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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
SOLDIERS REPRESENTED AT
The ANTI-WAR CONGRESS
Carl Geiser, Delegate to Montevideo Will Re-
port Next Wednesday at Irving Plaza

ed that her son was not yet fourteen,
she was told to keep her mouth shut,
and the boy taken away.
Right in Uruguay, which is con-
sidered the Switzerland of South
America, a starved, overalled dele
gate, representing an Unemployed
Council, told about the enormous
sums the Uruguayan government
spends for munitions, but not cent
for relief. Despite his thin, weak
appearance, he spoke in a voice OF
steel when he talked of the organi-
cation Of the unemployed to fight for
relief and against war.
Negro and White Seamen Embrace
zone of the high spots of the Con-
gress, said Geiser, was when Negro
marine worker from Brazil and the
marine worker delegate of the
American Committee for Struggle
Against War, Naylor, embraced on
the platform. This was received with
enthusiastic approval by delegates as
well as visitors in the gallery, not
only as demonstration of Negro and
white Workingclass solidarity, but as
a symbol of solidarity between the
workers of oppressed and imperialist
nations"
Geiser concluded the interview by
saying, There is so much to be said
about the South American Congress,
that it is impossible to tell it all in
few words. I urge the workers, pro-
fessionals and students of New York
to attend the meeting next Wednes-
day, where full report and message
from the South American Anti-War
Congress will be given"
The New York Committee for
Struggle Against War announces that
additional speakers at next Wednes-
days meeting in Irving Plaza will
include Donald Henderson, Leonardo
Sanchez who will speak in Spanish
and William SiuonS, Chairman,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
MEETING FOR RECOGNITION LAUDS
ACHIEVEMENTS OF SOVIET UNION
Moscow Cable Giving Eye Witness Report
Read to New York Gathering

NEW YORK.-Educator intellec-
tuaIs and representatives of mass or
CARNATIONS, speaking to capacity
audience at Webster Hall, Sunday
afternoon were applauded and
cheered as they called upon all pres
ent to carry on a vigorous campaign
for recognition Of the Soviet Govern
ment by the United States
The audience was electrified when
telegram from A. Heller, editor OF
Soviet Russia Today" was read.
Heller, now in the Soviet Union, sent
an eye witness account of the pres
emit trial OF the English wreckers OF
Soviet industries. Tie telegram gave
startling disclosures of deliberate
plans by British spies to destroy key
industries. 1t revealed the sinister tie
up of several of the Englishmen with
manufacturing concerns in England.
Henderson Speaks
Professor Donald Henderson, ex-
PEELED recently from the faculty of
Columbia University outlined the rea-
sons why this government should
recognize the workers government of
the U.S.S.R. He pointed out 1t was a
stable government, that recognition
would be mutually helpful and that
there was no adequate reason why
recognition should not be granted.
Rising to q tremendous ovation,
James w. Ford, vice presidential
candidate in the last election gave
the Communist Party's viewpoint on
recognition. Showing the great
achievements Of the Soviet Union,
its great cultural and material ad-
vances as contrasted with the great
decline in capitalist countries, he
called for a broad campaign for rec
ignition.
Among other speakers were Susan
Woodruff, Smith College graduate, a
recent visitor to the Soviet Union
DR.. Harry T. Ward, of Union Theo-
logical School; Carl Brodsky, of the
National Committee, Friends OF the
Soviet Union, under whose auspices
the meeting had been arranged, and
others. Malcolm Cowley Of the Edi-
torial Board OF the New Republic
wired his enforcement Of the recog.
nttson campaign. pledging his I'M
qualified support
Tia meeting y 90 q sszsed b.
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ised Gussev that he would arrange
his escape abroad in case of detec-
ton. The others had been promised
protection by the British wreckers,
including promises Of a good job at
the London office of the Metropoli-
tam Vickers Company. The Soviet
employees on trial, knew, or took it
for granted, that behind Thornton
there was someone more powerful
that behind this British wrecking
crew there was q mightier foreign
agency.
These spies, wreckers and traitors
Of Soviet citizenship, In their acts
reflected and expressed the last des-
perate attempt Of the remnants of
the former exploiting class to resist
the triumphant march of socialist
construction, and expressed the hopes
OF the former landowners and CAPT.
talistS to regain their privileges with
the aid Of foreign intervention.
In the eyes Of the Soviet workers
and peasants, in the eyes of the vast
majority of the technical intelli-
gentSia, there are no extenuating cir
cunstanceS for these deliberate
wreckers and traitors. They were
aware what would be the punishment
for their crimes, and the severest
sentences that may be pronounced
in their case will not be found ex-
ceSsive by the toiling masses of the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
From Our Moscow Correspondent


