The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1934 Daily, <QWorker “Burning Communism Out Chinese Red UETRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY LSA (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERUATIONASD America’s Oniy Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY Street, New York, N. ¥ ALgonquin 4- 7954. New ‘Daiw $6.00 $9.00. JUNE 5. THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 30 E. 13th of Georgia” N GEORGIA, the ruling plantation land- | lords and factory employers have opened their guns in a new reign of ter- ror Making no bones John Hudson, A Georgia, proclaim about the matter, ant State Solicitor of that he and his capi- colleagues are determined to “burn Com- out of Georgia ing an old, forgotten slave law “against insurrection,” a law even more vicious that the openly fascist decrees of Hitler, the Georgia offi- cials are striking out left and right in brutal and criminal attack on every group or person who dares to take the slightest steps toward organizing the ses against the intense exploitation and starva- a TUESDAY “1934 tion throughout the State — In Atlanta, homes and offices are being raided without warning or warrant. The International ek the Fight ia Ernst Labor Defense offices have been invaded and at- | tacked. All workers selling or reading the Daily Thaelmann | Worker, the New Masses, the Labor Defender or HE FASCIST officials in the New York German consulate are dismayed by the flood of workers’ delegations which is en- gulfing them. In the last few delegations of w anti-f fighters Nazi: Consul, confronting him with weeks, more than 40 ers, intellectuals, and have besieged the the vigorous the liberation of the heroic German ld fight against ascist demand for Communist leader, symbol of the wo! German fascist terrorism Hundreds of workers huge mass meeti at Ma gatherings, including the ison Square Garden, at- tended by 12,000 workers, adopted resolutions de- tual murder sentence. manding the freeing of Ernst Thaelmann | bail . for the freedom of Thaelmann, sear capa | struck here in New York, are felt in Berlin, where the Fascist chiefs plot the swift execution of this great son of the German proletariat. Let there be no doubt about that. The Nazis cannot ignore this rising ocean of anti-Fascist hatred, this world demand for the release of Thaelmann. They must listen to it. If it grows mighty enough, if it sweeps the world like a great storm, then Thaelmann will have to be freed. This mass strength is irresistible if it is raised to powerful dimensions. It freed Dimi- troff. It can free Thae!mann. * * NEw YORK shows a good example to foll other cities must engulf the Fascist co! workers’ delegations. Unions, mass organizations, intellectual groups, professionals, etc., must imme- diately organize and develop the mass movement to free Thaelmann. Send telegrams to Washing- ton to the German Arbassador. Visit all German consuls. Draw in the widest sections of the popu- lation, all who sympathize with the fight against the Fascist reaction. Goering’s paper cannot conceal the lynch pre- parations of the Fascists against Thaelmann. Its headlines shriek “Thaelmann Is Ripe for the Rope.” Can any werker, any fighter against Fascism, any lover of human progress, be indifferent to the world cry, “Free Thaelmann”? Make the world ving with this ery, “Free Thaelmann!” and all anti-Fascist fighters! Support the Steel Strike! IN THE face of all kinds of obstacles created by the top A. F. of L. official- dom, preparations for a national steel strike are moving forward. The workers in the A.A. (Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Work- ers) have decisively registered their desire for strike. The workers and leaders of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union are working with the greatest’ energy for unity of all steel workers as @ guarantee of victory in the coming strike strug- gles. In the steel areas, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, the steel workers are holding meetings to lay the groundwork for a mighty attack on the Steel Trust barons. The steel workers face a great historic oppor- tunity. More, the struggles of the entire American working class will be vitally affected by the strug- gles of the steel workers. Steel is strategic. It is the heart of American Wall Street capitalism. A victory in steel would mean enormous accelera- tion of the struggles of the whole working class. It would mean a tremendous advance in the fight for better wages, better conditions, against the N.R.A. slave