The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1934, Page 6

Page Six AL ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, Y 12, 1934 Daily ,QWorker GRETFRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST HETERMAMIONAES “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. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address: Washington Bu 4th and F St. Midwest Bureat Telephone: Dearb: Press Building, 2 705, Cheago, Ti. Subscription Rates: By Mail 6 months, Manhattan, 6 months, (except M $3.50; 3 m Bronx, $5.00; 3 Weekly THURSDAY, JULY 1 Toward General Strikes! IVEN the capitalist pr hide the fact that the class struggle in this country is flaring into open class battles in almost every section of the country. And this hired press cannot hide the fact that the cry of GENERAL STRIKE is sounding all along the vast dock strike now raging on the Pacific Coast. The pr wave of strikes is not series of struggles for pay increases. It is absolutely present strike str ss can no longer merely a essential to understand that the gles are taking on an increasing political character. That is to say, the strikers are coming more and more into conflict with the capitalist state power, the Government. The isolated strikes of the early phase of the crisis have now become mighty movements for gen- eral strikes in entire industries and sections of the country. The fight of one group of strikers is now more and more becoming the fight of whole sections of the working class in that section of the country. The attack on one group of workers in the present stage of the crisis becomes inevitably an attack on all the workers in the industry and section, That is why the movement toward gen- eral strikes is now the vital link in all strike struggles now taking place. Central Committee of the Communist Party, in its report on the current strike situation published in Monday’s Daily Worker, singled out and emphasized precisely this aspect of the present situation as the qualitatively new development in the advance of the struggles of the working class against the Roosevelt Wall Street government. “We see everywhere,” it states, “the increasing role of workers outside the immediate strike in affecting the relation of forces in strikes and their outcome, ... The tendency of workers in various industries in a given community to join in a general strike in a given industry also has its expression in the growth of general strikes of a national character in the same industry.” And the Central Committee emphasizes that the fact that all strikes are now characterized by the struggle for the right to organize and picket, as well as for demands of an economic nature, are symp- toms “of a growing political character of the present strike ,;wave, and their increasing tendency to de- velop into struggles against the capitalist system.” Thus the effort to spread the GENERAL STRIKE is necessary for the defense of the daily economic demands of the workers. The struggle between the employers and the workers who they exploit can no longer be confined to separate, isolated sections. The struggle for bread, for civil rights, becomes now a battle along an immense front covering entire industries and sections of the country. ‘Toward general strikes against the employers and their government! Spread the marine strike! * Destroying Crops IHE country faces the smallest wheat and corn crops in forty years. Both the Roosevelt government and nature have combined to destroy the basic, staple crops upon which the vast majority of the population depend for their sustenance. And of the two destroyers, it is the capitalist Roosevelt government which is the most ruthless, Persistent and deliberate. The drought is one of the unavoidable forces of nature. The social cooperation of society, which is only possible under a Soviet Government which | has destroyed the profit system, can cope with it. But the planned destruction of crops by a gov- ernment in the-interests of keeping prices high in order to maintain profits is only one of the more criminal insanities of the capitalist system and the Street and Chicago speculators are hands in gleeful anticipation of new grains. The wealthier farmers with will make fortunes, ions of small farmers who have been ruined by the Roosevelt acreage reduction program and the drought, as well as the millions of working rl consumers in the cities will pay for this stroying madness in increased hunger and stocks of gra‘ But t at it is the cold-blooded destruction of crops he Roosevelt government which is mainly re- ponsible for the record low crop is admitted by the capitalist press, the New York Times stating today “that more than 50 per cent of the drop in