The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1934, Page 6

rage Six Daily, orker WRRTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY LSA (SECTION OF COMMUMIST UITEREATIONRL) “America’s Only Working @lass Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7954. New York, N. ¥ National Daiwork. Room Press GuardAgainst Labor Board Maneuvers! { TRUE Hitler dictatorial fashion the Minneapolis Regional Labor Board, on instructions from the National Labor Board, ordered the Minneapolis truckers, and 35,000 building trade workers sup- porting them, to stop their struggle. When victory is within the grasp of the the government uses the National Labor s a club to knock it out of their hands. worke: A 24-hour truce has been signed. The truce is @ maneuver to give the bosses a breathing-spell in order to work out their tactics, ultimately to smash the unity and militancy of the workers. In this critical moment every worker in Min- neapolis should use his energy to resist the efforts of the Regional Labor Board by their mandatory and fascist-like policies, under the guise of ar- bitration, to defeat the strike. Hundreds of thousands of steel and coal strikers have learned to their great detriment and loss that the usual procedure of the National and Regional Labor Boards is to use the slogan of arbitration to get strikers back to work without granting their demands. The object is to break the strike organi- zation by promises of arbitration. When the work- ers have returned and are in the power of the bosses, then all of the promises (as in Weirton Steel, Ford, Budd, and in the auto strike) are shamelessly violated. HE only basis on which the Minneapolis strike should be settled is the unconditional granting of the workers’ demands. The Minneapolis workers have the power to force through their demands. The entire working class of the city is behind them. The government and the bosses know that the workers are in a posi- tion to win all of their demands, and for that reason they drive in the strike-breaking wedge of the Na- tional and Regional Labor Boards. In all of these maneuvers of the bosses and their government, their most important betraying link is the top A. FP. of L. bureaucracy, as well as the top Farmer-Labor leaders. In the heat of battle these lackeys try to appear as “militants” in the struggle only to be in a better position at the critical moment to mislead it. Minneapolis workers, do not let any one cheat you of the victory which you have so valiantly fought for! You can win your demands! Reject the arbitration betrayal of the National and Re- gional Labor Boards! Return to work only when all your demands are granted! The Scottsboro Appeal QCOTTSBORO again faces the world. Tomorrow, this world-famous case of nine »cent Negro boys fighting for their lives against the frame-up of a cen- tury-old lynch system, comes once again in its three-year fight before the Alabama Supreme Court. Tomorrow the last Decatur lynch verdict will be appealed by the attorneys of the International Labor Defense The Alabama Supreme Court is a lynchers’ court. It will gladly do the bidding of its Southern planta- tion masters. In this Court sits Judge Knight, father of that Prosecutor Knight who wrung the Decatur death verdict from a poisoned jury, with a malignant frenzy of race -hatred. If it is not stopped, this. Alabama Court will doom the nine boys to death. There is only one thing that can stop it, the force that alone has kept the boys alive, out of the hands of the exe- cutioner—the force of mass protest, If this mass protest, if this mass vigilance is relaxed for one single moment, the lynchers will take their toll of the boys’ lives as surely as a tiger leaps to the kill. What each and every one-of-us does at this moment will, in the aggregate, determine the final fate of the nine Scottsboro boys. Telegrams should be rushed at once to Governor Miller of Alabama, to the Alabama Supreme Court, both at Montgomery, Ala. Scottsboro meetings should be called in the unions, in the shops, and neighborhoods demand- ing the immediate release of the Scottsboro boys! Ruch funds for the defense to the I.L.D., 80 E. lth St., Room 430, New York City. A Splendid Example HE DAILY. WORKER greets the recent decision of the Executive Council of the Buffalo aircraft strikers to establish a Press Committee which will gather true, undistorted news of the strike every day and send this news to our paper. A leaflet issued by the Press Committee states that the accounts written about