The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1934, Page 6

Page & DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1934 Daily,.<QWorker | | exifreas oncan communist PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) | “America’s Only Working Class FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. New ¥ Daily Newspaper” Press Bu Nationa 280, ding 7910. Ti. Dearborn 3 Telephone 1 Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $8.00 # months, $5.00: 3 months, $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1934 ——oOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Capitalist Rewards ROFIT, the smiling Roosevelt told the Wall Street bankers the other day, is the-“reward of labor of hand and brain.” And the bankers applauded him to the echo. But what does the American working class think of that? What does the worker who slaves for $8 a week in the Southern textile mills think of the “reward” he is getting for his labor? What does the impoverished, pauperized farmer who is being evicted off his farm where he has worked for twenty years think of the “reward” he is getting for his labor? Rockefeller has an income of $500,000 a week. Is anybody crazy enough to think that this is the “reward of his labor’? This is the reward only from the fact that he is plundering several hundred thousand workers in the oil and other industries. If the whole Rockefeller family were to pass away in “Florida would the oil industry, as an industry, be affected in any way? It would still continue to operate. A-six year old kid, Gloria Vanderbilt, the daughter of one of the Vanderbilt railroad magnates, has a-fortune of $10,000,000. Is that the “reward” of her labor of hand and brain? If the whole gang of Vanderbilt polo players and Countesses croaked in=Monte Carlo somewhere, would the New York Central be run any less effectively? Certainly not! The New York Central workers would continue to repair locomotives and run trains, The Wall Street banks reap huge profits not because: they add anything to the welfare of the people, but simply because they have in their pos- session certain pieces of paper called stocks and bonds, mortgages, loan certificates. By virtue of Possessing these capitalist instruments of property, a handful of Wall Street and Park Avenue para- sites, not exceeding one per cent of the population, own and control more than 85 per cent of the country’s economic life. Suppose the working class destroyed these capi- talist papers of ownership, what then? Suppose the working class itself took over the ownership of the factories, banks and railroads? Would the actual process of industry be hurt in any way? On the contrary, industry and the production of goods would be enormously stimulated, wages would rise tremendously, and the whole country’s toiling popn- lation would be infinitely better off. Under capitalism, the working class gets as a “reward” for its labor a life of starvation and in- security. It is only the capitalist parasites who reap immense profits—“rewards”—from the exploitation of labor. With the working class in power, building so- cialism, the nation’s toilers, the truly productive workers in facteries and offices, would be the bene- ficiaries. Production would be for use, not profit. New War Alliances O AMOUNT of diplomatie language can cover up the bitter conflicts sur- rounding the London preliminary naval arms conference. The United States, Japan and Britain are preparing their navies for war, and the naval treaties have become S80 many scraps of paper. The chief purpose of the conference at the present time is to form new war alliances, with Japanese imperialism doing all it ean to utilize the rivalries between British and Amer- iean imperialism for its own advantage. The Roosevelt government has not waited for the present confab to make clear its position. The aim of Wall Street. is to build a navy “second to none.” Roosevelt has already authorized the con- struction of 130 warships, and is ready to let the American workers starve by the millions in order to supply the munitions makers with hundreds of millions of dollars in profit building a gigantic war machine to insure its slice of the Chinese market and Far Eastern colonies. Japanese imperialism demands the end of the previous treaty “limitations” on armaments, the 5-5-3 ratio, which meant that Japan was to have three front line battleships to every five for Britain and the United States. To further its demands Japan has made a secret war alliance with Fascist Germany, and is meneuvering with British im- -perialism, The main object of these maneuvers, however, is for war against the Soviet Union. The Japanese treaty with Germany provides that both powers will attack simultaneously with Japan tak- ing Soviet Siberia up to Lake Baikal and Fascist Germany, the Ukraine. Japanese militarists hope to use the bait of war against the Soviet Union, and sufficient plunder for ‘all as the bait with which to “solve” the conflicts between it and Wall Street. Just how far these maneuvers are going we can- not tell because much is said in secret at these conferences that the workers will never know. Though it can be said that by electing Communists to Congress they could learn much which would aid the workers in exposing the war moves of the imperialist powers. The acrimony, the bitterness of tie preliminary London conference shows how alarmingly necr a new imperialist war is: The imperialist powers can no longer kecp their conflicts hidden oven by arms “Smitations” treaties