The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1934, Page 6

’ PA Pages > DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1934 aily QWorker SOWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5@ FE. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Tey Subscription Rates Manhatta Bronx), 1 $8.00 1934 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 29. The People’s Fight on the Sales Tax HE fight against the wholesale robbery of the LaGuardia sales tax also means a fight to expose the opposition to the ta that comes from such a “friend of the people” as Grover Whalen, acting for the cit y’s biggest merchants The c led by Whalen of Tam- | many police e, are howling against the sales tax of LaGuardia But eason they howling is because the tax oubtedly he amount of buy- m, and, in this way, cut jng by the city’s popu nto their profits. } What these merchants want instead is another kind of tax that will rob the masses in some other Way, a way that will not affect thi The merchants want a tax on rect wage cuts (such as they themselves have insti- tuted in their own stores), and a whole series of taxes on light, gas, rent, that will affect some other groups of capitalist exploiters other than themselves. The plea of the merchants is not against the LaGuardia-Wall Street program of protecting the bankers. It is merely a plea for a different kind of attack against the The fight against the sales tax fight only against this particularly vicious robbery of the masses, but against the whole Wall Street program of LaGuardia ich specifically the program of the Morgan-Rockefeller banks. The Communist Party proclaims as the slogan in fighting the sales tax, “Make the rich, the employ- ers, landlords, and bankers pay to care for the job- less and for unemployment insurance.” Heavy taxes for the bankers and rich merchants! Heavy taxes on the profits of the big utilities and corporations! Stop the infamous swindle of the Bankers’ Agreement, which drains $180,000,000 from the people ever year to pay the banks. This is the way to fight the sales tax, to make it a true PEOPLE'S FIGHT against the handful of capitalist robbers and their government tools in the City Administration. The issue is clear. It is a fight between the property owners, the capitalist exploiters and the banks, against the broad masses of the city’s popula- tion. Against all these plunderers, the bankers as well as the Grover Whalens and the merchants. Make the rich pay. Make the bankers pay. Make the utility and subway owners cough up their profits. Not a single tax burden on the backs of the masses! That must be the slogan in fighting the sales tax. is a not The War Danger Sharpens | : pew London naval talks have collapsed. But more is breaking than just this conference, The whole structure of navy strengths and relative position of the vari- ous imperialist powers in the Pacific, im- | posed at the Washington Naval Conference of 1922, after the last world war, is smashed to bits. Out of the wreckage, each imperialist power now 4s girding for war to seize the greatest amount of spoils. Japanese imperialism is denouncing, that is, ending, the Washington treaty, which was forced by Wall Street because of its dominant position after the last world war. Japanese imperialism has since seized Manchuria, is opening a bitter struggle for domination in China. American imperialism is doing likewise—only with greater war expenditures. At the London naval talks, the Japanese repre- sentatives exposed the fact that American im- perialism is building naval armaments more rap- idly than any other country in the world under the Vinson bill. The Japanese considered this as a threat to their advance in the Far They de- ™manded, therefore, parity, equality naval ton- hage with the U. S. This the Roosevelt govern- ment refused to grant, because each is out for suf- ficient arms to get the greatest share of the markets at the expense of the Chinese and Jap- anese masses. When even no sham, face-saving agreement Gould be arrived at, the Japanese decided nothing More could be done through talk, and decided to end the Washington treaty. Then Wall Strest bared its fangs. Congressman Vinson, sponsor of the Vinson Bill, immediately declared, treaty or no treaty, Wall Street would build to vast superiority over Japan. This opens up the most dangerous naval arms race the world has ever seen. In such a building venture, neither power will wait until the other has caught up, but may at any moment decide naval superiority by armed. struggle. A whole series of complicated questions are in- Volyed. Each of them emphasizes and increases the danger of imminent war. American imperial- ism is fortifying Alaska and the Aleutian islands, in for attack on Japan. Japanese imperialism is for- tifying the mandated islands in the South Pacific, Wall Street is maneuvering to seize these war bases in China, through ion division, gathering strength ping hundreds of planes for im- mediate use against the Chinese Soviets. Each power wants to dominate the Chinese market, and is prepared to plunge the world into a new slaughter to decide the issue. as