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

X Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily exsemt Sunder, at 50 & Page Four th St., New York City, N.Y. Telephone ALgonquin 4-2056. Cable “DATWORK.” & Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 FE. 13th St., New York, N. T> Statement on Rivera by DU PONTS RUSH Mexican Communists Hold Position of C.P.U.S.A. Correct in Dispute Between Painter and His Millionaire Patrons Artist's Demagogi The Central Committee of the C€ the position of the Communist Party of the U Gestures Mask to Hide Serv Declared to Be ice to Imperialism ommunist Party of Mexico considers . A. correct in the dispute between Diego Rivera and the Yankee millionaires. The order of Rockefeller to suspend work and to cover the picture, fm which a worker, a Negro and a soldier, united by Lenin, appear, sig- | nifies an attack on the toiling masses ef the United States and on the| Pl construction of strategic; Pont Chemical works in Carrollville, peoples dominated by Yankee im-| Toads, the projected law of compul-joutside Milwaukee, are running full Perialism (including Mexico). The|Sory military service, etc. blast, manufacturing dies. They are toilers see, in the alliance of the| The Central Committee of the/hiring some men. They work a workers, the oppressed nationalities,| Communist Party of Mexico urges|7 1-2 hour day and a 5 day week— the peasants, and the exploited|the workers of the United States not| with 3 shifts. It costs 30 cents .car- masses in general, and also of the soldiers, under the leadership of the Communist International, the Party of Lenin, the indispensable condition | Teal counter-revolutionary position is | p: On some jobs the workers for the victory of the proletarian | Made obvious by his alliance with the | were getting 60 cents an hour till revolution in the imperialist coun- | “Soc "of Norman Thomas, and last wee. Now they are cut to 40 tries, for the victory of the move-|With the Lovestoneite and Trot cents an hour—33 per cent! This ment of national liberation in the | ite renegades. plant is a war industry, having colonies and semi-colonies, for the The Political Buro of the C.C, | been built during the last war dir- victory of the world olution. proletarian rev- Rivera the Renegade. But as Communists we must. mounce before the masses the Tole of Rivera as a demagogic in- strument of the bourgeois-landlord government of Mexico, and of its im- Perialist masters. Rivera wes expelled from the Com- munist Party of Mexico, of the Cen- tral Committee of which he was a member, for having collaborated in 1929 and 1930 with the governments of Portes Gil and Ortiz Rubio, first de- real to allow by the theatrical gestures and nau- seating demagogy of Rivera, whose of the C. P. of Mexico, June 2, 1933. HUNGRY FARMERS IN JAPAN ARE DRIVEN TO RIOT Mexico. Whole Village Starves themselves to be deceived | MANUFACTURING. OF DIES FOR WAR Workers Must Now Pay Out Own Carfares to Reach Plant Workers! Demonstrate Aug. Ist Against War Preparations “By a Worker Correspondent CARROLLVILLE, Wis.—-The Du fare each way from Milwaukee to Carrollville. The company used to pay carfares—now the workers must ectly for war purposes. It is con- stantly being enlarged—and has! been for the past ten years, even| when it was operating only with a small crew. Send War Munitions Material to Japan |! And Also to France| (By a Worker Correspondent) : (Reprinted from the “Call to Ac-j} tion,” organ of the Unemployed Coun- | : . q as Director of the School of Fine For Five Months cil and Affiliated Action Committees - Arts, and later as painter of the r of Port Angeles, Wash.). | £ murals in the-National Palace. Ri- Of the Year PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Your & vera thus served to mask the counter- me se statement some time ago that new! revolutionary character of the (A Letter from a Japanese village, equipment here in the Olympic For- | ernment, which had shot Gua giving the life of the peasants) esi Products, is for war munitions, | Rodriguez, a leader of the Party. “Every day our village is visited by jis true. Last week we had to rush ‘The Mexican government, with whom «important guests.’ It is not at all|out a 200 ton sample order of celo- | Diego Rivera collaborated, had been | unusual to see on the streets of our phane pulp for Japan. We are now an sccomplice in the assassination | village expensive automobiles from | working on an’ order of the same of _ julio Antonio Mella, hed! the capital, Tokio. But most often | stuff for France. Suppressed the press of the revolu-| our village'is visited by the ‘Buddt —O. F.P. Worcorr. | tionary workers, declared illegal the carriage,’ the police wagon. This is| Note: Cellophane pulp is of high} Communist Party Wasa large black automobile with steel cellulois content. Cellulois is the base | then murdering, and, bars on its small, rag-covered win-| for most modern explosives. The deporting to the "8° | dows. The Buddu wagon never leaves | pulp, as it leaves the local plant, is numbers of revolutionary workers! our village empty. Usually five compact, safe to ship, and is easily 4 oe peeoranis s xpelled once be-| {* Persons, with baskets over their |and quickly made into any kind of m4 Foo (aay fete coparvaninn Cae heads, [the Japanese police put a explosive desired. serious political deviations, and had been readmitted in 1927, on the b: of his anti-imperialist activity at that time. In 1930 Rivera sold himself to the agent of Morgan in Mexico, Mr. Morrow, to paint murals in his home, the f jer Palace of Cortes in Cuer- Mavaca, and to paint a portrait of Mrs. Morrow. By his work for Morrow, Rivera prepared the ground for his coming to the United States. The prestigc Which he gained as a member of the Communist Pariy of Mexico makes Rivera a useful instrument for the Yankee millionaires, at a time when their trusted agent Roosevelt is at- tempting to deceive the toiling Masses by his demagogic speeches and “radical” promises. At the same time he strengthens the dictatorship of the capitalists and bankers, carries out the fascization of the government and the most brutal enslavement of the workers, poor farmers. and op- pressed Negro masses, and prepares the country for the new imperialist basket over the head of arrested persons with the idea of preventing passersby from identifying the pris- and warning possible colleagues] are taken to the city. “Our village consists entfrely of peasants who rovi land from land- lords living in Tokio. For the last four consecutive years rental price | has been going up at the rate of 15/ per cent over the previous year, The burden of taxation grows unceasing- ly. Recently a new tax was put into | effect ‘to cover the expense of the} village gendarmerie. But what is even worse than this is the fact that our landlords refuse to take our prod- ucts in payment for the rental of the lay They demand cash payments. ery peasant home gathers from the field a maximum of eight koku of rice. This income is distributed as follows: Land rental, 2 koku; vil- lage gendarmerie tax, not less than tate taxes, 2 koku. An aver- ly in our village consists of five persons. To feed a whole family Army Buys Airplanes from Seattle Company SEATTLE, Wash., July 6.—Activi- ties for the carrying through of the new administration’s war policy are proceeding apace. Today P. G. Johnson, head of the Boeing Air- plane Company, said orders for new transport planes and pursuit ships for the Army will keep the plant busy for the rest of the year. Chinese Ships Mutiny, Set Officers Ashore = | HONGKONG, July 6.—The three | warships, Haichi Hiashen and Chao- | ho whose crews mutinied, setting their officers ashore arrived at the mouth of the Canton River today. They avoided Hongkong, but seni repre- sentatives to Canton to negotiate terms of settlement. THE “RECOVERY” ACT Sec'y of Navy Swanson We'll build o navy Setona to NONE — an Br Mail sverywhers: One year, 36; excepting Borough BUBSCRIPTION RATES: six months, 35.50; of Manhattan and Sronx, New York City. 3 months, 32; 1 month, 78s, Foreign and JULY 7, 1938) Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, 35; 3 months, $3, —By Burck. | a Militancy Among German Masses ITER ORDERS By MORRIS COLMAN The economic misery and the pro- letarian militancy of the German workers under the Nazi regime were tgraphically described today by Alan McKenzie, who has just returned by the way of Germany after spend- ing a year in the Soviet Union. Mc- Kenzie is an American Negro ma- chinist, organizer of the International Branch of the Friends of the Soviet Union, and a member of the Na- tional Executive Committee of the Fs. 0, “I made the acquaintance of a Ger- Negro Worker Describes Spirit of dotked in Hamburg,” he said. “He was a Communist, and that evening I went to his home in a working class district. What struck me first as we went along the streets was the great number of girls, some of them as young as twelve and thirteen, who had been forced by starvation to | take to prostitution. “The worker I was with told me he was lucky to have a job. He earned less than 7% marks (Jess than $1.85) for an 11-hour day of back breaking work. “In the evening he took me to a. man longshoreman where our ship cafe where for a five-cent beer you War Plans Follow Collapse of Parley (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE: | The trade war sion of the American workers and | economic war policies of all the im-|active, The marine workers can n0 | yeached.” conditions of life as the| Perialist countries, will farmers’ | Workers were not awed by the powe’ Wages are now being paid in dollars that have lost a good deal of their) value. This attack on the workers’| can sit and spend the evening. ‘The workers there told