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Page Six Daily .QWorker | GRETA OREM COMELUNIST PARTY HL5.A (SECTION OF COMDHAIIST MITORMATIONALS “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4 - 7 Cable Address: “Dat Washington Bureat i4th and F St., Wash’ Midwest Bureau: 10: Telephone: Dearborn Subscription Rates: Bron: Sv Mail: (except Man a ax), 4 months, $3.50; 3 m 1_month a Manhattan, Bronx @ Canada: 1 year, $8.00; 6 months, $5.00 00. By Carrier: Weekly ; monthly, 75 cents FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1984 SPSS ND PATE CE The Working Class Will Not Forget! EVEN years ago Wednesday, August 22, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were legally murdered by the State of Massachusetts —a crime for which the working class correctly holds the entire ruling class of the United States respon- sible. Convicted on a flimsy murder frame-up, their real crime in the eyes of the ruling class lay in their militant opposition to the imperialist war mongers during the unspeakable slaughter of the World War, and their undying loyalty to their elass—the working class. The working class will never forget the murder of these two heroes produced from its struggles against war, exploitation and oppression. The hus- dreds of Sacco-Vanzetti memorial meetings held throughout the country this weck attest the fact that the memory of these courageous working class fighters is still fresh in the heart of every class- conscious worker. In honoring the memory of these fighters for freedom, the working class does not shed useless tears but, determined to avenge their murder, takes up, under the bold leadership of the Communist Party, the fight in which they gave their lives, the fight for freedom, the fight to abolish war, exploitation and oppression, and in the resolve that Yhere shall be no more Sacco-Vanzetti murders in this country, afd the revolutionary determination to rescue that other working class hero, Angelo Herndon, and the Scottsboro Boys from the hands of the murderous ruling class which sent Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair for their political beliefs, for their working class activities. In this spirit of relentless struggle against their oppressors, the American working class, and the toilers of the whole world, re-echo today the courageous defiance of Vanzetti, prophetically pre- dicting the effect of this monstrous crime in un- masking the brutal nature of the capitalist dic- tatorship, in rallying new sections of the working class for the revolutionary overthrow of the hideous system: “If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have died unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for telerance, for justice, for man’s understanding of man as now we do by accident. Our words—our lives, our pains. Nothing! The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoe-maker and a poor fish- peddler—all! That last moment belongs te us— that agony is our triumph.” A Liberties (?) League IME and time again the Communist Party has pointed out that within the capitalist class there are developing, under impact of the economic crisis, differences as to the methods of solving the crisis. What is the best way to maintain the profit system, is a question around which new political alignments form in the ruling class. Such a division, cutting across old party lines, is very clear in the formation of what is termed, ironically enough, “The American Liberty League”— actually a league against the liberties and living conditions of the masses of the American people. This association states as its avowed purpose to “teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every form of government and (2) to teach the duty of gov- ernment to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire property, and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when acquired.” What the influence of the organization will be and how long it will last is not yet established. But this much is certain: The American Liberty League, judging by its billionaire founders, and its avowed purpose, is a collection of the most reactionary finance capitalists in the country, or- ganized to exert pressure on national politics. It will direct its main blows against the working class, against the rising tide of labor organization. It will campaign against any measure which in the least comes in conflict with the section of finance capital it represents. It will fight for its particular viewpoint on the N.R.A., on the A.A.A,, on currency questions, etc. But its differences with Roosevelt are not fun- damental. Both want to uphold and maintain the capitalist system, the source of the growing misery for toiling America. U.S.S.R.