The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1933, Page 6

molycHorker “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 except Sunday, by the Comp Inc., 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. 4 Published daily, ‘odaily Publishin Co. ¥, = Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7955. @able Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥ Weshington Bureau: Room 954, National Press Building, Ifth and G. St., Washington, D.C Subscription Rates: Mail: (except Manhatten and $6.00 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 1 year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, Yorelgn and Canada: 3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents - ae THURSDAY, OCTOBEF 12, 1933 Irrefutable! Worker published urder plans and “The Friends of organization in ‘Tas now five days since the Ds Nazi 1 ip of Nazi America. Up to the prese effective attempt to the Daily Worker were The capitalist press i ontents of the ne letter riends of New Ger- in suppressing the | many,” which discussed nf the Com- munists now on trial in with Philis germs and for hanging s else in the place of the | Dutch imbecile t: r Lubbe Times on The New Yor Tuesday saw fit to men- tion, in passing, the Daily W r expose. But, as | we. have already pointec for the purpose of seek- ‘ing to throw doubt on the authenticy of the docu- ment. Nowhere were the contents of the Nazi letter described! Even the Broadway columnist, Walter Winchell, Writing in the New York “Mirr observed yester- Gay that he “can’t understand why none of the gazettes ‘e. didn’t borrow the Daily Worker scoop of the ther day—and reprint that amazing letter intercepted from Nazi agents here...” Perhaps Winchell can’t, ay! As the Daily Worker has revealed, Albert H. Wig- ‘ins, former chairman of the board of directors of ine. Chase National Bank—one of the two largest anks in the world—at a recent meeting of bankers (mot reported in the press, of course) urged financial lassistance to Nazi Germany. Wiggin had recently steturned from Germany, where he had gone to ar- ® range for guarantees for American investments in Ger- . man ‘bonds. Thus we are given an insight into the mainsprings of the U. S. government policy toward the Nazis, and this policy is, of course, reflected in the capitalist press. but we understand can 7 a NEW YORK TIMES on Tuesday declared that Heinz Spanknoebel and Werner Haag, Nazi leaders here, “denounced in detail as a forgery and libel a letter circulated by the Daily Worker.” Where are the details? What is the concrete proof that this letter is a forgery? Why doesn’t The N. Y. Times publish this proof? Both the letter published om Saturday and the one which appeared in yesterday’s Daily Worker are authentic. Let there be no question about that! We have presented our evidence of the hideous Nazi murder plans and their espionage activities. It is up to those who challenge the genuineness of these detters to prove their case—a task which will indeed be impossible. “=Today we publish a document showin bloody hands of the N: have extended te States, and how they are conducting a ca mobilize German work: employed in this co the slave Nazi “unior These documents are authentic—and unanswerable! do not have to resort to forgeries to rror regime of the Hitlerites. Even of the Hitler Terror,” oup on the activities eon IsTs expose the the “Brown Boo! @ non-Communi investigation of nounced as a This pected from the bes Hitle: and their apologists. “I agree with you entirely,” wrote Haag, Nazi leader in the U. S. to his chiefs in Berlin, “that it would be good to give the damned Communists in Eeipzig an injection of syphilis. Then it can be said that Communism comes from syphilis of the brain,” basis of painstaking has also been de- the reply to be ex- More needed to emphasize the crucial danger in “which Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff find fthemselves in? The Nazi murderers will not readily Felinquish their vicious hold on our comrades. Demand that the U. vernment withdraw its protection from thi azi! Demand that the Department of L: foreign-born work: action giing into the U. S. of Nazi agents! 