The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1934, Page 8

i j i Page Eight DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1934 qG650qNeale60y07*070)0=€C—,—5€—€0°0»000nNN NN SSS ng By Burck Daily <QWorker GRUTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ©S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST NTE@MATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 EXCEPT SUNDAY, INC BY THE 50 E. 13th PUBLISHED DAILY, COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO. Street, New York, N. Y¥. e: ALgonquin 4-795 4 Room 705, Cheago, Il THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1934 Defeat Splitting Tactics in Frisco! Smash Boss Terror! (Continued from Page 1) Portland, Of Alameda—when support is being thrown into the struggle by hroughout the country—just when Vandeleur and his gentle- to defeat the just demands e workers. regions—to added men in wait of the m: OINCIDING with the treacherous maneuver of the Vandeleur gang and definitely connected with it are the vicious and unprecedented fascist attacks on the Communist Party and all militant trade union workers. The organized drive of vigilantes and police against the most militant section of the working class, the smashing up of Communist Party head- ‘s, the raiding of the hall of the Marine ‘s Industrial Union—all this is part of one well-calculated attack on the strike and the demands of the strikers. The attack was organized by shipowners and the city government as a co-op- erative move to aid the reactionary union officials put over the treacherous resolution. One motive of the raids was to keep militants from attending the meeting where the resolution was to be voted on. No one can dispute the fact that it is the ship- owners ond the government that is leading the attack on the strike. “The first indication of the concerted drive against radicals came from Charles Wheeler, vice- president of the McCormick Steamship Line, who said in a talk at the Rotary Club here today that the raids would start soon,” an Associated Press dispatch from San Francisco said. “He intimated government consent has been obtained for the raids.” It is clearly the aim of the employers to split away from the strike leadership the Communists and militant workers, who will not stand for a treacherous settlement and open the way for the betrayal of the strike by the Vandeleurs. * * * EADING this fascist drive against the strike is Franklin D. Roosevelt's N. R. A. director, General Hugh Johnson. Conveniently overlooking the fact that the only thing that stands between settlement of the strike and its continuation is the granting of the marine workers’ demands, issued a call for a program against all Communists. In a radio address delivered Tuesday, the N. R. A. chief clearly revealed the fascist aims of the New Deal set-up. He declared that the people would act to put down Communists “if the Fed- eral Government did not act.” Frothing at the mouth like a Ku Klux Klaner rushing post haste to a lynching, Johnson called on “responsible labor organizations” to “run these subversive influences out from its ranks like rats.” Thus the N. R. A. has set the stage for a lynch- ing, while the reactionary labor leaders have laid the ground for a complete betrayal of the strike. * * * 'T WOULD be outright defeat for the strikers to accept the arbitration scheme. The truck drivers’ strike in Minneapolis of last May was defeated in this same manner. The workers won nothing, so they struck again. The strike of the Weirton steel workers was | washed by the arbitration plan. Roosevelt prom- ised that the question involved in the strike would be settled through N. R. A.-conducted elections after they returned to work. The elections were id and the questions were never settled. the Ford and Budd plants the N. R. A. kept m winning their demands through file of the strikers must press rgy to negotiate for their de- le the strike is on. This is the only per Ww: to solve the question. ve been made by the workers this strike. They must noi allow, they can- not allow this great struggle to be thrown to the four winds by the Vandeleurs. They must fight to broaden the strike committee with elected rep- resentatives of the rank and file and halt the treachery of the burocrats. Workers in the American Federation of Labor unions have the task of taking control of the sit- uation and seeing to it that there is no return- ing to work until the demands of the marine workers are won. Protests against the threat of the A. F. L. lead- ers to betray the strike must be raised by organized labor in every city and town. Every A. F. L. local throughout the country should raise its voice against the reactionary leaders who are attempting to smash the strike. There must be an intensification of protest ac- tions against the terror now raging in San Fran- cisco against militant workers and their organiza- sions. It should be clearly understood that the only power vested in the Roosevelt Board is to force the workers to accept the bosses’ plans. The Board has no intention to force the bosses to accept the demands of the workers. Every labor leader who is trying to break the strike—those who put through the treacherous reso- lution—must be driven from the ranks of organized labor. The rank and file of the \San Francisco work- ers must have the final word. There must be no return to work without a vote of all involved in the