The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1933, Page 4

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IN MIGHTY MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION | | Page Four May 1 Order to Red| Army Points to Plots of Interventionists | “World Capitalism,” Says Order, “Has Chosen USSR, First Country Achieving Socialism, As Chief Object of Armed Attack” 3 | | SPARKS| rT way things look, now that the; inflation bill has passed the Sen- | “LIFE AND DEATH FIGHT OF LABOR AND CAPITAL tisgsecssre: IN MORE BITTER FORMS” === «~~ “<f}OG HOUSE NEWS,” the lively paper put out by the Waterfront; Unemployed Council, contains the} following: | “Otto H. Kahn, partner in Kahn,; Loeb, Bankers, expresses himself as! well satisfied with Capitalism. The} | Vulture is also well satisfied with a) dead carcas, and for the same —s | Moscow Communist Paper in May 1 Editorial | Points to Continued Capitalist Crisis; Fascist Terror and New War Plots Official of Chinese Eastern Declares Attempts to Question Soviet Union’s Rights Show Aims to Abolish Pact Points Out Acts That Indicate Japanese Puppet State Is Undermining Basis for Joint Management 7 By N. BL. PERU PRESIDENT “Red Army Is Always Ready to Do Its Duty and Annihilate Everyone Daring to Attack the Toilers’ State” JOSEPH STALIN, Soorotary of MOSCOW, May 1.—The Prayda’s May First editorial | 4 ¢ Ce aommunist Party of the Soviet | states: “The class struggle, a struggle for life and death be- | ‘°° Be og tat tween labor and capital, is assuming increasingly intense, bit- | PHOUSANDS of teachers in Georgia ter form. Raging fascist reaction wishes to extinguish the haye not been paid for months. 1 = rs gr ’ The Governor urges them to be loyal flame of the revolutionary fire in the workers’ blood. Hertabet : “s : . {and continue teaching without pay “No end is to be seen to the severest economic crisis in| will the Governor of Georgia urge | By N. BUCHWALD \ (Special Corr (From the Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 1.—The Revolutionary Military Council MOSCOW, May 1.—Tass, the official Soviet news agency, publishes the following report of the correspondence between Kuznetzov, vice-chairman of the board of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and Li-Shao-keng, chairman of the board. Li-Shao-keng, Manchukuo representative, maintains in his letters that the Soviet Union allegedly committed illegal acts affecting the manage-* ment of the railw; He re- peats the charges of the Soviet Union's “incorrect actions regarding the exchange of locomotives and roll- a number of d on the rail- ing stock.” Li-Shao-keng claims that the U. S. S. R. allegedly evaded way, and outrag an answer to the last question. Soviet citizens : way Japan Breaks Treaties. Kuznetzov writes, the right of the Soviet ail transit and its other follow from a t of Manchukuo of existing international agreements.” In conclusion, Kuznetzov calls the earnest attention of Li-Shao-keng to “to annul Union to rights on the railw disregard on the ps In Kuznetzov's reply, he mentions a number of existing agreements be- tween the Soviet Union and the Chi- nese government regarding the rail- way, from which it indisputably fol- lows that the railway is the property of the USS.R. “Your attempt,” Kuznetzov writes,|the fact that. unlawful acts commit- “to question the Soviet Union's right-|ted by the Manchurian party to the ful ownership of the railway con-| Agreements undermine the interna- vinces me that the Manchurian in-| tional status upon which joint man- terests are aiming to break and abol-| agement of the railway is based. Ku: ish the agreements concerning the | netzov expressed confidence that the railway whieh constitutes the basis|representatives of the railway can for the joint management of the| continue work without attempts to Chinese Eastern.” Sanchez Cerro Shot at Army Review LIMA, Peru, May 1.—Luis M. San-| chez Cerro, President of Peru, was assassinated yesterday by an alleged member of the Aprista party while he was reviewing over 25,000 troops training to fight Colombia in the Leticia undeclared war- His assatiant, Alberto Mendoza, was hacked to pieces by the Presi- dent's guards. Several. civilian by- standers and a number of police and soldiers were wounded in the wild shooting and bayoneting that fol- lowed Sanchez Cerro’s shooting. “It is a fact that Lenin brought to light once more the revolution- ary content of Marxism which had been glossed over by the oppor- tunists of the Second International. Leninism originated and grew strong in conflict with the oppor- tunism of the Second International —a conflict essential to success in the struggle against capitalism.” (Sti ds }rumbling and its shaking is ‘heard even in the U.S.A., the | most powerful country of present- day capitalism. From ‘there, like a | destructive hurricane, it attacks all other weaker capitalist countries. | “Protectionism is taking on the; | character of open economic war be- | tween capitalist countries. No eco-/} {nomic conference called by the im- | | perialists will be able to arrest the| destructive action of the