The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1934, Page 6

San _ tien, through their organized strike committee. Why? Page Six Daily, QWorker | anTRAL OncA® COMMUNIST “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 | PUBLISHED DAILY. EXCEPT SUNDAY. BY THE) COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO, INC, 3 East 13th) Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: Algonquin 4-7954. New York, ¥. ¥ National Pree SBoliéing, S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST [NTERRATIONALY Gable Address: “Daiwork,” Washington Bureaw: Room sth and F. St, Wesh and Bronx}, % year, $4.00; 00; 1 month, 0.78 cents, and Canade: 1 year, 8, $3.00 monthly, By Mail: (except @ months, $3.50; 2 99.00, By Carrier: Weekly, 18 78 cente, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1934 Demand H. R. 7598; Reject Substitutes! Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, now formally before Congress as H. R. 7598, hhas won constantly growing mass support since it was first drafted by the Communist Party more than two and one-half years ago. ‘Today this bill is supported by the Unemployed Councils and by the Trade Union Unity League. It has been endorsed by all the organizations of the unemployed, by hundreds of A. F. of L. locals, by thousands of local workers’ organizations, and, as a result of the growing mass pressure, even by a number of local city councils, Tj is this steadily increasing mass support that has finally caused the Bill to be introduced in the House of Representatives. It is not surprising that it should be Congressman Ernest Lundeen, a Farmer- Laborite with a “left” tinge, who introduced it. * + * UT the introduction of the Bill does not by any means insure its adoption, nor does the introduc- tion of the Bill by Congressman Lundeen mean that he will aggressively fight for its adoption. The article by Comrade Schneiderman, published @lsewhere in today’s issue, shows the experience the ‘workers have had with the Farmer-Labor Party lead- ers in Minnesota. There also the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill was introduced by a Farmer- Laborite in the State Legislature. permitted to die in committee without even the intro~ ducer of the Bill, Representative Bennett, fighing for it. There is grave danger that the same course will be followed by Congressman Lundeen in Wash- ington. In fact, in his interview with the Dally Worker Washington Correspondent, Mr. Lundeen gives grounds for the most serious doubts as to his future intentions. When asked whether he would fight for this Bill “to the exchision of substitutes,” he replied: “Well, I wouldn't say that. I will vote for any bill that promises unemployment relief.” Mr. Lundeen, were he really for unemployment in- | surance, should know that there are many bills which “promise” unemployment relief. Promises of unem~ ployment relief have been about all that millions of workers have been living on in recent years. . er, arise IS CLEARLY up to the workers to make Mr. Lun- deen, and Congress as a whole, realize that they do not wish merely bills which “promise” unemployment elief. They must now. more than ever in the past, firmly voice their demand for the: adoption of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598. Only mass pressure on every Congressman, on every Senator, and even on Mr. Lundeen himself, will insure action of thé Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, now that it is officially bfeore Congress. The workers showld know that Congressmen very frequently intro- duce bills, in order to satisfy their constituents, with no intention of fighting for the adoption of these bills. Clearly, Mr. Lundeen introduced the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill because of the strong mass Support for it, particularly in his own constituency, Minnegpolis, where even the City Council was forced by the workers to endorse the bill. The only assurance that the bill will be pushed by Lundeen and seriously considered by Congress will be a further increase in the mass demand for the adoption of the bill H. R. 7598. Every worker, therefore, and every workers’ organ- ization (trade unions, unemployed bodies, clubs, etc.) should now send letters and resolutions to Congressman Ernest Lundeen and to the Congressman from their district. The demand should be for the immediate re- porting of H. R. 7593 out of Committee and the adop- tion of the bill by Congress. Make clear in these letters and resolutions your opposition to all substitute measures, Demand the adoption of the Workers’ Unempioy- ment and Soctal Insurance Bill! Fight Company Union-NRA Scabbing in Taxi Strike aro LA GUARDIA is back from Washington with @ bag-of new slimy tricks for the taxi strike. In the meantime, his deputy, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst, has not let any grass grow under his feet in Preparing to smash