The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 23, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1934 Daily, QWorker | AENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E, 13th Street, New York, N. Y¥. “America’s Only Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Palanhone: Dearbor: scription Rates month, 0.78 cents Canada year, nhattan and $6.00: hs, $2.00; 1 ay Mail: sexcept 33.50: 3 6 months $9.00: Manhattan, Bronx, Fi $5.00; 3. mon a Weekly, 18 monthly, 7 cents TUESDAY, -OCTOBER 23, 1934 Injunctions Under the NRA HE injunction issued against the strik- ing New York cafeteria workers is the latest example of the manner in which the government, operating through the N.R.A., | is robbing the workers of their elementary | rights. The workers in sixteen Manhattan restau- rants, orgahized in the cafet branch of the | | Food Workers Industrial Union, went out on strike after the agreement was violated and twenty-one union members were fired for belonging to the union, | Immediately the government sprang into action to break the strike. One hundred were arrested, charged with violating an injunction over two years | old, secured from ‘Supreme Court Justice Peter Schmuck, against the Amalgamated Food Workers Union has told the worker's ‘that Section Seven-A of the N.R.A. gives them the’ right to anize and to “bargain collectively.”" The food workers of New York can now see what. the N.R.A, Under the N.R.A., the employers are firing President Roosevelt means. workers wholesale for belonging to the unions. As in the textile, steel, auto and other industriés, so in the food industry, union-smashing, discrimi- nation and company unions have flourished. The N.R.A., the machinery of the employers, takes from | the workers their elementary rights. | The Sherman and other cafeteria owners are backed by the whole machinery of the government in the present strike. They have the services of the police to arrest pickets; they are backed by the courts which granted the injunction. A~ two-year- old injunction, granted two years ago against a rent union, is now revived under the N.R.A. mash the union and break the strike. The “New Deal” is again revealed for what-it is | —a deal to the workers of arrests, union mashing, discrimination and blacklist. The N.R.A> boards are carrying through the drive of the emptoyers to cut wages and lower the workers’ living standards. They are carrying through the union smashing campaign, under the slogan of “industrial truce.” The Communist Party is the only party in the present election campaign which takes a clear-cut stand against the anti-labor injunction. The Com- munist Party is the only party which has fought tooth and nail against all strikebreaking govern- ment injunctions. It has called on the workers to defy all anti-laber- injunctions and carry on mass picketing. The Democratic New Deal Party and the Re- publican Party alike, through their judges and courts and police, issue injunctions against the workers, evicting them from their homes and pre- venting picketing. In the present election campaign the workers should cast their vote against the anti-labor-in- junction, for the right to organize and strike and picket, for all the elementary rights of the workers. The workers should vote Communist in order to strike a blow against such injunctions as the one issued in the present cafeteria strike. A Communist vote and the building of the Com- munist Party is the answer to the whole attack of the government and its N.R.A. boards ‘agninst the workers’ living standards. A Pact Against the USSR} poe news of a war alliance he- tween Japan and Fascist Germany has just been published by the Laborite Daily Herald of London. Japanese imperialism has been particularly active recently bol- Stering up its war alliances for an attack on the Soviet Union. Not only have the Japanese war lords made definite war arrangements with the Fascist butchers of Germany, but they. have re- ceived great encouragement from British imperial- ism. Lord Barnby recently headed a “trade mis- sion” to Japan and Manchukuo and told the Jap- ant press that’ Britain looked forward to the “ elosest “chains of friendship” with Japan. The Fascist “commercial” treaty is an open 4wac move. It provides that the Hitler government Will supply Japan not only with chemicals (the only chemicals neeted now by Japan are poison gas, ex- plosives, and such other’ war materials), but will send to Japan’ 500 German engineers and aviators to stay for one. year By this means,. Fascist, Germany and the mil- itavist ruling clique. in Japan already open up the compeign of slaughter for the attempted dest:uction of the Soviet Union. Hitler is speeding his war prepzrations in the West; Japan in the East. Now. «they both openly collaborate in getting their war machines ready for the bloody attack. ERTAIN leading sections of American capitalism have not been remiss in their assistance to these war plans. J. P.