Page Four

B.€. WORKERS’ NEWS

January i7, 1936

Catholic Church Struggle
Against Nazi Supremacy

The recent sensational trial in
Berlin of Dr. Legge, the Catholic
Bishop of Meissen, his brother, an-
other prominent Catholic, and
Canon Professor Dr. Sopper on the
charge of having transferred 144-
000 marks to Holland —today a
treasonable act in Germany — has
drawn world-wide attention to the
present conflict in Germany be-
tween the Wazi chiefs and the
Catholic church,

Heavy jail sentences and huge
fines have been imposed on nuns
and Catholic church dignitaries for
these alleged offences.

A Political Struggle

This persecution of prominent

dignitaries and societies of the
Catholic church in Germany is es-
sentially a political struggle be-
tween Wational-Socialism and Ga-
tholicism—a struggle for political
power being waged with the aid of
the criminal law. It is well known
that the Catholic church is an in-
ternational institution, its various
national sections being bound to-
gether by political, economic and
also financial links. German fasc-
ism sees in this a danger to its aims
of inculeating in the German people
a spirit of national chauvinism and
race prejudices. Further, National-
Socialism in Germany was an es-
sentially Protestant movement,
while the Catholic masses, for the
greater part, have remained true to
the so-called Zentrum (Centre), the
party which had ruled in Germany.
before the Wazis came to power.

At the beginning an attempt was
made to arrive at a friendly under-
Standing between iMational-Social-
ism and Catholicism, Hitler and
the Pope having signed a concordat
But since then the situation has
radically changed.

German fascism is today caught
in the whirlpool of two conflicting
eurrents—the increasing pressure
of the disappointed masses on the
one Side, and on the other, the im-
perative demands of the imperial-
istic upper bourgeoisie ~ (Gross-
bourgeoisie), who are driving to-
wards war. In view of this, Ger-
man fascism is straining every
nerve to concentrate all political
and ideological power in ene hand
and under one unified leadership
It must be remembered that apart
from WNational-Socialism, the Catho-
lic church is .the broadest and
most powerful legal mass organiza-
tion in Germany today. The Nazi
leaders made a tremendous effort
to turn the Catholic church into a
Willing tool of INational-Socialism,
‘or, failing this, to limit it exclu-
Sively to religious rites.

Control by the Church

The real power of the Catholic
church over its followers does not
consist sO much= in its religious
ministrations as in its control over
the education and the entire social
life of the Catholic masses. This
rule over the whole private and
public life of its believers has been
built up through the efforts of cen-
turies; an army of priests of all
ranks of religious societies, of
elerically trained teachers and of
charity societies, serves this power.

The Catholic church in Germany
exereises its power through the
movement Known as Catholic Ac-
tion. The Bruenning government,
the last so-called democratic gfov-
ernment before Hitler’s advent to
power, was a government of this
Gatholiec Action. Its financial sup-
porters were, first of all, the power-
ful chemical] trust, I. G. Farben, a
section of the Westphalian and
Upper Silesian mine owners, and
owners of heavy industry, as well
as the former feudal landlords in
southern and western Germany and
in Silesia .The passing over of
certain of these groups into Hitler’s
camp in the winter of 1932-33
brought about the collapse of the
Catholic Centre Party.

The dissolution of the Centre
Party did not mean that the Catho-
lic church had renounced its aspira-
tions. : Al
But the Catholic masses refused
to follow, and a number of lower
dignitaries of the church, who felt
this pressure more directly, began
to express these feelings in the
churches.

With the increasing economic dif-

V-workers' and apprentices’ wnions
were forced to express the growing
discontent of the workers, peasants
and petty bourgeoisie. Further, the
resentment of the Catholic peas
antry of west Germany found an
outlet in the sermons of many vil-
lage priests, themselves descendante
of peasants.
Catholic Masses are Anti-
Fascist

What is likely to be the outcome
of this struggle between WNational-
Socialism and Gatholicism in Ger-
many?

There can not be the slightest
doubt that the high dignitaries of
the Catholic church, beginning with
the Pope in Rome down to the
Puldner conference of the German
bishops, do not want a war with
Hitler. They are, as always, ready
to march with fascism under cer-
tain conditions. This is clearly
Shown by the attitude of Rome in
the case of the Bishop of Meissen.

