The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1933, Page 6

“Amerien’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1934 Sunday, Pei ntding Pubbiabed! qxeupt Sunday, by the ©o., Tae. Be he 18th Street, New York, ¥ Telephone: algonquin 47868. Doble Address: “Detwert.~ Mew York, BT Washington Bareen: Roce S84 Metional yew Settling, Wth and GM, Washington, D. 0. Subscription Ratest Math (exept Manhatten and Bronx), 2 your, @ months, $8.80; $ months, $2.00; } month, % cents. tian, Browz, Forsign and Canada: 2 yeas, #00; months, 5.00; 3 months $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 1 canta 00 TUFSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1933 Ceaseless Anti-War Fight 0 ag Seven the navy spoke. I wanted snother b. $40,000,000 from the Public Works Fimd to build alr. ‘Manes, ‘Today the army, in the person of General Dougias MacArthur, Chief of Staff, spoke. Be comes wailing that the present army apparatus ts “way below the danger line.” Roosevelt: “In the obvions siate of unrest prevailing throughout the world, evidences of which are plainly visible even in owr own country, an efficient and de- pendable army... is one of a nation’s priceless possessions, As much as at any other time in the history of our conntry, the army's efficiency should engage the earnest attention of every local citizen.” What does the General want? He wants another §170,000,000 from that wonderfully generous Public Works’ Fund, so that the army can be quickly brought #p to tip-top fighting condition without any delay. And there isn’t much doubt but that he will get it. Yor the Roosevelt Government has shown itself to be tHe sponsor and organizer of the most gigantic war | Preparations program in the history of the country. One billion dollars in six months—and more com~- amg! That is the grim war record of the Roosevelt government, concealed, all the while, within smooth QBrases of official pacifism. General MacArthur talks feelingly of that “unrest which not only prevails throughout the world, but Which is plainly visible here. . .” He refers of course, to the growing revolutionary upsurge of the toiling masses, throughout the capitalist world, who, under | the harsh impact of four years of world crisis, are be- ginning to show unmistakeable evidences that they will not endure much longer the hunger and suffering that the capitalist class and the capitalist system imposes on them. =, Under such conditions, says General MacArthur, Speaking to his capitalist masters, an efficient army is @ “priceless possession.” _ Just what the General means was visible last year when he smilingly supervised the troops in the hideous “Bloody Thursday“ massacre ageinst the ex-soldier bonus marchers. It is for the military support of the capitalist ruling class dictatorship, that dictatorship which is concealed beneath the forms of bourgeois “democracy,” that Gen- eral MacArthur wants an improved army. That is the Slear, biunt meaning of his statement. : 38 significant that MacArthur paid an extended ‘Visit last year to all the armies on the Western borders ef the Soviet Union. He was present at many “et the military manenvers of the French, Czecho- Slovakian, Polish and Kumanian armies. "These devolpments are grim reminders of the reality ‘Phat lies behind the Roosevelt pacifistic talk. They are y reminder that imperialist war is an imminent possi- , and a menace that grows closer every day. He states in a report | ‘The alertness and vigilance of the masses against | very war move of the Roosevelt government must be (@ the sharpest pitch. Every war move, every effort @f the Roosevelt government to organize for war, to the ideological preparation for war, must be ex and fought. Children “Below Par” rr. ROOSEVELT has recently been delivering soul- 3 tul, speeches about the “chi-i-ldren.” And as for Mr. Roosevelt, hs has promised on more ome occassion that “no one shall go hungry in country.” | Bub even the hired investigators of the Government the social workers whose task it is to hide the sores eapitalism cannot conceal the ugly face of wide- (read child starvation, politely called “malnutrition.” | In 1930 It waa officially reported by the Conferen For Health and Protection at Washington that a 6,000,000 children were suffering from the effects “And two days ego, Grace Abbot, Chief of the Chil- @en’s Bureau of the U. 8. Department of Labor, re- ported that in “many regions the proportion of below- pee children bas reached appalling figures.” ‘These polite words conceal ghastly tragedies of ohfid iieery. And the Roosevelt government offers $1 @ day to Wwerkers—starvation wages for one person. ‘The work- ne class children he leaves to the ravages of hunger, and slow death by starvation. One could hardly find @ better comment on the difference between the capi- telist Government of Roosevelt and the Soviet Union than in their treatment of