The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1933, Page 6

Published by the Gomprodaity Publishing Ge. Inc. dally except Sunday, at 1 Page Six CUBAN GOV'T UNABLE T0 HALT REVOLT Successor Groomed by Machado to Continue Military Rule HAVANA, May 26—Faced by a| individuals are urged to par-| rising tide of revolt, the Machado t has been forced to re- Ce) notorious a the rebels, for court 1 or exile on charges of mur- three employees of an Amer- wned cent ical bonico. Or jose te ce roristic murders in lead to his indict- courts more than a ver been brought to for his countless is t rifice now ime has con- bers of troops in f Oriente Province S and quanti- tion that the| to the far revol easterr nd dl unsuccessfuly to Guard post at Las ara Province, but were driven off af which two federal soldiers wounded Presidency against that he will 19th Bt, New York Chty, N.Y. Tetepfone ALgonqnin 4-7856. Address and mali checks to the Dally Worker, 5¢ ©. Cable “DAIWORK.” 33th St, New York, M, ¥. *y-| Mass t welling) Justo Dictatorship ° CORRECTION. Through an error in the | print shop, the call for a Na- | tional Anti-War Congress i |the United States, was refer- |red to the headline Thursday of the Daily Worker as a “Youth Anti-War Congress”. The line should have read: “Call for Huge Anti-War Con- gress”, The call was sent out by Sherwood Anderson, Theo- dore Dreiser, and Upton Sin- clair, All organizations and | ticipate, and to notify Ameri- can Committee for Struggle mander of troops oper-| Against War, 104 Fifth Ave., New York. TE TERROR IN ARGENTINA Arrests by the BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May (By mail) —Comrade E. Lafferte, cretary of the Chilean revolutionary trade unions, was arrested together with a Chilean peasant and a dele- gate of the Peruvian Anti-War Com- mittee while crossing the Argentine frontier into Uruguay. The Justo government has lifted er a skirmish in| the state of martial law, but the hun- were| dreds of political prisoners are still| the Conf in prison. More mass arrests were io is already preparing his| ™ade on May Day. In Rosaria the capitalist parties are be| planning to deprive all the Commu- | He has appointed Gen-| nist city councillors, who are in jail| mark that “if we tie up the naval| JAPAN | DEMAND FOR EQUAL NAVY Answer to Roosevelé Attack on Japan In His Message (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) government nevertheless signed only two and a half years ago, let the cat out of the bag by saying that if the signatories to the Washington and London treaties had built up to the limits allowed by those treaties, the result would have been an increase in naval armament both qualitatively and quantitatively. Now the Admiral is asking that the ratios be increased, and threatening a new building pro-| gram by the Japanese. | The discussion at the Conference yesterday ran in the following order. First Admiral Sato explodes his bomb- Shell. Then Captain Eden makes a speech in which he does not utter a} word on the subject of the Japanese | threat to boycott the Conference, but instead attacks the French argument for “global” disarmament. Rene Mas- sigli, the French delegate, begins by weeping crocodile tears over the En-| lish “abandonment” of a position which the English never held, namely | the French position; and then, re-| ferring to Roosevelt's description of tanks as “land battleships,” hints to erence, with his eyes turned in the direction of the English dele- gation, that there are “ocean-going battleships, too.” Davis’s contribution | to the discussion is the optimistic re- | eral Herrera, Minister of War, Acting | for political offense, of their rights| problem with the land and air prob-| Secretary of State, and is reported| of citizenship. to be grooming him to take over the Pr now ruling the island. lems, we shall help to solve them all.” A new workers’ daily—a mass or-| Davis, as the spokesman for anti-| tion during the coming week. : Notes from the U, By A. G. BOSSE way are expected to be completed by 1, 1934. To make this possible, tal investments for this year have increased from 80 million to 110 illion rubles ($56,650,000), plus 20 lion rubles worth of auxiliary plants, storehouses, dormatories, etc. to be turned over to % by other or- ganizations. Soviet, British, Freneh and German committees of experts are advising on > work. All agree on the original plan, but not on whether open or closed cut construction should be used, the Germans