which actually limit nobody. As part of its “conversations” at London Wall Street moved its Atlantic battle flest through the Panama canal into the Pacific Ocean. The talk is ac- companied by actual war moves. + 5 a Improved Equipment for War HERE are reports from Washington that the administration is working on a plan which is designed to bring the ob- solescent equipment and broken-down plants of heavy industry up to date. Such a move would have the two-fold objective of getting the industrial plants of the country in shape for any war requirements, and of putting stagnant industry back on its feet Such a plan if put into effect would not solve the capitalistic crisis. In the present epoch of the general crisis of capitalism, there is no basis for industrial advance and development as far as the whole capitalistic system is concerned. The economy of capitalism must thus adjust itself to a continuous, if irregular decline The crisis, for example, has brought on the forced deterioration of machinery and plants. A recent survey conducted by engineers indicated that 50 per cent of the industrial equipment of the country was either obsolescent or semi-obsolescent, This means that about half of the plants and machinery are either out of date, or not up to the most modern standards of technique. But capitalism cannot check this decline in tech- nique. In fact, it is interested in technique only insofar as it will increase profits or is necessary for its war plans. Consequently any plan for the rehabilitation of heavy industry would fall within the scope of the drive for super-monopoly and war; that is the goal of the New Deal. The biggest trusts would receive loans and subsidies. They would proceed to moder- nize their plants. And with this advantage, their attacks against their competitors would be intensi- fled This would lead in turn to the sharpening of all the inner antagonisms of the capitalist class, and add to the acuteness of the crisis, As for the workers, this proposal would mean a more intense speed-up, undermining their health and crippling them at an early age. Automatic machinery would greatly add:to the number of the unemployed, and reduce many skilled workers to the economic levels of the unskilled. There would also be a general lowering of wages as the less efficient factories tried to keep pace with the modernized plants of the monopolies. Such a plan can not offer a way out of the crisis. It would only increase the burden of the war plans of the Roosevelt regime, which the workers carry on their backs in the form of speed-up, lower wages and a reduced standard of living for their families. Such a scheme would be in line with the ag- gressive war policy that Roosevelt has pursued since the inception of the New Deal. It would gear the industrial plants of the country more effectively to the war machine. It would make possible the more efficient production of the most horrible in- struments of destruction and death. It can be seen that every proposal and potential plan that emanates from Washington effectively exposes the ruling class aims of Roosevelt's election ballyhoo. They all prove that Roosevelt 1s organiz- ing for war, spending billions for war preparations, while denying the masses relief and bread. Fight against the war plans of the administration by casting your ballot for all Communist candidates. It is only they who will back up the mass struggles of the workers against war and fascism, and de- mand that the war funds be turned over to the unemployed, to a workers’ housing program and to all the other needs of the working class. Two Legion Resolutions T THE American Legion Convention which yesterday overwhelmingly de- manded the immediate payment of the cash bonus, there are two forces at work. There is the reactionary top official- dom and there is a great majority of the rank and file. These groups conflict. They want totally dif- ferent things. The Legion officials, like Hayes and the rest, want one thing. The rank and file mem- bers of the Legion want wholly different things. The smashing victory for the bonus represents the wishes of the rank and file. The upper Legion officialdom tried as long as it could, and in as many ways as it knew how, to discourage the fight for the bonus. But when it could no longer hold the rank and file back it gave way, as the capitalist press says very frankiy, only “in order not to lose the hold on the men.” 'HE Legion yesterday passed another resolution, in addition to the bonus resolution. This reso- intion calls for the denying of all poiitical rights to the Communist Party im every state. This is not the rank and file program. This is the reactionary political program of the very same officialdom which has been fighting the bonus. This is the program of the army officers in the Legion who have direct connections with the National Econ- omy League capitalists who have been the worst enemies of the Legion vets. For what does this anti-Communist resolution mean to the welfare of the rank and file Legion- naires? It means encouragement and aliiance with the reactionary forces who are fighting against the bonus. The Communist Party is the only Party in tne elections which boldly incorporates into its election platform a plank demanding “immediate cash pay- ment of the veterans’ back pay (the bonus).” Communists have been in the very forefront of the fight for the bonus when the Legion officials were fighting it tooth and nail. 3t is impossible to sincerely fight for the bonus and to fight for the outlawing of the Communist Party, for every sincere fighter for the bonus recog- nizes in the Communists loyal and devoted allies. HE reactionary Legion officials who jammed through the anti-Communist resolution are the very same people who called upon the vets to sup- port the Roosevelt program, the same Roosevelt who is the country’s leading enemy of the immediate cash payment of the bonus, the man whose policies are the policies of the Wall Street bankers. The rank and file Legionnaires, in their fight for the bonus, have to fight against their own reaction- ary officialdom, against every reacticnary measure of political oppression. It is part of their fight for the bonus to fight the reactionary-fascist cliques in their own ranks. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK. N. Y. Please scnd me mor> information on the Com- munist Party. Sees Membership Doubled Through Good Mass Work Comrade Browder in his report to the Eighth National Convention of the Party, in dealing with the build- ing of the Party into a mass Party, Pointed out that “mass recruit- ment must be undertaken in con-| nection with all our mass activiies| and struggles and the fluctuation overcome through the improvement of our work especially the raising of the political level and initative of} the leadership of the nucleus and lower Party organizations in the day-to-day struggles and in the work of the fractions in the mass organizations.” This statement ap- plies with full force to our Party in this Section in carrying out this task. The great weakness of our Party does not lie in the fact that we have not carried on a certain amount of mass activity and struggles (election campaign, relief struggles) or that the fluctuation is very great, but the failure to build the Party lies mostly in the fact that our methods of work are very Poor not only in general campaigns of the Party, but particularly in the work inside the mass organizations. We wish to give here a concrete example of the quality of the work | of the Party among the farmers. The County Secretary of the United Commitee meeting to take place on| a certain date in a certain) Farmers League called a County) place to start at 2 p. m. What happened at this meeting? First, the meeting started an hour late. ‘There was no agenda prepared in advance, The leading comrade responsible to the State Committee for his activity arrived not at 2 p. m. when the meeting was orig- inally called but at 3.30 after the meeting had already started. The | meeting took up a few very im- portant problems such as mobiliz- ing a delegation for the State Re- lief Conference, the struggle against the eviction of a farmer and so forth. Had the Party comrades on the County Committee met before to bring concrete proposals to the meeting? The answer is that it had not. The result was that a good deal of valuable time was lost dealing with small detail matters, and technicalities. The weakness in this particular Phase is not solely due to the low Political level of the members but that guidance and leadership is neglected by the leading Party committee, failure to check up the work of the leading comrades as | well as tightening the discipline of | the leading Party members. This bad situation can best be overcome by having “greater boldness. in the promotion of cadres from the ranks of the farmers, and by raising the political and theoretical level of the membership, through more concrete personal contact and work among the masses, through study clubs, through schools and last but not: least through greater efforts to have every Party comrade become a| reader of the Daily Worker and the other theoretical publications.” The writer is of the firm opinion once our Party comrades improve the work inside the mass organiza- tions, the task of doubling the membership of our Party in this campaign will not be a difficult one, but our Party will root itself among the basic strata of the American working class who will be able to lead the developing class battles, be able to meet any suppressive meas- ure of the bourgeoisie and lead the oppressed masses out of the crisis through the revolutionary way out. Comradely yours —Rk. 8. Fraud Cited In Re-Election Of Mike Tighe) Holds Office in Iron Association; Many Lodges Denied Vote PITTSBURGH, Pa. Oct. 26— Mike Tighe, enfeebled sellout vet- eran who has guided the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers through paths of betrayal for the past fifteen years, was announced re-elected to the presidency of the union from A. A. headquarters here in the West End yesterday. Tighe’s successful campaign, car- ried through by the simple process of refusing doubtful lodges the right to vote, defeated George Wil- liams, of Cannonsburg, a renegade expelled from the Communist Party, who was supposed to have en- joyed the support of so-called “rank and file” leaders in the elec- | tion. Although the A. A. counts as members well over 100,000 steel workers who have signed cards with the A. F. of L. union, only slightly over 5,000 ballots were cast in the election. : Behind Tighe’s re-election can be seen the possibility of an early re- tirement, in which case the ‘presi- dency would fall to Edward Miller, Jong the right hand bower of the 76-year old misleader and by now well versed in the art of breaking strikes. With the election of Tighe came another announcement of great significance, concerning a former colleague of Tighe. A news item discloses the death of Herbert Reese, late of San Francisco, for- merly of Pittsburgh. The short