The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933 Ford Calls for | Release of] Huang Ping| James W. Ford, Communist vice- presidential candidate in the last election and member of the Gen- eral Council of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions, made the following statement on the case of Huang Ping before the Chinese Legation in Washington, D. C., Jan. 10. Tonight (Friday) at 8 p.m. a mass meeting for the release of Huang will be held at Irving Pla- za, 15th St. and Irving Pl., N. ¥. C. “I denounce American imperialism as an enslaver of the Chinese masses and for her joint role with the Japa- nese imperialists in carrying out direct war instigations against the Soviet Union through the aid of the reactionary Chinese Nankimg govern- ment. “T denounce American Smperialism and her agents in Chine for trying to destroy the Chinese Soviet govern- ment and the revolutionary move- ment, which alone are bringing liber- ation to the people of China. Agents of U. S. Imperialism. “I denounce American imperialism and her agents, Chang Kai Shek and | athe notorious war lord, Marshal % oF Chang Hsiao Liang, for brutal- ly murdering hundreds of thou- sands of the best fighters for Chi- nese liberation , and for torturing and killing t he best leaders of the Chinese masses. AMong these is Huang Ping, who is now being tortured by Marshal Liang at Peiping. “I most firmly denounce the re- actionary Chinese Kuomintang gov- ernment and all reactionary Chinese | bourgeoisie leaders, who at the be- hest of the imperialists are trying to stifle the liberation movement of the Chinese masses. You are now tor- turing my friend and comrade, Huang Ping! “T have known Huang Ping per- sonally for a number of years and know him to be an honest and fith- ful leader in the struggle to liberate the Chinese masses. But not only this, Huang Ping is one of the most courageous leaders of the interna- tional labor movement and stands in the forefront of the struggle for the liberation of the toilers of the world. I met Huang Ping in 1929 at the World Congress of the League Against Imperialism and was elected a mem- ber of its Executive Committee, of which Huang Ping is one of the most outstanding members. With my re- sponsibility to the working-class movement I make a most emphatic denunciation of the imprisonment and torture of Huang Ping and call upon all working-class organizations to do likewise, especially the Negro toilers. I feel with Huang Ping these medieval tortures, the thrusting of red hot irons .through his body in a fruitless effort to stifle his courage. Long Record of Struggle. “I know of the efforts.of Huang Ping from the great Hongkong strike of 1925, which set China aflame and set in motion the great revolutionary movement of China. I know of his efforts in the great Canton Com- mune in 1927, which was destroyed by the combined forces of American, Japanese, British and French im- perialists, aided by the Chinese lack- eys of the Koumintang. Huang was People’s Commissar of Foreign Af- fairs of the Canton government. “I know that Huang Ping has played a big role in the setting up of the Soviet government in China today, which, along with the support of the Chinese Red Army of workers and peasants and the revolutionary labor movement, is the only force that is leading China to freedom. ‘The Chinese Soviets provide a great object lesson for the oppressed colo- nials, the Indian masses, the Negro toilers and all the colonial masses, in their struggle against imperialism. Comrade Huang Ping is a leader of the Red International of Labor Unions, to which the T.U.ULL. is af- filiated. “Tt is for these things that they are torturing our comrade, Huang Ping. Every class-conscious worker, every oppressed toiler demands the freedom of Huang Ping! I am call- ing upon all toilers to protest against and demand the release of Huang Ping! FASCIST TERROR t [ J. W. FORD SWEEPS BERLIN 5 Seriously Wounded in Attacks on Workers (By Inprecorr Cable) , Jan. 12—The wave of fascist terror continued in Germany yesterday, five Berlin workers being seriously wounded. Following a pub- lic Communist meeting in Pharus Hall in the proletarian Wedding dis- trict, uniformed fascists fired at groups of workers from a speeding auto. A woman, Johanna Fueser, and In Badstrasse, Berlin, 40 fascists attacked a group of worker sports- men returning in the evening from training. Two were seriously stabbed had to be taken to the hospital. workers’ hall in Carmer Platz attacked by 40 fascists who wrecked the interior. Several workers were injured. The revolutionary worker, Her- mann Ficholz, was waylaid in the Charlottenburg section of Berlin