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

+ j : 1 Page DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER &, 1934 Daily QWorker CNTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY US. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Working Class Daity Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING C6., INC., 5¢ BE. 18th Street, New York, N. ¥ Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. New ¥ “America’s Only Datwork THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1934 The Roosevelt Landslide as well as he Roosevelt s the leader- of the A. F. to hail the unprecedented landslide for the New Deal. They regard the vote as author- ization to continue with the drastic policies against the toiling masses, well camoufiaging promises and demagogy. pporters ir of L. have good reason led with We will not attempt here to give a thorough analysis of the significance of the election results, though certain conclusions can now be drawn. In Jater editions of the Daily Worker we will go into the greatest detail on the significance of the New Deal landslide and the tasks of the Communist Party in the present and future struggles. The central feature of the elections, and the Jandslide for the New Deal candidates, was the al- most unanimous port Roosevelt received from @ll ranks of the r i class, from the big trusts, the bankers, the press, the radio and utilities in- terests. No matter what differences among certain sections of the bourgeoisie, the richest and most powerful groups basically supported the New Deal policies. Then there was the inability of the Republican y to put up an effective opposition, due to the division their ranks and the allegiance to the New Deal of many of their outstanding figures. ‘Those Republicans who did oppose the New Deal, such as the Liberty Leaguers, so clearly exposed their reactionary character in the face of the New Deal demagogy, that they were swept under in a tidal wave, which, though carrying aloft the New Deal, sought to force it more to the left. Roosevelt's skill as a glib politician, his extreme value to the exploiters in being able to put over their program with the thickest and most blinding cover of demagogy, was proved in this election. In all this trickery of Roosevelt and his agents, it is essential to remember one outstanding fact— that a good deal of this demagogy is wrapped up in the form of anti-capitalist phrases, promises of changing the whole structure of capitalism. This is more strikingly shown in Minnesota, where the Olson victory was gained on the basis of support for the “New Deal,” and also by a promise to basically reform capitalism in conjunction with the New Deal and beyond it. HK is shown still more in California, where Sinclair gained a huge vote with his reactionary utopian program of a combi- nation of the New Deal and a basic revision of cap- italism. While the unanimity of the ruling class with the demagogy of the New Deal is shown in Governor Merriam’s espousing of the cause of Roosevelt’s “progressivism” in order to defeat Sin- clair. But the very fact that these promises have to be made to catch votes, the very fact that the masses expect a still more leftward swing of the Roosevelt regime, as shown by their annihilation of the Liberty League Republicans, indicates the political character of the present situation. It shows us where our hardest blows must now be struck to tear aside the veils of Roosevelt’s dema- gogy and lead the masses to struggle against the ‘New Deal policies of advancing fascism, lowering of living standards, and preparation for war. Roosevelt, besides the almost unanimous support among the ruling forces of the country, has built ‘up a tremendous political machine, a bureaucracy firmly entrenched which can wield widespread in- fluence and pressure. He has deliberately used bribes in the form of allocation of state relief, for pork barrels for the state politicians, to swing them in line behind the New Deal in the elections. Fundementally, of course, it is the inability of the Communist Party, which has consistently ex- posed the New Deal, and led the major struggles against it, to reach the broad masses and to con- vince them of the correctness of the Communist program, which explains the New Deal landslide. ‘The Communist Party is the only serious organizer of the mass struggles and resistance against the New Deal, and its failure thus far to win the large section of the basic proletariat explains the still powerful influence of Roosevelt's fraudulent prom- ises, even when hundreds of thousands of workers in strikes have been struggling against the effects of these promises. The victory of the New Deal not only will not give the masses what they expect from it, but will be interpreted by Roosevelt as carte blanche to con- tinue his more open alliances with the bankers, the greater speeding up of war preparations, the greater use of his dictatorial power in putting over slave odes and in smashing strikes. Hunger and ex- ploitation will increase. The general crisis of Amer- ican capitalism will deepen, and the fascist meas- ures of the Roosevelt regime in meeting it will grow. An accurate analysis of the Communist and So- cialist vote is not possible at this writing, as com- plete figures have not arrived. It is already clear, however, that, especially in New York, the