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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1934 ———————————————————— | LaGuardia’s Relief Taxes ITH the signing of the Ross bill for financing unemployment relief in New York city, articles of consumption and a tax on every pay envelope is held out by the LaGuardia regime. new taxes on the commonest As in the past, when the various “Block Aid” and “Share the Work” ward, so under the new taxing program, the bur- den of unemployment relief falls squarely upon the shoulders of the working population. schemes were put for- Three proposals are put forward by the LaGuar- dia bankers’ group: one, a tax of 1 per cent on every pay envelope; two, a municipal sales tax of 1 or 2 per cent; and three, a lottery scheme whereby the misery of the jobless would be made the foot- ball of chance. The first scheme hardly needs elaboration. Last week the State Legislature passed a 1 per cent tax ‘on all incomes above $20 a week. Commenting upon this and the city’s tax program, LaGuardia re- marked that the new tax imposts are “Just an added burden.” By the second, foodstuffs, clothing, the simplest articles of consumption. of the working population are to be taxed. In a leading article, the New York Herald- ‘Tribune, leading organ of the Wall Street group lets slip the purpose of the tax imposts. “The mayor's chief concern,” the Tribune states, “is to get a tax program that will appeal to the bankers,” that is, a tax program under which the masses will pay. N October 30, 1932, the past city administration signed the Bankers’ Agreement, by which the city would limit its relief expenditures and continue its payments to the bankers. Immediately after the city was loaned $70,000,000 by the bankers, near- ly half, $30,000,000, was at once paid back into the bankers’ coffers. The LaGuardia regime has con- tinued the monthly payments under the terms of the Bankers’ Agreement. ‘The unemployed are in perfect agreement with LaGuardia when he declares that the “unemploy- ment situation is serious.” Under the city budget now being prepared, nothing has been set aside for Yelief. Taxation must be levied to meet the rising need for relief. New Avenues of taxation are available—the super- profits of the utilities, taxes on inheritances and large incomes, a tax on. corporations operating within the confines of the city, on the large realty holdings and business sites. Notwithstanding his pre-election tirades against the “financial dictators,” against the secret parleys between the bankers and the past city administra- tion, against the “strangling Bankers’ Agreement by which I am bound.” LaGuardia takes the course dictated to him by those whom he has in the past condemned—in words. From the Whitneys, the Al- driches, the Belmonts, the Warburgs, the entire Wall Street group whom he invited to his “relief con- ferences” on June 4, LaGuardia has sought “ad- vice” on how to finanee relief. And the answer has been taxation on the masses. The answer of the employed and unemployed workers who are mobilizing their forces for a mass conference under the leadership of the United Ac- tion Conference on Work, Relief and Unemploy- ment, and who will march in thousands on City Hall on September 22, is the scrapping of the Bank- ers’ Agreement, taxation on the corporations and the bankers, and the demand for decent, adequate Telief to the unemployed workers, Hiding the War Danger — with the feverish war prepara- tions, and the intensified possibility of the momentary outbreak of war, the Amer- ican capitalist press has launched a cam- paign of soft-pedaling the facts of the danger of war. Foremost is the obvious butying of the danger of Japanese imperialist attack against the Soviet Union, and the armed seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway. It is the avowed policy of Japanese imperialism, as stated in the Tanaka document, and through a thousand deeds in Manchuria, to seize the Chinese Eastern Railroad by armed force, as a preliminary step to war against the Soviet Union. Not for a moment do the Japanese military rest in their daily preparations in Manchuria for war on the USSR. Whatever may be the daily fluctuations of the imminence of war, every imperialist power is gear- ing its whole economy to war preparations. Gigan- tic war expenditures are made in every capitalist country in the world. Navy and air armament races are on the order of the day. Increased con- fNlicts for world markets proceed side by side with Join the Communist Party’ 36 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Comme- | | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1934 rapid development of the armed forees to gain mastery of these markets. T IS to deceive the toilers into the belief that the cry of the danger of war has no basis in fact, that the capitalist press screens the swift develop- ment of factors for a new imperialist war. William Randolph Hearst, for example, the most jingoist propagandist for war preparations and war, particularly for war against the Soviet Union, re- turns from Europe to declare