and See He was taken to the hos- pi Afight occurred at the Friedrichs- hain Hospital when a gang of uni- formed fascists entered, threatening off wounded Commu- who were Tuesday. Police arrested E>d Looks Like Hoover But it is not him, Just an ordi- naty slimy stool pigeon (indicated by arrow) and quickly exposed by the workers in the National Hun- ger March in Washington. The stool is being held by the marchers while his photo is being snapped. The capitalist method of sending agents into the workers’ ranks in order to disrupt them can be de- feated if the workers are on guard and immediately expose such spies. HUSHING A. F. L. AGENT ENRAGED Interrupts Bill Dunne in Senate Hearing (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) political for revolutionary trade unions and political parties.” Dunne stated further that he was representing, not a forteign govern- ment, but the workers whose inter- ests the A. F. of L. bureaucrats con- sider foreign to the interests of Wall St. capitalism, and which they are trying to protect no matter what the cost is to the workers. Expose Ala, Terror Dunne said that all facts regarding the Trade Union Unity League, and the Communist Party are well known to the A. F. of L. officials of the De- partment of Justice, Black, obviously laboring under great strain as a re- sult of the lengthy and detailed ex- posure of the Talapoosa atrocities in his own state of Alabama as part of the general offensive of Wall Street government, asked Dunne to give names of his informants relative to the conditions of Negroes in Alabama. Dunne stated that in view of the| fact that representatives of the at- torneys have been jailed and Negro Share-croppers just threatened with kidnapping and death if they appear, he would not give names till the sit- uation becomes less sharp. Dunne told Black that he could later have sources of information, but that the facts have been established. Democrats Lead Attack Dunne stated that the drive against the workers has not diminished, but has strengthened since the beginning of the fourth year of the crisis, with the election of the Democrat Roose- velt. As evidence of this fact, Dunne sighted the proposal of governor Ely of Massachusetts to suspend all lab- bor legislation in order to meet south- ern competition. The democratic government of I- linois, Dunne continued, has sent five companies of troops to protect the interests of the Peabody Coal Co., against the hungry, striking miners, and that this same democratic gov- ernment has established a reign of terror with the wholesale jailing of 24 miners on charge of murder for defending themselves and their fam- ilies against the murderous onslaught of the Lewis thugs and company gun- men. He listed further the attack on the wages of the rail workers and steel workers. No protest to any of these actions or proposals have been made by Roosevelt. Demand No Pay Cuts Dunne exposed the endorsement of | the share-the-work by Teagle and Green and branded the Black Bill as the legalized extension of the vicious system. He declared that the TUUL will support any bill for shorter work day and week, providing it would be stipulated that there would be no reductions in the total income of the workers, and providing the Bill car- ried a minimum wage law for all the workers. GENUINE UNITY OF WORKERS, FARMERS DENVER, Colo.—When part of the California Hunger Marchers on their way home from Washington arrived in Denver, after being held up in Kansas City for repairs on their cars, they were given a special welcome. A farmer on the outskirts of Den- ver invited part of the delegates to his home for lodging and entertain- ment and for two days while they were repairing cars, so they could proceed to California, they were given: turkey dinners and all the trim- mings. The marchers sang songs and had a general good time and getting plenty of sleep for two days they were in fine shape to make the trip home. Farmers in the neighborhood who saw the marchers’ cars all decorated up with slogans were sympathetic and interested and,brought plenty of milk and butter and other eats to them. The delegates aroused quite a lot of interest by talking to some of the farmers. All whom they talked with wished them speed on their way home so they could tell the workers of California about the treatment they received in Washington. LL. ATTENTION PHOTOGRAPHERS Worker Correspondents — The Workers’ Film and Foto League of the W.LR. will cooperate with all workers who send in pictures with their stories to the Worker Cor- respondence section. Many pic- tures will not be used in the Daily due to space requirements and technical defects, but will