The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1933, Page 4

Page Four Published by the Comprodaliy Prblishing Co 13th St., New York City, N. ¥ Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Ine., daily except Sonday, at 50 E, Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th St. New York, N. ¥- orker’ Party U.S.A. Dail Who Lacks Sincerity, Mr. Thomas, or We? WHAT MUST By ¢ A. HATHAWAY Article 1 Socialis: Party leaders, and par- jculerly Norman Thomas, are talk- ing much these days about sin- cerity,” about the “sincerity of the Communists.” We want to raise some questions also about “sincerity, ” and particularly with reference to the sincerity of the sincerity talk of these Socialist leaders. Norman Thomas, his the Socialist Party Executive (pub. shed full in the May “Commu , says, “Frankly, T am skeptical whether the Communists will under- letter to ake united action on honorabie terms.” Writing in the New L of May 13, Thomas again says, ‘We may get along better simply by unit ing on things where we can unite and it is not yet clear how many they are or in what good faith the prob- Jem of unity is approached from the Communist side.” These excerpts are typical of the writings and speeches of all Socialist leaders on the q tion of the united front. They would make it appear that they univer- sally favor united action, but th: realization of united action is made impossible only by doubt as to the sine y of the Communis How can such dgubts, assuming the moment that they disposed of? Obviously, only by ex amining the Communist propo: and ns, as well as those of the Socialist P; ¥ The United Front Proposals of C. P. In our letter to the Socialis’ Executive, dated March 29—seven weeks ago—we proposed joint efforts te rally the masses in active class struggle on the following burning is- sues now confronting the workers “1) Against Roosevelt's hunger and war program; against forced labor; against wage cuts; for in- creased wages to meet rising prices; for adequate relief for the unem- ployed without discrimination against Negro or foreign born; for shorier hours without reduction in for are doubts, be pay; and for relief for the small farmers. “2) For federal unemployment insurance; against the proposed unemployment ‘reserve’ bills. “3) For the workers’ rights, for the release of Tom Mooney, the Scottsboro boys, and all political prisoners; against police terror, against deportations, and against injunctions in labor disputes. “4) Against fascist terror and anti-Semitism in Germany; for the release of Thaelmann and of all imprisoned anti-fascist forces: for material support to the revolu- tionary movement of Germany. “5) For the immediate with- drawal of the Japanese forces from China, for the defense of the Chi- nese people, for the stopping of munition shipments to Japan; against the imperialist-war policy of Wall Street particularly now in the Far East and in Latin America. ) For the recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States; against imperialist attacks on the Soviet Union. The realization of these general demands requites the immediate taking up of a united struggle to restore the wages of the miners, the steel workers, the auto, textile and all other workers, It means to prepare to win back the wage cut put over on the railroad workers. 1 means support to all workers now carrying on a fight for im- Proved conditions. It necessitates the development of the broadest mass action against the Roosevelt forced labor and economy mea sures, for federal aid to the upem- ployed and for unemployment in- surance. This struggle at present means the support and building up of the Mooney Congress to be held in Chicago, the defense of the nine Negro Scotisboro boys, for the re- Jease of those now held for depor- tation and against all deportation measures.” Agreement on Specific Tssues Does the Socialist Party agree with these specific issues or does it, no We have never asked them to ac. cept the Communist program; this we know they disagree with, just as | the | we completely disagree with whole program of the Socialist Par- iy. Their program is one of collabo- cation with the capitalists, or as Nor- man Thomas puts it, “a not too well- concealed collaboration with old line parties and indifference on the part of Socialists, in the unions and eise- where, to the interests of Socialism.” | Sur program is based on the real- zation of Socialism through imtionary class struggle in accord ance with the teachings of Karl Marx and Lenin. These fundamental lifferences create ar unbridgeable thasm between the Socialist Party ind the Communist Party. The question, therefore, is this, is # possible for Socialists and Commu- nists to unite in joint efforts to rally ihe masses to struggle for their im- mediate interests— against Roose- relt's inflation and war program \gainst fascism and against impe- ‘walist war? They claim to be a work- ers’ party. If they are why should sbey hesitate to 0 the workers fointly with us: “Join together in common strug- gle, regardless of other differences, im a fight for your immediate needs. Organize im the factories, prepare to resist wage cuts, fight for higher wages. Organize in your revyo-~ Set up joint committees for sirug- gle against fascism and war, ete., etc.” Why can they not agree to such proposals, assuming, as they claim, that their only concern is for the workers’ interests? They can talk about “sincerity” until doomsday, but | until they answer that question they will meyer be able to convince the workers or their own mamiers what. | % at” sila. santhing cle be ‘yh BE THE BA FOR U ©. A. HATHAWAY is exactly what the is doing. Sabotaging United Struggles Against Capitalism They talk of “Communist sincer- ity,” they say must for “action by the Labor and So ist International”; they talk of “ne- gotiations” with a sub-committee of the Communist Par 5 ney so much hot air. In this way they sabotage the efforts of the workers io unite their ranks fer common struggle is shown clearly by their rec- r of the | since the proposals fo ed action were sent to the Socialist Executive Com- mittee First, they rejected our March 29 proposals for united action, stating {that they must wait for interna- tional action by the L.S.I., and in- acting their branches to refuse to join in joint struggle Second, they sabotaged the Free Tom Mooney Congress, not only by staying away themselves but by ing to keep others out, Clarence |cerely entered into united front ac- | ete. NITED ACTION? | nioi © join the | ning so te apit chor charging that Tom Mooney was expelled from the | Socialist Party for “adyocating the | use of dynamite.” Third, they sabotaged the mass campaign for the release of the Nine Scottsboro boys and joined in at- tacking the L.L.D. which has so far kept the boys from the electric chair. Fourth, they carried through the Continental Congress on the narrow- est basis, excluding militant workers’ organizations, and adopting a pro- gram designed to disorganize the workers’ fighting front, rather than to consolidate it Fifth, they have sabotaged a work- ghting front on May Day, against fascism, etc., and in the case of May Day, in New York, even en- tering into a united front with the police against the workers. “Sincerity” Chatter Finally, they have brought up on charges censured and even éxpelled those of their members who have sin- tivities for the freedom of Mooney, for the Scottsboro boys, for May Day, With such a record, Norman Thom- as and his fellow-Socialist mislead- ers, talk of “Communist sincerity.” We charge that this “sincerity” chat- ter is only a smoke screen to conceal their sabotage of united struggle by the workers. We charge the Socialist | Party Executive with the criminal responsibility for the disunity of the} workers at a moment when united | action is most necessary to turn back the vicious attacks on the living standards of the workers and farm- ers, and to resist the war prepara- tions now feverishly going forward. Norman Thomas’ talk of “negotia- tions,” which we will deal with to- morrow, is likewise only a cover be~ hind which they hope to further de- lay the coming together of the work- ers. We urge the workers to unite at once in the shops, factories and neighborhoods for common struggle; without waiting for action by these | capitalist agents in the workers’| | ranks. FRANCE GUARDS GOLD STANDARD, CUTS WAGES; EXPORTS DROP SHARPLY | Belgium to Expand Foreign Trade at Other | National Expense PARIS, May 18.—Finance Minister Bonnet told the French Senate yes- terday that France can still stay on | the gold standard. He called for rig- | id economy (meaning wage and sal- | ary cuts) to balance the budget, so} | that the Treasury can float the loans needed for financing governmental expenditures. Joseph Caillaux, ex- Premier, demanded a balanced budget, sayin: We must work fast because world shocks may be so great that tomorrow may be too late.” France’s foreign trade dropped early one billion francs during the four months of 1933, figures hed yesterday revealed, Imports se, while exports fell close to a bil- lion francs, or a 14 per cent dr Total foreign trade for the period fell below the already extrem low level of 1932. CUBAN REBELS WIN BATTLES Revolt Gains Strength Against Machado BULLETIN A mass meeting in support of | the heroically struggling Cuban’ masses and in protest against Ma- chado’s terror will be held at 1413 Fifth Ave, New York City, Friday, May 19, at 8 p.m. Among the prominent speakers will be | Joseph Freeman of the “New | Masses,” Robert W. Dunn, chair- man of the Anti-Imperialist League, and Leonardo Sanchez of the Julio Mella Club. on HAVANA, May 18.