The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 3, 1934, Page 8

; “have declared that the Philippines is the American imperialist oppressors. Philippines, against the greatest odds, has been carry- ' been slow and lagging. Now we must strain all our Page Eight Daily, QWorker DeTRAL OnGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST TERNATIONAL? “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 ‘UBLISHED DAILY. EXCEPT SUNDAY. BY THE 10MPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 East 13th eet, New York, N. Y. Algonquin 4-7954 Telephone able Address Wa. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1934 “Preparedness,” Forerunner of Rapidly ApproachingW ar, navy, to plunge is build) treet i Roosevelt of Wall forces this country > a new bloody, ¢ mperia war in an effort to solve the cap’ crisi re-divide the world plunder Wall Street is Secretary of War | now the cry Assistant “Preparedness!” already prepared for war. Woodring has declared the is ready at any moment for war. Col. Wi ational President | of the Reserve Officers says that with a “navy. second to none,” the United States is ready for war. In secret, the House Military Affairs Committee is perfecting a plan for 2,000 new war planes at a cost of $80,000,000. Now the Roosevelt regime js entering the phase of preparing the minds of the American masses for | a new world imperialist slaughter. February 12-22 has been set .aside as ' National Defense W The radio, screen, stage, schools, | colleges, and meetings, will hum and buzz with war | talk. A campaign of the foulest jingoism, well-larded with the usual pacifist phrases, is about to be opened up, to stir up the war spirit for American imperialism. The dominant note will be “peace.” “Military jparedness” will be put forward as a guarantee of But the experience of all capitalist countries shows that it does not lead to peace, but is a rapid forerunner of war. Under the screen of “peace,” the Roosevelt regime will seek to arouse the vilest chau- hatreds, to win the American workers for the r policy of Wall Street. & HE seriousness of the war danger becomes impelling. The war machine of the Roosevelt regime has reached gigantic proportions, engulfing the whole country. Only a spark is needed to set the whole | ss ablaze and to plunge the American workers into the most criminal, brutal and bloody war the world has ever seen. American imperialism, with its jingoist propaganda to spur the naval race with Japanese imperialism, is aiming to spill the blood of the Japanese and American workers. The Roosevelt inflation program is sharpening the battle between England and the United States for markets, for world financial domination at the expense of the toiling masses of both countries. While Japanese imperialism moves its army col- umns, its military railroads, its plots and war bases nearer to the Soviet Union, the Japanese war lords meet in secret naval conference with Wall Street’s representatives to allay their conflicts in the common War against the Soviet Union. Minister of War Hayashi’s speech on Wednesday, is a direct invitation to Wall Street to join the Jap- anese war lords in war against the common enemy of world capitalism, the Soviet Union. URING preparedness week our struggle against war will be put to the highest test and we should be Teady to meet it. Against the jingoist war propa- ganda, in every city and hamlet, we should answer by the mobilization of our forces against war. We should spread our counter-propaganda among all workers, in the shops, at the very war meetings called by the masters. We should reply everywhere with leaflets telling of the war objectives of the Roosevelt regime, give our revolutionary plan of action against it. ‘We should mobilize more energetically to stop all war munitions shipments, to organize to cripple the ‘war moves of Wall Street. Against the impending attack by Japanese im- Perialism on the workers’ fatherland, we should forge the strongest united front for the defense of the Soviet Union. In reply to the vicious chauvinist propaganda of Yankee imperialism, we should strengthen the bonds of international solidarity of the Japanese and Amer- fean toilers in a common struggle against the slave- holders, for the defeat of their war moves, for the | transformation of their imperialist war into a civil | war, and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Solidarity With the Filipino Masses eae eam NEW DEAL for the Philippines has meant the imprisonment of 16 of the foremost jeaders of the Filipino worker and peasant organiza- tions. Under the reign of the Detroit demagogue, Frank Murphy, now Governor General of the Philippines, the Communist Party, the National