The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1933, Page 6

Page Six “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Published daily, except Sunday, he Comprodadiy Prbvishing Go., Ihc.,, 80 Bast i8th Street, New York, MW. ¥. ‘Telephone: ALgonguin 47966. Gable Address: “Datwork,” New York, ¥. ¥. Washington SBuresu; 064, National Mth and F. st, W » Dd. 6 Subscription Rates: By Mell: (except Manhatten and Bronz}, \ year, 96.00 6 months, $8.60; 5 ths, §2.00; 1 month, 78 conta Manhsttan, Bronz, Foreign and Canada: 2 year, $8.00 ® months, $5.00; § months $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 78 cents. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1938 Who Organizes Lynch Violence? HE lynch call of the California Governor Rolph for Fascist violence—unmistak ably aimed at the Negro masses and the rising resistance of the work cla has provoked warnings from two leading New York newspapers, the World-Telegram and the Evening Post. With obviously the spectre of mz velt hunger program, resistance to growing Fascism, World-Telegram states “This is a time of va toward glances the Other- wise law-abiding citizens are taking the st unrest. law into their hands. Farmers are using violence against officers and judges. ..for many months whole communities and classes have been under nervous tension almost to the point of breaking, and now we enter a winter of mass suffering. those who raise up th ob, must be pre pared for the destruction of the nation.” ‘nd the Evening Post is even more ex- plicit : ‘If people are hungry, shall they not “join: mobs to get food...If workers are unemployed, shall they not join in mobs ssion of the factories and obs to whom he (Rolph) is nulla osta are not likely to stop hink when they start being violent.” the deputized gangs of the milk monopolies the danger of violence comes! According to the Post, it is from the job- leis and hungry, and not from the eapitalist slugging police charging unem- ployed demonstrations, that the danger of violence comes! It is in this way that these capitalist papers, “liberal” and reactionary, not only attempt to conceal the growing organiza- tion of Fascist violence by the government, but prepare to justify it as it is being un- leashed ! It is because they are fearful that the American working class organize to meet the challenge of Rolph’s Fascist pro- vocations, it is because they are fearful that sinister lynching, following so closely en the lynch call of the California governor, will rouse the mass anger and indignation of the masses to a pitch dangerous to the Yuling class, that these two leading capital- ist papers warn against the crude charac- ter of Rolph’s Fascist incitation. . HE Post and the Telegram recent mass actions of the farmers as dangerous actions against which the capitalist must prepare. These actions were not the action of a mob, but the organized actions of the toil- ing masses against their exploiters. The recent strikes of the coal, steel, tex- tile and auto workers were not the actions of amob. They were disciplined, organized actions of the Proletariat, conscious of their interests, and struggling against the ex- ploitation of the Wall Street monopolies. The “mob violence” in Ambridge, Gallup, refer to the workers and of a “mob,” state power » Paterson, came from the deputized thugs i of the employers, not from the workers. ‘The recent strike of the Western farm- ‘ ers was a disciplined, organized action of ' the impoverished farmers against the Wall Street monopolies. Whatever violence and mob action existed in these areas, was in- cited and organized by the milk monopolies their auxiliary organizations. It was am that the roving’ gangs of strike- ers seeking to engage in armed com- bat with the farm pickets were subsidized by the big dairy companies. The Communist Party supports these ruggles of these toilers. The Communist arty seeks to arouse the militancy of the toiling masses and to give it disciplined, or- ganized, revolutionary direction. The Com- munist Party firmly and unequivocally op- poses all acts of individual terrorism and violence, not because of any sentimental pacifist considerations, but because these ac- tions hinder the revolutionary movement of the working class. At the present moment, the American rijing class is planting provocateurs in the ranks of the workers in an attempt to in- cite individual acts of violence precisely to ide the occasion for the unleashing of ist terrorism and for the justification ruling class terrorism. The Communist arty takes the lead in exposing the actions these agents of Wall Street in the ranks DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 ds 1938 The Communist Party surrender- ing to any tendency of individual acts o orism, and bends all its efforts to direct- to struggle of the masses to- nized mass actions and away from individual violence. { Heve call to organize fascist violence is not onfined to the California governor. The obvious participation of the Maryland State machiner; y wood, the y of the Missouri State machine in the face of this week’s lynching of Lloyd Warner, and the tacit support given by the Roosevelt administration to the wave of fascist lynch violence, are all evidences that it is the entire American ruling class vrhich is deliberately fostering a wave of fa- cist violence. More and more, the Roosevelt govern- ment resorting to violence and terror against the masses. The shooting down of the pickets at Am- ridge, Pa., the declaration of martial law i the coal strikers of New Mexico and 1, the failure of the Roosevelt govern- t to take the slightest action against hing, the open use of the National Guard inst the striking farmers in Iowa, Wis- in and New York, are examples of the which the Roosevelt government will 1g the will ing ¢ . 