The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1934, Page 6

e Six Daily QWorker SRNTRAL CoGam COMMUNIST PARTY S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) | “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 "SHED DAILY COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC,, 5@ E. 13th Street, New York, ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7954. New York, N. ¥ om 954, National Press Building, on, D. © th Wells St., Room 705, Cheago, Ti. Subscription Rates: Manhattan and Bronx ear. WO: n $2.00; 1 month, 0.78 cents Foreign and Canada year, $9.00 months, $3.00 TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1934. The Communist Call for United Front Action R® class ALIZING that the united front of the working the basis for a successful fight against the monster of Fascism and capitalist exploitation, the Communist Party has again sent an invi- tation to the Socialist Party for the organi- zation of united struggle for the immediate needs of the American working class. is Every single one of the demands upon which the Communist Party proposes united action repre- sents. the immediate needs of the toiling popula- tion of the country. One does not have to agree with the platform of the Communist Party, one does not have to accept the Communist Party position regarding the ultimate necessity for the revolutionary seizure of power and the establishment of a proletarian dictatorship, to find in these demands a suitable platform for immediate united action. These demands, for higher wages, for better conditions, against the N.R.A. strikebreaking codes and Labor Boards, against the Wall Street war preparations, against the Jim-Crow lynch system, for unemployment insurance, for cash relief, against all manifestations of Fascism, etc.—these are the living daily demands of the working class upon which all class conscious workers and sym- pathizers can certainly unite, irrespective of their differences on other questions, There is not an honest person who will not see the truth of this, There is not an honest person who will not see that to reject a united struggle for these demands is to place oneself against the interests of the majority of the toiling population. These demands are, therefore, an acid test as to where one belongs. 'HE Communist Party now proposes united front actions with the Socialist Party for the third time. In the past, the Socialist leaders have found an infinite number of excuses for rejecting or ig- noring these proposals. We cannot discuss the worth of these “reasons” here. It is sufficient to say, however, that the Com- munist Party has never been shown to have broken a single one of its obligations or pledges made at & united front conference, The Communist Party has never made any demands ‘upon any group in ® united front other than that the group actually carry through its pledges. The Central Committee of the Communist Party closes its call with an appeal to all workers, So- cialist and unaffiliated, to join hands with the Com- munists in actual struggle, in actual united front actions. The struggle of the Milwaukee workers against the local Nazis is a good example. It is in practice that the real value of the united front is proven. The working class of this country has a right to a prompt answer from the new Na- tional Executive Committee of the Socialist Party on a matter vitally affecting its struggle against capitalist misery. Where Were the Leaders? FEW days ago, Socialist rank and file together with Communists of Mil- waukee, marched to a meeting called by Nazi agents and raised the ery for the freedom of Thaelmann. Through joint ef- forts they finally swept the Nazis aside, captured the hall and turned it into an anti-Fascist demonstration. In the streets, in determined struggle against the hated Fascist pest, Socialists and Communists clasped hands in working-class solidarity, in the fight to free that great son of the German working- class, Thaelmann, and to deliver a blow to fascism. Where were the Socialist Party leaders in this fight? They were silent. They were absent. The vile Nazi leaflets distributed at the Nazi meeting were printed on the presses of the Mil- waukee Leader, Socialist Party organ. More. The local police captain sent 100 cops to protect the Fascists and their meeting. The Police seized and slugged a number of anti-Fascist fight- ers. The police captain is a Socialist. Socialist workers are ready and eager to fight the hateful Nazis. But their leaders do nothing to organize any struggle against the Nazi agents in this country. The Socialist Party leaders forbid their members to join in any united