the strike In various local and national boss-controlled papers are “care- fully written to discredit us.” The only true work- ers’ reports will appear in the Daily Worker, it de- clares. To counteract the boss’ lies, the Committee plans to distribute at first 300 copies of the Daily Worker every day. The strike of the aircraft workers has aroused admiration and sympathy among workers, farmers an‘ intellectuals throughout the country. Even greater support can be won if the true news of this heroic battle is spread. This, the Daily Worker gladly and proudly undertakes. Our greetings to the aircraft strikers. Hold your ranks solid! The support of class-conscious work- ers everywhere is yours until your struggle ends in victory! 55 Intensify the Campaign For H.R. 7598! HE campaign for the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) must not be permitted to lag. At this time more than ever since the introduction of the Workers’ Bill into Congress on Feb. 2, mass pressure must be brought to bear upon Congressmen to force them to sign the round robin petition to release the Bill from the House Committee on Labor and bring it onto the floor of Congress for vote. Congress faces an early adjournment, possibly by June 15. Force Con- gress to act on H. R. 7598 before adjournment. To date, only 17 Congressmen have signed the motion to release H. R. 7598; 145 signatures are necessary. A flood of resolutions by mass organi- zations of workers, veterans, small home owners, poor farmers, fraternal groups will force the neces- sary number of Congress men to act. When we realize that those Congressmen who have signed the motion are no more friendly to the workers than any of the others, then will we realize that insufficient mass pressure has been developed. Immediate steps are imperative if we are to prevent H. R. 7598 from being killed in the Committee. During the week of June 4 to 10, demonstrations will be held before the homes of every Congressman. During the same week demonstrations will be held and mass pressure will be brought to bear upon City Councils, Mayors, and other public officials to force them to endorse the Workers’ Bill. Intensify the campaign for the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill! Force Congress to enact the Workers’ Bill before adjournment! Force every public official to state his position on the only genuine unemployment insurance bill—the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). Shoemakers’ Broomstick HE Farmer-Labor Congressman Shoe- maker hastens to explain. He was discovered, carrying a broom- stick in the midst of the swirling picket lines out in Minneapolis, where 35,000 building trades workers had joined the striking truckmen. He seized it from a worker in order to “prevent trouble,” explained Mr. Shoemaker. And immediately after this sensational piece of Side-play, this Farmer-Labor politician sent a wire to none other than Roosevelt himself asking that Roosevelt “plead with the employers to arbitrate.” So now we know what Mr. Shoemaker, with one eye on the Fall elections, was doing out on the picket lines posing with a broomstick. He was get- ting a reputation for himself among the workers as a fighter for their interests just in order to be able to chloroform the strike with the usual strike- breaking Roosevelt “arbitration.” The Lion and the Lamb HE lion, having made a fat feast on the flesh of his victim, comes forward as its protector and saviour. Roosevelt, having for one year worked hand in glove with the biggest Wall Street monopolies to gouge the workers, farmers, and small producers, now has the gall to strut forward as the defender and protector of the masses under the N.R.A. A dispatch from Washington Tuesday stated: “assurance came today to thé little business man and the consumer, that though the Darrow board dies in nine days, President Roosevelt him- self will take up the burden of protecting them under the N.R.A.” The Darrow Board was created by Roosevelt un- der pressure of resentment against the N.R.A. The Darrow Board blasted the lies and hypocrisy of Roosevelt about the N.R.A., and revealed with triple-brass proof that the Roosevelt government is the agent and tool of the Wall Street monopolies, strangling the small producer and robbing the con- sumer. And now the chief, the leader of this gang of capitalist crooks, offers himself to the victim as a protector! If the lamb placed itself in the jaws of the lion it could find as much protection as the consumer and small producer in the