The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1934 Daily,QWorker “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 | PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE | COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 3 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Welephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Gable Adres: York Press Bu National 705, Chicago, Hl. Subscription Rates: Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, 9.00; th, 0.75 cents. da: 1 year, 90.00; nts. hs, 75 cents. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1934 Unite the Ranks of the Unemployed ! VERY possible force must be exerted to strengthen and enlarge already existing united fronts established around the Call of the National Sponsoring Com- mittee to the Congress for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance, which will be held in Washington on Jan. 5, 6 and 7. Daily actions in the struggles for relief, the daily delegations to the relief stations, lectures, symposi- ums and mass meetings must build this united front ‘and cement it through the election of delegates to the National Congress. The primary revolutionary task of the Commu- nist Party units, the fractions in the trade unions and the mass organizations, and of the Communists in the leadership of the unemployed organizations devolves around this strengthening of the united front As the united front appeal of the Unemploy- ment Council, which is printed elsewhere in this issue, points out, the majority of the unemployed groups have endorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The members of these organizations have signified their willingness to struggle for the enactment of the Workers’ Bill through their mass- ing in the streets in the Nov. 24 demonstrations. Their participation in all the arrangements for the National Congress is asked as the first step to- ward eventual merger of all the unemployed groups which will concretize and give expression to their | willingness to struggle. IDE by side with the continued drive for unity, side by side with the building of the National Congress, must go the continued fight against re- trenchments on relief and the struggle against the sharp attacks now being brought to bear upon the jobless with the greatest intensity. The “unem- ployables” are being abandoned by the F. E.R. A. The minimum rates on work relief have been re- nounced. Every past promise of Roosevelt for Fed- eral unemployment insurance has been discraded. Accompanying these attacks have gone the assur- ance of the administration to big business that relief will be “tapered off.” Now the Communists in the units and in the trade unions and mass and unemployed organiza- tions must take up the relief needs of the unem- oyed as the central task of the whole Party. The success of the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance will be determined by the effectiveness of these local struggles and the consistent drive for unity of action against the frontal attack of the Roosevelt regime. Unite all forces fighting for relief! Unite all forces behind the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance! A Third Capitalist Party NOTHER move for a “third” party of capitalism, a so-called “Farmer La- bor” party, has been announced with the calling of a “legislative” conference in St. Paul on Dec. 8, by leaders in the Min- nesota Farmer Labor Party. The editorial in the Daily Worker giving the re- sults of the election campaign (Daily Worker, Dec. 1, Page 3—based on a discussion of the Political Bu- reau of the C. P.) pointed out that the results of the elections showed that “the two-party system is cracking, and that the process of political realign- ment ... is bound to become more accelerated by the general sharpening of the class struggle. More and more it will be impossible to fool the masses, to keep them chained to capitalism through the “two-party’ system. Undoubtedly the bourgeoisie and its agents will try to trap the masses and keep them chained to capitalism through a ‘third’ capitalist party.” The St. Paul conference of Dec. 8 fully bears out this prediction. Those calling the conference de- clared they want to bring in all of the “third” party tendencies in the last election, the “Epic” movement of California, the Farmer Labor elements of the Northwest, the Progressive movement of Wisconsin. Harold Williams, Farmer Labor organizer, declared the program worked out should be “broad” enough to include all these third party movements. These movements, such as the “Epic” movement, in California, and the Farmer Labor Party in Min- nesota, speak demagogically of “ending capitalism,” at the same time that they praise the N. R. A. and Roosevelt. They are attempting, through demagogic talk of “the co-operative commonwealth,” to keep the workers away from real independent working- elass political action. Their purpose is to prevent the participation of the increasingly radicalized masses of workers and farmers in the class strug- gles. They aim to chain these masses to a reform program and keep them away from any fight against the capitalist system. As the Political Bureau stated in the Daily Worker, “Our Party [the Communist Party] must be aware of this growing