The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1933, Page 6

Page Six ~ “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 + Published daily, except sunday, t Go., Inc., 50 East 13th Street, ‘Telephone: Algonquin 4- able Address: Washington Bureau Room With and G. St, Washingtor omprodaily Publishing N, ¥ York, N. ¥ National Press Building, Subscription Rates: {By Mail: (except Manhat 1 year, $6.00; 6, months, $3.50; 3 mont 75 cents, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents TUESDAY, “OCTOBER 17, 19 3. Miners Face Danger By FRANK BORICH. National Miners’ Union.) being made to break (Secretary of the NEW concentrated eff the heroic. miner: e. All the enemies of the Mainers are urited in this latest attem All have come out in the open he m is thrown off. The ment, the operators determined to break The gove mailed fist is evidence and the U.M.W.A. m leaders the strike. The miners’ strike has entered a new phase The whole capitalist class and its Roosevelt gov- etnment looks upon the outcome of the miners’ strike @s decisive to the future development of the labor movement. The N.R.A. has come out more openly than ever for the oven shop. This is to be seen not only in the speeches of Perkins, McGrady, Johnson and Roose- ‘velt but in the “new check-off agreement” that has been worked out by the open »perators with the full support of Pres This check-off is @ complete recognition of the This brings to.a climax the controversies that have raged for weeks @round the open shops as embodied in the various codes, especially the auto code with its “merit clause.” Until now the government tried to appear neutral, hiding behind the plea of “no interpretations of section a.” “Now the mask is off. The government openly sides “with the open shop operators, with the steel trust. » The new arrangement calls for the operators agree- ing to check off the dues for those miners who indi- Vidually ask that it be done. The miners have the “fight” to ask that this deduction be made for one or the other organizations. The U.M.W.A. is not even mentioned by name. What this means can be seen from the fact that the employers have already formed a number of company unions. Sad leaders of the U.M.W.A. are forcing the miners to .Teturn to work. By this act they give full approval tothe open shop. They once more betray the strike of nearly 100,000 miners. They open up the way for the smashing of the entire organization built by the miners. These leaders, who owe their first allegiance to the bosses and the bosses’ government, are caught in. their own net of contradictions. Having no ob- jections to organize the miners under their leader- ship they now help to destroy this organization in the taterests of the bosses. They do this’ because they are ‘the tools of the bosses. Because they themselves be- ~-eome frightened by the militancy that the miners are exhibiting. Basing themselves on the N.R.A. with its .he strike policy, they have only one road in the face ©£ the rising militancy of the miners. As to their own special economic interests they will have to be satis- as best they can be through the conditional check- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1933 ployed and the unemployed miners. It is necessar to draw into the leadership the Negro miners and as sure them that all miners will fight for their special | demands and against any attempted discrimination. It is necessary to draw the militant young miners into | responsible positions on the basis of a fight for their special demands. It is necessary to bring into the | fight the women folk, the wives and daughters of the miners, and also the miners’ children. And even the | workers in the other industries, the neighboring farm- | ers, the small business men, can be enrolled for sup- port to the miners’ fight. They must-all be made to understand that the outcome of the miners’ struggle will have great bearing on their immediate welfare. b Rt strike must express its aims more clearly, |The miners are not fighting merely for the check-off so that the betrayers can have plenty of cash to get fat upon and for fighting the rank and file. The min- ers must demand recognition of their chosen union and of their mine committees elected by themselves and not appointed by the officials. Now Lewis is to be rec- ognized but not the miners own rank and file and dem- ocratically elected representatives. The miners are the | union and not