Socialist Party vote dropped far below its previous figures, feading to a new crisis within the Socialist Party, portending new struggles within that party, The - Communist Party waged a splendid fight in many Places, and gained votes. In other places there was “poor work, only formal mobilization of the Party and the masses for election work, for a struggle against the New Deal and for a big Communist vote. Now the tasks are set more clearly before us. ‘The tremendous landslide shows the continuation of the Roosevelt illusions, though the blow to the ‘Republican “opposition,” and the huge vote of the “left” supporters of the Roosevelt New Deal, shows its increasingly demagogic character. Our fight especially must get to the roots of the main industrial centers, where great battles are ‘The mask must be ripped off the face of the : It is up to us to do it, The Crisis in France ernmental crisis ¥ g0 iM in its atte » force through fas- cist measures w the shell of capitalist nergue government is e its armed forces st bands against the democracy, the D now preparing wm and its sympathetic French workers fase is now in session, with Inder the guise c‘ a fi- is National Union cabinet be given dence so that it can proceed to in- measures. Torn between its ue, on the one hand, and jie class on the other, the Socialist cabinet members, led by Herriot submit their resignation ing the difficulties he has in ramming is fascist measures within the spheres of parliament, Doumergue is provoking the armed fas- cist bands to action against the workers. He is pre- paring another bloody February clash. Thursday the vote of confidence, which would mean a vote for the fascist measures, comes up. Already the Parisian capitalist press has opened a bombardment of threats of civil war, has insti- pelled gated the 16 armed fascist bands to prepare. On Saturday, the war vets under fascist leadership have scheduled a monster demonstration that may set off rioting or civil war. This is how the capitalists seek to drive through their fascist measures, on the one hand through parliament, on the other through outside pressure of their fascist gangs. j pon danger against the working class is extremely great; and the united front of the Socialist and Communist Parties of France, recognizing the fas- cist moves confronting them, are tightening their ranks, calling on the workers to be prepared for the greatest battles. More than that, “L’Humanite,” organ of the Communist Party of France, is calling on all middle elass forces opposed to fascism to join the united front to smash the dangerous rising wave of fascist threats. Doumergue, faced with a growing crisis of French capitalism, fearing the rising strength of the united front, is determined to put over his fas- | cist measures, cost what it may in bloodshed. There | are 16 separate fascist groups in France, such as | the Junesse Patriotes, Croix de Feu, Action Fran- | caise, boasting over 30,000 men, well supplied with | arms by the bankers, the electric trust, and the es- tate of the deceased perfumer, Cote. | The Communist and Socialist Parties are de- | manding that these fascist bands be disarmed and | disbanded. The Doumergue government refuses, re- plying that the revolutionary workers are armed. The fact is that the fascist bands have been armed by leading officials in the War Department, with the support of the Doumergue government. The workers have been refused arms, every obstacle be- | ing put in the way of their arming to defend them- selves against the open provocation of the govern- ment to civil war. The greatest class battles loom in France, The forces of the proletariat have knit their ranks in a united front. We should learn from them. We can- not wait here until the fascist bands are organized and armed, or until the Roosevelt regime with its great popular vote speeds its fascist attacks against the workers. The united front should be formed now, for strengthening our international solidarity in the fight against war and fascism, and for battling against the enemy at home, The Social Insurance Fight ENTRAL in the election campaign of the Communist Party has been the growing mass demand for the enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. Today, the Communist Party in every district and section is pushing forward prep- arations for the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance, to be held in Washington on Jan. 5, 6 and 7. The Party of the working class carries forward the demands and issues promulgated in its election campaign. In an attempt to head off the sweeping mass character which this National Congress is already assuming, the Roosevelt regime has called a con- ference to “discuss” unemployment insurance. Be- hind the Roosevelt schemes are being mobilized the top bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. and the en- tire government apparatus. Despite its rosy promises, the Roosevelt conference has but one objective— to squirm out of the Roosevelt unemployment in- surance promises and to cut relief. And every pos- sible maneuver is being resorted to in an attempt to spike the Workers’ National Congress. The Roosevelt conference will lay plans for fur- ther driving down the hunger doles on relief, for widening the forced labor plans of the FERA. The Workers National Congress, mobilizing the masses around the