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CACHE OF WAR
GAS P0IS0NS
BERLIN TOILERS
Similar to Recent Case
in Hamburg

BERLIN, July 30.-Several per-
sons were poisoned by gas and the
inhabitants of the Westend suburb
of Wilmersdorf were greatly alarm
ed tonight as the result of the dis
covery of what is said to be an ex-
tensive cache Of poison gas.
The discovery was made in the
most fashionable district of the
suburb.
Workers laying ground floor of
building found several layers of
small glass bottles. They were ig-
norant of the contents of the bot
ties and broke a few. Several of
the men were poisoned by gas.
The police said the cache was the
site of wartime tear gas factory
and it was reported that 100000
small bottles of gas were buried a
few yards under the surface when
production was abandoned.
The discovery recalled number
of dangerous situations in Germany
caused by inability to dispose Of war
gas. One of the most serious was
at Hamburg where large quantity
of gas escaped and resulted IN a
number of deaths,
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cratic ministers in Berlin voted for
the building of the notorious ar
mored cruiser Whilst the Executive
Committee of this international is
sued an appeal for May Day demon
strations, the German social democ-
racy celebrated the 10th anniversary
of the First of May with a blood
bath among the demonstrating work
ers in Berlin.
Social Fascist Instrument.
The reformist international is no
longer an instrument for disorganiz-
ing, confusing and disrupting the
labor movement; it is an instrument
for the conscious preparation of an
imperialist war against the first pro-
letarian state and for the establish
ment of social fascist dictatorship
against the working class,
What once represented two differ
Eent tendencies inside the framework
of one international organization,
now represents two hostile forces en-
gagged in life and death struggle.
The abolition of this split in the
working class movement by the uni
fication of the two organizations
which have resulted from it, an alb
surd illusion still nourished by some
"left-wing" social democrats, is as
impossible as a reconciliation be-
tween the bour-g eoisie and the pro-
letariat, between world imperialism
and world Communism.
The shameful and treacherous role
of the social imperialist parties is
daily driving thousands of workers
out of their ranks, whilst the Com
munist International is advancing in
all countries to winning the majority
of the workers. This is the decisive
preliminary condition for the over
throw of capitalism and at the same
time the final destruction of reform
ism and the abolition of the split in
the international working class
movement.
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words, in August. 1914, the Second
International collapsed shamefully.
Why the Second international col
lapsed and why its collapse was in
evitable, are questions which it is
the duty of every class-conscious
worker to examine and understand.
Two definite periods can be OBJ
served in the history of the Second
international, the period from 1889
to 1904, when it played great and
positive role in the organization and
the leadership of the working
masses in the capitalist countries,
and the period from 1904 to 1914.
in which the Second International
degenerated progressively toward
complete opportunism and social i'm
reriahsm, the developed form of
reformism triumphed.
The Amsterdam Congress in 1904
was the eliminating point and at the
same time the turning point in the
history Of the Second International.
The congress met after the outbreak
of the Russo-Japanese war and be-
came an inspiring demonstration of
international proletarian solidarity
when Plechanov, the representative
of the Russian workers, and Sen
Katayama, the representative of the
Japanese workers. shook hands pub
licly on the platform as a sign of
the fraternal alliance of the revolu-
tionary workers of the belligerent
countries. The congress decisively
condemned reformism which ex-
pressed itself theoretically in the
Revisionism of Bernstein, and prac-
tically in the French party in the
Ministerialism of Millerand. The
granting of credits, etc., for the cap
italist state and the tendencies to
participate in the government under
capitalism, were condemned as ire
concilable with the principles of the
revolutionary class struggle.
First Russian Revolution.
The Russo-Japanese war was fol-
lowed quickly by the outbreak of the
first Russian revolution, which
opened up new period in the his
tory of the international working
class movement. The comparatively
peaceful period in which the work
ing class movement in Europe was
limited mainly to parliamentary and
trade union methods of struggle, the
period in which the great legal mass
organizations of the proletariat de-
veloped, was at an end. The new
imperialist period, the period of
wars and revolutions, placed new
tasks before the labor organizations.
The gigantic example of the Rus
sian revolution spurred on the in
ternational proletariat and released
a wave of great political mass
strikes. On the other hand, the rev.
dictionary energy of the masses
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ternational in Stuttgart in 1907 and
in Basic in 1912 still adopted good
revolutionary decisions, particularly
in the question of the struggle
against imperialist war, but even at
the congresses it was possible to
see the dominance of the opportunist
clements in the international labor
movement. Lenin and Rosa LuXem-
burg succeeded in securing the adop-
ton by the Stuttgart congress of
the famous decision making it the
duty of all socialist parties to fight
with all possible means against war
and, should war nevertheless break
out, to utilize the resultant crisis for
the overthrow of capitalism. How
ever, the Social Democratic Parties,
which lad had no experience in the
revolutionary struggle and which
were cffectually crippled by the
presence of reformist elements in the
most prominent party positions,
proved themselves to be completely
incapable Of putting the reyolution-
airy decisions into operation.
Collapse of Center.
In August, 1914, the Center went
ever completely and suddenly into
the camp of open reformism. In the
tremendous August crisis there was
no longer any possibility Of maneu-
vering between the camps Of ref
ormism and revolution; the exist
ence of the bourgeois state was at
stake and the alternatives We're,
either to support the imperialist war
or to organize revolutionary resist
ance to the war with a view to
Transforming the imperialist war
into a civil war for the overthrow
of the bourgeoisie. The Centerists,