Everyone expected a papal inter-

vention. The Pope did not inter-
vene. The Bishop of Berlin, who
was called as witness, restricted
himself to emphasizing his col-
league’s personal qualities as a min-
ister. The church stayed entirely
on the defensive. Under cover, the
two camps are busily carrying on
negotiations.
But this question will not be de-
cided by the papal hierarchy. The
Catholic masses ef Germany have
become aroused. Their movement
is not Catholic, not ecclesiastical,
but anti-Pascist. It is so strong that
Catholie priests find themselves in-
creasingly forced to get into touch
with Communistic and revolution-
ary Social-Democratic workers in
order to plan a common fight
against Hitler. This movement
from below is threatening both the
faseist and the papal hierarchy.
B. Ho,

They Said It
WasA ‘Fiasco’

The Wish Was Father
to the Thought!

In 1931 a CGanadian Farmers’
Magazine as well as the American

journal, “Tractors and Agricultural
Machines” wrote:

“In view of the fiasco of the
Stalingrad tractor works, the

- Soviet Wnion is again obliged to
purchase tractors from abroad,
and perhaps foreign countries
will refuse to deliver them so
as to wreck the Five Year Plan.” |
The Soviet workers saw these
articles and six months later wrote
to Stalin and told him that they
were now certain of smashing the
hepes of the foreign capitalists and
were now turning out 120 tractors
a day made entirely of Soviet steel.
The capitalists hopes have now
been shattered into smithereens.
The Soviet Union is the first in the
world in tractor production.

MILLION TONS
SOVIET COTTON

Cotton Growers Accom-
plish Gigantic Feat

The pledge given to the party
and government by the leading or-
ganizations of Uzbekistan on Nov.
14, to collect an additional 105,000
tons of cotton and bring up the
total harvest to a million tons, has
been fulfilled. The total quantity of
cotton delivered to the sovernment
amounts to 1,000,103 tons—111.7 per
cent of the plan.

HALF WINNIPEG HAD RELIEF
WINNIPEG, Jan. 8—About half
of all Winnipeg families have been
on relief at some time during the
past five years, Ald. M. A. Gray
told a meeting of the JI.1I..P. held in
the Fort Rouge Labor Wall, Sun-
day.

ficulties in Germany, the Catholic

Sugar, Candy, Jam Prices
Reduced In Soviet Union

Good Beet Crop Means Plenty of Candy for Kids;
No Bosses Can Get Corner on Sugar

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Below we publish a report of
the sugar industry and how prices
of sugar, candies and preserves
have been reduced in the U.S.S.B.
Qne of the reasons for this is the
Stakhanov movement. Stalin men-
tioned the splendid work of Mario
Demchenko, of the sugar beet
fields of the Ukraine, who grew
500 centmers of beets per hectare,
at the Gonference of Stakhanoy-
ites, as one of the leading revolu-
tionary workers in the U.S.S.R.

Some opponents of the Soviet
Union regard this movement as 2
“slorified speed-up” in the Soviet
Union. Such people are unable to
understand the difference between
speed-up under capitalism and
under the workers’ own govern-
ment,

The story of price reductions
printed below shows what hap-
pens when the workers decide to
yvork hard for the benefit of all
under a Socialist system of pro-
duction.

Thanks to the large beet crop, the
sugar industry has been able to
considerably increase production,
which will amount this year to
about 130 million poods of sugar,
and this, in turn, makes it possible |
considerably to inerease the output

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vieties of sweets for sale.

of candy. In the first quarter of
1936, 160,000 tons of candies are to
be produced, an increase of 17,000
tons compared with the fourth’
Quarter of 1935.

This statement has been issued
to the press by Veitser, Peoples
Commissar of Home Trade of the
U.S:S_R.

There will also be a considerable
increase in the production of pre-
serves, jams and similar products.

On December 16, the Government
reduced the price of sugar. Granu-
lated sugar has been lowered by 70
kopeks and lump sugar by 80 ko-
peks per kilogram. Thus, in Mos-
cow, for example, granulated sugar
will cost 3.80 rubles a kilo instead
of 4.50; cube sugar four rubles in-
stead of 4.80, and lump sugar 4.10
instead of 4.90 rubles a kilogram.

At the same time price reductions
ranging from 80 kopeks to 1.60
rubles haye been made on vyarious
popular brands of candy.

