The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1934, Page 8

~— Page Eighf Daily MWWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST Ue USA — OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL? “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 B, 13th Street, New York, N Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable A Daiwork.” New York, NY ae Washington Bureau 4th and PF &t Midwest Bureau Telephone: Dear Room 705, Chicago, I $6.00 $9.00; year, 15 cents SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1934 —=—=— Free Thaelmann! NE can only feel utter hatred for the Fascist beasts who are now torturing and tormenting our Comrade Thaelmann in their hellish Nazi dungeons. Now they are beating him, lashing him with whips, torturing him with who knows what fiendish cruelty. They are trying to “make him talk.” They think that they can break the iron will of this Bolshevik leader, this worker who is flesh and blood of the working class of Germany. But Thaelmann is strong not only in his own Bolshevik will, but he is strong in the unlimited strength of the w ng class of the world which stands behind him. Two things are now foremost in the situation. One is that Thaelmann’s life is in the greatest danger. The other fact is that Thaelmann can be torn from the hands of these beasts as Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff were—by the strength of the world- wide protest. The life of Thaelmann is now in the hands of the working class and of the many-million army of anti-Fascist fighters all over the: world. They can save him! We cannot rest content with hatred for the Fas- cist beasts. We must act. We must act now—be- fore it is too late! Before they mangle our Com- rade Thaelmann to a hideous death. To the Communists in the trade unions, in the mass organizations, in the neighborhoods belongs the duty of rousing the masses to action. To all haters of Fascism belongs the duty of speaking everywhere of the need to fight for Thael- mann’s release. Especially in the trade unions must the fight for Thaelmann be carried to immense heights. ‘Thaelmann’s life is the life of a devoted fighter in the trade unions, of a fighter who has for more than 30 years fought in the trade unions for the interests of the working class. Every trade union meeting, A. F. of L. particu- larly, from now on should take up the question’ of ‘Thaelmann. Resolutions demanding his release must be introduced and sent to the German Emba: at Washington, and to the Hitler Government. The unions should elect delegations of workers to visit the German Consulates and the German Embassies demanding the release of Thaelmann. All May Day demonstrations should raise the demand for the freedom of Thaelmann from the hands of the Fascist hangmen! Every meeting, every organization, all gather- ings must resound with the cry—Free Thaelmann and all class war, anti-Fascsit prisoners! Police Provocation ULIUS GERBER, spokesman for {he So- cialist Party leadership in New York City, easily takes first place as the city’s prize hypocrite. After doing everything in his power, together with the other Socialist leaders, Mayor LaGuardia and the police, to pre- vent the workers from uniting their forces in one mighty May Day demonstration in Union Square, he now slanders the Communists and attempts to clothe the Socialist Party in virtue when he fails in his provocative endeavor. According to press statements given out by Gerber for the Socialist officialdom, the Sccialist Party has “voluntarily” given up Union Square. ‘They withdrew, he says, “under pressure, in the in- terest of peace and decency.” But the Socialist officials are not so virtuous. Imagine them giving up Union Square “voluntarily!” Or try to harmonize this talk of “decency” with their slimy, back-door maneuvers with the police department against revolutionary workers! As for “peace’—well that’s different; they do specialize in efforts to keep the workers peaceful while the capi- talists rob them and take away their rights! And Gerber does not shrink from an outright lie. He says that for the first time since 1889 the So- cialist Party would not hold its May Day demon- stration in Union Square. What are the facts? Simply this: the S. P. abandoned all May Day dem- onstrations in 1917 and did not again sponsor such demonstrations until 1930—for a period of 13 years mass demonstrations were abandoned. (= Communists invited the Socialist Party, and we still invite the Socialist and A-F. of L. workers, to join in one united working-class demonstration on Union Square on May Fir We were and are ready for united mass action; they are afraid of the Masses; they oppose every effort to sct up a : ing-class united front. This is why they ave “ untarily” withdrawing from Union Squcere, after failing, with the help of the police, to drive the Communists out. They first tried, with back-door scheming, to keep the Communists out, and now they continue their provocative splitting tactics by trying to organize a counter-demonstration in an- other square. They charge their ally, LaGuardia, with yielding to Communist “threats”! Nonsense! What La- Guardia yielded to was the pressure of the mas: It became evident through letters, resolutions, tel grams, delegations, that tens of thousands of work- ers firmly demanded Union Square for a united May First action. LaGuardia saw that the original plans concocted with the Socialist leaders would not work. Now he is cooperating in the new splitting scheme for a second, Socialist-led demonstration. The statements accredited to Gerber in yester- day’s papers—“rovdy Communists,” etc.—are in the language of a police agent. They are designed to incite bloody police and fascist attacks on revo- lutionary workers. Gerber would have the New York police drown the Union Square demonstration in blood, as the Socialist Zorgiebel of Berlin drowned the 1929 demonstration of the revolutionary work- _ ers in blood. Gerber seeks also to give to the police in Detroit, Chicago and other places the continued justification for a denial of permits for May Day demonstrations, and for brutal police attacks. ‘This provocative, police-agent, splitting policy of the Socialist leadership must be exposed before the Worker | "= factory and trade unior file workers of the Soc: L. must be made to see the r se leaders as splitters, as strikebreakers, of and of tools as bosses. neads 0! the workers must be established these leaders. A united front of below, must be realized. May First he immediate opportunity. Ever militant trade unionist should ies during the remaining days to rally the wor s for united May Day demonstra- ms, for the immediate needs of the workers against war and fascism, for a workers’ state! In New York, all cut to Union Square! Organize the Opposition Heer is being made in the steel in- dustry by the splendid fight of the rank and file opposition delegates in the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers’ Convention, now in session in Pittsburgh. These delegates have a tre- mendous responsibility. What they do, how they act will be a great determining factor in the development of struggles in the steel industry for the demands and organization of the steel work- ers. Thus far, the rank and file opposition has put a spoke in the bureaucratic machine of President M. F. Tigh At the opening se: nm of the con- vention they defeated unanimously the efforts of Tighe to unseat new lodges and those who did not pay per capita tax. But the real test, and the real expression of the line-up of for was shown in the vote overriding the rules committee. In that test, which a! ed the rank and file to bring for- ward their four-point struggle program, the vote of the opposition was 79 to 48 for Tighe’s proposals. But every steel worker, every delegate at this con- vention must know that it is the role of Green & Co, at the head of the A. F. of L., and the Tighe clique, heading the Amalgamated, to chime in with Roosevelt's program of avoiding and stopping strikes at all cost. Because of the line-up shown at the conyen- tion, Tighe will use all the craft and cunning he is capable of in an attempt to stem the tide and de- feat the demands of the rank and file and their representatives. The delegates must be on their toes and watch every maneuver of Tighe. In the face of the strong opposition that has developed he will meet with dele- gates behind the scene, he will appear to agree to struggle proposals, he will counsel delay—he will do everything in order to keep his grip for the .sole purpose of carrying through the Roosevelt program against the wishes of the steel workers. Over-confidence and disorganization of the op- position forces is now the greatest danger. * * * E four-point program put forward by the oppo- sition has the approval and meets the needs of the hundreds of thousands of steel workers, or- ganized or unorganized, in the A. A. in the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, and in inde- Pendent organizations, 1) Immediate presentation of demands for union recognition and 25 per cent pay increases; 2) a 10- day ultimatum to the bosses, and a general strike if demands are not granted; 3) industrial form of unionism; 4) the 6-hour day, five-day week. President Tighe is definitely against any such action. To what lengths he wiil go in an effort to stop struggle was shown when he smugzled Senator “Puddler Jim” Davis in to speak—against strikes. The majority of the delegates at the convention have expressed their will. But that is not sufficient. They must organize their forces solidly. They must meet in caucus to plan their fight to put through their program. They must keep constant watch over the maneuvers of Tighe and defeat them. Above all, to guarantee the carrying through of their program they must prepare to elect their own leadership, pledged to the four-point program. The fight for this program must be coupled with the fight to oust the Tighe gang. The Communists in this convention, who sup- port the action of the rank and file, who are among the most militant fighters for the four-point pro- gram and for a united front of all steel workers behind it, are charged with the most tireless and ersistent work to unify and organize the oppo- sition, The Tighe leadership which has been the com- fort and aid of the big steel bosses must not be permitted to come out of this convention as the representatives of the steel workers, in reality the agent of the steel corporations in the ranks of la- bor. They must be trounced and effectively de- feated. Every one of their maneuvers should be spiked. A real leadership should be elected, and the basis laid for a real, united struggle of all steel workers which will win union recognition and in- creased wages—and prepare energetically for a Powerful steel strike to win these demands. All Out in Harlem! AX EXCEEDINGLY important demon- stration of workers, Negro and white, takes place this morning at 11:30 before the offices of the Fifth Avenue Coach Co., Broadway and 132nd Street, New York. This rich company, which has fat con- nections with Tammany and with the present LaGuardia administration’ as well, prac- tices the vilest and most outspoken jim-crow dis- crimination against Negro workers in its policies of hiring workers. Of more than 1,400 employees of this company whose lines operate through Harlem, one of the largest Negro neighborhoods in the world, there is not one single Negro worker. The fight for the right of Negro workers to hold jobs on these lines is of vital importance to the white workers, who are exploited and mistreated by the Company in a particularly harsh manner. The white wor! are speeded up, suspended and fired at the mere whim of the company officials, and get low wages for a 7-day week. The company main- tains a em of terrorism against the workers who try to organize a union to defend their rights. Recently 23 workers were fired. The L.S.N.R. is resolutely opposed to the policies of Negro reformist leaders, who try to destroy the unity between the Negro and white workers by call- ing for the expulsion of all white workers from Harlem. The L.S.N.R. demands that the Fifth Avenue Coach Company improve the conditions of the white workers by shortening their hours of work and raising their wages proportionately. The work- ers, both Negro and white, can force bettcr condi- tions from the Coach Company by uniting their forces against their common enemy. Today’s demonstration will demand the hiring of Negro workers, the right of the present em- ployees to organize their own union, a 6-day week and a 6-hour day without any reduction in pay, and better wages for all workers, Negro and white. Fight white chauvinism! Support the L.S.N.R. demonstration this morning at 11:30 a.m. at Broad- way and 132nd Street. sy | Seven’ DAILY WORKER, N EW YORK SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1934 9,000 Workers in Austrian Jails; I, 800 Killed i in Feb. Begin Building! _ N Y . Anti-War N.Y. League Conference Maps Broad Plan of Activity NEW YORK—The first sectional conference of the newly organized New York Central Committee of the| American League Against War and | Fascism was held in Savoy Man- | sion in the West End section of} Brooklyn on Wednesday, April 18. ix delegates attended the} | conference, representing 43 organi- zations. Seventeen delegates volunteered} | to help in the immediate organiza-| tion of branches and neighborhood | committees of the League in their jIrving Plaza and every respective territories, such as Ben- sonhurst, Bath Beach, Coney Island, | Brighton Beach, Boro Park and Bay Ridge. The first meeting of this committee will be held in Boro Park on Thursday, April 26 at 1280—56th St. Similar conferences will be held| in Brownsville, Bronx, Harlem, Yorkville and Lower Manhattan in| the near future. In order to organize the .work in all the neighborhood committees in | Greater New York, a city-wide con- ference will be held on Saturday) afternoon at 2 p.m., April 2ist in Irving Plaza. The speakers class to train speak- ers for street meetings in New York in preparation for the great mass demonstration to be held on the Twentieth anniversary of the out-| break of the World War will be held/| this Monday, April 23 at 7 p.m. in Monday night thereafter for six weeks. After the class at 9 p.m., on Mon- day night in the same hall will be held a city-wide conference of all| women delegates of the City Central} Committee and others who wish to| help the Women’s National Commit-| tee which is preparing to send a women’s delegation to the Interna- tional Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism which will con- vene in Paris on July 28-29-30, Spirited Competition Between Workers in ‘Daily’ Sub Campaign | Here are two class-conscious workers who are waging a revolu- tionary competition as to which one can secure the largest number of new subscribers for the Daily Worker. They are both from Norwood, Mass. John Louko has obtained six new subs since the competition was Geo. Wehkaoja John Louko started, while George Wehkaoja, is one sub ahead of him with a total of seven. Both are going strong, and it is a toss-up as to which will be the victor. “The only formula required,” they write in a collective letter, “is ini- tiative to go among the workers and give them a copy of the Daily Worker and tell them to read it. After a worker has read the paper, he or she is in many cases anxious | to subscribe.” How about other comrz + ing revolutionary competitions among themselves in the Daily Worker circulation drive? Let's hear from you! vstart-| Sauce for What's | | NEWS ITEM: The Daughters of the American Revolution demand more armaments. the Goose Is Sance for the Gander! 