-- U.S.A. WS of the tremendous advances made by socialist industry in the Soviet Union, as well as reports of joyous vic- tory over the drought in the Soviet Union, arrive in this country when the economic reports are the gloomiest since Roosevelt came to office. Under planned, Socialist economy, where the workers’ rule, there has been an unceasing, rapid forward march of every industry for the sole pur- Pose of increasing the well-being of the toilers. While under the Second Five-Year Plan the goal ‘was set for an annual increase in the rate of total industrial output of 16.5 per cent, the figures just published for the first six months of 1934, show the advance was 19.7 per cent. ? f Every branch of Soviet industry showed huge i DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1934 gains, especially heavy industry and the food- producing industi While the American workers face a scarcity of food this winter, with higher prices, food produ in the Soviet Union in- creased 23.3 per ce! The last Federal Reserve Bank reports showed retail trade declining in this country (workers and farmers being able to bi less food and clothes.) increase in the volume of retail trade. nicrease in the volume of retail trade Despite the rosy, glowing promises of “prosperity by the Roosevelt regime, despite all the efforts of e capitalists (at the expense of th workers’ living andards), the latest reports on American economy show a sharp, opposite contrast to Socialist econ- omy Where the Soviet steel industry gained around 29.3 per cent increase in output, the gigantic United States industry, owned chiefly by Morgan & Co. recorded a drop to 21 per cent of its total capacity, a point which nears the all-time low record of the crisis, Coal production is down; car loadings are down. Worst of all for the workers, jobs and wages are going down to a point exceeded only twice since 1919. In July alone, over 350,000 American kers lost their jobs, and over $10,500,000 was cut | off of weekly payrolls. In the very week in which the Soviet, planned Socialist industry reported such great victories, in- suring a more well-to-do life for the workers and farmers of the land of the victorious proletarian revolution, the leading economic organ of Wall Street had the following to report: “Index of business activity drops te lowest level since December, 1933.” The perspective of American industry is still lower leyels, still more unemployment, still lower wages, still more hunger and misery for the toilers —and yet still greater profits for the bosses, such as they achieved through the N.R.A Soviet power in the U.S.S.R., Socialist planned economy, has been able to demonstrate to the work- ers of the world that the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism can completely turn the tide, wipe ottt the parasites and insure for the toilers an ever advancing standard of living, the end of unem- | ployment, and the greatest cultural advance. It is for this aim that the Communist Party in the United States is striving, mobilizing, organizing and partaking in the front line struggles of the American workers for their most pressing, imme- diate demands against the bosses for bread. It is against this aim that William Green and all the enemies of Communism are mobilizing in an effort to maintain the capitalist system of misery and poverty for the masses. We want here to draw to the attention of all workers the world significance of the victories under the Second Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union. This was excellently stated by Comrade V.M. Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the U.S.S.R., speaking on the tasks of the Second Five-Year Plan at the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Com- rade Molotov then said what is now being borne out by accomplishments: “The fulfillment of the Second Five-Year Plan will increase still further the importance of the U.S. S.R. as a bulwark of struggle of the international proletariat, will raise the prestige of the Land of the Soviets as a base of support of the world pro- letarian revolution still higher in the eyes of the toiling, exploited masses of the whole world. The new great historical victories in the construction of Socialism will consolidate still more the economic basis of the fighting capacity of the Soviet Union, its ability to repeal and shatter any ambitions of the enemies of the Proletarian State. The power- ful economic upsurge and steady growth of well- being of the toiling masses in the Soviet Union, while a crisis exists in the capitalist countries, will still more strikingly corroborate the superiority of the Socialist system of economy over the capitalist system and the historical doom of the system of capitalist slavery, will make still more conspicuous the gigantic creative forces of the revolutionary pro- letariat which has conquered power and is con- solidating its dictatorship in a heroic struggle for the construction of a classless society.” Green’s Anti-Union Drive Begins in Painters R. WILLIAM GREEN’S widely publi- cized plan for driving Communists and militants from the unions of the American Federation of Labor has been put into action in New York. Local 499 of the Painters’ Brotherhood has received notice from District Council No, 9 that its charter has been revoked and that every member of the local should consider himself expelled from the A. F. of L, Why was this action taken by Philip Zausner, iMegal secretary-treasurer of the District Council? First of all, it was Local 499 that exposed Zaus- ner’s underworld connections and led the fight for the ousting of Zausner, who used gangsters to halt a genuine fight of the rank and file painters against the Master Painters Association for union conditions. Secondly, Zausner’s scheme of driving striking painters back to work under non-union conditions and then collecting money from them was a failure due to the opposition of the rank and file of the