The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1933, Page 6

i pe mepreocene ct ets Page Deily Worker “America’s Only Working Class Danity Newspaper” POUNDED 1924 Published Gaily, eusept Sunday, by the Comprodsiiy Pubtiehiey Go., Tnc., 50 Bast 18th Street, New York, ¥. ¥. ‘Telephone: Algonquin ¢-7965. Cable Address: “Datwork,” New York, ¥. ¥. Washingt: Buresu: Room 564 Wath and F. St, Washington, D. © Subscertytion Rates Meitonsl Frees Setiding, By Mai: (emeers Manksttes snd Briar), t yee, $6.00 6 months, 98.40; 2 months, $200; 1 month, 15 conte. and Cenede: 1 year, $8.08; Mesvbetter, Bronx, Forsigs G-months, 96.00; § months 2.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 1 sents. MONDAY, DECEMBER ¢, 1933 OO Save Heywood Patterson! UDGE CALLAHAN asked for a verdict of blood. And he got it. Heywood Patterson, young Negro worker, innocent of any crime but that of having been born into the ranks of oppressed people, has again been doomed to die in the electric chair. The ru class landlords of the South- , the government, and the charred body of this young Negro w r into the upturned faces of the Negro people. Not only the Southern plantation masters, but the entire ruling class of America is eager llion of the Negro people and the growing unity of Negro and white workers, with the bodies of the Scotts- boro boys as a warning Down at Decatur, the capitalist courts openly forgot their hypocritical aloofness and stepped down into the ranks of the running lynch-pack. The verdict is only the logical fruit of the whole lynch hatred that reeked in the atmos- phere of the court. It is only the logical re- sult of the whole lynch spirit that beat in the capitalist press of the South, and in every in- strument of ruling class propaganda. As for the judge, capitalist tool In the hands of his capitalist masters, his every word smoked with lynch lust, that he hardly made any pretense of concealing behind his judicial phrases, Judge Callahan charges the jury. And for one and # half hours, upon the ears of that Jim-crow jury beat a cunning, insistent, unmistakable lyneh ery. For one and a half hours of his “charge,” the capitalist judge spat hatred and sent his blood scream at young Heywood Patterson and his defenders. And then, at ones, exhausted with his brutal tirade, and eager for the execution, he prepared to step down, forgetting in his blood lust, even the formal requirements of his own ruling class justice—he forgot to speak of how the jury might bring in an acquittal! * = * [ JS in the hands of an avowed lynch butcher that the nine Scottsboro boys find themselves. It is in the hands of a govern- mental machine that behind its mask of “impartiality” does the lynch bidding of the plantation masters, that all the Scottsboro boys await their doom! It is impossible, it passes comprehension that anyone can be calm and indifferent to this cold-blooded lynch butchery! It is impossible that the toiling masses of America, of the whole world, that any honest human being can witness this ruling class murder without flinging every ounce of his energy to wrest these innocent Negro boys from the hands of the executioners! The Southern plantation masters have again spoken their determination that the Scottsboro boys must die. But the final verdict is not with them! It is with us, with the workers of America, with the working class of the world, that the final decision rests! For three years we have, by our mass might, by our mass protest, stayed the hands of the lynch butchers! It lies within our power to wrest them from the executioner! Everywhere, at once, the toiling masses of America and the world must rush to the défense of their Negro fellow comrades, awaiting the final massacre! & * * — all, it is with the Communist Party, revolutionary leader and vanguard ‘of the oppressed masses, that the responsibility lies for the organization of the campaign to save the Scottsboro boys. The Communist Party, in every district, section, and unit, must begin without a single moment’s delay in laying the concrete steps for the mobilization of the masses, for the freedom of Heywood Patterson and the Seottsboro boys. Upon every Party functionary and mem- ber rests the responsibility for the organiz- ing of protest meetings, the sending of tele- grams and resolutions to Alabama and Presi- dent Roosevelt for the release of the boys. In every trade union local, it rests with the Party and the revolutionary trade union opposition to introduce resolutions of pro- test. In the factories, streets, and neighbor- hoods, the Party units and mass organiza- tions, from top to bottom, must be instantly galvanized for action! The life of Heywood Patterson is at stake! &an we fail? Action, action and more action, - is the necessity! Scottsboro boys! For the freedom of. the “Recovery”--For Whom? Ne 4OOTH, | salesman, “RECOVERY,” HE SAID. But FOR WHOMT Today, buried away in the forbidding, expensive pages of a powerful Wal! Street organ, the Commercial