The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1934, Page 6

Page Six - Daily <QWorker QUPTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF CONMUNIST INTERMATIORALD “America’s Oniy Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 15th Street, New York, N. ¥ Telephone ALgonquin 4- 7954. MAY 16, 1934 Act Against Fascist Terror IGHT strikers dead—shot down in cold 4 blood on the picket lines by police and by employers’ deputized gunmen! Scores wounded, a number near death! This is the toll taken by the employers and their armed forces in the murderous drive to shoot the present strikes of the workers out of existence Those who 1 now have still labored under the illusion that the N.R.A. and Roosevelt were upholding the rights of the workers to organize— that it was a question of the N.R.A. and the workers against the employers—should dispel these illu- sions now. The killers of the eight strikers committed mur- der wholesale in order to uphold the anti-working class decrees of the N.R.A. In Buffalo the picket lines of the aircraft strikers were subject to brutal assault with gunfire, swinging clubs, and fire hose of the police, in order to enforce a Labor Board decision that the strikers return to work before winning their demands. The fascist attack in Buf- falo was in support of N.R.A. strikebreaking orders to return to work. In Alabama, four Negro ore miners and one coal miner were murdered, in an attempt to force the workers at the point of the Tenessee Coal and Tron deputies’ guns, to return to work under Labor Board wage scale decisions. In Galveston, Texas, 8 Negro longshoreman was murdered, in the Los Angeles harbor two longshoremen were killed, by company gunmen, in order to break the strike of the longshoremen—a strike which occurred in spite of Labor Board attempts at “settlement” which robbed the workers of their demands. * * IGHT workers lie dead and scores fill the hos- pitals, as the N.R.A. drives toward Fascism. The responsibility rests squarely on the Roosevelt ad- ministration—on the N.R.A. machinery of the fed- eral government. The workers, engaged in a sweeping strike wave for a living wage, for union recognition and against worsening conditions, are now forced to fight for their elementary rights. The issue is whether the workers will have the right to strike and picket, to meet and assemble, to organize into their own unions. The employers and their government are now trying, through bloody fascist terror, to rob the workers of these rights. The killing of eight workers on the picket lines, and the wounding of many more, was carried out under the banner of the Blue Eagle, with the protection of the National Guard (in Alabama) and as a part of the Labor Board-N.R.A. campaign to break the strike wave. A long step toward open, fascist dictatorship is being taken now, and the Roosevelt government, shielding the gunmen of the employers behind dem- agogic mouthings, is giving birth to this fascist terror. The fascist terror loosed against the workers now is the logical next step in the N.R.A. campaign to outlaw strikes, smash the trade unions, build government controlled and company unions, and enforce a low living standard on the workers. In the vanguard of this fascist hue and cry, and fully supporting this bloody terror, stand the Officials of the American Federation of Labor. The president of the Alabama State Federation of La- bor, Moore, has publicly endorsed the “campaign against the reds,” and declared that he will co- operate in this campaign—meaning the campaign to break the strikes through murderous fascist terror. The broadest united front of all those oppos- ing fascism must immediately be organized to de- fend the rights of the workers, to help them win their strikes for decent wages. The mass action of the workers and their allies must stay the hands of the fascist strikebreakers. The working class of the entire country must now spring into action to defend its elementary rights! Send protest telegrams to the Governors of California, Alabama, New York and Texas! Hold mass meetings and demonstrations for the right of the strikers to picket, to meet, as. semble and organize! Organize a nation-wide protest against the fascist terror. Forge the united front of the workers and all their supporters to defeat the fascist terror against the strikers! More Debt Slavery for Small Home-Owners OOSEVELT’S latest “housing plan” is like his much-touted Home Owners’ Relief Corporation, which was to have stopped the foreclosures on small homes. This plan has been in operation for many months. But foreclosures are still continuing at the rate of 20,000 a month. The new plan is all in the interest of the mortgage holders and the money lenders, the banks, The plan simply provides that the U. S. gov- F DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1934 ready to guarantee 20 per cent of y private investors on building jobs. find sufficient $2,000, to gu t the | ome owner not to exceed then ok a loan all as 9,060,000 deb’ For ridden, of er cent Thus, the debt burdens of the small home owners will be increased, not