i January 10, 1937

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enin Saved Karl Marx

From Social Democrats

By BILL BENNETT

Today, thirteen years after the
death of the great proletarian lead-
er, Lenin, the condition of the world
reveals, with sparkling clarity, the
correctness and profundity of the
work of his great predecessors and
teachers, Marx and Engels.

One section of the working class
is living in the joy of a new exist-
ence, Without exploitation, without
unemploynient; increasing daily
their standards of life and culture
as they succeed in overcoming the
hampering restrictions of pre-revo-
lutionary days, advancing towards
the future with high hopes and the
saserness bom of confidence in
their new sSociety—the U.S.S.R. and
the Chinese Soviet Republic.

Another section is face to face
With Starvation, destitution, misery
and intellectual annihilation; sub-
jected to the worst forms of slay-
ery and tyranny yet known in class
society; condemned to toil without
pay, hounded and harried for dar-
ing to think; mowed down by ma-
chine guns and bombed from the
air by callous and brutal mercen-
aries with less humanity in them
than the hordes of Ghengis Khan or
the gangster hirelings of Chicago
and New York; jailed without trial,
tortured, victims of mass murder to
whom democracy is but the name of
an era to dream of, like the Golden
Age or the Greek Kalends—this is
Nazi Germany and the other Jands
under the ruthless heel of fascism.

Yet only a few short years ago
there were Socialist governments in
Germany and Austria. Eberts,
Scheidemann, Kautsky, Otto Bauer!
These were Marxists, if you cared
to believe them. They hung pictures
of Marx and Engels in their meet-
ing places and wrote articles to

explain what Marx really meant:
(others are doing it today—Cole,
Hook),

Not Marxisis.

Why then has Marxism under
Lenin led to Socialism, freedom,
happiness, in the Soviet Union and
to Hitler and Schussnige fascism,
Slavery, starvation and terror in
Germany and Austria?

Because Eberts, Scheidemann,
iSautsky, Bauer and the whole tribe
of Social Democrat traitors and col-
laberationists were no more Marx-
ists than Hitler himself. Mussolini,
too, was a2 good Social Democrat who
misused the name of Marx to delude
the italian workers.

Lenin says of Marx and Engels
that “they taught the working class
to know itself and become class con-
scious and they substituted science
for dreamins.”” But they were not
lone in their graves before the
revisionists, reformists and laborists
began the syStematic yulgarization
and falsification of their teachings.
Eyen before the death of Engels,
this process of sappine= the core of
their revolutionary writings beean.

In 1884, Engels proposed to Berm-
Stein the splittineof the. Party in
Germany to rid it of the opportun-
ist tendencies introduced by “‘petit-
bourgeois intellectuals’ who were
threatening to dominate it. Engels
letters on the subject were only
published by Bernstein in 1925, 40
years later. after they had already
been published in Soviet Russia.

gels criticized the non-revolu-
tionary character of the draft Er-
furt program in 1891. This critic-
ism was hidden away from the
working class by Kautsky for ten

years while the Party carried on
With the program as originally
drafted.

The dissraceful history of the
bowdlerization and falsification of
Hngels preface to “Class Strugeles
in France,”? written in 1895, just be-
fore his death is a gem in the crown
of shame assumed by the leaders of
Social Democracy. Everything revo-
lutionary was cut out of it and the
true preface was not known for 30
Years after, when it was unearthed
by the research work of the Marx-
Hmgels — Lenin Institute in 1924.
Emgels threatened to publish the
preface himself, free from distor-
tions, but death came to the rescue
of the Revisionists who had seized
the jeadership of the Social Demo-
cratic Party of Germany.

Marx’s criticism of the reformist
Gotha program in which he insist-
€d on the inclusion of the revolu-
tionary dictatorship of the prole-
tariat as the state form in the
transition period between capitalist
and communist society, was hidden
for sixteen years from the eyes of

‘the workers by these same ‘“Marx-

ists.”’
Deliberate Falsification.

