The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1933, Page 8

a Daily 3 “America’s Only Working Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Published daily, except Sunday, »: Go, Ine, 6 Best 18th Street, New ¢ Algonquin 4-7955 : *Datwork,” Weshington Bureau: Room léth and ¥, St, Washington Subscription Rat, Class By. MaM: (except Manhatis $ months, $3.50; 3 © Forel Machsttan, Bronx. © months, $3.00; 3 By Carrier: Weekly SATURDAY, DECEMBE @ group of Negro Shore of Maryland, scene o! George Armwood on Octobe day as the mout “outside interfer “best citizens” of bi These gent! reformi Johnson and Jan Ments of the leadership o! the Advancement 0’ militantly fight Color Bernard Ades, Internatic land a leader in the mass fi ishment of lynche: of the Jim-Crow conditi Plditation which bre‘ for the dist curb: tro years It is necessary to re w brief: Early last October G Armwood the charge of “grabbing the arm” ‘He was sent to the Bal ing.” A few days later Anne on a court order. the had been lynched. One of the the door of his cell to the lynche: deputies stationed at the jail refu lynch mob, whose leaders were th the Eastern Shore. Eye nesse: te&tified in sworn affidavits that the state troopers and Sheriff D: were in the mob. In his Spencer named Judge Duer a ins as inciters to the lynch Robins later refused point blai known lynchers. Judge Duer, speedily released four of the iync troops sent to the Eastern Shore ..Ritchie under pressure of the n lized by the League of Struggle fo the International Labor Defense he of of a wh ing:that a mob was Jeased lynchers were tions on the Easte: Same section, George Ma’ Peninsula Hospital and lynched i of Selisbury. 2 out of the he public square EADING white citizens on the Eastern Shore have at~ tempted to “justify” these violent attacks on the Negro masses on the grounds that th al mur of Euel Lee, framed Negro worker, was not ca through swiftly enough. They denounce the I. L. D. for slowing up the processes of the lynch courts by or. ganizing mass and legal defense for Euel Lee. Tod & U. 8. Court is attempting to disbar Bernard Ades for daring to defend this victim of capitalist justice. The same court refused to review the issues of thi flagrant violation of the constitutional rights of Lee | and the Negro people in the systematic exclusion of Negroes from juries on the Eastern Shore. ‘The U..8, Supreme Court also refused to r damental issues affecting the democ: Negro People. The Negro reformist leaders tuling class masters in the attempt te ctinies against the Negro people on t “outside interference” with the mur Was~responsible for the lynch Shore. These reformists attack n those who energetically fought for two Buel Lee. They attack not the lynch cou who are now leading the nation Tegal and mob lynchings. action of the court in releasing George Armwood, they endorse lynehing by the courts and the bourgeoisie. w these fun- lc rights of the | support, ears n de power of the » ope tate events in Maryland and the Decatur lynch ver. Gicts against two of the innocent Scottsboro boys @fford irrefutable proof that there is no justice in @ourts, that lynch terror is organized by the Tulihg class and its governmental organs. It is thi act that the reformists are trying to cover up in their stupid attacks on the I. L. D. attorney, and by their twaitorous defense of the lyncliers. The politically conscious workers are faced with the | task of carrying through the most energetic campaign | @f exposure against the lynch courts, and of the role of | fhe reformist and liberal defenders of lynching. In | @very shop and factory, in every union and mass or- | ganization, in every neighborhood, we must rally the toiling masses and all sincere opponents to lynching for the fiercest struggle against the lynchers and their reformist agents. | Success Against the C.W. A. oe meal strike of the 3,000 New York City work- ers against the wages and conditions imposed them by Roosevelt's Civil Works Administration, proves that the unemployed workers can win their demands from the government by a fighting policy and by or- ganization. The strike of the Bear Mountain worker: 2 eataaal instance of the broken promises of Roose- | n The transfer of the Bear Mountain workers from Bmergency Work Relief to the Civil Works, meant no increased pay for these workers. ‘They had been re- ceiving $48.00 & month for 96 hours s month. Under | the C.W.A. which began Monday, they were to get $60 | fr 120 hours, minus $10 a month for transportation | charges or $50.00 per month. One group of these workers had been getting $24.00 | per 48 hour week on Home Relief. On C.W.A. basis they were to get $15.00 a week, per 30 hour week With transportation charges deducted this would have meant 25 per cent wage reduction. el ee ® Bz the 3,000 Bear Mountain workers refused to accept the wage cuts that the C.W.A. fited to impose on them. They went on strike, after a strike meeting on ‘the work train, elected a rank and file committee of aix to represent them, and marched to the C.W.A offices at 28th St. The workers won an incr: to 972 per month for 120 hours or a net wage of 364, | comunitiee after further demands on the C.W.A, the fight against us. | to that of the | “lett” ! mo rom the job, better transportation promise of field hospital service. ctory, the committee of workers re, or 50 cents a day transporta- ) be paid by the C.W.A. in every section of the coun- zes of the unemployed as low as bor predicted of C.W.A. lal dev 1 of the featu 5,000 tried to ge a cut in-wa ar Mountain Workers points ed workers being put. 1 issued by the national ouncil is the program ; and working conditions rs under the C.W.A. for the setting up of organization com- es, and the linking up of these committees into a rs Council, should be called in all sec- cities b or relief for every unemployed worker. union wages and working conditions on mand rec n of the job committees. ht of N with equal pay, and no dis- nm against any worker. These and the other put forward by the Unemployed Councils for jobs can be won, provided action, strikes, ons, demonstrations, etc. are immediately and the organization built. The strike of suntain workers stand as an example. all other C.W.A, projects should follow suit A New Barrier headed by A. J. Muste, or- Conference for Progres- Labor Action, have last set up their own po- 1 party. According to reports from the C.P.L.A. tion in Pittsburgh, they haye created a so-called ican Workers Part s, they admit, is a centrist party, one “in be- the Socialist Party and the Communist Party. y do not wish to take the clear-cut, revolu- road, a road that leads through relentless class y needs of the workers to for power, for a revolution- government, as advocated ‘left social fasci: until now in T= anized he movement of workers away y and the well-known discontent Party workers with the reactionary, class- ation policies of the S.P. leadership, made it ble for these “left” leaders to adhere openly this group. nerefore we have the birth of the “American ” a party that pretends in words to a but in reality is designed by A. J. and his cohorts to hamper the development of evolutionary consciousness of the workers and increasing movement toward the Communist While pretending to stand “in between” the and C.P., it actually becomes an ally of the S.P, he fight against Communism. his is not a new development, The Muste group was born in a struggle against the revolutionary Com- munist Party. Some of its most outstanding members the their | —Ludwig Lore, J. B. S. Hardman, Gerry Allard, Larry Cohen, etc.—are expelled renegades from the Com- munist Party. Continuously, their first aim has been I ‘THE early days (1928 to 1930) they were either members of the S.P. or worked closely with them in the trade unions, in the Brookwood Labor College, etc. Their whole line was one which served to tie the workers firmly to the A. F. of L. bureaucracy and Socialist Party. It was only with the deepening of the crisis and the growing radicalization of the workers that their mask was fully brought forward as a cover for reactionary deeds. But just as in the earlier when their former policies served to strengthen official S.P. A. F. of L. leadership, so also their th their recent “left” policies was designed to accomplish the same purpose under the changed conditions. Their “left” maneuvers take various forms. One ent they pretend to be even “more revolutionary” than the Communist Party. At another moment the Communist Party is “too revolutionary.” And then, on still other occasions, they accept the Communist proposal for a united front. In this way they try to confuse the workers as to their real position, But as the Communist Party has pointed out even engaged with them in a joint action, the real jose of this group was the creation of barriers to the movement of the masses into the revolutionary camp. HE program of the so-called American Workers Par- ty is not yet available—we will return to this when it is made public—but regardless of their words their deeds will serve reaction. They will join with the other reformist and renegade groups in struggle against | the Communist Party and in paving the way for fas- cism, Militant workers, interested in furthering the class struggle and in the victory of the working class over capitalism, can serve that aim only by joining the revolutionary Party of the workers, the Communist Party Central Committee Hails 10th “Daily” Anniversary Issue NEW YORK.