The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY. JUNE 30, 1934 Daily »>QWorker |Smash the Lynch Verdict! | Hitler Fails to JOWVRAL COGAN CONAINNST PARTY 1.6.4 (SECTION OF COMMMOMIST MITEREATONAET “America’s Oniy Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 3 E. 18th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Dable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥. Washington Burer Room 954, National Mth and F St., Washington, D. C. Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room Telephone: Dearborn 3931, Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx) $ months, $3.50; 3 mi $2.00; 1 month, Manhattan, Bronx, and Cnnada § months, $5.00; 3 $00. Weekly, monthly, Press Building, 705, Chesgo, Hl. $6.00 $9.00: By Carrier: 78 cents. SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1934 Mr. Roosevelt, the Answer % is No! FTER one year of the “New Deal,” Roosevelt puts the question, “Has it aided you?” This is a bold trick. It is an attempt to hypnotize the masses who are swiftly discovering in their daily experience what the New Deal means into a feeling of im- provement through a seemingly confident, candid manner. It is the trick of a quack who thinks he will cure @ cancer by a bright bedside manner. a Well, let us answer this demagogue’s question. at oF Today the average worker’s family has to pay 20 per cent more for milk, 16 per cent more for bread, 20 to 75 per cent more for clothes, and at least 20 per cent more for daily necessities than before Roosevelt began to jack up prices through the N.R.A. and inflation. Every working class family is eating less food, or getting along on poorer quality food thanks to Roosevelt's rising price program. And this means that in the last twelve months, every single pay envelope of the working class has received an actual, indirect slash of 15 to 20 per cent. In answer to Roosevelt's question, every work- ing class family of the country can roar back, “Mr. Roosevelt, you are robbing us and our chil- dren of milk and food through your N.R.A.-New Deal.” Woes did the miners get out of Roosevelt's New Deal? Bullets, a slave N.R.A. Code that sanc- ‘tions speed-up, and wage cuts. What did the steel workers get? An open shop N.R.A. Code, wage cuts and strike-breaking. They got the Weirton decision which openly proclaims that the companies can fasten company unions on the men, and can ignore the unions chosen by the steel workers. Thanks to Roosevelt, the impoverished, small farmers today have to pay 50 to 100 per cent more for machinery, clothes, fertilizer, oil, and manu- factured goods. The spread between farm prices and manufactured goods is steadily widening, catching » the small farmers in the deadly “scissors.” Roosevelt's A.A.A. program is driving hundreds of thousands of small, tenant farmers off the land. Roosevelt leaves the mase of drought-stricken farmers to the horrors of the blight of nature. Roosevelt boasts that unemployment fell. That 4s true. But it fell as a result of the vicious “spread- | work” plan of the N.R.A. codes which only spread misery through slashing wages and dividing starva- tion equally among the working class. The Darrow Teport definitely proved that the N.R.A. “is only a method of spreading the available work,” reduc- ing the wage level. * OOSEVELT chides the “timid critics,” that is the Republicans for not appreciating what he -has done. He says in effect, “You scold me, you call the New Deal Communism. But, you fools, don’t you see that I am a better defender of capi- talism than you, that I have succeeded in putting over on the masses what Hoover could never get “*> away with because he was too dumb to know how to trick the masses.” Yes, indeed, Roosevelt is shrewder than Hoover, and a more effactive tool of Wall Street at the present period when the masses are awakening to the rottenness of the Wall Street rule. Thanks to the “New Deal,” Wall Street, as the Darrow report proved, has tightened its monopoly grip, has maintained its huge profits at the expense of the whole population, with the active assistance of the Roosevelt government. Stock market broker- ‘age houses showed a profit of almost one billion dollars, wheat and stock speculators cleaned up more than at any time since the balmy days of the Coolidge “boom.” Under Roosevlet, the Wall Street rich get richer ‘and the masses become poorer. * * . jOOSEVELT’S optimistic verbiage is an attempt to make the masses forget what the Darrow Yeport contained. It is an attempt to fill their empty stomachs with hot air in the hope that the inevitable explosion of mass hatred for the Wall Street exploiters will be postponed. “Aren’t you better off?” Roosevelt asks. The vast majority of the people are answering Roosevelt with an unmistakable “NO!” The record- breaking strike wave, the mass struggles in Toledo. Minneapolis, ’Frisco, New Orleans answer “NO.” The mass demonstrations of the impoverished farmers against the mortgage sharks answer with & roaring “NO!” The millions of jobless workers who face the brutal callousness of the Government Relief Boards and Welfare Agencies answer “No!” And the steel workers, the coal miners, the rail- Yoad workers and longshoremen, these