The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1934, Page 8

Page hi Daily .QWorker BHTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERRATIONAL? “America’s Only Working Class Dally Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY. EXCEPT SUNDAY COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO. Street, New York, N. ¥ Telephone: Algonquin 4-7954 Gable Address: “Daiwork.” New York Washington Bureau: Ror ‘ 1#th and F st Midwest 8th Convention Resolution The (June, 1 that conven only then capitalism, b ¢risis has sciz eulture, of the the cr Deal” poli has only in! fapitalism a crisis of world The New Dea ment, which foun of the social ref capitalism from on the rights and by prepar The re: tion correctly sets forth that the revo- lutionary tice in the d States is rising, the in- dignation of the masses against the system is growing, their revolutionary is accumulating, their deter- mination to rid them of the system of exploita- tion is daily becoming onger. In the United States the elements of t formation of the economic crisis into a revolutionar, is maturing. Under these circumstances the resolution ss before the Party the of organizing its ranks to win the majority of ‘the working class for the overthrow of the dictatorship of n lism and the estab- Hshment of the rule of the workers in the form of Proletarian dictatorship. The road to the accomplish- Ment of this task lies in the fight for the immediate, Partial demands of the workers, connecting up this day to day fight with the struggle for the Soviet power, in it hatter Americ: Roosevelt, govern- in the camp extricating ms for war. The winning of the majority of the working class for the revolutionary struggle against capitalism racing toward fascism and war is impossible without the Sternest struggle against social fascism, the main Pillars of support of the capitalist class. Realizing | the growing disillusionment of the workers in the | @xisting system and parties, the capitalist class is trying to strengthen these pillars of its system, to 1 BFop_up the a. F. of L. bureaucracy and the Socialist Party, to use them to keep the masses from fighting @gainst fascism and war and to stem the workers from the revolutionary path. But in the ranks of the A. F. of L. and the Socialist Party, the understanding for the need for revolutionary class struggle is growing. @he workers in the reformist organizations are being Tadicalized by the pressure of events and as a result Of the activities of the Communist Party. Comntunist Pa: since its last convention, by Pursuing the line of the Communist International, ridding itself of the opportunists and renegades, has grown and strengthened its influence among the masses. Conducting a two-front struggle against right Opportunis; deviations jine, the Party, and “left” distortions of its taking up the leadership of the e led big strike battles, has or- ganized the farm: masses against the program of Plunder and strengthened the militant farm’ organiza- tions, mobilized the unemployed in huge battles and extended their organization, boldly took up the fight of the Negro masses against the yoke of double ex- Ploitation, for their social and political equality and for their national liberation, which stirzed the entire country, particularly in connection with the Scotts- boro case. “But in the face of the tremendous upsurge of the Masses, the growing efforts of the capitalists to de- Yelop fascism and to rush into war, and a favorable conditions for winning the masses, the Party €annot be satisfied with its position. It has not yet overcome its basic weakness,—the insufficient contact and Jack of roots in the most basic industries and factories, the still weak contact and organization with the most strategic sections of the American proletariat, ‘This weakness, stressed by the Open Letter of the Extraordinary Conference, must be more quickly over- ome through the application of the policy of con- centration. by ‘The central task of the Party in its mass work is take'‘up the fight against the attacks upon the ghts and standards of the masses and particularly € the level of its trade union work, more decis- turning its face toward winning workers in the of L., (which in a number of industries have yme the main tasks in trade union work), Build evolutionary unions among the unorganized unite the independent unions standing out- the A. F. of L. with the revolutionary unions strong independent trade union federation. all spheres of mass work the resolution stresses sity of greater attention toward winning the jand women workers, whose importance has in the class struggle, to intensify the work Negro masses, particularly in winning the Sian e it whose leadership must be established ‘fight of the Negro people, raising the whole chauvinism, for equal rights and the right mination to new revolutionary lines. ited front, the conditions for which become gore favorable, winning desnite the opposition ‘Feformist Icaders, the social-democratic work- ‘Fevolutionary struggle under the leadership “Communist Party. quackery of Roosevelt, says the resolution, “treacherous tactics and policies of the social 4s the way out for the masses of toilers, but “of the victorious Russian proletariat, the way lan dictatorship is the road which must the yoke of economic and political slavery. le for Soviet power—this is the struggle lie efforts of the Party must be ‘concen- the fulfillment of this task, the Party it, nuclei established in the factories, new nd { by the American toiling masses for libera- | BY THE INC., 50 East 13th | walking off, d, its disci ine engthened, ed, its the cadres ened along ter, Pol Buro has called upon the membership to the n, and contribute propesals as to make Mective document of t Party, and to carry f rough preparations of vention in the t of revolutionary mass work by connecting up the discussion and elect: ll tasks of the offensive of the car ism and against the thre call of the Pol Bureau s ik response in the ranks of the Party. resol| it t g the ME through strike action!” Roy Hudson, } marine workers will .write their own code With these words from ional Chairman of the Marine Wo7k- ers Ind , & delegation of 200 seamen and horemen walked out of the maritime N.R.A. code n on January 31. seamen’s strike in B 's Industri Union, is a Slave code of the ship owners Olander, Paul Shai berg and , leaders of the International Sea- n, led by the Beginning with tHe crew of the S.S. Isaac Mann refusing to t coal, the strike spread every ¢oal boat in the harbor. | involving over 13 ships’ crews, the | ince 1923, has proven that the marine ot accept the strikebreaking National ‘d Plan proposed by I.S.U. officials at de hearings. Andrew Furuseth and the shipowners have proposed | to set up an “impartial” body for compulsory arbitra- | to practic ion of all evances of the seamen, thereby taking | the strike weapon out of their hands. | The vicious code reads in part: “29. OBLIGATIONS OF .PARTIES. No stop- | page of work or lockout shall take place until dispute or difference between shipowners and seamen ha’ referred to and dealt with by the Port Consult- ants, the District Sections, and, if necessary, by the National Board. “No indemnity, strike pay, assistance or encour- | ct or indirect, shall be afforded by i ation or by official or individual mem- bers thereof to any persons failing to submit a dif- | ference or dispute for adjustment as herein provided or acting in violation of any decisions made in | accord with these rules and regulations: “The disputed question shall be submitted to tor. The decision of the arbitrator shall Furthermore, the code of the leaders of the 1.8.U. proposes a blacklist plan: “I, The shipowner shall have the right to select his. own crew.” The seamen are opposed to such a code. The Marine Workers Industrial Union is opposed to such a code, The Boston seamen are striking for the code of the M.W.LU., which was endorsed by over 15,000 marine workers, AT, in brief, is the code of the M.W.1.U.? It is a code which demands the 1929 wage scale, $62.50 for able seemen and $70 for coal burning firemen; a code which demands 75 cents an hour for all necessary overtime, recognition of committees, the abolition of the blacklist and recognition of the Marine Workers Indusirial Union. The M.W.I.U. code demands that central shipping bureaus controlled by elected committees of seamen shall be set up in each port. Under the leadership of the M.W.I.U. the seamen of Baltimore haye forced the shipowners to recognize their Central. Shipping Buro, which controls 80 per cent of the shipping through the rotary system, thus eliminating discrimination and the blacklist. In the past year the Marine Workers Industrial Union has led over 50 strikes, It is the only union that has led strikes of, seamen since 1923, The Marine Workers Industrial Union has always exposed the Naticnal Recovery Act as a means of the bosses and the government to reduce wages and | further militarize the marine industry in preparation for the imperialist war. It is no accident that the New York Herald- Tribune said editorially on Feb. 22 that “We know the sincere interest that President Roosevelt feels in Amer- ican shipping, as in the Navy and every arm of national defense.” The work of the M.W.LU,. has also had tts effect inside the International Longshoremen’s Association. Successful actions have been led by opposition groups within the IL.A. in New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk. The