codes. This explains the frantic efforts of the Roose- velt’ government and the A. F. of L. officialdom to choke off the steel strike But this also gives the whole American working class a great responsibility. The American working class must come to the support of, and take part in, the preparations for the steel strike. The steel sector of the American working class gets ready for the assault on the Steel barons. We must give this strategic section of our proleta- rian army the greatest assistance. How can we help? We can send funds to the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union at Room 202, Washington Truck Building, Fifth and Wash- ington, Pittsburgh, Pa. An apparatus for the distribution of relief to the strikers needs to be created. Communications must be established between the steel unions and the other workers’ organiza- tions. Resolutions urging united action and pledging support should be sent to the steel workers in every locality and to their national union address. All non-steel workers, all supporters of the fight against the Steel Trust, aid the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union and the rank and file fighters of the Amalgamated Association in the preparations for the national steel strike! The Liberator are liable to immediate arrest and | assault. A man-hunt has been instituted for the organizers of the I-L.D. Moving to paralyze the heroic struggles of the Negro and white workers, the Georgia officials are pressing the trial of the “Atlanta Six,” the workers who face the death penaity for leading the South- ern workers in 1930. Hudson wants the death penalty for these workers “for inciting to insurrec- tion.” The spearhead in this campaign of terrorism is directed against the brave Angelo Herndon, Negro worker whose sentence to 20 years on the chain gang has just been confirmed by the lynch judges of the Georgia Supreme Court. They are mistreating and persecuting Herndon on the chain gang. The 20-year sentence is a vir- It. will kill him, unless he is freed by the protest of the working class. the growth of Fascist gangs, the Ku Klux Klan, the White Legion, the “Men of Justice.” beatings, kidnappings, shootings, rage throughout the South against the Communist Party and all workers fighting the starvation rule of the landlords. In all this Roosevelt's political allies take a leading part, with the tacis approval of Roosevelt's administration. The growth of Fascist reaction in the South menaces the working class all over the country. The fight for the liberation of the brave Angelo Herndon cannot lag. He must be freed from the chain gang tormentors. Write to Roosevelt demand- ing Herndon’s release. Support the fight of the Southern workers! The Press Echoes Mayor’s Call for Violence MUHE entire city press has been mobilized by La Guardia in preparation for a murderous assault on the jobless and their leaders. Practically every capitalist paper, in leading editorials or front page news stories, carries lynch incitement against the Com- munists who are in the forefront of the fight for adequate relief. Every one of these raw lynch calls confirms the charges made by the Daily Worker on Saturday that LaGuardia has met in secret session with the capitalist press to prepare the city’s population for a blood-bath against the leaders of the jobless. Listen, for example, to the New York Mirror, whose yellow tabloid journalism permits it a greater freedom from the polité hypocrisy of its more aus- tere colleagues, as it calls for murder: “Police Commissioner O’Ryan... . has heen eager to strike with an iron fist ,.. At last Gen- eral O’Ryan has been told by the Mayor to attack in his own way... the City of New York has held these human we!ves in its bosom long enough .». it must throw them out and scatter them.” And the Daily News, calls for an end to the “patience with the Reds,” and editorially attempts to incite lynch actions against the Communists by calling for “a third degree against these people who shouid be seized by the scruff of the neck.” The New York Times, which uses its “dignity” to mask its essential ruling class brutality, splashes a deliberately inciting story all over its front pages on the “Communists Who Prey On the Poor.” The same day the liberal World-Telegram sup- ports this lynch call: “Certainly the riot leaders in duping the un- employed victims, in turning their misfortunes into makings of Communist prepaganda, merit blunt words and action.” And the Herald-Tribune repeats the same in- citement, in a specially vicious form: “The leader of the Gaynor type who is seek- ing to increase confusion and misery, that he may foment revolution and violence, can lay claim te no such treatment [i. ¢., consideration and re- spect]. He is on a par with bsg hated agent pro- yocateur of the Czarist regime.” 