workers who feed the fires of industry and carry the weight of the Wall Street government on their backs, they answer “No,” as they look at their shriveled pay envelopes, their intensified exploitation under the NRA. In their daily fights with the employers, the merican working class is discovering that the It government, as a capitalist government, , heir enemy and the friend and agent of the . exploiters, They are learning that in to destroy the miseries of unemployment, rrors of wage slavery and exploitation, they nust destroy the capitalist system and the Wall es dictatorship which is masked by the fraud Save the Scottsboro Boys! 46{JJE FIND no error to reverse.” With this cynical statement, the Ala- bama Supreme Court on Wednesday once more sustained the monstrous lynch ver- dicts against Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, two of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. This infamous decision occurs on the background of an upsurge of strike and unem- ployed si les throughout the country, of in- creasing unity and militancy of Negro and white workers in the fight against starvation, lynch terror and the fascist attacks under cover of the “New Deal.” It follows on the heel of the decision of the Georgia Supreme Court upholding the virtual sen- tence of death of 18 to 20 years on the chain gang against Angelo Herndon, heroic Negro organizer of Atlanta unemployed workers. The sinister intent of both decisions is to throw terror into the ranks of the whole toiling population, North and South, and particularly of the Negro masses moving for- ward into struggle against imperial oppression. In its decision, the high tribunal of the Alabama capitalists and landlords defends the fame-up of Negro youth by the lower lynch courts, the viola- tion of the constitutional rights of the Negro people, the open appeal by prosecutor and trial judge to the prejudice and passions of an all-white boss jury, the murderous lynch incitement carried on by prosecuting officials and judge within the Decatur court at the trial last Fall of Patterson and Norris. * . * HE Alabama Supreme Court upholds the Ku Klux jurist, Judge Callahan, in his overruling of the defense motion of the International Labor Defense to squash the indictments because of the violation of the constitutional rights of the defendants and the Negro people generally through the exclusion of Negroes from the grand jury which indicted, and the petit juries which tried the boys. It admits the fact that Negroes have been ex- cluded from juries in Jackson County, <Ala., but pretends that this is no proof of systematic exclu- sion of Negroes from juries. It raises the chauvin- ist argument that of the 666 Negroes of legal age in Jackson County, not one was qualified to fulfill the “sacred trust” of an Alabama juror. The Alabama ruling class lynchers have once more decreed the legal massacre of the nine Scottsboro boys. They have set a new date, August 31, for the burning in the electric chair of the nine innocent Negro boys. Wednesday's decision in the case of Patterson and Norris af- fects the lives of all nine of the boys. This monstrous attempt to carry through the legal murder of the Scottsboro boys, in the face of the overwhelming proof of their innocence, admitted even by Judge Horton, lynch jurist who presided at the first Decatur trial, must arouse the indignation of every worker and of every sincere fighter against lynching. Answer the lynchers with a thunder of protest and with immediate contributions to the Interna- tional Labor Defense to enable it to carry forward the fight for the lives of these innocent victims of capitalist justice. Rush protests to the Alabama Supreme Court and Gov. B. M. Miller, both of Montgomery, Ala., and to President Roosevelt. Demand the immedi- ate, unconditional and safe release of the Scotts- boro Boys! Send funds at once to the I. L. D. to enable it to prepare and carry through the appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court. eee Painters! Vote for the Rank and File Candidates! IKE a house built on sand, Philip Zausner’s campaign against the rank and file candidates in the Brotherhood of Painters is cracking and falling to pieces. Votes in the union locals in support of the rank and filers and against the pres- ent corrupt Zausner leadership have brought great pressure to bear against the General Executive Board of the Brotherhood. Indeed, pressure of the supporters of the rank and file candidates has been so great that the General Executive Board has refused to revoke the charter of Local 499 as demanded by Zausner and his understrappers on District Council 9. This move was made by Zausner in an attempt to halt all criticism against his racketeering and class collaboration policies and to get Louis Wein- stock, rank and file candidate for secretary-treas- urer and member of Local 499, out of the way before the elections which take place today. Zausner aimed at clearing the way of all obstacles so that he could walk back into the office of Secretary- Treasurer. Zausner had charged that Local 499 had “vilified orally and in writing and slandered officers and members of the Brotherhood and of New York