The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1934, Page 6

ee OO Eee Daily QWorker GeNTRL GReAE COMNUNTST PARTE ESA (SECHON OF COMMURET IORURRATIONNED “America’s Oniy Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC, 3 E, 13th Street, New York, N. Y. ‘Telephone: Algonquin 4-79 54. Cable Address: .“Daiwork,” x. Washington Bureau: Room 4th and F St., Washington, Midwest Bureau: 101 Telephone: Dearborn 3931. Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Br & months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 mon’ Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canade: 1 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $8.00 By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, New Yor! 954, J D. C. Wells 8t., x. al Press Buliding, Room 705, Ohoago, Ml. , 1 year, 96.00; 0.7% cents. year, 99.00; % cents. FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1934 WhyNo Answer to the C.P. | United Front Proposals? TT IS the unbreakable unity of the work- ing class united in revolutionary struggle against capitalism for which we are striving,” stated Comrade Earl Brow- der, General Secretary of the Communist Party, to the workers assembled last night in New York to discuss the recent Social- ist Party convention at Detroit. The meeting last night has significance beyond the fact that about 1,500 workers, Socialist, Com- munist, and non-party packed a hall to thrash out the political questions which affect the vital in- terests of the working class. The meeting last night signifies a step for- ward along the path to breaking down that wall of suspicion, distrust, and misunderstanding which has been sedulously built up between these work- ers, who by every right and necessity belong to- gether in the common struggle for the overthrow of capitalism. Throughout the country, there must be more such meetings, meetings at which Socialist work- ers and Communists arrive by complete democratic discussion at a basis for common struggle against “\the common enemy, the capitalist class. * . . { HE Communist Party has just addressed an open letter to the newly elected Executive Committee the Socialist Party, the new “left” Committee eaded by Norman Thomas, calling for the discus- sion of ways and means to begin united actions on the day-to-day needs of the American working class. This is the third such invitation which the Communist Party has profferred to the Socialist Party within the last year. The Socialist Party. Convention at Detroit also Teceived an open letter from the Communist Party Central Committee proposing united action on basic, every day demands. These proposals for united front have not been hedged about with any conditions or clauses. They all state quite simply that it should not be dif- ficult for all class-conscious workers to unite in the fight for higher wages, against company unions, against the compulsory arbitration of the N. R. A. Labor Boards, against the imperialist war prepara- tions of the Roosevelt government, against the growing menace of fascism, etc. The invitations of the Communist Party do not require that any person or group change their po- litical affiliation or belief. ‘The Central Committee of the Communist Party simply proposes action on the demands which can be accepted by every class-conscious person who declares himself a fighter for the daily needs of the working class, regardless of his political views on the larger questions of the road to power, the dictatorship of the proletariat, etc. As yet, however, the proposals of the Commu- nist Party to the Socialist Party remain unan- swered. The Detroit convention ignored the Cen- tral Committee statement to it. And thus far, the latest proposals of the Central Committee to the newly elected Socialist leadership also remain ignored. wet Why is there no discussion on these pro- posals in the Socialist Party? Why does the leadership of the S. P. spurn these invitations to consider united front actions? Why does this lead- ership not permit the rank and file members to have open, democratic discussion on these Com- munist Party proposals? The rank and file of the S. P. have a right to an answer on these questions. The workers within the Socialist Party, from their daily experience with capitalism, feel deeply the need for united action. They are profoundly eager for unity. And im many places they are welding this unity in the only way it can be welded ~in common ACTION. In Milwaukee, several nights ago, 4,000 Social- {st and Communist workers united their strength and successfully seized a meeting from a gang of Nazi agents. The Socialist Party workers of Milwaukee, faced with the actuality of an invasion by the hated fascist agents, forgot the distrust with which they had been poisoned, forgot the ukases handed down by the officials of the S. P. for- bidding any united front actions with Commu- nists, ignored the fact that they had received no “instructions, went over the heads of their leaders, and plunged into the struggle against the Nazis. Meanwhile, whether the Socialist Party answers the united front proposals of the Communist Party or not, the welding of the revolutionary unity, pro- claimed by