The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1934, Page 8

Y Page Fight Dally, Svorner, “America’s Only Working Class Daity Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. New York, N. Y 954, National Gable Address shington Daiwork. Room Building. Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 108, Choago, Hl Telephone: Dearborn Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00 $ months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month. 0.7% cents. | Manhattan, ‘Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $0.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $9.00 i By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1934 The Counter Offensive In Steel NHE Daily Worker publishes today a - statement by the Central Committee of the Communist Party to steel workers. The statement deals in a clear-cut manner with the question of the immediate de- mands and struggles of steel workers in connection with the Communist way out of the crisis. The statement makes plain the class forces in- volved in the organization and strike movement; it correctly places in a Marxist-Leninist manner all individuals and groups of leaders taking part in choking off the strike and the betrayal of the interests of the steel workers in relation to their tlass position and class loyalties In its statement the Central Committee shows that the demands of the workers can be won only by the rank and file establishing a leader- ship which rejects the false and disastrous idea that the interests of the steel barons and steel work- ers are the same, and by widespread organization tn all decisive plants and mills coupled with deter- mination and militant action by the steel workers. The primary need of the steel workers is unity— the united fighting front of all steel workers. No dependence can be placed on President Roosevelt and his government representing the interests of monopoly capital. The influence of President Green of the A. F. of L, of his fellow misleaders, who are solidly attached to the strikebreaking machin- ery of N.R.A., or in Mike Tighe. The surrender without a struggle of the Committee of Ten shows that words alone are not an accurate gauge by which to measure the honesty, ability and courage of leaders. The deeds of Green, Tighe, the Committee of Ten, and of President Roosevelt, Johnson and the rest of the union-wreeking crew of capitalist repre- sentatives, speak for themselves. They speak far louder than their words of friendship for the steel workers. “By their deeds ye shall know them.” Lenin said that every deed has its own logic. The logic of these deeds leads to lining up with the overlords of iron, steel and coal against the steel workers, their organizations, against the whole working class and its unions. It means company unionism if the program of surrender foisted upon the steel work- ers by the Roosevelt government and its official labor leaders is not repudiated and defeated by the steel workers. It means lower wages, more un- employment, worse working conditions and a still more rapid lowering of living standards. It means more tyranny‘in the company towns. Every district, section and unit of the Commu- nist Party in the steel areas is called upon to give the greatest possible circulation to today’s issue of the Daily Worker, calling special attention of steel workers to the C.C. statement. More than this: Every district and section is urged to have the C.C. statement printed in leaflet form, to distribute large numbers of them inside the plants and in the communities where steel workers live. It is especially important to get a good distribution in the outright company towns. Comrades, get busy! Take the lead in the or- Ranization of the counter-offensive of the steel Workers against their misleaders, against the steel barons, against the government of the steel barons and their capitalist kindred. The Daily Worker expects and will demand regular reports of the Progress and results of this important work. The Thaelmann Trial Is Very Near THAELMANN is to face the Nazi “People’s Court,” that bloody travesty of justice, less than two weeks from now, according to the official report of Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry. While every newspaper in Nazi Germany foams at the mouth, demanding Thaelmann’s head, the Nazis release for foreign consumption the fiction that they will not demand the death Sentence for the leader of the fighting German workers. The utter hypocrisy of this Nazi statement, cal- culated to quiet the storm of world-wide protests pouring in upon Germany’s shores, is proved out of their own mouths. The daily paper of the Ger- man Labor Front, “Der Deutsche,” prints scur- Tilous jingles calling for Thaelmann’s beheading: “What though the man is tall and strong, He still is just a head too long.” This Nazi lynch call, which is duplicated by the thousands in the German press every day, proves that Ernst Thaelmann’s life was never in greater danger than today. The Nazis are playing a double- faced game. Faced with the determined protest of hundreds of thousands in every country of the world, thay tell the outside world that “nothing serious will happen to Thaelmann.” But inside Nazi