The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily .Q' GERITRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUMIST HTH! Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY “America’s Only EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 59 E. 13th Street, New York, N, ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-79 54. Press Building Room 105, Oheago, Tl 1 year, $8.00 ear, $9.00 TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1934 Communists, Into the Strike Front! T IS important to note the qualitative dif- ference that marks the present strike wave from the struggles last year. First, the present strikes are increas- ingly political in character. Last year the workers fought the employers with the illusion that they had Roosevelt and the N.R.A. on their side. This year the workers are learning that to fight the bosses they also fight, not with, but against, the Roosevelt Labor Boards and the N.R.A. codes. The workers are up in struggle against every- thing the N.R.A, slave codes have brought them, the speed-up, the wage-cuts, the spread-work plans, the company unions, the strike-breaking compul- sory arbitration. Secondly, the biggest battles are now taking place in the country’s basic industries, marine coal, auto. Clearly, big strike battles are brewing in steel. Now it is the most vital spots in the armor of American Wall Street imperialism that are be- ing struck by the strike wave. - must This gives all working class fighters, especially the members of the Communist Party, serious responsibilities and tasks. Every Communist has the duty of immediately getting as much as pos- sible into the front ranks of the present strike struggles, There must be no hesitation or delay. Deep into the ranks of the striking workers we must go at once. Right into the front lines of the battle—that is where we belong! These direc- tives apply in every Party district. We must set up new connections with the strikers, establish strong roots in all the strike areas, Then we must to work to accomplish the following tasks: get We must not permit any obstacles or difficul- ties to stop us in forming the broadest opposition movements in the A. F. of L. unions. Not an A. F. of L. local must meet in the strike areas without at least one Party comrade present, or a distribu- tion of a Party leaflet on the strike situation. Rank and File Strike Committees. We must make every effort to get the strikes into the hands of the workers themselves, warning them in leaf- lets and at meetings against every effort of the A. F. of L. leadership to weaken the workers’ fight, making clear that sooner or later they will try to break the strike through “arbitration.” The striking workers must be warned to de- mand broad rank and file votes on all decisions affecting the strike. They must be told that the most militant mass picketing, including the wo- men and children, must be demanded and ar- ranged over the heads of the A. F. of L. leaders, Attempts to split the ranks of the strikers. We must warn the workers against all the old tricks of the bosses, their press, and the’ A. F. of L. offi- cialdom, who will use slander and prejudice against the Negro workers, against the foreign-born work- ers, against Communist workers to split the unity of the workers, This is a stage that is reached in almost every strike. We must defeat these split- ting tactics, calling for unity of all workers, point- ing out how these splitting tactics play into the hands of the employers. Under no circumstances must the workers be tricked off the picket lines on the basis of “prom- ises,” to “settle in conference,” etc. This is what Communists should spread in all the strike areas, The building of the revolutionary opposition in the A. F. of L., and the building of the class struggle unions of the Trade Union Unity League, must go forward with new energy. A fight for an indepen- dent class struggle movement in the unions against the A. F. of L. officialdom must be waged. All Communists, into the strike front! Into the picket lines, union locals, and factories! Help lead the workers to victory against the Roosevelt-N.R.A. slave codes. The fight for the every day economic needs of the masses is the vital link to winning the majority of the American working class for the road to Soviet Power! Let us prove to the workers that we are the best defenders of their in- terests. Seize this link with unflinching hands. Comrades, to work! Cement the Unity of Jobless and Employed ! N ANSWER to the Roosevelt-inspired starvation levels of work relief, abandon- ment of C. W. A. and relief wage cuts, a new wave of struggles of the unemployed is sweeping the country. What distin- fuishes these struggles from past actions is the close unity being established between organized labor in the A. F. of L. unions and or- ganized unemployed under the leadership of the Unemployed Councils and the militant Relief Work- ors Associations. At the inception of the Roosevelt “work relief” program, relief workers throughout Ohio struck for a living wage. Immediately the rank and file in the A. F. of L. unions sprang to the support of the unemployed, and