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5 fe Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1934 Daily,QWorker | (REVEAL CREA COUNEFENIET PARTY ESA (SECTION OF COMMHIIT TEREATRORADE “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 4-79 54. Cable Address Daiwork.” New Washington Bureau: Room Sid og ig St., Wash ton phone: National 791! eee Bi Ft 0 h Room 705, Cheago, Ml. Telephone: Dearborn 3931 Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Mant 1 year, $6.00 6 months, $8.50; 3 m v.18 ‘cents. | Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign 1 year, ; 6 months, $5.00; 3\ months, $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 78 cents. THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1934 Sinclair’s Victory PTON SINCLAIR’S overwhelming vic- U tory on the Democratic ticket in the California gubernatorial primaries opens up vastly important questions for the working class, looking for a way out of the crisis. Sinclair, former Socialist, got the largest vote in the history of Democratic primaries in California The huge vote for Sinclair was the expression of the tremendous discontent of the California masses. California has been in the grip of the sharpest class battles. Acting Governor Merriam, running on the Republican ticket, openly campaigned on the program of breaking the general strike, of support to the most reactionary policies, giving carte blanche to the fascist, vigilante terror. Sinclair, on the other hand. in the most dema- gogic manner, promised everything to everybody. under the slogan of E. P. I. C. (End Poverty In California) he promised jobs to all unemployed, an end of the tax burden fo all exploiters, huge con- cessions to the petty-bourgeoisie. He promised that his first act after election would be to free Tom Mooney. No demagogic trickery, no lurid promises were beneath Sinclair in his efforts to win the rising tide of discontent. At the same time, the huge vote he received reflects the outstanding fact that the greatest illusions still exist among workers, the be- lief that they can solve their economic and social problems within the shell of capitalism, and that Sinclair’s extension of the New Deal yet offers them hope of salvation. Thereby Upton Sinclair, trained by the Socialist Party, becomes the conscious force tending to bind and hog-tie the workers to the old capitalist parties at a time of their growing discontent and mood for struggle against capitatism. Sinclair comes out openly as a spokesman for the Roosevelt New Deal, trying to convince the workers that théy should not follow a revolutionary program to solve their poverty, misery, unemploy- ment and starvation. He urges them to stick to the Democratic Party, the party of capitalism in power, and its New Deal. Sinclair becomes now the most ardent spokes- man for the very New Deal that has brought greater misery and poverty to the masses, the very New Deal that led in defeating the San Francisco gen- eral strike by fascist terror and violence. He be- comes the open advocate for the New Deal, which has raised the profits of the bosses, slashed wages and living standards; is driving the farmers into ruin and bankruptcy; is preparing with tremendous speed for a new world imperialist slaughter. It is the extension of this program that Sinclair proposes for California, “We have been nominated as Democrats,” Sinclair declared, “and we will func- tion as Democrats.” Sinclair's specific program of labor camps, iso- lation of the unemployed on farms, reduction of taxation for the bosses, wholesale inflation, are an extension of the most fascist elements of the New Deal. Sinclair actually, far iy advance of the aims of the New Deal, differs fron the Roosevelt pro- gram only in that he plunges ahead toward its fas- cist goal with greater speed. Particularly, in his appeal to the petty-bourgeois masses his promises smack of the riotous and irresponsible demagogy of Hitler before his ascent to power. More than ever now, in view of the widespread illusions, in view of the action of the masses in seeking a way out of their misery, it is necessary te bring forward the Communist Party revolutionary way out of the crisis, the only solution for the mis- ery and poverty of the masses. In California, only one candidate brings this program to the masses, and that is the candidate of the Communist Party for Governor, Sam Darcy, District, Organizer of the Communist Party and one of the outstanding fighters in the San Fran- cisco general strike and the other bitter struggles of the California toilers. Prepare the Textile Strike GENERAL STRIKE in the textile in- dustry seems to be assured for Sept. 1st in spite of the reluctance of the