me about the bloody street battles they had had with the Nazis. This was about the} middle of June, at the height of the) Nazi terror, but there was a gir) there who was not afraid to start singing the International. There were Nazis and Communists in the cafe, and a Nazi in civilians started a provocative argument with one of. our compa- | nions. Soon two uniformed Brown | Shirts came over, ostensibly to quiet him, but soon they joined in the provocation, becoming more and more insulting. This did not last long. The | represented by the Brown Shirts. | \"They picked up the three Nazis and | threw them out bodily into the street. | “The comrades did not want to | standards, this reduction of costs to talk in much detail about how the the employers, is to be used to pay| Communist Party works in Hamburg, |for America's trade war against its;but from what they said, and es- | rival and imperialist competitors. that the United pecially from their manner, it was | easy to see that the Party in-Ham WORLD DRIVE FOR RELIEF OF NAZI VICTIMS TO BE: - HELD WEEK OF AUGUST 7 I. L. D. Answers Appe Aid by Organizing al of International Red Campaigns in U. S. “No Factory, No Worker’s House, No Workers’ organizations and sympathizers for 7 to 14 to raise funds for the defense of Thaelmann, Torgler and oth The National Committee io Aid Victims of German , Fascism and the Workers International Relief have decided to cooperate to mace this week a gigantic protest, defense and relief week. Hitler victims. tional mass organizations are called to participate). APPEAL FOR INTE AND RELIEF WEEK TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LL.D. Germany. with the German toilers. (The International Labor Defense received the following call to, action from its international committee to mobilize all workers, their! The International Red Aid 1.L.D. ternational Defense and Relief Week for the victims of fascist terror in In the centre of our class solidari The heroic struggle carried on by the German working masses—under the leadership of their revolutionary organizations —against the oppression regime of the fascist dictatorship, demands the | most active support of the anti-fascists in all countries. | victims of the Brown Pest—the tens of thousands of prisoners in the prisons, concentration camps and fascist barr: a nation-wide collection week, Aug, All na~ upon to request their city branches ATIONAL DEFENSE TO THE TOILERS OF ALL COUNTRIES! ALL OVER THE WORLD: calls upon you to rally for the In- ity we must now place our solidarity The nameless ‘acks, the political refugees who were forced to flee from Germany and are now wandering the streets in other countries, the countless ruined lives in Germany itself, the families, the children of those imprisoned and murdered—they are all in need of the energetic practical assistance of the toilers in all countries. PRESS TO CARRY PROSPERITY LIES. German Exports Weak | and Decreasing Says) Chamber of Commerce | BERLIN, July 6—A new decree | from the Hitler government in Ger- many orders all newspapers in the} future to print daily optimistic in- | terviews with businevs men on the/ theme that “things are getting bet- | The Hitler dictatorship, which is | leading Germany into deeper eco- | nomic crisis is reduced to this kind | of demagogy. But lies will not im- | prove the economic situation, which | steadily gets worse. The Reich Cred- | | Germany. Toilers in the towns and on the land! The LL.D. International Relief | Week for the victims of fascist ter- |xor in Germany will be conducted on Aug. 7 to 14. This Relief Week must create new funds for rendering relicf to the victims of German: fas- cism. We appeal to all the toilers who are aware of the struggle and the sufferings of their German class brothers. We appeal to all the in- tellectuals, writers, scientists and ar- tists—who are compelled to witness how, in Germany, the barbarism of the Middle Ages is destroying nearly everything of a cultural value. We appeal to all the oppressed nation *\ alities in the capitalist and colonia) countries who are reminded of theif own fate by the chauvinism and the bersecution of the Jews in fascist We call upon all the working class men and women. for —practical solidarity with the vic- tims of Hitler-fascism! We call upon all the organizations of the toilers—no matter of what fit Association is of the opinion that | Political tendencies—to carry on to- | States is waging, and the intensified | burg is not only alive, but immensely “the bottom has not yet, been | g¢ther with us this International De- inevitably longer hold big meetings on the} economic basis and support of its|end, and in no vety long time, in| waterfront, but they meet in small foreign trade policy of conquering the outbreak of a new imperialist / groups, in the houses of comrades, for May, “exports are weak, new markets by dumping goods and| War. - | the like. Democratic leaders in the House the Hugenberg Memorandum of- Rooseveli | fered by the German Fascist govern- who said he had been a Social De- aggression.