lessened. The small heme owner will get a loan—but he has to get good security first! And he is already up to the neck in mortgages and debts; he is already a virtue! bankrupt. Of what earthly use can such loans be to him? How will he ever be able to get any of these mythical loans? What the small home owner needs is not more debts to get rid of his nt debts. Roosevelt comes to “aid” the small home h the chains of new credits! He “aids” the small home owner by guaranteeing the invest- ments of the mortgage investors and bankers, the very leeches who are bleeding the small home owner to death! but OOSEVELT wants to restore building, he says. But By making the bankers pay? By pouring government funds into public housing projects to provide healthy homes for the millions who now live in dismal, squalid dwellings? Oh, not at all! Roosevelt hopes to “revive” the building in- dustry by making the workers in the building trades accept more wage cuts so that the real estate in- vestors can turn their pretty profits again. The New York Times Washington correspond- ent, Arthur Krock, makes. the wage-cutting aspect of the Roosevelt “housing plan” quite clear. yr . existing labor costs ... . must be adjusted downward before the project can have wide suc- cess,” he states bluntly. The meaning of this is unmistakable—let the investors make money through lowering wage costs in building construction, For the small home owner? More debts, if he is lucky enough to get a loan at all. For the workers in the building trades? More wage cuts, speed up, and worse conditions of work. For the real estate investors and building sup- plies corporations? Guaranteed investments and new profits from high prices. That is the set-up in the latest Roosevelt blessing for the small owners. A real program for the small home owners would be to cancel the intolerable mortgage bur- dens that are breaking their backs and robbing them of their life savings. A real home program would be to pour the R.F.C. billions, not into the banks, railroads and the war machine, but into a public works home-building project, with no debt or interest slavery for the small home owner. how? Capitalist Newspapers and a Free Press HE suppression by the Western Union Company of vital strike news sent from the Birmingham strike area to the Daily Worker is a fascist-reactionary blow at a basic democratic right—the right to a free press. Here is a Wall Street monopoly, made powerful through its ownership of the telegraph lines of the country, deliberately acting as the cen_ sor of news vital to the struggles of the working class. Here is the power of the money-bags, the power of capital, acting as a reactionary agent in the choking of the facts of the Birmingham strike against the Steel Trust coal companies. It is obvious that here the basic issue of a free press is immediately involved. And yet the entire capitalist press of New York, with the sole exception of the New York Herald-Tribune, which gives a small item—the entire capitalist press has refused to print one word of the entire matter! The Daily Worker supplied every capitalist paper in New York with the facts. The capitalist press ignored them. What then becomes of their vaunted pride in a free press? Only a few weeks ago, the capitalist press was loud in its acclamation of its determi- nation to maintain a “free press” against any ef- forts to organize the industry through codes, unions, etc. When it is a question of fighting for the open shop against giving decent standards of work to the newspaper workers, then the capitalist press beats a loud tom-tom for the “free press”—free to exploit its workers to the limit. The “free press” of the capitalist papers is revealed to be a hypocritical shibboleth to conceal its utter servility to its ruling class masters who own and control them. The capitalist press can watch with perfect equanimity it seems, the brazen censorship and supprestion of working class news by a Wall Street telegraph monopoly. Pane he anes ew is not a matter that concerns the Daily Worker alone. It concerns everyone in the United States interested in fighting the menace of approaching fascist reaction. It concerns every liberal element in the country interested in main- taining the right to criticize the rulers and their government. It concerns the preservation of basic democratic rights against fascist oppression, It is precisely by such incidents as the West- ern Union censorship that American Fascism ad- vances. It is only in resolute resistance to every ‘ instance of reactionary oppression that the ad- vance of American Fascism can be stopped. To refuse to fight precisely these “slight” encroach- ments on democratic rights, while talking vaguely of fighting Fascism, is to play right into the hands of Fascism. Now it is the Communist press that feels the hand of reactionary censorship. Tomorrow it will be every paper, every organization that, offers the slightest’ criticism of the ruling Wall Street financiers, It is the clear duty of every supporter of a free press, uncensored by Wall Street monopolies or agencies, to join the