The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1934, Page 6

: i ; t 2 & i i | i Page Six Daily, .<QWorker | aeertas cen AY PARTY WS. — (OM OF COMMUNIST LMTERMATIONALD Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 “America’s Only PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Tel ALgonquin 4 - 7 4. Building. Cheago, Til. TUESDAY, JULY 2%, 1934 After the Betrayal OW that the San Francisco general strike is broken, strangled by the com- bined trickery of the N. R. A. officials and treachery of the top leaders of the Frisco Labor Council, the air resounds with estatic shouts of the ruling class. T told you so,” say editors of the capi- talist newspapers. strike is useless,” declare leaders ne general of A. F. of L. Councils, aping General Johnson's radio speech of a week ago. But are general strikes useless? Indeed they are not The workers of the Frisco unions applied the cor- rect strategy when they backed the maritime strike with a general walkout. And the strike could have been won if the Vandeleurs, Caseys and Kidwells who voted for the infamous back-to-work resolu- tion had been driven from the union ranks and had the workers continued the strike under demo- cratically elected rank and file leadership. With the labor fakers ousted from the unions, with the Frisco Labor under militant leadership, the general strike could have forced a victory for every demand of the maritime workers, The effectiveness of the strike during its early days before the reac- tionaries got the upper hand, the complete tying up of all transport and the sympathetic attitude that the majority of the people held toward the strik- ers—all this proves conclusively that the strikers were well on their way to victory before the re- treat was ordered by Vandeleur and Company. The strike was not lost. It was betrayed. ‘What better proof that the A. F. L. leaders stood on the side of the employers, the troops and Vigi- Jantes need be presented than Joseph P. Ryan's telegram to Mayor Rossi, which was published in the San Francisco News, July 20? “As ome good pal to another, wish I were with you,” wired Ryan to Rossi. “It will come out all right.” And behind the whole betrayal move was Wil- liam Green, president of the A. F. L. In a statement issued to the press on July 9th, Green revealedd clearly that he was backing the treachery of his assistants on the West Coast. He disavowed the entire movement in Frisco. “The American Federation of Labor is not directly in- volved,” he said, despite the fact that the majority of the strikers were A. F. L. members in good stand- ing. it was the rank and file that forced the strike. The top leaders of the A. F. L. were only involved in the work of betraying the strike. But the breaking of the general strike does not defeat the fighting spirit of the workers. It does not defeat their class solidarity. The demands of the workers remain to be fought for and won. ‘The general strike in San Francisco, although be- trayed and broken, will teach the working class of America tremendous lessons. It is one of the step- ping stones in the gigantic rising wave of class struggle which is sweeping the country and will con- tinue to spread from industry to industry, smash- ing down the barriers of the N. R. A. and the mis- leaders in the unions. § * . * MERICAN Labor history proves that the betrayal of one great strike will not halt the class strug- gle. The general strike in Seattle in February, 1919, was the prelude to one of the greatest strike waves in the history of the U. S. A. In 1919, following the Seattle strike, there was the great steel strike, the strike of the miners, the packing house strike, the strike of the railroad shopmen. Nearly five million workers struck after the so-called defeat of the Seattle general strike. After the great general strike of 1877, there were two epic years of labor struggles in the U.S. A, which lead to great gains for the working-class. It was during these years that a great trade union movement was built in America. The American working class is again enter- ing into a period of tremendous struggle against capitalism. Minneapolis and San Francisco are the starting points. These struggles will spread further into marine, into coal, steel, textile and automobile with the les- sons of the Frisco betrayal implanted deeply in the workers’ minds. And as the struggles spread the necessity of oust- ing the labor misleaders, lackeys of the N. R. A. Strikebreaking machine, from the unions will be- come more clear. Rank and file control of the unions, with firm, sure-footed Communist guidance and leadership will assure success to the mounting strikes and strug- gles. Every Communist must now see clearly his duty: to link his work more closely with the struggles in the A. F. L. unions, to penetrate the A. F. L. locals and lead the fight against the employers and the N. R. A. on one hand, and the reactionary leaders on the other. Why No Joint Action Against Terrorism? E Roosevelt Government has definitely launched an organized campaign of ter- rorism and violence against the Commu- nist Party and the revolutionary trade unions. The Fascist speeches of General John- son, calling for “wiping out of all sub- versive elements” are nothing more nor less than the voice of Roosevelt. And the brazen pledges of Secretary Perkins that