The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1933, Page 3

v @ DALLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1933 Page ‘Three International Notes By ROBERT HAMILTON INTERNATIONAL POTTERY WORKERS MEETING f BERLIN.—An international meet- ong of delegates of the revolutionary pottery workers in Germany and Ozechoslovakia took place in a fron- tier town a few days ago. Forty- one delegates were present, including eight women workers. Representa- tives of the Czechoslovakian revolu- tionary unions, the revolutionary union in Selb, the famous Bavarian pottery and ceramic centre, and the revolutionary trade union opposition were also present. The conference was organized by the International Factory Workers Committee. The vonference discussed the situation of the workers in the two countries and the coming attack on wages, After @ general report by the secretary of ‘the International Committee the del- egates reported the situation in the factories. A general wage reduction of about 30 per cent had been forced through in stages durng the past year or so, The capitalist rationali- zation had taken on oppressive forms. The moving belt was prevelant and older workers had been flung out and replaced by women or young workers. In many cases the employers refused to pay the tariff rates. However, the fighting spirit of the workers was rising and in Germany about 5,000 pottery and ceramic workers had conducted strikes during the past few months, Heartening success was re- ported from various districts in Ozechoslovakia, but deficiencies in the work were sharply criticized, for instance, in many cases the work inside the reformist unions had been neglected with a resultant lack of influence on these categories of workers, The conference drew up @ program of demands and adopted Measures to secure close co-operation between the pottery workers in Ger- many and Czechoslovakia. It was also decided to establish connections with the workers in related trades in France, Great Britain and other countries. A special German-Czecho- slovakian committee was elected consisting of seven workers, ee “POISON GAS IS HUMANE” That is what prominent bourgeois professors, such as Prof. Zanetti of Columbia, University, department of chemistry, never tire of telling us. ‘The following extract from an arti- éle by a Prof. Assman on “Effects of military and bomb gasses upon the human body” in the “Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift” tells us just how “humane” poison gas is: “Phosgene causes the lungs to be- come moist and heavy. The reduc- tion of the breathing surface causes an oxygen hunger which compels the patient to strain the breathing mus- culature more and more. This in- creased and more rapid respiratory movement leads to an acute paraly- sis of the lungs, which occurs along- side oedema (Infiltration of liquid into the lungs). Most important however, the oedema of the lungs causes the latter to swell up until they weigh five or six times their normal weight. Such a patient looks like @ person struggling for air, with blue’ lips and cheeks. The oedema | liquid flowing into the bronchial tubes from the lungs and beaten into foam by the inhaled and exhaled air produces an audible rattle in the throet. In their choking pains the patients are extremely netvous and filled with the fear of death.” How “sweet it is to die for one's eee RED GAINS IN CZEC! SHOP ELECTIONS PRAGUE, Dec. 6. (By Mail).—Shop council elections have been held dur- ‘ing the past week in various factor- jes in Czechoslovakia. The elections, in the Loew and Beer textile plants n Zwittau resulted n a brilliant vic- tory for the red trade unions and @ severe defeat for the Social Demo- erats. The revolutionary union polled 328 votes, a gain of 84 over 1931, while the socialists dropped 123 yotes to a total of 171. Thus the Jted Unions have a majority in the thop council for the first time. The shop council elections in the big chemical works in Kazejov near Pilsen also produced further gains for the revolutionary trade unions. ‘They polled 179 votes, a gain of 40 over 1980, while the combined so- cialist poll was only 77 votes, a loss bf 34 votes since 1930. mice acy 6 COMMUNIST MAJORITY IN TOWN ELECTIONS Municipal elections in the town of Janova Lehota, in Slovakia, resulted in a smashing victory for the Com- ‘munist Party of Czechoslovakia. The Communists won 20 out of a total of 30 seats in the Town Council, thus tt. Moscow een al “Izvestia” the urn cf "The cooperative of a little Siberian city ordered toothbrushes and tooth- ~paste about a year ago. It has just the entire stock back to the warehouse, less one tooth- one tube of dentrifice. “RULE EEO TEE iii sf 35 ; Hs A z January ‘Communist’ Shows Application of 12th Plenum Decision The January “Communist,” 50 E. 13th St., N. Y. C., just off the press, contains a number of ar- ticles of great importance. These deal particularly with the de- cisions of the 12th Plenum of the Communist International and their application to the tasks of the American Communist Party. The editorial, “Forward in the| Line of the 12th Plenum of the| E, C. C. 1,” the article, “The