The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1934, Page 10

Page Ten Daily A AHRTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTPRNATIONAL) “Americe’s Only Working Clase Dally Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7964. work,” New York, X. ¥ Room "984, "National Press Buliding SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1934 Fight Imperialist War! 'HE INCREASINGLY sharpening situation in Cuba, the open war preparations of imperialist Japan against the Soviet Union and the admission of the im- Perialists that war imminent this spring; the ship- ment of U.S.A. aeroplanes and munitions to the Far East in the present war on Soviet China, and the | landing of U. 3. marines in Foochow Province; the hundreds of millions of dollars appropriated by the | Washington Government for war purposes while mil- lions of workers are unemployed and starving, calls for immediate action on the part of all workers, farmers and their organizations. The mass demonstrations throughout the country organized by the American League Against War and | Fascism to back the United Front Committee going to | Washington on January 29 to demand the withdrawal | of troops from foreign territory, to demand a stoppage | of war appropriations and the transfer of these funds to the wi ployed, must be sharp and decisive. ee: . W IS THE TIME TO ACT! Union. Stop the murder of Chinese workers and Peasants! Demand the withdrawal of U. S. batile- ships from Cuban waters and marines from China! All funds for the unemployed and for a na- tional system of social insurance! Central Committee, C. P. U. 8. A. | N.R.A. Trustification N HIS New York speech to the Retailers Association, General Johnson fumed and roared with his usual | But after it was all over the hard facts of | nic reality stuck out through his verbiage just same. “The N.R.A. does not help the monopolies to drive | out their non-monopoly competitors,” yelled the Gen- u, getting purple in the face. But a mountain of facts, admitted by such small- iness Senators as Borah and Nye, proves the op- | site. It is as clear as day to anyone who has | itched the N.R.A, codes in action that they are ful- their purpose of protecting monopoly profits by it impossible for the small, non-monopoly to undersell their Wall Street monopoly com- Defend the Soviet | as clear as day that no small producers can if the N.R.A. tells them that they can no longer 1 below a certain price set by the biggest companies 1e industry in trade agreement. The rising num- nd bankruptcies among small retailers | in Der of fail proves th The j N.R.A, codes are designed to fix prices so | ig monopolies can maintain their plunder | | | that the. of the mas through extortionate monopoly prices. E is Johnson so hysterical when anybody | Suggests that the anti-trust laws be revived? To conceal the fact that the N.R.A. is not only | designed to speed up the process of trustification, but | is knifing huge chunks out of the hides of the masses through rising prices, Johnson gave us the ridiculous | spectacle of pleading with the assembled retailers “For God's sake do not raise prices.” And at the same time, Roosevelt is sending prices upward through inflation, and the codes are jacking them up through agreements! Thanks to the Roosevelt N.R.A., the cost of food for every working class family is now 27 per cent higher than last year. And all other commodities show similar advances in the first six months. That is why | the Wall Street corporations report a prof increase | of 350 per cent over last year! The rapidly accumulating evidence of current eco- nomic developments confirms the analysis of the N.R.A. made by the Communist Party and the Daily Worker that the N.R.A. is the instrument of Wall Street by which finance capital spreads its grip into the remotest corners of the nation’s economy, driving out the non- monopoly producer, and brings the whole country un- der the direct sway of Wall Street monopoly capital. All of Johnson’s roarings cannot hide that Treading the Same Road | (0 DAYS AGO, William Green, A. F. of L. chief who has been doing every thing in his power to use the N-R.A. machine to break strikes, and tie the trade unions to the government N.R.A. machine, pretended to get all excited about Hitler's latest pronouncement making every German employer “master in his own house.” Today, an associate of William Green on the N.R.A. Labor boards, and a close colleague of the A. F. of L. and Socialist trade union leaders, Dr. Leo Wolman, of Columbia University, issues the following statement on the same event: “Labor in this country, in pressing for broadened and strengthened provisions for wages and working hours in .N.R.A. codes, is laying itself liable to dan- gers involved in making the State an indispensible party to all labor contracts.” So the danger of Fascism in this country, accord- ing to this N.R.A. “labor” advisor, according to this “friend” of the organized workers, this colleague of William Green, lies in the resistance of the workers to wage cuts and starvation conditions in the factories! It is in this cunning way that a liberal serves his capitalist employers. Wolman uttered one word of real truth in his Statement. He said: “The first step ((toward the present Hitler regime and trade union debacle.