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

Published by the Comprodaily Pubtishing Co., In Page Four 13th St., New York City, N. ¥. Address and mail checks to the Dally Worker, 50 E. 18th St.. Armistice; Drives on Toward Peiping “You Will All Lose Your Stupid, Heads” Say Japanese Airplane Leaflets Showered On North China Cities; Leaflets Demand Secession and Forming of Puppet State SHANGHAI, May Japanese advance towards Peiping and Tientsin continued today, with three Japanese brigades crossing the Lwan River and sweeping southward to- wards Peiping parallel to the Peiping-Shanhaikwan railway, whose tracks have been completely torn up by the retreating peeueee orees. General Ho Chu-kuo, Nanking War Japanese infantry, aided by | minister, is assuming the defeat of bombing planes, is battering | the Chinese troops in the face of its way southward from Nantienmen | the biggest and most energetic push | in the direction of Miyun, Chinese | >y the invaders in the whole history | base only 45 miles northwest of Pei. |0f the Chino-Japanese undeclared war. He is h y erecting trenches pombe | about Peir and mounting ma- st | Chine guns on the city walls to keep the defeated Chinese troops out of the city and announces that when Miyun falls he will close the gates of Peiping. panese planes today Shibhsia and Chihsien, 40 miles ea of Peiping, while General Hattori’s | brigade crushed Chinese resistance at Sahochia, 15 miles south of the Sifeng Pass in the Great Wall. Japanese Reject Armistice Leaflets Rained on Peiping A Japanese plane flew over Peiping today, droping leaflets telling the Chinese soldiers that they “are mere- ly being made fun of by Chiang-Kai- Shek, who uses you to increase his personal power.” The leaflets threatened that if North China does not separate from Nanking and form a buffer state un- der Japanese protectorate “your sol- diers will be exterminated. Good and The Japanese army command re- jected the armistice proposed by the British and French Ministers through the Japanese Legation in Peiping. The ministers want to keep the North China area, in which millions of dol lars of British and French capital are invested, outside the theatre of w The Japanese forces are invading North China three major col- in Japan Army Rejects umns. One is pushing down the coast towards Tientsin, another is advanc- evil alike will be harmed. You will all lose your stupid heads due to the towards Pelping along the Perane: | failure of Chiang.” This leaflet is Jehol highway, while the third is | 22 Pen admission of the Japanese ~Seh Br ~|plans to erect a puppet state in marching southwest from Dolon Nor in Inner Mongolia towards the city of Kalgan, to cut communications be- ween Peiping and Mongolia. This last column is already at Changpei, 30 miles north of Kalgan. Chinese Commander Concedes Defeat The Chinese commander-in-chief, North China A Japanese plane today bombed the Rockefeller Foundation field hos- pital at Chichow, east ling five Chinese soldier patients, and wounding several others. | hospital is a unit of the Peking Un- ion Medicai College, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. REVOL'IS IN JAPANESE ARMY: REFUSE T0 G0 TO FAMILIES T0 STARVE; MANY KILLED, While Soldiers Mutiny TROOPS FRONT AND LEAVE and Join Hands With Workers and Peasants, Cadets Develop Program of Coup d’Etat for Emperor Delayed reports from Japan tell of now been uninterested and ignorant | ar! evolts in various parts of Man- ¢huria and in the Japanese forces in China. Three-hundred Japanese soldiers detailed to Fushun to guard the coal mines there rose in mutiny against their officers. Commander-in-chief Honjo sent one brigade to supress this group, but the rebel soldiers fought to the last man together with the workers and poor peasants. All the mutineers were shot down Mobilization orders were issued to the soldiers of Utsunomiya, 14th Di- vision, late in February. The orders specified their departure the night of March 8th, but 400 reservist soldiers of Takasaki, 15th Regiment, attacked | their officers in the barracks. The commanding officer sent out an alarm and barely succeeded in! suppressing the mutiny. The latter s Said to have been due to the re- luctance of the reservis' the front, leaving their f hind to slow starvation Letter From Cadet A letter from an army cadet to the illegal “Red Flag,” central or- gan of the Communist Party of Ja- pan. reveals the Fascist trend in the Javanese Arnay. “.... It seems to me that more than 50 per cent of the cadets, to say the least, are voicing their resentment at the army. . . . The training in our! regiment is decidedly fascistic, its