| ment suggested intervention against | fhocrat. He said he was one no longer. Speaker Rainey said that since the| the Soviet Union. The United States|/He had joined the Communist Party, and Senate backed the policy of international At the Economic Conference itself | and carry on their work under the very noses of the Brown Shirts. “T also got talking with a sailor, Reports of the Chambers | of Commerce admit for the first | ime that, in contrast to the figures | and | are decreasing.” | Ip the face of an operating de- | ficit of over 50,000,000 marks for | the German State Railways are | talking of a 660,000,000 mark devel- fense and Relief Week. The relief is most urgent; it must be rendered to all the victims of fascist terror, with- out discrimination as to party, na- tionality or religion, Our action is a part of our strug: gle for the liberation of all the poli’ jthe first five months of this year, | tical prisoners in Germany and it the other capitalist countries. Before every worker this moment Conference has not been able to has authorized millions of dollars for |along with almost all the other mem- achieve America’s ends, the United} the building up of its navy. Only |bers of his S. D. branch, States “will continue its tariff pro- | yesterday a new sum of $77,000,000| “He told me confidently exactly tection policy under the Democratic | was granted to the navy, supplement-| what the other workers in the cafe opment progtam. These words will also put no workers to work. NAZIS DISSOLVE stands the question of joining hands to save the lives of Thaelmann, ' Torgler and all prisoners of Hitler who face the fascist gallows. + Members of the Red Aid—Set to Work! No factory, no village, no worker's war, and for the war of intervention 2 tWo remaining k of rice is im- PIES ah administration.” Senator Thomas} ing the recently authorized $238,000,-|had said: all expect to see Hitler against the Soviet Union i Bele, ee ee a nano Mussolini Sees Fleet was even more outspoken, “The Ton | 000 naval building program. idles Gilat erate, nde foe This has been the role of R < icine epee Y = a jon Conference is over so as any) ig e . , ; pete Meccavtornia, “Detroit, and tea, clothing, tobacco. These are | Get Ready for Action | \orthwhite accomplishments arecon-| 1» few weeks it will be August 1.\_ Passing through Kiel Canal, when- York, where. by painting for the %00ds of which we can only dream, a = ‘ cerned,” he said. “Our delegation Nineteen years ago, on that day, the ever a group of workers appeared on millionaires he has been able but which we cannot get. GAETA Italy, July 6.—Premler ought to come home. President worg war broke out. At no time|'¢ bank, Comrade McKenzie called the mil- His aciual “fight Hionaires merely signifies that, in d@ang> °° npletely lesing his pres- tige © nist,” he has tried to vin. lf before the masses by a demagogic maneuver. Rivera Without his mask, Rivera openly re- actionary, would be of no use to the imperialists who pay for his services. At the same time Rivera is prepar- ing to return to Mexico with the prestige of an anti-imperialist, in or- aer to continue to carry out his role “One koku of rice costs on the maiket from 12 to 13 yen. It costs us to produce it, countink s and | fertilizer, 25 yen. Of course, we dare | not count the value of our labor, “We distribute these two kokus so as to last us for several months, but the same we starve four or fiv hs of the year. In these da} nightmare our whole village tramps over the fields coilecting scattered seeds. Children. and the aged gather various grasses and roots. Our now been without Mussolini came here by automobile from Rome last night and went aboard the royal yacht Aurora immediately. He intends to review some units of the navy in the Tyrrhenian Sea. A brief official announcement made on his arrival and the embarkation car- ried no mention of the purpose or destination of the trip. DETROIT MOONEY CO! JULY & DETROIT.—A conference to streng- then the fight to free Tom Mooney INFERENCE | jout the red salute, ‘“Rot Front!” Ww: |Several answered with the Nazi sal- Flute, but most cf them responded |openly with the raised clenched fist Roosevelt, did absolutely right in re- fusing to agree on stabilization of the dollar on the foreign exchanges.” Thomes also referred enthusiastically to the rise in prices. He said: “Prices have advanced because Presi- dent Roosevelt let the country know he would if necessary cheapen the dollar and therefore cause commodity prices to rise. The simple notice from the President has accomplished wonders,” It has certainly accomplished won- ders—for the capitalist class. Bread | since then has the danger of ap- _proaching war been so great. against