Workers’ Bill, will be the workers’ ex- pression of the bitter struggles for increased relief in Denver, in Springfield and Chicago, in the Hunger March to Albany, in the thousands of day- to-day struggles of the jobless, the employed, the farmers, youth, women and Negro masses, In some localities, notably Cleveland and Wis- consin, preliminary steps have already been taken to set up local, county and state sponsSring com- mittees. These committees, modeled after the Na- tional Sponsoring Committee with its broad rep- resentation in trade unions, political parties, church, Negro and youth groups, must be built in every center side by side with the drive to build the Un- employment Councils. Into these local sponsoring committees must be brought representatives of the trade unions, thou- sands of which have endorsed ihe Workers’ Bill, and Congressmen and members of the City Coun- cils pgp sienifed their backing of the bill. All ingig®2als who in the past haye given lip- service to the bill must likewise be asked to give active support, Copies of the call to the National Congress have been printed by the National Sponsoring Committee for wide distribution among the membership of all organizations, and among workers in the shops. Side by side with the campaign for the National Congress, the Unemployment Councils must be built into real mass organizations of the jobless— mass organizations that will reflect at the congress the vast millions of the unemployed, Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. | Party Life | Browder Discusses Ways Of Helping | Recruiting Drive | (F we ask why we have no more Party members, comrades say they | are too busy to recruit. This is a vicious circle we have to break through. It is true that comrades have more tasks than they can handle. We have to get more com- rades to do these tasks. This means more recruitment, There will be no step forward until we double our Party membership. I have found in| most cases that slowness to recruit is due to a wrong approach to re- | cruitment. Comrades think that new members must already be good Bol- | sheviks, able to quote from the/ theses of the Thirteenth Plenum | and the National Convention, etc. | That is not true. Any good worker |in a shop who follows our lead is | |material to be brought into the | | Party, especially if he is young and | energetis and can be put to work. | You can give him all the education | | he needs in the Party. He will get it | through his own searching and de- sire to learn even if you heglect him, once he is in the Party. I have found in most places that wherever we have a fraction that | leads struggles, there are always four | or five times as many members not | in the Party as in the Party, who could be brought in simply by ask- ing them to join. Nobody asks them | to join; and after a while they think | that all they have to do is to be| | Sympathizers and follow the leader- | | ship of the Party. But this leader- | | Ship never gives them the line to | | come into the Party. We have to |make a decisive campaign of re-| | cruiting in the industries, That would require developing the activity of shop groups and fractions, If there jis not the possibility of immediate | recruitment, this is because of the |lack of political education carried | on among the workers. By this poli- | | tical education we don’t mean just | courses and schools. We mean bring- jing the political issues into the | | unions, We don’t mean bringing in | issues that don’t belong in the | union. We mean bringing in the broader aspects of the struggle, | showing them how they can protect | their conditions in the shop by get- ting into the struggle. (From a speech made by Eari| | Browder to a meeting of Commu- | | nist functionaries in Boston.) eg ee 'HE question of recruiting has been a very serious one in Section | | Four during the past year. The| |members dropped have been more | | than the number recriited. Many good elements have come in, but | |many of these have dropped out | again. One of the reasons is that | little consideration is given to new members after they are recruited— both by the older members in the | Units and by the Section leadership. | For instance, there was not a single new members class in our Section during the whole past winter and spring. Only one unsuccessful attempt was made to organize such a class. Several classes were held for more advanced members. New members are given assignments without understanding the Party, or the significance attached to the as- signments. Another reason we fail to keep our new members is the laxity of dis- cipline of our older members, many of whom have the attitude that they have been in the Party so long that | they no longer need to carry on reg- | War activity to be good standing | members, These comrades have been per- | mitted to drift without strict check- ‘up and their constant ery of being | ‘too busy,” goes unchallenged for |.months and sometimes years, | The effect of this on the |mnew members was that they |soon became discouraged and dropped out of the Unit. The new members did not dare to criticize an old member and a leading comrade in the unit, but quietly dropped out, and could not be persuaded to return, Many members were re- cruited to this Unit, but few re- mained, Following the open exposure of this member, and a thorough dis- cussion