fight of the Daily Worker against censorship, Chelyuskin Leader In Washington, D.C. (Continued from Poge 1) sor with a bunch of peonies pre- sented to him by the ladies of the Embassy staff, the group left for the Embassy on Sixteenth Street, where the scientists will meet the press late this afternoon. Tomor- Tow afternoon they will be Ambas- gador and Mrs. Troyanovsky’'s guests at an informal gathering. Professor Schmidt who, it is $ § { i 1 understood, will make the North Eastern attempt again, has a not- able record of achievements in the Arctic, In 1932 he commanded the expedition of the ice-breaker Sibir- iakov which, for the first time in history, completed the North East- ern passage, Leningrad to Vladi-! vostok, in one navigating season. He is known as one of the foremost mathematicians of the Soviet Union where he is professor of mathe- matics in the Moscow State Univer- ity. In addition, he is also chief editor of the great Soviet Encyclo- pedia, of which nearly half of the sixty-four volumes have been issued. Ushakov, who was in charge of the work of rescuing the 101 sur- vivors of the Chelyuskin, most of whom were stranded on tHe ice- floes for two months, has headed several expeditions of exploration and study in the Arctic regions, particularly an exploratory mission in the region known as North Land which covered two years, 1930-31. He had charge of an expedition to study and colonize Wrangel Island in 1926, Professor Schmidt has received the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Star for his Northern work. He is married and has one son, Vladimir, who is in the sixth grade of a Moscow school, ‘Chinese Red Army Makes Great Gains) Expand Soviet Districts Despiie 1,000,000 | Kai Shek Army | SHANGHAI, May 14.—Scnsational | victories were achieved by the Red | Army of China in three provinces | Szechuan, Hunan, and Hupeh, ac- |cording to reports received from | Hankow yesterda: Under the leadership of Com- mander Ho Lung, the Red Army of Szechuan, the far western province of China, made a surprise march |to Hunan Province, and then back jagain into the extreme Southeast- {ern portion of Szechuan. There the |Red Army captured two sien | (county seat) cities, Kungten and | Pengshui. Two foreign missionaries, subsi- ; dized by the imperialists and aiding | the armies of the Kuomintang, were |seized and are now being held by the Red Army. They are Rey. How- ard Smith, American missionary of the American Christian Alliance, and Miss Helen Clark, a British agent. The missionaries usually act as spies for the butcher Chiang Kai- Shek, informing them of the move- ments of the Red Army, and are responsible for the execution of | Chinese workers and peasants who rebel against their landlords and exploiters. Dramatic victories were also} achieved by the Red Army in East- ern Hupeh Province, just North of |the Yangtze River. There another Red Army captured the important cities of Lotien and Kisnui. Another Red Army of 10,000 men marched from Kiangsi into Hunan, capturing the city of Yungshin. These victories are being made} despite the fact that Chiang Kai- | Shek, with the support of the war lords in the South, and in other provinces, has mobilized over 1,000,- 000 men, well supplied by the im- perialist powers. The victories in Eastern Hupeh Province are driving the Kuomin- tang and their imverialist backers into a frenzy, because they fear that the Red Army will control an im- portant sector of the Yangtze River and will interfere with the ship-| ment of troops and munitions to help the Kuomintang in its anti- Communist drive. Disruption is taking place in the anti-Communist forces in the Prov- ince of Hunan. Troops of the gov- ernor of this province, Ho Chien, came into armed conflict with sol- diers of Chiang Kai-Shek’s forces. An effort is being made by Chiang Kai-Shek to oust Ho Chien, and send him to the Province of Hupeh. A special trip was made by Fin- ance Minister H. H. Kung, an agent of American imperialism, to Chang- sha in order to confer with Ho Chien to avert a disaster for the Kuomintang in this province. In order to counter-act the effect of the great victories of the Chinese Soviets in the three provinces, the Kuomintang authorities here have issued reports that the gains made by the Soviets were offset by defeats inflicted in Fukien Province, Chicago Workers Prepare To Greet Murray, May 18 Trish Communist Leader To Speak at Mass (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, May 15.—Irish work- ers of Chicago are preparing for the visit of Sean Murray of the Com- munist Party of Ireland. A great mass meeting will be held at 2911 W. Chicago Ave., May 18, at which Murray will tell of the struggles of Irish workers and peasants. The opportunity to hear this rep- resentative of our new brother ; Party is one that will attract hun- dreds of non-Irish workers. The Irish Workers’ Club, under whose auspices the meeting will be held, calls on every worker and sympa- thizer to attend the meeting. On Saturday, May 19, a banquet for Murray and Bob Minor will take place at Crawford Hall, 4003 Roose- velt Rd. ~~ Graham McNamee Coughlin: oh boy! What a race, WHAT A R-RACE!” pROOSEVEL = By Burck| FATHER couGHE! N | | | F ood, Manu fa ctured Goods| Berlin Factory Vote, Stream Into Soviet Stores Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, May 15 (By Radio).