The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1933, Page 6

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10,’ 1933 “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Pliblished daily, except Sunday, by the Comprodaity PubNshing Go, Inc., 50 East 13th Street, New York, N, Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7955. Cale Address: “Dalwork,” New York, W. Ye Avashington Bureau: Room 954, National Press Suilding, 1th and G. St., Washington, D.C. Subscription Rates: By Mail except Manhattan and Bronx) 1 year, 96.00; 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 75 cente. Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents 5 cents. TUES OCTOBER 10, 1933 Stop the Murderous Terror 100,000 striking miners have accepted President lenge that they must return to work demand being granted by the coal operators, and in teeth of murderous terror. are eoatinuing the strike. The threat of Roosevelt, acting forthe coal operators, that he will “put into effect such government assistance as may be necessary to carry hat the men return to work, has become an actuality. The increased terror against the striking miners and the 30,000 steel workers is in full Virtual martial law exists in Western Pennsyl- Roosevelt's without a si the out the decisio swing. vania Roosevelt’s demand that the miners and steel workers return to work on the operators’ terms, signalized the rule of lynch law in the mine fields and steel towns. Steel workers and miners are unmercifully beaten and slugged on sight. The armies of state police, deputies, private guards and gangsters have barred the miners and steel workers from even attending the funeral of their fellow striker Petrusaki, shot down by these mur- derous forces of the company on the Ambridge picket line. With full presidential sanction from Roosevelt, machine guns, tear gas, high-powered rifles, fire engines and implements of modern warfare, are brought into full play against the strikers, The strike of the miners cannot be separated from the struggle of the steel workers. The “captive” mines are owned by the steel corporations. The coal and steel industries are together, economically as well as geographically. The miners’ strike had an immediate effect in furthering the steel strike. The savage terror is being exercised against both strikes. In the steel towns the armies of deputies declare they will shoot pickets on sight. No gatherings of workers are permitted no matter how small. House to house terrorization of steel strikers is carried on night and day. Picketing has become punishable by death. A common fight against the terror in both the coal and steel strikes, a united struggle for victory in both the steel and coal industries, is necessary to insure vie- tory. IN. THE FACE of this virtual Iynch law, the miners L have withstood the frenzied terror let loose simulta- neously with Roosevelt’s demand that they return to work, and his statements on the same day, appropri- ately enough at Gompers’ grave, that “horses that kick over the traces will have to be put into a corral.” The main demand of the miners is the demand for the recognition of the union. But this demand must now be extended. This strike is a strike against starvation wages, against unbearable working condi- tions. The strike must continue until the wage de- mands of the miners and steel workers are satisfied. The strikers, for victory, must place in the center of the struggle the wage demands—the demands for bread id butter. The attempt of Roosevelt to break the strike must not succeed. The entire working class of the country must immediately be aroused to the danger. Workers! Defeat the terror provoked by Roosevelt against the fighting miners and steel workers! Hold meetings of protest, pass resolutions against the bloody government terror against the striking miners and steel workers. Rush protests to Governor Pinchot and President Roosevelt. . > : . Hitler’s Agents in America f paid agents of the Hitler regime in the United States are making a desperate, concerted effort to line up all German-Americans as recruits for the Nazi gospel of murder, anti-Semitism and terrorism. All the pressure and intimidation which the German Fas- cists know how to apply so well—threats of reprisals against relatives in Germany, discharge from jobs, and the like—are being used to silence opponents of Hit- lerism among German-Americans and to mobilize these millions as propagandists for Nazi Germany. Nazi activity in America ts being pushed on three distinct fronts. One is expressed by Propaganda Minister Goebbels’ Sunday speech in Berlin,.where