The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, YORK, WEDNESD NOVEMBER 21, 1934 - Socialists and Communists Unite for Unemployed Congress BOTH GROUPS PLAN PERMANENT ON UNEMPLOYMENT United Front Established a Month Ago In Canan- daigua Moves Into Action To Get Endorse” ments for Social Insurance CANANDAIGUA, N. The Socialist Party and the Communist Party of Ontario county are putting the united front formed a month ago into action around the National Congress for U: nemployment and Social In- surance, which will be held in Washington, D. C., on Jan. 5, 6 and 7, 1935. Both parties are? actively building a broad, repre- sentative Inter-County Sponsoring Committee for the Congress, with tentative plans for making it a per- manent organization for unemploy- ment and social insurance. ‘The sponsoring committee is call- ing a conference of workers and fraternal organizations of Lyons, Seneca and Ontario counties to be held in Geneva, Ontario County, on Sunday, Dec. 16. Plans will be made at the conference for the election and sending of local dele- gates to the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance. The con- ference will also lay plans for a broad, democratic, united organiza- tion to carry on the fight for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill and for popularizing the ques- | tion of unemployment insurance | among the workers and farmers in} the three counties. Special efforts are being made to} get all locals of the American Fed- eration of Labor to endorse the! Workers’ Bill and the National! Congress call, and to elect dele-| gates to the National Congress. Relief Increase Won CANANDAIGUA, N. Y., Nov. 20. —A 20 per cent increase in food allowances was granted by the wel- fare department of Ontario County beginning this week, as a result of the continued fight for more relief by the workers and the unemployed under the leadership of the Ontario | County Unemployment Council and the Relief Workers’ League. | Determined fighting committees to. the welfare offices in the cities| and townships of the county, dele- gations to the meetings of the) Common Councils and Boards of Supervisors have resulted in the in- | crease. The unemployed workers | are by no means satisfied with this| niggardly increase, and are carry-| ing forward the struggle for still| more adequate rélief and for the enactment of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, which pro- vides cash benefit payments equal | to local average wages to all the present unemployed. | Monopoly Lawyer | Aids NRA Trickery (Continued from Page 1) | | are trying to substitute the so- called housing program's aid to mortgage and real estate dealers for | all relief. | 2. Federal Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins hinted that he is pknning to “wipe out” relief to the rural unemployed, saying he thinks that the “rural rehabilita- tion” program “can virtually wipe ou.” the need for relief. This pro- gram forces upon rural families the feudal bondage of working simulta- neously in agriculture and extra- low-wage industry. Relief Cuts Loom Thus new straws were added to those already in the wind, point- ing directly to the Roosevelt Ad- ministration’s determination to cut relief measures below the present subsistence level under the pretense of helping private industry to give jobs instead. It is thoroughly understood here that private industry is ready to “co-operate” in this effort—but on condition that wages are reduced in the construction indusiry as it furnishes work under the housing program. President Roosevelt per- sonally laid the groundwork for this weeks ago, when he told newspaper writers that guaranteeing net an- nual income is more important than the actual hourly wage rates. To illustrate, the President cited an example of some auto workers who receive pay at the rate of more than $1 an hour—a wage unusually high but resulting in low annual income because the worker gets, at best, only irregular employment. Since then, the press and pub- lic speakers have been waging a campaign for lowering wages, espe- cially in construction, under the Slogan of thereby providing more work and more annual earnings. Laber experience has shown that such drives result in lowering wage rates—without increasing the amount of work, and with conse- quent reduction in the living stand- ard. It has been demonstrated also that wage cuts in construction are | followed by general slashes. Gives Blanket Endorsement Of all this President Green said | nothing. Rather he gave the hous- ing program a blanket endorsement, declaring that its ramifications are “almost infinite,” that it is “open- ing the door of employment to mil- lions long idle,” and that “it will be of immense aid in reducing unem— ployment in the months ahead if we can break down unreasonable prejudice against buildin; in Win- tex.” ‘Again, ignoring the wage-cutting drive, which is known to be in the offing by everyone in the capital, c 1 otared: “The building dol- Ws is a busy dollar. It i. not ‘hid- den in a bush’ or buried in a vault. 