front action with the Communists against the Nazis. In Europe, the Socialist Party leaders, after preparing the way for Fascism through 15 years of class collaboration with the bourgeoisie, now preach the hopelessness of fighting for the overthrow of capitalism in Germany. They preach the poisonous doctrine of an “epoch of Fascism and reaction.” They sabotage the fight against Hitler by preach- ing the radical-sounding but reactionary doctrine of the automatic collapse of Fascism, when Hitler will “expose himself.” These reactionary doctrines are advanced to justify the reactionary deeds. Fascism in this coun- -try advances steadily. Only in day-to-day struggle with this beast can the working class defeat it. He who sits by silently, he who sabotages a single united front action, a single demonstration against the Nazis, he is an enemy of the working class and an beitor of Fascism. To the Socialist Rank and File and Commu- nists of Milwaukee who showed the Nazi thugs what militant class-conscious workers can do, we say, good work, Milwaukee! Forge the United Front of the working-class against imperialist war and Fascism! Life Begins at Sixty UT at Minneapolis, the mortgage-ridden, drought-stricken farmers of the coun- try are now laying the plans in the national - convention of the United Farmers’ League EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE | 1 for a nation-wide fight against the misery which the Roosevelt A. . program has brought them. It is one of the oldest and stalest frauds of Wall reet propaganda that the “happy American farmer” is a well-to-do, prosperous, contented owner of his “own” farm The realities which the delegates to the U. F. L convention are exposing in their reports from all over the countr eal a different picture. They reveal that the vast majority of the farm population, the agricultural laborers, the small, im- poverished farmers, and the middle farmers, are facing poverty, misery, and hunger no less ghastly than the working masses in the cities. Millions of impoverished farmers and their fami- lies have felt the claws of the Roosevelt Blue Eagle as sharply as the proletariat. These small farmers have been gouged by the mortgage sharks so that the great majority of them “own” their land only in name, not in fact. In fact, the toiling farm population is under the same Wall Street heel that tramples the necks of the proletariat in the cities. just For the vast majority of the toiling farmers the Roosevelt New Deal has brought foreclosures, rising costs of manufactured goods, extortionate taxes, and the criminal insanity of the Roosevelt acreage-re- duction program. Now the drought has come to complete what the Roosevelt government started. The drought has brought the sufferings of the farmers to a head. They can no longer endure the brutal exploitation of the bankers or the callous indifference of the Roosevelt-Wall Street government. The farmers are preparing to fight for the right to live like human beings. 'HE ruined New York State farmer Claude Rey- nolds, the other day murdered his three children and shot himself because he could get no relief from government authorities. This is what the Roosevelt “New Deal” brought to a typical, hard- working small farmer. In the Soviet Union, at the recent Party Congress, Kaganovitch, a leading Bolshevik and aid of Stalin, told of the 60-year old peasant woman who turned to the Communist leaders and said: “They say you are close to the government. May we ask that the government pass a decree to prolong life and put off death. We would like to go on living. The Soviet government has made human beings of us.” A Workers’ and Farmers’ government brings life and happiness to the toiling farmers. A Wall Street-Roosevelt government brings misery and tragedy to the toiling farmers. It leaves them to the mercies of the capitalist sharks and the terrors of natural calamity. A Soviet government would seize the Wall Street money bags and use the hoarded billions to protect. and care for the impoverished, stricken farmers and their children. A capitalist Roosevelt government uses the hor- rors of the drought to tighten the chains of the A. A. A.