in the unit on Party dis- cipline, one of the new recruits who had been in the Unit for about two or three weeks, stated as fol- lows: “Yes, I had expected to find the Communist Party a thoroughly disciplined organization, and while I am very much disappointed, still I am not dscouraged, and intend to stay in the Party and do my best to remedy the situation.” Unfortunately, however, all new members do not take that healthy attitude, On the other hand this one had only been in the Party for two weeks, and if it had not been for the exposure and discussion that followed, he too might have be- come discouraged. To remedy this, we are planning in our Section a new members class to be carried on continually for a six-week term throughout the year. In addition, we mean to carry on a strict check-up, more particularly on the older members. Through this means we hope to lessen the fiuc- tuation in our Section. (L. S., Sec- tion 4, Chicago District.) Soviet Sentences Men On Train Wreck Charge MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (By Wireless). —The investigation of the train- wreck at the Osnova station on the Southern Railroad, which caused the smash-up of 24 freight cars and the death of one worker, established that the immediate culprits were the officer in charge of the station, Linnik, signalman Yunoshey and head switchman Pavlenko. All three are hostile anti-prole- tarian elements and this criminal negligence in their work was a de- liberate violation of labor disci- pline. Concerning Linnik it was proved that he had been maliciously and consciously disorganizing traf- fic. The court therefore qualified him as an enemy of the people, sentencing him to be shot. Yuno- shev and Pavlenko were sentenced | “SOMETHING j > TO CROW ABOUT! by Burck [. | World Front By HARRY GANNES Red Army in Szechuan rs “Sounds Unbelievable” Nationwide Famine ERY little news on what | ¥ actually is happening in |China reaches the American newspapers. There are many |reasons for this. One of the chief reasons, recently, is the increased censorship of Ciang Kaj Shek. The next main reason is that since the most important news in China is the revolutionary strug- |gles of the workers and peasants, |particularly the struggle of the Chinese Soviets, the American news agencies do not feel like spending heavy cable expenses on reports of the movements of the Red Army. The latest piece of news which is being kept from American readers is the tremendous victories of the Red Army in Szechuan province, the largest province of China to the extreme west of that country. | We have at hand an article in the China Weekly Review entitled: “Will Szechuan Fall Into Commue |nist Hands?” The writer, Paul K, | Whang, very loyal to the Kuomin- tang and a vicious enemy of the Chinese Soviets, became quite pan- icky over the repeated victories of {the Red Army in this province, and {sees therein the possibility, despite |the reported gains of the Kuomin- |tang Armies (aided by U. S. ime perialism) in Fukien and Kiangsi, that when the balance sheet of the Fifth anti-Communist war is writ- |ten the Communists will be far in . | the lead. Burck will give the original drawing of his 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 Gannes, “del,” the Medical Advisory Board, Ann Barton, David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. QUOTA—$1,000, Gold, Harry D. Horowitz M. Greenberg v Jos. Milton .... Previously received Total to date ... Soviet Elections Embody Democracy Through Worker and Farmer Control 'HIS year the celebration of the anniversary of the Socialist Oc- tober Revolution coincides with the beginning of re-elections to the So- viets throughout the entire Soviet Union. -The Seventh All-Union Congress of Soviets, with which everyone in Soviet-land is preoccupied, will be entered in the history of the prole- tarian dictatorship as one of the Most meaningful events in its his- tory. Not simply because it falls in with an epoch during which the Party of the proletariat has recorded a whole constellation of brilliant class-victories, great technical achievements, and mighty conquests in the construction of Socialism. These victories and achievements are to be grasped also as a funda- mental transformation of classes: in the increase of proletarians, in a significant re-molding of the main masses of the peasantry, and in the liquidation of the propertied peas- ants—the Kulaks. The transition to the system of Soviet economy and collectivization in agriculture, the change from an individualistic peasant economy to a collective one, the liquidation of the Kulaks as a class—this is the grandoise revolution in which the deepest material bases of daily life, of working, of the very appearance of life, of human relationships and consequently of habits, phychology and ideology of the large masses of the population haye been re-shaped from the ground up. Precisely because this change par- alleled the colossal growth of So- cialist industry and, more important than anything else, of basic heavy industry, a lever was forged with which, by stirring the foundations of city life and by accomplishing the “great transformation” on the farm ry ea —through the agricultural policy of { \the Party, the entire scheme of the | October Revolution has been brought to living reality and the solution of “when” has now been replaced by the