who were unable to stomach the rev.
dictionary alternative, sank to the
standpoint of the social imperialists
who celebrated the civil peace" pro-
claimed as the result of war, as the
fulfillment of their efforts for "a
peaceful development into social
ism"
The Bolsheviks alone, who had
separated from the reformists in
1903 and who had built up their or
CARNATIONS in the revolutionary
struggle, so that they were able to
stand the blows of the military die
tatorship, were able to maintain the
standpoint of proletarian interna-
tionalism, not only in theory, but
il the practice of the revolutionary
struggle. The Bolsheviks, under
the lead of Lenin, had already drawn
their conclusions in September, 1914,
from the collapse of the Second In
ternational: the necessity of Great
ing a new and really proletarian and
revolutionary international.
The Third International, the Com
munist International, did not only
continue the work of the First In
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ternational, but also the work of
the left wing inside the Second In
ternational. The Third Interna-
tional represents everything really
proletarian and socialist which was
in the Second international. How
ever, it has removed mercilessly all
those rotten elements of opportunist
theory and practice which caused
the collapse of the Second Interna-
tional: federation of opportunism.
the diplomatic concealment of fun
damental contradictions, the ma
tional autonomy of the individual
parties, and the acceptance Of unity
i'll resolutions instead of unity in
deed. The Third International is
united Bolshevist world party
which represents the unity of revo-
lutionary theory and revolutionary
practice.
Revive Yellow International.
After a short interlude, in which
the centerist Second a-Half- fin
ternatiopal existed Independently,
the Labor and Socialist Interna-
tional" was botched together again
in Hamburg in 1923. This new In
ternational has itself declared that
the decisions of the former interna-
tional have no validity for it. And
in fact, the Labor and Socialist In
ternational has nothing in common
with the revolutionary traditions of
the international labor movement; it
represents the rallying point for all
those reformist and nationalist ten
denotes which led to the miserable
collapse of the Second International
in 1914.
This international is incapable of
any united action in the interests of
the proletariat, its unity is based
solely upon a community of interests
in the struggle against the revolu-
tionary labor movement. This Gin
ternational," which reflects all the
imperialist antagonisms of the CAPT.
talist states, is nothing but branch
office of the imperialist League of
Nations. Just as this latter strives
under the hegemony of the for-the-
moment-strongest group of imperial
list powers to relegate into the back
ground subordinate differences in
the interests of joint action against
the proletarian revolution and its
bulwark, the Soviet Union, so also
the International of Social Imperial
lists acts as arbiter for the Socialist"
lackeys of Imperialism to facilitate
joint action against the Communist
international.
Those decisions of the Labor and
Socialist international which are in
tended to look like international pro-
letarian action, have no significance
in practice. Whilst this international
adopted in Brussels the disarmament
resolution, the German social demo-
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frightened the bourgeoisie aid
caused it to consolidate itself into
reactionary block against the
working class, and to increase its
ornaments, both against the inter
nal enemy and against external enc
mics in an imperialist war.
In this new period the labor move
ment could not continue to exist in
its old form. The working class
movement was faced with the alter
natives of either adopting new forms
of revolutionary mass action with a
view to overthrowing the bour-
geoisie, as demanded by the left
wing, or utilizing the growing vot-
ing power of the working class par
ties and the increasing number of
labor deputies in parliament, etc,
with a view to winning positions
within the bourgeois state apparatus
and thus going the way of adapta-
ton to the bourgeois social order, as
propagated by the Revisionists.
The so-called "Marxist Center, y
which was the leading group both
in Germany and in the International,
wanted to accept neither of the al
ternatives. 1t condemned the Re-
visionists and declared itself in ia
vor of "tke old tried and trusted,
victorious tactic of the class strug-
gle"; at the same time, however, it
fought against the revolutionary al
tentative with hands and feet, cling
ing to the misrepresented and dis
torted words of Engels. which for
decades were interpreted as a re-
lection on principle of the armed
struggle of the proletariat for
power.
Mass Strike Discussion.
The discussions upon the question
CT the mass strike revealed tke new
groupings within the German and
the international labor movement
and the development of the Center
which theoretically condemned ref
ormism, but by rejecting revolution
airy methods of struggle practically
allied itself more and more closely
with the right wing against the left
wing. In, Germany this turning
point was sealed by the pact made
in 1906 between the Central Com
mittee of the German Social Demo
cratic Party and the reformist trade
union bureaucracy, which repre-
scented no less a practical prohibi
ton of the political mass strike.
The trade unions, in which the quail
fled upper strata of the working
class dominated, became the strong
est bulwark of the reformist tenden-
cies, which represented the point of
view of the aristocracy of labor
which was bribed by imperialism and
was interested in the maintenance
of the capitalist order of society.
The congresses of the Second In
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New York, are all graphically pic
tured here in form that cannot be
secured in any other publication in
America.
Henri Barbusse, the famous
French author, is represented with
an article entitled Against Fas-
cism and War" Fred Beal, the
Southern organizer for the National
Textile Workers Union, of whom %
are on trial for murder and murder
GUS assault, has written an article,
"Are We Murderers?" j. Louis
Engdahl writes concerning the next
war in his article, "For Labor's De-
tense Against Imperialist War"
John Dos Passos, the well-known
New York playwright and novelist,
has an article describing the vari-
Gus frame-ups against workers IN
America.
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WAR INDUSTRY
IN CONTROL OF
A. FEW RIG Il
In Dupont, Morgan
Rockefeller Hands

