The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1932, Page 3

| sed - dng _.third with 1,000. _DATLY WORKER ANEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY Fren ch War Vets Greet Ex-Servicemen’s League NEW YORK.—Greeting the Work- ers Ex-Servicemen’s League and de- claring solidarity with the American veterans of the world war in their tight for immediate cash payment of the tombstone bonus, the Association Republicaine Des Anciens Combat- tants Et Victimes De La Guerre sent the following letter to the war vet- erans of New York: Dear Comrades: Tt is with great pleasure we re- ceived your letter dated October 29, 1931, addressed to the 13th Par- isian section of our organization. What you say concerning the American Legion does not in the least surprise us. During the past few years this American organiza- tion has sent to Paris tens of thou- sands of its members who, during their stay in our capital, gaye vent to intemperate chauvinistic utter- _afces and sentiments quite in ac- cord with the point of view of the French government and some of our own ultra-nationalisttc ex- servicemen’s organizations, Eyen at that time we could not help wonder why American work- ers, who—like ourselves—went thru the hellishness of the war to “Save Democracy and Civilization” could unanimously be caught by the golden nets spread by the Amer- ican Legion, which is solely serv- ing Wall Street. The creation of your organization is the natural answer of American ex-servicemen to the conditions that have been developed in their country, and also is a very heart- ening indication that the front of the ex-servicemen directed against imperialistic wars now extinds across the Atlantic, Fraternally yours, (Signed) Guy Jerram, General Secretary. The Workers Ex - Servidemen’s League invites all war vets to come to its regular open forums at 79 E. 10th St., where well known speakers will discuss the problems of the ex- servicemen. The forums are held every Sunday at 2 p. m. WEEK’S FIGURES SHOW DRIVE IN INCREASING PACE; GET NEW SUBSCRIBERS ACTIVE ‘The figures for last week, through Jast Friday, in the campaign for 5,000 subscriptions to the Daily Worker, are encouraging, not so much be- cause of what has already been ac- eomplished as because of the indi- cations they give that the drive is inereasing its pace. Up to the end of last Friday a total of 7,473 months of subscriptions came in, represent- ; 2,130 subscribers. While the New York district leads with 1,474 -months of subs, with Chicago in a close second with 1.311 and Detroit Connecticut is in the lead in regard to the percentage filled of its quota, 25 per cent. De- troit comes next with 20.7 per cent, and New York third with 18.2 per cent. The total through last Friday is 12.2 per cent of the entire goal. ‘With last Sunday’s figures, the sub- scriptions pass the 13% mark. It is now up to every district to come up to Connecticut's record and reach at least 25% of its quota as quickly as possible. One shortcoming of the drive so far is the slow spread of the Friends of the Daily Worker groups. The number of such groups is still 43, no new ones having been formed: last week. Yet these groups are valuable |, aids in getting Daily Worker sub- scriptions and become permanent al- lies of the Daily Worker in all Daily ‘Worker activities. The groups are so easily formed. They can be as informal as you like, and they can be made so interesting to workers in the neighborhood. Write to us and we will send you suggestions for the first meeting of such a group. Social affairs, work- ers’ correspondence, discussions are all possible in Friends of the Daily Worker groups. You can also get special rates on a correspondence course in the Fundamentals of Com- munism for the entire group, which is offered by the Workers School This course includes not only ex- cellent material for study, but ques- tions at the end of each lesson, which the group discusses as a whole and to which the group mails its answers. These answers are very carefully analyzed by a trained Marxist-Leninist in the Workers’ School, and criticisms are mailed back to the group, with suggested model answers. Let this week therefore see the formation of new Friends of the Daily Worker groups. Let this week also mark the setting of a new pace in the Daily Worker drive. Get the new subscribers active in the cam- paign. Let the campaign proceed in widening circles util the entire country is covered and no Working class neighborhood and no factory or mine is left stil outside the work- ers’ struggles against the bosses’ wage cut and starvation attacks. Socialist “Forward” Attacks Bread Strike Brooklyn, N. Y. Dear Comrade: In their miserable, cowardly at- tempt to “sell out the bread strike” of Coney Island, under the militant leadership of the Women’s Council of Coney Island, the socialist party, through their “yellow Daily For- ward” are forever charging these striking women with “politics,” “Communists are leading the strike,” they say. Well, what of it if they do? “Communists are leading and fighting in every militant strike” to improve the conditions of the work- ers. What are the roles of the social- ists in the Coney Island bread strike? They call meetings where bosses and gangsters are their priv- ileged spokesmen and they act ac- cording to instructions given them by the Bakery Owners’ Association. To their everlasting discredit they are never seen on the “picket-line.” A striking example of “Generals die in bed.” Comradely yours, Ben Stallman, Judge Orders Worker to Accept Wage-Cut (By a Worker Correspondent.) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Nathan Pa- tow, a boss painter, residing at 863 De Kalb Ave. hired Sam Krappy and ovomised to pay him $8 a day. Krappy worked a week, bui at the end of the week Patow refused to pay because he claimed that the landlord, for whom he was doing the job, hadn’t paid him. When the worker visited ihe land- Jord he found out that all the money except $15 had been paid the boss and this money the landlord gave to the worker. When the boss heard this he became very angry and re- fused to pay a cent, The painted did not know what to do, so he tried to get justice in a capitalist court. He got a summons out for Gates Ave, Court. Last week the case was ctried before Judge McClocken. ‘The “worker brought a witness to testify that the boss promised to pay $8 a dey. ‘The boss tried to lie about it. Finally the worker gave the judge a Jong speech about how $5 a day is plenty, and the judge decided the worker get paid at the rate of $5 a day, ‘This just proves that workers can- Your, “‘afbaire” Your demenstrations not depend on the “justice” of the capitalist court. The judge and the boss have the same class interests at heart. The worker can find protec- tion only in organization. At present the alteration painters have estab- lished headquarters throughout the city. Workers should go to their respective headquarters and present. their case there. The headquarters are 1325 Southern Blyd., Bronx; 80 Cook St., Williamsburg and Pitkin Ave. and Christopher St., Browns- ville. Connecticut Meets for Jailed Workers BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—The Inter national Labor Defense of Connec- ticut is making preparations to hold a series of mass meetings in this district to demand the immediate re- Jease of the nine Scottsboro boys, Mooney and Billings, the Harlan, Kentucky miners, and the Connecti- cut class war prisoners. These mass meetings will especially voice the protest against the treatment of the prison authorities of the Hartford County Jail in reufsing medical at- tention to eGorge Foster who is crit- ically ill. There will be prominent speakers at these meetings. Meetings have been arranged so far in the following cities: New Haven, Friday, Jan. 8, 8 p. m. at the Labor Lyceum, 36 Howe St. Hartford Sun. Jan. 10, 2 p. m. at 27 Albany Avenue. Stamford, Sun. Jan. 10, 7:30 p. m. at Workers Center, 49 Pacific Ave. Springfield, Mass., Jan. 17, 8.00 p, m,, a6 675 Dwight Bt. Bridgeport, Jan, 10, 8 p.m. Place not yet known, A meeting is also being arranged in South Norwalk, The Nations! office ls sending ‘|| George Maurer of the ILD to speak : of Foes te eeRE TT Saememnmninmmemmnmmemannerimemecesiei dL oi a a alee ak ce Ia re Scottsboro Issue Of Liberator Out Next Tues., Jan. 12 A special Scottsboro issue of The Liberator, weekly organ of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, will be off the press next Tuesday and dated Saturday, Jan. 16. The issue will contain articles dealing with the latest develop- ments in the Scottsboro case, which comes before the Alabama Supreme Court Jan. 21, and in addition a strip giving the history of the case in pictures. This is- sue must receive the widest dis- tribution possible through every district, section, city and village, in order to rally Negro and white workers to protest against one of the worst frame-ups against the Negro masses in the history of the working class. L, 8. N. R. groups, units of the Communist Party, mass organiza- tions and trade unions! Wire your order for the special issue by 6 p.m. Monday, Jan, 11, Send pay- ment in advance—if not the whole amount, at least part, The paper has not appeared for two weeks because of lack of funds, and those districts owing large bills are warned that their