The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1934, Page 8

“se Page Eight Daily,QWorker | | #ATRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY S.A. (SICTION OF COMMUNIST inTeRMariowaay — | “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” | FOUNDED 19% | PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY. BY THE) COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO, INC, # East 13th | Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7954. Addi New York, ¥. ¥. = ork,” Bures| Room 964, National Press | iF. St, Washington, D. 0” | Subscription Rates: | I: (except Manhattan and Bromm, % yeas, 96.00;| s, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, conta. | tan, Bronx, Foreign and Cnnada: 1 year, 00.00, onths, 5.00; 3 months, $3.00 B Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 7 cents. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1934 There Is Only One REAL Jobless Insurance Bill ae NATIONAL CONVENTION Against Unemploy- ment opens next Saturday morning in Washington, at a time when the demand of the unemployed work- ers for unemployment insurance is growing from day bo day. The city councils of Minneapolis, Buffalo, Milwau- kee, Tacoma, Wash., Eveleth, Minn, and three Cook County (Chicago) towns, and others have indorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Hundreds of thousands of workers, in local unions, unemployed Organizations, and meetings, have indorsed the bill. The pressure of the 17,000,000 unemployed workers of the country is being brought to bear on the govern- ment for security in the form of unemployment in- surance laws which the workers demand be enacted by the government. The convention will serve to unify this demand on a national scale, to organize the workers for a powerful, united, mass campaign throughout the coun- try for the immediate enactment of the Workers Bill, But the Roosevelt government is acutely aware of the growing demand of the masses for the passage of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The national government, in order to thwart this demand for security, is calling conferences and spreading much propaganda in the capitalist press for the Wagner Bill, vhich provides that the Federal Government shall sive no unemployment insurance funds to the jobless “orkers r nost recent ballyhoo of the Roosevelt govern- | © conference on unemployment in the Hotel unodore Monday night, at which Roosevelt’s Secre- | y of Labor, Mrs. Perkins, was the principal speaker. | conference, attended by many Chamber of Com- | ve representatives, Republican and Democratic poli- i d A. F. of L, officials, broadcast a great deal of tsik “for unemployment insurance.” At the same time the conference was aimed to ze sentiment in favor of the Wagner Bill, which Perkins has now embraced as her own. This bill wovides that employers shall be taxed for “reserves,” tc where employers are contributing to state “re- © insurance” funds, Mrs. Perkins and Senator g frankly admit that the bill is aimed to shift states all responsibility for unemployment in- and provides no funds from the Federal Goy- The fraud now being perpetrated by the Roosevelt sovernment, backed by the A. F. of L. officials, is seen maneuvers of Perkins in New York. Perkins, Csyernor Lehman, the New York State Federation of Officials are combining to push the Mastick- Bill in the present session of the legislature | This is termed “unemployment insurance.” being widely advertised to show how the ‘overnment’s state program of state reserves embodied in the Wagner Bill, would work out. T 18 the bill now before the New York legis- ture, termed in all the headlines as an “un- employment insurance bill.” 4¢ provides that employers set aside a small per- centage of their payrolls for a fund to be put in the | hands of the state treasury. The maximum amount of insurance called for is $15 a week for sixteen weeks, The bill that “unemployment Insurance” can- not be p longer than sixteen weeks to a worker, apply to those now totally unemployed. y to those now in industry, who become “involuntarily” unemployed. It is the same old strike~ breaking proposal to give the millions of jobless noth- i to force those now in industry to be “good i not strike or organize a union for better for fear of losing their “insurance.” Kins, in her speech at the Commodore, she does not care whether the un- employed get security or not, as long as the Federal Government is exempt from payment of the funds. The states, under the plan that Senator Wagner, Cong an. Lewis and I have been working out, can decide for themselves, whether to have state- wide funds, industrial pooled funds or individual re- serves. They can also decide whether to have joint contributions or contributions only by employers, what employers shall contribute, what employments shall