orbit of Reese tells its own story— “Leaving the Amalgamated in 1929, Mr. Reese became general superin- tendent of the Tyler Tube Com- pany, in Washington. Pa., Later he served with the Bethlehem Steel Company at Johnstown—!” Reese | held the position of vice president | of the A. A. when he worked for the steel companies inside the union, Party Life 360,000. QUOTA—$1,000. Mrs. E, Ellis (gets cartoon) .... jk will give the original drawing of Contributions received to the credit of Burck in his Socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, “del.” the Medical Advisory Board, Helen Luke, Dayid Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for |‘“__THE REWARD OF HARD LABOR.” —Pres. Roosevelt in his addrese te the bankers. his cartoon to the highest contributor each day towards his Total ... NOTE: The Tie winners of Friday’s cartoon are | —x-Sec 1 Member, and Madison, Wis. by Burek » 8347 booed 895,07 By VERN SMITH MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Oct. 27— ‘The Western worker, just arrived in the Soviet Union, sees immediately something that looks very familiar. He sees a man dressed in a rather neat uniform, with belt and pistol and helmet, standing in the middle of the street directing traffic with a wave of his white gloved hand. Or he finds a group of such figures at the entrance to a big mass meet- g I have never found an American worker who would not confess that he felt a sudden involuntary ap- prehension when he stepped off a street car and suddenly found him- self in the midst of such a group. “Police!” he thinks, and can’t help, the first time a sudden stiffened of muscles and quick side glance for support. Then, he hears, or even if he doesn't come to the U.S, S. R., he reads of congresses, even though they be of soviets, and that doesn’t sound so different from the U. S. Congress He knows of Peoples Commissars of Agriculture, of the Interior, etc., and compares them in his mind with the U. S. Secretary of Agricu’‘ure, of the Interior, etc. He knows or hears or reads of trusts, wages, foremen, unions, the Party, the army, etc. and he naturally pictures these things in terms of what he knows in the U. SrA. This perhaps is unavoidable, and yet it is essentially false. The western worker who stays even a few days here, and really keeps his eyes open will be the first to real- ize the difference, probably more than the present generation of So- viet citizens, who know all these institutions in their Soviet form, and have had no experience with their capitalist namesakes. No Police Let us go back for a moment to the “police.” First of all, you find that they are not police. Each of them would be very correctly in- dignant if called a policeman, just as a Red Army man would feel somewhat insulted at being callea a soldier. The man_ directing traffic in Moscow streets is a mem- ber of the Workers and Peasants Militia. The group of militiamen at the doorway to a mass meeting have pistols as the New York policeman has, but they never have pulled those pistols on the workers—the militiamen are not there to hinder or smash the meeting, but to help its orderly progress—and that is quite a difference. The pistol is only for possible use against. the ensmies of the workers. It is pointed in a totally different direv- tion from the direction in which the cavitalist “cop” points his gun. Gots Attentive Hearing A foreign worker, however poorly dressed, without a word of Russian at his command, can go up to a Moscow militiaman and ask his. way by signs, and get an attentive “hearing,” a desperate struggle to understand on the part of the mil- tiaman, and directions in signs, or even a persenally conducted tour to the point he wishes to reach, if it is anywhere near. All in the best of good humor. Let an immigrant dressed in working clothes try that on a cop- per in Fifth Ave, New York, or Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, “Get going ya lousy Hunky, why don’t ya go back where ya came from!” is what he would hear, and may be there would be a good hard shove from the gloved hand or a wave of the policeman’s club. The Soviet militieman catches criminals. for here and_ there, fmeng the de-classed elements there ere still burglars and pick- pockets. The capitalist policeman catches them too, sometimes, when he isn’t in collusion with them, for he defends private property. There has been no recourse against the well known, often ex- posed third degree and frame up system in American cities. Such things are nearly unknown in the Soviet country, the nearest to it is the case I will describe below, which created a sensation here be- | cause of its unusual nature, and I | tell of it, not to give any idea that | it is typical, but to show how easily | such things are stamped out in the workers’ state. A Murder Case A worker at the Proletarian La- bor metal factory was murdered. | Evidence pointed to a member of his family. The militia of the 11th militia district in Moscow worked up the case. But when it seemed clear that the culprit was caught, certain evidence developed, pointing | towards another man altogether, as the murderer. This later evi- dence, tangling up the case, throw- ing doubt on the ability of the milf- tiamen who had developed the case against the member of the mur- dered man’s family, the militiamen concerned suppressed. An ordinary lawyer, belonging to the Moscow Collegium of attorneys, by name Hatz, found this out, and immediately notified the local pros- ecutor. The prosecutor, for motives unknown, but