-Morgan has aided the Jazanese financiers prepare for this‘ war. The duPont in- terests have supplied Japan with plants for manu- facturing ‘explosives. General Motors holds a Specially privileged position in Japan supplying mo- tors, tanks and trucks for the oncoming war of Japenese imperialism against the workers’ father- land. . ee Ar the conflicts between the imperialist’ robber Powers grow: more tense, they do everything they can to direct the fire against the workers’ father- Jand. Japan and Germany are in the lead in the war preparations; with British imperialism seeking with might and main to knit all the imperialist threads into a' mighty rope with which they hope to strangle the workers’ fatherland. The danger grows greater every day. Because there have been no recent “incidents” we should not be lulled into a. state of security. Not for a | moment does the Hitler gang nor the Javanese im- periclists forgettheir plans, their yearning for war to destroy the victorious proletarian revelution. We must continuously strive to unite all forces in this country fighting for peace to defend the Soviet Union Dyers Reject Gorman’s No-Strike’ Truce WENTY-FIVE thousand silk and rayon dyers refuse to accept Gorman’s “ strike” truce. On Thursday morning they will walk out solidly, and fight until their demands, which include a 100 per cent union: shop, $1.00 an hour, and no discr:mination will be met. Bighty-five per cent of the workers are reported in the union, yet the employers refuse to accede to complete union control. They wish to hold on to every possibility for developing a com- pany union But although the workers are well organized, unless the lessons of the recent bitter experience in the industry are remembered the fight will be seriously weakened. In the first place the Gorman-Keller treacher- ous policy must be thoroughly exposed before the workers. It is Gorman who called off the General Textile Strike and agreed to a six-month “no- strike” truce, leaving tens of thousands blacklisted, to be evicted, giving a start to company unions, and wage-cuts. It is the Lovestonite Keller who keeps his control in the silk locals by means of deputized henchmen and police and has thus far managed to prevent action for a strike against the wholesale lockouts and discrimination. At this moment when both the dye and silk unions face a strike situation, he is doing everything in his power to prevent a united struggle and that the agreements of these two branches in the industry should expire at the same time. This strike should be marked by rank and file control from beginning to the very end. Each shop should elect a representative action and picket com- mittee. Representatives of all shops should meet regularly and decide on the conduct of the strike. Negotiations and settlement should not be left to the leaders, but should be subject to approval by the strikers before taking effect. Because the shops are unionized, there. should be no illusion that picketing is unnecessary... The boses have already announced that they will seek scabs through the U. S. Employment Service and protection for them. There must be a daily mass picket demonstration around every plant. Only such action from the very start, will force a quick and successful conclusion of the strike. Silk and dye workers! Don't let the United Textile Union officials split your ranks. The silk weavers should force a decision for a strike at the membership meeting scheduled next Saturday. The dye workers should appeal ‘to the silk workers to come out together with them. A huge joint mass meeting in the Passaic valley should be arranged to unite all forces for the mass struggle. Don’t let the likes of Gorman or Keller take leadership of your struggle. Rank and file control is the only guarantee that results such as we see of the General Textile Strike should not be re- peated. Don’t be maneuvered into accepting arbitration, or into placing your demands before any agency of the N. R. A. You can only expect blacklisting and company unions from these boards. no- All out for a 100 per cent Dye Strike on Thurs- day morning! Silk workers! Defeat the efforts of your lead- ers. Come ont with the dyers! Rank and file control, mass picketing, and mil- itancy will win! Class Against Class HE capitalist character of the Roosevelt regime is shown in every action that it takes. All of its activities are directed toward handing out billions to the bankers and industrialists. To the workers the “New Deal” offers nothing but demagogic promises. Concrete proof of the capitalist class purpose of the New Deal is given by a report in the current issue of the influential United States News, the or- gan of thé most reactionary section of the capital- ists. It: deals with the expenditures ofthe govern- ment for last week. ‘The following facts. drive home lessons that every worker ‘must learn if they are to check the hunger drive ‘of the capitalists. The facts show’ that last week the government spent $192,000,000. Of this sum, $92,000,000 was given to the bankers as in- terest payments. The interest payments were $7,000;- 200 more this year than last. In contrast with the increase in the amount handed over to Wall Street, there was a decrease in the amount spent for relief, This was cut from $55,000,000 to $9,000,090. The Roosevelt government is slashing relief at a time when the United States News admits that more than 17,000,000 persons are on relief rolls, and that this winter another 3,000,000 will have to be added. This means that one-sixth of the entire population have no other means of life, other than the starvation relief that they get. Roosevelt holds out the promise of better times as his excuse for cutting relief. This is nothing but election ballyhoo. It is exposed by the figures of the Department of Labor which report that in Sep- tember there was a drop fo 4.7 per cent in the number of jobs, and that payrolls