66.” | a half million men, the group to as- | gas and flame in 1932. |the Kuomintang official press | ditsricts, the Soviet government of Big Trusts Move — To Hire Butler (Continued from Page 1) | Andes Copper Mining Co., the U. S. and Foreign Securities Corp., the} Fifth Ave, Bus Securities Corp., and | numerous other corporations. One of the subsidiaries of the| Bethlehem Steel Corporation is the; Bethlehem Shipyard Corporation,| which is constructing ships for the} U. S. Navy as part of the present | naval building program. Recently: the company sent Admiral Dungan | of the New York Navy Yard in| Brooklyn to the yards to supervise the construction of the vessels. MacGuire told Butler that $3,000,- | 000 is “on the line” to start the or- ganization. His program involved | Smediley’s leading a soldier army of semble in Washington one year| from now and take over the func- tions of the government within a few days after their arrival. He was further told that if he, Butler, did not take the job of be- ing the “man on the white horse,” that there were two alternative can- didates — one of them, General! Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff! of the United States, who drove the| Bonus Arihy out of Camp Anacos-| tia in Washington with bayonets,! The other prospective candidate was Hanford | MacNider, former commander of the | American Legion. Gen. Smedley declared that at one point in his negotiations with MacGuire, the latter came into his hotel room and offered him $18,000 for “expenses” if Smedley would go to Chicago and make a speech in favor of the gold standard. Later he learned, Smedley declares, that the speech was written by John W. Davis. Democratic candidate for President in 1924, Davis, an attorney for the Morgan interests, is himself a leading capi- talist, being a director of a num- ber of influential corporations, in- cluding the Guarantee Trust Co., the American Telephone and Tele- graph Co., the U. 8. Rubber Co., of which he is general counsel, and the Mutual Life Insurance Co. Butler relates that MacGuire pro- posed that the Secretary of State and Vice-President would be forced to resign, and that “President Roosevelt would probably allow McGuire’s group to appoint a Secre- tary of State.” MacGuire said that there was an imperative need for “a man on the white horse,” and declared, according to Butler, that “a show of armed force was the only way to save the capitalist sys- tem.” It appears that MacGuire had taken a long trip to dur- ing the spring and summer of 1934, where he studied fascist methods in Italy and Germany. Wall Street friends had put up the money, But- ler was informed. Although McGuire lamely denied Gen. Butler’s charges, Representa- tive Samuel Dickstein of the Con- gressional Committee which yester- day heard the testimony, declared that “from present indications, Gen. UNITY) Newark Holds United Protest On Fascism Communist and Socialist Youth Join in Mass Picket Line NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 20.—Sing- ing the International with fists up- raised in the Red Front salute, more than 1,000 workers under the joint leadership of the Young Commu- nist League and the Young People’s Socialist League brought to a con- clusion one of the most effective united front actions ever held in this part of the country. The members of the two groups merged in a mass picket line by prearrangement before the Church of the Redeemer at which the fas- cist propagandist, Lawrence Den- nis, appeared to make a plea for fascism at the invitation of Rev. Garner, pastor of the church. The clergyman, shaken by the storm of protest aroused by the announce- ment of the meeting, tried at the last minute to give it the semblance of a debate by inviting a Socialist fellow-minister, Dr. Frank B. King- don, to share the platform with Dennis. Despite the efforts at provocation by a large police mobilization and a handful of Trotzkyites, the picket line of 1,000 workers and students held their ground before the church building to the applause of the large crowd of workers from the dwellings in the neighborhood. The fighting spirit of the crowd reached its height when a band of 75 uniformed fascists marched into the church in semi-military forma- tion. Following the picketing the anti- fascist workers held a mass meeting at a nearby church. The meeting was addressed by Seymour Pilch, State Organizer of the Young Peo- ple’s Socialist League; Milton Fried- man of the Y, P. S. L., and Frank Carlson of the Young Communist League. Socialist and Communist speakers alike called on workers 1 /everywhere to regard the Newark | united front as an object lesson in unity, which would strengthen the jfight of the working class against 4,000 Join CCNY Anti-Fascist Strike (Continued from Page 1) Student League and the Student League for Industrial Democracy, took the stand, and speakers from other schools brought messages of support. Hailing