The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 25, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1934 Daily. GRUTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INFERMATIONS) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-795 4. Butlding. Room 70, Cheago, 7 Fear, $6.00. 0.75 cents Canada: 1 year, $9.00; onthly, 75 cents. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1934 Capitalist Dictatorship HE striking workers of Toledo and Minneapolis have now come face to face with the Government. Naked bayonets, poison gas, machine guns, murderous brutality—that is how the Government looks when it is stripped of all its hypocritical rot about “democ- e “rule of the people.” racy” and Not only the striking workers, but the working class of the whole country can now see for them- Ives what lies behind the traditional lies about “democratic” rule under a capitalist government. ‘The press, the sch the church, the radio, and the movies, all din into the ears of the masses that the Government is of and by the people. Yet when the working class menaces too much the profits of the employers, it always sends troops against the workers and their families, acting as “the executive committee of the ruling class’ (Marx) The capitalist government doesn’t care that the workers and their families are starving. The cap- italist government, no matter whether it hides its face behind the clouds of Roosevelt promises or Hoover lies, always takes the side of property and profits against the needs of the masses. Its main interest is to protect the employers’ profits and the profit system. All capitalist governments, whether they are cloaked by “democratic” hypocrisies, whether they are of the Roosevelt or Hoover stripe, they remain the dictatorship of the Wall Street monopolies and capitalist corporations against the working masses, And this dictatorship, in the last analysis, rests upon naked, military violence, which is unsheathed in all its savagery whenever the masses begin to threaten its rule. In the present stage of the crisis every strug- gle of the workers for their immediate needs in- evitably brings them into open conflict with the whole capitalist State power. The economic strug- gles have reached the stage where they are be- coming political struggles against capitalist rule, ‘HE army, said Lenin, of workers and farmers in uniform. This is the fatal weakness, the Achilles heel of the capitalist military-suppres- sive machine Wi the armed troops itself the class struggle penetrates. This is given remarkable proof in the latest dispatches from the strike area. In a dis- patch which was expurgated from all the later edi- tions, the United Press reports: “The local National Guard were not mobilized because military authorities and local authorities thought it inadvisable to ask soldiers to charge their own townsmen.” Soldiers are not orphans. In action, they may shoot down brothers, fathers, relatives. That is why the Government is fearful of risking the grisly savagery of a “charge against their own townsmen.” We must say to the soldiers: “You are shoot- ing your own kind and kin. You are defending the class that hates and oppresses you as well as us. The Wall Street government oppresses you too, You belong with us, not against us.”” Without softening by a single hair the fighting militancy of the workers, we must, at the same time, strive for fraternization of the troops with the strikers wherever possible. consists * E COMMUNISTS, following the revolutionary teachings of our leaders, Marx@ Engels, Lenin and Stalin, expose the fact that all capitalist gov- ernments are really dictatorships of the property classes, We Communists struggle to lead the working class against the employers, for better wages, for better conditions. But always we say that the exploiting, bloody, crisis-ridden rule of the employers, the Wall Street. rule based on bayonets, can be ended only by set- ting up a proletarian dictatorship, a government of workers and farmers, a Soviet Government. Then the power will be on the side of the working class against the exploiting clas: HE splendid examples of building the Communist Party in the course of activity in the daily struggles of the workers, are valuable lessons for the en- tire Paryt. Out of 1,300 workers on strike in But- ler County, Ohio, 107 of the strikers | joined the Communist Party during the six weeks’ course of the strike. In Middletown, Ohio, 800 joined the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union In Birmingham, Ala., in the face of the most extreme fascist terror, and while this terror was at its h t, 60 new members have been recruited into the Communist Party in the past two weeks. This recruiting into the Communist Party during the course of the strike and unemployed struggles, ould serve as a living answer to the opportunist argument sometimes carried out in practice where it is not openly spoken, that “we must wait until the strike is over before we recruit into the Party.” Hundreds of thousands of workers are striking throughout the country at the present moment, fighting militantly in the face of N.R.A. decrees against the most widespread terror of national guard