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Page Six DAILY WORKER, N EW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1934 Daily .<QWorker SANTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL? “America’s Only Working Class Daily FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E Street, New York, N. ¥ Telephone Newspaper” THE 13th ALgonquin 4-7954. TUESDAY, AP! The Strike Storm Rises HUGE WAVE of strikes, constantly in momentum, is upsetting the apple cart. Senator Wagner, chairman of the National Labor Board, in his latest report bewails the fact that the sweep of strikes this country shows “a sudden in- crease.” K abor Board is not able to keep able as- sistants in the A. F of L, officialdom. Senator Wagner reports Boards had on their hands 5 226.479 workers. On April 1 jumped to 734, with 380, The reason for this ing recognition by the wor dition: ave a R. A hat their coni unbearable pany slave of work are growing 1p intensifying, and com- ion is becoming greater. with speed ion oppre When we say are becoming disil- lusioned with the N, R. A. it by no means signifi that they have divested themselves of the deepl; incrusted demagogy of Roosevelt. Though they move into action against the N. R. A., and over the heads of their A. F. of L. misleaders, they have not in many cases consciously and clearly visualized the N. R. A. for what it is—an instrument to smash down living standards and to break strikes in order to increase the profits of the bosses. The strike movement shows the rapid radicali- zation of the workers. Senator Wagner himself admits the re-strike movement is growing. “Settle- ment” of a dispute by no means quiets the workers. The repeated rejection of the National Labor Board’s and National Automobile Labor Board's decisions by the Seaman body plant workers in Milwaukee, is an example of the temper of the workers. the work 'HE growing political character of the strikes, the inabi of Regional Labor Boards to handle them, is shown by the growth of the’ strikes which become natoinal issues by going directly to the Na- tional Labor Board. Here the workers come smack up against Roosevelt's main strike-breaking machine with its A. F. of L. flunkies in prominent positions. The number of strikes reaching the National La- bor Board grew from 78 in February to 218 in March, and the number of workers involved swelled from 56,000 in March to 139,000 in April The strike wave shows a stubbornness, tenacity and militancy that leaves no doubt that the Amer- lcen workers are definitely on the move. In spite of the maneuvers of Messers Green, Lewis, Hillman and Collins with the Wagner Board and the host of Roosevelt's other strike-breaking instruments, the workers cannot be held back. Never before in the history of the United States have there been such opportunities for Communists to penetrate great sections of the working class en- gaged in the most important struggles, economic and political. Their task is to speed the conscious development of the workers in the significance of their struggles, and to organize them along class Struggle lines. The Communists must lead in ex- posing the R. A., the Roosevelt regime, the Na- tional Labor Board and the maneuvers of the A. F. of L. This cannot be done from the sidelines, It must be done in the thickest ranks of battle. Comrade Browder in his report to the 8th Con- vention of the Communist Party pointed out very Clearly the relation of the struggle for immediate economic demands to the revolutionary struggle for the overthrow of capitalism: “If our fight for higher wages now, hastens the coming of Secialism,” he declared, “hastens the coming of the working- class revolution, then so much the better. We will fight all the harder for higher wages.” Wherever the situation is favorable, we must win the workers for the revolutionary trade unions, building these as the centres of the class struggle unions that will the most speedily develop the strike Struggles to higher political levels. We must develop clearly defined opposition movements in the A. FP, of L. and independent trade unions, = we must stress the fact that in the huge strike wave new tens of thousands of workers are flocking into the A. F. of L., especially into the federal locals, on a more or less industrial base, im- mediately entering into struggle or clamoring and fighting for struggle. The Communists have the best opportunity to penetrate their ranks, organize oppositions and in many instances win