The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1934 Daily QWorker HETRAL ORGAN COMMUMIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 56 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone Cable Address ALgonquin 4-795 4 nx, gn 6 mol 5.00: 3 months, $3.00. By Ca Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, A. & P.--Union Smashing and High Profits HE union smashing drive of the em- ployers broke out on another front when the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Com- pany announced the lockout of 1900 Cleveland employes in an attempt to pre- vent a union agreement. The announcement by the A. and P. of its withdrawal from Cleveland has served as the rallying point for all the Chambers of Commerce and the employers’ organizations to intensify, throughout the country, the anti-union campaign. The workers of the United States, who are also the consumers of the products distributed by this chain grocery company, must answer this union- smashing campaign of the employers. The issues must be made clear. The A. and P. company, with over 15,000 stores, is a rabid anti-union concern. Seven tions in Cleveland united to secure union conditions in the Cleveland A. and P. stores. The company began firing union members right and left. The stores were picketed by the union members. The lock- out, in order to uphold the company’s blacklist and discrimination, followed. A look at the profits of the A. and P. company gives the key as to why the A. and P. wants to smash the unions. In the year ending Feb, 28, 1934, the company made a net profit, after all de- ductions for taxes, depreciation and the like, of $20,478,000.90.. In the year ending Feb. 28, 1933, net profits were $22,793,000.00. On September 1, 1934—just two months ago—the company was making so much profit that they declared an extra dividend of a dollar a share for the year to com- mon stock holders in addition to the regular quarterly dividend. It is to maintain these collosal profits, to enable the multi-millionaire Hartford family, owners of the A, and P., to live in luxury, that the A. and P. is determined to smash the unions. This is the issue in the A. and P. fight The company has rolled up this immense ‘profit by paying notoriously low wages, and exacting long hours and complete servility from its employes. The company is linked with Wall Street since as early &s 1925. John Hartford, president of the A. and P. is one of the directors of the Morgan bank, the Guaranty Trust Company. The N-R.A. boards of the Roosevelt government, which are carrying on the employers’ anti-union, wage-cutting drive, are already trying to end the strike on the employers’ terms, to tle up the unions’ demands in endless arbitration. William Green has personally taken a hand to break the strike. The workers of the entire country must not allow the union-smashing drive of the A. and P. company to succeed. Picket lines should appear at every A, and P. store in the country. The A, and P, stores should be picketed both by the unions and by consumers. The Women’s Councils ‘and: other Such groups should get on the job at once. Support the fight of the A, and P, workers for decent conditions and union recognition. Spread the strike of the A. and P. workers‘to all chain stores! Fight against the low wages and the high prices which enable the A. and P. to enrich the wealthy stock holders at your expe: Build the Party ie THE election campaign now drawing to a close thousands of workers have become acquainted with the program of the Communist Party. At hundreds of Mass meetings throughout. the country workers have listened to Communist Party speakers analyze the vital isues of the election campaign. Many of these workers have secured and read one or more of the pamphlets of the Communist Party. Other thousands have read the leaflets and news- Papers of the party. More important, in the struggles for the de- mands of the workers which the Communist Party 4s daily carrying on, thousands of workers have seen in action the fighting capacity of the party. In the strikes and struggles for the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill; the fight for the Scottsboro Boys; the anti-war campaign, etc., these workers have fought side by side with the mem- bers of the Communist Party. But in the Election Campaign, HOW MANY NEW WORKERS ARE WE TAKING INTO THE COMMUNIST PARTY? How many times have we talked personally to these working class fighters, and made a personal appeal to them to join the Communist Pariy? How many of those who ap- prove of the Communist Party program for the Election Campaign, are