The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 4, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily <QWorker @RWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “Amezica’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 SUNDAY, INC,, BY 50 F THE 13th PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO. New York, N. ¥ e: ALgonquin 4 - 7 Street 954. Save Ernst Thaelmann! y AY DAY in Germany, within and out- M side the very Nazi goose-step parades, empha d the blood lers that down below, in the ranks of the workers mers, a clear struggle against fas- ready to burst. Communist Party of Germany out as the leader of the growing mass fight against fascism in Germany. This has driven the i executives to unbounded re and ry. A new murderous law has been passed, a terrorist act that opens the Nazi flood- gates of the most vicious and bloody at- tacks against Communists and militant workers. A fiendish pogrom against the Jews is on foot Chained to cell, beaten and tortured, our heroic comrade, Thaelmann, as a result of the new hellish terror law, stands in imminent danger of execution by Nazi axe- men. Right now his tormentors are increas- ing their torture. | Thaelmann, Torgler, and other Com- munists are in the gravest dangers. .There must be action—now—immedi- ately! A shower of protests must be sent to Germany, to Hitler and Goering. The American workers must raise their voices, organize their forces now, to save the life of Comrade Thaelmann. | Every workers’ organization should wire protests to the German Envoy in Washington. Workers’ delegations in every DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1934 city should and demand t visit the German Consulate e release of Thaelmann and other Nazi prisoners. now Thaelmann! Stop the to save the life of Comrade ted axe of the enraged Nazi executioners The Path of Renegades N A meager straggling group that did not show a combined strength of 200, the Lovestoneites and Trotzkyites, rene- gades from the party of Lenin, tailed sol- behind the Socialist May Day ion, the last contingent in the emnly demo: hysical location there is an the political relation of these groups to Social-Democracy ainly as the tail of cow is posterior so are Tro’ and Lovestonites, litical hangers-on of social-reformism. the of their political renegacy finally Lovesione and Cannon as the “revolutionaries” as Judge Jacob n Thomas, Louis Waldman, and Oneal on the reviewing stand at Madison Side by side with these Social-Democratic gentle- men, whose ties with the capitalist state power runs in a thin but continuous thread through the American Federation of Labor bureacracy, through | the N.R.A. Labor Boards, straight to the heart of the Wall Street dictatorship at Washington, sat the redoubtable Trotzkyites, who are more “left” than the Communist International, and the Lovestonites, whose brief history has already revealed them as the eager fig leaf of A. F. of L. bureaucracy. It was with this Social-Democratic love feast on the reviewing stand at Madison Square that these renegades were effecting their “real United Front,” while more than 200,000 workers were making the earth shake with their tread at Union Square! The descent is swift. From renegacy from the | party of Lenin, from the role of “opposition,” to | the swamp of Social-Democracy, the path is in- evitable and inescapable. Operating in the name of “Communism,” the historic function of these renegade groups is to act as a shield for the treachery of Social-Democ- racy. At a given historic point the renegades and the Social-Fascist leaders meet in their common development toward counter-revolution. Two days ago they met on the bandstand at Madison Square, | The Comintern marches forward, the general | staff of the world revolution, under the banner of Lenin carried high and unsullied in the hands of | Stalin, flesh and blood of Lenin's Party, leader of | the world proletariat, | The renegades cling to the filthy skirts of So- cial-Fascism. They are not “oppositions” to be re- futed. They are class enemies to be destroyed, Campaign on Foot | companied three 75,000 Circulation (Continued from Page 1) |3 Socialist Prisoners | With Heimwher Guards To Boost ‘Daily’ to Escape from Austria VIENNA, May 3.—Aided and ac- | ects rec neimvent et: I May Day Rally from the Sain Poelten jail yesterday. Solid Ranks March | THE PARIS COMMU Japanese War Dep't Writes 'U.S. New Note Both Powers Rapidly | | Arm for War Over Rob- |bery of Chinese People | TOKIO, May 3. A virtual w jcouncil here decided today that the | United States note to Japan con-| taining a covert threat of ed | conflict would be a red by For-| n Minister Koki Hirota shorily. | e-Minister Yanagawa of the| | Wer Office, after a visit to Vice-| Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu of the | Foreign Office, decided that Secre- | tary Hull's note would be replied to.| Nichi Nichi, leading Japanese | | newspaper, which expresses the views | }of the War Department, and the | imperialist forces behind it, stated | | editorially today that Japan would! | make it clear that she will insist’on | her “interests in the Far Fast,” and | that Japan will claim priority in the | Orient because of her special in-| terests. | There is a fierce discussion, how- jever, in the cabinet over the ‘tone |of the proposed ncg>. Several days |of conversation will be necessé hal before Foreign Minister Hirota Mind |send the note to Secretary of State | Hull. | In the meantime, because of the| extreme tension, war prepars ions | both in Japan and the United States | are being rushed with top speed. ‘One Million Troops In Desperate Drive | | Bured? NE STILL LIVES! On Chinese Soviets ae | Chiang Kai Shek, U. S.| imperialists, Mass Against Reds British Threaten Trede Wari Over Japanese World Dumping LONDON, May 3.—A serious clash over mar! and an impending rade wer was seen in the meeting SHANGHAI, May 3.—Over 1,000. Chiang Kai-Shek for a dri the Central Soviet D; Kiangsi Province. the Chinese people. in| the British Board of Trade, and the in the pay of! Tsuneo Matsudaira, American imperialism, is c m-| place today. mandeering every Yangt River ae. a 2 vessel to transport soldi: up the| Recently an agreement was made Yangtze mn with Great Britain and Jaren on Une tee ee eavcteroal| Japanese textile exports | to India, Shek is emptying the prisons of| but the understanding fell through. thousands of criminals, arming} The meeting between the Preside. them for the war against the Chi-| Of the Board of Trade and the Jap- nese Red Army. In the South, General Chang Fah- kwei, | (5,000 Pioneers in session last night. Mr. Runciman o soy, | WaS instructed to inform the Japan- Cenvanese: Wer lord, nas been se representatives that Britain laced in command of the Southern| © var nae and are moving northward, | W@S Prepared to declare a trade war |having taken the important moun. | With Japan unless she yie!‘ed to the | tain pass at Changning, in Southern | British demand to partition world | Kiangsi. . markets on the basis of reduced tex- | The Shanghai imperialist. and na-_| tile exports. | tive press, while admitting the main] ‘The Japanese have been under- | attack is against the Chinese So-| mining British markets, especially viets, also see an impending clashjin textiles in India, Africa, China {of Walter Runciman, President of} | anese ambassador follows 2 cabinet) | The escaped were the Socialist party | secretary in the Province of Menzel, | the former Mayor of Neufeld, and the leader of the local Republican De- in our battlefront! fense Corps, the Shutzbund. convention of the Communist Party held in Cleveland, is weakest sector (Continued from Page 1) over children’s health is | flaunted in the faces of no fewer | than 6,000,000 children who are at between the Southern and Northern forces. The South of China is un- der British hegemony with General | Chen Chi Tang, and General Chang Fah-kwei in the pay of British im- | tude | and Latin America. | At the same time, Runciman will take up the setting of quoias for Japanese exports to th? British against capitalism. | the broad masses of workers | surging into strike action against the Roosevelt wage-cutting pro- gram, the need to reach the work-/| ing class with our revolutionary} message through the Daily Worker ls imperative. | PLEDGE BY CHICAGO | In accordance with the decision reached at the Eighth National Convention to boost the circula- tion to 75,000 by the end of this The escaped socialists wired the Dollfuss government from Czecho- | slovakia saying that they wanted to save the government the expense of | keeping them, since the government | is waisting its money in vain trying to bolster up its tottering authority. Argo Fascists Fire | present underfed. The Young Pioneers know this. They know that the only way to really get widespread happiness and health for all children is to destroy | the roots of the system which stunts their growth in factories, which de- prives their parents of jobs, homes, food; which forces them to live (and in many cases to die cruel deaths) in filthy, squalid firetrap tenements. The Young Pioneers knew this year, Chicago District pledges to triple its Daily Worker circula- tion by Dec. 31, 1933. Sales of the “Daily” will be developed at all concentration shops, stockyards, railroad yards. ‘Hall in Attempt To ‘Halt May Day Meet when they marched, 5,000 strong, on May Day. Tremendous cheers rose from the thousands of workers gathered around the reviewing stand on the north side of Union Square | when the first column of the blue- ; ; : | Dominions. perialism, while Chiang Kai-Shek| -” a Increase War Danger . i: | lis ee Rovere genetaene "| The sharp trade war fo'lowing on | With the defeat of the insurgent the hee!s of the Japanese manifesto | forces in Fukien Province early this year, the Chinese war lords are now| | contending for mastery over this| of the Soviets. | province. It can be clearly seen that the In their way stands the Chinese|main reason for the mobilization | Soviets and its invincible Red Army. \trom both South and North is The Sixth Anti-Communist Cam-/ against the Chinese Soviets, though paign was decisively defeated by|each of the armies are fighting to the Red Army which recently to| establish the greater control of their the South of Kiangsi, near the) imperialist backers. Kwangtung border, disarmed 8,000} The new militarist war in China of Chiang Kai-Shek’s soldiers. At/is a reflection of the growing im- that time, the Cantonese generals/ perialist war tension throughout the expressed fear of the growing power Far East. | Workers Answer With The mass sale of the 24-page May Day edition provides fertile field an q . for gaining more readers and sub- Open Air Meeting scribers. Follow up those who re-| Near Hall ceived a copy of the May Day edi-| Mon for regular subscribers. (Midwest Bureau Daily Worker) acbubty sae CHICAGO, May 3.— Fascist in- A statement by the Central To h i: cendiaries made a vicious but un- it Committee of the Communist | sacseastil° attempt 66 snes al Party on the campaign to expand | ~" . # ; i tas: ciroalation to 15,000. will ap- hel aie May Day meeting in Argo, eaiie » Sunday, by burning Copo! eet very, pen in the: DY rani where! tab mses thig Wad Wo" bat Individual workers and their or- |) 4" | ganizations are asked to mobilize | - | their forces at once and to start Fire, started by unknown persons, | the new campaign immediately. broke out near one of the exits of Districts, sections, units, trade|the hall between 2 and 4 am. on unions and mass organizations! | Sunday, and damaged the building.| Build up sales of the Daily Worker |The fire department then occupied | among your memberships, organize the hall and refused to permit the sales of the Daily Worker in shops,! Meeting to be held there, | at factory gates and at busy inter-| Argo workers, roused by this ter- sections where workers go to and|roristic act, went through with the| from work. | meeting out of doors, near the hall.} By entering wholeheartedly into|}One hundred and fifty workers the campaign, the circulation of the| heard speeches by Wells, of the Daily Worker can easily be in-|Food Workers’ Industrial Union, treased to 75,000 by the end of this) which is organizing the workers in year. Do your revolutionary share| the Argo Corn Products Plant; Wit- | to hasten the establishment of a/tenberg, of the International Labor| Soviet America by helping to at| Defense, and Armstrong, of the! least triple the circulation of our; Communist Party. Daily Worker in your territory. | Police and American Legionnaires | |had mobilized to intimidate the| ‘workers, but at the meeting Sun-! day neither gang appeared, appa-| rently because they knew the hall} was to be fired and expected there would be no May Day meeting as a result. [ilinois Anti-War Youth Conference Gets Mass Support Fascism, two branches of “Young | America,” the Capital Club of} Liberal, Church Groups Springfield, and the Hod Carriers’ | Union, Benld. Endorse State-Wide | Meeting An anti-war conference of Uni- | versity of Illinois students will be} held Friday and Saturday to elect | —_—- delegates to the state conference. | (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) | A petition is being circulated in the | CHICAGO, May 3.—Credentials|Marx Nathan Orphans’ Home in pouring into the office of the/Chicago, endorsing two delegates to Tlinois State Youth Conference|the State Anti-War Conference. Against War and Fascism show | Twenty-five children have signed it. | that the conference will be a broad The conference is being called to united front. puchniee the forces of the Youth of Organizations like the Epworth| Illinois ageinst the coming im- League, Methodist Church Youth! perialist war. The meet will be Group, Local 1 of the Progressive|held at the Church of New Jeru- Miners of America in Giliespie, the; salem at LeMoyne and California | Blue Eagle Club and the Modern! Ave., Chicago, on Sunday, May 13,/ Girls’ Club of Chicago have elected |at 9 p.m. 3 flelegates. Signed by 18 organizations and Among other organizations that! individuals, the call includes anti- a elected delegates are the North | war committees in four regiments Youth Club Against War and! of the National Guard. garbed children, preceded by their | own fife and drum corps, swept by shortly before 6 o'clock. The cheers mounted as the rest of the children, tired after a long day of marching, but proud and happy that they had taken part in the huge celebration, paraded past the reviewing stand, listening to their leaders’ voices thrown to every corner of the square by the powerful amplifiers. 'HEY heard one of their own num- ber tell their purpose in parading that day. Another blue-uniformed Pioneer, his child-voice strangely and prophetically magnified through the loud-speaker, gave the Pioneer pledge. They heard Vera Saunders, New York District Pioneer Director, announce that children had pulled two complete schools out on strike that day, and predict that many more would strike on May First, 1935, despite the intimidation of the school officials. She described some of the meetings and parades and demonstretions held in neighbor- hoods by the Young Pioneers to mo- bilize the children for May Day, adding that .purely local school demands had been won as a result of these meetings in several sections of the city. And while the loud voices echoed across the square, the children marched on. As they passed one noticed for the first time the com- pletely children’s character of their ranks, their placards, their floats, which had been constructed by| ment the “leftist Republican par- theinselves, of old carriage whee! and discarded egg-boxes. Their de- mands flared from their cardboard placards, painted and printed by| themselves with crezvon and paint sets which the boss class would far rather have them use in color- ing paper dolls. Yes, the children marched on this | historic May Day, side by side with their elders—children of the pro- letariat, proudly flaunting what. the “Times” calls thei “strange em- blems.” “One state,” the Times editorial declares, “reports a complete dental what earthly use is a dental ex- amination on May 1 if there’s no food or only rotten, unhealthful food, all year 'round? The Pioneers knew this when their young ranks paraded on May First. pledged to double their number during the year, to march again on May First, 1935, bringing with them thousands of other worker's chil- dren, And they] , Increases the war tension throughout | the world. The Japanese, at the| | same time, are preparing for armed| invasion of North China, where the British have the important | The butcher of Japanese Ambassador to England,| ings in the Kailan mining area. | which takes} The Japanese, in order to attempt | to pay for the huge war prepara‘io! S| jagainst the Soviet Union, have} | been lowering wages of the Japanzre| | Workers, and dumping their goods) | on the world markets below the low-| | est prices. | | Attorney-General J. G. Latham of | | Australia made a special trip to the} | Dutch Indies, in order to “study the| | problem of Japanese dumping.” | | Y.CL. Backs Youth: NEW YORK. — The New York) District Committee of the Young! dorsed the anti-war conference} called by the Youth Section of the! Fascism for Mey 13, 2 p. m., at the! Church of All Nations, 9 Second| Ave. The Y. C. L. urged all youth organizations to send delegates to the anti-war conference. All Y. C, L. members who are functionaries in the units, sections, in mass organizations and belong- ing to bourgeois organizations must attend a special meeting at the Dis- trict Office, Friday, 7:30 p. m., to prepare for this conference. “The intensive preparations for war demands that all young work- ers and organizations of which they 'Anti- War Meeting | Called by League Communist League yesterday en-! of | American League Against War and| Nazis (their leaders imprisoned and Nazis Preparing Bloody Pogrom To Shield Failures BERLIN, “May 3. Further re- flections of the growing difficul- ties of the Nazi regime is seen in the sensational manufactured story published in the special edition of the anti-Semitic “The Stormer,” appear- ing today that Jews ere plotting to kill Hitler. Twelve pages of this sheet are devoted to a re-hash of the Czarist Black Hundred fables about Jewish “ritual murders,” and a scheme of