The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1933, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1938 Deily.<Norker “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Published daily, except Sunday, by the Comprodaily Publishing Bo., Inc, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephons: Algonquin 4-7955. Dable Address: “Dalwork,” New York, N. ¥ Washington Bureau Room 954, National ‘4th and G. 8t., Washington, D. C. Subscription Rates: ‘By Mali: (except Manhattan and Bronr) € months, $3.80; 8 months, $2.00; 1 month, Manhatten, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 $ months, $5.00; 3 months $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, ? Prees Building, year, $6.00 76 conte, year, 98.00; 78 cents TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1933 City Finances IDAY the Government of New York City through a typical capitalist city transaction. It will borrow $11,000,000 from the Morgan-Rocke- feller clique of Wall Street banks. What are they going to do with this money? They could pay the rent of several thousand workers’ fam- ilies who face eviction. They could feed several thousand starving and un- dernourished workingclass children. They ‘could do lots.of things with that money. | But actually, the City is borrowing this money sole- | ly to pay the whole sum back the very next day as i interest. payments on the bankers’ loans! The City is borrowing from the bankers to pay the bankers! That's how the Untermeyer tax agreement works in actual practice. Every capitalist candidate has given his pledge to carry out this agreement. La Guardia, McKee and O'Brien have pledged to continue this cynical robbery of the City’s population to pay the Morgan-Rockefeller bankers their fat profits. The Socialist candidate, Solomon, has never de- elared that he would break this rotten and infamous | contract with the Wall Street bankers. He actually praised the original Untermeyer program as being a | “very, very good program.” Robert Minor, the Communist candidate for Mayor, | put alone of all the candidates, has definitely declared | that he would tear up the Untermeyer tax agreement | the first day he took office. He alone would put an immediate stop to this capitalist robbery of the City to pay the Wall Street bankers. He would levy taxes on the rich. He would take 10% of the huge fortunes of the Tich by a capital levy. | A vote for Minor is g vote against the bankers! It is a vote to end the Untermeyer tax agreement, an | agreement that means more taxes on the workers and small home owners, more wage cuts for the civil service employees, and the end of the five-cent fare. Vote Communist! = Drum Head Trials more than ten weeks, coal miners on sirike in lup, New Mexico, have faced the glistening bay- onets that symbolized martial law. Their children den down by the cavalry. Their leaders ed to dig latrines. y, no knavery was too low for the mili- eaded by General Wood, in an effort istration, clothed in the uni- failed to break the miners’ n a victorious settlement was forced it so enraged the strikebreaking military y decreed drum head trials for the strike s, N.M.U. leader, and George Kaplan, b fi organizer, were tried. eins and lieutenants. of picket lines, the officers children, were the ones rike leaders. ' ity for leading the strike despite martial law was mi in the penitentiary. When Herbert Benjamin, leader of the unemployed | in many nat‘onal struggles and hunger marches, came to Gallup in the course of a tour across the country for the Unomployed Councils, he was immediately , clapped into the stockade. His crime was greeting the strikers in the name of the uncmployed and organized workers throughout the country The military’s partictlarly hatred against Benja- min was expressed in the extraordinary drum head trial accorded him. Benjamin had committed the | heinous crime of escaping from the military torture barracks to get away from the brutality and the en- * forced hunger. He made a defiant defense. And for all this he Was sentenced to serve one year in the state peniten- tiary at hard labor. All of these leaders by now are in the penitentiary. ‘Their fate is in the hands‘of Governor Hockenhull. From eyery part of the country there should be a loud protest raised against this military frame-up and the drum head strikebreaking trials. Every workers’ organization should send immediat: telegraphic protests to Governor Hockenhull at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Demand the release of Roberts, Kaplan and Benjamin! Demand the withdrawal of the troops! Let your voice be heard now! Hard to Hide TERDAY the Federal