The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1933, Page 6

$ it ae : ‘Amerten’s Only Working Class Newspaper” FOUNDED 104 Np Miqonquin +7255 “Adéresx “Dabwork,” Buresp: Boom 954 S, Washington, DB. 6 Sebsoription Bates = Manhatten and Bron}, | mat, LE Soci Bt ai ‘Rattan, Foreign snd inthe, 96.00; months $8.0 ¥ Carrier: Weekly, 12 cents; m THURSDAY, DECEMBER 71, 19: washington Wattonel Beene 1tth end P. » ik 2 ale OOSEVELT § Unite to Fight R Compulsory ie no m 1g the i latest order widening the ‘hor Board, giving it the { “mediation, conciliation or arbitration. . Susirial Hisutes whether 1 yretation and operation of seeped agreement or any tode of fair competition, and to c @pnfticte theentening the industrial peace Bountey.” ‘Theses are powers that only Only Arbitration! owers nean dana power of arising ‘Bix. months of N.R.A. cods Mavery, six months of fake promises, six months of N.R.A. Lak strikebreaking through the trap of “arbitration,” ‘@e fast opening the eves of the workers the Wat for the hhh , OF arbitration And s0 Roosevelt, tool and agent of Breet industrial bosses, prepares for war, rushing of the developing strike wave, latest trap of “mediation, conctl fn ALL industrial disputes, to « threatening the industrial peace of the comtry.” This is a deliberate attempt to effect a virtual OUTLAWRY OF ALL STRIKES aga’ NRA alist employer exploitation. It {s s distinct ward preparations for impertalist war, along th of fascisation of the government power for the vi protection of the Wall Street profits and Investmerits. New Youu Brening Post, now the subservient Yoice of Roosevelt, hafis this latest N.R.A. develop- ment with undisguieed jop. “Tt comes nome too soon,” exclaims the Post. But with typleal Roosovettian twickery It gives a fraudulent reason, a seemingly “radical” r for its enthusiasm. The Post pretends to see in the latest Roosevelt strikebreaking trap a victory for ths wor' against those employers such as the Weirton 1 and the Budd Auto, who have by their actions already @xposed the treachery of the NRA. Labor ‘Board ‘wramizes of “the right to form umions.” Tf the militancy of the masses rises hig! hen it ts conceivable that the Roosevelt ‘wil maneuver for a while and seek to fasten its om the workers through a seri jy against the obedient” employers, But the main purpose, the main stratezy of the whele Rooseveli N.R.A. Labo: i is, at all costs, to @magh the attempts of the workers to use their most powerfn! weapon, the weapon of mass strike. overnmen of decisions se Always i will be to pin the faith of the workers the capitalists Labor Boards, in end * in the class justice of the c ways i will be their aim to disor fe organization of mass actions ployers. gotia~ their own experience, the aarp cuts in the the country. Tt was these codes that Workers by the A. I’. of I Wolls, the Lewises. were fastened wu officialdom, the Gr L. officials. Now the’ textile o emmmingly pleads for a And the depth of their tr the fact that this seemingly the needs of the textile employ: ‘after, received permission fror ‘yelt to reduce their production by 25 per wholesale lay-offs of textile w such treacheries, concealed phrases, that we must now prepare the Where. For it ts a certainty that the reac H of the A. F. of L. will now meet, the new conditions of the com attempt to head off the rising strike tter disillusionment of the masses i which all the while will be the road to reduced ‘2 -time work, and mags lay-offs. a “shorter ¥ chery be can Ae not because the masses are weak, but becat -a@re daily growing in mass militancy and poli that Roosevelt and the A. F. of L., to; the leadership of the Socialist Party, prepare for fascist strikebreaking government measures. T task 1s immediately before us. The workers can ® smash this latest Roosevelt step toward the further beating down of their wages, toward the outlawry of strikes. The successful struggles of the miners in Gal- example, under the leadership of the National Unions, show how we can beat back the Roose- WR.A. slavery. . he Communist Party must take the leadership in gle against the latest Roosevelt strike-breaking tek. It is up to us, to every individual Party membe t@ go to our fellow workers in the A. of L, locals, in Party, with the message of working cla: S728 is up to us to take the initiative In the fights % wage cuts, N.R.A y, yart-time, to the ’ We, as | L__apomess , The United Mine Workers Convention ouvention of the United Mine Workers open in Indianapolis on a, Which w w s by far the most important convention be d by any A. F. of 1. union this coming year. y M.W.A. is the largest trade union in the and not only in the A. F. of L. It is most important sec- f many by the miners, Over 200,000 miners recent months. the revolt of the miners against the ore, eadership ous proportions. For the first time strike, after Which the membership d to less than one-third a result of the Lewis be- ns of thousands of miners have been the U.M.W.A. These are militant miners to improve their conditions, and still stub- opposed to Lewis's policies. tions make the U.M.W.A. conyen- ® matter of greatest concern to all workers, and arly to the Communists and militant workers. onvention, despite the maneuvers and ma- of Lewis, can lead to a tremendous step only for the struggling miners but for abor movernent. In past years the miners the forefront of the workers’ struggles. and determination’ has deeply in- ed all labor battles. A clear cut fight at this on will likewise directly Influence the strug- workers. se consid oe ee it felt at the coming Indianapolis this will be really effective only if ful program is presented and provided ip is evident throughout the period of for the convention and in the conven- ‘The job of providing this leadership neces- Is on the Communists and other conscious, nt forces among the miners. It is these com- des, the Comnrunists and militants, whom we par- rly urge to undertake serious, sustained, well- ught-out preparatory work for this convention. For some time, we know, insufficient attention s been given to the preparatory work for such im- portant workers’ gatherings, and to trade union con- and elections in general. ently, for example, elections were held in ted Textile Workers (dye workers’ section) in F m which did not come to the attention of the Communists in time to permit effective participa- As @ result the reactionary clique carried the s with only a small fraction of the workers ating, with the majority not voting because they know what to do. Thus, in this case, the Communists and militants generally, by depriving the | workers of the necessary leadership after they had ended a bitter and militant struggle, made it difficult for these workers to express their militancy in the formulation of a class struggle policy and in the election of officials who supported such a policy. These weaknesses are a reflection of the still seri- owes neglect of our work in the A. F. of L. unions, and underestimation of the importance of par- tieipating in such elections. a ee S weakness by all means must be overcome im 6 preparations for the convention of the United ers, Already much time has been lost. Al- » delegates have been elected. In other ions are about to take place, Speed, there- urgent, Inmediate and well-prepared activities are now necessary in every local union to secure the election of delegates on the basis of the fighting program a “ly prepared by the militant coal miners them- selves in the National Miners Union and the op- position groups in the U.M.W.A. Only in this way can we make it possible for the rank and file miners who attend the convention as delegates to put for- vd effectively a program that fully represents the r on the miners, nd Section Committees of the Party, mits in the mining flelds are urged to im- y take up the preparations for this conven- election of delegates. Likewise, through munist activity, all militant miners’ groups should be brought into this work for the convention. No task is mow more important in these mining ter- ritories. on tion of the wee t are these issues? In the first place there are the coal codes forced upon the miners. These codes brought not an improvement, but a worsening s miners’ conditions. ues of wages, conditions of work, payment for dead work, relief for the unemployed, etc., must placed in the center of the election struggle. Grow- ing out of the codes and the tyranny of the coal operators and the government, are such issues as: the fig! , discrimination against Negroes and young for the right to strike, against compulsory ation, against fines for striking, the demand © withdrawal of union officials from the strike- N.R.A. boards, ete. Other important issues be stressed are: inner-union democracy for > miners, revocation of the arbitrary power of the union officials, withdrawal of the check-off, reduc- tion of the officials’ high salaries, etc. ee ett, ee qe COMRADES and sympathizers should mobilize | ir full strength, and at once, to win the local for struggle on these issues, having in each olutions adopted instructing the elected dele- gates to fight for this program. We should strive 'ywhere possible to elect miners as convention dele- gates who support this program. h a solid block of delegates prepared to sup- port and fight for this program, the miners’ conven- tion, which will be composed overwhelmingly of rank and file miners, can be made the beginning of a seri- ous struggle to win the mass of the miners for a mili- tant program, It will also be an important step in the direc- tion of one militant union of miners which can be realized only by uniting the miners now in the UM. | W.A,, the Progressive Miners of America, the National Miners Union, the Anthracite Mine Workers Union and other miners’ organizations, and the unorganized iners, on the basis of a militant class struggle pro- 1 and the exclusion of the Lewises, Pearceys and ; Capellinis from the ranks of the miners, Join the Communist Party | 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. || Please send me more information on the Commn- | | nist Party. 1 | NAME foreover, this convention | most heroic and | of the Lewis machine has | VE the minery are prepared to make thelr | ‘France Rejects New ‘Bid by Hitler for Agreement on Arms | | Minister of War Calls} | Gov't Ready for “Any Eventuality” | PARI6, Dec. 20.—The new maneu- | Vers -of the Hitler regime to effect | jan agreement with France on the | basig of a short-term army of 300,000 |men with “defensive” armaments has not met with the approval of French imperialism. ‘The Nazis lad declared their readi- ness to abandon their demand for} arms equality and revision of the Versailles pact in exchange for this concession.-The short term stipula- | tion would. allow the constant train- ing of new Nazi troops. French im- perlalism is bitterly opposed to any proposals which would put Germany in @ position te chalienge the Ver- sailles Treaty; War Minister Daladier, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, made a veiled threat against Ger- many, declating France’s readiness for war. .“France,” he stated, “has the mos modern fortification and most modern equipment” and “can face any. eventuality.” He proposed | the extension of the “iron ring” of | fortifications along the German fron- tier to include the Belgian front. The French government declared it would ask for additional credits for the construction of the new fortresses, By & vote of 449 to 147, the Cham- ber of Deputies adopted the new army bill, providing for the strength- ening of the French army by lower- ing~the conscription age. Chinese Red Army In Advance Into Chekiang Province SHANGHAT, Dec. 20.—The Nanking government ‘yesterday commandeered all the motor buses in Chekiang for troop transportation, following reports by Nanking scouting planes that the Chinese Red Army was advancing into Chekiang Province. The scouts also Teported an advance by the Nine- teenth Route Army of the Fukien secessionist regime into Chekiang Province. A Nanking spokesman at the same time claimed the capture of Kwang- cheh in Northedn Fukien, near the Kiangsi border, which was long held by the Red Army, and the recapture from the Red Army in Szechwan Province of two towns, Suiting and Suanhan. Little credence is given these reports here, as it is believed they are intended to bolster up the tottering prestige of the Nanking re- gime. Similar claims of “overwhelm- ing” victories against the Red Army in Kiangsi Province, were proven false this week by foreigners passing through the province, who reported great gains for the Chinese Red Army against the Nanking Sixth offensive. The Tibetan armies In Western Szechwan ate again advancing east- ward in @ move inspired by British imperialists to gain contrdl of the province, which borders both Tibet and Sinkiang.. In the latter province the British and Japanese imperialists are backing opposing factions in a bitter struggle for control, with the |central idea of turning the province into a base for armed intervention against the Soviet Union. US., British Workers’ Delegation Vastly Impressed By VERN SMITH MAGNITOGORSK, U.S.S.R., Nov. 22 (By mail)—The American Work~ ers Delegation, along with the Brit- ish, came to” Magnitogorsk late on the night of Nov. 20, and was suffi- ciently by their first sight and the reputation of the place that it decided to stay up all night, see the blast furnaces, open hearths and rolling mills, then spend the next day and part of-the next night look- ing at mines and dams and talking with the workers. They had to leaye last night for Challabinsk and its tractor factory, So far no one seems to have re- gretted the decision, especially as events" moved so that most of them actually got an hour and a half sleep thes morning of the 2st that they didn’t expect. For Magnitogorsk is something un- usual, in a country full of unusual things. It is more like Gary, Ind., than anything else, but Gary is lo- cated near Chicago and a lot more of the big industrial cities and towns. World's Richest Iron Deposits i was a high snow- covered plateau, treeless, waterless and far from. civilization, out on the southwestern slopes of the Urals, It was that until.three years ago. But it was somethifig more: it was three hills rising 300°or 400 yards above the plateau, 6Y iron ore 65 per cent pure iron—the'?ichest iron ore in the world, beginning right at the grass roots and extending all the way through the mountain. Prospect shafts already driven show there 1s about 600,000,000 tons of this ore, or at; least 450,000,000 tons of pure iron. When Magnitogorsk blast furnaces, the biggest in the world, are running full blast and all of them working, which will) be in a couple of years more, they. will: produce two and a half million tons of iron @ year, which is much more than any other WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER M1, 1938 HITLER! SHADES OF ‘ is ade Helping the original of Burck’s drawings: the Daily Worker through bidding for with a bid of $20. Other bids, ¥.C.L., Unit 4, Sec- tion 15, N, ¥., $2.10. Total to date $617.69, Unit 20, Section 1, N. ¥., wins yesterday drawing U.S. Intervention Policies Condemned at Montevideo Meet MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 20.—Over the bitter opposition of the U. S. delega~ tion, the Pan-American Conference in a dramatic session today adopted a resolution condemning intervention by one State in the affairs of an- other. The resolution is aimed against U.S. imperialism and its robber policy in Haiti, Cuba and other neighboring Caribbean American countries. It was sponsored by the Haitian and Cuban delegations, and finally reach- ed the conference, although in a modified form, despite the secret in- trigues of Secretary of State Hull to gain Brazilian and Argentine sup- port to block the resolution. Dr. Hermino Portell Vila, Cuban delegate, speaking in support of the resolution, charged that the Roose- velt government was in effect inter- vening in Cuba today and had sur- rounded that island with a ring of warships. The Haitian and Nicara- guan delegations followed in support of the resolution. The resolution was passed amid great enthusiasm, many of the delegates phrasing their vote so as to make if more emphatic. Secretary of State Hull made a gesture of “good-will” by voting for the resolution with reservations, af- ter a futile attempt led by Hull and Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas of Argentine to shunt the re- solution to “an inter-American com- mittee of prominent jurists for de- finition.” Following this defeat for the U. S. delegation, Hull hastened to hypo- French Police Raid Spy Ring as Powers Prepare for New War PARIS, Dec. 20—Five men and five women, including an American couple, were arrested by French secret police today in raids on what is described as an international spy ring. With the sharpening of the im- perialist antagonisms and the frantic preparations for war, such arrests are becoming increasingly frequent in this and other capitalist countries, as the spies of various imperialist powers try to ferret out the military secrets of their rivals. Drops 7.1 Per Cent BERLIN, Dec. 19.—German foreign trade fell off 7.1 per cent during the Nazi regime, it was admitted today by Kurt Schmidt, Nazi Economic Minister. Both Schimdt and Baron Constantin von Neurath, Foreign Min- ister, hysterically stressed the neces- sity for further measures to bolster up Germany’s sinking export trade, at the first session of the newly cre~ ated Foreign Trade Council today. Critically assure the conference that no state need fear intervention dur- ing Roosevelt’s regime. This assur- ance evoked the cynical demand from the Nicaraguan delegate, Carlos Cua- dra Pasos, that “these fair promises from Mr. Hull be recorded in writ- ing.” Nazi Police in New Mass Arrests of Communists BERLIN, Dec. 20.—Reports the first few days of December state that 79 Communists were arrested in Bielefeld, including leaders, treasur- ers and messengers; 25 in Wurzburg (a conflicting report states 100); and 100 Communists and 300 Socialist workers in Dresden, Another person was arrested on the grounds that he attempted to “worm his way” into the “Angriff” as a National Socialist editor in order to carry out “atrocity” propaganda, The State Secret Police Bureau at Lubeck states it has arrested 49 per- sons, “former members of the Com- munist Party and Young Communist League of Germany,” who are to be charged with high treason. Police state that they were active before and after the election publishing and circulating leaflets and organizing secret meetings. ‘ Six workers were arrested at Er- Jangen for listening in to Moscow broadcasting stations. “ Six arrests were said % have been made: in Berg, Pfortz, and Woerth, suposedly connected with the smuggling of “Communist newspapers” across the border. State police at Recklinghausen re- port the discovery of a “new” Com- munist organization whose activities have extended throughout the Ruhr, Police also report many new cases of “shot while attempting to escape.” They include Fritz Burk from Hem~ mingen at the Dachau concentration camp, Conrad from Flensburg (actu- ally shot while distributing leaflets), Magnitogorsk to Set World Produc than you can say for the Mesabe Range. And that is why there is now a new city of 250,000 people where three years ago was just snow covered plateau. The American and South African delegations, being somewhat familiar with steel mills and strip mining made the most thorough study of the whole process. Intricate in detail, it is simple in principle, and the work- ing of this iron *-i steel eggregate has some of ‘he grand sweep of Na- poleon’s military strategy about it. First of all, since this is the coun- try of the Projetarian Revolution and no selfish capitalist interests stand in the way, Magnitogorsk is inti- mately hooked with the Kuznetz area 1,500 miles to the Fast, Kuznetz is primarily a coal field, but it has steel mills. Coal comes pounding along a railroad that is already partially double tracked and will soon be com~ pletely doubled. Passenger trains, in- cluding ours, take to a siding when a coal train wants to pass. The coal is coked at Magnitogorsk, and iron is smelted. Two-thirds of the pig iron goes liquid and red hot into the open heerths of Magnitogorsk, one-third goes into the coal cars and with them back to Kuznetz, to be made into steel there. That means the cars never go empty. The Magnetic Rock But a description of _Magnito- gorsk ought to start with the raw material. The grayish black, heavy rock of the Magnetic mountains is mined from two of the hills. Some of the. delegates climbed about three miles up one of them. Four ter- ; races cut what are, relatively speak- ing, little notches into its side. On all four run railroad tracks, all one track, really, down to the rock crusher at the lowest level. Com~ pressed air-driven jack-hammer} drills are used, and the rock is shattered with ammonal — which, incidentally, is on the American mining laws’ list of safe explosives. Then eight steam shovels simply load the ore into cars with hopper bottoms, and they, coast down hiil, the engine going along to pull a lit- tle on flat places only and to bring back the empties. A total of 700 men, divided in aour shifts, some working eight hours, some seven and a few only six, roll out 18,000 tons a day of ore from this mine. Wages of min- ers (Minnesota workers take no- tice!) is the top paid in any indus- try; in rubles it runs from 150 to 450, with more for steam shovel op- erators. The work week for miners | (notice again!) is three days on the job and one day’s rest. The fourth shift works on the free day of the other shifts, which alternate so that the work is continuous. A rock crusher is a rock crusher wherever it is; this one is like the best in America, and the finished product pours right into dump cars and speeds away to the blast fur- naces, Three Blast Furnaces ‘There are three blast furnaces, and tere will be eight when the con- struction is finished. One of these furnaces, No. 3, is the pride of the USSR. Its estimated capacity is a thousand tons.a filling, which is the largest in the world, but the bri- gade in charge of it turned out 1,678 tons one day recently, and always gets Jak Allen Writes on ‘The Press of First International’ in Anniversary