— Under the Second Five Year Plan a flood of all sorts of goods, foods and manufactured commodities, is pour- ing into the stores here, insuring a great increase in the standard of living of the workers in the Soviet Union. A great strengthening of the collective and state farms, and a steady increase in production haye accompanied a constant in- crease in the turnover of commodi- ties, Under the Second Five Year Plan} retail sales in state and cooperative | trade have mounted 75 per cent. The first quarter of the current year brought an increase in retail turnover here of approximately 24 per cent. The purchasing capacity of the broad miasses rises daily. Toilers are becoming consumers, and demanding assortment and quality in their purchases. For- tunately, their demands can be well considered, for the deficit in goods) has been much lessened, Considerable rise is noticeable in the trading of the collective farm market. According to approximate figures, the values of commodities has almost doubled compared with last year. In the first quarter of this year, comparing March with | January, there has been a sharp rise in market goods, constituting, on an average, a three-fold increase in grain products, two-dols in pota- toes, and one and a half in milk. The development of Soviet trade has accompanied the reorganization of the so-called system of close workers supply. Simultaneously there has been a very rapid growth of the role of open trade, where all goods are unrationed. The commodities in the closed | rationed trade are still foremost; prices in workers’ cooperatives are much lower than market prices. A broad penetration into the open | trade has been a powerful factor in lowering prices in the market of the collective farm of all districts. 1933 and the first quarter of this year have seen a considerable lowering of prices, and a sharp rise in the pro- duction of very important manufac- tured goods. Soviet Ship Embarks All Of Chelyuskin Expedition (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 15, (By Radio).— The Soviet steamer “Smolensk” is taking aboard the rescued members of the Chelyuskin arctic expedition at Providence Bay. They arrived yesterday from Lawrence Bay where there was still another small group of the crew of the Chelyuskin. Stopping 8 miles from the shore, where the ice is piled up, closing the entrance to Lawrence Bay, the steamer made its arrival known to the Chelyuskin crew by sirens and volleys of shots. Then a group left the steamer to meet the Chelyuskin crew and direct their course through the ice jams. Within three hours, the first three dogsleds arrived on board. In the evening all the Chelyuskin expedi- tion members, and one passenger already on board the “Smolensk” immediately proceeded to Provid- ence Bay. There, before going to Viadivo- stock, they must take the airplanes on board. Information received by radio from the Soviet icebreaker “Krassin,” states it is going to meet the “Smolensk.” It entered Soviet waters in the Bering Sea, having sailed 12,000 miles from Leningrad. The feat of the “Smolensk” in Lawrence Bay once again illustrates the courage and daring of Soviet seamen. No one ever came to Law- rence Bay so early in the year be- fore. Shows Rising Fight Against Nazi Rule | Only 10% Say “Yes” | to Nazi-Imposed Council List | BERLIN.—Elections to the “con- fidence council” of the important |factory, the Siemens-Schuckert | Works in Berlin, show a tremen- |dous decline in Nazi influence, and ja growth of struggles of the work- {ers against Fascism. It was at this | plant where Hitler initiated the “labor battle” fraud last year. Out of 5,000 who were entitled to vote, 3,000 abstained from voting entirely; 400 voted for the Commu- nist. Party of Germany or the red trade union ticket; 300 took ballots and returned them blank; 800 de- faced or spoiled their ballots delib- erately, and only 500 voted “yes” for the fascist list. Only 10 per cent in this factory where Hitler himself concentrated voted for the fascist slate. Chicago Cops “Out” To Youths Who Call For Parade Permit (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, May 15.