The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight Daily .<QWorker SEUTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ELSA. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper’ FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COPPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5@ B. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-79 54. Cable Address: “Daiw New Washington Burea lth and F St., W Midwest Bureau: 101 Telephone: Dearborn 3 Subscription Rates: n year, $6.00 By Mail: (except Ma and " 1 month, 0.75 cents 6 months, 3.50; 3 m 06; 1 month, Penns, and Canada: 1 year, $9.00: $5.00; 3° mor $3.00. i By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1934 #*" Japanese Imperialism! LLEARLY and sharply the note of the Soviet Union to Japan has ripped open all the war provocations of the Japanese militarists against the workers’ father- land. The war-mad Japanese military clique, intent on seizing the Chinese East- ern Railway. They have instigated bands of Manchukuoan soldiers to make bandit raids on the Eastern branch of the line, running to Viadivo- stok, and have then charged the Soviet Union with a “plot” to wreck its own property. The Japanese controlled press in Manchuria, openly admitting that the arrests and “plot” charges were deliberately and falsely made in order to pro- yoke war with the Soviet Union, calls for immediate action. So far have the war preparations against the Soviet Union gone, that the Japanese War Office itself has taken a hand in disseminating lying stories about the Red Army’s alleged deeds in wrecking a railroad guarded at the risk of life and liberty by Soviet employees. All of the arrests and provocations against the Soviet Union followed post haste after the rupture of negotiations for the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway proposed by the Soviet Union. * . . HE Soviet Union offered to sell the railroad in order to maintain peace. The Japanese im- perialist bandits, determined to seize the railroads as a preliminary step to armed invasion of the workers fatherland, broke off negotiations. In their drive for war against the Soviet Union they were not acting alone, having established a war alliance with the Fascist butchers in Germany, re- ceiving support and comfort from British imperial- ism and from powerful capitalist sources in the United States. In purporting to give the full text of the Soviet protest note, the New York Times, printing only. a third of the note, deliberately suppressed the proof of Japanese war provocations against the Soviet Union, thereby keeping from its American readers the real truth of the situation. Only the Daily Worker in today’s issue prints the full text of the note, which shows the lengths to which the Japanese imperialist robbers are going to explode the world into a new bloody conflict. The vigorous protest of the Soviet Union points out that the deeds of the Japanese and Manchurian authorities are signs of “increasingly aggressive in- tentions of some official circles.” And the Soviet government “counts on the Japanese government drawing their necessary conclusions.” ‘The whole world has seen the patient and con- ciliatory attitude of the Soviet Union, its fervent striving for peace. The whole world now sees, also, that the Soviet Union, the land of the victorious proletarian revolution, is making it clear to the war mongers that it knows their criminal intentions and is ready to defend the land of socialism against the planned, bloody attacks. IHE danger of war against the Soviet Union at this moment is dangerously great. All of the imperialist bandits would like to see Japanese im- perialism begin its criminal adventure for the at- tempted destruction of the Land of Socialism. We may be sure at this very moment, Japanese Warships are steaming secretly to Soviet waters; Japanese bombing planes, and armies are being dis- patched to Manchuria. ‘We must arouse the whole American working- class to this great danger, and to what this threat- ened imperialist invasion means to them. The Jap- 4 anese robbers count on supporting attacks on the : U.S. S. R. from the West and on financial aid from & the United States. Mass demonstrations at the Japanese consulates against this threatened war should be organized now in every city. Every effort must be made to stop the shipments of munitions from this country to Japan for war against the Soviet Union. In the closest cooperation and solidarity with the Japanese toilers, we must fight against the bandit efforts of Japanese imperialism to start the holy war against the bulwark of the world proletariat. Now, without the