— The rebel | forces in Santa Clara and Camaguey | Provinces are gaining strength, de- teating government troops in several pitched battles. Six Machado soldiers were killed and many more wounded, including their commanding officer, in a clash yesterday in illage of Blanquizal, near Sancti Spiritus where several battles have occurred during the past few days Three government soldiers were also killed in Jatibonico, while rebel forces stormed Zazadelmedio, dis- arming the soldiers gnarding the town and taking with them all avail- able arms and ammunition. A bomb exploded yesterday in the army post at Sancti Spiritus criti- cally injuring three soldiers. Major Ortiz, notorious commander of government troops operating against the rebels, has been com- pelled to call for strong reinforce- ments, which left Havana last night for the revolt area pace rs 'U. S. Factory Ships | Munitions to Cuba) By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK CFTY.—Remington | Arms shipped cartridges to Ha- vana, Cuba, recently as follows: The Morro Castile sailed on Mar. 18 with 200 cases Safety Metallic | | Cartridges, amounting to 15,200) | Ibs. ‘The same boat sailed April 1 | | with another 200 cases, amounting to 15,300 tbs. Then again on April | | 8 with the same amount. On April, | [15 the “Oriente” sailed for the | | same point with an equal ship-| | ment. Aj these munitions are for | ee ly Machado ageing she | NEW YORK, May 18—The Com- | mercial Attache of the Belgian Em-| bassy told the Foreign Commeree | | Club here that “Belgium must export | | its surplus goods to live.” He} warned that Belgium is out to ex-| pand its foreign trade—which can | only be done at the expense of other | exporting countries. Ecuador Artillery Regiment Revolts GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, May 18.— The Sucre artillery regiment at Rio Bamba revolted and occupied forti- fied positions at Guamote today. The government sent Col. Romero with several artillery. and cavalry regiments and some infantry battal- | ions to Guamote to suppress the re- bellion Dictatorial Powers Voted to Goering by the Prussian Diet BERLIN, May 18.—The Diet today voted Capt. Hermann Goering, Premier of Prussia, even greater dictatorial powers than those vested in Chancellor Adolf Hitler., The enabling act grants these pow-| | ers until April, 1937. | Prussian What Is Happening in Germany? eee eat (Continued from last issue) | By FRITZ HECKERT | | The Party did not only confine it- | self to the organization of the revo- | lutionary united front of struggle from below. The Communist Party repeatedly proposed. to the — entire | working class of Germany, which was striving for the unity of forces, to the Social democratic Party and the reformist trade unions the establish- ment of the united front of struggle against fascism. After July 20, the Communist Party | publicly proposed to the Social-demo~ | cratic Party and the A.D.G.B, (Trade | | Unions) to reply to the coup d'etat of von Papen with a political mass strike. It is well known that the so- cial-democratic Party rejected this proposal, while the A.D.G.B. called |it a provocation. When the atiacks of the fascists | on their road to power increased, the |B.G.0, (Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition) of Berlin addressed itself | anew to the Trade Union Council of | Berlin, to the Metal Workers’ Union |and the A.D.G.B. with the proposal | that they should combine in a joint | fight against the capitalist offensive | and the fascist terror, and again ree ceived @ refusal Finally the Party repeated its pro- posal for a political mass strike to the S.P.G. on January 30, again as | unsuccessfully; the Social-democratic | leaders rejected the proposal of the Communist Party. In those decisive days, when the | Communist Party of Germany was | retreating, and yet fighting, under | the conditions of an unheard-of fas- cist terror, the C. C. of the Party did | not desert dis post even for a single | mindufal of By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; $3 months, $2; 1 month, Be, excepting Borough of Manhattan and B: BUBSCRIPTION BATES: MAY 19, 1983 » New York 3; Fm City. Foreign and 0 6 months, 38. SPARKS OOSEVELT has just sent one of the most threatening peace mes- sages we have seen in a long time. He tells the nations of the world that the United States is firmly re- solved. to cut down on its supply of bean-shooters. But the building of battleships and bombing planes will go on just the same WORKER asks us if we have no- ticed that all the rulers to whom Roosevelt sent his threatening peace message are cellencies,” “Your 1 Highness,” “His Imperial Ma- .” “Serene Highness,” etc., etc. All except one and that was Presi- dent Kalinen of the USSR. our contributors supposes ie of that “the President’s son, Eliiott, just had to take the job as manager of the Gilpin Airplane Co., and his | daughter, Mrs. Curtiss Dall, just had | to crash the writing profession by getting herself appointed to the staff | of ‘Liberty, in order to make up the | loss incurred to the family income when Mrs. Roosevelt gaye up her | teaching job of $1,500 per year. Real- | ly, with the father of the family | getting only a measly $75,000 a year | plus a fat allowance for the ex- | penses of his household, the children | ~~ should be conscientious and do their | eae as 1 bit. | 3 | “No wonder Mrs, Roosevelt thinks |Roosevelt Message | the depression is over! There's no | Not Recognition unemployment in her family, and | | Hy ist only yesterday she threw a garden| | of Soviet Union MOSCOW, May 18.