The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 6, 1934, Page 6

Daily -QWorker Gowen Comes COMMEHIST PARFT ESA (SECTION OF COMMUMIST ITEREATIONRE? “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7954. York, N. ¥ Cable Address: “Daiwork Washington Bureay léth and F &t., V Midwest Bureau: Telephone: Dearb Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan 6 months, $3.50; 3 Manhattan, Bronx, 6 months 3 By Ci FRIDAY, JULY 6, Defend the Pacific Coast Workers by Strike Action! PEEDY and decisive mass support is needed NOW for the splendidly or- ganized, militantly led and determined struggle of the 30,000 Pacific Coast ma- rine transport workers—longshoremen, seamen, firemen, engineers, masters, mates and pilots, truckers and waterfront truck drivers. The massing of the forces of local, state and federal government against the strikers calls for quick and united action by the entire labor movement. The situation is as follow 1. For two months the strike—headed by a rank and file committee of 50, five from each of the ten unions involved—has tied up marine transport in the principal ports. The employers have stubbornly resisted the de- mands of the workers for higher wages, better working conditions and union recognition. 2. The strikers rejected the terms of a proposed settlement which would have split their ranks and sent the longshoremen back to work under com- plete company domination. These terms were pro- posed jointly by Joseph P. Ryan, head of the Inter- national Longshoremen’s Association, and the em- ployers. 3. President Roosevelt's “Labor Relations” Board has insisted, and continues to insist, that the strik- ers go back to work without any guarantees and submit their demands to “arbitration.” Roosevelt's poard makes this demand on the strikers right at the time that Governor Merriam of California has mobilized the National Guard against the strikers, and in the face of armed attacks on strikers and pickets by 1,000 professional gunmen and police co- operating with the organization of the waterfront employers—the strikebreaking Industrial Associa- tion. The Roosevelt Board is composed of Archbishop Hanna, a prelate with a penchant for strikebreak- ing; Edward McGrady, Assistant Secretary of La- bor, whose strikebreaking and red-baiting activities in the New York garment industry and in the Pennsylvania coal fields are notorious, and O. K. Cushing, former attorney for the Spreckels sugar interests. Governor Merriam has ordered the Harbor Commissioner to operate the Harbor Belt Line railway—closed by the strike—at all costs The regular crews have refused to run trains. The Railway Brotherhood lodges in the Bay counties have refused to supply additional crews. The authorities are now trying to operate this strategic waterfront railway with National Guardsmen and Police. 5. In Seattle, where all Alaska shipping is tied up by the strike, Secretary of the Interior Ickes has threatened to operate ships with strikebreakers directly under government control. He has not offered to grant the strikers demands. 6. Four strikers have been killed by the police and hired gunmen; scores have been gassed, clubbed ‘and jailed. 1. The strike is effective in the following cities— Vancouver, Seattle, Bellingham, Everett, Tacoma, Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Vancouver (Wash.), Portland, Astoria, Eureka, San Francisco, Oakland, San Pedro, San Diego and Los Angeles. Many lumber mills and pulp and paper plants have been shut down; some by sympathetic strikes, some by the tie-up of transportation. Only in Los Angeles have the companies suc- ceeded in recruiting and working any considerable mumber of scabs. The Los Angeles scabs for the most part are bankrupt businessmen, ruined real estate sharks, etc. 8. The unemployed, organized in the Unemploy- ment Councils, have been a big factor in the strike. Not only have they refused to scab but they turn out on the picket lines, assist in the collection of Telief and defense funds, ete. 9. The striking unions include those affiliated to the American Federation like the I.L.A., the International Seamen’s Union, truckers and truck drivers; the Marine Workers Industrial Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League; and independent unions. It is this united front character of the strike and its leadership that accounts for the splendid solidarity shown. It is this feature of the strike, presaging the rise of a militant and powerful waterfront feder- ation on the Pacific Coast, which the Roosevelt “Labor Relations” Board, the Industrial Association, and the local and State governments are trying to destroy. 10. The strikers early adopted the ‘Western Worker,’ published by the California District of the Communist Party, as their official strike organ. 11. The Communist Party and its members in the various striking unions have great influence. It has contributed greatly to the united front move- ment, to the effective strike strategy and tactics, It has acted as a real leading and unifying force. 