The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 193: Page Three T CUTS $100,000,000 OM PAY OF ITS INOR EMPLOYES ussed By Congress Cuts Wages, Sets Up Heads Helped Hunger Government Put Across; Federal Workers’ Anger Grows NGTON, June 30—The Re- Senate today, by a vote of dopted the Economy Con- ort, previously adopted by atic House of Representa- cuts $150,000,000 from i expenses during the oi te 1933—$100,000,- ™ the wages of the more aid\ government workers. sow! goes to Hoover, who is sign \it, as it contains his tagee plan. It is expected 0 effect this Friday, July 1. this bill even those govern- sloyees who are only receiv- ) @ year must take one furlough during the year pay. Or he can take an > reduction in his wages if ment decides he is “indis- id cannot be spared for Much confusion exists this means 24 or 30 working 4 it will require interpreta- 2 Comptroller-General, who ist has invariably decided e workers and can be ex- io so again. being forced to accept a thout pay, each worker loses s* annual vacation with jay he was getting in the past. He s0 threatened with a loss of his ’ annual sick-pay and accumu- unused sick-pay, again depend- ‘¢n interpretation by the Comp- General. bill further deprives the r men in the service of the ' promotion they are entitled order to reach top grades. It » deprives the workers of ex- y for overtime and‘reduces to cent the extra allowance for ~erkers as against 10 per cent serly got. Further, is speeds workers by prohibiting the thousands of vacancies cre- ly by death and retirement as. vangerous Joker In Bill. tten joker is contained in the ‘roviding for “indefinite fur- ” (plain firing) whenever, in inion of a department head, the “his department has to be de- due to insufficient appro- This joker is particularly “9 the postal workers—in auaster General Brown has threatened to put into effect ndefinite furloughs.” ERS COMPELL dEST OF KILLER ‘ets Sink Boatload abs; Need Relief .INUED FROM PAGE ONE) g, with only a riblet of re- ming in. They need food, lothing and money. They are evicted. The United Mine $ was giving some relief at mt, but has now sabotaged ief, and some scabs have gone 2 mine, as a result. In gen- yuo U.M.W. gives no relief, he Workers International Relief ypening a new soup kitchen at or continues. Walter Palmer, iploye” of the Powhatan mine the pickets. Strikers are be- ested on all sorts of charges. urko, N.M.U. district. commit- amber was arrested at the “mine for picketing. Peter and Frank Kovalchik were at Powhatan and charged nsolence to the National “hree more were arrested @un mine and charged with . 9. Orders Pickets Home ome camps the United Mine 1 leaders have recommended ikers stay home entirely. At ale the local U.M.W. officials ad this course, and spoke with able and deputy sheriff on They told the strik- e officials would settle the National Miners Union mem- 2sent denounced this treach- + Called for mass picketing. Jnited Mine Workers has ad- its responsibility for bringing ‘ational Guard into the strike Governor White issued a state- last week saying that Cinkue vsked for the National Ciuard. 2 replied with a letter, printed ’ capitalist press, in which he to escape the blame. He seid 2 had not asked for the “wm, but had told the Na- ‘wd commander that he 28 responsible for the men, oJ “strange outside influ- A.F. of L. Helps Push Bill Through. The “bitter resentment and mass protest of the 600,000 government | workers against the Hoover Stagger | Plan fora time compelled the House | to adopt a bill exempting government | workers earning less than $2,500. As| this exempted the overwhelming ma- | jority of government employees, who | average less than $1,500 per year,! there would have been a saving of | only $9,000,000, coming from the} higher paid government bureaucrats. | The Senate rejected the House bill| and provided for a 10 per cent| straight wagé-ut that the government | could not have put through under the | circumstances. | William Green and the A. F. of L. union heads then hastened to the government’s aid and, with the sup-' port of LaFollette, Wheeler, Norris, | | Kelley, Mead, LaGuardia and other |“insurgent” senators and congress- |men, pushed through the bill in its| present form as the “lessor evil.” | The resentment against the wage-| cut and vacation robber and against | the A. F. of L. leadership is growing | among the hundreds of thousands of | government workers. The Trade| Union Unity League is beginning to| take a hand, crystallizing this resent- ment into organization and struggle. | JAPAN ON NEW BID AGAINST USSR \Britain, France Reject Arms Proposal (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) pense of its Japanese, British and French rivals. Own Robber Interests. The special session of the Japan- ese Supreme “Military Council lasted two hours and was attended by the highest army officers, including the War Minister, Gen. Araki, one of the leaders of the Japanese fascist move- ment, and Gen. Nari, aide de camp to the emperor. After the meeting, Gen. Araki