Struggle for the Elementary Needs —the Main Link in Winning the Masses,” by Jack Stachel, and the report of T. Gusev at the 12th Plenum on the tasks of the Amer- ican and British Parties, help to clarify the basic immediate tasks. An important contribution in “The Communist” is the detailed analysis by V. J. Jerome of Prof. Sidney Hook's distortions of Marxism. This is called, “Un- masking an American Revisionist of Marxism,” and is published in connection with the 50th anniver- sary of Karl Marx’s death. Other articles are “Spinoza and Marx- ism,” by M. Mittin, an excerpt from Manuilsky’s speech at the 12th Plenum, “Stalin Develops the Teachings »of Marx and Lenin,” and book reviews by Mil- ton Howard and W. Phelps. JAPAN RUSHES SHIPS, TROOPS New Grab At China Territories (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ernment treacherously withheld re- inforcements and munitions from the heroic Shanghai workers and rank and file soldiers of the Nineteenth Rout Army who successfully de- fended the city for weeks against the combined attacks of the Japanese navy, army and air forces. ‘The Japanese attack on North Chi- na is born of the desperation of the | Japanese imperialists under the ham- mer blows of the world crisis of capi- talism which has already shattered Japanese economy and, together with the vast expenditures for the Manchurian advénture, and the ris- ing resistance of the Japanese toilers against starvation, is threatening Japanese capitalism with utter col- lapse. U. S. Japan Rivalry Grows. | The drive into North China is tre- | Mmendously sharpening the antago- | nisms between Japanese and U. S. imperialisms in their struggle {for supremacy in the Pacific and control over China. A Washington dispatch to the New York Times reports grave | concern among Washington officials | “that serious events might again be | impending in the Far East”. That the U. 8S. imperialists will now re- peat their attempts during Japan’s adventure in Shanghai to turn back Japanese imperialism toward the | frontiers of the Soviet Union is clear- ly apparent in the opinions of Wash- ington officials quoted in the dis- patch. These unofficially expressed opinions are intended as a warning to Japanese imperialism not to tread on Wall Street’s toes in China. They contain an open hint to Japanese imperialism that the Washington government would welcome an at- tack on the Soviet Union. U. S. Imperialist Threat, “Should the Japanese in their ad- vance remain north of the Great Wall, (in Manchuria and Jehol Pro- vinee—Daily Worker), it would not be expected that the movement would precipitate new diplomatic difficul- ties for the Western powers. But should they go south of the “Great Wall and sweep into the interior along the line of Tientsin and Peip- ing, there might be outside compli- cations due to the rights other pow- ers have by treaty in Tientsin and Peiping.” ‘This notice to Japan of Wall St.’s intention to challenge its penetration into North China, is accompanied by the following hint for anti-Soviet ac- tion: “Should the Japanese movement be limited to one north of the North Great Wall, in informed opinion here, Soviet Russia would be the only power that might be affected through Japanese forces advancing to the borders of ‘Soviet territory.” For Anti-Soviet Provocations. This, likewise, is accompanied by the veiled wish for complications be- tween the Japanese ee of U. 8. imperialism and the let. Union, the class enemy of the imperialist bandits: “Should the Japanese go to the Mongolian border and continue their occupation of North Man- churia beyond Tsitsihar to the Si- berian border, experts pointed out there would be danger of incidents arising with Soviet forces.” ‘These “experts” recognize the firm desire of the Soviet Union for peace. themselves as “satis- want trouble with Japan or any other power at present,” but they hope that ae Japan will increase its war provoca- tion against the Soviet Union, for “they are not certain, however, whether the Soviet Union would re- main indefinitely passive under much greater pressure from Japan, not- withstanding her desire for peace.” ‘ leader, has been sentenced to prison fo against the regime. | long as she could live. They had no Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham, 717 Broadway, Venice, husband a world war veteran, 4 sick children, one with blood poisoning in knee. One had had eyes from diphtheria and scarlet fever and doctors stated that sight of the child. The other three treatment was necessary to save the needed food, being undernourished. No food, gas, water or lights in the house, Both were voters. The third case was Mrs. Johnson and ‘husband, 216 Sherman, Venice, Cal., needed food. Both were voters. Committee of 20. There was a committee of 20 people that waited on cases at the Wel- | fare. Three of the committee were over 60 years old, and taxpayers for 25 years. The head of the Welfare called iy the police and refused to see any ¢( the Committee on any case. The re- sult is that we have some good sym- pathizers now and they are very determined. The cases were looked after later. Please give us