be covered, who is eligible for benefits, what the waiting period shall be, and what above an absolute minimum the benefit rates shall be, and who and how long they shall be paid.” Tn ot words, Perkins, the representative of Rocsevelt, does not care who gets unemployment in- surance or how much they get, as long as the Federal Government does not have the responsibility for the imsurauce. Mrs. Perkins knows that the states will | pa uch laws (if they pass any laws) as are now pro- posed for New York, which provide no unemployment insurance at all and do not concern themselves with those millions now jobless, Unemployed workers! Do not let the campaign of tke Roosevelt government to sidetrack Federal Un- | employment Insurance succeed! Expose the fraudulent strikebreaking bills now mas- quereding as Unemployment Insurance bills! Fight for the enactment of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill! Demonstrate Feb. 5 for the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill “I Used to Be Timid” ‘s Ess NEED of building up @ mass circulation for our * Daily Worker becomes more pressing every day as of the most effective methods for revolutionizing broad masses. We print parts of a letter by V. Lind, of Unit 1, ection 8, Brooklyn, because it tells from experience WW workers respond to our “Daily” when it is brought their attention for the first time, and the results has achieved through a systematic effort to gain subscribers for our paper. ‘I used to be timid about canvassing for the _ ‘Daily Worker,” Comrade Lind writes, “but I overcame this. When I first started canvassing about three ago I could not sell even three copies. Now thirty copies a day. “in approaching a worker for the first time 1 explain the difference between the workers’ and cap- j press. If I can’t sell a Daily Worker the first time, i leave a copy and come back to ges an opinion | 934 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1 Daily Worker once % week and they gradually be- come acquainted with me so I can speak to them om issues of interest to workers, and call them to meetings and demonstrations. Some of the workers reading the Daily Worker once a week begin to feel they need it more often and subscribe to It by the week or month. Some of my contacts are coming into the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and I expect te get some of them to join the Party soon, all through the Daily Worker. “I think if systematic house to house canvassing would be adopted on a broad scale, our circulation campaign for 10,000 new daily subscribers and 20,000 new readers for the Saturday edition cannot help bat succeed.” 4 Seite 8 ABOVE LETTER, comrades, speaks for itself. If every revolutionary worker carried out the task to gain new readers for the Daily Worker in the same systematic and earnest way as Comrade Lind, the quota in our present circulation drive would not only be easily reached but, we are confident, considerably sur- passed. There is only one way of rooting our Daily Worker among the broad masses, and this is by bringing our “Daily” to them. Every Party member, every member of revolutionary mass organizations, readers of the Daily Worker, sympathizers of the revolutionary move- ment can help by approaching their immediate friends, fellow workers, canvassing workers’ homes, as Comrade Lind does. Help destroy the vicious effect of the propaganda im the capitalist press by doing your utmost to reach the workers with our only American working class daily newspaper, the Daily Worker. Gain new subscribers for our “Daily.” Answer concretely the call by: the Central Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A, for 30,000 new readers of the Daily Worker. |The Wife of a Strike-Breaking Governor ‘HE PUBLICITY AGENT for Governor Gifford Pin- chot, of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, paraded | on the picket line of the New York laundry strikers our paper. _ “I find that the workers get used to taking the Jong enough to allow the newspaper and movie photo- graphers to take her picture. At the same hour that Mrs. Pinchot was conduct- ing this “crusade against the sweatshops” in New York, her husband’s state police were beating up and shooting at the striking anthracite miners of Penn- sylvania, who are fighting for union conditions and @ decent wage. a The State Police of Pennsylvanis, according to law, are under the personal direction of the Governor. Pinchot sent into the anthracite strike area one hun- dred and twenty state troopers, every available state cossack that could be spared from the mining and steel towns of Western Pennsylvania. ‘The sending in of these troopers was accompanied by an order of Pinchot to allow no mass picketing, and to allow no miners to picket except in the col- ery where they work. The state troopers, under