The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight AMY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 193% Daily <QWorker SRPTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTRRMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 56 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4- 7954. s Building, 705, Cheago, TM year, $6.00 cents 1 year, $9.00 cents. SATURDAY, 1934 A Boon for Whom? ESTRUCTION of 1,000,000 bushels of D wheat in month, with the per- spective of a reduction of the national sur- plus by 200,000,000 bushels is declared to be a boon “‘to the farmers” by experts of the Department of Agriculture. Draught, windstorms and bad weather that destroy the hard labor of the farmers, that still further cut down,the amount of wheat he can expect, is looked upon as a god-send by the Roosevelt administration But whom will these natural catastrophes benefit? Will they bring increased incomes to the farmers? Many farmers will be wiped out en- tirely, those now in the path of the huge dust storms tearing across the Western wheat states. Others, who have cut their acreage down, will be left with only a fraction of what they planted. ‘The ones to benefit will be the huge grain specu- lators who already have their grain options. The rich farmers, who have huge acreages and can ex- pect fair-sized crops, despite the A.A.A. reductions and the natural catastrophes. The workers will suffer through increased bread prices. MAY 12, one bugs, 'HE Roosevelt administration of planned destruc- tion can well feel happy over wanton destruction of wheat because it will help those whom the Roose- velt. government has been aiding—the grain specu- lators, fhe bankers, and the rich farmers. For the poor and middle farmers, the destruction is just what the logical human mind expects it to be—a disaster of the first magnitude. They, too, will have to pay increased prices for flour and other commodities, and will have less money with which to pay their debts. The impoverished farmers faced with this na- tural catastrophe, plus the catastrophes heaped on them by the Roosevelt regime, are confronted with finding a way out. The Communist Party through its Farmer Emergency Relief Bill, which gives the only immediate solution for improving the lot of the most exploited,—the poor and middle farmer, offers that way out. O, But Why? T IS a curious affinity which causes Hit- ler supporters who have organized them- selves under the name of “The German- American Federation” to endorse a number of candidates of the Socialist Party in Pittsburgh. And it is of course exceedingly embar- rassing for the leaders of the Socialist Party and very hard indeed to “explain” to the rank and file Socialist workers For they do not deny that they received a letter from John Gloeckner, legislative chairman of the German-American Federation informing them that “we are pleased to inform you that after careful consideration of your questionnaire, and your fit- ness for office, we endorse your candidacy .. .” The Pittsburgh Nazis endorsed a number of So- cialist Party nominees. This is admitted by the current issue of The New Leader, official organ of the Socialist Party. “The party spurned the endorsement,” declares the New Leader and continues with labored sar- ca. “The Communist press, however, with its char- acteristic zeal for truth, honor and fairness, promptly broadcast the reported endorsement of the Socialist candidates, totally ignoring the indignant repudi- ation by the Socialists of the proffer of aid by the allies of the Nazi assassins.” Very courageous words indeed. the Na: cialist Pa: On another page of this issue Tony Minerich describes the local circumstances in Pittsburgh and suggests that one of the Socialist candidates, Julius Weisberg, S. P. leader and representative of the Jewish Daily Forward in Pittsburgh, was endorsed because of his pernicious campaign of slander against Lord Marley touring for the American League Against War and Fascism, charging that Marley was diverting funds intended for anti-fas- cist fighters. There is, however, a more basic affinity between the Pittsburgh Nazis and the Socialists, and rank and file Socialist workers will do well to ponder on ® situation where Hitlerites can seek the election to Office of S. P. candidates. In Germany the Social-Democrats paved the way for Fascism by their support of Hindenburg on the miserable theory of “the lesser evil.” In Austria the Social-Democrats disarmed the working class, dallied with the fascist murderers until it was too late—in spite of the tremendous heroism of the Social-Democratic workers—to make an effective