The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1934 Daily .<QWorker | SUNTRAL ORGAM COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) | “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., IN Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7954. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥ Washington Bureau om 954 Press Building, Mth and F st, Wash Midwest Bu 705, Chicago, Ml Telephone (except 1 year, $6.00 $3.50; 3 0.75 cents Bronx, 1 year, $9.00 3 Week; 75 cents SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1934 The Paris Commune and the Road to Soviet Power — CELEBRATE TODAY the 63rd a Paris Com f power and the establish- when immortal now question of t e ment of the dictatorship of the proletariat has be- come the burning question of the day. The heroic Paris Proletariat in 1871 struck the te power of the bourgeoisie, the The Paris Proletariat struck the first open blow at the dictatorship of the bourgeo’ being the first to set up a new form of State—a workers State, the Commune. In the words of Lenin, the Paris proletariat, by taking the road of civil war against ie oppression of the capitalist exploiters and their government “taught the European prole- tariat how to deal concretely with the problems of the Socialist revolution.” first open blow at the capitalist ruling c e, and won eternal honor by Today the world proletariat faces the bour- geoisie in the fifth year of unprecedented capitalist crisis. Hunger, suffering, unemployment, cist reactionary brutality face the working masses countries. The bourgeoisie is quickly bourgeois-democratic forms, which the capitalist dictatorship of the finance capital billionaires, and is resorting to open, brutal mili Fascist dictatorship against its wage slaves whom it can no longer even provide with the minimum of food, clothing and shelter. g the it uses to cloak The question of smashing the capitalist rule, which has become a menace and a curse to the vast majority of the toiling population, now burns with | asing intensity in the minds of the work- In 1871 the Paris proletariat struck the t plow for liberation from the chains of wage ry. Today, the class war between the oppres- sing capitalist minority and the vast exploited majority is swiftly approaching the stage of open world conflict. A new era of wars and revolutions aas arrived. Today, the workers in every capitalist country face the problem of how to end forever the surse of capitalism, how to set up the dictatorship of the proletariat, Soviet Power! 'HE PROLETARIAT in the Paris Commune made several mistakes, and they were defeated because of them. Marx and Engels subjected the experiences of the Commune to the most searching analysis, and particularly in the light of the recent uprising of the Austrian proletariat, these lessons are of enormous ificance to the working class prepar- ing for the revolutionary seizure of power. It was Lenin who resurrected the wonderful revolutionary lessons which Marx derived from the experiences of the Commune which had been buried beneath the mountains of Second International op- portunism. It was Lenin who revived the lessons of Marx and Engels: “First, that the Paris proletariat stopped half- way: instead of proceeding with ‘expropriation of the expropriators’, it was carried away by dreams of establishing supreme justice in the country... “Second, that it committed the mistake of be- ing too generous to its enemies: instead of anni- hilating its enemies, it tried to exercise moral in- fluence on them...it hesitated and gave the Ver- sailles government time to gather its dark forces again and thus to prepare for the bloody May week.” Thus, one of the main Mar -Leninist lessons of the Commune was that the proletariat was not Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. | Please send me more information on the Commea- nist Party. | nniversary of the | and Fas- | 50 E. 13th) | and true to its revolutionary goal—the new type of | Commune, and saw the light in the Russian Revo- | who applied and profited from the lessons which | dictatorship! ruthless enough against its enemies. The lackeys and prostitute bourgeois historians stil shiver in fright at what they call the “terrorism” of the Paris Commune. But the trouble was that the Paris pro- letariat was not hard enough, not decisive enough against its capitalist enemies, who repaid them for their misguided generosity with one of the blood- fest, most savage orgies of slaughter in modern | annals. | “ae a | 'T WAS LENIN who applied these lessons and avoided these mistakes in the October Revolu- tion and steered the Russian proletariat straight State which had been envisaged already in the Paris | lution of 1905, the Soviet State of the proletarian It was the Bolsheviks, with Lenin at their head, Marx and Engels drew from the Paris Commune in the following paragraph, which should be, as Lenin said, on the walls of every workers’ home: “The Commune was compelled to recognize from the outset that the working class, once come to power, could not carry on with the old State machinery; that, in order not to lose again its newly-won supremacy, this working class must... abolish all the old repressive machinery previously used against it... “Of late the Social-Democratic philistine has once more been filled with wholesome terror at the words: Dictatorship of the Proletariat, Well and good, gentlemen, do you want to know what the dictatorship of the proletariat looks like? Look at the Paris Commune, That was the dictatorship of the proletariat.” And today we say, do you want to know what the dictatorship of the proletariat looks like? Look at the Soviet Union, that is the dictatorship of the proleta It was because the Russian proletariat pos- sessed, what the Paris proletariat in 1871, and the heroic Austrian proletariat recently also lacked, A BOLSHEVIK COMMUNIST PARTY GUIDING THE REVOLUTION TOWARD SOVIET POWER, that they achieved revolutionary triumph in Oc- tober, 1917. It was because of this that they were able to destroy the capitalist State power, set up the dictatorship of the proletariat in its place, and are now, under the Bolshevik leadership of Stalin, building Socialism and laying the basis for a class- less society. 'T WAS the Paris Commune that struck the first open blow for the establishment of a new form of democracy, proletarian democracy, what Lenin has called “the highest form of democracy the world has ever known.” And it was the Soviet workers, under the leadership of the Bolsheviks, who trium- phantly completed in the October Revolution what the Paris Commune set out to do—and established proletarian democracy, democracy for the toiling masses, the vast majority of the population, by smashing the dictatorship of the capitalist exploit- ers and setting up a Soviet Government. The leadership of a Bolshevik, Communist Party, steering the mass movement toward Soviet Power and the proletarian dictatorship —this is the in- dispensable pre-condition for the successful smash- ing of the monster of Fascist-capitalist oppression. The fight for power, for the smashing of the capitalist State rule is now on the order of the day. Soviet power! This is the slogan raised aloft by the 13th Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International! The world stands at the brink of tremendous proletarian revolutionary struggles. The Austrian proletariat has filled the world proletariat with pride and admiration with its heroic march onto the road of open class war. The Austrian February is the prelude to the Aus- trian October Bolshevik Revolution. The Austrian proletariat has given heroic proof that the world proletariat is now getting ready to. strike out for the revolutionary seizure of power. The terrible ravages of the capitalist crisis brings the question of the revolutionary road out of the crisis into the day to day struggles of the working class. Which way out of this terrible misery? The example of the Soviet Union, whose workers’ success fully took the road of revolution- viks led by Lenin, must be our guide and example. World capitalism, racked with parasitism, crisis, and disintegration, unleashes its Fascist blood- hounds against the proletariat. But the world pro- letariat, steeled by the historic example of the Soviet Union, under the leadership of the Communist In- ternational led by Stalin, prepares for the final class battles, for the revolutionary seizure of Soviet Power! Already the Austrian workers have spoken in the language of Bolshevism. Soon the world pro- letariat will follow in its footsteps. ‘We can best celebrate the immortal struggles of the Communards by preparing to complete the path upon which they started, by preparing for the Communist road to power, by placing ourselves at the head of the proletarian army that now daily gets ready to smash the chains of its wage slavery! |take up and redouble the fight for | | the release of Ernst Thaelmann,| the International Labor Defense. ‘S upport ILD A id forAustrianW orkers Commune e Day L L. D. Bureau! © YEARS AGO TODAY... Calls for Fight) for Thaelmann | Ernst Thaelmann and | 200,000 Anti-Fascists in Nazi Clutches | | = | | | PARIS—An urgent appeal to all/ its members and sympathizers to| leader of the German Communist | Party, is made in a statement of | the European Bureau of the Inter-} national Red Aid, parent body of The text of the appeal follows: | The international action of the} toilers of all countries and the in-} tervention of the workers’ Union has forced the fascist Hitler and Goering government to releasc the valiant Dimitroff and his com rades, Taneff and Popoff. Their acquittal! +: the Leipzig tria as well as their release is the resuli (IL.D.) has played a vanguard role. remain still 200,000 anti-fascists. Preparations are under way for the| provocation-trial against the leader | of the German anti-fascist mal ment, Ernst Thaelmann. Thousands of families, women | \) and children of the anti- fascists | murdered or imprisoned, are left| destitute and in the most utter poverty. In the same condition are| the families of the political emi-) grants and of tha persecuted to which the bourgeois governments | do not grant the right of asylum. | The trials in Germany continue) uninterruptedly and the fascist judges are daily distributing sen-| tences of death and of thousands of years of imprisonment. Torture and the application of the law “attempting to escape” as well as the “suicide” are applied to| all those who dare oppose them-! selves or criticize the regime of murder, hunger and war in Ger- many. The victory which the world pro- ‘jetariat has achieved with the lib-| eration of Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff must serve as an incentive for intensifying the battle against German fascism and against world} fascism. Let us struggle for the} freedom of Ernst Thaelmann and| of the 200,000 anti-fascist prisoners in Germany. Let us raise funds to help the| hundreds of thousands of women) and children of the murdered and imprisoned anti-fascisis as well as| to help the prisoners themselves. Let us answer every act of terror, every trial against anti-fascists with mass demonstrations in front of the German embassies and con- sulates, Dimitroff, who with his revolu- tionary behavior during the Leipzig trial, imbued fear in the fascist judges and mabilized millions of toilers all over the world, today that he is free in the fatherland | of all the toilers, guides our struggle for the liberation of Thaelmann and of the 200,000 anti-fascist prison- ers of Germany! Strike of 28,000 in Spain Cuts Off Gas and Electric Service | BARCELONA, March 16. — Twenty-eight thousand workers, including all the gas and electric service workers in Catalonia and Aragon provinces went on strike at midnight last night. Barcelona, Saragossa, and all towns and vil- lages of both regions are affected. Soldiers and police reserves were sent to act as scabs and keep the electric and gas supply going. Many other strikes continue throughout Spain, despite the ter- ror unleashed by the Lerroux gov- ernment, which maintains a “state of alarm” with suspension of cer- tain rights and active police ter- rorism throughout the country. What is your Unit, trade union, mass organization doing to get new subscribers for the Daily Worker? Help put the sub drive over the top! and ; peasants’ government of the Soviet of an international mass movement “4 in which the International Red Aid But in the Hitler dungeons there Th Debate on War With C. P. Leader Thomas, Party, failed to show up at a sym- posium on war arranged by Harvard Liberal Club for yesterday afternoon, at Mas: agreed to speak together with N. ness in the family,” but the Boston | the same night at Wellesley college. —By Boeck | 8. P. State Head Thomas Sends Proxy; | Students Eager to Hear Communist March 15. — Norman leader of the Socialist BOSTON, the husetts Insti- | where he had | tute of Technol | Sparks, District Organizer of the Communist Party. He telegraphed the excuse of “ill- | Herald today reports that he svoke | His place was taken by Alfred Baker Lewis, Massachusetts state secretary of the Socialist Party, who joke about the “proud record” of his party in the last war and prom- \ised that when the next war comes his party will try to get the American Federation of Labor to call a general strike, although. he admitted, he didn’t really think they will do it. The audience of 500 which packed the hall laughed and applauded as Sparks exposed the “proud record” of the Socialist Party by reading statements of Socialist leaders and their official organs from 1917 and 1918, showing how the Socialist lead- ership functioned as a part of the Wilson war machine. He explained the Leninist program of turning im- perialist war into civil war, and} showed the present role of the So- cialist leadership in supporting the war policies of the New Deal. Long after the end of the speeches, the students werc still eagerly asking questions of Sparks, on various phases of the Commu- nist Party’s program, and on how the students can fight against war. Young Catholics Defy Nazi Youth Organizer BERLIN, March 16.—Kchoes of stubborn resistance to the Nazi program sound in the angry com-| plaint of Baldur von Schirach, leader of the Hitler youth move- ment, that the Catholic Youth or- ganizations are refusing to be put under Nazi supervision. He bitterly complained of the “defiant stubbornness” which is hampering his efforts. He has al- ready dissolved the Monarchist Youth League and the Boy Scouts. Ask your friend, your fellow worker to subscribe to the Daily | Federal Trade Commission and the Industry Coun In N. R. A. Drive on Workers (Continued from Page 4) compliance over to the Code Au | thorities 2s rapidly as possible.” Then, to make as sure, Davis declared: Act (N.LR.A.) is to intrust to in N.R. A. M. Y.1. ion state Industry mem Administration and Industry.” bered Swope’s suggestion that com- plaints might be turned over to the Department of Justice—and again he reassured the exploiters that he wanted to explain “any misunder- standing there might be about the | connection between N.R.A. and the | | Federal Trade Commission.” He said, “We can call upon the Federal Trade Commission to make inves- tigations for us, and then to report directly back to us. That is not in any sense ‘turning the matter over to the Federal Trade Commission,’ but rather is using them as an in- vestigating body, working for us.” The same thing undoubtedly goes for the Department of Justice. And as soon as the big conference ad- ployees under the N.R.A.! ing for us.” son plan, comparatively unimpor- tant and not yet adopted openly, would provide that Code Author- ities “report” regularly to N.R.A.; that they prorate expenses, etc. One other merits closest attention from workers, however: it would provide “an economic and statistical bureau of the National Chamber of Com- merce and Industry, of which the highly organized and efficient In- dustrial Conference Board of New York shall be the nucleus.” The coupling of the all-inclusive phrase Worker. urance doubly “Our intention as directed by the dustry the power of self-government to carry out the purposes of the {Remember Johnson's de- clared purpese—to recover profits.— .At present we are in the bers are inclined to look upon the Administration member of the Code Authority as the man with the veto. But he has more than a veto power. He is the connection between the In journed, the little fascist commit- tee and Johnson called in a Justice Department representative and ar- ranged a permanent connection. This was the basis of another big yarn in the capitalist press about how the N.R.A. is “cracking down” on employers who browbeat em- Appa- rently they didn’t notice Davis’ re- mark to the bosses that government enforcement agencies will be “work- Other points in the Swope-John- “statistical information” with the cil’--Real Power notorious National Industrial Con- ference Board gives a diabolical -| hint: this may well mean greater | use of that dreaded enemy of work- ing class organization, labor spies, as well as concerted drives to stimulate company-unionism. The -|National Industrial Conference Board already has made “surveys” of “company representation plans” —it has been a fount of guidance for U. S. Steel and the rest in camouflaging company unions. It -|has supplied. the “statistics” on which General Johnson has based the rank lies about the effect of N. R.A. on workers’ standards. It .| would be a short step indeed for this outfit to include among its “statistics” and “surveys” the most. other words — “Don’t worry about) modern and disguised labor-spy |the Administration member; he is | methods. just our messenger boy”! (To Be Continued) Davis then apparently remem- Sa A RAT Caen eealE-e N.Y. Anti- War) Group to Meet Mon. To Plan April 6 Mass) Rally Against War NEW YORK—The newly organ- ized New York City Central Com- mittee of Against War and Fascism will hold its second meeting at 8 p.m., on Monday, Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. the American League March 19th in_ Irving The committee will take up the mobilization for a city-wide anti- war rally in St. Nicholas Arena on Friday, April 6th, the seventeenth anniversary of the United States entry into the World War. Prom- inent speakers representing various groups opposed to war will speak. Sixty-seven organizations sent 90 delegates to the first meeting of the N. Y. City Central Committee. In addition to Monday night’s confer- ence, a third meeting of the com- mittee will be held April 2, four days before the April 6th demon- stration to complete all plans and bring out the greatest possible num- g ber to the S. Nicholas Arena meet- ing. ea Elizabeth Anti-War Week ELIZABETH, N, J.—More than 200 people met in First Baptist Church here to protest against the war preparations of the U.S. gov- ernment, at the call of the Elizabeth Co-operative Peace League. The Jack London Club, League of Women’s Voters, Jewish Women's Clubs, International Workers Order, Young Communist League, Friends of the Soviet Union and other groups were represented. ‘Day ofA Aid on Sunday, 'World- Wide strian Paris Commune Meets to Raise Funds for the Austrian Werkers NEW YORK—March 18, Paris Commune Day, and throughout the world recognized as International Red Aid (L.L.D.) day, this year will be devoted internationally to rais ing funds for the defense and re. lief of the victims of Austrian fas~ cist terror. In America, the International Labor Defense, American section of the International Red Aid, is hold- ing meetings in all districts where it has branches, commemorating | both the heroic struggle of the Paris | Communards, and of the Austrian workers who last month followed the revolutionary example of the Parisian workers. All funds collected will be sent to the special committee set up by the International Red Aid in Paris to handle the defense and relief of the Austrian workers. Pest ee, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.—A meeting of protest against Austrian fascism will be held Saturday, Feb. 17, 8 pm. in Ladies Aid Hall, 42 New St., at the call of the Com- munist Party. The management of the Socialist Workmen’s Circle hall, after asking $10 for the use of their hall for the meeting, refused to let it be used at all. The Food Workers Industrial Union held a mass meeting in Lakewood, N, J., to protest against Austrian fascism. British War Dept. Organizes “Black Hundred” Corps LONDON, March 16—The British War Office has begun the organiza- tion of a Black Hundred terroristic corps for the avowed purpose of striking at revolutionary workers and all fighters against war, This corps, to be called the Royal Defense Corps, will have the special task of fighting “against persons of ill-will and foreign agents within the country.” When Labor Party members in the House of Commons expressed the fear that the British Black Hundred corps might be used against them, Duff-Cooper assured them that it would only be used in war time, thus implying that he ex- pected the Labor Party leadership to need no “patriotic” pressure in war time. League Body Quits Chaco “Peace” Role BUENOS AIRES, March 16.— While the Chaco war between Boli- via and Paraguay, @ proxy war of British and American imperialism for control of the Chaco oil ficlds, is decimating the young manhood of both countries, the League of Nations commission which was sup- posed to arbitrate a peace has “washed its hands” of the war, and is going back to Geneva to make ® report. Young Worker in 16- Pages Is Out Today With YCI Resolution The special enlarged 16 page issue of the Young Worker, which will be on sale today, will be of special interest to all Party members as well as to the members of the Young Commu- nist League. It will contain the full text of the resolution of the reecnt Plenum of the Young Communist International on the fascization and militarization of the youth and the tasks of the Young Communist Leagues. No one should neglect this op- portunity to read and study this historic and important document. U.S. Ammunition Firms Make Millions Helping to Arm Japanese Imperialism for War on Soviet Union from U. S. Being Speed Up (Continued from Page 1) where they are broken up for scrap | iron. American railroads are reap- ing a fortune by selling their old) cars to Japan for “junk.” These cars are sent to Japan as scrap and are transformed into war materials. Japan, of course, is not confining her scrap iron collections to the United States alone. However, the greatest share of scrap iron ported into Japan for war purposes comes from the United States. For- merly, some used to come from Ger- many. But now Hitler has virtually forbidden the export of scrap iron, as most of this material in Ger- many, aS well as Japan, is being rapidly forged into war materials. “Steel,” organ of the big steel trusts, in its Jan. 8, 1934, issue con- firms the fact that Japan is the leading purchaser of scrap iron in the United States. They point out that “Japan took the bulk of the exports of scrap iron during the last month of 1933, which in this case amounted to 59,115 tons. Figures published in Japan show the comparatively huge rise in ex- penditures for the purchase of war materials in foreign countries. While the countries are not listed, the} Daily Worker is able to give some| { £ is WarMaterials Shipments | im-} extremely significant and important items coming from the United States. The Japanese Chronicle for Jan. 6 reported that the imports of firearms leaped from $233,660 in 1931 to $2,500,000 in 1933; and in 1934 the figure is being in- creased by nearly 100 per cent. Imports of “special steels,” most of which come from the United States, jumped from $280,000 in 1932 to $1,800,000 in 1933. Imports | of iron in all forms increased nearly 200 per cent, and incoming nitrates (for the manufacture of explosives) nearly doubled. Sources in this country show that the shipment from the United States to Japan of lead for the manufacture of rifle and machine- gun bullets, increased as follows: 1930, 31,306,250 pounds; 1931, 34,- 601,681 pounds, and 1932, 40,440,000 pounds. Figures for 1933 and 1934 were not available. Keep Facts Secret It is significant that information on shipments of war supplies from the United States to Japan are carefully concealed or entirely ob- literated. The American armaments manufacturers cooperate with the Japanese imperialists in secreting the shipment of war supplies to Japan. Aowever, the Baily Worker is in @ position to give the following ex- of “special steels” to Japan for war purposes in the early part of 1934. 145,000 tons of end hardening clusive information on the shipment} nickle steel; 192,000 tons of steel in bars, blooms, slabs; 89,000 tons of ingots. A tremendous amount of nickel, for war purposes, is being shipped to Japan from the United States and Canada. While no detailed figures are available, we can quote the following report of profits of the International Nickel Co. of Canada, a corporation in which J. P. Morgan is heavily interested, as an indication of what tremendous activity is going on in this respect. Whereas this corporation showed a loss of $135,344 in 1932, it recorded a profit of $9,662,583 in 1933. The mammoth war preparations of one year were enough to turn a deficit into a profit of nearly ten million dollars. While this metal goes to all countries for war purposes, the sup- ply to Japan is undoubtedly tre- mendous. Airplane Orders From a worker-correspondent in the Pratt é& Whitney airplane en- gine plant, we are informed that the Japanese government has given that company an order for over 3,000 airplane engines. These en- gines are to be used in planes to be sent to Manchuria for war against the Soviet Union. Another concern ha; been handed a juicy order for 35,000 flat cars, without sides, for transportation of guns, and other artillery on the Man- churian railways. One American concern was award- anese army, with Diesel motors of 125 horse power. A wagon company will receive millions of dollars for its share in building war supplies for the Japanese imperialists, to consist of 8,000 three and one half ton wagons, with double tongs. These wagons are to be fitted with tires for speedy and efficient transpor- tation of troops and war supplies for great distances. It is significant to note that all of the war transportation material being bought in the United States is eminently fitted for just the type of warfare Japan is proposing to undertake in Manchuria and for the invasion of the Soviet Union, over its wide and far flung plains. Food is not omitted. Hundreds of thousands of barrels of flour have been ordered from American millers. Lumber workers inform us that over 1,000,000 feet of gun stave lumber, walnut, have been ordered for quick shipment to Japan. Pierre S. du Pont, official of the National Labor Board, and of the N.K.A, Advisory Board, member of the billionaire war munitions family could probably supply us with more detailed figures of the shipments of explosives to Japan. For example, his firm, the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., dealers in explosives, reports an increase in sales of 24 per cent in 1933 over 1932. How much of this went to Japan? The Daily Worker is unable to supply these detailed , of 200 big army tanks for the Jap-; ed a contract for the construction| figures, which could easily be sup- plied by Pierre S. du Pont, ad- vocate of company unions for the workers. Mr. du Pont’s firm which coined millions out of the blood of the workers in the last World War finds business is rapidly picking up. His company’s income leaped from $23,363,000 in 1932 to $37,- 262,000 last year. That it will be greater in 1934 is already assured even by Japanese purchases alone. Speeding Up For Spring The alarming feature of the pur- chases of war supplies by Japanese imperialism in the United States recently is the haste with which they are being shipped to Japan be- fore spring. For example, the “American Ex- porter,” organ of the leading export- ing firms in the United States, re- ports as follows: “Cotton exports to Japan dus- ing the first 12 weeks of the season were the biggest for this period in the history of the trade.” (American Exporter, January, 1934). As spring comes on, when the leading statesmen in the capital- ist world admit that Japan is pre- paring for war against the Sovie; Union, the United States supplies Japan with the greatest amount of raw cotton (mainly for war purposes) in the entire history of tie American cotton trade. On February 19, the New York Times reported some alarming facts, which, when put together with those we have detailed above, show the dispatch with which t 4 Japan is preparing for war. A steady stream of ships is passing through the Panama canal loaded with nitrates for European and other sources. From Norfolk, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Galveston, ships leave steadily for Japan with car- goes of scrap iron, steel, lead, cot- ton and other essentials for war obtained in the United States. Scour the World. No corner of the world is over- looked by the Japanese war lords in their search for scrap iron and other supplies. The New York Times of March 13, 1934 reported in a cable from Port of Spain, Trinidad, as follows: “Four thousand tons of scrap iron and steel in the form of eld sugar milling and oil re- fining machinery is being shipped to Japan. “Buyers’ representatives have been scouring the Windward Islands and Venezuela and also are negotiating with the Trin- idad government to buy old rails from the government railroad. The San Francisco Maru (a Japanese freighter) has been chartered for the shipment. The highest price paid was $6 a ton.” Japanese agents are making deals with Latin American coun- tries for war materials. In a ramphlet published in London by the “Union of Democratic Con- trol,” entitled “Patriotism Ltd,” we glean the following: “Japan, according to a Tokyo press announcement, is so busy buying war materials from abroad to stock her own fac- tories that recently she signed an agreement with Brazil to build between 20 and 30 war vessels in return for supplies of rubber and other raw materials. The leading buyer of the Mitsu- bishi concern, the dominating group in Japanese industry, is in Germany negotiating pur- chases of such war materials as nitrogen for explosives.” The Hotchkiss arms factories of France are pouring out machine- guns for Japan, They are so oc- cupied with Japanese orders that a Japanese military attache from Paris has a permanent room en- gaged at the Hotchkiss testing range. The Schneider works in Le Creusot in France are also busy with Japanese war orders. British Shipments. Last year detailed figures were given in the House of Commons in England on arm and munitions sold by British firms, mainly to Japan, which showed that these included no less than 1,600 ma- chine guns and 8,962,500 cartridges. These facts give only the barest indication of the rapidity with which Japanese imperialism is avm- ing for war, and has been arm- ine, particularly during the past few years. They show above all that American capitalists are mak- ing bundreds of millions of d'- Jars now, and have the bait dangled before them of even J apan Secours. World for Serap Iron for War Against U.S.S.R. greater profits as the day of ac- tual attack against the Soviet Union draws nearer. Hundreds of American factories are rushing out .war orders for Japanese imperiaiism. It is in these war industries, producing for American as well as Japanese im- perialism, that our center of anti- war activity should be grounded. ‘We call upon workers in all war industries to flood the Daily Worker with still more detailed information on war orders and shipments to Japan, on scrap iron, metal, auto and other war sup- plies fiom American firms to the Japanese war lords. The feverish haste with which the Japanese militarists rush their preparations for a gigantic war, the thoroughness with which they scour the world for mountains of scrap iron, should arouse all work- ers to the imminence of the war danger, and particularly to the alarming danger of war against the Soviet Union. Every workers’ organization should be aroused against the war danger and for the sharpest strug- gle against the overshadowing im- minence of the c#iminal imper- ialist war which the capitalists look for to stave off the doom of capitalism, ae