Comrade Browder last night, will go steadily forward. For without it victory cannot be ‘won. Liberty for Thaelmann! IHEY hear the roar of workers’ voices in the Wilhelmstrasse. They hear and they tremble. The workers’ voices de- mand: “Free Ernst Thaelmann!” This is the meaning of the recent state- ment of the Nazi butchers who stated, fhrough the lips of the Berlin public pros- ‘ecutor, that they will shelve the axe and “merely” ‘Bentence Thaelmann, leader of the German anti- _ fascist struggle, to ten years or less. Frederick Birchall, Berlin correspondent of the iN. Y. Times, wrote as follows yesterday: _ “Today there is widely published an interview ‘With the public prosecutor of Berlin in which reiterates and emphasizes that in the coming of Ernst Thaelmann, the Communist leader, oan be no possibility of a death sentence; most extreme penalty that can be imposed him under the charges to be made against be ten years in prison, and the sentence even less.” a reluctant maneuver forced out by the ) Nazi strategists under the threat of the marching battalions of the anti-fascists. B is an admission of the developing power of the world movement to tree Ernst Thaelmann. But let no one be fooled for one moment! Nazi promises are the false pledges of desperate, cornered criminals. Their dropping of the demand for Thaelmann’s head is just a vain attempt to quiet down the oceanic wave of protest engulfing them. By this means they hope, Canute-like, to still the flood of anti-fascist struggle. Workers and all anti-fascists must understand that for Thaelmann there can be no “safe” prison sentence of ten years of less. Once Thaelmann is in a concentration camp or prison, and once the case is out of the pitiless limelight, the fascists will do away with Thaelmann. A Nazi sentence means a Nazi execution for Thaelmann! The fight must go on with trebled vigor! The Nazi consulates in every city must be bombarded with protests, flooded with petitions, choked with delegations demanding Thaelmann’s complete, unconditional freedom! | Painters! Vote for a Rank | and File Leadership! OMORROW painters affiliated with the Painters’ District Council No. 9 will go to the polls to vote for a secretary-treas- urer and other officers. It is needless to say how important it is that all members of the Painters Union participate in these elections. The future good and welfare of the union will be decided, to | @ great extent, by the votes of the painters. The welfare of the families of the painters, their wives and children, depends upon the type of leadership | elected tomorrow. There are two candidates for the office of sec- retary-treasurer: Louis Weinstock of Local 499, endorsed by the Painters’ Rank and File Protective Association, who stands for a policy of rank and file control of the union; and Philip Zausner, the present secretary and a former boss painter who hired men below the union scale, a leader of gang- sters and thugs against rank and file union men. The policies which Weinstock represents and has always fought for in the union is based on rank and file leadership for the union and against the gangsterism and racketeering which is the keynote of the present administration. Under the rule of the Zausner regime demoral- ization crept into the union to the extent that a great number of the members have lost both con- fidence and faith in the organization. The paper agreement provides neither for the | Seven-hour day or the $9 wage scale. Conditions on the jobs are 100 per cent worse than ever be- fore. Union men are forced by the Zausner ma- | chine to work under a terrific speed-up in the | so-called union shops for $5 to $6 a day. No pro- | visions have been made for the unemployed. Zaus- ner is interested in one thing: to collect dues, and if the worker, through unemployment, camnot pey | dues, he is kicked out of the organization. | * . * | Nadseits after local has taken the proper steps and | revolted against the corrupt Zausner crowd; great enthusiasm is spreading among the rank and file for Weinstock and other rank and file can- | didates. This revolt was fruitful already in four of the locals, Locals 848, 490, 409 and 51 have elected rank and file candidates to the Council. In each of these locals the delegates were previously Zaus- ner men. The handwriting on the wall shows which way the wind is blowing. Zausner sees that he is rapidly loosing his grip on the union membership. His defeat in the various locals is a signal of the brew- ing storm that will sweep corruption, racketeering and class collaboration out of the union. Therefore Zausner is taking a final desperate chance to win the elections by hook and crook. He has refused point blank the offer of the Civil Lib- erties Union to act as observers at the polling places. The elections in 1933 were crooked, as was admitted by Eugene McNamara, president of the District Council and a Zausner man in the Su- preme Court, “The 1933 District Council election was irregu- Jar, unlawful, improper and contrary, and in viola- tion to the constitution of the Brotherhood of Painters and the by-laws of District Council No. 9,” said McNamara. Zausner, facing defeat, is reported to