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700 Ohio Miners Join Strike of 700 in West Virginia! This Is the Militant Solidarity of the Workers on the Job With the Unem- ployed. Demonstrate Feb. 26 Against Speed-Up, Wage Cuts and Unemploy- ment: Organize Unemployed Councils! ily Entered as second-class matter at the Voxt Office at New York, N. ¥ under the act of March 3, 1879. Vol. » No. 293 Company, Inc., Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodatly Publishing, 26-28 Union Square, New York City, Ne +>" NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 193 SUBSCRIP" Outside N N RATES: In New York by mail, $5.00 per year. ew Yor! by mail $6.00 per yea “For God and the Kulaks” SECONDSTRIKE War Rivalries Every worker should be on guard to meet and to smash the war now rapidly being organized by world imperialism against the Soviet | Union. | The signs of its gathering headway are too plain longer to be mis- taken, While we cannot say at what hour it will come, we can cer- tainly state that the imperialists are making all haste to prepare for it, both in a military way and in propaganda. In the coming attack, the imperialist government of the United States is clearly seeking leadership, not out of any “idealistic” mo- tive, but in hope of tearing down the greatest menace to world capi- talism, the Soviet Power under which ‘ialism is being built by the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, unquestionably hoping not only to end that menace to the system whereby U. S. capitalists rob the workers of the United States and oppress the masses of colonial and semi-colonial lands, but in order to get for itself, or for'some of the countries servile to it that border the Soviet Union, territory and | people now outside their power to exploit. The recent diatribe of the Pope against the Soviet Union, seconded at once by the Church of England, the Czarist emigrees (a good part of which are engaged in the “saintly” business of prostitution, strike- breaking and traffic in narcotics) and the “socialists” Kerensky- and Abramovitch, is an example of the “mobilization of God,” of super- stition and social fascism, on the side of imperialism. With reason, Comrade Rykov in Moscow on Monday stated that: “They are protecting God against suppression by the Bolsheviks. They are really interested in protecting the kulaks.’ The kulaks, the rich farmers, hitherto permitted to hire labor under conditions laid down by the Soviet Labor Code and the trade union of Land Workers, hitherto permitted to lease land and to use land, are being struck a mortal blow by revocal of these provisions and the rush of the great mass of the poor and middle peasantry into collectives. | With the smashing of the kulaks as a class, world capitalism loses its greatest hope in the retrogression ofgSoviet economy “back to capi- talism.” The sinister and secret military equipment of the capitalist | world, making ready day by day to launch an armed horde of fascist | mercenaries against the Soviet frontiers, counted upon the “dark people” of the Soviet village, for ages steeped in bowing to ikons and reverence to private property, most particularly their own property | as kulaks and exploiters of the peasant masses. | But the peasant masses have had 13 years of enlightenment, and | “dark” as may be the kulak class, with the glad assistance of the poor | and middle peasantry, the Soviet Power in one smashing blow is up- rooting the kulak class from its economic basis and establishing a so- cialist relationship in agriculture in which a kulak has no more place than has God in science—which is none at all. Small wonder the forces of world imperialism are “alarmed.” Small wonder that the pope, the French “anti-clerical” politicians, the “socialist” Abramovitch (now “just by chance” making anti-Soviet propaganda in America and openly soliciting aid “for underground work in Russia”), and all the thousand and one spokesmen of counter- revolution are busily “exposing” how lost in sin and iniquity are the Bolsheviks, and particularly bewailing the “war against the Russian peasants.” These gentry, of course, do not call attention to the fact that the enormous majority of the peasants they speak of, are enthusiastically aiding the Soviet Power to oust the kulak, who is their own hereditary | enemy, for the good and simple reason that they, the great majority of the peasantry, are vastly penefited thereby. The burning at public bonfires of wagon-loads of ikons goes hand im hand with the forma- — tion of collective farms. fos | Not to salvage God fromthe bonfires, but to rescue capitalism from the victorious onslaught of socialist construction, to protect the kulak as a class, do the imperialists, cynical and callous and cruel | themselves in oppressing