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

Page Six DAILY WORKER. 'W YORK. FRIDAY. JUNE 15, 1934 Daily,.<QWorker GOPTRAL ORGAN COMMINTIST PARTY LSA (SECTION OF COMMUNIST JITERRATIONNO® “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. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4- 7954. New York, N. ¥ National Press Building, t., Room 705, Cheago, Ii. year, $6.00 075 cents 1 year, $8.00; nthly, 75 cents. FRIDAY, » For A United Struggle Against the Steel Trust GAINST the steel workers, who are fighting for the to their own unions, higher wages and better condi- tions, all the forces of the Roosevelt gov- ernment and the Steel trust employers are being mobilized. the Tighe-Leonard machine of those who sup- Together with the A. A. Executive Council and port it through a policy of side-stepping, these three form a trinity whose one dominant, imme- diate purpose is to break the most powerful weapon the steel workers have—the strike. Employers, A. A. officials, and Government are ing night and day to stab the steel strike in the back, the strike which alone can win for the workers their demands. At this moment, the officials of the A. A. are doing everything possible to stop the strike, try- ing to demoralize the workers and split their ranks through every kind of trickery and “red scare.” At the same time, they are getting ready, if they cannot stop the strike, to mislead it and betray it at the first opportunity. We do not know at this moment, what the decision of the A. A. convention now meeting in Pittsburgh will be. One thing is absolutely cer- tain, however—that the steel workers want to fight for their demands, and the A, A. burocrats will strain every ounce of their energy and cunning to prevent a real struggle for the men’s demands. And if the steel workers are able, despite all the obstacles and trickery of the A. A. officialdom, to carry the convention for strike, then the main and immediate danger will be the policies and actions of this A. A. top officialdom. IN THIS situation, in which the exploited and op- pressed steel workers get ready to strike a blow at the profits of the gigantic Steel Trust, it is Roosevelt and the Government which steps for- ward as the leading strike-breaker for the em- ployers. While Roosevelt, rushes strike-breaking Bill which embodies the worst features of the Wagner Bill, gives him additional strike-breaking powers, and shackles the men with company unions, the steel barons are getting ready a sinister array of thugs, deputies, machine guns, bullets and tear gar bombs. The Government seeks to trap the men, and the Steel Trust prepares for murder. And if the trap doesn’t work, then the Roosevelt government, supported by the local governments, will send its militia and police to defend the Steel Trust with murder and terrorism. What the Roosevelt-capitalist government did in Toledo, Minneapolis, Detroit, Birmingham, murdering more than 12 workers and wounding hundreds more, ft will attempt in even greater degree in defence of the Wall Street billion dollar corporation owned and dominated by the Morgans. The fraud of the Roosevelt-capitalist democracy through Congress his can be seen in the announcement already made by the Pittsburgh Mayor McNair that picketing will be forbidden. HE issues of the struggle are becoming clearer every day. It is against the Roosevelt N. R. A. program, which in one year has intensified the and hunger of the workers, has slashed their real wages in the face of the pitiless rise in the costs ef daily necessities—it is against this whole N. R, A. hunger program that the workers are rising in militant strike struggles. The right to organize their own unions, for increased wages to fight the murderous costs of living, for improvement in the inhuman slave conditions in the mills—this is the program the workers put forward against the wage-cutting, company union program of the employers. misery HE entire working class of the country must im- mediately join forces to beat back the assault the Steel Trust. For they all, in the A. F. of L. unions, in the T.U.U.L., in the. independent mions, and among the unorganized, all face the same attack of the Wall Street capitalist class grinding the masses for more profits. What are the tasks that must be immediately attacked with full energy? 1) This united front can and must be developed in the first place in every mine, mill and factory— by the building of joint action committees, shop committees, STRIKE COMMITTEES IN THE FAC- TORIES. This united front must take the form of unity of action of the local organizations of the various trade unions—A, F. of L., T.U.UL., Inde- pendent, in the various industries. It should take the form of united action committees of the central bodies of the respective trade union centers in the various cities and towns. 2) The workers organized in the A. F. of L. unions must demand of the A. F. of L. leaders from top to bottom not only an open stand on these burning issues in the labor movement but definite and immediate action. 3) They must demand that the A. F. of L. Council and the Executive Board of the unions shall mobilize all the forces and resources for the support of the steel workers’ struggle, for the support of the longshoremen’s strike, for support to all workers now on strike or preparing for a strike. WE MUST DEMAND THAT THE A. F. OF L. LEADERS WITHDRAW FROM ALL THE N.R.A. BOARDS and carry on a struggle against these instruments of the employers. They must demand that the A. F. of L. treasuries be placed at the disposal of the workers in their struggle. The unions are not the property of a few leaders. They were built through the blood and sacrifice of the workers. 4) Nor must the workers wait until the leaders act. The fight is on, All delay is costly. Every- where there must be organized the fighting com- mittees of the workers on the united front basis. Our aim must be to unite the workers in every locality, to develop solidarity action of the workers in support of all those now on strike. Every effort must be made to extend the movement from each industry and in each locality inte broader move- ments embracing whole industries and many centers. of INDICTED Only in this way can we meet successfully the | mobilization of the forces of the enemy. 5) The Communists and all revolutionary trade unionists who are in the A. F. of L. oppositions, independent unions or T.U.U.L. unions must take the lead in organizing this struggle in forging the united front of the workers. 6) In the first place this activity must take the form of all support to the steel workers. No matter what the decisions of the convention, no matter how much the A. F. of L, leaders may sabotage the strike of the steel workers, the revolutionary forces must proceed to cement the fighting united front of the steel workers, organize the struggles of the steel workers mill by mill, building the united committees of the workers in the mills, 7) The auto workers, railroad workers, and min- ers especially, must everywhere be mobilized in support of the developing struggle of the steel workers. These workers who suffer from the same evils of company unions, company town terror, compulsory arbitration, who have been tricked and betrayed must in the fight of the steel workers through solidarity and joint struggle help to give a blow to the attacks of the bosses and take a stride forward in the fight for the needs and the rights of labor. “Free Thaelmann Hitler. 99|bassador in Washington and to Flag Waves from Madison Sq. Pole (Continued from Page 1) demonstration at Washington Square, 930 North Clark, at two o'clock on Saturday, June 16. Other actions planned include an automobile parade past the Con- sulate on Saturday, noon, preceded by parades through different work- ing-class neighborhoods. A dozen organizations agreed to divide the time in the next two weeks to keep a constant line of pickets in front of the Consulate on Michigan Ave. A campaign to flood the office of the Consul, as well as the German Embassy in Washington with resolutions, post cards and letters was decided upon. Open-air meetings, indoor mass meetings and other forms of pro- test will be carried out by the or- ganizations represented. cial drive has also. been begun to enable the committee to issue leaf- lets and so on. Eric Becker, one of those ar- rested at the Consulate Monday, was chairman of tonight’s meeting. Students to Call at German Consulate Monday ‘NEW YORK. — The National Student League calls on members and sympathizers to report ot 10 a.m. on Monday, June 17th, at its headquarters, 114 West 14th St. A large delegation is needed to visit ne Nazi Consulate and demand the aeacom of Ernst Thaelmann. private detective refused to allow the delegation of six to enter yesterday, whereupon they promised to return Monday with a large delegation. * * * Shoe, Leather Workers Protest Nazi Terror NEW YORK.—A general mem- bership meeting of the Slipper De- partment of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union Monday voted a resolution of protest. against the fascist terror in Germany, ask- ing the release of Ernst Thaelmann, the leader of the German Commu- nist Party. The resolution will be sent, in let~ A finan-| The United Shoe and Teather Workers Union urges all its mem- bers to participate in the picketing of the German Consulate, 17 Bat- |tery Place, every Wednesday from 10 a.m, on. | . | Nazi Consul Flees Visit Of Phila. John Reed Ciub PHILADELPHIA, Pa.— The first | protest delegation to visit the Phila- delphia German Consul's office in | connection with the Thaelmann case was a delegation of seven, consisting | of members of the John Reed Club | of Philadelphia. When notified by phone that the delegatinn was coming to see him to lodge their protest against the foul Nazi plans to do away with Ernst Thaelmann, the local consul, Arno P. Mowitz, hemmed and hawed, saying he was “too busy” and asked. that the protest be mailed to him. He was told the delegation con- sidered the freedom of Thaelmann an immediate issue and they were coming to see him, When the delegation arrived, the Consul had either fied or was in hiding. The protest was read to his Secretary, and copies released to the press. It is planned to flood the German Consul’s office with | dozens of delegations from trade- | unions, fraternal organizations and | Workers clubs until Thaelmann is |is freed by international protest like Dimitroff was freed. . . Two Arrested; Six Released In Boston Picketing BOSTON, Mass., June 14.—Paul Yureck and Harry Gelman were arrested here today picketing the German Consulate to demand the release of Ernst Thaelmann. Six, who had been arrested in the pre- vious three days, were released. Judge Adlow yielded to anti-fascist pressure, and admitted the right to picket. Police are continuing the arrests of workers for “carrying signs with-| out a permit”. A delegation is going to City Hall to demand the right to carry signs. The trial of workers for picket- ing the Nazi ship “Karlsruhe”, will be tried Friday. Workers should intensify the stream of protests to “Free Thaelmann” Rally in Rutgers Square Tonight Baer, Lawson, Others to Speak; Protest Parade to Follow NEW YORK.—Hans Baer, Ger- man refugee, just escaped from the clutches of the Nazi hangmen, and John Howard Lawson, playwright, recently returned from the Ala- bama strike zone, will be among the speakers at the protest rally to be held tonight at Rutgers Square. In addition, Joe Brandt, of the Com- munist Party, Section 1; Hank Forbes, of the Downtown Unem- ployed Council; Richard B. Moore, of the I. L. D., and others will speak. This rally is the wind up of a protest parade, arranged jointly by the International Labor Defense, the Communist Party, the Young Communist League, the Un- employed Council and other down- town organizations. The parade, in preparation for which, thousands of leaflets have been distributed, and many open-air meetings held, will start at 14th St. and Fourth Ave., and proceed east to Second Ave. to 10th St., east on 10th St. to Ave. A, south on Ave. A to Sixth St., to Ave. Cc, south on Ave. C to Houston St., west on Houston St. to Ridge St., south on Ridge St. to Grand St., (to Jackson St., south on Jackson St. to Monroe St., west on Monroe St. to Jefferson St., north on Jefferson St. to East Broadway, west on East Broadway to Rutgers Square. All workers’ organizations are urged to meet at their local head- quarters, and to march in a. body to the starting point of the pa- rade, Beginning Monday, June 18th, at 10 am., Section 1 of the Commu- nist Party will have regular weekly Picketing in front of the German Consulate. All members of Section 1, all downtown workers, especially members of downtown organiza- tions. are asked to report without ter form, to Hans Luther, Nazi Am- & ‘ Mayor Mansfield fail for picket duty on Monday, June 18, | Every worker does his or her own FOR “LIBELING” THE CRIMINAL! by Burek By H. G. % OMEWHERE in the Adriatic, on board an Italian battleship, the | two leading fascist dictators of Eu- rope, Mussolini and Hitler, will dis- cuss when and how to plunge Eu- rope into new bloody imperialist | war in order to save themselves} from the onrushing catastrophe. This momentous meeting of the two fascist madmen of Europe takes! place at a time of the most extreme | sharpening of all of the political and economic difficulties of world capitalism. The two main factors around which the conversation will revolve are (1) the failure of the Geneva Disarmament Conference, and the tremendous forward strides of the} Soviet peace policy which is ex- posing and hindering the war plans of fascism, and (2) the catastrophic economic and financial crisis of German and Italian fascism. The revolutionary essence of the Soviet peace policy, brought for- ward in Geneva by Comrade Maxim Litvinoff, in this particular stage of world imperialist relations, lies in the fact that it delays and hinders German fascism in its plans of solving its difficulties by war. The genuine peace policy of the Soviet Union—the only peace policy brought forward at Geneva—has made the problems of the war- mongers more difficult, increasing particularly the internal and ex- | ternal antagonisms of the Hitler regime. The conflicts between the imperialist bandits are sharpening, Particularly between France and Germany; France and Great Bri- tain; as well as the whole compli- cated inter-imperialist relations in the Balkans and Baltic. The Soviet peace policy has been a tremendous concrete proof to the masses throughout the world that only the proletarian dictatorship is actively working for peace, throw- ; ing numerous obstacles in the way of those imperialist powers prepar- ing for immediate solution of the capitalist crisis by war. The meeting of the two dictators should not be considered as the expression of unity or alliance be- tween Italian and German fascism. Each will try to use the other's dif- ficulties for his own ends. But the basic point of agreement will be how to save capitalism through the fas- cist dictatorship in the face of the rising revolutionary struggles of the masses against fascism and against the tremendous lowering of the liv- ing standards in Italy and in Ger- many. Hitler Mussolini Meet bn Ete of Fascist Catastrophe to Plot Wa r 'HILE both the coversations and results between Mussolini and Hitler will be kept secret, from other Nazi sources we are able to learn their central aim. The day before Hitler arrived in Venice the chief Nazi propagandist, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, made a speech in Warsaw, Poland, on the | philosophy” and objectives of fas- | cism. The Polish press unanimously interpreted Goebbels’ visit as an at- tempt to forge a Polish-Italian- German alliance against the Soviet Union, France, and the Little En-| tente (Czecho-Slovakia, Jugslavia, and Rumania, countries with which the Soviet Union has just estab- lished normal diplomatic relations as a move against the Nazi war plans). Goebbel’s task, connected with Hitler's aims in Italy, 1s to offer! Poland guarantees that the Nazis will leave Danzig, the Polish Cor- ridor, and upper Silesia unmolested in return for a war alliance at the expense of the Soviet Ukraine. In his “philosophical” speech Goebbels proposed a European capitalist al- liance against Communism, He did it in the following terms: “National Socialism has no in- ternational mission to fulfill in the aggressive sense. While Com- munism is animated by the in- tention of forcing its ideology upon other peoples and nations, in order to draw them into the process of an international revo- lution, we respect the individual- ity of every nation and believe that lasting European co-opera- tion can be built only on the basis of such understanding.” Fully aware of Hitler’s plans, and in order to expose them to the en- tire world, the Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Litvinoff, on the day before Hitler left for Venice, visited Baron von Neurath, Nazi Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Ber- lin. He proposed to the German government a mutual assistant pact against war, which the Soviet gov- ernment had offered to all other powers at Geneva. This, of course, was unceremoniously rejected by the Nazis, sharply emphasizing their intransigent anti-Soviet war policy, . FTER outlining the German fas- cist far-flung program of war preparations against the Soviet Union, including a-Japanese-Ger- man alliance, a proposed Polish al- tie? jected proposals to von Neurath, | said: “So Germany is now under no- tice, which lends new importance to tmorrow’s (Thursday's) pre- liminary talk between the two outstanding European dictators.” The chief imperialist force mov- ing behind the scenes, but rarely mentioned in the capitalist press in connection with the Hitler-Musso- lini conversations, is Great Britain. The original aborted four-power pact against the Soviet Union, ini- tiated by Hitler and Mussolini last year, was Britain’s handiwork. The present conversation, under the still more difficult and dangerous Eu- ropean situation emanates from London, This was clearly shown at the Geneva Conference by the bitter attack of Sir John