Germany, every one of their newspapers, every one of their speeches calls for Thaelmann’s head. The barbaric “People’s Court” has been set up by the Hitler crew not to murder Ernst Thaelmann lone. Already the Nazis proclaim that Thaelmann, the head of the Communist Party of Germany, will be followed by Ernst Torgler, and 6,000 of the best Communists and anti-fascists in Germany, includ- ing Dr. Theodor Neubauer, Ludwig Renn, Carl von Ossietzky, and the two Communist women, Frau Beimler and Frau Steinfurth, arrested and held by the secret police as hostages. The more difficult the domestic economic situa- tion of Germany becomes, the more cracks begin to appear in the Fascist structure, the more des- perately will the Nazis resort to terror and more terror against the revolutionary anti-fascists, For the Communists, the anti-fascists, are the one force in Germany that the Hitler dictatorship has been unable to crush. They represent the revolution- ary way out—a Soviet Germany, And that is why the Nazis are redoubling their efforts to murder est fp »QWorker | { | | | Ernst Thaelmann after a farce court-martial Thaelmann, as the leader of the German rev tion, is a thousand times guilty in the fascists’ eyes—guilty of leading the working class towards a Soviet Germany. The execution of Ernst Thael- mann will be the first major internal victory gained by the Nazis—if the workers of the world allow them to kill him. ‘The redoubled Fascist terror “justice” against Ernst Thaelmann, as the first of 6,000 Communist leaders, including Torgler, Renn, von Ossietzky and the rest, must be met by redoubled efforts of the world’s workers to snatch him from the fascist executioners’ hands. We have ten days left to stay the Nazi axe! ju- The city-wide Free Thaelmann demonstration in New York on June 23, next Saturday, will be the first of a series throughout the United States, Every worker, every honest intellectual and lover of freedom, must see to it that his friends, his organization, take part im this demonstration. Redouble the wave of protest over the whole United States! Have every shop, every union, every workers’ organization join in this Free Thaelmann Campaign, until the thunder of our protests forces the Nazis to let Thaelmann go. Remember—we freed Dimitrof_—WE CAN AND SHALL FREE ERNST THAELMANN! The I. L. D. --- Nine Years| N JUNE 28, the International Labor De- Defense will celebrate its ninth anni- versary. This is an important milestone in the struggles of the working class against the yoke of capitalism. The International Labor Defense is not only the fighting defense arm of the work- ing class in its struggles against exploitation. The I. L. D. is the leader of the fight for workers’ rights, for equal rights for the oppressed Negro people, for the defense and protection of class war prisoners, The I. L. D. is a powerful and indispensable weapon of the revolutionary movement for the exposure of the class dictatorship which is the modern state. In its valiant struggles, the I. L. D. exposes the growing fascist character of capitalist democracy, and thus becomes one of the front-rank fighters against the menace of fascism. The I. L. D,, in addition, is a powerful instru- ment for the spread of internationalism, through its international campaigns in behalf of class war prisoners and against fascist terror. The Communist Party, through the Daily Worker greets this ninnth anniversary of the I. L. D. by a special anniversary page in its June 28 issue. All units should give this page the widest distribution, Discussions should be organized on the role of the I. L. D. in the fight against capital- ism. Deep in the ranks of the masses, loyalty and devotion to the I. L. D. grows rapidly. Greetings to this fighting arm of the revolutionary working class! Renew the Fight for Relief and Social Insurance wu adjournment of Congress in sight without having taken any action on the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, an increased drive must be waged to force the early enactment of the Workers Bill in the next session of Congress. During the period since the introduc- tion of the Workers Bill into Congress on Feb. 2, under House Resolution 7598, a new wave of en- dorsement and mass support swept through the A. F. of L. unions and mass and fraternal organ- izations. Under the pressure of the jobless, more than two score cities with a combined population of more than 4,000,000 were forced to back the bill. Central Trades bodies, and district and national conventions of A. F. of L. unions, in addition to hundreds of separate unions, haye demanded the Workers Bill. In the intervening period between the 73d and ‘74th Congresses, new effort must be made to fur- ther popularize the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, new endorsements must be obtained by A. F. of L. ufiions with the view of making the fight for its endorsement at the National Convention of the A. F. of L. at San Francisco in the Fall, a central issue. Already steps are being taken in the unions with this end in view. In New York on July 28, and in Chicago on July 1, will be held regional conferences of A. F. of L. unions to enlist support for the bill, Wee an increasing number of