The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1930, Page 4

Published by Page Four ise the Co! Naw Yor ng Co. Inc, daily, elephone Algonquin Worker, 50 except Sunday, Cable Street, at “DAIWORK." New York, N. Y. Central Ong SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Foreign: One year, By meil everywhere: One year, $6; six months,:$3; two months, $1; of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. $8; excepting Boroughs six months, $4.50. <= (Further emphasis of the militancy of the Negro and white workers at the St. Louis Convention of the League of Struggle for Ne- gro Rights is contained in the two following speeches from the floor. The Negro worker delegates to the convention utterly repudiated the slander of the Negro petty-bourgeois mis- leaders that the masses were apathetic, are not ready for struggle, etc. Such slander is used merely for the purpose of excusing the treach- By ARTHUR HALL—Buffalo IOMRADE Chairman and Fellow Delegates, I think when we chose the new name “The League of Struggle for Negro Rights,” we have chosen well, and it should serve to give us the first chance of going on the offensive. We have been fighting on the defensive and it is now time to go out on the offensive. We not only came here to talk, but to organize to fight. This is the spirit in this convention. I am sorry that condi- tions made it impossible for me to get here earlier, but I see that now we will be able to carry forward and build a fighting organization. I have heard delegates from various sections of the country, and they tell about the segrega- tions, imperialist oppression and discriminations in the South, but I want to say we are faced with the same conditions in Buffalo. Lynchings and segregations are not limited to the South. In Buffalo, we have a Negro population that has grown to about 25,000, many of these re- cently came from the South. The Negroes have been segregated to certain streets and we have established a little Negro Harlem. ‘We have over 60 members in the Leagle now and we find ourselves growing very fast. We find this: That the League will grow through struggles and if we struggle for better conditions and against discrimination, we will be able to grow. We have been able to carry on something of a struggle. We have carried on a fight against an eviction of a worker; we stood all night and picketed the workers. The police could not break up the demonstration and the sheriff changed his mind about evicting this worker. Now, they wait until 3 and 4 o’clock in the morning to set a family out into the streets. I want to say that a convention like this will give us inspiration to go out and fight and eliminate Jim-Crowism and segregations and evictions, and we must go back to our districts and deter- mine to fight harder, engage in more struggles and organize our Defense Corps. ST. LOUIS CONVENTION ANSWERS SLANDER OF THE NEGRO MISLEADERS ery of these misleaders, and of making the bosses believe that the Negro petty-bourgeois misleaders are earning their Judas pay in keeping the masses contented and servile and uninterested in waging a sharp struggle against lynching and Negro oppression and for unconditional equality. Nothing could be further from the truth than this shameless slander of a set of despicable traitors.) By BROWN—Chicago IOMRADES and Fellow Workers, as the time is limited, I must shoot. I am a representa- tive from Section 2 of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights of Chicago. I want to relate to you a near race riot inspired by Congressman DePriest in Chicago about a month ago. When we went to Washington Park, we saw the danger of this poisonous propaganda against the foreign born. I was out there alone one day and I saw the possibilities of being shot, but I took my chance. Comrades, I had about a mile to walk. I walked from one of the crowd ef about 1,700 hungry angry men to the other. I said I am going to speak here today.’ I am a radical-and De Priest says shoot my kind. I want you to be my Defense Corps. So after going from one to the other, I mounted up on a city water plug and I began to speak, and I said, ‘Fellow Work- ers, the foreign born workers are not your ene- mies. They, too, are exploited and oppressed. Your enemies are the bosses.” There are 15,000 unemployed workers in Chi- cago sleeping on the concrete. When the weather | gets colder, will be intense suffering. In Chicago, one night, I counted 64 women, 26 of them Negro women sleeping on the ground. There are | 450,000 facing starvation. One-fourth of the population. * When I was passing in review before General | Pershing and the other Generals in the World War, I heard him say, “You boys who are passing now, some of you will return and some will not, but you who are left will go back to your re- | spective governments and there you will receive the same social equality and have a home of | peace and happiness.” Ten years later, these | same soldiers can not find a job, their mothers | Jim-Crowed at the Statue of Liberty. In my last remarks, I want to say that we must wipe out the lynching terror of the bosses. It is up to us to go out and take our workers out of the hands of these boss-inspired mobs even if we have to shoot to save the lives of our workers. The Unemployed Workers gn the March for Bread and Jobs By PHIL FRANKFELD “.,. the steady tramp, tramp of workers’ feet on the stairs of the City Hall was enough to put fear into the heart of all members of the City Council” (from the report of the com- rades in Rockford concerning their recent demonstration). On Monday, Nov. 24, a demonstration of over 1,000 unemployed workers took place in the city of Rockford, Ill. This demonstration was held in zero weather. It was the second of its kind in an 8-day period. The previous Monday, the demonstration included 2,000 workers, and was sufficient to make the mayor of Rockford sneak out of some back door and the city council ad- Journ its session. ‘The workers of Rockford are starving. They gre demanding immediate relief from the city authorities. On the occasion of the second dem- onstration the city council proceeded to arrest Comrade Carlquist, chairman of the delegation of 55 workers elected by the masses outside. When this was reported to the unemployed workers they decided with a mighty roar to march right upstairs where the council was meeting and to demand the immediate release of their leader. This mass of workers was enough to make the entire legislative body of Rockford squirm in their seats—and for ten minutes there was silence while Comrade Carlquist was being * released from jail. Carlquist spoke for 20 min- utes, presented the demands, and, upon conclu- sion of his speech, the workers voted unani- mously to come back thousands strong when the council was going to vote on these proposals. In the city of Indianapolis, Ind, a second hunger march was carried through by the Un- employed Councils of that city and the T. U. U. L. The first took place one day before elec- tion and was a tremendous demonstration of the mounting anger and desperation of the starving unemployed workers of Indianapolis. ‘Two thousand Negro and white workers took part. The second hunger march took place the early part of this week. Over 1,000 partici- pated. The city authorities promised to “con- sider” the demands of the unemployed delega- tion. They did! The city authorities were pre- “pared to meet the second hunger march with ‘police terror, clubs and blackjacks. But the In- dianapolis workers defended themselves. India- napolis is a typical/American town, and the In- ¢dianapolis workers will defend themselves in * typical American fashion! In St. Louis, Mo., an anti-eviction demonstra- tion. took place this week; 2,500 Negro and white ‘workers participated. In this town, which is the gateway to the Jim-Crow South—white and Ne- gro workers united to prevent the constable from evicting a Negro worker. The riot squad was called out—tear gas bombs were ready for use. ‘Six workers were arrested. Two weeks prior to this demonstration 2,000 workers went to the city hall to demand immediate relief from the authorities. And in the town of Granite City, with a popu- Jation of 25,000 workers, 2,000 particinated in a demonstration for relief. In the evening, 600 workers crowded the city council meeting and applauded the remarks of the Unemployed Coun- ’ cil. and T, U. U. L. speaker. When he was ar- ‘rested the workers forced the police chief to re- “Aease him within an hour. _ All of these demonstrations occurred in a period of two weeks in the Chicago District. We must also mention the fact that on Nov. 24 a ition of Negro and white unemployed, wo- ‘men and men were slugged and beaten right in- side the city hall chambers of Chicago. But i a small delegation of unemployed workers — | have now been used up. The little savings put attacks without resistance. They fought back! Some policemen’s garments and faces bear wit- ness to that fact. Especially did our Negrocom- rades—women—fight back! In the city of Chicago it appears to be crime to even attempt to present the grievances of the . unemployed and make demands upon the city council. In Milwaukee, the