fight against Dollfuss and his gang. In the United States the Socialist Party carries on no real struggle against the Roosevelt regime, but on the contrary, helps pave the way for Fascism by supporting the New Deal on the ground that “it is a step toward Socialism.” Socialist workers! Separate yourself from the stinking carrion of the Socialist bureaucracy! Join the only real fighter of the working class, the only genuine foe of fascism everywhere—the Communist Party of the U. 8. A. But why did choose to endorse candidates of the So- 7 La Guardia’s “Blessing” a committee caught Mayor La- dia just as he was leaving City Hall several days ago to demand a permit for the anti-Nazi meeting in Yorkville, the Mayor told them they had his “blessing” that he didn’t want to interfere in Police Department affairs any longer. but Thursday night, at Second Avenue and 86th St., the anti-f workers got a taste of LaGuardia’s ." They learned very definitely, as the forty-one arrested and many injured can testify, what LaGuardia means when he says he “will not interfere” in police department affairs. It means: “The police are going to break up your rally. They're going to use clubs and fists, horses and autos, in attacking you. nothing. And I won’t stop them!” They'll stop at This is what the “progressive” Mayor of New York means, and it is not the first time that he has demonstrated this stand. Workers throughout New York City bear cruel scars to prove this. The Daily Worker has already branded La- Guardia aS a friend of the Nazis who hypocritically calls himself an anti-fascist. On Thursday night LaGuardia’s police who, at a single sign from the Mayor, could have allowed the demonstration to proceed militantly but peacefully, brutally rode into the line of the anti-fascist workers, lacking this sign. They isolated some of the leaders in dark hallways, clubbing them to the ground and con- tinued to beat and kick him them with a brutal sad- ism equalled only by their Nazi counterparts. They struck a woman to the ground in the path of a mounted cop. They ran toward a group of neigh- borhood children who were shouting “Down With Hitler,” swinging clubs and bellowing filthy epithets. They acted just as Hitler would have wanted them to act. Not a day passes without a new anti-working- class act on the part of LaGuardia and his Fusion gang. The list of attacks is piled higher and higher, as is the resentment of the masses of New York. This resentment must be organized in order to be effective, in order to combat and successfully de- feat the Fusion gang and the decayed system which it so ruthlessly and unscripulously upholds. The best way to accomplish this is to recruit more and more workers into our militant and fighting organi- zations, and into the only political party which un- flinchingly fights against this system, the Communist Party, The Tour of Sean Murray QE of the key questions of international U politics today is the so-called “Trish question.” Robbed by their English and native exploiters, a prey to demagogues of the Eoin O’Duffy stripe, held in thrall by the Catholic Church and faced with the false friendship of certain sections of the American capitalist class, the Irish masses are, nevertheless, finding their way out, the way of revolutionary struggle, headed by the Irish working- class, the only way to national liberation for Ire- land. The Irish question is close to the heart of the American workers. Wave after wave of Irish immi- grants have come to the United States. They have settled here and become an integral part of the American working class. In some cities, particu- larly New York, the Irish workers practically man the rapid transit and surface lines. To win these workers for the cause of the revo- lutionary struggle here in the United States, it is absolutely essential to carry on agitation and or- ganization not only around the every-day bread and butter issues right here, but it is necessary to have a thorough understanding of the Irish national question and the struggle going on in Ireland, a struggle which the Irish workers here follow with avid attention. The Irish-American masses cannot be won away from their middle class county leaders and county organizations—which bind them along “back home” lines to Irish-American poli- ticians in this country—by anything except a Party which understands the Irish national question and carries on a militant struggle here in the U. S. . * * 1 Hat Present speaking tour of Sean Murray, secre- tary of the Communist Party of Ireland, is of the greatest importance to the Communist Party of the United States and to all revolutionary