2 Burck | ‘Chinese Silk Siriber Storm Town Hall, Release Leaders {old Mass Meeting SHANGHAI, April 9 (By Mail)—| The newspapers report on a great| strike of the men and women work- | ers employed in the silk spinning| “: mills in the town of Hsu-Chow) | (Province of Szechwan). | Workers waited for two months for jthe settlement promised by the} authorities of the conflicts arising out of a wage reduction. | The workers demanded that the| | representatives of the town council) should examine the books of the| | firm, in order that they might see for themselves that the firm was | pocketing large profits. | mintang authorities. refused to) | undertake this, and called upon the! | workers to resume work. Besides! this, they arrested several of the strike leaders, In reply 3,000 strikers besieged the! | town hall and demanded the re- \lease of the arrested leaders. The} Police fired on the crowd, injuring several demonstrators. On this the} workers stormed the town hall, dis-| armed the police, and released the} arrested men. At the present time all the undertakings in the town have struck work in protest against | the firing on defenceless strikers. The “China Press” reports that a state of siege has been proclaimed) in the strike district, and troops sent against the strikers. The workers have also come out on strike in a number of silk fac- tories in Shanghai. In the Changang district (Prov- ince of Hopej) the miners are on| strike, and have been joined by the) workers of the cotton factory and) the cement works. These strikers | | joined to organize a demonstration | |at which higher wages were de-| manded, and the legalization of the! revolutionary trade unions insisted upon. The workers organized self- defense troops, whose members wear ed, badges with the inscriptic ion! ew Trade Union.” The press | oints out that the strikers are mas. These ters of the situation today in this) district. | City College NSL’ers Acquitted in Court NEW YORK, Two students of | City College, George Feinberg and The Kuo-| 10m Hammerman, members of the|ing called by the german Anti- National Student League, were ac- quitted of “disorderly conduct, lit- tering the streets, annoying passers- by,” etc, when they came up for | trial yesterday in 57th St. Court. The students were arrested while they were giving out leaflets calling for a student strike against war on April 13. Judge Greenspan yester- day lectured the boys on the value of religion, after first saluting and pledging his allegiance to the Amer- ican flag in the courtroom. COP BEATS WORKER NEW YORK—Goeorge Maiogan, a bootblack, was attacked by a police- man bearing the number 17498 yes- terday in Union Square Park. Maiogan was talking to another worker and had in his hand a red May Day banner, FLOODS THREATEN IN MAINE BANGOR, Me., April 20.—Melting Snow and rains flooded streams and rivers near ‘here today and threat- ened to submerge half a dozen com- munities along the Penobscot River Valley. Hundreds are reported evacuating their homes. ‘Yorkville Workers ‘in Nazi ‘Stronghold’ Meetings To Be Held) Each Thursday Hereafter NEW YORK—In a drizzling rain, 2,000 men and women, most of | whom were German workers, gath- | ered at 86th.St., Yorkville, on Thurs- | day night at an open-air mass meet- | Fascist Action Committee, affiliated with the National Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism, to protest the Hitler terror and de- mand the immediate release of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist Party, and now in a Nazi dungeon. In orderly disciplined ranks the workers stood their ground and lis- | tened to the speakers, resisting the disruptive attacks of a small band of the “Friends of the New Ger- many.” The fascist band of thugs and un- derworld characters, whose ranks also numbered a few deluded work- ers and small business men, stood at one end of the mass meeting and hurled epithets at the speakers. As the workers refused to be provoked, the fascists gathered in’ one group and shouted and sang in unison in an attempt to howl-down the speak- ers, As the speakers began to close the meeting, the workers, after holding their ranks, now swollen to 5,000, shouted for the meeting to continue. A few more speakers took the stand. | One, a striker from the Ruppiner | to hold socialist views, ManyWomen Imprisoned; Thousands Lose Jobs International Inquiry Body Urges Support of I. L. D. Campaign PARIS, April 10 (By Mail). —The International Inquiry Commission, since its return from its investigations in Aus- tria has published a report showing that in Austria there are 9,000 political prisoners, men and Women, and young people, in the Police station, prisons, concentra- tion camps, and remand detention cells of Austria. In Vienna there are about 2,300 sprisoners in Lower Austria 1,500, in Linz and Steyr (Upper Austria), 1,200, in Graz and Styria, 2,000, in |the other provinces approximately 1,000. There are many women among these prisoners, who meet with ruth- less treatment. It is quite impossible to bring any charge against the overwnelm- ing majority of these prisoners, or to take any legal proceedings against them. Only a very few can be charg- ed with participation in the Febru- ary uprising, 1,800 Killed in February Fighting The Inquiry Commission has de- manded the immediate release of | all these prisoners, and the quash- ing of the proceedings being taken against those prisoners who took part in ‘the uprising, but are de- prived of the most elementary rights of defense. A second declaration published by the Commission states: The mem- bers of the delegation sent to Aus- tria energetically contest the truth of the official statements made by the Austrian government. especially by the Chancellor Dollfuss,. with regard to the number of the victims of the February struggle. The dele- gatics. was in a position to ascertain that the number killed approxi- mated 1,800, whilst the number of wounded ran into thousands. To this must be added the faci that thousands of workers who took ‘5 | part in the struggles, or were known have since been dismissed from the factories, workshops, municipal and - state undertakings, and have even been driven out of their homes in many cases. These workers and their fam- ilies are plunged into the profound- est want and misery. The Inquiry Commission protests decisively against the policy of the Austrian government, which is driv- ing workers and employes into pov- erty and destitution, and even goes so far as to refuse to permit the children of the victims to avail themselves of the help offered them, The Inquiry Commission appeals to international solidarity for aid for the Austrian victims and their families. It applauds the magnificent work being accomplished by the In- ternational Red Aid, which is dis- tributing on the spot the funds col- lected by workers, intellectuals, and | innumerable other representatives of humanity and solidarity Restaurant across the street, who attempted to speak, was shouted down by the fascist enemies of labor. The Communist Party will hold another open-air meeting at the same place on Saturday night, and the regular meetings on Thursde’ evenings at 7 p.m. will be continued despite the fascist attacks. After the meeting 12 wo: joined the Anti-Fascist League. A collection of $20 was made to sup- port the work of the League, and many made pledges to send in money to further the work of the League. A resolution demanding the release of Ernst Thaelmann was adopted by the workers present, to be sent to Hans Luther, Nazi am- bassador to Washington. \Wor ‘ld Imperialism Fails in Sixth Attack on Chinese Soviets Red Army Captures Supplies, Wins Masses of Nanking Army Over to the Side of Workers and Peasants The following account of the | victorious resistance of the Chi- nese Red Army against the sixth offensive of the imperialist Nank- ing armies is of the greatest in- terest to all American workers. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Sovict region has grown until it embraces one-fourth of the area of China proper, with a population of nearly 100,000,000 workers and peasants who have Uberated themselves from the im- perialist, landlord and bankers’ yoke, Soviet China has become one of the chief bulwarks in defense of the Soviet Union, and one of the major outposts of the inter- national revolutionary movement against imperialism. American imperialism through the Roosevelt government is in the lead of the offensive against Soviet China, politicaliy, finan- cially, and by supplying Nanking with technical and military aid. Withcut the constantly growing, active assistance of world imper- ialism the Nanking government would speedily be wiped from the earth by the Chinese workers and peasants, who everywhere have a deep enthusiasm and sym- pathy for the Chinese Soviets. Soviet China would then become ene of the major factors in smashing the world front of im- perialism, and an invincible bul- wark of the world revolution.— Editors, By KAN SEN World imperialism has never rendered as open and active assist- ance to the Kuomintang in its struggle against the Red Army and the Soviets in China as it did dur- ing the sixth offensive. The appeal of the Soviet Govern- ment of China, dated September 6, 1933, says: “... In this sixth offensive of the Kuomintang the role of the imperialists as organizers and in- cendiaries appeared more clearly than ever before. The imperial- ists of all countries are taking part in the sixth offensive not merely by money and arms, but by troops as well. “American imperialism, in addi- tion to granting to the Nanking government 15 million American dollars under the pretext of the so-called cotton and wheat loan’ and 40 million American dollars in credit for the needs of aviation, has sent to the aid of the Nan- king forces, for the destruction of our life and freedom, 150 military planes, scores of steamers with | guns, tanks, machine guns, poison gases and explosives, and they have hundreds ef their pilots and other military and technical spe- cialists in the Kuemintang army. “The British Ambassador to China, Lampson, during his spe- cial journey through Szechwan, advanced to the militarist Lu Hsiang another 20 million pounds sterling and arms and ammuni- tion for the struggle against our fourth Red Army. “Despite the extreme acuteness of the struggle between the Amer- iean, Brit’sh, Japanese and other imperialists for spheres of in- fluence and the division of China, gether inspiring and pressing upon their lackeys, the Nanking, Can- ton and Northern militarists to join forces against the Red Army and against the Soviets.” With the support of world im- perialism the Kuomintang mobilized enormous miltary forces for the of- fensive against the Red Army. While in the first five offensives only Nanking forces actually took part (with the exception of the fourth offensive, in which Canton forces also participated), for the sixth of- fensive the Kuomintang mobilized troops from all of its regions: the units under the command of Chen Tsi-tan moved from Kwantung, the forces of Tsai Tin-kai from Fukien, the forces of He Kiang from Hu- nan, and Kuomintang emies were moved from Hupei and Szechwan as well. Altogether fully a million men were mobilized, and no less than 642,000 against the central So- viet district alone. The imperialists armed these forces according to the last word of military technique (war planes, tanks, guns, poison gases. etc.). At the same time Chiang Kai-Shek, on the basis of a plan worked out by the German fascist general von Seekt is attempting to surround the Red Army from. ali sides in order to drive the Soviet Government into a blind alley and resort to the chemical method . of warfare for the final destruction of the Chinese Soviet Republic, the basis of the anti-imperialist and agrarian revolution in China. However, world imperialism failed to achieve its purpose. On the con- trary, the Red Army has won some against Soviet China they act to- great victories on many fronts. 1, The Red Army of the Central region of the Soviet Republic of China defeated the Nineteenth Army in the Fukien Province and repulsed the first attacks of the enemy against the Central Soviet region. Chang Kai-shek’s attempt’ to surround the Central Soviet re- gion on all sides, from the North Western section of Kiangsi, Fukien, Kwangtung id Hunan has thus ended in failure. On the contrary, the Chinese Red Army has won a number of important victories, capturing the City of Lenchen in the southern part of Fukien, routing the 17th, Ust and 72nd divisions of the Nineteenth Army of General Tsai Tin-kai and capturing 4,600 rifles, 50 heavy machine. guns, 30 light machine guns, 500 mausers, 400,- 000 cartridges, three military ra- dio sets, 5,000 hand grenades, 2,500 dans (a dan is equal to 132 pounds) of food, 2,000. helmets and 3,500 war prisoners (including a brigade commander, three regi- mental commanders, four battal- ion commanders); three Kuomin- tang regiments joined the Red Army (according to a report pub- lished by the Japanese “Nichi Nichi” in Tokio a complete divi- sion deserted to the Red Army). In the northern part of Fukien the Red Army gained a victory over the Kuomintang forces, commanded by generals Tsai Tin-kai, He Kiang, Lu Sing-pai, capturing the big city of Yanping, one of the three big- gest centres of the Fukien Province, together with twelve steamers laden tion (it took more than 10,000 work- ers to unload eight of them); 2,000 workers of Yanping joined the Red Army and more than 85 per cent of the workers joined the Red trade unions; one battalion of the 52nd divisias of the Kuomintang forces joined the Red Army. As a result, the Kuomintang forces in the Fu- kien Province are unable at present to develop any attack upon the Red Army, which has made it possible for the Red Army to concentrate upon repulsing Chiang Kai-shek’s main forces. The Red Army succeeded in de- feating the enemy on many fronts and occupying big cities, despite the most determined offensive of the enemy forces. Although Chiang Kai-shek is pre- paring to throw more forces against us, although we have not yet suc- ceeded in defeating this principal enemy on the front, yet the situa- tion in Chiang Kai-shek’s forces was seriously aggravated by the creation of an independent. Gov- ernment in Fukien, which speeded up the disintegration in the Kuo- mintang camp and weakened the hold of Chiang Kai-shek. The dif- ficulty of Chiang Kai-shek’s position lies in the fact that he is forced, on the one hand, to use a section of his army against Fukien, and on the other, to withdraw to the rear several thousand of his soldiers owing to the fact that the Red Army has defeated the 79th Kuo- mintang division in the regions of Tsinsi Tsysi (Xiangsi Province) capturing over 1,000 rifles. with food (salt, etc.) and ammuni- (To be Continued.) se EN OARS le i asdtadahaetcas nies,