The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1934 Daily <QWorker EAWTRAL ORGAK COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Only Working Class FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone Cable Address “America’s ALgonquin 4-795 4. Wash: Press Building, National 7910. , Chicago, Tl. Subscription Rates: and Bronx 1 year, $6.00; $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. and Canada 1 year, $9.00; 3.00. monthly, 75 cents. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 22, 1934 How to Build the Social Insurance Congress ESS than two months remain before L the historic Congress for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance gathers at Washington on January 5-7. This Congress is the vital concern of millions of workers. This Congress will be the expression of the needs of every jobless worker, every worker whose life is haunted by the fear that tomorrow he will find himself in the streets, of ry rson who is willing to fight for certain minimum conditions of work, health and security for himself and his family The millions upon millions of workers, toiling farmers, and white collar workers in this country Ihave one great problem that stares them in the face every day—how are they going to get food and shelter for their families when they have no work, what can they do now to get unemployment relief, what will happen to them if they must give up their jobs on account of sickness or accident. How, in short, to live at a minimum level of security as the crisis and unemployment ravage mil- lions of working class families. This will be the problem of the working class convention that meets in Washington on Jan. 5-7. For this Congress practical steps must be taken now. It is now time for every single person inter- ested in the Congress to get to work to lay the basis for the Congress. The first objective to keep in mind in the preparations for the Congress is to convince every type and kind of workers’ organization to send delegates to the Congress. This Congress will not be merely the Congress of jobless or of left-wing groups, It will be the Congress of the American working class striving to include every single work- ing class group of whatever political opinion or af- filiation. It is the united front of the workers, of every Political opinion, that must be the main objective of the Congress. For this reason there must be no hesitation in approaching every group where there are workers in the membership, no matter what political or non- political affiliation it has. . . . OW as to the practical steps. The first step is for workers now interested to call together whatever people they know, in order to form a Sponsoring Committee to support the January 5-7 Congress for Unemployment and So- cial Insurance. Letters and telephone calls to these people should go out now, and meetings arranged at homes or other meeting places. Here the Na- tional Call issued by the Congress Arrangements Committee should be distributed, and plans for delegates discussed and acted upon. On this Sponsoring Committee should be in- eluded the most prominent people in the groups and organizations involved or which can be ap- proached. Then the Sponsoring Committee gets in touch with trade union locals, Socialist Party locals, wel- fare societies, health groups, churches, medical groups, clubs, fraternal lodges, etc., etc. Special delegates can be chosen to interview youth, women, Negro and other organizations. All these groups should be informed officially of the Congress, its purpose explained, and a re- quest for delegates be made. Information should be obtained on when all the trade union locals meet, and a delegation should be sent to each union meeting with an official pro- posal to send delegates to the Congress in January. More than 2,000 A. F. of L. locals have endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. Every one of these locals should be visited. A list of these locals can be obtained from the A. F. of L, Rank and File Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief at 1 Union Square, New York City. In these actions, the members of the Commu- nist Party units, Unemployed Councils, and various Mass organizations, should take the first steps at ‘once, with special committees chosen tu take care of thé letter writing and establishment of contacts with the other groups. Where there are no organized groups, individual workers in small towns or villages should them- Selves call together their friends and fellow-workers to form an Unemployment Council or a special Spon- soring Committee for the Congress. Having gath- ered a group interested in the Congress, they should ‘communicate with the National Sponsoring Com- mittee at 799 Broadway, Room 624, New York City, which will send them full information on how to proceed. In the A. F. of L. unions a worker should be chosen by those supporting the Congress, or if there is only one worker who knows of the Congress, he should step forward himself at the very next meeting, to propose that his local get in touch with the National Committee and elect delegates to go to Washington January 5-7. Similarly with So- cialist Party locals everywhere. ‘Teke practical steps for the January 5-7 Con- Srers! Build the united front for Unemployment and Social Insurance! United Front Progress HE united front of Socialist and Com- munist workers is advancing. Yesterday’s news brought new reports of joint action. In upper New York, Ontario County Socialist and Communist workers