Brotherhood led and initiated by Local 499 mem- bers. Thirdly, the fact that Local 499 took the present strike in their own hands, elected a broad rank and file strike committee and carried on active mass picketing against the will of Zausner has driven the corrupt leadership of the Brotherhood to despair. In this state of despair, seeing the union lead- ership slipping from their graft-stained hands, the District Council following the advice of the leader of the labor misleaders, William Green, issued the order for the ousting of the local. The opening guns in the campaign against militant labor have been fired. New ammunition is being brought up by Mr. Green’s agents in other sections of the Federation and the guns are being trained on other unions in the reactionary attempt to devitalize American labor. What union will be attacked next is hard to say. But the attack is definitely on. The “purg- ing” campaign, started in the Painters’ Brother- hood, will strike other unions and will be a disas- trous blow at American labor if it is not nipped in the bud at the first point of attack. The rank and file painters are being mobilized to wipe out the anti-labor decision of the Zausner gang in a mass meeting at Manhattan Lyceum on Tuesday night. The A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance is mobiliz- ing union members to protest Green's plan at a meeting at Webster Hall next Wednesday, This vile attack on Local 499 must serve as a signal for a concerted drive of all organized labor to block Mr. Green's attempt to throw out the best forces from the unions. The fight of Local 499 against the ouster edict must be the starting point for the mobilization of all miiltants in the unions for decisive mass action against the dead hand of the top official- dom of the A. F. of L |French press. ‘Emigres Aid Anti-Soviet War Moves | Japanese Militarists| Finance Activities of White Guards (Special to the Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Aug. 23 (By wire- | less)—Russian white guards liv- ing in China are showing excep- tional activity in connection with the Japanese war provocations against the Soviet Union over the Chinese Eastern Railway. In Tientsin, North China, the white guards are openly conducting the registration of former Czarist soldiers and Kolchak armies. This registration is . directed by the white guard Pastukhin, calling him- self “Ataman of Amur.” During the Japanese interyention in Si- -WE] OY} 0} IWEISISSe se oy BIIEq ‘souBUIEg UBUIE}Y PINs ayy sno the puppet of Japanese imperial- ism. Special attention is deserved by the fact that Pastukhin is editor of the fascist newspaper, “Rebirth of | Asia,” published with Japanese | money, * 8 6 (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Aug. 23. (By wireless). —| Japanese-Manchurian provocations against the U.S.S.R. are more sharply criticized every day by the Newspapers show that the actions of the Japanese and Manchurian authorities not only create a danger for Soviet- Japanese relations, but for the peace of the whole world, Great attention was caused by the article published in “Temps,” un- der the title; “A Campaign of False Statements in the Far East.” Henri Rolland, author of the article, gives a historical review of the false and provocative statements which have been spread from Harbin for over @ year regarding the imaginary “ag- gressivéness of the U.S.S.R.” Rolland claims that the special center of anti-Soviet propaganda stationed in Harbin is similar to that which existed in Riga and Tallin, These false statements are published “not only to cause a feeling of strong dissatisfaction against the U.S.S.R. but to pro- voke incidents in Manchuria and even abroad.” Quoting some Harbin anti-Soviet leaflets, Rolland states: “To those who know proclamations of certain secret societies which are trying to strike a blow at the Soviet gov- -sdoid jo djay 9y2 Ut quauruse ganda and terroristic acts, the style of such appeals are too char- acteristic to permit of doubt of their origin and aims.” Rolland states that the Russian white guard organizationsin France, and especially the monarchist Paper, “Vozrozhdenie,” are also in- volved in the Harbin anti-Soviet center. Rolland writes: “It is im- Possible not to see the coincidence between this campaign of spread- ing anti-Soviet forgeries and the journey of a certain agitator who plays a decisive role in this society, to whose actions we cannot remain indifferent, since they manifest themselves even in France and meet wth suspicious sympathy in Berlin. This person who has considerable capital and a series of confederates serious attention. (The newspaper evidently has in view the chief of the so-called “Society of Russian Fascists,” Vonsietsky, of whose journey in the Far East and to some European capitals, we recently re- ferred.) “Ere Nouvelle,” in an extensive article contrasts the peace policy of the U.S.S.R. with the warlike policy of Japan which, “Although con- demned by the League of Nations as responsible for war, nevertheless, continues to conduct its warlike program.” Emphasizing that the Soviet gov- ernment has no tendency to enslave other peoples, and that this is proved by its relations with neigh- boring countries which were for- merly oppressed by Czarism, and pointing out the suspcious inten- tions of Germany against the U.S. S.R., the