District Council 9.” This “vilification” consisted of oral and written exposure of the fact that Zausner was a former boss painter, that his interests were not with the workers, that he hired men below the union: scale, that he used union funds to hire gangsters to smother the voice of the rank and file. In reply to Zausner’s demand for the expulsion of Local 499, Charles E. Swick, General Secretary Treasurer, in a letter written June 27th, said: “T have been instructed to notify District Council 9 and Local Union 499 that the request is not granted.” The rank and file won another victory. But greater victories lie ahead. Zausner has been defeated in the preliminary skirmishing. He must be defeated again today at the polling places. Painters can end the corrupt Zausner rule in the Brotherhood and win rank and file leadership and full union democracy by voting for the rank and file candidates. Vote for: Louis Weinstock, for secretary-treasurer. Frank Wedl, for business agent. L, J. Stevens, for business agent. Join the Communist Party i 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N, Y. i Please send me more information on the Commu- nist Party. | | of us.” | difficult situation was shown by | the prominent announcement End Rift In| | Nazi Groups| |Bleody Conflicts Loom | | As Top Leaders | Sharpen Attacks BERLIN, June 29.—Hitler’s ef-/| forts to stem the growing rift | between the Steel Helmet, mon- | | archist veterans’ organization, and | the Nazi Storm Troops is failing. | A tense situation was created to- | day by statements of leaders of | the Storm Troops that the Steel Helmets must be dissolved. The situation is such now that a series | | of bloody clashes are imminent | between these two armed groups which united to bring Fascism | into power. All leaves of apsence for the Prussian police force were can- | celled today in view of the grow- | ing tension and the fear of serious outbreaks, The sharpening of all conflicts between German Fascism and other imperialist powers was shown by the reaction of the Nazis to Secretary of State Cordell Hull’s note protesting against the mora- torium on payments of foreign | debts. Rudolph Hess, minister without portfolio in the fascist Cabinet, closest advisor of Hitler, threatened a campaign of dump- ing of German goods on the world | markets in retaliation for any measures that may be taken by Britain or the U. 8S. against the moratorium. While the rift in the lower ranks | of both the Steel Helmets and the Storm Troopers intensifies to the point of open armed clashes, Vice- Chancllor von Papen and General von Blomberg both issued state- ments attempting to create the impression that harmony exists in the ruling camp of the fascists. Von Papen called for full confi- dence in Hitler. General von Blomberg declared, “The military attitude has preme- ated the whole nation and its leadership. Pacifism has been van- quished. The military power of the state has become one.” He added that the army was standing behind President von Hindenburg and Hitler, “who came from our ranks and will always remain one Evidence of the Nazis rapid preparation for war in the present in the official Nazi Voelkischer Beo- bachter that Hitler yesterday vis-- ited the huge Krupp munition works at Essen. Heretofore facts of this nature were kept secret. Vets To March in Yorkville Against Fascist Terrorism WESL Launches Nation- Wide Fight for Graef and Thaelmann NEW YORK.—The National Ex- ecutive Committee of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League is launch- ing a National Campaign for the freedom of Hugo Graef, Secretary of the International Association of Veterans, who is held a prisoner in one of the Nazi camps. Hugo Graef attended the W.E.S.L. Convention in 1932 and addressed meetings of veterans and other German workers in New York and other cities, This campaign is part of the campaign against the German Nazis and the development of fas- cism in America. The Ex-servicemen’s League and all veterans will mobilize Monday, July 2, 1934, at 86th St. and Lexington Ave. in the city- | deputies. WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE by Limbach GrowingRevolt ports made to Nazi storm. troop leaders and the Hitler Youth or- ganization, which have been inter- cepted, tell of the growing dissatis- | faction and angry mood of the rank and file of the storm troops. One such report to an O.S.A.F. (supreme leader of the storm troopers) says, for instance: The Awakening of the Storm Troopers “From reports and verbal com- munications I learn that here and there attempts are made to under- mine the militant spirit of the 8. A. Wrong treatment of the storm ing of Thaelmann, Graef and others now held under the Nazi terror. This is the headquarters of Nazi propaganda in New York, and all vets are urged to give their help in the anti-fascist fight by attending the 86th St. meeting. ie. GAG Legion officials in Minneapolis are again trying to deputize their mem- bers against the strikers. Although they state that they are “neutral” they tell their members “it’s all right with us if members want to make a $5 bill’—that is, by becoming The rank and file an- swered not only by refusing, but) supported the strikers. Pico acca. New York Supporters Groups of the veterans have been organized and are announcing a “Garden Party” Saturday night, at 69 E. 3rd St., Post 191 Haedquarters. They 3promise a lot of surprises and a real good time. All veteran sup- porters are urged to send their names and addresses to Room 523, BERLIN (By Mail)—Official re- | Storm.” 799 Broadway, care of Veterans wide demonstrations for the Free- Supporters Committee. inStorm Troops | troopers, incapable leaders in the | lower ranks, too much duty, silly scolding or stupid shouting in the | voughest manner of the barrack bosses, who rule more autocratically | than before, hunting for positions, miserable wages are bound to cor- rupt the best spirit and to give opportunities to dishonest elements, stool-pigeons and other scoundrels to incite and to mislead the honest storm trooper.” ‘The lower leaders of the S. A. give a picture of the true situation: “Our ‘storm’ consists of 175 men, but only 100 are in the rank and file. The others have excuses, pre- sent medical certificates or slips for overtime. Thirty per cent at the ut- most are convinced Nazis. Great dissatisfaction about the continuous collections of money, the low wages and the deportation to the country as farm hands. The population is) not favorable to us, being still com- munistically inclined.” “Two storm tyoopers,”” reports an- other, “brought’'a ‘Rote Fahne’ to the meeting place of the storm, which they had received by mail. The paper went from hand to hand, and the contents were eagerly dis- cussed. Some expressed their} opinion by saying: ‘In many things, | the Communists are right.’ An- other one demanded that the paper be given to the lower leader of the A third one writes: “It is possible that very rapidly, there will spring up resistance, a revolt, As soon as the workers of one or more big factories take ac- tion on account of the worsening of the working conditions, that might happen very quickly. Will the Com- munists then take the leadership? It would be desirable. In case of a revolutionary crisis at least one- third of my storm would go over to the Communists. Only, one-fifth at Nazi Official Reports Relate) 25)Protest U.S, Aid To Canton Gov't Provocateurs Fail at Mass Meeting NEW YORK.—A successful meet- ing of about 250 American and Chi- nese workers was held Sunday af- ternoon, corner Mott and Bayard Sts., under the joint auspices of the Ex-Servicemen’s League and the Chinese Anti-Imperialist Alliance. The police attempted to break up the meeting by ordering it to move on, but the workers refused. The Kuomintang paper, “The Nation- alist Daily,” had special provoca- teurs assigned to break up the} meeting. They threw bags of water and set off fire-crackers under the speakers’ stand and among the au- dience, but to no avali. The work- ers refused to be intimidated. NAZIS RECAPTURE PRISONER BERLIN, June 29.—A political prisoner named Otmar, who re- cently escaped from his prison at Oelsnitz, after strangling the chief Guard, was recaptured near Dres- den. One of the two prisoners whom he released on his way out has been wounded it was an- nounced, . * . BRAZILIAN REBELLION RIO DE JANEIRO, June 29.—The | government Tuesday announced | that it had “put down” a rebellion in Bahia, although it had re- peatedly denied the existence of a rebellion. the utmost would fight.” This situation led to a reorganiza- tion undertaken in the beginning of May, because it was found that “the lower units were imperfectly penetrated by the ideas of National- Socialism.” o Writes History of Rise to Power of Hitler ER the title “From the Kai- |U serhof to the Office of the Chan- cellor,” chief Nazi poison propa- gandist Goebbels has published his diary notes from January, 1932, to April, 1934, These notes show many symptoms of later formulation, and are in no way an objective presenta- tion of this period. Goebbels points out himself that they do not pre- tend to be that. The truth has been co-ordinated to the present day re- quirements of the Nazis, In spite of this, the book is an important document for the history of the struggle between revolution and counter-revolution in Germany. The book is of special value for the so- cial-democratic workers and for all those who were openly hostile to or without understanding of the policy of the Communist Party during those years. Goebbels presents a plenitude of details from the great struggle be- tween Fascism and Communism. It is clear from the picture of these fights how only the policy of the Socialist leaders opened the road to the rise of fascism and its taking of power. In relating these events, Goebbels underlines again and again that without the social-democracy the national-socialists would never have come to power—that, if the Communists had succeeded in real- izing the united front of the work- ing class, not fascism, but Commu- nism would have been the victor. Especially in the reports of the de- cisive weeks of June, 1932, there is clearly expressed the fear of the great revolutionary, anti-fascist movement. When reading Goebbels’ reports of his journeys through the Ruhr dis- trict, through Westphalia and Thu- ringia, the struggles which were , fought by the working class, with great self-sacrifice, under the lead- ership of the Communist Party are recalled. We read there passages like the following: “It is a wonder we passed. at all and uninjured.” ‘When leav- ing, we were persecuted by a bom- bardment of stones.” “The trip to Duesseldorf is connected with danger and difficulties.” “In Elberfeld, the red press called the mob on the street. The streets leading to the station are completely barred.” “My own home town I must leave like a very bad criminal. Persecuted by curses, derision and insults, stoned and spat on.” About Thuringia, Goebbels says: “And now we leave Weimar. Dur- ing a whole hour, Communist dem- onstrators pass by marching. We are constantly shaking for fear that we might be recognized.” ‘Today, Goebbels still thinks with horror on this anti-fascist mass movement under the leadership of the Communist Party. It is a de- liverance from horror and distress when he relates the cowardice of the social-democratic leaders whom he showers ungratefully with de- vision and sarcasm. About the mem- orable days of July, 1932, Goebbels writes: “The general strike is a terrible weapon. One cannot fight against it with machine guns and bay- onets.” A few pages further on: “If the worker knew how strong he would be if united, nobody would be able to deny him his right to live. The working class is always defeated only by its own weakness.” In spite of all bombastic self- praise, from all reports of Goebbels emanates the fear of the Commu- nist offensive, only drowned by joy over the capitulation of the social- democratic leaders. Triumphantly, Goebbels writes: transportation workers. As the cat does not give up catching mice, Marxism does not abstain from stabbing in the back.” * F NO less importance are the re- ports which Goebbels furnishes about the internal political events during this period of time, concern- ing the part which was played by Bruening, von Papen and Schlei- cher. In these questions, there were always the sharp contrasts between the Communist Party and the So- cial-Democratic Party, there was the dispute within the working class. The Communists declared to the working class that on account of the situation of German capi- talism, of the sharpening of the class struggle and the rise of the revolutionary movement the Bruen- ing government was nothing else than “the government for the prep- aration of the fascist dictatorship.” The leaders of the social-democracy stormed against this, backed up Bruening, labelling his as “the last bulwark” against the fascist dicta- torship. Goebbels relates the inti- mate collaboration of Bruening and Hitler, the working together which was already very close in 1932. And no other than General Schleicher, the “social general” of the Social- Democratic Party in Germany, was already in 1932 the go-between of Hitler, the spy of the Nazi who in- formed them about all plans, de- liberated with them and took orders from Hitler. Goebbels’ book clar- ifies the part played by Schleicher. Schleicher was a man indulging in feverish activity to clear the road for fascism. The decisive question was not at all whether Hitler should come to power. In this question, they all were unanimous, beginning with Bruening. Decisive above all was how to avoid an uprising of the workers. That is why the de- Goebbels Tells How Socialist Chiefs Aided Fascism Feared Communists and United Front of the Workers to fulfill successfully its task “to keep down the working class, to hinder the proletarian revolution.” That is why Bruening, who pre- pared the fascist dictatorship, was presented as patron of democracy, and the general of fascism, Schlei- cher, as a “social general.” Goebbels’ reports underline the correctness of the estimates of the Communist Party of the situation in Germany. Without knowledge of the internal events unveiled now by Goebbels, the leadership of the Communist Party had correctly characterized the situation and had shown to the working class the only correct road. That is not new in itself, but interesting just the same, to find it confirmed by a glance behind the stage. Bruening’s demission, Bracht as State Commissioner of Prussia, Papen as chancellor, all this was a prearranged game in which Schlei- cher was one of the most important aids for Hitler. That he himself became chancellor and played the part of the “social general,” was caused by the fact that the working class, especially the strike of the Berlin transportation workers, which had been organized by the Revolu- tionary Trade Union Opposition, had spoiled the plans of all these gen- tlemen. In all these reports about the propaganda, conferences, and so forth, it is worth while noting how the anti-fascist mass movement intervened again and again and blew over the plans of the fascists of all shades. The whole “rise to power of the Nazis” is presented by Goebbels himself as a miserable act | @ review of the chief German fas- | ing its struggle against imperialist of bartering, disturbed by contrgdic- tionary special interestsion, ve steadier Te meee “The social-demoerr djiias be- trayed the strike of AQ@ Berlin L gee velopment ard fascist. dictator- ip went o ves. s0 the So- 4l-Demor ~* “ld be able by th On the World Front By HARRY GANNES Italian Severings N ASSOCIATED PRESS dispatch which entirely escaped us, because it wag printed in an obscure corne?} of one paper in New York in order not to embarrass Nor: man Thomas & Co., has been called to our attention by a worker correspondent. Dated Milan, Italy, June 20th, it reads: “Former leaders of the Italian Socialist Party were reported in informed quarters today to have met recently in Modena and voted approval of the fascist regime of Premier Benito Mussolini. “Nothing was published regard- ing the meeting, but it is known that one of the lcaders, <milio Caldara, who was Socialist Mayor of Milan from 1913 to 1919, and under whom Mussolini started a Socialist newspaper, was received several days ago by the Premier.” In today's Daily Worker we print cist Propagandist, Goebbels’ diary, in which he relates the valuable aid rendered by the Socialist leaders in the rise of fascism. Later on we Will publish a review and quotations from “The Berlin Diaries,’ by Gen- eral X., identified by the New York Times as General von Seeckt, show- | ing the treacherous and betraying» | history of the Social-Democratio leaders in their support of Bruening, | von Papen and Schleicher in the preparation for the fascist dictator- ship in Germany. A more sordid | story of shameless betrayals of the | working class, as related from one who acted for the top group of the eee capitalists, has seldom been told. ae) “Quiet” in Sarajevo IARAJEVO, Yugoslavia, on Juné 28th, where 20 years ago the assassination of the Archduke Fran- cis Ferdinand and his wife, was the signal for the unleashing of the last imperialist world war, was quiet on the twentieth anniversary, declared cable dispatches to capi- talist papers in New York. That “quiet,” however, does not pervade the capitalist world. Hun- dreds of new Sarajevos are boiling over. All of the imperialist bandits are plunging to a new slaughter that will make the last appear as a dress rehearsal. Today every im- perialist contradiction is at fever heat, On the anniversary of Sar ajevo, the British announced they would double their air force. The day after, Roosevelt concluded his radio broadcast with the declaration that the American soldiers were fighting “For god’s country,” with the definite implication that they would soon be called on again to Spill their blood for Morgan, the god Roosevelt had in mind. Jap- anese, British and American naval experts are meeting in secret, jockeying for leading position in naval arms. German fascism, with the support of Britain, has armed for war, and in the threatening catastrophe of fascism, they are 4 plunging to war against the Soviet > Union. Mussolini has openly de | clared that the world must have f new bloodbath. Advice to Fascists | UT 20 years after, Sarajevo sees | the world proletariat intensify- . k war, and the war makers. The Sov- jet Union has become a mighty force for peace, throwing powerful obstacles in the path of the impers } ialist powers in their drive to war. | This is the period of a new round of wars and revolutions, revolu- tions and wars. Twenty years after Sarajevo, world capitalism is in the throes of the worst crisis in its his- tory which it is seeking to solve by @ new criminal imperialist war, but at the same time the struggle of the working masses against capi- talism and its drive to fascism and war is rising to tremendous heights, The Socialist betrayers who drove the toiling masses into the last world war have led the workers into | the bloody hands of fascism as in | Germany and Austria, making it | more difficult for them to serve | their imperialist masters in the ) present war maneuvers, \ . Tt perspective 20 years after | Sarajevo is brilliantly described by Karl Radek, writing in “Tzvestia,” | official organ of the Soviet governs ment: by “But this game (of drive to- wards an imperialist war) will have a more disastrous end for them than the game they played before the last world war,” he writes. “If the masters of fascist black magic do succeed in bring- ing about a war, it will be a world) war in which the imperialist powers will smash their own ,“ strength, already weakened by the developments of recent years. “And if the first world war | ended with the establishment of \ the first Republic of Soviets, then a new world war will inevitably Jead to the victery of the prole- tariat in many more lands. “Let the gentlemen in the war offices and in the chancellories and in the banks try not to repeat the deed of Sarajevo, for this time the bomb will explode right in their own hands.” | | SPAIN PEASANTS SENTENCED CADIZ, Spain, June 29.—The famous Casas Viejas massacre was revived Tuesday when 2 inhabitants of the resolute village were sen- tenced to imprisonment for from one to six years for the death of a sergeant and one constable when the government sent troops to put down an insurrection in the town. Only one man, Capt. Rojas, has been sentenced for the needless massacre of the defenders of the village, it was recalled today, al- though documents proving the re- sponsibility of high government of- ficers were. *e*4 aloud in the Cor- ® tributed to theme