strike. Workers everywhere! strike! The Libel Suit Against ‘L’Unita Operaia’ HE libel suits brought against the revo- lutionary Italian language weekly news- paper, L’Unita Operaia, by Mussolini henchmen and discredited, expelled former leaders of the Independent Order of the Sons of Italy, are part of an increasing mobilization of the courts in an attempt to smash the militant labor press. Only a few weeks ago, Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and Harry Raymond, a staff writer, were indicted by a grand jury on a criminal libel charge brought by members of the notorious strikebreaking Sherwood Detective Agency, whose activities were exposed by Raymond in a series of articles during the New York taxi strike. Similarly, the aid of the courts is now sought to penalize L’Unita Operaia and its editor, Comrade Tito Nunzio, for defending the interests of the rank and file membership of the Independent Order of the Sons of Italy, The paper exposed the shady deals of the fascist lawyer-politician, Rosario In- gariola, and his Heutenant, Prof. Isola. Both of these fascists who, up to a short time ago, were “leading” the New York Grand Lodge of the Order, were expelled under pressure of rank and file in- dignation by the recent convention of the Grand Order at Schenectady. They now appeal to the courts to rehabilitate their threadbare “reputa- tions.” These fascist politicians did not dare to answer before the rank and file membership of the Order the charges raised by L’Unita Operaia. They resort instead to their class allies in the boss courts to whitewash their crimes against the working class and to penalize the revolutionary Paper and its editor for championing the interests of the workers in the Order. Hearing on the second libel suit will take place next Tuesday morning in the First Magistrate’s Court, Schermerhorn and Smith Streets, Brooklyn. Every worker should pack the court to repel this attack on L’Unita Operaia and its editor, Unite behind the general Green Denounces i" % { (Continued from Page 1) York Police, ‘Rifle Regiment For Coast Gen’l Strike Stike and Riot Duty NEW YORK.—A police rifle regi- | ment of 900 picked patrolmen, 30 | sergeants, nine lieutenants and four Workers Act To Support Strike (Continued from Page 1) lionaire ship-owners, Green de-| captains will be trained here in| is ready to strike when the ship slared: | pistol, rifle and machine gun prac- |Teaches San Pedro. “The strike in San Francisco is |tice, and in riot maneuvers, under ™ ™ . local in character, possessing no national significance. “It originated with the workers | the order sent out yesterday by Po- | lice Commissioner O’Ryan. | N. Y. Dockers Meet to Support | Strike directly involved. Through an as- | sumption of authority growing out | of certain autonomous rights con- | ferred upon local organizations, | their representatives ordered the strike and must accept full re- sponsibility for this action. “The American Federation of Labor neither ordered the strike nor authorized it. At no time has its counsel or advice been solicited or its services requested. “But even though the American Federation of Labor is not di- rectly involved, its officers and members are deeply concerned over the existing situation and are hoping for a speedy and sat- isfactory settlement.” Green then continued with subtle| strikebreaking arguments to get the men back to work, repeating al- most word for word the strike- breaking propaganda of the em- Ployers in the press: | “While, unfortunately, the pub- | lic mind is confused regarding the | issues involved in this strike, la- bor generally knows and under- stands that if the workers who are engaged in the purely sympa- thetic strike win, they gain a mo- ral victory, but if they lose, they lose all.” Ree * A. F. L. Committee Wires Protest to Green NEW YORK. — Denouncing the strikebreaking statement of William | Green on the Pacific Coast general! strike, Louis Weinstock, National Secretary of the A, F. of L, Com- mittee for Unemployment Insur- ance, today wired Green in the mame of thousands of A. F. of L.| members, proclaiming their whole-| hearted support of the Pacific Coast} strikers. | The full statement of the tele-| gram wired to Green follows: “We protest against your state- \ ment issued in Chicago in con- nection with the general strike in the West Coast cities. “You say ‘The American Fed- eration of Labor neither ordered the strike nor authorized it.’ This statement of surs is a further proof of the fact that your sen- timents are not with the striking workers of the West Coast unions but with the powerful employers’ associations and ship owners of this country, “You say ‘The American Fed- eration of Labor is not in con- troversy in this strike’ You are misrepresenting facts. Your state- ment should say that William Green and the other reactionary leaders like you did not authorize or order this strike or other strikes, but you haye no right to say that the American Federation of Labor did not authorize the strike, “Over 100,000 members of the A. F. of L. are on strike in the West Coast cities and they have the sympathy and support not only of the other 2,500,000 members of the A. F. of L., but they have the sympathy of the entire working class of the United States. We pledge ourselves to expose you as an enemy of organized labor and an open ally of the employers.” Weinstock further stated that lo- cal unions, Central Labor