newspaper writes: “The agreement between Germany and Japan is a fact. This proves that the problem in the Far East is closely connected with the problem of the Western borders of the U.S. S.R. and the Baltic countries, and that close attention is absolutely necessary to this sector of Euro- pean policy.” USSR Area Sets Record In Harvest (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Aug. 23 (By wireless). —The first section of the U.S. S. R. to complete the harvest and thresh- ing of grain is the autonomous region of Northern Osetia in the North Caucusus. Despite the dry spring, the col- lective farms of Osetia obtained a harvest unparalleled in the condi- tions in this region. Wheat is 13.7 centners per hectare; rye 16.5 cent- ners, and in some, individual col- lective farms, 27 centners, Again the advantage of organized, collective labor made itself felt. When the danger of drought hung over the region, the collective farms by joint efforts rapidly formed a big irrigation system. They dug 2,560 kilometers of irrigation canals among which some reach 17 to 20 kilometers in length. Weeding of grain crop, not formerly practiced here at all, is now widely resorted to. All this, together with deep trac- tor ploughing, rapid early sowing and other measures, impossible in small individual farms, insured a good harvest for the collective farm regions. The income of the collective farmers, particularly their grain re- serves, considerably exceed last year's. “ALL ABOARD!” Threat to World Peace, Says FSU NEW YORK.—American workers | were urged to spring to the im-! mediate support of the Soviet Union, now threatened with war by Japanese military provovcations, in an appeal issued yesterday by the National Committee of the Friends of the Soviet Union. The appeal follows in part: “Alarming news from the Far East indicates the rapid culmination of a situation fraught with danger to world peace. The Japanese are preparing to strike against the So- viet Union. Since Japan attacked China in 1931, they have consoli- dated their power in Manchuria, they have built strategic railways, military roads, naval posts, air- dromes, and have assembled a huge war machine. “The only possible purpose of the long list of atrocities committed by Japan against the Chinese Eastern Railway and the Soviet Union, is provocation of war. Japanese im- perialists are eager to consolidate their hold on their puppet. state, Manehukuo, not only because of the business methods of the Japan- solid stepping stone for an attack on the Soviet Union. A powerful group of Japanese reactionaries, fascists, and jingoists, is urging the military dictators of Japan to pro- ceed ‘from words to deeds... The ‘ominous warning’ served on So- viet Russia by the Japanese Foreign Office, alleging unfriendly acts, in- dicates that the prevailing opinion | of the Japanese ruling class is that the sooner they attack the USS.R., the better their chance of victory. “The Associated Press reports that Great Britain has formed a secret military alliance with Japan. Japan had not dared at- tack the Soviet Union without as- surances of support from at least one great European power. As soon as Japan attacks in the East, Hitler will lead an attack in the West, backed by Britain. “Friends of the Soviet Union, workers, farmers, intellectuals, pro- fessionals, youth of America: The international situation at this mo- ment is packed with dynamite. Arise in your might to prevent the explosion! Hold back the war mad fascists, the imperialists of Asia, Europe and America who are ready to plunge us into the most disas- Friends of Soviet Union Warn Against War Acts in Far East Japanese Provocations |ese industrialists, but also so as to| Urges Widespread Fight |firmly entrench themselves on a by American Workers to Defend U.S.S.R. trous calamity the world has ever seen. Prevent munition shipment to Japan. Manifest your determina- tion to stop war. Make your voice heard in Washington. Join with our comrades in Tokyo, London, Paris and Berlin in a broad and powerful united front against war. “Support the Second U. S. Con+ gress Against War. Every branch of the F.S.U. must be represented at the anti-war Congress in Chi- cago on September 28-30. “Organize mass demonstrations On the | World Front By HARRY GANNES. | Dismal German Reports Like the Year 1848 Why the Pound Is Down I STAR chamber confer ences, in their exclusive zlubs, in confidential circulars, the ruling classes of the world are beginning to express their fear and dread of great class |battles throughout the capi- |talist world this coming winter, Very little of this oozes out into the capitalist press. So far as Germany is concerned, the exploiters every« where live in dread of great disaster, For example, the London eco- Tribune, on August 21, cabled th following on the German situatic “Financial and commercial repo from Germany are dismal... . 