MOSCOW, April 1.-THE conclu-
sion of the testimony phase of the
trial permits us to make a review of
the evidence presented and of the
general character Of the case. OF
the II defendants, IL have pleaded
guilty, fully confessing to acts of
bribery, espionage, wrecking, and the
plotting Of various criminal acts cal
,ulated to undermine the defensive
power of the Soviet Union in the case
of war. Among those who confessed
in open Court is Macdonald, one Of
the employees Of the Metro Vickers
Co., who admitted his own part in
the business OF espionage and wreck
ing, and also gave evidence which in
yolyed Thornton and other Metro
Vicsers engineers, as we'll as some of
he Soviet engineers on trial. Thorn
IONS earlier testimony constituted a
complete confession of his counter
evolutionary wrecking and spying
activities, and contained the decla-
ration that the espionage work had
been guided by the British intelli-
gence service through Richards, ex-
intelligence officer in the British in
terventionist army of the Archangel
expedition, and now Export Director
of the Metro-Vick Company. Though
Thornton made futile attempts to
deny the truth Of his earlier testi-
mony. crushing evidence has been
brought out which completely proves
It.
They Hated Workers Rule.
The Soviet engineers and employ
ees on trial are by their own confess
sion gang of counter Revolutionary
sabotagers who deliberately took the
path of wrecking and disorganizing
Soviet industry, striking at its most
vital part-the electric power sta
tlons-in order to undermine the de-
fensiVe capacity of the U. S. S. r.
and disrupt socialist construction.
In varying degrees these counter
revolutionary criminals we're actu-
ated by motives of material gain. but
all Of them knew and approved of
the anti-Soviet intent Of the activi-
ties in which they had engaged.
Among these self confessed counter
revolutionary wreckers and spies are
men like GusseY, Sokolov and Laba-
nov, who hated the rule of the work
ers and peasants, and were only too
sager to avail themselves Of the op-
portunity Of doing wrecking and
espionage work under the expert di-
rection Of the British engineers who
are now on trial. Gussev and Soko-
Low had in 1918 been fighting the
revolution in the white guard army
OF the bandit Kolchak. Lobanov had
dreams of restoring the capitalist
regime, and eagerly embraced the
chance Of engaging in counter-reyo-
lutionary work. The others fully re-
allied that they were embarking on
the road of high treason, but were
willing to risk their necks in order to
obtain some ill-gotten money and to
give vent to their grudge against the
triumphant proletariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
POLISH STRIKE
WAVE SPREADS

WARSAW, April CBy MaiD -
The striking textile workers of LODI
repudiatsd by the Overwhelming vote
of 1000 to Z, the demand of the
refolnist leaders that they settle on
the basis of q Is per cent wage cut.
The leader of the reforrnist trade I'M
ion, S5czerkowski, who is also pro-
nlirlent member of the Polish Social
list Party, addressed meeting of all
factory delegates in order to push
through the scab proposal. He was
voted down by an overwhelming ma
jority. and continuance of the strike
was decided on.
At the same time mass denolstra-
tons against fascism occurred in the
streets Of Lods Ten thousand work
ers marched to the Offices of the re-
dictionary newspaper, "Kurier Lodzki, -
and smashed all the windows. The
police made a brutal attack on the
demonstrators, killing one woman
and seriously wounding FIVE workers
The workers defended themselves
with stones against the police attack,
overturning street cars, and erecting
barricades.
The LODI strike has become the
signal for wave of strike actions
which is sweeping Poland. In Lwow,
the street car men struck for several
hours against naturalization. The
miners Of the pit Josef Pilsudski'
in the Cracow area partially pre-
vented dismissals. In the pit JAM
ma" the miners are striking against
layoffs. The Cracow unemployed en-
gagged on relief work, downed tools
in protest against relief reductions
and organized a demonstration IN
tcnt S ths cuyes1mer4 butidan0
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18