the strike, not omitting the usual smooth words that precede the mailed fist of a capital- ist city government when breaking a strike, Another force is working to break the sirike—the Socialist Party leaders, through Norman Thomas and .ex-Judge Jacob Panken. Using the independents as a wedge, the LaGuardia administration is now preparing, with the use of its police department, to bludgeon the taxi drivers back to | work, not stopping at the most vicious bloodshed. Mayor LaGuardia now talks of giving the whole matter over to the N.R.A. The N.R.A. broke the big coal and steel strike of last year. It sent the Weirton Steel Co. workers back to work with promises, and then broke every one of them, forcing a company union on the men. ‘The N.R.A. broke the Philadelphia taxi strike, ate! victimized hundreds of taxi drivers. It broke the Ford strike; the Budd Auto Body strike~it smashed dozens of other strikes. -. The taxi owners refuse to deal directly with the | ecause they find that LaGuardia is doing 2 good job them; and that he is able, through his dirty tactics, > make a lot of the men think he 's their friend. LaGuardia’s police are terrorizing the bus men, in ‘an effort to keep them from joining the strike for their own demands, and to strengthen, in solidarity action, strike of the taxi men. ; LaGuardia is giving the independents police protec- |, letting them reap a harvest, while they undermine force of the strike. LaGuardia’s mediator, Ernst, said that the city has enough cops to keep every cab rolling. ‘- LaGuardia has told the men that he can be rough when he wants to. _ The very first tactic of the N.R.A, (which LaGuardia favors) is to tell the men to go back to work and “arbi- trate” afterwards. The Socialist leaders, quite in har- ‘Mony with the wishes of Mayor LaGuardia, are trying to ensnare the taxi drivers in the vicious, strikebreaking W.R.A. schemes. When the N.R.A. was first passed, the Socialist leader, Norman Thomas, told the workers: is not the time to strike!” But when the strike 1s these worthies come in to muddle the issue, to con- But the Bill was | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1934 fuse the workers, to drive them under the yoke of the NRA, to divert their attention from the need of rank and file organization, and unity to wir Once the men are back to work, without winning their demands, the power is in the hands of the bos The men, separated, unorganized, are the victims of the cab owners. This must not happen. Only immediate organization and action on the part of the drivers, one, united, inde- pendent union, strong organization in every garage, and the most militant picketing can stop this and win the strike. New issues are being raised and the men musi face | them. The strike began on the demand of 100 per cent of the nickel tax for the men. This still remains the central demand. But it can not be an isolated demand. With it must go the most powerful means of attaining it, and of attaining better conditions, of guaranteein! future solidarity and maintenance of better working conditions and wages—that is, organization. Tt must be organized immediately one unified and united, independent union, representing the majority of the workers in the industry. Anybody who blocks this, works against the interest of the taxi drivers. The Socialist leaders bring in the issue of an NRA. | code to raise wages. Yes, higher wages are needed, and must be won. But they cannot be won through an N.R.A. code. Experience in every code shows that wages have been lowered. Higher wages can be won only if the strike is kept militant and organizes the best fighting ability of the men, resulting as soon as possible in a union of all taxi drivers. Before any negotiations with the tricky National Labor Board can be considered, before the drivers even permit the N.R.A. officials to put their slimy hand into the strike, they should present them with their demands on every point, behind which stands the determination of all the taxi strikers, with their | union ready to force through the demands. © * . SAFEGUARD the strike it is now necessary for the taximen in every garage to elect their com- | mittees which will represent the rank and file of the drivers, organizing the basis of the local unions, as a preliminary to the merging of all the workers into one, independent union. No one should be permitied to put forward the proposal to stop picketing—yes, mass picketing by the thousands—before the strike is won. Do not trust your demands, your living standards, your union, to the hands of a capitalist politician, whether his name is La Guardia, Ernst, or anything | else, Strikes are won against the bosses not by the good wishes of their city government, but only by the might of the workers, organized for fight. Do not let the capitalist city government provoke you by their threats of violence and bloodshed. Taximen, your strongest allies