The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1934, Page 8

Page Bitht Daily <QWorker | FANTRAL ORGAM COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTER JOmaa? “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Gable Adare: N. Y, Washingto ational Press B 14th and F &t Midwest Bureau n 705, Chicago, Il Telephone WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1934 The Wagner Bill and “Peace in Industry” THE “truce” engineered in the obvious purpose of by the workers to enforce t recognition, no discrimina pany unionism and, what ican Federation of Labor ‘d to conceal, demands for better wages ng conditions and job control by workers’ committees as a weapon against the speed-up, confirm the ana’ , and in- dictment of the Wagner Bill and the whole N. R. A Policy in regard to the working class made by the T. U. U. L. representative, William F. Dunne, last ‘Thursday before the Senate Committee on Labor and Education. In the present situation the Roosevelt adminis- tration is rocked by a series of wage, organization and strike movements of a score unprecedented in this country if we take into consideration the varied character of these movements and the fact that they include practically all categories of workers. ‘These movements and struggles are marked by un- exampled militancy and determination. The illusions created by Clause 7A are disap- pearing. Workers have learned by bitter experience that in Clause 7A company unionism has found its most fertile soil. Now comes the Wagner Bill. It is the latest attempt to cajole American workers with promises. At the same time it proposed to set up strike-delaying and strike-breaking machinery that shall be in the hands of a National Labor Board with arbitrary powers. The Wagner Bill, based on the N. R._A. theory of the indentity of interest of capital and labor, and endorsed by the A. F. of L. and Socialist Party Officials just as was Clause 7A, place “industrial peace” as the main issue—irrespective of what the conditions of workers may be in such a paradise of monopoly capital. By its emphasis on “industrial peace” the Wagner Bill helps to make clearer the fact that “national recovery” is a euphemism for more systematic sup- pression of such elementary rights as the right to Strike, hamstringing and suppression of basic or- ganizations of the working class and still greater exploitation of workers. The Wagner Bill is to be a new weapon against the American working class. The Washington cor- respondent of the New York Sun stated on Saturday last in his dispatch that in all probability the ‘Wagner Bill would be so amended before passage as to meet the approval of “both industrialists and labor leaders”—meaning, of course, A. F. of L. offi- cialdom and that of the Socialist Party. As was the case with Clause 7A, the Trade Union Unity League with its affiliated unions have been the only labor unions to expose the Wagner Bill from the standpoint of the class needs of American workers. As was the case with the N. R. A. program, the Communist Party is the only political party that challenges and exposes the Wagner Bill and calls upon the working class to organize for struggle against its strike-breaking provisions. This service to the working class will, when the history of the American class struggle is written, be rated as one of the outstanding achievements of the revolutionary trade unions and the Communist Party in this decisive period, when the big new bat- talions of workers are moving forward into battle. * os a ; a Wagner Bill must be considered as an integral part of the disrupting and suppressive activities of N. R. A. in the ranks of the working class. It represents an attempt to legalize the encouragement of company unionism, the drive for increased profits through low wages and speed-up and the open use of the powers of the federal government to enforce these policies witnessed under Clause 7A, but seen in the sharpest relief in the open intervention of President Roosevelt into the auto strike on the side of some of the biggest organizations of monopoly capital in the country. But the great power of President, aided at every step by President Green of the A. F. of L. and his fellow bureaucrats on the Labor Board, while they were sufficient to postpone the strike during the period of peak production, aroused auto workers to the danger of their use. In the ranks of the auto workers there is sullen the auto industry, with strike action s for union of the Amer- nce for the time being but no signs of that grateful acceptance which is the goal of demagogues. The Wagner Bill has a more liberal mixture of force with demagogy than did Clause 7A, Here it is necessary to make some historical comparisons which are useful in gauging the direc- ion in which the Roosevelt administration is travel- rd ics in regard to the sharpening class struggle. Wilson brought the powers of the federal gove nent to bear against the steel workers and rs in the great struggles of 1919-20. Hard- ing moved against the nation-wide strike of the way shop worker crafts by means of an injunc- issued by Judge Wilkerson in 1922. The Communist Party was attacked by means of Pal raids in 1919-20. In 1922 the Commu- Party convention was raided and a whole the nist series of prosecutions launched. These attacks coincided with the new high point reached by the mass struggles in basic industry. Roosevelt is operating with far greater powers handed him than did Wilson and Harding. The crisis has drawn the class lines and made class relationships sharper than ever before. Through all the testimony, documents, state- nts and articles of the officials of the American ion of Labor and their Socialist Party allies, the theme song: “The Communists are foment- strikes. They are m ng all the trouble. They are inciting workers to resist.’ The inference is that without Communists the American working class would lie down and hail the N. R. A. machine with their last breath as it rolls over them. The Wagner Bill will not do the job expected of it any more than Clause 7A did. In the process of exposing it and speeding up the disillusionment with it among workers, without adopting an alarm- ist attitude, we must at the same time and with the utmost clarity raise what is now becoming more and more a central issue for the whole working class— their elementary political rights, the right of work- ers to belong to and use for struggle, independent of capitalists and capitalist government, their basic class organizations, The Wagner Bill, with its provisions for what amounts to compulsory arbitration under govern- ment “sanction and supervision,” is a move to extend the suppressive power of N. R. A. The Struggle against it, headed by the Communist Party and the T. U. U. L,, is a basic struggle for which we must rally the decisive sections of the working class. Elect Militant Leaders in| the Shoe Union WN THURSDAY, March 29, the members of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union are called to vote for the national officials and general executive board. Election of leadership is an im- portant event in the life of a trade union. As a result of the correct fight carried on by the militant delegates at the convention, led by the delegates of the former New York Industrial Union, the Socialist and Lovestone elements, led by the socialist lawyer, Bearack and Zimmerman, were defeated and the delegates returned home with a determination to build a militant union free from the influence of A. F. of L. and its Policies, The Socialist leaders and the Lovestonites, de- feated at the convention, continue the struggle for leading the union into the hands of the strike- breaking A. F. of L. leadership. Norman Thomas and the Lovestonites are united to mislead the workers by telling the shoe workers that the Boot and Shoe is not the A. F. of L., that the union will have to affiliate to the trade union center, the A. F. of L. These tendencies must be combatted, not only through exposures, but by assuring a leadership for the union which stands on a platform of class struggle in defending the interests of the workers, on a platform of working class solidarity. The New York organization selected as their candidate for national organizer, Fred Biedenkapp, leader of many struggles of shoe workers, a fearless fighter for the interests of workers, a Communist, who, because of his political beliefs, gives the great- est assurance that the program of militant trade unionism will be carried on in defense of the shoe and leather workers. Ralph Holmes, a militant worker from Haver- hill is the choice of New York workers for the post of, secretary-treasurer. The Socialist leaders and reformist elements are united in an effort to defeat those who are for a Class struggle program in order to pave the road for the-A. F. of L. Fred Hodgson, a Socialist; Zim- merman and Mangeri, Lovestonites, with a record of splitting the ranks of the workers, are candi- dates on a “Progressive” slate. Workers! Deteat these elements in order to build a powerful class struggle union. Vote for Biedenkapp and Holmes! The best guarantee for a sound and solid organi- zation, nationally, as well as locally is the election of Communists and militant trade unionists into the leadership, Such a leadership will be able to mobilize the shoe workers in a struggle for conditions and against the company union tactics and compulsory arbitra- tion policies of the N. R. A. and the American Fed- eration of Labor, Roosevelt Signs $750,000,000 Bill For War Building : | Approves Vinson War) Measure Authorizing | Treaty Navy | George By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Burean) Sofia City Council Renames_ Street After Dimitroff PRAGUE, March 27.—The mu- nicipal council of Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, has resolved to re- name Renaissance Boulevard the Dimitroff Street, ‘Prager Tagblatt’ announces. is, however, a question whether the Bulgarian government will allow the decision to stand. _ Roosevelt Poses as Wall Street Enemy In Exchange Bill Bill Actually Leaves the Big Speculators Untouched WASHINGTON, March 27— Roosevelt is again playing the part of a fighter against Wall Street in the It WASHINGTON, D. C., March 27—} President Roosevelt signed the $750,-| 000,000 five-year naval construction | Vinson bill today under a thin paci- fist cloak. “It has been and will be the policy of the administration to favor con- tinued limitation of naval arma- ments. It is my personal hope that} the naval conference to be held in| 1935, will extend all existing limita-| tions and agree to further reduc-| tions,” he declared in a formal state- months, priced at $3.00, GELLERT BOOK OFFER Hugo Gellert’s “Karl Marx Cap- | ital in Lithographs,” will be sent for only $1 to those subscribing or renewing their subscription to the Daily Worker for a year or six The book is regularly scrip to Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. two letters which he sent to the | Sponsors of the Fletcher-Rayburn | Bill to regulate stock exchanges. In his letter, Roosevelt. asks that | the bill have “teeth in it.” Actually, the bill will do nothing to injure the interests of the biggest Wall | Street speculators. The bill pro- | Vides for the regulation of margin requirements. In practice, this will merely mean the squeezing out of small traders. The big ones will go on profiting as before. The Ex- Send your sub- ment announcing his signing. changes oppose the bill because it Roosevelt, however, failed to ex- plain that “all existing limitations” (the Washington and London Treaties) allow the construction of the warship tonnage and war pianes mentioned in the bill. It provides for 1,184 war planes and 102 war Vessels, It is technically true that the Congress must appropriate money} for the construction authorized in the Vinson bill. But politically, the fact is that the Roosevelt machine, ‘which pushed the bill through with- | out a record vote in the house, will| tinued limitation of naval arma-| velt’s administraion, hhave no trouble in getting what money it desires. Roosevelt's remarks on signing the (: bill, of course, do not make mention of the fact that the present admin- | istration plan is to build a united | | front with Great Britain against | | Japan to keep down the latter’s, | naval ratio at the 1935 conference. | United States and British imper- | | ialism fully intend to meet Japanese | | imperialism at this naval conference | | with a navy as near the treaty | strength (102 more ships, etc.) as| | possible. | | After that conference “the con-/ | ments” will not decrease the treaty | | navy. As to “further reductions,” | - remains to be seen in 1935, | f reduces trading business from small traders. In addition, the bill, for all of Roosevelt's demagogy, actually less- ens the stringency of the first draft regarding the registration of corpor- ation’s statements. In his letter on the Fletcher-Ray- burn Bill, Roosevelt repeats the ex- ploded theory that stock exchange speculation caused the crisis in 1929, Actually, the Wall Street speculators have made more profit during the last 12 months of Roose- the last two years of the Hoover administration, as Roosevelt's infla- tion has sent prices upward. r- than during DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1934 Youth Anti-War Campaign Planned, Week of ‘Delegation of | | Protest Visits — | Polish Consul Demand Release of 57 | Workers Leaders at Lutsk Trial | (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, March 27.—A/ Negro and white delegation, repre- | senting many thousands of workers and intellectuals, today visited the | | Polish Embassy, protesting emphat- | ically against “the vicious campaign | of terror now practiced upon the workers | | Ukraine by the Polish government,” | and read a resolution demanding the release of 57 leaders of the Western | Ukrainian working class who have | |been in prison since 1930, many ot | whom now face death sentences at | |the conclusion of their trial Lutsk. Stanislaw Patek, the Polish Am- | bassador, refused to meet the group. | |He delegated a tight-lipped secre- | |tary, who said his name was §,| |Poradzski, to “accept what you |have,” and to inform the little | group that “the Ambassador is too | busy to see you.” | Cops On Guard | Three uniformed policemen in| \charge of a captain met the pro- | test delegation at the Embassy door | while John Apostilitis, notorious | strong-arm sergeant of the plain | clothes red squad, known familiarly |to militant workers as Jerry-the- |Greek, hid himself in an inner room. The delegation represented the International Labor Defense, the} | United Ukrainian Toilers, the Na- | tional Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, the Needle | Trades Industrial Union, the Inter- |national Workers’ Order, the Polish | Chamber of Labor, the Russian Mu- | tual Aid Society and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. | A. S. Cherkoss, a vice-president | of the N. T. W. I. U., read the pro- |test resolution while standing, directly in front of the Embassy’s large painting of Marshal Pilsudski, |the Polish Fascist dictator, Walter Riback of the United Ukrainian Toilers; F. D. Griffin of the na- |tional office of the I. L. D., and | Robert Campbell of the LSNR., were in the group. Release Demanded “We vehemently protest against the outrageous treatment of our | Polish comrades,” Griffin told the | Polish official. “We are here not to ask but to demand of the Polish Ambassador that he cable our pro- test abroad,” he added. | | “I will give the statement to the | Ambassador. He will know what to | do with it,” replied Poradzski. |. “We demand the immediate re- |lease of our dauntless Ukrainian comrades and pledge that our or- | ganizations will mobilize the Amer- | ican workers and intellectuals, as | well as the foreign-born to carry on an unremitting struggle for the re- |lease and freedom of these militant revolutionary leaders, and for the | liberation of the workers and farm- ers of Western Ukraine,” the reso- | | lution concluded. | Roosevelt Kills Bill Restoring Vet Compensation WASHINGTON, March 27—Be- fore departing for a ten days fish- ing trip, Roosevelt is eager to com- | plete his announced veto of the Independent Offices Bill which re- stores $83,000,000 in compensation for wounded veterans, and from five to 10 per cent of the recent 15 per cent wage cut for Federal employees, it was announced this | afternoon. The Bill which passed in the House and Senate will certainly be vetoed, Roosevelt's advisers said. In that case, it is practically a cer- tainty that the Bill will remain per- manently dead. The Roosevelt administration in one of its first actions slashed about $900,000,000 from the veterans and Federal employees in order to guarantee the government payments to bondholders of U. S. securities. and farmers of Western | } immediate and unconditional | © Soviet Airmen Hop Toward Marooned Group on Ice-Floe (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 27 (By Radio)—| | Reports from Khabarovsk in Siberia | say that the snowstorm raging in the Anadyr district has subsided. The airplanes there, under the com- mand of Kamamin, are preparing to | hop on another lap of their flight| to rescue the Chelyuskin expedition, marooned on an ice-floe in the Ber- ing Sea, 350 miles north of Nome, | Alaska. rs, Airman Vodopianov flew from } | Nogayevo, 300 miles, to the village | of Guijiga. Airmen Galyshevy and/| Doronin were forced by weather to| return to Nogayevo. | Reports from Cape Van Karem | are that there is no visibility in the| region of the Chelyuskin camp, so that planes cannot approach it yet.| Radiograms from the camp report ® April 6 Youth Groups Called to Meet in N. Y. Tonite N.S.L. and L.LD. Map Anti-War United Front Drive NEW YORK—Answering the cali of the Youth Section of the Ameri- | can League Against War and Fas- | cism, the League for Industrial Democracy and the National Stu- dent League have mapped out an intensive anti-war campaign for the week of April 6-13. In New York, this will begin with a parade on the 6th from the Eter- nal Light in Madison Square where a wreath to the memory of the vic- | 25, and not one Saturday sub on a | Saturday subs. Its quota is 50 daily in| fe The U, S. destroyer Farragut, first murder ship built with “Blue Eagle” money to be launched, went daughter-in-law of President Roosevelt to crack a bottle of champagne over its bows as it started out on its career of death-dealing, : | | down the ways this month, with a Detroit Sections Lag in Sub Drive; Action DETROIT, Mich—While some, sections in tihis district are doing | fairly well in the Daily Worker cir- | culation drive, a number of sections are grossly underestimating the im- portance of the “Daily,” as shown by their lack of activity in the sub | campaign. | This at a time when the struggles | by workers, the discontent of the automobile workers, make it. more | necessary than ever that the work- ers be reached with the “Daily.” During the first seven weeks of the campaign Section 1 secured 17 daily and 17 Saturday subs on a quota of 50 and 100, respectively. Section 2 secured 14 daily and} nine Saturday subs on quotas of 50 and 100, respectively. Section 3 gained six daily subs on a quota of quota of 50. On a quota of 30 daily and 60 Saturday subs, Section 4 se- | cured two daily and four Saturday | subs. Section 5 shows a gain of 24} daily and four Saturday subs on a! quota of 50 and 110, respectively. Section 7 obtained 12 daily and 10 | Saturday subs on quotas of 75 and 150, respectively. Section 8 shows a gain of only two daily and three and 100 Saturday subs. Week of March 18 In the wek ending March 18, Sec- tion 8 did not secure a single sub. This same section failed to gain even one sub during the week be- fore as well. Section 3 failed to bring in a single sub during the | week ending March 18. The sec- | tions which do show some results, namely, 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7, owe it to the work of a few scattered units. Dearborn, the home of the arch exploiter, Ford, is showing a cer- tain improvement in the drive. | More intensified activity, however, | is imperative in Dearborn and in) other parts of the district. During the two weeks ending March 18, only the Dearborn Units in Section 7 were active in the drive. The Daily Worker calls upon every section and unit in the De- troit District to take immediate steps to put the sub drive on a real Bolshevik basis. Cleveland has challenged you to revolutionary competition in the campaign! Cleve- land is doing good work. Answer this challenge with the same revo- lutionary spirit you showed in the $40,000 drive during which you did splendid work. Get into action! Every class-conscious worker, ask your friends and fellow workers to subscribe to our Daily Worker! The government pays more than $700,000,000 annually to bondhold- ers. In addition, it has just au- thorized the expenditure of more than one an a half billion for war preparations, ® | ber of Deputies: Is Imperative! Inflationary Cut in Franc Imminent In Trade Fight Sliced Dollar, Pound Cut Into French Foreign Markets PARIS, March 27.—The immi- | nence of inflationary devaluation of | the franc to meet the inroads made on French markets by the devalued | dollar and pound was admitted here yesterday by leading officials. Speaking of the fact that more inflation is required by French im- perialism to meet foreign competi- | tion, Paul Raynaud, former Minis- | ter of Finance, stated in the Cham- “If devaluation was profitable for other countries, such as Eng- land and America, it was disas- trous in other countries.” Calling for more inflation, stated: “The 1928 devaluation does not vaccinate us against the world crisis which has undermined the bases of the strongest currencies of the world, the pound and the dollar.” In addition to open inflationary proposals, French reactionary mem- bers of the Chamber of Deputies are | calling for more pay cuts for gov- ernment employes, heavier taxes, | Doumergue Raids Paris Workers as Fascists Buy Arms PARIS, March 27—The Dou- mergue government began a drive to disarm all workers and their organ- izations today, following testimony before a parliamentary commission that reactionary organizations with fascist leadership are arming them- selves heavily. Gaston Bergery, independent, told the commission that the Jeunesses Patriotes (Patriotic Youth), the vet- erans’ Croix de Feu (Cross of Fire), the Camelots du Roi (King’s Hench- men), and the Solidarite Francaise, all nationalistic, fascist groups, were arming for a fascist putsch. The government's answer was a series of raids in the working class districts, in which a small number of rifles and pistols were reported to have been seized. No attempt was | | | he | made to search the fascist groups. that the expedition remains in good health and high spirits. Indian Communist Leader Dies After Torture by British Shattered by Police Brutality, Lingam Is Left to Die LONDON, March 27—The mur-} der of one of the bravest fighters for the Indian masses, Comrade Lingam, by the British police, has just been learned here. A member of the Communist Party of India, he was arrested a| year ago and held in the head- quarters of the Special Branch of the Bombay police, without charges. He was so severely tortured that | a few days after his arrest he had to be sent to a hospital, where he remained five months. He came out suffering from tuberculosis, and soon had to go back. He was so completely ne- glected that soon he was thrown into the “incurable” section. A committee of the Bombay commit- tee of the Communist Party at- tempted to keep in touch with him, | but when he died the British im-| Perialist authorities did not even notify his comrades. His body was hurriedly taken out and burned, and the workers of Bombay were denied even the right to give him a funeral. Chinese Partisans Fall in Massacre, By Nanking Armies. Canton Wants Another Million to Continue Anti-Soviet Fight TSINAN, China, March 27.—A band of Manchurian anti-Japanese | partisans and Chinese soldiers | abandoned by Chiang Kai-shek in | Jehol and Chahar Provinces have j been massacred by Nanking forces | in Shantung Province. The partisan bands, stranded and starving, marched down into China, and were joined on the way by thousands of starving peasants of North China. General Han Fu-Chu, governor of Shantung, who is in the pay both of Nanking and of the Japa- nese, brought up cavalry, infantry and artillery, and claimed to have massacred thousands of the par- tisan army. He claimed that he had littered the countryside with the bodies of the peasants and sol- diers, ae ee 3 Anti-Communist Drive Snagged HONGKONG, March 27.—The Canton drive against the Chinese Soviets is lagging while General Chen Chia-tang is dickering with Nanking for another $1,000,000, in addition to the regular subsidy of $500,000 a month which Chiang Kai-shek sends him to maintain an army at the southern border of the Soviet districts. Meanwhile Chiang Kai-shek is attempting to gain full control of the Canton military machine, by offering $15,000,000 to Canton for control of its land, air and naval forces. Force Fascists to Halt Banquet, Parade in Seattle SEATTLE, March 27. — A Nazi naval crew, which sought to make | a “good-will” visit to Tacoma and Seattle last week, was balked at at every turn by the mass action of hundreds of workers who showed their hatred of German Fascism so effectively that a parade and ban- quet, had to be cancelled. When the German cruiser Karls- ruhe anchored at Tacoma for a “good will” visit to the Northwest, it was met at the dock by hun- dreds of workers distributing leaf- Jets and carrying banners in Eng- lish and German denouncing Fas- cism and calling for the release of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany. Red Flag at Banquet Hall. The next day, Monday, the crew was to have a banquet at the New Washington Hotel in Seattle, fol- lowed by a dance that night at the Masonic Temple. Monday morning found a huge red flag, on it a ham- mer and sickle and the inscription “Down With Fascism,” flying from the flag pole over the hotel. The banquet was called off because, the German officers said, an officer had The dance that night was ar- ranged by the German societies, :| pro-Fascist Seattle To Cleveland Workers SLEEPING ACCOMMODATION CARD I will provide sleeping quarters for delegates to the National Con- vention of the Communist Party to be held in Cleveland during the week of April second. NAME sescsscencscccccercavesevers AGGLESS oo. cessecceeeecesccsereeees Directions to your home ....++...5 Room for single person............Man or Woman......... Room for married couple .....+... Room for two persons....--.....,.Men or Women.. There will be no discrimination in my home. Check whom you can accommodate Signature Bring or mail the enclosed to any of the addresses given below: Communist Party, Room 306, 1514 Prospect Ave.; Uj Elore office, 11424 Buckeye Rd.; Workers Culture Home, 14101 Kinsman Rd.; Workers Book Shop, 1522 Prospect Ave.; Section 1, C. P., 4309 Lorain Ave.; Section 2, C. P., 756 East 105th St.; Section 11, C. P., 3843 Woodland Ave. died on the ship All Cleveland, Ohio. organization. ;Communist Party and the Young Leaflets were distributed by the |Communist League calling upon the workers to demonstrate against Fascism in front of the Masonic Temple. Workers Shout “Free Thaelmann.” Fifteen hundred workers gathered before the Masonic Temple, and when the cops tried to drive the workers two blocks away from the Temple, the workers broke through the police lines, placing speakers upon their shoulders and shouting slogans such as: “Down with Fas- cism,” “Free Thaelmann,” “Long Live the Communist Party and the ‘Young Communist League of Ger- many!” Many of the demonstrators were young boys and girls, who took a leading part in the meeting. Although the police tried time and again to break up the demonstra- tion, they were powerless before the militant anti-fascist workers. The demonstration lasted 45 minutes. Just as the workers were conclud- ing the demonstration by singing the Internationale, the Fascists in the hall began their ceremonies. A large Fascist flag with a Swastika on it was lowered and the crew snapped to attention saluting the flag. At this point, girls inside the hall started shouting anti-fascist slogans, and throwing leaflets among the well-dressed crowd. The' 1 g | tims of the imperialist war will be | laid, past Morgan’s home on 38th Street to Columbus Circle. Between | April 9 and 12, there will be picket- ing of strategic buildings. These will be the National Civic Federation, | whose head, Ralph Easley, has been | carrying on a vicious campaign | against the student anti-war move- ment; at Morgan’s home, the Aus- trian and German consulates, and the Chase National Bank which re- cently floated a loan for the Hitler government. During this period, there will be mass meetings on individual cam- puses in preparation for the highest point of the week's activity, the strike on April 13. Before this, on the 12th, a city-wide mass meeting called jointly by the National Stu- dent League and League for Indus- trial Democracy, will be held. The student strike against ROTO and general militarization of the youth in the United States will be held from 11 to 12 o'clock on April 13. In dozens of colleges and univer- sities throughout the country all activity is being pointed towards April 13 strikes. * | | Youth Anti-War Meet Today NEW YORK—A meeting of ali youth organizations representatives in the city has been called for Wed- nesday, March 28 at which a city youth committee against war and fascism will be set up. The meeting will be held at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th Street, at 8 p.m. In the last few weeks, a number of youth organizations have beer set up in neighborhoods and settle- ment houses in the city. This meet- ing will be the first attempt to co- ordinate all these activities and de- velop a broad youth movement against war here. Besides the organizational report on the immediate tasks facing the organization, there will be a talk on the present danger of war by Norman Tallentire, secretary of the City Central Committee of the American League. The Youth Section of the Ameri- can League urges those individual: who will not be able to get creden- tials before the meeting to partici- pate as unofficial representatives at this first meeting. Austrian Workers Fired to Give Jobs To Heimwehr Men New Taxes Levied to Pay for Civil War and Dictatorship VIENNA March 27—The Dollfuss- Heimwehr government has issued a decree that 23,000 Heimwehr storm troops who were armed for the gov- ernment’s murder drive against the workers must be rewarded by being given jobs in industry. The government is keeping 13,000 in arms on state pay, according to official reports; 10,000 are said to have been demobilized, and industry is ordered to absorb another 23,000 by replacing one worker in every 25 by a Heimwehr man by April 1. The sections of the middle class who hoped to see Dollfuss relieve them of property taxes by destroying the Socialist municipalities are now finding that instead, they are faced with more severe taxes than ever, to defray the costs of the attack on the workers, and to maintain the armed forces Dollfuss needs to en- force the fasicst dictatorship. West Coast Workers Balk “Good Will” Nazi Naval Visit cf Shout ‘Free Thaelmann’ as Nazis Land at Tacoma entire affair was thfown into con- fusion, The riot squad arrived with sub- machine guns and tear gas guns. But the workers held their ranks and marched away in a solid body, singing the Internationale and shouting anti-fascist slogans. The demonstration had a tre- mendous effect upon the workers of Seattle. Students of the evening classes of the Broadway high school across the street quit their classes and ran to the windows and out of the building, during the entire course of the demonstration. Work- ers look on the demonstration as a first step toward mass anti-fascist action in Seattle. In fact, a parade through the main streets of Seattle was hastily called off by the Fascists because of the demonstration. After the girls inside the dance were dragged out shouting “Down With Hitler” the captain of the Fascist crew said he had never wit- nessed a demonstration of that na- ture before. He said that he would never take the ship back to Tacoma and Seattle again, as long as he would receive a “reception” such as he did Monday night.