this conflict grows sharper, there is one and outstanding fact. Japanese im- pidly preparing for war against the daily shipping more and more sol- huria, These conflicts are not mu- ive or contradictory, The very sharp- ness of the conflict of Wall Street and Japan may force the issue of war against the Soviet Union more rapidly. Dominant finance capitalists in the U. S. would like to see this issue of the struggle accomplished Foremost among them are J. P. Morgan and the du Pont brothers. Around them are an extremely powerful force. The danger of war throughout the world is ex- tremely sharp, not only in the Pacific but in Eu- rope To meet it we must raise the alarm, speed up | all of our anti-war and anti-fascist activities, build | the American League Against War and Fascism, | arouse the masses to the realization of the grave | danger, how to fight it by a revolutionary struggle against American imperialism. Fascism and Communism | HAT arch demagogue, Father Coughlin, | has proclaimed his opposition to “both | fascism and communism.” | This is the shrewd trick of a dema- | gogue who himself is one of the leading organizers and preparers of fascism in America. | It is the old, typical trick of all those who are paving the way for fascism in this country to thus | lump the “danger” of Communism and the “danger” | of fascism together in order to conceal the advance | of fascism, | It is necessary now to sound warning and alarm | among the American people against this trickery, | the latest evidence of which can be seen in the | notorious Hearst editorials with causing fascism, The experience of Germany has shown that fas- cism is advanced step by step by precisely those people who proclaim their opposition to “fascism and Communism alike.” | It was in this way that Bruening, for example, instituted one reactionary-fascist step after another, arguing all the while that these measures were necessary to “fight fascism and Communism.” It is in this way, too, that Social-Democracy supported one reactionary measure after another on the ground that it was fighting “both” fascism and Communism. This talk about “fighting” fascism by people who couple this fight with a fight against the revolu- tionary movement of the working class does not change the fact that it is these people who are lay- | ing the grounds for American fascism. charging Communism Answer the Brutal Police Murder HE cold-blooded murder of William j Heaterly, unemployed Negro worker, by Philadelphia police, is a brutal chal- lenge to the whole working class. The shooting down of this unemployed worker by police invading his home to throw his family'on the streets is a gauge of the brutal fas- cist policies of the national and local governments. Heaterly’s blood cries aloud for a united front of struggle of Socialist, Communist and non-Party workers against developing fascism in the United States. The murder of Heaterly is a sinister threat to the unemployed workers, Negro and white, strug- gling for the right to exist, for bread for their fam- ilies and a roof over their heads. It is a bloody prelude to the further cutting of relief and the carrying out of wholesale evictions against the un- employed throughout the country. Philadelphia workers, white and Negro, had mo- bilized their forces to protest and prevent the evic- tion of this Negro worker and his family in one of the first efforts of the workers to block the re- newed eviction drive and to take up the struggle for unemployment relief and social insurance. Cold-blooded murder was the answer of the land- lords and capitalists and their police watchdogs. All reports of the killing of Heaterly agree that. the worker had offered no resistance when the po- lice forced themselves through the ranks of the protesting workers into his home. The Negro worker was shot down by the police in a cold-blooded at- tempt to intimidate the workers and break their struggles against evictions and mass misery and for the unity of all workers. The murder of Heaterly emphasizes, moreover, the growing fascist attacks on the Negro people already examplified in the increase of lynching and frame-ups of Negroes throughout the country, in the fiendish lynching of Claude Neal in Florida on October 27, and in the intensified drive by the Alabama lynch lords and their white and Negro agents against the mass fight for the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon. The unemployed workers, the Negro masses and the entire toiling population of this country must answer this deliberately vicious attack on the struggles of the unemployed workers and the Negro masses with a thunder of protests and the further development of the mass fight for relief and social insurance, against lynching and fascist terror against the working ciass, | In the question period he was| jasked as to his attitude to scabs, * (Continued from Page 1) unless they act in a strictly im- partial manner.” ‘Thomas MacMzhon. president of the United Textile Workers Union, who. was instructed by the shop chairmen’s meeting not to interfere With the activities of the scttle- ment committee, also issued a state- ment