8 * r is roa take on an ever-increasing scale against the resistance of the masses to its Wall Street hunger program. ‘he capitalist press warns against “mob violence.” But the mob violence in the re- cent lynchings are not spontaneous outbursts from the masses, despite the efforts of the press to depict them as such. | t is true that mn these mobs there were many misled petty bourgeois and even work- ers. But the impetus, the incitation, and | the promise of protection came from the organized official governmental machinery! In the recent lynchings, it was the govern- mental machiné that really was in action, not any spontaneous outburst of the masses. The menace of fascist violence come directly from the capitalist government machine, which organizes and protects it. The menace of unbridled brutality, of individual terrorism, comes not from the working class “mob,” but precisely from the capitalist ruling class masters, who are | fearful for the continuation of their ex- | ploitation and profits. It is from the Roosevelt government, facing the coming winter with every one of its promises to the masses to alleviate the crisis unful- filled, that the real menace of fascism comes. Jv i as the Roosevelt government, follow- ing the dictates of its Wall Street mas- ters, prepares to launch the increasing fa- | scist terrorism against the starving masses | so the toiling masses of the country must | form an unbreakable United Front of strug- | gle to meet the attack, and to defeat it. It is by the powerful weapon of United | Front, the united front of all workers, re- gardless of political belief, of affiliation, of the united front of the Communist, Socialist | and all other workers, of members of the A. F. of L. unions with “e revolutionary eetite ee a ‘Nazi Employers , Judge Callahan:— ance With the Laws of Alabama! 9? Take Full Control | Jury:— “We Git You, Judge” | of “Labor Front” | |Dictatorship: in Onslaught on Workers | BERISIN, Nov. 30.—The Nazi. dic-| tatorship pressed its: offensive against | the German working class today with| |® new plan for recruiting employers | |into the Labor Front, thus complet- | domination by the German| The: employers are en-| }listing with great zeal, while even | those workers who were previously {deceived by the Nazi demagogy are | raising furious protests. Communist) |leaflets exposing the Nazi swnidle are | being distributed illegally in the shops | and are being avidly read by the workers, Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, president of the Reich Es- tate of German. Industries, today) | urged his fellow industrialists to join | |the Labor Front immediately. ‘The} Labor Front has. already relieved the| employers of the pressure of the 1a-| bor unions, while. their own organi-| zations remain. Intact, thus giving) them a free hahd for wage reduc- tions, speed-up and the lengthening of the working day. Increasing numbers of workers are resigning from-.the labor unions, which were betrayed into the hands of the Nazis by the Social Democra- tic leaders, who turmed over even the funds of the unions which had been sent out of the country when the bourgeoisie brought-Hitler into power. ‘These workers are now threatened by Dr. Robert Ley, leader of the Labor |Front, with denial of work and un- | employed relief. ‘Nanking Rushing Troops for War on New Fukien Regime. | NANKING, Noy--30.—A statement | by a Nanking Government spokes- | |man today that war with the Pukien | | secessionist regime was inevitable in-| |dicates that the Fukien war-lords| |have rejected Nanking’s proffered |bribes and are determined to chal-/ |lenge the Nanking clique for the loot! lof China. Ths spokesman admitted} that Canton could iiét remain neutral, | but was unableto- say which side} jin the impendingnew civil war it | woul support. | | Large troop: xipyements continue | | through the capital, as Nanking rush- jed its troop mobilization in Southern |Chekiang province; on the border of | Fukien. Meantime, the Nanking gov- ernment is receiving panicky calls |from the Szechwan and Kiangsi fronts for reinforcements against the | Chinese Red Armies, which are go- |ing over to the offensive against the | Sixth Nanking campaign against the Soviet districts. Fukien banks have closed as a re- sult of the financial crisis which is} | gripping all Kuomintang China, and | | widespread distress is reported in | Boochow and Amoy, |The Pukien regime {s conscripting| | ing labor | industrialists. | Scottsboro Jury Jud ¢ “J Instruct You to Bring in a Verdict in Accord- | —By Bur ck | e€ | Nahan | | British Threaten Japan With Trade Reprisals LONDON, Nov. 30.—Japan was bi Commons yesterday, Sir Walter Runciman, President of Japan of fraudulent practices in cap! the Far East. He charged the Japa! make it appear their goods w British manufacture, of taki - due advantage” of inflation of Jap- anese currency, low wai long | hours of work and govern: sidies to shipping and steel concerns to undersell their ri vals on the diminishing world mat- ket. The spokesman of British busi ness threatened Japan with shar retaliatory measures, even to the e: tent of abrogating the Anglo-Jar anese commercial trea’ was told that Japan’s cotton good exporis had increased from 400,000,000 yards in 1931 unions of the T.U.U.L., of the organized with |large numbers of ‘workers and pea~/ 000,000 in 1932 the unorganized, of the jobless with the em- ployed, of the Negro and white workers, that the approaching fascist menace can be destroyed! As the employers try to break the work- ers’ trade unions, as they try to beat down the wage scales and the working conditions, as they try to increase profits at the expense of the workers, supporting their exploita- tion by fascist provocations and organized violence, the working class can defeat these attacks by United Front mass struggles, by | United Front mass strikes, by United Front mass defense! The United Front of the working class, of all the toiling and exploited! This is the weapon that can turn back the fascist menace! Meeting Our Deficit DAILY WORKER constantly faces the problem of a deficit. That must be avoided on a dally newspaper. There is a sharp loss in selling & six and elght page paper at three cents, even though our | expenses are pared down to a bare minimum. There are three ways for combatting this deficit, a drive for funds such as the present one, mass increase of circulation, additional advertisements. A fund drive is at best a temporary solution. It | cannot be continued indefinitely. When it is over, the daily deficit again accumulates, A real mass circulation by reducing the first high cost of production could make our six and eight page paper self-sustaining. This is a goal we must aim at and reach, By obtaining more advértisements, the income of our Daily Worker can be increased speedily and max terlally. The “Daily” is trying to do this. Last Saturday we published two new ads. But whether we can hold these new advertisers and obtain additional ones, depends largely upon our readers. Our ads are accepted only after a thorough inves- tigation. We ask our readers to prove to our adver. tlsers their confidence in our paper by patronizing them, by making enquiries of them before purchasing else- where. Doing this, you will help your “Daily.” Patronize our advertisers, A Serious Typographical Error | In the first copies of yesterday’s Daily Worker the | editorial “Lynch Call of Growing U. 8. Fascism” con- i tained a serious typographical error, One of the last paragraphs read: “United in working class solidarity, Negro and white workers must struggle relentlessly for the right to armed self-defense, for the right to organize armed resistance to Fascist violence.” This should have read: . “United in working class solidarity, Negro and white workers must struggle relentlessly for the right te MASS self-defense, for the right to organize MASS resistance to Fascist violence.” sants for service in the Nineteenth | |Route Army in preparation for the | jopening of hostilities. | Beer “Prosperity” Flops, Plant Turns To War Material | | WEST ALLIS, Wis., Nov. 30.—War | has taken the place of beer as the | | “way back” to “prosperity.” ‘The Pressed Steel Co. of West Allis, | wis. a suburb of Milwaukee, has changed from the manufacture of beer barrels to the production of torpedoes and airplane bombs. The present output is only 100 torpedoes a day but mechanieal appliances have been Installed that allow an increase of the output to 4,000 a day without further drastic changes. Tivals ritain’s American trade also came in for an attack, Herbert Samuel, former Ho retary, proposing an unofficial bo; cott against U. S. cotton, in favor | of British India | Japanese Play Havoc With British. | (By Labor Research Association) ‘The bitter struggle for fore’sn mar- kets in textiles has been iliustrated} most vividly in the events of recent months, As the Japanese capitalists | have concentrated id rationalized their cotton industry they have pene- trated rapidly into the trade of the Orient, especially into regions former- ly dominated by the British cotton} manufacturers of Lancashire As a Wall Street Journal writer re-| cently put it, “Lancashire cannot exist | without export trade, and Japan's in- roads on that trade in the last five The House | piece ; to 2,030;« } itterly assailed in the British House of as the Anglo-Japanese trade war reached a climax. the Board of Trade, blunily accused turing British markets in India and nese with using false trade-marks to ears have slowed spindles and shut- | tered mills throughout all of north England.” The British press has been | shrieking about the “growing menace | of Japanese competition,” as they call it. This trade wat Was sharply inten- ified on June 6, when the govern- ment of British India placed a pro- hibitory tariff of 75 per cent on non- British cotton goods, that is, Japan- ese goods. About a third of Japanese cloth and two-thirds of Japanese yarn exports have gone to India. About the same time British Malay States raised the tariff on Japanese cotton goods from 30 to 80 per cent. The Japanese mill owners struck back quickly, and on June 13 put through a boycott of Indian raw cot~ ton, A typical circular sent out by 2, Japanese cotton firm declared, “We must give a hard blow on the head of Engiand, who makes a puppet of | India.” The British answered through \the mouth of F. W. Astbury, a Lan- |cashire manufacturer, who declared in Parliament that “The Yellow Peril {is now upon us in a far more insid- jious form than war.” | Turn to Competition With U, 8, The United States cotton manufac- turing industry is not out of this war. | For, as a Wali Strect Jonrnal dispatch | puts it: “Japanese mills have an- nounced that if their goods are to be kept out of the big Indian market by {a high tariff, while British goods are admitted at a lower rate, they willJapanese goods, Mexican Rail Road Strike Is Threatened MEXICO CITY, Nov. 30.—Because | of the threat of a strike on the Mex- | ican Division of the Southern Pacific | Railroad, two large-scale passenger} excursions by railroad to Mexico City | from California, Oregon and Wash- ington have been postponed, dis- patches received today state. make a determined drive to capture compensating markets in other parts of the world. “The intensified Japanese competi- tion is cutting into the: cotton goods trade not only of Great Britain, but also of the United States in many widely scattered world markets, ac- cording ‘to trade advices.” One. tex~- tile exporter, E. J. Hesslein, president of Neuss, Hesslein & Co., writing re- cently in Daily News Record, com- plains bitterly of “the campaign of extermination which is being waged | against us by the Japanese” (our bold~face.—L.R.A.) He deplores the fact that “Japan is still permitted to penetrate into countries like Colombia, Central America, Cuba, Haiti, and even the} Philippine Islands . . . territories in| which we are deeply interested from | a cotton gocds standpoint...” The Japanese are dumping their | cotton goods, Hesslein declares, in all of these markets, and the important six to seven per cent of United States cotton goods production which is nor- mally exported is threatened by this competition, (At one time the United States manufacturers hoped to reach an export percentage of 15 or 20, but the crisis killed “these hopes.) He calls for higher tariffs and govern- ment subsidies to enable the United States industry fo meet this flood of pak ey By VERN SMITH (Daily Worker Correspondent) MOSCOW, USSR. Nov. 12 (by mail).—“I saw what the workers of Leningrad think of the revolution,” said Hays Jones, of the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union, a member of the American Workers delegation to the Sixteenth Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution celebration. Jones, being a seaman and the editor of the paper of his union, the Marine Workers Voice, remained in Lenin- grad to see the November ‘th festivi- ties in a seaport, then came on to Moscow. : “I saw over million workers march, singing and surging along in never-ending ranks through the ‘square before the.-Winter Palace, in the city where they or their fathers started the Soviet: Union sixteen years ago,” said Jones. “The scene can not be described in words. Fight columns marched: at once, the lines being kept from welding into @ solid mass by over a thousand red-clad members of the Sports Organization called ‘Ready for Labor and Defense.’ Each member held a large balloon, captive on a ; and floating 20 feet above him in the air. Occa- sionally one of the banners carried by the marchers would accidentally break @ string. of the man standing, and a balloon would fly east and south into the sky until it passed from sight in the clouds. Describes Parade “First came a. military parade. While this passed, the reviewing stand was filled with members of the Leningrad Soviet.and hundreds of the best shock. brigade workers, placed on the tribune as part of their reward for:extra good work in the industries, ;But when the fac- tory and waterfront workers marched past, the ‘udarniks” the shock work~- ers, enthusiastical Tushed down from the stand “Joined the ranks c 's, and the trib- une stood hi empty. “Masses vegan | Ps fikities early in Hays Jones, U.S. Seamen’s Delegate, Tonnies Nov. 7th Celebration and Life in Leningrad the morning. Our