The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1933, Page 6

Sa t Page Six “America’s Newspape FOUNDED 1924 Published daily, except s 4 ishing o,, Inc., 50 1 rt ew x Telephone: ALgong Cable Addr “Daiwork,” New York, N Washington Burea . D Press B 1¢th and G. St., Washing D Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except M ie: 1 6 months, $3.50; 3 § 0 5 Foreign and Canada: 1 y 00; 6 m $5.00; 8 tnont $3.00, By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cen 5 ESDAY ————— oC HHOUGH N.R.A. neg by Lew Co. 1 the knifing of e workers is done in the full light of « Weirton Steel 1 we West Vi over a ni the steel slave code when leadership cam of L. ciation. steel union officials. he A an men fought be won and and fought was on the v of t That is why the N playing the hoary Weir a sly virgin and an un i he wouldn't submit to Board. But after he rubbed elbows wi Lewis, the | completest harmony prevai eel trust had achieved its full obj — the ditional breaking of the str It is true, the men themse t to say the final word, but the A. F. of L. leadership have already plunged a sharp and well-used into the back of the strike, ‘HE Ambridge steel worke the Steel were , under the leadership of and Indu Union, they continue to organize t ing what the N.R.A. stz The Weirton of the y of the | cials, who failing to break the fighting spirit of the | men, join 1 Mr. Weir to use the ernment forces of the N,R.A. to break the strike h threadbare | The miners got even strong t comes with the als and sel strike cannot be continued now, every effort | made to build up shop and department among the rank and file, to expose the ciation leaders, to make the vote result in union not of the Amal; mated Associa an example ation offi- nittees betrayers. ss termed “an f the ‘ab- nin it ot of a lined up beh for the carryin pre United Sta “It is not € conditions of this kind, 1 a e mere voice our prot F because it carr little wei I to you, my friends, that if we declare that ‘the p rica will refuse to buy your goods and ri ur ships, we then Strike at the heart of this (Nazi) terror. This see is quite clearly a concession to t the millions of 1b among s of the A, F. of L. utions against of A F. of L r a 2 un. der Com p din militant demonstra be consulate Three, protest dtl even into an A. F. of L tion of the r their the A. F. of L, leaders to This action, though, is not of the A. F. of L, leaders to ¢ s movement, agains mF n attempt to lead the growing a. ment up a blind alley. . 18 absolutely not correct to , a5 Mr, Green states, f we declare that ‘the people of America will refuse to buy your goods and ride on your shi) trike the heart of this ter- tor.” The s a fascism is not so simple The pr 1 to boycott ods is petty- | bourgeois in its class 1 It is the method of strug- | gle which a in mind of the small store- | keeper manufacturer, a method which per- mits,them to combine their with inci i profits for themse | German goods they hope to find x their own goods. t the same h pur pas- sive forms of “resistance” to fascism conform to the characteristic petty bourgeois fear of militant, effective mass actions of the workers Now, however, the boycott: movement against Ger man goods also fiis into the world struggle of the alist powers for mar The United fox exampie, representing the big- gest Wall Street Kkers, and the biggest nufactur- ers and merchants, has no quarrel with Hitler's fascist Germany. In many ways it has supported Hitler. American bankers are supplying the Hitler regime with funds and credit. Under the N.R.A., the Wall Street bankers have started on a course which pre- pares the way for the fas suppression of the Amer- ican workers’ moyement as Hitler suppressed the trade unions in Germany. ‘They have no funda- mental difference with Hitler. Yet American impe ists, or other imperialists, are not adverse to a dec in German foreign trade. * Ke ten IREEN’S “impassioned speech” for the boycott, there- fore, fits very well into American petty bourgeois and even imperialist polic; This fast becomes especially evident hoted that Green proposes no ion other than a purely passive failure to purchase German goods, He doesn’t even visualize a mass campaign against Ger- Many on the boycott issue, just a boycott resolution! Mr. Green proposes that we refuse to buy German goods or ride on German ships. Why doesn’t Mr, Green Propose an aggressive drive against German shipping? Why don’t the A. F. of L. leaders start a drive on the waterfront to organize