The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1931, Page 4

se Four hd The Marchers'» Are Fed! D AML Y eel NEW es SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931 CHINA woe \W.LR. Delegatiow'Calls fone eres: Support of Kentucky Strike The worker-delegates of the United |ers wil] jbe called out on strike States to the Soviet Union and to the | against’ the sd¥age wage cuts which Eighth World Congress of the Work-| have brought them to starvationy ers’ International Relief arrived in| We pletige foufselves to support thig the United States yesterday and im- | strike: By ‘yall¥ing with the Workerd mediately pledged themselves tocarry | International Relief, the officially on a vigorous campaign for welding | appointed relief organization of the | working-class solidarity with the min- | xenti miners, in its campaign of ers of Kentucky who are preparing to | collection and distribution of funds, gans in big letters pulled into the _|ered with tremendous cartoons and} ball field in Bellaire. Mrs. Kovalsky | grasped the doorknob in time to avoid [2d & dozen other wives of steel) falling dows down the steps that ran| Workers and coal miners piled wp | almost vertically downhill. His feet, | Sandwiches and arranged cups for the stamping into the mud and slush, | Not coffee. made giirgling sounds like Mrs. Ko- valsky’s sobs inside the house, The heavy fog, blanketing the town, kept the soft coal smoke low over the By BARBARA RAND e door banged. Jim Brennan al, most stumbled over the doorstep. He} meee acta * re el aah wage | food and clothing. slashes whicl ave reducer em and “ vi peae their families to utter starvation. A See ei aloes the fee resolution adopted by these workers | jr Germany-and the Soviet Union all yesterday reads as follows: ‘are directed toward the militant | | “We worker-delegates, elected by | movement, of the Kentucky miners, | our fellow-workers to attend the | These eyes are/also looking expect< Marya looked ike a human dy- namo. Her rheumatism forgotten, she fairly danced. From head to toe, all fifty-eight inches of her was in mo- streets. It stuck in Jim’s throat. Be- | tion. low lay the steel mills, stretching for blocks. The fire from the bessemers spit spasmodically into the fog, mak- ing reddish-yellow streaks. fee urn. notice. Brennan didn’t bother jumping from stone to stone as everyone else did on the unpaved streets. Mouth set, brown, knit, he stormed down the the hill, wading thru slush, to home of another steel worker. PEAS She had burnt herself three times already, bumping into the cof- But she hadn't stopped to| The women bustled about, | laughing, jesting, listening to exciting | bits of news and piling the delegates with food. There was lots of home made cake, and each of them kept | jan eye on the cake she made, to see | the | whether it would prove to be the fay- | Marya wasn’t tactful about it. | “What can I do?” Mrs. Kovalsky |«you like my cake, yes? Good cake, shouted at the closed door. “Make money from me myself? They no give more! Big Julius, struggling into patched work clothes that resemble the colorful sails of a basque fishing | vessel, grumbled. Last night, a big piéce was burnt. Marya had just fin- ished sewing on a big purple square remnant of tt last “best dress”. “What the devil! I got no money! I only get eight dollar in last pay. No rent, no nothing. The society no want give more to the Hunger March. They give five dollars already. Any way no more meetings of society or commit- tee before the Munger March, and I not make more troubles! ‘Right wing- er!’ he say! My God!” Her arms waving, Marya Kovalsky burst out in a storm of Russian. “You too! You right wing pig! You alt. time the same! My God sonva- bitch!” she roared lapsing into the few English words she knew. “That es?” After dim, he true. Hunger march, come, we say, ‘Comrade, you hun- gry?, Comrade, you go to hell’ Not on my life! Marya was glaring at her husband. “You fired, and then what? You say nothing! You just make—” with an exaggerated shrug of the shoulder “im! Our delegates, they rous' to Washington and tell that Hoover something good! What we poor people do this winter? Im, ha?” again with the gesture. “In three time the delegates from far vay they come here, and our boys, they go too! 'Gas and oil costs mo- ney! Eats too! What you think!” The bewildered Julius blinked as} his “old lady” banged her coffee pot on the stove until it was covered with get that way. dents. Her little fat body quivered with rage. “But you told Jim yourself —you heard what the Society say—” bess “And what you say back, ha? No- thing!” Marya was putting a shawl ,over her head. Then in English, “T spik only foreign-born language putty bad little bit words, but T tell them something fine!” “Where you going?” Julius called. “To John and Vincent and Mike! T tell you I make them godam kulaks call special meeting like Jim say and give Hunger March money from treasury. What you think, we stop ;Hunger March because no gas mo- hey?” Giving her.shawl a tug, she yadded in English, “Goddam sonva- tears cheeks, “Oh, bitch!” “It’s. no “use,)I tell you,” Julius shouted after her. ‘Where is my dinner bucket?” But Marya was gone. Pausing every few minutes to shout “oo-ray!” as additional trucks coy- “But—” them goddam <apitalists! | Them capitalists make me cry!” just what we intend.”