Instructions have also been is-
sued to the trading organizations
immediately to reduce the price of
preserves and jams in strict ac-
cordance with the drop in sugar
prices. Instructions have likewise
been given to trading organizations
to assure that stores have all va-

By BOB LEALESS

The first act of the young Soviet
State in 1917 was to address a de-
cree to the people of the countries
nvelved in the imperialist war and
<0 the governments, proposing the
-ermination of the war on the basis
of a just democratic peace and the
2nnulment of all existing war trea-
Lies,

The Anglo-French and American
capitalists refused to talk to Soviet
representatives, “speculating upon =
renewed participation of Hussia in
the imperialist war, shunning peace
negotiations and thereby giving a
free hand to the no less marauding
German imperialists in foisting
upon Russia the annexationist and
violent Brest Peace’ (Lenin in a
Letter to American Workers).

In signing this robber peace Le-
nin was accused of being an agent
of German imperialists by the ene-
mies of the workers just as today
Stalin and the peace policy of the
USSR is attacked by the counter-

revolutionary Trotskyites as Soviet
assistance to the war plans of im-
perialism and a sell-out of the aims
of the Socialist Revolution.

The same answer that Lenin gave
in 1918 to such slanders can be
Siven today with the same accur-
acy to those who attack the mutual
aid pacts which the Soviet Union
has signed with France and Czecho-
slovakia. Lenin answered Similar
charges by stating:

“Lhey pretend not to under-
stand the difference between an
agreement made by ‘Socialists’
WITH the bourgeoisie (native or
foreign) AGAINST THE WORK-
ERS, and an agreement for the
safety of the workers who have
defeated their bourgeoisie, with
the bourgeoisie of one national
color AGAINST the bourgeoisie
of another national color for the
sake of the utilization by the pro-
letariat of the contradictions be-
tween the different groups of the
bourgeoisie.’

Soviet Strategy Aids Peace
Should the victorious workers
who have established their own
State use the contradictions that
exist between the capitalist powers
in order to weaken their attack
upon the Soviet Union and to
strengthen the cause of Socialism
and peace?

Leninism answers emphatically,
“Yes,” to this very important ques-
tion, and Stalin, the Lenin of to-
day, is continuing the same policy
under similar conditions, The
counter-revolutionary ‘Trotskyites
and many of the leaders of the
Second International answer “No,”
and thereby assist the bourgeoisie
in their attempt to isolate and at-
tack the U.S.S-R. and endangering
the cause of world peace.

The Soviet Union entered the

League of Nations in order to use
the contradictions between the im-
perialist powers to prolong peace
and prevent the outbreak of war.
There are at the present moment
capitalist nations whose IMMEDI-
ATE interest is for peace, for one
reason or another. This especially
applies to small nations. By enter-
Ing the league the U.S.S.R. is proy-
ing that she is fighting energetically
for peace with all those nations who
do not want war immediately. The
Seviet Union in this way becomes
the leader of the struggle for peace
and the rallying force of all those
who are opposed to war.
But the U.'S.S-R. can only use
these contradictions because she
herself is one of the major political
forces today in world politics,
thanks to the great historic and
final victory of Socialism in the
Soviet Union. The victory of So-
cialism means that the U.S'S.R. has
successfully united within her bor-
ders about 85 different nationalities
who formerly were downtrodden
and enslaved by Czarism.

Leninism Champions the Gause

of Colonial Peoples

The peoples of the small and
colonial countries who are fighting
for their national independence are
more and more coming to realize
that Lenin and the government of
the Soviet Union have carried the
principle of the right of self-deter-
mination of all nations into prac-
tice, while the imperialists were
using this only as a slogan in their
Own interests and against rival
capitalist powers to subjugate and
impose their exploitation upon other
peoples.

The peoples of the world remem-
ber how the U.S.S.R. in 1919, with-
out any demands or negotiations,
voluntarily reyoked all extra-terri-
torality rights in Persia formerly
enjoyed by the Czar. The Russian
Bank in Persia with all its assets
in money, land and property were
returned to the Persian nation. The
U.S.S.R. also handed back to the
Persian nation all docks, railroads
and their facilities and all property
that was built and owned by

nounced all extra-territorial and
other concessions held by Czarist
Russia in China.
Lenin taught the people of the
Soviet Union, and the peoples of the
world are also learning, that:

