The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1933, Page 4

Pa ge Four isth 8t., New York City, X. ¥ Address and mail eheeks to the Daily Worker. eaplished by the Compredatily Publishing Co., tme., daily exeept Sanday, at 50 B. Telephone ALyonguin 4-7936. Cable “DAIWORK.” 50 E. 15th Bt, New York, N. ¥. Discrimination Bills Against the Filipinos in Cal. Legislature Passes Statute Prohibiting Interma: riage Br ANGEL TI MONDEJAR. o death C orm With @ the Assogiated Pri r s that | dark complexior & worker. em. Tt wh ed by t Filipino statu: in some se even than that of the s far he law goes bourgeoisie regards the Fil e to the Cau- ce incompetent to rule it- bourgeoisie acts to use m of mankind o destroy the of differei The pinos as an ave been fig! alize publi Ku Klux Klan ‘ople of h and s scrim- repre rea racial discrim- 1e hands of the mil- rs of the Philippines and United States. ical thing is for Filipinos to over- throw the present form of society ex- isting in the Philippines. All work invited to a meet- ing on imperialism in the Philippines t Opry f approved by the Go orce the Filipino race geregated position as the acial inferiori to isolate Filipinos | the workers of the world Haywood Patterson was dat Brooklyn 240 Columbia St., South sentenced HUNGER RATIONS IN PHILLIPINE JAILS MANILA, P. 1. (By Mail).— Nine centavos a day! Four and a half cents. for three meals. That is the fare to which Crisanto Evangelista, Com- munist Party leader in the Philippine Islands, now serving a long prison term in Bilibid Prison in Manila, is being subjected. Eleven centavos a day will buy the following three meals: Breakfast, ino Commissioners in , $75 a day as “wages,” penses,” including accomo- Washi plus a plate of boiled mongo and : 2 of rice—4 centavos. Dinner duplicate of the luncheon—4 centa-| dation in the best hotels, with num- vos. What kind of food will the |erous stenographers and assistants prisoners get for 9 centavos a day,| Wao do nothing but draw wages. Speaker Roxas used to get $100 a day in per diems alone, besides his salary, expenses and allowances. It’s a great racket for the Commissioners who the Bu-| ate supposed to demand Philippine e- | Independence froma the U. S. govern- minus of course the rake-off on food | supplies common in all prisons, and the rise in prices of foodstuffs caused ws! by the new tariff Colonel Sar reau.of Prisons, The only log- | called by the Filipino Anti-Imperial- | ist League at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, April | sent prison appropriation would al-| ment, but who have sold out their low only 9 centavos for food, .013 for | countrymen with the most infamou: clothing, 1 etc.; 012 centavos | effrontery. They lick the toes of a day fer t of | American sugar and tobacco inter- | having cut t ast of water 50 per | ests by supporting the so-called Phil- | cent. F 500 prisoners in the | ippine “Independence Bill,” which island, 3,600 of whom are in Bilibid,|™means further enslavement of the Filipino people and further immer- sion in the swamp of U. S. domina- | tion, Protest When Quezon Comes ‘The Communist Party, the revo- the budget for supplies including food was cut from 645,694 pesos in 1928 to 347,340 pesos in 1933. (A peso 50 cents) “If We Could Stop Their Eating” | | BUILDING PLANES IN THE SOVIET UNION I | | | | IRISH RAILWAY STRIKE GAINING. WIDER SUPPORT Reformist TU Leaders | Call Strike Illegal | DUBLIN, April 11.—The unofficial | strike of the southern railwaymen | called at midnight yesterday against | | threatened wage-cutting and for an} The increased wage has successfully stop- ped all rail service out of Dublin, though the stoppage in the south of the Free State is as yet only partial. It is expected to be complete by tomorrow, and may spread to the north if the workers repudiate the settlement made at the Belfast Con-| ference. The southern § railway/ workers are fighting not only the companies, but also their trade union | leaders, who have refused to sanction | the strike, | The workers will not let the strike | be throttled by this corrupt buroc- | Tacy, but on the contrary, are plan- | ning to extend the strike to other forms of transport. Frequent service | by buses relieved Dublin yesterday, but there is hope of a sympathetic | strike by the busmen. By NATHANIEL BUCHWALD. (Daily Worker Correspondent.) “Among us there are some who still bear sears from czarist and landlord’s whips and ramroads . . .” —Manifesto of Congress of Col- lective Farmers. At the congr collective farm ers in Moscow I spoke to a number of those scarred Soviet far I found many of them witt upon their hearts