we going to retain in the fight—every day—after the election campaign is over? The Communist Party is conducting a RE- CRUITING DRIVE for new members at this time. The Election Campaign will not be successful unless active workingclass fighters who are going to Vote Communist, are brought into the Communist Party. Now, in the final stages of the election cam- paign, every party member as a vital part of the campaign, should recruit new members into the Communist Party. BUILD THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN. LNT TC Gitlow & Co. Arrive HEN the Lovestonite renegades were expelled from the Communist Party for their anti-Communist theories on the “Golden Era” of American imperialism and their corrupt, anti-workingclass deeds, the prophecy was’ made by the Party that they were rapidly traveling the road backwards into the camp of social reformism, into the camp of the Yeactionary Socialist Party iadership. What was then’ a scientific prophecy has now beceme a political reality. Ben Gitlow, Herbert Zam and a mctley crew of former Lovestonites are knocking on the door of the Socialist Party re- questing to be allowed to enter its ranks. The Git- low clique has won the right to beg association with the Waldmans and Cahans by joining with the PD teas the Leiparts and the MacDon- alds in the slanders against the Communist International, the Soviet Union and the Commu- nist F y of the U. S. In its statem of adherence to the Socialist Party, the Gitlow iful make it clear that on all ssues they are at one with the most reactionary leaders of the Socialist Party. They do not utter a word of criticism of their united front with the strike-breaking Greens. Of the great betrayals by the Social Democratic leaders of the German and Austrian proletariat, Gitlow has only the highest raise. these betrayals, he has only the slimiest condemna- tion. That he and his followers offer to come into the Socialist Party as the most willing servants of the Waldmans, the Cahans, the Thomases is also made clear. “It would be a serious error,” says the Git- low statement of submission, “to carry over into our new party any factional interests of the past. We are joining not a single group but as a representa- tive stream from the revolutionary workers.” The first sentence of this quotation is a salute to the most reactionary of the Socialist leadership; the second, an attempt to cater to the growing revolutionary discontent with the official policies in the ranks of the Socialist Party. But the Socialist Party members should be able to see in the Gitlow gang not “a representative stream from the revo- lutionary workers,” but a foul smelling backwash entering to strengthen the hand of the most cor- rupt and reformist leadership against the revolu- tionary aspirations of the majority of the Socialist Party membership. AS: THE desire for united action against hunger, war and fascism grows among the workers of the entire world, ail of the renegades, from the counter-revolutionary Trotzkyites, to the panderers to the “strength” and “indestructability” of Amer- ican imperialism, throw their lot with the Socialist leaders against the united front, for the strengthen- ing of all elements of social-fascism, for reformism as against revolution, for the enemies of the Soviet, Union. Now it happens that Messrs. Waldman and Ca- | han do not want to permit the Gitlow penitents to enter their sacred precincts of betrayal without se- vere public chastisement. But nobody will take this drama of penitence too seriously. Norman Thomas, that supple bridge between the “left” National Executive Committee, and the thoroughly hated Waldmans and Cahans, has already given his priestly blessings to the prod- igal sons. The New Leader, the Socialist organ firmly un- der the control of the Waldman, Oneal, Cahan clique, itself had given Gitlow a warm invitation to re-enter the smelly swamp of reformism. The week before Gitlow publicly announced his entry into the Socialist Party, this organ of the Waldmans who now claim the door is “closed,” declared: “Some of you have been members of various parties which you have been compelled to leave (kicked out, would be more accurate) because their tactics have been so badly adapted to the achieve- ment of the great end you seek.... To you the Socialist Party offers a welcome, not as groups or as potential factions, but as loyal comrades in the great cause of achieving Socialism in our time.” It was precisely ‘to comply with this request of | the Waldmans, et al, that the Gitlow gang formu- lated its. plea of acceptance. The touchstone of all of