The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1934, Page 6

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(SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL? “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 BY THE ALgonguin 4-7954. “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥ Bureau: Room 954, Nat Press Building » Washington, D. © Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx}, 1 r, $6.00 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 c Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign snd Canada year, $9.00 6 months, $5.00; 3° months, $3.00 monthly, 75 THURSDAY, JANUARY We Can Show You How | [YPOORISY, false promises, and tenacious defense of the moneybags of Wall Street monopoly capital stare brutally through Roosevelt's announced determination to abolish the C.W.A. jobs within the next 1 It will be instructive as to Roosevelt's ree ist character for the million or so C.W.A. wor the untold others who registered in v work, to remember the two following by Roosevelt in recent speeches: “It has been exceedingly difficult to allot the en- tire sum of $3,300,000,000 to worth-while projects.” And then th shortly after: “The objective of the C.W.A. is to put 4,000,000 men back to work for the winter months.” How brazen a lie is this now appears with the dropping of all the C.W.A. workers Roosevelt was puzzled to find “worth-while” pro- jects for the $3,300,000,000. We can show you how, Mr. Capitalist President. What was wrong with giving these huge funds to provide food, clothing, and shelter for the millions of jobless whom the capitalist class has flung out of work to die of hunger? What was wrong, Mr. Capitalist President, with giving these finds to an immense program of building modern hom Schools, hospitals for the working class? Isn’t' thi what you promised from your “Public Works Program’ HAT is going to happen to these jobless millions, Mr. Capitalist President? How will they live? | What will happen to their children and families? Why don’t you turn over some of these government billions | for the setting up of a fund for Unemployment Insur- | ance to provide adequate weekly incomes for all job- less workers who have been turned into the streets by the employers? Insurance against unemployment and | starvation — that is what the workers need, and the government and bosses should pay for it! Tt is because every act of Roosevelt is an act in the interests of Wall Street moneybags, of Wall Street monopoly capital. It is because Roosevelt’s main ob- jective with regard to the jobless is to protect the capitalist class as much as possible from having to cough up some of its swollen profits to pay for their are. You are giving $4,000,000,000 to the banks through the R.F.C., Mr. Capitalist President. THESE FUNDS MUST GO TO TAKE CARE OF THE 17,000,000 STARVING JOBLESS, MR. CAPITALIST PRESI- DENT! You have just arranged to borrow a cool billion from ihe Wall Street banks for your $10.000,000,000 budget.. You are planning to turn most of this over to Wall Street mortgage and bondholders, and for more building of death-dealing Naval warships. THESE FUNDS MUST GO FOR THE C.W.A. WORKERS AND LIES, FOR THE 17,000,000 JOBLES of America! Jobless and starving! With suffering all the agonies of the capitalist curse of poverty amid plenty! By our mass organiza- tion, by our United Front with the whole working class, with-the workers on the jobs and on the farms, we can shake our mighty collective fists in the face of the servile capitalist tool at the White House, and force him to use the government's billions to give us relief, jobs, and Unemployment Insurance against starvation. Next week, February 3 to 5, at Washington, dele- gates from the jobless all over the country will gather to hammer out a program and plans to fight against the Roosevelt brutality to the jobless. It will confront the Roosevelt Wall Street government with the demand for security and adequate relief for all the 17,000,000 jobless and their families. It will raise the cry of Un- employment Insurance at the expense of the govern- ment and the employers! For an immense nation-wide struggle against the Roosevelt hunger program! Mass Work and Recruiting WANT TO DISCUSS with Party members and all readers of the Daily Worker the question of | recruiting members for the Communist Party. All our readers will readily agree that the best @uarantee of speeding the fight against Roosevelt's | hunger, fascism and war program is by building a | Strong, mass Communist Party, particularly among the | workers in the basic industries The Daily Worker has recently published the reso- | lution of the Executive Committee of the Communist Intérnational, which stresses the rapid development of fascism and the onrush of war. The first two tasks outlined in this resolution