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Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1934 Rakosi’s Sister Urges Aid for Revolutionist Facing Death in Hungary Marine Leader Reveals Tie-Up of Great Lakes | And U.S. War Machine Statement of the Executive Committee Of Young Communist International Tells of Mighty Worldw ide Protest Which Saved 1925—Describes ‘‘Sys- Mathias Rakosi in tematic Physical and Moral Tortures” GISELLA RAKOSI By The Hunga g class is pre- paring the der of my brother Ma Because of he was arrested ught be- still re- mly before | ill remem- in the shadow of vd defended the cause ass. Even at that u ral world be- A mighty solidarity 1 countries, led by Red Aid, forced ke down the gal- ad already been erected | yard. Then my bro- was forwarded to the ‘om year to year this sentence | me a heavier burden ‘to bear, | the cruel treatment, t tematic phy id moral tortures. I w witness of the struggle against the brutal regime and against the corruption of the prison administration, fought by my | brother in order to improve the con- ditions of all the prisoners. How often I myself was roughly treated and chased away! I was even forced to serve a sentence of three months imprisonment because I firmly stood up for my brother. .In the partic ularly severe winter of 1929 m, brother was thrown into an under- | ground window. Here he was made | suffer disciplinary punishment for He remained in this| cold cell, without a mat-| horribly tress and without any winter clothes of any kind. It was your will alone, | comrades, your protest that saved | my brother from this cell of rr der. Tortured for Three Years | For more than three years of his | eight and one-half years of im- | prisonment, Mathias Rakosi was! made to suffer disciplinary arrest; | starve in the dark and cold punish- ment cells. Sentences of discivlinary punishment were passed against him seven times. Six times ve compelled to resort to hung Strikes as the last weapon of pro- test against the inhuman treatment to which he’ was subjected—a total of 54 days on hui strike, And now, when he has’ al served his sentence, when his has been utterly destroyed as a re-| sult of the hard labor, hunger and | plinary punishments, the blood- thirsty government wishes to bring | him again before the same court thet passed sentence on him eignt | and one-half yea dy ealth ago by | honest- minded people | Health Now Ruined monstrous sen- labor, Mathias been ruined; | ong, and he is “not with anding all his suf- ur | 3 the struggle to ties all toilers | from hunger and poverty, and from | Just as was the case t and one-half years ago, my| brother is now threatened with the | death sen As a result of thi of tence Rak: hard Class 's and comrades! au you who e helped to snatch Di-| mitrofl away-from~the clutches of | st hangmen: Reise your 2 once more against this planned nation! Save my} brother m the Hungarfan hang- | Ten! F liberation of Mathias | Now 42 Years Old Mathias Rakosi was born in 1892, in the now belonging | After graduating. the | ™ Trade Academy in Buda- € worked as office employee in, Hembut tg and later in London. While still a young student he ac- tively participated in the Hungarian Students movement, and directed it in support of the labor movement, He worked in the labor movement since 1910, first.in Germany, and then in 1912," as. member -of :the Social-Democratic Labor Fédération in. London. He-was later expelled from this Federation because of his Tadical political opinions, In 1914 Mathias Rakosi was called back to Hungary, for military serv- ice, and was sent to the front. Al- ready in December, 1914, he Was taken prisoner by the sians. In the war prisoners éathp in Chita (Far East) he worked diligentiy to further his Marxist education and developed the propaganda of rev- Oluiionary ideas among the war prisoners. In the middle of 1918 he returned to Hungary with rich experience gained in the Russian October Rev- olution; and as officer in the Sub- botitza Garrison he conducted tenzive anti-wer activities. He soon} joined the Hungarian Communist Party which was then organized, and within a short time he became one of the best mass agitators and Organizers of the Hungarian Com- munist movement. At first he was sécretary of the largest Party pro- vincial organization—in Segedin. On the formation of the Soviet. Government in Hungary, in March, 1919, Rakosi, 27 years of age, was Ascistant Peoples Commissary for Trade. For a time he was Chief Commandant of the Red Militia, and later he was appointed to one of the most decisive sectors of the Red Army, in defense of the Shal- gotaryan coal region which was the only power base of the Soviet Gov- ernment. As political commissar of an army division, Comrade Rakosi y