slightest loss of time, we must organize our forces for the defense of the Soviet Union! Aid and Comfort to the Enemy IN Thursday of this week the Daily Worker editorially pointed out the full meaning of the latest expulsion order of William Green as an attack upon the rank and file of the A. F. of L. and urged the Socialist trade unionists particularly to unite with Communists A. F. of L. mem- _ bers, as well as other militants, to fight the Green anti-labor ukase. Since that time there have been a number of signs that the A. F. of L. members, and the So- @alist workers, especially, have not been blind to the meaning of the Green declaration. Protests @re being voiced on many sides. The labor editor of the New Leader, Socialist organ, also feels constrained to comment. He states 4m his column in the Labor Section of the New Leader of today’s date: “The objections [to Green’s statement—D. W.] arise chiefly from the patriotic’ tone of the ukase directed at Communists as such rather than at those who commit overt acts against a union—and the proposal to seek deportation of alien Commu- nists. While some point out that the union must -Seck some means to protect itself against those patently committed by their political affiliation to destruction of A. F. of L. unions and the setting up of dual ‘revolutionary’ unions, it is manifest that such » ‘war against reds’ is an open invita- i Smash the War Moves of | i \ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, tion to stifle all criticism and progressivism within unions,” This statement, while taking a gentle slap at the wrist of Green, is actually nothing else than an dorsement of the basic premise of William Green’s sion and deportation policies for militants is statement undoubtedly does NOT reflect the tude of the rank and file Socialist trade unionists ch a statement is NOT the way to fight fascist decrees. Such talk of “destruction of when tens of thousands of rank mbers know that the Communists have e struggle to make the trade unions tant instruments of fighting unionism, have been g the fight against racketeering and gang- sterism in the unions—such talk as that of the Labor Editor of the New Leader must be sternly repudiated by the Socialist unionists as a menace to them and the whole rank and file. Such state- ments are only an aid and comfort to William Green and the other agents of capitalism in the ranks of the labor movement. For the Socialist unionists there can be only one road—that of the united front against Green’s ezarist decrees, the united front with Commanist and other militant rank and filers, Such is what the Communist Party proposes. The Textile Strike HE employers, the government and the A. F. of L. officials are turning every possible stone to prevent the strike of 850,000 textile workers. The capitalist press is flooded with propaganda against the strike. Green states daily his willing- ness to “support” the strike, while doing all he can to prevent the workers from walking out. The latest move against the textile workers is the N.R.A. decision signed by Roosevelt, covering the cotton garment industry. This decision gives the 200,000 cotton garment workers an actual wage reduction, by reducing hours worked 10 per cent, whereas the wage increase of 10 per cent does not cover the reduction in hours. A worker now making 50 cents an hour, or $20 a week, under the new decision would get $19'80 a week. At the same time, this wage reduction is hailed by William Green, David Dubinsky, Sidney Hill- man, and other A. F. of L. officials as a “victory” for the workers and a vindication of the N.R.A. This “victory” is claimed in an industry in which the N.R.A. set the minimum wage at $13. Green stated openly that this decision is liable to have an effect in preventing the cotton textile strike, which the United Textile Workers Conven- tion decided should take place before Sept. 1. . * * 'HE plan of these A. F. of L. leaders, and of the Roosevelt government, is obviously to put over some similar decision in the textile industry, claim a “victory” for the textile wofkers, and call off the textile strike. In this way all of the demands of the textile workers for shorter hours with increased wages, against the stretch-out and for recognition of the union, would be defeated by the Roosevelt government and the A. F. of L. officialdom. The textile workers, who have already voted for ® strike, must not allow the N.R.A. and their union misleaders, to betray their demands with these fake “concessions.” All local unions in the textile industry and all individual textile workers should at once tell Wil- liam Green, and the