The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1934 Daily,<QWorker CHTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 56 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y Telephone ALgonquin 4-795 4. Daiwo New Dearborn By 6-months, Manhattan: 6 months. Mail: (except M $3.50. 3 m Brenx, Foreign $5.00: 3\ months, Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents and $3.00 monthi: By 75 cents. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1934 No More Delay! IHOUGH the Lerroux-Robles fascist re- gime of Spain has clamped down an absolute censorship on news of the work- €23’ armed struggles, the Spanish workers are continuing the united front struggle against fascism. Whatever the outcome of the present battles, we here in this country must make every effort to establish a united front for the defense of the Spanish workers, Socialists, Communists and Syn- dicslists, without the slightest delay Erery day events shout the necessity of this united front of Socialists and Communists against fascism: and war. The capitalist press has announced the forth- coming “trial” of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany. In every country where the united front of Socialists and Commu- nists has been realized, the fight for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann and all other anti-fascist pris- ners is one of the major objectives A new drive has been undertaken in the United States to speed the execution of the Scottsboro Their execution has already been set for December 7. In Europe, a new Sarajevo hangs over human- ity. War is a matter of today, as Mussolini, who is preparing for it and should know, declares. The Communist International and the Young Communist International have picked outstanding Communist leaders to negotiate with the respective Socialist Internationals. They have appealed to all workers, to all Socialists to act now for the united fron: in defense of the fighting Spanish proletariat. In the United States, the Communist Party has addressed a fervent appeal to the Socialist Party executive for a united front on this specific ques- tion—for joint mass meetings, demonstrations and other actions in support of the heroic, fighting Spanish worke: HY has there been no answer while every day Socialists and Communists, in a united front, fall -before fascist gunfire? The mad fascist dogs everywhere are rushing forvard to new slaughters, new tortures, to war. In ‘the United States, the Roosevelt regime is increasing its attacks on the workers, proposing a “truce”. in the class struggle, which even the liberal “Nation.” in its last issue, recognizes as a seven- Yeague stride toward fascism. ‘Thaelmann’s life is in danger. Death for Thael- mann will be the beginning of a most ferocious murder campaign on Socialists and Communists in ‘Germany. ‘The Scottsboro boys face the electric chair. There is not the slightest excuse for any further delay. We appeal to every Socialist to bring up in his local, to the attention of his leaders the ques- tion of, at least, immediate establishment of united front actions in defense of the Spanish workers. With Socialists and Communists fighting shoul- der to shoulder to the death in Spain, is there any reason why Socialists and Communists here should not hold joint meetings in their defense? The Communist Party in every district is ap- pealing to the Socialist Party to go ahead imme- diately with the holding of joint, united front meetings. The delay of the Socialist leaders should not prevent immediate action whereyer possible. Events of onrushing war, of fascist depreda- tion: making every delay in united front ac- tions~dangerous if not criminal. The united front must. be established against fascism, against war, against hunger. Let us act now! é Beware of Roosevelt’s ‘Gift’. seamen now is to strengthen rong ship committees on all their ranks, to build st to re new members into the Marine Workers Indus J; n and to build a powerful and file opposition in the IS.U, to carry on e ctruggle for the demands of the men over the heads of the leaders. Bankers and Roosevelt ALL STREET bankers and the Cham- ber of Commerce, after recent confer- ences with Roosevelt, pronounce him a very good President for their purposes. Roosevelt’s candidates throughout the country, of course, are not telling the prospective voters about these facts. They are still using the old line of. Roosevelt's promises, at the very mo- ment Roosevelt is consulting bankers and Chamber ef Commerce representatives on how best to defeat these promises. We want to refer to only a few of the reasons why the bankers and big industrialists have de- clared their new love for Roosevelt. The Chamber of Commerce, in its latest statement, says it be- lieves Roosevelt