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have forwarded this declaration 81
Chancellor Hitler.
''To serve parliament and the COVE
eminent with h cir experience
means that the refornlist union offbz
Gals are willing to become part a
the Fascist State. They recognize
the right OF the State chat is, Hit
ler's terror regine) to intervene be-
tween workers and employers" Tbs
German trade unions, founded by
the German Socialists on a class
struggle platform in the 18th CEN
fury, now abjectly claim that they
must be independent Of the employ
ers and the political parties.
The Leiparts and Tarnows OF Ger
man union officialdom are taking the
last steps toward fascism on the road
that D'Aragona and Modriglani took
years before towards Mussolini. Let
the bureaucrats desert to Hitler-the
rank and file Of the organized Ger
man working class will not follow, but
will join the Communists in prepar-
ing for the overthrow Of the Nasi
Fascist regime.
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eight army divisions in the South in
order to crush the peasant and work
ers Soviets, while he sent only four
divisions north to guard Peiping
against the Japanese advance. OF
the eight divisions sent against the
Communists, five are admitted by
bourgeois sources to be already I'M
reliable. A report OF serious dissatis-
faction has been brutally suppressed
These divisions are refusing to carry
on the work Of butchering the Chi
nese people for which they were en-
ployed, and have consistently retreat
ed before the Soviet armies.
Meantime, reports OF Civil War
near Pukow on the north bank of
the Yangtse opposite Marking led to
q serious break in the Shanghai stock
and bond market yesterday.
The fall Of Hankow, toward which
the Chinese Soviet forces are again
advancing with tremendous strides,
would mean that the Yangtze Valley,
the industrial center Of China, falls
under the control of the advancing
Soviet armies.
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tuteS which could be used against
Yardley. He was released, and his
manuscript returned to him.
Secretary Of State Hull sent for
Yardley, and In conference here at
tempted to persuade Yardley not to
publish the book. Yardley refused,
and the state department hurriedly
pushed the present bill through the
house.
Hardly had tts bill passed the
house before storm of protest be-
gan. This protest has already as
sumed such proportions that the ad-
nlinistration has promised to revise
it in the senate, President Roosevelt
has denied responsibility for the
measure, and there Is an attempt to
give the impression that he opposes
It.
It is possible that mass pressure
will force revision in the present
form OF the bill, but not SUFFICIENT
revision to lift the ban on Yardley's
book. The capitalist government
cannot afford to have either other
imperialist nations or its own work
ingclass know what bargains it has
cooked up behind the scenes for the
division OF China and for war on the
Soviet Union.
Whatever notifications are made
in the bill, it will remain vicious
censorship law, restricting freedom
Of press and speech.
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REPORT LUDWIG
REM Is KILLED
Nazi MurderC Campaign
Continues Full Force

BERLIN, March % (By MaiD -
A dispatch from the International of
Proletarian Esperantists states thas
Comrade Ludwig Rem has been
murdered in prison by the fascist
butchers. Comrade Rem was one of
the leading revolutionary writer's in
Germany; he was active i'll the anti
war fight of the International ReYo-
lutionary Writers Federation, and
was President of the Association Of
Revolutionary Esperantist Writers.
BERLIN, March 6 by Maid -
Two leaders OF the Communist Party
in Essen were "shot while attempt
ing to escape" from prison, accord
ing to the LokaI Anzciger. Comrades
Longueville and Klassen, who were
imprisoned with 400 others, were
taken to the courtyard Of the tenn
porary prison and murdered in colo
blood by storm troop guards. This
phrase "shot while attempting
escape" Is the international police
phrase for these killings.
BERLIN, April '0.-The Hitler Gov
eminent will mobilize all youths be-
tween II and Is in a nationwide
compulsory labor system under mill
tary discipline. Even bourgeois press
correspondents recognize that this
plan is aimed not at curing unem-
ployment but at building up a
trained reserve army for the coming
war.
BERLIN, April 10-Fearing larger
revolutionary demonstrations Of the
German workers, Hitler has declared
May Day national holiday. But an
attempt will be made to turn May LIST
into DAY for Nazi demonstrations.
PRAGUE, April 10.--A German
Communist. Martin, who had taken
refuge in Czecho-Slovakis, was kid
mapped last night by four Nazis, and
taken across the German border
where death probably awaits him.