disagreeing with the others. The government has decided to use both types, underground lines where streets are narrow and traffic dense, and open cut where they are broad and traffic permits. De The progress of the work is noi} considered to be satisfactory, and the Central Committee of the Party is taking steps to improve this. More foreign engineers will be employed, | Soviet engineers are being sent abroad to study conditions, and it is| planned to strengthen the adminis-| tration, to increase supplies and to improve labor conditions. MOSCOW LIBRARIES or @ tenth of the total population. e first lines of the Moscow sub-| Huge housing developments, hospit- als, universities, and factories now dot this Cossack fortress of the 16th century, later gateway to Asia and merchants’ paradise. Now the social- ist city—city within a city—of “Sel- mash,” the great farm machinery works, has 25,000 workers. The tsar- ist city hadn’t even a single high school; now there are 30 colleges, in- stitutes and universities, attended by the members of the 60 nationalities living there. | MACHINERY AND HEALTH | All machine-building plants in Rus- | sia, in 1914, produced an output val- ued at 250,000 rubles, many times less | than it is to be found in individual | Plants in many parts of the USSR | today. In 1932, Soviet machine pro- | duction was valued at seven billion | rubles ($3.6 billion), In 1913, Russia had less than 30,000 hospital beds. It had 291,000 in 1931, and the number is increasing steadily. On the Chukotsky Peninsula, along the shores of the Arctic, a pregnant woman was induced to give birth, un- | til quite recently, by having a board placed upon her as she lay on the | floor. The “midwives” would then | jump upon her! Now the Commis- Moscow now has over 750 libraries,| S@Tiat for Health has built hospitals and the number is growing steadily. More than 300 are trade union lib-| raries, and others are for the blind,| for children (including a polytechni- cal library), for foreign languages, three for music, etc. The Lenin Lib- rary in Moscow is the largest in the country, and the fourth in the world in swe, though first in the number of readers. It has 5,550,000 books and 40,060 manuscripts; also the world’s largest collection of incunabula (Beolis printed before 1500)—100,000 of them. It has as complete a cata- logue as the Congressional Library in Washington and the N. Y. Public Lib- rary. Th) Lenin Library is working on ie reparation of a 15-year cata- ue of all magazine and newspaper articles, something which probably no other library has, and which should Prove an invaluable aid to the stu- dent and research worker. Since the library of Count Rumyantsev, which | | | |for the 40,000 Chukchi dwelling on | the frozen tundra, and they bring their pregnant women in on dog- sleighs. . NEW SOVIET “LOAN” The “Elektroprovod” electrical equipment plant has evolved the idea of floating a “loan of ideas,” Soviet Travel reports. Those signing up do not pay for shares, but are paid—for rationalization suggestions, plans and inventions. Over 6,000 suggestions have been accepted by the factory. Ce + MINERS’ LIVES Every mine in the Soviet Union has an underground dispensary which is open 24 hours a day, with doctors and orderlies on duty at all times. Operations are performed here or, if necesary, on the spot: in the work- ings, passages, or on the railroad tracks. The rooms of the health sta- tion are near the shaft, cut right out it replaced, is too small, a new library | Of the coal, plastered, and equipped of five buildings, to cost 18 million rubles (99,370,000), is under construc- tion. SOVIET CITIES Since the days of Peter the Great all peasants coming into St. Peters- burg had to bring along a few cob- blestones for the streets. Even dur- ing each year of the Five-Year Plan five million rubles were expended in paving the streets of Leningrad with cobbles. Now asphalt and other pave- ments ahe being laid, and by the end of the Second Five-Year Plan all the streets will be paved in modern fash- fon, Leningrad is now the fifth larg- est sity in Europe, with three million population at the end of 1992, and turns out a sixth of the country's in- dustrial production (particularly ma- chinery, electrical equipment, ships, etc,). The little Volga town of Tsaritayn began industrial production in 1880, when a saw mill was buflt there. By the end of the century only 20 small plants had been constructed. But under the Soviets, its successor, Sta- lingrad, built