problem “where.” But the solution of this problem, the | tremendous formation and reform-/| mation of the deciding class, and therefore mass, forces carries with it a change in the composition of the mass organizations of power, ie. the Soviets, The Seventh Congress of All- Union Soviets is the first Congress which is to hold its session on the foundation of victorious collectiviza- tion. This fact itself is a sign of the greatly increased strength of the | proletarian dictatorship, the organ | of Soviet power. | Proletarian Democracy The Soviets are the mass organs of power, inseparably connected with production and holding in its hand the combined function of leg- islative and executive force. The Soviets have been and are, for the whole duration of the revolution, a form of proletarian dictatorship, in that they are the directing forces of the proletarian party, which, with its persons, its policy, its devotion to the revolution has won the trust of the broadest masses; and these masses are the backbone of support for the fi united, organized, and, in the struggle against all the threats of party enmity, thoroughly steeled proletariat. The greatest difficulty and con- cern awaiting the Party was the problem of leading the millions of small property owners, with their two-fold interests, their two-fold psychology, with their significance as a “vacillating force” (Lenin). On its profiteering, speculating side this “soul” turned to the middle and upper peasantry, and in this process of “chemical separation’” of the small capitalists, the Kulaks, the variegated counter-revolutionary Vendee. This is the explanation of; how “honest” counter-revolutionists of the stamp of Miliukov’s period took their stand on a solution of “Soviets without Communists” and dragged with them th= coarsest and most stupid counter-revolutionists, such as the operatic “Czar Cyril, who proposed .a Soviet monarchy under a “leadership” of nobility and goodness, Stalin’s Leadership Leniti’s wise policy made it pos- sible in the most trying times of proletarian leadership to carry for- | ward the state power of the dicta- torship of the proletariat past all the shoals and reefs of danger. In- herited from the previous period, the brilliant policy of Stalin became the basis of solving social diffi- culties, liquidating the class of Ku- Jaks through the absorptive strength j of collectivization. As a result, the basis of the dictatorship of the pro- letariat was considerably broadened. It is understood that neither this parts is automatically brought to! reality. Every step toward progress is accompanied by sheer strength of will, effort and labor. The vic- tory of this process is not achieved Spontaneously. It must be con- tinually organized, must be labori- ously raised to a higher level. The Seventh All-Union Congress is one of the significant steps in this or- ganization of proletarian victory. With its strong electorate the revolutionary Congress embodies in its trusted deputies this proletarian democracy which is the proletarian dictatorship itself, which is Soviet democracy, FSU Protests Anti-Soviet Acts of Navy In telegrams sent to Claude A. Swanson, Secretary of the Navy and, George H. Dern, Secretary of the. Army, the Friends of the So- viet Union today protest against assistance given to Russian White |'§ Guard activities in this country by U. S. Navy and Army units. Pointing out that. the U. 8. Gun- boat Illinois, will be used on No- vember 10 to raise money for anti- Soviet propaganda and requesting the cancellation of the gunboat’s part in the affair, the telegram to Mr. Swanson states: “Russian anti-Soviet organiza- tions using the U. S. Gunboat Illi- nois November 10th to stage anti- Soviet demonstration. Refer you to weekly ‘Rossiya’ of October 28th ad- vertising ball to raise funds, which states ‘hundreds of thousands of leaflets, including clippings from ‘Rossiya,’ are smuggled at great dif- ficulty and risk into Russia.’ In the name of the American Friends of the Soviet Union we protest against the United States Government ex- tending favors to enemies of the Soviet Union and request cancella- tion of privilege.” The telegram to Secretary of War Dern points out that a detachment of the 224th U. S. Coast Guard Ar- tillery, composed of Russian White Guards, participated on October to five and three years in prison 28th in the celebration of the Czar- ist Russian Church, © ‘ } and L New Water Reservoir In Moscow Is Barrier Against Spring Floods (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (By Wireless). —Moscow will now be provided with 20 million additional pails of water daily, besides being possessed with a safety valve against the spring floods. The dam of the Istra river, which merges with the Mos- cow river near the city of Moscow, finished. ; The construction, really a link in the cain of the Volga-Moscow ca- nal, forms a reservoir with a ca- pacity of 200,000,000 cubic meters and a surface of 40 square kilo- meters. Reducing the altitude of the water of the. Moscow river 80 centimeters, the dam will simulta- neously serve as a barrier for the capital against floods in the spring season. New Soviet Railroad Begins Operations (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (By Wireless). —The largest section of the Mos-+ cow-Donbas Railroad—a distance of 400 miles—providing for the pas- sage