workers. It gives our Party an unparalleled opportunity of or- ganizing new points of support in the U. S. for the revolutionary struggle in Ireland and, at the same time, of reaching Irish masses who hitherto have been completely under the domination of the church and their county organizations, Comrade Murray is still to speak in a number of cities (Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, ete.) On May 30 Comrade Sean Murray will be given a farewell banquet in New York at Irving Plaza. Comrade Earl Browder and other leaders of the American Communist Party will speak there. This affair must be a rousing political demonstration at which thousands of New York workers will show their support of the struggles of the Irish masses. Every district of the Communist Party, every workers’ organization, must regard it as a task of the highest importance to prepare for the Sean Murray meetings and to mobilize thousands of work- ers to attend these. This will be a very simple but effective way of showing our solidarity with the fight for the national and social liberation of the Trish workers and peasants. | 36 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Piease send me more information cn the Commu- | | nist Party, H Jed the Communist fer NAME.. Troops Sent Against Workers 12 VERA CRUZ, Mexico, May 11— | Troops have been ordered to the southern Vera Cruz oil @:lds against 3,500 strikers in the em- | ploy of the British Eagle Oil Co. |. RIDGEFIELD, Strike in Bergen County 00 Road Workers On|CHAUVINISM BEING AROUSED | RIO DE JANEIRO, May 11— Bitter chauvinist feeling against Japanese workers and small busi- _Mess men is being stirred up here, J.— (F.P.).—) following the killing of five Japa- N. The Mexican government is sup- porting the refusal of the oil com- pany to grant any wage increases to oil workers. The workers are also demand- ing better living quarters, saying they are forced to live worse than pigs. The Mexican government is planning to declare the strike Megal, Highway construction on three pro- | Jects in Bergen County, N. J., was at a standstill when 200 workers | struck, demanding a pay increaze from 40¢ to 63¢ an hour. | Tell your friends and shopmates ‘| | about the Daily Worker, Let them | read your copy, Ask them to sub- scribe, nese and the injuring of 16 on the framed-up charge of “rape,” near | the city of Sao Paulo. Brazilian thugs attacked a colony of Japa- nese farm laborers yesterday and instigated the murder. There are 140,000 Japanese in Brazil who have entered the country during the past 10 years, and the government is now proposing to end devil's seed. It carries with it hun- | completed. The last explosion shook Japanese immigration, Of Lenin In Soviet Union For Work in Political Sections Building So- cialism in Country MOSCOW, May 11 (By Radio) — One hundred and fifty-eight work- ers in the political sections and directors of machine and tractor stations and collective farms have been awarded the Order of Lenin by decision of the Central Execu- tive Committee of the U. S. S. R. for their self-denying work in So- cialist reconstruction in the coun- tryside and for prominent large- scale political and organizational work in raising the material and cultural level of collective farmers. They were also honored for their work of consolidation of collective farms. The news of their decoration comes on the eve of the report that by May 5 the Soviet sowing cam- paign had exceeded last year's planting by 30,000,000 acres. | “Pravda,” central organ of: the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in an editorial on the event, writes: | Gained Great Authority “During the short time of its work, the political sections have gained tremendous authority, and the love not only of the countryside but also of the towns. They were the direct organizers of the successes gained during the past year in So- cialist agriculture. The political sections were organized at a moment of great changes in collective farm- ‘ing. Labor discipline on the col- lective farms was then insufficiently |strong. Many collective farmers | were still soiled by kulak (rich farmer) elements. | “Socialist reorganization of agri- culture was entering upon its crown- | ing period, and new efforts and a) new flow of Bolshevik energy was essential. | “The new form of organization | and the application of forces were equally essential. This form was found by the eminent strategist of | the proletarian revolution, Stalin. | “To make the collective farmers Bolshevik collective, well-to-do | farmers—such was the slogan. | Our 10,000 Selected |. “The Party sent over 10,000 se- | lected Bolsheviks into the coun’ | side to the machine and tractor sta-| tions and collective farms for di-| rect struggle in the realization of | these problems, | |__ “With characteristic energy the Bolshevik members of the political | Sections threw themselves into the struggle. Rolling up thier sleeves they started to work, making light of the hardest jobs. And with what brilliant results! Thousands of col- | hopelessly backward, fulfilling nei-| ther their productive plans, nor) | their obligations towards the state,| | have become leading examples of | Bolshevik collective farmers. “Tens of thousands of families of | collective farmers have already |reached a prosperous life in the |current year. The state farms have become models of profitable Soviet| economic enterprises. The country) obtained a record harvest in 1933, | “Socialist competition in the coun- | tryside touched the very lowest lay-| ers, and embraces absolutely all re-| gardless of age. That the successes of 1933 are not only incidental, that they are only the beginning of a) real move forward, may be seen from | | the Spring sowing carried on in the! present year. | | “Such quality, such speed in the) | sowing has never been seen in the) \collective farms, nor by the coun-| | tryside generally.” | a paper of their own, The Daily Worker suggests to Postmaster-General Farley a design for the “Mother’s Day” stamp to take the place of the Whistler painting to which many art loyers have raised loud objections. x BERLIN, (By Mail).—The revolu- tionary railway workers have once more been successful in bringing out , which is dis- | tributed among railwaymen in Ber- llin stations, roundhouses, repair shops. The 16 pages of this neatly mime- | ographed sheet draws the balance! | lective farmers, formerly considered] sheet of the Nazi swindle on the|™an.” state railways. They show how the| rapid falling off of train movements) gives the lie to the optimistic eco-| |momic reports published by the fas- | February 2nd, by the Nazi State | cists. Figures and facts are printed, | owing how the conditions of the} railway workers have been worsened | by speeding-up and by reductions in | pay of every description. An interesting workers’ corre-| respondence describes how Storm) Troopers, employed in a railway | depot in the North of Berlin, raised a protest against the bad working | conditions. They were suspected of | | being Communists in Storm Troop) paper h 0 ‘ ‘uniforms. These misled proletarians| Berlin: “An illegal Communist mag-| Interior, Goering, is very dissatis- have\ so little an idea of what a/ Communist is, that they, on their | part, accused their foreman, respon- | sible for speeding them up, of being | a Communist. Wider political questions are taken | up, A supplement of the “Red Rail-| wayman” describes the maltreat- ment and threats against Comrade} Thaelmann, and calls for the for-| mation of “‘Thaelmann committees” at all railroad centers. Thanks are given for the solidar- ity of the French railway workers, whose assistance made possible the publication of the “Red Railway- An article is devoted to the mem- ory of the revolutionary railway- man, Erich Steinfurt, murdered on Secret police, together with the un- forgettable heroic comrades Scheer, murdered by the Nazis. The question of the formation of a body of illegal functionaries, and of groups of independent class trade unions, is presented in a popular manner. oh ee STRASSBOURG. — The capitalist “Republique” reports from azine ‘The Red Banner,’ has during the last few weeks made its ap- pearance among the storm troopers in Berlin in such large numbers that | r \the so-called ‘field-police,’ a police| (secret state police), because the corps of the Storm Troops, raided ‘Red Press In Germany Shows Patterson to Speak Rise of Anti-Fascist Actions at Ball. for Filipino Political Prisoners NEW YORK.—William Patterson, Secretary of the International La- bor Defense will speak at the Mas- querade Ball and Concert being held on Saturday, May 12, 1934, at 3200 Coney Island Ave, Brooklyn, for the support of the political prison- ers in the Philippines, and against the terror there. Only a few days ago three taxi drivers were sentenced to death on the charge of having killed a scab during the taxi strike. This Concert. and Ball has been arranged to raise money to help free the 16 revolu- tionary leaders in jail in the P. I. The price of admission is 35c. This Ball and Concert is being held un- d|Schonhaar and Schwarz, likewise|der the auspices of the Filipino Anti-Imperialist League and the In- ternational Labor Defense. in some of the storm