Pinchot’s orders, are now spreading # reign of terror throughout the anthracite, beating up not only strik- ers, but women and children, A sixteen-year-old striker was fatally wounded on the picket line this week. A number of town councils and burgesses in the anthracite, in addition to many local unions, have passed resolutions demanding the withdrawal of Pin- chot's cossacks from the anthracite. But Pinchot, always ready to do the bidding of the employers, backs up the bestial brutality of his state police. Mrs. Pinchot evidently does not believe in the slogan “charity begins at home.” She and her Goy- ernor husband know how to use demagogy. While posing as a “progressive,” Pinchot strangles free speech in Pennsylvania by jailing workers’ leaders such as Bill Lawrence under the anti-working class state sedition law, which robs the workers of free speech, and which Pinchot supports, Under cover of such demagogy, aimed toward for- warding his coming campaign to enter the United States Senate, Pinchot is directing the most vicious and brutal attacks against the strikers and the unemployed workers of the State of Pennsylvania. He is a valuable servant of the employers, who knows how to cover his tracks by his own and his wife's “liberal” talk, The Birthday Parties t id VAST and efficient machines of the Roosevelt machine are grinding overtime today. It ts the President’s 52nd birthday. And the “whole nation,” to use the gushing terminology of the kept. journalists who are busy scribbling all the details of the birthday parties, is supposed to rejoice. The million or so C.W.A. workers who will soon be flung by Roosevelt into the streets to starve—are they rejoicing? The million or so tenant farmers who have been driven off their land into pauperism by the Roosevelt AAA, farm program—are they rejoicing? “A special dinner dance will be given at Sherry’s, Mrs. Roosevelt will be escorted by « guard of honor from the ist Regiment to the Waldorf...” So reads the capitalist press, But outside the Waldorf, in the bitter cold, march striking hotel workers, picketing in protest against « $5 a week wage, ‘The artificially stimulated ballyhoo for the Presi- dent’s birthday Is part of the elaborate trickery of the Wall Street ruling class dictatorship. Its purpose is to give a mass base to the Wall Street imperialist dic- tatorship, to blind the eyes of the oppressed and ex- ploited masses to the fact that Roosevelt is the most cunning, the most servile agent of Wall Street finance capital who has ever sat in the White House, Roosevelt seeks to disguise his ruthless assaults on the millions of jobless workers, the workers enslaved under the N.R.A. codes, ete., by hiding behind the hy- pocritical cloak of charity to the poor victims of in- | fantile paralysis, But there is something rotten in the charity of this President who can coldly doom hundreds of thou- sands of working class children to disease and starva~_ tion by flinging their mothers and fathers into the streets off the C.W.A. jobs, when he can turn a deaf ear to the cry of the jobless for relief and Unemploy= ment Insurance, at the same time that he turns billions over to the Army and Navy, In this vast attempt to cloak the ruthless capital- ist character of Roosevelt’s program behind mists of hypocritical sentiment, the officialdom of the A. F. of L., the Trotzkyite and other renegade groups, take their place, John L, Lewis, Matthew Woll, William Green, all veteran strikebreakers, all able assistants of Hoover and Roosevelt in their wage-slashing, these are the leading organizers of the Roosevelt parties, and will take their places at the fat banquet tables. The leadership of the Hotel strikers outside the Waldorf, in which the Trotzkyites play a part, are considering, it is reported, to stop picketing for one | day, in order not to disturb the birthday parties, - Meanwhile, the record-breaking war building goes on day and night. A huge air bombing fleet is being constructed at a cost of many millions of dollars, The cost of living, of milk, bread, etc., continues its deadly move upward, (3 And behind the smoking mets of the banquet tables can be seen the spectre of Fascism, of war, of the starvation of 17,000,000 jobless—uninvited guests, Nazi Brown Troops Enforce “Holiday” Of Ist Anniversary, Official Declaration Ig- | nores Unemployment; | Silent on Terrorism | BERLIN, Jan. 29.