8. bloody chich is busy deporting militant, take against the smug- | with delegations, prot n Leipzig! est resolutions to Chief Justice ting the foul frame-up of the Wilhelm Buenger, presiding judge at the Nazi frame-up trial | in Leipzig! Enroll workers at ali meetings into rank and file committees against Fascism in Germany and for aid ‘ of its victims, and thus establish a broad united front! "Demand the immediate freedom of Torgler, Dimi- troff, Popoff and Taneff Nazi murderers! Drive the Nazi murder plotters out of America! A Useful Citizen OT s0 long ago, a class conscious working class revo- lutionary fighter declared: “When capitalists begin to praise me, then I begin to suspect that I have done something wrong ‘@gainst the working class.” It was Eugene Victor Debs, fighter for the revo- lutionary overthrow of capitalism, who said that. ©*These words of Debs are, perhaps, the most fitting epitaph for Morris Hillquit, leader of the Socialist Payty, who has just died It is the capitalist enemies of the working class who praise Hillquit. And they praise him not in tribute to a fallen enemy. ~*?'They praise him as a friend. _Roosevelt, most cunning capitalist demagogue, Tiypocritical and devoted agent of the Wall Street ritlers, whose government now drives the workers deeper into suffering and poverty, whose bayonets and Machine guns, at this very moment, face the embat- tled coal and steel strikers in Pennsylvania, fighting against hunger wages and exploitation—this Roose- velt, no less, sends his sympathy and praise for Hill- quit. yg eae jUT is perhaps Governor Lehman, of New York, the man who recently broke the milk strike of the New York farmers, the man whose family controls Lehman Bros., one of the most powerful of Wall Street bank- ing houses, who found the word that expresses most, exactly what the ruling class tought of Morris Hill- uit. Said Lehman yesterday:, “He was a man of unusual usefulness...” What was there in Hillquit’s political life that was gotten out by | Growd every consulate of the German government | and every prisoner of the | DATLY WORKER, of such “unusual usefulness” to the ruling class? Hillquit was a Socialist Party leader of the type of Kautsky, theoretical leader of the Socialist Second In- ternational. His political development from Centrism, which is merely the protecting of opportunism under the cloak of revolutionary phrases, to downright coun- ter-revolutionary hatred of the Soviet Union, to par- ticipation in organized movements in opposition to all true revolutionary action of the working class, parallels almost exactly the similar degradation of Karl Kautsky. U his degradation from revolutionary Marxian Soc: m reached its culminating betrayal in his service to the counter-revolutionary White Guard oil well ownets, in his historic visit to the White House in April, 1933, where he praised Roosevelt, for his “fine” handling of the unemployment problem, in his praise of the N.R.A. slavery codes. In one of the very latest things that he wrote, in the 1933 official election handbook of the Socialist Party, he said of the N.R.A. slavery trap: “It gives the workers a chance to raise wages, reduce work hours and increase employment. It facilitates collective bargaining with the employers, tends to check fraudulent company unions, and out- laws the infamous yellow dog contract...” It is no wonder that the capitalist class found Hillquit of such great “usefulness,” Hillquit preached to the workers that they could not hope to go the triumphant revolutionary path of the Russian Revolution, He tried to dupe and blind them with talk of the “peaceful transition to Socialism through democracy.” He preached to the American workers the same doctrines that led in Germany to the temporary victory of Fascism, the dottrines of worship. of capitalist legality and parliamentarism, the doctrine against proletarian dictatorship. Tt is for his fight against Communist and the Soviet Revolution that the capitalist press found him so “useful.” On the Russian Revolution, Hiliquit said: “It is the greatest calamity that has ever hap- pened to the international Socialist movement.” In 1917, in a signed article in the New York Times, | Hillquit soothed the fears of the American imperialist government, preparing for war to protect the loans of the Morgans: “Socialism in the United States will not -handi- cap the government by strikes. If the army-:is raised by conscription, of course, we will have to serve as other citizens. I do not believe that: Socialiste will advocate any general industrial strike to handicap the country in its war preparations.” This is how Hiliquit offered himself and the work- ers to the Wall Street war government in 1917. Such “socialists” as Hillquit, the rulers’ like. Be- cause they are part of the political machinery to keep the workers from the revolutionary fight against Fas- cism, against imperialist war, against the overthrow of capitalism and the setting up of a workers’ dic- tatorship over the capitalist class. The Right to Strike TT plain stark truth is that you cannot tolerate the strike Who said that? Was it Hitler? Or Mussolini? Under German and Italian Fascism, the right to strike against oppression and exploitation has been crushed by the naked military force of the capitalist State. Ostensibly, the American working class still has the right te strike. - But the speech that General Hugh Johnson, military keeper of the N.R.A. Blue Buzzard, made yesterday to the assembled burocrats of the A. F. of L. at the swanky Willard Hotel in Washington, is nothing less than an official outlawry of all strikes, and