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The daily worker., 1933-06-03
BELGIUM UNDER
WAGE CUT RULE
EconomyProgram Hits
Pensions and Relief

BRUSSELS, June 2.-The Belgian
government has Just been voted full
powers for a period of three months
to establish an economy dictator
ship; and has issued a series of de-
crees in order to place squarely on
the backs of the working class the
full weight of the financial crisis. Al
ready reductions have been an
nounced in the pay and allowances of
government employees. Old age pen
Sions, veterans pensions, and unem-
ployment benefit have all been re-
ducd. The export trade. and the
small professional men, are to be as
sisted by new taxes which will be
paid mainly by the poorer classes.
Dumping Of exports, and the conse-
quent putting out of jobs of workers
in other countries, and lowering of
the standard of life of those who re-
main in employment, are to be ef-
fected by further depressing the
standards of the Belgian workers.
Workers Resistance Growing.
The veterans organizations have
already acted, and are planning
demonstration Sunday against the re-
duction in their pensions. Great I'M
employed demonstrations are taking
place, under the leadership of the
Communist Party and the Red Trade
Unions.
The cuts affect hundreds of thous-
ands of government employees on the
state railways, tens of thousands of
ex-soldiers, countless numbers of un-
employed workers. The Communist
Party of Belgium has already placed
itself at the head of the mass resist
ance of the working class to this
frontal attack by the starvation die
tatorship of Jaspar.
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
BY KARL RADEK.

Thirteen years have passed since
the Entente Powers, who together
with the United States defeated the
Powers of the Triple Entente, set
about regulating" the state of the
world. The Peace Treaties of Yer
sailles, Trianon, Neuilly, and Laus-
anne, pursued the aim of creating
suck prerequisites for the further ex-
istence Of capitalism as would enable
the bougeoisie to skim the cream off
the milk. Everything the Communist
International has written with regard
to these treaties and the position aris-
ing out of them, everything that
Lenin wrote on the Treaty of YER
sailleS, has proved itself to be the
stern truth. Who would now dispute
those words of Lenin, which he wrote
on May II, 1920:
"The collapse of the capitalist gov
ernment is inevitable, for everyone
can see that new war like the Great
War is unavoidable, if the imperial
lists and the bourgeoisie retain power.
New quarrels and conflicts are grow
ing up between Japan and America.
the bases for which have been Great
ed during a decade of the history of
the diplomacy of the two countries.
War is unavoidable on the basis of
private ownership. The war between
Great Britain, which has acquired
colonies by robbery, and France.
which feels itself to have been de-
frauded, is inevitable. No one knows
where and how the war will break
out, but it is matter of common
observation, knowledge, and CONVEX
sation, that preparations for a new
war are inevitably being made.
More Facts Available
When Lenin wrote these words
there was much that he did not know
that we know today as result of
the voluminous literature that has
appeared since that time in the form
OF memoirs, and as result of the
mass of documentary statements that
have become known since then. At
that time Lenin could not know all
this. He could not know that Glenn
enceau on his return from India com
planned to Lloyd George, whom he
visited in London, that Great Britain
had turned round upon France and
that Lloyd George smilingly answer
ed him: "Great Britain has only re-
turned to her old policy. Why should
that astonish your" At that time
Lenin could not know of the letter
written on July 80, 1919. to Wilson
by his chief adviser, Colonel House.
who had travelled to London after
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
Conflicts in the Nazi
Camp Splits Capitalists

VIENNA, June 2.-The Nazi gov
ernment has placed General von
Schleicher, former Chancellor of
Germany, under arrest, and impri-
soned him in Kuestrin Fortress, ac-
cording to dispatches from Berlin.
The "Deutsche Allgemeine zeitung."
of Berlin, leading big business organ.
has been suspended for three months
for protesting against the imposition
Of the 1000 mark tourist fee on visas
e ''-trio. Two of the members of
the board Of the Deutsche Bank,
). .gsSsImann and Frank, both Jews,
have been forced to resign.
These reports are taken to indicate
that all is not well within the bour-
geois camp in Germany, with an
tagonisms within the bourgeois camp
breaking out into sharp open conflict
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
S P A r K S

