The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1934, Page 6

WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDA ) Daily AWorker PAREY LSA (StcTION OF COMMURIET UTERRATIONAED REETINGS to the Detroit workers! “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SU COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 15th Street, New York, N. ¥. AY, BY THE | The Victory Case In freeing James Victory from the clutches of the auto manufacturers’ police, the Detroit masses struck a ringing blow in the struggle for Negro rights. Framed on a charge of slashing a white woman, New Cabinet; In Japan To Speed Arming. | Scandal Is Pretext for | FREE HIM FRO M HIS BLOODY CELL ! On the World Front By HARRY GANNES | Hitler’s Methods in Chile T.ephone: Algonquin 4-795 4. A Shanghai Strike | | j Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 70s, Ohcago, TM. | ‘Telephone; Dearborn 3931. | | rippers, Voodooists, savages, etc. For weeks the Gable Address: ~Datwork,” New or 2 At Victory was the target of a vicious cam- | the Ousting of Pro-Fascist Slanders Mth and P St, Washinctn, Dc. ‘a : yy paign aimed at condemning the Negro people as Saito Group | | ’S methods of trying to TOKYO, July 4—An intensified H solve economic and political crises Subscription Rates: | local press, especially the yellow Detroit Times, | naval arms race and an increased are becoming popular among the 5 a (except Manhatten and Bron. ie year, $6.00; | carried on campaigns to the effect that the Negroes | war budget will be the main result ) oppressing classes. _ Yesterday fifty Manhatten, aseang, Monte. $2.00; 1 month. (7 cr," s9.00; | were banded together to assail white women. The |of the appointment of Admiral |hungry peasants in Chile were 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. worst practices of the Southern lyncher were used | Keisuke Okada to form a new cab- By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; THURSDAY, JULY The Government and the Dock Strike HE U.S.S. Holland ship, moves up Frisco Bay with un- covered guns. A police airplane drones above the San Francisco waterfront. Foot police, mounted police, police riding in automobiles, with pistols, rifles and shotguns roaring, hurling gas bombs and swing- ing clubs, charge down on striking longshoremen. “The port is technically open!” gleefully shouts Frank Carmody, representative of the San Fran- cisco Industrial Association, as two strikers are q shot and hospitals are crowded with wounded ft working men. D y submarine mother — capitalist class of the United States, with " Franklin D. Roosevelt acting as the general field Marshal, will go to any length to protect its mil- lions and beat down the working class to a state of abject slavery and misery. Murder and destruction—this is the last re- sort of the capitalist state to maintain its rule over the workers. When it comes to protecting profits of multi- millionaires, when it comes to cutting wages or beating down the millions of unemployed, the capitalist rulers, be they named Hitler or Roosevelt, all resort to the same method—force and violence. The longshoremen have just grievances. They demand higher wages to meet the advancing cost of living. They demand shorter hours and the €limination of the terrific speed-up and intensifica- tion of labor on the piers. They demand union control of hiring and firing. In short, they want to live as human beings should live. They struck for these demands on May 9th. Thirty thousand stevedores walked off the piers along the entire Pacific Coast. They were joined by the seamen, the masters, mates, the pilots. The truckers also joined them in their just figltt. Leaders of the International Longshoremen’s As- sociation and the International Seamen’s Union of the American Federation of Labor—Joseph P. Ryan and Andrew Furuseth—made every effort to be- tray this great strike. They signed an agreement with the shipowners promising that the men would ’-return to work without a guarantee that their de- mands would be granted. But the longshoremen and seamen had set up their own rank and file strike committee to guar- antee that there would be no such betrayals. The strikers refused to accept the settlement terms of the A. F. of L. leaders. The strike continued under rank and file lead- ership. Ships did not move in San Francisco Bay. It was obvious that the maritime workers, through their excellent working class solidarity, were well on the way to forcing the shipowners to pay them decent wages and recognize their union. The