bodies and the State Federation of Labor will be called upon to repudiate Wil- liam Green's statement and con- Sider it as an open attack upon the very lives of the strikers of Cali- fornia and other West Coast cities, The Mass Demonstration in New York City on Thursday, July i9 at 5 pm, at Union Square, organized by the Provisional Com- mittee for the Defense of the San Francisco strikers will do everything in its power to render moral and financial support for the West Coast strikers, NEW YORK — Three hundred longshoremen and seamen met yes- terday in front of the piers at 21st and West Sts., in a solidarity meet- ing called by the Rank and File Action Committee of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association, in support of the general strike on the West Coast. . FRR NE Hosiery Workers Support Strike The American Federation of Ho- siery Workers, Branch’ 5, affiliated with the United Textile Workers of America (A, F. of L.), yesterday passed a resolution supporting the striking workers on the West Coast, and pledging moral and financial support, Bee fom Carpenters Vote Support of the American Federation of La- bor, voted to support the Frisco | Strike and called on the members to participate in the Union Square mass demonstration today. Five dollars was donated to the Frisco general strike fund. SWS Tete Seamen Jailed in Phila. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 18,— | Two marine workers arrested last |Tuesday for picketing the S.S. | Yorkmar were released the follow- ing day, and picked up again by the police. They are still in jail, awaiting trial, with bond set at $300 each. The marine workers have ap- pealed to the International Labor Defense to help secure their release. A Red Builder on every busy stret corner in the country means a tremendous step toward the The spread of the “Daily” to the mass of workers is a pre- | requisite to their successful strug- gles. Carpenters Local 116, Brooklyn, | | cision in this question. Truck Strike)THE BOSSES’ ARTILLERY In Minneapolis, Closes Market Drivers’ Union Heads Taxed for Failure To | Spread the Strike | (Special to the Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 18.— | No attempts have been made as yet | to move trucks in or out of the market, which is completely roped | off by the city. Provision houses | utilized the five days’ delay of the strike, from last “Vednesday to, this Tuesday, to empty the warehouses and establish temporary shipping Places and warehouses in small towns outside of Minneapolis, from which they attend to out-of-town | trade. | The capacity and effectiveness of | | this strike is much more limited so | | far than the May strike, due to the exclusion of petroleum workers from | | the strike. The closing of gasoline | | stations last May was one of the | | trump cards of that strike. | This action can be interpreted only as a concession to the oil mag- | nates of the U.S. A. The strategy of the strike leadership, which 1s to wait until employers attempt to | Open the market before calling out | other drivers, means that only an attack of armed forces upon the | | Strikers will make possible any | | sympathy strikes. The leadership | | purposely ignores the fact that the! | Tank and file of all local unions is| ready for action now, and the need | | of the hour is to broaden the strike | | to at least all drivers in Minneap- olis. | The Communist Party has Placed | the following questions before the | strike leadership: How can the leaders of Local 574 explain the unwillingness on their | part to broaden the strike? How will they explain to the drivers the fact that théir stalling |in calling out other drivers gives | petroleum companies, laundry com- panies, and others, time to further | prepare for an emergency when and if their workers are called out? Do the leaders of the present | | strike lay hope in the Rev. Haas, | who is coming here by plane to settle the strike for them? Why don’t they come out clearly and openly against arbitration and labor boards, the methods of the employers to deceive and defeat the ; Workers? Why don’t they put to a test the leadership of the Central Labor | Union of Minneapolis, who declare themselves in words for a general strike, for united action against citizens alliance? Governor Olson keeps his state troops in Minneapolis for strike- breaking duty in the name of “law ; and order.” Why wait unitl the union members get a present of hot lead from Olson’s troops? Why not develop united action of the whole Minneapolis labor move- ment now, to force the withdrawal of troops from Minneapolis by the so-called “labor” Governor? The Communist Party of Minne- apolis placed these questions be- fore the leadership as being of vital importance to all drivers and work- ers of Minneapolis. Strikers Recognize N.Y. Newspaper Guild Cards SAN FRANCISCO, July 17.—New York Newspaper Guild membership cards are recognized here by union Picket lines. Reporters having these cards are allowed past picket lines as members of a nation-wide union organization, ‘The National Guard sandbag bar- | ricades recognize New York police | Press cards, Dovgalevsky, USSR Envoy, Was A Veteran Bolshevik Leader (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. 