the Jews to kill off all non-Aryans. Along with the attack on the Communist Party, the Nazi bleodhounds are preparing for an unprecedented progrom to side- track attention from the growing misery of the German working masses, Tunich Nazis Put Ban On Catholic Sports MUNICH, May 2—The hundreds workers’ sports organizations | and anothe: On the World Front} By HARRY GANNES A Nazi Boomerang Yemen the Unhappy On the High Seas | AY DAY was a boomerang the Nazi hounds in Germarj Hitler standing before the gre. mass of workers at Tempelhof fie. could see in the faces of hundred) of thousands before him their bit- ter and burning hatred of fascism Throughout Germany, in millions of leaflets, in hundreds of secret meetings, the voice of the Com- munist Party of Germany wi heard in no uncertain terms. q May Day, the fiendish Nazi c inals made a torch of the gr hali in Augsburg as a signal for ¢ new campaign of the most ferocious terror against the Communist Party By the light of the burning blaze the Nazi hangmen wrote a new law decreeing trial by executioners and death for the slightest offense against the Hitler regime. The Communist Party, daily declared dead by the Nazi press, now by every act of the Nazi regime, by its own admissions, becomes the greatest menace to the further ex- istence of the fascist regime, already rocked to its very foundations. In all of this storm of fury anc Tage our comrade, Ernst Thaelmann languishes in chains in the Nez dungeons, The new law tries te avoid anoths: Reichstag fire tria’ Dimitroff. The Nazis want to rush through the persecu- tion and the execution of cur Com- rade Thaelmann, hoping thereby tc stop the onward march of the Com- munist Party of Germany. | Aw the lying speeches of great economic advances of fascism in Germany fell on cars mace deal by increasing hunger. “Altogether,” writes the New York Times Berlin correspondent, F, T. Birchall, “the jaw's establishment at this time lends strength to current reports that, despite the great popular dem- onstrations, there is a rising feel- ing of unrest, skepticism and dis- content, especially in the country districts.” Not only among the workers, bui in the countryside, on the estates of the big junkers, among the pour and middle peasants, the rising revolutionary storm against fascisrr is gaining terrific momentum. And yet at this time, in the in- terest of preserving capitalism, in the interest of providing finance capital with great profits, the Naz. dictators are preparing a slash in Wages for the whole working class Prices are rising rapidly. The amount of food consumed by the masses is dropping heavily. The best indicator in Germany is the consumption of fats, which since the Nazis’ seizure of power dropped 25 per cent. Against the growing mass dis- content, ready to burst into major actions against fascism, the Times correspondent writes the Nazis are considering “more rigid control over the populace, and this would call for some counter-irritant to Provide an excuse.” “It may be for that reason that which have been destroyed by the a one is again beginning to hear a great deal about increasing, tortured) received an addition today! though invisible Communist ac- when the authorities of this city| tivities.” Fire and murder are the Nazi counter-irritants. Another Reich- stag fire and wholesale headchop- ping, the first of which will be our Comrade Thaelmann unless the mighty voice of the world revolu- tionary proletariat so forcefully ex- pressed on May Day is mobilized proscribed all “sports and field sports exihibitions” by Catholic youth societies. The pretext given for the edict is “to insure public! order and security.” are members, voice their protest against these war preparations and send delegates to this conference,” a statement issued by the Y. C. L, read. HE 14th of April, the three-year mark was passed since the Spanish monarchy fell and the re- public was instituted. It was bap- tized in its constitution as “the Re- public of working men of all classes.” Until about the end of 1931 the ruling classes, the upper bourgeoisie and the big land-owners utilized the petty bourgeois parties, in particu- lar the Social Democratic party, as instruments of power, whose main goal was to prevent the upsurge of the masses. The new upswing of the revolutionary movement of the large workers’ masses in city and province, and their disappointment in the republic which also included the city petty-bourgeoisie, forced the ruling classes to change tactics. At the end of 1931 the so-called Juridical Republican parties stepped out of the government, as the radi- cals did under the leadership of | Lerroux, who represent the interests of finance capital and the foreign concessionaries, or as the Progres- sives under the leadership of Za- mora, who represent the capitalist land-owners, or as the Conservatives, under the leadership of Maura. | There only remains in the govern- ties"; Socialists, Radical Socialists, |Republican Action, Catalonian | Right, Galician Republicans, Reaction Strengthened ‘These parties, in power until Sep- tember, 1933, contributed little or nothing towards the solution of the problems of the bourgeois-demo- cratic revolution, is agrarian, they confined them- |5,000 peasants. In Spain there are 2%2 million landless workers, and from 1 to 114 million poor peesants. At the same time, peonage in small hamlets remained untouched. With regard to the Catholic Church the government only under mass pressure took action toward the dissolution of the Jesuit order, On the principal question, which selves to the acceptance of a re- stricted agrarian reform, through Aan the end of 1933 only heute tl ildren.” But/ 40,000 hectares of land were expro- pace elias eri priated from the nobles in favor of agricultural ® | JN SPAIN the forces of fascism, emboldened by the splitting tactics | "of the Syndicalist and Socialist leaders, have moved with rapid fascist group, granted amnesty to tionary forces within the country ingclass prisoners in jail. minister, The working masses in §; munist Party, rapidly growing and demonstrated against fascism. tremendous battles against fascism. strides, Recently the Lerroux government, in preparing its armed the monarchist and counter-reyolu- and in exile, while retaining work- The cabinet was forced out, and the Ler- roux government draped itself with the mask of a “Left” republican pain, with the guidance of the Com- gaining influence, are entering into Recently in Barcelona, 100,000 The following article reviewing the three years of the Spanish republic is particularly timely. toward the restriction of a number of church rights on the question of supervision, and to the gradual abo- llition of state subsidies. After that, during the time of the Republic, in the year 1931, 65 million pesetas were paid to the church. In the year 1932, 42 million, in the year 1933, 24 million, and not until 1934 were the subsidies withdrawn. ‘The national question: is still un- solved, unless we consider the granting of a shred of autonomy in the shape of the so-called, ‘sta- utes” to Catalonia (whereby all measures like finance, taxation, the military, ete. continue to remain in the hands of Madrid). The Basque provinces and Galicia, how- ever, are still waiting in vain for their “statutes.” Conditions Grow Worse At the same time the economic and social conditions of the broad masses of workers grew incessantly worse in the course of the throe years of the Republic. Whereas, the “Leftist Republican” governments sabotaged the problems of the bour- geois-democratic revolution, the forces of the revolution and the forces of the open counter-revolu- tion armed themselves for the strug- gle. Under these circumstances the proletariat became the focus of all discontented forces under the growth of general disappointment with the Republic which in addition included the petty bourgeois masses. At the head of the Juridical par- ties is the CEDA (Conferation Espanola de Derechas Automas) that is, the Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Rights) which was founded in the beginning of 1933 through the fusion of a whole series of Junker, clerical, and Fascist or- ganizations. The most important political nucleus of the CEDA is formed by the young party of the greater land-owners, and of big finance capital, the Action Popular (Popular Action), whose leader is Gil Robles of Salamanca. In April, 1933 re-elections took place in numerous communities. In September of 1933 the elections of the so-called Tribunal for consti- tutional, guarantees were -held. In both cases the “Leftist” parties suf- fered a defeat and in both cases the right wingers, in particular, the CEDA, gained a victory. Therefore, the reaction decided to come cut in open attack, The Socialist min- isters were expelled from the gov- ernment and replaced by represen- tatives of the Centrist radical par- ties, whose leader, Lerroux, stepped to the head of the new government. In the ensuing parliamentary elections a strong polarization of forces came to light. On the one hand the Communist party scored great advances, in that it increased its vote from 60,000 in the year 1931 to 400,000, and for the first time won seats in Parliament. The “Left” parties suffered complete de- feat; of 291 mandates they saved only 98, The Centrist parties, in- cluding the radicals, scored a few gains. The “Rights” with the CEDA at the head climbed from 42 to 212 mandates, of which 114 fell to the lot of the CEDA, which therefore Three Years of the Spanish Republic 9 Es Th Se became the strongest faction, -This occurrence can be partly explained through the campaigning of the relative majority, partly through electioneering terror, selling of votes, miscounting, and finally through the campaigning of the “Rights,” particularly in the villages. Lerroux is paving the way for open fascism. Already the ques- tion of the “reform of agrarian re- form,” in particular the question of reapportionment of a part of confiscated parcels of land, has of- ficially been repudiated. The re- apportionment of church possessions and the reinstatement of its super- visional rights are forecast. _Am- nesty for the minister of the mon- archy as well as of the insurrec- tionist monarchist generals is being prepared. The price of bread and other food stuffs were raised at the demand of the land-owners. At the end of February the so-called “left radicals” (Berrios) were ousted from the cabinet. The government exercises repres- sive methods and terror. First. it declares “a state of alarm” and later announces “a state of siege.” Locals of the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions were closed down, their newspapers pro- hibited. For capital crimes, capital punishment was instituted. General strikes were declared illegal. Al- ready court-marshals are being in- troduced. But the most important hindrance to the development of revolutionary strike movement is the split in the working class. The socialist and the anarcho-syndicalist leaders un- dermine and disintegrate the revo- lutionary mass movement, This is the situation in which the Communist Party, which grew from 800 members in the year 1931 to 30,000 members, and the revo- lutionary trade unions, which num- ber approximately 300,000 members, must combat the offensive of fas- cism. Among the masses there is an elemental drive for the united front, which, in many places is car- ried out along with the local leaders of the socialists and anarchists, or over their heads for the mightiest protest demand- ing the freedom of our heroic fighter, Ernst Thaelmann. Sc eee RABIA FELIX,” the garden spot of Arabia, the country of Yeman, long successful in resisting British imperialist invasion, is now threatened with the chains of colonial slavery. Imam Yahya .ot Yemen, the feudal ruler of that country on the southern shores of Arabia, is dead, and a British-fin- anced army, under the leadershiy of the British tool, Ibs Saud, it advancing on Hodeida, the capita! of Yemen. For many yeats the British im- perialists have sought to sieze Ye- men, in order to consolidate their military and naval base at the southern tip of the Red Sea. Near Yemen, the British have a power- - ful oil and coaling base at Aden, which controls all of the traffic coming through the Suez Canal. They have made repeated attempts by wholesale bombardment of the Seacoast and wanton slaughter te subdue Yemen, to add it to Aden Yemen is a very small country, situated on the plateau of EL Jebel, the most fertile part of Arabia, where grain and coffee are grown. But for the British it is the key to the domination of South Arzbia and ening of its military link for control of the Far East. In the drive on Yemen, the Brit: ish utilize the fierce Wahabis war- riors, equipping them with the most modern armored cars, equippec with radio so they they can re- ceive instructions from the Britist general conveniently situated out of line of fire. On hand, too, is one of those “scientific” men, the explorer H. St J. B. Philby, who, on the pretext of “preserving” the culture and relics of ancient civilization, maps out the paths for the armies of the imperialists that forever wipe out the culture of the colonial peoples replacing it with the chains of ab- ject. slavery. ee Ras On the high seas aboard the steamer Tle de France, a group of American workers and tourists go- ing to the Soviet Union for May Day held a meeting and donated $50 for the May Day edition of the Daily Worker. From the boat nearing Germany they sent the following radio to the Fascist General Goering: “We 150 Americans protest the persecution of Ernst Thaelmann and 50 seamen and harbor workers on trial in Hamburg, and other political pris- oners. We demand their immediate and unconditional release,” = a4 \ |