Not without purpose were these
distortions made; not for nothing
Was Marx painted as an opportun-
ist in his more mature years, al-
though the only changes in the
“Communist Manifesto,” after the
experience of the Paris Commune,
were in a revolutionary direction.
But haying accepted the job of
inaking Social Democracy into a wet
nurse for erowing Imperialism,
these Titans of the Second Interna-
tional had to “purify’’ Marxism of
its revolutionary content.

They eliminated the class strug-
fle; they threw overboard the dic-
tatorship of the proletariat and laid
the basis for class collaboration; in-
Stead of the revolutionary ovyer-
throw and destruction of the capi-

talist state — peaceful reforms
through parliament; instead of reyo-
jutionary dictatorship — eradual

Srowth into Socialism. They aban-
doned revolutionary Marxism and
Sold the working class to Imperial-
ism. :

into their midst at the beginning
of the century (1901) came Lenin.
“A young man,"’ as the old Men-
shevik, Martynov says, ‘‘who cri-
ticized all the time-honored revolu-
ticnary leaders, except Marx,””
Russian and French and English as
well as German.

In the quarter of a century that
followed, Lenin was to become the
idol of the revolutionary working
elass; his name they made into a
battle-ery. He proved to be the
foremost pupil of Marx, who sayed
Marx from the MReyisionists and

corrupt elements in the Social
Demociatic movement and rounded
out what was unfinished in it, in
the light of the Imperialist develop-
ment of capitalism, He took up the
theoretical] and practical work where
Marx and Engels left it and carried
it further. He fought against every
deviation from Marx, right and left,
whether in theory or practice.

He brought back into everyday
Marxism-the theory of the bour-
Seois state as the apparatus of vid-
lence of the bourgeoisie against the
working class, in opposition to the
teachings of the Social Democrats
that the State stands above classes,
adjusting and reconciline the con-
tradictory interests of the bour-
Seoisie and the proletariat; the dic-
tatorship of the proletariat in the
transition stage from capitalism tu
socialism in opposition to the srad-
uel development -into socialism
through coalition and collaboration
between the-Avorkers and the capi-
talists; the right of oppressed na-
tions to self-determination as against
the Social Democratic conception of
the civilizine mission of the Imper-
ialist wolves and support of their
plundering of colonial peoples. He
developed Marx’s conception of the
role of the peasantry in the revolu-
tion.

Instead of class collaboration he
proved that Marxism was based not
on dead formulae, but on the living
Spirit of history—the class struggle,
In the day to day struggles of the
workers for bread equally with the
ultimate struggle for the overthrow
and destruction of the system of
rebbery and spoilation.

Stood the Test.

On this interpretation of Marx,
Lenin built a Party, the only one
that stood the test of August, 1914.
While the corrupt Social Democrat
leaders sent their followers to the
battlefields to die for their father-
jJands (with a copy of the Erfurt
Program in their knapsacks as Clara
Zetiin said of the German and Aus-
trian. armies), Lenin’s Party was
ealline on the Workers to convert
the Imperialist war into a civil war
against their own rulers. :

The results are too well known
to need elaboration here. Marxism
today is the revolutionary driving
force of the historic development of
society. Guided by the Marxism
Which was saved from the Sacial
Democratie leaders by Lenin, the
workers of the Soviet Union are
consciously building a new social
order and blasting the props from
under the old one. Socialism is be-
ing firmly established and capitalism
as surely destroyed, because the
workers have for guide and leader
the Party designed and erected by
Lenin on the foundation of the
revolutionary program of Marx and
Engels, salvaged from the Social
Democrats.

The policies of the Communist In-
ternational that Lenin helped the
revolutionary workers to saye from
the wreck of the Second Interna-
tional, with the same revolutionary
Marsian program, is today the only
insurance against the threatened
Gestruction of all human culture by
the hordes of fascism.

