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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1932 id JAPANESE VENT FURY ON SHANGHAI MASSES AFTER MANY DEFEATS (QONTINUED FROM PAGE ONB) fighting against the Japanese in the hastily dug trenches on the Shang- hai-Woosung front. The Chinese sol- diérs in Shanghai are troops who defied Chiang Kai-Shek and threat- ened to revolt against their officers | unless they were lead against the Japanese invaders. They were joined by other troops sent by Chiang to disarm them. The Chinese forts on ‘Wednesday sank a Japanese destroyer | and crippled two others. The Chinese troops have lJaunched a strong counter-offensive against the Japanese. A Shanghai dispatch re- ports that the Japanese are facing a major disaster: " “Chinese troops, flushed with re- peated victories, launched a fierce offensive over a twenty-mile front . sgninst the Japanese today and trapped two battalions of Japanese marines. “It was the first major attack by the Chinese in a week's bitter battling for contro! of Shanghai.” An unconfirmed report reached London yesterday that the Japanese naval commander who had been re- ~ called from Shanghai had committed suicide as a result of the defeats in- flicted by the Chinese forces. Japanese Vent Fury on Congested Native Districts ‘The Japanese vented their maniacal fury against the native sections of Shanghai, dealing death among the congested working-class populations by bombing planes and direct bom- bardment from their warships and field pieces. A Shanghai dispatch re- ports: “Japanese airplanes resumed the air attack over Chapei this after- noon, They used larger bombs than in earlier bombardments. Fires in- creased and spread rapidly.” As in earlier bombings of this working-class section, the Japanese used machine gun squads and snipers to shoot down the workers as they attempted to eccape from the burn~ ing section. Chapei, formerly populated by over 300,000 Chinese workers, still contains more than 100,000 destitute workers who are living in the cellars of ruined houses because they can find no other refuge. Other sections of Shanghai are congested with the mases who fled from Chapei after the first ‘bombing. Rake Crowds with Machine Gun Fire , A Shanghai dispatch reports that the Japanese admitted that theird airplanes loosed machine gun fire on crowds of Chinese watching the battle from. .roofs. They atteOmpted to »-@xeuse this murderous action by claiming that the Chinese had fired at the planes, Japanese civilians have shot down Chinese workers in the Hongkow area of the International0 Settlement, set- ting fire to their homes, A Shanghai Odispatch quotes the report of a num- ber of foreign eyewitnesses of the Japanese frightfulness. The dispatch | states, in part: . “Then, these foreigners reported incendiaries began putting the dis- trict to the torch, whereupon for- eigners used pistols to drive Japan- ese incendiaries and looters from ‘their homes, Herr Krenn tells many tragic tales of five nights of terror declaring the streets were strewn with dead bodies. “Herr Krenn asserts that when Chinese ran from their burning houses he saw Japanese shoot them down. While leaving the area he said he found a wounded Chinese woman lying in the gutter, where she had ben for two days, with a nursing infant in her arms.” Koumintang In Secret Conference With Japanese, The Japanese campaign of fright- fulness represents a deliberate at- tempt on the part of the imperial- ists to crush the resistance of the heroio Chinese masses against the imperialist war for the division and looting of China, Every worker, every working-class organization must rally to the defense of the Chinese masses, to the defense of the Chinese Kevolution and the Soviet Union, Workers! protest these hideous outrages against the Chinese masses! ‘Form United Front anti-war committees in your shops and factories, in your or- ganizations! Smash the attempts of the imperialists to solve the crisis at the expense of the blood of the toiling masses of the world! While this horrible carnage is be- ing carried on by the Japanese against the Chinese masses, the traitorous Kuomintang gang of im- perialist tools are holding secret con- ferences with Japanese military and naval officers aimed at further be- traying the struggles of the Chinese masses. Martial Law Declared In Hankow As Chinese Red Army Be- leaguers City. Kuomintang troops are threaten- ing the anti-imperialist masses in Hankow, in Swatow, Amoy, Canton and other Chinese cities. They have fired on Chinese workers and stu- dents who dared to demonstrate their anger against the bloody crimes of the