are the whole work- ing class of New York City. Every union man in New York is behind you; every factory worker suffering low wages and miserable con- ditions is behind you. Here is your might. The Communist Party, the most militant figher and leader of the workers, is behind you with all its force, and will fight side by side with you to win this strike and build your organization to defend your interests. Tt bus drivers are being terrorized againsi striking by the massing of La Guardia’s city police at the bus depots. These men have suffered tremendous grievances. Many of them have been fired for join- ing unions. They are for strike, but they are not given an opportunity to vote because stool pigeons and spies are sent against them when they express them- selves individually. Every effort should be made to get out the bus drivers. This will strengthen the strike. Bus drivers! Now is the time to strike for your demands, when the taxi men are on strike. This is the best time to win and make the bus owners Tecog- nize your union and your demands. Every taxi driver should stand firm for the basic | demands of the strike. No settlement without a vote of all the men. No settlement without recognition of the union. Forward to victory of the taxi strike! Lynchers Who Go Free A direct result of the nation-wide indignation and mass protest actions mobilized by the Com- Ig munist Party and other revolutionary organizations | against lynching, it has lately become the custom among state governors to issue denunciatory state- ments after each new lynching. In these statements, the various heads of the state governments of the white ruling class have freely engaged in demagogic promises of “vigorous investigations” and “relentless prosecution and punishment” of the lynchers. Actual results show that these promises are less than “scraps of paper.” Not one lyncher has been punished! Known lynchers, arrested by the authorities under pressure of the mass anti-lynching protest movement, are regularly. released. The latest case in point of the release yesterday by the State of Missouri of seven known lynchers of the mob which lynched Lloyd Warner, Negro youth, last Nov. 28. This, al- though one of the seven openly boasted of his part in the dastardly crime. The known lynchers of George Armwood were similarly rteased last December by the . * ° wet is the motive behind the demagogic denuncia- tions of lynchings by the representatives of that Same while ruling class which instigates and organizes the lynch terror against the Negro masses and their white allies? It is quite clear that these bourgeois officials and politiclans are not opposed to lynching. State and county officials have been known to take part in actively organizing and even in the carrying out of lynchings. The demagogic promises of the State officials are aimed at maintaining among the masses the illusions in the “integrity” and “fustice” of the white ruling class government and its courts. By this maneuver, they seek to defeat and smash the mass protest movement which by its very vigor forces them to make a pretense of acting to punish the lynchers. The unfailing regularity with which known and often self-confessed lynchers are acquitted by all- white juries of business men and rich farmers, or released by the authorities without even being brought to trial, must bring home to every worker, Negro and white, that lynching can be wiped out only by further intensifying the mass fight against lynching—not by dependence on the courts and officials of the white ruling class lynchers. ‘The mass fight against lynching and for defense of the Negro masses must be developed in every com- munity, in every factory, in every union and other workers’ organizations, The carrying through of this task is the duty of every member of the Communist Party, the revolu- tionary trade unions, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights anf the International Labor Defense, the lead- ers in the fight against lynching and for the national liberation of the Negro peopl ——————E==E A Correction In an editorial yesterday, the day of the “Support the German Workers’ Revolution,” meeting in the Bronx Coliseum, New York, was given as Monday. This was an error, The meeting, which is to raise tunds for the German Party, will take place Sunday, February 11, at 8 p. » |Fascism Gains) ANOTHER “PREFERRED LIST” ‘In Austria with Socialist Help | Austrian Fascism Races | to Gain Over Nazi Variety | VIENNA, cellor Dollfuss, who is also supported y the Austrian Socialist party yes- | erday declared Tyrol a fascist state. Prince Starhemberg, leader of the | | Heimwehr, declared that despite criti- | cism of Dolifuss for “playing politics,” | he supported him because of his} | Promise to make Austria fascist. His | move reflects impatience with the rate | }at which Dollfuss is carrying out the | | fascisation of Austria. Dollfuss