—Marx. | ‘Then came the speeches. Although his|she couldn't understand more than dozen phrases, and cheered lustily thruout. There were lumberjacks from. the north- west wearing old fur caps, farmers from the Dakotas in overalls, miners and steel workers from around her own town in the Ohio Valley. They were all going to Washington to demand relief from the fat Hoover and Congress, the rich ones. Ooray! And if they didn’t have enough} money for gas and oil—if they were worried about not getting there — Marya's eyes danced. herself, almost jumping to keep her secret from popping out. the speeches, the delegates piled into trucks ready for the march upon Wheeling to break through the terror there. The police had threaten- ed to attack the march if it attempt- ed to hold any meetings there. Every- body was talking about it, ready for the fight. Oh yes, the marchers were veterans by this time! One coal min- er was telling Marya about it in pid- geon English, and curiously enough Marya understood it much better Marya applauded coal She hugged Jim Brennan, smiling at the danc- ing Marya, waved and ran for the first truck. Marya, shouting wildly, stopped him. Digging into her bosom, Marya brought out a big handkér- chief heavily knotted. Carefully un- tieing it, she pulled out $20. ‘With a grand gesture, Marya hand- ed it to Jim, explaining ecstatically, “The society give it. Special meeting yesterday night. vote putty good!” “Three cheers for the Russian Fra- ternal Society!” Jim Brennén shout- “Three cheers: for international solidarity of the workers!” All heads turned toward little fat Marya, and the cheers rang through the park. Marya was laughing and crying, and soon sobbing vigorously. “What's the matter, missus?” young Brennan asked as he bent down and awkwardly put his arm around her shoulders. “Why are you crying?” “I no ery!” she denied hotly while streamed down her round “In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is together into four large armi armies have established a united lead proper system of communications, tr g, etc. 200,000 rifles, and by “Red Peasant Guards” defense, numbering half a million, of rifles. ership trained to win—on the battlefield. Armies. attacked some 60,000 Red Troops. Within three months, During the last two years, thanks to the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, the scattered corps of untrained fighters have grown up into properly organized army corps, and these in their turn drew During the last nine months these ership with a single general staff, ‘Today they number not less than 120,000 regular Red soldiers, sup- ported by guerilla detachments of peasants numbering from in the villages for local whom 25 The Red Armies of Soviet China have developed revolutionary fends In December, 1930, the reactionary Kuomnitang government, alarmed by the growing “Red menace,” despatched a “crasade” against the Red Twenty divisions, numbering some 200,000 men with three squadrons of aeroplanes, led by German advisers formerly in the Kaiser’s army, the White offensive was smashed to atoms; in the province of Kiangsi, the Red Army destroyed five White divisions, capturing one of them entirely, and four more were destroyed in the In April, second attack. 1931, provinces of Honan, Hupeh and Kiangsi. in all and the Red Army secured ‘substantial quantities of rifles, cart- ridges and machine guns. Ch Thirty The Whites lost 100,000 men ng Kai-shek, the White dictator, launched his divisions, numbering 300,000 men, were thrown into the field, under the leadership of German fascist ex-colonels. In. Kiangsi, 150,000 to ,000 are armed with Then in July in May, the Red another 50,000 to retreat, occupied a number of important towns, set up peasant Soviets all over the south of the province, Chiang Kai-shek took personal command of the third Army smashed fiye divisions, forced and “anti-Red expedition”’—which like its predecessors, was to stamp out Communism in three months. Three hundred thousand picked and specially trained troops rein- forced by gas tanks and aeroplanes, moved in three columns against. Red Kiangsi, cautiously proceeding according to the best methods adopted in “punitive expeditions” At the ontset the spell was broken by the mutiny of several brigades and the isolation and destruction of several others by the Red Army, by its European advisers. who slowly fell back, fighting incessantly, but ow however, to take the offensive. By St HE American boss cla: preparations for war. | radio and