The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 Daily, Worker | CENTRAL ORGAN 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., 50 E. 13th | Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4 Cable Ada Washingt ith and F Midwest Daiwork 3 3931 MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1934 Stand Solid With the Marine Workers HE strike of the seamen has already be- gun. Marine workers and licensed of- ficers on the Atlantic and Gulf Ports have voted to walk out this morning. The S. S. Texas Ranger is already tied up in New York. Norfolk crews are out on strike. Shipping halls have been closed down. The immediate task now is to tie up the whole shipping industry along the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf Ports. The strike is led by the Joint Strike Prepara- tions Committee, uniting all forces ready to go into action to win the demands of the seamen. The Marine Workers Industrial Union, the Radio Teleg- raphists Association, the rank and file groups of the International Seamen's Union and International Longshoremen’s Association have united for the successful carrying through of this strike. During all the weeks of preparing for this strug- gle, the leaders of the I. S. U. and I. L. A. did ab- solutely nothing to mobilize for a fight to win the seamen’s demands. On the contrary, they moved heaven and earth to prevent a strike, going to the length of betraying the workers’ demands through arbitration boards and conferences with the ship owners and the government The seamen are going out on strike for wage in- creases, for shorter hours, for improved living con- ditions. Just when the workers were ready to go into actior to win these demands, the LS.U. and LL.A. leaders tried their hardest to head off the strike. They accepted the “truce” with the National Indus- trial Labor Relations Board, completely abandoning the demands for which the seamen were set to strike. Posters were plastered over the waterfront trying to stave off the walkout. “There will be no strike on Oct. 8!” declared these misleaders. The seamen have learned some bitter lessons from “arbitration” boards in the steel, auto and textile industry. All of the workers’ demands were defeated and betrayed by the “arbitration” negoti- ations of the A. F. of L. leaders in these industries. In the face of the rising sentiment and action for strike, the role of the I. S. U. and I. I. A. lead- ers becomes an out-and-out strikebreaking role. The Joint Strike Preparations Committee, be- hind which the seamen are rallying for an effective and victorious strike, points out that the seamen’s demands can be gained only by rejecting the “ne- gotiations” proposed by the National Industrial Re- lations Board and the I. S. U. leadership and plunging their forces into decisive action today. HE very threat of strike, the very beginning of action, has shown the power of the walkout. The New York Times of Saturday declared, when it appeared the orders of the I.S.U. officials would not be obeyed: “It appeared likely yesterday that some of the lines would hasten to announce wage increases this week to strengthen the case against the Communist agitators.’ Seamen, here you see the power and effective- ness of what the employers call “Communist agita- tors.” The threat of strike has brought talk of actual wage increases, Strike action, with the united forces of all seamen behind it, will win wage in- creases, shorter hours, better conditions, union recognition for all seamen. The immediate task is to spread the strike by the action of the rank and file. Every ship, every dock should be drawn into the strike. The de- Mands can be won, and they can be won by the action of the rank and file. Make the strike 100 per cent effective. Close down all shipping halls, and shipping sharks. Spread the strike to every dock and every ship. Defeat the strike-breaking truce of the L.S.U. lead- ers, All marine workers! Out on strike today for your demands! Every worker in the port cities should rally their forces behind the marine strike. Especially in New York, the hub of strike activities, must the solidarity of the entire labor movement be given to the marine workers. Aid the marine strike by every means! Forward to the victory of the strike demands! For United Support of Our Spanish Brothers T THIS writing, the flames of the armed struggle against Fascism in Spain rise higher and higher. No sooner are the statements of the Lerroux government printed about having gained the “upper hand” against the revolutionary general strike and armed anti-fascist struggles, than news arrives of hhew outbreaks, new offensive attacks against the Fascist regime, new developments in the struggle for national independence of Catalonia. The whole world bourgeoisie is terrified by the heroic struggles of the Spanish proletariat and peasantry. They fear that the united front of So- cialists, Communists and Syndicalists, which an- Swered the Fascist threat by a complete national general strike, which has inspired the proletariat to come out into the streets in an armed battle to defeat the fascist foe, will result in the establish- ment of the proletarian dictatorship. In many places the proletariat has established itself as the ruling force. Peasants have entered into the battle as the allies of the workers against Fascism. They are beginning to seize the land, arm themselves and go into action against the Fascist fiends. In Madrid, where the Lerroux government has entrenched its most powerful armed forces, the workers massed