The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1933, Page 4

Published by the Compredally Publishing Co., Ine., dally except Sundsy iste St., New York Glty, N. ¥. Telephone Algenqain 4-7056, Page Four at 8 Cable “DALWORELY Address and mail checks to the Bully Worker, 98 E. 13h St. New York, M, 7. IN IMPERIALIST WARS THE PROL A RIAT Br Mall everywhere: One yeor, 96; six months, $$.5¢; 2 months, $2; 1 month, 18s, excepting Boroosh Canada: “ABSOLUTELY REJECTS “NATIONAL DE SUBSCRIPTION RATES: of Mavhattan and Bronx, New Yerk City. One year, 39; 6 months, 35; 7 months, 38, Foreign and JUNE 7, 1938 FENSE” AS BEING Resolution of the Sixth World Congress of the Communie‘ DEFENSE OF EXPLOITATION AND TREACHERY TO THE CAUSE OF SOCIALIS U.S. PLANS BIGGER, DEADLY | Standard Oil Outfits the Bolivian Army Rug TARIFF WAR rd LONDO Wants Quotas Against American Imports Withdrawn France Prepares for Aggressive Trade Action WASHINGTON Juni stated today that the A gation to the London co support a general horiz cut of 10 per cent. This duction would be supplemented by a new “tariff truce.” The tariff cut was officially described today a “strik ing, dramatic, easily u tood move cing good faith oosevelt’s first tariff truce, although it received the endorsement of most of the great nations, has remained a dead letter Not only have innumerable separate economic treaties been signed by the U. S. and other countries, since the trice,” but actual tariff increases have taken place in many countries More Intense Trade War. The American plan jntends that the benefit of any tarff reductions that may be negotiated shall be ex- tended only to such countries as agree to the reductions. In other words, a departure from the most-favored- nation scheme is meant. Under most- favored-nation treaties, any trade ad- vantages given to one country must be extended to all others. The sub- titution of a system of “regional agreements” for the old plan will make possible the use of trade treat- ies with one set of countries as weap- ons to bring other nations into line An intensification of existing trade war conditions may be expected Quota Laws Opposed. The American delegation also wants drastic alterations to be made in ex- ing European quota laws. At pre- for example, only 5 per cent of milled in Italy is allowed to be of proposed re- | é |of the Christie type. GUNS FOR THE AMERICAN ARMY Build the Movement Against Imperialist War Preparations The intensive improvement of the United States Army as a killing ma chine is recorded in the Quarter- master-General's report for the year 932. An improved .30-caliber rifle or the the infantry has been perfected Springfield Arsenal and the nce Department has ered ns of this type for extensive with a view to its general in- andard equipment for n eld gun of the proved consider- ateral range of 75 r e the old wooden artil- wheels have been replaced by yuck tires. This gives th field artillery high speed in trans- e gun batteries age of the M-1918 six- neX field gun has been improved to allow of high speed traction. The same is being done for the 9'4 inch howitzers. New High-Explosive Shell. Tests of a new 15-Ib. high-ex- plosive shell for the 75 millimeter M-1 gun show that the gun’s maxi- mum range with the new projectile has been increased to 74 miles. All the active artillery batteries have been equipped with the new 75 milli- meter M-1 howitzer. The anti-air- craft 3-inch M-1917 gun has been modernized by the improvement of automatic fuse-setting equipment Mechanized Cavalry. mechanization of the ci is going ahead with The forces strides. of equipment now in use type being the light cavalry gian tanks—wheel and caterpillar traction can average 30 to 40 miles an hour on good roads, while the change from wheels to caterpillar traction can be effected in 15 minutes. Even on) caterpillar tread these tanks can] travel 20 to 25 miles an hour cros country, without any roads, travers- | There are three major types | the basic | tanks | These light | 20,000 UNIFORMS GIVEN BOLIVIA BY STANDARD OIL avary American Imperialism Backs Struggle for Chaco Oil ‘The war in the Gran Chaco area between Bolivia and Paraguay for| possession of the rich oil fields there has, from the very start, been a struggle between American and Brit- ish imperialism, between Standard Oil and the Royai Dutch Shell. And in this struggle both puppet nations, Bolivia and Paraguay, are being sup- reign origin and correspond-| ing swamps, steep slopes, narrow riv-| Dieq with all the material of war| ing figures for Germany and France| ers, cross trenches and speedily cross | by their powerful backers. are 3 and 1 automaticall r cent. These quotas ise domestic prices by cutting foreign imports to almost nothing. The countries that have| these quota laws will not abandon) them without a struggle. The oppo-| sition to the American proposals, it is expected, will be led by France. England’s Program. LONDON, June 6.—With the Whit- suntide holidays, the British cabinet| is dispersed, the government offices are closed, and even official sources m mystified at what the govern- ment is intendi o do about the American debt on, and at what the government is likely to put for- ward as the program of its delegation at, the Economic Conference. Neville Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has outlined what he beleves are the principal problems whicla the conference will have to face. These are: raising world prices, achieving monetary stability, and lowering tariff barriers. But as to how these ends are to be obtained, Chamberlain and the British govern- ment have as yet expressed no opin- jm. All the governments are anx fjus to see a rise in world price! this is a way of reducing real wa in every country. But even on thi: question, serious conflicts have al- ready developed, as each capitalist) gountry wishes to see a greater rise| im its own price level than in those of its rivals, and thus secure a differ-| ential trade advantage in the export} © Markets. On the question of tariff} reductions, the conflicts are more} ppen, each country wishing to retein| }ts domestic market, but at the same time wishing to enter the internal markets of other countries | ‘The belief is growing here, as the| flate of the conference comes nearer,| that the parley will last only a short} time, and not as was first expected, | up until Christmas. With the ex-| ample of the disarmament conference | before them, it is said here, the fear is expressed that the London confer- ence is doomed if it lasts longer than three months France Prepares for Aggressive Role at London. PARIS, June 6—The French dele- tion to the World Economic Con- ference will be headed by Premier| Daladier, and wili include Foreign Minister Paul-Boncour, and Georges Bonnet, the Finance Minister, The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement yesterday | that, France will go to the conference | with greater tariff freedom than she | has had before, and consequently with greater bargaining power. The whole | course of French commercial policy in the last year has been directed toward the end of releasing France from the hampering most - favored - nation treaties, which would have seriously weakened her manoeuvering abilities in the coming conference. | The French government has shown itself to be a past-master in the art of negotiating reciprocity treaties with foreign countries whereby trade is favored or hampered according to whether French exports receive fav- orable or unfavorable treatment. WASHINGTON, June 6—Two Pennsylvania Representatives moved today in Congress for a new $4 a ton tmport tariff on coal. Representa-/ tive Brumm advocated a $3 tax,) which was amended by Representa-/| ive Turpin to $4. Mr. Brum referred | m his speech to the “flooding of our| also indicated that in general the; ih a | anthracite | action of the committee will be guided) | “2"* 6-inh guns and will be equip-| from England and Russia, al-| by the decisions of the labor and So-/ Bastern seaboard” with roal hhouch only very small quantities of | cialist (Second) underbrush country. | The second group includes the ar- | mored cars equipped with machine | guns, mine-throwers or light field | guns. They are as fast as the first group on roads, but cannot cross fields, as they are wheel-equipped. | The third group includes armored | cars, somewhat like group 2. | All armored cars and tanks of the | mechanized artillery are armored | against .30-caliber rifle fire and af- ford protection even against occa- sional hits from a half-inch anti- tank machine gun or a one-inch cannon. Not all of them have roof rmor, however, to protect the crew against shell splinters or hand gre- nades. Smoke Screens for Tanks. A recent proposal provides for equipping the mechanized cavalry with a battery of 43 inch smoke- screen. throwers, consisting of at least 8 units. These gas-throwers fire smoke- shells to make possible sudden sur- prise attacks under cover of a smoke creen. This official data indicates how in ensively the militarists of the United Staies are working for bigger and better methods of killing men. The | o-called Recovery Bill of President | Roosevelt's, ostensibly drafted to pro- vide work for the unemployed, ex-| sly provides that hundreds of | millions of dollars may be used, at | e discretion of the proper authori- | ties”, for further mechanization of | the army. | The Fight Against War. | It is the solemn duty of the Amer- | ican working class to fight all these | war preparations with all its might. | All worker’ correspondents of the | Daily Worker are again requested to | send in any information they may be | able to get on the manufacture of munitions, army or navy orders, the shipment of war supplies, and all} other news of preparations for the} coming world slaughter. The work- | ers must build the national anti-war campaign into a powerful instrument against imperialist war and the war machinations of the American ruling class. ‘They must make the National Anti- War Congress in the coming Fall an| impressive mobilization of all forces | really opposed to imperialist war. SOCIALIST NATIONAL EXECUTIVE | VOTES AGAINST UNITED FRONT Orders Local Bodies Not to Enter in Joint Ac-) By Federated Press. | CHICAGO, Ill —By 7 votes to 4, the national executive committee of the Socialist Party has forbidden any state Socialist Committees or subor- dinate bodies or individual members of the party to combine in any united front action with the Communists, without the specific permission of the national committee. This permission | is to be applied for in each partic-| ular case that comes up, according to Secretary Clarence Senior. Senior International with! « -‘te have ever been imported| headquarters in Paris, The previous | from Russia. They con ine th ‘cwee p rote eealaat: the: unihed HOR we te 3, fs ake ee - we 5) | aloo part of the program. | is a nt tmaenaecenannenaanussieihlt ‘The photos which the Daily Worker | prints alongside are conclusive proof, of American imperialist aid to its Bolivian puppet. The Bolivian army uniforms shown in the top photo, showing an exhibit of Chaco war trophies in the windows of the big “Bazar Colon” department store in Montevideo, Uruguay. are United States Army uniforms, and the U. S. insignia can be clearly seen on the! uniform buttons shown in the close- up photos alongside. The two uniforms shown in the window were worn by Rodriguez Riva, Bolivian army officer, taken prisoner at Fort Saavedra, and to Sergeant Enrique Boza of the Bolivian Medical Corps, taken prisoner by the Para- guayans at Fort Toledo. These two towns are at opposite ends of the battle-front, and the fact that both uniforms are of American make and show U. S. army buttons, proves ‘that the use of the U. S. uniform is wide- spread in the Bolivian Army: It also indicates who is supplying Bolivia | | with all its war material. Below the photos, we print a pho- tostat of the affidavit by Sgt. Boza, declaring that his uniform is one of | 20,000 given Bolivia by the Standard Oil Company. The translation of the | affidavit (written in Spanish) reads: | I, Sergeant in the Medical Corps | of the Bolivian Army, declare here- | with that I have given Lieut. Dr. | Enrique Rogberg Balparda my | blouse, that was given me in the city of Oruro the day of my depar- ture; that 20,000 of these uniforms, | they told us, were given to Bolivia | by the Standard Oil. This blouse | has buttons with the insignia of the | United States of America. This is all I have to say under oath to tell the truth. Isla-Poy, March 1933. (Signed) ENRIQUE BOZA. More than 60,000 Bolivian and Par- aguayan soldiers have been killed or wounded in the year-old Chaco war. More thousands are falling in battle now for the greater profits of Stand- ard Oil and Royal Dutch,Shell. What a contrast between these incontro- vertible facts of American imperialist aggression in South .America and Roosevelts bland apeal to the na-) tions of the world for peace! | U.S. Navy to Start’ Building 30 Ships Within 3 Months WASHINGTON, June 4-—The Navy will start to build 30 new ships within three months after the public works bill becomes law. | Orders will be placed for 20 des- | troyers, 4 submarines, two 13,500) | | ton aircraft carriers and 4 10,000) ‘These cruisers will) ton cruisers. ped to carry as well 12 airplanes, (Two new gunboats, specially bullt | lin operate in Chinese waters, are) —» An exhibit of war trophies captured in the Chaco undeclared war between Paraguay and Bolivia is shown in the picture at the top of the page. This exhibit was displayed in a show-window of the '“Bazar Colon”, one of the biggest department stores in Montevideo, Uruguay. The army blouse shown in the centre, and reproduced in greater detail in the lower pictures, is regular U. 8. Army equipment, donated to the Bolivian Army b: the Standard Oil Company. At the bottom of the show window exhibit is a dish of coca leaves, the raw' material of cocaine, which is fed to the Bolivian soldiers to drug them into fighting. The blowse was part of the medical corps uniform of Sergeant Enrique Boza, and the close-ups clearly show the U. the buttons. the Bolivian Indian troops, an army * The above picture is a photostat S. Army insignia on Other items in the exhibit are spears, bow and arrows of rifle, and various other equipment. of an affidavit signed and sworn to by Sergeant Boza, certifying that the blouse shown was worn by him as part of his regular uniform in the Bolivian Army. A translation of the affidavit is included in the adjoined article. BOLIVIA INSISTS (AFGHAN MINISTER ON AIR BOMBING Rejects Argentine Pro-. test in Chaco War | BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, June} 6.—Bolivia insists on her right to bomb Paraguayan towns from the air} in the Chaco warfare, even though the bombing may damage Argentina) property, in a note replying to Ar- gentina’s protest against the bombing of the town of Puerto Casado. Sub- mission of the dispute to the World Court is said to be proposed in the note. Pa ene WASHINGTON, June 6. — The “commission of neutrals” (U. S., Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay and Colombia), through which American imperialism has tried for four years to settle the Chaco dispute in Bolivia's favor, to the disadvantage of British imperial- ism which upholds Paraguay, appear- ed today on the point of dissolving. Enrique Finot, Bolivian Minister, no- tified the “neutrals” of his departure | n for Geneva.to help plead Boli- | via's case before the British-domi- nated League of Nations, Francis White, American chairman of the “neutrals,” is to be named Minister | to Crechosigvakia, and it is indicated | that the ‘jeutral” commission . will meetings, suppend its SHOT IN BERLIN Killed for Betraying Country to England BERLIN, June 6.—Sirdar Muham- med Aszis Khan, Afghan Minister to Germany, was shot dead by an as- sassin today, who cried as he fired the shot: “You sold out the Father- land to England.” The assassin, Kamal Siyd, is a young Afghan, well- known in diplomatic circles in Ber- lin. He waited for the minister to come out of the embassy, and, run- ning up the steps, engaged him in political argument. “You have been unfaithful to Afghanistan”, he said. After the young man’s artest, he told the police that his action had been “a blow for the freedom of my fatherland”. The recent overthrow of King Amanullah_of Afghanistan is well known to. have been inspired by the British, who replaced him on, the throne by Mohammed Nadir Khan, brather of 2 murdered diplomat, As a bordeg state to British India, and a route to Persia. and the Soviet Union, the little country of Afgha- nistan is important to the British im~- Perieltste, | | | ECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, WOODIN, has just received a de- gree, of Doctor of Music. In his ac- ceptance speech, he declared that) what this country needs is more, music to banish fear, and then the crisis Will pass. | | Why, said Woodin, Roosevelt tells | | me that he always whistles when he) \gets into trouble. | . | Whistling in the dark. ‘That is re-| markable advice for the hungry mas- ses. . (OW about a Pied Piper to whistle | them rats out of the Government. eof a cue | A SCULPTOR, Ernest, Gutman, was | evicted for the sixth time in five years by city marshals yesterday. He lives—though apparently not very