denounced and expelled from the unions those officials who acted as strikebreakers. They joined the unemployed on the picket lines. Today in Ohio, a state-wide strike of relief work- ers, supported by many workers in industry, looms. Relief officials, opening a reign of terror on the strikers, with wholesale arrests in an attempt to smash the strike, have categorically stated in many counties that they “feared a general strike of all workers if the demands of the relief strikers were granted.” In West Virginia, a state-wide conference to i Sy d nine action against the coolie wages of $6.30 to $9 a month for relief workers will be held on May 20. Here again the closest unity between em- ployed and unemployed is being formed. In a reso- 1 m de ing the starvation standards of work ief and demanding wages equal at least to those Harrison County Central Labor Union, with 9,500 members, has entered the fight of the unemployed. In Wichita. ter of the Kansas wheat dis- trict, where 3,000 sacks of flour are stored in the Federal warehouses while workers starve on the work relief wages, troops and police have unleashed a reign of terror against striking relief workers. Sioux City relief strikers are being slugged by po- lice and imported thugs. the cen The Unemployment Councils everywhere must cement the growing unity between the employed and unemployed, mobilizing the masses of job- less workers in active support of industrial strikes, forming of joint picket lines on relief projects and before struck factories, leading the workers in A. F. of L. strikes in the fight for full relief for all striking workers, mobilizing the A. F. of L. workers for actions at the relief bureaus for in- creased relief, and winning the fullest rank and file support to the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill (H.R, 7598). Children and the Crisis “(,HILD Sufferers in World Crisis Put at Millions” reads a headline in a re- cent issue of a metropolitan paper. A dis- patch from Geneva, which includes part of the report of the International Labor Office, does not state the exact number of the millions of children victimized by the acute international capitalist crisis. At least 6,000,000 children in the United States, however, “received insufficient nourishment in 1933 because their parents were without work or money.” This is a very polite and detached way of stating that 6,000,000 American working-class kids went | hungry, starved a The report also described wide-spread child misery in Germany, Great Britain, France, Austria and Poland, In the U. 8. A, out of 150 families “investigated,” 41 had inadequate clothing. Lack of shoes kept thousands of children from attending | school. | It is significant to note that the Soviet Union | does not appear in the Geneva Labor Office’s re- port. It is only in this land of the workers’ dic- tatorship that the health of children is of the most precious, the most profound concern to the gov- ernment. What hypocrisy this report reveals! The same boss’ governments which condemn men and women to joblessness, to wage levels impossible to live on, and their children to hunger, filth and disease, conduct international probes to ascertain the ef- fectiveness of their own hunger programs! Who Will Get The Silver | Dollars? | | IARLY this week Roosevelt will get a draft of the new “Silver Bill” which has been worked out by the Treasury and the “silver bloc” in Congress. The whole sub- | ject of silver has become prominent in the capitalist press. | This new silver legislation can only mean | further slashes in the buying power of the vast majority of the working class and impoverished farm population, | The silver plans of Roosevelt and the Congress- men are supposed to be in the interest of the | “little man,” the small farmer, etc. | This is an illusion. The effect of the Roosevelt silver plans will be only to give some quick, easy profits to the handful of silver speculators, Wall Street stockholders of silver mines, and Wall Street banks and brokerage houses who have stocked up on silver. The very holy Father Coughlin will make a nice easy profit of about one quarter of a million | dollars as soon as Roosevelt signs the silver pact. | But the millions who listen to this silver-tongued | faker will only get it in the neck, PEs eat emt | OOSEVELT’S plan is as follows: he will buy up all the silver from the speculators at 50 cents an ounce. This will cost the government $125,000,000 and will have to come eventually from the masses in taxes, or some other way. Against this silver $125,000,000 of paper money will be issued. Then Roosevelt will be authorized to buy silver in foreign markets until the ratio of silver to gold as backing for the paper money of the country will be at a ratio of $75 of gold and $25 of silver for every $100 of paper money. This will mean an additional cost of $750,000,000, with the issuance of $750,000,000 more paper money. | In other words, Roosevelt's silver plan is an- other step on the road of inflation. This is the road that has already cheapened the dollar to 60 per cent of its former value. This is the road that has shrunk every pay envelope in the country to close to half of what it was before 1929. By the silver plan, some of the rich cotton Plantation owners may temporarii~ sell more cotton abroad—at the expense of lower wages to their croppers. Prices will rise some more, | The silver plan is supposed to give the small | farmer, the masses, more money, But how will the small, impoverished farmer get hold of any of this new money? Where will he get it? Most of it will go to the very same people who now have too much already, to the Wall Street specu- lators, to the rich landlords, to the big farm corporations. And even if the “little man” gets some of this new silver money it will be shrinking in value | faster than he gets it, as a result of swiftly rising prices! The working class, the laboring farm popula- tion, must get together to fight this new silver plan, They should fight it by demanding increases in wages to meet the higher costs of living. They should demand adequate cash relief for unemploy- ment insurance, union wages on all government work relief projects. They should fight for can- cellation of all mortgage debts which weigh the impoverished farmer down, Not profits for the silver speculators, nor the handful of rich land- lords and cotton planters, but relief and security for the majority of the toiling population, the workers and farmers! That is our answer to the Roosevelt silver inflation. Rea Join the Communist Party: 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. | 1 Biaahe aad “ab nee information on the Commu- | | | nist Party. i 1} | NAME...... ADDRESS. .,,.,00cscresssesesescusccencsveceses | ! DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1934 Fight French Fascist Joan Of Are March) |Gov’t O firei al Leads Fascist March; Red Flag Raised PARIS, May 14—Communist and Socialist workers, together ‘ith revolutionary war vets here, fought throughout France against the huge Fascist mobilization aided by| the Doumergue government on the occasion of the 505th Anniversary | of the Joan of Arc victory yesterday. In Paris, the first contingent of the parade of the Fascist organiza- tions past the statue of Jona of Arc was led by Albert Sarraut, Minister of the Interior, officially represent- ing the government at the Fascist | demonstration. | When a march of veterans took | | place, revolutionary ex-servicemen| raised the Red Flag. and against) the Fascist slogans shouted “Long Live Soviet France!” “Down with} Fascism.” Several clashes took place. | In Lyons the revolutionary work- | ers daubed the statue of Joan of) Are with red paint. In Paris, acid was thrown at the statue. | Joan of Are day is usually cele- | brated by the most reactionary) forces in France. especicil the roy alists and the Catholic priesthood. | |This year it was made into a def- inite Fascist manifestation with the | Royalists, Right Wing Nationalists, | the Croix de Feu (Cross of Fire), jand other Fascist organizations shouting “Long Live the King!” |“Long Live the Army!” “Long Live | |La Roque!” La Roque is being} | groomed by the French finance capitalists the French Hitler. Chi. Meet Aimed At ‘Anti-Soviet Move | Demand Soviet Trade At Peoples Auditorium | Friday, May 18th CHICAGO, May 14.—A mass pro- test meeting has been called by the | Chicago local of the Friends of the | | Soviet Union for Friday, May 18. at) the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 Chi- cago Ave. The meeting is in pro- test against the ac’ion of the U. 8. | government in refusing credits to | the U.S, S. R. resentatives from mass organiza- tions will speak. “By this action the U. S. govern- ment joins openly the imperialist united front against the workers’ | country,” says a statement of the F.S. U. “It is a well-known fact | to kill Soviet workers and destroy | Soviet property. | pepulation to join | | this war move. We appeal espe-| | cially to the members of the Social- ! |ist Party and the A. F. of L., many) CENSORED! by Burck U. S. Women Start Socialist Competition to Prepare for International NEW YORK.—The United Coun- cil of Working Class Women has | decided to enter into socialist. com- jpevteon. with the Finnish Working Women’s Clubs during the campaign Robert Minor of the Communist | in preparation for the World Con-| the Party; Carl Haessler, managing edi-| 8TeSs of Women to be held in Paris) France. To carry through the cam-| tor of the Federated Press, and rep-| July 30 to plan a struggle against) paign successfully our organization | hunger, war and fascism. Both organizations have decided to choose two factories—preferably textile and metal, for concentration so as to develop an organization |there that will lead the struggle against war. They will print special that the Kerensky loans were used /| leaflets, conduct open air meetings and shop gate meetings, sell litera- | ture dealing with war preparations, “We appeal to all sections of the/|etc. to organize regional confer- us in fighting | ences, The Women’s Council, in a state-| ment declared: “We will make special efforts to | of whom helped us in the fight for | build our organization, by drawing recognition of the U. S. S. R.” On Germany's Debt Payment Sharpens