of no less than from 25-3¢ pairs of trains daily started opera- tions on November 5. This double- tracked main line from Moscow t- the Don Basin has tremendous sig- nificance from the viewpoint of the economic development of the U. tnd imetatlngical enterpeiaes of th an en e " Rail Wrecks Instigated By Japanese (Special to the Daily Worker) HARBIN, Manchuria, Nov. 7 (By Wireless) —Vivid light has now been thrown on who are really guilty of wrecks on the Chinese Eastern Railway and who are actu- ally behind the Hung-Hutze bandits organizing raids on C.E.R. trains. | According to reports received here a Hung-Hutze band is openly and legally residing at the Shitouhetsi station on the Eastern Line of the C.ER., obviously supported by the Japano-Manchurian authorities, The latter have given the bandits living quarters and fully supply them with arms. The Hung-Hutzes enjoy com- plete impunity and supported by the Japanese and Manchurian offi- cials are robbing and terrorizing |local inhabitants. Lately the Hung- Hutzes promised these officials to cease wrecking between Shitouhetsi and Gaolintsi stations, a stretch along which wrecks most frequently occurred. They openly declare, now- ever, that if their negotiations with Tokyo fail, they will re-commence their work, It is interesting to compare this information, received from entirely reliable sources, with the savage campaigns of the Japano-Man- churian press, which is spreading absurd that the Hung- groups staked their cards, dreaming | all the while of an all-Russian| * * . He Points out that in Szechuan province the peasantry weighed down by burdensome taxation, op- pressed by a horde of militarists and landlords, facing starvation, {are flocking to the Communist ban- ner. The Red Army has decisively defeated the armies of General Liu Hisang, and are rapidly moving Eastern half of the province along most important cities, Chungking and Chentu. Whang tells of reports that the landlord-bourgeoisie are already fleeing Chengtu fearing that the Kuomintang troops will be entirely incapable of defending the capital city against the rapidly growing Red Armies. * * |mo Yangtze river, towards the two * R. WHANG further feels that Chiang Kai Shek’s “victories” in Pukien and Kiangsi are built on rapidly moving sands. “Once the Communists have successfully consolidated _ their position in this rich province, it will be next to impossible for the government forces to dislocate them. The topographical advan- tages alone will make their pesi- tion impregnable. Be it noted that the Nanking government has spent five long years in at- tempting to eradicate the red- banditry in Kiangsi but has not achieved its desired objective. Then how long will it take to purge Szechuan once it has been contaminated with this commu- nist curse? “Tt sounds really unbelievable that in a province where the largest provincial army has been maintained at the expenses of the people, the ill-equipped maraud- ers can move freely and capture cities after cities from the hands of the provincial forces... . ” Then what Mr. Whang cannot understand he very plainly writes about: “The long years of misgov- ernment on the part of provincial Officials, together with excessive tax- ation have bred public discontent and made the people susceptible of anti-government propaganda.” whole process nor any one of its| . * . yar exploitation of the Chinese landlords, of the foreign impe- rialists, the heavy, backbreaking taxes and oppression of the Kuo- mintang, plus droughts and natural catastrophes have plunged the Chi- nese masses into a starvation which is startling even for China, An- other Chinese writer in the same publication, C. Y. W. Meng, weeps and wails over the misery of the Chinese masses, and calls on the greatest scourge of the masses, the Kuomintang, to remedy them, “In every big city,” he writes, “we fur- ther witness strings of farming ‘refugees’—this follows a heartrend- ing description of wholesale sui- cides—from the country districts, On August 24—one day alone, no Jess than 1,000 refugees were rushed to the capital. The robbing of rice shops—a sign of nation-wide fam- ine and economic crisis in China— has been increased by leaps and bounds everywhere. “Such is the plight of the Chi- nese farmers who constitute 80 per cent of the Chinese total pop- ulation. . . . Here is the of all communist - bandit trouble. Here is the root of the trouble which must be first removed, if the so-called ‘Communist-bandit campaign’ is to be brought to an early conclusion. ‘We do not go over to the communist camp, just simply because we can draw high Salaries from the government, able live in the cities hi enable us to enjoy every facility of civilization, If we wee farm- Hea would also join the com- mui ” Such is the general opinion of most observers of events today, if one has made a close study and is bold enough to express the situation.” It is these conditions, which Chi- ang Kai Shek, serving imperialism, intensifies, that is rallying new mil- lions under the Red banner of the Chinese Soviets, driving forward to the final victory over all of China, despite temporary defeats, Contributions recetved to the credit of Harry Gannes in his So- clalist competition with del, Mike Gold, the Medical Advisory Ann Barton, Jacob Burck and David Ramsey, in the D * ser cee ae from their strategic position in the .