—The first an- |niversary of Hitler's accession to | power will be officially celebrated to- Morrow, and orders have gore o | from the publicity bureau of the Nazi State machine to every agency of | propaganda that the “holiday” must | be rigidly observed. Fascist troopers are visible in every street to enforce the “celebration.” Even the official reports of the Na-| zis boasting of their “victories” during | the one-year of rule reveal the ban! ruptey of their elaborate demagogic Promises to the German masses. Nothing is said in the official Nazi list of “victories” of-the promised fight against “usury capital,” or the! promise to end the payments of the Versailles Treaty. The ever-growing cost of living, the imminence of inflation and credit | crisis, the feverish preparations for| war, and the headlong plunge towards & foreign policy of reckless adventur- | ism and war are ignored in the offi-| celal Nazi list. | The Nazis boast of their “crushing} Marxism.” Their own releases, how-| ever, give the lie to this empty boast, | as the Nazi chiefs openly betray their} anxiety over the flood of illegal Com- | munist papers now circulating) throughout the big factories. | The Nazis are silent in their offi-| cial reports of the 3,500 German workers who have been murdered, the 11 German workers who have already been beheaded, and the 49 others who ; Await execution, and of the 100,000) German workers and intellectuals now | being tortured and starved in the! German concentration camps. } They do not mention the fiasco of their Reichstag fire frame-up againsi| Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff.| And they are singularly quiet about the inability of the Fascists to im- prove the conditions of the masses or | the effects of the deeponirg crisis, British Debating US. Proposal for Pacific Isle Bases. LONDON, Jan. 30—British impe- nalist circles continue to debate tentative proposals from the U. 8S. government that Britain and France cede a number of strategic Pacific islands to the U. S. “in return for cancellation of part of the allied| war debts.” The natural public denial by the Washington governent has not less- ened interest in the proposal. Cer- | tain circles of both British and French imperialisms are said to favor the proposal on the grounds of cre- ating a new “balance of power” in the Pacific to meet Japanese ageres- sions. In this connection, the Brit- ish government is reported to have guaranteed Holland's East Indies possessions against a Japanese at~ tack. The recent secret conference of British admirals at Singapore is| said to have voted to build up the Australian Navy and_ generally strengthen British naval power in the Far East. That section of British imperial- ism which favors the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance is opposed | to the U. S. proposals. Singapore, | which is being feverishly fortified, | is expected to be a tremendous fac- tor in the new World War which js expected to break out in the Far} East. A British alliance with Japan | would face the U. S. with a chain of island forts from the Sea of Japan to the Straits of Singapore, effectively threatening American control of the Philippines, Guam, ete., and separating U. S. imperial- ism from its plunder in China. BOLIVIA GAINS IN CHACO WAR BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 30— The Bolivian command in the Chaco claimed the capture yes- terday of a mile of trenches from the Paraguayan forces, The Paraguayan army had dug in along the new front established THE HEAD WAITER AT THE WALDORF yy Burck U.S. Officials Expect Early Attack by Japan on U.S.S.R. NEW YORK.—That a Japanese at~ tack on the Soviet Union is immi- nent is the general belief in the U. War and Navy Departments, it is re- ported by Arthur Krock in a Wash- ington dispatch to the New York Times. Any “disagreement is only as to time; most of them expect a war,” the dispatch states in commenting on “the division of opinion among our high command.” On the basis of secret information from U. S. Consulates and secret agents in Asia, U. S, high naval and military officials are convinced, the dispatch states, “that unless some un- expected solution of Japan’s aims in the mainiand can be reached peace- ably, the Soviet and Japan must re- sort to the frightful arbitrament of arms.” That high U. S. officials circles are openly discussing the role the U. S. §.| ment: will play in this new world war is| revealed in the correspondent’s state-) “When it (discussion of future wars) is dealt with as a series of mili- tary and naval problems as I heard | experts dealing with it the other) night, its gruesomeness vanishes for) the time. War is the trade of the service, and it is not reasonable to} expect high officers to discuss their trade in other than a coldly factual manner.” The experis believe that the Jan- anese militarists are convinced that any delay in attacking the U.SS.R. would face Japan with an impreg- nable Soviet power in the Far East in the near future, thus crushing all hopes for future armed intervention. They therefore believe that Japan “will not wait very long,’ despite the | militarists’ fear of the Soviet air fleet and of a revolt in Manchuria in the) rear of their arifiles. Britain Supports Nazi Arms Demand in Move