The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1933, Page 5

DAILY REVOLUTIONARY GREETIN VW Useituuat, Nas wy For a United Struggle Against Imperialist War, Intervention “We Must Make It Clear to Every Pacifist That to Only Speak Against War But in Action to Serve the War Makers, Will Bring Quick Repudiation from the Organized Anti-War Masses” By EARL BROWDER. (Speech of Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party of U.S.A, At the Opening Mass Meetings of the U, S. Congress Against War). the coming imperialist bring toge and of war, But every- s himsei as oppo. 9 those most busy in war We can remember vnac eceived a a “champion an veally organ against war, ow who is who. y only to cover or as Beiore we tind the most effective means to| {AT HOME. It is a lesson for every ccuntry, that in Germany under the bestial Nazi terror, all opposition, jeven the most timid and harmless, has been brutally «rushed—with a single exception. There was one » | i | s has the purpose to|foree that Hitler could sot destroy, | trade union bureaucrat. | | which will even'nally destroy Fas- | eism,—the revolutionary workers movement, organized and led in ‘daily struggle by the heroic German Communist Party. IN Geneva the old farce of the League of Nations Disarmament |Conference is being repeated. The |war-makers again come together tc |talk peace, to try te pe-suade the cther to disarm, while tach is more hly piling up armaments him- : Bal Nae {8 All their ta’k of peace is preparations? Who 1S OP-'imerely to stupity the masses, to dl to war, and yet is "8 \ dampen their anti-war spirit, to quiet pay tbe price of real struggle agaitist | thei alarm, to make it easier to it? Ana wno are thosz, the ze8| oopare war. lighters a nst war, who are xen | This Congress Against War must at all time: r all conditions, Qt! not be a mere smaller edition of the any cost, to o war to the end at their command? ¢ must find the by every means ‘To these qi corvect an, It is not easy to figi., against war. It is difficuit—and costly. Oi course it is-easy, and cheap, to fight with words only, against the war-maxers of another vialist power than our own, But that alone doesn’t help ‘ Ww me indeed, only mezke us s of War-.1axers. To fight agcizst war requires, first of all, to fight against the war- t to us, to fight against fi geov- and fight for warships sur- Cuba. Peace unless joined w American ‘om the and from Latin to the ti and all nd sem. helps eation in, an end id to io cod diplomacy of egging to war against the Soviet n All first of all and consciously to rouse ‘the s to fight against the jonerete po! of the U. S, Govern- tent, policies of on imperialist, op- ares: w. It is not of the slightest value to | speak agdinst armaments and war- parations in other lands, unless fight against the enormous and militarization We must we navy-building program of Roosevelt. brand every person who supports military appropriations of any kind as an enemy of peace. We must fight for the diversion of all war funds to feed the starving unem- ployed, to establish unemployment insurance. We must rouse the masses intense indignation against anybody who votes for war appropriations, for war measures. We must make it impossible to repeat the experience of the last World War, when the trade union leaders became part of the war machine, when a Socialist Congressman voted for war appro- priations (just like their brothers in Europe), without an immediate mass upheaval and the repudiation of such traitors. We must make it clear to every pacifist, that to only speak against war but in action to serve the war-makers, will bring quick repudiation and exposure from the organized anti-war masses of the people, IW toe IT is not easy to fight against war.) The anti-war movement must be prepared, must be steeled and hard- ened, so that it can stand up under the terrific pressure of an imperial- ist war-drive, even in the midst of war mobilization. Today in the U. S. A. we are al- ready having the first mobilizations | for war. The NRA, the Blue Eagle, the military and naval programs, the mass parades, flag-waving, bally- hoo, regimentation of so-called pub- lic opinion—all these are only the bepjaning .of an enormous war prejgram. “fjfew days ago, General Johnson andthe Blue Eagle led a quarter million people through New York streets under the slogan: “Do your part for the NRA.” Tomorrow Gen- eral Johnson or some other general, will carry the War Eagle at the head of a similar parade to sweep the masses into imperialist war, under the slogan: “Do your part by becom- »ing cannon fodder.” Under such conditions, who will be the real anti-war fighters? Who will stand out against the mass insanity _ cultivated systematically by the war- makers? Clearly, only those who oven today are able to see, and will- ing to expose, the true meaning of these war preparations, to protest against them, to fight against them, « help organize the masses against em, With the approach of a new World ar, the black menace of Fascism is sweeping over Europe. For the -moment it holds even the mighty _German working-class in its bloody claws. Beginnings of Fascism ara \'so clearly recognized in Roosevelt's ‘ew Deol and NRA. THE FIGHT ‘SAINST WAR MUST ALSO BE to} hypocritical, treacherous League of Nations. This Congress must disarm the mass movement against ;war. On the contrary, it must give |to those broad masses who hate war, who sincerely want to fight against jit, a program whereby they can |develop a powerful, effective struggle. |It must expose the false friends of Peace who really serve the war- makers. It must rouse the workers, |the poor farmers, the women, the jyouth, the Negroes, the oppressed people, to action. It must especially issue its call to the workers on the the docks, the munitions the coal mines, the railroads. must call for obstruction and rike movements against war pre- jparations and munitions shipments. |i: must win the men in the armed forces for the struggle against w: ic must rouse mass demonstrations |egainst war. It must organize and lead an unyielding struggle against all misleaders of the masses who, by ch plen It ate and | trickery and hypocricy, try to draw) |them into the . Tt Communist Party calls for the broadest possible united front of war machine. ot | FIGHTING AGAINST THE WAR-| struggle against imperialist war. It| holds out the hand of fellowship to| every real fighter against war, to| everyone ready to fight the war-) jmakers and their agents, from the} | White House down to the smallest |, The workers can depend upon | | the Communist Party to organize | and lead the struggle against war to the end. We are the Party | which continues the exampie of | Liebknecht and Luxembers, who | fought within the Kaiser’s Empire | against the last World War, whose | struggle only ceased when fully , murdered by the Social-Democratic | hangman, Noske, while fighting to | keep the Hindenburgs from con- | trol of the new Germany. We are | the Party represented today by Torgler and Dimitroff, who stand | fearlessly before the Nazi courts in | Leipzig, to pledge undying struggle | against Fascism and war in de- | fiance of the headman’s axe. | | WE ARE THE ONLY PARTY! HYSTERIA BEING WHIPPED UP AROUND THE NRA, THE ONLY| PARTY, WHICH FOR 14 YEARS) HAS FOUGHT CONSIST'ENTLY | FOR THE WORKING CLASS AND AGAINST WAR AND PRIEPARA- TIONS FOR WAR. WE ARE THE PARTY OF THE BOLSHEVIKS, WHOSE PROGRAM WAS CAR- RIED INTO LIFE UNDER THE | LEADERSHIP OF LENIN, WHO IN THE LAST WORLD WAR ORGAN-| IZED THE STRUGGLE AGAINST IT IN THE MIDST OF WAR, WHO OVERTHREW THE WAR MaA-; CHINE OF THE CZAR AND HIS | SUCCESSORS, WHO TRANS- | FORMED THE IMPERIALIST WAR |INTO A CIVIL WAR, WHO TOOK POWER FROM THE HANDS OF :|THE WAR-MAKERS FOREVER, | WHO ROOTED OUT THE CAUSE OF WAR—CAPITALIST PRIVATE PROPERTY—WHO ESTABLISHED A NEW SOCIETY, WHICH FOR |THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY | HOLDS OUT THE PROMISE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF WORLD PEACE—WHEN WORLD CAPITAL- ISM HAS BEEN OVERTHROWN, ie | | Army Base Workers’ Cut for the Benefit of Grafters j | By an Army Base Correspondent Editor's Note: The Army Base in Brooklyn is a large federal insti- tution employing at the present | time about 1,100 workers. All kinds of equipment with the exception of munitions, is stored here for ship- ment by the Quartermaster, Signal, | | Engineer and Medical Corps of the Army, There are also several shops for the repair of equipment and the maintenance of buildings. | The pay of the employees has been \teduced by 15 per cent, in addition | to which a deduction of 34 per cent lis taken from our basic salary for the retirement fund, and our annual |leave has been cut from 30 to 15 days. | We face a 25 per cent reduction in government expenses, to balance the |budget through “reorganization,” | Which Roosevelt promised us in July |but which has been deferred until December. This reduction may take the form of a 90-day furlough with- jout pay. However, in view of the fact that the Navy Yards have received a 17 per cent cut in addition to their 15 per cent cut, making a total of about 32 per cent, and that all per diem workers on river and harbor projects are being put on a 30-hour week October 1, we may expect that Roose- velt will keep the faith by returning to us our 15 per cent cut, and then putting us on a 30-hour week. This will be the old stagger system by which, possibly, a few more men may be put to work but by a reduction of our living standards by 33 1-3 per cent. All kinds of schemes were used by the government to keep from paying wages to deserving men out of em- ployment, The government went to @ great expense to build iron cages at the Base in which army convicts were confined. These convicts were formed into small labor gangs under supervision of an armed guard and were used for rewarehousing and other work. Many of these men were desperate characters with prison sen- tences ranging as high as 20 years. A number of these prisoners es- caped by slugging their guards, and the employees at the Base were in constant fear of being shot by guards trying to prevent the escape of the convicts, 4 This scheme of convict labor lasted about eight months and left about 150 men on the civil service rolls from obtaining employment. Finally, due