1 Here are the sinister evidences of a carefully planned press campaign leauding up to a murder- ous assault. The bloody scene is being prepared in cold blood. + A GUARDIA is having conferences. The leading figure at these conferences is Winthrop Aldrich, son-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, and head of the | billion dollar Chase National Bank. He is giving the orders that the jobless must be clubbed into submission. And La Guardia is faithfully carrying out these orders of his masters. The entire toiling population of the city must be aroused! In all the mass organizations, union locals, resolutions must be sent to LaGuardia pre- testing against terrorism and demanding adequate relief. Neighborhood mestings, protest demonstra- tions, should be arranged demanding the right to meet and fight for bread and shelter! Every supporter of civil rights, every fighter against oppression and hunger, should get inte ac- tion at once, letting La Guardia know that the city’s population will not tolerate his terroristic protection of the Wall Street bankers while hun- dreds of thousands starve! For adequate relief! Against terrorism. * * FOREIGN BRIEFS j lish and the | only English. immigration officer} | | | 45 POLISH COMMUNISTS | 1. R. A. IN ANTI-IMPERIALIST DEMONSTRATION * * DUBLIN, June 4—Labor organ- | izations joined with four battalions | Army Routs Crack Troops Destroys Best Nanking Army Trained By Nazi von Seeckt SHANGHAI, une 4.—The invin- cibility of the Red Army of China was again proved here by its bril- liant victory over the crack troops | of the Chiang Kai Shek armies, trained by the Nazi General von Seeckt. Reports from Hankow tell of the crushing defeat recently de- | | livered to the pick of the Nanking | troops by the Chinese Workers’ and | Peasants’ Army. Over 19,600 Kuo- | | mintang soldiers, the most highly | | trained under the personal guid- | | ance of General von Seeckt, world- | famed strategist, were either killed or wounded by the Red Army. In order to break through the line of the Red Army in Kiangsi| Province, seat of the central Soviet Government of China, General) | Chiang Kai Shek, after months and | |months of training, ordered his | | crack troops into action. The train- | ing of these troops was under the supervision of General von Seeckt, who came to China from Germany for the express purpose of working | out the strategy for the defeat of | the Red Army. | Though these crack Kuomintang troops fought well, they were easily routed by the Red Army. The Red Army, supported by the workers | and peasants, attacked the crack | divisions on their way to the front. | They broke into a disorganized re- treat. The divisions disorganized |in the fighting were the Fourth, | | Ninth, Tenth, Fourteenth, Forty- | Third, Fifty-Ninth, Eighty-Third | and Eighty-Seventh. lene Fight for | BonusasCongress | Looks To Adjourn Recent Convention Re- markable for High Discipline Special to the iy Worker | WASHINGTON, Juné 4. — The| | fight of the veterans for the bonus, | | and the Three-Point program is go- i | ing forward in the Capitol with full! | vigor, the Resident Committee | | elected by the recent National Vet-! | erans Convention stated today. | The Committee, consisting of J. R.| Wholly of Maryland, J. O. Eaton of} | ‘Washington D. C., of the Disabled American Vetsrans, and Harold! | Hickerson of New York and the} Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, | | will remain in Washington to or- | ganize and carry on the fight for the | | Three-Point program which in-| |cludes the bonus, repeal of the! Economy Act, and support for H.R.! 7598, Unemployment Insurance Bill, The vets Convention was remark- | able for its discipline and morale. | Of the 4.500 blankets loaned by the| Government only nine were lost, a remarkable evidence of the excellent | order and management of the vets’ camp. A Safty Committe worked with efficiency and skill, displaying | great initiative. J. O. Eaton, of the Rank and File} | Committee, has been accepted by| oft Government as a representative of two disabled vets in the fight over | | compensation litigation. This gives | the National Rank and File Com-| | whe official recognition. | Whereas last yeaz, about two-| | thirds of the vets who came to | Washington signed up for