president of the U.T.W., Francis MacMahon, that they are not going to permit their strike once more to be betrayed by the signing of “agreements” with the N.R.A., which do not grant a single one of their demands, The local unions of the U.T.W. should take immediate steps to set up their broad, united front strike committees, with every department in the mill represented, the committee to include those workers outside the U.T.W. The strike must be organized at once. Mac- Mahon and Green will not organize the strike. It is up to the local unions, the opposition group and the National Textile Union to take the strike preparations into their own hands. Unity of all textile workers and thorough strike preparation is now the task, . . , . ‘Scientific’ Relief FTER listing in groups the hundreds of thousands of unemployed New York workers who are totally dependent upon the city for relief, Mayor LaGuardia, in a radio speech Wednesday night, stated: “Staggering as is the amount provided for relief, no one will contend that it is ade- quate.” Then, in an attempt to justify the present starv- ation standards of the relief administration, La- Guardia added: “It is all that the resources of the city, the State and the nation can possibly allow under existing conditions.” In his campaign speeches, LaGuardia promised “scientific and humane relief.” Now, after eight months of his administration, LaGuardia character- izes relief in New York City as “unscientific... inadequate. . . unsatisfactory.” While admitting the whole city relief set-up is unsatisfactory, while forced to admit the starva- tion standards, the denial of relief to many thou- sands, while stating that “industry in this coun- try. . . cannot possibly absorb all the unemployed, even though we were to get out of the depression tomorrow,” LaGuardia asks the continuation of the present relief set-up until “a national system of unemployment insurance will bring a permanent solution to this trying problem.” LaGuardia also talked about unemployment insurance. For the sake of the record. it would be well to examine what LaGuardia means when he speaks of “unemployment insurance.” Speaking at the United States Conference of Mayors last March, LaGuardia outlined his stand on “unemployment insurance.” “Part of the funds,” he said, “could be raised by a small tax of a few cents weekly from every person employed, regardless of the nature of employment or by whom employed.” An analysis shows that a worker who receives “benefits” under his plan must render forced labor. “Municipalities and states,” he added, “would have the right to call upon the beneficiaries of the sys- tem to render services on civil works to the extent of the insurance benefits they receive.” ¢ * . * Te unemployed and relief workers, the_profes- sional workers and the small shopkeepers, are determined to smash the hunger dole of the La- Guardia relief system. On Sunday their delegates will hold a mass conference at Stuyvesant Casino and shape plans for a hunger march on City Hall on Sept. 22. The sponsors of the conference, the United Action Conference on Work, Relief and Un- employment, urge all groups who are determined to win adequate relief for the unemployed and to smash the new tax plans, to be represented at the conference and to march in thousands on City Hall on Sept. 22 Tsai Faces | Decision On Course | General of 19th Rout Army Must Back China Or Imperialism By R. DOONPING ENERAL TSAI TING-KAI, thc former commander of the famous Nineteenth Route Army, which valiantly defended Shanghai against Japanese invasion in 1932, will be in New York on Aug. 28. Will Gen- eral Tsai support Madame Sun Yat- Sen’s declaration which was printed in the New York Herald Tribune of Aug. 2, and carry on an uncom- promising struggle against Japanese imperialism, or is he going to throw the glorious tradition of the Nine- teenth Route Army to the dust and betray the interests of the Chinese people and the world proletariat by | shameful capitulation to Japanese imperialism? Japanese imperialism js carrying on a most aggressive policy in the | Far East. There is no time for Gen- jeral Tsai to hesitate or evade the | question. The militant and most | advanced section of the workers and | farmers of the United States and other friends of the Chinese peopie are demanding from General Tsai | an_unequivocal answer. | General Tsai’s past record makes |it imperative for the mass to de- | mand an answer to the above ques- |tion. The defense of Shanghai. | | which made General Tsai a world | figure, was carried out heroically |by the soldiers of the 19th Route | Spite his hesitancy. It was a vic-| tory