The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 1933, Page 8

anasete ) / Page Eight Centra Barty USA “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Published dail Oo Inc., 50 Ea ‘Telephone: ALgon: Gable Address By. Carrier ———mmemiiicndiemd IRDAY NOVEMBER bana -cl Boys i ‘ working oilers uni t terror white ing Ring all-1 of th from t Ala this s ‘Fhrough a se of Negroes in of Dan Pipr @° lynch Scottsboro Bo; Tn th: by the by. th nd ar against the Euel Lee for smash the officia h orgy when the bo: This action mass or- meetings of the support Baiti- igorous protests by , of protest ma xpose the ah id of the full nference to be held i 18 and 19. and mass meetings to the Balti- to More Conference Bush protest telegrams to Goy. B. M. Miller, Mont- gomery, Ala., and to President Roosevelt, demanding the immediate, unconditional and safe release of the nine innocent Scottsboro Boys! The boys are innocent! Judge Horton, chief lyncher &t the Decatur trial, has been forced to admit their innocence. ~ Demand their immediate release and at the same time support the demand of the International Labor Wefense for a change of venue from Decatur for the mew trials demanded by the State of Alabama. Bondholders First! Bridgeport, Conn., the Sociglist city admiuistra- .tion comes into power not without local govern- Ment experience nor without a program. Jasper McLevy, Socialist Mayor elect, has already @aised aloft the sailed torch of Mayor Hoan of Mil- waukee. For some time now Bridgeport has had a Socialist Sheriff, Solomon Snow, who had no com- punittion in evicting starving workers from their homes the behest of the landlords. He even went 50 fF as to attach the pay of a fellow member of the Workman’s Circle, on behalf of the First National Bank of Bridgeport. >..= intend to patiern my administration on the Wiccéssful policies of Mayor Daniel Hoan of Mil- Waukee,” declared McLevy soon after he was elected. Mayor Hoan himself was brought into Bridge- just before the election, as Prize Exhibit No. 1 of Socialist city administration. Bridgeport, industrial center of Connecticut, home .of,some of the most important war industries in the country, is bankrupt. Unemployment is rapidly grow- ing and the struggle for unemployment relief is in- With the warm plaudits of the greater part of 1¢ Connecticut capitalist press, Mayor McLevy will into office Monday to preserve the taxes, bonded indebtedness and “good name” of Bridgeport at the mse of the workers. ‘The day after his election, a citizens committee 100, comprising leading lawyers and business men, an to advise McLevy on how he could best re- ilitate city finances on the Hoan model in a way acceptable to the exploiters of labor. pelist method of government which McLevy is dged to follow. First, Mayor Hoan has not hesitated to have un- ployed workers, demonstrating for relief, beaten and jailed. ~On the crucial point of city finances (“watch g of the treasury,” as the New York Socialist can- te for comptroller put it) Mayor Hoan has an viable record—from the view point of the bankers, t Tich taxpayers and the parasite bondholders, “For, example, the Nation, in its November lst fe, in an article very favorable to Mayor Hoan, ‘forced to exclaim at Mayor Hoan’s “regard for 5 ist doctrine, but the Socialists tn the gov- Ment recognized that in this case, caution had to . above credo” (principle). short, when {ff came to paying $4,000,000 in st, Mayor Hoan gave the bankers tif money the city workers’ starve for three months. Yhen it comes to the choice between feeding 2 ‘ Elect delegates from and paying interest to bond- kers, the Socialist unequivocally pay st and let the workers starve. list Mayor Hoan hypocriti- workers 10 per cent yolintary contribution” to city . . Bridgeport bie not to be outdone already announced his first rbage. ‘The capitalist can- the disposal of city garbage, the high 1y si g this problem. of Bridgeport, who have gone through S under the leadership of orkers Industrial Union and voted for McLevy in the be- against the N. R. A. against ures of solving the crisis, for soci- mployment relief. McLevy waved denied he had any revolutionary We his issue, McLevy’s concern now is to provide the ap, efficient government, with low Ss and low payrolls. The workers who voted for McLevy and the Soci- cket now face the bitterest struggles to see to which they expressed in their votes This can be achieved only by or- capitalists F: on, by the tant vigilance of the workers, by forcing more relief; by fighting against the Hoan- McLevy-Socialist idea that the “credit” of the city, erved, that the interest of the bankers © matter how many unemployed starve, guise of a Socialist administration, breaking and attacks of the workers can go on with more op ess and brazeness than under a capi- talist regime with a different label. The begun by the workers of Bridgeport italism must now be carried out more day by di