WELL, the big Chicago Worlds Fair
W is on. A century of ProgressP
More than 100000 people have ap-
piled for jobs since the thing started.
The total number of employees is
not more than 800.
AT Geneva, where the Disarmament
n (don't make me Iaugh) Confer
ences are going on, the delegates have
decided that they have been jawing
long enough. Now they are getting
down to business. They are going
into secret session, ito speed up the
parleys."
Naturally, in public sessions they
can't get anything done.
In secret session, they get down to
brass tackS, and go about their real
job Of guaranteeing bigger and better
armies and navies.
CENATOR GLASS said yesterday at
~ the Morgan investigations that
'he might try to qualify as the law
yer for j. P Morgan.
What nice ambition for a Morgan
investigator
MR. O'SHEA, the Superintendent of
IW the New York City schools is
making touching pleas for the "wel-
fare Of the children"
What he has in mind is that the
New York teachers should begin to
prepare themselves for the next wage
cut.
O'Shea has lively feeling that the
New York school teachers should
make Sacrifices"
How about suggesting Sacrifices"
to the bankers? Go away, you must
be Red.
HHANDI has just finished his IA
VI day fast" Looking better than
ever.
Five Indian workers have just died
from the effects of 6-day fast and
imprisonment in one of the Indian
jails.
Doesn't that suggest that there is
quite a difference in the way the
British police treat real revolutionary
workers and a fake revolutionary"
decoy for the Indian masses?
THEY take pretty good care of
Ghandi. They need his services
too badly, to let him get into any
real trouble.
NAVAL Boards Policy Unchanged by
N Akron Crash, reads a headline.
They'll just go on building rotten air
ships as before.
WE have the factories! Who is
w "we"? The capitalist class. The
workers are thrown into the street
because the owners of the factories
cannot make any profit out of the
work of the workers. Let the work
ers take the factories, and their will
be work for all.
The workers in the Soviet Union
have abolished all crises and unem-
ployment by simply taking the run
ming of things into their own hands.
The daily worker., 1933-06-03

the signing Of the Treaty Of YER
Sailles:
"The relations between the two
countries Great Britain and the
U.SA.) are beginning to assume the
same character as the relations be-
tween Germany and England before
the war" (House, Intimate Papers, >
Vol. ", p. 495).
Capitalist Contradictions
Without knowing all this, simply
as the result Of a MarxiSt analysis
of the situation, Lenin, in his draft
for pamphlet on tax in kind in
March, 1921, drew up the following
table for the mutual relations Of the
imperialist powers after the war
THE Entente against Germany,
America against Japan (and Great
Britain,
America against Europe,
The imperialist world against Asia"
Since then, of course, number OF
concrete changes in the mutual re-
lations Of the various capitalist pow
ers have occurred. 1t Is still i'm
possible to say quite precisely what
effectively will be the grouping of
the imperialist forces in the event
of the war. But the outlines, as well
as the causes of the impoSsibility of
maintaining the conditions which
arose as result of the war in 1919,
are clear.
fostering Wounds.
The policy of reparations is bank
rupt, for reparations enormously
intensified the postwar crisis for
capitalism. The burden of interallied
debts is rope round the neck of
international capital that it cannot
shake off. The frontiers that were
drawn with the sword cut to pieces
the living bodies Of number of
European nations and the wounds
caused thereby are fostering and
causing continual fever.
The colonial policy of the Great
Powers is perpetually on volcano.
For not one moment has India set
tied down. If British imperialism
succeeds from time to time in smoth-
ering the growing wave of the peoples
movement by acts Of brutal repres-
sion, all the social forces unite in the
struggle against British imperialism
that are destined to prepare the end
of the rule of British imperialism on
the great continent Of India. IL the
clutches of world imperialism China
cannot solve the problem without
whose solution 1t must die of
hunger and become the source Of
severe shocks for the continent Of
Asia.
Still more, there exists this con-
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
Chicago Workers
Force City, Fair
To DiSavOW Nazi
Weidemann in Hiding
With Day and Night
Police Escort

