The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 27, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAFLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1934 Daily, QWorker | HHRTRAL ORGAM COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERWATIONAS) “America’s Only Working Class Daity Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING C@., INC., 50 E. 19th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone Address Algonquin 4-795 4 Daiwork,” New York, N. Y. Press Building, hone: National 7910. Room 705, Chicago, Hl. x), 1 year, 96.00; h, 0.75 cents. ada: 1 year, 99.60; monthly, 75 cents. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1934 ————————————————— Act Against Roosevelt’s Relief Cuts HE Chicago united front demonstration of 25,000 workers for increased unem- ployment relief, against relief cuts and for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, is evidence of the intense protest of the workers against the relief slashes now being carried through by the Roosevelt government. The employed and unemployed workers alike are indignant at the recent moves of the Roosevelt gov- ernment to reduce relief and cut wages. The already pitifully inadequate work relief minimum wage of thirty cents an hour has been abolished. “Unem- ployables” are being removed from relief rolls and | abandoned, Wages are being cut. The demand of the workers for the thirty-hour week without reduc- tion in pay, which would reduce unemployment, is Opposed and considered “impossible” by the Roose- velt government. Roosevelt has abandoned his promises to grant unemployment insurance and has come out definitely against any federal unemploy- ment insurance and for only state “reserves” which to the unemployed. In answer to these attacks, which are of vital concern to both the employed and unemployed, a broad united front National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance is being held in Washington, D. C., on January 5-7. This Congress has as its central demand the passage of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bfil | Leading up to this congress, local struggles for the demands of the unemployed and employed work- ers are being develoved. These struggles should be extended manyfold. The broad united front devel- oped in Chicago should serve as an example to all other localities. Strikes of those on work relief should be devel- oped and organized wherever possible against cuts in pay, increase of hours, and for recognition of the job grievance committees. In every city struggles must be organized’ against relief cuts and for adequate relief for the unem- ployed during the winter, against reduction of the ‘wages on work relief, for the thirty-hour week with- out reduction in pay for all workers; for the im- mediate passage of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, which includes health, old age and all forms of social insurance; for the rights of the workers, employed and unemployed, to or- ganize, to meet and to strike. Especially must the members of the Communist Party and the Unemployment Councils take responsi- bility for developing these local struggles as a part of the preparations for the united front Congress | for Unemployment Insurance. | Immediate steps for mass demonstrations, and pressure on local governmental bodies and upon Congressmen and Senators must be made at once. The delegates to the National Congress should receive support in every city by mass demonstrations of workers on Jan. 7, the day on which the Con- Bress delegates will present their demands to the United States Congress and to President Roosevelt. To build these demonstrations, the work of popularizing the Congress must go forward in the shops, in the neighborhoods and at the relief sta- tions. Mass meetings and the distribution of litera- ture at the relief stations, mobilizing of the relief workers to elect job delegates to the National Con- gress, symposiums on unemployment insurance must be arranged. Develop local struggles against the Roosevelt relief slashing drive! Build a powerful united front around the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance! eRe ETE The NRA and the 30-Hour Week HE drive of the Roosevelt government against labor, was carried forward on another front yesterday with the announce- ment that the N.R.A. is being “reorgan- ized” on the basis of “a uniform forty- hour week,” and the rejection by the N.R.A. officials of the demand of the workers for a basic thirty- hhour week without reduction in pay. The N.R.A. officials, news dispatches state, con- sider the thirty-hour week demand of the workers “impossible.” This “draft” proposal will be sent to the Recovery Board and to Roosevelt. | The drive to lengthen hours of the workers is being carried on simultaneously with the whole anti-labor drive of the Roosevelt