be used in other medium by the Nat'l. Comm. Film and Foto League of the W.LR. The League will cor- respond with the photo-corres- pondents and aur them improve WORKER CORRESPONDENCE FARMERS WRITE OF THEIR INCREASING STRUGGLES Pellagra and Rickets Page Three ae for Children of Share Croppers and Farmers \Farms in Virginia Sold by Hundreds; Cattle Eating Apple Twigs and Dead Leaves Red Cross Relief Only for Forced Labor At $1.12 Per Day ‘ CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va—I am sending a paper with the list of farms to be sold (one page of small type in a country paper with hundreds owners for years but they cannot pay | of farms listed on it—Ed.). Our farm has been in the hands of the present taxes because they do not make any money from raising produce and stock. The cows are eating apple twigs end we sold most of the cattle but@ they didn’t bring enough to pay for raising them. One share-cropper told me that he hasn’t had any wages for two years! and he is $50 in debt with only food | to last until April. One of his sons is working for a :andowner for just a day’s food as wages. I know that sharecroppers never got enough to eat. Because they don’t have what is called a “balanced diet” their chil- dren are thin and rickety and thev! fall victims to pellagra. He told me that he wasn’t going to starve but | intended to walk into store in day- | light and pick up what he needed and let the storekeeper try and be| man enough to stop him. I told him | about the Sharecroppers’ Union and the fight in Alabama to show him | an organized fight is the only way. | He said the poor people around here | would be forced to do that if they | expected to keep their farms and | not starve. ‘The Red Cross relief is forced la- bor on the road at $1.12 a day. Some of the poor people make moonshine and the rich send them to the peni- tentiary. A lot of them sit around their cabins and occasionally steal something to eat. I hope that the poor class of Negro and white people get organized here and fight against this slavery. J.C. RB. SHEARING OTHERS BESIDES THE SHEEP | NEW PLYMOUTH, Idaho.—Andrew Little, the big sheep man of this sec- tion, is paying 50 cents a day for common hands and will probably not pay more during lambing, which starts about Feb. 1. Last year and last summer he paid $1 a day. If he pays no more than 50 cents this year the workers will no doubt or- ganize and strike without much agi- tation. If you have any cheap litera- ture that fits the occasion, please send a few samples. J. G. Editor’s Note:—The accounts of the Vacaville strike in the Western Worker of Nov. 28, Dec. 5 and 22, and Jan. 9, would be helpful in this situa- tion. The Western Worker, which is a weekly paper, is carrying news of this strike in every issue. It is pub- lished at 1164 Market St., San Fran- cisco, Cal., and subscription rates ate 50 cents for three months. “The American Farmer,” by George An- strom (revised edition 5 cents), car- ries a section on farm workers and migratory workers. A FARMER APPI-ES MARXIAN ECONOMICS NEW PLYMOUTH, Idaho.—In this section inflation propaganda is poi- sonnig the minds of the farmers and making it harder to get them inter- ested in the United Fasters’ League. I have only begun to study Marx’s Political Economy, so I don’t under- Stand just what effects “inflation” would have upon the well being of the masses. This is what I think. To inflate money would cheapen it so that the purchaser would have to give more dollars for what he was purchasing. The wage-workers’ wages would remain the same and since the dollar was cheapened he could buy less with his dollar. His pur- chasing power would be cut, there- fore the farmer could not sell as much of his farm produce. The farmer’s income in dollars would be no more than it had been before. He would be able to sell less of his farm produce and would have to pay out more in dollars for that which he purchased. Inflation for the big bosses would be a slick way of cutting wages and @ means by which they could make a greater profit off the farmers. In- flation would mean greater impover- ishment and misery for the masses and more profit for the robbing cap- italists. Sorry that I have not yet been able to organize the farmers of this sec- tion into fighting units, I tried and I believe my downfall was due to not sufficiently exposing the quack schemes of the capitalist politicians and the failure to get enough propa- ganda circulated before I called any meetings. J. G. MILO RENO, PREACHER WITHOUT A PULPIT COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia. — Milo Reno, the misleader of the Farmers’ Union is a Campbellite preacher