12. The reactionary labor officialdom of the San Francisco Central Labor Council, closely connected with the machines of the Democratic and Repub- lican parties, denounced the Communists and started a red-baiting campaign designed to split the strike ranks, especially intended to isolate the longshore- men’s union. A majority of the delegates, however, refused to endorse or take part in the red-baiting and expulsion drive backed by the Industrial Associa- tion, the officials of the American Legion, the State authorities and the various fascist and semi-fascist organizations. 13. The Communist Party and the united front strike committee are the main targets of attack by the employers, the government and the whole crew of patrioteers with which California, especially, is infested. 14. The organized and official character of the drive for hounding and suppressing the Commu- nist Party, its leaders and supporters is seen from the following, published in the Los Angeles Times, June 30, quoting State Director of Finance Vander- grift’s address to a session of the State Crime Problems Advisory Boards ¢ ( (ines “The time has come when we should recog- nize Communism as 3 State problem. It would be weli for this committee to cooperate with these other groups Jgroups organized to combat Com- munism{ tolearn the full extent of the inroads of Communism in our State and to take such steps as may be necessary to combat it.” TI State official makes the direct proposal for the joint action of the State authorities with the fascist amd semi-fascist bands used against the workers by California capitalists, 15. In of all efforts on the part of the employers the at es—attempted disrup- tion, use of the “red scare,” the massing of armed forces and nuous assaults on the union mem- bers and 's, the strike ranks remain solid. 'HE Pacific Coast strike is potent with vast and favorable consequences for the entire labor movement. Its victory will give a huge impetus to militant organization, united action and effective struggle against the whole Roosevelt program of hunger wages, company unionism, suppression of workers by fascist methods, and imperialist war. Its victory will give the greatest encouragement to the increasing will of workers to elect their own leadership and cast aside the bureaucrats who try to strangle all struggles. The defeat of this splendid effort of 30,000 workers by the employers and their government would be a severe blow to the whole labor move- ment. This must not be allowed to happen. Solidarity actions in support of the Pacific Coast strikers should be organized in all main industrial centers—but especially in the Gulf and Atlantic Coast ports. Preparations for strikes leading to a general strike of longshoremen and all marine workers should be begun at once in all these ports, It is necessary to give the widest publicity to the strikebreaking part played by Roosevelt’s “La- bor Relations” Board—especially in all waterfront unions. The facts are so plain that they admit of no misunderstanding. The Roosevelt administration is today en- gaged on the Pacific Coast—a strategic war sector in view of the imperialist conflicts in the whole Pacific area and the continuous threat of war against the Soviet Union—in a strikebreaking adventure which overshadows in many respects even the recent anti-union maneuvers of Roose- velt, President Green of the A. F, of L, and Mike Tighe in the steel industry, Not one moment’s consideration is being given to the demands of the striking workers, The strike can be settled tomorrow morning if the demands for union recognition, higher wages and no discrimination against any striker or union are granted. . . * INSTEAD of this, there is the mobilization of National Guardsmen, police and professional gun- men sworn in as deputies against the strikers. The Roosevelt strikebreaking tactics are now standard- ized: First, the attempt to divide the workers’ forces, disrupt their ranks and create confusion by “labor boards,” federal “conciliators,” reactionary union officials, ete. If these contemptible methods fail, then force is used “without stint or limit.” The time has come to call a halt. The time has come to teach the employers and their govern- ment a needed lesson—the lesson that American workers cannot be driven beyond certain limits. The demand for the withdrawal of all troops from Pacific ports must echo from coast to coast. The time has come to prepare the widest pos- sible strike action in support of the Pacific Coast workers—to prepare a general strike. All A. F. of L. unions should be called upon to pass resolutions of sympathy and support—and protest against the use of troops and other armed forces against the strikers, Most of the strikers are members of A. F. of L. The Communist Party has taken the lead on the Pacific Coast in organizing the united front and the sympathetic strikes. It takes the lead in calling for a general strike on the Pacific Coast. The Communist Party takes the lead nationally in calling for general strike preparations in support of the 30,000 Pacific Coast workers—in preparation for a general strike that in all probability will lead to a showdown in regard to the N.R.A. and the onslaughts it inspires upon the working class and its organizations for the benefit of monopoly capital. Send copies of all resolutions of support and news of all sympathetic action to the Western Worker, San Francisco. Forge the weapon of the general strike! LaGuardia Is