The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1929, Page 1

oover’s War-Like Attitude Toward the Soviet Union Is the Attitude ‘ of the Capitalist Class To- ward the Working Class. Workers, Defend the Soviet Union! March 3, 1879. FI NAL CITY EDITION mpany. toe. Union Squa: lished daity except Sunday by The re. New York City, N. ¥. 1 Office ny Ne ow York N. ¥. ander the act of SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York Outside New York by mall $6.00 per rear by mall $3.00 per year rice 3 Cents NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1929 MacDonald Apes Hoover in |LLINOIS MINER Why You Must Contri- Forming ‘Fascist Council’ Following the example of its world-rival, the United Stat 3vitish capitalist class has begun organizing for an open f atorship to replace the famous British “glemocracy.” We have already shown that Herbert Hoover, in order to conduct she internal war on the working class in this period of sharpened class struggles, and in order to prepare for imperialist world-war, has estab- ished what may be called a “Grand F t Council” of the biggest »yankers and trust heads, who can thus function more openly than ever vefore as the real government superior to the Congress at Washington. Hoover took advantage of the Wall Street collapse and the economic wrisis that underlies it—a time when the petty-capitalist “liberals” were (00 sick with fear to make any objection to anything that might be magined to “save business.” Hoover took pains, also, to give “labor” ‘epresentation by calling in the most prominent A. F. of L. officials, ihe worst enemies of the working class. t dic- . The British capitalist class is now doing something similar, taking advantage of the fear of the petty-bourgeoisie in the present business wisis in England, to set up a body resembling a “Grand Fascist Coun- <l” to wield power greater than “the Mother of Parliaments.” Workers should bear in mind that the Communist International, at she very first moment of the present MacDonald “socialist” govern- nent, pointed out to the whole working class the fact that Ramsay MacDonald’s and the “Labor” Party’s function is precisely to prepare the way for the open fascist dictatorship in England. The “socialist” parties throughout Jar-developed in becoming social fascist parties. This was shown in the United States by the big capitalist newspape open attempt to ‘build up”. the Rey. Norman Thomas and the “socialist” —which ihey know to be necessary instruments for fighting the working class. {t is shown in the setting up of the Mueller “socialist” government in Germany by the German finance-capitalists as the nece: means of iuppressing strikes and crushing the rad zed working class. And she British capitalist rulers many months ago saw that, in order to tontinue to rule and defeat the working class, it was necessary to move quickly toward a fascist dictatorship. To put this over on the lissatisfied British working class, it was necessary to operate first chrough the social-fascist means—and so MacDonald was called to power. Twice, already, the openly capitalist parties in the British parliament have “saved” the “labor” government by absenting them- selves from the hall when they could not well vote for MacDonald’s proposals. MacDonald, suppressing strikes in England and conducting the oloodiest imperialist regime over India, Egypt and the African colonies, and heading straight for an imperialist war (especially as against the Soviet Union), is working fast to prepare the next step for the British capitalist class—the open fascist dictatorship. MacDonald’s fascist “business cabinet” cons of Lord William Weir, boiler manufacturer and former air minister; Sir Andrew Dun- tan, chairman of the electricity board, and #ormer coaj controller; Professor Henry Clay of Manchester University, William T. Layton, editor of the “Economist,” and John M. Keynes, economist. General Jan Smuts advises MacDonald to make the new govern- ment apparatus similar to the Imperial Committee on Defense, which directed the world war for British imperialism. The capitalist press in the U. S ences were of the same type as tho dustry for the world war. The capitalist. powers ‘are marshalling their forces for a war on two fronts: against the workers in their own count: , and against the Soviet Union, the vanguard of the international proletariat. Thus the growing crisis in world capitalist economy, particularly stressed by mounting unemployment in Great Britain, Germany and the United States, is speeding up the fascist development of the imperial- ist governments. The sharpening class struggles, an increase in the jobless, further decline in production, the growing discontent of the British working ma: forces MacDonald to assume more and more his true role of imperialist agent. But the overwhelming contradiction have developed that make it difficult for Donald and Co, further to mislead the masses under the guise of a “labor” government. The necessary next step is open