in which he said, “The em- ployers are showing a disposition to be fair in this situation. There is an honest difference of opinion among them on the question of the ‘one hundred per cent union shop. ‘The misunderstanding between tho employers and our union on the union shop can be adjusted if the employers desire adjustment.” ‘The Paterson city administration has refused permission to the sirik- ers to hold a tag day to raise relief inter-county mayors’ con- has issued a statement that + | they will protect scabs with guards it Sought to re, on | The employers again declared to- | but he evaded this by Bar Dye Pickets saying he day that they will try to open the | would discuss it next Tuesday in a mills Monday with scabs. talk on capital and labor. An- It was rumoured today that many | Other ticklish point was touched on | Special deputies were being sworn | When somebody asked why he has |in by the sheriff at the Court | his printing done in a non-union | House, to act as strong arm men | Shop. Coughlin thereupon launched against the strikers. |into a defense of his anti-union | The strike remains one hundred | 2¢tivities, while at the same time | Per cent effective. making a demagogic plea for the On Saturday at 10 a. m. a special i organization of the unskilled membership meeting of the Hioad!| Pence or eee eae on Tei silk workers will be held, to hear whe weia Madaubiadie ce the report of the delegates to the facia unions. Only a eek hes puirong ae oan oom jth Detroit wena ao of Labor 2 ‘ | adopted a resolution condemning nounced, the meeting will be held | Coughlin for his use of non-union in Carpenters Hall, labor at low wages on construction Coughlin Makes The Coughlin movement is as- suming serious proportions and | there is widespread talk about it | . 9 | throughout Detroit. In a press | Bid f 36 V t conference earlier yesterday he} i i or e 0 e claimed that 200.000 people had} {enrolled in his National Union for Social Justice since he launched it (Continued from Page 1) I 3.4 ee jin a radio broadcast Nov. 11. Even Party Life | Every Party Unit Should Have Means For Press Work i pass column has had requests | from many comrades in various | parts of the country for formulae for mimeograph ink, hectograph | jelly, and for methods by which duplicating devices can be simply made and operated at home. We are therefore going to print @ number of such things in this column, and are asking comrades who have made successful experi- ments along this line to send us the results. In November 1933 we printed a formula for hectograph jelly which was sent to us by Com- rade Le Martel of the Workers School of the Theatre. In print- ing a mistake was made in the for- mula. We therefore ask this com- rade to send us the formula again for use in this column, The importance of every unit having the means of issuing leaflets, | papers, etc., need not be stressed | here. The German situation has | made this very clear to us. Our task | now is to make certain that e | comrade in the Party is fami with the ‘technical methods carrying on this work. of | from china clay, which can be pro- | cured at any drug store at a cost of combined with glycerine, which when purchased must not contain two cups of clay, being careful not to pack it, with two-thirds of a cup of glycerine. Knead with the hands until a plastic claylike mass is ob- tained. Place this mass on a flat Slide the glass off, being careful hot to lift it, so that the surface of the pad is absolutely smooth. The original copy can be prepared | elther with standard hectograph jink, which will give the best re- | Sults, or with an indelible pencil, | moistened in water. The pencil must never be permitted to become | dry. When the ink has dried on the copy the original sheet is placed, face down, on he hectograph pad, and pressed lightly with a rolling | pin, After five minutes, peel the | Sheet off the pad, and you are then ready to make your copies. Place a sheet of blank Paper on the pad, Press lightly with the Tolling pin and remove. This process is con- tinued until copies become too dim, The pad can then be stimulated for a short time by covering ‘it with | Water, letting stand for a minute jor two, and then pouring off the excess water by tilting pad on side. The pad can then be used as be- fore. | When the pad becomes too dim | for use, wipe the top off lightly with | wet cloth. Then the pad may be |Smoothed out as before and used over again with the same original | Copy, or stored away for further use | in waxed paper, | Numerous suggestions have been | Sent to us for home-made mimeo- |Sraphing. There are also obtain- | able at prices ranging from $1.50 | to $5 mimeographing devices, which | are simple to operate, small, quiet. | and effective. If the comrades in | | the units are interested in these, and | | will write to the Org. Commission of the Central Committee, we will | send them the required information, | duplicating was sent to us by the | Same comrades who supplied us | hectograph pad. The directions are | a8 follows: First, to make your stencil. Melt a candle of paraffin in a long pan about as wide as