be mobil- izing his underworld forces to carry through the elections on a fraudulent basis. The rank and file, however, can win by massing at the polls and serving as watchers against the Zausner tricksters. For union conditions, for a rank and file union leadership, vote for the rank and file candidates. Pull down levers 1C, 8A and 7A im the polling booths tomorrow. Vote for your candidates: Louis Weinstock for secretary-treasurer, Lewis J. Stevens and Frank Wedl for business agents! Growing Reaction ik IS impossible not to notice a steady in- crease in the brutalizing of the whole political rule of the handful of capitalist exploiters who dominate the life of the country. The Roosevelt rule, for all the hypo- critical phraseology of the White House, steadily breeds increasing fascist reaction. In San Francisco, the Republican Mayor Rossi has unleashed a seven-day “drive against Com- munism,” with organized appeals to lynch violence pouring in floods from the press and pulpit. In New York, the “liberal” demagogue La Guar- dia incites his police to the most brutal attacks on the jobless, and spits fascist venom at the Com- munist working class leaders. The radio, movies, and press show all the evi- dences of a planned, organized campaign for tne steady whipping up of hatred against Communism. Roosevelt’s friend and adviser Moley connives in a propaganda campaign of violence against Commu- nism which is not far distant from the methods now employed by Hitler's propaganda minister, Goebbels. The shooting of pickets, the kidnaping of In- ternational Labor Defense organizers in Florida, the lynching of Negroes, the open incitement of leading political figures in the Roosevelt government, all confirm the fact that capitalist democracy in this country, as in all capitalist countries, is giving birth to the monster of Fascism. This growing brutality and terrorism is an im- minent menace to every honest person, every fighter for justice and enlightened culture. The Commu- nist Party, which leads the fight for the rights of the masses against this capitalist terrorism, calls upon all honest persons to join the proletariat in its fight against the monster of approaching Fas- cism in this country. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1934 MoscowConference | LIGHTING THE WAY TO SOCIALISM | | | | ‘Acclaims Soviet Jewish Autonomy | Delegates from Many} Parts of the World | | At Ozet Plenum (Special te the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 28 (By Radio). — the Third Plenum of the Ozet, the Society for the promotion of Jew- ish colonization in Soviet Russie, was opened here on the 26th of |June. Chairman Dimanstein, in his opening remarks, reviewed the | great strides in both the economic |and the cultural field made by the Jewish toiling masses in the Soviet | Union. The basis for this develop- ment, he said, was the policy of the Communist Party and of the Soviet Government on the national ques- tion. He stressed the significance of the creation of an autonomous Jewish territory in Biro-Bidjan, and pointed out the important tasks connected with this auton- | omy. The Plenum was well attended by delegates from all parts of the So- viet Union and from friendly or- ganizations abroad. At the first | session, greetings were heard from | |delegations from many Moscow | factories, from Pioneer groups, and from the representatives of the | cultural institutions. The new Biro- | Bidjan March was played by the | Red Army Band, Moissaye Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, American Jewish-Lan- guage Communist daily paper, was greeted by a tremendous ovation when the name of his paper and the American Party was mentioned. Comrade Kuntz was greeted in the name of the Icor, and the delegates from Poland, South Africa, and Australia, were met with great ap- plause, | by Limbach (Continued from Page 1) By HARRY GANNES foresee destruction at the hands of the outraged and duped masses who at first blindly followed the dema- gogy of the fascists. Not only are the storm troopers sent on a “vacation” from which they will never return the same— but on June 30 Goebbels announces the end of all campaigns against “grumblers.” The fascist scoundrels do not dare now to call a mass demonstration of any kind; they do not dare have their leading fiends address the Germany people; they are forced to take the most desper- ate measures to protect themselves from the rising wrath of the Ger- man people. Any huge mass dex‘onstration mobilized by the fascists they are afraid will be turned into an anti- fascist action, with the gravest con- sequences for the Nazis. What the capitalist press tries to do is to make it appear that the problem is one of choosing between “left” and “right” Nazis, Do they mean that up to now the Nazis have been following a “left” pro- gram? Do they mean that follow- ing the course outlined by von Pa- pen, in relation to the past policy can be considered a “right” policy? This is the sheerest nonsense. Every deed, every action of the fascist bloody dictatorship, has had the ex- clusive aim of saving capitalism, increasing the profits of the finance capitalists, the big landowners, pre- paring