The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1932, Page 3

| ] | DAILY WORKER, NEW WORE, THURSD AY, JAN UARY 28, 1982 STRUGGLE LOOMS PITTSBURGH BUILDING TRADES Phe Building Trade workers of Pittsburgh were never in worse con- ditions than at present. They are passing through the most critical period in their history. Over 75 per cents of their number are at the pres~ ent moment completely or part time ™Memployed. Those who enjoy any regular work are forced to support ‘the sell-out policy of the business agents or to turn back to the con- tractors by whom they are employed @ certain percentage of their wages. This form of wage-cut is taking Place in all of the trades. Now the industry stands face to face with a proposed wage cue of 25 per cent. The Master Builders de- clored their intention to put this wage cut into effect in a letter ad- dressed to the Building Trades Coun- cil on November 23rd. This letter announced that the contemplated wage cut would con- tinue from January Ist, 1932 for a period of one half years, expiring, June Ist, 1933. The wage cut is it- self in direct violation of the ag- reement, which the “various con- tracting groups in the building in- dustry” have with the 24 locals, which will be affecteed by the cut. Attempt to Hide Attack ¢ But the various contracting groups in the building industry have sought to hide their vicious attack upon living standards of the building workers under such hypocritical phrases as: “Many jobs have gone to contract- ors who have no regard for organized Tabor, or wages, or working agree- ments you are compelled to adhere to, and the situation seems to be beyond the control ‘of the Labor Unions.” On many occasions it has been proven that members of the Master Buildrers Association, coniving with business agents of the locals, have forced the workers to accept a lower wage than that set forth in the ag- reement. The hypocritical phrases about “contractors who have no re- gard for organized labor, or the wages, or working agreements” com- ing from the Master Builders is a sorry joke. The Master Builders, however, are trying to put the res- ponsibility for their vicious attack upon the present wage scale on the backs of the building trade workers. ‘This can be clearly seen in their fur- ther statement: “It is hoped that this reduction will establish a stabilized condition in ‘the employment of building craftsmen, and make it possible for the labor unions to control their members. To continue under present condition will put our entire industry in the hands of the open shop con- tractors.” This “stabilization” of the industry is a stabilization on the basis of starvation. How solicitioug the bosses hhave become concerning the workers! ‘The workers in this industry repres- ent the aristocracy of labor, yet rare~ ly do any of them make more than $1,500 or $1,600 yearly. This is due to the seasonal nature of the work, but as well to the technical improve- ments in the industry have created a very high percentage of permanent unemployment also to the fact that the unions themselves are in the hands of labor racketeers of A. F. L., who see that only those are employed who are willing to pay for their jobs. Master Builders Parley for Cut ‘The Master Builders suggested to the Building Trades Council that it form a committee to meet with them. It is obvious that since their letter was the basis for this meeting their only intention was to work out ways and means of putting the wage cut over on the rank and file with the support of the corrupt leadership of The Building Trades Council. The council appointed six of its members to meet with the Master Builders. OVER, PAY- CUT IN After two weeks of negotiation with | the Master Builders in the face of a repudiation of the wage cut by the rank and file this committee return- to no decision. Most certaily the d4- cision that it was to come to was definitely to set forth the repudizsion of the cut by the rank and file. That they did not do so is evident that a decision has been made between them and the Master Builders and that decision is the acceptance of a cut. but at least 10 or 15 per cent. Only the determined opposition of the rank and file of locals prevente it into going into effect on Janua | 1st. 'The maneuver of the bosses and the leadership of the Building Trades Council is a smoke screen behind which the wage cut is being. pre- STRIKES ARE MILITARY TRAINING COLLEGES IN THE ART OF CLASS WAR “Strikes are the military train- ing colleges of the workers, they are the schools wherein the pro- | letariat is prepared for its entry into the great struggle which is | inevitable; they are the proclam- ations whereby individual sections of the workers announce their adhesion to the labor moye- ment as a whole,...As a school in the art of war, strikes can find no equal.” .(Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England, p. 224.) pared. Only a desparate struggle on the part of the rank and file can Prevent its consomation. The rank and file must see from the failure of “their” Building Trades Council committee to arriye at a decision that they are maneeuvering on the basis of time, that they will do nothing until a ‘wage cut has gone into effect, and will then “show” how necessary it was by reason of the objective conditions. That the rank and file have some understading of what is going on has been proven by their efforts to get in touch with the T.U.U.L. leadership, and from i to secure guidance in the preparation of ways and means by which to com- bat the wage cut and to prepsre for struggle. This committee of the rank and file is seeking a way out of the swamp inte which craft unionism and corruption of the A. F.L. leadership has led the workers. ‘They have had enough of narrow craft unionism and occupational patriotism. They are determined to make a relentless fight to stabilize the mnion on the basis of consolid- ating the crafts. They recognize the tre # ndous scope of this strug. gle and they are asking for a prog- ram of-action and leadership with carry the struggle forward to the bitter end. to protest against the position taken by the Building Trades Council in this negotiation with the Master Builders and to strengthen the rank and file committee in preparation for the struggle ahead. A Conference | has been called for Saturday, Jan. 30th, at which time a report on the present situation in the trades will be given and a program o faction outlined for the steps ahead. sboioenPers hrd hrd hrd hrd hdhrd FURNITURE WORKERS MEET TONIGHT, NEW YORK.—A membership meet- | ing of the Furniture Workers Indus- trial Union will be held Thursday, Jan. 28, at 7:30 p. m. at 108 E, 14th St. All furniture workers are invited to attend this meeting. HOOVER TRIES TO MEASURES OF HIDE INFLATION NEW FINANCE BILL (CONTINUED FROM FAGE ONE) American capitalism deeper than ever into the crisis. In addition, it will work untold hardships on the masses of work~ ers and farmers by causing a de- Ppreciation of the value of money side by side with a rise in com- modity prices, This scissors be- tween the buiying power of the ttle wages that the employed workers still get and the inflated prices of various goods will slash even still more the living standards of. the working class and poor farmers. Although the inflation program of Wall St. has the full support of the capitalists here, it js meeting with tremendous opposition in capitalist circles in Europe who stand to lose @ strong possibility be a “raid” on Wall the “raid” on London when Great Britain went off the gold stadard. Wall St. is openly afraid that the more than $700,000, 000 worth of short term balances which European capitalists have here will be withdrawn with a resulting weakening of the position of the American dollar. So dangerous to the already . shaky position of Wall St. finance has this European opposition be- come that President Hoover was forced yesterday to issue a state- ment to the effect that the inflation program of Wall St. is not inflation Sheerest rot and is only an effort to pull the wool over the eyes of those European capitalists who accept it at its face value. The tactic of the Hoover govern- ment of putting over its inflationary measures under the mask of an “anti-deflation” move was clearly ex- pressed by Senator Capper of Kan- sas who came out in favor of open inflation but explained that he would not speak of inflation because “there is a general warning in high up circles that the word must not be used.” In addition to Capper’s bill there is also before Congress a number of bills making for open and uncon- cealed currency inflation chief among which fs the Vandenberg plan. By means of these plans there would be a direct issue of the Fed- eral Resreve notes without any at- tempt to disguise them. The Re- construction Finance Corporation will bring about the same effect in a hidden way. It will create a huge source of credit which has no foun- dation but the frozen assets of bank- rupt and near bankrupt banks and business houses. In addition to this the rediscounting powers of the Fed- ed later to report that it could come / Perhaps not the 25 per cent} @ broad prespective and courage to | Already a meeting has been called | HR. L. L. U. Calls For Fight Against Scotts- (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and the Negro national Dolirgeciiie) capitalism is trying its best to divide the ranks of the unemployed from those of the employed, the ranks of |the white workers from those of the Negro workers. us, for example, in the American paper, the Pittsburgh Courier, of Dec. | 72, we read that the Communists do | not intend to defend the young| Scottsboro Negro workers. By this means they only again want to carry out the orders of the bourgeoisie and distract the attention of the working class from the bloody attempts of | bourgeois justice. Facts of their | treacherous activity in connection with the Scottsboro case say, that in | July, 1931, the “Nationa 1Association for the Advancement of Colored | Peoples” tried to openly sabotage the | defense of th eyoung workers. In spite of the repeated calls of the | “Defense Committee” (comprised of revolutionary workers) to join in the j united front for defending the Ne- | ero workers, the leaders of the Na~ tional Association refused to ond | to these calls, justifying itself with -| | the argument that the Defense Com- mittee is led by Communists, with whom they do not wish to have any- thing to do. However, as the cam- paign developed and as the Negro masses openly began to go over to the wide