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i) Page Six DAILY WORKER, EW YORK. TU ESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1934 Daily, ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ULS.A. (SECTION OF COMM 1ST NeTERMATIONNG? “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥ Teleph ALgonguin 4-7954 Cabir S: Ww Press Sutiding, Room 705, The Next Step of the N.R.A. DAY IN WASHINGTON of hear- ings that t to every worker i y develop- ment in A elopm its origin im the of strikes, in the widespread foisting of company uni the workers, and in the original establishment of ve codes, In order io shield he More open control of the WR.A. by the bosses, eliminating fective bargaining,” and workers gon begins the staging of a vast the real work is to be done aft Then representatives ll pretenses at “col- rights, General John- Public hearing. But er this hearing is closed. industrial concerns (em- Ploying 90 per cent of the workers under N.R.A. codes) will meet in secret to lay down the real tactics and Policies of the NRA The Communist Party has demanded the right to be heard at the widely advertised public hearings in order to expose the whole purpose of the N.R.A., and the intent of the capitalists in their subsequent secret Meetings after public hearings are concluded. Militant rank and file groups of the A. F. of L. and delegations of the revolutionary trade unions will also Make their voice heard and present their demands. While utilizing every means to bring before the | strike- | Workers the wage-cutting, company union, breaking policy of the N.R.A. at the Washington hear- ings, the Communist Party points out that General Johnson and other N.R.A. officials 43 not Propose to change or disturb the whole chain of codes binding and crushing the American workers. This can be done the action and organization of the workers themselves in the shops and factories, through their teade unions, through united action of all workers, whether organized or unorganized, whether belonging to the A. F. of L. or any other trade union. an attack against the workers’ living gles and organization, and only Tpest offensive against the whole act, against the whole program, can the working class defeat the oppre: Program concentrated in the N.R.A. General Johnson has made it clear that while for appearances sake a few of the codes might be flecked lere and there of their most vicious features, the bulk wi Temain they are. In his public announcement he-said: “I don’t mean, by any means, to say that there is anything so much the matter with the codes as they stand that they all have to be reopened and turned inside out.” . wus ROOSEVELT'S inflation program, prices are shooting up. The codes were established before the 99-cent dollar was thrust on the American workers, and now General Johnson reveals the fact that what- @ver happens in the way of skyrocketing prices, the odes should remain as they were fixed, so that the bosses can profit by low wages and rising prices. But why were the hearings called at this time? The Roosevelt government, from its faithful supporters in the A. F. of L. officialdom, as well as from Wall Street, thas learned unmistakably of the tremendous disillu- sionment among the workers with the riotous dema- @ogic promises. They know that there is a deep- going ferment and preparation for struggle among the whole working class. From the auto industry they Jearn of increasing strikes. The workers who were Hirst led to believe that the N.R.A. through Section 7-2 Branted them the right to belong to a union of their own choice, found that the only choice given them Was a company union. Tens of thousands of workers | Rave had the bitterest experience of having the Na- tional Labor Board break their strikes. Against all of this, the workers are moving to Struggle. It is the purpose of the N.R.A. officials Working hand in glove with the A. F. of L. officialdom to stem this rising storm, to direct it into the safe channels of Washington hearings. Nor are they counting on this alone. After they fear the workers’ complaints (though the hearings are $0 gauged as to keep these down to the minimum and to play up the A. F. of L. officials like G: Man and Lewis as the ‘real critics”), the bo: Selves will meet and with the government officials out their strategy of defeating the new 1 that they expect to break over the: Mediate future. Hill- TS for this termed the bo: 5 as “The Fir: These lackey pose in calling the 500 industrialists together, most Gf whom have established company unions, are aware mn that Washington bureaucrats * conference to take place on March Fascist Congress.” QWorker UV who know General Johnson's pur- | that the main order of business will be keeping the | workers from revolting against the codes, and prepa ing strikebreaking action. It is for this reason they term the gathering a ‘fascist congress.” It will not be .& fascist congress, though it will, without the slightest question, prepare fascist steps against the Whole working class. Among those present will be entatives of the Jones & Laughlin Co., whose : fescist bands shot down steel workers in Ambridge, Pa., there will be representatives of the Weirton Steel, Mnited States Steel, DuPont de Nemours Co., who, ith the: help of the N.R.A., fastened a company union ; sheir workers. All of the corporations that had strikes directed against them last year will be present ith “suggestions” for the government on how to de- teat the new strike wave. © Not a little will be said about the tremendous help forded the’ capitalists by Messrs. Green, Woll, Hill- if, Berry and Lewis. 1 of these facts will be brought out by Robert ee spokesman for the Communist Party, who will sjatar at the so-called public hearings in Washing- S8 that come before the “congress” of the employers. | “Phe rank and file trade union delegation will tell of RA, strikebreaking and the miserable conditions in %A. factories. But the final word will be said by the workers in : el] mills, in the coal pits, on the railroads, in | the factories. It is here that the decisions of the apitalists will be brought back to harrass the work- @f#/aind it is here the fight will be decided. : is up to every Communist and every militant ‘e these facts clear in the shops, to warn eforehand what to expect, and to hold wn public hearings in the shops and around the gates, to discuss what action is necessary to at the slave codes, the company unions, and to win conditions and real union recognition. | | wing” agents of capitalist reaction. cal THOMAS, this week, permits himself in the latest issue of the Socialist New Leader, some com- ment on the recent events in Madison Square Garden. Remarkably enough, he maintains an airtight si- lence on the brutal assault of the Socialist and trade ion officials against Clarence Hathaway. But silent as he is on this vicious act of provoca- tion against the united front of the working class, he becomes yoluble indeed on the very point which was the source of the outburts of anger of the workers at the Garden. He is voluble in his defense of the Socialist leadership's invitation to Matthew Woll and LaGuardia to sit on the platform and to address the | anti-Fascist meeting. He not only defends this act, this “united front” with Woll and LaGuardia, but he repeats once again his plea to Roosevelt to act as the leader of the “protest against Fascism.” Once again he goes to the leading representatives of Wall Street capitalist reaction, calling upon him to help in the fight of the working class against Fascism. He states: “It happens that I do not like the policies that Matt Woll stands for in the A. F. of Ex, bit even the Communists, if they are sincere in fighting Fas- cism, ought to understand that when right-wing, non-socialist labor elements join us in fighting Fas- cism, it is not we who have surrendered to them, but they who have come to see the force of our po- sition...if we cannot get sach a united front we shall be united in common disaster... I¢ is = United Front on « great issue...” Here, in bald language, is the classic, stock-in- trade theory of Social-Fascism, the tactic that led the German working class into the trap of Fascism, and which has just surrendered the Austrian proletariat into the Fascist hands of Dollfuss and Prince Von Starhemberg. “Tt is not we, but they who have surrendered”— a0 runs the universal song of the Socialist leaders in every country, as they strive to bind the anti-Fascist workers to the leadership of capitalist. reactionary agents. SOCIALIST leaders strive to break the United Front of the workers, Socialist and Communist. Instead they try to bind the Socialist workers to a United Front with capitalist agents—with Woll, La~ Guardia, ete. LaGuardia’s police clubbed 10,000 anti-Fascist work- ers demonstrating before the Austrian consulate. The Socialist leaders invited him to the Garden for “s united front on a great issue.” Woll is the representative of everything that is reactionary, corrupt, traitorous in the upper official- dom of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy. He is a profes- sional “red baiter” and a racketeer. His hands are filthy with traffic in anti-Soviet forgeries. It is with this advance agent of American Fas- cism that the Socialist leaders urge the workers to form & United Front—but not with Communists, “It iz a united front on a great issue,” says Thomas. Here is revealed the technique of binding the workers to reactionary leaders. “I disagree with Woll,” says Thomas, “but I am willing to form a united front with him on this great issue.” That is what the German Socialist leaders also said. They also admitted that they disagreed with Hindenburg, but they urged a united front with him on the “great issue” of defending bourgeois democracy in the fight against Fascism. This was the program of the German Socialist leaders, the program that crippled the fighting’ resis- tance of the German working class and permitted the Fascist seizure of power, ushered in by Hindenburg. ‘The Austrian Socialist leaders followed the same tactic with Dollfuss. They formed a united front with him on the “great issue’ of defending the bourgeois republic. And it was precisely this united front with Dolifuss that permitted him to rally the forces of Fas- cist reaction against the Austrian working class, Social-Democracy the world over meets the menace of Fascism not by uniting the fighting resistance of the masses, but by crippling this resistance through splitting the ranks of the workers by the infamous mechanism of United Front with “democratic” or “right It is therefore the actual paver of the road on which Fascism ad- vances. It is the main social support of advancing Fascism, permitting it to advance against a divided working class. It is, in other words, Social-Fascism. e 8 oie JORMAN THOMAS calls upon Roosevelt to make “diplomatic representations” against the | Fascist terror jn Austria. This may sound as if Thomas is really helping the Austrian working class and giving proper leadership to the American Anti-Fascist move- ment. But this is only the same old Social-Democratic tactie of calling upon the representatives of the bour- geoisie to fight against capitalist reaction. Roosevelt is the arch-representative of Wall Street capitalist reaction. He is the most cunning agent and tool of Wall Street imperialism that has ever sat in the White House. His entire N.R.A.-New Deal pro- gram is @ program of brutal assault against the work- ing class in the interests of Wall Street monopoly capital, To go to Roosevelt and call upon him to “pro- test” against Fascist terrorism, is not only to cripple the real mass struggle against Austrian Fascism, but to play right into the hands of developing American Fascist reaction right here at home. To call upon Roosevelt to fight against Dollfuss is like the Austrian Socialist leaders calling upon Doll- fuss to fight Austrian Fascism, It is like calling upon Hindenburg to fight Hitler. It is the old Social-Fascist trap of choosing one agent of the bourgeciste to lead the working class fight against another—leaying the working class in the end at the mercy of both. The American working class cannot: permit itself to be deceived the way the German and:Austrian work- ers were by this trickery of Social-Fascism, Norman Thomas is treading the same road as the Welses in Germany and the Bauers in Austria—the road of the “lesser evil,” the road of the “peaceful path to So- cialism,” the road of United Front with the bour- geoisie—the road that leads to Fascism. The United Front of the working class, not with the Wolls and Greens, not in reliance on the Roose- velts—that is the only way to defeat Fascism. All | those why try to chain the anti-Fascist fight to the reactionary, class-collaboration leadership of the Wolls, the Greens, etc. are the most dangerous enemies of the working class fight against Fascism, for they are placing the advance agents of Fascism at the head of the movement. The lesson of Austria is that just as the pro- letariat of Vienna and Linz are taking the first steps along the road to armed struggle for the overthrow of capitalism, welding the working class united front on the barricades, so here in America, the working class must drive out of its ranks the influence of the Social-Fascist leaders with their class collaboration pacts, their “united fronts” with the agents of capital- ist reaction. Here, too, we must unite our working class forces for class struggle against the Fascist menace, we must not permit the paralyzing influence of Social-Fascism to grip the workers, but rather take the road of revolutionary class struggle toward the smashing of the bourgeois dictatorship, the setting up of the Soviet Power of the proletarian dictatorship. To do this, there must be unrelenting struggle against the Social-Fascist leaders, who try to break the united front of the working clase nited Front-With Whom? Defend Thaelm ‘Second Mutin ‘Breaks Out in British Fleet | Aus iian Sailors Follow Example of English | LONDON, 2b. 26 | ship of the Aust lished in the “Daily Feb. 26—Report of navy. is ptb- Herald” today } as a dispatch from Hobart, Tasmania. | | ‘The dispatch also reported a threat jot strike at the Jervis Bay naval | depot, in Southern Australia. | The enlisted men are reported pro- | testing against overwork and bad | Meat. This latest mutiny follows a similar | one on a British cruiser on its way | to the Antipodes, several weeks ago, | also due to bad ra‘ions and over- work. The British, in rushing prep- arations for war in the Far East, have aroused deep discontent among the enlisted men in the navy by put- ting them under high pressure and on short rations, and failing to pro- vide for the rigors of suddenly or- dered tropical cruises, t Chicago Sociali| Youth Join Y.C.L. in _ = Tm = er | & | a) S -—- B -_- Negro. Workers | | Unite in Protest Meetings CHICAGO, Febb. 26.—Representa- tives of the Young Communist | League, the Socialist Club of Chicaco | University, Young America and the! Youth Section of the International | Workers Order were faced by 25 cops | when they called at the Austrian con- | sulate to protest against the fascist | attacks on the Austrian workers and | to demand immediate release of all political prisoners in Austria. | The consul finally promised to for- ward the demands of the delegation | to the Austrian Embassy in Washing- | ton. BUFFALO, N. Y., eb. 26—Hundreds | of workers have attended a series of | | Meetings arranged by the Communist | Party to express solidarity with the Austrian workers and protest against the murderous Austrian fascism. ie rary | Negro and White Protest | RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 21. — Over 100 Negro and white workers gathered here last Friday in answer to the |call of the Communist Party to. =x- bress their solidarity with the fight of the Austrian workers against Fascism. Among the speakers were A. Holt of the Communist Party, W. Friend and T. H. Stone of the Unemployed Coun- ef. The Socialist Party here, approached through its secretary, Winston Daw- | S80n, for united action in support of the struggle of thé Austrian’ workers, |refused to accept the offer of the Communist Party, No tion what- soever was taken by the S. P. itself. eS a Jack London Club Protests NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 21.—The Jack London Club yesterday sent the f ’- | lowing telegram to the Austrian Con- | sulate General in New York City: | “We, 100 young workers, students and intellectuals, members of the Jack London Club of Newark, denounce Dolifuss Fascism and we demand im- mediate cessation of all hangings and other murders by the zovernment or its Heimwehr supporters.”” 4 oe e Akron Holds Many Protests AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 20.—The Akron | section of the Communist Party has called on all members of the Social- ist Party, the American Federation of Labor and other organizations and | groups to support the Aus‘rian work- ers by turning out at several large | united front solidarity meetings. |. On Thursday evening workers will hold a protest meeting at Ukrainian Hall, 562 Corice St. Other protest ; Meets are being aranged, and three have already been held. s 8 es Austrian Protest in Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 21—Over the cruiser Canberrs, flag- | | singing the Interna*ional. NSWF?’ JORNSOn —By Burck Chicago Socialist Workers Seek Unity Despite Leaders Talk Railway Sale Tom McKenna, of Anti-War League, Describes the Sabotage of Socialist Party Heads NEW YORK.—A telegram was re- ceived yesterday by the Daily Worker trom Tom McKenna, secretary of the Chicago League Against War and Fascism, amplifying his report of the Chicago demonstration in solidarity with the Austrian workers, which was published in last Friday's Daily Worker, The text of McKenna’s wire follows: “I wish to correct the impression T gave in my letter to the hational of- fice of the American League Against ‘War and Fascism, an excerpt of which was carried in Friday's Daily Worker. “The Socialists did not sit while My letter was hastily written, and I confused two thoughts. I was greatly disap- pointed that the Socialist workers had allowed themselves to dilute the spiris of protest against the Austrian masses by accepting the park benches especially provided for the demon- stration. However, the rest of the letter is an accurate report. “The League initiated a united front protest demonstration, and ap+ pealed to the Socialist executive to support it. They refused, and later 1,500 Armenian Toilers Picket Fascist Meeting NEW YORK, Feb, 26.—Over 1,500 Armenian workers picketed and demonstrated yesterday at the Metropolitan Auditorium, protesting against the Tashnaks (Armenian Fascists) who held their first meet- ing in this city since they murdered Archbishop Tourian last December. The demonstration was called by the United Front Anti-Tashnak Committee of the Friends of Soviet Armenia and lasted two hours. minist Party meeting, where Arna Schultz spoke last Wednesday. This meeting was also a meeting of solid- arity with the Austrian workers, bat- tling for fr2edom. The county executive committee of the Socialist Party reaffirmed its pos'- tion in opposing any United Front, by passing a motion last week that any member of the Socialist Party parti- cipating in any United Front with the Communists would be immediately a thousand workers came to the Com- expelled from the S. P. China Can Be Attained, Imperialists Beaten Following is another excerpt from the report of Wan Min, representa- tive of the Chinese Communist Party on the Executive Committee of the Communist International, made at the 13th Plenary Session of the E. C. of the Communist Inter- national. In yesterday's Daily Worker was published his report on the extension of the Chinese Soviet area, the gains of the Chinese Red Army, and some of the political changes which the Soviets have in- troduced, stimulating agriculture and freeing the Chinese toilers from the murderous terror of the imper- ialists and Chinese bourgeoisie. —EDITOR. oS By WAN MIN In the course of last year, in all the important Soviet districts, a wide- spread organization of public edu- cation was begun, notwithstanding the great difficulties encountered in view of the lack of funds and trained cadres, Our public schools are not only free of any tuition fees, but they supply the pupils with food and text books. Only the children of the kulaks pay for their schooling. — ® Show How Unification of called a separate demonstration. De- spite this blow at unity, the Socialist workers showed a real desire for united action when a large sec‘ion of Socialist demonstrators partici- pated in the League demonstration. “Further, although no Socialist speaker mentioned unity, an Ameri- can Federation of Labor speaker was | greeted with splendid en*husiasm at the Socialist demonstration when she called on all workers to unite. The League will continue to make every attempt to forge the unity of Social- ist workers with all other anti-war and anti-fascist. fighters. (Signed) “TOM McKENNA.” French Renew War on Morocco Tribes Dutch Arrest Javanese Nationalists PARIS, Feb. 26—Although the war office reported last summer that a gigantic French army had finally defeated the anti-imperialist Berber tribes in the Moroccan mountains, two French armies are again in the field against them. Five dead and @ number of ‘wounded were reported in the first engagement of the new French war on the Moroccan tribesmen yester- day, in the Bani monntain region. The Communist Party of France has called for a nationwide protest movement against the new bloody French imperialist offensive. “L’Hu- manite,” Communist newspaper, has revealed that hundreds of French soldiers killed in action against the Moroccan tribesmen have been re- ported dead of “fever,” in a cam- paign of the French government to cover up ‘the size and murderousness of its offensive. ens e Japanese Nationalists Jailed AMSTERDAM, Feb. 26.—Reporis of @ nationalist “plot” against Dutch rule in Java are given in dispatches which announce the arrest of the executive committee of the Nation- alist Indonesian Party, and raids on houses of many nationalists in Bat- avia and Surabaya. Chinese Soviets Create China’s First ‘Soviet Ready to | With Japan Again ‘Release of Officials Opens Way for Talks Says “Pravda” Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Feb, 28 (By Radio) — Commenting on the release by the Japanese-Manchukuo authorities of the six imprisoned Soviet officials of |the Chinese Eastern Railway, “Pravda,” official organ of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union, said: “In the last days of September, 1933, a number of Soviet executives of the Chinese Eastern Railway were arrested. It was no secret to any- |body that these arrests were a pre- liminary stage in the carrying out of the seizure of the railway in ac- |cordance with the plans of certain Japanese circles, Usurpation By Manchuria |, “In spite of the existing regula- tions, the Manchurian authorities ap- | Pointed Manchurian employes to the posts made vacant by the arrests. | These persons went so far that they {even attempted to issue clearly un- lawful instructions, with the support of the Manchurian assistant manager of the railroad. “The situation is now liquidated. An end has been put to the violations of the statutes of the Chinese East- ern Railroad under the management agreement. The Soviet government answered the attempts of the Man- churian authorities to violate the Soviet’s rithts through the arbitrary arrest of Soviet employes and disor- ganization of the managing appa- ratus of the railway by breaking off the work of the conference discussing the U. S. S. R’s offer to sell the railway. Deal Now Possible “Now, after the imprisoned Soviet employes have been released, the Tokyo conference will be able to re- sume ‘its work, Naturally, that work will be fruitful only in the case that the Japanese-Manchurian agencies show their good-will by absolutely abandoning all attempts at seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and without reservation ceasing their dis- organizing acts. “The Soviet Union will not stand for any reduction or violation of its right in the Chinese Eas‘ern Railway until the agreement for its sale is concluded.” ann; Demonstrate Week of March 3! ‘Plan Protests { ‘In World-Wide ‘Defense Drive International Spy to Be. Nazi “*Witness” in “Treason Trial” BERLIN, Feb. 26—George Schwarz, for many years a spy in the employ of the French espionage apparatus, will be one of the chief “witnesses” of the Nazi secret state police against Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Ger- man Communist Party, who will face a Nazi court in March on a charge of “treason,” for which the prosecu-, tion will demand the death penalty.’ ¢ This Schwarz, together with the | stool-pigeon and provocateur, August Lass, who betrayed dozens of Com-~ munists to the Nazis before he was exposed by the German Communist |Party, is typical of the scum the Nazis are drilling in their desperate efforts to sustain a case against the heroic leader of the German workers, * . NEW YORK.—Pilans for demon- strations and mass meetings in de fense of .Thaelmann are being made on. world-wide scale, at the call of the International Labor Defense, | which has designated March 3 to 16 jas a special week of internationa) struggle for the release of Thaelmann, Among the first demonstrations | announced in New York is one called | by the Young Communist League for | Saturday, March 3, at 1:30 pm., in |front of the German Consulate, 17 Battery Place. The appeal of the ¥. C. Ly is addressed to all youth organizations, and especially to young members of the Socialist Party and A. F, of L. unions. ‘Roosevelt in War Deal With Filipino ~ Bourgeois Groups | Workers’ Delegation Will Demand Freedom for Jailed Leaders | WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—A deal to | win the support of the Filipino bour- | geoisie for America’s war plans in the | Pacific will be announced in Wash- ington this week. ‘This deal, the result of negotiations between President Roosevelt and Manuel Quezon, president of the Phil~ ippine Islands Senate, will extend the Hare-Hawes-Cutting bill until Octo- ber of this year, with certain amend- ments representing concessions to the Filipino bourgeoisie which rejected the bill in its present form. @ The deal leaves the U. S. military and naval establishments in the is- |’ lafds untouched for an indefinite pe~ riod, while offering the Filipinos an appearante of independence designed to win their support for the U. S. rather than for Japan in the coming imperialist war in the Pacific, A sae Protest Delegation to Roosevelt NEW YORK.—A delegation to de~ mand freedom for the 17 leaders of — the Filipino workers and peasants will go to President Roosevelt at Wash~ ington on March 3, it was announced today. The delegation was elected at ~ @ recent wass meeting held in Irving Plaza under the auspices of the Ac-, tion Committee on the Filipino cases, At the same time, it was announced that steps are being taken by the In- ternational Labor Defense to bring @ writ of habeas corpus before the U. 8. Supreme Court for the release of the Filipino prisoners. Their appeal to that court.was prevented by sabotage of the court officials in the Philip- pines, who failed to prepare the nec- essary papers in time. Among those who will serve on the delegation will be Maximo Manzon, prominent Filipino intellectual; Bedro J, Sajona, president of the Filipino Anti-Imperialist League; Angel Mon- dejar, organizer of the Filipino I1L.D, branch in Brooklyn; John Eszalone, seaman; Joseph Tauber, representing a large gtoup of LL.D. lawyers who have been interested in the case, and Nate Bruce, assistant secretary of the New York District I.L.D, True Peoples’ Republic in honour of Marx, was established in the capital of the Chinese Soviet Republic, the city of Suikin. In the district occupied by the Fourth Army several secondary schools have heen opened. Emancipation of Women The Central Soviet Government not only consitsently carries out its de- crees on the freedom of marriage and divorce, and on the equality of toiling women in regard to land distribution, but strivé to draw the women into the work of all Soviet institutions, in such a way that from one-fifth to two-fifths of the members of the various Soviet bodies consist of women. In every Soviet there is a special commission for the protection of mothers and infants. Growth of Trade Unions Last year was one of rapid devel- opment of all mass revolutionary organizations in Soviet China. This is true first of all of the Red trade unions, of the Soviets and the Red Army. In the Central Chinese Soviet, districts alone, at the beginning of this year, there were from 180,000 to 220,000 members of the Red trade unions. There now exists nine provincial trade union councils in all Soviet districts, and in the course of last year many trade union conferen- ces and congresses, as well as dele~ gate meetings, have been held. Upon the initiative and invitation At the beginning of this year, the first Communist University, named of the All-China Trade Union Fed- eration, two model Red Army divi- sions, made up exclusively of work- ers, handicraftsmen, clerical workers, and agricultural labourers have been organized in Kiangsi. In all Soviet districts from 10-4 per cent. of the trade union membership have volun- tarily joined the Red Army. The workers in the arsenals in all Soviet districts have doubled and even tripled the daily production of am- munition and weapons for the Red Proletariat. The poor peasant groups are a mass support of our party and the Soviet Government in the struggle against the kulaks and the remnants ci tae landlord class. In the Central Scyiet district alone, there are 600,000 people organized in the International Rea Aid. At the I R. A. Congress, held in August, 1933, a collection was made to help our brothers in Ger- many and Japan. This is only one of the many facts that go to show the deep feeling of sclidcrity of the Chinese workers with the heroic struggle of the Ger- man proletariat, led by the party of Comrade Thaelmann. Neither this solidarity of the toiling masses of China with the German prole- tariat and its Communist Party, nor the deep sympathy of the Chinese workers towards the heroic Japanese proletariat in its struggle against the bourgeois-monarchist regime is ac- cidental, but both are results of the systematic work of the Central Com- mittee of the C. P. of China. Coun:er-Revoiut-on Foiled, In the Central Soviet district alone the Anti-Imperialist League has 500,000 members. Another important mass organization, the Friends of the Sovet Union, has 600,000 members in the Central Soviet district. Our struggle against counter. revolution in the Soviet districts has tod to the organization of the G. P. U. (State Political Administration), The work of the G. P. U. has been im- proved and its organization perfected to such an extent that all the at- tempts of the Kuomintang to organ- ize counter-revolutionary revolts in the Soviet districts have failed. Last year there were no serious counter- revolutionary revolts in any of the Soviet districts, as was formerly the case. Our G. P. U. succeeded in dis- covering and liquidating numerous eninte?-zevolutionary of the ent The central Soviet Government, under the leadership of the Central Committee of the Chinese Commun- t+ s~ty, has been able to show in practice that notwithstanding the sat the Soviet territories have not been united, nevertheless in all sections of the Chinese Soviet Re- public a united centralized adminis- trative system has been introduced, and one uniform economic policy is Schools, Trade Unions Grow, Women Gain Full Emancipation being pursued. Moreover, the organ> zational structure of the Soviet ap- paratus and the financial and taxa~ tion policies, as well as the military and political leadership in all dis- tricts, are directed by the Central Executive Committee, Council of Peoples Commissars and Reyolution~ ary Military Committee. Thus, the Chinese Soviet Government shown that it is different from the Nanking or any Kuomintang, militar< ist government of China. This dif-- ference lies first of all in the fact that the Soviet Government of China, although it does not unite territori- ally all Soviet districts, is neverthe- less in practice the only Government capable of bringing about a revolu- tionary unification of China. At the same time, although the Nanking . Government calls itself the Central Chinese Government, in reality every militarist, every official, every mem-= ber of the gentry, or even Tu-Hao, is free to establish his own rule, to impose and collect taxes, etc. From what has already been said it is clear that the Chinese Soviet Republic has already all the ele- “tnents of a modern state and with ful right can call itself a civilized People’s Republic, ‘ t el