Lewis or Fagan. : CH where it can be enforced in their interest. The wr know of the corruption of the Lewises and Murra: the Fagans and Feeneys Th know | iat it was not difficult for the Farringtons to go over *4n one day from the payroll of the U.M.W.A. to the “payroll of the Peabody Coal Company. Nor are we S0 naive as to believe that Farrington was not on the “Ronor role” of the Peabody Coal Company before the ¢limax of his career of treachery. And it is not diffi- cult to guess about the present top leaders. IN THE present concentrated attack we see that the Ryans who until now, efther because of a game they Played. to maintain the confidence of the miners or because of the mass pressure of the miners, opposed the Lewises and Mur: called upon the miners to fight, are now entering the road of open betrayal, What else can we conclude from the limitation of. picketing that will clearly result in dividing the miners and lay the basis for a repetition of the 1922 betrayal? Now tlie miners know where they stand. They can see openly who they are At the same time the bosses are building the com- Pany-unions. The government is threatening the with- @rawal of relief to the miners. The government: is Preparing to use the brutal Ambridge terror against the striking miners. But if will not be so easy to defeat the miners. ‘The miners have great experience and tradition. The miners have developed a great solidarity. ‘To defeat all their enemies the miners must be clear about their tasks. The central task is to develop @-central leadership of the miners themselves to lead the strike. It is necessary that sole reliance be placed upon the militant rank and file representatives elected by the miners themselves. Such rank and file com- Mittees should be elected or extended in all mines. It 4s necessary to organize a central leadership of the stfike independent of the betrayers of the miners. Without such a leadership the strike will be broken by the bureaucrats. “It is necessary to continue and strengthen mass Picketing, to force the authorities to give relief to the miners. This requires joint actions of the em- Detroit AL. Head|| 75,000,000 Acres of Winter Grain Already Sown in Soviet Union Fights Die Makers By an Auto Worker Correspondent | (From the Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) ‘DETROIT, Mich.—The striking | The miners must not only fight for the right to or- ganize but for the right to strike against compulsory arbitration. The m*ers must fight against the at- tempt to rob them of their earnings through the vari- ous schemes contained in the code as to dead work, regulation of checkweighmen and similar devices. The miners must also make their demands in the strike the original demands of $5 for a 6-hour day. | e miners must fight against the provisions for starv- | ation wages for the outside workers generally an‘ the | young miners in particular. The strike is now facing a critical stage. But the | Power of the miners in strong. The reserves of the miners are tremendous. Organization, solidarity, mil- itancy and determination will defeat all enemies. The miners can now see the correctness of the | warnings of the National Miners’ Union. The National | Miners’ Union has made its cause the cause of the min- | ers. It is supporting the fight of the miners for recog- nition of the U.M.W.A. It is supporting the miners in their fight for organization. But the National Miners’ Union is alive. It lives in the experiences of the tens of thousands of miners who fought under its banner in the strike of 40,000 miners in 1931 and the April strike of this year. It lives in the growing rank and file opposition that is now being built to provide | leadership in the critical phase of the strike. Already the rank and. file opposition has made a record of | holding the strike intact and warding off all attempts to break the strike. The workers throughout the country have much at stake in this strike.. The miners must receive the full support of the workers throughout the country. The Trade. Union.Unity League and its affiliated unions | are giving and will make greater efforts to give sup- port to the miners. It addressed a letter to the recent A. F. of L. convention demanding support for the | Strike. It was turned down by Green, Lewis and Co. The AF.L. rank and file, numbering millions, must repudiate this betrayal by giving full support to the striking miners. ————SEE The Broun Method N