The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 10, 1934, Page 10

gaily QWorker The Socialist Leaders and the | Al ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST (NTHREATIONAL? America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1974 BLISHED DAILY. EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY MPRODAILY PUBLISHING THE | cet, New York, N. Y. | me: Algonquin 4-7954 “Daiwork.” New York, MN. ¥ ‘Bureay 01 National Press dF st, ¥ Butlding, | | (except ‘Revolutionary Aid to the) aan Communist Party !| tement by the Central Committee C.P.U.S.A.) German worker, John Scheer from Hamburg, & aber of Polburo of the German Communist @ close fellow-fighter of Comrade Thaelmann, | ree other ible functionaries of the Com- | nany have just been murdered chambers, tormenting and | by which the fascist | giant prison, in the brown Ted Germany, try to keep down a to destroy the heroic Com- torture man pr Party of jonary comrades, day by under the most difficult condition of illegal work, @ the first day of Hi 's seizure of power, fulfilled Perevolutionary duty me: organizing tirelessly and clessly the inst fascism. Their death, | 1s the lies of fhe rene- | four heroic re st alarm and mobilize the whole class, every honest intellectual, terrorism. the hands of the same Goering police who 1o0t down prisoners without trial, are Di- orgler, Popoff ana Taneff. are in the hands of Goering, who has just d Dimitroff's defense counsel from Germany ven his interpreter, in order not to have any Every moment now may bring tidings that ‘ff ama the others have been murdered by nows what is happening im the cells in roff, Torgler and the others are. Nobody ‘n when Goering’s executioners may beat Reichstag hero, Dimitroff, with Hitler's sapon, the steel rod. de Thaelmann, the leader of the German t Party, is in the same danger. This yorker, from Hamburg, who -rew vn in strikes, in organizational work, in illegal ‘wroic fighter on the barricades in ii-m- «823, who, in the midst of st-u7le, snd a tireless study acquired the weapon of trac asist-Leninist thought, who, supported by the anlimited confidence of millions of Germen prole- tarians, developed inte the leader of the German Communist Party—Thaelmann’s life is in extreme “dancer, The fascist executioners aré making all prepara- tions {0 physically destroy Ernst Thaelmann, the revo- Tationary German labor leader, in whom are incor- porated the best qualities of the German workers. Ti is not yet clear whether they intend to do this behind the comedy of a “legal” trial or by just shoot- ing a bullet into his back, as in the case of John Scheer. * *"HAELMANN'S life is in extreme danger! Dimitroft’s, , ‘\iorgier’s, Popoff’s and ‘Taneff’s lives are in extreme a Bzer! ~=Thousands of revolutionary German work- er @ in Hitler's dungeons and concentration camps face temure and death! A movement, many-million strong, such yas the world has never seen before, must be rgamized to save them. Freedom and safe conduct Thaelmann, Dimitroff, Torgler, Taneff, Popoff! Freedom and safe conduct for all the German workers n the dungeons of the brown prison! . This is: what we must fight for! | In every factory, shop, in every mine, in every office, workers, employees must get together and organize mass protest. In every trade union organ- ization workers must get together and organize anti- faseist protest. It is necessary to orvanize the power of the masses of workers organized in trade unions, for our tortured class brothers in Germany whose lives are in extreme danger. It is our task to call forth a powerful protest movement of the workers organized im trade unions, to save Thaelmann, Di- mitroff and Torgler who, since their youth, have been active in the trade union movement. In all mass organizatiens protest movements must be started. Meetings, demonstrations, protest actions at the German consulates, every action which nnites and mobilizes masses for protest. Such Mass action can save Thaelmann, Dimitroff, nd Shousands of other German workers! The quficker, more powerful, the broader these actions are, the possibility of success will they have. 7 We must remember that the more powerful the protest movement to save the German revolutionaries is, the more powerful will be our blow afainst the fascists in the whole world, against the fascists in this country. ‘The larger the masses of workers, employees and intellectuals who raise their voice in protest, the broader-the