8, S. R., July 17 (By Wireless)—The Ambassador of the U. S. S. R. to France, Valeryan Savelievich Dovgalevsky, who died in Paris recently from cancer of the |intestines, was [born in the Ukraine in 1885. He joined the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party in 1904 and worked as a propagandist among the peasants in the Ukraine, Since the end of 1905 he lived illegally, and was arrested for the first time in August, 1906; he was acquitted in the beginning of 1907 by a military court in Kiev, He was soon rearrested, and in the autumn of 1907 was sentenced to penal servitude, which was re- Placed by a life-long exile. He fied the Angar region first to Western Siberia, and later went abroad, where in 1908 he had his first opportunity to become more closely acquainted with the theo- retical views of the Bolsheviks, and joined them. He remained a firm Bolshevik, a true and devoted son of the Party. During his years of emigration he worked in France; firstly as a workman, afterwards as an engi- neer, always maintaining connec- tion with the Party and with the work of the Party. Having re- turned to Russia after the Febru- ary revolution, he occupied various and Leningrad, and later, in Mos- cow, he was on the Commissariat of Ways and Communication. His going to civil war fronts frequent- ly interrupted his work. After the end of the Civil War he was made Peoples Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic and after the formation of the U. S. S. R. was made Vice- Commissar ofthe Posts and Tele- graphs Union. He was repeatedly re-elected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the R. S. F. 8, R. and the U. S. S. R. In 1924 he was appointed Am- bassador of the U. S. S. R. to Sweden. In 1926 he was appointed Ambassador of the U. S. S. R. to Japan. In 1927 he was again ap- pointed to the same post in Paris, where he worked until recently, obtaining by his untiring activ- ities brilliant results respecting consolidation between the U. S. 8. R. and France, and the general consolidation of the international position of the U. S. S. R. In 1929, after he was instructed to carry on negotiations with the British Government in London, Dovgalevsky signed an agreement renewing the relations between the U. S. S. R. and Great Britain, In 1932 he signed, jointly with Herriot, a non-aggression pact be- tween the U. S. S. R. and France. | responsible posts, firstly in Kiev | In his capacity as member of the | Would Lead Fascists If Assured 25 Years’ Job, Says Father Cox ROME, July 18.—Father James R. Cox, rector of the Old St. Patrick’s Church in Pittsburgh, will accept the job as leader of the fascists in the United States offered him by the Philadelphia fascist leaders, provided he be guaranteed the job for 25 years of “final and absolute authority.” “I would not accept under any other terms. I think fascism would be a good thing for the United States,” said the Catholic churchman. Cox was received in a general audience by the Pope, who gave him his blessing. BRAZILIAN WORKERS FASISM SAO PAULO, Brazil, July 17—A crowd of workers demonstrated before the German department store Case Allemanda, yesterday, shouting “Down with Nazism!” in protest against the presence of a swastika hanging over the store front. HIT Soviet delegation to the disarma- ment conference, Dovgalevsky often defended the peace policy of the U. S. S. R. in his speeches at Geneva, In the death of Valeryan Save- lievich Dovgalevsky, the Party and all toilers have lost a_ brilliant, sharp-witted, cultured comrade, a talented Soviet diplomat, a tireless fighter for the cause of Socialism. |Against Union With. | Hitler or With | | France By W. MUELLER | JOR the Communists the Saar problem, as a class question, has always been a problem of the German pro- letarian revolution. With the proletarian revolution in Ger- many they want at the same (time, by means of the revolutionary |mass struggle in the Saar, to achieve the social and national emancipation of the Saarland. The Communists were and are even more today of the opinion that the prospects of the proletarian revo- lution in Germany have become more favorable as a result of the revolutionary upsurge which is tak- ing place. Therefore, they were, and are still today, of the opinion |that the propaganda and prepara- tion of the masses for the fight for Soviet power also in the Saar district must be continued and strengthened. The fact that the date for hold- ing the plebiscite has now been definitely fixed demands of the Communists a Leninist tactical de- None of the three alternatives on which the vote will be taken—namely, at- tachment to France, return to Ger- many, or the maintenance of the status quo, corresponds to the So- cialist aims. Owing to the fact that the Social Democracy in Germany and in the Saar have been able up to the present time to maintain the split in the ranks of the work- ing class, that they have always striven by coalition with other bour- geois groups to fetter the workers _ to the bourgeois, and owing to the fact that they have been able to prevent the unity of the working b: | class on a revolutionary basis, the dictatorship of the proletariat. (Communists are still today unable to lead the’ decisive political class battles in the Saar and to solve the Saar problem in the sense of their final Socialist aim, What conclusions result from eo this? The Communists are against the union of the Saar with France. They are equally aaginst its union with Germany at the present time, They do not believe in committing suicide! To advocate union with Hitler Germany would mean to be- tray