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Page Six Dail ker “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Published cai ©o., Inc., 50 Ei Telephone: ALg Qpdle Address “Daiwork,” N Washington Bureau: Room itth and G. St., Washingto: Subscription Rates By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx ear, $6.00 6 months, $3.50; 3 mont $2.00; 1 ent. Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada 1 ea: $9.00; G months, $5.00; 3. m $3.00. fer: Weeki; m 5 ce FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1933 -. XOVEMEI Lee “. “Getting Too Hot” Getting Too Hot WAS the appearance of Clarence Hathaway, editor S°6f the Daily Wor and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, that tore every Pretense away from Dickstein Committee yes- terday. It was just y present the damaging and irrefutable evidence of Fascist links leading to American ba: and government officials, that the Dickstein C arid the session was hastily adjourned “till things cool ff,” to quote Mr. Dickstein himself We thus have the sp le of the Dickstein Com- mittee adjourning in a panic just at the moment when the Daily Worker e light what the Com Sating! The hasty squelching of Hathaway’s testimony makes it unquestionable that the Dickstein Commit- tee Is anxious to hide what the Daily Worker docu- ments prove—that the Hitler Fascist agents are aided and abetted by the most influential sections of Amer- {ean capitalism and the part of the official govern- mental machinery. or was beginning to bring to crisis. It i sed overproduction. It has sharpened the conflict between town and country. Unemploy- ment, starvation are growing by leaps and bounds. The whole financial are of American capitalism is in | the most perilot in its history—itself the | effect of the sharp: , and itself acting as one of the most powerful forces to make still sharper this mittee was thrown into a panic | tee is supposed to be investi- | The Dickstein Committee could not ignore Hath- | away and the evidence presented by the Daily Worker. It was the publication of the Nazi secret letter that forced Dickstein, after much dawdling and evasion, to call Hathaway to the witness stand. But what Hathaway put before them was “too i,” to repeat the expressive language of Mr. Dick- stein What did Mr. Dickstein mean by that? so quickly rush to the defense of Hamilton Fish, y dangled before the eyes of the whole mplice of the Hitler Fascist did Mr. Dickstein mean an honored colicague ané valuable membe a high class citizen of our House...” forced from him by the unan- e Dail ker editor, Dick- y and bankruptcy of ective investigation the Ham n Commit > most r in t cannot tru hout figh cist menace here at home, that Tushes to shield a ' from the glaring light e! Dickstein, who Is reactionary govern- t and will not expose the plot- S here. does not Hitler constantly express his the Roosevelt government? After? all, to the Swastika the Blue Eagle? Does the American institution of lynching and Jim-Crow 2s the justification and preced@t for the maniacal brutalities of his Storm Troopers? y fight the menace apitalist er all i for supporting and defending the tred propagated by the American against the oppressed Négro people? one offer effect tance to the Fascist Yeaction abroad, and be a loyal defender of capitalist action here at home? {BER of the Dickstein Committee shot at Hath- the favorite word of capitalist invective— t.” And then Hathaway made this ignorant al tool of Wall Street imperialism: look ing to give this ignoramus a lecture in the fundamentals of political science. But there is more than personal venom in that faunt. It reveals unmistakably the temper of the Committee, and points clearly to the fact that this Committee is treading the road of all these “investi- iting” committees. That 1s, it is turning this “in- tigation” of Fascist agents into a weapon for the »Ppersecution of revolutionary and foreign-born workers. _ . Let it not be forgotten that the Dies Bill still exists! + The hurried defense of Fish, the reactionary char- | eter of the Committee, and the censorship of the most i damaging testimony, all point to one conclusion—that the Dickstein Committee is fighting not Fascism—but ‘ the Daily Worker exposure that links Hitler Fascist reaction to Wall Street. It is not too much to say that the Dickstein a, Committee, by its protecting of the German Fascists and their American accomplices, is assisting in the hideous Fascist reaction against the German working class, aids in the spread of anti-Semitism and Fascist reactionary propaganda. . # se IS not any capitalist reactionary committee that can defeat the menace of Fascism, or save our roie comrades from the hands of the Fascist ex- itioner! “The fight against Fascism, the Aight to free Dimi- s themselves, from all thd&e who