—The Central Committee of the Communist Party, U. S. A., yesterday issued 2 call to ali workers to mobilize for the celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Daily Worker which takes place in January ‘The statement follows: “January 6 will mark ten years since the estab- lishment of the Daily Worker. “These have been ten years of struggle and of victories. One of our greatest victories is the Daily Worker. Originally a weekly, it has been buiit up into a daily newspaper feared by the American bosses. It is firmly rooted now in the hearts of thousands of working men and women as never before. They look upon it as a leader and champion in their struggles on the picket lines, in their demonstrations for un- employment relief, in their battle for the complete de- struction of capitalism which breeds deportations, lynchings, hunger and homelessness. “The Tenth Anniversary of the Daily Worker calls for the most outstanding of celebrations. Every worker, every workers’ organization should send greetings to the 10th Anniversary edition of the Daily Worker, which will contain 24 pages, and will be off the press on January 6. A minimum of 250,000 copies of this edition will be printed. All efforts should be made for the broadest sale of this edition. “The Central Committee calls for celebrations of the Daily Worker Tenth Anniversary in every city, large and small, on a real large mass scale, with all Party members, mass organizations, sympathizers, cele- brating this great achievement of the American revo- lutionary proletariat, the tenth year of our mighty Daily Worker.” French Socialists Supporting Wage Cuts, Tax Proposals Promise Ministry to Refrain from Voting | PARIS, Dec. “8—The Hfe of the |Chautemps Ministry was again |threatened today as many deputies | Wavered in their support of the new ; cabinet under pressure of the furious | indignation of the toiling marses jagainst the budgetary proposals for increased taxation and drastic cuts in the social services, unemployment relief, and wages of civil employees. The Socialist deputies, in particu- lar, are alarmed at: the growing mass unrest and have been forced to re- treat from their position of open support for the bourgeois state. In their attempt to’ save the ministry and avoid facing their angry electo- [rate at the polls in a new election, the Socialist deputies have entered into an agreement with the bourgeois parties to refrain from voting on the questons agitating the masses, such as cuts in unemployed relief and in the wages of the civil employees. The bourgeois press ias hailed this in- famous agreement as brightening the prospects of the Chautemps Ministry, that is, enabling ft to carry through its ruthless attacks on the workers, farmers and petty bourgeois masses. George Bonnet, Minister of Fin- ance, told the Chamber of Deputies today that the fate of the bourgeois state depends upon prompt passage of the Chautemps Cabinet's budget- ary measures. He pointed to the heavy gold withdrawals under the financial panic and the attacks of the cheap dollar. He intimated that the franc was being attacked by the United States apd other rivals of French imperialism, and attempted to quiet the rumors that France would have to go-off ‘the gold stand- ard, Unemployed workers and impover- ished farmers in the North are hold- ing daily demonstrations against the government. In Paris, committees. of taxpayers are besieging the deputies, vigorously protesting against the pro- posed tax increases. US. Seeks to Unite Chinese War Lords For War on Soviets Arrange ‘Negotiations Between Nanking and Canton SHANGHAI, Dec. 8.