the most reactionary forces within the Socialist Party which will finally embrace the prodigal backwash is their common | opposition to the united front with the Communist Party. In this respect, the Waldmans and Cahans will see in the Gitlow clique allies of the most re- liable sort. Despite all of the maneuvers of the Socialist leadership, from their united action with the cor- rupt A. F .of L, bureaucracy to their unholy al- liance with the filth cast off from the healthy growth of the Communist Party organism, the main issue, the issue of the united front, must not be lost sight of. A united front of the two parties is a burning necessity, Throughout the world the danger of war and fascism grows apace. The Socialist leaders squirm and twist in the most frightful contortions in their-efforts to avoid the united front. The rank and file of the Socialist Party on numerous ocea- sions have mandated their leaders to establish this united front. This united front must be established. It will be established. Only in this way will the great forces of the revolutionary workers in the Socialist Party be able to mass their forces with the Communist Party in the battle against hunger, war and fascism. A Good Investment HE Democratic and Republican Parties received close to a half million dollars in campaign contributions from the duPonts, the country’s biggest manufac- turers of war munitions. Such was yes- terday’s revelation by the Senate Investigations Committee. The du Ponts control the country’s nitrate, cellu- lose, rayon, and poison gas production. They are part of the clique of powerful Wall Street monopolists who dominate the country’s economic and political life. These multi-millionaire industrialists contributed with complete impartiality to both capitalist parties. One du Pont gave $43,000 to the Republican Party. Another gave $178,000 to the Democratic Party. One handed $147,000 to Rocsevelt’s political machine; another at the same time found it advisable to hand out large sums to the Republicans. Nothing could better illustrate the complete way in which the Wall Street industrialists dominate and hire both capitalist parties as their servants and agents. Their “contributions” to Roosevelt's party have produced rich dividends for the du Ponts. The in- vestment in Reoseyeli has paid them very good returns in the past year or so. Thanks to Roosevelt's N.R.A.-New Deal policies in the chemical and auto industries, the du Ponts reaped $38,728,000 in net profits during the past nine months compared with a net profit of $26,437,000 last year, almost a 50 per cent profit increase in nine months of the N.R.A.! Not bad for the du Ponts! Is it any wonder then thatthe. spokesman for these Wall Strect munition kings, Pierre S. cu Pont, chairman of the Board of Directors of the duPont | Company, should talk as follows of Rocs2velt and his polici went to Washington thinking that the N.R.A. was an upsetting influence in business and labor conditiens. I confess that I have been com- pletely converted,” What Wall Street capitalist wouldn’t be con- verted by a $38,000,000 profit? The meaning of this is clear. Roosevelt, like Hoover before him, are nothing but tools of their class, the capitalist class, Today, in the elections, as in the daily fights against the employers, it is the working class against | the capitalist class, class against class. The Communist Perty does not get “contribu- tions” from the duPents. It is the revolutionary party of the working class, organizing the fight against just such exnioiters as the du Ponts, and fighting to end for good the rule of these parasites who get fat on the slaughter of imperialist war. Vote Communist! For the Communists who bitterly fought | Party Lif ——_—-- Pee SY We Must Avoid | The Pitfalls of Adventurism | By SAM STEIN | IONSTRATIVE actions sepa- | rated from the masses and not built up by the necessary prelimi- nary work—in ‘short, adventuristic | actions—invariably fail to achieve | |the object in view. | However, in our desire ‘to avoid) |the pitfalls of adventurism, we) must be careful not to veer into the | |swamp of right opportunism which | jexpresses itself in underestimation of the willingness of the masses to struggle. Profiting by our experiences from the past, through Bolshevik self- criticism and analysis of the imme- diate situation confronting us, we (must learn to distinguish between bold, militant action of a high or- |der under certain favorable circum- | stances and adyenturistic action of a foolhardy nature under unfavor- able circumstances. The following review of two ac- tions in Cleveland