the Soviet Union, war among the imperialists for new sources of itis ‘greeting of the Communists. Brats ote Soe Le tring eal In contrast with his experiences in present @ thbeat of the greatest dan-|Gone: Scenes vent in the ; |Soviet Union was the happiest year | gor, The international working Cass lof his life, he said. Everyone in the | nee ad ead os since 1929 (Soviet Union, down to the youngest pies cates Me Ae A its Geter. | Child, even in the remote Central | Asian regions which he visited knows ination to defend the Soviet Unioh. ant about the Scottsboro case, he said. | here | | will to fight against coming war. | Workers and peasants everywhere | asked him innumerable questions CATHOLIC PARTY Bruening Signs Death Warrant of Centrists Toilers! Rally around the banner BERLIN, July 6—Former Chan- jef the LL.D. for practical relief to cellor Heinrich Bruening, leader of the victims of the fascist terror in the Catholic Center Party, signed | Germany! the order dissolving his party yes-| own with Fascism! terday. In the last elections, the| a Catholic Party received over four) Long Live the Solidarity of the Toilers of all Countries! and a half million votes, 11 percent | —International Red Aid, house, no working class meetings, social evenings, etc., should fail to have contribution lists or contribu- tion -boxes for the victims of fascism in Germany. of the total. In_ the official statement issued | @s a demagogic instrument of the beurgeois-landlord government Deportation Agent At the beginning of this year Ri- vera deceived with false promises a group of Mexican workers in Detroit, a@nd gave them a handful of dollars id from Ford), with which to re- turn to Mexico, making them believe that in their “fatherland” a paradise was awaiting them. Two months ago these same workers sent a letter to Rivera from the unhealthy coast of the Siaie of Guerrero (where the government sent them to “colonize”) Teproaching him for his action and a declaring that, instead of the prom- seq paradise, they had found hunger Misery, malaria and death. Through this_act Rivera has become an ec- comNeze of the Yankee bourgeoisie ine its lackeys in Mexico, in the light for a long time. “Recently there wa: ur village. Hundreds of peasants and to organize local Councils of Action has been called for Saturday, Q July 8, at 2 p.m. in Proletarian Hall, ered around the gendarmerie building ane demanded the return | 4108 Woodward Ave. The conference of the gendarmerie tax. Instead, the| as been called by the Detroit Tom gendarmes arrested the crowd and|Mooney Defense Conference, and all Grove it to the city. There, many of | 0‘sanizations are asked to send dele- the peasants were thrown in jail.| sates. But the protest movement did not} ce A group of peasants caught a! gendarme : d an official of the tax! ureau, and drowned them both in the neighboring lake. Since then our village is visited t ly the ‘Buddu wagon,’ us agitators of self- unions,’ who come to us in expensive automobiles. The wagon carries away the rioting peas- ants, while the agitators promise those who remain, help and an ex- a hunger riot in Payrolls, é Employment Lagging Behind, They Admit HEN you, unemployed worker, or “ ie of the deportation of Mexican cellent life. These persons, with good pa ey a pe re Pqorkers from the United States clothes and well-fed mugs, explain (9 Worker in the shop at starvation Rivera recently declared in Now all our miseries by the ‘noble na-| Wages tead the report of the De- | York that great progress has been tional war for the salvation of the, Partment of Commerce published yei made in Mexico in the education of terday on “returning prosperity,” just the masses. He makes this claim at @ time when, in the Federal District alone, there are more than 50,000 children who receive no education | because of lack of schools, when, throughout the whole country schools | are being closed, the number of} teachers is being reduced, when the} peoples of Asia,’ which is now going| on in China, But no one wants to) save us, who are dying of hunger and | 4 sicknesses. Yet somewhere across) You will read this: the sea our government is ‘saying| “Employment and payroll gains peoples’ For us peasants, and for| have Jagged considerably behind the workers, too, this only leads to the| increases in production. While fac- worsening of our conditions; for us it| story employment and payrolls means more taxes, which condemn} both increased last month, and the teachers’ salaries are being cut us to certain death. upward trend continued in June, (there are teachers in the rural dis-/ “Our only consolation is that we | the indexes in May were below the tricts who earn a peso and even half|are still able to walk and are still; tow level of a year ago. Average ‘a peso a day), when the tuition fees| capable of any kind of work, which} hourly factory earnings during the of the secondary