With this institution Of espionage,
MorozoV combined many features of
modern capitalistic paternalism. He
affected a great concern for the well
fare of the workers. He had barracks
built for them and in the barracks
he had installed central heating and
electricity CA description of these
barracks will be given in a subse-
quent article) He built a school for
the workers children, dispensary,
churches, a bath-house.
THE WORKERS PAY
All this was done by way of benev-
olence, and in return for this benevo-
lence Morozov expected and extract
ed respect for the khOzyain and long
hours of work at miserably low
wages.
Curious remnants of the Morozov
rule are still in evidence. An old,
grey-beared worker in the spinning
mill of Gluhovo, probably the oldest
worker in the entire community, told
the writer that Arseny IvanOyich was
a good man" who ''took care of the
workers." and the bad ones" among
the workers he would punish" like a
father"
did you know Morozov person
slly?" the writer inquired. The old
man threw out his bony chest. "Why,
he would stand talking to me Just
like you are standing now. He would
shake hands with me and say, Good
morning to you, and would inquire
about my woman and the kids"
further inquiries revealed the fact
that this man had worked an average
of ten hours a day for twelve roubles
a month. Now he receives 100 roubles
working seven hours. He is entitled
to pension at full pay, but the old
man would not give in He likes to
work, he likes the new order, but he
thinks that the young generation has
gone to the dogs, what with their lack
Of religion, easy living and all. The
young workers in the shop tease the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
PROVOCATIVE CAMPAIGN AGAINST
SOVIET UNION BY JAPAN
Japanese White Guard Press Stirring Up Anti
Soviet Campaign on Chinese Eastern

ways openly support this campaign,
publishing provocatory charge
against Soviet representa- tives on the
Chinese Eastern.
Izvestla Warns Japan.
concerning this, Izyestia writes
This provocatory campaign shows
Chat new efforts are being made By
certain Japanese adventurist ele-
ments IN Manehuria 10 handicap the
work OF the Chinese Eastern Rail
way. The provocatory character Of
the campaign appears from the fact
Chat the locomotives concerned were
purchased in America by the Russian
Government for the railways of the
Soviet Union, and we're stuck on the
chinese Eastern in 19l6-1919 during
the military Intervention against the
U.S.S.R. KuzletSov, the President of
the Administrator of the Chinese
Eastern Railway, thoroughly ex-
planned the substance of the matter
at the proper time, stating: This Ia
not the first time the engines have
been on Soviet territory and we are
surprised at the uneasiness from the
Chinese side. The Chinese ode
knows that these engines were stuck
on the Chinese Eastern Railway, and
after this there is no room for re-
Carnations against us from the Chi
nese side.' The renewed provocative
noise over these engines must be re-
garded as a new attempt to aggra-
vste the situation of the Chinese
Eastern Railroad and TO handicap the
work Of the Soviet administration
which is taking all measures TO MAIN
tam the normal movement of trains
on the Chinese Eastern In spite ct
tn,cessing suspicious activity, "hs~~
dts" etc. TIE scvsst ratho VIZ -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18

Carl Geiser, delegate who just re-
turned from the South American
Anti-War Congress, will give de-
tailed report of the Congress at a
mass meeting of workers, profession
ais and students on Wednesday,
April 10 at $50 pm, at Irving Plaza,
Irving Place and 18th st.
In an interview with the Daily
Worker, Geiser said, THE most i'm
presSiVe thing about the Congress
was that q large proportion of the
466 delegates were directly elected
from anti-war committees in shops
and factories. Poverty stricken work
ers of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay and
Peru sacrificed from their meager
wages to send these delegates through
military and police terrorized areas
to attend this great Congress-"
Great Majority Worker Delegates
"Of the 466 delegates, 1872 were
workers, as students, and the re-
mainder professionals and intellec-
tualS. Most of the delegates had to
come Illegally, and many were ar
rested on their way home. In many
cases, meetings to elect delegates
were broken up, and delegates ar
rested to prevent their reaching the
Congress.
200 Argentinian Soldiers Represented
"One delegate represented 200
soldiers in the army of Argentina.
This delegate reported that these
soldiers are working within various
army units to win the soldiers over
SO that they may turn their guns
against their own oppressors, instead
Of shooting down their brother work
erS of other countries.
"A woman delegate from Paraguay
reported that house, toulouse re-
cruiting of boys from the age of four
teen up is being conducted by the
army. In one case that she knew
of, where the mother of boy plead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
SOVIET ARMIES
MOVE ON HANkOW
Japan Sends Warships
to Fight Communists