government. The Roosevelt government is attempting to cut wages. Only a few days ago, Secretary of Interior Ickes, | declared that the building construction workers must accept wage cuts on government building projects, and Federal Relief Director Hopkins ordered aboli- | tion of the minimum wage of thirty cents an hour on government work relief. The attempt to reduce the wages of the building trades workers, and the cut in work relief wages, is the spearhead whereby | the Roosevelt government is trying to drive down the wages of workers in all industries, and lower the standard of living of the entire working class. The Roosevelt government is making one move after another to increase the profits of the em- Ployers and get out of the crisis at the expense of the workers. The anti-labor drive is being carried through on all fronts—attempting to outlaw strikes through legislation and compulsory arbitration; bringing forward the company unions and the “open shop” as expounded by Donald Richberg in recent Speeches, and now removing all restrictions on hours of labor. President Roosevelt at the inauguration of the N.R.A. announced that its basic aim was to end unemployment by reducing hours and increasing Wages. The N.R.A. reduced the wages of skilled | workers by making the minimum wage the maxi- | mum wage. The N.R.A. protected company unions | and broke strikes. But now the drive against the workers takes a sharper, more open turn. Now Roosevelt's demagogy regarding reduced hours and higher wages is scrapped. Roosevelt would have the workers believe they must accept wage cuts, relief cuts, longer hours and company unions (while the bosses’ profits are maintained and increased) in their own interests, as a necessary “sacrifice.” The N-R.A, is being “reorganized” with the features which strengthen monopoly retained and the few restrictions on the employers removed The proposals of the Communist Party directed to the Socialist workers for a united fight for more inemployment relief, against wage cuts, in defense of the rights of the workers, and for union recog- ion, should be carried into effect in every locality he workers are to defeat the anti-labor drive if of Roosevelt. | Silk Workers Need A New | Leadership Mice of the Rank and File program at the Second Convention of the Fed- eration of Silk Workers was sufficient to place the convention on record for a num- ber of progressive measures. The small but energetic group of militant delegates won the election of a member on the National Executive Board. However, on many of the most essential ques- tions facing the convention the reactionary official- dom of the union still showed its deadening grip. In face of the present general wage cutting drive of the employers the resolutions calling for setting a date for a general strike was defeated. Instead, confidence is to be continued in the Labor Rela- tions Board, and the results of the Winant report are to be awaited. The resolution condemning the treacherous manner in which the recent General Strike was terminated was also defeated, and the convention again placed control of the union in the hands of the same reactionaries. It would be a serious mistake to think that be- cause the convention has endorsed a reactionary policy, and placed reactionaries in office, it is im- possible to develop a fight against the wage cuts, or to organize the silk workers. It certainly can be done! This, in fact, is the primary task before all militant workers in the industry, and especially the Communists, who must give the leadership, The officialdom in whose hands the organiza- tion was placed again are neither going to, nor are they able to, build the union and lead a struggle. The workers will never forget how they betrayed the last strike and left them in an even worse posi- tion. This is why thousands have been leaving the union, or refuse to pay dues or attend meetings since the general strike. Only new, honest, militant leaders can gain their confidence. As in Paterson they are repudiating the old line officials. New, honest leaders from the ranks are coming to the fore. It is these who can bring into life the program of organization which has been adopted at the convention and prepare the workers for a nation-wide struggle for the establishment of union conditions in every region. The convention has revealed that, despite all weaknesses and unclarity which still exists, an ac- tive rank and file movement has sprung up. The militant delegates left the convention not with the feeling that they have met defeat, but heartened with the partial success scored. They left realizing the responsibility that rests upon them—to lead the workers in a struggle and build a powerful union in all regions despite the dead hand of the officials. The U.S.S.R. and Peace IRESH from his studies under Hitler, Hearst comes back