corn is due to the acreage-reduction program.” Can one imagine a more damning indictment of capitalist society, of the capitalist money rulers who live like hideous parasites on the miseries of the people than this planned destruction of food while millions go hungry? Can one conceive of a better reason for smash- ing this insane and criminal rule of the capitalists and their government and establishing a Soviet Government of Workers and Farmers, a govern- ment like the Soviet Union, which strives to increase the amount of food and wealth for the producing masses so that all who toil can march forward to higher and higher standards of living. The McCloud Lynching N THE horrible lynching of Andrew McCloud, young Negro farmer, Monday night in Louisiana, the leading role of the white ruling class and its law enforcement officials in inciting and carrying through the lynch terror against the Negro masses is again clearly revealed, The United Press dispatch on the crime admits that Attorney F, W. Hawthorne expressed open sympathy for the aims of the lynch gang, stating to the mob battering down the prison doors: “I sympathize with your attitude, but I’m afraid you'll get into trouble.” Hawthorne has refused to take any action to- ward indicting the lynch leaders he egged on to their bestial crime. Sheriff Carpenter and two of his deputies have suddenly lost their memory for familiar faces, stating they “recognized no member of the mob.” A coroner’s jury will no doubt render the fami- Mar verdict “death at the hands of persons un- known” to cover up the brutal crimes of the ruling class against the Negro people. In the face of this consistent lynch incitement by the authorities, the N.A.A.C.P. leaders and other Negro and white reformists dare preach to the masses faith in the lynch courts and dependence on the ruling class to wipe out its lynch terror! The sinister purpose of this reformist propaganda is clearly to behead the rising mass fight against lynching. It is aimed at stemming the growing indignation of Negro and white workers against | lynching and to block the revolutionary struggle against the blody rule of capitalism. It is for this purpose that the N.A.A.C.P. leader- ship comes forward in this period with its milk- and-water Wagner-Costigan anti-lynching bill. No mass struggle against the lynchers, but paper “guarantees,” by the lynchers say the would-be saviors of the rotting, decaying jim-crow capitalist system. Out of this traitorous attitude arose the base betrayal of George Crawford by the N.A.A.C.P, leaders and “defense” attorneys in the lynch courts of Virginia, and the persistent sabotage by the NA.A.C.P, leadership of the mass fight to rescue the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon. In sharp contrast to this treacherous attitude of “no struggle against the lynchers,” is the militant mass fight led by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights against the lynch-murderers and for the passage of its “Bill for Civil Rights for Negroes and Against Lynching.” Unlike the bill sponsored by the NAACP, the L.S.MR, bill provides for the death sentence against the lynchers, and is backed by a program calling for mass pressure on the authorities and the lynch courts t- - ~°-22> this and other provisions of the bill, This latest hideous lynch-murder must arouse every sincere opponent of lynching and Negro cp- pression to intensified struggle against lynching and for the passage and enforcement of the L,S.N.R. bill. Flood Governor Allen, at Baton Rouge, La., with protests demanding the arrest and punishment of the lynch leaders, and of District Attorney Hawthorne and other law enforcement officers who aided and abetted the crime. Intensify the fight for the freedom of the nine Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon, tortured in prison and in daily danger of death at the hands of the Southern lynch rulers! (Fascist Rule | In Austria Is Tightened Dollfuss Regime Fears | Mass Struggles and | | Heimwehr Split | VIENNA, July 11—Growing dis- content within the Heimwehr| forces, the armed bands that helped | bring the fascist dictatorship in Austria to power, has caused a |shake-up in the Dollfuss regime, land a tightening in the top group | | of the ruling clique. | Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss has taken over greater dictatorial pow- | ers, including all military and police |power in Austria. Besides, Dollfuss | |now controls the posts of Foreign Minister, Minister of Public Se- | curity and Agriculture. A government declaration issued |today says the concentration of | power in the hands of Dollfuss, and |shake-up in the Heimwehr forces | was necessary to “wipe out the last | vestige