masses who join in the action to save the German revolutionaries—the stronger will also grow the front against fascism which is raising its head everywhere in our country. In connection with the campaign to save the German revolutionaries, into which must be drawn hundreds of thousands and millions, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States has opened a drive for a financial fund for support of the heroic struzgle of the German ¢ Party, Every cent of this fund will ve used by the Communist Party of Germany for ao illesal jeaflet, for an illezal paper, for a pamphlet. money collected for this fund will make it pos- for the heroic German Communists to flood jsny more than ever with revolutionary litera- in order to organize the workers, to lead them struggle against the fascist rezime, against the st war drive of German fascism. lions must march against murderous, war-pro- Hitler fascism, millions much march, to’ save , Dimitroff, Torgler and thousands of other h workers! AS the start of the big action to save Thaelmann, UtfOff and the others and of the drive for the ‘ag fund for the German Communist Party, the 1 Committee of the Communist Party of the CO., INC. 50 East 13th Party States called upon all workers and intellectuals 3 to the mass meeting at Bronx Coliseum, Sun- wing. February 11, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10,)1 { 934 Roosevelt War Machine IN 1917 it was Morris Hillquit, leader of the Socialist Party, who reassured Vilson govern- ment of the house of J. P. Morga the Socialist ‘would not hinder the government by calling strikes. In the immediate future, it will be Norman Thomas who will advise the young workers of America to “do their part” to defend “democracy against dictatorship,” | to forego any real uggle against the Roosevelt w: Machine as it plunges into action, driving ahead against the Soviet Union. The Socialist Party leaders, in their paper, the New Leader, run grandiose headlines about the danger of another world war. They even pride themselves, in | @ recent issue on “Flaying the Military Policies of the | Roosevelt Administration.” But it is a grim reality that behind all his “Socialist” pacifism, Norman Thomas is striving with might and | main to conceal from the American working class that Roosevelt and his N.R.A.-New Deal program are geared | and directed toward one major objective—imperialist | War and intervention against the Soviet Union. Listen to Norman January 20: “Remembering that world trade is still in the grip of a crazy capitalist system, the President’s pro- posal for devaluating the dollar in terms of gold . . . lessen rather than increase the danger of war between currencies and for world trade... .” At the very moment that Roosevelt plunges out- ward toward imperialist war with the weapons of ruthless inflation, Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, disarms the workers by praising this step as “lessen- ing the danger of war... for trade...” What is this if not playing te2 part of advance publicity agent and salesman for the Roosevelt war machine, which the New Leader “flays?” Is it not in just this way that the Socialist Party leaders of Germany hailed the various semi- fascist governments of Bruerting, Schleicher and Von Papen as “lessening the danger of Fascism?” The results of this every worker knows, Thomas in the New Leader of R ANOTHER example from the New Leader of February 3. The leading editorial quotes Assistant Secretary of War, Woodring, who, in an article quite frankly stated that the New Deal is a war deal, with the Roosevelt government holding the army in readi- ness for any sccial revolution. Now, remembering that Thomas only a week or so before had praised Roose- yelt for “lessening” the war danger, listen to this comment of the New Leader: “Here we have a frank pronouncement of a military fascism as yet unrebuked by the President.” (our emphasis). In these words the Socialist Party leaders are doing their bit to mask the brutal imperialist war visage of Roosevelt by pretending that the menace of fascism and war come not from the very heart of the Roose- vels government, from Roosevelt himself, from his whole N.R.A.