unemployed are regularly applying for relief, federal, state and municipal relief expenditures are being slashed to the bone. In his May 15 budget message to Con- Bress, Roosevelt, while allocating new hundreds of millions for war preparations, cut half a billion dollars off federal relief expenditures for the coming fiscal year. On the following day, prelim- inary reports released by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration for the month of April showed that “relief case loads” in 140 cities em- bracing 64 per cent of the total urban population on relief had increased by 38 per cent in one month, During February, the latest complete figures available, 670,000 new cases were added to the relief rolls in 45 states. At the same time, 470,000 cases were dropped. For the country as a whole, average monthly relief payments to families was slashed during the same period from $12.95 to $11.84, * . . iby the campaign for the widest mass support of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, a continued struggle must be waged at the relief bureaus, in the neighborhoods and on the work relief projects for increased relief. Strike struggles that are today sweeping the relief Projects must be consolidated and strengthened. Increased pressure must be brought to bear upon all governmental bodies for the winning of adequate relief. Central in the struggle must be the widest possible popu- larization of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, a struggle embracing the support of workers in the trade unions, in veterans’, workers’ and farm- ers’ mass organizations, and among the organized and unorganized workers everywhere. Join the Communist Party % EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send mo more information on the Commu- mist Party. ATP Pe ees ereneesenereeseses | “PVE DONE v Use U.S. Planes Fighters for Indian Freedom} ‘Tortured in Afghanistan Jail 'ToBombChina Soviet Towns Canton Warlords Admit They Will Kill Women and Children HONGKONG, June 19.—With air- | planes supplied by the Roosevelt government, the Cantonese army is soon to open up & bombardment of villages in the Southern part of the Kiangsi Soviet districts, statements made here by Cantonese authorities today showed, ‘The Cantonese war lords admitted that this would mean great loss of life among men, women and chil- dren, but they said this was the only way to continue their drive against the Soviet districts. More than a score of American bombing planes will be used. These will be followed up by infantry. The Cantonese are cooperating with Chiang Kai Shek from the South. The Nanking General has just re- turned to Hankow with faked re- ports of his “victories” over the Chinese Soviets in Kiangsi. The new air bombing threat ts a desperate move on the part of the Chinese war lords to stop the ad- vances of the Chinese Soviets. In this murderous attack they receive the financial and military support of the Roosevelt government. Youth Conference to Prepare for Congress Against War, Fascism NEW YORK.—A mass youth Con- ference will be held June 2ist at Irving Plaza, called by the New York District of the American League Against War and Fascism, in prep- aration for the first Youth Congress Against, War and Fascism to be held in Chicago Sept. 27th, 28th, and 29th, at the same time that the adult Congress is in session, The American League appeals to all shops and trade unions to send delegates to the June 21st Con- ference so that a large group of young workers will be sent to Chicago from New York. AIR ARMAMENTS IN BRITAIN LONDON, England. — Thirteen aeroplane hangars will be built by order of the Air Minister Lord Lon- donderry, it was learned today. Trak will get seven of these, Egypt one and Great Britain five. | By TED GILE Gurmuk Singh and Prithvi Singh, | imprisoned and tortured in the | jails of Afghanistan for the past year, stand out for their revolu- | tionary work and sacrifices for the freedom of India from British im- perialism. Since 1914, when the Lahore Con- | spiracy Case took place, these two comrades have been hounded day ; after day. At that time they were | arrested, “tried” and sentenced to | death. Tremendous mass pressure ; caused their death sentence to be ; changed to one of life imprison- ment. In 1917, while being transferred from the Bengal to the Madras jail, | Gurmuk Singh tried twice to escape, | but without success. Heavy fetters | Were put on his legs. In the third | attempt he leaped from a train run- ; ning 45 miles an hour and escaped to the jungle. It took him one month to remove his fetters by rub- | bing them with stones, while living on grass and leaves. Finally he made his way to a village and the natives raised enough money to send him to Punjab, his native province. | Comrade Prithvi Singh, who had | gone through more or Jess the same | experiences in escaping from his | jailers, met him there. With funds raised by revolution- | ary Indians they made their way |to Afghanistan, where Amanullzh. the former king, took great interest in their work and gave them citi- zenship, In 1928 Gurmuk Singh came to the United States to further the in- terests of Indian freedom, but was forced to leave the country at the behest of