strikes on German ships; | when ft 1s é € DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1933 ATTACK BEGINS! why don’t they join in rallying the longshoremen to refuse to unload or load these ships; why don’t they organize the tugboatmen to refuse to dock the Ger. man liners? This would be serious, mass anti-fascist action Such action would place the struggle in the hands of the workers, where alone it can be made an effec- tive gle. But Green doesn’t want such working- cla ion any more than the big bankers want it It et a precedent that would determine the would forms of struggle against the rapidly developing fas- cist 1d of the American bourgeoiste. Green would limit the anti-fascist protest of the toilers to a mere repetition of the empty phrases and the futile gestures of the petty bourgeoisie could it be otherwise when Mr. Green now, Ow H through his own strikebreaking activities under the N.R.A and through his support for the fascist pro- of Roosevelt, Johnson, Perkins and McGrady, is front of those forces working to introduce a counterpart of the Hitler regime, based on the per- secution of the workers, the Negro masses, and the foreign born, here in the United States? Green refers, in his speech, to the German trade unions as “one of the finest organized trade union movements ever established. He sings the praises of the “splendid officials who have led them (the Ger- man workers—Editor) so well and who have adminis- tered their affairs so ably.” It is today a well known fact that these leaders during the past took one step after tk which prepared the road for Hitler; they capitulated completely at the moment the fas~ cists came to power, and, like cowardly rats, they deserted the unions when the Nazi terror began. such statements Green not only wishes to whitewash the vicious sell-out of the workers to fas- cism by his German counterparts, Theodor Leipart and Peter Grassmann, but he tries to justify his own role in the fascist developments in America. Sa oe ae By R. GREEN delivers “an impassioned speech” against | At the same time he warmly | GERMAN fascism. endorses the “corporate state” idea of Secretary of Labor, Francis Perkins, the “no strike” edicts of Gen- eral Johnson and Assistant Labor Secretary, McGrady, and the literal merging of the trade unions with the government apparatus—all fascist proposals. In practice Green and the other A. F. of L. bureau- crats go still more openly fascist. They are the prin- cipal tools of the bosses in hog-tieing the workers un- der the N.R.A. codes, they have openly served the bosses as strikebreakers in the strikes of steel workers, coal miners, auto workers, textile workers and in all the present and recent strikes, They have not uttered a single whisper of protest against the shooting, club- bing and gassing of American workers. They openly participate in the fascization of the United States. Yet they prétend to fight GERMAN fascism, but only to cover up their own fascist course, Pk, ote. a HE COMMUNIST PARTY is for the most deter- mined and relentless action against fascism, against fascism in Germany, and particularly against fascist developments in the United States. We are against the bearers of fascism, the Roosevelts, the Greens, the Wolls, and will fight to expose their every act of betrayal, their every step toward fascism. Particular- ly the workers must see their present maneuver to use an empty protest against Hitler to conceal their fascist course here, A boycott is inadequate. The Communist Party supports the boycott movement only with the objec- tive of transforming it into a fighting mass move- ment against fascism and against every step toward fascism. We urge the workers into this fight, using protest meetings, demonstrations and strikes—all forms that really arouse the masses, that set them into motion. They, not the wavering petty bourgeoisie, will be the grave-diggers of capitalism in its fascist garb. What Assurance? tise biting chill of winter can already be felt—bring- ing with it an increase in misery to the multitude of men, women and children who suffer under ihe lash of unemployment, In recent wecks we have witnessed an avalanche of speeches—from president to the petty official in the smallest town, All sing in chorus the patent cry, Wo one shall starve this winter”! But what assurance have the unemployed that these promises are different than the ones they haye heard in previous years? None whatsoever. A flood of propaganda has been spread in recent weeks that