of the rank and file in the| army which forced the officers to act by mass pressure. The Nine- teenth Route Army was not de- feated, but forced to retreat from | | Shanghai, primarily by the treach- |ery of its officers, A Purging Campaign After the retreat from Shanghal, General Tsai, instead of rewarding the most militant elements of the |army, who by their heroic fighting made the Shanghai defense pos- sible, instituted a campaign of “purging,” and executed large num- |bers of lower officers and soldiers. With the remnants of the once |great army General Tsai was sta- tioned in Fukien province by order | of the Nanking government. Chiang | Kai-shek was hatching plans to put an end to the 19th Route Army permanently while Tsai Ting-Kai, always hesitant and unable to sat- isfy the anti-Japan and anti-Chi- ang Kai-shek demands of his troops, was weakening the fighting power of the 19th Route Army by continuous “purging.” In October, 1933, during the first stage of Chiang Kai-shek’s sixth anti-red campaign, the Red Army pressed hard from Kiangsi and the western part of Fukien. In the meantime Tsai Ting-Kai and his officers and political colleagues be- came very much dissatisfied over their share in the division of foreign loans allotted by Nanking to the provinces. Thus, when the Red Army took Yenping, the most strategic city in Fukien, and directly threatened the capital city of the province, Foo- chow, General Tsai appealed to the Chinese Soviet Government and the Red Army for peace and expressed the desire to conclude an anti-Jap- anese and anti-Chiang Kai-shek agreement on the basis of the three | conditions laid down in the dec- Jaration of the Chinese Soviet gov- ernment in January, 1933, which stated that the Soviet government | and the Red Army are willing to/ conclude an agreement with an army which will stop the attack against Soviet China, give the masses democratic rights, and arm them for struggle against Chiang Kai-shek and Japanese imperialism. A written agreement was signed on October 26, 1933, by accredited rep- resentatives of the Provisional Cen- tral Government of the Soviet Re- public of China and Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army on the one side and the Provincial Government of Fukien and the Nineteenth Route Army on the other side. Aside from the above provisions, the agreement also provides for restoration of trade between the two territories. Action Against Chiang Kai-shek The Fukien government and the 19th Route Army undertook, in the agreement, “to immediately begin anti- Japanese and anti- Chiang Kai-shek military operations,” (ar- ticle 6) and both sides undertook “to conclude within the shortest possible time, a separate military agreement regarding a joint strug- gle against Japan and Chiang Kai- shek.” (Article 9.) However, instead of carrying out the agreement to arm the masses and to fight Japan, General Tsai attempted to set up a third banner as against Nanking and Soviet China, and in November, 1933, organized the so-called “People’s Revolutionary Government” in Fu- kien, which rallied around it the politicians of the “Workers’ and Peasants’ Party, the Third Party, and the Chinese Social Democratic Party.” Chiang Kai-shek started military operations against the new govern- ment immediately after its incep- tion and followed a decisive policy of attack. Tsai Ting-Kai again hesitated. Instead of mobilizing all available forces for attack he mere- ly ordered isolated divisions to the front and flatly refused to arm the masses. Seeing the serious danger of the situation, the Soviet givernment ad- dressed a telegram to the Fukien government and the Nineteenth Route Army on December 20, 1933, warned them of the great danger of their situation, and urged them | to carry out the agreement of Oc- | tober 26, and to “immediately com- ;Mence action to concentrate the armed forces at your disposal and to immediately commence a determ- ined struggle against Chiang Kai- shek.” Fight the Common Enemy Army not because of him, but de-| 3 uereke, AUGUST 25, 1934 WHEN WINTER COMES! “Izvestia” Says Tokyo Papers Distort Real Issue at Stake (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Aug. 24 (By wireless). —Declaring that the Japanese war adventurists were caught red- handed executing the annexation plans of Japanese imperialism, “Pravda,” organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, prints an article spiking the Japanese provocations. Under the title, “Exposure of Adventurists,” “Pravda,” writes: “The Tokyo press was caught red- handed trying to deny the annex- ation plans of Japanese imperial- ism respecting the Chinese Eastern Railway. With a serious air they relate the fable about ‘Soviet plots’ on the C.E.R. Behind the backs of hireling scribblers stand the au- thoritative representatives of the Japanese government circles. “A number of representatives of Japanese official institutions have written slanderous anti-Soviet state- ments in the press calculated to pro- vide combustible material for those who wold invite war in the Far East, The Real Workers “According to their accounts, de- vastation and wrecks on the railway are the work of Soviet employes of the CER. But ten days have passed since the discovery of ‘hor- rible plots’ of Soviet citizens, em- Ployes of the C.E.R. by ‘vigilant’ Japanese - Manchurian authorities, Prisoners have been pining in jails for over ten days. It would seem that if the ‘plot’ disclosed as having the aim of organizing wrecking acts on the C.E.R., and the guilty persons were put under lock and key, then peace and quiet should Are Expo & in practice? “On August 20, the representative of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, pinned to the wall by foreign cor- respondents, was compelled to ad- | mit in reply to their questions that train wrecks and attacks on trains are continuing on the Eastern line of the C.ER., even after the ar- rests of Soviet citizens, “Is it not clear that the real cul- prits in the wrecking activity on the Eastern line of the C.E.R. remain at liberty? Is it not clear that these wreckers exist not in places where Japanese-Manchurian au- thorities discovered them? Is it not clear that honest workers are kept under lock and key and that their arrest was required by the extremely aggressive elements of Japanese im- perialism for carrying out their an- nexation aims? Japanese Aims “All the world knows that the U.S.S.R, is interested in keeping the railway belonging to it whole and unharmed, All the world knows of the great heroism of the Soviet cit- izens, workers and clerks of the C.E.R. who staunchly, at the danger of their freedom and even their lives, are guarding the railway under unbearable conditions created by Japanese-Manchurian authori- ties. All the world knows who is trying to disrupt the CER. The fact that the Japanese authorities in every way hinder transportation of freight over the railway is in- structive. “Foreign exporters find artificial difficulties made in dispatching freight over the CER., while Japanese exporters are forbidden to send freight over this railway. We know that these lawless actions of caused great dissatisfaction among the Japanese military clique have reign on the railway. Is this so | Japanese Annexation Plans sed in Soviet Paper o Jailing of Rail Workers Is Meant to Conceal Imperialist Aims Japanese exporters, who openly ex- press this discontent at their meet- ings, because the adventurist meas- ures of the military clique have caused them considerable material loss. “Forces trying to undermine and destroy the C.E.R, must be sought precisely in the circles of the Japanese military clique. Expose Their Hand “The Manchuria Daily News, offi- cial organ of the Japanese South Manchurian Railway, let the cat out of the bag. This Japanese paper a few days ago openly stated that ‘negotiations for the sale of the O.ER. were broken off, but bargain- ing continues. The arrests and ac- cusations are nothing but a method of bringing influence to bear to ob- tain better conditions in this bar- gaining.’ “This is the real reason. Arrests of falsely-charged, honest workers of the CER. are intended to frighten the Soviet Union and com- pel it to surrender the railway for a low price, “You may play your tricks, Messrs. Provocateurs! You will not frighten us. This paper, the Man- churia Daily News, which openly admits the innocence of the ar- rested Soviet citizens, stated a few lines lower with impudent cynicism that ‘There is no need to raise alarm over a few arrests.’ Despite the cynical advice of the adyen- turists, the Soviet Union has every reason to sound the alarm. It has these grounds because it defends peace and order in the Par East— peace and order which are threat- ened by the Japanese war mongers.” ing of the broad masses to create a genuine People’s Revolutionary Army with volunteer detachments.” The telegram concluded with the following paragraph: “The Soviet Government and the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army is prepared to unite with you at any time and to conclude a temporary agreement for the overthrow of our common enemy —Japanese imperialism, and the Kuomintang Nanking Govern- ment which has sold itself to the former. We hope that you will answer and immediately inform us of your decision.” When this telegram was not an- swered, the Soviet government ad- dressed a second one to the Fukien government and the Nineteenth Army on January 1, 1934, and made six proposals on how concretely to put to action the agreement of Oc- tober 26. This telegram still re- mains unanswered. Tsai Ting-Kai paid a heavy pri¢e for his silence; the Fukien govern- ment fell before the determined at- tack of Chiang Kai-shek, and the Nineteenth Army passed into his- tory. The defeat of the Fukien govern- ment contributes to greatly empha- size the correctness of the Soviet policy of determined struggle on the basis of the broadest mass mob- ilization against Chiang Kai-shek and Japanese imperialism. This policy has defeated five anti- red campaigns launched by Chiang Kai-shek with the direct participa- tion of imperialists during the last four years. Now the policy is gain- ing strength and support more than ever. The aggressive imperialist policy of Japan in Manchuria, Je- hol, and North China is arousing the masses of China to renewed mass struggles. The telegram also urged for “a decisive mobilization and the arm-| It is in the face of this new up- surge of anti-imperialist struggles that Madame Sun Yat-sen made her united front proposals, which include the following six points: 1—Mobilize the army, navy, and air forces of the whole country for war against Japanese im- perialism; 2—Mobilize the workers, peas- ants, and other sections of the people of all China for struggle; 3—Arm the masses of China; ~ 4—Confiscate the property of Japanese imperialists in China and levy war taxes from the Chinese people living in China and overseas to finance the anti- Japanese struggle; 5—Organize an anti-Japanese Congress composed of representa- tives from the workers, peasants, soldiers, and students of China; 6—Unite with all national groups oppressed by Japanese im- perialism for struggle. Over 3,000 leaders from various walks of life in China have signed the declaration by Madame Sun which includes the above six points. The workers and farmers and other revolutionary forces in the United States are deeply interested in these proposals, because they recognize that the struggle against Japanese imperialism is the task of all the progressive forces throughout the world to fight against this black force of reaction in the Far East. In view of General Tsai’s past, there should be no illusions about his future. But the responsibility of demonstrating whether he has been benefited by his past mistakes and defeats lies upon the shoulders of General Tsai. In the broad lining up on this world issue of first rate importance, a man of General Tsai’s importance ean not and should not be ignored. By mass. pressure, which is the most eloquent form of persuasion, the workers of the United States will demonstrate their determination to support Madame Sun’s declaration and demand from General Tsai an unequivical statement as to his posi- tion, and proof of his sincerity not only by words but by deeds, 6 Soviet Scientists End Five-Year Vigil On Island in Arctic MOSCOW, Aug. 24.—After five years of isolation on a faraway arctic island, six heroic Soviet scientists were today taken on poste. the Soviet icebreaker, Kras- The scientists were in charge of the Wrangel Island meterological station. When the Krassin, after strenuous and successful efforts crushed through the icespacked sea, it was greeted with joyous en- thusiasm by the men. The Krassin brought with it a new expedition of 15 Soviet scien- | On the World Front By HARRY GANNES. 20 U. S. Newspapermen— on the Road to Japan What will they write? WENTY American newse papermen have been ine vited by the Japanese govern- ment to visit Manchuria and observe the glories of ims perialist domination at first hand. They will soon be on their way to Japan—transportation paid—aboard the lugger, N. Y. K. (Japan Mail S. S. Co.) lines. Th N. Y. K. lines, part of the Mit- subishi trust, are heavily subsidize by the Japanese government, beir part of the Japanese navy auxilia) { No expenses will be spared fc | these American journalists. The 4 will be wined and dined by th Japanese military clique. The Jap anese press will flatter them, ca | jole them, prostrate itself to them. Geisha girls will dance and sing for them. Asahi beer and saki will flow freely, in the good old spirit of the American fleet streets. i Osa * EN the Wall Street journalists are not cock-eyed, they will be shown exactly what the Japanese want them to see. Undoubtedly one of the choice social experiences of these scribblers the Japanese mili« tary wish to win over for propae ganda for war against the Soviet Union, will be a personal visit to Henry Pu Yi, now Emperor of Man- chukuo, ardent admirer of Adolf Hitler. Now the Japanese government is not going to throw away any hune dred thousand dollar expense with« out knowing exactly what it will re« ceive in return. They tried it out on the dog, as it were, before they invited twenty at one gulp. thee, See Rey Francis W. Clarke, editor of the Atlanta (Georgia), Constitution, went to Manchuria, as the “guest” of the Japanese and came back all aglow for the won- derful work the Japanese butchers were doing in that military-ridden country. Mr. Clarke was a little unfors tunate, as it was discovered he had been involved in a very nasty scandal, something in the form of bribery by the Japanese governs ment some five years before. Here is the story as told by the China Weekly Review: “Mr. Clarke rather spoiled his story (of the wonders of Japanese rule in Manchuria) by referring to the fact that he had toured Manchuria previously, about five years ago as a member of the touring party which traveled under the auspices of the Car- negie Peace Foundation. “If we remember correctly that touring adventure which was par- ticipated in by a number of American journalists ended in a scandal, for the United Press dug up the fact that all the expenses for the jaunt had been defrayed by the Japanese government- controlled South Manchurian Railway, and that each member of the party not only received a free ticket across the Pacific and through the Orient, paid for by the Japanese, but also received a check for some $2,000 for inci- dental expenses.” hears (OW with such newspaper owners as Ireneé du Pont, J. P. Morgan, and others interested in supplying imperialism with arms and money for war against the Soviet Union, we may be sure the Japanese know what they are doing when they in- vite a score of journalists from some of the leading American newspapers for a visit to Manchuria at this particular time. Price is no consideration with tists, who will replace the six re- turning to the Soviet Union. The Krassin took part recentiy in the rescue of the Chelyuskin arctic expedition, but failed to get to the marooned colony because it got stuck on an ice floe off the Behring straits. ¢ The Wrangel Island station is being made a permanent scientific outpost, and new buildings are to be erected to house the scientists and their increased equipment. - SODA JERKERS CALLED EXECUTIVES — the Japanese when buying the pens of typewriters of foreign corres< pondents. There is, for example, the case of George Rea, former editor of a so-called en- gineering journal in China, who was paid the sum of $30,000 a year and “expenses” for becoming the Counsellor of the Ministry of Fore eign Affairs of the Government of Manchukuo, ENE sac He EA’S chief contribution to world hy enlightenment was a number of | speeches in American and European ~ universities, the gist of which was that the entire capitalist world would be grateful to Japan if the Japanese militarists wiped the So viet Union off the map. It is strange, also, that the Amer- ican capitalist press has kept so quiet about twenty of its picked representatives going to Manchuria, perhaps, to act as war correspond- ents, in the pay of the Japanese government, + 8 * Ix a month or so we can expect ® flood of laudatory stories about His Imperial Highness Hirohito of Japan; about what charming gentle- men the Japanese military are; what great, self-sacrificing deeds the Japanese bloodhounds are per- forming in Manchuria, and what a bunch of wild plotters the Soviet employes of the Chinese Eastern Railway are. From the moment these twenty Picnickers arrive on board the N, Y. K. line at San Francisco, until they return to these shores, they ) will not be out of the hands of the most skillful Japanese diplomats °- and propagandists. And, besides, considering where they come from, they are so easily seduced anyway. ANTI-FASCISTS TO VOLUNTEER NEW YORK.—To prepare for the protest meetings against concerta by the Italian Blackshirts Band, the Committee of Action, 213 Fourth Ave., is urging workers to volunteet for distribution of leaflets and td WASHINGTON (FP)—The NRA | attend a meeting to be held to- has created a new version of the| morrow at 2:30 pm., at Irving American “success” story. The poor | Plaza, Irving Place and Fifteenth boy who starts as a soda clerk in a drug store may now find himself becoming an “executive” overnight. The only rub is that it won't mean any more money for him and will mean much longer hours, — Street. y en A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means dictatorship of the