SHANGHAI, April 1.-THE Soviet
armies of China are driving against
HankoW, industrial center Of China,
simultaneously from the north and
the west. A large Red Army is adj
vancing toward HankoW from SEE
chuan Province, while Ho Lung,
Commander General of the Commun-
ist forces, is pushing south into HUI
peh Province. Changyang has al
ready fallen into Soviet hands,
The Kuomintang Government is
bewildered by the rapid Communist
advances along several fronts. 1t
has been forced to concentrate its
best troops, including the crack 48th
division, in the neighborhood of Nam
chang, thus leaving the road to Han
koW fairly free.
In the last week Japan has doubled
her gunboat strength in Hankow, and
now has twelve vessels concentrated
at Hankow. Japan is using the
strong boycott sentiment in HankoW
as a pretext for military concentra-
ton. In reality, as the bourgeois
press comedies, she is using Hankow
as military base for an attack
against the peasants and workers
soviet republic.
An official report Of the results OF
the 1882 anti-Soviet campaign show
that 81, $50 rifles, "a cannon, 1896
machine guns, 6 airpianeS, and Il
radio transmitters fell into the hands
of the advancing red forces. Kuo-
mintang losses this year have beer
even more sensational.
PEIPING, April 1.-THE japanese
forces advanced into the seacost re-
gion TO the cast of Peiping today
scattering Chinese defending troops
into g disorderly retreat. Peitaiho
famous sea resort, fell into japanese
hands. The rich northern mining
district. with heavy British ard Am
ericsn capital investments, is falling
under their military control.
Meanwhile, serious disaffections
have broken out among the Man
chukuo troops in the districts to ths
west and southwest of Mukden
Large numbers Of Manchukuo troops
have gone over to the Chinese de.
Tending armies. These revolts are
occurring in the region around the
gulf of Liaotung, seized by the JAP
anese last autumn, end regarded as
completely "pacifled' after severa
months fighting.
A spread of rebellion among the
Manchukuo forces will tend to cui
the Japanese lines of communication
and isolate the main Manchukuo adj.
vance from its military base Of oper.
atoms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
ARMS EMBARGO
VOTED in HOUSE
Gives Roosevelt Power
for War Action

WASHINGTON, April 17.-By
vote of 252 to ITO the House of Rep
resentatives today adopted the arms
president power to declare an en-
barge on arms to any nation with
out consulting congress.
This is a further step in the adj
ministration program Of taking from
congress powers formerly exercised
by it and placing control in the hands
Of the executive. 1t was roundly de-
nounced by many opponents during
the house debate as measure
against Japan. 1t gives the president
authority to declare an embargo
against any nation which he con-
siders an aggressor without consult
ins anyone.
Needed In War 1rtrigues
1t is clear that the bill is q part
of that whole system of legislation
that has been introduced under the
general formula that the crisis con-
stitutes An emergency equal 10 war,
and that hence emergency war
legislation Is required.
Now that there has already begun
in the Far East the inperialist war
for redivision Of the world between
the big capitalist powers the United
States government insists upon be-
ing in a position TO act quickly. Under
the old conditions only congress could
declare an arms embargo, but now,
if the senate follows the action OF
the house, the president can declare
such an embargo without consulting
congress, or without even calling
congress into session IN case there
is q recess.
VIII Ak Power 70 Wage War
II b yecgoafised that this Is the
final step toward investing in the
president the power to declare war.
In fact number Of congressman
charged that under certain circum-
stances the declaration of an en-
barge can lead directly to war mas
much as the very declaration brands
as an aggressor any nation against
which 1t is directed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
BULLETIN

