The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1934, Page 8

Page g * DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1934 % Daily <QWorker CBNTRAL ORGA COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL? Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 30 E, 13th Sévest. New York, N. ¥. ALgonquin 4-795 4. New York, N “America’s Telephone ‘Daiwork, " Press Building, National 7910. , Chicago, Il. 75 cents MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1934 LaGuardia’s Tax Plans ITH the danger immediate prisals at the polls safely out of the picture, and by raising the ery of another “relief crisis,” the Lg Guardia administra- tion is preparing to bludgeon the work- ing po m into submission to a program of tax- ation on the es and more relief cuts. To put across this bankers’ program on relief, LaGuardia poses the artificial dilemma—either sub- mit to wage, sales and transit taxes or the unem- Ployed will go unfed. The two most outspoken journals of the bankers have wasted no words in the matter. Thus declared the Sun in a leading editorial, “Business men should demonstrate that the transit fare tax is the measure on which they are solidly united.” The Wall Street Journal and the Times, and other metropolitan newspapers have also campaigned for taxation on the working population in the interest of a “fair spread of the relief taxation.’ “Three proposed taxes have received serious con- sideration,” states the Wall Street Journal. “They are: a 2 per cent sales tax, a 2 per cent payroll tax and a two-cent transit fare tax’—all taxation on the working population. Already, scrapping of the entire plans inaugurated last September—levies on Federal income tax imposts and a small tax on business—is being considered. of re- ula EANWHILE, sacred cow of Wall Street, the debt service, goes unscathed—one-third of the entire city budget for 1935, 180 million dollars, is to be poured into the coffers of the Wall Street banks. The strangling Bankers’ Agreement carries 11 million dollars in the same budget When presented with the demands of the organ- ized employed and relief workers that these items be allocated to relief financing, LaGuardia has whined that he is bound by “law.” Yet, abrogation of the Bankers’ Agreement and a moratorium on debt payments, the last of which has been and is being effected on an international scale, something Jess than “confiscation,” despite the whinings of the City Hall gentlemen to the contrary, could be effected if they were actuated by motives other than a continued service to Wall Street. Immediate united front steps must be taken by the New York working population to defeat the bankers’ plans for further taxation on the masses and new cuts in relief. The Unemployment Coun- cils, which have continually pressed for unity, put forward the program for no taxation on the work- ers, increased relief, enactment of the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill and enactment of the Workers Municipal Relief Ordinance. The last calls for payment of cash rent and adequate cash relief for each unemployed family and single unemployed worker. Nor is the “crisis” in New York relief an isolated occurrence. Every important city in the country faces the dilemma of either starving its unem- ployed this Winter or cutting into the profits of the banks. Retrenchments in relief are being car- ried through with relentless disregard for the plight of the jobless in such widely scattered centers as Chicago, New Orleans, the industrial cities of New England, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. State, county and city marches ef the unem- ployed have been the answer. And in almost every case they have been met with terror. The bloody eyents of Albany and Denver are not isolated hap- penings, but a determined resolve to down the cries of the jobless with police clubs and gunfire. IN ANSWER, every possible resource must be mobi- lized behind the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance which will be held in Wash- ington on January 5, 6 and 7, when the United States Congress opens. Side by side with an in- tensive building of the Unemployment Councils and an intensified drive for support from the trade unions and all workers’ organizations, the Workers’ National Congress will reflect the bitter struggles of the jobless, and the unified voice of the em- ployed and unemployed for the enavtment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, their only measure of security in the present period against recurrent crises in relief and stoppage of the hunger doles of the Federal Emergency Relief Adminis- tration. Huey Long’s Proposal HE proposal of Huey Long for a “re- prieve” for debt-burdened workers and small business men of Louisiana is a fake. It will not give debt-oppressed masses of Louisiana any real relief. On the contrary, it will only tighten the chains of their debts to the banks and landlords. Long's plan is for a “two year moratorium as part of the share the wealth plan,” he says. But does his plan do what the Communist Party plan does, does it declare all mortgage burdens, all secured debts to be CANCELLED? No, Long’s plan is a blind which says that the debtor can apply for a moratorium NOT TO EXCEED TWO YEARS. If you are lucky, you get an extension of time to pay debts. But the debt continues with interest piling up all the time! ‘Thus Long’s plan, sugar-coated as in the interests of the debt-oppressed masses, really protects the xcans of the creditors, the bankers and landlords. Only the Communist slogan for the complete can- cellation of debts would help the worker and small farmer. Rather than sharing the wealth, which is itself a fraudulent slogan designed to keep the masses from attacking the capitalist system, as a whole, Long's plan helps to keep the wealth in the hands of the rich. It would be well to remember that German fascism began with just such fake “attacks” on the rich as Huey Long now peddles in Louisiana. Huey Long is a dangerous demagogue whose talk against the rich only conceals his connections with the landlords and the banks, the capitalist class which he is trying to save from the revolutionary actions of the hungry, debt-oppressed masses. Long is part of the Southern lynch system. He must be fought and exposed before the masses as the swindler and_ that he is. , fA ‘Peace’ and Generals ENERAL John J. Pershing, who sent tens of thousands of American soldiers to their death, in the great war to pro- tect the loans of Wall Street, declared on Saturday that there was no reason to fear another war. He said that the apprehensions which existed in many countries were “unfounded,” and that “very few governments would willingly con- template the prospects of war.” Pershing’s attempt to hoodwink the workers and veterans into believing that another imperialist con- flagration was not imminent, was effectively ex- posed by the news of the day. The same paper that carried his statement reported that in France air raid advice was being put in the textbooks of school children. The same dispatch told of a variety of measures that were being undertaken for “pro- tection” against aerial and gas attacks. All these ‘defensive’ measures were being feverishly rushed as part of the immediate preparations of the Euro- pean imperialists’ preparations for war. The English insurance firm, Lloyds, which gambles on war risks, said on the very same day that Pershing spouted his lying statement that “the premium on insurance against war should be higher during the next five years. The prospect of war is undoubtedly great.” But a far more effective refutation of Pershing lies in the whole war program of the American ruling class, The Roosevelt administration has spent directly and indirectly some two billion dol- lars for war preparations. The entire New Deal program is one that is geared for war. While Pershing tries to camouflage the war aims of the capitalists, they are busy building naval bases in the Pacific, are constructing the largest fleet and air flotilla in the world, and preparing to plunge the country into the greatest war in history. The best answer to the plans of the war mongers is to build the united front of all toilers against the twin products of decaying capitalism—fascism and war. The 8-Point Program of Waldman HE New York state committee of the Socialist Party, controlled by the Waldman group, has taken a further step in the consolidation of the Socialist Party leadership with the American Federation of Labor officialdom. The State Committee meeting adopted an eight-point “program,” which, it is de- clared, the New York Federation officials will “co- operate” in advocating. This program admittedly is a step of the Wald- man leadership toward the formation, together with the A. F. of L. officialdom, of a “labor” party, or, failing that, entrance of the Waldman group into the Democratic Party itself. In fact Waldman, in his press statements, expressed satisfaction at the victory of the Democratic Party at the polls, de- claring that if the Democratic Party is instrumental in effecting the eight-point program it will get the credit, and if it fails, the blame. The Socialist Party “right wing” leaders are trying to head off the growing mass resentment against the two “old parties” of capitalism, and misdirect this growing mass protest into the direction of a bourgeois farmer-labor party. They want to direct the workers who are becoming radicalized into an- other party of capitalism, and keep them away from the only party of the working class, the Commu- nist Party. The eight-point program, to serve as the basis for legislative lobbying in true William Green style, is a program with which the New Deal could well agree. It proposes “enactment of an anti-injunction statute embodying the best features of the Federal Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Law.” It is under this meaningless law now boosted by Waldman’s group that hundreds of injunctions against picketing have been and are now being is- sued in New York and throughout the country. The Communist Party demands, in unmistakable terms, “the complete abolition of injunctions under all conditions against trade unions or workers en- gaged in struggle,” and mobilizes the workers for mass violation of such anti-labor injunctions. The Waldman plank does not call for a fight against the increasing anti-labor injunctions. The unemployment insurance plank of this eight- point program might well have been written by William Green himself. It advocates “an adequate unemployment insurance law.” The Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill, the only bill which ap- Plies to the totally unemployed, is not mentioned. There is no mention of the necessity of working for a federal unemployment insurance bill. This might offend Green, who in his report to the A. F. of L. convention definitely spoke against any fed- eral unemployment insurance. There is no mention of the insurance funds coming from taxes on the employer and on the government. Roosevelt him- self, while cutting relief, advocates “unemployment insurance” in the same general and meaningless terms as does the Waldman proposal. The proposals on sickness, health and old age insurance, the “pro- gram of municipal housing,” are caged in the same “safe,” general terms. The important question of the thirty hour week is also dealt with in a fashion to give no offense to the A. F. of L. leaders or the Roosevelt, administra- tion. Waldman’s plank calls for “enactment of a state thirty hour work-week law in line with the Black-Connery bill, which the American Federation of Labor has indorsed.” The Black-Connery bill does not call for any in- crease in wages along with the reduction in hours. It therefore advocates a reduction in the wages of the workers. The indorsement of this wage cutting measure by the State Committee of the Socialist Party is a strong indication of the path which the Waldman leadership is taking, together with the A. F. of L, leadership, towards an openly anti-work- ing class policy. The seventh point of this program drops all pre- tense of Marxism. The most “radical” plank we can find in the new eight-point program of the New York State Socialist Party leadership is point seven, “Legislation that would facilitate public ownership of public utilities.” The Waldman leadership here Subtlely advocates “public ownership” under the capitalist system as its goal. The question of “the co-operative commonwealth” of socialism is dropped. In the face of this reactionary eight-point pro- gram of the Waldman leadership, the rank and file membership in the Socialist Party have cause to pause and consider where their leaders are leading them. The Communist Party calls upon the rank and file members of the Socialist Party for a united front to join in a fight for the every-day mass strug- gle against the capitalist policies of the New Deal. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Piease send me more information on the Com- munist Party. ADDRESS. .......0020.secceesccesccescesees | |... CASTING ITS SHADOW BEFORE | Party Life | | MarecRuapuct coor, For Spanish | Proletariat [T= Spanish proletariat has just | gone through a revolution that | |gained them admiration of the| | workers throughout the world. The revolt has been subdued by the! jforces of the reactionary Lerroux | government and the rich landown-! ers. Today the revolutionary force has |taken an organized retreat, making preparations for the final charge | that will overthrow capitalism and the present Fascist regime. But |the workers have suffered the loss |of many of their leaders, many | killed and hundreds arrested, which means death to them. | Just as the Spanish proletariat |fought united with Communists, Socialists, Syndicalists and other workers, so have the fascists united their forces to crush the workers. | This means that world-wide protest must be raised in their defense, We are a group of Spanish cea- men in Boston who look to the Daily Worker for a clear analysis of | the Spanish situation and we find none, The seamen come to us with their questions on the matter, and although we can satisfy them, yet \they read “La Prensa” for infor- mation, “La Prensa” had and still has many articles on Spain. One |which has attracted the writer was | an article which mentioned the| taking in the courts, been silent on this question and right now it is criminal. We should link up the Thaelmann campaign | with that of the Spanish political | prisoners. Mass united front meet- | ings must be had for defense pur- Poses. The campaign should be conducted along the same lines as |the Thaelmann and Austrian cam- paigns. This way we will be able to interest the Spanish workers in the | |carrying on of mass work. We can-| not send them along the way of “La Prensa” and other reactionary | |forces. Here workers of all polit-| jical beliefs are involved and we | {here in America can tie up the|' | Spanish struggles with that of the American workers through the weapon of the united front. J. M, Boston, Shop Paper Leads Workers to Action Ce oe 3 2 MARCH of this year we organ- ized a shop unit in the Midland Steel in Cleveland. The shop at the time worked full speed, with the conditions as rotten as they could} be found in any steel mill. Scarcely | a day passed without an accident. | In spite of Roosevelt's N. R. A., wage cuts took place, This was just the time for us to give out our shop paper, the Mid-| land Steel, It has been coming out | regularly ever since, dealing with | |the problems of the workers, and to | jevery problem giving them a solu- tion, pointing out to them what to do and how to do it if we are to improve our conditions. Since June of this year, work days jare few, about two or at the best three days in the week for most of the workers; but there are many jof us who only work three days or so in two weeks. However, we had to go to the shop every day just the |same, only to be sent home most jof the time. This was discussed in the Midland Worker, proposing that |we go to the bosses to demand that \they give us car fare when we are sent back home. Friday, September 14th, was the last day the shop operated, and the |foreman told the fellows the shop |Would be closed the next week, but Saturday, the 15th, we all got a letter which said, “Do not report to work until Tuesday, Sept. 18th.” The men who received the letter came in, but again we came just to be fooled, because the boss said there was nothing to do. What happened? Do you think these men just walked out as usual? No, they gathered in a group and more than fifty of them started out towards the office, jammed it, and demanded carfare to go home, and demanded that the fare be paid both ways. The big shop got so scared that there was nothing else he could do with these men but agree to their demands, so he gave out car tickets, until he had none left, and then he had to pass out cash. All this was done by the workers just the way the Shop Paper paper Pointed out to them. Since these workers have found out that we do not propose to them anything that is impossible for them to do, they will look on the Midland Worker with more respect and will accept it as their guide. With this ex- ample for inspiration, we can ex- pect a lot more action by these workers, who are always eager to get the paper, and who never throw it away, but read it and keep it, be- cause they accept it as their own. A MIDLAND WORKER. Red Flag Defendants Freed on High Bail SUPERIOR, Nov. 11—After serv- ing 11 months of their sentence in the Wisconsin Red Flag convictions, |E. F. Burman and Unto Immomen are free on $5,000 bail each pending an appeal by the International La- bor Defense which has taken over their defense. Burman, manager of a farmers’ co-operative store and active in helping the farmers to organize against foreclosure sales, was not proved to have been on the grounds of the Young Pioneers’ camp where the hammer and sickle flag was flown. His sentence is from four to eight years. Immonen, physical instructor at the camp at Eben Junction, was sen- tenced to from two to ‘our years. The I. L. D. urges the sending of resolutions and letters to Attorney- General P. H. O'Brien, Lansing, Michigan, and to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the same city, demanding a reversal of the convictions. heroic stand that the workers are| 3 The Daily Worker has recently | 4 » wy ws HAYWOOD PATTERSON CLARENCE NORRIS ANDY WRIGHT ROY WRIGHT BUGENE WILLIAM: CHARLES weeMs : | s Burek will give the original drawing of his cartoon to the highest contributor ea “UNFAIR? retorted: “I gave him (and the Medical Advisory Board) a month’s handicap, and doubled my quota over his $500. What more does he expect? the best man win for the Daily Worker!” RIDICULOUS!” COUNTERS BURCK In an exclusive interview yesterday, Burck, re- futing Mike Gold's charge against “ruthless tactics” ch day towards his quota of $1,000, Office Workers Union ... $26.94 Ben Smith ............ oe - 1.00 Chicago Workers School and John Reed Club .. » 4.00 Previously received ... « 268.54 May Total to date .......sceeeee.. e+. $300.48 Collectivization Moves Forward By VERN SMITH MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Nov. 11—A significant aftermath of the success- ful fight against drought this year by the collective farms of the Soviet Union, is the present rush of indi- vidual farmers to enroll themselves in kolkhozes (collective farms). The whole collectivization movement is only about six years old, as a wide scale movement. There have seen state and collective farms since the revolution of 1917, but individual peasant economy prevailed up to and partly through the First Five Year Plan of reconstruction of econ- omy. The first great stampede into the collective farms took place in 1930 and 1931, and changed the basic character of farming here from in- dividual farming to socialist. During this period some bad mistakes were made through eagerness and con- fusion of local government and party workers, calling forth Stalin's famous warning against “dizziness from success,” and resulting in a Series of measures to correct the most glaring errors. The damage done and the sabotage by kulaks resulted in a number of difficulties in 1932. A certain percentage of the more conservative farmers held back during the next two years from joining the collectives. The bumper harvest of 1933 on the kolkhozes, the biggest harvest ever known in Russia, did much to shake their determination to “go it alone” and confirmed those who had joined the collectives in their opin- ion that they had made a correct choice, Then, this year, came an even more severe test, passed by the kolkhozes even more triumphantly. This year there was a drought in a number of districts of the Soviet Union, The drought this year was part of a world-wide calamity which ruined crops in Western Europe and North America. Had the Soviet Union farmers re- mained predominantly individualists, each on his own little plot of ground, they would certainly have suffered from the drought, though even so, the Soviet government, with a radically different policy from that of capitalist governments would have lightened the blow. There would have been no foreclosure and selling out of farmers ruined by crop failure, for example, as there is in capitalist countries. The kol- khozes, with their already existing organization, proved extraordinarily capable of very rapid and very effective campaigns against the drought, and in general were able to save the crop by a whole series of measures, including irrigation and wholesale re-seeding with late crops when the first was lost. In many cases, especially where irriga- tion was rapidly developed, unpre- cedentedly large crops were secured this year. All the regular kolkhoz technique, of early plowing, of ex- tensive pre-winter plowing, of chem- ical treatment of seeds to secure rapid growth while the water from winter snows is still in the ground, the cleaning and selection of seeds, insuring hardy plants, the weeding of millions of acres, which prevented exhaustion of moisture by uneco- nomical growths and also conserved ground water by making a dust on the top of the ground, aided in de- feating the drought. that through the kolkhoz the farmer had become a victor over the worst natural scourge of agriculture, had ended the battle of thousands of years, a battle which had hitherto always defeated the farmer. The remaining individual farmers in all parts of the Soviet Union are now registering their decision. Thou- sands of them have made up their minds, and are joining the collec- tives. Reports from various sections pour in, showing something like a general rush to collectivize. For instance, from Samara, on the Volga, it is reported that 440 peasant families have applied to join the Cherdaklinsk collective farms, and in the same vicinity, 250 more fam- ilies are joining kolkhozes around Saransk, At Voronezh, in the Central Black Soil Region, statistics from the sur- rounding territory show that this year alone 31,000 families have joined collectives; they have joined in such numbers that 76 new collec- tive farms have had to be organized. In the Gorki district, also on the Volga but nearer its headwaters, 166 new kolkhozes have been organized in the third quarter of 1934 alone. One single old kolkhoz, called “Struggle,” got in one month this Fall, 250 applications to join. These are examples, taken from districts where the percentage of collectivization was a little lower than in most parts of the country. They show what is happening every- where. Finds Warm Welcome The individual farmer, when he joins the kolkhoz, finds a warm welcome. Local governments (local Soviets) and Communist Party forces are organizing great meetings in which the new recruits to the kolkhozes are made welcome, and advised by older collective farmers. They are taken to see the best kolk- hozes, which organized their labor this year in such a way, and made such use of machinery new