told newspaper corres- pondents that Japan will be able to accept only “minor and unimportant points.” He said the army chiefs would insist on reservations and the recognition by the rest of the powers of “Japan’s special position in rela- tion te China and the Soviet Union.” The Hoover proposal met a similar fate at the hands of the British and French. Sir John Simon, British Foreign Minister, told the American delegation that his government ap- proved the Hoover plan “in principle” but—. The “buts” included a desire for complete abolition of submarines as a protection for British control of the seas, the “necessity” of consulting the dominions and the “advisability” of adopting certain suggestions made by the British Admiralty. The French were even more inde- finite, declaring their “desire” to “co-operate in disarmaments,” but “not seeing how they could.” A fur- ther illustration of the shameless hypocrisy of the imperialist brigands was given when a tri-cornered meet- ing between American, British and French delegates failed to material- ize because the British first tele- phoned to call off the meeting, then telephoned to ask why the American delegates had failed to show up. Soviets for Peace. The Soviet delegation representing the only government sincerely striv- ing for disarmament has been ignored by the imperialist war mongers in all the secret conferences taking place between the British, French and American delegations. These secret conferences are for the purpose of cementing the anti-Soviet front for the realization of active armed inter- yention against the Soviet Union, In an article in the Scripps-Howard newspapers, William Philip Sirims, foreign editor of thas newspaper chain, admits that the “disarma- ment” conference is. bankrupt. He ascribes the collapse of the confer- ence to “Japan’s plan of conquest in the Far East, France's fear of a German comeback and Great Brit- ain’s determination to remain the strongest sea-power on earth.” While admitting that the Hoover proposal ask “the other powers to do most of the scrapping” of warships, he attempts to cover up the War aims of the United States, presenting the Wall Street Government as an angel of light and peace. CHILDREN PERISH IN FLOOD BUCHAREST, June 30.—Drowning, famine and disease are feared in parts of Bukovina, Moldavia and Bes- sarabia as consequences of six days of heavy rain which is flooding vast areas. ‘ The inundation of whole villages is reported. In Jassy, the Noldavian capital, the water is more than six feet deep. The bodies of many chil- dren were found in the flood. Loss of lives and property is incalculable. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: MINE AND MILL ‘North 6th Street. Former Palaces of the erstwhile Russian Nobles. borhood of Suchum, Abchasiya, on against the Soviet Union, Now a workers’ the shores of the Black Sea. Sanatorium. They are ad their Tsarist allies are trying to destroy in their criminal war drive ituated on the Caucasian Riviera, in the neigh- Here the workers from the Baku and the Donezbeck regions get th recreation, It is working class gains such as these that the imperialists an ir health and CHINESE RED ARMIES COMPLETELY CRUSH NANKING’S “RED SUPPRESSION” DRIVE. DELEGATES FOR PENN CONVENTION Communist Sessions at Reading; 20 Fight Pinchot Hunger Plan | READING, Pa., June 30.—July 9, the Communist Party of Pennsylva- nia will open its state convention in Reading, Pa. at Redman’s Hall. Workers’ organizations throughout the state and workers of the mining, Steel and textile industries have al- ready elected delegates to this state convention. On Saturday, 5 p. mi. the convention will adjourn and the delegates will participate in a parade throughout the main streets of Read- ing. Y, James Maurer, socialist vice-presi- dential candidate, was again chal- lenged to appear at a mass meeting Saturday night, to defend the pro- gram of the Socialist Party. The delegates to the State Con- vention will leave Philadelphia, Sat- urday, July 9, 10 am., from 715 The Communist Party also calls upon all the workers’ organizations and rank and file mem-| bers of the Party, and the workers generally, to come to Reading to par- ticipate in the parade and inthe opening of the convention. All or- ganizations shall arrange their own transportation, the same shall be done by groups of workers. Indi- vidualcomrades, however, who have no means of transportation, Will be abie.to go to Reading in trucks. Such trucks will leave on Saturday, July 9th, 1 p. m. from 1208 Tasker Street. The cost for a round trip will be only 50 cents. The comrades shall bring their own lunch. For Jobless Insurance. The fight against unemployment starvation and against the state se- dition act, also against Pinchot’s state police brutality, are the main is- sues in this state,campaign. State officials admit there are 1,500,000 jobless, and these figures are far too low. Miners are at this moment striking under the leadership of the National Miners Union against star- vation