The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1933, Page 4

e Page Four 1 Address and mail checks to the Daily th St. sblished by the Comprodatly Publishing Co. New York City, N. ¥ Worker, me. Telephone ALgonquin 4~ 50 E. 13th St. ally exeept Sone es ¥6. Cable “DATWORK.” New York, N. ¥. Dail Successful Spring Sowing Campaign in Sovi Molotov and Kalinin et Union Address Samara and Kazan Conferences By N. BUCHWALD Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker MOSCOW, May 22 onferences of collective farm (kolkhoz) shock brigaders to celebrate the of the spring sowing camp: held in Samara for the Central region and in Kazan for the Tartar Soviet Republic, with Molotov pres- ent at linin at Kazan The spirit and cheer- ing report these conf tes- tify to t drive for the completed the sowing record time, with the high quality of work promising an excellent crop. Grain Looks Good The fine appearance of the grain adds io the a bumper ceed even the record While tricts winter ht outlook for crop of 1929 collective farms and dis- are lagging behind here and is proceeding excep- well throughout the countr with the schedule far ahead of year and the quality of work greatly imyeaed. Most of all, the regions that nd in 1932 are now re- bi ’ Letter to Stalin Conferenc’@ letter to he sfuation not only for the Tartar Republic but for the country as a whole. The let- ter i i Comrade ‘Stalin, probably have heard that this year we have had 2 orecedented drive for qual- ity collective farmers checked up on each other's work—brigade checked up on brigade, one collective farm checked up on another. Of course there still are some backward kolkhozes and districts, but they are becoming fewer and fewer every month, and soon there will be none at all. We have better order in cur kolkhozes (collective farms). less mismanagement and firmer working SOVIFT CONSTRUCTIO WITH ACTIVE SUPPORT OF MASSES, |the whole staff of the Government | at the dock warehouses. | Printing Office that turns out bank- | By N. BUCHWALD. (Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, May 22.—The first few days of distributing the internal three billion ruble loan were marked by phenomenal success. In three days Moscow alone sub- Seribed to 270,000,000 rubles, Leningrad absorbed 170,000,000 rubles. Subscriptions Wholly Voluntary. Subscription to the loan is wholly voluntary. In an editorial estia” | warns against the use of any pres- sure in obtaining subscriptions, stat- ing “the unshakeable pr fe in placing our loans in completely vol- untary participation in subscsibing “Tt is necessary to wage a decisive WinchesterArms Steps Up Production of All Federal War Orders By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW HAVEN, ¢ I nn.—I mi ring to t Co. and rere had been taking on 50 more men. Police were on the outer door that leads into the employment office. I hung around there for about an hour and a half. and this is what I saw and heard Hundreds of workers came and went The police didn’t allow any man to enter the office. Girls were admitted, but everyone was rejected Crowds of men on the sidewalk talked to cach other about having been laid off recently, after they had been wo:Ling on speed-up for fifty hours a We Their wages had been eight, nine and ten dollars a week Other men in the crowd told about having worked in the shop for and 40 years, only to be t like a pair of old shoes. They cursed the factory into hell and out again Later I had the chance to talk to one of the big bosses of Winchester. He told me the report about increas- ing their employees about 50 per cent was authentic. They would work on 28 calibre. He said it was goverr ment stuff. I asker’ him if t Meant, war production, and he re- plied, "I suppose it means just, that —w. ICELAND TOILERS WIN STRIKE WITH RED LEADERSHIP REYKJAVIK, Iccland, May 2 (By mail).—City workers gained a com- plete victory in their fight against a municipal wage cut in Akureyri, one| of the biggest towns in Iceland The city authorities tried to force the workers to accept lower wages and worse working conditions, threat- ‘ning to employ Fascist strikebreak- ers. The reformist union leaders re- fused to support the striking work- | ers. | The workers went on strike never- | theless under the leadership of the young Communist Party of Iceland Winning a complete victory. The city Authorities were compelled to recog- fiiz2 the Workers’ Union as the only workers’ organization entitled to ne- ¢ wage scales. They also} € Union wage s and conceded its right to con- | all unemployment relief work, | capitalist governments. while | |lions of bondholders either | form of ion. Kolkhoz Con- your speech about the need to ain prosperity. we made a. drive against loafers and supporters ot the kulaks and other le elements. And. things went gress and for honest work This admitted about sprix 50,000 individ nts into kol- khozes, and the n