the powerful strike crowd of 4,000, Joseph Cohen, national sec- retary of the N.S.L. said, “City Col- lege, by its great strike today is lead- ing the students of America in the fight against war and fascism. The students the nation over have been led to expect great things from the students of City College. Today you have more than satisfied their great expectations.” Effigy Burned Waldo McNutt speaking for the Student LID., called for “a na- tion-wide vigilance against the seeping of fascist doctrines into the campuses of America.” Edwin Alexander, the central figure in the anti-fascist campaign at the college, and other prominent expelled student leaders spoke. An ROTC man in uniform pledged the support of many in the corps in the struggle against fascism. A ten-foot dual effigy of President Robinson, and Mussolini, the official welcome to whose fascist emissaries on Oct. 9 was the opening event in the series of student-administration battles, was burned after an enthus- iastic vote on the matter had been taken by the assembled thousands. Concluding the day’s activities, a unanimous pledge was adopted to continue the fight “until every last vestige and manifestation of fascism Butler has the evidence correctly.” Chinese Soviets Enlarge Territory by Westward Move to Szechuan, Abandoning n, Turn Heralded ‘Defeat’ Into Big Gain! ‘OR more than a week now, the American press has been reporting the defeat of the Red Army of the Central Soviet District in Kiangsi, giving the impression that Chiang Kai Shek has wiped out the Soviets in China, The capitalist press in this country, supporting Roosevelt’s program of supplying Chiang Kai Shek with arms and bombing planes, puts itself at the service of agency, the Kuomin. The latest report comes from Hongkong by the New York Times correspondent Hallett Abend, a gentleman who I happen to know is personally an enemy of the Chi- nese Soviets. Mr. Abend’s cable states that after six years of fight- ing, the Red Army of Kiangsi prov- ince has virtually been wiped out. He declares it has been reduced from 100,000 to 10,000. These 10,000, he says, are “fleeing” to Szechuan | Province. A Strategic Move The truth of the situation is that because of the tremendous concen- tration of Kuomintang troops and more than 250 American bombing planes around th# Northern and Eastern border of the Central Soviet in City College was wiped out.” China and the Red Army have de- cided on a strategic move which will gain them more territory and put them in a more impregnable Position against the new methods of attack carried out by Chiang Kai Shek, chiefly with the aid of the Roosevelt government. The Red Army of Kiangsi early last month, with the support of the Red Army in Kweichow Province, made an attack on the Kwantung Kuomintang Army led by General Chen Chi Tang. The objective was to drive General Chen Chi Tang’s army to Suchow, open a path for a westward march, and to join forces with the Szechuan Red Army which was gaining victory after vic- tory. The movement was a com- plete success. General Chen Chi Tang was forced to entrench at Suichow, and the great bulk of the Red Army moved westward, pre- senting a greater threat to the Kuomintang and enlarging the total Soviet territory throughout China. This fact is admitted by the im- perialist press and by Chinese Kuo- mintang writers in China. What Chinese Press Says This does not mean that the So- viets in Kiangsi have been aban- doned. But i ad of massed war- fare, which drew the main fire of Chiang Kai Shek, the Soviets have Roosevelt Army Clique Forming Fascist Plans With Wall Street Banks As In Fascist Coups in Europe, High Military Men Come Forward in Machinations of Finance and State Exposed Positio | highest military cliques into th velt government, By Milton Howard The revelations of Major-General Smedley D. Butler on the Wall Street financing of an organized fascist military coup brings to light the swift emerging of the country’s e political arena of the Roose- As in the fascist coups of Italy, Germany and Austria, the military machine, which in ordinary times is kept discreetly in the background, is now involved in the political machina- tions of the most reactionary cliques of Wall Street finance capital. The name of General Smedley Butler as one of the proposed fas- cist chiefs confirms the trend of ever closer workings of the military machine with the financial cliques of Wall Street. Butler has played a special part in the development of the Army, acting as leader in the suppression of colonial peoples, and as an “op- position” to the “old school” in the Army. He has developed a special type of demagogy by which he at- tempts to place himself at the head | of the veterans. In the 1932 bonus fight, he urged the vets to disperse, thus playing his special role in the preparation for the subsequent mas- sacre. Later he acted as Police Chief of Philadelphia. MacArthur Tough Wall St. Servant The name of General Douglas MacArthur, now Roosevelt’s