—The Mayor and Chief of Police of Chicago dodged a committee of young workers who went Monday to de- mand a permit for the National Youth Day Demonstration, May 30. Flunkeys in Chief Allman’s of- fice were forced to grant an ap- pointment for the committee to meet Allman on Wednesday. The delegation that went to the City Hall Monday will see All- man Wednesday, and will also pre- sent its demand to the City Coun- cil the same day. The parade on National Youth Day will start at 47th St. and Halsted, in the Stock Yards dis- trict. Muste Fails To Back Up His Deliberate Slanders Because of lying and slanderous statements against the National Committee to Aid Victims of Ger- man Fascism, A. J. Muste has been removed from the position of chair- manship of the committee. At a meeting of the National Committee to “Aid Victims of Ger- man Fascism, held April 30, 1934, the following decision was made: “The National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism con- siders the unfounded charges made by A. J. Muste and printed in ‘La- bor Action’ as very disloyal to our movement, disintegrating in its ef- fect, and dishonest in that publica- tion was made without proof in hand. The National Committee therefore resolves to remove A. J. Muste as chairman of the Commit- tee to Aid Victims of German Fas- cism. The National Committee fur- ther resolves to make public in the press its answer to these unfounded charges, and to notify all affiliated committees why this action is taken. “In ‘Labor Action’ of March 15, 1934, the organ of the ‘American Workers Party’ of which A. J. Muste is chairman, the following item ap- peared: ‘Action is being’ taken by the A.W.P. with regard to another ‘united front’ effort, namely, the Committes to Aid Victims of Ger- % National Anti-Fascist Committee Hits Muste Lies man ‘Fascism, of which A. J. Muste has been the National Chairman. Evidence has been submitted by comrades who have visited Europe recently that funds collected by the Committee are used exclusively for Communist Party victims and de- nied to victims belonging to other political groups. The A.W.P. is presenting a memorandum on these and other alleged abuses to the Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism, and it will with- draw all support from the Commit- tee if the charges are not promptly and satisfactorily met’.” “One month and a half has gone by since this charge was made in ‘Labor Action’ and to this date the American Workers Party has failed to present this memorandum of charges to the National Committee. “At this conference with Mr. Muste, he claimed that the charges had been made and that it was not up to him but up to the National Committee to prove them un- founded. When asked to see the charges, he read from a communi- cation from Selmar Shocken, who had recently visited Germany. The part of the communication read to the committee stated that none of the funds so far collected for relief of Hitler's victims had gone to members of the S.A-P., a: political party in Germany with which Pa Shocken is sympathetic. “At no time did Mr. Muste pre- sent or read to the committee any charges to the effect that funds collected by the committee are used exclusively for Communist Party victims and denied to victims be- longing to other political groups, and the committee concluded that Mr. Muste did not have in hand such charges or proof, and therefore requested Mr. Muste to print a re- traction in ‘Labor Action.’ “The committee presented to Mr. Muste a cablegram which had been received from the International Committee in Paris and which read: March 24, 1934 “Socialist Comptrollers Thiel- rooy and Van Kieft Concluding After Thorough Examination Book and Activities that Funds World Aid Committee Have Been Ad- ministered with Absolute Impar- tiality Stop Forwarding Minutes “Lord Marley, Ellen Wilkinson, Jourdain, Treasurer,’ Investigation Leads to His Ousting as | Chairman | > the International Federation of Trade Unions. “we never have refused in distri- butions any Socialist, S.AP., An- archist, Trade Unionist, or Commu- nist workers and anti-fascist. In fact we never asked for the mem- bership card of a political organi- On the World Front By HARRY GANNES Red China A British Spy Speaks Why Roosevelt Aids HY on the heels of new! from China that Chiang Kai Shek was emptying the prisons of tens of thousands of criminals in order to swell his anti-Communist armies, which already number over 1,000,000, comes the report of the brilliant victories of the Red Army in two sections of China Comrade Ho Long, commander | the Red Army in the extreme w ern province of China, crossed the Yangtze River, entered Hunan Proy- ince, and then captured two of the most important cities in the South- eastern portion of Szechuan Proy- ince. The Soviet district in Szech- uan Province is growing by leaps and bounds. Further eastward, near Hankow, the Red Army corp there captured the city of Lotien; and with the great recruitment among the*work- ers and peasants, is menacing the North bank of the Yangtze River at one of its most strategic points, The movements of the Red Army, combined with peasant and worker uprisings, pass swiftly through ter- ritories where Communist activity | and organization has been going on for a long time, and achieve vic- tories that are startling to the im- perialists and their running-dogs in the camp of the Kuomintang. The secret of the rapid successes of the Red Army lie: that in territories pr Soviet districts, despite the rule of the Kuomintang, tremendous pre- liminary work is going on. From a British imperialist spy, Who, in the guise of a missionary, has traversed Southern Fykien, near the Central Soviet Districts, we learn of the remarkable activities carried on by our comrades under the very nose of the Kuomintang butchers, In the “Hongkong