BERLIN, May 14—Anglo-Amer- ican conflicts reached a sharp point here over German debt transfer ne- gotiations going on here. Repre- sentatives of British and American bankers are conferring with Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Reichstag presi- dent, on payment of interest and debt owned by foreign investors, The Nazis are maneuvering with each of the imperialist groups, of- fering them concessions in return for armaments and aid in preparing war against the Soviet Union. The British, who hold most of the Anglo-US. Conflict | in new members into the neighbor- ‘hood councils, we will make an ef- fort to help increase the circulation |of the Working Woman magazine by securing at least 50 new subscrip- tiens and increasing the sale above | the 1,000 a month which is done at | present. | “Our organization will make a short-term loans, proposed pay- ;ments which would favor them, while the Americans, holding bil- |lions in long term bonds, proposed settlement more favorable to Wall Street bankers. At the same time, the growing financial difficulties of the fascist flation, and a new onslaught against the German workers. Count ‘von Schwerin-Krosigk, Finance Minis- ter, in a speech here yesterday opened the way for inflation. Pre- viously, the Nazis had declared they were opposed to inflation. regime is opening the way for in-| Anti-War Meet | serious effort to raise $400 for the campaign. “Our organ‘zation will prepare a banner to express our solidarity with | | the European women to be sent with United States delegation to | has set up an anti-war commitee of seven. | | Regular meetings of the anti-war | committee and the chairman of the | local committees are being held. The joint committee of the U. C. | W. C. W. and the Finnish W. W. C. will meet and compare the progress | made, | Three mass meetings will be held |on a section basis with Anna Schultz as the main speaker. The entire campaign will lead in | the international proletarian idee | |for the freedom of the leader of |the German proletariat, Ernst Thaelmann and his comrades, Ernst! Torgler, Theodor Neubauer and all | those anti-fascists who are impris- oned in the fascist dungeons. The working women in the city |and on the farms will be mobilized | for the defense and protection of | the Soviet Union and Soviet China. Anna Schultz will speak at the | following places: | At the Meetings of the Women Councils Council 11 on Wednesday, May 16 at the | Cooperative Auditoriu |The Middle and Lower Bronx on Friday, May 18, at the Middle Bronx and Work- | ers Club, 432 Claremont Parkway. Bronxville Section on Saturday, May 19, at 1855 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn. New York, May 10, 1934. eo e At the Meetings of the Finnish Women Clubs Brooklyn Section, Thursday, May 17, Pin- nish Workers Hall. Harlem Section, Thursday, May 24, Fin- nish Workers Hall, 15 W. 126th St. Elmont, Long Island, Gun Hill Road and Port Chester, end’ of May and begin- ning of June, Japan Threat| ‘Threaten Force to ‘|been going on here for three | imper‘alist Made To Take’ North China Compel Granting of Demands SHANGHAI, May 14.—Invasion of North China by Japan is “inevitable,” declared Japanese military officials here today, unless the Chinese gov- ernment approves all of the pro- posals of the Japanese government and ends the negotiations that have months. The Nanking government has been offering the Japanese all sorts of concessions in North China, but have feared to come out openly be- cause of the growing ‘mass anti- sentiment throughout China. The Japanese military officials) declared that they will seize Peiping, | ancient capital of China, in order to force action. BRITISH WORKERS ROUT FASCIST NEWCASTLE - ON - TYNE, Eng- land, May 14—Workers incensed at fascist provocation at a meeting here yesterday, addressed by John Beckett, former Laborite member of Paliament and now a fascist, at- tacked the meeting and forced the fascist to run away. | Mounted police were called, and the fascists under their protection retired to their local headquarters. Stop depending for news and information on the capitalist press that favors the bosses and is against the workers. Subscribe to the Daily Worker, America’s only working-class daily news- paper. tending the Soviet districts in China, the Communist Party of China is rallying the exploited Chinese masses against the dis- memberment of China by the im- perialists. We print below the latest declaration of the Central Committee of the Corzmunist Party of China against the Jap- | anese imperialists’ plans for the invasion of North China.) * * . Vince enthronement of its puppet, Henry Pu Yi, predatory Japanese imperialism is openly contemplating further violences and outrages in North China with the annexation of the whole country as the main objective. Japanese imperialism has pre- sented the following demands on its agent in North China, Huang Fu, Chairman of the Peiping Political Council: 1) Immediate acceptance of all the conditions relating to | Sino-Japanese direct negotiations; 2) Complete evacuation of the old Manchurian troops (under Chang Hsueh-liang), as well as all other