danger and on the alert, ex- posing this danger, every maneuver in this direc- tion, and crystallize the motion of the masses in the direction of independent class political action, in support of the Communist Party and its united front program.” The workers and farmers should refuse to be fooled by the present move for a “third” capitalist party which expresses itself in the calling of the St. Paul conference. The program which is now he- ing prepared, speaking demagogically of higher in- come tax and government ownership, is aimed to save the decaying capitalist system and act as a barrier between the masses and the united front of the workers and farmers on the basis of the class struggle. Shades of the Morro Castle NABLE to succeed in their frame-ups J against the Morro Castle crew or the Communist Party, the Federal authori- ties were forced to go through the ges- ture of indicting the Ward Line officials and some of the ship's officers. ‘When on Sept. 8 due to the greed of the com- | pany, the Morro Castle burned 1% passengers to death, every capi! heet in the country—with Hearst at their head ied to raise the “red scare.” The Havana chief of police declared he had “evi- dence” to prove Cuban Communists were responsi- Members of the crew who pments of explosives on the boat and fought against rotten conditions were threatened e-up. fascist force in the country, including ioner Hoo investigating the fire, tried to munists in order to use this ghastly ping company as a means of in- error against the Communist Party. Bi y failed in this attempt to re-enact the Nazi firing of the Reichstag. The Communist Party and Daily Worker exposed this whole nefarious plot, placing the blame for the burning where it be- longed—with the grasping officials of the corpora- tion which thought more of its profits (as every capitalist does) than of human lives. The Daily Worker printed proof that the 124 lives were deliberately sacrificed in order to save towing charges and rescue expenses. No radio ap- peal was sent out until hours after the fire. The Morro Castle made a regular practice of carrying war supplies to the Mendieta regime in Cuba. We are sure, despite the indictments, the com- pany officials have little fear of the Federal Court. They can remember the fate of Samuel Insull, the million-dollar crook who robbed to his heart’s con- tent and was freed by the Federal court. The same capitalist system which sacrificed the lives of these 124 victims to the greed of the shipping company will see to it that the guilty are protected. blame the Com crime of the Keep the Hangmen Out! IHE masses in the Saar are now con- fronted with a new move of Hitler de- signed to insure Fascist rule in that ter- ritory and to influence the plebiscite vot- ing on January 13. Answering the French demand that the French capitalists be paid for their property in the event the voting results in favor of annexation to Germany, the German fascist govern- ment has agreed fully. An agreement signed by the French and German ambassadors in Rome provides that the Hitler gov- ernment will pay the French $69,000,000, plus 11,- 000,000 tons of coal. In order to lessen the apprehension of the Catho- lics, Jews and others of the population who are fighting against Nazi rule in the Saar, the agree- ment contains some hypocritical promises of “guar- antees” for ‘equal rights, regardless of language, race and religion.” There is no doubt that there will be the well-known fascist equality of the gallows and the concentration camp for all those who oppose fascism. This agreement of French imperialism and Fas- cist Germany makes more necessary than ever the sharpest struggle against Hitler rule in the Saar. Hitler has threatened the direst revenge against the heroic Socialist, Communist and Catholic forces in the Saar fighting against fascism and for the status quo, the present League of Nations control in the Saar. Hitler is leaving no stone unturned in order to seize the Saar by hook or crook, There is no promise that he will not resort to, no agreement, in order to get the Nazi armed hordes into the Saar. Once this is achieved rivers of blood will flow. There is no doubt that under the cover of this agreement, Hitler will move more of his Nazi forces into the Saar, organize more boldly for armed seizure. In the United States we must do all we can to fight against Hitler's seizure of the Saar. Thus far the campaign for the status quo has lagged in this country. Now that the danger is much greater we must increase our activity, our mass meetings, dem- onstrations against fascism in the Saar. Resolutions must pour into the Saar workers’ and anti-fascist organizations from trade unions, anti-fascist and other organizations in the United States urging the workers to vote for the status quo —against fascism, Defeat the Sales Tax HE general drive against the living standards of the working masses, the signal for which was given by Roosevelt, gained added momentum on Monday. The National Industrial Council, a subsidiary of the National Association of Manufacturers, at their annual meeting discussed plans for pushing their drive to put the burdens of the crisis still more upon the backs of the workers, the farmers, the pro- fessionals and the lower middle class. The most immediate proposal in this connection was put forward by James A. Emery, general coun- sel of the National Association of Manufacturers. He urged that the crushing burdens of taxation now borne by the working masses be stiH further in- creased. The model that the capitalists will attempt to follow on a national scale is the Wall St.