The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-12
ORT EVADES SCOTTSB0RO DECISION UNTIL AFTER ELECTION
International
Notes
BY GEORGE BELL.

the reforrnist International Trans
port Federation, after witnessing the
imperialist Japanese invasion Of
Manchuria. stated upon his return:
THE vital interests of Japan render
its battle in Manchuria quite under
standable."
The japanese Foreign Office woulc
do well to hire this prominent So
cialist as a paid propaganda agent.
291 delegates to the Anti-War Con-
gress at Amsterdam were members
Of various Socialist Parties. Now the
leaders OF the French Socialist Par
ty, Paul Faure and Renaudel, are
threatening with expulsion all So
cialist Party members who attended
the congress, and are disciplining all
rank and file sections that dare to
endorse the anti-war resolutions OF
the congress.
Another comment ON the sincerity
of socialist professions Of war against
warp: The leaders Of the Second
international have refused to place
the vital question of the attitude Of
socialists in case war breaks out
upon the agenda of their coming
World Congress.
The so-called Left government OF
France, openly supported by the
French Socialist Party, processes its
desire for peace and signs the KEEL
logg-Pact. That does not hinder it
from carrying on ruthless war against
the natives of Morocco, fighting for
their independence. La France Mill
taire reports that 900 insurgents we're
killed in a recent battle, while Of
flcers and % soldiers of the Foreign
Legion we're the French losses. The
French daily press Gas we'll as the
yellow journals of New York; sup
pressed this news, claiming that the
pacific occupation" of Morocco was
proceeding apace.
Fritz Ebert, jr.. son of the notori-
Gus social-democrat and first Presi-
dent of Germany, made the following
statement Of socialist aims in the dis
armament question before a meeting
of Socialist Party officials in Bran
denburg:
Together with our French and
Belgian comrades, we demand the
tullllment of the Treaty of Versail-
les-the establishment of equal mill
tary rights for all through joint dis
armament. But If the world refuses
to fulfill its solemn pledge, we must
have the courage to act as German
socialists. We are faced by difficult
decisions They prove that the Ger
man Social Democracy, even when
it is in sharpest opposition to gov
eminent, is not released from obi
cations to its country"
Comment superfluous; file under
heading socialists and Militarism. >
The perjury methods of the Ger
man Fascists are revealed in testi-
mony by former member of the
Nazi storm troops who resigned from
the Hitler Party in disgust. Testi-
Tying at q trial of revolutionary
workers In Halle, said: ~ am no
longer a member of the National So
cialist German Labor Party (IIitler's
partly and have resigned from the
storm troops so that ] now can tell
the court the truth. I did not rec
ognize the two defendants during the
fight. But party headquarters in
strucAed us to name Knoll and Ull-
rich Che two Communist defendsn ts)
and 10 testify that we saw them
thers.h
I'm Osaka the workers in several
JApan ese munition factories are out
on stsike for higher wages and bet
ter working conditions.
TAne 7th Manchurian brigade or
6anizsd under the command of the
Japanese General Staff, mutinied in
Tunliaox and went over to the Chi
nese insurgents All the Japanese
officers of the brigade we're shot.
The silk-glove attitude of German
courts towards Nazi rlurderers
is bearing its expected fruit-after a
Berlin Assistant States Attorney
asked that Nazi on trial for stab
bling worker to death be sentenced
to two years in Jail, the word pas
sed around the storm troop head
quarters was, IF we get only two
years in the jug, then it pays to knife
- Communist pifl'
Proofs of the disintegration of Hit
Hers Party are accommodating. In Oh
denbtrg a new Nazi party has been
formed by former Hitler adherents.
named the National Socialist Ger
man Revolutionary Labor Mvement".
A Mani factory nucleus chairman
in Aussernzell. Ludwig Raid. has re-
signed from the Hitler Party and
Joined the Communist Party Of Ger
many. He Informed the G. p. that
all the members OF the factory nue.
leus had resigned from the National
Socialist Party.
Much of Hitler's propaganda cent
ers around the phrase 1.-THE Third
Reich, in which he promises pros
perity. death to the Jews and heaven
on earth. The hypocrisy of this
slogan has been disclosed In Nazi
testimony during a treason trial in
Bruenn, Czechoslovakia. The Nazi
attorney for the defense defined the
Third Reich" in his plea to the
fury as follows:
"The Third Reich is a concept
which anyone can interpret as he
likes; a term that was launched by
the party for agitational purposes
only. The Third Raich' is 1ika Cso5