Reserve Bank at Washing- ton let the N.R.A. cat out of the bag. -Its latest monthly economic report distinctly states two things which give the direct lie to the recent ballyhoo speeches of President Roosevelt and confirm ~ the Communist analysis of the ffect of the N.R.A. on = the economic crisis, The bank report states: _ “The decline in industrial activity during the past two months has come in large measure in the industries in which expansion previously had been most rapid. It bas also been marked in Industries in which processing taxes or codes have become effective recently.” “For the past two months there has been a reaction in industry from the exceptionally rapid expansion of activity during the Spring and early Summer months.” * stg N.R.A, thus has not only failed to stop the down- ward rush of the crisis, but has, in fact made the erisis worse! That's the first thing the Federal Re- serve report admits—six months after the Daily Worker and the Communist Party have been making the very Same analysis of the N.R.A, And the’ second thing the banker's report admits ts thet the recent spurt of Roosevelt “prosperity” during the Summer months was a hollow, false, and rotten in- flationary “boom,” not based on any sound foundation of actual buying by the ultimate consumers, but based solely on the hysterical speculation based on fears of _ further Roosevelt inflationary increases in prices. Even the Federal R2serve Bank can no longer hide the fact that the N.R.A. has actually made the crisis “Worse by causing an artificial piling up a manufactured goods on top of the previous mountain of unsold “sur- _ plus” goods. erty of the masses, the basic cause of the crisis. has been intensified by the N.R.A.! ! “Overproduction” in the face of the pov- | { day out by the Communist Party and the Daily Worker, that the N.R.A. cannot salve the capitalist crisis, can no longer be hidden from the light, even by the capt- talist economists themselves, . pe sharp edges of these truths published by the Fed- eral Reserve yesterday caused the redoubtable Gen- eral Johnson to leap to the defense of the N.R.A. codes. And so desperate is the General that in his increas- ingly futile efforts to conceal the failure of the N.R.A. to provide jobs, bread, and security to the working masses of America, he is displaying a disregard for the known truth that is becoming positively embarrassing. Says the General in reply to the report of the bank: “Every report we have received from major industries shows a definite upward trend.” Tt is exceedingly unfortunate for the General and his big boss, Roosevelt, that the United States Depart- ment of Commerce's very latest report, dated Oct. 26, indicates that his statement is a simple and unadul- terated falsehood. This report shows that not only is the steel industry, the country’s largest and most im- portant industry dropping downward with ex- press train speed (and this the General is forced to admit), but that practically every other im- portant industry, dropping downward with ex- The Department of Commerce report shows that in | the automobile industry the index of production has dropped from 80 to 32.8 during the last eight weeks! weeks! The report shows that the New York Times busi- ness index has been dropping so fast that it is now 50 per cent below the level of production 12 weeks ago! The report shows that textile production is dropping at a rate of 12 per cent a month, and is now at 113 compared with 130 three months ago! And as for the second largest heavy industry in the country, construction, the Federal Reserve reports that this is now at the lowest level of the crisis, being more than 80 per cent below the 1929 level and 25 per | cent below last year. Is this what General Johnson means by a “defiinite upward trend?” If so, it is an upward trend that looks | suspiciously like the notorious Hoover “prosperity just around the corner” stuff. The fact of the matter is that it is becoming in- creasingly difficult for the Roosevelt government to conceal the fact that the N.R.A. has made the crisis worse! The fraudulent speeches of Johnson cannot hide the fact that the N.R.A. has already brought more hunger and misery to the American working class than ever before. The fight against hunger is now obviously the fight against the N.R.A. slave codes, against the N.R.A. starvation minimum wage codes, against the whole Roosevelt inflation program. How Many Jobless ? WEEK after President Roosevelt slandered and be- smirched the starving unemployed, his Federal Re- lef Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, piously seeks to soft soap some of the more vicious