-La Guardia-Tammany Hall sales tax. Emery said that sales taxes must be established upon all articles of wide consumption. These should be levied throughout the nation, and replace many of the present taxes. That is, the capitalists, while driving ahead to cut wages and relief, intend to put still more burdens on the masses by taxing the ne- cessities of life. The purpose behind the sales tax proposals was made very clear by Emery. The capitalists will tax food and other essentials, and at the same time at- tempt to exempt the big corporations from taxation. Instead they intend to tax small incomes. Emery said that there should be a tax “however small the amount paid.” This is a danger that threatens the living stand- ards of every worker and every middle class person with a small income. A national sales tax plus mu- nicipal sales taxes would mean an indirect wage cut for all toilers, and a corresponding decline in their standards of life. It would mean that the ruling class had transferred the burdens of unemployment to the employed workers. ‘We must by all means defeat this maneuver against our living standards. The spearhead in our counter-drive against the sales tax must be the de- feat of the infamous LaGuardia sales tax. If this measure is effective, it will be followed by the en- actment of similar levies throughout the country. By defeating this attack against the workers’ living standards, we will strike a great blow against the capitalist anti-working class drive. Assemble today at 10 a.m. in front of. the City Hall and demonstrate against this latest robbery of the masses. Defeat the sales tax. Force the mu- nicipal and national governments to tax the rich to provide funds for the unemployed. Z Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- meamist Party. NAME........ oes ceccoeevenes Pee eeeeeceecseccees ADDREGS ......0..scccccsccecccerceccescsse | | Party Life | Cleveland District Estimates Results Of the Elections | [HE District Committee of Cleve- | | land District has examined the} election campaign and adopted a} | resolution estimating the campaign Jand the results of the elections. |Since the Cleveland District con-| | ducted one of the best campaigns | in the country, we are publishing in| | this column excerpts from their | reselution. “HE Communist Party vote al- ready reaches 16,000 (which does not take into consideration invali- dated ballots or individual higher candidates in each county, which would then number nearly 18,000) compared with 6,349 in 1932. The bulk (76 per cent) of the vote comes from five industrial counties (Cleve- land, Akron, Cincinnati, Youngs- town and Toledo). The greatest | gains were made in Cuyahoga Coun- ty (Cleveland), where the Commu-| nist Party vote is 7,790, compared | | with 2,136 at the last gubernatorial elections of 2% per cent of the total vote in 1934. Ofher important gains were made in Akron, Youngstown, Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus and Canton, Communist votes were re- ceived in 86 out of the 88 counties, and it is especially significant that votes were obtained in a number of counties where no Party organiza- tion exists. “Sections where results are dis- tinctly unsatisfactory are Toledo with 779 votes, compared with 666 in 1932; Belmont and Jefferson coun- ties (East Ohio coal fields) with a combined vote of 385, compared with 607 in 1932, and Ashtabula County with 86 votes, compared with 99 two years ago. Especially unsatisfactory is Toledo after the Autolite strike and subsequent unemployed events, showing the Party did not overcome its isolation already signalized at that time, although the working population is responsive and willing to struggle. The results in the coal fields and Ashtabula are a reflection of the state of the Party in these places, “The increased vote reflects the moods of the masses and our gen- erally increased mass work and in- tensive election campaign in some sections. The increase in votes in such places as Cincinnati, Colum- bus, Canton, where no intensive election campaign was waged, re- flects the tremendous possibilities, if a campaign had really been con~ ducted... . “An analysis of our support among the Negro workers in Cleve- land shows that, while there is an increase over the past two elections, the vote will :vproximately regain the level of Fovruary, 1932, immedi- | ately following the mass campaign | against the murdering of Rayford| and Jackson. . .. The insufficient growth of the Communist vote re- fiects primarily that a few weeks’ election campaigning, primarily of an agitational character in a district which is the heart of the Republican machine, cannot overcome our basic all-year-around isolation from the decisive strata of the Negro workers | or their organization and especially | Teflects that we have not made any | serious inroads in undermining) through exposure and struggle the! betraying Negro councilmen, who} are decisive