The daily worker., 1929-06-03
ANTI-USSR BLOC
BASIS OF PACTS
or SUbJECTION
League Council Held
in Dictator's Sity

secret session sometime b efore
Thursday, when it will open its dis
cussion of the European minorities
So great is the movement of the
minorities to overthrow the oppres-
sive dictatorship in various parts OF
Europe, thus threatening to over
throw the system of alliances and
spoils by which the British and
French imperialists have been able
to set up and maintain their die
tatorships and form bloc of ag-
gression against the Soviet Union,
that the League is forced to try to
come to some compromise between
the various governments in secret
before venturing to touch the ques-
ton publically again.
Anti-Soviet Basis.
Stormy clashes occurred between
the German and Polish delegates at
the Lugano session of the League
last December and again at the
March session in Geneva. 1t is in
tended to surround this new session
with utmost secrecy. At the very
basis of the whole question stands
the system of "buffer" states erect
ed by the imperialists along the
Soviet frontier, states which have
been split off from the former allies
of the German imperialists, and
oh lao1yo bao,, +o1y
the Soviet Union by the forced
terms of the Brest-Litovsk peace. In
addition, the rumbling of unrest and
organized resistance of the oppres-
sed minorities, threatens the very
existence of the relationships.
Under the terms of the peace
treaties 30,000,000 minority popula-
tions of Europe were supposed to
have been given equality of treat
ment" with the population of the
new states, provision which was
interpreted by the governments as
worse than the most exploited sec
ton of the home workingclass.
III OidHu.
Poland was built up and financed
by the British and French imperial
lists, who are now facing the "co-
operation" of the Yankee imperial
lists, out of land taken from the
Soviet Union and from Germany, as
center of aggression against the
U.S.S.R. In the process western
Ukraine was subjected to the brutal
terror of Pilsudski's legions, and the
Ukrainian workers and peasants now
under the dictatorship in Poland
cannot help but look with longing
eyes towards a Soviet of their own.
They have been subjected to the
most brutal of terrors, their schools,
newspapers and organizations sup
pressed and many of them killed and
thrust into Jail. Western Ukrainia
is also being used by the imperial
lists, thru their agent Pilsudski, as
basis Of provocation against the
Soviet Union.
Danzig Corridor.
The talk of certain political con-
cessions to be given to the German
imperialists at the reparations con-
ference in Paris, talk which has been
supported by the Yankee imperial
lists, may result in the alteration of
the treaty which gives Poland the
Danzig corridor, splits German ter
ritory, and created the independent
city of Danzig, where an imperialist
arsenal is being conducted by the
French General LIE Rond. This was
the cause of the friction between
foreign minister Streseman and for
eign minister Zaleski of Poland at
the session of the League. British
and French imperialists will un-
doubtedly attempt to Illustrate this
hope of aggrandisement on the part
of the German imperialists, backed
by Wall Street. In the agreements
between various Balkan countries
for a military alliance against the
Soviet Union, Danzig is to be the
central point for the shipment of
munitions to Poland by the British
and French imperialists.
The Macedonians.
In the states of Yugoslavia, Bull
garia and Greece, among whom the
Macedonian people have been divid-
ed, the movement for autonomy, Of
ten misled and used for nationalist
purposes by the Balkan powers, has
often led to open warfare. In ad-
dition there are Bulgarian, Serbian
and other nationalities in these coun-
tries subject to cruel relationships.
Despite the defeat of the con-
servative government in Britain,
Austen Chamberlain, who has been
so instrumental in building the sys-
tenn of national oppression, will be
present at the Madrid meeting of
the League council. From the Brit
ish laborites the continuation of the
system of blocs and alliances can
only be expected.
Soviet Union Beckons.
There are also oppressed minor
tiles in France, the Alsacians, and
in Belgium, the Flemish, and the
Catalonians in Spain are also en-
gagged in movement for freedom
from the dictatorship of Rivera. In
the Balkans alone there are at least
so nationalities subject to the iron
heel of oppression.
To these peoples the example set