British influence. He left jagain for Afghanistan. Amanul lah was overthrown in 1929 and Nadir Khan, a puppet of British imperialism, was made king. Prithvi and Gurmuk Singh were forced to flee again and settled in Germany. Hitler’s coming to power made | Germany impossible for our exiles and they decided to go back to In- | dia to help swell higher the rising reyolutionary mood of the masses in spite of the terrors such action | held for them. They were arrested by the Afghan government as they were attempting to cross the border into India, on August 7, 1933. They have been starved, tortured, and twice attempts were made on their lives. What saved them so far are the cablegrams sent by working class organizations the world over protesting their arrest. In the United States many such cables were sent and on June 26, 1934, a delegation representing 15 organizations will visit the British | | and Afghan Consul in New York to demand the release of Gurmuk and Prithvi Singh. The Interna- tional Labor Defense and the Anti-Imperialist League is organ- izing the campaign in the U. 8S. Barbusse Calls for Opening of Intl Veterans’ Congress. NEW YORK.—Henri Barbusse, President of the International As- sociation of Veterans has issued a stirring call for the Seventh In- ternational Congress of the I. A. C. The Congress will be.held in Brus- Sels on July 29th. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, the American Section, will send two delegates who were ap- proved at the meeting of the mem- bers of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League who were at the Rank and File Convention in Washington. The delegates are Emanuel Levin, chair- man of the Workers Ex-Service- men’s League, and A. F. Blanchard, Negro war veteran from Chicago. The Congress invites disabled veterans to attend the convention and then to visit the Soviet Union for a month’s treatment at the special hospitals. Harry Neilson, disabled World War veteran, F. B. Smith of Iowa, a Negro war veteran have already stated their willingness to go and have been approved. The cases of other disabled war veterans are now being considered. The main business of the Con- gress will be: 1, The war veterans in the struggle against war and fascism. 2. War victims and victims of labor in their struggle against so- cial reaction. 3. Proletarian social policy in the Soviet Union and its interna- tional popularization. To Visit Thaelmann The Executive Committee of the I, A. C. is launching an interna- tional campaign for the freeing of Hugo Graef, Secretary of the I. A. C., who is held prisoner by the Nazi terrorists; for Thaelmann and “ten thousand of war victims and ex- servicemen who languish in the jails and concentration camps under the reign of fascist terror in Germany, Austria and other fascist countries.” Delegations will be sent to visit Thaelmann and Hugo Graef. The veterans in the United States t will recall that the I. A. C. sent a cable to President Hoover de- FOREIGN BRIEFS FRENCH COURTS PROTECT HITLER PARIS, June 19.—Hitler found! French courts very sympathetic to- day. They ordered French publish- ers to burn copies of “Mein Kampf” in an unexpurgated French edition because Hitler had forbidden the publication in translation and had | authorized a deleted and falsified version. END SPAIN METAL STRIKE MADRID, June 19.—Metal work- ers returned to work today after striking since March 9. The terms of the settlement call for a 44-hour week without a pay cut, but the set- tlement is provisional, as the agreement is for three months only. GANDHI—STRIK-BREAKER BOMBAY, India.—Terstile op- erators will use the influence of Gandhi to break the strike of 70,- 000 textile and spinning mill work- ers, it was announced today. The Mahatma will “mediate.” FASCIST TERROR IN SPAIN MADRID, Spain.—Spain’s rad-| ical (so-called under the monarchy) party government today took the most openly Fascist steps yet un- dertaken in the steady march to the right, when it attempted to crush the swelling strike of farm work- ers by attacking their organiza- tions. Ricardo Zabalza, Secretary Gen- eral of the Federation of Workers of the Soil, was fined 10,000 pesetas; the President of the “Health Cul- ture” society was fined 5,000 pesetas, and the President of the Madrid Socialist Federation was fined 5,000 pesetas. i Seville again took the lead in ter- rorizing the striking workers. One striker was killed and 20 arrested in that province today by admission of the Governor of the province. manding the payment of the bonus and condemning the use of the troops, | The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League is launching a $5,000 Vet- erans Fighting Fund to be used for sending of the delegates, issuing of @ veterans paper and other publica- tions and strengthening the Work- ers Ex-Servicemen’s League and the Veterans National Rank and File Committee in Washington so that veterans in the United States can carry on a united struggle for the immediate payment of the bonus, repeal of the Economy Act, and for the struggle against war and fas- cism, Old F ighters of. RedPutilov Greet Chelyuskin Heroes Open Letter in ‘Pravda’ Hails the Bravery of Arctic Expedition (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 