as well There was a middle-aged p woman from the Lower Volga | whose husband had been buried alive by one of the landlords’ White Guard jbands during the Civil War A man from the Northern Caucasus {region told me of his wife and two | children who had died in a famine. | The bride of another one of the | delegates from the Northern Cauc: sus had been violated by a white co: sack officer who then turned her over |to his men. She went mad, then | hanged herself. Before the Revolution and the Civil | War, in the “good old days” of Czar ism and the rule of the landlords, | the poor peasants of Russia were the | helpless prey of the landed nobility, jof the Czarist officialdom and the village kulaks—the unholy trinity of the Russian countryside. The relation between the Czarist government and the peasantry was a {simple one: it was the relation of the Of course, we can economize in| lutionary unions,’ the Anti-Imperial- | robber and the robbed. The essential many way Colonel list League of the Philippines have | “eature of the agrarian policy of the “We can stop the p | been declared illegal and all attempts | Czarist Empire was the robbing of anging clothes too ¢ | at meetings are broken up. Thirty|the peasants, making them pay aps stop them from | militant leaders languish in the jails,| enormous taxes, confiscating their once too often But how we can| while constant arrests and imprison- | last cow for non-payment of state stop them from eating and consum- ng |ment are the order of food, I cannot | throughout the islands. he Manila Sunday Tribune:| Now the lackey government it is the government officials’ | arve the prisoners an addi- shment, nobody can guess the i mn in cutting the day of Quezon, the president of the Philip- pine legislature, has prepared a torturous death by starvation |for these and 1,500 other prisoners in the Philippine: American workers! In a very short | while Manuel Quezon will arrive in Amer protest and anger. Let our solidarity with our Filipino brothers vividly | manifest itself before the eyes of the what, 24% Cents or $75 a Day | teresting here to note the | foremost lackey of American impe- and expense accounts | rialism in the Phillippine Islands. “BIG SWORDS,” volunteer peasant troops battling Japanese in- vaders while the Chiang K: hek government leaves these primitively armed forces to the mercy of machine gun fire and concentrates its main attack on Soviet China, far to the South PRESS AGENCY SAYS CHIANG SELLS MANCHURIA FOR FREE HAND ON REDS Abandons Troops in North China to Center His Army Against Soviet Districts LONDON, April 11—General Chiang Kai-shek, head of the Nanking Government, has agreed to abandon the Chinese forces fighting in Man- echuria to the Japanese so as to be able to turn his forces against the Chinese workers’ and peasants’ soviets, according to Exchange Telegraph reports from Canton. The telegraph agency states that Chiang Kai-shek will recognize the Japanese-controlled ¢-————___________. Manchukuo Government in return pefore the Japanese assault. Suc- for a Japanese agreement to abolish} cessful flanking advances occurred the unequal treaties. simultaneously from Hsifenkow and It is reported that ® year ag0|Chiehlin. ‘The immediate object of Chiang Kai-shek made a desl with! today's drive was to bring the na- the Japanese in order to get back| tural line of defense formed by the into power. During these conversa-/ triangle between the Lwan River and tions, he is said to have stated that! the Great Wall under Japanese con- Greet him with a wave of | levies, binding them as virtual serfs | to the landlord or the kulak, con- | scripting them for service in the ar- my, where they were called “grey | beasts” and treated as such. It is only when we contrast the agrarian policy of the Soviet govern- | ment with that of the Czarist regime | that we can fully appreciate the full meaning of the October revolution. While the Revolution freed the peas- | antry from the yoke of the landlord | and established the political basis for the emancipation of the peasant mas- ses, it did not at first completely free the peasant from the rule of the vil- | lage parasite and exploiter, the kulak, whose continued existence as a jmade for continued povert | pauperization of the peasan' | In thi . the Ia four yea ked the “last decisive for the emancipation of the peasantry from the rule of the kulak and hence—from poverty. Firm Basis Laid, With the inauguration of the policy of wholesale collectivization, with the development of large-scale farming, with the introduction of modern agri- cultural machinery and _ scientific methods of farming,—a