cogs of the Republican | machine. “The great discontent evidenced | in the high level of strike struggles! and the growing activity and pres- | tige of the Party as reflected also! in the election campaign, aided by | the clarifying circumstance that! there were only three parties on the | ballot, Communist, Democratic and Republican, gave us every objective advantage for a successful election campaign. | “Only in the last weeks of the) campaign was the entire weight of the Party thrown into the campaign and even then some out of town sec- tions and some language bureaus of the District Committee considered the elections as “just another cam- paign” with consequent neglect. Al- though an election campaign com- mittee functioned, the Party Bu- reau in the early part of the cam- paign was not tied up sufficiently close with it. While this election campaign was conducted more ener- getically and with better success than heretofore, we must recognize that the campaign was basically agitational, with some successes in house meetings. In Cleveland, alone, one-half million pieces of election literature were issued. “The outstanding weaknesses of the campaign were: a) Insufficient development of mass struggles during election pe- riod with the candidates as active leaders. b) Weak organizational work inside the A. F. of L. unions, Ne- gro churches, other mass organi- zations and opponent meetings. A notable exception toe this was Youngstown. ©) Unsatisfactory shop ap- proach. Few shop gate meetings and smail amount of literature taken inside. A decline in shop papers in October. The only out- standing exception to this general weakness was the New York Cen- tral Railroad. d) Only a few candidates in each city conducted a real elec- tion campaign, intensively speak- ing at meetings, visiting workers in their homes, participating in struggles, etc. @) Lack of concreteness in much of our literature, especially with reference to records of opponent candidates. f) Very little sensitiveness to lo- cal politics, as shown in our fail- ure to take a clear stand on tax levies, charter movement, ete. yeeros" Follow-Up Tasks HE entire Party must be mobil- ized for: 1. A discussion of the election results and especially to understand the growing possibilities for devel- oping mass movements of struggle, penetration into the shops and A. F. of L. unions, extending the cir-! culation of the Daily Worker and Party literature and building the Farty and Y. C. L. “ONE MOMENT, PLEASE! TWO PER CENT MORE!” Burck will give the oviginal drawing of A HORRIBLE SUSPICION! There’s a steady demand for Burck’s originals, but the progress toward his $1,000 quota is too slow. Burck suspects his readers are getting fickle. eens $ 2.00 Gormand his cartoon to the by Burek highest contributor each day towards his quota of $1,000. Norwalk-Stamford Sec, Conn. Lief Moscher . Gochrinr General of Philipp ines Attempts to Dodge Responsibility By HELEN MARCY Madre under the barrage of cables protesting the killing of four tobacco strikers and the wounding of eight others on the picket line in front of the La Miner- va cigar factory in Manila on Sept. 17, Governor General Frank ‘Mur- phy of the Philippines attempts to save his face in a recent communi- cation to the Civil Liberties Union, In this communication, which in- cludes the official report of the shootings by the Chief of the Ma- nila Police, Piatt, and by Secretary of Interior Sison, a letter by Mur- phy states, “Nobody regrets this af- fair more than myself, and I wish to assure you that I did everything in my power to prevent it. I appointed a fact-finding committee composed of impartial persons of recognized standing and integrity to get at the truth in this dispute.... As a re- sult of the confidence reposed in the members of the fact-finding: com- mittee by both parties in this dis- pute, the laborers have now gone back to work pending a settlement of the points of difference.” ‘This hypocrite, who so blithely de- nies his guilt in the shooting of the tobacco workers, wishes to appear the shocked liberal very much | amazed at the turn of events. Let us examine some of his ac- tions in connection with the strike. In La Vanguardia (a daily Span- ish paper published in Manila) on Sept. 18, the day after the shoot- ings, there is a screaming headline clear across tHe page: “ ‘Order at All Costs’—Murphy.” Immediately after the killings Murphy had issued the above statement giving a free hand for terrorization of the workers and at the same time justifying the murder of the strikers by the con- stabulary. Murphy Met Sison Very early on the morning after the shootings, Frank’ Murphy met with Sison and instructed him on the next steps to take—arrest of all leaders of the strike, no more. per- mits for meetings or parades to the workers—erder at all costs. Immedi- ately after, La Vanguardia reports, Sison met with Chief of Police Piatt and other leading Manila officials devising plans to carry out the of- fensive against the workers so gen- erously ordered by the Governor General. Murphy tried to break the strike at first by the organization of the fact-finding committee and when that didn’t work the police used the only other method the bosses know —gunfire. American workers remember Mur- phy, particularly