The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 an Daily <QWorker CEMTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST [NTERMATIONAL? “America’s Only Working Class Dally FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. York, N. ¥. Ni Newspaper” New 954. Cable Address Washingto: Daiwork au: Room Press B lth and F st D. C. Telephone: Nat Midwest Burea Wells St., Room 705, Ct ml Telephone: Dea By Mail xcept T, $6.00; 6 months, $3.50; 3 s : Manhattan, Bronx. $9.00 @ Months, $5.00: 3 By Carrier: Week MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1934 Put Nygard on Ballot! JORKERS’ organizations in Minnesota W and throughout the country should im- mediately bombard Governor Floyd Olson with protest telegrams demanding that Emil Nygard, the Communist candidate in the Sixth Congressional District, be put on the ballot. The Cros! unit of the Communist Party has already wired the protest of the 1,500 electors who signed their names to Nygard’s ballot peti- tion. Nygard is the victim of the Farmer-Labor ma- chine. who have ruled him off the ballot because they fear that he will defeat their own candidate. The Minnesota attorney general has, by legal trick- ery, declared that Nygard’s name cannot go on the ballot because his petition was filed “too late. This is the most blatant disregard of the fatts, and establishes a new high in Minnesota for poli- tical chicanery against the Communist Party. Ny- gard’s petition has all the signatures required by the law. It was filed on the date legally required Nygard was thus ruled off the ballot without even the semblance of a legal excuse The maneuver of the attorney general was de- liberately cooked up to defeat Nygard. The Olson clique realizes that Nygard, because of his militant leadership of working class struggles, and because of his exposure of the anti-working class policies of the Olsen machine, would get the votes of the work- ers°and farmers, who bitterly resent the use of the militia to break the strike of the truck drivers in Minneapolis. To let Olson get away with this would mean a. defeat for the workers of the whole country, who know and respect Nygard for his militant actions in -béhalf of the workers and farmers. A wave of protest will force Olson to put Nygard on the ballot. And Nygard in Congress will represent not only the workers of the Sixth Congressional District of Minnesota, but the entire American working class in its counter-attack against the hunger deal of the capitalist ruling cclass. Wire protests today to Floyd B. Olson, State capitol, St. Paul, Minn. Veterans and Unemployed OOSEVELT’S speech on Friday to the vets on the bonus should be an eye- opener to hundreds of thousands of vets and workers whose support for the “New Deal” Roosevelt is asking in the coming Congressional elections. In this speech Roosevelt told the vets that they cannot have the bonus that is due them because the Government needs funds for the unemployed This is the argument of a shrewd, capitalist hypocrite who does nothing either for the nnem- ployed or the vets! -- -Roosevelt tries to cloak his Wall Street program with the rags and hunger of the jobless. But what Roosevelt government done for the unemployed? What is it doing now? Roosevelt has given only the most meagre, starvation relief to the jobless. There are millions of starving jobless who have been flung off the relief rolls by Roosevelt. There are thousands who have been fired off the C.W.A. projects by Roosevelt. For every dollar Koosevelt gave the jobless for relief, he has given more than ten to the bankers and monopoly industrialists in Wall Street. This winter, at least 14,000,000 workers and their families face absolute destitution, and Roosevelt has not taken a single step to provide them with adequate cash relief and unemployment insurance. On the contrary, he is driving forward to slash relief everywhere. If Roosevelt wants to find funds for the jobless why does he plunder the veterans? Why does he not look at the two billion dollar war expenditures? Why does he not look at the billion dollars that goes to the bankers every twelve months in interest payments on government bonds? Why has his “New Deal” handed out more than $10,000,000,000 in sub- sidies to mortage holders, railroad stockholders, and bankers? Are not the veterans themselves jobless and hungry? Are not thousands of them without homes or jobs? Roosevelt's argument is the argument of a capi- talist agent whose every act is in the interests of the Wall Street banks and monopolies. When Roosevelt acts to starve the jobless, and Tob the veterans of their just due, in the name of “government's credit,” he is merely grinding