Responsible s@PHE unemployment situation is not going to be solved by a policeman’s night stick.” This remark is not from the Daily Worker. It is from a speech made in the House of Representatives on December 7, 1932, by one Fiorello La Guardia. Mr. La Guardia was discussing the Second National Hun- ger March at a time when these unemployed work- ers were virtually a captive army within the walls of Washington. The Daily Worker agrees whole-heartedly with that remark of Mr. La Guardia. We are con- strained to point out, however, that Mr. La Guardia preached water and has practiced wine. In an office where he exerts direct executive power, Mr. La Guardia unleashed a reign of terror against the unemployed and employed workers of this city so bloody as to make the Tammany tiger @ purring pussy by comparison. The events of May 26 and 27, the Mayor’s conference with city editors where he asked that they editorially sup- port his reign of terror, his attack on James Gay- nor and other leaders of the unemployed, the beastly torturing of Patsy Augustine, a food worker, by Detectives Francis Watterson and William Don- nell in the Coney Island police station—all are black pages in his record of activity against New York labor. And now there is the case of Jack Schneider. Schneider, a leader of the furriers’ union of this city, was seized in the fur market Tuesday, rushed off to the Coney Island police station, punched and beaten into an unconscious state and finally released for lack of evidence against him. The responsibility for the series of outrageous attacks on labor is on the shoulders of Fiorello La Guardia, chief magistrate of New York City. He cannot evade it. This terror against the workers of New York is the beginning of a fascist encroachment upon all the elementary civil rights of the workers of the largest city in the United States. As such it is of vital importance for workers and all supporters of the struggle for civil rights throughout the country. The La Guardia terror campaign can be de- feated by the unity of the working class. An energetic campaign must be begun in all labor or- ganizations. Resolutions must be adopted. Protest delegations must be organized. Ja Guardia and O’Ryan BOTH must go! S DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1934 “CALIFORNIA HERE WE COME!” | | | revolutionary, Prithvi Singh. \, ARCHBISHOP A HANNA / By Burek Gis | Cable Says Singh Is Near Death in Jail) Indian Revolutionary Was Arrested in Afghanistan NEW YORK —The Anti-Im- perialist League received a radio- gram today from the International Secretariat of the League Against Imperialism, stating that Gurmuk Singh, one of the two Indians held in jail in Afghanistan, is on his deathbed, and calling for an inten- sified campaign to save him. Four national organizations, in- cluding the Anti-Imperialist League, the Trade Union Unity League, the United Council of Working Class Women and the International La- bor Defense, immediately sent a cable to Nadir Khan, King of Afghanistan, demanding the imme- | diate and unconditional release of | Gurmuk Singh and his companion A delegation representing more than 15 organizations and including a number of Indians visited the British and Afghan Consulates in New York on June 20, protesting the brutal treatment of the two Indian revolutionaries and demand- ing their release. The two Indians were arrested on Aug. 7, 1933, by the Afghan guard as they attempted to cross the border into India to continue their activities in the Indian liberation movement. They have been held now for almost a year without hav- ing charges or proceedings brought | against them and have been ac- corded the most brutal treatment | by their jailers. | Paint Slogans Against Imperialism on N. Y. | Monument of Bolivar NEW YORK.—The statue of Bol- ivar, who fought for the liberation of Latin America from Spain, was decorated early this morning, with many militant slogans against na- tive and imperialist oppression. To- day is the anniversary of the “liber- ation,” and ceremonies, at which the president-elect of Colombia will officiate, will take place in commem- oration of this event. These digni- taries and slavish agents of imperi- alism will not fail to pay homage to the Yankee and British imperialists who now enslave the Latin-Ameri- can countries. | plicating Thaelmann and Torgler in An American Commission Inquires Into Nazi Terror By ROBERT HAMILTON (Continued from Page 1) ror ynleashed by the Nazis on the German population is ‘without pjrecedent in the hostory of civi- lized nations.” Rosenfeld points out that there are 6.000 prisoners awainting trial) by the “People’s Court” after Thael- | mann is brought to trial. He adds that there are, according to reliable estimates, about 165,000 political prisoners in the Nazi concentration | camps and jails. He calls the Com-| mission’s attention to the danger| zky, Muehsam, and others if the} facing men like Torgler, von Ossiet- | fight for Thaelmann’s life is not| pressed vigorously. Rosenfeld concludes his testimony with an appeal to the Commission, and to all honest-thinking men and women to stop the Nazi murder wave that threatens Ernst Thael- mann and the thousands of other anti-fascists slated to follow him to the block. Victims