The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1933, Page 6

' Page Six ENGLAND LEADS PARLEY) "™™= MOVE AT LONDON AGAINST ., UNITED STATES TRADE WAR Announce Agreement to Try to Stop “Specu Pudtisied by the Comprodatly Publishing Co., Inc. sth St, Now York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 F. dally except Sunday, at 50 & Cable “DAIWORK.” 13th St, New York, N. ¥. Including United States) lative Fluctuations” of International Monetary Exchange LONDON, June 30.—Delegates of the leading countries are trying to find some approach to the monetary tinue in session for a while longer. the policy of British imperialism ar ge-d standard countries in their thre NE BILLION OF N. Y. C. PROPERTY \ IS UNTAXED Mas Grown $21,000,000 Since Last Year; Rich Corporations Benefit NEW YORK, Juni fons or corpo: Billion dollars erty in New Yo vealed yesterday of realty in the Ci The total of tax in New York, in buildings, etc. i It has been esi exemptions were ate per- bout one tax exempt prop- Cc it was re- nment hat if the emoved from pri- vate properties, ity would get additional income of $25,000,000 a year. The amiount of private property exempt from taxes ir 26% since 1932. The city government has refused to remove any of the tax exemptions ‘rom these properties. Church prop- wbies constitute a considerable po: jon of ta: mpt pror ‘arge corporations also own tax-ex alapt properties. Tt was disclosed yesterday that there are unpaid taxes of $297 on the home of ex-Ma; James J. Walker. ncreased $21,000,- TALK OF PROBE IN WILD STOCK “MARKET BOOMS GamblersMakeMillions in Speculation on Future Profits ‘ASHINGTON, June 30.—Recog- problem that will enable them to con- The British delegation, carrying out e covertly supporting France and the ats to impose higher tariff restrictions upon imports from the United States. | Since the open declaration of a} ade war by the United States del- ation there hgs been crystallizing to try to get concerted gainst American goods that | lood the market. With the} t the lowest point in history with Roosevelt empowered, un- the Thomas inflation rider to Farm “Relief” Act, to reduce ‘old content of the dollar to 50 the “dumping” threat of ie United States is a serious chal- lenge to all competing countries in sentime! action Gen. Johnso the struggle for markets. With high A Gehions monopoly prices imposed against SL RNR oA the American consumers it is im- NEWS ITEM: Mr. Green o! possible for the United States to] enforce “dumping prices abroad. | Reach Meaningless Agreement. The European countries, particu- | ly England, are desperately striv- g to hide the collapse of the world economic conference for fear of the effects a confession of nor ruptcy will have on the internal political situation. | With France facing the danger | of keing forced off the gold stand- | ard momentarily, dragging all other | currencies alohg with the franc, England tries to obtain allies in the | co! with the United States | Today the delegates of the gold| dard countries of Europe, with) 1e United States and Great Brit-| in, agreed on a joint statement | announcing “cooperation of their) central banks to prevent speculative | fluctuations in the monetary exchange.” The agreement is meaningless as} far as practical economic results are | concerned and is only a political | gesture to give an appearance of life to the conference. It was reached after a private conference | attended by Professor Raymond T. | Moley, assistant secretary of state | in the Roosevelt administration and | personal representative of Roose- velt, and leading delegates and “fin- ancial experts” of Britain, Germany, | France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium and Poland. | Moley went to the United States jembassy to communicate the text) jof the statement to President Roo- | |sevelt for his approval. The dele- gates left Downing Street, where | they held their meeting, for their international | m by the textile manufacturers. NG ON BENDED KNEES ia . A . F. of L. entered a protest against the code proposed f the “The Social Democratic Parties Failed Miserably” |Reject United Front at Socialist Youth State Convention MILWAUKEE, Wis—The state convention of the Young Peoples So- cialist League held here June 25 re- jected proposals of the Young Com- nist League for united front ac- tivity to organize the working and student youth. About 32 delegates attended from Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha and Sheboygan. It was only before the adjournment of the convention that the question of the united front was taken up, when a letter addressed by the Young Communist League was read to the gathering. Prior to this a delegate raised the question that George Smerkin, expelled national secretary of the organization be allowed to pre- sent his case. Smerkin was expelled because of supporting united action of the workers in Chicago. He was active in the Free Mooney Congress, which the socialist leaders opposed. This motion was rejected. Urge United Front | succeeded in defeating the motion by qition that the speculative boom now hotels to await a call from Mac- Biting millions into the pockets of Donald to return and sign the| approved by} He big banks and stock speculators| agreement fontains further dangers of bank) Roosevelt. complications and intensification of} Announcement was made from the crisis is seen in the statement| Downing Street that an agreement yesterday by Senator Fletcher, chair-|to try to stop drastic fluctuations man of the Senate Stock Market/as a result of “speculative” trad- Committee, that if the present specu-/ing in exchange would give them a Yative boom goes further it would) basis on which to reatn tariff agree- if it is have to be investigated Wietehr said that if the present boom” in the stock market becomes wild” he would order an immediate vestigation. ‘The investigation, of course, would 36 interfere with the stock gamblers big bankers who are raking in on the plunge downward of ilar and the proposed rise of of goods. stock and grain market rises bosses’ way of arranging the ition in advance of the profits they hope to wring out of the ars through Roose ’s scheme. speculators have aiready $125,000,000 in the past le speculation in grains. ’@program of inflation and der the Industrial Re- yery) Bill, with its smash- the standards of living rs, makes the speculators m on the greater profits by the bosses interested IN ON RADIO NEWS (A Letter) des: In the June 13 * on page 4, lower right- , under the heading, News,” an error ap- that the Comintern broadcasts on “1481 .C.).” This is wrong. metres, it is 202 k.c., GB k.c., it is 148 metres, te derive metres wave- or ‘frequency in kilocycles | is to divide the known figure ires or k.c.) into 300,000, which “give the corresponding metres kc. from your article that ‘Wave-length is 1481 a8 you state the station can ed only on a long-wave com- type receiver, and that the Hilger receiver does not 4 At, be advisable to in the “Daily,” not be tuning in doesn’t exist. KLOSNER. . e—This comrade is point was left in the Daily. It tres, or 202.6 K.C. he” a. INJECTS PATRIOTISM IN TEXAS ( vu. . Texas—To combat the influence of the National League among the stud- held by the efense and the mmittee, the announced a ” to allow a the establish- ments. This is also a fraudulent announcement as already tariff greements between various coun- s, especially directed against the Jnited States, are being conclu- ded daily, as the trade war rages. | For many a decade past the his- tory of industry and commerce is but the history of the revolt of modern productive forces against modern conditions of production, against the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeoisie and of its rule.—Communist Manifesto, The letter of the Young Communist League to the convention proposed a united front to be developed: for cash relief to all unemployed youth instead of forced labor military camps; social | insurance at the expense of the gov- ernment and employers; against Hit- ler’s fascism and rising terror in the United States; against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union and Chinese people. The letter urged immediate prepar- ations for anti-war demonstration on August Ist, anniversary of the last} imperialist war. | The first to speak on the united front was national secretary Danzig, Socialist Party appointee to the posi- tion to stifle the movement among | the socialist youth for united action. He launched into a tirade that well | qualifies him to compete with his jelders. He repeated the old tripe by | questioning the sincerity of the Com- munists being well aware of recent| | the “social democrats in the Soviet * League in Taylor experiences where the Communists carried through united front action, | and than he asked that the united front proposals be discarded. A motion was made to have a discussion in which all delegates can} speak including Smerkin who had been expelled. On the first vote the motion was passed. The chairman | after juggling by taking three votes ‘@ small margin of 18 to 14. Counter Revolutionary Amendment A resolution was presented for the recognition and defense of the So- viet Union. A delegate proposed to amend it with the demand for the release “of our comrades, the social} democrats in the Soviet Union.” He did not mention that those arrested in the Soviet Union are held for con- spiracies of supporting the imperial-| ists to overthrow the first workers’) and peasants’ government. Nor was any mention made of the Menshevik trial in 1932, where Groman and oth- er social democrats admitted in open court their counter-revolutionary ac- tivity against the Soviet Union. A delegate charged that among Union, there were many admitted) counter-revolutionists.” National Sec- ‘etary Danzig, aping his older com- rades in the Socialist Party urged the adoption of the amendment which | was passed. A number of delegates voting against the amendment. Hound the Socialist Youth Favoring Unity | wi Ses CHICAGO, fll—The leadership of the Young Peoples Socialist League are continuing their reign of terror| against those who are sincerely fight- ing for the united front. Charges have been preferred by Ar- thur McDowell, chairman of the sub- committee sent to feorganize the Chicago Y.P.S.L., against Jack Rosen and Buena Krop. These two remain- ed in the Y.P.S.L, when the majority ~ | —From Resolution Adopted by Young Peoples’ Socialist | need? Springs, Ml. | Southern Illinois, Young Miners Urge | United Action lowing a conference of Young Peo- | ples’ Socialist League circles in the coal territory of Southern Illinois, | which endorsed united front er tivity for the immediate demands of the youth, against Fascism, and against imperialist war, the follow- | ing resolution gn unity was en- dorsed by the Taylor Springs cir- cle of the Young Peoples Socialist | League: | “Whereas today the capitalist | class is increasing its attacks upon | the workers, and | “The war danger is spreading “Fascism was victorious in Ger- many due to the lack of unity on a revolutionary basis. “The Social democratic parties have failed miserably in their duty. “Resolved, that we are in favor of unity as a life and death ne- cessity for the workers. “We feel that there is no real difference between ourselves as militant secialis youth and the Communists. “Resolved that the Young Peo- ples Socialist League and the Young Communist League, by uniting their action and organi- zation, take steps to call a na- tional unity convention for the revolutionary youth. —Taylor Springs, Young Peoples Socialist League, Bruno Fer- rari, Secretary.” Have you approached your fel- low worker in your shop with a copy of the ‘Daily?’ If not, do so TODAY! of the organization revolted against the leadership, but had charges pre- ferred against them for participation in the National Youth Day Demon- stration. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: wy Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, 756, excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, w York City. months, $3. , Fi JULY 1, 1938 foreign and ‘Planes Built for | Heavy Casualties (on Marching Troops | (By a Group of Pilots and Air- | craft Mechanics.) | NEW YORK, N. Y.—The army | ts to get some new attack planes. Work is progressing satisfactor- | ly on the 46 new fast two-seater | nttack airplanes, known as the Curtiss A-12, which are now being built for the United States Army Air Corps by the Curtiss Aero- | plane and Motor Co. of Buffalo, | Nee The Curtiss A-12, which is somewhat similar in outward ap- | pearance to the Cifttiss A-8, is /a low wing monoplane of all| metal construction, and is equip- | ped with slots and flaps. The slots: are built in the leading edge and the flaps on the trail- ing edge of the wing to provide @ relatively low landing speed. The Curtiss A-12 1s powered | with one Wright “Cyclone” 700 H. P. engine, and has a reputa- | tion as a very deadly instrument | for “Ground Strafing” troops on |the march and causing heavy | casulties among them. SPARKS FARMER contributor from Akins, Oklahoma, sends us the following catechism of Rooseveltian Applied Philosophy: If millions of people are in actual want what would be the best way to bring them relief? Ans. Cut down the acreage of wheat. Must people produce more than they need in order to have what they Ans. Yes, under capitalism, in or- der to make profit, the capitalist class refuses to let people use com- modities unless they can produce and sell a surplus to other countries. * . D° the capitalists of the foreign countries have the same love and regard for us? Ans. Yes, they are producing a surplus for us. The workers of every capitalist country are refusing to eat food, sleep in houses, or even in beds, refusing medical aid, and all mod-! ern conveniences, unless the people of other countries will accept the sur- plus of their respective countries first. And .the World Economic Confer- ence is trying to solve these puzzles without the cruel necessity of giving up the capitalist system. ie cea ‘ROM Martin Bank of New York comes the following verse: REMEMBER THE TZAR! ITLER, Remember the Tzar! His fate! Every scar You whip ‘With tongue and steel You soon will feel; Labor’s smoldering hate Shall not be late, Hitler! Can’t chew tyranny. Remember the Tzar! You'll see, ‘The workers’ fist Will lash That queer mustache— Their might Will twist Your arrogance to flight. For you and your class Must pass! "It is a fact that Lenin brought to light once more the revolution- ary content of Marxism which had been glossed over by the oppor- tunists of the Second International. Leninism originated and grew strong in conflict with the oppor- tunism of the Second International —a conflict essential to success in the struggle against capitalism.” (Stalin). (From a Special Correspondent.) A group of men with bags and parcels—one with a little truck—a group of women waiting for them on | the doorsteps of the Workers’ Club, |The men have obviously been out beg- | ging, yet they do not look like *beg- gars, and the stuff they pour upon | the table is not what beggars usually receive. Packets of sugar, lumps of | butter or lard, parcels of lentils, half |@ sack of potatoes, margarine, rice, macaroni and lots of fresh vegetables | evidently straight from the field. Rapidly the women sort them, un- der the direction of a tall stalwart man who does not look like a cook, but is certainly an organizer. He ts @ miner from the Ruhr, and was a field cook in the German army. Now | he is organizing the refugee kitchen | at Saarbruecken. The same scene is going on at Neunkirchen, and at Wei- belshuhe, for the Saar workers have put their backs into the work. Their | slogan is “No victim of Hitler shall go hungry in the Saargebiet.” Men Badly Battered. The Saar frontier is the easiest to cross for those without money and who had never needed a passport until the Nazi bands roamed through the mining towns of the Ruhr, of | Silesia and Westphalia. Corpses and men so battered that they would al- most be better dead were found on the streets. It was not the flight of frightened men that sent these work- ers to the frontier. Fights there were in plenty, but the sudden swoop had | broken their ranks for the time be- jing, and for many flight was the only alternative to the torture chamber or the dead pit. These refugees are no advertise- ment for the joys of Nazi rule. But jin spite of the fact that in the ex- |plosion which devastated Neunkirchen they had suffered a terrible cata- strophe only a few days beforre the burning of the Reichstag—the work- Nazis Holding Children As Hostages in Germany Over 800 refugees are now being regularly fed and housed. Most of these are given food by the workers with whom they are living, though that arrangement cannot last indefi- nitely where everyone is poor. As many as 189 are being fed in three kitchens, and an extension of the number of these kitchens is badly needed. But the Saar has done so much, and until funds come from abroad they simply cannot be asked to do any more. Ellen Wilkinson, who with Mrs. Guest has recently returned from the Saar, told me in an interview how she shared an evening meal with the refugees at Saarbruecken—a simple meal, a potato salad mixed with ham. How much ham to how much pota- toes depends just on how much money you can get on to that collecting sheet and how many relief stamps you can sell! Children Special Problem. “The children are a special prob- lem”, Miss Wilkinson said. “They need milk and sun and fresh air, for they have gone through a terrible time. A retired railway worker, Peter Becker, and his wife have a large house in the nearby village with a big garden. This they have offered to the Relief Committee for the nuc- leus of a children’s home. It is an ideal place, lots of air and sun along the wide hill and a forest and a stream at the bottom. “The British Committee have un- dertaken to find from somewhere the means to keep that home going. The committee have worked out that 250 francs a month (about £3 at present rates of exchange) will keep a child, The refugee men are working hard, building an extra room on to the chalet, sinking another well, painting the beds that have been bought at @ very cheap rate, and generally do- ing the work necessary for extension. “It is Godsend to them, for though ers of the Saar have set a magnifi- cent example of practical working- class solidarity to the world, the French government have been politically generous about passports, they will not give permits to work to ordinary workers. Even the hammers she took over the share in the strug- and chisels and other necessary tools have been lent by the generous Saar workers, until the committee can Spare enough francs from the actual desperate need of food, to provide tools.” This children’s home is a political as well as a human necessity, Many workers, both men and women, are glad enough to carry on the fight against Hitlerism in Germany with all that that means of the risk of torture and beating and even death. But the Brown Shirts have no scrup- les about holding children as hostages for their parents. Miss Wilkinson told me how among the fifteen children ready to be taken into the home as soon as it is ready are two little fatherless mites, whose mother sent them down with other comrades in the hope that the com- mittee would look after them, while Mecklenburg to do compulsory labor threatened with the withdrawal of the dole, C. L. had done good propaganda work among these young workers. On the way to the railroad station the young workers sang revolutionary songs and shouted: “Down with fascist dictatorship!” On their arrival in| Mecklenberg the 800 young workers ; were to be distributed in about a dozen different camps. Four hun- dred of them had already been sent to their new stations, but the re- maining 400 refused to be parted. They sang revolutionary songs, cursed fascist dictatorship and dis- 400 ee Workers Wiis. Strike in Nazi Camp Refuse to Be Separated into Separate Forced Labor Camps; Curse Fascism About 800 unemployed young workers from Magdeburg were to be sent to CEES SC NRSE EEE NOLS WAGER RATES obeyed all orders, Finally these 400 | Send your contributions to the Na- gle for which her husband had been killed. Some of the mcn on the relief lists, who came in the last stages of nerve- strain, are frankly only recuperating until they can go back to the work that has no wages but suffering—the struggle against the fascist horror. Letters Are Terrible. “Some of the letters that these men receive are terrible”, she went on. A mother wrote to her son on the Ruh:, “I could even pray that aeropianes would come against these brutes I have seen them do such terrible things. Even if we were killed our- selves it would be worth it if the Brown Shirts could be stopped. A woman and a mother has to be preity desperate before she can write like that.” The British Committee has con- centrated its earliest work on the service, Those refusing to go were But the comrades of the Y. young men had to be transported back to Magdeburg. Show the spirit that these young workers have! Help thel to win their fight against Hitler fascist terror! Saar, because the larger number of working-class refugees who cannot afford to get to Paris are there. But, at the worst, they are still the lucky ones. The most terrible need for help is in Germany itself. About 2 hundred thousand work- ers have had to emigrate within Germany itself. ‘This means that they have to find homes in other places where they are not known, change flats with com- rades in other districts. When that is done they dare not register at the municipal relief offices, which would enly mean inquiries and possible ar- rest. In addition, there are thousands of known Party members who are liv- ing illegally. Their homes are watched. If they try to communi- cate with their families, they are at once arrested and the families fre- quently share their punishment. The plight of these firm Party workers is really terrible. Continu- ally on the run, in a land where shel- ter means that the host suffers as well as guest—it is a grim ruthless fight with sheer starvation. “To starve or be tortured—which? This is the dilemna the flower of the German working class leaders, the local secretaries and shop stewards, the local Party propagandists, are facing.” This was Miss Wilkinson’s conclusion. “Can money be got to them? It can. It is being done at fearful risk to all concerned. But it is being done. For this work we cannot apeal to the well-to-do, who will give to a humanitarian children’s home. This is getting down to the grim bones of the clats struggle. Work- ers have got to provide this suc- cor for the actual fighting line— no one else will do it. If you send money to the German Relief Committee at Anglo House, 1, Litchfield Street, London, W.C.2, ear- tional Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, 75 Fifth Ave.,| cannot Room 5, New York, N. Y, . marked “For Work in Germany”, it will get there, every penny of it. We tell you how, but it will get ” TO RAIN DOWN 0 Swa WASHINGTON, June 30.—C! with the announced objective of havi fleet must be strengthened in both t! GAS AND DISEASE ALL IN NEXT WA Scientists Foretell the Doom of Whole Populations (Reprinted from the London Daily Worker) The following clippings are taken from var‘ovs chemical journals and show the optnions of prominent cap- italists on the question of war: secre ee synthetic resin factories do not re- industry. To these the following may be of interest: “In the inventory of productive in- dustries and the survey of civilian personnel which was made prior to America’s entrance into the war, the Bakelite factory and its chemists, more especially in the engineering branch, were numbered as of vital im- portance. “Dr. Bakeland himself was made a member of the U. S. Naval Consulting Board, the Nitrate Commission, etc. Chemists, research and development men from the Bakelite organization were engaged from the beginning to the end of the war upon problems occurring in the manufacture of war mechanisms. “There was scarcely a phase of mili- tary operations, whether on land or water, or in the air, in which Bake- lite was not at the front and increas- ingly active . . . used for ignition equipment, radio, airplane propellers, etc."—"The Story of Bakelite.” (J. K. Mumford, 1924), aoe From Dyestuff Factories “We do not know how long a time elapsed before the Germans realized the organic chemical Sadustry was a powerful weapon. We do know that they taught the rest of the world a never-to-be-for- gotten lesson, when they loosed their first cloud of poison gas against the Canadians at Ypres in 1915. The in- troduction of poison gas warfare has demonstrated that the security of a nation from aggression is dependent upon its having a well-developed or- ganic chemical industry. “It is now well understood that dye- stuffs equipment and personnel can be—as in Germany's case they were —quickly turned over to the manu- facture of poison gas.”—E. G, Robin- son, Assistant General Manager, Dye- stuffs Department, E. I. du Pont de Nemours Inc. (“Chemicals,” October 10, 1927), * Potential War Factories “The whole machinery of war may be scrapped, but the chemical factory must remain, and so long as it exists, it is a potential war factory. “An organic works designed for the large-scale preparation of com- pounds, such as dye-stuffs, requires very little alteration in plant or per- sonnel, to be converted in a few hours into a place from which will pour materials more deadly by far than those used in the late war. “The alterations necessary to con- vert passenger-carrying aeroplanes into bombing machines are not ser- ious. There is no need for heavy guns or the customary material of war for the chemical factory can provide the poison shell fillings, which the aeroplanes will distribute cn their objectives—and I leave it to your imagination what these ob- jectives are likely to be. Paper Promises Useless. “In his heart of hearts, the chem- ist loathes the suggestion that his science should be used in this way, and expresses abhorrence of the idea that his own intellect should be utilized for developing new and more efficient poison for warfare. “Nevertheless, there is a general epinion that under present condi- tions it is impossible to stop it. “Gas poisoning has “been used since, and will be used again. The futility of paper promises has been clearly demonstrated. “While there is a general opinion against this method of warfare, we are swept along by a tide against which it is impossible to struggle.”- Sir James C. Irvine (“Chemicals August 20, 1928). * * Disease as a Weapon. “I would call your attention to a certain bacillus which shall be name- less, but which is easily cultivated. “It would appear that one gramme, say a saltspoonful of the dry toxin, would be sufficient to kill say a mil- lion. The toxin acts if inhaled, or if it falls on the eye as powder. « “Though its toxity is very high, there are means of ‘immunising peo- ple from its effects. “Workers in a factory would be immunized so that they could man- ufacture the toxin without danger to themselves. “The bacillus, when it was pro- duced in dry form, could be dis- sipated through the air in the form of a white powder from aer- oplanes, and in that forr; could be deadly to anybody who breathed it through the nose or on whose eyes it fell, “If man set out to prepare such a toxin and scattered it by aero- plane, what would be the use of the Hill at the Sanitary Inspectors Con- ference, 1929 . » * strengthen the Marine Corps. Most workers jin Bakelite and other | gard themselves as working in a war, panoply of war,”—Professor Leonard nson Demands Naval | Proposes N: ew Building Program and Strength- ening of Marine Forces for Operation on Both the Atlantic and the Pacifie laude A, Swanson, secretary of the navy i Rooseyvelt’s cabinet, demands a revised naval policy for the United State: ing a “fleet second to none”. The announcement of policy, approved