Without a pulpit. He charges the duped farmers $8,000 a year as their betrayer. Take the election leaflet you put out for farmers and cross out the “Vote Communist” slogan and distribute among the farmers in Towa and Nebraska. They would de- velop leaders from amongst them- selves quick enough. They are ready have been sick but am on the mend. When T can go out, I will. Ww. Pt Necro ane WHITE Workers 2 STORY OF YOUR EXPERIENCES ARPER COMES POND EAT — GOVT. CONTROLS WATER DEMANDS ADVANCE PAY BOISE VALLEY, Idaho—Just to show the plight of the farmers in this part. The government controls the water supply, and that must be paid for by the farmers before the water is turned to him. If there is a scarcity of water, the govern- ment has the farmer's money, and does not return any part for not being able to supply the water. Potatoes and onions sold for lc. a hundred pound sack last fall, thousands of sacks were left in the fields. Apples, peaches, prunes, etc. could not be marketed at any price, so were left on the trees. The average farmer is done, and done right—this year will finish those who but a few years ago thought their worries were over. One of those well-to-do farmers, a kulak who has been able to exploit his fellow farmers, put his surplus money into government bonds. He had between thirty and forty thous- and dollar's worth, and was referred to as the coupon clipper in this lo- cality He told me the other day he did not get any interest, and could not get any of the principle. Said he had his doubts if he would ever get any. He worked very hard for Hoover's re-election, so his bonds would be safe, as he needs that in- terest very badly to pay his taxes. This is all in the home state of Sen- ator Bill Borah, the U. S. Circus Man. . Read the Daily Worker, and know the truth. —S. A. NEIGHBORS BLOCK EVICTION OF FARMER PERKASIE, Pa—The eviction of a farmer in Bucks County, Pa., was stopped by the united action of the farmers in his locality, who turned out 250 strong at a sheriff's sale on John Hanzel’s farm. All household goods, cows, horses, chickens, farm machinery, grain, etc., were to be sold at auction. This sale would have taken away Hanzel’s last means of support for himself and his four small children, to whom he is both father and mother since the death of his wife two years ago. ‘The farmers held a meeting at the place of sale and agreed to’ieave all bidding to three of their number, who would bid only a small amount for each article offered, and later return it to Hanzel. Only one man, a lawyer from Doylestown, desired to go ahead and deprive this family of this last means of support. He started to oppose the farmers and to single out one or two of them whom he hoped to intimidate, but he finally saw that the farmers were 100 per cent united to see that this family was not turned out upon the road, and he agreed to let the sale go on as the farmers wanted. All household goods, beds, stoves, furniture, etc., was sold for a total of 6 cents; a good bull sold for 5 cents; five cows sold for a nickel apiece; 3 horses totalled 14 cents; a heifer, 2 wagons, 2 gas engin: a hayrake and other farm machinery, some fodder, a crib full of corn, 3 hogs, 50 chickens, were all sold at 5 cents or less per item. Total receipts for the sale were $1.18. Immediately after the sale the buy- ers gave Hanzel a 99-year lease on all goods sold, and the farmers took up a collection of $22 to cover the cost of the sale ($1.18), and to con- tribute to their paper, the “Organ- ized Farmer.” A second collection of $12 was taken up, to be given to Hanzel and his four small children, who are very glad to have a roof still over their heads and to know where they are going to sleep. NOTICE: On page 4 of this is- sue, the farm correspondents will find an article on the recent farm conference in Washington, and an editorial on the farmery’ struggies FARMER’S BABY DIES; DOCTOR REFUSED HELP LUTTRELL, Tenn.—Most of the farmers here are very poor. At Sharps Chapel a farmer told me the Maynardville Court sold 65 acres of land for $11. You can see times around here are bad. T have children. I didn’t work on the road because I was sick. I sup- pose I will be in the workhouse be- fore many days. We have all been sick, We had no doctor. The doctor on the square won’t come unless - you have the money to pay him at once. One of my neighbor's children was taken sick with fever. The doctor asked if they had money. They promised it in a few days, but he wouldn’t go, because he says that won’t buy gas. Now their baby died. OKLA. FARMERS GREET FIGHTING IOWANS GRADY COUNTY, Okla.