twelve great enterprises in three years, including the great tractor plant, shipyards, steel mill, power plant, etc, From a population of 20,000 in 1920 it has grown to 400,- 000 today, and its pre-Soviet trial output of 40 million rubles (in the best year) has become half a bil- lion (in 1932). At the world congress of bacterio- Jogists, held in London in 1912, Ros- tov was givefi third prize among the dirtiest cities of the world (for its unsanitary state, epidemics, and high mortality). Only Bombay and Shang- hai had it beaten. Today this capital of the North Caucasus Region is one of the most sanitary in the world, surrounded by a “green ring” of trees, with green boulevards, parks and ¥ardens in scores of places. Its Park with electricity, electric stoves, tele- phones, oxygen tanks, stretchers, hot distilled water, and all n¢ sur- gical and medical instruments and supplies. That is one difference be- tween a country where the workers rule and this haven of democracy. ea ae SOME FIGURES Twenty-seven million copies of newspapers are issued daily in the USSR, of which 5 million are factory and collective farm papers. They have 2.2 million worker and peasant cor- respondents, writing from their fac- tories and work places. The popula- tion of the country last year was 161 millions, a 21 per cent growth over the previous six years. Nine million Persons have passed through the Len- in mausoleum in the past eight yaers. Before the revolution infant mor- tality was 27 per 100. In 1931 it was only 11; infanticide has given way to socialist education and science. Since the revolution 17,000 miles of new railroads have been built, 50,000 miles of steamship lines added to the 25,000 before the revolution, and 55,000 miles of highways laid in the last four years. The consumption of denti- frices, toothbrushes, and toilet soap is now 15 times that of 1913. indws- | Kunitz to Lecture in Pittsburgh, May 29 Dr. Joshua Kunitz, instructor in the College of the City of New York, who has recently returned from the Soviet Union will lecture on “Soviet Russia Today” at the Irene Kauf- mann Settlement, 1855 Centre Ave- nue, Pittsburgh, Pa., on Monday, May 29, at 8 p.m, Down with Hitler fascism! De- mand the release of Thaelmann and Torgier! Demonstrate. Nationa! th M Culture and Rest will hold 50,000, f Day, May 30! idency, thus ensuring the con-|gan—entitled “Frente Obrero” (Work-| Japanese American imperialism, ad- ance of the military dictatorship] ers’ Front) is to commence publica-| f r reaty vocates the keeping of the London| ratios (10-10-6) within the tramework of the disarmament con- vention’s naval chapter. The pro- ceedings are brought to a fitting close with Senor Madariaga’s attack on navies which he said were essentially | | offensive weapons. Madariaga, author of several books on disarmament, recently advised the Spanish government to increase its army and further strengthen its land frontiers. Spain, of course, has no navy to speak of. At the original London Conference, France and Italy, after taking part! in the negotiations, left the confer- ence and refused to sign their names to any agreement for the limitation of tonnage. Yesterday, Davis for America, and | Captain Eden for Great Britain, join- ed forces in an appeal to France and Italy to sign, even at this late hour, the London treaty. At the same time, England made it quite clear that she is still opposed to the French plan of “global” disarmament, which ad- mits of the possibility of transferring tonnage as between categories. En- gland favors definite reduction by categories. The “global” method lim- its the total tonnage of a navy, but does not limit the way in which this tonnage can be distributed between different classes of ships. France fa- vors this method, because she wants to construct a large number of sub- marines, and is not so interested in maintaining a huge battle fleet. En- gland favors the reverse method, since she wants to limit French submarines especially, because of the extensive Empire trade routes that have to be protected in case of war by the En- glish navy. Eden Wants Elastic Definition of Aggressor Nation ‘The second snag hit by the Confer- ence developed in the afternoon when the definition of an aggressor nation, presented by the Soviet government, was up for discussion. England was now the recalcitrant power, giving France an opportunity to tear its hair and complain furiously of “English intransigeance.” Captain Eden said that “any hard and fast definition of an aggressor would only be a trap for the innocent and a protection for the guilty.” Greater “elasticity” was asked for by the English representa- tive. The definition presented by Valer- ian Dovgalesky leaves no loophole for imperialist bridandage to wriggle thru. Captain Eden was correct in referring to it as a “trap,” but it is precisely the U.S.A., English, Japanese, and the other capitalist “aggressor” countries that are caught. Three U. S. Soldiers Face Court-Martial for Panama Desertion CRISTOBAL, Panama, May 13 (By mail).