—Soviet gov- ernment officials did not view party at which there were 1242 guests!” President Roosevelt's message to Mikhail Kalinin, President of the Central Executive Committee, as formal recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States. They held that the Soviet Un- | ion did not intend to beg for rec- ognition, that everyone recognized the sun, the moon, and the stars, and the Soviet Union could not be David Selznick, as production | ignored any more than they are. head of the R.K.O. pictures, received | The Soviet Union is now one of a salary of $2,500 a week. Transfer- | | the strongest powers in the world ring to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, his| | and will not seek recognition by father-in-law, Louis B. Mayer, put | | anybody. him on a salaty of $4,000 a week. | '——— ABOVE: Airplane pilots and mana from planes. BELOW: Plane seeding the ground with flags from the ground. farmers are being ordered by their resist eviction from their farms. pe ate WISCONSIN paper tells us “that the new supplies of gas furnished officers for use in the milk strike are effective. This was demonstrated at Madison yesterday when two Na- tional Guardsmen went to bed after getting a whiff of the ‘K.O. gas.” Isn’t that just too bad? ERE’S a thrilling success story /900 Revolutionaries HERE'S plenty; f evidence that | * td States Government is Murdered, 4300 Jailed the United States Government is trying to put a damper on all anti- lin French Indo-China fascist demonstrations in the United States. J. S. F. who -runs a post- S “ -| PARIS, May 9 (By Mail).—A wave office substation in his pharmacy | 4 was told by the postal’ authorities | of inhuman white terror is sweeping i 1 a that if he closed his store for an hour | Over Tndo-Ching, following the revo in protest against anti-semitic atro- | During the vant ie Motiths more than cities, that his post-office privileges | 999 Communists and national revolu- would be taken away by the govern- tionaries were murdered by police and ment, army forces, while over 4300 have beer arrested. CZECH SOCIALIST LOCAL JOINS C. P. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, May 7) (By mail).—The Socialist Party local) in Dolni Datyn (Moravian Ostrava district) has disbanded and handed | ; = its banner over to the Communist} BERLIN. May 8 ‘by mail) —The | Party local in the town. | Young Communist League of Ger- Sowing by Airplane in Soviet Union While agriculture is making this progress in the U.S.S.R., American Most of the members of the Social-| many has scored notable successes ist local applied for membership in the Communist Party, because of dis- satisfaction with the leaders’ reform-| ist policy. Representatives of the revolution- ary and reformist masons’ union held a joint conference in Asch. A dele- gate from the revolutionary union de- ‘ clared that the basis for the united front must be joint action against all | wage cuts, cuts in unemployment re- | lief; compulsory labor, and against Fascism. These demands were ac-| cepted unanimously by the confer- ence, The Reichnberg local of the Trans- port Workers’ Union adopted a reso- lution demanding a united front against Fascism and all attacks upon the working class. It also protested against police persecution of the Com- munist Party of Czechoslovakia. }in its fight against the Fascist dic- tatorship Tee League has approached all the | dist?.et committees of the Young So- | cialist. League with a view to estab- lishing @ nation-wide united front |moyement against the Fascist dic- tatorship. | All the district committees refused te negotiate with the Young Com- | munist League, but the rank and file members of the Young Socialist | League failed to follow their leaders. | Large numbers of young Socialisis | are taking part in the Y.C.L. meet ings secretly held in young work homes, and many of them have ex- pressed their readiness to fight; ; Shoulder to shoulder with the young | | Communists against fascism. In some cities, as in Waltershausen, | the members of the Young Socialist | | | ' [sat oak UnlickS.an Bae harm | planning the early spring sowing. The crop is better if the seed is planted within a few days after the snow melts, before the ground is hard enough for tractor drawn seeders, Ten thousand acres are being seeded this year with signalman directing its course | | government to decrease production, and are being savagely tear-gassed and chased with bayonets when they | in estimating the strength of the United States Army. Lieut. Col. Strong, Times calls it “a high note in speak- ing of sacred rights,” while the Bal- ‘an act of self-defense.” | French are HITLER SPEECH PLEASES WASHINGTON; EUROPEAN } POWERS REMAIN HOSTILE Geneva Votes National Guard Partof U; 8; Army; Japanese Rebuff Roosevelt GENEVA, May 18.