LOOKING AT THE WORLD

...It's a trick as old as the "friends of labor...

...My third visit to America has been another happy experience...

...In a recent rei port the Committee declares: "A sample 'citizens' committee' had in it so little of the 'public' that its own publicity committee never saw its press releases before publication, its treasurer was unknown to its own members, and its major activities, behind a front widely advertised as a manifestation of the public's initiative, were known only to a hidden few...

...To disperse the cosfusion and remove the doubts, it therefore presents approximately the following arguments: t. "Most newspapers have discarded the earlier charges «t frame-up...

...It was with this m vis* thst the commission headed by Dr...

...the morning of my departure from the United States I leave this message for the May Day issue of America's New Leader...

...For them trash s any lie, however fantastic, blessed by the Kremlin and baptise...

...The aims of the- two groups of nations, the dictators and the democratic States, remain opposed to each other...

...that the trials were Socialist victories...

...Whoever abuses the G.P.V...

...The law must be respected...

...Will this be done...

...Only Stalin and Yezhoff, as we go to press, has* escaped the contagion...

...To everybody who has assisted in making my visit so pleasant I extend my heartiest thanks and appreciation...

...The democratic powers at the present moment are not only still the stronger ones, but they sre also vastly richer in raw material and foodstuff...

...May Day is labor's day of'international celebration in all those countries of the world where labor is free to acclaim its principles...

...AU our right* to culture's height* Won't be worth a hoot If Trotsky bandits deny that land its Sacred right to shoot...

...PLUG HAT SABOTAGE JNDUSTRIAL spies and strike-breaking agencies are on the decline since their exposure by the Senate Civil Liberties Committee, and strategy by the employing class is turning more and more to the "citizens' committee" or the "law and order league" to defeat unionism and strikes...

...COST OF KEPT-PARTY HACKS QNE thing said in this column two weeks ago regarding the reorganization bill that was* defeated in Congress was dramatically confirmed last week when Mayor LaGuardia declared at a meeting of the Bar Association that it cost $4,000,000 more to maintain the courts in New York City than to maintain all the Federal courts throughout the United .States and its possessions, including the Supreme Court I As though to rub salt into the wound, Justice Thomas C. Kadien...

...If the peace loving nations move fast enough we may still be able to have international measures taken without resorting to war...

...death chambers and find it good...

...6. There are spies all over the world, including the Unite* States...

...In the main, it has ruled industry and government, and in the main 1 it still rules them...

...What does it mean...

...But Cowley sal the rest have a different conception of truth...

...Rumania is already alarmed about the possibility of the execution of Goering's plan to make Vienna a great port with the goal of controlling the output of Rumania's rich oil fields...

...That looks bad enough, but it is also reported that the bill is likely to be smothered in committee by delaying action rather than face a frank vote on releasing it and continue delay until Congress adjourns No Congressman seeking re-election can then be-attacked as an enemy of such legislation...

...But we have no reason to be too confident...

...The letter began with the brilliant remark that "the link b> tween Hitler and the Trotsky-Bukharin camp is plain for u* » sea/* Proofs of this statement...

...It was with this purpose in view that certain progressives asked permission for an international group of rapetable observers to attend the trials...

...Surely not those on the newsstands...

...THEREFORE these treaties will be provisional...

...This policy is synonymous with the complete abandonment of the smaller nations to their fate of sooner or later becoming the prey of the land—and power-hungry dictators...

...We are in the ninth year of the depression...

...Such is the verdict of such eminent judge) of collectivist doctrine as Drs, Kyle Crkhton, Lionel Standi* Charles Recht, Dorothy Parker, Jerome Davis, Paul de %*A Muriel Draper, Dashiell Hammett, and Victor A. YakhentofT...

...3. "It isn't true that they (the defendants) were always •»*" porters of collectivist doctrine...

...Despite all this, our Sacred Cow still bawls for the right to roam the pasture unmolested and its official keepers warn that the goblins 11 get us if we don't watch out...

...A DYING SACRED COW COR many months the intellectual police of capitalism have urged the claims of "business" in any plans for industrial recovery...

...All indications are that it is the final illness of capitalism...

...Phig hat exploiters and their barkers, masking themselves as representing whole communities and sabotaging Federal laws, present an interesting evolution from the pre-war days when they were hounding the weak I.W.W...

...It sounds like a large order...

...TETE letter and the statement seemed too fantastic to be Urn, Perhaps, I thought, it was all a practical joke by BukharhnttHitlerite spoofers—a hoax insulting to the signatories of tat appeal and the "progressives'' to whom it was addressed...