shipowners realized this and so did the state and city governments of California and the United States government. Police were ordered to the waterfront by the state and city government bodies. To back up the diplomatic maneuvers of the Roosevelt Board by arbitration were the cold steel guns of the U. S. S. Holland. * * * LL this proves that the government is a capi- talist government ready at all times to serve the bankers, manufacturers and shivowners. It is ready to use all its power in an attempt to crush the militant workers’ organizations, to force them to accept the dictates of the rich. All this shows clearly the necessity of a drastic change in the social order—a change that will place political power in the hands of the working class, supported by the poor farmers, the Negro people and the lower middle class. Only under such a workers’ government, under Soviet Power, under the Dictatorship of the Pro- letariat, will such bloodshed and violence as rages today against the working class on the West Coast be eliminated. Only under such a workers’ state ean all the demands of the toiling population be ‘Tealized. . The Communist Party, the true leader of the ‘toiling population in America, is leading the fight for such a government. In the great class struggles, in strikes such as the ywe transport strike, the Toledo strike and ukee street-car strike, the need of workers ing behind the Communist Party for the ow of the capitalist system becomes more obvicgis. _ The strikes today for higher wages and im- proved conditions must be stepping stones toward Soviet Power in America. In these strikes the Workers must be taught the need for preparing for the seizure of political power. * (ORE than ever before must the working class give their support to the maritime strike in the ‘West. - The strike can be won with the combined forces of the workers. Protests against the bloody ter- ror should swamp the U. 8. and California govern- “ment offices. Financial support should be sent by unions and labor organizations to the Central Strike Committee and the Marine Workers Industria) Union. Solidarity actions in all ports, on the ships and docks and on the waterfronts, must be launched at once in support of the heroic West Coast strikers. Demand that the terror against the longshore- men cease! Demand the right to strike and picket! Demand that the warship Holland be removed from the vicinity of the Frisco piers. _ Pacific Coast workers, answer the terror with ‘am general strike! te whip up race hatred and provoke a race riot. y-two Negro workers were arrested a day, ac- cording to Police Commissioner Pickert. Orders Negroes on sight in white Negroes were quizzed on the streets, nded. All of this culminated in the were given to arrest arrest of ry, an innocent worker, gas-filling station em yee, world war veteran and member of the American Legion. The League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the |; International Labor Defense and the Communist Party responded immediately to the issue and mobi- | lized a united front in defense of Victory. A con- | ference was called, mass meetings held, white and Negro organizations visited, pamphlets and leaflets | issued—and protests began to pour in to the | authorities for the release of Victory. At the trial white and Negro workers streamed into the court- room to watch the proceedings and demonstrate their solidarity. * * * HE united front of whites and Negroes had its effect. In the court white workers and even business men who had known Victory personally testified to his unimpeachable integrity and honesty. The attorneys, led by the able labor lawyer Maurice Sugar, exposed: the frame-up completely. It ‘was proved that the police had singled out Victory and lined him up alone for “identification” by the white | Southern woman, Mrs, Kaye. The police record of | the alleged assailant was proved to have been de- liberately falsified by the police to fit the descrip- tion of Victory. In the court the attorneys courag- eously protested the exclusion of Negro workers and | the further aims of the police to surround the | proceedings with a lynch spirit. Victory’s freedom shows once again that the line of mass struggle can win, that only the united front of Negro and white can achieve success in beating back the chauvinistic drive of the fascist rulers. The struggle for the Scottsboro boys will be aided by the Detroit victory. Mass struggle has three times snatched the boys from the hands of death. Now this struggle must be raised to an immense mass action if the lynchers are not to have the blood of our boys. Close the ranks more firmly, Negro and white workers! Now is the time to consolidate the gain, recruit new members for the League of Struggle for Negro | Rights, for the LL.D., and strengthen the organi- zations that led in the defense of the Negroes. Now is the time to drive forward with an intensi- fied struggle around a Bill for Negro Rights! HE blows of the Roosevelt “recovery program” of bloody attacks on strik- ers, wage cuts, crop reduction and denial of adequate relief to the unemployed millions, are directed with especial vehe- mence against the Negro toilers. Under the N.R.A., the so-called “mini- mum wage” set by the N.R.A. codes, have become the standard wage in many industries. The Negro workers, however, are deprived of even this mini- mum starvation wage. The N.R.A. code authorities have authorized a lower, jim-crow, sub-human wage for the Negro toilers. This is particularly so in the South, where white workers are being paid a lower scale than in the North, with a still lower scale for Negroes, under the “traditional differen- tials,” upheld by Roosevelt in his infamous decision Several weeks ago against the Alabama Negro and white mine strikers, Hand in hand with these attacks on the eco- nomic field, there is proceeding an increasing fas- cist lynch terror and chauvinist incitement against the Negro masses. Frame-ups of Negroes are no- toriously increasing. Violation of Negro civil and constitutional rights and the use of the courts as frame-up instruments have been sanctioned in the decisions of the Alabama and Georgia State supreme courts upholding the lynch verdicts against, the innocent Scottsboro boys, and the vicious sen- tence of 18 to 20 years on the Georgia chain gang against Angelo Herndon, heroic young Negro organ- izer of Atlanta unemployed workers. In the face of the desperate situation con- fronting the oppressed Negro masses, the cam- paign to build the Negro Liberator, national organ of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, takes on additional significance. This campaign should have the active, energetic support of every revo- lutionary worker and of all persons and organi- zations opposed to lynching. Every support should be given the drive to raise a sustaining fund of $10,000 for the paper, and to the building up of a mass following of Negro and white workers around the paper. The worsening conditions of the Negro masses are a measure of the increasing oppression and misery of the whole toiling population of the coun- try under the “New Deal” program. It is no acci- dent that in the South, where the Negroes are most oppressed and where the white ruling class has been most successful in carrying out its pro- gram of splitting the working-class, that the con- ditions of ALL workers, Negro and white, are worse than in any other section of the couniry. The fight against Negro oppression and persecution is the task and duty of the entire working class. In their own interests, the white workers must be in the forefront of this struggle. In this struggle, a powerful “Negro Liberator” can be a decisive factor. 38 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information om the Commu- nist Party. | Build the Negro “Liberator” |50,000 horsepower, four generators Join the Communist Party |inet to replace the deposed Saito} cabinet. The Saito cabinet resigned from | office ostensibly on the pretext of a graft scandal in the Bank of Taiwan | Formosa), but the real reason was | the growing sharpness of the naval} rivalries between Japan, the United | States and Great Britain in prep- aration for the 1935 naval confer- | ence. | | This by no means minimizes the | |huge graft scandal of the Saito |cabinet, in which government offi- | cials peddled Taiwan bank securities to their friends for practically noth- | jing. But this is not an unusual} situation in the Japanese ruling circles, who are known for their cor- ruption. The Saito cabinet had been in office for over two years and had/ directed the seizure of Manchuria, | \the rapid preparations for war} |against the Soviet Union. At the| |present time, however, with the| |tremendous naval arms race in| Japan, Britain and the United| States, it was felt by the army and |navy forces, that a new cabinet still |More drastic in its war prepara- | tions, was required. The Saito cabinet was tottering for some time, but the militarists could not easily come to an agree- ment on who should replace it. One | of the factors in the downfall of | the Saito group was the opposition | of some of the militarisis to the | aged finance minister Takahashi, |who had found means of supplying | | the heavy war funds heretofore, but who argued for a slight reduction of the war budget in view of grow- ing economic and financial diffi- | culties. Some of the present ministers in the cabinet are to be retained. | Begin Work on Second Huge Hydro-Electric! |Plant in Soviet Union (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 4 (By Radio)— Construction of the second huge hydroelectric station on the river) Svir has begun in the Leningrad | district. The first power station on | the Svir river was opened a few! |months ago. The second power sta- | tion will have four turbines each of | each of 40,000 kilowatt amperes, and two small turbines. The new construction requires | 1,500,000 cubic meters of reinforced concrete, or two and a half times more than the first Svir station al- ready completed. Twenty thousand workers and specialists will be engaged in the construction. The academician, Graftio, who constructed the Vol- khov station, and the first Svir sta- tion, will be in charge of the con- struction. Wave of Bank Crashes |Feared in France as Two Banks Shut Doors, | PARIS, July 4.—Fear of an ayal- | anche of bank crashes here was ex- pressed following the closing down of two banks yesterday. The Brois- sier Bank at Nimes, and the Banque |Castineau of Montpelier shut their | doors yesterday and suspended pay- | ments. | Small businessmen whose com- | bined debts amount to $465,000,000 are on the verge of bankruptcy, and their failure to make interest pay- ments, together with the growing economic and financial crisis in France, is putting the banks in a dangerous situation. ERNST THAELMANN Envoy Calls Cops On Anti-Fascists (Continued from Page 1) workers and working class sym- pathizers of Washington, D. C., we instruct you to communicate our demand to Hitler for the immediate and safe release of Ernst Thael- mann, leader“of the German work- ing class, and head of the Commu- nist Party of Germany. “We warn you that, together with millions of other workers through- out the world, we will keep up our | protest until the heroic Ernst Thael- mann and all other anti-fascist prisoners who are being held and tortured in the concentration camps and dungeons of the bloody Hitler fascist government are released.” Police are maintaining a 24-hour | guard before the embassy. ee . Mass Trial of Fascism Friday Night in Phila.; Radio Talk Thursday PHILADELPHIA, July 4.— Re- sponding to Dimitroff’s appeal to give “not a moment's rest to Hit- ler’s agents until Thaelmann is freed,” the South Philadelphia Sec- tion of the International Labor De- fense sent another delegation to the local German Consulate demanding the release of Thaelmann and all anti-fascist prisoners in Germany. The executive committee of the R.C.A., local radio workers organi- zation, and the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union sent reso- Jutions to the Nazi Embassy in Washington and the local Consulate with the same demands, and for the abolition of the bogus “People’s Courts,” set up by Hitler to rush through the murder of Thaelmann and other anti-fascists, A mass trial of German fascism, with Kurt Rosenfeld, Aneucin Be- van, Mrs, Williams Ellis, and Dr. Fairchild, as the main witnesses, and the audience as the judge, will be held in the Garrick Theatre, Fri- day night. The trial is under the | | Anti-Fascist Faces joint auspices of the Philadelphia Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism, American League Against War and Fascism, Interna- tional Juridical Association, and the Philadelphia committee of the Na- tional Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. Tickets are on sale at the theatre. On Thursday night, at 8:30 o’clock, H. M. Wicks will deliver a radio address on fascism over Sta- tion WPEN. . * 800 Workers Send “Free Thaelmann” Demand to Nazis CANTON, Ohio—Kight hun- dred workers and their families, | assembled at the Communist Party picnic here on June 24, demanded | the immediate and safe release of| Ernst Thaelmann and all anti- fascist prisoners facing the threat of the Nazi axe-men in Germany, in a resolution adopted and sent to the Nazi Embassy in Washington. Plan “Free Thaelmann” Bicycle Parade in Brooklyn, July 14 BROOKLYN.—A “Free Thael- mann” demonstration, organized by the Brooklyn section of the Asso- ciated Workers Clubs, adopted and forwarded.a resolution to the Nazi Embassy at Washington. A “Free Thaelmann” bicycle pa- rade is being organized for July 14 at 5 p. m., starting at Pennsylvania and Sutter Ave. . Duluth Workers Push Signature Campaign DULUTH, Minn., July 4.—Duluth organizations are preparing a city- wide campaign for “Free Thael- mann” signatures. The National Students League, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Farmers National Committee for Action, are calling for a million signatures and | a million pennies. Bae 3-Year Term Today in Jamaica Court JAMAICA, L. I.—Aaron Slossberg, anti-fascist worker arrested last | | tions to court: Jamaica line, B.M.T. April 8 at an anti-Nazi demonstra- tion at Ridgewood Grove, comes up for trial today, before the Special Sessions, Court in Jamaica, on a charge of third degree assault. Slossberg will be represented by the International Labor Defense At- torney, Schriftman. Workers pres- ent at the Ridgewood Grove demon- stration are urged to see the LL.D. attorney at the court before the trial begins. All workers are urged to pack the court at 1553 Jamaica Ave., at 9:30 a.m. today, to protest the attempt to railroad this anti- fascist fighter to jail. The charge carries a sentence of six months to three years imprisonment. Direc- to 160th St., walk to 1533 Jamaica Avenue. 10 Outdoor Meetings In Bridgeport This Week; Big Rally Saturday BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 4— Ten outdoor meetings, including several shop gate meetings, are being held this week to demand the freedom of Thaelmann. A mass meeting in the center of the city will climax the week’s activities. The International Labor Defense is making every effort to enlist mass support for the demonstration Sat- urday night at Main and Canton. One of the principal speakers will be Michael A.-Russo, candidate for State treasurer on the Communist Party ticket. ane Union Orders 1,00! “Free Thaelmann” Cards NEW YORK. — The Steel and Metal Workers Union has ordered 1,000 of the “Free Thaelmann” post- cards to be sold to its members for mailing to Germany. The union has also sent telegrams and resolutions to Hitler and the Nazi Embassy in Washington, de- manding the freedom of Thaelmann and other anti-fascist fighters im- prisoned in Germany. It has sent a delegation to the German Consu- late at 17 Battery Place. Members of the union are participating in the picketing of the Consulate, and have taken part in all the city-wide “Free Thaelmann’ demonstrations in this city. (Continued from Page 1) give it to Herndon without delay. At this point, Bob McCall, an as- sistant jailer, whispered to Mr. Hol- Jand that “you'll have to show it to Mr. Hudson . . . Hudson won't like this.” Mr. Holland gracefully ignored his assistant and repeated his assurances. Our delegation was greeted with great courtesy at the jail and by all public officials with the excep- tion of Hudson—although it is per- fectly obvious that they are using Hudson in order to test how far they can safely go in the campaign of prejudice and red-baiting. John A. Boykin, Sclicitor General and Hudson's immediate superior, is at present preparing a new sedition Jaw, which is designed to supple- ment and be even more sweeping than the old statute against slave insurrection which is at present be- ing used. Boykin addressed a meet- ing of the “Men of Justice” last night on the advantages of this new fascist law which he hopes to pass. Governor Talmadge on “Niggers” Governor Richard Talmadge dis- coursed to us at great length on the psychology and smartness of “niggers’—in the presence of three jutant General Lindley Camp who said that the Governor had sent him to weigh Herndon and that Herndon had lost only five pounds since being imprisoned. Herndon told us that he did not recall ever having seen General Camp or being weighed by him The presence of the General at our interview led the Atlanta papers to state that the Governor had “offered a military escort” for our visit to the jail. General Camp said that he he- lieved Herndon was “uppitty.” Negro delegates—and called Ad-|. . Angelo Herndon Is Adamant In Face of Terror Governor Talmadge indicated that he was tremendously impressed by the vast amount of mass protest which has poured into his office on the Herndon case, and sent for the file to show us the unbelievable volume of letters and telegrams which he described as “intimi- dating.” Our delegation assured him that this material was simply an indication of the international wave of protest against the legal lynch- ing of Herndon; and that he should be clearly aware of the extent and force of working class indignation. General Camp quoted A. T. Wal- den, the leading Negro lawyer of Atlanta, as having stated at an open meeting that Herndon was receiving excellent treatment. Walden, local president of the N. A. A.