to Build Anti-Soviet Front | PARIS, Jan. 30—In a note to the French government, Sir John Simons, British Foreign Minister, aggressively supports the Nazi demands for arms equality for Germany. The note is regarded here as cre- ating 2 critical situation since it em- phasizes the split between the French and British governments over the re-arming of Germany. It has met with great fayor, however, in those circles of French. imperial- ism which, together with the British imperialists, favor a fully re-armed Nazi Germany as serving to pave the way for armed intervention against the Soviet Union from the West to correspond with the anticipated Jap- anese attack in the East. { by its victories preceding and fol- lowing the Xmas armistice. The reported Bolivian victory indi- cates that the Bolivian govern- ment is attempting to resume the offensive. Report 19th Route Army | Surrenders; It Will Be Reorganized by Nanking HONGKONG, Jan. 30—The Nan-| king government reported today that] the 19th Route Army had surren- dered in South Fukien and js to be| reorganized under Nanking auspices. The 19th Route Army has been used frequently against Nanking by poli- tical opponents in the Kuomintang! camp. With 100,000 Nanking troops now) in Fukien province, the Canton re- gime is showing grave concern and is continuing the mobilization of its troops on the Fukien province bor- ders. Strong Canton units are sta- tioned just within the Fukien border to guard against a possible invasion by Nanking. Both factions, however, are mainly concerned with the re- sumption of the Sixth imperialist- directed Kuomintang offensive against the Chinese Soviet Republic and the heroic Chinese Red Armies. | CHINKIANG, China, Strikes Spreading In China; Union Asks Defense of Leader le |Seeretary of Seamen’s Union Disappears in Nanking Jail Jan, 30.— Hundreds of ricksha workers paraded here today in protest against starva- tion wages and the loss of trade due to competition by taxis and buses. Armed with iron bars and sticks, the jinrikisha men attacked several taxi-cab stations, destroyed at least a } dozen buses and damaged the busi- ness places of motor-car dealers. They militantly defended themselves against Kuomintang police attempt- ing to break up the demonstration. The strusgle of the ricksha workers | for a living wage is one of hundreds of strike struggles now raging thru- | out China, many of which have taken on @ political character in militant opposition to the Nanking murder regime and fs betrayal of China to the imperialists and its sixth crusade against the Chinese Soviet Republic. Cater ae. 5 SHANGHAI, Jan. 30.—The All- Chinese Seamen’s Union issued an appeal to all seamen, harbor workers and the whole world proletariat to rally to the defense of Lo Tuan-Hsien, secretary of the union, who was ar- rested last April by the British police in this city and turned over to the Nanking hangmen after a farcial trial lasting cnly a few seconds. At the “trial” a representative of the Chinese Bureau of Public Safety was called in to identify Lo as a Communist. Lo replied with a short speech, declaring: “I will tell you my history. I am @ seaman. I was one of the organ- izers and leaders of the big strike in Hongkong in 1925-26. I have now come from Manchuria, where I fought in the ranks of the volunteers against the Japanese invasion. I have dedi- cated my life to the emancipation cf the proletariat, and am prepared to die.” Lo was then delivered up to the '2 Murdered When , | Mendieta Troops | Fire on Workers Attempt to Break Strik Sugar Workers é , HAVANA, Jan. 30.—Many works ers were ously wounded, at least two fatally, when troops of the new reactionary Mend government fired on a demonstration at Placetas in Santa Clara Province yesterday, The indignant wor! i ing another demot test the blood-bath ingly savage attac! the governmen: rected by American imperialists an their Ambassador, Jefferson Caffery® In its attempt to break the strike of the railroad workers, the govern- ment is trying to organize unem< ployed workers in the city of Cama~ guey to act as scabs on the Cuba Northern Railway. The railway serves a large sugar-producing area, The government t the same time sending troor gainst the striking sugar workers in an effort to drive them back to work at starvation | wages, to save the threatened sugar crop. Over 80 per cent of the gov- ernment’s income is derived from the sugar crops, and American banks, controlling sugar production. and seeking to collect on loans to the Machado government, are demand. ing that the government take drastie action against the strikers. Government by decree was ordered | today by the Mendieta-Batista gov- ernment, which at the same time | postponed the promised constituent assembly elections to December, | Dictatorial power, meanwhile, is | vested in the