work in the LL.A. must be continued and strengthened. | Longshoremen in all ports, especially the Norfolk coal trimmers, should come out in solidarity strike action with the Boston seamen. Seamen in every port! Support the Boston strike! Build ship committees on every ship! Unite in mili- tant strike action against the shipowners’ code! De- mand the 1929 scale, three watches with overtime pay and a 33 per cent increase in manning! Demand recognition of the Marine Workers Industrial Union and 4 Centralized Shipping Buro in every port con- trolled by the seamen! Workers in all industries! Join in sol’ i rity ac- tion with the striking seamen! Join the dcmonstra- tions to be held in every port March 11 to protest against the bosses’ strikebreaking code and the National Shipping Labor Board! Red Press Banquet 0° THE evening of March 4th, New York workers will gather at the Red Press Banquet at the New Star Casino to celebrate the installation by our revo- lutionary movement of a new printing press. For years the work of our Red Press, including the Daily Worker and the Jewish Morning Freiheit, has been, handicapped by a 35-year-old press, It broke down frequently, causing delayed editions and hurting the circulation. It turned out badly printed work, repelling undoubtedly many workers who otherwise would be reading our publications. Before its” complete break- down, it taxed the movement with repeated repair expenditures, The new press will eliminate this severe handicap and will help increase the revolutionary influence of our Red Press still further. Our newspapers will come out on time, reaching the workers without delay. The better and clearer print will attract many more work~ ers to read our Communist newspapers. Every worker and working class organization which helps to meet the cost of installing the new press shares in the achievement of making more powerful the influence of our Red Press among the American workers and farmers. Reserve at once your Red Press Certificate which will be presented to your delegates by C. A. Hath= away, editor of the Daily Worker, at the banquet on March 4th. Elect your delegates, and make sure that your organization will be _Tepresented at this Victory Banquet! | jthus expose the whol | nounced DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1934 "Why S. P. Leaders Workers Plan 4 SA™OR's KNor! Fear Our Criticism Many Austria of Their Policies (Continued from Page 5) ‘Ss must mer- enee over the workers, goes from defeat and of is systematicaily strengthened there, the develop- | ments do not lead over democracy socialism, as social democracy . but to fascism. Greens and Wolls ce over the working only be defeat in the the power of the |>doucgecisie is strengthened and the | to2d is cleared for the development af fascl But » shows ‘at’ the same | tim, . th the workers who were} Tne: the influence of the social rom it. he Austrian work- were forced by the gainst the will of social democracy. And thus ‘ion, t ch the Communists show in all countries, The whole | the hatred and anger of leaders in America Communists has its socialist inst. the in the nlain to the volutionary of the lessons, the only real Austrian events, and ‘ar treacherous policies of the social- | ist leaders and of the leaders of the | \4. F. of L. in this country. And the st and most important lesson thi: t lenders'from your ranits! If you want tobe victorious, drive them from the trade unions and elect honest: workers as leaders! Break away from-the Socialist Party which ‘s systematically repeating in every country the policies of German and Austrian social democracy! In the interest ‘cf the united struggle against he capitalists, against threatening Bseot against the threatening war ger, the policies of the social- rastist leaders must be mercilessly fought against, who are fighting for unity withthe bourgeoisie and with he open, yellow lieutenants of the Sourgeoisie, the Wolls and Greens. ‘eaders, but with the workers! Socialists, Princes, Hail Accession of Alone Refuse Cheers for Leopold Il BRUSSELS, Feb. 23, — With one king, eight princes, innumerable dukes, dutchesses and other titled parasites in attendance, Leopold III was made king of Belgium today. By official decision of their party, the Socialist deputies vied with all the other lackeys of capitalism and royalty in eringing cheers for the new slaye-master of the Belgian Conzo. Only the three Communist depu- ties caine to Parliament in business suits, and remained seated when everyone else rose and yelled their loyalty to ‘the new monarch, MEDICAL TRAINING FOR ONLY 15 WOMEN A YEAR HAMBURG. — Only 75 women a year are to be allowed to study medicine in all Germany, it is an- in the official medical journal. At the sdme time all practicing women physicians who are married are forbidden to practice. All Jew- ish physicians of either sex were forbidden to practice. long ago. The official medical journal de- clares, “A female physician is a | double-sexed being, to be rejected by the sound natural instinct of the people.” Support of Ch Chinese Red\ Army Is Pledged to Soviet Union Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Feb. 23 (By Kadio)— Today, throughout the Soviet Union, the Sixteenth Anniversary of the Red Army will be celebrated. Workers and peasants are preparing to cele- brate in the most fitting manner, by new achievements. Everywhere preparations have been completed for conferences and meet- ing which will be attended by work- ers, Red soldiers and peasants, dem- onstrating the unique character of this army which is at one with the toilers, and not with the oppressors. Already, all the various units of the. Red Army have been holding meetings discussing the methods for fulfilling the decisions of the 17th Party Congress. Predominant Internationalism What predominates at these meet- ings of the Red Army soldiers is an enormously keen interest in. the recent. rapid development of the struggles of the workers in the cap- italist (countries, giving indication. of the internationalism which is bred At one..of the meetings attended by your cofréspondent last night there were such Outbursts of enthusiasm of the bourgeoisie | gin to recognize | The gen- | and the barri- | workers | very fact that we ex-/ American workers the | Tf you want to overthrow | m, then drive the social-fas- | For a United Front, not with mis-| New Belgian King, Communist Deputies} in the very bones of every Red Army | soldier. * Addressed by Earl Browder | CHICAGO, Il, Feb, 23.— A mass | mesting in solidarity with the hercic | Austrien workers has been ealled by | the Cormeaaniey Party of this district | O'clock, in | St. the “Chicago Cot! iseumn, 15th and Wabash Ave. Bill Gebers, ders succeed in keep- district organizer of the Communist | | Party, will be the main speaker. j . Cleveland Protest Sunday CLEVELAND, Feb. 23.—A special | appeal to members of the Socialist Party and A. F. of L. unions to attend s 8 | | meeting on the Aus’rian situation | | which will be addressed by Earl | Browder, has been made by the Dis- | trict Committee _of the Communist |Party. The mass protest meeting, | which takes place instead of the Public Square demonstration Friday, will be held in Prospect Audi- torium, 2612 Prospect, on Suhd: Feb. 25, at 7:30 p.m. The Public Square demonstration in connection with fhe Austrian events, irntatively schedu'ed for Friday, Feb. 23, at the Publ'c Seuare, bas been cancelled. In its vlace, it has been Aeci¢ed to utitize the presence in Cleveland of the genera’ secretary of the Communist Porty. Esrl Browder, for a tremen- | dous in-door mass meetin; which | will net only demonstrate the so’id- arity of the Clevelund workers with the heroic struerle of the Austrian werkers, but will give everyone an opportunity of hearing a throuzh roing exvianation of the events in Austria. which can be done in an | unequalled manner, by Comrade Browder. This mass meetine will be he'd in the Prospe:t Anditor‘um, °612 Prospect Ave., on Sunday, Feb, 25, at 8 p.m. | | Mass Meeting in Jersey City | JERSEY CITY. N. J., Feb. 23—A mass meeting will be held Monday, Feb. 26, at Labor Lyceum, 94 Belmont Ave., ubder the auspices of the Com- munist Party, to protest the sleugh- tering of Austrian workers and their children by the Dollfuss troops. All workers organizations of Jersey City and Hudson County are invited to Uni'e in swoport of the heroic Austrian workers. . Tool Makers Protest PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb, 23. The Tool and Die Makers Industrial Union, at its last regular meeting, drew up a protest resolution against the slaughter of Austrian workers. and women and children by the Doll- | fuss fascist regime, which it has sent to the Austrian Embassy at Wash- ington and to President Roosevelt. faieraaae's | _ DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 23. — Earl Browder, general secretary of the |Communist Par'y of the United States, will speek on “War and Fas- cism” at Arena Gardens, Saturday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m. The meting till be a mass protest against the butch- ery by the Dollfuss Fascist govern- ment of Austrian workers. ehee ve 300 Dayton Workers Wire Protest DAYTON, Ohio, Feb. 23.—Over 500 workers at a meeting held at St. Stephens Hall, Feb, 18, sent a vigorous vrotest to the Austrian Embassy at Washington “against the wholesale slaughter of the heroic Austrian working class which rightfully took up arms against the brutal fascist dictatorship of the Dollfuss govern- ment.” The protest was signed by M. J. Martin, chairman of the meeting. JAPANESE MINERS STRIKE TOKIO, Feb. 14 (By Mail).—Six hundred workers of the “Toi” gold mine have gone on strike. The strike committee was immediately arrested. In protest against this a number of and remained there on hunger strike. BULGARIAN POLICE SHOOT WORKER SPEAKER SOFIA, Feb. 11 (By Mail). —Angel Rusinoff, son of “Red” Rusinoff, im- prisoned Labor party deputy, was shot and killed by police as he stood on the platform speaking to a meet- ing of 2,000 peasants in the village of Lechtschevo, Ferdinand district. Two peasants were seriously Protest Meets, | Cleveland Meeting To Be | on! Who Was General the miners went down into the mine | , { | | Augusto By HARRY GANNES \ ACHINE-GUN FIRE, directed by! the Nicaraguan National Guard, officered and trained by the U. S.! Marines, mowed down General Au-| gusto C, Sandino, his brother Soc-) rates Sandino, and their aides, Gen-| eral Estrada and Umazor, along with; three of their followers, Thursday, in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. The details of the gruesome ex-/} ecution of the erstwhile leader of the intrepid band. of workers. and pea- sants who for years resisted American armed invasion in Nicaragua, are ex- tremely obscure. Sandino had made his peace with Dr, Juan B. Sacasa, president of Nicaragua, by the grace of Wall Street. , He was in Managua to receive payment of the bribe paid AUGUSTO C. SANDINO to him for his latest vacillation. Sandino betrayed the workers and peasants he formerly led in armed struggle, receiving money for offer- | ing to disarm his followers. trayals were a blow to the heroic} struggles of the Nicaraguan toiling masses. Sandino’s execution may have been due to the fact that the Sacasa government. found it cheaper to use, machine gun bullets than to erous deed already accomplished. There is very little doubt that the U..S. Minister to Nicaragua, Arthur Bliss Lane, a career diplomat of the stripe of Sumner P. Welles of Cuban infamy, and Jefferson Caffrey, Wall Street supervisor of the Cuban presi- dent Mendieta, could tell a lot about who ordered the wholesale execution of the Sandinista leaders and why. Strangely enough the press reports from Managua have nothing to re- port from the U. 8. Ministry. General Sandino led the band of workers and peasants who in the jungles of Jinotega carried on a bril- liant armed struggle against the Am~- erican marines for years. American imperialism, which had ousted the British from domination in Nicaragua, set out ot make this Central American country a colony of Wall Street and a valuable war wounded, and many present were ar- Tested. greeting the representatives of the Chinese, Austrian and French toilers as I have rarely seen. When the Austrian worker arose to describe some of the recent events in his coun- try, the entire audience arose as one man, greeting him with an extraor- dinary storm of enthusiasm and cheers. Greetings for Austrian Toilers “I feel sure,” the Austrian worker declared, “that your wonderful greet~ ings are not intended for me per- sonally, but for the heroic workers who fought in armed struggle against the Fascist terrorism and against the capitalist system for Socialism.” Once again, the mighty roar of ac- clamation that greeted this state- nationalism, the profound proletarian sympathies of the soldiers of the Red Army. Similarly, when the French worker referred to the fact that for the first time since the Paris Comune, French workers are behind barricades in the streets, and that the French prole- tariat is determined to go forward un- der the leadership of the Communist Party against all capitalist and Fas- cist terror, and to go forward at the first opportunity, the Red Army soldiers shook the rafters with tre- mendous cheering. When the Austrian baer ibe 8 con- eluded his speech with Ae cies “Long live the Red oe brother of the heroic workers fighting on ment revealed the deep-seated inter-| ing His be- | pay continuous bribes for a treach- | ment ofa: “cooperative” farm in the base for hegernony in Latin, America and in the Pacific. During Coolidge’s C. Sandino: Execution of Sandino and Six Aides Foliow Long Series of Betrayals of Armed Struggle of the Nicaraguan Masses Against U. S. Imperialism and Hoover’ rialism surveyed Nicaregua as a site |for a new Atlantic-Pacific canal, as| well as “for war bases in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.’ The masses of Nicaragua resisted the invasion of American imperial- ism. Hence marines“ were sent to support whatever puppet Wall Street wanted in power. Augusto Sandino organized an armed band to resist. He had no clearly defined program, and did not attempt to rally the great masses of workers and peasants who hated Yankee imperialist domination. But so long as he carried on an armed struggle to oust the Wall Street in- vader, Sandino received the support of the anti-imperielist masses thru- out Latin-America and in the United States, The U. S. marines did not hesitate to use bombing planes against San- dino. i In his recent mock horror against the shooting down of Austrian work- ers, their wives and children, Wil- liam Green forgot to mention the fact that U. S. bombing planes burned and destroyed whole villages, killing hun- dreds of men, women and children in their efforts to defeat Sandino’s; army. Even this murderous’ attack on unarmed villages, failed to defeat Sandino. Finding the 6,000 marines and au- xiliary forces insufficient to defeat the Sandino forces, the American im- perialists organized the Nicaraguan National Guard, drilled and armed it, and made it an armed tool to sup- press workers’ and peasants’ upris- Ings. After the expenditure of millions of dollars, and with the destruction | of hundreds of lives of Nicaraguan workers and peasants, American im- perialism, thanks to its puppet gov- ernment in Managua, was able to consolidate its power. IANDINO was offered bribes, and he appeared to vacillate many times, He received money for the establish- Coco River district. On February 3, 1933, he signed a pact, offering to lay down his arms, disarm the workers and peasants, and submit to President Sacasa. Bui some hitch developed in the preceedings. Probably Sandino could not deliver the goods. Socrates Sandino, his brother, dur- ing the year 1928, toured the United S‘ates under the auspices of the Anti-Imperialist League. Huge mass meetings were held in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and other cities at which Socrates Sandino spoke. He was given a tremendous ovation by the American workers fighting against Wall Street’s bloody rule in Nicarague, and in support of their bro*hers in Nicaragua. The struggle of the Nicaraguan workers and peasants, led by San- dino, and later betrayed by his vacil- lations and a aeglines with. the puppet the Austrian barricades!” the cheer- ing broke forth anew, to be ex- celled only when the Chinese com- rade greeted the Red Army soldiers in the name of the Chinese Com- munist Party and the workers and peasants of China. The excitement in the hall became unbounded when the Chinese comrade concluded: r brother, .the Red Army of ‘the cokes and peasants of China, pledges that if Japan attacks the Soviet Union, your brother Red Army and the Chinese partisans will not lag behind in, joining your de- tense.” With hearty cheers for the biicae! led by the Commmunist Parties of thigh eeaige and China, the meet- of the close unity o an workers and the Red soldiers mass cuttural, ae cores vapor drive into Red Army barre or- i Raaihtibeioh wig of Die. yrenetrovsk. In their turn, the Red | army men are sending their aie cal groups into Dneipropetrovsk fac- tory clubs and Red Corners to ac- quaint the workers with the life in the Red Army. Combined confer- ences of workers and Red soldiers are being held throughout the region to- day. ¢ In greeting the Red ¢gmy anni- versary Day, five days ahead of time. ‘Members of the Young Communist League and the Soviet Aeronautical Society in the Zaporozhye region have organized nine circles and twelve aeroplane model circles, while 26 new nuclei of the Soviet Aeronautical So- ciety and 35 shooting circles are be- ing formed as part of the anniversary preparations. Kolkhozes and other undertakings in Samarkand (Central Asia District); 271 shock brigades named in honor of the 16th anni- versary of the Red Army have been New Achievements In Tiftis all workers’ clubs have or- ganized joint meetings of shock work- ers and Red Army men. The railway eles ies workers at Skovorodino, in the Far Eastern Province, have un- dertaken to complete repairs on three locomotives before scheduled time as. their gift to th Soviet Union in honor of the 16th anniversary. The trans- port workers. in this district have pledged themselves to bring into order all stations, depots, warehouses, ga- rages, etc., 2s their contribution. ja meeting of co'lective farmers in| the Far Eastern Province have de- cided to sow a special area in honor of the Red Army anniversary. All these activities are but samples of the widespread and intense ac- tivity with which workers and collec- tive farmers throughout the U.S.S.R. , Ukrainian manganese miners eae ‘undertaken to fulfill their Feb- production ia ae by Anni- exe sxe En te) ADOEIN Oe ae reign, American impe- | New Wave of Cuban Terror Thousands Fill Jails; | Workers Appeal for Support HAVANA, Feb. 23.