units, to be replaced by Japanese and Manchukuo troops; 3) com- plete suppression of all anti-Jap- anese. and anti-imperialist bodies, to be replaced by Japanese and Manchukuo organizations; 4) Pro- tec‘ion to be given by the authori- ties in North China to Pu Yi when the latter comes within the Great Wall on a ftisit to the eastern im- perial tombs; 5) Demarkation of the territory to the north of the Huang Ho River as Manchukuo territory; | 6) guarantee of preferential rights to Japanese investments in China las a vital step to Sino-Japanese | economic co-operation. In a word, dissatisfied with the (Gaining new victories and ex- | The Imperialist Offensive In No The Communist Party of China Calls Toilers to Armed Struggle Against Imperialists status quo in North China, Jap- anese imperialism demands Hua Pei, even the whole land, to be placed under its direct control like the present Manchukuo. With this objective in view Jap- | anese imperialism has been making | active war preparations: further reinforcements to Manlangyu and East Charhar, mass recruitment of Chinese workers, construction of motor roads for war purpose, in- corporation of the bandits (under Japanese instigation the notorious bandit leader Liu Kweitang has devastated several provinces), dis- patch of numerous planes for recon- noitering purposes, increasing ac- tivities of the Japanese spy service (surveying in the provinces lying north of the Huang Ho), construc- tion of more than 20 wireless sta- tions between Jehol and West Mon- golia, signs that point to the new Japanese offensive not only against North China, but against Sinkiang and the People’s Republic in Outer Mongolia in an attempt to march on the Soviet Union. Parallel to the Japanese offen- sive, British and French imperial- ism are making further attempts to widen their spheres of influence in South China. England and Japan are said to revive the old alliance. The Yankee imperialism wants to convert China into its exclusive colony in its fight for the hegemony over the Pacific. The recent ex- change of notes between Japan and the United States are a conspiracy against the Soviet Union. For the partition of and international con- trol over China all imperialism, es- pecially German imperialism, is pre- pared to recognize Manchukuo, and an international consortium is just considering a big loan to Nanking. The people in North China, as well as in the whole country, are facing a life and death battle. The anti-Soviet war is more critical. And the imperialist invasion of China has reached a new stage, that is, the stage of direct division. Kuomintang’s New Sale To conceal its betrayal the Kuo- mintang has been carrying on the most shameless demagogical propa- ganda, saying that we should not worry sé much about the danger in North China, assuring that British imperialism has not yet occupied Panhung and Nanchang in Yunnan (which were seized a long time ago). It considers the anti-Japanese and anti-impcrialist movements as prejudicial to its policy of “con- struction” and Communist-suppres- sion. It is pushing the campaign against the Soviets without taking any steps to ward off the danger in North China. It is initiating a new life movement to enthrottle and enslave the masses so as to have a freer hand in selling the country. Yet it calls the movement as a national recovery. The imperialist gun is aimed at us, toilers of China, The Kuomin- tang will make its sale unless we rise against it. Any one who does not want to live like a slave under foreign rule, who does not want to rthern China ® arm themselves in defense of North China and the whole country by a revolutionary national struggle; drive out Japanese imperialism and smash its tool—Kuomintang. They must unite against Japanese and other imperialist aggressions in a unified anti-imperialist front with- out regard to political affiliations, occupations or sex. Our anti-im- perialist program consists of: (1) Against the Kuomintang surrender, no illusions on the League of Nations and America, union of all toilers as the main- stay of the national struggle against imperialism; (2) In favor of a revolutionary national struggle in defense of China’s independence and _terri- torial integrity; (3) Appeal to the masses to join the war against Japan, aid for the volunteers; (4) Seizure of all arms, whether in China or imported, to arm the masses; confiscation of Japanese property and property of the traitors for war expenditure against Japan; (5) Keeping away from Jap- anese and imperialist lu- ence, also from the influence of the traitors; repudiation of all debts in order to raise funds for the anti-Japanese war; (6) Complete severance of dip- lomatic relations with Japan, mo- bilization of all land, naval and air forces against Japan, discon- tinuation of the campaign against the Soviets; (7) Against the Tangu agrec- ment and direct negotiations. Here is our program for the na- tional struggle, which ought to have the support of all toilers as well as | ening On the World Front By HARRY GANNES Brazilian Artillery | Gelignite Propaganda 70,000 Bombay Strikers | World Price War |MN{HE day before the League of Nations