The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1934 Daily,QWorker CEWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) Daily Only Working Class 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. “America’s Newspaper” lth and F 8 Midwest Bur Telephone $3.50; 3 months, Bronx, Foreign $5.00: 3. mor Weekly, 18 cen can 6 months By Carrier THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1934 The AFL and 30-Hour Week HE question of wages and hours of work has come up before the 54th Con- vention of the American Federation of La- bor, with the Convention going on record as endorsing the 30-hour week. Certainly a shorter work week is a prime need of the American working class. It is one of the crimes of the Roosevelt government and the capitalist system that it slaves one part of the Working class through terrific speed-up while, at the same time, it flings millions of workers into the street to starve for lack of work. The Communist Party and the opposition move- ment within the A. F. of L, demand and fight for a shorter work week WITHOUT ANY REDUCTION IN WEEKLY EARNINGS. The A. F. of L. resolution, however, asks merely that there be no reduction in hourly earnings. But a shorter work week under such conditions alone: will mean a REDUCTION IN THE WEEKLY PAY ENVELOPE OF EVERY A. F. OF L. WORKER! Green and the A. F. of L. leadership support the Black-Connery Bill, which provides for a 30-hour week WITH AN IMPLIED PROPORTIONATE CUT IN WEEKLY PAY, and refused last year to accept the Communist Party amendment to this bill_providing for a guarantee that weekly wages stay up. Thus the resolution on shorter hours passed at the present convention is, in reality, a move that permits the employers to reduce hours of work, stagger the work among the workers, and cut weekly pay envelopes. It is a proposal that hurts, rfot helps, the members of the A. F. of L. The A. F. of L. proposal for a shorter work week without a guarantee of weekly pay, fits right in with the needs of the employers who now face de- elining production and are anxious to reduce the wages of their employees through a shorter week. | The fight must be for a shorter week, with no eut in WEEKLY PAY. All other plans are against the interests of the A. F. of L. members and of all other workers. A Good Example DAY there is a letter from a worker in our column on Party Life. He is a member of a waterfront unit and tells of recruiting six marine workers into the Party in one day. | The concrete experience of this worker is the best proof that thousands of workers can be recruited into the Party if we approach them on living and important issues. The following quotation tells the story: “The easiest way to recruit (workers) is by making them active in the work of preparing for the strike, and as they work with me, I tell them that the capitalist system is responsible for our misery, and also tell them about the great effort the munist Party is making to better cur con- dition Party members should read this worker's letter very carefully and follow his example by recruiting | hundreds of marine and other workers into the | Party on the basis of activity in the great marine | strike and the workers’ mass struggles. Borah vs. Stalin HE analysis by Comrade Stalin of the irreconcilable _ contradictions of the New Deal and his prediction that the American capitalist class cannot solve the | crisis in any fundamental and deepgoing manner, has greatly alarmed the ruling class and | its hired spokesmen. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, exploiting his unearned reputation as a pro- gressi rushed to the defense of capitalism with the statement that Joseph Stalin had proven him- self a great leader in the Soviet Union, but that his advice was not safe or applicable for America, He said that Stalin “has nothing to substitute for capitalism except Communism. And Commu- nism means the absolute destruction of personal liberties, a thing which we will not give up in this country.” We may well ask Senator Borah what he means By ‘the term liberty. Does he mean that a worker has full liberty to organize, strike and picket? Or Goes he mean that the bosses have full liberty to murder strike= to herd them in concentration ‘amps, and to exploit them to the point of starva- tion? | We all know that this second kind of liberty fs the only form that exists in America. We also know that in the Soviet Union there is liberty—out’ a liberty that allows all workers to -pursue rich and fruitful lives, It is this liberty that would prevail in a Soviet America—and it is this kind of liberty that we Communists are fighting for. Senator Borah’s second statement is equally as | “misleading. He claimed that he does not accept | Stalin's theory that “there is an irreconcilable con- flict between lebor and capital.” According to Borah, | “the laborer is himself a capitalist in America,” Sixieen million unemployed and their families! These are the labor capitalists of Senator Borah’s vivid imagination. They obviously do not exist in actuality. "The murder of strikers, the lynching’ of innocent Negroes, the gigantic wave of strikes, the demon- Strations