convicts by the residents in the neighborhood, the plan was aban- doned. ‘The next plan to keep workers on the civil service rolls from obtathing employment was the introduction of unemployed workers from the New York City Relief Administration. Many of these men were used in the repair and upkeep of buildings, such as painting, concreting, whitewash- ing, roofing, etc. At the present time all of these men have been laid off for lack of funds. If the Base authorities can get no more help of this kind from the city, the next group of men to be employed will probably be those hired under the NRA or public works program, These men will not be required to pass civil service examinations and will work only 30 hours a week, as PICKET AGAINST FASCISM \BROAD AND ITS DEVELOPMENT -(aehaalaneaninnennciaataneiai eet Saemnneelien, aasienbennsteniunenmmannremanecen:ssamannsiaienanaineciasinmantesttinititaann a ah vn specified under the NRA. If this scheme is put over, it is to complaints about the escaping of | ' Earnings. plain to see that the workers of the Base will have no protection under the civil service laws. For many years the policy of the government has been to fill no va- cancies caused by resignation or sep- aration from the service, and in con- sequence, many of the sections are far | behind in their work and are com- pelled to work overtime without ad- ditional compensation whenever a rush shipment is to be gotten out, As, at the present time, there is no} | additional compensation for increased |Tesponsibility, there is likewise no incentive for an employee to im- | Prove his work or to become more | efficient, as he knows that even if he has to assume the responsibility of foreman his pay will remain the same as at present. Likewise, under the Present system, a skilled laborer or mechanic who has earned promotion by working in a section three years jor more, has no hope of ever getting jan increase although he may have |learned to do as good work as the ‘man alongside him who draws twice his pay. The workers of the Army Base have @ union known as the Federal Em- ployees Union. During the drive for @ reduction of government expenses through the press and radio by the National Economy League (a non partisan citizens’ orgamizou.n or public service, composed of bank di- rectors), this union made absolutely no attempt to rally the workers of the Base to fight it. Instead, they strongly stressed patriotism, ie., that the employee who is forced to con- tribute 15 per cent of his meager salary should not mind it, because he is helping his country to fight the depression. We workers are finding out now how the money taken from our mea- ger salaries is being used. We read of billions being given away by the | Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion to railroads and bankers to en- able them to pay large dividends to their stockholders, and now this or- ganization proposes to loan money to manufacturers who were refused loans by bankers because they were not considered good risks. We assume these risks. The government employee gets it coming and going. The government is drowning 4,000,000 pigs and paying the farmers $365,000 for them out of the $125,000,000 taken from us by the 15 per cent cut. This is being done to raise the cost of pork to us. Our 15 per cent cut is also being used to pay farmers for destroying thousands of dollars’ worth of live- stock, wheat, cotton, etc. This raises the price of these commodities to us and reduces still further our real wages. Army Base workers who belong to the union should demand that the heads of the union immediately call a meeting of all employees of the Base to put before Roosevelt a re- quest for the return of our 15 per cent wage cut and for an additional increase in pay of 20 per cent or more, above our base pay, to meet the rising cost of living, The workers should organize them- selves into rank and file committees in each section to fight the threat of the stagger system and the break- down of their protection under the civil service laws, ~H. F. E. o d By MAGYAR. E are lving in @ pre-war period. The te f the transition to the new cycle of revolutions and wars is accelerating. History has not yet spoken its last word, and it is hard to predict whether in certain countries the revolution will not precede the imperialist war or intervention. As yet, history has not spoken its last word and the question whether the war in the imperialist camp will pre- cede the intervention, or the inter- vention will precede the imperialist war has not yet been decided. It is obvious, however, that this de approaches nearer and nearer. We are living in a pre-war period. When perusing the works of Lenin, Se one sees that only Leninism has fore- | seen and predicted the development of things, and that only Leninism has given the world proletariat a correct, orientation. During the first imperialist world war, the social chauvinists of _the Second International and the petty- bourgeois pacifists prattled a lot about a “democratic peace,” about a “peace without annexations and re- parations.” During the world war Lenin already foresaw and predicted: (1) ... “Thus also the peace end- ing the war can only be a registra- tion of the shifting of power ef- fected in the course of the war.” And Lenin also foresaw the ef- fects of this imperialist robbery- peace on the situation of the work- ing class: “ .. . consequently, Irrespective of the result of the war, the con- clusion of peace ean only determine a worsening. of’ the political and economic situation of the masses— | since the capitalist society remains.” And it is precisely in view of this that Lenin placed the world prole- tariat before the dilemma: “ ,,.. Either one helps its ‘own’ national bourgeoisie to rob foreign countries, calling this support ‘de- fense of the Fatherland,’ or ‘saving the home country,’ or one helps to prepare for the socialist revolution of the proletariat.” Lenin foresaw and predicted that the leading imperialist Powers did not prepare for a democratic peace with- out annexations or reparations, but for a new world war for resharing the world: “Two or three robbers (America, Engiand, Japan) of world power, and armed to the teeth, are sharing the ‘booty’ and draw the whole world with them for THEIR war for the division of THEIR booty.” And Lenin has quite concretely predicted that the most bitter strug- gles between the imperialist robbers would flare up around the semi- colonies such as China and the coun- tries of Central and South America. “The struggle for the semi-depend- ent countries was obviously bound to acquire special acuteness in-the epoch of banking capital, when the rest of the world had already been divided.” And even during the first world war, at a time when the petty-bour- geois pacifists and the present So- cial-Fascists were chattering about “the last war’ and “an organized peace,” driving the masses into the trenches with this promise, Lenin warned the world proletariat that the first world war was a preparation for a second world butchery: “We will not ignore the tragic pos- sibility that if the worst comes to the worst, mankind will even. out- live @ second impeciaiist war, should the revolution in spite of the re- peated outbreaks of mass unrest and mass indignation, and in spite of our efforts, not yet be born out of the war.” Moreover, Lenin has _ indicated quite specifically which imperialist antagonisms can and will lead to a new world disaster, As one of the decisive antagonisms in the camp of imperialism, Lenin indicated the struggle between Japan and the United States: “The second antagonism, which is the determining factor for the in- ternational situation for Russia, is the rivalry between Japan and Am- erica, The economic development of these countries has, for several de- cades of years, accumulated a tre- mendous mass of explosive matter which renders a desperate struggle for the domination of the Pacific and its shores unavoidable. The whole pcos Lenin on the Co ® world historic | ; LUMA, SALUNDAL, bucdrunvun ol, lyod | Socialist of id economic history ast leaves no room on the basis of capitalism i ripening between diplomatic a j the Far | doubt th: | As the second tcontradiction which can and will lead to a new world butchery, in indicated the ante onism bet England and the United si S “Engiand and France hav but they are up to their ears to America, who, ignoring the | | tor pose of the French and the | English, is determined to skim the cream and to collect the interest and compound interest for the sup- port granted during the war. To | ensure this is the purpose of the | American fleet at present under | construction, which exceeds the En- | glish in size.” | “There are deeper causes for this,| which are connected with the de- velopment of the interests of En-| glish imperialism which rules over an incredible number of colonies, In this respect a deeper antagonism ex-| ists between American and English imperialism, and it is our absolute] duty to base ourseives upon this an-| tagonism ¥ | And as the third main antagonism | in the camp of imperialism, Lenin| l indicated the struggle of Germany! won, debt | | taganis eo ming World War |The Danger of War Against the Union of nglich alas ck, tetas Soviet R epublics Persists ainst illes: And the third conflict flares up between the Entente Powers and Germany. Germany is defeated, it has been fettered by the Ver- sailles Tre: gigantic ie ny in the world, is considered . And such a coun- was forced to accept the Ver- f not to! Germar one o! eg the dev an- and England, be: tween England and America, between America and Japan.” And Lenin cted how, on this basis, the chauvinism and na- tionalism of the petty-bourgeois masses will be fanned Whoever win, Europe is threatened ‘reven| chauvin a sharpening of m, German or | | By ‘J. STALIN is a policy of peace and ning of trading r j all countries. The re- sult of that policy is the improve- jment of relations with a number of | | countries, and the conclusion of a number of agreements for trade, technical stance, etc, | . -The result of that policy i the fact that we have succeeded in maintaining peace and have not al- jlowed our enemies to draw us into |conflict, despite a number of pro- vocative acts and adyenturist as- saults by