—Through the columns of the Daily Worker, we extend our congratulations to the farmers of Iowa and other states for haying organized against foreclo- sures and evictions. It is a pleasure to inform you that the farmers of Grady County are waking up and are coming to the conclusion that mass action is the only chance for relief, Our local boasts a large at- tendance of very enthusiastic mem- bers and militant leaders. We are with you to the finish, Yours for solidarity, THE WAYDON LOCAL, Farmers National Relief Organi- zation, John Phillips, Sec. GRAIN PRICES BOOSTED BY WAR Speculators | Expect. a Japan War on USSR COONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Pacific port, in pursuit of a force of Manchurian volunteers resist- ing the Japanese seizure of Man- churia. The defeated volunteers have crossed the Soviet border, where they have been disarmed and interned in accordance with the usual international practice. The Japanese imperialists are de- manding that the Soviet Union surrender the anti-imperialist fighters. The Soviet Government has refused to comply with the im- pudent Japanese demand. Japanese troops on Wednesday captured the strategic Chiumenko Pass after a sharp battle with Chi- nese volunteers who were reported aided by regular troops. Four Japan- ese armies are now pushing the ad- vance into Jehol Province, two ad- vancing by differént routes from Chinchow, one from Kailu, further north, and one from the North Chi- na city of Shanhaikwan which was practically razed to the ground by the Japanese, with great loss of ci- vilian life, by a murderous naval, land and aerial bombardment last week. Nanking Maintains Relations with Invaders Mass resentment is sweeping all China and the Nanking Government is forced to make a show of “resist- ance” in an attempt to mollify the masses, who are increasingly engag- ing in anti-imperialist, anti-Nanking strikes, boycotts and other actions. Several Nanking armies are Teported moving into Jehol Province. How- ever, the fact that Nanking still maintains diplomatic relations with the Japanese invaders and is oppos- ing any general struggle against the proceeding partition of China by the imperialists clearly reveal the trea- cherous character of its gesture of “resistance”. Meanwhile, Nanking has over 700,000 troops and fleets of bombing planes engaged in the un- successful attempt to destroy the Chinese Soviet Districts. The Nan- king dictator, Chiang Kai-Shek has not gone to the area of the Japanese invasion but remains at Hankow in personal command of the “Commu- nist Suppression” campaign ordered by U. S. and other imperialists. U. §., JAPAN TROOPS FACE EACH OTHER The Japanese are reported to have landed marines at the sea- Herbert Benjamin, organizer of the Unemployed Councils, made a speech before the National Hun- ger Marchers in Washington. The News (N.¥.C.) manufactured its own lying, provocative speech and attributed it to Benjamin. DEMAND “NEWS” RETRACT ITS LIES Benjamin Denial Is Printed by Reuters NEW YORK, Jan. 12—A commu- nication addressed to Herbert Ben- jamin has just been received from Reuters News Agency enclosing a clipping from the London Times publishing the denial of Benjamin that he made during the hunger march at Washington the speech at- tributed to him by the lying, dis- reputable sheet, the Daily News of this city. Reuters’ letter to Benjamin said: “We are enclosing a clipping of your denial of the speech attributed by the ‘News’ to you on Dec, 4 last in connection with the recent ‘hunger march’ to Washington. As you see, your denial was circulated by us and published in the London ‘Times’ on Dec. 20.” To Act Against News The “News”, which tried during the Hunger March, by printing the most provocative lies, to furnish an excuse for a massacre of the starv- ing men, women and youth who par- ticipated in the hunger march has, of course, not had the decency to publish a retraction of its foul men- dacity. That is its usual custom. Its reputation for truth cannot be dam- aged because it has none. However, action is to be taken against it, according to information received from Joseph R. Brodsky, at- torney for Benjamin. The letter of Brodsky after lengthy quotation from the manufactured speech at- tributed to Benjamin concludes with the following: “Client instructs us to advise you that he demands a retraction of the article hereinbefore referred to, same to be published in the same place in your paper and as conspicu- ously displayed as was the libelous article complained of. “Unless this is done at once we are under instructions to institute suit.” MOLOTOV CITES 5-YR. PLAN GAINS 2nd Plan to Continue Socialist Advance (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the sowing area