The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1934, Page 8

Page & DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1934 Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 56 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address: “I P Washington Bu Press Building, e: National 7910. th and F St., ¥ Midwest Bureau Telephone: 105, Chicago, Ii. Dearbo: except 1 year, $6.00; , $3.50; 3 0.75 cents. axa 1 r, $9.00; $5.00: 3 m Week SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3. ——————————SoeeE™ McLevy’s Policies T IS a certainty that militant Socialist * workers will not condone the new wave of arrests which is sweeping Bridgeport where the Socialist Mayor, Jasper Mc- Levy, is in office. Following the recent arrest of six yorkers who dared to picket the meeting where a Hitler agent, Nazi consul-general of New York, was speaking, comes the news that the Bridgeport police have seized three more workers for the “crime” of distributing Communist election literature on the streets. There is not a Socialist worker, who in his own experience has not met this same capitalist policy of trampling on civil rights, always justified by the government as “violating a city ordinance,” or some other flimsy pretext. These phrases in every city, and in Bridgeport as well, cover reactionary policies with legal tech- nicalities. The Socialist Mayor shows himself to be no different from any other servant of the em- ployers. The police censorship of the distribution of work- ing-class literature menaces Socialist and Commu- nist workers alike. Certainly the policy of McLevy is no different from that of any other capitalist Mayor. Certainly it is a matter for serious con- sideration by Socialist rank and file workers that a leading official of their party is instrumental in ar- resting workers for distributing working-class litera- ture in the streets. Today it is Communist literature—but tomor- row it will be all working-class literature, Socialist and Communist, that will be under the police ban. Against this reactionary censorship which paves the way for fascism, all workers, Socialist and Com- munist, united in one class front must fight with unceasing vigilance. + * . McLevy’s record in office has been a long series of reactionary deeds in the interests of the employers and reaction. He has appointed leading industrial- ists, like George N. Ames, to office. He welcomed the fascist pogrom murderer, General Joseph Hal- ler, to the Bridgeport City Hall. He countenanced several police attacks on anti-fascist meetings, club- bing the workers who protest the arrival of the Nazi ship captain Scharf and the Nazi Consul Hans Borchers. He blocked all attempts to investi- gate charges of corruption in the City Welfare De- partment. To pay the bankers he announced that all job- less will have their cash relief stopped and would get “commodity relief.” He helped to break the strike of the relief workers. He has persistently refused to permit anti-fascist meetings. He has given the Bridgeport police full authority to attack work- ing class meetings against fascism. We are sure that Socialist Party rank and file dates of the Socialist and Socialist-Labor Parties. They presented only a few thousand petitions, could not meet the legal requirements, but nevertheless they were put on the ballot The Associated Press quotes Horner as saying: ‘Since they (the petitions of the S. P. and S. L. P.) have been prepared in good faith by thousands of Illinois citizens, we do not feel justified in denying them the right to express their convictions.” But tens of thousands of citizens are to be denied the opportunity of expressing their protest against the hunger and war program of the New Deal through the brazen outlawing of the Communist Party from the ballot Workers and farmers of Illinois, defeat this maneuver of the Horner machine which deprives you of your constitutional rights of legal petition and freedom to vote for candidates of your own choice. The Communist Party calls upon all of you to write in the names of all the Communist candi- ates on the ballot in the election on Tuesday. Vote Communist! Defeat the capitalist discrim- nation against the workers’ and farmers’ party! Pack Madison Square ! VERY worker, every trade union and Socialist Party member, should take his place this Sunday at the Madison Square Garden meeting in protest at the bloody attack which Governor Lehman launched against the jobless workers marching into Albany on Tuesday. This meeting, the final election rally of the Com- munist Party, will witness thousands of New York workers and sympathizers gathered to denounce the terrorism of Lehman against the jobless, and to demand immediate, adequate cash relief and un- employment insurance, At this meeting Israel Amter, Communist can- didate for Governor, who is now in Albany, will lead the hunger marchers delegation into the meet- ing, where these class fighters will give first hand accounts of the ambush attack at the bridge lead- ing into Albany. ‘Phe Madison Square Garden should be jammed to overflowing. We especially invite and urge all Socialist Party workers to attend. Every militant worker should add his voice to this protest at the