with a vicious blast backing the Nazis’ policies in the Saar, charging France with being the war ag- gressor. The implication, of course, is since the distorted statements of the French deputy Archimbaud on the Soviet’s peace policy, that the US.SR. is involved. This is the response of all the fascisi forces, supporting Hitler, to the revolutionary peace policy of the Soviet Union. Making clear to the entire world that German fascism and Japanese imperial- ism were driving the world to a new slaughter, the Soviet Union entered into mutual assistance pacts with France and other countries, offering the same pacts to Germany and Poland, as well as to all Eastern European countries. These mutual assistance pacts provided that in order to sectire peace in the face of the open move to war of certain imperialist countries at this time that the countries entering into the pacts give one another every help against the country who proved to be the aggressor. The Soviet Union’s definition of aggressor was included in all of the security pacts signed by the workers’ fatherland, declaring that country is an aggressor which puts its armed forces across the border of another country. Naturally, this powerful bulwark of peace of the Soviet Union aroused the hysterical vituperation of those countries. who were making ready to revise the boundaries of Europe and the world by immediat armed force. The Soviet Union, the world fortress of the pro- letarian revolution, fighting in the interests of the toiling and oppressed masses of the whole world, is ready to use all the forces of its growing powerful Socialist society to block the movements of those imperialist powers who want to plunge the world into a new, criimnal imperialist war. : * * Hes USSR. strives for alliances for peace, utiliz- ing the imperialist conflicts to the detriment of those imperialist countries who want war NOW. As Litvinov, Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, declared: “The guiding principle of our foreign Policy is outlined in Stalin’s brief but expressive formula: We do not covet foreign land, but not a single inch of our own will we yield. It follows that once we do not want foreign land, we do not want wars.” This is the answer to all of the enemies of the Soviet Union who try to draw an analogy between the peace alliances of the Soviet Union today and the imperialist war alliances of Czarist Russia with France. The pre-war alliances were formed on the assumption of the community of interests of certain powers and the antagonism of interests as against other powers. The powers with kindred interests undertook to support each other against the powers with interests antagonistic to theirs. The Soviet Union’s peace security pacts, however, are circulated with only one aim—namely, to preserve peace. They assume joint action on the part of all signatories to the pact against any country which might violate peace. Thus they provide a counter-weieht to the violation of peace, no matter from what side it may come, and strengthen the security of all signatories equally. But no matter how the Soviet Union strives and fights for peace, utilizing every possibility of action against those powers driving to war now, the major action against imperialist war and for the defense of the U.S.S.R. rests in the allies of the proletarian dictatorship in all capitalist countries, the working masses. The peace policy of the Soviet Union, backed by the masses in the land of Socialism, together with the revolutionary struggle against war in the im- perialist countries is the most potent force making it difficult for the imperialists to plunge the world into a new slaughter. it is no accident that the Trotzkyite counter- Tevolutionists raise their voice in unison with Hearst and the German fascists and Japanese imperialists against the Soyiet Union's peace policy, and its actions to guarantee peace, \ Party Lite |New York Section | Launches Campaign In White Chauvinism At a unit meeting recently in Section 8, District 2, an announce- ment was read of the formation of a class in Negro problems. The response to this was such that a section committee member present insisted on a full discussion of this subject. In the course of this dis- cussion it was revealed that all seven unit members present held white chauvinist ideas. Two days later at a section com- mittee meeting the existence of Na- tionalism among leading Negro members was made clear. Why do apparently good Party members still retain white chauvin- ist ideas Why do apparently good Negro comrades retain petit bour- geois nationalistic opinions? How does section 8 propose to combat and remedy this situation? The existence of such conditions did not suddenly dawn upon the | section committee. It had existed for some time. The section has | discussed the matter at length. De- | cisions