continuously—in..New York. His $4 a week relief has been just cut off. But is Gutman worried? “It’s not food that matters,” he said, tighten- ing his belt. “It’s keeping your spirit fed. If you do that, nourishment comes. automatically.” Gutman is an advance sample of the ideal citizen that capitalism has been painfully evolving. Now all that remains to be done, is to educate the seventeen million unemployed up to Mr. Gutman’s level. ANS WEIDEMANN was sent by Hitler to represent fascist “cul- ture” at the Chicago World Fair. He arrived in New York some days ago. There was a welcome for him, which he unfortunately missed through be- ing spirited off his boat on a tug, but the police started rioting all the same. and one of them, James ©. Kelly, by name, got hurt. i. Now for the beautiful sequel. Hans Weidemann, touched to the very core | py the idea of this great strong cop (Patro:man Kelly is six foot two in his socks) having been brutally mis-| hangled by a bunch of Reds, went to the hero’s house with a bouquet} of roses. Before leaving, Hans, prob- ably thinking this the right thing to do (after all, he’s a disciple of the) gentle Adolph), kissed the patrolman) yarmly on both cheeks. | Air Saar Well, James E. Kelly. Come clean.) Be a man. Would you rather dodge} | a demonstrator's umbrella, or be kis-| | sed by one of Hitler's boy friends? | ‘Vigilantes at te Vork’s City College The drive to iurn,ihe College of the City of New York into a hot house for training army recruits for imperialist war continues apace. The notorious, patrioteer, Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, President of the College, has sworn to exterminate anti-militarism from the student body if he has to expel hundreds of militant opponents of military training and war. International { | In support, of this reactionary program, a certain Major Holton, Pro- fessor of Hygiene (!) in the College, has now organized a “vigilante corps” of 60 college athletes to smash all anti-war demonstrations at the Cole lege. The leader of these “vigilantes,” the captain-elect of the football team, announces that they “will use their fists if necessary” to break up student anti-adi istration activities. Whije the Umbrella Man’s private fascist guards organized in New York, Dr. Robinson himself has ithe cheek to preside at a conference in Washington, alongside ihe red-baiter Hamilton Fish and the arch-reac- tionary James W. Gerard, to protest against fascist oppression of Jews in Germany. { What the Umbreila Man is doing at City College is not an isolated matter. It is part of the entire wave of reaction sweeping over the New || York City’ school system. Robinson’s suspension of nearly 30 anti-milit- arist. students parallels the Board of Education's expulsion of a publi¢e school teacher who led the fight for teachers’ rights and its more recent } suspension of two other teachers for protesting against the Board's ar- bitrary action. i Neither Doctor Robinson, nor the Board of Education can halt the | rising movement of discontent in the colleges and the body of America’s 4 teachers. The complete breakdown of the capitaiist social order, with its attendant unemployment facing all college students and the rapid break- down of the whole educational system, is radicalizing the students and teachers of America much faster than any Umbrella Man can stop. JAPAN ADDS 10 TIENTSIN ARMY: MANCHUKUO OFF GOLD SHANGHAI, June 6.—The 600 Jap-! anese soldiers sent to Peiping on May 23, returned to Tientsin today, while the’ 600 “replacements” sent from Japan also remain ip Tientsin,| strengtheping the Japanese forces | there appreciably. | More than 200,000 Chinese eoldiers| in the Peiping-Tientsin area are sil-| lenly resisting evacuation south in accordance with the Chino-Japanese) armistice terms, by whieh this region | & to be demilitarized—but with Jap-| territory. | General Feng-“7u-Hsiang is rapidly | | recruiting his army at Kalgan; all| Roosevelt's mess able-bodied men in Chahar Province! “e being conscripted to fill the ramks uf his forces. His immediate plans are still veiled in secrecy, but it is no} unlikely that Feng will move dowr on Peiping. ostensibly to fight t! Japanese, but actually to seize the area and set up a Japan-controlled North China State, closely allied with Manchukuo. TOKYO, June 6.—The Manchukuo government declared an embargo.on gold yesterday. All gold mined-in |}anese “guards” still occupying the| Manchuria must be sold to the gor- ernment from now on, The Japanese reply to President age will be submitted for Cabinet approval tomorrow. NOTES By A. G. BOSSE At the Tashkent children’s muse- |um, Prof. Gershenevich has assem- | | pled a collection of medicines and | drugs used by Uzbek women before the revolution that is unique. Simi- \lar research among our Indians | might to a certain extent duplicate lit im oddness, though not in stu- | pidity. | Quacks were the vogue. and their | chief stock in trade beads, bracelets, | brightly-colored dried roots of plants, |and the like. The latest thing to cure smallpox |}and whooping cough was to put a | necklace over the head a number of times. A string of pink beads was dipped into water, which was later |drunk; to cure one of love and of | pain in the groin. A bracelet put on at night, just when a certain star lrose in the east, both cured one of | nightmares and secured the love of the handsomest man in the East. One root. prevented measles, and 5-YEAR PLAN CUTS ~ SOVIET IMPORTS Rising Home Output Reduces Need to Buy MOSCOW, June 6.—Soviet foreign trade figures for the first quarter of 1933, published today, show that ex- ports exceeded imports by 23,702,000 rubles, whereas in the first quarter | of 1932 imports exceeded exports by 47,584,000 rubles. This illustrates how the successful ‘completion of the first Five-Year | Plan has enabled the Soviet Union to produce many articles, especially ma- chinery, ‘which it formerly had to import. At the same time Soviet ex- ports have shrunk much less than the exports of capitalist nations have done in the world crisis. Soviet trace with the United States has decreased sharply arti $s fest ap- proaching zero as Washington main- tains its non-recognition attitude. In | the first quarter of last year the So- viet Union exported to the United States goods worth 3,077,000 rubles and imported worth 9,337,000 rubles; the corresponding figures this year are 2,462,000 anf 3,938,000. Soviet purchases @om Great Brit- ain declined nearg 80 per cent, j whereas sales drogoed only 48 per cent. Exports to Germany increased slightly, while imparts from Germany were cut almost in half. Soviet exports for the quarter to- talled 112,103,000 rubles and imports 88,401,000. The corresponding figures ce 1982 were 144,536,000 and 192,120,- \ House-to-House Drive by F.S.U. in Cleveland CLEVELAND, O.—The Friends of the Soviet Union in their campaign for recognition of the Soviet Govern- ment are organizing a house to house | signature drive to start Sunday morn- ing, June 4th. Everybody is asked to help in securing the Cleveland quota of 50,000, (national quota 1,000,000) and report to 926 Kast 105th St.. at 10 a,.m., where they will be assigned ON another was insurance against in- | sects and violent death. So did the “little father” of all the Russias dis- seminate the latest achievements of modern science among his subject peoples. Of the 10,000 children born in Tashkent annually, 60 per cent of those between 1 and 5 years old died in 1913. Today this rate has fallen to 21 per cent for this five-year pe- riod. Hundreds of women and chil- dren visit the special children’s clinics and women’s hospitals daily, and the quacks and medicine men have been replaced by real physi- cians. One reason why eastern women were so fond of “medical” treatment was that it entertained them some- what in their terrible seclusion and was a sort of protest against family oppression. The occultism of the quacks brought something mysteri- ous and transcendental into their cruelly monotonous lives. Now they are discarding their paranjas (black horsehair veils covering face and body—a sign of their inferior social status) and becoming active in wo- men’s clubs, factories, and in the en- tire social and economic life of the community. * TASHKENT Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan and chief city of Soviet Central ‘Asia, has 700,000 people. It is the an- cient city of Camels, caravans, pop- Jars, and of 462 mosques. It knew the ravages of Alexander the Great and Genghiz Khan, of Tamerlane and Uzbek Khan, of the Emir of Bokhera and the tsar. The Emir, with his 3720 wives and 40,000 slaves, used to kill 1,000 slaves before the palace each year on New Year's Day, to show his power, and had his wives thrown from the Tower of Death for infidelity, “frigidity,” or |old age. The Russians supplanted the emirs and changed the names of the Uzbeks to Sarts (‘yellow dogs”), but the revolution made them rulers again in their own country. Broad paved streets now cut through the oriental as well as the Russian parts of the city, trolley cars sereech past snorting camels, loud speakers in the squares mingle with the plaintive melodies of the camel drivers. The largest textile combine in the Soviet Union is being built in ome of the suburbs, steel mills and large tanneries, govern- ment buildings and workers’ clubs have sprung up. The insoluble con- flict between ancient Asia 4 modern industry is being peacefully and rapidly solved. Paranjas and Clubs Gayar Khan, an Uzbek general in the tsar’s service, only a short time before the revolution, exchanged an ancient saber for 18 wives (plus 130, camels and 1,000 sheep). Only 15 years ago you could buy in the mar- ket in Tashkent a fiancee, a young boy, or an avenger for an offense to a relative generations dead. Danc- ers, servants, fortune-tellers, and other lost souls did not wear paran- jas, but other women did if they cared to keep away from their hus- band’s daggers. In 1922 a women’s club was opened lin the center of the “old town,” which with its music, dancing and sewing machines tried to lire the * \ streets to cover, * Friends of the Séviet Union, 207 Big. lciently trained, | plentiful enough, the work of every §. U od S. S. R e ago, Ibrahim Sabarov, the flat-cake merchant, cut. his wife's throat for going to the club. But despite the in- cantations of the mullahs, the exor- cisms of the old women, and. the threats of the husbands, the clubf was filled. Excursions were organized so they could see their first locom tive, civilized women, and 20th cen- tury life. Now the club has 3,500 members, all 6£ whom have cast off their veils. It has a dozen classes for illiterates, a theater and movie, singing and sewing Classes, a sport circle, kinder- garten and dispensary. Its members are women who work beside their men in the mills, who earn not only as much money, but their husbands’ respect as well. So is the Soviet re- gime makirig men of “yellow dogs” and women of slaves. a ae aa 4 The Red Army in Pictures “The U.S.S.R. in Construction” for February is a fascinating record of the progress and achievements of the Red Army and Navy. It has any number of startlingly beautiful pho- tos that should adorn the walls of every workers’ club and meeting hall. It opsys with Stalin’s statement about the readiness of the country te defend itself against any attack, and to produce sufficient munitions and armaments for this purpose. ‘Then it shows us typical Red Guards, sailors, and peasant partisans of 1917 to 1919, the Red Cavalry in 1920, soldiers of the Far Eastern % Army in 1929, and the troops of 1933. Soldiers at work, study and play, in “smichka” with the peas- ants and workers, at maneuvers and on parade with the most modern weapons of war. dae The Politodel (political sections at the machine and tractor stations, aiding the collective farm) are the backbone of the present struggle for efficiency in the spring sowing. This new feature, corresponding some- what to the political commissars in the army during the early stages of the civil war, is proving its worth, In the Crimea, where the grain sow- ing is finished before it is begun in the regions to the north, they come pleted the sowing in 10 days, and im some places in six or seven days, For two months previously the po- litical sections helped organize the sowing campaign, seeing that tractor repairs were made, drivers suffi- seed cleaned and member of the tractor brigade checked up on, slackers and anti+ ScNet elements cleaned out, politi- cal coufses instituted, and their ex- periences transmitted to the organizations. Martial Law Declared in Esthonia : HELSINGFORS, Finland, June 6— The Estonian Cabinet yesterday set up martial law in Dorpat, university town, and dissolved the local Fascist Front Soldiers organizations, after disturbers at a political meeting shouted down President T ms” who was hit by a rocket they set off. © Fascist agitation is growing as June: women from their black ankle~ 10, the date of the Estonian referen=" ey id. ie