of treasonable movement.” | Dollfuss is now aping his master, | Mussolini, in centralizing the lead- ling government posts in his own hands, The resistance of the workers in Austria to the fascist measures of |the Dollfuss regime has been in- |tensifying. At the same time, as in the Storm Troops, the duped | members of the Heimwehr now find that all the promises made to them |for crushing the defensive armed | struggles of the Austrian workers | have been shamelessly ditched. | | Antagonism has developed be- | tween the regular army and the armed bands in the Heimwehr. On June 27 in Graz the friction reached | the point of open break, This was |the step that led to the new move | of the Dollfuss fascist government. | NJ. Farm Strikers WinWage Demands (Continued from Page 1) given work before outside help is hired, “The strike committee, at the mass meeting of the strikers, voted overwhelmingly to reject the Conciliation Committee pro- posed by Moffit, Seabrook and Hurowitz. “The union, at a meeting of the Executive Committee last night, further decided to reject flatly any recommendation of dealing with this committee, Support Henderson “The strike committee states firmly that the news reports in the capitalist press regarding the events yesterday are completely at | variance with the facts. Donald Henderson, National Organizer of | the Agricultural and Cannery Workers Industrial Union, pre- sented the recommendation of the strike committee as above-listed and received the overwhelming support of the strikers. “A gang of vigilantes attempted to disrupt the meeting and start a mob attack on Henderson. Both the conference between Moffit, Seabrook and Hurowitz, as well as the attack on Henderson was a situation of terror against the workers and part of the attempt to smash the strike, and to put over compulsory arbiration. Failing to smash the strike Monday through tear gas and clubs against babies and defenseless strikers, and wholesale arrests of strike leaders, the conference of Moffit and Sea- brook supported by the vigilantes attempt to railroad a compulsory arbitration committee on the workers, “The union repudiates the news stories in the capitalist press regarding the attack by supposed strikers and farm workers on Henderson and brands them as misleading re- ports, inspired at Seabrook’s of- fice, and. is further evidence of his attempt to smash the union. At » meeting last night, the By Burck Home Affairs Dep’t Absorbs OGPU in USSR; Change Made (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 11 (By Radio) — “Striking proof of the growing power of the Soviet Union is shown by the inclusion of the O. G. P. U. (United State Political Department) in the Commissariat of Home Af- fairs,” says “Pravda,” official organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The decree effecting the inclu- sion has been published by the Central Executive Committee of the U. 8S. S. R. The Commissariat of Home Affairs will now consist of the following chief departments: State security, workers and peasants militia, frontier home guard, cor- rection labor camps and labor set- Possible by Defeat of Kulaks tlements, and administrative de- partment. The judicial collegium of the O. G. P. U. has been dis- solved. Crime cases are to be in- vestigated by the Commissariat of Home Affairs, and are to be directed to the various judicial organs. Com- rade Yagoda has been appointed Commissar of Home Affairs, Ag- ranov first assistant, and Prokofiev, second assistant. Defeat of Kulaks Made Change Possibie Commenting further on the new decree, “Pravda” writes: “Forces hostile to the proletariat within the Soviet Union have been utterly smashed. The collective union Executive Committee de- cided to call a membership meet- ing in Bridgeton tonight, to fur- ther strengthen the organization of the union and the farm; to safeguard the gains won through the militant struggle of the workers in the strike, and to take steps to further combat the terror. “The workers have won the ma- jor demands of the strike. These can only be retained by strength- ening their organization. The union will resist every effort to lower wages under whatever pre- tense, or to discriminate against the workers who were on strike. “Issued by the Strike Committee of the Seabrook strikers, “CLARENCE CAIN, “Chairman,” MATTY WOLL TOO? SALEM, Ore., July 10.