The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1934, Page 6

‘ Page Sts Worker U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERRATIONAL) Daily UNTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST “America’s Only Working Class Dally Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO, INC, @ Bast 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4- 7954. Washington, D. ¢ Subscription Bates: By Mail: (except % yeer, 96.00 6 months, $3.50; 3 centa. Manhattan, Bronx, year, $9.00 hs, $5.00; 3 Weekly, 7% cant FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 32, 1934 Fight the Jingo Torrent : oe RACE of all the capitalist powers, each to be- come the most formidably armed of all, goes hand im hand with a race by each to stir up bigger waves of jingo national hatreds and fears than the others. This is an essential part of the cold and c game of the capitalist governments as they p to hurl their millions of workers at each throats. The bloodthirsty aggressiveness of Japan’s Clique, its program for the biggest battle fleet, is taken w by Wall Street’s lackeys in Washington to whip wp enthusiasm for their gigantic warship-building pro- gram. In Japan, the news of Washington’s naval plans, ies bandit aggressiveness in the economic war, are used by the ruling clique to stir up a still more frenzied course of armament building. Why this frenzied competition? ‘They are arming as never before, because, as t Resolution of the 13th Plenum of the Commu ternational says: “The growing uncertainty of the bourgeoisie as te the possibility of finding = way out of the crisis only by the intensified exploitation of the toilers of their own countries has led the imperialists to put their main stake on war.” They are arming as much as they can, because iey mean to make war. The race to have the biggest power is the result. It has nothing to do with the cause. This fact is given added emphasis by the under- current of maneuvers by the Japanese and American imperialists, despite their sharp antagonisms and their headlong armament race, which take on more and more significance as Japanese aggressiveness toward the Soviet Union sharpens. The alignments in the imminent conflict in the Far East are by no means fixed yet. hers ruling . . . A THE AGENCIES of Wall Street are shouting the necessity for armaments louder than ever since 1917, souring out torrents of hatred against other nations. It is the task of the workers, and in the first place ot the Communist Party, not only to expose the fever- ish war plans of the impertalisis—and, as a central part of this exposure, to fight the jingo spirit which each country is stirring up at home against its rivals. The fight of the workers against war is a fight of ail workers for the international solidarity of the work- ing class. The fight of the American worker against is a fight to cement ever stronger the fraternal, volutionary bonds between the working class of erica, and the toilers of Japan. Tt is with the fraternal cooperation of the work- ers of other countries, and especially of those workers who may be facing us in opposite trenches, that we can carry out the revolutionary slogan to “turn the imperialist war into civil war,” to turn our weapons against “our own” war-makers. “The way of Bolshevism,” says the Resolution of the 13th Plenum of the Communist International, “is the way of uniting t proletarian forces of all nation- alities and races, it is the way of their joint struggle hand in hand with the Soviet proletariat against the oppressors and exploiters.” A “Slum Clearance” Program 'OVERNOR LEHMAN has just signed the Mandel- baum “slum clearance” Bill, and in New York City Mayor LaGuardia is boosting the carrying out of this bill as a major part of his program. The Mandelbaum Bill authorizes municipalities to set up “Housing Authorities” of five members, ap- pointed by the mayors, who will try to get finances | from the Federal Government through the P.W.A., or will issue bonds. The city and state governments are to give nothing for the “slum clearance.” How do these “slum clearance” proposals work out for the unemployed? In the first place, the “slum clearance” as proposed in New York City, is of little benefit to the jobless. The rents charged the unem- | ployed in such projects are prohibitive. This is prove} in the experience in New York City in the “lung block bounded by Catherine, Market, Cherry and Monroe streets, which was torn down in a “model housing” scheme. Of the 386 families who were moved out of this slum block, only three were able to move back into the “model housing” projects, under the rents charged, an investigation by the Lavanburg Foundation | and Hamilton House revealed. The rest had to move to other slums. Another contract for a “model housing project” | has just been let by the P.W.A. to the Hillside Housing Corporation, of which Nathan Strauss, Jr., is president, Five million dollars is loaned for this project, for the building of 1,388 apartments. The rent to be charged in these apartments is $11 a room. What slum dweller with a family can pey such a rent? SNe oat iy ERE are 525,000 “old law” sium tenement units still in the city, in 67,000 buildings, the type condemned in 1901. There are over 1,000 “slum blocks” in the city of New York alone. The State Housing Bureau reported that if a circle with a radius of a mile be drawn about the area of 137th Street and Third Avenue, | Bronx, roughly the whole area “would be classified as | a slum area.” And this is not the worst section of the city. Scores of thousands of New York's workers live crowded together in these firetrap tenements, without steam heat, without modern plumbing. These are | among the worst, disease ridden and disgraceful slum areas of the world. What will the LaGuardia program do for these Scores of thousands of workers? The million and more unemployed of the city are the largest occupants of the slum areas. They are the worst sufferers from the slum housing conditions, Can they pay $11 a room # month which it is proposed to charge them? Will the 67,060 old law tenement buildings, occupied by thousands of unemployed, be touched by the project to spend $25,000,000 of Public Works money, for housing? 1 will not scratch the surface. 6, ae Sad MANDELBAUM BILL, now a law, is not a real Slum clearance plan. First, it does not Provide for the appropriation of suffictent funds. A large propor- - —_ | Roosevelt | home less food, less clothing. in war funds, and the en by the P.W.A. for railroads the R.F.C, funds to bankers, m clearance program. The P.W.A. for the Hillside Housing r lum ance, but is located out on he Boston Post Road, Bronx. It will not touch the rcrowded slum sections of the city. The rents rged of $11 a room will be prohibitive to the present lers in slums. The slum clearance, to be effective, must put these ‘unds, now used for war purposes and loans actual tearing down of the large the charging of rents low enough f the slum districts to pay. al sh ‘ance plan cannot be carried out methods of La Guardia, where the city pays limited $25,000,000 of P. W.A. corporations at 4 per cent. A real slum clearance project places the responsibility on both the city, state and Federal Government to raise the funds to tear down the disgraceful tenements and build really low rent houses, A real Public Works program that would benefit the unemployed calls for the spending of the billions of governm funds now spent for war preparations, for projects that will benefit the unemployed when ments that do not charge prohibitive S, schools, ete., that the workers oy tk m ¢ where a The slum clearance plan being effected by La- Guardia will leave untouched the wretched slum blocks Tn line with the “economy” program of LaGuardia it calls for the expenditure of no city funds for workers’ housing. It will not benefit the slum dwel- lers because of high rentals. It does not solve the prob- lems of the unemployed. ‘The 59c. Dollar--Wage Cuts and War | rekigted Sora jested yesterday about the devaluation of the dollar to 59.06 cents. “We arrived at it by higher mathematics,” he said. But this kind of “higher mathematics,” which finds so fun is fraught with menace to the millions of toiling workers and farmers who are already suffering the effects of hunger and misery which the five-year capitalist crisis has brought them, This kind of “higher mathematics” means a slash- ing cut in the buying power of every workers’ pay en- velope in the United States. It means a slash in the real wages of the entire income of the working class. It means that the workers’ pay envelope will bring It means that rents will rise. But even more than that: it means that the Roose- velt government is launching the American masses straight for the bloody carnage of another imperialist war. When Roosevelt signed the Gold Bill, issued his proclamation fixing the new reduced gohi content of the dollar, and established an immense, powerful, and secret Equalization Fund, he was serving notice that Wall Street imperialism, for whom he Is acting, is taking another lunge forward in a bitter inflation- ary assault on the wages of the American wage work- ers in order to give support to the brutally aggressive Wall Street drive against its imperialist rivals in the fierce currency war for foreign markets, Roosevelt’s new proclamation states this in un- mistakable terms. It states bluntly that “when the foreign commerce is adversely affected by reason of the depreciation of the currency of another country...”, or when “an economic emergency requires an expan- sion of credit,” or when “an expansion of credit is necessary to secure by international agreement stabili- jon at proper levels,” then Roosevelt wants the power to cheapen the dollar still further. This is a program of bold and determined infla- tion. It very clearly contains a threat to Britain that Roosevelt is going to wield the club of inflationary cheapening of the dollar to secure the “proper levels” for the dollar. This program makes it clear that Roose- | velt will not hesitate to drive the dollar plunging downward through more inflation if the trade war with British imperialism demands it. It is a program that is leading to ever crueller cheapening of the buying power of the masses, and to the increasing menace of war, as Roosevelt thrusts violently at the markets of British imperialism, is i reny ise ‘E CAPITALIST PRESS seeks to conceal the brutal inflationary character of Roosevelt’s latest 59.06 dol- They pretend to see in it a forerunner of “sta- The Wall Street bankers, the New York prominently features, see a “return to a gold ete. Actually, Roosevelt's act is exactly the opposi It is a further blow against any possible remnants of stabilization. Roosevelt is not establish- ing a fixed point of dollar stabilization on a gold basis. He is doing exactly the contrary. He is proclaiming to British imperialism that American Wall Street im- perialism will not tolerate any value of the dollar above 60 cents. And woe to British imperialism if the British bankers attempt to force it above that point! | For, as Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Treasury grimly boasted only the other day, on the passage of the Gold Bill, “We now have as many blue chips for the game as the other fellow.” And, Frank A. Vanderlip, former President of the ; National City Bank, joyfully hailed Roosevelt’s latest financial move with the following sinister words: “The two-billion dollar Equalization Fund is as desirable as the anti-aircraft guns we are building...” The respectable capitalist banker forgot to add that the necessity for the anti-aircraft guns arises | Precisely out of the operations of the “Equalization | Fund, that it is the Equalization Fund that will even- tually have to be backed up by cannon and planes. He forgot to make clear that the Roosevelt 59.06 cents dollar is just as much a part of the grow- ing War program of Roosevelt as the anti-aircraft guns, The 59.06 cents dollar is already sending the prices of commodities rising again, Cotton, wheat, corn, etc., are rising. This will mean bitter hardships for the masses, who must buy bread and clothing. But it will also mean, and has already meant a new torrent of profits for the speculative vultures on the Wall Street Stock Exchange. Profits are roaring again in Wall | Street. The 59.06 cents dollar is a sharp wage slash for every worker who draws a pay envelope, for every worker who lives on cash relief, for every impoverished farmer who ekes out a barren existence from the sale | of his small crops. The latest Roosevelt inflationary blow against the masses and against British imperialism will not solve the crisis for American capitalism. It will, instead, in- tensify all the tangled contradictions, all the snarled antagonisms that characterize the present period of the final end to all stabilization in world capitalism, Roosevelt's intensified inflationary drive is only adding another factor that is adding to the disorgan- ization, to the deadly imperialist antagonisms that are tushing the world to another imperialist war, Higher wages, a determined fight against rising prices, the transference of the two billion Government. Equalization Fund for the relief of the jobless, for Unemployment Insurance, the transference of the huge government billions for the C.W.A. jobs at full wages, all these are the weapons that will smash the Roosevelt 59.06 cents dollar and defeat the Roosevelt Wall Street war drive, which is driving the masses deeper into misery in order to protect the profits of Wall Street finance capital Govt Faces Early Fall “L’Humanite” Doubles | Circulation; Socialists Losing Prestige | PARIS, Feb. 1—The new Daladier | Cabinet is delaying its appearance | before the Chamber of Deputies until next Tuesday to gain time for its! attempt to stem the furious mass in- | dignation evoked by the Stavisky | | scandal. | Premier Daladier today set about launching the much-promised, long- delayed “investigation” of the loot- ing of the Credit Municipal Bayonne by Serge Stavisky and his govern- ment accomplices, resulting in the | fleecing of small investors and in- surance companies of $133,000,000. L’Humanite Exposes Government L'Humanite publishes today a stathing exposure of Deladier’s cor- rupt role, as premier three years ago | during the Oustric bank scandal and the bribery of government officials by Oustric. The circulation of L’Humanite has been doubled in the | past two weeks, reflecting its increas- ing authority among the masses. Workers Continue Protest Actions | Mass demonstrations continued in | Paris and other centers today, under | leadership of the Communist Party. The strike of Paris chauffeurs and taxi drivers is proceeding 100 per} cent strong, despite police attacks and arrests. Cabinet Likely to Fall The opinion is gaining that the new cabinet will not survive its first test | in the Chamber of Deputies. Dela- | dier is faced with dissension in his | own Radical-Socialist party, the} largest single group in the Chamber. | Socialist Leaders Offer Services | to the State | It is unlikely that Leon Blum’s So- |clalists, the second largest group in | | the Chamber, will dare support Dala- |dier in face of the furious indigna- | tion of the workers and Socialist rank and file members against that party’s shameful role in supporting |the Chautemps Ministry in its wage | and relief cuts provisions and in openly defending Stavisky’s accom- |plices in the government. Under | Pressure of this mass fury, Leon Blum jtoday announced he would not sup- | Port Daladier. At the same time, the Socialist leaders launched a series of new maneuvers aimed at deceiy- ing the masses, while at the same time offering their services to strengthen the bourgeois state ap- paratus. This direct offer to head the bour- geois state apparatus failed to evoke even a ripple of enthusiasm among the bourgeoisie, since, as the New York Tribune correspondent cabled his paper: “The Socialists in their manifesto boast—though rashly, it seems to | some-—that theirs is the only poli- tical party not touched by scandal. “This correspondent’s inquiries, however, support the view that the | member that it supported the | visky case.” |_ The French bourgeois press, weigh- | ing the possibility of a Soclalist “res- |cue” of the bourgeois state, express |simflarly pessimistic views. News Item: v w do at 59.06 per cent of its old level, President Roosevelt replied, “Higher mathematics. pr 40% WAGE cut MEAN When questioned how he determined the gold weight of the new dollar Hone iT? of | R ? | | | | | | | reads Anti-Nazi Leaflets As Motorcycle Roars Browder Will Recount Acts of Heroic Revolutionists At Coliseum Meeting Feb. 11 NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—A story told ali over Mayence, Germany, that has just reached this country via Saar- brucken, tells of an especially daring act by which anti-fascist leaflets were distributed in the streets of the town in spite of the Nazi brownshirts. Earl Browder, seretary of the Com- monist Party, in his explanation of the German situation at the Feb. 11 “Support the German Reyolution” concert and affair in New York, will give numerous other instances of how the German Communist Party, with great heroism and skill, carries on its | illegal work in Germany, despite conditions of the greatest terror. Motorcycle Roars Through Town In the last week in December, shortly before the shops closed, the noise of a motorcycle rushing through the streets of Mayence at breakneck speed was heard. When the local Population flocked to the streets, they saw flying from the motorcycle | as it went its violent pace, scores of leaflets, anti-fascist leaflets that soon covered the street. The police started in pursuit. The motorcycle went tearing towards the old quarter of the town, stopping be- fore a doorway which connected two ; Parallel streets, The workers escaped | through the doorway and the police were unsuccessful in locating the workmen, though they made a raid jon the working-class section of the town. When they returned to ex- amine the motorcycle, they found it was the motorcycle of a leading Storm Trooper, from under whose nose it had just been borrowed. Funds Go to German C. P. New York workers will demonstrate | their solidarity with these heroic |German workers, and will aid them in their attempts to rid themselves of their Nazi oppressors and to set up their own workers’ rule, by attend- ing the Feb. 11 concert and affair at the Bronx Coliseum, the program of | Which has just been completed. All proceeds go to the German Communist Party for its work. In addition to new German revolution- ary songs, the Freiheit Gesangs Verein, the Daily Worker Chorus, and the Ukrainian Choruses will pre- sent separate programs. V. J. Jer- ome’s popular play, “Newsboy,” will be presented by the Workers’ Labora- tory Theatre. Tickets are $1 for re- served seats, and for the rest of the house 40 cents in advance, Britain and Italy On Arms Increase | In Nazi Land Army, Seek to Control Secret Growth of German Armed Force LONDON, Feb. 1.—The British and | Italian governments issued state-| ments last night in which they en- dorse partial re-arming for Germany. Italy is willing to agree to a Ger- man army of 300,000; Great Britain to an army between 200,000 and 300,000, plus medium-sized guns and medium- sized tanks. The Italian proposal is conditional on Germany's returning to the League of Nations. Both governments admit they don’t expect their plans to be taken seri- ously. Nazi Germany has left both the League and the “Disarmament” | Conference, and is known to be building secretly all the arms which are being discussed, besides having hundreds of thousands of storm troopers drilled and under arms in addition to the regular army allowed by treaty, Both governments are trying to put themselves in the position of having made concessions to the “justice” of Germany’s case for re-arming, while obtaining some sort of control over the nature and extent of Germany's actual armaments, (Continued from Page 1) ¢ stration, swelled in size, at 5:30. Marching in serried ranks through the Red Square, flood lights threw the huge red banners into sharp relief as darkness fell. The demonstration will last through many hours of the night. The most popular placard, which can be seen everywhere, is one which shows a boot kicking a pig in the nose, referring to Stalin’s statement the other day to the Congress about the “swinish snouts who want to enter our garden.” Stalin Concludes With the words of the Chairman, “Comrade Stalin now has the floor” the four and a half days of discussion of the delegates on Stalin’s’ report to the 17th Party Congress of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union came to an end today. It was a long time before the delegates finally permitted Stalin to say: “The discussion here, Comrades, has revealed complete unity of views on all questions of Party policy. The discussion has raised no objections to the report of the activities of the Central Committee. The speeches of the Congress show the full ideoligical, political, and organizational unity in the Party ranks. Is a concluding speech, therefore, necessary? I think it is This was greeted with a storm of indescribable enthusiasm, — which roared through the hall with the sound of such enormous jubilation, and pride of victory as has rarely ever been witnessed in the history of any party. Then, the world battle song of the revolution, the “Internationale” burst forth from the thousand delegates present. Unanimous Approval When it ended, Khruschey, read the draft resolution of the Moscow delegations as follows: “Having heard Comrade Stalin's report of the activity of the Central Committee, the 17th Party Congress resolves: First, unconditionally to approve the political line and practical work of the Central Committee; Secondly, to adopt Comrade Stalin’s report and propose that all Party organizations be guided in their ac- tivity by the statements and tasks raised in Stalin's speech.” The boundless enthusiasm snd Moscow Marches; seemingly endless applause of the | Party Honor Stalin, 17th Congress confidence of ine Congress is em- bodied in this resolution adopted by unanimous decision of the Congress, Tremendous Mass Joy Everywhere is felt the joy of mastery. However, full mastery has not yet been attained in certain sections of the economy. In the transport situ- ation, for example, Commissar An- dreyevy, who was greeted with pro- longed applause, depicted the actual situation on the Soviet railroads and described the shortcomings and the tasks which faced the Party in this industry. He showed that all the Possibilities of the railroads are not yet being fully used, and that the situation in railroads must improve. A joy of mastery fills all the speeches of the delegates discussing Stalin's report. All proclaim that the has subordinated all petty bourgeois theories of spontaneity with the iron will of the proletariat. This enormous victory has cleared the path and has been accomplished through the mastery of the elements of nature, which under capitalism carried off hundreds of thousands of lives, in such regions as the Volga Steppes. Formerly the raging storms and droughts of the Volga region meant starvation and death to tens of thousands of poor peasants. The terrible drought and famine of 1921 along the Volga Steppes, which killed thousands upon thousands of peas- ants, was brought to the minds of the delegates by Shubrikov, repre- senting the Central Volga Region. “Today,” he says, “we have ex- perienced greater storms than in 1921. But a new, powerful force confronts the raging hot winds, a force which was non-existent in 1921, a force created by the first Five-Year Plan—the power of col- lectivization. Therefore, despite the drought in the Volga region, we collected even a larger harvest from these fields than in 1931 and 1932. No drought, no elements of nature, can cause famine, hunger or a grain shortage in our Soviet vil- Jages today, even though the possi- bilities of the struggle of the col- lective farms against drought are not yet fully realized.” “Tomorrow, when the irrigation of the Volga district had advanced full force, and the collective farm- ers have entirely mastered their tractors and their power machinery created by the first Five-Year Plan, then all the natural wealth, lying untouched in the ground, and all the elements tamed by us, will be put to work at the collective farms and for the conntry avd the foe. tility o ithe land will grow as never tility of the land will grow as never Hail Voroshilov As Chairman Postirshey gave the | floor to Comrade Voroshilov, Com- tmissar of War, there was another tremendous ovation which seemed as |if it would never end. Voroshilov's speech was constantly interrupted by applause and laughter, as he sar- | donically characterized the enemies of the Soviet Union. Voroshiloy out~ lined in detail the tasks of the trans- port system and agriculture, as they relate to the question of the coun- try’s defense. The Congress listened with wrapt attention to his speech, whose calm expressed the strength and assuredness of the leader of the Bolshevik armed forces, ready to de- | fend the security of the Soviet bor- ders, and immeasurably strength- ened by the technical reconstruction of the Red Army. Vorushilov concluded his speech by hailing the strength of the Soviet working class and the collective farmers, standing firmly around their leader, Stalin. His concluding words were drowned in a mighty demon- stration of enthusiasm, the delegates rising to cheer, as the ovation sur- passes anything yet seen in the Con- gress when the members of the Pre- sidium (highest committee) of the Congress form a passage and Stalin appears in the center. The general tone of the discussion of the delegates indicated that, de- spite the tremendous victories, it is still possible to develop rapidly with the still unused reserves of industry new roads, new factories, for the pro- duction of more . The Sec- ond Five-Year Plan must be fulfilled as honorably as was the first, is a in the discussion. Fight for Better Organization Answering the question, what ham- pers the full mastery of technique for the full utilization of available re- serves, the delegates report that in- adequate organization is one of the major causes of backwardness in such industries as transport, for ex- ample, and can be remedied by new organization and quality of organiza- tional leadership. That an improve- ment in the quality of work of all the vital links in industry is an absolute pre-condition of victory as stressed by all speakers. It is pointed out that in some Cen- tral Offices, particularly the agricul- tural and railroad commissariats, are not yet entirely freed from bureau- cracy, and need reorganization, sim- plification and greater flexibility. One of the delegates, Antipov, told the Congress that last year’s reor- ganization and curtailment of the Sevies paaulind tm ‘the Party line have been defeated saving of about 700,000,000 rubies. The first Five-Year Plan was suc- cessfully fulfilled and the beginning of the second is already successful. All the delegates speak of those who tried, to obstruct these victories by fighting against the Bolshevik line and endeavored to mislead the Party, namely, the right and “left” oppor- tunists, whom the Party, under Stal- in’s leadership, has smashed. Fight Against Deviations The Congress listened with the greatest attention to Rykov’s speech before the close of the morning’s ses- sion, as one of the former leaders of the right opportunists. Rykoy ad- mitted his former leadership in his struggle against the Central Com- mittee. He admitted that the line advocated by Bukharin, Tomsky and himself inevitably would have led back to capitalism and that the right deviation was the mouth-piece of the property, petty-bourgeoisie kualks (rich peasants). Rykov, however, said these things with a certain air of unwillingness, and he didn’t expose those who were his followers. His speech was interrupted by frequent interjections from the delegates. He admitted, however, the absolute vic- tory of the Party over its enemies, including the group of the right de- viation. His speech was a full con- firmation that all oppositions against by the Party under Stalin’s leader- ship, Rykov did not speak whole- heartedly, which indicates that the of the Party against the former right opposition leaders and members must not weaken, and that their activities must be repeatedly checked up. Comrade Stalin re- peatedly urged this and all the del- egate speakers emphasized it. Foreign Party Greetings The first speaker of the evening session was Razumov, of East Siberia, who described the growth of the Sib- erian provinces. His speech was fol- Jowed by greetings from the foreign Communist Parties. Soviets. The Congress warmly ap- plauded the Polish Communist’s ad- miration of the Soviet working class, their struggles and victories, and of the Leninist Central Committee To Fascists Order Members to Dro) Fight On Austrian é Fascist Regime \ VIENNA, Feb: 1.—In a Seian the Lower Austrian Diet b> the Socialist leader and deputy, Schneidmadl, declared that the fas- cist Dollfuss regime was threatened with overthrowal and offered the ser~ vices of the Austrian Socialist Party to save the regime, which recently ordered the suppression of all work- ing class organizations. Under the familiar pretext of the! “lesser evil” by which the German Socialist leaders supported Hinden- “ burg and paved the way for the bloody Nazi’ dictatorship, Schneid- madl offered the Austrian fascist dictatorship an alliance with the Socialist Party. He revealed that the Socialist leaders had already in- structed the Socialst rank anq file members—who are increasingly joine ing the united anti-fascist front set up by the illegal Communist Party that they discontinue their struggles against the Dollfuss regime, He stated: “Yesterday we issued orders to all our organizations to drop alt | political quarrels with the govern- | ment should a Nazi putsch begin. and fight side by side with the democratic members of the govern- ment party. Afterward, however, we will fight the Heimwehr Fas- cists and their putsch plans.” This is almost the identical lan« | guage used by the German Socialist leaders in January, 1933, in rejecting | the offer of the German Communist | Party for a united struggle against the fascist reaction. It is a repetition of the “lesser evil” theory, with the “choice” this time openly between two factions of the same fascist camp! In the face of the bloodiest attacks on the working class by the Dollfuss regime, and its attempts to split the peasants away from the town prole- tariat, Schneidmadl declares in the name of the Austrian Socialist lead- ership. “Our Socialist. workers are eager to replace the Heimwehr mercen- aries and as soldiers of the anti- Nazi army fight for Austrian lib- erty side by side with those demo- eratically minded members of Chancellor Dollfuss’ clerical party who are still to be found, especially among the peasants.” This chauvinist incitement for the unleashing of a new world war by utilizing the increasing tension be- tween Germany and Austria, backed by Italian and French imy was also apparent in the coments the Socialist press on the struggle between the followers of Hitler ang Dollfuss for supremacy in the Austrian state apparatus. Schneidmadl warned Dollfuss that his support in the Heimwehr crumbling, that his allies among Heimwehr leaders were tumbling one another to make their with the Nazis. Roosevelt in Deal — To Alter Terms of Platt Amendment WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Accepting the credentials of Manuel Marques Sterling, Cuban Ambassador, Presi< dent Roosevelt yesterday hinted af modification of U. 8.-Cuban which include the enslaving Plat amendment. In thus recognizing the immense opposition to the Wall Street slave treaties on the part of the Cuban masses, Roosevelt did not specify what changes he proposed, but made clear they have nothing to do with a “hands off Cuba” policy, since they are aimed at establishing trade agreements which will increase Wall Street’s financial strangle-hold om the island, ~~ Reh ae Big Strikes Face Mendieta HAVANA, Feb, 1. — The “stable government” of Carlos Mendiet which President Roosevelt in such a hurry, faces the threat of @ general strike today. Thirty thousand tobacco workers went on strike in Havana province yesterday, as did all bus workers. The workers of the Cuba Northern Railways have been on strike for several days. Dock workers, transportation and factory workers, and many smaller unions of the National Confederation of Labor have pledged support to the strikers. Student demonstra- tions, and demonstrations of Negroes against race discrimination are tak plauded, as were the greetings from the French Master Technique one of the women , methods production on the new machinery. She tells how in many factories more than half the workers