The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1984 mo Daily QWorker | SEWTRAL ORGAM COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE | COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING. CO., INC., 50 E, 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. & | Daily Newspaper” | “Daiw New York Press Bu ne: National 7 | 708, Chicago, Tl. Subscription Rates: | except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 yeat, $6.00; | $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. n, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00: 3 months, $3.00 By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1934 23 Days Left ECEMBER 7 is the date set when the | State of Alabama intends to strap | Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris | into the electric chair. This leaves 23 days in which to stop the hand of the executioner. The International Labor Defense, which has been the bulwark of the boys’ defense from the day three and a half years ago when the I. L. D. sounded the first world alarm at the monstrous lynch plot, has taken every possible legal step to carry the fight tc the Supreme Court. All the | legal papers and appeals have been filed, and the best legal defense possible stands ready to wage the Scottsboro fight in the Supreme Court, where the case will probably be heard in a few days. Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris must not die! The Supreme Court is, of course, an integral part of the whole judicial system which sentenced the boys to die. The Supreme Court, in the last | analysis, is subservient to the needs and commands of the American ruling class, the class which is sup- ported by the lynch system. We must fight for the Scottsboro boys within the Supreme Court. But we cannot have any illusions that this fight can alone wrest the boys from the hands of the lynch- ers The Leibowitz plottings and attacks against the 1. L, D. Scottsboro defense, his treachery and betray- als, together with the reactionary elements among the Negro churches and groups, have made a tem- | porary division in the ranks of the Scottsboro de- fense front. But already visible signs of disintegra- tion are appearing within the ranks of the ene- | mies of the Scottsboro I. L. D. defense as a result, | primarily, of the merciless exposure by the I. L. D. and the Daily Worker and Negro Liberator of the Leibowitz treachery and the mass pressure which has been exerted upon them from the Negro people. HE approach of the execution day, the growing dissension in the ranks of the Leibowitz traitors, and the tremendous feeling among the masses, Negro and white, makes the present moment. vital for the throwing of all our forces into the Scotts- boro fight. All forces for the Scottsboro boys will be mobilized in a nation-wide Scottsboro week from Nov. 26 to Dec. 8, In these seven days, the country must resound with every possible mass action demanding the freedom of the Scottsboro boy: Mass meetings in the streets, protest. marches, every possible form of dramatizing the struggle for the boys’ liberation must be employed. Funds should be rushed to the offices of the I. L. D. at 799 Broadway, New York City. In these actions it is the broadest united front of every honest person who is eager to work for the liberation of the boys that must be built. Every sincere person, those who have been temporarily confused or misled by the Leibowitz maneuvers, members of the church and ministers’ groups must be approached with proposals for united front ac- tions. Prepare for Scottsboro Week for nation-wide struggle against the December 7 executions! Close ranks against the lynchers and their agents! Fight New Moves for Cheap Labor ANY employers are now threatening to move or are actually moving their factories, in an effort to increase. profits by escaping from union agreements. In the A, and P. case, in the present dye strike in Paterson, in the pocketbook makers’ strike, | and in New England many shoe shop owners have | tried to reduce wages through making threats to | moye out. In the industries such as knitting and fur dressing, shops have already moved. The moving of plants to non-union fields, with employers breaking “sacred” contracts, is a part of the present anti-labor drive of the employers and the gevernment. It has the purpose of smashing the unions and blacklisting union mem- bers; and at the same time of decreasing wages and enforcing a cheaper living standard on the workers, These firms move to sections where they think it possible to get cheap, unorganized labor. The chief weapon of the workers in combatting this form of union smashing is to follow the moved plants and quickly organize the new workers