wages. Philadelphia, the lar- gest city, has cut off all relief. The Pinchot and Philadelphia Vare machine have united on a “relief” program going through the legisla- ture now, which even Pinchot, its author, claims will give only 11 cents a day to the jobless, 300 Millions to Be Paid Out in Dividends While Toilers Wages Are Cut ly the midst of the severest eco- nomic crisis recorded in the history of the United States and in the face of widespread miseray and starvation affecting millions of workers, $300,- 000,000 will be paid out in dividends on June Ist. In addition to this, $500,000,000 will be distributed to bondholders as in- terest payments. Among the con- cerns which will omit dividends are the United Steel ‘[rust and others. In_.contrast with this flowing 0% dollars coined out of workers’ blood, there is a steady shrinking of toilers’ wages which are suffering one drastic cut after the other. When total workers’ earnings are takin into econ- sideration it is obvious that along with the accumulation of wealth on one side, there is accumulation of misery on,the other side. FOSTER’S BOOK PUSHED IN SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH In Salt Lake City the tickets for the Foster meeting on July 1 con- tained the following in brackets at the bottom of the ticket: ‘ (Read Foster’s latest book: “Tow- ard Soviet America.” Regular price $1.25. Sold at meeting for $1.00). ‘The workers will want the book. When they see that announcement they will come to the meeting with their money. All election campaign meetings ,take notice! RETRENCHMENT NOTE NEW YORK (FP). — John D. Rockefeller’s church: is meeting the jing to capitalist press reports. ‘@nith and Senator Reed for a Landino Ready to Give Up Fight Says Boss Press Reports If the United States marines will | be withdrawn Augustus Sandino will disband the army of national libera- tion and cease his present struggle) against the Nicaraguan government, | Dr. Pedro Jose Zapeda, his foreign representative, said yesterday, accord- Sandino, while carrying on an anti- | imperialist struggle for many years, has ben wavering from time to time | in this fight. Zapeda. said that Sandino is ready to sacrifice his political aspiration | in order to “agree on a compromise | presidential candidate in the inter- ests of peace.” “If peace is accomplished,” he added, “and if the United States will withdraw the marines, Sandino will return to civilian life and Nicaragua’s revolution will be .over.” It is admitted in Nicaragua that | no matter what the attitude of San- | dino will be, the army of national liberation will not cease fighting and that the revolution cannot be ended by proclamation, FOSTER ASSAILS ANGELES TERROR Communist Ranks in City Are Doubled (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) of every right of assemblage and free speech. He stated that procedure in his case, arrest and clubbing, then holding and third degreeing, then re- lease in the middle of the night with- out any attempt to bring formal charges, was “unheard of” in its tyr- anny. “Hynes evidently realized he bit off more than he could chew,” said Fos- ter, “his releasing me was caused by fear of awakening the resentment of thousands of Los Angeles workers and of a demonstration in the the courtroom.” Foster told how, when he was shoved into the police car at the Pla- za Tuesday, a member of the police “Red Squad” jammed a club into Foster’s face, narrowly missing his eye. Then, at the city jail, Foster was taken into the “Third Degree Room,” a sound-proof, windowless affair, and was punched around while being questioned. Can’t Feed on Tear Gas. “Hynes thinks he can solve the eco. nomic crisis that has thrown 15,- 000,000 workers out of jobs and on the streets to starve, by suppression,” said Foster, “but you can not feed hungry workers on tear gas.” Foster characterized Hynes as the tool of the ultra-reactionary elements of Los Angeles, as typified by the mo- tion picture industry, which spreads its poison all over, and by Aimee Semple MacPherson Hutton, who runs through a series of sex-scandals a world notorious religious opium joint here. Los Angeles rulers are also known as the bitterest, enemies | of Tom Mooney, and Foster pointed out that the main resistance to free- ing Mconey comes from Los Angeles. Trend Toward Fascism. “Hynes and the Red Squad are right in line with the growing trend toward fascism in Amer- iea, Foster pointed out, and men- tioned the demand both my Al “strong man” at the head of the gov- ernment. This, Foster stated, was a demand for a fascist dictator# While in jail, Foster was visited by Hoffman, head of the “Better Amer- ica Federation,” which campaigns against all workers’ militant organi- zations, advocates jail and deporta- tion for all workers’ leaders, and ublishes extravagant slanders against the Communists. Hoffman evidently came down to take a close look at cne of the red leaders, said Foster, and there is no doubt that Hoffman is a maniacal super-patriot, @ psychopath. Foster gcve the interview to the press yesterday afternoon. He was arrested when he attempted to speak to the great crowd assembled in the Plaza. With him were arrested some 20 others, including Edward Sand- Jer, Raymond Lugo and Ezra Chase. depression by using a quartet to sing the “glories of heaven.” Formerly John D,’s heaven required a full, choir for proper description, Part of those arrested were released, | Eight ARREST MINERS FOR COMMUNIST ELECTION DRIVE More Kentucky Terror But Workers Declare The’ll Vote Red MIDDLESBORO, Ky., June 30.