of the unemployed, all bear grim witness to.the undeniable and primary fact of capitalist society—the existence of irreconcilable class inter- ests. Borah’s claim that Comrade Stalin has nothing to o%er to the American working class is absolutely Comrade Stalin showed that the destruction italism and the reconsiruction of society cn xs of secialist economic planning lution of the crisis. This is the ‘ are t therefore look to the great guide pos ti t. And they work of Lenin and Stalin as re actions, which will the to f destroy capitalism and establish a Soviet America. For this reason greater numbers, they are joining the Commun Party, and preparing to support its candidates in the November elections, Closer to War HE shots that killed the tyrant King Alexander of Jugoslavia and Foreign Minister Barthou of France, have landed in the powder magazine of European capi- talist war alignments. Whether the ex- plosion will immediately result in a new imperialist war, or ih rapid re-shifting of war alliances, which in turn will speed the onrushing war, is not deter- mined at this moment. Certainly the danger of war is heightend tremendously by this deed. The deed itself was an act of desperation by a representative of the petty-bourgeois of the op- pressed national minorities in Jugoslavia. It was an act of individual violence which cannot solve the problem of the mass revolutionary uprising against the capitalist ruling scum. The Jugoslavian king was a monster of oppres- sion and murder, especially against the Communists and national minorities. He was one of the worst exploiters in Europe identified with British and French capitalism, himself a factory owner and slave-driver. Trained in the court of the Czars, he was one of the bitterest enemies of the Soviet Union The immediate consequences of the assassina- tions has already been to shake the fascist-military dictatorship in Jugoslavia, to cause the mobiliza- tion of armies throughout the Balkans, in Italy, France, Austria and Jugoslavia. APITALISM can find no peaceful solution to the ever-growing general crisis, to its mounting con- flicts and antagonisms, and is teetering on the edge of the most criminal imperialisi war in all history. Every effort will be made by the capitalist rulers to direct their conflicts into war against the Soviet Unicn. This 1s the aim of German fascism, British imperialism, and the Japanese military clique. Only the revolutionary struggles against war carried out now by the working class can prevent the outbreak of a new war; only the overthrow of capitalism can save the world from a slaughter which would make the last world war appear tame. The heroic Spanish workers now are fighting to the death to end the murderous fascist regime of Lerroux-Robles, they are fighting against fascism’s drive to war. The world is rapidly driving ahead to a new round of wars and revolutions, and our chief task must be to strengthen and build the Communist Party as the leader in this country of the struggle against hunger, war and fascism. We urge all workers to join the Communist Party. Free Thaelmann! N OCT. 15 the trial of Ernst Thael- mann, the great leader of the German Communist Party, will take place before the infamous “People’s” Court, which has murdered so many of the best fighters for the liberation of the German working class. Confronted by a rising wave of struggles and by a winter of famine and suffering, the fascists plan to murder Thaelmann as the first step in a new campaign of repression and terror. The working class of the entire world has so far prevented the Nazis from assassinating Thaelmann. They are the great barrier that stand in the way of the plans of the German bourgeoisie, acting through Hitler and his gang of perverts. We can and must save Thaelmann by increas- ing our protests and demonstrations a hundred- fold. To let Hitler murder ‘Thaelmann‘would mean that we are permitting the fascists to kill off one of the greatest anti-fascist fighters. It would be a blow against all workers throughout the world. Send protests immediately demanding the imme- diate release of Thaelmann. Renew all efforts to arouse the masses in support of Thaelmann. Every moment counts, if we are to snatch Thaelmann from prison, torture and certain death. Thaelmann must be saved! Rosy Promises ECRETARY OF LABOR PERKINS, speaking at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco Saturday, outlined the scope of the report which Roosevelt’s “Committee on Economic Security” will make on Dec. 1. “The report,” Perkins said, “will be a comprehensive program aimed to give protection to the individual in all the vicissitudes and hazards of modern economic life—unemployment, accident, invalidity, old age and premature death. There is no intention of rushing all these objectives at once,” she then hastened to say, adding that “in all our thought, business recovery comes first.” “Progress will be pushed on unemployment in- surance with great care not to disturb business recovery,” Perkins informed the cluy members, categorically stating that no old age pension plan “is within the realms of possibility.” The flood of rosy promises