—Seeking to stir up hatred against militant workers, particularly those engaged in the inspiring strike of Pacific Coast martime workers, Major-Gen- eral Ulysses Grant MacAlexander told the Salem American Legion that Jews, Irish, and. the American Federation of Labor are “sponsor- ing” social revolution in the U. S, Bolivia-Paraguay War Grows More Severe in Chaco BUENOS AIRES, July 11—Severe fighting has been going on for the past few days between Bolivia and Paraguay, before Fort Ballivian, key Position of Bolivia near Standard Oil company’s interests. Paraguayan troops numbering 35,- 000 have been making a furious at- tempt to break through the Boli- vian lines. Over 45,000 Bolivian soldiers are in the trenches armed mainly by the Standard Oil and American bankers interested in dominating the Chaco region over which the war is being fought. Especially since Roosevelt's so- called embargo on arms to Bolivia and Paraguay, as well as the hypo- critical British peace maneuvers, the warfare has been growing more in- tense between the two Latin-Amer- ican countries. farm system has definitely proved an unchangeable victory. The kulaks are liquidated on the whole. The dictatorship of the proletariat is stronger than ever before. The masses of toilers in the U. S. S. R. know firmly they are working and fighting for their own cause—fight- ing, conquering and will conquer. The state apparatus is working ever more accurately, more in harmony with the great planned socialist economy. Therefore, the guaran- teeing of revolutionary order and safety of the state can be turned over to the newly organized Peoples Commissariat of Home Affairs of the Soviet Union, and also to trans- fer all court functions to a single Soviet court system. “Revolutionary order {4s even deeper and more fully and firmly rooted in the towns and villages of the Soviet Union. The streets of capitalist cities are covered with blood of executed peoples without trials, with the blood of the fore- most proletarians, in the blood of the toilers, in the blood of their own fascist supporters, the bour- geoisie is attempting to drown their fear and horror before the ap- proaching day of revolution. “Even in ‘peaceful’ Amsterdam, the blood of the proletariat flowed in streams on the streets and on the barricades during the past few days. Tanks, gas, cars, machine guns—these are the arguments of bourgeoisie ‘order’ even more fre- quently and insolently utilized by capitalist governments, “Strict revolutionary order is be- ing established more firmly in the Soviet Union. Consciousness of socialist law is ever more dominat- ing the minds of tens of millions of toilers trained by the Party of Lenin and Stalin, trained by words and deeds of socialism, which every day is being created in factory, shops, on the railroads, Soviet water transport, on the boundless collective farms.” Decline of Hitler’s Rule Shows Forces of Proletarian Revolution Breaking Through By MAX BEDACHT “i TIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY is Undermined By Events in Germany.” Thus the “New York Times” of July 5th headlines its of history. lowed. the Nazi Party is not just a victim It has itself made the | history by which it will be swal- Conflicts Within Nazi Party many columns of reports from and about Nazi Germany. This head- line indicates the difficult job the capitalist editors have to perform. On the one hand they must defend the capitalist system. On the other hand they must appear to condemn the crimes through which this system tries to save itself. So clumsily do they try to perform this contradictory task that even the politically blind reader can see | through their method. The “Times” editors are very careful to conceal the fact that the crimes of Hitler are the crimes of capitalism in Germany. They editorialize about Hitler's stupid brutality, but they carefully avoid mentioning that German capitalism is so much in contradiction to the interests of the masses that it can hope to main- tain itself only by trying to terror- ize the masses into submission. The quoted headline of the “New York Times” is an indication of the methods of capitalist propaganda through news reports. They trans- form the effect into the cause. They proclaim the instrument as the master. They turn the criminal into his victim. ‘s The politically important conclu- sions from events in Germany are not that they are undermining the Nazi Party. They are rather that the disintegration of the Nazi Party has created the events in Germany. Of course the Nazi Party cannot escape the dialectic logic of its own history. While it has itself created the events, the events in turn have their effect upon the Nazi Party. However, we must see clearly that The Nazi Party is a whole bundle of contradictions. It was created with the help of the German capi- talists to save capitalism by all means possible. The first pre- requisite of its ability to do that was to create a mass movement. It could not create that mass move- ment without appealing to the very masses who are antagonized by capitalism