-mortgage slavery. The present capitalist system is a menace and a curse to the whole toiling population. For the wel- fare of the majority of the population, the capital- ist profit system must go, and a new form of gov- ernment, a Soviet government, in the interests of the toiling masses, the majority of the population, must be set up in its place. ‘ The present farm convention sounds the call for a nation-wide struggle for the Farmers’ Relief Bill, proposed by the Communist Party. This is the bill which alone can bring immediate relief to the stricken farm population. For united struggle of workers and farmers against the Roosevelt-Wall Street farm program! For immediate cash relief and a program of govern- ment aid against the drought! For a revolutionary struggle for a new system of society, for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Soviet. government in the interests of the majority of the people! Smash Mayor Hague’s Anti-Union Edict! RANK HAGUE, Mayor of Jersey City, and member of the National Committee of the Democratic Party, who swung the vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt for the state of New Jersey, in line with the poli- cies of the Roosevelt government intensi- fies his vicious attack against the right of workers to strike for better conditions. Last Friday three women—Ray Singer and Sarah Blecher, members of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union, and Lillian Sandry of the Civil Liberties Union—were sentenced to jail for 30 days by Judge McGovern in the First Criminal Court of Jersey City because they defied Mayor Frank Hague’s arbitrary order that there shall be no striking or picketing at the Miller Furniture shop, Five members of the Furniture Workers Indus- trial Union—Abe Rothbaum, Able Handy, Goldie Perlow, Mary Kiss and Rose Dickstein—and Alfred Bingham, editor of the magazine “Common Sense,” will be hailed before Hague’s Criminal Court in Jersey City today because they exerted their right to picket peacefully the Miller shop. Besides this, three workers and a photographer of the Federated Press, who were arrested in front of the Miller establishment, have been charged with inciting to riot and unlawful assembly, and their cases will come up in court on Friday. It is clear that the situation in Jersey City is extremely serious. The minute a worker appears on the picket line he is grabbed by the police and thrown in jail like a criminal. Mayor Hague, aping the tactics of the bloody Hitler, orders the police to arrest men and women and throw them into filthy cells while carrying out his anti-picketing ukase, Here is the new deal of Roosevelt stripped of all its fancy trappings and solemn trumpery. Hague is a new dealer and he cannot deny it, He is blood and bone of the Roosevelt regime. Appeals to the N.R.A. against Hague’s arbitrary anti-labor decision have met with no response. In- deed, President Roosevelt made a joke of the whole matter when it was brought to his attention in Washington. The entire labor movement must at once take action against this attack on union labor. If Hague is successful in taking away the right to strike in New Jersey, the precedent will be utilized against workers in other states and localities, The anti-strike edict must be smashed in Jer- sey City. It can be smashed, however, only by the united mass action of the working class. This means that the edict must be smashed by militant mass picketing. All labor unions must aid in this action. Telegrams and letters of protest against the jailing of workers on the Jersey City picket line must flood the offices of Mayor Frank Hague and President Roosevelt. Workers! Fight for your right to striket DAILY WORKER, NE Mutiny on | ea ° _Gunboat in | | Cuba Harbor’ Saladrigas "Oui ABC. | Nationalist Goy’t As | ABC Split Widens HAVANA, June 25.—A mutiny re- | ported on the gunboat Cuba yester- | day was officially confirmed. | | The replacing of Commander| | Villoch by an army man named by Col. Fulgencio Batista was the} spark that set off the powder ma-/| | and | rn | increasing | msion between marine forces has been | army | rapidly and the persistent efforts of | | Batista, army Chief of Staff, to ob-| | tain power in Cuba are the source of mounting fear in other quarters. | | ABC Leader Quits | | Carlos Saladrigas, Secretary of | Justice, retired to private life today} | as the ABC organization of which jhe is an executive announced its withdrawal from the Nationalist- ABC government headed by Presi- dent Mendieta. | The ABC had demanded a policy| | of repression against those respon-| sible, in its opinion, for the attack} on the ABC demonstration Sunday, June 17, The failure of the govern- ment to comply with its demands | particularly the refusal to replace| Chief of Police Pedraza led to to- day's action. | The military section of the ABC} will remain in the coalition, it was announced. This further splits the ABC already divided into the ex-| treme right and the so-called ABC | radicals. A provocative manifesto issued yesterday calling for the slaughter of Communists was be- | lieved to have hastened the split. Martinez Saenz, ABC