The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1934, Page 6

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By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934 The Discussion Opens |AISING before the whole Party in clear and sharp language the most important problems of revolu- | fenary mass work, Comrade Earl Browder’s speech to the 18th meeting of the Central Committee of our Party, published in yesterday’s Daily Worker, merits | the attention and study of every militant worker. The report made by Comrade Browder, secretary @ the Communist Party, dealt with the 13th Plenum @ the Communist International and the application f the resolutions of this general staff of the world Communist Party, to the concrete conditions in the United States. Comrade Browder’s report, touching, as it does, every major problem facing the Communist Party, is @ stimulating and excellent beginning for the discus- sion on the forthcoming 8th Convention of the Com- munist Party, to be held in Cleveland, April 3, 1934. In line with the Convention call, discussion is now opened. Every Wednesday, the Daily Worker will carry extra pages of discussion. Every Party member is in- vited to participate and to contribute to this discus- sion. “Full and free discussion shall be guaranteed in every unit of the Party,” says the Convention call, and this applies to discussion articles in the Daily Worker. \ gid DISCUSSION PERIOD will last 60 days, and will be divided into two periods. The first 30 days, the discussion will center around the Theses of the 13th Plenum of the E.C.C.L, and the Open Letter to the Party as applied to our concrete tasks. The second 30 days will be devoted to the Draft Resolution for the Convention. This draft resolution will be published in the Daily Worker on February 17. Party members are urged to contribute their best efforts and experience to the discussion. As the Open Letter points out, only by arousing the greatest ini- lative among the membership, in the units and sec- tions, can the tasks of the Open Letter be carried out. We call on the membership to develop this initia- tive in the discussion of the problems confronting the 8th. Party Convention. We especially invite workers in the basic indus- tries, Party members in the coal mines, steel mills, railroads, on the docks, in the war industries, to take the lead in the discussion. Answer Lewis’ Red-Baiting| Av THE 33rd Convention of the United Mine Workers of America just concluded in Indianapolis, the Lewis chine successfully prevented the elimination of the use in the union constitution prohibiting Communist miners from membership. Why does Lewis attempt to outlaw Communist miners? Ever since the organization of the Commu- nist Party, Communist miners have been in the fore- front of all the struggles of the coal diggers for better living conditions, The Communist miners are among the best fighters on the picket line. They are the most devoted, most fearless, most intelligent and determined in strikes, The Communisi miners were the most daring and Courageous in exposing the N.R.A. and the “no-strike” Wage agreements. The Communist miners exposed and fought against every strikebreaking step of the Lewis machine during the strikes of last fall. That is why Lewis wants to deprive Communist miners of membership in the U.M.W.A. But at this very same convention, Lewis invited and showered with praise C. B. Huntress, executive secretary of the National Coal Association. While viciously fighting against Communist miners, Lewis welcomes the representatives of the very coal opera- tors who live luxuriously on the sweat and toil and blood of the miners. It is not inconsistent at all for Lewis to spew his venom against Communist miners and hobnob with the operators’ whose gun thugs kill striking miners. Lewis's efforts to separate the miners from their midst militant class brothers must not succeed. Y ane MINERS should demand the right of the miners to hold whatever political opinion they choose. Every U.M.W.A. local should fight for the right to ad- here to whatever political views it thinks best for itself. The Communist Party units in the coal fields should intensify their agitation and Propaganda against the Lewis “red-baiting” clause in the constitution. They should inform the miners about what the Com- munist Party really stands for and what the Com- munist miners haye done and are doing in the fight for better living conditions, against the “no-strike” slave code agreements and for a real unified union of all miners. The Communist miners will answer Lewis with a ten-fold increase in activity for improving the condi- tions of the miners, in their militant fight, shoulder to shoulder with every other miner, on the picket line in strikes. His Love for Children ROCSEVELT gushed last