in connection with winning members for the Communist Party. These two tasks are as follows: “That the content and language of agitation and the press must henceforth be addressed to the broad- est strata of the proletariat and the toilers, showing the FACE of the Communist Parties both in agita- tion and in mass actions (demonstrations, strikes and other mass actions). “Securing within the SHORTEST TIME POS- SIBLE a decisive turn to the WORK IN THE FAC- TORIES, concentrating the forces of the Party or- ganization in the decisive enterprises and raising the political level of the leadership given by the factory nuclei to the dafly class struggles.” Se Neos » ak TASKS are extremely imporiant in the light of the broadest appeal of the Party and in actually recruiting workers for membership in the Communist Party. . In the past strike wave in the United States, and in many other mass actions, a good attempt was made to speak to and lead broad sections of the workers in strikes. But most frequently the face of the Com- munist Party was hidden, in order fo avoid the “read Scare.” Together with this went failure to recruit members for the Communist Party, explaining to the Workers the role of the Party in strikes in particular, and in the general struggle for the overthrow of capi- crisis. _ It is precisely in carrying out the broadest mass _ work and agitation that we must bring forward the Communist Party and win workers for its ranks, At the same time, securing within the “shortest time possible a decisive turn to work in the factories, centering our agitation and activity in the in- , Making a direct appeal for membership in ting workers for our ranks. he, Sanat ae periods of recruiting campaigns there is us- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1934 mass work, appealing to workers in the r influence ar g to it more connected; with th rease in mass the conscious recruiting of new members ber of the Party, and with the recruit- an intensification of ma: rk and the he fact of the tasks of the 8th Party Con- tion, which begins in the Daily Worker shortly, we e all Party members to deal with the concrete prob- lem of the rapid recruiting of new Party members in connection with the development of the broadest agita- ion and leadership of struggles in the basic indus des, “Social Insurance” Bills Y \tetcaagtecae to still the wave of protest and resent- ment of the masses against the terminating by it of the C.W.A. jobs, politicians and social- are coming forward with a deluge of fraudulent “social insurance” bills. The masses demand securit; posals of the politicians and social. sts now flooding the newspapers? Frances Perkins again speaks of te” insurance. She wants to dodge the respon- bility of the federal government and unburden that Fraudulent What are the pro- | responsibility on the states. This would save the Roose- velt government the embarrassment of taxing its mas- ters—the Wall Stree! bankers. It would save Roose- velt from cutting down on his immense war appro- priations. Governor Lehman comes out with his scheme of ‘unemployment reserves.” This scheme has in com- mon with the scheme of Perkins the disbarment of all those seventeen million now totally unemployed, from any benefits. It would merely take those now at work in industry, and give them a small maximum sum when temporarily laid off. It would not affect the millions now totally out of work. Governor Lehman is “studying” the scheme of the New York State Federation of Labor, and conferring with the A. F. of L. officials regarding it. This scheme, in common with the others, calls for individual reserves in each factory, instead of a common insurance fund. It definitely is anti-labor in character. It bars those now jobless from benefits and is a mere savings plan. In fact the Social Security Bill, which other A. F. of L. officials are advocating in New York State, contains an open anti-strike clause which bars all those striking or even locked out from obtaining benefits. ‘These schemes propose to begin payments in 1935, pro- posing that until that time the unemployed live on air. These schemes are not and have nothing to do with unemployment insurance. Both Lehman’s plan and the Social Security Bill, and the other schemes are merely savings plans, some of them calling for the workers to contribute, others calling for the employers to give small sums, but all aimed to keep the workers lined up as servile slaves of the employer. These schemes propose that the funds be either administered by the employers (Lehman’s scheme) or by a board set up by the bosses state (Social Security Bill). 