The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1934, Page 6

Daily,.QWorker CETTE, OReed CO NNEENST PART BSA (SECTION OF COMMUNIST MERREATIONNLD “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. Y. Room 954, National Washington, D. C. 101 South Wells 8t., Cable Address: “Daiwork Washington Bur 14th and FP &t., Midwest Bureau Press Building, Room 705, Cheago, Ii Talaphone: Dearborn 3931. Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00: 6 months, $3.50; 3 m $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 ns, $3.00. By Ca Weekly monthly, 75 cenis. TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1934 Roosevelt’s Friendship AVING shamelessly betrayed the steel strike, the A. F. of L. leaders of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, now utilize all of their energy in order to bolster up the Roose- velt regime in the eyes of the steel workers. A member of the Committee of 10 and Mike Tighe on Monday made statements to the Pittsburgh newspapers that every steel worker should examine, Forbeck said: “We wanted to help President Roose- yelt and we didn’t want a strike and would do everything we could to avoid it.” Mike Tighe, president of the union declared: “The men have always had the greatest confidence in Roosevelt because of: his fairness, They feel he is a friend and trust him.” How do the A. F. of L. leaders aid President Roosevelt and his government? The Roosevelt government, through the N.R.A. and the steel code, has helped the steel trusts to increase their profits, to smash down the living standards of the steel workers, to shackle them to the company unions. The Roosevelt government is the political executive committee of the most powerful trusts in this country. Roosevelt, with the aid of the A. F. of L. lead- ers, smashed the threatened automobile and steel strike, and kept the workers in the company unions. ‘The bosses declared they were “gratified” with these results. The bosses get everything they want from the Roosevelt government—they get increased profit, they get strikes smashed, they get the N.R.A. code with its legalization of company unions, and they get the armed forces to shoot down strikers who fight for union recognition and a little bit more bread. In the. Weirton Steel Co. strike, when workers came to Roosevelt he promised them an “election.” Roosevelt's promises turned out to be unabashed lies. OW the A. F. of L. leaders in the steel union want to justify their strikebreaking policy, and they say they did it to help Roosevelt, because, they said, “he is a friend.” Yes, they helped Roosevelt. But he is not a friend of the workers, he is the head of the Wall Street government, the chief tool of the big trusts. ‘They helped the Roosevelt program—the program of increasing the profits of the big bosses at the expense of lowering the living standards of the workers. The steel workers were prepared to fight against the Roosevelt policy, which they felt in less wages, more killing speed-up, and in the slave company unions. Now with this yeoman strikebreaking service of Messrs. Green, Tighe, Forbeck and Co., the Roosevelt government can go on to more drastic measures against the workers, to more fascist deeds against the workers’ union and their right to organ- ize in unions of their own choice, and their right to strike and picket for better living conditions. The steel workers must not be taken in by this soft soap, Roosevelt is acting for the big trusts, and every one of his deeds proves it. The A. F. of L. leaders are trying behind his false mask to hide their own crimes, crimes that help the steel trust. . . . 'HE COMMUNIST PARTY warned about these treacherous strikebreakers, just as it has con- stantly exposed the Roosevelt regime as the in- strument of the most powerful trusts of Wall Street. ‘The Roosevelt regime has only begun its attacks on the workers, Its whole policy is to save capi- talism at the expense of the workers. The Com- munist Party declares that only by the overthrow of capitalism, only by the establishment of a work- ers’ government, of Soviet Power, in this country ean the workers’ get their due and destroy forever the power of the big trusts. The steel workers should not be hoodwinked by the “explanations” of Green, Tighe, Forbeck and Co., which the bosses’ press so readily prints. The struggle must be sharpened against the whole rotten capitalist system and all of its agents from Roose- velt down to the slimy Tighes and Forbecks. Steel workers who were betrayed in your