united front of the “De- fense Committee,” which mercilessly kept on exposing th eNegro traitors, the “National Association,” under this pressure, had to issue a pacifist- liberal manifesto. The Scottsboro case must draw the | attention of the whole of the Inter- | national proletariat. This trial will | be followed by the trial of the Har- {Jan (Kentucky) miners. Only by means of intensifying the frork of the revolutionary trade union move- ment in the United States of Amer- jica among the Negro and white | workers, with the full support of the international proletariat, w it be possible to free the young Negro workers. The lesson of the famous | Sacco and Vanzetti case is again be- ing repeated. Only the organized forces of the working class can and must save the Negroes from the elec- chair. The Red International of Labor Unions and the Negro Workers’ In- ternational Trade Union Committe, jointly with the International Red Aid (MOPR), are mobilizing the in- ternational proletariat for voicing its mass protest and for taking action to liberate the sentenced workers. Proletarians of all countries, come forward determinedly against the lynching of Negro toilers in America, against white terrorism in your coun~ tries! Demand the immediate liberation of the young Negro workers! Do not permit the repetition of the Sacco and Vanzetti case! | Demonstrate your solidarity with | the Negro and white workers in the | United States in the struggle against white terrorism, against the attacks of the bourgeoisie and its social-fas~ cist and national-reformist agents! | Check the hand of the hangmen! ‘The revolutionary trade union move~ ment must be the instigator of this | | struggle! | Soviet Union | Follows Policy of Peace (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | \ gression pacts with a series of Eu- Topean countries. The initiative taken by the Soviet Union in offering these pacts to the various countries is proof of its clear- |cut policy of peace in the face of the most despicable acts of provoca- |tion committed by the imperialist | countries. They are in line with the Soviet proposal made at the last dis- armament conference for complete disarmament in Europe and with the policy which the Soviet delegates will bring to the forthcoming Geneva disarmament conference. ‘The nature of the pacts was clearly explained in a statement by Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Commissar for For- eign Affairs, in a statement issued just before his departure for the Geneva Conference: “The contents of the pacts pro~ Posed by the Soviet Government are simple and aim at eliminating causes which may infringe peace- ful relations, If the contracting parties fear no peaceful obligations and pursue no indirect aims, they may be effective. The negotiations already conducted have been com-~ pleted quite speedily, as is exempli- fied by the treaty with Finland, which was accomplished in two weeks.” A similar statement was carried editorially in the columns of the Soviet paper Izvestia: “We don’t make a fetish of these pacts and similar international agreements, but we believe that no step that may lead to the main- tenance of peace in the present alarming world situation should be neglected by us.” “We are pronouncing in good faith the words ‘the dictatorship of the proletariat’ and we shall make them @ reality.” LENIN. eral Reserve Bank will be “liberal- ized” to allow many kind of commer- cial paper to be rediscounted which cannot be at present. Since the Federal Reserve can Is- sue notes to the value of 60 per cent of the vaper it accepts for redis- counting, any increase in the com- mercial paper which it does auto~ matically increases the amount of money it can issue and despite Pres- ident Hoover’s camouflage “sefs the printing process in motion.” /MORE CITIES REPORT PREPARA- boro Lynch Verdicts! TIQNS FOR FEB. 4 DEMONSTRATIONS NEW FUTURE FOR | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, “Tan 7. After repeated delegations to the Cit; | Council and « militant demonstration | last Monday night before the City Hall a permia was granted by Mayor | Moore of Youngstown fos a meeting |on Telegram Square for February 4th | —National Unemployment Insurance | Day. This is a victory for the Unem- | ployed Council as all meetings in the central section of the city have been prohibited since the riot on National Youth Day when several workers were shot by the police. Plans are going forward to fill Telegram Square on February 4th with thous- | ands of unemp) steel workers | and their families to demand imme- diate relief and unemployment insur- ance. Marches from several sections of the city will precede the main demonstration fort to keep the masses of worker: from demadi unemployment in- surance on February 4th, the William voted to act as a fascist band to break up the February 4tth demon- strations in Long Island. | ‘The Brooklyn Union Standard, re- porting this Legion meet, says: “Following a meeting of the 500 members of the post last night a letter was sent to the District At- torney as a result of the announced plans of Communists to hold dem~ onstrations in the principal villages of Long Island on Feb, 4, in favor of unemployment insurance by the national government.” ‘The Legion letter stated that these