hands of Roosevelt. | Aid to a Wall St. Butcher UTCHER Machado, ex-president of Cuba, known throughout the island as the “man of a thousand murders” is given free reign by the “liberal” New York “Post” to scrub and clean his bloody hands on its front page. Yesterday and Tuesday with double-col- umn front page headlines, the “Post” announced with pride that it has “found Machado” (who was never really being looked for despite extradition maneuvers). And through the “Post’s” intermedi- aries he was given an opportunity “to tell his story.” Butcher Machado, agent of the American bank- ers who own $1,500,000,000 investments in Cuba, who ordered the murder of Julio Mella, leader of the Communist Party of Cuba; Machado, who threw men and women to the sharks in Havana bay; Ma- chado, who shot students in the back after he or- dered them to run for their lives; Machado, whose fiendish mind invented new tortures for revolution- ary workers and peasants; Machado, whose victims even now are discovered in the fields of Cuba; Ma- chado, who robbed the Cuban people of millions of dollars; Machado, most faithful dog of Wall Street in Cuba—this execrable monster is given free play in the “liberal” New York “Post”. to tell what an angelic, what a much-maligned, what a noble, decent gentleman he is. To allow a rascally bandit, a confessed murderer, a lackey tyrant of Yankee imperialism to spew his lies for tens of thousands to read, while the truth is never printed, is considered a good jour- nalistic scoop by the New York Post. Were it merely a matter of sensationalism, the New York Post could find no more sensational story than the gruesome murders committed by Machado. No, it-is not that. The “liberal” newspaper is only too glad, only too: happy and willing to supply. this monster with an opportunity to attempt to clear himself, to attempt to. justify the bloody imperialist tule of Wall Street in Cuba. The New York Post, graced by the service of Socialist pen prostitutes, a pig-pen for every vile renegade, is guiliy along with Machado now of com- plicity in trying to hide the murderer, the bru- tality, the imperialist orgies committed in Cuba to keep the Cuban people enslaved to the Wall Street DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1934 ArmsEmbargo to Be Used for Aid to Oil Co. Roosevelt Moves To| | Help Standard Oil in Bolivia WASHINGTON, May 23.—The| House of Representatives today adopted the Roosevelt tricky “arms | embargo resolution,” to be used as |@ weapon against the shipment of | jarms to Paraguay, the puppet of | British imperialism, and, in order |to favor Bolivia, Wall Street's tool |in the Chaco war. | The speed with which the resolu- tion was pushed is due to the in- tensified attack of the Paraguayan j army on the Ballivian and Canada | areas, held by Bolivia, and the de- fensive bulwark of huge oil lands owned by the Standard Oil Co. | The New York Times correspon- | | dent yesterday crassly admits facts | which appeared some time ago ex- | clusively in the Daily Worker about the real forces in the Chaco war. “It was considered probable,” said the Times Washington correspon- dent, “that the haste displayed in the past few days by the adminis- tration has been due to the expecta- tion of a Paraguayan victory in the extensive fighting around Fort Bal- livian and Fort Canada. This, in | the opinion of experts here, would | | open the road to Paraguayan troops to the oil fields and refinery of the Standard Oil Company of | Bolivia.” | Heretofore the mention of the; Standard Oil Co. of the United States, with its Bolivian subsidiary, | has been tabu in the news, At the same time, despite the | signing of a treaty between Colom- | bia and Peru over the disputed Leti- | cia border, Colombian troops are on their way to Leticia, as if in prep- | aration for a new Latin American | war. American imperialism has been supplying Colombia with arms} and ammunition. | Lies About Arrests NEW YORK—The Anti-Imperial- \ist League of the U. S. has just learned that the Afghan Govern- ment, tool of British imperialism, is. attempting to deny in the most brazen manner the facts concern- ing the arrest and torture in jail of Gurmuk Singh and his companion. The League Against Imperialism in London recently protested to the Afghan Minister to Great Britain, calling his attention to the brutal torture inflicted upon these two |fighters in the national liberation |movement in India. The Afghan | Minister, without offering the slight- est proof, denied the facts, claiming that