schools are being | we cannot find yet. But in the| month also were at a new low “doubled, the enrollment in the Uni-/|northern prefectures, such as Ao-| point.” versity is being restricted, and all aid| mori, the peasants can no longer| Here you have the latest news about is being denied the children and poor | walk; they are hardly able to move|what the “upturn” means to the students. By this statement Rivera|their legs and are dying from star-| workers. The upturn itself was due ' ratifies his compromise as a Jackey,| vation. There is not only hunger] to inflation and speculation. Hourly defender and propagandist of the|there, but punitive expeditions of|factory earnings now are lower than bourgeois-landlord government, and| troops afainst the peasants. In Aa-|at any time during the crisis at a curries favor in order to find a com-| mori we have regular battles be-|time when food prices are going up. fortable berth for himself when he tween the j#asants and the military) So much for the “promises” of Rdose- returns to Mexico. troops velt about increased wages, about de- In his recent demagogic speeches “It is hard to believe that we shall|cent living standard. ‘The fact re- and declarations, Rivera hides the be able to stand such life any longer.| mains—wages continue to drop and true character of the Calles-Rodri-| Our village is in the same position at this very moment are at a “new Rue government, its role as a gen-|as the villages in the Aomori pre-| low point.” darme of Yankee imperialism, and fecture., Every day the gendarmerie - hf its preparations for participation in| arrest the rioters. But every day. HAT about employment? What the imperialist: war: reorganization too, some gendarme disappears. about payrolla? The Department. _ of the army, buying of warships and, (Signed) Riokei Hamamatow.” (of Geémmeree tells us that these are the report and see what you find. glance way down at the hotton of | is dearer. gone up. And soon. Even if wages had remained unchanged, and in fact they have in many cases been reduced, they would not today buy the same amount as before the dollar went c*f cold. The goods which the “lagging” behind production. | bosses are able to increase produc- | tion in some lines and to keep em- | ployment and wages lagging. The ‘record low hourly wage rate, in fact,!merce admits, continue to pile up. shows they can increase production and lower wages. ° 8 'HE same Department of Commerce report bewails the fact that con- | sumption is lagging while production | goes up. It states: “Available indexes of consumer | purchasing indicate for the most | part that goods are not moving into | consumption as fast as they are. be- ing produced. The rise in such in- dustries as textiles and tobacco manufacturing is much too large to be accounted for by any increase that may have occurred in con- sumer purchasing to date.” Why aren’t goods moving into con- sumption as fast as they are being produced? Because, as the same re- pert tells us, the hourly wage rates The price of milk has| Theof the workers have dropped to # | the employed now at the lowest hour- | \ly wage rates—is growing narrower.| This year, too, on August 1, the greatest demonstrations must take | place. The danger of war grows) hourly, and the need for the strong- est expression of the will of the work- ers at the mass demonstrations of this August 1 is greater than ever worker bu)5 have increased in price. before, Hidden Facts in Commerce Report Tell of Lower Wages new low. The poverty of the masses is being increased while the commo- dities, as the Department of Com- The home market—mainly the) starving millions of unemployed and | * d View foreign markets increasing to) absorb this surplus? The Depart- ment of Commerce report we have just quoted says textile stocks are swelling up. The starvation wages will not permit the workers to buy more shirts or other textile goods, especially, as we get the imforma- tion that a cheap mail-order house shirt that sold for 35 cents, when the slavery code goes into practice will sell for $1, On top of this foreign markets for textiles are contracting due to the bitter struggle of all the capitalist DIVIDENDS UP TO With hourly wage rates at a new low we learn that.some of the big- gest corporations are paying big dividends to their stockholders. In Albany at the rate hearings of the New York Power and Light Corpor- ation, dividends as high as 42.61 per cent a share were paid to the rich stockholders. The workers in. this Gompany received a 10 per cent wage cut recentig ; N. Y. GAS COMPANY \ CUT PAY BUT PAID 42 P. C. OF STOCKS Throughout the whole crisis this company has been steadily paying fat profits to its stockholders. ‘The company’s own records show- ed that in 1930, when millions were being thrown out of work, and the bosses were fighting against unem- ployment relief, they aid dividends about the conditions of Negroes and) workers in the United States. They | could scarcely understand how the | conditions of American workers, and | especially Negroes, could exist, since | they live in a country where. race discrimination is unknown, and the workers really rule. ‘a if Consuming Power Is. Not Rising; All Mark-) ets Are Decreasing nations as the result of the sharpen- ing world crisis, HE Journal of Commerce (July 6) | gives us this concrete information | about foreign markets for textiles: “Meanwhile, leading exporters of | cotton goods declare that their lim- ; ited business is dwindling fast. The | Japanese are selling all over the world. Latterly Great Britain has | been making further inroads into | South American and West Indian | large house that did its largest business with South American countries has been unable to hold its business this Lior ee prices rising so raj very little hope for the immediate fu- ture is held out. capitalist sheets as the New York Sun in writing editorials entitled: “We are recovering.” This Couism (“every day in every way things are getting better and better”) will not help on the breadlines, or in the mis- erable Revels of the 17,000,000 uncm- ployed. Xt will not help the worker who ‘sees his pay envelope dwindling to “a new low.” Its main intent is of 35 per cent to stockholders; in 1928 dividends were 33 per cent, in 1981 they rose to 40 per cent. to keep back struggle—the growing : Paraguay. | Place. In this light we can see gall of such | say, by the leaders of the Party, it was | said that the “withdrawal of the! Center Party takes place amid the | storms of a new era.” The Cen-/ trisi89 during most of the life of | the Weimar Republic were the al- | lies of the Social Democrats. ‘In an honcrable desire to share in the building up of a ‘new state,” says the Geclaration of the expiring group, “the people of the former Center Party will not be outdone by any one.” BOLIVIA BREAKS LEAGUE TRUC LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 6—A Bol- rific fighting and over 2,000 casual- ties, began yesterday in the South American war between Bolivia and The Paraguayan forces seem to have been taken by sur- prise, since both sides were observ- ing a truce while the League of Nations negotiations were taking Fort Nanawa, a fortified island, was the objective of the Bolivian troops. The Bolivians claim trade, while Canadian business has (to have killed 180 out of, the, gar- fallen s'nce imperial policies began | rison of 200. An officiel Paraguayan to rule the United Kingdom. One |communique says that the Para- guayan forces are holding their po- sitions, cabled its Geneva representative to make a protest to the League of Nations. “Just at a time when con- ciliation is being attempted,” they , “the Bolivians have opened their heaviest offensive.” 1.W.0. PICNIC IN CHICAGO CHICAGO. — The International | Workers Order is arranging a huge International Picnic and Anti-Fas- cist Rally to take place July 23, at Birutes Grove, Archer and 79th St. Admission will be 10 cents in ad- vance, 15 cents at the gate. Trucks ‘will meet cars at the end of the 63rd struggles for higher wages and for inemployment eam car line in Arge ivien offensive, accompainied by ter- | The Paraguayan governmmt has, Detroit Anti-Fascist Conference, July 12 DETROIT.—A united front confer- ence to broaden the struggle against. fascism in Germany, Italy, the United States and other countries will be held Wednesday evening, July 12, at 7:30 fm Proletarian Hall, 4108 Wood- ward Ave. At thig ¢onference a pro- posal will be mace to organize a joint anti-fascist and anti-war demonstra- tion on August #1, the anniversary, of the beginning of the World War...” About: 2,000 people were present at an_anti-fascist protest meeting, in Belle Isle Shell on Wecinesday eve- |ning, July 28. , “Amateur” Athletes Sail for Fascist Meets in Europe NEW YORK. — Seven Ame “amateur” atiietes sailed yesterday ; morning to tour Europe and perform in ten meets there. They represent several of America’s foremost univer= sities and bourgeois sport organizas tions and will be well compensated for their work, The team will stop in Sweden, Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and France. It is significant that, despite the half-hearted “pro- tests”.made by the officials of the ;American Athletic Union regarding |discrimination against Jewish ath- letes in Germany, the team will make two stops in fascist Germany. Dr. Prenn, formerly of the Da’ Cup team of Germany, and Dr, Lewald of the German Olympic ‘mittee, have both been removed from their positions by Hitler because of their Jewish blood. The Davis Cup team has been sent to the competi- | tion without Dr. Prenn, | The Labor Sports Union is carrying jon preparation for the World Sparta- kiade of worker athletes ie be oe a Moscow, August, 1934. ere {no @isertmination at thts meet ® t Md