The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1934 Daily QWorker | SUNTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERNATIONAL) | “Ameriea’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 4-7 Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New 1 Washington Bureau: Room 954, N Press Building 14th aud F St., Washington, D.C. Midwest Bureau South Wells St., Room 705, Chicago, Il Telephone: Dearborn 3931 FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1934 Against Their Jingo Poison, Our Revolutionary Internationalism! HIS April 6th, 1934, anniversary of the entry of the United States into the world war, is the most significant anni- versary of that event for the American york in the seventeen years since into the last imperialist world slaughter. The Roosevelt government is now creating the most gigantic war machine this country has ever known, pouring bill at a feverish pace. That machine is ready. It can and may be set into motion tomorrow, bringing death, misery, and catastrophe in its wake for the workers and farmers of the United States. Today, throughout the land, thousands of lackeys of capitalism, governors, mayors, army officers, patrioteers, will sing the praise of that gigantic ma- chine of death, in the press, over the radio, in the schools, from thousands of reviewing stands before which will march members of the armed forces of American imperialism. These speakers, with their poisoned words of deceit and treachery, are also part of that mechine of death and misery. Pacifists will spew out their honeyed words, speaking in oily tones of peace, while behind their backs the gigantic machine of war moves powerfully, at an ever dizzier nace. lions of dollars into its making, MERICAN imperialism is moving ever faster toward another war. The antagonisms of the imperialist powers, fighting already with ever dead- lier economic and political weapons each to pull it- self out of its crisis at the expense of the others, are at the breaking point. The whole capitalist world is a powder barrel of var. “The growing uncertainty of the bourgeoisie as to the possibility of finding a way out of the crisis only by the intensified exploitation of the toilers of their own countries, has led the im- perialists to put their main stake on war. The international situation bears aH the features of the eve of a new world war.” This is the estimate of the situation today, given the 13th plenary session of the Executive Com- ee of the Comm unist International, by ‘AN imperialist war be a way out of the crisis? For the biggest capitalists, it means gigantic profits. As they did in the last war, they lick their chops in anticipation of the swollen gains to be made in the traffic in blood and death. But for the masses of workers and farmers, for the professionals and white collar workers, war means only increased misery, increased exploitation, hunger, wounds, and death. It will not mean even a temporary gain. It means only mass enslavement, Mass murder, mass horror and misery. This is the meaning of the jingo phrases of the patrioteers. | eorieds their jingo nationalist poison, our inter- national solidarity! We will not fight to swell their profits; but when they put the guns into our hands, we will turn those guns against the war-makers, against the ex- ploiters, to wipe out the whole system of capitalist exploitation which creates and thrives on war, ex- ploitation and pillage. We will turn our guns on them to create a work- ers’ and farmers’ government, which has no need of war. We will not fire at our brothers of other lands. ‘We will extend our hand to them in revoluticnary fraternity. We will fight shoulder to shoulder with them against their exploiters and ours. We will emulate the Soviet Union, the bulwark of the world proletariat, the bulwark of peace, the land that has crushed its own imperialists forever. + * * | Vinee adedprpetiae this country today, at thousands of meetings, workers, farmers, professionals, stud- ents, will rally to give their class answer to the im- minent threat of war, to the glorification of war by the Army Day “patriots.” In New York today, as the climax of many dem- onstrations against war carried out in all sections of the city, the anti-war forces of the working class and its supporters will rally in a mass meeting which will give a ringing answer to the war-makers and their lackeys. Workers! Students! Professionals! Rally m thousands upon thousands in St. Nicholas Arena at 7:30 tonight! Give your answer to the war-makers! Against their jingo nationalism, our reyoiu- 4onary internationalism! Defend the Soviet Union! Fight imperialist war NOW! Miss Perkins Whistles in . the Dark pea an ostrich burying its head in the sand when all is not well in his native habitat, Miss Frances Perkins, Roosevelts N.R.A. Labor Secretary, viewed the labor situation throughout America on Wednesday. “There isn’t a first-class strike in America,” chirped Miss Perkins when asked by Cleveland newspaper men to give her opinion of the strike wave that is at present sweeping the country. Indeed, Miss Perkins, why don’t you rub the sand out of your eyes? Look about you and see