a sheet, of writing paper. Then dipa sheet of paper in the molten paraf- | fin, making sure that it does not wax. This can be prevented by first | letting the excess wax drip off back | into the pan, and, second, by press- ing the paraffined paper with a warm iron over a smooth surface, After this paper is cooled off, you have your stencil. One end of this sheet should be pasted to a piece of cardboard, in the manner @ regu- lar mimeograph stencil it attached. The stencil can now be used either for typing or for stylus work. In cutting the stencil, the stylus should be fairly sharp, and the typewriter type must be clean. Now you are ready to make your duplications. Take an ordinary blotter of the re- quired size (slightly larger than your stencil) of good, absorptive quality. Paint it with liquid shoe polish until it is soaking wet. Next, paint the side of the stencil, which is to face the blotter, with the same polish. Press it firmly on the blot- ter, and take off your copies in the Same way as you would from a hec- tograph, by placing your blank paper on the stencil; press lightly and remove. Fifty to 100 copies can be made before it is necessary to paint the blotter again, We have also received a sugges- tion for making a fairly good grade of mimeographing ink at about one- fifth the cost of the regular ink by buying a five-pound can of ordinary magazine or book ink from a print- ers’ ink store. This can be pur- chased for $1 or $1.25. Mix this with turpentine to the same liqui- a4 p¢5Ch00s CIVIL GUARDS RAIDING WORKERS’ HOMES IN SPAIN | PESCADER SEALE OAS: A Chance By L, TALMY IT WAS the early afternoon of a summer day. I was walking on |the Seashore Boulevard in Baku, |tra was playing the Barcarola. The strains of the song seemed to be/ 10 cents a pound. This should be |Carried through the air by the light} way. You must know that Baku, | breeze blowing from the sea. The |music came floating down from the |standing in the middle of the bou- |levard. To be more exact, it came |from the roof garden restaurant lo- cated on the top of the building. I went up to the restaurant. The waiter and let my eyes wander about the place. At that moment Acquaintance In Baku | | “Of course you couldn't see much in a day. But, from what you have seen, doesn’t Baku impress you as a lively, modern and rather beau- Hectograph pads can be prepared SOmewhere nearby a string orches- | ‘iful city?” | I readily agreed. “Well, it hasn't always been that jalthough its beginnings are lost in the mist of long past centuries, is more than 20 per cent water. Mix |White building of a cinema theatre|in effect a new city. Most of the things you see around you, from the asphalt of the pavements to the | tops of many of its oil derricks and |tall factory chimneys, to its trams and electric railways, to its thea- surface and spread it out into a thin | Place was pretty crowded, but I) tres, Schools, palaces of culture, to pad, about one quarter of an inch |found a free table from which I/its modern cottages and apartment thick. Flatten it with a piece of |could watch the sea and the boule-| houses, to the very trees in its Plate glass or a piece of metal, |Vard below. I gave my order to the| parks and boulevards, are all new. | |Take, for instance, the matter of |schools. There had not been much the figure of a man appeared on|chance even for Russians to get a the little gallery leading from the | proper education in Baku before stairway to the restaurant. I was/|the Revolution. The Czar’s satraps somewhat startled by the remark- | able resemblance of the man to a very close friend of mine. For a brief moment I was actually ready to think that it was the very friend of mine in person, But I knew jthat it couldn’t possibly be he as jhe was thousands of miles way at \the time. So I dismissed the mat- \ter. A minute later, however, the |man was at my table asking per- mission to sit down on the other free chair. I looked up rather sur- ‘prised and nodded my ascent. He |sat down, I observed him curious- jly. Even at this close range the re- |semblance to my friend was startl- and the capitalist city fathers did not think much of education for |the people. As for the Tyurk pop- |ulation, the only kind of education javailable, and that only for the \chosen few, was the kind provided |by the mullahs in the Moslem me- dressa’s where they had _ been taught to read) the Koran in Ara- |bic script. Now, as you have prob- jably seen, we have adopted the Latin alphabet, we have in the city of Baku hundreds of schools for Tyurk children, beside Russian, Armenian, Jewish and_ other ischools; we have a university and other institutions of higher learn- | “It is rather a " |'HE people—in Aserbaijan the The simplest method of howl L Lana : | jing, ling, we have about ten scientific | |. “May I ask the reason for your |research institutes in Baku alone. | smiling?” he addressed me. | He looked at his watch. “I made} strange coinci-'an appointment,” he explained, “to! dence that of all the tables in the|meet. my wife around here on the} Place you should have selected | boulevard, and it’s about time now. | mine.” \If you care