The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934 Daily <QWorker Ai7craft Strikes Are an Aid cewTe “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, COMPRODAILY PUBL’ Street, New York, N. Y. \ ne: ALgonquin 4-7954. ee nd 75 cents. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934 A Historic May Day WAY DAY this year will be momentous '% for the working class of the world. This historic day, when the workers leave the factories and gather in the streets to raise high the banner of inter- national solid: comes ne when the whole t system faced tory—a world-wide crisis that a new era of world w and revo- t do the workers see about them as they re to demonstrate on May Day, the day of the fight for the emancipation of labor from cap- ital? In every capitalist country they see the. typical curses of capitalism—hunger amid plenty, millions of unemployed, fac S closed while the workers and their children live in poverty and squalor. They see every capitalist government pouring bil- lions of dollars into the laps of the billionaires, into the coffers of the banks and investors, while the jobless get only the most miserable scraps of food to keep them alive. On this May Day, they see such capitalist schemes as the N. R. A. piling up new huge profits for the employers, while wages are slashed with the knife of slave codes, and the buying power of every pay envelope is whittled away by rising prices of bread, milk, clothes. Five long bitter years of capitalist crisis. Five long years of hell for the mas: years in which every capitalist government has helped the billion- s to get richer, while the living standards ot the S have been driven brutally down. IN MAY DAY this year, the workers face ques- tions which burn fiercely in the mind of every jobless worker, ev worker facing the ruthless ex- tion of wage slavery in the factories—how S crisis, how open the factories, how give food and shelter to every worker and his family? How can ti terrible crisis be ended? How can we end this insanity which destroys food, wheat, cotion, while millions are hungry and ragged? How can we break the chains of mortgage slavery for the small, impoverished farmer? How end the yoke of the landlords, the bank leeches who bleed the workers and the farmers alike? How can we open the factories and give jobs to every able- bodied worker who now faces the hell of unem- ployment? And in pondering on these life-and-death ques- tions millions of workers on May Day this year will see clearer than ever what it is that stands in the way of ending forever the horrors of the crisis. They will see that only the capitalist class, the bosses, the landlords, the bankers, and their system of private property, of profits, of dividends, of bond interest stands in the way. They will seé that if the employers, the owners of the factories, the Wall Street bankers, and the landlords were swept out of power, were deprived of their possessions, then the working class would end the crisis, would open all the factories, take the immense profits of the billionaires and use them for the benefit of the masses who created them. In short, May Day this year, brings the masses closer than ever before to the great his- toric question of our time—the road to proletarian revolution for the overthrow of capitalism. The roa@ of Bolshevism, of smashing the capitalist dictatorship and setting up the fictator- ship of the proletariat, leading all the, toilers toward freedom from wage slavery, mortgage and rent slavery, The road to Soviet Power, the road the workers and peasants of Russia took—this road that will put an end to the insanities of starvation amid plenty, this road faces the masses on May Day. AY DAY brings before millions of workers the demand for government protection against the ravages of the crisis in the form of Social Insur- ance and Unemployment Insurance to be paid by the government and the bosses. May Day brings to the fore the Struggle for higher wages, for better working conditions, for the Tight to strike, for the right to assemble frecly and form militant trade unions. May Day raises the struggle for international- ism, for the solidarity of all the workers of the world overrunning all national boundaries, and all Jingoism. May Day raises the struggle for the smashing of the hideous jim-crow oppression of the Negro people, of the fight for complete equality for the Negro masses, against lynching and brutal jim-crow oppression. May Day raises the fight against imperialism, against Wall Street robbery and murder in Cuba, in Haiti, in South America, in China. The fight for bread, for Peace, against strike- breaking and fascist brutality, for a new form of goy- ernment, a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government— this is what May Day means this year to the workers, Los Angeles Students | in Strike Against War | LOS ANGELES, April 17.—Three | hundred and fifty students of Los! Angeles Junior College struck for, one hour against war on Friday,| to intimidate the students by pass-|Police under ing out leaflets on which was printed the “Star Spangled Banner”) and the school song, under a big) ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) BY THE SHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th ES EARS Se Anti-Communist § py | Trained by Severing War Planes from U. S, Quits Nazis’ BERLIN, April 17—Dr, Rudolf ‘Aptil 13. Nazi followers attempted | Diehls, Inspector of the Nazi Secret 1 General Wilhelm Goering, has resigned his Post, giving ill health as the reason. Diehls was trained in the work to Soviet China HIANG KAI SHEK’S Nanking regime, / according to cable reports from Shang- hai, has placed a heavy order for new ig planes with the United Aircraft and port Corporation of Hartford, Conn., where 1,500 aircraft workers are now strik- or improved conditions The Roosevelt regime, anxious to help the des- picable Chiang Kai Shek, as well as the U. A. & T. Corp., has sent in one of its most efficient strike- bor kers, Madam Anna Weinstock, U. S. Depart- of Labor conciliator, to wreck the Hartford e. These two items, culled from the news, reflect the policy of the Wall Street government in Wash- ington: strikebreaking at home in its efforts to force down the living standards of the American workers, and active support to bloody butchers, like Chiang Kai-Shek, in their efforts to crush the rising revo- lutionary movements of the colonial masses. LLOWING in the footsteps of Hoover, one of the first deeds of the Roosevelt administration was the granting of a $50,000,000 cotton “loan” to the reactionary Nanking Government of Chiang Kai-Shek. This was quickly transformed into a war budget by the Nanking butchers for the sixth anti-Communist drive against the Chinese Soviets. Since then the Roosevelt regime has aided Chiang Kai-Shek in building up an air force of 300 or more planes for use against the Soviet districts. Captain Frank Hawkes and Major Doolittle, with the encouragement of the United States War De- partment, haye established an aviation school at Hangchow. The big order for bombing planes now placed with the U. A. & T. Corp. by Nanking is merely a further step reflecting direct Wall Street sup- Port to Chiang Kai-Shek’s effort to stamp out the Chinese Soviets and to crush the revolutionary up- surge of the Chinese masses. The Roosevelt gov- ernment is the main backer of Nanking’s anti-Com- munist wars. At the same time it stands solidly behind the J. P. Morgan-controlled Curtis Wright and United Aircraft corporations. These companies are making huge profits out of Roosevelt's own armament build- ing program and from Roosevelt's support for the plane-buying program-of the bloody Nanking regime. These profits are piling up at the expense of the aircraft workers, whose wages have been repeatedly reduced and who are suffering under the fiercest speed-up. * . . 'VERY American worker who feels the attacks on his living standards, his organizations and his rights by the Roosevelt regime, every worker on strike fighting for the right to live and improve his conditions, should protest and fight against this new arming of the butcher Chiang Kai-Shek by Wall Street against their Chinese brothers. Every effort should be made to stop the shipment of arms, bombing planes and ammunition to the butcher Chiang Kai-Shek. In fighting against their bosses, the aircraft strikers of Hartford, Baltimore and Buffalo should receive the support of all workers, They are fight- ing not only to improve their own conditions, but their fight hampers the militarization program of Roosevelt and the murder drive of Chiang Kai- Shek. The American workers facing May Day with a tremendous strike wave against the effects of the New Deal should declare their revolutionary solidar- ity with the Chinese masses struggling against Chiang Kai-Shek. May Day this year should be a mighty expres- sion of international revolutionary solidarity, a huge demonstration to express the fighting deter- mination of the workers to win their economic and Political demands against American imperialism. May Day should show the American Capitalists that the American workers will rally for the defense of the Chinese Soviets against combined attacks of Wall Street and the butcher Chiang Kai-Shek, A N.Y. Trade Union Supplement TARTING Monday, April 30, and con- tinuing every Monday thereafter, the | Daily Worker will publish a special two-page New York trade union supplement. This supplement, which will be edited by a committee from the trade unions, will aim to report the activities of and give leadership to the mounting militant trade union struggles in the City of New York, Besides reporting the outstanding trade union events of the week, this new section of the paper will deal with the important inner organizational problems of the unions, questions of strike strategy and trade union tactics, and will analyze current strikes with the aim of raising the level of the trade union struggles in New York. The supplement will carry special feature ar- ticles by leaders of the militant New York labor movement as well as articles by the rank and file of the unions, Special attention will be given to opposition work within the A. F. of L. The supplement will be a great aid to the rapidly growing independent trade union movement, This new section of the Daily Worker will be an invaluable weapon in the struggle against the strikebreaking of the A. F, of L. bureaucracy, their allies among the §, P, leaders, and the menace of company unionism, All trade unions in New York at once for a special distribution of these special Monday issues of the paper. The effectiveness of the Daily Worker as the leader of the trade union movement will depend upon the distribution of this Special supplement in all unions, especially unions of the American Federation of Labor. Watch for the first trade unoin supplement on April 30. should make plans Nanking Orders More Service planes with the Hermann SHANGHAI, April 17.—The Nan- | king government has Placed a rush order for a number of new bombing United Aircraft Ex- Ports, Inc., of New York, to be used in its offensive against the Chinese Soviets. Officials refused to reveal the number of planes ordered. Nan- king has now more than 300 fight- swastika sign. One thousand students at the University of California, Los An- geles, where two students had been expelled for refusing to take part in R. O. T. C, drill, attended an anti- war assembly. The school auditoriums were given at both schools because of the sup- Port and anti-war sentiment of the students. The movement was initia- ted by the National Student League at both schools < ' 4 { jof heading the spy system which |has brought imprisonment and tor- |ture to hundreds of thousands of Communists, Social-Democrats, and |others, and death to thousands, under Karl Severing, Social-Demo- cratic Minister of the Interior in | Prussia, until thrown out by Von | Papen. Under Severing, Diehls specialized |in spying on the Communist Party, and had prepared lists of thousands of Communist functionaries and officers followed. Severing, ing planes, bough’ Diehls’ n it in the U. S., and! piloted by men trained by former of the U. S. air force, Sania tne alten SAE to arrest or murder thousands on the night of the Reichstag fire, and jin the immense terror drive which Social-Demo- cratic chief, 1s now receiving a pen- sion from Hitler's government, and is writing his memoirs which the | Nazis think sufficiently valuable to members which enabled the Nazis! them to be anxious to publish, U.S. Women Called to World Anti-War Meet in Paris Demonstration in N.Y. Against Cuban Terror Soldiers Fire When Thousands Strike, March in Havana NEW YORK.—New York work- ers will demonstrate Friday, April 20, at 12 noon in front of the Cuban Consulate at 17 Battery Place, to demand the immediate release of the more than 5,000 victims of the Mendieta terror rotting in the jails of Cuba, 150 of whom are now on hunger strike, 20 of whom are reported near death. Endorsed by the United Front | May Day Conference on Saturday, | April 14, in a resolution proposed | by the Anti-Imperialist League and adopted by the Conference, | the demonstration is also called | to denounce the criminal collabo- ration of Mendieta with the im- | perialists and the entire reign of | terror in Cuba, set up under the | direct guidance of American Am- | bassador Jefferson Caffrey and | designed to crush the rising rev- | olutionary movement of the | Cuban masses and protect Wall | | Street interests in Cuba. | _ The demonstration is being en- | | dorsed and supported by the New York District of the Communist Party which at the recent con- vention in Cleveland pledged in- | creased support to the Cuban | toilers in their struggle against Yankee imperialism and _ their native exploiters. | er te | Thousands Demonstrate in Havana | | HAVANA, April 17. — Thousands of workers and students demon- strated in many parts of Havana | yesterd: and transportation and |other business were paralysed in a |short general strike against the Caffery-Mendieta terror, and for | |the release of thousands of worker | | prisoners, 150 of which, jailed for striking, are on hunger strike. | Squads of soldiers and police fired | |into several demonstrations, Stu- |dents took over street cars aban- | |doned by strikers, and rode into| |the town, shouting revolutionary | slogans. When soldiers fired to} disperse them, the students cheered | jand applauded in derision, and | called on the soldiers to fire again. | At the presidential palace, sol- | diers attempted to throw tear gas | bombs, but being inexperienced the | | attempt did not succeed, and one| radio message sent to Moscow by] |sergeant was burned when a gas | bomb exploded in his hands, | | British “Sedition” Bill Proposes New Police Aggression Revolutionary Agitation Called Widespread in Army and Navy LONDON, April 17.—A bill | which acknowledges the head- jway which revolutionary propaganda is making in the British army and navy, and | which is designed to give the gov- rment a further weapon in its drive against the Communist Party, passed its second reading in the House of Commons yesterday, 277 | to 63. <i Ostensibly designed to prevent revolutionary propaganda among the armed forces, it makes the mere |pessession of any “seditious” litera- | much valuable freight from the ice. | flying. ture a crime, and empowers the po- |lice to make searches on “suspicion.” In urging passage of the bill, Sir DOWN TOOLS! By Burck Soviet Journalist Aboard Cheliuskin Newspapers in U. S, S. R. Publish Biographies of Heroic Airmen Who Braved Death To Save Crew Stranded on an Ice Floe in the Arctic This is the third of a series of | articles on the rescue by Soviet airmen of the entire crew of the ice-sunk steamer Cheliuskin—109 men, women and children, who had been stranded on an Arctic ice floe off the Siberian coast for more than two months. ar | (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By Cable). —How did the rescued Cheliuskin- ers, saved after their gruelling forced encampment in the Far North, feel after they had been re- moved from the ice floe? This question is answered in a a correspondent of “Izvestia,” cen- tral organ of the Soviet Govern- ment—a correspondent who partici- expedition. After being brought ashore in one of the last groups rescued, this correspondent, named Boris Gromov, cabled from Van- karem the following words: Back On Land “Today (April 14) is the second day since all Cheliuskiners were brought safely to the mainland. It is a strange sensation for us to be able to walk without watching for crevices covered by snow, without fearing that ice will slide from un- der the fest and swallow up the incautious pedestrian, “Bobrov, Voronin and Krenkel, |the last to come ashore, were met with loud chcers. The Cheliuskin- jifes surrounded the airmen Molo- |kov, Kamanin and Vodopianov, who had just made tieir last flights to ;and from the camp, and tossed | them up in the air in joy. “One cannot help remarking on |the brilliant work of the Soviet |planes. It is wonderful how our |small two-seater mail planes “R-5” | brought all of our people: to shore. Twenty-five hops to Schmidt Camp }meant 25 remarkable exploits. The |airman Molokov made ten journeys, | brought back 29 Cheliuskinites and | Airmen Kemanin in nine journeys |brought back 33 men and some | freight. Vodopianov made three Cy Gives First Hand Account of Rescue quate tools, Doronin began to repair his machine, and did not straighten his back until evening, when the plane was in fit condition to fly again. He took his passengers aboard and delivered them safely to | Vankarem. “Today the Cheliuskinites are again filled with joy. The Van- karem radio station has received greetings from Stalin, Molotov, Voreshilov and Kuibishey. Our applause and cheers were many | times repeated to the echo, which | rose for the first time in history in these latitudes. This was the reply of the Cheliuskinites, assur- ing the Party and the government that ‘we are all prepared for new struggles for the mastery of the Aretic!’” - |pated in Professor Otto Schmidt's | eee wale | | {2WSPAPERS in the Soviet Union itY ore publishing biozraphies of Doronin and Vodopianov, two of the courageous pilots who played big roles in the rescue of the Cheliuskin | expedition. These two pilots’ lives | are characteristic of the Soviet | pilot. | Doronin 31 Years Old Doronin, born of a peasant fam- ily, is now 31 years old. Wi hout | finishing secondary school, the 17- | year-old Doronin entered the Red | Marine fleet as a volunteer, joined |rapid-advance courses under able j technicians. After years of instruc- | tion, this talented student was trancferzed to a military marine college. Deronin manifested a great love for avia‘ion both in his courses and at college, and finally entered |an aviation schcol as a student. In the summer of 1925 Doronin | finished school and re-entered the |merine fleet, but already as a ma- He remained here for rine aviator three years as an airman on various vessels of the Black Sea fleet. In j 1928 he received the title of in- |structor at the marine aviatio | school for his excellent qualities in Two years later he passed jover to work in civil aviation. He | Was transferred from the Black Sea | to the remote North. There he was Thomas Inskip, attorney-general, | ‘IPS and brought ten men ashore. | entrusted with the most responsible said that more than 50,000 revolu- tionary leaflets had been. found |Liapidevsky, Slepnev and Doronin |made one journey each; task of bringing ihe vessels of the the first|Kara expedition from Murmensk | Vankarem, among soldiers within the past year, brought 12 persons, the second six| along the Arctic. Ocepn, across | stciete JAPANESE DEBT HIGH | TOKIO, April 17. — The Japanese Government is in a deep financial crisis, with its national debt near ten billion yen, of which nearly two | billion has been incurred in two | Years, due to its gigantic expen- |ditures on armaments, and the third two. | “Accidents occurred on their take-| \offs and landings. But the brave |pilots again challenged | great danger. | field at Schmidt Camp, Doroni | airplane was dameged in the chassis and the skid broken. Immediately, | right there on the ice, without ade- the ele-| | ments and again flew in the face of Irkutsk, also flying from Irkutsk to \ferred to Providence Bey, to which | Rising from the ice |Eredikan, a most difficult route | the Soviet steamers “Smolensk” and | heavy ice floes of the Kara Sea to the estuary of the Yenisci River. | In 1925, upon a “P-5” airplane, he successiully flew from Moscow to over continuous taiga, impassable |mershes and poorly-known moun- |tain ranges. Doronin has 1300,000 kilometers during his air pea bese beck to their homes, jeareer, and worked all this time| | without damage to his planes. | | Vodopianov was born in 1899 of a} | poor peasant family. In the begin- | |ning of 1919 he entered the Red) | Army as a volunteer in the airship | | division. He participated IN rank j and file flights against the White | | Guardist generals, Mamontov and | | Wrangel. At the end of 1920 he be- | ;came a chauffeur in the same | division, remaining at the wheel| until 1924, when he was transferred to civil aviation to repair plane en- | gines. In 1925 he passed his examina- tions as an aviation mechanic and participated in the plane expedition in the fight against the locust plague. Vodopianov worked as a mechanic until 1928. Mastering the technique of piloting an airplane, |he was promoted to his present | pilot’s position. He has flown over | | 320,009 kilometers and has an air | |record of over 2,000 hours. During this period he has participated “in |four speed flights to the Far East. In 1930 he was the first to open the | airline to Sakhalion; the same year |he flew 5,000 kilometers over the | latter route, | In 1931 and 1932 Vedopianov | Worked in the special air division | of the “Pravda,” transporiing page |mats and molds. During the 17th |Party Congress Vodopianovy made jfour flights in the course of five | days, bringing “Pravda” mats and ;molds to Leningrad, casting them |to earth without landing, and re- |turning to Moscow. Each such| | flight las:ed seven hours. Traversing over 5,000 kilometers, | | also flying over the unknown Ana-/ |dyr mountain-range, Vodopianov | arrived at Vankarem and immedi- | | ately participated in the rescue of | | | the last groups of the Cheliuskiners, Men ieee ANKAREM, to which the Chelius- kiners rescued by the Soviet pilots were transferred, comprises | jone wooden house and _ several] | Chukchcy nomad tents. This freez- | jing spot is still in the Arctic wil- |derness, still far from habitable | | land. | | Now the deer have arrived in| bringing — food-stores. Dog-teams are here, too, for the, | transportation of the Cheliuskiners | | to the mainland. The rescued crew | will first be transferred to Wellen, | From Wellen they will_be trans- | “Stalingrad” are already en route. The steamers will bring the Chelius- (Zo Be Continued) Follow Communist Lead in Struggle | PARIS, (By Mail).—“None of us is capable of realizing how much communism, outward!y de- feated, nevertheless carries on its | underground war against National- Socialism, The Communist Party lives and is constantly at work.” This quotation s from “Der An- | griff,” official newspaper of the Nazi Party. Communism lives in Nazi Germany, and the fascist murderers | Masses grows—can no longer hide their fear of the growing influence of the Party. The last session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany declared that it “notes with pride and great satis- faction that the cadres of the | Party, an unshakable force filled with an heroic spirit of sacrifice, are fighting for the overthrow of the Hitler dictatorship at the head of working masses animated by an invincible will to liberation, and by enthusiasm for the immense socialist victories of the Soviet Union. This heroie militancy of our cadres is the result of the bolshevisation of our Party under the leadership of Comrade Ernst Thaelmann.’ | 6 .Ex-Socialist Workers —as the upsurge of the working! German Communists Lead Mass Fi & The heroc German Party has not only rebult its factory nuclei, organ- ized itself from top to bottom, and continued to issue its iNegal publica- tions. Its 120,000 members are working energetically, leading the workers on many fronts in the struggle against the fascist regime, regime of blood and misery. Mass Organizations Fight The various class organizations— International Red Aid—are living and working, thanks to the heroic devotion of the German communists. Thus the regional superior court of Jena has sentenced three workers to three years in prison for “having continued to carry out in secret a very active work for the Red Front Fighters’ organization.” The illegal organ of the red trades union opposition is regularly pub- in Berlin, copies of this iPegal paper were thrown from the door of a train entering the Alexanderplatz station. They were instantly picked up and carried away by the passers-by. The leadership of the Red Aid (International Labor Defense) in Thuringia has written to the “Trib- unal,” illegal publication of the | German I, L, D. as follows: | “We can report with joy and pride that many former members of} the Social Democratic party antl of the Socialist Youth League lished Recently, 150 trade unions, sports organizations, | (¥. P. 8, L.) are actively working with us. A few days age, some members of tke Socialist Youth sent us a contribution of 15 marks with the following letter: We know that the Red Aid is the oniy or- ganization which continues to take care as before, despite the terror, of political prisoners and their families, without considering what is their political point of view.’ “At Gera, some Social Democratic workers have undertaken, along with the Red Aid, to look after the needs of the families of political Prisoners. Young Socialists of Gera have sent 5 marks to the Red Aid.. At Altenberg, twelve Social Democratic workers took a collection among themselves and sent the money to the Red Aid. At Eisenach, the young Socialists take part in distributing our paper.” Kaiserslaudern, Palatinate. Red Sports Union Continues maintained a Red Sports Club. The Supreme Court in Munich has sentenced J. Schrez, a worker, to one year and three months in prison, and the worker Hubert Knies to a year and six months for having been functionaries of the Red Aid at At a mass trial of 65 workers in Plauen, they were accused of having At the trial evidence was given that they had raised money to support. imprisoned comrades of their sports ht on Hitler Red Trade Union, Relief, Sports, Cultural Groups Live org2nization. “Red Sports,” organ of the Fight- ing Alliance for Red Sport Unity, appears regularly in Berlin, illegally, of course. A Communist worker founded a) radio club in the little city of Schmolin, Thuringia, where the members met regularly to listen to the broadcasts from Moscow, and discuss them. They were betrayed, and all the members were arrested. Leader Tortured to Death The chief defendant, the Com- munist who had organized the club, was tortured to death in prison, and the police announced he had “com- mitted suicide.” The others have been sentenced to one and two years imprisonment. All boldly af- firmed their revolutionary determin- ation in court. Four members of the revolutionary Free Thinkers’ organization which was ordered dissolved in 1932, were sentenced to three to five months mprisonment for carrying on the work of that organization under the name of “Tourists’ League.” The members’ dues stamps were in the form of alluring leaflets advertising beautiful places to visit, rs ete Call Sent For Delegates To July Congrest | Women’s Committee to Organize a Broad U. S. Delegation NEW YORK.