CHICAGO, June 2.-Hans Weide-
mann and his mysterious "compan-
ion," sent to the Worlds Fair at Chi
cago as artistic ENJOYS" of Hitler'S
Fascist government, are not finding
the kind of welcome they bargained
for. Spirited away from the Brook
lyn pier to evade the protest dem
onstration Of New York'S workers,
Weidemann has ever since found
himself the guest" of a police escort
almost every minute of the day and
night.
Weidemann Arrives Secretly.
When Weidemann and his "com-
panion" secretly arrived in Chicago
by plane, they we're rushed off to a
secret destination under heavy police
escort. Before Weidemann ever ar
rived, the workers of Chicago had
made known in no uncertain terms
what they though Of the Hitler en-
voy's visit.
A delegation of rs representatives
of trade unions, language groups and
intellectualS, elected by a united front
anti-Fascist conference representing
5000 Chicago workers on May %,
went to the Fair headquarters, de-
manding that mo representative
from the Hitler government be Off
cially received or allowed to speak"
"NO Official Standing"
The Fair management assured
them that Weidemann had not been
invited and was not to be received
as an official guest. The delegation
made similar demand at City Hall
and were assured by the Mayors Of
flee that Weidemann has no official
standing in Chicago and had not been
invited by the City Administration.
The delegation protested to the
German Consulate against Weide-
mann's presence in the city and
handed him resolution adopted at
public mass meeting, condemning
the bloody reign of terror instituted
by the Hitler Fascist regime in Ger
many"
At a large meeting of Chicagos ar
lists, called to discuss certain art
problems in connection with the
Worlds Fair, resolution denouncing
Weidemann and the government he
represents was carried by large ma
jority.
Thus the Worlds Fair says that
the artist" Weidemann is not its
guest, the City of Chicago says the
same, and so do his fellow artists
all through the mass pressure of Chi
cago's workers. And the workers
would just like to ask him a few
questions, if he can get away from
his policeman friends for little
while.
LONDON, June 2-Plans for
placing German professors ousted by
the Fascist regime in posts in other
countries took tangible shape yes
terday when the newly formed Aca-
denic Assistance Council announced
that four German acedemicians had
been invited to teach at the London
School of Economics. The fellows of
an Oxford college are to contribute
part OF their salaries to finance an
extra German colleague.
Rush relief funds for the victims
Of German fascist terror to the Ma
of German Fascism, rs Fifth Avenue,
tional Committee for Aid to Victims
New York City.
Organize inclusive anti-f scist
united front committees in your city
or town. Prepare for the National
Anti-Fascist Day, June 24l
The daily worker., 1933-06-03

want, misery and ruin which have
been brought abort by postwar capt.
talism.
But this will be a socialist revision.
No new grouping of imperialist Pow
ers and no rediyision OF the world
on the basis of the predonninance Of
a new imperialist group over the vic
torious Powers can bring about Just
peace. a..
Only the victory of the proletarian
revolution and of. the revolution of
the colonial peoples can rid the world
OF the horrors of new imperialist
war, and, can pave the way for the
true and peaceful solution of the ques-
tons at issue.
Apart from its attitude towards i'm
perialism, towards the question of the
self determination, of peoples and to-
wards imperialist wars, the interna-
tional proletariat-the enemy of the
Versailles Treaty-cannot range it.
Eelf on the side Of those imperialist
Powers who wish to carry out re-
division Of the world amidst the con-
Migration of a new imperialist war.
The fight against the peril of a
new irnperialist war will be the CEN
tral task of the international proletar-
lat. With it is closely bound up the
struggle against fascism. The historic
function of international fascism con-
sists in postpol1ing the moment of
the complete overthrow of capitalism
by means Of the complete enslave-
ment OF the masses in order to drive
them into the shambles of new i'm
perialist war.
Soviet Union Leads Fight for Peace.
The proletariat of the Soviet Union
is the leader of the international pro-
letariat in its fight for peace. The
Workers and Peasants State came to
birth in the struggle for peace and
has not only stood firm, during all the
fifteen years of its existence, as the
guardian of its own peace, but 1t has
always with the utmost consistency
appeared in the international arena
as champion Of peace.
The Soviet State is fighting for
peace, not only because the proletariat
OF the U.S.S.R. needs peace in order
to build up socialism in its territory,
which has been freed from the yoke
OF the bourgeoisie; 1t is fighting for
peace because 1t Is deeply convinced
that peace is the best prerequisite for
the victory of socialism on a world
scale. The miserable defenders of the
international bourgeoisie have always
accused the Soviet Union of contem-
plating war, and hoping that by
means Of the disturbances Of war the
victory OF the international proletar-
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
Costa Rican Workers
Demand Freedom for
Nine Sc0ttsboro Boys