night over the radio on how he loves the crippled children. Maybe he does, But how about the fact that Roosevelt's whole economic program is crippling, dooming to disease and death hundreds of thousands of children of the work- ing class? How about the fact, grimly reported in an official study of the U. 8. Children’s Bureau entitled “Some Effects of the Depression on Children’s Nutrition,” that in the coal mining areas of Illinois and Pennsylvania, the proportion of starving children reaches the ghastly figure of 90 per cent? Roosevelt recently tricked the fathers of these children back to work, and broke their strike for a living wage. How many miners’ children did Roose- yelt maim and cripple, if not worse, by this recent act of ruling class treachery? How about the statement of Dr. Shirley W. ‘Wynne, recent Commissioner of Health in New York City, is- sued only four weeks ago, reporting that the proportion of “undernourished” children rose from 50.9 per cent to 53 per cent! How about the statement of Dr. ‘Wynne that “...It is likely that the increase represents the effects of the economic depression, for with curtailed ‘budgets, there is likely to have been an increase in mothers gainfully employed, and a diminished budget fee milk, orange juice and other essentials necessary = — DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934 foe child health.” How many working class children did these con- ditions cripple and maim for life? Roosevelt's milk program of the A.A.A. has raised the price of milk from 15 to 35 per cent im the last six months! Roosevelt has given the big Wali Street milk monopolies huge profits by raising the city prices of milk. How many children is that crippling and mmiming for life? How about the thousands of children of the C.W.A. workers, whom Roosevelt is flinging into the streets to starve? What will the pauperism of their parents do to them? How about the hundreds of thousands of children of the 17,000,000 jobless, whom Roosevelt leaves to starve, brutally refusing all demands for Federal Un- employment Insurance? These children don’t exist for Roosevelt. They don’t make such good publicity, and besides their care would cut into the profits of the Wall Street bondholders. In China, for example, how many children from 5 to 10 years of age are now working for American Wall Street capital in the Shanghai textile mills? Roosevelt gushes over the children. Maybe he is | helping the children at Warm Springs. But he does i not out of love for them, but out of his bottomless hypocrisy which does not even blush at using the poor, mangled libs of crippled children as a screen for his Tmurderous war preparations and his assault on the | Wages and living standards of the toiling millions. | A Roosevelt Promise | ESIDENT ROOSEVELT took time off from his | sumptuous birthday party to promise the Weirton | Steel Co. workers a double-headed, tricky election to | choose their own representatives. Last September, 14,000 workers in the Weirton steel | mills struck for union recognition. For the first time | in 20 years, the plant was closed down, with the work- | ers fighting for higher wages, better conditions. They fought militantly and long. At that time the whole steel and coal industry was in the throes of a huge strike wave. The Roosevelt government, to Preserve the profits of the bosses and to keep wages down, did everything it could to smash the strike. The N.R.A. Labor Board got President Weir, of the steel company, to agree that if the strike was. broken he would let the men hold elections for their own repre- sentatives, The officials of the Amalgamated Associa- tion, the A. F. of L. steel union, helped the National Labor Board to trick the men back to work on the basis of promises. General Johnson took part; Senator Wagner took part. The N.R.A. was bent on only one | thing—breaking the strike. With the strike broken, and many workers fired, Mr. Weir had a free hand. When the time came for the elections, Weir told the men they could choose only company union representatives. Workers were in- timidated, threatened, fired, some were bribed, and the company union was established. But the rank and file refused to abide by this result. Agitation increased among the workers, forcing the Amalgamated officials to some sort of action. A delegation was formed, with those who originally were & party to the N.R.A. trickery as its head, to go to Washington. They finally got an audience with Roose- velt. 622 CR er, Le | Besa DO the Weirton Steel Co. workers now face? Roosevelt's promise consists of permitting the men to run the gauntlet of Weir’s intimidations, threats and terrorism twice. They are to have an election first to decide if they want to choose their own repre- sentatives. For 8 month the entire plant struck in demon- stration