literature are which holds so much of the attention of the American working class—and particularly the working class youth—is by no means overlooked. The 1932 Olympics at Los Angeles is now the center of attention of the boss class sport leaders. A few words on the history of the Olympics and its significance would not be amiss, particu~ larly in view of the woeful neglect of the revo- lutionary movement to the field of sports. The history of the Olympic games goes back to 716 B.C. when the ancient Greeks (slaves ex~- cluded) gave homage to Zeus and the other gods of Olympus with athletic games and religi- ous festivals. These games were held every four years for 1,000 years but lapsed during the Mid- dle Ages. The games were revived at Athens in 1896. After that the games were held every four years with the exception of the war period, when the Olympic games were suspended to permit the bosses of the various countries to send “their” workers to the shambles for the sake of the prof- its of international capitalism. Capitalist Leaders. ‘The importance which the hard-shelled barons of American finance and industry attach to the Olympics can be readily seen by the list of indi- viduals who are connected with the promotion of the games. A few of the worthies who are mem- bers of the American Olympics Committee are: Herbert Hoover, honorary chairman, He needs no introduction to the masses of workers whom he has refused unemployment insurance. Ayery Brundage, president of the Amateur Athletic Union, leading figure in the Olympic Committee, is a rich’ Chicago building contrac- tor. General Douglas MacArthur, presi the last Olympics Committee and a “ Industry, the movies, all mobilized. Sports, in this one, is a leading member of the Policies Commission. Major General Guy Y. Henry, Major Eley P. Denson, Major Walsh and a few more of various ranks are among the peaceful gentlemen promoting these interna- Other names might be mentioned. But enough has been said to bring out the strictly upper- class nature of this affair. Fascist army officers, millionaire labor haters, Matthew Woll and his Sportsmanship Brotherhood—all are united in the promotion of the Olympics. If a look at some of the above names is not enough to convince the most skeptical reader that the Olympiade is an out-and-out capitalist affair then a glance at the some of the contri- butors to the last Olympics may. Here are some: Marshall Field and Co, Silas Strawn, Anton J. Cermak, Clarence Guggenheimer, United Fruit Co., James A. Farrell (who just cut wages of the workers in “his” U. S. Steel Corp), Charles Schwab, Murray Guggenheim, Otto H. Kahn, Clarence H. Mackay, Gerard Swope, Ralph Pulitzer, Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., and, lest we forget, Chicago Building Trades Council (page Avery Brandage!), and the Chi- cago Federation of Labor. Enough! It reads like a list of Who Owns America! Reflects Boss Policy. The Olympics faithfully reflect, in the sport world, the general policies of the American capi- talist class. It has an “internal” policy and an “international” policy. At home it chooses for its Olympic games from the sons of the wealthy, lads who romp around at college and whose “ed- ucation” consists of one round of sports after another. Those few workers who find themselves good athletes are given “expense accounts” or are given soft jobs, but even they are a tiny m nority. Negro athletes in the South are openly discriminated against; in the North the same thing is done, only more subtley. Corruption, devi- ation from even ‘their own “broad” amateur standards—all this was openly discussed in the sport pages ofier the 1928 Olympics anc ‘s a com- mon featu f these Roman circus affairs. Internat lly the Olympics reflect the hatred of the bar and bosses of the entire world of the Soviet Union, The Soviet Union is simply not ted to the Olympics. One-sixth of the world’s face—peculiarly enough, that one-sixth that Three months later the Red Army turned to the counter-attack. Fifteen divisions of the Whites were utterly wiped out. THE OLYMPICS--ANOTHER WAR FRONT boycott! The workers of the United States must not see real workers in action, demonstrating that where the workers have won power they are raising the physical and cultural level of the en- tire mass of workers—this is the intent of the Olympics Committee! A hatred of the Soviet Union, preliminary to armed attack, must be built up, and the American Olympics Committee “must do its bit”! Workers Counter-Olympic Campaign. ‘The state of California is the place where not only the Olympics will be held, but also where Tom Mooney, victim of the ghastliest frame-up in the history of American labor, is incarcerated. The state of California which refuses to release ‘Tom Mooney contributed a cool million dollars for the Olympic games. This is the history and setting of the Olympic Games. It is a sport mobilization for war, par- ticularly