goal being the Fascist petty-bour- geois revolution. “Our instructor always insists upon teaching the Fascist point of view in our daily classes. Although it has been only a month since we entered { of political matters. And just be- cause they are ignorant, they make extremely dangerous elements when they become the bloodhounds of Fas-| cism, Here are their slogans: “Down with capitalism! ‘For a coup d'etat in the name of the Emperor! “For a reyolution in the name of the army as the righteous power “For a united struggle of young of- ficers, non-coms, and privates, for the dictatorship of the army! “It is significant that the Fascists‘ program includes the assassination of Makino, Minister of the Imperial Household, Premier Saito, and others around the throne, and the carrying | out within two or three years of an armed fascist revolution under the slogan of “Up with the Emperor!” Anti-Fascist of Peiping, | The | ¢., dafty except Sunday, af #0 B. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Cable “DAIWORK.” New York, M. ¥. ge London Workers Protest Before Rosenberg’s Hotel LONDON, May ll. — Workers,| carrying red banners reading “Release the German Working Class Prisoners,” | demonstrated today outside the Hotel Claridge, where Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, | special Hitler envoy is staying. | They shouted in chorus, “Down with Hitler's Murder Gang!” and dis- tributed leaflets protesting against | Rosenberg’s presence in London andj denouncing Fascist oppression. One| worker was arrested. | The “Daily Herald” reports a pri- vate interview between Sir John Si- mon, British Foreign Secretary, and Rosenberg in which Rosenberg pro-| tested against anti-Fascist activities | |in Great Britain. Later Rosenberg | | told friends of his that “he got on| ;much better with Norman H. Davis than with Simon.” In other words, the Ambassador of the Roosevelt | “New Deal” shows his particular sym- | | pathy for Nazi Germany, even out-| | doing the Conservative British min- | | ister. 25,000 CHICAGO WORKERS MARCH AGAINST FASCISM Protest Goebbels’ Trip Denounce Hitler Terror Jewish Persecution | | CHICAGO, May 11. (Special Wire) to the Daily Worker).—Twenty-five | thousand Jewish and Gentile workers} ) paraded through the Loop to Grant} | Park today protesting against Fas- | cist terror, against the Nazi burning of Marxist, Jewish and pacifist books, and against Joseph Goebbels, Hitler propaganda minister, coming to the World Fair. ‘The Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union, Jewish workers clubs, the Young Peoples Socialist League, the Young Communist League, and many other organizations marched in the | Parade, carrying banners and slogans | against Fascism. | _ At the meeting in Grant Park, M. | J. Good of the [Communist Party | made a stirring speech, showing that | the struggle against Fascism and the | abolition of Fascism is the only pos- sible way to stop the persecution of| | the Jews, pointing to the nationality| policy of the Soviet Union. He also pointed out the need for} united action of the working class/ |from branches of the International From “Rude Pravo” Dutch Sictitisis Raat oe | | Breakdown of German S.P. “Het Volk’ Reports Socialist and Union Leaders Deserting to Hitler AMSTERDAM, April 30 (by mail).—The central organ of the Dutch Socialist Party, “Het Volk,” publishes a report from its Berlin correspondent on the recent national conference of the German Social Democratic Party. Tt says: “The national conference of the German Socialist Party did not relieve the tension within the party's ranks,@———-—————__________ Some members are coating their| “The circular letter rejects the first efforts to reach an understanding | two alternatives and recommends the with the present Hitler. government. third. It adds that some changes The size of this group cannot be es-| Would have to be made in organiza- timated. | tion, of course, the name would have , " |to be changed, and some of the for- Understanding With Hitler ; “It seems that the conflict is bound | brad aca eras to “9 sben- to come to a head in Hamburg, where | doned. ‘It nr icreg her Meet " fine ourselves to military sports and @ group of reformist trade union of- ‘ to work for the fatherland. Nothing ficials wants to give up opposition ft for ourselves—everything for Ger- to the government. This group has . | r many.’ It is not known as yet how some representatives in the Hamburg j this circular was received by the Senate and it is expected that they bers of the Reichsbai will secede from the Social Demo- | ™¢™bers iF Dem ee gest cratic Party and form a new frac- New Party tion.” (In the meantime they have| “Some leaders of the Reichsbanner already broken away and formed a|want to start a new ‘German So-| new party called the “German Work- | cialist Party,’ comprising the old na-| ers Party.” A similar group in Mu-|tionalist Socialists and the military nich calls itself the “German Social- | youth. | ists.”) | “Many old Socialists refuse to have | The correspondent continues: “The| anything to do with a compromise| same tendencies exist in the Reichs-| with the Fascists. They prefer to banner. The latter's members re-|work illegally instead of doing the ceived a circular letter in which three| dirty work for the Fascists. The alternatives are outlined: 1. Doing/ Party leadership is doing its best to) nothing at all. 2. Continuing to| keep those conflicting tendencies to-| work illegally. 3. Trying to reach) gether, and hopes that it will be pos- some understanding with the present | sible to continue the Party's Jegal | German government. existence. . . .” MILITANT WORKERS GROUPS CHEERED IN GIANT ANTI-FASCIST MARCH “Star Spangled Banner’ Drowned Out by “Internationale” in Battery Park By ROBERT CHASE NEW YORK.—When the leaders of the American Jewish Congress saw | that they conld not prevent militant workers’ organizations in the city from entering the anti-fascist parade Wednesday with their reyolutionaty work- ing-class slogans against fascism they hoped to hide them by making their section the tail-end of the parade, But they found to their dismay before the day was over that the tail was ae— ——— —=< drowning out the chauvinist hymn, the crowd in Battery Park wild. “Down with Fascism,” “Release Thaelmann, Torgler, Dimitroff,” | “Workers, unite and fight.” df thousands of workers composed the revolutionary section Workers Order, Icor, the organiza- tion for the colonization of Jews in SPARKS E are very happy to print the fol- lowing contribution from Lester L. Carter, the young Southern migra- tory white worker, whose testimony with that of Ruby Bates, at the De- catur trial exposed the whole Scotts- boro frame-up. Carter wrote this on the train coming from Washington | where he, with the Scottsboro March- ers, demanded an interview with President Roosevelt, a request which was denied on the grounds that Roosevelt was “busy with foreign affairs.” “THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS” When all the ground with snow is white, The Happy Hobo comes, He moves around with great. delight, To find the scattered crumbs. How glad he seems to get to eat. A piece of cake or bread, | He has no shoes upon his feet, Nor hat upon his head. But happy he I know because No jail can bar To keep him from walking in the snow And printing it with Stars Demanding Freedom of the Scotts- boro Boys. A happy bum is he, I know Who with his working friends will cry To spread the message through the land The Scottsboro boys must not die! ROM Arkansas, J. H. M. writes us that Archibald Roosevelt, son of the ex-president with the big teeth, and Secretary of the National Econ- | omy League, is connected with the steamship line plying between Ham- burg and Baltimore. Among other things, this ship carries mail for the United States government, charging the government $807,000 for work that the government could get done for $28,000. Archie is one of those responsible for cutting the veterans’ compensa- tion by about $500,000,000 so as to reduce the expenses of the govern- ment. Wouldn't think of cutting down on your graft, would you, Archie? Have you approached your fel- low worker in your shop with a copy of the ‘Daily?’ If not, do so TODAY! SUBEORIPTION RATES: , _ By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six is : ths, $5.50; 3 months, $2; 1 momth, THe, Bronx, New York City. Foreign an@ ths, 95; 7 months, Paraguay Declaration _ of War to Force Chile, _ Peru to State Position | After 11 Months of Fighting Without Formal | “State of War,” New Move Is Attempt to Stop Shipments of Munitions to Bolivia BUENOS AIRES, May 11.