troops, police, deputies and fascist bands. In these struggles, the influence of the Communist Party is rapidly growing. Communists are active | in the united front struggles in steel, in Minneapolis, Toledo, the South, and elsewhere. The call of the Communist Party for a unified fight against fascism, for the right to strike, and for the immediate demands of the workers, is find- ing a ready response from the masses of the strikers and the unemployed. But the quickly growing influence of the Com- munist Party is not sufficient. In order for the working class to win these struggles, the militant leadership must be organized. Only the mass re- cruiting into the Communist Party, now, in the | course of the strike and unemployed struggles, will | ensure victory. | Build the Trade Union Oppositions inside the | A. F. of L, unions! | Build the unity of the workers in the fight | against fascism and to win the strikes and unem- ployed struggles! For mass recruiting of the best fighters among the strikers and unemployed into the party of the workers—the Communist Party! | AAA and the Drought | pee the deliberate lack of news in most of the capitalist papers, the drought which has the Western farmlands in its grip is bringing harrowing suffer- ing to hundreds of thousands of small, im- poverished farmers. It is a brutal irony that the blind fury of nature is only completing what was originally begun by the Roosevelt, government itself — the wanton destruction of crops and cattle. In this desperate emergency the Roosevelt gov- ernment is pursuing a criminal policy of neglect as far as the impoverished, stricken farmers are concerned. LTHOUGH the Roosevelt “New Dealers” and the rich grain speculators are frightened by the menace of the impoverished farmers getting into action as a result of their intensified misery caused by the drought, they are, at the same time, faced with the possibility of reaping some real speculative profits. The wealthy cattle men have the possibility of moving their herds to green pastures. The Gov- | ernor of South Dakota, owner of 20,000 head of cattle, can move his animals and cash in on the rising meat prices. The small farmers, with no feed or pasturage, will be ruined, * . N ORGANIZED fight must be immediately begun in the stricken area for the following demands to alleviate the suffering of the impoverished | farmers: | Immediate Government relief for all | & | drought-stricken families. | 2. Government distribution of feed and forage | supplies for the cattle. | 3. Distribution, at Federal Government ex- pense, of wheat and corn supplies now lying in the hands of the grain dealers, the large farmers, and the Government. 4. Small and middle farmers to get Govern- ment loans when and wherever needed, without any payment of interest, 5. All Government payments for lost or slaughtered cattle to go directly to the drought- stricken farmers, not to the mortgage-holders. 6, Passage of the Farmer Emergency Retief Bill as proposed by the Communist Party. The Bill of the Communist Party, proposed be- fore the drought, meets all the immediate needs of the drought-stricken farmers. This Farmers’ Relief Bill must become a rally- ing cry in all struggles in the stricken area. Ruined F armers, Crushed by Roosevelt Program, Fight for Farm Relief Bill Continued from page 3 Council of the By H. PURO crued interest. the farms, implements and livestock.| yinced me that The Communist Bill In this situation the Communist | be rallied in support of this Bill. Get Signatures The United Farmers League and Party has come forward with the) proposal of real relief in the form | | dorsed by the National Executive ,, | beague which has organizations and On the contrary it) members in 19 states. guarantees the payment of this tre-| mile trip over the wheat belt, where mendous debt to the money bags.) 7 had an opportunity to see the dis- And if the farmers cannot pay, the | tress of the great majority of the Frazier Bill provides for the con-/ farme-s, especially added to this the tinuance of ruthless foreclosures Of | present havoc-making drought, con- must be rallied into the campaign for this Bill, just as we have done in regard to the Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill. Just as I found on my recent trip to Montana that the United Farmers League and Holiday locals were soli- citing signatures in order to put H.R. 7598 on the state referendum for the coming Fall elections, in the United Farmers My 3,000- the impoverished | farmers throughout the country can} Same manner trade unions and Un- ; employed Councils should work for the endorsement and realization of the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill. of the Farmers Emergency Relief | Bill. This proposal embodies the principal features of the Action Pro- gram of the Communist Party, the demand that impoverished farmers have fought for during the last years of a severe crisis—relief from the taxation burden; immediate re- lief for distressed farm families: teed and seed loans; relief from the Jebt load in the form of indefinite moratorium or cancellation of debts. These vital demands of the toiling farmers are now embodied in