J. P. Morgan, money lender to the
world, is no less interested in coke
production, steel and ship building
than in finance.
Controlling the U. S. Steel Corp,
Morgan interests are now repre-
sented also on the board of the
Bethlehem Steel Corp. Steel COM
panies are the chief coke producers.
U. S. Steel Corp. is the largest
single producer of bituminous coal
in the United States and most of
its coal goes to its own by-product
coke ovens.
In ship building, equally impor-
tant for war preparations, Morgan
interests control the great Todd
Shipyards Corp, a subsidiary of U.
S. Steel. Morgan has also entered
the race for oil, vital war indus
try, through the new Continental
Oil Co. which absorbed MARYLAND
Oil Profits of large companies in
these basic industries would be
doubled or trebled by another world
war.
Rockefeller and Arms.
Rockefeller, already rich in oil, is
well represented in Remington
Arms, one of the largest arms
manufacturing companies in the
United States. His Colorado Fuel
and Iron Co., bitterly anti-union as
are all these great companies, is
the largest steel Producer west Of
the Mississippi. Rockefeller is also
in Bethlehem Steel
The DuPonts.
E. l. DUPONT de Nemours Co.,
largest munitions corporation in the
world, is now making additional
profits from rayon or artificial silk
The nitro-cellulose process of max
ing rayon in an artificial silk fac
tory can be changed overnight into
the production of dynamite. 1t is
probable that equipment in all rayor
plants, not only those using the
nitro-cellulose process, can be adapt
ed for explosives.
Munitions plants are thus extend
ed and maintained under the inno-
cent name of rayon mills. Rayon
now brings in about one-seventh Of
the vast Dupont income. The Du-
Points, who tripled their fortune dur
ing the World War, now have heavy
investments in the General Motors
Corp. which brought them an income
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GastOnia Strik ers
Life Stories Printed
In Labor Defender"

The life histories of Gastonia
strikers, written by themselves, fea-
ture this months edition of the La
Dor Defender, the magazine of the
International Labor Defense.
These textile strikers, who went
on trial Monday, July 20, charged
with murder, have sent statements
to the entire working class of Amer
lea, through the Labor Defender
this month. ---,-
Pictures deal with the latest de-
velopments of the American labor
movement. The strikes of New Or
leans, of Detroit, of the South, of
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Hopes Not Fulfilled.

of approximately 25,OOO,OOO for the
first six months of 1929.
One of the DuPonts, explaining
his part in the World War, summed
up the magnates' views. He wrote
that he had done only his patriotic
duty" in providing arms and NUM-
lions for the Allies, and would be
glad to do the same in another war
-(thus still further multiplying his
wealth..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-31
BY ]. LEM (Berlin).

On July Il, 1889, on the hundredth
anniversary of the storming of the
Bastille, the Inaugural Congress of
the Second International took place
in Paris. The chairmen of the Con-
gress, the Commune leader, Vail
liant, and "the soldier of the revclu-
ton" Wilhelm Liebknecht, proudly
affirmed their loyalty to the revolu-
tionary traditions of the working
class movement, to the Paris Com
mune and to the work of the Inter
national Workingmen's Association,
the First International, led by Marx
and Engels.
Four hundred and sixty-seven
delegates from 20 countries were
present at the congress. The sue
cess of the congress was all the
more marked on account of the fact
that the Possibilists, the reformist
wing of the French labor movement,
had called an international counter
conference to take place in Paris
also. Valiant declared in his speech
that the congress of the Second In
ternational was zone of the greatest
events in the history of the peo-
pies" that it was the beginning of
"a new era of conscious and system
attic efforts to represent the rights
Of the oppressed, an era of system
attic and united action on the part
of the international proletariat for
socialism," that it was "the guar
antee for certain and decisive vic
tory" Wilhelm Liebknecht COM
menced his speech with the words,
ct is the proudest moment of my
life to stand here and see the full
filment of the ideal expressed in the
words, Workers of the World
United"
Hopes Not Fulfilled.
These words expressed the hopes
placed in the Second International by
the revolutionary workers of all
countries, the advance guard of the
international proletariat. These
hopes have not been fulfilled. At
the moment when the decisive test
came, at the moment when interna-
tional proletarian solidarity became
vital necessity for the working
class in the uttermost sense of the
The Washington times., 1929-04-19

Your choice of ffeIder's.
first basemnn's or eatcher'e
glove with bat Of strong wood
and well-nade bali. Com
plete for 81 80.
The Washington times., 1929-04-19

Every athlete should have
one of these outfits, consist
ing Of Gym Pants, Shirt.
sweat shirts and Athletic Sup
poFfers.
The Washington times., 1929-04-19
BallaGIOve

A leather-laeed Glove that
ls made for hard use. Well
padded. OF genuine h0rsehide.
The BAH has rubber center an
c0veF-stfOng stitching.
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clever enough to realize that this was
the time for effacement. Grimstead
d0zed. Around, the trees watched In
mute solemnity;. above. the remote
stars hung in the awful void. Bur-
tons eyes Widened and the tight
drawn bands Of convention and youth
loosened; so that unknown TO her the
hidden spirit within her reached out
into It's own element, and bathed In
1t and was glad.
But now the peace of the night was
broken BY tie approach of something
metallic aud loose. Three Of the
watchers sat up. Punketty- Snivvles
did not stir. The thing coming was
evidently car. and the tinny rattle
betrayed its plabeinn origin. punket-
ty-Snivvles paid little attention to any.
thing beneath the rank of Rolls
Royce or d Pierce Arrow. But some
&C ~ we're mi so eprtnin
ITO be continued)
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CHAPTER III

