The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1933, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YOR «ay Only Working Class nase Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Published daily, except Sunday, by th Go, Inc., 50 Bast 13th Street, Mew ¥ Telephone: ALgonquin 4~7968. Cable Address: “Daiwork, Washington Bureau: Roor 14th and G. St., Washington Subscription Rates: Bronx), 1 yee 1 month, 76 tent: York x % New 254, Press Butiding, Do. Aly Mail: (except Manhattan end months, $3.50; 3 months, #2. Foreign and Canada: $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 36 cents; monthly, 78 cents, 94.00: 00; 6 months 1 yeer, $5.00; 5 months, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1933 The ces, Winter UT of the mouth of Roosevelt's own Fedtral Rellet Administrator, Hi L. Hopk we get a picture af what the coming winter will mean to the mil of jobless.American wor! ang yesterday ai the Bopkins painted the following “You know what’s going to happen this winter ty Wal picture of misery pala Hotel tfo-it is permitted, People are going to be cold Children are not going to have shoes. People are net. going to have enough to eat. What are we or perhaps a where they can earn Pay giving these peonle? A grocery ticket litle work three days a week, sight or ten dollars a week. Is that enough? img their rent? No. Giving them enongh to eat? No. Redneing 15,000,000 people in the United States toa lower standard of living that we ever had in the comntry. The average family on relief gets fifty penta a day.” This is the official picture of working class misery for the coming winter. Even in the words of this Hardened government official, the picture is terrible | and ghastly ‘And there is no question that the winter will be ven more terrible than Roosevelt's relief administrator admits. In the face of this stark, bitter, working class misery, what has become of all those gl promises of the 6.000.000 new jobs by the fall? Where is all the pr rity, all the promised joy, 20 lavishly prophesied by Roosevelt? The prospect of the bleakest, blackest Hunger is the actual answer! And what about Mr. Hopkins, conceal the fact that over famtilies face suffering, dis this winter? Dees Mr. Hopkins flay the official mur. derers of the Roosevelt government, who doom these millions of workers and their children to slow death by starvation? On the contrary. Mr. Hopkins talks about the plight of the jobless workers onl: the impression that he ts a friend of these workers. For what is Mr. Hopkit remedy? Nothing but winter of who can no longer the very same stale and rotten promises now made so | familiar to the workers by his master, Roosevelt! “So far as the Federal government is concerned, we mean to see these people through the winter.” And that is all! Just 1s doubtless no more than the usual Roosevelt, pror ‘And that is all! Why does he not fight for Un- employment Insurance? Secretary Ickes, Administrator of the Public Works program, for squandering hundreds of millions on the building of battleships? Why is he so silent on Roose- yelt’s billion dollar war preparations program? If Mr. Hopkins is so, worried about the hunger of the jobless workers, why does he not fight for Un- employment Insurance? Mr. Hopkins knows that the Roosevelt government fs not making the slightest preparations for the relief of the workers in the winter! Mr. Hopkins knows that Roosevelt has stated bluntly again and again fhat the Federal government is set like a rock against the principle of government Unemployment Insurance. He knows that Roosevelt only recently stated that it is by agencies that the. millions “relieved. of hungry workers will be JR. HOPKINS, who pretends to feel so gravely the sufferings of the jobless workers, is, in reality, pro- posing for the coming winter the continuation of that very Rooseveli, system of charity bread baskets which he denounces as being so hopelessly inadequate! Jobless workers! You, whose children will feel the eld-and hunger of winter! How long will we permit the Roosevelt, government to give billions to the Army | and Navy, makers? Before the winter comes, @s never before, to -place agents, the unflinching de and Unemployment Insurance! The billions of the bankers must go at once to feed the hungry! to the Wall Street bankers and the war- we must rouse ourselves Immediate cash relief * Now-—without delay—the fight for Unemployment | Tisurance must rise high in every union, in every factory and mine, in every neighborhood! ‘There is no ‘time to lose! “Democracy” for Miners IM the very beginning of the establishment of . the N.R.A., the Communist Party