into the union. The organization of the unorganized will prevent the employers from lowering the whole Standard of living of the workers by wage-cut drives carried through by moving into non-union fields. The Americ§n Federation of Labor officialdom has not met this widespread problem. An immedi- ate organization drive and the sending out of field Organizers to moved plants, would go a long way toward solving the problem. Instead, the Green bu- reaucracy, as in the case of the A. and P., in the face of the threat of moving, made concessions to the A. and P. which were detrimental to the workers. One danger in relation to this problem is the | spreading of illusions by the N. R. A. that they are supporting the union workers. The New York N. R. A. made a hypocritical decision in the case of fur dressing concerns which broke their contract | and moved from New York to Connecticut and ; Long Island, ruling that the ninety workers in- volved must be taken back. Actually, the N. R. A. decisions such as this are never lived up-to, and serve to keep the workers from taking action themselves, while the concerns are moving. The facts are that it is through the N. R. A. boards of Roosevelt that the whole wage-cutting, anti-union drive of the employers are being car- ried through. 2e only effective weapon in the hands of the workers is their own organized strength. Picketing, mos} pressure,-and. extension “of the union to. the unorganized fields is the answer of the unions to this form of anti-union wage-cutting migration of employers, > 5 The Red Cross Shakedown | HE big guns have opened for the Red Cross drive. The Roosevelt government has oiled allits propaganda machines. Mrs. Roose- velt has made radio speeches. Other not- ables of the capitalist world will make radio speeches. And the great annual shakedown will be on. For that is just what the Red Cross drive actually is—a shakedown of the American people for one of the most gigantic rackets in the country. The Red Cross is not a relief organization. The revelations made by John L. Spivak in the current issue of the American Mercury show the Red Cross collecting $3,500,000 for “relief” and spending $2,500,000 for the support of a swollen, official machinery of capitalist officeholders. The Red Cross is part of the Roosevelt war machine. The Red Cross is a constant sluice of patriotic’ propaganda on how nice it is to die for the defense of Morgan-Rockefeller profits and in- vestments, The Red Cross acts with great eagerness as a strikebreaker, letting starving workers and their families go hungry when they dare to strike for better conditions. Yesterday Senator Borah demanded an investi- gation of the whole Roosevelt relief machinery, charging that huge sums never got to those for whom it was intended, the jobless and destitute. Borah pointed out that the “shameless waste” of relief funds extends to every government agency. But an investigation will not clean up the ill- Smelling mess of Red Cross and government relief. This mess is part of the whole capitalist “charity” system, Where the workers themselves do not have charge of fhe distribution of relief, the vultures and buzzards of capitalism will quickly gather. The Mooney Writ AFTER eighteen years of unceasing mass agitation for the unconditional release of Tom Mooney, the United States Supreme Court has seen fit to peer into the case officially by ordering the Cali- fornia authorities to show cause why a writ of habeas corpus in Mooney’s behalf should not be granted. This does not, of course, signify that the august sentinel of capitalist justice has decided to liberate this brave working-class fighter. It means only that the mass demand for Mooney has reached such pro- portions that the cry for Mooney’s freedom can not much longer be ignored. For 18 years Mooney has been the victim of one of the cruellest, most vicious frame-ups in the his- tory of the class struggle in America. The fine art of perjury was never more effectively utilized by the capitalists of California than in the case of Mooney and his co-defendant, Warren K. Billings. And never has a frame-up been more effectively ex- posed as a mountain of lies. Every important prosecution witness, bought and paid for by the utility interests of California, has either confessed or been revealed as a perjuror— the dope fiend McDonald, the prostitute Estelle Smith, and the rest of the sordid procession which took the witness stand in the plot to hang Mooney. Let those who still have illusions in the “jus- tice” of the capitalist courts bear in mind that ten of the living jurors who convicted Mooney now declare that he should be freed; that even the judge who presided in his trial insists that Mooney was