to join us,” he added. | He did not undersiand. “What’s|“I may be able to arrange to get a Strange about it and why is it a|car for a drive around the city.” coincidence?” | Peer * T explained. A friendly conver-|tnowING the difficulties of get- sation followed in the course of| ting around in a strange city which he volunteered information | and, particularly of getting a car about himself and his country. lfor that purpose, I gladly accepted His name was Sadikhov, a rather ithe aHivitations. ¢! Coma STyTUE SOBMG ce WBA ei Soon we were driving in an open Communist Party functionary in “GAZ” automobile (“GAZ” is the one of the districts of Aserbaijan. | ome at ths “Goeki” “aitomonile He was born in a Tyruk village, of | |plant) to the newly developed oil Knew the life, of Nis peo net |fields of Lok Batan, Sadikhov with well, jhis young wife sat in the back of 5 the car. I sat in the front with the chauffeur, Lok Batan became famous all Pi se aha had been like the dust on the} roads, trodden under foot by the | high and mighty, living in poverty, | | over the Soviet Union a few years ago when dispatches from Baku with the information about the clay | become too thickly encrusted with | steeped in ignorance, deprived of | their rights, of their land, of their |very name. Who ever knew, before country Aserbaijan and that it was inhabited by a people called Tyurks? It had been just another province of the Russian. empire, ,and on top of their own landlords and bosses and mullahs and other leeches, the people had to bear the |burden of the Czar’s officiels and |Russian and foreign capitalists Sadikhov warmed up as he spoke. “But look at Aserbaijan now. Of course, you haven’t seen much of the country as yet. But when you'll go around you'll have a chance to see for yourself how even in the rural districts the formerly back- ward, ignorant, fanatic Tyruk peas- ants have been transformed into a free, literate and progressive peo- ple. Most of them have joined col- lective farms, “For that matter,” he proceeded, “take the city of Baku. How long have you been here?” “This is the second day only,” I admitted. the Revolution, that there was a| brought the story of gushers spout- | ing forth oil at the rate of fifteen | to twenty thousand tons a day. The story was something as fol- lows: that there might be rich oil de- posits in the territory where Lok | Batan is situated at present. But. there had been no definite proof of the fact. Some of the private own- ers of the land had tried to bore for oil, but none had appeared and in the end they had given up in disgust, “But things began to move differently when we took matters in hand,” the chauffeur explained. “We” meant the workers who be- came masters of the land and the oil fields after the capitalists and foreign interventiohists had been sent scurrying abroad by the: vic- torious revolution. The Soviet oil trust of Aserbaijan installed modern deep-boring machinery until one day oil started to gush forth from bore-hole number one. It gushed forth with such tremendous force that it overturned the derricks and the installations around it. “It was a sight at once terrible and beauti- Scientists had long ago suggested | ful,” the chauffeur went on with | the story. “Word was immediately jsent to to city, and thousands of | workers volunteered to come to Lok and saving the oil. | week we worked day and night put- |ting up steel constructions to stop | the gusher and digging and cement- |ing reservoirs in the ground to save |the escaping oil. You have never seen such enthusiasm and such self- sacrifice as the workers displayed |in those days until the gusher was | Well under control. That was a | victory, I'll tell you, a real victory.” | Now Lok Batan is one of the main joil fields near Baku, eS Saar We WENT back up the winding mountain road towards the city. It was evening when we saw at last the myriads ‘of lights in the huge ‘semicircle of the city bordering on the black darkness of the sea. The streets were alive with lights and people. The Seashore Boulevard was filled with the sounds of Ori- ental and Western music, coming from the many shore-restaurants, and youthful laughter. The Boule- vard was a mass of promenading | humanity, mostly youth. Here again all the numerous nationalities in- habiting Baku were represented. | Here were students of both sexes, | office workers, workers from the oil | fields and oil refineries, workers of |the machine building plants, of the | textile mills, of the food industries, | of leather and clothing factories, of all the various industries which have grown up in Baku since the first Five-Year Plan has been inaugu- rated. When I was taking my leave of my new acquaintances, Sadikhoy regretted that the opera season was over and I could not enjoy the first Tyurk opera. He suggested that we range for a visit to the Medical In- stitute. pee ne THE next morning the visit to the Medical Institute took place, and | } | Thad a long talk with the director of | the Institute, Husseinov, and Dean | of Instruction Edigaroy. The Insti- |tute which was first organized in 1919 with 120 students had 1340 stu- dents in 1934, and of these about 900 studied in the Tyurk language group. Of the Tyurk students, 350 were women, which, considering the status of women among the Moslem Tyurks before the revolition, is a formation wrought during the years of Soviet power. Most of the stu- dents in the Institute at the time— 767 to be exact—were workers or children of workers, and 250 were children of peasants, members of collective farms. That evening when I parted with my chance acquaintance before leav- ing Baku, he again spoke enthusi- astically of the great strides made by once backward Aserbaijan which now occupies an important place in the Soviet Union. For besides being the greatest oil producing republic in the Union, it is rapidly deyelop- ing industrially in other fields, as machine building, textiles based on the cotton production, silk, food, clothing, etc. I peinted out that, judging by the Soviet press, there are quite a number of republics cc- cupying an important place in the Soviet Union, and all of them had been backward before. “Yes, that’s true,” he summed up thoughtfully. “The October So- cialist Revolution has called to new life and developed many formerly backward nationalities. This is what we call the national policy of the Soviet Union.” Shipowners Show Fear of Strike (Continued from Page 1) should aim to destroy what he termed a plot to dictate to New York shippers by the unions, and to “force” the ship owners to more through declaring that they are not executing their services to the com- dity as that of mimeograph ink. | munity properly. This ink should not be put in the feed tank, but must be poured right on the drum and then worked into the pad with the brush in the regu- lar fashion. This quantity of print- ers’ ink will make seven pounds of ‘mimeographing ink. “I have read the Daily Worker since 1926, and although I am not a subceriber I revtize its existence is very important at the present time, beeanse it gives a worker an understanding of the class strug- going christian “whom everybody | discounting this figure, it is clear| gle. Herewith is a $2 contribu- is taking a sock at because they're| that the movement is being or-| tion.” J, Chernoboy, Detroit, afraid of him’ iganized on a broad basis, Mich, = } ‘ P Merritt spent the entire morning anal, all the ramifications of the waterfront unions, in an at- tempt to picture how the “plot” to “dictate” to shippers who refuse to employ union truckmen, works. Af- ter showing how the longshoremen have been always alert and turned back non-union trucks, he said he refused to believe that the men would act so on their own accord, but must be carrying out the orders of leaders above, He then summed up tine picture by saying, “Here are these merchants and _ shippers, hearing from the sovereign rulers of |the port of New York on what shall lof 4 and shall not be shipped.” In the course of the same speech, however, he told of a meeting be- tween Joseph Ryan, President of the I, L, A., and several prominent shippers, where Ryan advised the shippers that it would be best for them to use union truckmen, and injunctions would not help as the men .would act spontaneously any- | Way. i | At previous hearings on the in- |junction representatives of the in this case likewise claimed that |fusal to handle non-union trucked \cargo, but that it is the individual ‘act of the workers. Feared General Strike Merritt told how every time ship- pers sought to settle the issue, union representatives would warn them that there is danger of a gen- eral strike. Merritt revealed throughout his ;ergument thet the effcrt to get an injunction which would force long- shoremen to load scab goods, is in line with the general policy of the Roosevelt government to smash union control, and under the guise “voluntary” membership in jthey are not “guilty” in ordering re- | ‘ junions foster the organization of icompany unions, He emphasized |that the longshoremen in refusing to load goods of non-union truck- jmen are thereby forcing “these men who do not want to join the team- | sters union to do so.” | The climax of his morning's speech was when he countered the arguments of Joseph Ryan and Wheeler that the issuance of an injunction will encourage Commu- ‘Rist activity on the waterfront. He aggressive action against the unions , union officiais who are defendants ‘stated: \ Called It “Sovietism” | “Let your honor be reminded that lit control is permitted in this cgse |control will next be over the entire | business.” In beginning to describe the ma- chinery of the workers through which the, “conspiracy” is carried out, Merritt stated: is “The - fundamental concept. of this, gentlemen, is a kind of a So- tism. If a shipper wants to: snip foods, he will go to the headquar- ers of the union—not to the United States Government—for his passport. To me Sovietism is a com- plete abdication of government and handing it over te privately con- trolied hemds,” Batan to help in taming the gusher | For about a} meet in the morning, and he’]l ar- | | I had a lonk talk with the director | vivid indication of the great trans- | World Front |I_—- By HARRY GANNE§;) “New