Gurmuk Singh and his com- |panion were released nearly a year ago. The two Indians were arrested jon August 7, 1933. On October 25, | Gurmuk Singh went on a hunger strike. In the face of these facts the reply of the Afghan Minister is obviously a lie, intended to stop the |mass pressure which has developed around the case. | Cables demanding the release of Gurmuk Singh have been sent by a number of organizations heré in- cluding the Anti-Imperialist League, the I. L. D., the Trade Union Unity Council, the Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union, the I. W. O., the United Council of Working Class Women and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. All other organizations are urged to send pro- test cables at once to King Nadir Khan, Kabul, Post Peshawar, Af- ghanistan. |Farmers Support Meeting Against War and Fascism BAPTISTOWN, N. J., May 23.— A proposal to support an anti-war | meeting to be held at Flemington, |county seat of Hunterdon, was ap- | proved at the regular meeting of the United Farmers Protective As- | sociation. A committee has secured the use of the court house from the free- | holders for May 30 evening. 2,000 Demonstrate | Z ¢ tas - z NEWS ITEM: Minneapolis, Minn.—The man mortally beaten by the strikers was C. A. Lyman, vice-president of the American Other special officers injured were THE “BOARD OF DIRECTORS” MEETS inspector of Ball Company. Chester Lyford, | sales manage: of the Minneapolis-Honeywell Heat | Regulator Company; Henry Carlson, assistant chief Minneapolis-Honeyvell, Erath, a contractor, | | and Peter Fascist Meet Ends|\Cables to Boss Press Report ‘In Disorder When of Mass Discontent With Nazis Newark Anti-War Group Calls Parade for Next Saturday, 4 P. M. IRVINGTON, N. J., May 23.— Five uniformed Nazis from New York were held in $1,000 bail for trial Friday night, after they had been arrested at a rally held here Monday evening. Three others, anti-fascists, are be- ing held on disorderly conduct charges. | During the hearing in Newark Tuesday a large crowd of anti-fas- cists demonstrated in front of the court room demanding the convic- tion of the Nazis. Police escorted two Nazis to the Hudson County line after the trial frem where other police escorted them safely to New York. Early Tuesday the police had performed the same service for 45 Nazis who had remained in Newark police station for safety. j The meeting of 400 Nazis, 50 of} them in uniform, broke up Monday night in disorder as police from this city and Newark attacked about | 2,000 ‘Workers gathered outside their} hall in counter-demonstration. | The Nazis met under the name of “Friends of New Germany” in a hall owned by Dr. John F. Lovells, who was Mayor of Irvington until the last election. | Police threw tear gas bombs and swung clubs as they tried again and again to drive the crowd back from the doors of the hall. It was a spontaneous demonstration and a militant one. One worker was knocked out in the middle of the street and lay prostrate with blood streaming from a large cut in his head. Police refused to call an am- bulance for him. Seeing that the Nazis would not be allowed to leave peaceably, police brought patrol wagons and ambu-| lances up to the door and in loads of eight at a time, transported the fascists to Irvington Police Head-| quarters and parts of Newark. All) wegons were heavily guarded by) several motorcycle police. Nazis had been very active lately in trying to arouse the population) of Irvington and Newark against workers and Jews. At the recent election in Irvington they had sent! NEW YORK.—From many sour- ces, the growing economic and po-)| litical difficulties of the Hitler gov-) ernment, are being reported with | alarm by the capitalist press. | A cable dispatch from London to} the Herald Tribune by its financial correspondent, Francis W. Hirst, dated May 22nd declares, “Very pes- simistic reports are curent (in the London, financial district) about Nazi finances and increasing dis- content of the German population with the economic consequences of Hitlerism.” The same correspondent points out that Hitler is faced with either decreasing expenditures for the storm troops, or resorting to infla- tion and the slashing still further of the workers’ living standards. Mr. Hirst concludes that Hitler will re- sort to inflation. On the same day, the New York’ Rapid Advance of Sowing in USSR Forecasts Big Harvest Frederick T.