—Ed.) was taken under the previous Socialist government...” This is certainly true. It was the Socialist trade union leaders who warned the workers against putting up any resistance to the capitalist offensive. Did not the German Socialist leaders describe the Bruening wage cutting decrees as a “piece of Socialism”? _ And does not Norman Thomas tell the workers not to fight the wage cutting N.R.A. codes because we now have “State capitalism”? And because the N.R.A. “opens up the road to a peaceful transition to Social- ism”? Wolman knows that the workers are beginning to see the N.R.A. for what it is—as the opening wedge 4m the growing Fascist reaction in the Roosevelt gov- ‘ernment. And he rushes to warn them against resist- ance! The Wolmans, the Greens, the Thomases are now treading the same road as their German counterparts. hey pave the way for the Fascist reaction in their country under the guise of opposing it in an- | Lenin's Party, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. s* TURDGAY, JANUARY Ten Years After OUGHOUT the entire world, in every countr working class and all peoples oppressed and ex: Ploited by imperialist rule are now warmly comme- yitch morating the death, ten years ago, of Vladimir Ih Lenin. Lenin was the theoretician and strategist, the prac- tical organizer and actual leader of the Russian pro- letariat. With Lenin’s Bolshevik Party (the Commu- nist Party) at its head, the working class of Russia overthrew the czarist-capitalist regime and, on Nove! ber 7, 1917, solidly establisned, for the first time tory, the rule of the workers, a Soviet Republic. ith the same revolutionary blow, the staunch allie: of the proleteriat won, through Lenin's teachings and leadership, the millions of peasants and the oppressed national minorities, emancipated themselves also from the age-long persecution of the landlords and czars. the Bolshevik Party, was victoriou precisely because it was able to harness every revo- lutionary force, under the leadership of the workers in the struggle for the seizure of power. . e€ 'HERE ARE THOSE, like A. J. Muste and other “left” social-fascist leaders, who would make out of Lenin merely a “Russian” leader, this for the purpose of destroying the influence of his revolutionary teachings on the American workers. They praise his revolution- ary achievements there only for the purpose of con- cealing their own betrayals of his fundamental revo- lutionary teachings here. Lenin was the leader, the “genius” (Stalin) of the Russian revolution. But he successfully worked out the problems of the Russian revolution and led the oppressed masses there to victory only because of his world outlook, because of his knowledge of the world | laws of capitalist @evelopment and of the world ex- periences of the proletarian struggle, His role as the theoretician and strategist of the Russian revolution, | in turn, further qualified him, and established him as the world leader of the revolutionary proletariat. Lenin today, ten years after his death, inspires and leads, through his writings and teachings and through the Leninist leaders which he trained, the struggle of | the oppressed toward the seizure of power in every | land. Lenin was the best interpreter of the teachings of the first great world working class leader, Karl Marx. Throughout the years of his activities in both the Russian working class movement and in the Second International he fought against the opportunists and the centrists, of the Thomas, Muste type, against all | those who tried to revise Marx's theories and thereby destroy their revolutionary content. The Bolshevism of Lenin, the school in which Stalin was trained, grew up and developed in the course of this struggle against opportunism, against the revision of Marxism. With the theory and practice of Marxism as the starting point, he first analyzed the imperialist epoch of cap- italism and worked out the strategy and tactics of the world-wide workingclass struggle for the seizure of power. Lenin’s teachings were best characterized | by Lenin’s greatest disciple, Comrade