—Paraguay formally declared war on Bolivia today a few hours after the latter country re- jected last-minute efforts of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru to arbitrate the Gran Chaco territorial dispute. The declara- | tion was authorized yesterday. A state of siege was pro- claimed throughout Paraguay, @—————__— *. esl Brown, edits “xe ig suspending all civil rights and| ana Protease wi Dane, cane placing the country under mar-| of the Executive Committee of the tial law. Amsterdam Congress Against War. This declaration of war by Para- guay, after a year of undeclared war- fare, is motivated by the desire © GERMAN MINISTER block the importation of munitions into: Bolivia. Bolivia has to import | ) | most of its arms through the Chilean | DEM ANDS BIGGE | Ports of Arica and Antofagasta, along | 1 |the railway to La Paz while Para- guayan imports come up the Para- UNS AND PL A | . \Von Neurath Insists enter the war ss belligerents. on Re-Armament Chile Indicates Its Stand | Chile has already stated that it has for Germany tina indicate that Paraguay has had | 7. : A | Argentine support in. this latest ma- \ ie npeniel narceineh etinee ssh neuver in the Gran Chaco conflict. | 5! Sonnet y ‘A 4 ipelled to supplement her ar- guay River free of any restrictions. Peru and Chile will now have to de- clare their status either as neutrels, blocking all munitions transports, or |the right to prevent the passage of | | war materials for Bolivia over Chilean | ese a Ng aricais hs is | soil, while statements of Foreign | poe) ont Conton Prati | Minister Saavedra Lamas of Argen- Colitis Od stating that no matter what reduc- | GENEVA, May | | livia. | Win sal cee As the Daily Worker has repeatedly | pointed out, Bolivia has the backing perialism in South America. the control of the capitalist world, with 50,000 dead and 60,000 wounded already in the bloog slaughter of South American soldiers for the prof- it of foreign Sone nee. “ Tonight, Friday, May 12, at Dudley Opera House, 113 Dudley St., Fox- bury, the Boston Provisional Commit- | tee for National Youth Day will hold a huge Anti-War meeting at which the principal speakers will be Lloyd | armistice between Paraguay and Bo- | | Committee of the League of Nations | voted tonight to recommend that the | German League of Nations Union | Council dispatch a commission to | that “Germany must develop military South America to arrange for an| 2nd naval aviation.” After adding | 11.—The Chaco, ™aments and increase her arms.” He declared in the journal of the that Germany will increase the size tf her land guns, von Neurath said: “Weapons and armaments =a | others need, Germany needs also.” This, coming on top of the Italian of American imperialism in this war,| agreement to the inclusion of the while Paraguay, as well as Argentine,| Fascist Black-Shirts as 34,000 effect- are the instruments of British im-j ives in the Italian Army, which is ‘Thus | a blow to the German refusal to al- the whole Gran Chaco war is a Phase | low the inclusion of the armed Nazi in the world-wide rivalry between | storm troopers in its listed armed British and American imperialism for | forces, just about put the finishing touch to the somnolent Disarmament. Conference, which the United States, through Norman Davis, has been try- ing to revive to stimulate the coming World Economic Conference, MORGAN FIRES RIVERA NEW YORK. — General Motors Corporation has cancelled its order to Diego Rivera to paint a gigantic mural for its exhibit at the Chicago worlds’ fair. the Soviet Union, Unemployed Coun- cils, fraternal organizations, workers’ clubs, and language organizations, including German, Finnish, Hunga- rian and others. All united by the Jewish Workers and Peoples Com- mittee Against pogroms and fascism. | On Fifth Ave. the workers formed APPEAL OF GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY AGAINST FASCIST ANTI-SEMITISM « | against Fascism, with unity of all/a solid rank, 32 abreast marching the workers, Socialists, Communists,! with the organization and discipline | and trade unionists. | of a trained army. j He called upon the masses and) Preceding them was a truck with | their organizations to unite in pre-|amplifiers from which issued revolu- | venting Goebbels from coming to| tionary slogans, then a forest of 200 | Chicago. |red flags and banners of hundreds Other speakers were Siskind of the Jewish trade unions and Seigel of the “Forward.” Alter the meeting Fascist elements attempted to beat up .Good for his attack on Fascism, but they were stopped by masses of workers who surrounded Good, preventing an at- tack, Relie} Group Protests Illegal Raid Letter to Crain Charges Police Use Fascist Methods in Search and Seizure NEW YORK, May 11.