fell 6.8 per cent. Unemployment is increasing, and wages are fall- ing, but the cost of living is going up steadily and profits are at their highest level since 1931, These facts illuminate the purpose of the new deal: it is to get out of the crisis at the expense of the liv- ing standards of the workers and their families. This is the point that the Communist Party has heen emphasizing since the incevtion of the New Deal. It alone’ rinped’ off the liberal mask that Roosevelt uses to hide the capitalistic goal of his program: to increase the profits of monopoly capital. The workers must support Communist candi- dates, who will lead the fight against the hunger deal of the capitalists. They will fight for unem- ployment insurance at the expense of the bankers and the government. They will demand that the huge sums that are now turned over to the banks be used for 1eiief. They will carry into the legis- lative halls of the enemy class, the demands of the workers and farmers. . In the fight of. class against class, add to the strength of your own class. by sending Communists to Congress and to the state legislatures. Turn the legislative halls of the capitalists into forums that will echo the demands and program of the pro- letariat. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 1°TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please s:nd me more information on the Com- munist Party, ADDRESS... | Unit Inactivity Is Seen as a Factor |In Fluctuation The first and foremost problem in recruiting new members into the | Party is that of getting our mem- | bers to put time into the task. So | many feel that one or two evenings |a week at inner or mass meetings | is time enough to spend on Party work. This feeling is often ac- centuated by some member or members of the “tired and dis- couraged” variety. His constant, complaints of overwork throw cold water on everyone's ardor. We can only function properly when and if we look upon Party activities as our happiest recreation, and not as duties to be reluctantly gotten through with. An excellent cor- rective is for a number of mem- bers in each unit to literally laugh the gloomy pessimists out of coun- tenance, and to instill notes of enthusiastic competition into every meeting. A whole lot of realistic optimism is needed from our best cadres to offset the gloomy slug- gishness of those who complain of too much work, Those who are not members of trade unions or fraternal organiza- tions can best make fresh contacts by door to door sales of the Daily Worker. It is the most enjoyable task a live-wire member can have assigned him. And once a. worker buys a Daily Worker from him sev- eral times he almost surely has a potential Party member who will come closer upon further visits and longer visits. Inactivity in units is a major factor to ‘membership turnover. I believe this can be traced: firstly to @ remoteness from struggles: in the immediate neighborhoods and factories, secondly to a lack of theoretical understanding, due to failure to read and study, and thirdly to an inactive or burocratic Unit Buro. Also if every active and conscien- tious unit member, no matter how hard he works, would pay frequent home visits to new members and talk encouragingly to them of the work of the Party in connection with local and world developments fewer newcomers would drop out. To eternally watch world develop- ments is an inspiring activizer, providing -we also eternally watch our local problems, translating the spirit of the broad historical sweep into everyday application locally. Home influences often cause new members to drop out of the Party. All too often we go into homes, talk to a contact or a new mem- ber, and do not try hard to involve his wife in the conversation. We “work” upon thé man, while his wife is allowed to feel isolated and left out. We should not be so dull as'to overlook thé inevitable injury. The wife who is not a Communist sees her husband attending meet- ings and aligning himself with an organization she neither under- stands nor feels a friendly ap- proach from. Our women comrades surely should take this to heart and call as often upon the wives as our men call upon the husbands. Wives should be asked to attend unit meetings as guests, should be invited along with their husbands to our homes. Why not aim to enlist couples into our Party not just the'man of the house? Also, wherever I have observed units of mixed nationality I have seen healthy, growing units. The ones which are composed of a single language membership seldom grow outside their sectarian circles. In the Barre, Vermont Unit are 17 members of. nine -nationalities, and this unit is active, with many contacts coming our way. Comradely, Barre, Vt. . * . New Member Writes. on the Im- Portance of Carrying Ont Assignments _ Iam a new member in the Party. I joined about eight months ago. I want to emphasize a point which some of our comrades don't take seriously, namely assignments. Some of our comrades take as- signments with no intention of carrying them. out, and.in many cases they are comrades who have been in the Party many. years. Here is what happened in my unit. At our last meeting, we de- cided to distribute about 400 Daily Workers, with a leaflet inside the paper. Two comrades were as- signed to draw up the leaflet and insert it in the Daily and then take them to the Brighton Center. I and two more comrades were as- signed to distribute the Daily