The bourgeoisie cannot criticize
Marxism with ideas or arsument—
only with police and troops: with
clubs, machine guns and gas-bombs,
what Marx called ‘the criticism of
weapons.” And in the countries
where the Bernsteins and the Kaut-
skys, the bitterest enemies of Lenin,
the Socialist traitors who supported
the slaughter of 1914, paved the
Way for fasciSm, the answer to
Marxism is made with the thumb-
Screw, the rack, the bonfire and the
headsman’s axe.

History has already dealt with the
opportunist scoundrels whose pro-
Tam was one of forgery and dis-
tortion and justified the Marx we
know, the Marz of Lenin. In one
Place Lenin says, ‘‘The \teachings
of Marx are all-powerful because
they are true,’ which is the basis
for the statement he made on the
occasion of the tenth anniversary
of “Pravda’’ (May 2nd, 1922). “The
bourgeoisie can as yet maltreat and
Kill with impunity, but it cannot
stop the inevitable and, from the
Point of view of world history, not
far distant triumph of the reyolu-
tionary proletariat.”’

B. M. MOLOTOV

Chairman, People’s Council of
Coninissairs, U-S.S.R.

JOINS ARMS RACE

HELSINGPORS, Jan. 14.—(FP)—
Latest country to join in the arma-
ments race is Finland. The govern-
ment has announced construction
in collaboration with the Swedish
armament plant, Goforsshare, of a
Cannon factory at Jyvaskyla. COoSt
will be around the million dollar
mark.

JOBLESS CHAIN GANG,
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—(FPP)—A
chain gang for the drifting jobless
is San Antonio’s latest contribution
to the unemployment problem.

THEY CREATED HISTORY!

One of the last pictures taken of Lenin seen here with Stalin.

THE OPEN FORUM

We don’t always have room for letters to the Editor (which oftimes are both numerous and voluminous).

Brevity is a rare gift. None realize this better than ourselves.
wide open. In registering your protests, remember that opini

the. B.C. Workers’ News.

We notice that in your December ©

si issue the 1936 CCA". convention
resolution re the setting up of In-
dustrial and Economic Conferences
is Mentioned, so we thousht a little
news as to what is being done in
the New Westminster district in
regards to the carryine= out of the
resolution might be of some interest.

The first meetings of this Con-*
ference were held in October and
so far we haye some thirty organ-
izations represented; 15 €.C_.F. clubs,
8 units of the Communist Party, 5
unemployed organizations, 7 trade
unions (A.F. of L.), 8 unions of the
A.G.C. of I, and we expect many
more in the near future.

It represents the unity of the
political and economic aims of the
workers’ movement. Some oppose
this and State that the workers
should give their exclusive attention
to either the political or economic.
We disagree, and hold that the two
cannot be separated. The economic
struggle demands political rights
and so we carry on.

We cover a large area. New West-
minster City, a part of Burnaby,
Delta and the Fraser Valley. In the
interest of the agricultural area this
conference is named New West-
minster, Delta, Fraser Yalley In-
dustrial Agricultural and Employ-
ment Conference. Our executive of 7
is ©-C.F., trade unions, G.-P. of C..
and farmers. ;

We also Jet the mayor of New
Westminster know what we thought
of the treatment of the New West-
minster single unemployed and de-
Manded that they be released and
put back on relief, which was done.
There is no place in this Conference
for careerists, opportunists, disrup-
tionists, etc. Our motto is *‘Workers
Unite.” : : :

There aré many organizations in
this area not yet represented on
the Conference. We need their co-
operation L. G. PARNELL.

THEY DON’T APPRECIATE
PATTULLO’S EFFORTS.

Sir; One member of this camp
has expressed his opinion of condi-
tions here, We, the majority, would
like to express ours.