Unemployed Coun- cils and T. U. U. L. held several very militant and successful demonstrations around the city hall and made concrete immediate demands for relief from the city. Throughout the entire Chicggo District un- employment is rapidly increasing. Despite the new outburst of lies and bally-hoo regarding the return of “prosperity,” “conditions bécoming bet- ter,” ete., on the front pages of the boss press, nevertheless the merest study of the back page financial section of these very same papers will convince anyone that exactly the opposite is the truth. In the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Missouri the cyisis continues to grow and deepen and unemployment increases by leaps and bounds. With the exception of soft-coal in- dustry, all others have suffered a further de- cline in production. And in the soft-coal fields the increase is only slight. The bourgeois econ- omic “experts” are now beginning to “look for- ward to the spring for an upturn taking place.” In those factories where mass lay-offs took place and the workers have been re-hired (as in the North Western R. R. shop), the workers there are employed only 2 and 3 days a week. In Chicago, after months of hiding and lying about the extent of the unemployment, the Her- ald-Examiner was forced to state that there are 300,000 unemployed in Chicago. This is only partly the truth, because the actual figure is nearer to one-half million jobless in Chicago. The small reserves saved up by the workers away for a “rainy day” have rapidly shrunk dur- ing this great storm. Tens of thousands of work- ers’ families face stark hunger, terrific suffering and acute cold. Thousands of families are with- out coal, food, warm clothing or the means of paying rent. Thousands of workers have already been evicted and thousands more face immedi- ate eviction from their homes. Under the ever-growing desperation of the un- employed masses, driven on by the fear of what the starving unemployed masses will do, and already having seen and rapidly learning the lessons of the powerful mass demonstrations on March 6, May 1, Sept. 1, etc., the bosses, their city, state and national lackeys and the boss press have initiated a big “drive to relieve dis- tress and unemployment.” This drive assumes two aspects (1) actual preparations are being made to cope with any mass movement of unemployed that will arise, (2) a campaign for charity, flop houses, soup kitchens, registrations, good-fellows clubs, get- ting jobs for the jobless and feeding of children of unemployed by rich ladies’ clubs. In Chicago the demand is being made for 5,000 additional police. Since racketeering in Chicago seems to be thriving despite the econ- omic crisis, since bootlegging, gambling, gang- sterism are doing very good business—tée 5,000 extra police are not intended to curb these pros- perous and thriving institutions. The 5,000 cops are intended for the unemployed workers. In Rockford, Il, the second largest town in Mllinois, a proposal for additional police is also under consideration. No money for relief of the unemployed—greater appropriation for police. This seems to be the slogan of the city authori- ties of Chicago and Rockford. One of the lead- ing Rockford papers, however, let ‘the cat ‘out’ of | workers by czarism were staggering. CAUGHT! By BURCK | Soviet Workers Can Enjoy Life By JAMES BARNETT. 'HE illiteracy and cultural backwardness im- posed upon the great masses of Russian peasants and to a lesser degree the industrial In 1920 almost 3 out of 4 of the rural dwellers (72.2 per cent), and 2 out of 5 of the urban population were illiterate. Secondary and higher educa- tion, the privileges of a handful of specially | favored, were tightly closed to the whole mass of toilers. 4 In the face of the great destruction of the | French Imperialists Lead Anti- Soviet War Plot (Special Cable to the Daily Worker.) By WILHELM PIECK IOSCOW, Dec. 1.