against Jim- Crowism and a demonstration in |Toledo against the imprisonment of an anti-fascist worker will, I be- lieve, clearly illustrate these points: In Cleveland some time ago a Ne- |gro worker was refused service in a restaurant. Thereupon the Y. C, L. took up the matter. One day dur-ng |the busiest hour in the restaurant, a@ group of Y. C. L.’ers came into} |the place and ordered some food. | Working according to the plan of | action which was drawn up, a Ne- |gro comrade entered. He was re- fused service. The group seated at the table, at this signal, arose, shouting and demanding that the Negro worker be waited on. What- ever handy objects the comrades | could lay their hands on they seized and threw at the walls and mirrors. Chapin’s restaurant, on guard be- cause of some previous protests against its jim-crow policies, had employed a number of thugs to sti-| |fle. exactly such actions. These |hoodlums leaped upon the comrades | |who were greatly outnumbered and beat them. Arrests followed. What | were the results of this action? 1) | Jim-crowism was not smashed. 2) A} number of the comrades were tem- | porarily demoralized by this set- |back, 3) The people in the icsvau- rant eating, were antagonized |rather than drawn closer to us by |the manner in which the action | was carried out. Here we see a clear case of ad- jventurism—substitution of an indi- vidualist form of action for mass action—isolation of the struggle |from the masses—an attempt to | |carry through an action under un- | favorable circumstances considering |the balance of forces. |] HO GALLAGHER, I. L, D. attor- ney, in Cleveland with Mother Wright on National tour, was beat- |en up by the manager of Mills Res- \taurant when he insisted that she be served. The I. L. D. correctly responded to this act by issuing 20,000 leaflets calling for the work- Jers to demonstrate before the Mills restaurant. An explanation of what is behind the policy of Jim-crowism was given in the leaflet. On a three | days’ mobilization over 800 workers answered the I. L. D. appeal and |demonstrated before the very door |of the restaurant. Over 5,000 peo- ple witnessed the demonstration and had the issues brought before them. Backed by the mass protest |of the thousands on the outside, a | committee entered and after a half \hour compelled the management to immediately give service to the Ne- gro people. More than twenty were served within the next hour. At a Free Thaelmann demonstra- tion in Toledo a worker was ar- rested by Sheriff deputies and lodged in the County Jail. He was |charged with tying a free Thael- mann sign on a statue in Court House Square. Just before the ar- |rest took place, one of the speakers jhad completed a talk on the mass defense policy of the I. L. D. The committee in charge decided to call upon the workers to march to the County jail to demand the release of the arrested worker. Of the 600 workers present almost all without exception paraded to the jail, | shouting slogans, “Free Brother Bu- chanan” (the name of the arrested worker), “Free Ernst Thaelmann,” “Free all anti-fascist prisoners.” The jail gate was swung open and |the workers marched right into the |jail yard, flush up against the jail and demonstrated directly under- neath the cell windows. A commit- tee entered the jail and presented its demand that the worker be re- leased. Within 20 minutes he was set free. 0. the surface the call of the lead- ers to march to the jail appears \to be an act of adventurism consid- ering the demonstrators were not prenared for such a turn of events |and therefore had no organized de- |fense committee. 2) The workers |the rest of Lucas County. Mayor | Klotz, former Socialist, now Repub- \lican, at the same time also was | the recipient of much of the work- ers’ indignation in Toledo because marched right up the very heart of the capitalist terror system, a ver- itable arsenal, in comparatively small numbers. The leaders of the dem- onstration took all this into con- sideration and more too. Sheriff | Krieger, whose deputies murder- |ously assaulted the workers picket- ing the Auto-lite plant in Toledo's historic struggle at this time was the focusing point of the indigna- tion of the workers in Toledo and |of the police action at the Auto-lite plant. A recall movement against Klotz was under way at this time, backed by the Toledo papers, based on charges of inefficiency, ete. The steering committee taking cogni- zance of this felt that the Sheriff and Mayor at this time should not risk further impairment of their pres- tige and the heightened indignation of the workers of