—Three young American sol- diers, alleged to be deserters from the American Army, were brought back from Kingston, Jamaica, today on the steamer “Pastores,” according to the “Panama American.” They are held for court-martial for violation of the articles of war, with sentence of up to twenty years facing them. 4 Japanese Ships Are Loadin gWar Material at N. Y. NEW YORK.—That the Far East is going to be the next con- centration point for the next world slaughter is evident from the serap iron shipments to Japan. At present four ships are loading serap iron and other war materals in Red Hook, Brook! materials are being Japanese ships bound for Dairen, Manchuria, via Kobe, Japan. These materials are to be used against our Chinese comrades by the Japanese butchers. We must take up the struggle of the Chinese masses in our own shores by stop- ping the shipments of munitions. The ships which were loading this war material are the “Kirish- ima Maru,” the “Canai Maru,” the be the Tahiko Dail orker’ Porty U.S.A. By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, 32; 1 month, 15s, Forelgn and excepting Bor Canada: sh of Mani SUBSCRIPTION RATES: tian and Bronx, New York City. One year, $9; 6 months, $5; 7 months, $3, MAY 27,°1938 |Battle Scene When Police Attacked Workers Demonstrating in Brooklyn at Time of Arrival of Weidemann, Nazi Agent | | | | Police Brutality | at Brooklyn Pier Wants Defense Corps| for Demonstrations To the Editor of the Daily Worker: | I was one of the hundreds. of | workérs who participated in today’s demonstration against that bloody butcher's henchman, Weidemann, at | Pier 4, Brooklyn. | Although was a very militant | protest, yet it was very conspicuous by the absence of many organiza- tions who wére |cheduled to tygke part, according to the Daily Worker. The Marine Workers’ Industrial Un- ion is one, for example. When these slimy yellow dogs, po- lice, who call themselves “New York's Finest” noticed the weak- ness of the assemblage they at once rushed into the crowd—about 50 of these Brave Heroes who get gold medals every year for heroic work— and started swinging clubs in Hit- ler style, wherever they could reach women, young girls, children, and |old women. After these murderous display these workers down, these New York’s Finest would kick and cursé at the suffering and unconscious forms of the ones whom they clubbed into submission. After thij murderous display these same rats with clubs swinging at- tacked an old man, about 60 years old, until hé dropped. The workers present today were all convinced very clearly that in the future no demonstrations should take placé without first organizing a Defense Corps to beat back these cowards and defend themselves whenéver attacked. Why shouldn't American citizens defend themselves in American style? Hoping to see bigger and better demonstrations, I remain always —Red. Worker Denounces [Russian White Guards Part of Nazi Anti- 600 Emigres Enrolled in Storm Troops in Berlin Alone; Czarist Officers Aid Hitler BERLIN, May 10 (By Mail).—Under the provocative headline “Russia | Marches,” the Berlin “Boersenzeitung,” leading financial organ, reports that | 600 Russian White Guards are now organized in a Nazi organization, | Branches of this organization are to be formed in all the cities of the Reich. These Russian Nazis have aiready| staged parades in Berlin and are get- | ting military training. The leader of] the movement, Swiatosaroff, declared: | “The Russians have to learn from | the Germans how to reconstruct Rus- | sia, which has been destroyed by the} Bolsheviki. ” | Officially these Russian Nazis have} their own organization, but in actu- ality they are part and parcel of the} Nazi Storm Troops. These White| Guard emigrants are an essential! part of the Nazis’ anti-Soviet inter- | vention plans. | WARSAW, May 10.