a threat of increased State military violence against the working class, if it dares to rise in strike struggle against capitalist employer exploitation. The speech that. Johnson made yesterday was the speech of a conscious agent of the Wall Street indus- trial monopolies, giving grim warning that the Roose- velt. government, like the Fascist dictatorship of Hit- ler, or the Fascist dictatorship of Mussolini, is fully prepared to crush with brutal, military savagery, the strikes of the American workers against the inten- sified exploitation of the hated N.R.A. codes. “Labor does not need to strike ander the Roose- velt plan,” Johnson said yesterday. And by that he meant that the working class is forbidden to ‘strike under the Roosevelt plan. He Fe te ND what is this Roosevelt plan, which is beginning to bear so remarkable a resemblance to the Hitler and Mussolini plans? It is the plan to increase employers’ profits at the | expense-of the workers—a plan against. which over 100,000 coat and steel workers have risen in tremendous strikes, 3 The recent Roosevelt “command” to the 100,000 coal miners of Pennsylvania to ‘return to the mines of their coal masters, to the mines of the Morgan-United States Steel trust—this is the actuality behind the N.B.A. hypocrisy of “collective bargaining.” ‘The murder of coal and steel pickets by State troops —and now the threat of blunt, military outlawing of all strikes—these are the deadly ruling class realities that the working class can now see coiled within the trap of the Roosevelt N.R.A. There is good reason why: Johnson addressed his strikebreaking speech especially: té*the American Fed- eration of Labor officials. He did that because the leaders of the A. F. of L., the Greens, the Wolls, the Lewises, have already shown themselves to be willing agents of the whole N.R.A. strikebreaking machinery, Jobnson’s strikebreaking speech was already an- ticipated, thanks to the carefully timed machinery of the whole strikebreaking Roosevelt. propaganda ap- paratus, by Green’s recent spéech, ‘warning the’ work- ers to be “cautious” in the use of the strike weapon. a . JOHNSON’S speech to the assembled A. F. of L. buro- crats was a call to them, as past masters of betrayal and treachery, to strangle the enormous strike strug- gles of the American workers, now rising to new tre- mendous -heights. It was a desperate call to them to Head off the growing movement of the American workers into the sphere of the revolutionary trade unions, ‘a call to them to throttle the fast rising rebellion of the rank and file A. F. of L. workers, a rebellion which even the steam-roller tactics of the A. F. of L. Convention could not wholly restrain, “I implore you to acquit yourselves like... Amererican leaders im this great crisis...You are like the boy at the Holland dike with his finger at the crevice...You are the principal. props against collapse.” And the Greens, the Wolls, the Lewises, all the corrupt and venal apparatus of A. F. of L. official- dom, listened with pleasure and understanding. They know what Johnson, talking.for the big monopoly cap- italists, expects of them. And their applause shows that they fully intend to fulfill the high hopes the capitalists place in them. The Roosevelt government, successful in tightening the group of monopoly capital, but facing the failure of the vaunted N.R.A, to provide jobs, to alleviate hunger, to solve the hideous capitalist crisis, prepares for more open class war, In every A. FP. of L. local, in every revolutionary trade union, in every factory, mine and mill, where workers gather, this Roosevelt-Johnson threat to out- law the strike weapon must be met with the answer of trade union organization increased a hundredfold for the resolute defense of the interests of the work- ing class, for the right to strike against capitalist robbers Ww | IN THE U.S, A.! To NORTH GERMAN PIERS YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 —By Burck MAGNE Disarming Totters as Powers Prepare for Impending War Sham Air War in Two Countries; Japan, U.S. Naval Race GENEVA, Oct, 11—As the Disarm- ament Conference lay in a state of suspended animation until next. Monday, the nations’ delegates here) tried to find another goat for their failure to do what they allegedly came here for—actually disarm. The fact that Japan, which is no longer in the League, is feverishly in- creasing its armaments for war against the Soviet Union and enter- ing into a naval building race with the United States, which is also not a League member, is cited as an ex- cuse for the impending total break- down of disarmament negotiations. Reports from Australia and South Africa of big appropriations for war- |ship and coastal fortress construc- |tion, and the huge navy appropria- tions set aside for new warships by President Roosevelt under the re- indicate the imminence of a very real war danger. Great Britain and the United | States are trying to act as mediators between the Hitler demands for re- arming and France's resolute will to maintain its military domination over Europe. Norman Davis, Ameri- jean Ambassador-at-large, is confer- ting with Paul-Boncour, French For- eign /Minister, and holding secret talks with Rudolf Nadolny, German delegate, in an effort to keep the conference here from expiring. England and America are both en- deavoring to play Italy off against covery act in the United States, also | | weeks of September to 3,010, as com- France, while seeking guarantees from France in exchange for their blocking Germany’s re-arming. VIENNA, Oct. 11.