by Swanson yesterday, says the he Atlantic and Pacific; that the ex- *penditure of $238,000,000 authorizec for the building of 32 war vessels wil ave to be added so that many of th: ‘obsolete” battle ships may be scrap | ped and new ones built. | Suppiemented by Marines In addition to building ships and maintaining them at a “proper wa | efficiency” Swanson proposes ‘ In |gard to the marines, he says th. must be strong enough to “maintai the traditions of the service.” Sine. this branch of the armed forces has been the spear-head in all the mur- derous drives against colonial and semi-colonial masses this is seen as a declaration of a more aggressive pursuit of the Wall. Street policy of colonial tyranny. To Build More Big Airships One of the features of the new naval building program is the con- struction of a number of airplane carriers, to be equipped with bombing planes, pursuit planes and planes for scouting and patrol. ‘The policy also provides for the use of rigid airships of the type of the Macon—the com- pletion of those now building and’ the beginning of constriction of addi- tional dirigibles. Means Arms Race With England When Swanson speaks of a fleet |“second to none” he hits directly at England, which is alleged to have thé biggest navy in the world. That Eno gland will retaliate with a new build» jing program is inevitable, thus carry. ing still further the race for arma» ments that is taking place in the | midst of the deceptive peace talk of | the capitalist statesmen. When he di | cusses the pacific fleet it is with ay j eye to forwarding the policy of Amei+ ican imperielist aggression in the Far | East, thereby sharpening the conflict | with Japan. ‘Veterans Losing Their Homes Through Cuts 'Food Prices Going Up (By a Worker Correspondent) SAN DIEGO, Calif—An ever in- creasing number of home - owners are failing to pay their taxes, mort- gages, etc., because of reduction of pensions. One disabled veteran I know of personally, is receiving a cut of from $250 to $50, another from $60 to zero, others like’ cuts. Food prices are advancing. A new state tax of 8c. a pound on oleomar: garine, has just been approved tc help the butter trust. These tical fakers are not- concerned about our Welfare as long as we-fail to organize and fight for our right to live—S. H. Workers in Soviet Armeria Pledge t Aid Mooney Struggle SAN FRANCISCO—Fiom a factory workers’ group in Soviet Armenia, U. S. S. R., there came to Tom Mooney in his San Quentin prison cell fra~- ternal greetings end pledges that all the Russian workers are ready to continue with him “the struggle for the overthrow of world capitalism, for the decisive victory of the world pro letarian revolution. ‘The message came from the town o Leninakan, where the frameup against Mooney because he was a militant leader of the working class has roused the same powerful pro- test as that heard throughout Soviet Russia. Schenectady Workers Demonstrated Against German Fascist Terror SCHENECTADY, N. ¥.—Over two- hundred workers participated here in the demonstration on National Anti- Fascist Day last Saturday, in ‘Cres- cent Park. The speakers of the vari- ous organizations particularly pointed out that the establishment of the fascist dictatorship in Germany has given impetus to fascist movements in the whole world and therefore repre- sents a direct danger to the American workers. They called upon the work- ers to have their organizations show their solidarity with the German pro- letariat, and also pointed out the close connection of the struggle against fascism with, the struggle against exploitation right here, in th big shops of the General Electr and American Locomotive. Resolutions against the fascist ter- ror in Germany, for the defense of the Soviet Union, against the special persecution of Negroes by the Sche- nectady police and one demanding a special session of Congress for the enactment of the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, * were adopted. ‘Provide Lecturers. on Far East Struggles NEW YORK.~The Friends of the | Chinese People, an organization championing in the United States the struggles of the Chinese people for national liberation, has established a lecture service available to all camps and organizations for a min- imum sum. All lecturers will be chosen by the Executive Council in order to ensure an authoritative statement, The lecture bfreau is now. ready to function. All camps and organ- izations desiring spéakers on Far Eastern affairs should address The Friends of the Chinese’ People, 24 E 23rd St, New York City, for rates subjects and dates. Make dates nov before the calendar 4s‘ filled, or make _ teservations for the Fall seasom, _