Storm troopers have been instructed
to form secret units in Bohemia with
the purpose Of wiping out "Marxisrn"
| there.
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of the heroes OF the Second Interna-
tional the revolutionary vanguard Of
the working class has moved forward,
organized the Communist Interna-
tional and, today, the sections of the
Communist International carry out
in practice the feminist position
that is to say, the only revolutionary
position-in the fight against i'm
pertalist war.
AS the United States irnperialist
power plunges toward war greater
demands for organizing the struggle
against capitalism and war imposed
upon the working class and its revo-
lutionary vanguard, the Communist
Party Of the United States.
In spite of all the weaknesses of
the revolutionary movement, no one
can deny that we are SO immeasur-
ably stronger today than we were
on the eve of the declaration of war
in 1917, that comparison seems al
most grotesque.
First and foremost we have Com
munist Party that grew out of the
experiences of the World War and the
Bolshevik revolution in old Russia
Party that was born in the midst
of the struggle against the treachery
of the leaders Of the parties of the
Second International.
Fight own Ruling Class.
1t Is this Party that is the guaran-
tee to the working class that at
every step leading up to imperialist
UVa LfIrjY]n tte
will be carried out an implscable
struggle to cripple the war machine
to weaken "our own" irnperialist
power and to fight to turn the i'm
perialist war into civil war. 1t is
the guarantee that the working class
will not be left without leadership in
this war.
This fight against war is not some
thing In the future. 1t is a funda-
mental problem of today. Nothing
could be more dangerous than tc
underestimate the approach OF an
other world war, the danger OF inter-
vention against the Soviet Union
which grows greater with the ever
sharpening conflict between the i'm
perialist powers themselves.
We Can Defeat r-Mongers.
While we have learned much about
how to fight against imperialist war
to expose and combat the treachery
Of the social-fascists, there are arts.
ing new illusions that need to be
fought. One Of the worst of these
and one that is quite prevalent, is
the fatalistic illusion that war is
bound to come and that with wal
only will come revolution. Such g
conception can only mean that VIC
renounce the figt, to prevent wal
and that we abandon revolutionary
activity until war comes. In prac.
tice 1t means to stop all struggle.
In this connection Comrade Kuusi.
men, in his report to the Twelfth
plenurn OF the Executive Committee
OF the Communist International
stated
IF such an opportunist attitude
was wrong four or five years ago,
1t would be a hundred times more
erroneous in the present situation,
with the sterilization Of capitalism
a thing Of the past. As far as it
depends upon our struggle, there
will not be any war first at all,
1t will come TO revolution before
the bourgeoisie begins the war
this Is the way the question Is put
from the Communist point OF view.
9st Sss ysvueutsoa does net depend
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SAS+AAAP q CSAAoO1 oll1p OII SONCII-
ment employees and newspaper
men in order that the Roose-
welt government may pursue its anti
working class policies internally and
its imperialist designs abroad with
out the knowledge Of the public.
The bill was drafted by the De-
partment Of Justice on a hurry-up
call from Secretary OF State Hull. In
the house, the bill was passed 2ss to
20, under a special rule limiting de-
bate. Administration spokesman re-
fused to divulge the reason for the
measure, except to say that the State
Department desired it.
War Plots.
Behind the hssty passage of the
bill, however, lies the story Of I'M
peT1alist intrigue between the United
States and Japan, and the irnmedi-
ate danger of these war plots being
revealed.
Yardley, author Of the book ''IT1e
American Star Chamber" and former
member Of the intelligence service Of
the army, had written a book on
japanese secret diplomacy, based on
code messages between the Wash
ington government and Toxic which
he had, in some manner, intercepted.
In New York City last month, Yard
ley was taken into custody by the
federal district attorney, and his
manuscript confiscated. The federal
government was then perplexed to
discover that there were not sta
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WESTERN AUSTRALIA VOTES TO
SECEDE FROM COMMONWEALTH
Action Indicates Further Loosening of British
Empire Ties

PERTH, Western Australia, April
l--In a referendum vote the state
of Western Australia voted yesterday
to secede from the Australian COM
monwealth. The renegade laborite
Joseph A. Lyons, National prime mi
mister, who personally travelled from
Canberrs, the capitol of Australia, to
carry on a campaign against seces-
sion was virtually hooteo from the
state.