— unemployed miners Meeks, Bill Garland, Joe Lawson, Charlie Reed, Lee Valentine, Roy Storms, S.S. Burton and Pat Dur- ham) all militant National Miners Union members, were arrested Satur- day at Arjay, Bell County, Ky., charged with violation of a Federal injunction issued against the miners | ing their victorious advance. | more than a year ago. The injunc- tion was against entering company property, The miners’ real crime is their activity in the Communist elec- tion campaign. They have not been on company property since they were forced to move off. The trial of these miners is scheduled to come up in the Federal Court at Lexington next week. Anothe- instance of the coal oper- ators attack against the. Communist Party is the issuing of a warrant for Bill Henegar, charging him with “breaking up homes” by circulating @ petition to have the Communist Party put on the ballot in. Kentucky. Notwithstanding these vicious at- tacks of the coal operators and their thugs, the workers are more deter- mined than ever to have the party go on the ballot. \Doens of workers are now collecting signatures of voters in Bell and Harlan counties demanding that the Communist Partye be on the ballot. In almost every mining camp workers say that they are sure Ed Garland will bé elected sheriff, on the Communist ticket. In some places 90 per cent of the workers opzenly state they will vote the Communist ticket in the Fall elections. for mayor in the recall election here, and got 15,000 votes when he ran gy the Communist ticket in the regular elections for member of school board. Workers Gassed and Clubbed. The Plaza meeting was broken up by hundreds of police and armed fas- cist elements, who used clubs and tear | ‘The demonstration was against | nt perialist powers themselves. gas, the shooting of an unemployed work- er in a raid by the Red Squad, a few days before. It was also a protest against the announced policy of the Police to prevent Foster from speak- ing in Los Angeles, the closing of the Open Forum hall to his meeting, Sunday and the smashing by police of an indoor banquet arranged to greet the Communist candidate, Sun- day night. Before the closed and police-guarded Open Forum Hall, Sunday, thousands of Les Angeles workers staged a demonstration, fighting with the police and demand- ing Foster be alowed to speak. ing Foster be-allowed to speak. Foster gave his interview to the press yesterday afternoon, then left to keep a sneaking date at Phoenix, Arizona, yecterday night. He spea tomorrow night in Salt Lake City, then: Denver, Jilly 3; Omaha, July 5; Sioux City, July 6; Kensas City, Mo.. July 8 at 2 p. m. in International Aren.; Pittsburgh, Kansas, July 9 and Kansas City, Kansas, July 10. Pittsburgh, Kansas, is in the mining fields, ee maf Role of Socialists. NEW YORK=-The United Press reports Foster as saying in an inter- view in Los Angeles after his release: | “The Socizlist Party has been cap- tured bodily by industrial leaders, now advancing theories half-Socialist, half-Fascist. United Press says: “Mr, Foster disagrees with many noh-Communists thet the police sup- pression helps the Codmunist cause,” and then quotes Fester “It changes the direction, that’s all," he said. “Makes the Commu- nists more determined, But it does not help us, nor hurt us. Tear bombs can’t unmake Communists, because you can’t fill a man’s stomach with tear gas.” VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collec- but the three named are held on “suspicion of ~ syndicalism,” Sandler was Comm candidate tion of rents or debts. (Bill | i |have captured the towns of Liuan-| | of arms and munitions, including over | the Red Armies have scored uninter- | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ‘evans Imperialiss in China | Call for Intervention Hundreds of Chinese farmers in the valley of the Kan River have been drowned and thousands driven from their homes by the rising floods in| the Yangtze River, resulting from the criminal misuse by the Nanking gov- ernment of taxes collected for dyke | repairs and other flood control meas- ures, Ignoring the pitiable plight of the| flood refugees, the Nanking govern- mentis spending huge sums of money in an attempt to reorganize its shat- | tered offensive against the revolu-) tionary workers and peasants in the! growing Soviet Districts. Acting on) the direct instructions of the Hoover | Hunger Government, the Nanking | butchers have sent reinforcements of | 4,000 troops to Hupsh Province, where the Chinese Rer Armies are continu- Capture Hupeh Towns | A number of Hupeh towns have} been captured by the Red Armies, in- | cluding Kwangshui, Hwanghsien_and | Suihsien. At the latter town, the| Nanking forces were annihilated fol- | lowing a junction of the Red Army | of Wangta from Honan Province, with | that of Holung. This victory caused great panic among the militarists in} Hankow. In West Anhwei, the Red Armies chow, Chengyangkwan, Showchow, Hwokiensin, Yingshanh, Fengtai and Shucheng, and are still advancing. In Northeast Anhwei, Red Armies took possession of Chuyi and Tien- chang. Shatter Suppression Campaign Special importance is attached in Political and military circles to the! capture of Chengyangkwan, which is only 60 miles from Pengpu, a strat- egic bulwark of Nanking and junc- tion of the Pukow-Tientsin railway line. In its victories in Western Anhwei, the workers’ and peasants’ Red Army defeated five Nanking di- visions and captured huge quantities 200 machine guns and two aeroplanes. In Kiangsi and Fukien Provinces, rupted victories, The fourth “Communist Suppres- | sion” campaign of the Nanking but-| chers has been shattered. The imperialist press in China is now hollering for the extension of direct armed intervention by the im- | WATERS AIM TO | BE DICTATOR ONE) | at Anacostia, “is to be your com- mander for a full year with the right to pick my own advisory committee.” “A lot of fellows will complain about the voting,” continued Waters, “but you will know how to take care of them.” Resent Strongarming. Only the military police clique} greeted these remarks with approval. The rank and file of the worker vet- throughout the camps ex- pressed resentment against the Wat- ers gang strongarming their way to power. The California group, after reading the “Bonus Marchers News,” published by the Workers’ Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League, expressed their agreement, with the militant policy of the W.E.S.L. and pledged to take up a sharp struggle for the bonus over the head of the Waters crowd, which does not represent the masses of worker veterans. Favorable sentiment for a fight to again oust the Waters gang and establish rank and file control is spreading rapidly in Camp Anacostia. Worker veterans from the billets in the city are forming themselyes closer around the group on 12th St., which is led by a rank and file committee of which George Pace of the Work- ers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League is the chairman, One Out of Ten Ate, Only one out of ten men ate today in the Bonus Expeditionary Forces. And those who ate had only bread and coffee. “If the men are not given food we will lead them to the Capitol and demand it,” said Emanuel Levin, one of the leaders of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League. George Pace, commander of the Ships Crews Are Not Divided from Staff on Soviet Union Vessels Electrician On Soviet Oil Tanker Writes Of Dear comrade: MOSCOW. In this letter I will relate you about the life of water transport workers in the U.S.S.R. I am an electrician on a tanker. “¢ Our whole fleet, all perts, to the state, the working class, The relations between th crew are excellent. They eat ships, which were built after th conditions are also quite equal divide the crew from the trative staff. Study Circles. There are on all our circles for raising o quali ion. These circles are concucted by me- chanics and steersmen, who do in this form their public work. I myself have been working on the steamer (the line Od Marsel) as a foreman. Then I began to learn. The students are provided in the Soviet Union with a stipendium. Afterwards I have been working as @ superior electrician on a tanker. Very often our machinists underg! an examination and after som period of practical work (approxi- mately six months) they are pro-| moted to machanics and get a diploma. The working day on our ships continues 8 hours. But in a short time we project to go over to the T-hour working day. In the seaports our longshoremen are already work- | ing 7 hours a day. | All over the U.S.S.R. we have a six-day week. Our day of rest comes not after six working days, as it is in all the capitalist world, but after the five days. If we have to work in our rest days, then it is paid in double extent. Once in a year we get.a leavéof absence. For the ma- chine crew such leave of absence is| given for one month, and for the deck crew for. two weeks. The ad-~ ministrative staff enjoys the same rights as the. whole crew. In the winter period of time, if the ship dont swine, the crew is how- ever not dismissed, but continues to work on repair work and gets its whole salary. Sometimes our sea~ men earn in the winter even more than in summer, according to the performed work. Clothes Free. During the work we get gratis the working clothes (the boots, the gauntlets, ctc.). If someone of our workers loses his efficiency, he is completely se- cured with all by our social institu- tions. In the case of temporal loss of efficiency it is possible for him to male use of