for war against the Soviet Union. Against the 10th Olympiade at Los Angeles the worker sportsmen, through the initiative of the Labor Sports Union are organizing Counter- Olympic committees, on a wide united front basis. Tom Mooney, has accepted ‘.e honorary chairmanship of the National Cowter-Olympic Committee, The entire campaign is to wihd up in a huge International Workers Athletic Meet at Chicago, 1932, at the same time as the Los Angeles Olympics, This entire campaign must clarity the entire issue of workers sports versus bosses sports in the United States and must build the Labor Sports Union as 4 real mass organization. Every workers organization must support—and not Pla- tonically—this campaign. This is not ‘a youth issue alone; it is an issue for the entire working class. The National Conference of the Labor Sports Union at Cleveland, Ohio, November 25, 26, and 27, which will mobilize the workers sport movement for the Counter-Olympic Campaign must be supported by every workers’ organization. Its decisiofis will be of moment for this hereto- Eighth World Congress of the Work- | antly to the great masses of workers ers’ International Relief and by that ;and farmers of sympathizers in thie Congress to visit the Soviet Union, country. THese masses must supply declare our solidarity with the Ken- {the strike relief which is absolutely, tucky miners and pledge our tireless | necessary’“inorder that the Kene efforts to rally the American workers , tucky miners Will not be forced back to fight shoulder-to-shoulder in com- | into the mihe“pits under the bosses’ mon cause against the terror and. starvation wage scale. starvation of the Kentucky coal op-| “Our slogans must be: erators. Donate and Collect mass support for the Kentucky miners! “In the Soviet Union we saw the workers and peasants proceeding port the Workers International | |/ from victory to victory in their great ; Relief im its: task of providing relief | | task of building Socialism. We vis- )to the Wertticky miners! ited the great industrial centers, col- | Mobilize a: solid army in every mine, y lective farms, the workers’ homés, | Mill and shop'in solidarity with oa their meetings, their collective din- j Kentucky miers! ing rooms, hospitals, club rooms, the-; ong live the heroic struggle rt Bi atres—eyery phase of their life—all’ the Kentucky” miners! | without any restriction imposed upon |” Long live the Workers International us whatsoever—and declare ourselves | Relief? in solidarity with them and pledge | Defend the Soviet ~ aon! ourselves to defend the Soviet Union ',,, 4 Sz from all imperialist attack no mat- | WORKERS!.DE“EGATION TO THE ter from what country this attack EIGHTH, WORLD CONGRESS may come. OF. THE, WORKERS INTERNA- TIONAL,;RELIEF AND DEL- EGATES +TO THE SOVIET UNION.) ic MARTIN CRAMPO, Steel Worker. JOHN ROBINSON, Negro Coal Miner, | BELLA SALTZBERG, Textile Worker, DEWEY ARMSTRONG, Coal Miner. =, “The most effective way to protect the Soviet Union from attack is to build and support the growing mass resistance of the workers and farmers in this country against the hunger campaign of Hoover and Wall Street. On January 1, the Kentucky min- The Workers Wani: the Daily — Sua ised! therefore, of getting the | Daily Worker into the hands of more | tens of thousands of workers and fille | ing them with the knowledge of the revolutionary “struggle is apparent. ‘The subscription drive is the occasion for this task. ‘The adding of 5,000 new subscribers to ‘the rolls, the addition of tens of thousands of readers are - || our revolutionary duty. It is the duty of the militant workers to get into the line of reading the Daily Worker, of being boosters for the Daily Worker, ‘When we ‘Watch the developments _ in Manchuria, and the feverish prep- | arations for open war on the Chinese | | | By I. AMTER. ‘The workers of the United States want the Daily Worker. To be sure, they still read the capitalist press, and many of them still reject the Daily. But the crisis is driving them to struggle—unemployment, starva- tion, part-time, the stagger plan «which, according to President Grace of the Bethlehem Steel Co., has col- lapsed) and long hours, are making the workers think and move—and their only leader is the Communist Party. In this crisis, which becomes worse every day, the workers are beginning to turn to other thoughts. They need guidance—and therefore we find in the most remote sections of the coun- try, where the persecution and op- pression is worst, where the terror is most widespread, where sheriffs and stool-pigeons are on the alert—there the Daily Worker is to be found. In Kentucky, in the South among the share-croppers—in the mining and textile towns, in the steel towns, where practically martial law exists, the Daily Worker is read, despite postal discrimination. YOU CAN- NOT KEEP THE DAILY OUT! In the last miners’ strike, in the textile strikes of Paterson and Law- rence, in the coming strike of the Harlan miners, the Daily has and will play the most significant part. In the coming needle strikes, in the struggles in the building trades—we cannot conceive of a proper leader- ship of the strike without our ability to reach the workers with the rev- olutionary policy and tactics, with the ability to expose the role of the fak- Soviets and the Soviet Union, can we conceive of our being able to con- duct 2-proper-struggle against the growing imperialist war danger against the Royiet Union, without the Daily Worker?) * It is'oWvious that the workers want —and they NEED the Daily Worker. It is our! duty #0-get it to them. Put steam into the drive. Make the drive a 100 per cent success! Add to the list of the fighters who keenly read the Daily! Make the Daily stronger by writing for-it from the field of r struggle! , Hl Make the ‘Eighth Anniversary LS Celebration at Bronx Coliseum on Jan. 3 a mass demonstration on the Daily's eighth birthday—but also a demonstration of the fighting abil- ity and will of the workers. The workers want the Daily Worker. “Put it in their hands! Get them to subscribe for it! Build up the circulation! of the Daily Worker, so that it becomes the paper of the tional “games”, is run by workers—is ignored totally—a sport fore badly neglected field of work. , ers and their bosses. broader fighting masses! THE REACTIONARY ATTACKS ON THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA By WATT (Toronto). IE Communist Party of Canada, after the trial of the Party leaders under Section 98 of the Criminal Code, has been declared an ijJ- legal organization by the courts of-Ontario. The central organ of the Party, “The Worker,” ts suppressed, and all the Party property’ confis- cated. It is certain that the bourgeoiste will try to apply the decision almost’ immediately throughout Canada; already the Winnipeg, Manitoba police have raided the Party District offices and confiscated all documents. The trial of the Party leaders lasted 11 days, during which both inside the court and in the capitalist and social fascist press a white hot | campaign was whipped up against the Party, the | Communist International and the Soviet Union. | Tim Buck, National Secretary of the Party, Maleolm Bruce, editor of the “Worker,” Sam Carr, and John Boychuk, members of the Poli- | tical Committee of the C.E.C. were sentenced | to five years in jail. Mathew Popovich and Tom Hill, members of the C.E.C. and prominent lead- ers of the revolutionary mass organizations of. the Ukrainian and Finnish workers and poor farmers in Canada also received five years. Tom, Cacic, organizer of the Jugo Slav workers was jailed for two years. Tom E. Ewan, the Na- tional Secretary’ and. leader of the “Workers | Unity League of Canada,” that embraces over | 30,000 organized workers, was sentenced to’'5 | years imprisonment. | s#egeener with the verdict, the prosecutors an- nounced that the Government will begin a na- tional drive to arrest all members of the Com- munist Party, that severe sentences will be inflicted, and all Communists not born in Can- ada will be deported after serving their sen- tences. Before this trial commenced there were over 150 Communists in jail or awaiting trial throughout the country on various charges—to jwhich will now be added the charge of mem- ‘bership of an illegal organization. The Party receives the first blow of the bour- geois reaction because it has organized and led the mass struggles of the Canadian tollers against the starvation Government of Bennett, exposin:; the callous hypocrisy of the Tory and Liberal Parties on the question of unemploy- ment and the famine among the poor farmers. result of its successful work in the last two | years, it has laid the besis for a powerful mass movement of the toilers against the and social fascists for a revolutoinary of the crisis. ‘The powerful unemployed movement through- out the country, the strikes of coal miners, needle trades, lumber workers, foundry workers, brickmakers, metal workers, fishermen and wood workers, that were led this year by the ‘Workers ‘Unity League and its affiliated unions; the victory of the Workers Unity League in Al- berta where ',000 .eoal miners broke from the reformist, All Canadian Congress of Labor and Joined the W.U.L., the present W.U.L. campaign among the raflroad workers for a national strike against the impending 10 per cent wage cut that is proposed by the bosses, government and social fascists—these are the reasons why Tom Ewan, the leader of the revolutionary trade union movement, is sent to jail for. The foreign born workers in Canada have urgeo: tought in the front ranks in all the struggles in | the last two years in spite of the mass deporta- tions (4,500 foreign born were deported in 1930 alone) and police terror. They have played an active role in the building up of the Commu- nist Party, the revolutionary unions, poor farm~ ers movement, and unemployed associations. This is why Mathew Popovich, Tom Hill, John Boychuk and ‘Tom 'Cacic, the leaders of the for- eign born toilers mass organizations, were sent to jail for five years. In the past two years, as the crisis deepened, unemployment increased from 150,000 in 1929 to almost 600,000 in August, 1930. Wage cuts of 10 to 40 per cent have been effected throughout the industry, and in August, 1930, the leading Canadian bankers and industrialists announced a fresh national wage cutting campaign. The poor farmers in the past two years have been greatly hit by the crisis—-prices for their pro- duce being Jess than 50 per cent of their cost of production; 300,000 of the 800,000 farmers are in a state of virtual starvation, up to the ears in debt and facing expropriation. Canada’s trade continues to fall. Production in all industries (except the metal, mining, war industry) has dropped further and agricultural | prices have sunk to lowest levels in all history. The Party receives the first blow because, as a , The half of the workers (600,000) who are still le | ‘ay out | registered as employed suffer and the stagg ties and townships are nd hospitals being closed, and | partial unemployment Hundreds of mun from widespread the pitiful unemployment “reli , construction on the roads, etc., stopped. The social fascist, leaders of the American | Federation of Labor, All Canadian Congress of the various “Labor” parties are joining with the bourgeoisie in acclaiming the outlawing of the Party and the jailing of the leaders as a great ers of the social fascists volunteered to help the police in collecting evidence and Sent in names and addresses of Communists. They offered help to the bourgeoisie to “round up” the Commu- nists. ‘The recent mass movements and strikes led by the Party have seriously shaken the hold of the social fascists over the maeseg. Particu- larly have the victorious struggles led by the W.U.L, (sawmill strike, British Columbia, brick- makers strike Estevan, Saskatchewan and foun- | dry workers strike, Winnipeg) shaken the trade union bureaucrats who declare that victorious strikes are impossible in the present period of crisis. On July 29th Bennett's government received “limited powers to maintain peace and good or- der in the country” from parliament after’ a lengthy discussion on the growing unemploy- ment movement and strikes led by the W.U.L. and the growing discontent and stirrings among the poor*farmers. He has used his power in the last two months to outlaw the Communist Party and jail its leaders, to murder striking miners in Estevan, Saskatchewan and herd the most mili- tant of the unemployed into the northern road prison camps and to broaden out and increase the reaction and terror against the toilers thru- out Canada, ‘The Party and Workers Unity League, during | the past year, have forced the question of im- mediate relief and non-contributory unemploy- ment insurance for the unemployed into the forefront of the political life of the country ,ex- posing the callous hypocrisy of the Tory and Liberal Parties and the treachery of the social fascist leaders. Unemployed associations have | been built throughout the country, immediate | relief froced im some places, strikes organized ow victory. Before the trial, in several cities, lead- | Labor, the Federation of Catholic Unions and | many of the “relief” jobs of the municipalities; a Celegation of 34 workers from all the provinces presented the demands of the unemployed for state insurance to the parliament last April, backed up by over 100,000 signatures Jess than 6 weeks in support of the W.U.L. Un- employment Insurance Bill. Mundreds of mass demonstrations (sometimes involving over 100,000 participants all over the country in one day) have taken the streets in spite of vicious police charges in the fight for the demands of the unemployed. The various unions of the W.U.Lahave organ- ized and fought bitter strikes in the .mining. lumber, metal, wood-working, fishing, and needle trades industries. In September the W.U.L.- was. leading six strikes against wage cuts and was pushing forward a campaign among the rail-, road workers for resistance to the proposed 10° per cent national,wage cut that is supported by the social fascist leaders of the American Fed- eration of Labor and All Canadian Congress of Labor. Successes have been gained in the fight to undermine the base of the social fascist A. F. of L. and A. ©. C, of L. bureaucrats in the trade union movement, Many of the city trade union councils have been forced by the pressure of the rank and file to support the Canadian Labor Defense campaign for the defense of the Party leaders. Successful work among the poor farmers has been carried on and a basis laid for militant struggles. After five district conferences of poor farmers organized last December the Farmers’ Unity League was established with a fighting program of action. In about 8 months 170 com- mittees of action have been established, the F.U.L. has recruited about 5,000. members and a delegation of poor farmers sent to the Soviet Union to study how the Russian peasants are participating in the building up of the Socialist Fatherland, ‘The mass organizations of the immigrant workers (Ukrainian, Finnish, Jewish and Bul- garian) have made a decided turn in their work, participating in all the main struggles, A new mass organization ‘Society for Assistance to the West Ukraine Liberation Movement” has re- cruited thousands of members, who a short time ago were under the leadership of the fascists. ‘The Russian, German and Jugo-Slev organiza- lected in | | \. against the attacks on the only leader of the tions have been greatly strengthened and new | organizations have been set up by the Czecho- sloyak,. Ukrainian, and Polish workers. The Ukrainian workers and poor farmers sent a dele- gation of 14 to the U.S.S.R. this year which carried on.a wide campaign on returning, being enthusiastically received by the masses and mak- ing many recruits for the revolutionary organ- izations. The Young Communist League increased its membership by over 100 per cent (1,500 to 3,000) and has made the beginnings of a turn to the factory and mass work. The Friends of the Soviet Union’ was established in Canada this year-and is firmly rooted in all the main centers throughout the country and has several thou- sand members, ‘The 3,000 French Canadians in Quebec who up to now haye been dominated by the Catholic church and were hostile to the revolutionary movement are showing that they are moving into the front of class struggle alongside the rest of the workers. ‘They have spontaneously struck in several places, accepting the lead of the Workers Unity League in their strikes. They have marched in unemployed demonstrations with red flags ahead. ‘The Party is very weak in Quebec, and this year has restmed publica- tion of the “Ouvriere Canadienne” and definite gains are being made by the paper in paving the way for organization. The successes of the Canadian Communist Party and revolutionary movement in mobilizing and organizing masses of the workers and poor farmers against the starvation and interven- tionist policies of the Bennett Government, the successes gained against the social fascists of Canada are the reasons for the outlawing and suppression of the Party. ‘The Party will not quietly sink down into il- legality but will fight every inch of the way, mobilizing greater masses for the struggle Canadian workers and poor farmers, against capitalist exploitation ahd oppression and the treacherous social fascists. ‘The Party 1s strenuously and rapidly reorgan- izing its whole work to carry out the tasks that face it under the new conditions. The organiza- ‘ton ofthe daily struggles will be guaranteed despite the imprisonment’ of the ‘leading cadre and the fiercer terror and reaction. ‘The mass movement @will be built up through- out the country, by the Barty, revolutionary unions and mass organizations and the Labor Defense League to rally broader masses in a militant fight for the release of the Communists in jail. Greater mass pressure is being mobilized to fight for the legality of the Party. The miners of Drumheller, Alberta, have al- ready given a heroic example to the working class in the fight fo defend! the Party and the revolutionary movement. ~When their protest demonstration was attacked™hy the police they resisted and fought back for hours, many being wounded on both sides. The Canadian workers « poor farmers, in their struggle against reaction and oppression, must be supported by the workers of the world. Canada is an example of how the mailed fist of the bourgeoisie in the British Empire is. striv- ing to destroy the fighting .ofganizations of the masses that stand, in the Way to further ate tacks upon the condi’ unemployed workers:andgpger: farmers. The at- tack on the revolutignary.mevement in Canada is a part of the wave, of coreie that is ing across the blood, perialist Empire— in Ireland and Cai tid volutienary move- ment is oppressed aera ers are mowed down. by machine guns—ell over the attack te on (0, ane effectively the growe ing revolutionary move Ss This attack is part ofthe preparation for armed attack on the.Goviel Union, and calls for greater struggles against’the-interventionists of imperialism, the IT Internattonal and A. F. of L. - Particularly the British.and U. 8. A. revolu« tionary movements must, “nigbilize mass support against the reactionary Canadian imperialists who try to crush the,..st! les of the masses in blood, to jail the leaders Of the masses. Mass demonstrations beforé *the+Offices of the Cana- dian Commissioners ihrpyshaue the world must be organized to show the. representatives of Canadian imperialism, toilers that the i in solidarity with t reaction and terror“ % ; ns_of the employed and * 4 ae © ‘i