The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 2, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily,QWorker GRmTRN Cok COMMUNIST PARTY B.S.A (FECTION OF COMMUNIST MTERKATIONAES “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. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. New York, N. ¥. Nationa Cable Address: “Daiwork, Washington Bureau: Room i4th and F St., Washington, D. C. Midwest Bureau: 1 Dearborn Building, Room 705, Cheago, I ‘Telephone: . Subscription Rates: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00 $3.50; 3 mor $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. z Foreign and Canada: 1 year, 99.00, 5, $3.00 monthly, 75 cents. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1934 Farmer-Labor Terror ESTERDAY, in order to smash the mass picketing of the militant Minne- apolis workers, Olson’s national guard raided the strikers’ headquarters, arrest- ing William Brown, Vnicent Dunne, and other leaders of Drivers’ Local 574, and 150 strikers, dispersing those who were gathering for the picketing. This should make it crystal clear to all workers that the leadership of the Farmer-Labor Party is engaged in breaking the Minneapolis drivers’ strike. Governor Oison has suppressed all rights of the workers of Minneapolis. His troops have abolished picketing, prohibited outdoor assem- blages of over 100, and are authorizing the running of trucks, At the point of machine guns and bay- onets the right to strike and to picket is being taken away from the Minneapolis workers by the troops of Governor Olson, The truck drivers of Minneapolis must at once spread the strike to other Minneapolis unions. "This can only be done over the heads of the lead- ers of the Farmer-Labor Party and over the heads of the reactionary A. F. of L. leaders of the stamp of Cramer, Weir and Nelson. HE leaders of Local 574, including the Trot- skyist leaders, such as Vincent and M. F. Dunne, have failed to go over the heads of these C. L, U. Jeaders and spread the strike. They soft-pedalled in criticism of the A. F. of L. leaders, at the cost of failure to spread the strike. "The leaders of Local 574, furthermore, failed to prepare the strikers for the meaning of martial Jaw. They pussyfooted on the question of an im- mediate mobilization of the workers for a broad united front campaign against the terroristic and strike-breaking moves of Olson, even after Olson had called out the troops. After the national guard was escorting trucks, these leaders still hoped to settle all problems by mere negotiation with Olson. That failing, they feverishly ordered mass picketing without rallying the broad masses of Minneapolis workers for the support of the militant drivers. They still refused to appeal to the masses over the heads of the leaders. The Minneapolis strikers must now arouse the entire Minneapolis working class to action—to spread the strike and to organize mass Picketing to defeat the strikebreaking of the national’ guard. Rank and file committees should be set up in all local unions to organize the spreading of the strike and the mass picketing, and to organize the fight against the terror. Only by the broadest united front can the sabotage of the reactionary A. F. of L, and Farmer-Labor officials be broken through and the scab trucks stopped. The workers of Minneapolis are strongly behind the truck drivers. They are held back only by their reactionary leaders, The workers of the entire country must rally to the support of the Minneapolis strikers. Resolu- tions and telegrams of protest should flood Gov- ernor Olson at St. Paul, demanding an end to Martial law, the withdrawal of the national guard amd demanding the right of the Minneapolis workers to strike, to picket, to organize and to assemble. Profits in Steel YOU want to know what Roosevelt’s N.R.A.-New Deal policies are doing for the biggest Wall Street monopolies, just take a look at the pride of J. P. Morgan, the gigantic U. S. Steel Corporation. The latest report of this billion dollar pillar of Wall Street monopoly capital re- veals the following results for the three months ending June 30: Production rose 65 per cent. Wages rose 8 per cent, Net profits rose 350 per cent. The J. P. Morgan U. S. Steel Corporation has Teaped the highest profits in the past three years, thanks to the Roosevelt program of war produc- tion, inflation and intensified exploitation of labor. A slight, temporary, increase in employment. and wages, a terrific increase in exploitation and speed-up, and a huge increase in profit—that is the picture of the Roosevelt program as it affects the most typical monopolist exploiter of the work- ing class. Titis is the