issued its 80,- }000 word squeamish report on the El Chaco war in Latin | America, the U. S. Depart |ment of State published one of 48 words, of equal signifi- cance. “The Secretary of State,” it read, “and the Ambassador of Brazil signed this morning an agree- | ment providing for a small Mili- tary Mission, composed of two officers of the Coast Artillery Arm of the United States Army, to assist in the work of instruction at the Brazilian Coast Artillery Instruction Center.” The League of Nations report is the British imperialist expose of Wall Street’s war preparations in Latin America. Latin America is the Manchuria of Anglo-American conflicts. The recent war debt bit- terness is just a mild, surface ex- pression of the deeper antagonisms between these two imperialist ban- dits that is rumbling like a threat volcano throughout Latin America. The El Chaco war between Bolivia jand Paraguay is just the prelude— the preliminary clash of arms be- tween the United States and Britain. It has its counter-part in nearly every Latin-American coun- try. + # 8 'HE Mother of Parliaments is re- sorting to the enactment of anti- Communist legislation by the use of the explosive, gelignite. For some time the new Sedition bill has been hanging fire in Britain. with every effort of the British ruling class to rush through this fascist measure. On Sunday, some bright lad in the British Scotland Yard or the War Department (which, may never be cleared up) thought of the idea of blowing up the Armv Recruiting office in Bath Street, Glasgow. This vest pocket edition of the Reichs- tag fire will be followed by a greater propaganda blast to rush through the Sedition Bill. The Sedition Bill, while directed against propaganda in the armed forces of his imperial majesty, is actually aimed at all revolutionary working-class propaganda. The bill itself provides according to the London Times, “the possession of any document of such nature that the dissemination of copies among members of His Majesty’s Forces would cause such an offense, is also set out as a further offense.” In other words, any paper, pamphlet or book that can be con- strued as liable to contaminate the armed forces of British imperialism makes the holder liable to severe punishment. The Mother of Parliaments is giving birth to a Nazi bastard, with gelignite as the midwife. Cee NE VER 70,000 Bombay tetxile work- ers struck. according to the latest copy of the Daily Worker of Great Britain that has reached us. Which means that a majority of the 99.000 walked out shutting down 41 of 51 mills. Ferocious attacks were made on the picket lines. with the police charging with their lathis (heavy bamboo staves). The strikers re- plied with a shower of bricks and repulsed the attack. Then the po- lice opened fire, but according to capitalist press reports no one was hurt. Five strikers were arrested. For a 60 hour week, the average earnings of male textile operatives in Bombay is $4.12 a week, and female, $1.75 per week. According to the Royal Commission report on labor in India, published in 1930, it is pointed out: “It is es- timated that in most industrial centers the proportion of families and individuals in debt is not less than two-thirds of the whole. We believe that, in the great majority of cases, the amount of debt ex- ceeds three months’ wages, and is eften far in excess of that amount.” Besides this debt slavery, the In- dian textile worker exploited by a series of jobbers. The worker is hired through a contractor, who is supposed to train him for the fac- tory. For this service the worker must pay out part of his wages. Under the conditions that the In- dian textile workers are forced to live, labor in the mills is equivalent to a death sentence for a great number of them. The Royal Com- mission says on this point: “In the Bombay Presidency where over 80 per cent of the workers are employed in the cot- ton mills, their physical conditien is admitted on all hands to be poor. An investigation carried out a few years ago showed that these mill workers have a noticeably low average weight, as compared with other classes of labor, the average being highest in Sholaqur, lowest in Bombay, and midway in Ahmedabad. “Generally speaking, the cotton mill workers have little of the stamina required for sustained in- dustrial life, and are casiiy sus- ceptible to malaria and other dis- eases.” Gre: eel UBBER is now becoming a matter of the fiercest conflict between the U. S and Great Britain. On May 7, representatives of Britain, India, the Netherlands, France and Siam signed an agreement to regu- late rubber exports. They produce over 90 per cent of the world’s rub- ber. The U. S. uses over 50 per cent. The’ object is to force a rise in prices, and is a retaliation to all of the U. S. maneuvers on debts, tariffs, finances and markets. As under the Stevenson act of 1927, the price rise will be transferred to the American masses, while the im- perielists sharpen their rivalries (this time mined with the other explosive conflicts) to the point those who are really against im- be sold by the Kuomintang, must perialism, where they can attempt to settle them only by \%