perhaps because he also didn’t want the case com- plicated when it seemed so clear, took no action. Whereupon Hatz Prosecutor Vishinsky, who inves- tigated at once, found out that evidence favorable to the accused had been suppressed, and now the real criminal, the militiamen who concealed the evidence and the Prosecutor who took no action on it are on trial on very serious charges. Imagine the result of an appeal to the U, 8. Attorney Geverst ever evidence suppressed by police and court, favorable to Mooney, or to Sacco and Vanzetti! There has been an abundance of such ° evidence— yet Mooney is still in jail, Sacco and Vanzetti were executed, and the real murderers in each case run free. The institution of state prose- cutor exists in both states—but the essential nature of their office, like that of the police, is absolutely dif- ferent. The Soviet prosecutor de- fends the interests of workers, of the accused, too, and if he finds evidence for him, he has to bring it in. Since we are on the subject, the court, the criminal law, and the “prison” are different too, here, from what they are in capitalist countries. Law for Workers The law here exists not to keep the working class subjugated. but to keep it in power, and defend it from de-classed elements and from those who might wish to re-establish cap- italist rule. It, and the court and “prison” are to reform the crimi- nal. Sentences are very light, ex- cept for counter-revolution, the at- tempt to destroy the rule of the workers, Even then, the death sen- tence is inflicted only when it be- comes absolutely certain that the convicted man is a permanent ene- my of the workers, impessible to reform. By thousands and thou- sands such people have reformed— the udarniks of the White Sea ca- nal job being cases in point. There are courts in both coun- tries. But in America the court is an instrument of class justice. Its very formulas are terrifying with legal jargon, and a professional up- per class judge in power, who sits high up, almost on a throne, is ad- dressed as “Your Honor,” and -is sometimes rebed in somber black. The class nature of the court in a capitalist country shows eyen more in the judgments—death for Joe Hill, and many others; 20 years for the Negro Angelo Herndon whose appealed ‘directly to the All Union | fight for unemployment relief, and freedom within ten minutes for the hired. gunmen of the Rockefeller coal mines who killed Harry Simms, the young mine strike leader in Kentucky. The prisons burst with workers, but with very few rich men, and those do not stay long and do not suffer much. No Ameri- can millionaire was ever electro- cuted. In the Soviet Union the courts are workers’ courts. There are three judges, in each lower court, only one of whom is a professional, the others being workers right from the factories, elected to serve in turn on the bench. Decision is by majority | vote, and the simple worker's vote is as good as the jurist’s. There is no awful formality, the judges sit at a table, with the accused and his lawyer on the other side. Inci- dentally, lawyers are organized, fees are moderate and if the accused can’t pay, the lawyers’ union must nevertheless provide him with an attorney and the state must pay the fee. But with the class element gone, the ordinary criminal finds the prosecutor and the judges as much his attorney as any one—all are interested in getting the facts, and reforming the law breaker. The People’s Court I saw a case once in the Peoples Court in Mbdscow. A young man had committed some offense on a collective farm, and run away to Moscow. There he got a jod in a bakery, and stole 1,000 rubles from the office within ten minutes after going to work. He then applied at another co-operative bakery for work, and stole their stamp (seal) and some stationery. He forged himself credentials as an agent of the bakery, and perpetrated a swindle on a state flour milling trust, in the course of which he got 500 rubles for himself. He also had len a udarnik’s badge and a Young Communist League member- ship card to give him a “front.” The evidence showed he had never worked, but had lived thus by his wits ever since coming to Mos- cow. The judges asked him whether he had stolen the good suit he was wearing, but he said he came by that honestly, he bought it out of the first thousand rubles he stole. I should say he was a good ex- ample of the sort of man who, in a capitalist country would rise from Office boy to president of the corporation—in the days when such things were still possible. He was just a bright young man, unsatis- fied with the humdrum honest way of getting along, and trying to get up in the world. He even had and was proud of the bourgeois virtues. But this Soviet court decided that a person so totally at variance with a sane social system must be in- sane, and seni him to be examined by a lunacy commission. If he is found to be sane, he will get a sen- tence of a couple of years in a house of detention (there are no prisons, places just of punishment, ‘in the Soviet Union) and there they will teach him a trade, try to find out the reason for his mistaken anti-social course, and try. again to launch him as a usofu! <itizen. If a lad like this came into court at all in a capitalist country it would be because he had neglected to make the proper connections, to join up with the gang. But if he did swindle some corporation there as he did the co-operatives here, and came before the judge for it, he would get, first a six month's sentence for contempt of court for