the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill which has been drafted and passed | upon by the Communist Party. The .E.R.B. demands the repeal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, liber- ating the toiling masses on the farms from the clutches of this fas- | sist measure and providing help and | protection for the distressed farm- | ars, stopping all the foreclosures, | sheriff sales and evictions. This Bill has already been en- ‘ ‘ the editorial staff of the Farmers National Weekly have already taken steps to rally wide sections of the toiling farmers to support this Bill and to fight for its adoption in Congress. The coming national con- vention of the United Farmers League has the F. E. R. B. as one of the principal items on the agenda. This Bill provides a broad medium for the Farmers National Committee of Action, to go to all kinds of farmers organizations, especially to local organizations, to put it before the rank and file members for en- dorsement. The Farmers Emergency Relief Bill provides us with something concrete that we can propose while exposing the Frazier Bill and other measures that tend to further mislead the radicalized farmer. It is not enough that we popu- larize this Bill through left-wing farm organizations. The entire Party and all the mass organizations The introduction of the Farmers Emergency Bill by the Communist Party does not aim to distract farm- ers from their mass struggles. Quite the contrary, in introducing this Bill, the Communist Party aims to lend greater support to the farmers’ struggles by consolidating their every-day demands into concrete eneral political demands, around which the entire toiling population of the countryside can be rallied and the struggle supported by the class-conscious workers, In the coming election campaign, the Communist Party should utilize the opportunity of carrying a broad campaign among the farmers for the Emergency Relief Bill, connect- ing it up with the whole class strug- gie program of the Party and point- ing a revolutionary way out of the crisis, which can be realized only by the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat supported by the impov- erished farmerg Worker |Build the Communist Party National Youth Da Meets Prepare For May 30th Demonstration 600,000 Leaflets Put Out by N.Y. Youth Organizations NEW YORK.—Six hundred thou- sand leaflets have been printed to mobilize the young workers and students of this city for a mighty National Youth Day demonstration against war and fascism on May 30. The Young Communist League | |has printed 200,000 alone and the |trade unions another 200,000. The| ¢j | Youth Section of the American League Against War and Fascism |has issued 100,000. Leaflets issued | by other organizations including the | National Student League, Young} Circle League, etc., total another | hundred thousand. | The leaflets called on the workers and students to join the anti-war anti-fascism parade which will start | jat 10th Street and Second Ave. on | Wednesday, May 30, at 1 p.m. | With artists and draftsmen work- ing at fast pace, preparations to have spectacular floats and displays are coming speedily ahead. The youth parade is expected to be one of the greatest New York has ever seen. Downtown workers’ organizations |have arranged for a parade Satur- day, 8 p.m., at 7th St. and Ave. A |to march through the lower East | Side and wind up at 10th St. and | Second Ave. in preparation for Na- tional Youth Day. | Comrades able to Iend the use of cars or trucks to transport youths to the National Youth Day demonstration are urged to com- municate with the Young Com- munist League, 35 E. 12th Street. Phone: Algenquin 4-5707. ee he N.Y.D. Parade and Scottsboro Meet BROOKLYN.—A mass rally and |parade to prepare for National | Youth Day will be held Monday, May 28, in the Brownsville and Crown Heights sections. The parade | will end up with a Scottsboro pro- | test meeting at the Beth-el A.M.E. | Church, Schenectady Ave. and Dean | St., where Ruby Bates, Herman Mac- kawain and others will speak. The parade is scheduled to march | through the heart of the Negro sec- jtion, Many organizations, including |the Young Communist League, | League of Struggle for Negro Rights, ;members of the National War Vet- |erans and other clubs are partici- |pating in the Scottsboro protest. A parade and rally will take place in the Red Hook section tonight, be- | ginning at Columbia and State Sts. jat 7 p.m., to mobilize for National Youth Day. Special efforts are being made to organize the youth on the water- front, in the shipyards and metal plants. Ot, | PHILADELPHIA, Pa.