monstrous plunder of the steel workers and the masses which Roosevelt protected at Ambridge with the gleaming steel of bayonets and bullets. This is what William Green and his Tighe- Leonard lieutenants of the A. A. Steel union pro- tected with their unspeakable treachery in strang- ling the steel strike. This is what the masses support on their backs with hunger, squalor and suffering. . . * New Deal is working—for Wall Street mon- opoly capital. It is sweceeding, not in solving the crisis, for that it cannot do, but in wringing out of the hides of the masses more profits oe the most ruthless robbery and exploita- lon. A poet, John Dos Passos, once wrote that capi- talism with its hideous explesions of imperialist ‘war and mass suffering provides “good growing weather for the Morgans.” But the Morgans have never had such good growing weather as under the Roosevelt New Deal. It is their paradise. It is hell for those Who produce the wealth which the Morgans feed 4 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1934 'USSR Unions! “PARDON MY GLOVE!” Our Circulation ET us examine the figures of our circu- A full report is published on page one that deserves close study. lation drive. One district, Connecticut, has just gone over the top, fulfilling its quota with a 106.2 per cent gain in circulation since the drive started five weeks ago. Good work, Planned and persistent, has given Connecticut first Place. But what is signifcant is that we have achieved a net gain of almost 6,000 new readers since the drive started, despite the fact that the usual sum- mer trend, not only of the “Daily,” but of all papers, is always te lose readers. This is an achievement, comrades. What is remarkable, is that more than 30 per cent of this counter-seasonal advance has been achieved in the last seven days! This means that the rate of advance is accelerating, that the drive is gaining momentum. But this also means that we have now reached a crucial stage in our circulation drive where every one of us must seize hold of our gains for rapid advance and concolidation of our position. . * . 'URTHER it should be noted that in the con- centration districts, in heavy industry, there is still serious lagging. Here is where we must strike the hardest, the most telling blows against capi- talism. Lagging here is a politically serious weak- ness which can be overcome only by persistent, organized work of the Party in these districts. Our goal is 20,000 new readers by September. ‘We can, we must reach this goal. The present political situation in America makes this a political duty of every supporter of the Daily Worker. Let us plunge into renewed activity! Form Red Builder groups everywhere, Watch the circulation columns. Study the methods outlined in them. Discuss the “Daily” with new readers, with people who have never seen it. Organize regular distribu- tion. Give it to friends. Sell it before factories, at trade union locals, On to our goal of 20,000 new readers! Twenty thousand new fighters against war and fascism, against capitalism! Soviet Mastery HE news of the forced descent of the American balloonists recalls the fact that two world’s records for height of ascent still belong to the Soviet Union. Soviet airmen have risen closer to the sun than any other human beings com- peting for the honors of mastering the secrets of the stratosphere, with Prokofieff, Birn- baum and Gudenoff reaching the record height of 62,300 feet in Moscow on Noy. 1, 1933, and Fedosenko, Usyskin, and Vasenko going to the tremendous height of 72,178 feet in Moscow on Jan. 30, 1934. The latter three Soviet airmen were killed in the drop. The triumphs of the Soviet Union in these dif- ficult fields of science reveal, perhaps as fully as the triumphs of industrialization and collectiviza- tion, the enormous advances in human culture which have been made possible by the power of Socialist collectivism. Russia of the Ozarist-capitalist rule was a backward country, industrially and culturally. It was the proletarian revolution, leading to the dictatorship of the proletariat, which is. the proletariat guiding the whole toiling population to levels of warfare and Socialist culture, that re- leased the tremendous creative powers of the Rus- sian people and the oppressed nationalities groan- ing under the yoke of Czarism. “We are still deficient in many technical things,” Stalin declared at the end of the Five Year Plan. “But we are powerful with the advantage of a new system of society, of Socialist economy,” he continued. It is this enormous power of collective labor, organized into social production, that permitted the epic rescue of the marooned Chelyuskiners on