now being prepared by the Roosevelt commission in its “social security” study, a study which goes into reports. on large scale road building, slum clearance, agricultural re- habilitation, etce., are merely a smoke sezcen. “Business recovery comes first,” Perkins de- clared, and therein lies the crux of the Roosevelt plans—it will not jeopardize the profits of business unless forced to do so by the workers, Every force must be mobilized behind the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bil!, the bill for genuine unemployment insurance. initiated by the Communist Party and mace a part of the Commu- nist Party election platform. Only the Workers’ Bill, the unemployment in- surance measure endorsed by millions of workers in trade unions, mass organizations, farmer, Negro, youth, veteran and women’s groups, provides benefit payment to all workers who are unemployed through no fault cf their own. Of all the Political parties only the Communist Party supports and fights for genuine unemployment insurance. Join and sun- Pert the Communist Party! Vote Communist at the coming electiens! Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- mounist Party. NAME.. ADDRE Party Life Six Marine Workers Are | Recruited on Waterfront For C. P. in One Day READ Party Life every day and| am writing in answer to your ap- | peal for experiences. | I am in the Waterfront Unit, and jas the strike is coming ‘off pretty | soon it has been easier to recruit members, | I have lined up six between yes- | terday and today. (One of the re- | cruits is enclosing a letter on why |he joined the Communist Party.) I find the easiest way to recruit | them is by making them active in the work of preparing for the strike, | ana as they work with me I teil them that the capitalist system is | responsible for our misery, and also | tell them about the great effort the Communist Party is making to bet- ter our conditions. I tell them of the heroic strug- gles of our comrades and how they work without reward, under priva- |tion, suffer from persecution. Then |I point out some of our leaders and | they join up, | The fakers of the I. S. U., (Amer- |ican Federation of Labor) are help- jing me in the recruiting by expos- |ing themselves as fakers and graft- |ers although they still manage to |fool a lot of people. But the “Red | Scare” is wearing off. Comradely yours, A. 8. Pavey . | Marine Worker Tells Why | @FODAY I am joining the Commu- nist Party, because I am thor- joughly convinced it is the only |Party through which the working |class will ever get independent. “I hope the toiling masses get a little more interested in what Com- |munism means, and what the Party | is doing for them. “During the last few years the Communist Party has shown its | sincerity in the struggles of the workers, while. the other Parties have betrayed us. ove “The Seamen have been so op- | pressed, their conditions have been | worsened to such an extent that ‘t |amounts to slavery and we are | forced to look for a way out. | “The only way out is the Commu- nist Party, | “Comradely, see Esa A Chicago Stockyard Unit | HE Armour plant is the main con- centration plant of Section 11, |so at the Section Convention in March a new section committee was |elected, and a section bureau was also elected, The bureau immediately examined our work, and the methods and | tasks, ete. Then the bureau de- cided to assign one member of the | bureau responsible for the Armour | Unit, ¢o that comrade had to first |get this partly functioning unit to function. 1, The unit did not meet regu- larly. | 2. The unit bureau did not func- tion. 3. There was no check up of the | work of the unit. 4, There was no connection of | shop work with our general cam- | Paigns. 5. The buying of stamps were of |ten cents only, and there was not a German stamp in the entire unit. | This was the situation in the unit at that time. So after continuous work with this unit it has grown from a small | partly functioning unit to. one of the best units, or the best unit within our section. I want to, for an example, explain how the unit connects up at pres- {ent our shop work and recruiting with our general campaigns. At |the unit meeting in September the junit had only three points on the | agenda. 1. Dues which stamps. 2. Recruiting and shop work, 3. Anti-war, anti-fascist and how to elect workers to the congress from the shop. This is, in short, hew the unit is functioning at the present time. The method we used was as fol- lows: Our unit met for three hours. 