—When the October Revolu- tion broke out in 1917, and the Bolsheviki | seized power, one of their first acts was to open | the czar's secre civil war, the handicaps of poor equipment, lack | of buildings and teachers, the Soviet Union has built up its educational program ‘so that this fall compulsory education is to be enforced throughout the Union for children between 8 and 15 years of age. -This advance was made during the period when the workers were putting | forward the greatest efforts to rebuild industry, which had also been shattered by the World War and Civil War. It is a powerful testimonial to the benefits of socialism. Besides this the liquidation of illiteracy among adults is being pushed most energetically; the Five-Year Plan provides for a solution of this problem among those between the ages of 15 and 35. As a sample of the prozress being made, Isvestia reported (July 28, 1930) that dur- ing the last 2 years alone, 13 million illiterate adults have been taught to read and write. Newspapers and books are being provided to the population in quantities far out-reaching previous numbers. In 1927-28 there were only 3,500 moving picture houses, but by 1929-30 the number will have increased to 23,000. This year radios were to total 2,600,000 (receiving sets). Many sorts of cultural clubs have been formed, such as “Popular Mechanics,” “Down with Il- literacy,” ‘and the “All-Union Council for Phy- sical Culture,” besides the many cultural. activi- ties conducted by the trade unions, Young Com- munists, cooperatives and other organizations. ‘The demands of the masses break through all barriers as they begin to enjoy privileges which were formerly reserved for the few. A unique feature’ of mass education is.-the cultural work and influence of the Red Army. ‘This is a great school not only for the Red Soldiers themselves, but they in turn become teachers and leaders for the masses in every- day life. The Red soldiers are not only fighters, knowing what they are fighting for, they are builders of socialism and a society where war will be a thing of the past, where human beings can lead a truly cultural life instead of being held back and oppressed by the barbarism of “civilized” capitalism. ‘These are only some of the cultural achieve- ments. But even from these, it becomes clearly understandable why the toilers of the Soviet Union are ready to undergo all sacrifices in order to build and defend socialism against all enemies. archives. Then came to light how the worid war began and who helped ag- gravaté the imperialist contradictions to violent struggles. And whatever page of these acts you opened, light was thrown from all sides in let- ters so red as the blood they spilled, and there was the name of Raymond Poincare. He has already entered history as “Poincare War!” as the French workers nicknamed him. This representative of French finance-capital, whom history branded forever with the- Cains, and with the brand of the peoples slaughtered in 1914-1918, was for years busy arranging new World Wars. ‘The Moscow. trial of the wreckers’ organiza- tion—and therein lies its decisive importance— revealed the conscious endeavors of the civil and military ruling class of France, who made their battle cry “War Against the Soviet Union!” “We had no influence, but were the mere ex- ecutive organs of the French general staff,” said Professor Charnovsky, one of the defendants on cross-examination on Nov. 29. And the surly. and bluntly anti-Bolshevik “Daily Herald” comments on the last actions of French imperialism as follows: “Official France prepares to break off rela- tions with the Soviet Union, and possibly some- thing worse.” Surely, the coming anti-Soviet war will be born in Paris, and its soul is Poincare. During the terrible four years of the’ world warhe caused the shooting of millions of men. More than that, he made uncounted women widows, and children orphans, and robbed parents of their children. Still more. He more than anybody put the Versailles treaty yoke on the German workers. Not enough this. He commanded the Ruhr inva- sion in 1923. He spilled the blood of imprisoned hundreds of German and French workers. Still more. He now pulls the wires for war ac- tion against the U. S. S. R. This old’man is a bloodthirsty tiger and those around his are of the same type. Every thought, every action of these ministers and generals is a crime—a crime against the proletariat of Europe who must be destroyed by the new imperialist massacre. Notice the name of Colonel Richard, chief of the French secret: service, who. when the French occupation army invaded Germany, maintained -intimate and material relations with the Bava- rian fascists (Fuchs, Machhause), and who now contmands the vicious scoundrels who misuse diplomatic protection in the French embassy the bag when it stated that these additional police, plus an extra supply of tear gas bombs, were needed in order to cope with any “unruly mobs” of Rockford. Ih Wisconsin, ex-Governor Kohler favored the proposal for the establishment of a state police force. It now appears that Mr. La Follette— governor elect—the “progressive’—will not op- pose this measure. In the state of Indiana, similarly, the proposal for the establishment of a state police force is under