foot-note on what you think about our follow-up. Should we try to force the authori- ties to accept our committees? The Welfare Station is in Santa Monica. We work with the Los Angeles Un- employed Council, but would enjoy criticism from the Daily Worker. * 8 Editor's Note: — By all means push the organizational work. You are gaining sympathizers who are determined to gain relief for these needy cases. Get a bigger com- mittee and try again, and back it up by a good demonstration out- side which demands recognition of the Unemployed Council constant- ly bring new cases, Every victory you win, use it to build the organi- zation, and use all sympathizers who come to you when the Wel- fare denies relief, to strengthen the organization also. Keep on bring~ ing new cases, no matter what the previous results. We will give pub- licity at this end, and if you wish to organize a special distribution of the Daily Worker when your stories appear, Jet us know how many copies you want, and we will get thet sent you. In thé way you help your own organizational work, and at the same time spread the Daily Worker. Judge Penalizes Jobless Worker for Having Children POINT PLEASANT, N.J.—Harston Frazee, an unemployed worker here, was brought before Courity Judge J. C. Giordano on a charge of failing to pay $4 per week alimony to his wife for the support of a minor child of his, Frazee ‘told the judge that he was willing to pay, but being out of work, he didn’t have any money. The “smart” jurist gave Frazee two weeks to pay up or go to jail. The judge addea insult to injury by telling this worker that the court had nothing to do with bringing children into this world and that he, as the father, must see to it that they are provided for. Of course the judge didn’t tell Frazee how he could t a job. get a ji be Stool Pigeon Tries Fool Workers With Publicity Stunt EVANSVILLE, Indiana. — Thomas Knowland had a small item in the press here that he had received two boxes of oranges from County At- torney James F, Ensle, who is spend- ing his vacation in Florida, to be dis- tributed amongst’ the needy. He did not state the size of the boxes, but to give all the needy of Evansvile a few oranges, the boxes would have to be the size of box cars, ‘The significant part of this is that Knowland for the past year had been a leader in the Unemployed Council here, until it was found out that he was a stool-pigeon and misleader of the workers, and was kicked out of the movement. The Evansville Press and Courier carried big front page items about the once.“big chief of the Communist Party” quitting the radical movement, that he was tired of fightng for the benefit of a bunch of bums. At one time Knowland had the confidence of the unemployed work- ers of Evansville. They thought he was their Moses and was going to lead them into the promised land. He had the opportunity to build the Councils here until it WORKER CORRESPONDENCE /| SHOW UP GRAFT, STOOL PIGEONS IN RELIEF Dying Workers Denied Even Barest Necessities in Cal.; Council Organizing, Gaining, Advice Asked of Daily Worker on Follow Up | Work to Force Relief | Workers Determined to Force County Welfare | to Care for Jobless and Destitute OCEAN PARK, Cal—We were to the County Welfare for some relief for 3 families. One family, Mr. and Mrs, Keller, 8712 Ellis Ave., Palms, Cal., both over 60, Mrs. Keller on death bed. The doctor said 48 hours was as | reftised aid to these old residents here. food, water, gas or light. The country | A & P STEALS 10 P. C. OF RELIEF Cash Food Tickets Do Not Get Full Value NEW YORK—The Atlantic é&| Pacific grocery store where I cash | my food ticket gave me $4.50 worth | for a. $5.00 ticket. I have heard the | same complaint all along. the line where I wait for my food ticket. It| sure looks like the A & P doesn’t! stop at anything to pay its dividends. | —Worker. Rim ye | EDITOR'S NOTE:—Workers hav- | ing this complaint should send us a checked list of what was received and | its sale price with total. They do} not need to state at what store they got it but just the chain name. If they would organize and go to these stores in committees to make their | purchases, they could force the stores to give them full value of their tickets. The neighborhood Un- employed Council will help them with this organization. Toledo Kids Balk at Eating Rotten Xmas, Dinner of “Relief” TOLEDO, Ohio—Men and women, some of them holding babies in their arms, stood in line for from three to four hours waiting to be served with chicken dinner. ‘And when they got in they were served with chicken that was in suche bad condition that even the hungriest child could not possibly eat it, but left it on his plate. At the table in front of where I was standing there were four little boys and they refused to eat the rotten chicken, The city mayor, A. Q. Thacher, came to the plates of those four boys and gave them to a waitress and told her to serve the other hun- gry people, which she did. At another table there were a group of newsboys waiting to be served. They were told that they had already eaten and refused to serve them, but the boys claimed with pleading voices that they had not eaten yet. They were refused and chased out. EV. LABOR FAKER GETS ‘RELIEF’ JOB Wisconsin Jobless Are Robbed of Automobiles OSKOSH, Wisc.