The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1933, Page 1

| , Immigration Column Appears on the | Last Page. | | | Beginning Today Our Editorial il Centra Or ist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) «cWorker America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER Eastern New York:—Showers Saturday Afternoon or Night Vol. X, No. 235 = Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at ‘w York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1933 (Bight Pages) ‘Price 3 Cents — STRIKE OF 79,000 MINERS STIRRING STEEL UMWA HEADS FAIL TO END COAL STRIKE “Ig Clairton Strikes, | We Will Too,” Say Steel Men (Special to the Daily Worker ) | PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29—One hun- dred thousand steel workers in west- ern Pennsylvania and along the Ohio River may join 70,000 coal miners in st strike in the American 1919. Disgust with NRA very steel code and a unit- ed front with sti ig coal diggers 5 are the two causes that may lead to this ind re D strenuous efforts of | United Mine Workers officials, the ke continues to spread from WORKERS TO STRUGGLE Empty Talk or Militant | Action 'HE United States Congress Against War, which gets down to work this morning at St. Nicholas Arena, Tt is meeting at a moment of gigantic struggles, of strikes, and marches has tremendous responsibilities. of miners, steel workers, auto workers. The Roosevelt administration, “our own” govern- ment, has boldly embarked on a war program, with the N.R.A. as the chief instrument in its war prep- arations. Under the N.R.A. the military and naval strength of the United States is being built up rapidly to previ- The greatest naval race in world history is being waged between United States, The nation’s basic industries are being brought as firmly under centralized-etfitrol now, in preparation for a new war, as was the case under the War Industries Board in 1917-18. An intense na- tionalism is being aroused among the people with the hypocritical plea for support to a so-called national re- ery program which in reality is bringing only 1c living standards to the masses. Efforts are being made throughout the country to destroy the democratic rights of the masses, the right to organize, to strike, to picket, | the right of free speech; vicious attacks are being made on militant workers and workers’ organizations which ously unheard of proportions. England and Japan, (AN EDITORIAL) of the Roosevelt The fight against into militant class All working class such a program, with the gigantic plan of struggle against war which takes as its starting point the immediate struggle against the N.R.A. and against intervention in Cuba? The sincere opponents of war will adopt the latter course. They will not be fooled by the empty peace talk to conceal its feverish preparations for war. will they be fooled by heated “anti-war” speeches from a Norman Thomas or other socialist or pacifist leaders who with one breath talk for peace and with the other glorify Roosevelt and the * Tt Communist Party urges upon the Congress a real united front on the basis of a fighting program against war—a revolutionary working class program. war starts; it must be carried on now. program which arouses the masses, which leads them demonstrations against every step which the Roosevelt regime attempts to take in its preparations for war. farmers, all honest anti-war elements can unite on administration which serves only Neither NRA, war cannot be postponed until the It must be a action against war, into strikes and organizations, all organizations of the only program which can cope war preparations of the imperialists. MINERS STAY ON STRIKE Issues Plan to Rank| and File Conference in Uniontown _PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 29.— Fifty thousand miners are expected to march into Uniontown for a mass demonstration to herald the | opening of the Uniontown Confer- ence to be attended by representa- tives of 160 U.M.W.A. locals, open on Saturday. The National Miners Union is di-| rectly addressing an appeal to the.) conference and also to the delega- tion. The Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union is sending delegat | today. Officials Try to Bar Landing of Henri N.M.U. URGES RUSH FUNDS. Due to lack of space we are net publishing the appeal for} the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive | But money is very urgent. Rush Funds! Seven Dead at Havana Mella Rites Genera Strike Ties Up City as Workers Battle Troops HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 29. — TWO HUGE IN NEW YORK FRONT ANTI-WAR € Speakers Urge Unity in Fight on Imperialist War Plans NEW YORK. — Overflow crowds milled around outside the entrances to Mecca Temple and St. Nicholas Arena hours before the opening time, seek- ing admission to the two halls where the opening public sessions of the American Congress Against War were held last night. All seats in Mecca Temple were sold out days