i and Financial Chronicle, the answer is given. In ten ‘short lines of statistics, specially compiled for the eyes of the upper class, not intended for the s of the workers, is the extraordinary, damnable answer, the ruling class answer. For the first nine morths of this year, the net profits of 453 of the largest monopoly corporations | leaped as if galvanized by an electric shock from | $87,000,000 last year to $373,302,000 this year! An in- crease of over 425 per cent In profits during the last | nine months! ‘That's what the Roosevelt N.R.A. has accomplished tor the biggest Wall Street monopoly companies. | That's the main purpose it was intended for—to. | load more huge profits into the laps of the Wall Street | monopolies. That purpose it has accomplished. Out of whose hide were these profits chiseled? Out of the hides of the workers and ruined farmers. ‘The N.R.A. codes were the machinery by which the employers were able to sweat more profits out of the toiling masses than ever before. Through speed-up, through wage cuts masked under the polite name of “minimum wage,” throngh intensified robbery. And even more, through the Roosevelt jacking up of the prices of all mannfactured goods to sky~ high levels. The N.B.A. sent food up 25 per cent in six months. Clothing went even higher. The farmers had to re- duce their acreage, and then pay almost double for a shirt, or a new part for their tractors, or for a new supply of fertilizer. The way the Roosevelt program has worked so as | to monopolies bigger profits is clearly seen in the auto and railroad industry, for example. | . . * [IN THE AUTO industry, production during the sum- mer spurt increased ten times as fast as employment. increased in the auto factories! In the railroad industry, the Roosevelt program as worked out through its railroad co-ordinator, Eastman, has permitted the roads to show huge increases in number of railroad employees down to a minimum of | one million men or less, and through the destruction of many of the working rules wrested from the rail- toad magnates through long struggle. | More production per worker! That explains just | how the 453 biggest Wall Street corporations were able | in the last nine months to hack out of the hides of the | toiling population the huge 450 per cent increase in profit. The Roosevelt N.R.A. did. it for them. Meanwhile, the real wages of the millions of Amer- ican workers were driven down below the March level of Hoover. Even the latest report of the A. F. of L. admits that. It es that the REAL income of the American masses is now at least 1.2 per cent lower than | 1% was in March, when Roosevelt was elected by the masses for his promises of recovery! Actnally = ent in real wages was much greater, amounting to ten per cent. The effect of this Roosevelt slash on the income of the masses is startlingly revealed by the figures on Saving Banks Accounts made public two days ago In the Journal of the American Bankers’ Association. These show that within twelve months, there has been a drop of over TWO BILLION dollars in savings ac- counts. The rising cost of living wipes out even the workers’ meagre savings, Before Roosevelt. came in the average savings ac- count was figured at $236. Now it is $63. And at that less than one person in three has any account at all, OW the Roosevelt government faces a government And the Wall Street banks, insurance companies, in- vestment trusts, own by far the greatest part of these government “debts.” | Who got all this tremendous fortune that the gov- | | ernment borrowed? Over 85 per cent of it went for war preparations and in.enormous subsidies to Wall Street banks, monopolies, etc.—to the very same corpora. | tions who are now reporting these tremendous profits. | Let every worker and small farmer ponder on this | fact, that within the last stx months Roosevelt has | handed out through the N. R. A. over $11,000,000,000 | in subsidies to Wall Street railroads, banks and | monopoly industries. The present Roosevelt Chairman of the R.F.C,, | Jesse H. Jones, got over $63,000,000 for his own little bank in Oklahoma. Just like Dawes got $85,000,000: | for his bank in Chicago under Hoover. | | These subsidies to the Wall Street monopolies were supposed to provide new jobs for the jobless, and | raise wages for the employed. | The actual result has been the opposite, The | huge subsidies have stayed at the top, where they | were intended to stay, to pay interest on bonds, rents, | fixed charges, and dividends to Wall Street. We wil pay for these huge Roosevelt subsidies to Wall Street through the R.F.C. and the N.R.A.? It must eventually come out of the masses in ‘TAXES. That explains why Roosevelt EXTENDED the Hoover excise taxes that take $60,000,000 out of the Poorest section of the population every year. To pay for these subsidies, Roosevelt, through the processing taxes, has already levied an indirect SALES TAX of over two billion dollars on the consuming masses. Meanwhile, the 