—In protest against the reecnt raid by New York had been given, namely, that the Dis- trict Attorney is carrying on an in- police on the offices of the National} tensive investigation of individuals Committee to Aid Victims of German | and organizations making a racket out Fascism, at 75 Fifth Avenue, New of the collection of relief does not York City, the officers of the organ- | justify illegal search and seizure in ization today sent the following let- | any case, and certainly not in the ter to District Attorney Crain. case of an organization of standing the military academy, the main to- s May 11, 1933. | such as ours. We have no fear of in- pic of our discussion meetings has| Thos. C. T. Crain | vestigation and any time the District become “revolution,” “coup d'etat,” | District Attorney Attorney wishes to make one he can assassination,” etc. In these meet- a0 se? a Si do so in accordance with law. na ge Pim s| New York City, N. Y é e Dass aetaisiat eesbndatand Lt er Dear sir Authorities Using Fascist Measures Gor Se series cevoinbion will’ tage ee EE ie : _ The abrogation of all civil liberties Dlace in Japan in two or three years,, The National Committee to Aidyis one of the characteristics of Fas- and that the Army will be its leader.) Victims of German Fascism protests cism wherever it manifests itself. ‘He almost weeps when he talks most emphatically against the actions | 1 ap ind, ‘Sncittaly ae whether under Muss r about the failure of the military group| of two agents of the District At. wanner: Mussolint, s-italy oe on May 15, 1932, when Premier Inu- torney’s office in entering our offices Teens oy Ceenians. | See) a heat , of workers’ organizations. | | The thousands of workers and | | others lining the sidewalks had watched hour after hour a streaming Procession of groups and organiza- tions. Religious Zionist groups, Wool- en Merchants Association, Silk Mer- chants Association and a conglomera- tion of all manner of Jewish petti- bourgeois organizations. Respectful to Hitler ‘They marched loosely, many with canes, quietly, respectfully, no noise, American and Zionist flags in their hands, Jewish stars on their lapels, What banners they carried were sen- timental, weepy, many defeatist. Few mentioned the workers. Most boasted of Jewish cultural pride. A Cannon Shot | So hour after hour of this. Then | like a cannon shot after a pop gun, |a voice cut the air: “Fellow workers, | unite and fight, against Fascism, Hunger and War!” Fellow workers! Communist workers! Socialist work- ers! Only a united front of the work- ing-class can defeat Fascism and an- ti-semitism! Electricity! A call of a bugle to| battle after a weepy funeral train. | HE Communists exploitation and suppression of the working population whether by Jewish, “Aryan” or other capitalists. The victory of Commun- ism—as the Soviet Union shows—frees the toiling people from all sorts of capitalist exploitation and enslavement and finally over- comes the misery into which capitalism has plunged the laboring population. Communism creates work for all the toilers, no matter what race or religion they may have. Fascism, however, which maintains and defends capitalism, can give the toilers neither work nor bread. ‘Therefore it endeavors to divert the toiling masses who are seeking a way out from the misery of bankrupt capitalism, from class struggle against capitalism, trying to incite them to a race struggle against the largely petty bourgeois and proletarian elements of the Jews. In this deceptive manocuyer, fascism misuses the feeling of desperation in the middle class and the proletarian intellectuals ruined by capitalism. ‘The true cause of the impoverishment of the productive middle class is capitalism, which ruthlessly plunders the toiling population by its profit system, by surplus value, interest and rent, monopolistic prices and taxes. Industry, organized in cartels and trusts, trading and department store concerns, agrarian capital, banks (in one word, finance capital) are not only the exploiters and overlords of the working class, but they also ruin and enslave the toiling middle classes and the intellectual professions. ‘The Communists there- fore demand the confiscation without compensation of industrial, mercantile, agrarian and banking capital. HITLER TAXES POOR FOR RICH are fighting for the elimination of capitalist | Cheers! Applause! | “Down With Fascism | More electricity. The Red Front | band playing the International. Two | red flags waving in the wind. Di-| (Tectly behind an army, a solid mass | | with closed ranks, clenched fists | | raised far back as the eye could see. | As the workers came by there was a| roar like thunder: “Down with fas- Hitler, however, continues to pay millions in subsidies to agrarian capital, to the industrial trusts and concerns and to the banks. Hitler is continuing to pay more billions in tribute to foreign cap- italists. He is not putting the trusts under government ownership as he promised, nor is he closing department stores, nor is he ex- propriating the bank and stock exchange magnates, nor is he smash- ing the “domination of interest,” nor is he suppressing “usurious the middle classes and of the free professions