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Page S) Daily,QWorker KARTRAL OOGAN COMMONITT PARTY BSA (SECTION OF COMMEEINET MeTYRRaTORES) “Amevice’s Only Working Cings Dolly Newspaper” FOUNDED lisse lished Gaily. euvept Sunday, by the ee Inc., 50 Best 12% Street, Mew York, one: ALgonguin +-7068. able Address: "Detwort,” New You, & KH 3 ington Bureau: Room 4 Metonst Stes: SusRiiag, and . 9. Washington, D. ©. rabeertption Raseme last exespt Manhatten and Brena}, § oe onths, 99.80; $ months, $2.00; 1 month, 3 . Foreign and Comndec 1 menthe $8.68, m= oe THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934 Betrayal in Anthracite NTHRACITE miners who left the U.M.W.A. because they were sick and tired of Lewis’s strikebreaking got a sample Tuesday of what little difference there is between their present leaders, Maloney and Capel- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934 of cheap, compulsory labor. They make it easy for the government to militarise these workers and train them &S & reserve army for war. At the same time, the C. ©. C. camps are being | widely extended. Assistant Secretary of War Wood- Ting admits that the C. C. C. camps have already supplied the government with a reserve army “in case of war.” These are to be extended to affect a total of close to a million men. The youth in the C. C. C. camps get army pay of one dofiar a day, $25 of which is every month turned over to their families, who have been removed from relief lists. Woodring speaks of the plan of the Roosevelt Gov- exnment to inaugurate vast “Civilian Labor Camps,” where all single unemployed workers are to be put under the military discipline of the army. Woodring claims that the National Emergency Act, adopted dur- ing the world war, gives the government authority to enforce this militarized forced labor. He says that the plan is a part of the army mobilization plans. ‘The national convention against Unemployment, convening in Washington, D. C., on Feb. 4, 4 and 5, will discuss this problem as well as the organization of | the workers on C. W. A. projects. The attempt to ex- lini, and the ones they thought they got rid of when | they joined the United Anthracite Miners of Penn- | aylyania. Tuesday a convention of this union was heli in Wilkes-Barre. The miners had only one thought — strike! They had been bulldozed and stalled off on Promises of negotiations around wages and conditions by the National Labor Board. Priest and press were hauled into the convention time and again to get the miners to see what a glorious man Roosevelt was and What an inspiring thing the N.R.A. was. But the miners wanted none of %. They want action on their demands. Monday, when Thomas Maloney, president of the union, saw that he could not stop a strike vote, he ap- Pealed to the men to wait until they heard from N.R.A. Tepresentatives. After listening to a whole row of fakers, including Monsignor Curran and Major Moore of the N-R.A. who helped break the Utah coal strike, and a list of others, the miners still could not be swayed. In order to stall off the strike and give the coal Operators time to prepare to act against the miners, Maloney was able to push through a resolution declar- ing that the miners would wait until January 13 for the National sLabor Board to act. If by that time no action was forthcoming, they would strike on Janu- ary 15. ‘HIS TRICKERY presents the anthracite miners with the fact that their leaders and their union under Such leadership is not one whit different than Lewis and his strikebreaking gang running the U.M.W.A. The miners are being turned over to the National Labor Board for the same type of betrayal Lewis handed the Fayette County miners. And the anthracite miners can expect no different treatment from the National Labor Board than the Weirton Steel workers, or the Budd and Philadelphia taxe drivers got. As the situation now stands, the officials of the United’ Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania turn the fate of the miners over to the National Labor Board (that is, in this case, directly to John L. Lewis). Mean- while, the operators are tipped off and can prepare to meet, the miners to the disadvantage of the men. Such shameless betrayals are piling up more and my: each day in the U.M.W.A, as well as in the 2. ene in the ranks of the Progressive Miners Of 1.1018 'VERY ON#H of the actions of the fakers in the vari- ous miners’ unions run by Lewis, Maloney, or Pear- cey, confirms the estimation made by the Communist Party leaders active in the mine fields, and published in the Daily Worker recently as the “Communist Pro- gram of Action in the Mine Fields.” That program pointed out that though the an- thracite miners broke away from the U.M.W.A. be- cause they realized the strikebreaking role of Lewis, their present leadership was basically no different. ‘The main goal, the Program pointed out, was for ail Communists in the coal flelds to penetrate all of these unions and tg work for their unification into one national militant union of all miners freed from its strikebreaking officials. On January 23 the U.M.W.A. International Con- vention opens in Indianapolis, and there is already Sufficient news from all fields that Lewis will have to face an aroused rank and file calling him to account for his past strikebreaking deeds and demanding ac- tion for the miners in the future. Tt TIME is short for organizing the rank and file opposition delegates to this convention, but # must be done from now on at top speed. Tt is well here to emphasize again and stress the basic point of the “Communist Program of Action in the coal fields,” which declared: “The Communists must, on the basis of the development of the oppositions within the reformist _miners unions, on the basis of strengthening and “building the base of the N.M.U. among the unor- ganized, and its influence among the miners gener- ally, lay the basi for the fight for one national mlli- fant miners union, We must reject the theory that only through the U. M. W. A. can the miners form “one organization. The tens of thousands of miners who are organized in the various other unions do not wish to return to the domination of Lewis. To do so would be 2 big step backwards and a betrayal of the interests of the miners. Nor can any of the other _Teformist unions lay claim to being or being able to become, the wnited union of the miners. Even if this would be possible it would not be progress for the “miners to be united under Peareey or Cappetini any _ more than under Lewis.” _- In the anthracite as well as in the bituminous field we have the task of exposing the strikebreaking of the Capellinis, Maioneys, Lewises and Pearceys, . the central issue of supporting the operators slave and the strikebreaking National Labor Board is not the slightest difference between these - Anthracite miners, don’t let Capellini and Maloney pre e a great betrayal for January 15. Organize for tebe sttion by uniting the ranks of all anthracite (miners regardless of organization. ety nr enema ae a _ Militarizing the Jobless 3 Scheme has already been put into operation * by Roosevelt, which imposes forced labor on another section of the unemployed workers of this coun- On Jan. 1 began the rounding up of all home- 7 ployed, of all workers traveling on freights or “Transient” (forced labor) camps are peration and this month they are to be tend ed. These forced labor camps, which are on the homeless unemployed under threat of mces, pay a few cents a week wages. They homeless unemployed, many of whom are looking for work. They set up a new supply tend forced labor and militarize the unemployed raises sharply the demand of the unemployed for the enact- ment of the Workers Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill—the central problem around which the convention is called, FIGHT AGAINST ROOSEVELT FORCED LABOR CAMPS. Demand the enactment by Congress—now meet- iIng—of the WORKERS UNEMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL. Organizing the Next War ROR ace Srey seers the: Cenee aay about his eternal love and devotion to the cause of world peace. But nothing could present a grimmer contrast to this official Rooseveltian pacifism than several news items which appear in today’s papers. Roosevelt's whip in the House, Democratic Speaker Rainey, in answer to a query from the Daily Worker Washington correspondent regarding the extent of Roosevelt's war building, declared yesterday: “The whole world is preparing for war. Nobody wants it, but everybody is preparing for it. And the world always gets what it prepares for.” And at the present Congress, the huge Naval ma- chine will ask (and probably get) another $516,000,000 on top of the $271,658,000 it has already been granted from the “public works fund” (in addition to the regu- Jar $350,000,000 from the regular budget). At the same time, Mussolini's committee on the budget stated quite bluntly yesterday: “During the useless discussions at Geneva the three major naval powers diligently worked to add new warships to their fleets. “Almost all nations are preparing for the expita- ton of the present treaties with anything but in- tentions that would favor world peace.” ‘These words are an excellent description of what | goes on at the much-touted “disarmament confer- ences.” Soo Communist Party has al- ways proclaimed, that the “disarmament confer- ences” of Roosevelt are nothing but places where each imperialist power tries to beat down the military and naval strength of its rivals, the better to increase its own! And in this game, the Roosevelt government has played an exceedingly aggressive role. The Roose- velt government has launched a true Wilsonian flood of pacifist piety—while its preparations for war out- top anything that has ever been seen in this country! It is not only in the record construction of war- ships that the Roosevelt government bares its war plans. The whole N.R.A. program of Roosevelt, with its trustification of Wall Street industry, its centraliza- tion of the country’s munitions and heavy industry, its practical militarization of the railroads through a Federal “Co-ordinator,” its steps toward the unifica- tion of the telegraph, telephone and radio systems, all point to a huge, comprehensive drive toward imperial- ist war. There can be no question that the imperialist rulers of America and the other powers are preparing to send the millions of starving, exploited workers to butcher one another in the battlefields of another world war. There can be no doubt but that the advance of the world crisis of capitalism is aggravating to the burst- ing point the flerce imperialist fight for markets, a fight that leads inexorably toward war, a war in which the masses will experience frightful suffering to pro- vide new profits for the capitalist rulers. Scie eee re THESE ceaseless moves toward war, the Soviet Union stands alone as the sole bulwark of peace. It alone offers to the imperialist nations the proposal for the immediate scrapping of all armies and navies! It alone has no wish for one inch of foreign soil, or the slightest “influence” in the colonial world of Africa, China, ete. ‘The masses do not want war. It is they who pay for it in bloody and terrible sacrifices. Against the Wall Street organization for the coming war, we, the toiling masses, with the Commu- nist Party at the head, must relentlessly oppose our anti-war organization. Every war move of the Roose- velt government must be exposed: before the workers in the factories, shops, unions. Every subtle lie of the capitalist press as to how war “will bring back pros- Perity” must be patiently and thoroughly analyzed and torn to pieces. All the war propaganda about the “danger of attack” from other countries must be ex- amined and explained to the workers everywhere, pointing out how, who attacks and just what Wall Street profits the workers in this country are called on to “defend.” ‘The whole Leninist tactic of struggle against war, of the stopping of munitions’ shipments, of the turning of imperialist war into class civil war for the over- throw of the capitalist war makers, must become the subject of discussion and organization in the Party units, and mass organizations. The Resolution on War passed by the Sixth Con- gress of the Communist International in 1928 must be given the widest distribution and study. It is the basis of our whole anti-war struggles. Above all, the United Front must become a power- ful weapon in the hands of the Party members for the drawing in of A. F. of L. workers, Socialist Party workers, pacifists, professionals, intellectuals, etc., into a broad organized struggle against the Roosevelt war preparations, against the Wall Street plans to hurl the American masses into bloody slaughter to defend the profits and investments of Wall Street. The defense of the Soviet Union as the world's most powerful bulwark of peace, as the only true fighter for disarmament, is part of our anti-war fight. Against imperialist war! For the defense of the Soviet Union! Stop war shipments! For United Front struggles against the shipment of munitions, against war preparations! CORRECTION A typographical error appeared in yesterday's editorial in this column entitled “A Capitalist Con- gress.” One section of the editorial referred to “10,000,000. jobless workers.” This should have read 17,000,000 jobless workers piey Advancing Toward | Kwangtung Prov. Gen. Lui Driven Back | From Peiping Gates |. in North China War SHANGHAI, Jan. 3—A Chinese Red Army is reported advancing through) Pukien Province, adjoining the Cen-| tral Soviet District in Kiangsi Pro-| vince, toward the borders of Kwang-| tung Province, stronghold of the Can-| ton warlords. The British gunboat Cornflower has been ordered to Amoy, southern Fukien seaport, which lies in| the path of the advancing Red Army | and has been the scene of recent} mass demonstrations in sympathy} with the Chinese Soviet Republic, Unconfirmed Nanking reports! claim the capture yesterday from Red | Army forces of the town of Sun-j chang on the Fukien-Chekiang front. | It is known that the town has/ changed hands several times in the| fierce fighting now in progress on that front. Further west on the Fukien-| Chekiang borders, a decisive battle is} anticipated betwee. the 19th Route} Army of the Fukien secessionist re- gime and Nanking troops. In North China, to which the Gen- erals’ War has spread, the Japanese puppet, Gen. Liu Kwei-tang and his Eastern Asia Army of Peace and Harmony, suffered several reverses yesterday in fighting with Nanking} troops. Gen Liu’s army has been} temporarily’ thrown back from the gates of Peiping. The Japanese had utilized Liu’s ad- vance on Peiping to prepare for a new invasion of North China, threatening to send a punitive expedition to en- force “order.” The Japanese-inspired revolt led by Gen. Liu was aimed to prepare the way for wresting Chihli province and Inner Monglia from China and to include these areas in the Japanese puppet state of Man- chukuo, thereby extending the Jap- anese base for armed intervention against the Soviet Union and the People’s Mongolian Government, which is friendly to the Soviet Union, This plan for the further dismem- berment, of China was aimed to coin- cide with the setting up of Henry Pu-yi, former “Boy Emperor” of China and present president of Man- chukuo, as emperor of an enlarged Manchukuo. Pu-yi’s coronation is now set by the Japanese for January 15. U.S, Britain Hit Nazi Plan To Cut Interest Payments WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—The U. S. Government joined Breat Britain yesterday in protesting to Nazi Ger- many against its decision to reduce by 30 per cent its interest payments on foreign loans. Private U. S, in- vestments, totalling around one bil- lion dollars, in German industries and governmental divisions are in- volved. The Washington government charges the German government with deliberately depreciating German bonds, even below the levels caused by the crisis, in order to re-purchase American-held German securities at bargain prices. In addition to reducing interest payments by 30 per cent, the Nazi government plans to pay the remain- ing 70 per cent interest in scrip re- deemable at half its value. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, in announcing the cut in interest de- clared it was made necessary by the decline in German exports, which has been rapid since the Nazis came into power. During the last six months, Germany has been making transfer of only 50 per cent of its interest pay- ments. How Union Union Names Work- ers Who Are to Get Bonuses By VERN SMITH Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By Mail). —In the Soviet Union the factory produces for the working masses of the country, not for a boss. There- fore it is no corporation, no capi- talist, no owner, but the working masses and nobody else who profit by increased production. More prod- ucts means not an industrial orisis as in a capitalist country, but higher wages, higher living standards, more and better houses, more schools, the- atres and more extensive cultural life generally, At the time when most of the fac- tories of western Europe and America are shut down, when the Roosevelt government establishes codes to still further limit production, when Wash- ington makes laws to plow under the crops and to drown little pigs in the rivers—the entire complex net- work of Soviet life, all its organiza- tions and most of the individuals tn them, are straining every effort to increase production of everything. A Soviet Collective Agreement ‘That is why, for example, the col- lective agreement between the ad- ministration (management) of the First State Ball Bearing Factory here in Moscow, and “the workers, en- gineers, technicians and office work- ers (of the factory) being represented by the. Factory Committee of the Construction Union of General Machinery,” starts out in a way that simply couldn’t be in a capital- ist country. The urion is here, as a good union should be elsewhere, the workers’ basic and most general form of or- ganization. It takes in everybody without respect to age, sex, color, creed, nationality or political opinion, so long as he is a worker in the mill and isn’t actually betraying the rest of the working class. It is a voluntary dues-supported organiza- Chinese R ed Army The Flea Circus Comes to Town! By Burek'! Foreign News Briefs ae Mexico Makes Payment On Warships MEXICO CITY, Jan. 3—The Mex- ican Government transferred $560,000 today to Spain, in part payment for 15 warships under construction in Spanish shipyards. The total bill is $4,480,000. All of the ships are to be delivered this year. British Cruiser at Montevideo MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 3. The British cruiser “Exeter” arrized here today. It’s arrival significantly coin- cides with uprisings and anti-govern- ment plots in several South American countries, refiecting the sharpened rivalry of British and U. S. imperial- ists since the Montevideo Conference, as well as increasing discontent among the industrial and agricul- tural workers and petty bourgeois masses as a result of the severe agrarian crisis. 16 Executed in Afghan King’s Murder . DELHI, India, Jan. 2—Sixteen ex- ecutions and two sentences of life im- prisonment have been the result thus far of the jnvestigation of the cons- piracy in the recent assassination of King Nadir Shah at Kabul, Afgha- nistan, Costa Rica Flouts Washington SAN SALVADOR, Jan. 3. — The goverment of Costa Rica has rec- ognized the El Salvador Govern- ment of Gen. Maximiliano Hernan- dez Martinez, in defiance of the Washington Government’s ban on the Martinez regime, which came into power with the aid of the British rivals of U. S. tmperialism. Costa Rica is believed to be sup- porting an anti-U. S. bloc of Carib- bean states, organized by the British, as an answer to the Montevideo Conference, sponsored by U. S. im- perialism. Paris Brokers’ Clerks In Protest Strike PARIS, Jan. 3. — Clerks in Paris brokers establishments joined the rapidly spreading strike movement today, carrying out a fifteen-minute strike in protest against recent firing of their fellows. With the rapid deepening of the financial crisis, which took on panic proportions a few weeks ago, French employers have been carrying through wholesale lay-offs, reflected in the tremendous rise in unemploy- ment during the past month, Soviet Spot Payment of Interest NEW YORK—Interest was prompt- ly paid yesterday on the ten million gold ruble Soviet 7 per cent ten-year bonds at the Chase National Bank, paying agent. Payment was made (n U. S. currency .at the prevailing rate of exchange. Fire Destroys Private Art Gallery OTTAWA, Oni., Jan. 2—Fire de- stroyed paintings valued at $100,000 in the home of John Gleeson, wealthy paving contractor here today. He had been twenty years collecting them. Most valuable of the paintings lost was the “Angels Choir” by Sir An- thony Van Dyck, Flemish peinter, reputed to be worth $50,000. Among others lost were one by Corot, three by Gustave Courbet, and two by Joseph Israels. Peru Abolishes Municipal Elections LIMA, Peru, Jan. 3—Town mayors and councillors throughout Peru re- signed on Sunday, and were replaced by appointees by the president under a. new law. concentrating power in the hands of the president and abol- ishing municipal elections, thus cur- tailing the franchise rights of the masses. 150 Miners Caught in Mine Crash PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Jan. 3. —A hundred and fifty miners were entombed when the bracings on a shaft crashed and trapped them. It was feared many were dead. Military Road To Link Bagdad and Haifa HAIFA, Jerusalem, Jan. 2.—Fear by British financiers that a projected desert railway from Bagdad to Haifa would not bring in profits quickly enough has Jed to the abandonment of the project. The military needs of imperialism are to be served, how- ever, by construction of a paved mili- tary road between the two points. DISTRICTS! CHECK UP! All Districts, check up on orders sent by your units and Sections for the anniversary edition to avoid) duplications in your main order. Italy Announces New Naval Budget Stresses Armament Race for New War ROME, Jan. 3.—The Italian fascist dictatorship revealed its plans today for a naval budget of 98,131,000 lires (currently $8,194,673) for 1934-35, to supplement present huge scale naval construction. Marquis Giacomo Medici del Vas- cello, reporting for Mussolini, cited U. S., British and Japanese naval construction as proof of the increas- ingly frantic naval armaments race in preparation for a new World War. He admitted, in effect; that Italy had entered the race, while attacking the Policies of the three major naval pow- ers, declaring that these policies “will have certain repercussions which can be foreseen in the near future in world events. Almost all nations are preparing for the expiration of the treaties with anything but intentions that would favor world peace.” He admitted that the various naval pacts had had no effect on the cur- tailment of the race for armaments, laying stress particularly on the naval rivalry between the U. 8S. and Japan. He characterized the Geneva “dis- armament” discussions as “useless.” While Italy’s war preparations are directed primarily against France and its vassal state of Jugo-Slavia, Mussolini’s spokesman directed his sharpest attack against Japan, rais- ing the “yellow peril” nonsense in an attempt to win support of the Italian masses for the fascist war prepara- tions, Japan’s robber war against China was covered up, and Japan’s inva- ston of China presented as “inspired by race hatred,” which, tomorrow might “threaten the white race,” Phila. Pen & Hammer Orders 100 Copies of Anniversary Number PHILADELPHIA, Pa,—The Pen and Hammer Club of this city placed an initial order for 100 copies of the 28-page, tenth anniversary edition of | the Daily Worker. Copies will be distributed among the students in the classes conducted by this organization. There is great likelihood that. this order will be increased before the issue comes off the press on Jan. 6. Agreements tion, and practically everybody be- longs to it. There are many advan- tages in being a union member, in- surance, etc. Article I of this year’s agreement between that union and the manage- ment of the First State Bail Bear- ing Factory, reads: “This agreement has, as its main task, the realization of the decisions of the January Plenum of the Cen- ‘tral Committee and Central Con- trol Committee of the Communist Party, the Six Points of Comrade Stalin, and the decisions of the Ninth Congress of Trade Unions: to secure the successful fulfillment of the production of the mill in 1933, the first year of the second Fiye Year Plan, and on this base to further improve the material and cultural living conditions of the workers, engineers, technicians and office workers of the mill. “For the realization of these tasks, the administration, the fac- tory trade union committee, the workers, engineers, technicians and office workers, take upon themselves an obligation, by means of streng- thening of proictarian workers’ discipline, further development of socialist forms of labor (which are secialist competition, shock brig- ades, counter industrial plan, cost accounting brigades) and also on the basis of the mastery of tech- nique and of the projected capacity of equipment, to secure the un- eonditicnal fulfillment of qualiia- tive and quantitative indices of the plan, which are as follows:” ‘Then follow proposals to produce about four times as many bearings in 1933 as in 1932. There follow also scales of basic wages, hours of work, regulations about the living conditions of the workers, about the sums set aside to assure them a regular supply of articles of general use, food, clothing, etc. at stores right near the factory; regulations about the factory's financial contri- bution to the health, education, social life, social insurance, general culture and amusement of the workers and their children, and so on and so on Are Signed in the l USSR —matters I want to take up in other articles. How Production is Raised But here we can notice some fur- ther provisions for increasing produc- tion—that basic thing on which. in the final analysis all this food and culture and education and so on will depend. The collective agreement states: “The productivity of labor must be raised by 51.2 per cent through: rationalization (2 per cent); better use of working day and decrease of absenteeism (2.7 per cent); less machine idleness (3 per cent); in- creased piece work (15.2 per cent); more intensive labor (5 per cent) and other measures.” Tt also declares: “Lowering of cost of production by 32.4 per cent must be secured by: growth of productivity of labor (3.06 per cent); rationaliza- tion measures (1.5 per cent); cut in non-productive expenses (27.3 per cent).” Then the collective agreement it- self outlines a plan for specific con- crete separate agreements in each shop, with a program of work for each shop for each quarter year, diviced into monthly periods. The exact date these shop plans are to be submitted by the administration to the workers and their brigades in each shop are carefully set. These are production and financial plans, and the voluntary organizations of workers, the brigades, pledged to carry through such plans, will dis- cuss them and devise ways and means of getting the job done. ‘The idea of personal responsibility for the job which prevails in the administration of the factory extends to individual workers. The collec- tive agreement states a whole series of measures the administration must perform, “to evade depersonaliza- tion.” Among them are these: “To attach each worker definitely to cer- tain shifts, certain working benches or machines, and certain equipment | parti and instruments.” This direct con- nection of the man and the machine, Factory Agrees to Give Skilled Work to Udarniks repair workers, who are “attached each to a certain group of machines.” Then come bonuses. A whole sec- tion of the wage fund is in the form of bonuses. The collective agreement provides that out of these funds shall be given premiums to the best udarniks (shock workers who have taken special to- wards productivity), the best brigades, the best engineers and foremen, etc. Premiums can be given to whole de- partments which do good work. Bui even in this socialist factory, where the management is proletarian too, and even Communist, the pay- ment of bonuses is not left just to the management. The agreement provides: “Candidates for premiums will be put up by trade union and administration (management) and by production conferences. They will be discussed at meetings by