—Advised by U. 8, ; Ambassador . Jefferson Caffery, who | conducted the mass murder of strik- | ing United Fruit Company workers in Colombia a few years ago, the Mens | dicta gcvernment has unleashed # cin of terror in Cuba which far exe | ceeds the mest murderous periods of | th: Machado regime. The aim is to carry through the sugar vest without concession to the rkers, and the terror is directed rst of all against the Communist | Party, as Fulgiencio Batista, army | | chief, announced 2 few days ago, Thousands Arrested | Only 58 mills are grinding yet. In Camaguey, Oriente, Santa Clara and Habana provinces, thousands of work- |ecs have been arrested and thrown | into jail for indefinite periods under fe Article 3 of the new labor law, which mes strikes illegal. | Assassinations in Machado style |are being carried out, and recently | four bodies of leaders of the Nazabal suvar mill strike were found near Encrucijada. The greatest terror is at the Preston | Suvar Mill, owned by the United Fruit | Company, where over 15,000: workers ov» employed. Over 400 soldiers have | been sent to break their strike. Doz- | ens of workers have been wounded, and all hospitals in the vicinity are filled. Mills Strike in Sympathy All the nearby mills have struck in sympathy — the Boston, Baguanos, | Tacaio, Delicias and Chavarra mills, and have brought forward their own | demands. | The workers of the North Cuba Railway Company, although forced back to work with few of their de- | mands granted,-are refusing to ship {sugar from anv mill on strike. | Immediate international sunport on a gigantic scale is required if the Preston strike is not to be drowned in blocd like the Colombia strike, where Caffery directed a gigantic slaughter. government set up Wall Street, showed how even a poorly equipped force, supnorted by the workers and peasants weré able to keep up strugele against American imperial- ism for years. The armed resistance of the Nica- raguan mases aroused tremendous support throughout Latin America, particularly in Mexico, Central Amer- ica, Cuba, Chile, Argentina, ‘Uruguay and Brazil. ie ice) ‘ANDINO rejected the program of the Communist International for the organizetion of a Communist Party to leed the workers and pease ants in a struggle against Americon imperialism, for the agrarian anti- imnerialist revolution. At best he was @ petty-bourgeois nationalist, who re- sorted to a militant armed struggle for the ousting only of armed inter- vention, Ultimately he sold out for thirty pieces of silver. His failure to struggle against the native landown- ers, to mobilize the workers and peasants on their own demands for land, higher wages, organization, led to his vacillations and his betrayals. His murder at this time shows that the Roosevelt regimé, through {ts puppet governments in the colonies, is leaving no stone unturned to root out opposition to Wall Street im- against American imperialism, as shown in the tremendous struggles in Cuba, led by the Communist Party. caraguan masses. complete subserviance of the government and its National to the Roosevelt regime and will the Nicaraguan people to more termined struggles to oust the imperialist invaders, Sandino’s history, and that ilar adventurers who worm their way into the ranks of the insurgent and revolutionary masses in the: colonies, shows that the masses must clear them from their ranks, must make it impossible for them to betray the anti-imperialist struggles. hi New Achievements Greet Red Army’ s 16th Anniversary ® Workers and Peasants” Throughout Union in — Mighty Celebration beloved ‘ie trusted R Red Army; these. could be multiplied indefinitely on all. parts of the vast Soviet territory, A Real Worker-Peasant Army Proof that the Red Army is a worker-peasant army is contained in statistics on its composition: In 1930 the percentage of workers in the Red. Army ‘was 312. The percentage peasants is 42.5, of which 76 per cent are collective farmers. The percent- age of workers among the pes ers is 42.3, most of the other com= manders being peasants. _ The improvement of the political and cu'tural level of the entire coun= try is indicated by the fall of illiteracy among new recruits; only 1 per cent of the new recruits todey are not lite erate, The Red Army nevertheless conducts an extensive educational campaign in all fields, science, po'itics, literature, ete. etc. It has 1336 Red Army Clubs, 15, 091 Red Corners, 1,867 cinemas, as well as innumerable cir-~ cles, classes, travelling theatres, etc. _ The Party cleansing last, year showed that the Communist Party. organization in the Red Army the soundest ideologically. About per cent RY the Red Army either to the Communist Party or ey ‘Communist League, : st % the preparations for war, for the in KG IA NBT ah fy \ i ¥ ee a i aie