have worked out an agreement in support of the coming National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance. They have set to work to win support for the Con- gress. More than that, in joint actions they have just forced the relief authorities to grant a 20 per cent increase in food allotments. In Newark, New Jersey, more than one thousand wer! young and old, marched in a thrilling united front demonstration against war and fas- Cism. Socialist and Communist speakers spoke from the same platform pledging unity in the com- mon fight against imperialist war and fascist re- action. A Young People’s Socialist League organizer, i Daily Newspaper” | a Young Communist League organizer, urged the workers to take this united ac- son, m as an example for all to follow. York City, an immense anti-fascist dem- on at City College was addressed by Socialist udents and Communist students, pledging joint action against the reactionary policies of Robinson, the college president These are the living proofs that the united front can and is being welded in day-to-day struggle against the common enemy. Despite all obstacles that have been placed in the way, the united front is being created by the Socialist workers them- selves as they see the need for unity. The Communist Party has proposed again and again that steps be taken toward joint action. In Prance, in the Saar, in the living fight in Spain, this unity has been achieved. In other places the Socialist Party leaders still hold back. But the unity of the working class cannot and must not be halted by any obstacle. We must go for- ward over all obstacles toward that joint action against the common capitalist enemy without which we will not be able to defeat him. In the fight against relief cuts, wage cuts, war and fascism, unity is a vital need, Take steps for joint action with the Socialist workers! Visit the Socialist Party locals with unity proposals! Build the united front! In} Building Service Men-- Reject Arbitration Pact HE agreement worked out by Mayor La Guardia’s arbitration committee which prevented the build- ing service strike does not grant any of the de- mands of the building service employes. They de- manded higher wages, shorter hours, full union recognition, no discrimination, and other demands. The agreement, signed by James J. Bambrick for the Building Service Employes Union, refers all of these demands to future decision of the arbitra- tion board. Bambrick gave up, on behalf of the workers, the right to strike during the period of the agree- ment, whose concrete provisions are yet to be worked out by an arbitration board. The wages are to be decided on by an arbitration board of three. Union recognition is denied. The Realty Board merely accepting the union as the “bargain- ing agent” for the union members only. . . . F THE decision of La Guardia’s arbitration com- mittee is accepted by the building service workers, not only will all of their demands be lost, but the Realty Board will begin an immediate drive to smash the union and blacklist active union mem- bers. The decision for compulsory arbitration, if accepted by the workers, meant a defeat. The saddling of this unsatisfactory settlement on the workers must be laid at the door of La- Guardia, and of the officials of the American Fed- eration of Labor, Collins, Bambrick, etc., who did not put up any fight against the arbitration pro- posals. La Guardia declared he would not permit the strike and stepped forward as an open strikebreaker. He previously allowed the Realty Board to recruit an army of strikebreakers and strong-arm men ready to break the strike. LaGuardia demanded that the workers accept arbitration, which meant defeat for their demands, Bambrick and Collins accepted this agreement. without consultation with the union members. These A. F. of L. officials dic not make any kind of a fight for the workers’ demands. They accepted La- Guardia’s strikebreaking proposals without oppo- sition. They made no effort to mobilize the New York workers to support the struggle. The building service workers can take a lesson from the general textile strike. The textile workers were also forced to accept compulsory arbitration. They went back to work before they won their de- mands. Firing and blacklisting of thousands fol- lowed, and the arbitration board did nothing against this union smashing and did not grant any of the workers’ demands. Raymond Ingersoll, on La- Guardia’s arbitration board, was also on the Winant board which sold out the textile strike. Compulsory arbitration, with the demands lefft to the future, means that these arbitration boards, which rule for the employers, leave the workers holding the bag. T= rank and file in the Building Service Union should reject this agreement signed by Bam- brick. They should demand an immediate mem- bership meeting of Local 32-B and the other locals, and vote down the agreement, and vote for an immediate strike. The only way to win the demands is for the building service workers to strike for them. Preparation for strike action led and controlled by the rank and file should be made without further delay. Every effort should be made to involve as many sections of the city and as many workers as possible for strike. Steps should be taken to mo- bilize the organized labor movement of the city, regardless of affiliation, to back the strike. No secret agreements, complete democracy in the union, no arbitration, and the broad participa- tion of the rank and file workers in the manage- ment