the exploited of the capitalist world, summon | God and. Kerensky, the Second “socialist” International and the Roman | Catholic Church, to do battle against the “impious” Bolsheviks. Workers should take note of every anti-Soviet move being chron- icled in the current news, and realizing its significance, prepare to defend the Soviet Power—and to whatever limit its defense demands. A“MYSTERY" NO ONE WILL SOLVE | | | International Wireless _ | News | BERLIN TAXI STRIKE SPREADS. | ete. | HITS IMPERIAL VALLEY BOSSES | cue Packing Shed Workers Out 100 Per Cent for Wage Raise Unity League Is Active Militaney Raised Thru) First Strike of 8000 EL CENTRO (Imperial Valley), Cal., Feb. 12—Another strike in the Imperial Valley! Yesterday the packing shed workers walked out, 100 per cent in most sheds, and tied up the whole valley. The first Imperial Valley strike jof 8,000 Filipino and Mexican agri- | cultural workers a few weeks ago was sold out by misleaders in the |Mexican “Mutual Aid Association,” after a splendid resistance by the workers, in the face of deputized ranch foremen, many arrests, threats of lynching, armed menace from the American Legion, threats of de- portation by the U S. government of criminal syndicalist prosecution | by the state of California, and every variety of appeal to go back to work by the Mexican consular officials, Since then the Trade Union Unity League has been organizing. At the height of the first strike the Agricultural Workers Industrial ; League of the T.U.U.L. was created. | (Continued on Page Two) DRESSMAKERS ~INREAL STRIKE \Repudiating Fake, Peace and Slavery The real dress strike is still go-| ing on, and shop victories are being won, While three groups of bosses and their company union, the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers were signing the two year slave contract in its final form, the Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union yesterday | distributed leaflets calling on the thousands of dressmakers to defy the sell-out, the fake “peace,” which is a peace of surrender, starvation, j overwork, speed-up for some and/ {unemployment for many and to} | fight for gains for themselves. Rep- | resentatives of many. shops con- tinued to come to the Industrial Union offices, and register the fact that they were forming shop com- mittees to carry on the struggle, and would have none of the fake peace. Guard, including Koutiepoff himself, Finding. Koutiepoff) Would Ruin Story BERLIN, Feb, 12.—German po- | lice, fraternally. assisted by two French police in the joint business | of anti-Soviet snooping, are engag- | ing in “questioning” White Guard Russian emigrees here, in an effort not to find the “vanished” General Koutiepoff, who “disappeared” from Paris recently and over which there has arisen a bad smell of anti-Soviet | propaganda. | Some worthwhile facts that de- | veloped are, however, rather inter- esting as indicating that the ridict lous. charge of the whole pack ct counter-revolutionaries that “Soviet agents murdered Koutiepoff in the Soviet embassy,” is a deliberate lie and a frame-up to stir up counter-! vevolutionary fury. | It appears: that Koutiepoff went! from Paris to Berlin just a week! before he “disappeared” in Paris, to confer with General Lampe, leader of the White Guard officers in Ger- many. Also, it turned out, accord- ing to the German police, that “cer- | tain” members of the White Guard | colony in Berlin also “vanished” at! the same time that Koutiepoff “dis- appeared” from Paris. | This business of “vanishing” by wholesale in Berlin, is, however, not | charged up to “Soviet agents,” and | while a great deal of secrecy is hung. over the whole affair, it is clear that | the report current among the White | Guard circles throughout Europe, to | the effect that Koutiepoff left his | wife and sailed for South America, head of the White Guard organiza- | tion, has a basis in fact. But it is also true that his “dis-/ appearance” has given the anti-So- viet drive such a nice bit of prop- aganda, that none of the White hopes that he ‘will be “found.” He would probably have a hard time forcing the French and German po- lice to find him., His “disappear- ance” is too valuable as anti-Soviet propaganda. at | Do your working rlass neighbors | read the Daily Worker? Sell it to: them every day and make new Party members. (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 12.—There was 4/ hold the fort against all gangsters further extension of the taxicab strike here today, when a thousand more drivers joined the 3,000 now out. A strike meeting decided to pull out all cabmen, The trade union “socialist” bureaucrats are sabotaging the strike. Further col- lisions between strikers on one side and scabs aided by police under The Industrial Union continued to | yesterday, as it has every day dur- | ing the strike. have been able to break into the shops won by the N.T.W.LU. What a Commission! As details of the contract signed yesterday by all parties to the com- (Continued on Page Two) Zoergibiel, the “socialist” police) vpw yp, g, AMBASSADOR TO chief, occurred today, the police us- ing clubs against the strikers. oe eee COMMUNIST SPEAKS IN REICH- STAG ON YOUNG PLAN. (Wireless By Inprecorr) | | GERMANY ARRIVES. | BERLIN, Feb. 12.—Frederic M. \Sackett, newly arrived ambassador from Wall Street to Germany told President Von Hindenberg that he looked toward “increasingly friend- BERLIN, Feb. 12.—The Reichstag}ly intercourse between Germany and today commenced debate on the Young Plan. Foreign Minister Curtius declares that the Young Plan was more favorable than the Dawes Plan. The “socialist” Breit- sheid supported the Young Plan, while the Nationalist (fascist) Hu- genberg made a fake “opposition” speech, Thaelmann, the Communist, then gave the Communist attitude, declaring that the revolutionary workers will tear up the Young Plan and establish a Soviet Republic in Germany. i es 8 @ WORKERS STRIKE AGAINST FIRING COMMUNISTS, (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 12.—Yesterday the management of the Opel auto works in Rueffelsheim (Editorial Note— The Opel works are now controlled by the General Motors Company), | dismissed three Communist members , because of foreseeing his removal as! o¢ the Shop Council. Today the workers struck solidly in demand \for the reinstatement of the three Communist workers. Seven hundred (700!) police arrived, ejected the remaining workers from the factory and occupied the works. SPANISH DICTATORS WANT ARMY OFFICES NOT TO DISCUSS POLITICS MADIRD, Spain, Beb, 12.—Dicta- tor Damaso Berenguer has ordered all military officers to refrain from discussing politics. Many of the of- ficers are in a rebellious mood, representing bourgeois opposition forces. | the United States.” The German gov- ernment in Munich followed Sac- kett’s advise by raiding the Soviet Trade Commission. Today in History of the Workers February 13, 1918—General strike of shipyard workers on Atlantic Coast for more pay. 1925—Fifty- two Communists in Bulgaria sen- tenced to 137 years in prison for September uprising. 1928+-30,000 lignite miners in Czechoslovakia ‘| struck» 1840—William Wittink, who furnished first loan to American revolutionists, died in Amsterdam. 1910—Great suffrage demonstration in Berlin. LONDON, Feb. 12.—The Arch- bishop of Canterbury, primate of all England, joined with Pope Pius and the Archbishop of York today in the concerted anti-Soviet cam- paign under the guise of opposition to “religious ‘persecutions in Soviet Russia,” King George, in a message to the upper house of convocation, religious-opium peddlers, adds fuel No LL.G.W. thugs | con- | sisting of thé head tribe of British | Shownat Naval ArmsRace Meet LONDON, Feb. 12.—The sharp rivalries over the race for naval [war <srmaments that are expressed in the Five-Power Conference were | brought out in the House of Com- mons today by questions put to | Ramsay MacDonald and First Lord of the Admiralty, Alexander, both | delegates to the race-for-arma- |ments conference for British im-| Unemployed and Part Time Miners Givin | perialism, | MacDonald, leading mouthpiece | for the British bosses at the confer- ence said that no proposal had been made to. scrap battleships in the Queen Elizabeth or Royal Sovereign |classes. MacDonald appeared indig- |nant to think anyone would question |him on his loyalty to the British war |lords. Specific reference was made |to the Nelson and Rodney, 33,500 and 33,900 tons, respectively, which | tleship possessed by the American imperialists, | Stimson insisted that the United | States be allowed to “disarm” by | scrapping an outworn battleship | and building a newer and more up- | to-date one for war purposes. When |asked about this fact, Lord Alexan- der declined to answer in the House (Continued on Page Three) SOVIET TRADE MISSION IN MUNICH RAIDED \Imperialists Spread Anti-Soviet Front (Wireless By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Feb. 12.