Deal” in France Hitler Mobilizes Fuji and Takahashi REMIER FLANDIN of France prefers the New Deal road to fascism instead of the von Papen-Hitler pre- liminary methods, advocated by. Doumergue, the deposed premier. At a speech before French manufacturers and merchants in Paris, Flandin dee clared that by talking of amending the constitution to put over dictae torial measures, Doumergue aroused @ political hornet’s nest. Roosevelt showed the best way. You can do the same thing without amending the constitution, but by doping the |Masses with patriotic propaganda. The aim to be achieved either by the New Deal method or Doumergue’s cruder ways is the same. Workers’ wages and living standards are to be lowered. The basis for a more rapid development to fascism is laid. N EXTREMELY acute war sit- uation has developed in two countries, both in the forefront of war preparations, especially against |the Soviet Union. In Germany, all fascist forces are in what is vaguely termed, a “state of emergency.” | This is what used to be called “war mobilization.” Furthermore, Berlin cable stories deciare that the cause is exclusively internal. While no one will doubt that the growing sharpness of the internal situation in Germany, even between the Reichswehr and Hitler's chief band of picked murderers, the Schutz Staffle, the international situation indicates that the war mobilization is mainly for external reasons. |,.A real crisis has developed over the naval arms talks, with the United States threatening to swamp Japan in war building, actually at- tempting to precipitate war now. No more open chauvinistic attacks have ever been made against Japan than emanates from Washington and London at this time. [APANESE imperialism, on the other hand, is determined to build its navy up to equal strength with that of Wall Street’s war ma- chine. Even the first step in this direction has led to a financial crisis, with the resignation of Fi- nance Minister Fuji. The news re- ports declared that he resigned be- cause of bad health which neces- sitated camphor injections. More | likely he was placed in a camphor ball pack, to await the next finan- cial crisis. Minister Takahashi, over 80 years old, doddered into the po- sition held formerly by Fuji. News that comes from Japan in |@ personal letter declares the situ- ation is extremely dangerous, for | Japanese imperialism driven to des- | peration because of the extremity of the crisis, may at any moment fling its armed forces against the Soviet Union as the most satisfac- tory immediate way out of an ime passe that grows worse every day. Hitler has a definite agreement with Japan, that if this is done, the fascist hordes will be sent against the Soviet Union from the west. With the fascist agreement with Poland, we may be sure that this will be one of the routes as well as through the Baltic coun- tries. eb) pee SIDES, the situation in the Saar is growing acute. The plebiscite takes place on Jan. 13. But what happens before as well as after will be decisive, The fascists are at- tempting to terrorize the population into voting for merger with fascist Germany, and against the status quo. If the fascists are able to win a majority, by hook or crook and by terror, then they will seek to march in with their armed force in order to present the world with an accomplished fact, under the claim of moral justification. If the vote goes against them, they will fol- low on the same path of attempted armed invasion, claiming fraud in the plebiscite. ares ‘HE candidates of the Indian Nae tional Congress are recording big gains in the elections for the Indian Legislative Assembly, which are still in progress, reports from London state. The final results will not be known until after mid- December, pias ar |ATIN,” French capitalist newse paper published a letter from @ young bourgeois French girl who lived in Oviedo during the period of the establishment of the Works ers and Peasants Republic. She lived with an extremely well-to-do family, with servants, governesses, and expensive automobiles. She describes the enthusiasm with which the armed miners and their wives entered Oviedo. “We had no food, no bread, no flour, but were were told we should be given supply cards. We received these in the evening. . . . The revolutionists took all the matresses with them for the hospital and for their armored car. ; They saw all our jewelry, but did not touch it. But they took the clothes and linen.” The only time the family was in danger of their lives was when General Ochoa or- dered the bombardment. of the workers holding Oviedo. K. H. and R. Sydney, in $5 to “World Front,” aes cae ago, thanked Gannes “for the wide scope of his information and his clarity of expression,” Would that there were more to express. appre- Gation in such golden words. Total to date ............$306.72 Every unit, section, check up on mass organizations, trade unions, workers’ club in your vicinity to urge speedy action in sending whatever funds have been collected for the $60,000 drive. Hetp reach that sum by Des, 1 marked out by the fascist armies, ° THEM’S EVERYBODY’S SENTI- MENTS! . si } ) | J