British Syinpathizerg Win,
Although regarded as q victory for
the so-called primary producers who
fought against the policy Of the Au-
stralian government in maintaining
the highest import tariff in the whole
world, the secession in reality indi-
Gates further difficulties for Britain,
inasmuch as 1t shows that the big
states of New South Wales and Vic
toria, in which are located the big
cities of Sydney and Melbourne, will
more completely dominate the Com
monwealth government 1t is quite
certain that big British interests,
such as Dalghety d Company, were
giving active support to the seces-
sion movement. 1t is hardly likely
that the Commonwealth will permit
complete separation.
The Australian Conflict.
For years, especially since the
world war, the capitalist class Of
Australia has been moving away
from Britain. It's capitalists have
played of British imperialism against
American Imperialism to gain advan-
ages for itself.
The industrialistS, whose political
4pokesnen in New South Wales, Vic
toria and Queensland have been the
Tabor Party, have erected the highest
ariff walls in the world in order TO
protect their infant industries"
This has affected the big pastoral
.oncerns, the rich owners Of sheep
tstions, the wool dealers (AustrsAe
the greatest w'cc,-srcsAe-ts.s ecess-
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American Social Democracy and
Its Treachery in the World War
Movement in the United States Is Immeasur-
ably Stronger Than in 1917

are responsible, tried to foster the
fiction of aggressor nations attacking
innocent nations. The New York
Call, in August, 1914, said;
German Socialists have taken
the stand that it was necessary to
repel the Russian invasion; that
Russia, as a reactionary power,
threatened the Socialist cause more
than any other factor But this
does not mean that they are re-
conciled to German Imperialism
and militarism. 1t is, in their
minds, a case of choosing the least
Of two evils, and no Socialist Is
hypocritical enough to make 6 Nr-
tue out Of necessity"
On January 9, 1915, Conrade
j. Louis Engdahl, editor Of the
American Socialist" published an
editorial in support Of Karl Leib-
knecht's vote against the KAISER
war credits and attacked the official
leadership of the German social
democracy. For that he was threat
ened with removal by the National
Executive Committee.
While carrying out such open sup
port Of the ocial-democratic leaders
of Germany and of other countries
1t was necessary for the Socialist
Party leadership to indulge in pacifist
gestures to maintain leadership over
the rank and file Socialist Party
members and supporters. This was
done by adopting peace policy,
which demanded an end to the wal
with everything remaining just as II
was before. This was stated by Hill
quit in the Metropolitan Magazine
articles, as follows:
From the true Socialist view
point the most satisfactory solution
OF the great Sanguinary conflict of
the nation lies in draw, cessa-
ton OF hostilities from sheer ex-
haustion without determining any
thing"
1t is clear that such position Is
mockery of any effective anti wal
struggle. There is not the faintest
semblance Of anything relating to the
class struggle in such a policy. 1t Is
OF q piece with the viewpoint OF
Trotsky, who put forth the slogan
neither victory nor DEATH" as against
Lenins demand to utilize the eco
nomic and political crisis arising Out
OF the war to turn the war between
nations into civil war against CAPT.
talisrn.
Such slogan is the same as stand
ing on the platform of a social.
chauvinism. 1t means to abandon
the class struggle and to defend
"ene's own" government from de-
/ feat.
Denounced Fighters Against War.
| AS against such capitulation to i'm.
perialism the Bolsheviks, under Lenin
put forth the only correct revolu.
tionary policy for the fight against
war; that was that it Is the duty
Of revolutionists to fight their own
capitalist class, to do everything pos
sible to bring about the defeat O
zones own" imperialist government
| thereby weakening the ruling class Sc
that more devastating revolutionar!
/ blows could be delivered against it
7 Those members OF the Socialis'
Party who put forth demands sp.
( proceeding the feminist position vert
rolndly denounced as anarchists,
"disrupters" bent upon swaying 80.
cislism" away from Civilized meth.
DDS" Of struggle onto the patti, q
violent upheaval
ynt css Y uee SssnstEsess se10ya!
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RAID AND ARREST
co NJ MUNISTS IN
MANY COUNTRIES

ESTANBUL, Turkey, Mar. n. (By
maiD Sixteen Communists-chiefly
workers in the local rug factories
were arrested today in Broussa, which
the police consider the center of
Communist activity in Turkey.