truly hate Fas- ction! e fight against Fascism !s also the fight against committees as the Dicksteln Committee, which itself as a shield before the arch Fascist ac- plice, Ham Fish! The fight against Fascism must go on! The ex- e of the Wall Street link to Hitler Fascism must y forward! Workers, farmers, intellectuals, all those who hate Teaction and brutality! We nflist rouse our- es to organized struggle against the Nazi savages, the freedom of our comrades in the hands of the executioners! lly Worker Nazi document which shows Van der e to be a Nazi tool, and the bestial plot to in- te our heroic German comrades with syphilis s! ‘And certainly, not from the Dickstein Committee, fae ts embraces the Nazi accomplice, Ham Fish, can workers expect an investigation of those who plot- the Reichstag frame-up and who plot the ex- 2 of Dimitroff and Torgler! vicious re- | Torgler, Taneff and Popoff, must come from the’ Why did | _DAILY WORKER, nee SORRY F FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1 Ls ae N. R. A. and the Crisis N. y; Workers Rall UST as it was nec to put the original glowing “ tributes N.R.A. to a withering criticism, it ts now necessary to tear through the real meaning of the cry: “The N.R.A. has collapsed! We can 52 nitely N.R.A. for higher wages for ending the c1 fact, the N.R.A. has ably, heightening all to the that all the promises of the improved standards of livings, have ignominously collapsed. In intensified the crisis immeasur- the basic factors of capitalist But has it already failed as the instrument for more direct, brutal attacks on the toiling masses in merging more openly the whole state apparatus with the trusts and finance capital to pave the way for growing fascist attacks? To this we must answer that the N.R.A. is becoming a more growing menace to the toilers in the United States, What was the basic, original intent of the N.R.A.? | It was a move by the Roosevelt government, inter- twined and interlaced with finance-capital, to smash down the growing strike wave of the workers. It was @ maneuver to enlist the quite willing A. F. of L. bureaucracy in the service of this government. to act as the official strikebreakers through the N.R.A. Labor Board. It is true that along with this a campaign of the most vicious demagogy was carried on center- ing about Section 7-a (the labor e of the N.R.A.) HE N.R.A. was the initis 1 drive towards fascism to meet the surge for org: ‘ation and struggle among the workers. Has this failed? Not at all. The miners were driven back to work, with the help of the N.R.A. The steel workers were shot down, their organization trampled under foot, and driven back—with the’ help of the N-R.A. Hundreds of thousands of strikers were driven back to the shops— without wage increases, without union recognition, without the right to strike, by means of the N.R.A. In New Mexico today, martial law rules, with its bloody attacks and its drum head trials, in the name of the N.R.A. Yet despite all these attacks, the workers have been able to strengthen their organizations in- preparation for greater struggles. The fermers are carrying on a bit- ter struggle against the N.R.A. The hue and cry about failure of the N.R.A., coming from the ranks of the exploiters, centers around the danger of the promiscuous demagogy. They did not want the workers to be promised too much, as the workers were a y fighting and intent to see that the promises were realized through their own independent action. But when the bosses came to discuss the results for them flowing from the growing present deeds of the N.R.A., they do not speak of failure. For example, as a result of the N.R.A. attacks against the workers, we learn from the New York Times financial writer, C. F. Hughes (Nov. 12) “that earnings of eighty-nine industrial companies in the third-quarter were eleven times what they were in the same period of last year.” From the National Industrial Conference Board, we learn also, during the the American workers went down sharply. A. F. of L, officialdom in Washington, ‘The very which helped accomplish this situation, admit that the workers “real | | income in September, actually below March by 2.3 per hting against capitalist | cent.” JAS the N.R.A. failed in smashing down living stand- ards- its central aim from the very start? Now with the demagogy soft-pedaled, and the brazen drive against the workers appearing more openly, the so- called inside critics of the N.R.A. say less and do more to speed the drive against the workers. The very discussion of the bosses around the N. R.A. arises from the fact that the whole workirig class as well as the farmers is showing greater militancy, stronger organization and desire for more organiza- tion. The workers are showing the greatest spirit of the offensive in their struggles, The same Mr. Hughes