19 (By Radio)— An open letter from the workers of the Red Putilov, largest Leningrad plant, to the Chelyuskin Arctic ex- pedition and their rescuers, who:ar- rive here tomorrow, appears in “Pravda” today. The oldest prole- tarian fighters in the U. S. S, R. write: “You have proven yourselyes worthy sons of our great fatherland, you have glorified its name over the whole world. You have passed a severe test splendidly. Your organi- zation and unswerving heroism show unlimited love for the father- land in whose name you acted, and proved again how dear to us is the Soviet land, won with the blood of workers and peasants. “During the months of your im- prisonment in the ice-bound Arctic, we, and not only we, connected you with the destiny of our country. Millions of people somehow felt dif- ferently again, thrilling with the great fortune of having a fatherland capable of such heroic feats of glory as those you accomplished. Praises Chelyuskin’s Heroism “Your heroism in the Arctic Ocean, where you were fulfilling a task of the party and of the government, discovering new routes of tremen- dous state significance, reminded us of the events, resurrected in our memories, of the recent past, when we, in barricades and trenches, saved our country from its enemies, We, the Red Putilovites, especially the old workers, clearly remember the time when our splendid country was in the clutches of the bloody czars, landlords, and capitalists. “Leningrad especially preserves in jits environments many monuments which tell of oppression; the luxu- rious palaces of czars, princes, the aristocracy; the lavish mansions of the bankers and capitalists, con- structed on the bones of the toiling people and watered with its tears of sorrow, caused by a ruling class of exploiters and plunderers. Vampires hed sucked all the marrow of our fertile land. The sun shone, the green bloomed, the sea waves played only for them. All of life was for them, our enemies. We suffered be- cause the country of our birth was clutched’ in the greedy hands of plunderers and imposters. We did everything to wrest the power from the hands of those enemies, and we have given it to the toiling people. “Those days when you Chelyuskin heroes used the ice as airdromes, when the Arctic rang with the noise of the propellers of valiant Soviet aviation, we recalled now the Puti- lov workers, after the October days in 1917, prepared armoured trains day and night in defense of the Soviet regime. We also recall today, in connection with your triumphant arrival in the capital of the Soviet Union, the heroic civil war years, those alarming days when the can- non balls of the far distant artillery of the white General Yudenitch were flying over our plant. We, our wives and children too, were ready to meet them. We cast shells, we armoured trains. Those were un- forgettably great days and nights! Recalls Civil War “We remember the years of the civil war, when we were getting a quarter of a pound of bread a day. Hungry, in tatters, we exterminated the aristocracy, the landlords, capi- talists, white officers, foreign inter- vention armies, all better equipped than we. What moved us? It was a love of our workers’ fatherland, our own country, it was a loyalty to the revolutionary cause of the in- ternational proletariat. “The ruling classes have always made the toiling people participate in the plunderous wars to defend the interesis of the capitalists and landlords. But that October we felt that we ourselves were the masters of the country. For the first time we felt it was our own country, worthy of the sacrifices of life, for we loved our country and therefore sought to defend it. “Russia then became the mother of toilers of a'l nationalities. Its riches, bountifulness, the beauty of its cities, factories, plants, villages, rivers, seas, forests, mountains, its fields and gardens, all this was our own. “That is the life for us! The sun that is shining for us today will 2lso rise for us tomorrow! Let anyone Recalls Similar Courage During Days of 1917 Revolution him there awaits a fate like that of the bloody Nicholas, former Russian Czar! Our Own Making “The U. S. S. R. is of our own making. It is a country where schutzbunders and all oppressed and outraged by the capitalist and fas- cist powers may find a home. It is mann, Romain Rolland, call their own. The Soviet Union is the fatherland of the toilers of the world. Our country is the hope of all humanity. Our toiling people made it such. From Magnitogorsk, and Dnieprostroi, from the tractor, the ‘automobile plants, from the state collective farms, from the new techniques, the new culture, we herald a new existence. We beau- tify it with a new and glorious life of happiness for toilers of the world. “Also, you comrades have followed the tracks of the great heroes of the proletarian revolution in the civil war. Your feat, Comrades Chelyus- kiners, heroic flyers, illuminates the face of our country, strengthens its force and power. You have shown a remarkable example of heroism and love of country. “Greetings to you, our own greetings too, from Neva’s shores, Lenin's town, the cradle of the great Communist Party! Wel- come heroes of the iron generation a