and who hate it. So Hitler set out to appeal to these masses to form a Party in which racial unity was to smother all| manifestations of class disunity. If the class struggle were the in- vention of bad people, then it could be smothered. In that case the Nazi executions, concentration camps, and terrorism could elimi- nate or silence the bad people who create the class struggle. The de- sired unity of all the people would then become a fact. However, the class struggles are the inevitable result of economic and social forces. These forces are at work all the time, wherever and as long as Classes exist. They drive the capitalists to efforts to satisfy their hunger for profit by trying to make the workers work harder for ever less wages. They drive the worker to fight for his rights and his chance to live against the profit-hungry capitalists, They drive the poor peasant to struggle for more land and thus for a greater security of his existence. They drive big capital to destroy the economic base of the petty keepers and petty producers. On the other hand they drive these petty storekeepers and petty produe- | HITLER’S BLOODY ATTEMPT TO MURDER HIS WAY 'OUT OF HIS DIFFICULTIES WILL NOT SAVE CAPITALISM ers to fight as best they can against being swallowed up by big capital. The economic and social conditions of existence of the various classes are the fire which keeps the rela- tionship of these classes to each other constantly at the boiling tem- perature of the class struggic. Hitler promised with great pomp that he will liquidate all the con- vulsions of the class struggle. But the forces of the class struggle did not obey Hitler's command. On the contrary, they drew Hitler him- self into their very convulsions. Storm Troops Are Heterogeneous Force Hitler recruited the Storm Troops out of the youth of the petty-bour- Beoisie, out of the ranks of the young workers and out of the youth of the peasantry. This is a mix- ture of classes which, under the leadership of the Nazis, and on the basis of their program, were to sup- press within themselves all reflec- tions of their own class interests. They were to prepare themselves for the task to suppress the strug- gles for the interests of the very classes from which they sprang. These heterogeneous elements were to be welded into a homogeneous Pretorian Guard for bankrupt cap- italism. They were to save cap- italism, It was planned to sever these Storm Troopers completely from the classes from which they came. They were to be integrated into the State apparatus. This integration was supposed to create an economic base of existence for these Storm Troop- ers, independent of the economic existence of their respective classes. This was supposed to influence their thinking. It was supposed to make them willing and ready tools in the hands of the Fascist government to crush any effort on the part of the working class, on the part of the peasantry, on the part of the petty- bourgeoisie to revolt against cap- italist misery. The Storm Troopers were to be made to forget the original demands of the respective groups from which they came and were to devote themselyes com- pletely to the defense of the Fas- cist State. The security of their existence was to be made dependent on the security of the Nazi State. Of course, even if this plan could have ben carried through, it would not have saved Hitlerism. But as it was, internal and external diffi- culties prevented the integration of the Storm Troopers with the State. |The demands of the various social groups from which the Storm Troopers came continued to find very strong and direct expression in the ranks of the Troops. The Storm Troopers continued to put forward the demands which origin- ally, in the form of demagogic Hit- Icrite promises, drew them into the ranks of the Troops. S. A. Men Peru to Boss Rule Thus, instead of becoming shock troops in the defense of capitalism as intended, they are developing as a danger to capitalism. Here they were, armed troops, organized to defend capital; but driven by the spective classes from whence they sprang they became an armed source of danger for capitalism. The Storm Troops which were to; solve the problem of preventing and crushing proletarian revolution for the capitalist rulers, became them- selves a dangerous problem for the capitalist rulers. They voiced the desire of the radicalized working class, of the dissatisfied petty- bourgeoisie and of the impover- ished peasantry. Because of this the Thyssens and Krupps, etc. gave their servant, Hitler, a categoric order to stop by all means this talk and this move- ment for the “second revolution.” Hitler was ordered to establish within his own Party that “people’s unity” which