-New Deal program, but from the “out- side” from some few militarists who happened to stray into the Roosevelt government, The Socialist New Leader pleads with Roosevelt, the leader of the Wali Street imperialist machine to “rebuke” one of his own agents and lieutenants who is executing the full intent and purpose of the Roose- velt policy. They actually strive to paint Roosevelt as the one whe will lead the fight against war and fascisin! Is it not in just this way that the German Socialists painted Hindenburg as the one who would lead the fight against Hitler? The Socialist leaders defend the N.R.A. strikebreak- ing machine, that very industrial ‘strikebreaking ma- chine by which the Roosevelt government is militar- ising the entire economy of the country, the N.R.A. machine by which fascist reaction is being put into effect by the Roosevelt administration. And then they pretend to “flay” the Roosevelt mili- tary policy! oe next imperialist war conflagration will converge uvon the Soviet Union, the land of victorious Socialist Construction whose existence means the doom of world capitalism. The Socialist leaders protest that they “favor” the Soviet Union. Buf listen to Norman Thomas in the New Leader of January 27: “What trust would the farmers have in a workers’ dictatorship when they know that the Russian work- ers’ dictatorship, with all that can be said in its favor, by its mistakes in policy and blundering created a famine in the Ukraine and other fertile areas of Russia?” Doesn't Norman Thomas know that the fascist Rosenberg, Hitler’s foreign affairs specialist, organ- ized kulaks in the Ukraine into counter-revolutionary plots in order to exploit the difficulties of the agri- cultural situation? Doesn’t he know that it was these foreign-financed kutak plots which were responsible for the ccunter-revolutionary resistance of the last remnants of exploiting landlords in the Ukraine? Of course he knows it. And is not unwilling to spread this vile anti-Soviet intervention prope- ganda. The New Leader speaks of the “war danger in the East.” But it maintains as tomb-like a silence as any reactionary-capitalist sheet on the peace policy of the Soviet Union, the greatest bulwark of world peace. And particularly at this moment, when Japanese im- perialism is already bringing its columns up to the Soviet borders, the Socialist leaders mask in deep silence ‘the firm proletarian peace policy of the Soviet Union, while they redouble their: slanders about the “famines” in the Ukraine! Can any one doubt that Norman Thomas’ silence on the Soviet peace policy while he spreads “famine” propaganda is of the greatest assistance to the inter- ventionists? The final touch to the Socialist Party leadership “fight” against war comes from its latest announce- ment that all Socialist branches must withdraw from the American League Against War and Fascism, the only true United Front organization fighting against the’ Roosevelt war program. And the reason given by the Socialist leaders is that the Communists, who are part of the United Front, are “criticizing” the Socialist leaders! Well might they fear criticism! For their policies are the continuation of the chauvinist counter-revolu- tionary treacheries of 1914-17 when they drive the working class of the world to the imperialist slaughter “in the name of the capitalist Fatherland.” . * * Under such circumstances let every worker remem- ber the Socialist treacheries of 1914-17. Let us re~ member how all the Second International revolutions for the revolutionary struggle against war became scraps of paver as soon as the imvei the whip in 1914! Let us not forget that the parties of the Second International assisted in the inu.,..- tion against the Soviet Union. Let us not forget the Socialist Party treachery in Germany, that treachery which has placed the fascist war mongers in power in Germany. To all Socialist workers we say, “We are fellow workers, feliow proletarians in the struggle against capitalism, fascism and war, Let us ‘clasp hands in united struzgle avainct the excteterg 9A fh + eon makers, The metrayals of 1914, of 1918, of 1933, must not happen again. Unilea in poe... solidarity, shoulder to shoulder in the day to day struggles, we can defeat the war makers, and put 8 final end to the capitalist dictatorship which breeds and organizes imperialist war.” Metqs wnncione Communists Win Two Elections in Iceland COPENHAGEN, Feb. 8. — The Communist Party elected one of its candidates to the town council of Rejkjavik, capital of Iceland, and won another seat in Siglufjord, Ice- land; at the recent elections, In 1939, the C. P. was not yet ready to put up = candidate. ‘German Workers | Protest Terror on | “Adolf Hitler Day” | Nazis Catch = None: Jail Former Prisoners in Reprisal | | FREIBURG. Germany. — On Jan- 30, the first anniversary of Hit- 's coming to power. the Communist Party carried out a lightning demon- | stration here. |. The police report says: “On Tues- day evening, during the march to the demonstration in Munster~Sq. in honor of Hitler's anpointment as state chancellor, the i'legal Commu- |nist Party again seized the opportunity |for distributing a leaflet inciting to sedition. | “The customary sudden and con- |cealed manner of the distribution made it impossible to seize the dis- tributors, Therefore all the former members of the Communist Party who had been released from the con- centration camps at Christmas have been arrested again.” . 8 All. ont to “Su German Workers Revolution” meeting, Bronx Coliseum, Sunday night, Feb. 11, | 1p. m. Hear Browder report, Austrian Socialists ‘Try To Divert Rage of SP Rank and File Party Raided To Check Resentment Leaders Fail To Stem NEW YORK—While the struggle between Austrian and Nazi fascists for power in Austria is sharpening all international contradictions among the European powers, and enhancing the war danger, the Socialist Party of Austria is playing the same tactics by which the German Socialist Party payed the way for Hitler. ,The New York Times correspondent in Vienna clearly reveals the role of the. Socialist leaders, who in recent weeks have openly supported Dollfuss fascism as a “lesser evil” to German fascism. “The Socialist leaders find it in- creasingly difficult to check the ris- ing temper of the workers at the growth of what they regard as Heimwehr provocation,” says the Times reporter, “So strong is the resentment in some districts that there is danger im case of a Nazi rising that in thesé particular towns and cities a séetion of the workers might dis- regard the orders of their party and take part in any movement as Jong as it was directed against the present government.” ‘The Socialist leaders, like their German colleagues, are using every means to divert the revolutionary anger of their rank and file, and much prefer submitting to restric- tions end raids to allowing the work- ers to carry out a determined strug- gle against fascism in all its forms, which the illegal Communist Party is leading. The pressure of the rank and file of the Austrian workers is so great that the Dollfuss regime, pressed by its Heimwehr supporters, is atemipt- ing to break up the Soctalist izations, despite the loyalty of the Socialist leaders. Although the So- clalist. press was not suppressed in Thursday’s raids, a strict control over it has ‘been established, THE OLD ARMY GAME! eats ? ‘Workers Rally to F ‘ight National Jingo Week —By Burck Steel Towns Franklin D. Roosevelt (Continued from Page 1) York,” McMahon is quoted in this Lord Marley in Cleveland Sunday, Detroit Monday NEW YORK—Lord Marley, chair- man of the International Committee te Aid Victims of German Fascism, will speak in Cleveland tomorrow, and in Detroit Monday. The Cleveland meeting will be at the Masonic Auditorium, 3515 Euclid Ave., at 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 11. The Detroit meeting will be at the Naval Armory, Jefferson near Belle Isle, at 8 p.m., Monday, Feb, 12, 1 a weseeoue SPEAKS IN DETROIT ETROIT.—Louls Weinstock will deliver tio thaln-addiess ‘on Unemployment, Tare ance, Sunday at 3 pm., in Northern High School, Woodward at Clairmont Sts. A. F. Of Za “members are asked especially to st- MATTHEWS | SPEAKS IN PITTSBURGH H.—J. B. Matthews, will speak on “Pittsburgh Guns Over Cuba.” at the Irene Kaufmann Settlement, 1835 Center Aye; on Monday at 8:30 p.m. ‘On Sunday Matthews will speak in Me- eesport’ at 2 p.m., on the same subject, Hathaway to Speak in Boston Tonight BOSTON, “Mass-—o. A. Hath- away, editor-in-chief of the Daily Worker will be the main speaker at the celebration of the tenth an- nivetsary of the Dai!'y Worker here tonight, 8 p. m. at the Dudley St. ‘Opera House, 113 Dudley St, “One of the features at this event will be the presentation of the Nationsl Daily Worker to the Bostor District for being the first ae eee See eGRA voihton’ -cevigteaa Ha ti ged. rabid fascist and anti-Sovict docu- ment, “the Communists are giving us a black eye and we can’t do a damn thing ‘about it... Ann Bur- Jak, who is leading the strike, is a most dangerous woman.” He then tells of his loyalty to the slave pacts of the NRA, saying: “We are doing everything we can to combat them (the