The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1934, Page 1

\ \ SS HELP FIGHT FASCISM By Getting Subs for “Daily” Vol. XI, No. 27 USSR Party Congress Two Hotels | ->* Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter st the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 Hails Great Triumph Of Chinese Soviets Bucharin Greets Stalin as “Field-Marshal” of the World Revolution MOSCOW, Jan. 29.—The Socialist reconstruction of agriculture occu- pied the central place in the multi- plicity of questions raised in dis- cussions of the delegates on the re- port Stalin delivered for the Central Committee of the All-Union Com- munist (Bolshevik) Party. The delegates: Schlicter, Ukraine; Merzoyan, Kazakstan; Vareikis, Central Black Earth Region; Bau- mat, se el Asia; Ptucha, Stalin- & Old. Labor Faker | grac sncke in a par- ticalarly etailed way about it. The speakers gave many clea facts, showing how Kolkhozes (col- lective farms), have changed the economy of the village, creating new unrecognizable living conditions. The delegate from the Central Earth region, Vareikis, spoke of ho-¥ before the Revolution, over forty per | cent of the peasants didn’t™ have horses; over 30 per cent had no} cows, and over 15 per cent had no} sown acreage. He spoke of the hun-| dreds of thousands of peasants, de-! prived of the possibility of existence, who annually left their villages hunting work. Victories in Agriculture “Nobody leaves this region now,” Vareikis said. “The villages stop being the stepmother for the r ants. The Kolkhoznik (collective farmer), now has enormous possi- bilities for satisfying his material and cultural demands and the cen- tral Black Earth region is no excep- t of agriculture have been ed throughout tthe entire coun- try. But the most important prob- lem is still increased cattle breed- ing.” A majority of the speakers dis- | cussed this, Representatives: from Kazakstan told about cattle-b: ing Soykhozes (State Farms) already playing a big role in the countr national economy. Already in Sovkhozes (State farms), d’ a the government, two mil-~ (80,000,000 Ibs.) of mi is. one of the b: ding, and Cen- e base for cate UC: {Con soncinwed on Page 8) Hitler Threatens ssatisfied Ranks Warns Theat. To Aban- don “Futile Theories” BERLIN, Isp some of the Nazi he effects of forms” may not dolph. the all- ie imembloynient ms of the pea: emphasi 3 €00) es whlch woud: first, save tl second, crush speculatior third, permit. abandenmont. of fu theories in order to fitht unemploy- ment, on which a new attack is planned.” The’ statement was an ultimatum to those dissatisfied members of the Storm Troopers and other N: " ganizations who are demanding ful- filment of the Socialist navt of ‘ti Nazi program to abandon their i sions centration camps. ‘The Reichstag dutifully passed the Federal Reform Bill to cbolish the autonomous rights of the 16 tradi- tion Germsn states, and dispersed after a brief session. Passage of the | Bill represents a severe defeat to Hermann Goering, Nazi premier of’ Prussia, who has persistently opposed the move because he would thus be deprived of much of his present pow- er, While his rivals in the Nazi camp would be strengthened at his expense. ecto i ceeherneesheiseseiesstoeenee=a) In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Page 3 Shoe Union Bares Enemy’s « Schemes, by F. G. Biedenkapp Lfectric Union Officials Extort Money ftom Workers, Pascual Page 4 and 5 Browder Report to 18th Central Committee, C. P, U.S.A, Meeting by Page 6 Worker-Correspondence Life In the Home Dr. Luttinger Page ‘7 “Change the World,” by Michael” Gold i Pare 8 Yoreign News Es‘torials: Jobless — Insurance, “{ Used to Be Timid,” The Vy fo of», Strike-breaking Gov- ermer, The Birthday Parties Black | Gigantic successes in the devel- | reed~ | gle for cotton | end their lives in the con-! j will pass this quota.” | | | President of ihe Azerican Fed- eration of Labcr, an old-time strike-breaker, A staunch sup- porter of the N.R.A. ‘Lewis Riled When | Anti- Communist Provision Is Hit! |Spectre of Communism | Haunts UMWA at | | Convention By DAN DAVIS (Special to the Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 30.— The spectre of Communism haunted | the Lewis officialdom at, the seventh session ot the 33rd Convention of the} U, M. W. A. today, when lecals in-| troduced resolutions against the. sec- | tion of the. union’s con: on bar~ ring Communist Party mefnbers from membership in the U. M, W. A. ‘ This section of the constitution was finally voted to romain unchanged, barring Commun from the union, The vote was taken after John L.