already quoted tells us how the bosses estimate the N.R.A. now in their own councils. He writes: “Revolt against the N.R.A. by both direct and in- direct assault suffered serious reverses last week when some of its leaders publicly modified their views so as to indicate almost complete sympathy with the ob- Jectives of the plan.” ‘The objectives of Roosevelt’s plan, shorn of its demagogicy lace, is the open, brutal, ruthless drive against the workers. For this the bosses can have nothing else but “complete sympathy with the ob- jectives of the plan.” Mr. Hughes goes on to give more of the results of the exploiters’ estimation of the N.R.A., saying: “If the present drive for recovery can be com- pared to a war on depression and therefore per- mitted some of the regulations imposed during an actual state of war, a case can he developed against treasonable opposition to the program. Proper criticism should be welcomed and serves as a cons- structive guide te an improved plan. “On the other hand, direct violations of the law, sabotage and propaganda with that purpose in view, should be dealt with promptly and not lenient- ly. Since the labor provisions are the pith of the Recovery Act, attempts to set them aside are aimed at the heart of the recovery measure.” WO re he H hang “pitch” of the N.R.A. is the national guard bayonets, the policemen’s clubs, the deputies’ ma- chine guns and tear gas bombs, and the N.R.A. “medi- ators,” working with the A. F, of L. officialdom. Its aim is to drive the workers back to their slave pens to sweat out greater profits for the bosses, and to smash the struggles of the farmers, seeking to prevent an alliance in this struggle between the poor and middie farmers and the workers. By means of the NR.A., the capitalist state, tts government, could more openly and brutally use naked force against the workers, covering it up with a thick layer of promises and demagogy. Their right towards unbridaled trustification, the more open use of the government through subsidies to the big trusts and in its attacks against the workers, were the steps towards fascism. The whole N.R.A. was so constructed that it was possible for the big trusts to increase their profits during the period of crisis at the expense of the workers. The discussion among the capitalists on the tac- tics of the N.R.A. must not fool any worker about dif- ferences on the basic class purposes of the N.R.A. This is shown by the fascist threats that if the work- ers challenge the fascist attacks of the government they will be considered treasonable. As a crisis solvent, the N.R.A, has failed. We must point out to all the workers that all the promises of the N.R.A. were used precisely to cover up its fas- cist trends, We must carry on the sharpest exposure of this demagogy and its purposes, To the extent that we can make the workers see " the real character of the N.R.A. and show its com- plete failure as a way out of the crisis, to that ex- tent we can bring about the real collapse of the N.R.A. —the capitalist way out of the crisis—and win the workers for the revolutionary way out of the craiis. \ same period, real wages of | | Workers to Mass in Washington Sq. |Many Organizations Join Call for Soviet Defense YORK.—Many NEW workers’ or-} ganizations yesterday joined the call j |of the Friends of the Sovief Union | for a counter-demonstretion in mf- | tant opposition to the plans of the, | notorious White Guard gangs for an} iti-Soviet demonstration Saturda: }at 10 a. m. in Washington Square. | | The counter-demonstration -will _ be | held at the same time and place. The organizations which yesterday! | endorsed the workers’ counter-dem- | | onstration include the ‘Trade Union} Unity Council, the Needle Trades! Workers’ Industrial Union, the Ma~j} |rine Workers’ Industrial Union, the | | Icor and several Russian and Ukrain- | | ian workers’ organizations. All-called | on their members te turn out in a} mighty force Saturday. morning for | the defense of thé Soviet Union and against fascist activities in the United | | States. « The White Guard.demonstration is called to protest against recognition | by the United States of the Sovict | Union. The call is sent. out by the} “United Ukrainian Scciety,”. the| American branch*of an, international | white guard society led. by Polish | spies and provocateurs: and latterly fnianced by the German Nazis, who are seeking an understanding with Poland for a joint attack on the So- | viet Union and the looting and parti- tion of Soviet Ukraine. This same | gang is responsible for the murder of Majlo, secretary -of the Soviet Con- sulate in Lemberg; Poland, a month | ago. A similar anti-Soviet demonstra- | tion, held a few days ago in Boston, was smashed by indignant Ukrainian | and native-born ‘workers, BISHOP ‘BROWN TO SPEAK AT | CLEVELAND