and the increase of its productivity. Concrete problems have been set with this perspective in view. The state budget income will in- crease from 30,000,000,000 rubles in 1932 to 30,700,000,00 in 1983. Regard- ing the supply of industrial goods in the city and country and the supply of foodstuffs for workers and em- ployees, attention will be turned toward further improvement in this respect, particularly by improving or- ganization. The funds for industrial goods and foodstuffs will be inceas- ing considerably in 1933, while the number of workers and employees in industry will increase only by 2 per cent. Concerning cultural construction, the second Five Year Plan provides rates of growth considerably in ex- cess of those in agricultural economy, Improvement of Labor Efficiency Discussing industry further, Molo- toy emphasized that the main object in 1933 is the improvement of labor efficiency, Citing a number of quota- tions from Lenin to the effect in- crease in labor efficiency brought about by the workers themselves is already the beginning of Communism, Molotov pointed out that in the en- tire period of the first Five Year Plan labor efficiency in industry increased 40 per cent. How difficult this was may be seen from the fact that Stuart Chase, the American bourgeois port of Chinwangtao at which a detachment of the U. S, 15th In- fantry is stationed. The proximity of the forces of the two imperial- ist rivals for supremacy in the Pa- cific and control of China is fur- ther aggravating the situation, Al- ready American correspondents ad- mit that U. S. forces were nearly invloved in the fighting at Shan- haikwan. The Japanese advance into North China is threatening Wall Street's spheres of influence and investments in China and is sharpening the inherent antaro- nisms between the two rivals. The slightest incident may serve as a spark to set off an explosion be- tween the two rivals, despite the fact that both are trying to direct events into anti-Soviet channels. Wall St. Figures on Attack on USSR The Wall Street rumors show that the imperialists are agreed that there is to be an early attack on the So- viet Union. The action of the wheat speculators in sending up prices of wheat on these rumors are a warning of what the workers can expect by way of increased cost of living if the imperialist war mongers are permit- ted to carry out their plans. The tished farmers will de- rive little benefit from the increase Ae Song ‘The speculators will see to ‘ liberal economist, considered it a par- ticular achievement of the so-called prosperity period of the United States that labor efficiency increased 25 per cent in five years. In England, in the five-year period preceding the crisis, 1924-1929, labor efficiency increased 11 per cent; Germany, the most tech- nically advanced country in Europe, in the whole of the period from 1913 to 1931 achieved only a 27 per cent increase. Consequently, said Molotov, we can conclude that the rate of increase in labor efficiency that we achieved in the firat Five Year Plan is beyond anything the capitalist countries can do. Further, Molotov stated, it is in- dispensable now to concentrate the chief attention on the improvement. in the quality of production, The first Five Year Plan, Molotov declared, created the basis for the complete technical reconstruction of the national economy of he U.S. S. R. However, this technical recon- struction is still inadequately utilized. Therefore, it is indispensable to de- velop the Bolshevist manner of fight- ing for the mastery of the new enter- prises, of the new technique, for the improvement of labor organization and for the reinforcement of labor discipline. ion of tm the matter of the development of skilled workers and engineering Need Broad to Defeat the Dasted Front Wage Slash Proposed by Steel Trusts For Real Discussion in Mills, Among Jobless of Demands Propose Formation of Committees in Every Mill Department By FRANK ROGERS Under the veiled phrases of “further adjustments are necessary in the steel industry in 1933” and open rumors NOT DENIED by the officials of the steel trust, is the threat of definite action to cut the wages from 5 te 15 per cent in the steel industry. In open talk. The Warren Trumbull pl report that the cut will ta’ on Jan, 16, The Republic Youngstown plans to cut 7 pe similar preparations. No dou! steel workers in their next p velope will already receive t although no definite announce: have been made. The Y Sheet and Tube has disc policy of announcing tions. The worker: pay envelopes “sh Various Ways of Putting Cut Over Will the wage-cut be a sweeping open general cut in S- try? This cannot be answered