HEISINGFORS, Finland, Mar. n.
(By nsiD During the extensive po-
lice raids throughout Finland, 81
more Communists were arrested to-
Gay. The total number arrested is
now ITO, including many women.
Most Of those arrested are to be tried
for high treason.
BUCHAREST, Runania, Mar. 81
(By mail) The Sigurarza, the Roll
nlanian political police, claims it has
discovered q Communist students Or
ganization in Kishinev, capital Of
Bessarabia Six men students and
four girl students, from IL TO II years
Of age, were arrested, alleged TO be
members Of the central committee Of
the Kishinev students organization.
Many more arrests are expected.
. Cavalrymen Arrested.
SOFIA, April 10.-Nine cavalry
troopers Of the Rahovo garrison and
fourteen soldiers Of the garrison at
Nikipol were arrested yesterday on
charges of engaging in Communist
propaganda among their comrades
A special session of the War Council
was held In Sofia to consider the
situation created by the formation
Of Communist cells In the Bulgarian
army.
This follows the recent dissolution
by force Of the Sofia Municipal CotIn-
ell, to which an almost complete slate
Of Communist deputies had been
elected; and the arrest of two Com
munist members of the Sobranje, or
National Assembly, for organizing
Communist units in the army. The
question Of the expulsion Of all COM
nunist deputies from the sobranje
is now raised by the terror-stricken
bourgeois govermn1snt-tit In tbs
nsess Dangerous psgt az US ccANecsi
Hssaax,ssss Sse st..sW
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upon us alone, but also upon the
objective factors of the revolution
airy crisis; and, IN the event Of the
bourgeoisie beginning the war, be-
fore we can begin the revolution,
we, nothing daunted, shall utilize
the war to accelerate the reyolu-
ton; we shall do everything in our
power to convert it into conquest
of power by the proletariat. This
is how the question is put in a Len
mist manner"
This means that today, In COM
batting the war-mongers, 1t is essen
tial that we take up with the great
est determination every struggle
against capitalism. Especially SHOULD
the need Tor such policy be plair
today, when the Roosevelt admins
tration more and more resorts tx
military measures and forms of mill
tarism in the intensified drive against
the standards Of life of the toilins
masses.
United action of the toiling masses
is essential for the carrying forward
Of this struggle. In this situation
those reactionary leaders Of the So.
cialist Party Of this country and o.
other countries in the world who try
to prevent the building OF a united
front to fight against fascism, CAPT.
talism and war, are yet today, il
other circumstances and with otheI
forms, actually aiding the capitals
class in its drive toward war.
The heaviest blows against TIN
wsr-mongers can be delivered by 6
working class that, on the basis o
the everyday fight. turns the ter
rifle offensive against the toilin,
masses into counter-cffensivt
asetnst oepttaMzs.
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The red armies are converg-
ing on Hankow, the Pittsburgh
of China, center of steel, ship
building, and coal, along four differ
ent lines Of advance. Red armies are
moving from Szechwan Province in
the far west into Hupeh Province.
AT the same time Ho-lung, red army
leader, is leading the Red Army
troops in Northwest Human, and
driving from there toward Poyang
Lake which guards the Southeast
ern approach to HankoW. From the
east, Communist armies from Kiang-
81 are invading Hupeh Province at
Taungchang and are approaching
Kinkow.
The fourth military advance is
through Hinkwo toward Tayeh.
The red armies have captured Flu
chow recently, and drove westward
on 3 rapid 300-mile advance toward
Changsu which fell into the hands
Of the Souets few days ago. In
Anhwei the Lotien- Hwangan- Schang-
chen triangle is already in the hands
Of the SovietS.
Editors Note .-HsnkoW Is stu
ated in Hupeh Province, densely
populated industrial region in the
center of China. Human is large
province directly south of Hankow.
Ktsngsi Province is southeast of Han
kow and borders Human on the West,
while Szechuan is large mountain
Gus region in the extreme west of
China proper. AnhWei is northeast
Of Hankow and near the nationalist
capital of China, Marking. Hankow
is about thousand miles directly to
the south Of Peiping, 500 miles north
of Canton.