unemployed relief figures have dropped because of a mass return to work, But what are the actual fa Governor Lehman in a statement issued yesterday said: “In August, 1932, there w families depending for their existence upon public ief, as compared with 359,366 families in August, 193: wholesale removal of thousands of families {rom relief, official figures are forced to regis- 183,799 unemployed ter that the number of needy is mounting tre- mendou: What will be done for the unemployed, whose winter is approaching? . numbers are growing as a NEW YORK the governor promises $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 a month for the whole state, And, then only on condition that the funds of the federal, state and local governments be pooled. What would this paltry sum amount to even if it was assured. New York City alone, aside from the rest of the state, is in need of a considerable larger sum if it is to supply the barest minimum for the million and a half unem- ployed. If this is the proposal of the state—what can be expected from President Roosevelt nationally? His actions since his inauguration last March speaks louder than all the blatant phrases which he can announce, Let us see: 1, During the election he promised unemployment insurance. This has now been discarded, 2, On the day when he was inaugurated, March 4, unemployed demonstrations took place throughout the country. The workers received their first taste of the “new deal” clubs and gas bombs on this occasion 3. Roosevelt made a promise to use. the “surplus food” for distribution hungry are still waiting for it. He has also promised the rich farmers a remuneration for destroying “swr- plus” cotton and hogs. The hogs and cotton has al- ready been destroyed and the rich farmers received the cash, 4. He promised to use $3,000,000,000 for public works to give jobs. The unemployed are still waiting for the jobs, but the money is being rapidly used up for building battleships and other armaments. Here is the record which indicates what the un- employed can expect this winter, ee ae tee ‘HERE is no speculation as to the needs of the seven~ teen million unemployed—it is unemployment in- surance, It is a program whereby a definite guarantee is given to every unemployed .person that he or she will receive a regular sum of money weekly during the whole period of unemployment. ‘The unemployed and employed can and must wrest this life’s necessity from the capitalist government. It must impress on the government by the power of its numbers that unemployment insurance should be established, The developing of a mass movement, the struggle for the most immediate needs of starving unemployed; the fight against evictions;* the united front of all workers—these are steps in the nation-wide campaign for the adoption of federal unemployment insurance. to the unemployed—but the | | THE —By Burek Pet | a: Abies 4] BR OFFICIAL ber Seay, : ‘SEN, Buroren WMS 6 S seas in Hadana Bombed, Strikes Spread Oriente Province Workers Plan General Strike; to Enforee Demands for Increase in Starvation Wages HAVANA; Oct. 17.—The largest branch of the F. W. Woolworth Company | was damaged today by a bomb explosion as resentment against Wall Street’s | | armed intervention continued to rise throughout Cuba. The store had been | tonoff already ordered to leave this shut down completely by a strike of its bitterly exploited employees to force | country befoe Nev. 1 or face de- the American company to increase its starvation wages. The strike situation in the interior developed further yesierday, as) workers of Banes, in Oriente Prov- | ince, prepared for a general strike to | |enforce their demands on American | and other employers. At Antille, port | and railway workers are preparing | | to seize the industries unless the em- | |ployers increase their wages, and| |make retribution for terrific exploit- | ation of the past two years, by mal |ing the wage increases retroactive | | over that period, | A group of students yesterday ar- jrested Colonel Juan Cruz Bustillo, | | one of Machado’s henchmen and for- | {mer military commander of Cabanas | | Fortress, as he was preparing to tak | off in an airplane for Miami. It w: | discovered ‘that he had a military | | pass signed by a general staff oe | giving him permission to leave Cuba. Pressure of the | masses force: to finally issue an edict, Sub wing | | | former President Machado and 24 of | his aides, on formal charges of mur- | der and robbery of public funds. No one was hurt. Charity Is Racket Politician Admits Workers Compelled to Contribute (By a Worker Correspondent) OMAHA, Neb.