the workers, would mean to advocate their being placed under the heel of Hitler fascism. The interests of the workers and the toiling population demand a decision which shall provide the greatest possibility for the develop- ment and extension of the anti- fascist class struggle. Under the Present conditions, and in spite of the hostility of the Communists to any capitalist regime, this possibility is offered by the status quo, The Communists can carry out this tactic without difficulty. Firstly, every revolutionary worker under- stands them, because he perceives that they fight irreconcilably for their revolutionary aims. Secondly, they are free and uninfluenced in any decision by the capitalists and imperialists. The social democracy are influenced and bribed by the German and French capitalists, Fhe chauvinist German front is influ- enced and bribed by German capi- talists. For the time being the Communists decide for the status quo. For them the status quo is not the reformist “lesser evil.” A Communist Party exists also as a revolutionary legal party. As an illegal party it can, from the deep- est illegality, as the Russian Octo- ber Revolution proved, capture power at the head of and with the masses, The Communists choose the status quo not because they thereby abandon their revolutionary aims. No. Precisely because they keep un- Swervingly to their revolutionary aims they choose the status quo for the time being in order the better and more rapidly to develop the revolutionary forces. But their support of the status quo will cease the moment the proletariat of Ger- many takes up the victorious fight for power. They they also—per- haps even as the shock-brigade of the German revolution—will join in the fight and achieve social and national emancipation in a firm. international alliance with the French and German proletariat. The attitude of the Communists to the League of Nations, to the Saar Governing Commission, is not thereby altered in the least. The League of Nations is not their League of Nations. It is true, the League of Nations, owing to the antagonistic interests within the imperialist powers, constitute for the time being a hindrance to the outbreak of the imperialist world conflagration, but this does not alter the capitalist character of the League. Demand Workers Rights The Communists demand all the more energetically from the League of Nations that during the period of status quo the workers shall have freedom to hold demonstrations and meetings, They demand the tight of free organization and the with- drawal of the ban on the R. TU: O. They demand freedom to strike against starvation wages in the Saar, drastic taxation of the capi- talists, reduction of taxes for all small shopkeepers and small peas- ants. They demand work and bread for the unemployed. They demand factory councils freely elected by the workers. They de- mand an amnesty for all prole- tarian political prisoners and with- drawal of the prohibition of the possession of arms by members of the anti-fascist mass self-defense organization. They are not only ad- vocating but fighting for these de- mands, and will not recognize or leave any League of Nations Gov- erning Commission in peace. The main tasks of the Commu- nists consist as before in under- mining the Hitler regime in order’ to be able to overthrow it by means of the proletarian revolution. At the same time their fight in the Saar against Franco-German Saar capi- talism and for winning the major- ity of the working class is being continued. The weaknesses of the Communists hitherto in their mass policy, in the united front from be- low, in the organized opposition work in the reformist and fascist trade unions, in the winning of the proletarian youth, in the fight against fascist and social-demec- ratic ideologies, must be rapidly overcome. The whole strategy of the Com- munists is directed towards the proletarian revolution, They declare The Communist Position on the Saar Question Best Opportunity For Struggle Offered By Status Quo most emphatically in face of all the opportunists and in face of the counter-revolutionary talk to be ex- pected from the social-democracy that the Communists are making a “volte face,” that the tactics pur- sued by the Communists in the Saar were and are correct. They could not make the tactical decision they are now making six months or a year ago, because the develop- ment of the class forces and sud- den and unexpected turns in events before the holding of the plebiscite might have rendered it necessary to adopt another attitude to the Saar question. That the develop- ment has not proceeded at the pace desired by them is due, among other things, to the criminal policy of the social-democracy and the Second International. With the tac- tics they are adopting, the Commu- nists deliberately turn the attention of the Broletarians oi the Saar dis- trict and! of all courtries to the revolutionary upsurge which is tak- ing place under the leadership of the C.P.G. Today, every toiler in Germany and even the disappoint- ed Nazi supporters will understand this step, particularly because they recognize that the attitude of the Communists has nothing in com- mon with the pro-French and war- mongering attitude of the social- democracy. The united front appeal of the Communists to their class brothers in the social-democratic organi- zations and in the trade unions vis of decisive importance in this