of applica- tions continues proves we are on the right tra “Our » delivered the Congress of demanded. is our Mobilizing Farmers for Harvest While mar the triumph of the ng sowing campaign, these con- ferences also served as an occasion for mobilizing the collective farmers for weeding work, plowing for winte: and preparations for the hi With a e crop ahead, all et- s are being exerted to prevent de- lay in harvesting Both Molotov and Kalinin, in their speeches, warned of the need for the utmost continued effort between now harvest time, pointing out that e spring sowing is only half the victory. Splendid Outlook Ahead On the basis of the spiendid spirit among the peasant ma however, coupied with better organization, bet- ier labor discipline, and the compe- tent leadership of the political sec- tions in the rural districts, it is safe to predict the continuation of the gh tide enthusiasm and collec- ve teamwork the pe! antry nearer lization of the goal set by Stalin: “Making all col- lective farmers prosperous.” and the industrial population will be assured an ample supply of the basic food- stuffs. In this first spring of the Second) Five-Year-Plan the outlook is very bri indeed for the toilers of the land building Soc m. LOAN FLOATED. the struggle from the very first days of | notes in order to ensure that only | the campaign against all cases of | | abuses, against all cases of distortion, against ‘Leftist’ efforts to place the | loan in an administrative mannet The loan provisions offer a stri ing contrast to the loans made by The Sovie Government, despite its excellent credit, pays lberal interest to its mil- in the lottery prizes (every hun- dred ruble bond is assured of one prize of at least fifty rubles in the space of ten years) or as ten per cent interest outright. Tens of mil- lions of workers and peasants will benefit by the loan Even more striking is the disposal of money raised by the loan. Fach republic, city, town and village gets about 15 percent of the entire sum raised within its limits for local needs, with the provision that the money must be used for “the needs economic and cultural construc- ven republic, city, dis- sed income of the mas- es h rose from 23,700,000,000 es to 70,000,000,000 rubles in four ‘Ss, hot counting the income of the peasants in kind, enables the mas ses to absorb the loan and place their savings to aid social: construction. Mass Meetings Protest Hitler White: Terror in Germany Newark and. Brooklyn Aid Nazi’s Victims Newark workers and sympathizers, and Brooklyn professional men, both had mass meetings last night to pro- test against the Hitler terror in Ger- many. These mectings occuring on the last evening of the Tag Days conducted by the National Commit- tee to Aid Victims of German Fas- cism, are significant of the movement against fascism In Newark, where A. J, Muste of the Conference for Progressive Labor | Action, Rebecca Grecht, of the Com-| munist Party, and Comrade Alama- | zov of the Jewish Peoples Commit- tee Against Fascism and Progroms in| Germany, spoke, an audience of 1000 packed the Kruger Auditorium. Prof. Nunu, chairman, condemned the action of the leadership of the Essex County Socialist Party for withdrawing their support of the committee, \recalling their speaker without officially notifying the com-| mittee, and for openly sabotaging the | mass meeting. The Brooklyn Committee of Allied | Professions to Aid Victims of Ger-| man Fascism, had an audience of| (0 professional men and women | who heard Jack Lippman, attorney; Dr. Maximillian Cohen, and Alfred Wagenknecht of the National Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German} Fascism, | The meeting voted to send a tele- gram to the State Department in} Washington protesting against the! rrival of Wiedemann, Goebbels’ as-| stant, and his intention to attend the Chicago World Fair. It also sent a telegram to Mayor O’Brien, request- ing him not to receive Wiedemann’ oMcially Everyone present “became a tmmember of the Brooklyn Commit- tee belore the mecting adjourned. a] | hands. wee orker’ Perty USA. By Burck eh Cost of Living Rising in Nazi | Germany; City of Berlin Bankrupt BERLIN, May 22.—Prices of all the necessities of life are rising steadily throughout Germany, causing dis- content among housewives over the rising cost of living. The official Nazi wholesale price index rose over one per cent week, while the food price index rose nearly three percent. Retail prices have of course risen much more pro- | portionately. The Nazi police arrested over 200) in various food stores throughout Berlin yesterday on charges of “pro- fiteering”, sending the men arrested to concentration camps and the women to jail. The price rises reflect the trend | towards inflation in Germany, which the Nazis are endeavoring to con- ceal. The Hitler regime has fired tried and true Nazis are employed, thus making it possible to hide what- ever