USSR CELEBRATION CLEVELAND, Nov. 1 Bishop | William Montgomery = Brown will) | positively speak for the first time in five years here at a 16th anniversary celebration of the Soviet Revolution Friday evening at 1002 Walnut St. Other speakers will be Yetta Land, I. L. D. lawyer, Rev. Howard Wells | and Professor Cole, Doors open at 7/ |p.m. A record crowd-is expected. “Peace” Conference Facing Collapse LONDON, Nov. 17—The <1 Liseredited | “disarmament” conference, faced with | the lacerating antagonisms of France |and Germany, is onthe verge of| | complete collapse it was learned here | today, following an $.0.S. appeal from Arthur Henderson, who is in| |Geneva, for “further conversations” among the delegates of the big im-| | perialist powers before the steering | committee meeting on Nov. 24. { In response to Henderson’s urgent appeal, Sir John Simon, the British ee Minister, hurriedly decided | to leave today for Geneva. He will | be accompanied by Capt. Anthony | Eden, Under Secretary. It is believed |they will stop off in Paris, in an \attempt to persuade the French for- |eign Minister, Joseph Paul-Boncour, |to accompany them to Geneva, | Hugh Wilson, U. S. Ambassador, is | to be invited to help in reviving this |monstrous de<f(ption of the toiling | masses, which has served as @ cover to conceal the frantic imperialist war | preparations for a new-world slaugh- | ter in comparison with which the | World War will be child’s play. Saturday Morning , y A gainst White Guard Meeting | “FISH: SPANKNOEBEL: “T know, bi tor binges, %S, hereon Helping the Daily Worker by bidding for posses- sion of the original drawing of Burck’s car.‘ons: The Cleaners and Dyers Union “There’s a warrant out for your arrest, Spanky.” ut I feel so safein your arms.” bid $4. of Philadelphia won yesterday's cartoon with a bid of $22. 8. Garrett Total to date.. —By Barck | | coe $138.28 Cuban Paper Wires Roosevelt; Demands Welles’ Withdrawal WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—Wall Street's Ambassador Welles will not be withdrawn from Cuba, a state/ department statement issued, yester- | day said. But he will fly to Warm} Springs Ga., in a day or so to con~ fer with President Roosevelt on the Cuban situation. The state department insists, de- spite mass protests against Welles }and Yankee imperialism, Welles will return to Cuba after the conference. el Se | HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 15—A tele-| gram demanding the immediate re- call of Ambassador Welles was sent to President Roosevelt today by the) students’ paper, Alma Mater. Welles helped direct the counter- revolt last week against the Grau} regime. | “Interpreting the feeling of the | ,, people of Cuba,” states the telegram, “Alma Mater demands the immediate | recall of Welles, perturber of the public peace and systematic conspira- | tor on the side of counter-revolution- ary elements.” On the basis of the anti-imperialist | demands of the Cuban people, the} Grau-Batista regime is asking for) Welles withdrawal and his replace- ment by another Wall Street repre- | sentative who can carry on negotia- tions with them. Meanwhile, Batista’s armed forces are fighting remnants of the counter-} rebellious forces in six provinces. At the same time, he does not hesitate | to disarm and shoot down workers and peasants fighting for land and against imperialist domination in Cuba, t |sent down to the “black hole,” |“Hands Off Cuba!” Flag Defies Police Efforts to the End MINNEAPOLIS, | Minn,, Noy. 14. | —The Armistice Day war prepara- tion ceremonies here received a jelt when it was discovered that la huge red flag with the slogan | “Hands Off Cuba!” painted on it was flying from the 100 foot flag pole in Bridge Square. A large crowd of workers gathered early in the morning around the pole. Po~ lice and the Fire Department | couldn't puli the flag down until many hours later when a fireman with a fishpole on an 85 foot lad~ | der, tore the flag off, piece by | Peace. 8 Canadian Reds Put in “Black Hole” TORONTO, Canada, Nov. 16.— “The Eight” Canadian workers’ lead- ers, serving long terms of imprison- ment in Kingston Penitentiary, were no- torious solitary dungeon of the pris- on, yesterday, for protesting against the arbitrary addition of 44 days to the sentence of one of their number Tom Cacic, His term expired Nov. 10. “The Fight,’ including Cacic, and led by Tim Buck, threatened a prison strike unless Cacie was released. He |has been in jail more than two years. The other six involved are Tom Ewen, Malcolm Bruce, Sam Carr, Matthew Popovich, John Boychuk, and Tom Hill. They were sentenced under the | infamous “Section 98” in a proceed- ing to illegalize the Communist Party A delegation from the Eastern Can- ada Section 98 Repeal Congress, now Nazis Begin Terror Against All Who Did Not Vote for Hitler