for war. From this path, so long as fascism and capitalism exist in Germany, there can be no re- treat. Hitler now finds that his social base is narrowing and wants to pre- serve the most reliable forces in Communist Party of Germany Leads Anti-Nazi Uprising 9 the camp of the Steel Helmet and the Storm Troopers, despite their bitter differences, so that he may have a wall of steel between him and the revelutionary upsurge. Communists Lead So deeply, so thoroughly has the Communist Party sunk its roots among the German masses, that every action against fascism, whether in the factories or in the Storm Troops, is led by Commu- nists and has as its aim the over- throw of the bloody fascist dic- tatorship. The Communist Party is the ac- knowledged leader of the anti-fas- cist. front in Germany, and through its united front actics, through its heroic struggles, through its correct Policies, is winning the majority of the German people for the revolu- tionary action necessary to over- throw fascism. Johannes Steel, writing in the New York Evening Post on the present situation in Germany, is forced to recognize that the Com- munist Party of Germany is in the van of the struggles against fas- cism. “The United Anti-Hitler Front of the left,” he says, “is com- posed of Communists, liberal Catholics, liberals and Socialists. IT’ MUST BE DULY ADMITTED THAT THE COMMUNIST ELE- MENTS ARE DOMINANT.” “A MONSTER HAS BEEN CREATED,” he adds, “OSTEN- SIBLY TO ARREST THE MARCH OF COMMUNISM AND MARXISM. BUT THE GHOST HAS BECOME THE MASTER OF ITS CONJURER.” There is not the slightest doubt that the upsurge in Germany, seen t on all hands, will increase at tre- mendous speed. The German masses are already living in an atmosphere of an oncoming fam- ine. The Nazi economic and finan- cial policy has completely destroyed what little trade there was. A huge campaign is on now in Germany, as in wartime, for substitutes—substi- tute food, clothing and raw ma- terials. Fascism has transformed the country into a war producing machine, has destroyed credit and commerce. Every day that fascism exists brings catastrophe, starva- tion, misery, disease and death nearer, and the German masses are becoming fully conscious of this fact. Nazis Prepare Bacteria for War Just at this time, the news comes to light of the fact that the Fascist beasts are preparing a secret bac- terial war as the beginning of their drive to war in a last desperate ef- fort to save German capitalism. This is not new at all. Hitler in 1931 presented the German War Department with detailed plans for war by bacteria and deadly gasses. The fact is recorded in “The Berlin Diaries,” which the New York Times states was written by General von Seeckt. No insane deed, no crime is too daring, especially now, for the Fascist fiends to grasp at in or- der to attempt to save themselves. The Fascist rulers of Germany are bent on rule or ruin. They will not collapse automatically, no matter how desperate their situation be- comes. They are capable of the most dastardly crimes the world has | yet heard of. These facts must be realized by the workers throughout the world. Fascism will plunge the world into a new imperialist war as a final blaze in an effort to burn out by fire and murder the revolutionary upsurge of the German people. We must now increase our struggles against fascism, to mobilize support for the heroic Communist Party of Germany, leader of the anti-fascist front. We can be well sure that the first victim of the Nazi scoundrels will be Ernst Thaelmann, who in the present situation is the ac- knowledged leader of the great masses of toilers in Germany. The struggle for the freedom of Thael- mann becomes now the central nub throughout the world in rally support for the revolutionary up- surge in Germany. In view of the fact that it is no- where refuted that the Communist Party of Germany is the leader of the anti-fascist front in Germany, that it has welded a fighting force that is rapidly mobilizing the Ger- man people for the overthrow of the fascist dictatorship, he who Slanders or tries to weaken this force becomes an accomplice of the Fascist scoundrels. Freedom for the German toiling people will be won only under the leadership of the Communist Party of Germany! All support to this heroic fighter for a Soviet Germany! Stop depending for news and in- formation on the capitalist press that favors the bosses and is against the workers. Read the Daily Worker, America’s only working class news- paper, Calles-Rodriguex Gov't| Has Support of Wall Street MEXICO CITY (By Mail)—On Sunday, July 1st, a presidential elec- tion takes place in Mexico. The election campaign is on its last lap, and the candidates of the various political parties are winding up their country-wide tours, appealing to the masses to cast their ballots for them and their particular parties, and to hand over to them the rule of 17 million people. The P.N.R. (National Revolution- ary Party), political machine of the present Calles-Rodriguez govern- ment, bound up with Wall Street, has held the reins of government for the past ten years, and now seeks re-election. It has done nothing to improve the deplorable