still | | considers it necessary to utilize the| support of the Socialists, who have | | great Influence in Vienna. | No League Appeal Yet Meanwhile, Dollfuss has placed 11 | towns in lower Austria under commis- | saxs in an attempt to suppress fascists |of the Nazi variety, and has called a \conference of leaders of Austrian | fascist armed groups for Friday to discuss metheds of supressing the | Nazis and the militant workers who} | are fighting him despite the appeal of , the Socialist leaders, | Although he received authorization | from his cabinet, yesterday to appea! to the League of Nations against Nazi | aggression, he has not yet taken this | step, Dispatches from London indic- ate that while the British will not | openly oppose this move, they are | prepared to do all in their power to | soft-pedal it at Geneva. Although | they are not eager to see Hitler gain janother victory, British interest in the anti-Soviet front makes them un- willing to take part in the open clash | with Hitler which would follow any | decisive declaration by the League | Council, Japan Again Flouts Peace Bid of USSR “To Reject Pact Until it Is Unnecessary” ‘TOKIO, Feb. 6—Japan’s determina- tion to make war on the Soviet Union was emphasized by Koki Hirota, Japanese foreign minister, in the Diet yesterday, when questioned about the Soviet’s proposal for a non-aggression pact. Japan will not sign until the “out- standing questions” between the two countries are settled, he said, and added that “if these questions are solved, there will be no necessity for & non-aggression pact.” Hirota aired Japanese suspicion that the United States has made a secret treaty with China to support Chinese aviation, speaking in the Diet today. He sald the Japanese army looked on U. 8. development of air lines in China, in which Pan- American Airways has gone into part- nership with the Chinese government, as a threat to the Japanese island of | Formosa, off the Fukien coast, Poland Trusts Hitler, Says Foreign Minister WARSAW, Poland, Feb. 6.—"Po- land has never shared in the distrust of Adolf Hitler.” Goreign Minister Joseph Beck told the Senate Foreign | Affairs Committee yesterday, em- phasizing the nature of the alliance recorded in the recent pact signed by Poland and Germany. This pact, slurring over the deep antagonisms which have existed since the Versailles Treaty gave Poland a | slice of territory to the sea which cuts completely across Prussia, em- | phasizes the anti-Soviet character of the Nazi-Polish understanding. Only antagonism to the Soviet Union could ‘bring these two governments to over- look for the moment the existing antagonisms be ‘ween them, MOROCCANS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST FRENCH IMPERIALISM RABAT, Morocco, Feb. 6.—More than 2,500 delegates from all parts of | Morocco demonstrated in front of the French resident general's house, demanding relief from the crushing | debts imposed on them by French | imperialism, Police attacked the marchers, injuring several. Soviet Policy Has Put End to National | Oppression Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Feb. 6—(By radio)— | How the far-flung national groups of | the Soviet Union are rapidly march- ing along the road of Socialist con- struction and culture as a result of the victories of the First Five Year Plan, and the perspectives of the Sec- ond Five Year Plan, were revealed in the speeches of the delegates here today on the tenth day of the Seven- teenth Party Congress of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union. After Kuibishev, had completed his | teport containing a remarkably de- tailed analysis of the economic situ- ation and the tasks immediately ahead, Gryadinski, of Western Siberia discussed the way in which the Party is acting on the task of transforming the Kuzbas region into a second coal base for the country, a second Don- bas. He speaks of the new socialist towns rapidly growing up in Western Siberia, and of the tremendous con- struction of new houses for the work- ers in the coal mines, whose living Standards are now immeasurably above that of the pre-war days. Then, Chubar, Chairman of the | | Council of People’s Commissariats of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, in an extensive speech gives an astonish- ingly clear picture of the gigantic economic and cultural development. of the Ukraine. He reveals the in- Feb, §—The Austrian | | fascist Heimwehr, supporter of Chan- | ‘ aS PRES. 3 ROOSEVELT Bute ! —By Burck (General Strike : — | j ° Stock Transactions—New York Stock Excha ‘Begins Today m Bid and Asked Quotatio: of Saturday, Jan 27 =, i; oe Ee pet *, he a2 |e tee gid babaeT5) Ee Ht ice Bel eeee® onte |e pat aay ae |i Ra Res pany ra 2 bis ay i , al tobvbeSalin! ethan Dee | See ettee") hi eB Becta anata fan heed | ence teks NEWS ITEM.