The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 11, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily Worker PERTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Oniy Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 192 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7954. FRIDAY, Rally to the Defense of the Alabama Strikers! MAY Continued from 1) and guns, the Natio Guard, special deputies are trying with terror and murder to enforce the decrees of Roosevelt and the steel trust. | The responsibility for these murderous attacks on the Alabama workers, for the death of five strikers, lies directly at the door of President Frank- lin D. Roosevelt. the police and HE Birmingham police chief cries: “Wipe out Communism! But this not the issue in Alabama, The issues are wage cuts and civil rights. The cry of Communism is used only to smoothe over, to justify the attacks on the workers who are fighting against the wage cuts. The immediate aim of the Communist Party in Alabama is not the institution of Communism; our comrades are energetically supporting the fight of the workers | against wage differentials, for higher wages. This “red scare” is designed to conceal the use of the methods of Hitler, fascist terror against the workers. The bloody attacks on the Alabama strikers, directed in the first place against the Negro workers, are fascist in character, They are an indication of the rapid tempo of fascist growth under Roosevelt’s N.R.A. The fight for the defense of the Alabama workers, for their right to strike and picket, is the fight against the advance of fascism in the United States. Every worker, every farmer, every honest anti- fascist must rally behind the Alabama workers. They are fighting heroically. But they cannot win this fight alone. It is a national fight against Roosevelt, against the step-by-step advance toward fascism embodied in his N.R.A. Workers and farmers! Demand the right of the Alabama workers to organize, to strike and picket, to speak and to assemble! Demand the abolition of the differential wage scale in the South! is End all forms of discrimination against Negro workers on the jol End the Jim-Crow! Demand the immediate and unconditional release of all militant workers arrested by the fascist gangs of the steel trust! Demand the immediate withdrawal of the National Guard troops, the steel trust gun thugs and the police from the strike area! Demand the death penalty for the murderers of the five Alabama strikers! | Call mass meetings of protest. Send telegrams, resolutions and letters at once to President Roose- velt, Hugh Johnson, Governor Miller, at Mont- gomery, Alabama; and to City Commissioner W. 0. Downs, at City Hall, Birmingham, Alabama! | Organize the masses in solidarity with the | Alabama strikers! The Longshoremen’s Strike ONGSHOREMEN in the west and south- | ern gulfport towns, striking for decent | wages, fighting heroically for bread and | butter for their wives and kiddies, have won the admiration and respect of the | toiling population throughout the country. | They have repulsed police and gang- ster attacks in Lake Charles, Louisiana. They have tied up ports of Houston, Galveston and Beaumont tighter than a drum. They have stopped the un- loading of coastwise cargoes at Corpus Christi. They have tied up shipping along the whole of the West Coast. Indeed, the longshoremen are well on the way to winning their demands. But in order to clear the path ahead of them, in order to assure themselves a victorious conclu- sion of the strike, the longshoremen must know the hidden enemies within their ranks. They must iso- Jate these enemies and drive them from their midst. These enemies are Joseph P. Ryan and the lead- ers of the International Longshoremen’s Association, officials of the American Federation of Labor. Never was a more brazen strikebreaking scheme concocted than the one devised by these gentlemen. Joseph P. Ryan is now in the gulfport region. Before he left New York he told newspaper men that he was going South to “lead the strike.” But what he is actually doing in the South is | revealed in the May 4 issue of the Houston Labor | Journal, a weekly paper advocating the principles | of the A. F. of L. Week after week this so-called labor paper urged the dockers not to strike. But now that they have gone on strike over the heads of the A. F. of L. leaders, the editors of the Labor Journal became | frantic in an attempt to break the strike. The leading editorial of the May 4 issue of the Labor Journal says: “The shippers and steamship companies were the first to suffer, but in the end the heavier burden will fall on the workers them- selves. Strike benefits are a poor substitute for a regular income.” Think of it! Such a statement coming from the mouths of those who claim to be the leaders of the struggles of the working class! But that’s not all. The worthy A. F. of L. edi- tors openly advocate open shop policies on hte Houston docks. “The spectacle of union workers idle and facing want because of a strike that might have been avoided, while non-unionists in the same work, draw | regular wages, and are satisfied invites insidious | comparison,” says the editorial. And then the editors go on to compare: “The workers of certain companies, notably the Southern Steamship Company, who are not affili- | | | | nist Party, ated with the International Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation, are not affected by the strike. They retain | their jobs, draw regular pay and, to all appearances | are satisfied.” | Here's the strikebreaking policy of the leaders ef the A. F. of L., not as someone imagines it, but coming stra from their own mouths and printed in their own paper. They say that the men on the Southern Steam- ship docks are sa is a lie. The kers hese s wou ing today against the miserable conditions shipowners and the A. F. of L. officials not been successful in keeping them in an ur i i ph P. Ryan is now in the South to help cal officials to further disorganize the dock 's, to break the strike. His agents are trying strike on the West Coast him do it, longshoremen. And then he will betray you. He will pose The official paper of the A. F. of L. in Houston, shows what these so-called labor leaders are up to. Set up your own democratically elected dock Elect a broad rank and file in each port. Do not Is of the A. F. of L. ees strike allow Ryan or to act as your Drive these fakers from your ranks. Take the situation in your own hands. You will win through rank and file control of the strike. Support the “Morning Freiheit” Campaign! (Statement by the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A.) HE “Morning Freiheit,’ organ of the entral Committee of the Communist Party for work among the Jewish masses, is conducting a campaign to raise a $35,000 fund. This sum is necessary to cover part of the deficit and to secure a continuation of the paper in the coming summer months. It is the duty of every worker to support this campaign, to help raise the fund that will secure the further existence of the “Morning Freiheit.” This is a duty the workers owe to themselves, to their class interests, for the “Morning Preiheit” is indispensable in their struggles for a better life. The N.R.A. has lowered the standards of living of the masses and prepares to victimize the working population still more, in order to secure bigger profits for the few masters of finance capital. Un- employment is actually destroying the lives of the masses. Fascism grows apace. War preparations are made with feverish haste. Anti-semitism, this hideous iinstrument of capitalist reaction and fas- cism lifts its head. Nationalist propaganda is ram- pant. Among the Jewish masses, the Jewish nation- alists, Zionists, fascists strive to increase their in- fluence in order to bind the toiling population to the chariot of the bourgeoisie and thus weaken the revolutionary struggle. The “Morning Freiheit,” in the forefront of the revolutionary struggles, is a powerful organizer and propagandist among the Jewish masses. It conducts a valiant struggle against the misleaders of labor who have made common cause with the bosses to keep the workers enslaved under the Blue Eagle. The “Morning Freiheit” which has been conducting a relentless war against social-fascism in all its manifestations, has been entrusted by the Commu- nist Party with the specific task of combating the influence of the most powerful and most degraded organ of the Second International, the Jewish Daily Forward—and it is carrying on this fight courag- eously and ably. It is easy tb lose a revolutionary working-class paper, but it is difficult to build a new one. The workers must keep their paper alive, to increase its circulation, and thus insure its existence. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S.A. EARL BROWDER, General Secretary. A Gentleman and a Scholar HE appointment of Joseph McGoldrick to the post of City Controller left va- cant by the death of Major W. Arthur Cunningham in no way changes the anti- working class complexion of the Fusion administration nor the anti-labor policies which have distinguished its activities since it first assumed office. The appointment was described by Mayor La Guardia as “non-political.” The metropolitan papers immediately toox this up for special em- phasis, basing their cheers on the fact that Mc- Goldrick is an “independent Democrat.” The New York Post, which for two days previous to the ap- pointment of McGoldrick had been lamenting that the Fusion gang was “going Park Avenue,” turned right about face yesterday in an editorial called “Congratulations on the New Controller.” “His (McGoldrick’s) influence,” the Post declared, “may succeed in swinging the La Guardia admin- istration away from Tory economy, back to the common man’s viewpoint.” All of this is nothing but a concerted attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of the New York workers. The plain facts of the matter are, as both La Guardia and McGoldrick have admitted, that the same subservience to the banks and the same encroachment on workers’ rights and living condi- tions will mark the new controller that stood out in his predecessor. “We will proceed without in- terruption,” said La Guardia immediately after the appointment. And McGoldrick added: “I welcome this chance to carry out his (Cunningham's) pol- icles, which I helped to work out.” No better proof of this is the fact that Mc- Goldrick’s first official act was to pay $5,000,000 to the Wall Street banks and one of his first of- ficial statements was a promise to “attend to the city’s economy program.” Thus we have the continuation of the wage cuts, the reductions in school and health and fire inspection budgets, while the bankers keep getting their millions on Fusion’s silver tray. All this ballyhoo about McGoldrick being a gen- tleman and a scholar, “a man of liberal outlook and human sympathy,” is just bunk. McGoldrick, like the others in the Fusion government, like their butter and know which side of the bread to hold out to the bankers, Both Fusion and Tammany were hatched from the same rotien egg, the capitalist system. The masses of New York can expect nothing from them. With elections in the offing the New York masses must begin to mobilize to utilize this par- liamentary struggle to register their protest. against the fake liberal La Guardia administration. Join the Communist Parry | 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. ¥. Please send ms move informa‘ion om the Commu. | NAME, ....ccscsncccsscscsevevevsnvecssssseccceseoe | ADBRBSS DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1934 USSR Joyous Over Jewish Autonom y Biro-Bidjan’s Resources Open Perspective of Great Development (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 10 (By Radio).— Reorganization of the Biro Bidjan district in the Far East into a Jew- ish Autonomous Region, was de- cided on by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. The settlement of toiling Jews in the Far East, in one of the richest districts, Biro Bidjan, was started in 1928, according to the decision of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. This decision | of the Soviet government was then | greeted by the great enthusiasm of the Jewish masses, foreseeing the | possibility of converiing this dis- trict, under favorable conditions, | into a Jewish autonomous unit. i | The difficulties in settling this | little inhabited district have been | | overcome by the Jewish population | with great stubbornness. They dis- | ‘played great firmness and began} | energetically to carry on socialist | construction to make Biro Bidjan a |future Jewish autonomous unit. Has Great Natural Resources | Biro Bidjan is rich in enormous | forests. The soil is suitable for any }@rain crop. It is exceptionally rich in minerals supplying gold, graphite. | coal, magnesite and other valuable | minerals. | During the Second Five Yeer Plan |the practical problem is raised of |constructing a big metallurgical plant on the rich mineral reserves of Biro Bidjan. The enormous perspectives of Biro | Bidjan are very obvious. | The toiling masses of all nation- | alities in the Soviet Union joy | greet the appearance of the Jewish | | Autonomous Region among the) | state units of the Soviet Union. | | This great act of the Soviet Gov- | ernment will also meet a hearty wel- | | come among the friends of the So- viet Union abroad, especially among | the Jewish workers suffering from | Fascist persecu‘ion. The conversion of Biro Bidjan into a Jewish Autonomous Region | will greatly increase its develop- ment. The organization of the Jew- ish Autonomous Region is one more concrete step forward of the Len- inist-Stalinist naticnel policy. | Nazis Plan Forced Conscription of Labor in Germany | Jobless To Be Forced) Into Barracks to | Cut Down Relief | BERLIN, May 10—Conscription of | labor in slave labor camps is now | being advocated by the Nazis on a wholesale scale. “The transition to! a general compulsory labor service | must now be vigorously prepared,”| | declared Col. Hierl, State Secretary jin the Labor Ministry, speaking for | Hitler at the National Congress of | Labor Corps Instructors and Com- | manders. | There already exists, under the! name of “voluntary labor camps,” | |concentration centers where 200,000, }men are forced to work on Nazi! | military projects. Col. Hierl now forecasts that | wholesale labor conscription is now } being considered by the Hitler |regime. This is the method by which the Nazis expect to “solve” | the unemployment question, and to | cut down unemployment relief. In the Nazi forced labor camps, | barracks have been built. The men are put in prison-like uniforms and are under the severe and terroristic | “discipline” of Nazi officers. Men are now forced into the labor camps by withdrawing their unem- ployment relief. The Nazis, by this method, have been able to cut un- employment relief payments by 73 | per cent. | Hitler Welcomes ‘Japan War Lords Mitsusita Says Fascists) and Japanese Bosses Have Same Aim (Special te the Daily Worker) LONDON, May 10 (By Radio)—A group of Japanese officers arrived in Berlin Tuesday, led by Vice- | Admiral Mitsusita. On the same, | day Mitsusita was received by Pres- | ident von Hindenberg. In an interview with a represen-| | tative of the Nazi newspaper “An- griff,” Mitsusita emphasized the un-j usually friendly nature of the re-}| ception afforded to him and his) stated: the German-Japanese society, your hearty reception will receive special! significance owing to the participa-' tion of representatives of the lead- ing organs of the National Socialist | (Fascist) Party. “We Japanese are watching de- velopments in Germany with great sympathy and joy because of our strivings are very similar to the| strivings of the National Socialist’ Party.” After the reception by Hitler and Goering the Japanese officers left for London. MORE MARRIAGES MEANS MORE RELIEF NEW ORLEANS, (.'. P.).—Dur- jing April 216 marriage licenses were issued as compared to 114 in April, 1933. Single men end women find it almost impossible to obtain relief, 4 | Street, but “Thank you, my boy! NEWS ITEM: to members of the U. S (Statement of Central Committee, Communist Party, U. A.) Soon after Roosevelt concluded his conference on Haiti recently with President Stenio Vincent of Haiti the whole American battle fleet carried on secret maneuvers | for nine days in the Caribbean Sea. | The Negro island Republic of Haiti, was used as one of the war bases in these maneuvers. This fact shows the hypocritical nature of the recent Roosevelt pro- nouncements about the agreement | to withdraw U. S. marines from Haiti and to grant Haiti political and financial “independence.” The Roosevelt-Vincent agree- ment, which provides for the with- drawal of American marines next October and intimates that finan- cial control by Washington will also end on that date, retains Wall Street control in an entirely new and more vicious form. According to the joint statement issued by Roosevelt and Vincent at the conclusion of the conference “Haiti will now be able to look for- ward to its future with the greatest confidence.” What is the real meaning behind these flowery phrases? It is clear that this agreement represents a/ continuation of the policy of plun- der and rape of the Haitian masses by American imperialism. But this robbery will now be carried through in a more disguised form. The Wall Street pirates control the customs and external revenues of the country on the basis of the slave-loan forced upon the Haitian masses in 1915 at the point of the bayonets of the U. S. marines, This enables them to exercise a strangle- hold on the financial and economic resources of the country. The agree- ment provides that the National Bank of Haiti, a subsidiary of the National City Bank of New York— which up to now has handled its customs—shall now be sold to the Haitian government. Thus it would appear that this bank, an open symbol of imperialist domination in the country, will no longer be the property of Wall the property of the Haitian people. “Adequate Protection” But Wall Street pirates need have no fear. The agreement provides “adequate protection for the hold- ers of the $11,000,000 of Haitian bonds still outstanding.” This means the continued looting of the Haitian masses by the bandits of Wall Street is guaranteed. It is clear that the purpose of this outrageous and disgusting swindle | is to cloak the open robbery of the Haitian people by American im- perialism behind its native bour- geois puppets—the reactionary Vin- cent government. The agreement further guaran- tees the privileged position of Amer- colleagues by Fascist Germany and ican imperialism in its monopoly of | Haiti's economic and financial re-| “Tt hope at the banquet given by sources and the continued rape of | the country, under the guise of the proposed commercial agreement “which would increase the flow of goods between the two countries.” With these guarantees it is clear that the removal of the marines is but an empty gesture. The ma- vines have become unnecessary as the Vincent government of Wall Street lackeys have proved beyond doubt their loyalty and utter sub- serviency to the Wall Street mas- ters, This is shown in the cam- paign of bloody terror carried through by the reactionary Vincent government against the rising mass movement for national inde- pendence. The least expression of resistance to the imperialist masters is brutally suppressed. A state of siege is still maintained through- out the country. The revolutionary and oppositional press has been suppressed. The right of free . Congress. You ought to sell a lot of these around here.” By Burck Hitler sends Nazi literature printed in English direct speech and assemblage, as well as the right to strike, has been pro- hibited. The dungeons of the Vin-| government are filled with} revolutionary fighters and members | cent of the bourgeois liberal opposition. But this is not all. government of the big landlords, and native exploiters, as if to prove | beyond all doubt its loyalty to Wall | Street, has even gone to the extent of denying the Haitian United Front | Scottsboro Committee the right to collect subscriptions and hold meet- |ings in defense of the Scottsboro boys. Faithful Henchmen It is clear that American im- porialism can well dispense with the open military dictatorship of the marines, knowing that its in- terests will be well guarded by its faithful native henchmen. And to help its loyal henchmen in carry- ing through the bloody work of suppression of the masses in the interests of U. S. imperialism, | zecoeevele has cynically declared his hintention of requesting authority | from the Congress of the U. S. “to | make a gift to Haiti of a portion of the Marine Corps material which | the Haitian government feels would be useful to it.” | In addition, while talking of the removal of all armed forces from the island republic, the U. S. gov- ernment will maintain military ad- visers to the reactionary Vincent government, and naval and air bases in the country. This is not only directed against the Haitian peo- ple, but expresses the aggressive policy of U. S. imperialism in South America and its war moves against its imperialist rivals, England, Japan, etc. Such is the reactionary essence of this agreement between American imperialism and its Haitian vassals, which is hailed as a step toward Haitian independence. It is clear that this agreement will in no way alleviate the misery and sufferings of the masses of the Haitian people. American imperial- ism still retains its robber grip upon the country and its people. The agreement is a demagogic maneu- ver by the American imperialist government and its servile native bourgeois agents to throttle the ris- ing anti-imperialist “movement of the Haitian people with seeming concessions, while at the same time fortifying the position of U, S. im- perialism in the country. American imperialism also hopes by this ges- ture of “neighborly good will” to quiet the rising indignation of the masses of Caribbean and South | America against its imperialist ag- ‘gressions and thus to strengthen its position against its chief im- perialist rivals, Great Britain and Japan. Thus the capitalist press admits: “If today’s conference bears the fruit which is expected of it, one of the last remaining sources of bad feeling against this country in | Latin America will have been re- moved, officials here believe.” New Deal Swindle Such is the disgusting swindle | which American imperialism and its Haitian bourgeois lackeys are at- tempting to put over on the Haitian masses. Against this robbery, masked as independence, the Cen- tral Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. calls upon the Negro and white toilers and all anti-imperialist elements in the United States to rally to the de- fense of the Haitian masses. The Roosevelt “New Deal” government of Wall Street bankers, which is | pillaging and torturing the Haitian | masses, is the same pirate outfit | which under the “New Deal” pro- \gram is carrying out a vicious at- | tack on the living standards of the nying the right of workers to strike The Vincent | American masses, cutting wages, de- |. We Must Break the New Chains Roosevelt Has Forged Around Haiti! for better conditions, sharpening the | lynch terror against Negroes. The American toilers and the Haitian people face a common enemy—American imperialism. The | duty of every class-conscious Amer- ican worker is clear. The American workers must not only reject any responsibility for this despicable fraud, but must denounce and ex- pose it. They must rally to the support of the national liberation movement of the Haitian people to smash the slave agreement be- tween American imperialism and its native bourgeois lackeys. For the immediate, complete and unconditional independence of Haiti from imperialist Wall Street domination! Immediate withdrawal of all military forces of the American government—not only the ma- rines, but all warships, from Haitian waters! Removal of all governmental, military and finan- cial advisers! Liquidation of the | naval and air bases! Immediate cancellation of all loans imposed upon Haiti! Annulment of all robber treat- ies granting privileges to the im- perialist pirates! Flood President Roosevelt and the U. S. State Department with protest resolutions, telegrams, etc., with these demands! Raise them in your every-day struggles, in your shops, unions and other or- ganizations, Long live the liberation strug- gles of the Haitian people! Long live the Communist Party of Haiti! Long live the international solidarity of the American and Haitian toilers! Pittsburgh Irish Club Hears Murray Communist Leader To Speak in 4 More Cities Before Departure PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 10.—An enthusiastic meeting of Irish work- ers in Gladstone school, Hazelwood, on Monday, heard Sean Murray, leader of the Communist Party of Ireland, speak on the revolutionary movement in Ireland. John Laffey presided. Terrence O'Connor, ex- Pperienced fighter in the Irish Re- publican movement, outlined the aims of the Irish Workers Clubs, and the urgent need of assisting the building of the revolutionary movement in Ireland. Over 20 workers joined the club and a large amount of literature was sold. The club proposed to hold another mass meeting in the center of Pittsburgh on May 24, at which Sean Murray will speak on his re- turn trip to New York. Comrade Murray is scheduled to speak in the following cities: Cleve- land, May 10-12; Detroit, May 14-15; Chicago, May 17-20; St. Louis, May 22 and 23. Draft Resolution for YCL Convention Will Appear Wednesday The draft resolution for the Seventh National Convention of the Young Communist League, U. S. A., will be printed in full in the Daily Worker of Wednes- day, May 16. Y.C. L. and Party members and all revolutionary workers must be sure to make arrangements to receive and study this important document. On the |World Front By HARRY GANNES Plan vs. A.A.A.-N.R.A. Warships Near Yemen | Mussolini Cuts Wages | Self-Consuming Cows | IJHILE the imperialist coun: | tries are wracked with trade wars, are loading the | backs of the working class | with heavy war expenditures. |from the Soviet Union comes |news of tremendous gains of Socialist construction. The Daily Worker has already; published the startling fact that! by May 1, 90,000,000 acres were planted this year in the U.S.S.R. a: against 65,000,000 acres last year. Roosevelt, through the A.A.A., cuts acreage planted in the US. and through the N.R.A, slashes the abil- ity of the workers to buy whatever is harvested. In the Soviet Union the workers and farmers look for- ward assured of an increased stand- ard of living, of rapid development towards a well-to-do life. Other achievements of the prole- tarian dictatorship under the Sec- ond Five-Year Plan as well, are 8 revolutionary encouragement to the whole world proletariat The output of heavy industry ex- ceeds that of the same period of last year. Here are some outstand- | ing examples: Coal mining industry has sur- passed 1933 by 30 per cent; the oil industry by 26.9 per cent; pig iron by 60.7 per cent; steel by 49.2 per cent; rolling mill products by 41.6 per cent; motor trucks by 55 per cent; tractors by 59.2 per cent. The whole list is tco long to mention here. But the sum anc substance of it all is that Socialism is rapidly advancing, that every day makes life look brighter in the Soviet Union, just when it begins to look darker and darker in the capitalist world, with war drawing nearer, and the proletariat being made ready to be plunged into a new world Slaughter so that Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Hirota, or Mr. Chamberlin, or Mr. Hitler (agents of their class, the capitalist class) can obtain more markets and colonies to enslave more people and make more profits, so that capitalism can be held on the brink of its doom just a little longer. * | | @INCE our last writi perialist depredations in South Arabia, where the British imperial- ist lion is in the process of swal- lowing and digesting the little coun- try of Yemen, we have obtained some more interesting facts. We get them from ‘Colonial News,” bulletin of the International Secre- tariat of the League Against Im- perialism and for National Inde- | pendence, The last news received was that Ibn Saud, British tool, well armed by his backers, with his fierce+ Wahabi warriors, had overwhelmed the troops of the Imam of Yemen, and had captured Sana. British battleships rushed to the scene and landed troops and marines at Ho- deida, the port of Yemen on the Red Sea. Now what was not clear: was the purpose of Mussolini's war dogs who were standing nearby waiting for the event. It seems that a few years ago Italy concluded an agree- ment with the Imam Yahya of Yemen. Italy was granted practi- cally a trade monopoly in return for 4 supplying the Imam with aero- Planes and munitions of war. Italian merchants were estab- jished in Yemen and Yemenis were recruited for the Italian forces in Samoliland just across the Red Sea. All this did not fit in with the British war plans in the Near, Mid- dle and Far East. Near Yemen the British have the naval base of Aden, whioh controls all European trade to the Far East through the Suez Canal. Through Ibn Saud, ruler ot Saoudi Arabia, they put forward territorial demands. Now the war is on and the British are grabbing new colonial territory in Arabia in their efforts to make all of Arabia @ vassal of English imperialism. ier aia s Only the briefest notice, and no comment, appeared in the Italian Fascist press announcing a wage cut for all government employees, ‘Wages were cut in the following ra- tio: 6 per cent for those earning 500- 1,000 lire per month; 8 per cent for salaries from 1,000-1,500 per month; 10 per cent from 1,500-2,000, and 12 per cent for those receiving salaries exceeding 2,000 lire per month. ae oe IN DENMARK, the Socialist gov- ernment has discovered a new wrinkle in cooperatives. A cooper- ative for the destruction of cattle has been organized. The beasts are converted into albumen cakes and fed to other cattle to be destroyed, and in turn made into albumen cakes. The press report transmit- ting the story to us comments: “The herbivorous cow is transformed into a carnivorous animal so that it can consume itself, while human beings, lords of creation, stand by and starve.” ’ * Troops Kill 7 Greek Strikers in Athens ATHENS, May 10.—Six men and one woman were killed here at Ka- lanta Harbor when police and troops turned machine guns on har- bor strikers yesterday. Scores were injured by bullets _ Despite the machine gun fire, the strikers held their ground and finally drove the police and soldiers away. the Government has ordered troop enforcements. The bodies of the dead anc wounded lay in the streets for many hours after the fighting was over. The strikers were protesting againsi new speed-up devices which threw many of them out of jobs. The po lice claim they tried to destroy the new grain-conveying system,