1, The first two hours were devoted to discussion of points on the | agenda. The last hour was for edu- | cational discussion, and in this way we were able to put real life into the unit. The unit grew and developed others, and now these comrades are able to lead themselves and we will have two more units by Nov. 7 or- ganized on a department basis in Armour's because now we have laid |a reai basis for leedership in each | depariment. | Now I want to mention the wrong method of work of creating de- partment units or a depa:tment lo- cal of the union, For example, we |had a membership in the Packing | House Workers Industrial Union of about 45 members, and the com- rades decided to organize depart- ment locals before the first discus- sion and also before training the members in each department to be- come leaders in their departments. As a result of this wrong approach, instead of having 45 members come into the meeting, we had no meet- ings. So again the units took the | initiative and began to call these members to meetings and began to train them. The results were that the department local was organized and is functioning. The members pledge to have their membership doubled by Nov. 7. This is in short just what has happened at Armour’s plant. Sy a member of the Section Buro working in the Chicago Stockyards. include German Every day of the Roosevelt New D2 Werker. Eut the Dai Ww cr needs $62,999 to be able ‘to dezl more fully with the strus- gles of the working clazs, Support the Dally Worker! Send your con- tribution today to the 360,000 drive. | Deal shows the growing need of the | in the $60,000 drive. the campaign, Burck declared that Writer Experiments In Own Investigation Of Living Standards By L. F. BOROSS I made up my mind to examine the living standards of the per- sonnel of the biggest enterprise in Kiev. What would the living stand- ards be for a worker in one of the capitalist countries? Wages, prices, social insecurity, taxes. Even if one merely jotted down living conditions here on paper, not to speak of really living. life is more carefree in the Soviet Union. In the first place social insecurity is competition with the other Daily Worker features, His quota is $1,069. statement issued yesterday, on his entrance into TWENTY YEARS AFTER petition. In a he needed the by Burck 3 With this issue, Jacob Burck enters into Socialist | utmost support of all adherents in this titanic com- “Not only are my competitors comrades with hests of readers,” he stated. Worker is the gainer. put over the line as quickly as possible.” “But the Daily The $60,000 drive must be m the Sovi hundreds of workers and employees can eat at the same time, a smaller hall in which those on a diet may take their medically prescribed meals. In the diet hall sat two women together at a table. I spoke to them, explaining the purpose of my visit and asked them to answer my ques- tions. “Name and address, please?” “Koronina, No. 45 Revolution Street, Apartment 27.” “Rasyamyanskaia, Tolstoy Street, |Apartment 9.” “Occupation?” Both: “Employees.” unknown here. The worker pays nothing for his social insurance and yet receives many and various bene- fits therefrom. Taxes there are in- deed, but the tax on the income of the Soviet worker in comparison with the heavy tax drain on. the wages of his comrade under capi- talism is so slight that it may be easily overlooked. So that there) remain only questions of wages and ; prices to deal with and the stand- ard of living becomes clear. But no sooner did I start out on my first practical visit than I ran aground with my fine “method.” What the Workers Eat Most properly, I thought, I'll be- gin with the problem nearest at hand—what the workers eat. It is| plain that in Soviet Ukraine as! everywhere a worker must eat, al-| thought a section of the bourgeois! press ascribes to the Ukrainian| workers the god-like ability of ac- complishing the Dnieper power sta- tion, the splendid industrial works of the Donetz Basin, the master | workers of technic, the high achieve- ments in culture and sport—all on an empty stomach! Most workers have at least their noonday meal in the same: enter- prise in which they work. Therefore I first visited the “mechanized kitchen” of the factory (factory of the Order of the Red Banner) which produces, among other things, equipment for textile mills. The giant kitchen had, in addi- Puts Many Questions “That's fine, I want to investigate |the living standards of the em- |ployees as well as of the workers. I \should like to begin with the work- jens, however.” ‘ “Then you'll have to wait. The ‘workers of several shops have eaten already, and the others will come later. Anyway, we were both work- ers until recently, before we became office employees.” “Well then, please tell me how much you earn per month.” Koronina: “250 rubles.” Rasyamyanskaia: “275.” “And how much do you pay for meals here?” Kor.: “For 4 meals a day—first and second breakfasts, lunch and dinner I pay 2.80 rubles.” Rasy: “I pay 1.05 rubles.” “You eat more modestly, prob- ably.” Rasy: “Really not, I eat quite as much; we both have diet number 5 for stomach trouble due to un- der-acidity.” Prices Based on Income “Then how is it you pay less, although you earn more?” Rasy: “The prices in the diet- kitchen are in accordance with the decision of the industry concerning the individual incomes of those who need special diets. Comrade Koronina, in spite of her smaller am, because out of my wages I must support my old folks.” tion to two great halls in which pey, is in a better position than I! The Land of Socialist Constructions! A Letter fro et Ukraine ‘Finds Prices, of Food Based on Earnings, Need of Workers “And what adout you?” Koronina: “My husband also |works in the factory end our child |is in the