The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 23, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 Daily,QWorker TY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) CUNTRAL OMGAM COMMUNIST Only Working Class FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAHLY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5¢ B. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: Algonquin 4-795 4. New York, 954, Ni ¢. T South Wells St., 3931. Subscription Rate: “America’s Daily Newspaper” “Deiwork Room ess Building, Room 705, Chicago, Il. xcept Manhattan $3.50; 3 months Bi F Richberg’s Speech HERE is no mistaking the meaning of Richberg’s latest speech on the N.R.A. and “recovery.” Speaking last night with his recently acquired authority as Roosevelt’s leading spokesman on R.A., Richberg laid down two proposit which are easily recog major objectives of the “revised” N.R.A The first is that the Wall Street monopolies can expect full cooperation from Roosevelt in their drive to increase profits. Whatever friction ced by the legal machinery of the codes tening of the grip of monopoly capital on all American industry will be quickly removed, Richkerg promised the manufacturers last night. The new “permanent” N.R.A., he said, will give industry government and self-discipline .. . fiexible codes to maintain conditions best adapted to their industries health... .” This is a blanket endorsement by the Roosevelt government of the monopoly program demanded by the. recent conventions of the bankers and the United States Chamber of Commerce, represent- ing monopoly capital. st side with this program for monopoly , and complementing it, Richberg outlined the position of the Roosevelt government on the trade unions and the right to organize. Richberg flatly denied that the recent Houde decision, which declared that a majority of the in a plant can choose their own union represent the whole plant, has any meaning against the open shop or against company unions. He said that “no one has ... any authority . to herd all employes into a voting unit and then compel them to select their representatives by majority vote... .” This is a direct slap at the closed shop and at the right to form trade unions controlling a given shop new was intr in the us the new drive of Wall Street has the full support and cooperation of the Roosevelt govern- ment, which is helping to organize this wage cut- ting, union smashing offensive against labor. 5 4 The Paterson Strike : am strike of silk and rayon dyers now enters its fifth week. Thus far not one striker has returned. Not a single plant has dared to reopen. The dye house own- vs, while offering an increase in wages, do so only at the price of having the union tied hand and foot with a two-year no-strike contract. ‘w do the employers aim to break the deadlock? They hope to discover the first few who are weak- en This would give them a whip for forcing the acceptance of their contract. This is the reason for their intense agitation campaign through the newspapers and service clubs. Last Tuesday a hearing was arranged through the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce of Pater- son, Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, etc. An air of fairness was given to the proceedings by the invi- tation of representatives of the workers to present their case. But the judges were mostly the very Tepresentatives of the bosses against whom the work- ers are striking. Their recommendation to the workers that a secret ballot be taken on the recently rejected proposal was headlined in all the newspapers. The employers are making an issue of this, not because they really believe that a large number would vote for acceptance, but as a means of finding out if there are any groups of workers who could be broken away. Likewise it is a means of fanning an hysteria against the strikers, Experience in all strikes shows that all this talk of the “interested public” is only preparation for organizing vigilante and police brutality against the workers. But the workers are advancing their own plan for breaking the deadlock and bringing an end to the strike. At the present moment chief stress must be laid to a broad solidarity movement from the entire labor movement, particularly in the Passaic Valley. By reaching every local union and workers’ organizaSions for support, the strikers can counter the drive of the Chamber of Commerce. Immediate steps should be taken to organize a United Front of Labor to back the strikers. No time should be lost in calling a conference of all workers and sympathetic organizations in the Pas- Saic Valley to initiate financial and every other form of support. ‘ ‘The main task in the present stage in the strike of the dyers is to win every workers’ organization for concrete support of the strike, The fight is the concern of the entire labor movement. It is a fight for the right to organize and strike, ne: National 7910. | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1034 “Will Such A Leader Emerge?” HE capitalist press got a bad s with the revelations of a secret fascist plot organized and financed by the big- gest and most powerful Wall Street fi- nancial cliques headed by J. P.. Morgan. re Unable to conceal the fundamental facts, they are trying the method of laughing off he whole matter. But this will not work. The basic facts remain. se are that the biggest Wall Street banks and