—There are about 15,000 families on the relief list here or about 16 per cent of the popula- tion. They have just installed the so-called Federal relief system here. With nine so-called social workers or at $90.00 a month and one supervisor at $130.00 a month. The commissioner gets a raise from $1700 to $2000 @ year. This man was state organizer and now he ts starting to rob the workers’ stomachs. ‘They ask the unemployed worker to fil out an appication for just what he wants for two weeks. If it is too much to suit them they say that other people are living on less, ete, ‘The snooper comes around and argues they cannot give so much, they are limited, etc. This is a means of steadily cutting down the workers’ standard of living. ‘There is a lake here and the un- employed and part time workers and farmers are fishing in it. They sell ‘the fish for a few nickels to get extra food. The lake is dotted with little shanties as it gets below zero. The relief takes away the license and keys of a worker's car if he owns one or they refuse him relief. I think we will organize here soon. All we've got to do is stick together and get what we need and want. —Worker. fone Family Has Stranglehold on the Township Relief PRINCETON, N. J.— The Emer- gency Relief of South Brunswick ‘Township in Middelsex County had a big politician at the head of it by the name’ of Henderson. He is a re- lative of Mrs. Rowland, the Secre' Relief. All the employees of the bureau are related to Mrs. Row- owns the store where the relief orders are pi whose husband is i Rowland family. Workers, how long are you going to allow grafters to rule you and rob you, and treat you as if you were dumb animals. This is the richest country in the world and your labor made it rich. Ce i ata Get Children i < ue masks from an army brigade. Ready for Gas War Children are not exempt from gas attacks in present day imperialist wars. Photo shows London kiddies getting lessons in the use of gas (F. P. Pictures.) ‘CONN. WORKERS THOMAS DODGES GREET MARCHERS Expose Welfare Slop in New Britain, Conn. BULLETIN NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Jan. 5.— More than 1,000 workers gave a rousing send off to the local hunger | marchers and the others who are on their way now to Hartford to present demands to the state legis- lature tomorrow. The local unem- ployed council succeeded in forcing the relief to give fresh milk in- stead of canned milk to one family with children, A fight is being made to obtain fresh milk for all families. The Waterbury column of the march was greeted by a meeting of 300 there. | BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan. 3.— Column One of the Connecticutt State Hunger March started at 9:30 this morning from Stamford with 25 delegates and several hundred workers to give them a send-off. The delegation arrived at Norwalk on schedule time where there was a demonstration and _ enthusiastic meeting. Ten more delegates were | taken on at Norwalk. | Bridgeport Plaza Meeting. | At Bridgeport where the Reming- | ton Arms plant is located and where | there is widespread -unemployment and appalling misery the marchers spoke at a demonstration on the Plaza. In spite of bad weather | there were approximately four hun- dred workers present who cheered the hunger marchers and the de- mands for mmediate relief for work- | ers and farmers that are being put before the state legislature at Hart- | ford tomorrow. * Public Hearing Exposes Welfare. | NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Jan. 3—In | preparing the local forces for the | state hunger march the question of city relief was brought sharply for- | ward in a hearing conducted here | on Dec. 30th. Sharp attacks were | made upon the Welfare Department | which has stopped giving fresh milk | to children and hands out with the} orders the worst kind of canned | milk, which poisons the babies, It was brought out in the testimony of workers that the rations handed out to a family of eight consists of the following: 7 loaves of bread, 2 pounds of frankfurters or rotten meat, 2 pounds of coffee, 2 small heads of cabbage, 3 cans of evaporated milk, 1 pound of oatmeal, 1 turnip, 1 can tomatoes, 2 or 3 pounds of potatoes mostly frozen and a handful of stale onions. This is supposed to maintain a family of eght for a whole week. Mayor Doesn’t Appear. Mayor Quigley and Mrs. Cora M. Beale, of the Welfare Department, were invited to appear at the hear- ing,"but were not there. On the same day letters were sent to them, the local paper appeared with a state- ment by Quigley that he would not attend. He called the hearing a “Communist meeting.” But the workers know that he does not dare face them when they de- mand relief. At the hearing there was exhibited the food that is handed out for an entire week and it is being taken to Hartford by the state hunger march- ers elected from New Britain and will be shown to the ‘liberal” gov- ernor, Loos tomorrow, when de- mands are to be made for immediate state