were reached, plans were }made. But they remained on paper. |"They were never put into execu- tion. Brownsville (Section 8) has a fairly large Negro population. These people are subjected to all the dis- crimination and perscution ac- corded Negro workers everywhere, Despite many instances of vicious mistreatment of Negroes by land- lords, bosses and city officials there have been no consistent and vigor- ous campaigns organized to fight such cases. There has been no con- sistent ideological campaign against white chauvinism or nationalism. Because of this and because the section committee failed to carry out its own decisions on this ques- question the white chauvinist and Nationalistic ideas dormant among many of our comrades was not brought out into the open. Our Negro comrades seeing few struggles carried on around specific cases be- came susceptible to the poisonous petit bourgeois nationalism theory. At the unit meeting mentioned above, questioning brought out that none of the members had read any of the literature published by the Party on the Negro question. They protestd strongly when told they were guilty of holding white chau- vinist beliefs. At the section com- mittee likewise the Negro comrades resented strongly the expressed opinion they were holding nation- alistic ideas. Surely, if our comrades were clear on the position of the C. P. on the Negro question this situation would not have developed. The Ne- | gro comrades instead of sullenly | resenting the lack of action would |have raised hell about it. If the section persisted in taking no vigor- | ous action they would have ap- |pealed to the district. Could the | white comrades, if they were clear on this subject, have allowed such a conditionsto exist Hardly. The section committee has been weak. The district has taken steps |to strengthen it. New forces have | been sent in, The section commit- |tee has discussed the problem at length. We recognize the extreme danger of such a condition as has existed. At a time when the coun- try is in the process of a con- stantly increased tempo in its pro- cess of fascisation the danger be- comes even greater. We recognize that the situation calls for immedi- ate, drastic and vigorous action. With this in mind we are taking the following steps: 1—A general membership, meet- ing of the entire section membrship Tuesday, Nov. 27th, with only one point on the agenda: Negro Prob- lems. 2—The section is organizing a protest mass meeting on Wednesday outside the home of a landlord who refused to rent rooms to a Negro worker and his family. The land- lord had first accepted the rental fee but later returned it with the excuse that the Synagogue next door objected to a Negro neighbor. A similar action on Thursday in sup- port of the L.S.N.R. fight against Negro discrimination by the Kresge stores. 3—Units to be called upon to conduct struggles around all in- stances of mistreatment and dis- crimination against Negroess in their neighborhood. A system of checking up on units by the sec- tion, 4—Section will help to strengthen already existing branches of L. S. N. R. and help in the organization of new branches. Providing strong fractions to L. S. N. R. branches. Regular meetings of section repre- sentatives with the fractions. 5—Class in Negro Problems to be conducted regularly with a capable instructor. Section to be respon- sible to get large attendance. 6—Frequent discussion in the units on the Negro question. Units to be aroused to be always on the alert for any indications of white chauvinism or nationalism among members. T—The section will take an un- compromising attitude on every case of wilful and deliberate expressions or acts of white chauvinism and nationalism. Members not correct- ing such views to be exposed and expelled from the Party ranks. 8—To intensify the Scottsboro campaign and link it up at all times with local struggles. 9—To organize discussion around this subject in the mass organiza- tions and Y. C. L. The section committee is confi- dent that it can cope with the situ- ation. It is determined to fight this danger on all fronts. These decisions are not to remain on paper. We propose to raise the question again and again. We pro- pose to provide a strict check up on this phase of our work. SECTION COMMITTEE, Section 8, District 2. In New York, the Bronx Icor branch held a house party; when the chairman explained the role of the Daily Worker in the struggie for the defense of the Soviet Union, $23 was raised for the $60,000 fund. against Fascism, anti-Semitism and | | | CHEER HIM UP! the lowest humiliation possible—no For the second time in seven days, Burck suffers “THANK YOU SAM! CALL AGAIN!” / Burck will give the original drawing of his cartoon to the highest contributor each day towards his quota of $1,000, his feature. contributions to Total to date ..csesceceeeeeeseeceeses $459.55 by Burck| | (Continued from Page 2) was ignored that the revolution is not made; it is organized. (2) The peasants were not drawn into the revolutionary struggles. This too is the reason why the army, consisting mainly of peasants, did not go over to the side of the revo- lution. (3) The problem of power, the fundamental question of every revo- lution, was not placed clearly be- fore the workers and peasants. The masses were not acquainted with the organs of power, the Soviets, how they should function, how and where they should be organized. (4) In the very heart of the So- cialist leadership, side by side with revolutionists, ready for any sacri- fice, were elements who did not con- ceal their hostility to the revolution. (5) The general strike was not carried out before the Lerroux- Robles government was found. This left the initiative in the hands of the enemy. (6) The struggle for national in- dependence in Catalonia was left to the initiative of the vacillating and treacherous bourgeoisie, such as Companys. To be victorious, the revolution, in all its forms, must be under the leadership of the pro- letariat. (7) The monstrous betrayal and treachery of the anarchist leaders was the worst blow of all and showed them, as Marxism has al- ways described them, as enemies of the proletarian revolution, who in the struggles in Spain were found on the barricades on the side of fascism. Anarchists Damaged Fight The deeds of the anarchists in Spain in the decisive struggles against fascism again proved up to the hilt the historical Marxian criticism of the whole theory and tactics of anarchism. Not in all the history of anarch- ism have their leadership and basic ideas been so costly to the workers as in Spain. This flows, not out of the tactical mistakes of the Spanish anarchists in this particular situ- ation, but out of the whole concep- tion of anarchism in relation to the class struggle. In Spain the damage was so great because the anarchists had won leadership over 1,000,000 workers and the leaders carried out their counter-revolutionary concep- tions at a time when the workers were entering armed struggles against fascism. Nothing expresses the treacher- ous conceptions of the anarchist leaders more than their published comment when a number of Spanish Communists were sent to the African penal colonies. Borrowing their phrases from the Trotzkyites, the anarchists declared to-the Commu- nist prisoners: “Go, build Socialism now in one country!” In their criticism of the capitalist state dictatorship, the anarchists also criticized as bitterly and sav- agely the dictatorship of the pro- letariat, thereby diverting the work- ers from the only force and power which could defeat and destroy the rule of capitalist-landlord ruling power. In this they have a com- mon ground with those who, like Kautsky, consider the fascist dic- tatorship as on the same plane and basically undistinguishable from the proletarian dictatorship. Anarchism, basically, is the uto- pian, petty-bourgeois philosophy | developed into a system of Proudhon jand given organizational expression by Bakunin, the bitterest enemy of | Marx in the First International. It is based chiefly on the remnants of the petty-bourgeoisie who in the early stages of capitalism are driven ArmedStruggle in Spain Proved Thesis Of Marx Correct on Role of Reformists ® into the ranks of the proletariat, and carry on a violent struggle against capitalism for the abstract conception of “liberty” and “equal- ity” which expresses the utopian de- sire of the enraged petty-bourgeoisie to preserve their individual property and “liberty.” Because of the late development of capitalism in Spain, the anarch- ists were able to get a foothold, and carry over their leadership into a period when the proletariat was maturing rapidly toward seizure of power and the establishment of the proletarian dictatorship. The anarchist leaders’ idea is, since the proletarian dictatorship is no better than the capitalist dic- tatorship, when the one is threat- ened by the other, why take sides? Furthermore, not believing in pro- letariat struggles, they fight against strikes of a political nature, especi- ally one leading to the armed in- surrection for workers’ power. The anarchist leaders fought against the Soviet Union and the orously than against the capitalist state, considered by them freer than proletarian rule, which they called “red imperialism.” Sabotaged General Strike Hence, when it came to the de- cisive test, when fascism sought to establish its open, brutal dictator- ship, the anarchists, true to their historical role, sabotaged the gen- eral strike, the armed uprising for Catalonian national independence, and the proletarian revolution and the establishment of Soviets throughout Spain. Anarchism, in the person of the Spanish anarchist leaders, per- formed a service for Spanish capi- talism which its mercenary, crim- inal Foreign Legion could never have performed alone with its most modern means of mass murder. The lessons of the Spanish revo- lution are of international signifi- cance, and will have international, immediate repercussions in the class struggle and the world battle against fascism and for Soviet power. In a recent article in Interna- tional Press Correspondence, on “The Civil War in Spain and the International Proletariat,” Com- rade Ercoli writes: “The recent events in Spain have once again provided a convincing object lesson of the international validity of Leninism and Bol- shevism. The victory of the revo- lution demands revolutionary strat- egy and revloutionary tactics. There are no revolutionary tactics and strategy outside the practice and theory of Bolshevism. .. . “The Octover struggles of the Spanish masses which revealed this ineapacity of the socialist leaders by an acid test, represent a de- cisive stage in the development of the Spanish revolution. The work- ing mass of Spain will learn from their experience. . . . “The Communist Party of Spain was not only the sole working class organization which had a correct policy toward all the fundamental problems of the revolution, but it was also at the head of the work- ing masses in their struggles in the October days. The red flag of the Communist Party waved victori- ously over the barricades in Astu- rias and it was carried into the struggle by the most determined of the projetarian fighters of the glorious Commune of Asturias. . . . “The Spanish revolution is still proceeding. The Spanish bour- geoisie is well aware that the work- ers and peasants have not sufiered a final defeat, and the fear of fur- ther mass struggles has already made a section of the bourgeoisie proletarian dictatorship more vig- | hesitant. . . . Our heroic Spanish Communist Party, which has now stood its test of fire gloriously, will succeed in placing itself at the head of the workers and peasants and in leading them fo final victory. “However, the Communists and the other revolutionary workers of Spain must receive practical as- sistance from us in their struggle. ‘The international solidarity of the proletariat and the international struggle of the proletariat to sup- port the Spanish revolution must contribute practically to clearing the way for further mass struggles in Spain and to assisting the Span- ish workers and peasants in their difficult struggle. The Interna- tional solidarity of the proletariat must and will contribute to the de- feat of fascism in Spain and bring the day oy the final victoricus struggle of the proletariat nearer both in Spain and in the rest of | Europe.” Japan Ready To Denounce Naval Treaty LONDON, Nov. 26.—Indications that the Japanese delegates to the Naval Conference here were about to issue a statement renouncing the Washington Arms Pact, which for thirteen years has given American profiteers and imperialism more ad- vantages than the profiteers of any other country, is already acting as a factor in increased war prepara- tions everywhere. Reports from Japan give startling figures of war activity there, which, although in no way comparable to the aggressive and enormous war program of the Roosevelt adminis- tration, is significant of the war budgets of every imperialist power. The sum allotted for military pur- poses is 131 per cent larger than the amount of war fund set aside before the Manchurian conflict and larger than the entire budget of 1931. For the relief of the terrible calami- ties which have overwhelmed the peasants and farmers in Japan, and which in money alone runs into half a billion dollars, only the mis- erable sop. of $21,000,000 has been included in the budget. . War Aviation Plans Rushed By Britain LONDON, Noy. 26.—The British National Coalition government is carrying its plans for the strength- ening of its air fleets forward with great haste. An important part of these plans include the building of naval bases. New aviation stations are to be immediately begun at Feltwell and Martham—both towns on the east coast. A third base of much larger proportions is to be constructed on the formerly unin- habited island opposite the impor- tant war harbor, Portsmouth, the cost of which approaches $5,000,000. The Air Ministry considers these bases as key points in the circle of World Front —— By HARRY GANNES —— Nazi Terror South African Silvershirts “35,000 Babies Starving” ‘OUR executed, 999 years of imprisonment—that is the balance sheet of Nazi justice for September. The Red Aid of Germany reports that those executed were the anti- fascists Hans Schidzik, Gre- gor Meissner, Willi Jaspar, and Ottmar. Hundreds of workers, Communists and Socialists, were sent to prison for terms ranging from one to 20 years. While the terror machine grinds, there is a deadly silence about the fate of Ernst Thaelmann. Every once in a while the Nazis issue trial balloons in the form of announce- ments of his trial before the special |death tribunal, called the People’s Court. And when the world protest demonstrations respond, there is more silence. What is being done with Thael- mann? Where is he? "These are questions which should be thrust before every Nazi official agent in every country, with the mass de- mand: “Free Ernst Thaelmann and all other anti-fascist prisoners.” IX South African fascists, who instead of adopting Hitler's brown shirt, took over the Amer- ican-style Silver shirt, were arrested for safe-robbery. Their organiza- tion particularly carries on a rabid anti-semitic campaign. Recently six of them broke into a synagogue, assaulted the rabbi, and stole the safe. In their defense they pro- duced documents which they alleged they found in the safe, These con- sisted of copies of the notorious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” The expert who in 1908 examined the “Protocols” for the London Times happened to be in South Africa at the time and gave evid- ence against the Silver Shirts. He proved the document a forgery. The outcome of the case is that the Sil- ver Shirts were found guilty of assault, housebreaking, theft, libel, perjury, and one or two other of- fenses. Damages were set at $360,- 000 and they were given heavy terms in prison, ese deer ee paper coming from Japan adds to the evidence of increas- ing starvation in that country, “35,000 babies starving,” is the head- line on an article in the latest issue of the Japan Weekly Chronicle to arrive here. We quote from the article: “A Morioka dispatch to the Mainichi says that an inquiry by authorities of Iwate prefecture in the North-East has disclosed the shocking fact that through the un- dernourishment of their mothers, over 35,000 infants are on the brink of starvation. The alarmed prefec- tural authorities, it is said, have de cided to open 459 relief stations. .. “Mr. Niwa, Vice-Minister of Home Affairs, is quoted by the Mainichi as saying that the distress of the farmers in the North-East province is beyond description. It is im- possible to hear tales of their misery without tears.” This is similar to Secretary of State Hall reporting on the condi- tions of the hungry American work- ers and farmers. If the Japanese minister is forced to shed crocodile tears, imagine what the real state of affairs must be! eee The lies spread by the bourgeois press on the “cruelties” alleged to have been committed by the revo- lutionary workers in Asturias have collapsed beneath the witness borne by representatives of the govern- ment itself, and by a number of sincere bourgeois journalists, but no one can deny the actuality of the atrocities committed by the govern= ment forces in this province. It is an established fact that Gen- eral Lopez Ochoa, on marching into Oviedo at midnight, caused 200 im- prisoned workers to be shot against the wall of the Pelajo barracks, One of the men thus shot was the So- cialist leader Bonifacio Martin. Ochoa attempts to justify this mass shooting as necessary to force the revolutionists to surrender who were still masters of the coal field.” But in order to cover the traces of the crime, he caused the houses of all journalists to be searched by For- eign Legionaries, and the journal- ists warned against “spreading this false report.” In the case of the well known journalist Louis de Sirval, a report was found in his room at a hotel, not only about this mass shooting, but about the looting and robbery committed by the Foreign Legionairies. Sirval’s reperts ac- cused a White Guardist Russian officer of the Foreign Legion, Dimitri Ivanov, of raiding a watchmaker’s shop in company with others, and stealing numbers of gold watches and other valuables. Louis de Sir- val was at once confronted with Ivanov, who shot him dead after a brief exchange of words. Other re- publica journalists, as for instance Eduardo de Curman and Ezequid Enderer, were threatened with death if they did not leave Asturias. They arrived yesterday in Madrid. A hospital in Oviedo, for instance, was stormed by the officer Ivanov with a number of Legionaries, who shet 17 wounded revolutionists and two nurses. Marcus Miranda, form= erly a member of Lerroux’s Party, witnessed innumerable cases of rob- bery and looting. He saw with his own eyes how Legionnaires and Arabs opened an “Arabian market” in the street, and sold objects which they had looted. ENTER “WORLD FRONT!” Gannes is back! He returns from ‘Wyoming, Pa. (and see what he brought with him?), to march straight up to the head of the line. For the first time he’s beaten the hitherto indomitable chiefs like Gold and Burch in the day’s con= tributions. Units 1 & 2, Wyoming, Pa.. Previously received . e | | j