reactionary attacks of the employers and their legislative agents against the New York working class. To Madison Square Garden, Sunday at one o'clock! Another Step to Joint Action! IGHT in the heart of the coal and steel counties of Ohio, where the Steel Trust rules with open terrorism, Socialist and Communist workers are clasping hands in united front. The local Socialist group has agreed to support the State Communist Party ticket and the Communist Party in Trumbull county has agreed to support the local Socialist Party ticket. This is the answer of the workers in Trumbull County, Ohio, to the recent reactionary ruling wip- ing the Socialist Party off the state ticket and the Communist Party off the local county ticket. They join hands in defense of their common, elementary, democratic rights. They join hands to fight the ap- proach of fascism in the United States, which pro- veeds through just such trampling on civil rights. This united action in defense of elementary demo- cratic rights right in the heart of American capital- ism’s basic industry, will give the steel and coal barons a great deal to worry about. But it will warm and inspire the heart of every class-conscious worker, Socialist and Communist, in the country. Party Life | A Few Suggestions | |For Improving | | Election Campaign | "VE listened to many speakers of |i the Communist Party, and here jare mistakes that are generally| |made by everyone of them. The} speakers on the street corners will speak about everything in the world but will not explain what Commu- jnism is. I am a building trades worker, so that I shift my jobs frequently and therefore I can get an idea what the average worker's idea of Communism is. I’ve worked | for four bosses since April, The| Javerage worker thinks that Com- | munism is a state of things where jall means of production and means | |of consumption are divided equally | amongst everybody and that looks | ridiculous to them. Why shouldn't | the speaker on the street corner state and define Communism? | Another fault is the, failure some- | times to get a large crowd of lis-| |teners, especially on the busy cor- ‘ners of 170th St. and Walton Ave.,| Bronx, despite the loud speakers. | Other speakers from other parties | |like the Socialist or Industrial | Union League do get large crowds, | due to the regularity of their meet- | ings. Why can’t Unit 22, Section |5, which is functioning in that ter- lritory, have its meetings regularly ' ‘on the same night of the week, as other parties do. The cause of the success of their meetings is that |their adherents and sympathizers know that on that night their party is speaking. Our sympathizers feel the same way. Especially is it de- sirable to have open-air meetings on Friday or Saturday nights, be- cause on the next morning most workers do not work, so that they can stay out later. That would also |give a chance for our committee in charge as well as other comrades to finish the job begun by the speakers. It is a habit for comrades to leave the meeting after it is ad- journed, thus giving a chance all opposing elements to destroy all fa- vorable impression left on them by the official speakers. I, a Party member, and belonging to a concentration unit, Unit 26, Section 5, cannot do anything about | it. See to it that the sections in-| struct their units and members to correct these shoricomings. Time is valuable. The polls are near. So please hurry. HE Central Committee has asked us to write about our experi- ences in recruiting. Without hesi: tation our section commi:tee says | that the Daily Worker is the best advance guard in our fight for a Bolshevik Party. In our section we have a steel mill with 1,200 workers. We were wondering how we could start work within, when we were fortunate | enough to locate a worker in the | mill who has read the Daily Worker for two years. We found him a ready and willing Communist, and promptly signed him up. Within a | week we organized a shop unit of five, all of whom have been read- | ing the old copies of the Daily} Worker given to them by our first contact. Here is another recent experi- ence. One of the steel comrades | bought a copy of “Women Who Work,” a first class pamphlet. The | comrade gave the pamphlet to a> woman silk worker who is an ac- | tive leader in a newly organized |local of the United Textile Work- | ers’ Union. The next time our} comrade saw her, she told him that | ‘she had subscribed to the Working Woman, which was advertised in VOTE COMMUNIST! Burck will give the original drawing of Gannes, “del,” the Medical Advisoi Barton, David Ramsey, in the Dail, for $60,000. QUOTA—$1,909. his Mike Wassuk Gold, Harry ry Board, Ann ly Worker drive Total to date T. R, Weeks (Gets Cartoon) ese Previously received by Burck cartoon 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 5.00 + 170.57 $176.07 Cantonal Elections in France Deal Sharp Blow to Forces of Fascism ® By PAUL GREEN cantonal elections, which oc- curred on the 7th and 14th of | | October, respectively, dealt a blow | | to the fascist forces in France. The | | cantonal elections are no: national elections. However, they are na-j tional in the sense that all over France “General Councils” are be- ing elected for the different de- partments. On Oct. 8, that is to say, when the results of the first ballot were | known, the New York Times | pointed out that the United Front had received a crushing blow. The results of the first ballot are not, | as a rule, the criterion for the first ballo:, although even the first bal- lot did not warrant the remarks made by the New York Times. The second ballot, that is to say, the one held on Oct. 14, is the de- cisive and final outcome. We were nist representatives before the 1934! election, and not 17, as Minister Marchandeau The planation, just as was the case of Doumergue himself around 1913, in economy. }man fascism is only | story, reports. 