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Page Six Daily,QWorker ETE CREE CONNIE PRETT 26.4, (ORCTION OF COLMURIST NETERATIONAES “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1974 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5@ E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥. Washington Bur Room 954, National Press Building, léth and F St., W ton, D. C hone: National 7910. Midwest Bureau th Wells St., Room 708, Cheago, Il Telephone: Dearborn 3931 Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00 6 months, $3.50; 3 mo $2.00; 1 month, 0.78 cents Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00 By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1934 OO Textile Workers! Beware Of Arbitration Proposals (Continued from Page 1) dees a readiness to bargain away the demands as drafted at the U. T. W. con- Yention “Our technical demands are broad enough,” said Mr. McMahon, “so that reasonable men can sit down and give away here and there. I mean that we're not going to insist on crossing all t's and dotting every 1. We want the employers to know that they have a problem on their hands and that we want to help them make dividends. For, if they don’t make dividends we get no pay, see. There's an opportunity for the employers and us to sit down together.” These statements by Gorman and McMahon, and the proposals of George L. Berry show that the A. F. of L. leaders are definitely committed to a policy of trying to end the textile strike by referring the workers’ demands to one or another arbitration board. They also indicate that the union leaders are prepared to bargain away a substantial portion of what the workers rightfully demanded at the recent U. T. W. convention. E Communist Party warns the textile, workers against any such arbitration procedure, It can Jead only to the ending of the strike without a single substantial gain being won. Mr. Gorman admits that the workers have been given the run-around by N. R. A. boards through- out the entire past year without a single victory to be recorded from that procedure. You have gone to the employers and they have sent you back to the boards, and, to quote the words of Mr. Gorman, “the abuses continued.” Now, when the workers are completely fed up with the old boards, they offer you new boards, this time a special board appointed by General Johnson, Perkins and Roper. Is there any reason to believe that this new N. R. A. board will be any different from the old N. R. A. board? Hardly. It will be the same old N. R. A. which is responsible for the present in- tolerable conditions in the textile industry. Such a special board was set up in the auto strike situation in order to persuade the auto work- ers to return to work without the granting of their demands. The promise was made that their de- mands would be acted upon by this special board. ‘The strike was broken, the demands were not won and the auto union was not recognized. The board postponed action on the workers’ demands time and again, while the bosses busied themselves with the setting up of company unions in order to split the auto workers’ ranks before strike action could again be prepared. In one industry after another (steel, coal, etc.) the workers have been given one arbitration board, and when they became disgusted with it and en- tered into or prepared strike action they were given another board, The Roosevelt-N. R. A. administra- tion specializes in handing out arbitration boards as a substitute for improved conditions, Each new board has only brought worse condi- tions—lower wages, or more “stretch-out,” or higher prices—or all of them together. ‘E Communist Party urges all workers to reject this fatal arbitration road. Every local union should go on record against settling the strike in such a manner, either through old N. R. A. boards or new N. R. A. boards, Any kind of a board is a strike-breaking board! The Only way to win your demands is to con- tinue the strike until your demands are granted. You are now out on the streets, one million strong. The textile industry is paralyzed. You can compel the bosses not only to listen to your demands, but to grant your demands. If you return to work without winning your de- mands, and with your demands referred to an arbi- tration board, you will be given the run-around tor another long period, during which time the bosses and the government will do everything within their power to make such an effective strike as the present strike impossible. Textile workers must now realize their strength. Just think! A million men are on strike! Every textile mill in the country is closed! In one gigan- » tic action—in the biggest strike in American labor history, more than 3,000 textile mills from Maine to Alabama have been shut tight. Furthermore, the workers of the