their forces for assault on the central seat of power—against the Ministry of the Interior, against the Ministry of War, against the Bank of Spain, with the objective of attempting to Seize these centers, along with all arteries of com- munication, in order to gain the upper hand. A real estimate of the situation is impossible at this time, as the battle surges on, showing the saath Ag 4 tiative and heroism of our greatest brothers. Spanish HAT the Fascist dogs in Spain feared particu- larly at this ju ure was the armed struggle for national independence of Catalonia and the The Catalonian ruling class, un- der the lead of President Luis Companys, while beginning the struggle for independence, capitulated to the Lerroux government, calling on the masses to cease their struggles, to lay down their arms. But in vain. The proletariat and peasantry are continuing the battle for national independence and against the establishment of the Fascist regime, despite the desertion of the national bourgeoisie. In Sabadell, Catalonia, a city of 40,000 population, workers’ rule has beer! established. In the Asturias, the proletariat is fighting fierce- ly, and from reports at hand, is striving to follow the path of the Russian Revolution. A special correspondent of the Chicago Tribune Basque province: who crossed the French border into Spain, reporis that all roads are held by armed strikers, who have seized power in their localities. “A glimpse of the grim, gaunt faces in the Spanish villages, makes one realize,” he writes, “that if Premier Alejandro Lerroux cannot clamp down the lid in the next few days, the world may see a social upheaval comparable to the Bol- shevik revolution.” “We are masters ofthis town,” the workers told him. For some time, the Lerroux government hesitated to use the regular army against the Spanish work- ers and peasants. Up to now they have relied mainly on the hated Civil Guards, the force of reaction which dates back to the monarchy. Now they are using only picked troops. Many times be- fore in general strikes arms were taken away from the soldiers by the officers. * * . HE heroic battle of the Spanish toiling masses against fascism, the united action of Socialists, Communists and Syndicalists should inspire the proletariat of the entire world. We must do everything in our power now to come to the assistance of our fighting Spanish brothers. We must now declare to the capitalists of every country: “Hands off!” We must do every- thing we can for the victory of the armed struggle against fascism. Socialists, Communists and Syndicalists are fighting side by side on the barricades in Spain. Socialists and Communists in this country must march side by side, struggling side by side in de- fense of their Spanish brothers, against the move of American capitalism to assist the Fascist regime of Spain. The united front must be established now on the question of the defense of the armed struggles of the Spanish workers against the Fascist fiends. Hail the glorious armed struggles of the Spanish workers and peasants! Long live the world pro- letarian revolution! Register and Vote Communist! HE annual six-day registration period for the November elections opens this morning in New York City. It is the most important duty of every Communist and sympathizer to register. Mass resentment grows in New York against the LaGuardia program of relief cuts, heavy interest and debt payments to bankers, at- tacks on mass picket lines and proposals to tax the pay envelopes of workers in order that the profits of the bankers may remain untouched by the relief crisis. A huge Communist vote will prove an obstacle to the headlong rush of LaGuardia’s city govern- ment toward fascist treatment of jobless and em- ployed workers alike, Such a vote, however, is not possible unless the maximum number of eligible Communists and sym- pathizers are registered and enrolled during the current week. See to it that you register and that your shop mates and neighbors do likewise. And throughout registration week and the duration of the election campaign period, no Communist or sympathizer would relax his efforts to win the greatest possible number of votes for the Communist candidates and program. Register and vote Communist! $500,000 A Day PPROXIMATELY $500,000 a day will be given the Wall Street bankers of New York from the city treasury during the next year, according to the budget proposed by Mayor LaGuardia last week. This astounding fact should be im- pressed indelibly upon the minds of the workers of New York City, employed and unem- ployed, and the small home owners, already stag- gering under the crushing load of tax. burdens. The great liberal, Fiorello LaGuardia, the St. George who was to slay the dragon of Tammany, is seen again through the maze of budget figures in his true light—as a defender of the bankers and the uninterrupted flow of gold into their coffers, eyen as O’Brien and Walker before him. The $179,- 416,853.92 which the bankers will receive as their debt service is almost one-third of the city budget for next year! While the winter will bring new miseries for the jobless of New York City, Mayor LaGuardia, that sterling representative of the people, cold-bloodedly sets aside almost one-third of the budget for the Morgans, Rockefellers, Aldriches and other bankers! In the meantime, let us note, the Departments of Education, Health and Welfare, instead of having appropriations for their phases of work stepped-up, have been offered reductions. * * . & COMMUNISTS do not demand