10 ; other places still, because it was in Communists were re-elected and in! reality and without doubt, “left” addition 24 more Communists won. | The to‘al then is now 34. If we consider the fact that tens of thousands of French workers voted | for the Communist candidates, even | though they were not elected be: cagise the ruling class does not wish proportional representation, we can | immediately realize the importance | of this election and the significance of a United Front among the work- ing class. No wonder the New York Times shut up like a clam, You see, it, too, like some of the bour- | geois papers in France, counted its chickens before they were hatched. That the success of the United Front is evident will be readily seen when we give you the com- It means that in those places where the United Front was not yet in full force, or where the Com- | munist Party did not have the mili- | tant forces to educate the rank and file of the radical-Socialists, the radical-Socialists were able to win| by sheer trickery—using the label “de gauche’—meaning “the left wing.” However, it shows that the rank | and file is for the United Front. The proof lies in the tens of thou- sands of votes cast for ihe Commu- nist Party. “Le Temps,” the Steel | Trust and semi-official organ, puts it in the following manner: “Radicalism [meaning the Rad- | World Front —— By HARRY GANNES Hitler Issues the Order “Full Speed Ahead for War!” Empire Confab in France ELENTLESSLY, the Hitler machine is driving to war, All of German economy has been transferred into war The whole political program of the fascists, in- ternally and externally, is |toward war as the only “solution” of the ever-mounting catastrophic crisis. The recent reports of the French press of the rapid arming of Ger- part of the war-plans for Seizure of the Saar, though the most immediate plans, is only a fragment of the war plans. Whether it’s the assassination of King Alex- ander, or the Japanese-~German anti-Soviet treaty, the major news from Germany is the ominous news of rapidly approaching war. We have just received some ine formation on the extent of the war preparations. An examination of German economy at the present time shows that all branches of industry and commerce are now functioning as if fascist Germany were already at war. All of the basic industries are being speeded up for the production of war ma- terial, while exports are declining precipitously. Consumption is drop- ping while production goes up. Where does the produced material The Hitler |go? One of the answers to this secret is given by the 500,000,000 marks spent for “underground work.” . . * ‘HIS underground work consists in building subterranean air ports, fortifications, gas defense, dugouts, and cement trenches. These works are going on at feverish speed in East Prussia, Silesia, Saxony and on the northern and western frontiers of Germany. In order to supply fuel for the gigantic secret air forces being built up in Germany the Hitler govern- ment has allotted 100,000,000 marks for a huge plant for liquefying brown coal. Immense sums have been spent experimenting on boring for oil, which up to now has not produced any results. ‘HE iron, steel and rolling mill in- dustry has increased over 50 per cent in Hitler’s reign, while the ex- port of these products has dropped tremendously. The rush is accounted for, almost exclusively, by the production of airplanes, gunbarrcls, machine-guns, tanks and other war instruments. While the Hitler regime is cone fronted with a financial cris‘s, cut~ ting off the major import of coms modities, especially food and cloth~ ing, the raw materials needed for war are imported in greater quan- tities than ever. The Hitler gov- ernment can find plenty of money to pay for the increased import of cotton, wool, leather, copper, and other minerals. The cotton imports, for example, which, in the first half of 1934 amounted to 2,415,000 duole cent- ners, compared to 2,307,000 double centners in the pre-crisis year of 1928, do not go into the production of goods for the market. With this huge increase in raw cotton import there has been a decline of 30 per cent in textile production. The Hit- ler government is using it for gun= cotton and storing it for army uni< | the pamphlet. This brings me to an important | problem in our work. Many com- | | ical-Socialist Party—P. G.] would |be wrong to neglect ihe discreet | warning which the electors just workers are not in agreement with such actions and policies. We are sure that they are willing to clasp looking for reports on the latter. | ments of a few representative Not a word appeared. We won- | forms and for other war purposes, French bourgeois papers. iy s . The joint statement, signed by both local or- hands with their class comrades for the defense of the elementary rights of free speech and press, for the struggle against imperialist war and the ad- vance of fascist reaction in this country. We urge unity of all workers against anti-work- ing class actions as Jasper McJevy is pursuing in Bridgeport. We urge all workers, seeing these anti- working class policies of a Soeialist in office, to vote Communist on November 6th! To Strikers! RE you one of the thousands of work- ers on strike for decent conditions? Are you one of those militantly picketing for higher wages, against speedup and for union recognition? If you are, you realize that during the last two years the Roosevelt Newe Deal, through the N.R.A., has reduced your living standards, and attacked your union. To those workers now on strike against the bosses’ anti-union wage-cut: drive, the Communist Party in- vites you to join its ranks. There are thirty thou- sand dye workers alone on strike. Thousands more in almost every city, are striking. You workers who are battling for better conditions know that the Daily Worker and the Communists are in the front ranks of your fight. Every strike where there are Communists, is that much stronger by their presence. Every strike which has in its ranks members of the Communist Party is more militant. Strikers should join the Communist Party and fight for a militarf policy inside the A. F. of L. unions, for a bold strike policy against the Roosevelt-Green “truce” plan. Vote Communist in Illinois JN ILLINOIS the Communist candidates were thrown off the ballot by a special electoral board with the approval of Goy- ernor Horner, although all the legal re- quirements were met on time and several thousand more petitions were filled than the 25,000 required by law. The electoral board carrying out the anti-work- ing class policy of New Deal Governor Horner dis- qualified enough petitions to reduce the number to just below the necessary 25,000, The Communists were thrown off the ballot through this legalistic trickery, because the Horner machine knew that the leadership of the Communist Party of the struggles of the workers for relief and better conditions had convinced tens of thousands of workers that the Party should be supported at the polls. The swindle is all the more apparent, if we con- trast it with the treatment accorded to the candi- é ‘ ganizations, makes it very plain that this unity at the polls is based on unity in the daily struggles against wage cuts, terrorism, open shop conditions, and for unemployment relief. This unity at the polis was born out of united action in daily strug- gle. This is the lesson that the workers of Trum- bull County haye learned, The action of the workers in Ohio in taking joint action against the fascist-reactionary measures of the steel trust agents, against the daily menace of wage cuts and starvation, for unemployment re- lief, should spur a growing struggle to weld the ranks of the workers against all capitalist attacks. Finish by December 1st! EN weeks after the Daily Worker drive for $60,000 began, half the quota has been raised—a little more than $30,000. This should be sufficient to convince the most skeptical that, given the neces- sary determination on the part of the districts of the Party and the sympathetic organizations, it is possible to bring the financial drive of the “Daily” to a successful conclusion in a comparatively short time. The past two weeks, especially, have shown that support for the maintenance of the Daily Worker can be obtained providing that the campaign is not relaxed. During the week of Oct. 19-26 the sum of $5,700 was raised, while during the following week $5,024 came in from the various districts. Only one district—Philadelphia—has thus far gone over the top in its quota. Chicago has ob- tained 41 per cent of its quota, Detroit 40 per cent, Cleveland 50 per cent, and New York 51 per cent. Great struggles are looming in every section of the country. In these struggles the Daily Worker is indispensable, as the fighting leader and organizer of the workers. We urge all comrades, all Party units and workers’ organizations to put efforts behind the $60,000 drive for the “Daily.” Work to secure the existence and improvement of the paper by intensifying the drive for the $30,000 that must still be raised to obtain the full quota! Let us all strive to complete the full $60,000 quota by December 1st! Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. ADDRESS. . rades complain that they are ham- | | Pered in their Party work by nag- ging wives. These comrades should stop blaming their wives and in- | stead do something cons‘ructive, jsuch as getting her a copy of the Working Woman, and trying to draw her into the movement. M.58., Section Organizer in Pennsylvania. Dye Strikers Win Picketing Right (Continued from Page 1) for a union card, he showed his badge, and the door captain told him that this does not count here. His attempt to gain entrance was greeted with tremendous furor thru- out the hall, and brought forth shouts of curses against the police. One of the workers, speaking from the platform, declared, “We pay good money for this hall and we have a right to hold a meeting without these guys around.” Evidently, the workers are not in agreement with the president of the local, Ammirato, who stated that the police are‘the workers’ best friends. The officials now see them- selves being defeated in their at- tempt to raise the red scare in the strikers’ ranks. The workers have shown today a friendlier reception to the sellers of the Daily Worker than ever be- fore. Union officials, among whom are some Lovestonites, now applicants for Socialist Party membership, have arranged to have Norman Thomas speak before the strikers tomorrow morning. Thomas is on an election tour and is getting wide publicity in the capitalist press. On a previous occasion, when Moe Brown, Communist Candidate for Governor of New Jersey, asked to greet the strikers, he was refused by the officials. The Communist Party pointed out to the strikers that these officials are attempting to utilize their position to campaign for the Socialist Party, while Brown, who by his leadership of the dye strike in 1933 actually laid the foundation for the fine organization they have now, is not even per- mitted by the officials to greet the workers. All the workers know Moe Brown as a textile worker who has been continually taking part in their struggles. A leaflet issued by the Commu- dered why the New York Times, which reports all the news “that’s | fit to print,” failed to report on the | second ballot. It seems that when the United Front of the Commu- nists and Socialists, in spite of the fact that there is no proportional representation and in spite of the handicaps of the United Front, ie., lack of radio facilities, lack of funds and also the fact that they were not represented in all depart- ments (States), was able to defeat the fascist forces, the New York Times did not consider that as “news fit to print.” We have before us the official figures of the election. According | to the Minister of the ‘Interior, | Marchandeau, 34 Communists were elected and 115 Socialists. The of- ficial statistics state that before the election (1934) there were 115 So- | cialists and 17 Communists whose | term expired at this election. If we look again at the official statis- tics of 1928 (the last election) we find 125 Socialisis and 16 Commu- nists. Now it can readily be seen that there is a certain discrepancy. ai Saal THAT is this discrepancy? The facts are as follows: About 20 | Socialists. among those elected in| 1928 left the Socialist Party of | France since the reorganization of the S. P. of France. As a conse- quence there were only 105 Social- | ist representatives before the 1934 | election, and not 115 as stated by the Minister of the Interior, which means again for the S. P. of 13 new representatives. The Commu- nist Party platform stipulated that | at the elections—in case at the first ballot the Socialist candidate is the most favored one, the Communist Party will forego its candidate and throw its weight to the Socialist candidate, and, if the contrary) should be the case, the 8. P. will throw its weight to the Communist candidate. As the result of this United Front, the S. P. not only did not lose but increased their | representation. Of the 16 Communists elected to office in 1928, 6 left the Party; two in the Department of Aube, 1 from Var, 1 from Seine-et-Oise; 1 from Allier and 1 from Seine-Inferieure, There were, therefore, 10 Commu- Here is the popular “Le Petit Parisien”: It is necessary that we note that in certain departments, especially in the Northern’ part of France, the Socialist-Communist contingent is especially favorable to Marcel Cachin’s Party [Marcel Cachin is the editor of the official Communist organ, “L’Humanite’— P.G.]. M. Daniel-Vincent,. who was Minister several times, was de- feated, which fact caused conster- nation in the political ranks of Flandre.” | Here is an avowal on the part of a popular bourgeois paper, which not only acknowledges the effec- tiveness of the United Front of the proletariat but shows as well the) fear which such successes cause among the capitalist class. * “Le Journal,” another popular’) bourgeois paper, says: “The con-} junction of the Socialist and Com- | munist votes has assured the United Front rather marked successes at Pas-de Calais and in the Depart- ment du Nord... .” | An important outcome of this | election is the loss of seats of the radical-Socialist Party—the party of Herriot. Its platform is a con- fused one. The leaders of this party exerted all their energies to combat and slander the United Front of the working class, and they lent their full support to the | Doumergue-Tardieu decree-law gov- ernment (somewhat like the N. R. A.). Herriot, the leader of the radical-Socialist group, and others | of the same party, are in the pres- | ent cabinet. Their demagogy and betrayal of their rank and file caused the loss of 19 seats, and, if we include the Independent Rad- icals, brothers under a different skin, the loss reaches to 43 seats in the General Councils. se aks arta 7 ERE is what the radical daily “L’Oeuvre” has to say about) the election: “This canton voted for the Rad- ical Party on the second ballot, not only because it claimed to be the party of Herriot and by this trick- ery, that of Doumergue. In other places, the Radical Party was voted for for the same local reasons, but also because it was stated to be of ‘the left,’ without further ex- | gave it. It is now, among all the parties, the one which has the most certain and immediate interest that electoral reforms be made on the basis of: proportional representa- tion [emphasis ours—P.G.].” What glaring hypocrisy! The fact is that if proportiomst representa- | tion were law—we mean propor- | tional representation without shoe- strings—as that advocated by the Communist Party, the result of} this election would tell a tale that | | even Mr. Doumergue and his lieu- tenants, Herriot, Marquet and Tar- diex, couldn’t laugh off. ss ee NOTHER factor which is worth while mentioning is that when the Communist Party of France published its election platform it} stipulated (because it earnestly meant to crush fascism and its al- lied forces) that should the com- bined forces fail to elect theit can- didate, they would forego their own candidate for a Radical-Socialist if he would openly repudiate the plat- form of his party—which is the support of the government of de- cree-laws, combat fascism and fight | for the United Front. Wherever | the Radical-Socialist candidate | took this stand, he was either elected because of the support of the United Front given him, or threw the weight of his candidacy to the -| candidate of the United Front. At | Meyzieux in Isere, the Radical- Socialist ‘candidate, representing | the Herriot group, abandoned his own party after the first ballot failed to bring him a majority of votes and threw his support to the united front of the Socialists and Communists, rather than enable a Tardieu candidate (a fascist can- didate) to get the vote. This caused the election of a Socialist, which shows that the fascists did not suc- ceed in ob‘aining the votes of this particular stratum in spite of their demagogy. It-also means that these strata need the activizing and the education of the Communist lead- ership in order to undo or to free the middle class and the peasantry from the poisoning influence which the Radical-Socialists and the other social-fascists have been injecting into'the minds of the rank and file. nist Party in Passaic, where Thomas is also scheduled to speak, states, after pointing out that the Socialist Party administration in Milwaukee and Bridgeport was not better than either the Republican or Demo- cratic administration, and that “Emil Rieve, leading member of the Socialist Party, president of the Full Fashion Hosiery Workers Union, ‘was one of the members of the Na- tional Strike Committee in Wash- ington with Gorman and McMahon.” “It was this National Strike Com- mittee which betrayed 500,000 tex- tile workers against Roose- Emil Rieve, the Socialist, supported this sell-out. Did the Socialist Party expel him for. this? No, in fact the Socialist Party fully supported Gor- man. In face of these simple facts, is the Socialist Party leadership de- fending the interests of the work- velt’s N.R.A. cotton code of $13. ing class?” 'HE production of aluminum has tripled, that of zinc doubled, of lead has increased by 20 per cent! At the same time, Hitler is mo- bilizing his armies for war, The French papers already report that the German army is now capable immediately of mobilizing 2,000,000 trained men for war service. Such preparations, in the present world situation, cannot go on for long without the world being ex- ploded into a new imperialist war, Even the probable date for such a war is drawing nearer—January 13, when the Saar plebiscite is supposed to take place. Whether it breaks out here, or in the Baltic, or on the Polish border, or on the French border, cannot be foretold; but that it will break out, and soon, unless fascism is destroyed, is beyond ques tion. * * . 'HE Doumergue government of France, aping the British impe- rialists, has called an imperial con- ference. It is trying to achieve, with its colonies, what the British achieved at the Ottawa conference, Representatives of Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Indo-China will come to Paris, and there discuss “empire” jtrade with France; monetary ques- tions, tariffs, ete. At the same time, the Doumergue government is utilizing the confer- ence to awaken chauvinist inter- est in the colonies so that more money can be spent for colonial troops, warships, and colonial ad- ministration. * . . r OSLO, Norway, at a general meeting of the metal workers’ union, the largest trade union in the country, with 6,400 members, a resolution was passed receftly di- rected to the German government demanding the release of Ernst Thaelmann. . © * (ORE than 4,000 Danish workers met in Copenhagen, on Oct. 22, at a meeting organized by the Come munist Party, to pledge their soli- darity with the Spanish workers in their fight against fascism. Contributions received 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, Quota—s500, Mike Wassuk ... Bearers | 3 Pen and Hammer, Economic