against the Socialist ad- of Bridgeport. rators 1918 --1933 HE first world war, which ended on November 11, 1918, killed ten million men and maimed ten mil- ion others. It left ruin and desolation in its wake unprecedented in the history of mankind. ‘This universal slaughter and economic waste served | only a handful of bankers and industrialists in each of the capitalist countries, who piled up profits on the lated bodies of millions of workers and peasants ded into murdering each other for interests op- posed to their own. They were given terrific instruments of. destruc- and induced to kill and be killed by glittering ey were told they were fighting a war to © for kultur, a war for democracy and tion n years have passed over the graves of the dead and the heads of the living toilers, and the 1st world is further away than ever from “peace, ” and true civilization. The League of Nations, child of the world war, stands forth as Trument of imperialist aggression. The fake ament conferences reveal themselves to be screens for increased armaments; capitalist “democ- wears the black or brown shirt of fascism, saturated with the blood of workers. . ° e . IF TEEN ye after the “peace,” the capitalist coun- tries are armed camps whose military resources and armed man-power far exceed the pre-war level. All the imperialist powers, the United States included, have big arm: navies, and aviation corps. They are spending billions of dollars on new and devastating means of destruction With the customary lying phrases about peace, American imperialism, rapidly becoming the most ag- gressive and fiercest of all, is building up its arma- ments at a feverish rate. Franklin D. Roosevelt, war- time assistant secretary of the Navy, and always a Big Navy man, is now president and commander-in- chief of the country’s armed forces. He is busy pre- paring new naval bases on the West Coast, expanding aviation, spreading military training camps for civilians. Similar preparations are going on in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Capitalism ca live without private profits. There can be no profits without markets. They are more than ready, They have been ac- tually waging war. In the Par East, Japan has as- saulted China, seized Manchuria, and is daily develop- ing war steps against the Soviet Union. It has ar- rested Soviet citizens; its airplanes have invaded Soviet territory. Germany, too, has made it clear that it has its military eye on the Soviet Union. The notorious Hugenberg memorandum was a frank declaration of Germany's intentions to attack the U.S.S.R. Hitler- ism, the desperate expression of a decaying capitalist regime, is ready to make war upon the republic of workers and peasants, vanguard of a new classless society. In the Western Hemisphere, the armed forces of the United States are waging war against the Cuban people. In the Far East, American troops oppress Filipino workers and peasants at the point of the bayonet. The political and military activities of the im- Derialist powers point to a world war in the very near future—a war in which the capitalists hope to make money at the cost of millions of lives, the lives of workers, farmers, students. It ts thesé, then, who must fight against war, and against its mate, fascism. In the face of the cynical preparations for s world-wide butchery for private profit, the workers, the farmers, the students, young and old, must join in a mighty protest that shall resound throughout the world. ‘Today the capitalist governments of the world will observe Armistice Day by parades, civil and mili- tary. These parates, in celebrating the “peace,” will strive to conceal the preparations for war. ee ae Oe Bor today will also see other parades. In every country of the world there will be demonstrations on a broad united front basis against war, The youth, chief victims of war, will play a lead- ing role in these anti-war demonstrations. They will protest against being sacrificed to the greed and avarice of bankers and industrialists. They will pledge them- selves to defend the Soviet Union, the workers’ father- land, against the bloodthirsty designs of fascist im- perialism. They will pledge themselves to handle wisely the weapons which the capitalists will give them. ‘They will turn those weapons not against their brothers in other lands, but against their oppressors at home. In New York City, which recently saw the mag- nificent anti-war congress, organizations of the youth, the workers, the intellectuals will gather at noon to- day in Columbus Circle to join their voices with those of similar demonstrators in other cities of the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa in a World-wide condemnation of the imperialist war mongers. In every land, millions of men and women of all ages, disregarding frontiers and parties, will unite in observing Armistice Day with the mighty ery: “Down with imperialist wars! Down