Communists) but it is like throwing 2 pail of water on a prairie fire.” ‘The brunt of the attack in the letter is directed against the Daily Work- er and the Communist Internation- al. Quoting from the (3th Plenum Re solution of the Com- munist International, Mathew Woll, who couldn’t be found at home when an investigation into racketeering was made in New York City, resorts to the slimiest lying in order to attempt to implicate the Soviet ambassador to the United States, Alexander A. Troyanoysky. Without the slightest scintilla of evidence, without the least regard for the facts, Mr. Woll says: “The The- sis of the 13th Plenum had been adopted before the Soviet Ambassa- dor, Alexander A. Troyanovsky sailed dor, Alexandor A. Troyanovsky, sailed and incitement to revolution and bloodshed manifested in that reso- lution ringing in his ears, while the responsive action of the American Communist Party was announced on his arrival.” What Woll Wants to Hide By this underhand means, typical omaaesh MATTHEW WOLL Woll Tries to Provoke War on USSR of the strikebreaking activities of Woll throughout the crisis, he Mr. tries to make it appear that Am- passador Troyanovsky is cooperating with the Communist Party of the U.S. A., and that the publication of the resolution coincided deliberately with his arrival in this country. ‘The fact of the matter is, that with the admitted smashing ¢3 the work- ers’ standard of living in this coun- try through the N.R.A. with the} huge growth of company unions, fos-} tered particularly by the leaders of the National Civic Federation, the American workers have been increas- ing their resistance, To make it easier for the Roose- vel government to press its attacks against the workers’ genuine trade unions, Matthew oll of the National Civic Federation calls for the estab- lishment of a government-subsidized secret police which would help the United States Steel, Standard Oil, the Mellon Aluminum Trust, and other scab corporations fortify their factory stool pigeons and spies in attacking the American workers. Not Concerned With “Peace” Woll openly admits that the Na- tional Civic Federation is little con- cerned with “international peace,” stating: “One listening to Troyanov- sky’s utterances, having so much to do with ‘international peace,’ a sub- ject of little direct concern to showing that the A. F. of L. leader- ship is openly instigating war against the Soviet Union. At the same time. Woll wants “industrial peace” in the United States so that the workers will not resist the lowering of their wages, the destruction of their unions, or the foisting on them of company unions, saying that Troy- anovsky says nothing about “indus- trial peace which concerns us very much.” Ambassador Troyanovsky, as the National, Civic Federation here in- advertantly admits, is not in the least concerning himself with the “internal affairs” of the United States, carrying out the purport of the treaties signed between President Roosevelt and Maxim Litvinoff, Sov- iet Commissar of Foreign Affairs. By deliberately distorted and doc- tored quotations from alleged Com- munist documents, byq innuendo and} outright lying, the National Civic Federation is feeding the fires of war hatred against the Soviet Union. N.R.A. Strikebreaking At the same time, the A. F. of L. leadership caught red-handed in wholesale strikebreaking under the N.R.A,, supports this propaganda for war against the Soviet Union, in order to further its fascist attacks on American workers and their or- ganizations. The A. F. of L. officialdom wants to terrify the rank and file, who are now increasing their resistance to the whole rotten mess of racketeering, graft and scandal in the A. F. of L. through the circulation of these} documents subsidized by the very cor- porations who are forcing company | unions on the American workers. It is no accident that Matthew Woll at this time puts his signature | to the vilest anti-Soviet document yet to come from the National Civic Federation. Involved up to his neck in the tremendous graft and racketeering now being exposed in New York City, Woll has been absenting himself from fhe city, Even capitalist news- paper reporters who have attempted to put very pointed and embarras- ing questions to him on his connec- tion with racketeering in New York, found that Mr. Woll had disappeared. This latest effusion trom the scab- biest sources of the big trust should get it just deserts from every worker. ‘The rank and file in every A. F. of L. union should make known their protest in the form of written res- Olutions, calling for an end to this scabbery and war provocations. Kalinin Stirs 17th USSR Party Congress With Speech on Socialist Organization MOSCOW, Feb. 8—Continuing the discussion of the organization prob- lems brought before the 17th Party Congress of the All-Union Commu- nist (Bolshevik) Party of the U. S. 8. R., Premier Molotov called upon Michael Kalinin, President of the U. S. 8. R., to take the floor today at the fourteenth day of the Congress. Kalinin, @ great favorite with the delegates, was greeted by hearty and prolonged applause. In an extremely interesting speech, delivered in the form of conversations and ancdotes, constantly interrupted by the delighted laughter and ap- plause of the Congress, Kalinin, a veteran Bolshevik, devoted himself ne the Party problems of organiza- ion. “Our Party,” he said, “has always paid the greatest attention to ques- because we not only had the cor- rect political line, but also because our Party had considerable cadres “And speaking quite sincerely, Comrade Stalin performs very much work in order, if I may so express it, to ‘graft’ the taste for organi- zational questions onto comrades. This is altogether right. Because, what does it mean to govern in our country? In the Soviet Union to administer, to govern, means to organize.” Following Kalinin’s speech many delegates arose to discuss questions of organization and Party work as they arose directly in the factories and collective farms, Leningrad Workers Greetings At this point Chairman Molotov an- nounced that a delegation of Lenin- grad workers had just arrived at the Congress. The representatives of the City of Lenin approached the plat- form in a long column and received the prolonged applause of the dele- gates. Molotov called on a representative from the delegation, a worker from the “Red Putilov” factory, Comrade Podrezov, to deliver the words of greeting. “We are here,” he said, “from the proletariat of the City of Lenin, who have sent us here to give our warm- est proletarian greetings to you, the best Leninists and organizers of our victories. We were to express the unlimited love and loyalty of the men and women workers of Leningrad, to you and to Comrad Stalin.” The speaker received an ovation, as he declared that he had come to present as proof of the mastery of Leningrad industry, 2 model tractor to the Presidium of the Congress, one of the thousands of tractor cul- tivators which the workers of Lenin- grad had given to the fields of Social- ist_ agriculture. In conclusion, the representative of the Leningrad delegation cried: “Long ' day. Live the World Revolution, and its great leader, Comrade Stalin!” The Congress seized on this cry and a new ovation of “hurrahs” in honor of Com. rade Stalin rang again and again through the hall. Women Workers Greet Stalin The next speaker, Comrade Val- Kova, @ working woman from a Lenin- grad textile factory, “Red Flag,” greeted the Congress in the name of the working women of Leningrad. Then turning to Comrade Stalin she said: “Comrade Stalin, the working women of the City of Lenin come to bring to you their specially deep gratitude to you for your devoted every day attention to the needs and the life of the working women, and the education of their children, ‘Then the delegation of engineers and technicians of |, en= tered the hall, and their representa- tive, Comrade Yefremov, told the Congress, amid thunderous applause, that he brought to the Congress and to Comrade Stalin the warmest greet- ings from the 60,000 engineers and technicians from Leningrad. Of the following speakers, the Con- gress greeted with particular enthu- siasm words of Comrade Afanadi Kim, from the Far Eastern Region, who described the work of the Poset Dis- trict In the Far East, inhabitated by Koreans, a District which borders on Manchuria: . In reply to the insolent actions of the Japanese imperialists, Com- rade Kim declared, “The collective farmers of this region have decided to bu‘ld their own airp!ane, as part of the defense of our own Socialist borders.” Karl Radek and Comrade Bluecher are scheduled to speak later in the | Oakwood Blvd In Anti-War Mass Meets Broad Preparations Made in Chicago, Detroit; Group on Coast HAMMOND, Ind., Feb, 9. — The Communist Party of Hammond will answer the jingo poison of “National Defense Week” with an outdoor anti- war meeting Sunday, Feb. 