rialists are busy preparing a fascist move- ment to meet the rising radicalization of the masses whose misery grows as the crisis deepens, Why did J..P. Morgan, usually so reticent, sud- denly rush into the papers with a denial, when not ene paper except the Daily Worker had men- tioned his name involving him in the plot? The smell of guilt hovers all over this “denial.” The economic program of Roosevelt is moving more and more to fascism. And where the economic program tends toward fascism the political fascist machine will surely be organized alongside to en- force this program. Roosevelt's Secretary of War Dern pretends innocence. But does he not remember that his under-Secretary Woodring, still in office, early last Spring proclaimed the C.C.C. camps as a training ground for potential “economic storm troops” to fight “chaos, social, political, or economic?” What is this if not part of the preparations for fascism? Yesterday, Mark Sullivan, spokesman in the Herald-Tribune for Wall Street reactionary inter- ests, declared quite frankly that “there is quite a good opening just now for a properly equipped leader amd organizer of conservative thought which takes no thought of political labels . . . will that leader emerge?” Thus, with one voice they deny organizing fas- cism, and in the next breath proclaim the need for a fascist leader. The menace of fascism grows. And its headquarters are in the White House. * ae A Warning Signal EDNESDAY’S statement of Milo R. Maltbie, chairman of the Public Ser- vice Commission of New York, to the effect that any new taxes on the utility compa- nies would mean higher gas and electric bills for consumers is another warning signal to the toiling population of New York of new perils ahead. Not—we hasten to add—that there is any danger that the poor, struggling utility companies will suf- fer. Quite the contrary. According to the recent report of the Power Authority, home and farm consumers of public utilities are being overcharged by $33,680,000, while small business men are paying $29,658,000 more than a so-called “legitimate” rate of profit. It is estimated by the same body that rates could be cut 38 per cent and still leave the utilities a 6 per cent profit on their investment. ‘These are the people who shriek from the house- tops that they cannot pay. Companies like the Consolidated Gas—largely dominated by the Morgan banks—having their connections high in the Democratic and Republican parties of the State, wail that they cannot pay. Or, if they are to pay taxes, rates must go up. So say the utility com- panies through their flunkies in the Public Service Commission. And it is precisely these loud protests which are most clearly “heard” in City Hall. It is the profit- swollen utilities, the large banks that. LaGuardia finds it “difficult” to tax. But a transit, sales or payroll tax, or a tax on the users of utilities—that will not be so hard for Mr. LaGuardia, * * . GAINST the danger that the LaGuardia admin- istration, aided by a loyal Tammany opposition, will adopt new, crushing tax levies on the masses of the city’s population there must be the most ener- getic protest. Let LaGuardia know that you want the $180,000,000 set aside for the bankers in the 1935 budget—the debt service—used for relief. That will make unnecessary any new taxes on the masses. If there is to be a new tax program, let it be on the large utilities, on the banks, on large inheritances and incomes. Mass delegations should visit local aldermen and assemblymen and place them on record on the matter. Let them know that the toiling masses of New York City will not stand for any new tax burdens. The slogan, “Tax the bankers!” should be made a by-word in every neighborhood where work- ers and small home owners live. All labor and unemployed organizations, fra- ternal and small taxpayers’ groups should adopt resolutions protesting against any tax on the masses of the people of the city. At this Saturday’s unemployed demonstration at Union Square the fight against new taxes on the masses of the city should be a key issue. Let the Mayor, the aldermen, and their lords in Wall Street, hear the angry roar of the masses! Join the Communist Party 36 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N, Y. Please send me more information on the Com- mumist Party. Groups Back Scottsboro Meet (Continued from Page 1) president of the Blue Bird Associa- tion. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 22. — In preparation for National Scottsboro Week, the Negro and white work- ers of this city are planning a giant demonstration and torchlight parade Friday night. The action will start at 7 o'clock, with an open-air meeting at 39th and Brown Sts., to be followed by mass march through the working- class districts, both Negro and white. The action is organized by the West Philadelphia branch of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, supported by the Interna- tional Labor Defense and many other organization: Meeting in Boston BOSTON, Mass., Nov, 22.—Na- ‘al Scottsboro Week, Nov. 26 to . 