railroaded on perjured evidence. But evidence alone means nothing to the jailors of Tom Mooney. From the day — back in 1917— when Russian workers under the leadership of Lenin demonstrated before the American consulate in Petrograd, to the latest mass protest meeting of workers, the only force that has brought the libera- tion of Mooney closer has been the organized pro- test Movement of the working class. The millions throughout the world who have been battling for Mooney’s freedom must force the agen- cies of capitalist “justice” to liberate this working- man in San Quentin, who has become a glowing symbol of the proletariat. Let there be no illusions in the “impartiality” and generosity of the United States Supreme Court. Now, more than ever, it is imperative that the mil- lions of workers throughout the country raise such a mighty voice of protest that even the black-robed agents of the -capitalist. class sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court will be unable to ignore. it! Block the Sales Tax! VERY possible force in the New York District of the Communist Party must oe mobilized at once to defeat the La- Guardia plans for taxation on the com- monest articles of mass consumption for the purpose of financing unempioyment relief. Protest resolutions echoing the mass resent- ment of the working class against any attempts to further tax the masses, petitions circulated in the neighborhoods and signed by hundreds of thousands of the population, who will brook no additional taxation, must immediatezy pour into City Hall. Resolutions and mass delegations must immedi- ately swamp each of the members of the Board of Aldermen and of the Board of Apportionment and Estimate. The Communist Party has in addition called upon all its members in the Unemployment Coun- cils to initiate mass meetings on a neighborhood scale in protest against attempts to tax the working population further. In mobilizing the workers against the LaGuardia schemes to follow the dictates of the bankers on relief financing and for slashing relief, the Com- munist Party clearly enunciates its program for relief—taxes where they belong Py This program of taxation calls for steeply gradu- ated taxes on the large incomes and inheritances, on the super-profits of the industrialists and the public utilities, on stock transfers, and on large realty holdings and business and office sites. Side by side with this, the Communist Party demands complete abrogation of the Four-Year Bankers’ Agreement, which reserves 25 million dollars a year, and an end to the payments on the debt service. The last item alone provides payment of 180 mil- lion dollars to the bankers in 1935 under the La- Guardia budget. On the basis of these tax plans, cutting deeply into the profits of the owning class, the Communist Party. demands a standard of relief compatible with the rising cost of living, and union wages and con- ditions on the relief jobs, Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. ADDRESS... | Party Life | | Cleveland Y. C. L. |Demands Action |In Open Letter IOMRADES: We demand action! You will remember that in the | Ohio District Resolution and the |Four Month Control Plan adopted at the Conference, August 25-26, |1934, the following point was | stressed “ ... the winning of the | working class youth is a primary |task of the whole party.” (INTO MASS WORK.) With full recognition of the seri- ousness of the situation as regards the size of the Y. C. L. the Party resolved to prepare a plan which would result in enlarging the mem- bership of the League to FIVE HUNDRED IN DISTRICT SIX! HOW IS THIS TO BE DONE? “The fulfillment of this task .., involves the giving of systematic assistance and guidance to the Young Communist League, the Party’s assistance in the fight for Socialism. ... Every Party unit, and every Party member must help the Y. C. L, to carry out this basic task.” (Bittelman: Communist Party in Action.) Comrades of the Party, how many of you in Section Two have read and agreed with Com- rade Bittelman’s statement? Why are there no Party members | actually working with League mem- bers, from day to day? Why are no Party members present at the meet- ings of the Section Committee of the League or at unit meetings? Let us examine a little further. We know that organizationally the | “PLEASE HELP!” League is independent of the Party. |But is it not also subordinate to |the Party which “ ... helps and corrects the League in its work among the proletarian youth.” Also there is “... complete freedom to, criticize their mistakes (League) in| |a comradely manner. We must not} flatter the Youth.” Lenin: Commu- | nist, Jan., 1934.) | How strange this sounds. Today | \there is no help. No