to farmers, that they got unusual crops. For example, there are kolkhozes in Moscow oblast (state, or province) which reap 30 bushels per acre, and in a part of the coun- try which was never hitherto con- sidered a very good grain growing area. In the Central Asian repub- lies, there is the best crop seen in the last 50 years. The sugar beet harvest, partially completed, had produced by Oct. 20 of this year, 80,498,000 centners (a centner is about 220 pounds) of beet root, as against 49,949,000 centners at the same time. last year. The collective farmer lives in a different world from the individual fermer, and this chance to get the advantages of city life, hitherto barred from the farmer by the na- ture of his work, has undobltedly affected the decision of many in- dividual farmers. The kolkhoznik hhas a chance to build and to make use of clubs, creches, radio stations, schools, to take technical and liter- ary courses of study and in general become a new man. Has Own Airplane We begin to notice such items of news as the following: At the kolk- hoz named after Thaelmann, near Stalino in the Donbas, there are al- ready ten members of the collective farm trained as pilots. The kolk- hoz has its own airplane and aer- drome. The machine tractor sta- Object Lesson The individual peasant received a tremendous object lesson; he saw tion in the vicinity is opening a school for kolkhoz fliers this win- ter. Ht may be mentioned in passing that learning to fly is not just a sport for the modern Soviet Union farmer, though that propably plays some part, and so Goes the desire to be equipped to defend his land in case of war against the Soviet Union. But a big factor also is the fact that the airplane is now an agricultural machine, and a con- siderable amount of early sowing is done from planes. Then we find such facts as this appearing, kolkhozes near the city of Kharkoy, in the Ukraine, have rented rows of boxes in the best theatres in the city, including the famous Ukrainian language theatre “Berezil.” They go and come from the theatre in autos owned by the kolkhozes. The theatres also go to the kolk- hozes. During this summer, the Mali theatre of Moscow, for ex- ample, gave 18 performances in the village of Zamietchino, kolkhozniks of the vicinity travelling by auto and truck owned by their farm, to attend the performances. At the kolkhoz “Path of Tlych” in Riazon district, central Russia, there is a dramatic circle of 42 members, the majority middle-aged farmers. This item came to my attention because it was announced through the press that the chair- man of this dramatic class had re- ceived a bonus of 1,000 rubles for his good work. He is a former agri- cultural laborer, named. Sadin. Delivery Complete Mention has been made before of the fact that the delivery of grain to the state is now practically complete—it was completed by 97.8 per cent on Oct. 20—and that as fast as the state delivery, which is a Telatively small fixed amount which must be sold at standard prices to the state to insure no lack of food World Front ——By HARRY GANNES ——1 Roosevelt’s Victory In World Perspective Fascist Praise HY, it must be asked, should the so-called demo« cratic elections in the U. S., which resulted in a landslide for Roosevelt, evoke the warmest praise from the fas- cist forces throughout the world? The main reason, of course, ig Roosevelt's remarkable ability to mask his rapid strides toward fas cism with the most brazen demos cratic demagogy and shameless promises. From that distance which lends enchantment, the European capi- talist press is able to view the sige nificance of Roosevelt's election vic- tory with much of the fumes of election promises, and the tons of opium propaganda for the masses, blotted out. ‘Their political tele- Scopes can visualize only the main trends; and they are not mistaken about them. ee hed = 'HE Hitler press hailed the victory of Roosevelt as a gain for world fascism. “One often hears Roose- velt spoken of as a ‘dictator,’” edi- torializes the Fascist Berliner Tage- blatt. “He has now won the power of a dictator without giving them the name. Now he has the liberty of acting.” “Roosevelt's victory,” writes the Wiener Zeitung, official organ of the murderers of the Austrian workers, “was also a victory for a government of authority.” tee ‘HE French press estimates the elections as a vote against capi- talism, but in favor of an individual who is doing everything in his power to save the profit system, “It is to the man and not to the system that the confidence of American citizens went,” wrote the leading French journalist, Jules Sauerwein in “Paris Soir.” Taking up this thread of thought quite independently, the organ of British finance capital, of the chief imperialist slaveholders, the Lon- don Times declared: “President Roosevelt