is going on in Reichsbank cur- rency printing. The wave of price increases is also heightened by the tariff rises on foods Factories Are Centers for Food Distribution in the U.S.S.R. ANIEL BUCHWALD By NA Daily Worker Correspondent Comrade Shtshegolev, director of the Gluhovo Textile Combinat, put down his slide-rule and picked up the telephone. Comrade Stshegoley likes precision, His slide-rule gives him an- swers that are correct within one one- thousandth, and from the telephone he ected information that would be correct within five pigs. I had requested some information on the food situation in Gluhoyo, par- ticularly in the matter of the so- called “se!f-supply.” The director of the Combinat had the food question on his tinger-tips, but he would not rely upon his memory, and phoned his assistant for exact data. Comrade Shtshegolev is concerned | not onty about textiles but also about the men and women who make tex- tiles. The production problem is in- separable from the problem of the welfare of the workers. Housing, food clothing and education are as much his business as spinning, weaving and dyeing. Covers Many Acres The Gluhovo Combinat is a huge affair consisting of two spinning mills, two weaving mills, a dyeing mill and a thread factory, The plant is scattered over a huge area of many acres. Four of the six mills are in the village of Gluhovo and two are in the village of Istomkino at the opposite end of the town of Noginsk. Each mill has its own management h its own manifold problems, but ll of the problems of all of the plants are co-ordinated in the administra- tion of the Combinat of which Com- rade Shtshegoley is the director. Na- turally, he has a staff of assistants, and one of his chief assistants is the man in charge of the organization of food supply. It is from this man that | I was to get the exact figures on the number of hogs and the quantity of various foodstuffs that Gluhovo raised through its own efforts and initiative. System of “Self-Supply” In previous articles, I had occasion to point out some of the difficulties experienced by the Soviet masses. in the matter of adequate food supply,— difficulties of transport and organi- zation a8 well as difficulties arising from the necessity of concentrating great effort upon the development of the basic industries. In addition to the system of central supply which provides for the workers such staples as bread, sugar, potatoes, barley, fish, limited quantities of meat, etc.), each factory can and does develop a sys- tem of “self-supply”. But—— Here is Comrade Shtshegolev’s as- sistant with a batch of papers in his Let us get at some of his figures: Gluhovo has four cooperative farms with a total area of 1020 hectares. The local peasants, who are mem- bers of those cooperatives, operate their farms at a profit. nat buys up the entire output of the Coopkhozes (cooperative farms), and in order % enabis the peasants 90) regular aibotunsed of , promulgated by the Nazi Agriculture | Ministry, which jumped the price of lard and butter sky-high. SPANISH DOCKERS BAN NAZI SHIPS ‘The new financial commissioner appointed by Goering admits now | that the City of Berlin is hopelessly bankrupt. The budget for the com- ing year already shows a deficit of 313,000,000 marks in advance, more | | than one-third of the total expendi- cure, | The city debt mounts to the stag- gering figure of nearly one and a half billion marks, and the Nazi com- |of the Unknown Russian Soldier in SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $2.50; 2 months, $2; excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Canada: One year, 59; hs, $5; MAY 23, 1938 1 month, 7e, Foreign and SPARKS|CHINESE MILITARISTS . | HE fellow who wanted to turn | | L swords into plowshares has noth- | | ing on Roosevelt, who, through his | | military public works program to be financed by the Sales Tax, will turn | the bread of the workers into battle- ships and cannons. moratorium has been declared on the debts of the life insurance companies. They need not make loans or pay cash to their policy holders—but these companies con- tinue to collect debts owed them by the farmers, mortgages.. The state even calls out | troops to help finance capital collect | its debts. It might appear that ey sanctity of contract depends upon whose contract it is—the workers and farmers, or the capitalists. without offering any further resistance: | the strong base at Miyun, | Japanese Battalions Pushing to | Peiping. ; | Battalions of General Hattori's . K. of Pittsburgh writes us that! japanese brigade are pushing forward | the Pittsburgh Advertising Club | rapidly, vying with each other to be displayed posters from 23 countries, | the first to reach Peiping. One bat- | including the Soviet Union. One of | talion is reported to be within three | the Soviet posters showed the lynch-| miles of the city already. ing of a Negro, with the caption,/ A tremendous number of Chinese “The Highest Expression of the | troops are now pinned inside a small| Christian Bourgeoisie.” | area near Peiping, from Niulanshan | Ministers protested against the, through Hsunyi to Tungchow. The poster as “sacreligious”. It was re-| Toads leading south to Peiping and) moved. At that, it was hardly good} Tientsin are impassable, owing to the advertising for the bourgeoisie. | throngs of refugees fleeing from * ® | the battle zone. When the Japanese seize these two cities, they will have control of two of the biggest cities in Asia, with’ a combined population of more than| 3,000,000 people. | Other Japanese and Manchukuo! forces are continuing their drive south | ERE is the funniest news item of the day: * “The White Russians of New York | kneeling yesterday about the pea the Orthodox Church of Christ the Saviour, at Madison Avenue and 121st ABANDON NORTH CHINA TO JAPANESE TROOPS Invading Forces Within Gunshot of Peiping as Refugees Block Roads SHANGHAI, May 22.—The Chinese generals are withdrawing their foreclosing on farm | forces from the battlefront in North China under Chiang-Kai-Shek’s orders e to the Japanese advance, Japanese cavalry patrols pushed forward to a point five miles from the city of Tung- chow, which is only 13 miles from Peiping. treated Japanese divisions occupiedo— As the Chinese voluntarily re- into Chahar Proyince, on the border of Mongolia, approaching Kalgan, | chief city in the province. If Kalgan | is taken, all rail or road communica- tion between Peiping and Northwest China will be cut off. Chiang Abandons North to Japanese Chinese circles here fear that the | withdrawal of the Chinese defending troops from the area north of Peiping and Tientsin is in fulfilment of Chiang-Kai-Shek’s secret pact with the Japanese. This agreement provides that Chiang relinquishes all of North China to the Japanese, who will set up a puppet state under pro-Japanese Chinese leaders, and then withdraw to the Great Wall, claiming that they are no longer on Chinese soil. In return Japan has agreed to aid Nanking in its life-and-death struggle against the Chinese Communist armies in Central and South China. Street, lighted white tapers and of- | fered up fervent prayers for the re- | fore uses as: JAPANESE LAUNCH FALSE REPORTS peror of all the Russias, who was born in St. Petersburg on May 19, 1868. “They prayed as though there had been no revolution and as though a Czax still reigned for them in the Kremlin.” Imperialists Provoke eae Prepare Attack nut thinks he’s | Napoleon, they put him in a& (Frem the Moscow Correspondent of | straight jacket. ut when some | the Daily Worker.) i | wealthy nuts pray as if there had| MOSCOW, May 22—“Prayda” has | been no revolution, it’s front page | the following to say about the provo- | | news for a capitalist newspaper, and | cative report of the Dempo Tsusin | the wealthy nuts move in the best | Japanese news agency concerning a | Society. | mythical mutiny of the Cossacks in } the Trans-Baikal region: | HEN some poor | i ; | QUT there is more than humor to OF “SIBERIAN MUTINY” IN U.S. S.R. War Atmosphere to on Soviet Union method of preparation and justifica- tion for various adventures. “It cannot be considered accidental that the Dempo Tsusin Agency fur- nishes its false provocations In such @ manner as to create the impression of weakness of the Soviet Far East and Transbaikalia. BARCELONA, May 22.—Ships fly-| missioner says that “only the reas- ing the Nazi emblem, the swastika, | onable attitude of the city’s creditors | now an official German symbol, will) makes it possible to carry on at all.” | not be unloaded at this port, accord-| The interest rates on this debt total ing to a decision of the Dockworkers | are extremely high, reflecting im- | Trade Union. Yesterday, the dockworkers refused | to unload a ship flying the swastika, | | and succeeded in beating off the po- | lice in a bitter fight that took place ‘Workers everywhere can learn a lesson in their struggle against in- ternational fascism from this fine expression of solidarity with the , German working class displayed by the militant dockworkers of Barce- lona. operate ‘their farms efficiently by means of modern machinery, the Combinat advances large sums of money for improvements. These four coopkhozes, organized only recently, have raised this year sufficient cu-| cumbers and cabbages for the entire factory population, about 40 per cent of the needed supply of potatoes, beets and carrots, about 100 tons of tomatoes, sufficient for a full seasonal supply. , There is a young hog-husbandry (1,200 hogs with 250 breeding sows) which will make about 1,500 hogs available for slaughter in the course of this year, and which will materi- ally improve the meat supply as the business of hog-raising develops. In | addition, the farm cooperatives have | gone in for rabbit-raising on an ex- | tensive scale, and this, too, will add | to the meat supply. | An Auxiliary Source. The four coopkhozes are by no means the sole source of food supply for the Gluhovo Combinat. Indeed, the products of these farms are only an auxiliary source, supplementing the basic supply of the central dis- tributing organizations, the so-called | Workers Co-operatives). | The latter supplies the workerks with bread, sugar and other staples, as well as with limited quantities of meats and fats. The products of the coopkhozes are used mainly to sup- plement and to improve the food the workers consume at the factory, With the aid of this source of self-supply, | it is possible to serve the workers nu- | tritious hot lunches (including meat every other day or so), for as little as 35 kopeks a meal. Some food items are ply the entire working population of Gluhovo, and the prices at which the housewives buy these products are in- variably small and well within the family budget, Garden Societies | An Important source of self-supply | is to be found in the so-called garden societies, Land is plentiful in and | around Gluhovo, and workers are en- | couraged to organize garden clubs or) | societies, and cultivate these lands in their leisure hours and off-days. (The | workers of Gluhovo work only seven hours a day with a day’s rest follow- ing five days work, Every worker can devote some of his leisure to garden- ing). There are four such garden so- cieties in Gluhovo and Istoiakino, with a total membership of 2,000, and with a total output of hundreds of tons of potatoes and various vege- tables. I visited a worker's family where | the father happened to be a member of one of these garden societies, As a | result of a summer's amateur garden- ing, he received his share of a half- | cabbage, beets and carrots, and suffi- | cient cucumbers and tomatoes in sea- The combi-| son, a6 well as a supply of onions. Now, this was a supplementary source of food. for the tamily ZRE.K. (initials denoting the Closed’ raised in sufficient quantities to sup-_ ton of potatoes, a winter's supply of | ‘rom teh paired German credit since the war. ‘The Nazi regime promised a “para- | dise on earth”, but its actual econo- mic performance is raising the cost of living, disorganizing industry and ruining the already impoverished German masses. | Demonstrate against Roosevelt's military and forced labor “Reforesta- tion Camps”! All out National Youth Day, May 30! this incident. The fact that lead- ing capitalist newspapers describe such a procedure in terms of awe and respect has political meaning. It simply means that the inter- vention war-pfopaganda is reaching @ new stage in America. . 8 OTE the phrase “as if there had been no revolution.” This phrase gives away the purpose of the inter- national plots and preparations for intervention. To bring back Russia | to the state where it would look “as | if there had been no revolution.” — |This is the thought which the capi- | | talist paper reporting this incident tention as a sample of provocative anti-Soviet propaganda and as a specimen of the candid description pf the plans nurtured in certain imper- ialist circles of Japan against the Soviet Far East aid Transbaikalia. “As a matter cf fact, the cruel struggle of the loval population in Manchuria against t>e invaders has been going on for fully i-ro years al- ready. Wishing to divert attention from these bloody events, this agency is broadcasting malicious lies about | ‘uprisings’ in the Soviet Far East | and Transbaikalia. “We do not doubt that ‘foreseeing jan uprising population’ in this or | intends to leave in the mind of the readers, that territory coveted by the Japa- nese imperialists is their customary ZR.K., and the workers of the fam-) ily (two) get their meals at the fac- tory dining room. Individual Sources | In addition to organized food-sup- ply, there are individual sources | available to every worker. He can fit | out his own rabbit-shed and raise rabbits; he can raise hogs and ‘:eep a | cow; he can rig up a chicken-coop, | and do his own gardening about the ‘house. Hundreds of workers of the Gluhovo Combinat have their own cows and goats which give them enough milk for the entire family, with some to spare. | Through much questioning and in- | vestigation, I arrived at the conclu- | sion that a worker's family of five, | with even as low an income as 250 rubles a month per family, spends | only about 20 to 25 per cent of its in- come on food at low fixed prices. Generally, this food is sufficient to _ keep the entire family in good health, even if there is a shortage of meat and dairy products. Supplementary foodstuffs may be} bought at “commercial prices” which are very high indeed, but the income of a worker’s family also permits it to spend a considerable sum on com- mercially-bought foodstuffs. With the spread of the kolkhoz-markets, where | peasant collectives are given all the! facilities