has told the work- ets that this was an act against their interests. The Communist Party told the workers that the Roosevelt government, like every other government, was the class rule of the capitalists against the workers, that the state is the instrument of one class for the suppression of another. In all capitalist countries it is the instru- it of the capitalists against the toilers. Only in the Union, where the working masses are the ruling | class, is it an instrument of the toilers against all rem- nants of capitalism. Only the Communist Party is bringing this funda~ ™mentel truth to the masses. All other parties and groups try to hide this fact. They try to convince the masses that the state, the government is above classes, that in the U. 8. we have a democracy, that people are on the basis of equality... They deny the-truth of the existence of the capitalist dictator- ship in which the whole force of the government exists primarily for the suppression of the toiling masses, ‘Especially treacherous is the role of the A. F. of L.*bureaucrats and the Socialist leaders in trying to cofvince the masses tha the state, and in this instance the Roosevelt government, is acting in their interests. ‘They especially tried to represent th N.R.A., Roose- velt “new deal,” as an example of the state- acting in the interests of the masses, They tried to con- Geal the fact that the N.R.A. represented a sharpened attack of the capitalist state against the workers But now we have a development in the heroic struggle of the miners that should remove the last dotibt from every worker's mind as to the role of the state and the meaning of capitalist democracy, At every stage of the struggle, the Lewis, Murray, Fagan leadership of the U.M.W.A. has sidéd with the capitalists and their government against ‘the miners. The Roosevelt, government made many maneuvers, in which it tried to fool the miners with paper conces- sions in order to force them back to work. At first > ae succeeded in sending the miners back to thé, pits. The miners believed Roosevelt, and not, ti warnings of the Communist Party. But the miners ld not stay fooled. And the miners, experienced in wing Rooseveltian | | the government 5,000,000 workers and their { e, hunger, and eyen death, Moses against the 75,000 miners, in order to convey | whose value | Why does he not denounce | “local mutual welfare” | before Roosevelt and his | struggle, have learned much in the last weeks. They refused to be fooled again. And what now? Now President Roosevelt “com mands” the miners to return to work, He commands them to return to work without recognition of their union; the United Mine Workers of America, for which the miners in this instance.are fighting: The powe: Frick Coal Company, wu. subsidiary of \... wu. col Corporation, refuses to grant to the miners this rec- ognition, although this is the demand of ALL the miners. HE miners were told that under Section 7 of the N the R.A. the employers were compelled to reco; union of the workers’ choice. But the steel tr refuses the miners such recognition. And what does President Roosevelt. do? Does he recognize the demo- cratic rights of the 75,000 miners? No! He reco} es the right of one man, Mr. Moses, of the Frick against the demand of the 75,000 striking miners. Thus the miners have before them in the most naked form the true meaning of capitalist democracy, The gov- | ernment of Roosevelt recognizes the right of one man 75,000 miners. And why? use the Roosevelt government is the tool, the servant of the Moses, the Morgans, the Mellons and the Rockefellers. It is the dictatorship of these barons of steel and coal, miners, the steel workers, the textile workers and all other workers. Already the Roosevelt government is threatening the use of open force to drive the miners back a work. This is another lesson in capitalist democra: police, the militia, the army is ready for use 2 the miners, to enforce the will of a handful of coal and steel barons against the 75,000 striking miners The miners and the rest of the workers must draw against the rights of the the necessary conclusion from this great lesson. They n expect nothing in their favor from the capitalist ernment, which is the dictatorship of the rich | against the exploited workers. They must organize to fight against the capitalists and against the capit- alist government which, with force of arms, with vio- lence, defends the interests of- the rich. “And they must also draw the conclusion from the fact that only the Communist Party not only these truths to the masses, but organizes them in struggle against capitalist exploitation and