“He is no Socialist who does
not understand that one cannot
and MUST NOT hesitate to make
even such a sacrifice as the sac-
rifice of a piece of territory, the
Sacrifice of a heavy defeat at the
hands of the capitalists, the sac-
rifice of indemnities to the capital-
ists, in the interests of victory
over the bourgeoisie, in the inter-
ests of the transfer of power to
the working class, in the interests
of the BEGINNING of the inter-
national proletarian revolution.”
The victory of Socialism in the
U-S.S.R. is the basis upon which the
Soviet Union is able to carry out
its great struggle for peace. This
great struggle is especially success-
ful also because the general crisis
of capitalism is directly leading
capitalism to seek a solution of its
problems in murderous imperialist
war.
What harm then can come to the
peace policy of this great land of

peace and prosperity when the

| TEMPORARY aims

Russia. The Soviet Wnion also re-'

Soviet Peace Policy

| PERMANINT peace ainis of fie

Soviet Union coincides with the
of certain
capitalist countries, when Soviet
policy consists in using these tem-_
porary and unstable allies against
aggressive imperialist war mongers
in the interests of blocking their
war plans?

_franco-Soviet NWon-Aggression

Pact

Does not the Franco-Soviet pact
imsure on the part of the Soviet
Union the safety of the French
people and its defence against the
aggression of the German fascists?

There can be no doubt in the
mind of any honest person that
the Soviet Union desires peace when
we remind ourselves that the
U.S-S-R. has signed neutrality pacts
with all countries with which she
has a common boundary, Japan be-
ing the only exception because of
the refusal of Japan.

What other government, includ-
ing the Socialist and Labor govern-
ments, has done so much in the
interests of world peace? The
Soviet government will keep its
agreement, but what about the
Hrench government keeping its side

. Strugele against war and for peace

| Socialism and peace coincides with

@s a practical and concrete reality.
It considers the German fascist
army with its artillery, tanks and
bombing planes as a grim reality
that must be opposed by an equal
Gr better army.

That is the reason why the Soviet
Union, in defence of Socialism and
peace, is not only in favor of the
collective application of sanctions
against an aggressor country, but
also agrees to military sanctions
provided such sanctions do not
Violate the power of the Soviet
Union, but weaken the imperialist
powers that are preparing an at-
tack, and are of a defensive char-
acter in the interests of peace.

Every hater of war and exploita-
tion must develop and strengthen
the struggle for peace and raise the
banner of the United Front of
peace higher and ever higher. On
this banner must be inscribed, “De-
fence of the Soviet Union,” because
the struggle of this great land oi

the struggles of all peoples against
war and for peace and freedom
The Soviet Union is herself a great
united nation struggling for peace.

Plenty To Eat In The U.S.S.R.

of the bargain? The keeping of this
pact can only be achieved in
France by a further development
and building up of the already
powerful united front for peace in
order to compel the French govern-
ment to conclude its side of the
agreement which it will attempt to
break at the first favorable oppor-
tunity.
Litvinoff Proposed Total
Disarmament

The foreign policy of the U.S.S.R.
and its peace policy has been em-
bodied in the actions and speeches
of Litvineff, who almost rocked
the League to its foundations when
ke proposed complete disarmament.
He was looked upon by foreign
diplomats of other countries as un-
couth for making such a proposal.

When the imperialists rejected
his proposal he put forward the
proposal for partial disarmament.

Litvinoff by raising the question
of the “indivisibility of peace” has
shown to all peace loving peoples
of the world the great danger that
exists if war is allowed to start.
Litvinoff spoke of the great danger
of the war between fascist Italy,
the aggressor, and Ethiopia as a
danger to world peace by declaring
to the League of Nations Assembly:

“It has now become clear that
each war is the creation of a pre-
ceding war and the generator of
present and future wars.”

This internationalism, this prole-
tarian world peace: politics, is char-
acteristic of the world peace policy
of the ULS.S.R. and is the main
reason why ever wider masses of

| peace loving people throughout the

world are supporting the Soviet
Union’s peace policy.
Soviet Peace Policy is Not
Capitulation

But the peace; policy of the
U.S.5.R. is not a policy of capirula-
tion to imperialism nor of forfeiting
the gains of the October Kevolu-
tion. It is a realistic policy paused
upon a sober and pentrating
Marxist-Leninist analysis of the re-
lation of class forces in the present
world.

Stalin has concisely formated
this side of the policy by declaring:

“The Soviet Union does not de-
Sire one inch of foreign soil, but
will defend every inch of¥ its own
soil.”