of this fact— that they want recognition of their own union! Roosevelt knows that. Therein lies the duplicity, the sliminess of his promises. He wants to drag the workers on, wear them out, help the bosses | to stifle the new discontent by these means, The workers should not depend again on the “good offices” of the President and the camouflaged threats against their strike. The workers can force through @ real election. They should take matters in their own hands; depend on their own action, their own or- | ganization and strength. They should immediately or- | ganize their department and shop committees, begin to propagandize for their own representatives, discuss demands and ways of unionizing the shop; they should prepare steps for future action to stop Weir's intimida~ tion, and win their demands by their own actions when the promises end in their usual failures. By their own deeds, by fighting against the union officialdom, which is a party to the trickery and duplicity of the N.R.A, they can force through union recognition. St cleie cae Soak | At DURING this strike, and the many days after | when tremendous agitation and ferment and strug- gle went on among the workers, the Daily Worker heard very little of the activity of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union or a rank and file opposition in this plant. Certainly here is a point of concentration. The more so, since the Party had concentrated here before the strike. Weirton is now a pivotal point in the struggle of the steel workers, in the creation of a union among the steel workers. Despite betrayal and intimidation of the severest kind, the Weirton Steel Co. workers are undefeated, militant. We should see to it that we give leadership to these workers and take part in the momentous strug- gles to take place here against the N.R.A. and in the interest of the steel workers. Strikes § bane SYSTEMATIC application of the united front in the big factories is of decisive significance in the question of leading strikes, the establishment of a united fighting front, and in tearing down the bar- riers between the revolutionary workers and the masses of other workers. The decisive factor in carrying out this united front is tireless revolutionary everyday work among the workers, in order to prove in every question the correctness of our slogans and our proposals for action. Such systematic day to day work in the factories is the necessary condition for all serious preparation of strikes and for the launching of strikes at the proper moment. The workers will have confidence in us as strike leaders only if they see that we take every necessary step for tae careful preparation of strikes, selecting the proper moment for the declaration of the strike, firmly welding the united front of all workers before and during the struggle through fighting organs based on proletarian democracy, and if they see that we mobilize all moral and material assistance for the strikers, and know enough to call a strike off at the Proper moment if the mass of strikers are abl to carry the struggle further. There must be no repetition of such cases in Warren, Kentucky and Allentown, when after the strike was lost the Party and the revolutionary trade unions left the workers to themselves and failed to carry on any work whatsoever. It is only by adhering to ali these conditions in the preparation and leading of strikes that strikes will serve to strengthen our post- tion among the masses of workers, that the confidence of the workers in us will be firmly established, and the readiness of the masses for further struggles will be increased. —From the Open Lette. i What Is Decisive in Leading ‘Hitler Flouts. | Mass Misery; Calls for War | Is Forced to Admit That The Communist Party Continues Fight | BERLIN, Jan. 31. — After one year of the most relentless and terroristic | onslaught on the conditions of the workers and middle class of Ger- many, Adolf Hitler last night re- | viewed his year of power without one | reference to the intensified mass misery which characterized it, or a single proposal to overcome it. | Hitler spoke before his all-Nazi puppet Reichstag, over a radio net- work which reached as far as the United States. | His German work- ing class hearers were at the end of @ year of growing, immense unem- ployment, wa ge-| cuts, destruction of | relief and unem- ployment —insur-| ance, sharp rise in| prices, smashing | of ali workers’ organizations, accomplished with the | murder of over 3,500, the maiming, torture, and imprisonment of more | than 200,000 and the murderous rule of 2,500,000 armed brown - shirts | charged with silencing 11 criticism. A War Speech In this situation, Hitler's key Speech was directed entirely to pre- paring his hearers for war, and to Snarling at his enemies. He justi- fled the intense Nazi aggression in Austria, one of the immediate sour- es of war danger in Europe, and de- clared it would continue unabated. He praised the anti-Sovist alliance just concluded with Polard, and as-| sured France that he was ready to drop the demands for treaty revision which were once the center of Nazi agitation bidding for French co- operation in his avowed anti-Soviet | aims, He made a passing snap at the recent grave warning of Nazi war Plans against the Soviet Union, made by Joseph Stalin before the congress of the Communist Party of the U. 8. 