depart- ments, and by conferences and will be sanctioned by the administration. The whole shop takes part in the awarding of bonuses, and many are the lessons drawn from the discus- sion. All his immediate shop mates know just why so-and-so got a bonus, and how they can -do the same. Awarding bonuses is not only an incentive to more production, but an education in the ‘science of production and in conscientious at- titude to work.” Not only are bonuses paid, but ‘Promotions follow the acquiring of skill. The contract states: “The ad- ministraiton takes the obligation to promote to vacant and more skilled jobs the and office workers who uated from tech- nical courses, and other workers who which lets him learn its peculiarities, | skilled work’ and also face the results of his good or bad care of it, extends even to The imperialist character of | Petty: U. S. FLEET IN SECRET WAR GAME IN THE PACIFIC U. S. Leads Britain i Battleship Race; 4 Cruisers Begun SAN PEDRO, Calif., Jan. 3—Under conditions of strictest wartime sec- recy, aU, S. fleet of 100 fighting ships steamed out into the Pacific teday for three days battle exercises, as U. 8. imperialism continues to sharpen its existent. weapons and rush new naval construction for war. The com- manders of ali the vessels had sealed orders as they left their bases here and at San Diego. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—The U. 8. Navy Iaid the keels for four addi- tional new warships at Fore River, Mass., today, under a program call- ing for immediate construction of eight warships at an estimated cost of $4,000,000 each. The Vincennes, one of the vessels on which construc- tion was begun today, will cost $11, 720,000, ‘and is the 17th heavy cruiser, constructed or begun, in a program of 18 heavy cruisers adopted by the Roosevelt administration. LONDON, Jan. 3.—Jane’s Fighting Ships,” 1933 edition, rated as the most complete and authoritative handbook of navies in the world, says that the U. S. navy has three ‘battleships ahead of Britain and declares the latest heavy cruisers constructed by the U. S. and Japan to be greatly superior to those of Britain, although Britain still maintains the lead in» numerical strength in this category. It shows the principal im- perialist powers possessing the fol~ Jowing craft, not including those now ; y under construction in the frantic naval race: U.S. Brit, Japan Franee Italy Battleships 15 —12s—ia Battle cruis’s .— 3 mw, pee 2) e'vy cruisers 10-1918 Cruisers. 10% MHD Aircraft car's 3 Tag oy Heal te Destroyers .188 138 107 78 @ Submarines 53 50 6910875 Mass Arrests in Chile and Uruguay InNewRevolt Plots MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 3.—With re- ports from Argentine indicating the rapid spread of the armed uprising Jed by the Irogyen party, two other South American governments today announced discovery of plots al- legedly aimed at their overthrow. ‘The Uruguayan government or- sergeants and 40 yer officers, 10 a charged with supporting a plot an uprising and aiding ct groups to obtain arms. Many soldiers and civilians have been arrested. - government claims to Carlos Thanez. It was supported, ae Le - ers. 8 “which signalized by rapid overthrow of various Chilean governments and the projection on the scene of the Chilean as an. independent force, under the leadership of the Chilean Commin- nist Party, in the increasingly bitter social and economic struggles grow- ing out. of the severe world capitalist crisis, which affects the semi-colonial South “American countries with par= | ‘a | Pletely returned to Federals is also four other provinces. Meantime hostilities are expected to be resumed by Jan. 6 in the two- year Chaco war between erin and Bolivia, while Colombia Peru are rushing preparations for war over the disputed Leticia region, The new round of wars and revo~ lutions in South America reflect the rising struggles of the impoverished work and peasants, as well as Ante inekican Te tremen- lously sharpened ie Maneuvers of U. S. imperialism in the recent Pan-American conference; and the growing split in the land- lord camps in the various countries, as th agrarian crisis inten- Win General Strike NEW YORK.— Porto Rican Iong- shoremen won a@ partial victory in thelr’ general strike, whit early in an ™ the past weeks. All strike had been pressed by the news American imperialism, and rine Workers’ Industrtal ceived, erst report of from “members of the cre yesterda He eee g a ai E his qi San scab on the striking longshoremen, Despite the tactics of the captain | ‘ntozviewin® the crew one at ® the engine room, deck officer refused to scab. our the men were receiving, settlement of certain The leadership settled increase and 45 cents an time. The Jongshoremen have work of a who have are the job against failure of strikers, 3