of Nazis Speak Rosenfeld is followed io the stand by Walter Orloff, an American medical student, and Paul Gobert, a German worker, both of whom were held in jail for months by the Nazis without the pretense of a trial or a trial or a hearing. Orloff testifies | that was held incommunicado, not being even allowed to notify the American Consul of his arrest. Gobert, a brawny German seaman in a cream-colored shirt open at the neck, reports that he was regularly beaten for weeks in a concentration camp, as the Nazis tried to get him to sign a framed-up statement im-| an alleged secret plot for violence and murder hatched by the German Communist Party. Whenever he refused, he was beaten until he fell unconscious. But tough-muscled workers of Gobert’s sort cannot be “softened up,” as the police call it, by physical violence. After months of this sort of treatment, the Nazis let him go as a bad job. Then he escaped from the country. Mrs. Williams-Ellis, sister of John Strachey, told of her experiences with the Nazi rulers in her en- deavors to see for herself the con- ditions under which political pris- oners were kept by the Nazis. She, too, was subjected to a barrage of cross-fire by members of the Com- mission, but her British accent and her determined manner silenced their implied doubts. Aneurin| Bevan, British Labor member of parliament, a miner from the coal- fields, related what he had seen of Nazi brutality and terror in Ger- many. But the outstanding witness of the two-day hearings, aside from | Dr. Rosenfeld, was Anna Scheer, | widow of John Scheer, Communist | leader shot in January “while at- tempting to escape.” Mrs. Scheer’s testimony. sometimes in a voice quivering with restrained emotion | as she told of her husband’s murder | by the Nazis, and then rising to an| impassioned plea for Thaelmann’s safety, roused the audience to bursts | of cheering. She narrated the story of how the Nazis tortured John Scheer with red-hot iron bars to force him to sign forged affidavits to the effect that Thaelmann and he had plotted a reign of terror throughout Germany, the signal for which was to be the Reichstag fire. | Reading documentary proof in the form of letters and newspaper clippings from the German press, she hammered home the innocence of Ernst Thaelmann and the des- picable efforts of the Nazis to build up a framed case against him. Her biting voice proclaimed the Com- munist position on individual terror and violence, rejecting both and re- lying on aroused and organized mass action for the final victory of the proletariat. As the sole Com- munist witness, Anna Scheer made a dramatic impression on the Com- mission. Demand Thaelmann’s Freedom A little German youngster, seven | years old, who testified under a| false name (with the photographers warned against taking his picture} and who was hurried from the| building after he left the stand, told | of the brutality and discrimination | to which young Jewish school chil- dren were subjected by the Nazi) teachers and the Hitler youth. His} voice barely audible at times, his straightforward evidence profoundly affected both the Commission and the audience. | At the end of the second day’s| hearings, Arthur Garfield Hays read the interim report of the Commis- sion (which was broadcast over the | radio), denouncing the “People’s| Court” as “not courts of justice but of directed condemnation. . .. They serve no purpose except as a pre- tense to a credulous world. ... Mur- der is no less murder when result- ing from a verdict of such a tribunal than when irresponsibly directed by |out two weeks ago. Acting together | i return to barbarism.” any individual. This proposal of General Strike Call Put Out in Chile Raid Communist Party Headquarters in Santiago SANTIAGO, Chile, July 5.—To- | gether with the Communist Party, | the Workers’ Federation here has | joined in a call for a general strike in support, of the present uprising in the Ranquil district which broke with miners, the peasants armed | themselves and demanded relief from the government. Soldiers were sent against the peasants and 50 of them were killed, Official reports here state that 1,400 peasants are carrying on an armed struggle against the the rich landowners. The government charges that Communists are lead- ing the peasant revolt. Police raided the Communist headquarters in Santiago and 350 persons were arrested. When Andres Escobar, Com- munist deputy, attempted to read a telegram declaring that the An- dacollo placer miners, and miners from the Lota coal fields and Val- Paraiso industries declared their support to the rebellious peasants, he was stopped by force. legalized murder shocks the con- science of mankind and suggests a The statement, after referring to Thaelmann’s continued imprison- ment for 16 months on unknown charges, declares that “only the freeing of Thaelmann and others similarly held on such vague grounds can possibly satisfy the de- mand for justice in accordance with established practices in the civilized world.” After this public statement, the Commission adjourned until a fu- ture date, when other important European witnesses will be heard. The outcome of this hearing indi- cates that the movement for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann and the other imprisoned German anti- fascists can be successfully spread to wide circles of the liberal middle- class. The crimes of the Nazi regime can be made a lever to jerk wide circles out of their indifference to the fate of the anti-fascists of Ger- many—they, too, can be mobilized in our fight for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann. Masses Disgusted With Foul Hitler Dictatorship By HARRY GANNES (Continued from page 2) loted for subsidies to the iron, steel, coal and munitions kings, and with 1,500,000 Storm Troopers thrown into the ranks of the unemployed, starvation will be the lot of the mil- lions of newly unemployed. ‘Lack of raw materials, shutting off still further of world markets, will throw hundreds of thousands more out of work. The more desperate the economic crisis, and the narrower the possi- bilities of solving it, even in the eyes of the fascist, the more rapidly they rush to war as the last crim- inal gamble for a way out. Hoarding is going on in full force in Germany, in the face of the threatening inflation which cannot be concealed by the Reichsbank. The gold reserve is nearly depleted. Inflated currency, food tickets have already been printed and will soon descend on the German masses to plague them. This is the real reason for the reign of terror against the former leaders of the petty-bourgeois masses who followed the Nazis. In order to continue to squeeze profits out of the starving masses, the Hitler dictatorship is forced to drop its demagogic mask, and resort to bloodshed against its own duped forces. | masses, instead of driving back the anti-fascist struggles, the discon- tent and dissension, the slaughter had had the effect of whipping up the fury of hatred against fascism. Dozens of reports from Germany prove this; and they do not tell the whole story admittedly. The) latest cable dispatches by the Asso- ciated Press, as well as by individ- ual correspondents of the New York Times and Herald Tribune tell of seething discontent and struggles throughout Germany out- side of Berlin which correspondents are not allowed to report. Espe- cially in Silesia there is serious un- rest and undoubtedly struggles against fascism which cannot break through the iron wall of the fascist | censorship, But here are some general ob- servations that do come through, and in themselves try to soft-pedal the real situation. Frederick T. Birchall, New York Times corre- spondent, on July 5, cabled his paper: “There is without doubt deep and growing resentment over these pitiless executions of their leaders. This feeling is encour- aged by the fact that the Storm Troops do not know just what is going to happen to their organ- ization and are very much upset by their doubts. There is a dis- tinet ‘morning after’ aspect about Whip Up Fury of Hatred. But instead of terrorizing the German sentiment today.” Walter Duranty, another New ‘York Times Berlin correspondent, declares: “It seems increasingly clear that the National Socialist Party in Germany has been cracked and shaken by the events of last week-end. Some foreign observ- ers here go so far as to suggest that it has virtualy ceased to exist as a party in the sense in which it was originally conceived and built up, and that there has been a cardinal shift in the axis of the regime.” “ 4 hes South of Germany shows every signs of a rapidly maturing civil war. Peasant uprisings have already been reported in the South and North, and an Associated Press dispatch from Berlin dated July 5, tells of still greater struggles of the Peasants against the fascist dictat- orship. “The Real Threat.” “Reports of disturbances in Ba- varia and Silesia,” says this cable, “encouraged belief in many circles today that the real threat to Nazi domination will come from country districts if economic adversity con- tinues.” The “real threat,” however, comes from many sources—pri- marily from the proletariat, who first flung down the gauntlet of struggle against the fascist butch- ers recently in the factory council Troopers, from the duped petty- bourgeois followers of fascism, and now we learn from the cap- italist press that the peasantry alone is considered a dire threat to the further existence of fas- cism. The anti-fascist stream is broadening into a mighty, power- ful river that is flooding over its banks, The same A. P. report on the peasants’ condition tells of the drought which intensified their miserable conditions. “There is growing conviction,” it adds, “that agriculturists will before long make a determined protest. Their de- mands might make a serious drain on the flattening treasury reserves.” Besides, we may add, those reserves are already earmarked for the forces behind Hitler, the big bank- ers, industrialists and rich land- owners. The peasants haven’t got a chance. The American capitalist has rec- ognized that the main result of the bloody slaughters in Germany have wiped out Hitler's mass base, and bring the narrowed forces of the ruling gang face to face with the tremendous upsurge of the majority of the population. For example, an editorial in the New York Herald Tribune states: “He (Hitler) has destroyed the machinery through which he ruled the streets and cafes; and | poration, | Morgan