The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06
A Loan to Rumania for War on Soviet Russia.

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Twenty-four hours after the announcement that the
monstrousy corrupt Rumanan government of Juu Manu-
(Which replaced the equally corrupt government of Vnta
Braanu) had negotiated S10O000000 loan with the inter-
national bankerse had mortgaged the Rumanian work
ing class and peasantry to international fnancecaptal for
generations 200 Communists arrested in Bucharest
It no accident that the arrests of the Communists by
whose crimes against the working class have
pierced the hickwaed horror chambers of its fortress
prisons and been the envy of the capitalists of all other
tons followed so upon the heels of the international
loan The loan and the capitalist offensive against the work
and peasants of all countries and especially of the Soviet
Union are closely related.
Though capitalists of many nations participate in the
international consorum which manipulating this adven
ture in Balkan high finance American conspcu
Such Blair and Co. Inc The Chase Securi
ties Company and Dillon Read and Company prominent
The golden apples for which "Cozefanes Marie uncketed
to the United States and which to have furhered the
already Infamous reputation of the Bratianu regime, will
go to bosterng the political shames of the MANU-
clique with the Rumanan bourgeoisie and petty bogeose
Wall Street at first wary has suddenly grown great
hearted And not only Wall Street The catalogue of parc
pants in the present loan reads like register of nerna
tonal finance-capital.
Scandinavian French, German banking Institutions such
organizations of tremendous money power the Swedish
Match monopoly the Banque de Paris ct Bruxees of France
and Belgium the huge Deutsche Bank and Dsconto Gese
schaft of Germany have agreed to float this loan.
Sterilization of the Rumanian currency is the alleged
which has stimulated international fnancecapita to
the sudden interest evidenced by the oan What Marie and
Bratianu failed Manu- succeeded securing
But profound confidence the stability of the Manu-
regime of rich peasants shopkeepers and which
has novaed the international bankers There is far pro-
founder motive.
The military plans of the imperiais powers for in
vason of the Soviet Union indicate Rumana their base of
operations against the Soviet Republic of Ukraina. The
French general LIE Rond whose conferences in Bucharest
with Marshall Pisudsh Polish fascist dictator
knowledge is credited with the elaboration of these plans
He is also credited with recommending France Great Britain
and their allies among the Little Entente have concurred
that the proposed invasion the Ukranian Soviet Republic
be made simultaneously from southern Poland and the
eastern Rumanian frontier. s9
For its share of the imperas plumber Poland has been
promised large regions to the south and east Rumana is
to get territories adjacent to Bessaraba But first the
oan For the immense contracts granted recently by the
Manu- to the Skoda Munitions
Works must be paid for.
Oh yes the Rumanan currency must be stabilized the
French and Central European munitions capitalists who
already reapng fortunes from the plans of the Euro
pean mperasts against the workers and peasants republic
must be paid
And it is the Rumanian peasantry and working class
who will pay Them while the Manu- regime masqueradng
party beeds them of their harvests and wages thru
tithes and taxes it will bleed them of their feblood if
force battalion of peasants Rumanian work.
to march against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
in the bloody the mperasts have plotted to unloose
upon the wheat fields of the Ukraine.
But the Rumanan Communists stand in the way of the
conspiracy of international capitalism The Communists
to be rounded and thrown into these deep Rumanan
dungeons from which the greater number may emerge
alive.
no accident that the contamination of the loan and
the beginning of the prosecutions separated by hours
only.