The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1934, Page 6

a Page Six Daily,QWorker | GRETRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY GLS.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST UNTOREATIONAS? “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th | Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4- 7954. Cable Address " New York, N. ¥. Washington Bure: Room 954, National 4th and F St., Washington, D. C. Press Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 705, Cheago, Mil. | Telephone: Dearborn 3931. Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bi Je 96.00; hs, $2.00 7 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, $ gees , 1% cents. Building, | FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1934 The Broken Contract _ Republic Steel Company, third larg- est steel company in the country, has broken its contractual relations with the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.), and an- nounced it will “deal” hereafter only with its own company union. The Republic Steel Company gives as its reason for refusing to renew its contract with the union (which includes the skilled crafts in the Republic mills) the “danger that the management of the Amalgamated may pass into the hands of the radical element known as the ‘rank and file leaders.’” Of course the real reason that the Republic Co. has broken off with the A. F. of L. unions is the continuation of the union smashing cam- paign of all the steel companies, aimed to destroy real unions of the workers, and to enforce the company union in all mills, The Republic Co. like all companies, is increasing the attacks on the steel workers’ living standards, chiefly to increase the speed-up and reduce wages. The fact that on June 30 the Amalgamated Yocal unions were unable to secure contracts can be laid at the door of William Green and the ‘Tighe-Leonard machine controlling the A. A. This latest offensive of the steel companies against the workers is made possible by the policy of Mike Tighe, the A. F. of L. steel union president, backed by William Green. It is made possible because Tighe sidetracked the strike preparations of the steel workers last month, and on June 14 at the ‘A. A. convention, accepted Roosevelt’s company union arbitration board. Tighe stripped the A. A. locals of their defenses against attack by killing strike preparations. By his red scare Tighe succeeded in splitting the ranks of the steel workers, rejecting the united front proposed by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Tighe’s betrayal of the strike preparations of the steel workers and his acceptance of the Roosevelt strikebreaking board paved the way for the present situation—for the breaking of the union contracts and the domination of the com- pany unions in the Republic and other mills. The Committee of Ten, by supporting Tighe’s betrayal, is equally responsible for the present attack of the Republic Co, on the union. members of the Amalgamated Association must now fight if their local unions are not to be destroyed as the result of Tighe’s giving a free hand, and stifling any fight against the com- pany unions. There is yet time to force the com- panies to sign agreements. The only way, however, in which these contracts can be secured is through ® united struggle of the steel workers in the Republic mills. If broad, united strike committees are set up in each Republic mill, the struggle can be prepared and the workers can force the Republic Co. to accept their economic demands and renew the contracts. The members of the A. A. locals must at once set up these united strike committees in the Republic mills to include unorganized work- ers and members of other unions, if they are to defeat the offensive of the company. ‘The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union has pledged the full support of its entire organiza- tion for the fight for union recognition and for the demands of the steel workers in the Republic mills. If the A. A. locals in these mills accept this pledge of unity, and set up united action committees in the Republic mills, the company union drive can be defeated. The unorganized steel workers, in order to strengthen the fight against the company unions, for the economic demands of the steel workers, and for union recognition, should join and strengthen the fighting union of the workers, the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. The §S.M.W.LU. has throughout been the only organi- zation which fought the Tighe-Committee of Ten betrayal from the beginning, and fought for united Strike preparations. Steel Workers—organize broad united front strike committees in the Republic mills. Fight for your demands and union recognition! Unorganized Steel Workers—join and build the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union! The Socialist Party and Ernst Thaelmann HE advancing crisis in the Hitler fas- cist government emphasizes the ter- rible danger to the lives of Thaelmann, Torgler and other anti-Fascist prisoners. Certainly at such a time, every group in- terested in fighting fascism and for the liberation of these working-class heroes should unite for common struggle against the fas- cist curse. And yet the Socialist Party, its newly elected “left wing” National Executive Committee in par- ticular, has thus far ignored