crisis. Imperialists Feeding Fires of War “Imperialist diplomacy, with grow- ing energy, is trying to find new mili- | tary and political combinations. The pilgrimage of ministers to Rome and Washington is sthe harbinger of the rapidly approaching storm of war. The munitions industry is working at top speed. The trade in murderous | weapons is the most profitable busi- ness today. “The fires of war are growing in the Far East. A struggle is.now going on for the re-division of China. | Japan and the United States are pre- paring for a war to the death in the Pacific, 1 “The revision of the Versailles | | Treaty has been openly placed on the order of the day. The attempt to munist Party, have been thrown into jail. The Fascists are trying to uproot Marxism. with their police provoca- tions and terror, but they won’t suc- ceed in defeating the fighting spirit of the German Communist Party. Decisive Battle Nears “A decisive battle is nearing be- tween Labor and Capital. The offen- sive of Capital makes particularly urgent the question of consolidating the workers’ united front. “Expose the Social Democracy; lead | new columns of proletarians under the banner of the Communist Inter- national in the struggle against un- bridled Fascism—these are the watch- 1 words for the mobilization of our brother Communist Parties on May First. “The toilers of the Soviet, Union are meeting on May First with new vic- tories achieved on the fronts of our | great work of construction. We are learning to master the advanced tech- nique of power enterprises. The pro- letarian city is uniting with the countryside’s collective. farms, and confidently leading them towards the fulfilment of the Spring sowing plan and a rise in the crop yield. Soviet Union Impregnable “We shall reply to the provocations violate and break these agreements. erect a Four-Power Pact has fallen | of the Die-Hards, who are preparing | their interest payments? ondent of the Daily Worker ) ASSASSINATED history. The subterranean |the banks to be loyal and give up ‘HE volume of life insurance sales in March fell 30 per cent from {nounced today. } And no wonder, Whatever you pay | to the insurance company, you can- not borrow back. Nor can you re- | cover the turn-in value for your pol- icy, and if you do collect, you'll be getting depreciated money. So why support the insurance companies? Cine Posies ‘HE Department of Commerce has just issued a leatned report which finally gives away the secret of the \cause of the érisis. “People are too j extravagant,” say the economic ex- perts of the Roosevelt government, | who prepared the report. $ What do the veterans who just had their compensation slashed, and the Federal employees. who had their wages cut and the 17,000,000 jobless, and tke starving masses think of | that? may waht | . The insane logic of capitalist eco- bourgeois professors will tell you that | the crisis is caused by too little spend- |ing, another crowd by. too much | spending. |the same month last year, it is an-' nomics is such that one crowd of, ! | of the U.S.S.R. has published its annual May First order to the Red Army. The order assures the workers that the Red Army is vigilantly watching the plots of the imperialists, who are preparing new wars to save the capitalist system, eaten up by the general crisis. “World capitalism,” the order reads, “has chosen the workers’ and peasants’ country, the country achieving So- cialism, as the chief object of its armed attack. The Red Army is always ready to do its duty, and annihilate everyone daring to attack the toilers’ state, whole watchword always has been and still is—peace with all nations. “Long live the Red Army, the loyal and powerful guard of the Proletarian Revolution! “Greetings to the proletarians and toilers of all coun- tries, and to all fighters for Socialism!” to pieces. Balkanized Europe is pre-|for an anti-Soviet war, by a fresh | paring for a new military battle in | mobilization of our forces. Scores of | order to create a new Versailles. millions of enthusiasts for the first | Die-Hards Open Crusade Against | time in history are rallied for the the Soviet Union | Sreat cause of Socialism. IOEL sends us the following: “About a year ago the owner of a large wi rn factory visited me in! |New York. We were discussing how} A Soviet Factory at Work (By An Amertoan Worker.) (Continued From Yesterday.) n. What is being done to overcome these various shortcomings? In the answer to this question we see the qualities of Bolshevik vigilance and sensitiveness to problems, Bolshevik methods of work, things from which we in America can learn a great deal. The director of the pliant explains that the most burning problems con- fronting the factory, in carrying out the January decisions, are: 1—Raising the quality of the prod- wets, “Our bearings must become the best in the world,” declared the di- rector. In further investigation we find that, even now, this factory's product already compares favorably with those produced anywhere in the world. 2—Better organization in the plant, and a sharp decrease in the cost of production. We find that the entire fettory is being chinery replaced, etc., so as to solve the problem of unnecessary loss of ime in the labor process, of which the workers had so bitterly com- reorganized, ma- | fownd: inefficiencies in many cases even sabotage. Immediately, on the second day, {00 wall newspapers went up in the | various departments, reporting the | findings of the “raiders.” These re- | ports contained recommendations for | | action. Many officials were removed | or discharged (those found guilty of various charges). The work in the | departments was tightened up. These “raids” had very much to do with overcoming the “break in the plan” and putting the plant again on the | Red Board. | It is important for us to observe | the organization of the factory press. It shows us not only the great im- portance of this press in the S. U but also has many lessons for us in this phase of our Party work in the U. B. A. The editorial department of viet Ball Bearing” has a representa- tive in eyery department whose spe- cific task is to organize worker corre- spondents for the central paper, and for the wall papers. “Pravda,” central organ of the C.P.S.U., finds it neces- sary to have a special department for |the factory press. Not only does |“Pravda” direct this work through | communications, answering inquiries, plained. With regard to the decrease | etc., but it sends representatives to im the cost of production, we found | numerous factories, when needed, to that in February, immediately after | give personal assistance to the fac- te C. C. Plenum, by means of | tory papers. strengthened efforts in this respect,| Material and Cultural Conditions there was a 33 per cent decrease in| An important point in the Janu- the cost of production for the entire | Rant. ‘A great part of the struggle to put | into life the January decisions for | mastering technique is the spread of | technical education in the plant. A| whole network of technical circles, A Child Condacies in ary Plenum decisions is that of rais- ing the material and cultural level of the toiling population. Let us see what is being carried out in the fac- tory under consideration, With the increase of productivity of labor, there was considerable in- crease in the earnings of the workers, since the January Plenum. The plant | has installed one of the most modern factory kitchens, where workers can eat three times a day if they desire. The meals are good, and reasonable in price, 65 kopeks per meal. There are better special meals for the shock workers, for the same and even lower prices. Buffets have been in- stalled in every department, where workers can get a “light bite” at any hour of the day. Bight big modern apartment houses have been built, close by the factory, for its workers, ‘So- | A whole network of cultural eir- cles works in the factory; theatre, movies and lectures, in the factory | club, | ‘There are, of course, as in all fac- | tories in the Soviet Union, nurseries | and creches for the children of the ashes <y that are daily being im- proved, relieving the working mothers | | from domestic worries. These working mothers are thereby freed to partici- pate fully in all phases of life in the plant — production, social, politieal and cultural. | (To Be Continued.) “The Die-Hards, together with the | German Fascists, are organizing a) crusade against the land of the | Soviets. The British embargo on | Soviet exports is the signal for inter- vention. | “Strengthen the struggle against | the war menace—expose the provoca- tors of an anti-Soviet war—take up the defense of the fatherland of the world proletariat. This is our slogan for the First of May. 5 “The bourgeoisie has adopied the policy of naked Fascist dictatorship to solve its problems. The So ‘al- Fascist Internaticnal paved the way | for Fascism and is trying to get pro- moted for its actions. It is a band of unbridled flank attackers called upon to save the bourgeoisie from the proletarian revolution. German Communist Party Unshaken “The best men and women of the working class, together with Thael-| mann, the head of the German Com- | “It is not an easy matter to attack the Sovet Union. The Party, under the direct leadership of Stalin, has armed itself in the course of the Five- Year Plan to protect the conquests of the October Revolution. We have pursued and will pursue, a policy of peace and won’t let ourselves get in- volved in adventures, but we shall fight those who encroach on one inch of Soviet soil. The day when the imperialists attack the Soviet Union will be the beginning of the ruin of the forces of the counter-revolution. “The class struggle is nearing its| decisive end. The last hour of the bourgeoisie’s rule is striking. The proletarian revolution is the only way out of the crisis, out of capitalism's |collapse, out of bloody imperialist slaughter!, The proletarians and the oppressed nations of the East will} solve in a plebian manner their age- old dispute with their exploiters. Such is our slogan for the First of May.” Sixteenth May Day in Soviet Union Shows Strong Nation Ready to Defend Socialism MOSCOW, U.S.S.K., May 1.—Izvestia writes in its editorial on May Day: | “The proletariat of the capitalist world is celebrating the First of May for the forty-third time, while the proletariat of the U.S.S.R., liberated from the embracing 60 per cent of all workers, are now busy in the factory. The en- | tire Party and trade union apparatus ‘was set into motion, to educate the workers to the need of overcoming the shortcomings im the work. Pians were worked out. showing concretely he way to aceomplish this task. Here are some of the methods used: While the Plenum was taking place, there were nucleus meetings in | the various departments to discuss the reports and speeches made at the Plenum. After these elosed Party meetings, there were open Party meetings where non-Party workers were invited to diseuss the Plenum decisions. Then there were general meetings for all workers in the shop for the seme purpose. This did not end with the close of the Plenum; there are now 87 study circles, with 1,300 students m the plant. All these cireles continue their work on the basis of a detailed study of the Ple- num proceedings and decisions. The Factory Press A powerful weapon in the hands of the Party in the factory is the net- work of wallpapers, and the central newspaper of the factory. The paper, “Soviet Ball Bearing,” is printed daily | in. 6,000 copies, The wallpapers are 100 in number, issued every week or ‘thereabouts, whitch take up the spe- cific. problems of the various depart- ments. To show the actual role of these papers in the struggle for ful- filiment of the produetive plan, we shall relate the following incident: When at the end of last year, it ie clear that the plant had not fulfilled its plan, that there was, in Soviet language, “a break in the plan,” 500 worker correspondents were called together to discuss the Mtuation. These worker correspond- went owt in a “reid” through factory, to find out the reasons this “brenk.” The reasons were the Soviet Union | the score to perfection, is strict re- | TINY, nine-year-old girl walked| garding exactness of execution of | unconcerned. across the bril-| every instrument, and during rehear- |liantly lighted stage of the Big Hall|sals displays great insistence on her of the Conservatory where the Mos- | concept of correct interpretation. cow Philharmonic Orchestra was) Margaret herself, however, eonsid- waiting. ers her main occupation not conduct- With the same deliberate calm she |ing but the study of the Piano. She climbed to the conductor's stand, | studies piano under Olga Kolonta- took the baton, and with confident,|rova in the Leningrad Conservatory. skfilful, intelligent direction, ama-|She considers conducting easier and |zingly adult and incongruous with|more pleasant than piano playing. | her baby-like appearance,.guided the | ‘Nobody looks at your fingers when orchestra of some 80 adult musicians | you conduct,” she explained. |through Beethoven's Fifth Symphony,| Her piano technique, however, must and Rimski-Korsakov’s “Schehera-|be equally astounding considering the zade.” fact that she transcribes for the This was the first Moscow appear-| Piano all the works which she con- {ance of Margaret Heifetz—one of the |.ducts, playing them straight from the | rarest and most inexplicable cases of | symphonic score. musical genius and maturity in a Not Yet Articuiate. child. Three years ago, first taught| She is not as yet very articulate the rudiments of music by her fathgr, | as to her artistic opinions, which are | She has today a conductor's repertats | instinctive in her. She finds it easier of 12 works, which includes besides | to demonstrate on the piano her idea | By VALENTINE V. KON |the above tnentioned two, Beetho-|of the interpretation of some phrase |ven's “Coriolanus” and “Egmont/|than to transmit it in words. She | Overtures” Schubert's Seventh Sym-| prefers Beethoven to other composers Phony, Grieg’s Norwegian Dances,|but cannot explain why. Before the Ipolitov-Ivan: “Caucasian Sketch- es,” Rimski-Korsakoy's “Spanish Cap- rico,” and others, ment be altered, explaining after | Serious Interpretation. |some difficulty that she wanted to Infant prodigies, virtuosi of some end with the Beethoven symphony one instrument—are not rare nowa-| because it had a strong, triumphant days. But this case of a child con-| finale. ductor who interprets from the score| This appearance of Margaret Hei- serious musical works for the orches- | fetz, which was repeated in the same tra is practically unique. Some 20| program yesterday, does not imply years ago, a little Italian boy Ferrari| the beginning of a regular concert | astonished the world with his ability) career. The Soviet system of mu- to conduct an orchestra without be- | sical education is strongly opposed to ing acquainted with notes. His was/| any exploitation of child talent which a feat of memory and ear. But Mar-| needs time to develop. In Margaret's garet has the genuine faculty of|conducting, there is still room in reading and interpreting the score,| which to expand her musical gifts. and her intimate knowledge of every | This concert was only a glimpse into instrument in the