children. Yor the one thing that even the most biased capital- observer of the Soviet Union cannot but concede is “that ft is a children’s paradise, where the health and “happiness of the children comes before all other con- ‘Siderations in the distribution of social goods. ‘The fight against the Roosevelt hunger program is “p fight for the right of many millions of working class children to live. Es Defeating the “Red Scare” VORABLE settlements have been won within « * week, in two strikes—the strike of 2,000 leather 5 tn Gloversville and the bitterly contested strike the Gallup, New Mexico, coal miners. Both of these were won under militant, left leadership, the strike under the leadership of the National i * Union, affiliated to the T.U.U.L., and the Glov- ersville strike under the rank and file Independent Leether Workers’ Union. In both strikes the weapon of the employers, the /red scare,” was used overtime. The double strike- breaking strategy of the employers, the use of dema- §0gy on one hand and terror on the other, was brought into full play by the employers’ apparatus, the N.R.A. machinery and the A. F. of L. leaders, _ The attempt was made to*behead the strike by iso- lating the militant leadership from the rank and file, t© discourage and betray the strikers by discrediting their union and their leaders, on the grounds that they were Communists. _. In Gloversville, the independent union was told by ‘the N. R. A, the employers, and the A. F. of L. officials a ie leaders of the strike were Communists, that and other advisers from the Needle Trades ’ Industrial Union, who were giving guidance to the union, must be throw by uncovering the plot of the and # of police to take immediately served notice that tt would be held responsible for Solor of the strikers. The strikers r w the “red scare” to disrupt their ranks. They & at their leaders were carrying on a militant and effective fight. In Gallup, the N.R.A. representative Moore tried to bring the United Mine Workers of America into the situation and isolate the Nation: rs’ Union. But the strikers refused to desert union and stayed on ‘ike won. In both strikes the rank and file through their elected strike committees, conducted their strikes. . representative for a ride, and nief of . police y by all E fact that these two strikes were won In the face of an extreme terror, in the case of Gallup in the face of stringent martial law, is the best proof that when the “red scare” is answered by an exposure of the strikebreaking role of the misleaders of the A. F. of L., and # thorough exPlanation of the policy of the class struggle unions, strikes can be won. Not only have the sirikers won a victory, but also the organizational groundwork has been laid whereby inside the shops, when the strikers have returned, the conditions of the settlement can be enforced, and new gains made in wages and better conditions. The left wing unions, with fighting, class struggle policy, have come through the strikes with increased membership. . ® * IN BOTH strikes, the difference between the betrayal policy of the A. F. of L. and the fighting working class policy of the T.U.U.L. has been made clear to the workers. The role of the Communist Party as the Party leading all the workers’ struggles, has been brought forward in both strikes. In Gloversville, at the November 7 Soviet anniversary meeting, a number of strikers joined the Communist Party. The leaders of the strike have repeatedly explained the role of the Party. As a result, the Party has increased in membership, and will be in a better position to lead the work of the union inside the shops. In. Gallup, under the eyes of the militia, five mine and one street nuclei of the Communist. Party were or- ganized, 125 Joined the Party, and many more miners will join. To fail to meet the “red scare,” to hide the role and the face of the Party, this would have meant the weakening of the leadership of the strikes, and would have given the employers’ agents, the A. F. of L. of- ficials, the N.R.A., etc., a chance to smash the strikes. Only by the Communist Party as an organization and its members, individually, playing a leading role in these strikes were the strikers able to defeat the ter- ror and demagogy and fight through to victory. Gov. Rolph’s Indignation WELL ORGANIZED mob of respectable citizens yesterday broke through the doors of a Jail in San Jose, California, and brutally lynched the kidnappers and murderers of s wealthy young man. Immediately upon the receipt of this joyous news, the Governor of California, James Rolph, Jr., issued the following statement: “This te the best lesson that California has ever given the country ... we show that the state is not going to tolerate kidnapping.” ‘The criminals who kidnapped and murdered the | young vice-president of a large California department store are not isolated, unexplainable, social phenomena. ‘They are the product and expression of certain phases of capitalist society, especially American capitalist society. The desire to get rich, the greed for easy money, the criminal individualism, the ruthless battle for wealth, all the insane, “success” dope with which American capitalism feeds its youth, certainly played their part in motivating the crimes of the lynch victims. ® * ° Certainly, it is significant that in the Soviet Union where the social cause of property greed, and the socal roots of the insane struggle for riches at the ex- pense of others, has been destroyed, the phenomenon | of kidnapping for ransom is non-existent. Today, organized criminal kidnapping for profit is | part and parcel of the corrupt political machinery and the underworld in every large American city. It is notorious that dozens of prominent capitalist politicians were approached to arrange the ransom in the recent Lindbergh kidnapping. THY does Governor Rolph condone the lynching of the two kidnappers? Is it because of his righteous indignation against kidnapping? ‘To say so would be fantastic, for Governor Rolph himself is part and parcel of one of the most crim- Inally corrupt political machines in the world, Gov- ernor Rolph is one of the organizers and maintainers of one of the most notorions criminal frame-ups in history, the Tom Mooney case. Governor Rolph recently gave tacit approval and support to criminal attacks and kidnappings of striking agricultural! laborers in the San Juaquin Valley in California. It is not moral fervor that inspires Governor Rolph. It is @ deliberate attempt to sanction lynching, and with s particular eye on the rising struggles of the tofling masses in Callfornia and throughout the coun- try. ? The Communist Party and the Negro Masses oy Say other important ally of the American proletariat is to be found in the masses of Negroes in the strug- gle against national oppression. The Communist Party, aa the revolutionary party of the proletariat, as the only party which is courageously and resolutely carry- ing on a struggle against the national oppression of the Negroes, which is becoming partially intense with the developing crisis, as shown by the recent death sen- tence against the Scottsboro Negroes—can win over the great masses of Negroes as allies of the proletariat against the American bourgeoisie. Sek. “PHB PARTY can stand at the head of the national | revolutionary struggle of the Negro masses against American imperialism only if it energetically carries through the decision of the XIV Plenum of the Central Committee on work among Negroes. The Party must mobilize the masses for the struggle for equal rights of the Negroes and for the right of self-determination for the Negroes in the Black Belt, I¢ must ruthlessly combat any form of white chauvinism and Jim-Crow practices. It must not only in words but in deeds overcome all obstacles to the drawing in the best ele- ments of the Negro proletariat, who in the recent years have shown themselves to be self-sacrificing fighters in the struggle against capital. In view of this, special attention must be given to the promotion of Negro pro- letarians to leading work in the Party organizations. “In all mass actions, strikes and unemployed strug- gles the Party must pay particular attention that in formulating practical demands, it takes into considera~- tion and gives expression to the special forms of ex- ploitation, oppression and denial of the rights of the employed and unemployed Negro masses. At the same time the Party and in the first place the Negro com- rades must genuinely improve the methods of patient, systematic but persistent struggle against the ideology and influence of petty bourgeois nationalists among the Negro workers and tolling Negro masses.” _PROM THE OPEN LETTER. strikers answered \N.Y.U. Students Pledge Fight on | War at Conference R.O.T.C. Men Run Off; | After Attempts To | Disrupt: Fail | By JEROME ARNOLD | NEW YORK. — Defeating the open disruptive tactics of militaristic, | pseudo-liberal and renegade elements, | |over 600 delegates representing the |New York University student body | ; hammered out a program of action} j against war in a two-day conference} | held Friday and Satunlay at Wash-| j ington Square. | The delegates pledged themselves “under no circumstances to support | or co-operate with the government of | | the United States in any war it may | conduct,” called for the complete abo- | lition of the R.Q:T.C. and voted to “expose and struggle against the util- | ization of science classes and labor- atories and all other college resources | for the development of war materi- als.” They adopted resolutions call- | ing for the support of the 31 expelled | and suspended City..Coliege students, demanded the removal of U. S. war- ships from Cuban. waters and the re- ‘vocation of the Platt Amendment, and voted later to cooperate with the American League Against War and| Fascism. ‘ Reference was also made in the| preamble to the resolutions recogniz- | ing the Soviet Union-as the only one | of the great powers-“which has advo- cated immediate and total disarma- ment.” A hazy, unclear statement | saying: “They (students and teachers) must join with ail forces fighting war, | not only with the working class, but with the farmer, professional and each and every person who may be used as cannon fodder in the coming war,” was adopted in place of a more lucid one, recognizing the strategic posi- ion of the working class in the strug- gle against war. This was counter- acted, however, by the addition of a phrase which stated that with work- j ing class opposition to war the capi- talist war plans can be defeated. { A Communist Speaks | For the first time in a representa- | tive body of students, the Communist | Party position as such, was brought forward by students themselves. At every study session into which the} convention divided to. discuss special | {phases of the anti-war movement, Young Communist League and Party | members speaking in the name of the | | Party, expounded the revolutionary | position on war. | _At the final session an active Y¥.C.Ler, a member of the commit- tee, answering the plea to defend this country in case of attack, said: | “You may be sure that in case | there is a war, there wil be a bar- rage of leaflets, strikes and agita- tion against the war, to stop the slaughter between worker and worker, between student and stu- dent, and turn the guns against the capitalists who started the war. Disrupters Defeated From the moment the convention opened Friday evening, attempts were made by small student cliques and individuals to split the conference. Led by Sydney Hook, professor of | Philosophy and “Marxian” revision- jist, the disrupters, a fusing of Trot- ' skyites, R.O.T.C., and insincere liberal | elements, attempted to keep the} meeting in a continual furore, ob- | structing progress by shouting down | speakers and constantly interrupting. These disrupters, however, defeated and expostd time and time again, succeeded in isolating themselves from the student body. In the eve- ning of the second day, Hook, see- ing the tide against him, broke away from the militarist and “opposition” bloc, which he himself had helped form, and supported the National Student League position. Minor Addresses Students | In the opening session of the con- | vention Friday night,. Robert Minor, | of the Central Committee, Communist | Party, participafed’ in 2 symposium jon “The Student. and War,” with | Joseph Cohen, of the American | League Against War and Fascism, and | jthe National Student League, Gus | Tyler of the Y.PSL. and Bertha Darling of the Womten’s Peace Soci- ety. Stressing the need for unity against war, Minor urged the partici- pation of students with the working class in the fight against imperialst war and affiliating with the U. S. Congress Against War. “Mass resistance, mass protest—that is the only effective instrument against war. Students of New York University, spreadthe fight from one end of the country to the other!” In the plan of action to carry out the resolutions of the conference, a continuations committee was elected, | recently sere AST | Perkins—“The cotton is burned, the hogs are slaughtered, according | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1933 to your orders, Mr. President, Now, what is your pleasure with the unemployed?” | original drawings of Burck's cartoons Daily Worker. Roosevelt—“As for them, I have a little war in mind!” appearing in the | | $312.77. Unit No. 718, Evans, Chicago, wins yesterday's draw- | By Burek Helping the Daily Worker through bidding for the , ing with a bid of $10. Other bids, Lillian Beckowitz, $7.30, Pen and Hammer, Pittsburgh, $5. Total to date, | 5,000 at Coliseum | Demand Release | of 4 German Reds Hathaway and Moore Call for Mass Fight Against Fascism ers who gathered in the Bronx Coli- seum Sunday night to demand the; immediate release of Dimitroff,| Torgler, Popoff and Taneff heard} Clarence Hathaway, editor of the| Daily Worker, urge the working masses throughout the world to rally to the support of the four Commu- | nists on trial in Leipzig, and de- nounce the growing fascist tenden- cies of the Roosevelt government. “Roosevelt still talks in terms of) democracy,” he said. “But every day, as the strike movement con-| tinues, as unemployment increases | and as the Negro struggle for libera- tion grows, the administration re- sorts to more and more open at- tempts in crushing the fighting front of the workers.” Hathaway was preceded by Arthur Garfield Hays, liberal attorney who returned from Germany,’ where he witnessed a good part of the trial; Richard B. Moore, Mar-| garet Schlauch, A. Wagenknecht, Chris Blohm, Pauline Rogers and} Dr. Fritz Schlesinger of the German- American Societies. Professor W. L. Nunn was chairman. In @ last stirring appeal to the Nazi court, Hays stressed the inno- cence of the four trial defendants. “If you find these men guilty,” he; said addressing the court, “and sen- tence them to be hanged, we who) know their innocence, will never cease our efforts to hold up to the! indignant eyes of the world the fact that even the highest judges of Ger-/| many are in the control of the Nazi} party.” Richard B. Moore, militant Negro| leader, stressed the need of united struggle for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys as a step towards staying off fascism in America. A collection «° 9329 was raised to- wards = tuiousand dollar fund to be sent to Paris in answer to an emer- gency call for money to save the lives of the four Communists. berg, M. Bailey, R. Tilove, R. Sidon, 'T. Fagin, J. Keller, M. Forkosch, M. Friedlander, 8. Solander, M. Levine and T. Gorman. It was decided to call mass meetings and anti-war parades on patriotic holidays. The date for one such parade was set for consisting of A. Schneider, E. Green- April 6. Insurance Outfit Faker ® By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker W: WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Ame odorous National Defense Life In- surance Company. This insurance outfit is the same one which was exposed in 1930. Then Hersey circulated a letter explaining how the insurance company would use part of its profits to “stamp out” radicalism, pacifcism, etc., through a companion organization, the National Defense Foundation. “More patriots, more profits,” ex- plained Eddy Orcutt in the New Re- public of Oct. 23, 1929. “More prof- its, more patriots. And so on in a great benevolent circle, not only ad infinitum, or ad nauseam, but aso ad gloriam dei.” The organization found it impos- sible to get a license in the District of Columbia, but in 1930 it reappear- ed, consolidated with a corporation existing in Delaware, where the law is notoriously lax. Inquiries at Her- sey’s former office yesterday brought the information that the original life insurante is now consolidated with the Our Home Life Insurance Co., which is doing business here, with Hersey as a director. Hersey him- self, was reported to be whiling his time away in Florida. He Was re- tired on a $6,000-a-year pension. He was also connected recently with a so-called army and navy club, whose} business is to capitalize the corralling of unemployed youth into the civilian conservation corps, by selling mass subscriptions to magazines. Associated with Hersey in the in- surance scheme was another $6,000-a- year pensioner, the well-known jingo, Rear-Admiral R. E. Coontz, retired; also H. A. Jung, Chicago capitalist and redhunter witness before the ludicrous Fish Communist Investigat- ing Committee, which went to the lengths of hiring the convict, Gaston Means, to get “evidence.” Hatched at a conference here, the insurance scheme had the approval of such “leading” figures as Mrs. William Sherman Walker, vice-presi- dent of the D. A. R. About all these and the insurance scheme, however, the “American Alliance” leaders now in Washington preserve discreet silence. Walter Reynolds, secretary to the Alliance and private secre- tary to Ham Fish, said: “I can't tell you anything about it.” It seems worth mentioning that literature which Reynolds supplied ashington Bureau) rican Alliance, the organization cam- | | paigning against the Soviet Union and whose membership includes Repre | sentative Hamilton Fish, millionaire red-baiter, and Rev. Edmund A. Walsh y | vice-president of the Catholic Georgetown University, is headed by Major | inets have not been overcome but NEW YORK-—Five thousand work-| General Mark L. Hersey, Hersey was recently secretary-general of the mal- | rather sharp | to explain the “American Alliance” | contained a quotation, concerning the red “menace,” from Paul Schef- fer, then a Washington correspon- dent, now managing editor for polit- ical news of the “co-ordinated” Ber- liner Tageblatt. This crowd’s activities naturally find no reflection in official Wash- ington, which devoted itself over the Union. Secretary of State Hull cabled good wishes from the ship on which he is traveling towa rd the Pan-American Conference in Monte- video. Acting Secretary Phillips in- structed all American diplom-ts to enter into cordial official and social relations with Russian representa- tives throughout the world. Roosevelt Plans More Bounties to Big Corporations WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Further huge subsidies to industry through the R.F.C. and still further cheapen- ing of the dollar, is the program that. Roosevelt will continue, it was said here today. ‘The preparation for the coming gov- ernment re-financing of $727,696,000 of government bonds may result in a temporary move on the part of the government seemingly away from in- flation, in order to permit the financ- ing to go through. This maneuver was executed by the Roosevelt gov- ernment in the recent refunding of the Liberty bonds. But the trend to- ward the 50 per cent devaluation of the dollar will go on, it was con- fidently stated by Treasury officials. ‘The Roosevelt gold price remained at $33.76 for the sixth day, giving some confirmation that Roosevelt is paving the way for the government refinancing, preparatory to further beating down of the dollar in the in- ternational exchanges, in the bitter fight between American and British imperialism for leadership in the world’s markets, Second International Supports Fascist Adventurers By H.W. On Oct. 21 news was received of | the attempt on the life of the Gen- jeral Consul of the Soviet Union in Lemberg, in the Western Ukraine, which was annexed by Poland. An employe of the Consiilate was killed and another seriously ‘wounded;. The assassin declared that he acted on | the orders of an anti-Soviet and fas- cist Ukrainian terrorist organization. He was sentenced on Oct, 31 to im- prisonment for life. Increase In Counter-Revolution- ary Activities, For some months past one could observe a fresh increase in the ac- tivity of the counter-revolutionary Ukrainian nationalists, both among the white guardist emigrants in the various capitals of Europe and in the Ukrainian district of Poland, This activity was financed from various sources, before all by Hitler, who is endeavoring to carry out the program of Rosenberg and of the notorious London Memorandum drawn up by Hugenberg, which aims at the dis- mem! et the Soviet Union. This activity was also to be seen at the so-called Conference of National Minorities in Geneva. In Poland it- self it enjoyed benevolent toleration on the part of the authorities, who saw in it a welcome counterweight to their official policy of a rapproche- ment to the Soviet Union, Socialist Parties C-"l for Armed Intervention The varions social-democratic groups affiliated to the Second Inter- | national eccupy an important place! in this counter-revolutionary Ukrain- Jan front, In particular they Joined in the campaign led by Hitler and the Vatican against the so-called “famine in the Soviet Ukraine,” which campaign was supported by the social democratic press organs in all countries. At the meeting of the Executive of the Second International which’ was held preparatory to the. Paris} Conference in August, the question of a crusade against the Soviet Union for savirig the “starving and fettered Ukraine” was raised by Fedenko, a member of the Executive, who represents the white-guardist emigrant center in Prague and at the same time the Ukrainian social- “investigation” of the Soviet Ukraine, and for this pt to appeal to all similar socialist “parties”: the Men- sheviki, the Georgians, the social revolutionaries, and the Armenian Dashniaks, At the full meeting of the Conference in Paris the results of the investigation were announced from the platform. Fedenko, who gave the report, was supported Abramovitch, the social revolutionary Suchomlin, and Vandervelde's friend the Georgian jadshe. How Socinlist ae Aid Im- perialist A few weeks later, in September, the social-democratic press of all countries published a manifesto | “against the shameful policy of the Soviets in the Ukraine,” signed by Panas Fedenko and Isaac Masepa for the Foreign Delegation of the Ukrainian social-democratic labor pa-ty, by Lew Hankiewyez and Ivan Kvaswicia for the Ukrainian social- democratic party of Poland, and Ivan. Makuch and Matvy Stachiv for the “Ukrain‘an radical socialist party of Poland.” All these parties are affiliated to the Second Interna~ tional. In Poland itself these parties are ‘st group of Poland. As a result of his intervention, the Executive, on the proposal of de Brouckere and Renaudel, decided to undertake an! tral carrying on a furlous campaign of meetings which is supported in par- ticular by the P. P. S. and its cen- “Robotnlk,’ organ Hares at the a HG ig Socialist Leaders Call for Crusade Against USSR Executive Peddles Lie of “Starving and Fettered Ukraine” same time they vie with the open fascist Ukrainian groups in propa- gating the most “effective” means of by| combating the Soviet regime and provoking a war against the Soviet Union, ‘The attempt on the life of the Gen- eral Consul of the Soviet Union in Lemberg in October was the result of this propaganda, The counter-revo- lutionary. Ukrainian c=mpaign {s only a part of the systematic campaign against the Soviet Union which the Second International has carried on persistently for years, This cam- paign promotes all the imperialist undertakings aiming at undermining and overthrowing the Soviet Repub- lic, and also promotes the war provo- cations of Japan, and the aggressive plans and machinations of Hitler. It ‘s this campaign which prompted the fascist terrorist of Lemberg. ‘The moral responsibility of for the horrible assassination in Tiem~- berg is apparent to all. ” can absolve them critical in the eyes of the world proletariat. week-end to extending further ges-| tures of courtesy toward the Soviet) the leaders of the Second International No hye- French Masses in Protest Actions on Taxes, Living Costs Workers and Farmers |. in Nation-Wide . Demonstrations PARIS, Nov. 27-—Converging on scores of cities and towns, French workers and farmers joined yesterday in a nation-wide series of huge deme jonstrations against the increasing | taxes and rising commodity prices by which successive French cabinets have vainly attempted to balance the bud- get while expending huge sums on armaments Hundreds of thousands of farmers participated in the upsurge, joining the workers in nearly every important city and town. Thirty thousand min- ers marched on Arras, Bethune, Doual and Valenciennes with banners and slogans demanding adequeterelief for the unemployed, an increase in the starvation wages of those at work and reduction of taxes and commodity prices, Several clashes occurred with {the police, who, however, completely | failed in their attempts to block the demonstrations. Spokesmen for the farmers declared the farmers would resort to militant | action to secure relief from their mis- erable conditions. They stated: “All that we sell, we sell at a loss. All that we br @ pay dearly for. e demonstrations took on addi- nificance because occurring on the eve of the annouticement of | the composition of the new Camille | Chautemps cabinet, successor to Al- bert Saurraut’s defeated government. The cabinet is formed almost | Wholly of Rad Socialists of Chau- temps’ own the French Social- ist Party not daring to give it open | support in face of the rising mass anger against the increasing cost of it ineludes four former pre- and is almost the same as the mes. ho declined the thus refused to ac- 3 7 for the fate of the | v e' has agreed to be- 1 delegate to the League expects the new government to last. The difficulties whicty caused the downfall of the Saurraut, Da- | ladier, Paul-Boncour and Herriot cab- cd. ‘Trade Unions Will Celebrate USSR. Recognition Friday Hathaway, Ben Gold To Speak at Mass Meeting NEW YORK.—Clarence Hathaway, Ben Gold, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Dr. | Reuben Young, and K. Radzie will be | the main speakers at the Soviet Union celebration organized by the trade unions of New York for Friday, Dec. 1st, 8 p. m., at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. | For the past 16 years during which | the government of the United States has refused to recognize the Soviet Union ruled by the workers and peas- ants, the trade unionists of New York have carried on a persistent and con- sistent struggle to gain recognition for the Soviet Union. This struggle was carried on not only by the militant industrial unions but also by the workers of the A. F. of L. At this celebration the trade union- ists of New York will once more show their solidarity with the workers of the Soviet Union. All trade unionists, all trade union sympathizers, are urged to come and together celebrate this victory of the working class. The program will include, the Pierre Degeyter Orchestra, with D. Grunes conducting; The Ukrainian Chorus,. sixty singers, in the latest Soviet songs; Eugene Nigob, pianist; and M. Dmitshina, Russian singer, in Russian folk songs. Nanking Threatens To Bombard Capital Of Fukien Rivals Canton Regime Stil’ Jockeying for Position SHANGHAI, Nov. 27.-—Faced with the possibility of the Fukien seces- sionist movement spreading to other provinces, the Nanking government yesterday ordered ten gunboats to proceed to Fukien to blockade the ports of thet province, which are pro- | tected by floating mines. Nanking (planes ‘flew over the province dis- tributing leaflets threatening an aer- dal bombardment of Foochow, capital of the secessionists. Nanking reports that--GCantonese forces had attacked the jlenese were denied in Canton, whose regime is jockeying for leadership of the op- position to the Nanking wing of the Kuomintang. Gen. Chen Chia-tang, Canton commander, has effected a secret agreement with Ho Chien, gov- ernor of Hunan, while the Kweichow provincial government has announced @ policy of strict neutrality in the’ impending conflict, thus favoring Canton's itions. The Canton’ re~ gime is at the same time attempting to organize the attack against the young Chinese Soyict republic and has asked for Hunaneco relnforeements on the southern et Kiangsi where the Ch 4d Army has successfully beaten bach the, Canton treops and the Ninsteenth Route Army in Fukien. Meantime, the rift between the miltarists is hampering the sixth Nanking campaign organized under the direction of the imperiale ists against the Soviet districts. bo: ese FR