for the sale of their surplus | products, profiteering in foodstuffs is being rapidly eliminated, and a size- | able lowering of prices has already | been achieved. Prices Low But again—the workers do not have | _ | to resort to these markets and pay high prices for foodstuffs; they get the bulk of their food ai nominal rates. A kilogram of bread may cost | as high as 3 rubles (there are 100 ko- | peks to the ruble) at the open market, | but a worker pays only 13 kopeks a | kilogram at the Z.R.K., and though | bread is rationed, he gets sufficient bread for himself and his family at been, received by the Workers Inter- _national Relief dealing with the re- | lief activities undertaken in behalf of the refugees who have escaped from tee of the League of Nations since the establish « terror regime in this area, the refugees still enjoy some safety from the Mazi bl jounds. Indescribable Mirorv ‘The misery among the refugees in Bierbach, Neunkirchen and Wiebels- kirchen is nearly beyond description, the report informs us. The relief committee connected with the W.LR. and the International Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism | has established feeding stations in ail | of the above cities. Two meals a day are served and emergency ra- | tions of coffee and bread are being given to thousands of refugees. So- cial Democrats, Trade Unionists, Communists as well as Jewish people eseaping from Hitler pogroms. “In Neunkirchen 4,500 meals have been served during the short exist- ance of the relief committee at a total cost of 10,000 francs. In Saar- ruken, 7,000 meals have been served at a cost of 12,000 francs, Besides the emergency rations dispensed in the city to nearly 100 families and \Yefugees are under the permanent care of the relief committee. The relief committee in the Saar | area is itself engaging in the collec- ed and ak 1,000 Food franos in mv Bwindies } need af Mine vot: AID VICTIMS OF GERMAN FASCISM! PRT SSYR ik Sika abel | NEW YORK.—A report has just| ugees and victims of Hitler terror in Saarbruken, Landsweiler, Gersweiler, tion of and funds, Fifteen hun- deed pounce of ‘has been. colfect-|. the Saar area which is under French supervision and the growing Fascist activities in this territory which re- the fixed Z.R.K. prices. Besides the factory dining rooms, where workers may get hot lunches at nominal rates, there is also in Glu- | hovo, a closed workers’ restaurant where workers and members of their families may eat after working hours, There, too, prices are fixed. For some 40 to 60 kopeks one can get a satisfy- ing meal. About 7,000 worers use this restaurant daily. The use of the faclory dining room, or the restau- rant, does not in any way affect the allotment of foodstuffs the worker gets at the Z.R.K. Workers Do the Managing There dre no drawn, starved faces among the workers of Gluhovo, such as you find by the hundreds in any industrial town in the United States. The factory management cares for the workers, organizes for them a suf- ficient supply of food, battles with the difficulties of distribution, and in- creases the food resources through the system of “‘self-supply.” The manage- ment of the factory is in the hands of the workers themselves, and there is no contradiction between the in- terests of the management and those | of the workers. Even if there is an occasional short- age of certain foods, even if the work- ers have to put up at times with a scant diet, this condition is not a re- quires decisive steps in order to pro- | the fascist terror in Germany to the| tect the refugees, necessitates immed- | | Saar territory. This area has been! iate contribution of funds from the| | under the “protection” of a commit-| relief committees established in all the countries. The report which is signed ending of the World War and al-| by the Saar relief committee secre- | | though Hitler's Fascist agents have tary, Roberts, concludes that “we are) | been very active in an attempt to faced with the closing of three of our) | Solidarity Kiighens unless immediate support arrives frew bas committees | to Aid Victims of German Fascism in | other countries, Call io All The National Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism calls upon all organizations and sympathizers to help meet this call for help from the Saar area. The National Committee again earnestly requesis organizations and friends in every city to organize | action committees for the gathering of funds and calls upon the relief committees already established to show results in the gathering of funds. To this date no remittance has been made to the Paris Interna- tional Committee. The National Com- mittee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism at 75 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y., again announces its willingness to cooperate with any organization or group of friends in any city to help in the