Workers, at the given point, with the aid of two additional .com- rades |who were promised to us from Brighton Center. The. dis- tribution was to take. place Mon- day, October 8th. The comrades who were assigned to draw up the. leaflet had one week's time in which to do it. Here is what happened.. On Mon- day when I went to the Brighton Center, one hour before the dis- tribution to get the Daily, I was in- formed that the papers were there, but no léaflet. The comrade who was supposed to write it was there, they told me, early in the morn- ing, and he went out to write the leaflet, but didn’t come back. I waited until 4:30 and no one showed up so I thought I. might as well do without the leaflet, which \we had considered most im- portant in our work, as there was nothing else to do. So you sce, comrades, in this case just because one comrade didn't feel like working or had no time, but promised to draw up the leaflet, our work was not done right. If this comrade had said that he couldn't do it, we would have found somecne else. So you see, comrades take our work serio to lead the workers in struggles and finely in tion. we havo to if we want their daily the revolu- assignments seriously and carry them out. Page B. M. T. Unit Section 17. |Party Life The comrades should take their) $60,000. QUOTA—$1,000. | THE WALL STREET RUNNER Bessie S. Total to date P. W. (get cartoon) .... Previously received .. by Burck World Front By HARRY GANNES ——= “Quiet” on Eastern Front Only Superficial New War Alliance | ype a certain quiet has failen over the plans of Japanese imperialism towards the Soviet Union, for very good reasons, the Japanese military clique relentlessly push forward to the day when they expect to push the border of Manchukuo well over into Soviét territory somewhere near Lake Baikal. The main reason for the studied silence on the ceaseless war prep- arations, the constant maneuvers ings and establishment: of war al liances is the growing economic and Political crisis in Japan. Besides the mounting financial crsis, the rising struggles of the working- class, the latest report from Japan declares that this year’s rice crop | will be the lowest in 15 years. The crop, according to government re- port, will be 15 per cent below that of last year — and last year the peasantry as well as the workers Burek will give the original drawing of his eartoon to the highest contributor each day towards his quota of $1,000. Contributions received to the credit of Burck in his Socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, “del,” the Medical Advisory Board, Helen Luke, David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for By R. F. ANDREWS NEW and deathless page has | been written in the history of the international workers’ struggle for power. The revolt of the Spanish workers during the last week has brought them into the front ranks of the workers of the world. The full story of the gallant min- ers of Asturias, the shipyard work- ers of Barcelona, the textile workers of Sabadell, the municipal em- ployees at San Sebastian, who at- tacked the heavily armed police and troops, themselves equipped only with pistols, carbines, and a few machine-guns, has yet to be told, But it is clear already that their courage has been second to none, and that the wives and even chil- dren of the workers have fought bravely by their side, as they al- ways will. Never Surpassed It is also certain that the Span- ish general strike, in its complete- ness and suddenness, has been un- surpassed by any in history. It gives the lie to talk of the “in- discipline” and “unreliable” char- acter of the Spanish. workers. So does the united front of So- cialist, Anarchist and Communist workers, which has manifested it- self throughout the country, and which was responsible for the at- tempt of the Catalan Nationalists to set up an independent govern- ment at Barcelona—for continuing the fight after the Nationalists had surrendered, and even for continu- ing the strike in Catalonia after the treacherous Anarchist leaders had called it off. : The revolt in Spain carries the workers’ international struggle against Fascism a stage higher than the Austrian fighting in February., The fact that the gen- eral strike was launched as the direct reply to the formation of a Fascist government, instead of after months of encroachment on the workers’ rights, is one sign of that. The fact that the Socialist workers had forced their leaders into preparing for the general strike, and that it was called from Deathless Page Has Been Written In Struggle of Spanish Workers people might be. roused to battle against the government forces. British pressmen have quoted suf- ficiently from the illegal Socialist news bulletin to make it certain that such a call, if issued, would have been noticed. In particular there seems to have been no call to the peasantry to seize the land. The third feature is that the in- formation ayailablé nowhere speaks of any propaganda among the sol- diers and sailors, except after sev- eral days’ fighting. There is no record of any or- ganized policy of fraternization with them. Yet the examples of the Catalan regiment which mutinied at Gerona, and of soldiers who ex- pressed working-class sentiments to a correspondent of the “News Chronicle” indicate that there was fertile ground for such propaganda. The fourth feature is’ that the “Workers Alliance’—consisting of trade unions, Socialists and (since the end of September) Communists —was strong enough at Barcelona to organize a gigantic demonstra- tion which forced’ the hand of the Catalan Nationalists, inducing them to proclaim the independence of Catalonia. What conclusion can be drawn from these features? It must be borne in mind that the Communist Party of Spain has always regarded the general strike as the prelim- inary to an armed insurrection for the establishment of workers’ and peasants’ power, if it were to be ef- fective in a decisive struggle of class against class. The Communist Party of Spain has always carried on propagan among the soldiers and sailors in favor of their siding with the workers against the capitalists, It has always agitated in favor of the peasants seizing the land. But the Socialist Party, which far out- numbers the Communists and has a much bigger following in the trade unions, has always been against this activity; so have the Anarchist leaders. Fortwo years after the overthrow of the monarchy, the Spanish So- cialist Party collaborated with capi- the Centre instead of being left to the rank and file, as in Vienna, is ancther sign. ‘The mighty, nation-wide char- acter of the armed struggle—par- ticularly that of the great miners’ army of the province of Asturias— itself. marks not a numerical, but a political advance compared with Austria. There are four features of the events in Svain which cannot but attract the attention of all workers active in the class struggle. And each of them has already, up to the time of writing, sensibly increased the difficulties of the working- class. The first is that the stunning blow of the: general strike was not followed up by an immediate mass attack on the police stations and Government offices in Madrid, the seat of political power. The first attacks seem to have been made not less than 48 hours after the strike began. The. direct conse- quence was that the government has had a chance to take its bear- ints and get its “second. wind.” The second—logically the coun- erpart of the first—is that nowhere. except in Asturias (where the Com- munists have the strongest influ- ence amonz the miner), has there been any sign of the. formation of a new orgen of power—the Soviets —or indeed anv programme of a workers’ and peasants’ dictatorship for which the whole mass of the talist parties in a “Republican” Government, and as such took. par: in many repressive measures against the workers and peasants. Largo Caballero, under the monarchy, was a Privy Councillor of the Fascist dictator Primo de Rivera; in the “Republican” Government, as Min- ister of Labor, he opposed strikes and peasant demonstrations. In recent months, he and the So- cialist Party generally began threat- ening the institution. of a prole- workers had been coming over more and more to the idea cf a united front with their Socialist and Com- munist brothers. But it is a fact that during the first days of fight- sng in Catalonia, large numbers haye been kept out as “neutral” by the Anarchist leaders, and yester- day they actually issued a call to return to work, The Socialist and Anarchist lead- ers, in short, had no conception of the general strike against. Fascism developing into the direct struggle for the. Soviet dictatorship of the working class, leading the peasantry in a close alliance. Only a month ago the “Communist International” was warning Caballero and the Spanish workers: “Mere verbal recognition of the need for the dictatorship of the proletariat, and even readiness to make technical preparations alone for insurrection, are insuf- ficient for the victory of the revo- lution. Yet the leaders of the Social-Democratic Party so far do not go further than that. Conse- quently their whole orientation— [ -we must say this. clearly and warn the working class—is directed not toward a victorious insurrection of the maéses, noi. toward Marxist and Leninist preparations for revolution. . .°. ‘ “The man who makes verbal declarations of the necessity for a revolutionary seizure of power, but in practice refuses to form factory committees and Soviets, is Sealing the fate of ‘insurrection, Selecting the path of Austria, not of October.” . During the last few days, as we have .seen, the insurgent workers have been faced with great diffi- culties which can be traced to pre- cisely the weaknesses pointed out by the Communist International. These difficulties, at the time of writing, seem to be increasing. The heroic: spirit.of the Spanish workers is such that none, even the most reactionary eye-witnesses, dare say that the struggle is over. Whatever the outcome today, the lesson of the magnificent ef- fort of the Spanish workers stands out, clearly, The general strike, the armed reply to capitalist ter- ror, the united front of all work- ers against the fascist menace, have been justified more than ever, But equally has been jus- tified the need for the mass Com- mnnist Party, whose censistent, Peliey and revelutionary program can alone carry these great move- ments of the workers forward to a complete victory over the capi- talist class. tarian dictatorship, declaring that they weuld follow. the example of the U. 8. S. R., arming the workers, etc. f This, of course, was a welcome sign of the rising militancy of the Socialist workers. But at the same time the Soctalist leaders (a) re- fused to expel open pro-capitalists like Besteiro, Delos Rios, and oth- ers; (b) refused: to work for a united