| Lewis, International President of the | U. M. W. A,, put the militant young! } delegate, John F. Sloan of Local 5509, | | Westville, TL, through a catechism | on whether the latter was a member of the Communist Party. “Are you a member of the Com-/ munist Party?” Lewis asked Sloan | (Continued on Page 2) Soviet Miners Greet| aa Congress With “Increased Output (By Wireless to Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 30—Increasing coal; the mine workers of the} id new record On Jahuary 25, 168.796 tons of coal} were boing produced daily in the Don! basin, thus surpassing the Five-Year Plan which calis for 162,000. On the same day all *he coa! basins together produced over 255,000 tons. It is not amiss to recall that on the-eve of the} 16th Party Congress in 1939 the ever- age output of coal in the Soviet Union was only about 130,000 tons. The present Congress is also mark- ed with record in the smelting of iron. On Jan. 23, 25,207 tons of iron were smelted for the first time in the US.S.R. In 1930, during the period of the 16th Congress the average daily smelting of iron was only 14,600 tons. Amalgamated Leaders | preparing a birthday party for Presi- Join Strike, Hail Unity Sidetrack Roosevelt | Demonstration | BULLETIN As the Daily Worker goes to press, over 4,000 striking hotel workers are meeting in Madison Square Garden, ear ee NEW YORK—While the hotel! strikers were preparing for their great general strike meeting, to be held in Madison Square Garden Tuesday night, the strike spread and) extended to the Downtown Athletic) Club and to two Longchamps restau-! rants. Strike pickets paced up and down in the bitter cold in front of the struck hotels, while leaders of the ‘Amalgamated Union maneuvered be- hind the backs of the workers to sidetrack any militant action which might develop at the Waldorf- | Astoria Hotel, where government of- | ‘Roosevelt Seeks to Avert Weirton Steel Sirike By Trick Promises of Vote ® Told Gov't Will See They ficials and A. F. of L. leaders were dent Roosevelt. Unity Meeting Meanwhile, 600 strikers rallied at Bryant Hall, under the leadership of | the Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union, Local 119 of the Food Work- ers’ Union, and vledsed to do every- | thing in their power to spread the | strike to every hotel in the city. The strikers will march from this meeting to Madison Square Garden, where they will call for unity in the| strike. | “We must tie up every hotel from the basement to the top floor!” said a str’ker from the Hotel New Yorker, spe: iz at the mestins. A worker from the milk drivers’ section of the Food Workers’ Indus- trial Union pledged the support of the milk drivers. ‘The dominant spirit all along the strike front among the rank and file is for unity. “One str not two strikes,” de- clared a militant striker. “All the workers must join hands together if we want to win.” F.W.1.U. Leads Unity Move Leading the move for unity and to 2 spread the strike, the strikers from | the Fotel_New Yorker and the Gen- eral Strike Committee of the Hotel and” Restaurant W rs’ Union, Lo- ‘eel 119 of the Food Workers’ Indus- trial Union, met yesterday and with great enthusiasm decided unani- mously to join forces with the strikers of the Amalramated Union. “in ordor to win the general | strike,” said a manifesto issued by the Hotel and Restanrant Workers’ Union yesterdey, “it is nececsary to spread this strike to all hotels which are now out, and to brine down on strike the worke-s in all deportments in the struck hotels. Yo force their association to grant | the demands of the strikers, united (Continued on Page 2) One Miner Is Killed jon" In Kentucky Strike National Guard Members Sworn in To Help Breck Walkout PIKEVILLE, Ky. J members of the National Guard have | been sworn in as deputy sheriffs to break the strike of 500 miners of the Edgewater Coal ‘Company's mine at Henry Clay. One miner was mur- dered by company gunn:en yesterday. Shooting began yesterday morning when deputies opened fire on strik- ers who sought to prevent scabs from enterin7 the mine. Devuty Sheriff Marvin Williamson coldblocdly shot and killed Perry Ad- kins, 45-year-old miner, with his pis- tol. Williamson then shot a young miner named Avery Hill. At the local hospital it was reported that Hill would recover. Menace of War Spurs Action i NEW YORK.—With the menace of war and fascism growing hourly, American class conscious workers are acting quickly to increase the circulation of the Daily Worker, to strengthen thereby the revolutionary movement in its fight to rally the masses for the defense of the Soviet Union and for the crushing of ris- ing fascist terror. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Newark, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chi- cago and Denver are among the honor districts which have alrealy resnonded to the call of the Cen- {tral Committee of the Communist Party, S. A. for 39,000 new “Daily” subseribers, 20,000 of these for the Saturday edition. Newark, one of the latest to re- port, has elected a district commit- tee of 12 to sunervise the campaign. Newark writes, “Our quota in the drive for 10,000 new ‘Daily’ sub- seribers and for 20,000 new readers of the Saturday edition, is 300 new We are more than certain that we All sections in Newark district are arranging meetings of Party mem- bers and members of ‘mass_organi- rations and trade unions to work cut quotas for their territories. A ‘Daily’ and 600 new Saturday subs. |. and Fascism n “Daily” Drive meeting of Daily Worker readers in Newark and vicinity will take place in about two weeks. Detroit to Pass Quota The aiota set by Detroit is 500 new daily and 1,000 new Satur- day readers. “We are confident that we will fulfill our quota before the end of the drive, on May Ist,” this district writes, Pittsburgh has arranged a district- wide meeting of all Daily Worker agents and boosters for Feb. 3rd, lied 11 a. m., at 2203 Center Ave., to perfect plans for putting the drive over the top. “It is our plan,” writes Pittsburgh, “to bring the Daily Worker to the homes of the work- ers throughout the state, especially in the concentration industries. Al- ready we are getting new subs. We not only exvect to fu'fill our dis‘wict quota of 300 new daily and 600 new Saturday subs, but to do even better.” Chicago Sets Example Chicago, which has alrealy sent in 205 new subs for the Saturday edi- tion, will hold a conference of Units, Sections, unions and mass organiza- tions on Feb, 4th, to mobilize the broadest number of workers possible (Continued on Page 2) Jan, 30.—Fifteen| ¢ NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1934 Unity on the: Picket Line symbolizing the real fighting unity of ‘s, one a member of the Food Workers a member of the Amalgamated Restau- rant and Hotel Workers Union, clacping hands on the picket line, the rank-and-file workers on strike, FriedChicken for'F.D’ ; For 17,080,000 —— ? WASHINGTON.—Seventeen mil- lion unemployed workers in the i St will undoubtedly be to learn that Presi- t's 52nd birthday din- d at the White will consist of highly g: dent Ro ner me House_yestc: ‘da: fried amed S of shell; chicken Maryland} r carrots and potato pu: ‘ettuce salad with Requefort dr ing; almord crunch and ice cre: |] coffee and birthday. cake. Lynch NegroWer'cer {n Florida With Aid OfDeputy Constable Prisoner Was Charged | With Petty Larceny; ‘Rape’ Now Raised TAMPA, Fla, Ji Johnson, a Negro wo’ ee ces ed early today by a lynch s after he was ‘aves, who was “transfer: the priso custody of State auth ig occurred within 15 Ss city nd a short tim efter Graves hed from the city ja‘l. Johnson was re- leased to Graves on warr inz petty white woman. The pol responded to this cue with a state- ment that Johnson had been “jar- tially identified” as “the Negro who attacked a woman,” Deputy Constable Graves tells a} fantastic story of being kidnapped and beaten un and then freed after the Negro prisoner was lynched and his body riddled with bullets. The lynching is the fifth reported in the press for this year, Last year thera} were 49 reported lynchings in the Us. o: Steck Profits Soar As Roosevelt Signs, Dollar Gold Bill NEW YORE, Jan. 30—In response to Roossvelt’s siening of the dolar devatuat‘on bill late today, stocks on the New York Stock Exchan~e rushed upward to make a new Tee for the st two years, Sneculstors reaped a golden har- vest as leading industrial, chemical, oil, railroad, and food stocks leaned | upward under the impact of a huge wave of buying. Stocks whose industries are related ; to war showed phonomenal rises. Al- | Chemica}, Wrizht Aeronautical. Internatinne] Nickel, U.S, Industrial Alcohol, U.S. Stee!, Bethlehem Steel, and many others were the market. leaders, all showing advances which carried them to a point from 59-307 per cent above last year’s lows. Most of these companies are Morgan-con- trolied. The dollar rose somewhat on for- eign markets after its sharp drop yesterday, but the obviously inflation- ary intent of Roosevelt's proz-am is giving it a downward tendency. The Equalization Fund which the Bill provides for will be run in sacret, and will be used, as -nany of the Senators and Congrezsmen admitted, in a fierce currency fight against British imperiaticm for world mar-! kets, aggravating the growing war dang | determine whether they shall have Get Vote to Decide If They Wan’t Elections By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Wash’ WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—President today promised an imme- ‘d “honest ‘teel Co, workers to Ri diate government-su; poll” of Weirton St another election to choose their col- lective bargain‘ng represontatives am Long, leader of a unica} ved the promise nee of N.R.A, Adminis- S. Johnson, hailed it as ta victory.’ He was correct only insofar as Roosovelt’s action once more promises to bring to terms the National Stee) Company, which up to this point has refused to allow an election w iy circumstances. The prom- ise also reflects keon awareness on the part of the administration that both at Weirton and else- re, are on to te N.R.A. subterfuge and are building their own organ- izati in full consciousness that militant struggle is their only road to better conditions, What Long failed to point out is that the promise of two elections, where one already has been proven a bald strike- king device, is likely to turn out t just a double dose of the same medicine. It is, more- over, a clear oncession to E T. Weir, head of the three plants whose work- ers were herded back from strike on the promise of an election last Octo- (Continued on Page 2) Natl Labor Board Sets Date for Shoe Union Referendum Shoe Workers To Vote for United Shoe Union on Thursday, Friday NEW YORK'—The National Labor vd notified the United Shoe and eather Workers’ Union late yester- day afte:noon that the referendum to determine which union the shoe workers choose to join, will take place on Thursday and Friday of th's week and next Mondor. The Board con- eedes the Union’s demand that the slection tke place outside the shops. Althouch the ozitinel decision of *he Bord, made in connection with the endinz of the shoe strik2, set the |- “ate for the referendum on “Jon. 1st, the referen‘ium was nostnoned. The yresent announcement comes with- cut any previous warning. The Union sont a sharp protest to the Board azeinst such short notice last nicht ene moved to-nrenare the shoe work- All active members of the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union are urged to report to the Union for emergency work immediately. sais of Big Six’ ‘Unemployed Meet |Delegate from Conn.; WEATHER: Fair and Warmer AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents ‘White House Covers Up C.W.A. Firing by Plan to Put Jobless on “Farms” Elect Delegate To New Mexico Jobless Send Funds — | NEW YORK.—The Unemployed Association of Typographical Union No. 6, Big Six, has elected a deie- gate to the National Convention| Against Unemployment, which takes Place in Washington, on Feb. 3, 4} and 5. | The unemployed in Big Six, who} wore a factor in electing Leon Rouse | to office last year, realize that) though there has been a change in administration, there has been no change in union policy and nothing is being done for them insde the union. The importance of federal unemployment insurance without cost | to the workers is reconized by the association, which endorsed the Work- ers Unsmployment and Social, In- Surance Bill some time ago. The Unemployed Association of Big 3ix was started when unemployed bers of the union found that mion officials did not recognize ir dire needs and refused to as- other A. F. of L, sf = Six officials are not interested in the unemployed. Indorsement from New Mexico PORTALES, New Mexico, Jan. 30. —Unable to raise sufficient money to send a delegate all the way to Washington to the National Conven- tion Against Unemployment, the lo- cd cal Unemployed Council has endor: the convention and sent a small c tribution for its support. toe Twe Delegates from Stamford STAMFORD, Conn., Jan. 30—Two delegates to the Washinzton Conven- m Against Unenrployment were elected by 600 C.W.A. workers in a mass meeting here on Friday night. The meeting was called in protest against a reduction in pay to $12 for @ 24-hour week. A committee of three was elected to present demands of the C.W.A. workers to the local C.W.A. board. Among the demands are increase of laborers’ pay from 50 cents an hour; etter care for workers injured on C.W.A. jobs; better protection against the weather on open trucks which take the workérs to outlying projects. Rudolph Gatti, chairman of the meeting, who was elected as one uf ‘he delegates to Washington, declared he had seen two cases of neglect. when men were injured. One man received a leg injury when struck by @ falling tree and was allowed to lie ground for an hour, suffering ely, Waiting for a truck to bring him to C.W.A, headquarters. “I saw another man injured during blasting,” Gatti said. “If a woman at a farmhouse had not given me some bandage and warm water to fix his wound, he would have had to wait for a truck.” News Flash: ALBANY, N. ¥. Jan. 30—Al- | though 81 voted for, and only 61 against it, the State Assembly to- day defeated the LaGuardia Econ- omy Bill because the Bill's sup- porters cou'd not muster the two- thirds majority needed under the Home Rule amendment to the con- stitution. The attack on the Bill has been Ted by Te~-nany forces in the State Capital, Amter to Speak at N.Y. Send-Off Mass Meeting NEW YORK—I. Amter, National Secretary of the Unemployed Councils, will be the main speaker at the send-off rally and mass meeting