—“Chemical, aviation, munitions, and metal stocks soar on New York Stock Exchange as Roosevelt war building program brings rush orders.” obeot eee | ened c" Crd “Daily” to Reveal Methods Used For Inciting Workers for War Saturday’s Anti-War Edition Will Link Up Wilson’s | and Roosevelt’s War-Hysteria Drives BULLETIN NEW YORK.—Unit 5, Section 1, this city has placed a cash order for 1,000 extra copies of the ten- page special anti-war edition of the Daily Worker of this Saturday, for sale to the employes at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. All other Units, Sections, Dis- tricts are urged to rush their orders for this important anti-war edition. NEW YORK.—In its broadside against the Roosevelt jingo-drive starting on Lincoln's birthday, the Daily Worker will publish in its spe- cial ten page anti-war edition of this Saturday bragging statements by leaders in the Wilson administration revealing how they whipped up war hysteria among the American masses in the world war. ‘The anti-war edition of the “Daily” will show that the Roosevelt ad~- ministration is utilizing similar meth- ods for inciting the American workers to support the coming war. This information, which will be contained in a special article by Sender Garlin, feature editor of the “Daily,” will be only one of the out- standing features in the specially illustrated Saturday edition. Additional articles will state clearly the methods proposed to the workers by the Communist Party, U. S. A, for fighting against Roosevelt’s war preparations, for defending the work- ers of the Soviet Union against the imperialist war plots. Facts will be given exposing how funds for unemployment relief proj- Bolivian Fort Falls to Paraguay in Chaco War BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 6—Capture of Fort Lechina, a Bolivian strong- hold in the Gran Chaco, in an- nounced by the Paraguayan war min- istry. This strategically important point has been captured after almo# a month of fighting. Three other forts were seized by Paraguay on Jan. 7, the day after the armistice ended. The Paraguayan army is now movint on Fort Cabezon, capture of which would seriously check the Bolivian ects have been used for strengthening the army and navy. A full page will be devoted to pre- convention discussion of the prob- lems confronting the Communist Party in the task to mobilize the American workers into immediate | action against Roosevelt's new war | plots. Every class conscious worker and every revolutionary organization is| urged to spread the special anti-war | edition of the “Daily” of this Satur- day among the workers and farmers, | to help in this way organize mass opposition to the new imperialist war threatening the American workers and the U. 8. S. R. Rush your orders at once. Anti-Fascist Meet Feb. 10 in Chicago, CHICAGO, Ill., Feb. 6—A Chicago Conference Against War and Fascism will take place Feb. 10 and 11 at Abraham Lincoln Center, 700 E. Oak- wood Blyd., under auspices of the American League Against War and Fascism. Tom McKenna, secretary of the Chicago chanter of the Civil Liberties Union, who is acting secretary of the provisional committee, reported a large number of working class or- ganizations have elected delegates. He urged election of delegates, par- ticularly from trade unions and all organizations in the Chicazo indus- trial area opposed to war and fascism. The call has been signed by proth- inent persons in Chicazo including: Professor Robert Morse Lovett, of the League for Industrial Democracy; Dr. Arthur G. Falls, Inter-Racial Com- mission of the Urban League; Julia Felsenthal, cf Women’s Clubs; B. K. Gebert, District Organizer of the Communist Party; Lola Mavorick Lioyed, Thomas N. McKenna, Civil Liberties Union; Dean Curtiss W. Reese, League for Industrial Democ~- racy; Rev. W. B. Waltmire, Socialist Ministerial Alliance; and Mr. John Werlick, A. F. of L. Polishers’ Local Union 6. All credentials are to be sent to ‘Tom McKenna, 160 N. La Salle St., Room 611, Chicago, Ill. The registra- | forces. tion fee is 50 cents per delegate. tense class struggle that took place over the advance of collectivisation due to the resistance of the Kulaks (the rich peasants), and of the final smashing of these elements ending in victory for the poor and middle peas- ants. He predicts that the Second Five Year Plan will carry the social- ist advance to immense high levels. Remove Cultural Backwardness. Musbakoy, (Transcaucasia) indi- cated the correct carrying out of the Leninist policy toward the lesser nationalities of the Soviet Union. He pointed out how the correct execu- tion of this policy has eliminated the economic inequality between the va- rious nationalities of Transcaucasia, with Transcaucasia becoming am ad- vanced Soviet Republic. Isaeyev, a delegate from Kazakstan, told how the cultural backwardness of this national region is being fast overcome under the correct applica- tion of the Leninist policy of self- determination, with intense