at the moment. The Warren S mass organized mi employed; the birth of and Metal Workers 1 are determining factors. tions during the sult in steel trus wage-cuts may be ment to de . down the plant and men at a new wage rate; of hiring new men and f! steel ir the old men; the use of the A. F. of L. slid- and scores ha reduc| workers to a ing scale agreement; other methods whict the wages of the ste starvation level. Need Mass United Front Immediate preparations must be started for the widest possible UNITED FRONT MOVEMENT to} fight against the new proposed wage- cut. This is not only the task of the teel Union but of the whole working class movement. Every worker, em- ployed and unemployed, every work- ers’ organization in the steel dis- tricts and towns must make this the main point of discussion at their meetings. Be it a dramatic club or unemployed organization there must be place on the agenda for a dis- cussion on how to organize to defeat the new wage-cut. Women and chil- dren, A. F. of L. and revolutionary unions; employed and unemployed must be drawn into this united front movement. We must win over the} professionals and small storekeepers to support the movement. All of them are effected by the constant lower- ing of the living standards of the steel workers. Anti-wage cut commit- tees should be built in the mills which gets the direct sup} of the unemployed. Mass delegati should be organized in steel towns to pro- test to the city councils demanding that the agents of the steel trust go on record against the wage-cut and provide relief for the jobless. For Real Discussion of Demands. A discussion of slogans and de- mands in this campaign has already started. There is a danger, however. that bureaucracy and self-appoint- ed doctors” will stiffle the discus- » place @ the Youngstown Steel District it is ant workers of the Republic Steel sions and prevent the launching of a broad campaign. It must be un- ood that slogans and demands a c neet with success only when t are endorsed and supported by the masses themselves. A program 1 be born out of a thorough dis- q on of grievances and problems of the steel workers. The movement t the wage-cut must be im- y brought down from the nittees to the steel work- ills and the unemployed. The ft tie discussion of r tactics; slogans; nds must begin at once. ti and spirit of mass conducted by the stecl ers in 1919 must be revived! Some Proposals following are a list of draft logans and demands submitted by the campaign inst the new pro- STOP the new to e-cut! Form committees wage-cut in every de- the partment! 2. Three days’ week! inst all forms of terror in steel mills and towns! 4. Employed and unemployed! and fight together against e-cuts and for better relief! 5. Join e Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union! Demands: 1. No wage cut! 2, Immediate $6 cash unemployed relief fe 1 married workers; $1 additional for each dependent. 3. Four dollars cash relief to all single unemployed workers. 4. No discrimination against Negro workers 5. Against discrimination and de- portation of Italian; South Slay and other foreign-born workers. 6. Equal pay for equal work for all workers (including young and women workers) 7. Immediate payment of insyr- ance by the company for all unem- ployed and part-time workers. No deductions from the workers’ pay for insurance and relief. 8. Weekly time schedule of -work to be posted in each department :at the beginning of the week. Pay for all time spent in the mill. 9, Reinstatement of all blacklisted workers. 10. Right to organize: The recog- nition of Workers’ Grievance Com- mittees. NOTICE: Elect delegates at all meetings of steel workers to: the United Front Conference Against Wage-cut organized by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union to be held on Sunday, Jan. 29. work or three days’ and technical forces a gigantic step| forward has been taken. In the elim-| ination of illiteracy the Five-Year Plan produced tremendous achieve- ments. Quite recently more than half the pepulation of the Soviet Union was unable to read or write; now less than 10 per cent are illit- erate. The number of students in the workers’ faculty schools increased nine times during the Five Year Plan, and the number in the factory schools increased five times. The number of students in the technical schools became five times greater, and increased three times in the uni- versities and higher technical schools, Passing on to a further discussion of agricultural economy, Molotov again emphasized that the chief at- tention is to be concentrated on the problems of increased productivity. The radical reconstruction of agri- culture has already been accom- plished; at the end of the first Five Year Plan the principal instrument in harvesting cereals has become, in- stead of the horse, the tractor com- bine. A particularly important role in the technical reconstruction of agricultural economy is being played by the tractor stations. These sta-} tions have been in existence three or | four years and already their number | has reached 2,500. Not only their technical and industrial role is grow- ing rapidly, but also their poiitical role in the village. This creates fav- orable conditions for the development of the struggle for improving labor efficiency in agriculture and, above all, for the total fulfilment of the tasks connected with the improve- ment of the productivity of the col- lective and state farms. Supplies To Be Improved On the question of the goods turn- over between city and country and the improvement of supplies for the workers, Molotov emphasized the fact that the U. 8. 8, R. is constantly in- creasing the growth in the output of urgent commodities and that in this respect 1933 will be an important step forward. In 1933 capital construction in light industry must increase 48 per cent. Speaking of the increases provided in the first year of the second Five Year Plan (industrial production will increase 16.5 per cent), Molotoy re- ferred to the voices coming from the ranks of the petty bourgeois elements, alleging that a “retreat” was being made. One representative of these ideas is Zinoviev. It is characterisiic, said Molotov, that such ideas are also expressed by the renegade Troisky, Recently Trotsky offered his estin tion of the economic achievements of the Soviet Union. His chief slogen was: the Bolshevik policy of advance went too far and therefore a retreat was unavoidable. Trotsky suggests that we delay one year before starting the second Five Yegr Plan. Thus the source which fed Zinoviev and others is quite obvious, However, the Bolshevik Party has its own course, declared Molotov. “We continue to stand on the path of advance. We continue the line of victorious onslaught of the first Fiy ‘ear Plan.” A great deal still remains to be done, he said. Great difficulties in- side and outside the borders of the U.S.S.R. still must be overcome for the successful accomplishment of the second Five-Year Plan. But let our class enemies both in the USSR and abroad say what they please and re- peat the twaddle of all kinds of bour- geois degenerates; the Soviet Union will use against them the victories of the first Five-Year Plan for the fur- ther advance of socialism. And in doing that, said Molotov, we pledge that our second Five-Year Plan, a Five-Year Plan of struggle for the creation of a classless Socialist society will have still greater international significance, will prove to be a still more effective reflection of the his- toric destiny of the international pro- letariat than even the tremendous successes of the first Five-Year Plan. After pointing out that quring these years the Soviet Union was repeated- ly in danger of imperialist attack, while a ceaseless economic war has been waged against it in different for- eign markets, Molotov concluded: ‘The workers and toilers of the countryside were able to accomplish what they did during these years only because of their revolutionary enthusiasm and heroism in struggle, striki expressed by the mass growth of the shock brigade movye- ment and socialist competition. Only the correct policy of the Party and its struggle for iron discipline .and the Bolshevik unity of its ranks secured the triumph of the first Five- Year Plan. “For the fulfilment of the prob- lems of the current year, the first year of the second Five-Year Plan, and especially for the improvement of labor efficiency in industry,, the improvement of the quality of indus- trial production and the inereasé in the productivity of the collective. and state farms, we must by our work secure a still greater and more ac- tive mobilization of the masses around and under the le: of our Party. A tremendous and glor- ious task has been accomplished. Forward on the Leninist path to the one of the second Five-Year jan!” Hear Hunger March Report in Anderson ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 11. — ‘The Crystal Theatre was well filled. on Wednesday evening, Jan. 4th, where Comrade Lewis of Indianapolis made @ report on the National Hunger March. He was followed by Comrade Pittman and a Negro, Comrade Wil- son, also of Indianapolis. Comrade Pittman spoke on the un- employed situation, Comrade spoke on the Scottsboro case. f+ teen workers signed for the Unem- ployed Council at this meeting. — if s . 5 ,