establishment of this cam- paign for funds. “Of late, the man in the street | has again been terrified by the | words: Dictatorship of the pro- | letariat. Well amd good, gentie- | neon, what this dictatorship looks Met Leck a the Paris Commune. | That mes the Qhetgtorside ef: ter proteterinay’ tention to the workers’ needs. Such conditions are the accompanying “growing pains” of the socialist de- velopment, and the workers realize it, and are, by and large, happy in the realization that, through their very difficulties, they contribute to the | building of the Socialist’ foundation, upon which a life of comfort and plenty will flourish. The mass of the workers are proud of the sacrifices they bring to the creation of Social- ism, just as they are proud of their rule which has made them masters of their own lives. One more point before I close. For a worker at Gluhovo (or anywhere in the Soviet Union) it is no burden to have a large family. On the contrary, the larger ‘the worker’s family, the better off he'll be. Every member of the family gets an allotment of food- stuffs at low prices and the children also get such foodstuffs (milk, butter, eggs., etc.) as are not available in sufficient quantities for the adults. ‘There is a special communal dining room for children, where the food is particularly good. The dining room is maintained at the expense of the community. ri In the matier of clothing and shoes, children come first. During the work- hours of the parents, their children are cared for either at school (where they get hot lunchss free) or, if they | are too young to go to school, at the nurseries and kindergartens. No, kids are not a burden to their parents in the Soviet Union. For the established for normal, Iefe, Please tell it to those who argue thet Comnmuniem is ‘to break op fami Hite py u 44 “This fictitious report deserves at- | sult of exploitation, nor a scant at-/| first. time in history, conditions have “The Japanese Agency is prepat- ing the ground for new provocations after the failure of the Japanese adventurers’ plans to draw the Sov- iet Union into the conflict and ag- gravate the position of the Chinese Eastern Railway. “Litvinov’s well-known address on this matter disarmed the provoca- tions, showing that the Soviet Union remains true to its peace-loving pol- icy, which serves as a proof of ‘its power, ee “The. provocateurs make a serious miscaleulation in thinking that the Soviet Far East or Transbaikalia is | the same as Manchuria or Jehol.7> | “Izvestia” writes: “The Soviet gov= ernment’s proposal to sell the Chinese Eastern Railway evoked a very favor- able response in Japanese public opin- ion, which correctly views this pro- posal as a new manifestation of ite firra and consistent policy of peace. Soviet Union Strong Bnowsh to Defend Heetf. “Adventurous elements in Japan speculating on war with the U.S.SR., are well aware that only the Soviet government, which is sufficiently strong in the military sense and en- | joys the fullest. confidence and sup- | port of the Soviet Union's toiling | masses is capable of promoting this | peace policy. “But for this very reason they try to picture this step as the result of weakness and are hurriedly fabrieat- ing fantastic tales of uprisings in the Soviet Far East. We have no doubt that Japanese public opinion will judge this systematic provocation on | its merits.” ARGENTINA HALTS WAR MATERIAL ON WAY TO BOLIVIA BUENOS AIRES, May 22. — The first detention by Argentina of war materials bound for Bolivia occurred yesterday, when 3,000 sacks of flour and 5,000 cases of gasoline were held up at the border by Argentine of- ficials. ‘ This is the immediate result of | the Argentinian declaration of “neu- | trality” in the Bolivia-Paraguay war, which followed the formal declara~ tion that a state of war existed, made \ by Paraguay recently. | Argentine “neutrality”, taking the. | form of an embargo on war mater- lials, seriously affects Bolivia, si |that country is compiétely land- | locked, and can only obtain supplies through Argentina, Chile or Peru, on overland routes. 4 The imperialist struggle between England and the U. 8. A. is back of this South American conflict, Engs land supporting her investments it Paraguay, and the United States supporting her capital invested in Bolivia. Argentina, which is to a intents and purposes an English colony—England owning 80 per cert of the railway mileage of the couh= try, and having investments of more than one and a half billion dollars there — is actively supporting Eng- land's other virtual colony, Paraguay, 5,000 Demonstrate in! Montevideo Against: Terra Dictatorship MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, May 24— Five thousand people demonstrated against the dictatorship of Gabriel Terra yesterday in the Uruguayan capital, the securest stronghold of the dictator. The procession formed at the tomb of Baltasar Brum, the ex-