leadership. We must penetrate every A. F. of L. union and in- dependent union, crystallizing around the revolu- tionary opposition a broad rank and file movement to defeat the strike-breaking tactics of the N. R. A. assisted by the A. F. of L. officialdom. Our job now is to struggle more energetically than ever before to place revolutionists, the best fighters for the interests of the workers, at the head of the strike movement. We must become the active force to give greater momentum to the strike move- ment. The Anti-War Struggle IHE New York Times, defender of capi- talist private property, is forced by the great sweep of the anti-war strikes of the students all over the country to take notice of this new mass evidence of hatred for war. But it notices this significant anti-war move- ment among the students only in order to trick it back into the imperialist war machine, The Times finds that the “emotions displayed are praiseworthy.” But it objects that they are “mis- directed” when they take the form of mass demon- strations on the campuses and the streets. Further it objects that mass demonstrations “against all war” are “futile,” and it proceeds to urge the anti-war students to whoop it up for the League of Nations and the World Court, “demanding that the coun- try join these international agencies designed to Prevent war.” If any proof was ever needed that the League and the World Court are hopelessly futile as agen- cies of peace, and that they are both pawns in the hands of the imperialist war makers, it is the role aA %) these two agencies played in the recent rape of Manchuria by Japanese imperialism. These two “international agencies” recommended by the Times to the anti-war students stood by nile Shanghai was bombed and Chapei was de- stroyed. They became active in the Far East only to urge a counter-revolutionary war against Soviet China and the Chinese Red Army. The League and the Court are part of the imperialist war machine. Be ning of the Tin to the students that passive resistance to “all wars” is “futile” con- tains more truth than the Times probably intended. The greatest danger to the effectiveness of the Student anti-war movement, and in fact the anti- al, is the notion that im- ist war and impe! ist war makers can ted by the simple expedient of folding one’s Such, for example, is the isters’ League, the Socialist other pacifist organizations. the wa the Party, Such doctrines can only play into the hands of and many the war makers. They certainly in stopping the war makers. A handful of anti-war people folding up their arms and refusing to fight are easily swept aside by the immense imperialist war machines. The experience of the last world war with the consci- entious objectors is an illuminating lesson of the futility of passive resistance to “all wars.” cannot be effective 'HE pacifists resist “all wars, including civil wars,” to use a phrase of Kirby Page, a phrase which expresses the politjcal platform of pacifism, the Socia Party, the War Resisters League, etc., etc. This platform, however “radical sounding, is ut- terly reactionary and menacing to the fight against war. For, let us assume, as the passive resisters to all wars” contend, that millions will fold their arms in time of war (although this is extremely un- likely due to the immense weight of the jingoistic war hysteria at the opening of the war), then will this stop the war? In such a case two things can happen. Either the capitalist war makers will smash the move- ment through their tremendous State apparatus of violence, or else the passive resisters will be in- evitably drawn into armed struggle against their capitalist enemies seeking to break their movement by the violence of their capitalist state power. Which is to say that the passive war resisters will find themselves faced with the alternative of open civil war against the imperialist war makers, or else face extinction. But when the masses take the road of civil war against the war makers, then they will already be fighting the pacifist “resisters against all war.” It is an inescapable fact that in the fight against the war makers the masses will be contending against those who are opposed to “all wars.” For it is a dead certainty that this theory, if carried to its logical conclusions, leads its proponents to the other side of the fence against the masses waging civil war. AEORe like Kirby Page, Norman Thomas, other pacifists who preach the fight “against all wars” are, in reality, disarming the anti-war masses, leaving them unprepared for the inevitable civil war against the war makers, and thus giving in- calculable aid to the imperialists who are wasting no time getting their machinery of violence fully ready. Any form of real mass resistance to the im- perialist war makers must become civil war against them, or else perish in a bloodbath of counter- revolutionary violence. That is a lesson that the passive resisters refuse to see, but which history teaches the masses in bitter lessons of blood and fire. and Mier soo) See H ae road of real struggle against imperia is the road that leads toward proletarian revo- lution against the capitalist system, which is tie cause of, war; for the smashing of that system and the setting up of a proletarian dictatorship in the form of a Workers’ and Farmers’ government. On May 1, day of international solidarity of the working class, let the anti-war students take their places in the ranks of the marching working class, let them pledge themselves to be fighters in the great war for the liberation of humanity from the yoke of capitalism—then they will bé truly play. ing their part in the fight against war. Then they will be fighting under the leadership of the only class that will end war, against the very root and scource of war—capitalism. A Soviet Epic TREMENDOUS epic of human heroism and nobility was completed yesterday as the last Soviet plane took off from the ice floes of the frozen wastes of the North- ern Bering Sea, With the last trip of the Soviet planes to this lonely, storm-swept point of the Arctic, the last of the 109 marooned members of the Soviet arctic expedition were finally snatched from the cracking ice and carried safely to the mainland. But there was even more than splendid indivi- dual heroism in this thrilling epic of Arctic hero- ism. In the bravery of the rescuers, in the won- derful discipline and fortitude of the marooned ex- Ppedition, led by the heroic soldier of science, Profes- sor Otto Schmidt, there was embodied the qualities of the new humanity that is being created in the Soviet Union in the greatest epoch of history, the epoch of the struggle for Socialism, for the class- less society of Communism, . * . H Rca is no parallel to the bulldog persistence with which the Soviet Government flung all its energies to protect its 109 marooned citizens. From every possible point the Soviet Government sent its messengers to the rescue. From Siberia, from New York, from around the Panama Canal, came Soviet planes, Soviet ice-breakers, ships, etc., all converg- ing with undaunted persistence upon the tiny point where 109 Soviet citizens were facing a frozen death. And the Soviet Government won. It won be- cause it is the first government in the history of the world that is not the oppressive whip of a ruling class, but embodies the full humanity of its whole laboring population. It won, to use the eloquent words of the “Iz- vestia,” central organ of the Soviet government: “For the same reason that the Bolsheviks won and maintained power, for the same reason that the ragged Red Army of a hungry country ruined by capitalists completely repulsed the invasion of counter-revolution, and led by its Party of steel has built numberless first-rate factories, remodeled the countryside, uprooted the kulaks , . . “For the same reason that our country is the country of the proletarian dictatorship, the coun- try of Socialism, where the toiling masses have become the masters of life, where they themselves are making their own destiny, where they them- Selves are forging their own happiness, and the happiness of all humanity.” The triumph of the rescue of the Chelyuskin ex- Pedition is a tribute to the proletarian discipline of the refugees as well as the Soviet Government. Under the Soviet Government. leading the march to Socialism, humanity marches upward. All honor to the Soviet aviators, the Chelyuskin expedition, and the Soviet, Government! Graz Workers Paint Road Red for Dollfuss Arrival USS.R. Bonds Are Bought by Forty Million SovietW orkers Prosperous” Ww orkers Invest in Socialist Construction | MOSCOW, April 16 (By Radio).—A decision of the Soviet Government to issue! an internal state loan for the Second Five - Year Plan | (second year series), is published | here. The total of the loan is | 3,500,000,000 roubles, for ten years, | maturing on October 1, 1944. Soviet loans occupy a firm place among the sources of socialist ac- |cumulation, Sinse the first Soviet | industrialization loan of 200,000,000 | roubles, Soviet loans have devel- oped into a big organization of gov- ernment credit, having now over 40,000,000 subscribers, and provid- ing 8,500,000,000 roubles in the past two years to finance socialist con- struction. Great Growth of Subscriptions | On what is based this remiareeiie growth of the internal government | credit of the U.S.S.R. while the) money and credit mechanism of the | entire capitalist world is shattered | to its foundations? How explain’ the | fact that subscribers to state loans in the Soviet Union in 1927 were 6,000,000 persons; in 1929, 10,000,000 persons; in 1930, 12,000,000; in 1931, 33,000,000 more persons than in 1930? “The first reason for the suczéss- | |ful development of internal loans,” | | writes “Pravda,” organ of the Com- |munist Party of the Soviet Union, \“is the growth of the socialist or- ganization of the country, the at- | traction of the broad masses of the | people into active socialist con- | | struction. “The second reason is the gigan- | tic growth of the economic power | of the country, and on this basis, | the growth of the income of the | population. In the Soviet Union, the wage fund of the workers in- | creased from 8,000,000,000 rubles at the beginning of the first Five-Year Plan to 37,000,000,000 in 1934. The income of the villages, especially in \last year's consolidation of the col- lective farm system, has increased tremendously. Highest Security | “The toilers of the Soviet Union | |want and have the possibility to jassist their government to finance socialist construction. | “The third cause of the successful development of Soviet loans is their | undoubted security and high profits |for bond-holders. Soviet loans are |not subject to the danger of stock | market bankruptzies. They are se- | cured by all the possessions of the mighty Soviet Government, which | | Suarantees a full return at the ap- | pointed date. “It is sufficient to mention that | mercifully and turned them over to} in 1953, 560,000,000 rubles were} in 1934 over 800,000,000 rubles are to be paid out. Without oppressive | Joans and credits from abroad, the | | toilers of the Soviet Union have | | constructed the foundations of So- | |cialism, Without oppressive credits | and loans from abroad, they are| “IT LOOKS SCAREY F GEN. JOHNSON ROM HERE!” SEN. WAGNER by Burck | work,” ‘Rotten 1 Eggs: | Greet Him at _ Mass Meetin | Chancellor Says He k in ‘Full Agreement’ With Heimwehr Chief | GRAZ, Austria, April 16. — | When Fascist Chancellor Doll- |fuss arrived here for a speech yesterday, he found the high- | way painted red, all the way from the airport where he land to the city limits. On the pavements were paintet the slogans, “Down With Fascism!” and “Down With Dollfuss!” Rotten eggs splashed the uni- forms of some of Dollfuss’ retinue, and a smoke bomb went off close to where he spoke. When he spoke, the broadcast which had been arranged “failed te and radio listeners through- out the country caught only discon- nected snatches of his speech, This is the way the workers of Graz greeted the “all-powerful” head of the “authoritarian” state. United Front of Socialist, Communist, and Non-Party Youth Turns Seattle “Army Day’ Parade Into a Demonstration Against War out Terror Terms For Many Workers SEATTLE, Wash.—Striking an effective united front blow against | the war machine, four youth groups of Seattle, the Young Communist League, National Student League, Legion of Youth Against War (a local group), and the Young Peoples’ Socialist League, disrupted and ex posed the jingoist “preparedness day” parade and program he'd in | Seattle Friday evening, April 6th, Fifteen thousand handbills point- ing out the purpose of the parade and program throughout the course of march. A truck was entered by the “young patriot’s league” bearing chauvin- istic signs, torn off by crew. when well into the parade to reveal banners with these slogans: “Billions for War, $1.20 a Week for Unemployed, and ‘“Prevaredness | Never Prevented War.” The truck passed the reviewing stand and was| | stopped by legionnaires who, crying | |“lynch them!” beat the boys un- Outside the police. auditorium paid out in repayment of loans, and| speakers were hoisted up by the| crowd and dragged down by legion- naires armed with saps and clubs. Anti-War Banners at Jingo Meet Within the hall, banners were hung simultaneously around ‘the balcony railings attacking the pa- 6 were distributed | High Peak With May Edition the truck] days for “inciting to riot.” Halonen, ; a Y.C.L. member, was the first speaker at the demonstration. Dur-| ing the trial he spoke as a Y.C.L. | member, bringing forth the organi- zation's stand against war and at-| |, tacking the patriotee: . Three of the defendants were released and the rest, including th organizer of the Speed “Daily” NEW YORK.—All class conscious and their organizations are} urged to speed up the Daily Work- {er circulation drive by linking up | | this campaign with preparations for | |the broadest mass sale of the 24| in by the Districts from the start of | page May edition. The following three points are| | tecommended for immediate adop- tion. 1, Every class conscious worker to approach his or her friends and |fellow workers and tell them to | make sure of getting a copy of the 24 page May Day issue by sub- scribing to the Daily Worker at|% ;once. All those taking a trial} completing the construction of a| ‘tricts for profit and inviting the | monthly subscription now at the in-| classless socialist society, “The bonds of the Soviet loan are for every toiler the honorable sym- | bol of participation by his savings | ictorious socialist construction, in strengthening the defenses of | the great proletarian fatherland.” 500 Women Strike in French Municipal Plant. | PARIS. — Four hundred women | and 50 men working in the Cham-| pion war-munitions factory, at Pan-| tin, went on strike against a wage | cut, and held the factory so well} that they drove off a squad of police | called by the management. The Champion factory is just now working on a big order of machine gun cartridge webs. It also produces | gas masks, | ing was led by Jack Tayback, small audience to go to a nearby hall for the anti-war meeting and | 2500 throw-aways bearing similar | legends were hurled down on the audience. Vigilantes, legionnaires and police beat demonstrators and bystanders brutally and threw 13 youths and one girl into After the demon- stration a ig anti-war mi trict organizer of the Y.C.L., at a nearby hall where Y.C.L., N.S.L. and Communist Party speakers pledged | continuance of the militant united front against war. With determined mass pressure) daily subs totaled 300, New Satur- municipal elections (the first were open federal charges against five of| the arrested youths were dropped and all 13 were released on charges of disorderly conduct, Saturday} morning at 2 o'clock. Police Judge Bell in his kangaroo | court sentenced Earl Halonen to 60° troductory price of 50 cents will also | receive a copy of the May issue. 2. Follow up all those whose subs are expiring and urge them to re-| new their subscriptions at once so as not to miss receiving the 24 page May Day edition. 3. Prepare lists of your friends | and fellow workers whom you will approach wiih the May Day edition Canvass these workers immediately \after May Day for subscriptions to the Daily Worker. New subs receive last week totaled | 502. Of these 276 were for the daily | edition. In the previous week new day subs last week showed an in- | crease, reaching 226, compared with | only 174 in the week before, Help your District win the | National Daily Worker banner by immediately intensifying the sub) drive. Urge every worker you know | N.S.L., the president of the Legion of Youth Against War, several YCL members, and a girl member of the| N.S.L., were sentenced to 30 days) each. The case has been appealed and the defendants are out on bail. The| International Labor Defense is aid-| ing in the defense. Sub Drive to to subscribe now, to make sure of | getting a copy of the history-making 24 full size page May Day edition The table below shows the number of new daily and Saturday subs sent the drive up to and including April lth. New Daily New Sat. District Subs Quota Subs Quota 1 Boston 226 200 115 1000 2 New York 314 —— 61 —- 3 Phila. 384 500 134 1000 4 Buffalo 109 150 113 300 | 5 Pittsb’h 143 300 82 600 6 Cleveland 361 500 263 1000 1 Detroit 500 98 1000 8 Chicago 750 648 1500] | 9 Minneap. 200 196 400 10 Omaha 100 86 200 | 11 N&s Dak. 100 86 200 12 Scattle 300 66 800 | | 13 Calif. 5 350 4 700 | 14 Newark {91 300 46 600 35 Conn 82 200 48 400 16 N&S Car. 12 50 6 17 Alabama 50 50 22 =e) 18 Milwauk. 