that war is not in the cards. “No, I do not think there is going to be a war,” he states. “Im the first place, war costs money, immense amounts of money. No European nation has enough money to make war.” With every capitalist power spending billions for war, increasing their war budgets manifold above the period before the last world war, Mr. Hearst’s argument becomes a mockery. Tt is true that the imperialist robbers have no money when it comes to unemployment insurance, or wages, but there is never a lack of money for armaments, for war preparations and war. Japanese imperialism “has no money”; it faces bankruptcy. But not for a moment since 1931 has it stopped its war ventures in Manchuria, hes it hesitated in increasing its navy and atr forces, Planning war against the Soviet Union. There are a hundred spots in the world in which a war may break out, as Austria showed. The fac: tors for war mature rapidly, incessantly, terribly. The basic, general crisis of world capitalism grows apace; the hunger for colonies, for plunder, for ter- ritorial expansion devours the imagination of the imperialists, and drives them ever forward to an attempted armed solution of the crisis. . * . '(HESE are the facts to be kept in mind and to be fought against. No matter how hard the prop- agandists of the bosses try to lull the workers into @ false security, no matter how thick the screen they place before the war maneuvers and prepara- tions, the struggle against imperialist war prepara- tions, against its fascist accompaniment, must be speeded with all haste. The forces against war must be rallied for the inevitable day (which may come at amy time) when the robber powers will attempt their new murderous adventure. The greatest, immediate point of mobilization against war is the Second United States Congress Against War and Fascism, to be held at Ashland Auditorium in Chicago, September 26, 29 and 30. This United Front Congress should see the greatest mobilization of forces against imperialist war and fascism the United States has ever witnessed. New Threat to Thaelmann ICTATOR HITLER has gone to his villa at Berchtesgaden “to rest a while and think.” But before he left he vented his rage on the nearly 7,000,000 courageous anti-fascists who braved the most savage terror to express their opposition to fas- cism. He threatened to move against the opposition “with typical Nazi speed and thorough- ness.” This is the speed of the machine gun bullet and the executioner’s axe, Since the most outstanding figure in the oppo- sition fight against fascism was Ernst Thaelmann, the imprisoned leader of the Communist Party of Germany, and since Hitler demonstratively carried on a vicious campaign against Thaelmann, the threat raises the greatest fears of Thaelmann’s life. Thaelmann has been repeatedly tortured in the Nazi dungeons, and it is only the tremendous world- wide demonstrations fighting for his freedom that have preserved his life up to now. One of the problems on which Hitler will con- centrate in his Berchtesgaden retreat will be how with “typical Nazi speed” to destroy Thaelmann. Recently in the United States the campaign for the release of Ernst Thaelmann, Torgler, and other imprisoned anti-fascists has lagged. We may be sure that Hitler's murder agents keep their ears to the ground waiting for a sign of let-up in the world vigilance of the workers and anti-fascists, It is at these moments, when the greatest dangers threaten Thaelmann. (PECIALLY now, with the bold threats of the Nazi bloodhounds, with the greater dictatorial powers granted to Hitler, and with the ominous, rapidly growing anti-fascist opposition, it is neces- asry for us to intensify, to broaden and to speed the campaign for the release of Emst Thaelmann. By mobilizing hundreds of thousands of Ameri- can workers for his release, by penetrating all labor organizations, all trade unions, fraternal organiza- tions, and all anti-fascist groups, rallying them behind the demand for the release of Ernst Thael- mann, we will be helping the struggle of the German workers for the overthrow of Hitler. A victory for the release of Thaelmann would be the greatest single blow we could help deliver to the fascist butchers in Germany. The campaign must be given new life. The new dangers to Ernst Thaelmann demand this. Rally the broadest forces for the freedom of the leader of the anti-fascist front in Germany! Ordoqui in Hiding Hope! ORDOQUI, secretary of the Cuban National Confederation of Labor, who faced the gravest dangers at the hands of the Mendieta Wall Street regime, the Daily Worker learns with the greatest joy, has managed to escape from those who had threatened his death. Comrade Ordoqui had been ordered arrested by the Mendieta regime. He disappeared for some time, and the Havas News Agency in Havana reported that he had been seized. The Daily Worker immediately started a campaign for his release. It was later learned that Ordoqui managed to escape the clutches of the Mendieta butchers and the A.B.C. fascist gangs, and went into hiding in Havana. From his hiding place he cabled the Daily Worker his thanks for the cam- paign to win his freedom and against the terrorist activities of the Wall Street-backed Mendieta gov- ernment. With the growing strike struggles and class battles against the Mendieta regime, accompanied by increased terror against the Cuban revolutionary workers, it is more than ever necessary now to cement our solidarity with our Cuban brothers in the fight against the Roosevelt regime, whose bayo- nets protect the Wall Street bankers in Cuba Irish Farmers Increase Fight On Land Taxes [Blockade R Roads, Hak | Traffic To Prevent Sales of Cattle DUBLIN, Aug. 20.