the man who plotted the Reichstag fire declared: “I am sure that Americans of German ancestry are particularly immune to tendencious atrocity stories circulated by interested circles. In them Germany will find her most loyal supporters.” “The disclosures of the “Brown Book,” and the tales brought out of the German hell by thousands of refugees, many of whose own bodies bear living wit- ness to the sadistic terror raging within Germany, show héw much awful truth there is in these so-called “atrocity stories.” . Another branch of Nazi activity here consists in eétablishing contact with American high finance to enlist the class support of American capitalism for the Hitler regime in Germany, as proved by the Daily Worker's recent disclosures regarding the pro-Nazi plans of Albert H, Wiggin, leading Wall Street figure. Stiil another is the underhand, secret work of the “Friends of the New Germany,” the new-born suc- cessor to the former Nazi Party of the United States, which was allegedly dissolved after Hitler came to power. The revelations of murder, espionage and Syphilis plots in the intercepted secret Nazi letter pub- lished in Saturday's Daily Worker, have brought the Nazi hidden machinations to the light of day for the first time. T does this secret Nazi document reveal? It shows the unspeakable barbarism and cruelty of these “defenders of German culture.” It reveals the utter lengths to which the Hitlerites are ready to go In their defense of the decaying capitalist. order. Compare the bold, heroic stand of Dimitroff, Torg- ler and their Communist comrades on trial in Leipzig with the cowardly plots of the Nazi gangsters here and In Germany! It is up to the workers of America to scotch the infernal Hitlerite plans to poison Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff. It is up to them to flood every German consulate, the German Embassy in Washington and the Nazi Supreme Court in Leipzig with protest {elegrams and resolutions. o- very German consulate must be crowded with dele- L gations protesting the despicable ffame-up of the Com- munists in the Leipzig trial! All opponents of Hitlerism in. New York, and its vicinity must turn out. for the protest mass meeting in New Star Casino tomorrow, Wednesday night. The workers of America must answer the Nazi secret plots with an expansion of their united action against Ger- man Pascism. “We Billions--and Hunger Tt government announced yesterday that the R.F.C. since its inception last February has made cash advances of over three billion dollars—$3,096,691,000 to be exact. ‘That’s an: enormous amount of money. It could feed hundreds of thousands of jobless, starving workers and their families for several weeks. But it: wasn’t the hungry workers who got the benefit of that mountain of government money col- lected. in one way or another from the vast toiling population. It was the banks, the rich railroads, the insurance companies, the big corporations, mortgage and trust companies who got their hands inte the government's huge R.F.C. pork barrel. Of the total three billion, they got about 90 per cent of the cash. The meagre remainder went for state grants for relief. And of these relief grants not all have yet been actually spent. The R-F.C. has turned out to be a huge pork barrel for the “reconstruction”: of. the wavering profits of the banks, and capitalist investors. It has turned out to be nothing but'a device whereby the government ac- tively steps in to guarantee the capitalists against losses. Dawes, for example, got $80,000,000 for his private little bank in Chicago. That was ufder Hoover. Jesse Jones, present Chairman of the RF.C., got $60,000,000 for his own. private little bank down in Oklahoma. That is under Roosevelt. Jones is Roose~ velt’s close friend. The plunder goes merrily on—while Roosevelt turns his heel on the demand for Unemployment Insurance for the 17,000,000 jobless workers on the grounds that there is'no money! © y being is plenty of money—for the bankers and rafl- road magnates. ‘The jobless workers and their families need these government billions at once—for bread, milk, clothes, shelter. They néed it for Unemployment Insurance! The hungry need these billions! An aroused, organized mass movement of the work- ers, employed as well as jobless, organized in the neigh- borhoods, shops, factories, relief stations, everywhere, can force the Roosevelt government to stop these bil- lions for the bankers! We can force these billions into a fund for Unemployment Insurance! RFC. BILLIONS FOR JOBLESS UNEMPLOY- MENT INSURANCE! THAT MUST BE OUR CRY! * * Capitalism-- a Menace i