executive and member of the Cuban govern- | ment, was known today to have | talked by telephone with Sumner Wells, former American Ambassa- dor to Cuba and Latin-American | expert in the Department of State, in spite of denials. ABC members, | armed with machine guns, cap- tured three newspapermen and ad- ministered castor oil. |Japanese Masses Raid Warehouses; Italian Crop Fails| TOKIO, June 24—Fifteen to 30 per cent of Japan’s population lacks rice due to the artificially boosted price of that grain, it was learned today when reports of rioting in rural districts reached here. Government warehouses in many districts have been. raided by hun- gry peasants and workers, it was learned. | Famine was reported in wide! | areas as government measures, fol- | lowing those in many other coun- tries, served to relieve only the large landowners and big farmers. ROME, June 24.—Premier Musso- lini admitted to the permanent wheat committee yesterday that the Italian wheat crop would be a small one and hinted that the rural popu- lation would have to supplement the anticipated 185,000,000 bushels of wheat with maize and rice. Thus Italy's “Battle of Wheat” was again shown to be a process of driving down the wheat consumption of the masses in favor of inferior cereals. Thaelmann Meet | In Indianapolis | INDIANAPOLIS, June 25. — A Free Thaelmann mass meeting was held here last Friday night at the | John Reed Club, 318 to 322 Colum- | bia Securities Building. William | Galatsky of Chicago spoke on “the | Anti-Fascist Forces in Germany.” YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1934 MORE DROUGHT FOR THE FARMER ‘by Limbach Thais Trial Due Next Week 3 (Continued from Page 1) tion of the American League Against War and Fascism over 1,000 young and adult workers demonstrated in Military Park last Thursday for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann. The meeting was addressed by Sam Strong, Peter W. Rodino, and Sylvia Sheves. So ee John Reed Delegates to Consulate Arrested (Special te the Daily Worker) DETROIT, June 25.—A John Reed delegation of seven, picketing the Nazi Consulate in the Hammond Building, was arrested Saturday afternoon while entering the build- ing to present demands for the re- lease of Thaelmann. Released later, the delegates are to be tried Thursday morning on charges of “disturbing the peace.” The delegates are Esther Nickman, Bess Bavley, Benjamin Baviey, Carol Standish, James Lindahl, Richard Carlson, and Paul Seridin. Pili Paint “Free Thaelmann” Sign on Nazi Consulate (Special to the Daziy Worker) PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—The Consul arrived at his office this morning to find a huge “Free Thaelmann” sign, painted in foot high red letters on the wall of his office building. Frantic rubbing with turpentine failed to remove the sign, all passersby seeing clearly this ex- pression of the rising demand of Philadelphia workers for the free- dom of the leader of the German !workingclass in its struggle against fascist slavery and terror. | Later in the morning, several del- egations from the International Workers Order entered the Con- sulate, protesting the tortures of Thaelmann and demanding his re- | lease, M. Stern, District Organizer of | the International Labor Defense, ar- | rested in Saturday’s militant mass demonstration at the Consulate, re- fused to sign a peace bond, and was sentenced to five days. A “Free Thaelmann” mass meet- ing and protest against the jailing of Stern, will be held here Friday evening, at 507 South St. Richard B. Moore, Field Organizer of the | I, L. D, will be the main speaker. | Chicago Workers Prepare July 2 Thaelmann Protest (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, June 25.—Fifty police were mobilized Saturday night to smash a “Free Thaelmann” meeting called by the Albany Park Anti-Fascist group. Several hun- dred workers found the vacant lot where the meeting was to be held filled with blue-coated thugs. Two workers were picked up, one for distributing leaflets, the other for the remarkable offense of “looking on.” Both were dismissed in court this morning. Police Cap-| tain Goldberg had told the com-/| mittee that he would smash any} | meeting of protest against the! frame-up . of Thaelmann, even | though it was on private property. | A very successful anti-fascist | | cil office, 11 W. 18th St. Danzig “‘Free City” Being Hitlerized With High Speed DANZIG, June 25. — Madame Meta Totzki, Communist Deputy in the Danzig Diet, yesterday was sentenced to three years im- prisonment for distribution of banned Communist literature, it was learned today. Danzig, falling at an increas- ing tempo under Nazi domina- tion, today ordered the estab- lishment of labor camps to which all citizens would be re- quired to report for service at stated times. demonstration was held in Wash- ington Park Saturday night, and} the hundreds of workers present shouted their approval of resolu- tions condemning the frame-up. eres oe Associated Clubs Call Free Thaelmann Conference NEW YORK.—The City Council of the Associated Workers’ Clubs is calling a Free Thaelmann and Anti-Fascist conference of all its clubs. The clubs are instructed to send a minimum of three delegates. The conference will be held Satur- day, June, at 2:30 p.m. at the Coun- The Brooklyn section of the Council is arranging a free Thael- mann demonstration for Friday, June 29, at 8 p.m. at Rutland Road and Rockaway Parkway. All Brook- lyn clubs and other organizations are urged to participate. | 50,000 Toilers Respond To Anti-Fascist Appeal HAVANA (By Mail). —Some 50,000 workers responded to the call of the National Confederation of La- bor for protest stoppages against the national concentration of the A.B.C. on Sunday, June 17. Bus traffic in Havana was at a stand- still as the workers of the Trans- port Union put into action the slo- gan of refusal to furnish transport | facilities for the fascist concentra- tion, While rail service was not interrupted, a referendum taken among the railroad workers by the yellow leaders of the Railroad Brotherhood revealed an_ over- whelming sentiment in favor of stoppage among all sectors but the train crews; a good number of workers of the repair shops and maintenance service of the railroad participated in the militant counter actions which were organized in) |the streets against the concentra- tion, For more than a week previous |to the concentration, Havana was | the scene of audacious counterac- | tions carried through in defiance of extreme terror, Bands of young workers smashed scores of storewin- dows which displayed placards ad- vertising the coricentration. This was so effective that after two or three days, the green placards of the A.B.C. were not to be seen, in spite of the fact that the A.B.C. has one of the firmest bases of sup- port among the richer merchants, especially the Spanish. Street cars which advertised the concentration were invaded in ter- minals and along the routes by groups of young workers and stu- dents and stripped of their placards, as motormen looked on sympatheti- cally and shouted encouragement. A.B.C. headquarters in three im- portant neighborhoods were at- | tacked by small demonstrations of workers and relieved of their green | bunting and insignias. Such was the popular sentiment aroused against the fascist demonstration that ABC leaders were forced to announce, the day before, that the march of their special “green detachments’ | Cuba Workers Mass Against Fascist would not take place. Likewise the announced ‘“window-display con- test” was abandoned. Saturday, on the eve of the con- centration, hundreds of workers gathered before a huge are which had been especially constructed for the occasion, and attempted to de- stroy it in defiance of a heavily armed guard of A.B.C. men who were protecting it. In the fray two A.B.C. members were killed, and | Many were wuonded on both sides, as the A.B.C, men opened fire. The same night, a boxing match in the Miramar Gardens, organized by the A.B.C. as a part of its fes- tivities. was broken up by young workers and students. From as early as five o'clock on the morning of the concentration, squads of workers, especially youth, spread through every section of the city, cutting trolley power cables and performing other acts of sab- otage. Delegations of A.B.C. members. arriving from the countryside were in a number of cases met in the streets by Young Communists who directed themselves to the workers and peasants among them who had apparently been recruited to the concentration mainly by the prom- ise of seeing Havana. After ex- plaining the reactionary and strike- breaking role of the A.B.C. to these countrypeople they succeeded in getting dozens of them to give up their A.B.C. insignias. From early morning large groups of workers, especially unemployed, formed in Central Park at the points where A.B.C. contingents were stationed | awaiting the march. As the work- ers expressed their antagonism to the A.B.C. and shouted slogans against the concentration, clashes took place which resulted in the stripping of two wearers of green shirts and the routing of their sup- porters at the hands of workers, unemployed and employed, news- paper and messenger boys, and other spectators, among whom there were a large number of Negroes. A Negro leader of the Young Commu- nist League, Marcelino, was seized by an armed band of A.B.C. mem- bers as he rose to speak during the incidents in Central Park, and was only saved from lynching by the quick and determined action of white and Negro workers and stu- dents gathered nearby. Although forced to abandon their program of festivities, the A.B.C, leaders were able to carry through a large march, which was the cen- tral feature of the day's program. In it some 50,000 or 60,000 members from all parts of the island par- ticipated. Large nuclei of workers and peasants were absent, the main body of marchers being forced of public employes, commercial ele- ments and people from the admin- istration and offices of the sugar mills. ‘Thousands of the marchers bore arms, which were whipped out and used without provocation. Many bystanders, including militant work- ers who expressed even the slight- est opposition to the march were set upon by A.B.C. bands and savagely beaten. In clashes which took place along the line of march 14 were killed and scores were wounded. At one point machine gun fire from a passing auto, manned, it is charged, by members of a terrorist organization opposed to the A.B.C. and the present gov- ernment, was aimed at the lines ot march. In the shooting fray which resulted, A.B.C. members shot wild- ly at all sides, without doubt ac- counting for a goodly number of the dead among their own mem- bers. At least two Negro bystanders were shot dead without provocation and in cold blood by the frenzied gunmen of the A.B.C. An automo- bile which is supposed to have been the one from which the gunfire came was set upon by the A.B.C. marchers, riddled with bullets and burned to pieces with its occupants inside. The principal shooting took place before a fortress which serves as a garrison for the Cuban Navy. It is common knowledge that when the shooting started, sailors sta- tioned on the fortress walls joined in the fire on the concentration, in spite of having received orders not to do so. This was in expression of their resentment toward the re- actionary A.B.C. and opposition to the government and the present state of affairs. The followers of the left “anti-imperialist” dema- gogue, ex-President Grau, are said to still have considerable influence Concentration @ in the navy, Stop Busees To Block Massing of ABC In Havana On the World Front By HARRY GANNES | Peace Talk Deadly in Chaco Goering’s “Field Hunters” Socialist Hospitality The “King of Sinkiang” HEN “peace talk” around the Chaco war in South America between the United States and Britain was flying thicker than machine gun bullets we pointed out this was a prelude to more intensi: fied warfare between the two Latin American puppet powers. This is now being borne out daily through the ferocious fighting going on over ~ the rich oil fields and route to an ocean outlet. In the past few days more than 3,000 Bolivian and Para- guayan workers and peasants were killed, driven to war by the native lackey rulers in the interest of American or British imperialism. Sir Anthony Eden’s Peace pro- ,Posals, and Roosevelt's arms ems bargo maneuvers were the smoke Screen to cover an intensified strug- gle between these two bandit powers in Latin America. What the Wall Street tools in Bolivia, and the British lickspittles in Paraguay un- derstood (and quite correctly) by these “peace” maneuvers is that the fighting must be goaded to a de- cisive outcome. Standard Oil, backed by the Roosevelt, regime, the huge American tin and bond intere ests in Bolivia, want enough Para- Suayan soldiers killed to make the Chaco war a Wall Street, victory through the seizure of the Gran Chaco, with its oil fields and its outlet to the sea. . * let Thursday the report was published in the capitalist press of this country that 150 soldiers in the persohal bodyguard of the Nazi Prussian Prime Minister Goering were loaded into trucks and taken to concentration camps because they mutinied. Later reports stated that the entire 400 were disbanded and incorporated into the Field Hunters’ Corps. Still later cables from Germany, this time after the Nazis had time to patch up their Teports, denied that there was any disaffection in these pretorian guards who protect the carcass of the raving Goering who threatened to see that Dimitroff never left Germany alive, Under this haze of smoke there is @ good deal of fire. Nazi storm troopers have been bisbanded by the tens of thousands, and mutiny is rife in their ranks. What the Nazi butchers wanted most to spike is the report that the disintegration had reached the picked and hith- erto unquestioned top stratum of the