corrections. | No criticism. No comradeliness. Do we need help? In Section 2’s terri- tory we have only three units of 29 members with a Party section of 200. Not a single member of the Y. C. L. section committee a Party member and it is our task to see that we build a strong Party core in our section, but this core will not take the place of Party reps, te the section and the units. Comrades: It is over six months now that there has been no contact between the Party and the League in Section Two. Some, if not many |of our new recruits have not taken part in any struggles or actions which the Communist Party has led. We are forced to rely on stray leaflets to let us know when we can take part in some activity which may enable us to build the League. Party members are fast asleep when it comes to the matter of re- cruiting for the League. A casual visit to the Single Worker’s Club on 105th netted the League two mem- bers and two prospects. And the Party has a fraction in this club! RESPONSIBILITY MUST BE PLACED AND A CHANGE MADE! We believe the above statements clearly indicate the criminal and dangerous neglect of the League by \the Party in Section Two. We de- mand action! Rectify this situa- tion! We propose as follows: 1, Immediately assign respon- sible and capable comrades from the Section Committee of the Party to work with the Section Committee of the League. 2. Immediately put Party com- rades to work with’ the various League units. 3. All comrades of League age to be put into the League, take out League books, and their Party work, YOUTH work not agit- props of the Party, etc., for what more important task is there than the winning of the working class youth? We shall submit soon a list of all comrades of League age to the Party in Section 2 and Sec- tion 14. We suggest that you indulge in |Some Bolshevik self-criticism and |hope relations between the Commu- nist Party and the Y. C. L. in Sec- | tion Two will change for the better. |Forward to a mass Young Commu- nist League! SECTION TWO, Y. C. L. District Six, Cleveland. ae Oe COMRADE has just sent us this jeter which he received from a young sympathizer, whom he is try- ing to persuade to join the Young Communist League. The letter speaks for itself and needs no com- ment from us. We hope that the Brooklyn unit to which it refers will take note of it. This column re- ceives sO many letters. from Y.C.L.- ers complaining about disorderly and disorganized’ unit meetings, that this would almost seem to be a universal disease of Y. C. L. units. But we hope that all Y. C. L. units are not so lacking in friendliness and so careless in their approach to new members and sympathizers, “Though my sympathies are wholly and entirely with the Com- munist Party, I must admit that |they received a serious jolt the other day. As you know, I attend school every evening except Friday. Monday I cut classes so that I | could visit the Y. C. L. group in my neighborhood, and see the Young Communists in their own element. Al and I went together. When we arrived there, the meeting was in full session. We were unaware of the fact, because there was a great deal of disorder. Lack of discipline was the main factor which caused my leaving the Y. P. S. L. I was very disappointed to find the same | disorder and confusion prevalent in the Y. C. L. The atmosphere was distinctly unfriendly. We were new there, and the members were aware of the fact. They stared at us hos- tilely for a few brief moments, and then resumed their own little con- versations. We sat patiently, still under the impression that the meet- ing had not yet started. Then one young man shouted: ‘Comrades, we are going to hear the hunger marchers speak. If the meeting has sterted, be orderly.’ up. Nothing loth, Al and I followed suit. We asked one comrade where we were going. He was noncommit- tal. ‘Just. follow the crowd,’ he sug- CONFIDENTIAL! Comrade Burck confided to us yesterday that the encouraging response of Daily Worker readers in helping him achieve his $1,000 quota in the fi- nancial drive is proving a great stimulus in his work. He hopes that the cartoons inspired by this response Fran apasad Geo Morphis F. & F, Dormand Hyman Hirschhorn Unit 2, Section Karl Marx Study Group Previously receiv: Everyone got | his pictures are worth looking at! will yet convince his nearly three-year-old son that Total to date by Burck Gurek, Burek wifl give the original drawing of his cartoon to the highest contributor each day towards his quots of $1,tv. 14% 5 Quota. ...$1,000. By VERN SMITH MOSCOW, Noy. 13.—While I was | waiting recently in the office of the| organization department of the Moscow Soviet to ask a question on some other matter, I heard an ani- mated conversation at a desk near- by. The woman seated at the desk seems to have been an organizer of special courses of instruction given by the Soviet. The man she was talking with was a deputy to the Soviet. The organizer wanted to know why he was persistently absent from the study course to which he was assigned. Was he dissatisfied with the course? Did he want to change to another, more useful to him? The man made answer that he couldn’t attend the courses because he had to take his children to the kindergarten at the time the classes met. The organizer insisted that he} should have notified the Soviet, that azrangements could have been made | for somebody else.to conduct the \children to the kindergarten, that probably another course, meeting at \2 different time, could have been selected, and that it was the duty of all deputies to the Soviet to qualify themselves to do the work- ers’ business. Political Courses The facts came out during their conversation that the courses teach Soviet law, especially labor protec- tion and tzade laws, that they teach the details of Soviet, union, Party and government industrial organi- zation structure, that they teach accounting, and various practical technique for a deputy. Included in the latter was public speaking, cor- Trespondence for newspapers, meth- by a friend of his. He spoke for awhile \briefily, and then we re- sumed our way. We continued, to walk, when Al spied three fellows he had seén at the meeting. He ap- proached them, asking for direc- tions. They di not pause, but went jcalmly on their way. The comrade ;to whom Al had spoken said in a loud voice to his friends, ‘They've probably just joined.’ The tone of contumely was deliberately adopted. He then added something under his breath, which did not reach us but did meet with the approval of the other two. One laughed in a man- ner which was suggestive enough to make me furiously angry, and said, ‘You didn’t use the right word.’ Needless to say, we did not follow them, but turned away and walked off in a different direction. “Tt will be hard for you to be- lieve this. I should have questioned the sanity of my senses had I been alone. But Al will confirm all that Ihave said. You can understand, of course, that the attitude described will not win friends for the Com- munist Party. The doctrines of Communism have been inculcated in me and have imbedded them- selves so firmly that this incident will not turn me away from my be- liefs. But, and perhaps this is more serious than it sounds, I am afraid that it will detor me from joining any Y. C. L. group. I prefer wait- ing another year and then aliying Flectivns Ave Political School For Workers ods of conducting meetings, meth- ods of organizing the work of “sec- tionnaires,” that is, of the volun- teers from the mass of non-mem- bers of the Soviet help the Soviets. in their work. The courses teach the deputies how to conduct a “political five minutes” among workers, a short meeting. between shifts or during the noon hour on matters of importance before the country. Other courses are designed to ex- plain to the deputy himself the reason for some of the policies of the government and Communist Party. One course which these iwo were discussing was designed to answer the question, “Why do we have a working week of five days, and rest on the sixth day?” As this is written, the newspapers announce that special eight months’ courses for old members of Moscow City Soviet have 132 students, who will graduate next July. They also announce that preparations are made for new courses to be given 500 newly. elected Soviet members as soon as their elections are com- pleted. Representatives Remain Workers The Soviet member does not re- tire to an office when elected, sit there and become a bureaucrat, as do in capitalist countries the mem- bers of city councils, parliaments, congresses and legislatures. The Soviet member remains a worker, and continues to earn his living as he did before election. But he be- comes very much a part of the gov- ernment, an agent of the enforce- ment of law, and of government assistance to the industry, of im- provement in living conditions, and a force for progress. At this time, when elections are being prepared for, all members of the government are passing under review; the meetings of the Soviets and of their volunteer assistants are preparing regular character studies of the Soviet members, Some of these show what is regarded as good and what is considered bad work by an elected worker. They snow what the working class expects of | the government, not only in the | big things, the matters of large scale construction and production and “government” generally where the government owns everything, but also in the little matters of de- tailed enforcement of decisions, and every day working out of the pro- gram of progzess. Women Prominent From the Moscow Soviet I got these two “characterizations.” The deputy Kurdomassova, a woman textile worker, a weaver in the Markey factory, is not a Communist Party member, and is only barely literate. | Three years ago she was elected ;to the City Soviet, and began work- ing in a brigade organized under the leadership of a more advanced deputy, checking up on the quality of production in textile mills. She learned rapidly, and finally becane leader of such a brigade (composed of deputies and volunteers) herself. Finally she was placed in charge of the inspection of the whole group myself with the Party proper. If these be our future leaders, I am gested. On the way, Al was stopped worried about Soviet America.” s| of factories and auxiliary plants of also non-Party, is praised for her! work as a brigadier of the group inspecting the stockings factories. Her most famous feat was the gath- ering of a mass of arguments and the organization of a successful campaign to change for the better the form of organization of indus- try. She succeeded in getting two other mills attached to the knit goods factory “trust” in Moscow (the so-called “trust” is the state administzation of the knit goods factories in this locality). One of them is a plant in Podolsk which manufactures spare parts of knitting machinery. The other is a factory that makes yarn especially suitable for stockings, ment of worn parts and: less nego- tiation and red tape in getting tinese parts to the places where they are needed, and it guarantees the sort of yarn needed for special types of knitting, instead of any sort of yarn that might be available. The workers are not slow to criti-' those who deserve such criticism, the workers know what they want from their elected representatives. The’ papers are printing many such letters from workers as the foilow- ing, from a member of the Trans- port Department of the Hammer and Sickle steel mill in Moscow: “We have a member of the Soviet, Comrade Kayenoy. Everybody will say of him that he has justified his title of deputy and workers’ repre- sentative. He worked at the potato warehouse and helped to keep the vegetables in good condition through the winter. He was attached to in- spect Store No. 100, and the store became much cleaner and its work moze efficient. He took patronage over a kolkhoz (collective farm) near the city, and the kolkhozniks benefited immediately. He organized brigades of workers to go and help them (with their machinery, etc.). “But if you ask me about an- other member of the Soviet, Sokolov, I will ask you how that man dares to show himself at the electicns. On his job he is not a udaznik (shock worker). His locomotive very often breaks down. “In Sokolov’s department, there was a swindle, due to the writing down of more hours of work than were actually worked in this de- partment. Sokolov did not expese this misstatement of the accounts. “We builta house for udarniks. Sokolov did not spend his time as he should have, making sure that the best udarniks would be assigned apartments in this house. Instead, he tried to get one of the apart- ments for himself, though investi- gation shows that he has perfectly suitable quarters already. “Such people are only by accident in the Soviet. We should think twice before we vote for such a man.” This particular example of free speech was printed in the “Work- ers’ Moscow,” a daily paper with a huge circulation, Oct. 23. All three of the examples given above, examples which might be multiplied by thousands, show what the workers expect of their govern- ment representatives, in addition to the textile industry in Moscow. The deputy Pankina, a housewife, the main bus’ness of legislation and ie cae of laws, S cize both favorably and unfavorably | » old child in his arms ran out of the World Front ——By HARRY GANNES -——' | Spanish Atrocities . Nazi Answers Nazi f Why the Delay? i, (0 ONE knows a genuimeé atrocity better than the German Nazis, and when their experts declare that the reports of fiendish acts sup posed to have been commit: ted by Spanish revolutionists are false, that is indeed news. At the height of the fighting in Asturias, the fascist press in Mae drid printed atrocity stories whole- sale, among which were the usual reports of the raping of nuns, burn- ‘ ing of priests, ete. The German H Nazi press was not behind-hand in i blazoning these lies across its i pages in order to discredit Commu- & nists and Socialists. On October 30, however, the Nazi “Frankfurter Zeitung” published a dispatch from J its Madrid correspondent (not, of