beatae who are still ensnared by the “liberal” jour- nalism of the New York World-Telegram might consider Heywood Broun’s column on Hitler on Satur- day. Broun, who some’ months ago minimized -reporis of Nazi atrocities in Germany, now comes forward with the declaration that: “The case against Adolf Hitler does not depend, and need not depend, upon such testimony, (reports of atrocities—Editor). The true indictment rests upon his own words and his own deeds.” Such is the facile manner in which Broun dis- misses the need for continuous exposure of the ‘mur- der deeds of the fascist regime in Germany. Such is the way in which he seeks to lull into inactivity those who would fight the Hitler terror, which has temporarily enslaved the German working class. ©) eee | rasan behind the profes’‘onally “genial” manner of an informal columnist is a cynical unconcern for the thousands of courageous enemies of the Hit- ler regime who have been killed, tortured and maimed. “In order to simplify things,” writes Broun, “we might say:—There is always the possibility of ex- aggeration in regard to isolated happenings’.” Does he, perhance, have in mind:“The Brown Brook of the Hitler Terror’? This book—although compiled by men who are far from being Communists—is an astounding rcital of the murderous acts of the Hitler regime. “Shocking” is a pallid word with which to describe the revelations in this book regarding the brutally sadistic acts of the Nazi. Moreover, despite the iron-clad ‘censorship, details of the Nazi terror | have seeped out of Germany which have aroused millions to a bitter hatred of the fascist regime. Upon Heywood Broun, needless to say, it has had no such effect. The horrors of the Nazi regime are | to him but another spectacle to’ be commented upon in his syndicated columns in a casual, easy-going, “genial” way. The much-touted “charm” of Broun’s style should not delude anyone as to the pernicious character of | the poison which he peddles. ee Cnet se Ie THE light of Broun’s whole approach to this issue, it is not at all surprisirig’ to find that he does not find it necessary to call attention to the dramatic exposures of Nazi espionage and murder plans, as revealed in recent issues of the Daily Worker. Events are rapidly showing who .are.the real fight- ers against Fascism—not.only. in.Germany, but also in the United States—where the seeds of fascism are sprouting high. ‘ * | The Daily Worker has shown that in this fight it is—and will continue ‘to bein the’ forefront! | ‘Longshoremen to ‘Boycott Nazi Cruiser TACOMA, Wash, Oct. 8 (By mail.\—The longshoremen of Tac- We CoLLECT Our Part “Now swells the glad voice of the nation, “Now breaks the bright dawn of new day; “Black hopenessness yields to elation, “Exultant they ery, Trish. and English Toilers United at Mann Meeting Mother Bloor, Jim Gralton, Shake Hands and Pledge Fight Against Imperialist War (From “NRA,” by Thornton Oakley, with appropriate decorations, in the October issue of American Federationist, organ of the A. F. of L.) | “Now Swelis the Glad Voice” of the Bankers | By ROBERT MINOR. N.R.A!” forest fire on Oct. 5. Jected the slander of the Los An- fire, and denounced this attempt to 2,000 Workers Find Officials Guilty in Fire Tragedy Demand Prosecution; Hit Denial of Relief Ree Bag ts To Victims’ Kin LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16—A work~- ers’ jury of 2,000 tonight found the city ‘and county officials and the Civilian Concentration Camps guilty of ctiminal negligence and murder in the roasting alive of over 68 re~ lief workers in the Griffith Park Over a dozen witnesses testified that the murdered Negro. and white jobless workers had been ordered to their death in the inferno of flame by the agents of Los Angeles County Relief Bureau. The 2,000 workers unanimously re- geles “Red Squad” that the Com- munist Party was responsible for the evade responsibility of local officials for the mass murders. The meeting condemned the present attempt of local officials to avoid paying in- surance to the families of the mur- dered men on the grounds that they were “indigehts and patgpers” and not workers for wages. ‘The workers voted to turn over the collected evidence to the Grand Jury, with a ‘demand for the prosecution of the officials responsible for the tragedy. , The hall was packed to capacity with indignant workers, while hun- dreds were turned away. The mass / trial was organized by the Interna- tional