orchestra is truly|the artistic heights to which a child astonishing. | endowed with such rare gifts will rise According to the members of the! in the future. concert started, she had expressed the desire that the program arrange- Phitharmonic Or@hestra, she reads) From Moseow News, i yoke of capitalism, is celebrating May conducted. They are the greatest witnesses to the historical truth of Marxism-Leninism. “The present long-lasting crisis and its violence in capitalist countries are the greatest witnesses to the collapse of capitalism. Imperialist antagon- ism between capitalist countries is in- tensifying, with daily battles in the Far East and monthly involving an increasingly large area of Burope. ; “The quesiem fas been raised of the revision of the Versailles Treaty, which must reshape a new map of the European Continent on the basis of the interests of the chief imper- ialist groups. The world crisis has intensified all class antagonisms and hastened the coming of a new cycle of wars. Second International Supports Fascism i “In a number of countries, the rep- resentatives of the post-war Second International are now beginning to support the fascist organization , themselves. On the threshold of a new war monopolist capitalism is es- tablishing a fascist dictatorship in a number of countries. It needs fas- cism not only as a rigorous form of suppression of the working class. but as the means of deceiving the work- ing masses anew. “Preparing a new imperialist war, the world bourgeoisie turns toward the Soviet Union with grave concern. However much they may lie that the USSR is in the grip of a crisis, the leaders of monopolist capitalism know pretty well that the cause of So- cialism has finally and irrevocably tri- umphed in the Soviet Union, Peasantry Behind Collective Farms “The present sowing campaign showed the capitalist world that the main mass of the peasantry under-j stood that it is impossible to live otherwise than in collective farms. Capitalism also knows that the great- est historical task, the transformation of the Soviet Union from an agricul- tural into an industrial country, has been fulfilled. “Capitalism also knows that the Bive-Year Plan has provided the First for the sixteenth time. “These forty-three years have been filled with the most important ac- tive battles which humanity has ever e————-——_—_—_ necessary prerequisites for raising the defensive capacity of the land of the Soviets to the utmost. This is one of the chief reasons why world capi- talism has not yet made an effort to find a way out of the crisis by war against the Soviet Union.e How- ever, this war is being incessantly prepared. © Intervention Will Ruin Capitalist World “The menace of war against the Soviet Union exists, but we may say with confidence that imperialism won't succeed in erecting a united front against the Soviet Union. The strength of the Soviet Union forces a certain group in capitalist circles to understand that ia case of inter- vention it is not the Soviet Union but the capitalist world that is threat- ened with ruin. “Much as the fascists may cry out regarding the destruction of Marxism, much as the imperialists may pro- claim the end of the colonial revolu- tion, the revolutionary working class and the Sovict Union are alive. The brutalities of fascism will only result in the greatest tortures forging a gen- eration that will be called upon to put an end to imperialism and col- onial pillage. “The Soviet Union is strong, not only in the force of its toiling masses, not only in the Socialist technique they have created, but also by virtue of the fact that while capitalism forces the workers a'ong the road to. wards the destruction of democracy, the Soviet Union, by its construction work, shows the whole international proletariat the possibility of con- structing a new society. “No, events will not take the So- viet Union or the Communist Party by surprise. If the enemy forces us to take up arms again, the Sovict Fatherland will put forward an army which is the only one in the world, that knows what it is fighting for and is closely connected with the masses of the whole world. This army has leaders whose hands will not shake in the struggle for peace,” the Izves- tia concludes, urging struggle against imperialism and yenevwed efforts for the war prep: Iness of the Soviet Union, bad. business was and he said: |. “‘L have had to cut wages twice in | Our factory and next month I must make another cut; this makes me feel quite badly and I wish the gov- |ernment could arrange a dollar with less value, then I would not have | to say anything to our men and make | them feel badly about getting a cut, |because they would be getting the same number of dollars as they had before. I am no expert economist, so I don’t know just how this could be | done, but I think Washington should jtake this up and see what they can do.’ “Well, Washington is doing it, it’s called INFLATION.” '$250,000,000 OFF BRITISH BUDGET Not Counting Losses to Come Through Embargo LONDON, May 1.