PORT LIMON, Costa Rica-Negro
and white workers here have sent
the following telegram to President
Roosevelt and to Governor Miller of
Alabama:
I'VE, Negro and white people of
Port Limon, Costa Rica, present at
a meeting of the U. N. 1. A. Hall,
convinced of the innocence of the
nine Scottsboro boys. denounce the
actions of the authorities of the
state of Alabama, and the refusal of
the president of the United States
to take action to Hberate these boys.
We demand that the Scottsboro boys
be released Immediately.
The daily worker., 1933-06-03

tradiction in the Versailles system:
that French imperialism was victori-
GUS with the help of British and
American imperialism, whereas the
latter, since the war, have no longer
any wish to defend what France has
gained for herself by her arms.
A number Of imperialist powers
were left unsatisied at the end of
the war. Italy and Japan demand
re-diVision of the world. The United
States, the greatest and richest i'm
perialist power, has not only no
colonies worth mentioning, but also
has no naval base for its fleet, which
after the war set itself the task of
achieving equality at least with the
British feet
Revision and Division
The completc vision of the Treaty
Of Versailles is demanded. by the
capitalist countries that were beaten
in the war. These are no longer in
1888 what they were in 1919. They
have restored their economic and
military machinery. A generation has
grown up in these countries that does
not remember the defeat, but is real
ising its consequences. As a coun-
terblast to the cry for revision of the
Versailles Treaty, behind which turks
the watchword of a fresh, wholesale
division of the world, can be heard the
cry for the preservation of the status
quo.
Even such a question as that of
reparations and inter-allied debts,
for the solution of which the simple
economic fact should serve. as a basis,
that no country can pay, its debts
otherwise than with its exports, and
that therefore every country on whom
the burden of debts is placed is COM
PEELED to harm it's opponent by dump
ing = even this question cannot be
solved on the basis of this simple
consideration. Against the liquidation
of inter-allied debts the fact tells
that these debts would fall on the
shoulders of the American taxpayer,
were France, Great Britain, etc, to
be freed of them. The only solu-
ton, namely the cancellation of all
war debts, would mean an enormous
blow for the coupon-clippers, and for
finance capital-and hence the bour-
geoisie will not agree to it.
Thirteen years have passed since
the Treaty of Versailles Unfortu-
nately it was impossible for the pro-
letariat Of the leading capitalist coun-
tries in these 13 years to go the road
that the proletariat of the Soviet
Union has gone. 1t was still impos-
sible for 1t to wrest the power from
the hands of the capitalist cliques
The daily worker., 1933-06-03

Workers drafted for these public
works projects Will face total loss Of
their unemployment relief If they
refuse to work without pay.
Less Than Per Cent Affected
There are over 100000 unemploy-
ed in Germany today, with even tbs
official Nazi figures admitting over
100000 without work. Even with
this relief program" in operation
less than per cent of the officially
admitted unemployed total would re-
ceive jobs.
Even bourgeois foreign journalists
in Berlin express their fears that the
German working masses will not take
kindly to the Hitler starvation forced
labor plan.
Labor Trustees" to Dictate In
Factories
In order to stif1e any workers la
Dor protests against these forced la
Dor conditions the Reich Cabinet has
adopted a law creating '1abor trust
ees" who are empowered to take over
the place of the big trade unions in
settling the working conditions and
wage scales which Shall be binding
on all parties concernedl" This law
depriveS even the Fascist trade un-
ions of the right to conclude wage
agreements, right which Is con-
ceded even by the Fascist corpora
tions" in Italy. Apparently Hitler
does not trust the workers - even
those in the Nazi organizations-to
swallow his starvation and slavery
program without resistance.
Inflated Currency to Finance Project
The projects are to be financed by
the issue of one billion marks lover
$270, 0,000,000) in unsecured currency
under "the sole and authoritative
supervision" of DR.. Schacht, Presi-
dent Of the Reichsbank. Schacht is
notorious as an imitation advocate
and the issue of these Treasury notes
without any backing whatsoever
marks Germany'S first plunge down
the steep and slippery road Of cur
rency initiation. The recent "purg-
ing" of all non-NaZi elements from
the German currency printing bu-
reau means that the Hitler regime
wants no check whatever on the
amount of currency printed.
Subsidize Marriages to Breed Soldiers
Another 500,000,000 marks of un-
secured paper money is to be used
in reducing interest rates per cent
on loans made to the big agrarian
interests, as well as to subsidize mar
riages, with the announced intention
OF stopping Germany's falling birth
rate. The Hitler regime wants more
cannon-fodder, openly saying that it
regards the dropping birth rate as
especially menacing to national de-
fense"
Additional funds to pay for the
marriage subsidy will be raised by a
special nationwide tax on unmar-
ried men and women.
Bond Conversion Adds to Imitation
DR.. Schacht also plans to convert
the billions Of dollars of Germanys
foreign private debts into German
government bonds, payable in marks.
Since the gold reserves of the
Reichsbank now total only per
cent Of the present circulation, this
is an added factor making for tre-
mendous imitation, as these negoti-
able bonds, plus the unsecured notes
to be printed, will raise the currency
total enormously.
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
British Army to Use
AutOgirO Plan A S.
Observation "Blimp"