Toledo, by at- Ponegeg an anti-fascist demonstra- ion. We will deal sledge-hammer blows at the capitalist system and gain |victory after victory for the work- ing class by working militantly, fol- \lowing the correct line, avoiding the morass of right opportunism and at the same time keeping clear of ad- turisaee | VOTE COMMUNIST—AND VOTE FOR YOURSELF! Burek will give the original drawing of his cartoon to the highest contributor ea ch 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 Medieal Advisory Board, Ann Barton, David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. QUOTA—$1,000. Jack London Club, Elizabeth, N. J. .... $ 4.00 AFL Leaders in Elections Again Prove Foes of Workers By CARL REEVE (Continued from Page 1) labor drive which is the principal concern of the employers’ boards—the N, R. A. boards. The A. F. of L, leaders have endorsed Demo- cratic Party candidates right and left. They have reecntly issued statements endorsing democratic congressional candidates in batches of a half dozen. The lynch party of the South has the complete en- dorsement of the Green bureaucracy. The Roose- velt party, which is trying to outlaw strikes and is spokesman for the bankers and employers in cut- ting unemployment relief and-cutting wages by means of its “arbitration” boards, is fully supported by William Green and Co. The A. F. of L. official- dom of Alabama brazenly supports the Democratic Ku Klux Klan candidate for governor in the pri- maries (a pal of Roosevelt). But the A. F. of L. is “non-partisan” when it comes’ to support of the employers’ candidates. Joseph Ryan, president of the International Long- shoermen's Association and Green henchman, boasts publicly of his adherence of the Tammany Hall ma- chine (in which he is a not unimportant cog). But the A. F. of L. leaders, including Ryan, to show their “non-partisan” nature, also support Mc- Goldrick, Republican-Fusion candidate for controller in New York, and support La Guardia, Republican Mayor of New York. They endorsed La Guardia, who has slashed unemployment relief, cut city em- ployes’ wages, helped break the taxi strike, and set up a police rifle regiment to break strikes. The Republican Party itself supports all the anti-labor acts of the New Deal. Green and the Socialist Leaders Green’s “non-partisan” policy extends to all the other parties which support the employers’ pro- gram. As an example of the close alliance between the Green machine and the Socialist Party leaders, Green supported the election of David Dubinsky, leading Socialist, as a new member of the A. F. of L, executive council at the recent convention. Not only that but a general get-together of Socialist Party and A. F. of L. leaders was held at a meeting in the Socialist headquarters, the Rand School, We find on the same platform Louis Waldman, New York leader of the Socialist Party; Chester Wright, Green's publicity man; B. C. Vladeck, editor of the Socialist Forwaerts; Francis Gorman, who sold out the textile strike and Green henchman, and other A. F. of L. and Socialist Party leaders. They united on a common program—that of acceptance of Roose- velt's “truce” and prevention of the spreading tex- tile strike against discrimination and wage cutting. The united front of the Green leadership in the election campaign (and at all times) is a broad one. All agents of the employers are represented, The New Leader is conducting a campaign to prove that Green’s policies are progressive, after all. Such headlines as “A. F. of L, fights fascism,” are rife in the New Leader. The New Leader is straining to convince the workers that the recent Green-con- trolled A, F. of L. convention was “a forward step.” Enter the Lovestoneites Here the Lovestoneites, those anti-working class elements of whom the Communist Party purged it- self in 1929, enter the picture. Not only has a large slice of the Lovestoneite group (Gitlow, Zam, et al) just made known their adherence to the So- cialist Party. For a long time the Lovestoneite group have been staunch supporters of Green in the trade unions. They are carrying through Green’s red scare of expulsion of militants in the silk union (U.T.W.) in Paterson (Eli Keller); in the dyers’ union (U.T.W.) in New Jersey (Jack Rubinstein, now admitting his adherence to the Second Inter- national). In the United Shoe and Leather Work- ers’ Union (independent) they are carrying on a red scare and trying to drag this union iv‘o the small and reactionary A. F. of L. Boot and Shoe Union (I. Zimmerman), In the LL.G,.W.U., 8. Z.m- mezman, Lovestoneite, helped elect Dubincky, Green's colle2gue, as president of