can only be eliminated if capitalism and with it the capitalist crisis is abolished. That is the aim of the Communists, Fascism, however, wants to maintain the capitalist system intact; therefore it cannot abolish the, celsis of capitalism and the poyerty of the middle classes and the free professions. Fascism is inciting the separate groups of the toiling population against one another in order that big business can reap its profits with greater sécurity. FASCISM MAKES JEWS SCAPEGOATS FOR CAPITALISM ‘The persecution of the Jews now being organized by fascism will not bring about any change in the poverty of the middle classes, nor in the proletarianization of the free professions. What use is it for small shopkeepers and craftsmen to be incited against Jewish shopkeepers and artisans, whose share of total trade turn- over is no more than 50%, while the comsumption capacity of the masses has sunk by 50%? What advantage is it for physicians, lawyers, engineers and writers to be misled into a pogrom against the Jews when the true cause of their misery is capitalist economic anarchy? A We Communists now predict how the middle class adherents of Hitler will be deceived: In a’ few days after the Fascist boycott of the Jews is over, you will see that all department stores remain open, that the Jewish bank capitalists and stock exchange speculators will continue to do business, that not a single Jewish industrial capitalist will be harmed —that the only result of the persecution of the Jews consists in = few thousand Jewish clerks, physicians, lawyers and other intellec~ tuals and a few thousand Jewish small shopkeepers being brutally Nothing is done against capitalism, nothing against the true causes of your miseyy; these middle classes and proletarian intellectuals will not derive the slightest advantage from these persecutions of the Jews, but at beaten and perhaps economically ruined. kai was assassinated by naval of-|at noon on Tuesday, May 9, and with-/| action as was committed on Tuesday capital,” nor is he annuling the payment of tribute abroad. Hitler ficers who had intended to establish | a military dictatorship through a coup d'etat. “These discourses have influenced most of the cadets, who have up to AID FASCIST VICTIMS CHICAGO, May 11.—The United Front Anti-Fascist Conference re- cently held in Chicago, at which 144 delegates, representing 52 different organizations, were present, has or- out search warrants or warrants for arrest, attempting to remove all docu- |ments and correspondence, and to ar- | Test Executive Secretary Alfred Wag- jenknecht and the office force, | Demand Apology We demand an immediate and pub- | lic apology from the District Attorney, | We call attention to the fact that |the chairman of the National Com-| | mittee | is A. J. Muste, who is the chairman of the Conference for Pro- gressive Labor Action and a vice- | against an organization seeking to aid | the victims of the Hitler terror would seem to justify the charge that au- thorities here are also attempting fas- cist, methods, Again we protest against this act, |demand an apology and insist upon the strict enforcement of all the civil | liberties guaranteed to citizens, and | especially to the workers and their | organizations, in the Constitution of the United States and in the laws of the United States and of the state ganized a Mass Protest Meeting to be| president of the American Federation | the city of New York. held on May 19th, at which time the nation-wide Tag Days, beginning on the 19th and ending on the 21st of this month, will be popularized. On the 13th of May, a conference of the Chicago United Front Com- mittee will be held for the purpose of drawing other organizations into the movement. The relief committee is also attempting to organize the in- tellectuals, particularly the professors of the Universities of Chicago, Tiinois anr Northwestern. All orgenizations, in every city and town in the country, should follow the example set by the Chicago United Front Anti-Pascist Commit- tee, and immediately get into action For information and material, write of Teachers, affiliated with the Am- erican Federation of Labor; that the! treasurer for the American Commit- | |tee is Mr. J. B. Matthews, Executive | | Secretary of the Fellowship of Re- conciliation. Well known citizens such as George Soule of the New Republic, | Heywood Broun of the New York) World-Telegram, Roger Baldwin and | | others are included in the committee |. We point furthermore to the fact | that the chairman of the Interna- tional Committee to Aid Victims of| | German Fascism with which the Am- erican committee is connected is Lord | Marley of Great Britain and the s retary Prof. Francis Jourdain of Pa {and that such well-known interna- tional figures as Romain Roland and to the National Committee to Aid the! Henri Barbusse are also members of Victims of 75) nth av. eo em | { $ { the International Commnitter. ‘The eaeuse which ws vdensemd Signed: Chairman, A, J. Muste Vice-Chairman, Dr. H. A. Warwick Secretary, Alfred Wagenknecht ‘Treasurer, J. B. Matthews. ITALIAN GENERAL STAFF OFFICER SHOT AS SPY ROME, May 11.