the united front call of the Communist Party Central Committee, which proposes united actions for the liberation of Thael- mann and anti-fascist fighters in Germany. In the face of the ever-present menace to ‘Thaelmann, who, in his torture dungeon, is the symbol of the fight to overthrow the fascist rule of the Nazis, the Socialist Party of this country can rest perfectly content, can ignore all actions for the release of Thaelmann and his fellow anti-fascist prisoners, The rank and file of the Socialist Party, the large number of workers and honest intellectuals who hate fascism and are eager to struggle against it, certainly have a right to an answer from the new N.E.C. on this question, There is one question te which they have right to an answer—why does not the Socialist a ‘ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1934 Party agree to united front actions for the liber- ation of Thaelmann? Meanwhile, the world fight t and all an sweeping aside passivity hamper Wisconsin’s “ Jobless Insurance” Bill HE Wisconsin Unemployment Compen- sation Act, the only unemployment in- surance bill operative anywhere in the United States, needs only to be examined and quoted to show that it is in no sense an unemployment insurance bill, and wholly eliminated the greatest number of workers in the State. All of the present unemployed, all farm workers, railroad workers, relief workers, teachers and pub! employes, domestic and personal workers, and all workers employed in establishments with less than ten employes are totally denied benefit payments under the Wisconsin law. Nothing is provided for the sick and aged, clearly stating on this point, & worker “must be physically able and a for work.” A “misconduct” clause, “an employe is wholly barred from benefits if he has ] his employment through misconduct, if he quits with- out good cause,” bars still more workers, stating, since the boss holds the funds, that the quitting of the job must be “with good cause attributable to his employer.” A residence requirement states that a worker must be “a resident of Wisconsin for two years.” The strikebreaking clause states that the worker is automatically disqualified from fur- ther benefits if he refuses work offered. . * . INSTEAD of setting up the insurance reserves, the employer may, at his own discretion, institute a plan whereby he guarantees the workers in his factory 42 weeks work a year at two-thirds of the regular hours of the work week. Hours under this arrangement may. be cut to 20 a week. Benefits under the Wisconsin law are limited to $5 to $10 a week for a period of not more than ten weeks in the year—$50 to $100 a year—an amount actually less than the present average sub- starvation relief payments in Wisconsin. . . . T= Wisconsin law bars the present jobless, legal- izes forced labor, bars the majority of the Present workers, is strikebreaking in effect, and by the misconduct clause excludes workers fired at the employer's discretion. Only the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, endorsed by thousands of A. F. of L. locals, scores of Central Trades Bodies, a number of national conventions of the A. F. of L., by unemployed groups, veterans and home-owners organizations, workers’ clubs, and by 45 city governmental bodies, provides adequate unemployment insurance. Only the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill pro- vides payments to the present unemployed, to all who work without discrimination of any sort. Hitler and Rockfeller b ages Rockefeller Banks, it is now made absolutely clear, not only have enorm- ous investments in Germany. Through their leading publicity man, “Poison” Ivy Lee, they are active in con- cealing the monstrous crimes of the Fas- cist beasts from the world through prosti- tute press campaigns. The Rockefellers do not only help the fascist beast, Hitler. The Rockefellers pull the strings, together with the Morgans, that run the Roosevelt government. The Roosevelt government is filled with Rocke- feller agents. Thus it is that the blood of the German working class, wrung in torture and murder in fascist dun- geons, drips from the sanctimonious hands of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and taints the whole apparatus of the Roosevelt “New Deal.” It is the whole American ruling class which sticks with close ties to the unspeakable gang which does the services for the German monopoly capi- talists. 1 hes revelation that “Poison” Ivy Lee, publicity man and “public relations” counsel ‘for the Rockefeller interests, is on Hitler's Payroll only confirms the revelations made in the Daily Worker Several months ago on the secret connections be- tween the Rockefeller Chase National Bank and the fascist government. With the Ivy Lee revelations, the picture is now complete. It is a picture of dominant finance capital interests in Wall Street having a direct stake in the fascist Hitler government, and giving it direct support, The Rockefellers have enormous investments in Germany. So have the Morgans. Naturally, like good imperialists, they want to see these invest- ments protected. They know that a proletarian revolution in Germany would put an end forever to the gigantic racket of “interest payments” on their bonds and short term loans, interest which Hitler sweats from the German masses to pay the Wall Street banks. That is why American imperialism, through its biggest sharks, the Rockefellers and Morgans, aids the fascist murderers in their work. . . * ro can only mean that all haters of fascism in Germany, all those who would smash the fascist monster, must direct their fire against the Wall Street imperialists, right here at home, who themselves are part of the mainstay of Hitler. The fight. against fascism is an international fight. It is the fight against the international oe of capital and its parasitic-reactionary From this it is clear that those who in this country are the collaborators with the Wall Street ruling class, the A. F. of L. burocrats, the Greens, Wolls, LaGuardias, etc. that these supporters of Hitler’s financial backers cannot wage any kind of real struggle against American fascism. In fact, these agents of the ruling class are the preparers and forerunners of American Fascism. The fight against fascism will not come from the Roosevelts, the Greens, the Wolls, the La- Guardias. Those leaders of the Socialist Party who seek to build up among the masses here that thes people can be depended on to fight the Hitler monster are, in reality, serving the interests of the Rockefellers and Morgans, the advance troops of American fascism. In the light of the Ivy Lee revelations, it is brutally plain that only the revolutionary working class can lead the fight to exterminate fascism, the bloody rule of the big capitalist monopolies. The working class must take its place at the head of all sections of the population who haye reason to hate and despise fascism. At the head of the working class stands its vanguard, the Communist Party. Opens $5,000 Drive For Bonus Fight Starts Tour; Won Fame As Leader in First Bonus March SACRAMENTO, July 12.—Clair B. Cowan, ex-marine, World War veteran, one of the organizers of the Clevi Bonus March which held up the | railroads for 18 hours until trans-/| rtation was provided for the vet- erans to Washington, is launching | the $5,000 Veteran Figthing Fund campaign on the Pacific Coast. | Comrade Cowan’s tour is very timely in view of the general strike on the Pacific Coast. The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League and other | groups of rank and file veterans are active in supporting the strike of the longshoremen, | The following is the itinerary of Cowan’s trip: Salem, Ore., July 17; | Portland, Ore., July 19; Olympia, | Wash., July 21; Seattle, Wash., July | 22 and 23; Bellingham, Wash., July | 24; Sacramento, Cal. Aug. 1; San Aug. 2, 3, and 4; Los An- Publish Paper | ‘The money raised in the cam- | paign will be used to publish a vet- erans’ paper and other publications, send delegates to the Seventh World Congress of the International As- sociation of Veterans, Henri Bar- busse, Chairman, which will be held Jan. 28, 1934, in Brussels; build the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League and support of the Veterans’ Na- tional Rank and File in Washing- ton, which is a broad united front of all rank and file veterans. Com- completion of this tour. All cities East of the Pacific Pri- States wishing to arrange dates, write immediately to the National Headquarters, Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League, Room 523, New York City. Cops Seize Ft. Jay ‘Relief Job Pickets | Relief Workers League | Heads Held on Bail NEW YORK.—Michael Davidow, of the Relief Workers’ League, and Jack Rand, arrested while passing | out leaflets to the workers on the Governors Island Fort Jay project Wednesday, were held in bail of $300 each for trial on Wednesday, July 18, by Magistrate Burke, at Tombs Court. Together with other pickets, the three were passing out leaflets to workers who remained on the job | after 200 workers who were laid off | over the week-end and some of | those retained on the job had gone | out on strike. All the workers who | remain on the job are to be fired | by August 1, according to the plans |of the relief administration, and | their places filled by unemployed | seamen from the Seamen's In- | stitute. In firing the Fort Jay relief workers as part of the general lay- | off of 15,000 relief workers, the city | relief administration plans to use | seamen now on transient relief to | fill their places at lower rates of pay. | The Marine Workers’ Industrial | Union is conducting a campaign among the unemployed seamen not to accept the jobs and scab on their fellow workers. Pe ae Hospital Relief Workers Get New Wage Cut NEW YORK.—Relief workers in all the city hospitals were given a wage cut Wednesday from $15 to $12.50 a week. The relief workers are working on. jobs formerly filled by regular city employes, running elevators, laundry and _ kitchen workers, etc. Under the new wage cut, the third since they were ori- ginally hired as C. W. A. workers, they will work 25 hours a week in- stead of 30, land Contingent of the 1932 | rade Cowan will continue East on | president, and Paul Block, organizer ; | | i} | | | | a Ss Shipments to By H. JONES, Editor, “Marine Workers’ Voice” | EECENTLY, Comrade Browder the waterfront had missed, that the West Coast munitions shipments to Japan, and Japan and the war profiteers of the United States. On one occasion scrap-iron intended for weapons against the Soviet Union, Soviet | China and the peasants of North China was turned into weapons against American scabs, when strik- ers stormed a ship and drove the scabs off. For two months now, shipment of scrap-iron and other war materials from the West Coast has been at a | standstill, Such is the power of the | organized workers when led by | class-conscious fighters, as the | West Coast fighters are today. through the West Coast barricades, |the President Lincoln, reached | Honolulu with her holds ablaze, the result of improper stowage of dan- gerous cargo, Scab-loaded air- planes bound for the murderous Chiang Kai-Shek burned and the | ship lost much time in delivering | what cargo was not damaged. In the Gran Chaco, Bolivia, armies still battle for the empire of Standard Oil. It is common knowledge, heralded through the | capitalist press a year after the revolutionary press published the fact, that Standard Oil finances Bolivia’s campaign of slaughter against Paraguayan peasants and workers. The Paraguayan army is kept in the field by “credit” ex- tended by British oil interests, and both of the imperial brigands are “secured” by a lien on the land over which their lackey generals drive the unwilling peasantry to death. Into this arena of blood Roose- velt launched his “humane” decree stopping shipments of munitions to Bolivia and Paraguay. But the shipments continue, nevertheless, Arms Shipped Nevertheless Within the last month ware- houses in New York harbor were “searched” to see if the ship lines were carrying munitions. The Grace Line protested its innocence, saying Pointed out the fact, which even } strike had stopped) no one suffered but the warlords of | One of the few ships that slipped | West Coast Srihe Has Paralyzed Munitions Far East for Past Two Months o— | | they “never” carried munitions be- | cause theirs were passenger ships }and it would be “unlawful.” Yet | every seaman knows that Grace Line ships do carry airplanes, air- plane parts and even loaded cartridges in great quantity to the Bolivian army. These munitions | caused a good-sized riot in Arica, | and once, when the member of the | crew of a “Santa” boat reported to | the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union that munitions were being loaded, a protest demonstration met ; a small army of police at the dock. A munitions barge, flying a danger flag, lay alongside the guarded ship on which it is “unlawful” to carry munitions, The Working Class Must Establish Such An Embargo | As the West Coast strike stopped munitions to Japan, so the workers on the East Coast must develop strike action to stop all these muni- tions shipments to Japan, to South America, to the Caribbean Islands. The Government, in spite of its “embargoes” will not stop it. There are giant profits for American capi- tal in financing the slaughter of workers and farmers in the semi- colonial countries; there is great gain in the plans of Japanese im- perialism to attack the Soviet Union, destroy Soviet China, and extend Japanese hegemony over dismembered China, Beginnings of Working Class Action Only the working class can es- ablish an effective embargo against the shipment of arms to the im- perialists and the lackeys of imperi- alism; for the working class has no profit in any of these murderous deals. Small beginnings of such a move- ment can be observed. One of the most important is the establishment of anti-war propaganda centres and action committees among ships’ crews. For a while such anti-war committees functioned on several ships of the Ore Steamship Co., a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel. Anti- war committees should be set up on docks, too, among the longshore- men. carried on by the M. W. I. U,, as part of its organization work. That campaign must be brought out of A constant anti-war campaign is | the propaganda stage into the stage of organization and action. ‘The union is not yet a mass or- | ganization powerful enough to stop |munitions shipments singlehanded. It will become so only as it grows |through organization and through | the struggles for everyday needs of the marine workers on ship and dock, and among the unemployed in their battles for relief and un- employment insurance and against forced labor on relief projects. There is little question about the hostility of seamen and harbor workers generally to war. They are among its first and most numerous victims, The problem is to crystal- lize this hostility into active deeds to stop munitions. There is no golden road to this end. There is only the hard road of day-to-day struggle and organi- zation. The anti-war work, both of the union and the general anti-war organizations, must be increased along the waterfront and on the ships. To my knowledge, no anti- war organization has sent a speaker to the waterfront in the past year. We have attempted to mobilize protest demonstrations before ships loading munitions, but we have had little support from other workers’ organizations. The Anti-Imperialist League gave the main strength at a demonstration protesting the de- parture of the Seafox to be blown up in the Amazon River, victim of a Peruvian plane. Otherwise, our anti-war demonstrations have been limited to the few we could muster and transport to outlying and in- accessible piers. The mass organizations must strengthen these protests. These protest meetngs are of great value; but they must be backed up by more organization among tle men who Joad and transport munitions. That is the job of the union, with sup- port from other organizations. The most important phase of this work is building a powerful M. W. I. U. among the seamen, and building powerful opposition groups in the International Longshoremen’s As- sociation. There can be no doubt of our ability to build large groups which follow our program in the I. L. A. The West Coast strike is an example of the influence we can wield if our forces apply themselves. [Fields Replanted By | Collective Work Yield Grain By ANNA LOUISE STRONG MOSCOW, (F. P.)—The drouth which is sweeping the northern hemisphere this summer and send- ing poverty and hunger to hundreds of thousands of farm homes found a doughty antagonist in the col- lective farms of the Soviet Union which by organized effort deter- mined to have a harvest “rain or no rain.” . They are actually succeeding, and not by miracles, except the miracle of dogged determination applied in jorganized fashion. Indications are that this year’s harvest may be little if any less than last year's, the biggest crop in Russian history. If and when this harvest actually materializes, in sharp contrast to the almost ruined prospects beyond the Soviet border, where the weather conditions were the same, it will be attributable to one thing only—the united dive which collectivization made possible. From the small boys and girls in the dry regions who | Were out in bands digging irrigation ditches to the staff of scientists in the Commissariat of Agriculture in Moscow, who were busily devising the follow up crops to be planted where the winter grains had already failed, the whole net work of agen- cles fought for the Soviet harvest. Victory In Kabardinia One of the most spectacular drives was carried on by the Kabar- dinian district, a minor nationality on the northeast slopes of the Cau- casus, where illiteracy was almost total in the days of the Czar. The tale is still told of the early days of revolution when Kalmikov, Com- munist Party secretary there, or- dered that a quota of boys and girls from every village be sent to the new schools in the capital, Nalchik, that they might later go back to open schools in the villages. The boys came sullenly trudging beside their parents, but the girls were delivered bound hand and foot lest they flee from the frightful fate of Woman's education. Today, barely 10 years since that desperate struggle, not only the men but the old women of Kabardinia take part in the Muster of Crop Inspectors which gathers from every collective farm to Nalchik to decide the plans for joint sowing and harvest, Without Rain This year Kalmikoy—the self- same Kalmikoy—told them that Kabardinia must conquer drouth. They must get a good harvest “without respect to rainfall.” Were there not mountain streams from the snows of the Caucasus, and willing hands to divert these streams? A resolution for emer- gency irrigation was passed, and within four days hundreds of kilo- meters of tiny ditches were bearing Some farms which could not be reached by these ditches because of the slope of the land organized con- tinuous delivery of water in barrels, with a procession of 50 horse-teams. Kabardinia reports today excellent harvest prospects. Less spectacular but equally thor- ough was the work of Dnieprope- trovsk, a large district in south Uk- raine hard hit by drouth. This region had no mountains to call on, but it had the low-lying meadows of the Dnieper'’s overflow. The Muster of Collective Farm Dele- gates outlined an entire program of drouth fighting. Every weed must be pulled up in the fields, since weeds suck moisture; con- stant cultivation must retain what- ever moisture still lurked in the soil. Woodland glades, drying Swamps and ponds must be at once planted in the exposed mud with new seeds; intensive cultivation must follow the retreating Dnieper flood. There are no private land rights in the U.S. 8. R. to interfere with the fullest use of soil. Good Harvest Expected The report just issued as the har- vest begins is that it will probably be as good as last year. Meantime in pre-harvest discussions, collec- tive farmers are drawing lessons from this year’s sharp testing out of which they will win a steady prosperity for their farms. They have noted that where the winter grain was sown ot properly fallowed and well culti- water from the life-giving cts ¥ land Collective Farms in USSR Win Against Drought Big Crop Is Expected Despite Natural Difficulties vated through the summer, they have a better than average crop even if unhelped by a single rain. They have noted that the extra- early sowing (seed thrown on mud left by melting snow, and then cul- tivated into the ground as soon as the ve ous bear the weight of rses) has a good average crop Wherever it was well done. That the sowing of sprouted seed and bionized seed (two new methods now widely tested in the U.S. S. R.) has also brought a fair harvest, even when not a single drop of rain fell on the soil this spring. They have seen, side by side, fields of grain which flourished in spite of drouth, and other fields, which, being sown too late on soil plowed just before sowing, completely withered. Even for these withered fields there is hope in a second seeding. The farm experts have been busily working out crops that can be planted in fields where winter grain was burned or where it is exception- ally poor. Seeds for these crops have been rushed to the affected areas. The fight with drouth was chiefly a fight in the southern and central grain lands, and while there have been not a few casualties, it ap- Pears to be won. On the World Front By HARRY GANNES Roosevelt’s Embargo Joke Costs 3,000 Lives Munitions Ads Labor Party on War F THERE is a United States embargo on arms to Bolivia and Paraguay, neither the leading American munitions manufacturers nor the Boliv« ian Consul-General have heard of it. A recent issue of “Bolivia,” a magazine issued by the Bolivian government in this coun- try, looks more like a catalogue of war supplies than a prospectus for a tourist. For example, the Morgan-con« trolled Curtiss-Wright Export Core poration, at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, has a full page advertisement ex- toling the military superiority of the Curtiss-Wright Osprey plane, There is a picture of the plane mounted with murderous machine guns. The American bombing plane manufacturers inform the countries to which they are not supposed to be able to send arms that “The Osprey has heen especially devel- oped for Latin-American require- ments.” They further advise the puppet Bolivian government, which is well oiled with Standard Oil Company’s money, that “a consider- able quantity are now in use in the air forces of a number of Latin- American countries.” e215 le PPOSITE the ad for bombing planes, General Motors (another Morgan concern) offers to supply trucks and other means of trans- portation for the warring armies. Below the General Motors offer is an advertisement of the Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Comany. The Bolivian officers, who are supposed to be barred from re- ceiving arms from the U. S., learn this of the Colt Officer's Model Re volver: “Its silky smooth action, its crisp, clean trigger pull, its self- jointing balance and hand filling grip—these are the features that lend confidence to the shooter in the face of the stiffest kind of competition.” Just as the above was written a cable report was received from Asuncion, Paraguay, stating: “Three thousand Bolivians are known to have been killed during yesterday's fierce fighting in the Fort Ballivian area of the Gran Chaco, it was announced officially today.” Which means that more than one Paraguayan worker or peasant felt the silky smooth action of Colt’s revolvers. reed sey are more portentous arms, advertisements in the same issue, such for example as the one of the Amrican Armament Corporation, which in its own way tells the Bo- livian Government not to mind Roosevelt's little joke about the em- bargo. It informs the Bolivian au- thorities that at La Paz, Bolivia, they can find Messrs. Webster and Ashton, who are their exclusive representatives in Bolivia, ready to supply them with whatever they re- quire of the following: Aerial bombs, grenades, field, naval, anti- aircraft and airplane guns and ar- tillery ammunition of the most ad- vanced designs for all types of American and European’ guns, rifles, machine guns and war vessels. ARE ents | 1E same firm that supplies tear and vomiting gas for nearly all the strike-breakers in the U. S. also informs the Bolivian Government that it is ready despite the embargo to supply every tye of pos Rer They urge the readers of “Bolivia to send for descriptive catalogues. A partial list of the products of the Federal Laboratories, Inc., Pitts- burgh, Pa., cable address, “Federal- lab,” is supplied as follows: gas weapons bullet-proof vests, armour plate shield, Thompson submachine guns, gas masks, aerial kumbs, mor- tars, airplane starters and smoke screen apparatus. Ris ener tara same issue of this magazine, inadvertently gives the lie to the claims of the Standard Oil Com- pany. in the June issue of the “Lamp,” official publication of the ‘kefoller Corporation, they deny any connection with the Chaco war, claiming there is no oil in the dis- puted territory. In the issue of “Bolivia” of May-June there is an article entitled “Bolivian’s Oil Dis- tricts,” with a map showing a wide strip of oil lands, exactly at the spot in the Chaco region where thousands of Bolivian soldiers have been forced to shed their ‘ood to ensure Sis.viard Oii's domination. eh ee f. the face of the rapidly sharpen- ing war danger, the British Labor Party recently took definite steps to support British imperialism in the next world war, and to do all Possible to hog-tie the workers in their struggle against war. “It is recognized,” says the Labor Party statement, published in a recent issue of the Daily Herald, “that there may be cir- cumstances in which the govern- ment of Great Britain might have to use its military and naval forces in support of the League in restraining an aggressor nation which declined to submit to the League’s authority, and which measures in defiance of its pledged word.” Thus the Labor Party pledges it- self in advance to support the British slaveholding imperialists to support a war garnished, as all im- perialist wars are, by the slogan of “defense against an aggressor.” FIGHT FASCISTS IN ENGLAND NORTH SHIELDS, Northumber- land, England, July 12.—Anti-Fas- cists were the victors in a clash with Sir Qswald Mosley’s Blatk Shirts last ‘hight, it was reported today. Fists flew at first, but rotten eggs eee and the Fascists beat a ree