—In a public state- ment the Democratic chairman of the Douglas County Commissioners, Frank J, Riha, stated that the Com- munity Chest “in a sense is a racket. According to the 1933 repori of the budget committee of the Omaha Community Chest the $600,000 was distributed to 35 different organiza- angry Cuban | tions; 68.55 per cent went for relief, the new Grau regime|care of the aged, the ill and the children. None of the money goes directly for relief of the unemployed. The committee making the dis- tribution of the funds consists of Property valued at $25,000,000, held | people entirely removed and dis. in Cuba by the.27 fugitives, was or- dered seized. Machado and his named in the edict, are in Montreal, Canada, following their escape the aid of United States and British imperialists from the anger of the revolutionary. toiler | | For Picking Coal | HUNTINGTON, W. V: lins, unemployed, suffere left hi: leg and other injurie: | connected t es,| There are two bankers, unema'>ed. three are with the |managers of the largest concsvas i> | Omaha, including Armour & Co., one dector and two women living in the | high-class neighborhoods of Omaha. It is into this “racket” workers are forced to pay weekly sums out of | their pay envelope. Free Election Platform Tho hundred and fifty thousand | he was run over by a C. & O. train) Communist election platform pam- in the 3 Co, was picking up coal aro the track when the train backed ov him, For Immediate Cash Relief — Vote Communist? By MAGYAR Five big military crusades organ- ized 4 the counter-revolutionary | | Kuomintang have been beaten back by the Red Armies of the Chinese Soviets. The Soviet revolution | growing In China and winning vic-) tory after victory. Up to tle present | | the counter-revolutionary crusades of | | the Kuomintang have received the} support of the imperialist powers. In| Changsha the American, British and Italian warships fought against the Red Army. In Hankow the warships! of all the imperialist powers went} into action against the Red Army | | of the Chinese work: and only the intervet | warships saved the t | peri powers and | count revolution. U. 8, Supplies Munitions, Money | The United States supplies Chiang Kai-shek with arms, munitions and war materials of all sorts for the | struggle against the Chinese Red Army. ‘The ~ general's ¢liqne in | Kwangtung is being supplied by the | British imperialists with arms and | ammunition for the struggle against | the Soviet revolution, Two war fac- | tories in the United States are per- manently at work for the Nanking government. ‘That Japanese {mperialism fights bitterly against the Soviet revolution is clear, Germany is building war factories for the Nanking govern- ment and the United States govern ment is providing the necessary cap- ital. Over seyenty -German officers are serving in the army of Chiang Kai-shek, and the former chief of the Operations Department of the German imperialist General Staff, Colonel Bauer, organized Chiang Kai-shek’s . first. military crusade & the Chinese | | mittee, | Other pamphlet INRA, are ‘ds of the Island Creek Coal | phlets haye already been distributed, and thousands more are ready for distribution FREE. They can be se- cured at the District Literature De- | partment, 35 E. 12th St., ground floor, or at the E} npaign Com- 799 Br Room 526. adway, also ready, ‘Fight for Antonoff, | Ordered Denorted, Carried to Capital ‘Delegation to Call on! Board of Review | October 25 | NEW YORK.—With Todor An- | portation to Fascist Bulgaria, where | sure imprisonment and death await him, a determined mass fight to save | him from his fate will be climaxed jon Oct. 25, when a delegation com- | Posed in part of victims of the gov-| |ernment’s vicious foreign-born de- | Portation policy, will descend upon | | Washington, D. C., to demand that } | the government reverse its decision ‘and grant Antonoff and others the} | right to asylum here. | Besides the Antonoff case, those} lef Frank Borich, Edith Berkman, | Barney Creegan, Sam Paul, William | Zazulick and Bob Wald will also be! | presented to the Board 6° Review} | for favorable consideration. Heading | | this delegation will be William L.