Stalin, in the following definition taken from his book, “Leninism.” “Leninism is Marxism in the epoch of imperial- ism and proletarian revolution. ‘To be more exact: Leninism is the theory and tactics of proletarian revolution in general, and the theory and tactics of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular,” Lenin’s teachings are the key to victorious pro- letarian revolution in every country, including the United States. Through his theory and through his tactics alone can we solve the problems of our revo- lution, of our struggle, to end capitalist exploitation and to establish the rule of the workers and poor farmers. Through his teachings, and under the leader- ship of his Party, the Communist Party, alone can the American working class win as revolutionary allies the great mass of the Negro people and the poor farmers, the additional forces which guarantee our victory. le TEACHINGS OF LENIN, and particularly the applicability of these teachings to our problems, is today a burning issue before the American workers. This has become the touchstone in determining a real revolutionist. The need for a revolutionary social change every- day becomes more apparent to masses of the toilers as Roosevelt, in his efforts to find a capitalist way out of the crisis, places more and more burdens on the backs of the masses. Thousands of workers today realize that, not through N.R.A. C.W.A,, P.W.A. will @ solution for the workers’ problems be found, but only through working class power, through a govern- ment of workers and farmers. The problem is how to attain that goal. Norman Thomas advises support for Roosevelt, insisting that the very N.R.A which has led to greater exploitation of the masses, is also the road to socialism. A. J. Muste, while forced to criticize Thomas, follows a very similar class-collaborationist line, rejecting united front struggle with the Communists, and building up & narrow, nationalist, ghauvinist attitude among the workers by pratting about “Americanism” to the ex- clusion of the revolutionary theories and experiences | of the world proletarian movement. In their own way both, Thomas and Muste, as well as all other reform- ists and renegades, strive to undermine the forces of revolution and to aid the forces of fascism. These policies are policies that lead to defeat as can by clear- ly seen by the role of the German social democrats. The road of Lenin, the road of the Communist In- ternational, on the contrary is the road to victory. This is shown by the victory of the Russian workers, by the great forward strides toward a Socialist society in the Soviet Union under the first and now the Second Five-Year Plan. It is further shown by the setting up of the Chinese Soviets, supported by over 100,000,000 Chinese people, by their ability to withstand six mili- tary offensives launched by the Nanking butchers with the support of American, British and French imperial- ism. It is shown by the heroic struggle of the Ger- man Communist Party, against fascism and for 4 Soviet Germany. It is shown by the world-wide growth and struggles of Lenin’s world Party, the Communist International. i hae American workers can be successful only if they utilize to the full the experiences of their own past struggles and at the same time acquire also to the full a knowledge of the teachings of Marx, Lenin and Stalin, the concentrated experiences of the world proletarian revolutionary movement, Our job is a big one. The poor farmers, the Negro people, masses of the poorer middle class must be won for the revolution as the only workers’ way out of the present capitalist crisis, The proletariat can only place itself at the head of these forces, with the help of Lenin’s teachings, and of the teachings of Stalin, Lenin’s best disciple. These teachings make up the theory and practice of the American Communist Party. Join the Communist Party! Raise higher the banners of Leninism in the struggle against oppor- tunism of all shades. Take Lenin’s way out of the crisis, the way of proletarian revolution! Join the Communist Party 3% EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. Please send me more information on the Commu- nist Party, ‘Democratic Cub in, 'N. Y. Elects Three bs FSU Convention ex 300 Credentials | Already Reported Signed YORK—Three members of ic club in New York City e- been elected as delegates to the national convention of the Friends of the Soviet Union, to be held in New York City, January 26th, 2ith, and 28th, at the New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. These | | delegates have already sent’ in their A minority group in an American Legion Post, have elected delegates jo