—British and U.S. agents are directing peace nego- tiations between the Nanking Gov- ernment and the rebellious militarists in Fukien and Kwangtung provinces in a desperate effort to solidify the ranks of the militarists for the im- perialist-directed offensive against the Chinese Soviet Republic, Four Nanking envoys sailed at dawn today for Canton, where the negotiations are to take place. Fukien and Kwangsi province war lords have been invited to attend. The Nanking delegates are em- powered to negotiate the bribery of the Canton leaders, who are demand- ing $30,000,000 as the price of their withdrawal from the alliance with the Fukien secessionist regime. They also demand that Nanking pay the cost of Canton’s last expensive but futile campaign against the Soviet districts. On this basis, and further military appropriations, they declare themselves ready to make peace with Nanking and join in the new Sixth offensive against the Chinese Red Armies. The Nanking Government recently accepted a Japanese offer to help finance the anti-Soviet cam~- paign. STUDENTS LEND A HAND ROXBURY, Mass—The Boston District of the National Student League sends $2 to help the Daily Worker. How about the National “We Ought to Get The Helping the Daily through biddin, drawings of Burck’s cartoons: day's drawings with a bid of $17.10. Unit 16, Section 6, Dassa House Party, DAILY WORKOR, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1933 re First!” ig for the original | burg, Los Angeles, cago Workers’ School won Thursday’s drawing with a wins yester- | bid of $17.70. Due Otaer bids: Gins- —Roosevelt on Lynching. was given as $1.70. By Burek LEGAL LYNCHING $2. Total to date: $498.14, The Chi- to a typographical error the amount Mongolia in New Anti-Soviet Move Tokyo Agents Setting Up Puppet State in Turkestan MUKDEN, Dec. 8.—Japanese forces have undertaken the conquest of In- ner Mongolia in preparation for armed intervention against the People’s Government of Outer Mon- golia, a pretext for which was offered afew days ago by a Japanese War Mongolia, Japanese agents are busy foment- ing strife in Chinese Turkestan on by Prince Abdul Kerim, who is now en route to Chinese Turkestan from Tokyo. ‘Two Japanese military officers have joined the staff of the Tongan Gen- eral Mo Chu-in, at Turfan. The Jap- anese activities are all directed to- wards broadening out their Man- churian base for armed intervention against the Soviet Union. A sensation was caused here today by the unintentional revelations of the bestial tortures used bv Javanese imperialists on anti-imperialist fight- ers captured in their campaign to crush the resistance of the toiling masses against the Javanese puppet state of Manchukuo. The. semi-offi- cial news organ “Kokutsu.” quoting an unnamed staff officer of the Hirose detachment regarding the Japanese campaign in the Chientao district, says: “No matter what tortures were used, the prisoners refused to dis- close the secrets of their organization and went to death shouting, “Down with imperialism”! A spokesman for the Japanese mil- itary mission at once tried to refute the story, stating that the word tor- ture was a poor translation, that only physical measures, “leaving no scars,” Student League of New York and other cities? Unload Nazi Ship In Cuba Port ing article by Harry Gannes con- tinues the series giving @ first-hand account of the situation in Cuba at the present time. Gannes, who is chairman of the U. S. Anti-Imperialist delegation to Cuba, will be one of the speakers at a welcoming meeting to be held at New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ace., Sunday, Dec. 17 at 8 p.m.4 Fifty thousand: leaflets announc- ing this mass meeting have been printed, and workers are urged to get them for distribution at the Anti-Imperialist. League, 33 E. 20th St., Saturday at noon. oar By HARRY GANNES HAVANA.—Wall Street's Ambassa- dor to Cuba, Benjamin Sumner Welles, who returned to Havana through a ruse’to prevent a mass demonstration against him is con~ tinuing his maneuvers where he left off with the failure of the Atres Fort- ress counter-revolution. That his connections reach deep into the interior top army forces was shown by the armed mobilization against the anti-imperialist meeting in Santa Clara, designed to break down mental re- sistance were used. Japan Invades Inner Office claim of an “uprising” in Outer | the Soviet borders and are trying to! set up a puppet government headed | Australia Aids || Nazi Spying on Mail for Soviet Union MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 8. —Australign mail addressed to the U. S. S. R., formerly shipped via England, is now being sent by way of Germany, where Nazi agents open and examine it, fre- quently failing to send on, it has been learned here, Germany, at present the international espionage center of the capitalist world, is deliberately handed all mail wd- dressed to the Soviet Union by the Australian goyernment, who pre- fer to have the Nazis do their espionage work.for them. Mass action to make the post- office department change this sys- tem is being undertaken by the Internatiori#!