orders will be cut proportionately. Advance payment for the Scottsboro issue imperative to insure receiving 's many copies as are ordered. Every available cent which can be raised for The Liberator must be rushed in without delay. Flood the country with the Scottsboro issue of The Liberator! Rally Negro and white workers to demand the unconditional release of the Scottsboro boys! Order bundles from The Liberator, Room 201, 50 E. 13th St., New York. AL MCBRIDE FACES DEATH (CONTINUED FROM PAGE at $15,000. Police sies planted among, ‘the workers are being used to testify that McBride fired at a policeman on November 7, when police and Legion- aires opened a murderous fire on workers celebrating the 14th anni- versary of the Russian Revolution. The twenty-six workers arrested at Ruskin are being held on charges of vagrancy, while Fernandez, a lo- cal worker is held for deportation. ‘The immediate pretext for the raid on the meeting place at Ruskin was that it was a liquor house and that the police were searching for liquor violators. Police Plot Exposed. R. D. Locke and N. McClelland, Onn) the two police spies told of their part in framing the plot to crush the workers who are now forced to meet at Ruskin. “McBride admitted 1o me that he was the man who shot Byrd in the disturbance at the Labor Temple. He said he fired his pis- tol from a window on the second floor of their building, and in the melee that followed he escaped by the rear entrance and returned to Ruskin. He also told us he was wanted in Texas for red disorders there.” Locke, one of the spies, said. “McClelland and myself won Mc Bride's confidence by telling him we wanted to join his organization. He told us much of his activities. Going there always dressed as laborers we told McBride and the others we were working at a packinghouse at Terra Ceia.” Police are pushing charges against McBride on the basis of the lies of the police spies and as part of the campaign to crush the organization of the cigarmakers and the Com- munist Party here. The formal charges against Me Bride are “Assault to murder, incit- ing to riot and violation of the li- quor laws.” Threaten Deportation Also. Immigration authorities were on the scene of arrest and are openly threatening to deport many workers who haye worked in Tampa from five to twenty years because of their union and Party activities. ‘While the combined attack of the employers, police, city officials and courts succeeded in forcing back many workers into the shops, the sentiment: among the workers, their wives and children is growing more militant daily with the Tampa, To- baco Workers Industrial Union and the Communist Party, grewing in strength and infiuence Police terror, reflecting thte des- perate effort of the bosses to crush all organization, continues here with all meetings banned and the homes of many active workers watched by police and spies. The trial of the twenty-six work- ers is called for January 12. Work- ers ail over the country should come to the support of the Tampa work- ers, Send telegrams of protest to the governor of Florida, demanding the release of Al McBride and the other arrested workers, Four Hundred Copper Miners Go On Strike in Capiota, Chile CAPIOTA, Ohile—Four hundred: copper miners of the Brydon Copper Mine Co, struck today against the Proposal of the bosses for » cut to only 4 working days a week ‘The bosses are trying to convince the workers that by this plan unem~- Ployment will be solved, although the truth is that the bosses ave trying tte sea Sages ee hana ai STIMSON IN NEW PRESSURE ON JAPAN; AIMS AT COMMON LOOT- ING OF CHINA. WAR ON ULS.S.R, (CONTINE the FROM PAG chow and ultimate seizure of that city by the Japanese is a clear| indication of the lengths to which the Wall Street government is will- ing to go to maintain its leadership in the Anti-Soviet front. Stimson’s “diplomatic pressure” is aimed to hold Japan to the aboye policy, Only the powerful Chinese Red Army and the Central Provisional Soviet Government of China, sup- ported and ‘defended by the inter- national. proletariat can stop the looting of China by the imperialists and the danger of imperialist war arising out of the sharpening con- flict of interests among the looters. Workers everywhere must organize anti-war meetings—in your organi- zations, in your shops, in front of factory gatcs, etc. Demand the withdrawal of oll imperialist troops and gunboats from China! Defend the right to independence of the Chinese masses! Defend the Soviet Republic of China! Defend the revo- lutionary struggles of the colonial and Negro masses! Defend the So- viet Union, the socialist fatherland and citadel of the world