nation, Negro and white, employed and unemployed, organized and unorganized, are watching your great fight, ready to come to your aid, ready to aid you in a fight to victory. Don’t let Gorman, McMahon or other A. F. of L. Officials mislead you into accepting any treacherous arbitration scheme. Close down the mills, and keep them closed @ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1934 with powerful mass picket lines. Fight for relief to sustain yourselves and your families until your demands are granted. Fight for your right to hold strike meetings and to maintain your picket lines. The Communist Party pledges itself to bend all its efforts to rally the broadest, nation-wide sup- port for your strike Join the Communist Party! er I Whom Shall You Follow? RANCIS J. GORMAN and Thomas Mc- Mahon, the national leaders of the U. T. W., have already clearly indicated that their course in the present strike is ar- bitration. They were forced into this strike, against their will, by the pressure of the millions of textile workers and the local unions. Now they want to get out-of the strike by again referring the workers’ grievances to some arbitra- tion board. The Communists, and the militant, class-con- scious workers everywhere are fighting against such an arbitration settlement. They are fighting for an effective strike, with mass picket lines, and rank and file strike committees in every mill and town to lead the strike. The officials are already calling upon the work- ers to reject these proposals and to leave everything in the hands of the national union officials. We put the question: If these officials really intended to carry on the strike until victory is won, why should they object to mass picket lines, mill | strike committees elected by the workers, and elected committees in every mill town, representative of all mills, to make the strike effective? Obviously, the broadest rank and file strike com- mittees and mass picket lines will lead to the active participation of the greatest number of workers in the strike activities, will aid in maintaining the morale of the workers, and make impossible the opening of the mills with scabs. The officials oppose this because they do not intend to carry on the strike until the demands are won. To follow these leaders means to arrive at arbitration boards, and without victory. To set up your own rank and file committees, determined to fight on until your demands are won, | will bring victory. | Set up and follow your own local leadership! The Gallagher Vote Q@PEAKING of the savage vigilante terror in California that the great in- dustrialists employed against the West Coast Strike, Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist Party recently said, after a visit to the coast: “The California workers have no sense of defeat. To them the battle has only begun. They have taken the opportunity to retreat temporarily and prepare for the next stage of the fight.” Most convincing proof of the fact that the workers of California feel no sense of defeat is given by the 180,000 votes for Leo Gallazher in the primaries, Gallagher, candidate for the Cali- fornia Supreme Court, was openly endorsed by the Communist Party. Gallagher is known not only to the workers of the. Coast but to the workers of the world for his courageous struggle for the rights of the work- ers. He has, in a forthright manner, defended the agricultural workers, the Tom Mooney run- ners, the recent criminal syndicalism cases. His association with the: Mooney defense is well-known. He has been physically attacked by ruling class terrorists for his defense of labor prisoners. Last year he went to Germany to aid in the defense of Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff in the world-historic Reichstag fire case. At all times he was associated indelibly in the minds of the workers with militant labor struggle, and with the Communist Party. * HUS the vote for Gallagher was on a decidedly different plane than the over 300,000 votes for Upton Sinclair. The Gallagher vote was the ex- pression of the conscious resistance’ of tens of thousands of workers and farm workers to fascist terror, and for a defender of proletarian revolu- tionists. It is proof positive that by no means has California labor been cowed by the vigilante blackjack and the gangster gun. The Gallagher vote, while no doubt including certain liberal ele- ments, is mainly the expression of the disciplined, conscious discontent of the toiling population of California with the capitalist state and its terror. The Sinclair vote, gathered hither and yon, while an expression of the mounting discontent of the Western masses, emphasizes to a great ex- tent the illusions still existent among many Cali- fornia workers, the belfef that without breaking with the capitalist state, with