translator had told us that all the factories would be closed on the seventh. “‘The street cars will run, course,’ said one of the delegates. “They couldn't if they tried,’ said the interpreter, and this proved em- phatically true. From eight in the morning to four in the afternoon, Leningrad’s streets were jammed with crowds of workers, marching in an organized manner from factories and setlements to the Uritzky Square, the square before the Winter Palace. “We saw them move through the square, the Osoaviakhim, the aviation and chemical society, at the head of thousands of armed workers. This is the only country in the world where ‘the government dares to arm, the factory workers. With these marchers were huge floats carrying representations of the battles that captured the Winter Palace, and one sixth of the world’s surface for the proletariat. “They Run the Country” “Then came thousands and hun- dreds of thousands from factories, shipyards, ships and docks; with them marched teachers, scientists and medical workers—a tremendous moving mass, roaring their cheers as they passed the reviewing stand. “If you want to know who runs this country, look at that million and the other millions in other cities. It 41s plain to see that the toilers own the Soviet Union and they run it.” “Two things most impressed me,” Hays continued. “One was a school, a lot different from the schools I went-to when I was a kid. ‘They don’t have manual training as.a sep+ arate thing, manual training, or the use of tools is taught right along with the ‘book larnin,’ and it seems to be @ success, because the kids are of bright and vigorous. And say, among all the kids I’ve seen in this city ef over three million population, I haven't seen.one yet that had the spindly legs of starvation—which is more than we can say for any Amer- ican city. So figure it out for your. self, maybe you will see the con-~ nection between hungry kids and the boss’ profits. “Leningrad is the biggest port in the Soviet Union. Forty thousand men and women are organized into its union, and that doesn’t count the seamen, though they are in the same marine union.” Describes Port Jones described the mechanization of the oprt. In Czarist times there were neither cranes nor warehouses. The chief imports were herrings and Gelicacies, and they didn’t need me~ chinery as long as they could just drive the workers to death carrying cargo by hand. Now the workers are in charge, and look after such things as their health. The whole port is being equipped with cranes, ware- houses and cargo gear, and the im- ports are mostly heavy machinery. “We walked over cobblestone pav- ing laid in the Czar’s time, and over esphalt laid by the Soviets,” said Jones, “and we saw the construction work going forward. It's a big job and isn’t finished yet,” Hays said. “We came to a Soviet ship, the ‘Krasny Profintern’ or ‘Red Inter- notional of Labor Unions,’ and the first shock we got was a woman in uniform with two stripes on her sleeve. . She is the wireless operator. She works, by union agreement, a six-hour day, but since the interna. tional schedule calls for eight, flstd pay her -two-hours overtime oyeny day the ship is at sea on bon she run in the Baltio, “There Isn’t a Smokeless Stack in Leningrad” “We found the Krasny Proflintern was one of the ships bought in early days from the British, and she was build with only the usual room for crew's quarters. In Soviet shipyards they proceeded to make a little more. One thing was to let in a lot of light by, putting a skylight in the poop. They had to seperate the firemen and sailors, firemen aft and sailors | forward, to get’ more room for them, The firemen sleep with each watch > in @ separate room; they work al fcur watch system, three hours on and nine off. The foc’sles are big and roomy, and there is a special room to hang your clothes. “Midships there is a committee room and social hall where the crew keeps its musical instruments, fur- nished by the ‘company’ which in this case is the Soviet government. ‘There they have their regular meet- ings, their games, their classes, in- cluding courses in which ordinary seamen study to become ships’ offi- | cers, Sailors’ Quarters “The sailors live two in a room, with a special room to hang work clothes. In the new ships everybody lives amidships in even better quar- ters,” Hays explained. “All in all, old as she fs, and badly constructed as she is from the Soviet point of view, the Krasny Profintern is a paradise compared with working conditions on American ships. Her type in America would have two watches on deck, three below, and plenty of unpaid overtime. “We saw eight ships loading lum- ber at once, with mechanical car- riers and cranes. We were taken for a turn through the harbor with its thirteen miles of docks, and didn’t see a smokeless stack. Everything is working and growing. So far all is going forward fast. The best test is that the old stuff left by the capi- talist Czarist crowd is sorry stuff compared to what the Soviets are building.” 4 ¢ ‘Financial Crisis; Gripping France; Cabinet Totters | » Federation of Civil Servants Plans Fight on Wage Cuts PARIS, Nov. 30:—- The~ financial |crisis today took off the character of @ financial pani¢ with huge foreign and domestic withdrawals of funds from the banks. French capitalists are sending huge sums abroad for safety. More than $61,800,000 has been withdrawn’ from the banks within the past: few days. It is es- timated that hoarding of gold has increased to 40 million francs. The French gold reserve is being con- stantly drained by the attacks of the cheap dollar, with the franc in danger of collapse “as a result of the severe financial crisis and the cur- rency war now raging between the imperialist powers. Private business is practically at a standstill, Ministry Doomed ‘The new Chautemps Ministry is ex- | pected to fall within the week as all attempts to balance the budget at the expense of the toiling” masses have failed before the fierce re- sistance of the toiling masses, mob- ilized by the French Communist Par- ty, against the new tax “proposals, cutting of special services, relief, etc. Further adding to the precariousness of the position of the bourgeoisie, the Federation of Civil Servarits today served notice that it will call a strike against any reductions of, wages. From all over™the country “reports from prefects warn the government of increasing discontent and strikes: There is some talk in the Cham~ ber of Deputies of calling new elec- tions, but the bourgeois parties and their Socialist allies are consumed with the fear that new elections will |increase the representation. of tha Communist Party. Thus, the New York Times correspondent here cables his paper: “If they should take place, all indications are that the country would yote in such a way'as to in- crease the Nationalist and. Commu- resentation at the éxpense of | the Fekdical-Socialists and Sotlalists." So great is the mass resentment against the Socialist leaders that thily no longer dare to openly support the bourgeois ministry, but have adopted a policy of refraining from voting which, in effect, is a cover “support for the government. Andrew Tardieu, former premier | defeated in May last year, is leading a violent attack against the Com- munist Party. Significantly, he de- mands an increase in the-army ser- vice period and other military pre-« parations, under the pretext of meet ing the German menace, but more directly aimed to drown in. blood the revolutionary upsurge of the French toilers. Other imperialist teaders are proposing an increase of the colonial garrisons in France, but against this there is the objection that the African jsoldiers are easily won to Commu- nism. ‘The government hurriedly voted today to float a new loan of 1,500,- 000,000 francs to meet the Sone deficits. ‘The Unemployed Marchers™ are now two days from the capital and are expected to arrive in Paris on Satur- day. A second detachment of un- employed miters and others have started from Northern France to re~ inforce the more than 50,000 already in motto ‘Telephone Strike Ties Up Cuban Lines WellesHeayilyGuarded Upon Return from U.S. HAVANA, Nov. 30—More than 1,000 employes of the American- owned Cuban Telephone Co. here are on strike and have tied up all Cuban. telephone service. The strikers are demanding no hiring and firing with- out the permission of the ution, no reductions in pay without the’ union’s permission, no promotion without consent of the union. The company, which is a subsidiary of the Inter- national Telephone and Telegraph Co., declared they object to the union being affiliated to the central labor organization “heoazuse of possibility of sympathetic strikes.” Troops of the government have taken over the telephone building and it was intimated the department of labor would “intervene.” Sumner Welles was heavily guarded by more than 75 soldiers on his ar- rival here ir from the UnitertStates. British to Build Fighting Forces “Second to None’; LONDON, Nov. "80. —The al Government further outkned its war plans yesterday with. thé aiinounce- ment that it would push cohstruction on war planes..and. cruisers.to bring its strength in these foré@s“up to a point “second.to none.” ‘The announcement was hailed by the reactionaries ti both auses of parliament with loud cheers; The House of Commons by a. vote of 139 to 30 endorsed the proposals of the Air Ministry for & huge air armada in preparation for the “next war,” envisaged in an earlier statement by the British Admiralty calling for the immediate construction of new cruisers. The British plans. call for early construction of at least 800 new war planes, new cruisers and the replacement of old warships. The Duke of Sutherland proposed in the House of Lords that every large town be required to contribute directly to the preparations by building an air foree of its*own, jtanley Baldwin, representing the government in the House of Com- mons, blamed the war preparations of the United States and Japan for the intended increases in the British Fighting forces, pes a ak AD MIC ROR RN RE,