the capitalist class has ever tried to establish, cither through the treachery of social- democratic theory and practice of class collaboration and Burgfrieden, or through terrorization and perse- cution of the working class, or through a combination of both tactics. The ruling class wants a one-sided class struggle, which they call class peace, a struggle in which the capitalists do all of the fight- ing, the shooting and jailing, while the workers are to submit resist- lessly. They want a Germany in which only their own thoughts and desires, expressed through the mouth of Hitler shall be legal tender. Hitler Tries to Murder His Way Out Hitler decided to solve the prob- lem by a great blood-letting. He conditions of existence of the re- sacrificed his own murder-com- panions; the Roehms, Ernsts, Heines and the Helldorfs who for- merly diligently as well as brutally murdered for Hitler were now mur- dered by Hitler. But one may ask: Were these arch reactionaries, the Roehms, Ernsts, Helldorfs the bearers of ob- jectively revolutionary tendencies in the Storm Troops? No, certainly not, They were dyed in the wool reactionaries. But they tried dema- gogically to ride the waves of the radicalization of the masses of the Storm Troopers. However, they were the recognized leaders of these “yadicals.”. They were the visible heads, Hitler believed that in mur- dering them he cut off the heads of the revolutionary snake. But he only cut off the reactionary heads. The revolutionary tendencies inthe Storm Troops, robbed of their re- actionary heads, will grow new heads. Looking for political and physical material for these heads, they will find it only in the Com- munist Party of Germany. The murders already committed by no means will be Hitler's only effort. He will extend his murder- ous treatment of the crisis of his tule by trying to reach out even more ferociously for the heads of the leaders of the working class in Germany. The danger for the life of Thaelmann and other leaders of the working class in Germany is therefore intensified manifold. The position of Hitler, on the other hand, will and must intensify also the resistance of the revolutionary masses to his murderous policy and the effort to save Thaelmann. Forces of Proletarian Revolution Are Ripening All these events have also their effect upon the radicalized but mis- led masses, who saw in the National Socialist movement a way to curtail the manifestations of capitalist ex- Ploitation. They are now being dis- illusioned. Their disillusionment will strengthen the mass base of the revolutionary movement. As a re- sult, the revolutionary crisis in Ger- many is swiftly ripening. It is most important here to point out that the developments in Ger- many in the last few days have shown how utterly wrong it was to present the victory of Hitlerism as a decisive defeat of the proletarian revolution. Developments proved that such a conception of a decisive defeat of the revolution could only grow out of a non-Marxian or anti- Marxian consideration. It could only be voiced either by traitors to the working class or by people who were blind to the different class in- terests, to the elementary force of these class interests. ie force of these interests will break their way through into the open, no matter what obstacles they find in their way. No, the establishment of the Nazi government in Germany was not a victory of capitalist rule in Germany; it increases the difficul- ties of capitalism and speeds the conditions for the proletarian revo- ‘lution. It was rather a sign of its most rapid disintegration and decay. In spite of the forcible limitations put upon working-class thought and activities, they broke through and showed that beneath the surface of Hitler’s rule the forces of the pro- letarian revolution are seething, working and ripening. The prole- tarian revolution is on the march in Germany, against Hitler and against capitalism. And this revo- lution is being organized and led by the Communist Party of Germany. { On the World Front ji—— By HARRY GANNES |M. Barthou, traveler Volatile War Alliances British Warships in Germany, First Time in 20 Years | | REIGN Minister of | France, Louis Barthou, de- |spite his age, has been an |agile diplomatic traveling | salesman for French imperial- {ism. He recently returned from Great Britain where he met secretly with that epitome of perfidiousness and hypocrisy, Sir |John Simon, British foreign minister. Now Barthou’s scurrying over the map of Europe is motivated by the extremely rapid development of the war danger, and the still more rapid shifting of imperialist alliances. The main aim of French imperialism is to keep intact the spoils of the Versailles