—Today at an early hour 20 detectives raided the |Munich branch of the Soviet Trade | Mission, allegedly searching for ex- plosives. Many hours’ search pro- duced nothing. The homes of em- ployes were also searched. United Press reports Wednesday state that the Munich representative of the Soviet Trade organization, protesting the raid mentioned above, asserts that he had in the course of other business offered to sell ex- | plosives to several German firms | on the same legitimate basis as) other traders do, notifying them that | purchasers would have to obtain a} permit to import such purchases | from the German government. The Soviet Embassy at Berlin has de- |manded an explanation of the raid | |from the German Foreign Office. * * * The anti-Soviet front, engineered | by the imperialist powers at the | London race-for-armament meet, is | rapidly spreading. The Mexican | provocations, ordered by Wall St. the call for a holy war against the | | Soviet Union by the pope, and its passionate embrace by the imperial- jists of Great Britain, are not iso- | lated instances. The French capi- |talists are champing at the bit in| | (Continued on Page Three) Member of Muenchen Crew Killed; Captain Worries Over Stamps) Yesterday they put out the fire burning in the North German Lloyd | liner Muenchen, and the owners be- | gan to count on the cost of raising the ship, and how such of the $1,- 500,000 insurance they could collect. Everybody seemed fairly happy, ex- | cept the friends of Gustave Frank, third electrician, who was burned to death on board, the crew having been held on the ship as long as pos- sible by her officials. | Captain Brunnings was anxiously | waiting all day for a searching party to go aboard—not, however, to | find the body of Frank or any of; the sailors who might not have got! off, but to see if his “very valuable collection of cancelled stamps which it took me years to accumulate” was safe or not. The fireman killed during the FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 | Cents OHIO MINERS STRIKE AGAINST WAGE CUTS, UNEMPLOYMENT Duluth Unemployed Rally for Demands Despite Police Brutality; Cleveland Jobless Protest in Second Demonstration the Savage Attack of Police Upon Right of Workers to Meet g Full Support to Striking Miners; International to Widen the Movement for “Work or Wages” Unemployment Day, Feb. 26 Demonstrations | inl eee By System| ‘DULUTH JOBLESS | Jobless Toiler Kills | JOIN STRUGGLE are larger and newer than any bat- Second Demonstration three years old, driven at Cleveland, Ohio DULUTH, Minn., Feb. 12.—Hun- | dreds of unemployed workers, led by | the Trade Union Unity League and |the Communist Party, demonstrated |at the Duluth City Hall yesterday \for their demands of “Work or Wages” for the unemployed, social insurance and against wage cuts and | speed-up of the employed workers. ! The Duluth police brutally clubbed |the workers in an attempt to dis- perse the demonstration, but the |workers stood by their rights to |gather and hold demonstration meet- lings. Five were arrested, including Rebecca Grecht, Sam Reid, Irma Martin and Roberts, on a charge of “disorderly conduct.” This was the biggest demonstra- |tion in Duluth for years. There is |a big mass meeting Friday night at Camel’s Hall in Duluth to push the jorganization of the Council of Un- {employed under the auspices of the Trade Union Unity League. The assures the success of the demon- | stration on International Unemploy- | ment Day, Feb. 26, which will widen out the movement that will continue on an ever broader base of a mass |fight for unemployment relief. oe * | Protest Police Attack at Cleveland. CLEVELAND, Feb. 13.— Over Party, }attled the police for half | (Continued on Page Three) HANTIANS IN NEW DEMONSTRATION \81 Arrested As Crowds, Call for Liberty PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 12._A demonstration in front of the athedral here following a mass, said in memory of the Haitian peas- ants killed by American marines at Aux Cayes last December, was quickly broken up by the “author- ities.” Thirty-one of the demonstra- tors, estimated at 500, were ar- | rested. Three speakers addressed the | demonstrators, attacking the puppet government as the watch-dog of American imperialism, whose ma- |chine guns are helping to keep the | Haitian masses in misery and sla- | very. Following the arrests, another dred was staged in front of the building with shouts of “Long Live Liberty.” Police dispersed the un- armed demonstrators. Today’s incident further exposes the hypocritical gesture of Hoover's fake “investigation” commission for Haiti. Wall Street has no intention of getting out of Haiti unless forced |to by the armed might of the masses in all the Americas and the Carib- bean. WIRTH ASKS ADOPTION OF ROBBER YOUNG PLAN. BERLIN, Feb. 12.—Premier Wirth, minister of occupied territories called upon the Reichstag to ratify the robber Young plan. He said it was not a final solution, but was blaze was John R. Harvey, pilot of the fireboat Thomas Willett. RELIGIOUS DOPESTERS CALL to the attempt to fan the flames of religious hatred against the Soviet Union in line with the war moves! of the imperialist powers. { “T feel bound to refer to a matter lying heavy on our conscience,” said his royal nibs. It stirs the strong- | est feelings. It is the cruel and) persistent persecution of all forms of religion which the Soviet govern-— ment continues to wage.” This follows the provocations of! acceptable to the German capital- FOR WA the MacDonald, Henderson, Snow- den slimy “labor” government against the Soviet Union. Referring to the Pope’s call for a crusade (which would take the form of an imperialist war against the Soviet Union) the Archbishop of Canterbury assured “His Holi- ness” that the people of the world would join, These are plain words for the religious mouthpiece of the British imperialists, response of the workers yesterday | |3,000 workers, led by the Unem- } {ployed Council and the Communist | demonstration of more than a hun- | | StatesUnemployment ‘Staggering’ in N.Y., and Hits At Hoover) ||Self, Wife in Chicago | | © | CHICAGO, Feb, 12 | worker, George Honcha: | privation and anxiety, shot his wife | Katherine here today, slashed his |own throat with a razor and cut| the veins of his two little sons. He} and his wife will probably die. | Numerous cases of this kind are | reported in the present crisis, The | |sane jobless will organize to fight for work or wages. j GERMAN ARMY OF JOBLESS MOUNTS ‘Collision at Cologne Defend Unemployeds’} With the Police | (Wireless By Inprecorr) | BERLIN, Feb, 12.—Today there} j occurred collisions between police |and the unemployed at Cologne. Many were injured and five ar- rested. The official unemployment figures | on the 8th of February, show that there are in Germany 2,260,000 un- employed workers now receiving the regular compensation, plyg” 250,- | 000 receiving the so-called “crisis | support.” The actual number is} still higher. | * Editorial Note: The above figures on the German unemployment show | a big and rapid growth, but more | than that, they reckon only those who are registered as unemployed, and who are at present receiving unemployment compensation. But! there are hundreds of thousands who have exhausted the compensa- | tion limit, since the jobless are paid | such compensation only for 26] weeks, and then there are still fur- | ther masses who are jobless but dog not register. In total, the unem-| | ployed is estimated at well over 3,- | 500,000 workers. PAINTERS SHOW GOOD MILITANCY Ready to Fight Under Leadership of TUUL | Another mass meeting for paint. | ers will be held tomorrow, Feb. 14 at 143 E. 103rd St. A meeting held at McKinley Square Garden on Jan. 31 under the | auspices of the Trade Union Unity | League, for organizing all painters; into a strong militant union to fight) against wage-cuts, speed-up and un- |employment was attended by about 200 enthusiastic painte A large number joined the T. but the} outstanding fact was the militant! | spirit prevailing among them. One| after another took the floor to re- ;late how bad conditions are in the | |trade. One pointed out that paint- ers were working for as low as $4 | per day, and thousands are walking | the streets looking for a chance to earn a few dollars. The bosses in |turn are taking advantage of this | situation and lowering wages. | A. F. of L. Doing Nothing. One worker related how on ap- jot for membership in the A.F. of L., he was informed that he would (Continued on Page Two) R ON U.S.S.R. Archbishop, Pope, King, Imberialists Propagandize tor Attack on the ‘Soviets | + Cardinal Bourne, in a speech at Hartfield, called upon the imperial- lists to “crush this movement,” r ferring to the Soviet Union. | The conservative party leaders are | | bringing pressure to bear on the | |quite willing “labor” government to! |break with the Soviet Union on the | newly cooked-up religious issue. | They threaten a political crisis of | (Continued on Page Three) | staggering | meeting, along with representati “Unemployment in this city is stated District Attc ney Charles B. McLaughlin, of B: County, New York yesterday. ing that, “It is ever increasin| STRIKE ACTION BY OHIO MINERS * Defend NMU Leader: and Living Standard ployers, labor unions and the New| é York State Labor Department will] powHA ©) Ohio, Peb.p12— verify this statement to the fullest |Qhio miners and West Virgini extent. Those in authority at Wash- | suffering cruelly from un ington tell us we are pro ment and part time, whic when we know different by es take advantage of t en McLaughlin foresees a big|jevy wage cuts upon them, are ou increase in crime as a result of un-| on strike, at least 700 strong. employment. Powhatan is ten miles fror = Moun » where 700 are strikin in Paisley Co. mines. The mine z They combine their resentmer FIGHTING BACK Right to Organize NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 12.—As a protest against the attacks on the unemployed workers here, a monster mass meeting will be held at Krueg- er’s Auditorium, Belmont and Springfield Avenues, on Sunday at 3 p.m. Many of the jobless who were arrested yesterday, as told in the Daily Worker, will address the of the International Labor Defen and the Trade Union Unity League (Continued on Page Two) RENEW FIGHT IN NICARAGUA Report Battle With Wall Street Troops TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Feb. 12.—A United Press dispatch re-| \is officered by U. S. marines, and | against the attack on their standar jot living with their hatred for th criminal syndicalist law prosecutio |of militant leaders of the Nationa Miners Union. A meeting of 600 coal miners her yesterday called originally to prc |test ti ion and sentencing t ten years imprisonment under th Ohio criminal syndicalist law of To |Johnson, Charles Guynn (youn miner) and Lillian Andrews, devel oped into a strike meeting. The miners cheered Dave Marti: representing the United Front Cor ference against the Criminal Syr dicalist Law. Lillian Andrews, organizer of tt Young Communist League was or of the speakers. She received tremendous burst of applause whe she called on the Ohio miners st against the wage cut and ; solidarity with the Moundsvil miners. After two speakers he called for strike, the miners took strike vote on the spot, and it wi unanimous for a walkout. This was a tremendous prote:‘ against the convictions under tl criminal syndicalism act, and a d (Continued on Page Three) INDO-CHINA ports fierce fighting between the | [ | Nicaraguan National Guard, which | t rebels led by General Miguel Angel | Orthez. The clash is reported to have oc- Attack Imperialis. | the building of socialism in the curred at Las Manos, near the Hon- duras frontier. Many were report- ed wounded and killed. ss The Nicaraguan National Guard was organized by order of the mar: ine command in Nicaragua to sup- port the Wall Street puppet presi- dent, Jose Moncada, who was elect- ed by aid of marine bayonets. The election of Moncada was described by Maj. Gen- Smedley Butler when he said, referring to Moncada, that “our candidate always wins.” 5-YEAR PLAN IS REVOLT HERALD Tremendous Success, Says Foster “The most important political fact of our times is that while the js capitalist system in the rest of the world is plunging deeper into crisis So- viet Union is going ahead with tre- mendous success. The old world system of capitalism, breeder of | wars, poverty, ignurance and op-! | pression, is in decay; the new world system of socialism, which will emancipate humanity, is being born. The world is travelling rapidly into a profoundly revolutionary trans- formation, economically and_politi- cally.” | This is one highlight from the address of William Z. Foster, gen- | eral secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, at the mass meet-/ ing last night at Central Opera House. All proceeds from the meet- ing go to the drive to secure 5,000 | T. U. U: L,, which builds its fight- | ing industrial unions in America on/| a class basis, to help accomplish that revolution also in America, Overflow Meeting. To say that the toilers of New (Continued on Page Two) } | French Troops As Han ociated Press dispat: rench Indo-Chin d Febr y 12, repérts that fi rench imperialist officers we:+ killed, five were wounded, five Ar namite troops were killed and s wounded i.. 2 mutiny of native rifl: men at Yen Bay, on the Red Rive 90 miles from here. The Riflemen, aided by a numb« of workers and peasants rushed tl. camp of the imperialist troops. Ov« | 200 Tonkin riflemen, accompanic by a number of revolutionists, Ic the attack. Airplanes are trying to locate tl rebels who have taken refuge in forest between Yen Bay and Phv tho. Another revolutionary movemer occurred during the night of Febrn ary 9 ag: th military post 3 Hunghe There are a whole seri of uprisings reported in other se tions of Indo-China. Dispatches from Paris declare thi Comm: ‘st activity in the Far Ea: ponsible for tle uprising of th exploited peasants and workers i Indo-China. Strengthen Baumes Laws to Railroad Militant Worker: ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 12.—Wit! the passage of two more Baume Law Bills in the state assembly, th: road to frame-up of militant worl: ers has been made easier. One of the bills would make per mit hearings for applications fe writs of habeas corpus in the inst tution in which the prisoner is con ined. The other would permit re fusal of an application which set forth no new evidence not containe © new subscribers for Labor Unity, in previously disallowed applica | the militant national organ of the | 0Ms- The Baumes’ Laws have for thei ultimate purpose the sentencing ©. militant workers to life terms, th main provision being that anyon convicted four times is to receiv: a lifetime sentence. This could b jused by the courts against mifitan Workers in strikes, ete,

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