revolution aganist imperialist oppression and starvation! Demand all war funds for the unemployed! Demand the payment of social insurance by the bosses and their government! Down with imperialist war! Japanese In Provocation Tactics In Tientsin ‘The Japanese invasion of Inner China continues. A Tientsin dispatch reports the Japanese in an “unoffi- cial” ultimatum demanding the with- drawal from the Tientsin of the Chinese troops which were previously withdrawn from Chinchow at the demand of the Japanese. Japanese troops In Tientsin, numbering over 2,400, have been holding daily de- monstrations, marching through the working-class sections in full war- time equipment. The. Japanese com- mander has anneuriced plans: for a grand military parade on Jan. 8. Jaanese troops have been landed at Foochow, midway between Shang- hai and Canton, following an anti- Japanese demonstration in which two Japanese were killed. A report by the: American consulate in Foo- chow admits that Japanese marines proyoked Chinese workers and stud- ents by appearing at a demonstra- tion and tearing.down anti-Japanese posters. Kuomintang police protected them from the fury of the masses. Later.on that day, a Japanese school teacher and his wife were killed when they, made, remarks attacking the anti-Japanese movement. What the mass movement is directed not only against the Japanese but against all imperialists:is shown. by the burning of-a British missino school on ‘the same day. Alt-mission schools have been forced to close down. Among the imperialist warships in the har- bor is an American destroyer, the U. S. Stewart. Red Partisan Troops Cut Railway Admission of the heroic resistance of the Chinese masses in Manchuria is contained in a Mukden dispatch to the New York ‘Fimes:.The Jap- anese invaders are-reported sMgteatly |" troubled” by the rising tide of: re- sistance. Japanese troops have been attacked within a few miles of Muk~- den. A sharp battle {s still proceeding at Sinmin between Japanese troops and the Red partisan forces. Sin- min is only 35 miles from Mukden, where heavy Japanese forces are concentrated. Partisan troops disrupted traffic yesterday on the Peiping-Mukden Railway, near Sinmin. This railroad supplies the Japanese forces operat- ing in the Kuopangtze and Chinchow districts. The Japanese are search- ing homes of workers and peasants for arms in the Sinmin district. The Chinese landowners and the new Chinese puppet governments in Man- churia are aiding the Jaanese in their attacks on the workers and peasants. ‘The Japanese are reported to be concentrating huge supplies of arms and munitions in the Tientsin dis- trict in proparation for a major of- fensive in Inner China. Nanking Threatened By New Splits Reflecting the conflict of interests between theix imperialist masters, the Nanking and Canton militarists in the new ‘‘united” Nanking govern- ment are again faced with a split. A Hongkong dispatch reports a move- ment in that city to split awey from the new “united” government. ‘The dispatch Indicates that the collapse of the new Nanking government: is expected speedily, Another split is threalened from the north, with the Wall Street but- cher Chiang Kai-shek reported to be heading a nine-province alliance. It is indicated that Wang Ching-wei, leader of the Canton faction, and Hu Han-min are in the alliance with Chiang. In the meantime, a Shanghai dis- patch reports “the new government is experiencing difficulty in function- ing because of the continued ab- sence from Nanking of Chiang Kai- shek, Wang Ching-wei and Hu Han- min, These three betrayers of China are not only the leaders of the Nan- king and Canton factions but con- stitute the standing committee of the Central Political Committee. Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang is also organizing @ split on his own account. He has called a meeting of the prin- cipal militarists in North China “ap- parently for the purpose of forming @ northern military ‘block virtually independent of the Nanking Gevern meri.” mat Speletet oe |e ee traitorous fikepminiang is proceed- ing, the Chinese Soviet movement is growing stronger daily. The only stable government in all China today is the Central Provisional Soviet Government of the Soviet Republic of China. ‘The Soviet dis- triets are rapidly being extended. The Chinese Red Army is advanc- ing victoriously in many of the central provinces. The Soviet po- pulation is displaying the sreatest activity under the slogan; “Streng- then the Red Army, extend and consolidate the Soviet districts, pro- tect the Soviet Government.” The seat of the Central Soviet Government is at Suidjen, the pro- visional capital of the Central Soviet district of South Kiangsi. This dis- trict embraces about if of the pro- vince of Kiangsi. W of the Cen- tral Soviet district, extending over the frontiers of the province, lies the Soviet district of South, East Hunan, and over the Fastern frontier lies the Soviet district of South West Fukien. The Red Army has adopted all mea- sures to protect the Red capital and the neighboring towns against the Nanking counter-revolutionary gov- ernment. Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi, is constantly threatened by Red detaachments. Red Army In Smashing Advance! The Red Army, under the leader- ship of Comrades Fang and Szau, is conducting large scale campaigns and advancing eastwartis over the front- iers to Chekiang, and northwards to Anwhei. Supported by the Red pea- sant detachments they have captured a number of towns. In addition they have conducted successful fights against the mercenary troops of the big landowners. Strong detachments of the Red Army are also stationed on the river Wu and control the water transport. In the province of Hupeh the dis- tricts west of Wuhan on the Han river are in the hands of the Red Army, with the result that the most ittiportatit strategic points on this river, such’ as’ Yokiakow, also called “Little Hankow” on account of its importance as a commercial and harbor town, and Sayang are threat- ened. In the Soviet territories wnich em- brace the frontier district of Hupeh, Honan and Anwhei, the’Red Army is likewise victoriously advancing: ' In November the district town was sur- rounded by the Red Army ahd fierce fighting took place. The neighbor- ing district of Kuan-san, with the exception of the district town, is al- most entirely dominated by the So- viets. The important locality of Tansand- sei, which is stil] in the hands of the Kudmistang, was beleagered over four days by the Red Army. Fight- ing is still going on there. Three- quarters of the neighboring district of Losang is already in the hands of the Soviet Power. ‘The victories of the Red Army are serving to rally additional broad mas- ses to the anti-imperialist, anti-Kuo- mintang fight, and for the setting ‘up over all China of the Soviet Power the power of the worker, peasants and all the toilers of China; Reporter for Daily Worker Tells of Demonstration (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) erator’s gun thugs. They were com- manded by Sheriff John Henry Blair of Harlan County. These deputy thugs had come into Bell County in an attempt to cow the demonstration, ‘The miners demanded that they be removed. The local authorities made them put their machine gun away and the crowd refused to leave until the Harlan thugs also left. We got very encouraging reports about the strike spreading. The miners are showing a splendid fight sentiment. Everybody says the strik- ers are out to win or die. Miners who come to visit us in the jail report that the Kentucky- Tennessee coal strike is rapidly spreading. Yesterday at Jellicoe, ‘Tenn., miners struck. Another mine at Clearfork Road, Tenn. struck. Mines in Eagan and Amthras, Tenn. went out on strike joining their 10,000 fellow miners who are already out on strike against starvation and terrorism. One more mine in Harlan County, the Black Star mine struck Women and Children Picket Picketing is going on strong. Yes- terday morning there was picketing at a good many mines. Reports trom 1, sz Page Thres Socialist Local ‘ae Berlin Condemns Its Central Committee (Inprecorr Press Service) BERLIN, Dec. 22.—The unrest and dissatisfaction in the ranks of the social democratic party is growing steadily. The rank and file feel themselves handed over bound hand and foot to their s enemies bj the reactionary policy of the social democratic lenders. At a member- ship meeting of the 20th branch of the S, D. P. in Berlin at which the social democratic Reichstag’s deputy Lowenstein delivered a speech on be- half of the Central Committe. A resolution was adopted condemning the policy of the Central Committee with 249 votes against one AZANA’S GUARDS KILL STDIKERS; FOUR ARE WOMEN Re sactionary Body Is Maintained By the Azana Gov't Six striking workers of Arnedo, Spain, including four women, one with two babies in her arms, were shot down and killed when the Civil Guard attacked them. The strikers, forced to defend themselves, had only stones to use as weapons. Another worker was killed by the Civil Guard at Calzada, a town in southern Spain A small child of one of the women killed at Arnedo was aslo killed. The striking workers of the town, together with their wives and chil- dren were marching on the town to recruit sympathizers for their strug- gle when the Guards opened fire and shot down the defenseless men, wo- men and children. Premier Azana recently defended the Civil Guard, many contingents of whom were taken over unchanged from the landlord-church-bourgeois regime under King Alfonso. According to Premier ‘Asana, the Civil Guard is “the main reliance for the maintenance of law and order,” showing the reactionary character of the new bourgeois-landlord govern- ment, HARTFORD BANKS SHAKEN BY LONG RUNS ON MONDAY Savings Banks, Gov't Postal Savings Ate Stormed In City HARTFORD, Conn. — Following the closing of the city bank and trust Co. the East Hartford Trust Co. Saturday, a run of major proportions developed here Monday when depo- itors of all savings banks and govern- mental postal sayings stormed the banks and formed long, insistent lines until the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston rushed $1,000,000 to meet the demands of the depositors. Banks thruout the city immediate- ly invoked the rule of ninety days notice for withdrawals. All day Monday anxious crowds formed in front of all savings banks here, as well as the postal savings, calling for a return of their depo- sits. Bank officials are seeking to cover up the seriousness of the situation by the usual promises of “rehabili- tation” and “need for confidence.” ee Soe The Freehold Trust Co. of Free- hold, Monmouth County, New Jersey placed its affairs in the hands of the state department of Banking and In- surance after a period of heavy with- drawals. Depositors Try Recover Money. Desperate because of the closing of the People’s State Bank of Monck’s Corner, S. C., two depositors forced an entrance into the closed bank and took $2,000, a sum equal to that which they had in deposits at the time of the bank closing. ‘The two depositors later surrender- ed to the sheriff, after burying the money they took. Death i in Fase i Vienna; Life in the Premier, Tenn: tell of picketing there. At the Liberty mine near Straight Creek, Ky. yesterday, women and children sat on the tracks in front of the cars being loaded with coal. They refused to let them into the mines. Some of these women were relatives of the men in the cars. At th Carline mine there were big picket lines, with men, women and children marching and singing. The first meeting of the Central Strike Committee is now going on. Between 150 and 200 delegates are present. They are planning to call a Southern coal miners’ conference to b ecalled the “Spread the Strike Con- ference,” led by the National Miners ‘Union and a united front committee. Yesterday af LaFollette, Tenn, 2 deputy sheriff interrupted a maas meeting held at the fair grounds. Ais name was Silas Cupp. “We don’t need any Russisn. speakers here,” he saiti ‘The crowd began to yell at him. sh Ape) Aim out!” The ane wes, and. “tow a, few apace ea et be tga vasa, Soviet Union VIENNA, Jan. 3.—The Suicide Club || was host this evening to more than 1,000 members, all of which are pro- spective suicides. This organization was established three years ago be~ cause of Austria’s increasing suicides. In the Soviet Union there are no Suicide Clubs because there is no economic distress. In capitalist and in Fascist countries the urge is to flee life, escape its miseries and tor- tures. In the Soviet Union, on the contrary, the dominant motive is to live and function energetically. Make the Dafly Worker subserip- tion drive a part of all revolnowsry activit KIDNEY AGONY? ok relot (roma tartare of bachachee, burr i dae eurbe the Rreseribea by doctors Be be Ss ae All organizations, no matter how NEW YORK.—Preparations for| the “rivers of blood” of the Indian | people promised by Ramsay Mac} Donald “sociailst” premier of the | British National ernment, are now being made by new shipments of troops to India to cr | tempt at uprising of workers and peasants. Four dred officers were rushed to India Tuesday to build up the full strength of 68,900 soldiers of the fully mec- anized British army in India. Be- sides, the British imperialists have} 155,000. Indian troops. | Kil!’ One, Wound Many. The first shooting in the present disturbance in India took place Tuesday at Benares, when the po- lice fired many volleys into a crowd of demonstrators, One man was | killed and many = more. were wounded, At Calcutta many arrests were made. The suppressive laws are be- ing put into effect with great haste. @NED nected with the industrialist of Il- linois and the middle west, made a trip to the Soviet Union last sum- mer. In his interview he admitted frankly that he thought that unless the factories are opened, the masses would look for a revolutionary Com- munist way out of the crisis. Markets, Rainey said, were an im- mediate need of the capitalists. “What we want to do is re-open our closed factories, he said. To do so we need markets out side the boun- daries of Continental United States eseees I am anxious to trade with all nations.” He was then asked about Russia and made his sensational reply, stating: “They are now rebuilding their great country.” There is more building going on in Russia today than there is in all the rest of the world. They are building 5,000 miles of mainline railroad tracks while we are tearing ours up. The rebuilding of Russia will continue for at least twenty-five years. “During that period Russia will furnish the world’s best market. ‘The nations of Europe are estab- ishing trade conventions with Russia. Our isolationist policy keeps us out of those trade con- ‘ventios. “I am interested in furnishing em- ployment for the seven or eight million anemployed. If we have Communist demonstrations this Winter in our large cities, the main cause will be the closed fac- tories. The way to fight Commun- ism in this country is to reopen the factories. The only way to do it is to get markets abroad; and Russia is the biggest and best one. “Tt seems to me that patriotic organizations and the churches ought to support a proposition which will givé work and which ‘will give wages and which, in that way, will prevent riots and disturb- ances in our cities this Winter.” Rainey realizes that trade with the Soviet Union would supply jobs to thousands of workers, but he fails to see that it will not end the crisis of capitalism. He admits capitalism is in a desperate strait and must look to the land of socialist upbuilding for aid to the millions of unemployed workers. |MacDonald’s Troops Kill and Wound India Demonstrators | moderate in their criticism of Brit- ish imperialism, are ‘outlawed: Gandhi, comfortably housed.in his many-roomed apartment ~ at Yar- wadha prison, is issuing “Christian” tatements of brotherly love toward the British oppressors. He is doing British imperialism excelent’ service on the Indian masses to mselyes to be shot down the reinforced British troops. In New York, the New York Eve- ning Post reports an interview with ja leading Gandhi supporter in the Kedar Nath Dar Gandhi-follower de- United States, Gupta. This |clares quite frankly that “Gandhi # the best friend of England,” mean- ing, of course, British imperialism. “Gandhi is Britain's best friend,” said Gupta. “T will make you one prophecy: One of these days England wil know Mehetew Gandhi has been one of the best friends Englishmen ever bed. Bir statue will be ontside of Westmin- ster.” |SOVIET UNION SOLE OUTLET FOR U.S. GOODS SAYS RAINEY Rainey admits that “accumulation of great wealth by a comparatively few individuals has been going on.” “The conditions of our farmers was desperate,” he said, “and it is more desperate now than it ever has been. I am a farmer. I think I have one of the best farms in Tilinois.” But he does not say what is the condi tion of the poor farmers who do not have “one. of the best farms.” Speaking of taxes, Rainey favors a sales tax will hit the worker. He is against any form of unemploy- ment insurance, admiting ati the same time that private charity dees not begin to feed even 27 per cent of the unemployed, Rainey’s interview, coming fron: the leader of the democrats who have “control” of Congress, shows that the crisis is forcing the ques- tion of recognition of the Soviet Un- ion among a large section of the petty-bourgeoisie at precisely the time when American imperialism is speeding-up its war preparations against the U.S. 5. R. 20 P.C. WAGE CUT FOR CHI. WORKERS City Workers Put On Stagger Plan Also CHICAGO.—Following upon many months during which the municipal workers of Chicago received no pay at all, the City Council has voted to reduce the number of workable days to 24 a month with a corresponding cut in wages and cut the wages by 20 percent. Workers who get paid by the day will only be allowed 32 hours a week, The recommendation for this cui was made by Mayor Cermak who sai¢ the only alternative would be the fr- ing of 2,000 men. ‘The keeping up of the huge grait for Chicago’s racketeering politicians during a time when less taxes are being paid, is responsible for the wage cut. RENEW YOUR OLD SUBSCRIP- TION TO THE DAILY WORKER Now! THE WESTERN WORKER Comes Out January Ist A fighter to organize and lead our struggles in the RAISE FUNDS! 52 Issues $2 BUILD Name 18 FOURTH STREET, Fight £ 200 Subs Name .. ‘poreet fwn ep e o> For six months 23.0 (84.50 Wor threr smanths 41.50 (1 Far ane month $4,580 (28. 26 Issues $ Daie. 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