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Page Bight DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1934 Daily . ERWTRAL ORGAM COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIOWAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 59 E. 18th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Ad Washingt: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 78 cents SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1934 BuildtheParty of American Sloan,Gorman andThomas Bolsheviks 1O THE PARTY of American Bolshe- viks, our revolutionary greetings on its fifteenth anniversary! The month of the Party’s anniversary will shortly come to a conelusion. This will mark the beginning of the Party’s membership drive to enroll into its ranks the best working class fighters on all fields of class struggle, especially the militant rs and picket- ers. This is the oecasion for an ensified effort to increase the Party’s ranks, to strengthen its or- ganization—to build the Party of American Bol- sheviks. The outstanding fact in the present day class struggle in the United States is the leading role of our Party in the fight for the unity of the American working c! split and demoralized by the reformists and social fascists. The central fact in the class struggle of the United States to- day is that our Party stands forth as the only con- sistent and hon fighter for the united front, for unity of action of all workers, Communists and Socialists, orga d and unorganized, white and black; for unity of action against the common ex- ploiter, the capitalist class and its State, for the defense of the immediate most burning interests and rights of the workers, of the Negroes, and of all the toiling masses. This flows from the revolutionary nature of our Party. Just because our Party is the only working class Party that stands for a revolution- ary way out of the crisis; just because our Party, the American section of the Communist Inter- national, is the only Party in the United States that stands for the socialist revolution and for the dictatorship of the proletariat, it is the most consistent fighter for the united front, it is the best and most trustworthy leader of the daily strug- gles of the workers against capitalist exploitation, for higher wages, against the damnable system of retch-out”, for unemployment relief and insur- ance, against the capitalist terror and for workers’ right The Socialist Party leadership still refuses our offers of united front action. The most shameful episode in the maneuvers of the National Execu- tive Committee of the Socialist Party against the united front was recorded the other day. We refer to Thomas’ refusal to endorse the united front proposal of the Southern district of the Commu- Party to the Socialist Party of the same dis- Thomas, to be sure, differs from Gerber Abe Cahan, the blackest most corrupt, semi- elements of the Socialist Party leadership, in practice and on the burning question of the united front, Thomas seems to follow Gerber, who staunchly stands by all the unspeakable treach- erics of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, such as the latest black betrayal of Gorman. The “Revolution- ary Policy Committee,” to be sure, differs from Thomas. The leaders of this committee, prior to the last convention of the Socialist Party, pledged themselves to the Socialist Party membership to fight for “a revolutionary Socialist Party,” for a “revolutionary” Second International. What has become of all these promises? The Communist Party has pointed out the utopian and reactionary character of the belief that the Socialist Party or the Second International can be made revolution- ary, but we are of the opinion and still are, that the membership of the Socialist Party, its local organizations, must and can be won over to united front actions with the Communist Party, to class struggle actions against the common enemy. This is what we fight for, but what is the “Revolution- ary Policy Committee” doing to make possible such actions? We hear nothing; we see nothing. The “Revolutionary Policy Committee” by all ap- pearances would seem to foliow Thomas, who seems to be following Gerber, who in his turn hangs on to the reactionary bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. and to the capitalist class. This too is a “united front”, but a united front against the working class. The Party of the American Bolsheviks, who cele- brates now its fifteenth anniversary, fights and will continue to fight for the united front with the So- cialist Party, with its membership and locals, against. the capitalist class. We must warn the workers who follow Muste and his American Workers Party against a trap that is being laid for them by their leaders—the trap of counter-revolutionary Trotzkyism. The working class followers of Muste no doubt take his words seriously that he is loyal to the Socialist Fatherland and that he is ready to fight for its defense against the imperialists and their agents. What will these workers say now when Muste is trying to lead them into “organic unity” with the most dangerous enemies of the Soviet Union among the workers—the Trotzkyite counter-revolutionists? Muste and the leadership of the American Workers Party repeatedly broke their agreements for united front action with the Communists on such vital questions as the anti-war struggle, the struggle of the unemployed and in the trade unions. Muste couldn’t