Peasants Confede- ration, the Proletarian* Labor Congress, the Children of Sweat (Anak Pawis), and the International Labor Defense have been driven into illegality. With a new imperialist war rapidly approaching in the Far East, the Roosevelt regime is strengthening its colonial hold and brutality in the Philippines. Wall Street feels its domination in the Philippines will be stronger with these valiant leaders of the op- pressed toiling masses of the Philippines safe in the vile dungeons, or banished to the jungles for 8 years. Sunday at 2:30 p.m. a mass protest meeting will be held at Irving Plaza, in New York City, to rally a nation-wide demand for the immediate release of our fellow workers and comrades in the Philippines, Wall Street militarists on more than one occasion spearhead for further colonial penetration in the Far East, even for war against the Soviet Union. The native landlord-bourgeoisje of the Philippines has proved to be one of the most pliant allies of the The Communist Party of the ing on a determined and heroic fight. And now its @ leaders have fallen victims to the Roosevelt dic- ; in the island. Up to now the campaign among the American workers for solidarity with their Filipino brothers has eMorts, arouse the most energetic movement to demand and win the freedom of our Filipino brothers. In this way we can help the fight against American imperial- ism and its preparations for war in the Far Kast, Attend the mass meeting Sunday at 2:30 at Irving Plaza! Organize to demand the release of the heroic Filipino wor*ine class and peasant leaders! nom fa DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1934 “LaGuardia to Date” liberal’ examines ITH its “The Nation” Guardia in office usual insight the i states that b the current issue of rst month of La- as accomplished enough to make his election memorable.” ” considers of the new administration, the aGuardia to Date” goes into liberal LaGu ’s economy bill. With whole- ies ov hearted approval it quotes the demagogic Fusion Mayor I found a shipwreck,” LaGuardia is quoted as say- “and I am il I can 7 to get the city employees into a them on a sound ship.” which “The ing lifeboat eccnon bill, Nation” so {ul- praises, is intended to enable the New York ard of Estimate to cut the wages of city employees so! Bo: ruthle: enforced furlough for city workers, id to reor ize the city bureaus in order ot he complete political dominance ministration. This will be evident to amines the actual activities and month of the LaGuardia administra- cts of ¢ tion The achievements which “The Nation” lists are nothing more than a continuation of the corrupt poli- tical dog-fights of former years: threatened investiga- tions which accomplish no basic changes (witness the deflated Welfare Island probe which, after an initial lion’s roar of publicity, has now died down to a weak sparrow-chirp); removal of appointees of previous ad- ministrations in order to grab the lucrative chair- warming and grafting jobs for their own hangers-on. This is really the base of all LaGuardia activities at the present: the consolidation of the Fusion machine through the process of monopolizing the municipal jobs and sinecures, And whenever it is better to ‘play ball with Tammany (which occurred in the charter revi- sion proposal), the Fusion gang will not hesitate, it will be happy to do so, As for the Mayor's economy bill, defeated in the State Legislature at Albany by .the Democrats, who resented LaGuardia’s attempt to put all his ten fingers into the municipal political pie, it is nothing more than this very same attempt to grab off the high- salaried jobs in the city, to keep up the enormous pay- ments of tax-payers’ money flowing into the hands of the Wall Street banking interests, and to balance the present budget deficit of 31 to 35 million dollars by continuing to lower the living standards of the workers of New York. Let no one be fooled by “The Nation’s” docile repe- tition of LaGuardia’s promise that the proposed en- forced furloughs and wage-cuts of civil employees are “moderate and temporary” measures. Just as “tempo- rary” was Roosevelt's wage-cut imposed on the Federal employees when he first assumed office. But the Fed- eral workers are still laboring under their cut pay, made doubly crushing by Roosevelt’s inflation. iOS Ren ae HAT IS IT, then, that “The Nation’ finds so memor- able in the new,administration? The very core of the Fusion machine's activities lie in LaGuardia’s | financial program. And LaGuardia’s avowed finan- cial objective is to carry out the Untermyer four-year tax agreement with the Wall Street clique of Morgan- Rockefeller banks—the Chase National and the Na- tional City banks. All the rest