before and still the i Barbusse MASS MEETINGS OPEN UNITED ONGRESS te es, Ima Communist and Proud of It,” Barbusse Says By MALCOLM COWLEY, They had to let him land. They wanted to keep Henri Barbusse on shipboard in spite of the crowds that were wait: ing to greet him at the pier, They wanted to take him down te Ellis Island on an Immigration Ser- vice cutter, and put him through @ | secret examination there, and then | be let him go after it was teo Serious systematic work must be undertaken in every factory, on every dock, on every ship, arousing these workers against war, exposing every detail of the war preparations to them, setting up anti-war committees, hampering and working to prevent the manufacture subways and elevated poured out| ™9y’ Se throngs of workers who were coming] late for ge sadtes Ee Maga to hear Henri Barbusse, noted French | meeting held last. n : author and anti-war advocate, and| Temple and the St. Nicholas Arena other notable speakers address the | —°F maybe they planned to chip teday lead the fight for higher living standards and | which are also in the forefront of the anti-war struggle. Many steel mills are pledging their)", a support to the miners. While all Havana was tied up The Steel and Metal Workers) by a general strike in Union is sending a committee, in-| % ‘ ‘ Guding Greensburg and” Weirton | Honor of Julio Antonfo Mella, eat mass at Vania and West Virginia. Fifty thou- u gand miners have been out for two} . . . in Cuban weeks to force H. C. Frick, the U. S.| Steel subsidiary, to recognize the| union, and this week another 20,000! have joined them. | Steel and coal are linked in Penn- sylvania througk the H. C. Frick Coke Co., the largest coal company in this region outside Andy Mellon's Pittsburgh Coal Co. Frick is a U. S. Steel subsidiary. The miners, having | closed down every pit within 50 miles, | have called upon the Clairton coke workers to join them. The Clairton | works, owned by U. S. Steel, is the largest coke plant in the United) States, and its supply of coal comes entirely from Frick mines. “If Clairton Strikes——” “If Clairton strikes, we will, too,” declare steel workers of Ambridge, company town owned by American Bridge Co., another U, S. Steel sub- sidiary. And all up and down the Mononga- | hela, Alleghany and Ohio Rivers, steel workers are eagerly discussing the prospects for another great steel strike like that led by William @. Foster in 1919. Fourteen thousand steel workers are now on strike in Weirton, W. Va., ‘on the Ohio River. The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, the A. F. of L. outfit, has of course declared that the strike is “wildeat.”. The Amalgamated has failed to lead a single strike, true to its principles of opposing strikes and workers’ militancy. The A. A. organ- {zed only the hot mill department at Weirton, taking in only a few hun- dred of the 9,000 workers of the Na- tional Steel Co, When the hot mill workers demanded recognition, the company refused to listen, Against the orders of Mike Tighe and other | (Continued on page 2) | 7,000 Die Makers Pack Meeting; to Continue Strike, DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 29.—Seven thousand of the striking tool and die makers packed Arena Gardens Jast night and expressed their de- termination to continue the strike of over 13,000 men in Flint, Detroit, and Pontiac until victory. Delegations from Flint and Pontiac were enthusiastically received. Leaders of the Mechanics Educa- tional Society were forced to present, concrete demands of 25 per cent in- creases, With $1 an hour minimum. ‘The men originally demanded $1.50, but the leaders scaled it down. ‘The leaders brought in Carmody, A agent sent to break the strike, as a speaker, also Congressman Weid- man, Democratic politician, Smith, leader of the Flint strike chairman of the handpicked commit- tee is dickering with the NRA. He praised the NRA in’a demagogic speech. The workers asked, “What about union recognition.” Smith re- pct. “il the deiaands are won rec- ognition is not necessary.” A militant note was struck by John Andersor,, rank and file leader of the Tevustedt strikers. He urged the elec- tion of rank and file strike commit- tees, and also the bringing out of the production workers. Anderson got a big hand. Another rank and file leader, John Mack, of Flint, also asked for a united front with production men. He exposed the strikebreaking of the Flint A. F. of L. leaders. The Daily Worker reporter was barred from the meeting at the orders of Griffen, strike leader. The capital- ist_ press was adimitied. Yesterday, strikers of the Fisher Body Plant No. 23, Ternstedt and Su- perior Tool went over the heads of the top leaders and elected their own strike committees. The rank and file “position iz pov ‘g. POMEAN warships are concentrated waters; American marines are already on Cuban soil; the Roosevelt regime, unable to rely further on tools to crush the revolutionary uprising of the Cuban