...in any other nation of the world...

...This prescription for rescuing creative uidhnsuaHt* is recommended by Robert Coates, Malcolm Cowley, Stuart DmM Marc Blitzstein and Paul Strand...

...The underlying assujuptfn is that the recipient of the letter will be too well-bred te at questions, or too feeble-minded to think of any...

...Which proves to the prominent Broadway figures that Krestinsky and Piatakoff and Kameneff were from the first •*** and traitors...

...of step except Stalin...

...The history of our Sacred Cow shows that in this country it has had less government restraint, less government competition and more government aid than business has hat...

...self-flagellation which will remain as symbolic of totalitarian ittSs has been twisted into a defense of individual creative freeing Comrades Cowley, Bljtzstein, et al, insist that the Kremhr.'s r$lt to kill thousands of opposition officials is the highest eipretake of "cultural activity in complete freedom...

...Recovery proceeded almost to normal to last Fall, but there is another collapse...

...But the emergency Is critical...

...Great Britain's indirect recognition of the Italian—and German—interference in the Spanish civil war by consenting to entire withdrawal only after the war will be terminated, may have the effect of encouraging Hitler's experiment of interference in Czechoslovakia...

...And now she makes the cynical and frank confession that in violation of this promise she has sent men and material to Franco's aid which she only will entirely withdraw when her fascist Spanish ally has won the war through her help...

...The rigmarole of confession2...

...So we will continue to throw away hundreds of dollars annually in order to take care of "deserving" party hacks...

...These governments were necessary in the days of poor roads...

...Nona are given not snnH explanation why they are not given...

...And this is the reason why no objective observer has too much- confidence that new treaties will be better respected than those of the immediate past...

...The river below Vienna is deep and wide enough for considerable naval and commercial traffic...

...The Sacred Cow has been overwhelmingly represented in these bodies through its lawyers and ideological worshippers...

...They will not bring definite peace to Europe...

...But it does not guarantee or organize world peace...

...I was moved to write to one of the signers, Malcolm Cowkf, to inquire whether the document was genuine or just a piece at leg-pulling at his expense...

...It is comforting to know that creative artists and Broadway figures are ready to defend individual freedom even if they b**» to shoot the last Bolshevik...

...Forecasts of the fate of the measure now in committee indicate that five southern Democrats are opposed to standard wages and hours in all sections of the country, and *of four Republicans two are noncommittal, one is for and the other opposed...

...The new course therefore is actually not a new policy, but a relapse to pre-war policy under more serious conditions...

...The appeal then proceeded: "You, as an American progress**, cannot afford to permit the Fascists, and especially their mBM here in the United States, to destroy or suppress the truth aba* these trials...

...MM after organizing the earlier trials—must suffice...

...Has it not already payed well to have this possibility to exercise pressure by the means of the united front of the f a s c i sts ? In 1985, before the existence of the axis and at the beginn i n g of the Italian conquest Great Britain would not have granted what she has signed now and ann o u n c ed the world as a step to pacification...

...Oh say it, do left say it with bullet* And other liquidations: Every trial in Muscovite style Clears ground for new creations...

...Hoover and Landon join with many Democratic politicians in warnings against offending our Sacred Cow, business...

...Because the new imperialism of the fascist powers is not motivated by accumulation of capital looking out for opportunities for investment and profits—as a matter of fact the two European big fascist powers lack . capital—but their power policy is motivated -by "the necessity of giving their'people a justification for suffering and privation...

...Morrison Sends British Labor, Socialist Greetings By HERBERT MORRISON, M.P...

...Had anyost wanted to burlesque the muddled thinking of the neo-ComaMM idolaters, and provide a take-off on the gullibility of f*B«*travelers, he could scarcely have done better Chan this "def*B»t" of the trials...

...firing squads and Broadway figures...

...In a letter dated April 2,$)$ solicited signatures to a "Statement by American ProgreastHa on the Moscow Trials...

...Even if strong stimulants again revive it, we may expect another collapse...

...Italy promises to withdraw her troops" and war material frqm Spain after Franco's victory...

...ejt tti individual to speak, write-, create and otherwise engage a cultural activity in complete freedom...

...Among the detonatkmi of Bw shooting, the sound of lip-smacking with a relish...

...Thrice since the Civil War—in 1873, in 1893, and in 1929—it has suffered a major collapse, and in between these years there have been a number of minor prostrations...

...The justification reasons that these sacrifices are made for the greater glory of the Nation, to make it more and more powerful and dominating in the world...

...id the blood of Communists...

...And the measure is simplicity itself...