2, will be opened here with a it mass meeting at which one of the Scottsboro mothers and Ben J. Davis, Jr., editor of the Negro | Liberator, will be the main speak- | ers, The meeting will be held next | Monday night af the Dudley St. Opera House. A preliminary meet- | ing will be held Friday night, Nov. 23, at the New International Hall. A report will also be given on the fight to revoke the sentences im- posed on 16 young anti-Fascist students and workers in connection with the anti-Nazi demonstration here during fhe visit of the Nazi cruiser “Karlsruhe.” Conference in Brooklyn NEW YORK—Plans are being | pushed for a broad representative | conference on Nov. 30 at the Carl- ton Y.M.C.A., 405 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, for the defense of the Scottsboro boys, Angelo Herndon and Clyde Allen, young Negro work- er framed up by Brooklyn police as the mythical hammer man al- leged to have attacked several white women, Unions Back Fight PADEN CITY, W. Va., Nov, 22,—! Indicative of the extent to which to the defense of the Scottsboro boys, local unions Nos. 15 and 509 of the American Flint Glass Work- ers Union, in a joint meeting last Saturday adopted a resolution con- demning the frame-up of the nine Negro boys by Alabama officials and demanding their immediate release. Y.C.L. Meet Tonight NEW YORK—A mass meeting to demand the immediate fredom of the Scottsboro boys will be held to- night in the Westchester Workers Center, 1548 Westchester Avenue, under the auspices of the Young Communist League, Unit 1410. Conference Postponed NEW YORK—The United Front Scottsboro-Herndon Conference scheduled for this Sunday in Brownsville, Brooklyn, has been postponed to Dec. 14, it was an- nounced yesterday by the Browns- ville sections of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense. The conference will be held at the Community Baptist Church, 370 Watkins St. All elected delegates the Southern workers are rallying; are asked to take notice of this change in plans, | Party Life Party Literature Brings Indian Inte the Party Tf importance of our Party press and our literature was forcibly jbrought home to me by an item in the Daily Worker of October 20, }When I wrote my brother at the/| | beationini of the year that I was a| member of the Communist Party he wrote as follows: | “I sure feel sorry for the attitude | you take towards religion. Years} ago before I got converted I read books by Karl Marx and other rad- licals. I will not say anything jagainst their social and economic| views, but I utterly condemn them on religious grounds. Only destruc- | tion can come of it,” | I realized that my brother was confused by the newspapers into| believing that the Communist po- sition was against individual re-| ligious belief. It was up to me to} use the best method of proving to him that we Communists are op-| posed to the use of organized re-| ligion to support and sanctify the| present economic system with its | war, mass starvation and legal op- pression of the working people. I therefore sent him “Why Commu-; nism?”, a three-month sub to the} Daily Worker, the Moscow Daily News and the “Meaning of Social Fascism” by Earl Browder. This was in March and I did not hear from him since. Imagine my surprise, when six months later in the Daily Worker of October 20, I read that my brother, Raymond F. Gray, is a candidate for U. S. Senator on the Communist ticket in Montana. ALBERT F. GRAY. NOTE: Comrade Gray is an American Indian from the Chip- pewa tribe and his Indian name is “Spotted Eagle.” et ae. Unit Affair Makes No Recruiting Appeal Permit me through this column to state the following: I attended an affair arranged by Unit 1-D, on Saturday night for the benefit of our “Daily.” The af- fair was well attended. Myself be- ing a new Party member, I had brought with me three workers that had never attended an affair of that sort before. I was patiently waiting and hop- ing for someone to introduce some- body to speak a few words about the Communist Party and to make jan appeal for membership in the Party. But to my disappointment | that was not done. A collection was made for the “Daily,” which was very small. {| A number of leading comrades | were at the affair, but they all left early, I believe that such negligence In/ carrying out the task for our Party is criminal. M. 8., New York. Election Campaign Prepares for Soviet America I will endeavor to give you a re- | port on the result of the election! in Glassport. We have received a total of 92 straight Communist | votes. Among the split ballots we received an additional 28 for Mar-| cus, giving him 120 votes; Wicks a total of 115 and a total of 114 for, Cush. Although this vote is below’ our expectation, it is, nevertheless, ' quite an improvement over the last election when we received only 18° straight votes. So that we made a’ gain of 511 per cent. This election has shown us many | of our weaknesses due to some of; the mistakes that we have made in the campaign, such as organizing the comrades to visit the people a month before the election, and keeping after them until the very last day before the election, there- by ensuring their support of our program and voting in favor of the Communist candidates. A few of us did this, but we did not start soon enough, In spite of our poor showing, we did accomplish one of our aims, and that is, we brought home to the there is a Communist Party, and thereby popularized the word Com- munism. Although the majority voted against us, they will remem- ber some of the things that we told them, through our speakers at the meetings and the leaflets that we distributed during the campaign. We can see how the masses swing from the Republicans to the Demo- crats, thinking that their conditions will improve, but we, as Commu- nists, know that their conditions will grow worse, as in the words of that great protetarian leader, Karl Marx, “the conditions of the working man, be his pay high or low, must grow worse.” The masses are still fooled by the program of the Democrats, but it won't be for long, as in Russie, where the Party had only 10 per cent of the people in May, and in October they had the majority. The politicians could not understand why our election work- ers at the polls worked harder than their own workers, ours working for nothing and theirs being paid, They do not want to understand the working man, but they will when the workers are no longer fooled by their demagogic phrases, and set about to establish a Soviet America, The election campaign of the Com- munist Party has helped to bring this day nearer. 8. K., Glassport, Ohio. C. P. in Second Place In Mining Town Poll YUKON, Pa., Nov. 22.—This min- ing town polled 22 votes for the Communist candidates as compared with 20 for the Republicans, 16 for the Socialist candidate, and 63 for the Democratic, CENTERVILLE, Iowa, Nov. 22.— The Communist Party here doubled people of Glassport the fact that | jplanned by an equally Burck will give the origing! drawing of each got today. C. White ........ HE THOUGHT HE HAD ‘THE Burck is giving cartoons but Michael is giving books and autographed manuscripts. his cartoon to the GOODS highest contributor J. L. Miller Compare what Previcusly $1.00 Total Joe at Manhattan Beach .. by Burck oN “yp each day towards his quota of $1,000. eceived ., + $419.55 gogy—“High Treason”! “High treason!” the phrase which the national socialists use to cloak) their bloody extermination of all| who stand in their way. Just one moment, gentlemen, mil- lions and millions of anti-fascists and world public opinion are not to be fobbed off so easily with a phrase of that sort. | Ernst Thaelmann has committed | “high treason”? When, where and| how, if you please? For twenty| months he has been in your hands| now and up to the moment you} have produced no evidence against him to justify any such charge. World public opinion will not per- mit you to imprison, torture and| slaughter men who have done noth- ing, but who, in your opinion, had the “intention” of doing something which you choose to call “high treason.” World public opinon will not permit you to prophesy what your victims might have done “if,” | and then to present an unbelieving world with this prophesy as the “legal basis” for the death sentence | and execution. And another point, “high treason”? Committed against whom and what? Was it against “democzacy”? The same democracy which you yourselves have attacked with vio- Jence and infamy of which. no Marxist is capable because he is well aware of the historical connec- tion between slavery, feudalism and capitalism? Or was it perhaps “high treason” against the German Republic which you presented for fourteen years as “a shame and a humiliation” for Germany, as “Germany's lowest depth of degradation,” as the work of “sub-humans” and of the “Learned Elders of Zion,” whose constitution was riddled through and through even in the days of Ebert and Hindenburg and which you finally destroyed when you jcame to power, together with the jJast remnants of the rights of the | working masses? These irresponsible demagogues want to try Ernst Thaelmann for “high treason,” although up to the time of his arrest and imprison- ment his speeches and his actions were not indictable according to the prevailing laws and according to the constitution, and although these same laws and the constitution guaranteed him parliamentary im- munity, and although legal and constitutional amnesties have re- moved him from the possibility of legal prosecution. A cynical legal murder is being cynical juridical system. For this reason ‘Thaelmann is. being supported not only by his immediate friends and comrades, but by hundreds of thou- sands of indignant men and women, lawyers, authors, journalists, sci- entists and artists, and they will mobilize still greater masses in his defense. “The Communist Party intended to carry out an armed insurrection in the spring of 1933.” This deliber- ate lie of the German Propaganda Ministry has been repeated by Goering in public meetings, in broadcast speeches and in inter- views. Today the whole world knows that this statement which is to form the gravamen of the charges against Ernst Thecimann at his trial is a deliberate lie. ‘The decisions of the German Com- munist Party up to January 30, the date when Hitler came to power, its vote. over the 1932 elections, polling 37 against 19 votes, The Frame-up Against Thaelmann An International Provocation Communist Party is none which conveys any such suggestion. Even after the burning of the Reichstag by the national socialists and after the letting loose of a horrible wave of terror against the working class, the Communist Party did not proclaim a revolutionary insurrection in view of the attitude of the leaders of the social-demo- cratic party avd of the German reformist trade union fedederation (A.D.G.B.) and in view of the il- lusions ‘which were harbored by great masses of the middle class and of the peasantry. In April 1933, an official article by Fritz Heckert appeared in all the organs of the Communist Interna- tional dealing with the question of whether the tactics of the Commu- nist Party of Germany in the spring of 1933 were correct or not. This article pointed out that it was pre- cisely Goering’s plan to provoke the Communist Party into launching an armed insurrection and that the Communist Party acted absolutely correctly in refusing to fall into the trap prepared for it. Although the brown terrorists may pretend that they do not know these facts, the world knows them and it knows still more. In autumn, 1933, a plenary session of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Commu- nist International took place. At this Thirteenth Plenary Session the German Communist leader Wil- helm Pieck delivered a speech on the situation in Germany. Twenty Communists took part in the dis- cussion on the German question. The resolutions of the session dealt The speeches, the discussions and the resolutions were published throughout the world in a score of languages, as every reader of the newspapers knows, and they all point out that the Central Com- mittee of the German Communist Party, under the leadership of Ernst Thaelmann, was correct when it refused to let itself be provoked by Goering into an armed insurrec- tion. x Despite all these known facts the German fascists have the impu- dence to present a forged “plan of revolution” to support the indict- ment of Thaelmann. Every thinking person is well aware that this precious “plan” is a product of the national socialist , forgery workshops, and that the “witnesses” for the prosecution are corrupt and perjured wretches. Why is that perfectly clear? The main aim of the Dimitrov Process was not really to prove that | Dimitrov and Torgler had set fire to the Reichstag. The whole in- dictment, the speeches of the Min- isters and the evidence of the po- lice witnesses, were all directed to proving that in the spring of 1933 the Communist Party of Germany had intended to launch an armed rising and that the burning of the Reichstag was to be the “signal” for the revolt. t Both these contentions collapsed utterably and miserably, The ac-/| cused Communists had to be ac-| in detail with the German situation. ! An Achievement of Fascist Dema-) sands of printed statements. Among throughout the whole world in or- |the printed material issued by the !der that the last decent, honest per- son may recognize the infamy which is being prepared against Thaelmann. Is it not clear that the {whole Dimitroy-Torgler trial would have taken a completely different course if Goering and Goebbels had been able to produce an “authentic” plan for a Communist insurrection? That would have been the sensa- tion of the prosecution Eleven months after the fascist |government came to power not a single document and not a single witness could be produced in the most sensational process of the cen- tury to support the lying contention |that the Communist Party had planned an armed insurrection. The national socialists had to swallow a signal defeat in the eyes of the whole world. After twenty months, however, a “plan for armed revolution” has been discovered just in time for the |Thaelmann trial and “witnesses” | have also been discovered to sup- | port it! No, the world will not let this shameless forgery pass without pro- test. We shall break the back of the precious “plan” which the forg- ers have produced in months of hard and painful. work jbefore the forgers have a chance to use it in order that world public opinion shall not be confused and misled. The production of this Shameless “plan” is an indication ,of the great danger which is threat- ening Ernst Thaelmann and of the unscrupulousness which we may still expect. Temporary Conclusions The Leipzig trial, in‘which Dimi- trov fought and won with the sup- port of millions of men and women throughout the world, has proved that apart from the general politi- cal movement of solidarity with the accused the concrete legal struggle against the fascist adventurers is of the greatest importance. This will also be the case in the coming trial of Ernst Thaelmann. However, the legal arguments also must be placed before the broad masses of the people in order that mass ac- tion may support the actions of the lawyers and of the juridical com- lmissions and encourage them in the attack. It has further bee:1 shown that if we use the correct arguments we ,ean extend our influence far be- yond “the ranks of the working classes and win broad sections of the intelligentsia, the middle classes, the bourgeois. radicals, the demo- crats and the republicans for our cause and for the international ac- tion to secure the release of the anti-fascist prisoners. Therefore we must popularize these arguments and these facts in rotest resolutions and meetings, in protest telegrams and through pro- test deputations, and we must. urge on the anti-fascist lawyers to pro- vide still further such legal argu- jments. This is also important for other reasons, In all capitalist countries fascism is making great progress in the State organs. Laws, justice, constitution, emergency de- crees, exceptional laws, concentra~ tion camps, terrorism and _ legal quitted. A year after Hitler had come to power Dimitrov was re-' ‘leased. The sensational question now sarises. Why was the notorious “plan for armed insurrection” not produced in the Dimitrov process? Why were not the witnesses whom the national socialists now claim’ to have in support of its “authen- are well known and they have been distributed in hundreds of thou- ticitv’ not invited to give evidence \in the Dim’'trov process? murder—these are no longer purely “German questions.” German fas- cism is finding apt pupils all over the world. German fascism and German fas- cist “justice”? in the Thaelmann process we are winning greater clarity and forging the weapons for the struggle against fascist “jus- tice” and against the advance of jfascism in all other capitalist coun- We shall shout this question tries. cn we enter. the lists against | World Front ——By HARRY GANNES ——. Late China News “Alarm and Anxiety” History Repeats Itself NOWING of the tremen- dous and historic move- ments of the Chinese Soviets and Red Armies, realizing the great battles they are now confronted with, every friend of China is anxious these days, and awaits the smallest scrap of information with the greatest impatience, The cable news service from China gives an entirely false pice ture of the situation. When yes- terday morning among our pile of foreign newspapers we saw the blue Sun Yat Sen stamp on a magazine, just arrived on the latest boat from China, we grab it and read it first, as fresher news than the morning capitalist sheets. How different from the claims of victory of Chiang Kai-shek over the Chinese Soviets, Again in the Oct. 27 issue of “The China Weekly Review,” the big question mark for all of China is not Kiangsi but Szechuan province. Another Kuomintang follower writes on: “Szechuan, a Second Kiangsi?” Little comment {s required on the following extracts (which comprise more than half of the entire article) of Mr. C, Y. Hsieh: “It is cruel reality,” laments this Kuomintang supporter, “that just as the Communist suppression cam- paign in Kiangsi has been brought nearer than ever before to a suc- cessful conclusion, news from Szech- uan has begun to tell of another red stronghold in the making. “A perusal of recent news reports from central and west China brings out the following facts in bold re- lief. First of all, the provincial armies of Szechuan have suffered such heavy reverses at the hands of the Reds that without outside reinforcements they will not be able to recover the ground they have lost and may be in danger of losing more. Secondly, it has been the unmistakable intention of Hsiao Keh and Ho Lung, both in com- mand of some crack units of the Communist army, to join hands with each other. Should this occur, which according to some sources has already come to pass, the men- ace in Szechuan would have as- sumed the proportions of a national problem... . “For, quite irrespective of the is- sue of arms in northern and western Szechuan where it was highly doubt- ful whether the troops under Gen- erals Tien Sung-yao, Teng Hsi-hou, Li Chia-yu and Lo Cheh-chou could check the advance of one of Hsu Hsiang-chien’s units towards Chentu (capital of Szechuan), the drive on Wahnsien and Chungking (lead- ing industrial city) by the other unit of Hsu’s men was a serious strategic threat. Mae oats “(NCE the latter two key cities were in the hands of the Reds, it would be only a matter of time when all the provincial armies west of Chungking would collapse, be- cause the supplies of arms and ammunitions that outside sources might rush to them could not reach them any more. “Unfortunately by September the wors} that had been dreaded seemed all but completely enacted. .. Even the fall of Chengtu had more than once been rumored, and Chungking had been plunged into a state of panic and uncertainty which was only terminated by the return of General Liu Hsiang to that city toward the end of September. “Tt is clear that the generals of eighteen | Szechuan have had their hands full in dealing with the Communists under Hsu Hsiang-chien alone. “The disquieting thing is that they may have to face a new menace in the possible union be- tween the Reds under Hsiao Keh and those under Ho Lung... . Sa ew a THIS has been the plan of the Communist leaders, there is no question that Szechuan would be their first choice, considering its comparative wealth (despite the re- lentless squeeze by the militarists) and its strategic position on the headwaters of the Yangtze and as @ mak to China’s northwest and south- ‘West. “When one links the possibility of a Sovietized Szechuan with the consideration of the immense dif- ficulties which have beset the government’s campaign against the Reds in southern Kiangsi—a region far inferior to Szechuan in resources and geographical poten- tiality—one cannot but view the trend in Szechuan with alarm and anxiety.” iia, gies. LL of which fully confirms what the Daily Worker has been pub- lishing about recent events in So- viet China. In about one month, the Kiangsi Red army will have joined the Szechuan army, and Chiang Kai- Shek cannot move up his reinforce- ments within that time, as he fears to abandon Kiangsi province en- tirely where the Red partisan and guerilla bands are still active, and would quickly be transformed into armies if he withdraws sufficient of his 800,000 troops to be effective in Szechuan, History is repeating itself in China. After the Canton Commune defeat, the more extensive Soviets in Hunan and Honen were estab- lished; after the Hunan defeat, the greater Szechuan Soviets were set up, and now after the Kiangsi de- feat, the whole of Szechuan threat- [ee to become Sovietized. HE WANTS PLENTY! Who expects Gannes to return | from among the missing for a dole lar? WiOR io... rere Previously received .