is the best bulwark against the 30-hour week agitaticn. They reveal—and this is a secret they have not told the workers before—that Roosevelt passed the N.R.A. to stop the movement for lower hours and increased wages. They count on Roosevelt to stop any such further agitation now. The Heraid Tribune, for exampie, reveals the fact that bankers, who support Democratic and Re- publican candidates alike, have come out for Roose- velt as their best bet Roosevelt has had long conferences recently with such men as Russell C. Leffingwell, member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.; William C. Potter, president of the Guaranty Trust Co.; W. W. Wil- liams, president of the Mortgage Bankers Associa- tion of America; Fran M. Law, president of the American Bankers Association; W. R. Grace, presi- dent of the Grace Lines, and Walter C. Chrysler, automobile magnate. Besides, George Harrison, gov- ernor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and a Morgan man, was a guest of Roosevelt on a week-end cruise. * * LL of the bankers come out of their conferences Satisfied that Roosevelt is carrying out their policy, and that his demagogy is meant only for mass consumption, These are not the only reasons given by the Herald Tribune to show that the bankers and big trusts see in Roosevelt their best instrument for carrying out the drive against labor. These are the facts that all workers should keep in mind when going to the polls. No matter what promises the various candidates on the capitalist tickets supporting or attacking the New Deal may present, the actual political alignments are being made directly between Roosevelt and the big bankers. Only the Commenist Party, from the very be- ginning of the Roosevelt regime showed and proved that his program was the program of finance capi- tal, of the most corrupt trusts and scab-corpora- tions. Only the Communist Party from day-to-day fought against every new slave-driving measure of the New Deal, and warned of its later anti-labor developments. Reosevelt's many conferences with the bankers are reminiscent of Hitler's. constant meetings with the German bankers.. The results of Roosevelt's conversations will be greater efforts to save capital- ism at the expense of the workers, resorting to more and more fascist measures against the workers. To mobilize the fight against this set-up, to rally the workers io the new dangers confronting them, a huge Communist vote can now become one of the mOst powerft1l weapons. A vote for thc Communist Party is a vote for the greatest struggle against the bankers’ New Deai; a vote against all the lying demagogy of. Roosevelt; a vote for workers’ rights, for powerful trade union organization, for struggle for increased wages, and for development of these struggles for the over- throw of the whole rotten structure of capitalism. Vote Communist! HE decision of President Roosevelt re- garding hours in the cotton garment industry repeats the history of the han- dling of the cotton textile workers under ° Party Life Simin, in Chicago Against Company Unions Set Up After N.R.A. By B. B. E have in Chicago the type of company unions that were set- up after the introduction of the N. R. A. That is, no dues payments nor regular membership meetings. It was set up under the provision of “Employes Representation Plan.” Even in International Harvester where ‘there has been a company union for 15 years, it functions in the same manner as those organ- ized last year. Only that it’s more rooted and has a more elaborate field of “activity.” This type of the company union is the predominant | one here. | With the setting up of the com- | Pany union in-——, a union member | was elected from one of the depari- |ments. This comrade immediately |began to raise demands, introduced }a motion to post the minutes of |the “Council” meeting on the bul- |letin board so that the workers | would know what’s taken up at the meetings. Through the work in the com- pany union, our comrade gained | prestige among the workers. So the company decided to get rid of him. | He was “laid-off until further no- tice,” and here he utilized his} privileges, as representative by call- ing a council meeting and demand- ing his reinstatement. The ma- jority of the council supported him on this and he was put back on the job. (Was being on union our comrade was able to call meetings of his department | jand bring the problems of the shop | the company} ¢ THE up to them. During the discussion! & they were able to pick out the best |workers. ‘Those were later ap- proached for the S. M. W. I. U. Even from the Council, a represen- | | tative from the teol room was re- |eruited. The S.M.W.1U. began to | most work done by the company union representatives who. made it |their