17,000,000 jobless have not been able to get one cent of Unemployment Insurance for them- selves and their families. Roosevelt. gives eleven BIL- LION to the Wall Street monopolies, who in turn in- crease their profits 425 per cent. But he denies assur- - ance to the starving jobless, because, he says, the budge: Under Roosevelt, the R.F.C. hands out $10 to the - bankers for every $1. for. relief. And ‘even the $3,300,000,000 Public Works Fund, which was to provide jobs and give wages to the 17,000,000 jobless, has been over 85 per cent spent already, to not more than 50,000 jobs resulting, and with starvation wages on the job! Even the C.W.A. program is just another attempt to continue the main purpose of the Roosevelt gov- ernment a5 regards relief—to make the care of the Jobless as cheap as possible for the Wall Street mono- Polies! Billions in subsidies for the Wall Street Monopolies! Four.:Hundred and. twenty-five per cént increase in profits!. Twenty five per cent rise in the cost of food! Reduction in real income of all wage workers! Ruth- less struggle against Unemployment Insurance, to pro- tect profits of the capitalists! That is the Roosevelt Program. So now it is clear as the sun, what kind of recovery the Roosevelt government had in mind when it prom- ised “recovery” in March. It was recovery for Wall | Street monopoly capital at the expense of the exploited, | Propertyless masses, The statistics hidden eway In the Wall Street pub- lications reveal Roosevelt and “his” program. for what they are—tools and servants of the l_ Street mono- poly masters. “a > smiling Roosevelt, ushered in the National | Recovery Act with all the ballyhoo of a slick stock | profits, in the face of declining traffic, by keeping the | debt of $23,500,000,000. It’s all in government bonds, | | The Spectator at Decatur | original drawings of Burck’s cartoons: Section 11 Leos icheubit New York, Helping the Daily Worker through bidding for the WeRLS gp MASS PRereey Jamestown, N, Y., wins scams | | drawings with a bid of $25. JATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1933 Pe DIMITROFF ATTACKS NAZIS WHO REFUSE HIM RIGHT TO QUESTION TRIAL WITNESSES Other bids, East Side Unit, $6.05, Total to date, $382.34. Paris; Socialists Save New Cabinet, Communist De puties| Vote Against New Taxes, Relief Cuts | BULLETIN PARIS, Dec. 3.—The first contin- | gent of 70,000 Hunger Marchers converging on Paris reached St. | Denis, a Communist suburb, on Saturday and were given rousing welcome by the Communist mayor and other officials and 10,000 work- ers. The marchers later attempted to enter Paris but were blocked by a huge army of police and troops. | They returned to St. Denis to await the arrival of the rest of the Hun- ger Marchers, on Se | Socialists Support Cabinet | PARIS, Dec. 3.—With the French Socialist deputies openly supporting the government's plans to balance the | budget by further cuts in the social! services, increased taxation and other | attacks on the toiling masses, the Chamber of Deputies yesterday gave two rapid votes of confidence to the new Camille Chautemps ministry, whose early fall was predicted in all French circles, ‘The first vote, 391-to 19, was given on Chautemps’ appeal for a balanced budget through cuts“in wages of the lower paid categories of civil employ- ees, unemployed relief and by new taxes. The secofid vote, 569 to 11, with only the Communist deputies op- posing, was given the new premier’s demand for a free hand to take dras- tic steps in the acute financial crisis, already taking on the proportions of @ money panic, and to save the franc and stop the tremendous drain on the ‘Hunger Marchers in U.S. Speeds Building of Big Navy‘Second to None’ | Japan Makes Record Appropriation for War; | France Rushing Warship Construction WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The demand for a U. 8. Navy “second to none” was made again yesterday by Secretary of the Navy Swanson in his annial report to President Roosevelt. Declaring that the “outstanding event ef the year” was the allocation | | of funds from the National Recovery Act by President Roosevelt for the | construction and equipment of 32 new warships, Swanson declared: “The time has come when we can no longer afford to lead in disarmament by example,” he ‘stated, “No such building program has been undertaken by this country,” he declared, referring to the huge appropriations for the navy, “since that of the year 1916, when Presi- dent Wilson sought to bring the ‘Navy of ‘the United States to a position inferior to none.” Sites Japan Votes Biggest Budget TOKYO, Dec. 3—The Cabinet yesterday voted the largest war budget ever adopted by Japan, amounting to 935,000,000 yen ($289,~ 850,000) for the fighting forces. Of this amount the army gets $138,880,- | 000 and the navy $150,970,000. In addition, other appropriations for the fighting forces are covered up in other items, notably for “relief.” In| sharp contrast to the appropriations | for war purposes, the Cabinet refuses to consider the demands for relief for the impoverished farmers, placing this on the agenda for another meet- | ing. 2 France Building Big Navy PARIS, Dec. 3.