| Labor Defense of Australia. U.S. to Build War Planes for Nanking Finances Drive on the Chinese Soviets NEW YORK.—American imperial- ists financing the Sixth Nanking campaign of extermination against the emancipated workers and peas- ants of the Chinese Soviet Republic have signed a contract with the Nan- king militarists for the erection of a huge $5,000,000 airplane factory at Hangchow. The Nanking Govern-| ment, has contracted to buy a total| of 60 war planes a year. These planes will be used not against the imper- ialist plunderers of China but to rain death on many cities and towns of the Chinese Soviet districts, as shown in past performances by the Nanking regime and its traitorous surrender of Manchuria and Jehol’ Province to Japanese imperialism. ‘The signing of the contract was con- firmed yesterday by Thomas A. Mor- gan, president of the Curtis-Wright Corporation. The arming of the Nanking butch- ers by U. S. imperialism faces the workers of the United States with the class duty of defending their fellow Spain Orders Out Troops Against Indignant Masses Workers and Peasants Opposing Drive for Fascist Regime MADRID, Spain, Dec. 8,—-The streets of Madrid were being patrol- led today by armed “storm police” units and civil guards as the left- republican government ordered @ state of siege throughout Spain in fear of a revolutionary uprising by the toiling masses, whose resentment is rapidly mounting against the fraudulent returns of last Sunday's election, giving the fascists full con- trol in the new Spanish Cortes. The armed preparations to crush the resistance of the masses to the attempt of the bourgeoisie to inau- gurate a fascist regime are supported by the three Socialist Ministers in the left-republican government, who with the Socialist deputies in the old Cortes, paved the way for fascism by. their support of the brutal attacks of the government against the work- ers and peasants and their organiza- tions, Former Premier Alejandro Lerroux is being groomed to head the fascist dictatorship against the toiling mas- ses. Reports spread through Madrid to- day that the rank and file of two regiments of the regular army were in sympathy with the indignant masses. The protest strike called by several unions is taking on the pro- portions of @ general political strike. Yesterday the cooks and chamber- maids in Madrid hotels joined the strike 100 per cent. Troops have been stationed at strategic points in the city, while several regiments have been rushed to other cities where the government says an uprising is expected. workers in China. Adopt protest reso- lutions in your organizations, unions and neighborhoods against U. S. in- tervention against the Chinese So- viet Republic. Defend the Chinese Soviets! U. S. Ambassador With Grau Government Workers 's Refuse to wade the meeting in Santa Ciara) consider Welles, to whom the govern- ment has given all sorts of guarantees on his landing in Havana, more of a pir of the Cuban people than his members of the anti- EDITOR’S NOTE:—The follow- | imperialist delegation who were stop- ped by army officers from receiving the welcome of the Cuban people,” writes Alma Mater. ‘The editorial flays Major Granero bitterly. While declaring they dis- agree with the tactics of the Anti- Imperialist League, they must recog- ,nize that the Anti-Imperialist League |, fod the United States is carrying on a (revolutionary struggle against Yankee imperialism and in support of the Cuban masses. Major Granero, military command- ant of Santa Clara Province, made it @ special point to write a letter to all Havana newspapers stating he was in Havana at the time of the Santa Clara incident. To this, the anti-im- perialist delegation replied, it was a technical matter. Granero’s subor- dinates were acting in his name. And besides, we told him, we were informed that there were telephones between Havana and Santa Clara. While we were detained by the military in Santa Clara, the telephones, were used fre- quently. Fight Against Swastika Henry Shepard, Negro delegate, rep- resenting