The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight Daily,.QWorker “ENTRAL ORGAM COMMUMIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY PUBLISHED BY Street, New York, N. ¥ ALgonguin Subscription Rates By Mai M and 6 months, $3.5 Manhattan, 5: 6 months, By 0 What’s Behind the Connery Bill? ME N.R.A. has put an entirely different complexion on the so-called 30-Hour Connery Bill, The House Committee on Labor is holding hearings on the Con- Nery Bill which provides for a federal law establishing ® maximum 30-hour week. William Green, president of the A. FP. of L, ver- bally at least, is supporting the bill. His main reason, he says, is in order to spread-the-work, or as the Daily Worker Washington correspondent more accu- fately describes it “to-spread-the-misery.” Im what manner has the N.R.A. changed the whole mature of the 30-hour Connery bill from its original form in the Black Bill? Under the N.R.A. codes have been established with hourly rates, in some instances as low as 12 cents an hour, and on the average 40 cents an hour. William Green in proposing the 30- hour week; even with no reduction in pay, actually is proposing a wage cut for the American workers. Here is how it would work. An auto worker now employed 40 hours a week at 40 cents an hour would earn $16 a week. reduction in hours to 30, and with “no reductién in THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC, ™ Kast 13tb The’ Costigan-Wagner Bill- Under the Connery Bill, with s | pay,” on the basis of the N.R.A. codes, the actual | weekly pay would be reduced to $12 a week. ‘This is what Green wants to foist on the workers —a steep reduction in pay along with a reduction in hours, in order to make the employed workers share their misery with the unemployed. Why at this particular time does the demand for a 30-hour week arise? The N.R.A. is rapidly increas- ing unemployment, even with an increase in produc- tion. With the lowered hours in some industries (and lower pay), the bosses have been able to speed up production to an extent where they are actually firing workers; getting oft more production with less work- ers. This fact is admitted by the New York Evening Sun of February 20th. The financial editor of the Sun writes: “Factory employment in January dropped 11 per cent, according to the Department of Labor (actually 500,000 workers lost their jobs in January). Industrial production can increase considerably with- out any increase, or with little, in employment, thanks to the growing use of more efficient machin- That turn is forced by the rising costs of doing business under the N.R.A.” ITH the tremendous growth in unemployment under the NR.A., employment urance, advocates the passage of the Connery 30-hour bill We can see definitely that this is a veiled proposal for a wage cut, for the stagger plan in a new and more vicious form. Sgainst the Connery Bill proposal, which in its disguised form of a 30-hour week appeals to many werkers, we must expose its real significance. Against it we must put forward the demand of the 30-hour week, won through action of the workers, without reduction in the weekly pay, based on union wage Yates, with the right to raise the demand for in- creases to meet the rapidly rising cost of living. + The very fact that General Johnson said that the N.R.A. authorities would accept the proposal if it were passed by the committee shows that the bosses are not averse to hiring more workers without ex- panding their payroll, because they would thereby be able to squeeze more profits out of the workers with- out havin to pay them any more money We should not make the mistake of lagging be- hifid in attacking the full implications of the Connery 30-hour bill before all workers, rallying m._ for Struggle for shorter hours through weekly spay redi meet the skyroc! ruggles,, without tions, and with increased wages to ting prices of the necessities of life Lies About Austrian Workers ‘HERE is a chill of fear in the hearts of capitalists the world over, a chill of fear which brings i action all their most despicable and veno) And well might they feel this sick: workers of A began io leave they _ bes Bauer teck th The} best eficits of their tearfully pro’ fought like Overwhelming odds—they began to throw off their Social Democratic illusions and to face the fascists like bolsheviks. And in every country of the world the workers responded to their heroism with gigantic expressions of lidarity. The tremendous latent revolutionary enersy of the working class burst out to the surface in & powerfully impressive demonstration. And in that demonstration of solidarity, the work- €rs of the capitalist countries were not slow to show that they understood and accepted the example of their Austrian comrades, hatre ak through the ¢ around them with such c evolutio: to he the er Aas so lions against despite as Otto al THE face of such a mighty spectacle, there is no Savagery too vicious, no slander too base for the use of the capitalists in their desperate attempt to beeak the gigantic international chain of working class solidarity. The latest of such slanders is spread over the pages of the capitalist press now. The Social Demo- ratic ‘workers, say the venomous, slimy pen-prosti- tutes, are now uniting. with the Nazis against Dollfuss! The Austrian proletariat, those devoted heroes of | tae working class who haye not yet finished counting their dead in their magnificent, heayen-storming Sirezgie against Dollfuss fascism, are already uniting wh “Nazi fascism! “Such a slimy lie inspires only anger and contempt in the mind of a class-conscious worker. But it is ‘also necessary to see what purpose is served by this despicable slander. safe, comfortable days of Austrian Social Demo- “* cratic influence are past. “Our party made the ‘Breatest efforts to come to an agreement with the Wolifuss government,” says Otto Bauer. But the rank file of the Social Democracy did otherwise. It took the bolshevik road of irreconcilable struggle Against the Dolifuss government. Mm Germany, Poland, France, in all the capitalist William Green, to fight against un- | 92 23, 1934 DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY countries and in the colonies of capitalism, millions of workers heard and understood the clarion call of the heroic Austrian proletarians; they took new cour- age for their own battles, They understood that in its hatred of fascism the international working class Ss one, and they understood the meaning of that fact. That is why the capitalists feel such fear today and that is why they will stop at nothing in their orts to corrode the bonds of international prole- rian solidarity, to confuse and deceive the workers, to break up the world-wide working class unity which e Austrian events brought so vividly to view. There is nothing they would stop at to gain this end; there is nothing they would not do to “justify the savage terror which Dollfuss has unleashed against ¢ Austrian workers. They will not succeed. The lessons of the Austrian | events are too clear, the class lines are drawn too sharply, the only road the working class can take is now too well defined. Profiting from the lessons gained in struggle at Such tremendous sacrifice, the proletariat of Austria will go forward on the bolshevik road it has already | taken, until better prepared, better organized, accept- ing the leadership of the Party of Marx and Lenin, it turns its temporary defeat into a final victory. They will go forward in the united front forged on the Austrian barricades to the final overthrow of capitalism, to the proletarian dictatorship, to a Soviet Austria. ———E Whose Weapon? we is the purpose of the present maneuvers in the U. S, Senate around the Costigan-Wagner anti- lynching bill? What happened the first day of the hearing on this bill, reported to have the support of the government? Negro witnesses at the hearing were forcibly ejected from the Senate restaurant when they attempted to exercise their constitutional rights to eat in a public restaurant! Lynching dramatizes the bruial oppression of the Negro people under American democracy. Lynching is an expression of the whole system of social and national suppression of the Negro people. The gov- ernment supports jim-crowism and discrimination. It ejects Negroes from the Senate Restaurant, as it ejected Negroes a few weeks ago from the House Res- taurant. It gives the stamp of approval to discrimina- tion, proving once more its role as the chief instru- ment of the oppressors of the Negro masses. Tt is in this government that the Negro masses are urged to have faith by the reformist leaders! It is before this government that Walter White, Charles H. Houston and other leaders of the National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Colored People crawled in abject servility, warning it of the rising mass fight of Negro and white toilers against lynching, warnjng of the increasing difficulties with which they are beset, by reason of the government's jim-crow policies, in mobilizing the Negro masses behind the fascist and war policies of the Roosevelt “New Deal.” These gen- tlemen abjectly complained to their imperialist masters af the efforts “to convince the Am@rican Negro that his hope of justice under the present form of govern- Ment was useless.” Walter White declared before the Senate sub-committee “It is for this Committee and for.+the Congress either to demonstrate that this hope | ts not a futile one or else to give weight to those who contend that such a hope is futile.” What is the purpose of the reformist leadership of the N.A.A.C.P. in sponsoring this illusionary hope of justice and fair play for the Negro masses under capitalism, without struggle? What is their aim in putting forward the reformist Costigan-Wagner anti- lynching bill at this moment? Senator Costigan in- advertently lets the cat out of the bag in the follow- | ing statement on the San Jose (Calif.) double lynch- ing: “Late last November a tidal wave of sentiment | and indignation swept across America when Governor Rolph of California publicly defended inaction by him- self and other peace officers in that State. our people’s wrath, visioning the cumulative horror of two generations of such slaughter, spread from sea to sea.” Not by accident did Senator Costigan fail to men- | lon that this seething mass indignation against the growing fascist lynch terror had preceded the San Jose lynching of two white men, and had thundered its pro- tests against the hideous lynching of George Arm- wood, Negro worker, in Maryland, and against the legal lynching by that State of the innocent Negro farm-hand, Euel Lee. Not by accident did Senator Costigan cover up the role of the Communist Party and the revolutionary mass organizations in mobilizing of thousands of white and Negro toilers in in- nt protest against the lynch waye, and for a ant, united front fight against the lynchers. ynching bill a sincere measure against lynching? Is it’ not murder to lynch a Negro? Then, why is the bill silent on the death penalty, which is exacted for all other forms of murder not committed by the State itself and its agents? Will its provision for a fine of $10,000 against counties in which a lynching occurs stop lynching? The statutes of the State of West Virginia have such a pro- vision. Yet the families of Negroes lynched in that State never have been able to collect the provided But even this provision in the Costigan- agner bill the reformists are now willing to drop: “Arthur Garfield Hayes and Walter White agreed that it would be better to change that section of the bill than to risk rejection of the entire measure.” Thus the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill, al- | ready silent on the death penalty for lynchers, is to be further castrated to make it completely acceptable | to the lynchers! But there is a more sinister purpose behind the bill, in addition to its aim to wreck the mass move- ment against lynching by confining it to legalistic channels harmless to the lynchers.. The bill provides / @ weapon for the lynchers for the physical suppres- sion of the mass movement by its definition of “mobs,” | which it defines as a gathering of “three or more per- | | sons.” Tt offers a new weapon to employers and the courts for the smashing of the strike struggles of white and Negro workers. Under this. definition, the bill would be used to legalize the policy of the imperialists of smashing anti-lynching demonstrations, of breaking down the growing unity of Negro and white workers in joint struggle against their oppressors, Is there a bill that really seeks to root out lynch- ing? Yes, the Bill Against Lynching and for Civil Rights for the Negro People, sponsored by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. This bill was taken to Washington by the historic Scottsboro march. It demands the death penalty for lynchers. It seeks to wipe out the breeding ground of lynching in the present. social ostracism, jim-crowism, discrimination and eco- nomic robbery of the Negro toilers. But even this bill would be ineffective unless the toiling masses and all elements opposed to lynching were rallied around it, to force its enforcement. Answer the maneuvers of the ruling class and their reformist agents by sharpening the mass fight against lynching! Demand the passage and enforce- ment of the L.S.N.R. Bill! No faith in the capitalist government, the instrument of the lynchers! Build the militant mass fight under the leadership of the Communist Party and the revolutionary mass organi- zations against the lynchers and their government as the only means of effectively combatting the growing fascist lynch terror! In a flash | Dountergue Insists (On Right To Slash Budget by Decree Threatens To Dismiss Parliament; avisky Witmess Murdered PARIS, Feb. threat of dismissing Premier Gaston Doum demanded the right to b e the budget by decree without discussion by parlia- ment a Meeting of the finance committee of the Chamber of Depu- ties. Rule by decree was the prelude |to Fascism in Germany and Austria Dour de: aded the right to slash 600,000,000 francs from the |budget by executive action. This means further drastic wage-slashes Jand dismissals of civil servants. | The only capitalist alternative to a | Savage attack on civil service wages, jand crushing additional taxes, in the {face of the great militancy of the | French masses, is inflation, which |means a great increase in the cost of living Many observers believe France will be forced to go off the gold standard and inflate the currency anyway, and powerful pressure is being exerted on the government to do so by capital- ists who are badly hit by being pushed out of the world market through American and British infla- tion. While Doumergue was shaking his |fascist big stick over the deputies, | murder was being employed to hush up the “investiga‘ion” into the Sta- |visky scandal, which resulted in the jfall of three cabinets, and in Dou- |mergue’s reactionary cabinet being put in the saddle. Albert Prince, a Paris magistrate who had evidence which would in- |volve many high-place persons in the |Stavisky affair, was murdered at |Dijon, where he had been lured by a |fake telegram. All his papers were stolen by the murderer. French Socialists Reject Anti-Fascist - United Front Offer | |S.P. Leaders Refuse To Join Communists in Fight on Fascism | PARIS, Feb, 22—In the face of the rising tide of fascism in France, which brought more than 4,000,000 workers out in a one-day protest strike two weeks ago, the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of | France’ last night rejected a united |iront proposal of the Communist Party of France to fight fascism, Political Prisoners Starve in Venezuel 5,000 Deprived of Right to Get Food NEW YORK.—Five thousagd politi- cal prisoners, deprived of their right jto receive food from outside prison, are facing starvation in Venezuelan | jails, it has been learned here. The state takes no care to feed its political prisoners, A year ago, as a | right to receive food from outside was won, It was taken away, however, after reyolutionary workers had dis- tributed leaflets on Dec. 19, the 25th | anniversary of the Gomez dictator- ship. A concert and ball to raise funds for their aid will be given Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Park Palace, 35 W. | 110th St., under the auspices of the |Committee for Denfense of Political | Prisoners of Venezuela. A program |including South American, West In- | dian and Spanish dancers and music, | Will be given, Dancing after the pro- jgram, “NEW DEAL” AGAINST FILIPINOS MANILA, P, I.,, Feb, 22,—Saying he wished to ‘pacify” the Sulu archi- |pelago, a region of the Philippine |Islands in which the anti-imperialist ;mMoyement is especially high, Gov- ernor General Frank Murphy, form- jer “liberal” mayor of Detroit, has fired all high ranking Filipino’ of- ficials and replaced them with Americans, result of great mass actions, their | “BIRDS OF A FEATHE AUSTRIA — - (| appeal te you to submit Patienti SOCIALIST LEADER OTTO BAUR Jo carr, ess 2 SOIAUST. | LEADER WALOMAN R” By Burck | News Item:—In an interview with a New York Times correspondent, Otto Bauer declared that he | advised the workers of Linz to submit patiently to the Government search for arms, as they did in Vienna. | Louis Waldman, a leader of the American Socialist Party, in an interview of the New York Daily News, | declared that the police should be given clubs following the Madison Square Garden “incident.” | | | Earl Browder, General) Secretary of C. P., To Speak in Detroit NEW YORK—Protests hitting the| | Dolfiuss butchery of Austrian work- {ers and pledging solidarity with they Austrian working class continued to gain momentum yesterday in all parts of the United States. Mass meetings, | open air demonstrations, lectures on the Austrian situation were held in} scores of cities. Cables and telegrams of protest were sent from many other cities, from small clubs as well as large organizations. Some of the | more outstanding protest actions fol- low. | PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Over 1,000 Ne- ,8ro and white workers, including | Strikers of the William Penn Hotel, | heard Earl Browder, General Secre- tary, C.P.U.S.A., speak at the Fifth | Ave. High School Auditorium Mon- |day. Another demonstration has ; been called against War and Fas- | cism in West Park, March 3, at3 p.m. Wise tea BOSTON, Mass.—Over 400 people attended a meeting called by the American League Against War and Fascism at Franklin Hall Feb. 19. Speakers were N. Sparks, district or- ganizer of the C. P., and. Betty Muther, of the S, P. eam 56 ee DETROIT, Mich.—A mass demon- stration against war and fascism and in solidarity with Aus‘rian workers will be held at Arena Gardens, Wood- ward and Hendrie, Saturday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m. Workers will parade. to the meeting from six different points, | sulate here has agreed to see a dele- | cist. terror on Monday, Feb, 26, ai Austrian Solidarity Meets Continue In Many Cities Throughout Country } ® CHICAGO, liii—The Austrian Con-| | gation representing working-class | youth, who will protest Austrian fas- 11:30 am. The delegation is to be elected at a mass meeting called by the Y. C. L. in People’s Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago’ Ave., Friday evening. Fal ease! CLEVELAND, Ohio.—The members | of Painters’ Union 867 sent _a sharp protest to the Austrian Consulate here, drafted and unanimously sup- ported at its regular meeting Mon- day night. ae Eject Workers at Phila. S. P. Meet PHILADELPHIA. — Despite all plans, the meeting arranged by the Socialist Party here yesterday did not bring out a full mobilization of workers. The Socialist speakers hardly men-| tioned the Austrian situation, and; warlington Hoopes, former Socialist member of the state legislature turned the meeting into a Socialist election rally. The meeting lacked spirit, and the disgusted workers left the mecting in the middie of the speeches, Police with the aid of Socialists and Trotskyites, who picked out mi- litant trade union leaders, ejected many from the meeting. - Ata meeting arranged by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union 400 workers, who had struck at their shops, listened attentively while speakers expressed the workers’ determination for a united front. aes Seas | Columbia Students Protests { NEW YORK.—At a meeting of the} class on Social Reconstruction at} and will hear Earl Browder speak. ieee ee YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.—Ukrainian | Hall was filled to capacity with steel | workers protesting the Dolifuss ter-/| ror. On Tuesday, Feb, 27, workers | will hear Earl Browder at a meeting | at Central Auditorium, 225 W. Board- | man St. | PSY beer | CHICAGO—A mass meeting in solidarity with the heroic Austrisn workers has been called by the Com- munist Party of this district for this Monday evening, February 26, at 7:30 in the Chicago Coliseum, 15 Street |and Wabash Avenue. B. K. Gebert, district organizer of the Communist | Party is to be the main speaker. Columbia University, with Miss Mary Van Kleek of the Russell Sage Foun- dation present as a guest speaker, a class of 500 students voted to send a message to the Austrian consulate “protesting the murder and imprison- ment of Austrian workers and their families by the Dollfuss regime.” Springfield Workers Meet SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. 21. — Workers gathered at a meeting in Liberty Hall here on Feb. 18 protested against the Dolifuss terror. and “pledged to carry on a relentiess struggle in solidarity with our work- ing class brothers in Austria until they have emerged victorious from | F. Powers and V. Stillman. | tective Ass'n, passed a resolution pro- | | B. K. Gebert To Speak. at Chicago Mass | Meeting | their battle with the Fascist ruling- class forces.” The resolution sent to the Austrian Embassy was signed by Farmers Send Protest Wire BAPTIST TOWN. N. J., Feb. 21— At a regular membership meeting 75 farmers of the United Farmers Pro- testing against Austrian Fascism and sent a telegram protesting “in horror against the actions of your govern- ment in slaughtering innocent men, women and children” to the Austrian | Embassy at Washington, D. C. arte er ACTION IN DETROIT | DETROIT, Mich—Five hundred workers crowded the Workers Home, 1343 E. Ferry Ave., Thursday night and enthusiastically hailed the revo- lutionary struggle of the Austrian workers. John Schmies, district or- ganizer of the Communist Party, was the main speaker. His speech was frequently interrupted by applause. A resolution was adopted pledging solidarity with the Austrian workers and protesting against the murdexous attacks by the troops of Austrian fas- cism, The Auto Workers Union has issued an appeal to all automobile workers | to support to the utmost the magnifi- cent struggles of the Austrian work- ers. ee te Socialist Speaker Hits S. P. Leaders MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 21. — Five hundred workers attendea two Austrian solidarity meetings at the Metal Workers, Hall and Humboldt Hall here Sunday. afternoon, called by the Communist Party. The Socialist | Party local voted to sénd speakers to each of these meetings, and many S. P, Workers attended. * corge Reidell, S. P. rank-and-file workers, speaking at Metal Works s Hall, bitterly criticized the treacher- ous leadership of the Social-Demo- cratic parties, particularly in Austria. “The workers' of Vienna are not fighting for the “socialism” that the Socialist Party stands for, but for the Socialism of Marx and Engels,” Reidell said. | speaker. Britain, Hitler PushWar Plans Against Soviet U.S. Seeks to. Conciliate Japan as Anti-Soviet Campaign Grows . 22—So important are the secret armament negotia- tions between Capt. Anthony Eden, British emissary, and Adolf Hitler, that Eden will prolong his stay here one more day. At yesterday’s ses- sions with Hitler, Sir Erie Phipps, British ambassador, also took part. The British, who have actively as the European the Soviet Union, are feverishly seeking to work out a plan with Hitler which will lessen the sharp antagonisms between Ger- many, France and Italy, in order to fortify the imperialist united fron: against the Soviet Union. fe agers NEW YORK —Dispatches from Washington indicate that the Roose~ velt government is seriously con~ sidering revising its attitude toward Japan’s seizure of Manchukuo. The | pretext for a change in front would be the coronation of the Man- churian puppet-emperor, Pu-Yi next month, This news, obviously inspired by the highest authorities, in the face of the tremendous conflict between American and Japanese imperialism in China, indicates that the most | energetic efforts are being made in leading circles of American imperial- ism to give support to Japan at the moment when it is greatly inten- | Sifying its war preparations and provocations against the Soviet Union. Marley Anti-Nazi N.Y. Meet Saturday NEW YORK.—Many locals of the A. F. of L. settlement houses, branches of the Workmen’s Circle, Social Clubs, Women’s organizations, have endorsed the anti-fascist meet~ ing at which Lord Marley of Lon- don, England, will be the main The meeting will be helt Saturday, Feb. 24th 8 p. m. at Mecca Temple, 13 West 55th Street, under the auspices of the New York Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, New York and Brooklyn Al- lied Professional Committee, Work~ men's Sick and Death Benefit Fund and other affiliated organizations. Other speakers will include James W. Wise, editor of Opinion, Prof. William F. Nun of Dana College, Rabbi “ Benjamin Goldstein, Otto Sattler, editor of Solidaritat, Pauline Rogers, secretary of the New York Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism. War ShipmentsThru Panama on Increase CRISTOBAL, C. Z., Feb. 22.— Nearly 100,000 tons of nitrates, the most important ingredient in high explosives, have passed through the Panama, Canal since the first of the month. The twelfth ship from Chile to Europe with a nitrate cargo passed through yesterday, bringing the to- tal in less than three weeks to 93,604 tons of nitrate. Half of the shipments were to secret destinations, being consigned to the Azores for orders. * . Ships with cargoes of scrap iron, steel, lead, and cotton, essentials of war munitions, pass through the canal every day from the United States to Japan. Communist Mayor Is Elected in Greek City ATHENS. — M. Parisalides, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece was elected mayor of the city of Kavalla, in Eastern Thrace, a sea- port on the Aegean Sea, at the Feb. 10 elections, In many cther Greek cities at this election, the opposing capital- ist parties, the Popular - Mon- archists, under Premier Tsaldaris, and the liberal Venizelists com- bined in order to defeat the Com- munist candidates, despite the fact that the police carried on an im- mense campaign of terror and in- timidation against. the workers to prevent their voting Communist. U,S.S.R. Party Congress, Hails Red Victories MOSCOW, (By Mail).— At the Seventeenth Congress of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union, which has just concluded its ses- sions, received greetings from that ether great Soviet region of the world, the Chinese Soviets, which now cover one-quarger of the area of China, and embr 80,000,000 workers and peasants. The greetings of the Communist Party, whieh in “White” China is fighting the Kuomintang reaction uniier a terror more murderous even than that of the Nazis, and in Soviet China is leading the eco- nomic and social reconstruction of the country, wrere addressed to the Party Congress, and to Jeseph Stalin, leader ef the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. The text of the greetings follows: “THE CHINESE BOLSHEVIKS TO THE BOLSHEVIKS OF THE SOVIET UNION.” “Fervent greetings from the Central | Committee of the Communist Party of China to the Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union assembled at the XVII Party Congress now in session. Your successes in every section of socialit contruction inspire us to fight more Chinese. ¢. P. Gresie| resolutely and stubbornly against the imperialists, against the national bourgeoisie, against the landlords, and for the power of Nae Soviets. The examples of your heroci struggle serve us as the best models of how to con-. quer by leading the broad masses of workers and peasants. “We Bolsheviks of China have Jearned from you what is most diffi- cult, and despite ruthless terror we hhave succeeded in leading the masses and achieving great victories of the Soviet revolution. “We have already established a Chinese Soviet Reublic and a. pow- erful Red Army which are growing and gaining in strength every day. Under such glorious leadership as we have in the Communist International, where you Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union are the strongest and principal section, and under the leadership of our beloved leader, Comrade Stalin, we shall triumph all over the world. world Bolshevism. We have already triumphed over one-sixth of the world and over one-foutrh of China. We will triumph all over the world. “Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of China.” “TO COMRADE STALIN, THE - GLORIOUS HELMSMAN OF THE WORLD OCTOBER” “The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sends you “hTe future is ous, it belongs to; fervent proletarian greetings on the great victories towards which you have brought the proletariat of the Soviet Union by the XVII Congress of the stronghold of Bolshevism, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, “We are happy and proud over the victories towards which you, the best disciple of Lenin, our militant teach- er, our warm friend, our commander and leader, tg:ve brought the great Jand of Socialism, “We are happy and produd because the victories of the Soviet proletariat are victories of world Communism, just like the victories of the revolu- tionary workers and peasants of China. The workers and collective farmers of the Soviet Union report to the XVII Congress victories at the Socialist front which they scored un- der the guidance of Lenin’s Party which you are leading. Allow us therefore to greet you over the vic- tories which we have achieved under the leadership of the world Bolshevik Party, the Communist International, whose standard you hold firmly in your tried hands, “The revolutionary proletariat and peasantry of China have established a Soviet Republic of their own over one-fourth of China’s gigantic terri- tory, a republic with a population of 80,000,000, having done so in a bloody struggle against the imperialists, the lords, We now have our armed forces wherewith to defend the conquests of our revolution against class enemies, wherewith to conquer and emanci- pate the 400,000,00 people of China, free them from the yoke of world emperialism, we have our glorious Red Army, which is invincible and which enjoys the support of the broad masses of toilers, the same as the heroic Red Army of the Soviet. Union, “We have already repelled five cru- sades conducted by Kuomintang gen- erals and imperialists, and are suc- cessfully defeating the enemy in the sixth crusade. “There is no power which, could destroy the Chinese Soviets and their Red Army of Workers and Peasants. In all their attempts to destroy the conquests of the revolutionary pro- letariat of the USSR. “Greedy imperialism, arid especially that of Japan, is feverishly preparing an attack on the Soviet Union. It is creating a battleground in Man- churia on the bones of the toilers, in order to carry out its criminal de- signs. But it knows that its rear is tionary proletariat, the Soviets and not in order. The Japanese revolu- the Red Army of China, and the revo- lutionary partisan movement in Man- Heroic Chinese Communists Pledge to Fight for Soviet Union o Greet Stalin as Pilot of Revolutionary Struggle for Soviet World Japanese imperialism, with the sup= port of the imperialists of other coun- tries, primarily of Germany and Great Britain, conducts a ruthless struggle against the workers and peasants of Japan, against the workers nd peas- ants of Japan, against the Soviets of Chin and against the partisans of Mnchuri. But guns and tanks used by the Japanese bourgeoisie wale lowing in agony do not frighten us. “We shall not cede one inch of the soil of our Soviet fatherland to the imperialists. All as a man we shall rise to the defense of the land of socialism and for the realization of Comrade Molotoy’s slogan to ‘assure the complete smashing of the enemy and the victory of the Red Army.’ “Let the whole capitalist world shudder at our successes and cons quests. Let the world bourgeoisie, torn asunder by antagonisms, gnash their teeth in face of our steadily growing might. Their end is nearing, and so is our final victory. “The Soviets alone can save China from final collapse and poverty, “Lead us then, our helmsman, on= churia, are a force which can upset all its plans. Hente while preparing national bourgeoisie and the land- for war against the Soviet Union, ward from victory to victory, “Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of China,” a