relief. The local struggles here are being intensified and block committees are being organized to fight against evic- tions, -against the shutting off of light, gas and water and for food and clothing. League of Nations’ Part in War Exposed By Chinese Student CHICAGO, Ill—The part played by the recent Lytton report and the League of Nations in covering up the war carried on by the Japanese im- perialists in the Far East was ex- posed at the Students Anti-War by C. C, Wang, of Colum- bia University, who had been elected to the Congress by a group of Chi- nese students in New York. ‘Wang also pointed out that the national revolutionary war carried on by the Chinese masses under the leadership of the Chinese Soviets is an important factor in blocking the intervention of the Soviet Union. In this connection, Wang cited the ac- tivities of the Manchurian Red Army under the red general Wang Teh- Ling, and the Red Guard near the Fushan mines and the partisan troops, who are in the way of the Japanese imperialistic plot to attack the Soviet Union through the eastern section of the Chinese Eastern rail- road. Two representatives of Chinese students of Chicago, Yen and Wang, were also present at the meeting. Maxmino De Gazman, a Philippine student, attacked the fake Philippine ie nce” bill recently passed ‘by Congress, and called for a resolu- tion demanding the immediate and unconditional independence of the Philippine Islands. | the Soviet way out of the crisis is | to the 50 delegates at the League for | Industrial Democracy conference | Union have caused him to change ON USS.R. STAND Says His Attack Not! “Final Judgment” NEW YORK—In an attempt to r up his hatred of the Soviet , Shared in common with the , Norman Thomas, soci- leader, in a letter in the New York Times of Jan. 2, declares that his statement that he found less hope “now than six months ago” in not his final judgment.” The states- ment was made in Thomas’ address at Barnard College. In that address, he deplored the revolutionary way out of capitalist misery taken by the Soviet masses in the October Rev- olution and called on the delegates to “look more towards America and not so much towards Russia.” In both his address and his present letter Thomas pretends that eight months ago he was more or Jess sym- pathetic with the Soviet Union. He pretends that the capitalist press re- ports of food shortage in the Soviet his views and to see “less hope in the Russian answer now than six or eight months ago.” This, despite the notorious fact that Thomas, like other leaders of the Second (social- ist) International, have all along andered the Soviet Union, minimiz- ing the tremendous achievements of the Soviet masses in socialist con- struction, while magnifying the dif- ficulties experienced in building up a new world in a formerly backward country surrounded by a-ring of hos- tile capitalist powers. Thomas's haste to “explain” his statement as not his “final judg- ment” is proof of the growing sym- pathies of socialist rank and file workers for the Soviet Union, a fact which all the socialist leaders are desperately combatting. Demand Children Get Food, Shoes|» |Demonstration Wins Promise in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 3.—Sev- eral hundred unemployed workers and 50 white and Negro school chil- dren were present at the session of the City Council of Pittsburgh, and presented demands for a $250,000 appropriation for milk, free hot lunches, shoes and clothing for school children. The spokesman of the delegation, Phil Frankfeld, pointed | out the conditions of the children of the unemployed workers, calling at- tention to the fact that over 13,000 school children cannot attend school because of undernourishment, that tens of thousands went to school but were in no position to study, that thousands more went without shoes and needed clothing. Ben Carruth- ers, also of the Unemployed Council, called atetntion to the thousands of sick children in the City of Pitts- burgh. Carruthers Exposes Casey. Then the school board went into session with the City Council and Dr. Graham of the school board spoke and pointed out the fact that 25 per cent of school children are undernourished, 8,170 children were receiving milk, but that thousands who needed it could not and were not getting it. Dr. Graham de- clared: “Many children come to school hungry, that in the high schools 38,000 students were in no position to buy meals.” Some of the members of the school board corroborated the statements |made by the representative of the Unemployed Council, and one of the spokesmen raised the question made by Frankfeld that the $500,000 saved by the County Emergency Relief As- sociation for the month of] November that part of this should be used for feeding the children. Mr. Casey of the State Emergency Relief Board, as well as some members of the City Council, were opposed to the feeding of school children on the ground that “the home was the best place to feed the children and not in the schools.” Towards the end of the session, when B. Carruthers spoke, he smashed this argument by the simple statement of fact that these workers’ children had nothing to eat at home, and he pointed to the aisles of white and Negro children to cor- roborate this statement, May Force Relief Action. A committee was set up to deter- mine the exact amount needed for the feeding of children. Immediate action was promised and it seems definite that an appropriation of at least $100,000 will be made by the City Council for the hungry, under- nourished school children of Pitts- burgh. Several times during the hearings and during the speeches the delega- tion applauded loudly their spokes- men. President Herron of the City Council on two occasions during the hearing threatened, to put out the Jeaders of the delegation. iCall for United Front Against Ely’s Anti-Labor Drive in Massachusetts Appeal to All Unions, Labor Bodies to Send Delegates January 29th Defeat. Governor’s Attempt to Bring Condi- tions to Level of South BOSTON.—The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union of Boston has sent out a call to all local unions, fraternal organizatiens, etc. for 2 mass conference to mobilize the workers for a united struggle against Governor Ely’s so-called “Challenge to the South”. The conference called by the Industrial Union will be held Sunday, January 29, 2 P. M., in the office of @ the union, 10 Beach St., Boston. In his “challenge to the South”, Governor Ely stated that unless the | southern employers will bring up their labor laws and working condi- tions of the workers to the level pre- vailing in Massachusetts, “we will bring our down to yours.” The mean- ing of this is an open instruction to the employers in this state to sharpen the attack upon the living standards of the workers in Massa- chusetts. The N.T.W.LU. asks all workers in the state, regardless of their union affiliations to see to it that their local unions elect delegates to| this conference to lay the basis for united determined action Strike in Feldman Leathercoat Shop in Lynn, Mass. BOSTON. — The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has de- clared a strike against A. Feldman, | a leathercoat firm in Lynn, Mass. The firm began producing skirts and pants in its shop, and put in a sub- | contractor, declaring him to be the real boss, thereby attempting to avoid Union control of this department. Instead of putting his old help to) work, Mr. Feldman hired new help | with the exception of a few of the old | workers. The miserably low prices which he paid to the new and old help for making these garments brought about a condition where the workers | could stand it no longer and went | out on strike. All workers of Feldman’s shop, old | and new, are standing together and} are determined to fight until they | compel Feldman to increase their prices and to recognize the control | of the Industrial Union in this de-j partment. | HAITIAN WORKERS EXPOSEPACT) Wall St. Directs Drive on Masses (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) respondence of the Haitian minister in’ Paris to President Vincent which has been published in the Haitian Tess: “And now, my dear President,” the | minister writes, “I must refer again | to @ very important question. You | must remember that I have already written to you concerning the Com- munist propaganda which is spread~ ing in a number of Latin-American countries. There is a report cur- rent among the group of young Hai- tians in the Latin Quarter that these new doctrines have gained entrance | and are developing in Haiti. Of course, my information is only third- | hand, and very vague, It is advis- able, however, that your police in- vestigate and discover what is going on in this matter among the young people who are being attracted to these advanced ideas, “In any case, it seems to me that the government would do well to ask our minister to the United States for information on the nt which has just been concluded between a large number of Latin-American governments to combat by concerted methods the Communist propaganda in our hemisphere. It must not be for- gotten that ths doctrine is sup- ported by an organization which has at its disposal and powerful means of action.” The letter is dated Nov. 14, 1932. Meanwhile, the terror against the workers has continued. Simulta- neously with the publication of the diplomatic correspondence men- tioned above, R. P. Williams, Amer- ican military agent in Haiti, and the commander of the Haitian Army, published a circular announcing a military campaign of “Suppression of Bolshevist Activities.” An “unofficial state of siege” has | been declared, and is openly ad- mitted by the newspapers, in the open warfare of HASCO, and the Wall Street imperialism government of Vincent against the Negro work- ers who for the first time have been organizing into unions to resist the repressive measures of these agen- cies. ‘Three workers’ organizations have been declared illegal. ‘Three more workers’ leaders have been arrested, in addition to the five arrested Dec. 23. Those impri- soned are: Max Hudicourt, editor of “Le Centre,” working class publi- cation which has been suppressed by the authorities; Henry de Lalue, secretary of the “Society for Propa- gation of Foreign