what is going on. You can’t make your pious wishes a reality by just stating them as accomplished facts. ‘The truth of the matter is that there are lots of strikes— and first-class strikes too, which are shaking the very foundations of the whole N.R.A, strikebreaking set-up. Here are a few of them: 30,000 miners who side- stepped an N.R.A. arbitration trap laid for them in ra { 7 Washington by General Johnson; 3,000 shipbuild- ing workers, 2,000 Campbell Soap Co. workers who have been threatened with machine guns, and 600 workers fro ie Radio Condenser Co., all in the city of Camden, N. J. Two thousand rubber work- on strike yesterday in Mlinois. t es of 2,000 aeronautical al workers, 200 cleaners and of bakery wagon drivers in the y knitgoods workers are still out in In Boston the seamen of ave just concluded a success- ler the leadership of the Marine Work- The Johnstown leather r strike under the leadership nion. The Haverhill shoe strike, fought battle, still continues, with the work- ng to be trapped by the N.R.A. arbitration 0 che a strike city of Buffalo, N fhousand a hard ers r scheme. And only yesterday 5,000 Detroit auto workers ick in the Motor Products Plant in defiance of the NRA Then there is the growing strike sentiment all over the country, Workers of the Spicer Manu- facturing Co., which makes auto accessories, seeing | through the N.R.A. betrayal of the auto strike, are talking strike. Mass meetings of auto workers are being held throughout Detroit to take up the ques- | tion of fighting against the Roosevelt-Green N.R.A. no-trike policy. At the very time Miss Perkins was making her statement in Cleveland that there “isn’t a first-class | strike in America,” the workers of the Cleveland | Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation were spread- ing a first class strike to all plants of the company for union recognition and wage increases. Indeed, last week’s issue of Babson’s Reports reveals that there have been more strikes under the Roosevelt administration than im any other similar period in history. In the last 12 months strikes reached an all-time record of 2,654. This is something of a picture of what is going on. But Miss Perkins can’t see it. She doesn’t want to see it. Neither do Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. William Green want to see it. They turn with horror at this picture of workers striking from one end of the country to the other for union recog- nition and higher wages. These “new dealers” are receiving a shook of their lives. The N.R.A. isn’t doing what the new dealers promised tt would do. Great masses of impoverished orkers have shaken off their illusions about the N.R.A. They are striking against the N. A. slave codes. So Miss Perkins, fearful, but attempting to ap- Pear nonchalant, says: “There isn’t a first-class | strike in America.” Miss Perkins, you are whistling in the dark. Look out you don’t bump your head on one of the many first-class strikes now in motion all over the country. —————_—_________ ] A Fake “Plan” for the Jobless EALIZING more and more that the new Roosevelt “Work Relief” program is an attempt to drive still lower the living standards of the 16,000,000 unemployed, the fired C. W. A. workers, together with the jobless, in every part of the country are mobiliz- ing for struggle. On Monday 8,000 jobless workers in Minneapolis, demanding that the “coolie wages” of $7.20 a week be immediately raised to C. W. A. levels, and that a 40 per cent increase in relief immediately go into effect, brushed aside the full mobilization of the city police, and stormed the City Hall. In Philadelphia, the very threat of a huge mass meeting of the 22,500 fired C. W. A. workers forced the Philadelphia County Emergency Bourd to re- hire 19,000 C. W. A. workers and resume work on 300 abandoned projects. In New York City, C. W. A. jobless workers will | reconvene at the Greater New York United Front | Conference on C. W. A. and Unemployment. This | conference, to be held Sunday, April 8th, at 1 P. M., will broaden still further the fight for jobs, for im- mediate cash relief equal at least to C. W. A. pay, and for the enactment of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. The workers are determined to maintain the hard-won victory of C. W. A., and to resist the Roosevelt “Relief Work” ooolie wages. . . . 'HE bankruptcy of the Roosevelt “Tripartite Works Relief” plan is evidenced in its very phase. For the “stranded populations” living in “single-industry communities in which there is no hope of future | re-employment, such as miners in worked-out fields,” to use the phraseology of the honey-worded Roose- velt demagogy, are to be transplanted to “subsistence farms.” “Tt is planned to explore this difficult situ- ation,” Roosevelt continues, and after physically transplanting the entire families to “subsistence farms,” to revert to a primitive handicraft stage by setting up supplementary “industrial enterprises.” This plan dooms thousands to forced labor at starva= tion coolie conditions. Meanwhile, the smal farmer, who cannot find a market for the abundance of food which he pro- duces, is to find competition for his markets in- creased. In an attempt to placate him, Roosevelt will hand him a handful of seeds. C. W. A. ts to be abandoned entirely in the rural areas, For the city worker, the Roosevelt's “Tripartite Works Relief” will provide “work for a period not to exceed six months.” In making a Fascist bid for support from the white-collar and professional groups by giving them special consideration, the Roosevelt program states that: “Every effort will be made to continue opportunities for work for the professional groups in need—teachers, engineers, architects, artists, nurses and others.” . . . In every instance, where city and state govern- ments have undertaken to take over the C. W. A. workers on “works relief,” liftle or no additional appropriations are made to carry the increased need of relief. In New York City, the April appropriation for the payment of wages to the former C. W. A. workers and the relief to the growing number of Home Relief clients exceeds the March appropriation by only $750,000. Supplemented by federal and state funds the city, state and federal appropriations total only $15,000,000, or, $12 a month for each of the city’s one and a quarter million unemployed. Under the leadership of the Unemployment Councils and the Relief Workers Leagues, the work- ers everywhere are determined to strike a decisive blow at the Roosevelt coolie wage of $7.20 a week. Organize mass stoppages and strikes on the projects of employed and unemployed to defeat the wage cuts and firings. Establish mass picket lines at the Welfare Boards and Relief Bureaus, Demand immediate cash relief equal to C. W. A. wages for all fired C. W. A. and unemployed work- ers. Demand C. W. A. jobs at union rates of pay for all unemployed workers. Demand that Con- gress immediately enact the Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill. Turn Army Day to Anti-War Day in All Cities Seek To Hurt U. S. Trade With US.S.R. US Agency To Refuse Credits Until After ‘Debts’ Settlement | eens | WASHINGTON, April 5.—That powerful financial interests are} seeking to hamper trade between the United States and the Soviet Union | was made evident yesterday when it was learned that the recently | formed government bank to finance trade between the two countries has | | decided to allow the Soviet Union | no credits until a settlement is made | | of U. S. claims for Czarist and Ke-| |Tensky debts, and for property of | | U. S. citizens seized by the workers | | in the Soviet revolution. | | This fact came out in Congress} | where the Johnson bill forbidding |any non-government agencies to | make loans to nations in default in their debts to the U. S. was passed. } It has passed the Senate, and has | the approval of President Roosevelt. When Congressmen hostile to the| Soviet Union complained that the} government agencies would still be | able to extend credits to the Soviet | Union, a resolution by the board of | the Russian export-import bank cre- ated by the government. was read, | saying it would finance no trade | until the debts issue has been set- tled. | | | ‘All Soviet Rescue ‘Planes Safe; Speed Cheliuskiners’ Aid Report Stranded Crew In Good Health; Flyers on Way (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 5 (By Wire). — Two airplanes of Kamanin’s group, from whom no news had been re- ceived for five days, arrived in Wel- Jen safely, aceording to a report} just received here. The third of | the planes is expected shortly, the report states, adding that all are in |good shape, The fliers Galyshev, Doronin and Vodopianov, arrived in Anadyr yes- |terday. Vankarem is their next | point of landing. Pilot Slepinov has made a suc- | cessful flight from Nome to Wellen, | it was learned here. Levanovsky, | who flew out to Nome before Slep- | niov, and whose plane was wrecked | |on the way, wired “Izvestia” from | Vankarem, saying: “I do not consider myseit | | beaten, Am well, also burning | | with desire to begin further work. | The government may rest assured | | of my readiness to do all in my | | Dower to rescue the Cheliuskin- | ers.” Pilot Babushkine also reports that |the Cheliuskiners are in good |health and buoyant spirits. In the next few days the well- known Polar explorer Ushakov, who flew out to Nome together with | Levanovsky, will leave Vankarem | for Schmidt Camp by dogteam. A Soviet steamer has already ar- rived at Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, } cell or Dollfuss for A PUBLIC SERV. EE: T PASSES TrOV. Lehman Roosevelt Envoy Praises Dollfuss for Slaughter é< NEW YORK.—Two Americans | just returned from Vienna spoke about the February fighting there, yesterday. George H. Earle, President Roose- yelt’s minister to Austria, and Dem- ocratic candidate for governor of} Pennsylvania, arriving on the S. 8.| George Washington, blamed the} Austrian workers for resisting the! fascist offensive, and praised Chan-| the way he| “handled the situation.” | The Dollfuss-Heimwehr forces} “gave an exhibition of the greatest | humanity,” he said, referring to the} slaughter of men, women and chil- dren with all the instruments of | modern warfare, Eugene Lyons, United Press cor-! respondent, who also was in Vienna} during the fighting, gave a different, “It was cold-blooded slaughter,” he said, speaking at the Institute of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. “The workers and their families were trapped in their homes at the mercy of heavy artillery. They fought in desperation, in de- fense of their hard-won privileges.” Lyons also showed why the work- ers were defeated. “Even after fighting had broken out, leaders of where reloading has started onto a Stalingrad steamer better adapted to sailing in Arctic conditions, | By CARL REEVE | | (Continued From Page 3) | were discriminated against because jof color, she reported, | Tm Pittsburgh, Negroes are still | barred from teaching in tHe public schools, and a fight is being put up | against these Jim Crow practices by | the L. 8. N. R. | Max Bedacht, member of the ; Central Committee, emphasized the | value of the non-party mass or- ganizations to the Party. He said, “Up until now we have on the whole, underestimated this value. We have not brought to our consicousness what it means to the Party to be surrounded by a great number of non-party mass organizations, by tens and hundreds of thousands of workers, not merely by a sentiment, not merely by a mass, but by or- ganization. The great mass of the American workers cannot be drawn immediately into the Party, but a large number of them can be drawn into the ranks of the mass organi- zations under the leadership of the Party, and if we neglect that, we cannot build our Party into a mass Party, such as we must do if we want to perform our duty in this period of approaching war and revolution.” Bedacht pointed to the under- estimation of the value of the Inter- national Workers Order to the Party by many in the districts. “We should understand the political value of working among 45,000 members,” he said, “and of en- larging the I. W. O. to 100,000 mem- bers. The ripening of the revolu- tionary consciousness of the mem- bers of the I. W. O. does not take place by itself, he said, but requires the guidance of the revolutionists within these mass organizations.” Bedacht brought out the necessity of building stronger fractions. “We do not have functioning fractions in the I. W. ©., and we cannot get them if the local organizations do not pay the necessary attention. The Party fraction within the mass organization, is the steel rod. If the steel rod is absent, then the mass becomes formless. If this steel rod is weak, then the revolutionary con- tent of the organization is weak. Only if the steel rod, the Party fraction, is strong, then you will have a strong working class organi- zation. No systematic attention is being paid to the functioning of Party Conv. the workers were making desperate | efforts to negotiate with the govern- | ment.” To Collect Funds for Victims of Austrian Fascism, Sat., Sunday NEW YORK.—A tag day for the victims of Austrian fascism is |} announced for this Saturday and |} Sunday, April 7 and 8, by the New York District of the Inter- national Labor Defense. All workers and their organizations are urged to take part in the || collection of funds for the count- |} less working-class families ren- || dered homeless and denied relief by the Dollfuss fascist murder re- || gime. Boxes can be obtained at the Dist. LL.D. office, 870 Broadway. The following stations are an- || nounced: 1280 56th St., Brooklyn; 792 E. Tremont Ave., Bronx; 524, Hudson St. and 130 W. 23d St., Manhattan. Other stations will be announced tomorrow. Send us names of those you know who are not readers of the Daily Worker but who would be | interested in reading it. Address: Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. Spain Legalizes Death Penalty For “Sabotage” Cortes Also Provides Millions to Pay Priests MADRID, April 5.—The Lerroux | government yesterday carried out its promise to the big industrialists and landlords of Spain by reviving the death penalty and appropriating a large sum to pay the priests who were disestablished by the revolu- tion. As a new measure of terror against the workers, who are surging with unrest in all parts of Spain, and are carrying through a gigantic series of strikes, the Cortes passed a bill providing death on the guil-| Jotine for “sabotage and armed as-} sault,” as well as for murder. At the same session, $2,260,000 was appropriated to pay wages to the| priests whom the capitalists and) landlords recognize as among their} best agents of reaction among the masses. A general strike in Zaragossa yes- terday was the workers’ response to the cancellation of permits of bus drivers who went out on strike last week. Troops were called out im- mediately, and the governor of the province declared that the strike was “illegal” and that any workers who do not return to work today | will be fired. ention Hears Reports from Shops these Party fractions, and because of that we are now confronted with | a serious problem.” A steel worker delegate from an| eastern plant owned by the big trust | reported to the Convention: | “Conditions are changed; the minds of the workers are changed.