fascists were ready to break up any demonstration of workers called “in favor of unemployment insurance by the national government.” Way a JAMAICA, N. W., Jan. 2%—In spite of local and county police and dicks who must have made up fully one-third of the audience, the Nas- sau County Unemployment Confer- ence held last Sunday, January 24th in Hempstead was a great success. It was called to prepare for Febru- ary 4th. The show of force which accompanied threats in the Nassau press that this conference would not be allowed did not deter the delegates and many unofficial delegates from coming to the conference. There were 20 labor and fra- ternal organizations directly repre- sented and 24 individual and unoffi- cial delegates who came in answer to @ general mass call. For -instance- from Inwood there were eight Negroes representing 4 number of lodges end churches— the mass call was read in their or~- ganizations who instructed them to go and find out more about the un- employed movement which in In- wood has been heard of for the first time. ‘These delegates pledged to give their undying support to mo- bilize the workers of Inwood and és- pecially the Negroes for February 4, and the struggle for unemployment insurance. Many of the delegates were elected from groups of workers in streets and blocks. Fifty dollars was raised from {the floor and more pledged by: the organizations to make the February 4th demohstrations successful. Over 2,000 workers were directly represen- ted and perhaps indirectly the same ; amount. ‘The conference pledged to support LONG ISLAND, N. Y¥.—In an ef- | |Clinton Story Post of the American Legion at its last membership meet- ing attended by 500 Legionaires | Wine Daily Worker and the Kentucky strike for which two tions we! ‘ead and adopted- ganizations will attempt to ise immediate donations and e | affairs, Demonstrations were dicided up in the following p Hempstead 3 p. m. a Hicksville 3:30 p. m. at the Court House; Huntington 3 p. m. at | ‘Town Hall; Elmont, 3:30 p. m. at the Hempstead Turnpike; Inwood no definite time and place. Workers in other villages and town will be |upon to march and dem s February the Town Hall: | | fore their Town Halls and Welfare | organizat ons February 4th. Jamaica one of the large center of Long Island will have a large demonstra- tion before the court house at 11:30— from there masses will go to Union Square by truck and subway. All organizations at conference edged to elect Unemployment In- surance Committee and raise thous- jands of signatures for our Un | ployment Bill, It was also decided | | to distribute 20,000 leaflets tn the| towns for the demons wherever possible preliminary enstrations will be held. Very good ts are ex d for February 4th, which will give an added impetus to organization and struggle for Un- rations— dem- | employment Insurance and imme- diate relief. eee NEW CASTLE, Pa., Jan. 27.—Pos- | ing as a liberal and a friend of the unemployed, the Mayor of New) Castle, Pa. exposed himself last Saturday when he threw out a d gation of unemployed asking for a permit for a meeting on Feb. 4th— National Unemployment Isurace Day. He told the delegation that he would | care for the unemployed but the delegation called his attention to his own statement in the local paper that the city cannot take care of its un- employed and that the relief of the city was exhausted ‘The Mayor finally grew angry and told the delegation that the unem- ployed were “agents of Moscow” and that he would “drown every unem- ployed in the river who would join or support the Unemployed Coun- cils.” Preparations are being made for the February 4th demonstration here and next Sunday at a political sym~ posium the Communist speaker will call for mass support for Feb. 4th, expose the hunger conditions in New | Castle and call for support for the workers’ political party in the com-~ ing preisdential elections—for the Communist Party. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 27.— "We will shut off the water supply of those who haven't paid their water rent,” says the Water Bureau of Philadelphia. The Unemployed Councils of Philadelphia call upon all workers to mobilize on National Unemployment Insurance Day, Feb. 4th at the City Hall Plaza to protest | against death by starvation the new suffering imposed by the city, and to demand the enactment by Con- gress of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. ‘To raise money for this purpose the Unemployed Councils, together with the Trade Union Unity League have arranged a Cabaret and Dance to be held at Girard Manor Hall on Saturday evening, January 30th, 8 jp. m. Tickets of admission are 35 | cents to the unemployed and 10 cents to the unemployed. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) suecess to Kentucky fighters. We strongly protest against arrests of miners’ leaders. International Com- mittee {s organizing solidarity miners all countries.” ‘Sears * KNOXVILLE, Ky., Jan. 27.