A. F. of L. leaders to go through with the strike call. The overwhelming pressure for strike, by the rank and file textile workers in all sections of the country, coupled with the refusal of the employers to grant any worth- while concessions, has so far defeated all attempts of the Roosevelt boards and the A. F. of L. leaders to prevent the strike. The workers are determined to defeat the stretch-out, to win higher wages and union recog- ( nition. The fact that William Green, Francis Gorman and other A. F. of L. officials have been unable to sidetrack the strike makes the question of immedi- ate organization and preparation of the general strike all the more important. Unable to stop the strike, the Gormans and Greens will sabotage the’ strike organization, will weaken the strike by splitting tactics, by demoral- izing pessimism. At the earliest possible moment they will try to send the workers back to work— enslaved once more by government arbitration. It is up to the rank and file textile workers themselves to protect their strike from treachery, to safeguard their demands against any defeat which will be engineered by union leaders. The rank and file alone will organize the strike and make it effective. ‘Textile workers—come out on mass picket lines Sept. 1, and every day thereafter! Strike every textile mill in the United States! The rank and file must take full control of the strike organization and negotiations into their own hands to prevent betrayals by the A. F. of L. leaders. Elect broad rank enc file strike committees in every mill, to include workers of all unions and Mnorganized workers! Bind these mill strike gem | ¢ 1 ~iai. mittees together by calling local and sectional rank and file textile conferences! Unite your strike! A. F. of L. local unions! Meet at once and work out plans to support the strike of the one million textile workers! Local unions of the U. T. W.! Call United Labor Conferences in every locality to include all local unions and all workers’ organizations, for support of the textile strike! Defeat the terror now being prepared against the textile workers! Fight for the right of the textile workers to picket, to strike and to organize! For one united strike front of all textile workers! For the unity and solidarity of all textile workers to win the strike and the demands of the textile workers. The Painters’ Settlement UST how much of a victory is the settle- ment of the New York painters’: gen- eral strike negotiated by Philip Zausner, illegal Secretary of District Council 9 of the Painter’s Brotherhood? “I am very gratified by the fact that the strike was settled on the basis of the government's program for building up purchasing power,” said Mr. Ben Golden, executive secretary of the Regional Labor Board, who had a hand in the settlement. But all the facts show that purchasing power of the workers will not be built up by the settle- ment. The workers have been ordered back under the same conditions they were laboring under be- fore the strike began. The District Council has an agreement for $9 a day and seven hours’ work, but they had this agreement before and it was never lived up to. The Master Painters’ Association in four statements issued during the strike admitted this. And added to this there is the decrease in purchasing power through the N. R. A. inflation policies. In fact, the agreement, as all other Zausner agreements, is a scrap of paper. It was signed without the consent of the rank and file, and in it there is no provisions for a struggle against speed-up, no guarantee that the letter of the agreement will be carried out. The positive factor in the strike, however, was the excellent work of Local 499, which, through its rank and file strike committee leading militant independent action against the employers and the corrupt Zausner machine, forced Zausner and the employers to retreg, from the idea of herding the men back to wort the eight-hour, $8 scale. The importance of the’independent action of Local 499 is recognized by the rank and file of all locals of the Brotherhood. Local 499, continuing its good work, has warned all locals that the settlement has given the painters nothing. The painters can enforce union condi- tions only by taking the matter into their own hands, by reporting all violations to Local 499. Lo- cal 499 has made it clear that it will declare on strike and picket all shops that do not main- tain union conditions and thus break the con- spiracy of the District Council, the employers and the N. R. A, against the workers. Negroes in Textile HE approaching general textile strike brings sharply before the workers the necessity of unity and solidarity of all workers in the