—The new Brit- ish budget, presented to the House of Commons May 1 by Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, marks a decline in revenue of nearly $250,000,000 from the ex- tremely low level of 1932-33, a year of major crisis. Chamberlain hopes to balance the budget with a deficit of only $6,000,- 000, but his estimates fail to allow for the disastrous effects upon Brit- ish industry and employment of the embargo on Soviet imports, which went into effect last night, and will cut $100,000,000 from British foreign trade. British manufacturers are al- ready complaining that the Soviet embargo is affecting their business and threatening to throw additional thousands out of work, entailing fur- ther drain on the Treasury for relief. The budget will provide not a cent for debt payment to the United States, but allows up to $2,500,000,000 for the exchange equalization fund, to maintain the ratio of sterling to the dollar. Both of these provisions | are aimed at the United States—the | debt payment omission serving to put pressure on the Washington Confer- ence now going on, while the equal- ization fund is planned to nullify any Possible advantage in the export market hoped for by American capi- talists from depreciation of the dollar. Pestnone Trial of ‘Nazi Provocateur Who \Burred the Reichstag BERLIN, May 1.—Faced with the ccmplete collapse of the Nazi Reich- stag fire frame-up, the Fascist court has postponed the trial of the Nazi provocateur Van Der Luebbe “until the summer.” the Nazi prosecutor, Vogt, states that “no information about the affair can now be re- leased.” Understandable = enough, co the entire affair was cooked up by_the Nazis to throw Germany into # Red seare and lay the foundation , for the round-up of tens of thousands of Communist and Socialist workers. |Anti-Forced Labor ' | INDIANAPOLI! Ind. May 1— Five hundred participated tn a dem- onstration against forced labor bas- ket relief at the Indianapolis Trustee Office. Five were arrested. They are Allen, McAllister, Reynolds, Wilson and McCoy. All are held on the ex- ‘bitant bail of a thousand dollars [each c Meet, Indianapolis | VOROSHILOV, People’s Commissar of War, in the Red Square at the May Day celebration in Moscow. — May 1 Demonstrations All Around the World MOSCOW, May 1.—Over 1,000,000 workers marched past Comrades Stalin, Kalinin, Molotov, Voroshilov and other Soviet leaders at the tomb of Lenin in Red Square today. The splendidly equipped Red Army marched through the Square cheered wildly by the workers. Hundreds of planes flew overhead, while motorized equipment drew the un-g—-—~-—-— willing admiration of foreign military attaches and diplomats. The May Day march took eight hours to pass the reviewing stand. ise - MADRID, May 1. — All factories, business houses, and even restaurants closed down all through Spain today; only physicians were allowed to use automobiles.. A general strike was declared for May Day in Las Palmas, city in the Canary Islands. The police dispersed 200 Communists in Madrid. Cakes VIENNA, May 1.—All streets in th¢ heart of Vienna were barricaded to- day by troops with barbed wire bear- ing signs: “Turn back or we'll fire!” Four-inch guns were mounted a, street corners, with machine gun} nests covering every approach, to pre- vent any demonstration. The police arrested over 150 workers as the! masses defied the May Day pohibi-| tion decree, ates Ve TOKIO, May 1.—The Tokio police arrested more than 850 suspected Communists, Kept them in jail for May Day, tien released them, in order to break up organize (oo of the May First demonstration. Move than 1,000 arrests were made by the police throughout Japan. ATHENS, May 1—The Greek Fed- eration of Labor proclaimed a generai strike for May Day. All business ceased. Trains and ships will stop for ten minutes while sirest cars will not run, 4 et cae MEXICO CITY, May 1.—Iedi troops. were held ready in barre’ today to attack the May Day demon-| stration, All business houses and even| restaurants are closed. No news- papers are published. The workers are holding a mass parade through the city. : MANILA, May 1—May Day was marked in the Philippines by a strike of farm workers in three provinces, while police attacked a Communist parade for carrying red flags. One policeman and several paraders were injured and twelve demonstrators were arrested. es fone SOFIA, May 1—The Fascist Bul- garian government made wholesale arrests of Communists throughout the country today to break up the May Day demonstration. + # « SANTIAGO, Chile, May 1, — The police announced that 80 alleged Communists were arrested here dur- ing a iid on a Chilean Communist Congress. " 8 8 PANAMA CITY, May 1.—The bige gest May Day demonstration in Pan- ema’s history was held here today. The paraders demanded that the gov- ernment reduce rents 50 per cent, viction of tenants Other demands 1 the support of ‘av moves ifesto calls againsts capitalist ex: should be ready and freedor Scolisboro lynch decision, ness places fire ciesed. ich the to the inst the * not only has od te weapons the. bouzces"s that brin~_ do: also called into who, are to wield these weapons— the modern working class—the proletarians. — Communist festo,