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Worelgn: one year, $%; six montha, $4.50, THE GROWTH OF THE SOVIET ‘POWER IN CHINA By CYRIL B RIGGS the Wuchang: Tne Red A ik over 80,000. in the China 1 organized and nal manufacturing the largest and force in Hupeh, and no Nanking cent times have dared to attack | The civil Soviet ration is firmly 1. establi: | Red troops, the districts of northern Anhwei in 200 districts cutting. acress the lines of the three provnces, Red suppression” campaign is making little headway, both by reason of the strength of the Red Army and the fact that the Nan- cers cannot trust their suppressing ng troops e Soviet districts, turned their the Kuomintang and imperialists a joined the Red Army. The Kuomintang then sent another group of the 69th Division t the Red Army, but these also joined the A part of the 13th Division followed le. Red Army group of Kwang Chi- sun eseiging Hwangpei, then held by the Nanking 30th Division, two brigades of the 30th Division went over to the Red Army. One of the brigades of the 13th Division also joined the Red while Sun Lien-chung’s 26th Division of 00 men went over wholesale to the Red A In addition, there have been a growing number of revolts among the Nanking And the unrest is growing. On April a Peiping dispatch admitted: Unrest in army ranks is spreading rapidly, and a complete breakdown of some of the best known army corps in China is expected.” Less and less can the Kuomintang rely on its ma: upport, its armed troops, In addition to the Red Army operations around kow, there is a Red Army drive to the eastward from the Anhwei border. A Red y group of 10,000 is now in the vicinity of an, and threatening Kuomintang communica- tions on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. This group is reported using Chiang Chia-stai as a base of operations, The “suppression” troops of Gen. Sung Shih-ké is planning to evacuate Hochu, leaving only two regiments to oppose the ad- vancing Red troops, Evidently Gen. Sung Shih- ko has no faith in his ability to hold: his troops against a Red Army advance, The Shanghal press fears that with the fall of Hochu to the troops. would be affected, with the masses rising fn re- volt aganist the Nanking butcher government, The Uprising i in Salvador and Our Immediate Tasks By 0. RODRIGUEZ. of the workers and peas- r, under the leadership of the ,in the January uprising con- in the development of the upsurge in the Caribbean coun- and in the whole of Latin America. uprising was a mass movement of toiling and agricultural workers against the insufferable conditions of the deepening crisis d of the native landlords and capitalists in ance with foreign imperialism. It demon- strated a tremendous accumulation of réyolu- tionary energy, readiness to struggle and self- fice on the part of wide masses of workers and toiling peasants under the banners of the Communi. Party, the rapid growth of the revo- rge among the masses which, in y grees, the present characteristic of all the Caribbean countr ‘The poorly armed —pl narmed—masses held their ground for over a week against the combined forces of the government, the armer fascist bands of the outh of the native and foreign ex- nd the warships and marines of Yankee imperialism. Despite these tremen- uy dous odds, the masses have seized and held such cities as La Libertad, Sonsonate, Ahuchapan and many smaller towns in the important coffee region of the country, spreading throughout the entire Pacific coast and seriously threatening the capital of Salvador. The uprising showed the deep sympathies for the revolutionary strug- gles of the masses among the rank and file of the army which, on yarious occasions, had re- fused to fire upon the insurgents. ‘The workers and peasants of Salvador, led by the Communist Party, have written an undying and glorious chapter in the history of the world revolutionary movement. With their lives and blood they have proven to the struggling masses everywhere that on the next and higher stage of struggle, with a stronger Communist Party and more powerful revolutionary unions and Peasant. Leagues that will be created in the course of the daily fight for the immediate demands of the work id pe: ts, the victory must and will belong to the masses. Supported by the Yankee, British and Can- | adian v hips and marines, the ernment of Maximiliano Martinez has crushsed the Janu- ary uprising of the workers and peasants, killing and wounding between 500 and 2,000 people. The government, i nalliance with the imperial- | ists, has unchained the wildest white terror, | carrying through daily mass executions of all “suspected” of participation or even sympathy | with the uprising. With special bestiality the white terror is raging against the Communist | Party, the revolutionary unions and Peasant | Leagues. This mad white terror is rapidly | spreading to the other Caribbean countries, especially