The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1933, Page 6

DAILY WORKER. Page Six x Dail Cantrel Purty USA. “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Published daily, except Sunday, by the Comprods Pi Co., Inc., 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone; ALgonquin 4-7985. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N Washington Bureau: Room 954. 14th and F. St., Washington, D. C. Subscription Rates: (except Manhattan and Bronx $3.59; 3 months, $2.00; Bronx, Foreign and $5.00; 3 months $2.00 Weekly, 18 cents; m ¥. National Press Building, By Mail @ months, Manhattan, @ months, By Cartier: Canada onthly, 75 cents ', DECEMBER 29, 1933 Roosevelt’s ‘Insurance’ Talk INDER the pressure the insistent demands of the destitute unemployed masses, President Roosevelt has-made a gesture of ussing the ion of “job imsurance.” Roosevelt, on the eve of the opening of @ongress, lets it be known that he “has alw been interested in urance” and favored it as gov- ernor of. New York. Simultaneously Senator Wagner famnounces that he is going to duce an “em- ployment insu 1 xt Congress, These gestw 1 insurance bills” in Congress mand of the y it is already rev Wagner, eic., end to introduce bills suc as these gentlemen have advocated in the past—which disqualify most of the unemployed from any benefits of the tnsurance, by clauses that they must work minimum time to be eligible, which force the em- ployed workers to pay at least a share of the in- surance, and which e the emoloyers control of dis- tribution of the fw Roosevelt, while governor of York State in the same way “favored” social insurance, but did nothing to see that the states’ un- employed received insurance. a 'HE intention to introduce meaningless bills is seen in the conversations which have already taken place. Roosevelt called in to discuss unemployment in- surance, A. L. Deane, president of the General Motors Holding Corporation, and John J. Raskob, also of Gen- eral Motors (a J. P. Morgan controlled concern) to advise him on what kind of a “job insurance” bill | to introduce. Deane advised a plan for “long term job insurance combined with an emergency credit is- sue.” The purpose, he said, is to “use a central in- sutance fund to be built up in good times for use jn {| bad times, to supplement the mass consuming power. It would be @ revolving fund which industry would create through a premium.” Although definite details were not given, these statements already make it clear that such a bill will mean nothing to the workers except placing those still: working under the fear of losing their insurance funds, for which they themselves will be taxed. Pre- pated by employers in the J. P. Morgan ing group, it will serve Roosevelt as mat ther ballyhoo that he is “doing something” for the unemployed, and at the same time will relieve the em- Pioyers of necessity of any taxation for the insurance funds, and will affect few w rs, and those few with i ne ve the starvil al for fur- unemployed workers should at iemand for real unemployment in the Workers Unemployment Bill, put forward by y and the Unemployed Councils, thousands of workers and workers’ is the oniy bill which covers ALL un- It is the only bill which provides for social insurance to come not from bui 1 a tax on corporations and on and from government war funds. PLOYMENT INSURANCE he unemployed ed worker and e only bill by the d workers. TAKE A STAND S Ea van oyed and once intensify thei: Insurance Bill the Commur and Endorsed by organizations, employed + for the fund: the work: large incomes BILL is the a mintmum o: $8 acditioval elected repr DEMAND ON THIS BILL. DEMAND THE PASSAGE OF THE WORKERS’ UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL BY THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS Woodring Admits War Plans Mi an Assistant Secretary of War we now learn that the whole New Deal is tightly geered up with the most gigantic and colossal war mobilizations ever undertaken since the outbreak of the last world slaughter. | Under the vague title “The American Army Stands | Ready,” in the latest issue of “Liberty,” Harry H. | Woodring, Assistant Secretary of War brags outrage- | ously about the unheard of and tremendous rapid Preparations for war in the United States. “The Army Stands Ready!” For what? Woodring answers bluntly: “Let me speak frankly! | 4 this country should be threatened with foreign war, | seconsiitic chaos, or social revolution, the Army has the | training, the experience, the organization, and the men to support the government and direct the country in the national interest.” | The army, under Roosevelt's New Deal, with the billions pumped into it under a thousand disguises, to plunge the country into war for the profits of | ‘Morgan, Rockefeller and Ford, or to slaughter the | Masses of unemployed and striking workers. the unemploy VELT 'T the Daily Worker has been telling the workers | from the very inauguration of the C. C. C., as well a8 other of Roosevelt's schemes, is: now blurted out officially by this blustering war monger, “The C. C. C. mobilization,” he boasts, “demon- | strated that the Army is ready to defend the nation.” | He says more. He declares that the C. C. C. camps will have a million young workers in them by summer, being trained for war. He looks on the C. C. C. camps as the organization of labor coolies for the army, as “the forerunners of the great civilian labor armies of the future.” _ As the Daily Worker and the Communist Party have out repeatedly, the N. R. A., as well as all of Roosevelt's schemes for “recovery” are in themselyes the most gigantic war plans, “Few people outside of Army circles,” blurts out My. Woodring, “have any idea of the extent and character of the Army organization and set-up.” f he i KE ds utterly mistaken if he thinks the war prepara- tions of Roosevelt havé been a secret to the Com- munist Party and the revolutionary class-conscious workers. At every stage of the Roosevelt New Deal we hhaive exposed the rapid war preparations, At the same time, the Daily Worker has shown how the Roosevelt regime, through its N. R. A., its ©. ©. C., jugh its strikebreaking National Labor Board, is resorting more and more to fascist tactics. Just recently, the Daily Worker published a dis- patch from Seymour Waldman, of the Daily Worker .. | spent in trave | counted as w doll cealed projects. Mr. Bureau ar measures in over completely expo: the billion of the Roosevelt regime con- a dozen ©. C, C. and public works Woodring’s with blood w imperialist ave repeatedly article fairly a ringing challenge of a 1 t fully confirm. ‘hat we oozes But he does not speak as an individual. He speaks as an official of the Roosevelt regime, echoing the policies of his master and of his master’s master, the Street rulers of America. R That i store for and Fascism! hat Roosevelt has in we ar unemployed ¢ nS, 2S CO y new Roosevelt project Roosevelt Plans Half Billion War : Fund for U.S. Navy = Warship Building| Sneeded Up with “Relief” Funds WASHINGT* ations were put into | y with a proposal by endorsed by Roose- , for the approvriation of a new | ' fund of over half a billion dol- lars for the navy alone. With the $238,000,000 already turned over to it by Ro i 5 | Works funds, and $46,000,000 of regu- worker should fight. 9 build the most conscious ainst imperialist war, the olutionary struggle against of the chief war maker, Party, for ar the ove: New C.W .A. Rulings y (caress the back coor, with suppression of pub- licity, the rules of the Civil Works Administration have been amended by a series of instructions from the al C. W. A., issued through the state C. W. A. of to their local office: These amendments in fon to rules on routine iters, contain two kinds and which re lived up y ruling which nullify the work- eir conditions. rulings given elsewhere in this issue, which airmen of the New York state C. W. A, Schoellkcpf says, “Supplant all previous rules wages and hours,” among other things deny itizens the right to work under the C. W. A. by stating that citizens throughout the whole state shall be given jobs before non-citizens are hired. This ruling discriminates against foreign-born workers and is an attempt to split the foreign born and native born unemployed and prevent their solidarity. Under this ruling, many foreign born workers have already been fired from C. W. A. jobs. ‘These rulings of the C. W. A. state that there will be no discrimination “because of race, creed or mem- | bership in any, organizatior on hand many reports agains itant wor eign born workers. The clause against discrimination is, further, con- tradicted and nullified by two other sections of the new rulings. The first declares that organized labor shall be secured through “recognized union locals.” The securing of C. W. A. workers through local unions is desirable, but the C. W. A. does not secure these workers through committees elected by members of the local unions. Instead, as in Detroit and Cleveland, this ruling means that the placing of organized C. W. A. workers in jobs is put by the C. W. A. in the hands of the A. F. of L. officials. The unions of the, Trade Union Unity League are discriminated against. The A. F. of L, officials discriminate against militant work- ers (as in Cleveland) Secondly, the Board of Labor Review, set up by the P. W. A. is extended to C. W. A. workers. “The deci- sions of the Board of Labor Review shall be binding upon. all parties,” te the C. W. A. ruling. Thus the Civil Works Administration tries to avoid recognition of the workers’ elected jol committees, and unions of the workers’ own choice. and tries to outlaw strikes on C. W. A. projects for better conditions. . 8 ; but the Daily Worker has of widespread discrimination S, and against Negro and for- C. W. A. workers, in the face of these new rulings, should demand, strict enforcement of all rulings against discrimination especially against Negroes, for- eign born workers and non-citizens, and members of militant workers’ organizations in the giving out of jobs and while at work. Demand strict enforcement of the original fe scales for skilled and unskilled workers. Demand strict enforceme: of the thirty-hour week, with free tran: ation: mand to jobs, and time ng to work in “remote” places to be g time. Demand recognition of the C. W. A. workers’ elected job committees and the unions of the Civil Works Administration workers’ own choice. Demand the right to strike and organize for better conditions, Demand full workmen’s compensation on all jobs. Demand standard trade union wages and | Grau Regime Stirs working conditions for all skilled and semi-skilled workers. Demand registration and assignment of jobs to be controlled by elected committees of the workers themselves, A Different Anniversary HE forthcoming tenth anniversary of our Daily | Worker lights up most sharply the difference’ be- tween our revolutionary workingclass newspaper and the capitalist press. Anniversary editions of the capitalist press come out | crammed with greetings and congratulations from de- | partment store owners, politicians and leaders of the oppressing class. The contents in these special editi- tions, as in the every day issues, seek to intrench the system that pours luxury into the manors of the exploiters while the hungry millions trod the streets for jobs. In contrast, the January 6, 26-page edition of the | Daily Worker, of which a quarter million copies will be | printed, will contain greetings and congratulations from workers, farmers, trade unions and other workers’ or- Ganizations. It will contain more news of the struggles of the workers. It will contain specisl features, draw- | ings, photographs lighting up the Bolshevik road lead- ing the workers towards freedom from the galling misery of Capitalism. * be able to live ten years in face of great difficulties, to be able to print such an anniversary edition is | already a splendid revolutionary achievement. But to merely accept this achievement is not enough, cannot wholly justify your sacrifices that have built our Daily Worker, Central Organ of the Communist Party, U. S. A. into a powerful workingclass daily newspaper. This achievement must lead us to a still greater revolutionary triumph, namely, the ripping away of many workers from the enslaving capitalist press and adding them to our revolutionary ranks by interest- ing them In our Daily Worker. Our 26-page anniversary edition should and can be the start for gaining the much desired broad mass circulation for our “Daily.” We ask the workers, who are already readers of the Daily Worker, not to be satisfied with just reading and enjoying this splendid issue. We ask you all to help sow the revolutionary seed among the broad working masses by seeing to it that every copy of the 250,000 of this edition, reaches a worker's hands. See to it that your organization orders a bundle for sale among workers. Order several copies yourself to sell or give to your friends and fellow work- ers. Volunteer for Red Saturday and Sunday, January 6 and 7, on which day hundreds of other workers will canvass workers’ homes with the 26-page Daily Worker. lar appropriations, the navy is now | building 54 new warships. Congress will be asked to appropriate $516,000,- 900 for construction of 102 additional | warships. Other funds will also be appropriated or diverted from “relief” funds for an extensive replacement to replace existent warships rendered \ obsoletey ky= mew destructive inven- tions. Under Rooseyelt’s war plans, the present. personnel uf 79,000 enlisted | men in the U. S, Navy would be in-| jcreased to.-over 100,000, while the | strength of the marine corps would |also be increased to at least 20,000, | ‘The Washington government's plans | will greatly accelerate the navy race | now ragirig between the principal im- perialist powers. Great Britain recent- ly announced huge increases in its} fighting forces on the grounds that | | the U.S, was rushing naval construc- | | tion, All of the powers have used the | | War preparations of their rivals as a| pretext to further speed up their own | preparations, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1933 ROOSEVELT CULTURE NEWS ITEM:—Schools are closing down all over the country jor lack of funds. . has cpent one billion dollars for war preparations during his period in office. By Burek Aa le, » Pres. Roosevelt ‘British Promoting ‘Anti-U. 8. Block of Caribbean States NEW ing the efforts of U. S. imperialists | to utilize: the Pan-American Con- | anti-Soviet ference to freeze its British rivals out | Sunday of South “and Central America, the|an int memb: | British imperialists have succeeded in} whose attempts to lining up’ some 11 states in an anti-| overthrow of the U.S. bloe.- On the other hand, the} ment have heen |U. S. government succeeded in un-| trated. \dermining British influence in Ar-| | greatly sharpen the bitter rivalry of | Deterding, in U. S. and British imperialists for | Rothermere, British imperialist, and Russien whi | control of South American resources} German fascist and markets. This rivalry is already} guard leaders. | reflected in the bloody two-year war; The Armenian jin the Chaco between Bolivia and | whose members k Paraguay. | Membesr of the British block led th2) ly to the Ukrainian coun Both these grou! jattack at the Pan-American parley | tionists. on Washington's policy of arrmcd in-}are linked to |tervention in the internal and exter-| guards, who are |nal affairs.of the Caribbean coun-/ is ‘tries. Against the opposition of U. 8.| Desperate Because Secretary .of State Hull they fore through a resolution condemning |armed intervention, although Hull} succeeded in drawing its teeth with| 0°, x Ane | the aid of the Argentine, Chilean and | &S, country, have | Mexican delegations. This attack on |U. S. impovrialism, engineered by the | British, also occurred under pressure ‘of the anti-imperialist sentiments of jally and at home, | desperation. | fascists attempt to |itions here against YORK.—The Soviet demonstrations in | Chicago and Minneapo! MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 28.—Counter-/ fascists and the murder of the Ar- At the head of gentine and Chile. Thus the net ef-|onti-Soviet organization are |fect of the conference has been to/torious enemies of the U.S.S.R. led the Archbishop,| out at that time. ‘are linked ideologically and political- the | Hitler fascists and ed | The Soviet successes, ler and Japan to bring about im- mediate intervention (nto the work- {sections of the anti-Soviet ting to While the Ukrainian | nak, aker organization, be | the masses of the Caribbean countries | wes Gacceate ae hysterically drew moving forward into struggle against | jot; to kill Tourain. antl~? engin, forced the Russian white guards to hoki out a plea for the | “liberation” of the “enslaved” na- onelities ‘n the Soviet Union. Det- recent New York, s by Ukrainian menian Archbishop Leon Tourain by’ erding and Rethermere, and more re- of his church | centiy te acts Of | so Hitler, were instrumental in {serene this unity of the Soviet | © | enem: about the |“ rs’ Bik govern-| and Tashnak can be readily seen in| onct ly 4FUS-| ihe oficial organs of both parties. | Both organs claim the slain Arch- | tional | bishop was a “Soviet agent,” hiding } no- | behind church clothes. | enry | White Guard Meet In Beriin | Lord} In October of this year an all- md) Russian fascist council met in Ber- lin. Russians residing in the United | States were also represented. The} Party, | national policy was. finely worked | It took all the) | pressure of the Deterding and Hitler representatives, though, to bring} | about the promise of independence ito the minor nationality representa- | tives. There was @ near split, but the German fascists effectively poitited out the advantage of prom- ising autonomy. ‘The official organ of the Russian white guards here, “The Fascist,” published in Putnam, Conn., stated afterwards in its report of the con- ference that “for the sake of unity” u they accept autonomy. apap es Members Leaving Fascists the Soviet, Tash 3 2 ‘Throughout all these maneuvers many Russian workers and intellec- tuals who were formerly anti-Soviet, the inte! onal oil k Teshnak evolu- ef Soviet Success internation- the failure of Hit- driven the various \- The unity of the Ukrainian fascists | Wall Street exploitation. The British bloc is expected to in- clude Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Hon- | duras, Venezuela, Guatemala and | Santo Domingo, in addition to Para- guay and Peru, although it can be ex-/| pected that the U. 8. will make every | {effort to whip the wavering land-| lord-bourgeois cliques of most of these | | countries back into line. The united front of the Amuenian and Ukrainian groups with the Rus- sian white guards was brought about within the last two years. Before that time the white guard Russians refused to recognize the independence of Ukrainia and Armenia should the Soviets be overthrown. But the need for a more concerted attack on the Soviet which was continually gaining | guards distasteful to the extent of mainly because of the Soviet’s gran! ing freedom to the national min ties, find the about face of the white causing them to look to the Sovet Union. The desperate acts of the Ar- menian and Turkish groups have also caused great ferment among the) backward workers and they are leav-' Successful Growth of Soviet Union Forces ate Acts ing these organizations by the thou- sands. Throughout the world the anti-Soviet ring is finding each at- tack on the Soviet Union a boom erang against their own counter- revolutionary organization and against world imperialism. Foreign News Briefs | Japan to Set Up Puppet Chinese Emperor MUKDEN, Dec. 28.—Japanese im- perialists are reviving the plan to crown Henry Pu-Yi, Chinese head of the Japanese puppet state of Man- chukuo as emperor of Manchukuo, in an effort to rally all the reactionary ‘elements in China around the Man- chukuo state, Several of the leading militarists in North China have been bribed with money and promises of advancement under the “empire” into supporting the Japanese designs for extension of Manchukuo into North China, British Ban Italian in Malta Schools ROME, Dec. 28.—Italo-British im- perialist _ antagonism flared up sharply today, as a group of fascist deputies denounced the proposal of the British rulers of the island to abolish the teaching of Italian in the elementary schools. British Hit Tokyo Trade in India TOKYO, Dec. 28.—Negotiations in the tariff war between British India NANKING FORCES — DRIVEN BACK IN- | FUKIEN FIGHTING Chekiang Peasants in Threat to Rear of Chiang’s Army | SHANGHAI, Dec. 28—Imperialisy agents at Amoy, Fukien Province sea- port, have organized a fascist guard in the foreign settlement in prepara- | tion for direct armed intervention he mass anti-imperialist, ang upsurge occurring moy and other Kuomintang cities behind the -battle-lines of the .Gen- erals’ War and the Kuomintang Sixth Crusade against the Chinese Soviet | Republic. U.S., British and Japanese warships in the port have: trained | their guns on the proletarian quarters, The Pukien Province city of Tal- | Shun, near the Chekiang Province border, changed hands several times yesterday during flerce fighting be- | tween the Chinese Red Army and Nanking Kuomintang troops. The | severity of the fighting is attested by the arrival of thousands of wounded | Nanking soldiers at Hangchow, where | the meagre: hospital facilities are al- | ready overtaxed. | The Nanking rear is again threat- ; ened by Chekiang peasants who are conducting an effective guerilla war- | fare. in support of the Chinese Red | Army. | Further south, the Nanking forces | are being driven back by the: Nine- teenth Route Army. of the Fukien secessionist regime. The town of Chengho, near the Chekiang border, garrisoned by a battalion of the rich land owners “Peace Preservation | Corps,” is expected to fall soon. | The financial crisis In the Kuomin- tang territories is reaching panic pro- | portions with the tremendous drains | on the treasury for the annual crus | sades against the Chinese Soviet Ree public and the present rapidly spread- ing Generals’ War. Of the November revenues of $30,000,000 Mexican ($10,- | 236,000 U.S. at current rates), the Nanking regime used $27,000,000 for | military ‘purposes. This does not in- clude the large loans, like the U.S, cotton loan, by the imperialist powers to help finance the Sixth anti-Com- munist crusade. Educational funds, civil employees’ wages, etc., have been slashed repeatedly by the government. | Forty civilians were killed yesterday in another Nanking aerial bombing of Fukien cities, increasing the known total of civilians slaughtered by the Nanking regime to 95. Hundreds of other civilians were injured in the air raids. Chambers of Commerce and other organizations in Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces yesterday tele- graphed protests to the Nanking gov~ ernment. Active preparations are go- ing on in these provinces for parti- cipation in the civil war. and Japan hit another snag today, as the British masters of India im- / posed new duties on Japanese cot- ton exports to India. The new du- ties range as high as 190 per cent, and are aimed to drive Japanese trade out of Indie. ‘Honduras Prisoners Rout Guards TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, De 28—Inmates of the Santa Rost Copan prison overpowered their guards yesterday, broke out of the | prison and stormed the war arsenals for weapons, A fierce battle followed with the local police, with many killed and wounded on both sides. The prisoners then retreated to the hills. 2 “30 Per Cent Cubans in| All Jobs” Slogan Is Basis of Action HAVANA-—Of special interest to the readers of the revolutionary press everywhere and to the revolutionary movement as such, are the latest de- velopments of the committees for 80 | per cent Cuban employment, here. The past week saw a tremendous strengthening of this movement, On the 16th there took place a demon- stration in support of the government, | It was organized by the 80 per cent, 15 per cent and other such committees and about 25 thousands took part. On the 17th the leaders of the movement seized the issue of Ambassador Caf- frey’s arrival as an excuse to again rally a large demonstration, ‘This time the central slogans were “Cuba for the Cubans,” “No interven- tion and no interference in Cuba,” “Abolition of the Platt Amendment.” The city was plastered up with post- ers, Special trains were arranged from the interior. Military planes distribut- ed leaflets. It became evident at once that the government and its servants seized upon the anti-imperialist spirit of the masses and again tried to divert them from the path of militant strug- gle into peaceful channels, at the same time using it to win support for themselves. No less than 50,000 peo- ple took part. The bulk of the crowd was made up of those who are in- fluenced by the committees for 80 per cent employment, unemployed in the main, Besides these, there were also large numbers of office employees, especially from the public offices. It must be admitted that there was a great amount of enthusiasm on the part of the masses. Grau, Batista, and other goyernment leaders made dema- gogic speeches in which they called for the abolition of the Platt Amend- ment and-promised to fight for a free Cuba, Slow to Participate ‘The revolutionary movement did not immediately understand the im- portance. of this maneuver. Instead of calling upon the workers to take part, in the demonstration under revolu- tionary militant slogans, the Com- munist Party only mobilized its mem- bers to distribute leaflets, The Con- | Young Communist League and the) | Youth Department of the Confedere- | federation of Labor did not call upon | the workers to take part. Only the) tion issued posters calling upon young workers to take part and to demon- strate against Caffrey, against imper- jalist oppression and against the gov- ernment. Lett Student Organisation | The students did not take part in| the: demonstration, The Ala Izquierda followed the wrong track of keeping away, and: the rest of the students kept away because the ABC leaders ¢alled upon them to do so. However, even this demonstration, rallying as it did so many people, did not strengthen the government. In. the first place, because these masses have taken part in the whole moye- ment only because they’ want work and bread and freedom. The govern- ment cannot satisfy their demands and it is a matter of time when these workers will see that they have been betrayed. The masses of unemployed, misled for the moment, will fight for their demands as soon as they see that they are beinz fed phrases alone. Already today, ofi%7 3 days after the demonstration, the government had to suspend unemployed soup kitchen | the working class, the government rations for lack of funds (while it Olgin Writes on “Foreign Language Press” in Tenth Anniversary Edition Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of the Morning Freiheit, writes on the “For- eign Language Press” in the 26-page Tenth Anniversary Edition of the Daily Worker, which will appear January 6th. y In this article Olgin, a veteran revolutionary journalist and author, tells of the growth of the foreign-language Communist press and its rela- tion to the Daily Worker, America’s only working class daily newspaper in the English language. Olgin’s article is only one of a number of important articles on the press which’ will'appear in the anniversary edition. Others include “The Birth of the Modern Working Class Press in the U. 8.,” by James 8. Allen; “The World Communist Press,” by, Robert Hamilton; : “Why I Left the Capitalist Press,” ‘by Marguerite Young, and “The Américan Trade Union Press,” by Nathaniel Honig, Editor of “Labor Unity,” officia? organ of the Trade Union Unity League. Interest is so great in the forthcoming anniversary edition that it has become necessary to increase the number of pages from 24 to 26, spends 1,500,000 dollars for arma-| ment.) | However, there is also a second rea- | 7esular massacres against the Negroes. | son why this movement does not help to strengthen the government, The 80 per cent committees are in their} majority composed of Negroes. In order. to be able.tq split the ranks of | leaders have made a pact with the old Machadist Liberal Party politi- cians who still had some hold over large sections ‘ofNegro unemployed | workers*and over some Negro soldiers. These Negro workers who have been Neglected -by the revolutionary move- ment and. whose demands were not concretely fought for in the general) strike, are being utilized against the white foreign born workers today. Since the Spanish and other foreign bourgeoisie is linked with the native white bourgeoisie and the landlords, the ABC, particularly, representing a strong section of these, is spreading rumors everywhere that the Negroes are responsible for the troubles in the country, that the Negroes are carrying out the arrests, doing the killings, etc. ‘This propaganda is also used to cast the blame upon, the. Negroes and for winning the white workers to support the “white” politicians—represented by the ABC, There is an ever growing danger that if the ABC succeeds in taking power again, and that is nay jikely, that there will be organized Just today a leaflet was distributed throughout the city which said among other things the following: “Thousands of honorable Cuban ; citizens, who committed no other crime than the one of trying to save their fatherland from the disorder into which these bandits (the govern- ment) have thrown it, and as if this were not enough, as a slap to Cuban society, they have placed a Negro as chief of police, a Negro as military commander, a Negro as Chief of Staff and 90 per cent cf the new officials are Negroes. Long live the triumphant revolution jung Live the authentic revolutionists, and let us prepare to see pasted up on walls the famous posters “Negro, choose your white girl”. (Negro, busca tu blanca). ‘This leaflet of course is not signed, but its source is the ABC. Possibly this slogan of ‘choosing “your white girl’ is not very clear to readers in other countries, but here it has a tradition of race hatred and has served time and again as an excise to carry out massacres of Neg:ces especially in the Oriente Province While the government exerts fever- ish efforts to build itself some sort of support, it is sinking deeper and deeper into bankruptcy. The much heralded issue of 20,000,000 in silver and paper bank notes has not come through and although bids have been Race War Between Negro, White Workers Strikes in Sugar Mills Grow; Soon To Reach Critical Point course) 6.cents per hour. This means less than half of what the workers get now. At the same time the depart- ment of labor declares that the 8 hour day will not apply to the agricultural laborers and sugar workers, these will work 12 hours! While “thé> exploiters make these preparations, the workers on their own side prepare for battle, Already dozens of strikes are in. progress in the interior. Central Delicias, Mir- anda, Chaparra, Preston, Boston and many others are on strike against the non-fulfillment of ‘contracts, ‘The Zafra is expected to begin on the 15th of January. By then, nation-wide prep- arations for strike struggles will be going on and in many places strikes will be in effect. It should be remem- bered that the strikes during the past months have affected only a. | minority of sugar workers, that, gains were secured only by those working joraliay tage eek Take for example, Sugar Mabay—~ 150 work there during the and fall, but this rises to 3,000 during the harvest. The strike won for the 150, now will | fight of the others to secure the wages, or even higher. Thus it is to be expected that the strikes opened more than a week ago, so far not one banking concern has been willing to even consider the question. In the meantime wages are paid only for the first 10 days of December and there is already no money to pay the army and the navy for January. The only hope left (besides recognition the coming Zafra will assume & force the workers to from the U.S.A.) is the sugar harvest, | strik the Zafra, with increased taxation re- ceipts through the payment of taxes on property, sales, etc. The govern. ment girds itself for the fight dur- ing the harvest. It already promises all support to the plantation owners, sends troops to the interior and breaks strikes right and left. But the most pernicious attack is made against the victories gained by the workers in the strikes of the past months when wages rose from 40 cents to 1 peso a day in the sugar mills. Now the government Bixteen of these pages will appear in magazine-supplement form. decrees that wages shall be the mini- mum (that is always the maximum, of The Zafra also will have an effect in weakening the hold of the leaders of the 80 per cent over their f since those working in sugar mills come into closer contact with the reve olutionary workers and will take \ in revolutionary struggle, But does not mean that the Communists and the revolutionary trade unions should abandon these workers hoping automatically for the future; on the contrary, it presupposes more inten- sive work atong them against the , leaders and for immediate unem- ployed demané~ i