consideration by the state legislature. Clearly the capitalist class of Illinois, Wiscon- sin and Indiana are in deadly fear of the mount- ing anger of the unemployed. They are prepar- ing to meet the demands of the unemployed— with terror. On the other hand, fake promises and mea- sures for relief are being undertaken by the bosses. Let no one make any mistake about it— these measures are only intended as a fake and smoke screeen. When the dribblings of charity are meted out—it is given only to a small part of the unemployed masses, The most needy cases (and this, again, only in part) are taken care of for the purpose of blunting the edge of the struggle. Charity, collected on the streets— from workers—charity collected by forced “dona- tions” out of the miserably low payrolls of the employed; day’s wages taken out of the Insull workers, plus the inauguration of the stagger system—this is the form of raising “relief” pre- ferred by the bosses. Flop houses are opened up by Mayor Thompson of’ Chiéago which was for- merly a condemned county jail. Slop is handed out on the bread-lines; the leavings collected from the stock-yards and hotels. The situation daily becomes worse for the un- employed. Winter is already here. Workers must starve—or fight! And fight they will for the right to live This is being ‘demonstrated more clearly every day. It is up to the Unem- ployed Councils of Chicago, St. Louls, Granite City, Milwaukee, Rockford, etc. and the Trade Union Unity League to give daily and concrete leadership to the struggles and needs of the un- | ‘The signature drive must be used as a means of mobilizing the unemployed for struggle. Chi- cogo District must gather hundreds of thou- sands of signatures endorsing our Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill. But it must be stressed to the unemployed that only mass ac- tion, mass struggle, will win for the unemployed masses immediate relief! ‘ The Unemployed Councils must be built on a permanent, stable basis. The councils must con- duct day to day activity in front of agencies, factories, on the bread-lines, flop housesqgnd especially in the neighborhoods in the struggle against evictions, against shutting off of gas, electricity, etc. The Unemployed Councils and T, U. U. L. in Chicago and other cities must conduct work in- side of the A. F. of L. locals, and win the mem- bership for the program of demands of the Un- employed Councils. The membership of the A. F. of L. is thoroughly disgusted with the do- nothing policy of the fascist officials of the A. F. of L. This is especially true in the building trades unions, where our work must be increased tenfold. The Unemployed Councils and the T. U. U. L. be the Unemployed Councils and T. U. U. L— must intensify its activity amongst the Negro masses, in view of the acute suffering (even sharper and keener than amongst the white workers) and struggle against the special dis- crimination practiced against the Negro masses. Finally, the Unemployed Councils must be- come real organs of struggle in leading the un- employed workers in daily combats for bread and jobs. Unemployed workers must be taught how they can help themselves through mass action to food, clothing and shelter! The unemployed workers are on the march! ‘The heavy tread of millions of workers’ feet can already be heard, growing and in volr ume. At’ the head of this army of jobless must. be the Unemployed Councils and T, U. U. L— giving leadership and direction—and primarily, organizing this army | & mighty, disciplined, force capable of ‘bread, and the right 'to live! unemployment: relief,” for the. underhanded war intrigues and open antagonistic acts against the Soviet Union. Notice Generals Janin, Leronde, and Franchet d’Esperay, who already so frequently led troops against the proletarian revolution, who throttled the Hungarian Soviet’ dictatorship, who commit- ted robbery and murder in South Russia, head- ing the white bands, and who now, from Poland and Rumania, and other border states, syste- matically prepare military attack on the Soviet Union. Notice the name of the French’ Foreign Min- ister, Briand, who receives the driven-out czar- ist capitalists to discuss intervention possibilities against the U.S.S.R., who permits the remnants of the white armies,.living on theft, supported by rich. women, to officially parade with pomp, accompanied by artillery past the Paris grave of the unknown soldier. Briand! Author of the Pan-Europe project against the Soviet Union, and more than anyone responsible for the at- mosphere pregnant with war. Paris became the center of the white