—A firing squad to- day executed Ugo Travaglia, an of- ficer in the Italian Naval General Staff, for disclosing naval plans to a foreign power. It was charged that for ten years he had sold secret Tie- lian plans to France. Bring the ‘Daity’ to the mance! Help menne 9,000 mew render ber cism, Free Thaelmann, Torgler and Dimitroff.” A steady, unending and mighty chant. As the red flag passes, hats go up with the same reverence one once saw when the American imperialist flag passed. Workers and others on the side lines are magnetized by the electricity the revolutionary workers bring with them. Their arms go up in the red front salute. Some do it awkwardly as if it is a new experi- ence. There is excitement, the ‘thrill of battle in their eyes. All around on every one’s lips: “It’s the Commu- nists, its the Communists.” Hooray! Applause! The demands of the revo- bapa berate and the Interna- ‘lonale swells above . Here is life—here is Ath tal ig is the hope against fascism, against anti- semitism. And so from 17th St. and Fifth Ave. to Battery Park, applause, cheers, the red front salute, louder, |More excited than for any other group. At Battery Park, the moment the | Red Front Band came in sight, the speeches of the reactionaries abruptly stopped. “Meeting adjourned,” they | announced hurriedly. They ordered | Banner.” Im eseme the aplid renkes of ‘the oeekees — the Intemmeationats } rejects the tax on millionaires demanded by the Communists, but he is ruthlessly collecting taxes from the toiling masses. He is not repealing the emergency decrees of yon Papen and Bruening, which brutally cut wages, salaries, relief allowances and pensions, but is continuing to distribute new billions to the rich. Fascism is direct- ing barbaric terror against the Communists and all revolutionary workers, but it is not expropriating a single trust king, banker, or Junker. Not a single capitalist is being harmed or deprived of a single mark of his wealth. MIDDLE CLASSES RUINED ‘The crisis of. the capitalist system has intensified enormously the impoverishment of the toiling middle classes and the free profes- sionals, as well as the working class, The drop in the income of the workers as the result of wage and salary cuts and the slash in unemployment relief, new taxes and tariff duties, to one-half of the total of 45 billions in 1928 means the destruction of business and means of existence for hundreds of thousands of small artisans and shopkeepers. ‘Che middle classes are being ruined because the masses cannot buy. “The impoverishment of the masses who can call on a doctor's services only in cases of extreme need, together “with the economies effected in all social institutions (sick and death benefits, etc.) is the reason why thousands of playsicians are without work and proletrianized, ‘This sate. erisis of capitalism if the «cause of the impoverishment of all intellectual eecupations (erg most they themselves will be injured. FIGHT ALONGSIDE COMMUNISTS AGAINST CAPITALIST EXPLOITERS The Commynists therefore call upon the masses of the toiling population, the productive middle class and the free professionals, to join in common struggle against the common enemy: the cape italist exploiters and bloodsuckers! Fight together with the working class for bread, work and Socialism ! Z Fight for the economic demands raised by the organizations of small shopkeepers; for protection against court judgments for all shopkeepers with a turnover below 20,000 marks! For the postponement of interest payments for two years! / For relief from the trade tax! For the reduction of high store rents and occupation fees! For a cut in gas and electricity rates! ‘The Communist Party appeals to all toilers to foil the deceptive manoeuver of the fascist rulers. -Do not let yourself be diverted from class struggle against capitalism whether Jewish or “Aryan.” Support the Communist Party and its struggle: For the expropriation of all capitalists, especially the trust concerns, department houses, big banks and big landowners! For the overthrow of capitalism and its fascist protectors! For the rule of the working population, that is, for the werkna