1 Hjalmar Schacht’s economic dict torship threatens further calamitic + ++ German industries are return ing to a war basis.” Not a very hopeful picture for world capitalism in this keystone of European reaction, Pip * NOTHER capitalist source, the confidential circulars of the Whaley-Eaton Service, shows that the dismal future and the threat- ened calamities hit the working class most. “The official census conducted by the Nazi Labor Front,” they say, “reveals that the average wage of a German worker is 26,25 marks per week ($6.56 at old par of exchange), This average includes all workers of both sexes and all ages. Since the census was taken wages have fallen and the cost of living has increased.” NS * Ao themselves, in their pri+ vate gatherings, the bosses read and prepare their vigilantes and fascist forces for such reports as the following given to them in a con- fidential circular of the Interna- tional Economic Research Bureau, affiliated with the Canadian Res search Bureau: “We have the entire city popu- lation — not only here but in Europe—faced with the fact that the coming winter will be the first of the depression when food is scarce and prices high. The most important single factor that pre- yented serious social trouble in the last five winters of depression, in our opinion, was the fact that food was cheap—and in addition the average citizen had some capi- tal reserves left to live upon. It is now estimated, from present trends, that the number of peo- ple with small incomes, or de- pendent upon relief, will be very high during the coming winter —but unfortunately their food problems will be far more difficult. “In looking ahead for the next twelve months we are of the opin= ion at this time in this country and Europe we are faced with so- cial troubles paralleling those that took place on the Continent in the year 1848.” aginst their war plans in front of Japanese Consulates, Wire protests to the Japanese Embassy in Washington. “Build the F.S.U. as a powerful defensive weapon to protect the achievements of the Soviet work- ers and farmers. Build a mass cir- culation for ‘Soviet Russia Today. Prove once more that the masses of working people can and will pre- vent or postpone another world slaughter. Defend the Soviet policy of peaceful socialist construction against Japanese imperialism.” By LUZ DIAZ INCE the middie of June and during’ July and August the strike movement has grown throughout Cuba, especially in the province of Oriente. These great struggles have shaken the semi- feudal imperialist system in Cuba, the Mendieta Cabinet. Yankee imperialism has been working strenuously to keep in power the tottering government. The struggles of the agricultural workers on the plantations are oc- curring in large areas in the pro- vinces of Santa Clara, Camaguey, Matanzas, In Pinar del Rio, where the struggles previously were lim- ited in comparison with the rest of the island, 7,000 workers went on strike. In Santa Clara a series of peasant conferences has taken place in preparation for new struggles. The most important factor in the increase of the struggle is the tre- mendous discontent of the masses against the unendurable hunger and misery, unemployment in- creased through the termination of the zafra, (sugar harvest) the sav- age methods of fascist terror em- ployed by the government, etc. This discontent is manifesting itself in the broad movement against the fascist concentration of the ABC group, which culminated in the frateryization of the crew of the cruiser “Cuba,” as well as in the great struggles for the libera- tion of the political prisoners and for the personal safety of Comrade Ordoqui, Secretary of the National Workers Confederation of Cuba, threatened with death by the fas- cist bands of the ABC, a movement which reached its highest form in the struggles in the region of Manzanillo. “The Crew of the “Cuba” The action taken by the Men- dieta government against the crew of the “Cuba,” cruiser of the Cuban Navy, was carried out because of the fact that the crew fraternized with the workers of Antilla. On June i9 there arrived at Antilla the ABC delegation which had taken part in the concentration of June 17. The sailors of the “Cuba” fraternizing with the workers of } Antilla, went through the streets Cuba’s Semi-Feudal Imperialist System shouting slogans against the ABC and fascism, searching for Pedro Armando, who was going about slandering the Communists of Havana and the murdered worker O'Farrill, a supporter of Grau. The sailors, together with the workers, chased the strikebreaker Primitivo Palacios, capturing and disarming as reflected in the acute crisis in| him. This put fear into the hearts of the officials, the leaders of the ABC, and the landlords. The tele- graph and telephone wires began to hum, Orders were received from Batista and from the district of Oriente. A battery of artillery and @ squadron of gunboats arrived. On the following day the papers car- ried news of “insubordination” on the cruiser “Cuba.” Nevertheless on board all remained calm and normal. But something very dan- gerous for the ruling classes had happened. Workers and sailors had fraternized The leaders of the ABC “pribed and agent who accused the Sailors and workers of being Com- munisis, and demanded the out- lawry of the trade unions and the discharging of the revolutionary sailors.” The General Strike in Manzanillo All these struggles reached their highest phase in the province of Oriente, where the struggles of the workers and peasants have reached a high level. In the Delicia and Chaparra sugar milis a strike move- ment started on three plantations and spread to 45 others. In Guan- tanamo the workers on the “Er- mite” plantation walked out for higher wages. In Manzanilla a strike was carried out on the “Etrada