the oppres- sion of the capitalist dictatorship in the interests of the Morgans, Mellons, Moses, and Rockefellers, whether it bé administered by Hoover or Roosevelt And one more lesson should not be lost. Mr. Mur- ray, Vice-President of the U.M.W.A., in the name of in the name of President Roosevelt, threatens the miners that if they refuse to go back to work, they will be in “rebellion,” since the return to. work is “commanded” by the President. Roosevelt. supports Moses against 75,000 miners, In this he acts in the interests of his class. Murray calls upon the miners to support Roosevelt. He defends He defends the cap- italist dictatorship with Roosevelt at the head. How true is our charge that the A. F. of L. bureau- | crats are part and parcel of the capitalist dictator- ship against the workers, whom they claim to repre- sent! The workers can gain better conditions, can abolish exploitation, can smash the capitalist dictatorship only if they free themselves from the leadership. and in- fluence of the Greens, Lewises and Murtays, who are th agents of the capitalists in the ranks of the lAbor movement. Who Supports the ‘Daily” ACE of space does not permit the publication of all the letters that come with contributions to the Daily Worker’s fund drive for $40,000. ‘These letters show that many workers, men, wo- men and thetr children, scrape pennies together for WééeRS, sacrificing even meals, so that they may help the Daily Worker to continue publication. Today a contribution of $10 came from the patients of the Workmen’s Circle Sanatorium at Liberty, N. Y., with this message. “We call upon all the branches and members of the Workmen’s Circle to support the only work- ing class English daily newspaper in the United States.” This contribution and message, and the appeal by Henri Barbusse, world-famous French war veteran and revolutionary author, published on the front page today, is a challenge to every worker, certainly to every Party member, Party and. mass organization. What-are you doing to put the drive over the top? Henri Barbusse, and the workers who haye con- tributed call upon you to double your efforts. Con- tribute yourself! Help raise funds from friends, from your organization, from your fellow workers in the shop! Do this today! Newspapers and War ITH ridicule, distortion, or cold silence—that is how the capitalist papers -of the country handled the recent historic event of the United States Anti-War Congress. To the hypocritical sessions of the League of Na- tions, to the fraudulent conferences of the Geneva dis- armament conference, the capitalist papers open their pages with enthusiasm. The launching of the largest naval program in the history of the country, they greet with the lying propaganda of the Roosevelt gov- ernment about “more jobs.” But let almost 3,000 delegates from every part of the country, representing farmers, workers, profes- sional people, writers, educators, housewives, and youth, gather together In a Congress to consider seri- ously how they can actively fight against oncoming im- perialist war, not only in words, but in deeds, and the supposedly peace-loving capitalist press either ig- nores them, or leaps to attack the Congress with cheap sniping, ridicule. That's how much these capitalist papers love peace, and hate war. The capitalist press plays a double role in the preparations for war. One section openly whips up war hysteria, whoops it up for an ever growing navy, talks about “our” national defense, etc. ‘The other part attempts-to lull the masses into a feeling of false security, into blindness against the oncoming war. One thing is clear. The capitalist press, from the “dignified” New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune, down to the tabloids, by their attempt to stifie the effect of the Anti-War Congress, have shown themselves to be part and parcel of the Roosevelt gov- ernment’s. preparations for war, ¢- 6 “ese - IX the last 1917 imperialist slaughter, every capital- ist paper screamed for the blood of the “Huns,” screamed the most vicious imperialist war poison into the minds of the American people. Their sabotage of the Anti-War Congress shows them to be ready for a repetition of that service to their imperialist war-making masters. ‘That the Daily Worker, official organ of the Com- munist Party, which took so active arole in the organization of the Congress, alone blazoned the news of the Congress on its front pages, alone described the magnificent spirit of the delegates, and gave its ap- proval to the program of the Congress, is a fact that every worker and farmer, every delegate to the Con- gress should