industry. The Gorman- MacMahon machine has followed for years a policy opposed to this unity. They have split up the Negro and white textile work- ers by their Jim-Crow. The fact that a few months ago there were only 12,000 Negroes in the entire industry is in itself a glaring evidence of the discrimination practiced against Negro workers in the industry—a discrim- ination shared in by the employers and the U. T. W. national officials alike. The U. T. W. has set up Jim Crow locals, called Colored locals, where the Negro textile workers are segregated, and where the white officials of the U. T. W. give the orders. The Gorman-MacMahon machine also discrim- inates against the more than 400,000 women in the industry, who are kept out of official positions. Of the seventeen national officers of the union, not one is either a Negro or a woman. Neither a woman nor a Negro was even nominated for office by the MacMahon machine or by the so- called Lovestoneite or Socialist Party leaders who were delegates to the convention. There was not one Negro delegate at the U. T. W. convention. The rank and file must at once put a stop to such discrimination, If the union is to present a solid, unified front against the employers, if the demands are to be won, this Jim-Crow policy must be wiped out. The rank and file textile workers must go on record against any discrimination against Negro textile workers. The employers will not hesitate to rush Negro scabs into the mills. The way to prevent such action is for the white textile workers to take a clear cut stand against discrimination and for equality. In this way the Negroes can be made among the best fighters for the victory of the strike. Slavery on the Relief Jobs NDER the terms of a ruling handed down by Attorney-General Harry S. Epstein to the New York State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, and al- ready made a part of the T.E.R.A. rulings by an official bulletin, an actual state of slavery is established on all relief jobs in the State, By its terms, the basis is laid for a wave of terror against all relief workers who strike for union conditions and wages on the projects. By this T. E. R. A. ruling, workers cannot organize on the jobs, or present demands for decent conditions and wages, for the right to work at projects near to their homes, or to “bargain collectively” with the relief administration. s The entire ruling is in line with the policy of the Roosevelt relief administration to lower all re- lief wages to the merest subsistence level of actual “budgetary relief needs.” While real wages of the relief workers are con- stantly being lowered by increased prices of food and clothing, the relief administration is now seek- ing to stifle all demands for increased wages during the coming winter. Only recently the New York State Economic Council proposed that all unemployed on the relief lists should be denied the right to vote, strikes should be barred on civil and public works, and that striking workers should be denied the right to picket. The relief administration ruling, closely following this proposal by this big business group, must be met with the opposition of organized and unorganized employed and unemployed workers in the unions and in the neighborhoods. The right of the workers to present their de- ‘(Group to Visit Thaelmann Is Jailed by Nazis) Spanish Delegation Was Denied Right To See | C. P. Leader | BERLIN, Aug. 29.—Persistent re- | ports here state that the delegation elected by the recent Anti-Facist Congress in Spain has been arrested by Nazi officials. The delegation was sént to visit Ernst Thaelmann, | imprisoned Communist leader, and! the concentration camps. All of the delegates, it is stated were seized last Saturday while bathing near Berlin. Three Span- ish delegates were jailed, along with two Frenchmen and four English- men, Names of the delegates were not revealed, nor were any reason for the arrests given by the police. The correspondent of the Madrid Heraldo, a leading Spanish news- paper, was reported arrested yes- terday. Later announcements stated that he had been released. The Spanish delegation is the lat- est of a series of such groups of workers and intellectuals who have been mandated by anti-fascist con- ventions to visit Ernst Thaelmann. A recent delegation of French writ- ers was not allowed to see Thael- mann and was permitted only a very formal tour of one or two concen- tration camps. U. S. Anti-Fascists Plan Visit NEW YORK.—Plans for an Amer- ican delegation of workers and in- tellectuals to visit Ernst Thaelmann in Moabit prison, Berlin, in the next few months, are well under way, the National Committee to Aid the Vic- tims of German Fascism announced at its offices, 870 Broadway yester- day. A campaign to raise finances for the delegates is now under way, Names of a number of the delegates will be announced shortly, officers of the National Committee stated. Rio de taucina! Faces General Strike Tie-Up RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug. 29.—Workers in this city are mov- ing toward a general walkout. A series of strikes in a number of industries have been in progress for weeks, Yesterday, bakers walked out. In Nictheroy the ferryboat men are on strike, but the government has ordered the navy to man the a Street cars are at a stand- still. ‘The militia has been called out in an effort to stem the strikes and terrorize the workers still on the Job. In the city of Sao Salvador, cap- ital of Bahia, telephone, electric, transportation, service and news- paper workers walked out, virtually Plunging the city into a general Strike. An appeal has been made by rail- road workers to President Getulio Vergas, demanding that wages be increased and the 48-hour week be established. Soviet Ship’s Polar Voyage Links 2 Seas (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Aug, 29 (By Wireless). —The icebreaker, “Yermak,” which is now sailing the polar seas, gained a new victory in the struggle against the severe Arctic elements, For the first time in the history of polar sailing, the “Yermak” opened navi- gation connecting the two polar seas—from Kara Laptiey through Vilkitsky Bay—which was not opened this year. The “Yermak” attacked the ice- bound seas for 15 hours, every min- ute retreating and again dashing against the ice with its steel hull, finally breaking through, Groups of Socialists, Trade Unionists Join Spanish Communists MADRID, Spain, Aug. 29.—A symptom of the enthusiastic ap- proval felt, by the workers for the proposals made by the C, P. for proletarian unity of action may be seen in the present rapid influx of revolutionary workers into the C. P. Many of the workers now joining the C. P. have been mem- bers of the Socialist Party or the Young Socialist League. There are, however, also many trade union members among them, and unorganized workers. The “Mundo Obrero” states that 30 agri- cultural laborers from Aranjuez, disappointed by the policy of the Socialist Party, especially with re- gard to its attitude toward the united action movement, have joined the C. P, One of them is a Socialist town councillor. Another instance is a large group of functionaries of the Socialist Party and the Socialist Youth of Granada, who publish in tine “Mundo Obrero” an appeal to all the workers of Spain, declaring that they themselves are breaking away finally from the Socialist Party, for which they have fought for many years, thinking it to be @ revolutionary party. They now join the Communist Party, and call upon all workers who are still mem- bers of the Socialist Party to follow their example. Our Readers Must Spread the Daily Worker Among the Members of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- mands, and to strike, must be maintamedy oa soa | izations As a Political Task of First 0s 4 HITLER’S QUEE ures : eee need -a3 eo onthn by Burck News Item: Minister Herr Goebbels ts now undertaking the campaign to glorify hunger. Chinese People’s Council Urges War Against Japan Urges All Available Arms at Disposal Of the Masses NOTE:—On the odvasion of the | arrival in New York of General Tsai Ting Kai of the former 19th Route Army of Fukien Province, we print below a document en- titled “The basic program of the Chinese people in a war against Japan.” This document has been signed by 3,000 Chinese men and women, including such outstand- ing individuals as Chung Sin- lin (Madam Sun at Sen), General Li Tu (commander of a section of Chinese forces against Japanese imperialism in Manchuria) Chang Lai-Chi (manager of the Chekiang Industrial Bank at Shanghai), ete.,, and many others who have figured prominently in shaping and popularizing the program. clei soe On Sept. 18, 1931, Japanese im- perialism took Manchuria without experiencing much trouble from Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang and Nanking, which embarked on a policy of non-resistance. Japanese imperialism, however, failed in its efforts to seize Chinese territory at Shanghai (Chapei, Nantao, Woo- sung, etc.) in the grand Japanese offensive launched on Jan, 28, 1932. Japanese planes bombed Chapei but the workers in Shanghai together | with the soldiers to the Nineteenth Routee Army, city-poor coolies, stu- dents and all patriotic Chinese were able to stem the Japanese advance. Shanhaikwan fell into Japanese hands of New Year’s Day, 1933, fol- lowed by the Japanese occupation of Jehol in February. In the fol- lowing “ months Japanese impe- rialism marched into Chahar, try- ing to lay its hand on Suiyuan, Inner Mongolia and North China. Recently it presented an ultimatum to Nanking demanding the» imme- diate opening of conversations to accept all conditions that will con- firm Japan’s hegemony in North China as well as in the whole coun- try. The northeastern troops (of Chang Hsueh-liang) have already been withdrawn from the north in order to make room for the ad- vent of the Japanese army, which is reported to be coming down as far as the Yellow River. Tokyo made a public statement placing the whole of China under its pro- tection, Obviously, Japanese imperialism not only desires to force with the aid of troops the realization of the 21 demands presented on China in 1915, but actually enforces with blood and iron the famous positive || policy of ex-Premier Tanaka towards China; that is, to annex the whole of China and convert China into a Japanese colony. For this reason, the people of the entire country, whether they are Hans ( pure Chinese) or Mongols, or Mohammedans or other minori- ties, have come to face an extra- ordinary danger, a danger that foreshadows death ahead. ‘They are liable to be bombarded, shot, beheaded, tortured insulted at the hands of the Japanese. They are liable to be hit much harder by hunger, poverty and unemployment. ahead. They will meet with the same fate has befallen the Koreans, Formosans, etc. They will suffer in the same terrible manner as our 40,000,000 brothers and sisters in Manchuria, Jehol and North China. U. S. Cannot Help Through their own bitter experi- ence the people of China have learned that the Kuomintang gov- ernment can not be depended on to Save the country from the bloody hands of Japanese i mperialism; that reliance on the United States or the League of Nations for help against Japan proves only a puerile illusion. So far America and the League of Nations have shown nothing concrete in he fight against Japan. Even in the event that America and the League of Nations can maneuvre in one way or another against Japan, it will bring no relief to the Chinese people, because that maneuvre is tantamount to “drive out the tiger from the front door but lead in the wolf from the back door.” Salvation on the part of the Chinese people lies in their own hands, There is only one way to salvation, to rise on masses to drive out. Japanese imperialism with all available arms at the disposal of the masses. That is to say, we must have the whole nation armed in self-defense. That the Chinese people must take the initiative in a war against Japan is recognized by the majority of the people as the sole fitting means at the present moment. Yes, it is the only way out for national salvation, Such a war is the war of the Chinese people against Japanese imperial- ism, war for righteousness and prog- ress, war for the existence of the Chinese nation, war for the inde- pendence and territorial integrity of China, war for the salvation of 400,000,000 people, in short, a war saving one-fourth of the population of the world from the fate of “slaves without country.” But owing to the fact that such a national war lacks a concrete program in common, our action in fighting Japanese imperialism has been sporadic and _ ineffective. Here we may take a little illustra-~ tion by citing the examples of anti- Japanese volunteers, anti-Japanese salvation army and the anti- Japanese partisans in Manchuria and Jehol who have heroically fought the Japanese robbers. Like- wise our brothers and sisters have waged many praiseworthy struggles against Japanese imperialism such as workers’ strikes, students’ strikes, demonstrations and boycott. But up to the present we have been unable to hold at bay the Japanese advance on us, to say nothing of the recovery of the lost provinces. Thus we make a few suggestions deemed absolutely necessary for the program of action of the Chinese people in a war against Japan. Make Six Proposals 1) Mobilization of all land, naval and air forces in a war against Japan, The standing army of China is the largest in the whole world. Apart from police and militia the regulars amount to 3,000,000 men and officers in times of peace. The air force, though weak, eats up a large portion of the contributions of the people. Especially in the few years past appropriations for the navy and air force have been on the increase. The people who con- tribute towards the support of the army surely have the right to de- mand the dispatch of all land, naval and air forces to the front in a@ war against Japan, to demand discontinuance of the internecine war at once. But as is known to everybody, the troops alone will not be able to prove commensurate to the task, Hence: 2 Mobilization of the whole body of people. At the very outset vol- untary enlistment is preferable but later on conscription must be adopted, drawing millions of people into a series of volunteer armies, (e, g., workers volunteer army, pea~ sant volunteer army, student, mer- chant, doctor, journalist, teacher volunteer armies, etc.), These vol- unteers must be sent to the front immediately in fighting the Jap- anese. Besides, there must be or- ganized supply, transport, nursing, sabotage, propaganda corps, draw- ing in wide masses of people. 3) Arming the whole body of people. With this end in view the Kuomintang government must be demanded to turn over all weapons from machine guns to native styled swords in the arsenals or depots to anti-Japanes? volunteers for train- WWE as Well as PUIPOSES. Six-Point Program Is Presented to Gain China’s Freedom The people must take out these weapons in case the authorities re- fuse to surrender them. Of course arms and ammunitions may be im- ported from abroad, if need be. 4) Financing the war against Japan. The question of finance must be immediately solved on the following lines: First and foremost, confiscate all Japanese enterprises in China (banks, factories, railways, steam~ boats, mines and wares of Japanese origin) which amount to $2,000,- 000,000 Chinese currency at the preent rate of exchange. Stop pay- ment on Japanese loans (a big sum, too).' Confiscate the property of all traitors, Use all revenue for financ- ing the war. Collect a progressive tax on property. Collect money from Chinese both within and without the country, also from for- eign sympathiers. ‘These measures, if enforced, will produce enough revenue for financ- ing the war, at least in the first stage. Other measures may be de- vised later on to yield’ more revenues, Council To Direct War 5) The national council of the Chinese people for armed . self- defense elected by the delegates of workers, peasants, soldiers, students, merchants. This council is the supreme organ directing all activities con- nected with the national war against Japan. Membership of the council consists of delegates chosen by public bodies (anti-Jajanese as- sociations and volunteers) at the mass meeting or a congress. Pro- vincial councils all the way down to the villages are respectively chosen by anti-Japanese associations in the province, etc. Anti-Japanese sub- associations and volunteers shall be organized in the factories, villages, mines, steamboats, barracks, shops, schools, railways, etc. The national council has full power to settle all affairs connected with the move- ment for armed self-defense. Uuity with Japan’s Victims 6) Alliance with all enemies of Japanese imperialism, In this re- gard we must first of all ally our- selves with the Koreans, For- moseans, Mongolians, natives of the islands under Japanese mandate and all other nationalities op- pressed by Japanese imperialism. In the same way we must join hands with the revolutionary workers, peasants, soldiers and intellectuals who carry on heroic struggle against the Mikado and Japanese ampe- rialism, to the end that we may crush our common enemy by con- certed action. At the same time’ we proclaim to the whole world that we regard as the friends of the Chinese nation those countries or nations which maintain a sympathetic attituds, or observe a friendly neutrality, or even give a heiping hand vis-a-vis the anti-Japanese war waged by the Chinese people, whereas those na- tions or countries which assist Japanese imperialism in the fight against China or .in imitation of Japanese robbers grab Chinese ter- ritory in a scramble are certainly to be considered as comrades of Japanese imperialism and as en- emies of the Chinese people. We have the unflinching belief that the enforcement of the pro- gram just enunciated assures us the possibility of staving off further Japanese attacks and recovering all lost territories in Manchuria, Jehol. Chahar, etc., but results in the com- plete wreckage of all Japanese im- perialist influences in China. (Signed) THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE OF THE COUN- CIL OF THE CHINESE On the | World Front By HARRY GANNES. |More Anti-War Maneuvers |What Their Aim Is |Late Plebiscite Reports |[XOR the second time now, the French workers, in Communist and _ Socialist United Front actions, have |suecessfully carried out anti- | war maneuvers. On Tuesday, nine squadrons of French war planes were to de« ploy over Paris, simulating an air lation was urged to co-operate w: the military authorities by putt’ out every possible light in order make it difficult for the st enemy. pat on 2 ' Mor than two weeks ago t French aviation authoriti tried to carry out similar maneuver in the south of France. United ac tions by ‘the Communists and So- cialists effectively stopped them, Huge bonfires were lit in various parts of the city; lights flared up; workers willingly paid the utilities gougers a few more cents to express their determination to fight against a new imperialist war. In the capital of France, for days previous to the announced maneu- vers, “L'Humanite,” Communist daily newspaper, and “Populaire,” Socialist paper, carrying out the united front pact, appealed to all workers to “light up!” The anti-war maneuvers were vic+ torious, The air raid over Paris was called off and moved to outside en- virons, which make them useless for the purpose of taking into acocunt the actual topographical and struc- tural conditions of Paris, Sc a 4] "HUMANITE” urged the workers to mass in the streets, if the air maneuvers were carried out, and to demonstrate against war, carrying torches everywhere, lighting up lights and in every way making it impossible for the militarists to in- crease their knowledge of how to gear & new imperialist slaugh- er, “The workers have won this first skirmish,” declared “L’Humanite.” Now there are certain political conclusions to be drawn from this united front action against war that involves the whole struggle before and during an imperialist war. It shows that the Socialist workers realize the necessity of working for the defeat of their own imperialist masters in the event of war, The anti-war maneuvers are rallying the workers now to make it more and more difficult for their exploiters to start another war; and at the same time are preparing, if they cannot stop this war, to work for the defeat, by every means, of their war-mongers. * * . pec a period of war, to work for the defeat of the war-makers in.any given country, means, also, to work for the transformation of the imperialist war into a civil war, into the victorious armed uprising of the proletariat. poe ea B hens now in New Jersey, 5,000 of- ficers are carrying on war maneu- vers. A sham invasion of the United States is supposed to be taking place, with a simultaneous attack from the Pacific and Atlan- tic Coasts. The War Department's releases very clearly show who this sham war is supposed to be directed against. On the West Coast, Japan ‘is supposed to be the enemy, and on the East Coast, Great Britain. British armies are supposed to be landing below New York, and up near Boston. Air battles are sup- posed to be raging along the Atlan- tic Coast from Philadelphia to Boston. We do not know all the plans of Secretary of War Dern, but if they include similar night air war man- euvers over New York or any other large city, we certainly here should Jearn from our French comrades, and do everything we can in anti- war maneuvers, with the aim of working for the defeat of our own. masters—the Morgans, Rockefellers, Mellons and Fords, whose domains are supposed to be under attack. ree we 'VERY new scrap of information from Germany on the Hitler plebiscite (from capitalist sources) indicates that the real vote against Hitler was tremendous. We have already reported the New York Evening Post’s cable stating that instead of 4,500,000, there were 9,000,000 definite votes against Hit- ler. Now we have some data, It refers to Hamburg and Berlin, the two leading industrial centers, and the centers of bitterest contest. It will be remembered that Hitler made a “triumphant” entry into Hamburg. On the night of. the plebiscite, Minister of Poison Prop- aganda Goebbels’ figures showed 20 per cent of the Hagiburg voters casting a “No!” ballot against Hit- ler. A few days ago, the New York Herald Tribune Berlin correspon- dent, John Elliot, declared that the “No!” vote in Hamburg comprised over one-third of the voters, or over 33% per cent! Now we get the following infor- mation from George Durno, in his syndicated Washington column, “The National Whirligig”: “Reports reaching here from inside European sources foretell a bloody clean-up against Reds and Catholics as an aftermath of the German plebiscite held a week ago. The government is raging because defiant Reds in the in- dustrial centers dragged the ac- tual Hitler majority way down. Ia eer his vote was only 60 per cent, “On the afternoon of the elec- tion intimidating gangs went from house to house demanding voting receipts. Citizens unable to show them were summarily escorted to the polis. Regardless of their real opinions, many voters dared not risk an anti-Hitler vote. Rumors spread that the balloting boxes gave too good an insight into how | each vote was cast," € raid and defense. The whole popr<*