front with Communists and Anarchists; (c) opposed the forme- tion of factory committees and peas- ant committees to fight for immedi- ate demands, and still more of So- viets, on the ground that they “have no tradition in Spein.” The Anarchist. leacers, agzin, have always denied the need for the workers to set up their own Sinise, and therefore to create an all-em- bracing working class organization like Soviets. Their idea of insur- rection was that it was not a ques- tion for the masses: small, well- armed bodies of Anarchists could do all that was necessary. Belgian Government Bars International Negro Union Paper The “Negro Worker,” organ of the International Trade Union Commiitee of Negro Workers, has been suporessed by the Belgian government, according to informa- ticn reaching the Crusader News Agency, 2162 Seventh Aye., from its London correspondent. Tke Belgian government is act- ing, iS is believed, at the instigation of th? British Colon‘al Office, and so hesauze of the rising struggles of the natives of the Belgian Con7o. | To.s is the second time’ that’ the Negro Worker has been suporess:d. The editorial staff was hounded out of Hamburg when Hitler came to power. pt, em . The Negro Worker is a monthly magazine dsvoted to the liberation struggles of the Negro people in all were starving. The political crisis is developing over the methods of Japanese con- trol in Manchukuo. The military clique, desiring to hasten the war Preparations, are for more open domination of Manchukuo, handing over all political as well as military functions to the army and. navy. Together with this they: propose a. more open fascist government in Japan itself. They have bodily adopted the program of Hitler and want it to go into immediate ef. ect. Ce etry EH civil authorities: in Kwan tung, the Japanese peninsula in Manchuria, which was completely in the hands of Japan before the Manchurian drive, are opposing the new military measures. In fact, they have resigned en masse, cre- ating a critical situation for the war lords. They do not obiect to the fundamental. plan of war against the Soviet Union, but they disagree as to methods, All of these factors are maturing @ political crisis, with the military clique proposing outright fascism and a speeding of all war prevara= tions against. the Soviet Union. On the field of war alliances. a fact reported very little in the American capitalist press, the Jar- anese have made some definite progress." A so-called industrial mission from Great Britain has just completed its journey to Japan and Manchukuo. This delegation, headed by Baron V. W. Barnby, was in reality a diplomatic mission to dis- cuss the question of mutual colonial plunder in the Far East, and the at- titude of these countries in the event of war against the Soviet Union. Barnby, after his visit to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, made the following declaration: “It is our desire to connect Great Britain, Japan, and Manchukuo with chains of friendship. . . . I cannot discuss any political ques- tions, for our mission is pureiy ins dustrial in its nature, but my pers sonal feeling 1s that no gain will be made by Great Britain or any other foreign power by further de laying the recognition of the gov- ernment of Manchukuo. . . . I think it will be a good thing for Japan to have such a friendly col- laborator as Britain in the develop- ment of Manchukuo.” . 'HE “chains of friendship” of these two robber imperialist powers, of course, are designed to encircle the Soviet Union and to choke it, if possible. J Barnby’s declarations of “friend- ship,” and his denial of political significance of his visit, is not taken very seriously in the Far East. Ob- servers there point out that the United Press previously had ree ported a Japanese-British war al. liance providing as follows: (1) Japan-and Great Britain will, Yespect mutual interests in each other's colonies in central and) eastern Asia. ~U (2) Both countries will work in co-operation in South China, par- ticularly against the Chinese Sov- iets. (3) Both Japan and Britain will stand “neutral” in case either goes to war with the Soviet Union in Asia. . LL of the denials of Japan and Eritcin of this waz alliance is regarded by the Far Eastern press as. ‘“reere fermalities.” The Shang- hai China Times estimates recent moves of these two powers as fol- lows: “Japan cannot occupy China un- less she first defeats Soviet Russia on the battlefield. So when Japan is preparing for war against Sovie: Russia she must first cultie vate the frien¢cshin of Uncle Sam, . . Naturally, the activities of the Soviets have greatly worried the British conservatives and they would be only too glad if some could come out and deal a seriou: blow to Soviet Russia. They ” that there is no other nation in th world which is preparing for wat with Soviet Russia except Japan, ‘Therefore, it is not unlikely that the British Conservatives will sup+ port the suggestion of renewing th old Anglo-Japanese alliance. i the renorted renewel is not un founded it will accellerate an out4 break in the Far Eest.” me Contributions reccived to the ercdit. of Harry Gennes in his Sos ciatist comvetition with Del. Miké Gold, the Medica] Advisory Heien Luke, Jacob Burck end Davi Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drivé for. $60,000, Quota—s500, ta be Bessie S. . Previously rece! — In recent months the Anarchist lands. ‘ S Total to date ........$8948