—De- claring that despite the “efforts of the coal operators and their gunmen” the Kentucky-Tennessee coal strike enters its fourth week fighting hun- ger and starvation, the strike relief conference here held several days ago has issued the following appeal to all workers throughout the country: ‘In spite of all the efforts of the coal operators and their government agents, thugs and gunmen we have reached the fourth week of the strike, determined to win our strug- gle against starvation. Now they have started to throw us out of our miserable company owned shacks. Over one hundred have received evic- tion notices which take effect this week. Charles Peters, the chairman of our strike relief committee, has been arrested and placed under $2,- 300 bond charged with criminal syn- dicalism while he was distributing relief. “From the very first day when the coal operators had nine of our strike relief workers arrested until today they have done everything in their power to stop relief from coming in because the operators realize that food is our ammunition! “Arrests, kidnapping and brutal torture of our leaders cannot stop our fight for the right to live—to earn a living wage—we develop new leaders from among ou~ ranks. Sheriff Blair’s threat to shoot our wives and children should we attend meetings | try. called by the National Miners’ Union which is leading us in our uncom- promising fight, has only increased our determination to spread the strike and build a powerful National Miners’ Union throughout the South. “Your help through the efforts of the Kentucky ~ Tennessee Striking Miners’ Relief Campaign of the Workers Internationel Relief, has Big Relief Conference Calls on All Work- ers to Support Ky.-Tenn. Miners Strike ‘made it possible for us to keep up our strike in spite of all the attacks of the coal operators. “But fellow workers, we have reached a stage after three weeks of striking and sacrifice where your contributions are just a drop in the bucket. We have at least 8,000 min- ers and their families—32,000 men, women and children, that have abso- lutely no means of keeping alive ex- cept through your contributions of solidarity. The rclief that is coming hardly feeds one-fifth of them and that not every day. “We are fighting against the evic- tions just as you are doing through mass demonstrations. We replace the furniture into the miserable shacks. But there will be hundreds this week that will be forced on to live in the bare hills in spite of our fight, unless you provide tents or funds to build barracks with. “The misery is so great that dozens of new born infants have begun to starve to death before they have learned to cry. Their starved moth- ers can’t feed them and there isn’t even enough condensed milk to go around. Women and children who could go on the picket lines are kept at home because they have no clothes or shoes. Rank and file organizers that are developing with a marvel- ous speed, trod ~s many as 30 miles a day from camp to camp in “pieces” shoes. Most of us present at this conference plodded through rain and mud for hours in order to get here. “We are fighting not only for our- selves but for all workers. Our vic- | tory against starvation will help to smash the wage cutting attacks and unemployment throughout the coun- “Weare not asking enough to live. Give us enough to keep breath in our bodies and we will fight on to victory for all of us. “Send tents, food and clothing to 145 Pine Street, Pinevills, Kentucky. Funds to Room 506 National Butld- ing, Market and Union Sts. Knox- the | {construction tasks, the further mas- ‘SOVIET FORGE WORKING MASSES | (CONTINUDD © ONE Df PAGE cor aborate the direc town « | ond Five Year Plan. | | | | | ences He v tous aspect of this t that the specific y and the entire y abolish al] remnants | y and build up on the the four- y created by victorious reyolu fully eliminating the last remains of exploitation of | man by man. “The Seventeenth Party ence considers that the tremendous | nfer- | natural rescurces of the country, | the Bolshevik ismpo of scelalist construction, the growing activity of the wide masses of workers and collective farmers and the correct lime of the Party will assure such develop: of the productive | forces of socialist economy of the | Plen on ti t Second re bas’s of which capita Im the Seviet | Union will be finally eliminated. | “The conference corsiders, the | basic political task of the Second Plan to be the final liquidation of capitalist elements and classes in | general, elimination of the reasons | for the cause of class differences, exploitation, the overcoming of the remains of capitalism in economy and the consciousness of the people in transforming the whole of the toiling population inte conscious active constructors of a classless socialist society. “Cn the masis of the liquidation of the parasite class elements and | the general growih of the national | income which is entirely at the dis- posal of the working class, the con- ference considers it necessary to raise the standards of living. By the end of the second Plan, the supply to the population of the basic consuming goods must in- crease not less than two to three times over at the end of the first elements | | s The provisions for the fulfillment | — of these general aims are grouped under three main heads: the con- tinuation of technical reconstruction of the country’s economy, the mastery of technique, methods for better sat~ isfying the masses’ growing.consump- tion demands, High Points of Plan The comprehen: program pre- sented the first head for further i dustrialization includes the