trust. * On the World Front By HARRY GANNES —— General Motors on Hitler “Innocent” Standard Oil , When “Taxes” Are Bribes ENERAL MOTORS Corp® ration representatives re- cently had an interview with Butcher Hitler and found him a splendid fellow. This huge Morgan automobile trust, so closely intertwined with the Roosevelt regime through General Johnson, Bernard Baruch, John J. Raskob and Al Smith, can hardly find words glowing enough to praise this fascist fiend. In the June issue of “General Motors World,” a magazine devoted to the overseas operations of this Morgan trust, there is the report of how James D. Mooney, chief ine ternational salesman for the cor was greeted with open arms by Hitler. Then they begin to ladle out the most gushing praise to this slaughterer of the German workers. Mr. Mooney writes his em- ployers in Detroit (just about the time that Roosevelt was helping them break the auto workers’ strike) that he attended a Nazi mass meete ing. & eae «AS HERR HITLER walked to the stand a smal boy stepped into his path; he stopped, smiled, patted the boy’s cheek and started again. The boy held out his hand and the Chancellor stopped again and shook hands. He opened his speech by saying that he wished to report to his people the prog- ress they had made as a nation in the past year. He quoted sta- tistics and reminded them of the many improvements in the Ger- man economy accomplished under his plan for giving every one an opportunity to work to improve his own condition—and thus to restore Germany to her place as a leading nation.” Sin iin OOSEVELT’S New Deal is then compared to Hitler’s program. Mr. Mooney, of course, does not re- late his talk with Hitler about sup- plying war supplies, tanks, motors, military trucks, and credits to help fascism prepare for war against the Soviet Union—at great profit to the eet NOTHER, big Wall Street trust, Standard Oil Co.. also in the June issue of its official magazine “The Lamp,” tries to explain some of its imperialist knavery. Under the title, “An Innocent By- stander in Chaco,” the Rockefeller sheet tries to pose as a much-ma- ligned bystander in the ferocious war between Bolivia and Paraguay of the Gran Chaco region. “The Standard Oil Company has scrupulously endeavored to respect the rights of both sides and keep entirely out of either the politics of military operations involved,” says “The Lamp.” This does not explain why, when Fort Ballican was being pressed hard by the Paraguayan forces, and the Standard Oil inter- ests were threatened, the Bolivians drove 3,000 of their own men to death in order to save Standard Oil property. i ‘ 'HE “innocent” Standard Oil ad mits many things, however. They admit that they have a huge oil concession in Bolivia near the Chaco regions, but deny there is oil in the disputed territory. This may be so, as their surveyors have been all over it. But they omit to men- tion the fact that the huge oil de- posits in Bolivia become a thou- | Sand-fold more valuable if Standard Oil can get its pipe lines laid through Chaco in order to get to the sea. They further admit that they bribed the Bolivian government, though they don’t use the ugly word. They put it this way: “Briefly, under a_ settlement made in 1928, the company ad- vanced the Bolivian government a million bolivianos ($362,978 U. S. currency) in anticipation of fu- ture taxes.... The company made this payment with the under- standing that it entitled it to credit on taxes up to and includ- ing 1936.” Everybody knows, of course, how generous the Standard Oil Co. really is and how willing it pays taxes eight years in advance. What could be greater proof of “innocence?” But the fact remains that x was precisely in 1928 that the StarNerd Oil Co. was provoking Bolivia war with Paraguay. . 8 * oe confession of its guilt in sending Bolivian workers and peasants to their death so that Rockefeller and those Standard Oil could increase their profits is contained in the statement of the Bolivian Ambassador to Washington, who says of the Stand« ard Oil concessions in Bolivia: “It was not profitable to continue the exploitation of its oil fields while, unable to export even a part of its production.” Precisely so. That’s why a war which would help Standard Oil become profitable by exporting its product was so heavily poet by the Rockefeller inter- ests. It is true that Standard Oil is not the only culprit. The Hoover and Roosevelt government, support- ing all the American bankers and oil and tin interests in Bolivia, were in on the deal. Standard Oil hap- pened to be the one who would profit the most by the victory of Bolivia over the puppet government of British imperialism in Paraguay, on Saturday that the delegation of autocratic power to lieutenants, and through them to the rank anid file, to keep sixty-odd million pople forever at salute was really a dissipation of power.” Nor will Hitler's narrowed powet be able to feed the sixty-odd million, The sword having been drawn cannot now be put away, until the ruling butchers themselves are thrust on it by the proletarian revo= elections. It comes from the dis- tented rank and file of the Storm it is unlikely that he wili want to reassemble it, because he earned lution led by the Communist Party of Germany. > | =