Palma” plantation, while in Guano, Buey Arriba and other places 300 families fought against eviction, Many are the struggles of this kind in the region, due to an ‘unbearable condition of misery and terror, especially after the mas- sacre of Mabay. A group of pea- sants hastened to seize 56,000 acres of untilled land from the landlords. Under these conditions .he general strike in Manzanillo took plece. This great sirike movement was started by the port workers, and extended rapidly, before the general strike was called, spontaneously, Shaken by Strike Wave in Past 3 Months ing the important sugar mills Media ‘Luna and Niquero, and the workers That was when Marx declared: “The Spectre of Communism is haunting Europe!” wee Rosca a new world financial battle between the two leading imperialist bandit powers for ad- vantage and hegemony on the world financial and commodity markets is the rapid and forced drop in the value of the pound. This was de- liberately manipulated by the Brit- ish government, through withdrawal of support by the British Exchange Equalization Fund, forcing a down- ward plunge of the pound. This arises out of the inflationary moves of the Roosevelt government, which if long persisted in gives the Wall Street trusts an advantage on the world market, through their ability to sell commodities cheaper, thanks to lowered wages in the United States, ee Meee | of Verguitas and Campbechuela, threatening to spread to Mabay (the sugar mill famous for having been the scene of the first Soviet in Cuba, Yara, Yara Arriba, Buey- cito, Calicito Jibacoa, ete. with great possibilities of struggles for the land. The strike was general: docks, Sugar mills, ships, transport, com- Iercial establishments, bakeries, etc. The strike grew In solidarity with Media Luna, owing to the acts of terror carried out by Lieutenant Bequer. The general strike, with its slogan of solidarity with the workers of Media Luna, had other slogans of high political level: the dismissal of Lieutenant Bequer and Captain Cruz Vidal, supervisor of Manzanillo; the punishment of the machadista Delio Nunez Mesa; reinstatement of the comrades dis: missed from work in Media Luna liberation of political prisoners; qgpening .of the Federation of the Port and payment for all damage caused; liberation of the hunger strikers in Havana, democratic rights, guarantees for Ordoqui, etc. This strike was not carried on for mere economic demands. The fact that the agricultural workers in various places hastened to seize the land, that the peasants decided to support the movement, taking pos- session of the land, shows the de- termination of the masses to fight to the end for bread, land, and freedom. « In Media Luna workers’ control was established. The strike com- mittee of Manzanillo became the United Committee of Action, con- sisting of representatives of striking workers, peasants, soldiers, etc. A great struggle of the toiling masses against the whole regime of semi- oppression. Bloody terror was let loose against these masses. In the massacre of Media Luna five were killed and twenty-three wounded, when Ser- geant Larrazabal broke up a mect- ing of 500 workers, massacring men, women and children. But, in spite of all the efforts of the ruling classes to realign their along the Gulf of Guacanayabo. from Manzanillo to Pilon, embrac- forces and to obtain the support of the toiling masses, through dema- feudal imperialist exploitation and | 1 bee battle is now on, and how far it will go no one can tell. The dollar followed the pound down- ward, as did the German mark. But this is just the beginning. The in- ternal and external factors in the leading capitalist countries are driv- ing towards inflation and a sharp- ening of the imperialist conflicts. German Fascism is on the verge of a huge wave of inflation and a campaign of dumping to put the Japanese venture in this regard in- to the shade. The British Board of Trade, through its Chairman, Wal- ter Runciman, has declared that the home market has reached the sat- uration point, and a drive must be made for new world markets, The dip of the pound is the first gun. The dollar is following due to in- ternal pressure, the growing finan- cial difficulties of the Roosevelt regime, a desire to raise prices to benefit the big trusts, the program of smashing down wages through inflationary measures, etc. French Bourse considered the drop in the dollar “a warning te Washington” that the battle would be carried to the bitter end. On top of the new intensification of the economic crisis in capitalist countries, coupled with the drought, the deliberate policy of raising prices on the necessities of life, the new monetary battles between the imperialist robbers will make the conditions of the workingclass in all capitalist countries worse this win- ter. No wonder the bosses cringe before the spectre of hunger for the masses, and the perspective of sharp resistance by the workers and farmers. gogy and promises of treaties and other concessions from imperialism, the toiling masses are turning more and more toward the Communist Party of Cuba, which, as the real leader of he struggles, as the van- guard of the proletariat, will lead the masses along the road of the agrarian anti-imperialist revolution to the dictatorship of the workers and peasants: Soviet power, nomic correspondent of the Herale”)