\C. P., has practiced law in Atlanta for 20 years and has never raised the question of Negroes on juries. He refused to have anything to do with the Herndon case because he knew that this issue would be brought into the case. This prob- ably accounts for the Governor's hearty praise of Walden: “There’s a nigger who’s highly re- spected,” said Governor Talmadge of this prominent member of the Atlanta bar, “because he’s humble . thai nigger is as humble as the lowest farmer.” Seething Discontent Dr. J. A. Martin, Negro clergyman of Atlanta, who accompanied the delegation, told Governor Talmadge forcefully that the tactics of the Klan and “Men of Justice” have caused seething discontent among the Negro masses. The Klan re- cently broke up a peaceful Scotts- boro meeting in a Negro church; the police came and arrested the Negroes who were holding the meet- ing, without interfering with the Klansmen who broke up the as- semblage. “There isn’t a Negro in the United States who has any doubts about the innocence of the Scottsboro boys; we intend to go on fighting for, those boys, and ‘when rowdy gangs are allowed to break up peaceful protest meetings, the mass of Negroes are forced to see that the government won’t protect them. I tell you, Governor, I'll vote the Communist ticket before I'll vote for people who allow fas- cist gangs to threaten and kill Ne- groes.” Dr. Martin has been repeatedly intimidated for his stand in defense of Herndon. When another Negro clergyman, Rev. J. Raymond Hen- derson, was recently persuaded to repudiate Herndon, reporters from Atlanta papers called Dr. Martin and told him that it was now about time for him to give up his foolish fight for Herndon and to admit that the bosses are right. Dr. Mar- tin indignantly refused, and wrote a scathing article in the Atlanta Daily World defying the oppressors of Herndon and other Negro work- ers. The terror here is so great that few people dared to publicly support Dr. Martin, but he tells us that hundreds of phone calls reached him from workers, and hun- dreds of other workers came. to him secretly at night to pledge their support. Dr. Martin is the man who of- ficiated at the famous funeral of Blind Glover Davis. A policeman killed Davis, claiming that Davis drew a knife on him in spite of being a blind man. It had been intended to make the funeral the occasion of a mass protest against _vigorous points: the brutality of the police; but the thousands who came to the funeral found the scene surrounded by po- lice and machine guns and all speeches or placards forbidden. Dr. Martin, however, led the prayer, as follows: “God give us men who have the courage to fight police brutality; God give us men who will die in defense of their rights.” This spirit is strong and growing among the oppressed masses of the South. The particular brutality of the verdict against Angelo Herndon makes it perfectly clear that no militant worker is safe against the illegal lynch tactics of Assistant Solicitor Hudson and his political cronies. It is almost incredible that Herndon’s savage sentence is based on an unemployment demonstration at which there was no disorder; this “insurrectionary” meeting was so calm that there was no police interference and no arrests made at the time. ‘i Our delegation goes to Birming- ham today, but returns to Atlanta Friday to make further definite de- mands for Herndon’s protection: We intend to concentrate upon two First, reduction of the absurdly exorbitant bail; second, that the Governor or the County Commis- sioner appoint a commission to in- vestigate Herndon’s physical condi- tion and treatment in the jail. Herndon is in the hands of fas- cist Negro-hating officials; these same’ officials want to destroy the Atlanta Six and other workers; they went to give the Klan and the “Men of Justice” free reign to mur- der and burn and terrorize. John H, Hudson must be exposed as the leading tool of this criminal cam- paign. All honest opinion in the United States must be aroused. | slaughtered by carbineros, riflemens They were part of a group of 1,000 poor peas- ants who were scouring the countryside for food. Cold and hun- gry, they left their bare farms, stricken by star- vation. The Chilean govern- ment sent them immediate aid. Chiang Kai-Shek Two hundred carbineros were rush- ed to the district by special train and fed fifty of the starving peas ants hot lead, which proved fatal on empty stomachs. * VERY important strike of 4,000 A tobacco workers recently took place in Shanghai, at the Pootung plant of the British-American To- bacco Co., Limited. The BAT. workers are known for their mili- tancy. But this strike Lise of ne test litical importance od ie of the many unusual factors entering into it, First of all, the workers in the company’s plants in Manchuria, despite the iron heel of Japanese imperialism, went on 4 sympathetic strike. Then butcher Chiang Kai-shek, leading nearly a million soldiers against the Red Army of China, took time off to try to break the strike. He sent 4 telegram to the Chinese municipal authorities in Shanghai, ordering them to smash the strike. You see, the B.A.T. has been supplying Chiang Kai-shek with millions of dollars to wage the war against the Soviet districts, and in return Chiang Kai-shek offers his forces for breaking strikes wherever the Kuomintang rules. ite Sir Alexander Cadogan, British minister to China, personally visited Chiang Kai-shek in behalf of this huge British tobacco trust in China, and the butcher of the Chinese workers and peasants graciously re- sponded to the request of Sir Alex ander. * ‘HE B.A.T., however, somewhat impatient at the ineffectiveness of Chiang Kai-shek’s strikebreaking ability, hired over 1,000 White Rus- sian strikebreakers. The White Rus- sians in Shanghai are the dregs of the defeated armies of Kolchak and Semenoff. The men are dope runners, cut-throats, scabs, and the women are prostitutes, Whenever strikes break out,’the White Rus- sians in China are hired to break them. But the tobacco strike also had repercussions among the Chinese cigarette manufacturers, who are competing with the favored huge imperialist concern. In return for huge donations to the anti-Commu- nist war chest, Chiang Kai-shek has given the B.A.T. lower tax rates, Recently, however, small Chinese cigarette factories have been under mining the special position of this imperialist firm. * NOTHER factor which entered the tobacco strike was Chiang Kai-shek’s own pet “New Deal,” which is known in China as the “New Life Movement.” To divert the masses from the growing anti- imperialist struggle, Chiang Kai- shek has ordered a stringent change in morals and customs, such as re- fraining from spitting in the streets, keeping the rags of the starved coolies carefully brushed, and re- duction in smoking. What with growing impoverish- ment, and violent efforts of some local authorities to instill the “New Life Movement,” cigarette consump- tion has fallen off heavily. Sir Alexander undoubtedly had some- thing to say about that too, un- doubtedly, to Chiang Kai-shek, and we can be sure there will be a re- vised cigarette code in Chiang Kai- shek’s “New Deal” hereafter. he Dae ‘HE Trotzykyites seldom lose an opportunity of reviling the heroic Communist Party of Ger- many, the very Party which is send- ing shivers of fear down the spines of the world bourgeoisie as they observe its undisputed growing strength, its acknowledged leader- ship of the rapidly maturing forces of proletarian revolution in Ger many. Comrade Phil Stern has sent us several clippings which show to what lengths Trotzky’s agents in the United States go to heap Goebbelian slander against the German Communists. One of them, taken from the Trotzkyite sheet, dated May 19, 1934, says: “The aid to fascism of treacherous Stalinism was rewarded —by the complete annihilation of the Communist Party!” The other, from just as servile an agent of the bourgeoisie, Johannes Steel, ap- pearing in the New York Post of June 28, 1934, says: “There is today no factory, shop and no company of Storm Troopers without a Communist or radical So- cialist cell. The Red Flag, official organ of the German Communist Party, is circulated by one and a half million a week and pamphlets in form of photostatic glossy print, so small that it must be read under @ magnifying glass, are being pro- duced in the four corners of the Reich.” On another occasion the same Herr Steel declared it was undis- puted that the Communist Party of Germany. was the recognized leader of the anti-fascist front. The only Communists whom the Trotzkyites admit exist in Germany are those who have their heads chopped off by Hitler. What the Nazi scoundrels cannot accomplish in fact, the Trotzkyites accomplish for them—on paper, : . *