situation. Through their appeal they cpen wide the door of the Communist Party, and the social democratic and non-party work- ers will know that, in the united front of the Communists, they will find themselves in the revo- Jutienary front which alone will defeat Hitler fascism, shake off every yoke of slavery and, under the leadership of the Communists, achieve the social and national emancipation of the working peo- ple of the Saar, On the World Front j—_—— By HARRY GANNES | Blood in Dutch Canals | Empty Heads and Bellies | Thomases in. Wooden Shoes N THE heroic tradition of |Lthe crew of the Dutch |cruiser ‘Die Zeven Provinzien’ | who in 1932 mutinied against their masters, the workers of Amsterdam and Rotterdam fought bravely against the slashing of their unemployment re« lief last week. Police, soldiers, are tillery and tanks were brought out against the Dutch workers, and at least 12 met their death on the barricades. It seems now that the Dutch im- perialists, whose slogan for ruling their colonial slaves used to be “Keep their bellies full and their heads empty,” have now changed to read: “Keep their heads and bellies empty.” PEM iy 9 HAT perfect living symbol of the bloated, bloodsucking bourgeoisie, Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Holland was able to bury her paramour and consort Henry of Mecklenberg-Schwerin (who died of apoplexy from too much good living) with a sacrificial offering of 12 murdered and hungry wage- slaves. Since very few of the facts of the Dutch struggles ever appeared in_ the capitalist press, we reprint | below some special correspondence |on the subject from Amsterdam to |the London Daily Worker: Ae * ERE in Amsterdam it is reported that 38 police are now in jail for refusing to fire on their class comrades. In the last legal issue of the Com- munist daily paper, “De Tribune,” to appear on the streets, is a news- flash from Amersfoort, the Alder- shot of Holland, that a group of sterdam had refused to leave their barracks. The unemployed workers, pre- viously living on a bare starvation level, were faced with cuts that in individual cases ranged from 30 to 55 per cent. One of the insurance books shown to your correspondent indicated a cut from guilders 14.75 to 6.50 [from $6.12 to $2.60]. This worker was married and had two children. Mass demonstrations against the cuts are now occurring in all parts of Holland. The united front move- ment embraces workers of all ten- dencies and is under the leadership of the Party. The unemployed do not stand alone in the fight. Already two sympathetic strikes have taken place —one by the harbor workers in the Houthaven, and one by the Am- sterdam building trade workers. a a 1 baer vigorous action of the working class in reply to the cuts has taken the bourgeoisie by surprise Plans for a general campaign to reduce the wages of employed workers have been postponed by the capitalists, United action by em- ployed and unemployed workers against their common enemy is like jy to develop in the course of this week. Many of the employed workers are already talking of a coming general strike against the cuts. To smash this working class soli- darity the government is making use of every kind of terroristic bru- tality. The Burgomaster of Amsterdam has given instructions that the po- lice shall in future shoot down without warning any workers who oppose the police, are found car- rying or picking up stones, making barricades, or who are on their roofs. Indiscriminate and wild shooting goes on in one workers’ district or another all day and night long. Tanks patrol the narrow streets, while lorries of steel-helmeted sol- diers and mounted patrols of the hated Marechaussees (mounted po= lice) move up and down the dis- turbed areas. These demonstrations have not been successful in cowing the spirit of the workers, ee Pa | Raat yards away from an armored car and under the guns of a military post at the other end of the street a broken barricade was rebuilt by children and young workers, while one comrade with a large pot of red paint quickly dec- orated the roadway with a huge. sickle and hammer and the slogan, “For a Soviet Holland.” In this street alone more than 350 shots has been fired by the po= lice on the previous day! The Socialist Party daily paper, “Het Volk,” on Saturday morning carried the headline, “Haven’t We Had Enough?” and appealed to the workers not to allow themselves “to be dragged into this bloody ad- venture.” Each issue of this paper has also pete attacks on the Communist Party. No protest against the gunman tule of the Amsterdam Burgomas- ter de Vlugt! No protest against the systematic starving of the unemployed! Only headlines against “useless resistance” and advice to take ac- tion by “petitioning.” Pe aa Once again the Social-Democratic workers find themselves fighting shoulder to shoulder from the same barricades with their Communist comrades under the leadership of the only Party which can and will lead the working class to victory. The bourgeoisie recognizes in the Communist Party its real enemy. On Saturday the offices of the “Tribune” were occupied. and the presses dismembered and damaged. But the same afternoon the illegal bulletins of the “Tribune” were on the streets. On Sunday it was reported that the government is planning the legal outlawing of the Party and the expulsion of the Communist members of Parliament. Soldiers detailed for duty in Am- * ——_