...A complete overhauling of city, state and national governments and elimination of these parasitic growths would save hundreds of millions of dollars that would be available for jobless relief...

...That, obvioasfc proves that Lenin's closest associates were low traitors on fw«fh payrolls...

...These self-styled "progressives" have achw*** an omelette without eggs...

...And its course through Austria, Hungary, Jugoslavia and Rumania to the Black Sea which waters the Ukraine follows exactly the line of the Berlin dictator's ambition...

...one day later, handed down two decisions allowing pay increases for 2 1 employees of the Brooklyn Supreme Court and ordering the Controller to provide salaries for three newlyvap pointed positions...

...When the German army goosestepped into Austria, the Fuehrer was accompanied by a very important person: Admiral Raeder, head of the German Navy, charged with the job of creating a Danubian Fleet...

...it was released to the press a April 24 bearing the signatures, as the release proudly states, d "nearly 150 prominent American artists, writers, ccmpasaj, editors, movie actors, college professors and Broadway figures.* AU these eminent authorities on revolutionary justice, mchldke the Broadway figures, agree that the Old Bolsheviks wets jatt foreign spies...

...thus compelling it to accept a political system of prestige and supremacy the main feature of which is to force the small nations, which are unable to put up any serious resistance, to become vassal states...

...The contrast between the cost of the Federal courts and of the New York City courts is glaring...

...DANGER IN CENTRAL EUROPE m/IAYBE the world has got a breathing spell...

...May be that the energetic measures taken these days' be the Rumanian government against the Iron Guard, Rumania's fascist organization suspected to be supported by their Nazi German friends, were inspired by these fears of the Rumanian king and his cabinet...

...Agreed...

...The Danube may still play s very important part in Herr Hitler's dream of expansion towards the East...

...Aside from specially created jobs to reward party hacks, , there is also the hangover of forms of local government, once useful but now unnecessary...

...No fooling...

...for expounding the philosophy of sabotage...

...Indeed, abflp 40 per cent of the signers are members o? the Communist Parte The executioners-by-proxy look upon their work in the G.PJ...

...The committee added that the average "citizens' committee" advertised itself as representing a community revolt against a "noisy minority," the strikers, and yet the "citizens' committee" is the "noisiest, most minor of minorities...

...has made a lot of progress—literacy, B#* industry, support of the League of -Nations, etc...

...Which is prima facie proof, of course, that the Old sheviks were all spies...

...AMONG the prominent "progressives" who rallied to the defense of individual creativeness via mass slaughter of the Communists by the Communists and for the Communists are Leah B. Budenz, Michael Gold, Clarence Hathaway, V. J, Jeroae, Joshua Kunitz, Mohssaye Olgin, Edwin Seaver, etc...

...and tag everybody's out...

...Not with the consent of the party leaders, who need the useless jobs as rewards for party heelers Meantime, impoverished farmers, in the main, pay the cost of this county parasitism in addition to their other heavy burdens...

...citing- the need to defend artistic frejjjj^ as their clinching argument for uncritical acceptance of 'fie cts> tinning slaughter of Communists in Moscow...

...Raeder has charged Captain Nordmann with the task of recruiting officers and men of the Austro-Hungarian Navy...

...4. For twenty years Russia has been surrounded by capital* countries...

...Mussolini has not given up his goal of creating the Great Roman Empire—he therefore cannot give up his partnership with the German dictator who again needs Mussolini, even if similar treaties should be signed between Britain and Nazi Germany...

...Central Europe Dynamite to Peaceful Nations The fascist powers want to prevent any solidarity of the peace loving nations at any price because it would interfere with their plans to seize smaller powers...

...SMOTHERING A LABOR BILL "J"HE workers of the nation want a satisfactory wages and hours bill, but they may have to say good-bye to any bill at this Congressional session...

...Useless offices and expensive soft berths are commodities of capitalist parties as ore and coal are for corporations producing steel...

...The Sacred Cow is fatally stricken and it must be eventually abandoned...

...They are unanimous in ridiculing the trials...

...Of course, Mussolini was badly treated by his German ally.' Hitler's seizure of Austria brought the highly armed Pan-Germanisnr to her border and wherever Italy wants to expand im Central Europe, she will now find Pan-Germanism on her path...

...If the community of the nations wants to live in peace and order, it has to follow the example set by the civilized state...

...In every instance of collapse the working masses have not ruled the governing bodies of the cities, states and nation...

...THE WAY TO PEACE EXPERIENCE should have taught the powers that peace cannot be bought at the expense of the smaller powers and by condoning the methods of violation of treaties...

...Cooperative ownership of industry, the ^ program of Social Democracy, must replace the futility and anarchy of a dying social order...

...It starts nobly with an admission of the "eonfapw that exists with regard to the Moscow trials and the real fsmt about the situation in the Soviet Union...

...LOOKING AT THE WORLD By TONY SENDER Hitler Makes Some Changes in An Old Game MAY we feel relieved of this almost unbearable pressure of the last monthswill Europe, will the world become normal again and are the racing aggressors finally stopped ? New agreements have been signed between democratic England and the Italian dictatorship—we heard that France followed suit and started negotiations with the purpose of reaching a similar treaty...

...It has been a great thing to--renew contacts and exchange experiences with so many American friends...

...But there is no longer any doubt of k Not only was the appeal issued...

...Net «**t The New Republic end The Nation, which expressed theewatap more vigorously in doubt and deprecation of the last trial that on previous occasions...

...But did not this same Italian government in the London NonIntervention Conference sign the obligation not to interfere in the Spanish Civil War...

...Rome immediately gave the answer by emphasizing the-fact that the new treaty did not Jm any^ way "change the friendship between the *firee"'' dictatorships—the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis...

...We must not interfere with its "initiative," must, not invade the sacred sphere that belongs to it, must not have government competition with it, must not discourage it by heavy taxation, and so on without end...

...When the people understand their task of organizing not only an American peace, but the only kind of peace that is real, namely the peace of the world, only then shall we move to greater security and to the free development of welfare and happiness of all people in a cooperative commonwealth...

...On this day we send to the workers of all countries, including the" workers who are oppressed by fascist tyranny, our greetings of solidarity and our gestures of friendship...

...But they are practical sad ideological concessions to the conception of the fascists...

...The statement itself is rambling, puerile, and pathetic is i» evasions...

...The lawbreaker has to be punished so that it does not commit more crimes of murder and conquest...

...Thj literary quality of the statement itself deepened my suspiass, It was done in the lush style of a dull schoolboy's first com*, sitjijp*"* embroidered with bright non sequiturs, and touching <a everything except the evidence in the Moscow trials...

...The right of the indivMUl to speak, write and create in perfect freedom has been saved If the G.P.U...

...Today from a third to a half of those could be abolished by consolidation of many counties...

...For example, every state has numerous county governments with expensive offices to maintain and salaries to be paid...

...Let us learn in time to value highly the free institutions of this country and therefore undertake everything possible to maintain its democracy and freedom...

...It may be that there treaties also will lead to an agreement between Great Britain and Germany and that the whole series of new agreements may delay the immediate danger of a major catastrophe...

...We are told that the separate negotiations between the two democratic powers and Italy were the means of breaking off the Berlin-Rome axis...

...Mussolini's endeavor is to find an ally who would help him to realize his imperial dream, " that copy of the Napoleonic dream, as newfy formulated by Georges SOREL: To terrorize the world by perpetually blackmailing it, by threatening- it with violence if it refuses to pay...

...To safeguard individual tsstdom and cultural liberty, progressives need only sign a prepatsj statement fully endorsing the Moscow blood-purge trials...

...As to the trials themselves, the falsehoods, the inherent surdities the perversions of history, the significance of the *** that all but a few of the Old Bolsheviks have been eliminates-^ all that, not a word...

...The horrifying spectacle in the Moscow courtroom has thjM been transmuted in the minds of these "progressives" into in rificial rite on the altar of Art...

...Hitler has formulated two opposing theories of foreign policy in declaring that he is opposed to collective security of the nations which be confronts with his conceptions of bilateral treaties and that of localizing arising conflicts...

...Muses Needs serious repritnanding, For Stalin's purges are creative urges Heretics notwithstanding...

...In other words, Bukharin, BjsWh Trotsky, Radek, Zinoviev, Rakovsky were merely capitalist ***** in Marxist clothing...

...And to all the workers of your great country I extend May Day greetings in the name of British labor and socialism...

...The best example is given in the new BritishItalian agreements themselves...

...2- The U.S.S.R...

...These riches must be put at the disposal of all law-abiding nations with an easier access to them than at present—and they must be denied to a lawbreaker...

...Nevertheless, she has no reason to give up her connection with the Berlin dictator...

...What newspapers...

...WHERE THE NEWS ENDS By EUGENE LYONS WHAT "American'progressive*' would refuse to lend his asm te W. an emergency measure for "the world-wide defense of the right i...

...John Dewey studied die trial records, and gathered additional information...

...Faith m Stall and Yagoda—yes, the same Yagoda who was shot ir...