business to visit different de- | |partments to sign the workers into | | the union. | | We began to issue the leaflets: exposing the company union and | why it was organized, at the same time carrying on agitation against | the company union mectings, espe- cially the Secretary and the Chair- man, who were exposed as “suck- ers” of the company. During the | period it was also possible to de- velop struggles. the company union representatives won a six-cent an. hour. increase | for the tool room workers by send- ing a committee to the company | union where a fight around this | issue was developed, and later the | committee went to the manage- ment, supported by the majority of the Council members. Also, two | workers were reinstated, after. they were’ fired. | | Then new elections came up. At} the union meeting workers brought |this question up. What shall we! |do now? Workers are against the| company union. A slogan to boy- | lecott wes advanced to which a ma- | |Jority agreed. At the same time, | plans were laid to call department | |meetings and elect a shop commit- |tee which was to substitute and [ieee the representative of tl. | workers in that shop, and. if nec- jessary, to call a strike. Demands forwarded. were: | 1, Fifteen per cent raise; 2, Pay Jevery week; 3. Abolition of com- pany union; 4. Recognition of | Workers Shop Committee. | We issued a leaflet on the boy- cott. as follows: Do not piace nom- inations! Cast blank ballots! This | we explained to the workers that | it was not the aim in itself, but only to express the sentiment of the workers against the company | ‘ | Contributions received to the credit of Burck in grow to over 100 members, with the | his socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry {OTTSBORO BOYS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES CLARENCE NoRRIS Anonymous by Burck World Front By HARRY GANNES —— Mass Suicide /1,000 Hungarian Miners Storm Signals in Germany UNGARIAN miners, -re- duced to the level of coo. jlies, have resorted to a des- perate move to force a wage jincrease. More than -1,000 | coal diggers at Pecs, Hungary, re- |ceiving $2 a week, have barricaded | themselves in the mine pits, thzeat- jening to commit suicide en masse | if their wages are not raised to $3.50 |@ week. They have been under- | ground more than 48 hours at the | time of writing. A group stands at | the entrance to the tunnel of the self-entombed miners with axes to stop any efforts at “rescue.” “Rather than suffer the slow pangs of death by starvation,” they say, “we will commit suicide by smothering ourselves unless you grant our demands within twelve hours.” With their wives and children above ground facing starvation, a man’s situation must indeed be des- perate when 1,000 prefer to . kill themselves rather than to continue to live under the miserable condi- tions of Hungarian fascism, EDUCED to the level of the lowest paid coolies of the Far East, the Hungarian miners have adopted some of their methods of struggle. For example, at the San Yue Towel Co. in Shanghai, several years ago, hundreds of textile workers barri- caded themselves in the plant and declared a hunger strike. They wera demanding relief and back pay. Japanese workers very often climb factory smoke stacks, threatening to jump off if they are molested and * Previously received |vowing to starve to death if their | fellow worke:s’ wages are not raised. |Chinese, Indian, Indo-Chinese and Japanese workers sometimes commit | Gannes, “del,” the Medical Advisory Board, Helen | Luke, David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for Total to date $60,000. QUOTA—S$1,000. A x : Thaelmann Trial Focuses Attention On Vicious Nazi’s ‘Peoples’ Court’ Our mion using Court Proceeds With) Its Work in Manner of Court Martial BERLIN, Oct. 12.—The “trial” of Ernst Thaelmann, now impending, has focused the eyes of the world on the func‘ion, the history and the activities of this assassins’ in- quisition called the “Peop!4s’ Court.” Contrary to all the assertions of the fascist hired journalists and the | professors of law in the “Third Em- pire,” the “Peoples’ Court” in reality proceeds with its work in the same manner as the court-mar- tials. Defendants Brought Secretly Two to three trials are conducted at the same time in each of the three rooms of the First ‘Peoples’ Court” in Berlin. The defendan’s are brought to the court secretly, | by night, while all measures of precaution are taken. The accused learn of their coming trial only a few hours beforehand, and only the nearest relatives—the parents, | wives or husbands—are informed when the irial is to take place. The | investigating judge appoints “trust- worthy” lawyers for the defense, and even these lawyers are not allowed to speak to the defendants | Which in general recognize no rules of legislation whatsoever—cannot. be appealed from. The defendants are not allowed to have their own law- ‘yers. An eye-witness reports in the |French press that all the defend- an’s give the impression of being | extremely worn out. and sick. Among jthe defendants are also many | women whose faces bear traces of |mar_yrdom. When the court fears | |that evidence or exposures will bé made, inconvenient for the existing regime, then the trials are held in | thé interests of the “Safety of the State”—behind closed doors. These “People’s Courts,” created in order to terrorize the popula- tion, have thrown hundreds of the best working-class fighters into the hard labor prisons for many years. Against the majorily of the de- | fendants no evidence whatsoever of their “crimes” can be found. . 15 Years’ Hard Labor If up to now comparatively “mild” | Sentences of up to 15 years’ hard | labor were passed, this was done with a special purpose. Indignant public opinion must be misled | The sentences of these courts | Atmosphere of Terror) Prevails—T orturers Always Present a veil to be dropped entirely when | it is a matter of passing a sentence of vengeance against Ernst Thael- mann, Notwithstanding the asser- tions of “authoritative German | judges” that Thaelmann will most} likely be sentenced to “oniy” eight to ten years hard labor, there aré indications thet they wish to bring about his trial w:th stupefying sud- déenness in order thus to be able, while unhindered by the protests of world public opinion, to “avenge” themselves upon Thaelmann. It is already a few weeks since there is no information about Thaelmann’s whereabouts. The for- suicide on their employers’ doorstep as a sign of protest against starva- tion pay, inhuman treatment. . VERY worker will be aroused to a pitch of fury at conditions which drive workers to prefer to make a slaughter house of a mine, to shed all of their blood at one stroke rather than ooze it out over a long period of starvation in dig- ging coal. But such heroism, such desperation, such readiness for self- sacrifice can be turned into more offensive, more fruitful channels by other forms of struggle. The bosses may feel a little em- barressed by having all of their miners commit suicide at one time. But they can stand the shock, Unemployed miners are plentiful. Recently in one mine in South Wales over 260 miners were buried alive, and the bosses found no dif- ficulty in replacing them immedi- ately, without the slightest qualms of conscience. . . 8 Bes let us see how the Social- Democratic members of the Budapest Parliament came to the support of these workers. They sent telegrams to the fascist Premier Julius Goemboes and to the Ministry of Commerce calling eign delegations wishing to speak with Thaelmann have all been categorically refused. Even his nearest relatives do not know where he is being held. Nobody knows where the “peop'e’s judges” are torturing Thaeln'ann are “prepar- ing” him for his tria’. about the true nature of the “Peo- ples’ ourt” un‘il Ernst Thaelmann | | will be brought before this sécret ‘ court of assassinators, this so-called | | Peoples’ Court,” which was actu- Begin Mass Protests | The fascist rulers must not and will not succeed in their intentions to confuse the toilers of all coun- tries who are so carefully watch- on the government to stop the |miners from committing suicide. lm other words, they call on ths |very force that has driven the min- ers to take this desperate measure to come to their “rescue.” They do ‘not call on the workers throughout | Hungary to come to the support of | their brothers, to take sympathetic \strike action, to force the employ- Jers to grant an increase in pay, which would save the miners’ lives. They call on the fascist govern- iment apparatus to slaughter some ing over Thaelmann’s fate. The front of struggle in defense of Ernst Thaelmann must become stronge’ in all countries. With ever greater energy the toilers should mobilize for the struggle against the fascist union, and that we must ‘mobilize | our forces to win recognition of jthe Workers Shop Committee! jaround the demands mentioned |above.. Immediately a campaign | was undertaken and in the pri- lof tne miners in order to save the irest so that they can continue to jlive—and starve. Instead of inspir- jing the miners to more militant |action, to fighting and not com- | mitting suicide, the Social-Demo- prior to the trial. Long before the | ally established for him. the N.R.A. codes. Roosevelt - , and the em | The justices who will sit in judg- Ployers. in the formulation of the cotton textile code—the first N.R.A. code—made similar “conces- sions" to the cotton textile workers. They reduced | hours “without reduction