the economic forms and content of capitalism, it is possible to solve their problems. The Communist Party, in this election as in all others, points out to the masses that only a revolutionary workers’ government, a Soviet gov- | ernment, can finally solve their problems, feed the hungry, start the idle factories working and | present the solution to all the other problems that | confront the masses. The Communist Party places in the immediate | foreground the issues of the right of the workers | to organize, strike and picket, the right of the | workers to free speech, press and assemblage— | the disbanding of the vigilante thugs—the points | which Gallagher emphasized and which was the | basis for his tremendous vote. | California workers, inspired by the splendid vote for Gallagher, should go forward most energetically in the coming election campaign and ting up a | Powerful vote for the entire Communist ticket, headed by Sam Darcy, candidate for governor, New England Unity Proposals Hailed (Continued from Page 1) Park mass meeting today and the workers could see the ridiculousness © the hiding story. Every copy of the Daily Worker was sold to workers before the) meeting ended. Burlak said today that continued “red scare” attacks are efforts of employers to break unity of strikers and to lay the basis for terror against all militant strikers. Undoubtedly the strike will be ef. fective in New Bedford with picket lines throughout the city. It is ob- vious that known conservative lead- ers like Binns and Batty are dis- trusted by the rank and file. Batty today also attacked the proposal of the N.T.W.U. for united front mill committees on the subterfuge that this is a national strike and there- fore negotiations must be made in Washington on a national scale. He did not say why U.T.W. leaders fail to organize a central national strike | committee based on local united front mill committees, | A. F. of L. leaders continue vi- | cious attacks on Communists while maintaining silence on mobilization of national guard and police now going on. John Gatelee, president of the Massachusetts A. F. of L., to- day issued an attack in the press on “Communist agitators.” The N.T.W.U. is issuing a state- ment in New Bedford this after- | noon in leaflet form entitled “What To Do To Make the Strike Effec- | tive.” This statement calls for mass | Picketing of all mills, unity in one strike front, setting up of rank and | file strike committee to have charge of strike and calls on workers to | formulate local mill demands as well | as national demands, held throughout the \city by the UYRW. | This morning at ten, after | | Picket lines, mass meetings of workers will be White, Negro Workers Join Hands To Fight South African Nazis | NEW YORK.—Negro, Jewish and | other white workers joined hands in united defense against attacks by Fascists in South Africa, declares a communication received through the mails: by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. An attack on Jews by the fascist “Gray Shirts” took place in Paarl, South Africa, one June 14. Negro workers, and non-Jewish white | workers, chiefly tramwaymen, helped beat off the Fascists. | The Nazis, armed with loaded sticks and revolvers, wounded a | number of workers. Fascist groups, given the open support of the police, go through the streets shouting, “Hail, Hitler, Hail Weichardt!” Weichardt is a | Fascist leader in South Africa, Ne- gro and white workers, despite po- lice, have succeeded in breaking up Fascist meetings and tearing down the swastika, ‘ U.S.S.R. Grain Harvest Will SurpassQuotas (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 2 (By Wireless) Information reporting the suc- cessful gathering of Soviet Union harvests continues to be received here from all parts of the country. By Aug. 25, throughout the U. S. |S. R., more than 156,200,000 acres of grain crops had been harvested. This comprises 77 per cent of the sown grain area. On the same date grain from almost 87,500,000 acres. or over 33,000,000 acres more than last year, had already been threshed. Harvesting of grain crops in the| Ukraine is almost complete. More | than 41,500,000 acres have been com- | pletely harvested. | | In the North Caucasus, in the| central black earth region and in other Southern and Western regions | of the U. S. 8. R. the harvest 3, | just being finished. The collective farms are already | distributing the harvest income among members and are preparing seed reserves for the coming year. | Every day increasing quantities of |grain are being delivered at the state grain purchasing stations. The | August plan of grain deliveries of | the entire Soviet Union has already | been surpassed by 25.8 per cent as | of August 25. | The Annual State Plan of grain) | collections had already been ful- filled by 43.6 per cent on Aug, 25. In Moscow and other central and Southern regions of the U.S. S. R. j this proportion is still higher. [AFL Chiefs Silent _ On Specific Issues | (Continued from Page 1) | \he has never insisted upon or even | referred the press here to the cot- ton textile demands for “one ma-| chine to each slasher tender” or| “one helper to every two machines,” both specific items included in the| code “revisions” demanded by the, convention. | | ‘These “imperative” demands {n- | | clude also: “Two shifts of 30 hours | per week with no exemptions; dif- ferentials—the establishing of four minimum wages; unskilled, $13 per | 30-hour week; semi-skilled, $18 per 30-hour week; skilled, $22.50 per 30- | hour week; and highly skilled, $30) per 30-hour week. | The “loomfixers load” itemizes the | maximum square inches for the various sections of the plain and) |fancy sections of the mill. It also) provides that “all charging over to) be done by spare men . . . samples to be taken care of by spare men.” Plan “Mediation” Scheme The virtual concealment of the| specific demands forecasts the prob- | ability that a strong effort will be | made to appoint a “neutral” board, supposedly for the purpose of “studying” the age-old evils of the stretchout, the main purpose of which, of course, will most likely be to “mediate” and “investigate” the | | | | workers’ right back into the mills. Other developments in the strike | situation today were: | Gorman declared that “we have | managed to sustain our members in | all of our strikes. We will do so in jthis one. There will be no settle- jment of this strike until the em- |ployers agree to permit the em- | ployees to bargain collectively and | to choose their own union. “No conference with Garrison to- | day. None arranged,” Gorman an- |nounced. “There will be a confer-| ence with the master weavers (em- | ployers),” he added. “No arrange- ment has been made with the silk manufacturers. No hosiery contracts will be abrogated,” Gorman an- | swered in reply to reporters’ ques- | tions, Plan to Break Silk Strike After a conference between Gor- man and Kaminski, the latter an- nounced that Gorman had sent William F, Kelly, International U. T. W. vice-president, to “take care of the Paterson situation with full power to act.” Kaminski, who said he would also leave for Paterson to- day to meet Kelley, accused the |U. T. W. of breaking a contract, which, he said, “carries a distinct understanding that we operate dur- ing a general strike.” In such an event, Kaminski explained, the con- tract declared: “No employer shall do any weaving or manufacturing for a person of firm whose em- Ployees are on strike . .. either party may rescind this clause by giving 75 days notice.” “We're go- ing back to try and get the five U. T. W. locals to stop workers from going on strike,” Kaminski said. With Department of Justice agents working in the field against militant | strikers and with the various local “red squads” preparing the usual “violence” for the employers, Gor- man, in his late afternoon radio speech yesterday, repeated his “red” bogey tirade: “Preserve order. Tol- erate no Communist disruption. Stand together and victory is ours.” He said this despite his own volun- teered declaration that the only vio- lence in the strike will come from the employers. However, such speeches are in line with the U. T. W. refusal to form a united front with the militant National Textile Workers Union and with the A. F. of L. policy to work with the police and the employers against the N. Dew Us Will “Welcome Arbitration” Concerning the Berry proposal for an “arbitration” board, Gorman said that “any attempt to arbitrate the issued would be welcome after this strike is on.” He continued to in- sist, in yesterday’s radio address, that “our strike is against manage- ment and not against anything else. We are not striking against govern- ment, or against the code.” Em- phasizing his endorsement of the code, formulated by the U. T. W. leadership and the employers and operated by the “management,” Gor- man accepted the $12 and 13 “min- ima” (admitted by him to be the |maximum). “God knows the min- ima of $12 and $13 are low enough ++” he orated, | | center. Japan in the Far East. “FOR-R-WARD!” Mass pace nae FASCISM ——= by Burck Finland---Imperialist Base For Attack on Soviet Union ® British, Japanese, Nazis Have Close Military Relations By A. T. England, Germany and even far- | off Japan, the chief organizers of war against the Soviets, have paid an extraordinary amount of atten-| tion to Finland. Because of its geographic position as a neighbor of the Soviet Union, Finland is an important factor in anti-Soviet in- tervention plans. The frontier of fascist Finland is only a cannon’s shot from Lenin- grad, an important Soviet industrial The harbors and entire