Nazi armed guards. The fact that the 400 elite of the Nazi guards were dissolved and incorporated into the Field Hunters’ Corps was never denied. That the chief Nazi hangman is forced to banish his selected bodyguards to serve with “field hunters” is of the greatest significance. « Sede} 1g! Denmark there is a Social- Democratic government, and true to its past support of Danish capi- talism, which is favorably inclined to Hitler, it forced ten German workers who escaped the Nazi tyrants to leave the country. They have just arrived in the Soviet Union on board the steamer “Jean Jaures.” The Social-Democratic govern- ment treated the working class political emigres from Fascism as criminals. They were at first im- prisoned. When liberated, under pressure of the revolutionary Danish workers, the Social-Demo- crats harassed them. They were ordered to leave. The Soviet Union, the workers’ fatherland, readily ac- cepted them as it did the 500 Aus- trian schutzbunders, and gave them a new home. * Heke Communist Party of Great Britain has addressed a letter.to Of great significance is the fact that the army was not called into service at any time in connection with the march. Soldiers were hardly to be seen in the vicinity of the concentration. This is to be partly explained by the extreme dif- ficulty of using troops to protect the march without having to cause high casualities among the marchers themselves in case of any shooting. But without doubt an equally im- portant determining factor in the government’s failure to use the troops is the definite hostility to- ward the A.B.C., which exists among the soldiers (before it entered the government, the A.B.C. distinguish- ed itself by its tactic of sniping at soldiers from rooftops, and its gen- eral antagonism for them, as well as for the Negro masses), A group of soldiers, Negroes in the majority, is reported to have expressed them- selves as ready to refuse to protect the A.B.C., even if they were or- dered to do so, in a discussion with workers while they happened to be passing through Central Park a few days previous to the march, A Hayana merchant has asked for an order for the arrest of an anony- all Labor Party and Independent Labor Party members in Parlia- ment calling on them to support the Soviet peace proposals against the war moves of British imperial- ism_and its support to the arming of German fascism against the So- viet. Union. The letter draws attention to the necessity for a demand being made to compel the National Government to accept the proposals which Lit- vinoff, Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, put forward at Geneva, in connection with the disarmament conference. . {hes British are plotting a new Col. Lawrence episode in the North of China in Sinkiang Prov- ince. A decision to establish an “Eastern-Turkes‘an Empire,” with its capital in Kashgar has been adopted after a series of -confer- ences between the British’ agent Sheldrake and various Moslem rep- resentatives, reports the Ching Press. Under the pretext of “freeing” the Chinese Mohammedans from the rule of Nanking, the British agent, with the support of the Jap-, anese. is attempting to establish a new base against the Soviet Union, mous sailor, whom he charges with having refused to arrest two young Communists who smashed in the window of his store last week be- cause it displayed an ad for the A.B.C. concentration. Similarly, in Central Park on the day of the concentration, the few soldiers sta- tioned there during the morning displayed complete passivity when it came to protecting the green shirts and other “Abcedarios” from the ire of the workers. Another outstanding feature of last week's events has heen the achievement in a number of cases of united action of Communist workers wiih members of the vari- cus “autentico” (Grauists) parties and groups, this having been achieved over the heads of, and against the orders of the “auten- tico” leaders, and one extremely profitable for British imperialism. Sheldrake-has styled himself “King of Sinkiang,” which is Chinese Turkes‘an. Shel- drake, meanwhile, lives in regal splendor at a foreign hotel in Pei- ping. He is supported by the Sec- ond East India Company, a British firm with large interests in South Sinkiang. ITALY WORRIED OVER NAZI INROADS IN SWITZERLAND MILAN, June 22.—The inspired Popolo d'Italia today issued a warn- ing against German penetration of the Swiss canton of Tessin’ now largely Italian speaking. Numerous purchases of land by Germans were cited, and the news- paper declared that Italy “could not remain indifferent to German penetration to within one hour's journey of Vernone-” — ‘