—After a stormy debate the effectivyes commission of the Disarmament Conference today voted to include the National Guard American delegate, said that 10,000 guardsmen would be counted in peace- time, while the wartime equivalent would be 30,000 men, The effective strength of the National Guard was —~— fixed on the basis of average daily | “Roosevelt-Hitler service, | world peace.” collaboration for WASHINGTON, May 18—President | _YONDON, May 18.—Vice-Chancellor Roosevelt said that he was “very | VOM Papen yesterday told the “Eve- much pleased” after listening to Hit- | Ding Standard” that Germany may ler’s speech over the radio yesterday. | 500 have a monarchy. regime. He His pleasure was shared by adminis- | based its action in so doing on “every tration officials from Secretary Hull| Nation having the right to choose down: | its own governmental system.” * ’ ° The British press welcomed Hitler’ NEW YORK, May 18—The whole | ‘one, but openly stated that Brita’ American capitalist press joined in a| “istrusts him, insisting on dee chorus of approval of Hitlers Reich-| "@ther than words to prove that Ger- stag speech today. The New York | any will really not re-arm. In this they adopted the line of the French suspicion of Hitler's intentions, timore Sun said “Hitler appealed to Pie Nien Te sason rather than to force.” ‘The | _ BUDAPEST, May 18—Uj Nemse- Chicago: Daily News” hailed Hitler's | ek, Hungarian newspaper, yesterday Deech as “particularly welcome,” and | attacked President Roosevelt’s mes- says that it “contains much that will| Se Violently, calling him a “dilet~ appeal.” jtante and international amateur,” TOKYO, May 18.—Japanese offi-|@24 saying that “he talks to starva- cials indicated yesterday that Japan| tion in the tone of a well-fed person.” would refuse to withdraw from China| The paper, insisting on Hungary's or Manchuria on the basis of Roose- | 'ecovery of territory lost in the World velt’s message. | War, said “his message wants to Ambassador Debuchi was instructed | Juggle into world opinion the idea to tell the American State Depart-| that 1 is a war provocation when a ment that Japan has no territorial Nation wishes, even by peaceful ambitions in Northern China, while| ™ans, to ask for what has been the Japanese army rolJs on towards| Stolen from it. cla a eir invasion of lanchu. JAPANESE SEIZE CHINESE BASE; via and now North China is “merel, PARIS, May 18.—The French Goy- ernment’s attitude towards Hitler's Speech is that “although his words are mild, he has not relinquished any of Germany's demands.” It is felt‘ that his speech was made primarily for American consumption, and the perturbed at America’s evident welcome of Hitler's address. | Miyun F alls as Chinese Retreat Southward GENEVA, May 18.—The American Spe Ng delegation to the Arms Conference) SHANGHAI, May 18.—The Jape- seems to be among those most grati-| Nese captured Miyun-hsien, main fied by the tone of Hitler's address, | Chinese base defending the road te Other Continental representatives | Peiping, today after one week's san- were much more reserved in their| Sulnary fighting. Lieut. Gen. Nishi’s receptance of his speech. | Eighth Division oceupied the city aft- En eae }er Maj. Gen. Kawahara’s Sixteenth BERLIN, May 18.—German official| Brigade had seized Nansheng-chuang, opinion was gratified by America’s! northeast of Miyun. obvious welcome to Hitler's speech| The Japanese also claim the cap- yesterday. The press speaks of |'ture of Shihmenchen after hours of severe fighting by the Fourteenth German Young Communists Make Gains in Fight Against Fascis League, the Reichsbanner Youth and the Socialist sport organization have joined the defonse corps or- ized by the Y.C.L Y.C.L. Organ Jumps Sales The “Jun Garde,” organ of the ¥.C.L.. is now being published by the district organizations on mimeo- | graph machines. In many cases the circulation of the “Junge Garde” has grown ten and fifteenfold since Hit- ler took power. The Bitterfeld local of the Y.C.L, which used to sell only 35 copies of | the “Junge Garde” when the Com- | munis: Party was legal, sold 800 cop- | ies W last week. Sim lar in from Bruns Rhi ine. The Hitler Fascists had hoped to ; smash the Young Comm t League, but our young comrades haye already learned how to counter the Nazi at- | tack. | leader, Comrade Thaelmann, is now; gle. The five million yotes which|them by Storm Troopers and provo- in prison because he remained among, were cast for the C.P.G., under the | cateurs,.to take possession of the fac- | the workers of Germany in spite of | conditions