MOSCOW, April 17.-Leo Kara
khan, assistant Conmisssr Of For
eign affairs made sharp verbal
protest to the Jaranese embassy
Yesterday against anti Soviet pro-
vocations carried on IN Manehuria
by Japan.
A Soviet wharf was seized by the
Japanese IN Manchuria April IL,
and murders ard robberies Of Sow
let citizens are frequent occurrences,
MARKHAM told the Japanese en-
bassy.
The CemmisSar demanded an
immediate reply on what action
Japanese VIII take to stop these
provocations.
MOSCOW, April 17.-IzVestia re-
printed a dispatch from Ciita ir
Eastern Siberia, yesterday, accusins
Japan of preparing to seize the Chi
nese Eastern Railway on May /.
kilograms from Khabarovsk, q
Soviet town on the Manchurian Dor
der. to the Moscow press, state that
in recent days the japanese White
Guard Press, headed by the semi
official Kokytsi Agency, has been
stirring up a vicious anti-Soviet cam
paign directed against the Soviet di-
rectors on the Chinese Eastern Rail
wey administration.
The basis for this proyocatory cam
paign is the allegation that engines
and rolling stock belonging TO the
Chinese Eastern Railway have been
transferred to Soviet territory and
IRE being used on the U.Ss.R rail
way system Japanese Officials on
ne ministry OF the Msnchaktrc rsft-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
Nazi Machine To
Absorb Stahlhelm

BERLIN, April 1.-THE S.Shrhelm.
the organization of German World
War veterans is TO be absorbed into
the Nazi Party machine. Minister
of Labor, Seldte, the present head Of
the Stahlhelm is discussing the exact
terms Of the arnalgamation with
Hitler In Bavaria. Presumably, Hitler
will become Stahlhean leader, and
StehHaetn1 members WA veee ~
grestsls3 esaReer
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the defendants who are Soviet cit
liens, showing that all of them in
the past were either white guards,
bourgeois or kulak.
The article in Pravda continues:
Look at this human refuse, these
scoundrels selling themselves whole
sale and retail to the interventionists.
I'VE Build-They Destroy"
They wanted to deal a blow in the
most sensitive place. They caused a
great deal of damage. We build up,
and they destroy. The workers and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
From Our Moscow Correspondent.

From Our Moscow Correspondent
MOSCOW, April ia Pravda ar
ticle discussing the trial of the wreck
ers and spies writes: "Of the eighteen
defendants, eleven are Soviet citizens.
Who are they? They are shadows
from the slave days in the Russia Of
yesterday. They are left over frag-
ments of the personal---very. ruling
class. The scum of the technical in
teligentsia."
Pravda further gives some bio
graphical data concerning those of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
Output Rise in
U.S.S.R. Exposes
British Press Lies

MOSCOW, April lit is sig
nificant that while the British i'm
perialistS are claiming that the
Metro-VickerS trial is device of
the Soviet Government to cover
up the economic failure and COL
lapse of the Soviet economy; the
production figures in the basic in
dustries Of the U. S. S. R. show
steady and day by day improve
ment.
Today's Pravda gives the figures
of pig-iron production for the
period April to IL, inclusive, as
follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST SOVIET
UNION BACKED BY GREAT BRITAIN
Gang of Counter Revolutionary Sabotagers"
Says Daily Correspondent in Moscow

They committed these dastardly
acts Of treason against the socialist
fatherland the more easily since they
realized that they were being backed
up by foreign agents and agencies.
Macdonald, for instance, had prom
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
nsforming A Company
T0aVn Into A Soviet Community

old man good-naturedly and have
tremendous respect for his status as
a veteran of labor.
But these remnants of the Morozov
regime are few and far between.
With the younger generation the
pre-revolutionary days are fast b.
coming dim legend of the past. the
older generation are too busy build
ing their socialist community to
bother about past memories. Asked
by the writer to tell him something
about the time when Morozov was
the owner of the plant, an elderly
worker replied: What is the use of
bringing it up? We are now our own
khozyayeva plural of kkozyain) and
everything is different now and bet
ter"
SON EMPLOYED
AS AN EXPERT
BY the way, Arseny Iyanovich Mo-
rozov was allowed to remain in the
neighborhood after the workers took
over his plants. Deprived of civic
rights as an exploiter of workers, he
was nevertheless free to walk the
streets of the town of BogorodSk
(now Nokinsk) and do as he pleased
with himself. One of his sons fled
the country, taking some of his
fathers plumber with him, another
had proved his loyalty to the Soviet
regime and is now employed as an
expert in the textile industry. The
Old Morozov died only year ago in
the town of Noginsk, In his last days
he was reconciled to the workers
rule, admitting the superiority of
their management of his plants.
With this background of the past
in mind we shall proceed in the
coming articles to describe the
changes that took place in Gluhovo
in the course of the Is years since
the workers dethroned the "benevo-
lent" tyrant and exploiter and de-
clared themselves masters of their
own destiny.