Japanese and other imperial- ists, against the imperialist armed intervention against the Chinese Soviet Republic and the Chinese Red Army. In Hankow, where the workers are threatening an uprising to welcome the Chinese Red Army which is thundering at the gates of the city, the Kuomintang officials have de- clared martial law and are shooting down Chinese workers. The Japa- nese are strengthening the defense of their concession. in the -city. - Japa- nese, United States, British and French warships are being rushed up the Yangtze against the Chinese Red Army. In Nanking, the: Kuomintang trait- ors have made an agreement with the Japanese not to oppose their ad- vance into Central China, where the Chinese’ Red Army is in full control, except for a few garrisoned cities that are still holding out against its victorious advance. ° The Japanese have rejected the two main points of the proposals which were made jointly by the United States, Brit- _ain, France and Italy. One of these two points called for a stop to the movement of Japanese warships and troops to Shanghai. der to afford the other imperialists a barganiing point against Japan in the division of China. ‘The American and European im- perialists had already endorsed the Manchurian seizure on the under- standing that Japan would use Man- churia as a military base against the “Soviet Union and would act as the spear-head in the armed attack on workers’ Russia. The Japanese re- fused to re-open the question. On the basis of the fact that Japanese troops are now advancing towards the ‘Soviet frontier, the Japanese were no doubt able to point out that they were carrying out their part of the sinister agreement against the Soviet Union. Fear Japan May Bottle Up Fleets On Yanktze ' wear ‘Was expressed yesterday in League of Nations circles in Geneva that the Japanese might attempt to bottle up the warships of the United States, Britain, France and Italy now at Shanghai and further up the Yang- te River. These warships were rush- ed to China for use against the revo- lutionary Chinese masses, and espe- cially against the Chinese Red Army whose victories in Central China are reading alarm among the inperial- threatening their plans for ition of China. Another aim the dispatch of these tremen- naval forces ‘elas restrain the panese from taking more than their Toot, eee va dispatch He RE i resp He “The hope that the open door had been left open for further » talks was offset to some extent by the fear that the Japanese might have used the time gained to bring more forces to Shanghai and, above all, to put themselves in a position to try to bottle up the European fleet at Shanghai by occupying forts at the river’s mouth.” The fear was also expressed that the Japanese intend to capture Shanghai and hold it as bargaining _polnt over the heads of the other Sees Danger of Provocation Between Troops of Imperialists In addition to the danger of an The other sought to re-open the question of the Japanese seizure of Manchuria, in or- A report received yesterday by the Washington government points out this danger. The report, which the government refuses to publish, is from Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor, Commander of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet now at Shanghai. A Washington dis- patch reports: “Although the report of Admiral Taylor was not made public, it was manifest that he regarded condi- tions as serious and perhaps not made more grave noly because of self-control exercised by the foreign forces in the International Settle- ment. “It is understood Admiral Taylor pointed out that the Japanese were using the Settlement as a base of operation against the Chinese, who were exercising care to avoid press- ing the fighting into that neutral zone.” Tension Grows eBtween Imperialist Bandits Admitting that the Japanese had been permitted to use the so-called neutral nIternational Settlement at Shanghai as a base for operations against the Chinese, the United States has now prohibited further use of that area by the Japanese. The Jap- anese are reported to have withdrawn their troops from the Settlement. ‘The prohibition of the use to the Japanese of the International Settle- ment is only one of a sereis of events indicating strong differences between Japan and the other imperialist pow- ers. Following a day of constant tele- phonic communication with the Brit- ish government, the United States is- sued a statement assuring the Eu- ropean imperialists of ‘one hundred per cent naval and military coopera- tion” in Shanghai. The statement fol- lowed: the receipt of Admiral Taylor's report. Latest reports