the warmongers. For the future no less we shall continue this | policy of peace, with all our strength | }and with all our resources. We don’t want a single foot of forcign | territory. But we shall not give up| a single inch of our own territory | either, to anyone (applause). ! a PAA esd ¢ Pi ti 4} \ ‘The Pease Pidicy a U. S. i R, VERY t dictio: ism, or all the contradictions taken together, at the expense of the U. S. he Soviets, the revolution- . R. the land of itadel of re’ venting us to divide t preventing us being r own extensive inte: necessary for ¢25::-" today, in connect: omic crisis?” Hence the tendency to adventurist assaults on the U. S. S. R. and to intervention, a tendency which is bound to be strengthened in ca nection with the developing econc- mic crisis, ts, F rly jon with the econ- | Page Five GS TO THE U.S. ANTI-WAR CONGRESS! 14th Birthday Chin the Chinese 'O the fighters for the liberation of the toiling masses of the the Co ed | its fighting Cen- | Committee, its entire member- | hole proletariat of the occasion of the y of the establishment ist Party, the of the American pi munist Party of China send ty Bolshevik greetings! Cc f the U.S.A. | fourteen its S.A., on nmun: in the S, such as the n Socialist olutionary groups, etc., efforts and the American workers, d all the toiling mas: 1 t self-deter- or the def and for the support jon in China, Cuba and ionial and colonial coun- (These Lenin lines were in September, | chauvi | written by | 1917). Lenin defined the as “the greatest blo ism could give itself.” But at the ame time, he foresaw that the prattle evision of the Ver- only a comedy, Versailles peace which capital- y is ion is a comedy,’ Lenin “The victory of the Entente and the Versailles peace has thrust back | the great majority of German na- tions and put them into a position h it is impossible to exist. The y has created a sit- in which Germany cannot uation dream for a moment that it will not be robbed, that it will not be de- prived of the means necessary to live, that its population will not be doomed | to starvation and extinction.” | The revision, the real revision, | which will not substitute one forcible | peace for another, Lenin expects from y| the proletarian revolution: ‘... Like the Brest peace for Germany, the Versailles peace will end for France and England with a defeat for the capitalists and vic- tory of the proletariat.” from the strengthening of the Soviet Ur : which destroys the Versailles Treaty viet Russia is strengthened the Versailles Treaty will collapse, as was nearly the case in July, 1920, following the first blow by the Red Army.” but natural that Lenin does indicate the imperialist con- which must lead to a world butchery in the camp of perialism, if this is not prevented by the revolution, but points out at the same time the new cycle of in- terventions against the Soviet Union: “We do not only live in one State, but in a system of States, and the existence of the Soviet Re- uublic side by side with the impe- jalist States is inconceivable for considerable length of time. tually, one or the other must Lenin always emphasized the in- itability of the attempt on the part alist Powers to organize acts of intervention land of Soviets. He fresh the “The development of capitalism | takes place, to the highest degree, | unequally in different countries, it could not be otherwise, under conditions of commodity produc- tion. Hence, the irrefutable con- clusion: Socialism cannot conquer simultaneously IN ALL countries. It conquers first of all in one or in a group of countries, but the re- mainder for some time remain bourgeois or pre-bourgeois coun- tries. This is bound to evoke not merely a tendency but the direct endeavor of the bourgeoisie of other countries to crush the victorious proletariat of the Socialist State, In such cases, war on our part would be a lawful and just act, It would be a war for Socialism, for the liberation of other peoples from the bourgeoisie.” The Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Interna- tional, under the leadership of Com- rade Stalin, have worked untiringly | for the realization of this bequest. To win over the workers and peas- ants of the imperialist Powers, to win the confidence of the small op- pressed countries and the oppressed nations and countries, to obtain the sympathy of the petty-bourgeoisie and the intellectual middle class, to utilize the imperialist antagonisms in the interest of Socialist construction and the extension of peace, of the breathing space—this has been, and still is, the meaning of the policy of the Soviet Union. Up to now, she has been able to carry out this policy, because she was strong and powerful, because Socialist industrialization and the Socialist reorganization of agri- culture have tremendously increased the power and force of the Soviet Union, because the peace policy of the Soviet Union was linked up with the realization of the First Five-Year Plan, and the beginning of the real- ization and carrying out of the Sec- ond Five-Year Plan, ruggle for the | “| cially during the six And he expects the real revision} Chinese Communists Greet of C. P., U.S. Imperialism Has Slaughtered the ese People and Intervened Against CPRaeh Revolution tries. All this proves that the Communist Party of the U.S.A. is the only revo- lutionary leader of the American toil- ing and exploited masses and that the Communist Party of the U.S.A, is a fighting detachment of the World Proletarian Revolution. HEN Roosevelt proclaimed ‘National Industrial Recov which attempts to carry out, 1 he screen of national and so- 1 demagogies, the policy of ag- gravating the exploitation and sup- pression of the toiling masses at of intensifying imperialist der and slaughter against the al masses, and of more urgently ng for imperialist war; the Communist Party of the U.S.A. is the only Party which organizes and leads the employed and unemployed workers, the Negro masses and the toilers against the “new deal” of American finance capital. This again proves that the Communist Party of the U.S.A. is the only Party which | can lead the broad masses to struggle for a revolutionary way out of the crisis and for their final liberation. United States imperialism has over and again directly slaughtered the Chinese people and intervened against the Chinese Revolution. At the same time, it is the most active and mighty master of the Chinese landlord-bourgeois Kuomintang reac- tionary government of Nanking. Espe- “suppression | campaigns” of the Kuomintang mili- tarists against the leader and van- guard of the Chinese anti-imperialist and agrarian revolution, the Chinese | Soviet Government and {ts workers and peasants Red Army, Yankee im- perialism has rendered enormous fin- ancial, military and other assistance | to the Kuomintang militarists in or- | der to smash the vanguard of the colonial revolutionary movement, the Chinese Revolution. When the leaders of the American | Socialist Party and the American Federation of Labor, together with the Trotsky and Lovestone renegades, support these murderous undertak- ings of American imperialism and | brand the Chinese Red Army as “ban- | dits,” the Communist Party of the | U. S. A. is the only Party which has been unrelentingly rallying the Am- erican toiling masses against the di- vision of China and for the support of the Chinese Revolution, When the Chinese Soviet move- ment and the Chinese Red Army, under the leadership of the Commu- nist Party of China, are developing and consolidating their successes fol- lowing the smashing defeats of the Kuomintang militarists in all the five suppression campaigns, the Kuomin- tang butchers are now conducting, under the dictates and with the sup- port of world imperialism, an even more brutal, sixth suppression cam- Ppaign against the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army. American imperialism has again Played its important role by giving a loan of $50,000,000, supplying bomb- ing planes, munitions, poison gas and military experts to the Nanking gov- ernment for the murder and slaugh- ter of the Chinese masses. We are fully confident that the Communist Party of the U.S.A. will even more energetically and efficiently organ- ize and lead the masses against the bloody deeds of American imperial- ism and to give even more direct and effective help to the Chinese Revo- lution, his E are fully confident that, under the Leninist leadership of the Communist International, the Com- munist Party of the U.S.A, will de- velop itself in the flames of class struggle to be a real Bolshevik Party, to prepare the masses for the final overthrow of American imperialism when the moment arrives and to es- tablish the dictatorship of the pro- letariat in the United States of Am- erica. Long live the Communist Party of the U.S.A. and its fighting C.C.! Long live the American proletariat! Long live the Communist Interna- tional, the general staff of the World Proletarian Revolution. THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA, Federal Barge Line Seeks Strikebreakers By a Marine Worker Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The superintend- ent of the Federal Barge Line here in St. Louis has started a dirty deal for the M.W.I.U. members who just won a strike, the first victory for the workers on the St. Louis river front. Odell, the Lily White superintend- ent, has started the old system of picking workers that used to work on the docks and barges two or more years ago that were fired on account of being drunk while on the fob. These workers say they won't join the union, but the Dock Committees are on the job to see that they either join the M.W.LU, or keep away from the docks. Odell also tells the workers if there is another strike he will call out the army to put the workers in their place. The only place for workers here in St. Louis is in the T.U.U.L, organiza- tion that fights against wage cuts and starvation, 395,000 SURPLUS CARS, REPORT SHOWS NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—What can be expected from railroad buying of new cars and other equipment, was revealed today by the report of the American Railway Association show- ing 395,451 surplus cars in good re- pair and ready for service. The railroads are now running at about 50 per cent of capacity,