is merely a new tech- nique of continuing exactly the same practices of the previous administrations, a technique covered with the demagogic veneer of “progressive” and “liberal” phrases, @ technique made necessary by the widespread dis- gust of the masses of New York with the too-overt and corrupt tactics of Tammany. This financial program is meant to insure the col- lection by the bankers of. $126,000,000 every year, out of a total city budget of $700,000,000 per year! This could have been foreseen even during the election campaign, when LaGuardia’s campaign manager was none other than Maleolm D. Simpson—of the House of Morgan. Tt is for this reason that LaGuardia is drawing rapidly forward to a seven-cent subway fare. It is for this reason that he is victimizing civil employees— not only teachers, but the entire school system, in- cluding the children, whom he will crowd into bigger classes, while their parents’ money will make up the bankers’ payments. And what is “The Nation’s” role? We remember that “The Nation” squawked at the crude means em- ployed by the Tammany Administration. But that “The Nation” had, and has, no basic disagreement with the Tammany program is fully exposed now, when it praises as “memorable” the program of LaGuardia, which is identical with that of Tammany, although sweetened by “progressive” phraseology and tactics,, LaGuardia was consciously chosen by Wall Street to carry out this financial program, even if it meant - the crushing of millions of workers in the city. Let the readers of “The Nation”—school teachers, pr >fes- sionals, white collar workers—see for themselves what “The Nation” supports when it comes to a choice be- tween bankers’ bonds or education! The Daily Worker and — the Hotel Strike ~ ih THE GROWING strikes by workers for better con- ditions, the Daily Worker not only published truth- ful accounts of these vital struggles, but tells the workers concretely how to wrest victory from the bosses. Workers who are reached with the “Daily” during such struggles testify in letters to our paper that our Daily Worker helps them see the strikebreaking roles of their misleaders, helps them realize the need of militant and united rank and file action in their strikes. But far too little effort has been made by oppo- sition groups in the A. F. of L,, by the industrial unions to bring the Daily Worker to the workers on strike. This is a serious neglect to make use of a powerful weapon which can help them win the work- ers from the reactionary, strikebreaking leaders. ‘ We congratulate the Food Workers Industrial Union for avoiding this grave shortcoming in the present strike of the New York Food Workers by ordering 2,500 extra copies of the “Daily” for sale among the strikers. Since the start of this strike, the Daily Worker has counteracted the poisonous lies by the capitalist press about this mass struggle by publishing the real facts. The Daily Worker has exposed the secret sell- out agreement offered without the knowledge of the rank and file to the bosses by the Trotzky-Lovestone officials of the Amalgamated Hotel and Restaurant Union. The Daily Worker is publishing a series of articles bringing to public light the miserable working condi- tions in the hotels and restaurants, against which the strike is directed. From the very start of the strike, the Daily Worker has called on the food workers to force rank and fil control of their strike, to unite their ranks, ¢y¥ In ordering 2,500 extra copies of the “Daily” for sale among the food workers, the Food Workers In- dustrial Union shows its revolutionary understanding of the importance of using the “Daily” as an agitating, unifying and directive force in this important struggle. We call on other industrial unions, on militant workers’ groups to learn in this respect from the Food Workers Industrial Union, ae ae ‘Canadian Defense | Secretary Indicted On Sedition Charge |Court Declares Proof of | | Smith’s Charges Is | No Defense | | (Special to the Daily Worker) TORONTO, Feb. 2—A, E. Smith, General Secretary of the Canadian} Lator Defense League was indicted | yesterday on a sedition charge for an jalleged speech dealing with the gov- jernment’s attempt on the life of/ |Tim Buck, Canadian Communist leader, held in the “Black Hole” in Kingston prison i The indictment is based on evi-| |dence of the notorious anti-Red| | Squad. The judge, in charging the} | jury, which took place without the; yknowledge of the accused, stated |that no defense could be established | by proof that Smith’s charges are |true. He quoted the sedition law to} |the effect that if words spoken or} | published are seditious it is no de- |fense that they are true and there-| fore evidence to prove their truth is impermissible. | The Canadian Labor Defense is| appealing to its sister organization in the U.S., the International Labor | Defense, and to the broad American| masses to rally against this latest outrage and attempt to smash the| rapidly growing workers movement) jin Canada. It calls for protest res-| olutions and telegrams to the Ben-| nett Government. | ‘Japanese Execute TWO CONGRES CONVE Pog g 9 THE JOBLESS ALL Wa FUNDS Te —By Burch on Trial Monday Manchurian Leader Calls for Anti-Imperialist Fight As He Dies PEIPING, Feb. 2.— Wang Cheng- Chen, Chinese leader against Jap- anese occupation of North Man- churia, was publicly executed at Tsitsihar on Jan, 4. An immense crowd witnessed the execution. Wang-Cheng-chen ad- dressed them before his death, call- ing on them to carry on the fight against Japanese imperialism, The resistance to Japanese occupa- tion by partisan bands is extremely widespread. In various districts of North Manchuria, soviets have been| Concert and affair. These are th “The Communist Party of Germany , shop, 50 E. 13th St., downtown; Hun-; is leading a heroic fight against Hit-} garian Workers Book Store, 350 3.) ler fascism. You can and should | 8ist St., Yorkville; Finnish Worke' help in this fight!” | first words of a leaflet, that is be-| Cooperative Restaurant, 2700 Br ss ing distributed by the tens of thou-| Park East, Bronx; and Brownsville) Mans end their efforts to capture sands for the February 11 “Support| Book Store, 62 Herzl St. Browns-| Austria for the Nazis. the German Workers’ Revolution” | ville. - | ¢ | Book Store, 15 W. 125th St., Hark nx | at Meeting to Aid German C. A Rejected by Hitler New Plays, New Dances, Even a New Art Form) Nazis Continue Drive 10 Will Help Raise Funds for German Party Capture Austria VIENNA, Feb. 2.—As was expected, and as Adolf Hitler forecast in his Jan. 30 speech, the Nazi government yesterday flatly rejected the Austrian government's demand that the Ger- The text of the German note was not made public, but an official state- set up, and the peasants are fighting under the red flag. Bloody Battle Raging In Chaco; Bolivia Gets U. S. Arms Shipment BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 2—A fierce battles raging between Bolivian and Paraguayan troops in the Chaco region, following several minor clashes in the past few days. ‘The Paraguayan command is hurl- ing troops recklessly at the Bolivian lines in an attempt to consolidate its recent victories before the Bolivian forces can be reorganized. The battle Early reports indicate that thej Bronx Coliseum, where the affair takes place, will be filled to the top with workers come to pledge their solidarity to the developing struggie of the German workers. Contrary to the usual practice, there will be no free admission, since the purpose of the meeting is to raise a large sum of money to be given to the German Communist Party, for its illegal work. John Bovingdon will present the same unique method of dancing that he gave before workers in the Soviet Union. In addition to the satirical “peon dance” on Hitler, Bovingdon will present a few sketches of Soviet life, from among “Diplomat, Mother, Farmer, Miner, Toiler, Youth, and increases bondholders. Nazis Raise Pay to Foreign Bankers To Sweat Big Payments Out of Workers | BERLIN, Feb. 2.— Adolf Hitler's campaign promise to chains of the international bankers” was carried out in Nazi fashion yes- terday when Germany agreed to big in payments to foreign “break the Germany had never paid less than 65 per cent on the enormous debts is marked by intense artillery and trench mortar fire, with numerous casualties in dead and wounded on both sides. Dispatches from Chile report the arrival at Santiago and other Chilean ports of huge arms shipments from the United States for Wall Street’s Bolivian puppets in the war by proxy ee hoa U. S, and British imperial- Inventor.” Theatre. A new highly dramatic Scottsboro play in addition to Jerome's “News- boy” will be presented for the first time by the Workers Laboratory Admission price is $1 for reseryed seats. The other seats will be 40c in advance, and 50c at the door. Ticket stations, where tickets can be purchased now are: Workers Book- claimed by foreign creditors, half of it. claimed by financiers in the U. S. The new agreement made yesterday by Hjalmar Schacht, director of the state bank, increases the payments to 77 per cent. These gigantic sums are squeezed out of the German workers and peas- ants, hammering down still farther their living standards, already at the starvation level. | ment said it refused to consider the | Austrian claims. | Chancellor Dolifuss’ fascist cabinet | immediately anrounced that Hitler's | stand was not acceptable, and that tt | would “take further steps.” Meanwhile, Nazi terroristic acis | Were reported continuing in Austria jon @ large scale, with .bombing of stores. | German ChildrenOrdered To Wear Nazi Uniforms BERLIN, Feb. 2.—The ever-pres- ent brown uniforms of Nazi storm troopers and the sombre black shirts of the Hitler guards have been foreed on the populace as a whole today as a@ result of a declaration by Hitler that all children must wear uniforms. This is the latest boom for German manufacturers who heve been work- ing hand in hand with the Hitler regime which gave out detailed in- structions and designs for the new uniforms. The rule is contained in a 150-page book and is obligatory for every German child. for Polish Revolts ‘N.Y. Groups Protest | sb opens that day im have been held withe and a half years, { he survivors of the notos | which accompanied th | “pacific * of the mass revolt 9} | Western Ukraine peasants in 19; |The horrors of the treatment of th | prisoners of the Polish fascist gove |ernment, revealed by the Interna- | tional Red Aid, were so great that the government was compelled to admit |the facts and go through some pree | tense of disciplining the perpetrators, In Monday’s delegation will be rep- |resentatives of the International |Labor Defense, the Polish Solidarity | Club, the Trade Union Unity League, the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union, the Workers Ex-Service> men’s League, the American League Against. War and Fascism, and the New York District, Communist Party, They will meet at 10 a. m, Monday at the New York district office of the I. L. D., 870 Broadway. Protest Terror in Philippines Sunday | Delegation to Be Elected to Go to Washington NEW YORK.—A mass meeting to | protest American imperialist terror in the Philippines and the arrest of | Filipino working-class leaders will be | held Sunday afternoon, 2:30, at the | Irving Plaza, The meeting will elect | a delegation to go to Washington to | carry its protests to President Roose- velt. The meeting and the elected dele~ gation will support the struggles of the Filipino masses for national lib- eration from the chains of U. 8. im- perialism and its reformist Filipino agents. The delegation will visit Manuel Quezon, reformist leader who is now in this country negotiating with Roosevelt the betrayal of the national struggle for independence, Speakers at the meeting will in- clude - William Patterson, National Secretary of the International Labor Defense, and representatives of the Civil Liberties Union, the American League Against War and Fascism, also Japanese and Filipino speakers, 1,000 in Czechoslovakia to Stand Mass Trial fort Being Members of Y PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (By Mail). A mass trial of more than 1,000 persons, on the mere charge of mem- bership in the Young Communist League, will begin soon in Pressburg, Slovakia. Indictments have already been’ issued against 618 defendants, In Neutitschein, 20 Communists are on trial, on the chargé of “unallow~ able relations with a foreign power.” U.S. S.R. Exults in Pledges of Unity With “Congress % Party Leaders Met At Lenin’s Tomb by Immense Throng (Continued from Page 1) of collectivization. This immense conquest has given a new basis for or West get the idea of encroaching on our frontiers, the great Soviet Union will receive them with crush- ing blows. The work of our 17th Con- gress guarantees this.” Immense Celebration A roar of exaltation from hun- dreds of thousands of throats drowns the last words of Kirov’s speech as against the class enemies, “but in his own way,” was met with loud laughter from all parts of the hall, and Shvernik walked to the tribune to reply for the Congress. Answering Preobrajenski’s speech, Shvernik declared, “You could not have fought against the class enemy, because you yourself were its repre- sentative and defender.” At this, ex- ter-revolutionary group to hide be- hind my name.” In concluding, Tom- sky assured the Party Congress of his readiness to fight for the general line of the Party to the end. Answer Opposition Leaders Kirov, the last speaker to .discuss Stalin’s report for the Central Com- mittee, was exceptionally clear and eloquent. He is considered a tested e @ still firmer consolidation of the alliance of workers and peasants, the main conquest of our Party and the working class, We were able in recent years to uproot and annihilate the basis upon which capitalism could grow and develop in the villages.” Destroyed Exploitation “With this victory, we decisively and foreyer buried in the past the old, cursed, exploiting landlord-bour- the meeting ends. Then the demon- stration begins, with immense waves of