Telegraph,” this “correspondent,” in a long article entitled, “Behind the Scenes at Yungting; Communist Organization Actively at Work,” writes as fol- lows: “Although Yungting is garri- soned by regular troops and the district is proclaimed politically white, one-quarter of the entire population is definitely red, or in close connection with the Reds and amenable to their orders. . . Within, therefore, the white county of Yungting there exists for the Communists a red county of Yungting with its own governing committees. The Red county com- mittee is fully constituted and hay its daily program of work, daily receiving communications from the Communist headquarters at Juikin (capital of the Central So- viet district) and passing them on, together with its ewn instruc- tions, to the various smaller dis- trict committees under its con- trol.” The British agent is impressed by the widespread and persistent Com- munist organization in this Kuo- mintang tefritory, and the fact that, evne before the Red Army arrives, the problems of carrying out the agrarian, anti-imperialist 2m aeains] \ as well as military action agains the landlord-capitalist native ruler: is discussed and prepared. “In a district like Yungting,” he writes, “with the enemy forces ever around them, the first place in the attention of the Red Committee has naturally to be given to military’ affairs, for those would affect the activities of the boards. But after that, pride of place is given, as be- fits true Communists, to questions of land reorganization and distribu- tion. Wherever possible, that is, in districts sufficiently removed irom the sphere of influence of white troops—the land is re-divided among the peasants.” “Women,” he adds, “at least in the Yungting district, are treated with respect. No one is forced to marry against her will, and poly- gamy is forbidden.” aera IS to help the rich landowners retain their feudal hold over the Peasants, to insure imperialist dom- ination in the industrial centers, to Permit the Chinese bourgeoisie to continue to enslave women, that Roosevelt loans $40,000,000 to Chiang Kai-Shek. Nor does Roosevelt stop there. He supplies the Kuomintang butcher with bombing planes in or- der to slaughter Chinese workers and peasants, in an effort to stop the rapidly advancing agrarian, anti-imperialist revolution in China, under the leadership of the Com- munist Party of China. Sa ae UT our heroic brother Party faces not only Chiang Kai-Shek’s armies, but has to contend with the support to him of all the imperialist. robbers, particularly U. S., Japanese, British and French scoundrels. As zation when making distributions. All distributions and the accounting for them are controlled by an In- ternational Controlling Body. It will be of particular interest to state that the ex-chairman of the S.AP., Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, is a member, among other Socialist and liberal members, of the International Con- “Mr. Muste stated that before a| tol Committee. retraction could be printed he would} “It is because the National Com- have to consult his committee. mittee considers the attack made “From a letter which the Na-|against it and the Paris Interna- tional Committee has since received} tional Committee by Mr. Muste in from the International Committee | ‘Labor Action’ wholly unjustified, it at Paris we quote the following: ‘As| is because Mr. Muste made no effort the main principle of our policies we|to enter into an investigation be- must state that we are pledged to|fore printing the attack, it is be- a non-sectarian relief work among| cause we firmly believe that the In- all victims of Hitler fascism without | ternational Committee is carrying any kind of discrimination. on an impartial distribution of “The funds which are distributed| funds to which Lord Marley, Ella off and on in foreign countries to| Wilkinson, and Francis Jourdain at- refugees are given indiscriminately | test in the cablegram quoted above, to working class and anti-fascist|that the National Committee de- emigrants. Distributions are tak-|cided to remove A. J. Muste as its ing place to workers sent to us by | chairman.” i Chiang Kai-Shek proves more more incapable of stemming the ri: ing red tide throughout China, t! imperialists go into action the selves on the Yangtze River an: elsewhere. We must come to the aid of our Chinese brothers in their battles, by preventing our explojt- ers from shipping munitions /to China, to be used against the Ga nese masses. We must arouse /che broadest mass support for the Whi- nese Soviets, demanding the ‘im- Pperialists keep their hands off! . NEW YORK CITY there is active group, the Friends of Chinese People, at 168 West 23: St., that is rallying support in country for the Chinese Soviets. They publish an excellent monthly mimeographed magazine, “China Today.” We have just received the May, 1934, issue, which deals with such subjects as: “Soviet, China to date,” “Japan in North China,” “The National Question in China,” and “Students Movement in China.” The price is 10 cents per copy. 28 222 WEEE gE te aOR mands Ne 4 :