conditions of the great masses of workers and farmers; on the contrary, under its leadership these conditions have steadily grown worse. To drown the growing militancy of the masses, which are stirring against the con- stant deterioration in their living standards, the Rodriguez-Calles re- gime has instituted a veritable reign of terror, murdering in cold blood thousands of peasants and workers who dared to stand up for their human rights. The Calles-Rod- riguez government is being armed by the Roosevelt government as a part of American imperialist war preparations. A Fake “Six-Year Plan” Such is the state of affairs under the P.N.R. government, which is bidding for the election of its pup- pet, General Cardenas, In order to mislead the masses into voting for their candidate, they are employing all sorts of demagogic devices. Chief among these is their “Plan Sexenal,” (Six-Year Plan) which contains all sorts of demagogic promises for the masses of workers and peasants. But experiences of the many years government by the same HERMAN LABORDE corrupted clique makes it evident that their so-called “plan” is noth- ng but a smoke screen designed to cover up their betrayal in the past and a desperate attempt to mislead the toiling masses with the fake promises of planned economy. and better conditions of life. It is in reality nothing but a scheme to fascize and militarize the country. See ce I. the midst of such conditions, in the presence of a growing dissatis- faction among the masses with the present regime, there has sprung up in the present presidential election campaign, various political parties in opposition to the P.N.R., such as the “Confederacion Revolucionaria de Partidos,” the “Partido Nacion- alist Democratico,” the “Partido So- cialista de las Izquierdas” and others. However, all of thse “op- 1 positional” parties differ only super- ficially and apparently from the present regime; basically they rep- resent the same interests—that of the capitalist class and the large landowners. Their criticisms against the P.R.N. are mild and essentially the criticism of friends that belong to the same inner circle, the same class. They blame the government for the crying conditions of poverty and misery of the people, but when one wants to find out what these “oppositional” parties propose as a panacea to bring the country out of the prevalent deep economic crisis, to improve the inhuman liv- ing ecnditions of the bulk of the people, one seeks in vain for a tan- gible answer. Workers and Farmers Bloc The only political organization in this campaign that represents the interests of the huge masses of peasants and workers, that has a clear cut program of action, that proposes and shows a way out of the chronic crisis, and points out the road to the complete emanci- pation of the toiling masses, is the “Bloque Obrero Y . Campesino” (Workers and Farmers Bloc). At its convention held early in April, with delegations present from all parts of the country, a platform Was unanimously adopted and a candidate nominated for president. To this convention there also came the representatives of those sections and elements which had no access to the conventions of the “thor- oughbred generals and colonels”— the native Indians and the disfran- chised Mexican women. The B. O, C. does not discriminate against race, color or sex. All workers who are ready to fight against capital- ism, against exploitation, are wel- come into its ranks, The B. O. y C, is enthusiastically supported and led by the Commu- nist Party of Mexico, and is also backed by the Federation of Revo- lutionary Unions, the Anti-Impe- rialist League, and the National of Peasants. The pres- ide candidate of the B. O. y G. Forces in the Presidential Election in Mexico Workers and Farmers Bloc Backed by the Communist Party is Comrade Hernan Laborde, a rail- road worker and tested revolution- ary, leader of the Communist Party of Mexico, Cee eat u Kee platform of the B. O. y C. characterizes and attacks the “Plan Sexenal” of the P. N. R. as a disguised fascist scheme to fur- ther oppress the working class and to beat down the already miserable standard of living. It points out clearly that planned economy in the interests of the working people is possible only in a Soviet State where the workers and peasants have wrested the power from the capitalist class, instituted their own government and have abolished ex- ploitation. Fight for Bread-and-Butter Demands The B. O. y C. fights for the im- mediate demands of the toilers, and calls upon all workers and farm Jabor to join their ranks, and to fight militantly against all exploita- tion. ‘The campaign of the B. O. y C. has received the enthusiastic sup- port of great masses through the country. The meetings with Com- rade Laborde have been attended by thousands of workers and farm- ers. In the words of Comrade Her- nan Laborde, the presidential can- didate of the exploited and op- pressed masses of Mexico: “Our strength lies in the fact that ever greater masses are lis- tening to our message, and are coming closer to our struggle, are beginning to realize that not alone in time of election campaigns, but by a day-to-day