the faces of the poor to provide profits for the rich. By ‘government credit” he means the ability of the government to protect the Morgan-Rockefeller bondholders in Wall Street. It never occurs to Roosevelt to levy heavy taxes on these people, This is because he is their capitalist servant. — robbery of the vets and jobless to protect the bankers has the support of every Party_in the elections except the Communist Party. The Democrats and Republicans agree with him openly. And Norman Thomas, Socialist Party leader, rebukes the starving vets for asking the bonus “at. this time.” -In its Congressional Platform, the Communist Party-alone states bluntly and unmistakably: ‘We are for the immediate payment of the yet- erans’ back wages (bonus). This is because the Communist Party bases all its struggles and actions on the fundamental position of class against class, the working class against the Wall Street capitalist class. Roosevelt agein shows himself a tool of the capi- New Deal,” and for is part of the fight for the nployment relief and insurance. for the interests of the work- It is a chal- robbery the fisht he capitalist class lenge to Roo: New Deal” Philadelphia---New York E HEARTILY greet the report of the Philadelphia District of the Party (re- ported in today’s issue) on ful achievement of the $3,500 quota for Worker drive. phia District in the drive it’s its success- not only to a but with Bolshevik swept enthusiasm sets itself the task of raising another $1,000 within the next few weeks. Surely, this must be an example to every Party District throughout the country And it also provides a lesson and an instructive contrast) with such important district as the New York Dis Fer while P| delphia has achieved 100 per cent, New York lags badly behind with a 28 per cent fulfilment of its quota after eight weeks of the drive have passed! an * * EW YORK has a quota of $30,000 of the $60,000 needed to ensure the life of the daily for the coming months. New York has all the possibilities of fulfilling this quota. There are thousands of members of trade unions and other workers’ or- ganizations upon which the Party can count for support if they are properly approached. There are nds of workers, sympathizers, who will gladly th hel How has the New York District taken adyan- tage of its favored position? Its report on the drive issued several days ago reveais that many of the largest and most influential mass organizations in the city have not contributed one single cent to the Daily Worker drive in the past eight weeks! The Party District has not seen to it that such organizations as the Finnish groups, the Italian groups, the Workers School, the John Reed Club, the Associated Workers Clubs, the various other cultural groups, the trade unions, have contributed their proper share. But it was by drawing these mass organizations into the drive that Philadelphia went over the top, New York comrades! 'HE example of the Philadelphia comrades is in- structive and should be studied by the New York comrades and all other Districts. The secret of their success, say the Philadelphia comrades, lies in the way the District concentrated on the drive, in the way the District involved the whole Party and every mass organization in raising funds through meetings, affairs, picnics, collections, in the day to day work of the Party. If the New York District sets at once to a seri- ous consideration of its failure to fulfill its tasks in this drive, then there is no reason why New York should long remain behind Philadelphia. Comrades of the New York District, to work! A Bankers’ Budget UDGETS are pretty dry affairs. But the budget of New York City, the record of which weighs thirteen pounds, is some- thing that every worker, professional and small business man should understand. Careful examination of it will show that it is a class budget, a budget drawn up in the interests of finance capital, of the Wall Street bankers of this city. The actions of the Board of Estimate in discussing the budget Saturday only lend addi- tional proof to this fundamental contention of the Daily Worker. At its last meeting the Board of Estimate de- cided to raise the budget by almost $14,000,000. This was in order to guarantee that the law which says that there shall be $25,000,000 in a reserve fund for the bankers must be met. At the same time the Board adopted cuts in the salaries of city employees in the lower wage brackets. This is the fundamental policy of the city gov- ernment in both its Democratic and Fusion wings —to “restore” the city’s credit and pay the bank- ers to the last nickel at the expenses of the masses of New York City. Unemployed