indicated that the Japanese have agreed to with- draw from the International Settle- ment as a base of operations and to leave the suppression of any resist~ ance by the Chinese masses to the U. 8. and other imperialists. A Shanghai dispatch intimates that the demand upon the Japanese to withdraw their forces from the Settlement was not altogether unwel- come to the Japanese who have been Levtad lashed by the Chinese forces | | | ism-Lerfinism; February Communist Off Press, Contains Important Articles ‘The new February issue of the Com- munist, carries the following import- ant articles: The International Signi- ficance of Bolshevism; The Problems of Cadres in the Party; Growing Revolt in Japan; A Year of Sharp Class Struggles in Canada; On the Theorethical Foundations of Marx- For a Bolshevist Study the History of the Communist of |Party of the Soviet Union; The Com- munist Party and Parliamentarism. The articles on the International significance of Bolshevism and the | Bolshevist Study of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, are very essential for an understanding of the recent letter of Comrade Stalin. The continuation of the article on Marxism-Leninism, is of special im- portance, as it is in English the first | popular presentation of Dialectics in the light of Marxism-Leninism. The article is by Adoratzky the head of the Marx-Engles-Lenin Institute in Moscow. ‘The price of the Communist is now 20 cents. “SOCIALISTS” IN ENGLAND HELP WAR IN FAR EAST, Labor Opposition Will! Not Hinder Movement Of British War Force While the British imperialists are rushing their armed forces against the Chinese masses and Preparing for the eventuality of an imperialist war over the divi- sion of the spoils in China, the Labor Opposition in the British Parliament yesterday agreed “not to do or say anything which would embarass the government,” ‘the Labor Opposition is headed by George Lansbury, socialist leader. This support of the imperialist Plots against the Chinese masses and the entire working class is a social-imperialist, fascist act of betrayal of the worst sort, The entire leadership of the Second (socialist) International is en- gaged in this shameless betrayal of the masses. MacDonald, the head of the national fascist Brit- ish government is a leader of the Socialist International, U, 8. Socialists Hide Crimes of Wall Street Imperialists, In the United States, the “‘social- ist” party while mainteining com- plete silence on the crimes of the Wall Street imperialists in China is appealing to these murderers of the Chinese masses to stop the conflict in China. This is a shameless at- tempt by these traitors to hide from the masses the active participation of the United States government in against the hCinese masses, for the Partition of China and in prepara- tion for the planned armed attack on workers’ Russia. In Japan, thé Japanese “socialist” party is openly supporting Japanese imperialism in its campaign of frightfulness against the Chinese peasant masses in Manchuria and Shanghai. At its recent Congress, the chairman of the Japanese “so- cialist” party, Abe, declared in his opening speech that “Japanese so- cialism was in favor of a gradual development of capitalism into State socialism,” that “with regard to the question of violence the, party is gradually approaching Gandhi's standpoint,” and that “we socialists are supporter of the monarchy.” The chief task of the “socialist” congress was support of Japanese imperialis mand the organization of the struggle again Communism, which is spreading with tremendous rapidity as a result of the severe economic and financial crisis and the brutal intervention in China, Ballam to Lecture In Akron on Feb. 11 AKRON, O.—John J. Ballam will lecture at the Workers Centre Hall February 11 under the auspices of the Workers International Relief. The Workers International Relief branch here is active in the Ken- tucky-Tennessee Miners Relief Cam- paign of the WIR. A strike of Ohio miners is also included in the cam- paign. A tag day for relief was held on January 30 and a food and clothing collection has been planned for Feb- Tuary 29. this sector hae been in grave dan- ger, lying between the Japanese and Chinese fighting forces.” Demands in Congress for Huge Fleet and Army The developing tension between the imperialists found its echo yesterday in Congress, where the Shanghai sit- uation was used to forward the plans of the Wall Street imperialists for huge navy and army appropriations while denying adequate relief to the unemployed and sentencing tens of thousands of jobless workers and their families to starvation. A Wash- ington