The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1934, Page 1

Write Us What You Think of the Anniversary Issue! Daily .QWorker ENTPAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER Vol. XI, No. 10<* Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of 5,000 Agricultural Workers in Imperial 4" Police Terror, Arrests, [ws As Region Is Tied Up by Agricultural W orkers EL CENTRO, Cal.,-Jan. 10. —Five thousand Mexican, Fili- pino and American agricultural workers in nine towns in the Imperial Valley came out on strike Monday, led by the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union. Picket lines were established in all towns on the first day of the strike. In Brawley virtual martial law was declared with no more than three workers permitted to walk together on the streets. Police raided the workers’ hall here and arrested a few workers, On the first day ten arrests, includ- ing the youth leader, Elaine Fuller, were made by police. in Brawley. to form a picket line, here but police attacked with tear gas. They confis- cated cars of hundreds of workers or put them out of commission. In El Centro, where headquarters have been opened, hundreds of work- | ers broke through a cordon of police and demonstrated. at the El Centro] County jail, shouting demands for the freedom of 20 strikers. Headquar- ters have also been opened in Calexico. The strike is effective, as is seen in the reduction of carloads of let- tuce to only 11 on Monday, whereas the usual day’s carload is 160. Cash is urgently needed as the re- lief situation is desperate. Workers are urged to send funds immediately to Workers Center, 852 8th St. San Diego, Cal, and to send protests against the terror to Governor Rolph, George Campbell, sheriff, Imperial County, Cal. Local,Federal Gov't, Despite this} more than 2,000 attended a meetins} REC Has Handed Out The workers attempted | Valley Out on Strike Roosevelt Will Review Navy in New York City; First Here Since 1918 WASHINTON, Jan. 10.—The first review of the naval forces at Ameri- ca’s metropolis since the war will take place during the month of June in the Hudson River at New York City, the Navy Department an- nounced today, The closeness of a new war is cm- phasized by the fact that President Roosevelt will personally review the battleships. The New York review of Wall Street's sea forces is the first there since December, 1918, when Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy in Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet, held a review upon the return of the fleet from the World War. Six Billions to Save Wall Street Profits Huge Funds Have Gone to Protect Capitalists from Losses WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The huge sum of $6,000,000,000 has been handed out by the R. F. C. in the 23 months of its existence. By far the. greatest bulk of these loans and subsidies taken from the Government Treasury have gone to banks, trust companies, mortgage companies, railroads, and farm banks. Only about 3 per cent-of the R. F. C. disbursements went to actual con- struction projects. This was the loans to communities for the repair of damaged buildings wrecked in earth- quakes, etc. Rarmer Misleaders = R. F. C. has asked Congress (all Strike Truce: trikers from Picketing CHICAGO, Jan. 10—In a des- perate effort to break the Chicago| milk strike, local and federal authori- ties have combined with misleaders of the farmers in a fake truce. Mayor Kelly of this city and Don N. Geyer, gencral manager of the Pure Milk Association, an organization comprising 132 farm organizations, swung the deal this afternoon at City Hall. No prices were stipulated in the “truce.” this being left to an arbitration board to be chosen later. Rooseyelt Gov't Threatens Farmers Roosevelt's federal postal officials are exerting pressure against the strikers, threatening to prosecute the farmers who stopped a milk train delivering scab milk Tuesday. The farmers are being reminded of the fact that Grover Cleveland sent federal troops to break the Pullman strike in 1894 when scab trains were stopped by the railroad workers. Farmers Don’t Accept Truce That the farmers are not accepting the truce is evident in the division of opinion existing among the farm leaders themselves. E. M. Krahl, publicity cirector of Pure Milk, de- nies that deliveries will be resumed, declaring that the statement to that effect was “premature.” Milk farmers are fighting for higher prices of milk and for the abolition-of the government milk code that guarantees the big dairy “monopolies a minimum price with- out at the same time fixing a mini- mum for the farmers. The union milk drivers are also fighting the ‘Wall Street-controlled monopolies for» better living conditions. The supply of delivered milk has been practically shut off, with the farmers distributing milk free to poor families and hospitals. In the Daily Worker Today by Left Wing Cloakmakers Storm Hall Froce I. L. G. W. U. Clique to Adjourn Meet, Page 3 Lewis Men Violate U. M. W. A. Constitutios yn. Page 4 Letters From Farmers and Agri- cultural Workers, “Party Life.” “Dr, Luttinger Advises.” “In the Home.” Page 5 “What a World!” by Michael Gold. “Just Hungry,” Short Story by Kermit. “Yale Students Unite Strikers, lent Si ‘a by Bill Macon. 