Chief of Staff, as one of those whose names were bandied about in the secret Wall Street fascist schemes as the one to be chosen as the “strong man” of American Fascism brings into the present political situation one of the most hard- bitten and ruthless of military servants of Wall Street. It was MacArthur who gave the command for the notorious “Thurs- day massacre” of the bonus march- ers of starving veterans who gath- ered in Washington in 1932. Mac- | Arthur personally supervised the burning of the veterans’ shacks and later issued a statement praising the tear gas and bayonet attack which cost the lives of two veterans and at least one child. The name of MacArthur has the Most sinister reactionary-military connotations in connection with the building up of the present record- breaking military machine and par- ticularly in the secret military prep- arations for intervention against the Soviet Union. Intervention against U. S. 8. R. In September, 1932, MacArthur spent several months on a military tour of the most reactionary conn- tries in Europe with the special purpose of studying their military and police machinery. MacArthur visited and viewed the army man- euvers of Poland, Roumania, and Czechoslovakia, He took part in the conference which Pilsudski’s military advisors held with the military clique of Roumania with the view of uniting the military command of both of these armies which border on the U. 8. S. R. After these secret military in- terviews with the leading Fascist General Mac Arthur generals of Europe, MacArthur was awarded special orders by Rou- mania and Poland. On his return to this country in November, 1933, MacArthur at once led a fight in Congress for the immediate modernization of the American military machine, declar- ing that the American Army “was below the danger line.” He suc- ceeded in getting huge appropria- tions for the Army. Re-appointed by Roosevelt Upon Roosevelt’s election to of- fice, MacArthur became one of Roosevelt’s leading military advi- sors, the military responsibility for the C.C.C, camps being placed in his hands, Recently, Roosevelt re-appointed him as Chief of Staff upon the ex- piration of his term. The name of Hanford MacNider reveals that the military clique and the Wall Street interests made plans for the recruitment of the Amer- ican Legion for fascist purposes. MacNider was a National Comman- der of the Legion and fought the payment of the soldirs’ bonus with the greatest vindictiveness. He or- ganized a national “Red scare” campaign in the Legion as the cover under which he fought the bonus. Spanish Consulate icket Line Today “(Continued from Page 1) the restoration of the democratic rights of the workers, “Tt is our great class duty and obligation to rally to the support of the Spanish working class. “Rally in mass on the picket lines. at the Spanish Consulate, 515 Madison Ave., corner of 53rd St., called by the International Labor Defense. “Socialist workers, your Inter- national decided that there may be United Front now in action. of the Workmen’s Circle, in every trade union! Out to the Spanish Consulate every day this week starting today. Prepare your forces for a mighty united city wide demonstration of many thousands of New York workers. “New York District Committee, Communist Party.” The New York district committee of the International Labor Defense has calied for all-day picketing until the end of this week. All or- ganizations were invited to picket with their own banners. Pickets |were asked to report first at I. L. D. headquarters, 870 Broadway, or Take up this question at every Local of the S. P. in every branch By Harr: narrowed their base in Kiangsi, in some places resorting to guerilla and partisan warfare. In other parts of China the Soviets remain intact, while in Szechuan Province they are growing by leaps and and bounds; and when the Kiangsi armies reach that province, the leading cities will undoubtedly fall into the hands of the Red Army. ‘We want to bring out some facts not published in the capitalist press in this regard. We quote from an article in the American-owned China Weekly Review, published in Shanghai, of Oct. 13. The article is by Paul K. Whang, and is 2n- titled: “Will Szechuen Fall Into Communist Hands?” Mr. Whang writes: “While the government | forces in Kiangsi are reported to be within the striking distance of Juikin, the Red capital, the Com- munist situation in Szechuen has, however, become more alarming than ever.” The whole kernel of his article is the idea, what does Chiang Kai Shek gain if he takes | Kiangsi when the greater province of Szechuan will fall into the hands of the Communists? | Strengthening of Soviets | “Once the Communists have suc- cessfully consolidated their position | in this rich province,” explains Mr. Whang, “it will be next to impos- else to go directly to the line in front of 515 Madison Ave. y Gannes sible for the government forces to dislocate them.” That is precisely why this major movement was made