treaty, to stave off the re-division of the im- perialist world, towards which every explosive factor of capitalism today is driving. Does this make Barthou | an agent of peace? Of course, not. French imperialism is arming as rapidly, if not more so, than the other imperialist bandits. . @ UT because German fascism and Italian fascism are preparing for war to force a _ re-division of European and Asiatic spoils, which if achieved would be unfavorable to French imperialism, Monsieur Bar- thou, goes panting all over Europe to utilize the imperialist differences to stave off this reshuffling of the boundaries that grew out of the last imperialist slaughter. It was for this reason that Bars thou at Geneva was forced to sup- port the Soviet peace proposals and security pact, and to come into a head-on collision with the same Sir John Simon with whom he recently conferred on more friendly terms. Barthou’s bitter sallies against Sir John at the Geneva Disarma- ment meet took place before the Hitler butchery in Germany. Much blood has flown under the diplo- matic bridges since that time. British imperialism which supports German Fascism arming especially for war against the Soviet Union now finds that its plans have not been going smoothly, and it is be- coming more difficult to provoke the .|war of Fascist “civilization” against Bolshevist “barbarism.” neha ELS 'HE net result of the Hitler butch- ery has been to isolate German fascism more severely internation- ally, due chiefly to the sharpening of imperialist conflicts over failure to pay foreign debts. At the same time, Hitler and Hess are forced to whip up chauyinist war feeling against France, in order to find a “culprit” for the imaginary plot which was used as the justification for the slaughters. Barthou, evidently, judging from comments in the French press, was able to put a temporary brake on British policy of supporting Ger- man and Italian fascism, without, of course, completely rupturing this alliance. In other words, the con- tradictions are flaring up higher, becoming more complicated and more difficult for the plans of all the imperialist bandits. There is a constant shifting and re-shifting of the imperialist alli- ances, a constant maneuvering for the best position in face of the rapidly onrushing imperialist war. eo etc foe ye discussing the secret nego- tiations between British and French imperialism it is well here to bring out some facts not stressed in the capitalist newspapers. While Hitler, Goering, Goebbels and Hess accused France of “plotting” with Roehm and Co., it is just as well to bring up the plottings of British imperialism with Hitler. When the butchery of the Storm Troop leaders was in preparation it must be remerhbered that a secret delegation of the German Fascists were in London discussing on the{the debt moratorium. At the time of the slaughters Herr® Hjalmar Schact, president of the Reichsbank, had mysteriously disappeared, and it is not at all unlikely that he was in London. It is further a fact that it was just after Hitler’s agents arrived at an agreement with the British bankers and government of ficials to pay the British bondhold- ers of the Young and Dawes loans that the slaughters took place. Was this part of the agreement? It is known that Sir Henri Deterding, billionaire oil magnate and head of. the British. Dutch Shell Oil Co, was a frequent contributor to Hit- ler's war funds before he came to power, and is one of the chief in- stigators of the anti-Soviet war front. . . IN OTHER words, if there was any “Dl yp 258” with foreign powers, it we” 1 two ways, with France on the one hand and with British im- perialism on the other. We know, also, that on June 21st, that is nine days before the whole- sale butcheries took place in Ger- many a big fleet of British battle- ships visited the Swinemuende in Germany. This was the first. visit of the British fleet to Germany in. 20 years. The British officers were enthusiastically received by the Nazis, and were regaled with the singing of the Fascist song “Horst Wessel.” “Der Angriff,” one of the leading Nazi organs wrote on the occasion: “May this first visit of the British ships, after the war Isnd itself to the understanding between the pecples.” A visit of British battleshins to Germany for the first time in 20 years, just nine days before the world-shaking butcheries in Ger= many, may be the sheerest accident; but the British imperialists are not known for accidental war maneu- vers. M. Barthou has not finished his travelings, nor have the imperial- ist war alliances been set; both war alliances and the war dange: will be speeded up now more than ever as German fascism rushes closer to its doom, * ‘ea I 4 | | | | N . sacs