—With the slogan French gold reserves growing out of the money panic, increased hoarding, and the attacks on the franc by the cheap American dollar, Japanese | of “answering the rearming of Ger- many,” the French Naval Ministry is rushing the construction of a pow- |erful French fleet. ‘The 1922 naval | program, which Iaid the basis for {an entire new fleet, is being speeded | | up. After completion of this sched- | ule an additional one for new war- | ships will be presented. battle cruiser of 26,000 tons is pro- jected for next year's: program. Ten. cruisers and 145 other units have been buj't since 1922, Two }7,500-ton cruisers and 19 others are on thé stocks and two smaller craft are to be laid. down immediately. There are also 11 cruisers of 10,000 tons and 7,600 tons and 67 new sub- marines, ‘Students Join YCL After Attack on Anti-War Meet SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Dec. 3.— Several new members were recruited | to the Young Communist League at | an anti-war meeting here after fif- teen reactionary high school students, headed by Robert Reed, attempted, by hurling a stench-bomb, to disrupt talks on Youth and War, by Dorothy Zadow and Frank Salez. A second | | | | ‘State Witnesses, Brought. from Concentration | Camp, Attack Social-Democratic Leaders for Sabotage of Anti-Nazi United Front | i | (Special to the Daily Worker.) AT THE GERMAN BORDER, Dec. 3 (via Zurich, Switzerland) .—George Dimitroff, courageous Bulgarian Communist leader on trial for the Reichstag building fire together with Ernst Torgler, Blagoi Popoff and Vassil Taneff, | vigorously attacked the presiding judge | the prosecution witnesses yesterday on e ‘“abused” this right. “My sole object throughout,” Dimitroff declared before the court session at Leipzig, “is to defend my- self politically, since this is, sup- posedly, a political trial. Ii is not my fault if many of my questions have been disagreeable.” After the judge had interrupted to | Dimitroff, 24 Years Ago, Organized Aid for Swedish Workers NEW YORK,.—In 1909, Dimitroff organized help for the workers of Sweden. In the edition of August 30, 1909, the organ of the Trade Union Federation of Sweden, “The Answer,” published the following notice: “Aid from Abroad. From the Trade Union Federation of Bul- garia, a letter has been received which reads as follows: Dear Comrades, we send you another 150 frances for the strikers. Greet- ings for our heroic Swedish com- rades in the fight from the or- ganized workers of Bulgaria. G. Dimitroff, Secretary. “Before this, the Trade Union Federation of Bulgaria, according to the latest notices, contained only 1,509 members, had sent 200 franes, Considering the weak he- ginnings and the circumstances of the organization, their gift is ex- traordinary.” This notice is a document of pro- letarian solidarity. It shows that Dimitroff, whose life can only be saved by the action of the world proletariat, was already 24 years ago a true Internationalist. Chinese Civil War ‘Spreads as Canton Supports Fukienese Gen. Tsai Admits Flop | of Anti-Red Drive ' on Eastern Front SHANGHAI, Dec. 3.—The Canton regime yesterday openly joined the} secessionist movement against the Nanking government, launched re~- cently by the war lords of the Fukien province. The Canton government is demand- ing the resignation of Chiang Kai- shek, Nanking dictator, and his pre- mier, Wang Ching-wei, as a condition for peace. ‘The war-lords of Kwei~- | chow province are thought to be also | supporting the secessionists, while it fs. reported that those of Kwangsi | province have been bribed by Nan-| king to continue their support of Chiang. Gen, Tsai Ting-kai, commander of | the 19th Route Army, also issued an/ appeal to opponents of Chiang within the Nanking camp, to join with the secessionists. In his appeal he ad- mits that he has been forced to sus- pend. operations against the Chinese | | Red Army in Kiangsi province, but | | Says this is only temporary. The 19th | Route Army has been rendered in- effective by successive defeats at the | hands of the Red Army. The sympa- | | thies of its rank and file are with | | the emancipated workers, and peas- | ants in the Chinese Soviet Republic, Visit Dungeons, Ail Greeted by Soldiers and Sailors By HARRY GANNES HAVANA, Cuba,. Dec. 3.