The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1930, Page 4

r SERRE Square, New York City, Address and mail all chee F Page Four Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co, Tne. Galls excer Y. Telephone Stuyvesant 16 Cat t Su 2768, © the Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square. New THE INDIAN REVOLUTION AND GHANDIS MANEUVER By 0, W. KUUSINE in Indi And reat revolution: upsurge a tempestuous pace. this si ndi comes forward in order, in the name e slavish principle of “ violence,” to summons the people to boycott the salt monopoly of ritish-Indian govern: ment. It is not diffi ee the meaning of this maneucer. Ghandi does not put the question of a vic- tory in the fi against the British yoke. He puts the question otherwise: Violence or non- violence to British imperialism. He preaches absolute “non-violenc He describes all In- dian revolutionary or zations as “parties of viol and openl. tes in his nev that he fears th more than the Viveroy! What the meaning of that? still groaning under the terrible yoke of the real party of violence, of British imperialism, but Hundreds of millions of Indians are Ghandi does not fear these predatory, b suppressors of India as much as he fears Indian revolutionar What does he there- fore do? He undertakes a national reformist maneuver. He submits an ultimatum to the Viceroy. He or ti-imperialist shar fight, “ as he himself declaims. what purpose? In order not to lose all influence over the great national mass movement; in order to secure hegemony in this movement for the bourgeo With- out an anti-imperialist sham fight it i: sible at present for anybody in Ind proach the broad masses of the pe wants to obtain a hearing. Hence Ghandi’ flag of passive resistance. But even this pas sive ‘or impos- (at any price “non-violent”) resistance he wishes to limit in a double manner: 1, To limit it territorially in order that the move- ment shall not be able to spread, and 2. To limit the boycott to the salt monopoly of the government in order to exclude the risk of the boycott extending to all taxes, to the ground rent payable by the peasants, ete., and grow- ing into revolutionary fighting demand The “insane ri: consists in Ghandi’s play- ing with the driving forces of the revolution. ishes to do everything possible to avoid risk of revolution. The revolutiona: movement of the workers and peasants India is to be split and scattered both territor- ially and in regard to its slogans. It diverted into suitable side-channels, and any case held up half-way. Instead of 1: ing and organizing the many millions of toil- ers, who are. in a ferment, in a firm revolu- tionary front, and instead of taking up the real fight with these huge masses against im- perialist violence, the development of the revo- lutionary mass struggles is to be actually stifled and quenched in an impotent cry of pain of the million masse: That is the objective meaning of the boycott campaign introduced by Ghandi against the salt monopoly. The Ghandiist boycott is, at bottom, a boycott of the Indian revolution, and is thereby calculated to help the triumph of the British colonial power in India. Against this Ghandiist line of the Indian bourgepisie the young Communist Party of India lays down its own line. For the CP. of India the deciding question in the anti-im- perialist fight is: Victory or defeat? It is as clear as daylight that in the event of a col- lision between imperialist violence and colonial “non-violence’ the latter can have no hope of victory. India can emancipate itself only by revolution. Therefore, the fundamental slo- gan of the Communist Party of India, for which it is conducting agitation among the masses, is: Drive out the British imperiali by the democratic revolution of the working class and peasantry of India! Whe is now the immediate, urgent and un- postponeable main task of the revolutionary workers’ and peasants’ movement of India? In the fight against the British colonial re- gime the victorious strength of the Indian revolutionary movement can lie only in its enormously great mass It can achieve vic- tory by the overwhelming mass power, not by boycott, not by passive resistance, nor by empty noise. The enormous mass power of the Indian workers and peasants i very little organized. Therein lie’ its greate: and most dangerous weakness. Hence the im- mediate practical task is to organize the mass forces of the workers and peasants of India for the approaching gigantic revolutionary fights. This is not by any means a task of mere organizational petty work. This is now an ex- tremely important political task in India. All mass actions, all great collisions which are taking place there at present, must be made use of in order with the greatest energy to extend and strengthen the revol utionary mass organizations in town and country, before all the class trade unions and the organizations of the revolutionary youth, at the same time in- creasing the recruitment of active workers for the Communist Party. Just as the Bombay textile workers, during their strike, accom- plished wonders in the way of organizing the masses by building up the “Girni Kamgar” Union, so it is necessary to perform similar and even greater things in other places and in other spheres. It is necessary to organize zevolutionary workers’ demonstrations with in- pendent class slogans. Workers must be sent ito the villages in order to help the peasant masses to take up the refusal to pay taxes and ground rent, everywhere to form peasant committees and to develop mass education for driving out the landowners and government to be in Se Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information, Name .... BAGGED vise sescecssvosnseoss Vity.seccese Occupation ........seccecsessses Ages. Mail this to the Central Office. Communist Party, 43 East 125th St, New York, N.Y, at present, | | lutionary mass , officials. striking railway work visit ali the railway lines, conve: mons to prepare for the political must Whoever really desires vic for the independence of India mt with all means the proletariat of the Indian ps antry to organ lutionary forces and their ass actions. revolution. Ghandi has himself admitted in his “ultimatum” that he could not wait growing so threateningly. * lution—hence his campaign. stands the All-India National representative body of the national bourgeois | The strategy of the National Congress hottom, nothing else but the counter-revolu- tionary strategy of Ghandi, whoever may come forward as advocate of this strategy, whether he be Ghandi or Javarharlal Nehru or any- body else. The attitude of the Indian Commu- nists to them can only be: Determined fight against the National Congress. is, This does not exclude but presupposes the utilization of even the sham fights of the In- dian bourgeoisie, the utilization of its narrow- ly restricted conflict with British, imperialism by the Communist Part mobilizing the broad toiling sections of the population, and further developing the revo- movement. But the more the national bourgeoisie attempts to develop its campaign with seeminly “general-national” slogans, the more ruthlessly must the Commu- nis expose the counterreyolutionary class character of the campaigns and slogans of the national bourgeoi: Only by maintaining complete polit independence and a sharp revolutionary class line can the Communist Party suce ully lead the Indian proletariat on the way to securing its hegemony in the national emancipation movement, and thereby also secure the victory of the revolution. The government of G bor Government as the representative of imperialist bourgeoi roceeding to range, through its authorities in India, the vilest provocations and bloodiest mi: slaugh- t The English Communists must in good time make the broad *working ma: of Great Britain aware of these criminal plans and sum- mon them to determined, courageous support of the Indian revolution. Rockefeller Dominates Worlds Largest Bank HE merging of Chase National Bank, Equit- ar- able Trust Co., and Interstate Trust Co. places Rockefeller interests at the head of the largest bank in the world. Until now Rockefeller’s National City Bank has been the largest in the United States, but London has held the leadership with the largest in the world. The new mammoth Chase Na- tional with total deposits of $2,100,000,000 now steps ahead of the Midland Bank, Ltd., leeding British bank. Winthrop W. Aldrich, who has been president of the Equitable Trust Co., will represent Rockefeller interests as president of the giant combine. He is brother in law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and was personal representa- | tive of the Oil Emperor in the Indiana Stand- ard Oil fight last year. On Aldrich’s appoint- ment as Equitable president, three months ago, the New York Times commented: “The selection of Mr. Aldrich as president of the Equitable leaves no room for doubt as to where the control of the bank lies. Wall Street needed little assurance in this con- nection, as it has generally been assumed for some time that the holding of John D. Rockefeller and his son in the institution represented the largest concentration of the Equitable shares.” The same statement now applies to his selection as president of the new Chase Na- tional. Other Rockefeller directors of the bank com- bine include Bertram Cutler, Rockefeller’s per- sonal representative on the board of many concerns; Henry E. Cooper, formerly his per- sonal representative; T. M. Debevoise, who act- ed with Aldrich in the Indiana Standard Oil case; Geo. P. Whaley of Vacuum Oil, closely affiliated with Standard of N. Y.; L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson, a Rockefeller railroad; Otto Kahn, of Kuhn-Loeb; Chas. M. Schwab, of Bethlehem Steel, and Theodore Pratt, of New York Standard Oil. Of course, other powerful industrial over- lords; in addition to the Rockefeller men, are directors of the new ‘inancial titan. Copper and iron mining interests are represented by D. C. Jackling, American Smelting and Re- fining Co. by F. H. Brownell; utility interests by G. M. Dahl; the Western Union Telegraph by Newcomb Carlton; explosives and chemicals by W. S. Carpenter of the DuPont Co.; pack- ing interests by F. E. White of Armour’s; the international match trust and the sugar trust by H. O. Havemeyer; silk textiles by T. F. Vietor; express and railroad interests by Cor- nelius Vanderbilt and other railroad magnates. As Aldrich has represented Rockefeller in- terests in a Morgan bank, so now Morgan in- terests sit on the new combine through Geo. H. Howard and F. L. Polk (utilities), Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors, A. H. Griswold of International Telegraph and Telephone, and G. K. Morrow of Morgan grocery interests. For the workers in the United States, this merger means a further step in consolidating the strongest financial interests against the working. class. Internationally, this latest and mightiest financial merger marks a new stage in the British-American conflict. Greek Peasants Battle Gen- darmerie ATHENS, Mareh 9 (Inprecorr mail)—Ac- cording to newspaper reports a demonstration of peasants took place in the Greek village of Metamorphosis on the Serbian frontier on the 6 of March under Communist slogans. The gendarmerie fired on the peasants who an- swered the attack with axes and sticks, where- by three gendarmes were seriously injured, in- cluding an officer who received a blow with an axe across the skull. Military had to be called out in order to disperse t*e demon- strators, 10 peasants were arrested, longer because the revolutionary upsurge in India is He fears the revo- And behind him Congress, the ndav, at $8 28 Cnfos DvIwonne Yous ng the sum- jf eral strike, 4 1 the fight t now help nd the masses e their revo- Who- ever sabotages this organization exposes him- self, like Ghandi, as a strategist of the counter- for the purpose of | 3) Nok, I! i | | 1, © paraded through the strects on March 6th, un- der the leadership of the Communist Party and the Trade Union signifying Unity League, Baily 52: Worker Central Organ of the Communist Pari They Will Continue the Fight for “Work or Wages!” Part of the 50,000 Chicago Workers who | to defeat the bos of the U.S. A. By Mail (in New York City only): $8.00 a year; By Mail (outside of New York City): 36.00 a year; SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $4.50 six months; $3.50 six mont $2.50 three months $2.00 three months their willingness to back the fight for unem ployment insurance, the seven-hour day, five day week, and against wage cuts. They called for a united front of employed and unenployed ’ efforts to cut wages. By GERRY ALLARD. ee Rump” and “Regular” conventions of the United Mine Workers of America, the gathering of hand picked delegates the major- ity the gang of parasites that have infested the coal miners’ movement for years, has suc- ceeded in both instances in carrying out its mission, to one certain extent anyway. They have “rehabilitated” the strike-breaking insti- tution to make it safe for the labor pirates to continue drawing handsome salaries. The Muste “Musketeers” of the coal mining indus- along with the experienced coal operators’ agents have agreed unanimously that $125 per week for Mr. Howat, the new “International” president, along with an unlimited account for is. Mr. Germer, to receive $104 as vice-president, while Mr. “Raketeer” Walk to receive the same as Howat, as seeretary- treasurer. In Indiaaapolis, the Lewis geng was also taking drastic steps to meet the new develop- ments in the coal mining industry. The most important issue in this convention, like in the Springfield conclave, was the question of wag salaries, expenses of the officialdom, “stabili- zation” of industry, conservatism, greetings to the Senators (famous for their investigating to Pennsylvania-Ohio Committee, the West Virginia Committee, etc., etc.?); adoption of Lewis constituvion, and assured the coal oper- ators that nothing was red about them. The rejuvenation of the Union will not doubt result in their getting steady wages. This is the major political issue. The Illinois strike that broken by the UMWA officialdom, the West Virginia and Ohio miners’ struggle i wage cuts, the titanic explosions as a res the operators’ rationalization, the intens tion of the speed-up, unemployment, mi: “serfdom” that prevails, especially in the south- ern mining districts on the one hand and the increased profits of the coal operators, accord- ing to the last reports for 1929, on the other Peabody Coal Co. T The Peabody Coal Co.’s tw Fishwick, were the main political levers in the Springfield convention, The dramatic incident during the convention, shadow boxing, sparring, etc., were clever maneuvers requiring several The Indianapolis gang were all “regulars”, Murray, Kennedy, Van Bittner, Duncan, Jones, ete., are sufficient to testify that “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here.” Along with this gang of archtraitors, a flock of opportunists that John L. was promised everything in land to come, sniffling along picking the crumbs that the lord and master tosses aside. Both conventions em- robbery, corruption, ete.” “the destruction of the UMWA, wage cuts,” ete., were thrown at one another's ne minds of the militants that both gangs are cor- rect. However, it is of utmost interest to the coal miners to note that hatdly had the Far- rington and “pseudo-progressive’ gang at Springfield ended their speech against “terror- ism, gangsterism,” a group of the officials (Markunas, Loda, ete.) jumped o1 Freeman Thompson, leader of the National Miners Union forces, black-jacked him and then in a spectac- ular rush to the platform, Loda brandished an automatic attempting to frame-up the president of the National Miners Union. The “progres- sive” turned Thompson over to the police where- upon he was placed under arrest at their com- mand. This is no surprise to the members of the National Miners Union, The baptism of their treacherous movement in the despicable act of beating a militant whose honesty and devotion to the coal miners movem: should send them away in shame, is very appropriate for the occasion. A Little History, There is no doubt in the minds of the mili- tants that the conventions for the “rshabilita- tion” of the United Mine Workers ¢2 America ngton and | There are no doubts in the | The Labor Leaders of the Coal Companies , 8 machinations of the coal operators. The nev try, Hapgood, Germer, Brophy, Howat, etc., | work—does anyone know what ever happened , hand, received no consideration as in the days | ! of yore. | weeks of rehearsing before it could be put over. | phatically denounced “sluggings, gangsterism, | revolutionary miners union, on three import fronts, leads on a terrific battle against h. odds. In the last two years the National Miners Union has unquestionably taken its place at the only force that has heard the sufferings of the coal miners and organized a staunch struggle against the brutal drive of the coal operators. The NMU, a culmination of the mili- tant, heroie stand of the Pennsylvania-Ohio miners struggle against the treacherous betray- als on the part of the officialdom, has taken its place as the integral force of American coal miners, The captains of American industry from e: perience know the role that the coal miner have played in the general history of American labor. The miners have been organized for years, they have over a half ‘a century fought as well and successfully as any other section of the American proleta The miners today also represent one of the main forces challeng- ing the t s in the cause of the unskilled and unorganized workers who have been so misera- bly treated by the A. F’. of L. bureaucracy. under t Virginia and aging in several ere a clear indicatign that the bosses e not succeeded in hog-tieing the coal min- It is in this light that the coal operators along with the envoys from the Hoover-peace in industry government are so vitally interested in the “welfare” of the United Mine Workers of Amer The Lewis crowd represent the unch, loyal supporters of the Hoover gov- ment und imperialist plutocracy while the Fishwick-Peabody coal company combination, along with the camouflage of Germer, Brophy, Hapgood, etc., is a double safety valve, The mass strike of the Ilinois its leadership, the present Wi Ohio local strikes that are places st The coal : perators are not asleep, they are determined that the gradual increase in pro- fits as a result of John L. Lewis’s rationaliza- ion program, will not be interrupted. They will support both movements. Both moye- ments are in action at the command of the coal operators, the menace of the National Miners Union in the coal and iron miners to the operators determines such a course. The salaries and expenses of the officialdom is a guarantee when the coal min- ers ceased to be hog-tied to the “check-off,” when all resources of the miners have been squandered, the coal operators will be there to cover the differences and vouch for the safety of the pot bellied, diamond studded fakers that strut at large, calling themselves representa- tives of the interests of the miners, Bribed Boss Agents. Does anyone doubt this for a moment? No one one else but John L. Lewis accused Farrington and Fishwick, during the hectic 1922 national struggle of the coal miners, of receiving the stipulated sum of $100,000 from the Lester Coal Company, the company that was respon- ible for the herding of scabs in the heart of southern Illinois that resulted in the famous Herrin riots, where the union miners routed the scabs and decisively defeated the united at- tempts of the union officials and the coal oper- ators to make a break in the center of the great strike. Farrington and Fishwick never denied this, they attempt to justify their act by counter- charging that Lewis had received $650,000 from the Harriman bank of New York as compen- sation for a certain “deal” that Lewis and the International officers pulled off in selling out in the most shamefulsmanner the 100,000 miners of the coke regions of Green, Fayette and Som- erset counties of Pennsylvania. The fakers were fighting over which gang received the most. However, the left wing forces brought pressure upon them and they united together in order to save themselves from office. The National Miners Union Convention. _ The answer of the coal miners to these fake conventions have been a splendid sign of poli- tical alertness and class-consciousness. The miners never permitted the allies of the coal operators to feol them, The reply of the coal ! creased about 8, per cent” could not be stom- By HARRY G/ N March 7th, chief imperialist Hoover, solemnly declafed:the economic crisis in | | the United States would end in sixty days. The March 7th statement by Hoover was his unemployed demonstra- under the mi tions throughout the United States, answer to the leadership of the Communist Party It is the most glaring lie issued by Hoover. | In every detail Hoover's statement has been | smashed by the subsequent facts. | In order to give his propaganda weight, | Hoover on March 7th called into conference | such luminaries as Robert P. Lamont, secre- | tary of commerce, James J. Davis | of labor, Francis I. Jones, director general of | the federal employment service, and assistant | secretary of commerce, Dr. Julius Klein. | Here is the gist of Hoover’s reply to the 1,250,000 workers who joined the world-wide demonstration in the United States, demand- ing “Work or Wages:” “The low point of business and employment was the latter part of December and early January. Since that time employment has been slowly increasing, and the situation is much better today than at that time. . All the evidences indicate that the worst ef- fects of the (stock market) crash upon employ- ment will have been passed by the next sixty days.” In order to emphasize this capitalist propa- ganda, Robert P. Lamont and James J. Davis issued another statement in which they said: “Various surveys show that, based upon all trades, there has been an increase in employ- | ment in the country. . . . In factory indus- tries as a whole employment has increased about 8 per cent in this period.” Some time has passed since Hoover, by of- ficial decree, doomed the cri What has | actually happened? Just exactly the reverse | of what he ordered. King Canute Hoover’s | command that the rising tide of crisis receed | has failed, They Cannot Stomach the Lie, First of all, the deliberate lie of Lamont and Davis in declaring that “employment has in- | ached by such a staunch supporter of capi- talism as the New York World. The lie was too glaring for them and they say (3-21-30): “Hardly had the reverberations of thes pronouncements died down before the sta- tisticians in Mr. Davis’s own department published their regular monthly summary of employment conditions in manufacturing establishments. This showed that employ- ment during February had increased one- tenth of 1 per cent. Their previous month- ly report had showed no increase during January. Where, then, did Messrs. Davis and Lamont get their optimistic 8 per cent? The statisticians in the Department of Labor not only refute their chief but they also show that the seasonal increase in employ- men last month was ‘smaller than in Feb- ruary of any one of the seven preceding years for which the bureau has informa- tion.’ ” In February, James J. Davis and Francis I. Jones attached their name to the “Industrial Employment Information Bulletin’ in which they contradict their own lie about “an in- crease in employment in the country.” February Information Bulletin of Messrs. Davis and Jones begins its 24 closely-printed pages by sayin; “AIL reports: in no substantial gain the month ef February; in some industries a slight recession was noted.” But this is not all. The figures of the De- partment of Labor are based on doctored re- ports from the bosses in the big industries, which are again juggled by the Department of Labor. to the Hoover pronouncement. The Annalis organs, in analyzing the February report on employment comes to the conclusion that “em- ployment (dropped) 1.3. points,” and there fe that industry made The | n employment) during | | Yet even these figures give the lie | | , one of the leading Wall Street | was “a decline in payrolls of 1.6 points.” Furthermore, they say: “The Annalist sea- | sonal indexes for employment show an aver- age gain of employment in February for the last ten years over the preceding January of the same number of years amounting to 1.5 per cent.” What is the full significance of this fact? For the past ten years, which includes the severe crisis of 1921-22, the sharp depressions of 1924 and 1927, without exception, Febru- ary has shown an increase in employment. In February, 1930, there was a tremendous de- crease in employment—for the first time in ten years—indieating a deep sharpening of the crisis and an unprecedented growth in the un- employed army which already is many hun- dreds of thousands over 7,000,000. Crisis Worsens in Basic Industries. An examination of the conditions in the basie industries shows that this could not be otherwise. While the headlines of the capi- talist press shriek “upturns,” “improvements,” “prosperity returning,” the facts show the precise opposite. These few lines from the New York Times (3-23-30) blast the torrentous flood of “pros- perity” statements and editorials in the capi- talist press: i “Reports from the steel 2nd other basic industries continu®d to show dropping pro- duction, and the figures fer such indexes of commercial activity as freight-car loadings and bank clearings remained unfavorable.” Steel Goes Down. No amount of propaganda from Hoover and his whole pack of liars can wipe out the fact that “steel and other basic industries contin- ued to show dropping production.” ‘ Steel productign for March will show a drop SRS ENE miners to the pseudo-progressives is of special significance. It is a healthy sign of the en- ormous potentialities of our movement and influence that the National Miners Union exercises. The Second National Convention to be held in Pittsburgh in June symbolizes the consolidation, unification and intrenchment of the American coal miners in the fast growing stream of revolutionary consciousness. The Springfield and Indianapolis conventions of the reactionary fascist gangsters, is the last breath of a dying, rotting union, permeated with the worst sort of corruption, opportunism and fas- cismo par excellence. The Second Convention of the National Miners Union, spells the pre- parations for greater mass fighting battles, for the cohesion of the miners forces, and for the continuation of the fighting traditions of the American coal miners. A 1 | | | | | i | i} | | of 10 per cent. “The March average rate of operations (in the steel mdustry) will be close to 65 per cent, compared with 75.per cent in February,” says a Journal of Commerce dis- patch from Youngstown, Ohio (8-21-30). This further drop for March follows a steep decline during February. “American Metal Market,” one of the mouthpieces of the steel bosses, recently said: “The daily rate of steel ingot production has declined a total of nearly 10 per cent from the peak rate (this peak rate was 15 per eent below 1929) of five weeks ago, which .was maintained for only a few days, at the middle of February. The time is important for if this was the spring peak it came unprecedent- ly early, which is practically unthinkable in these days of conservative action.” *A Twenty Per Cent Drop. In short, while Hoover was talking his slop about an improvement in 60 days, steel pro- duction dropped 20 per cent, throwing thou- sands of steel workers out of their jobs. Then Lamont, Wall Street banker, came to the rescue. He said the drop in money rates would better matters. Money rates dropped to the lowest point since 1924, What happened in this respect? True, there was another orgy of specula- tion on the stock market, which entails another severe stock market crash. But the drop in money rates did not stir the basie industries from the ever-deepening crisis. Another Prediction Smashed. A report in the New York Times (3-23-30) says the following on this point: “Lower interest rates and improved credit conditions have failed to stir business out of its attitude of ‘watchful waiting,” according to the March report of the Conference of Statisti- cians of Indusry.” In their capitalist phraseology, the Confer- ence of Statisticians of Industry, which oper- ates under the auspices of the National In- dustrial Conference Board, go on to point out the complete failure of easier credits to in- fluence an upturn in the present crisis. They sa, The reluctance on the part of buyers and borrowers to avail themselves of the easier credit conditions evidently is due in part to the influence which the unemployment situa- tion has upon business psychology, as well as upon consumer psychology and purchasing power.” And on top of this, as if to smother the Hoover lies under a tremendous outpouring of facts, we learn that bankruptcies, business failures, for, the week ended March 20 in- creased to 515, as compared to 408 last year. The number of the capitalist firms that went bankrupt does not tell the whole story. The amounts involved jumped considerably above last year as well as the past few months. March will show a bigger increase in the unemployed army than occurred in February. At the end of Hoover’s magic sixty days there will be at least 500,000 more workers in the jobless ranks. The crisis is already worse. Nor will the Hoover lie in the least lessen the sharpening tempo of the fight for “Work or Wages.” Giant Strides of Socialism in U.S.S.R. MOSCOW, March 6 (Inprecorr mail)—In an interview comrade Yakovlev, people’s com- missar for agriculture discussed the most im- portant questions of the spring sowings. He declared that up to the Ist March the seed fund of the collective agricultural undertakings totalled 39 million ewts, the plan thus having been completely carried out. The seed for 48 million hectares was provided by the collec- tive undertakings, or in other words for 67 per cent of the total area under seed. At the moment the collective agricultural undertakings totalled 52 per cent of all peasant farms, and by the ‘spring they would probably embrace a total of 70 per cent. The original plans pro- vided for an increase of the spring sowings by 11 per cent, but efforts were now being made to sow an area representing an increase of 15 per cent. Referring to the question of the provision of trained agricultural experts, Yakovlev declared that 3,000 experts had been mobilized in Mos- cow alone. 20,000 young Communists and an equal number of Red Army men were being | trained to carry out the reckoning work for the collectives. March 6 in Checho-Slovakia PRAGUE, March: 1 (Inprecorr mail)—The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Checkoslovakia has issued an appeal to the working masses of Checkoslovakia summing up the results of the International Day against un- employment all over the world, congratulating the unemployed workers and their fellow work- ers in the factories at having demonstrated everywhere despite the murderous terror of the police, and appealing. to them to continue the , struggle against the bourgeoisie, the capitalist State, the reformists, the renegades and all the other enemies of the working class, In conclusion the appeal calls upon the working masses to commence preparations for the May Day demonstrations. ‘Conceai Extent of Unemploy: ment in Belgium; Admit 22,46¢ BRUSSELS, March 8 (Inprecorr mail)—Ac- cording to official figures just issued there were 22,468 unemployed workers in Belgium in January, 1930, and 25,141 workers on short time, These figures, however, only conceal the real extent of unemployment, because they refer only to the minority of workers who are en- titled to unemployment support. For instance, there are from 12,000 to 15,000 diamond-cutters alone who are unemployed, but not included in the above figures as they are not in receipt of unemployment support. In February un- employment in Belgium increased considerably. Fight the Right Danger. A Hundred Proletarians for Every Petty Bourgeois Ren gade! Ji t \ HOOVER'S MAGIC SIXTY DAYS g it |