the ice-floes of the Arctic, It is just this advantage, the advantage of hay- ing overthrown the exploitation and anarchy of capitalist production, that permits the Soviet Union to lead the world in the march to man’s mastery over the most inaccessible strongholds of Trade With the U.S.S.R. ANOTHER hostile step against the So- viet Union was taken by the Roosevelt regime on the occasion of setting up a new section of the Export-Import Bank, in announcing that trade credits would be refused to the U.S.S.R. Originally, the Export-Import Bank was established exclusively to finance trade with the Soviet Union. It never functioned, however. Powerful enemies of the workers’ fatherland were able to quash trade efforts, The Roosevelt government, after the passage of the Johnson Bill, cutting off trade with countries defaulting on debts, used this measure chiefly against the Soviet Union. The Kerenski debts, paid by the Wall Street government to Czarist white-guard mercenaries like Koltchak and Semenoff to attempt to destroy the workers’ and peasants’ government, were raked up. Now again the Roosevelt regime deliberately de- clares that while it will finance credits for trade with various countries through the new Export- Import Bank, the Soviet Union will be excluded. Roosevelt, despite the conflicts between Amer- ican and Japanese imperialism, has no objections to permitting DuPont, General Motors and other huge trusts to supply Japan with war materials, for the war plans against the Soviet Union. But when it comes to trade with the land of rising Socialism, with a government that has never de- faulted on its debts, the Roosevelt regime goes out of its way to spike any credit facilities, Morgan & Co. get U. S. government support in arranging finances for the Hitler regime, the chief organizer of the war front against the Soviet Union, But trade with the proletarian dictatorship, which is the chief bulwark of world peace, is purposely hindered and impeded. Despite all of Roosevelt’s protestations of “peace,” this shows that all of the imperialist powers per- sistently and relentlessly never forget their united war aims against the workers’ fatherland, a Administer Big Social Fund Control Four Billions of Government Money for Social Insurance MOSCOW (F-.P.)—With four bil- | lion dollars at their command, So- viet trade unions have cut down !sharply on occupational diseases | and the number of industrial acci- dents, have extended and improved | pension services, and have scored great successes in their handling of sanatoriums and rest homes. This jhas happened since the extensive Soviet social insurance system was placed directly under their control @ year ago, according to The Mos- |cow News. | Most striking in the list of the | unions’ achievements is their suc- cess in atacking occupational |diseases and accidents on the job. | Despite the fact that thousands of new, untrained workers were drawn |into Soviet industry in 1933, the number of accidents in most trades fell appreciably—20 per cent in rail- road operation, 18 per cent in shoe} | manufacturing, 15.2 per cent in cot- | jton production, 24 per cent in the | leather industry, 21.7 per cent in the | clothing industry and 9 per cent in | the electro-technical industry. 80,000 Safety Inspectors Occupational diseases as well as accidents took it on the chin from| the unions in 1933—for a 15 per cent count in the electro-technical indus- | try, 17 per cent in rubber manu- | facture, 18 per cent in silk produc- tion, and so on. One of the reasons for these ac- complishments is the fact that 80,- | 000 safety inspectors—who are them- | Selves workers—are on the job now, | compared with 40,000 before the) | unions took over the safety check-up | |task. Other reasons are more effi- | |cient utilization of the $100,000,000 assigned by the government for safety and health on the job, and a nation-wide check-up of labor protection, organized toward the end of 1933. The chief cause, how- ever, has been the direct activity of workers in their own shops, deal- ing directly with local union officials who are in charge. Social Insurance Another score for the unions is| |the opening of 200,000 offices for social insurance payments, compared | | to the 3,500 under the former social | |insurance system. Union locals themselves pass on pension cases, (ete., without other agencies’ inter- | vention, To care for the sick; for vacation- | jers and for workers’ children, a/| | whole network of new sanatoriums, |rest homes, camps and nurseries | have been constructed by the unions in their first year of supervising so- | |cial insurance. | | According to J. M. Bineman, who reports all this in The Moscow News, the results of the unions’ first year jat this task “show that they are undoubtedly on the right track.” 