| Times corespondent, Birchall, cabled a report of the tre- mendous decline in business and the catastrophic drop in the Nazi press circulation and advertisement. “The drop in business turnover,” he writes, “explains in part why, despite certain improvement in the labor situation, the volume of busi- ness lags behind that of last year) in many branches.” | By “improvement in the labor sit- uation” is meant the lowering of wages and the Nazi smashing of the} workers’ organizations. He points out that the newspaper controlled by the chief dispenser of Nazi lying propaganda, Dr. Goeb- bel’s “Der Angriff,” is losing circula- tion most rapidly. “It has been losing more rapidly than any other German journal and is taking out its wrath in violent denunciation.” By VERN SMITH Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent. MOSCOW, May 23 (By Radio). — The Gorky provinces are the first northern regions to complete the Spring g. A number of other provinces, such as the Middle Volga, Tartar Republic, White Russia, Len- ingrad Province, have completely fulfilled the corn sowing. The progress in wheat planting in the North is particularly successful. All these regions ended their wheat sowing with a large over-fulfillment of their plan. children with cards to pass out reading‘ “Do not vote for any Jew candidate.” 9m . NEWARK.—The American League Against War and Fascism branch here has called a demon- stration against fascism, Saturday, May 26, 4 p.m., in the form of a parade which will begin at the Ukrainian Hall, 59 Beacon St., and will wind up with a large open air meeting. All workers and their organiza- tions were urged to mobilize for this demonstration. The Spring sowing was carried| out with great ardor by hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic collec-| tive farmers and shockworkers. In the Moscow Province alone 100,000 collective farmers were in- dividually selected by special com- missions as the best shock workers in the struggle for a high grade harvest. ‘ | The collective farmers are now going over the harvest preparatory work. Rain has been falling for the last few days throughout the U. S. S. R., particularly in a num- ber of regions of the Ukraine, Mid- dle Volga, the Saratov Region, White Russia and the Moscow Province, reaching 12 millimeters, and will undoubtedly favor successful sprout-| ing and growth. | The Daily Worker is America’s only working-class daily news- paper. It fights for the interests of the working class. A subscrip- | tion for one month daily or six months of the Saturday edition costs only 75 cents. Send your sub today. Address, Daily Worker, 50 E, 13th St. New York City. Even Faked “Election” Shows Rising Fight Against Fascism (Special to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, (Via underground route) —Factory elections for “Confidence Councils” recently held in Fascist Germany under the new “National Labor Law” were an open defeat for the Nazis. After reviewing the re- |be no further doubt that Hitler has against him the decisive strata of the rank and file of the German workers. The proletarians have demonstra- deadly enemy of fascism. Reports come from factories and shops that the workers bravely wrote manv revolutionary slogans on their ballots. They utilized these napers not only to express their pro- test against the “confidence coun- eillors” chosen by the bosses, but to show their objections on principle to fascism. A slogan which occurred with special frequency was: “Relezse Thaelmann, the leader of the German workers!” In several works and factories in Berlin the pressure exercized by the workers was so powerful that the employers’ list of functionaries had to be withdrawn. This was, for in- stance. the case in the Apvaratus Manufactures Heilmann, Berlin- Britz. : In the Osram Works only 2.288 out of 5.500 votes were cast for the official list; 1,100 envelopes were torn, 2112 votes were spoiled German Fac 6 sults of these “elections” there can | cent of the workers rejected the of- ted their fighting solidarity with the | Communist Party of Germany, the) 1,430 votes were cast, 600 Yes, No, and 175 spoilt. At Siemens Cable Works out of the 5.200 votes cast, 790 were crossed out, and 1,040; envelopes empty. Machine. Works Fritz Werner, Marienfelde: Entitled to vote, 1,766; spoilt 226. On 793 voting papers al- terations had been made in the lists of candidates. On 410 paper all the candidates were crossed out; 168 envelopes were empty. Askania (fine mechanism). 