—“You come to Cuba at a moment when the danger of American armed. intervention hangs over us,” declared Cesar Vilar, secretary of the Cuban National Conferedration of Labor, in his greet: ing from the revolutionary trade unions to the delegation of the Anti-Imperialist League of the United States. On the evening of the arrival of the delegation more than 1,500 |Workers and students filled every \available inch of apace in the Cen- | tral H School auditorium to hear ge of solidarity of the American workers and farmers with | their Cuban brothers. | Enthusiastic cheers shook the hall | when all of the delegates pledged to | Wall's the American, workers against: | Wall Street armed intervention, | “We hope that the next delega- tion coming from your country,” -said Vilar, “will come to a central conference of Soviets. But in order to carry out this conference, it is necessary that the American work- ers do all possible to mobilize the masses of the United States against intervention and in fayor of the agrarian andy -imperialist revolu- Before ue mestine, the delegation | fraternized with the sailors, marines ! and soldiers of Cuba. They visited a | |large factor and interviewed strik- | ing worke i We first went to Morro Castle. Here | in the sub-sea dungeons under Ma-! | chado, hundreds of workers were tor- | tured and many thrown to the sharks Cuba Troops Drop Guns to Greet U.S. Delegation in Havana Bay. Now the‘ Grau-Ba- tista regime is beginning a new regime of terror. Many of the sailors are sympathetic to the revolutionary trade unions and the Communist Party. We are greeted with handshakes on all sides. Sentries put down their guns, grasp our hands and send their greetings to the American workers and farmers. We are ushered into the office of the commandant of the fortress. He is very polite. He knows the rank and file are enthusiastic over our visit. When he walks out, the sub- commandant talks to us freely, Sub- commandant Jose Sanchez fought in the American army during the world war. During Machado’s regime he was imprisoned for more than a year for revolutionary activities. “Tell the American workers that their fight against their capitalists is our fight. TL work with the Anti- Imperialist League of Cuba. During the reign of Machzdo I was im- prisoned as a Communist. Now Tam a Communist, though I do not be- Jong to the Communist Party.” Visit Factory Next we visited the Tropical bot: tling factory. More than 700 work: are empl we, All belong to the | revolutionary ion. We talk to} the shop chairman, who devot | or three hours a day on behalf of the union, “The boss recently sent word that he wanted to cut our wages,” he told us. “The workers got together and unanimously told him we would strike if wages were cut. They were not cut, We have the eight-hour day, de the ati empts of the Grau regime fo smash our union, We have a delegate in h depart- ment and hold frequent meetings Gisoussing conditions. No worker can be fired withoms tie of the shop committee.” He proudiy showed us 4 bulletin |» board put up by the union, telling’ when delegates. meetings were to be held. Since we organized, we won wage increases. When Machado was in power we received $1.75 a day. Now, despite Grau, that we have been able to organize, our pay is $2 a day. “What is your opinion of the Grau- Batista regime,” I asked. “The Grau an Martin government is a govern- ment of bourgeoisie, that is trying to break the united front of the work- ingclass,” he replied. “We send fra- ternal greetings to the American workers and pledge our solidarity to them.” Just as we were about to leave, the shop chairman said there was one worker in the factory who could read English and had heard of the Daily Worker. He asked if the Daily Worker | would not send him a few copies, so he could read of the struggles in the United States to his fellow workers, | Strike in Woolworth | We visited the printers union, where | 5,000 are on strike in the capitalist newspapers end printing plants. worth 5 and 10 cent stores all over | Cuba have been on strike for over amenth. During one of their picket- | ing demonstrations, the police shot at | | them. No one was hit. But the ter- |ror has not broken the strike. ‘The | Woolworth Co., American - owned, | auite openly briked most of the capi- | tolist press to fight the strike through [a three column appeal, paid for as jan advertisement, but printed as news, Besides the demands for higher wog2s (87 per week as against the present $5 and $6) 8-hour-day, union recognition, the girls in the stores ‘shows the have @ demand which. Over 1,600 workers in the Weol- | Find an “Enthusiastic. Welcome in Havana Factories feudal conditions under which they work. If they.want ta keep their. job, they are not allowed to marry. They must work long hours and remajn single. One of the outstanding de- mands of the’ strike is the right to marry without being discharged. workers union We were warmly grect- ed. Tens of thousands of workers be- long to this union, and it is one of the strongest and most militant al Cuba. Some of the tobacco workers are | used to break this strike, but of no avail. Union headquarters were rald- ed and sacked. Eighty workers were arrested, including the secretary of the Confederation, Cesar Vilar, The workers forced their release. The Grau government was particularly piqued when the longshoremen, show- ing their unity with the tobacco work- ers, refused to load a boat with scab- 000 cargo at the po’nt