repelled the attacks of the vakian’ Army, but also’ led in a mighty counter-of- rx the overthrow of the prole- | ger.strike, | newly | about our Party for |from other sources than the cap- | italist press. dictatorship in Hungary, Rakosi together with other members of the Hungarian Soviet Govern- ment escaped to Austria, where, in Karistein, the social-democratic government interned him under strong guard. After his liberation in 1920 Rakosi went to the Soviet Union, and participated, as delegate of the Hungarian C. P., in the work of the Second Congress of the Com- munist International. At gress he made a sons of the Hungar public. From 1921 to 1923 he was Secretary of the Comintern. In 1924 Rakosi returned illegally | to Hungary, in order to newly or-| ganize the Communist Party which had been destroyed by the white terror. After eight months of this work he was betrayed by a provoc- | ateur, and arrested on September 25, 1925. Seven weeks later he was brought before an exceptional court (the supreme court of the time of martial law in Hungary). For his political activity as organizer of the Communist movement, as “agent of a foreign power,” this court passed the sentence: Death by hanging! Rakosi and his comrades trans- formed the court into a platform of revolutionary propaganda. Under the pressure of the mighty protest movement organized by the Inter- national Red Aid all over the world, the court was forced to declare it- self not competent in the case of vakosi and to forward it to an or-| inary court which sentenced Re~ kosi to eight and one-half years of hard labor. | The Horthy Government applied every measure of physical and moral violence with the aim of killing | Rakosi in prison. Every year this comrade was systematically thrown into the punishment cells for long periods of time. Sentences of disci- plinary punishment were passed against him seven times. During three years, more than one-third of his imprisonment, he was made to this Con- suffer disciplinary arrest in the | punishment cells. Six times he was compelled to resort to hunger- | strikes in protest against the in- treatment to which he was i—a total of 54 days hun- And now when the eight | and one-half years hard labor have been served, he is still being held in prison; and sentence will be | assed against him because of his activity 15 years ago as mem- ber of the Hungarian Soviet Gov- ernment, hum Lessons Cited | > OfOhio Drive For Elections By BEN GRAY | On Aug. 8, the Cleveland district's |deadline for turning in the elec- jon petition, the Youngstown sec- | tion surpassed its quota of 5,000 by turning in 5,600 signatures, 3,500 of which were collected in Youngstown | proper. Despite a late start this was made possible first of all| through the political mobilization of the Communist Party membershi by making the entire membership conscious of the importance of the | election campaign and what it will r|mean to our Party to be on the} ballot. Under the competent lead-! evship of John Steuben this con- | sciousness was transleted into hard | everyday work. Throughout the drive our Party | spoke personally with some 15, 000 | most of whom had heard the first time workers, What Are the Present Tasks? What does this achievement mean | for our Party? What do the work- ers think of our Party? And ly what is our task now? We wili | try in this limited space to answer these questions bricfly. The big drop in production of | steel soon after the calling off of the | June 16 strike by the Amalgamated | Association leadership and Bill! Green, and. ths general lowering of | conditions in the mills, has caused great discontent among the steel| workers which can be turned into | militant mass struggle if proper} leadership is provided. In many | cases there were open expressions of | complete disgust with the Roosevelt New Deal program. While the Pariy in Youngstown is still isolated from the workers in the steel mills, and} the unemployed, the great response of the workers to our program and the evident sympathy and willing- ness to help, shows the growing | prestige of our Party as a result of the great-strike struggles in whicn the Party participated in nationally —San Francisco, Toledo, Milwaukee, Many Workers said to our com- rades: “Yes, your Party is O. K., t's got the right program, but what is it doing for the ‘workers in Youngstown?” One worker who re- fused to Sign the petition, who him- self was umemployed over two years, was asked if he had ever heard about the-struggles for increases in relief led by the Reds. His answer came witha snap, “yes, sure I've heard about them, but I ain’t ever seen them. \* It is to. the credit of our Party nationally: thata great percentage of signatures were secured. among. Negro workers. These 