firm economic basis has at last been established for | the lasting prosperity of the Soviet | | countryside. Even though the majority of the } collective farms do not as yet work | {smoothly and efficiently, the con- | trast with the past is entirely in | favor of the new regime, and every | attempt to restore the old order would | be resisted by the peasantry to their last gasp of breath. But the Soviet farmers are quite willing to match their policy not only | against the old Russian regime, but also against present-day farming policies of capitalist countries. Sov- jet leaders and rank and filers alike | gladly go in for such a comparison: they can well afford it, ‘The Mani- festo issued by the crack Soviet farmers of the Collective Farmers’ subject: “Comrade colhozniks! Has there ever been anywhere another such &@ party, as the Bolshevik Party, another such government as the | Soviet government, that would take such care of the toiling peasants? Look at what ‘t is doing, how the poor and middle veasants live abroad, beyond the Lorders of our Soviet land. “We are not speaking of such backward countries as China, for example, where the peasants are abused both by thetr own and for- eign landlords and generals, where the peasants work with the aid of | primitive implements, wasting their he preferred Japan to the Soviet trol, With this achieved, the line of| Sensth in torturous, exhausting Union as a neighbor, military advance into Tientsin and) tolls die by the thousands of starva- Peiping is clear tion; where taxes are extorted from Japanese Advance. c the peasants for tens of years in CHANGCHUN, Manchuria, April) Rumors that the Japanese Cabinet) ddvance. ll~A Japanese offensive, backed by| will resign, because {t differed with “We shall take the Western coun- heavy artillery and airplane squad-| the War Office on the desirability of vons, Opened on a 200-mile front this|an advance beyond the Great Wall morning, driving the Chinese defend-| at the present juncture, are current. | ing armies in ® disorderly retreat | ‘The Saito Cabinet, should it fall, will through the Lwan River Valley. The| be replaced by another emergency city of Lwsengkow, last Chinese | dictatorial government more eliar| stronghold om the Great Wall, fell chawvinist in character. tries of Europe and America, where tractors and combines, and auto- mobiles and various other machines Congress speaks out plainly on this | agricultural products are at such a low level that the peasant cannot even obtain the worth of his la- bor. He mortgages his land to the landlord or the bank, but he has | nothing to pay interest with. He | has not yet settled his previous debt to the landlord or bank from whom he bought his plot of land. The interest om these debts keeps mounting, the government raises its taxes, but the prices of grain and other farm products sink lower and lower. “In the end, the authorities ap- pear,\attach his entire property and sell it at auction. Left without shelter and without work, because due to the orisis it 1s impossible to find work either in town or in country, millions of toiling peas- ants with their families, with their small children go begging.” No Soviet peasant has to beg for | @ living, unless he prefers begging to | working. No Soviet farmer has to fear the auctioneer, for the land of the peasants is not mortgaged and is | theirs as long as they are willing to cultivate it. No Soviet farm has to | Worry about | There is always a ready market for | them. The government gets a small | portion of the crop at low prices, the | rest can be sold at profitable market | prices in any quantity. j Easy Credits. | The Soviet farmers, too, borrow money in order to extend their busi- ness, to erect new farm-buildings, to | buy farm-stock and inventory, etc. But the money is advanced by state banks on the easiest possible terms; | and if it should happen that because !of a crop failure or another such | misfortune, the collective farm is un- | able to meet its payment on time, the state bank will not press the debt, but, on the contrary, will advance further credits and in every | way help the farm improve its posi- tion This is not all. ‘The Soviet govern- ment has invested billions of rubles in agriculture for the purpose of im- | proving the farms and the economic | | condition of the peasants. Vast quantities of agricultural machinery, including 150,000 tractors, have been made available to the collectivized farms. 2,500 Motor-Track Stations have been established in all parts of the country, each M. machine-service to all the collective | farms of its district A Premium on Good Work In return for this ser i lective farms use on a per-hectare basis. Now the Mo- tor-Tractor Stations will receive a small percentage of the crops they cultivate. The change has been made for the purpose of furnishing to the personnels of the Motor-Tractor Sta- tions an added inducement to do their work efficiently and to get the maximum yield from the land they cultivate, in other words, a premium upon good work. In establishing the Motor Tractor Stations, the Soviet government gave he farmers not only modern farra- machinery, but also an army of farm- | experts who teach the colhozes how | to cultivate their land and how to jun their business. Actually, every M.T.S, is an agricultural college for | the Soviet farmers, this in addition RAIDS ON USSR OWNED RAILWAY Japanese - Manchukuo War Provocations MOSCOW, April 10—Numerous | “bandit raids,” involving the derail- ing of trains and murderous assaults jon maintenance of way men, are oc- curring with increasing frequency on the eastern section of the Soviet- owned Chinese Eastern Railway. A report fron: Khabarovsk in eastern Siberia states that these raids are organized by the Japanese with a view to crippling the red port of | Vladivostok. For the second time in | six weeks, the Soviet demand for pro- tection of the railroad line has been | rejected, it was reported today. ‘The Japanese attempts to force the Soviet Union into a defensive war be- come more frenzied as Japan sinks into deepened dep 1 and cos nomic impotence while the Soviet Union is making tremendous gains in | Production and consolidating its eco- | nomic strength. An editorial in the | “Washington Post’ describes Matsu- j isposing of its product. 8. supplying | | oko’s conversation with Roosevelt anid Secretary of State Hull as an: at- tempt to block American recognition ef the Soviet Union. ‘ are produced. How do the tofling peasmnte live there? It is the fourth year that the crisis i raging in the coptraliet comntrice. Ths prices of A Government That Actually Helps the Farmers | to the hundreds of agricultural uni- } | versities and research institutes, ond } | the tens of thousands of special rural schools training the peasants to use farm machinery and to apply meth- | ods of scientific farming and socialist | business management. Interest Not Separated: Nor can one draw a dividing line between the industrial and the | agrarian policy of the Soviet govern- | ment. The entire program of the Five-Year Plan and the further pro- gram of industrialization and develop- ; ment has for its sole aim—the rais- | ing of the material and cultural liv- | ing standards of all the toilers of | the Soviet Union, peasants and | workers alike. The vast increase in the output of the so-called “light in- | dustries” producing articles of con- | sumption, makes it possible for the | peasants to lead a better life, to dress | better, to furnish their homes better ; than before. This improvement. is | continuous, and the use of manufac- tured articles in the villages is grow- ing daily as the peasants acquire a | taste for better living. Considering the backwardness of | old Russia, considering the fact that ; the millions of the Russian peasants j used to lead a life of misery and |could not afford leather boots or shoes, but were forced to go bare- | foot or wear home-made “lapti” (bark sandals) and home-spun — coarse | clothes—the improved standards of {living brought about a demand for | manufactured goods that is not easy to satisfy. \ Supply Still Behind Despite the enormous increase in) the output of such goods, the supply cannot as yet catch up with the de-| mand. The Soviet Government is do- | ing its utmost to develop still further | the manufacture of articles of daily use, and the workers in the cities are alive with the spirit of cooperation | between the peasantry and the pro-| letariat. | The city workers push the produc- | | tion of goods needed by the peasants ; | whether that be tractors and spare | | parts or shoes and kitchen utensils. | | More than that, the workers send their best mechanics, their best ed- ministrators, their best shock-brig- aders to the villcges to teach the! peasants how to use machinery, to help the peasants erect farm-houses or power stations. Those Who Work Now Rule | In fact, when we speak of the So-| viet Government, we re: speak of the government of workers and peas- nts. There is no other government | in the Soviet Union, and there is no contradiction between the interests of | the Soviet Government and those of the Soviet toiling masses. Capital- | ists, manufacturers, bankers, land- lords and grain speculators have long