—Preparing for a war which they believe to be “un- avoidable,” two of Germany’s neigh- | bors held large-scale air war maneu- | | vers last night. The Austrian army’s maneuver: Central Europe Prepares for Air War |CTUSh the general strike | | | j capital of Czechoslovakia, with army Relief Applications in Cleveland Rise CLEVELAND, Ohio .—Prosperity may be returning—but not so that Cleveland jobless are noticing it. For the week ending Sept. 25 the number of requests jumped to 795, bringing the total applications for the four pared with 2,447 applications received in August—an increase of 23 per cent in the course of the month, Relief officials do not expect any decrease in the total number receiv- ing relief. On the contrary, they say, it is more than likely that the num- ber of relief lists will increase during | the winter months, General Strike in Vienna Threatened to Curb Dolfuss Trade Unions Protest Ban on Labor Press; Heimwehr Mobilized VIENNA, Oct. 11,—The workers of this city began anti-government demonstrations in the — streets last night, as the Dollfuss dictatorship suppressed the Socialist “Arbeiter-Zeitung,” last legal work- ers’ paper. and arrested the leaders of the Workers Choral Society on charges of seditious activity. A number of 2-hour protest strikes throughout the day in several indust- ries were called in preparation for a nation-wide general strike. The trade unions are conferring late tonight on the calling of a gen- eral strike to tie up the whole city in protest against the government’s at- tack on the labor movement. The Heimwehr (Fascist troops) were mobilized this afternoon, and r~ eimwehr formations were held in jreadiness at district head | force. ustria, while gigantic sham air warfare took place over Prague, the lanes bombing an abandoned exhi- bition hall and anti-aircraft guns were held at Neunkirchen in Lower! booming out all over the city. jheard from every Answer the Appeal of Cuban Masses; “Hands Off Cuba!” Call for Cc Committees Everywhere by Anti- Imperialist League NEW YORK.—The Anti-Imperial- ist League calls for nation-wide sup- port of its Cuban campaign in an- swer to the appeal of the workers and peasants of Cuba for help in their struggle for liberation from American imperialism. It calls upon every organization of workers, farm- ers, students and intellectuals to take immediate steps toward forming Hands Off Cuba Committees to spread the struggle against interven- tion in Cuba among the widest pos- sible sections of the American masses. The Hands Off vuba committees should be formed in every city, town, neighborhood and organiza- tion. They should consist of groups of people, ready and eager to answer the appeal of the Cuban masses to help them “prevent the destruction of our cities and villages. Prevent the war of your bankers against the Cuban people.” They should gain support for the delegation being sent to Cuba by the Anti-Imperialist League, Every reader of the Daily Worker should immediately, upon reading this appeal, communicate with the Anti-Imperialist League at 33 E. 20th St., New York City, regarding aid in forming these committees. They will be sent petitions, stickers, form tele- grams, pamphlets and other litera- ture on Cuba and exact information as to how to form a Hands Off Cuba Committee. Let the cry “Hands Off Cuba!” be section of the country! The Anti-Imperialist League will supply speakers and leaflets to any organization in and around New York willing to call Hands Off Cuba meetings. Keep Your Party on the Ballot, Res- Grau Regime Tries to Build Yellow Unions in Cuba Wall Street Banks Pay-Government Checks After Mella Massacre and Surrender of Officers Prove Regime Is “Safe” HAVANA, Cuba, Oct. 5 (By Mail. city is quiet. But below it boil differences of the bourgeoisie. ricane reveals them. For two —On the surface the class antagonisms and factional Eyen such a thing as a hure whole days a hurricane wasted the island. But even in the worst hours shooting was going on. A.B.C. members cruised the city of ® Havana in powerful cars and shot up the police, the soldiers and the uniformed and armed members of the radical AB.C. Many were killed and wounded. The government having shown its strength through the shooting of workers first and then through the arrest of the officers, is trying to con- solidate itself. Yankee imperialism, which at the birth of the existence of the Grau-Batista government thought to intervene, evidently changed its mind when it saw that this government handled the workers worse than did Machado. It has been learned from author- itative sources that all Wall Street banks—the First National, Chase National, First-National of Boston, etc, began paying government checks for the first time only after the events of the 29th, when work- ers were killed and after the capitu- lation of the officers. Hull’s statement that no interven- tion is even thought of is widely used here by the government to prove that it is stable and that it will gain 3} recognition. The Corporaciones Eco- nomicas, the local Chamber of Com- merce which solidly supported the A.B.C., after the events of the Mella funeral decided to reconsider its whole attitude to the government. Thus the forces of the counter-revolution are trying to unite in order to attack the forces of the revolution. But this unity is still very far off. Already “Alma Mater,” the organ of the students, has come out with a sharp editorial calling for limited sugar production. This is almost en- tirely opposed to the views of many important sugar interests, and hits the phrase-mongering of these dema- gogues who use the argument against, limited sugar crops to prove that they are with the “people.” It was exactly after this that the Students’ Directorate disavowed “Alma Mater” as its official organ. The A-B.C. con- tinues planning for a coup d’etat. Once again it is on the air with a private radio station. The last broad- cast yesterday gave statistics proving that the government of Grau-Batista has killed more people than Machado. riage ier K THE meantime the government is trying to build itself a base among the workers. It is not to be denied that it used the action of the soldiers in attacking the reactionary officers cleverly. It made a play at making this its own position and in this man- ner tried to gain the sympathy of the Minimum Pay on Public Works Job Denied by Baltimore Officials BALTIMORE, Md. — Unemployed workers on relief jobs who work at improving various. public properties are paid 30 cents an hour. When a demand was made for an increase to 45 cents, which is provided according to the pubic works section of the NRA, this was reported by the offi- cials. A delegation representing relief workers made their demands for the wage increase to relief officials and were informed that nothing can be done, A-large mass meeting is planned soon. which will elect a delegation to visit secretary of Interior Ickes to ister Communist October 9 to 14. demand the increase. (First of a series of articles from @ special correspondent in Leipziz, Germany, written during the trial of Ernst Torgier, Georgi Dimitrofi. | Vasil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff on framed charges in connection with tag by the Nazis. Discovery would mean certain death for the cor- respondent, whose dispatches had to be smuggled ont of Germany.) aise LEIPZIG, Sept. 29.Tt is really very difficult, in present-day Germany for a foreigner, whose. every sisp is spied upon, to establish contact with the various strata of the population. The inquirer runs a big chance of being the victim of a denunciation, and of falling into the hands of the police of the “Third Reich.” To any~ one who is familiar with the methods of investigation used by the police, which include every instrument of torture, no precautiorl seems too great. Nevertheless, like all other foreign observers, without exception—and basing myself more on the testimony of workers than any of them—tI have been able to judge how far the situ- ation has changed in Germany since the month of March. While at the time it was very dif- ficult, and even impossible, to getto know the lives of people, now, om the contrary, as soon as one has won their confidence, they drop. the mask. My observations brought mé to the following double conclusion: first, the current politics of the Nazis have brought about a profound disillusion; secondly, the revolutionary organiza- tions have increased their activity. Communist Propaganda Plays Greatest Role. It is not difficult to see that Com- munist propaganda plays the greatest role in this change, and that it has a considerable influence on opinion. It is well known of course that it has occupied the attention number of publications in all coun- tries, which have published inquiries and articles on the subject. The vitality which our comrades have shown in their propaganda has even inspired certain journalists to the prophecy that this fall or this How German Comenteit ists Work Under Nazi Terror ‘The Technique of Illegal Propaganda Highly | Dev eloped by Resourceful “Croups | of Five” | 5 the burning of the German Reichs- | winter would see the fall of the Hitler regime, We know that it is a main task to overthrow the regime of the brown butchers, but it is premature to make any exact prophecies. It is important to know under what circumstances the German Commu- nist Party now carries on its intensive activity, and what progress has been. made in the work of anizing ant drawing together all the revolutionary forces under its leadership. What is the state of the organi- zation? I succeeded in getting in touch with some leading comrades of the C.P.G. and in obtaining informa- tion from them. First of all, it is not doateniae that, during the first weeks of .the4 dictatorship, the Party should have felt, many heavy blows. To say that the terror has had no effect would be to lie, to speak madly. A sort of sifting process is going on, but new forces are coming in. The “groups of five” built up recently work with great ardor, our comrades assure us, and with grow- ing success. It is especially in the in- dustrial regions, in the’ factories, that. 2 great number have been established. ‘There are factories in which numer- uS groups of this sort are function- ‘ng. The members of one group do ot know those of another. There is “19 connection between them within he factory. Only one man knows of a great, these groups, their number, and their importance. He directs the activity of each group and establishes the connection between them, and with the leading comrades of the party be- sides. How do these grouns work? ‘Their first and principal task is the spread- ing of agitational material, observa- —-. activities. The leaflets, pamphlets, news- papers, spread for months among the broad masses of Germans, the inscrip- tions that one runs across everywhere, the various demonstrations organized under the very noses of the police, are all ingloetoniast | this tremendous or- tonal ont could be written on | the 'methdds.of.- distributing. iHegal literature, Varied as they are, there are none which is not, or has not been, employed. No means, no in- vention, is neglected. No corner re- mains unexplored to ascertain whether it. is a maecoreble spot to leave a leaflet. or not. You £0 Sate the post office; you pick up the directory to find a telephone number, and you find in it a mimeographed lenflet. You get on a bus: yeu pick up a newspaper left lying there—and in- side it you find a printed “Rote Fahne.” Very frequently the newspapers you read are forced to tell that suddenly, from the balcony or from the win- dows of ‘a large store or from a church-steeple, or from the roof of a tall house, a rain of leaflets has fallen into the street. Usually, the police announce the volved, we made up pieces of ap- paratus, in the form of a balance; on one end of a board we put a pile of leaflets and on the other a counter-weight which could be pulled off with a string. The po- lice learned te spot these machines. We had to invent something else. On one end of such a balanced board we put the leaflets, on the other, a receptacle filled with water, with a hole in it. When the water fan out, the leaflets were dis- tributed automatically. “This invention unleashed the en- ergy of all the ‘engineers’ of the Party, who were searching frantically for such a scheme. “The police breathed fire and brim- stone! “In this way, many other methods of agitation were discovered. The development of the Nazi spy system made the old method of distributing leaflets from door to door, impossible. The great nuuber of arrests forced us to abandon it. “Also, the distribution was limited to certain hours. Once in one place, the next in another. The distributers were camouflaged; they are women carrying leaflets in their shopping- bags, etc.” _ The Young Communists have dis- tinguished themselves especially in this illegal work. Their specialty is the painting of slogans on slop- ing Toofs, sidewalks, walls. For all fact with the curt conclusion: “The culprits ‘could not be identifi It happens, of course, that com- rades are arrested for such things. But in comparison with the more and more frequest repetition of such dis~ tributions, less.and less persons are being caught. Our comrades have learned a great deal. “Have you really improyed your methods so much?” I asked. tion of the spirit and attitude of their shopmates, and the preparation of workers’ struggles. The “groups of five” outside of fac- tories, in the varagi anes erdd offices and in the blocks, conduct parallel]. “I am going to give you an ex- ple—the distribution of leaflets,” was the answer. “At first, we used to throw them from @ roof, and Lipari oe Ed ‘as we could, Then, to diminish the risks in- the vigilance of the police, new in- scriptions appear on every street- corner. I walked through the workers’ section of Leipzig. I saw inscrip- tions in red paint or in nese as over: “Long live the C.P.G.!” “Free Torgler!” or, “Down with ne Supreme Court!” And this is a city which, for sev- eral days, has resembled an en- trenched camp, in the middle of an army of cops whose attention is. Workers and the city poor ‘Who were against the officers. To an extent this maneuver succeeded. Now it is helping the Federacion Obrera to rebuild itself and is trying to make of it a reformist labor center. On the 29th when the headquarters Of the Confederation were smashed, the Federacion also was “attacked.” In.compensation the government sent if new furniture and 1,000 chairs, the expense having amounted to $1,800 according to reports. Its head« quarters are open. A few days ago the renegade leaders of the Federacion tried to call a “united front confer- ence’ to build their center and de clared “that now that the Confeder- ation.is dead, a new center is needed.” This. fell through. Their attempts continue, but the revolutionary unions are unmasking these enemies of the working class and are fighting’ all the harder to defeat them. - Attacks Against Hevelution Grow. Hai attack against the revolutionary Movement continues unabated. There are arrest-warrants out against all: known leaders of the unions, Com- munist Party and Y.CL. The new Police knows them well, since as members of the AB.C., these new cops and army officers sat in the same prisons with our comrades, where they swore that they never would persecute them when they would come into power. But already resistance is growing. Today 30 delegates of revolutionary unions went to the Secretary of State to.demand re-opening of all centers and the payment of damages for smashed and destroyed furniture, ree- ords; etc. ‘Here and there in Havana strikes: are-again beginning and in the in- terior extending in spite of the worst sort. of terror. The government ds trying to disrupt the revolutionary organization before it is unmasked by its inability to improve the condi- tions of the country and of the toil- ing population. Its attack will fail. Already it has been forced to release some workers and students arrested becalse of mass pressure and fear of> mass struggle. -The general situation {s Worse each day. Unemployment and hunger are growing. The attacks against the newly won gains of the Workers are increasing and lowering their conditions of labor. In many places the bosses just state that they signed because of fear and will net pay the new scales. When workers teject this then the Army is called against them. But the soldiers also do not wish to-fight against workers. Those that’ do are doped by propaganda of. the": Students’ Directorate leaders, who say that the Communists want to destroy Cuba and give it to im~= perialism. This argument is double- edged and in many places its” effect is already shown. For example, when soldiers saw that students and young workers belonging to the Ala Izqui- erda (Left Wing) and the Y.C.L. came and took part in the fighting against the reactionary officers to- gether with the. same soldiers who only yesterday shot at the workers: and students, they began to think that<their leaders betrayed them, The reaction is already setting in, : oo Communist Party Leads. IOWEVER, the devélopméent of events now depends nearly en- tirely upon the revolutionary move ment and its leadership, the Commu- nist Party of Cuba. If a determined Tegction of workers against terror is organized, if mass strikes and dem- onstrations continue and intensify, the “unity” of this government will be destroyed and its basis weakened. Raising the slogan of “all power to workers and peasants aided by Sail- ors’ and Soldiers’ Committees,” the Patty is leading the workers and the toiling masses in genéral towards the enti-feudal and anti-imperialist revo- Jation. The rapidity of developments will be determined by the fight of the Communists and the revolutionary Workers and peasants for their ime mediate demands and against the employers’ offiensive, and in the ex- fension of these struggles to ever higher levels of struggle against the government as the government of bourgeois-landlord and imperialist rule, and for a Soviet Cuba. ‘Workers’ Enemies =» Exposed Sam Saunders, of Brooklyn, N.! Yuya Party member for about years, has been expelled from th Communist Party as a, dangerops, disriiptive element. ‘Th the Flatbush Workers Club he has carried on a campaign of slander against the Party and against the leading comfades in the Club: He has doné every. thing’ to disrupt . the ‘activities of the Club and to transform it from a class-struggle organization into a “bourgeois social club under his leadership. He was expelled from the. Flatbush Workers Club, by its. membership, as a “dangerous demagogue and disrupter.” : As such, and as a_petty-bourg- geois. counter-revolutionary ele» ment, who has been under suspis, ions while still a member of See. tion. No. 1, Saunders has no plac in the Communist Party. Al yd ad are warned aga’ this a i tee