work toward Socialist construction, under the leadership of the Communist Party. Kazakstan is now rapidly be- coming industrialized, with its prole- tarian cadres taking the lead in the ereat development of its national cul- ture. Isaeyev speaks with unre- strained fervor of the historic part nlayed by the leadership of Stalin in the application of the Leninist policy toward backward and oppressed na- tionalities. Khodjiev (Uzbekistan) continues the great Socialist victories achieved there under the line of Leninism, as steered by Stalin. He gives figures which reveal that basic industrial in- vestments increased in Uzbekistan from 170,000,000 rubles to 245,000,000, an increase of 77 percent, and how the farms have become collectivized. Zinoviey Speaks. Before the end of the morning ses- sion, Zinoviev, former leader of the Trotsky-Zinoviey opposition rose, and the whole. Congress prepared to listen to him with the greatest alertness. Everyone remembered how Zinoviev engaged in anti-Party work with his friends of his group and of their at- tempts to turn the Party from the correct Leninist path, Zinoviev declared: “At this triumphant 17th Party Congress, which will go down into history of the Party as a date equally as famous as 1917 in the history of the Revolution, I must speak of my mistakes, committed solely through my own fault. I am a living illustration of the need for struggle against deviations, of such deviations as mine which were crying deviations from Leninism, against which the Party, with Stalin at i‘s head, achieved such successes as the whole world now cannot but scrutinize. I did not have one mistake, but a whole series of mis- takes. I was not upright. I de- ceived the Party on acocunt of mo- tives of factional struggle. The Party is wholly correct when it de- this discussion, and outlines the com- ing tasks of Socialist construction in his region. He tells the Congress of schatt,” the weekly newspaper of Gott- Japan Will Attack USSR, Says Hindus PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Feb. 6.— Japan is preparing to attack the Soviet Union this spring, Maurice Hindus, well-known writer on the Soviet Union, said her last night. The whole world may be drawn into the conflict, he said, adding that he expected Japan to be defeated. Japan will make war, he said, because of its fear of the socialist gains of the workers of the Soviet Union, Foreign News Briefs JAPANESE ARMORED CAR IN MANCHURIA WRECK MUKDEN, Feb. 6.—Seven Japanese soldiers were reported burned to death, and others injured, when a Japanese armored train collided with a freight train between Kirin and Turhwa. This is the fifth accident on this line, hastily built in prepara- tion for the transportation of troops to Inner Mongolia. The other acci- dents were due to track faults. NAZI PAPER CRITICIZES STORM TROOPS—IS BANNED BERLIN, Feb. 6. — For criticizing Storm Troops, “Deutsche Wochen- fried Feder, under secretary of state for economics, and author of the Nazi economic program, has been banned for six weeks. FRENCH SOLDIERS SUPPORT STRIKERS WISSEMBOURG, Alsace-Lorraine, France—Soldiers of the 23rd Regi- ment, quartered here, have announced | they will refuse to act if called on to intervene in a strike of 450 workers in a chair factory, who have been on strike since Jan. 2 against a 5 per cent wage cut. AMNESTY FOR SPANISH MON- ARCHIST MADRID, Feb. 6,—Juan March, millionaire monarchist, who fled the country after a sensational jail break a few months ago, is to be permitted by the reactionary government to return to Spain to take his seat in the Cortes. ‘Cuban Capital | |Mendieta May Suspend | Recently Proclaimed | Constitution HAVANA, Feb, 6—With all nego~ | tiations with the Cuban government | over food credits and sugar quotas | interrupted by Roosevelt’s govern- ; Ment of the strikes,” the | Mendieta Cabinet met in special ses- sion today to consider its war plans | against the Cuban masses. | Suspension of the constitutional | guarantees promulgated only four days ago, and an emergency decree | forbidding all strikes were favored, | Meanwhile, diers are patrolling jthe streets of Havana and manning the electric stations. General Strike Wednesday A general strike of all workers in Havana, in sympathy with the strik- | ing electric workers, has been called } for tomorrow by the National Con- | federation of Labor. Meanwhile, | Several thousand Havana dock work~ ers have walked out, in support of | the electric, railway, and tobacco workers’ strikes. + The government's attempt to get the sugar crop ground at starvation | wages is meeting effective opposition from the mill workers, who are de~ | manding a dollar a day, recognition, | and better conditions. Only 19 out of 178 sugar mills which have re- {ceived their quotas are operating. Twenty mills are struck in sympathy | with the rail workers’ strike. | Many parts of Havana, and many other centers in