country which Dimitroff, Thael-} On the World Front By HARRY GANNES \ South Wales Election Uabor Party Tactics 3,409 Communist Votes N MERTHUR, South Wales} a stronghold of the Labur Party, the Communist Party of Great Britain in the recent by-elections, made tremene dous gains winning 8,409 votes for Communism where no Communist candidate ever ram before. In the 1931 general election3y the Labor Party candidate Polley 24,623 votes in this district while ity the recent election brilliantly fought by the Communist Party, the Labor Party vote was cut down to 18,645, or a decrease of 6,000 votes, and its majority by 5,520. Wal Hannington, leader of the unemployed movement, was the candidate for the Communist Party, Applications continued to pour in after the campaign was over. No trick was too low or dirty for either the Labor Party or the Ine dependent Labor Party canidate in their struggle against the Commus nist candidate. When Arthur Hore nor, miners’ agent for the anthrae cite district, and Evan Evans, checkweighman at the Emlyn Col- liery, took the field in support of the Communist candidate, the La- bor Party reactionaries threatened to have them expelled from the union, When the Executive Council of the South Wales Miners’ Federa- tion threatened to victimize these supporters of the Communist can- didate, Horner answered by com- paring the action of the Federation with that taken by a Tory govern- ment against the Tolpuddle Martyrs 100 years ago. Then membership in a trade union was declared a felony, punishable by transportation for seven years. Pea ea 7 “MY RECORD as a Communist,” said Horner, “was well known to the 10,000 anthracite miners who elected me by ballot vote to the po- sition of Miners’ Agent, and to the 40,000 South Wales miners who sup- ported my candidature for the Vices Presidency a month ago. “I was elected on the clear un- derstanding that I would continue my_ Communist activities, believing as I do that the Communist policy is the only way out for the work ingclass. . . “This present action of the Executive Council. if allowed to go unchallenged, will do more to destroy the Federation in South Wales than all the attacks of the coal owners and the disruptive policy of the scab unions. . . “I will not barter a job for principles for which Dimitroff was_ prepared to give his life.” { He was enthusiastically cheered. by the workers. The Independent Labor’ Party candidate, John McGovern, member of parliament, who received 3.409 votes, resorted to the most un- scrupulous demagogy and conceit, pandering to the prejudices of the Catholics in order to win their votes. The Labor Party victor again ap- Pealed to the workers to support a struggle for a “Labor government,” declaring that the Labor Party “had. now learned its lesson,” and that) the weaknesses of the past two labor} governments would be remedied. How it will be remedied is shown by the “Daily Herald,” organ of the Labor Party which supports the British imperialist policy of aiding Hitler’s policy of re-arming, a war move deliberately aimed at the Soviet Union. * }} 8 ‘HE Communist Party did not stop its actions with the an- nouncement of the election results as did all the other candidates. In- tensified recruiting for the Party was carried on after the election. Communist Party speakers held many meetings explaining the re- sults of the electoin, telling the workers how to continue the strug- gle for the victory of Soviet Power in England. The election campaign had lasted only two weeks, but in those two weeks the Party threw its best ef forts into the campaign. Comrade Harry Pollitt, one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who took an active part in the election campaign, summed up the results for the Party as follows: “The Communist Party at its first fight here in Merthyr, with only one small group in existence, has in two weeks, on the basis of its revolution- ary line, won 3,409 votes for Com- munism, for revolution. It has made 70 new members, including the very best from the I. L. P. branches, scores of new readers for the Daily Worker, and this means that now for all time we have es- tablished a firm basis throughout the Merthyr division. . . . , “A total of 3,409 votes for Com- munism. For Communism which ; was undiluted, for revolutionary principles that were not prostituted, for issues upon which every voter was clear. No pandering to re- ligious prejudices and pretending to. be pious for the duration of the election. This is what has been achieved in Merthyr. Let us now use this result es an incentive to make the Party's big campaign against the National Government. more effective than ever before, and if we do this then the Merthyr fight can well be one of the historic Jandmarks in the history of our, Party.” FRENCH FOREIGN TRADE DECLINES PARIS, June 17—A decline tn foreign trade for the first five months of 1934, as compared to the same period in 1933, was announced yesterday. The figures show ims ports at 10,650,819,000 francs, a dee crease of 2,048,146.000 francs. Exe ports fell to 7,348,394,000, a decline of 189,235,000 francs. The combined try to take something of ours, For brought up by Stalin!. loss approximates $150,000,000- esis sess NOREEN Hi