We had the option of coming here
or of being refused relief. In other
words, we were forced to accept this
work, under the following condi-
tions: Qur wages are nominally 30
cents an hour; however, under the
deferred payment system, a part is
held back and doled out to us at the
rate of $4 a week when we return
to Vancouver. After paying for
clothing, board, transportation, to-
bacco, ete., we will have practically
nothing left of the other part. This
means that we are working for re-
lief, not receiving ‘Work and
wages,”

A man rejected as unfit by a doc-
tor, because of a crippled arm, was
neyertheless sent out to this camp
and while working here injured the
arm and had to be sent back to Van-
couver. Due to this injury his
chances of securing employment in

the future are practically mnon-
existent.

Gamp conditions are not what
they should be. Our lighting sys-

tem is not very good. Bunkhouses are
overcrowded and unsanitary. The
food is almost the same as served
in the old relief camps.

These are a few of our grievances.
They in themselves are not the main
cause of our discontent. We are
young, ambitious and have all the
instincts of a normal human being,
However, as lone as we are forced
to work on relief projects of any
kind, we can see no opportunity of
living a natural and useful life-

(Signed) A, ©. MOULD,
Secretary, Camp No. 5, South
Forks, Nanaimo, B.C.

THANKS
Through the medium of the

News” we wish to thank sincerely
all who contributed financially, cars
and other services towards the
burial of our late comrade, Andrew
Mitchell,

J. OGBOURNE,

ELLIS FROMBERG,

G. CASSTAN,

J. CHERKOSH.

Vancouver, B. €.

WITHOUT COMMENT.

The following editorial appeared
in The Vancouver Daily Province,
Friday, November 17, 1917—nine
days after the outbreak of the
Revolution:

“Conflicting stories come from
Russia reflecting different phases
of the domestic struggle in ditfer-
ent paris of that country. What-
ever may be the immediate situa-
tion it is certain that the Bolshe-
Viki group can not organize or
govern Russia. That party can not
last long. Beyond this point pre-
diction fails. It is not possible
even to guess the name of the de-
liverer, or whether there will be a
deliverance during the war. The
Bolshevilki leaders have found it
necessary, to resort to foree, but
they will never be able to mobil-
ize the power of Russia to keep
thenisélves in control. Germnany
is reported to ,be considering
Lenin’s offer of peace. It is hardly
likely that Lenin will be to the
front in Russia long enough to
go far with the negotiations.”

GREEPNSHIRTS FOR THE GREEN
Sim,—I understand that paid or-
Sanizers of the B.C. Social Credit
League have lately toured the proy-
ince, opened up offices in all the
major towns, given radio talks, and
distributed Social Credit literature.

Who is paying for all this?

Surely not the Social Credit
movement in Alberta which is still
embroiled with the Supreme Court
of Canada over money matters. Cer-
tainly not the nickels and dimes of
the workers in B.C., whose financial
support to even the ©. C.F. is none
too adequate. No, rather does our
intelligence convince us that the
B.C. Social Credit League is fi-
nanced by a sinister body, whose
Purpose it is to prevent unity and
split votes, to sow doubt and con-
fusion.

What are we going to do about it
right away? Pred Henderson’s boolk-
let “The Social Credit MWlusion”’
states: “The whole concept of credit
is a sheer illusion,” and moreover,
proves it, but in rather a lenethy
technical way. The writer suggests
We urgently require a short concise
pamphlet for free distribution which
will simply explain the fallacy of
the Social Credit doctrine.

Comradely yours,
R.S. STEWART.

Dollarton, B.C.

READING TIME:
4 MINS. 22 SHES.

Sir: With the advent of the new
year, the capitalist press is loudly
proclaiming prosperity at the door.
It is noteworthy that some hedging
is indulged in—we have not quite
reached the level of 1928: unem-
ployment is still a matter to be

solved in the future; debts have a
Way of staying with us and becom-
ing bigger, and it is an election year
(maybe),

A. TROYANOVSKY

Soviet Ambassador to Washington.