the F.S.U. convention after @ bit- it within the membership, dur- i fh time chairs and heads alike were broken. Herbert Goldfrank, acting national | | secretary of the F.S.U,, reports that | already over three hundred creden- | tists are in the offices of the F.S.U., | with between 500-1,000 delegates ex- | pected. Eighteen states are thus far |represented and two foreign coun- | tries, Canada and France. Tialian Railway Workers Lose Jobs ‘Under Fascist Rule |Suffer Wage Cuts, Fierce Speed Up and Brutal Regimentation = | |. PARIS, Jan. 19—An idea of the | situation of the railway workers in |fascist Italy, where mass firing, |specd-up, wage cuts and regimenta- |'tion of the toiling population are the | orders of the day, is given by a few | figures taken from the “Bulletin of the International Committee of Rail- | waymen.” | While in 1921-22 there were 235,000 | railway workers, today there are only | 145,000. Hence 80,000, in round figures, | have been fired during these last ten years. Of these, 10,000 were dis- charged in 1930-31 alone, and 5,700 in. 1933. The management of the Italian railways haye thus contrived to squeeze tremendously more work out of their workers. According to official statistics, the number of men em- ployed per kilometre of track dimin- ished from 10.7 before the war to 8.6 in January 1931-32. If the compari- son is made with the years 1921-22— at that time about 13-14 railwaymen were employed per kilometre of track —it will be found that the work per- formance has been intensified by about 40 per cent. The railwaymen are subject to a discipline much more strict than in military service. The entire abolition of allowances for rising prices, and the reduction of wages, have cut down the income of the railwaymen to one-half. is the manner in which the workers and employes of an under- taking under the direct control of the fascist “Corporative State” are exploited and oppressed. Fist Fight Chamber in French of Deputies on Stavisky Scandal PARIS, Jan. 19—Yesterday’s ses- sion of the French Chamber of Deputies broke up in an uproar, fol- lowing a fist fight precipitated by Education Minister Anatole de Mon- zie, furious against exposures in the Chamber connecting him with the Stavisky scandal, involving looting of $40,000,000 from small investors, and insurance companies and unemployed workers who had pawned their last valuables with the bankrupt Credit Municipal Bayonne, headed by Serge Stavisky. The Minister of Education struck Deputy Phillip Henriot, following a four-hour speech by the latter in which he exposed the complicity of high government officials in the Sta- visky swindle. ° | Workers, Peasants Dis- cuss C. P. Congress -Thruout Country i By VERN SMITH Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 23 (By: Mail) —The Communist Party is the power house turning out cur- rent. that electrifies all the Soviet Union with mass enthusiasm for the building of Socialism, It is recog- nized as the unfaltering guide, the leader, the planner, the constant friend’ of the masses, sprung from their midst, embodying the. very best of the workers and peasants, the vanguard fighting for the new society. Tis roots are buried deep in’ the factories and collective farms; cach’ of its units is a center of ac- tivity’ and leadership, surrounded by an active corps of voluntary non- party assistants many times out- numbering its own constantly grow- ing membership. The congress of the Communist Party is the huge, democratically or- ganized leadership of that Party, with delegates from all over the U. S. S. R., from all the basic organizations of the Party. The Seventeenth Con- gress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union will meet in Mos- cow, Jan. 25, and will critically and ruthlessly survey its achievements since its XVI congress held tn 1930, and discuss the tasks of the second five ‘Yéar plan. Since the Commu- nist Party is the recognized and trusted leader of the masses, mil- lions of workers will fling themselves into the struggle for the Party Line [ HANDS OFF! —By Gropper Clinton High School Delegates Vote to Oppose All U.S. Wars NEW YORK—One hundred dele- gates representing classrooms and clubs in the De Witt Clinton High School supported a resolution today at an Anti-War Congress held in the school, that: “Whereas any war the United States may conduct, would be opposed to our interests, as students, we the delegates present here will in no case support the United States government in any war it may con- duct.” One of the main points on the agenda was to plan for an inter- high school anti-war conference to take place some time during Easter week, A committee was elected to get in touch with the various other high schools in the city in order to make preparations. At this meeting it was also re- solved: 1. To go on record against all im- perialist wars. 2. To go on record for the aboli- tion of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. 