The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 20, 1933, Page 6

Page Six ‘‘Ameriea’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 19P4 Published e@xeept Bunday, by the ¢ Oo., Inc., 50 wt 18th Street, Mew Fora, Telephone: Algonquin 47065. Cable Address: “Datwork,” New York, BR. YT Weshington Bureau: Ric 984, Wattonal Peers aiding ith and ¥. 8, Weshington, D. ©. Subscription Rasese Prete By Msi (emeept Manhattan and Bronx), 1 peer, $6.00 6 months, $3.80; $ months, $2.00; 1 month, 75 cents. ‘Hanhatian, Bronx, Foreign and Consder 1 yenr, $9.06 © month 00; $ months $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, $3 cents. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1933 A Comrade Is Waiting og For You yf Communist Party has twenty thousand mem- bers. Twenty thous: Communists, fighters de- voted to the emancipation of the working class. Un~ | doubtediy there is still among us many a member, | many a functionary, who has not yet learned to work dorrectly. The Party, that is, the nucleus, the frac- and especially the District Com- mittee and the Central Committee, must pay still more attention to educate the members and to give them practical help. Undoubtedly the whole Party | jaas to Jearn continuously in order to work with ever | greater success. But one thing is ceriain, the twenty thousand | unist workers are faithfully devoted fighters. | is ts not a small number—twenty thousand Com- munists working among the masses, a tremendous force if every Communist is a leader of the workers | im his field of activity, a leader of the workers in the small and big struggles. But who can deny that tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of Communists, are still out- side the Party? Who can deny that thousands of fellow workers in the steel] plants, in the mines, in the auto factories, among the unemployed, in all atrata of the workers, will tomorrow be devoted Com- anunists, will multiply tenfold the force of the Party among the million-masses of the proletariat? Only somebody with disbelief in the tremendous force of the proletariat and the progress of tM® revolu- tion can deny this. What still Keeps tens of thousands of workers awey from the Party? There are several reasons for this. To many workers we have not yet proved by our daily work, by our example, that we are their | Patty, the Party of the cause of the emancipation | of the working class, Many workers still have il- | lusions about the leaders of the A. F. L., about the right and left Social-Democratic leaders, yes, even about the bourgeois parties—about Roosevelt, about LaGuardia. They have not yet convinced themselves by their own experience that the road of the Com- Party is the only way out for the workers, not yet helped them sufficiently and | to overcome thetr flinsions and to find the tion, the section, ere is a particularly weak point tn our work. eryone of us, everyone of the twenty thou- Communist members of the Party, has some mection with some workers, with steel workers, With miners, with auto work: ith unemployed workers, with workers a‘ affairs, etc, thousand members, field of activity, letarian. If everyone of us would during the next two weeks make an effort to systematically win another fellow worker for the Party, to patiently eonvince him, patiently overcome all his objec- tions, help him find the way to the Party, would this not bring greater successes to the revotu- tionary cause, would not the Party win thou- sands of new fighters, and thus tremendously strengthen its organized and organizing influence on the other toiling masses? The Party of the wo ber, develops field of acti bring at lea S, where we live, in our clubs, And everyone of us, of the twenty knows at least one worker in his | whom he trusts as an honest, pro- can only then really be the leader i class if every Communist, every mem- into a leader of the workers in his ity. Should not everyone of us try to | one honest worker into the Party? Yes, this requires patience, persistence, energy. But | can we talk ab: erious preparation for the revolu- tion without these qualities which the whole Party | and everyone of its members and functionaries must | possess? The Parity has started a recruiting campaign. It is not necessary to hold many inner conferences, meetings and speeches for this mpaign. What is | necessary is that every Communist—and we became Communists because we are fighters—remembers day anand day out that a future Communist, another honest worker, can tomorrow be a comrade, a cour- ageous fellow fighter, if everyone of us does his duty. Three ‘Billion Dollars jobless can go hungry, but the bankers get bil- lions. To the jobless, hungry workers, who ask for re- Hef, and for jobs, Roosevelt has one answer—the gov- ernment cannot afford it. There must be a “sound budget,” he says. The government has no money, he says. Rooseveit has spoken insistently about the “bad moral” effect of the “dole” (unemployment insurance) which the jobless workers ask. _ But when the Wall Street bankers need loans and Subsidies then it is a different story. Then it becomes highly “moral” for the government to listen very care- filly. Then it becomes “moral” for the Roosevelt a ment to become exceedingly generous with gov- erninent funds. . But when it comes to the Wall Street bankers, then it is a different story. ‘Yesterday, Roosevelt's personally appointed chair- eau of the R.F.C. requested that the coming Con- gress provide another BILLION dollars for loans and @ubsidies to the bankers. He has already set aside # BILLION dollars, of which $560,000,000 has already been handed out. » In addition, the R.F.C. has loaned various banks throughout the country over $1,350,000,000. So the total government subsidy to banks is pretty close to THREE BILLION dollars, + Where does this money come from? ft comes, in the last analysis, from the toiling masses, from the workers, from the small, impoverished farmers, The government chisels these billions out of the masses ' im heavy TAXES. It is not an accident that at the very same time | that Jones is asking for more BILLIONS for the bank- ers, the Roosevelt government is preparing to levy new, heavy SALES TAXES, taxes on food, on clothes, on ‘bread, ctc. These taxes, which fall heaviest on tho Poorest part of the population, will pay for the sub- _sidies to Wall Street bankers, Who gets these billions? Roosevelt says that it is necessary for the government to give the bankers / / DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1933 WHO SAID THERE IS NO SANTA CLAUS! these billions in order to help the depositors, This is @ typical Roosevelt fraud. These billions never. get to the depositors of the closed banks! Out of the THREE BILLIONS for the banks, only about one-sixth has gone to closed banks, and of this amount, Jones REFUSES TO PUBLISH THE AMOUNT that has gone to the small depositors! The rest of the money, the two and a half bil- lion, goes to PROTECT THE BANK STOCKHOLDERS from capital losses, . e ‘HIS is the reality behind all of Roosevelt's cunning hypocrisy about his fighting “the money changers” and the Wall Street “Tories.” As a matter of fact, Roosevelt has broken all records for pouring money into the laps of Wall Street, all the time under the guise of helping the “forgotten man”! To date, Roosevelt provided ELEVEN BILLIONS for the Wall Street banks, railroads, industrial monopolies, ete. Meanwhile, Roosevelt does practically nothing for the 17,000,000 jobless, starving workers and their fam- ilies. He spends only about $29 a year for each worker out of work, This Roosevelt policy of letting the jobless work- ers starve, while the Wall Street bankers get billions in subsidies to protect them from losses, can be stopped only by the workers themselves. Roosevelt, him- self, is only a tool of Wall Street and will do all in his power to carry out their wishes. The mass power of the millions of jobless workers united with the employed workers, could force Roose- velt to turn these billions over to the unemployed workers for the feeding of their families, and for Un- employment Insurance. It is the workers themselves, organized into Un- employed Councils, demonstrating before relief bu~ reaus, under the leadership of the Communist Party, who can force the Roosevelt government to stop these billions to the bankers, and grant them for relief and unemployment insurance. Still in Nazi Hands! /ESTERDAY, the day set aside for international pro~ tests, demonstratioms and strikes for the release of the heroic Communists on trial at the Leipzig Reichstag frame-up trial, gave inspiring proof that the hatred and anger at the Fascist trame-up has taken deep root among the workers, in the shops, and unions, In basic industries, like the auto, the workers of the Mechanics Society Union swept aside the reac- tionary opposition of their leaders and voted to send a demand to the German Embassy at Washington for the immediate release of the Communist de- fendants. In New York, the metal workers of the Steel and Metal Union, voted to strike in protest against the Fascist frame-up. Thousands of New York Shoe Work- ers stopped work in protest. Before the New York German Consulate, thou- sands massed to voice their protest at the Nazi murder plots against our comrades in Germany. This beginning must be seized and strengthened. The Fascist Judges are in secret session preparing the best way of concealing the guilt of the Nazis, and of murdering the heroic Communist defendants. The Fascist verdict is due Saturday. Whatever the verdict, our comrades are in the hands of the Fascist sadist savages, in the wands of Goering and his Storm Troopers, Not for one moment can we let this leave our minds! Not for one moment can we forget the hideous plots against our comrades revealed in the notorious Nazi letter exposed by the Daily Worker—the plots to moculate our comrades with syphilis germs! Let us not forget our comrades in the Nazi concentration camps, and Comrade Thael- mann in prison. Every member of the Party has the individual responsibility to go among the workers everywhere with the call for solidarity with Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff, Taneff, against the Fascists. Every member « | of the Party, as a leader in the fight against Fas- | cism, can organize the hatred of the masses for Fas- cism into effective protest against the Leipzig murder | plans. Form Protest Committees in the shops, unions! Organize protest demonstrations before the German Consulates! With proper leadership, by forming United Front Committees with all fighters against Fascism, the Par- ty can place around our German comrades a wall of protection against the savage designs of Goering and his Storm Troopers! If we relax for one moment the Fascist axe will strike! Today's demonstrations must be the striking point of a powerful mass movement to free Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff! Ten Years---And After! HEN the history of the Daily Worker for the past ten years is written, it will be the story of limit- less self-sacrifice and devotion on the part of hun- dreds of thousands. of workers in every part of the United States, For ten years nol a single issue of the Daily Worker has been missed! During those ten years there hhave taken place epochal events in the American and world labor movement. The Tenth Anniversary Edition of the Daily Worker, therefore, becomes a social document of the utmost importance, for in this issue will be found an epitome of the stirring decade thru which we have passed. The special edition, which comes off the press on Jan. 6, will appear in 24-pages, a minimum to cele- brate such an event as the tenth anniversary of the central organ of the Communist Party. Tentative plans call for the printing of 260,000 copies of the paper. With proper preparation and or- ganization it is not a bit fantastic to declare that no Jess than 1,000,000 copies should be circulated. Is it a herculean task to circulate 250,000 copies of the Anniversary edition? We think not! If we do not succeed in doing so, it will only be because we have not touched the pulse of the working class, be- cause we have failed to bring the “Daily” forward even among those thousands of workers who are direct- ly under the influence of Communist leadership. For ten years the Daily Worker has served as ® fighter in the struggles of the workers. The Daily Worker is a national paper; during the past ten years it has demonstrated that it can be a force thousands of miles from its place of publica~- tion, Yet—up to the present moment only four districts of the Party have shown their consciousness of the value of the Daily Worker by placing their orders for the special Anniversary Edition, New York, Denver, Milwaukee and Detrott—these are the only districts which have put in their orders for the special edition. From Cleveland, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Cleveland and Chicago—stone silence! We believe that the Chicago district should put in an order at once for 50,000 copies. We are con- vinced that the Cleveland district, with a little effort, | can dispose of 25,000 copies, The special 24-page anniversary edition of the Daily Worker will not be a mere souvenir. Through a large number of vibrant, authoritative articles it will at- tempt to epitomize the past service and future tasks of the Daily Worker, This special issue affords an opportunity to inter- est thousands of workers—never before approached— in our paper and in our Party. Cleveland, Seattle, San Francisco, Cleveland, Bos- ton, and Chicago~—let us hear from you! 'C.W.A. Money Used for Airports, Other \N. J. War Building) | Will Build Airplane | |. Factory, Repair | Ports, Ete. NEWARK, N. J.—John Colt, Civil} Works Administrator for New Jer- sey, gave Approval last week for a | “triangulation” survey of the state. The open object of the “triangula- | | tion survey” is to develop suitable| | sites for airplane landing fields for/ war purposes” | This-is an example which clearly demonstrates the war policy behind the C. W,.A. Here in New Jersey} there is hardly an army camp or naval base, and there are a good number, that has not had relief work~ | ers assigned to do the dirty work of preparation for the rapidly approach- ing imperialist slaughter. | At the Lakehurst Naval Reserva- | | tion, 700 acres are being cleared for} ® landing field by unemployed work- | |ers of Ocean County. ‘This work has been under way for the past month! at the request of the Federal goy-| ernment. Also, there are rumors afloat that the Federal government plans the erection of a huge airplane | factory here with Public Works Ad- ministration funds. Captain Anton Heinen, former German ace and dirigible com- mander; has been recommissioned to the Lakehurst Station, which gives color to the rumor, since Heinen was | formerly employed as consulting en- gineer for the U. S. Navy during the construction of the Shenandoah. Ru- mors also persist that the govern- ment plans to have its largest land- ing field at Lakehurst. C. W. A. workers are recondition- | ing Fort Monmouth and Fort Ham- | ilton. ‘Fort Monmouth has been | granted over $1,000,000 from P. W. A. funds, and construction is now. go- ing on. At Penns Grove Coast Guard Sta-} tion, at. Raritan and Picatinny Ar- senals, CW. A. workers are prepar- | ing the-ground for future construc- tion. Applications for P. W. A. funds for buildings at these depots are ex- pected to-receive official approval by Feb. 15, ‘Thus in New Jersey it is only too clear that C. W. A. and P. W. A. are smoke screens behind which the Roosevelt’ government, prepares for war to gain new markets for its Wall St. masters at the expense of work- ers’ misery and workers’ blood. iU. S. Blocks Action on Intervention Truce Proposed in the Chaco Warfare MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 19.—Secretary of State Hull, head of the U. S. dele- gation to the Pan-American Confer- ence, again succeeded today in post- poning ‘consideration of a resolution condemning. U. S. intervention in neighboring countries. The Cuban and Haitian delegations yesterday accused Afranio de Mello Franco, Brazilian Foreign Minister and chairman of the international law committee, of aiding Pu Steg Helping the Daily Worker through bidding for | the origisals of Burck’s cartoons: "kk } Total to date, $595.59, 3 More Provinces Join Secession Move in China Chinese Red Army} Advances; Martial | Law in Shanghai. | SHANGHAI, Dec. 19.—Reports of sharp fighting yesterday between Nanking troops and the Jukien Province secessionists are accom~ panied by news from the Northwest of a powerful secessionist movement in Ningsia, Chinghia and Kansu provinces, where an army of 50,000 under Gen. Sun Tienying, Nanking appointee as Reclamation Director of | Chinghai, is opposed by an army of 70,000 under Gen. Ma Hung-kwei, Mohammedan Governor of Ningsia Province, aided by .10,000 Chinghia provincial troops. | The secessionist move in the North- | west is sponsored by the Japanese imperialists striving to bring these provinces under the influence of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, while. British imperialists are push- ing another partitionist move to wrest Fukien, Kwantung, Kwangsi and ‘other southern provinces from China. The present intensification of the drive to partition China re- fiects the sharpening impertalist antagonisms in the Far East and particularly the growing doubt in the minds of the imperialist bandits of Nanking’s ability to crush the Chinese Revolution and the power- ful Chinese Soviet Republic. The rift in the Nanking camp widened yesterday with Sun Fo, pre- the, U. S..delegates in blocking con- sideration of the resolution. A proposal for a 12-day truce in the Chaco war between Paraguay and Bolivia was adopted today. Bolivian acceptance of the armistice proposals followed a secret conference between Casto Rojas of Bolivia and Secretary of State Hull, whose government, sup- porting Bolivia with loans to buy arms, have been waging a war by proxy against its British imperialist rivals for economic control of the rich oil resources of the Chaco region. The war has cost over 100,000 in casualties, with more than 10,000 killed. Jailimg Followed Their! Interview With “President (EDITOR'S NOTE:—The follow- ing is a-first-hand story of the ar- rest of Henry Shepard of the Trade Union Unity League and Walter Runge of the League of Struggle Against.War and Fascism, members of the Anti-Imperialist League Delegation to Cuba, who were ar- rested after interviewing President Grau San Martin. Last reports were that. both were still in Prin- cipe Fortress.) P % * * a By WALTER RELIS HAVANA—The delegation of the U. S. Anti-Imperialist League went to the Presidential palace and pre- sented & protest personally to Grau on Tuesday, Dec. 12. Henry Shep- | ard, who'was spokesman, pointed out that although the government had revolutionary and anti-imperialist professions, it was persecuting and attempting to divide the greatest anti-inipétialist revolutionary factor, the industrial and agrarian workers of Cuba, He protested against the