of a frightful terror when tory councils and to fascistize the ber of | anyone who voted for the Communist , trade unions. his comrades that he should leave | list did not know'whether he would / tions in the works! the urgent advice of a ni Germany in time. was not one single case of mass re- sistance to the fascists by the work- ers in which Communists were not in the forefront of the battle, that there was not a single encounter with the fascists in the street, in the workshops, during the defense of workers’ premises, of the Trade Unions, ete, in which Communists did not make inviolable sacrifices in the cause of the working class. ‘The wave of terror and the mass arrests dealt the CPG severe blows But the arrests of thousands of Com- munists cannot kill the Party, to ‘hich some five millions belong. In acting as replacements for the Com- munhists who have been arrested, the politically-developed and culturally- progressive workers of Germany are developing and will continue to deve~ lop ever new forces. The Party has already been able to overcome the severe consequences caused by the fascist terror. The C.P.G., which had accustomed itself in the course of a number of years to working under legal and semi-legal conditions, is reorganizing itself in telation to the new conditions of extreme illegality. The central organ of the Patty, “Die | Rote Fahne”, appears illegally, hun- Greds of comrades at the risk of their | lives distribute the Communist paper ; and the leaflets of the Party in the workers’ quarters, and the ‘workers defend them agemst the fascist Storm Troops. There is no doubt that the Communists of all countries, | moment, but remained amongst the | who look at our Pacty with pride, not working clees. And se proletariat only feel complete sohdarity with re- | tescists will fo nur potitier! ine, but ae ete set eee i ses in their Party. | Strong inthe trust of the masses the C.P.G. is clearly conscious of the ‘ necessity for keeping a cool head and suffering no confusion in its ranks. We Communists in Germany will find in the clear directives of the Comin- tern of Lenin, which make all the | experiences of the heroic labors of the C.P.S.U. under the most difficult | ‘conditions common property, the most important threads of our stra~ tegy and our tactic in the present extremely involved situation. The Party will oppose with fullest deter- | mination all the liquidating tenden- j cles which are unavoidable under the | conditions of the fascist terror, as also “putchism”, sectarianism and petty-bourgeois adventures, which are also forms of these liquidating ten- dencies. Problem of Leadership. ‘The question of leadership in all sections of the Party is at present the central question. Only when our Party possesses an illegal apparatus for the leadership of the Party, will it ensure a stable leadership of the masses. The Party realizes that in| ; Moments like the present the work- ing masses look, above all things, for leadership. ‘The most important task j of this leadership at this time will ‘be a most obstinate struggle against the attempts of the fascists, which will be supported by the treachery of social democracy, to penetrate into the vanks of the working class. The endeavour, by driving the werohitionary workers m maces ; forward more steeled, more deter- Each ‘of. these posi- | op, in’ all work- | ‘The proletariat | return home alive, are a proof of the | ers’ organizations, now acquires an | of Germany will not forget that there | extreme trust of the working mas-! extreme importance for the Party. And here there exists for the Party a broad basis. for the united front with the social-democratic and un- zed workers. In this struggle y will know how to liquidate, step. the influence of reac- soct*# eusccracy and the fascistized trade union “Roresterats.| In developing this struggle the pro- | ietariat will develop the forces which | will enable it to pass from defense to | attack, { ‘The fighting spirit of the C.P.G. is | not broken and will not be broken by the terror. We Communists of Ger- many will be mindful of the Tessons of the Russian Bolsheviks, who un- Ger the despotism of Czarism and its “black-hundred storm troops”, did not think of yielding and laying thei! hands in their laps, but organized the struggle of the proletariat until they were victorious in the October revolution. We shall be mindful of these teachings and be guided by them. The C.P.G. is the Party of the numerically strong and developed proletariat of an advanced capitalist country, a Party that has received its baptism of fire in the civil war, a Party that has absorbed the lessons of the three Russian revolutions and the experiences of the t+ Isheviks, As @ result of its present trials it will go mined and more ready for battle. It will confidently lead the working Class united under its banner, which draws with it the masses of the work~ ers be ultimate victory over