—The “Mo- | ment,” Polish capitalist paper, prints a report from Ostrowski, its special | Berlin correspondent, on the activi- ties of the Russian and Ukrainian White Guards now in Hitler's service. Ostrowski writes: “Six months be- fore Hitler took power it was known | that a group of Russian White| Guards were on the payroll of the Brown House in Munich. The group was headed by Bumanski, a former | ‘officer in the Wrangel army with a/| shady past. Taboritzki, a former | Czarist officer who murderd the Rus-| sian emigre Nabokov in Berlin, Tal- POLICE TRY TO FORBID | ANTI-HITLER SIGN NEW YORK.—The policeman on the beat of 34th Street and 8th Ave. attempted to arrest the proprietor of a shoe repair shop at 494 8th Avenue for having an anti-Hitler cartoon in his store window. The cop ordered the cartoon taken out of the window and a group of angry workers demanded that he let vhe shoe-man go. After threats, the | P.S.—I work fer the City—Board of Education. cop was forced by the anger of the | workers to withdraw his attack. Hitler and In an article in “Pravda” of May 16, Karl Radek, editor-in-chief of “Tavestia” subjects Hitler's efforts to reconcile the bitter class anta- gonisms in Germany to a searching analysis.—(Ed. Note). is ee) 8 By KARL RADEK ‘The main speech made by Hitler at the Fascist Workers Congress proves that the National Socialist leaders lit- erally do not know what to say to the workers. Hitler referred to monopoly capitalism as the chief factor con- cerning the situation of the working | class. What deductions did he drew from this fact? Hitler kept silent and avoided drawing any deductions whatsoever, Hitler Against Nationalization of Industry In Hitler's talk with Otto Strasser (published by the latter) on the na- tionalization of the big industries. Strasser asked him what he would do with the giant Krupp Works, after seizing power. He asked whether the plant would continue to belong to the stockholders, but Hitler replied: “Of course not, I am not a fool to destroy This is why Hitler drew no con- clusions from the fact he established —that monopoly capitalism is the chief cause of the working class's misery. Nazis for Class Collaboration Hitler added that “one of the main reasons for the misery of the working class is the estrangement between workers and capitalists, which led to the establishment of employers’ or- ganizations and trade unions, fighting each other and thus harming work- ers, employers and the whole nation.” But did Hitler suggest the aboli- tion of the trusts and employers’ or- ganizations? No. The Fascists are even destroying the reformist trade unions because the lords of trust cap- italism, who want to make the work- ing class’s condition even worse, de- mand it. What will Hitler put in the piace of the unions he has destroyed, His answer is an effort to satisfy the workers with empty promises, Hitler wants to be an “honest mediator” be: tween the workers and the capitalists. When we look at the role of the ‘ Workers’ Congress of Germany _| life imprisonment, while nine more the Fascist | Socialist Party in the post-war period, we realize that the Socialist Party tried to play that very role. Only fools can believe that the Fascists dissolved all the legal or- ganizations of the working class to bring pressure to bear upon the cap- italists. The Fascists dissolved the unions to free the capitalists from the pressure of the working class. Class Struggle Continues Hitler's pretense of assuming the role of mediator is a confession that the class struggle continues in Fas- cist Germany—that the bourgeoisie is using the Fascists as its tools to des- troy the working class, and as another institution to betray the workers once again after the Socialists’ treachery ended in such a fiasco. These words of Hitler are the old and commonplace phrases used by all bourgeois demagogues, ever since the beginning of the working class's fight against capitalism. The sole new fact is that Hitler—after having proclaimed to the whole world the “final destruction of Marxism’—has to employ these words again, while they sound even more untrue from his lips than from those of his prede- cessors. All the phrases of the “reconcilia- tion of the working class and cap- italism” are given the lie direct by the facts, which demonstrate that it is Fascism’s job to destroy the working class. That is why Hitler has less of a chance than the Socialists to hold the working class back from revolu- tionary struggle. Herr Hitler is ap- pealing to the workers. But he knows well enough that they will not listen} to him. Classes