get himself to fulfill the agreements made on these united front actions in which the work- ing class of the United States is so vitally tn- terested. Instead, he is trying to lead his follow- ers, whom he has promised, in program and speeches, to work for the defense of the Soviet Union, into “organic unity” with those who con- stitute the vanguard of the bourgeois counter- revolution against the Soviet Union. He under- takes to lead them into unity with a bankrupt sect which is despised by every honest and class-con- scious worker. We say to the working class fol- lowers of Muste and Co.; Don’t be led into this trap. In days to come you will regret it and be ashamed of it, Listen to our urgent appeal for united front actions. Those of you who are active in the Unemployed Leagues, fight for unity of action with the Unemployment Councils. Those of you who are active in the trade unions, fight for a common front with the Communists and all mili- tant workers against the capitalists and their agents in the leadership of the A. F. of L. Join hands with the Party of the American Bolsheviks for tommon daily struggle against the common enemy, To the few misguided workers who still follow the Trotskyists, we have this to say. You have been deceived into believing that the Communist International and its American Section are not true internationalists, that they are “national Commu- nists.” It is a lie and a slander shown to be so | of war and fascism. | the U.T.W. at the height of the strike” finds him- | Gorman and the U.T.W. leadership. ‘The Morro Castle Disaster | by every act of our Party and the Communist / International, and the Soviet Union, but you believed his lie and sla Now the true “internationalists” | are leading you into “organic unity” with Muste, | the champion of bourgeois nationalism, “American- ism,” skillfully clothed in radical and working class phrases. Shouldn’t this open your eyes to the fraud of Trotskyist “i ationali: It should open your eyes, amd it should lead you to the conclusion that you should break with this counter-revolution- | ary sect and join the ranks of the revolutionary workers. On the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of our Party we call all militant and class conscious workers into our ranks. We call all workers, re- political affiliation, to join the Commu- in the fight for the united front, for yvorking class action ageinst the capitalist class, against the Roosevelt N.R.A. and its machinery gardless of Join the Party of the American Bolsheviks, the Party of the socialist revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat, the fighter for the united front. F ANY textile worker wants further proof that Francis J. Gorman and the leadership of the U.T.W. betrayed the great strike, he has only to look at the statement of George A. Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Institute, on the Wi- nant report, which was such a “sweeping victory,” according to Mr, Gorman. Mr. Sloan, spokesman of the textile barons, is extremely satisfied with the report—as he very well may be. Says Sloan: “Tt is gratifying that the findings of the boayl sustain the position of the cotton textile industry as follows: 1) Working conditions in the industry have been vastly improved under the code and 2) Industry-wide collective bargaining with the United Textile Workers is not now feasible. “The Winant Board further finds that the facts now available do not justify it in recom- mending any changes in hours and wages.” No wonder Mr. Sloan is satisfied! UT Mr. Gorman is not alone in his satisfaction. Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party, who was opposed to the Communists “criticizing the U.T.W. at the height of the strike,” finds him- the strike is over. On the contrary, says Thomas in his column in today’s New Leader, Socialist organ: “The Winant report offered certain moderate gains to the workers in the matter of handling labor complaints under the codes, in the probable curbing of the stretch-out system, and, possibly, in laying the basis for wage increases and fuller recognition.” And, further, says Thomas, in order to avoid even the appearance of criticizing Gorman, “Gorman and the strike committee did a good job with the resources at their disposal.” This is nothing more or less than shielding of Here we must ask: Where are the “militants” in the S. P.? Where is the Revolutionary Policy Committee? Where is the criticism of Gorman and the sell-out? As far as we Communists are concerned, we feel that the need for unity of Communists and So- cialists in the unions against the A. F. of L. leader- ship and its sell-out policies, as well as against war and fascism, is absolutely essential. Such a united front is a burning need. We stand ready for it. And the War Traffic HE DAILY WORKER today rips another tissue of lies and chicanery to pieces with the publication of evidence that the Morro Castle, glittering luxury liner for pleasure cruises to Havana, was also the transport for machine guns, ex- plosives, cartridges and other munitions. Of even graver import is the revelation, so assid- uously cloaked by both the Ward Line officials and the Federal Government investigators, that practi- cally every vessel now leaving American ports is a war transport carrying death and destruction to the hunting grounds of American imperialism, to Cuba, to Latin America, and to the Far East, where Jap- anese imperialism prepares to leap across the bor- ders of the Soviet Union. The Morro Castle, be it remembered, was sub- sidized by the Roosevelt Government to the tune of $8,000,000 out of its assessed $10,000,000 value, . . * 1 Bass Roosevelt Government is continuing the policy of the Hooyer Government in pouring millions upon millions of dollars into the subsidizing of these “peace-time” vessels. Actually, these vessels are an auxiliary of the American Navy. The Nye Investigating Committee has revealed, despite its own timidity, the ramifications of the capitalist arms traffic which is making capitalist society an armed camp, a powder barrel that can blow millions to a hideous death at the slightest shock. It was the Federal Laboratories Company whose tear gas bombs last week tore the throats and eyes of thousands of hungry textile strikers that filled the Morro Castle compartments with powder and bullets. The trail af blood, corruption, and filthy profit smears indelibly over every phase of capitalist society, The Roosevelt government is neck deep in it. The whole swarm of governmegt officials, down to the Federal investigators who strove so hard to raise the old capitalist lynch cry of “Reds,” are dancing to the tune called by the war makers, the Morgans, the Rockefellers, the Mellons and the rest of the Wall Street finance masters, * . * 'HE Second Congress Against War and Fascism now meeting in Chicago is arousing the people of the country to the menace that hovers over them and is organizing action against it. In the Daily Worker exposures of wide-spread war shipments, the Congress faces the reality which the Roosevelt government seeks to hide. The infamous slanders against she Communists in regard to the Morro Cagtle disaster are now seen to be only the fearful lies of profit-corrupted plunderers coining dividends out of the lives and blood of human beings. The workers of the maxine industry are pre- paring for strike. It is these workers who are forced to risk their lives to carry the death-dealing machinery of American imperialism. It is these workers who are learning that they can strike powerful blows at the exploiters, the war makers, by refusing to ship munitions. Rip the mask off the arms traffic! Make every arms shipment public! Stop every shipment of munitions! Organize strikes against the loading of war materials! Stop war trains and ships! Expose the war preparations for intervention against the Soviet Union. Defend the Socialist Fatherland! Fight the Roosevelt war preparations! | schools of physiological science. | of a whole scientific school, in this | ing the years of his exuberant oviets Mark | 85th Birthday | Ot Ivan Pavlov Famous Scientist Founc Best Opportunities nee Revolution (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 28 (By Wireless). [ —Today’s entire press marked the | eighty-fifth birt scientist and the great physiologist Pavlov. In the course of almost half a | century, Pavloy has been the world’s head teacher of Physiology | | “YOU MAY FI RICRBERG and the leader of a tremendous | ; @ number of students, collaborators and scientists, who founded whole | He is generally recognized as the head | field. Pavloy is the most renowned Rus- sian scientist in the world, but dur- | prime his variegated talent had re- | ceived no suppor: whatever. In the | f absence of passable conditions of | work, Pavlov and the dogs he studied and oper- ated on at his home, where he also studied and carried on his experi- ments. He was denied a professor's chair | at. Petersburg and likewise denied a | fj professor's chair in physiology at Tomsk. This was the tragic fate of scientists in Czarist Ru: he fate of Metchnikov, Timiriazev and others. Later, after the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917, he wrote | “we have parted with dismal and oppressing times,” but it was only after the proletarian revolution that he was granted full rights. During ihe times of severity the | country of the Soviets was under- going, the Soviet Government is- | sued a special decree, signed by| , Lenin, regarding the creation of the best conditions possible for Pavlov’s | school, and with every year that passed, his laboratory was extended and re-organized into institutes. New special branches were organ- ized, clinics were opened, the num- ber of his scientific collaborators was tremendously increased, and a special magazine was issued for the publication of his scientific works and the findings of his laboratories and institutes. Pavlov now makes his experi- | | ments at his biological station on the Kolthusis state farm near Leningrad. His work, conducted at | the laboratory of the Academy of | Science, continues to expand. As | a new honor on the occasion of his jubilee, his laboratory is being re- organized into a special institute devoted to the physiology and path- ology of higher nervous activity. Pavlov has contributed treasure | after treasure to the house of human knowledge, and has created | face of cities being changed beyond factors of tremendous significance recognition. for the further evolution of the | the place of old crooked delapidated His theory regard- alleys. human mind. ing “conditioned reflexes” undoubt- | edly contributes extensively time, when idealistic and even mys- tical scientists have revived capital- istic gods, once more, in this omi- nous twilight. | Irrespective of mistakes which | may be revealed in Pavlov’s concep- tions during his further scientific | with the aid of the