course, in as conspicuous @ place as it had published the previous atro- city reports), which read as follows: “A typical example of the effects of ‘war psychosis’ is furnished by the report seized upon abroad and widely commented on, to the effect ¥ that 25 or 30 children—relations of the gendarmerie troops—had had their eyes put out. The anti-repub- lican press contrived to keep the whole population at a high pitch of excitement for some time with this atrocity fairy tale, which awakens recollections of the calumnies to which Germany was exposed during the great war..The very day and hour when the unhappy children were to arrive in Madrid was actu- ally announced by these’ papers. The children were awaited in vain, and from that time onwards there has been no further mention of them. Other papers, which pub- lished a number of reports on al- leged acts of vengeance against po- lice troops, have since backed out of what were obviously the imaginings of hysteria. Nor is anything more heard of the nuns once reported to have been raped, or dragged by the hair through the streets behind mo- tor lorries. “The press and its correspond- ents, spreading all these fantastic tales, have failed to bring proof of any of them. All mention has been dropped of the priests alleged to have been martyred and burned alive—only ‘El Debate,’ the leading organ of ecclesiastical circles, gives today the name of a priest about whom ‘all signs go to show’ that these assertions apply to him. Many of the clergy about whom the wild- est rumors have been circulated, jhave meanwhile returned safe and sound to their homes.” il eee ‘UT now we learn of a number of children who did arrive when scheduled to arrive. And.they are in the Soviet Union & 2 orc e's against fascism. On October 28, 91 workers’ children arrived at Palen- cia from Grade. All of them were left. entirely without parents, and were starving to death. They range from three to ten years of age. Now, on the same day the Nazi correspondent was wiring his paper in Berlin admitting the atrocity stories against priests, nuns and po- lice were all lies, Jay Allen, Madrid correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, cabled his paper of the frightful tortures, murders and rob- beries committee against the revo- lutionists by the Spanish Foreign Legion in Ovieda. When it came to the most brutal stories, the Daily News comments parenthetically as follows: “Censor at this point in the transmission of this dispatch cuts in with a warn- This guarantees rapid replace-|ing that the Madrid correspondent of the Chicago Daily News be care- ful as to what he said,” wo ese IR. ALLEN got his story from a friend of his, a native of Ovi- eda, and we quote only part of his tale: “There were many corpses piled for days. While the Moors were searching, a man with a four-year- house. The Moors fired. He hid among the corpses. A Moor came up and shot him. . .. So on up the street of tragedy of ten houses within 600 feet I found not one without marks of the passing through Asturias of these mercena- ries, Moors recruited to fight against their own people and riff- raff of all nations who found asy- lum in the Foreign Legion. ... A rooust woman of 40 comes to me, tears in her eyes. She says her name is Delfina del Valle, a sister of Vincente del Valle, who was shot dead. “My brother was an honest man and took no part in politics, she says. ‘He is a cider merchant and we had in the house 7,500 pesetas to buy his fall stock. The Moors took every cent of it.’ oe “She wept, and then, getting her= self, under control, said with calm: ‘Ill go to jail for this, but take down what I say. If there is an- other revolutionary movement in Asturias I myself will take a gun and I'll fight until the last Moor is vanquished.” “Why, said an old _man now alone, ‘should these’ people come here and destroy what little faith we have left in God and his laws?’ ” Here is the situation from capi- talist sources biased in favor of cap- italist rule, and certainly not hos> tile to fascism. The Spanish jails are crowded to the rafters with So- cialists, Communists, Syndicalists, All of Spain is seething with dis- content, waiting for the next wave of revolutionary struggles agains? the fascist dogs. i i } j ' “READABLE AND INFORMING” With a recent contribution of $2.52, D. H. and R. H. Ashley of Wabash, Ind., wrote: “We learn so much from your column on world effairs—it is so readable and in- , forming.” Perhaps such appreciative j followers of “World Front” can in- duce others to read the Daily Werker, and contribute toward Ccmrade Gannes’ $500 quota. -” Dermand Family .....¢00+..$1 Office Worker C. K. Previously received ...,+ Total to date ....+.++../: 8180.07