desire to strike for better conditions, you can now see where the Roosevelt government stands. Prepare strike action under the leadership of yourselves, of the Amalgamated Association rank and file opposition, of the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union! Join the Communist Party, the only revolutionary Party of the working class, which is leading the fight to end capitalist slavery. Join the Party, become a better fighter for your immediate needs, become an active fighter for a workers’ government, for Soviet Power! Improve the Work in the Seaports RALLY the seamen and longshore- men of all ports to prepare for a strike on a national scale, a National Unity Conference of marine workers will convene in Baltimore on September 1. For some time organizers ef the Ma- rine Workers Industrial Union and mem- bers of the Rank and File Action Committee of the International Longshoremen’s Association have been active in the ports, bringing the message of the coming conference to the men on the docks and ships, District conferences where delegates will be elected to the National Conference are being arranged in Cleveland, Portland, Ore., and New Orleans for the month of July. The machinery is in operation to bring the con- ference into being, but in order to accomplish the aims of the conference every Communist Party Committee in the port regions must work more vigorously and assume greater responsibility in Preparing for the conference. Especially have leading Party committees the s responsibility of showing initiative and giving guid- ance and support to the marine fraction in helping to formulate plans of work and checking up on their execution. This is particularly necessary in view of the insufficient initiative and responsibility shown by the district and section committees in the North Atlantic ports, without exception, in reacting to the mass struggles of the West Coast seamen and longshoremen. Despite numerous instructions sent by the Cen- tral Committee to the various district committees, there has been a lack of initiative on the part of the Party organizations in the ports in leading the seamen and longshoremen on the East Coast in struggle against the shipowners. Many decisions made at the recent Party Conference on marine have not been carried out. This looseness and slowness, in view of recent mass strikes in marine, cannot be tolerated. The progress made among the I.L.A. men on the West Coast shows that there can be no excuse for failing to develop a functioning opposition among the thoiisands of I.L.A. members in the North Atlantic ports. Special attention must be given to overcoming the weaknesses in work among the East Coast long- shoremen and the work among seamen must be strengthened. Intensification of activities in support of the West Coast strike by extending it te the Kast Coast, at the same time widely popularizing the coming National Unity Conference and establish- ing a firm organizational basis for it—these are the most important tasks of the Party commit- tees in the ports. Offensive and “Defensive” Wars HAT will be the position of the Social- ist Party when American imperialism breaks loose into the next world war which approaches swiftly ? Norman Thomas, writing in this week’s Socialist New Leader, makes it as plain as day what the leadership of the Socialist Party will do. Let Thomas speak for himself. Me states: “In the event of a new, World War like the last, we shall offer mass resistance to it.” Sounds radical, doesn’t it? But now notice the more important reserva- tion of Thomas. He will “resist” only if the next war is “like the last.” What does he mean by that? He tells us. “The Spanish-American War and the World War were not the result of attacks on us, but of our aggressive action. ... If by some miracle there is a wholly different type of war, there will be plenty of time in the light of Socialist prin- ciples to change our position.” Is there not in this already the ghastly promise of betrayal? Does not this sound almost word for word like the shameful excuses the Socialist Party leaders gave all over the world during the last World War when the entire Second Interna- tional went over to the support of “their own” governments which were being “attacked”? The German Socialist leaders said that Eng- land was “attacking” their Fatherland. The English Socialist leaders stated that Ger- many was a “menace” to their Fatherland. And in this way the Socialist leaders tricked the masses into fighting for imperialism by “defend- ing the fatherland” against the “attackers,” betray- ing every shred of the pledges of international solidarity which they had been mouthing for years. . . . “4 DIFFERENT kind of war”! That is just what Thomas will say to the American working class in the near future when Wall Street begins the bloody slaughter. “We must defend ourselves against those who attack us,” Thomas will say. But this business of the “attacking” and “de- fending” government is just the trick by which the capitalist class always seduces its working class to the slaughter. Does not the capitalist class of every country always declare that it is devoutly opposed to war, but that it must “defend” itself against “attack”? Does not Japanese imperialism use this argument? Or German Fascism? Or British imperialism? And Wall Street imperialism does the same, * . . ieee put the question very simply in his “Social- ist and war,” which every worker should read: “Imagine a slaveholder (the capitalist class) possessing 100 slaves waging war against a slave holder possessing 200 slaves for a more ‘equitable’ distribution of slaves. It is evident that to apply to such a case the term ‘defensive’ war or war for the ‘defense of the fatherland,’ would be a hie torical lie; in practice it would mean that the crafty slave holders were deceiving the unenlight- ened masses, the lower strata of the city popu- lation.” When American imperialism goes to war it does not make the slightest difference to a truly revo- jutionary party whether it “attacked” first or was attacked by some other “slave holder.” Now Norman Thomas is opposed to imperialist war, if “we attack first.” But naturally, American imperialism never “attacks first;” it will try to tind some way to dupe the masses that “we were attacked first, and that we are only defending our- selves.” Then Norman Thomas and the Socialist Party leadership will readily join in support of this “de- fense of our country.” Thomas is opposed to all the past wars. But the coming war? That will be “different.” That, no doubt, will be a war to “de- fend democracy” against “dictatorship.” This is the line with which the Socialist Party already gets ready to repeat the betrayals of 1914-1917. In the next war, the S. P. leaders will surely defend Amer- ican imperialism “in the light of Socialist prin- ciples.” Civil war against “our own” government, to work for the defeat of American imperialism in the next war, NO MATTER WHETHER IT IS “DEFENSIVE” OR “OFFENSIVE”—that is the only truly revolutionary policy, in the intcrests of the working class. The rest is treachery and Prostitution to Wall Street imperialism. { Join the Communist Party’ ™% EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Piease sond me more information om the Commm- | mist Party, NAMB... .scccccccncseccsccsscencevscccssceeceseses V onPapenSays “Confidence” ‘In Hitler Is Endangered Offers Move To Save Nazi Regime From Growing Upsurge BERLIN, June 18. — A sharp struggle in the inner ruling strata of the Hitler regime was made evi- dent yesterday by the so-called crit- ical speech of Franz von Papen, former Chancellor, now Vice-Chan- cellor in the Hitler butcher govern- ment, Speaking at Marburg University, von Papen pointed out the fact that the masses are rapidly swinging into action against the Hitler dictator- ship, and some means are necessary | now in an effort to save German capitalism. He spoke of “averting @ new Class war.” “The Reich’s government,” he said, “is not deceiving itself about the fact that the rich treasure of } confidence which the German peo- | ple bestowed upon it is in danger.” Von Papen, Chancellor before | Hitler came to power, directly par- ticipated in helping fascism come to power, and received the support of the Social Democratic leaders in this task, who covered von Papen’s regime with the screen of the “lesser evil.” Certain sections of | the German bourgeoisie are now attempting to utilize von Papen, | who has always been close to the aristocracy and the monarchist movement, to take steps towards the re-establishment of the mon- archy, so that the bourgeoisie may have a means of trying to move in | this direction in the event the Hit- ler regime faces a revolutionary up- rising by the German toiling masses. | Von Papen expresses not only the discontent of huge sections of the petty bourgeoisie, who foresee tre- | mendbus impoverishment through | Hitler’s onrushing inflation, but also certain sections of the top expolit- ers who want a fire escape through @ monarchy before the Hitler regime is met with a revolutionary uprising led by the Communist Party of Germany. He appealed to all of the discon- tented religious forces. “Let there be no mistake about the fact,” he | said, “that a fight on religion will | Telease forces which even force can- not break.” Von Papen advised Hitler how to utilize new forms of demagogy in order to keep fascism in power, say- ing: “The people know that heavy sacrifices are demanded of them. | They will bear them and follow der fuehrer (Hitler) in unshakable con- | fidence if they are bound to par- | ticipate in advising and devising, if | | every word of criticism is not im- | mediately stamped as ill-will and | if despairing patriots are not| | branded as public enemies.” Von Papen’s speech was not greeted very warmly by the Hitler propagandists such as Goebbels and Goering, as it brings out too clearly in the open the inner difficulties of the fascist government, which they fear may serve to intensify the growing struggles against fascism among all sections of the masses. Ford, Gannes, Speak On Latvia Terror at Finnish Hall Tomorrow | NEW YORK. — All anti-fascists, especially Lettish, Finnish, Lithu- anian, Estonian and Polish, and all Harlem workers should attend the | meeting on Wednesday, June 20, at | Finnish Hall, 15 W. 126th St., at 8 p. m., in order to protest against fascist terror in Latvia and against fascist plots of armed intervention against the Soviet Union. James W. Ford, Norman Tallen- tire and Harry Gannes will speak in English. Music and singing will | be given by the orchestra and the | chorus of the LL.D. Latvian branch. Admission will be free. This meeting is being held under the auspices of the Anti-Fascist United Front Committee, I. L. D. Latvian branches of New York and Newark, “Zihnas Beedri,” a Lettish workers’ society of New York, the Lettish section of the New York Seamen’s International Club, and the Estonian-Latvian Youth Club. BARBUSSE GOING TO HAVANA HAVANA, June 17.—Henri Bar- busse and Count Karolyi cabled to- day that they would attend the anti-war congress in Havana July 15th, by Limbach Mendieta Regime Opens New Terro ristn Asi Result of ABC Faction’s Shooting at Parade By H. G. The provocative A.B.C. fascist concentration in Havana on Sunday, supported by members of the Wall Street - Mendieta government, en- couraged by Roosevelt and Welles in Washington, resulted in a ter-| roristic attack by an enraged and| desperate faction of the A.B.C. it- self, known as the A.B.C. Radical group. Fourteen fascists were killed and over 60 wounded. The Communist Party of Cuba, the revolutionary Cuban National Confederation of Labor and the Anti-Imperialist League had called on the workers to come out in a general strike. They called on the workers to mobilize a counter-dem- onstration to fascism that would draw the revolutionary working class forces of Cuba into a mass action against fascism and its imperialist supporter, the Roosevelt’ govern- ment. Thousands of workers joined the strike. All transportation was tied up. The aim of the Communist Party of Cuba was to mobilize a force greater, more powerful, more decisive than the A.B.C. fascist groups, to deal a blow to this fascist. demonstration by bringing into the streets a more. gigantic mass force, and in this way to smash the fascist concentration. The Grau San Martin-Guiteras faction of the A.B.C., which calls itself A.B.C. Radical, which came to power after Machado was over- thrown and on their bended knees bid for Wall Street support, did not want a mass movement to develop against fascism. They resorted to a desperate attack that the fascists are now attempting to use for a campaign of the most bloody terror against the Communist Parity of Cuba and all revolutionary forces, The machine gun fire in Cuba which killed 14 fascist paraders and wounded 60 can be compared to a struggle between the German Storm ‘Troopers and Stalhelm, and not as the result of a fight against fascism in Cuba. When this same A.B.C. Radical group, along with some of the students around the newspaper Alma Mater, were in power, they did not hesitate to shoot down revolutionary workers in order to win the approval of Wall Street. No revolutionary or anii-fascist worker will shed any tears over the killing of the fascist scum in Havana. But the tactics of the San Martin-Guiteras group, which bit- terly fights against the Communist Party of Cuba, are of the same stripe as the terroristic deeds of the Indian students who in desperation shoot down the bloody. agents of British imperialism in India. These individual acts of terrorism seek to discourage and do away with the revolutionary actions of the masses. They are the deeds of the discon- tented petty-bourgeoisie attempting to solve their minor difficulties with the A.B.C, through American gang- | ster methods. It is a bitter clique | fight of the same group, both of whom are opposed to the revolu- tionary armed mass uprising of the Cuban toilers. Both would readily join their machine guns against the Cuban workers and peasants in the event of an armed uprising for the establishment of a workers’ and peasants’ government in Cuba. Each group wish to be the favored instru- ment of yankee imperialism. The Mendieta government is al- ready finding this killing useful to itself. Mendieta hoids power by grace of President Roosevelt, and has never been elected or put into power by the Cuban masses. Wall Street gunboats, marines and the aid of the Roosevelt government financially and otherwise are what keep his rule over the Cuban masses despite the “abrogation” of the Platt Amendment. General elec- tions were to be held in December; and on the pretext of the ABC. bloody factional struggle, the Men- dieta government now declares that the December elections cannot be held, thus, in Machado’s fashion, perpetuating itself in power. A few words are necessary on the ABC itself, and the Grau- Guiteras faction, as well as the steps which led to the organization of the fascist concentration Sunday. The ABC was a conglomeration | of various bourgeois forces in Cuba who under Machado had been shoved out of sharing in the spoils wrung by Wall Street from the Cu- ban people. Bloody Machado had built up his own small clique who} took all of the graft. Many of the| petty-bourgeoisie began to suffer as| the result of the crisis. Against | the growing revolutionary struggles | of the workers and peasants, the ABC was formed to replace Ma- chado with a less discredited native bourgeois-landlord government. At first all of the various bourgeois forces against Machado were in- cluded in the ABC. When Machado was overthrown by the general political strike and the struggles of the masses, the ABC began to quarrel among itself as to which was to rule, which was to get the graft for acting as Wall Street’s puppet. The more reac- tionary in control of the ABC split off from the “left” petty-bourgeois elements. The “left” set up the Grau San Martin regime, which be- gan a vicious attack against the toiling masses in order to merit Wall Street recognition. Many workers were killed; hundreds were jailed. Nevertheless, the Roosevelt gov- ernment, through Ambassador Welles, wanted the more stable bourgeois forces in the orthodox ABC group to rule, and Welles or- ganized several armed uprisings which failed. Through internal struggles, finally, the Grau regime fell apart, and Wall Street insti- tuted Mendieta, who received the support of the ABC. The ABC was given important posts in the gov- ernment, such as the Treasury and Department of Justice. Despite the terror rule of the Mendieta government, the revolu- tionary working-class forces, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba, were rapidly grow- ing. The Mendieta government could not solve the economic crisis, and all its attempts to smash the revolutionary working-class and peasant forces failed. The ABC be- gan to mobilize its forces to give the Mendieta government greater courage to intensify its reactionary | policies, and to institute a reign of fascism. The high point was Sun-} day’s demonstration. Against this | demonstration the workers, left stu- | dents, petty bourgeois and peasants were mobilized. The ABC Radical, | bone and sinew of the fascist group, | fighting with them only for jobs and for favor in the eyes of their | common master, Wall Street, in a desperate effort to gain the lead- ership resorted to the terroristic attack. The ABC has now threatened an open reign of terror. The machine gun attack by the ABC Radical has had its reactionary effect. It played into the hands of Wall Street and the fascist’s aims. The Communist Party of Cuba now more than ever will be able to show the masses the only road in the struggle against fascism, the mobilization of the workers and peasants for the overthrow of all landlord-capitalist rule in Cuba, for the seizure of power and the estab- lishment of a Soviet Cuba. See Great Advances in U.S.S.R. Made During Year’s Absence By VERN SMITH Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent | MOSCOW, June 18 (By Radio). — Through forests and across bound- less steppes a special express car- ries the rescued crew of the Chel- yuskin to Moscow. At the stations) the Chelyuskinites are greeted with flowers. The best engine drivers are competing in the bringing of this unusual express to its destina- tion. Airplanes are accompanying the train along the entire route, flying alongside, almost on the roof cars. Yesterday the express arrived at Novosibirsk — a centre of West. Siberia — where the Chelyuskin heroes were greeted with special en- thusiasm. On the platform were a special guard of honor delegations of workers’ organizations. Bobrov (Schmidt's deputy) said, at a meet- ing there: “It is almost a year since we Separated from the mainland. When we observe what has been done im this period we are Planes Escort Chelyuskin Heroes’ Special Train astonished at the enormous scope of Soviet construction, The fur- ther we travel the more astonished we become at the growing and strengthening of the Soviet Union. “We find that we are greeted as heroes and conquerors, but we did only what every honest citizen of the Soviet Union would have done in our place. “If we speak of heroism it is more necessary to speak of the heroism of our country, and the heroism of our Party in awaken- ing the creative forces of the toil- ers and driving them to great and heroic endeavors and work.” Kamanin, one of the heroic air- men who brought the Chelyuskin- ites from the ice, then spoke: “When we went north we felt sure that the Chelyuskinites would be saved—should not Kamanin, Doronin and others accomplish the task the Soviet would put for- ward hundreds of new fearless airmen to fulfill the task of the Party and Government. We have a basis—our own aviation indus- try has millions of heroes. “We are called heroes. It must be admitted that our task was frightfully difficult, but the Party sent us to rescue the Chelyuskin- ® ites and we had to fulfill the task for the Party. We fulfilled it. But there are millions of heroes like us. If an enemy tries to attack the Soviet Union these millions will show heroism such as has never yet been seen.” C. P. Group Keeps Working The life of the Chelyuskinites on the train continues to be as closely welded as at the moments of great- est tenseness when the great danger of isolation on the icefloe drew them to each other. The Commu- nist Party group of the Chelyuskin- ites mever ceased organization work for one minute while they were on the ice, and continues to work on | board the train. While approaching Omsk, in a compartment of the train where a session was held of a bureau of the Party group, the applications of the airmen Levanevsky and Lapidevsky, radio operator Krenkel, physicist Fakidov, and the motorist, Pogosva, to join the Bolshevik Pariy, were considered. “IT want to join the ranks of the Communist Party,” stated Leva- nevsky, impelled to this decision by the firmness of the organizing role of the Communists in the Ohelyuskin group, - Greeted by Enthusiastic) Crowds from Siberia to Moscow Lapidevsky writes: “I wish to de- | vote myself to the work of the Communist Party, and participate in socialist construction, not as a non-Party worker but as a Commu- nist.” Fakidov states in his application: “I have decided to devote all my) physical and mental strength to the cause of the working class. I was helped to this inflexible decision to join the Party by the enormous role of the Communists in welding to- gether the Chelyuskin crew into a single body under the difficult con- ditions of iceberg life.” Many others of the 126 members of the Chelyuskin expedition, sail- ors, scientific workers, etc., applied for membership in the Bolshevik Party. The bureau of the Party group will decide all applications before the arrival in Moscow. The express, with the crew, is ex- pected in Moscow on June 19. The On the World Front —— By HARRY GANNES | hose Victories in China? Capitalist Reports Kuomintang Crack Troops ENERAL CHIANG wal SHEK’S report that he has “routed” the Red Army of Kiangsi must be taken with a good dose of soya bean sauce. From the very first anti-Communist drive, Chi« ang Kai-Shek has been making these reports with the regularity of a pilgrim turning a prayer wheel, Yet each time he has been force to increase the anti-Soviet drive each time he has been forced to in4/ crease his armies; each time he has been forced to call on greater support from the imperialist pow- ers. And each time the Red Army has defeated the Kuomintang forces, tremendously enlarging the Soviet territories, increasing their armed forces, and improving their econe omy. Even the foreign corespondents, who know that Chiang Kai Shek’s “victory” announcements are mad@e mainly for export, to increase his prestige among his imperialist masters, express their gravest sus- picion, showing that the source of these reports is absolutely worthless. The seriousness of the anti- Communist campaign,” says the Associated Press correspondent in Nanking, who is very sympa- thetic to the Nanking regime, “however, is easily underestimated, News about it is scarce. Vir- tually the only source of infoma- tion is the Nationalist govern- ment itself.” However, to show how absolutely faked Chiang Kai Shek’s report about his victory in Kiangsi, seat of the central Soviet government, is, we will refer to the outstanding reports of the anti-Soviet war pub- lished by the leading newspapers of finance capital in the United States, from their correspondents in China. . IN APRIL 14, 1934, the Herald< Tribune published a cable from Canton headed: “Chinese Reds Defeat Nationalists, Canton Hears, 20,000 Communists Overwhelm Five Regiments on Border.” It goes on to say: “Dispatches said the Com- munists surrounded and disarmed five regiments of 7,000 men.” Then on May 14, 1934, the New York Times Shanghai correspon- dent dispatched his paper that? “Communists Gain in Chinese Areas.” We quote briefly from this story of tremendous victories of the Red Army: “Dramatic victories by General Ho Lung, leader of the Communist army in Hunan Province, in Szechuan Province made possible the capture of the Rev. Howard Smith . . . The Reds occupied many roads and captured a vast area, Yangtse cities are threatened from the northward by Commu- nist victories in Eastern Hupeh, Lotien has been captured and Kishui is threatened. A Commu- nist army of 10,000 men marched from Kiangsi to Hunan, captur- ing Yungshin.” There are many more details tell- ing victories of the Red Armies in many provinces, including Kiangst, But it is important to note that Chiang Kai Shek in his “victory” statement mentions not a single city, not a village he captured from the Red Army. ear, est S RECENTLY as June 2, 1934, the Red Army in Kiangsi, on admis- sion of the capitalist press, achieved one of the most decisive victories in all its history. The Red Army had been systematically defeating the Kuomintang forces, arming itself at their expense, defeating them not only militarily, but by propaganda, by winning over huge sections of the impoverished workers and coolies driven into the Kuomintang forces. But on June 2nd, the capi- talist press reported that the Red Army had defeated the crack, picked divisions of Chiang Kai Shek, divi« sions trained by the most outstand- ng military strategist of the last imperialist war, the Nazi General von Seeckt. The New York Times Shanghai cable reported that victory as fol- lows: “Chinese Reds Rout a yon Seeckt Army. Force trained by German is said to have lost 19,600 dead and wounded. Chiang’s orders upset. Adviser took reserves from the rear for a ‘baptism of fire’ in Kiangsi battle.” “These troops,” says the cable, “which were considered General Chiang Kai Shek’s crack soldiers, had been held in the rear'as re= serves, but General Hans Seeckt, former commander of the German Reichswher, is understood to have“ urged the advisability of a ‘baptism by fire.” “The soldiers fought well, but transportation along the singe high- way to the front became disorgan- ized under a flank attack by the Communists and chaos followed, The divisions affected in the fight- ing were the Fourth, Ninth, Tenth, Fourteenth, Forty-third, Fifty- ninth, and Eighty-seventh.” Here are names and divisions, crack troops, destroyed by the Red Army. ‘We must not, however, under- estimate the constant, great danger of the Chiang Kai-Shek drive with the full support of the imperialists behind him. The Red Army has fought and is fighting heroically. But we, more than ever, must throw our energetic ¢ support behind them, against our own imperialist oppressors who are financing and supporting with every means to make Chiang Kai- Shek’s fake report a reality. De- fend the Chinese Soviets! FIFTEEN MINERS RESCUED ISTANBUL, June 18 —Fifteen miners were rescued today when workers racing against time dug them out of a caved in gallery of the Cuzlo mine in the Black Sea | proletarian capital is actively pre- waring to meet its heroes, coal basin,