70 per ficial list. At one of the Hermann Tietz de- partment stores. the official list was substitute candidate. Kaiser Coffee Roasters, 80 per cent of the votes cast were against the employers’ list. Wittler Bread Factory, 43 per cent of the total votes cast were spoilt. Margarine Union, the first four candidates on the list were rejected. Kempinski Restaurants. 1,590 workers employed. Of the 1.135 votes cast 358 were crossed out, 400 work- ers abstained from voting. The elections could not be car- ried out in the “Phoenix” and Zu- kunft insurance companies’ offices, as no lists could be drawn up in consequence of there being no Na- tional Socialist Workshop Organiza- tion cells. The department store Joseph, in Neukoelin presented a list of six |confidence councillors and six sub- i stitutes. The 293 voters elected only |the 6th substitute man. In the great banking concerns of the Deutsche Bank and Disconto (crossed out). At the AEG Turbine 400 | ticipation rose to 95 per cent. It is rejected with the exception of a} tory Votes Show Big Nazi Defeat stated that 84 per cent Yes votes were cast. The 16 per cent spoilt votes correspond to 225 votes. Volkswohl] Insurance Co., 175 Yes and 175 No votes from 500 workers. The remainder were spoilt votes. , It need not be emphasized that there was no real election, no secret vote. During the last few weeks fascist terrorism has been redoubled in the workshops and factories. In dozens of cases workers have been searched, when coming to; work, by Storm Troopers and Guard | Corps men and by the police. Dozens of class conscious workers were dis- missed before the election, many of} them arrested. At the Henningsdorf rolling mill-the polling booth was so constructed that the election leader! could see at any moment if the | voter was altering the list or writ- ing on it. All workers were searched for seditious literature on the day of the election. At the Phoenix booth too the election was more or less publicly carried out. Similar reports come from many other un- dertakings. The falsifications of the results have been unlimited. To take only one example, the gramophone rec- ord factory Cristallate: 150 votes were cast, and after the election it was stated that the voting had passed off in order and all the can- didates were unanimously elected. On this announcement the workers looked at one another in amaze- ‘ment, and dropped their re- |serve. One after another declared: |“That is imposcible. I myself crossed out the list.” Everyone knows what it means to admit to not having voted for the employers’ list of con- Confirms Growing Rise of Revolutionary Struggles missal and starvation, but concen- tration camp. In spite of this, 30 workers stated that they’ had sent in crossed out voting papers. The Schwertfeger results stated that 260 votes out of 310 were Yes votes. The workers themselves are fully aware that this is pure swindle. In many cases no results what- ever have been announced, simply the official noetification: the list has been elected with a small majority! A number of imvortant firms: Sie- mens Radio, Wolf & Netter Schone- weide, Hentschel-Johannisthal. etc.. have not published any results as yet. It is not for nothing that the state press centre has issued strict instructions, on Goebbels’ orders, that no newspaper is to publish the results of the confidence council elections. This shows clearly that these authorities regard the election as a severe reverse. The results of the confidence council elections are a thousand times more important to us than those of any other vote—for in- stance, the so-called plebiscite of 12th November—for here the class concerned is the proletarian class, the sole class anti-fascist and revo- lutionary to the end. These results proclaim the rising revolutionary wave, and prove that fascism will never demoralize or subjugate the working class as such, much les: conquer it. The core of the Ger- man proletariat remains anti-fascist Co., and Dresdner Bank, voting par- fidence councillors— not only dis- and anti-capitalist, World Front By HARRY GANNES ——~ Australian “Convicts” The Navy’s Science Soviet Press Gains (XE hundred years ago a convict ship was on the high seas sailing from Eng. land to Australia with six Dorchester laborers on board, These six workers have been since known as the Tolpuddla Martyrs. They were transported to the penal colony of Australia on orders of Lord Melbourne because they were pioneers in organizing trade unions in the city of Tole puddle, Dorsetshire. : Now the ruling class of Austral: is celebrating the Centennary of rr Commonwealth, but conveniently forgets the Tolpuddle Martyrs, whose brilliant history is inspiring the workers in the battle for the final victory. Two proposals are now offered for the celebration of the Tolpuddle heroes in England. Walter Citrine, the William Green of England, belches his enthusiasm for the Toie puddle Martyrs, proposing that the workers of England today, in the period of decaying capitalism, on the eve of a new imperialist war, with mad fascism threatening everywhere, go back to the days of the Tolpuddle heroes. What these labor heroes did in 1834 was ex- tremely revolutionary, the most ad- vanced step of their day. But to go no further now would be betraying the spirit of their secrifices, and would be helping to entrench reac- tion and fascism. The Communist Party of Aus+ tralia, on the other hand, calls on all workers to join in a united front struggle against fascism, in the spirit of the Tolpuddle fighters and to celebrate their memory 106 years after they landed as con: vic‘s in Australia by more ener getically advancing the struggle for Soviet Power—the greatest monu- ment that any working class can erect to its heroes and martyrs in the age-long struggle against capi- talist reaction. * * 8 CIENCE may be decaying in capi- talism generally, but not in the navy. The United States navy has suddenly developed an insatiable hankering after geodetic and meteorological surveys. A most un- usual scene has been picked out for these scientific ventures, namely, the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, which oddly enough is the nearest American land to Japanese terri- tory. The scientific instruments utilized by the navy for measuring the water depths, the configuration of the land, and the geological forma- jtions of these islands that stray over toward Northern Japan, are navy air bombers, submarines and gunboats. The head professor of this scien- tific jaunt is Admiral Cannon. The object of the voyage of discovery is to find out how air bases can be established on the Aleutian islands | for the next imperialist slaughter; just where the U. 5S. fleet can be lodged; where the best hiding places for submarines are located, and in general how these islands can best be used in the rapid prep- arations for a new imperialist con- flagration. It is not strange at all, under these circumstances, that scien- tifically equipped Japanese fishing boats seem to stray into these waters, curiously observing the Yankee scientists at their labors. a sae IGNIFIED Dr. Wellington Koo on May 15, as delegate to the League of Nations, spared none of his elo- quence to berate the powers for smuggling narcotics into China, particularly from Manchukuo. As he put it, the purpose was to “de- bilitate the spirit and moral of the Chinese people.” Opium (and now heroin and co- caine, as more modern contribu- tions) is shot through in the his- tory of capitalist penetration in China. That Japan forces Chinese peasants to grow opium poppies is undoubted, and that they are flood- ing China with the cheapest and deadliest cocaines and heroins has also been proved beyond the slight= est doubt. But Dr. Koo is the last one to speak about it. He comes inte court, not as one opposing the traf- fic, but as a competitor, opposing the other firm’s wares. One of the greatest sources of income of Dr. Koo’s government, namely, the Nanking regime, ruled over by the butcher Chiang Kai Shek, is opium, The Nanking government itself collects a dozen different taxes from opium, in many instances forcing the peasants to grow it and to smoke it, in order to swell its war chest for the fight against the So- viet. districts. Only last year, Dr. Koo’s govern- ment, with the support of Premier Wang Ching Wei, proposed an open, legal opium monopoly, a sort of “new deal” in opium, expressly for the purpose of collecting more funds to attempt to wipe out the Soviet districts. Space does not permit the enu- meration of the numerous facts to show that Dr. Koo and his govern- ment resent not Japanese opium and narcotics, but the profits which could be their very own if the League of Nations could stop the trade of their competitor. sae (UST in contrast to the dry rot of the Nazi press, which has wiped out between six and eight hundred individual publications, we want to record that on the 20th Press Day in the Soviet Union, May 5, there were 10,534 newspapers with a total circula- tion of 39,009,000. Despite this tremendous circulation, as com- pared to only 859 newsp2pers with a circulation of 2,700,000 in Czar- ist days, there is still a severe shortage. —— an