cuts of the chief dirty dealer in the White House. \ Speaking in Kansas City yesterday, Mr. Hopkins in direct contradiction to Roosevelt, (people who worked occasionally, when they felt like it, and othszs who | preferred not to work at all—the President's radio speech) declared the unemployed were “the finest people in America, the workers.” Having poured diplomatic balm into the empty | plate of the 17,000,000 jobless, Administrator Hopkins, proceeds to campaign against unemployment insurance. But before dealing with Mr. Hopkin’s admissions, it is necessary to spike the outrageous lying of Roose- yelt. about the number of unemployed in the United States today. Rocsevelt in his last radio message to the American people said, “there were about 10,000,000 of our citizens” who were unemployed. Out of these, he says, 4,000,000 got jobs, leaving 6,000,000 still unemployed. And with the rancour of a typical government represen‘ative of the parasitic rich, he declared they don’t want to work anyhow. . . . | {UABLE to wipe out the unemployed in fact, Roosevelt seeks to wipe them out in his vicious imagination. But we wish to point out a few facts. Mr. William Green is certainly no disturbing figure to the Roose- velt lying campaign against the unemployed. Yet dur- ing the hearings on the Black 30-hour Bill, this strike- breaking gentleman declared that if a miracle were to happen, and production jump to 1929 levels, half of those unemployed would still remain without jobs; that is, around 7,000.000. No miracle has happened. fact production is now very close to the levels when various capitalist agencies admitted 17,000,000 were | without jobs. In 1928, Professor Irving Fisher (one of Roosevelt’s advisers in his latest inflation program) in an article in “Business Week” declared that in that period of “prosperity” there were around 4,000,000 unemployed. He wrote that no matter how high production climbed, the unemployed would continue to grow on the basis of “endless prosperity.” Professor Fisher brought out an additional fact completely buried today by Roose- velt and his relief publicists today. That is, that every year in the United States, 2,000,000 boys and girls be- come of working age, and in order to live, must sell their labor power. Not one of these is counted in the official unemployment figures, . . . [Oo WONDER the U. 8. government refuses to take an figures from week to week to suit the needs of its at- tacks against the unemployed; to support the lying campaigns of “recovery.” The number of unemployed in the United States today is well over 17,000,000, with every prospect of their number reaching 18,000,000 by winter time. We have Mr. Hopkin’s own word for it that: “As I see it, we are going to start the winter with a million more families than were on relief a year ago at this time.” Instead of 6,000,000 getting jobs, as Messrs, Green, Johnson and Roosevelt promise, 1,000,000 more are put on relief rolls. Even that doesn’t reflect the reality be- cause Mr. Hopkins again tells us there is a “tightening up of the administration of relief all over the United States.” He admits further that many unemployed starve in silence and get no relief whatever. The federal government is now spending twice as much for the army, navy and war preparations as it 4s for relief. The budget for war will be increased while every effort is being made to rifle the already slim relief funds in the cities, states and nationally, , . ° Y ae hopes Roosevelt has engendered among the un- employed about the forthcoming illusive jobs will not feed the starving. Roosevelt’s slanders, his attacks on the unemployed, the deliberate cutting down of relief at a time when the jobless army and its starving millions are growing, maust be answered by a more energetic mobilization of both employed and unemployed in the struggle for re- lief, We are now entering the fifth year of the crisis— years with their ‘record of mass starvation and their Perspective of greater hunger. They show that the most determined fight must be made for unemployment insurance, a fight that should arouse and stir every | worker to immediate action. We must force the bosses and their government to adopt the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, to disgorge their huge profits and war budgets to provide a regular, adequate income for those who starve because capitalism is convulsed with crisis and cannot Bo, at last, the truth, hammered out day in and b; feed its own slaves be In | accurate count of the unemployed, but changes its | ; Ap Asiatic Anti-War Congress Meets in Secret Session | | | ‘Pass Sentences On Eve of Nazi Voting | Witness