been abolished in Soviet Russia. The country belongs to those who work, and the government is a government | Union were again stricken by disas-| j and again the Soviet government | of workers and peasants, not of capi- talists, bankers and land barons. It is the kuldks that have been try- ing desperately to set the masses of | the peasants against their own gov- ernment. It is the remnants of the former exploiting classes that have| been doing their utmost to mislead} the peasants in the newly-established collective farms by the vicious preach- | ing of the idea of supposed antagon- | ism between the interests of the So-| viet State and those of the collective farms. Particularly in the matter of| “khtebozagotovki” (The State deliv-| eries of produce at fixed low prices) | has this anti-Soviet propaganda been used by the kulaks with some effect among the backward peasants. | But in actual practice, millions of Soviet peasants realize that they owe | their very lives to the Soviet policy| of storing State supplies of grain and other produce. | Found Help in Famine | Countless number of peasants used | to perish in frequent famines under | the Gzarist regime. When the Bol- sheviks assumed power in 1917, they | found the country depleted, agricul-| ture as well as industry in a state) of collapse. The Soviet Government | then had no grain stores to fall back | upon in case of emergency. The fa- mine of 1920 took thousands upon thousands of lives. The famine play- ed havoc with the peasants also the next year, for the fields in the str en areas remained unsown for lack of seeds. | In 1931 some areas in the Soviet} trous crop failure. But no peasants | in those districts died of starvation. | Aid was organized quickly. The So- Vet Government used its States stores at grain both to help feed the popula~- tion in the affected territories and—| what is just as important—to help| them sow their fields for the next| crop. | Also last year there were pariial| crop failures in a number of districts, | came forward with loans of grain to} the stricken peasants. The Soviet Union needs its State stores of grain just as the masses of the Soviet Union need the Soviet Government and the leadership of the Communist Party which shapes the | policy of the Soviet Government. | In a word, the Soviet Government | is the only government in the world | which really helps the farmers of its country to get on. The Soviet re- gime is the only political system that really is based on the interests of | the masses of workers and working | farmers. | Union means two things: It means| the rule of the toiling people plus modern science. SUBSCRIBE yourself and get your fellow workers |te read the Daily | unions contains in its current issue a | report. | conflict with fhe ruling powers.” | gle against fascism is followed by an | such an impasse that o |The German workers are rapidly Ie BUBSORIPTION BATES By Mail crerywhere: Que year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, 2 excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City Canada: One year, 39; 6 1 monn, 2% Forelgn an@ $8. months, #5; ? months, German Socialist Union Misleaders Sabotage Strike BERLIN, March 18 (By Mail).— “Freie Gewerkschaft,” official organ of the German socialist trade complete and abject capitulation to fascism. Referring to a Red Trade Union Oppositioh strike call, the paper states: “A Daily, hostile to the workers, reports that the Ham- burg trade unions have the intention of declaring a political general strike. There js no truth whatsoever in this The rumor is spread in or- der to bring the trade unions into Bid To Fascist Rulers ‘This betrayal of the workers’ strug- ) article by Leipart, head of the Ger- | man reformist unions, in which an open bid is made to the fascist rulers. The trade unions are “willing to co- | operate in any form of statesman- | ship,” Leipart assures Hitler. “From | the result of these elections, we de- duce this lesson,” he continues, “we must cleanse our ranks of those ele- ments who, as weak-minded worship- re- | y on the one hand | prontises to turn the trade union ma- | chinery over to Hitler, while on the | other, it carries on the united front by a renewed campaign of expulsion | against all Communist and militant working class elements who resist this betrayal. | The trade union bureaucracy is in | it can issue the workers are: take part in street discussions; re- | frain from participation in crowds" (Leipart’s article). ‘The capitulation of the German | socialist leadership to fascism, whicl the German Communist Party re- | cognized from the first, has now | reached an open stage of betrayal. realizing that their only leader in the class struggle against fascism is the German Communist Party. The | lower units of the German Socialist Party are forming united fighting fronts with communist units on the | Party, and has proposed instead thr Communist workers enter the «fF clalist Party The Czech Communist Party re- plies that the action of the Socialist leaders is the open rejection not only of the Communist offer, but also of the unity of the working class in general.” At the moment when the German Socialist Party policy of tell< ing the workers that the Hindenburg State apparatus would stop fascism if the masses would only keep quiet and reject’ struggle has paved the way for Hitler, the Czech socialists are preparing the ground for fascism, in exactiy the same manner. ‘The Socialist ministers in th: | Czech cabinet serve to lull the mas- sed resistance of the Czech prole- tariat to sleep. GERMANSPEAKING COMMUNISTS WIN CZECH ELECTIONS AUSSIG, Czechoslovakia, March 22 (By Mail). —- The Communists gained an abso- lute majority victory in the municipal elections held in village: near Deutsch-Pravno, The Communist Party pol- led 370 votes and 13. seats (gaining 100 votes over the recent national elections), while the Agrarians got 158 | votes and 10 seats (they form- erly had the majority), the United German Parties 142 votes and 2 seats, and the German Carpathian Party got only 11 votes. streets and in the factories in spite| This brilliant victory is of the sabotage of the official Ger- Jargely due to the fact that man Socialist’ Party. ai ‘ ‘ tear Cee \the Communist Party has led PRAGUE, March 28 (By Mail) —j|several succesful unemployed The Czecho-Slovak Socialist Party has decisively repudiated the united |C@™Paigns in this district re- front offer of the Czech Communist ' cently. CRISIS CONTINUES IN FASCIST GERMANY; SHIPMENTS DECREASE BERLIN, April 11—German exports in all lines are stil} decreasing after two months of Hitler rule. Exports of iron and steel in February were only 22,000 tons, against a monthly average of 141,000 tons in 1932. The situation would be even worse were it not for some Japanese buying, for war purposes. Shipments of machinery in Febrnary at 20,252 tons were the smallest ever Some improvements in textiles (to be expected at this time of the year) are offset by declines in Barmen and | Plauen, where the manufacture is | predominantly for export. a> Hitler is busy proving now that his CORRECTION A typographical error ap- peared in the article by H. M. Wicks yesterday on “American Social-Democracy and Its Treachery in the World War,” on page 4, column 5, which’ stated that Trotzky put forth the slogan “neither victory nor death.” The copy read “neither victory nor DE- Worker. FEAT.” HAVANA, April i1—The mass, | strike in the Cuban sugar mills and | plantations has already spread to six | provinces and is taking on an in- | surrectionary character. The 20,000 workers involved in the conflict have | organized into picket corps and self- | defense groups against the terror and military repression which the Ma- chado imperialist government is vis- | iting on the strike movement. These corps are of proletarian and poor peasant composition. Hattans, Span- jards and Cubans are fighting side by side in the ranks of the strike movement; a workers’ militia is de- veloping. Rises Toward Vnsurrection The movement has grown to such mass proportions that the Machado government is being forced to aban- don its old weapon of individual as- sassination. Entire regiments are be- ing sent into the strike area; per- secutions and firing on the defense corps are taking place. The workers are meeting this repression by seiz- ing and taking over the factories*in certain instances; in others, the red | Mag with the hammer and sickle ts | being flown over the mills. The sugar strike is the core of « vast move- ‘ment of economic conflict which is sweeping © is involving the middle end poor peasants, and is necessarily devejoping to 8 political and insurrectionary vel Red Union Leaders ‘The strike movement was prepared at @ National Conference of workers in the sugar industry called at the initiative of the Sugar Workers’ In- Fields Advancing Toward Revolt lord clique of Menocal-Mendieta, af- filiated with the “ABC” terrorist or- ganization, which has already at- tempted to wreck the Cuban revolu- tionary movement by substituting in- dividual terror for mass action, tried to capture control of the strike move- ment once it had started. ‘Ihe lead- ership however remains firmly in the hands of the red industrial union and the Cuban Communist