Chang Kai-shek, leader Of the Ma
tionalist Government and butcher of
the Chinese Communists in 1927, left
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5000 DUBLIN
R. R. MEN OUT
FOR MOREWAGES
Struggle Spreading
Thru Free State;
North May Join

DUBLIN, April 1O.-Workers On
tbs Great Southern Railway went
on strike today, after n mass meet
ing had decided to repudiate the
settlement fixed up by the trade
union leadership with the compa-
MES. The workers ars demanding
an increase in wages
Five thousand Dublin railway
men are out. No trains were per
nitted to leave the Irish capital last
night.
The strike Is spreading through
the whole Free State, and it seems
likely that the entire railroad serv-
ice of Ireland may be stopped since
the settlement in the Great North
ern Railway strike may be repudi-
ated by the workers. This strike
was against a proposed wage cut of
10 per cent, and was ended only
after the Northern railways had been
tied up for over nine weeks.
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But the Revolutionary
BY H. NJ. WICKS


On this sixteenth anniversary OF
the entrance Of the United States in
to the world war, at time when
we are in transition to a new round
OF wars and revolutions, it Is neces-
sary to consider how far we have
advanced as a fighting force against
capitalism and war.
Sixteen years ago, when the ad-
ministration of Woodrow Wilson
hurled the youth and young man
hood of this country into the
sf1ambles OF the world war, there was
no Communist Party in this country.
The Socialist Party was supposed
to be the revolutionary leadership of
the working class, but its leaders saw
to it that never, at any time between
the outbreak of the war in Europe in
1914 and the declaration Of war by
the United States in 1917, was there
any real struggle against imperialist
war.
From August, 1914, until April g.
1917, the day the United States gov
eminent declared war, there was nc
question that the official leadership
of the Socialist Party in the United
States was merely an echo Of the
monStrouS betrayals Of the German
social-democracy-the Kaiser social
lists.
Hillquit's Apology for Traitors.
Morris Hillquit, in a series of ar
ticleS in the Metropolitan Magazine
in 1915, denied that the international
socialist movement had suffered In
any way from the actions Of the
Kaiser socialists and the social
patriots in other countries who
rushed TO the defense of their I'M
perialiSt governments. In the March
1915, number of that magazine Hill
quit said:
'TThe great bulk OF the five and
z half million Socialists and So
clalist voters of Germany and Aug
tria spontaneously and silnultsne-
ously rallied TO the support Of their
countries as soon as war had been
declared. They had no opportunity
for mutual consultation. They
acted on impulse, which broke
through with elemental force. 1t
was not e, decision, not policy
1t was history, and history cannot
be scolded or praised. It must be
understood.
Neither England nor Russia Is
seriously threatened by hostile in
vasion or occupation Of its terri
tory. >.
Physically the Socialist Interna-
tional lies bleeding at the feet Of
the Moloch Of capitalist militar-
ism, but morally and spiritually it
remains unscathed."
Hillquit tries to conceal the be.
trayal of the social-democratic lead.
ers by the contemplate SANDER tha
the millions of workers who sup.
ported social-democracy were respon.
sible. He does not say that at the
time they needed leadership theiI
leaders went over to the side Of tht
wsr-mongers and hid behind the po-
lice censorship to escape the fury o.
the betrayed masses
Berger in his Milwaukee Leader
was as outspoken as any German
chauYnist against England, declaring
on August 23rd that the action o.
England is the most contemplate o
any nation in this bloody struggle.
The leadership OF the American
Socialist Party, instead Of showing
THAT the war Us the result ct clss1-
- s.reess1Ss* powers ~ ~ vsecs-
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japanese Government
Orders 100000 Tons
of Coal from Mexico

The Wall Street Journal reports
that the Japanese government has
ordered 100000 metric tons of coal
on trial basis from mining COM
panies in the state of Coahuila Mex
leo. The report has been confirmed
by the Mexican Ministry of National
Economy, which states TINT the coal
will be taken on by Japanese govern
ment freighters at west coast Mex-
lean ports.
The Ministry declares that Japan
will place further AID perhaps larger
orders If it finds this coal suitable.
Why Japan should seek to IMPORT
coal from Mexico, which is thou
sands Of milef away, when it cen OBJ
tain all the coal it requires for its
ordinary, legitimate needs from
nearby MHnchuria, can be answered
only by the closeness of a major con-
flict with the Soviet Union. Japan
is building up its reserves of such
an essential war commodity as coal
in order to be fully prepared when
the war finally msterializes.