the island remain without electric light, despite the efforts of Colonel Fulgencio Batista | to use his army for scabs. Student Leader Dies Gabriel Barcelo, leader of Ala Izquierda, the left-wing student or- ganization, and a member of the Communist Party, died Saturday from tuberculosis, contracted during two years’ imprisonment under the Ma- chado regime. His body lay in state at Havana university while thousands of workers and students passed by. More thousands attended his funeral Sunday. Nazis Murder Rau, Communist Editor Leader Loved by Thous- ands Beaten to Death (Specal to the Daily Worker) STUTTGART, Jan. 20 (By Mail). | News has just reached us that Frits | Rau, editor of the ‘Klassenkampf,” Communist publication of Halle. was murdered in Altmoabit Prison, Berlin, on Dec. 20. An old Party fighter, former editor of the “Sueddeutschen Arbeiterzei- tung,” agitprop director of the Wuer- temberg district of the Communist Party, Rau had earned the deep af- fection of thousands of workers. He remained at his post in Halle, working despite the Nazi terror, until / he was arrested in the Fall. He was so severely injured at that time that he was taken to the hospital. When he came out, the Nazis finished their i Aud work by beating him to leath. Cleveland Plans Fight on “Defense Week’? CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 6— Answering the call of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to counteract “National De- fense Week,” a District confer- ence of the Communist Party meeting here today decided to order 5,000 copies of the special edition of the Daily Worker, issue 100,000 anti-war leaflets, to be dis- tributed that week, to increase sales of the Daily Worker this week, and to use this anti-war campaign in increasing circula- tion in present Daily Worker drive. —— ist plotters azainst the republican | regime while holding thousands of working-class political prisoners in Jail, SENT BACK TO NAZI TERROR PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia.—A Gere man refugee from Nazi terror, named Wurzburg, has been deported back ‘The action is in line with the gov- ernment’s policy of freeing monarch- tively struggling against their mis- takes, and have really outlived them. “If the Party had not given such sharp repu!ses to these mistakes, the country wou!d have suffered disaster and ruin, and this Con- gress would be discussing every- thing except the plans for the Sec- ond Five-Year Plan of Socialist construction. “The triumph of the Party is the triumph of its leader, Stalin. I pledge that all my energies will go concretely into the work and struggle for our victories, so that I may exviate somewhat my crimes before the Party.” New Industries ering on the reports of, Molotov centering on the reports of jotov and Kuibishev. Lobov describes how newlumber and woodworking indus- tries have in turn created a new paper industry. He tells of the further de- velopment of chemical processes in the lumber industry, all of the great- est economic significance. Kaganovitch, Deputy of People’s Commirsars for Heavy Industry, is received pies great . applause. tells the Congress: : ioe pete, Mineg where our our own forces and our own materials, can manufacture any machine. We have reached the point where we are able to sct up mechanical equip- ment for other ” Lubemov, of the People’s Commis- sariat for Light Industry, declares dom of the Party policy of pal the construction that experience has proven the wis- to Germany from this country be cause his passport was defective. USSR Nationalities Show Great Advances, Party Congress Told a Zinoviev, Former Head of Trotskyites, Admits Crimes Against Party heavy industry and the reconstruce tion of agriculture. With this basis, i there is now the possibility of rais~ ti ing the production of consumption goods in general, Light Industry Following on this, Piatakoy, in a crystal clear speech, abounding with statistics and examples, states that in the Second Five-Year Plan heavy industry is confronted with the tasie of the technical re-equipment of the entire national economy, while the First Plan, “to a certain extent, worked upon itself.” The guaran- tecing of new equipment for the transport moves into the forefront as a major question. Piatakov enumere ates a long list of various articles of general consumption which are being produced by heavy industry in enor- mous'y increasing quantities, such as bicycles, phonographs, and radios, watches, etc. P ‘ Piatakov concludes his speech by {dy expressing his unwavering assurance ah t that under the leadership of the Bol- ¥_ bs shevik Party, under the banner of aa Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, the 5.000000 workers of heavy industry, headed by such a brilliant com- mander as Ordjonikidze, the reports at the 18th Party Congress will show that tasks set by the 17th as wholly fulfilled. : os ssinpnuapaane i il = ‘