Party. Regional Leadership. The strike struggles were organized by regional committees set up at the National Conference with directions to map out the struggle in each sec- tion. Mass meetings were called at the various factories and districts to elect fighting committees to carry on the sirlke. The struggie in the sugar mills has reached its present stage of development partly because of the careful preparatory organization of the movement by the Cuban Commu- nist Party and the revolutionary in- dustrial union. Grew Out of Crisis. The steady fall in the price of sugar which has been continuing since 1920 has reached catastrophic proportions with the market price falling to 3 gents a pound. Parallel | with this, there has been a produc-/| tion restriction to 50 per cent of the 1929 level. Sugar is the most im- portant industry of Cuba—it com-_ prises 80 per cent of Cuban exports. ‘Thus the collapse of sugar has rocked the foundations of Cuban capitalism and American investment in Cuba, ‘The American sugar barons in Cuba (of the billion and a half dol- Jar ‘American | in | the capitalist way out is taking the | | attempted several restriction plans! in order to save their dwindling pro- | fits. With the collapse of these plans, | form of ever sharper wage cuts at the expense of the plantation workers. | At the same time, the semi-slave semi-feudal conditions of plantation work are being used as a basis for renewed exploitation. . 8 Terror Rages. The Machado Government at- tempted to crush the Red Trade Un- ion movement by jailing three of the best known revolutionary working class leaders in Cuba. Jorge A. Vivo, well known international labor leader, Joaquin Ordoqui, head of the red op- position in the railroad unions, Ce- sar Villar, General Secretary of the National Workers Confederation of Cuba, along with many others have been imprisoned. The Anti-Imperialist League, the recorded. @ government is one of intensified de- gredation of economic standards for the working class. His “four year plan” for the recovery of German in- dustry is exposing itself as the hollow demagogic sham for which the Ger- man Communist Party has denounced it. PLAN HOLY WAR AGAINST MARXISM Dollfuss in Rome for Anti-Red Talks ROME, April 11. — Church and State, co-operation between three Fascist movements, a bloc of Italy, Germany, Austria and the Vatican, these forces from the middle ages are seeking to work up a new holy | war against Communism, General Strike in Cuban Cane | Von Papen and Goering are al~ ready in Italy. Chancellor Dolifuss, the dictator of Austria, is flying to Rome today from Vienna. Hitler is coming next week, to see Mussolini, and to discuss the position of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany with the Pope. Pius XI has shown himself in the past to be quite as much of a Marx- ist-baiter as Hitler himself. Com- mon opposition to Marxism, and to its embodiment in the Communist Parties of the world and in the Sov- iet Union, unites these forces of darkness; but conflicting interests, and territorial differences between them, present an almost insuperable difficulty in the way of their coopers ation. TERRA TIGHTENS URUGUAYAN HOLD MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, April 11, Gabriel Terro, now dictator of Uru- guay, has appointed a new “Deliber- ative Assembly” to replace the elected I. L. D,, and 12 other organizations have demanded the release of these comrades, and demanded information concerning their fate from the Cu- ban Consulate. The Consulate has not replied. Must Have World-Wide Support. These leaders of the Cubam revolu- | tionary working class will he ass: sinated by the Machado butchers un- less international mass action of th?) working class is mobilized. A mass| protest demonstration before the Congress which he threw out last week. Of the 99 members, Terra will personally appoint 51, and the other 48 will constitute a fake opposition appointed by his former supporter in the Congress, the “Socialist,” Luis Alberto de Herrera. The Catholics, the Batlista (ci ser pink majority of the ial-refoi. sists), and the Com- munisis, will be completely excluded from the Assembly, ‘Terra will thus be supported by # majority of his Cuban Consulate, 17 Battery Place, | friends picked by himself, opposed. by hes been called for 11 a, m., Satur-| @ minority of his near friends, picked day, April 15th by the Communist | by a former ally, while his enemies , the Anti-Imperialist League, | will be entirely unrepresented. ‘Thus the Y.C.L,, the T.U.U.L, and eleven | dictatorship arrives, as the last stage gma» (et coustitudlonsl democrsem, ‘