kindergarten of the in- |dustry. We pay 35 rubles a month for her, but outside of that we have nobody to support out of our sal- aries.” Workers’ Needs Considered | The primary difficulty of my in- | Vestigation lay in the fact that for the same meal in the same dining hall there were different prices, dif- fering wi the circumstances of each individual worker. Now don’t want any nasty conclusions to be drawn therefrom. It must |be understood it in the Soviets | there is a difference of wages in torder to equalize prices, In gen- jeral higher wages also signify a | higher standard of living and in a | Particular worker indicate higher | qualifications and a better work- manship. The whole question of wages will be more carcfully exam- ined later on. But meanwhile, out of this fragment of conversation it is perfectiy clear that p | Soviet Union do not foil y, as in capitalist countries, the blind dic- | tates of an-anarchic economic sy: tem. Prices here are by no means “blind”; on the contrary, they ser | tinize people very carefully. They |Motice whether these people earn Very much or very little. And they see, before’ anyone else does, | whether or not they belong to the ‘working class, or whether they be- {long in the class of “spengers,’— in short, prices have eyes, and more than that, proletarian eyes. They refuse to obey blind stock-exchange decrees, but they do hearken to another infiuence and another force and this force in our ease is the factory decree, the rep- resentative of the workers, of the organized working class itself. particular | Launch Drive | Here Against | Soviet China WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, — The | launching of a carefully prepared drive against Soviet China by the United States Chamber of Com- merce, representing American im- perialism, was revealed today in the appointment of a special West | Coast advisor for Far Eastern Trade | by Director Murchison, of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic | Commerce. i The government appointment was made immedict: on the receipt cf a report made Julian Arnold, Shanghai Commercial attache, on| the possibility of developing mar- kets in the interior of China. Arncld told of imperialism’s! awakening interest in modern trans- | portation in China, the planning of from 6,000 t+ 8,006 miles of new reilvecds end the estimated need in China ef 100,006 new railroad miles, SP 6: Arnold called en coolies’ b: . “was becoming a \lusur “Ey thouzh a coolie might be hed to transport 150 |by modern metheds,” nally conducted cargo,” as, =r still be much cheaper to transport Arnold de- clared. Asked whether any of the pro- jected raiiroads would pass through the Sovist provinces of China, Arnold said thet they would go right through Kiangsi and Hunan provinces, where the Soviet power is strongest. Just what the projectors of the new rafireads proposed to ca about t Arnold would not say, but Chiang-Kai-Shek has al- ready constructed strategic mili- tary railracds leading to the bor- ers of Soviet China, In addition to the market for American railroad equipment Ar- nold saw possibilities to increase the sale of American lumber and ste: nd American gocds gencrally, as. cted railroads open up new terrif The pes Coast Adviser for Far Eastern Trade aid the new e f@ markets, and “vender expert assistance to West ‘cast business men interested in markets in Japay, China and the Philippine Islends, etc.” A group of workers in a ©. ©. C. camp send $7—a sailor on a U. S. i battleship sends $l—2 worker in Duluth sends a quarter! that the $69,090 campaign must succeed! It +will suceced if every reader does bis port. Make coilec- pounds for 10 cents a day, it would tions, hoid affairs, discuss the Daily Worker! ion of Special Wesi , is a new one, creaicd especially to! All cry | | (Special to the Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Ost. 7. joss).—The Jancnese military is ter- jctechments of irregular tico%s or- |genize by Japanese agents are |showing ever-increasing activity. |_In a number of localities in Norih | China, particularly in the neighbor- hood of Yutiang and also in Tsun- hua,. Luangtung district, ihey are pillaging villages and towns. , Japanese imperisism is acting | there through its agents, Li-Tsi- |€brng and his associates, who are the Japanese concession of Tientsi: In addition Japanese bandit gangs jare forming as well as various secre’ jergenizations. For exampie, the “Society for the Protection of Hu- mon Virtues,” lately organized py them has its headquarters in the (foreign concession of Tientsin and ; has branches in all towns with- n the demilitarized zone. The “S ‘cisty” furnishes its members wit rms and has a membership of se eral thousands, There cen b2 no doubt thet Ja- | pan is about te enter another Tokio Troops Loot Chinese Towns Again (By Wire- ine North China, and special | World Front | By HARRY GANNES ——. A Tyrant Is Dead Why the King Was Killed A Maze of Contradictions HHARGES that a Communist killed King Alexander didn’t go |Past the first editions of the capi- talist press when the news of the | assassination was first announced, It became very clear who shot