her office is at the full disposal of the “vigilante” manhunt on the Coast for the deportation of all militant foreign-born workers are the pledges of Roosevelt to the ruthless ship owners who are try- ing to smash the labor unions on the coast The latest evidence that Fascism is rapidly ad- in America is the proposal of the California an Legion officials for an American Siberia, a a parla colony for political prisoners! In the face of this growing gangsterism, lynch raids, and wrecking sorties of Fascist groups sub- sidized by the employers and supported by police and officials, is not the disunity of the working class a crime? ILL the clubs of the police or the blackjacks ot the hired thugs distinguish between a Socialist worker's head and a Communist? Will the wrecking “vigilantes” respect the privacy of the Socialist Party meeting places, while they smash and wreck Communist headquarters? Will the hirelings of the employers, will the police, protect union meeting halls, A. F. of L. trade union halls, etc., while they swoop down in raids upon the halls of the Marine Workers Industrial Union? Let any person who has any such illusions that it is only the Communist Party which is menaced by Fascism look at the bloody history of German, Italian and Austrian Fascism. The attack by Roosevelt on the Communist Party is a signal for the growing attack on the whole labor movement of America. HY then does not the Socialist Party answer the United Front proposals of the Communist Party, signed by Earl Browder for the Central Com- mittee? Why do not the local Socialist sections take up the practical proposals for a united front on August 1? Why does not the Revolutionary Policies Committee exert any pressure on the Execu- tive Committee for united front action? It is a life and death fight. There is no time for scholastic debates and endless delay. Socialist Party members! Let us see who stands in the way of working-class unity against the mon- ster of Fascism! Let us meet and discuss practical proposals for joint action! In the locals take up the Communist Party invitations for United Front discussion and actions. Place the responsibility squarely on those who lay the way for Fascist onslaughts against the working class by sabotaging joint action! There must be a way to a united working class in the fight against Fascism. Who stands in the way? Why can there not be joint discussion by the two parties? Why no answer to the Communist Party letters? , Militia and Strikes ESTERDAY we printed excerpts from a bulletin and leaflets distributed by the Communist Party to the National Guardsmen called out against the Pacific Coast strikes. Printed amidst conditions of terrorism, and distributed in the face of danger, these Communist Party leaflets calling upon the National Guardsmen to act in solidarity with their class brothers on strike are a tribute to the steadfeast- ness with which Communists everywhere fight for the interests of the working class. Similar leaflets have been distributed in other “hot spots” in the strike front. This revolutionary work of the Communists among the armed forces of the capitalist state is bearing fruit. The New York Evening Post reports the follow- ing significant item: “As an aftermath of the Toledo strike riots now comes the rumor that twenty-one National Guardsmen who refused to use their weapons against the strikers have been arrested for laying down their arms. Their place of confinement and information regarding their conditions are as yet unrevealed.” ‘Thus the work of the Communist Party is giving the strikers the most powerful aid through the ef- forts in winning over of the National Guard to the side of the strikers. Such revolutionary work right in and among the armed forces of the capitalist state is the duty of any party that claims to be defending the interests of the working class. In every strike where the government acts as the “executive committee of the employers” through the use of the armed forces; it is the duty of the Communists to strive to win over the “workers and peasants in uniform” to the side of the strikers, With the menace of rising terrorism and violent suppression of all strikes and struggles of the work- ing class against hunger, and with the growing menace of imperialist war, work among the armed forces takes on increasing importance. Its methods must be studied and given serious attention. Johnson’s Chauvinist At- tack and the NRA IHE reactionary, fascist character of the “New Deal” program of the Roosevelt government is once more revealed in the vicious chauvinist attack on the foreign- born workers by General Hugh S. Johnson, N. R. A. head and government spokes- man, in last Saturday’s papers. General Johnson’s demand for the de- portation of all foreign-born workers follows close on the heels of his monstrous provocation and lynch incitement against striking American workers and their supporters on the West Coast. General Johnson’s plan is clear: to drive a wedge between native and foreign-born workers, to smash the magnificent solidarity of native and foreign- born workers, Negro and white, as expressed in the San Francisco strike, in the strike of the Negro and white coal and ore miners of Alabama, and in count- less other strike and unemployed struggles through- out the country. This plan has as its sinister