thet mien. Z-p- merman’s whole group voting for Dubinsky, and Zimmerman graciously accepting the post as v. President of the union from the Dubinsky machine. Muste Inches In The picture of this “non partisan” united front of Green would be incomplete without mention of Robert Cole (gets cartoon) » 5.00 J. Matuza . + 100 Williams ... « 149 Previously received . » 108.07 Total to date ......seeeeeeeee. $119.56 the Trotskyists, One need only note that in thé Minneapolis Central Labor Council, Grant Dunne, Trotskyite leader of the Teamsters’ local, recently | seconded a motion to thank Governor Olson for his “help” to the striking teamsters. Olson, Farmer- Laborite, manifested this help by placing the city under martial law, prohibiting picket lines, run- ning scab trucks with his guardsmen, and raiding union headquarters. A. J, Muste, leader of the “American Workers Party” group, gives his mite of encouragement and approval to Green. He writes an article in last week's New Republic, entitled, “The A. F. of L. Inches Left.” Like the Socialist Party and Love- stoneite leaders, Muste also adds his encourage- ment to Green, He plays up the decision to create Vertical unions in cement, aluminum and auto as | a big victory for industrial unionism, He completely suppresses the clauses in this same resolution placing the unions directly under Green’s control and also eliminates the clauses which praise craft unionism | and reiterate indorsement of the craft union prin- ciples. He gives Green’s red scare a boost, speak- ing of, “a possibly justifiable campaign against some of the official"Communist Party tactics in the trade union field.” He covers this policy over with mild “criticism.” A. F. of L. members should give thought. to the fact that the Green bureaucracy and its satellites— Socialist leaders, Lovestoneites, Trotskyists, Muste- ites, étc—in their non-partisan policy, all single | out the Communist Party for attack. The Green machine supports Republican, Socialist and Demo- cratic candidates only. For the Communist Party they evince unreserved hatred. They try. to drive the Communists out of the trade union movement. The Green officialdom knows that they cannot put over the employers’ program of no strike, no fight, cooperation with employers, folded hands while the employers cut wages and smash unions— unless they suppress the militant rank and file fight- ers in the trade unions. The Communist Party, the only party of the working class, is the only ‘party supporting the | program of the A. F. of L. Rank and File Commit- tee. The Communist Party is the only party car- rying on a class struggle program in the trade unions—a program of rank and file control of the unions in order to carry forward the fight for bet- ter wages, shorter hours, union recognition, against company unions and wage cuts, and for all the elementary rights of the workers, including the right to strike and organize. The Communist Party is the only party that | exposes the sell-out policy of the Green bureau- cracy (for example, the Gorman textile sell-out). It is the party which originated and which fights unreservedly for passage of the Workers’ Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill H. R. 7598. The Communist Party declares that the employers and the workers have nothing in common, that only a fight against the policies of the employers, their government boards, and their agents in the ranks of labor, the A. F. of L. misleaders, will win better conditions for the workers. The Communist Party is the only party which carries forward the campaign for the complete unity and solidarity of the working class in the fight for its demands and rights. Against thé united front of the employers, the government, and the A. F, of L. bureaucrats, the Communist Party puts forward the united front of the workers, regardless of union affiliation, to defeat the employers’ wage cutting, union smashing attack, and to win bev- ter conditions. i A. F. of L. and Socialist workers! Vote Commu- nist and defeat the red scare of Green and the employers! Maintain the unity of the workers! Vote Communist and hit hard at the no-strike truce of Roosevelt and Green, which means a free hand fo¥ the anti-labor drive of the bosses and their government! Vcte Communist, for the Rank and File pro- gram in the A. F. of L, unions—for development of strikes and struggles for better conditions! Vote Oommunist—for Rank and File control of the trade unions! Vote Communist—Join the Communist Party! | the. latest type. World Front By HARRY GANNES Roosevelt Gov’t at War E | New Planes to China * es Roosevelt