dispatch’ to the New York ‘Times reports: “With the ‘dark shadow of crisis’ hanging over the Pacific, Congress should proceed at once to enact the Vinson Bill for building the navy up to the limits of the London treaty, Representative McFadden told the House today.” | tion, headed by Maxim Litvinoff, | scored its first victory in Geneva| Wednesday when it forced the Swiss | government admit Karl Radek, the brilliant Soviet editor, to the second | session of the so-called disarmament conference, | The delegation from the land of the workers and peasants summed up | the latest hypocritical “peace” gesture | of the imperialist powers in the Far | East as follows: “It won't do any good. Yester- day’s action of the powers is only one of a series of fruitless steps tak- en by the League in recent months, | cach of which steps resulted in @ | hop-skip and jump forward by the | Japanese.” | | In commenting on the imperialist’s | efforts to concentrate all attention | on the proposal of a neutral zone |around Shanghai in an effort to dis- tract the masses from the real dan- ger of the attack on Harbin, which is | |an open war move against the Soviet |Union, the spokesman for the Soviet delegation said: | “The real problem is in Manchu- | ria, not in Shanghai, which is an | isolated, although tragic episode. | The attention of the big powers is being distracted over the relatively insignificant Shanghai question at the expense of the vastly more im- portant seizure of Manchuria, which is the real object of Japan’s aggression.” In face of these facts, with actual war going on against the Chinese masses, with the imperialists rushing more troops to the scene of the) slaughter, with Harbin falling before the Japanese onslaught, socialist Henderson, representative of British March On City Gov BOSTON, Mass., Feb, 4.—The Boston police brutally attacked several hundred workers marching. from the demonstration to the un- employed headquarters on Wash> ington St. Five workers are known to have been arrested and amongst them was Keith, District Organizer of the ¥.C.L., who was brutally beaten up. Several workers had their faces cut open by the police. Three thousand demonstrated in cold, nasty weather on the Com- mon, where Daniels of the Unem- ployed Council, Harry Canter, Lor- retta, Starr, Alice Averett, a Negro woman and Keith spoke, exposing Governof Ely amidst the enthusi- asm of the workers, who cheered wildly, The meeting unanimously adopted the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, The demon- stration was preceded by a march from Blackstone Park with one hundred marchers with dozens of placards amidst cheers of the by- standars, eee oe CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 4—Five thousand workers took part in the demonstration today at Public Square in spite of a terrific snowstorm. ‘The march proceeded to city hall. There were no arrests. * ae | KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Feb. 4. — More than 300 workers demon- strated today at an open air meet- ing in the industrial district of Knoxville, and listened to the speech of George Hicks, a textile worker, and chairman of the local Unem- ployed Council Committee, besides three other local speakers and Joe Weber, National Miners Union or- ganizer. 'The meeting endorsed the program | of the Unemployed Committee unan- imously, The program is as follows: Cash payment on all city work; no check-off from pay for city relief fund; 40 cents an hour on all relief jobs; full week's work on all relief jobs; no evictions of unemployed workers; free light, water, gas and | coal to unemployed workers; cash re- | lef for every unemployed worker; no| discrimination against Negroes in distribution of relief or jobs; gov- ernment unemployment insurance at full wages without cost to the workers. Many copies of the Hunger March Pictorial were sold at the meeting. One hanger-on of the city admin- istration spoke and said, “We don't want these sobs from Bell County in Knoxville.” He then ran to the po- lice car filled with officials amid jeers from the crowd. The Knoxville News Sentinel, a Scripps-McRae sheet leading @ campaign of provocation against the Unemployed Council yesterday evening carried a story headed, “Violence Looms over city as new unemployed organization is formed.” The Uneinployed Council issued a statement branding such stories as “an attempt to inflame opinion against the Council and lay the basis for an attempt by the police to smash the developing movement of the un- employed of Knoxville. The News Sentinel has an editorial ployed and deploring the fact that the refusal of the city to make cash payments made possible “Communists gain follows among the unemployed as they have now done.” | said by Mr. Henderson Soviet Delegates at Geneva | Score War Moves on USSR’ NEW YORK.