pur- pose the smashing of the resistance of the working class to wage cuts, the yellow company unions, to starvation, fascism and war. The government's chauvinist attack on the for- eign-born workers again reveals that bankrupt capi- talism, in the United States as in Hitler’s Germany, has no other “solution” of its crisis save by increased attacks on the working-class, by fascist barbarism and its rabid chauvinist ideology of race and na- tional hatreds, and, finally to seek a “way out” of its increasing difficulties through a new imperialist world slaughter. It is no accident that Johnson, head of the draft in the last imperialist world war, was selected to head the N. R. A. His role is to co-ordinate Amer- ican industry for war. The toiling masses and their allies can and must smash this drive for war and fascism by forging tighter the unity of the toilers in militant, aggres- sive defense of the foreign-born workers and Negro masses, and of the Communist Party, which is com- Posed of the most devoted, loyal, experienced sec- tion of the working-o DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1934 Dovgalevksy’s| Ashes to Lie in| Kremlin Wall lOld BolsheviksHinnyred By Leaders of | Soviet Union (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 23—The funeral | of the old Bolshevik and promi- | |nent Soviet statesman, Dovgalev- sky, took place yesterday in the |Red Square, with numerous dele- | gations from factories, plants and Soviet institutions present. | The urn containing the ashes of| | Comrade Dovgalevsky, wiio died in Paris while Soviet Ambassador to; France, was carried to the Red Square by Comrades Stalin, Molo-| | tov, Voroshilov, Kalinin, and Lit- vinoff, The funeral meeting was held at the Lenin mausoleum where the} assistant chairman of the Council | of Peoples Commissars of the U.S.S.R., Chubar, Litvinoff and | others spoke, pointing out the| isda services the deceased had| rendered in the fields where the| | Communist Party and the Soviet | government had sent him. To the strain of the Interna- | tionale and the firing of cannon) salutes, the urn was immured in the Kremlin Wall, where it rests’ with the remains of the many} heroes of the proletaran revolu-| | tion, FOREIGN BRIEFS | | CHINESE COMMUNISTS JAILED TOKYO, July 22—Cautious an- | nouncements today revealed that 36 | Communists had been arrested in | connection with a revolt in Taiwan (Formosa) in 1932 at the time of Japanese operations in Shanghai. | NAZI FILM ROUTED SAO PAULO, Brazil, July 22.—The — film sponsored by the Nazis officially, “Heroic Youth,’ was with- | drawn from circulation recently fol- lowing hostile demonstration by nti-fascists in front of the theatre showing the film. | WRECK SHIPPING TONNAGE | LONDON, July 22—More shipping | |tonnage was destroyed last. year | | than ever before, it was revealed by | figures published recently. Total tonnage declined 2,343,575, | |of which Great Britain and Ireland lost 965,000 tons; the United States, 313,000; Italy, 221,000; France, 214,- 000; Germany, 210,000, and Japan, 185,000. The figures are from June, 1933, to June, 1934. SPANISH STRIKERS GASSED MADRID, July 22.—Police used hundreds of tear gas bombs today | to drive 300 laborers from the Bank | of Spain after a four-hour battle. | The workers had intrenched | themselves in the numerous under- | ground galleries when their demands | for overtime and higher pay were refused, and comrades secretly con- veyed food through a neighboring building terrace. They were en- | camped for four days. ITALY JAILS ANTI-FASCISTS ROME, July 22.—The second con- tingent of anti-fascists convicted of | | anti-national activities in October, | 1933, faced a special court yesterday and were sentenced to terms of from | three to eight years. Their accused | leader, however, was sentenced to 22} years at hard labor. DEPORTATION IN BELGIUM BRUSSELS, July 22—A law de- signed to facilitate deportation of revolutionary workers was passed here yesterday. Flemish separatists are especially indicated. JAILED WORKERS FREED MALAGA, July 22—A wholesale jail delivery of workers arrested and held since the general strike was effected here recently by fellow workers, it was revealed today. FLOOD DAMAGES POLAND WARSAW, July 22.—Hundreds of deaths and over $200,000,000 dam- ages will be counted when commu- nications with flooded southern Po- land are restored, it was estimated today. PROTEST AGAINST NAZIS IN ARGENTINA RIO DE JANEIRO, July 22.— Anti-fascists tore the swastika em- blem from staves in front of Ger- man banks yesterday. The banks protested to the government via the consul, FRENCH UNEMPLOYMENT GROWS PARIS, July 22—The number of unemployed increased from 310,934 on June 30 to 312.532 on July 7 | under Gaston Doumergue'’s recovery government, according to official figures. HAVOC IN KOREAN FLOOD TOKYO, July 22.—More than 5,000 lives have been taken by the floods in southern Korea thus far. Over 3,000 homes have been completely carried away, and the real toll by disease and famine of the millions affected will not be known for a long time. GERMAN COMMUNISTS JAILED KREFELD, Germany, July 22— Sentences of from one to two years were given to 49 Communists here recently. Three were acquitted. CUBA FINDS RED FLAG MORON, Puerto Principe, Cuba, July*22.