—Irish farmers, particularly in Cork County, are in- creasing their resistance to the pay- ment of land annuities and against cattle sales for tax. Trees are being felled throughout the county to blockade roads and halt automobiles and other traffic. These measures are taken by the |farmers to prevent the De Valera government agents from forcing the | sales. The expectations of violence against government officials at- tempting to force annunities pay- ments and carry through tax sales is increasing, as the farmers are in a determined mood. The fascist Blue Shirts, led by Owen O'Duffy, are attempting to utilize the growing opposition to the | De Valera government in a move- ment favorable to British impe- rialism under the slogan of “re- establish the markets in Great Britain.” Most of the farmers are fighting against all annuities payments, whether to the De Valera govern- ment or to British imperialism, General Strike Is Threatened In Philippines MANILA, P. I., Aug. 21—A gen- eral strike in Manila threatens in support of 8,000 cigar and cigarette workers. Many labor unions are voting to walk out in support of the tobacco workers, A number of saw-mill workers have already come out in a sympathy strike. The cigar and cigarette workers are striking for the restoration of the 1939 wage rates, recognition of their union, and enforcement of the eight-hour day. City and government officials are mobilizing police and constabulary forces in preparations for the gen- eral strike, After the arrest of a number of strikers, a crowd of 3,000 marched tothe Luneta district police sta- tion, demanding the release of those jailed. They were informed that 25 women were released, but 55 men were still held. Mella Club Secretary Held by Cuban Police for Anti-War Work HAVANA, Aug. 21.— Armando Ramirez, leader of Spanish-Ameri- can workers of New York, was ar- rested here yesterday. Ramirez came to Cuba as a representa- tive of various Spanish revolution- ary organizations to attend the Na- tional Congress Against War, Fas- cism and Intervention, held here illegally on August 1. He is charged with Communist activities, and “fomenting revolution,” for which he “receives money from the Cuban Club Julio A, Mella in New York.” NEW YORK.—Ramirez, now held in Havana by the Wall St. puppet government of Mendieta and Ba- tista, was chosen Communist Party candidate for Assemblyman for Dist. 17. The Cuban Club Julio A. Mella, 1413 Fifth Avenue, of which Rami- rez is general secretary, held a mass meeting to protest his arrest last night. Telegrams were sent to President Mendieta, and a commit- tee has been elected to present pro- tests to the Cuban Consul here. Frank Ibanez, leader of the Cuban workers and cultural director of the club, made a stirring appeal to all workers, American and Spanish, Negro and white, to picket the offices of the Cuban Consulate as “long as Ramirez is held.” Los Angeles Socialist, Enemy of United Front, Joins Fascist ‘Utopians’ LOS ANGELES, Cal. — Declaring that the Fascist Utopian Society should be supported, Stanley Rogers, member of the State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of California, publicly signed an ap- plication for membership card of the society, at a recent meeting of the New Fabian Society. The New Fabian Society, com- posed principally of members and former members of the Young People’s Socialist League, was or- ganized about three months ago fol- lowing the collapse in Los Angeles count yo fall circles of the Y.P.S.L. Rogers signed up for membership in the Utopian Society following an address in the New Fabian Society given by an official speaker of the Utopians. His lead was followed by one other member. Obviously, Rogers step to the right was taken in the hope of preventing the continued drift of the New Fabian Society to the left. Several have already joined the Young Communist League and the Communist Party. Rogers consistently has been op- posed to a United Front with Com- munists, but seems to see nothing inconsistent about a United Front of the S.P. with the Fascists. War Supplies Loaded For Poland and Japan BOSTON, Aug. 21.