the Trade Union Unity League spoke to over 2,000 workers at Alma Mater, daily newspapers of|a united front meeting called by the the largest. group of students in Cuba, |Graphic Arts unions in Havana, Sun- ranging from avid supporters of the|day morning, Dec. 3. The delegation Grau-Batista regime, to left critics of | was stormily applauded when it raised this regime, printed a full page edi-|the slogan of: “Down with Yankee torial Dec. 2, protesting vigorously |Imperialism, Long Live the United against breaking up of the meeting|Front of the Cuban and American arranged to greet the American anti-| Workers!” imperialist delegation. A short review of the recent strug- “Maybe they (the officers wholgles of the Santa Clara workers and peasants will show why Welles-Gran- ero and Co. and whoever assisted them, did not want the anti-imper- jalist delegation from the United States to speak. In the northern ports of Santa Clara Province, Caibarien and Isa- bela de Sagua, the dockers are or- ganized into the revolutionary unions and virtually control the wharfs. Re- cently, a German steamer arrived, flying the swastika. The longshore- men struck and did not unload the ship until the swastika was torn down. “Do you think we ought to mention this fact?” asked one of the district leadérs. “We sort of do our work illegally.” ? Peasants Win Low Rent Santa Clara is a sugar and tobacco growing district. In Janaguela, 5,000 peasants struck against the landlords, demanding the abrogation of the land contracts. They won a collective agreement, prohibiting the eviction of @ single tenant farmer; they lowered the rents. Besides, they raised the revolutionary slogan of seizure of the land, workers ‘and farmers govern- ment. There are tens of thousands of members of the Cuban National Con- federation of Labor.in.Santa Clara. Struggles have been led in 30 sugar mills. Around 40,000 workers parti- cipated in these strikes. For eight days the workers in the Homiquero sugar mill had control of the suwar center. They set up a Soviets The administrative offices of up by. the company was confiscated and distributed by the Soviets to the hungry workers. In all divisions of the tobacco in- dustry, between 25,000 and 30,000 workers have been on strike since the the mill were seized. All food stored’ & workers won their demands one hun- dred per cent. The workers raised the slogan of “All power to the workers and peas~ ants, supported by the soldiers and marines.” In many other industries strikes took place, Despite all the official permission granted us to bring the greetings of the American workers to these toiling masses in their revolutionary strug- gles, Grenaro’s forces threatened mil- itary action and the slaughter of many .workers if any attempt were made to hold the meeting injoors or through a street demonstrat’. ... Intriguing With Banker: In Havens, Wall Street is carrying on intricate maneuvers to fasten a regime favorable’“to’ the American bankers and' exploiters ‘on the’ Cubaii | people. At first Welles was reported to have returned temporarily. Now the news is he is determined to stay until he has “solved the Cuban ques- tion.” He maneuvers with all of the bourgeois factions, including the Grau-Batista regime. His main ob- jective is to set up a coalition goy- ernment of the various bourgeois groups, with Welles, or some other Wall Street representative as the de~ cisive voice. The Grau regime is not opposed to this, but demands a big share in the government, which Welles is not willing to grant, be- cause he fears the demagogy of Grau as well as his inability to suppress the revolutionary masses. Grau's supporters change their tone towards Welles, according to the concessions ‘Welles is willing to grant them. Recently they have become sharper against Welles, hoping by this pres- sure to.have him recognize them as the most important force of the Cu- ban landlord-bourgeoisie. downfall of the Machado regime, The |der-in-Chief Suetsugo, Japan Puts Fleet On War Footing: Tension Sharpens Belgium — Plans New Appropriations for Army eisai se Dec. 8.