cannot be destroyed. Condemn 8Communists | to Death in Indo-China PARIS, May 10 (by mail) —Eight Indo-Chinese Communists have been condemned to death by vie Saigon Court for revolutionary activities. Eighteen others wére sentenced to were given prison terms totalling 400 years in jail ~ Soviet Plans berg, secretary of the “Brotherhood of Russian Truth,” a white guard or- ganization, and Konolin, the White Guard writer. “Other White Guards have now al-| lied themselves with the German Fas- cists, including Professor Rudnieff, General Sakharoy, and Colonel Bes- sonov, who supports Alfred Rosen- berg’s plan for tearing Soviet Ukraine from the Soviet Union and for a march on Moscow. “Josef Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister recently gave the Russian Jakovlev, editor of the “Nabat,” White Guard magazine, a large sum of money to support his review. “The Nazi specialist for ‘Ukrainian matters’ is the White Guard Colonel Poltavetz Ostranitza, who makes re- gular reports to Nazi headquarters on TOKYO, May 6 (By Mail) —The nu”, Tokyo newspaper, reports that in the provinces of Kwangsi, Anhwei, Except for the army commanded Anti-Nazi Parade 27, at 2 pm. The Detroit United Front Anti-Fascist parade and dem- onstration will take place under the auspices of the Communist Party, Socialist Party, Proletarian Party, the I.W.W., the Unemployed Councils and other orzanizations. ‘The parade will be in two sections —one starting from Perry Park and the other from Clark Park—both | meeting at Grand Circus Park at 4 | P. m. where a mass protest meeting | will be held. | 3,000 in Weidmann Protest in Brooklyn NEW YORK—Three thouzand workers demonstrated against the ar- rival of Hans Weidmann, Hitler's fas- cist agent, in the United States, on Hopkinson and Pitkin Aves, in Brownsville Wednesday evening. The mass meeting and the parade which preceded it was called by the Communist Party, Brownsville Sec., although a great many organizations perial Valley class-war prisoner and | section organizer of the Communist | Party, showed how artfully Roosevelt | is trying t obring fascism into this country. NEW YORK, May 26—Three of |the four workers held for felonious | against the Nazi representative, Hans Weidemann, were released in bail of $500 today, it was reported by the New York District International La- bor Defense. Trial of these workers is scheduled for June 13 in the 9th Magistrates Court, 43rd St., and 4th Ukrianian affairs.” Ave., Brooklyn. in Detroit Today DETROIT, May 26.—Saturday, May | participated. Carl Sklar, former Im- | assault, following the demonstration | Chinese Red Army Captures 30,000 | Annihilates 9 Divisions As General Drive Is Launched in Central China Shanghai correspondent of the “Den- the Chinese Red Armies have com- menced a joint drive against the Nanking troops under Chiang Kai-shek Hupei and Honan. by General Hsui-Nan-Chang, all of ——» Chiangs armies have suffered disas- trous defeats at the hands of the So- viet forces. Hankow, Changsa, and Nanchang, the big cities in Central China, which have been. Nanking’s sole support in that area, are now surrounded by the Red Armies. ees aes SHANGHAI, May 9 (delayed).— The May First manifesto of the Pro- visional Chinese Soviet Government of Soviet China, published: in the ‘China Forum,” accuses the Nanking }gevernment of compromising with | Japanese imperialism and sabotaging the defense of China by concentrat- ing all its troops and war equipment, for the campaign against the workers and peasants, while the army facing the Japanese has to fight ‘without arms. 9,000 Join Red Army | The Chinese Red Army ‘has anni- hilated nine divisions of government | troops during the past three months, according to the manifesto, while more than 30,000 soldiers were taken prisoners with their rifles*and large quantities of munitions were cap- tured. In Kiangsi Provinee-9,000 gov- ernment soldiers voluntarily joined the Red Army. . Captured officers of two Nanking divisions openly expressed their re- |eret at having fought the Red Army | and appealed to the Nanking troops to stop fighting the Chinese Soviets. Chinese Soviets Appeal for United Front Against Japanese With these victories behind them, the Provisional Soviet Government | and the Revolutionary War Council of | Soviet China repeat their _ proposal for the formation of an anti-Japanese united front, provided the war against the Soviet argas be stopped,.the Chi- nese people be assured democratic rights and the whole population