ponder over. The hostile reports of the capitalist press found @ fitting reply in the words of one of the worker del- egates, who declared, “This finishes these papers for me. I am through with them.” Among the thousands of delegates as well as the hundreds of thousands who followed and supported the Congress, these words will find a ready echo of all capitalists, and against the | points | THE OLD ARMY GAME Anti-Fascist Front Hit by British Labor Conference HASTINGS, England, Oct. 3—A relentless fight against Fascism and Communism, which were called. twin brothers, was urged. yesterday. by Joseph Compton, newly elected chair- man of the British. Labor Party, as | the annual party conference opened | here. Labor Party officials threatened disciplinary action against party members “who have been attracted by the mirage of a united front against fascism and war.” They at- tacked Lord Marley and Ellen Wil- kinson, heads of the World Commit- tee for the Victims of German Fas- cism, for “coquetting with the Com- munists.” a a The Centre group’ of the Socialist League, headed by Sir Stafford Cripps, former Attorney-General in the last Labor Cabinet, backed down in its effort to have the conference adopt a more radical program en- visaging abolition of the House of Lords, and socialization of industry and the banks. . rd NEW YORK.—A resolution of pro- | trial and demanding the release of | | Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff. and: Taneff | | has been sent to Judge Buenger as | | the first official act ‘ofthe: newly | constituted National .Burean. of the Pen and Hammer Clubs, an organiza- tion of scientists, technicians and 1 professional men, Negro Athlete Joins ILD Campaign to Free Framed Negro Victims MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Ben Lewis, Negro half-back noted for his athletic | record in high school and © profes- | sional foot-ball teams, declared that the applause which has béen given ;him in stadiums throughout the country was nothing compared to the cheers and applause that greeted a demonstration resolution demanding the release of Wilbur Hardiman and James Johnson, Negro workers ar- rested following their defense of themselves from a threatened lynch- ing by a group of whites in Bridge Square. The protest meeting was held on the same spot. Lewis has joined the International Labor Defense and has been active in the struggle for their release. Hardiman is charged with murder and Johnson with first degree as- sault. test. denouncing” the spurious Teles | K, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1933 —By Burek THE SACRIFICE (91% at MOREA S: YOu MUST MAKE A SacRIFICE |” |German Day, Oct. 29, Rally as Jews Walk Out in Protest NEW YORK~—Four hundred of New ‘York Nazis will be the strong-arm guard “to preserve order” when Dr, Hans Luther, German Ambassador, ap- Dears-at the 69th Regiment Armory, Lexington Ave. and 26th St., for the German Day celebration, to be held there by patriotic German societies on October. 29. The Fascist gang of 400 is being organized by Heinz Spanknoebel, lade | ing Nazi emissary in United States, | who will also speak at the tromagl | rally. Action to form this Nazi storm troop | was taken at a meeting in the Turn | Halle after 100 delegates of Gérman | Jewish societies had walked out in! Protest against the Nazi leanings of | the assemblage. | | Fang Storms Town Near Peiping as Japs Stir Revolt PEIPING, China, Oct, 3—Ten | ‘thousand troops under General Fang | Cheti+ Wu attacked -and stormed the town of Chanping, outside the ‘de- militarized area and only 20 miles northwest of Peiping, today. Nanking troops. are being rushed | north from this city in an effort to drive the rebels out Chinese accused the Japanese forces in North China of instigating revolts in the demilitarized zone to obtain a pretext for Japanese occu- pation of the area, adding thousands of square miles to their puppet state Manchukuo. The Japanese refuse to allow Chinese troops to enter the area to expel the rebels. Italian Court Jails 4 Young Communists for Anti-Fascist Activity ROME, Italy, Oct. 3—Four young Bologna workers, one only 17 years old, were sentence] by the Fascist spe- cial Tribunal here on charges of dis- tributing anti-fascist leaflets and lit- erature, The Tribunal condemned the four young men to terms of 12, 8 and 5 years’ imprisonment, the only wit- nesses being members of the Fascist Secret Police. 400 Nazis t to Guard Luther in New York Turned Into Fascist ‘Students Tortured, Jailed by Yugoslav Army Dictatorship Murder, Terror Rage Throughout Dalmatia | and Montenegro (Special to the Daily Worker) BELGRADE, Yugoslavia.—The ‘Yugoslav Alexander and his politico-military camarilla, which is closely associated with the military, diplomatic, and finance-capital interests of the west- erm capital- powers (especially Francs), is in’ its fifth year. The white terror against, Communist and other reyolutionary workers continues unabated, Tn recent weeks, the sadistic state police and secret agents have been beating up crowds of high school stu- dents in Cetinje and Podgorica, which are the chief towns in the one-time kingdom. of Montenegro, ‘now part of Yugoslavia. Hundreds of young boys and girls have been arrested and im~- prisoned, then tortured and outraged in their cells. Student Danilovitch is in. serious condition in Cetinje as a result of tortures inflicted upon him by Alexander’s terrorist organization. In Kotor, southern Dalmatia, three gymnasium students, ~Mitrovitch, Draskovitch and Davidovitch, were beaten up, then taken to prison. The old Yugoslav labor leader, Adolf Muk, was also arrested recently, tortured and jailed. This is Muk’s fourth time in the hands of the government police on account of his revolutionary activity. He is in ill health, due to the dreadful tortures he has endured. ‘The ex-army officer, Bozo Pauko- vitch, who was involved in a recent Communistic outbreak in the military forces in Maribor, near the Austrian border, has been secretly taken from his cell in the Pozarevaski prison and no one knows what has happened to him since. Jobless to March dictatorship under King) Cuban Government Butchers to Win Workers U.S. Aid ‘Eyewitness of Mella Massacre Tells How the Soldiers and Armed Students Fired on Demonstrating Havana Workers | can now safely recognize Grau San HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 30 (Special to the Da Worker) —Washington Martin's Government. Yesterday it | proved itself as bloodthirsty as that of Machado. The stopped as the general strike began. in Solidarity With | Striking Ford Men: Auto Workers Union Aids in Organizing Dep’t Committees EDGEWATER, N. J., Oct. 3.—An- swering the attempts to use the job- less_on the welfare rolls as scabs against the Ford workers, the Un- employed Council is calling a demon- stration for Thursday in Cliffside, in | solidarity with the strikers. | The municipal unemployment relief committee in Cliffside tried to recruit | scabs. Unemployed workers refused to accept the jobs, however. A huge picket line was formed at the plant this morning despite advice of A F. of L. leaders to keep the number down to 200. At the meeting of over 2,000 work- ers yesterday, at the Recreation Cen- ter in Cliffside, the question was raised of electing a broad strike com- mittee. It is maintained that some | foremen not interested in the welfare of the workers are members of the committee. With the advice tand cooperation of the Auto Workers Union, strike com- mittees are being elected in every de- partment. These will later form a general strike committee representing all workers. A feeling is current among the men to send a large delegation of workers to Detroit for organization among the | Ford workers there. “Family Denied Aid for Labor Activity Red Candidate Leads Anti- Eviction Fight | NEW YORK.— Morris Bradly, an unemployed worker and father of eight children, had his relief cut about six weeks ago without any reason givén to him for cutting the relief. After making several attempts to try and find out why his relief was cut, Morris was called to the office of the | principal of the school where his children go and was told point blank that the reason why his relief was cut was because of his “political ut- terances,” and was advised to “leave town.” But Morris, who is a member lof the Unemployed Council, 249 Clove Road, did not leave town. He pro- ceeded to get the members of the Building Trade Industrial Laborers Union of State Island to go over to the home relief buro to demand re- lief for him and several other fam- ilies also. At the H.R.B., a commit- tee was elected to present to Miss Charlotte V. Authier, Director, the demands of the workers which in- cluded immediate relief for the fam~- ilies of the unemployed. Morris was elected on this committee. When he presented the workers’ demands, the officials at the H.R.B. tried to stall him off. He refused to listen to their promises and when he objected to their treatment, he was shoved off the steps. PVE anon 5 NEW YORK.—Albert Clarke, Com- munist candidate for the 50th Al- dermanic District, led a demonstration against the eviction of the Goldberg family, 74 Herzl Street, Brooklyn, and in spite of the cops at the dem- onstration the workers protest kept them from evicting the family. The Goldberg family was given a relief- check from the home relief bureau, but the landlord refused to take it and demand the rent in cash. When they said they had no cash he went ahead and tried to have them evicted/ By ROBERT HAMILTON . viir ‘The first three articles of this series showed the political back- ground of the Reichstag fire and why the Nazis had to either burn the Reichstag, fake an attempt on Hitler's life, or stage some equally spectacular frame-up to get rid of their partners in the Cabinet, the Nationalists, and to suppress workers organizations. In this, the concluding article of the series on the Reichstag fire, we shall discuss the international aspects of the fire and the trial now going on in Leipzig and endeavor to arrive at some conclusions regarding their po- litical significance. In the first place, there is little doubt that without the pogrom hys- teria engendered by the Keichstag fire, the Nazis would today not pos- sess such unlimited power in Ger- many today as they do. The burning of the Reichstag was a dastardly, but provocation, under the cover of which an unprecedentediy brutal and mur- derous reign of terror has been set up in Germany. On the other hand, the burning of ed pena and the ensuing Fas- terror regime has gained for the all in none the less cunningly-conceived | International Aspects of the Reichstag Fire Tworta- Wide Mass Protest to Save the ‘apoio | Communists Must Grow in Breadth : and Intensity German working class and for the militant anti-Fascists in Germany the sup] of thousands of intellectuals foreign countries, as is evidenced by the organization of the World Committee Against German Fascism and the London Counter-Trial. Al- though the rise of Fascism to power in Germany has undoubtedly acted as @ spur to the development of Fascist movements throughout the world, it is likewise true that the brazen at- tempt to railroad the Communist leaders accused of the crime has acted @8 &, powerful stimulus to the ization of anti-Fascist movements in every country. , Hundreds of thousands of workers and intellectuals all over the world are arrayed in the ranks of the anti- fascist organizations today. Protest | eee of ten and twenty thousand in Paris, London, Prague, ie Copenhagen, Buenos Aires, Ne and Chicago have demanded the lease:of Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff. and i \ ‘Taneff, the Communist defendants in Leipzig. Protest telegrams and reso- lutions have poured in upon German consultates and embassies in every major city on the globe, while Ger- man ships flying the Nazi swastika4 enough, if it embraces en flag have been faced with a strike of longshoremen and harbor workers in almost every world port. There is no doubt that this world wide protest movement has already achieved some results, some minor victories. The very circumstance that. the Leipzig trial is not being held in - | secret, but under the glaring spot- Ught of world publicity already marks @ concession forced from the Nazi overlords. ‘The fact that the Leipzig court has had to drop the charges of arson against Torgler, Dimitroff, Pop- off and Taneff, after their “guilt” had been trumpeted in advance for the past six months through the Ger- man pregs, is also the fruit of the disclosures of the Brown Book and of the London counter-trial. But. the. workers-and sincere. anti- fascists of America should not be content to rest on their oars. High treason is punishable by death in Nazi Germany, and the Fascist inquisition is determined to bring Torgler, Dimit- roff and their comrades to the gal- lows by hook or crook, If these splendid fighters for the cause of the working class are to be saved from the executioner’s axe, our efforts must be redoubled. Mass pressure, if it is made eater lions of workers and intellectuals, can save the lives of Torgler and Dimit- roff, Popoff and Taneff. It has al- ready accomplished a lot, but there is still a lot to be done. And what is more, the greater the movement of anti-fascists organized in other countries, the louder and more insistent the protest voice of millions, the more the brave anti- Deararee is Garey Wiis Chelsea col on cour- ageaus efforts in the face of extreme terror to build up the mass move- ment. within Nazi-land to yard fascist rule and to erect the social order where war and exploitation will have no place, where the build- ing up of a Socialist society will be the sole task of # workers’ and farmers’ German» y awoke with a current of tension, At 12 noon everything Ever; ere groups of workers were gathered prepating to go to the fu- neral of Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban student Communist leader, murdered by Machado’s gunmen tn Mexico in 1929. At 1 p.m. thousands of work- ers were streaming from. all direc tions towards. the Anti-Imperialist League where the ashes of Mella were lying in-state, At-1:30, no less than 70,000 workers filled the whole street for a distance of about 25 blocks and thousands were coming from all directions. At 1:45 p.m. the first shots were heard. At the corner of Zanja and Galeano soldiers: were shooting into the crowds. . Machine guns ) were plated against the. Anti-Imperialist, Leasue a few minutes later and were veuring lead into ta2 busit:%. The Young Red Front Guards at the building wished to defend the lives of the workers within-but it was decided that this would cause a slaughter even greater, since they only had revolvers agains the soldiers’ machine guns, People fell evetywhere. Groans and snooting filled the aif. Shooting Spread over awide irsa- Finally the ‘workers into the Antle Imperialist League were allowed to leave. When they went out, they took with them Mella’s ashes. The sol- liers and the members of the Ejercito Caribe, the Student Directorate armed organization, sacked the build- ing and smashed all they could iay their hands on,. Then the maddened students at- tacked the Workers Center and smashed it, burning all documents and furniture. Someone began throw- ing the picture of Mella out of the window (the center is on the third floor). The students yelled “Down with him; he Is ‘téesponsible for this.” A young Pioneer was killed by ma- chine gun fire. Three other workers were killed; an army raptain who was known for his anti-imperialist senti- ments was killed, evidently by the members of the Directorio Estudi< antil, who arrested him near the Center. Four soldiers were wounded and are probably dead at the time this is being written, Im addition, dozens of workers were badly wound- ed and many may die. It is impos- sible to get any satisfartory informa- tion since soldiers guard all hospitala and admit no one. Undoubtedly the number of those dead ts incompar- ably greater. The Cuban National Labor Con- federation immediately called. an en- larged session of its executive and decided to continue the general strike as a protest strike 24 hours. While the shooting and the attack against the Workers Center and the Anti-Imperialist League were going on, the soldiers, led by members of the Ejercito Caribe attacked the monument and the depository for the ashes of Mella in Fraternity Park and wrecked it, firing from machine guns at the masses who surrounded the place. Thus the government had shown its true face. It acted in a manner such as even Machado would hesitate to use. It acted thus to win recog- nition from Washington, or perhaps at the order of Washington. This is the first step to attack the gains of the workers in the general -strike and the following struggles. The massacre was premeditated and well- prepared. Reports indicate that as early as yesterday Professor Justiz Garrera, a university professor associated with the Directorio, told some friends of his not to come out on the street on the 29th, “since something terrible would happen,” and that “he was opposed to these methods.’ Reuben Leon, the leader of the Directorio, warned Raul Roa, of the Ala Iz- quierda (The Left), that-they would not stand for being called betrayers and that they would take care of their attackers. a This massacre will have its reper cussions. The masses will. see with even greater clariiy that this gov- ernment is an assassin. government of the bosses and landlords and im- perialism. They will see more clearly the need for a Workers and Peasants’ Government. The Grau regime gives only bullets and. jails—it does not even promise an improvement in cone ditions. The workers peasants and the honest ‘iitellectuals will in- tensify their struggles in reply to the brutal attack of the Directorio child- U.S. Hands Off Cuba’ NEW. YORK. ay letter “protest- ing American: interference: in Cus ban affairs was sent to Secretary of State Cordell~yesterday by the National Committee for the De fense of Political. Prisoners, some of whose members are John Dos Passos, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Waldo Frank. ‘The letter asks: “1) What methods does the State Department, use to determine when a foreign government repre- sents the will of the people, “2) Was this method. used in according recognition to the Hitler Government? “3) Why does not our govern ment take immediate steps to ab- rogate the Plat Amendment, which is entirely against the will-of the Cuban people?”