3. To demand all R.O.T.C. funds be appropriated for educational pur- Poses; for scholarships, for needy students. 4. To oppose the use of Science Laboratories, Art classes, etc., as a means of propagandizing for war. 5. Whereas academic freedom is essential for us to conduct our prop- aganda against war, we therefore de- mand academic freedom in all edu- cational institutions. 6. We protest the expulsion of the students from the City College of New York and the High Schools in New York City for fighting for the abolition of the R.O.T.C, 1. Whereas the Platt Amendment is an instrument of provocation for war, We go on record as opposing the Platt Amendment. 8. We go on record as demanding academic freedom for students in Germany to allow them to freely ex- press their opinions on war and Fas- cism. 9. We resolve to join with the Youth Section of the American League Against War and Fascism. It must also be pointed out that the N.S.L. and Y.C.L. played an im- portant part in organizing the con- ference and in interesting the student body in the anti-war movement. Portuguese Troops Fire on Striking Workers As General Strike Spreads LISBON, Portugal, Jan. 19—Sharp street fighting occurred in this city and, many other parts of Portugal yesterday as the military dictatorship ordered troops and police to attack striking workers responding to 2 gen- eral strike issued by the syndicalist organization. Thousands of workers in many in- dustries responded to the call, and the general strike is rapidly spread- ing. Last night, Communist and syn- dicalist workers battled police and military who attacked a strike meet- ing in this city. The workers later took over the offensive and attacked the police barracks in the Chelas quarter, forcing an entrance and almost capturing the building, when police reinforcements rushed up and fired into the crowd. Scores of work- ers were injured, The Strike Committee issued a manifesto last night urging all work- ers throughout the country to join the general strike against the iron chains of the military dictatorship, and for the setting up of a workers and farmers government. Mussolini’s Agents * Shoot Anti-Fascist Shipowner in Rome PARIS, Jan. 19—Cesare Fremura, executive in an international shipping combine and widely known in Italy as an anti-fascist, was murdered re- cently in his office by Mussolini agents Fremura, because of his power and importance in international shipping circles, had been unmolested through eleven years of anti-fascist activity, but evidently with the terrific sharp- ening of the difficulties of fascism and the growing rift in the blackshirt camp, it was considered better to dis- Pose of him at once. British Govt, Okays Sterilization LONDON, Jan. 19.—Hitler’s steril- ization policy received the official sanction of the English government when the Ministry of Public Health recommended the “right” of volun- tary sterilization for the “physically and mentally unfit,” The members of the ministry were unanimously agreed that sterilization for mental defectives, persons suffer- ing from mental disorders, etc., should be regarded not as a penalty, but as a “right.” Transport Strike Completely Ties Up Dublin Traffic DUBLIN, Ireland, Jan. 19.—Dub- lin transport workers came out on strike 100 per cent strong yester- day, completely tying up the street car and bus services. The Free State Government an- nounced drastic wage cuts yester- day for civil service employees throughout the Free State. The cuts range from 2 to 25 per cent. Nanking Prepares Attack on Canton Troops in Fukien Move to Bribe Rebel General in North China Civil War SHANGHAI, Jan. 19 — Nanking troops are reported concentrating at Foochow, North Fukien, for an attack on the forees of the Canton regime, engaged in a race with Nanking for control of South and Central Fukien. The 19th Route Army is retreating toward South Fukien following the sell-out to Nanking by the Fukien secessionist leaders, and may join forces with the Cantonese. It is also feared by the imperialists and their Kuomintang agents that the rank and file of the army, bitterly dissat-| isfied with their traitorous officers, may go over in a body to the Chinese Red Armies operating on the western borders of Fukien. The Generals’ Civil War in North- west China is reported to have halted temporarily, with Nanking emissaries offering substantial bribes to the rebel generals. Japanese Ship Takes Big Load of Asbestos BOSTON, Jan. 19.—Longshoremen report that a Japanese ship, berthed at the Mystic docks here, has taken on 45 carloads of asbestos for ship- ment to Japan. Japan has been buying steel, iron and war materials in the United States. Workers Defy Nazi Terror to Honor Murdered Leaders Place Wreaths on Graves of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg SAARBRUCK, Jan. 5 (By Mail)<. Defying the Nazi terror, thousands of Berlin wo: 'S carried out a semi- legal mass demonstration at the | graves of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa xemburg last Sunday, Feb. 28, ths ennual anniversary devoted in Ger- many to the memory of the dead. The “Weitfront’ reports that the workers formed a slow and endless procession past the cemetery where the two revolutionaries, murdered by Social Democracy, are buried. Again and again women and young people’ left the procession to place flowe: and wreaths on the graves. The N; Storm Troopers immediately swooned on the graves and took away the wreaths, but did not venture any ar- rests. Similar Actions Throughout Country Throughout Germany, this year’s commemoration of the dead was con- verted by countléss-thousands into a revolutionary honoring of ‘working | class victims. The grave of the young lured into a murdered in worker, Erwin Myer, forert, and brutally | April 1933, was visited, for instance, by 16 men in Storm Troop uniforms, who laid a wreath on the grave. One made an address honoring the mur- dered worker as a self-sacrificing fighter for the “interests of the work- ing class against the Nazi terror. As they left the cemetery, 12 of the group were arrested and taken to a | concentration camp. Nazi Pelice Seize Goods of Refugees fromMurderRegime Socialist Leaders Who Paved Way for Fascism Also Lose Property BERLIN, Jan. 19.—Nazi secret po- lice today confiscated the furniture and other belongings of Alfred Kerr, writer and essayist, now a refugee in Paris; Stefan Zweig, author of “The Case of Sergeant Grischa,” and Willie Loew, of the Red Front Fight- ers. The police also seized the property of the Social Democratic leader, Otto Wels, who surely deserved better iveatment from the Nazis on account of his stalwart services to the Fas- cist reaction in defeating, with other Social Democratic leaders, the general strike called by the German Com- munist Party at the initiation of the Nazi regime. The property of Math- fide Worm, a Socialist Deputy, was also’ seized. Copies of Erich Maria Remarque’ nével.“The Way Back” were ord confiscated. Porto Rico Strike ~ and Boycott Force Gas Price Reduction PONCE, Porto Rico, Jan. 19.—The combine of major oil companies in Porto Rico, consisting of the. West India, Shell, Pyramid and Texas com- panies, were forced to reduce their exorbitant price of 25 cents a gallon for gasoline when, for four days, the} car owners joined the boycott of these} corporations, started by striking taxi! drivers, and refused to permit any’ automobiles to run. The organizing committee of the Communist Party in Ponce, Porto Rico, took a very active part in the organization and the carrying out of the strike and boycott, FRANCE DENOUNCES GERMAN TRADE ACCORD PARIS, Jan. 19—The French Gov- ernment officially denounced the French-German trade agreement to- day. The action followed failure of Hit- ler to reply to a French trade ulti- matum to Germany demanding with- drawal of a Nazi decree limiting French imports into Germany. ‘The new Nazi import regulations went into effect today. Intense Interest Sweeps as laid down at the Seventeenth Con- gress. This will give some idea of the reasons for the enormous, all-pervad- ing interest of those masses of work- ers and peasants in the Party Con- gress, An indication of the reaction of those masses, of their love for the Party is shown by the nation-wide “Seventeenth Party Congress March,” the attempt at every plant and farm to present this congress with a re- port of the yearly plan of produc- tion fulfilled, more, to present it with “gifts to the country” in the shape of thousands and thousands of tons of steel, coal, oil and manufactured goods over and above the pian. The workers, the masses of non- party workers, along with the Party members, are now engaged in every plant and on the kolkhozes, the col- lective farms, in holding political meetings, to discuss the political situation and the production plan. They discuss even, and particularly, the foreign political and inierna- tional situation. They are concerned with the Leinzig trial, with the con- ditions of their fellow workers in capitalist countries, with the progress of the world revolution, with the war danger. How Workers React I have just come from one of these political meetings, held by the tool department of the First State Ball Bearing Plant. workers were not assembled in one meeting, such meetings were held by each department, rather small meet- ings of several hundred workers each, The whole 15,000 The firs; man up was a worker named Birkis, he was on sick leave, but he couldn’t stay away. He made a simple pledge to support the pro- gram of the Party, to “strengthen the hand of Comrade Stalin.” “The Party Did This For Us” The next was a “udarnik,” (shock brigader) who had been chosen with some 20 others to attend the Nov. 7 celebration in Leningrad. “I saw the palaces where the Czars lived with their courts,” he said. “I saw how it was in the old days, be- fore 1917. Then two or three hun- dred people lived in luxury, thought only of’ themselves. The workers lived in little huts, some of which still stand. But now the workers have not only the palaces, but are building themselves all around the outskirts of the city huge new houses, where families live el with light and air. The Party di this for us. “I saw the Hermitage, where Catherine the Great put up a sign, ‘Dogs and peasants are barred even from the courtyard!’” Eager To Join Party A member of the department com- mittee of the metal workers urton spoke—not a full time official, just elected to do trade union work in addition to his By Seal job. “As oa result of the ’s leadership in our department, most of the workers now have two or three suits of clothes,” he aid. “Meny of them and I also, have ordered a fashion- able costume. It shows we are grow- ing up, getting cultured. Many await the opering of recruiting by the Party to join it.” bers were taken into (No new mem- ing the recent months, the period of the party cleaning.) “I worked at many factories be- fore the revolution,” said an old man. “Those factories, were most of them, to be sure, only a little bigger than this room. They were foul with dirt, dangerous, dark. “The Party led a revolution, and the Party led us to this Socialist con- struction. Now we have here « fac- tory of our own that is hs and light anda comfortable place to work. We old ones find this new, but we are already: getting used to it. We are learning to use it.” (Voice from the audience:. “Waste!”) “Well, we are learning about that, too. The ' whole brigade takes part in noon hour discussions on elimination of waste. We are placing personal responsibility on those who work at each machine. I suggest a slogan for the Seventeenth Party Congress, ‘Eliminate waste, and master the machines!’ ” Showing the World Another spoke: “Our achievements, we see, are not only our victories, they inspire the workers of all coun- tries. They are also a lesson to our enemies. We know how the capitalists love us, and they know all right how we love them. \ But they have to take | the Soviet Union, the fatherland of the workers, into consideration. Bour- geois writers used to say, ‘All the world is warmed by the Western sun,’ but now they have a crisis, and the cun is in the East. Those we send to school are faithful to us, they come back to the factory and help the rest of us. Even the United States, which grew faster than most capitalist countries, never had anything to show U.S. S. R. As Party Congress Nears + Hail Avhtevenseiie and Program of New Five-. Year Plan like our growih in t in the last three or four years, and three and a half years is just a moment in history. We achieved all of this because we are Jed by the Party of Lenin and Stalin, Through them we built this factory. Cheliabinsk and Magnitogorsk also are good, but our factory—” Another rather old man got a a! was with Epstein, our reporter, in the ranks of the Red Army in 1919. Once when the temperature was 30 below, I took him on a motorcycle—he was @ commissar—to a meeting of 1,500 sailors. There was some trouble. We had only bast shoes and no good food. I thought I would never get him there alive, thought he would freeze to death. But we got there, and he explained ‘everything to the Baltic fleet men. and the next day they started to the front... . Great Image of Dimitroff Epstein rose to conclude. Two questions were fired at him. “What about some more new work- ers’ houses? There aren't enough.” He said millions of rubles be spent for workers’ homes in 1934, “How is it with Comrade Thael- mann?” He said that, of ere ‘Thaslmenn's life was in danger, and Geseribed the world demonstrations ior his release and the release of the Leipzig defendants. He described the “great imege of Dimitroff” looming He the world from the prisoners’ in Leipzig. it is an indication of the broad Interests of the Soviet Union workers, parece, t