sanatoriums and health resorts, without paying for it. The social laws of our country se- cure the necessities of the working populations. Our workers participate actively in the whole public life of our country. We participate in the elections of| councils, Many,of us became mem- bers of government. In our struggle | for the rising of living standard and | bettering of working conditions of| our population we fight against the | bureaucracy. Our leave of absence we spend an- nually in a sanatorium, or a rest- house. On the River Volga there are many rest-houses and sanatoriums, destined | for the water transport workers. | I would be glad to get letters from | American workers. o BAF_3KY, Twerskaia 3, “Wodny Transport,” Moscow, U.S.S.R. 12th St. billets, said: “The fight for | the bonus has just begun. Now we | must make Congress hear us. The | voices of the thousands of worker veterans, both here and at home, must be heard and will be heard.” While the veterans are starving at Anacostia mud flats, Mrs. Walter W. Waters, wife of the “High Com- mander,” is arranging for an aero- plane trip to Washington to meet her hubby. Veterans in the camps who heard of this extravagant trip| were speculating today on how much} beef stew could be bought for the) price of the aeroplane ride. Senate Votes War Funds. | It was yesterday that during the veterans’ stay in Washington Con- gress was not backward ih making} new appropriations for war. After the Senate slammed the door on the 20,000 veterans and consigned them to hunger and misery bills were passed and placed on Hoover's desk calling for an additional appropriation of $707,812,104 for the army and navy. Waters, in an attempt to strengthen his position, ousted Mike Thomas and appointed George Thompson, an ex- cop, from Camden, N. J., as the com- mander of Camp Anacostia. AUGUST 2ist STAND READY! PICNIC PLEASANT BAY PARK adminis-¢ a suit,| ships and repair works belong e administrative staff and the together their dinner. On the e October revolution, the living . There are no confines which International | | DUBLIN JOBLESS MARCH THRU STREETS DUBLIN, Ireland—Led by the Unemployed rkers Committee thousands of jobless marched thru the streets of the city on June 18th, demonstrating their determination to fight for full maintenance. Willie Watson, leader of the move- ment, addressed the workers in Ber- esford Place exposing the decision of the Limerick Board of Health to pay home maintenance to unemployed rkers only on alternative weeks. ‘The same thing would be in store for us in Dublin, Watson said, if we were not organized and determined to fight for better conditions.” He called upon the workers to en- force their elementary human de- mands. ATTEMPT MADE TO STEM STRUGGLE FOR INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE LONDON.—in an attempt to stem the struggle of the Indian masses for the National independence of their country, Sir Samuel Hoare, Sec- retary for India, announced a “com- prehensive plan” for a “future” con- stitution. The plan calling for a “federation of autonomous provinces” will be submitted to the “round table confer_ ence,” Sir Samuel Hoare stated. It is evident that its purpose is that of trying to reduce the Indian masses, with the help of Gandhi, into pas- sivity pending the round table con- ference on the plan for solving the question of India. * | PROTEST TERROR IN CHILE NEW YORK.—A protest movement against the fascist terror launched in Chile by Davila’s military Junta is being fostered here. Several or- ganizations are being called upon to | join the movement by adopting pro- | test resolutions. | Fierce protests were already voiced | by many of these organizations which pledge themselves to support the fight of the Chilean masses and to demand that Hoover keep American | warships ous, af Cale, FRENCH PRODUCTION SINKS BE- LOW 1913 LEVEL. PARIS.—The economic crisis, which began to affect France much later than other capitalists countries, is now increasing in severity from day to day. Production is fast sinking below the 1913 level. In March, ac- cording to an official statement, pro- luction was already 2 points below this level. his statement, however, does not show the real situation which is much worse. If the increased pro- ductive capacity of French industry is taken into consideration, the ex- tent of the decline in production ap- pears to be larger. The foundry industry is one of the chief sufferers of the crisis. Des- pite the fact that war orders are in- creasing, production of pig-iron in April fell to 459,000 tons as compared with a monthly average of 842,000 | tons in 1930, There are 211 blast furnaces in Franee and of these only 78 are still in operation, The deficit in the fore- ign trade balance is steadily increas- ing. Cae ee NO IMMUNITY FOR WORKERS DEPUTIES. RIGA.—The Latvian Seym decided to withdraw the .parliamentary im- munity of the deputy Landovskl, a member of the workers and farmers | fraction of the parliament. 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