—A stirring call to all women of good will in the United States to unite to send a strong and broad] representative delegation women to the Internation™ Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism in Paris, July 28 to 30, has been issued by a provisional national committee of women representing many organizations. The international women’s anti- war and anti-faccist congra:s is sponsored in the United States by the American League Against War and Fascism. The organizing com- | mittee has its headquarters at 112 East 19th St., New York, room 605, A national committee has been or- | ganized, composed of women trade | union leaders, representatives of women’s mass organizations of many kinds, and influential professional women, In a call which has been sent out to women and women’s organizations throughout the country, the com- mittee says in part: “Why does Congress appropriate billions of dollars for military pur- Poses? Why do the Civilian Con- servation Camps, under the guise of relief, continue to give semi-military training to hundreds of thousands of young men, under the supervision of army officers? Why has the United States war budget increased 197 per cent over the pre-war bud- get, the largest increase of any ecuntry in the world? “Because the United States, like all the imperialist powers, will send your son, your husband, your brother, to war, to protect foreign investments and loans — although they will tell you it is for some noble cause, What War and Fascism Bring to Women “The fifth year of the crisis, in« tensified by conditions resulting from the World War and the equal- ly cruel ‘peace’ that followed, finds fifteen million Americans unem- ployed and starving in the midst of plenty. American women, you see the effects of this crisis in your children’s torn shoes and your empty cupboards. You know what it means to make ends meet on Present day wages, on the scanty relief that governmental ‘charity’ sometimes furnishes, “American women! You, whose husbands, sons and _ sweethearts were sent to ‘make the world saf! for democracy’—you know hoy many,came back crippled in min and body, and how many neve! came back. “American women! See what has happened to the women of the fas- cist countries—domestic slavery, no jobs, prizes for women who make the best breeding machines to build the armies of a Hitler or.a Mus- solini. What Can You Do? “American women! Ten and a half, million of you work in America’: factories and mills. You weave thi cloth, make the clothes, make thi shoes that America wears, You work in the metal plants that turn cut bullets and shells, in chemical and dye plants that will at a mo-~ ment’s notice produce the deadly materials for chemical warfare. You teach the youth of the country. Millions of you are housewives and domestic workers. You have a great responsibility. “Will you use this power to aid in preparing another war? Will you let the industrial and financial magnates, the profiteers of the last war, throw the world into another war? Will you weave the cloth for uniforms, make shoes for the army, make bullets with which your men will be sent to kill sons, husbands and sweethearts of other women like yourselves? Organize Against War and Fascism! “On the Twentieth Anniversary of the World War, July 28th to 30th, a World Congress of Women Against War and Fascism will convene in Paris, to plan international action gaainst war and fascism. “The American League Against War and Fascism calls on all women, of every walk of life, of every point of view, to help send a strong delegation of working, farm and professional women, to unite with the women of all countries in the “ruggle. Build anti-war, anti- fascist committees in the factories and mills, on the farms, in the Schools, in the hospitals, in the neighborhoods, wherever you live and work, “Regional conferences and mass mectings will be held during the next two months to elect delegates, Build and support the regional con- ference in your community, Help by reaching your friends and Sisters with the program against war an fascism.” Spring Sowing in U.S.S.R. Is Double Last Year’s Record (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW; April 17.—Despite a sudden cold snap, spring sowing “| the Soviet Union is proceeding at a recordibreaking pace. On April 10, 33,500,000 acres had been sown throughout the country, compared to 17,000,000 acres on the same date last year. In Soviet Ukraine, the sowing of the early spring crops has been completed. On April 11, 18,557,250 acres had been sown there, com- pared to 5,250,000 on the same date last year, The wheat sowing program in thy surpassed by Ukraine has been per cent.