LONDON, June 2.-The British
Air Ministry is experimenting with
the latest type wingless autOgiro
plane as a substitute for the
"blimp" observation balloons used
by the army.
The plane will carry radio, ma
chine guns and a crew of five.
The autOgirO, which was hailed
when first introduced as the truly
peaceful, safe plane" is now be-
ing employed-like most inventions
under capitalism-in the service of
killing more millions more effici-
emily than in the last war.
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
FORCED LABOR PROGRAM
OF HUNGER AND SLAVERY
ANNOUNCED BY HITLER
Work Without Wages on Public Works to Be
Financed by Enormous Currency Initiation

BERLIN June 2The Hitler
relief
ton OF the working class
workers employed starvation une
pOyment dole plus daily scrip of rs marks M
doiarS month which in
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
Leticia Commission
Dominated by u. S.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 2.-Col.
Brown, high army officer, has been
appointed American member of the
Commission of Three set up by the
League of Nations to govern Leticia,
Upper Amazon port disputed between
Peru and Colombia.
AS the other two on the Commits
sion, Spain and Brazil, are minor
powers, this means that the United
States will virtually dominate the
Leticia conflict.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-12-21
MISS HELEN HILLERY AND W. E. WILSON ARE
 TO WED IN JANUARY

The engagement of Miss Helen Hillery to w E. Wilson has been announced by Mrs Hillery, who resides in Seattle, the marriage to take place on January 20 at the residence of the Rev David Wag- goner who will officiate at the ceremony.
 Following the ceremony the young couple will leave for Skagway where they will make their home with Miss Hillery's father, A. R. Hillery, who is connected with the White Pass and Yukon Route.
 Miss Hillery was born in Skag- way but is also known in Douglas, where she received part of her high school education, and in Ju- neau, where she has lived for the last two years and made many friends.
 MT Wilson is now engaged in construction work with the J. B. Warrack Company with which he has been since early summer and previous to coming to Juneau less than two years ago, was employed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-12-21
ROMANCE AND COMEDY OPENS
 AT COLISEUM
Handle with Care with James Dunn, Boots Mall
 lory, Fl Brendel Here

Handle With Care" presenting a story replete with romance and many laughs. begins tonight it's To- cal engagement at the Coliseum theatre.
 The featured roles are played by James Dunn, Boots Mallory and Fl Brendel. and a pair of unusually clever children, Buster Phelps and George Ernest, add much to the entertainment value of the picture. In fact, the entire action of the plot revolves about the youngsters
 The story depicts the love of a man and a struggling shop girl, whose happiness is ultimately ac- compIshed by the two small boys in a climax that affords a com plete surprise
 Miss Mallory is an unusually at tractive girl who gives promise Of attaining screen prominence. She made her film debut in this pie ture and is co-featured with Dunn, who. it will be recalled, first ap- psared in Bad Girl" one of the outstanding pictures of last sea son
 Fl Brendel has a comedy role that gives him ample opportunity for creating laughs.
 Handle With Care is one of those rare pictures that appeals to picture patrons of all ages.