5 Page 6. Editorials: Green—Police Proyo- cateur; Torrents of War Funds; ~ The F.S.U. Convention; Honor Memory of Murdered Julio Mello. Courts Enjoin Milk | extend its life for another three years, to 1937, implying that the Roosevelt government considers that the crisis “emergency” will continue to that time, and asks for another bil- lion dollars of capital, for further loans and subsidies to banks, etc. Some outstanding R. F. C. loans are as follows: to banks and trust companies, $1,853,062,000; to railroads for the payments of bond interest, loans to banks, etc., $411,845,000; to buy preferred stock from bankrupt banks, or banks with impaired capital, 5816,811,000; to buy the surplus farm goods from large distributors, $513,- 000,000; to building and loan associa- tions, $121,000,000; insurance com- panies, $100,000,000. Many Unpaid z All these huge loans have gone to protect the payments on mortgages, bonds, loans, etc., most of which are in the hands of Wall Street banks and investors. Of the $411,000,000 given to rail- roads, only $57,000,000 has been re- paid. ~ ‘The $85,000,000 loan to the Charles E. Dawes bank in Chicago has gone into default, The present Roosevelt R. F. C. Chairman, Jesses Jones, recently pro- cured $60,000,000 for his own bank in Oklahoma. Another Four Billion Alfred F. Smith, it is said, was instrumental in getting $35,000,000 for his friend’s, Fred H. French, real es- tate developments in New York City. In addition to these enormous sub- sidies to Wall Street finance, Roose- velt is planning to guarantee the principal and interest of another four billion dollar in mortgage bonds. Fight for unemployment insur- ance, Support the National Con- vention Against Unemployment on Feb. 3 in Washington, D. C. March 8, 1879. Lubbe Dies By Nazi Axe Execution Secret; Four Communists Are in Grave Danger LEIPZIG, Germany, Jan. 10. —Marius van der Lubbe, Nazi police agent and self-confessed firer of the Reichstag building, was suddenly executed at Leipzig prison this morning at 7:45. The hurried and unannounced execution was carried out with the greatest secrecy, with only Nazi of- ficials present as witnesses to insure that no last-minute statement van der Lubbe might have made, expos- ing Nazi complicity in the Reichstag firing, would reach the outside world. Although van der Lubbe was a Dutch not notified of the decision for his immediate execution. No Dutch offi- cials were present. A plea by Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, sent through the Dutch Minister, for commutation was ignored by the Nazis. The Leipzig court had ordered his immediate execution to prevent him from making any statement on his Nazi accomplices and employers in the Reichstag firing. News of the execution is being cen- sored, the Novi press being ordered to print merely the fact that he had been beheaded. The execution was wholly unexpected, as up to last night Nazi officials had indicated that the death sentence would be commuted. Despite the secrecy shrouding the execution, reports are current that yan der Lubbe was under the influ- ence of drugs, provided by his Nazi jailers, as during most. of the Reich- stag trial, throughout which he sat in a state or tornor broken only once, when he made the damaging admis- sion in answer to Dimitroff’s ruth- less questioning that he had been in conference with Nazi leaders the day before the Reichstag: burning. He is said to have faced his execu- tioners in the same state of stupor which marked his behavior in court. He was practically carried to the ‘Werner if he had any last words, he is reported to have mumbled “no.” execution were Prosecutor Werner, who had called for an adjournment of court the day when, under ques- Prosecutor Parisius, Chief Justice Wilhelm Bruenger of the Leipzig Supreme Court, three other members of the same court, the Leipzig Police Commissioner, a Nazi surgeon and the Nazi prison chaplain. 7 ee The secrecy with which the Nazis have executed van der Lubbe em- phasizes the danger of a secret lynch- ing facing the four Communist de- fendants who are still held in prison, despite the verdict of innocence wrested from the Nazi court by the world-wide protest movement. The world protest movement which won that verdict must intensify its efforts a hundredfold to force the safe release and departure from Ger- Under Drug citizen, the Dutch Ambassador was} scaffold. When asked by Prosecutor The only witnesses present at the tioning by Dimitroff, van der Lubbe | was revealing too much; Assistant | NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1934 Communist Intern’l || Resolution in 10-Page || “Daily” on Saturday “Europe has become a powder magazine which may explode at any moment. “British and American imperial- ists, availing themselves of the war alarm in Europe and the events in the Far East, are in- creasing their preparations for a decisive imperialist struggle for world hegemony in the Atlantic and in the Pacific.” —From the resolution adopted by the 13th Plenum of the Execu- tive Committee of the Communist International. The resolution en- titled “Fascism, the Danger of War and the Tasks of the Com- munist Parties,” will be published in full in the 10-page Datly Worker this Saturday, Jan. 13, George Dimitroff’s defiant speech before the Nazi court will be an added feature of the same issue. Do not miss these two historical features in Saturday's 10-page Daily Worker. Lindbergh Given $250.000 “Gift” by Airline Firm Testimony to Senate Shows P. O. Officials Shared Huge Spoils (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Evidence that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, the aviator, received a “gift” of $250,- 000 worth of Trans-Continental Air Transport stock in return for becom- ing associated with the company on a $10,000-a-year salary, was one of today’s sensations in the Senate in- vestigation of mail subsidy graft during the Hoover regime. One climax followed another, how- ) ever, as the Senate Committee piled on its record testimony showing how Post Office officials sat in on con- ferences of the biggest owners of aviation, the war industry, at which they divided the spoils of airmail sub- sidies among three mammoth holding companies and then set about devis- ing ways of accomplishing everything under a cloak of legality. Blast Lindbergh ‘Hero’ Illusion Colonel Lindbergh is, of coursé, the typical middle-class “hero” who has coat imperialist projects with “pa- triotism.” He has been called in. as “advisor” on accasions when it was for semothing—as, for example, when the Pan-American Union's Comtnis- sion investigating the imperialist Chaco dispute between Paraguay and Bolivia reached a deadlock and could not afford to have the impasse ad- vertised. Lindbergh is all the more useful in such a role because of the (Continued on Page 2) many of the four Communist lead- ers. Hold protest meetings! Deluge the Nazi Consulates with protests! Send cables to German Minister of the Interior Frick at Berlin! Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution and the world proletariat, died Jan. 21, 1924. In the Soviet Union a new society springs up—based on the teachings of Lenin. In eGrmany the heroic Com- munist Party uses the only effective weapon — Leninism—in the battle against fascism. Throughout the world the revolutionary masses strug- gle against imperialist war and for the final overthrow of capitalism— Jan. 20 Issue of Daily Worker To Be Lenin Memorial Edition guided by the teachings of Lenin. On Saturday, Jan. 20, the Daily Worker will publish a special Lenin Anniversary issue. The teachings of Lenin, with a special article on the application of Leninism to the United States, will feature the issue. To ensure wide distribution of this issue, organizations, unions and Com- munist Party units are urged to ar- range immediately for bundle orders. The anniversary edition of the Daily Worker will be a valuable document. By SEYMOUR WALDMAN Daily Worker Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The Red bogy story, based on the American Federation of Labor memoranda pre- sented by William Green, the Fed- eration head, to President Roosevelt last Nov. 10, which is published ex- clusively today in the New York Times is the Federation's first anti- i, labor attack since recogni- tion the Soviet Union by the United States. The Times was obtained from a twelve-page al of the pur- ported 178 page Communist “exhibit” which was written by Green. In addition to betng filled with vicious lies, distortions and crude innuendoes, the Green abstract comes out flat- footedly against the use of the strike by labor, thus bodly admitting its support of the National Recovery Ad- ministration’s strike. Policy. Rapaings Obviously, the publication of the Times, “A. F. of L. pictures activities pf reds," article was timed by Green incide with the holding today of the first Washington press conference of Alexander A. Troyanovsky, the Foreign News, Soviet Union's first Ambassador to the United States. been used by the war department to necessary to secure quick publicity Unemployed ‘Concention In Illinois State Convention Calls for Union of CWA Men, Demands Jobs for All DECATUR, Il., Jan. 10. — The Second State Convention of the Unemployed Councils, just held here, decided to im- mediately undertake a campaign to organize all unemployed and part- time workers to demand jobs or cash relief for all. It was decided to organize all unemployed already on C. W. A. and P. W. A. jobs into & Civic and Public Workers’ Union. The newly elected State Commit- tee, which met immediately after the convention, decided that 100 dele- gates should go from Illinois to the National Convention Against Unem- ployment, to be held in Washinton on Feb. 3, 4 and 5. Eighty-eight delevates, representing a total of 30,590 workers in unemployed organ- izations, fraternal organizations and trade unions, were present at the convention. War Funds to Jobless A resolution adopted at the con- vention, and forwarded to President Roosevelt and Congress, called for immediate cancellation of all war contracts and turning these funds over for public works and unem- ployment insurance. “We demand public works, not war works,” the resolution stated. Delegates at the convention de- scribed in stirring terms the miser- able conditions in the towns from which they came. In Cook County only one out of every nine registered has. been placed at work on C. W. A. projects; one out of every five is the average fcr the state. Necessity for organiza’. of C. W. A. workers was stresse Among the unemployed organiza- tions represented were the Unem- ployed Councils, Federation of Un- employed, Unemployed Leagues, Chi- cago Work Committee on Unemploy- ment, Everyman’s Forum. One United Mine Workers’ local was represented, two locals of the Progressive Miners and three women’s auxiliaries of the Progressive Miners. One C. W. A. union. was also represented. The Farmers’ Unemployed Organization also had delegates. Seventeen coun- ties and 33 cities were represented. State Legislature of Minnesota Kills Jobless 'nsurance Farm-Labor Legislators Lay Down; 5 Million Relief Won ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan, 11—The special session of the Minnesota State Legislature adjourned Saturday with- out acting on the most important piece of legislation before it, the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (House Bill No. 226), Two Farm- er-Labor representatives, Bennett and Youngdah], had made a demagogic gesture by introducing the bill at the demand of the Unemployed Councils. But they did not take one step to fight for it, so the bill died in committee wihou even a hearing being held on it. The bill cannot be acted upon be- fore the next session: of the Legisla- ture, in January, 1935. The other re- lief bills of the Unemployed Council were likewise not acted upon. They dealt with evictions, foreclosures, forced labor, concentration camps and cash relief. Five million dollars in direct and work relief was voted by the Legisla- ture. The distribution of this is Placed in the hands of the Farmer- WEATHER: Fair, warmer t si Alexander Troyanovsky (left), | States, being greeted upon his arrival in Washington by William C. Bullit, U. S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. | oh el eee | | | Soviet Ambassador to the United Republicans Launch Fight on Roosevelt Financial Policies Declare Budget Leads to “Uncontrolled” Inflation WASHINTON, Jan. 10.— The Roosevelt budget policies are coming in for increasing attack by the Re- publican members of Congress, who are organizing their forces for fur- ther attack. Senator Arthur H. Robinson, Re- publican (Indiana), declared that Roosevelt had either “misrepresented the facts” or had been ignorant of the situation when he presented his wudget message. He contrasted Roosevelt’s earlier statement that the budget was balanced with the pro- posed $7,000,000,000 deficit. Meanwhile, the Republican Na- tional Committee has issued a pam- phlet denouncing Roosevelt's finan- cial policies as leading “to uncon- trolled inflation.” Senator Robinson continued his at- tack by pointing out that Roosevelt, who inveighed against the “money changers,” had placed such people as Earle Bailiss of the Wall Street House of Seligman & Co. and William H. Woodin of the J. P. Morgan stock lists in high positions in the Treasury. FASCISTS ADMIT INCREASED UNEMPLOYMENT BERLIN, Jan. 10—Unemployment in Germany has increased by 350,000 during the past month, it was ad- mitted by ‘the fascist press today. Total unemployment, according to report, was 4,050,000. There is little doubt, however, that both these fig- ures have been “doctored” previous to their publication. Labor political machine. The state delegation of the Unemployed Coun- cils which appeared before the Legis- lature on Dec. 11 and 18, had de- manded an emergency appropriation of $5,000,000 for immediate winter re- Hef, to be administered by commit- tees of unemployed workers. The Minnesota unemployed delega- tion of twenty, elected to the National Unemployed Convention in Washing- ton, D. C., Feb. 3, will leave by truck from Minneapolis after a send-off mass meeting on Sunday night, Jan, 28, Dividends Saved by; REC. Action, Chase: ‘Nat'l Bank Admits| Roosevelt Government Bought $50,000,000 of Bank’s Stock | NEW YORK, Jan. 10—That tu |cent purchase of $50,000,000 of ferred stock by the R.F.C. from the Chase National Bank was an act of direct intervention for the benefit of the bank’s stockholders was re- vealed today at the meeting of the stockholders by Winthrop Aldrich, head of the bank. Aldrich, in answer to a query of a stockholder, declared that if the Roosevelt government had not grant- ed the bank the added $50,000,000 capital, then the necessary’ write- down in the bank's assets would have cut into surplus, and would have made dividend declarations illegal. The R.F.C. purchase thus permits the stockholders to continue to collect their dividends. ‘The Chase National is a Rocke- feller bank with large investments in Hitler’s Germany. It now holds $34,- 000,000 short term German_ loans, which its former head, Albert Wiggin, recently visited Hitler to protect. Wiggin was reported to have urged American support for the Fascist re- gime in Germany in order to protect Wall Street investments there. Andrei Belyi, Noted Soviet Writer, Dies MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Jan. 10.— Andrei Belyi, prominent Soviet writer, died here today. A member of the symbolist school, he had a decisive influence on the trend of modern Soviet literature. He was the author of 47 works. Andrei Belyi was widely known both as poet and as noveilst. His memoirs, published at the end of the 19th century, are among the best in the Russian language. iHs influence is to be seen today in the work of hundreds of younger writers, par- ticularly in the works of Boris Pil- niak and Zesely. Green in Provocative Secret Memorandum to Roosevelt Based on Lies Calls for Outlawing Workers’ Organizations and for Anti-Labor Police the racketeer Matthew Woll (third vice-president of the A. F. of L.), one of the A. F. of L. publicity men and a former editor of the Socialist Party New York Call, did the actual dirty work for Green. Hailed by the Times subhead as “Green’s plea for Soviet pledge against propaganda here,” the Green vituperations appear in the abstract as “Labor's evidence of Communist subversive activities in the United States.” Therein the A. F. of L. rulers not only invent lies about Ktemiin gold, Communist terrorist activities, the Trade Union Unity League “Se- cret Service,” the Red Army, the Communist Party’s “destruction of all things American,” the Daily Worker, gangsterism concerning which the A. F. of L. is indeed an authority from its long use of thugs in the fur and other industries, the operation in the United States of the death sentence by the Ogpu, and other vituperative and riduculous rantings but also offer things as red scares which the Communist Party has never made a secret of — nemely that it is a revolutionary pag of the class. ‘Wild Inventions After blithely and falsely linking the Liberal and Pacifist American Civil Liberties Union with the Com- munist International, the A. F. of L. Mars actually state that the C. I. W Roosevelt is deliberately aimed rank and file in the A. F. of L. NRA, Communist Party. against it. service for the bosses’ stool pigeons. We invite workers in the A. F. action and the sentiment of their fellow members against Green's flunkey “promotes” terrorism “not stopping at assassination, wholesale and individ- ual, as evidenced in industrial dis- Spike the Rat-Like Action of Mr. Green! GREEN'S provocative memorandum submitted to President at destroying the militancy of the Acting like a boss spy, using all the lying and filthy distortion he is capable of, Green appeals for federal police to be used against the trade unions, against strikes, and to bolster up the anti-labor action of the William Green, acting for the bureaucracy of the A. F. of L., respon- sible for lowering the American workers’ living standard through the N.R.A., now wants to destroy every militant workingclass organization. He particularly wants to annihilate the vanguard of the workingclass, the Green's deed should meet immediate action in all trade unions. We urge the rank and file in the A. F. of L. to repudiate Mr. Green’s Provocateur and boss spy memorandum. Resolutions should be passed of L. to come to us and report the Spike this rat-like action of Mr. Green! tricts where wage-earners and their families have already suffered in- tolerable misery through strikes and battles brought on by Communist agitators.” William Randolph Hearst would be hard put to it to equal the wild in- vention of the Ogpu “secret tribunal, spread throughout the world” which “4s empowered to pass the death sen- tence and execute it here and in foreing lands,” and not only that, but its expenses, according to a certain “former member” Bessedovski, run near “$50,000,000 per year.” The A. F. of L.’s “Evidence” ‘The bonus and hunger marchers were dastardly plans, say the A. FP. of L. bureaucrats, “designed for Mli- tary training, gradually, leading up to an armed insurrection.” “Arms are not to be supplied until after civil war has been started. The methods employed in preliminary street battles involve the use of handy bricks, knives, lead pipe, clubs and guns taken from the police. Fistory shows that these orders have bi literally carried out in our count Tust what “history,” or what his au- rity is for this palpable fraud, Green does not say. Green not only has “history” in his vest pocket but also “evidence,” “evidence accumulated by the A. F. of L.,” says Billy Green, “shows the existence of a criminal group under Communist control comprising a skeleton terrorist