8. R. Germany's aim, he said, was to “promote the cooperation of the ‘cultured’ nations” Pays Tribute to Communists Declaring that since 1930 “there was one clear alternative for Germany: absolute victory for Bolshevism or national socialism,” he paid involun- tary tribute to the Communist Party of Germany, referring to recent arrests of Communists for smuggling “great quantities of treasonable Propaganda into Germany.” He | showed how the heroic defense of the | Reichstag defendants, and the world protest at their trial burned his ears, when he made an angry fling at the “mocking of the German Supreme Court” All his references to the internal situation of Germany revealed his sharp awareness that far from having downed the Communist Party in a/ year of unprecedented terror, he| faced the opposition of the masses, led by the Communist Party, in a stronger form than ever before. Praises Castration of Poor His chief reference to -unemploy- | ment was in his praise of the sterili- | zation measure, by which the Nazis) are empowered to castrate any man) they choose, and sterilize any woman. | If this measure had not been adopted, | he said, “the number of public charges would soon be dangerously near the number of ‘normal’ citizens.” Five-Minute Law T™ less than five minutes, the dummy Reichstag made into law a bill which destroys the old German State boundaries, and with them the state Diets, and all state legislative | functions, centering all authority! directly in the Reich government. The bill also empowers che Reich to promulgate a new constitution. Thus the Weimar constitution, pride of the Social Democrats, and invoked by them to justify their abject capitula- tion to Hitler, is practically wiped out, even from the statute books. Nazis To Exclude Jews From All Public Offices BERLIN, Jan. 31—A picture of German Jews, shorn of every citizen- ship right as are the Negro people in the U. 8., was drawn by Hans Frank, Nazi Commissioner of Justice tonight, He saw the time rapidly approaching when no Jew would be permitted to exercise any public function what- ever in Germany. Even Jewish law- yers and teachers already have been barred from exercising their profes- sions. Speaking at a gathering of diplo- mats, including the American Ambas- sador, the Nazi Commissioner of Jus- tice praised the bestial persecution of the Jews by the Hitler murder regime, He depicted the vicious chauvinist in- citement against the Jews as “a great cultural deed.” Adolph Hitter | mental corruption, THE WATCHMAN By Burck | Daladier Forms Crisis Gov't; [Austria To Appeal Threatens French Workers. Againto Big Powers PARIS, Jan. 31—The upsurge of Mass anger and disgust evoked by the Stavisky and other recent fin- ancial scandals increased in intensity throughout France today as Eduard Daladier, the new Premier presented his “crisis” Cabinet to President Le- brun. Anti-government demonstra- tions, protesting the swindling ac-} tivities of high government officials, accompanied by cuts in the wages of civil employes and in unemployment relief, occurred in practically every} city of France. In Paris, thousands of workers, led | by the French Communist Party, battled foot and mounted police for several hours on the boulevards. Paris traffic was totally paralyzed by the demonstrations, supported by a strike of chauffeurs and taxi-cab drivers against increased gasoline taxes, scheduled to go into effect Thursday. Daladier Threatens Workers Daladier’s Cabinet is based mostly on the Radical Socialist Party, as was the discredited Chautemps Cabinet, which collapsed last week. There are also some representatives from the Center and Right parties, indicating an attempt to form a national con- centration government. Daladier’s first official announcement breathed hatred against the toiling masses, whose indignation against the cor- rupt bourgeois state apparatus has terrified the ruling class and its So- cialist lackeys. suppression of the protests and strug- gles of the masses against govern- wage cuts and hunger, declaring: “We must end rapidly—and bru- tally, if necessary—the troublesome situations that are plaguing the country.” At the same time, he promised to lighten the burdens on the capitalists and to push