coast of Finland offer an excellent Janding place and center of opera- tions for the navies of England and Germany, The fascist bourgeoisic and the social-fascists of Finland are good servants and humble lackeys in organizing anti-Soviet | provocation and war. These are the reasons why the great imperialist powers pay so serious attention to Finland. The past few months are rich with examples of the way imperial- ists have consolidated their position in Finland for war purposes. Last autumn a special “English Week” was observed in Finland. Dozens of the highest officers and military experts in the British army utilized this “Week” to travel to Finland to investigate the possibilities of attack and to organize the intervention against the Soviet Union. At the same time the British capitalists dictated a commercial treaty to Fin- Jand—a treaty that serves their mili- tary objectives and has caused even the most conservative economists in Finland to cry: “After this treaty we can no longer speak of Finland as an independent country!” Nazis Active Fascist Germany has been equally active of late in Finland. Follow- ing a small commercial war the capitalists of Germany also suc- ceeded in forcing Finland to accord Germany a number of unusual ad- vantages. There has been close and active co-operation between the La- pua fascists of Finland and the Nazis of Germany. It has often been brought out publicly that the German Nazis have donated consid- erable sums of money to the Lapua- men of Finland for organizing anti- Soviet provocation and war. A great deal of commotion was aroused by the fact that distant Japan is inter- ested enough in Finland to send two of its highest military officers “to investigate and acquaint themselves with the organization of the Fin- nish army.” It is needless to point out the connection between these “investigations” and the war pro- vocations and aggression plans of The foreign policy of the Finnish bourgeoisie has forva long time been @ policy of preparing war against the Soviets. The representatives of Finland's fascist government have faithfully supported the anti-Soviet war front in all international con- ferences. In the Geneva disarma- ment conference Finland belonged to the bloc led by England. For a long time it refused to sign the non- aggression treaty offered by the So- viet Union, until it was finally forced to do so. When Comrade Litvinoff proposed the definition of an aggressor, Finland’s fascist gov- ernment made a clumsy manoeu- ver by at first declining to sign it. “Extend the Borders to Urals!” But at the same time that we observe how the great imperialist powers have made Finland an im- portant bulwark in organizing inter- vention against the Soviet Union, and how faithfully the Finnish bourgeoisie has served them, we \ | Finland's must seriously stress. the fact that fascist bourgeoisie also has its own imperialistic designs which are in harmony with the in- tervention plans of the imperialist bandits. The Finnish fascists are | greatly interested in Soviet Karelia. They would like to grab its colossal forests and other natural resources. The magnificent White Sea canal that was completed last year in Karelia has greatly spurred these aspirations. The extreme fascist elements that are most open in pro- voking war against the Soviets openly speak in their papers about conquering Soviet Karelia. The wild- est of them speak of extending the borders of Finland to the Urals. They have gone so far as to print and circulate abroad postcard-sized maps of Finland, showing its bord- ers at the Urals. This war provo- cation is being carried on with ex- tremely fiagrant nationalist incite- ment, under the slogan of ‘liberating kindred nations.” War Preparations This nationalist propaganda is ac- companied by feverish war prepara- tions, Within the past few years the war budget has increased over 100 per cent, Aviation fields that are purely military in nature are being built in al parts of the coun- try, especially on the Soviet border, together with highways and strate- gic railways. A cannon factory is being erected in great haste at Tam- merfors. All,large and small indus- trial plants have been mobilized to produce war supplies immediately on the outbreak of war. The army has been reorganized on a regional basis. As a result it can be mobil- ized more rapidly and it is much easier to use the 100,000 men in the fascist Defense Guard, which was recently made a reserve of the army. The women’s organization of the Defense Guard, composed of more than 80,000 members, and the girls’ organization of 4,000 are practising actively. At the end of last year and during this entire year the newspapers and radio have system- atically circulated horror stories about the Bolshevik’s ghost planes that fly over Finland at night, about poisoning and espionage practised by Communist agents sent from Moscow. These are the methods by which the bourgeoisie has tried to arouse mass hatred against the Soviet Union and create the neces- sary war psychology. Social Democracy Helps ‘The bourgeoisie demands that So- ‘cial Democracy also support and participate actively in carrying out these policies. Social Democracy has carried out this assignment by voting for war appropriations in parliament, by proposing the length- ening of compulsory military serv- ice and by proposing that the De- fense Guard be made a reserve of the army. It has willingly appro- priated. funds for building strategic roads, airplanes, warship docks, etc. Through its parliamentary repre- sentatives it has participated in the management of war supply factories. It has continually made the workers more sympathetic to the war plans of the capitalists, Its newspapers express concern about the equip- ment of the army, the condition of airplanes and warships, the obtain- ing of new airplanes, etc., allegedly in the interests of the soldiers, It has pledged itself to “defend the fatherland” in case of war, even re- jecting the instructions of the Sec- ond International on this question. It competes with bourgeoisie papers in spreading national chauvinism and slandering the Soviet Union, It likens the proletarian dictatorship in the Soviet Union with Mussolini's and Hitler’s fascist distatorship for the big bourgeoisie, intending there- by to make the workers hate the Soviet Union. It speaks of “defend- ‘Finn Social Democracy Vies with Fascists in Chauvinism | ing democracy against all dictator- ships,” which means defending the Finnish bourgeoisie in the anti- Soviet war. This is how the social- fascists carry out the tasks set them by the big bourgeoisie. Communists Fight Imperialist War Only the Communist Party has fought against war provocations and the war danger in Finland. But there is still lagging in this fight. In its latest decisions the Commun- ist Party of Finland has, however, posed the question of struggle against war very sharply and taken practical steps in this connection. On the basis of the slogan given by O. W. Kuusinen in the Comin- tern, that the C.P.F. must prevent the Finnish fascists from sticking their snouts in the Soviet garden, the Party is organizing a united front struggle on a broad basis of workers, peasants and petty bour- geoisie against war provocations and war, and for the defense of the So- viet Union. The C.P.F. and the revolutionary proletariat ef Finland know that the Red Army, the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, led by their great leader, the Party of Lenin and Stalin, will be able to de- fend the Soviet Union against all bandit raids—but just as firmly as it trusts in this, just so seriously it promises to carry out its own task of transforming the imperialist war of the Finnish fascist bour- geoisie into a civil war. Spanish Government in Fear of Uprising Is Mobilizing Army MADRID.—Despite the fact that the Spanish national budget will run a deficit of one billion pesetas this year and there is no money on hand for unemployment relief or educative facilities, the reactionary government has ordered a costly general mobilization of the army in an effort to cow the labor move- ment, , The government has little faith in the army as a means of upholding the status quo, and shooting down workers and farmers, as is shown by the fact that in many barracks guns are taken from soldiers at the end of the day and locked up. ‘In other barracks triggers are removed from drill weapons. a In an effort to spike revolutionary activities of men from lower brack- ets in the army, the government re- cently permitted a Spanish soldier, who had been arrested for helping farm workers to put up posters pro- testing against the treatment of ag- ricultural workers, to die of ex- posure and sickness in an isolated prison cell. Another soldier was sen- tenced to 15 years imprisonment for aiding two political prisoners to es- cape. In the face of a government order prohibiting soldiers from even read- ing publications of a “political” character, the rank and file army and non-commissioned officers are aiding the labor movement to pre- pare effective street fighting plans and a revolutionary map of strategy. Y¥. C. L. DISTRICT N! TYPEWRITER The Young Communist League of Birmingham has sent out an urgent call to all comrades who have e- writers, or who are willing to donate funds toward the purchase of one to do so as soon as possible. This district is badly in need of a typewriter. Comrades should get in touch with Jack Axelrod at the Daily Worker, On the World Front By HARRY GANNES. Sept. 9 in England A Fascist Test The Life of Dimitroy ear perpen 9 in England will be a day of severe | test of the mobilization of the forces against Fascism. On that day, the British Hitler, Sir Oswald Mosley, has called |for the mightiest concentration of | all fascist groups ever held at Hyde Park under the auspices of the | British Union of Fascists. Mosley’s display of Fascist force is not an isolated exhibition. It is | the spearhead of the rapid drive} to | ward fascism by the National ernment. The stronger Mosley | Sedition Bill, | Communist Party eee “Gee We t | [ROR this reason, the Communist | Party of Great Britain-has beéii arousing the workers to a monster | counter-demonstration at Hyde Park to show that the working class is ready to take up the fight against fascism and to overwhelm this fase cist concentration by superior mass. | ing of anti-fascist forces. | To achieve this end it has ad | dressed itself to all working-clasa | organizations, especially the trade unions and the Labor Party, calling | for a united front on Sept. 9 against | fascism, | QUFFICIENT-locals and executives | of trade unions expressed their determination to fight this fascist threat to arouse the Labor Party Officials to take some counters measures, These lackeys of British | imperialism, aping the German So- cialist trade union leaders, pleaded | with the workers to stay away from the anti-fascist | demonstration, They want to give Mosley a free hand to mass his forces, gain strength and to build up the shock troops of British fascism. Responding to the statement of the National Council of Labor, the Communist Party of Great Britain declared: “The astounding statement pub- lished by the National Council of Labor against the Anti-Fascist Rally in Hyde Park on Sept. 9 is one of the most outrageous ac- tions ever committed by the lead- ership of the Labor Party and Trade Union Congress against the working-class movement.” eee ee E Labor Party belly-crawlers argued that to preserve the blessings of “democracy” the Fas cists should be given the right, un- molested by the workers, to mect and speak freely, without a counter= demonstration. To this the Come munist Party replied: 2 “It is sheer hypocrisy to describe the rally which Mosley and his thugs are now planning for Hyde Park as representing a right of public meeting. It is a big boost for brutal Fascist violence which Mosley aims at, and his whole movement is being organized to crush and destroy the labor move- ment.” aimed against and militant * ee ip ae jigs original letter to all labor or< ganizations for the united front against fascism was signed by @ broad group, including Communists and non-Communists. Among them was the famous author, John Stra- chey, who issued the following statement against the Labor Party officialdom’s injunction: “The attitude of the leaders of the Labor Party and Trade Union Movement is, I fear, a disastrous one. They evidently think that they can ignore fascism and that they can attempt to ~ restrain ee anti-Fascist activi- ies, “This is precisely the attitude adopted by the German Trade Union and __ Social-Democratic leaders. It led to the triumph of | Fascism in Germany, and it is the one thing which could possibly lead to the success of Fascism in this country.” Despite the officialdom’s treach- ery, the British workers are massing their forces for the greatest Anti- Fascist Rally on Sept. 9 ever held in England. Rae See FE a previous column, announcing the news that a book on Dimitrov was being published in Moscow, I expressed the hope that it would be printed in English likewise. It seems my hope was realized before I expressed it. International Pub= lishers, in fact, today issues the book “Dimitrov,” a Biography, by Stella D. Blagoyeva, 124 pages, at 75 cents a copy. I have an advance copy, and I want to urge all who followed Dimi- trov during the Leipzig days to get better acquainted with him through this book. The first part of the book is really a history of the Dimi- trov family, who are all, from the old mother to the youngest daugh- ter, Lena, revolutionists. Four of Dimitrov’s brothers were killed for their revolutionary activities. One of Dimitrov’s nephews, the son of his sister Magdalene, is now being tortured to death in a Bulgarian | prison for distributing Communist leaflets for the defense of the Soviet Union. When you read the inspiring story of Dimitrov’s family you can understand the full meaning of his declaration at the Leipzig trial: “I am proud of the fact that I am @ son of the Bulgarian working class!” Dimitrov’s life is bound up flesh and “sinew with the founding and _ struggles of the Communist Party of Bulgaria, which are treated in the first half of the book. The second half deals with the follow- ing: The burning of the Reichs‘ag, — the truth about Communism, Fas= — cism exposed, and the police ex- posed. The best thing out on Dimi« trov and the Leipzig trial. 4