the C.C.c. camps, this year about one-third did so. Of these 16 were rejected as being physically unfit. These vets | whom the Government rejects as unfit are being denied their back) | pay and adequate care. | There are now from 400 to 500 vets still in Weshington carrying on the fight for the bonus. }to proclaim their aloofness from | anti-Soviet tone of Hitler's SPEAKING OF DOGS! Fa 4 ; Nazi Militia Hears Rosenberg 6) Youth Parade Demand Co nquest of Soviets Jy Scranton, Heart (Continued from Page 1) | ee ee | tolling the services of the Fascist axe in the struggle against Com- munism. “Rosenberg was followed by his assistant, Deitz. The raving speech of this adventurer calls not only for the seizure of Southeastern and Northeastern territories, together | with the Baltic countries, but also’ of the Soviet Union up to ‘Russian- Siberian’ territory. Aim At Siberia, Too “The Fascists are aiming further. Their finger points beyond the: Urals to the distant stretches of Soviet Siberia. They build their feverish calculations on a ‘future economical and political reorganiza- tion of Russian Siberian territory.’ “What inspires these dreams of Rosenberg’s assis‘ant? Is he not still under the influence of the fumes of the wine of recent ban- | quets, at which toasts were drunk to German-Japanese ‘co-operaticn’? Or is he still actuated by the en- thusiasm of the recent parades in| which German Fascism demon- strated before Admiral Matsuita the new types of arms which the war plants are delivering to the Ger- man army with feverish haste in increasing quantities? “We know the old, sufficiently tiresome slogan of official Ger- man circles, which alweys hazten the ‘unofficial’ statements of Ros- enberg and company who are ‘en- tirely civil’ and ‘not connected with the official German policy.’ Rosenberg and Hitler “To our minds, Rosenberg and his edventurous ‘ideas’ cannot be separated from those who are try- ing to prove that they have no connection with him, from the Nazi party, in behalf of which speak apostles preaching scizures and piracy; they are identical with those representing Germany to the outer world. “Moreover, quite recently we had a@ new proof of the identical na- ture of both lines—the officiel and the ‘unofficial—in the — vicious speech at the ‘Labor Congress,’ which is not inferior to the oratorcal exer- | cises of Messrs, Deitz. “The speeches delivered at Lue- | beck expose not only the real in- tentions of Fascist Germany; they at the same time strike a blow at) the London circles inspiring and | inciting German Fascism to for- | eign political adventures. “The Luebeck speeches also ex- | pose the connection which has been established between the Fas- cist violators of peace on the banks of the Spree and their al- lies and confederates on the| shores of the Pacific.” | Start Collection — | Drive for “trish — Workers’ Voice” Gralton, "Johnson and Nevile Head N. Y. | Shock Brigade NEW YORK. <—Following the ei:| cessful banquet to Sean Murray, Irish revelutionary leader, under the | auspices of the Communist Party, the Irish Workers Clubs held aj representative conference of dele-| rates from the various clubs; throughout the country at their! headquarters in New York. | The building of a strong Irish | Workers Press is the immediate) burning problem for the success of winning the Irish American workers | for the revolutionary struggle. The) conference therefore decided to; make an immediate drive for the) raising of a regular press fund to} enlarge and increase the sales of Irish Workers Voice, organ of the! Trish Communist Party. A special “Irish Workers Voice” Shock Brigade composed in New! York of Comrades Gralton, John-/| son and Nevile was set up at the) conference. The other clubs through- | out the country are following this example. All Irish workers and sympathiz- Rosenberg and of Anthracite Area Miwaukeclta Has 3 Meets; Yipsel Exposes Leaders’ Role SCRANTON, Pa., June 4.—Work- ers came from all over the anthra- | cite coal region and lined the streets of Scranton as 600 youth and aduit workers. carrying anti-war plecards, marched on May 30. National Youth Day. If was the first demonstra- tion of this kind in the anthracite | region. Young leaders of the Unemploy- | ment Councils were in the forefront of the parade, many cf them mem- bers or symvathizers of the Young | | Communist reais . Milwaukee. Holds Three N. Y. D. Meets MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 4. ree National Youth Day demon- strations were held here May 30. | with 100 to 200 young and adult workers taking part in each. Sol Rief, member of the Young | People’s Socialist League, declared that he and other members of the Y. P. S. L. had long fought for unity of all class-econscious workers, |end exposed the Y. P. S. L. leader- ship in the role of refusing to allow ts members to participate in the | United front with other working- {class organizations. He pointed out the necessity for workers to or- ganize and support militant, work- ing-class organizations in order to defeat wer and fescism. Speakers from the National Stu- dent League, Pioneers and Young Communist League denounced the Roosevelt government’s policy of millions for war and starvation for the unemployed.- ers are urged to help this much needed work in every way, to organ- ize regular collections for the Irish Press fund and forward regular donations to the Secretary, Irish Workers’ Clubs, 107 W. 100th St., New York. E raternize With ihe Enlisted Sailars ee Marines By 0. DRAB MIGHTY armada of 700,009 icra of steel, men-of-war, is now lin the city. This is the greatest ae ever assembled in any harbor in the U. S. A., greater even than | | the fleet of 1918, Why this great naval review? ts | what significance is it to the work: ers of New York and the entire nation? The review and the great display of ships, armaments is in- extricably bound up with the war policy of the government. The | Navy Department officials want to use this flect review as a means of | whipping up a patriotic hysteria, to |lay the foundations for war senti- ment amongst the masses. The Navy League officials, represnta- | tives of the steel mill owners, how! about the unprepardness of the country in order to increase the sentiment for warship building. | The whipping up of this patriotic |fervor is particularly directed against the growing united front movement against war and fascism. By parading the Navy ‘before the masses the war-mongers hope to take workers’ minds off the growing danger of war. In a blaze of 21-gun salutes, martial music, naval pa- rades, ‘euolgies of the Navy, Roose- JAILED | of the Republican Army in an/ Velt aims to-make the workers pay Anti-Imperialist demonstration yes- | for huge military and naval budget WARSAW, June 4.—Forty-five ANTI-FASCIST BARRED FROM) (.y.munists’ are in prison after a| tefday- and like it. ENGLAND week's drive against the Party, it} The release of all Republican; Of utmost importance are the LONDON, June 4—Kurt Thomas, * Saar delegate to a Conference of the Relief Commit‘ee for Victims of German F: was announced yesterday. * . * 300 GREEK ANTI-FASCISTS ARRESTED *| ATHENS, June 4—Three hun- | denied that the act); dred workers were arrested and se’ by consideration for | cral were injured when police yes- ibilities and attributed terday broke up an Anti-Fascist incident to a misunderstanding, | demonstration for which a permit + Thomas spoke no Eng-| had been denied Political prisoners was demanded. manoeuvres from the point of view of developing strategy and tactics. Every formation, all battle condi- tions, every naval exercises was gone through. Exercises in gun- nery, communications, torpedo at- tacks, air formations were all ca- Pa FIFTY FRENCH WORKERS ARRESTED PARIS, June 4.—Fifty workers were arrested yesterday when they | demonstrated against ‘he Arch- bishop of Paris, Cardinal Verdier, who had ventured into the strongly give the Navy a grand pre-war | workout. The admirals are well tapulted together in an effort to) | Clan Couacians Workers Should Make Friends with the Workers Them Literature in Uniform; Give American Navy, they now proudly | gloat, in their control stations be- (| hind 8-inch armor plate, is ready to fight for American imperialism. Sipping their highbails, in their wardrooms and luxurious quarters they are waiting the call of their masters. Hell for the Men For the enlisted men this cruise, has been a terrible period of gruel- | ing watches, extra duty, no sleep, | four hours on and four hours off | in the tropic seas, duty at battle! stations at all hours of the night,! changing from ordinary conditions! to simulating battle conditions in| two minutes, from hammocks to) turrets in the middle of the night. Locked deep down in the bowels of) a ship, in the engine rooms and fire rooms, temperature 110 degrees, no way of ezress, locked in by ar- mor gratings and hatches, they) work like steam. engines. Many men, particularly on ships like the Whitney (repair ship) Salinas (fuel ship), Medusa (repair) didn’t have a chance to sling their hammocks for several nights in a row. Even the much desired