—It was learned today that the government of this province has been seeking for months the red flag with its hammer and sickle that flew over the City Hall during the early part of the late revolution. Agents of the governor found the flag in the home of a police sergeant yesterday, WORKERS FACE SHUTDOWN | ROUBAIX, France, July 22.— | Some 15,000 workers will be thrown out of work when local wool combers shut down on July 23, it was esti- mated today WING AWA by Burck Socialist Party Workers Militant While Their Leaders F ‘ight Milwaukee Strike | of flirting with such es Rank and File Socialist “Mayor, City! Attorney Give Aid To Bosses EDITOR’S NOTE:—This is the | second part of an article on the recent Milwaukee strike, * 8 @ By HARRY YARIS Part IL Where did the Socialist Party and its leaders fit into the picture of those four days? What were the contributions? This is the next question which must be answered, especially since the Socialists play such an important role in the poli- tical life of the city. Mayor Daniel Hoan is an old time Socialist, and as Mayor of the city is in a very} strategic position to give a great| deal of help in order to achieve a victory. However, the rather garrulous leaders of the Socialist Party acted as if they were suddenly struck with a fit of speechlessness and writers cramps. For three days, while the fighting was going on, police ruthlessly clubbing hundreds of workers, using tear gas to dis- perse the crowds of pickets, and arresting over 100 workers, Mayor Hoan, the new-found “left” leader of the Socialist Party militants, did not say a word. He just kept silent. All politicians know that situa- tions arise where it is discreet to remain silent. For Mayor Hoan such a situation had arisen. As far as the Mayor's office was concerned, the strike might be on the Fiji Islands, but not in Milwaukee. Only after three days, when the will and sympathies of the mass of workers had become clear to the blind and even to the dumb, did the Mayor feel it safe to commit himself and rushed to the press with a state- ment. Socialists Say Nothing About Police No mention is made in this state- ment of the events of the past three days, nothing about the activity of the police, who were making a liar out of the Mayor and his boast to the Socialist Party convention at Detroit that the police in Milwaukee | are never used against the workers in strikes, nothing about the ar- rests. The day before the strike broke, a committee representing the Com- munist Party, I. L. D., Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, John Reed Club, and other radical organizations, went to the Mayor to protest against the provocative action used by the Electric Co. in putting out armored street cars be- fore the strike was declared, and to demand that the city guarantee that police would not be used at the picket lines. The committee was referred to an aspiring young man, member of the Socialist Party and City Attorney, Max Raskin, another of the “left wingers” of the Detroit Convention of the Socialist Party. With courtesy and attention he listened to the protest of the com- mittee, pleading his impotence to do anything, but when mention was made of the police, he became bel- ligerent, lost his dignity, and threatened to throw the commit- tee out of his office for merely daring to infer that there was a Possibility of the police being used against the strikers. Adjacent to the city of Mil- waukee, there is another city much smaller in size, but with some very important industries in its confines —the city of West Allis. The workers of that city were especially militant during the strike, being among the first to stop all traffic and keeping it stopped. The com- pany immediately sent a letter to the city of West Allis advising them that under Wisconsin law that city would be held liable for all damage during the strike. The company Was answered by the Socialist Mayor Baxter of that city. Bax- ter has always posed as the most radical of all revolutionaries, and many Socialists have accused him ideas as are held only by Commu-! nists. At the National Conven- tion it was Baxter who was chosen to head the very important resolu- tions committee, and his militancy is supposed to be famed, that is, outside of this city. From such a “revolutionary Socialist” one could surely expect the proper answer to the company. Here it is: Socialist Gives Boss Free Hand for Terror “You are hereby advised that the City of West Allis will furn- ish such lawful protection to property and life as it is possible for us to supply. This protection, however, in my opinion, is not adequate for the present emer- gency. You are therefore further advised to take such steps as are necessary to secure the added protection.” We have already mentioned the} fact that the Socialist administra- tion could have exerted tremendous pressure to bring victory had they so desired. The very excellent questions posed by Comrade Earl Browder to Norman Thomas in the Daily Worker during the strike in- dicate the line of action that coulid have been taken by an administra- tion that really represented the in- | terests of the workers. But this would be expecting too much of | people of the type of Hoan. Despite the position of the lead- ers, the rank and file supporters of the Socialist Party were actively involved in the struggles of those! days. Side by side with