—Active muni- tions shipments are going from here for Japan and Poland. The S. S. Eli was loaded with war ma- terials for Japan, and the S. S. Vigor left here with 5,000 tons of No. 1 and No, 2 steel scrap, the largest load ever to be shipped out of Boston, TRYING TO TIE HIM UP By Burck GORMAN By JAMES W. FORD | In “Negro,” a book by nels | Cunard, appears an article by George Padmore entitled, “Ethiopia Today—The Making of a Modern State.” In this article, Padmore strays @ thousand miles from Communism, goes completely into the camp of the petty bourgeois nationalists, ignores the role of Soviet Russia as the friend of oppressed peoples and small nations, and falls headlong into the lap of Japanese imperialism which he hails as the friend of the “darker races.” A few sentences from this article will suffice to expose Padmore’s mockery of Com- munist political analysis, his stupidity and treachery. The fol- lowing sentence sets forth Pad- More’s premise: “It is less than ten years ago that Ethiopia suddenly emerged out of a condition of isolation. Since then, her orientation towards modernity and her rela- tionship with the capitalist coun- tries of the West has been so rapid, that she is today a full- fledged member of the League of Nations, and maintaining em- bassies in such important capitals as London, Paris, Rome, Berlin and Washington.” Make the latter part of this statement read: “Ethiopia today a full-fledged capitalist state, with embassies in the leading capitalist cities in the world,” then we draw Padmore’s logical conclusion: that the salvation of Ethiopia lies in the country becoming a bourgeois cap- italist state. The false idea of Japanese im- perialism as the friend of the “darker races,” is more fully en- larged upon by Padmore. He says that a commercial treaty has been made between Ethiopia and Japan, “an alliance which might have tremendous and far-reaching im- portance not only for Ethiopia, but for all BLACK AFRICA.” (Emphasis—Padmore’s). He develops the idea still further by the following words: “Ethiopians, like the Japanese, are a proud and independent people jealous of their national freedom and conscious of the fact that they are the first non- European people since the Haitian Revolution to defeat the white race at arms—the Abyssinians over Imperial Italy in 1896; Japan over Czarist Russia in 1905.” (Emphasis, mine J.W.F.) Here one sees not only the com- plete smoothing over of the class relations but the stirring up of bit- ter race poison, Any one who knows anything at all about the Haitian Revolution knows that it was not a question of race against, race. It was a struggle of the Slaves, led by Toussaint L’Ouverture against slavery and the domination of the rising French imperialists over Haiti. In this struggle it so happened that whites were allied with blacks against France and in some cases blacks allied with whites to continue the enslavement of the blacks, Histcry also records the impor- tant fact that Toussaint L’Ouver- ture stopped sharp in his tracks and demanded that a group of Polish people (mostly immigrant workers and peasants who lived at that time in Haiti) should have protection as a national minority. Or let us take the Russo-Japanese War. Has Padmore forgotten (?) that the Bolsheviki as early as 1905 fought against the invasion of Japan by the Czarist armies as an act of aggression against the Jap- anese people and an act against the interests of the Russian workers and peasants? Of course Padmore is aware of this act of interna- tionalism on the part of the Bol- sheviki. Then why does Padmore issue the slogan “defeat the white raee ~ Padmore Sups v with th Kings | and Emperors Diseussion on the Negro uicolbont for the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International © at arms?” This slogan covers up these facts and the principles of the class struggle and is of great value to the imperialists who are now stirring up nationalist chau- vinist feelings in preparation for war. This slogan aims at splitting the ranks of the working class. Moreover it lumps all whites to- gether, white workers with white bourgeoisie, and calls for “race war” instead of “class war.” It is a treacherous slogan of nationalism. Padmore carries this vicious idea still further when he says: “Ethiopians, like the Japanese knowing that all other colored people are under the yoke of white imperialist domination, are suspicious of the .white man.” (Emphasis, mine J.W. F.) What about the subjugation of the Koreans and Manchurians by Japanese imperialism (so-called colored races), Mr, Padmore? Are there no class divisions in Japan? Praise of the Bourgeois Rulers Padmore loudly praises the Ethi- opians and the Japanese rulers for their thousand-year lineage and sees the present day rulers as the cream of the “great” past. He says: “Ethiopians, whose history is one ranging over a thousand years, claim a line of sovereigns dating back to 4530 B.C. . . with over 300 rulers including the Queen of Sheba.” “The history of Ethiopia is simi- lar to that of Japan,” says Padmore. “The latter has her ‘Son of Heaven’ and the Ethiopians their ‘Lion of Judea.’ These are the two most important personages in the two countries.” The Ethiopians “swear fidelity to the Emperor, whose of- fical title is Kadowawi, ie. the Power of Trinity, Kings of Kings.” This sounds like a monk extolling the virtues of the Pope. The Emperor, the “Liberator” of Ethiopia “The church, which has con- trolled over one-third of the land since the thirteenth century, and the feudal lords form a mighty bulwark of reaction.” From this premise, he begins to develop a “Jesser evil” theory. He says, “it is against this formidable opposition [the church and the landlords, J. W. F.] that the Em- peror, an enlightened monarch, who favors the progressive moderni- zation of his country, has to carry on ‘ struggle.” (Emphasis mine J.W. F.). What utter nonsense! Is it not a fact thy‘ the Emperor, the church, the landlords and the whole ruling class stand on the backs of the Ethiopian masses? And is it not a fact that through them the foreign capitalists enslave the people of Ethiopia? Of course it is! The colonial and semi-colonial policy of imperialist nations in relation to oppressed peoples is built and sus- tained by the various ruling cliques. Let me quote from the colonial thesis of the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International: “Where in the colonies im- perialism is in need of a social support it first of all allies itself with the ruling strata of the previous social structure, with the ’ fedual landiords and with the trading and money-lending bour- geoisie against the majority of the people. “The bourgeoisie of China, In- dia and Egypt letc., Ethiopia— J. W. F.] is by its immediate in- terests so closely bound up with landiordism, with usury capital and with the exploitation of the peasant masses in general, that it takes its stand not only against the agrarian revolution but also against every decisive agrarian reform.” Who is this “liberator,” the Em- peror of Ethiopia that Padmore so loudly praises? He is bound by all kinds of ties with the feudal land- jords, the church and in turn with the foreign capitalists against the majority of the people of Ethiopia. For this reason he is afraid of the revolt of the masses. Padmore unwittingly admits as much when he prepares the following excuse for the Emperor’s army: “In order to better cope with the problems of reform [suppress any rising of the masses—J.W.F.] the whole state apparatus has undergone drastic changes. A well-disciplined, centralized army, loyal and devoted to the person of tne Emperor, is the only force capable of guaranteeing PEACE AND ORDER.” But the bourgeois rule must be secured by future bourgeois leaders and trained militarists. So Padmore Says, “In order to avoid the danger of open revolt and possible over- throw . . . the Emperor is adopting @ policy of ‘gradualism,’ is sending young students abroad to be trained in the military sciences in France, Italy, England and the United States,” and is also inviting young American Negro specialists to Ethi- opia. Who doubts that some day Padmore himself will not be a part of this fascist set-up? According to Padmore, Ethiopia is the last remaining independent black state in Africa not bound by any such machinations as the Fire- stone Company in Liberia, and he racks his brain in vain and hope- lessly to find out how Ethiopia is to keep herself free from im- perialism and international finance- capital, How can the rich natural resources, ores, minerals, raw prod- ucts, etc., of Ethiopia be developed without flooding the country with foreign capitalist exploiters? There is no way out, concludes Padmore: “Whether the Ethiopian ship will arrive at its destination safely, only history will tell.” But Padmore has his way out for Ethiopia. Despite his mouthing about the independence of Ethiopia from foreign domination, he is forced to admit the domination of foreign capitalists over Ethiopia and he sees in them a way out. “A FEW CONCESSIONS have been given to foreign capitalists. A French company is working platinum mines; while an Italian company is nee potash de- posits . . ‘hree Belgian com- panies are culltveting coffee, and a French syndicate is developing cotton. ‘The only railroad is owned by the French-Ethiopian company . . . but the manage- ment is largely in the hands of the French.” The way to pursue this path ac- cording to Padmore, is by ‘utilizing the deep-rooted jealousies and eco- nomic contradictions between these imperialist powers.” Padmore tries to prostitute for petty bourgeois na- tionalists uses the proletarian in- ternationalism of Lenin, who speaks about utilizing the contradictions of imperialist powers for the benefit of the revolutionary movement. However, with the world set up as it is today, with the imperialists choking and strangling the Ethio- pian masses, this idiotic talk about utilizing imperialist contradictions is the height of nonsense. In the case of Ethiopia or any semi-independent country today, in the period of wars and revolutions, the contradictions of imperialism lead only to two conclusions (1) imperialist nations struggling to gobble up Ethiopia, and (2) the organiation of the masses on the basis of their economic mis- ery and oppression to fight for the overthrow of bourgeois-imperialist domination. The path of inde- Fendence and liberation for Ethio- pia and the liberation of the masses lies in the latter road. But Padmore contemptuously ignores the masses of Ethiopia; he