98 200 55 19 Denver 62 150 60 C. & F. 7 4 —| | TOTALS 3 5000 ©2273 19200! Communist Mayor Is Re-Elected in Greece | SEERES, Greece—At the second annulled), the Communist Mayor |Menychtas received a plurality. He declared that he would carry out the program of the united front, and divide the whole of the land | von In his speech, Dollfuss declared that he had reached a “full agree- ment” with Prince Ernst Rudiger Starhemberg, leader of the fas- cist Heimwehr, once more giving the lie to the Secial Democrats, who told their followers before and dur- |ing the February fighting that Doll- | fuss was not in sympathy with the fascists, and who up to the last moment sought to “negotiate” with him against the Heimwehr—even, during the fighting, issuing orders to the workers to fight against the Heimwehr men but to spare the state police and soldiers. ‘Nazi Courts Grind | Hearings for 74Workers Are Reported in One Week BERLIN.—Fascist courts reporter |a veritable “field day” of arrests and prison sentences for revolution- ary workers last week. In Lubeck, 11 members of the Reichsbanner were given sentences ranging from six months to foul years. In the high court at Breslau, eighi Communist workers were given sen- tences ranging from six months imprisonment to two years pena] , servitude. A workman was arrested near{) Kustrin charged with firing on a) Storm Trooper. The “Frankfurter Zeitung” re- ported the arrest of a refugee from Munich as he was about to carry some Communist newspapers across the border near Zweubrucken, Nineteen Communists, on trial for “treason” at Stuttgart, were found guilty and sentenced to six months to two years in prison. Twenty-six Communists went on trial for treason at Koslin, Pome- rania. In most cases, the charge } of treason means that the defend- ants continued Party activities con- trary to law. In spite of the utter collapse of i H ) “| the Government's case against six 400 | Dusseldorf 300| With a “poison plot” against 18,000 | Storm Troopers, there is a strong Communists, charged likelihood that they will be given sentences of two, three and four years in prison. For calling Minister Goering 8 “Reichstag Incendiary,” two Berlin workmen were given sentences of six months and ten months. The dictatorship of the prole- tariat is a fight, fierce and ruth- less, of the new class against an enemy of preponderant strength, against the bourgeoisie, whose determination to resist has been | belonging to the municipality among the poor peasantry. inereased tenfold by its over- throw.—Lenin. ‘Reichstag ens Cites! Class Heroism of Arctic Pilots This is the second of a series of | articles on the heroic rescue of | the stranded crew of the Soviet Arctic steamer “Cheliuskin,” and | the widespread celebrations which | followed it throughout the Soviet | Union, Pe Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, U.S. S. R. (By Cable). | —When the news reached Moscow that the last of the stranded Cheliuskiners had safely been re-| moved from the ice floe off the Siberian coast, on which 109 men, women and children had been ma- rooned for more than two months, the capital of the workers’ republic experienced a sense of pervading joy and pride in the achievement such as is never known in capitalist lands. This spirit moved outstanding leaders of the U. S. S. R. and the international working class, as well as the great masses of the Soviet Union, to express their profound and ever-strengthened faith in the working class and its great cause, which motivated the rescuers while they were on their dangerous mis- sion. Dimitroff Praises Feat Georg Dimitroff, whose words in_ the Nazi courtroom at Leipzig not) so long ago resounded through the entire world, declared: | Dimitroff, Gorky —this triumph of Soviet aviation— raises a feeling ‘of infinite joy in the toiling population of the whole | world. The heroes of engineering and science in the country wot Social- | ism are not in any way fhferior to jthe heroes of the class struggle against the bourgeoisie and against fascism in the capitalist world. “In factories and plants, in armed battles in Austria, in dem- onstrations in France, in revolu- tionary actions in Spain, in hard underground revolutionary work in fascist Germany and all over the world, and also in airplanes under Arctic conditions, the same heroic class is fighting which, un- der the leadership of our great leader, Comrade Stalin, will free the whole of mankind from capi- talism’s deadlock of poverty, un- employment, hunger and ruin— from the horrors of bloody fas- cism and imperialist wars. “Fame and glory to the brave Pilots of the Soviet Union, which is the pride of the proletariat of the entire world!” oe ere. Gorki Sends Greetings E following greetings came from Maxim Gorky, world-famous nov- elist and the outstanding cultural shock-brigader of the Soviet Union: “Only in the U. S. S, R. are pos- sible such glorious victories of revo- lutionary, organized human energy over the elements of nature. Only | with us, where there started and where there is being carried on the & \ roes whose wonderful energy calis forth admiration even among our) | enemies.” Litvinoff Cables Schmidt Peoples’ Commissar for Foreign | Affairs, Maxim Litvinoff, sent con- gratulations to Professor Schmidt, at Nome, Alaska, where | dition lies, sick and injured. ‘Tt am sending my hearty greet- ings to you and to all the heroes \of the Cheliuskin. Together with |the whole country, I watched your struggle with the elements in the Arctic ice floes, the struggle that was carried on under your leader- ship by a courageous group that demonstrated to the entire world an example of real Bolshevik or- ganization and grit. I wish you the speediest recovery and return to our common cause of socialist construc- tion.” Previously Professor Schmidt had wired Moscow as follows: “I am happy that all were saved, and tre- mendously grateful to the Soviet Government for ‘the bold way in which it conducted the rescue op- erations, without which success would have been impossible. I shall probably have to. remain here for about a month.” Litvinoff’s second message was addressed to the pilots Molokoy, |Kamanin, Slepnov, Vodopianov, _Doronin, Lapidevsky and Levanev- sky, at Vankarem: “I send my hearty greetings to jour heroes, the pilots who with their “The saving of the Cheliuskiners! struggle for the emancipation of daring, firm will and enthusiasm, Otto, |the leader of the Cheliuskin expe-) | planes, aroused the admiration of the whole world. Let all the na- | tions realize what valuable material jand spiritual resources the Soviet land possesses and that it is anxious | to use all these resources only for peaceful, cultural aims.” ‘ Be rae “Pravda” Comments An editorial in “Pravda,” central |organ of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R., devoted to the rescue “A Brilliant Victory Won,” speak- ing of the great struggle with the elements carried out on the ice floes of the Arctic and the brilliant vic- tory won by the Bolsheviks, says: “The Bolsheviks have won because they were able to confront the crashing ice floes with their ada- mantine solidarity, their revolution- ary integrity, their iron unity. A fighting solidarity existed at Schmidt Camp between the Bolsheviks and the non-Party men. A similar fight- ing solidarity existed in the entire country fighting for the Cheliuskin- ers. The documents of these his- toric days, the government bulletins and the Schmidt Camp messages, can never be obliterated from our memory. They were laconic, simple, businesslike bulletins, imbued with the iron will of the leader of our Party and our country. The entire couniry felt this in every line of the official reports, and his un- swerving confidence in victory was pe aan tes to millions of masses. “This confidence was also felt by of the Cheliuskiners and entitled: Litvinoff Greet Cheliuskiners’ Heroic Rescue tolling mankind, are there such he-,and skilled piloting of their Soviet?“*Pravda” Says Deed Is- Example of “Power of Soviet Union the handful of Soviet people upon the ice floes. This great fighting firmness of our Lenin staff re- echoed with equally great firmness in the detachment at Schmidt camp. It was as though the leader |of our Party and the head of the minute army of Cheliuskiners were eyeing each other across a distance of a thousand miles.” Referring to the fighting pre- 9 paredness of all the workers of the Soviet Union to go to the rescue of people on remote ice floes, “Pravda” writes further: “The Soviet airmen flew without being deterred by the risks, with the art of a high degree of effi- ciency. They felt the responsibility of the task entrusted to them by the government. All of the airmen demonstrated the wonders of their heroism, demonstrated what a na- tion of 170,000,000 people are caps able of doing when the question of the defense of the country arises. Millions of people throughout the world watched this struggle, catch- ing their breath. The overwhelm: ing majority of workers throughout the world watched with great at+ tention and deep sympathy. The Cheliuskiners were dear to them be- cause they were not merely suffer- ers, but fighters for the beloved | Soviet Union.” (To Be Continued) YY f