300 Express Support For Chinese Soviets At Open Air Meeting NEW YORK.—A meeting of about 300 Chinese and American workers | was held Sunday afternoon, corner Mott and Bayard streets, under the auspices of the Chinese League Against Japanese Invasion of China, with the co-operation of the Ex-| | Servicemen’s League, Post 191, the | Marine Workers Industrial Union and the Unemployed Council. The meeting, which was the first step in a campaign to culminate September 18th, the third anni- versary of the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, unanimously passed a resolution to be sent to Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese Ambassador to U. S., condemning the resumption of mail and rail relations between North | China and Manchukuo and calling on the workers for continued sup- port of the struggles of the Chinese masses. The speakers included Sam Tom of the Chinese Anti-Imperialist Al- liance, Yen of the Chinese Unem- ployed Council, Liu of the Chinese Alliance Against Japanese Invasion of China, also speakers from the ex- servicemen’s League and the Women's Councils. Placards bore the following slo- gans: For the Armed Struggles of Chinese Masses Against Japanese Imperialism; Cancel $40,000,000 wheat and cotton loan to Chiang Kai-shek; Stop the Transport of Ammunition to the Far East; Sup- hort People’s Revolutionary Govern- ment and Its Army in Manchuria and all the Volunteers. SPAIN HOLDS 52 MADRID, Aug. 1—The arrest of |52 Socialists at Caceres was re- ported today by El Sol. The ar- rests were believed to be part of the recent round up in preparation for enforcing the ban of the Samper government on August Ist demon- strations against war and fascism. Startling troop and police move- ments have thrown Spain into a state of alarm. A coup is feared from Jose Maris Gil Robles’ Catho- lic Action and Martinez Velasco's Agrarians, but these fascist. sympa- thizers accuse the Left of planning @ movement for power in order to disarm suspicion. A monarchist plot was reported brewing in northern Spain as well. RIFTS IN OTTOWA AGREEMENT CANBERRA, Australia, July 30.— One more of the contradictions of imperialist economic policy was made evident today when intra- empire preferences promised by the Ottawa accords had to be dropped to prevent Italy from cutting off purchases of Australian wool. Further imports from Italy had to be accorded to prevent this new disaster to the essential Australian wool trade, and agreement was se- cured from Great Britain to the step. Recently Great Britain lifted her blockade on Australian meats (in favor of Argentine meats for trade agreement purposes) to permit the Antipodes to spend another million pounds annually for war equipment. | slander from our enemies; it is one 4 cai Padmore, Fxpelled Renegade, Is Exposed By Ford as Servant of Imperialist Slavers By JAMES W. FORD George Padmore, who has been expelled from the Communist Party, has broadcast a statement which is a bitter attack against our Party and upon its program. This letter Mr. Padmore has placed in the| hands of hundreds of avowed ene- mies of the Party and the Negro| people. The Communist Party is not sur- prised at the accusations of Mr. Padmore. We expect calumny and of the gauges of the effectiveness of our work. We answer Mr. Pad- more’s statements, because we know that his attack will be seized on by every enemy of the liberation struggle, will be received with the greatest joy by the white lynchers, the Klansmen, the whole white rul- ing class, and will be used by them to try to drive the Negro masses away from the Communist Party. What better weapon can the white ruling class ask, than such a docu- ment as this from the hands of Mr. Padmore, slandering and vilifying the organization which they hate and fear because it stands fearlessly for the freedom of the Negro people? So that the Negro people and the white working class may know the truth, we repeat once more the reasons for the expulsion of George Padmore from the Communist Party: 1) Padmore was on intimate terms with well-known spies and police agents within the ranks of the Party and other working class organizations, Although repeated- ly informed of the fact that these associates of his were spies against the workers, he nevertheless re- fused to break with them. ~ 2) Padmore’s political views and activities around the question of Liberia were in a direction caleu- Jated to further enslave and de- grade the already down-trodden masses of that country, Instead of being the “last stronghold of Negro freedom,” as Mr. Padmore says, Liberia is in actual fact a vassal state of American imperial- ism. In this rape of Liberia, Har- vey Firestone and other American capitalists have found their best allies and servants in the Liberian government officials, The govern- ment of Liberia, puppet of Wall Street, has been nothing more nor less than local policeman, slave- driver, land-thief and recruiter of forced labor for American impe- rialism. Mr. Padmore has rejected completely the Communist policy that Liberia and its native people must be freed in the process of bitter struggle against foreign im- perialism and against those native forces which support imperialism. 