We

But this week we’re running the Forum
ons expressed are not necessarily those of

somehow recall such
flown language at other times, par-
ticularly when a Liberal govern-
ment is holding office. Here in B.C.
we alSo remember the slogans of
the last election, “Work and
Wages,” “A Liberal Province in a
Liberal Canada,”” etc. Lhe minister
of finance, Hon. J. Hart, has provi-
dentially not only balanced the bud-
Set, but provided a surplus of a
(bot) million. Perish the thought of
the Tories ever getting their hands
On this.- And a © CE: government
would buy up factories, mines, mills
and have them governmentally
controlled.

So ho—we must win the next
election and, by gum, we need a
Slogan or two. There are those
Pesky workers and their new-
fangled fronts and hacks, and they
are deceiving the rest of the people
by demanding real work and wages.
They want more workers employed
and they want more wages for the
employed as well as the unemploy-—
eq. Sad —we have it —Six-Hour
Day: No Reduction in Wages.
Heigh-ho—that ought to fet them
in line. And we must see to it that
their organizations are contacted
and that those Reds are disposed
of. We can get the labor unions,
trades and labor councils, and our
friends in the reformist parties to
see the danger of forming united
fronts with those radicals: they are
the ones who want a People’s Gov-
ernment as they have it in Spain—
and look what happened.

Growing Discontent.

Yes, the Liberal politicians’ rea-
soning powers have not deteriorated,
but what they have failed to take
into account is the Srowine discon-
tent and clearheadedness of the
masses of workers and farmers.
While there will always be some
who either will be deceived by the
manoeuyres of these misleaders and
others who have degenerated into
open disrupters and opponents of
their own class organizations, evi-
dence is not wanting that Canadian
people, like their brothers in the
U.S.A., are preparing “the grand
bounce” for the old parties.

In this situation, there is the task
of the workers to prepare for the
campaign soon to start, build up
their organizations around imme-
diate needs, align themselves with
the middle-class progressives in the
strussle against impendin= war and
Pascism, and above all, resolutely
to purge their ranks of those who
would disrupt, who talk the same
lansuage as their bosses, who sabo-
tage strike-struggles, or who woul;
provoke the workers into extreme-=

ism.
Plea For Unity-
We must continue to strugele for
the right to join any organization
we Wish, and conduct them for our

interests. 3

When the clty council here
hastily asreed to give the munifi-
cept sum of $1.50 to each unem-

ployed head of a family, many were
driven to a negative attitude by the
demand of a few that we take it
as bettér than nothing. These ele-
ments and those who advocate ex-
treme mersures have no valid place
in workers organizations, some un-
eonsciously, others who are planted,
disrupt and disperse all those who
are honestly trying to find a way
out of their misery and poverty.

In these Gays of destruction of
cormmmonities of all kinds; shelying
of advanced technological machin-
ery and apparatus; preparations for
destruction of culture, buildings and

human lives by the onslaught of
Hascism and war, the common
people must promote the United

Front policy by initiating the move
for a People’s ront in the next
election.

Labor unions, youth organizations,

presressive groups, C.C.F. clubs,
Communist party, Social Credit
groups, all must be brought into

the arena of a fight against reaction,

the weapon of dying capitalism,
wkich is falling from their hands
throueh degeneracy, and rapidly

creating a situation in which Fasc-
ism develops.
HANS
Esquimalt,, B.C.

IKROEGER.

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ment of Amyssinia,

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TROTSKYISM

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AN ENEMY
OF UNITY

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By MM. ERCOLI
(italy).

There are people who are trying
to penetrate into the ranks of the
working-class and into its organi-
zations, in order to break the anti-
fascist front which is being ham-
mered out in the struggle. These
are the Trotskyists, whose chief
concern today is to proclaim that
there is no need to concentrate our
fire against fascism, that in con-
centrating its fire against fascism
the working-class misses its role,
abandons the struggle against capi-
talism, and taxes the path of ca-
pitulation and betrayal.

At the time when the experiences
of Italy, Germany and Austria are
convincing the great majority of
working people of the need to re-
fuse to allow the last remnants of
democratic liberties to be destroyed
by the most reactionary strata of
the bourgeoisie, but to defend them
and make use of democratic institu-
tions in order to arrest the menac-
ing advance of fascism and develop
the struggle of the masses, the
Trotskyists preach that the defence
of democratic liberties is a snare
and an illusion, because “bourgeois
democracy must inevitably become
transformed into fascism.”

The counter-revolutionary. sect of
Trotsyists directs its activities es-
Sentially in three directions. Above
all it tries by every means to brealc
the link growing ever closer, unit-
ing the proletariat of the Soviet
Union to the working-class‘and the
masses of the people of the capital-
ist countries,

Second, it makes every effort to
prevent working-class unity being
brought about in the struggle
against the fascist enemy and for
the defence of peace. It tries every-
where to create divisions to dis-
integrate and destroy the forces of
the working-class.

Third, it makes every effort to
prevent great masses of people, the
progressive and anti-fascist forces
of the petty bourgeoisie in town
and country, from rallying around
the working-class, whereas this ral-
lying is one of the decisive condi-
tions for a victorious struggle
against fascism.

Must Be Ousted.

The international working move—
ment must rid itself once and for
all of the Trotskyist scum. An end
must be put to the tendency to re-
gard the Trotskyist counter-revolu-
tionary sects and their adherents
as a section of the working-class
movement. An end must be put to
toleration of these agents of the

idea that the struggle against

© Trotskyists is a task which only

concerns the Communists,
The task of the struggle against
Trotskyism must be approached in

class movement, all the organiza-
tions of the working-class, must
be purged radically and once and
for all of the bandits who worm
their way into the workers’ ranks
in order to spread the instructions
and slogans of fascism, in order to
carry out the orders of the class
enemy. The working-class will not
Succeed in defeating its enemies if
it tolerates in its ranks the agents
sent there by these enemies. ;

The Socialist workers, especially

in France, have already had their
own experiences with the Trotsky-
ists. The counter - revolutionary
Trotskyists tried first to settle
themselves in our ranks, but they
were driven out. We shall continue
to appeal for vigilance in order to
prevent Trotskyists from penetrat—
ing into our ranks.
After they were driven out of the
Communist Party, they found a
haven in the Social-Democrat or-
Ganizations. The Socialist workers,
however, soon perceived the de—
structive work being carried on by
the Trotskyists in their ran‘xs.

The Trotskyists sowed confusion
in the Seine Hederation of the So-
cialist Party, which, until the
Trotskyists made it the arena of
their intrigues, played the historic
role of Left wing of the Socialist
Party. The development of the
Socialist youth organization was
likewise checked when the Trotsky-
ists joined it. This body had to fol-
low the example set by us and drive
them out.

The Trotskyists in Belgium played
the same rode of disorganizers of
the Socialist movement. Their crim-
inal role in Spain is universally
known. We cannot be indifferent
to the fact that the enemies of the

‘proletariat, on being driven from

our ranks, find refuge in the So-
cialist organizations.

We want to join with the Socialist
organizations in creating a united
force capable of carrying on a vic-
torious struggle against fascism
and for peace. f

We denounce the enemies of the
united struggle to the Socialist
workers and call on them to rid
themselves of these traitors:

To defend the Socialist organiza-
tions, the trade unions and all the
workers’ organizations without ex—
ception against Trotsxyist penetra—
tion is part of our struggle against

fascism.

enemy. A stop must be put to the

EUROPE

By F. BIGGS

Wazi territorial expansion has be-
gun. Nazi support to General Fran-
Go in Spain has been sreater than
that of any other nation. Hitler has
Spent $180 millions and provided
thousands of soldiers to crush de-
mocracy in that country. “Already
he is taking his ‘pound of flesh’
for this help by landing troops in
Spanish Morocco where they are
Said to be preparing for a long stay
by erecting barracks, building a
naval base and operating the iron
and lead mines. Thus Hitler has
grabbed a handful of Africa which
is already divided between Great
Britain, France and Italy.