in pay.” But the cotton accused is examined all the wi:-| | nesses are subjected to a thorough ment on Thaelmann will be only | examination by the investigating | members of the Reichswehr, officers judge and the lawyer, and are jin the air force, and court officials, | threatened to give evidence ap- {who have repeatedly proved their | An Organized Retreat IHE Atlantic Seamen’s United Front 4 Strike Committee proposed yesterday that, on account of the treacherous strike- breaking activities of the leaders of the In- ternational Seamen’s Union and the LL.A., who have brought about considerable defections and recessions in the Atlantic seamen’s strike, it is Necessary to follow the tactic of organized retreat in the struggle whieh began a week ago. The committee proposed that the strikes on seven eoal boats, which are still solid, be continued. The retreat was proposed in order that the men on the ships can maintain their organized ranks in face of unexemplified scabbery on the part of leaders of the I.8.U., and prepare for future and greater struggles. The situation was briefly as follows: Mass pres- sure ef the men on the snips forced Jeaders of the 1S.U. te go on record for a strike to take place on Oct. 8. But when these leaders saw that the men Were ready to carry on a militant united strike they soon c#reed with the N.R.A. officials and the ship- owners to call it off and throw the demands of the Seamen into the laps of arbitrators to be defeated or thrown into the waste basket. But the seamen on 28 ships, realizing that the only way to win their demands, was a strike, walked out under the leadership of the Atlantic Seamen’s Unitec Front Strike Committee. All efforts to spread the strike were sabotaged by the LS.U. offi- eials, who, working with the shipowners, boarded the ships and sowed contusion among the men as they arrived in the poris. They told them that there was no strike; they shipped scabs to take the place of the strikers; they disorganized and dis- rupted the strike in every port. -.It. is necessary, in view of these events, for the seamcn to adopt the tactic of organized retreat, to ship the militant forces aboard the ships where the 1S.U. officials have demoralized the crews, to con- tinue the strike on the seven coal boats in Boston, Norfolk and Newport News and to lay a base for a further organized united struggle for better con- ditions on the vessels. ‘The seamen have learned great lessons in this lessons that will be of enormous value mn future struggles. They have learned that the 1S.U. Teatiers “are the leading strike-breaking agents of the-shigownors. They have learned that they must take Over the reigns of tiie IS.U. themselves, that they must drive from ihe waterfront and from ir union these misleaders of labor, They have to see more clearly the Nhs A strike- \ textile workers soon found that they had been handed a gold brick, They discovered that the shortening of hours Was accompanied by speed-un, instead of decrease in unemployment. They found that there was an actual reduction in real wages because, while wages remained the same, living costs soared under the N.R.A. The N.R.A. cotton textile code, hailed as a benevolent gift of Roosevelt to the cotton textile workers, in reality was an instrument for building company unions and discriminating against union members. The cotton textile workers found that the minimum wage became the maximum wage. The actual wage of masses of workers was reduced be- low the minimum by drastic “c iments,” reduc- tion in hours by special “permission” of Roosevelt, without increase in pay. if History now repeats itself in the cotton garment industry. To head off a strike demafded by the cotton garment workers on Oct. 15, Roosevelt grants the concession of the 36-hour week instead of the 40-hour week, with a corresponding per cent in- crease in hourly and piece work rates, But the decision in the cotton garment industry takes no account of the real. reduction in wages which has cecurred because of mounting cost of necessities of life. The hourly reduction given the cotton garment worke-s dees not answer the main grievances of the ‘cotton garment workers—the in- tense speed-up and sweat shop conditions, the cry- ing need for increased wages due to higher living costs; the demand for recognition of the unions. These demands could have been won by carrying through the strike on schedule. But the leaders of the A. F. of L. garment unions called off the pro- posed strike and accepted the concession on hours under which the most burning grievances of the cotton garment workers remain. These A. F. of L. garment union leaders, such as Sidney Hillman, of the Amalgamated, are part of the N.R.A. boards which rendered the decision. On them as well as on Roosevelt