through ruthlessly the attempt to balance the budget at the expense of the toiling masses, through wage cuts for the civil employees, re- duction of the already meagre unem- ployment relief, etc. He indicated that his government would adopt the “strong-arm” not only ip domestic affairs, but in international! relations. Cabinet Not Expected to Survive Publication of the names of the new Cabinet members has aroused profound disgust among the masses | and disappointment even among the bourgeoisie who sce most of them as incompetents and third-rate leaders. his disappointment was reflected on the Bourse where prices fell sharply and the few gains made yesterday were completely wiped out. The be- Nef is strong in all circles that the new Cabinet will not survive its firct test in the Chamber of Deputies, even should the Socialist Party continue its traditional policy of supporting the bourgeois government. The new Cabinet is composed of Premier and Foreign Minister, Ed- ouard Daladier, Radical Socialist; Vice-Premier and Minister of Justice, Senator Eugene Penacier, Left- Democrat; Minister of Finance and Budget, Deputy Francois Pietti, Left- Republican; Interior, Eugene Frot, Independent; War, Col. Jean Fabry, Center-Republican; Navy, Louis de Chappedelaine, Left-Radical; Air, Pierre Cot, Radical Socialist; Over- seas (formerly Colonial) Senator Henry de Jouvenal, Independent; Commerce, Jean Mistler, Radical- Socialist; Public Works, Joseph Pa- ganon, Radical-Socialist; Agriculture, Is threatened brutal | Henry Quielle, Radical-Socialist; Merchant Marine, Guy La Chambre, Left-Independent; National Educa- tion, Aime Berthod, Radical-Socialist; Labor, Senator Jean Valadier, Left- | Democrat; Pensions, Hippolyte Ducos, Radical-Socialist; Post and Tele- graphs, Paul Bernier, Radical-So- cialist, and Public Health, Senator | Emile Lisbonne, Left-Democrat. | EAT a | WHITE GUARDS APPROVE DALADIER PARIS, Jan. 31. — Paris White Guards were rejoicing today at in- | dications that the new government of Edouard Daladier would seek an arms accord with Nazi Germany, aimed primarily to strengthen the anti-Soviet front and give Hitler a free hand in the East in exchange for German recognition of the west- ern frontiers of the Versailles Treaty. It, was recalled that Daladier, as War Minister in the Chautemps Cabinet, had instigated direct Franco-German negotiations after | sending a personal envoy to’ see Hit- ler. The envoy reported favorably jon the prospects of a Franco-Ger- man military accord, linking guar- |antees of Nazj adherence to the western frontiers set by the Ver- sailles Treaty with the granting of Hitler's demands for arms equality. ‘The anti-Soviet front was recently strengthened by the signing by the Polish and German fascist govern- ments of a ten-year non-aggression pact. It is well-known that the | French government was kept closely informed of the negotiations between its Polish vassals and the Nazis, White Guard circles in Paris are hailing these developments, together with the anti-Soviet provocations of Japanese imperialists and their white guard allies in Manchuria, as a pre- |sude for armed intervention against |the U.S. S.R, White guard head- | quarters here have sent out detailed instructicns to tsarist groups in other countries to “hold themselves in’ readiness this Spring.” ‘Marshal Chang To Take Command in Drive on Soviets | Chiang Orders Generals Not To Resist New | Japanese Advance SHANGHAI, Jan. 31. — Chiang Kai-shek, Nanking dictator, is re- shal Chang Hsueh-liang, former Manchurian warlord, as garrison commander at. Hankow, in prepara- tion for resumption of the Sixth Crusade against the Chinese Soviet | Republic, Thus, the general who betrayed the defense of Manchuria at the behest of Chiang is to be dzawn into close co-operation with the Nanking regime in its murderous war against the emancipated workers and peas- ants of the Chinese Soviet districts and their heroic Red Armies. Mean- while, Chiang is repeating his be- trayal of China to Japanese imperi- alism by ordering Chinese generals ported considering appointing Mar- | Against Hitlerites | Frontier Guard Killed By German Nazis Smug- gling in Explosives | VIENNA, Jan, 31. — Hitler’s bel- ligerent speech supporting Nazi ter- roristic activities in Austria was countered today by fascist Chan- cellor Dollfuss of Austria with a threat to make a new appeal, to the big powers in the League of Nations for protection against Hitler's de- rg to bring Austria under his con- rol. Among the big powers, Italy has already come out openly against Hitler’s attempt to control strategi- cally situated Austria. France yes- terday threw the weight of its eco- nomic support to the Dolfuss regime by means of an economic agreement giving Austria increased import quotas, with the expectation of