles Treaty or in the launching of war at the present moment. In the present world situa- tion the Soviet peace deeds act as an effective monkey wrench thrown into the war machinery of the most war-like, the most war-mad of the imperialist powers. The Soviet Union is defending the proletarian revolution, the interests of world peace, and obstructing the criminal imperialist powers whose interests, im the present conjuncture of events, require an immediate at- tempt to save them from their doom. “There is no question,” Lityinoff declared, “of military alliances, or of the division of states into mutu- ally hostile camps, or still less of a policy of encirclement. We must not create universal pacts which would exclude any state wishing to Participate. .. .” The Soviet peace policy is in the interest of all toiling humanity, and not as Goebbels and the Trotzkyites say in the interest of French im- perialism, This fact is being under- stood by the German masses and the toilers throughout the world, the toilers who are taking up tha revolutionary fight against their own imperialists, following the path of the proletarian dictatorship in striving to overthrow their own | capitalist governments and make forever impossible a new imperialist war, or by their anti-war actions now preparing to transform any imperialist war into a successful civil war and a victorious revolution, ———————E