The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 7, 1933, Page 6

——By Michael Gold | | Pittsburgh An organizer, a midwife to the new steel union Thinking lonely one night in a little room Smelled heavy weather ahead Storm hanging low And knew he would perish But sober and cheerful Made his last will and testa- ment Leaving to his children— To the workers— To our land— A Red Star— Another Heavenly Discourse (Columbus, Judas Iscariot, H. W. Longfellow, Jefferson, Sam Gompers, Plo Ziegfeld and Ambrose Bierce are seated in a heavenly saloon drinking 3.2 beer spiked with alcohol, and dis- cussing, of course, the Blue Buzzard.) Columbus—I wash my hands of that Whole continent. I used to think I understood what it was all about) until this Nira came along. It’s too much. Really, if I had my life to live over again, I’d like to produce musical comedies. Flo Ziegfeld—You did, Oscar, you did. Ambrose Bierce—I used to hate it because it was a democracy. Now that it is going Socialist I think I shall despise it more. Sam Gompers—Nira isn’t Socialism; it’s state capitalism. Let's be exact in our definitions, Amby. The So- Cialists call it Socialism, just as they used to call my A. F. of L. racket a labor union. But it all comes to the same thing; itl all in a spirit of good. clean fun and co-operation. Benry Wadsworth Longfellow (who ig. deaf)—What’s that? Sam Gompers—I said co-operation; -O-hyphen-O_T- Longfellow—Good, good! I'm glad to hear you say it. She’s a sweet and gre person, and never failed to pat seven per cent. Gompers—Now who are you talk- in~ about? Longfellow — 1 disappointed in g back impatient- ct)—What I'd like to can they guarantee to unscramble Nira and go back to democracy when the crisis is over? Ziegf2ld—Listen, Tom, you're much too ceri Be gay, be gay. It’s a New Deal, kid, see? Drink, don’t ‘think. Jefferson (ignoring American prog- | ress, as incarnated in Flo)—What is| your answer, Sam? Gompers— The future is simple. Washington is already getting the People ready for a big fact! Nira won't work. They say, because capi- tal end labor won’t make it work. So what? So its’ necessary to have a dictatorship. It will happen about Christmas, when hard liquor comes back. Jefferson—And this donesn’t appall you, infuriate you? After 200 years of blood and sacrifice for democracy, to have it die like a friendless beggar in a ditch? Shame, shame! Gompers (winking at Flo) —Old Jeff can't hold his gin no more, grandma. Columbus—Honest, I wish I'd never seen the place. I wish I had opened @ pizzeria restaurant in Genoa as my daddy and mammy wanted me to. Longfellow—This General Johnson interests me. He has such a sweet, strong face, a veritable cowboy Christ. I hear he plays the fiddle. Judas Iscariot (modestly)—If Imay Say a word, I'd like to point out that the truth lies between you. It’s not to be a dictatorship, or even state capitalism, but a functional democ- racy, in which the community regu. lates industry for the good of all. | Really a new deal—a blending of the best features of capitalism and so- cialism. Jefferson (uneasily)—By the way, I don’t mean to be rude, but who is; this gentleman? I’ve never seen him before. Things are getting queer again; it reminds me of the first world war, when I never could walk a step without being trailed by an angelic spy from the Department of Heaven- ly Justice. { Gompers (smacking Judas bluffly | on the sholder)—Oh, he's all right, Jeff, one of my lieutenants in the { movement. |. Judas—The name is Lewis, John } . L, Lewis. “Jefferson (still wary)—Uh, huh. _ Ziegfeld—They have even forced | a code on the chorus girls. How times change! The girls used to be glad ‘to work for me without a hat, a shirt, underwear, let alone a code. Bierce (fainting)—Wow! a pun! (Recovers) Where am I? Everything seems strange. | Jefferson (moodily)—It is strange. ever they call it, we'll always sur- vive, won't we, Judy? Judas—I would say so, us and the Columbus — First I discover the thing, then it turns around and bites me in the stock market. ‘Judas—Gentlemen, if I may put in a modest and judicial word, I would Suggest that we wait and see. How can we tell what Nira will do? Why should we anticipate trouble months | ahead? Why oppose it? Why not give it a chance? Jefferson—The Socialists did that with yon Hindenburg. ‘Judas—But that was Germany. In America your tradition is too firmly 4 Lvs ever to be in danger, Mr. Jef- Jefferson (moodily)—What did you ~ ‘your name was? ti ludge Jacob Panken, ‘ service. ' Longfellow (musing aloud)—They Mil of them have such strong, sweet, at Published by the Comprodally Publishing 1sth St., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone Co., Ine. ALgonquin 4 daily except Sunday, at 50 E. 5. Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and mail chacks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th St., New York, N. ¥. Deil PEACE DEEPLY ROOTED IN. ¢= PEOPLE OF SOVIET UNION HERRIOT FINDS WILL T0 Calls Soviet Conception of Labor Explanation of Dynamic Development—Admires Giant | Industry, Mechanized Farming By VERN SMITH. (Special to the Daily Worker.) | MOSCOW, Sept. 6 (By Cable).—“I firmly believe that the peoples of the Soviet Union are deeply permeated with the idea of peace.” | So said Edouard Herriot, former premier of France, to the correspondent | of the Daily Worker and representatives of the Soviet Press here. | Asked what created the greatest impression on him among all the things he had observed in his tour® of the Soviet Union, he said: “The | totality of everything I saw. The | labor rules of the Soviet Union. The | synthesis of industrial and agricul- | tural labor. Everything is concen- | trated in the conception of ‘labor’. Impressed by “Six Points.” | “I remember the statement of | Stalin that under the Soviet system | today from each is taken according |to his ability and to each is given | according to his labor. The dynamic | development of your country is felt in these words. I have been greatly impressed by the six points of Stalin. }I am not a Communist, but I have no prejudice against different views | from mine. The six points of Stalin are courageous and fruitful. All other countries should think over these useful principles.” | “Your efforts toward the indus- trialization of your country are re- markable”, he said. “The Dnieproges achievement is of primary importance. | I see no reason why construction in other centers would be carried out with less success than in the places which I saw with my own eyes.” “Living Standards Incomparably Higher.” Herriot further emphasized that he could testify to the success of utiliz- ing big machine technique in agri- culture in the US.S.R. He declared that the study of the scientific and literary thought of the | Soviet Union must be continued and |increased in France. “There is | |great interest in France in Soviet | | literature, science, and theater,” he | | said. | Replying to a question of the Mos- | cow correspondent of the United | Press, he said that comparing the | standards of living of the population | of the USSR with the period of his | first visit in 1920 he concluded that | the standards of living had been in- comparably improved. Visits Collective Farms. Herriot arrived at Odessa on Aug. |26. He went to the Ukraine and| North Caucasus, where he visited a number of collective and state farms, | observed the conditions of life and work of the collective farmers and state farm workers. He visited Dnie- progres and the industrial giants in the vicinity. He visited Kharkov, Kiev, Rostov-on-Don. He arrived in Moscow September first, where he was received by V. Molotov, chair- man of the Council of People’s Com- missars, and Michael Kalinin, presi- | dent of the Soviet Union. |Body of Julio Mella |Going to Cuba; Youth 'Delegation for USSR HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 6.—Plans |for the erection of a memorial for | | Julio Mella, member of the Central of Cuba, who was murdered in Mexico on the orders of former President Machado, bringing his | | body back from Mexico and en-| | tombing it within the memorial, and | | establishment of a cemetery around | the memorial, to which the bodies of all workers killed by the Macha- jdo and De Cespedes dictatorship | would be brought for re-interment, ;are announced by the Defensa Obrera International (I-L.D.) of Cuba. ea ees ©. HAVANA—Plans for sending a| Cuban youth delegatidn to the So-| viet Union were announced today | bya committee which is organizing | @ campaign to collect funds and elect delegates for this purpose. Oklahoma faces, Ike the child Christ, and are sure to pay seven per cent, ping earch My Mule My free-thinking mule, Moe, whom I have already reported as having more sense than any capitalist, is now taking music lessons, in prep- aration for a concert tour of Ger- many. He has just discovered that he has Nordic blood in his veins, so is sure of success on the Nazi concert stage, where blood is all. Per isa Barnacles ‘ “Tt is time to put the Ship of State into drydock and scrape off some of the barnacles,” said State Senator Wragg of Massachusetts. Just then he felt an awful itching, and dis. covered that he himself had con- tracted a bad case of barnacles, bei The Truth About Huey Somebody socked Huey Long in the nose. He said it was a flock of New York gunmen who ganged up on him. A capitalist plot, he charged. They assaulted him with deadly Weapons, shouting, “Up, Wall Street! To hell with the farmers of Louisi- ana!” Then they tried to bribe him with a million dollars to sell out the people. But he threw the money back in their filthy New York faces. So they ganged him again, this time with brass knuckles, frankfurters and spinach. He resisted, and they of- fered another million if he would sell them the Mississippi River. But Huey again refused betray the people. So they kicked down the stairs, shouting, “Hooray for Wall Street!” Huey picked himself up, and answered, “Some day you will go too far! Some day the people will Pay you for this!” And that’s always the way things happen to a dema- gogue—a sock in the nose at a drunk fight in a gent’s room becomes the faithful wounds of a crusader for the Committee of the Communist Party | be people. Keep it up, Huey, you ain't licked yet. They left you your tongue. Europe Tense Over Nazi Acts As Arms Conference Nears Troops Are Mobilized in Tyrol; Davis to Visit Simon | LONDON, Sept. 6—The Nazi: at- tacks on Austria are looked on as 8} major European crisis by the French and British governments, | France, it was reported, will ac-| cuse Germany of secret rearming, and | declare its threats against Austria a violation of the Versailles Treaty. This question is one of the points | which will be discussed first in secret | conferences tomorrow between Nor- man H. Davis, American delegate to the Disarmament Conference, and Sir | John Simon, British Foreign Minis- | ter. | At the same time, the question of | the feverish arms race on which America and Japan have embarked, | and which Great Britain. is preparing | to enter when Parliament meets this | fall, is the subject of these discus. sions, at which decisions must be| made before the public discussions of ‘disarmament” are resumed at Gene- va_on October 16, | Following the conversations be-| tween Davis and Simon tomorrow, both will go to Paris to meet with members of the French Cabinet eee Austria Mobilizes Troops INNSBRUCK, Austria, Sept. 6— The imminence of a Nazi “rebellion” in the Tyrol, organized by German and Austrian Nazis, was emphasized today by the mobilization here of a} regiment of Alpinists, two infantry | regiments, two batteries of mountain | artillery, and a motorized signal corps. In addition, ten airplanes, called | “privately owned” since Austria is not allowed military planes under the treaties, are patrolling the Tyrol - Bavarian border. Thousands of Austrian Nazis are being concentrated in German camps, directly across the Tyrol border, while the Viennese government has revealed that the whole postal and telegraph staffs had been ousted here, | because they were using the mails and telegraphs to spy on the Aus- trian government and to smuggle Nazi literature and messages. There is open discussion af “spon- taneous” uprising in the Tyrol by Austrian Nazis, who would declare their adherence to Germany. This ig is being organized by German Nazis, but it would be given the air of an act by Austrian citizens so that the German government could dis- claim responsibility. Czechs Told to Expect War PRAGUE, Sept. 6.—A call to arms against Germany was the keynote of speeches at a large gathering of Czech farm leaders at Katharinen. bad. Donat, president of the senate, and M. Brklik, former Cabinet min- ister, declared Czechoslovakia must prepare for war against Germany. Brklik said Germany intended to seize the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia, and had promised Slovakia to Hungary. “Siete Austrian Customs Houses Brown Up VIENNA, Sept. 6.— The Austrian customs houses at Fuchsodt and Ha- selbach, near the Bavarian border, were dynamited Tuesday. Police de- N.R.A. Over Cuba 4 Use Lies Abe to Get British Union Congress to Back It Real Attack Against U.S. Workers LONDON, Sept. 6—The N. R. A. program of Roosevelt was supported in a resolution adopted here at the British Trade Union Congress now in session at Brighton. After hearing T. E. Burke of the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters of the United States and Canada, and C. M. Madsen, of the Brotherhood of Painters, Deco- rators and Paperhangers of America, distort the real significance of the N. R. A, the reactionary British union leader, W. M. Citrine, proposed a resolution of approval. ‘The resolution urged British cap- | italism to follow the program of | Roosevelt in order to “end the crisis.” It “appreciated the significance of |the vigorous efforts now being made by President Roosevelt toward stim- ulation and regulation of industry,” jand “congratulated” the trade unions | “upon their energetic assertion of the | right of the workers represented to bargain collectively,” and the co- operation of Roosevelt with the unions,” to lower hours and raise wages. The fact that steel wages are be- {ing cut 33 per cent under the code, |that the workers’ right to strike and | picket are being attacked, that stand- ards of living are being lowered, that | the open shop has become the main |intent of the N. R. A,, are not men- tioned in the resolution. Citrine and other British trade union leaders, in the days of Hoover, urged British capitalism to follow in the steps of Wall Street to achieve “prosperity.” The British Trade Union leaders, with the help of the A. F. of L. rep- resentatives, are using the N. R. A. and a mass of lying propaganda about it to keep the British workers from fighting against British capi- talism, holding out the hope of re- clared that German Nazis who crossed the border were responsible, viving capitalism with a British edition of the N. R. A. NRA Broa A.F.L. Speakers Hide} to grow in fore SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, ix excepting Borough of Man! months, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, 750, New York City. Foreign and $5; 8 months, $3. SEPTEMBER 7, 1933 emt Tae ening Strike Wave Preceded Cuban Rising (Special to the Daily Worker.) HAVANA—The wave of strikes in Cuba in the past week has continued e and breadth, In one day, strike: were declared by fifteen different groups, all over the islands, ranging from piantation and tobacco workers to doctors in Havana. The doctors on sirike in Havana, under leadership of the left wing of the Medical Federation, announced that©— for the duration of their action they would treat only workers, and organ- ized a special service for that pur- pose. The doctors’ demands are for | the discharge of strike-breakers of the strike of 1931, non-admission to the hospitals of people who have sufficient money to obtain private medical service, and the end of the “interne system” under which doc- tors are paid extremely low salaries for long hours of work. 8,000 Plantation Workers Out The Cruces strike, which was won by the workers there on the basis of their demands, including the 8-hour} day and one peso a day, was re- opened immediately by the strikers on the basis of further demands which include the cancellation of all debts of the workers to the company. More than 8,000 workers went on strike in Havana Province, on the Gomez Mena, Mercedita, and Prov- idencia sugar plantations. Th: struggles are supported by the share- croppers and tenants, The Amerigan interests who own the Cristo District copper mines in Santiago de Cuba have declared a lock-out Other strikes reported the same day are: Central Hormiguero, Cruces Province, 1,000 workers; Coliseo, workers on six plantations; bacco workers in Fuerta de Golps; agricultural workers in Cardenas; photo-engravers in Havana; agricul- tural workers in Rincon, Hunger Marches in Sugar Centers Militant hunger marches are re- ported from a number of sugar cen- ters, In Moron, 3,000 workers, hav- ing won their bridges when the plantation owner telephoned for troops. ‘They an- nounced they would occupy the plan- tation if troops came. Tapping the wires, they heard the employer tele- phone U. S. Ambassador Welles in Havana, asking that troops, appar- all to- | demands, blew up; Canton Declares Martial Law As Red Army Gains Canton China, Sept. 6—Martial law was declared in Canton yester- day, as the workers organized pow- erful demonstrations in support of the Chinese Soviet Armies, which are engaged in fierce fighting with the Cantonese forces north of here, |at the Kiangsi border. The Red forces have crossed the {mountain range which divides |Kwantung province, of which Can- |ton is the capital, from the Soviet jarea in southern Kiangsi, and are |holding the important city of On- yuan, against a Cantonese army. Reports from Shanghai an- nounced that General Tsai Ting- \kai, commander of the Cantonese Nineteenth Route Army, had taken charge of Foothow, the main sea- port of Fukien, the seacoast prov- ince directly north of Kwantung. The Cantonese general, however, is remaining in this port, while the north wing of the Red Army is op- erating inland, about 19 miles northwest of the point where he has taken his stand. ently asked for from that source, be withheld. More than 400 unemployed met at the workers center in Havana to fcrmulate their demands of the gov- exnment. These include recognition of the National Unemployed Coun- cils, withdrawal of troops from flop- houses, no evictions; food for the un- employed from the army and navy budget; fifty cents daily in cash to each unemployed worker, and’ 25 cents for each dependent. | War will bring sharply forward the Local Prices in Little Rock, Ark. Jump 40 Per Cent Relief Head Says Num- ber of Cases Must Be Cut Down | (By a Worker Correspondent) NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark— | According to national figures, the |need for relief in Greater Little |Rock increased 15.1 per cent during the summer period, second only to San Francisco. Yet, field represen- tative of relief, Aubrey Williams, told several hundred workers who presented demands for more relief, that the number of relief cases in Pulaski County must be CUT DOWN, Local prices have increased almost 40 per cent. S Re-employment here turned out to be a thing read about in newspapers but not found in shops, stores and factories. The hundreds of migra- tory workers who in former years used to pick cotton find that these jobs were eliminated by the “plow- ing under” drive of Roosevelt. Thou- sands of tenants and croppers in Arkansas go ragged for want of clothing. The crop has failed, due to the dry weather and the boll weavil. “Public works” jobs in Pulaski County consist of repairing roads for plantation owners, cleaning out ditches, sewers and sweeping streets. The usual discrimination is made by putting only Negroes on this work. Other work is cutting wood and the Community gardens. The present scale of pay is single men, 6%4-hour day at 30 cents, or $1.95; family man with one de- pendent, 13 hours, or $3.90; married man with four dependents, 17 hours, or $5.10. Negroes are handed 7 hours a week, or $2.10 flat, which is far below the average for white workers. The Unemployed Council is putting up a demand for an increase to 50 cents an hour, equal pay for equal work, no discrimination between Ne- groes and white workers, as the burning issues at present. Inflation, processing tax on foodstuffs and cotton goods, and on top of that the N. R. A. (robbery act) has caused prices to skyrocket as much as 40 er cent. This increased cost of liv- ing must be met with demands for increased relief, 2 Killed by Cave-In in Fort Wayne; No FORT WAYNE, Ind.—Caught in a cave-in at a bottom of a trench where they were digging a water pipe line, Thomas B. Gor- man, 45, and Ralph E. Champe were buried alive. Four other men in the trench escaped uninjured. They were working through the School. According to John H. Craig, as- sistant superintendent of mails of the United States Post Office, who had witnessed the tragedy, “There was absolutely no protection given the workmen in the trench at the point where the cave-in occurred. There were no braces or shoring to keep the walls from crumbling and the railroad tracks are on a loose dirt fill, which made it all the worse.” Craig described the trench as not looking “any too safe to me.” Safeguards on Job) a grounds of the Fort Wayne State DELEGATES 10 CALL FOR U.S. HANDS OFF CUBA AT CONGRESS AGAINST WAR Socialist Party “Outlaws” D, C. Continental Congress for Anti-War Stand and United Front Actions NEW YORK.—Worker delegates to the United States Congress Against question of American intervention in Cuba as one focus for the immediate struggle of all elements opposed tp war, against the war policy of the Roosevelt government. \ | They will point out that U. S. intervention in Cuba is an act of war, | Ses %even if the relative power of the two countries is such that it does not become a major conflict. ie Tian S. P. “Outlaws” D. C. Congress WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. — For seating delegates of the Communist Party and the International Labor Defense, and electing delegates to the United States Congress Against War, the District or Columbia Con- |tinental Congress has been “out- \lawed” by the Washington Socialist Party. | At a meeting of the Socialist Party, leaders, Marx. Lewis and Geraci, pushed through a vote to “ignore” the Continental Congress, jand to call another Congress. This action was countered by the delegates to the Gongress by cir- culating a letter, signed by 75 per cent of the active delegates, con- demning the splitting tactics of the Socialist Party, and pointing out that the action of the Socialist leaders was an attempt on the part of a small minority to “control or dis- rupt’” the Continental Congress. Despite the constant disruptive maneuvers of the Socialist Party, the Continental Congress has been actively carrying on anti-war work, and has been active in the defense of Michael Hoeckstra, who was at- tacked by a guard while distribut- ing anti-war leaflets in Arlington Cemetery on August 1. Los Angeles Jobless Union Add 14 Locals LOS ANGELES, Cal.—The Re- lief Workers Protective Union of Los Angeles County is busier than a bee-hive since Aug. 22nd, the day of the 30 percent relief cut protest demonstration. Fourteen new locals, making a total of 40, have been organized with a total membership of about 10,000. The Grievance Committees of the R.W.P.U. exposed more cases of graft, corruption and . discri- mination on the part of the offi- cials of the Los Angeles County Welfare Bureau, than the Bureau could digest. For that reason Czar Jensen, Superintendent of the Welfare Bureau issued orders that no grievance committees be recognized in the future. The R.W.P.U. took the issue before the chairman of the Board of Supervisors, John R. Quinn, and after presenting many cases of wholesale and brutal discrimina- tion against the relief workers, the committees were successful to the point that Supervisor Quinn admitted that the committees should be recognized and promised to give the final decision in a few lays. Cut Relief of 1,400 in Austin; Parade, Meeting, Planned AUSTIN, Texas.—Over 1,400 | workers have been dropped from relief in this county, and it is planned to eliminate 2,000 more. |Many were removed when they refused to accept work on farms at 60 to 75 cents a day. Unem- ployed. men working on R. F. C. jobs average about $9 a month. The Austin Unemployed Council! is planning a parade and mass mecting to protest against the abuses practiced by the relief or- ganizations. Contribute to the Daily Worker Sustaining Fund! Hep to keep up the 6-page “Daily”! Cuban Soldiers Show Army Can Become Ally of Revolutionary Masses Role of Armed Forces Strikes Capitalists] With Terror—Press Calls It “Unique” Result of “Demoralization” By MORRIS PITMAN. One thing that capitalists and their editors cannot bear is the news that a countnry’s armed forces have as- sumed a revolutionary role. The initiative of the rank and file of the Cuban army and navy, who took power from their officers and seized control of the island, has struck terror into the hearts of the editors of the capitalist press. The New York Times, in its ed- itorial, concentrates on this. It hastens to attempt to counteract the powerful impression which the Cuban soldiers and sailors have made. “Tt was a startling upset, and of a kind which probably could have occurred nowhere else in the world,” Says the editorial. The Capitalist View of the Army And in its news story, it says that “a chief reason for alarm is that the army is exhibiting Bolshevist ten= dencies and was demoralized in its rank and file by the activity of its leaders in overthrowing President. Machado, and by the experience of the private soldiery in fraternizing with civilians in the street demon- strations.” In this statement the Times: ‘re- veals clearly the attitude which cap- italists and their state have toward the armed forces of a nation. To the ruling class, the armed forces are their own police force, Tf the soldiers and sailors react to the will of the workers, to the de- mands of the overwhelming majority of the people, they are “demoralized.” It is time for armed intervention. So say the capitalists. The Times strives to emphasize an imaginary uniqueness in the actions of the Cuban soldiers. “It could have occurred nownere else in the world.” Haunted by Invergordon Has it never ovcurred elsewhere? What of the soldiers’ and sailors’ soviets of Russia in 1917, which con- solidated the power of the Russian working class? What about the sol- diers’ and sailors councils in Ger- many, Austria, Hungary? The capitalists are still haunted by the more recent mutinies, of the British sailors at Invergordon, of the Dutch sailors of the “Seeven Prov- incen” in the East Indian waters. They would like desperately to make the soldiers and sailors of the United States think this mass up- rising of enlisted men just off Amer- ican territory is something strange, unlikely, and unprezedented. On the contrary, no deep-going movement of the masses in any part of the world can leave the army and navy untouched. The enlisted men of every country come from the ranks of the masses. In the service, they are subjected to a peculiarly con- stant and sharp class oppression by their superiors, who exercise complete and brutal authority over all their actions. Response to Masses The Cuban army and navy were knowm as one of the most mercenary and brutalized of armed forces. For years they carried out the orders of the bloody Machedo, But the deen-going anger of the CubMa messes, bursiing out first against Machado’s crushing oppres- sion, Continuing in ever greater in- tensity, invclving ever larger macses as the Des Cespedes regime carried forward only slightly unchanged the Machado program of oppression and terror, inevitably permeated the ranks of the military forces. Finally, conscious as they always are of their armed powers, the sol- diers and sailors set up their rank ee file committees, and took con- trol. Soldiers Assume Responsibility. In doing this, they did what every armed force has done, and in future will do, in a real revolutionary situ- ation. They followed the example of the Russian armies, who in 1927 formed their rank and file Soviets, and united with the revolutionary workers and peasants. They followed the example of the Hungarian, Austrian and the German soldiers of 1918. This is not “demoralization.” It is the very opposite. It is the mo- ment, inevitable in every revolution- ary situation, when the armed forces veach their highest degree of demo- cratic discipline and resolution, when, with arms in their hands, they be- gin to assume full responsibility for their own acts. How they carry out this re- sponsibility depends upon the clarity of purpose of the masses with whom they identify their interests. It de- pends on the leadership which they accept. They are not yet clearly con- scious of the re-i issues in which they take a hand, But they cannot be relied upon as of old by the ruling class. It is the task of the most highly class-conscious among their ranks, and among the workers, to carry the revolutionizing of the army further, so that it becomes a genuine armed ally of the revolutionary working class. “Delicate Handling” “Undoubtedly the Havana situation is fraught with great danger,” says the editorial in the Times. “It will require the most delicate and skiliful handling by the American author- ities.” In what does this .“delicate and skillful handling” consist? Tt con- sists first, as the Times itself declares, ’ ® in a virtual act of war—the rushing of warships to Cuban waters, to staad over the Cuban cities as a threat, even if no marines are landed. But is consists in more than this. Armed terrorism is the first and main recourse of American impe- rialism to crush any revolutionary up- rising. But imperialist terror will also be supplemented by a more skill. ful demogagy, designed to split the leadership off from the masses, to fool the revolutionary masses and, under 1 ‘gh-sounding slogans, to bind them once again i their slavery of debt, oppression and exploitation That is the meaning of “skillful and delicate handling.” And it is here that the little servants of the capi- talists among the working-class, the “radicals,” the “Socialists,” the rene- gades of revolution, do their pricele: service to their cunitalist masteis The example of the Cuban soldiers and seilors gives we lit once aga to the cowardly a*sumer of the Govanst Party which. like ve New York Tins, would like to make tho revolutionary role of the army app.c’ an impossibility. “You can never seize power, you can never hold i}, because yo: will have the army and navy aginst you,” is a favorite re- No Deep Movement of Masses Ever Leaves Army Unaffected—Events Give Lie to the Socialist Deceivers -mazk cf these treacherous misleaders who profess to desire revolution, but to believe that it is impossible. Role of Communist Party The actions of the Cuban soldiers are, in port at least, a response to the energetse activity of the Communist Party of Cuba, with its Leninist un- derstanding of the role.of the army in a revolutionary situation. While” the army was obecient to the De Ces- peccs government, while it was still gcing out aga'nsi the striking and demonstrating workers and peasanis, > the Comnyunist Ferty tirelessly ex- posed the important) role of the new" vegime invited the soldiers to frater- nize with the workers, called on them to refuse to be sent out against them. This labor finally brought iis first, temperary. fruit. Eveh if. as sosms tre Cuven pimy hes recage Clique e! confpromising Ie. a. b> found: soon serving again under new singans, is @re 2 cloar proof that, he time comes, the workers ct loek upon the country’s armed forces as their potential allies, wiio will inevitably be won over by @ cote rect, Leninist polley. imper' its when z ? * \ & este eneesentcaneaairenne - neereni RRA SIESTA — 2 —_ ©