MUNICH, Nov. 17—The Hitler government is beginning its cam~ paign to persecute all those who dared to vote against the government policies in the last election, it was revealed today. ‘Two inmates of a certain sani- tarium were seized and marched through the streets by the Nazis be-| cause they had “openly admitted” that they had voted “No” in the re-| cent German election. Luber. Nazi leader of the Bavarian government, announced that the gov- | ernment “would track down and pun- | ish those who gave an unfavorable, vote.” Reports of arrests of those who voted against the Nazi policies con- | tinue to arrive. Luber’s statement is a distinct threat of further terrorism against those opposed to Fascism. ‘The German election was conducted in such a way as to permit the Nazi officials to identify all the ballots. In spite of these terror conditions, however, More than 3,000,000 voters turned in “defective” ballots, to regis- ter their protest against Fascism. in session, is going to Ottawa Friday to demand Cacic’s release and the restoration of the rights of the others. ‘The Canadian Labor Defense League, mobilizing nation-wide pro- test, in Canada has issued a call for support in this fight to all workers in the United States, under the lead- ership of the International Labor De- fense, its sister organization in the United States. Protests should be sent to Premier Bennett, Ottawa, Ont., Canada, By B. KELLER (Vienna) The Austrian social democracy is at present in a very difficult situa- tion. It has before its eyes the warn- ing example of the social democratic | party of Germany. The social demo- leratic party of Austria wishes to [escape the fate of its brother Ger- man party. On the other hand, how- ever, the Austrian bourgeoisie today is demanding of it more than ever “a@ positive recognition of the State,” Le, an active and open defense of Austrian capitalism, ‘The social democratic party of Austria, under the leadership of Otto Bauer, is endeavoring to escape from this dilemma by means of the most desperate maneuvers. It has issued to the masses the slogan of the gen~ eral strike and revolution in the event of one of the four. following cases arising: If the government violently overthrows the socialist municipality of Vienna; if it dissolves the social democratic party; if it carries out an “incorporation” of the trade unions into the patriotic front; or if it pro- claims a fascist Constitution. The “Wahrheit” (Truth), am illegal social- democratic paper, states: What They Teli Workers “In any of these.cases the working class must rise iu Otder to defend the freedom of the people, its organ- izations, its right. fo. existence. The Austrian workers must realize that the hour may come in which the enemy will compel them to take up the decisive fight. ‘They must be de~ termined to fight rather than to sur- render without a fight! Should. it, however, come to g=fight, then the enemy will employ all-his means of force in the most ruthless, brutal manner. The working class can then be victorious only if it boldly uses all the means-of power at its disposal. Then the old slogan of the’ revolution will apply: audacity, au- dacity and again audacity! Should it come to a general strike and the revolution, then theré will no longer , be any possibility of compromise, but! only the choice: either to go down fighting gallantly or victory and rr That is the language which the social democracy has for the work-; Austrian Socialists and the Rise of Fascism ers who are demanding revolutionary deeds. It has another language, how~- ever, for the patriotic bourgeoisie, for the government. What They Tell Capitalists | ‘The “Arbeiter-Zeitung” offered the Dolifuss government extraordinary full powers, according to the Czecho- slovakian model, in order to defend democracy against the Nazis. And in this same article in the “Wahrheit,” quoted above, we read: “The Austrian social democracy has always conducted its fight within the limits of the law. It still remains now within the limits of the law.” Only when the enemy destroys the basis of lawfulness “the working class in the whole of Austria must rise in order to restore the constitutional, the legal order.” The policy of Otto Bauer, Seitz and Renner today is confined to these limits. ‘The extraordinary party congress showed this same Janus head, with a revolutionary, heroic- looking face for the working class, and another, peaceful and servile, face for the bourgeoisie. Into the “Patriotic Front” The chief task of the party con- gress was to fulfill the demand which Dolifuss: had put forward as a pre- condition for the activity of any po- litical party in Austria: positive rec- ognition of the Austrian State. It was in fact a party congress of in- corporation into the “patriotic front.” ‘Therefore a resolution on Austrian foreign policy was adopted, the es- sence of which is: “The social democracy wants an in- dependent Austria.” ‘The passage on the union with Germany was therefore struck out of the program. ‘The bourgeoisie demands in the first place the recognition of “inde- pendent Austria” and readiness to de~ fend this “independence.” For it is certain that the next war waged by Austria will be waged for its “inde- pendence.” Offers Alliance to Dollfuss ‘The party congress however also repeated the offer to Dollfuss of an alliance. It did so by including in the resolution the following passage: “Determined to defend the inde- pendence of Austria, the social dem- ocracy by no means refuses to grant the State, so long as immediate dan- ger exists, the necessary weapons against fascism, which is threatening the democratic republic and its in- dependence. But exceptional mea- sures against the fascist danger must not abolish the liberty and equality of the democratic mass of the work- ing pecple.” The social democracy is therefore in favor of granting to the govern- ment extraordinary emergency pow- ers, which of course, just as in Czechoslovakia, must not be used as exceptional measures against the “democratic powers.” As the Au- strian social democrats in Styria have already voted for depriving the Communist municipal councillors of their seats, it is not hard to guess against whom it wishes to have the extraordinary emergency powers di- rected, This readiness for complete fas- clzation, this offer to Dollfuss to go with him through thick and thin for the independence of Austria, had of course to be hidden from the workers by further left maneuvers. ‘There- fore, the party congress supported the slogam of a general strike and revolution in the event of one of the above-mentioned four cases occur- ring. Sabotage Strikes ‘To expose this demagogy it is only necessary to point out that the social democracy, it is true, talks of the general strike, but throttles every partial strike, as, for example, the strike of the Styrian miners and the political strike in Kematen, and, sec- ondly, that the government itself does not think of overstepping the bounds of “lawfulness.” There exists, however, within the social-democratic party of Austria a group which regards even these sham revolutionary phrases as dangerous, It is this group of “Lower Austrians” which came forward at the party congress with the slogan: An end to the suicidal policy! Constitutional disentanglement of the political crisis, and ‘unde with the “peasantry,” i.e. through the kulak wing of the christian socials and with ‘ body the “patriotic front.” This group represents the open, undisguised con~ necting link between the Austrian social democracy and Austrian fas- cism. The party congress recognized this group by electing its spokesman, Schneidmadl, to the central commit~ tee of the party. ‘The Se eee ace proletariat Aer not present at the congress. is true there was a “left” opposition, consisting of a group of 25 delegates who brought in their own resolution and demanded that one of their number be allowed. to put forward the point of view of the group from the platform, which demand was granted. This group exposed its real character, however, by finally declaring that it would vote for all the above shameful decisions. Scuttle Revolutionary Motions “The voice of the revolutionary workers within the social democratic party of Austria was expressed by two motions of our organization, which, however, were not taken over by the “left” opposition, The first was a motion by the Bruck-on-the- Mur organization, which demanded the proclamation of a general strike in ‘the event of the setting up of a provisional “estates council.” The stage managers of the party congress succeeded apparently in convincing the delegates from Bruck-on-the- Mur of the harmlessness of the “legality” of such an “estates coun~ cil,” for the motion was withdrawn. Secondly there was a motion on the agenda sent in by the little organiza- tion of Roth-Neusiedel expressing censure of the central committee of the party. This organization how- ever, had no representative at the party congress, and therefore not a single delegate voted for this motion. Also among the “left” opposition there was nobody who found it necessary to express mistrust of the central committee, whose policy has led the Austrian proletariat into such defeats and has rendered such good service to fascism. ‘Thus this party congress has given the bourgeoisie all it demanded and nothing to the working class, so far as it still expected anythin: raat ( Foreign Generals Admit Nanking War ‘on Soviets:Failing | RooseveltFinancesWar Against Chinese Soviet Districts. ei By HARRY GANNES Chiang Kai-shek’s~ Sixth’ “antt- Communist Drive, which had=for, its object the destruction of the=Certral Soviet District in’ Kiangsi province, is faring worse than the past, five. The sixth major war -against=the | Victorious revolutionary. workers and | peasants in China -was- begun by a $50,000,000 contribution to therNan- king war chest by the Roosevelt regime. But it is alread¥: beset with. the gloomiest forebodings. One of Chiang Kai-shek’s foreign “military special- ists, returning from°‘Nanchang,’-the headquarters of the drive agaifstthe Kicmesi province, Teports that the drive is a failure.” Following this pessimistic “report for the rich Chinese Jandholders, usurers, gentry and ¢6tmpradores.(as well as their imperialist backers), the New York Times dispatch froma Nan- king, the Kuomintang capital,” on November 14 reports: - “Many government officials appear to share this view, although they are not committing themselves.” : Red Army Victories While Chiang Kai-shek concen- trated over 500,000 soldiers against the Kiangsi Soviets, after three -years of the most painstaking preparations, with millions of dollars from British, American, Japanese _and French bankers and imperialists, the Red Army was hurling back his troops on all fronts. At the point of heaviest concen- tration, Kiangsi, we learn that Nan- king government officials and Chiang | Kai-shek’s highly paid” Zenefal” ad- mit defeat. <7 In Szechuan province, the Red Army has made sweeping victories. | The small band of Red soldiers, work- ers and peasants, led by Comrade Ho Lung, that Chiang- Kai-shek drove out of the Red Lake district, near Hankow, last year, has- now. swelled into an army of over 60,000,-with a Soviet territory ten times larger than the one formerly held;-.'The Yangtze River is again threatened. by the Red Army. Starting af the Northern sec- tion of the province, entrenching the Soviet power among the peasantry and workers, the Red Army in Sze- | chuan has, without: let up,: been smashing its way through over a ter- ritory of over 800 miles, making its way to the Yangtze inlet to Szechuan. The Kuomintang, “imperialist-sup- | ported army, has beth futile in its [efforts to stop the*advancing Red Army. Esch city .-captured, each defeat for the Kuomintang butchers, has netted the Red..Army tens of thousands of rifles, millions of tounds of ammunition. By these. means greater masses of workers and peas- ants are armed andthe agrarian anti-imperialist revolution accom- plished over wide expanses of" Chin- ese territory. : But now the enemy is ceanptiny in his own fortress. The catastrophic crisis which has gripped China from the inauguration of the murderous rule of the Chiang Kai-shek, Soong regime, is playing havoc with the Nanking butchers. ‘The heightened imperialist conflicts the world over is whipping to greater heights the battles of the Chinese war lords. Now Nanking is faced with new defection in its own ranks, and at its very doorsteps. The latest news from Shanghai declares that in Fukien province, where the Red Army of Kiangsi achieved such brilliant vic- tories last summer against the famous 19th Route Army, thé local war lords have split away from Nanking. and set up their own provincial regime. But this regime, which is offering a “non-agegression paét” to the Red Army and the Soviet districts, “¢eon- tains powerful germs of its own dis- solution. 3 4 Fukien Regime ‘The Fukien regime is composed of the most miserable, right and. “left” elements of the Kuomiritang,; @ garbage heap of the Chines’ geols enemies of the Nating regime, and is inspired by imperiai- ism in its battle against. Wall Street control ce the ae Tegime. In Fukien, with. 19th “Route Army as its base, General Chet-Min Shu, the so-called “Third Partytte” leader in China, _Spouter of left phrases, has made *an. alliance with the British-supported, extremely right reactionary forces of General Li ‘Chi Sum and Hu Han Min.. They have announced their severance from.Nan- king control, and thé: Chinese” press speaks of a Fukien-Soviet alliance. By this means, ‘Chiang Kat-shek hopes to wring more ee fe A of his American supp6fte?x to Wall Street's market in China Hatect its chief competitar, | aaa Britain. But the Red Army makes no. such alliance, utilizing at the same time to the hilt, the splits and dissefsions, the wars and bic between the imperialist-backed “native Ne Pukien is not an ited Militarist war is ig in masy of China and threatens There are rifts and rifts in the imp of the Kuomintang butchers.” "The sharp conflict betweeh ‘Canton’ and Nanking is increasing; whilé™ bi undermined. Chiheset aoveeeateat bonds, never very strong, are’. ipitously. The’ Nakiog sabes is at its Ve end, and.as the threat of revolutionary success, imperialists act more- openly. 1 ‘the Chinese revolt pete, In a more quiet and insidious. way, the Roosevelt rete s t in China as it is in subs! war against the revo n and ever ready to. ws its, Otago