Al« exander, Barthou and some of their retinue. Petru Kalemen, a petty- bourgeois Croatian nationalist did |the job. What isn’t clear, and may |not be until the capitalist armies | begin marching against one ane | other, is who was behind the age | sassination. \ By its sentimental slobbering ov | the tyrant Alexander, the Ame; }can boss press tried to make |American readers feel that 3 Jugosiavian people had lost their | best friend. Jugoslavia is a prisomy, |of nationalities, all held together |under one of the most vicious | Telgns of murder and terror E “democratic” American press | tells its readers what a great |hero and what a great sportsman King Alexander was. His favorite sport was hunting down Commu- |nists and having them hung and |quartered like captured animals, | His heroism lay in the ruthlessness | with which he massacred all peo- |ples striving for national indepens | dence | ‘The assassination is a typical |deed of an enraged petty-bourgeois | nationalist. who believed that by |his individual terrorism he~could |help his people against. a tyrant. |It is the deed of one who does not |have faith in the mass struggles, jin the revolutionary uprising to |overthrow fascism | BUT the killing appears to be now not entirely an indivdual deed. | With Jugosla as the center, there | had developed a maze of imperial- |ist contradictions and cross-contra- | dictions between France and Italy, Italy and Germany, and Germany and France. Either Italian or |German imperialism saw in the Slaughter of Alexander a way of slashing the Gordian knot of these contradictions, inspired Kale- men or his assc- # 2s to carry out | his deed. Certainly, Hitler is shedding no tears over the death of Barthou, who sought to ring Germany with a chain of hostile states. In fact, | the Local Anzeiger, on. hearing of | the death of Barthou, reminded its readers that his aim was to “cre= jate a ring of enemies about Ger- many.” Furthermore, Alexander's visit to France was for the purpose of strengthening Jugoslavian- | French war alliances, in, view of | Mussolini’s recent threats at Milan | The assassin, incidentally, was |equipped with special makes of German revolvers of unusual con- struction. They were more on the | order of sub-machine guns. ana | MUSSOLINI, of course, expressed great regret over the killing. But that’s diplomacy. It is a fact | that Mussolini had been trying to |@pproach France, offering it con- | cessions in order to lessen its bonds | with Jugoslavia. Alexander’s visit |Was an attempt to strengthen | French-Jugoslavian relations, which {would not be in the intesest of Mussolini. Mussolini undoubtediy | feels he can profit by. the inner weakening of Jugoslavia that will follow Alexander's death. Besides these contradictions and ; War maneuvers, there were others | cutting across them. Alexander was immediate key to all these con- ctions and some power utilized * Croatian nationalists’ hatred of | /#xander to attempt to solve these contradictions by a major stroke, | The most likely figure behind the assassination is the Fascist Dicta- | tor Mussolini. He had most to gain | by it. UT outside of iis own tremendous significance, the assassination of Alexander, Barthou and the others |has a greater meaning for the toil- jing masses of the whole world. That is, the world crisis of capi- ; talism is deepening so rapidly, its war preparations and _ contradic- tions have matured so greatly, that voscible Sarajevos break with the frequency of exploding firecrackers on a Chinese New Year's eve. paar "HE imperialists have so ripened 1 the situation for a new impe- rialist slaughter that such incidents increase at a tremendous pace, and the whole world may at any mo- ment be exnloded into a new crimi- nal butchery. f In the place of one Sarajevo of 1914 today we have dozens, and the vossibility of hundreds. Sooner or late:—and more likely sooner—one of them will plunge the whole world into a new imperialist war, unless the toiling masses prevent their rulers by revolutionary action. Whether Alexander's death brings on the new world slaughter, the fact remains thet it will speed it and has brought it dangerously closes. Mussolini, Hitler, Japanese imperialism, are waiting anxiously for the day. World fascism is en- | tering a deeper crisis, with the toil- jing masses going over into the of- forsive against it. Alexander's death is a signal, one of many to come. All of the contradictions of world capitalism along with the contradictions of the Versailles treaty are exploding ravidly and will soon set off the tremendous stores of dyhamite of European cavitelist relations. The Ieading capitalist powers, such as Britain, Germany and Ja- pan, will strive to direct the rising tide of war against the shores of the Soviet Union. Contributions received to the credi‘ of Harry Gannes in his so- cialist comnetition with Del, Mike Gold, the Medical Advisory Board, | Helen Luke, Jacob Burck and David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive $60,090. Quoia—s500. ip of Bus Dri ‘t and Leo R: viously received fe G bf Pre' | Stage of imperialist aggression against Ohina. ‘ Total to date 7 acess eaaces