other workers, Communists and others, they fought against the police and armed thugs. It is to the everlast- ing credit of these workers that they did not wait for their leaders to give the call, but rallied to the first call for mass picketing issued by the Communist Party. On the picket lines, many Socialists could be seen talking, walking and fighting together with Communists, whom their leaders hold up as the deadliest enemies. What was the activity of the Communist Party? That is the next question that arises. Even before the strike, the Communist Party was already making preparations to help mobilize the Milwaukee work- ers for helping the carmen. At least two of the slogans raised by the Communists received a mass response, The first of these was for mass picketing, and it was the Communists that not only issued the call but organized the first picketing. It is this mass move- ment that was developed around | the picketing that was really re-| sponsible for whatever partial vic- tory was attained. It grieves the union leaders very much that they must be thankful to the Commu- nists, but the entire city knows who was most active in this phase of work. The bourgeoisie became so alarmed at the activity of the Communists, that the Citizens Com- mitee, representing the biggest me)iufacturers and business-men of Milwaukee, on the fourth day of the strike made a demand that the police raid the headquarters of the Communist Party because of its part in the “rioting,” as they called it. Mass Picketing This mass picketing and what it can achieve is one of the outstand- ing lessons of the strike, and one that was nos lost on the broad mass of workers. The second slogan of the Party which received a mass response was the one calling upon the people to turn in the weekly passes bought at the beginning of the week. As a result of the fact that we pop- ularized this in tens of thousands’ of leaflets, there were many thou- | sands of passes turned in and the! money refunded. The company) probably paid out at least $10, 000 | as a refund on these passes. From} the first day of the strike a line began to form before the Electric | Co. offices demanding their money back. At first the company re- Fights Side By Side With Communists fused any refunds, but the line began to grow and became more militant and forced the company to heed its demand. The above proves that if the proper slogans are raised in such a situation, the workers will support these by tens of thousands, regard- less of the fact that it is the Com- munists who raise these slogans. ‘The newspapers, the police, and the union officials worked overtime to create a red scare, to frighten the workers away from the picketing with the Communist bogey man, but they had but little effect. On the contrary, with each day. and| with each leaflet distributed the lines grew larger. Slogan of Sympathetic Strike Before the strike, the Communist Party raised the question of sym- pathetic strikes in support of the carmen, and during the entire strike this was one of our chief points of agitation. The union officials tried to kill all sentiment for this, but we have shown above that they were forced to finally accede to the demand for sympathetic strikes. One important solidarity action did take place, about which little is known. Many of the workers of the Sea- man Body plant, which only several months ago went through a two months strike, would join the pick- eting immediately after their work day. They were among: the most active in the demonstrations and one was arrested. The Police De- partment requested of the company to’keep the men at work past the normal closing time, since they did not want the Seaman Body work-} ers to join the pickets. The com- pany issued such orders, but to a man, the workers refused to stay and walked out at the scheduled time, many of them going direct to the carbarns. Communist Shortcomings There were undoubtedly many shortcomings in the activity of the Party, ie. the failure to recruit dur- ing the four days of fighting, the failure ‘to raise the demand for a reduced fare (this. demand was raised only on the last day of the strike), and some others which we will haye to discuss in the future. However, among the broad mass of workers the prestige of the Party rose considerably during those four days. Many workers, previously antagonistic to Communism, were heard making statements that were it not for the Communists the strike would be doomed to failure, thus realizing the role which our Party players in the mobilization of the mass movement which de- veloped around the strike. We feel confident that this will result in an increase in the Party recruiting bringing new strength and workers to our movement.. The city has now gone back to “normalcy’—all seems quiet and to a casual observer, everything seems to be over. However, this would be judging only superficially. The Milwaukee workers received a taste of their power during those four days. They proved to be a mighiy, an irresistable force, from which much more: will be heard in the future. It would be the wildest dream of the most extreme reac- tionary to hope that these workers, who were so aroused during those four days, will now go back to sleep again, lulled by the chants and sermons of the Socialist leaders, ever urging moderacy upon the