fascism a x Brigade under Maj. Gen. Hattori. An army of 20,000 under Li Li- | Chen, Chinese general who has gone over to the Japanese, has been re- | cruited around Tangshan and is now marching on Tientsin, to take. con-~ | trol as a “China Stabilization Army,”, | and set up the North Chinese puppet | state. f | Tokyo reports that prominent Tien-§ ‘They are maintaining their posi- | tsin merchants had met secretly in ‘tions, and have gained in members | Peiping and raised $200,000 for the in many instances. Increases of this NeW army. Tientsin business men ARMY ROLLS ON" ‘gia during the last six, weeks. sort are reported from Berlin, Ham- burg, Wittenberg, Tinuringie, and other districts. In the Schleswig-Hol- stein district one of the League's factory cells double: its membership, Two new factory c ‘s were organized in Berlin last week, while nine new factory cells were formed in Thurin- ¥. . Wins Victories in Forced Labor Camps The Nazi authorities in the Wit- tenberg region weie compelled to disband three forced labor camps because the young workers went on trike against military drill. They also demanded pay at union wage scales. In two other cases where the au- thorities had intended to open labor camps, they had to abandon the plan because the young workers dem- onstrated against, compulsory labor, again demanding union pay. The “Internationale” was sung in the Wittenberg forced labor camp where 100 young workers are sta- tioned, when the swastika flag was hoisted. Under the leadership of the Young Communists, the young workers voted to go on strike until the flag was hauled down. The Nazi storm troops arrested all 100 young workers and transported them io a concentration camp, Twenty - five Taubach - Dietharz young girls were scheduled to be sent off to forced Jebor camps. The Young Communist League prevailed upon all 25 to refuse to go. They marched to the town council and demanded that they be paid unemployment re- lief without doing forced labor. Faced by the demonstrators, the authori- ties were forced to continue payment of their unemployment relief. In Weida, where 1,000 unemployed were forced to do relief work by the Labor Exchange, a young Commu- hist spoke to the workers on forced labor, explaining what the Fascist government aims to use this labor for. After his speech, 100 of the un- employed refused to do the work and marched off singing the ‘“Interna- tionale.”” ‘Thirty-five workers, were drilled for compulsory labor in Erfurt, but’ all 35 wrote in their service record books: “Down with the Fascist Hit~ ler -Sauckel government!” Next. morning all 35 were summoned t0 | versity court and 14 were arrested. The other 21 then refused to continue drilling. Ninety young workers in the Schmalkalden labor camp voted to refuse to work. Sixty of them actu- ally left the camp. In Jena 120 young workers in the labor camp held a meeting and elect- ed a fighting committee to press their demands, Their resolute action won them a raise in wages from 1! to 3 marks per week. Have you approached your fel- jow worker im your shop with a are hastily hoisting Japanese and Manchukuo flags in anticipation of | the ‘city’s occupation by the invaders. The Japanese are expected to ap~ i proach the outskirts of Tientsin be- fore the week is over. The Chinese }are mounting artillery and digging renches at Tangku, port of Tientsin, | as a last resort defense measure. All + available rolling steck is being hastily | sent south of Petping and Tientain. | A mysterious fire destroyed the | three hangars of the Japanese air force base in Chinchow, Manchurie, where most of the planes used in bombing the Chinese troops are lo-~ cated. | Another attempt to assassinate |General Hwang Fu, North Chinese leader, was made last night as he left | Tientsin for Peiping. Secret negotia- | tions are now going on between Chi- nese and Japanese leaders in North China for the conclusion of an arm- istice, which would leave the area pane the Great Wall in Japanese Japan Buys Freight } Cars Here; E: Steel for Munitions CHICAGO, Tll—Old freight cars in the United States are being junked |to supply Japan with war materials \for its war in China and its anti- | Soviet maneuvers, it was disclosed | last month. M. S. Kaplan, a scrap steel dealer | in Chicago, revealed that 2,000 cars had been bought from southeastern | railroads to be shipped as junk steel | to Japan. He said that his company _ bad purchased 16,000 worn-out cars (since January 1, shipping most of the metal to Japan. Italy, which is also busy on war preparations, was a ah buyer of scrap steel, Kanjan said. | Planes. Machine Guns, SmokeScreens inSham Battle of 800 at N.Y.U. NEW YORK, May 18.—Kight hi dred students of the Suen Of Ng cers Training ipated in @ mock war battle whilé 5,000 spee- tators Pv the at soldiers fell “shot” make-be bullets and Pir ran te dress their. wounds. ee ties None the less, students of N. ina condueted | i i