following high points. The conference considers the de- | cisive basic task of the Second Plan is the achievement of the recon- struction of the people’s economy and the creation of a new techno- logical base. The leading role will be played by the Soviet machine industry whose production by the end of the plan will increase three or three and one half times that of 1932, a wide electrification pro- gram calling for a hundred billion kilowatts compared to seyneteer billion this year. The production of coal will jump from the present ninety million tons to two hundred and fifty; oil extraction will in- crease two and a half to three times, nad a similar tremendous expansion of the light and heavy metal industries, chemical, water transport, roads, aviation and radio, The food consumption industries | will expand to meet the increased triple demands. Agriculture and so- cialist reconstruction and the con- tinued tractor stations will embrace all the collectives achieving complete mechanization. The output of cotton and linen will be doubled, grain will be increased to a billion three hun- dred million hundred weights. Must Master Technique In completing the technological re- tery of technique will be essential. The credtion of ever larger cadres is proceeding rapidly, developing the working class intelligentsia. The rais- ing of the general cultural and po- litical level, as well as the technical, of the wide masses, is also the major objective of the Second Five-Year Plan. An extensive development in the trade turnover is widening the net of goods and food stores planned. In conclusion, the draft program states that the new successes will be achieved only by a continual struggle against capitalist elements and the overcoming of the bourgeois and petty | bourgeois prejudice amongst the toil- | ers, the carrying on of stubborn work and their re-education. ‘The complete collectivization of agricultural mechanization will create the conditions for the complete elim~- ination of the contrast between city and country. The quick growth of the economy of the national republics is doing away with their backward- ness which is a result of the Czarist colonial regime. ‘The Soviet Union's Second Plan Masses Face BULL 'U. SJapanese Clash Tense; Chinese Armed Intervention LETIN a Japanese troops vesterday bombed Chinese troops defending Harbin against pro-Japanese forces of the Harbin is the chief Mancharian city on the under Japanese control. Chinese Eastern Railway, Union. jointly Chinese newspapers in Peiping and the United States over Shanghai with the head- between Japan lines: “American-Japane: Loom The League of > s Council terday to discuss the new Japanese ment. A di: ion since the W The Wash and French imp is on the qu action in the Far East. Secretary of State Stimson yest of the secret correspondence exchan: perialist press opened an attack o} “independent” Kirin government operated by China and the Soviet reported the increasing tension held another secret conference yes- ultimatum to the Nanking govern- ch from Geneva reported League officials expressing the » celzure of Shanghal “would create the gravest orld War.” government is reported sounding ont the British uestion of joint naval and military erday gave to the U. S. Senate some ged with Japan. The American im- n the Japanese, for the first time protesting against their bombing of Chinchow and other unfortified towns in Manchuria. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED day, Jan. 28, ‘The Japan call for an apology by the Nank government for attacks on Japanes marines and national ct the infuriated Chines for the suppression of the anti-Jar anese boycott and of ali Chinese revo- lution: nizations Nanking Reary for New Betrayal The Nanking traitors are r to concede to the nds. and have already si troops to Shanghat in an attempt to crush the mess anti-imperialist, anti-Kuomin- ta movement. Foreign observers jin Shanghai openly admit that the Nanking government is only helping the Japanese who they see as de- termined “to take drastic action, re gardiess of the tenor of the reply of the Chinese authorities to their demands.” As usual the Kuomintang traitors are merely facilitating the plans of the imperialists for armed intervention against the Chinese Revolution and for the partition of China In the meantime, Japanese marines and troops have been are ng by ready to deal ov death and terror in their plans to attack the revolutionary move! t in order to further enslave the Chi- nese masses. ‘Thirteen additional Japanese warships are on their way to Shangh Another American gun- boat left Manilla ses night for Shanghai. The main U. 5. Asiatic | fleet is being held anise Manilla, three days seiling distance from Shanghai. The U. 8. mobiliza- tion of other warships and the army is proceeding rapidly under the pre- | text of a joint naval and army ma~ of the} ,All strong naval neuver in the Pacific imperialist powers have and military forces in China. gunboats ar= actively engaged hun- dreds of miles up the Yanktze Valley helping the Nanking troops against the smashing advances of the Chinese Red Army. Kuomintang Aids Partition of China That the policy of the Kuomintang | is accelerating the splitting up of China in line with the partition plans | of the imperialists is admitjed by George E. Sokolsky, in an article in yesterday's New York Times “China is cracking up, but the partitions art not yet clear. It would seem that the splits will show gov- ernments in Nanking, Mukden, Peiping, Tsinan and Canton, with smaller units in Yunnan, Szechuan and Chinese Turkestan.” The split between the Canton and Nanking cliques caused by the res- ignatoin from the Nanking govern- ment of Eugene Chen and Sun Fo has already set in motion the ma- chinery for a new “independent” gov- ernment in Canton. The resignations of these Canton leaders were followed yesterday with the resignations by Dr. Huang Han-liang, Minister of Finance and his Vice Minister. At present, the tottering Nanking government is headed by Chiang Kai- shek and the “eft” Canton leader, Wang Chiang-wai. This alliance is not expected to last, however. In the meantime, the itperialists have been forced to admit their con- cern over the ana _ of | feckniigues: ‘The work is changing the country from one of importing ma- chines and equipment into an inde- pendent one of producing all the necessary equipment which was be- gun in the first Plan. The Sec Plan assures the economic inden dence of the Soviet Union from cap~ italist countries. ‘The deep crisis of capitalism is the best proof of the approaching ruin of the capitalist world. Workers of Workers Loog to USSR The successes of socialism in the Soviet Union is the best evidences of the advantages of the socialist system over the capitalists. In the Soviet Union unemployment is FOREVER abolished. All this makes the Soviet Union the center of the world’s work- will take first place in Europe in ers and all oppressed peoples. Their | nd | | Communist influence in China, to- gether with the steady strengthening of the power of the Chinese Soviet |Republic. An imperialist dispatch rom Shanghat admits that the Nanking government and the Han- kow officials are powerless to effect release of the American captain, Charles Baker, who is held by the Chinese Soviets. Baker and his ship were seized by the Chinese Red Army | when caught transporting supplies to jthe Nanking garrison in Hankow. |The dispatch states that U. 8. Vice |Consul Edmund Clubb has been no- | tified “that the release of the kid- napped officer could be obtained jonly through the Hupeh Central So- |viet Government.” It further re~ ports: “The Hankow Government is ad- mitted powerless to assist in this case, and Captain Baker's position iz |regarded as dangerous. The steam- ship company is willing to pay a reasonable ransom, but the attitude of the Chinese Soviets has not been revealed.” Spanish Communists Fight Socialist- Capitalist Gov't. ED SHOM FAGE OFE? (CONT te transport the Civil Guard oF other troops against workers and Peasants on strike. For the immediate lberation of all working-class political prison- ers, For the immediate Nberation of soldiers and sailors persecuted br the bourgeois military justice. For the immediate dissolution of the Civil Guard. The immediate arrest and public trial of all the assassins of work- | ers and peasants. For the dissolution and expul< sion of all religious orders. Against the government of han- ger, misery and murder, For a revolutionary government of workers and peasants, | For the Soviets, For the Revolution: 7 ne tae | MADRID. — Fierce repressive measures against the sweeping series of strikes in Spain marked the third day of the general strike. In the face of the harshest terror, however, the workers of Alicante have come out making the four- teenth city reported thus far as | being completely tied up by a gen~ | eral walkout of workers. ‘The strike of 20,000 textile workere in Manresa has now spread to the entire city as all workers declared a sympathy strike with the textile workers. In Sollano, workers en~ gaged the Civil Guards in a stub- born armed battle when the city government attempted to put down the strike by force. Two Civil Guards | and a judge were killed in the fight- ling which followed an attack on the | strikers by the police. The workers stormed the city hall and burned all municipal records. In Seville, two workers were woun- | ded following a police attack on a jgroup of strikers. The shooting oc- curred on the same street on which the imperialist general Luis Trillo, | military commander of Andalusia, |had fired on workers lining the streets yesterday. The plans for at- tempting physically to exterminate |the striking workers were exposed, }by the statement of this jingo to the effect that the general strike re- minded him of the Morrocan cam- paign. At that time the Spanish imperialists had carried on a bloody war against the Morroccan masses. Not only is the Coalition govern- | ment with the support of the social- ists trying to break the strikes by armed attacks on the workers but also by confusing them and splitting | their ranks. Under pressure of the bourgeoisie, the syndicalists tssued! orders to the workers in their unions not to come out on strike. Roll up thousands of Daily Worker subs in the fight against wage cuts, ville, Tenn, (Southern District, Head~ quarters), T Contribute $ .. Name Street .. 50 EAST 13th STREET For $50,000 Fighting Fund! FILL OUT AND SEND WITH DONATION NOW My. Answer to the Bosses’ Hunger Program and Capitalist War!