5,600 signers are not just names, bit must be made into live contacts for our Party.. The healthy criticism levelled against us by the workers generally and by the Negro workers in particular must be taken | seriously by our Party in Youngs- | town as a, challenge. that must be met squarély, ~The issues raised by the workers must be made the cen- | 1 point-of- the election struggle. | ystematic contact developed with hese workers will-bring them into vhe struggle and around our Party. | striving to victory. To the Unemployed and iislby ed- Youth, Neikee Pdepanipny Soldiers and Sailors of the World! Comrades! Twenty years ago, at the command of the crowned murderers and armament kings, tens of milions.of toilers were driven into the trenches of imperialist war. During the four years of slaughter, twenty millions of the best sons of the people fell on the banks of the Ypres, at the approach to Verdun, on the Carpathian Mountains, on the fields of Alsare end Lorraine. Though the war. brought thousands of millions in profits to the capitalists, it thrust the toilers still deeper into the abyss of poverty and starvation, and increased the oppression and slavery of mankind. The BOURGEOIS “FATHERLAND,” in the name of which ocenas of blood was shed, in the name of which a-whole generation of the flower of the youth perished, can now give to the young workers only the right to die or starvation. In all the world, there was only one party, THE BOLSHEVIK PARTY, led by the great leader of the proletariat, LENIN, which from the very beginning of the war showed up the true meaning of this war of plunder with all the force of its revolutionary faithful- ness to the cause of the working class, and called on the proletariat to struggle against the real enemies of the toilers, the bourgeoisie. The proletarian youth, educated in the spirit of .the best traditions of the ‘anti-militarist struggle, were the first to join the party of Lenin and together with their KARL LIEBKNECHT they stood on thé | path of a hard and fierce struggie against imperialist wars and mili- tarism. The revolutionary organizations of the youth, which remained loyal to the end and io the cause of the working class in-1915, at the Berne Conference adopted an appeal to all the youth to struggle against war, and resolved to organize a single international youth day of anti-war struggle. Boldly they raised the fighting fiag of internationalism over the blood-stained ground of the trenches. Hundreds of thousands of the youth seizéd on this fighting call and on October 3, 1915, marched out in demonstrations, organized strikes and presented to the governments their demands for the stop- ping of the war. Since then 19 years have passed. This year we celebrate the 20th International Youth Day. ‘The International Youth Day has become a fighting tradition for the revolutionary youth, And we, the Young Communist League, the only inheritors of the revolutionary behests of Stuttgart and Berne throughout all these years, hold high our banner of militant interna- tionalism. After the war, a new generation of the youth grew up. And those who had been born to the thunder of the cannon in the frightful slaughter of 1914, those who only know from the talk of their parents something of the war, they are the ones who today will have to go to | serve in the army, and from them will be made millions of “unknown soldiers,” and Schneiders, Creusots, Pilsudskys and Mussolinis. COMRADES! YOUNG WORKERS! Today the danger of a new imperialist war and the threat to the fatherland of the world proletariat is extremely serious. You yourselves can see how fully the war factories are working. You can see every day parades and army maneuvers. You are driven by force into the military and fascist organizations of the youth. In the schools and universities, the most reactionary and chauvinistic teachings about the right of one nation to oppress another are driven into youf heads. In the organizations formed by the bourgeoisie, mil- lions of the youth are trained in the spirit of national hatred and sub- ordination to the bourgeois state. The majority of the youth are militarized and taught military training in some form or ancther. WHY IS THIS BEING DONE? In whose interests are millions of dollars and francs spent on the manufecture of cannons and poison gases? At whose expense are the huge armies and. the armed faScist gangs supported? The bourgeoisie are prevaring for new wars, for an attack on the USS.R., and they are militarizing the whole population and above all the youth, through the most savage plunder of the toiling masses, and they are implanting fascist organizations for the purpose of crush- ing the growing indignation of the workers and peasants in order to ensure the