completely ignores the bate mee out by the Soviet Union; the significance of tin grow of ' On the World Front |_—By HARRY GANN: A Filipino Legislator Pu Yi Goes Visiting Japan in Latin America OMINATED by the Fili- pino landlord-bourgeoisie, the Tenth Legislature is in session in the Philippines, faced with the problem of a new constitution, future rela. tions to Wall Street, and the impending war in the Far East, Governor-General Murphy, well known to Detroit workers for his services to General Motors and Ford, for his brutal attacks on un- employed and strikers, delivered a message to the opening session, the, 48P= main thesis of which was that Philippine economy must be geareciq } to the needs of the American bank j yj. ers and capitalists. ys € i a S an example of the type of lee islators the motor trust Governor § fo. General is fortunate enough to have @nn, in i+ bf for carrying out his policy, we refer to the Philippine Herald, mid-week magazine, of July 18. There a whole page is devoted to “an appraisal of Jose Cojuangco, the richest member of the Lower House.” The Herald goes into raptures over Mr. Cajuangco, because he not only has become the richest member of the Lower House through exploit- ing 600 serfs on his great feudal domain, but the Gentleman from Tarlac thinks nothing of hobnobbing with his slaves—in order to get their votes. “More than a professional poli- tician,” writes the Herald, “his business position had brought him to hobnob with all classes of peo- ple, especially the laboring mass. {Something like our own dear Francis Perkins.—H. G.] Stripped of all the attendant aristocracy that his social standing carries, he has worked, eaten, and associated with his tenants. His mingling with them showed him their plights—and their ills and prob- Jems—and he had learned to sym- pathize with them. He felt what they felt and did all that he could do to assuage their terrible misfortunes, Mr, Cojuangco’s pe- culiar love for the poor has brought te him, unrestricted, numerous cases of suffering of farmers.” i: Fae ve crocodile tears, Mr Cojuangco, continues to ride on the backs of his serfs, becoming the richest member of the Lower House. In fact, Mr. Cojuangco will do any- thing for his tenants (they are his beloved children) but get off their necks. It is not for nothing that the aristocratic Cojuangco hobnobs with the “laboring mass” (he probably likes horses also). For the Herald informs us: “Having previously rubbed elbows with the masses, Mr. Cojuangco has easily acquainted himself with the essence of yote-getting.” re ear INDER the type of colonial dom- ination in the Philippines, it is }) not only the task of the Filipino native landlord-bourgeois to main- tain their feudal mastery over the Peasants, but to obtain the serfs votes in favor of this relationship. It is these gentlemen, aided by that crafty corporation lawyer, Gov- ernor-General Murphy, who pro= claim their objective of writing a constitution for a “free Philippines.” i ere IS Majesty, the Emperor of Man- chukuo (Henry Pu Yi to his older acquaintances), will make a pil- grimage to Tokio in April. Henry will board a Japanese battleship whence he will be taken to kowtow to the Son of Heaven, the Emperor Hirohito. This is not a mere social visi but part of the Japanese plans 0: openly making Manchuria Japanese territory. The same thing was done with Korea, The first step was the visit of Prince Chichibu to Manchuria, as a sort of demonstration of the Jap= anese emperor sending his deputy to observe the newly acquired ter= Titory. Pu Yi, who is as far away from the Manchurian people as President Roosevelt, announces the pi of }\) his forthcoming visit is “to express the friendship of the Emperor and his people of Manchukuo for Japan and also to return the courtesy of H. I. H. Prince Chichibu shown to the emperor and the people of the new state on the occasion of his recent visit.” es nie | shart imperialism is making a new intensive drive for Latin American markets. Foreign Minis- ter Koki Hirota has dispatched Commercial Attache Yasundo Sudo of the Japanese embassy at Wash- ington to Central and South America, “Although Japan’s trade volume with Latin America has almost trebled during the past three years,” declares the Osaka Mainichi, “the Foreign Minister believes there is considerable room for further ex- pansion there.” The Mainichi also admits that this action will.sharpen the rivalries of the imperialists in Latin Amer- ica, saying: “In the event that Japan makes . . an advance in that part of the world, she must anticipate flerce competition with European and _ American countries having the pri- ority advantage.” the revolutionary movements in China and India, and on the con- tinent of Black Africa itself. The Chinese Soviets, the Chinese Red Army, the Soviet Revolution in China, these facts have no lessons for Padmore. “Semper novi quid ex Africa,” concludes Padmore. Freely translated from Latin this phrase means: “New things always come from Africa.” Petiy bourgeois nationalism leads only into the camp of the enemy. Only proletarian internat