THE FACE of undernourishment and starvation of thousands of working class children, the capitalist officials of the New Jersey Milk Control Board have just proposed a nation-wide cow killing campaign to raise the price of milk. If ever there were proof of the criminal insanity, not only of the capitalist system of private property and wage slavery, but of the capitalist class itself, it is such proposals as these. Right at the present’ moment there are thousands upon thousands of children ‘who are suffering from lack of sufficient milk. But the capitalist rulers are not interested in that. ‘They are interested in ptofit—and nothing else. That is why they destroy food. And by this food destruction it is only the big farm. landlords, wheat spéculators and Wall Street milk trusts who profit. The small farmers are ruined, and the city workers are forced deeper into starvation. In the Soviet.Union the workers are united with the farmers to incréasSe the amount of food, the supply of manufactured goods, the number of cows, the supply of milk to the full. And it is they alone who get the benefit—not any: capitalist: robbers. This criminal insanity in the face of human need is part of capitalism. Has not the Roosevelt government itself slaughtered thousands of young hogs, drowned thousands more in order to raise the price of meat? Has it not destroyed cotton and wheat to raise the price of cloth and bread? Has it not, in the Milk Codes, forced milk prices up from 10 to 20 per cent? . * * other day, Roosevelt, speaking. with feigned in- dignation, declared “there are some who think in terms of dollars and cents instead of human lives; there are some who prefer government by a privileged class instead of majority: rule.” In the light of the government’s actions, how hypo- crtical this is!’ The’ wholesale destruction of food, the deliberate injury. of the welfare of the great, majority of the toiling population through wheat, cotton, meat, milk destruction=to ineregge the profits of a handful of Wall Street milk monopolies, rich plantation land- lords, and wheat. speculators! That is what actually lies behind the Roosevelt hypocrisies. Long ago Karl Marx, foundér of the modern Com- munist movement, declared that the capitalist class and its. system isa menace’ to the welfare of humanity. ‘The criminal ‘insatity of food destruction, officially sanctioned by the government is proof of that. To preserve the lives and welfare of the vast major- ity of the population, to end the domination of profits over human needs, to end the privileged rule of a hand- ful of capitalist exploiters, the capitalist system must oe sworkers must destroy it. ‘They can do it. ——_—__ Persistent. Struggle Against Sectarianism “In order to get the Party now firmly rooted among the decisive elements’of the American workers, it must in all seriousness carry out the. concentration on special factories, districts and sections. “The center of gravity of the Party work must be shifted to the development of the lower organizations, the factory nuclei, local organizations and street nuclei. Tt goes without saying that it is our task to place our- selves at the head of every movement which breaks out, spontaneously in the country, and to lead such movements, or where the reformist leaders stand at the head of a movement, to work for the building of fight- ing organs of the masses in the exposure and replace- ment of the reformist leaders. But unless we tenaci- ously coneentrate our work on the most important in- dustrial centers, we cannot build up a stable Party and revolutionary: trade union movement, capable of resist- ing all blows and persecutions by the bourgeoisie. “The German Communists offer us the best example of this. It is/only because the Communist. Party of Germany is closely linked up with the decisive sections of’ the German proletariat that it is able to carry on its struggle against German Fascism uninterruptedly, in spite of brutal Fascist terror.” ~From the Open Letter. | 1,000 at Newark Meet Against War, - Hear Tom Mann NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 8—One thou- sand people, Negro and white, at the Y.M.H.A. here, heard Tom Mann, fiery leader of the English workers, bare the “imperialist forces of the British lion and Uncle Sam” as the ringleaders of the coming war. Many Irish, Welsh and Scotch workers, who attended the meeting, which was arranged by the Newark Committee for Struggle Against War, were given their first lesson in the workings of capitalism. “Thyssen, the German steel mag- nate, is the real power behind Hit- ler,” said Mann. The veteran labor leader held the audience enrapt with his dynamic call for active struggle against war. Relief Conference Called-by Veterans NEW YORK.—“The National Econ- omy Bill, which cut $450,000,000 from compensations, pensions and disability allowances of veterans, has left them in a most deplorable state,” reads the opening paragraph of the conference call for united action on relief for all veterans, their dependents, and war nurses. The conference will take place Saturday, Oct. 12, 2:30 p.m., at 40 W. 18th St. It has been initiated by the Workers. Ex-Servicemen’s League. A law in this state is supposed to provide “that no veteran be pauper- ized, but receive cash relief,” states the call. Yet only 23,000 veterans received any benefits from this law during the previous year. To force the maintenance of vet- erans of all wars, this conference is being called, to which all’ veterans’ organizations, trade unions and mass organizations are urged to send a | delegate. Heavy Work Too Hard, Aged Man Dies on Job SAN JOSE, Cal.—Against protests of an employment. agency manager, Myron Day, 70, insisted on being sent to “any kind of job.” “T have been out of work so long,” he said. “I want work.” The only job the agency had was in prune picking. An hour after he reported for work he was found dead in the orchard. The heavy work at his age had been too much for his heart. STATE POLICE By E. G. Bob Minor Scores High in Straw Vote of New York Movies |Mass Protest Called | At New Star Casino Wednesday, 8 P.M. NEW YORK—Battling Robert Minor, Communist candidate for Mayor, is scoring records in the straw vote taken by the R. K. O. Theatres in this city. To date the totals are as follows: O’Brien, Tammany candidate - for Mayor, 2,407; LaGuardia, fusion can- didate, '7,705;- McKee, 9,753; Minor, Communist candidate,-1,106; Solomon, Socialist. candidate, 574. In the Hamilton Theatre, at 145th St. and Broadway, on Sunday night, the votes totalled as follows: O'Brien, 50; LaGuardia, 83; McKee, 209; Minor, 79; Solomon, 6. Parents, Teachers To Protest Cuts In City School Budget Demand Playgrounds, More Classes; Fight Wage Cut Threat NEw YORK. Oct. 9. — A protest demonsizatten will be held at the open hearing of the Board of Esti- | mate against the threat of farther’ | the drastic reductions in appropria- tions for night schoojs, playgrounds, kindergartens, and library facilities, SOCIALIST MAYOR “Roosevelt’s Election Is the First Step Toward Revolution,” Says Socialist Leader MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Mayor Hoan, socialist, emphasizing his alliance with agents of the ruling class, the police, gave the address of welcome be- fore the twenty-sixth annual convention of the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association at the Hotel Schroeder last week. He told that august body of retiring flatfeet that: America is witnessing the birth of a new social order. ®The 150 paunches all beiched in ap- ; autocracy,” the “surge toward democ- wage cuts in teacher payrolls, and; by the Bronx Parent and Teachers CHIEFS HEAR proval to the words of the Socialist Party’s nasal mouthpiece. But let Norman’s sidekick speak for himéelf. “Roosevelt's election,” said Hoan, “constitutes the first step toward a revolution, a peaceful revo- lution whith means the death of the old capitalist system of industrial- ism and economic autocracy. It is a part of the world-wide surge toward democracy in industry. es “Today we are suffering the travail accompanying the birth of this new social order. Perhaps this new baby will be-called-‘Cooperation.’ Anyway, the movement is toward a return to the hands that create those profits— the workers.” Hail the “peaceful revolution,” the death of the. “old capitalist system of industrialization and economic racy in industry.” Hail the savior of the toiling workers, “This new baby called ‘Cooperation.’” Hail, all you 15,000,000 unemployed and $10 a week wage slaves the movement toward “a retlrn to the hands that create those profits—the workers.” Mayor Hoan of ‘the great socialist city of Milwaukee, where forced labor was first introduced in the United States, where 140,000 people are on relief lists, where families who can’t pay the landlords are evicted, where Rooseveltvilles decorate the shores of Lake Michigan and the Milwaukee River—here, Mayor Hoan proclaims the revolution for the liberation of the working class and the return to the worker of the full profits of his labor, is taking place—taking place under Roosevelt's revolutionary lead- ership and the ‘evolutionary social- ism of the N.R.A.’—shades of the Paris conference of the Second In- ternational! Association on. Oct. 11. Plans for the demonstration and an open discussion of the program of tho Association will be held at the membership meeting place 1483 Sea-, bury Place, Bronx, New York, on the; day previous to the Board of Esti-| mate hearing, Oct. 10 at 8:30 p. m. All parents and teachers are in- vited, ~|Secret Documents Show Japan’s Plot to Seize Railway Japanese Embassy Reports Army and Civilians Provoking Disorders on Soviet-Owned Chinese Eastern Railway By VERN SMITH. (Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Oct. 9.—Details of the plot of the Japanese Army in Man- churia to seize the Chinese Eastern Railway were revealed today with the publication of official Japanese documents proving the complicity of Japanese government officials in Manchuria in railway. “The statements made by Assist- ant Foreign Commissar Sokolnikoff to Japanese Ambassador Ota on Sep- tember 21 and by Soviet Ambassador Yureneff to the Tokyo Foreign Of- fice on September 29 mentioned that the Soviet government is in posses- sion of official Japanese documents establishing the responsibility of the Japanese government to the meas- ures undertaken in Manchuria re- garding the Chinese Eastern, ac- cording to a release issued by Tass, official Soviet news agency. “Tass is now publishing a part of the documents it has received relat- Van der Lubbe, Spy, Exposed By Letters In Paris Paper Humanite, Communist Daily, Reveals Him As Provocateur PARIS, France. — Documentary proof that Marinus van der Lubbe, the idiot Hollander used as a tool of the Nazis in the Reichstag fire, was a spy and provocateur active in the business as far back as 1929, is published in “l’Humanite,” central or- gan of the Communist Party. The documents, consisting of let- ters written by van der Lubbe him- self, came into the hands of the newspapers too late to be turned over for inclusion in the famous “Brown Book,’ but it is announced they may be included in future editions, or in the second volume which is planned. as Facsimiles of the letters are pub- lished by “l’Humanite,” which re- produces three of them. Two of them deal with the provocations and spy- ing in the ranks of the Young Com- munist League. The third, of earliest date, shows that van der Lubbe had been eliminated from the organiza- tion, and was making vain efforts for reinstatement. It is dated, Friday, Detember 13, from Leyden, Holland. “I demand that the bureau call a meeting soon,” he says, “to dis- cuss my letter, because I cannot agree with the meeting of Thurs- day, December 12, where no vote was taken either in writing nor by show of hands, and whose decision I do not know.” The next letter is presented by “VHumanite” without comment. “Leyden, December 22, 1919. “For many reasons I have been obliged, during the past weeks, to pass myself off as a member of the Youn Communists. . . .” The third letter is dated a year later: “Leyden, November 17, 1930. “. . «1 worked in France a few weeks. . . . After a few weeks I decided to go to Holland to try to find work there for a while. If this succeeds, I plan, after > year, to return to France. .. . Since I have found no work here, I have a propo- sition to make. But do not believe that I can make this proposition for my own interest. . . . I spent a few days at Arnheim, but I was not able to do much there because I did not find any organization there. . ++ Tam wondering if we have not the possibility of obtaining a list of the local groups of Young Com- munists. “I would spend a weck working on it, especially to strengthen the work in the factories. . .. I wanted to statt a shop paper: ‘Roter Stok- vish,’ but I had no money... . “My plan is to prepare thorough- ly, and to make up a good list. For example: Gelderland, Epeldoarn, Deventer. Arnheim, Wageningen, Zuik Holland, Haag, Dordrecht, Gonda. T will put up the money myself.” HAVANA, Oct. ~The wave of government terror is spreading throughout the island of Cuba, Hun~- dreds of workers have been arrested and interned in the Principe and Cabana fortresses. The Grau San Martin government has issued a declaration that “it is going to eradicate the Communist Menace in Cuba.” Part of this cam- paign are the mass arrests the clos~ ing of all workers centers and the outlawing of the National Confedera~ tion of Labor. Batista Leads Attack on Workers. The government is now definitely a regime of armed and ruthless force: President Grau San Martin is not the ruling figure any more, but Col. Batista, the Chief of the Army Gen- eral Staff. The attack on the workers is being carried out under Batista’s leadership. “Grau and de Cespedes were too easy in the Communists, we must shoot them,” he is reported to have said. The massacre of Friday, Sept. 29, has_produced a deep revulsion among the -of workers and students. But, since the Communist Party and the National Confederation of Labor were crippled and unable to issue any manifesto or statement until two days later, the government used the intervening time to lay the blame on Communists, stating that “it is. not against the workers; the Communists were to blame since they carried red Certain sections of Havana's work- ers were affected by this propaganda, Wave of Army Ter | Letter from Havana Pictures Grau-Batista Regime Currying Favor with Wall Street Capitalists which is being combatted now by the unions and the Party. A profound split. has oceurred within the Student. Direetorate, with the rank-and-file students rebelling against their leaders, who planned the slaughter of the Mella funeral demonstrators. The deep indignation of the students was brought out at a meeting of delegates of the director- ate. A number of leading members of the Directorate, among them Mauri Escalona, have applied for member- ship in Ala Izquierda (The Left). A Mass protest meeting of all. Havana students is set for Wednesday under the auspices. of Ala Izquierda. General Strike Tied Up Cuba. The’ protest general strike, called by the Labor Confederation, tied up the whole country, with the sole ex- ception of Havana. Here it was called off due to ther obilization .of troops! at the factory gates, threat- ening to shoot .any workers taking part in the strike. Union Leaders Betray Strike. An‘even more important reason, however, was the betrayal ‘by the leaders of the Street Car Workers’ Union, who joiried with the govern- ment against the strike and even called the police to break up' a meet- ing of the Executive Board of the Confederation of Labor, The small bus line owners followed the same tack, Many strikes did take place, how- ever, on Saturday and Sunday, in- volving thousdnds of workers in the lighter industries. The Confederation called off the strike in Havana and appealed to the working class to pre- pare rapidly for a general strike of Sreater proportions than has ever taken place in Cuba’s history. Police Shoot Street Car Man. Last night the police raided a private. home. in the Vedado district, near the car barns, arresting a group of street car men, who were prepar- ing to strike against the governmental terror. One street car worker was shot and killed by the. police. Sugar Workers Form Soviet. ‘The situation in the interior is ageravating in tenseness. Havana English language papers report the organization of a Soviet in the Senado sugar central, where more than 4,000 workers have seized the mills and the town of the same name. The Senado sugar mill is one of the largest in Cuba, producine 590.000 bags of sugar annually. It belongs to a native family of capitalists. ' "Thea papers try to.prove.that this ror Sweeps Over Cuba ee movement is led by foreigners, claim- ing that its leader is a certain “Peter Stodolsky.” They also report that! several days ago, when this Stodolsky | was arrested, the workers threatened | to march on Cameguey, the provin-| cial capital, and forced his release. Cuban Regime: Curies U. S. Favor By. its attack upon the Commu-) nists and the workers the Grau-Ba- tista government hopes to win the favor of Yankee impericlism and of the native capitalists and landlords. Already we can hear expressions of satisfaction that “now this govern- ment will impose order at last.” But the situation is highly unstable, what with the battle against the officers and the continued strike struggles, and the middle classes are again yelling for intervention as the only way out. The A.B.C. secret society is fishing in troubled waters, preparing for an armed uprising. Task Facing Communists In-this state of affairs the tasks facing the Cuban Communists grow bigger day by day. The new wave of terror is only a temporary setback in the field of evergrowing prequisites for the social revolution, ‘The new government cannot give the masses anything but more misery and hunger, It is the Communists’ task to organize the defense of the the underhand predatory raids on the ing to the activity of the Japanese civil and military administrations in seizure of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way,” the statement continued, Several Documents Reveal Japan's Guilt. me “These documents throw full light on the role of Japan and refute the Official declarations that Manchukuo is an independent state and that the Japanese government has had noe part in the predatory actions under- taken’under the flag of the Manchu- rian authorities. “The same documents saliently show that the arrests of Soviet em- ployees of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way are by no means the result of any misdemeanor on their part, but are part and parcel of the realization. of the robber plans adopted at con- ferences atterided by the Japanese military command and Japanese: of- ficials of Manchukuo.” Four documents are published al- together, three being reports by Hisi- kari, Japanese Ambassador to Man- chukuo, to the Foreign Minister in Tokyo, while the fourth is the report sent the Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo by Morisima, Japanese Consul in Harbin. Mobilization to Seize C. E. R. In .this reports, Hisikari informs the Japanese Foreign Minister of a number of steps taken with the purpose of influencing the Tokyo ne- gotiations for the purchase of the Chinese Eastern Railway in favor of the Japanese. He reports on searches and detailed investigations of Communist and Young Commun- ist organizations, trade unions. and other organizations connected with the C. E. R., carried out by police authorities, and the mobilization of employees and military police with a view to possible seizure of the rail- yay. He adds that a conference on Sep- tember 2, was attended by railway officials of Japanese orientation, military authorities and counsellors of the Japanese Embassy, who dis- cussed concrete measures and worked out the details for a second con- ference on September 9. This second meeting decided. to utilize the Control Department and other divisions of the railway for the collection of material regarding the acts of Soviet; workers, to submit this material to the police authori- ties for investigation, and to bring about the arrest and trial of those accused. Police Raids and Arrests. The Ambassador’s report mentions a decision to make a police raid ona small scale and arrest minor employees, It adds, however, that in the course of investigation its frame- work would probably be extended, railway workers of greater import- ance being involved. He also points out that the police department is investigating the sud- den occupation of residences of So- viet citizens, raiding the commercial school, and railway clubs all along the line, as well as a strict check-up on various other organizations. Plan to Attack Railway Property, The report states that the Man- chukuo Ministry of Finance is in- vestigating the activity of the Far Eastern Bank and other Soviet com~ mercial organizations. It is working out a project whereby the railway's private creditors will present their | claims to the railway and attach the property of the C. E. R. Hisikara’s report mentions the de- cision to speed up the trial and re- lease the Russian White Guards now in prison, as well as the decision to pay particular attention to the rapid execution of the aboye measures, which must be carried out indepen- dent of the Tokyo negotiations, ‘They must be kept absolutely secret, with a close bond established with the Japanese military mission in Harbin, the Japanese divisions tp. Manchuria, the gendarmerie. and troop formations. On September 19 the Japanese Con- sul in Harbin reported to the Japan- ese Ambassador in a conference held that same day on the premises of the Japanese mission, with - ent officials of organizations in Man- churia present. The conference decided to arrest and imprison a number of promin- “lent Soviet employees of the Chinese Eastern Railway, both in Harbin and in other Manchurian stations as far as Pogranichnaya. The press was not |vo be allowed to interfere, and the conclusion of the investiga . ‘and ‘examination of the prisoners = series of arrests was to be made, “Workers’ Enemies Exposed Oscar Levander (alias ae Maki).—An unemployed miner of Ely, Minn., previously member of the Dis- trict Board of the National Miners Union, has been expelled by the Minnesota District of the Communist Party as an enemy of the wor! class, who has sabotaged the work of the Party and who ended up by join- ing’ the local police force as a de- tective: Description: He is of Finnish na tionality and about 45 years of 4 height, 6 ft. or over; weight, about 190 pounds; hair, brown; eyes, blue; complexion, light, Write to the Daily Worker ‘about every event of inter- est, to workers in your fac- workers’ daily interests, and to lead the workers and peasants into the counter-offensive and towards the struggle for power. tery, neighborhood or city, BECOME A WORKER COR- RESPONDENT! seas ’ 4a