either a “high” budget or a “low” budget abstractly. We do demand, however, that the budget of a sup- posedly democratic municipal government be based on the principles of deriving the major portion of its funds from those who have wealth and dis- tributing these funds to meet ali the social needs of the masses of the people. This is the La Guardia budget does net propose. It, as every other budget of a capitalist party, puts as the central question the regular payment of interest to the bankers. The heaviest weight of taxation is to be laid on the shoulders of the workers and the middle class of the city. All this lends especial point to the demands of the Communist Party in the forthcoming elections —a moratorium on the debt service and the turn- ing over of these funds for unemployment relief and the increasing of taxation of those in the higher income brackets with the greatest part on the bankers. A smashing vote for the Communist Party in New York will be a direct answer to LaGuardia, who so calmly plans to turn over one-third of the city's income to the bankers. Against this class budget—canitalist class budget—every worker and small home owner should protest. One of the best ways to show that protest will be by voting the Hammer and Sickle at the forthcoming elections, DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONTVAY, OCTOBER s, Party Life New Readers of ‘Daily’| Should Be Urged to Join C. P. |. Thousands of new readers have | been gained for the Daily Worker jin the recent period. While many of these do not yet receive the paper regularly, a iarge number are | steady readers won through house- to-house and factory sale and dis- tribution. Regular routes have been jestablished in many cities and sec- | tions, }in their house-to-house convass- ling shows an increasing interest in| jthe Daily Worker, which reflects |the growing support for the Com- |munist Party. | It must be stated, however, that |the comrades who participate in |the systematic sale and distribution of the Daily Worker—and their |number steadily grows—do not yet | Tealize the role our paper can play |as an organizer and builder for The experience of comrades WEIGHING IN | |the Party. Nor do the leading com- | |mittees in districts, sections, and junits, connect sufficiently the ac- | tivities of these comrades with the |basic problems involved in re-| |cruiting. This can and must be corrected. In the many cities and sections, jin which routes have been built |up, comrades should try to develop |individual contact with the work~- |ers to whom they sell the Daily | Worker. Very often diferent com- rades deliver the paper from day 0 day, so that it becomes difficult \to establish personal ties with these |readers. So far as it is possible, this should be changed, and the same comrades should make the deliveries at least for a definite period. Our Party members too | often act merely as sales agents for the paper. But to carry out their task correctly, they should inter- est themselves in the life and prob- lems of the workers whom they are So effectively reaching, discuss with them their reaction to the Daily Worker, and endeavor to interest them in the Party. They must take time to find out what questions are puzzling the new readers, to ex- plain to them the policies of the Party on the basis of their own problems and experiences. Our Party members must realize that the readers of the Daily Worker are potential members of our Party. When the Daily Work- er is on the order of business at unit meetings, the discussion should |consider ways and means of bring- ing Daily Worker readers closer to the Party, recruiting the best of them into our ranks, For these very workers are pre- cisely among those whom we must reach. The Daily Worker is our most effective propagandist and agi- tator capable of reaching broad masses of workers daily with our | policies on all questions of vital in- terest to them. Its readers have had an opportunity to become acquainted with our program, to understand our aims. They have seen, in editorials and special articles, repeated ap- peals to join our Party, have perhaps thought about joining. Their minds are open to further persuasion. Some are perhaps waiting to be asked to come into our ranks. which ends Nov. 7, great emphasis of each Party member in recruiting through personal contact and in- fluence. As a basis for recruiting we should seriously consider in each unit and section, the regular read- ers of the Daily Worker—not alone subscribers, but those to whom the paper is sold regularly in the shops, unions, mass organizations generally, in the neighborhoods. We should make efforts to reach them with our Party appeal. Furthermore, the let- ter on recruiting addressed by the Central Committee to each Party member asks each one to choose five prospects for the Party from among pa rege fellow-trade unionists etc. During the period of the recruit- ing drive, several steps can be taken to utilize the Daily Worker more ef- fectively in gaining new members. 1—In the unit discussions on the recruiting drive, where each Party member brings forward his proposed contacts, emphasis shall be placed on approaching Daily Worker read- ers, especially by those comrades al- ready known to them. 2—From among the list of regu- lar Daily Worker readers in the ter- ritory or shop of each unit, the best and most favorable prospects shall be chosen and distributed among comrades for personal contact dur- ing the next month. 3—In the unit territory where Daily Worker routes have been es- | tablished the unit can take the ini- tiative in calling these readers to- gether, to discuss with them our ap- peal to join the Party. 4—On a section or city scale such meetings of Daily Worker readers can be called, where a leading com- rade of the District speaks. These mee? ings should be called not alone by letter, but by personal invitation through the Daily Worker builders who distribute the paper, as well as other Party members. 5—Every comrade who regularly delivers the Daily Worker to the homes of new readers should have constantly in mind the possibilities of recruiting them into the Party and should therefore take time to hold some discussion with these workers, to find out which are the most favorable prospects, and try to bring them to the open unit meet- ings. 7—In the Daily Workers sold at factory gates or delivered to the homes of workers, there should be enclosed a special appeal of the re- spective district tc the readers to join the Party from the viewpoint of the problems and experiences faced by the masses in the particular sec- tion, city, or state. When the Party organizations dis- cuss how best to utilize the Daily Worker in the recruiting drive, un- |doubtedly many more methods will be brought forward. And the same | methods can be utilized with respect to the readers of the various lan- guage Communist newspapers. | Many experiences will be gained in the course of this activity. These |should be written up and sent to the Central Organization Department, so that they may serve as examples and guides for the Party as a whole. In the present recruiting drive, | laid on the individual responsibility | | 104T ~~ by Burck Correspondent Describes Situation In Spain Before Armed Fight Began Tells of Wide Growth Of Communist Party Influence, Strength From one of its two corre- spondents in Spain, the Daily Worker has just received a very important article on the situation in that country just before the present armed struggle against Fascism, The article follows: MADRID (By Mail)—Conditions are such in Spain that the final struggle against capitalism must come soon. Hunger plus recent events in Europe, plus the prop- aganda and organization of the Communist Party of Spain, have made a great deal of difference. When the revolution occurs in Spain you can be sure of one thing, there will be no more playing around with Socialist reformist laws and other forms of parliamentary nonsense. It will not be another wordy, good- natured revolution. It will be the dictatorship of the proletariat in some form or other. The Spanish worker and peasant knows what he wants, and I think he is going to get it in the near future. Republic Discredited The “democratic” republic has been a sad experience for Spain and it is very much discredited, any day may see it collapse completely. The repression is becoming stronger and stronger each day and with it the rising temper of the masses. The socialist, communist and anarchist press is being confiscated nearly every day with the object of ruining them financially. Lately the government has been announc- cing the discovery of socialist arms and ammunition. This looks like a prelude to the act of declaring them illegal. The simplest acts take on an exaggerated political importance, as for example, the transferring of the remains of Galan and Garcia Hernandez, the heroes of the late revolution from the town of Jaca to Madrid, where they were supposed to be reburied with republican ceremonies. The amazing feature of it is that the present supposedly republican government which organized the whole thing and was supposed to march behind the coffins leading a republican demonstration, was forced to call it off because they knew that they would have march- ing behind them @ hostile revolu- tionary mass. The separatist move- ments in Catalonia and the Basque province have been converted so that today every one knows that they are a phase of the class struggle... The Fascists have for nearly a year been trying to establish a mass basis for themselves and it has cost them a lot of money with little re- sults; not counting what they had to spend on the last election. In that year the Communist Party has grown to an astonishing extent not only as far as moral influence is concerned but as to actual strength. So that as far as the Fascists are concerned it has nearly reached the point where it is a case of a brutal military dictatorship or nothing. Conditions in Spain have their own peculiarities; a more or less weak degenerate and semi-colonial bourgeoisie faced with a vigorous, wide-awake and highly educated, from the political point of view, working class; together with an in- flammable and revolutionary peasant class. These are not favorable con- ditions for Fascist dictatorship. Of course, there is the police but they have had them right along and they have not succeeded in holding their own, There is no reason to suppose that the police will do any better in the future as the economic con- ditions become worse and worse and the contradictions reach the break- ing point. What Will The Army Do? And the army, what about the army? The Spanish army is a very different thing from, for example, the Reichswehr or the paid troops of our own country. The adventure in Morocco with its grafting generals was an eye-opener. The Spanish army has demonstrated time after time that it will not fire on its own proletariat, in fact it has shown that it is more inclined to fire on the police. After all is said and done, the Spanish soldier is nothing more than a working man in uniform and with a rifle. There is a reason for removing the triggers from the rifles of many Spanish regiments during times of revolutionary out- break, In the early part of September some Fascists, surrounded by their professional thugs, attempted to distribute literature in “Cuatro Caminos,” a working-class district of Madrid. These leaflets prom- ised work to the unemployed if they would join the Fascist Cath- olic unions. The workers gathered and stopped this sort of business at once, but one of the thugs, be- fore leaving, shot and killed the unarmed Joaquin del Grado, a member of the Communist Youth. No less than 10,000 attended the funeral, Communists, Socialists and Anarchists, the Socialists wear- ing red shirts and blue ties and the Communists blue shirts and red ties. The discipline was excellent and among the crowd were distinctly visible a number of soldiers. The police, as you can imagine, were present in full force with a collec- tion of their latest weapons, and you can gauge the state of their nerves when I tell you that one of them fumbled his rifle to such an extent that it went off accidentally and wounded a captain and another police private. While the coffin was being low- ered into the grave an aeroplane, piloted by a former military flier and decorated with red streamers, dropped a wreath of flowers on the coffin. The aeroplane was, of course, heavily cheered and it was amusing to hear the Madrid working man cheer what he called the first of the future red air force of Soviet Spain. The aeroplane incident, of course, roused the extreme fury of the conservative papers, and the aviator has since been fined 5,000 pesetas, which amount is being raised by popular subscription. There has also lately been an- other decided outbreak of the cam- 70,000 Attend Funeral Of Young Communist Killed by Fascist paign for autonomy in Catalonia, and especially in the industrial Basque province in the North. In the Basque province elections were held in favor of autonomy and large meetings were arranged, to) which Catalona sent delegations. The government began using re- pressive measures, made arrests, and the latest move is that as a protest all of the mayors of the Basque cities have resigned. | On Wednesday of the same week | the Communist Party of Spain an- nounced that it had decided to join the “Alianza Obrera” on the condi- tion that they could keep their own political line. The “Alianza Obrera” is the Socialist united front vehicle. United Front Meeting The following Saturday, Sept. 15, the government permitted, or rather was forced to permit, a united front meeting of the Socialist and Com- munist youth organizations in the new university stadium as a pro- test against the latest government decree forbidding youths under 23 years of age from joining political parties without consent of their) parents. From all of these occurrences there is of course one fact which stands out clearly, and that is that the Spanish masses who, up until about the time of the funeral had been for some time on the defen- sive are now once again on the of- fensive. More than that they have gained important victories and they have been greatly encouraged and consolidated by the fact that they have gained the victories. The united front is, of course, of great- est importance and the increasingly left position of the Socialist Party made it possible in its present form, although it would have been made py the workers themselves in any case. Furthermore, it is increas- ingly evident that the center repub- lican parties are becoming of less | and less importance and it is not a question today of republic or mon- archy, but Socialism against Fas- cism, bourgeois versus workers, in other words, the day of the tricky Jesuit method of slipping Fascism in gently is nearly over. The Anarcho-syndicalist group Jeaders are still doing all in their power to prevent the united front, put there are signs that the mass of their party will force the issue. Of all the former leaders of the Socialist Party the only one left | with any prestige at all is Largo Caballero, who is still belileved to be a real revolutionary leader by his party. The Socialist Party, | which some time ago denied the | necessity of partial struggles, is more and more entering into them when they ‘themselves ate attacked | and are'in danger. The Spanish workers and peas- ants are beginning to see for ‘hem- selves what the Communis: Party has been saying right along, and are going over into the offensive j against Fascism toward the path of the Bolshevik revolution of October. Manchurian Officials Send 2 Soviet Citizens Over Border to USSR (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 7. — Japanese Manchurian authorities have trans- ferred across the Soviet fron- tier into the territory of the US.S.R., two Soviet citizens, em- ployes of the Chinese Eastern Rail- Way. It was learned that Kozlowski and Vakhroushev weer arrested on July 21 at the station on the ab- surd charge of “wrecking, in favor of the U.S.S.R.” and were impris- oned in the quarters of a Man- churian police detachment. During their imprisonment Koz- lowski and Vakhroushev were sub- jected to brutal tortures and beat- ings by White-guard police and also \by the Japanese in order to force them to give false evidence, as ab- surd as the charges preferred against them; such as “organiza- tion for preparation to mutiny,” “preparation for attack upon the Japanese military mission,” etc. Soviet Societies Help Japan’s Storm Victims (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 8 (By Wireless) — ;—The Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Society have sent to} the Japanese Red Cross Society a |message of condolence on the oc- casion of the severe typhoon which struck Japan recently. The Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent placed 100,000 yen at the World Front i—— By HARRY GANNES —— Mussolini Talks Again As Spain Revolt Grows Borrows from the New Deal T THE very moment when the Spanish workers were storming the heavens, bat- tling to the death against Fas- cism, Mussolini was bellowing new threats of war and of the world advance of Fascism. Speaking before a crowd of 300,- 000 in the Plaza del Duomo, Milan, the Italian fascist’ dictator could not conceal the growing crisis of Italian fascism despite his ranting threats. A few months ago, Mussolini came forward boldly decreeing lowering living standards of the Italian masses, spitting the fire of open war threats. His Milan speech, which was very much drowned oub in the ears of the world, by the gles of the Spanish workers an peasants, resorted to new demagogy. fascism’s oldest bulwark. Mussolini in Milan was forced to resort to the lies of Roosevelt. He was forced to retreat from his threats of lower wages, of worse conditions, of open war prepara- tions, Ln woke IN A previous speech Mussolini told the workers and peasants of Italy that they must starve silently for the glory of Italian fascism. The world does not know, he said then, to what depths of misery it could safely be plunged. But this time, Mussolini was forced to go back ta the days of 1921, when fascism first came into power, in order to rake up the old, lying demagogic prom- ises. For example, Mussolini in his latest harangue declared: “If the last century was a cen- tury of the power of capitalism, the present century is the century of the power and the glory of labor. Science, which has mul- tiplied the possibilities of riches and well-being, must also solve the problem of the distribution of riches to make impossible the paradoxical and cruel phenome- non of misery in the midst of plenty. For this reason, which has brought Italy to the forefront of all countries of the world, it is necessary from the international point of view that we be left in peace.” eee ot | exeges in its dotage is forced to speak the lenguage of its childhood. Mussolini suddenly real- izes the “power of labor.” He talks about the distribution of riches, when fascism has very well taken care of this matter by increasing the wealth and the power of the rich. Why is Mussolini forced to change his tune? Back in May, he spoke differ= ently. That was before the Ger- man plebiscite, with the tremendous upsurge of the anti-fascist forces; it was before the united front of Socialists and Communists in France; before the present anti- fascist battles in Spain, before the growing counter-offensive of the proletariat throughout the entire world against fascism. In May Mussolini hadn’t discov- ered the usefulness of Roosevelt’s lying promises. He was riding high, wide and handsome. At that time he said: “We must rid our minds, how- ever, of the idea that what we have called days of prosperity may speedily return. ... We are probably moving toward a period of humanity reposing on a lower standard of life. We must not be alarmed by this prospect. Pres- ent-day humanity is very strong and is capable of asceticism such as we perhaps have no concep- tion of.” “weet 'USSOLINI was forced to make a complete about-face in his promises to the masses because of the rising anti-fascist sentiment throughout Italy, because of the growing struggles of the workers, expressed especially in the city of Milan, which he chose for his new demagogic utterances. In the field of war, too, Musso- lini sings a different song. At the recent army maneuvers near the Jugo-Slavian border, Mussolini be- rated the fascist newspapers, which did not sufficiently emphasize the fact that Italy was a warlike na- tion. “We are preparing for the war, not of tomorrow,” he declared then, “but the war of today.” Today Mussolini wants the Itale ian masses to see the dove of peace flying around his bald head. However Mussolini may change his words his meaning and content jremain the same. Instead of openly threatening lower living standards for the masses and war, he resorts to the New Deal system of hiding the increased attack on the masses. He now promises higher — living standards, talks against. capitalism, flatters labor, talks of “collective good,” masses. He even uses Roosevelt's old saw of the “distribution of wealth.” The proletariat throughout the world is beginning to realize that fascism is bringing the world to the brink of a new war, is heaving misery upon misery upon their heeds, The proletariat is going into the offensive against fascism, and the fascist dictators and finance- capitalists whom they represent are resorting to new promises, new trickery to Stave off the rising tide of the proletarian revolution. Victory of the proletariat in Spain will set the fires of revolt burning in all the fascist lands. Contributions received to the credit of Harry Ganncs in his So- cialist compstition with “Change the World” and the Medical Ad- visory Board in the Daily Worker $80.090 drive. Qvota, $500: Ancnymous Previously Received . disposal of the Japanese Red Cross to aid the suffering population. Total to Date ... gunfire of the revolutionary sand It clearly expressed the fears of = in order to disarm the q ee | rn