force, trained, in- structed and ready for expansion on short notice.” Green offers this trash in face of world-wide knowledge that the Communist Party is a mass Party for mass action, which ts opposed to individual terrorist tactics. Lenin Slandered Lenin comes in for his share of A. F. of L. slander, “Lenin advocated disruption of trade unions through unmoral practices, using strike relief funds for Communist political pur- poses and attacking and discrediting Officials of the A. F. of L., seeking to link it to capitalism. This policy has been carried out.” Green, the very man who signed the screaming capitalist Anti-Labor Automobile code talks about “linking” his outfit for capitalism. ‘The laughable yarn about Kremlin geld is revived for the time, but this time, ‘ét would require the best oper- ations of a United States secret ser ice, nox non-existent, to discover the methods used and trace the disposi- tion of such funds.” and we don't (Six Pages) | the same, but the means |@ renorter asked Trovant Price 3 Cents Troyanovsky, Soviet Envoy, Affirms Desire for World Peace, In Fir = U. S. S.S.R.-U. S. A. Pe Sarr Meet | Interview NRA “Quite Different” Is Reply to Pointed Questions |GOOD HUMOR WINS Wishes to Work for World Peace RITE YOUNG shineton Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. — Alexender A first Soviet Union Ambassador to the United Stat granted his first mass interview with hington Corresvondents to- st of it, laughed atic cheerfulness at a suagesti t there is a simi- larity between the obpects of the Roosevelt and the Russian industrial programs. “Do you think that t Troyanoysky, he objects are ferent?” “No, no,” he exclaimed, laughing. “I cannot say thi And he turned in his chair and chuckled some more. It was the climax of a series of aues- tions about the Roosevelt x ment’s and the Russian So grams, “Do you see any similarity between what Roosevelt is doing for industry and what you are doing for industry in Ru the correspondent began. “Thi lea of state influence on in- dustry is common,” Troyanovsky re- plied. “But the forms are quite dif- ferent—quite different. We have in- dustry in the hands of the state, and here—” ‘Troyanovsky smiled and paused—“here the situation is quite different.” Practically everyone present smiled too, as the Ambassador sharply, though good-humoredly, differentiated between the New Deal—capitalism by an ever—greater and more open dic- tatorship and an intensifying ex- ploitation of -the -working classes— and the five year plans of the Soviet Union for herculean Socialist con- struction by a government of workers and farmers, who own the production machinery. Discusses Peace ‘The exchanges occurred almost at the end of the long press conference in which Troyanovsky discussed war and peace, trade possibilities, debts and other stock questions. In the course of the interrozation, the Am- bassador disclosed that the Soviet Union “would be glad” to sign a non- aggression pact with the United States, and that credit arrangements for Soviet purchases of American goods have no yet been discussed of- ficially. Friendliness permeated the atmos- phere throughout. And frankness— although at some points the diplomat sidestepped pointed questions. He sat in the red brick house which, throw years of non-recognition, was a viet information bureau, and whic; now is the Embassy. In six weeks two months, Troyanovsky said, thd, Embassy will move to the building which was formerly the Czarist Em- bassy. The first visa to be issued by the Soviet Embassy, it developed today, will go to Anna Louise Strong, the American Journalist who is Associate Editor of the Moscow Daily News. Visiting the United States, Miss Strong sat in the conference today, Boris E. Skvirsky, Counsellor of the (Continued on Page 2) Budd Co. Refuses to Take Back Strikers Labor Board “Decision” a Mere Gesture WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. W— Three thousand employes of the E. G. Budd Auto Body Manufacturing Co., of Philadelphia are unable to get their jobs back, a letter ad= dressed by the union officials to President Roosevelt states. j Weeks ago the National Labor Board made a decision that these men should get their jobs back. The decision was disregarded and nothing © was done to enforce it. The de- cision was a meaningless gesture, The letter to Roosevelt states, - “Now after two months of the strike plus the decision of the National Labor Board, men and women and , children are on the point of starva- . tion and cannot get their Jobs back.” | The Budd Co., has formed a com- | pany union. The 3,000 men ‘ to the United Auto Workers Union (A. F. of L.). U. S. Navy Planes Leave on Mass Flight to Hawaii. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.—Six of the largest flying boats in the United’ |s | wai s, in the longest mass. over-water flight ever attempted. The distance of 2,100 miles is to be covered within 24 hours, accord- ing to the prediction of Lieutenant! Commander Kaefler in! (Continued on Page 2) charge of the flight ‘ -