3) Mr. Padmore has likewise re- jected one of ‘the fundamental principles of Communism — that the white working class and the oppressed colonial peoples and nations are natural allies in the struggle against the common op- pressor, the ruling class. He claims that white and black can never understand one another. Thus he foliows the policy of the ruling class, to whom the fear of unity between white slave and black slave is one perpetual nightmare. Mr. Padmore accepts, in effect, the idea of the white ruling class that between black and white In order to conceal his own de- sertion, his own treachery, Mr. Padmore charges the Communist Party and the Communist Interna- tional with desertion of the Negro liberation struggle and treachery to the Negro people. Is it possible that the Communist Party can desert the struggle for Negro liberation, as Mr. Padmore charges? The fact is that the Communist Party can grow and conquer—and every true Communist knows this—only if it gives the most complete support to the liberation Negroes, for full equality, is of the very texture and fabric of our Com- munist program. The cause of the emancipation of the Negroes from their special oppression is inex- tricably bound up with the cause of the emancipation of the working class. With Stalin, we say: “For the revolution in the western world, the path to victory lies by way of a revolutionary alliance with the struggle of the colonial and depend- \ent nationalities to throw off the yoke of imperialism.” Mr. Padmore charges that I and other leading Negro Communists are Uncle Toms. Mr. Padmore simply cannot conceive of an organization in which, in contradiction to every accepted rule of capitalist society, Negroes and whites are on a plane of complete equality. The Commu- nist Party is indeed proud of such leaders as Harry Haywood, William L, Patterson, Otto Huiswoud, Nzula of South Africa, Angelo Herndon, Al Murphy, who is the leader of 6,000 share-croppers in the Black Belt, and many others. Because we work in complete harmony with our white co-workers, with whom we share the leadership of the Party, Mr. Padmore concludes that we are sycophants and Uncle Toms. Padmore, Servant of Slave-Drivers But who is the Uncle Tom? It is precisely George Padmore, now serv- . ing the agents of American slave- rule in Liberia, now placing weap- ons against the Party in the hands of Klansmen and lynchers! How low Mr. Padmore has fallen is shown when he makes in his “Open Letter” the vile threat to bring legal action against Comrade Huiswoud, another Negro Commu- nist, for having written an article | against him. He who once had pre- tensions to be a Communist, would go into the courts of the white rul- ers; he would ask that they vindi- cate him; he would bring his case into the tribunals of the oppressors; he would run whining to the slave- drivers and ask that they be the “impartial arbiters” of this dispute! Can submission to the ruling class go further than this? Padmore Removed For Compromising Mr. Padmore distorts facts in the most shameful manner. He says that the Communist International abolished the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers, “in order not to offend the British Foreign Office.” Such is Mr. Pad- more’s egotism, such is his self- glorification, that he believes him- self to be the committee! He is removed, therefore the committee is abolished! What is the truth? This commit- tee was founded by militant Negro workers from all countries, and I myself took active part in its work from the beginning. It has never been abolished; on the contrary, it is hard at work today, and its organ, the Negro Worker, is being pub- lished as before. What is true is that George Padmore was removed from this committee because he no longer carried out the policy which the committee had set itself. In- stead of a line of uncompromising struggle with all imperialism, with all forces that grind down the Negro masses, he passed over to a policy of compromise with imperialism and its