Languages,” which with the “Workers League of Cul- ture and Defense,” and the “Work- ers’ League of Haiti,” has been de-| clared illegal by the authorities; and Celie Sautier, a Negro woman work- er. The home of Jacques Roumaine, | the best known of Haitian writers, who has been very close to the work- ers movement, was raided, with the intention of putting him also in jail, but he was not at home. HAMMOND LIKED LIGHTFOOT | Marchers, on their way to Washing- ton, stopped in Hammond to speak to the unemployed, it was comrade Lightfoot who carried away the hon- ors. Many said: “He is the best in- POWER MANEUVER BY ROOSEVELT Talks ‘Public Control’; Aids War Preparation NEW YORK—The announcement that President-elect “fosevelt will visit Muscle Shoals on Jan. 21, ac- ocmpanied by Frank P. Walsh of the New York State Power Authority, Judge John MeNinch of the Federal | Power Commission, and that an in- vitation to take part in the inspec- tion tour has been sent Senator George W. Norris, advocate of fed- eral operation of this huge hydro- electric development, now idle for ten years, is a continuation of the Roosevelt election “strategy” relative to “public control” of water power and electric projects. One Result of Insull Exposure The collapse of the Insull mono- poly as a result of the crisis and the revelations made in connection with it, which disclosed the vast extent of the mighty power it exercised, has created a tremendous popular senti- ment against the power trust which Roosevelt is trying to capitalize by advocacy of “experimental publia control” of hydro-electric develop- ments. “Popular Resentment” During his campaign President- elect Roosevelt endorsed a modified Norris plan for Boulder Dam, the Columbia River project, the St. Law- rence River development and Muscle Shoals. It is believed by President- elect Roosevelt and his advisors that @ measure of governmental control and perhaps some form of govern- ment operation for these immense projects would tend to allay popular resentment and discontent, that it would at the same time strengthen the Roosevelt administration with the “liberal and progressive element” | which places public ownership and control of water power in the center of its program. The Question of Nitrogen Plants There is no intention so far to be seen in the Roosevelt program to place under government control the huge nitrogen fixation plants which are one of the principal features of these power projects and which are becoming more and more the center of the chemical and explosive in- dustry. It is anriounced, for instance, that the nitrogen fixation plant at Muscle Shoals’ will probably be leased.” This will satisfy the chemical and ex- plosive interests dominated by the DuPonts, The War Drive The main feature of this whole maneuver for a clever connection of ;743 the federal government with cheap and primary sources of nitrogen, Phospahtaes, etc., is that all of them are basic for war preparations and the conduct of war which is now on the order of the day. EXPOSE LEVINE’S SLANDER OF USSR ‘Soviet Russia Today” Quotes World Experts NEW YORK.—Proof that Isaac Don Levine is a vicious anti-Soviet propagandist and a literary racketeer, unscruplously twisting facts to prove uary issue of Soviet Russia Today just off the press. A The magazine contains an article quoting extensively from both Soviet scientists and American scientists to disprove Levine's assertion that “So- viet Russia, as far as natural re- sources are concerned, ranks among the lowest countries in the world.” The article also refuted Levine's charge that “Stalin's regime brought the Russian standard of living be- low that of China and India.” The second of these slanders is as ridicu- lous and baseless as the first. Lies About Crops Levine states that “Agriculturally the resources are just as inadequate for the growing population as the mineral resources are for industrial Progress.” C. F. Marbut, chief soil scientist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has shown that the So- viet Union has 854 million acres of wheat lands as compsring to 234 | million agres in the United States. A. A. Johnson, anotier American ag- ricultural authority says that “The Soviet Union has @ greater abund- ance and variety of natural than any country in the world.” After quoting other American ex- - perts to the same effect, Soviet Rus- sia Today quotes extensively from Prof. I. M. Gobkin, member of the Soviet Academy of Science and a geologist of international reputation, who gives a detailed account of the enormous natural resources of the Soviet Union. Reise Living Standards Soviet Russia Today also shows that Isaac Don Levine is just as unreliable in his statements about the standard of living of Soviet work- ers and peasants as he is about So- viet resources. It is shown that the eprnik of living of the Soviet work- er and peasant is steadily rising as contrasting with the capitalist world Communist cause in —A. L. M. Poa agp teeny Mig age in which living standards have been driven down to the bare subsisience level through the capitalist exists. , ae { © his argument is given in the Jan=~-s_ o ‘