with Fascism! Down with capitalism, maker of wars! Defend the Soviet Union against cabitalist attacks!” And they will pledge themselves to take active practical steps in the daily fight against imperialist wars, in the struggle to defend the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, \ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1933 (250,000 Workers | | Attend Burial of | Katayama’ s Ashes |Stalin Pieck, Among] Pallbearers in Red Square Ceremony By VER} | MOSCOW, Nov. 10 (By Wireless). | i} SMITH —With Joseph Stalin of the Russian Communist Party and Wilhelm Pieck | jof the German Communist Party | leading the pallbearers, the canopied | and flower-crowned catafalque’ bear- ing the ashes of Sen Katayama, of |e Japanese Communist Party was | |carried, after imposing funeral cere- | | monies today, from the red-draped | stand in front of Lenin’s tomb to| the Kremlin wall. There, while Red Army svisrs| | fired three volleys from the top of| the Kremlin walls and a band played the International, the urn with Sen | Katayamas ashes was laid in a niche alongside the ashes of other revolu- | Honary heroes. | Over 250,000 workers stood bare- | headed during the ceremony. | | Other pallbearers included Comin- tern leaders and members of the cen- | tral committees of various parties, |among them Marty of France, Okana lof Japan, Randolph of the United | States, Wan Ming of China, Kaga-. | novitch and Piatnitsky of the U.S.S.R. | Although today was no holiday, |enormous numbers of workers began | |to gather in Red Square in the fore- | noon, The streets leading to the |Square were slippery with the first | snow storm of the year. The Square | | was jammed with workers’ delegations | |and Red Army units in perfect order. | This vast crowd of a quarter of | | million workers was addressed from | the top of Lenin's tomb by Wilhelm | Pieck, Marty, Okana, Kaganovitch | and Wan Ming. | The speakers referred to Kataya- | ma’s long history-in the class struggle | not only alongside of the workers and | peasants of Japan, but throughout the josie including the United States. | ; | Japanese Officers Receive Mild Terms For Killing Premier ‘But Death Sentence Is, Approved for Civilian Murderer (Special to the Daily Wotxer) ‘TOKYO, Noy. 10.—Lenient sen-| tences were handed out yesterday | to the ten naval officers who as- sassinated Premier Tsuyoshi Inukai on May 15, 1932. The Yokosuka naval court-martial sentenced two of the leaders to fif- teen years imprisonment. One got thirteen years, three ten years, and four were left off with suspended sentences of one to six years, which |set them free immediately. ‘These sentences were pronounced | four days after the Supreme Court | approved the death sentence of To- |meo Sagoya who shot Premier Yuko | Hamaguchi on November 14, 1930. Hamaguchi lived on until August/ | 1931, but the court held that Sagoya |was responsible for the premier’s| | death. | The striking differences between the death sentence imposed on the civilian assassin of Hamaguchi and the lenient prison sentences imposed on the military assassins of Inukai| has aroused considerable criticism | in the ranks of the Selyukai party of which Inukai was the head. | The court’s leniency with the of-| ficers who killed Inukai reflects the | domination of Japan by the military | party. | India Workers Throw Stale Eggs at Ghandi BOMBAY, India, Nov. 10.—Indica- | tive of the rising mass anger against the treacherous policies of Ghandi, for the first time in his public career, Indian workers pelted him with rot- ten eggs as he aitempted to speak at a meeting. Ghandi has been preaching passive non-resistance to the Indian workers in their fight against British impe- Helping the Daily Worker through bidding for the original drawing of Burck’s cartoons: A Baltimore Marxian Study Group wins an original Whose Grave Will It. Be,—YOURS or HIS? Burek with a $15 day. lished daily. By Burck | bid collected at an affair last Sun- Announcement of names of winners will be pub- Total to date $96.11. Torgler’s Aged Mother Sits Daily at Son’s Trial (From Our Bestet Cork Correspondent at the Reich: Reichstag Fire Trial) BERLIN.—On the first day of the Reichstag fire trial, before court | | procedures were bozin, an automobile stopped in front of the court house which was very different from all other automobiles. An old, sick woman was taken out of the automobile—-Torgler’s mother, | @ woman of about 70 years of sf pretns 50 years in the eee class | movement. trial and listens carefully to the sine procedures. |, Nazi journalists tried to get an in-| terview with her. They tried to get/ @ few words out of her. With disgust | she turned away from them. She is a mother. She knows that | her son is not guilty. But she also | knows that this trial is a struggle all |life and death. She sits from early morning un! late at night and follows each word} that is being uttered. She is listening | to the words of her son. He points | out that revolutionary workers, that the vanguard of the working class— the Communists—do not make use of | such tactics as putting the Reichstag | on fire. Torgler says: AS far back as 1) can remember, I was under the in- fluence of my mother, who for 50 years has been a conscious Socialist: All eyes turn on her—the elderly, sickly woman. And when .Torgier’s voice is raised in protest against the criminal Fascist system, when his voice becomes the voice of the whole | revolutionary working class, her eyes) sparkle with happiness: Yes, he is| her son, the son of her class, the fighter for those ideas for-which she gave her whole lifetime. Torgler’s mother is a beautiful ex- ample to thousands of other pro-| letarian mothers. She is the opposite | to what is being displayed in the Ger- | many of today as the “ideal type of German woman.” Terzani Conference | NEW YORK.—The conference for | the defense of Athos Terzani which | was reported in yesterday's issue of the Daily, will be held this Sunday, Noy. 12th, at 1 p. m., in the Work- ers Centre, 4109. 13th Ave., Brooklyn. rialism. Because of the growing starv- ation of the Indian workers and the growing wave of strikes against the British imperialists, led by the Com- munist Party, Ghandi’s treacherous influence is beginning to wane. Welles, Banker Plot AgainstCubaMasses: (Continived from Page 1) Welles to ) Teak out. They declared that if they were not able to suc- ceed, they would create an incident for armed intervention by blowing up American property. Imperialists Urge Intervention Reports now state that some Amer- | icans were wounded in the fighting, and that the Chase National Bank, the National City Bank, the Stand- ard Oil Co.,.and Amercian sugar mill owners, are urging immediate armed intervention on the ground that “American life and property is en- dangered,” forgetting to add that that | the counter-revolt was planned and carried out under the direction of U. S. government officials. At the same time, the ABC up- rising has given the Grau-Batista regime an excuse for a more feroci- | ous attack against the revolutionary workers and peasants, and has par- ticularly strengthened the power in the Grau regime of Col. Fulgencio Batista. Col. Batista, who led the | resistance against the ABC uprising, has on many occasions declared it necessary to shoot down revolution- ary workers and students. A state of siege has been declared in Havana. Behind this screen, the Grau-Batista regime is attempting to crush the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions. It is the aim of Grau and his sup- porters to prove to Yankee imperial- ism, despite Welles misgivings, that they are the best equipped to bring such “ordet” to Cuba as Wall Street desires. { Reports from the interior are very meagre and the effect of the latest uprising in the provinces is unknown. It was an peat neine: | SatevePost Bars Pro-Soviet Work of : _ Owners’ Grandson School Forbids Talk’ By Grandson of Bok and Curtis PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10.—Curtis Bok, prominent Philadelphia lawyer | Who was prevented: this week from | addressing a@ meeting of students at the Central High School on the Sov- iet Union, has had previous difficul- ties because of his. pro-Soviet sym- pathies, |and Cyrus Curtis, millionaire pub- | lishers of the Saturday Evening Post. These connections did not help him, | however, when he wanted to publish pro-Soviet articles in his grand- fathers famous weekly. Last year Curtis Bok, 30 and a lawyer by profession, visited Moscow, | where a short stay aroused his sym~- pathies for the U.8.S,R. He started to go back to the United States, but. stopped off at London, where anti- | Soviet propaganda by British offi- | cials and jurnalists aroused doubts in his mind. He returned to Moscow for a six months stay of observation. Instead tained a job, first in a bakery, later driving a truck. He is said to have joined a trade union, and in other ways participated in the daily life of the Moscow workers. As a result he returned to the United States enthusiastic about the the Satevepost by 3 well-known slanderer of the Soviet Union aroused Bok’s indignation, and he offered to write a series of articles telling the truth. But the editor of the Saturday Evening Post said that he had strict orders from the pub- lisher, young Bok's grandfather, to publish nothing favorable to the U. S. 5s. R. Following Dr, Haney’s assertion that Bok could not speak because the students had failed to get permission to hold a meeting in the high school forum, the studnets were able to prove that all previous meetings they had held were held without formal permission, for which there is no re- quirement. Roosevelt and Mussolini--Blood Brothers By MILTON H HOWARD Yesterday, the capitalist press could hardly. repress its excitement as it announced’ that the Fascist Mussolini government of Italy is now issuing bonds, the proceeds of which will go to.