imperial- ist campaigns, citing definitely the massacre in Havana on Sept. 29 at the demonstration in honor of Julio Antonio Mella and the slaughter of workers by government troops in the Jaronu and Senado Sugar Centrales because they had taken the mills from the Yankee imperialist pro- prietors, “ In addition Shepard spoke against the proposed 50 per cent law (50 per cent of all employes must be Cuban), as a measure to divide the working class. The delegation then asked for a written statement from the Grau government on the question of the rights of workers’ organizations and unemployment insurance. Grau promised that a written an- swer be given at noon of the following day. The delegation left the palace at and Runge asked them to visit the pa- Melian, late member renta of, wit Tuis sident of Nanking’s Legislative Coun- cil, supporting Hu Hanmin, who a few days ago denounced the Nanking regime. Sun Fo is expected to leave for Hongkong, a British controlled (sland off Canton, to confer with Hu. Sun Yat-sen’s son is expected to join the militarist clique taking orders from the British imperialists. ‘Taking advantage of the unsettled conditions in Fukien Province, the workers and peasants of that province have increased, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, the unequal treaties imposed by the imperialists on the Chinese people. | Wide support is growing for the | heroic Chinese Red Army, which is| penetrating into Fukien from its| Kiangsi province base. Many work- ers haye joined the 19th Route Army to carry on revolutionary work among the rank and file, already | greatly sympathetic to the Red Army Veterans of the Red Arm re re- ported entrenching along the buffer strip, 25 miles wide, separating the Nanking and Fukien troops. | Martial law was continued in this | city today in fear of working class | demonstrations in symnathy h the | thinese Soy Republi Held in “Solitary”, Gov’t Trying to Break} Health of Militants | TORONTO, Dec. 18.—Eight leaders | of the Canadian revolutionary move ment have been held in solitary con- finement in the “hole” at the Kings- ton prison for a full’month now in a brutal attempt by the Canadian gov- ernment to break their health, The eight workers are Tim Buck, Tom Ewen, Sam Sarr, Malcolm Bruce, John Boychuk, Matthew Pop- ovich, Tom Hill and Tom Gacic, who are serving a total of 37 years in prison for their working-class activ- ities. The eight political prisoners are in solitary for at least 2312 hours a day. Tim Buck is general secre- tary of the Canadian Communist Party. ‘The eight workers were put in sol- itary confinement for protesting against the refusal of the government to release Tom Gacic, whose term expired on Noy. 10, but who is ar- bitrarily held in prison. The Canadian Labor Defense League is developing a broad protest movement to save the eight working their anti-imperialist activities and are demanding the cancellation of class leaders, ' 8 Canadian Workers : | hour, French Workers, Protesting Cuts, March on Senate PARIS, Dec. 19.—Several thousand civil evaployes, led by the French Communist Party, demonstrated yes- terday in front of the Senate against the wttempts of the government, sup- ported by the Socialist Party, to bal- | ante the budget at the expense of the toiling masses by slashing the wages of the lower paid categories of civil employes, cuts in unemploy- ment relief and by increased taxa- tion. The protesting workers marched in three cclumns on the Luxemburg Palace, carrying banners and slogans denouncing the proposed cuts in the we: of the lower-paid categories of i employes. Attacked by an army of police, called out to break up the demonstration, the workers fiercely defended themselves for over an Four hundred representatives | of civil employes’ organizations were arrested. ‘Heavy police guards were provided to escort the Senators to their homes after the session, in fear of the furi~ ous indignation of the workers. ‘Despite the wage slashing policy of the bourgeois government, it was ad- mitted in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday that the government would not be ab’e to balance its budget this year, 60,000 Arrested in Japan Terror Drive TOKIO, - According to an an- nouncement in the newspaper “Jo~ muri,” 60,000 persons have been ar- rested in pursuance of the “Three- Year Plan” for the extermination of the Japanese Communists. Of these 15,000 are stated to be “especially dangerous Communists,” quite incapable of being educated in a “national direction” and who are to be interned on a lonely island to ren- der them permanently harmless. of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League of Cuba, who was murdered just two months ago by the A. B. C. I: told them that it would be ‘upossible, as I was scheduled to meet with members of the Ala Izquirda Estudiantil (left students), and so we separated. Delegates Arrested Early in the evening I was told that my comrades had been arrested. No one knew just what it was all about, because everyone in Melian’s house had been put under arrest. I went immediately to the Central Po- lice Station and demanded to see my companions and to be informed of the charges. I was told that the chief of police had left his office and that it would be impossible either to see the prisoners or learn the cause of arrest. There I was given the official police version as released to the press: “arrests were made because they had illegally participated in a meet- ing at which were found banners Famous Revolutionary Cartoons to Be Reproduced Historically significant cartoons which appeared in past issues of thi in the class struggle during the last denouncing the Pan-American Con~ ference; calling for a general strike and a Soviet Cuba.” I learned also that they were to be transferred in the nigbt to the fortress Principe. The editor told me that delegations from more than 25 workers’ organ~- iwations had already come to voice their protests through the press. The Ala Izquierda Estudiantil mobilized more than a hundred students to go as a delegation to all the newspapers and present their protest. Soldiers Fire En route from the newspaper “El Pais” to “Ahora” the students were fired upon by soldiers sent by order of Lincoln Rondon and Rafael Esca- Jona (brother of Arnoldo Escalona, member of the Central Committee of the Ala Isquierda. Estudiantil, who has been chosen to represent the Ala at the Second National Congress of the N S. L. in Washington, Dec. 26, 27 and 28), both members of the Student Directory. Altho’ the firing was rather heavy, no one was in Jan. 6th ‘Daily’ by Robert Minor and Fred Elis, e Daily Worker during tense periods ten years, will be reproduced in the 24 page, tenth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker, coming off the press on Jan, 6th. Robert Minor’s reputation as a revolutionary arti8t is world-wide, with workers’ publications throughout the world at one time or another carrying reproductions of his cartoons, Fred Ellis, now in the Soviet Union, recently held an exhibition of his works in a Soviet Museum. Soviet artists, art critics and workers enthusiastically acclaimed his work. © The cartoons of these two great revolutionary artists will be re- produced in the 16 page magazine supplement of the anniversary edition of the “Daily,” providing every worker with a revolutionary souvenir never before obtainable. dramatic history of the American periods during the last ten years. The tenth anniversary edition will provide a class struggle at the most crucial ‘The issue will also carry the regular news and special features appearing daily. A minimum of a quarter million copies of this historic edition will be printed. Every worker, every workers’ organization, trade union, Party organization is urged to rush orders our Daily Worker at once for this 24 page edition of injured. A few moments after the shooting had ceased, Chief of Police of Havana, Labourdette, also a mem- ber of the Student Directory, drove up to the scene to see if the dem- onstration had been “successfully handled.” He then personally posted soldiers to keep guard against the formation of another demonstration. All that, and the following night groups of soldiers were placed all over the city to prevent protest meetings. The leaders of the Student Directory have become the direct agents of the state to suppress all revolutionary activ- ity. They hold most of the leading positions in the police force and many of them have become members of the secret police. I arrived at the precinct at about midnight, only to learn that the two delegates had already been trans- ported to Principe. The police cap- tain showed me all the indicting ma~ terial—one red banner with the slo- gan “Down With the Pan-American Conference in Montevideo,” two others of wrapping with the slogans “On to the General Strike,” and “Long Live Soviet Cuba.” ‘The captain told me that my companions had been arrested for participating in a Communist meeting. It was too late to go to Principe. Visits Principe Early in the morning I went to the Department of the Interior and re- ceived permission to visit the interior of Principe. I went directly to the fortress. Once more I found that a responsible officer was not present. However, before evening I was per- mitted to enter and see Shepard, sleep on the bare cold stone. upper sections of the prison have been given to the bourgeois political prisoners (A. B. C. and officers ar- rested after the National Hotel in- How Cuban Officials Put Through Arrests of U. S. Delegates Japan Completes New Strategic R. R. Line in Manchuria Aimed to Facilitate | Troop Movements te Soviet Frontiers HARBIN, Dec. 19.— Unconfirmed reports state that the Japanese troops invading Charhar Province, China, are retiring to Jehol “after having defined the boundary.” The fact that the Chinese militarists offered no re- sistance to the Japanese indicates that an agreement has been reached whereby the province is to be brought under the influence of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo without a struggle. Japanese military officials today celebrated the completion of another strategic link in the Manchurian rail- way system, aimed to facilitate the movement of troops towards the So- viet borders, as well as to destroy the importance of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The new line connects Har- bin, on the Chinese Eastern Railway. with the new trunk line between Changchun, capital of Manchukuo and the newly constructed ports of Northeastern Korea, on the Sea of Japan. | U.S. Rushes Work on 3 New Destroyers With “Relief” Funds CAMDEN, N. J., Dec. 18.—Work on four new destroyers for the U. 8. Navy is«-being rushed by the New York Shipbuilding Company, which is also to construct two new cruisers as part of its quota under the huge Roosevelt navy-construction program, for which $238,000,000 of “relief” funds has been already appropriated. The keels for the four warships were laid yesterday ata ceremony attended by a group of naval officers, headed by Rear Ad- miral Arthur J. Hepburn, command- ant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The warships will be of 1,800 tons, armed with 5-inch guns. ane MELBOURNE, Dec. 18.—The Aus tralian Government has given an or- der to the Cockatoo Company at Syd- ney for a new warship to cost $1,413,500, “Seven Provinces” Mutineers Given Brutal Sentences rs SURUBAYA, Dutch East Indies.— Sentences even more severe than J« é those demanded by the prosecutor were given to the second group of defendants from the warship “Seven Provinces” by a naval court martial ‘Thursday, Dec. 14. Engineer Corporal Boshart was given 16 years imprisonment, though the- prosecutor had only asked 14, Boshart was given an exceptionally heavy-.sentence because he had al- ways urged cooperation with the na- tive seamen and had pointed out the intention of the government to first lower the wages of the native seamen and then of the Europeans. He had urged joint action to prevent this from happening. The other four were given sen- tences ranging from one to 12 years, the severity being excused on the / ground that they had suffered no ¥ bodily harm during the mutiny. Man Drowns in Delaware River PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 19.—Jacop Batuchich, a fireman on a dredge. was drowned today when he fell out of a rowboat in the Delaware River. fe The Daily Worker fights Fascism. Fight for the “Daily” with your dollars. Rush ail funds to save the “Daily.” Delegate ‘Writes That Workers Rushed to Enter Protests eral.mempbers of various revolutionary organizations who were residents in the neighborhood waiting to greet them. In all there were about 20 men and women in the house. Not many minutes after they arrived, a soldier entered and asked if permission for a meeting had been given. The com- rades were astonished at this ridicu- Jous question. However, Shepard showed a letter from the Department of the Interior, signed by the Sec- retary, Guiteras, which gave us per~- mission to hold a public meeting any plaec in the Republic. The soldier seemed satisfied and left. However, just a while later, about 30 soldiers entered the house with rifles and fixed bayonets and put everyone un- der arrest. The news spread in- stantly throughout the neighbor! and’ before the soldiers left with prisoners more than 4,000 wor! had gathered in protest before honse: At the ee gan the prisoners were cha “par- tieipating in a Peete coe ieee stration by virtue the presence the red banner (Down With Con- gress) and 20 people in one house.” -Tt Was interesting to note that on the“afternoon of the day that the Melian house was raided it was an- nounced that the government had shifted to the “left.” Guiteras, Sec~ retary of the Interior, forced the government to take a non-mediation position. With this the secretary an- nounced, “the revolution begins to- day.” At the same time that this statement appeared in the evening press, 30 soldiers entered the home and put more than 20 tionary workers under arrest. __ of the questions put to Grail on the day of the arrests by the dele- gation, was: “What is the stand vole acvernment on the legalization of all. working-class organizations?” pow 18 hours after the two dele~ gates were placed in Principe we re~ ceived Grau’s answer: “Absolute free~ dom has been granted all labor or=