1 Bini Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, proposed by the Communist Party and indorsed by the Un- employed Councils, is being approved by ever wider masses of the workers, by local unions, individual work- ers, mass meetings, and also by city councils. The Workerg Bill is the only one Which calls for the workers themselves to administer the funds. is the only bill which provides for ALL unemployed to secure full benefits equal to the average wage prevail- ing in the industry and a minimum of ten dollars a week and three dollars additional for each dependent. It is the only bill which provides for the funds to come not from the workers but from a tax on the bankers and employers, and from the billions in war funds of the government. The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill will be the central demand of the National Convention Against Unemployment, which will take place in Washington, D, C., on Feb. 3 to 5. es Of workers are aroused over the fact that Roosevelt's empty promises have boiled down to a complete and open dropping of any pretense of giving unemployment relief, jobs or insurance. They demand real security. They demand that the Federal Govern- ment shall take responsibility for the millions of starving unemployed. The mass resentment against Roosevelt's bankers program must be organized. The fake schemes of “in- surance reserves” must be exposed as anti-labor schemes of the employers. The Federal Government must be | forced to enact the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Demonstrate Feb. 5 for jobs, relief and enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill from the Federal Government! Elect delegates to the National Convention Against Unemployment Feb. 3 in Washington! Organize the united fight of the employed and un- employed against wage cuts and for the unemployed workers’ demands! Form United Front Committees in all trade union locals to act with the unemployed for jobs, relief and unemployment insurance from the Federal Government! Why This Neglect? last two Saturdays, the Daily Worker came out in larger editions and contained special material of immediate and vital importance to the American working class. These two issues should have a broad circulation comparable to the mass sale of our Tenth Anniversary edition. But the orders that came in were disap- pointingly low. . New York, our largest district, recorded an increase of only 2,000 by the Units for the Lenin Memorial edition, and a rise of 4,500 in street sales, 6,500 in all. At the same time, Chicago, with a population and Party membership below that of New York, increased its order by 10,000. Clearly, New York as well as other districts do the very thing warned against in the Open Letter. They underestimate the political importance of our Daily Worker as an effective weapon in our struggle to gain the American masses on our side against fascism and war. * * * | 3s its call for a successful circulation campaign, the Central Committee of the Communist Party, US.A., specifies an increase of 20,000 new readers for the Saturday edition, as well as 10,000 new readers for the daily edition. Our Saturday editions, comrades, are planned so as to provide an especially popular approach to the working class. With our Saturday editions we can interest the workers in reading our Daily Worker every day. In this way we can gain the masses in our revolutionary battle against fascism and war. We call for an immediate awakening on the part of our comrades and sympathizers. Enter the circula- tion campaign with Bolshevik enthusiasm and vigor. Increase your orders for the Saturday and daily edi- tions. Get your friends and fellow workers in the shop to subscribe to the Daily Worker. Answer the Central Committee’s call for 10,000 new subscribers for the daily edition and for 20,000 new readers of the Saturday edition of our Daily Worker, It | a = Anti-War Bodv ANGEL SAM WINGS OVER THE PACIFIC To Fight PWA| y ~ | War Contracts |Committee to Report on} Monday After Trip to Capital NEW YORK. — Immediate with-| | drawal of all U. S. armed forces from) all foreign lands and waters, and im-| jmediate cancellation of all war} |eontracts which have been financed }by grants from the Public Works | Funds 1 be one of the demands of the united front committee of the American League Against War and Fascism which will go to Washing- ton next Monday, January 29. Simultaneous mass meetings in support of the delegation’s demands Jare being organized in many parts of the country. Additions to the committee of 17,| announced yesterday, are Dorothy| Detzer, executive secretary of the} Women's International League for |Peace and Freedom, and Professor | H. W. L. Dana of Boston. The com- mittee will call on President’ Roose-/| velt, Speaker Rainey of the House,| and other administration officials. Members of the Committee will fly | back to New York to report at the meeting at St. Nicholas Arena on the evening of Jan. 29, where the fol- lowing will be the main speakers; |Earl