— Reorganization f the Japanese fleet on a war basis ane coupled today with a veiled threat against the rival U. 8. ime perialists of Japanese intervention in the Philippines, as Japanese officials revealed secret conversations held with Manuel Quezon, Filipino bours geois leader, on his recent significant visit here. Quezon is declared to have sought Japanese aid and to have discussed linking the Philippines to the chariot of Japanese imperialism. Officials declared that the impression given by part of the Japanese press that Que- zoh was seeking real independence for the Philippines to be incorrect, They expressed the belief he would lay his cards on the table in his forthcoming talks with President Roo sevelt in Washington. The reorganization of the Japanese fleet consists in the creation of three new reserve squadrons to be based > on Yokosuka, Kure and Sasebo. The bourgeois press admits that the reor- ganization was carried through as a measure for “greater preparedness” in the sharpening rivalry with the U. S. for supremacy in the Pacific. The fleet now consists of the first and second fleets, united under Comman- the China squadron, and the training squadron with the three new squadrons as the first line reserve. I Sn BRUSSELS, Dec. 8.—Albert de Veze, Belgian Minister of War, demanded an additional military appropriation of $32,940,200 today. He demanded swift completion of the government's program for a chain of huge fortres- ses and forts along the German frontier, and additional funds to equip the infantry with automatic rifles, bomb throwers and tank guns and to supply long range artillery, anti-aircraft guns, new war planes and gas shelters. He declared that the Meuse River fortifications and the renovation of the Liege and Namur fortresses had been completed. * 8 ¢@ BERLIN, Dec. 8.—Hitler’s Storm Troop army is now 2,500,000 strong, its Chief of Staff told foreign cor- respondents last night. He made a bid for imperialist support for Ger- many’s re-arming with the declara- tion that the “primary and essential function” of the huge army, which represents only a part of Germany’s armed forces, is to protect the Fas- cist regime against the revolutionary workers of Germany. Make City Council Pledge to Re-issue AidWhenCWAEnds - MINNEAPOLIS, Minn—One thou- sand workers jamming the City Coun- cil on Monday, under the leadership of the Unemployed Councils, forced the following concessions from the special Welfare Committee of the Council; guarantees that workers will be placed back on relief at the con- clusion of the C. W. A. jobs; imme- diate increase of relief for those on the line; full right of the C. W. A. men to organize; and against dis- crimination in relief aid. Militant demonstration was pre- ceded by a mass of 600 workers last Friday crowding into the chambers compelling the officials to listen to spokesmen for the jobless workers. The demands presented were, a 35< per cent increase in relief to cor- respond with the rise in prices; hot lunches and winter clothing for chil- dren; against the forced labor camps for single unemployed ,and the four demands that were conceded by the special welfare committee. Attempting to tire out the workers, the city council told them to come back the following Monday, Dec. 4, and they were forced into making concessions when almost twice the number showed up on that date. aonie in Cuba Wall Street Sugar Mills Seized by = Peasants clares Welles is plotting new blood- shed for Cuba, through the use of the A.B.C. and Machadista remnants. On Dee. 2 in a leading editorial, Alma Mater declared: “New civil wars are being hatched in the laboratory of the American embassy, and when they take place, the government and the opposition will mutually blame one another of having provoked them; meanwhile the elegant diplomat will wash his hands, like Pilate of a new sort, a all blame of blooshed.” it is, at the same time, a feeler to the other bourgeois groups to make the coalition over the head of Welles, but suitable to Roosevelt and any other representative he may send, not quite so quickly tarred with open — maneuverings of Wall Stret. ‘The English language imperialist press in Havana, supporting Welles’ maneuvers, Was enthusiastic over Granero’s action Jn stopping our meet= ing. The Dec. 1 issue had as its main headline, the following: “Anti- Imperialists Blocked. Military Chief of Santa Clara Opposes Group. Am- - erican’ delegation told to return to Havana, reports state; meeting 1s broken up by Granero; appeal may be made.” The result of the military action against the anti-imperialist meeting has been to intensify the mass en- thusissm of the Cuban workers, stu= dents and peasants behind the Am-= erican delegation in its struggling against the common enemy, American iperialism, Alma Mater, students’ paper, de- | im) 5 ¥ He