| | Patterson, National Secretary of the | International Labor Defense, who, |Spanknoebel Eludes Angry Crowd; Indignation Grows Against Nazi Meet in N. Y., Oct. 29 United Front Conference Against Fascism of Newark Holds Mass Meeting Tonight for Participation ima Hunger March | brought in as evidence were: “We ‘Hold Hunger March NEWARK, N. J., Oct. Jail 3 to 60 Days TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—Arrested on a framed-up charge of threatening the police of Clinton during a hun- ger march last month, eight workers from Virmilian County were brought to trial Thursday. Three of them, Frank and George Barushak and Robert Crabtree, were sentenced to sixty days on the state farm and fined $i0 each and the others were released. In the course of the trial it was brought out that families of eight and ten people have to exist on $6 a month. Even this pittance was later climinated. Because of this condition a hunger march took place August 25th. Five hundred people participated in the march, When told by the police chief that they cannot parade along Vine Street to their destination, the workers dis- carded the order and proceeded any- way. The police arrested four of them. When the crowd proceeded to the jail to demand their release, they were attacked with tear gas and more were jailed. Sixteen witnesses, many of them workers on relief lists, testified at the trial. George Barushak, a def- endant, testified that he was ar- rested a year ago for leading a com- mittee to the relief agency demand- ing aid for a widow with five chil- dren who had been evicted and gained their demand. Banners Demand Unemployment Insurance,” “We Demand More Relief,” “We De- mand Cash instead of Scrip.” in Huntington, W.Va. HUNTINGTON, W. Va.—With win- ter approaching, bringing suffering and misery for the unemployed, ap- proximately 400 jobless men and together with prominent lawyers and an American Civil Liberties Union | | representative, will demand that the | | government reverse its decisions on | |these and other cases of fexeign | | born workers whose “crime is that | of fighting for the workers for higher | wages and for relief for the unem- | ployed. | Antonoff is now on tour of the principal cities in the East and will wind up with a mass meeting in Ir- ving Plaza Hall, New York, cn Oct. | 26, after returning with the delega- | tion from Washington. Moissaye Ol- | gin, editor of the “Freiheit”; Robert | Minor, Communist candidate in the | New York Mayoralty campaign; Pat- | terson and Roger Baldwin will spsak |at this meeting together with An- | tonoff, | Raise $10.10 at Send-Off Party | | for Daily Worker | NEW YORK.—A collection for the | Daily Worker at a send-off party for May Browndorff, leaving for a visit on fusion and the|to the Soviet Union, given by Yetta |ago while they were attempting to and A. Pomeranz, netted $10.10. women staged a hunger march here Friday. Ex-soldiers, farmers and laborers, black and white, marched shoulder to shoulder in a common cause against starvation. Keeping step to the beat of a bass drum and carrying banners proclaim- ing their demands, the marchers paraded through the downtown sec- tions of the city, disbanding near the A Cabell County Welfare office. committee, elected by the une ployed, presented the demands of the Huntington Unemployed League to the heads of the Welfare Board. ‘The demands included sufficient) cloth- ing and free school supplies for chil- dren of the unemployed, distribution of clothing held by the Welfare and American Red Cross, Red Cross flour for $1 additional, with which to buy | flour, and endorsement of Unem- ployment Insurance by the county officials. The police escort provided by the) Chief of Police was the same which | arrested the leaders of the Hunting- ton Unemployed League a few weeks organize the unemployed. 17.—An indication of what awaits the Wa meeting at the 165th Regiment Armory, Lexington Ave. and 25th St. in New York on Oct. 29, was seen here last night when nearly 1,000 foes of the Hitler regime wrecked a Nazi gathering called by “The Friends of New Germany* at Schweben Halle, 593 Springfield Ave. = workingclass neighborhood. > 1,000 IN NEWARK BATTLE NAZIS, WRECK MEETING, OF ‘FRIENDS OF NEW GERMANY”) i Thousands of Jews live in this Rocks and stink bombs — thro at through the window of the hall put) the finishing touches to the mee! at which Heinz Spanknoebel, chie! Nazi organizer in the United States was the chief speaker. Nearly 1,000 men. battled on a © three-block front-for an hour and a half with fists, clubs and stones. More than a score were injured in the fighting, and seven were arrested, in- cluding Walter Kauf, one of Span- knoebel’s bodyguards, who. was ar- rested on a charge of carrying con~ cealed weapons when he swung out with a rubber hose which«engased a length of lead pipe. Spanknoebel, who figured promi- nently in the recent exposé by the © Daily Worker of Nazi activities in this country, spoke in German from a rostrum behind a swastika flag. He was introduced by Dr. Albert Schley, Jeader of the Newark “Friends of i aa nr goigse New Germany;” other speakers in- | cluded Dr. G. T. Griebel, national 4 president, and Dr, William Meyer of , Newark. q Spanknoebel had just concluded his speech when a rear window, ; opening from the speaker’s rostrum, suddenly was smashed and two | rocks came flying in. Stink bombs followed and immediately there was a grand rush for the exits by the 400 Nazis in the hall. Realizing that the meeting could ~ not continue, the Nazi leaders hur- riedly adjourned it with the singing of the “Horst Wessel”, the official anthem of the Hitlerites, ie As was to be expected, one of the — first to make for the exits was Span- knoebel, flanked by a number of body guards, The crowd began to jeer and boo as the Nazi chief hurried to a waiting automobile, and one man jumped at Spanknoebel, but was! knocked to the ground by one of the Nazi yeggs, who guarded Spanknoebel., ‘4 Nazi pamphlets and a large number; a of copies of “Mein Kampf”, Hitler's — official biography, were on sale at an improvised newsstand inside The United Front Conference Against Fascism is calling a meeting tomorrow night (Wednesday) in Krueger's Auditorium, 25 Belmont — Ave., to protest Nazi activities in the United States and to demand the re~ lease of Ernst. Torgler, George Dim= itroff, Blagoi Popoff and Vassil Taneff, framed-up Communists now on trial in connection with the Nazi Reichstag arson plot. Speakers at the meeting will include David Levinson, Philadelphia I. L. D. lawyer, who was barred by the Nazis from defending the Bulgarian Com- munists although authorized by the families of the defendants; Rabb: Benjamin B. Goldstein, who was ousted from a synagogue in Mo gomery, Ala., for his activity on half of the Scottsboro boys; Tom 9% Truesdale, Negro worker, who will — speak for the Communist Party, and © Alfred Wagenknecht, Secretary of the National Committee to Aid Victims = of German Fascism, ia Bs ge WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Con- © gressman Samuel Dickstein, Chairman _ of the House Committee of Immi- ~ gration, following a brief talk with — Secretary of State Hull, reported ~ that he found the latéer “sympathetic and willing to help” in the.investiga~ tion into Nazis activities ithe U. 8. which Dickstein is planning. Dickstein said that he had sent out a call to members of his com- miitee to meet for a session of the investigation. The committee has no power of subpoena, and witnesses who appear do so of thsir own volition. | World Imperialism Aiding; U. S. Furnishes Funds and War Material; | | Nanking in New Onslaught Against Chinese Revolution General von Seeckt, Murderer of German Workers Under | Socialist Regime, to Guide Nanking Tactics | the .death of Bauer his place was taken by Wetzel and Kricbel, who organized the fourth and fifth anti- Soviet crusades, To Launch New Attack On Soviets With the assistance’ of the impe~ vialist powers and the League of Na- tions the Nanking government is now preparing for a sixth military crusede against the Chinese Soviets. The United States government has already prov'ded the Nanking government with a credit of fifty million dollars to finance the eru- sade, The Finance Minister of the Nanking government, Sun Tse- wen, is conducting negotiations in half a dozen European capitals with a view to obtaining still further war credits, with its experts in th> ese counter-revolution. During the Inst few weeks alone Chiang Kaishek has received from the United States no less than 150 aeroplanes, many tanks and all the equipment necessary for waging gas and chemical warfare. the Chinese Soviets. Five Former Campaigns Smashed Chinese Soviets have been smashed, against the Chinese Soviets, After é The League of Nations has also | provided the Nanking government | shape of| “technical assistance” for the Chin- The Kwangtung group is being provided with the necessary equip- ment by British imperialism for its part in the sixth campaign against Five military crusades against the and in the fifth campaign eighteen divisions of Nenking troops were ut- terly defeated, Chiang Kai-shek is now mobilizing 442,000 men against | the Central Soviet Distric!. The opening of the sixth campzign was set for July, but it had to be post- | poned bctause, despite the pressure exerted by the imperialist powers, the | Nanking government and _ the! | Kwangtung group could come to no} ‘agreement. The middle of Sepiem-| | bab was fixed for the opening of the | | offensive, | To Use British Seuth African Tactics | It now apocors that the Nanking} | government intends this time to use new strategy and tactics in its fight against, the Red Armies. The new methods adopted are those adopted by Great Britain in South Africa) during the Boer War, In South Africa the British army sueceeded in over- throwing the Boer Republics by using an immense superiority of numbers and conquering the country syste- maticaily bit by bit, consolidating its gains, and.then advancing afresh to | conquer new territory, gradually en- circling the fighting Boers, disarming the civilian population and crowding them into terrible concentration camps. These methods are now to be adopted in a still more ruthless form against the Central Soviet Dis- trict. An army almost ten to one numer~- ically superior and supplied with all the weapons of modern warfare is to attack the Red Army. One area of Soviet territory after another is ,| to be conquered and “pacified,” the civillan population is to be deci- ; mated, and the whole Soviet area SAREE | basis of the Red Army is hampered more and more and it is finally forced to stand up to an overwhe'n ing superiority in numbers and be destroyed. This new strategy, where- by the armies of the counter-revolu- tion will march in a closed front, is also intended to prevent whole! detachments of the counier-revolu- | tionary armies from going over to; tho “enemy.” In order to prevent} the demoralization of the cour ters | yevolutionary troops by the civilian population, troops are to be sent in- to Kiangsi who do not understand the local dialects, and further, fra- ternization between the soldiers and ed in every possible way. Murderer of German Workers To Direct Campaign There is no doubt that the numer- ical superiority of the counter-revo- lutionary army and its tremendous superiority in arms, ammunition and modern war technique will place a tremendous strain on the Red Army, but there is no doubt that the Red Army will be victorious now, as it has been in the past, and that it will bring the new tactics of the Nan- king militarists fo nought. The first encounters in the sixth campaign have ended victoriously for the Red forces. 2 Tt has now been revealed that the sixth military campaign against the Central Soviet District has been or- ganized and is being directed by the German General von Seeckt, once the supreme commander of the Ger- the local population is to be prevent-} German “democratic” republic, who for years enjoyed the suppert of the German social democrats. He has now sold himself as mercenary of the Chinese counter-reyolution. At the | instructions of the coalition govern- ment in Germany and under the so- cial democratic President Ebert, General von Seeckt declared martial law in Germany 1923 and crushed the rising proletariat, He is now us- ing his military capacities against the Chinese Revolution. The victory of fascism in Germany has in many respects restored the middie ages, and apparently the international and purchase of mercenaries is o1 agein in fashion. From the mility leader of the Weimar Republic, qi eval yon Sceckt has become a camp follower of Chiang Kai-shek, a mer- | cenary of the counter-revolution, Red Armies Win First Engagements Up to the present, however, Gen- eral von Seeckt has not .w6a,many laurels in China, The first engage- ments of the campaign have ended to the advantage of the Red Army, and his great plan for encircling the Soviet districts has met with a serl+ ous reverse in the Province of Fukien, © where the Red Army has adwminister- ed a severe defeat to the Kuomin- tang army, has broken through its front and is now threatening Foo- — chow, so that both Great Britain and — Japan have been compelled to send warships post-haste in order to “dg» fend” the town ageinst the | Army. Naturally, this hes been dof jon the usual pret of “protectit the lives and property of British and | f Japanese nationals,” Let us hope that the Chinese Red Armies will continue to administer defeats to the armies of Chiang Kai-shek and that they will successfully counter the Ege surrounded so that the maneuvering man Reichswehr, the general of the plans of the mercenary von Seeckt.