masses, is preparing to drown the island in blood. Roosevelt's policies in Cuba typify the increased aggressiveness of Wall Street in the present war-mad world—policies which stimulate all the imperialist an- tagonisms and lead inevitably to a new world slaughter. The whole capitalist world is turning to war and fas- cism, to war against the working masses and the Soviet Union in its efforts to find a way out of the crisis at the workers’ expense. The United States, in this situation, is in the forefront of the drive toward war. The fight against war must in the first place be waged against Wall Street’s war policies, against in- tervention in Cuba, against the N.R.A. as a war in- strument. The fight must begin at home. * * . HIS is the real issue which the Congress must settle. Shall there be empty talk for two days against war in the abstract? Or shall there be a serious discussion of the present world situation, of the forces driving toward war and fascism, of Roosevelt's “New Deal” as @ war deal, and finally the working out of a clear cut and shipment of bering that a real duty in the first ernments, entered war materia] and munitions. * . ° ‘HIS fight, begun now and waged relentlessly in an effort to prevent war, must be continued in the everit of war with redoubled energy, always remem- war lords, for the defeat of “his own” bourgeoisie. Any other policy leads inevitably to such shameful be- trayals as those committed by the socialist leaders jn the majority of the countries during the last war when they talked against war, but supported their own gov- and rallied the masses for.war, ail under.the pretense of defending their own capitalist fatherland. Such empty talk against war serves only the war mongers during the period of war preparations. djsarms the masses at the moment of the outbreak of war, and during the war. Phrase mongering, empty peace talk—this is not the road. Mass action behind a revolutionary program | is the road the congress should follow, starting now with the fight against the N.R.A. All honest elements, all persons and organizations ready to fight can unite behind such a program. opponent of imperialist war has the place of fighting against “his own” into war cabinets, voted war credits, Tt Nazi Tool Says He Set Reichstag on Fire Himself Judge Tries to ‘Prove’ Van der Lubbe Link to Communist Party AT THE GERMAN FRONTER (Via Zurich, Switzerland), Sept. 29.— Marinus Van der Lubbe, the Nazi tool, confessed on the stand at the Reichstag fire trial in Leipzig that he had set fire to the German Reichstag. Van der Lubbe’s demeanor in court was in startling contrast to his muddled and hesitant answers up to now. As Judge Buenger read his alleged confession to the police after the fire, Lubbe clearly answered “Yes” or “No.” It 1s obvious that something very striking and potent must have been said or done to the young Dutch agent by the Nazi prosecution to elicit such clear and unmistakable answers. Van der Lubbe’s confession con- trasts decidedly with the official Nazi statements issued after the fire that hundreds of pounds of inflam- mable materials had been found in the Reichstag. Today he said that he had casually walked about the building setting fire to a wooden table, a tablecloth a door curtain and the like, using ordinary matches and tinder. It would have been ob- viously impossible to have set the huge pile on fire in the manner described by van der Lubbe today. In the court session yesterday Judge Buenger announced that the trial would be adjourned Friday for several days “to allow for the Ger- man judicial Congress.” Thirteen witnesses were heard yes- terday describing the first three fires van der Lubbe is alleged to have set in Berlin, ‘The presiding Judge permitted de- tailed descriptions of irrevelant mat- ter, although he had previously stopped Dimitroff from speaking without direct reference to the crime under trial, The attack naturally was prepared “by the Neukoelln Communist Com- mittee. The Communist Party Cen- tral Committee furnished six men with weapons for the attack.” No proof was offered for this assertion, of course, Arrest Workers for Inciting Communisn’ at Westinghouse Co. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Sept. 29. —Police, here, arrested three wo- men and tWo men for an “alleged attempt to incite Communism” among the workers of the West- inghouse plant, now on strike. The two men, seized for selling the Daily Worker, were later re- leasel but the women were booked on the charge of “passing out handbills on a public street.” The leaflets, issued by the Steel and | Metal Workers Industrial Union, called upon the workers “Continue to strike until your demands are won”; and exposed the efforts of the A. F. of L. union to smash the picket line. Public Hearing. NEW YORK.—A public hearing on the relief situation is called for Monday, October 2, 8 p.m., at 421 Stone Ave., Brooklyn. It will be held under the auspices of the Un- employed Council and the United Council of Working class Women. Local candidates of all parties 3,000 Mine Strikers Picket Steel Mills; Urge Men to Strike Huge Array of Armed Forees Fail to Terrorize Men CLAIRTON, Pa., Sept. 29.—Over three thousand striking soft coal miners swarmed into Clairton today, surrounded the Carnegie Steel Com~ pany’s plant, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, and urged the 6,000 steel workers to join the strike. ‘The coal pickets marched from Fayette County coal fields, coming from the H. C, Frick Co. mines, an- other U. S, Steel subsidiary. ‘The miners mingled with the steel workers, calling on them to join in @ common strike against the Mor- gan-controlled steel and coal com- panies. A virtual army of city, state, county and company thugs were mobilized to terrorize the men. Armed with machine guns, rifles, revolvers, tear gas bombs, the steel have been invited to state their views on this vital question. Auto Strikers Plan Caravan Marches on Ford Plants By SENDER GARLIN EDGEWATER, N. J., Sept. 29.— Ignoring the attempts of organizers of the American Federation of Labor to “throw cold water” on their strike against Henry Ford, nearly 1,500 workers of the auto magnate’s Edge- water assembly plant are out and en- gaging in aggressive picketing. ‘The strikers are demanding a five- day week, a seven-hour day and $5 a day minimum pay. Plan Strike Caravans. ‘With the Chester plant completely shut down and the Edgewater plant badly crippled, the next moves of the strikers called for motor journeys through New York State and Massa- chusetts for mass picketing of other Ford plants. At a mass meeting held yesterday afternoon in Recreation Center, Cliff- side Park, Hugh V. Reilley, former secretary of the Jersey State Feder- ation of Labor, all but denounced the mass delegation of 1,200 strikers from a similar Ford plant in Chester, Pa., who had journeyed here in a solidar- trust’s army are stationed at various steel strikers. Pat Cush and Joe Dallett, leaders of the union, are on the committee. A leaflet issued to all striking miners by the National Miners Union, entitled “The Only Way to Vietory!”, urges the miners to pro- pose and adcept the following pro- gram on “How to Win the Strike”: 1. Remain on strike until all of your demands are granted and until all the companies, including H. C. Frick, Vesta Coal and oth- ers sign agreements. No separate agreements—one agreement for all the strikers. 2. Spread the strike to West Virginia, Ohio, Central Pennsyl- vania, inorder to make the strike more powerful and effective. 3. Call a special convention of the U.M.W.A. in each district and elect your own officers, com- posed of the best rank and file members and kick out of your or- ganization Lewis, Fagan and all other traitors appointed by Lewis. 4. Demand a conference be- tween the officers elected by you and the representatives of the coal operators to negotiate new agreement that will give you rec- ognition of the union, higher wages, six-hour day, better work- ing and living conditions, etc. 5. Under all circumstances de- mand the right to strike at any time for the protection of your interests. 6. No back to work under no agreement without the referen- dum of all the miners. This is the only possible way you can win your strike. The Na- tional Miners Union stands ready to give any support it possibly can. F.S.U. Postpones Conventiun. | The National Office of the Friends of the Soviet Union an- nounces that, due to activities in connection with the United States Congress Against War now in ses- sion, the convention of the F.S.U. has been postponed to late in De- cember. thrown up in front of the mill, be- hind which machine guns were hid- den, ready to mow down the coal miners and steel workers. This is the third march the miners have made to Clairton in an effort to get the steel workers to join in a common struggle against the Morgan-controlled stecl and coal vantage points. Sand bags were trust, |Cuban_ student Communist |teader, seven workers were killed and | scores wounded, when troops fired |into the Communist demonstration for Mella at Fraternity Park. Two little girls and a messenger | boy were among the killed, when | troops fired upon the funeral dem~- | onstration marching through Reina Street. The soldiers opened fire after) the workers had refused to disperse, | congregating in the vicinity of Com- | munist headquarters, where Mella’s | ashes were deposited. The military forces then seized. the Party’s*"headquarters, and Mella’s ashes disappeared during the pitched battle between soldiers and the work- ers guarding the Communist center. An army plane flew low over the headquarters at 4 p.m. Cavalry rode} through the streets, trampling the freightened people, and wounding | many under the horses’ hoofs. A company of infantry and a troop} of cavalry, sent by the Grau govern- ment to break up the demonstration in Fraternity Park, where Mella’s ashes were to be buried under an im- posing 12-foot obelisk, also started firing into ‘the massed workers. Three bodies have already arrived | at Emergency Hospital while 15| | wounded had been brought in for | treatment. All Havana was tied up by a six- hour general strike lasting from noon to 6 p.m., declared by the National Confederation of Labor in honor of Mella, who was shot in Mexico City by Machado’s gunmen in 1929. | Only banks and railroads remained | | open, but the rest of the city was tied up 100 per cent. Docks, steam- ship offices, and stores were closed, | while there was no street-car, taxi- cab or bus traffic in the streets. The general strike at Hershey con- tinues in the American-owned sugar center. Pickets prevent anyone from entering the company offices. Dispatches from Camaguey say that thé workers there have seized the American Sugar Refining Co.’s sugar mill at Jaronu. Striking workers seized the Yumuri match and cigarette factory, with the intention of operating it collectively. | Three Communist leaders were ar- rested in Colon on the trumped-up charge of trying to burn a Catholic church. A statement issued by the Com- | munist Party attacked the Grau gov- | ernment, saying it “continues to be | a government of the bourgeoisie, con- | | tinues arresting workers, paying Am- |erican bankers and giving jobs to former Machado adherents,” opening session in both halis. The Congress, fruit of months of | preparation, saw 2,500 delegates from all over the country, Earl Browder, speaking on behalf of the Communist Party, U. 8. A., pointed out the need for distinguish- ing between those who oppose war) only in words and the really stead- | fast anti-war fighters who are pre-| pared to combat all preparations for) war in any form. He said, “The| Communist Party calls for the broad-| est possible united front of stfuggle| against, imperialist. war. It holds out} the hand of fellowship to every real fighter against war, to everyone ready | to fight the war-makers and their) agents, from the White House down to the smallest trade union bureau- crat.” A. J. Muste, of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, attacked | the indifference of the great mass of American workers to the peril of war, with Cuba threatened by Amer- | ican warships and the failure of the) London Economic Conference show-) ing the imminent threat of imperial- ist war for more trade profits. | Other speakers were still to be/ heard when the Daily Worker went | to press, including Devere Allen, editor | of the “World Tomorrow,” and Henri | Barbusse, representative of the Am-| sterdam world movement against im- perialist war, who arrived in the Uni- ted States yesterday to attend the/ Congress. McKee Announces Candidacy; Deal Hints at Sales Tax NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—The two major developments in the city’s situ- ation yesterday were the announce- ment that McKee, protege of the Bronx Tammany boss, Flynn, would} run for Mayor in the coming elec- | tions, The second development was the announcement of the plan adopted ; by the bankers in their deal with the City government. The deal between the bankers and Untermyer revolves around the city’s promise to introduce at once drastic wage slashes and new taxes. In- creased subway fare is also.a near possibility. “We Don’t Need Anyone to Come 110 Miles to Tell Us What To Do,” Is AFL Organizer’s Greeting to Chester Contingent of 1,200 by their visit to Edgewater, most of the Chester workers who spent the entire night lying in cramped posi- tions in their flivvers along the River Road, returned to Chester. They will not remain there long, however, they announce, for they are making plans at once to move on Green Island, near Troy, N. Y., and Buffalo, Somer- ville and Cambridge, Mass., in an effort to tie up every one of Ford's assembly plants in the East. Organizer Insults Chester Strikers OReilley, of the A. F. of L., got an extremely -frigid reception when he came to the strikers’ hall yester- day to tell them what he thought of their action in walking out. “This is no time for snap judg- ment, no time to let your impulses control you,” the organizer began, as ity move to tie up the local plant. Having accomplished their purpose the faces of the men became’ tense. Sensing the impatience of the strikers, O'Reilly continued in a more conciliatory tone: “I don’t know what your decision will be,” he continued, “but I have my opinion as to what you should do, but I will not express it now. No strike was ever won by beating up any man who may have taken your place or by the destruction of prop- erty.” “It's Too Bad” After telling the strikers that it was “too bad” that they didn’t wait until they had built up the organiza~ tion which he had been working on for the past 10 weeks, O’Reilley con- cluded by saying that “my main pur- pose in calling this meeting was to separate you from the influences which brought you into the streets this morning. Frankly, I did not like to hear about it.” Virtually scolding the Chester strik- ers who had come here to help tis up all of Ford’s assembly plants on the Atlantic seaboard, the A. F. of L. organizer said: “Is it necessary for you to have men come 110 miles to tell you what to do? If so, why didn’t these fellows go to Detroit?” Such a storm of anger burst from the strikers following O'Reilley’s speech, however, that he quickly made a round-about-face and gave his “sanction” to the strike. Ford Threatens Shut Down This afternoon as O’Reilley and other A. F. of L. officials were con- ferring with N-R.A. chiefs in Newark, Henry Ford announced from his main office in Detroit that he would refuse to deal with the strikers, pre- ferring “a complete shutdown” to ne- gotiations. At the same time the superintendent of the Edgewater plant made a gesture intended to frighten the strikers by mailing \ pay checks to 511 workers who walked out yesterday. Meanwhile, strikers charged that the local relief office was being used to mobilize strikebreakers and that Public Service busses were transport- ing them to the Ford plant here. Auto Union Calls Meeting While the police have been care- ful not to show the mailed fist as yet, the entire force is nevertheless mobilized outside the plant prepared for “all emergencies.” A meeting is being called for two o'clock this afternoon, at which some proposals of the Auto Workers Union will be taken upon the floor. The union, through groups organized within the Edgewater plant, is call- ing for the organization of a regular strike committee to lead the strike and elect representatives of every de- partment and at the same time ex- posing the maneuvers of the A. F. of L. and the City Police Department, as well as the N.R.A. committee. The Auto Workers Union is urging the workers to participate in the militant mass picketing and is organizing them to do this, | back to Europe on the same boat, But they had to let him land. The officials yielded to a wave of mass indignation such as they had never heard before. Barbusse arrived yesterday after- noon on the “Berengaria” to address eee Henri Barbusse Greets U. S. Workers Through Daily Worker By Henri Barbusse. To all American workers of hand and brain I carry the fraternal greetings of their European com~ rades. I urge them to join as one man in a movement to. which the re- volutionaries of all European coun- tries have already pledged their adherence—the struggle to the death against Fascism and im~ perialist war. the American Congress Against War, which opened last night. His pass- port was in perfect order and yet, from the time the immigration in- spectors boarded the ship at Quaran- tine, he was submitted to an ex hausting cross-examination. Why were they afraid of this tall frail man of sixty? It was because he gave them a straight answer to their questions. “Are you a Communist?” the im- migration inspectors asked him, “Are you a member of the Com- munist Party?” the reporters asked him. Barbusse didn’t quibble or try to get out of it. He said, “I am a member of the Communist Party and I am proud of it.” The immigration inspector looked worried. He wasn’t used to that kind of answer. Barbusse faced him across the table, quiet and courteous and very tired. I could see the two of them through the door of the lounge where the examination was being held. Barbusse was obviously a sick man, worn out, with years of fight- ing in the cause of the workers. Yet every little sub-official in every port was privileged to badger him with questions. Was he coming here to overthrow the American government? Was he speaking tonight? Had he written his speech and could the inspector please censor it? I knew pretty well what the inspector was saying, and I knew the answers he was getting, since Barbusse later repeated the sub- stance of his remarks for the benefit of the ship news reporters. Barbusse was a Communist and he was proud of it, but he was not mak- ing his first visit to America in order to represent any political party what- ever. He came to help the struggle against war, @ movement which should be independent of all poli- tical parties. He came as a delegate from the people of his own nation to the American Congress Against War. He came to urge that con= gress to adhere to the program ed at the Amsterdam Congress of 1932, where all political factions were represented. The only doctrine he came to advance was the doctrine of peace, But the inspectors didn’t want to let a Communist spread the doctrine of peace. They kept him in the lounge while the Berengaria steamed up the bay. The reporters didn’t get a chance to ask him how he liked our famous sky-line be- cause he didn’t see it. He didn’t even catch a glimpse of the Status of Liberty. As soon as the ship docked, an inspector rushed off to telephone Ellis Island for instructions from the immigration authorities. By this time a great crowd was waiting to meet Barbusse. On board ship wat a delegation from the Am