Guatemala and Honduras, in a des- perate effort to check the grawth of the revolu- iionary upsurge and as a measnre of war prep- wrations under the hegemony of foreign Yankee) imperialism. It is the task of the Communist Parties in the Caribbean coun- teies to mobilize the widest masses of employed end unemployed workers, toiling peasants, and all sincere anti-imperialist elements, for a de- termined struggle against the white terror, espe- cially in Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, against the general offensive of imperialism and its native supporters (wage-cuts, unemployment, etc.), against the imperialist robber war on China and for the defense of the Chinese revolu- tion and the Soviet Union. The lack of sufficient information prevents us ft this time from making a complete evaluation bf the struggles and lessons of te January up- tising in Salvador. The Manifesto of the Com- fe Party of Salvador, published in the Bul- tin of the O. P. of Honduras, Jan. 1, 132, be- the outbreak of the struggles, suffers trom number of basic defects. These defects are, our opinion, as follows: , 1. The Manifesto does not formulate the par- economic and sonie basic political dernands of the masses. 2. The Manifesto does not cail upon the masses pr any concrete action (strikes, mass meetings, | | through strikes, demonstrations, hunger marches, | in the present period—which hesitates to place | the leadership of the Communist Party, will | stion which was hurriedly set up e few weeks | ago by the Wall Street government to save | the Southern Pacific, the Southern, the St, Louis demonstrations, etc.), 3. The Manifesto doe snot propose to the masses any definite and concrete forms of or- ganization for the carrying on of the struggle. On this point, as well as on the question of methods of struggle, the Manifesto contains neither slogans of action Seared ot Action, Revolutionary Peasant Cominittees, Joint Work- er-Peasant Committees of Action) hor propa- ganda slogans (Soviets). The gasic task of or- ganizing Workers’ and Peasants’ Defense Corps is also absent from the Manifesto. 4... The basic: demands of the. agrarian. anti- imperialist revolution are not stated with suffi- cient. clearness, especially the anti-imperialist demands (confiscation of all imperialist enter- prises, cancellation of foreign debts, withdrawal of all armed and other forces of foreign im- perialism, etc.). ‘These basic defects of the Manifesto clearly show a non-Leninist approach to the task of un- folding the counter-offensive of the Salvadorean workers and peasants against the offensive of the exploiters. The actual course of the Janu- ary events, the fact that the fight began with the highest form of revolutionary mass struggle (uprising) without the previous development and organization of the daily struggles of the masses nst the Red Army. Tens of | have deserted to | nking 69th and 13th divisions, | ‘TH. NEUBAUER (Berlin), The world crisis of capitalism has again over- thrown one of the.strongest citadels of interna- tional finance capital, Ivar Kreuger’s world trust. The suicide of the trust king on March 12th in Paris only waled a fate which could no longer be averted. The Kreuger trust was of the type of those gigantic financial capitalist undertakings which are characteristic of the imperialist phase of capitalism. It arose out of s hundred various, Judicially independent but interconnected com- panies, which drew their profits from all capital - phones—that was the productional basis of the Kreuger trust upon which he erected the vast network of his financial businesses: monopoly, loans, banks. The capital in the hands of Ivar Kreuger amounted in all to more than 4,000 thillions, ~The iKreuger trust is relatively still very young; it was founded in 1917. What distin- tivity in. all spheres, an extraordinary aggres- siveness towards all its competitors, and an in- satiable lust for expansion—qualities which pro- moted its development by leaps and bounds. ‘The foundation capital of the Kreuger match trust, the “Svenska Tandstick A.B.” was 45 amounts to 360 million crowns. In the year match factories in 35 different countries and employed more than 150,000 workers; in the year 1930 it had over 250 factories in 43 dif- ferent countries. In the year 1930 the trust etc., demonstrates the same basic weaknesses as | those contained in the Manifesto, These weak- nesses are the result of the opportunist tenden- cies in our midst that have a “left” sectarian, | ® putchist approach to the tasks of the Com- munist Party. One of the chief lessons of the Salvadorean uprising !s the great danger of putchist and “left” sectarian tendencies against which we must wage the most energetic struggle at the same time carrying on a merciless Tight against the Right opportunism—the main danger the Party at the head of the masses in their struggles against the . Jandlord-| -bourgeois- im- pertalist offensive, ‘The workers and peasants of Salvador, under continue with redoubled energy the fight against the offensive of the exploiters, learning from the defeat how best to prepare the fight for the coming victory. Our comrades must bend all their @fforts to maintain the closest possible con- tact with the masses and to prosecute with the greatest energy the task of organizing and lead- ing the datly struggles of the workers and peas- ants for the improvement of their conditions. acquired a match monopoly in five countries, in return for which it granted loans amounting to 176 million dollars and itself took up loans to the amount of 200 million crowns, ‘The initial basis of the Kreuger trust was Yelatively very small! the match production of & small country which plays no role in the con- cert of the big imperialist powers, and which ean place no navy nor army at the disposal of its financial and industrial magnates in sup- port of their plans of conquest. What Sweden could not give Kreuger found through his close connections with the finance capital of the lead- ing imperialist countries, especially the U.S.A., England and France. He built his trust on the broadest international basis and created for him- self not only firm positions on the stock ex- changes of New York, London and Paris, but also firm connections with the governments of these countries. One can therefore not speak of a “Swedishtrust” in the same sense as one speaks of a U.S.A. trust or of an English of Ger- man trust. Kreuger’s world trust 1s. interna- tional in. a special sense; the main supports of his power le outside Sweden. The collapse of the gigantic Kreuger trust is & symbol of the tremendous collapse of the cap- italist system. For nearly two years past the ist countries. Matches, ore, wood pulp, tele- | phones—that was the producniaol,.gdinetainoaiy | guished it from others was an enormous ac- | million Swedish crowns. Its present day capital | 1928, according to the annual report, it had 150 | Collapse ofthe Kreuger World Trust curities of the international money market. In the year 1930 the chief company “Aktie-Bola- get Kreuger och Toll,” paid a 30 per cent div- idend, and even in the year 1931 the dividend amounted to 20 per cent. It is true, at that time rumors were already current that the real situation of the trust in no-way justified the high dividend and that Kreuger paid out 20 per cent only because he wished by every means to maintain the reputation of his trust. The first rumors that the Kreuger trust was in serious difficulties came in the Summer of 1931, Ivar Kreuger made an indignant denial of these rumors, but he was unable to dsipel the feeling of mistrust. The Kreuger shares lost 50 per cent and more of their value (at times 68 per cent) on the international Ex- changes. Kreuger was compelled to sell the | “GL. M. Ericsen Telephone A. B.,” whose capital am’ ‘nted to 100 million crowns, He endeavored once again, however, to conceal’ the real posi- tion of his trust when, in January, he announced the acquirement of the North Swedish Boliden Gold Mine which, it was alleged, would bring him in 667,000 dollars worth of gold per month. But this transaction instead of having a re- assuring effect, only called forth fiercer criticism of his expansioned policy, and after a brief rise the value of Kreuger’s shares sank more per- ceptibly. The collapse of the gigantic trust could no longer be prevented; and in order not to experience this Ivar Kreuger fired a bullet into his heart, oe e¢ e Immediately after the end of the World War, Ivar Kreuger set out to conquer the world mar- ket for matches, His first attack was directed against the Japanese, who were ousted from | the Indian market and attacked in their own country, The second conquest was the U.S.A. market. Here, however, Kreuger encountered the capital power of the stronger Rockefeller group; he had to come to an agreement with it, and in 1923 founded together with Percy Rockefeller the “International Match Corpora~ tion,” with a foundation capital of 28 million dollars, and 47,250 million dollars of shares without voting rights. The third stage of the Kreuger expansion was the subjugation of the Japanese match industry in 1924, after the col- lapse of the “Suzuki” concern, and at the same time the penetration of the “Swendska” into the Chinese market. In 1927 Kreuger pene- trated England and founded the British Match Corporation, with a share capital of 6 million pounds, swallowed up the English rival firm of Bryaftt and May and secured for himself the market of the British colonies. About this time Kreuger captured’ the Belgian match industry and acquired the majority of the German match factories, He secured the German market by the conclusion of the match monopoly, which the finance minister, Hilferding, granted hmi in return for a loan of 500 millions. Finally, about 75 to 80 per cent of the world Kreuger shares were among the gilt-edged se- | production of matches was in the hands of the The Bankers Help Themselves By Labor Research Association Workers should know something about the workings of the Reconstruction Finance Corpor- banks and corporations from the further as- saults of the growing crisis. It was established to provide two billion dollars worth of govern- ment money and credit chiefly to bankers and large corporations, Let us examine briefly the work of this “Re- election Romance Corporation” as some one has called this Hoover-Wall Street measure for pumping confidence into the shaking capitalist structure. Note the operations in only one field —that of railroads, To date nearly 50 railroads have asked for help from the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion, the amounts requested already aggregate about 360,000,000. And already the Board, headed by Charles Dawes has approved advances to 15 of the roads, some of the beneficiaries be- ing four of the Van Sweringen roads; including the Erie and the Nickel Plate, in addition to and San Francisco, Central of Georgia, Western Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Minneapolis, St. Paul Bl SOE S Maries Clon ang Martbwealany i New York Central and Baltimore and Ohio. Some of the purposes given by the roads for which they need these millions are—to pay oper- ating expenses, to pay interest to bankers and bondholders, to pay fixed charges (another name for interest to bondholders), to pay off gold notes (more for the bankers). In other words, the railroads are asking their government to give them money with which to pay off the bankers! Here are concrete examples of the way it works, ‘The New York Central, Morgan railroad, asks for money to pay off notes to J. P. Morgan and Co, and other banking houses, In the case of the Missouri Pacifi¢,’ Involving a loan of, $12,800,000, the deal was so raw that the Inter-State Commerce Commission only with “reluctance” approved the grant to this road, stating’ that it was against the use of govern- ment funds to “bail out” the banks, But it handed out the money just the same and part of the loan is used to pay off a bank loan to J. P. Morgan and Co, It {s natural that Banker Charles G. Dawes should be head of the bankers’ aid corporation. He has ample experience in robbing small de- positors, It was he who by violating even the capitalist-made banking laws of Illinois fleeced ha Fe a ti. Sama ach for 3282 i. itll "ai as i an scandal in that state. Dawes later put over the J. P. Morgan and Co, “Dawes Plan” in an ef- fort to save Morgan loans at the expense of the German masses. To date the Finance Reconstruction Corpora- tion has made 587 loans to banks and trust companies, 18 to building and loan associations, 13 to insurance companies, 13 to railroads, 2 to . joint stock and land banks, 3 to mortgage loan companies, and one to a live stock credit, asso- ciation. These are the institutions that capitalism is trying to save in the crisis. Meanwhile the same Congress, controlled by the same banks and rail- roads, refuses to vote a nickel of relief to the millions of unemployed workers,’ To help swell profits of American capital- ists a bill has been passed in the Senate and House directing the Secretary of War to pur- chase or contract for articles of AMERICAN growth, production or manufacture ONLY, even though such goods cost more, provided the excess in cost is not “unreasonable.” Sim- ilar language appears in the Army appropria- ai ll cll nn eerie eres Serttnalenessaatipsieecaahilntapt By BURCK Nek Getting, wise to Us/ re Kreuger concern, ° ° ’ ‘The Kreuger trust acquired special import- ance on account of the State match monopolies which it acquired in return for loans, They best characterize the parasitic character of the trust and reveal in the most striking manner the close connection between the economic and political interests of imperialist finance-capital. The following is a survey to date of the Kreu- ger match monopolies and State loans: 1925 Poland: 6 million dollars; 1930 renewed, 32.4 million dollars (monopoly for production, wholesale trade and export). 1926 Greece: 1 million Pound Sterling (mon- opoly for production and import). Peru, one year’s agreement, 200,000 pounds Sterling (mon- poly of production and trade). 1929 France: 75 million dollars (import of about one-third of consumption, supply with machines and raw materials). Ecuador: .3 mil- lion dollars (monopoly of production and trade). Bolivia: 2 million dollars (monopoly of produc- tion and trade). 1928 Esthonia: |7 million crowns (monopoly of production, sale and export). Hungary: 36 million dollars (monopoly of production and wholesale trade). Yugoslavia: 22 million dol- lars (monopoly of production and whole trade). 1929 Rumania: 30 million dollars (monopoly of production and wholesale trade). 1930 Germany: 125 million dollars (Swedish- German monopoly company), Lithuania: 6 million dollars (monopoly of production, whole- sale trade and export). Danzig: 1 million dol- lars (monopoly of production and wholesale trade), Turkey: 10 million dollars (monopoly of ‘production and wholesale trade). Ivar Kreuger had affiliated to his trust a number of banks. His oldest family bank is the “Scandinaviska Kredit A.B.” which he con- trolled with a nominal 9.9 million crowns share | capital, In addition he owned the “Stockholms | Inteckning Garanti A.B.” the majority of the | shares of the Holl. Koopmansbank in Amster- dam (share capital 6 million florins), the ma- jority of the Banque de Suede et de Paris (share capital 100 million francs) and participated in numerous other banks, including the German Zentral-Bodenkredit (alleged capital 12 million crowns) a Warsaw and a second Amsterdam Bank. For the purpose of carrying out his great financial operations Kreuger founded in 1925 the “Swedish American Investment Cor- poration” (300,000 founders shares without nom- inal value, of which the Kreuger och Toll pos- sesses 270,000), and the “N. V. Financielle Maatschappij Kreuger och Toll” (share capital 10 million florins, of which 9,970 are in the pos- session of Kreuger). Consequently his financial operations were more and more confined to these two companies, i.e. to the Dutch and the American money market. | ‘The rapid development of the trust, fever: was possible thanks only to the circumstance | that Kreuger, in addition to his own bank in- | stitutes and financial companies, had the great- est support of international finance capital: he was in closé co-operation with the Deutsche | Diskonto Bank, with Lee Higginson & . Co. (Rockefeller), Credit Lyonnais Paris;'in parti- cular he had very close connections with the American Rockefeller group; but he also estab- Ushed good relations with the Morgan trust, s e e ‘The causes of the collapse of the Kreuger ‘Trust are at present still veiled in secrecy. It it generally known that both the ore and the wood pulp companies were seriously suffering from the lack of capital. But it may well be as- sumed that gigantic losses have occurred due to the disastrous decline of production, 4t is highly probable, however, that the losses on the loans and other financial business will decide the situation of the Kreuger trust. It is known that all the other South American States are insolvent, and even if Kreuger in his denial the interest on thé loans had been paid, never~ theless one must be somewhat skeptical towards this statement. It is also hardly likely that Hungary, Rumania, Greece and Yogoslavia, all of which states are in great financial difficul- ties, have paid the interest on the Kreuger loans. At the present time it is by no means possible to survey the results of thec ollapse of the Kreuger trust. One thing is certain; Swedish capitalism is very seriously shaken, The Swedish government ‘has therefore decided to grant a moratorium on the debts of the Kreuger con- cerns. But it is probable that a number of other countries, especially the U.S.A., will feel the effects of this gigantic collapse. ‘The of capitalism has caised the over- throw of & powerful world trust. A Mene-tekel saiaiiesiimeaidesata aioe MA gM, natant ace By JORGS oo ege ar Significant Hokum " You know about those “million jobs” that the American Legion started out to deliver in four weeks time. Well, when that time was up, they, had stirred up something less than 300,000 so= eoled “jobs,” about 290,000 being an hour's work,| fixing a garage door or such. The failure of it was so apparent that the Legion wouldn’t admit it, so—crying “success” at every day’s “report,” it is announced that the “drive” will continue “indefinitely.” Naturally, if they keep going long enough, no doubt that they can “succeed” in getting not only @ million but even five million such “jobs.” But after it’s all over, there will be 12,000,000 or more uneme= ployed just the same. ‘The Legion didn’t even pretend to deliver jobs for all the other millions besides the one million, and the whole thing is so fraudulent that some might wonder what the big idea was.in the first place. ‘The big idea is to get the workers to thinking— not necessarily with any basis—that the Legion is “doing something.” And it is. By this swindle, what the Legion does is to sidetrack the .mass fight for unemployment insurance and get every worker possible to fool tricked into chasing the Legion around looking for an hour’s work dump~ ing ash cans or cleaning out cellars, etc. But there is another angle even more signifi- cant, Mattie Woll, misleader of the American Federation of Labor, wrote a letter to all Central Labor Councils urging them to “form contact with the American Legion commanders . . « not a minute is to be lost . . . to get team assignments and do your full part . . . to win the war against depression by putting men at work.” What a.mockery! What an