fascism. The social-fascists are combining with the imperialists to direct a smashing blow on the standard of living of the working masses. Green openly announces “no more strikes!” MacDonald unites with the bosses sgainst the miners. all of the countries are already said Hoover’s economic confer- called to mobilize American in- There is a united front of the social-fascist elements (in the U. S. the “socialist” party, A. F. of L., Musteites, ete.; in Britain the “labor” party and the reformist trade union leaders) with the big bosses against the increasing radicalization of the m: The working class throughout the world does not accept with folded arms these combined attacks of the social-fascists and their masters. ‘The Communist International and its national sections in leading the masses in a revolutionary struggle against the social-fascists and their capitalist masters. It is the militant resistance of the British workers to wage cuts and speed-ups (Mondism and the lengthening of the work-day for the miners) that drives MacDonald into more rapid exposure of his fi vole, In the United States the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League are developing, concretely, in the shops, mines and mills, the mass struggles of the workers against the betrayals. SHOEWORKERS WIR GIVES AID TO FIGHT TO FINISH SUBWAY DIGGERS Bosses and State Unite Union Mobilizes For Against Workers Mass Picketing At a joint meeting of shoe work- A relief kitchen for the striking ers from three large shops, held at | subway workers is being opened to- the Irving Plaza Hall, Monday aft- | gay by the Workers’ International ernoon, December 2, 1,500 shoe | Relict tl t Fa is workers declared their readiness to | Relief at Ltn Sent eadquar- fight all winter if need be, in order | ters, 235 West 129th St. to better conditions of the shoe} The strike committee yesterday workers, and to organize all shoe | decided to mobilize for real mass workers under the banner of the; picketing beginning today at the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, Grand Concourse. which is the only union fighting the} The work of the new union is go- pattles of the workers for better |ing forward at full speed. Organ- wages, shorter hours and against jzation committees have been formed the speed-up and contract systems |to organize construction crews in in the shoe industhy. his is the Long Island, downtown sections and answer to the general lock-out pol-|in Brovklyn, icy of the Metropolitan Shoe Manu-; 4 jnass meeting of subway con- facturers’ Association in collabora-' struction workers will be held Sun- tion with the Board of Trade, the | qay, 4 p, m., at Stuyvesant’s Casino, Labor Department and the Boot and j42° second Ave. A meeting. in Shoe Bosses’ A. F', of L. unions is Brooklyn will be held during the directed against the organized shoe carly part of next week. workers, The Trade Union Unity League F, G. Biedankapp, general man- js playing an active part in organ- ager of the Independent Shoe Work- jzing the subway construction ers’ Union, stated that the bosses workers, and many T. U. U. L. mem- were organized by C. Wood, of the | hers have volunteered for the picket Labor Department, in order to de- line of the subway strikers, stroy the Independent Shoe Work- | yfarce] Scherer and Martin Rus- beet Union, so as to be able to cut |sak were among the speakers of prices and wages) and force the | iway construction workers yester- workers back into a 65-hour a week | ie eA M ae apen shop. Bicdenkapp pointed out day evening at Manhattan Lyceum. that the Labor Department was ac- | " i i tively engaged in aiding the bosses Build Up the United Front of to terrorize thé workers an dhelp- | the Working © Krom the Bot | (Continued on Page Two) | Sua Up—at the Baterprises! BOSSES HARDEST Winter Is When Coal Is Needed; UMWA Used to Strike in April |All Walk Out on Dec: 9 Call on Working Class to Give Full Support WEST FRANKFORT, IIL, Dec. 4. —For the first time in recent years the miners of Illinois prepare to strike at a time they pick, not a date set to agree with the conveni- ence of the employers and fixed upon in consultation between the corrupt official machine of the United Mine Workers of America, ‘and the coal operator: Delegates from the tri-district conference of the National Miners’ Union, held Sunday, in Zeigler, Il., swarm back to their own locals and into the locals of the U. M. W. A, where the rank and file stubbornly refuses to carry ont the machine’s orders to expel them. They carry the message of general | strike to start Monday, December 9, “It has become a tradition for the | U. M. W. A. cont s with the coal operators to expire on April 1, just | when the demand for coal begins | to fall off, and summer weather | makes it advisable for some mines to close down anyway. This strike is different. This one begins when f (Continued on Page Twe) FIGHT STARTING ‘'NTWIU Drive Begins | _in Dress Trade “While the Schlesinger compar union at its fake convention, now i 'Cleveland, a convention packed by ‘the most corrupt gang long repu: | diated by the workers of the indus- try, is going ahead with its con- | spiracy to enslave the dressmake: the workers of the dress trade under he leadership 0° the Needle Trades | Workers’ Industrial Union are en | getically at work mobilizing their }ranks for a struggle to wipe out jopen shop conditions in |trade and bring the thousands of | unorganized workers into the | of the union. Beginning with the week of De- cember Ist, the organization drive ied on by the rank and file or- ation committees has been launched. Workers of open shops are responding to the call of the in- dustrial union, are bringing in their complaints and together with the organization committee are working lout plans for the unionization of their shops. “The Joint Board is arranging block and building committee meet- |ings for the purpose of drawing in | the widest mass of the workers into participation in the drive for union | conditions in the dress trade. The | propaganda committee of the union |is arranging open forums, which are attended by thousands of workers, registered and non-registered, all of whom recognize that the only effec- tive way of defeating the company- union, governor’s commission schemes and the bosses is through organization work on a mass scale jin the open shops—energetic meas- ures and, where necessary, strikes (Continued on Page Two) DANGER U.S.- WAR ENGLAND GROWS * WASHINGTON, Dee. ‘capitalist press has completely hid- | jden the mai |was the kernel of Hoover’s message to Congress. Hoover pointed out \that expenditures for war purposes | were greater than ever and would continue to climb. He urged an ex- penditure of $1,200,000,000 for naval | armaments, | | A dispatch from London declares |that British imperialism did not overlook this important phase of Hoover's message. The British imperialists find America war preparations ‘disquiet- ing,” because the British imperial- ists know that the arms of Ameri- can imperialism are being ammassed for a tussle over the control of the world markets. The “London Times” |fails to mention the fact that U. 8. war preparations that | jnewed against the strike of the .. STRIKENOWHITS bute to the Emergency Fund | Of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. Do you realize how important it is that you send in your contribution at once to the Emergency Fund? | Here are a few of the tasks which await money to carry | them out: Eight organizers in the South are living on $5 per week, and need travelling expenses, and a little money to work with (for halls, leaflets, etc.). We must provide them with the means to extend their work, and also send free literature into the South. The opportunity for work is enormous; we could profitably use hundreds of thousands, without a cent of waste—but-at least we MUST spend $25,000 on our south- ern organization campaign in the next 3 months. A half-million leaflets, and a hundred thousand small pamphlets, are prepared for the membership drive and the unemployment campaign. This is only the beginning of a regular drive for mass propaganda, in which one leaflet and | one pamphlet will be issued every month. The pamphlets are to be sold at 5 cents each, and the leaflets to be distrib- uted free. Several thousand dollars are required in the Na- tional Office to start this work, which must then be sup- ported by the districts and membership. Our Daily Worker publishes at a deficit of several thou- sand dollars every month. It cannot be continually calling for special donations for itself. The Party must meet this deficit of the Daily Worker, until we have succeeded in ex- | tending its circulation to 50,000 copies a day, when it will be | self-supporting. The Daily Worker is improving rapidly, | every worker-reader knows this, and must boost its circula- | tion. But right now, the Daily Worker also requires help from the Emergency Fund. : These few examples show WHY EVERY WORKER MUST GIVE ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY TO THE | $50,000 EMERGENCY FUND. SEND IN YOURS TODAY! | Send all remittances to Communist Party of U. S. A. | 43 E. 125th St., N. Y. C. GRAHAM TRIAL REOPEN ORLEANS BEGINS TODAY OFFICE OF MW. L. Three Other Big Cases Organizers Out of Jail; in Next 7 Days Building Conference When Stephen Graham goes on, NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 4. trial today in Norfolk, Va., charged; The four Marine Workers League eithie tH inciting the Negro populace | organizers are once more released, citizens,” the masses of American workers, gro worker; Victor Aronson, and coming up before juries within sev- | William J. Davids. en days. Davids and Aronson were arrest- Graham’s trial, which involves ed first for distributing Labor De- the right of white and Negro work- | fenders and Labor Unities. The raid ers to organize into the same union, | on the M.W.L. office followed next, is followed Monday by the Salva-| With confiscation of literature, in- tore. Accorsi case in Allegheny; cluding the Marine Workers Voice, County, western Pennsylvania, Ac-|the organ of the League. Morgan sorsi’s case, which wil. result in his| and Brown were seized there, and Aronson, who been meanwhile released, was arrested again. The newly formed I.L.D. branch in New Orleans, secured Attorney Alison to represent them, and they (Continued on Page Three) electrocution unless the workers of (Continued on Page Three) | Needle, Textile and | Shoe Unions to Take | Part in I.L.D. Meet | The Needle Trades Workers | Industrial Union, National Textile | Workers’ Union, Independent Shoe Workers’ Union and other militant | {unions and progressive groups, as; The National Textile Workers jwell as the Trade Union Unity | Union, victorious last week in the ye seners a! be among the many /|Treco Knitting Mills strike, will |working class organizations repre-| hold a mass meeting of its New sented at the District Convention of | York membership at 8 p. m. today, |the International Labor Defense, to! in its New York District Headquar- the held Sunday, December 15, at 10 | ters 16 W. 21st St. ja. m., at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and | There will be a general report on \Irving Pl. | the situation, and on preparations | The acute problems facing the fo~ the second national convention, | working class in view of the intensi-| which will be held in Paterson, N. |fied drive by the capitalist class | J., Dec. 21-22. lagainst all militant labor will be| National Textile Union Mass Meeting Tonight Report on the Situation thoroughly discussed at this con-|as representative as possible all vention, and plans made for com-,| working class organizations that batting the attacks of the bosses’ |have not already done so are urged 4,— The | courts and for building the I. L. D.|to send in credentials for their dele- | Mill strikers at Homestead, N. C. in this district. | gates to the office of the New York In order to make this convention iT. L. D., 7 Leaksville Mill Bosses Forg “Statement by the Strikers” 'Get Local Press to Print Slanderous Article Picketing Keeps Mill Absolutely Closed By GEORGE MAURER, ,; Sunday, Nov. 3 at midnight, the en- The vicious anti-union campaign] tire plant was closed down. All but o° the capitalist press has been re-| eight workers struck immediately and the eight also followed the rest of the workers. Despite this fact and also the fact that the Charlotte Observer published an article short- ly after the strike was called, stat- ing that the entire force of workers Leaksville Woolen Mills workers. On Sunday, Nov. 24, the Charlotte Observer published a long statement supposedly signed by the majority of the workers. The statement was up by armed force such notes as | Stiieou veeently sent to the Soviet Union, | tional Textile Workers Union and| this statement. It is quite evident vutaining obvious Ite: from the statement itself, that the When the strike was called on| (Continued on Page Three) , ‘| Daily Worker; | | Who, acting for the Conmmissariat of Foreign Affairs of the U.S.S.R. handed the French Ambassador in | Moscow a memorandum rejecting | the American “note” and sharply | attacking the action of the Hoover administration on the & jet-Chinese dispute. FASCIST BODY FORMED TODA | Lamont, Hoover & Co. Open Wage Attack WASHINGTON, Dee. 4.—Hoover meets today with 200 leading ex- ploiters of labor actually to form | his fascist economic council. | Julius H. Barnes, seeretary of the | U.S, Chamber of Commerce, reports acceptances already received from | over 150 capitalists, in reply to les- ters sent out inviting them to take part in the attacks on the American workers wages, and conditions. Among those who will gather to build this new fascist apparatus are: R. H. Aishton, chairman of the | American Railway Executives; | Thomas F. Lamont, secretary of | commerce, Gerald Swope, president (Continued on Page Two) ‘SMASH STIMSON THREAT ON USSR District 2 Mass Meet to | Rally Workers | | | Tomorrow night the worktrs of | New York will gather in mass dem- | onstration at Central Opera House, 67th Street and 8rd Ave., to de- lnounce the steps that have been |taken by the United States govern- | ment, through the State Department |to intervene in the Manchurian sit- | uation on the side of sharpening the {attacks of the Chinese war lords against the Soviet Union. | Throughout the working class sec- the dress | to insurrection against the white | and have reopened the league office| tions yesterday there were expres- | he leads a list of four| at 308 Chartres St. They are John! sions of deep satisfaction with the | ranks cases of tremendous importance to|S. Morgan, Leonard Brown, a Ne-/ declaration of the Soviet Union in | denunciation of the imperialist note of Stimson. The organizations of the revolutionary Chinese workers in New York have already notified the Communist Party of their par- ticipation in the demonstration Fri- day night and have sent two repre- sentatives to speak in their name. ' These are James Mo and N. Doon- ping. In addition to these speak- ers, Robert Minor, editor of the M. J. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit; Otto Huiswood of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party and I, Amter, district in New York, will also | organize: | speak. In a leaflet issued by the Commu- nist Party of America, District 2, in several tens of thousands of copies, the following slogans for the struggle against the imperialist war now in preparation are: Defeat the New Imperialist tacks on the Soviet Union! \son’s Note Is Part of New Imper- | ial ist War Preparations! Mobilize |in Defense of the U.S. S. R., Our (Continued on Page Two) At- Stim- WIR GALLS FOR AID TO STRIKE |. With the heroic Leaksville Woolen |keep the mill closed by mass pick- the bosses to operate with scabs, the Workers International Relief ‘institutes a campaign to raise funds ‘for their relief. These workers ‘were among the best supporters of \the other struggles of the textile |workers, giving freely for the Gas- _tonia strikers and daring the fascist ‘terror of the southern textile ba- \rons by striking themselves on the ‘eve of the Gastonia trial. They ‘have been out since November 3, | The W. I. R. national office, 949 \ Broadway, states: | “With the sentencing of the seven Gastonia textile workers to long prison terms of from 10 to 20 years, |the situation in North Carolina is ‘not settled by far.” The long-term |sentences did not satisfy the greed jof the bosses who want to crush ‘preparations are growing to back a poisonous one, slandering the Na-| had come out, the Observer prints | the movement to organize the un- ‘organized, | “Hundreds of workers who pavti- (Continued on Page Two) MAXIM LITVINOFF Litvinoff Says Stimson | | | |“Izvesta” and “Pravda’ Wants Control of Note Seeks to Disturb Peace Agreement Between USSR and China ’ Say U. S. Imperialism Tanchurian Railway MOSCOW, Dec. 4.—Maxim -Litvinoff, commissar for for- \eign affairs of the Soviet Union, in a speech today pointed out lin line with the note which t he workers’ government sent to the imperialist powers that threatened intervention over 'the Manchurian dispute, that fringed upon,” and that the® \threats of the imperialist pow- ers “to invoke the pact of Paris cannot frighten “The big imperialist pow- ers,” Litvinoff is reported to have said, “whose troops par- jade their colonies, in spite of \the Kellogg pact, cannot inti- midate the Soviet Union, under the guise of ‘peace.’” | Litvinoff pointed out that the Stimson threatening note was sent when an agreement had been reached between the Soviet Union and the Mukden government, that the imperialist powers were in- | jcetine their “fluence to prevent a peacable settlement of the Manchur- ian question. “If foreign capitalist | powers interfere,” said Litvinoff, “the Soviet Union is depending upon | the workers and peasants and the Red Army for the establishment of peace and settlement of the conflict in Manchuria. 7 + @ | WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Secre- tary of State Stimson issued a state- ment today continuing his threat against the Soviet Union. Stimson’s statement is a weak reply to the |note sent by the Soviet Union re~ | jecting the “advice” and interfer- ence of the imperialist powers who supported the Stimson threat. Stimson hypocritically declared that “The message of the American | government was sent not from un- | friendly motives.” Stimson’s state- | ment is a paltry effort to cover the imperialist ambitions of United | States capitelism in Martchuria, | The note which the Soviet Union in reply to Stimson’s threat is as follows: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the first day of its existence has pursued a policy of peace, and unlike other powers has never resorted to military action except # a necessary step for de- fense, due to direct attack on the Union or armed intervention in its internal affairs. The Soviet Union has consistently pursued this policy and intends to pursue it independ- ently of the Paris pact for aboli- tion of war, During recent years the Nanking ser’ government, evading by its usual methods settlement of the conflict by diplomati has carried on |toward the So nion a provoca- tive policy of violation’ of the cus- ‘tomary rules and treaties, notwith- | | standing the fact that these treat- fies were not imposed on China by \force, but were concluded on the |basis of full equalty and free will |and that the Soviet Union volun- tarily surrendered in these treaties \extraterritorial consular jurisdic- \tion and other privileges which the ‘Chinese government until now has been vainly trying to abolish in re- | gard to other powers. | The climax of this policy was jthe seizure of the Chinese Eastern {Railway without any warning or | ‘preliminary presentation claims, in violation of agreements regarding the joint ad- ministration of the railway, | The Soviet Government believes of any that if action such as that of the \Nanking government were taken |toward the United States, Great ‘Britain or France it would be con- idered by their governments suf- ficient cause for putting into force 00 Broadway, Room 422. | eting, crushing every attempt of reservations they made when sign- ing the pact. when signing that it did not recog- nize the reservations and did not ‘intend to use them The Nanking government not only resorted to illegal seizure of |the Chinese Eastern Railway, jbut mobilized along the Soviet Manchurian Railway an army, vari- jous sections of which, together with counter-revolutionary Russian bands included therein, made systematic attacks on the U. S. S. R., crossing the frontier and firing on units of the Red Army and frontier villages, robbing and violating a peaceful population, causing thereby losses of lives and population. Despite frequent warnings through the German government, these attacks did not cease, but jrather increased and compelled the | Soviet Far-Eastern Army, in the jinterests of defense, protection of and | existing | The Soviet Government declared , “the Kellogg Pact was not in- ‘the frontier and the peaceful popu- lation, to take counter measures. Thus the actions of the Red Army had due considerations of self-de- fense and were in no wise viola- tions of any obligations of the Paris pact. That cannot be said ‘of armed forces in Chinese territory and Chinese ports of those powers who have applied today to the Soviet Union with identical declarations. The Soviet Government states that the government of the United States has addressed its declaration at a moment when the Soviet and Mukden governments already had agreed to several conditions and were proceeding with direct nego- tiations which would make possible prompt settlement of the conflict | between the Soviet Union and China. | “In view of this fact the above ‘declaration can not but be consid- ered unjustifiable pressure on the negotiations, and can not therefore be taken as a friendly act. The Soviet Government states further that the Paris pact does not ‘give any single state or group of states the function of protector of \this pact. The Soviet, at any rate, never expressed consent that any istates themseves or by mutual |consent should take upon them- iselves such a right. Sais |) "The Soviet Government declares \that the Soviet-Manchurian conflict can be settled only by direct’ nego- tiations between the Soviet Union and China on the basis of condi- tions known to China and already accepted by the Mukden govern- ment, and that it cannot admit in- terference of any other party in these negotiations or the conflict. In conclusion, the Soviet Govern- ment cannot forbear expressing amazement that the government of the United States, which by its own will has no official relations with the Soviet, deems it possible to ap- ply to it with advice and counsel, * « & MOSCOW, Dec. 4.—Sharp resist- ence to any threatened attack of imperialist powers on the Soviet Union was the main note of “Izves- tia,” in discussing the vicious and + insidious Stimson threat. “Tavestia” said the workers’ gov- ernment did not need the advice of the imperialist powers in its con- versations with Mukden. Investia” pointed out that U. S., British and French imperialism are attempting to lay their hands on the | Chinese tern Railway by estah- lishing their armed control. “Arner- capital has long been itching to lay its hands on this enterprise,” says Izvestia. “Pravda” scored the “peaceable” intentions of the imperialist powers | who threatened intervention in, Man- eburia. “Pravda” exposed the im- perialist ambitions of the U. S. and the others who joined in signing the | threatening note and “the hypocricy of the Kellogg Pact powers who show such touching concern for China whom they exploit and op- press, adopting the methods of arm- ed intervention.” "oe # SHANGHAT, Dee. 4,.—A dispatch to the Associated Press from Kan- chow says that revolutionary Chinese peasants, under the leadership of the Communist Party “have captured the cities about Kanchow.” The Lazarus Mission, a tool of foreign impe: m, declares that “the situation is| serious,” which | means that the armed peasants are making good headway. “The Reds in Kanchow area,” says the dispatch, “total many thou- sands,” sae | BERLIN, Dec. 4,—The Rote | Fahne, official organ of the German Communist Party, is rallying the ‘German workers against the threat |of invasion of the Soviet Union. |“The events of the last few days,” says the Rote Fahne, “prove that America has finally assumed hege- ‘mony in the war front of world im- | perialism against the Soviet Union.” * | NANKING, Dec. 4.—Chiang Kai. | Shek’s puppet government has sent | fawning notes to the United States, | Great Britain and Italy thanking | these oppressors of the Chinese masses for their help in threatening | the Soviet Union on the eve of the signing of a treaty between the ‘ (Continued on Paye Two) . SOVIET UNION STANDSFIRM — “AGAINST THREAT OF U.S. AND BRITISH IMPERIALISM —