Following Hitler's inyasion of
Spanish Morocco, Britain sent 90
War vessels to the adjacent waters
and bribed Mussolini to abide by
the status quo by giving him a
large financial loan for the develop-
and France,
afraid that Hitler has designs on
her possessions, mobilized 100,000
troops along the Moroccan border.
Then Hitler assured the French
Government he had absolutely no
intention of trespassing on Erench
territory, and France, swallowing
the whopper, now plans a :‘‘vast eco-
nomie accord” with Germany, and
according to the press “the erisis
has been averted.’

International Blackmail.

Hitler’s attempt at international
blackmail has been very successful,
and to further aid him and Eranco
in Spain, Great Britain has made it
a penal offence for her citizens to
volunteer to fight for the Spamish
Government against Pascism. The
Canadian Government is expected
to follow suit. Still more aid to
Spanish Fascism comes from the
Blum Government of France, which
proposes to stop French volunteers
going to Spain.

But crises have followed one ano-
ther rapidly in Purope for some
time, the crisis has become a hardy
Perennial, and the antagonisms
arising from the Spanish situation
are still burning at fever heat.

Amother crisis is sure to arise in
France over Blum’s capitulation to
Nazi aggression and his aid to Fran-
co by his plan to stop volunteers
foinge to Spain to help the Gowvern-
ment forces. Such action by the
Baldwin Government is easily un-
derstandable, but from a People’s
Front government it is treachery
to the democratic people of the world
and is altogether unforsivable, and
certainly will be considered so by a
large section of the people of Wrance
who put the Blum Government in
power, and who, it is to be expected,
will call for Blum’s resignation.

Such a demand would not at all
be against havine another People’s
Front government; it would be one
for a better, stronger and less pro-
capitalist fovernment; one that
would stand up against Fascism and
not be steadily retreatine. Weither
Italy nor Germany will lone be sat-
isfied by French and British bribes;
their appetities will be merely
whetted for more and more. Hitler
once with an African base will
after consolidating in Morocco
take further strides towards col-
onies. He will want to increase his
present handful to an armful.

Nazi expansion is due to two

An A nals

@main factors: the tardiness of the

British Labor movement in build-
ing up a People’s Front strons
enough to oust Baldwin, or at least
Stop his helping the enemies of
democracy, and fo the weakness of
the Blum government, which has a
powerful Bront behind it, in refus-
ing to take a firm stand against
international Fascism, and in refus-
ing from the very beginning to sive
full support to the Spanish sovern-
ment. If this support had been
forthcoming immediately after the
Fascist uprising the present situa-—
tion would never have arisen and
Hitler's forces would still be in
Germany.

The People’s Front in Britain is
still only in process of being fash-
loned, its srowth is being held up
by the bureaucracy of the Trade

‘Unions and the Labor Party, and

if the French Peopie’s Front de-
mand that the Blum government
be replaced by one more to the left
world democracy will preathe easier.
Blum has been weighed in the bal-
ance and been found wanting. His
wishy-washy policy towards Fasc-
ism does not mean the failure of the
People’s Front; it means His foy-
ernment has failed to fulfill the
purposes for which the People’s
Front was created —F. B.

M. MAISKY

Soviet Ambassador to Britain.

Mine Managers
Are Organized

DRUMHELLER, Alta. Jan. 15—
(FP)—Mine managers of District 18,
United Mine Workers of America,
are taking a tip in organization from
mine workers. Twenty-nine have
formed a branch of the Mine Man-
agers’ AsSociation and affiliated
With the British Mine Managers’
Association. The orfanization is pro-
tective, but will deal with all con-
ditions related to mining.

NEW YORK, Jan. 15—(YP)—The
fenius of Alexander Pushkin, Rus-
sia’s greatest poet, who died 100
years ago on February 10 next, will
be commemorated in a series of
meetings throughout the U.S., ac-
cording to the American Pushkin

Committee.

a new way. The whole working- ~