is laboring to make the system of private en- terprise workable by purging it of the abuses. Leaders in business and finance, if wise, will bow to the inevitable and co-operate with the President in making the system workable as the means of preserv- ing it.” @) oe F' course, this advice is to a re= stricted circle, mainly to the Lib- erty Leaguers, as the great bulk of American finance capital long ago saw what the Times seems to sce now, and recognized in Roosevelt's program basically the most strin- gent and drastic means to save capitalism at the expense of low- ering the workers’ living standard. In its later estimates, the British ruling class saw in Roosevelt's clec- tion victory the peculiar contradic- tion that out of this democratic landslide the forces of fascism in the United States would be im- measurably strengthened. Now to the British exploiters the study of how to use democratic forms to cover fascist content is very im- portant, as they have just put over a very vicious fascist measure themselves yesterday, signed and sealed by parliament and endorsed by the former Socialist, Ramsay MacDonald. By a vote of 241 to 65 the House of Commons only a week before Roosevelt got his land- slide passed the Sedition Bill, which is a flexible fascist weapon by means of which at any time, under the guise of protecting soldiers and sailors from being seduced by Com- munist propaganda, can clamp down on all revolutionary propa- ganda and meetings. eee ae 'HE bill makes it a crime even to possess literature which might, if read by a member of the armed forces of his Britanic Majesty, make him less willing to serve his mas- After studying British estimates of the U. S. elections, Harold E. Scarborough, Herald-Tribune Lon- don correspondent, sums up his in- vestigations in an article that is headed: “British Believe Poll Heads U. S. to Dictatorship.” “If, in private conversation with English friends,” writes Mr. Scar- borough, “one points out that the President still consults the will of the people as expressed through the ballot boxes, he is likely to get the answer: ‘But so does Hitler.’ It among the city population, is com- pleted, much larger amounts of grain are sold by the collective farmers, either as individuals sell- ing what is distributed to them in accordance with the amount of work they have put in, or by yol- untary lumping together of these amounts in sales to state flour mill organizations or co-operatives. It is interesting to see that altho the greater part of this results in purchases by the individual collec- tive farmers of consumers ’ , shoes, dresses, suits, household uten- sils, and articles of luxury, musical instruments, bicycles, etc., so many kolkhozes have voted portions of these funds for kolkhoz improve- ments that it has posed a new prob- lem before the state heavy industry. Kolkhozes are demanding lumber, iron, roofing, building iron, cement, in enormous quantity. These are all reasons for the rush to the kolkhozes. Lumber Union Raided In the Northwest COCHRANE, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 11.—The headquarters of the lumber strikers was raided here last week, smashed, and the strikers driven out of town by hordes of Provincial police, aided by armed hooligans wearing white arm bands. While raids continue here, sev- eral carloads of police and their unofficial assistants have left for the outlying picket lines at Jack- sonboro and Stimson. Strike com- mittee leaders have been arrested, the strikers’ relief kitchen smashed, and homes of strikers’ raided. should be understood,” he adds, “that in expressing such a view- point the British manifest no hos- tility toward the President.” In fact, we could say to Mr. Scar- borough, your influential friends ducedly admire him for his ability to speed fascist developments while at the same time giving the appear- ance of staying within the clap- trap of the democratic trimmings which conceal the advance of the dictatorship of finance capital to- ward its more open and brutal forms. TAKE A BOW! Along with a $1 contribution, Sam Banks of New Rochelle sends thir bit to World Front: “Your colume has contributed greatly to my poly tical education. You have reveale from time to time facts which have substantiated more firmly my revo- lutionary ideas.” Quota $500. Ben Smith .. Pen & Hammer Economic Comm. ...... ws. 6,00 Previousiy received idee 5 169.07 Total to date .. sees $176,007 Greetings Sent to U.S.A. From Biro-Bidjan on So'viet Anniversary BIRO-BIDJAN, Nov. 11 (By wires less)—In the midst of many con- certs and fetes honoring the shock brigaders and red army soldiers of the Jewish autonomeus province everybody here sends Seventeenth Anniversary greetings to our com- rades in America. Everyone is in the most splendid spirits. (Signed) SERGEI RADAMSKY, :