Before we follow Miss Barton back
10 her fireside lei us accompany for
short distance the excellent bur re.
luctant Simlnins. Ills way nImOSl I'm,
mediately took him ont of sight OF
the freight. Tile various and vague
night influences that freight always
holds nj hay Immediately gathered
close about and jeered him They In
formed Simmins inaudibly but most
plainly that he was nothing but an
Insignificant little turnkey; that he
was frivolous, unworthy character !;
that his general all-around usclessness
was but poorly compensated by a
observation-disclosures which he had mis-
lakenly labeled chcer-o. Having i'm
pressed these, and various other sim
ilarly depressing truths on him; and
having filled his soul TO overlooking
with the awe, the portcnt, the whelm--
Ing alooiness Of twilight forest, they
sprung screech owl on him.
The scrtech owl il one of the small
est of the raptores, or birds of prey.
1t lives on little mice and bnggums
OF conviyial night-prowling habits;
and It's capacity for harming anything
larger thal a canary bird is extremely
doubtful. But 1t does not sound that
way. Perched aloft In comfortable Sc
cusion 1t utters the shrieks, screams.
whoops and obscene chneklings Of
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or all his fault; and like nlost fatu
Gus old Pirates who think nothing of
cutting Il throat or two, he was nbleet
toward the essentially unimnnrtanl at.
titude of his own womenfok. I'VE
might be lot worse off Plenty of
food and hot drink; and warm
night! We've made ouf worse than
this, haven't we, Gardiner my boyY
The young man smiled family but did
not answer. He saw that Il reply
would have no effect on BurteA and
TO his employer IL was superfious.
BY now the afternoon was drawing
to It's close The shafts of milky light
had lifted, like wands, and had disap
peared. From the earth Ind arisen
together a twilight and GOODNESS that
flowed between the bases OF the
mighty tree trunks. Already the de.
tnils OF the gigantic fern growths,
and the deep dark vistas, and all the
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They sprang to Their Feet and Began
to Search Out Dry Wood for Fire.

They sprang to Their Feet and Began
to Search Out Dry Wood for Fire.
tracery of shrubs and flowers were
quietly blending into monotone of
indistinctness. And from this DIM
ness came the clear, spaced, mellow,
cathedral-like bell-tones of the hermit
thrusll's song: deliberate MS an imma-
mortal ritual.
i think myself 1t Is chilly" Burton
suddenly Interrupted the mems low
voiced conversation.
They. sprang to their feet and began
to search out dry wood fox a fire.
mo, no, Simmins," con4snded
Grimstead, you eat your~supper and
clear up as promptly as you can.
Wen attend to this"
They built fire; and they brought
cushions and robes from the car, and
settled Burton comfortably. 1t did
not occur Q either Of them to wonder
why they should be going to these ex.
traordinary exertions, physical and
moral, to please an able-bodied human
being so much younger than them
selves. When this was arranged,
Grlmstead looked around for Simmins.
The latter had finished his meal. and
was bestowing the remainder of the
food and the utensils. In this he was
consuming just as much time as he
possibly could. Grimstead watched
him for few moments In silence.
"Slmmins,' he said at last, Il think
we can stagger through tomorrow If
the nickel plate on that thermos is not
polished like new. Drop all that and
come here
Eyes, sir" replied Slmmins.
1T Is now six O'clock" stated Grim
stead. Il find by the road map that
Tecolote Is twenty and three-tenths
miles distant on straight road. BY
walking three mips an hour you
should get there by one o'clock, or
thereabouts. The map says there Is
a garage. Have car come at once
for us. 1t should be here by two
thirty at latest. You will come back
Will 1t and be prepared to stay here
until we can send out d new tank or
a tow car"
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Ito be continued. J