peacefulness of the rear in time of war. You are called on to “defend the fatherland”! What fatherland? The fatherland where the hangmen of the working class—Hitler, Mussolini and Pilsudski rule? The fatherland where you are shot down with or without trial for daring to ask for bread? The father- land where five times as much is spent on the upkeep of a police dog as on a workers child? The fatherland whieh is not able either to feed or educate the youth? Is it worth dying for, such a fatherland? We proletarian youth, like all the toilers, love our proletarian Germany, beautiful Italy, France and England, and it is precisely because of this love, because of our right to live, our right to use all the benefits and values created by the hands of our fathers, that WE MUST TAKE IT AWAY FROM THE BOURGEOISIE! We will only defend it when it is really our proletarian fatherland! In all the countries of capital a frantic attack is being made on the last vestiges of the political rights of the workers, on those demo- cratic liberties which they used to enjoy. The dying capitalist system is rushing to fascism as its last means of salvation from the strengthening revolutionary storms. Only on the background of the dark decline of capitalism could be born such a system of cynical décéention, bloody violence and terror as fascism. A government maintained only by the power of bayonets held by its deceived slaves cannot exist for iong. It must inevitably perish as soon as, the masses of the toilers realize their strength and throw off the bonds of deception. A new and powerful wave of the revolutionary upsurge is growing and widening in all countries. “The idea of an onslaught is ripening in the minds of the masses.” The proletariat are passing ever more determinedly to the counter- attack against fascism. The heroic fight of the workers of Austria, the mass actions in France, the barricade fighting in Holland, in San Francisco, the strikes in America, Poland, Japan and other countries are thundering like gigantic battering rams against the walls of the capitalist world. The banner of the Soviets is waving over one seventh of China. Raise higher the banner of struggle! Widen the front of the at- tack! Do not let the bourgeoisie rest for a moment! Completely expose fascism which is trying to win the masses by the pseudo-revolutionary lie of “national socialism” and the “defense of the interests of the toilers” and which in Germany is definitely throw- ing off these gaudy rags of demagogy and standing up before the toilers in its real form of the naked dictatorship of the bankers and factory owners. Comrades, young toilers! Imperialist wars, starvation, poverty and slavery can only be ended by the proletarian révolution, the dictatorship sa the proletariat, the Soviet. power. « Apart from the Communist Parties, there are no parties in the world which fight really for the partial and general demands of the workers. There is no organization of the youth except the Young Com- munist League which s‘ruggl¢s under the leadership of the Commu- nist Party for the liberation of the masses of the toiling youth from capita slavery. And only under the leadership of the Communist Party can the proletariat and the toiling masses overthrow the bloody dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Our future is in our own hands. It depends on our will to struggle and conquer. No tétror can force us to abandon our We have proved this and are proving it every minute of the time. Our Chinese, German, Japanese, Italian, Polish and Bulgarian comrades, ‘in the strictest illegality, are carrying on to fight against | “valiant defenders” of the fatherlands of the Krupps, | successful work for the organization of the masses for the struggle against fascism. The terror can frighten only occasional cowards, but not the work- ing class, not the revolutionary party, not the revolutionary youth. Every bloody crime simply firés our hatred more. Every drop of blood tha’ is shed gives bitth to a new warrior. History cannot be stopped by the hangman’s noose or the headman’s axe, and the more so if this history is created by the most revolutionary class—the proletariat. Comrades! Young workers, peasants, soldiers! The Executive Commitiee of the Young Communist International sends you a fighting call to come out on to the streets on September | 1st in demonstrations, to organize strikes and revolutionary activity as a protest against the war in preparation, against the militarization and fascisation of the youth! We call on all the toiling youth irre- spective of the organizations to which they belong at the present time. COMRADES! YOUNG SOCIALIST WORKERS! The Young Communist International calls on you all to act jointly with the Y. C. I. on September Ist against war and fascism, defense of the U. S. S. R., for the liberation of Comrade Thaelmann, Paula Walisch and all other prisoners of international reaction. We call on you to organize joint demonstrations, actions and strikes on International Youth Day. We call on you to form joint youth committees for the struggle for the release of Comrade Thaelmann and the prisoners of capital, We call on you to form a united front of struggle of the toiling youth against hunger, want, fascism and war. The Executive Committee of the Y. C. I. states to all the toiling youth that it is prepared to collaborate with any youth organization which is willing to struggle together with us against the exploitation and the enslavement of the you’h, against fascism, for socialism, The Executive Committee of the Y. C. I. instructs all its organiza- tions and every Y. C. Ler to make every effort to strengthen the unity of the toiling youth. All those who want to struggle for a brighter future for the youth, not for the sake of hypocrisy but honestly, will always find the warmest support and help from us, Comrades of the Socialist Youth! Decide who you will march with—with the Welses and Leys or with the thousands of youth who are struggling, together with the Communists, against fascism, The joint actions of the Y. 8S. L.ers and Y. C. Lers in Austria, Great Britain, France, Spain, their joint struggle in Germany and many other countries has proved the possibility and the usefulness of this work. Unite around the noble banner of Lenin and Liebknecht! Act together with us.on September Ist in the struggle against war and fascism. COMRADES! IZATIONS! You have been tricked with the promises of a good life. It is hammered into your heads that the Communists are your enemies. You are persuaded that a new war and an attack on the U.S. S. R. are the only “salvation for the nation!” But you must understand that you are being slavishly exploited, that you are being made into sttikebreakers and murderers of the working class who are fighting against fascism. The German fascists promised work but now they are driving all young workers under the age of 25 out of the factories, forcing them by violence into the camps, deporting them to the coun- tryside to be at the disposal of the big landlords. The wonderful “Nine Commandments of Goering,” like the entire economic program of fascism, are directed most strongly of all against the youth, dooming them to hunger and want and depriving them of all rights to get jobs. We call on you, young workers in the fascist organizations, to struggle along with us against fascism. Organize strikes in the ferced labor camps, join the Y. C.L. Help the Y. C. L.ers to carry on anti-fascist activity. Struggle against ‘hose who deceived you, who take advantage of your simplicity and inex- perience to strengthen the power of the factory owners and bankers, against the working class and you yourselves, COMRADES! SOLDIERS! SAILORS! Come out together with the working youth against war and an attack on the U. S. 8S. R. Fight for your demands, Refuse to act as executioners of the working class and the peasants. Fraternize with striking workers. Come over with your arms to the side of the rebel- Hous people. Only the proletariat can liberate you from the yoke of the barracks, and unbridled license of the officers and the fascist ter- ror, If war breaks out, you must turn your bayonets against the or- ganizers of war! YOUNG TOILERS! For about two years the German fascists have kept in a dungeon the best fighter of the working class, the leader of the German pro- letariat, Comrade Ernst Thaelmann. The fascists cannot make any charge against him except that he is a Communist. Fearing an even YOUNG WORKERS IN THE FASCIST ORGAN- | more despicable failure than in the trial of Dimitroff, Hitler and Goering are keeping Comrade Thaelmann in prison and torturing him, We call on the toiling youth of all countries to rise in defense of Thaelmann, Organize protest strikes, form committees of defense, call meet- ings, organize demonstrations. Demand the immediate liberation of Thaelmann! Demand the liberation of all the imprisoned anti-fascists. The struggle for the freedom of Comrade Thaelmann is a matter of honor for every young proletarian! German fascism and the world bourgeoisie are preparing the trial of Thaelmann, are preparing a new blow against the entire revolu- tionary movement of the proletariat! For us Thaelmann is a banner of the anti-fascist struggle. Rally in the united front of struggle of the youth against fascism and in defense of Thaelmann, We send the warmest greetings to our Thaelmann, the noble reyo- lutionary, the bold fighter, the tried warrior for the liberation of the toiling youth from the yoke of fascism. YOUNG WORKERS AND COLLECTIVE FARMERS IN THE U. 8.8. R! The Executive Committee of the Y. C. I. calls on you to exert your creative forces still more to s:rengthen the power and strength and independence of the U, S. 8. R. The youth of the whole world are watching your struggle and labor with admiration. They know that the Soviet Union is their only fatherland, the bulwark of the revo- lutionary forces of the entire proletariat. They are learning from you how to fight and to win. And the stronger the U.S. S. R., the stronger the power of the proletariat and the more it is convinced of its victory. Strengthen the defenses of our fatherland, mobilize all your creative enthusiasm, your strength and knowledge for the successful fulfilment of the Second Five-Year Plan. Strengthen the power of the Red Army! Rally more closely around the Leninist Bolshevik Party and the leader of the world proletariat, Comrade Stalin, the great helmsman of the world revolution! Throughout the world, there is only one country where there is no capitalist slavery, fascist terror, starvation and poverty, where the bony hands of hunger do not stretch ou‘ to grip the throat of the worker and where the terrible spectre of unemployment does not stand behind his back. There is only one country that is truly and consistently fighting for peace between peoples, which is not trying to seize the land and colonies of others. This country is our great fatherland, the U. S. S. R. Our proletarian fatherland, at the will of the millions of the toilers of the U. S. 8. R., led by the Pariy of Lenin and with the most direct support of the proletariat of all countries, has become the strongest and most powerful country in the world. We have the right to be proud of this fa‘herland of the most ad- vanced technique, Socialist culture and free labor, the fatherland of the Chelyuskinités, the aviator-heroes, the talents of new technical though’, of the great leaders of the proletariat. And in the face of the growing danger of an attack on the U. S. S.R., we swear to defend to the last drop of our blood this fatherland which belongs equally to the Russian proletariat, the fighters on ihe barricades of Vienna and the oppressed peoples of the colofiiés. September Ist must be a day of powerful demonstrations of the working and toiling youth against war and fascism. We shall dem- onstrate our readiness to struggle, our hatred toward fascisin. Long live the fighting unity of the working youth! Down with imperialist war! Down with fascist terror! We demand the liberation of Comrade Thaelmann and all the anti-fascists who have been thrown into prison, concentration camps and military camps. é Long live the proletarian revolution! Long live Soviets throughout the world Time of War—U: By W. C. McCUISTION | Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War during the Wilson administra- | |tion, speaking at the Maritime Code hearings in Washington, | stated: “The Great Lakes industry con- j Sists almost entirely ‘of transporta- | ; tion of bulk cargoes, consisting of | iron ore from the Lake Superior | iron region, a movement South and East, coal from the Lake Erie and) |southerly ports to the northern| lake ports at a particular season of | the year, and the transportation of cargoes of grain; and the vessels previously devoted to the transpor- tation of coal and ore are washed and made water-tight bulk carriers for grain, and the less inviting, but still important similar task of car- rying limestone, which is used | flux in the making of iron.” In his description of the shipping industry on the Great Lakes, it is| not what Mr. Baker says that is $0 important, but what he fails to say. | It is true that grain and iron ore jare the basic cargoes of Great} Lakes vessels, but still more im-| portant is the concentration of the | steel industry and grain elevators | on the Lakes and the inland water- | ways. Ninety per cent of the steel | mills in the country are so located that they can receive raw material and ship their finished product in- | dependent of the railway system, | and grain elevators capable of | storing the entire wheat production | | of the United States are located on | the Lakes, Steel Mills Are Fortresses The steel mills are located and| planned so that at a moment’s no- | tice they can be turned into verit- | jable fortresses. In all important | | steel production centers from the| | Calumet Area on Southern Lake Michigan to the Lackawanna on} | Northeastern Lake Erie, are found | highly fortified areas with arma- | ment. and defenses comparable to | the elaborate coast defense (or of- |fense) system. C.C.C. camps, Na- | tional Guard barracks, and regu- |lar army posts also abound in this region. Constant dredging opsra- tions under the supervision of the United States Engineer Corps are constantly being carried on in or- der that docking and other water- | front operations can be changed from their present locations at a moment’s notice. Connect with Atlantic and Gulf The Great Lakes are connected with the Atlantic Seaboard through the Erie Canal, Welland Canal and |the St. Lawrence River and the |deepening of the Chicago Canal already been decided upon by the Roosevelt administration. Through a system of feeder highways, short railways and by virtue of a slight | deepening of the Chicagol Cana | and its extension with small dredg- |ing operation on the upper Missis- | sippi, it will be possible to have a connecting inland waterway system |from the copper mining region of | Montana direct te the Atlantic, via the Great Lakes and connecting rivers and canals, and direct to New Orleans via the Mississippi River. Already the Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania industrial area is shipping directly to the Gulf of Mexico by way of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. This can easily be extended to the Atlantic by improving the old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Lake Tonnage Important Factof Nine hundred and twenty- -one | ships are registered and are in con- dition to operate immediately. Of these, 598 fly the American flag and have a registered gross tonnage of 2,600,000 tons, while the remaining 323 ships are of Canadian regis- try with a gross tonnage of 757,000. With only a portion of the total number of ships operating, they are handling, in addition to grain and other cargoes, 70,000,000 tons of ore and 20,000,000 tons of coal annu- ally. Without increasing the total tonnage now available they are capable of furnishing the raw mz- terial and transporting the output of the entire steel industry at fuil blast. For the escort and “protec- tion” of this vast inland fleet, the U. 8. Government maintains a large and modern “Coast Guard Navy,” which maintains a constant patrol in the industrial areas. Army Supplies Transported In preparation for wer, when they face the possibility of political strikes against war on a broad scale, the army and navy have al- ready initiated a “war mancuver” on the lakes. Foodstuffs, milk, but- ter, eggs, etc., are shipped entirely by water from Duluth, Minn., to the Atlantic Seaboard although it would be more economical and rapid to do this by rail, avoiding the numerous transhipments now re- quired. The Great Lakes shipping indus- | try is one of the highest trustified industries in the world and is the | Sociation, | emergency.” Huge Inland Wat aterway Provides Strategic Route for Transportation of Steel and Grain in rges Organization most highly trustified of any sece tion of the marine industry. The hiring of ctews is conducted almost entirely through shipping halls controlled by the Lake Carriers As- which is the Maritime Company Union of the Steel Trust (U. S. Steel, etc.). Seamen are com- pelled to keep continuous dis- | charge service books and to be rez- istered through this agency, to which the United States Govern- ment gives direct aid by permitting the shipping masters to be regis- tered as “commissioners.” In this manner it would be the work of few minutes to tfansfer the enti Great Lakes Shipping industry int @ government controlled agency “: an emergency matter.” A Strikebreaking Center The Great Lakes shipping in- | dustry is carefully groomed, main- tained and nursed to play the role of the “ace in the hole” for the government in time of war or gen- eral strike or any other “national The greatest manufac- ture of war materials and arma- ment is in the lakes region, con- necting directly with the ten larg- est cities in the land, and with the greatest industrial areas. The great- est area producing foodstuffs, Wis- consin, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, the Dakotas, Indiana, New York, and even Canada, are located in the Lakes shipping re- | gion. Treops can be transported, war materials, foodstuffs, minerals ‘and raw materials; strikes can be broken, the twk of conducting a war made much easier for the capi- talists if the Lakes are unorganized —but they must not remain un- organized! Industrial Union Grows on Lakes This year the Marine Workers Industrial Union has organized five branches on the Lakes. Delegates are operating in sever additional ports, many ships have ship dele~ gates aboard. Youth committees are active establishing anti-war and anti-fascist committees with the assistance of the M.W.I.U. Through the Trade Union Unity League the Struggles of the marine and steel workers are being linked together and mutual assistance given. 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