Labor Defense and the Relief Workers’ Protective Union. Mann, veteran English Labor leader, Sunday night. Tuesday, the last day of his permitt then the State Department has granted Tom Mann a two-week ex- tension and he will continue to speak in America and rally the work- ers to the banner of the American League Against War and Fascism, for which. he came. Enthusiastically cheering the dy- namic British labor leader: at what Was supposed to have been a fare- weil meeting, the keynote was sounded’ when Mother Ella’ Reeve Bloor, veteran’ American labor’ lead- send-off, but. it’s not goodbye, be- cause Tom Mann is only 78 and he’s coming back to’see us again.” A fit settitig-to the Tom’ Mann meeting was ‘the report of the youth delegates to the International Youth Anti-War Cofigress\ in Paris. Rep- resentatives..of. America, a Negro Ford worke?<anhd a marine worker who recently-réturned from that in- spiting youth gathering, reported on the fight. against war carried on by the international. toiling youth. Tom Mann, representative ~ of British labor, and Jim Gralton, Irish rebel leader who was deported to the United States ‘from Ireland, ‘shook hands in solidarity. Tom Mann de- clared that while it is his govern- ment which is imperialistically hold- ing Ireland in .bondage, still he, as an Englishman, was fighting that government for the freedom of Ire- land and all colonial countries of Great Britain, Thousands of workers cheered this demonstration, as Jim Gralton promised to carry on the fight, for | which he was deported from Ire- | land, in the. United States, the fight for working .class freedom. Mother Ella Reeve Bloor spoke on the struggles of the steel workers in Ambridge, and of how she spoke at | the point. of a gun on the grave of | one of the steel workers murdered by company thugs. Loud cheers for the British work- ing class, and the solidarity of work- ers of all countries, rang through the hall. Annie Gray of the Woman’s League for Peace, Donald Henderson of the American League Against War and NEW YORK, N. ¥.—Three thousand New York, workers heard Tom Tt was then thought that he would have to leave for England on er and ‘organizer, said: “This is al » Speak in the St. Nicholas Arena on ed 10-day stay in America, But a Fascism, Jim Gralton, Irish deport- ed worker, Tom Mann, Ella Bloor, | Thomas Joyce, carried the pledge} | further to fight against imperialist | war, and rally workers of all shades | of opinion to the fight against war. ae es since | DETROIT, Mich.— Joseph Free- man, editor of the New Masses,, will| | be one of, the speakers at'a mass | meeting in Arena Gardens Thurs- | day, Oct. 19, at which Henri Bar- busse, internationally famous French | writer, will be the chief speaker. | M. Barbusse and. Mr. Freeman will also speak at a literary evening and reception to.be given by the John | Reed Club of Detroit in the Fort | Wayne Hotel, Temple and Cass, on | Wednesday evening, Oct. 18. The | Arena Gardens meeting will’ be *un- der the auspices of the Detroit Com- mittee Against War. Henri Barbusse, famous revolution- | ary writer, arrived in this country Sept. 30 to attend the United States Congress Against War, which was| | held in New’ York Sept. 30, Oct. 1} and 2, | Newark First To. Meet) ‘Call for Hands Off Cuba Committees Here NEWARK.—The first response to the call of the Anti-Imperialist League for the formation of Hands Off Cuba Committees in every city, neighborhood and organization, is the | organization of such a committee by the Jack London Club of Newark, N. J. Nine members of the club have voluntarily joined in order to spread the Cuban campaign through- \out the city of Newark. Comrades from the. John Reed Club of New York also called upon the Anti-Imperialist League to sup- | ply them ‘with all the necessary ma- | terial for the formation, of such a committee. A’ call came also from ‘the City of Ithaca, N. Y., for the immediate dispatch of all available agitational material on Cuba in or- der to facilitate the formation of Hands Off Cuba Committees, | the “Vogtland,” with the support; of Longshoremen Pull Swastika Flag Off “S. 8. Vogtland” NEW YORK.—Longshoremen, at the port of Corpus Christi, Texas, removed the fascist swastika flag from the German steamship, “Vogt- land,” according to word received by the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, The action took place about the middle of September, it was learned, and is contained in the following message received from the marine union: “We, the crew of the S. S. Fair- field, saw, in the port of Corpus Christi, the Nazi flag evicted from the mast of the S, S. Vogtland by the longshoremen ot gangs No. 1 and 2 holds aboard this ship. They claimed they were getting too many clubs over their heads without working with that bloody rag over them.” In March of this year the crew of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union branch in New York, went on strike, demanding the removal of the Nazi cook and improvement in the feeding scale of the ship. After sev- eral days’ strike, the men won their demands. Attorney, Barred by Nazis at Arson Trial, to Speak In Phila. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16.—David Levinson, prominent Philadelphia at- torney, just returned from the Reich- stag arson “trial” will speak on the infamous trial at Turnagameindo Hall, Broad Stret and Columbia Ave. It will be the first public appearance of Levinson since his arrival in this country last Saturday. Levinson was one of a number of prominent Am- erican and European attorneys who were prevented by the Nazi gover 1- ment’ and courts from defending the four framed Communist leaders now on trial’ for their lives in Berlin in connection. with the Reichstag arson, despite* overwhelming evidence of Nazi’ responsibility for the outrage. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the Philadelphia Committee for the Defense of Poli- tical Prisoners. The Philadelphia Committee has been active recently in protesting against the Berwyn School Segregation Case, in which 223 Negro children In the townships of Easttown and Tredyffrin have been‘ barred from attending the new $220,000 school building, and are now without educational facilities, N US.S.R. Prepares _ Celebration of 16th Anniversary New Projects Rushed to Completion for the Revolution Festival Show Vital Initiative of the Soviet Masses By VERN SMITH Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Oct, 16.—In preparation for the celebration of the Sit. teenth Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution the Moscow Commission in charge of arrangements has issued a call to all local commissions, asking them to keep in touch with it and to send all delegates to the Soviet Union off on time to arrive there on November 6. Cuba, Mexico, In Secret Treaty to Shield Assassins Pact Revealed When Murderer of Mella Asks Acquittal MEXICO CITY, Oct. 4, (By Mail). —A secret agreement for the protec- tion of assassins in the pay of their respective governments was signed in March, 1927, between the govern- ments of Cuba and Mexico, it was revealed here today. The occasion of this revelation was a demonstration called by the Socorro Rojo International (I. L. D.), against an attempt by the lawyer hired to defend Lopez Valinez, mur- derer of Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban Communist leader killed here in 1929, to obtain a reversal of the sentence of sixteen years imposed on him by the Mexican court. Another parti- cipant in the murder of Mella was killed by workers in Cuba during the uprising which forced Machado to resign and flee from the country. At the demonstration, a speaker for the I. L. D. demanded action by the prosecutor aaginst Machado him- self, who was admittedly the direct instigator of the murder. The public prosecutor answered that this was impossible, as in March, 1927, two months after the murder of Mella, the Mexican and Cuban Sovernment reached a re- ciprocal it under which neither country would prosecute for crimes committed within their boundaries by officials of the other. Mass Protest Frees Peru C. P. Secretary After Second Arrest LIMA, Peru, Oct, . 14—Eudocio Ravinez, secretary of the Communist Party of Peru, who escaped from a prison hospital last July, was arrested again here two days ago, and freed again within 24 hours when the mass protest of workers here forced the government to admit there were no charges against him. Ravinez had been held in prison for nearly a year, and was sent to the hospital in a serious condition last summer, suffering from the effects of torture and ill-treatment. While in the hospital, an attempt was made to poison him, but was frustrated by a nurse. Later, he escaped with the aid of other hospital patients, who though crippled and _ bed-ridden, covered his flight with well-aimed pitchers, chamber-pots and every- thing else handy. Book Mentioned in Nazis’ Spy Letter Published in U. S. “My Battle,” Hitler's scurrilous book that presents the Nazis’ poi- sonous attacks against the Com- munist Party, the working class and the Jews, was published in the United States last week by the Boston firm of Houghton Mifflin. It is clear that the publication of this book, to be distributed in large cuantities in the United States by German government subsidy, is part of the Nazi’s anti-working class drive in this country, (Fifth and last in a series of ar- ticles by a special correspondent in Germany, The first four dealt with the activities of the workers in Leipzig during the Reichstag | trial, This one deals with their work | in Berlin, The articles sent out | Were smuggies out of the country, and the material for them obtained | at the risk-of the correspondent’s | life.) | | tool and die makers in the Mechan-| ies Educational Society of America, classified by the bosses and bosses’ | ps as a radical organization be-| mause they are fighting for their! riehts President Frank X. Martel | of the Detroit A. F. of L. told| unionized metal polishers to keep| away from members of the M. E, S. of A. because that was a radical 0} ization. Detroit, Local No. 1,| M Polishers and Platers, at-| tended in full force at the M. E. S.| ‘A. mass meeting, and, despite el, they are ready to spread strike to Chrysler plants in jort of our fellow craftsmen. _ Chrysler Corp., the secret behind the attacks on the Workers, must be unionized 100 per We must concentrate on the| h plants. A meeting of shop stewards of | nM. E. S. of A. decided to put| nee Tat, Free ce on the black- .as unfair to labor. The mass Meeting decided to fight against the bosses’ ultimatum to the strik- ers to return to work, and the lines were strengthened. MOSCOW, Oct. 16.—Sowing of winter rain has forged ahead rap- idly throughout the Soviet Union; by October 10, nearly 75,000,000 acres had been sown to winter crops, fulfilling the sowing plan by 79.8 per cent at this early date. Collective farms have already sown about 85 per cent of their program. FORM GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE By a “Steel Worker Correspondent ANDERSON, Ind. —- The _ first workers to finish their shift in the | steel plant here have warm water. Those on later shifts have nothing but cold water. Workers, you know how danger- ous this is, when your body is very warm from the excessive heat in the shop and the speed-up system. Now workers, this can be changed and must be changed. A Grievance Committee is being formed to take care of this. “No surrender” js the slogan of oma showed their solidarity with the workers of Germany when they passed a motion at the membership meeting to refuse to recognize the | German cruiser due to arrive here in the Spring. The motion was made from the | floor by a rank and file member and | Was immediately seconded by another | worker, who explained the role of |the fascist Hitler in smashing the trade unions and other working class organizations, This motion fs a definite step for- ward in the beginning of a fight against growing fascism In this coun- try. If proves that the militancy .of the Northwest longshoremen, which was shown by the strike of the Seattle longshoremen against munitions to be used against the workers of Russia in 1919, is not dead. ‘The longshoremen should carry this fight into action much sooner by refusing to handle cargo aboard Ger- man ships arriving here with the bloody Swastika flying, as longshore- the strikers, Chrysler Employe. { / men have done in other ports thru- out the world, BERLIN, Oct. 1.—T! | about it, The appearance of the ca- the city, Unter den Linden, Friedrich- strasse, Leipzigerstrasse, and Pots- dam Platz, you find scores of Hitler's soldiers, rigged out in brown or black shirts, The guard corps men, in black shirts, look like-real soldiers, These form the protection guard of the regime, Its members are chosen from bourgeois families, and preferably from the families of army officers. It is said that only these guards corps men are wholeheartedly de- voted to’ Hitler, As for the storm troopers, dressed in brown shirts, the word is that those sections can scarcely be con- sidered as belng truly in the hands of the Fuehrer. “The brown-snirted Nazi are dressed variously. They wear torn, worn, caps, and run around Berlin like so'diers on leave, An old. worke* said to me in Berlin: “You'd' think these were the soldiers who used to’ Gofme to Berlin during the war, and act like conquering heroes—except: that at every hard knock they wondered: what are we - | Workers In German Ca As They Labor at throwing the Fascist Dictatorship pital In Fighting Mood the Task of Over- fighting for, anyway?” f i Storm Troopers Interned | | Oh, yes, this question is asked now, | ) and ‘the time will certainly come | ve's no doub: | When it will be asked openly, Thous-| that the “Mational Socialist Labor |ands of storm troopers who wanted pital of Germany has changed a lot. |to know the answer have’ been sent retreat. Everywhere you go, in the centcr of | to the concentration camps. Hitler | did it quite simply, He announced | that any rebels who appeared in his }own party were “hidden Communists | and Marxists.” | He cannet hide the fact that he is | powerless to give bread to the stary- ing. He cannot hide the fact in the months he ‘hos been in power, weges have already been lowered.directly or indirectly. And the Storm Troopers still working know this from their own pay envelopes. It is not surprising then, to find that they are annoyed with the big fat Nazis who ride about in fine cars. sit down in elegant restaurants, and spend happy days under the sign of the “Third Reich.” Anyone with the slightest power of observation will notice in Berlin that a new caste has been created, surpassing in arrogance even the Junkers of 1914, Saturday night, we went through Charlottenburg, Moabit, and Neu- Koelen. We passed by the welll-known Ludwig Loewe works..My guide told me of the mishaps of the Nazi cell which had the unfortunate notion igs was going to publish a factory paner. The paper was received so badly |Front” was forced to beat a hasty Wedding Still Is Red In the dark streets of Moabit, we passed a restaurant where a Storm Troop wes garrisoned. Two young |men stood as sentinels, staring with hostile eyes at everyone who passed. Penetrating further into the prole- |tarian quarter, we saw no more Storm Troopers or Guard Corps par- ading the streets. Here, they feel themselves in “occupied” territory. In every house live workers who are not satisfied that Adolf Hitler “rep- resents the German spirit and has ennobled workers’ blood,” but who know that he lets poor devils starve to death. Here live those who keep in mind, day and night, theirhun- dred thousand class-brothers, the anti-fascists who are locked up in the concentration camps. Tt is here that the leaflets and papers which pre- pare the end of Hitlerism are launched, In the working-class quarters of Red Berlin Under the Hitler Brown Terror pr Seeds as far from being conquered by the Nazi as Neukoeln and the working- class quarters to the west, The Communists work silently. From house to house, floor to floor, and hand to hand, the illegal news- Papers and leaflets are passed. Many small tradesmen, a_ few months ago warm partisans of Hitler, have quit the Nazi party now, and many more who have not dared go so far, have broken away from him in their thoughts. A united front of workers and the members of the middle class sympathetic to the re- volution is being forged. The business improvement, which not been realized, but on the con- trary, the buying power of the toiling masses has dropped still further with the diminishing wages. Now the small tradesman hopelessly watches the approach of the winter which the Nazis themselves have said will be “the worst in a hundred yeai's.” Tired of walking, we entered a small restaurant. The owner was at one time a member of the Communist. Party. To avoid losing his lease, he was forced to pretend to line up with the Nazis, Two workers sat silently before a stein of beer. “How are things, Hermann?” my companion asked, “Well, how do you expect them to be?” said one of them. “You can see for yourself! I'm the sole sur- vivor of Hitler's unemployed!” ‘They ffioke in Berlin. But it is with Wedding—the same picture, Here is red Koesliner street. My guide tells me that this: neighborhood : is d a sinister humor, If wise-cracks could kill, there would not be any Nazi gangsters the small tradesmen hoped for has! ‘© Assignments for decorating Mos- cow for the celebration have been given to the best painters, sculptors and architects in thé Soviet Union. Plans include a sculptured group on Red Square featuring interna- tional solidarity. The general theme of the Red Square decorations will be the international significance of |this anniversary of the Revolution. The Sternbergs, brothers Btid noted artists, are in charge of adorning Red Square. Model Canal and Subway in Moscow Square - Sverdlovsk Square,where the greas Bolshoi and Malii Theatres are lo- cated, will be decorated with a model of the new Baltic-White Sea Canal, while a giant model of the new Mos< cow subway will be erectéd across the street. Portraits of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the So- viet Union will adorn the facade of the Moscow Soviet Hotel. ‘Thé square in front of the’ House of Unions will have as its theme the extension of the Volga to the Krem- lin walls to celebrate the commence- ment of work on the Moscow-Volga canal project. Three women, two of them painters and one an engineer, will work on these decorations. The decorative theme in Arbat Square will be the movies and the Second Five-Year Plan, while Revo- lution Square will feature the rein- forcement of the country’s defenses, New Volga Bridge to Open Other preparations for the an- niversary celebration throughout the Soviet Union include the open- ing of a new bridge on Nov. 7 across the Volga at Gorki, formerly Nizhni-Novgoroa). ‘Chis prkige shortens the route from Moscow to e Far North by 180 miles; At Yaroslav, the first five-ton truck made by the factory there, pro- duced with a Soviet motor, will be presented to the nation. The Revolution Anniversary will be celebrated even in the city of Biela Rietzk, {n far-off Bashkiria, with the opening of four apartment houses, with eight apartments each, and another having 72 apartments, A new dining room for the metal- lurgical factory, another for the rail- way workers, and a dining room for 3,000 miners will also be opened to the public. Celebration In Oil Fields In Batum, down in the oil region, @ new Peasants’ House will be opened on Nov. 7, with 40 rooms, ‘a movie theatre, baths, a library, dispensary and radio equipment. Leningrad is now equipping sur- rounding areas with telephone ser- vice. The Leningrad art shop has just finished a monumental statue of Lenin, 43 feet high, which is to be unveiled on Nov. 7 in Minsk, cap~ ital of the White Russian Soviet Republic, Month of Culture In Poltaya The Poltava City Soviet and Com- munist Party Committee, in the Ukraine, have issued a decree mak- ing the present month of October a Month of Culture. The program in- cludes cleaning up the villages in the surrounding districts, installing radios, communal dining rooms, den- tists’ offices and barber shops, the planting of trees and the setting-up of music classes. All the Soviet organizations that are patrons of the Central Volga collective farms are sending 2,400 workers down there to build 1,500 camps for field brigades. A Gift to the Nation An interesting report of -prole- tarian initiative comes from the “Communist” coal mine in Chis- takovka. This mine has fulfilled its annual quota ahead of time and is now sending 10,000 tons of excess-quota coal as 2 present to the country in a tram named “rhe Sixteenth Anniversary.” The Baku newspaper, “Oil Der- rick,” and the Department of In- dustrial Building and Housing have started a special fund to finish six- teen apartment houses with 433 apartments by Nov. 7, Anniversary of German Soviet Republics ‘The Volga Gertnan Autonomous Republic will celebrate the fifteenth’ anniversary of its establishment on Oct. 19. The republic is now com- pletely collectivized, with the 100, former individual peasant. holdings’ united into collective“farms, “It now has three universities, four workers’ faculties, 14 technical institutes and many trade and elementary schools. Before the Bolshevik Revolution it had.no schools and the use of the German language was prohibited by the Czarist regime. Wortd’s Longest Air Line A new airplane line, the longest in the world, has just been openc4, running from Odessa to dhe. pen- insnla of Kamchatka in the Nortlt Pacific Ocean via Sakhalin Island. ‘The new air route, 11,700 miles Jong, connects the Pacific fisheries and fur and timber districts, pre= viously isolated most. of the. year, ‘ with the centers of the Soviet Union, ‘The first plane to fly the route has just returned from a flight made tr spite of bad weather and fog. ‘The bosers don't support the Dafly Worker. “Iis sunpert comes from the working class. Have you done your share to help the “Daily? Rush your contribution 4» the “Dally,” 50 E. 13th St., N. ¥. Clty, 4 @ ] ] & 4 i | i 4 v SOE: