The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1934, Page 8

rs Page Daily,QWorker | ENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY H.5.A. (SECTION OF COMMUAIST IWTERRATIONAS) — | “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspapec” | FOUNDED 19%4 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY. BY THE) COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO, INC, 3@ East 1th} Street, New York, N. ALgonquin 4 7954, New York, ¥. ¥. 954, National c. Telephone Free Building, ents. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1934 NRA Spurs Company Unions yellow dog” organizations formed ioeneaa X especially by the biggest trusts of the United States to terrorize the workers, and tie them hand and foot to the unions of the bosses, have been given powerful N. R.A. under-the N. R. A. has turned into the t ty of workers being forced by the vilest and most brutal threats and intimidation into the shackles of company unions, Now President Roosevelt takes a hand by issuing an executive order which the capitalist press and the A. F. of L. officials first interpreted as an “attack on company unions. It now turns out wever, that the executive order of President Roosevelt is one of the strongest supports for the furtherance of company unions and the smash- ing of genuine workers’ unions. On February 1, Roosevelt signed an executive order giving the National Labor Board authority to hold elec- tions to give workers the right to choose their own representatives. Mr. William Green, always the first to come to the efense of every scab act of the Roosevelt government, termed the executive order a first step in the govern- ment drive against company unions. On February 3, however, the two highest authorities on the N. R. A., acting for President Roosevelt, “clari- fied” the executive order in 8 way to show that the real intent of Roosevelt was to protect and defend the com- pany unions, spurring their growth at the expense of the workers’ own organizations. The New York Times headlined the joint state- ment of General Johnson and Donald R. Richberg, chief counsel for the N. R, A. as “N. R. A. Denies Slur at Company Union.” impetus and support by the The “ ERHAPS it would clarify matters somewhat to show that two of the most outstanding advocates of com- pany unions, two of the worst exploiters of labor, help determine the N. R. A. policies on company unions. These gentlemen are Pierre du Pont, head of the poison gas and war munitions industry known as the du Pont Chemical Corporation, one of the most rabid organizers of company unions, and Walter Teagle, official of the Stadard Oil Co., advocate of company unions. The A. F. of L, officials on the National Labor Board (that is, Messers Green, Lewis, Berry and Hillman) co- operate with these company union advocates by helping to break strikes, lying to the workers about what rights they are granted under the N. R. A, and completely misrepresenting what the N, R. A. means by “collective bargaining.” Since the adoption of the N. R. A., company unions have had a phenominal growth. This is no accident. It is the outcome of the joint policy of the A. F. of L. officialdom and the mightiest bosses in the basic indus- tries, steel, chemical, coal, automobile and rubber. While the A. F. of L. officialdom has done all it could to bind the workers to the strikebreaking dictates of the National Labor Board, to insure lower living con- ditions, the big employers have rushed through com- pany unions * The Daily Worker has already published the details gathered by the Pen & Hammer showing that whereas before the N. R. A. there were some 1,500,000 workers forced into company unions, at this time there are sround 5,000,000 in these yellow dog, anti-workingclass set-ups. The A. F. of L. officialdom itself admits that Sround 3,000,000 are in company unions. The first aid given to company unions was the “merit clause” in the auto code approved by the A. F. of L, officialdom, granting open shop and company union privileges to the powerful automobile trusts. Once es- tablished, this was full approval to the open shop in every industry in which the employers with the help of the N. R. A., the state and city forces, their spies, stool pigeons, gunmen, threats of discharge, could’ bludgeon the workers in the company unions. Now President Roosevelt, helping his friends in the Standard Oil, du Pont Chemical, United States Steel, and a host of other corporations, has handed the Na- tional Labor Board a power that will speed still further the development of company unions, First Johnson and Richberg state that they will not hold elections just because the workers ask. Sec- ond, they say, even where a genuine workers union has been organized the bosses can form a company union, if they wish, with the minority in the plant. This is an invitation to every boss to begin now the formation of company unions to smash and oust the genuine unions of the workers. fe 7 a 5 ae very last word of the N. R. A. decision on Roose- velt’s executive order is a full legalization of every company union throttling the workers. “Nor is it true,” say Johnson and Richberg, “that employes, if permitted to act in their own free choice, may not select a com- pany,union (meaning locat plant union.)” Under the “merit clause” the boss is given the “free choice” to fire any worker without reason, if that worker does not belong to a company union established by the boss. The rank and file in the A. F. of L., menaced by this company union monster created by their officials, Should arouse their membership in the local unions to the danger and join hands with the workers in com- Pany union plants to defeat the company enemy. Already the fight against the company unions is bearing fruit. The Weirton Steel Co, workers, who had a company union clamped on them, are taking up _ the battle, but they face the betrayals of their official- dom in the A. F. of L. Amalgamated Union. In Min- aneapolis, as shown by a report published in today’s Daily Worker, 500 shop men are organizing to deal 4 death blow to the company union on the Soo Line. They have banded together and have ordered the com- pany not to deduct dues for the company union yellow dog grganization. Where the company unions are being foisted on the workers; the greatest vigilance, organization and strug- le is required of the militant workers, and the Com- tuunist Party members there have the greatest tasks and responsibilities. The workers hate the company unions, But they must be organized and led for a successful Struggle. Every issue brought up by the company unions shrould be answered. Department and shop committees should be organized. Leaflets and shop Papers especially in company union plants must be issued regularly to spur the battle against the yeliow dog organizations: The workers should be told just how the N. R. A. bas chained them with company unions, and how these chains can be smashed and genuine Organizations leading struggles for the improvement of their conditions can be founded. Subscription Rates: | pt ttan and Bronx), % yeer, $6.00; | 3 months, $ month, 0.78 cents. janade; 1 year, $8.00, { | hate and fear one another, they ~hate and fear the Fight Roosevelt War Poison!| Roosevelt war machine is getting ready for action. | Roosevelt has succeeded in building up the biggest | war building program in the history of the country. | Beginning “National Defense Week,” February 12, according to official announcements, the press, the radio, the movies, the schools and church will spew | the old, vile jingoism with which every capitalist ruling class fills the mind of the masses to make fem for- get their misery and starvation. (IN THE Far East, where the three major imperialist wolves, British, Japanese and American imper- ialism, are sharpening their teeth for the feast of the plunder of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union, Japanese imperialism has already unsheathed its bayonets for the attack against the U.S.S.R. Japanese imperialism, faced with the growing pow- er of proletarian revolution at home, is ready at any moment, to lunge forward in murderous attack against the Workers’ Fatherland. And let it not be thought that the Roosevelt recog- nition of the U.S.S.R. excludes the possibility of Wall Street aid to Japanese imperialism in the interven- tion assault. For as much as the imperialist wolves Socialist Fatherland of the Soviet Union even more. | And this persistent imperialist drive to war is sin- | ister with the menace of such misery and suffering for the millions of workers and impoverished farmers | in this country as they have not yet seen. All this imperialist war terrorism and oppression converges in } the common hatred of the imperialists against the Soviet Union, land of Socialist Construction. That | is why the frenzied war preparations of the Roosevelt } government are so menacing to the Soviet Union. 'OMRADES, we cannot waste 4 moment! The struggle against imperialist war, particularly on the eve of its outburst, is a basic Bolshevik, revolu- tionary task, the fulfillment of which leads along the road to the revolutionary struggle for power, for the overthrow of the Wall Street dictatorship, The Communist Party alone can lead the fight against the Roosevelt plans to send the sons of the working class into slaughter for the defense of Wall Street profits! Every unit, section and district, every Party fraction in the mass organization should get to. work at once! Do not wait for formal directions! Meetings and demonstrations must be arranged at once, without delay! Banners, placards, leaflets must be immediately prepared carrying our message against the Roosevelt war jingoism! These placards and posters must be displayed to the widest number of workers. They must carry slogans exposing the war propaganda, They must say to the workers, “War will not bring back prosperity, It will bring misery to the workers and big profits to the Wall. Street bankers.” They must tell the workers, “War means more hunger, profiteering, and rising costs of living.” velt government with it. Why does the government find billions for the Army and Nayy while slashing the compensation of the 1917 war veterans? Why does the Roosevelt government find ‘billions for the Army and Navy, for a record-breaking war building program, while nearly 16,000,000 jobless workers and their families are starving, without any adequate Fed- eral relief or Unemployment Insurance? The demand that the Roosevelt billions for war be turned over for the use of the 16,000,000 jobless, for relief and unemployment insurance must be at the center of our anti-war demonstrations and meetings. i. A me y Ba menace of intervention against the Soviet Union, the land of proletarian dictatorship, of. Socialist construction, the Jand that has abolished wage..slaye exploitation, poverty. and. unemployment, .. must. be made absolutely clear, and the slogan For the De- fense of the Soviet Union must be driven home to the masses, 28 & major point, as one of the ways that the working class fights against its own capitalist ex- Ploiters at home, The stoppage of all munitions shipments to Jap- anese imperialism should be’ a slogan prominently featured on all placards, etc. This appeal should be made especially in all transportation centers, docks, railroad terminals, shipping centers, etc. In exposing the intervention war plans of Tap- anese imperialism we must at the same time, with knife-like clarity, distinguish ourselves from the roosevelt anti-Japan jingoism with Which Wail Street tries to stir up hatred among thé American masses for its imperialist rival in the Far East. We must show how Roosevelt Wall Street aids Japanese imperialism with munitions, at the same time that it strives to weaken it by spurring it into military adventurism against the Soviet Union, in the hope that thereby Wall Street will strengthen its position in the Far East. ‘We must show how Roosevelt is financing the ‘We must ask the question, and confront the Roose- } DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBREARY TroopsBrought Into Paris As Masses Seethe of Shaky Daladier Government PARIS, Feb. 5,—Provincial and colonial troops are being massed in Paris today in expectation of wide- spread demonstrations tomorrow, when Edouard Daladier and his cab- inet faces the French Parliament. Among the seme brought in is a company of Spahis, Negro cavalry- men from North Africa, Meanwhile Daladier has patched up his cabinet, two members of which resigned when he transferred Jean Chiappe, Paris police prefect, because of his too open connection with Stavisky, the Bayonne pawn- shop swindler. Socialists to. the Rescue The new cabinet members are Radical Socialists. Daladier has thus won the full support of the Social- ists of various ~ complexions, who the top, from where they both! sup- port the use of troops-against the protesting masses, and are thus using their influence to calm allypros. tests and hasten to*bury the ‘scandal. ~Daladier has. announced @ “‘ruth-. Jess housecleaning” of highly-placed individuals who have been too openly. connected with the Stavisky thievery. for him_to risk openly protecting, them. The nature of his “house- cleaning” is seen.from the, fact that the “punishment” of Chiappe, one of Stavisky’s most active protectors, consists in offering him a prized governorship in dismissing him from his position as head of the police force. : Meanwhile, all Paris is seething with indignation, ‘While, workers are preparing to demonstrate in mass against the whitewashing ef- forts of the government, the Paris War Veterans’ Association, with 12, 000 members, has announced ‘it will parade in deferise of ‘Chiappe, and the Royalists declare they will dem- onstrate too. The reactionary press-continues to clamor for a “strong man” to take dietatorial-control of the situation. | The Stavisky scandal ig only the’ climax of a long’ series of évents {which have stirred the masses, the ‘most powerful factor being’ the gi- gantic tax and civil service wage~ jcut program. by ‘which ‘successive governments have attempted to bal- ance a war-swollen budget, Unem- ployment in France is at its highest peak in history this month. US. Shifts Admirals to Put Command of Navy in War Trim WASHINGTON, D. G., Feb. 5— Carrying out the Navy Department's program of putting its forces on a war footing, significant shifts in the naval command are announced to ey ee immediately after the gene review of the U.S. fleet by President Roosevelt off } May. tha tts Mig ‘The shifts, announced by’ Henry 1. Rooseveit, as Acting Secretary of the Navy, make Admiral Joseph M,. Reeves commander in chief of the US. fleet, replacing Admiral David fs superin- tendent of Annapolis Naval pecnigan Vice-Admiral Fran! r r be made an’ ‘admiral, and put ‘in Command of the battle fleet. °° ‘Twenty-eight of the highest rank- ing officers of the navy are shifted to new positions in’ this thorough- going reorganization, which is aimed at putting the whole navy.command into its highest state ‘of’ efficiency.’ Anti-Soviet campaign against Soviet Cina, with its Tecent $50,000,000 cotton “loan” which went for war munitions of the Nanking government, Especially, against the vile Roosevelt poison of nationalist hatreds againct the working class of other countries, we must with the greatest determination raise the slogan of Proletarian International Soli- , darity with the oppressed toilers of all with the victorious working class of the Soviet ‘Union, of China, with the exploited toiling masses of Japan, We must show how the masses in Japan are fighting the same world battle agdinst capitalist misery and exploitation as we are here, that we are part of the world army of the proletariat against world fascism and imperialist war, Comrades, to work against the coming week | Roosevelt jingoism! For the Defense of the tenes Union! Support the German Workers Revolution ! Hots will record the fight of the German Com- munist Party for Soviet power as one of the greatest Real United Front Built, Including’ Socialists, A. F. of L. Unionists ‘The first national ion of th took place in New. York City over this past week-end, came at a time when the capitalist world is im the midst of the fifth year of jalist antagonisms: egee ee in & arene of heroism in all the annals of the working class. “How those working class fighters, over whose heads © murder lurks everywhere, twenty-four hours of each day, fighters robbed of thousands of their best-trained forces, rise to the struggle with greater courage and determination each day! The Nagis are forced to admit it. Only two weeks ago, Himmler, head of the Political Police of all Ger- many but Prussia, wrote in the “Voelkischer Beo- bachter”: f “The main activities of the Political Police con: tinue to be directed against the Marxist assc which are still combating us from Gti ag ‘There is no doubt that the Communists have new illegal lead- ers, and these are working very cautiously and cleverly.” > . . bad fight of the German Communist Party for an end of the Hitler terror, for an end of the Hitler war menace, for Soviet power, is much more than a fight for the workers of Germany, Tt Is a key struggle of the world proletariat, ‘Their victory is a victory for us, a victory for the interna- tional revolutionary movement, This tact gives extraordinary significance to the meeting in Bronx Coliseum next Monday night, called by the Central Committee of the Cc. P. U.S. A, to support the German revolution. All turds raised that © night go to the Central Committee of th. German Party to strengthen it in its fight f America. The came despite the fact that the F.S.U. branches, with few exceptions, did not develop the ‘The rapt attention with which the convention listened to the first re- port, on the progress of Socialist con- neta in the Soviet Union, deliv- § Workers Industrial Union, is Socialists Leap to Aid| have seized their chance-tovelimb t6}) 6.1934 ~~ TAXI! —By Burck Tax Bosses Saturday’s Ten Page ‘Daily’ to Hurl Blow at U.S. Jingo Drive Special Edition to Rouse Masses Against War Hovering Over Us; Wide Sale Urgent NEW YORK —The Daily Worker J Will deliver a broadside against the U. 8. War Department’s jingo cam- paign which starts Feb. 12th, with a special ten page anti-war illustrated edition this Saturday. Wide distribution of this anti-war edition is imperative for a success- fyl. mobilization of mass opposition tocthe imperialist war hovering over Us. 5 + An article in this edition by Sender Garlin, feature editor of the “Daily,” will bring to light the elaborate propaganda apparatus built up dur- ing the world war under George Creel for~ creating war hysteria, Garlin’s article’ will show how the American workers are now being whipped up for the new war. It will rally the workers for the defense of the Soviet Union. The edition will contain interest- dng and basic ieterial on the “Com- munist, position on war. Tt will show the steps taken by the American and other imperialist governments in preparation for the new war, and will point out the methods for effective struggle ‘against Roosevelt's imperi- alist military machine being primed for quick action. There will be a full page of pre- convention discussion, bringing for- ward the problems facing the Com- munist Party in rallying the masses to speedy action against the capital- ist robbers and imperialist war mong- ers. There will be other articles, which will make this edition a pow- erful anti-war weapon in the hands of the workers. Despite serious financial handicaps, the Daily Worker has been coming out in special: and larger editions such as the one which printed Dimi- troff's full court-room speech, Stalin’s speech, Browder’s pre-convention speech, and now the anti-war issue, in order to achieve its revolutionary task to mobilize the masses for speedy action against the intensified fas- cist and war plots of the imperialists. To offset the financial deficits made necessary by the special and larger editions, to enable the “Daily” to con- tinue its revolutionary work, the cir- culation must be increased for the special editions, as well as generally in connection with the circulation drive for 10,000 new “Daily” subscvib- ers and 20,00 new readers of the ers and 20,000 new readers of the Intensify your drive for spreading the “Daily.” Spread the anti-war edition among the workers to arouse them against Rocsevelt’s war drive. Rush your orders for the specal ten page anti-war illustrated edition of this Saturday at once. FRENCH GENERAL IN finco SPEECH PAU, France, Feb. 5—The un- veiling of a statue to Marshal Foch, commander in chief of the Allied armies in the World War, was made ; the occasion for a jingo appeal to national passions and hates by high officers of the government, and by General Maxime Weygand, Foch’s close associate. Canton Is Rushing Troops to Fukien Against Nanking U. S. Agents Trying to Re-organize Drive On Chinese Soyiets HONGKONG, Feb. 4. — Canton troops were being rushed into South Fukien province today to meet a Nanking army of 100,000 men ad- vancing toward the borders of Kwangtung province, base of the Canton government. Agents of the two rival camps are feverishly attempting to win over some 2,000 soldiers of the scattered 19th .Route Army, recently defeated by Nanking following a sell-out by their officers to the Nanking regime. Three Canton airplanes recon- noitsred over Amoy, South Fukien seaport today, while Canton officials freely prédicted an early clash with the Nanking dictator, Chiang Kai- shek. Meanwhile U. S. imperialist agents are attempting to patch up the dif- ferences between the two hostile Kuomintang camps with the aim of unifying the Chinese militarists for the imperialist-directed Sixth Offen- sive against the Chinese Soviet Re- public. AFRICANS FIGHT BRITISH IMPERIALISTS NAIROBI, Kenya, East ‘Africe, Feb. 5.—Native bands, armed only with bows and arrows, have taken the war-path against the oppressive British regime here. In a. clash between British colonial police and the native partisans, two natives were killed and one policeman ser- jously wounded. Soviet Union on the part of the dele- gates. Every achievement he men- tioned was greeted with loud ap- plause. i Broad United Front The broad composition and united front character of the delegates in at- tendance, showed that within the °Priends of the Soviet Union, people of various political and religious opinions can be mobilized on a program of sup- port for the Soviet Union. Over 1,200 credentials were received, with 96 delegates actually registered at the convention. Representatives from 793 organizations, including organizations as widely different in character and political program as the Communist Party and the American Legion at- tended. Of the 121 trade unions repre- sented, 38 were from A. F. of L. locals and 15 were from opposition groups in the A. F. of L. There were 43 from T.U.U.L. locals and 25 from In- pendent Unions. There were 7 dele- gates from the Communist Party and an equal number from.the Socialist Party organizations. There were also, 25 delegates from the Workmen's Circle and Young Circle League branches. F.S.U. delegates totaled 111 in number. The delegates came from 20 states and 2 foreign countries, Negroes and Youth Lacking The conyention revealed a serious short-coming in the work of the F.S.U. in reaching out to the Negro masses and Youth. The convention took steps | to promptly rectify this serious short- coming, by electing five Negroes to the National Committee and by in- structing the National Committee to establish a Youth department in the national office, without delay. The earnest’ desire to build a really powerful organization for the de- tense of the Soviet Union was evi- denced by the varied and constructive discussion in which a very. great number of the delegates took part.” The speeches by O. G. Crawford, representative of the Socialist Party Jocal in Erie, Pa., and Ralph Compere, delegate and member of the City Ex- ecutive Commitiee of the Socialist Roy Hudson, national secre-|Party in Milwaukee, Wis., were and delegate of the Marine| strongly in support of the F.S8.U,, as indi-|@ united front orgar‘zation. _heative of the deep interest in the| Wicks, s member of the Socialist Paul Party of Greenfield, Mass., stated in his speech before the convention: “We Socialists who are delegates to this convention, have a tradition to live up to, and that tradition is, Eugene Debs’, who after the Russian Revolu- tion said, I am a Bolshevik from head to foot.’ I think it is incumbent, upon every Socialist Party member here, of every rank and file Socialist, to join in the work of united front with such groups as are ass¢mbled here today.” fe S.P. Workers Rally to F.S.U. The keen desire, on the part of the convention, for the united front was demonstrated when a motion that a Socialist Party delegate*from Port- land, Maine, be left off a committee Was unanimously voted down. Shortly after this, Katherine Lewis, a dele- gate from the Socialist Party local of Holyoke, Mass. stated the following in a speech to the convention: “A su3- gestion has been made at this con- vention that members of the S.P. be excluded from some of the activities of this convention. I would like to an- ewer this suggestion, in the name of the S.P. local of which I am a repre- sentative. There are a great many members of the S.P, who are sincerely and honestly interested in the de- fense of the Soviet Union. There are a great many members of the S.P. who are willing to do everything in their power to defend the Soviet Union. The recommendation from my local, is that the F.S.U. do everything possible to extend their organization to the locals of the Socialist Party, which are honestly and sincerely de- sirous of helping to defend the Soviet Union and to spread the truth about *he Soviet Union.” “A. F, of L. Members Will Defend US.S.R.” Thomas Slavins, an old trade union- ist. and delegate from the Interna- tional Association of Machinists, A. F. of L., Newport, R. I, declared in a concluding convention speech: “It is wrong to think that the rank and file of the A, F. of L. is not interested in the Soviet Union, They are. More than that, they will fight to defend it. Our union succeeded in getting the Newport Central Labor Council to tion, ten years ago. And they never went back on it. We have always been in favor of recognition and against war on the Soviet Union.” A nation-wide broadcast, direct from the convention, of a speech made by Corliss Lamont, a member of the National Committee \. the F. S. U., has elicited a tremendous res- ponse, indicating the vast reservoir of sympathizers ‘for the Sbviet Union, that has not been tapped by the F.S.U. Many have written in from out-of-the way cities and country towns, eager to join the F.\S.U. and start branches. The F.S.U. has conclusive proof that it has an almost unlimited field to draw upon so as to build a mighty force to effectively carry out its aims. Broad, Concrete Program Laid Dov.* The convention laid down a broad, concrete pregram which will enable the F.S.U. to leave its old, narrow sectarian path, and become a real united front mass organization. The first step was the election of a new National Committee -which would truly reflect its new character. Almost fifty per cent of the new committees |. are active trade unionists, many of whom are members of tte A. F. of L. About 15 per cent are members of the Socialist Party. The convention instructed the new National Committee to launch an in- tensive drive for segbepnttts Le liation, particularly endeavoring secure the affiliation of locals of the A. F. of L., Socialist Party locals, and other worker organizations, especially those to which the workers in the basic industries belong. A new type of membership was introduced, that of ‘ossociate members. Associate members will pay dues of $1.50 per year, which sum shall include a year’s subscription to Soviet Russia Today. Those, who, because they are active in the trade union local, or some other organiza- tion, and cannot become active in the FS.U. as well, should become associate members. This new type of member- ship does not mean the elimination of the active members of the F.S.U, branches. On the contrary, the con- vention instructed the new National Cmmittee to make specific plans for the establishment of 200 new branches | | | Pass ® resolution advocating recogni- and increasing the active dues-paying ‘fense of the Soviet Union, Austrian-Nazi Fight Raises | War Danger } pees | Antagonisms Heightened | by Struggle Over Rival Fascists ' i BULLETIN | _ VIENNA, Feb, 5.—The Austrian Cabinet, after a long ses‘on to- day, instructed Chancellor Engel- | bert Dollfuss to appeal to the League of Nations to intervene ture Austria. w % NEW YORK—The tangle of im- perialist contradictions in Europa | focused by the constantly .growing | Nazi aggression toward Austria, ia) | daily creating a sharpened danger of | | war. | In Vienna, Chancellor Dollfus was | reported preparing to make an appeal | to the League of Nations to intervene |in the dispute between his own fas- jcism and the German Nazi variety, | foliowing his rebuff both from Hitler | and from Sugiand. A dispatch from | Geneva reports that preparations are | being made to call a special meeting of the League Council, Monday, Feb. 11, if Dollfuss’ appeal is received. From Germany comes news that the law abolishing the’ old German states and dividing the country into new divisions, already makes provi- sion for incorporation of Austria into the Reich. While the Danubian states, vassals of France, and particularly Czecho- slovakia, are talking of meeting a Nazi Austria with armed intervention, Great Britain has been giving indirect support to the Nazi plans, which fit in with the Nazis’ bigger plan of tak- ing the role of European spearhead in an attack on the Soviet Union. Austrians Are Nazi Catspaws Meanwhile, the Nazis are energetice ally carrying forward their aggressive plans, both within and outside’ of Austria, Along with sharp economic pressure on Austria from Germany, the Nazis have mobilized and trained troops of Austrians just within the German border, while supporting Nazi agitation and terrorism within Aus- tria. ‘ Within ‘Austria, the leaders of the Austrian fascist Heimwehr, previous supporters of Dollfuss, sk ly at- tacked him Sunday, on the pretext that he was playing party politics, The Austrian Social Democracy, has gone over completely to the support of Dollfuss fascism, as a “lesser evil” Japan’s War Chief Announces Plan to Re-Equip Army TOKYO, Feb. 5.—The whole Jap- anese army is to be reorganized and re-equipped through a three-year program which General Senjuro, ¢ Hayashi, minister of war, will Sent to a special grmy commission in} May, according to yesterday. Q The Japanese army air force, ine cluding the Japanese Quantung army (stationed in China), will take part in an immense program of air man= euvers on the island of Formosa in June, it was announced. ‘The reorganization program for the army includes special stress on chem= ical warfare, enlargement \f the ine fantry, and the adoption of the mos? modern equipment for all branches i (a press reports here\,¢ 6 Two new pamphlets, one on thr “red menace,” accusing the Sovicv' Union of planning to invade Japan, and one attacking American imper jalism, both openly. discussing war, have appeared on many news-stands, They are sold fot the equivalent of three cents. FSU. Convention Shows Deep Sympathy in America for U.S.S.R. Shows Unity in Support, Defense of Land of Socialist Building vnembership fiye-fold. : To Send May 1 Delegation to U.S.S.R. The convention made specific plans ‘or the F\S.U., to send a good “work ers’ delegation” to the Soviet Union for the May Ist celebrations. The =.S.U., with its newly broadened base should be able to send an excellent Gelegation consisting of workers from the basic industries. The convention slso instructed. the new National Committee to start an intensive cam- naign to double the circulation of Soviet Russia Tcday, this year, thru the obtaining of associate members, new subscriptions, and increasing the bundle sales. This effective instrument must not only be used to reach far larger masses with the truth about ee pein but it must be mace to function as a real organizer sor the F.S.U., as well. Sommittee of the Communist Party, demonstrated convincingly to the A, F. of L,, Socialist and non-party deles gates, the sincere desire of the Party’, ‘or @ genuine united front of all ele- ments sympathetic to the soviet ¢ Union. Several of the Socialist dele- sates stated that the feats which they had entertained on this score, before coming to the convention, were com- pletely dispelled at the convention, The same responsibility rests upon the Communist Party members every- where. It is the Party members in every locality who must similarly con- vince the trade unionists and rank and file Socialists of the gent united front character of the FSU, It is the duty of the Party tions everywhere to help overcome the sectarianism of the F.8.U, which , Prevented it from becoming a broad mass organization. Thelpresent historic period demands _ that the Communist Party give the — 78.0. = most serious attention, in order that it may rapidly become a really effective weapon for the de- The delegates from the Central «-~ bo