relief is to be slashed. A number of city employees have been laid-off. Wages of city workers have been cut in a number of in- stances, Essential social services like that of educa- tion, hospitals, life-saving, have been cut. Cul- tural services, like these of libraries and museums, have been reduced. But the $179,000,000 in debt service to the bank- ers remains! To guarantee the bankers that they will not lose a cent, the bankers’ agreement has been raised to the original $25,000,000 demanded by the “law,” the same law that decrees that you are thrown out of your house if you have no money with which to pay rent. . . . p Voninet lade this budget, a budget of starvation and heavy taxation for the masses, workers, profes- sionals and small business men in the city must protest, This can take the immediate form of public protest at the open budget hearings next. Thursday and Friday. Meetings and demonstrations of New York workers should adopt statements against this budget. But the most significant protest will be a power- ful Communist vote at the polls on Election Day. A vote for the Hammer and Sickle is a yote for the Communist proposal for a moratorium on the debt service to the bankers, for suspension of the bankers’ agreement, releasing these funds for un- employment relief, for restoration of the 1932 salary level for teachers and other city employees, for a sharp increase in the expenditure for essential social services. A tremendous Communist vote will be an effec- tive factor in the whole struggle for social insur- ance, for social security, Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, WN, Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. ADDRESS....... Pennsylvania Jobless cable read, Demand the Release ~of Ernst Thaelmann ascii ers.” PITTSBURGH, Pa. Oct. 19—| tocals of Allegheny County demanding the tional release of Ernst Thaelmann. “demand Thaelmann’s unconditional release. We demand|sentit public trial and immunity to all! Disty defense witnesses and lawyers. De-| mand release of all political prison-| the Unemployment | Councils have been mobilized and Councils cabled the People’s Court,| delegations are being sent to the | vania’s unemployed Berlin, demanding the uncondi- | German Consulate, 444 Diamond St., Meee unconditional lease of Thaelmann, Torgler, and all “Pwenty-three thousand members} political prisoners now in Hitler's of the Unemployment Councils,” the! dungeons and concentration camps. Th Unemployment, iy re- Communist Candidates Are Leaders in the Fight for the Right to Organize, Strike, Picket. se delegations are also pre- ing demands to the office of the rict Attorney Andrew Park, at the Court House, for the release of | Phil Frankfeld, chairman of the Al- [legheny County Unemployment {| Councils, now serving a two to four year sentence in Blawnox Prizon for his activities in behalf of Pennsyl-| Party Life | ‘Healthy Unit Life | Will Solve Problem | Of Fluctuation } — } About a year ago in an article} hat appeared in the PARTY LIFE| ection, I pointed out that the] trength and weakness of our Party| | can be measured by the ery, ‘nd weakness of our smallest link | ‘he Party unit. Since that time our Party has made no progress in solv- & the problem of fluctuation; at ‘esent the fluctuation in our Party is as bad as it ever was. This fluc-| tuation will never be eradicated| intil the units are made into | healthy functioning groups. It must} be kept in mind that the new mem-| | ber first has his taste of the Party | in the unit. If after two or three unit meetings the member sees nothing more than endless talk, money-raising discussions and a general lack of initiative, he will drop out of the Party. If the unit meetings drag along to all hours of the night, if the meetings are not run efficiently, if there is a Jack | of political education, if there is a |lack of participation in the strug- |gles of the neighborhood or shop, there is no reason why the new! | Party member should remain in our | ranks. | There have been many remedies | Suggested to stop the fluctuation in jour Party. All of them have been | good, and I would like to add one more: Too often the section leaders fail | to participate in the life of the unit. | They are so busy with section work. | that they € no time to engage |in unit activity. They too often sit |in at the unit meetings as a matter of form. They give insufficient | guidance to the unit, personal at- tention to members so as to devel- op new leadership. Our leaders | | should be our most determined most militant, most courageous fighters. | Their presence in the unit meetings | Should be an inspiration to the new members as well as the