Simon of the Soviet peace proposals, and the support given by British imperial- ism to German rearmament. The special correspondent of the London Daily Worker at Geneva, on June 5 forecast that British impe- rialism, whose war plans were ex- posed by the Soviet proposals, would prepare for a new counter-attack. He wrote at that time: “A still more striking flashlight on the British Government's orig- inal intentions with regard to the conference, is the radio address by Eden, Simon’s second-in-com- mand, which has just been called back here. It reveals unmistakably that the Tories were anticipating a complete breakdown, and were already preparing public opinion for the idea that it was due to Franco-German differences, not to the war plans of British im- perialism, “Eden's assurances that ‘a re- treat is not a disaster,’ and that the British Government will ‘eagerly seize’ upon any oppor- tunity which presents itself in the next few days to overcome the difficulties, make interesting read- ing in view of yesterday’s deci- sions. “It must be borne in mind that a number of states are still hold- ing their hand—notably Italy and Belgium in Europe, and all the American States, likewise—and the British Government will no doubt move heaven and earth to organize them for a counter-at- tack.” The fascist criminals, who have brought the masses closer to star- vation are plotting new imperialist adventures to save themselves at the lience, the New York Times Berlin correspondent, Frederick T. Birch-|a new holocaust. h all, commenting on Litvinoff’s re-! venom is directed against the land expense of wholesale slaughter and Their bitterest | Jewish Center (Workers)—756 E. 105th 8t Cleveland Tag Day, Junel6 forWomen’s Anti-Fascist Meet List of Stations for the! World Congress Collections CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 14.— The Cleveland Women’s Committee Against War and Fascism has set June 16th and 17th as Tag Days to collect money for the struggle against war and fascism. Official Tag Day headquarters are at the following stations: Down Town Room 406—737 Prospect Ave. West Side Hungarian Workers Hall—4309 Lorain Ave. Finnish Workers Hall—4528 Detroit Ave. Small Home é& Landowners Federation— 4323 Lorain Ave. Unemployment Council—2645 West 25th St. Ukrainian Labor Temple—1051 Auburn Ave. South East Jewish Workers Center—14315 Rd. Hungarian Workers Center, 11123 Buckeye Rd. Unemployment Council Ginsman East Side— -1056 Broadway Ave. North East Collinwood Workers Center—1022 Ivanhoe Rd. Lithuanian Workers Hall—020 FE, 79th St. South Slav Hall—5607 St. Clair Bulgarian-Macedonian Workers Hall—27th and Superior Jewish Workers Center—1063 Lakeview Rd, Mayfield Italien Workers Center—1943 Coltman Rd. Unemployment Council—36th & Central. SPAIN’S PEASANTE IMPOVER- ISHED MADRID, June 14.—The peasants of Galicia have no feed for their cattle it was learned today when Galician deputies demanded authorization to import 30,000 tons of maize. ‘The recent arrangement by which 75,000 tons of maize were authorized in exchange for Spanish rice prac- tically omitted Galicia from the distribution, the deputies contended. BELGIAN WAR EXPENDITURES BRUSSELS, June 14.—Minister of National Defense A. Deveze indic- ated in a press statement yesterday that the new Belgian government would soon offer a bill calling for increased military expenditures in line with French demands for strengthened border fortifications to delay a possible attack on France. of the victorious proletarian dicta- torship and rising Socialism, the U. S. S. R. The workers everywhere must be on their guard, intensify all activity against fascism, against the growing imperialist war danger, and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Workers’ Conditions Improving By JEROME ARNOLD EW YORK.—‘Regimentation? I don’t know what you mean. work. Everybody works at his trade —textile, auto, steel or any other kind, They work seven hours a day, some of them, where the work is hard, work six hours. If they don’t like the foreman or have any other complaint they post it up on the wall paper and action is taken im- mediately. Regimentation? I don't see where that comes in.” (Recently the whole capitalist press had been repeating the refrain of “Soviet reg- imentation.”) Marie del Vechio, dark, attractive 26 year old silk worker, shrugged her shoulders in an impatient ges- ture at the question about “regi- mentation” of workers in the Soviet Union. Here she had just returned from the “Land of the Soviets” after spending a month touring the country, witnessing the great up- heaval in industry and agriculture that is daily bettering the lives of the Soviet workers—and now she | is asked about “regimentation.” It wasn't understandable. Why didn’t I ask about May Day, the conditions of the workers, col- ® Industry Growing and U. S. Delegation Tells of Socialist Gains in USSR lectivization, children, education, culture, amusement, Red Army, Second Five Year Plan? I did. And the sweeping, enthu- siastic answer she gave was: “Mar- velous!” It had opened her eyes. Marie has just returned from the Soviet Union with two other work- ers, Robert Lee Minor, a Baltimore seaman, and Carl A, Olsen, a ma- chinist in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The three comprised the United States workers’ delegation sent by the Friends of the Soviet Union to witness a Soviet May Day and re- port on conditions in general. I spoke to Marie and Minor in the office of the FSU. Olsen had stopped off somewhere and was not present. The story they told was replete with life, enthusiasm, hope—full of that same revolutionary vigor that had swept the Czarist regime from the backs of the Russian workers and had planted the seeds of So- cialism deep into the Russian soil. It was a tale told by workers who had witnessed tremendous strides toward a happy, classless society under the guidance of the revolu- tionary leaders Lenin and Stalin. I asked Marie how she liked May Day in the Soviet Union. “How’m I going to tell you that? In Italian we say ‘Stupende!’ It's too big for words, I stood on Red Square seven hours. All the streets were full of people. When I came home about eight o'clock, I saw i people just beginning to march. There seemed to be no end.” Both Marie and Minor’ were im- pressed especially with the youth and the schools. “A child asks you: ‘Where.do you come from?’ and you answer: | ‘America.’ And right away they ask: ‘How mnay unemployed?’ ” said Marie. “They're smart as a whip,” says Minor. “We shot questions at them in one of the schools in Leningrad. A sixth grade, it was, with kids about 15 years old. You should have heard the questions,they were asked by the delegates. Hard ones? I wouldn't think of asking the aver- age grown-up here. All on politics, religion, economics. Boy, they're brilliant!” Plenty of Food The general standard of living? Fine. Improving every day. There's plenty of food for everybody, both Marie and Minor assured me. Of course, housing is still crowded with the gigantic growth of city popula- tions, and they haven't the latest style furniture, but it’s clean, com- fortable and healthy living. And everyone lives as well as everybody else. “I met frien¢s of mine in the Paterson colony in Moscow,” said Marie. “They think it's marvelous. They have steady work and are happy because they have something ‘Tell Story of Mounting Enthusiasm in the Soviet Union and more luxuries. They have their own clubs. They sit in theatres where the Czars used to sit. have swell physical training, danc- ing and dramatics. Entertainment is different from here. I can’t ex- press it, but there always seems to be some studying behind it.” Minor, a sancy-haired, blue-eyed, rather short but wiry seaman, was enthusiastic about the Soviet ships. “I inspected the Soviet motor- ship ‘Cuba’ in Odessa. It was built in Leningrad in 1931. The second mate is a woman, named Bertha Rapaport. About 28 years old, I guess. When I met her in the I. S. H. hall later in the evening, I couldn't imagine who that neat looking lady was who smiled at me in recognition. I found cut there were 60,000 women seamen in the U. S. S. R. There’s full equality cf men and women as well as of efficers and sailors.” Wili Tour U. S. Both Marie del Vechio and Minor will tour the country telling about their experiences in the | boats: They | On the World Front ——— By HARRY GANNES Wolves and a Diplomat Japanese War Plans From a Fascist Jail peror Hsiau-ling, next to the Taiping gate in Nanking, on Wednesday, there was found the crouching and disheveled figure of the Japanese Vice» Consul Eimei Kuramoto. The hone orable gentleman said, believe it gr not, he was waiting for the woly ? to nibble at him. The rights Japanese diplomats in China, course, include the privilege, though it is not mentioned in the extra- territorial treaty, of unmolested suicide. Had the wolves not been particue lar of their diet, the Japanese gun in Nanking harbor would have repeated the Chapei-Woosung bombardment of 1932, leaving heaps of corpses as a monument to the “slain” Japanese diplomat. Kura- moto explained his “disappearance,” which was made a diplomatic inci- dent of world importance, by the fact that he had been rebuked for some official malfeasance. Even a superficial knowledge of Japanese iniperialist methods leads to the inescapable conclusion that the honorable gentleman was really anticipating. He fell down on the job. He was sent out to emulate Captain Nokamura, a zealous mili- tarist, who sacrificed his life in Inner Mongolia as a pretext for the invasion by the Japanese of Man- churia. Every -act of the Tokio government is crying proof of this fact. Not only were Japanese gunboats and marines ready at Nanking, but they were mobilized at Shanghai, and others were waiting at Naga- saki for intervention in China. No provocative act is too daring or sen- sational for the Japanese imperial- ists to commit for a new drive into China or for war against the Soviet Union. The hapless Kuramoto was just one of the weaker links in the greater chain of the plan of colonial plunder and war of Japanese im- perialism. On the same day that Kuramoto was deciding on the moss-covered Ming tomb whether to be or not to be, the Associated Press in a cable from Tientsin re- ported some Japanese plans that are not going awry. QO the pretext of leasing land for agriculture near the ientsin race course, the Japanese militaris‘s were building an airplane landing field and airdrome. The purpose of this is to prepare for the seizure of more territory in North China, Japan has built more than fifty modern military airdromes in strategic areas in Manchuria, in- cluding about a dozen Province, which she recently seized from China. Japan also has a number of formidable air stations at vital points near China’s Great Wall, and is in a position, according to military experts, to swoop down on Peiping and Northern China at any moment, While the Japanese imperialists perfect their plans for plunder in the Far East, building airdromes in Manchuria for war against the So- viet Union, the Nazis in the West also prepare for territorial expan- sion at the expense of the Soviet Union, Whatever Mussolini and Hitler may talk about in their conference, the main question will be war against the Soviet Union. This was very clearly shown in the recent declaration of Nazi Goering’s mouthpiece, the Essen National Zeitung. The plans of the fascists for conquests in the Baltic and the Soviet Union were explained in the following details: The Southeast territory of Eu- rope and the Northeast must be brought into contact with the territory of the North and Baltic Seas. And some day the circle must be complete across Russia, This honor undoubtedly falls ta the foreign political office of the National Socialist Party of hav- ing made proposals and plans in this direction, which are already in course of being carried out to a certain extent.” RE HANKS to the betrayals of So- cialist leaders like Otto Bauer in Austria, proletarian mothers, brothers and comrades receive let=- ters like the following written from an Austrian Fascist concentration camp: : “Dear mother.—We are not los- ing our courage. A few words on the conditions here. The sick men are left lying for weeks wth high fever. If the doctor cannot find out the illness, then he says: If you report ill again you will be sent to the cellar! You cannot imagine what this cellar is like. I, too, was kept in the dark in this cellar for 48 hours, and don’t even know why. “The cellar is six feet under the earth, has no window, is wet through and through and has nothing to sit or sleep upon, Seven of us lay half the night on a few rotten boards, the other seven the other half. We were not allowed to take our rugs with us. The men fainted, but the gen- darmes took no notice. We were forced to drink the water trick- ling down from the cellar ceiling, for we receiven no other. “The food was completely un- eatable. I can tell you that it simply meant starving. I have had darting pains ever since be- ing in the cellar. fe “Our warders are Heimwehr criminals; many of them have been in prison for common crimes, one of them for eight Soviet Union. Minor will make a six months tour from coast to coast. Marie will speak in Paterson on the 17th of to look forward to. “The workers are getting more this month and later in Allentown, Providence and other eastern cities. years. They have taken away from the prisoners all the things they had on them when arrested, and havo’ kept them for them- selves, Now there are 280 prole= tarian prisoners here. , . .” NEAR the ancient tomb of the Chinese Ming Em? in Jehol |, are a