agents. Padmore says that after fifteen years, the Communist Party has been unable to make headway among the Negro masses. His wish is father to his thought; along with the white ruling class, Padmore sin- cerely wishes that this were so. But the thousands of Negroes joining the ranks of the Communist Parties, fighting for liberation under its leadership, give the lie to this accu- sation. Because the Communist Party lives, the nine Scottsboro boys were not sent to their deaths three years ago, but have become instead, not only here but the world over, struggle of the Negro people. The struggle for the liberation of the t the symbol of a fight to the death with the bloody oppression of the Negro people. Because the Commu- for the liberation of Cuba from the rule of Wall Street. Under the ing the struggle for Negro freedom! Communist Deeds Speak The Communist Party needs no defense as the champion of the oppressed Negro people. Its deeds speak for it, The very hatred of our enemies, the vilification we re- ceive from the white imperialists, the lynchers, the Klansmen,—this is the finest criterion of the effective- ness of our work. The lynch-rulers see in us their worst enemies; we ask for no better recognition. It is no accident that it is pre- cisely at this time that Mr. Pad- more, along with a number of other white and Negro misleaders, frankly deserts the program of full equality by struggle, and for the reyolution- ary overthrow of imperialism. The Struggle grows sharper; the masses pressors more desperate; the fight draws closer to its climax, and the combatants now range themselves, decisively and unmistakably, on one side or on the other. Either they take uncompromising struggle for their path and complete equality for their goal, or they align themselves on the side of the oppressors and go down the shameful path of com- promise and betrayal. This path of compromise and betrayal George Padmore has now chosen. Mr. Padmore says that the Ne- groes of the world will be his judges. That is true. The Communist Party is willing to trust the judgment of the Negro toilers. We know what this judgment will be, for in in- creasing numbers, the world over, the oppressed Negro masses are joining the ranks of the Communist Parties, and putting their. hope of freedom in its leadership and its program. The thin voice of a hand- ful of misleaders, white and black, Piping lies and slanders against the Communist Party, will be drowned out in the thunder of the march of the Negro masses and oppressed peoples, of the working class of all races, towards the final goal of freedom. ARMS INDUSTRIES GET HELP STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 1— The assignment of funds voted by the Social Democratic government for unemployment measures to ar- Mmaments, was openly announced to- day under the guise of stimulating employment in the armament in- dustries. The building of war vessels will use up 4,950,000 crowns (the crown is about 25 cents.) The manufac- ture of cannon will get 1,065,000 crowns more. BOMBERS FOR BRITISH “DEFENSE” LONDON, England, Aug. 1—The fraudulent claim of the British gov- ernment, supported by Conserva- tives, Liberals, and Laborites alike, that the new super air force de- manded is for defense alone, was exposed by the Air Ministry today. Sir Philip Sassoon, undersecretary of Air, declared in Commons today that twice as many bombers as pur- suit planes will be built in the new program. 400 WIN VICTORY KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 1.— The 400 workers in the Holston Manufacturing Company hosiery mill returned to work here after winning the right to collective bar- gaining. grow more determined and the op-| | fore, | Crop failures in China are almost the drought On the orld Front By HARRY GANNE! “Eating Under Capitalism” | The World Harvest US.A. and U.S.S.R. iT fate of the world harvest ttm year, taking place in the mids of such teriffic blows being delivered to capitalism, is of an importance unequalled in all past history. Thera have been heavy crop failures be and millions have starved. the rule in some portions of the country. But crop failures coming now, say in Germany, on top of the devastation of fascism, in the. face of the geratest danger of war, be- come of decisive importance, Such catastrophic crop failures ag | we now witness in the United States the more rapidly smash and expose the demagogic propaganda and schemes of the Roosevelt regime for agriculture and for the toiling masses. + * * 'HEN, too, the drought was one of the severest tests of socialist agriculture in the Soviet Union, Humanity has an opportunity in many capitalist countries through \its