—The Soviet delega- imperialism and chairman of the con- | ference, wrinkles his brow and ad-| vises the world that the most impor- tant duty of the conference at the present time is to decide 1 far the draft of the convention oi 1930 will be followed. Nothing about disarmament, not a| word about withdrawing the British, | American, Japanese, French and | Italian troops from the battle fields | in the Far East. Not a word has been | in protest against the financing of the Polish and Roumanian armies by French imperialist war moves against the So- viet Union. All these military moves are con- veniently overlooked at the opening sessions by the representatives of the robber nations and their socialist lackey, Arthur Henderson, who charting the path of the conference. While the guns of war are barking | and the military forces of all capi- | talist nations are being mobilized ®gainst the Chinese masses, while military bases are being set up with the utmost rapidity in Manchuria in | preparation for an attack on the So- | viet Union, the farcical disarmament | conference, moves on exposing itself as the greatest imperialist fiasco of our times. Bidding for seats in the confer- ence, two of Adolph Hitler’s flunkies, have left Germany and are on their | way now to Geneva. Claiming to be representatives of the German people, the fascist delegation boldly declares that it is against disarmament. The brazen hypocrisy of the confer- ence was further exposed Wednesday, when Representative McFadden, of | Pennsylvania, spaking in Congress, demanded a mightier navy. "ts; Demand Relief The Executive Committee of the unemployed met last night, with twenty present and elected officers! and organized various committees to carry out the campaign, The question of the County and State Hunger Marches were taken up| and a committee assigned to work | out the details. This committee is affiliated with the National Com-| mittee of Unemployed Councils. | _| YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. 4—At @ preliminary demonstration on Feb- Tuary 2nd, in front of the Youngs- | town Sheet and Tube Co., 12 workers | were arrested. Three are being held | by the federal authorities, while nine | are out on 100 bail bond each. ‘ we NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 4.—De- spite refusal to grant a permit for a factory gate meeting, 150 workers of Winchester today demonstrated their solidarity with the unemployed and | for unemployment insurance at aj noon ‘gate meeting today. ‘Three hundred workers demon- strated on the Central Green of New Haven for unemployment insurance and immediate relief, and elected a committee to present their demands to Mayor Murphy.’ The mayor was out and his representative told the committee that the city cannot do anything more for the unemployed. eh. ge 58 Demand 2 Months Work at $10 a Week LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb. 4—Two thousand workers crowded the Com- mon bandstand in an enthusiastic meeting, despite the cold. Governor Ely will be eating for the jobles tonight at a banquet of the American Federation of Labor. Mayor White’ proposal for the tax exempt mill owners was scored. The | workers demanded two months work at $10 a week, and the release of Edith Berkman, Speakers were Pizer, Bramhall, Stone for the National Textile Work- ers Union and Nat Kaplan. NSscg gear JAMAICA, L. I, Feb. 4—Two tho | Sand workers participated in a mili. tant demonstration demanding the enactment of the Workers’ Unemploy- | ment Insurance Bill and for immedi- ate releif. Hundreds joined the dem- onstration at Union Square, New York City. One thousand demonstrated in Huntnigton, L. I. Here the police at- tempted to disrupt the meeting, but were unsuccessful. ele (wie 300 Stamford Workers Demonstrate. STAMFORD, Conn, Feb. 4.