war beasts. From Paris came the favorably accepted propositions for union addressed to Rechberg, Hitler and Seldte, German fascists, for a crusade Against Bolshevism, against Red Moscow. In Paris, war plans are already fixed by French, Polish and English general staffs. A signal from the French financial oligarchy, and the powder magazine explodes! Only after October, 1917, the guilty could be put on a pillary from which no priest#nor pray- ers Could ever save them. Now we warn them in time, before the frightful happens! ‘We appeal for action to the proletariat! How Tong will you ‘tolerate the outrages of this gang to whom profit and sword are everything? French workers! You must unfold Lenin's banner. Struggle against the enemy in your own country, remembering the great example of the Paris Communards, sixty years ago. You must frustrate the bloody schemes of the butch- ers ruling France—frustrate them with the same energy with which the.German workers, cooper- ating with you, are fighting against their own fascism and their own bourgeoisie who strive to unite with your imperialists against the so- cialist fatherland, Crush the band of war criminals! Protect and defend with all your might Socialism and the Soviet Union! Workers’ Children Starve and Freeze By MYRA PAGE i AT nioon recess last Thursday, a little girl in a Canton, O., grammar school ran up to her teacher and cried out, “Why can’t I eat like other children?” Why indeed! The question which this child asks should be heard throughout the United States. Why are workers’ and impoverished farmers’ children going hungry today in a land of plenty? From all sections, both industrial and agricultural, come reports of school children coming to school without lunches, poorly clothed and obviously under-nourished. Also, an increas- ing number of children are being kept: at home, because they have no shoes or coats to wear and lack car fare. These are children of the nine million unemployed. In New. York City, for example, the situation has become so acute that teachers have demand- ed that something be done. Mr. Rybicki, di- rector of the Emergency Employment, Commit- tee’s research bureau—the committee appointed by Mayor Walker, to make a pretense it the ‘Tammany government is doing something about, the situation, admits that “Children are coming to school under-nourished, poorly shoe, and poorly clothed, because their parents are unable to find work. Hoover, the authorities, do nothing except talk. Tm Sandusky, Ohio, children of unemployed workers are waylaying other children on their way to school, and taking their lunch, in order to appease their hunger. This shows their des- perate situation. Even while the unemployed’s children ask for food, potatoes and vegetables are rotting on the land; and tons of food are being dumped into the Mississippi, Hudson and other rivers, so that the grafters can “bring supply in line wtih de- mand” and keep up the prices, “Why can’t I eat like other children?” Work- ers and farmers, what is your reply to the cry of your, hungry children? Will you allow them to. be.starved, stunted in growth and a prey.to the many diseases which under-nourishment brings, while the means of feeding and clothing them are near at hand? Of course not. The way to prevent this is wide-spread organization, for im- | Blom By JORGE ee Where, Indeed, Are * the Fathers? Dear Red Sparks:—Will you please tell me- | where are the kids of our fathers? Please read on: In 1926 I took 22 Passaic strikers’ children-to the Pioneer camp at Nitgedaiget. There I met a tiny little fellow. He seemed too tiny for his tongue. I showed some interest in him, where- upon Comrade Holtman, their directress, bawled. me out for monkeying around with the kids, Years passed, and this little fellow gave a fairly good account of himself (Harry Eisman). In the stinking, dumpy capital of New Jersey, ‘Trenton, there were in years gone by, girls and boys of an intellectual and socialistic nature. ‘They married and begot children, joined the Communist Party after the socialist party split. These so-called ‘‘reds” begot little reds, and finally a Pioneer movement. The school authorities of Trenton, like in your city, don’t like Pioneers. “O.K.,” says our big >mamma and papa “reds.” “We shall withdraw our children from the Pioneers. But, please, Miss Principal (Miss Dunn), may we have a ‘Shula’? Really that’s not so bad.” “Well,” said she, “You may have your Schula, and your banquets and even sell red ribbons there too.” “Yes, we'll behave,” said they. Three weeks ago our bunch was spunky enough to refuse admittance to the A.N.L.C. for a meet ing. You know if ever the “niggers” got in, our white kids would refuse to attend the Shula! Where are the kids of our fathers?—C. S. S. Wet Saat « The Poor Boosh-Wah-Zee Red Sparks:—I was talking with a bourgeois woman today; coming straight from the employ- ment agency in the lousiest part of the city to a ritzy home of two storeys for three people on the river shore. And the lady says to me, says she: “Don’t you think it’s cruel for the Communists to make hay out of ‘our’ country’s difficulties? ‘ust because ‘we’ happen to be in a period of depression right now—what do y€u do instead of trying to make the load easier for ‘our’ rulers who are suffering so? What do you do but try to stir up discontent? Pretty soon things will be fine again, next summer, for sure and then we will be where we were last year—the happiest, country of workers in the world, what with day- light saving (actually!) giving everybody a chance to enjoy more sunshine and radios and automobiles. ©, why don’t you see that this is cruel? Why, you actually rejoice when there is misery!” Sure, I rejoice! See me hilarious because I’m out of a job and no hope of getting one! Being hungry, jobless, evicted, sick and so on is a mere trifle. What really matters is.that Mental Home- lessness of the Poor Capitalists, who feel, 0, ever so badly on account of the “depression.”~ Boston Red, . * ag The Red Builders We hope that you're reading some of the in- spiring accounts of the comrades, a big propore tion of whom are not members of the Commu- nist Party, who are part of the Red News Build- éts’ organization selling the Daily Worker on the streets, in the subways and from house to house, This bunch warms the cockles of our heart with their energy and enthusiasm. A number of them are uhemployed, and while we do not share the idea advanced by one comrade that the solution of unemployment is to put all the unempleyed to selling Daily Workers (!), cer- tainly a lot of places where Dailies are allowed to pile up in a corner for a supposed “lack” of someone to distribute them, have no reason for such “explanation.” Nor should Party members get. the notion that becaus®” this sort of distribution is organized, that it lets them out. A leader of the Red Builders came to us a few days ago, and said that here in New York, when it rained one day, twenty-one Party nuclei suspended the revolu- tion and didn’t show up for their bundles of papers, while the non-party comrades of the Red Builders manhed the barricades, so to speak, and took their papers to the masses. Funny, isn’t it? A Correct Contribution “There has been much criticism in the Party lately ‘against comrades who talk about the Chinese Revolution, the Indian revolution and the world revolution, without a word to mention about the struggles and problems of the work= ers right where they live and work. “The second part of the criticism is good, and should be encouraged. But the first part ig dangerous. To call speeches bad and not cone crete just because they speak of the Chinese Revolution, is incorrect criticism. It gives the impression that our comrades should avoid any connection with the world proletariat. Our trouble is not that we talk about the Chinese revolution, but that we do not link up the colonial struggle with the strugglels ef the work~ ers here in the imperialist country. “For instance, has not the fact that the Kuomintang is negotiating a loan. of millions of dollars here anything to do with immediate re- lief and social insurance for workers here? I should say it has. Has not the fact that ‘Red Changsha was overthrown by foreign gunboats and that U, S. imperialism is financing and giv= ing gunboats to crush the Chinese Soviets anys thing to do with attacks on the workers here? I should say it has. “To be congrete does not mean to be narrow and provincial, any more than to be concrete means to be opporiumist and forget, in advance ing immediate demands, the revolutionary overs throwal of capitalist rule.—Beatrice 5.” PONS Pita Proving Ramzin’s Confession John Steele, as responsible a capitalist foreign correspondent as+ there is, cabled from London on Nov. 23, that: _ “The biggest single order for airplanes ever placed has been made by the British air mine istry in the secret purchase of 200 of the fastest service planes in ‘the world at a cost of $2,- 500,000.” . ‘This is hardly “disarmament,” but it decidedly is evidence supporting the confession of Ramzin and others in the Moscow trial, that Britain and other capitalist powers are preparing to at~ tack the Soviet Union, ERD men I