That is the main reason why the
citizens of the Soviet Union look
upon its Red Army as an Interna-
tional Peace Army.

“But,” it is asserted, “if the
US.S.R. is such a great champion
of peace why does she need such
a powerful Red Army?”

Lenin in 1916 answered this ques-
tion in the following words:

“The development of capitalism
proceeds very unevenly in the
Various capitalist countries. This
eannot be otherwise under com-
modity production. It inevitably
follows from this that Socialism
cannot be victorious simulitane-
ously in all countries. It will be
victorious first in one or several
countries, while the others will for
some time remain bourgeois or
pre-bourgeois. This must not only
ereate friction, but a direct striv-
ing on the part of the bourgeoisie
of other countries to crush the
victorious proletariat of the So-
cialist State.”

Therefore it can be plainly seen
that the Red Army is an army of
defence only.

The peace policy of the U.S.S.R.
favors the collective application of
Sanctions against an aggressor na-
tion. In this sphere also it has de-
veloped and strensthened the inter-
national forces of peace by the
precise definition of an aggressor.
That this was no academic defini-
tion for diplomats to play with has
been proven by the Signing of
mutual aid pacts by France and
Czechoslovakia with the Soviet

Union.
Favors Full Sanctions
The Soviet Union looks upon the

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DANGEROUS TO
HAVE MEMORIES
UNDER IL DUCE

Writer in Tony Maga-
zine Tells a Little
Truth

“There are many people in Italy
Who remember the last war as it
Was; not as they have been taught
to believe it was. Many of these
people have been beaten because
they opened their mouths, some
were killed, others are in prison on
the Lipari Islands, and some have
left the country. It is a dangerous
thing in a dictatorship to have a
long memory. You should learn to
live for the great needs of the day.
As long as any dictator controls
his press, there will always be
great daily deeds to live for.

“In America as we get premoni-
tions of dictatorship you can see
in the newspapers how marvelous
everything is every day in the
achievements of government, and
looking back, note how lousy is the
result of any given year or period
of years of governmental activity.

“A successful dictator uses clubs;
has constant newspaper triumphs.

“An unsuccessful dictator gets
scared, shoots too many of his own
people, and goes out as soon as his
army or police switch on him. If
he shoots too many he gets shot
himself, usually, even when his
regime stands.”’

(From an article by Ernest Hem-
ingway, in the January issue of the
magazine “‘Esquire’’).

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French Posties Unite

PARIS.—The decision to set up
a single union of post, telegraph
and telephone workers was passed
at the unity congress of the Uni-
tary and reformist trade unions of
these workers, which came to a
close on Dec. 14. The new union
will have 65,000 members.

Millions Of Stockings

The biggest knitting factory of
the Soviet Union, the Krasnoye
Znamya, Leningrad, reports the ful-
fillment of this year’s production
program, with an output valued at
117 million rubles.

Among other things the factory

Below we publish an account
of the terror inflicted by fascist
forces on the militant workers
and peasants of Western Ukraine.
This account is taken from a let-
ter received from a revolutionary
worker on the spot.

A strike of the lumber workers
broke out in the early part of
April, in the village of Kozershen,
in the Dubno district, on Count
Ledochowski’s estate. The workers
demanded a wage increase from 70
sroshi to ome zloty per day. When
the fascist government found out
that the Communists were leading
the strike, the Police, under the
leadership of Commander Kansky,
decided to break the strike at all
costs.

Armed to the teeth, and drunik,
they rushed to the Striking peas-
ants and demanded that the lat-
ter end the strike within 30 min-
utes and disperse. The police fired
a volley of shots into the crowd,
at the order of Commander Kan-
sky, when the peasants continued
to strike. The fellowing workers
were shot dead: Walter Warem-
chuk, Alex Polak, John Petia,
Fred Kowalchuk, John Rudey.

The same day Andron Otchen-
ash-Woytiuk, district secretary of
the Communist Party, was killed,
while “attempting to escape.”
Thus, on the 15th of April, the
police murdered six workers alto-
gether,

Following this strike, our com-
rades in Wolinia decided to come
out on May Day in a protest
against these cold-blooded murders.

Fascists Continue Slaughter

A mighty demonstration of pro-
test was held in Kolky area, in the
Lutsky district. At the head of the
1,500 peasants who demonstrated,
a red banner and a placard with
the names of the murdered com_
trades, was carried. Under a banner
of their own, the Olyski area of the
US-R.P. (Ukrainian Socialist Radi_
cal Party) organization also demon-
Strated.