shore leave in Colon was lacking for huge sec- tions of the fleet. For the enlisted men it meant 4 hours sleep a night. There is going on in the Navy a deep-going fermentaticn. Dis- satisfaction is rampant. Pay is now $18. Ninety dollars per month is the base pay. (Many men of course receive more money than this |amount). The re-enlistment bonus’ of $75 has been cut out. Out of! red area of Aubervillicrs. satisfied with the manoeuvres. The their meagre pay all the men, ex- , ‘ | conditions of their folks. Most of | Surrounded on all sides by money cept first enlistment, must buy all their working clothes. As part of the economy program, enlisted men must do the work of Navy Yard workmen, make repairs, fix bear- ings, install boiler tubings, etc. The enlisted men of the Navy, mainly sons of workers and farm- ers, and workers from industry themselves feel very closely the them send half their meagre pay them of the eviction struggles and foreciesures, of unemployment, low wages, strikes. Many of them are former union men, connected with revelutionary organizations and have the seeds of class-cen- sciousness in them. The bourgeoisie have arranged many grand balls, luncheons, teas and dances for the officers in the best hotels, in their exclusive Park Ave. and Long Island homes. The bourgeoisie is welcoming the repre- sentatives of their class, the offi- cers, with huge parties paid for out of the labor of the workers. Enlisted Sailors Our Class Brothers The working class, too, must give its welcome to the fleet. It must wlecome them with open arms— workers in overalls and workers in uniform. The main task of the class- conscious workers is to fraternize with the enlisted men of the fleet. The workers must win the con- fidence of the men of the fleet. lenders, hawkers, prostitutes, the enlisted men look forward, often in —@ lenip with civilian workers. It is jneécessary for all revolutionary workers and trade unionists to visit the fleet and spead and discuss with the enlisted men. Our comrades must win the confidence of the man they are talking to. Mass excur- sions to the fleet of the workers, inviting sailors to the workers’ clubs and talking to them, issuing free passes to our forums, dances and affairs, will solidify the contacts of workers with sailors and marines. Workers should not fear to give enlisted men copies of the Daily Worker, Young Worker, or pam- ghlets dealing with war. A very important phase of fraternization is corresponding with sailors. Wher- ‘ever possible workers should get en- Thi , listed men’s addresses, correspond | pean Gir eather end c w anes te} | with them carefully, learn to under- | stand the details and problems of their lives. » Workers should speak with the sailors wherever they meet them, in- | vite them to their homes, treat them as fellow workers. They will feel that their loyalty belongs to the working class. Particular attention should be paid to winning over sail- ors by workers in Harlem, Coney Island and Brighton Beach, West | Side and Washington Heights. The Communist Party and the revolutionary workers of New York City organized in trade unions, In- ternational Workers Order and workers clubs must fulfill their his- toric duty of. carrying on revolu- tionary agitation based on concrete conditions in the fleet. The work- ing class of New York has the his- toric task of spreading the germs of class consciousness amongst the sailors, of spreading the struggle against. war to the “vital points of the war machine,” of preparing even now to turn the imperialist war into a civil war, to carry on a struggle against the Wall Street government Long live the fraternization of the vain, unfortunately—to real friend- workers, sailors and marines! On the shal: Front By HARRY GANNES Drought and Capitalism Two Famine Sources |Same Sun; Different Wort DDED to the economic crisis, is a world drought, jone of the worst in recorded history, that will have far- reaching political cone sequences. | In ancient days, droughts, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or floods constituted the chief cause of human crises. Under capitalism, | they become an additional plague to intensify the crisis of the capie talist system of economy. | With the world divided into two camps, that of decaying capitalism with the poisonous mold of fascism around its fringe, and the land of the proletarian dictatorship and rising socialist construction, the drought with its supreme impartiale ity strikes them all. But with ens tirely different consequences. Following nearly five years of crisis