and control of the strike, is the only way the building service workers can accomplish the realization of their demands. Reject the arbitration agreement! Vote for an immediate strike under rank and file control! EEE The Anti-War Parley on Saturday ECENT revelations of moves to or- ganize a fascist army in the United States, and reports of the growing bitter- ness in London and Geneva over rapid arming for war, emphasize the great im- portance of the New York Conference Against War and Fascism, to be held Saturday, November 24, at 1 P. M,, Irving Plaza. “We cannot wait until fascism has taken com- plete hold,” declares the call for this conference. “We must fight against the growth of fascism and the preparations for war now!” Certainly even the most cursory reading of the capitalist press now, with its daily stories of war preparations, its alarming reports of fascist moves in the United States show the truth of this appeal. Every organization in New York and vicinity earnestly fighting against war and fascism should be represented on Saturday at this conference. The trade unions, especially, should be represented, as the backbone of the fight against war and fascism must be the working class. ‘This is an important conference and will lay down plans to meet the rising danger of fascism and war. 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 Communist Party Recruiting Drive In Chicago Distriet ROM the results of the first few weeks of the membership drive, it is clear that we have not even Started the drive. An analysis of the recruiting during October shows that not only the quantity, that is the number, but also the quality, that is, in composition, does not show any improvement. Of the 141 recruited in October, 78 per cent are unemployed. Only 20 per cent have been recruited from trade unions, and less than 8 per cent of these from the A. F, of L. This clearly shows that not- withstanding the numerous discus- sions with the functionaries and de- spite the documents issued by the Central Committee and the District, the whole essence of the recruiting drive has not been understood. Basically it shows that the mem- bership as a whole has not as yet been mobilized for recruiting. Oth- erwise, there would have been more workers from the shops and trade unions brought into the Party. We found numerous cases where the letter of the Central Committee has not even been given to the members, or has been given out only in the last few days. If such a simple thing was not carried out sconer, then surely many more cases can be cited, where the letter was not even discussed in the units with the membership. So how shall we expect to develop a real mass re- cruiting in which every member of the Party will participate? The election campaign has come to a close. During the month of October hundreds of thousands of pieces of literature have been dis- tributed, hundreds of meetings have been held, and because of the fail- ure to get the Party members, who have been carrying on this work to recruit into the Party while doing this work, we have not increased the recruiting to any considerable extent over the previous months, To successfully conduct this drive we must average over 100 recruits each week. To achieve this it is necessary to politically mobilize every members of the Party. It is necessary to raise the question of building the Party in connection with every activist carried through by the Party. It is necessary for the leading committees in the sec- tion, in the mass organizations to consciously apply the directives in their every day work. “Every mem- ber to bring a new member” means that every Party member must be made to understand his responsi- bilities. And for this the leading committees are mainly responsible. ORG. COMMISSION, DIST. 8. Mass Work and Recruiting INIT 505, Jefferson Park Unit of Section 5, Chicago, offers an ex- cellent example of proper methods of recruiting. The united front is here carried into practice. The unit has been concentrating on the S. P. branch in Jefferson Park for a long time. The unit members have been bringing all the Party campaigns into this branch and have succeeded in making friends with some of the S. P. members, At the last unit meeting our com-} rades invited one Socialist worker | to their unit meeting to discuss the | united front. This Socialist worker will be instrumental in bringing about united front actions with the unit on some issues, for example, November 24. This is not an isolated case with Unit 505. They are ap- Plying the same method on a paint- ers’ local with two good prospects! for recruiting. Obviously the com- rades in this unit are taking the Céntral Committee letter on recruit- ing seriously. But we must draw other conclu- sions besides. This unit is the best in its dues average, in its Daily Worker drive and in the election campaign. Recruiting is part and parcel of all the campaigns of the Party. The Section, in analyzing this unit’s work presents it to the membership as an example of prop- er combining of mass work and re- cruiting and affers the worker an- other unit as the exact opposite, Unit 520, on the North Side, is quite unaware of a recruiting cam- paign in the Party. It is in the neighborhood which has real pro- letarian elements and which is vir- gin soil as far as the Party is con- cerned. This unit concentrates on a car barn and on a painters’ local. It carries on consistent work at this local union. . At its last meeting some comrades in the unit raised the question of liquidating the unit and merging with another unit “because we are only 12 comrades and we don’t really live in our unit territory.” The Section raised the question of recruiting some new members into the unit. The comrades dis- cussed this question as if they had never really thought about it be- fore. Here are some high lighis in the discussion: “Only unemployed workers can be recruited . . .” “Street car men will not joi “Painters are too backward.’ The Section raised the question: “Who buys the five Daily Workers each day on the stand near the car barn? What painters regularly take our literature?” A comrade reported, “I know two street car men who buy the Daily Worker every day.” The unit then decided to establish contact with the Daily Worker readers and develop its re- cruiting through them. The Section must examine the reaction of its@inits to the recruit- ing drive and politically mobilize the membership to really develop this drive as part of mass work. SECTION 5, DISTRICT 8. New Haven Lays Plan For Lenin Anniversary | NEW HAVEN, Conn., Noy. 21.— I. Wofsy, district organizer of the Communist Party, will address the preliminary conference for the Lenin Memorial meeting in Ukrai- nian Hall, 222 Lafayette St. at 8 p.m. on Friday. All mass organizations, including Russian, Ukrainian, Swedish, Ital- ian, Jewish, Lithuanian, and Hun- garian, as well as the Jchn Reed Club, Unity Players, and other groups are urged to send delegates to this conference, DON'T HOLD UP THE W Those comrades who were given drawings to raffle off a{ parties affairs! | WHEN THE BIRDS FLY SOUTH Burck will give the original drawing of his cartoon to the highest contrinutor each dey towards ORKS! special original should rush to Burck’s aid immediately with the proceeds of these TOTAL by Burck his quota of $1,000, Hyman Hirschhorn ........6+..+++++ $1.00 Previoushy received ...........+ see 416.30 seen s $417.30 By VERN SMITH MOSCOW, USSR., Nov. 20. — Three young workers, two boys and a girl, started out yesierday from their factory here, a big bakery for construction plan in their district. None of these three had any pre- vious experience in this, one of the socially “minded Soviet Union worker. These three were yolun- teers, but, like many other such groups or as they are called here, “brigades” they held mandates from a meeting of the factory workers which had accepted them as in- spectors, whether the Public Feeding Trust of their district, Krasno - Presnaya Raion, one of the ten districts or wards of Moscow, had fulfilled cer- tain details of its construction pro- gram, and the other side of their deputies elected to the city and raion soviets and of their helpers were in accordance with the facts about this construction. Of course, a third and most im- portant part of their present-com- mission was to learn how to do such inspection, ‘They immediately got one of the “sectionnaires” of their factory for @ guide. A sectionnaire is a volun- teer assistant to a deputy to the 80) In this big bakery, “The Bolshevik Biscuit Factory,” there are thirteen delegates to city and raion soviets, and about 200 sec- tionnaires Checking Deputies Now, though this brigade had as @ part of its duty the checking up of the activities of the soviet depu- ties here, it went naturally first of all to the head of the deputy group in its own factory. All the members of soviets elected from a single fac- tory, and all their -sectionnaires form a regular organization in that factory, they form the deputy group of the factory, and have their elected chairman. The chairman in this case was a motherly middle aged woman, who addressed the in- spection brigade as “Kids” and co- operated enthusiastically with them. She laid out before them all in- formation in her possession, and in conference with her (the brigade decided to look up especially the task assigned by the electors who chose soviet deputies three years before, to have a big factory kitchen and dining room for a group of mechanical factories near by, and to see whether a machine shop for repair of the boilers and kitchen utensils of another older facory kit- chen and for railway workers of the Baltie White Russian station had been put into operation, When they left the office of the deputy group of “The Bolshevik” I went with them. We boarded a street car, went to the headquar- ters of the raion soviet, and in back of its big new building, found the office of the public feeding trust (a state organization) for that par- ticular raion. The brigade walked right into the main office, and asked to see the director. He was out, and they looked baffled and hurt. Here they had come representing the power of the workers, the master of the country, to confer with one of the servants of the workers, the director of a state trust. And he was out! The director's secretary protested vigorously, that they hac not made any appointment with the directo:, that the comrade director was a confectionary, to check up on the) most important duties of the active | Part of their |duty was to see! task was to see if the reports of | How Soviet Workers Learn to Control Industry and Run Their Government ® | busy |man and his business fre- quently took him out of his office. | It was true. This young and in- ‘experienced brigade had neglected the particular detail of calling up the director and making sure he would be there. So they made the best of it. They asked the secretary for the list of projects ordered by the soviet, and got it. Sure enough, the deputies had carried out the mandate of the electors, to the ex- tent that the soviet had ordered the construction of this particular |new restaurant, and machine shop | for the other restaurant. The trust had a paper with a long | list of such orders down one column, and in a parallel column a state- ment of the progress of work on each. According to this, the new restaurant and the shop were built and in operation, Palatial Restaurant Back to the street car went the brigade, and out to the new res- jtaurant we travelled. It was a |palatial affair, a huge structure built of concrete, its sides nearly half glass—enormous many paned windows. Around it were the beginnings of gardens. Vast halls were its cloak rooms, with rows and rows of numb red hangers, with colored tile floors, with barber shops and wash rooms—almost a club. The brigade skirmished around for the director of the restaurant. They didn’t find him. Big meetings were going on, nobody knew just where he was among them. So, finally they simply dived into one ;of the dining rooms, a room for building workers who were finishing the building, though it was already partly in operation while the upper stories were being completed. In this dining room they toox note of the fact that there were lines waiting at the buffet where diners bought their deserts. Also the |colored pillars were smudged with black from the coats of build- ing workers who evidently were not properly patronizing the cloak The brigade summoned the man- ager of this dining room and pointed out his shortcomings. His defense was that with the building only partly completed, the whole dining room staff inexperienced and in- complete, he was doing the best he could. They didn’t accept the ex- cuses, though they took notice of them. Then a member of the crew of pantrymen walked up, in his white uniform, and lead the brigade over to a locked room. He. unlocked it and showed how the defective plas- tering had forced them to disconti- nue using it until repaired. The brigade took note of all this, and made other inquiries, On the wa. out, they commented, and consulted with the sectionnaire, Most of the defects were, to be sure, those of newness, inexpezience on the part of the dining room staff. The sectionnaire was sure the defec- tive plastering was already reported by the sectionnaires of the factories served by the dining room, But all this must also be reported by the special brigade. The director had pledged this brigade to improve the buffet service, to bring order into the cloak room for building work- ers, The other dining rooms were functioning all right. The Brigade Reports This brigade would report im- mediately the next day to the public feeding section of the raion soviet, then to the delegates group of their own factory, and would notify the delegates groups of the factories served by the particular restaurant they inspected. The director of the dining room would be constantly inspected to see what progress he made in carrying out the promises he gave the special brigade. The soviet itself would know whether the delegates in the factories served by the restaurant inspected had done their duty, had caught the de- fects the special brigade found. The brigade went on then to the railroad workers’ cafe and found the repair shop well equipped and in operation. Then they went home, their social duty done for the day. It had taken about three hours, of labor contributed to their own edu- cation and to the workers’ com- monwealth. When you remember that this was just one example of what is going on everywhere, that literally hundreds of thousands of young and old work- ers are being drawn into this kind of work, you can see how intimately and directly the working class con- trols all of its state institutions. Control More Detailed The control is even more detailed than the experience of this brigade would indicate. The control carried out by the sectionnaire and by com- mittees of the trade union, by parents committees in schools, nurseries and kindergardens, is much more thorough. In the store of the Workers Supply Department of the bakery I saw how almost every day, for three or four hours a day, a deputy or his sectionnaire (a group of half a dozen taking turns) stands on guard, watching everything. A book is kept at the store, in which each inspector writes the time he arrived, when he left, and makes his observations on good and bad points of the conduct of the store while he was present. This book is mainiy for the con- venience of the director of the store, to enable him to improve the service and supply. The section- naire also reports: to the delegate group, and the trade union inspec- tor reports to the trade union com- mittee in the factory owning the store. If things go wrong they are brought before the management, before the soviet, and to higher bodies until the evil is remedied. The other thing that even the ex- perience of this brigade shows is the complete cooperation of all con- cerned. The head of the delegates group and a sectionnaire help in checking up on the work of section- naires and deputies who will be judged in the elections now going on by the findings of many such inspections. The office of the trust supplies all possible assistance to the investigating brigade. At the point of inspection, in this case, in the factory kitchen, the workers operating it rally around the in- spectors, open locked doors for them, show them what defects they might have otherwise overlooked. It is evident that the rank of file of Soviet Union workers as well as their leaders realise that there must be no secrets, that all failures must come out into the open, that it is to the advantage of the whole mass of workers that all labor together for improvement. It is in this spirit that Soviet in- dustry goes ahead, overcoming its shortcomings, correcting its mis- takes, remedying the faults due to inexperience, and gaining experieace thereby to avoid such faults in the future. A social mechanism has been devised which really permits of control of society from the bot- tom, by the masses of workers. i World Front ——By HARRY GANNES -—— C. P. Congress in Britain Mussolini’s Wheat Battle German Peasants’ Batile “ HE leftward swing of the British toilers, shown in the municipal elections, which were a blow to the national concentration government, and the rapid moves towards fascism, indicated by the passage of the Sedition Bill, are sharpening the class struggle in Great Britain. In this situation, while there is @ greater polarization of forces, the recent Southport Labor Party Con- ference moved definitely to the Right. Confronted with a series of major problems, in view of the changed class relations in England, the Communist Party of Great Britain is calling its Thirteenth Congress, This Congress will be held in Mane chester, February 2, 3, 4 and 5, 1935. The agenda now opened for dis- cussion in the Party press and meetings will be: (1) The United Front; (2) The Communist Party and the Trade Unions; (3) The Program of the Communist Party; (4) Party organization and re- eruiting; (5) World Congress of the Communist International. In its statement opening the Party discussion, the Political Bureau of the Party declares: “The Southport Labor Party Con- ference has adopted a reactionary programme and decisions of a most menacing character for working- class interests. Hundreds of thou- sands of militant Socialist workers are thrown into perplexity as to what path to follow. “The offensive of Fascism and of war overhangs Britain and the whole capitalist world. The de- mand for working class unity, for the united front of common strug- gle, daily gathers force. “The development of the capital- ist crisis shows ever more clearly the alternatives of militant advance to the working class revolution or complete slavery and destruction. “The Communist Party Congress will show the path forward for the revolutionary solution of the crisis. It will set out the revolutionary programme in plain terms.” ae eae UR British comrades have far exceeded us in concrete expres- sions of international solidarity with the Spanish proletariat. They have organized numerous mass’ demon- strations and marches for the supe port of the heroic fighters in Spain, They are now preparing to load a ship full of food for the Oviedo workers, Ce sae [USSOLINI and Fascism in Italy have met with the severest de- feat on the battlefield of grain. In order to try to ease the growing financial crisis of Italian fascism, Mussolini proclaimed what he called the “battle of grain,” in an effort to cut down import of wheat. Latest figures issued by Mussolini himself show that this battle was lost by Fascism. The grain com- mittee reports that the wheat harv- est. this year amounted to 63,327,700 double hundredweight as compared with 81,099,500 double hnudred- weight in 1933. As a result, it will be necessary, either to import more what, or force the starving masses to eat less. The average yield per hectare has declined from 16 double hun- dredweight in 1933 to 12.8 in 1934, taking the country as a whole. These crops are the lowest for years (75,000,000 in 1932; 66,000,000 in 1931; not until 1930 do we come to crops as poor as those of the year 1934). Mussolini attributes the bad crops solely to the drought. He passes over in silence the drop in grain prices, the heavier burdens on the peasants, which has reduced their ability to produce. The falling off of the cultivated area by over 300,000 acres leads to the conclusion that thousands of peasants were forced off the land as the result of the Fascist policy which is ruining the small farms ers, Lita ahaa, HEN Nazi thieves fall out, we sometimes get information, “Deutsche Revolution” in Zurich, organ of the ex-Nazi Strasser re- Ports as follows on the bloody peas- ant conflicts which took place in connection with the. “Harvest Thanksgiving,” in Schleswig-Hole stein: “The sound sense of the peas- antry rose in protest against the unnaturalness of the Hitler system, ;against a regime which has proved an utter failure, and in place of the swastika flags the old revolu- tionary black flags of the peasant people were flown from the flaz- staffs of the farms. The special trains stood empty in the stations, Report after report came in to the district headquarters, to the Guard Corps centres, and one motor lorry after another dashed out into the rural districts, each with its load of heavily armed Guard Corps men, The villages were occupied, the or= ders read, the black flags hauled down. This aroused the peasants to the utmost; their anger flamed up ine their indignation againsS the hatred regime broxe t sn. They fought desperately pana a force superior both in numbers and technics, and when the battle was over 27 dead and 118 wounded Peasants were left on the field.” A GOOD MAN, TOO! Harry Gannes has been missing for the last 24 hours, Burck says that he saw him pounding the city streets, searching for someone to contribute to his column. If you. don't contribute, send him a lamp at least! | | |