groups. The results has so far been naught. The field police did find many copies of the ‘Red Banner,’ but in no case | dia they find more than one copy, “The Prussian Minister of the fied with these results and insists that the matter should be taken out of the hands of the ‘field police’ and be taken over by the ‘Gestapo’ | ‘field police’ is said to be strongly the houses of every storm trooper infested with unreliable elements.” A New Imm ae 6 A New Life Springing Up in Bokhara, Middle Asia By VERN SMITH (Daily Worker Moscow Corre- spondent) | FORMERLY it grew only on the! |F banks of the Nile, on the soil! |abundantly fertilized by the rich| | slime of the Nile and the salted sweat of the colonial slaves. | The learned professors of the cot-| ton institutes of America and Eng- |land, used to state that it could | ripen only under the skies of Egypt, | Colorado and Arizona. The busi- |nessmen of Wall Street and London |found that cloth out of its fibre |could be made only in the mills of | Manchester and the United States, Some years ago a native of Egypt | was brought to Soviet Tadjikistan. Here, in the region of Sarai-Kamar on the border of Afganistan, the visitor was gladly welcomed by the | tropical ‘sun, the fertile soil and |... the Bolsheviki. Artemiev, a very stubborn and in- | sistent person, an enthusiast of So- viet cotton growing for years dreamt about cultivating Egyptian cotton in the U.S. 8S. R. He was the first to start experimenting with Egyptian cotton—in the garden of his house he planted 20 such seeds. Days passed and the delicate cot- ton shoots already changed into bushes. The agronomist walked about like one in love; he every day watered the bushes, carefully fcl- lowed and made notes in a book on the appearance of every new leaf, every pod. The experiment was successful. The bushes of the agronomist Ar- temiev gave forth long silkish fibre and many seeds. And the year 1931 in Sarai-Ka- struggle for the mass planting of | “Egyptian.” The seed brought from the banks of the Nile and cultivated on the | soil of Soviet Tadjikistan met with |a violent reception on the part. of the Baistvo (kulaks). to village spread the evil agitation defaming Egyptian cotton. | Do not plant red cotton. It is the | ger and sickness. mar already became the year of) From village Tocks and the terrible crash of the igrant in U.S.S.R. -Egyp But the Dekhane (peasants) al- ready knew its value—a rich harvest of long, strong and the most deli- cate fibre. For the Dekhane, Egyptian cotton became the banner of struggle against the Baistvo. For the tractor, for the collective farm, for new Socialist economics. Headed by Communists and Kom-' somols the collective farmers and) peasants on horse-back, on cows} and on camels planted in 1931 3,000 hectares with Egyptian cotton. | On thousands of hectares Egyp-) tian cotton is now growing in Sarai- Kamar. Not only the agronomist- enthusiast alone but also the col- lective farm peasantry of the region, from the Komsomol to the old man,| from the brick-layer to the chair-) man of the collective farm, are with} love and tenderness: cultivating the) red cotton. “Egyptian” home-country. The Wild Vakhsh Subdued by the Bolsheviks The vast spaces of the Vakhsh.) in climate not second in place to) the Nile valley with the most fer-| tile soil in the world on which or- anges, lemons*and the best sort of Egyptian cotton—Maarat, can grow, was still some years back waste land. With the exception of two, three villages, situated at a distance of hundreds of versts from each other it was difficult to come across a person in these parts. Waste land, wild, uninhabitable Vakhsh. There was no water. The river carried its water sidewards. In 1929 the Central Committee of the Party took a decision on the Vakhsh irrigation construction. In the valley of the Vakhsh in the most remote republic of the union, on the borders of China, India and Afghanistan, the most grandiose ir- tigation system in the world had to be built which had to water tens of thousands of hectares of land planted with Egyptian cotton. The Vakhsh construction went ahead at unprecedented tempos. | Twenty-four excavators ceaselessly |day after day scooped up the in- | tractable land, amonal blew up the has found a second) explosions shook the wilderness, | On ‘the 12th of September, 1933, |the Vakhsh irrigation canal was tian Cotton which divided the canal from the The Vakhsh Flows Along river. The Vakhsh turned its waters into the valley to fertilize the soil, to irrigate the fields on which in the Spring of 1934, 12,000 hectares of Egyptian cotton will be planted, and afterwards, after the completion of the second irrigation network— 70,000 hectares. A meeting was in progress in honor of the opening of the Vakhsh canal. From the most far-off vil- lages of the valleys, the collective farm peasants assembled at the crosspiece. On the tribune, old Mir-Ali— chairman of the collective farm “Gulistan”—rose to speak. The wind flapped the hem of his holiday gown and his white beard fluttered with the breeze, the beard of a biblical patriarch. In a colorful and vivid language, the language of the sing- ers of ballads in tea-houses, he said: “I have five score years on my shoulders. I well remember this valley, although the Dekhane from Kurgan-Tube and Djilikul rarely visited this wilderness, this place scorched by the sun’s heat. Only five years ago here, the panthers used to tear away from us our horses and sheep.” But this was a thing of the past. Now the Vakhsh flows along a new canal—bearing the name of our loved and wise leader—Joseph Stalin. “Maybe only we old inhabitants of the valley, old cotton workers, can fully value the significance of the Vakhsh construction. It brings us water, which means also Egyp- tian cotton and with that a well- to-do, happy collective farm life. “About the Vakhsh, the Party, which has given us Vakhsh, the peasants of Afghanistan and India know. y know what it gives the collective farm peasantry of Tadjik- istan and our example will teach them to fight for a brighter life.” Schools, Culture, Electricity “Egyptian” has found its second, | its own, socialist mother country. | The former slaves of the Emir of |Bokhara, the oppressed “national | minorities of the Russian state, uniting in the collective farm, work- ing conscientiously, taking care of collective farm property, have achieved remarkable successes, en- the valley, smashing the crosspiece tering on the road to. a well-to-do a New Canal Watering the Fields life: Every collective farm peasant of the “Comintern” received this year for every labor day five kilos of wheat, two kilos of dried fruit, and 10 roubles. And together with so- cialist economics has come socialist national culture. The collective farm has built a big, light club, a beautiful tea-house, is carrying through the complete liquidation of the illiteracy of its members. A well-to-do and cultural life is taking place in the cotton collec- tive farm. Mansur Khosratkulov of the collective farm “Yangi-Ul” of Shirabadsky region, Uzbekistan, bought himself a cow, four sheep, four goats and a lot of underwear, a blanket and wonderful carpet for 250 roubles. For five years of in- human work in individual farming he would not have possessed that. which he now earned for one year of collective labor. A New Life—New Songs ‘There was nothing more plaintive and more sad than the songs sung by the peoples of Middle Asia. Even in the rare days. of gaiety here, mournful songs telling about op- pression and sorrow were sung. The people knew no other songs. But today, together with the sun already not the former slaves of the Emir of the Bokhara, oppressed by tsarism, come to the cotton fields, but the free citizens of the Soviet country for their labor on the cot- ton fields has become the thing of honor, glory, valor and heroism— and an altogether new life. The faces of the girls are not covered by the disfiguring veil. They are with clear, wonder-struck eyes, look- ing on at the world. Communism .. . a new life, a free life carrying with it a beau- tiful future for the cotton workers on the far outskirts of Middle Asia —it is understood created also new |cong:, composed in the fields when |gathering the cotton, songs on “Egyptian,” on shock brigade work and carrying the sound of courage and happiness, carrying the sound of joy, unheard-of until now on this still, not long back, wild wasteland, \scorched by the sun's hi $ | On the | World Front By HARRY GANNES | Sugar and Rubber Taxes in 30 Days | Colonial Unemployment QUGAR and rubber have | again come into the lime- | light of imperialist politics. |Last Thursday, President Roosevelt signed the Costi- |gan-Jones sugar production | bill, making of the Hoover- |Chadbourne plan for the control of | Cuban sugar, a second-rate piker. The Costicon-Tones bill ic 9 mas- terly piece of imperialist knavery It provides for the absolute controt }and reduction of sugar production in Cuba. the Philipvine Islands, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Virgin Is- lands and the United States. Every worker in the United States, as well as the majority of the farm- ers, will be forced to pay increased prices for sugar in order to insure huge profits to the big sugar trusts, the rich landowners, and the Wall Street bankers. Seldom has a president, ever taken such an out-and-out drastic step in the interest of the Wall Street colonial slaveholders at the im- mediate expense of both the colonial masses and the American workers short of actual war. Here is how the matter works. In 30 days after the signing of the bill. sugar becomes a “basic agri- cultural commodity” under the Agricultural Adjustments Act. All sugar consumed in the United States is to have a processing tax slapped on it, which forthwith raises the price. Then all imports are to be regulated and strictly allotted among the various yankee colonies. The tariff on Cuban sugar will be lowered slightly. Through the processing tax alone, the Roosevelt government will wring out of the American workers a yearly sum of $63.000,- 000. Of this $20,000,000 will go to the rich American sugar plant- ers in this country to pay them for the forced reduction of sugar acreage. But that is only half of the price story. With reduced sugar acreage, and strictly al- lotted quotas on imported sugars, the increase in price will net the sugar manufact rs additional hundreds of millions of dollars. So much for Roosevelt's latest present to sweeten the life of the forgotten man. How does the other class fare, the big sugar trusts, the huge land- owners, and the American bankers with their hundreds of millions of dollars investments in these yankee colonies that grow sugar? Le The total sugar consumption for the United States for 1934 is esti- mated at 6,452,000 tons. On this basis, Roosevelt has the power to designate a cabinet com- mittee to set quotas at his discretion for Cuba, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines and the Virgin Islands. These quotas will be set to suit the needs of the American sugar producers in these countries at the expense of the small landlords, agricultural laborers and sugar workers. In Cuba, where U. S. imperialism controls over 80 per cent of the sugar centrals, and huge slices of the cane lands. it means that the quotas will fall into the hands of the American exploiters who will be guaranteed a profitable market at high prices on the limited sugar output. For the small sugar cane planter, for the Cuban colonos, it means ruin and starvation. For the sugar mill workers it means permanent and unalleviated unem- ployment. For example, Cuba, capable of producing over 4,000,000 tons of sugar a year, is allotted, on the pre- liminary estimates, a.vund 1,944,000 tons. With the monovoly market created by the bill, this provides huge profits at lowered production for the American bankers controlling Cuban sugar. For the Cuban peas- ants, it means half their land must le idle; it means that half of the Sugar workers are permanently and totally unemovloyed. Bi ee HE same situation occurs In Ha- waii, Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. In the Philippines the situation is a little more complicated, and fraught with still more disaster for the masses. The Filipino people have a double-dose of Roosevelt's New Deal shoved on them at the same time. ‘Just before the pas- sage of the Jones-Costigan sugar bill, the Tydings-McDuffie so-called Indenendence Act was adopted by the Filipino legislature. This “inde- pendence” act provides that in 16 years the Philippines be given the semi-colonial status of Cuba, plus the retention of American financial and military control over the is- Jands. Up to now, Philippine sugar has come into the United States unrestricted and dutv free. Under the new sugar act, the amount {s strictly limited to 1,550,000 tons a year, and at the end of 10 years a duty will be imposed on Phil- ippine sugar. American control over Philippine sugar is not as absolute as it is in Cuba. The immediate effect of the Roosevelt sugar measure will be te intensify the agrarian crisis in the islands, The quota is sufficient to satisfy the needs of the big American pro- ducers, who are compensated for the reduction by the increased price forced on the American workers; but the Filipino peasant, up to his neck in debt, bound hand and foot to the big landowner, faces catas- trophe. ‘The very allotments themselves, which gear the sugar industry ta the monopolized American markets, give Wall Street greater control over these colonies, and greater fields for imperialist maneuvering. Mere subservient economic slavery for the colonial masses at the expense of hither prices for the American workers, and vastly greater profits for the American sugar trusts, hankers and rich landowners—that is the sum and substance of the Roosevelt sugar — ca re tie nc oe NE RN mom.