Browder, General Secretary, |Communist Party; J. B. Matthews, jchairman of the American League; {Leroy Bowman, member Executive /Soard A. F. of L. Teachers’ Union and Vice President N. Y. Urban League, and Harold Hickerson of the | Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s — League. |Dr. Addison T. Cutler of Columbia University will act as chairman. England Illegally Detains Canadian» Communist Leader Cacic Refused Right to| Go to the Soviet Union HARWICH, England—Tom Cacic, Canadian Communist leader, is held |here while British authorities are ar- jranging for his deportation to Fas- | cist Yugoslavia. He was recently rushed out of Can- ada several weeks after the expira- | tion of a prison term imposed under the infamous Section 98, which has |been used to illegalize the Canadian ;Communist Party. Despite the gov- jernment’s efforts at secrecy, he was | discovered on landing in Liverpool, by the vigilance of the Liverpool | workers, who arranged for a visa to the Soviet Union. Although in England he is out of |the jurisdiction of the Canadian au- | thorities who ordered his deportation, | and cannot be legally deporetd out of ; England, the British officials are still trying to send him to Jugoslavia, where the white terror is raging. The | British International Labor Defense has organized a campaign of mass protest. Powers Passing Buck on Responsibility for Building War Machines LONDON, Jan. 24—A German ap- peal to Great Britain yesterday was the latest move in the complex ma- neuvering of the capitalist powers to increase their armaments while mak- ing the other powers responsible, thus covering up the war preparations in which all are feverishly taking part. France having rejected further dis- cussion of a “disarmament” agree- ment with Germany, and brought up the idea of a “standstill” agreement under which Germany would have to undertake not to increase its arm- aments, the Nazi goverment has put it up to England to suggest some counter-proposals. —By Gropper Goo s- NEWS ITEM:—“U. S. Naval planes in mass flight from San Francisco to Hawaii.” ‘Paris Workers Press Fight On Gov’t in Street Battles PARIS, Jan, 24—Fierce street} fighting continued all yesterday and last night as workers protesting wage and unemployment relief cuts by the government, together with small in- vestors looted of their savings in the Bayonne Credit Municipal swindle, ' demonstrated against the govern- | ment, shouting demands for the res- ignation of the Chautemps Ministry and furiously defending themselves against the charges of mounted police. The main demonstrations were organized by the French Com- munist Party. Smaller demonstra- tions, mostly of students, occurred under the leadership of the royalists, who are desperately striving to divert the mass unrest away from the revo- lutionary struggle and into reaction- ary channels. Yesterday's demonstrations were the largest and most militant in the past three days of almost continuous street fighting. Time and again the workers, driven back by the charges of mounted police, reformed their | ranks and pressed forward again to- ward the Chamber of Deputies build- ing. They showered the mounted’ police with torpedoes and rushed them as the exploding torpedoes demoralized their horses and caused the unseating of many of the ride: The effect of the iron persistence 0! the workers is already noticeable in the growing demoralization of the police. The streets of Paris resemble a battlefield, strewn with the debris from the fighting. The Chamber of Deputies, guarded by a huge cordon of police, cynically ; passed a vote of confidence in the Chautemps government by 367 to 201, with the Socialist deputies continu- ing to link their fate with the bour- geois government. News of the vote caused a new outburst of furious in- dignation, further intensified today by revelation of a new swindle of investors in the crash of the Banques de Fonctionaires, entailing a loss of 200,000,000 francs to depositors. Premier Camille Chautemps was directly linked to the Bayonne Credit Municipal swindle in charges made by Phillipe Henriot, a right-wing deputy, in the Chamber yesterday. Others named as protectors and Affairs; Georges Bonnet, Finance Minister, and Laurant Eynac, Minis- ter of Commerce. Dalimier, former Colonial Minister, was forced to re- sign several weeks ago as a result of the scandal. Serge Stavisky was murdered by government secret police to prevent a confession involving high government officials. Bulgaria Pails to Reply to Dimitroff PARIS, Jan. 2%,—Several weeks ago Georgi Dimitroff who, with the three other Reichstag Communist defendants is still held in jail by the Nazis despite their acquittal, (wired 2 challenge to the Bulgarian government for a free entry into Bulgaria It was learned today that the Bulgarian government has not re- plied to Dimitroff’s challenge, which read as follows: “Because I intend to return to Bulgaria, in order to live there and take up again my political work, I repeat my statement which I made before the Federal Court in Leipzig: That I wish to go bak to Bulgaria after the end of the trial, in order to seek the withdrawal of the sen- tence which was handed down against me in my absence for par- ticipation in the revolutionary struggles in 1923. For this purpose I demand the right of free entry, guarantees for my personal secur- ity and the right of a public trial. I await the decision of your gov- ernment.” France Gives Up Talks on Arms With Germany PARIS, Jan, 24—Having definitely abandoned all disarmament negotia- tions with Germany, France is now preparing to propose discussion of a “standstill” agreement on armarhents at Geneva. The openly admitted purpose of this maneuver is to put Germany in ® position where its refusal to sign beneficiaries of Serge Stavisky, head of the looted bank, were Eugene Raynaidy, Minister of Justice; Joseph Paul-Boncour, Minister of Foreign such an agreement will be used to ; throw all responsibility for the fever- ish war preparations of all European countries onto Germany. The following account of life in the Nazj concentration camps was written by the German correspond- end of the “Manchester Guardian,” @ liberal British newspaper.—Editor, mie Dachau Concentration Camp ‘The concentration camp at Dachau is otfen represented as a model of its kind. Thus the “Muenchener Tilustrierte Presse” of July 16 de- scribed it (with illustrations) as a kind of institute where politically misguided men are being trained to become good citizens. They are seen Grilling and working in a way that suggests a healthy and a disciplined but not overstrenuous life. The truth is that this camp is in no sense a model, although it is no worse than many of the Hitlerite concentration camps. The following details of the organization and routine have come into the possession of your corres- pondent: 2,400 Prisoners The number of prisoners (according te the September list) is 2,200-2,400. Of these about 50 are intellectuals, a few are members of the middle class, without any political affiliations, 50 or 60 are Nazis, about 60 are Jews, about 500 are Socialists, two are army officers (Catholics and members of the Bavarian Peonle’s Party), there are several beggars and ordinary criminals, 15 are non-German sub- jects, and the remainder are Com- munists. The overwhelming majority belong to the working class. The prisoners are organized in ten companies; 2 company, at full strength, has 270 men in five squads (Korporalschaften) of 54 men each. The First Compeny contains carpen- £ —— ° Fifty Prisoners Killed) ters and artisans and has certain * . privileges. The Seventh Company is in Fascist Camp the “Strafkompanie” of “refractory” at Dachau men. The First Squad of this com- Milwaukee Worker Dies of Clubbing at | AntiNazi Protest U. S. Worker Gives Life in Struggle Against Fascism secki died yesterday in the County Hospital, murdered by the Milwaukee police for taking part in an anti- Fascist demonstration. He was one of the workers beaten by police when they demonstrated against the appearance of Hanz Lu- ther, Nazi ambassador, at a dinner here Sept. 27. The workers succeeded in preventing Luther from speaking. Piasecki was one of seven workers beaten by the police and later sen- tenced to six months in jail. He never recovered from his injuries. The ap- peal of the other six will be heard Jan. 28. The International Labor Defense has calleed on all workers to wire protests to Socialist Mayor Dan- iel Hoan, and Chief of Police Lauben- heimer. Police Attack Workers Protesting Japan’s New Robber War in No. China NEW YORK.—La Guardia’s police attacked 350 workers who had assem-= bled last Saturday afternoon on Doyers and Pell Streets to protest against the new Japanese invasion of China. The police broke up the demonstration with the excuse that it was “congesting traffic.” The workers, refusing to disperse, moved to Mulberry and Bayard Street, where Hank Fuller of the International Labor Defense and Mills of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League addressed the meeting. A resolution was passed demanding a@ stop of the terrorist tactics of the police. It will be present to Police Commissioner O’Ryan by a workers. delegation. The demonstration was called by the Chinese Anti-Imperialist League, and supported by the Downtown Sec- tion of the I. L. D, the Chinese Branch of the I. L. D., and the W. E. Ss. L | | MILWAUKEE, Jan. 24—John Pia- | | pany is made up of members of trade unions and of Socialist and Commu- nist Party officials; the Second Squad is made up of Jews. The prisoners are housed in ten barracks, Each squad has two tubs, six wash-basins, and two pails (run- ning water is available, but the swimming-bath shown in the “Muen- chener Illustrierte Presse” is for the use of the Nazi guards only). Damp, Cold Cells All officials of the Communist Party who refuse to give the political information the Nazis demand are sent to the cells (“Arrestzellen”). So are the prisoners who haye commiited offences such as making political re- marks in their letters. The cells are of concrete, they have one barred window each (witich can be dark- ened), they are damp, and without heating arrangements. One of the cells is totally dark. The sleeping accommodation consists of wooden planks without a blanket. A prisoner sentenced to detention (“Arrest”) in one of these cells gets nothing to eat on the first day, then bread and water for three days, and r bot meal every fourth day. Those setwanced to “Mittelarrest,” a milder fotam@ of de- tention, are allowed a straw sack to sleep on, while their cells are not darkened. Prisoners may be sen- tenced to detention for as much as three months. Communists Flogged on Arrival Besides detention in the cells there is corporal punishment. This consists of a flogging with an ox-hide thong that has a strip of steel, three or four millimeters wide, running along its cialist and Communist Parties are usually beaten on arrival, wthout having committed any spedial of- fense. On August 18, 25 men who had arrived on the previous day re- ceived 25 to 75 blows each on their bared bodies for no apparent reason. Prisoners Whipped to Death In addition to the regular punish- ments there are special forms of ar- bitrary ill-treatment. Thus prisoners are sometimes beaten with wet towels. Sometimes they are bastinadoed un- ul the soles of their feet are lacerated. Seven S. A. men (Brown Shirts) who arrived in the camp on August 1 were bastinadoed as well as being mal- treated in other ways. Two of them, Amuschel and Handschuck, died of their injuries. The Communist Fritz Schaper was so beaten that he was prostrate for eight weeks. On Sept. 2 one of the'Nazi guards broke a prisoner's jaw with a blow of his fist. On June 30, 20 prisoners were so beaten in the cellar under the kit- chen that their cries could be heard by the other prisoners. Some pris- oners have also been beaten with lengths of rubber hosepipe. Some have been burnt with cigarette ends and some have been put to what Americans call the “water torture.” Fifty Murdered Among the prisoners who have re- ceived severe injuries are L. Buch- mann, Georg Freischuetz, and a jour- nalist named Ewald Thunig. The Munich Communist, Sepp Goetz, was tilled after being so beaten that he could no longer stand. The student Wickelmeier was killed by a bullet. The Communist Fritz Dressel was beaten to death. Leonhard Haus- mann, a municipal councillor, Lehr- burger, Aron (a member of the Bam- berg Reichsbanner), and Stenzel were whole length (these thongs are made by the prisoners). The number of blows varies from 25 to 75, according to the sentence. Officials of the So- Killd. Willy Franz was killed in September—he was officially re- Ported to to have hanged himself, but the nost-mortem, showed no é traces of hanging, while the face was stained with blood and the clothes blood-sodden. At the end of Novem- ber the Communist official Buerk total number of prisoners who have been killed or who have died of their injuries at Dachau cannot be far Short of 50. Forced to Lie About Conditions The names of nine persons who have actually maltreated or murdered prisoners are in the possession of your correspondent. named Katz, of Nuremberg. He was to have been released in October, but is alleged to have hanged himself, just before. Until his death he treated the injured prisoners. His successor is a certain Munzer. 4 Precautions are taken to prevent’ the facts about the camp from be-. coming known. The prisoners are’ told, under menaces, that they must always deny having been beaten. Two’ of them haye been forced to write. articles giving a favorable account of tife in the camp, and their names are: in the possession of your correspond- ent. The Brandenburg Camp The following account of life in the concentration camp at has been received by your corres- pondent from a prisoner who was dis-' of two months. } The ex-prisoner from whom your correspondent has received his in- formation is an educated man and once held a high position in a certain German firm. He was arrested cause he was suspected of having Socialist sympathies. He and a num- ber of other prisoners were beaten’ by Storm Troopers soon after their arrest. Some (from Memmingen) was killed. The |. One of the prisoners was a doctor . charged recently after an internment’| that Hirota Talk | Alarms the | Chinese Press Hirota’s Speech Seen As Prelude to Attack on viet Union Ss SHS of Japa: mi AI, Jan. 24—The speech e Foreign Minister Hirota China co-operate with s greatly excited the Chi- ss, Which considers it ag reminiscent of similar ut- by Japanese imperialists terances preceding the seizure of Manthuria, One local paper compares Hirota’s |demand for co-cperation to the act jof a murderer imposing co-operation. upon his intended victim. This re: fects the general tone of that see! tion of the press which is increasingly” critical of the policy of the Nanking Kuominteng government of non-re- sistance (actual co-operation) to the - proceeding dismemberment of China by Japan and other imperialist pow- ers. Interest in Hirota’s speech and the threatening Japanese attack on the Soviet Union is overshadowing the plenary session of the Kuomintang Executive Committee, despite its demagogic gesture calling for “a shorter political tutelage” (dictator- ship by the feudal bourgeois-landlord cliques) over the Chinese people and its promise to establish popular gov- rmment “before 1936.” Local bank- ers and merchants, both foreign and mative, make no attempt to disguise their delight over the prospect of Japanese armed intervention against the Soviet Union, seeing Shanghai as a trading center for food and war supplies and visioning vast opportuni- ties for war-time profiteering. This delight is dampened somewhat, how- ever, by the fear that the fierce anti- imperialist, anti-Japanese sentiments of the Chinese masses would sooner or later give rise to a peoples’ revolu- tionary national war against Japan, Session Seeks to Deceive Chinese Masses, —s The plenary session adopted a pro- posal sanctioning “an extension of civil rights, freedom of speech and press and freedom of organization } and assembly” in an attempt to over- come the growing hostility in prac- tically all stratas of the population to the bloody dictatorship of Chiang Kai-shek. It did not say, however, how this proposal was to be carried out, nor did it revoke the existing anti-labor codes prohibiting the right of Chinese workers to organize in unions of their own choice. It also abolished the plan of provincial com- mittee governments, which has ex- isted on paper only, and openly sup- ported the present warlord dictator- ships in the provinces. A plan was also adopted dividing the country into strategic military districts on the | pea of organizing defense against fereign aggression, but aimed in re- ality at reorganizing the shattered Sixth Offensive against the Chinese Soviet Republic and to crush the in- creasing peasant insurrection in Kuomintang China. British Puppets ~ Control Sinkiang Province Dismembered from China SHANGHAI, Jan. 24—A new gov- ernment, declaring its independence of §- China, has been set up in Sinkiang Province (Chinese Turkestan), on the borders of the Soviet Union by a coup | carried out by agents of British im- perialists and local feudal bourgeois- landlord cliques. The new government is supported by Hotan Emir, whose domain les close to the borders of British India, His protege, Savit Domula, a mer= chant, heads the government. A dele- gation, headed by the assistant Min- ister of War has been sent to Kabu, capital of Afghanistan, to negotiate for recognition. The delegation plans to go to India, whose British masters are confidently expected to extend aid and recognition. The new gov- ernment has published a slogan: “Banish the Chinese from Sinkiang!” Writer Tells of Torture, Murder in Nazi Concentration Camps Inhuman Brutalities Are Daily Part of Fascist Prison Regime beaten that their condition was piti« able. Brutal Tortures In the “Altes Zuchthaus” at Bran- denburg, where the camp now is, the food and the sanitary conditions are tolerable. ‘times one of the Storm Troop in- structors will allow himself a little _joke—thus on one occasion a prisoner ‘was made to inspect a squad that was standing to attention. There was -a slight irregularity in the line, and the prisoner was ordered to strike the man who had caused it. He gave him a feeble imitation of a blow, whereupon the Storm Trooper struck the prisoner in the face with his ae jd and said: ‘That's the ’s done.” The prisoner was then forced, under blows from the ‘Storm Trooper present, to strike his fellow-prisoner in the ranks. ‘| One of the worst bullies is a man /who seems to belong to the Storm ‘Troops but wears civilian clothes. He }Tuns about with a heavy riding whip and superintends the severer beatings take place in the cellars of the . These beatings are too ible to be described. ea » There are about 20 Jewish oners. They are treated with cruelty and are compelled to perform be-|the herdest and most disagreeable tasks. In one section of the camp there are six Jews who do not get a eee food ration but only what is lett over by the other prisoners, These leavings are thrown into a receptacle which the six J n- pea to eat without ‘knives “and