— National ; Youth Day demonstration here | against war and fascism will be held on May 30 at Reyburn Plaza, at 1 |p.m., despite efforts of the Park | Commissioner to cancel a permit after first granting it. The dem- |onstration will be proceeded by a street run, arranged by the Labor Sports Union, beginning at 13th and | Thompson, and ending at Reyburn | Plaza at 1 pm. | * * . Coney Island Torchlight Parade. BROOKLYN, N. Y—The Ameri- HE KNEW TOO MUCH! ae Roosevelt’s only comment on the Darrow report exposing N. R. A. monopoly was to say in Latin: “Res ipse loquitur,” meaning “it speaks for itself.” y Parades Hit War and Fascism rs ene 2 y a | | 3 By VERN SMITH Moscow Correspondent, DailyWorker MOSCOW, May 24, (By Radio). —Production in Soviet heavy in- dustry under the Second Five- USSR Heavy Industry Speeds Ahead Under 2nd 5-Yr. Plan | out heavy industry by 4.5 per cent, | accompanied by an incessantly in- | creasing wage. At the same time, it is significant that in the new regions of manu- facture, the main industrial prod- Year Plan increased 18.3 per cent| ucts are growing from month to during the period between Janu- ary to April, 1934, over the same period last year. For the first months of 1934 alone, heavy industry produced 38.1 per cent of the whole produc- tion in the same industry in 1933. In the four months, heavy indus- cent of the whole yearly plan, whereas in the same period in 1933, it had fulfiled only 29.4 per cent of the plan. The rise of the daily output per worker by 16.4 per cent is compari- son with 1933 is extremely charac- teristic, and certainly is proof of the significant success in the mas- tery of technique. On a par with this is the decrease in the cost of production through- month. For example, in metallurgy in the Magnitogorsk and Kusnetsk, production of cast iron rose from an index of 6 last year to 18 this year; rolled metal fom 2.7 to 9.5 The mining industry paticularly is growing rapidly. Output of coal increased 29.1 per cent; oil 24.2 per try has already fulfilled 30.7 per | cent; iron ore, 44.6 per cent; copper ore, 75.4 per cent. Metallugy in the Soviet Union has risen to an exceptionally high level. Smelting of cast iron increased 58.3 per cent in comparison with the same period in 1933; steel 50 per cent; rolled metal, 39 per cent; high grade metal, 151.6 per cent. Besides, Soviet metallurgy is en- riched by aluminum smelting which increased five times in comparison with the first four months of 1933. | can League Against War and Fas- |cism (Youth Section) will assemble | tonight at 7:30 p. m. for an anti- war torchlight parade through Co- | ney Island in preparation for Na- | tional Youth Day. Participating at the starting point, | Stillwell and Neptune Ave., will be |the Workers Ex - Servicemen’s | League with its band, Young | Pioneers, the Young Communist League, and other youth organi- zations, Boston Cops Refuse Permits BOSTON, Mass.—The Boston Sec- tion of the American League Against War and Fascism has been refused a permt to hold a parade on May 30, National Youth Day, in the South End of Boston. The Board of Street Commissioners at- tempted to justify their refusal by stating that May 30 is set as a day on which patriots “commemorate the dead.” The Youth Section has started a big mass protest campaign which has gained the support of many or- ganizations. At the same time several articles in the capitalist newspapers, including an editorial in the Boston Post have commended the Board on their action. -The National Youth Day demon- stration will nevertheless be held at Douglas Square, Tremont Street, Boston, at 130 pm. After the demonstration there will be a parade through the South End to the Dudley Street Opera House. So Awe coe SCHENECTADY, N. Y., May 24.— Plans for a demonstration in Cres- May 30, will be laid at a United Front Conference here tonight, in Nott Terrace High School. The Provisional Committee, which called the conference contains representa- tives from the Anti-War Group of Mt. Pleasant students, Schenectady Youth Club, Young Communist League and the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism. It aims to establish a permanent. committee in the New York State capital region for struggle against war and fascism. PR ae Plan N. ¥. D. in Coal Fields SCRANTON, Pa. — Young and adult workers of the anthracite coal region will hold a parade through town against war and fascism on May 30 Local leaders and out-of- town speakers will address the workers at Forty Field, North Scranton at the demonstration fol- lowing the parade. Later, baseball games will be played at Weston field, winding up with a big dance at the pavilion. Pee es. LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Youth and students here plan to parade from Polytechnic High School to the Plaza on National Youth Day, May 30, where a demonstration will be held. There will be .a sports meet in- cluding a soccer match in the morning at the High School grounds, and dramatic entertainment and speakers in the evening at the cent Park on National Youth Day, Orange Grove Theatre. { ‘Browder to Speak at Murray Banquet in. on May 30th i | |Send-off to Irish C. P. | Leader to Rally Aid for Brother Party NEW YORK.—Sean Murray, Irish Communist Party leader, returning from his tour of important American cities, is to be feted at a farewell banquet given in his honor by the Central Committee and the New York District of the Communist Party on May 30, at the Irving Pla- za, 15th Street and Irving Place. Besides our Irish comrade, Earl Browder, Max Bedacht, Carl Brod- sky, Michael Gold, and Charles Krumbein will speak, Recently arrived from Belfast, in the North of Ireland, Charles New- ell, one of the hunger marchers to London last February, will speak at the send-off banquet to Sean Mur- ray. All organizations are urged to support the work of the Irish Com- munist Party through contributions sent to the Sean Murray Banquet Commttee, 50 East 13th St., N. Y., and by seriding delegates to the banquet, 8 p.m. on May 30, Tickets are 50c. payable at the door, and all proceeds go to the C P. of Ireland. FIGHT AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — “Free Thaelmann!” will be the chief | slogan of the parade through the streets of South Philadelphia to be | held Saturday afternoon, May 26,| under the auspices of the United Front Committee Against War and | Fascism. The parade will start from Fourth and South Streets, and march to) Broad and South Streets, where an | open air mass meeting will take | place. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 22.— A city wide anti-war meeting of | representatives of Union, Youth, student, intellectual and other sym- pathetic organizations will be held under the auspices of the Phila- delphia League Against War and Fascism on Monday May 28, at} Boslover Hall, 701 Pine St. The delegates will lay plans to! strengthen the fight against war and \ fascism, and to prepare for a Re- gional Conference to be held here} on June 30. Also final preparations | are to be made for the International | Women’s Conference Against War | and Fascism, 1627 N. 16 St. Phila-| July 28 to 30. | Further information may be ob- tained from the offices of the Philadelphia League Against War) and Fascism, 1627 N. 16 St, Phila- | delphia, Pa. ra ee We NEW YORK.—On Friday, May) 26, 6 p.m., at 870 Broadway, there is to be an important meeting, called by the New York Committee to Aid| Victims of German Fascism, to which all organizations composed of professionals and intellectuals are urged to. send representatives. The) purpose is the arrangement of a mass campaign of protest against, the action of the State Teachers’ | College of Milwaukee in sending its | band on an official tour of “good | will” to Nazi Germany. eee NEW YORK. — The Harlem) Women’s Provisional Committee Against War and Fascism will hold the first regional women’s con- ference against war and fascism on May 26 at 2 pm. at the Bronze Studio, 227 Lenox Ave. Articles on Cuban C, P. Congress Begin Sat’day Beginning Saturday a series of articles on the historic Second Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba will be published in the Daily Worker by a comrade who participated in this Congress. Be sure to read the articles on the revolutionary struggles of the Cu- ban workers and peasants, written by Manuel Valencia. War Munitions Corporations is one of the key war industries! and because Imperial Chemical In- dustries, Ltd., is the largest chem-} ical unit in the world, it is the sub-| ject of the latest pamphlet issued by the Labor Research Department (England). This £75,000,000 giant had net profits in 1933 of £6,001,-) according to a London dispatch in the Daily News Record, March 31,| 1934. Its 1932 net, profit was £4.729,- 072, as compared with £3,408,290 the Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., was the result of the 1926 merger of four British groups with their subsidiaries and It maintains international alliances States it is allied with E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., of which it is a heavy shareholder, and through investments with General Motors Corp. As a result, “No war in which . . . the U.S. A. is involved can fail to be profitable to it.” For all practical purposes, “I. C. I. 605, “the highest in its history,”|is the British chemical industry,”| the pamphlet tells us. Its manifold activities include, in addition to the manufacture of war gases, the pro- duction of such war essentials as previous year. bayonets, gunpowder, munitions, ex- through investments, market agree-| Be the chemical industry | ments and the like. In the United | Britain’s Chemical Giant Prepares for War Ng Has Links With U. 5. 7 plosives, chemicals and cellulose paints. It dominates the British copper refining and nickel refining sub-subsidiaries.! industries, also important to war, land is linked with the largest pro- ducers of anthracite and motor ac- cessories, ee ago ‘WHE small parasitic group which | 4 controls I. C. I. has directorships |in the leading and strategic banks ‘and industries in Great Britain. |Lord Melchett and Lord Colwyn are | two—and others high in the count- board of directors. Imperial Chemical Industries, as show, is already reflecting the in- | Members of the House of Lords— |cils of the government sit on its| gives to those pacifists and others its profit reports in recent years Increased Profits Is the | Reflection of the Rapid War Preparation the world. It will be among the biggest war profiteers when im- perialist war breaks out. One of the most valuable features of this pamphlet, which is the best one on the chemical industry to be issued since Donald A. Cameron's Chemical Warfare (International Pamphlets No, 3) is the answer it who would “stop war” by “control of munitions factories.” It proves quite completely that “control of On the World Front By HARRY GANNES | For Standard Oil | | Congo Medicine | Nazi Mine Disaster |In Thaelmann’s City ‘OR the protection of Stan- | dard Oil Company’s in- jterests in the Chaco war, | President Roosevelt rushed |through Congress an “arms | embargo.” { The purpose of the em bargo is to keep weapons from tht forces opposing Wall Street and | supporting British imperialism, and to supply weapons to those siding with the yankee imperialism. The | President himself has the right to declare where arms shall be trans- ported. | Why he was given this power was jexplained in the Daily Worker in | Previous editorials, news stories, jand in this column. But hardly | have we seen such open admission |of the factors behind one of Roose- | velt's war movies as that in the New | York Times of Wednesday May 28rd. |The Times’ Washington correspon- | dent wrote, just before Roosevelt Was given “embargo” power on ; arms: It was considered probable that the haste displayed in the past few days by the administration has been due to the expectation of a Paraguayan victory in the extensive fighting around Fort Ballivian and Fort Canada, This, in the opinion of experts here, would open the road to the Para- guayan troops to the oil fields and refinery of the Standard Oil Company of Bolivia” (one of Rockefeller subsidiaries. H. G.). ger sar EVERE epidemics of typhus and malaria are raging in the Belgian Congo, in the Urundi and Katange districts. No news of this fact ap- pears in the capitalist press in this country. Because of the terrific economic crisis, caused by im- perialist exploitation, the Negro masses in the Belgian Congo are so undarnourished that they are easy prey to disease. At the same time the Belgian government has cut down funds for hospitals and medical necessities. Instead, it is fighting the plagues with soldiers. Army forces are thrown around infected areas, and those trying to escape to non-infested districts are shot down like wild animals. Last winter a series of uprisings occurred in the Belgian Congo. The Bwaka Ngombe and Banza tribes in the Libenge district rose up against their oppressors, but their move- ment was quickly suppressed. The revolt began in the village of Duna, under the influence of witch doc« tors, but it had nothing at all to do with sorcery. What the natives!” fought was high taxation, wide- scale unemployment, starvation, and} the scrip system for their work. The Congo is a vast territory of 918,000 square miles, and is espe- cially rich in minerals. There are great diamond and gold deposits. The Negro tribes are treated in the most bestial manner. Now in the midst of the deadly typhus and malaria plague the only medicine they get is m e gun bullets, » * * ‘ACTS coming from Baden, Ger many, show that the mine di aster at the Buggingen potash mine} which resulted in 86 miners being’ , buried alive was due to the crim- inal negligence of the Fascist labor policy. Explosions such as occur in coal mines are unknown in potash mines. A report of the Nazi mining suthorities admits that the fire in the drift was ‘caused by a short cir cuit. Under ordinary circumstances no one, or very few would have been injured. But due to the driving of the workers by the Hitlerites, due to the “leader principle,” giving the boss absolute power, all safety pro= visions were done away with. The workers had only one means of escape, instead of the usual double exits which exist in such mines. The fire blocked their way, and they were burned to cinders. It is solely due to the oppression of the Nazis, to the tremendous power of life and death they have placed in the hands of the bosses, that such a small accident could result, in almost one hundred miners being murdered. The murderers are Hit- ler, Goering and Ley. ee Ae AMBURG, the home city of Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned and tortured leader of the Communist Party of Germany, has been espe- cially hit by the economic crisis which was intensified by Nazi rule. Not long ago at a meeting of one of the Hanseatic shipping associa- tions it was admitted that the economic crisis in Hamburg was catastrophic, and utter economic doom faced the port if more trade could not be obtained. Now the Nazi state governor and regional leader of Hamburg, Kauf- mann, has issued an appeal to the youth entitled “the national duty of youth.” The purpose of the ap-% peal is to get 5,000 young workers to quit their jobs and voluntarily go into the Hitler labor camps so that) starving adult workers can take their jobs. The appeal, of course, will not be left at the voluntary stage, but will be followed up with the usual terror in an effort to drive 5,000 young workers into the Hitler forced labor camps. Tae: IENTIMENT seldom appears on the financial pages of the cap- italist newspapers. They are mainly _ concerned with cold facts of dollars* and cents wrung out of the works ing class. When we read the fol- lowing from the financial section - of the Herald Tribune, we can be sure what activates the report is the stark fear of the capitalists for their investments in Germany: “Very pessimistic reports are current about Nazi finances and increasing discontent of the Ger- chemical armaments by the public creased war preparations all overis impossible.” man population with the economis consequences of Hitlerism,”