old. If all their efforts are going to be spent in the section and district offices, drawing up resolutions: and direc- | tives, it will be so much wasted ef- fort. | _ The excellent Open Letter to every |Party member that the Central! ; Committee addressed (Oct., 1934) | calls upon every member to group at least five non-Party workers around him, whom he could influ- ence and eventually bring into the Party. I would like to add to that Suggestion that our top leaders, our district and section functionaries, | our theoreticians and writers of re- | solutions, group at least five unde- | Veloped Party members around each of them, for the purpose of giving | Personal guidance and developing | these raw elements into good lead- }ers. Our Party must forge ahead! Comradely yours, N. B. | Unit 16, Section 18, District 2. | _ P. S.—In the last two months | I have brought into the Party 10 members Since joining the C. P. | (Feb., 1933) I have brought into the Party between 60 and 70 mem- bers. At least 10 of these now | hold responsible posts in the Los Angeles Section.—N. B. Gola Bloc | | Foreshadows Trade War BRUSSELS, Oct, 21—The meet- ing here of the seven gold-bloc countries of continental Europe | foreshadows two significant move- ments of world imperialism: Prep- jaration for a ferocious imminent trade war principally directed against English and American im- perialism, and an international slashing of wage-incomes and Standards of living the better to carry on such a war. The gold-bloc nations—France, Belgium, Holland, Luxemberg, Italy, Switzerland and Poland—will en- deavor during the conference to come to some sort of favored nation agreement with one another in order to meet the terrific competi- tion of industrialists in England and America, who, through the wage cuts and lowered standards of living enforced by the N.R.A. and the devaluation of the dollar and the pound, have been able to reduce their production costs and thus set loose on the international market millions of tons of merchandise at prices with which the gold-bloc countries, in spite of the lowered incomes of the masses of their own Populations, found themselves un- able to compete. As examples of what desperate straits some of these industrialists are in, French foreign trade dur- ing the five depression years dropped from 100,000,000,000 francs to 30,000.000,000, and Belgian trade from 34,000,000,000 to 14,000,000,000 | Belgian francs. To cap the situa- | tion, not only are France and Bel- gium the sole imperialist nations of these in the gold-bloc still to re- main on the gold standard, but |even in these countries manufac- turers and monopolists are fever- ishly attempting to undermine the | stability of the gold franc. The recent fascist sneeches of Premier Doumergue of France in- dicate how strongly determined the steel, coal and other trusts are to integrate the exploitation of the! | country The purpose of the conference, then, is to attempt to aeree on some systematic scheme of estab- lishing money exchange values amongst the gold-bloc nations as a basis for the departure from the gold standard by France and Bel- sium. since such an international exchange rate is absolutely essential if international commerce is to take nlace at all. Behind the im- meriate function of the conference is the less public, but nevertheless more basic necessity for the gold- bloc capitalists to meet the ruthless opposition of English and American capitalists- THE FIRESIDE ADDRESS Burce Burck will give the original drawing of his cartoon te the i:’;hest contributor each day towards his quota of $1,000, Contributions received to the cr his Socialist competition with Mike Go'd, Harry edit of Burck in F. Feldman Gannes, “del,” the Medical Advisory Board, Helen Luke, David Ramsey, in the Daily $60,000. QUOTA—S1,000. Vander Molen ..... Urknown admirer Soviel Wiekosis Overconie Obstacles g New Life of Socialism @ In Buildin By L. F. BOROSS (Krama‘orsk, End of September.) We shall not forget that! That was the first big argument against the proletarian revolution, that they can only destroy but cannot build up. Here in Kramatorsk, in the cour.yard of the largest machine construction plant in the world—in the factory courtyard which with its gay flower beds, bushes and fountains differs from the court- yards of capitalist barracks for, workers, just as the free life of the creaters of socialism differs from — the life of the wage slaves—pre- cisely here we have to recall this argument. We must not forget this for although ihis “argument” is no | longer the fashion, the capitalist ; press constantly invents new “argu- ments” in its place which have the same relation to the truth as that first argument has to the marvel- | lous work in Kramatorsk, : At the foot of the huge mountain of socialist crea‘ive force which the | Soviet proletariat climbed during the last five or six years, the fol- lowing comical scene took place: Faced Huge Difficulties It was in 1929. A few Soviet engineers and proletarian leaders of industry went to Germany in order to draw German specialists in to; consult on the work of designing the Kramatorsk machine construc- tion plant. At one of these con- sultations the well-known chief of one of the largest German machine building plants declared: “My Russian gen‘lemen! I know all the classical literature of Eu- rope. But still I have never read a more entertaining tale than your Five-Year Plan. I showed you my factory only because I am con- vinced that you, gentlemen, are wonderful dreamers and will never be able to imitate in a practical way what I have created.” At that time there was only 8 small windmill on the spot where the new factory was to be built. Right around it there were a few hectares of potato fields and the rest was neglected meadowland. Cows made themselves at home in the wild grass and openly showed their lack of desire to be driven away from the meadow when the space was needed for a meeting of the workers of the old Kramatorsk factories (a foundry, an ou: of date ; machine factory which had already been renewed, a cement factory). At this meeting the project of the new, immense plant was placed be- fore the mass of the workers, _ Workers’ Enthusiasm Many workers asked to speak. Among them was Morosov, an old steel worker. He did not know the entire classical literature of Europe, but he knew the power of his class, he knew what they could do when they had at their head a party like the Bolshevik Partly. And he gave an entirely different opinion of the whole project than the learned director in Berlin: “Every Bolshevik word—said the old man in closing his speech—is a political document. If the Bolshe- viks say that we can build this plant, then all talk must cease, for And they have built it, the shock brigaders of Kramashstroi (Krama- torsk Machine Construction)! They not only had the doubts of the learned capitalists abroad against them, but also the active Worker drive for if | were connected with imperialist | governments and general staffs. | All these representatives of the the workers would no longer slave their lives away for the fine gen- ;tlemen and capitalist exploiters, | would no longer drudge so as to fill their coffers of profit. They confused the decline of capitalism with the decline of the world. The world did not go under. The world is being reborn. The first Kramatorsk plant and the 165 com- pleted blocks of houses in the new socialist town which surround it stand proudly on the spot where only a few years ago stood a small abandoned windmill on neglected meadowland, 2.—Magnitude It is only with difficulty that one can conceive of the size and signifi- cance of this immense plant, “the Stalin Machine Construction Plant in Kramatorsk.” Perhaps the fol- lowing figure will at least give a slight idea of the size of this plant. A perfectly straight avenue one and a half kilometers long with a few parallel and cross streets and immense works on both sides em- bedded in about 7,000 square meters of flower beds—this is the outward picture of the plant. It occuvies a surface of 16 hectares—the build- ings alone occupy 120 hectares. It. is the surface of a middle sized estate upon the fields of which grow not wheat or rye but iron and ce- ment constructions. The pride of the plant is the steel foundry. We can get, an idea of its size if we compare its output with ether similar works: When fully occupied Krupps produced 24,000 tons of castings annually. The out- put of the steel foundry at the Sverdlovsk “Uralmash” which was completed last year amounts to 24,- 000 tons of castings; the largest American steel foundry can produce 35,000 tons and the foundry of the Kramatersk plant has a capacity of 43,000 tons of castings. Thirteen 1 arge shops including three machine shops, two iron foun- dries, the steel foundry, a machine assembling department, a black- smith shop, a pattern making shop and cther departments have been completed up to the present. The cost of the construction up to now amounts to 230 million rubles and the rest of the construction will still require a further 200 mil- lion. Un to the vresent a round stam of 8,700,000 working deys have been used in building the plant. With the 7-hour day this amounts to 61,000,000 working hours. Looked at from the point of view of a foreign unemployed worker this | means a year’s work for 30,000 work- ers. One-third of the building work was done in severely cold weather. Builds New Plants Up to the present 25,000 trees ,and 11,009,000 bushes have been Planted in the “factory courtyard” and by the end of autumn a fur- ther 8,000 trees will be planted. But the main work of the “zreenery cepartment” is to be found at the outskirts of the plant where 100,000 trees are being planted this year in order to surround the works with a green wall of protection against dust. The Magnitogorsk tron and steel Frank Milton (gets cartoon) C. O. Garnett ... Previonsly received Total to date. { resistance and secret sabotage of | plant is the pride of the industrial various old Russian specialists who! construction of the Soviet Union. | | old world believed in their superior- | immense and: beautiful. Thus, for | ity, believed that the world would exampie, the aim of Soviet writers | ; have to go under if the masses of |is to create a “Magnitostroi of thirteen vast departments of the, ; cent of the entire equipment re-| by Burck | World Front ——By HARRY GANNES —— | Chiang Kai Shek’s Threats | Against His Own Army Mao Tse Tung Answers IHIANG KAI SHEK’S hopes of coming to the 5th na- tional congress of the Kuo- | | 30.20 BA5.70 | Magnitostroi serves as a model with which to compare anything that is literature,” that is, a work that in beauty and completeness of tech- nique will be similar to the Mag- nitogorsk plant. Now the Krama- torsk plant can every year equip an entirely new Magnitogorsk. This is perhaps the most characteristic way, of showing the capacity and the magnitude of the new plant. Together with the Ural machine | plant, Kramatorsk can cover 75 per | quirements of the Soviet iron and steel industry. If in addition to| that one takes into consideration | mintang on November 12, and announcing the annihilation of he Soviets and Red Army in at least one province of China have been utterly shattered. Proof that the Kuomintang troops are refusing to fight the workers’ and peasants’ armies, or do so un der the greatest threats of execu< tion by their own officers, is con- teined in the latest reports on Chiang Kai Shek’s latest order to the Fukien KMT forces. The China Weekiy Review comments: “An order has been received by the Foochow authorities from Gen- eral Chiang Kai Shek requiring the complete liquidation of the remnant Red outlaws in Fukien province be- fore November 12, the date for the convocation of the 5th National Congress of Kuomintang Delegates, and threatening seyere punishment of those military units failing to ful- fill their duties within the stated period.” As the 12th of November nears, the anti-Communist drive instigated by the butcher Chiang Kai Shek with the aid of Japanese, British, American, French and other im- perialist powers assumes tremen- dous ferocity. Not relying on the massing of over 1,000,000 Kuomin- ‘| tang soldiers alone, Chiang Kai Shek depends more and more on aerial | bombardment, artillery attack, the | building of block-houses, and the | economic blockade. By bombarding villages, killing men, women and children, he hopes to terrorize the population in the Soviet areas. By his block-houses, he strives to hem the Soviet districts in with a series of forts, and by the economic block- ade to starve out the Red Army and Soviet population. We CSS Answering Chiang Kai Shek’s re- peated claims of “victory,” Mao Tse Tung, Chairman of the Central So- viet government, in an interview with Feng Chung Agency, e. cently made the following state- ment: ae terest: “QUR strength can never be imag- ined by the KMT bandits, who, pointing to their alleged sweeping success, have long since predicted the approach of our end. In fact, it is the KMT that, rotten to the core, is rapidly heading for the abyss. Chiang Kai-shek always boasts of the construction of orle line of blockhouses after another covering several thousand li of Soviet territory, hoping to score in the near future a victory for a policy that is calculated to catch the fish by pumping out the water! “True, Chiang has built up a mule titude of blockhouses, seized a couple of districts from us, hoping to oc- cupy Changting, Shichen, Ningtu and Shinkuo but he withholds from the public the truth that many KMT units have perished under the iron fist of the red army. Chiang and Co. is too much a fool to under- s‘and that the approach of the end does not refer to the Soviets and red army but to the landlord-bour- geois KMT iiself and to imperialisin which directs Chiang and the whole KMT. “These are incomp:ehensible to the smaller factories of this type. then the construction of Kram torsk signifies the following: Soviet | industry has essentially become | completely independent of capital- | ist_ economy. { That of course does not mean an| abandonment of the advantages of an international exchange of goods. But it does mean that every at- tempt of the imperialist bougeoisic to use trade relations as a weapon against the Soviet Union is doomed to failure in advance. No economic blocade, no economic war can from. now on seriously endanger the! construction of socialism. The new plant also denotes a tremendous increase in the ability of the Soviet | Union to defend itself and with | that a great strengthening of the | Positions of the proletariat in the! international class struggle. | The following case gives a small | example es to how the industrial | independence of the Soviet Union is to be understood. The urgent setting up of a portal crane with a lifting capacity of 150 tons is required for the building of the Volga-Don Canal. The Soviet Union wanted to place an order with a foreign firm for the first of these immense cranes. But as this firm was apparently of the opinion that the new Soviet industry would be unable to manufacture such a com- plicated machine, it demanded the enormous sum of 200,000 gold marks for the designing alone. The Soviet Union did not want to place the order on that basis and gave the order for the crane to the new Kramatorsk plent. So we see that it is not a question of autarchy, not a question of national senarateness when we sne2k of INDEPENDENCE of Soviet industry, but a avestion of a very nowerful position in the DEVELOPMENT of interns tions1 | econemic relations. a powerful pos'- | tion as a result of which the capi- | talict supplier of the Soviet Union eannot dictate conditions. With the same enthusiasm with which the marvellous technical werks at Kramatorsk -vere built, the workers of the plan. are now mastering the new technique. And they are doing it’ successfu¥y: In June they succeeded for the first time in completely fulfilling the very tense plan of production. The official opening of the plant is therefore not the beginning of work—some of the shops have al- ready been working for a year. It does not only mean that the plant is ready for work but it also means that its workers and engineers ere ready for work and are capable of doing this work. the KMT. Let us single out two things for further clarification. In | the first place over 1,000,000 men are compelled to attack us. It is a mys- tery to the KMT that this huge mass of - soldiers, mostly, coming from Kiangsi, Szechuen, Hunan, Fukien, Hupeh, Anwhei, etc, is going through a revolutionary education in Soviet territory which, we may. say, constitutes a revolutionary uni- versity for the KMT soldiers. For this reason, not the red army alone but the KMT soldiers as well are digging graves for Chiang, a fact that is so much Babylon language to Chiang. “Secondly, the KMT tries to sell the country by a series of humiliat- ing acts and from day to day kneels down before the imperialism which is the deadly enemy of the masses, handing half of China over to Jap- anese imperialism. Not one shot is fired at the several hundred thou- sand Japanese robber troops over- running China. But, on the other hand, all troops have been with- drawn from Manchuria, Jehol, Pek= ing, Tientsin, Shanghai, Hangchew, Hankow, Tonan, Checkiang to at- tack the red army, leaving these provinces to imperialism for oppres= sion and exploitation. “It may be asked: Will the broad masses tolerate the betrayal of Chiang and Chen? Will the mass of troops under their command tol- erate the killing and burning of imperialism in their villages and towns? Will they be easily handled to fight their own brothers, that is, the red army of workers and peas ants? The answer is c2cisively nega tive. “There is not the slightest doubt that toiling masses and white sol- diers of the whole country give full support to the six point pro- gramnte of the Communist Party of China, to the declaration of war on Japan by the Soviet Government. of China, to the appeal of the Soviet Government and the Revolutionary Military Council fer ‘Don’t fight the red army but ally with it in a com- ron wer on Japanese imperialism.’ Undeubtedly, when getting ac« quainted with our programme and eppeal, they will take action at once.” Contributions recsived to the credit of Harry Gannes in his So- cialist competition with Del, Mike Gold, the Medica) Advisory Board, Helen Luxe, Jacob Burck and David Remscy, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,900. Quota—s500, Jack Walters D. H. and R. H. Ashley. Previously received . Urge Members of Your Union to Read the Daily Worker! Total to date...