—Three hundred workers demonstrated at New Little Park, despite a heavy rain, for the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. A resolution was adopted endors- ing the bill. A delegation of six presented the demands of the work- ers to the city and town government. The Laborers and Moulders Union of the A.F. of L. of Stamford elected delegates to the State Unemploy- ment Conference to be held in Hart- ford on February 14th. This Con- ference was called by the Unem- ployed Council. Members of these unions were present at the demon- Fight thaweue And War! Spread The Daily Worker! | The Daily Worker is a power- ful weapon in the workers’ fight against the im- perialist slaughter of the Chinese workers and peasant sand espe- cially agair he movement of the imperialist against the Soviet Union, All mass demonstrations against the bosses’ hunger and murder campaign should be the occasion for spreading the Daily Worker to the masses of American worke District Daily Worker agents, unit agents, order extra bundles accompanied by cash immediately to make permanent the results of today’s unemployment insurance demonstrations, Intensify the drive for subscriptions. Build a solid mass base for the struggle against the bosses’ war to crush the Chinese Soviets. Build a solid mass base for the defense of the Soviet Union. Spread the Daily Worker through mass circulation and mass sub: ptions. UNEMPLOYED IN MILWAUKEE BACK JOBLESS FIGHT Council Wi Of Workers Who Come To Employment Ag’cy| (By a Worker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The Unem- ployed Branch No. 1 has been carry- ing on quite a bit of activity during the last week and a half at the City Employment Agency. Monday when the comrades went to the agency with February 4th leaflets, copies of the Daily Worker, ployment agent called the cops. The cops came in—two of them—and Picking out those they knew because | jof their activities among the work- ers, ordered them out with “get out or we will throw you out.” One comrade turned to the workers | | and shouted: “Do you want us thrown | Ployment and considerably improved | out’? And at the roaring of “no” of the workers the cops tuned a| little pale, and tried a new line of | Tegistered for jobs there, etc. ‘One worker, among ’the many who stay at the place registering for jobs that are never given out, told the cop: “I’ve been registered here-for two years, and haven't gotten a job yet.” the worker to come back in the after= noon, he would get a job. At this, every worker shouted with laughter, yelling at the cops “raspberries.” Not knowing what else to do, the cops | left the place—the comrades stayed | in. The comrades of the Unemployed Branch told the workers to follow as we were going to hold a meeting at the souplnie across the street— where the workers get a piece of old stale bread and pie for dinner. When we got there, not a worker was out- | side—(the manager evidently expect- | ed us again)—but so many workers | had come from the unemployment agency that a meeting was held. Speakers of the Unemployed Branch called upon the workers to build their committees in the unemployment agency, to fight for food and clothing, and shelter, from the city—coming out Feb, 4th in a body marching to Haymarket Sq. ‘The soup-line manager, after speak- ing to the six cops present, came over and told the workers: “Don’t listen to those fellows—come inside and get | | some soup,”—but not a worker left the meeting. ‘The unemployed workers of Mil- waukee will not be fooled by the fak— ers—Zisch, Haight, the socialists, ete. —but are rallying behind the demands | of the Unemployed Branch for imme- diate cash relief, for $5 week meal | ticket, $2 week room rent, for all | single and young unemployed work- | ers. These workers at the unemploy- | ed agency will set up their commit- tees, and force the city to give them, relief. Canton Jobless in Fight to Get the Use of City Gyms CANTON, Ohio (By Mail).—In the northeast section here the unem- ployed young workers, under the leadership of the Labor Sports Union of America, have started a free gym campaign around the Horace Mann School. This and other “public rec- reation centers” are denied to the unemployed because of the impos- sible high fees that are demanded in order to use them. As much as $2 an hour is asked. Mayor Curtis, in his election campaign, promised that when he was elected he would open free gyms. He has failed to keep that promise. ‘The local councilman, Mr. Priest, | and the City Council have been peti- stration. Speakers were Wossy and Forman for the youth. = 8 4,000 Come Out In New Castle. NEW CASTLE, Pa, Feb. 4— George Lewis of the Unemployed Council here was arrested immedi- ately after he tried to speak to 4,000 workers on the Public Square. In spite of the fact that a permit had been denied for a demonstration to- day for unemployment insurance and ‘The Communist Party has issued a relief, the workers assembled. Lewis’ arrest, the mayor speak, i but was booed down tioned to take the free gym question up at their next council meeting and to demand of the mayor that he carry out the promise he made. There will be a delegation of young workers at the council meeting to see that they do not ignore the peti- tion. Sunday, Feb. 7, a free gym con- ference will be held to make further plans to carry this campaign on to a success. ANY $1.50 OR $1 INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS BOOK WITH ONE 12-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO THE DAILY WORKER ins Support} ‘USSR Proves in Practice Superiority of Socialism Over Capitalist System Young Worker, etc., | | to speak to the 200 to 300 workers | | there packing the office, the unem- | The cop, to brazen it out, told | (TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE | CALLS FOR FIGHT ON RR. CUT American | (CONTINUED FROM FAGE ONE) , just as tamely at the end of twelve | —_ | tirely upon their own initiative and responsibility. They did not consult the mass of workers before they ac- cepted the cut now, if the matter is left in their hands. These misleaders, with their $5,000 to $20,000 a year sala could easily agree to cut the wages of the rank and file, their own aries Te- | maining intact. If the work- ers had been given an opportunity to express themselves, they would not only have voted down the wage cut proposition, but would strike against it. The maneuvering of the comp; and the railroad union leaders nor will they do so to put over this wage cut upon the work- ers was a striking illustration of the | latter’s role as the agent of the boss- |es. It was manifest from the outset | that the officials would either direct- |ly accept the wage cut that their masters insisted upon, or concede it to them by arbitration under the hs son-Parker Law. All their pro- stations and submission of “ocunter- proposals” amounted to just so.much talk, designed to create the impres- sion among the rank and file that they were fighting against the wage cut. They will accept another cut ‘The the company to “do to furnish more steady months as they did this one. “promise” of all they can” work are an insult to the railroad workers. It is necessary that a fight be or- ganized immediately against this shameful treachery. The wage cut must be voted down and struck against. Every misleader who had anything to do with this shameful betrayal should be driven out of union office. In every union minority groups should be organized. Under the lead- ership of the National Railroad In- dustrial League the betrayed railroad workers must rally to struggle against the companies and the reactionary union leaders. Workers, organize and fight against the wage cut. Demand that the wage cut be submitted to the workers for = referendum vote, and then vote it down. Demand that a strike vote be taken. Form committees and prepare to strike against the wage cut. Drive out of official position every official who voted to accept the cut. Demand unemployment insurance and the six- hour day without reduction in pay. Build the National Railroad Indus- trial League ; WM. Z. FOSTER, Gen. Sec, Trade Union Unity League | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) of the toilers in all capitalist coun- tries, have been abolished. ‘The fundamental scheme of the first 5 Year Plan consisted in ex~- We achieved during this period absolute predominance in the so- | cialized sector. “The plan for collectivization has been overfulfilled. The question of ‘who beat whom’ has been com- pletely solved in the entire country, | We have put heavy industry on a firm feoting, have abolished unem- | the material and living standards of the toilers, and transferred the ma~ jority of the workers to the seven | attack—asking if the comrades are| hour working day. Cultural Advance of Workers “We are building houses for workers, schols, clubs, theatres and | cinemas, and raising the cultural | level of the toilers of our country to the highest degree. “Our successes enable us to set out on the new tremendous of the second Five Year Plan. ‘In cast iron smelting, we will rank first with Europe at the end of the second Five Year Plan, In coal production, we will almost reach the level of England in 1929; in machine building, the second 5 Year Plan will promite us to second place in the world; in the production of automobiles, only the United States will excel us. In the production of chemicals and fertilizers, our coun- try will take first place in the world under the second 5 Year Plan. To Equal and Oustrip U. 5 tending the position of socialism. | “We will produce 100 milliards kilowatt electric power in 1937, that is, we will approach the level of the United States. However, in utilizing the power eletcric stetions, we wilt leave the United States far behind. “The second 5.Year Plan must completely strengthen our inde- pendence technically and economi- cally. Does this mean we will have No economic