must be placed the responsibility for surrendering the chief demands of the cotton gar- ment workers, by killing the strike and accepting a concession which will quickly be taken from them. The rank and file members of the garment unions should strengthen their rank and file oppo- sition groups, and dorman’ that the burning griev- ances of the garment workers be formulated and that strike for these demands be prepared. The Sarment workers can win high-r wages, elimination of the speed-up and recognition enly through pre- paring and carrying through strike Jactions., maries out of 550 workers only 150 |voted. But, in the finals, half of the workers voted. ida cs Wear g | PJURING this boycott some errors | were committed by the repre- | sentatives. Instead of taking the | ballots for distribution and_utiliz- ling this to go around and speak to the workers, and recruit them into the union, they left the whole thing in the hands of the chair- man, The company “sucker.” That is why, between the primaries and the finals, they were able to in- crease their vote. While this took place, although we had influence over the majority of the workers, and@ 140 members in our union, no demands were | represented by the shop commit- tee, because all of the workers were not clear on ine company | union election. Immediately after |the elections, the weekest element | | begun to advance ideas that we| |should call for re-election so that we could get our people on the company union. | From the experiences we can |draw the following lessons. 1. That it is altogether wrong to advance the slogan of boycott. This sug- gests “Gandiism” and does not organize workers for struggle, and only expresses the desire to do away with something unwanted, 2. That we must take part in the company union elections at all times unless the workers’ union is strong enough to win immediate recognition. 3. That while par- ticipating in the company union elections, we constantly expose same, for what it was organized, whom does it benefit, etc., and at the same time we advance a pro- gram cf demands. 4. That we can use the company union to some extent by using the privileges given to the representatives to | bring forth demands end build up jour union, 5. That with sufficient | |influence it is possible to nominate | jand elect a full slate of the S. M | W. I. U. or militant workers on | |the company union and thus cap- | \ture the representative body from |the workers’ side cnd turn this into Ja fighting shop committee. proved by the public prosecutor. The atmosphere of terror in the courtroom is witnessed by the fact that the “public” is represented in part nearly exclusively by notorious torturers; and often even by those who have personally participated in torturing the defendants in ques- tion. Foreign corresponden‘s wish- ing to be present at such trial are denied admission under one pretext cr another. The relatives of the defendants are immediately dis- missed from the courtroom if they greet the defendants or say an en- couraging. word to them. “loyalty to Hitler” by murders and) terrorist sentences against revolu- tionary toilers. As permanent As- \cistant of General State Attorney | Werner in the “People’s Court” there is the notorious State At- torney Jorns who had earned his first insignia when he gave his sup- port to the murderers of Rosa |Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. Name is Only Veil The trial of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German toilers, is in fact to serve as the beginning of activities of this secret inquisition. The name, “People’s Court,” is only terror, and for the liberation of |Thaelmann as well as of all the anti-fascist fighters in the Hitler priscns and concentration camps. Demonstrate in front of all Nazi consulates! Pour a Niagara of telegrams, pro- test resolutions, letters, telephone calls tc the Nazi Embassy in Wash- ington! We must send a flood of cables! to the Gestapo (Secret State Po-| lice), to the Nazi officials, voicing our indignant thunder in the ears of the fascist hangmen' Forward in united action for the liberation of Ernst Thaelmann! Leading Soviet Paper Cites War Danger (Special to the Dail: Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 14 (By Wireless). —The assassination of the French Foreign Minister Barthou and the dJugoslavian king by a terrorist once again has shown how unsteady is the cause of peace, also how many forces are working in order to blow up that unstable equilibrium exist- ing in Europe,” says “Izvestia,” Soviet newspaper in an editorial. Analyzing the situation In Jugo- slavia, “Izvestia” further says in its editorial entitled, “Shots in Mar- seilles”: “Jugoslavian fascism suc- ceeded in fettering the country, but it has no