in view of the heavy concen- tration of armies and imperialist- supplied bombing planes against the Kiangsi district. The whole move- ment is one of strengthening the Chinese Soviets, rooting them more firmly in the soil, and continuing the struggle on a greater scale against the rotten and dying Kuo- mintang regime. To continue with Mr. Whang’s article: “The topographical ad- vantages alone will make their [the Communists’) position impregnable. Be it noted that the Nanking gov- ernment has spent five long years in attempting to eradicate the Red banditry in Kiangsi, but has not yet achieved its desired objective. Then how long will it take to purge Szechuan, once it has been con- taminated with this Communist curse? It sounds really unbeliev- able that in a province where the largest provincial army has been maintained at the expense of the People, the ill-equipped marauders can move freely and capture city after city from the hands of pro- vincial forces.” Alarm Over Soviet Growth Here there is no jubilation over the movement of the Red Army Morgan Lawyer To Write Speeches (Continued from Page 1) and the direct instrument of Wall Street in putting through its policy under the label of the New Deal. A. R. Clancy in Apparatus Another important Morgan man in the top N. R. A. apparatus is A. R. Clancy of the Morgan-controlled General Motors Corporation. There is not the slightest doubt, though Butler did not reveal the facts, that all of these individuals were fully conversant with the facts brought out by General Butler of the steps toward the creation of a gigantic fund in Wall Street and Chicago for the organization of the fascist troops. Another recent appointee, show- ing the closer tie-up of finance cap- ital, the driving force behind fascist developments, and the Roosevelt regime, is S. Clay Williams. He is the chairman of the National In- dustrial Recovery Board, a former president of the Reynolds Tobacco Co., one of the big three of the tobacco trust, a notorious labor hater. Even Roosevelt's closest friends and advisors are men like Vincent Astor, the multi-millionaire land- lord, who has a finger in many Morgan enterprises. Bernard Bar- uch, who is coming into the head- lines again as a Roosevelt adviser, is a Wall Street speculator, who during the war made a big clean-up on U. 8. Steel stock because of his inside knowledge of war orders. He was known during the last war as Morgan’s office boy in Wilson’s cabinet. Today he is serving the same role with regard to Roosevelt. Roosevelt's ambassador at large, Norman H. Davis, who is now carrying out the program of the leading bankers at the Naval Con- ference in London, received many presents from the Morgan firm in the form of tips on stocks and bonds, and shares in Morgan cor- porations. Wherever you go in the Roosevelt apparatus, you will fina the per- sonal representatives of the biggest banks and industrial corporations who are speeding fascist cevelop- ments. The forces who are behind the attacks on the workers direct these attacks through Roosevelt agencies in the government; and are behind the financing of fascist organizations outside. For example, at the head of the Roosevelt Fed- eral Housing Board, which, under the guise of a big construction boom to solve the crisis, is directing its attacks toward lowering wages of the building trades workers, is James A. Moffett. Moffett is a vice- president of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Fascists Organize Bands Not only are the capitalists or- ganizing fascist bands on the out- side to terrorize workers, and to plan fascist putsches, but with the open connivance of Roosevelt and his whole regitne, they are speeding up their drive for the fascist dic- tatorship, by the use of every gov- ernment agency. No fight against the development of fascism can be successful, if the workers do not realize that fascism is the open dictatorship of monopoly capital, and not the dictatorship of this or that puppet who is manipu- lated by big business. The fight must be against capitalism and the capitalists, and not merely against whatever tool the capitalists may push to the front. In this connection the Daily Worker has learned from reliable sources in Philadelphia that Gen- eral Butler turned down the offer of the brokers, because he is ma- neuvering for more advantageous position and terms. His “attack” on fascism is a bluff designed to cover up his real aims. He is attempting to pose as a friend of labor. He has been trying to organize a so-called independent “labor” organization with himself as the head. It must be remembered that Hit- ler organized his fascist bands in Germany under the name of Na- tional-Sozialistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (National Socialist Workers Party of Germany). This outright fascist group seems to have done some work already in been trying to establish conn from Kiangsi into Szechuan. In ‘fact, there is alarm over the greater power, the greater territories, and