relations abroad? By no means. These relations will exist. but they will be realized om the basis of our economic mdependence from the capitalist world, on the basis of our growing econotiic tech- nical power. “Production of articles and their general consumption will grow two to three times, housing accommeda- tion and cultural catering will be considerably improved. A number of comrades, including | Grinko, Commissar of Finance, Kos- jsior, Stetzky, Streltsov, Unsehlicht, | Weinbergskripin, Milutin and others | participated in the debates. Discussion Is Scientific and Thore | The delegates in their speeches con- |centrated chiefly on the most vital theoretical and practical programs, | the building up of a classless socialist | Society, the abolition of classes and | the causes which breed class distine- tions, on the problems set out in all their acuteness in the thesis of the | Central Committee on the second 5 Year Plan. Almost all the speaker’ put on the |highly principled Bolshevist basis | most of the complex problems in the | struggle for the further success of | socialism in the U.S. S, R. {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) getary deficit of two billion dollars will rapidly depreciate. In the ef- fort to avoid this, Wall Street has |the banks. Whether this money will | be returned or not, and in the face ures it is impossible that it will, the financial crisis with which Wall Street is faced will continue to | deepen. Hoover’s appeal is especially signi- ficant in connection with the war in China. The feverish preparations for a war against the Soviet Union makes it necessary from a military point of view that the American treasury be | in as strong @ position as possible. The announcement of Hoover is as (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) for March Ist. Discussion on Women’s Work and Youth Work brought out the im- {portance of building Women’s Aux- iliaries of the union, and establishing youth sections to mobilize the young |miners. The union is also becoming |more active in the organization of | Unemployed Committees among the jobless miners. Resolutions were adopted in sup- port of the Kentucky, strike relief campaign, in defense of Mooney, the Scotsboro boys, the Kentucky miners and other class war prisoners. A spe- cial resolution was adopted appealing to the miners to rush funds to save the Daily Worker. ‘The minors on the iron and cop- per ranges need the Daily Worker, fighting organ of the working- class,” ths resolution states. “Help save our Daily, to carry on the fight against hunger.” Support was also pledged to the and Labor Unity.” resorted to an emergency appeal for | | the construction of hoarded money to | of the mounting wave of bank fail- ) “Mine Werker™ fee van te br HOOVER ISSUES DESPERATE “ APPEAL FOR AID TO WALL ST. jeueh dictated by the preparations which are being made for war as by the remedies which a bankrupt cap- | italist class is adopting to “cure” the | crisis. These preparations include a shift- ing around of government officials | with a view toward strengthening the |corp of the fascist dictatorship that will be set up immediately on the outbreak of war. An attempt to cover up the direct relations with Wall St. is made by removing former Secrea- | try of Treasury Mellon and replacing him by Under Secretary of Treasury Mills. Mills is Hoover's choice for | strong arm man in the Treasury De- |partment just as Dawes, outspoken | jingoist and fascist, is his choice for president of the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation. Mellon has beer | given post of Ambassador to Great | Britain. SUCCESSFUL DISTRICT N.M.U. MEET OF NORTHWEST IS HELD A delegation was elcted to the National Miners Union National Con- vention taking place in Pittsburgh beginning Feb. 27th. A district com- | mittee of 18 was elected, with a res- \ident board of 7, including a Womens | Organizer and Youth Organizer, John Mackay was recletced District Sec- | tary-Organizer of the union. | Folowing the convention, the district. committee of the union went into session and worked out plans for putting the convention decisions into action, and decided to organize section conferences te March, following the national con- vention. Plans were also made to prepare for the calling of a strike | against the coming wage-cut in Ely, | The delegation to the National | Convention needs funds. All workers organizations are urged to help the | NMU raise funds and rush°same te the District office of the union at Ironwood, otherwise the delegates wil! ‘Bot be able to go to an

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