| It is easy now to develop opposition | in the reformist organizations (such as American Federation of Labor unions). Several times I myself have taken whole meetings away from these misleaders.” He reported that the Steel and Metal. Workers Industrial Union prevented the division of Negro and white workers in this plant. He said they are working with members, not leaders, of the Amalgamated Asso- jation (A. F. of L.) in united front efforts and that “it is easy to ap- proach these workers. It is easy to have a united front with them.” The A.A. did not organize the steel work- ers, he said, but many workers joined it and “in many cases have invited our speakers to speak before the A. A.” This delegate cannot be named be- cause to disclose his identity might endanger the S.M.W.I.U. group he represents as well as his job. There are scores and scores of such dele- gates in this convention. For this reason the Auditorium doors are barred tight against all but delegates | and credentials must be shown re- peatedly at various doors in the building. Local capitalist reporters think it queer. They write their aston- ishment at the “secrecy” of the convention—as though they ex- pected a revolutionary party to let them in. They do not understand that the real work of this conven- is going on in the gencral sessions, to produce a collective product, in- stead of in the anterooms and ho- tel rooms of a few, as happens in capitalist political party conven- tions. The steel worker brought the ses- sion to a high pitch—exceeded only when a telegram arrived from a Communist shop nucleus in a Ford Motor plant. The telegram said: “We members of the Ford¢nucleus send revolutionary greetings to the Eighth Convention of the Commu- nist Party, U.S.A. We fully agree with the 13th Plenum resolution of the Comintern and Draft Resolution of the Central Committee, U.S.A. We pledge to carry them out in the Ford shop against the reactionary leaders of the A. F. of L. and the Socialist Party. Long live the Communist In- ternational!” Just before this Comrade Brown of the Central Committee reported on the work among foreign born labor in the United States—a group which constitutes the majority in the basic American industries. Checking up big gains in building opposition groups within the for- Socialist Mayor to Greet Nazi Visitors on Anti BRIDGEPORT, Conn., April 5— Jasper McLevy, Socialist Mayor of Bridgeport, made two announce- ments to a delegation from the League Against War and Fascism which called on him to take part in the April 6 demonstration against war and fascism, He declared no Socialist would join in the demonstration if Com- munists take part; and he repeated his determination to greet the Nazi captain and other officers of the 8. 5. Europa of the North German Lloyd, at a “concert” in the Mosque on the night of April 6. The advertisements for the “con- -War Rally Day Scharf and officers of the ship will give “first-hand information about Germany.” McLevy told the dele- gation that this was no proof that they would give Nazi propaganda. ‘The League Against War and Fas- cism has organized an anti-Nazi demonstration in front of the Mosque, where the concert is to take place, and is mobilizing many work- ers’ and fraternal organizations to take part. Despite McLevy’s decla- ration that he will allow the Nazis to appear, and that no Socialists will cooperate with the League, many rank and file Socialists have declared their indignation and their eign-language organizations con- trolled by reactionaries, Brown said these occurred particularly in Ar- menian, Czechoslovakian, Rouma- nian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian and Hungarian Societies, and to some ex- tent to Italian, German and Polish, In the past. year Slovak Commu- nists gained strong guiding contacts with more than 40,000 members of National, reactionary-led societies. Mass organizations of foreign-born workers sympathetic to the Commu- nist Party increased from approxi- mately 50,000 in 1930 to 130,000 in 1934. Since the publication of the open letter, last Summer, more than 2,000 of these members have joined the Communist Party. The Party’s language press in the past few years “improved not only politically, but also technically and financially,” Brown said, and “in spite of the crisis, today all of the papers are on a much sounder financial basis.” ‘Urges Speeded Tempo Continuing the optimistic, though critical, trend of the preceding speakers, Brown told the conven- tion: “There is no doubt that we made some headway since the policy of the Open Letter has been applied, that the policy of concentration was proved correct in practice. It is true, however, that something is lacking in the tempo and quality of Party work. The task of this convention therefore is to make the Party ccn- scious of the necessity of speed- up. “The effects of the N.R.A. as fore- seen by our Party are here. Large masses are in motion again. The old illusions in the N.R.A. in the role of the ‘Democratic’ President, are crumbling one by one. While the Draft Resolution states correctly that the key to the building of the Party is ‘the rooting of the Party in the factories and in the most im- portant industries, winning espe- cially the native white and Negro workers, we cannot ignore the role of the foreign-born masses. Recog- nizing the fact that the foreign- born are rapidly being radicalized, that millions of them are unem- ployed, that they are discriminated against in the industries and by re- lief agencies and are persecuted and deported, that the ruling class is trying to keep them under the in- fluence of reactionary ideas, we must see that the foreign-born intention to join in the demonstra cert” announce that Captain Oscar! tlex~ é workers constitute a revolutionary factor of the utmost importance,” 4 ! ‘Hit Jingo War Plans in Many ‘Meets Today Chicago Workers Meet in Ten Gatherings Tonight (See Page 1 for news of New York anti-war meetings.) NEW YORK.—A defiant, militant | answer to the jingo preparations fox imperialist war which will accor, pany the war-mongers’ celebratic | of Army Day, will be hurled today i |many mass meetings and demon- strations throughout the country. With the huge mass meeting in St. Nicholas Arena tonight as the driving wedge against the capitalist war-makers, workers, and intellec- tuals will pour out from the facto- ries, mills and schools in mighty united actions against war, fascism | and the speedy rushes of the Roose- j velt regime toward war and fascism, Oe ee Two Demonstrations in Chicago CHICAGO.—The Chicago branch |of the American League Against War and Fascism has called two | demonstrations and ten mass meet~ ings for today. At 11 a.m. a demonstration, called by the Student Anti-War Associa- tion and supported by the Youth Section of the American League, will be held on the campus of the Uni- versity of Chicago. At 3 pm. another demonstration will be held in front of the Cribbin and Sexton factory, Sacramento and Chicago Aves. These factories are manufacturing war muntions, Among the other meetings called for tonight at 8 p.m. are the fol- lowing: Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blyd., speaker Dave Brown, with Bartel of S. P. chairman; Albany Park Workers Center, 4825 N. Ked- zie, speaker A. Guss; Northwest Side Workers Center, 3911 W. Chicago, speaker Tom McKenna; Unem- ployed Council, 3069 Armitage Ave.; Workers Center, 4112 Armitage Ave. speaker McDonald; 548 Wisconsin Ave. and 1326 E. 55th St., Workers Hall. Ee Boston Workers Hit War Plans BOSTON.—Workers of this city Will demonstrate at 5:30 p.m. to- night at the Parkman Bandstand (Boston Common) to protest against the preparations of the Roosevelt government for war, 5 ee Workers Rally in New Haven NEW HAVEN—A mass meeting against war will be held tonight, 8 p.m. in Center Church Parish House, 211 Temple St., near Green, under the auspices of the New Ha- ven League Against War and Fas- coln School Columbia University, will be the main speaker. An outdoor demonstration in Cen- tral Green will be held on April 13 where, in addition to speakers, there will be an anti-war play by the John Reed Club. ee ee, Steel Workers in Youngstown Rally YOUNGSTOWN, O.—A mass rally against war has been called by the Young Communist League of ‘Youngstown for April 6, 7:30 p.m., in Central Auditorium, 225 W. Boardman St. Many workers and their organizations in this steel town have signified their intention of tak- ing part in this protest against war preparations and the jingo glorifica- tion of war which is celebrated that day by the bosses, their press and all their agents. ee ee Om Paterson Anti-War Meeting Sat. PATERSON. — Bertha Fulton of the Youth Committee Against War and Fascism will be the main speaker at an anti-war meeting to be held Saturday, 8 p.m., at Oakley Hall, 216 Market St. Thousands of leafiets announcing the meeting have been distributed to dye houses and silk mills, Admission. is free, Doumergue Uses Inflation Threat Against Workers Protest Wave Rises as First Slash Is Announced PARIS, April 5—Premier Gaston Doumergue is desperately attempt- ing to split the opposition to his government's four billion franc wage, pension, and relief cut by declaring that the only alternative is to resort to inflation, A gigantic wave of opposition has greeted his first decree, firing 80,000 civil service workers, and cutting the wages of the 720,000 others. Several hundred workers at the Grenelle central telephone exchang: left their work and began shouting, “Down with Tardieu!” A squad of Police attacked and dispersed them. The four billion franc deficit which the Doumergue-Tardieu cab- inet is taking directly out of the pockets of the workers, veterans, and unemployed is created by France’s immense war pees which the cabinet is préparing to increase by borrowing a further ee vere francs, le Doumergue ts attemp! to rally those who are not avectis hit against the victims of the cut by threatening inflation as the o1 that the crisis of French finances is so sharp, and the attack on its currency by the devaluation of the dollar and the pound so violent that France will be forced off the gold standard anyway, with the conse- quent sharp increase in prices, Are you doing your share in the Daily Worker sub drive? Every reader getting only one new seriber will put the drive over alternative, most observers agree’ — cism. James Mendenhall of ag, | eye es Z Se