11, at 3 corner Howard and Field Sts. sae er Chicage Meeting and Conference CHICAGO, Ill. — A united front conference against war and fascism will be held this Saturday and Sun- day at Abraham Lincoln Center, 700 The conference will be called on to set up a Chicago branch of the American League Against War and Fascism. A monster anti-fascist. anti-war rally will be held in Chicago Coli- seum, Wabash Ave. and 15th St., this Saturday evening, at which Anne Schultz will speak. Among other antiwar, anti-fascist activities will be the sale of 10,000 copies of the special anti-war edition of the Daily Worker, and a series of neighborhood meetings and demon- | | | strations. Tuesday Meeting in Youngstown YOUNGSTOWN, O.— The answer |of the Youngstown steel workers to the Wall Street war preparations will be an anti-war, anti-fasclst meeting at Central Auditorium, Tuesday night, Feb. 13. J. B. Matthews, national chairman, American League Against War and Fascism, wil Speak. Cleveland mates ‘Wotnentay CLEVELAND, O.—A neighborhood mass meeting against war wiil be held Wednesday, Feb. 14, at the Unem- ployed Council Hall, 3356 E. 117th St., 8 p.m., called by Unit 343 of the Come “Ayeg ysyunur o * Gary Mobilizes GARY, Ind.—The Communist Party unit of the Illinois Steel Mil will answer “National Defense Week” by doubling the regular issue of the “Gary Steel Worker” and distributing a special order of the Feb. 10 anti- war issue of the Daily Worker. 8 -« Plan Many Actions in Detroit DETROIT, Mich.—Broad prepara- tions for a fight against war, and against “National Defense Week” have been made in Detroit. Many thousand leaflets have been printed, and many neighborhood meetings, demonstr:Wions and parades planned. The next issue of the “Auto Workers News” will be an anti-war issue, as will many shop papers. All these events will also be used as preparations for a mass meeting at Dom Polski Hall, 2281 E. Forest St., Feb. 23, when Earl Browder will speak on “What's the Way ‘Out of the Economic Origa?’ * e BERKELEY, Calif—The Bay Re~ gion League Against War and Fas- cism, affiliated to the American League Against War and Fascism was \formed at a meeting here Jan. 29, at which 147 organizations were rep- resented. The program of the national organization was presented by ®# member of the International Long- shoremen’s Association, representing 5,000 workers. Two mass conferences, one in Oakland in February, one in San Francisco in March were decided on, to be followed by a state-wide Congress Against War and Fascism in April. P ; OLYMPIA, Wash.— The Women’s Educational League of Thurston County have sent a message to Presi~ dent Roosevelt demanding withdrawal of all American troops and warships from China, Chinese and Cubah waters; protesting against war on the Chinese masses, against the im~ perialist war moves against the So~ viet Union, demanding social and un- employment insurance at the expense of the bosses and their government. Rock Island — Arsenal Busy on War Production (By a Worker Correspondent) DAVENPORT, Iowa. — The Rock Island Arsenal is located on an island in the middle of the Mississippi River and in the heart of the area covered by the Quad Cities of Davenport, Mo- line, East Moline, and Rock Island. There is approximately $100,000,000 worth of buildings and equipment lo- cated on the Rock Island Arsenal. I give below two clippings from. recent Davenport papers. These will help the “Daily Worker” to expose the “war preparations.” “Orders for the manufacture of material for the United States navy, received at the Rock Island will eventually result in the employ~ ment of from 100 to 150 of which 50 will be highly skilled men, in ad~ dition to the regular force, for about a year at least, Col. H. W. Schull, commandant, announced today. “The orders call for parts of fivee inch navy gun mounts, and the manufacture of six-inch gun mounts complete, also for the navy. “A call was issued a few days ago for 50 experienced machinists and tool _mekers and these men are rep being selected, Col. Schull said. “‘We must pick these men very carefully, as the qualifications are quite exacting,’ Col. Schull said. “At the present time the arsenal force comprises 828 men, the largest in several years. A few months ago the number was approximately 750. When the rest of the men required are added the force will be about 900.” “Applicants may call at the employe ment section of the main office for interviews, it ts stated.” js ere