Number “The Press of the First International In America'—this will be the subject of an article by James 8. Allen, in the special Tenth Anniversary Edition of the Daily Worker, which will appear Jan. 6th, Allen is the single iron smelter produces any- where in the..world, and rather more than the yearly. production of, for ex- ample all the mills in Japan, Inci~ dentally, and. in answer to the Mars who.say there-is no raw material in the Soviet Union, anybody can make a slight arithmetical calculation from the above statistics and see that Magnetic Mountain ore will keep Magnitogorsk blast furnaces running for the next 140 years. Which 1s more author of “The. American Negro” and “Negro Liberation.” ‘This article by Allen will be only one of a large number by oustand~ ing writers, dealing with the development of the militant labor press in. the United States. Other writers will discuss the Socialist press prior to the formation of' the Communist Party; the trade union press, both re- formist and revolutionary, and the Communist language press. The Anniversary Edition will contain a large number of historicaliy significant cartoons by Robert Minor, Fred Ellis and Jacob Burck, as well as other features. ‘A minkmum of a quarter of a milMon copies of the paper Will be printed. tion Record T see Great New City Built for 250,000 Workers from 1,200 to 1,400. The slag is poured out and piled up for later use in making pavement. The iron goes into ladles and some of it, still molten, to the open hearths. The rest is cast into pigs, which drop right into the coal cars for Kuznetz, and other steel mills, and various iron foundries. The charge for the blast furnaces is mixed | mechanically and. carried into the furnaces by a conveyor. ‘The open hearths, of which there ave four, are charged with one-third serap iron and two-thirds molten pig iron, All heating is gas, a mixture of gas from the coke ovens and gas from ‘he blast furnaces, which ex~ plain: why there are no spectacular fiames ing from any of these blast. furnaces. Huge rams, mechanically driven, shove the scrap iron back into the open hearths. The. doors are erated clectrically from a switch- board well back from the heat of the furnaces. Rolling Mills to Open Soon At the other end of .the open hearths the steel is poured into a jadle handled by a crane which lifts 220 metric tons, though the ladle full is only 150 tons. From the ladle the steel is poured ento ingot moulds standing on low flat cars, which a locomotive then takes to the bloom- ing mill, where the moulds are yenked off by a crane, then the five- ton ingots are lifted by crane into gas ovens which reheat them, and they are rolled into long bars 6 or 8 tnches square, and 30 or 40 feet long. ‘There is a machine to cut the bars into shorter lengths and drop them into railroad cars. ‘This is the end of the process now —but in a few months a series of roll- | Pe! ing mills will be for further working this steel into plates and ‘small bars, etc., right from the bloom- ing mill, without re-heating and by straight line production, the steel moving all the way on rollers. int there is practically no hand labor, | the ‘There are 85,000 men working at the place, but over 60,000 of them are building workers, enlarging the plant, building workers’ houses, creating a Socialist city with parks, trees, paved streets, club houses, ete., only a little of which is finished, but all of which will be finished soon, “ Aon. ope pg NanOe lwvrene se Semnnncwncene mua tna elNoneado tae tt ime a nn Grau Government Uses ‘Left? Phrases to Deceive Masses At Same Time Sharp- ens Terror, Breaking Strikes BULLETIN tion ‘of protest against the Piats Amendment” under which the U.S. government holds the “right” te in- tervene in Cuban affairs... A government spokesman said the demonstration would be held tomor- ry in front of the U. 8. Embassy. © government was pI celal trains to bring ia hoos dt from ‘the interior, he declared. : ws) ete (Spécial to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Dec. 20.—On the day the American workers’ delegation to Cuba was arrested, the government an- nounced that there had occurred a “change” in policy of the goyern- menhif.. Guiteras, its present spokes- men, said, “the revolution begins to- day.” Welles had left, and Caffery was coming. The outward guise of the govern- ™ment’s policy has changed. Welles, on his return from Washington had worked hard to build a coalition bloc of the Ouban landlord-capitalists to take over the government. Guiteras realized that such a change would immediately unmask the government before the masses. He knew the workers’ and peasants’ struggles would increase. He feared the onward march of the agrarian anti-imperialist reyo- lution. Sham Opposition to Imperialism More conscious than Welles of the real relation of class forces in Cuba, he decided on a policy of apparent hostility to imperialism, the mor? jeasily to carry on reactionary deed? behind this policy, With the declaration that “the rev- olution begins today,” he signed an amnesty for more than 400 impris- oned workers. At the same time, more troops were sent into the in- terior to quell a wave of sugar plan: tation. strikes. In Santiago de Cuba soldiers broke the strike of the 5-and-10-cent store girls;~In Havana they helped the American electric light company shut off electricity of those who refused to pay the exhorbitant bills, Mills Throw Thousands Out of Work Side by side with the government, preparations against the workers goes on ‘the intensification of the strug- gle -of--the sugar companies. The Cuban Cane Co., to take just one example, has shut down the Chaparra and_Delicias Centrals, throwing thou- sands~out of work, closing hospitals, light and water plants, Such is the “leftward” turn. More and more of the methods-of Hitler are being used. Moré have b.20 jailed and killed already by this gov- ernment, than under Machado. Be- ginning with the arrest of workers and peasants, the police and army are now going over to the arrest of stu- dents as well. _Borrows Hitler's Methods The compulsory unionization laws, the Cubanization employment laws, prohibition of strikes, and compul- sory. arbitration, the 8-hour day law with teeth in it which prohibits strikes, the laws prohibiting attacks on scabs—even the law against usury —all have been borrowed from Hit ler’s handbook. Among the peasants, Guiteras is be- ginning to stir. He has announced & plan for 70,000 caballerias of govern- ment land for collective cultivation (‘as the Soviet Union has found it more advantageous”) among 30,000 peasant families, with support. for a period. Many other schemes are being talked of. But all the government has actually achieved is the handing of jobs to a few hun- dred petty officials, thus increasing the government bureaucracy, swelling the government payroll, driving the whole financial system of Cuba to a crash. These jobs, however, bring it = measure. of petty-bourgeois support, but loads heavier burdens on the workers; Recruiting Fascists from .Unemployed However, the government has made the best of its opportunities among the unemployed. Here the activities of the revolutionary working class movement has” been nil, In the general strike movement, and the following strug- gles, all workers gained something ex- cept the xnemployed. Workers gained pay increases, Soldiers rid themselves of tyrannical officers. Students forced schools to open. But. the unemployed were left: without work or relief. The Grau regime jumped into the situa- tion, and with the chauvinistic de- mand-of 50 to 80 per cent Cubans in ell jobs; won over the native Cuban ‘unemployed. : Moves to Inflate Currency Meanwhile, the position of the gov- ernment grows more unstable and the perspective of increased economic and financial’crisis greater. Wages for De= inflated currency, opening the way for lowering ‘the already miserable living standatds of the Cuban masses. The question of. the stability of the government. also.depends on: the work of the Communist Party, the Young Communist, League,.and the revolu- th trade .unions. . If, these suc= ceed in intensifying their work, the government will not be able to con- solidate its position and fasten a new capitalist-landiord dictatorship over the workers. sea The so-called “Bolshevik-Leninist” Party of Cuba, made-up of cliques ex= bs the Communist. Party as » led by Junco,; has stated rené of the petty-bourgeoisie combatting imperialism, with the only alternative a government by the ABC, wl will be a fascist one. This position, which the renegades to support the Grau-Guiteras-Batista government, is the support of the Hin- A Papen government by German Social Democrats. i Tt 4s the position of the Communist Party 6f Cuba that both this govern- ment and that of the ABC represents but different groups of the bourgeoisie e 8] the. sweat and MOEA of ae cember Cannot be paid, The govern- ment proposes issuing $20,000,000: in.