President, the-Cabinet, | and the Mayor of Havana. A Coun= |eil of State of not less than fifty | members is to act in an advisory capacity, affording broad represen. tation to the various reactionary cliques. The government today rescinded the cut in electric rates, reestablish- ing the old rates, which are several | times higher than electric charges in the U. S. France Gets British Trade Ultimatum | Given Ten Days To Meet Britain’s Demands LONDON, Jan. 30—The Britishi government yesterday delivered a 10-day trade ultimatum on France, threatening sharp reprisals against French exports to the British Empire unless. the former British trade | Quotas are restored “100 per cent” within that period. Notice of this drastic, war-like ac- tion in the increasingly bitter trade war between the imperialist power, ‘was given the House of Commons to; day by Walter Runciman, presiden of the Board of Trade. The French government had re- cently restricted British imports to 26 per cent of their former quotas. Following sharp protests by the Brit ish government, some lines were re- stored to their former quotas. The British are not satisfied with this, however, and charge the French are showing favoritism to the U. S. and “We have told France,” Runcima! informed the House of Common: “that this country cannot accep! and Belgium and will take immediate retaliatory action by extra duties on goods from France unless the full French quotas on British goods are restored within 10 days.” Nanking authorities, taken to Nan- | King as “a dangerous criminal” and has since completely disappeared. It jis not known whether he has been tortured to death or is still alive in the Nanking dungeons. The All-Chinese Seamen’s Union is demanding that the government re- lease Lo or at least permit its law- yers to see him. The union urges al! | workers and sympathetic elements to make demends on the Chinese em- bassies and constiletes in their coun< tries for the immediate release of Lo. C.P.S.U. Congress Hails Victories of Soviet China (Continued from Page 1) independence, and how Central Asia, USSR., achieved tremendous sc- cesses in this field. In 1933, ‘the Central Asian Republics gave 5200,- the previous year. Rising Standards “Together with the growth grows the material living standards of the toilers. The workers and Kolkhoz- niks (collective farmers), look confi- dently ahead. Sovialism for them is not a remote future, but they are perceiving it in the concrete deeds and achievements of the country,” Bauman said. “ Enthusiasm for Stalin ‘The discussion shows a unanimous approval of the Central Committee's: work, and a high estimation of the efficient, concrete leadershin of the entire Party and its organizations by the Central Committee and Stalin nersonally. All sneakers emphasize the colossal role of the Central Committee and Stelin in training Party orman‘za- tions and in giving concrete Jeader- e.. in literally every step of daily wor! At the evening session, Postieshev. Chairman, and Bubnov, Commissar of Education, spoke, and were greeted with great applause as he concluded a speech devoted to cultural con- struction, and the development of selence in the Soviet. Union. Enukidze, following him, said that Stalin made his report on the same day and hour when, ten years be- fore, he pronounced the great oath of the Party at Lenin’s grave. “We have remained true to that oath. honorably fulfilling it,” he said. He coke about the group of compan- 000 poods (1,200,000 tbs.) more then | **Y ‘ons-in-arms with which Stalin was able to surround himself, the best people of the Leninist Party, about such leadership as has been unknown in the history of any revolutionary ity. Lominadze spoke about his grave mistakes before the Party, saying that as an elected member of the) Central Committee of the Sixteenth Congress, he didn’t justify the Party's confidence in him; that he considers | it his duty to relate the lessons he Jearned in his opposition activity as one of the leaders of the Right-“Left- ist” block. He said that the Party Party was correct in having no con- fidence in those who even once left the Leninist path. The Congress listened attentively to the extreme rich content of the speech of Kosarev’s, the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Y.C.L., demonstrating the Bolshevist growta of the ¥.C.L. and the considerable increase in its importance in Socialist construction. Bucharin Hails Stalin — Bucharin spoke, prefacing his speech with a characterization of the significance of the C as av colossal, historical event, stating that in the course of recent years, he has been actively executing the line of the Party. takes of the Righ opposition, which was the attraction point of bourgeois forces fighting the Party. Bucharin indicated that after the leaders of the Right Opposition had recognized