be armed for the defense of the country. The appeal is signed by Mao-Tse- Tun, Chiamming and Chang-Kuo- Tao for the Soviet Government, and by Tse-De for the Revolutionary War Council. paaeaee The Eighth Anniversary of the Shanghai Massacre By C. YOUNG. May 30th is the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the great Chinese revolution for national liberation. On May 30th, 1925, the workers and students of Shanghai staged a gi- gantic demonstration in _ protest against the murder of a Chinese striker by a Japanese factory in- spector. This was the first time this type of demonstration had ever taken place in the heart of the Interna- tional Settlement. The British au- thorities knew very well that the growing antt-imperialist sentiment of the Chinese masses was not only a danger to the Japanese interests, but to all imperialists. The British police and troops took their toll of the demonstrators, murdering thir- teen and wounding forty. This massacre evoked a tremendous wave of anti-imperialist struggle all over China, and laid the foundation upon which the Kuomintang launched its successful expedition against the northern militarists, thus extending Kuomintang influence into central and northern China. Revolutionary Movement Grew Out of Economic Struggle of Workers. It is especially significant that the May 30th movement was started by the economic struggles of the work- ers in Shanghai. The Communist Party of China quickly supplied lead- ership and the working class of China demonstrated its. ability to lead the national liberation move- ment. The struggles were especially bitter in Shanghai and Canton. A general strike was declared in Shang- hai. The famous Canton-Hongkong strike, involving more than one hun- dred thousand workers, continued for fifteen months without interruption. Hongkong, the nerve center of Brit- ish imperialism, was nearly paralyzed. The Chinese masses had again forced British imperialism to its knees. The national bourgeoisie of China has always tended to com- promise with the imperialists. Only after immense pressure by the work- ers’ and students’ organizations was the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce forced to join the general strike. But the Chamber of Commerce stealthily reduced the demands raised by the workers and students in order to facilitate bargaining between the Chi- hese militarists and their masters, the Canada Tries to Exile Workers Who Refused to Be Strikebreakers TORONTO.—When Onie Brown, Toronto attorney for the Canadian Labor Defense League appealed to Acting Immigration Minister W. A. Gordon aaginst deportation proceed- ings in the case of four Anyox strik- ers, the following wire was received from Gordon: “Complaint received from muni- cipal authorities Prince Rupert, B. C., that Ahlatrand, Sjoberg, Sogde and Lyung were a public charge; they were examined in accordance with provisions of Immigration Act, de- portation ordered and their appeals dismissed. On previous occasions Gordon de- clared that no people would be de- Rorted for being unemployed. A imperialists. This finally led to open betrayal of the Chinese revolution by the Kuomintang in 1927. Rise of Chinese Soviets. Since then, the Chinese anti-im- perialist movement unleashed by the May 30th massacre has continued and been raised to a higher level un- der the leadership of the Commu- nist Party of China. The Canton uprising, in December, 1927, with the establishment of the Canton Soviet, which was drown in blood by the im- perialist Kuomintang forces, marked the opening up of a new phase—the Soviet phase of the Chinese revolu- tion. After years of intensive strug- gles, ninety million workers and peasants have emancipated them- selves from the imperialist Kuomin- tang yoke and put an end to the semi-colonial status of one-fifth the territory of China. The Provisional Central Soviet. Government of China, on the eve of its establishment on November 7, 1931—the 14th anniversary of the Oc- tober revolution—declared to the world that the Soviet Power of China is fighting shoulder to shoulder with the proletariat of the world and all the oppressed masses, and pointed to the Soviet Union as its firm ally. The establishment of the Central Soviet Government of China formally divided China into two camps: the Kuomintang which endeavors to per- petuate the enslavement of the Chi- nese masses by the imperialists, and the Soviet Power which struggles for the liberation of the whole of China from imperialist