of rifles. the workers. refused. Icaded the tobacco, the workers the government ordered the tobacco taken off the ship, which sailed with- | out it. delegation. We workers and peasants, and learn of struggle from the revolutionary and |of them m: |izations—were uni | that alth jin declaringy tha \ At the headquarters of the tobacco on strike. Every means have been! prepared tobacco, They threatened | | to force the workers to load the $57,- | Sein | 3 When scabs | threatened to extend the sirike, and |* A speaking tour throughout Cuba | has been arranged for the American | will interview the | their conditions, and bring to them | the pledge of closer bonds in the | who refused him the right to question the ground that Dimitroff had reprimand him, Dimitroff continued: “My questions are clear and fac- tual, I am not voluntarily in the prisoner’s dock, I would rather work for Communism in freedom. But under -the circumstances 1 naturally utilize the dock as a bat- tlefield for my_.convictions, “I cannot help it if the public prosecutor makes his bed and then does not want to lie in it. It is not my fault that guiltless men are accused of arson. JI shall continue to defend myself by all available powers!” Witnesses called from concentration |camps and preventive custody—most nbers of the Communist chased, it s for deferise against Nazis, especially against the expected Storm Troop maych on Berlin, and not for an armed’ insurrection. These men,had been brought to the trial as ‘state witnesses by the Nazis, who had thought they were sufficiently brow-beaten and tor~ tured to renounce thelr former com- rades and aid the prosecution. In- stead, all of them, to a man, turned on the prosecution, courageously and steadfactly bringing their tes- timeny to the aid of the four em- battled and framed-up Communist defendants. Prosecutor Par’ in an attempt |to snare the: witnesses on the ques- | tion of the conditions that. The witnesses were again unanimous nditions. did not exist in February and March ‘o1 a immediate struggle for. power. The situation, they insisted, did not pos- sess the prerequisites demanded by militant Leninist tactics for a seizure of power. Most of the witnesses tes- tified that, because of the treachery of the. Social Democracy, even the struggle for a united front had been sufficiently advanced at the begin- ning of 1933. The prosecutor, increasingly irri- tated as the ‘testimony of the wit- nesses, one after the other, failed to fulfill his program, was furious as they turned their testimony into an attack on the Nazi prosecution. Dimitroff attempted to ask a ques- tion on the fascist terror and the | War danger, But the prosecutor im- Posed silence. The presiding judge asked the witness why they now deny prepa- rations for an armed uprising while minutes of previous! examinations show that they affirmed “these pre- parations for uprising at a pre! minary inquiry... The witnesses in- sisted again, however, that they had never spoken of an armed uprising, only of anti-fascist defense. If 3 Communist uprising was mentioned, they declared, it was always accom- panied by a statement on prere- quisite conditions, which did not exist in February. The statements referred to by | the judge were opviously extorted at previous examinations, or the minutes falsified. This explains why the prosecution called on these witnesses—and also why it has fallen into its own trap. German Food Cost Rises Under Hitler BERLIN, Geriany; Dec. 3.—Food prices have inereased under the Hit- Jer fascist Sictatorship. The Ger- man workers must now pay consid- erably more for many food neces- sities than before Hitler came into power, official figures reveal, show- ing the increasing Rardship and misery worked on the masses by Hitler's rule. Butter now costs 3.40 marks a kilo, whereas im April the price was 2.40 marks, Cheese has gone up 30 per cent in price. Cream is 25 per cent higher than it was in April. German Jard has gone up from 1.20 to. 1.96. marks. The price of mar- garine more than doubled since February and is now 1.49 marks 2 kilo, Honor Katayama at New Star Casino Meeting, Dec. 10 NEW YORK: — wi of New York will honor the memory of Sen Katayama, one of the {éaders of the Communist, Int SONG; who re- centiy died at, pOst in Moscow, with a memorial meeting at the New Star Casino, Sunday, Dec. 10th. Alexander, Trachtenberg, member of the Central Committee of the Com- i 5 Krumbein, or- Chinese and iLacdress the ‘ew Star Casino. *, mecting, at ethe 1 eine - LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3.—Two hun- dred and fifty workers gathered at Trade Union Unity League Hall, at a meeting to. commemorate the death of Sen Kote eyama, Japanese working leadens protest egainst Jap- weve, passed, and the imme- diate and uncoadit'onal release of the 1,969 members of the Japanese Labor anti-imperielist organizations in the United States, Union arrested under the infamous sacle apa Jaw of Jepan, ra TEFEN S TST Asse reel es