their mistakes, including himself, as theoretician of the Right Opposition, ‘his disciples continued their struggle against the Party and its leadership, finally landing in the camp of counter-revolution, getting He enumerated the mis-| | Chinese Revolution. The mention of their deserved punishment. Bucharin indicated that it was hardly possible to add anything essential to Stalin's report, characterizing the present stage of the life of the Soviet Union as a country of Socialism in tech- nique, people and culture. Touching on the problems of the international situation, Bucharin cnded his speech by saying that in the strugg'e for the fate of all humanity, the Party cannot tolerate any discrganization of its monolithic unity. “The Party triumphs under the leadership of its glorious Fie!d Mar- shal of the Proletarian Revelu- tion, Comrade Stalin,” he declared. Beroya followed Bucharin, descrio- ing the exceptional growth of Trans- Caucasia, and the mighty develop- ment of its Socialist economy. Congress Halls Soviet China At the end of the session, Svernek read greetings “from Bolshevik China to Bolshevik Soviet Union.” As he began, the entire Congress, headed by Stalin, rose to its feet as thunderous applause mingled with enthusiastic shouts filled the hall with the mighty foree of the theusands of assombled representatives ef the two million members of the Communist Party The greetings of the Central Cpm- mittee of th Chinese Communist Party to the 17th Congress wes in- torrupted literally at every sentence, The document was hailed as a tro- mendous revolutionary force contain- ing in it the concentrated power of the the Chinese Soviet Republic with its powerful Chinese Red Army brought prolonged and thunderous ovations Soviet Union, and above all of Stalin. great leader of the World Revolution, were majestic and touched the heart of every Bolshevik in the hall. “We are triumphant,” the greeting said, and the Congress again rose to honor the courage and heroism of the Chinese Communicts, Through the thunderous ovation, sthe voice of Shyornik was heard, cry- ing “The future is with us, the futuze is with the Red Banner unfarling over one-sixth of the globe and one- quarter of China.” Ovation for Chinese Victories At this demonstration of Leninist ‘ernationglism,, the ovation had hardly subsided, when a new storm of enthusiasm broke with renewed force, Shvernik continued to read from the greetings of the Chinese Party. The grestings continusd, “We greet the leader of World October, Stalin, victoriously leading the Prole- tarian World Revolution,” Again the Congress cheered, stirred by the tone of deep devotion to the cause of World Revolution and the deep understanding of Statin’s historic role. ‘The greetings of the Chinese Party were unforgettable, filled with the life’s blood of struzgle and flam- ing friendship to their teacher and leader, Statin. The high arches of the hall thun- dered again with applause as the greetings told about the second Sovict Republic in the world, with 89 million population, of the glozy of groat cam- paigns of the Chinese Red Army, en- during and defeating five frenzied at- tacks of intervention, about the victory over the sixth cam~ paign of Chiang Kai-shek’s interven- and the every second of his reading, and reached veritable hurricane force when the greetings declared: “That in the attempt to smash the Chinese Workers and Peasants Re- public, the imperialists and Chinese bourgeoisie will have their necks, broken, just as the interventionists against the U.S.S.R. had their necks broken.” The greetings embody an alliance never before seen in the world, the allience of the tollers of the first Soviet ‘Republics under the banner of Worid Revolution, under the bane ner of Defense of the Soviet borders, under the leadership of the whose name all oppressed the symbol of the victory of Socialism; Statin, Pia The Congress received the greetings from the Central Committee of ‘the German Communist Party with an- other demonstration of enthusiasm, The Congress rose, profoundly moved and agitated at the menticn of Com- rade Thaclmann’s name—a name eear ‘to the whole wor'd -prol as the leader of the German Com. munists, The Congress listened w the greatest attention to the document te'ling of the courag strugzle of the Germcn_ proletariat against the unpava’'c'ed terror, hun< ser and barbarty of German fascism. The grectings of the German Party concluced with the following words: “Long live Bolshevism! Leng live the ‘World October! Long live ‘Soviet Power!” The Congress adjourned with 2 mivhty ovation through which could be heard the cries, “Long live Thael- mann, long live our brother Party, Germany, long live Soviet China.’ Belgium, $i discrimination in favor of the U. S.° of Railroad Men and * v > ye a d| slaved peoples of the world know ast - x ory