exploitation and cp- pression. The Japanese invasion put the imperialists to another crucial test. Chiang Kai-shek, though adopting the “non-resistance policy” toward Japanese invasion, is still personally directing the Communist suppression campaign at Nanchang. He made a speech recently to his lieutenants saying that “discussion of resistance to the Japanese invasion is not per- miscible until the Soviet districts are cleaned up”. This is another proof of the complete and open betrayal of the Chinese anti-imperialist move- ment by the Kuomintang. Chiang Ka‘-shek Sells Out to Imperialists. These Chinese masses realize that Chiang Kai-shek, in carrying his murderous atiack against the Chinese Soviets, paves the way for the Japa- nese invasion and the carving up of | China by the imperialists. The Sov- |iet government of China declared wor against Japan more than a year ago. In January this year, the Chi- nese Soviet government appealed again to the workers and peasants of China to arm themselves in a united struggle against Japanese im- perialism, offering its co-operation to any army or detachment upon the conditions that the attack on the Soviet district cease, democratic rights be granted all, and the masses be armed to resist the Japanese in- vasion. Victories of Chinese Red Army. This appeal received an enthusi- astic response from the masses all over China. Recruiting campaigns for the Red Army were carried out not only in the Soviet districts but among workers in the factories of the policies of the two camps toward j big cities still under Kuomintang rule. Workers formed into companies and joined the Red Army. The peasants in North China raised the: slogan “Communism is the gate and the Red Army is paving the road’, Even the capitalist papers can not conceal the fact that the Chinese Red Army has recently gained new victories in Szechuan, Hupei, Kiangsi, etc, Hank and Nanchang, two of the most important cities in the Yangtse Valley, are now. beseiged and soon will be taken by the Red Army. 3 According to the latest report of the “Chinese Workers’ Correspond- ence”, over eight divisions of the Ku- omintang army were completely de- stroyed and 18,000 Kuomintang sole diers captured during the first three months of this year. Mutimies occur even in the best-trained Kuomintang troops. Recently, two divisions of “Ironsides” under General Chang Fae Kwei and 3,000 soldiers of the fae mous 19th Route Army refused te fight against the Workers’ and Peas- ants’ Red Army. ‘The growing anti-imperialist movee ment, headed by the Chinese Soviets, and their victorious Red Atmy, drives the imperialists to ruthless murder of the Chinese masses, to the direct intervention in the Soviet. districts and to the division of Chins. This is also part and parcel of the im- perialist war moves against the U.S. §.R. in the Far East. American Intervention in China. The American governnient is dis- patching 32 ships of the US. Asiatic fleet to the China See. Nine of these cruisers and destfoyers’ arrived at Swatow on April 13th. The’ fifth die vision of the Asiatic fleet, compris- ing 14 ships, is now at Shanghat. Two American war ships are at Han- kow, ready to fire upon the advance ing Red Army. Despite. all’ these facts, President Roosevelt. dares to declare in his “peace message” that no troops should be sent to foreign soil. ‘ ‘The Chinese masses, in. commem- orating the eighth Anniversary of the beginning of the great Chinese Revolution, will answer Roosevelt's false front by arming themselves to overthrow the Kuomintang, and drive the Japanese and all other imperial- ists out of China. They will inten- sify their struggle for the victory of the Soviet Power in all China and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Workers! Show your solidarity im the liberation struggles of the Chie nese macses! Demand the. withe drawal of the Yankee. imperialist forces from the Far East! . Stop the shipment of the munitions to the Far East! i MEETING 'TO COMMEMORATE 8th ANNIVERSARY OF SHANGHAI MASSACRE... Under the auspices of “thé Anttl- Imperialist League and Chinese Anti= Imperialist Alliafize, a meeting will be held at 8 p. m., May 28th;Sunday at 90 East 10th Street, the meeting hell of the League. Speakers will be Sam Stone of National” Student League, and the representatives from the other organizations. A. Chinese comrades will spgak on the developments of the ese, al 1s, tion since the May 30 Massacre, 4 and the Revolutionary War. Council 4