insulut to the rank and file members of the A. F. of L.! And to the whole working class! But Woll figured that although the getting of jobs would be # flop, it was a scheme to get the A. F. of L. and the fascist Legion leaders together, with the latter in command, a line up that would be useful to the capitalists against the workers later on. Incidentally, someone sent us a copy of the Los Angeles “Citizen” which shows that Paul Scharrenberg, one of the chief A. F.. of L. leaders responsible for the betrayal and imprisonment of Tom Mooney, is very active in linking up the Legion and the A. F. of L, Workers should know that anyone who betrayed Mooney will betray them, too. 2 Unity? Yes—For Struggle From Comrade Morton G., out west, we get a letter all to the good except for one point. He asks us to “eliminate the squabble between the that “the gap between industrial unionism and I. W. W. and the Daily Worker,” on the grounds Communism” isn’t so much, We would formulate that last remark differ< ently. Industrial unionism and Communism are not “opposed” at all, but quite harmonious. Yet when it comes to the so-called “industrial union- ists” of the I. W. W., that’s where the rub comes in, All Communists are industrial unionists, and indeed the Communist movement the world over and right here in the United States has made something of a better job of organizing indus- trial unions than the I. W. W. has done. And why is that? Because the I. W. W. lead- ership insists on adding something to (or more exactly, taking something away from) that in- dustrial unionism, behind which they hide & various lot of fatally erroneous theories and practices which defeat the struggles of the work- ers not only in the revolutionary aim supposed held by the I. W. W., but even the job of building industrial unions. All Communist workers stand ready to. unite with workers who are members of the I. W. W. in the job of building industrial unions. But for what are such unions to be built? Just to lopk at and admire, or to struggle against cap~ italism? ‘The I, W. W., by insisting on its anarchist-syn-" dicalist errors: that there is “no need” for # political party of the working class, “no need” to overthrow capitalist class government, “no need” to establish a working class government, “no need” for the dictatorship of the proletariat, and in one breath both to affirm that the indus- trial union alone is “sufficient” to put an end to capitalism ‘and to state in contradiction that the of August, 1931, categorically declared that all a at a i industrial union must be “neutral” in the strug- gle for government power between the working class and the capitalist class—actually places itself on the side of the capitalists against the workers. And the workers of this country have, logically, given their answer to the anarcho-syndicalists of the I. W. W. by leaving it, to such a point that there is nothing particular left of it to unite with. Incidentally, the members of the I. W. W. once voted on referendum to join the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions, but the anarcho- syndicalist leaders rendered a false report of the votes, just like the good old-fashioned A. F. of L. officialdom, and thus they, not the Commu< nists, are responsible for any honestly revolu~ tionary rank and file I. W. W. members remain- ing outside the revolutionary trade union move- ment. But such workers are always welcome to the ranks of either the Red industrial unions of the ‘Trade Union Unity League, or, if they have laid aside their mistaken anarcho-syndicalist ideas, to the Communist Party, without prejudice or recrimination. Indeed, many a former I. W. W. occupies responsible position in the Communist Party, and is fighting for industrial unionism far more effectively than in the I, W. W. S085. 0S Oh, Yeah! “The courts are still open,” said the governors of both Tennessee and Kentucky to the students who were run out of both states by official and unofficial] gunmen of the coal companies. .“Thinly clad, without socks and with the soles entirely gone from their shoes, a crew of men engaged by the Knox County (Tennessee) High- way Department, broke down and cried like children as a biting wind and snowstorm bore down on them,” says the Knoxville Sentinel. But—“The courts are still open.” Oh, yeah! Governor Laffoon of Kentucky also told the students that they were “too easily bluffed.” And what if they would have resisted being run out of the coal fields? Why—‘The courts are still open”"—and said courts wiuld have given them good and plenty, from some months in @ rat-hole prison up to the electric cheair. “The courts are still open.” Oh, yeah! But the day on which the workers close up these capitalist courts and establish some revolutionary workers’ courts, there will be a coupl.te of gove, ernors travelling fast for tall timber, Ob, boys _

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