government is at war against the Chi- nese Soviets. This war, like the Japanese war in Man- churia, has not been officially declared. It is carried on in secret, and behind the mask of Chiang Kai Shek. But the fact re mains, the mainstay of the present war by the Chiang Kai Shek’s |forces against the Chinese Soviets is the American military assistance, chiefly in the form of bombing plenes and skilled military aviators, For weeks, now, the American publication in China, “The China Weekly Review,” has been adver- tising the arrival of the Boeing Type P-26 fighter, “the fastest and most formidable pursuit plane ever seen in this part of the world.” The plane has already arrived in China, And with it on the S. 8, President Grant on October 2 came Edward Dorsey, who had been given ‘a short leave” by the U. S. War Department, “to demonstrate in China the new type of military tac- ties of which this airplane is capable.” Te Roosevelt government, which has fostered the supplying of bombing planes to Chiang Kai Shek for war against the Chinese Soviets, “Practically all the planes in Kiangsi (for use against the Chi- nese Soviets) are of American manufacture,” writes Stuart Lil- lico, an American newspaperman, in his article, “Warfare in Red China” (“Current History,” Oc- tober, 1934). “At the airdrome in Nancheng, which is used as the base of operations in this cam- paign, twelve light bombers are stationed. Nancheng, further to the rear, has about twenty, and at Hangchow, near Shanghai, seventy more are reported ready for action as soon as pilots are available. Each light plane car- ries ten bombs in racks under the wings and has a machine gun mounted at the back ‘of the ob- server’s cockpit.” _ 8 8 ILOTS, says Mr. Lillico, “are trained by American instructors, at the government aviation school at Hangchow, and usually are sent to the front immediately on gradu- ation.” ‘In this manner, the Roosevelt government not only provides Chiang Kai Shek with the ma- chines of mass destruction and murder, but with the U.S. Army trained instructors to teach the Chinese aviators how to use. them against Soviet villages and the Red Army, “The planes,” continues Mr. Lil- lico, “have literally become the backbone of the anti-Communist drive.” * Hence, the Roosevelt government | is literally ihe backbone of the war against the Chinese Soviets. eg e . H bas Senate Arms Inquiry brought | out the fact that the $40,000,000 4 so-called wheat and cotton loan granted by the Roosevelt regime to the Chiang Kai Shek government was used entirely for the purchase of war materials. Most of this | money is going to the American air- plane manufacturers for fighting planes, instructors, airplane bombs, poison gas and machine guns for war against the Chinese Soviets. The latest Boeing Type P-26 fighting plane is specifically de- signed for fighting against the Chi- nese Soviets and the Red Army. “This fighter,” says the China | Weekly Review, “is equipped with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine of supercharged to 500 h. p at 11,000 feet altitude. Its performance is unexcelled by any standard type fighter,.since it has a top speed of 235 miles per hour and it can climb to 10,000 feet alti- tude in only 4% minutes, One of the most outstanding features is its remarkable range, which is over 1,100 miles. The range is accom- plished without the use of special or additional fuel tanks.” eg te IN the air, Chiang Kai Shek has the assistance of the best Ameri- — can military specialists; on land, of the Nazi military experts. Yet, despite these tremendous forces of imperialism and of the 1,000,000 troops of the butcher Chiang Kai Shek, the Red Armies of China have been able to achieve some great victories in Szechuan, Kweichow and other provinces. The new planes sent from the U. S. to aid Chiang Kai Shek are for a con- centrated drive on the Central So- viet districts in Kiangsi. The Red Armies there are puting up a heroic battle against the greatest odds. o 4 o little against it. Wha‘ done to fight against the ment of these planes to kill our brothers in China? What have we done to expose and fight our own imperialists, who are the most | dcadly fighters and enemies of | the Chinese Soviets? The slogan “Defend the Chi- Contributions recelved to the credit of Harry Gannes in his So- cialist competition with. Del, Mike Gold, the Medical Advisory Board, ‘Ann Barton, Jacob Burck and David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000, Quot2—s500. M. Cook ... Cc, Cook . 1.00 K. Urba ... 50 Previously received +. 1017 Total to date ...,....8112.6% | Mainstay of Anti-Red War 4