still further increasing them later. The Austrian products so favored are mainly textiles, electrical equipment, hardware and rubber goods. The agreement ‘s intended to draw Aus- tria into the camp of French im- verialism against both its Nazi and Italian rivals, ‘ Tension increased yesterday be- tween the rival fascist factions in the Austrian Heimwehr (Home Guards), with the murder of an Austrian frontier guard by German Nazis attempting to smuggle ex- plosives across the frontier. Over a |dozen bombs were exploded by Aus- trian Nazis near St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna last evening. ;Ten unexploded bombs were dis- covered in the cathedral. The Aus- trian Nazis evidently intended a repitition of the Reichstag firing by German Nazis, for which four Com- Mmunist leaders were arrested and are | still held in jail despite their ac- quittal and universal recognition of the guilt of the Nazis. Commenting on Hitler's speech, Austrian Vice-Chancellor Emil Frey | declared last night it was “the same old stuff,” adding “we can no longer trust anything Hitler says.” in North China not to resist the new Japanese advance. Marshal Chang returned recently from a long tour of Europe, whither he had gone for his health follow- ing the outburst of mass enger throughout China at the betrayal of Manchuria to the Japanese invad- ers. At present living in the inter- national settlement in this city, he is closely guarded by an army of Kuomintang thugs against the angry workers, The offensive against the Chinese Soviet Republic, temporarily dis- rupted by the revolt of Fukien province militarists, is to be resumed with increased fury under the direc- tion of the German fascist General Hans von Seeckt, former chief of staff of the German Army, and with the aid of the U. S. and other im- verialist powers who are furnishing Nanking with loans and war ma- terial. The U. ». alone furnished 100 modern bombing pianes last year, together with experts train Nanking airmen in the civilized art of bombing civilian populations. Young Shock. Brigaders Greet 17th Communist Party Congress (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S.R., Jan. 31 (By Cable)—Seventy thousand young udarniki (shock brigaders) from fac- tories and schools, unaware of the fate that threatened the three Soy- jet airmen soaring miles above Mos- cow in their record-breaking balloon, participated in a huge winter sports tournament together with teams from the Red Army, Navy and Air Forces at the Centro Park of Cul- ture and Rest yesterday, in honor of the seventeenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, now in session here. Placarded columns of motorcycles, with the latest type of Soviet 70,000 in Huge Soviet Winter ambulance in the lead, toured the residential districts in the morning. Columns of workers marched from all sections of the city to the paz arriving in huge groups to the ap- plause of the people already as- sembled. All Unien Records Set The athletic contests resulted in the breaking of several former All- Union records. The skiing competi- tion at Lenin Hills was won by Alfeorov of Moscow, with a 37.5 meter jump. Alexanderoy, Moscow, was second with a leap of 35.5 meters and Zhubovy of Gorki third with 34 meters. Enormous crowds watching the skating contests saw Mironova break the all-Union record for the wo- men's 500-meter event in 52.2 seconds. A high mark, but not a record-breaking one, was made by Melnikov, Soviet man skating cham- pion, in the 1,000-meter race, which he negotiated in one minute and 35.9 seconds. Melnikov also won tho three-kilometer (almost two miles) race in five minutes and 11.8 seconds. throughout the day. Many Light Features A thrilling air show, which in- cluded much stunt flying, was con- ducted, desvite the fact that the day was very cloudy and unsuitable for flying. Light features, such as mas- querade obstacle sack races for men, wemen's stilt races, dog-sled races, pushball games, balloon ascensions, races between horses drawing groups of men on skiis, races in which horsemen gallop along rows of. willow wands, cutting each with sabres in passing, and exhibitions in tumbling and acrobatics — all of these were performed on the wide surface of the Moscow river, which at Centro * t Many hockey games were played | Sports Meet pe Pledge Themselves Soviet Construction and Defense to Park is frozen and covered. The day of athletics ended with 2 carnival, in which thousands 0” sestumed-men and women took pa-t “iM late into the night. Fit for Labor and Defense A special report to the Communis’ | Party Congress was made by yout” delegates, who vowed that the ¥ cnen and women of the Soviet U: over snow- the work of Soviet construction an for the defense of the worker: fatherland. Throughout the festivities the par’ was gay with many colored flac bunting, and interesting statuar, made of snow. would keen themselves always fit fc | Acquitted 4. in Nazi Jail Indefinitely |Tag Days for Liberation | Fight This Saturday and Sunday in N.Y. | PARIS, Jan. 31—The four Com- |Munist defendants in the Reichstag fire trial will be kept imprisoned in- | definitely, Dr. Erbe, Councillor of the | Nazi Ministry of the Interior, told the mother of "George Dimiiroff, hig | Sister, and the wife of Vassil Taneff. | “Your son. has been taken. into preventive custody,” Dr. Erbe tok Dimitroff’s mother. “We have thou. sands in preventive custody without | their having been sentenced by anyl |court. The speeches made by your son justify us in keeping him in pre- ventive custody. Remember what he said about the Prussian Prime Min- ister, Goering; alone.” ° N. Y. Tag Days Saturday, Sunday NEW YORK—“A new committee | for the liberation of the four Reich- | Stag defendants has been created. Imperative to start renewed cam- paign demanding their liberation, and for funds to ¢earry on the fight for their freedom,” says a cable received yesterday by the New York Commit- tee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism, from its international parent-body in Paris. | To carry this out, the New York | committee is preparing for city- | wide tag days, Saturday and Sun- | day, Feb. 3 and 4, | The committee called on all who |have not received their collection | boxes to call for them at once, at 870 Broadway. | Lawyer Disappears In Germany | PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Jan. 31, —Dr. Ian Sekanina, Frague lawyer in Germany for the international Inquiry Committee, seeking to get | Dimitroff, Torgler, Taneff and Pop- | off freed, has apparently disappeared. | He had arranged to telephone Prague daily, as he had done on previous visits to Germany, but the calls have not come, ‘and no word has been | received as ‘tovhis whereabouts, 2 Taneff il; Gallagher Forced to Leave BERLIN, Jan, 31.—Vassil Taneff, one of the imprisoned Reichstag fire defendants, 1s. suffering from influ- enza, due to the unhealthy conditions of his imprisonment, Leo Gallagher, American International Labor De- | fense attorney, announced today, just before leaving Berlin for Paris. After a long fight for his right to stay in Betlin and struggle for the release of the four Communists, Gal- lagher has finally been forced to leave Berlin. Mendieta To Use US. Food Grant To Reward Henchmen Protests Force Release of Relis, American Student-Delegate HAVANA, Jan. 31. — Word was received here today that a $2,000,000 food credit’ for Cuba, the first part of a proposed $10,000,000, has been ar- ranged for in Washington. President Carlos Mendieta will dis- tribute this food to his supporters, using it as a further weapon of inti- | midation agaist the starving masses of Cuba. At the same time he announced that the Delicia and Chaparra sugar centrals in Oriente province, wortl many millions, which were seized by the Grau government from ‘he Cuban-American Sugar Co. after striking workers had taken them over, were being: rettitned to their former owners. <2 Cie eed NEW YORK —A telesram signed by President’Carlos Mendieta, ard an airmail letter signed by Jefferson Caffery, U. S. Ambassador, announced to the Nationai Student League yes- terday that Walter Relis, student anti-imperialist. delegate to Cuba, had been re’eased from a jail in Man- zanillo, Cuba, where he was held since Jan. 2h» (- Telegram and iletier were in response to cabled protests by the National Student League against the arrest of Relis.”* In prison, Relis was threatened with shooting by an army officer, a former Machadista, Senator Aids Nazis (Daily Worker’ Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Frances Parkinson Keyes, wife of one of the richest of the rich United States Senators, is actively suy Fas- cism in the United States. She de- livered a public lecture here last Friday night, saying the Hitler movement is “a great movement of youth for the unification of Ger- many. <a The wealthy lady’s lecture was il- lustrated. She present an official Goebbels propaganda film showing Joseph Paul Goebbels, Nazi Propa- canca Minister, and Adolf Hitler himself, spewing Nazi doctrine—a film closing with the slogan, “Free Germany from) Marxism!” Thousands attended, in Constitu- “ton Hall, the new building of the ved-baiting Daughters of the Amer- ‘can Revolution. ‘The lecture was vnder the auspices of the National | Yeographic Society, a leisure-class’ | Hon..to. vremoie “science ion.” Mzs. Keyes re- “utly visited. Germany. She is ong ef the most banal and ost-selling of. commercial “women’s yagazine” writers, has fuily exploit- ad the position of her husband, “enry W. Keyes, gentleman farmer, anker, Senator from New Hamp- Wife of Wealthy US.