intensive struggle under the leadership of the C. P. and guidance of the Communist will they achieve better living conditions, will tion.” On the | World Fre By HARRY GANNE: Shanghai Incident | The Right to Break N | Kuomintang Cooperatic STREET incide m | ‘A | Shanghai, riotin,. be- | tween various imperialist na« \tionalists, always assumes in- ternational significance. This jarises from the fact that it is in Shanghai where most ‘f the foreign interests in China : 3 centered and clash. Shanghai is, a perpetual battleficld of the if- perialist bandits, and the center of their unity against the Chinese revolutionary workers and peas- antry. Yesterday in the Hongkew dis: trict, which is controlied by the Japanese, British and Japanese im- Perialist interests collided when a British policeman of the Shanghai Municipal Council was arrested by Japanese sailors. Four hundred Japanese civilians rioted when Po- lice Sergeant J. W. Bellamy and a Chinese constable tried to arrest a Japanese sailor who broke the nose of a Chinese woman. The British police are not averse to breaking noses of Chinese women or shooting down Chinese workers and students, as they did on May 30, 1925, or on dozens of other occa- sions. But here is involved the question: Which imperialist force has the exclusive right to break bones and shoot Chinese? That concerns the question of which im- perialist group has hegemony of colonial control. *“ © « Megas is the crux of im- perialist domination over all of China and the vicious extra-terri- toriality treaties. According to these treaties every citizen of an im- Perialist country in China is exempt from Chinese laws or jurisdiction, Wherever he goes in China he car ries on the soles of his feet the territory of the imperialist home- land. If he shoots or kills a Chi- | nese, he is tried in courts ruled over by imperialist henchmen. Shanghai was blasted from China | during the opium wars and was |opened in 1843, Today there are 36,471 foreigners, a small portion of whom rule 3,000,000 Chinese. At present, Shanghai is divided into what is known as the Inter- | national Settlement and the French | concession, The French imperial- ists reign supreme in the French | concession, but in the International Settlement a Municipal Court rules in which the British have the hegemony, with constant conflicts among the British, Japanese and American invaders. The Hongkew district is largely ruled by the Jap- anese navy, though it is nominally in the International Settlement. rect it is the most important city in China, the Chinese masses are treated as foreigners and chat- tels. “The Chinese are in Shanghat on sufferance,” says the infamous Feetham report, made by an Au- stralian magistrate to define the Position of Shanghai, be content to accept things as they find them.” There is a story current in Shanghai of the old China hand, an American imperialist who went to the Bund to welcome a friend from America, “How do you like China?” asked the visitor: “I haven’t been there for ten years,” responded the old China hand, meaning, of course, he had not been outside of the International Settlement, Just outside of the International Settlement, in what is known as Greater Shanghai, the Koumintang rules in co-operation with all of the imperialist bandits. 'HANGHAT as the leading indus« trial center of China sees con= stant strikes and struggles of the oppressed workers against all of the imperialist masters. For ordinary crimes committed within the settle- ment, the Shanghai courts main tain jurisdiction. But when a worker is arrested on strike or is charged with being a Communist, all usual procedure is dropped. He is immediately extradited to Chi- nese territory. He is sent to the Lunghai arsenal just outside of Shanghai, where he is tortured and then shot. The Shanghai Municipal police always co-operate with Chi- nese authorities outside of the set- tlement in arresting Communists, It was the Municipal police who arrested Paul and Gertrude Ruegg in 1932 because they were the lead= ers of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, \turned them over to Chiang Kai shek. Both of these comrades are now in prison, where they are constantly harrassed and tortured by the Kuomintany butchers. The Kuomintang helps all of the imperialists preserve their rights in Shanghai and throughout China. China, with the support of the Shanghai proletariat, is heroically, daily struggling to drive the im- perialists and their colonial rule into the sea. Two young German workers, born in the early days of the last im- perialist war, have had their heads severed from their bodies by the fiendish and bestial Nazi axemen. On the morning of June 14th Otto Weithe (born in 1914) and Willy Rechew (born in 1915) with their faces turned to the sky were placed on the Nazi execution block so that they could see the glistening axe ag it swung down to behead them. They were framed up on the charge of killing a certain Gritz Schmidz- burger. When relatives of the two youths appealed to the maniacal Nazi rrussian Prime Minister Goering, for commutation of sen tence to life imprisonment, he only laughed. “They must. Only the Communist Party of ©