the growing fighting ability of the Soviets in China in their new cen- tral province. Another writer in the same mag- azine of Oct. 20 takes up the dis- cussion, “Whither Szechuan.” Mr. C. ¥. W. Meng writes: “Szechuan is a large inland and populous prov- ince. It has more land and more people than any country of west- ern Europe. . . . Szechuan is very rich in mineral wealth. Coal, cop- per, silver, gold, petroleum, lead, zine, sulphur, saltpeter, gypsum, nitrates, jade, mica and asbestos ex- ist in paying quantities.” Besides, the millions of peasants and workers in Szechuan are re- volting against the militarist rulers joining the Soviets and the Red Army to achieve the agrarian anti- imperialist revolution. Tne very story of the victory in Szechuan Province grows out of the tales of defeat published in the foreign cap- italist press. The March Into Szechuan In the summer of 1932, at the be- hest of the Hankow British Cham- ber of Commerce, Chiang Kai Shek attacked what was then known as the Red Lake (Hu Hung) Soviet |the “Economist,” the economic jour- BELA KUN MOSCOW, Nov. 19 (By receipt of the decision of the i Gannes Will Begin Series in the ‘Daily’ On Events in Spain The boss press is silent on events in Spain. Recently all of Spain was shaken by the armed struggles of the workers against fascism, What is the significance of this movement? The Daily Worker, beginning Friday, will publish a series of articles on the armed struggles in Spain and the situation today, by Harry Gannes, Order your copies now. who routed the bonus marchers, and who at present is a labor conciliator out in California. Anyone who knows Philadelphia will realize that such maneuvering indicates close ties with Atterbury of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the biggest American railroad, whose control is shared by Kuhn, Loeb and Company and the Morgans. Many puppets are competing for the job of the American fuehrer. Glassford, General Douglas Mac- Arthur, and Butler himself, despite his demagogy. But the power that pulls the strings and directs all the actions of Roosevelt, is the power of monopoly capitel. There has been a continual de- cline in the powers and functions of Congress and a corresponding in- crease in the powers and prestige of Roosevelt and the N. R. A, offl- cials. It is Richberg as the head of the N. R. A. who is second in com- mand, and not the older organs of the government. So marked has/ this tendency become that recently nal of the British ruling class, said that the present reorganization of the N. R. A. signified the final stage in the drive of the American capi- talists to set up an open fascist dictatorship. Who will lead the fascist parade “on a white horse” is not the most important factor. The point of greatest significance is that the| whole set-up of the New Déal ap- paratus shows that Roosevelt is carrying out the determination of the capitalists to establish the open dictatorship of big business along the lines suggested by Gerald Swope in his plan of two years ago. It is not commonly realized that all’ of Roosevelt's actions have been leading up to what Swope out- lined in his fascist plan. The N. R. A. set-up, the partiality toward company unions, the strengthening of the monopolies, the throttling of the small business men, all have beén taken from Swope. And the very latest steps in the reorganiza- tion of the N. R. A. are in har- mony with Swope’s principle that business should openly administer not only the N. R. A. codes, but the entire life of the country. Girl Confesses Story Of ‘Assault? by Negro Is Baseless Falsehood BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 20.— Another “Negro rape” frame-up was nipped in the bud last week. Mrs. Mabel Roy, 18-year-old white woman, reported to police that she had been “slashed across the head by a Negro intruder who held her captive for more than four hours ~ Later, Mrs. Roy admitted that Philadelphia. The general has also|she went to a party about 1:30 in jions|the morning and didn’t remember with General Pelham D. Glassford,’ who hit her on the head. ~ district. This place was surrounded, and Comrade Ho Lung led a re- treat of 8,000 out of 16,000 soldiers of the Red Army. They marched northward, and then over to Szechuan, where no Soviets existed. Since then they have won victory after victory, increasing the Red Army to over 50,000, and threaten- ing the leading industrial city, Chungking. “Being a mountainous province,” writes Mr. Meng, “far more moun- tainous than the Province of Ki- angsi—Nanking should realize at once that the Communists, who are now making rapid advancement into Szechuan, should be stopped at once. Once the Communists settle down and establish themselves in that province, it will prove a hard task for Nanking to exterminat™ them—a far more difficult task than the suppression of the Communist trouble in Kiangsi.” What the American capitalist press wants its readers to consider a hopeless defeat, is in reality and undeniably