workers. The chief lesson of those four, deys, the strength of a unified working-class, the marvels that can be achieved by united action, will not be lost on the Milwaukee, workers. The struggles that are vet to come in this city will bear the imprint of the lessons of the Milwaukee carmen's strike. On the World Front By HARRY GANNES. Revolts in Italy A Letter to Mussolini French Banks in Manchuria HUGE financial crisis ix not the only factor threat- ening Italian Fascism. Symp- toms of a widespread anti- | fascist upsurge in Italy have | been reported from that coun- | try for some time now, and the latest news sent out through torturous underground channels shows that the masses are resisting Mussolini's latest open attempt to drive still lower their standards of living. Not long ago Mussolini quite brazenly announced, in the face of a heavy deficit, that the Italian masses would have to pay by greater sufferings and privations. eee “ must rid our minds, how- ever, of the idea that what we have called days of prosperity may speedily return. ... We are probably moving toward a period of humanity reposing on a lower standard of life. We must not be alarmed by this prospect, | Present-day humanity is very | strong and is capable of asceti- cism such as we perhaps have no conception of.” But the Italian workers and peasants are beginning to resist | heroically against Mussolini’s de- cree of starvation intended to save Italian capitalism. ‘TILL more. The momentous anti-fascist struggles in Ger- |many and throughout the world will spur the Italian masses to | greater action. | Here are some indications of what is going on now in Italy. An -—_— | Italian worker in Pratola Peligna writes to a friend in the United States, as follows: “Last evening the population started a revolt in the streets. It looked as if we were going back to the year 1848! There are, up to this morning eight dead and about 40 wounded. About 200 men and women were arrested. The first to be killed was Lorenzo Riccitelli | and a man from Senibaldo, related to Cosimillo Dazzone. The 15- year-old daughter of Guiseppe di Fabio was shot in the head by a | shotsun bullet. She died instantly. A boy, six years old, was also fired on and killed on the spot! I don’t know the names of the other vic- tims. “This revolt was directed against | the heavy taxes inflicted by Musso- lini on the poor people who can not pay. The mess is not over. All Pratola is surrounded by armed police. They are afraid that some- thing else may occur. The popula- tion is enraged and wants to take revenge on the fascists. The doors and windows of the City Hall are smashed, as well as other public buildings.” EMP Be aie J ‘OU can scan all the United Press and Associated Press stories from Italy and not find a word of | these- facts, again proving that these capitalist news agencies write only what pleases Mussolini. A whole series of revolts have been spreading through Sicily. ‘Trains are reported to have been stopped at Reggio Calabria by the rebels. At Noto (Sicily) workers attacked the convent of San Cor- rado, to express their hatred against the fascists and the church which supports these oppressors. {When Commissioner of Police Carta arrived on the scenes, the workers opened fire on him and wounded him in the arm, cee T Rignano Flaminio, a village near Rome, the peasants re- volted against the new land tax. Fascist forces intervened, and @ -severe battle followed. Communists in the Fascist dun- geons, especially at Civitavecchia, have raised a protest against their brutal treatment and tortures. At Civitavecchia dozens of prisoners went on a hunger strike, and the | Fascists resorted to forcible feed- ing. A Swiss worker, Hofmayer, condemned to 15 years’ imprison- ment in a fascist prison by the Special Tribunal, had his front teeth knocked out, when he refused to be fed forcibly. < Se eee young Communist, Emilio Serenia, who in 1931 was sen- tenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for anti-fascist activity, recently refused a pardon offered him by Mussolini. He was required, in or- der to gain his freedom, to write a personal letter to Mussolini. | Comrade Serenia refused. He declared that if fascism awaited from him a sign of re- pentance, it would have to wait forever. Sree aie: 'HE Osaka Mainichi, organ of the big Japanese trusts, report that French imperialism is contemplat- ing heavy investments in Manchu- kuo. A story by the Mainichi’s staff ‘ correspondent in Dairen states that the Banque Franco- Indo-Chine and the Banque de Faris et des Pays-Bas have made arerngements for investments in this Japanese colonial enterprise on the border of the Soviet Union. Lucian Merle, a president of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, visited Manchuria and made ar- rangements with Toa Dobuku Kigyo Kaisha (the Oriental Civil Engineering Enterprise Co.), for the promotion of 100,000 yen for joint investment. “It is understood,” says. the Mainichi correspondent, “that the French syndicate banks intend to make a considerabie investment in Menchuria through the foregoing holding company.” Tt is also interesting to note that Josep1 Pau!-Boncour, former S0- | cialist leader connected with these banks, is preparing to meke @ visit to Manchuria to see what profits can be made helping Jap- pins imperialism exploit Mane cn