Arrested as! | Nazi Perjurers Go | Free AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, | Oct. 30 (Via Zurich)—An obvious | attempt to speed up the Reichstag, | fire trial with the apparent purpose {of passing heavy terror sentences on |the eve of the Nov. 12 referendum | could be noticed by all at today’s session of the trial in the Reichstag, | building, Berlin, | | A sensation was caused by the ar-! jrest om a charge of perjury of a/ {minor witness today. This arrest is jin striking contract to the open and} {evident perjury of a whole series of | Nazi witnesses who have contradicted {themselves and each other on vital {points throughout the trial. A man named Soenker, at whose | home Vassil Taneff stayed, testified |that he had known ‘Taneff in | Bucharest, had met Him accidentally in Berlin, and offered him a room, |not knowing he was a Communist. “Tell the truth,” Taneff said to the witness. “You have nothing to fear.” Witness Is Arrested Taneff then testified that Soenker {had not known him previously, that he had been introduced by one Peter, | a friend of Popoff. | | Soenker finally admitted this, ex-| | plaining he was afraid to be involved | ;in the affair. Judge Buenger halted | | the proceedings to order his imme- | diate arrest for perjury. | Soenker was followed on the stand | by Detective Bunge, of the special | committee investigating the fire,| whose testimony demonstrated that} Hans Weberstedt, Nazi press bureau | chief, had perjured himself on Sat- j urday. Weberstedt, whose “identification” of Van der Lubbe and Taneff as hav- ing been seen with Ernst Torgler was | not made until a month after the | investigation into the fire began, had | explained that he had tried to tell | the inquiry commission about it, but that they had refused to listen. | Bunge declared positively that this | Was not so. Dimitroff Demadns Inquiry Judge Buenger, who had just or- dered the arrest for perjury of Soen- ker, declared: “Bunge must certainly | be mistaken.” | George Dimitroff, one of the four Communist defendants, demanded | again that the court call the offi- cials of the police shelter in Hen- ningsdorf, where Van der Lubbe \ spent the night before the fire, to learn what company he had there, and how he spent the morning of the fire. Again the prosecutor com- batted the suggestion, declaring it was “useless.” Another Nazi deputy, named Rup- | pen, then took the stand, and re- fused to reply when Dimitroff asked im to what party he belonged. “Are you ashamed to answer?” | asked Dimitroff. Again Judge Buenger turned on | Dimitroff and ordered him to be silent. “I meant no insult,” was Dimitroff’s reply, “This is a political trial, and I.must defend myself against polit- ical accusations by political argu- ments,” | District 18, C. P., Milwaukee, writes, “We were slow in starting, but we are speeding up to make the Daily Worker $40,000 Drive a Editor’s Note—The sixth anti- Communist campaign of the Chi- nese Kuomintang government against the Soviet districts, which now cover a sixth of the area of China, and embrace a population of 50,000,000, is now in full swing. | The largest army the Kuomintang has ever sent into the field is oper- ating with bombing planes, poison gas, and modern artillery, with the help of many American, British, German, and other foreign military experts, and sustained by huge loans, among them a loan of $50,- 000,000 from the American govern- ment, The folowing fs an extract from a report on the situation within the Soviet territories, und the prepa~ rations to resist the Kuomintang offensive, and go over to the coun- ter-offensive, to win new territory for the Soviets, * eyfhe By KON-SIN authority of the central gov- ernment of Soviet China is grow- ing day by day. A cleansing has been carried out in all the Soviet in- | stitutions, and the counter-revolu- tionary elements have been expelled from the apparatus. The workers and | peasants are being drawn into the | Work of the Soviets. In the Soviet | apparatus there are on the average 30 per cent of workers. Sympathy to ‘the Soviet power is extremely great, In the central district, the workers voluntarily buy bonds in the loans which the government issues and un- dertake to distribute these bonds. | Many workers give up their bonds, | returning them to the government, saying: “We do not want to consider our government to be a debtor to us.” The friendly relations between the Red Army and the population have become even more close than they were before, In the central Soviet ter- ritory women frequently accompany ; their men in the recruiting cam- | paigns of the Red Army (for instance in the district of Shanghai), singing the song “Everybody into the Red Army.” Families compete with each other—making shoes for the Red Army. In the rear, the masses are giving every possible assistance to | Ralph M. Easley and Congressman HamiltonFish circulate Nazi propaganda in the United | States through their organization, “AmericanSection of International Committee to Combat Spe ed Fire Trial to| “I DON’T WANT YOUR DAMN BOOKS” the World Menace of Communism.” Br Burck Chinese Red Army Moves to Wanshien Nanking Gov’t in Se- vere Financial Crisis SHANGHAI, Oct. 30—With the Red Army of China approaching the important city of Wanhsien, the rich merchants, landowners, usurers and gentry are fleeing to Ithang and Han- kow, reports here from the upper | Yangtze River state. The huge anti-Communist drive led by Chiang Kai Shek is unable to stem the advance of the Chinese Red Army on almost all fronts. At the same time, the Nanking government is faced with a severe financial crisis. The catastrophic crisis that has grip- ped China for the past two years has been further intensified by the wholesale graft of the Chiang-Soong regime, and by the heavy expendi- tures in the futile campaign to wipe out the Soviet territories. T. V. Strong, finance minister, has offered his resignation, but whether in or gut of. office, as the richest banker of the country, he will control government finances. In order to bludgeon more millions from Wall Street, T. V. Soong has invited the English banker, Sir Ar- thur Salter, and Dr. Louis W. Rajch- man, both League of Nations repre- sentatives, to come to Nanking to discuss finances. The aim of this move is to get an addition to the $50,000,000 loan granted by the Roosevelt regime. The financial difficulties, resulting mainly from the heavy graft levied by the Chiang-Soong dynasty, will help to undermine the anti-Soviet campaign. The first to feel the ef- fect will be the Nanking soldiers, who will not be paid. This accounts for | announced in Wednesday's paper. ae. ae, First Burck Original Goes to Highest Bid In ‘Daily’ Fund Drive The original drawing of Saturday’s | cartoon, “You Can’t Fatten the Bird | on Red Herring,” goes to a group of comrades who are going to fight it out among themselves for final pos- session, Their contribution was $5.11. The Pen and Hammer Club was run- ner-up with a contribution of $5. (Better luck the next time). Total, $10.11, Bids for Monday’s cartoon of “Mor- gan’s Storm Troopers” will arrive with Tuesday's mail. The winner of this original Burck drawing, and the names of the other bidders will be What are ‘we bid? * What is the bid for today’s drawing? Going, going ,. . for the third time .., 3,000 Declare No Nazis Shall Meet in N. Y. NEW YORK. — Seventy-five police and detectives, with 100 national guardsmen in reserve, were stationed in the 169th regiment armory, 25th St. and Lexington Ave., Sunday night, while 3,000 workers demonstrated outside in answer to the Nazi chal- lenge to the workers of New York. The workers gave thunderous ova- tions to the oft-repeated statement of various speakers that the workers would not permit any Nazi meetings in New York. A collection was taken for the aid of victims of Hitler's ter- ror regime, After an hour and a half of mili- tant speeches by speakers of various workers’ organizations, the chairman, Pauline Rogers, secretary of the New York Committee to Aid Victims of German fascism, which called the demonstration, adjourned the meet- ing, which turned into a spontaneous Chiang Kai Shek’s orders to “pro- ceed slowly” against the Red Army. parade, pushing aside police inter- ference, and ending in Union Square. Mutineers of Dutch Navy to Go on Trial LL.D, Calls for Protest’ Telegrams to Envoy | AMSTERDAM, Oct. 30.—Trial of; 240 Indonesian and Dutch sailors of the “Seven Provincien,” Dutch bat- tleship, who participated in a mutiny inthe Dutch East Indies last Feb- ruary, will open at Surabaya, Bast Java, Dutch East Indies, Tuesday. The International Roode Hulp (I. L. D.) of Hollend is leading an in- ternational campaign of protest for the release of these prisoners, Work- ers are called on to send protests to the Dutch embassy and consulates. ‘They have been held in a quaran- tine hospital on the island of Onrust, near Batavia, which has been turned into a concentration camp, and most of them, it has been learned, have been attacked by the beri-beri, a dietary disease which threatens to be fatal to them, aside from the pun- ishment that awaits them from the military court. The mutiny, which was on the part of the participants a sort of general strike and not in any sense an armed rising, was smashed by a bloody aerial attack upon the “Seven Provincien,” in which 15 Indonesian and three Dutch sailors were mur- dered, Even the report of the military committee of inquiry is forced to ad- mit that the wage reductions against | which the strike was called (17 per cent for Indonesian sailors, 14 per cent for the Dutch sailors) “is in- finitely worse (owing to the low level of the original wages) than its per- centage—high as it is—would sug- » 3 Soviet China Gains Strength Resisti Close Cooperation of Workers, Peasants and Soviet Power of China Is Secret of Success Against Kuomintang tilling their farms, etc, eamiehs e FTER the twelfth plenum of Communist International, mistakes and shortcomings of land law and labor protection law were remedied. Each peasant has been given a definite piece of land, which is no longer to be sub-divided. As regards the labor protection law, it is no longer enforced as mechant- cally as before. A definite change has been wrought also in the field of economic policy. For this reason, the sowing campaign of this spring has passed rather successfully, Production columns, shock brigades, sowing columns, were organized and the practice of revolutionary compe- tition was introduced, There are 243 production co-operatives in the cen- tral Soviet. territory, and 60 in the Huan-Kiangsi district. Of special importance is the change of methods employed to find means for the main- tenance of the Red Army. Formerly, the Red Army had to supply itself at the front, by confiscating the proper- ty of the landlords and gentry, and if this was insuffiuent, the interests of the middle sometimes suffered. Now it is the government which bears all the . There can be no doubt that the perfection of the Soviet machinery resulted in a change in economic pol- icy, and aroused much enthusiasm, and @ readiness to fight for the So- viet power among the masses, Only in this way have we succeeded in de- feating the Kuomintang. . 8 8 the the the T ritory, led by the red tr4e unions, tory. It is well-known thet in the trade union organizations on the ter- ritory of the Soviets, At the present time there ‘are already 2,200,000 or- ganized trade union members in So- viet China, There are unions of farm workers, unions in the different in- the families of the Red Armymen, { ~ working class of the Soviet ter- | Army. played an important part ~ this vie- | perts days of Li-Li Hsiang there were no| ten commercial employees and other unions in all the Soviet regions. In July, August and September, 1932, the trade unions of Kiangsi mobilized 3,000 workers into the Red Army. By May Ist of this year another 10,000 workers joined the army. The workers raised the productivity of labor in the war factories and thereby helped the Red Army fight- ing on the front, Thus the ammuni- tion plant in the north-east of ng Nanking catikgers during the hth eampelen e ges; it turned’ out 5,000 cartridges daily. In western Fukien the paper manu- discard the lying slogan of a “stub- born defensive fight against Japan” and openy anyone. dar- ing to speak of fight against Japan will meet with a severe pen- alty. “Our entire struggle now is ane against the Communists,” he Si The Kuomintang has ®; lized a million soidiers against Soviet China voked in Nanchang ence to discuss the military expedition . Together z 3 i B ess a i 5 F g ihe g i i i i 5 : i 4 hie! decisions of the conference, ac- cording to our information, are as follows: 1, To ask’ the imperialists to give the utmost assistance in money, cred~ dustries, unions of coolies, unions of its, arms apa ‘scom) nition, tanks and facturers sabotaged the order to in- |. mili specialists. 2 te use the cotton and wheat granted by the United States in attract the Kwantung, Fu- Hunan militarists to a mt with Chiang kai-Shek China and to compen- re-organize the forces at Te-distribute the among the gen- @ militia and vil- @ large scale, ngthen the economic block- ade of Soviet China—utilizing all the s ae E Et Fi i i fi i i 28e a Arrests, Tortures, Executions Fail to Halt Shanghai Meet Gathered Same Day aa U. S. Anti-War Congress NEW YORK.—On the very day on which 2,700 American workers, farm- ers, intellectuals, and students were meeting in New York at the Unitedsiy States Congress Against War, es Asiatic Congress Against Wat was session, secretly and illegally, eai in the morning of Sept. 30, in k basement of a hotel in Shangha) according to a report received here — yesterday. Hounded by the Chinese, - tie French, and the British authorities since Aug. 18, when the Europealy delegation headed: by Lord Marley reached Shanghai, the Congress fine ally met, although two Chinese were executed and many imprisoned anf tortured for their part in the Cons) gress preparations. 5 Among the delegates were & repre- sentative from the 19th Route Army, delegates from the Central Soviet ~ district of China, from the Szechwan~ Shensi Border Soviet district, trade unionists, students, and university professors, and five from Europe. A delegate from the 19th Route Army reported that 3,000 soldiers of that army had been buried alive, and 1,000 more thrown over- board from river transports, for ex- pressing sympathy with the Chinese Red troops. The arrival of the European dele- gation, including Lord Marley and Gerald Hamilton from England, Paul Vaillant-Couturier and G. Poupy from France, and Jean Marteau, from Belgium, was the signal for a wave of terror in which the British and French settlement authorities - co- operated with the Nanking butchers, Writers Arrested and Shot On the day before the delegation reached Shanghai, Chang Yao-Hwa, a young writer, editor of the Chen Lou magazine, “Monthly,” editor of the “Eastern Miscellany,” and other magazines was arrested at his home withoyt a warrant. He was rushed to Nanking, and immediately shot death, 5 The only charge against him was that his name was listed among*the members of the Preparatory Com- mittee for the Congress. Lin Wan Muk, a student of Kwong Hwa university, was later shot for the same “crime.” Liu Shih-¥i, a young writer of stories, poems, and articles, an ac- tive member of the League of Left Writers, was kidnapped by British secret police, and has not been seen since. His “crime” was that he helped to get out a small newspaper, “Anti-War.” British Help Chinese Butchers Fifty Chinese, including several girls, were arrested by the British set- tlement police when workers and students demonstrated at the -dock in welcome to the European delega- tion. Within three hours they were handed over to the Chinese author- ities, without even the formality of extradition. Mayor Wu Teh-chen of Shanghai assured Lord Marley that they had been freed. Two weeks later, four girls had been released. Of the others, 25 have been sent to Nan- king, and 20 more remain in prison in_Shanghal. In Peiping, 19 students were ar- rested for holding a meeting to elect a delegate to the Congress. Five others were arrested a few days later, for the same “crime.” ks 2 6,000 Welcome Delegates The French consul-general and po- lice chief jointly forbade the Con- gress to be held in the French con- cession, The Municipal Council of the International Settlement forbade it to meet there.. The Kuomintang authorities did not ever answer Lord Marley’s request to meet in Chinese territory. Despite the terror, 2 series of pub- lic meetings of welcome to the dele- gates was held, culminating in: a mass meeting in the Yangzepoo working class district, where 6,000 Chinese workers gathered on Bept. 15, Thunderous applause and the ex- plosion of firecrackers greeted the delegates and many other worker- speakers. He Congress Meets in Secret ‘The Congress finally met, in secret, early on the morning of Sept..30. Following is Lord Marley’s report of the Congress: se “So that the presence should not attract sttention, toeders eign delegates proceeded to the ing place by dark the night arriving one at a time, I proceeding by a circuitous route: an empty room we waited for et morning, when the confer started. “Those present included unionists, students, university fessors, and an official delegate: the 19th Route Army. No app! was allowed, so as not to betray presence of the assembly. Anti-Soviet Plans in China "In a review of the situation The| China,’ Mme. Sun Yat-sen repo. that the National Government being aided by foreign loans and maments on condition that were used in campaigns to crush 8 vietized regions. in “Spokesmen from Manchuria, thért described warlike preparations by the Japanese on the border of the Soviet Union, where White Russians are‘em- ployed in continuous raids on Soviet , territory. Two representatives from Chinese Soviet regions also spoke, after which the meeting adopted manifesto declaring that imperialist powers were ranging their forces around the Pacific for the dismem- berment of China and for ‘war against the Soviet Union, and that fu the Kuomintang government has be- trayed the Chinese people. 3,000 Soldiers Buried Alive “Resolutions were passed against anti-Communist terror, the granting of loans and the sending of warships to China for use to continue Intéer- nal warfare, and the use of Manchu- kuo as a base for attack on the Soviet i i ition of the i +4 Union. The Fascist terror in Ger- many was also condemned in a sharp resolution.” ¢