the answers he made, then about ten years for the swindle. He might, get out earlier if he still made his connections and someone needed a gangster or perjurer in a labor case, but in any circumstance, he would come out a criminal. only offense was calling on Negroes and- white workers to unite in the When the 90,000,000 workers and farmers go to the new elections for ! |World Front | ||_- By HARRY GANNES | Two Ring Navy Circus r |Kuomintang Disappointed | Australian Elections HE naval arms confab is | becoming a two-ring circus, of death riders. Besides the three big navy powers, who seem to agree less as they talk | longer, France and Italy have \entered the fray in their own | Particular manner. Mussolini som@ | time ago announced that his gove | ernment would build two 35,000 ton | battleships, the total cost to pe around $70,000,000 to $80,000,000, | Now, when talk of “naval disarmae ment” is on, Mussolini set an exe ample of the type of “disarmae ment” desired by the imperialists, by laying the keels of the two bate tleships. That gets the French admiralty to studying. The two battleships would give Italy supremacy in the Mediterranean and in the North African colonies. So the French navy officials propose the building of three battle cruisers of 30,000 | tons each, which would give them an edge of 20,000 tons over Italy, The cost would be well over $100, 000,000. But every time the impertalist poker players bid their battle chips across the conference tables, the wages of the workers are cut in 6r- der to pay the gigantic sums. RE is one little item on the background of the bitter naval discussions in London, not brought out by the capitalist press, and that is Fascist Germany's role be- hind the scenes. We quote from a capitalist. press dispatch which we have not seen published in any Paper: “French navel experts see another reason for construction of the Projected battle-cruisers revealing |they have learned Germany intends to support the theory of navy equality which they declare Berlin encouraged Japan to present at London.” New Soviet Society Has Constructed egies New Institutions for Working Class C7 Se days ago we pointed out in this column that Chiang Kai Shek’s hopes of coming before the fifth Kuomintang Congress on No- vember 12 and reporting victory over the Red Army in at least one Province would be shattered. Yes- terday we read the following in a cable from Shanghai to the New York Times: “The Nanking standing commit- tee of the Kuomintang Executive Committee decided today to post- Pone the fifth Kuomintang Con- | 8ress scheduled to open at Nanking on Nov. 12, because of the desire to complete the Communist and ban- dit suppression before the meeting. The fifth plenary session of the Central Executive Committee has been called for December gl0 at Nanking. .. ” But if the Kuomintang Congress is to meet at all, it will have to meet with the bitter knowledge that Chiang Kai Shek could not deliver the goods in the Soviet territories. Sanne date AS a matter of fact, as the date for the Congress approaches the Red Army is increasing its drives against the white armies. The Red Armies in Honan and Kiangsi Province, 80,000 strong, are making a terrific drive against the Kwang- tung forces of General Chen Chi Tang. This by the way, though it came over the wires to all capitalist Papers, as far as we could discover in the New York papers, was pub- lished only in the Daily Worker, ene es UR brother party in Australia put up a brilliant election cam- paign, and last month made huge gains in the Federal Elections. The program of the Communist Party of Australia was brief and clear cut, They put forward the most pressing immediate demands of the workers, and the central point of the program was Soviet power. The |Party received a total of 68,402 | votes. In New South Wales the Party gained a 100 per cent in- crease, and in Victoria a 300 per cent increase over the federal elec- |tions of 1931. Can we do as well in the present elections with even more favorable conditions for our Party? Commenting on the Australian elections, the “Workers Voice” says: “Although the increases regise tered are pleasing in themselves, everyone who took part in the elec- tion campaign knows that the real influence of the Party is much greater than is shown by the vot- ing. “Thousands of workers in each electorate have expressed their ap- proval of our policy, but, because we have not thoroughly combatied the illusions held by these workers, they voted for the Labor Party as ‘the lesser of two evils.’ = “We have to take a lesson from these facts and intensify our work to show the workers that the Labor Party is not the ‘lesser evil’ but that it is the ‘main bulwark of capitalism.’ ” Contributions received to the credit of Harry Gannes in his So- cialist competition with Del, Mike Gold, the Medical Advisory Board, In the Home, Jacob Burck and David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$500. W. Spreng. F. Winkler . Abe Hirsch S. Montes Previoasly rece Total to date ............$105.47 Soviets this November, it is the so- viet style, essentially different from the capitelist style, of laws they will be upholding. When they cele- brate the seventeenth anniversary of the socialist revolution on No- vember Seventh, it is the establish- ment of institutions essentially dif- ferent from capitalist institutions that they will be supporting, alons with their celebration of work control of industry and the aboll- tion of the profit system. nr ARR SHC eS TO SIR —-- - Se ea = _—