“re-finance” (guarantee the profits) the bankrupt utility trust, Societa Hydro-Electrica Piedmontese. Mussolini has just announced that the Fascist government will borrow 400,000,000 lires ($33,000,000) from the bsnks who will get government bonds in return. Mussolini will guarantee the bankers that all their interest and principal will be paid back, And the Italian Army and Navy and police stands ready to back up that guarantee. ‘Then all this money will be turned over to the bankrupt capitalists of the huge utility monopoly Societa Hydro-Electrica. Piedmontese. which has been wrecked by the crisis. The Mussolini government thus comes to the assistance of the strongest section of the Italian capitalist class. So this is the noble, crowning fruit of all the recent reports of a “new” and “higher” development of Fascism toward the blessings of a “corporative State!” The Fascist Mussolini govern- ment openly, frankly, emerges as the guarantee of Italian Rats tal capital against any financial losses from the crisis.” ‘The mysterious “corporate State,” so learnedly and wisely discussed by the economists of the bour- [Mussolini Gives Bankrupt Trust $33, 000,000; Action Remarkably Like: Roosevelt Guarantee : of Worthless Bank Mortgages geoisie, turns out to be nothing but the most naked, shameless ‘“ex- ecutive committee of the capitalist class.” (Marx)—a committee that rules the workers by naked military force as the guarantor of capitalist profits! Sims . UT this function of State guar- antee of capitalist monopoly pro- fits is not something peculiar to Fascist Italy alone. It 1s an indisputable fact that the “democratic” Roosevelt government Is now doing precisely what the open Fascist Mussolini is doing. It is a fact that the Roosevelt government, through the NRA, the RFC and his whole economic pro- gram is actually merging Wall Street monopoly capital with the State power for the guaranteeing the pro- fits and augmenting strength of mon- opoly capital. What is the whole Roosevelt RFC power, and is using that political program of bank loans and preferred stock buying if not pouring of, State funds into the lap of bankrupt fin~ ance and monopoly capital? ‘What is the RFC. pro- gram of loans to the railroads? Do not the railroads turn these loans right over to the Wall Street bankers? Did not the Missouri Pacific Rail- .Foad borrow $17,000,000 from the RFC in order to pay interest to the house of J, P. Morgan? Mussolini «strengthtens monopoly capital. But did not the Roosevelt's chairman of the RFC refuse to lend ‘money to a large Western railroad ‘unless it merges with a still large one? Mussolini. strengthens monopoly capital. But does not the Roosevelt NRA program cement the grip of monopoly by driving small business out by means of the “minirium wage” provisions, and the price-fixing codes? Does the Roosevelt “farm refin- ancing” program actually permit the bankrupt banks and bankers to salvage their capital losses though the Roosevelt government guaran- tee of bonds exchangable for the uncollectable mortgages? Mussolini protects monopoly capital profits. But does not the Roosevelt Home Mortgage program actually permit the'holders of worthless mort- o gages to turn their mortgages over to the government in exchange for bonds whose interest payments are guaranteed by the State, by the Roosevelt government? ‘The complete fundamental similar- ity between the Mussolini . program and the “democratic” Roosevelt pro- gram could be demonstrated by many other examples. ‘These will suffice to make clear that both of these governments, whatever their superficial differences in form, despite the fact that Mus- solini has discarded the capitalist “democracy” to establish the open dictatorship of the capitalists, while Roosevelt still conceals the Wall Street capitalist dictatorship by “democratic” forms, both of these governments, like all capitalist gov- ernments, are the political. instru- ment through which the «strongest section of monopoly capital exercises its dictatorship over the working class and impoverished farmers. ~ No wonder Mussolini admires the Roosevelt NRA. It ts by their ruthless drive to pro- tect. monopoly capital from the ravages of the crisis, through an {n- tensified attack against the workers by wage cuts, inflation, starvation relief payments, taxes, etc., tha the deep blood kinship between these two capitalist dictatorships is glaringly visible, Bok is a grandson of Edward Bok | of remaining as a tourist, Bok ob-/ U.S. S. R. A series of articles in} “Capitalism Means ‘War and “ascism, Declares Barbusse \Urees All Workers te Demonstrate Today Against Both | HENRI BARBUSSE | This week marks the date of two |important anniversaries. November 11 will mark the 15th |anniversary of the Armistice. It's the day officially set aside to celes rate the so-calied peace. It is theres fore the day cn which we must deme onstrate against war and | fescisn be done on today | throughout the world. That will also |be done here, in the United States. | War and fascism are closely, con- nected. They are both products of capitalism. Hitler has already burned books. He has burned the Reichstag. | Now he is getting ready to be the lincendiary of Europe. Hitler is de- | manding “equality of armaments.” In |the hypocritical, official mist of for |mal language this phrase means the | rearming of Germany—its reentry into the race for armaments! Against the machinations of Hitler, it is fitting that there should arise throughout the world a powerful pro- test. Such a protest will support and reassure our comrades, the German workers. It will comfort them in thett dangerous and heroic struggle inst the cruel, unparalleled terrer of the red-handed charlatan. who fox | the time being is temporary master cf | Germany. | Fascism Splits Masses Furthermore, such a universal pro> test wil give the governments which are on the road to fascism something to think about. The economic crisis is. stirring up fascism in all the cap: italist countries. The crisis is caused by capitalism itself. But captalism, which is sinking economically, is stilt strong politically; it still holds in its {hands the forces of the state. It di- jrects a policy against the working class. That policy is to separate the | middle classes and the farmers from. |the working class, and to incite them |. against the working class. This policy is pursued by means of demagogie | lies, by means of violence. ‘These are | the only means that can be used, for | the fascists know that the interests of | all workers are identical. This is the way in which all forms |of. fascism have begun. And I be= lieve that such is the state of things at present in all capitalist countries without exception. ‘What about the plans for reform ing capitalism, those combinations which would solve the crisis while upholding the present capitalist foun dations of society? These plans aro artifices which can give only tem= porary and illusory results. Only Socialism Can Plan During my stay in the United States, I have often been asked what I thought about the N. R. A. I have always tried to be discreet and cir- cumspect in answering this question, for I am a stranger in this country, unfamiliar with its specific problems. But I think I can say something which iss true of America as of the rest of the world. No plan can suc- ceed which leaves intact the capital- ist foundations of society. No planned economy can triumph which is not based upon socialism. In addition to Armistice Day there was another anniversary this week. On November 7 we observed the cele- bration of the sixteenth anniversary | of the October Revolution. Today the Soviet Union is on the road to victory in its work of economic construction, and today it is being particularly threatened by its foes. War has many manifestations. It is difficult to forsee which of these will let loose a new world war—unless we can organize against it. But itis my conviction that the greatest and most immediate war danger lies in the expansion of Japan and in the aggressive policy which—frankly and without any attempt to conceal it— Japan is carrying on against the Soviet Union. This is a danger to which we must not be blinded by the non-agression pacts which the Soviet Union, the only genuine pacifist nation in the world, has made with some: fourteen countries, and by the Soviet Union's diplomatic relations, however satise factory these may be. - Warns against Japan * ‘We must keep our eyes fixed upon the machinations of Japan ‘n China, and on the frontiers of Siberia and Soviet Mongolia. In the face of the catastrophe which are developing, we must forge a genuine league of peoples, a ret league of honest men and women, above’ frontiers, above parties, & mighty league of struggle against the capitalist-imperialist menace. That is the meaning of the great movement initiated by the League Against War and Fascism which has thousands of committees and millions of adherents throughout the world, and which has taken solid roots: ir | this country following the natic anti-war congress recently held ! New York. It is the duty of everyone to sup> port this vast movement of struggle against war and fascism, this Immense movemnt of social progress human liberation. Tear Bomb Fails | to Break Up 16th.” Anniversary Meet ROCKFORD, IIl., Noy. 8, (By mail) —A tear gas bomb was tossed through an open window into Lyran Hall last tion of the sixteenth anniversary of the October Revolution, About 400 persons from 17 organl- zations were present at the meeting. The gas fumes drove the crowd out of the hall, but when the fumés cleared the crowd returned and cone tinued the meeting. Police investigating the meeting sald they were unable to discover the culprit, | night during a united front celebra= @ bee bs)