for the New York dele- gates to the Washington National Convention Against Unemploy- ment. The mass meeting, to be held Thurs., Feb. 1, at St. Nicholas Arena, at 7:30 p.m., will also greet the workers’ delegates to Wash- ington from New England. Other speakers will be: Juliet Stuart Poyntz, of the Trade Union Unity Council; Sam Gonshak, or- ganizer of the Unemployed Coun- cils of New York; Irving Potash, of the Needle Trades Industrial Union; Herman Macawain, of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; Louis Weinstock of the A. F. of L, Committee for Unem- ployment Insurance. Richard Sul- livan, Secretary of the Unemploy- ed Councils of New York, will be the chairman. ‘Roosevelt Would Send Jobless to BarrenFarmlands Hopkins Saye | Million In- volved in “Long Range Plan” (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINTON, D. C., Jan. 30— “Transplanting families”—uprcoting | thousands bodily, transporting them thousands of miles and settiny them | down..on farms (suyvlemented by} “factory” work) is the Roosevelt gov- ernment’s latest answer to unemploy- mont, Federal Relief and C.W.A. Admin-/| istrator Harry L. Hopkins, who re-|! veated the new program, was test’fy- ig today in a secret session of the House Apvropriations Committe: on President Reosevelt’s request for ap- nropziations to carry the C,W.A. jobs | until May 1 ard to continue relief for the next fifteen months. “Long Range” Program Frankly declaring that the capital- ist crisis is so deep that hundreds of | thousands of the job‘ess will never be re-employed at their revular work, ;| Hopkins put forward the “transplant- | ing” as the Roosevelt solution, said one million will be moved. The new program contemplates | that the families of the unemployed will exe out their existence on farms which are expected to be established in the new, small communities. This, Hopkins said, is all a part of the “long range planning program of | planned economy” of the New Deal. In other words, having offered the He unemployed forced labor in Nazified| transient camps, having poured out| millions in military construction for “public works” and having given one taste of “made” work instead of re- lief, all without touching the fund: mentals of the unemployment prob- tem, the Roosevelt government now. brings forward sti!l another plan for lowering living standards of the working people, This is the Roosevelt answer to (Continued on Page 2) SPAIN JOINS CURRENCY WAR MADRID, Jan. 30.—The govern-| ment has ordered a reduction of the price of the peseta “in order to com- bat the reduction of the pound and the dollar.” Gove: Balloon Ascends 1234 Miles Into the Stratosphere (Special to. the Daily Worker) MOSOOW, U.S.S.R., Jans 30, (By Cable)—Manned by three intrepid airmen, the Soviet balloon “Ossoavi- ,” early this morning soared 67,558 feet, or slightly over 12% miles into the stratosphere, reaching the greatest height ever attained by man. ‘The bit stratosphere balloon left the ground at 9:07 a.m. (2:15 am. New York Time) at Kuntzevo, just out- side of Moscow, and rose rapidly at ars in the shops to repudiate the sceb Boot and Shoe Union and vote for the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union, All shoe workers are urged to vote st the place designated by the Na- ‘tonal Lebor Board for the United Choe and Leather Workers Union, and to resist all intimidetion of the Sesses and the A. F. of L. ATTEMPT LIFE OF AFGHAN PREMIER 2 KABUL, Jan. 29—An assassin failed in an attempt to kill Hashin Khan, Premier of Afghanistan, to- day, and turned his gun on himself. The attempted assassination is be- lieved linked to rival intrigues by British and Japanese imperialists. A few weeks ago, the pro-British ruler of Tibet was poisoned, r the rate of 12 feet per second, carried over Moscow by a slight northwest breeze. Two hours and 38 minutes after leaving the ground, Commander Pavel Fedoseenko reported by radio telephone that the craft had reached the height of 20,600 meters or 12.77 miles. ‘The huge envelope of the balloon, with a capacity for 24,900 cubic meter of hydrogen, as well as all other parts of the stratosephere, were built entirely of Sovict materials. When Commander Fedoseenko reached the height of 20,600 meters, he had greetings radiogrammed to! the 17th Congress of the Commu- nist Party of the Soviet Union, now in session jn Moscow, and to Stalin,| record Molotoy, Kaganovitch, Kalinin and Voroshilov. Other greetings were sent to “the Bolshevile clase organ, Pravda! Pa _— an _ * The spherical gondola of the strat- ostat has three sides hermetically closed, with three windows, one on the bottom for air, photography and observation. It is furnished with pre- cise instruments for studying cosmic rays, magnetic phenomena, and com- | position of air. The Commander, Pavel Fedosseen- ko, a former factory worker, is now an engineer in the Soviet civic air flect. The other participants in the record- breaking ascent, are Adrey Vossenko, an engineer and specialist in aerology and aeronavigation, and a member of the Young Communist League. Nya Ussyskin. According to messages from the stratostat, the landing was expected to be made at 4 pm. in the neigh- borhood of Kolomna, about 60 miles south of Moscow. ee ao The former world’s stratosphere ascent was made ™ Sept. 30, 1933, when a Soviet balloou commander by Georgi Prokofieff and two companions reached the height of 19,000 meters or 11.8 miles. The “officially” recognized by the International Aeronautic Association is one of 11.5 miles, made by two Americans, Settle and Fordney, on Nov, 21, @ record for) [Only Landlords To Get | Benefits from Land Buying Scheme |NO PAY PROPOSED Farmers Already Driven Off Land by Millions | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. Prsasg eee promise of a “cure-all” for the unemployed, | this time the moving of a mil- lion men from cities to farm- jing country, is projected by |President Roosevelt — as a “substitute” for the removal by lt @f the C.W.A. workers from their jobs. -Roosevelt’s federal relief director, Hopkins, reveals that Roose- | velt’s plan is a “long range” plan, | According to this plan, unemployed | workers from cities, who Hopkins ad- have no hope of getting jobs, ll be uvrooted from the cities and will be given no wages, but left on mpoverished farms to starve. The only actual concrete step so ‘ar even “proposed” by the Roosevelt rdministration, to back up his new 2romise of one million jobs, is that administration for the “purchase of” ids.” It is not eyen Aefinitely pronosed to give any funds to the jobl which the vlan says | will be uprooted from the cities, } with which begin farming work on | arminal” lands. It is only ated by Hopkins, that “The gov- to transport and the people con- | cerned for a whi | Money To Landlords | The $25.900,000 which has been set | aside for the buying of this land, will not go, therefore, to the uhemployed ken’ froni cities, ‘but will go to the | landtords who own the land. Thy “sub-marginal” land is land which 2s been so poor that it has been tn- profitable to farm. President Roosevelt has been “aid- ing the farmers” by “reducing the acreage,” that 1s, buying up such sub- marginal land, from which a million tenant-farmers have already been driven by Roosevelt's acreage redue- tion scheme. It is now proposed to send the jobless to this poor quality land at the same time that thousands of small farmers are being driven |away from land because they are ving. The only ones who will | benefit from this scheme will be the landlords who get the $25,000,000 for the “su-marginal” land. Farmers Also Starving Billions of dollars have been lost by | poor farmers in foreclosures of mort- gaged farms. Millions have been | driven off the land in the farm crisis , because they find themselves unable |to exist on the farms. And Rouse- velt proposes to add a million more workers to starve on the land. ¢ sinister purpose behind Roose- velt's promise of a million jobs for city workers, is that such schemes are ig put forward to cover up the ct that he is standing firm in refus- ing to continue the -C.W.A. jobs, and | Tetusing to enact any Federal Unem- | ployment Insurance bill. German Fight Songs ‘Will Be Featured ‘At Feb. 11 Affair A flood of the greatest revolution- | ary enthusiasm has greeted the an- nouncement of the “Support the Ger- man Workers’ Revolution” concern and affair, that is taking place Feb. 11, at the Bronx Colsieum, A pro- cession of volunteer artists have of- fered their services for the program on that night. The program committee has there- | fore, with great difficulty, selected a group of artists of the very highest calibre. A chorus of 1,000 member, com- posed of seceral choruses, will sing rousing German revolutionary songs. These choruses will sing collectively, 1 will present separate programs Artists, foremost in their respective e'ds in the working class movement, will give dance, music, and theatrica’ numbers, some presented for the first time, At this time, it is known that satirical dance will be given, called “Hitler.” Already groups of workers and workers’ organ‘zations have signified their intention of coming in a body. The affair has the aspect of being one of the greatest manifestations of international solidarity seen here, ‘The program committee announced vat tickets must be bought early, to insure attendance on that night, Browder’s Report on Pages 4 and 5 Today Earl Browder’s report on the Eighteenth Meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States, held in New York recently, appears in full on Pages four and five of this issue. is been set aside by the Roosevelyy’@