tears and its hunger pangs, to |see the contrast between socialism and capitalism in the face of nat- ural catastrophes plus economic crisis. Three weeks ago the New York Times, keenly class conscious and appreciative of the significance of this year’s harvest, wrote an edito- |rial entitled “Eating Under Cap- | italism.” The gist of the edito« rial was that in the Soviet Union had destroyed the chances of the masses of eating, | while in the good old land of Mor gan, Rockefeller, Mellon and Roose | Velt, what's a little drought between friends. The Times reasoned that it | woud be a very easy task for Sec- retary of Agriculture Wallace to meet that dreaded horseman of the Apocalypse, Famine, with the three spear-points of the A. A. A, and to make short shrift of him. Foe * NOW both in the Soviet Union and { in the United States that has« vest is being gathered and we again turn to the New York Times to see how their news reports check nist Party lives, the Negro magses|With their editorial. Here is what are in the forefront of the struggle | We find: The U. S. A.: “Panorama of Deso- Jation Seen in Plane View of leadership of the Communist Party,|Drought Area. Y the darker peoples in China, India,| With waving grain and teeming South Africa, are uniting and rising |herds of cattle now resemble desert to throw off the yoke of imperialist | Wastes, devoid of life with rivers oppression. In the face of all this, | dried to beds.” The writer is Russel how absurd, how shameless, is the |B. Porter, who had just returned charge of Mr. Padmore, that the from the San Francisco general | Communist International is desert- | strike front where he himself helped | put over a little desolation by whip- Fields once filled ping up anti-Communist hysteria. What Mr. Porter saw must have been indeed dreadful for he writes a moving story of catastrophe. Here's a sample of it: “In every direction the dry, wasted land extends further than the eye can reach. It makes one think of a stricken giant. stretched out flat upon his back, thirsting for water, staring blindly into the mercilessly hot sun and gasping for breath. Be< fore one’s very eyes a whole section }/ of the country lies dying. One can \' not help joining the people who live there in a silent prayer for the rain which will bring it back to life.” * = ey & 'T would be just as useless, of course, to pray to Wallace or Roosevelt who were as potent as the drought in destroying crops. Just the other day we heard over the radio how Mr. Wallace so bravely faced the farmers (in Louisiana, of course, in a non-drought area) and defended the Roosevelt agrarian program. We'd like to see Mr. Wallace try the thing say in Kansas from where Mr. Porter writes, Bie re IOW, let’s see the Times on the Soviet Union: (This appears in the same issue that speaks about desolation and ruin in the grain belt of the United States.) “Nowhere is there anything that might be called crop failure. Winter grain suffered from the Spring drought [as it did in the U. S. A— H. G.] but replanting did much to compensate for that.” (And what volumes are omitted in that phrase. Replanting! The A. A. A. plowed under thousands of acres. In the Soviet Union when the drought hit, planned, socialist economy mobilized the whole country for replanting! Hence “Nowhere is there anything that might be called crop failure.”) “although the volume of wheat and rye is less than that of last year, the quality is said to be higher, which is important in the export market. “The foregoing is a summary of conditions found by an authoritative foreign expert on agriculture who hhas just made a trip through the Soviet grain belt.” Can ee | bbe? same cable goes on to tell of the unequalled speed with which the grain is being harvested, the cut- ting down of all waste, and the com- plete victory of socialist, collective farming over individual farming. With these contrasting reports we can ask the Times what about “Eat- ing Under Capitalism.” What will the hundreds of thousands of farmers and their families eat’ Roosevelt’s promises? What will unemployed proletarians eat? Wha‘ will the employed wozkers eat, foodstuffs destroyed by and the drought? True, there is general famine, though at for more than 20,000,000 Ameri factory and farm toilers there be conditions that can be as nothing less than famine. Ant during all this period the big bank- ers and industrialists were rolling up profits, thanks to the N. R. A. ~ NAZI FILM CAUSES DISORDER SAO PAULO, Aug. 1.—Disorders occurred at a local moving picture theatre today when another ate tempt was made to show a pro- Nezi film which was withdrawn re= demonstrations, cently after hostile iy fT: