The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1934, Page 6

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1934 Roosevelt and the Textile Strike (HE MacMahon-Gorman leadership of the United Textile Workers’ Union is iow attempting to follow the same road of sidetracking the general textile strike voted for by the workers, as was followed in the steel and auto industries. The Mac- Mahon leadership has already departed for Wash- ington together with William Green, and is camp- ing on the doorstep of President Roosevelt. Thomas MacMahon, president, and Francis Gor- man, vice-president of the union, have already stated that they hope for the “personal intervention” of President Roosevelt to prevent the strike of 800,000 textile workers. During the convention of the union recently concluded, where the delegates voted almost unanimously for the strike, MacMahon did not em- phasize in his speeches the question of actually or- ganizing the strike. Instead, MacMahon tried to put a brake on the strike vote by his declaration that, “I would hate to give my consent to anything like a general strike unless I was absolutely con- vinced that it was the only way out. I see no other way.” However, as soon as MacMahon was re-elected president, he “saw another way” and announced that “President Roosevelt has the power to prevent the strike.” The Daily Worker predicted before the convention that MacMahon would seek to sidetrack the sttike with the help of the Roosevelt govern- ment. Now the MacMahon-Gorman leadership is taking the strike question back to the employer-controlled NR.A. They are trying to create the illusion that “the great humanitarian” Roosevelt differs from the N.R.A. machinery which he created. They want the textile workers to forget that Roosevelt is not only the author of the N.R.A., but its head, who signs all codes, and whose government is identical with the N.R.A. and its policies. They want the textile workers, who have had their demands several times defeated by the Roosevelt government, to give Roosevelt “one more chance.” * . . 'HE betrayal of the textile strike will be much more difficult this time. The workers have learned something from the fact that Roosevelt defeated the demands of the steel workers and the auto workers by sidetracking their strike and throw- ing their demands into the N. R. A. arbitration boards. The Tighe leadership in thé steel industry and the Collins leadership in the auto industry, in both cases working with Green, called off the auto and steel strike demanded by the workers. ‘They accepted “Roosevelt's personal intervention.” And what did the steel and auto workers get by calling off their strikes and relying on Roose- velt, They got a sharp increase in company unions in both industries instead of union recog- nition. They lost their demands against the speed- up and for higher wages. By accepting Roosevelt arbitration and fore- going strike action, the steel and auto workers lost every single one of their demands, Their burning grievances were only intensified. This should prove to the textile workers that Roosevelt’s N.R.A. boards are committees of the big employers. The Gormans and the MacMahons are members of these boards not to win the de- mands of the workers, but to be able the better to betray the workers’ struggles. The United Textile locals should at once or- ganize the strike, set up their broad mill strike committees, and prepare their mass picket lines. The MacMahon-Gorman leadership should be told by every local union to end the begging at Roosevelt’s doorsteps. The locals should take the leadership of the actual strike preparations. All A. F. of L, local unions should prepare sup- port for the textile strike, and should demand of Green that he take decisive steps to mobilize the A. F. of L. for support. The Fascist Plebiscite VEN the doctored, lying plebiscite report of the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda could not conceal the tremendous and grow- ing voice of revolutionary upsurge against Fascism in Germany. Workers risked their lives and liberty to write in the name of Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned Communist leader, on the marked ballots under the very muzzles of Nazi machine guns. The Fascist bloodhounds who maneuvered the whole voting farce and published only those figures they wished the world to read, were forced to ad- mit that the opposition vote to Hitler had more than doubled since last November. What must the real figures show! Certainly they must confirm the declaration of the “Rote Fahne,” official organ of the Communist Party of Germany, which declared that in an election freed of Nazi violence and ter- rorism, Ernst Thaelmann would have received an overwhelming majority of the votes. * . * | Rae us examine the official figures published by Hitler’s own Ministry of Propaganda. Out of a total of 45,000,000 qualified voters, 43,438,378 are said to have cast their ballots. On the day of voting, Nazi terrorists canvassed every home, scoured the city with trucks, threatening every voter to be at the polls. Yet 1,561,622 stayed away. While a number can be counted as incapacitated, certainly Join the Communist Party 3% EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Piease send me more information on the Comma-/ over a million stayed away as a sign of protest against Hitler and Fascism. Nearly 1,000,000 ballots were reported “spoiled.” A spoiled ballot is primarily one containing a vote for Ernst Thaelnian: ns against fascism, or such as: “Down with regime!” “Release Ernst Thael prisoners!” “Long Live Sov: erican capi talist press corresponde! point out that the ballots were made so simple, with a circle for either “Yes” or “No,” and that there was no possibility for a mistake in voting. Furthermore, the voters were given only 30 seconds to “vote.” Yet nearly 1,000,000 braved exposure and its consequence to express their hatred of fascism. Another 4,287,808 admittedly had the courage to vote “No!” While the Nazi perverts and butchers rolled up for themselves in the Ministry of Pro- paganda a “Yes” vote of 38,279,514. O reactionary an organ of Wall Street as the Herald-Tribune is constrained editorially to sweep aside the “Yes” vote and concentrate its attention on the significance of the Nazi published opposi- tion vote. “The number of those who have the courage to write ‘no’ on a plea for approval of Adolf Hitler has more than doubled since last November. As we said in these columns yesterday morning, such a growth in the recorded opposition—in a coun- try where non-conformity is tantamount to treason and where the authorship of a ballot can be- checked—has an importance out of all propor- tion to the numerical count.” In Hamburg, the home city of Ernst Thaelmann, Specially picked by Hitler for attack in the plebis- cite, the vote against Hitler was the greatest throughout Germany, comprising more than 22 per cent of the total qualified voters. Again, in Berlin the admitted vote against the Nazi butchers was huge. Though, 2,451,000 are reported to have voted “Yes” in Greater Berlin, 483,000, a huge army of courageous anti-fascists, voted “No!” Over 15,000 “spoiled” their ballots; and another 100,000 stayed away from the polls. * * . 'HERE can be little question that the greatest proportion of the “No” vote was a vote for the Communist Party of Germany, the acknowledged leader of the anti-fascist front, the valiant, steeled fighter of the German proletariat, the nemesis of fascism and its inevitable conqueror. But this plebiscite, which more ominously raises the spectre of Communism in Germany, is just the beginning. Winter approaches and with it greater hunger and miséry for the German masses. The whole world sees in the plebiscite the uncontradicted growth of the forces of revolution in Germany. It is Thaelmann or Hitler! Facing these facts, the fascist bloodhounds, driven to greater fury by the obvious and powerful oppo- sition, will make every effort to murder our heroic Comrade Thaelmann. In this country, with greater energy than ever before, with the most determined action, we must broaden, vitalize and speed the fight for the liberation of Ernst Thaelmann and all other imprisoned anti-fascists. Great battles against fascism loom in Germany, and we must gather our forces now to come to the aid of our German brothers in the destruction of the most monstrous fascist flend the world has ever seen. A.A.A. Madness YING in the face of the working-class and the poor farmers of the United States, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace again lays down the law of the New Deal for the farms: the Agricultural Adjust- ment Act was, is and will be good, and must continue in effect. One-third of the potential crops have been destroyed by the A.A.A. crop-reduction plan; one- quarter of the farmers have been driven off their land in the last few years by mortgage companies and trusts; 20,000,000 Americans live on relief, which means on a starvation level; prices are admittedly rising—but the mad reduction program of the A.A.A. must go on, says Mr. Wallace. This gentleman, writing in the New York Times of August 19, states the Roosevelt farm policy in unmistakable terms, in words which every worker and farmer in the United States should ponder over: “If we were to remove controls, and if there were resumption of normal or nearly normal grow- ing weather (as is always probable) next year and thereafter, that point of unbalance could occasion us just as much damage in the future as it has caused in the past ... there are surplus acres still, Their probable future production, if they were plowed and tilled, would pile high a wasted yield, left to rot... We have not solved our basic farm surplus problem. Those 50,000,000 acres of land must be held out of commercial production until foreign demand is effectively restored.” Mr. Wallace admits in his article what every- body knew—that the A.A.A. and not the drought was the great ravager of American crops. Thé drought put the finishing touches on what was a fundamental policy of the New Deal administra- tion. And, says the secretary, the Rooseyelt goy- ernment intends to maintain crop-reduction. “A year or two of . . . uncontrolled production and normal or bumper crops will put the farmer right back where he was in 1932, with farm prices in the cellar and the whole country suffering again from drastic price collapse.” Here it is clear as day that A.A.A. restrictions are not being lifted. Obviously, the Farmers’ Na- tional Weekly, which draws contrary conclusions in its last issue, is incorrect, (Wallace’s own statements prove this.) . . . i aks the farmers are getting only further misery from the A.A.A. is attested to by daily facts. The “scissors’—the gap between prices of agricu- tural products and prices of manufactured products —is widening. While the price of corn is going up, the price of the farmers’ overalls —and of every other manufactured article—is rising much faster. Even official Washington is compelled to admit this. City workers are daily being robbed by the in- crease in the price of food and other necessities. The beneficiaries of the A.A.A. crop-reduction madness are simply and solely the few big farmers, the grain speculators, the great packers, the food trusts. The losers are the mass of farmers and the workers. The Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill, proposed Jast June by the Communist Party, is the only im- mediate answer to the needs of both the farmers and workers. This bill demands the repeal of the AAA, the stopping of farm evictions, cash relief for needy farmers, cash crop loans, and an appro- priation of $2,000,000,000 by taxation of the large trusts and incomes over $5,000. This bill and the measures proposed by the farmers’ organizations for drought relief should be given the earnest sup- port of farmers and workers alike. The farmers, however, should act immediately to force the administration to provide adequate drought relief. Protest meetings and demonstra- tions should be held in every township and county where the farmers’ demands are emphatoally set forward, | Soviet Land Japan Eyes | | | -Matsuoka’ Imperialist. Says USSR | Is More Important to | | Japan than China LONDON, Aug. 20.—A vicions | tirade against the Soviet Union, emphasizing the scope of the cam paign for war against the workers’ fatherland, was published by Yosuke Matsuoka, chief of the Jap- | anese delegation to the League of Nations, in an article in the Sunday Express, | Matsuoka declared from a mili- tary viewpoint the Soviet Union was more important to Japan than China, and that military prepara- tions were being speeded with the Soviet Union in mind. Matsuoka declared that Japan} would assure for itself the wealth of Manchuria, despite “a group of agitators trained in Russia.” He also added that Japan would not be dictated to by the League of Na- tions as to what colonies it: would seize or refrain from seizing. Unity Of Two Unions Sought By Teachers PARIS, Aug. 20.—The congress of the reformist trade union of teachers has adopted a resolution commissioning its committee to enter into communication with the unitary teachers’ union, in order to consult on the steps to be taken for an immediate amalgamation of the two unions. The congress further requires that the administrative commission of the General Confederation of Labor should place on the agenda of the National Council Congress, (General Confederation of Labor) to take place in October, the ques- tion of the immediate practical realization of unity on a national scale. The teachers’ union will hereby support a plan of trade union unity envisaging the taking up of direct | contact between the various trade union units from the bottom to the top, and the holding of amalgama- tion conferences, from local up to @ general national amalgamation congress. The congress calls upon the committees and the members | of the teachers’ unions to carry on | propaganda for this object. Food Riots Increase In Japan TOKIO, Aug. 20.—A steep rise in the number of food riots of starv- ing peasants is reported from many parts of Japan. Recently in the villages of Dejima and Rokuten, where the flood added to the misery of the peasants, thousands of pea- sants attacked 600 police and fire- men. The police and firemen were sent into the village to pump water out of certain places, and in doing so they flooded the homes and the lands of the peasants. The vil- lagers of Hida-mura and from other villages attacked the police with bamboo poles. Kuwashima village is isolated from the world and over 1,000 are starving. Mussolini, King March with Troops as_ Italy Whips Up War Spirit SCARPERIA DEL MUGELLO, Italy, Aug. 20.—To arouse greater interest in the war maneuvers now going on in Italy, Mussolini, as Minister of War, personally took part in the maneuvers by marching with the troops. Mussolini stepped from his auto- mobile, and joined the soldiers marching with them for hours. 'To make the war display even more spectacular, King Victor Emmanuel headed another detachment of troops, and met Mussolini in the center of the “battlefield.” Kuomintang Is Ruining China, Official Admits SHANGHAI, Aug. 20—At a re- cent dinner in his honor, Dr. Wel- lington Koo, Chinese minister to Paris, admitted that the Kuomin- tang has plunged China into the worst crisis in three centuries. “China is facing a crisis without parallel in the last three centuries,” he said. “Our friends abroad are entertaining the hope that we will make a supreme effort to overcome the crisis without further delay.” “Our friends,” of course, refers to the imperialist oppressors of China who believe that the first solution of the crisis is the destruction of the Chinese Soviet districts so that imperialism can more freely plun- der China. Hungary Rejects Soviet Offer To Free Rakosi PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia. — The Hungarian Government has refused the offer of the Soviet Union to exchange Mathias Rakosi, Commu- nist leader facing death in Hun- gary, for twenty Hungarian white guard prisoners, including the Hungarian professor Kenny, and relics of the revolution of 1848. An increasing international pro- | test is gaining momentum as the trial of Rakosi approaches. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means a tremendous step toward the “ Gietatorship of the proletariat! LY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1934 THE VIGILANTES t News Item: Green declares war on all militant workers within the A. F, of L. By Burck A AAS > U.S. Imperialism Is Turning Moshe Powitnnila Into Secretly A Vast Signal and Trans-| port System Built Up at Heavy Deficit By SAMUEL WEINMAN 'EN fast bombing planes manned by fliers of the U. S. Army Air Corps have completed one half of a round trip of 17,344 miles from Washington D. C., to Alaska. At the same time, July 18, eleven huge navy seaplanes started a mass filght from San Francisco to Alaska. The army squadron is now busily en- gaged in photographing Alaskan territory. Secretary of the Navy Swanson “insisted” that no significance was to be attached to the concentration of naval airplanes, submarines and other naval units this month at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska. Swanson’s very insistence proves that the contrary must be the truth. One must be naive indeed to believe that the U.S, Navy despatches a large force of sea and aircraft to the attic of ‘Wall Street’s empire with no def- inite purpose. Asked whether the U. S. Navy Department considered establishing a naval base in Alaska, Swanson evasively answered that “all places are under consideration” —and told reporters “you need not emphasize Alaska.” “Commerce” and War Reports from Washington indi- cate clearly that Secretary of Com- merce Roper is now in Alaska chiefly to negotiate for the expan- sion of “commercial” air lanes and ground stations The Commerce Department has already assigned an airways inspector to Alaska. “Commercial” air liners can be quickly converted into military ma- chines during the war. ‘The double mass flights to Alaska, came as no surprise to army and navy circles. In fact the flights are a logical development of the war preparations in Alaska for more than twenty years. They are likewise a logical link in the long chain of Roosevelt’s war prepara- tions. Well-informed army and navy officials openly declare that the Alaska flights are paving the way for the establishment of mili- tary aviation stations throughout the ice-box of American im- perialism. The last session of Congress ap- propriated $10,000 for the purchase of geographic and meteorologic data I about Alaska from a noted ex- plorer—information that is highly) valuable for army and navy fliers.) For more than 20 years the United States Government has quietly pre- pared Alaska for the approaching war in the Pacific. The U. S. Army has built a cable system, radio sta- tions, telegraph offices, a railroad, and numerous aviation fields to perfect its military transportation and communications requirements. The Wall Street government pre- tends to abhor government owner- ship as “confiscatory,” but in Alaska it has made an exception. There the U. S. Government owns the cables, telegraph lines, radio stations and railroad. The trans- portation and communication sys- tems connect military garrisons and outposts. Army Active in Alaska The very name of the cable sys- tem is a give-away as to its char- acter and purpose. It is called the ‘Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System. The cables were built by the Signal Corps of the U. S. Army in 1904. The opera- tors in charge of the thirty-five stations are regulars of the Signal Corps. Congress appropriates funds annually to subsidize the cables. The Alaska Railroad, owned and built by the U. S. government in 1914, was initiated by a commission composed of four members, includ- ing “Major Jay J. Morrow, chair- man, and Civil Engineer Leonard M. Cox of the U. S. Navy. The second commission included Lieut. Frederick Mears of the U. S. Army. The Alaska Railroad was built under the direction of the Army and Navy to serve the purposes of military strategy. Every year from 1925 to 1933 the Alaska railroad has operated at a deficit. Congress appropriates the difference to sup- port this cog in the Alaskan war machine. The U.S. Navy maintains a radio communication system in Alaska by means of a chain of radio stations at Cordova, Dutch Harbor and St. Paul Island. The Navy radio is linked with the Army cable and telegraph. Extensive Geodetic Surveys The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey has compiled a vast store of information, useful for military purposes, regarding hydrog- raphy, topography, tides, currents MORAL LSE SIRT. ‘med Fist Pointed at the East Army and Navy Control Radio and Air Fields in Northern Outpost dispatch in the New York Times, Aug. 5, 1934, headed “Geodetic Sur- veys Will Be Extended,” which flatly declares that “there is still another significant factor resulting from these [geodetic] surveys that quite conceivably can have a bear- ing on our efficiency in any future defensive war” Aviation facilities, “commercial” projects have been tremendously advanced in Alaska. At least 72 aviation fields and six hhydroplane ports: have been con- structed in spots strategic from a military point of view. In 1932 less than 7,000 passengers were carried by the air lines. In his annual re- port for 1933 the Governor exults that “all that is now required to insure a very prominent place for air navigation are air mail con- tracts.” Role of Alaska in War Two clinching facts, in addition to the evidence already mentioned, prove that Alaska is being geared to fit into Roosevelt's war prepara- tions. First, The population of Alaska is less than 60,000 persons. It is ridiculous to maintain that a tiny population of 60,000 on the vast frozen wastes requires 72 avia- tion fields, 470 miles of railroad, 35 cable and telegraph stations, -etc., for its normal, peace-time, com- mercial needs, The second fact is the geographic situation of Alaska. One glance at @ map of Alaska in relation to the Pacific war area—to Japan, the Soviet Union, China, Hawaii and the Philippines—is convincing proof that Alaska is an important war base. Amd what’s more, Roosevelt and the medal-bedecked Army and Navy officials know it. Notice how the Aleutian Islands extending far over to the Orient make a con- venient series of stepping stones. Imperialist war in the Pacific is an imminent certainty. The im- perialist conflicts between the Wall Street emperors and the Japanese rulers are swiftly coming to a head. At the same time the imperialist drive for an interventionist war against the Soviet Union is an ever- and magnetic and seismological work. If there is any doubt that geodetic surveys are of military value, that doubt is dispelled by a growing danger. In the next Paci- fic war Alaska will play an im- portant role, perhaps as important as Hawaii, Hindenburg Will Was Faked by the Nazis Paris Paper Charges PARIS, Aug. 20—Charges that the so-called will of the deceased President von Hindenburg was faked by the Nazis were made by the newspaper Paris Soir today. Paris Soir particularly claims that a section of the will urging that Kaiser Wilhelm succeed him as ruler of the Reich was stritken out by Hitler, Goebbels and von Hin- denburg’s son, Oskar. Some sections of the will, according to this paper, were written by Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. This information was received, declared Paris Soir, from a “special source” in Germany fully acquaint- ed with the facts. The original will, they charge, was much longer than the one published. Von Papen was named in the will, says Paris Soir, and for that,reason Hitler sought his murder on June 30. Von Papen later swore never to divulge the real contents of the will and for that reason was taken into the good graces of Hitlen - DETROIT YOUTH DETROIT, Aug. 20—A youth demonstration against imperialist war and fascism, and for the release of Ernst Thaelmann and all anti- fascist prisoners, will be held here Sept. 1 at 6:30 p.m. in the Perrien Park, Chene and Warren Sts. The demonstration is called by the Young Communist League and various other youth organizations and will be utilized to build the State Conference Against War and Fascism to be held on Sept. 9 at the Community Center, 8904 Wood- ward Ave. Following the Sept. 1 demon- stration there will be an indoor rally and dance in the Finnish Hall, 5969 Fourteenth St., at which John T. Pace, unemployed leader and militant ex-serviceman, will speak. Part of the proceeds from the meeting and dance will go to the German Young Communist League for revolutionary work against Hit- ler fascism, Our Readers Must Spread the Daily Worker Among the Members of All Mass and Frazernal Organ- izations As a Palitical Task of First Debate on Communism Is Proposed to Elks In New Rochelle NEW ROCHELLE, Aug. 20. — Answering the anti-working class disguised as | pe: On the World Front By HARRY GANNES. | Japan’s Secret Plans |China Today Machado’s Graft | |(IEIZURE of the Chinese Eastern Railway as the first explosive step to war against the Soviet Union was long planned by Japanese im- perialism. What Baron Giichi Tanaka | advised the emperor of Japan to do as far back as July 25, 1927, is now in the process of being carried out by Japanese bayonets. On that date, the Baron presented the emperor with a Memorandum which forecasts the whole secret im- perialist policy of the Japanese trusts. Much of what the Baron urged has been accomplished, namely, the seizure of Manchuria as a preliminary move to the seizure lof all of China, and Soviet Siberia up to