best machines research, his services will remain jeyer invented by man. Peasant af- He sharply turned the | fulence growing over the length and wheel of science away from our | breadth of the Soviet Land. immortal. former idealistic concepts in psy- chology. Therefore Pavlov, as a scientist, is a highly progressive phenomenon, irrespective of some of his prejudices against dialectic philosophy, etc. Fascists and their allies would declare Pavlov as a man from hell, and a devil, but here in the USS.R., Pavlov has a whole new townlet as a material base for his science and his experiments, which are grow- ing every year. | In connection with Pavlov's jubilee, the council of the people's | commissars has sent him greetings | in which are noted his inexhausti- ble energy, his scientific and crea- tive works whose achievements have deservedly placed his name among | the classical names of natural science. Simultaneously, by special decision of their council, the People’s Commissars have decided to found a yearly state prize of twenty thousand roubles, bearing Pavlov’s name, for the best scienti- fic work in the field of physiology, and have also decided to establish five Pavlov scholarships of five hun- dred roubles a month each, for rais- ing the scientific qualifications of young scientists in physiology. Five similar scholarships to medi- cal schools were also established by the Health Commissariat of the U.S.S.R. Besides this, the council of the Peoples’ Commissars granted one million roubles to be spent in 1935 for extending Pavlov’s biologi- cal station on the Kolthushi state farm. It has also been decided on to issue a full collection of Paylov’s works during 1935-36. Pennsylvania Museum To Exhibit Soviet Art (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 28. (By Wire- less) —The All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, at the invitation of the Pennsylvania Art Museum, has sent an exhibition of Soviet paint- ings and drawings to Philadelphia. In all, 147 canvasses and 200 sketches have been sent, includ- ing several canvases by artists from Uzbekistan, and 25 pictures from the recent young artists’ ex- hibition, SECTION 10 TO MEET NEW YORK. — Section 10 of the Communist Party, in Queens, will hold a general membership meeting on Tuesday night at 7:30 at the Masonic Temple, 41-26 Fifty-eighth Street, Woodside. The meeting will deal with the election campaign. All members are urged to attend. kept his laboratory | ff y to- speed. New machinery, new meth- wards the theory of materialism, ‘cds of production, new branches of being especially valuable in our industry. A whole country humming THE JOB, DONALD!” | | | | | | What Will the American Workers Do If the Soviet Union Editor, Backfrom USSR,’ Says Land Hums With Constructive Labor By Moissaye J. Olgin COUNTRY at work. This is| what the visitor finds on com: ing to the Soviet Union. A country deeply, passionately absorbed in constructive work. Houses, factories, theatres, build- ing. Whole streets laid out. The | Broad avenues taking Factories working with increasing with peaceful productive labor. Collective farms changing the face of the earth. Where dwarf holdings of impoverished peasants dotted the land, giant fields are plowed and cultivated and harvested The edifice of culture rising to ever greater proportions. Schools and colleges, academies and research institutes, laboratories, and parks of culture and rest, palaces of culture | A,. a young worker, with a troubled | ions for knowledge. }and numberless study courses in factories, shops, mines and farms. Huge streams of new books. A ‘gigantic outcropping of the fine | arts. A neyer-sated thirst of mil- ‘The country is engaged in peace- ful work, The land of building So- cialism is rapidly raising the stand- ard of living of the masses. Long years of fighting for the dictator- ship of the proletarian and for the building up of the land are bringing | fruit. Socialism is within sight. A} classless society is in the making. And in the distance the threat of war is looming, lak ae, VISIT a plant. The workers eagerly show me one section after another, They are proud of this great achievement. Three years ago there was waste land where now intricate machinery in splendid buildings of steel, concrete and glass run smoothly and almost noiseless- ly, The engineers are mostly former workers from this and other plants. The director is a former worker. The output is ahead of schedule. Ground enough to be proud. There is a joy in the eyes of those men and women who have created this ney child of the Second Five-Year Plan. But when we finish discussing the problems of this beautiful piece of art of the Soviet creative genius, Ts ——» when we have exchanged informa- tion about the rise in the earnings and in the cultural level of the workers in the U. S. 8. R. and about the lowering of the standards of living and the terrible unemploy- ment of the workers in the U. S. lock on his face, asked me: “Comrade, what in your opinion will the American workers do in} case of an attack on our Soviet Union?” eh eh 'HE parade of the physical cul- turists of the Soviet Union is passing through Red Square. Young men with bronzed bodies and clear eyes are marching to the tune of; gay music, and every motion of their well-developed bodies is music. Young women, tall, sturdy, courage- ous, swing along in well balanced lines. There is vigor and aggres- siveness in those tens of thousands of the pick of Soviet youth who came to show their readiness to work and fight and defend their Socialist Fatherland, So much youth, so much gayety. So much music. Such a blue sky overhead. So much work to do in this great country stretching from the Polish frontier to the blue waters of the Pacific, from the ice of the Arctic Ocean to the burning sands of Kara~-Kum and the moun- tains of Pamir. Such enormous op- portunities opening for every man and every woman in this growing life which soon will be turned into one beautiful garden, These thousands representing millions of the Soviet youth are the future of the Soviet land. They shall live in a classless society. They shall see heights of humane living and culture undreamed of under the capitalist system. They shall show the way for all the toilers of the aes freedom and a new e. A voice at my side: “Comrade, you have seen our} youth. It is ready to defend the Soviet Union. Pray tell me what} will be the attitude of the American | youth in case of an attack on our) Fatherland?” ed oe the Cheluskinites came to Moscow I was fortunate to be among those present at the great reception given them by the Moscow proletariat. Such concen- trated love the world has never seen. Such mass enthusiasm has never been experienced in the his- tory of mankind. The seven heroes, those that rescued the stranded Cheluskinites from the ice floes of the Arctic, the hundred and four rescued members of the expedition were given a greeting never ac- corded to the greatest hero. There was happiness among the untold Attacked? Describes Changes Now Taking Place All Over Country thousands that crowded the Square and the streets. There was happi- ness and joy in the eyes of the leaders, who greeted the guests in| the name of those multitudes. The Red Army saluted. The Red Ma- rines saluted. The Red Command- ers marched. The sky overhead was dark with airplanes extending their greetings to the heroes. The whole country was one in its feel- ing of elation over the great hu- manitarian work, the great daring exhibited by the Russian proletarian flyers, the great organizing power exhibited by the proletarian state, by its proletarian party. As the flowers showered the auto- mobiles of the incoming guests, as the red and blue leaflets dropped from the giant airplane Maxim Gorky, showered the Red Square, as | the exclamations of ecstasy spread | through the marching thousands | like one powerful chord, my neigh- | bor, a young aviation commander, “You see the power of our coun- try. In case of necessity we shall} fight to the last. But what will the} American proletariat do in case of | an attack on us?” . . * . 'HE Soviet Union is prepared. The | military strength of a country is to a great extent determined by its industrial strength—and the in- dustrial strength of the Soviet Union is growing apace. The So- viet Army is equipped according to the last word of science. The So- viet army, a class army, is animated with a spirit of Socialism and will defend its country with a power that is bound to astonish the world. The Soviet youth, athletic, agile, used to machines and mechanical appliances, enthusiastic for its Fatherland, will fight with courage born out of the understanding of the historical task of the Soviet Union. The whole country, united behind the Communist Party and the government as no other coun- try can be united behind its leaders, will offer resistance that will be a shock to the enemies. Yet with all this — the Soviet workers and peasants, the Soviet masses and we all know that with- out the aid of the workers of the capitalist countries victory of the Soviets in an armed clash with the capitalist world cannot be won. The Anti-War, Anti-Fascist Con- gress in Chicago is to give to the Soviet masses the answer to the question: What will we, the American work- ers, do in case of an attack on the U. 8.8. Ri? New Branch of I. W. O. To Be Opened Tonight NEW YORK.—An important step toward the materialization of a workers center in the Kings High- way section will be made with the installation of the English-speaking Ernst Thaelmann Branch No. 585, I. W. O., tonight, in the Brighton Workers Center, 3200 Coney Island Avenue. At least part of the pro- ceeds will be utilized for a fund which is eventually to lead to the establishment of the center in co- operation with a Yiddish-speaking branch and other workers’ groups of the neighborhood. Max Bedacht, General Secretary of the I. W. O., will be the guest speaker at the exercises and will officiate at the installation of the branch, which within a few weeks managed to build a membership of 45 and hopes to double that figure Youth Nominee Seized; By Police at Cleveland C. P. Election Meeting CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 28.— Angered by the energetic election campaign of the Communist Party here, and the warm response to its program, police are seeking every available opportunity here to ham- per the Party’s work, Max J. Goldlust, Communist youth candidate for State Repre- sentative was arrested here several |days ago at an open air campaign meeting at Superior and Lakeview Roads. Police then dispersed the audience. The Cleveland youth committee supporting 23-year old Goldlust’s candidacy is preparing to counter this attack by holding another meeting on Saturday at the same | pointed out that the vast majority Brooklyn Students Back Social Insurance Bill NEW YORK. — The Student Council of Brooklyn Evening Col- lege, representing the 2,500 students at the night session of the school, unanimously endorsed the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill at its last meeting. Sam Chavkin, member of the Student Council, who presented the Worker's Bill, of the students are workers and the children of workers. The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, initiated by the Communist Party and_ incor- porated in the Communist Party election platform, has been en- dorsed by thousands of trade unions and mass and fraternal groups of Negroes, veterans, farm- ers, students and intellectuals. The Daiiy Worker can Better Aid | conflict between the }and opinion on the Fer Fi | Said to me: | China On the World Front By HARRY GANNES—— “China Today” | A New and the Best Source of Information WHE Chinese name _ for China is Chung Hwa, or the Middle Kingdom, when the ancient Chinese em- perors regarded that vast empire as the center of the world. Today, teo, China is he center cf world attention, Sut power tem: t China to bits, to seize as large a slice of this huge country of over 409,099,000 popule tion. Constant China. wars are going on There are wars of the particularly for the imperialism, eclenizat | of greater and greater portions of the count: There a: of Chiang Kai Shek a Chinese Soviets: the re tionary wars of the Red Army, against imperialist oppression, and against Kuomintang bloody rule. And then there are the constant wars of the militarists, reflecting the various im- perialist. bandits. eee IN China is concentrated every imp antagonism, and on the border of Manchuria and the Soviet Union there meets the greatest confiict in modern day history—the conflict of the im- perialist powers with the Soviet Union. China, also is today the only country in the world outside of the U. S. R. where Soviet rule is established and is functioning. Over 80,900,900 pecple live under the hammer and sickle. We do not begin even to indicate the world importance, the revolu- tionary significance, the role of China in the life of the toiling masses of the whole world. The capitalist press for the most part prints the shecrest nonsense about China. It is a dark and myste- rious land to the masses generally, 2 ee IN the United States for Several years now remarkable work has been done by the Friends of the Chinese People to spread informa- tion, enlightenment and to rally the American people for the sup- port of the Chinese revolution. Now they have taken a historic step. The first isst of their magazine China Today in nzinted form has appeared. The svi tion of this publication monthly, magazire of informstion We have read nearly every zine in English, in and out cf China, published on China, and not one of them eyen approaches the quality of China Tod: China Teday, is attractively gotten up. On the front cover is a map of China, with the Soviet districts marked in red. Evo werkers’ organization, every group interested in China, want this meo to put in their headquerters. Tt speaks volumes con the relative importance of Soviet china. * * Scie ee E cannot here review the in- dividual articles in this first issue, every one of them A con- tribution to an understanding of and its revolutionary We merely list ™m show the scope of the struggles. here to magazine: The Far East and the World, which stresses the importance of the Far East in this vericd of a new round of wars and revolu- tions. Mme. Sun Yat-sen, the widow of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, known to some of the Chinese peasants in the most backward sections who have never heard of the world war, contributes an article on the Call to Arms Against Japan. Frederick Spencer, one of the editors, writes on Nanking Calsps Hands with Japan. Just who Tsai Tingk-kai, the hero of Chapei is, and what his attitude is towards Chiang Kal Shek is told by J. W. Phillips, who interviewed the commander of the 1sih Route Army on his recent triumphal Visit to New York. ‘HE very important documents signed by Mao ‘Tse Tung, chairman of the Central Soviet districts, and the Fukien insurgent government are for the first time published in English in China To- day. There {s an article on Latest News from Soviet China; Culture and Chinese Soviets; Manchurian Volunteers; Traffic in Arms in the Far East. Worth the price of the maga- zine itself, which is 15 cents, is the short story ‘People’s Therapy,” by Hu Ming-shu. It deals with the resistance of the peasants to the militarists and their efforts to drive them into the White Armies. Do you want to know how the Chinese peasants reallv act. telk, think, and not —93 ‘hs moog portray them then read this story, The hook reviev’ dc xartmont, directed by Hansu Chan. a I-a“ing authority and writer on China, deals with the most important books recently issued on China, Hansu Chan is one of the editors of “China Today,” and is well known for his lectures and writings on the subject. We cannet urge owr readers too stronzly if they want to un= derstand the ral situat‘on in the Far East, and especially China, to write immediately for a copy of “China Today” before this first issue is exhausted. Send 15 cents to Friends of the Chinese People, 168 West 23rd Street, New York City. Contributions received to the cred- it of Harry Gannes in_his Socialist competition with “Change the World” and the Medical Advisory Your Struggles if You Build its soon location, Circulation, ” Board in the Daily Worker drive. 140