humanity pouring endlessly through the Square, with hundreds of bands playing revolutionary songs as the assembled thousands send the strains of the revolutionary songs to the sky. Dusk falls ani the Red Square becomes a fairy vision of huge blood red banners waving dn the blindingly brilliant lights which flood the sky with flaming letters clamations from the delegates of “quite right!” were heard thruout the hall. “The greatest merit in breaking up-the Right and ‘Left’ opportunists belongs above all to Stalin,” Shvernik declared. Another delegate, Kabakov, from the Urals, also began his speech by referring to Preobrajenski’s remarks. “His speech,” he said, “is the speech of a spinelss, rotten intellectual.” He geois order. This is one of the most glorious conquests of our great Com- pene Fart led by its granite-firm | party Congress.” workers ri the bai difficult, the most insolvyable ques- question was not solved, the work- ' Soviet Union!” ers of the Paris Commune were { drowned in blood, The Hungarian was solved by that Party created, fostered and trained by our great leader, at whose grave we are now assembled today. This question was solved by the all-Union (Bol- shevik) Communist Party, led by the greatest Leninist, Stalin.” Party Leads Victories “For our victories we are obliged to the leadership of the Communist Party, which unites all that is best, i creative and revolutionary. among the Party, the ranks of our glorious working |skyicts, class, a Party that doesn’t bend be-' recall fore difficulties and dangers arising} Conelu within or without. Our Party is as aN as granite, united and indivis- ible. days. conscious of his disintegrating, but hostile to us. It rallies its last efforts for a sti le with advancing Communism. In the squares of their capitals the Fascists burn the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, forgetting that the teachings of our great founders and leaders are indelibly engraved on the hearts ef the millions of toilers and oppressed. “We must to everything possible, #@ that if our enemies on the East efforts for t! forming greetings ito the Co and spelling out the words nner of revolt | back, mingling with the celebrating against their exploiters. ‘The most | masses, and greeted by resounding a cries of welcome and enthusiasm tion for them was always the |from the workers,. “Long live our peasant question, Because this | Red Army, invincible defender of the Opposition Leaders Speak ty - At today’s session of the Seven- revolution could not solve this /toanth Party C i ; _ y Congress, discussing same problem. But this question | tno report of Stalin for the Central} Committee, Preobrajenski and Tom- sky spoke. Estimating Trotskyism as the despicable counter-revolutionary group, which fought and still fights for the restoration of capitalism, a former leading Trotzyist, Preobra- jenski, told the comrades about his active struggle against the Party for several years. e: Preobrajenski, referring to the yari- ous stages of his struggle against in the ranks of the Trot-/ repeated “Tam ashamed to, 10%e t Several times ing his speech, Preol jenski declared that he was deevly guilt before the Party, and that altzough he did not “Around us capitalism still lives,! consider it a great merit on his part to arrive at this conclusion so late, he is now (eid sae to give all his e solution of the gigan- tie tasks placed by the Party to- wards building a classless society. His speech was constantly inter- rupted by interjections from, delegates, demonstratii ously the Congress takes the state- ments of the members of the former Trotskyist group, P-eobrajenski’s statement, that he had fought ngress “Tith Detachments of the Red Army “Not only once in the past have | march splendidly by, some on horse- the| that Tomeky tell the Congress about how cauti- then proceeded to inform the Con- gress of the recent changes in the Urals, which most clearly embodied the general line of the Party, and are visible in whole groups of new in- dustrial centers, such as, the plants of Sverdlovsk, Perm, Cheliabinsk, Tagil, Magnitogorsk, etc., ete. During the last three and a half years alone, he ‘tells the Congress, two hundred thousand new enterprises have been built and are now in production, as well as twenty-three new branches of industry. _ Tomsky Speaks After Kabakov, Tomsky, former leader of the Right Opposition, took the speakers’ stand. His speech was deyoted to an analysis Of the line of the Right Opposition, and like the speech of the former Trotzkyist Preobrajenski, his speech was rTe- peatedly interrupted by delegates on the floor. Tomsky acknowledged to the Congress that the platform of the Right Opposition represented an anti-Leninist, reformist platform, the fulfilment of which could only have favored the class enemy, and would hhave led to the victory of the class enemy.. “Tomsky declared that the Right Opposition hed adhered formally to “the confines of Party legality.” However, immediately after, he stated that the confines of the Party hed semed “ticht” for the Right Ovposi- tion and it was this that dictated its attack upon Stalin, who perso:*ded the unity of the Party. At this point. many delegates leaped up to demand his connections with the Hismont~ Smirnoy group. “We are fully res- ponsible for this grouping,” Tomsky leader among the Leningrad Bol- sheviks and one of the best orators of the Party. His speech was con- stantly interrupted by applause in the Congress. He spoke about the greatness of the Party’s gigantic vic- tories under the leadership of the Leninist-Central Committee, headed by Stalin. “In the light of these re- sults,” Kiroy declared, “the former leaders of all the opposition groups speaking here, look pitiful indeed. I understand that their position is not easy. Naturally, it is very difficult for them to speak before a Congress of victors. “But how do matters stand here? Our Party leads the working class in decisive struggle. And our military comrades know that when a battle is on there are naturally various faults. But as a result of this battle, we have won new heights, and all the faults during the battle appeared insignificant in comparison with our achievements. Doubters o%ten . ap- deserted the battlefield altozether, while others went to hide among the supply troops, bringing uo the rear. But an army moves forward, and is not held back by this. Our army is unconcerned about those who re- mained behind and deserted the bat- tlefield at the decisive movement. Our Party went on with the great Social- list offensive, achieving victory after victory and finally triumphing com- letely. e 2 com oppositiohists remained in the rear guard, Today, our Party, headed by Stalin, is successfuly conducting a struggle for the construction of socialism ie nee banca ct ices by a united fe: o! ‘on, sings hymns of dee. What shall we do with the rear guardists?” (Laughter and applause). ‘ “Hearing cur triumphant hymn, they try to join our universal chorus. But they are doing it badly, I heard Bukharin here. He doesn’t sing badly, and his notes are cor- rect, Still there is something wreny with the voice. Regarding Rylov and Tomcky, they didn’t even get the notes right. 1 understend that admitted. “And especially my close- ness to Smirnov enabled this coun- it is hard for them immediately to peared during the battle. Some even! of Victories’ Workers Pledge Solid Support in Fight for Socialism d — i} fit into our ranks, It will take some time before these rear-guard troops finally become part of us. Our Congress is a Congress of victors. Our victories are really gigantio and we have achieved them, thanks to the fact that we have a helmsman, who is a true guardian of the principles of Marxism and Leninism and irreconciliable fighter for the purity of Marxist-Leninist teachings, and a master of Marx- ist-Leninist analysis. Such a leader we have in Comrade Stalin” (Stormy applause.) With the greatest enthusiasm, Kis rov declared that the proletariat of Leningrad “is not in the last ranks Lenin,” and that in the future they will be among the powerful leading detachments, giving all _ thelr strength to the support of the Lenine ist Central Committee, for the exe cution of the great task of building .@ Classless Socialist society. © ~ At the “4 speech, the Congress gives him an immense ovation. The chairman then states that the Congress dis- cussion on Stalin’s report has come to an end and that Stalin now has | At this the Congress rises, shouting: _ “Long live the leaders of the tc i of humanity! Long live Stalin! leader of the great army of the letariat!” Stalin stands on the « bune waiting for the un ovation to die down. Many times points to his watch, asking the dele gates for silence, But it is a long time before the joyous excitement the Congress begins to calm, and eare Stalin is permitted to make the short conchiding speech, reported in lier dispatches. pa Postishey submits for vote draft reso‘ution submitted by cow, Leningrad, Ukrainian’ tions, entirely and fully apr the volitical line and practical w of the Central Commitee of ; Communist Party of the Union. All delegates voted tively, none against, none al The resolution was -unanimously adopted for further victorious ad- vance toward Socialism, under leadership of the Leninist Ce i Committee, headed by Stalim” th of the struggle for the cause of © conclusion of Kirov’s — the fioor for his concluding speech. — “sy