Lake Baikal, and then con+ quering of the entire world, What Tanaka had to say in 1921 about the Chinese Eastern Railway reads like news today. We quote him: “DUT if the C. E. R. belonging to Soviet Russia develops in this district then our continental policy will receive a blow which will inevitably bring about con- flict with Soviet Russia in the near future. In this case we shall be obliged to play the role we played in the Russo-Japanese war, The C. E. R. will become ours just as the South Manchurian Railway became ours, and we shall seize Kirin (the Northeastern province of Manchuria) as we seized Dai- ren. It seems that the inevit- ability of crossing swords with Russia on the fields of Mongolia in order to gain possession of the wealth of North Manchuria is part of our program of national devel- opment. Until these hidden rocks are blown up our vessel cannot move rapidly ahead. We must demand from China the right te build important military ways. (With control of Man- churia, these railways are already completed.—H. G.) When these r“tways are finished, we can fill North Manchuria to overflowing with our forces.. (Also accom~ plished—H. G.)” . 'Y-ONE prominent Norwegian scientists, writers and artists, in- cluding Ingeborg Rofling Hagen, Henrik Sorensen, Helge Krog and others signed an appeal demanding the release of Ernst Thaelmann and other anti-fascist prisoners. The appeal was issued by the Norwegian Relief Committee for the victims of Hitler fascism. The Thaelmann release movement has penetrated into the remotest cor- ners of Norway. In the small town of Hamar, nearly the whole popu- Jation, or 500 people, signed the ap- a, Eighty-seven protest telegrams have been sent to Berlin in a few days. Fifteen trade union groups, five sports organizations and ten other workers’ organizations have decided to send declarations to Berlin to demand the release of ‘Thaelmann and the other prisoners of fascism, In the large industrial plant of Borregaard, the workers collected sufficient funds to send a special delegate to Berlin, Ei eae | 'VERY worker and sympathizer of the liberation struggle in China will be happy to hear that “China Today” will appear after its present August issue (mimeographed) as a regular monthly printed magazine entitled “The Far East and China Today.” The August issue is re- plete with the most up-to-date material on events in China, in- cluding such articles as: “Mao Tse Tung’s declaration to Japan”; “In the Kingdom of the Living Buddha”; “Chinese Military Ex- penditures for Defense Against Whom,” and “Chinese Red Army in Action” by Comrade Chow-en Lai, only a part of which appeared in the New Masses. Copies can be ob- tained from Friends of the Chinese People, 168 W. 23th St. New York City. ; 7 8 [|ACHADO has not been as lucky with his graft as he had been with the workers’ bodies he threw to the sharks. Only a few of the latter bobbed up again, but his grafting ventures reappear to plague his accomplices, the Chase National Bank and the National City Bank of New York. Just recently Cuban bondholders appointed a committee of U. 8. Senators, lawyers and professors to protect their interests in Cuba, and to “investigate” the graft charges. The Mendieta government some time ago issued a report charging that the $40,000,000 loans made to Cuba by the above-mentioned banks were “annuled by the vice and graft of the Machado e.” Mendieta forgets to mention the greater graft of the Wall Street banks. For every doilar Bloody Machado grafted, the Chase and National City Bank stole ten, But they are more skilfull grafters than proposals of the B. P. O. Elks, which has offered to merge its military department with the National Guard, to suppress militant strikes and to fight Communism, the Social Science Club of New Rochelle has challenged the New Rochelle Lodge, No. 756, of the Elks, to a public de- bate on “Capitalism vs, Commu- nism.” ‘The club offered to arrange for a Communist to defend Marxism- Leninism against any “apologist for tain for the debate, which the club asks be held any Thursday night in any public auditorium, at the con- venience of the Elks. A Scottsboro protest meeting will be held Wednesday evening at Brook Street and Winthrop Avenue, under the auspices of the Interna- tional Labor Defense of New Ro- shell ; : Raisin, i capitalism” whom the Elks may ob- | saining the butcher of Havana. Though there is enough evidence now in the files of the U. S. Senate to convict every officer of these banks for graft, it will never see the light of day. Mendieta is not against paying the $40,000,000—out of the hides of the Cuban workers and peasants. However, he sees an opportunity for bargaining. He knows these loans are anathema to the Cuban masses. He also needs more money. With- out injuring the bankers (their in- terests are well protected by Men- dieta) he uses his threats as a bar- point for more loans, so he can make the graft denied him un- der Machado's rule, and to help relieve his government of some ot its present financial burdens in or- der that the new regime may he in a better position to profit from its power. Greater Circulation Will bere all Need For