in the capitalist countries, when too much wheat, too much | food and other goods were pro- duced, the sun now bakes the world’s farms, cracks the earth’s crust and destroys the delicate grain crops. Starvation from plenty is about to be turned to famine from | scarcity. Nature’s bounteousness |and destruction alike under capi | talism bring catastrophe to human- | kind, We have space here to examine | the effect of this unprecedented world calamity only in three coun- | tries: (1) Fascist Germany, (2) the “New Deal,” America, and (3) the jland of Socialism, the U. S. S. Ry In Fascist Germany the perspece tive for the toiling masses is exe |tremely black. First, the whole economy of fascism is driving the workers to starvation. The gold re- serves disappear. Inflation threat- ‘ens. Markets decline. The drought bids fair to bring back not the | medieval lore that Hitler desires, but the medieval famines in which millions died. Twenty-five per cent of the German crops have already | been destroyed, and there is only a 60-50 chance that the other 75 per cent may be saved, The cattle, as in the United States, are starving; and soon more people will be starv- ing. Nevertheless, the Hitler gove ernment has a war reserve of be- tween four and five thousand tons of grain, and rather than open these to thé masses, thousands will Starve. DER Roosevelt's “New Deal,” the criminal insanity of capital- \ism in the present drought most | clearly stands out. The Roosevelt government, in its efforts to save | the bankers’ mortgages, in its ef- forts to make profits for the rich grain speculators, is risking a fam- ine catastrophe of the first magni- tude. The Republican Senator Lynn | J. Frazier of North Dakota, argu- ing Sunday against an adjournment of Congress in view of farm dis- tress, declared that in every state touched by the drought farmers “are already starving.” Fearing that this declaration would be too alarming, the Hearst New York “American” yanked it out of its later editions on Monday. How did the Roosevelt govern- ment meet the possibilities of a bad crop and its consequent suffering for the whole toiling population? He destroyed crops, cut down acre- age, slaughtered cattle. Now what is the consequence of this capitalist policy plus the drought? “The situs ation is acute. Conditions are be« coming more alarming hourly. The truth is, the United States is threatened with a food shortage.” (Dean W. C. Coffey, federal farm relief director for a dozen states, quoted in the World Tele- gram, June 2, 1934.) Roosevelt is further meeting the (drought by slaughtering 1,200,000 cattle, and paying the farmers just | enough to cover the bankers’ mort- | Sages on their stock. The whole effect of this, of course, will be to ruin the farmers, save the bankers’ Profits, and raise the price of meat for the workers. This course of slaughtering the cattle on the farm is admitted as being wantonly de- structive by capitalist stock experts. With unimportant modifications, the picture of the drought in Ger- many and the United States is the same for the Balkans and the Baltic countries, for Italy, for India, and for China. * Pee crate o HAT about the Soviet Union? Has the drought hit? Yes, it has, though because of the wide expanse of the Soviet Union, it has hit unevenly, and some places have escaped. But planned, socialist economy makes it possible forman to fight and defeat natural catas- trophes. First, instead of reducing acreage to raise prices, as was done in capitalist countries, acreage has been increased some 25 per cent in the Soviet Union. Secondly, col- lective farming, with centralized direction, with Bolshevik machine and tractor stations, make possible | the taking of measures on a large |seale to remedy immediately the effect of the drought. For example, in some places where the ht hit heaviest, the grain was re- planted, or watered by collective, mass effort. Where cattle were starving they were driven to richer pastures. Because of cehitralized control in the Soviet Union, irrigation and other projects are encouraged to increase the total productivity of the country. Grain speculation is eliminated. Every effort is made on a collective base to save the crops for social use instead of for market speculation. The result, as cable reprots from Moscow to the Daily Worker show, is that crop damages have been small and in most cases quickly re- trieved. The tctal acreage planted and growing into the harvest stage is greater than ever before. No A. A. A. at the beginning destroyed acreage or crops amma? ier Canara