a strategic movement | for consolidation of the Chinese So- viets in their strongest sector, open- ing the vista of greater development of the agrarian anti-imperialist revolution and an immediate exten- sion of the Chinese Soviets, REPLIES TO S. P. POSITION ON UNITED ACTION Removal of Ban on National Unity Is Step For- ward, Says Leader—Communists Will Spare No Effort to Close World United Front Wireless)—Immediately on Executive of the Second In- ternational concerning the united front offer of the Com- munist International on Oct. 10, Bela Kun, member of the Executive Committee of the Comintern wrote the following =x article, summarized below, under the title: “Now We Must Establish a Real United Front.” “The Executive Committee of the Comintern proposed ‘immediate joint actions in support of the fight- ing Spanish proletariat and the struggle against the support of the Lerroux Government by other capitalist countries.’ The proposal refers to the continuation of the Asturias struggle, against the monarchist-fascist terror, and also the Portuguese Government's extra- dition of refugees and the hunting of worker refugees in other capital- ist —countries. “From the answer of the Second International on November 18th can only be concluded that it rejects the international united front in sup- port of the Spanish proeltariat and that it did not even find words to increase the actions for the support of the Spanish workers, hitherto conducted on a national scale. “Our first word on this rejection is only: Be ready for the united front on a national and interna- tional scale for the support of the heroic Spanish workers. The Exe- cutive of the Second International in its decision removed the ban of March 18, 1933, in which it forbade its sections any unity of action with the Communist Parties against the fascist Hitler government. It abolished a decision which months before had been abolished through the fighting conducted by the united front in certain coun- tries, “Secondly, the removal of the united front ban undoubtedly was a victory for the fighting united. front and thus is a step forward. The pretext through which united action was sabotaged by the Social Democratic party leaderships—the prohibiting of united front agree- ments on a national scale—before an agreement was reached between the Second International and the Comintern collapses. “The Second International could only make a unified decision after four days’ discussion by acknowl- edging that it is incapable of lead- ing and participating in the united international action of the working class against the bour- geoisie. This must induce every worker, who is prepared to fight fascism and war, unhesitatingly to enter the struggle jointly with the Communists for the proletarian united front. “The representatives of a number of Social Democratic Parties and also those who had rejected united action in their own countries, such as the Swiss Social-Democracy and the counter-revolutionary emigrant group, the Russian Mensheviks, ex- pressed their spécial stand in a statement after the decision of the Second International Executive. They express their wish and expece tation that the results of united ac- tion in different countries will in- duce the Socialist and Labor Inter- national as a whole also to conviude the united on an international scale, “To this special declaration we say: The Spanish workers are not improvement of the Second International. In order really to help, we must act im- mediately. International united action, though limited, can be carried out without the permission ef the Second International, just as united actions in France, Aus- tria and the Saar were realized. The struggle for the united front will get a new impetus on the basis of this first modest success, The Communists will also continue to spare no efforts to close the united front against fascism also through agreements between the Communists and the Social Demo- cratic leaderships. All energy will ; be exerted to forge the united front from below against the bour- geoisie between all organizations of Communists and Social-Demo- crats, of reformists and revolution- aries everywhere, not only where the fascist danger threatens, but also where the danger of fascism is still in embryo. The unity of action of the working class against fascism and imperialist war is the mtt successful instrument on a national as well as on an interna- tional scale. Catholic Guard Routs Fascists At Innsbruck INNSBRUCK, Ausiria, Nov. 20,— Eight hundred members of the so- called “Fretheitsbund” (the armed formation of the Catholic Trade Unions) battled fiercely in the streets with detachments of the openly fascist Home Guard of Vice- Chancellor Von Starhemberg, and after routing them, proceeded to the hall where a Catholic mesting was scheduled. The Home Guards’ deefat in the Street fighting follows their recent capitulation to the inclusion of capitalist trade union representa- tives in the Austrian rump Parlia- a