The route of the demonstration
was barred by a strong force of
police, who, on the order of their
commander and without any.
Warning to the demonstrators,
fired a volley of shots into the
crowd. Those killed were: Alex-
ander Stelmaschuk, 23 years;
Peter Lulkasiuk, 16 years; Nadia
Tarasiuk, 16 years; Lida Musiy-
ehuk, 16 years; Donka Hordiuk,
18 years; Paul WKrywaniuk, 18
years.

Two more were killed whose
names are not yet known.

Besides these, 31 of the demon-
Strators were wounded, some re-
ceiving light, others serious
wounds. Almost all those wounded
were arrested, while the police
completely demolished about 15
peasants’ houses.

On the same day, 800 peasants
demonstrated in the town of War-
kowichi, in the Dubno district.
Here; also, at the head of the
demonstration, a placard was car-
ried bearing the names of the
comrades murdered at Kozershen.
This demonstration was also at-
tacked by police and the following
comrades were killed:

Methodiy Wozniuk, years;
Alexander Wozniuk, 22 years.

Three comrades were seriously
wounded. 16-year-old Comrade
Alexander Poruchka was tortured
to death at the police station.
Fascists Beasts Wallow in Blood

After May ist, the bloody fascist
Sovernment, seeing that the reyo-
lutionary movement in Wolin was
not crushed yet, strengthened the
oppression The pacificators con=-
ducted their bloody work in a new
way. Whilst before, they had in-
vaded whole districts and were

FASCISM GROWS
IN NETHERLANDS

Following excerpts are taken
from a letter received in WVan-
couver from a waiter in Amster-

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dam, Holland, and translated
from Esperanto:
“Unemployment in Holland is

very high, out of a population of
8,000,000 there are 1,200,000 on re-
lief. In Amsterdam, the capital, re-
lief is higher than in other Cities,
but even here it is yery low.
“The National Socialist move-
ment is growing enormously and
if a united front is not formed be-
tween the Communist and Socialist
Parties, we, the workers, are lost;
we Shall have the same experience
as Germany.
“Leaders of the Socialist Party
Say that “a united front is not
necessary,’ that they themselves
will “better the situation.’ Many
of us, taking our lesson from past
experiences in other countries, see

produced 49 million pairs of hosiery.

the danger in this.”

This Is The Last Straw—
Please Page Tom McInnis

Just Imagine Those Bol-
sheviks Teaching Us

Anything!
U.S-:S.R., Dec. 20—Since 1933,

well-known American and Huropean
firms have sent tens of thousands
of rabbit, lamb, jackal, fitch and
other small skins annually for
dressing in the U.S:S.R. The num-
ber of foreign undressed skins ar
riving In the Soviet Union grows
continuously. In the first half of
1935 more than twice as much
money was earned from dressing
foreign skins as in the whole of
1934. The number of Soviet fac-
tories receiving orders from foreign
firms is growing. At present, Mos-
cow fur factories Nos. i and 83,
Kazan factories Nos. 1 and 3, Len-
ingrad factory No. 1 and the large
Belka factory in Kiroysk are en-

[gazed in the dressing and dyeing
of furs.

The important achievements of
our fur industry in dressing and
dyeing skins and furs has induced
foreign firms to take a further step.
A proposal was received this year
from a foreign firm requesting
technical aid in dressing and dye-
ing certain varieties of furs.

RED GOLD

US:S.R., Dec. 20—A nugget
weighing 13.787 ke was found in
the Sysertski gold field in the Urals
a few days ago by a group of pros-
pectors working for Uralzoloto, the
Ural goid trust.

This is the largest nugget found
in the 20th century. Three such
nuggets are known to have been
found in the 19th céntury—two in

Reign Of Fascist Terror
In Western Ukraine

Vheatne everyone, now they inyaded

Separate revolutionary Villages, un-
reservedly damagins éeverythine=
and murdering as they went. Here
is an illustration of this pacifies—
tion: *

On June 25th, in the Village of
Charlupy, of Gutsky district, the
police encircled the house of Myron
Chornetsky, pulled him out of bed
and told him to run. When ne Te-
fused to run out of the house, the
sadists threw him out into the yard,
and there, with three shots, Killed
him. Then they dragged his wife
and five-year-old child to him by
the hair and declarea: “Look,- here
lies your commissar?’ Com. Chor-
netsky was 31 years of age, had &
wife and child, and lived on two
hektars of Jand.