serious support of the masses. It annihilated the Uhorvat Peasant Party established by Ra- ditch. It gave nothing to the peas- entry of Bosnia-Herzegovina, where feudalism still reigns. To the Mace- donian peasantry it only brought a regime of terror to which Mace- donian ‘internal organizations’ on their part answer by terror. “It stands to reason it would give nothing to the workers. If contem- perary fascism is the policy of the mononolistig hourgeoisie, conducted with the jid of the petty-bourgeois masses who are decezved by social) demagogy, then Jugosl-“ ian fascism has no serious suppozt among ths | petty-bourgeoisie, nor serious assis- | tance by monopolistic capital, be- cause the big bourgegisie represent: no serious force. “Therefore traits of _ military | cliques and bureaucrats, namely traits of open violence. apply to it |more than to fascism in any other |country. The difficulties it is called upon to fight are far more serious than those of fascism in Italy or Germany. “The dissolving of Parliament, leaving only its shadow; the forcing underground of all political parties and making circles connected with the general corps passing for a party having the exclusive right of | existence, these governments of mili- tary cliques which succecd one an- other have closéd all the valves of popular opinion. But as these could not solve a single problem, and a3 the crisis, the disorganizing of the finances and the prejudicing of ex- ports were intensified, all these con- tradictions had to manifest them- selves somewhere. “While the persecutions of every movement directed against the gov- ernment succeeded in smothering j;all popular movement for a certain time, naturally it could not liberate | Jugoslavia from terrorist organiza- tions, the more so when these or- ganizations found support in th? Homes Seized By Japanese (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 14 (By Wireless). —Messages received here from Har- bin report that the living quarters of Soviet citizens employed on the Chinese Eastern Railway, and ar tes.ed in recent frame-ups by Man churian authorities, are being oc- cupied by members of Japanese garrisons. The apartment of the Pogra- nichnaya station master has been seized by members of the Japanese lower command. Not restricting themselves to this illegal action, the Japanese heads of the local gar- rison have announced that they are also planning to take over the seven best apartments belonging to the | Soviet railway administration. The Soviet Consul at Pogranichnaya hes demanded that the arbitrary seiz- ures be discontinued at once, and declared to the chief of the local Japanese military mission, who paid him a formal visit, that he |considers these outrageous actions as factors complicating the reia- spying agencies of powers interested in weakening Jugoslavia.” tions of the Soviet Union and Japan crats call on the fascist governs jment to cow the miners into sub- | mission. ce EW signs of an impending storm in fascist Germany are numerous. First, the fascist butch- ers are sharpenine the ax for our hercic Comrade Ernst Thaelmann, The vigorous efforts this time to vid themselves of Thaelmann show their fear of the rising wave of anti-fascist struggles of whom the living Thaelmann is the outstand- ing leader and symbol though under a thousand locks. Then the religious battles in the Protestant Church against the Nazi state church is a screen for the development of sharver class battles, struggles of the still relig- ious workers against fascism; growing inner class conflicts of the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie. Because of the terror, the religious anti-fascist demonstrations are first fo show open manifestations of the |still greater class battles to come. On top of this comes the new signs of bankruptcy, of the onrush-. ing economic catastrophe of Ger- -man fascism. Hitler pleads for ,funds to stop starvation for 17,000,< 009 Germans. At the same time, he |denounces end ends the trade veaty with the United States. Fas- jeism not only tightens its inner |walls against the world, but helps ‘its competitors to build still higher ‘their walls against German exvorts jand credits. ‘The ending of the trade treaty with the United States |was indeed a desperate act that iwill help tremendously in under- ining still further fascist econ- jomy. Storm signals are many in Ger- many, and we can help best now by fightine for end demanding the jreleace of Ernst Theelmann and ether enti-fascist prisoners... Contributions reczived to the eredi’ of Harry Gannes in his so- cielist comnetition with Del, Mike Gold, the Medical Advisory Board, Helen Luxe, Jacob Burck and David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—s500, Total to date .iiissseeserees S115