In this same village and on the
Same day, the police murdered one
more comrade, whose name is not
yet known.

in the village of Lubche, Lutsky
district, the Police broke into the
house of a peasant, Sawchuk, beat
him up badly and demanded that he
tell them the whereabouts of his
daughter, a member of the. Youngs
Communist League. He was unable
to tell them this, and so they threw
him out of the house and Shot him.
He was 50 years old.

This same day, two more com-
Trades were murdered, one in the
Village of Nemize, the other from
Tura.

On July 6th, with two shots in
the chest, Comrade Tlia Kansky,
Secretary of the local committee of
the CP.W.U. (Communist Party of
Western Ukraine), was killed. He
was 27 years old, from the Sucho-
wola village, Gutsky district, and
left behind him his aged parents.
On July 8th, police came to the
village of Kozershen, Dubno dis-
trict, broke into the house of Lary-
Won Otchenash-Woytiuk who s,e
younger brother, secretary of the
district committee of the Commun-
ist Party, was killed en April 15th,
Save orders to him to go to. the
grainery, where he was held for
investigation. Just as Otchenash
stepped out of the house, he was
Shot in the back. He was 20 years
old, a member of the Y.C.L., -and
left his old parents behing.

On July 9th, about 30 police
came to the village of Radomysl.
They dragged William Koldaska
out of his house and killed him with
three shots. He was 20 years old,
a Wer: Member, and son of poor
peasants.

All those who were killed Were
taken by the police to Luts or
Dubno and buried at night in a
Secret place, so that no one could
find them.

Fascists Go Mad With Sadism
Further pacification at this time
Was as follows:

Six or seven police would break
into the house of a revolutionary
worker, force the whole family to
get under the bed or table, and
then proceed to break tables, win-
dows, beds, cupboards, dishes, tear
the pillows and throw the feathers
into the well, tear clothing and
shoes, or cut it up with an axe,
break machinery, binder, hay cut-
ters, mix all the €rain and flour
With gas and then throw it into the
well. After these foul deeds, they
pull the family out from under the
table or bed, beat them up with the
Dutt end of their Suns, kick them
with their boots, make them kneel
and kiss the policeman’s boots, and
then pray to the policeman. Then
they command them to get on the
roof of the house and break it
down. All the money that the
family has, is taken away by the
Police. They tear the bedding up
into shreds. To end up all this, they
force the peasants to run around
the house and shout “Long live the
Polish Republic!” “Long live the
police!” and so on. On many oc-
casions after doing all this, they
would hanes the head of the family
(village Mytilne, by Olyki).

In other villages the police forced
the women to run through the
Windows, but when they tried to do
So, the police would hold them
back by their dresses and beat
them.

In Symchynski Village our com-
rades were tied between two horses,
then police would run the horses
as fast as possible through the
village. When the comrades were
all black and half dead, they would
untie them and throw them in the
manure.

In the yillage of Zornesche, two
Communist comrades were staying
over-night at a peasant’s home.
When the police heard about this,
they came at night and pulling the
two comrades and the peasant out
of the house, without any investiga-
tion, murdered them.

Reign of Terror

In the district of Lutsk an ex-
ceptional law was proclaimed. After
8 o'clock in the evening no one is
allowed to come out of the house.
In a village, if a ery or noise is
heard, no one must come out of
the house, on penalty of death.
Three persons are not allowed to
be together. When you see 2 Police-
man you must hold up your hands.
No one is allowed to go to another
village, if he does, the penalty is
death.

This is the rule of the bloody oc-
cupants in Western Ukraine. Dur-
ing the period of a few months,
more than 50 innocent, defenceless
peasants were murdered without
any law or investigation.

The smallest attempt to publish
in the Polish press the happen-
ings in Wolinia is strictly pro-
hibited by censures. ‘The bloody
executor of Wolinia, Governor
Uzefski and the government of
fascist bands, wants to drown in
blood the revolutionary movement
of the Wolinian peasants.

We are appealing to the inter-
national public opinion, to alj de-
cent and just people with a plea to
aise their yoices of protest against

Siberia and one in the Urals.

the bloody pacification in Wolin.