for his strikebreak- ing. He gained the undying hatred of the working class in the United States when, as Mayor of Detroit, his police killed four Ford workers and wounded many others who were demonstrating for jobs in front of the Ford plant. In Manila or De- troit, be it Filipino or American workers, Frank Murphy obeys the dictates of his class by pouring hot lead into the hearts of workers who protest against starvation. In Ma- nila or Detroit, Murphy’s motto re- mains the same—order at all costs. What impossible demands did the 13,000 tobacco strikers make that their peaceful picket line, after a month of general strike, should have been shot into and bayonetted by the upholders of “law and order’? Thirty. cents a day, instead of 20 cents a day; recognition of the union, the eight-hour day and with- drawal of the police from the fac- tories. For the first time in the Philppines women came out on strike, women are on the strike com- mittee, which is a broad body elected by the workers—this strike is led by Communists. Owners Fear Strike This fearlessly led strike throws fear into the hearts of the factory owners and the government offi- cials. At all costs—the strike must be broken. The day before the mas- sacre, in all secrecy, the various to- bacco factories are supplied with little arsenals of guns and ammruni- tion. The next day four murdered workers lie in the morgue, and eight wounded strikers groan in agony in hospital beds as a result of an at- tack on the strikers’ picket line. Let us quote from La Vanguardia of the same date: “This is the statement of one of the policemen whose gun was one of the first to ‘go off,’ and who is being played up as a hero by this ‘impartial newspaper’ for shooting bullets into defenseless workers. He says, ‘When the strikers arrived in mobs at the gate .. . we tried to stop them at the beginning, without any other arms than our large clubs. We shut the passage and asked them what they wished. Some replied that they wanted to enter. We replied that we could not permit it. As I saw the strikers had decided to enter by force, the senior policeman or- dered that I load and collect our guns which, according to an order in force from yesterday, we had within the factory.’” M And then goes on a tale of how the poor defenseless detectives; po- licemen and soldiers “killed their aggressors” having conveniently prepared the wherewithal the day before, Took Bodies. From a member of the Anti-Im- perialist League in the Philippine Islands comes a letter in which he “More than two weeks ago in the general strike of the tobacco and marine industries, the strikers clashed with the police in front of the La Minerva Cigar factory, which resulted in the death of four work- ers and several wounded... . One of the remains disappeared from the city morgue. turned over to the General Strike Committee. But finding that huge crowds visited the caskets every day which were draped in red, the au- thorities took the bodies away from the workers. Due to the mass pres- sure the authorities again turned them over to the workers two days before burial. More than two thou- sand workers attended the funeral.” “During the course of the strike the arrest of the strike leaders is the order of the day and still up to the present time they are looking for more strike leaders, who are supposed to be hiding, according to the newspapers.” This worker would have written much more about the vital facts in the shooting of the workers if he Gid not fear the strict censorship Of mail exercized by the Philippine government under the “wise” gov- ernorship of Frank Murphy. Flirting With Liberalism Murphy's flirting with liberalism is laughable when the persecution of all workers’ and peasants’ mili- tant organizations in the Philip- pines is known. The Communist Party, the International Labor De- fense, the National Peasants’ Con- federation and many other such or- ganizations must maintain the strictest secrecy and underground work. Not even the Labor Defender of the United States is permitted into the islands. A large number of the leaders in the Communist Party, including its secretary, are at present serving eight-year terms for “sedition”—and all this under the regime of our “liberal” Frank Murphy. He cannot fool us with this demagogic words when his mur- derous deeds stare us in the face, The reports of the Chief of Po- lice of Manila and the Secretary of the Interior included in Murphy's communication to the Civil Lib- erties Union consists of daily re- ports on the strike written by de- tectives whose lous attempts to put “seditious” implications into the speeches of the strike leaders compare favorably with the stupid lies and fabrications of our own maintainers of “law and order” in the U. S. Although small, the Philippine working class has proven its de- termination to resist the lowering of standards of living forced upon them by the Tydings-McDuffie Bill for “independence” and the general crisis of capitalism, The Filipino Anti-Imperialist League of the U. 8. organized the campaign to send protest cable- to Murphy on the shooting of the strikers, and forced his at- tempt to deny his guilt. The Fili- pino Anti-Imperialist League will continue to acquaint the American working class with the struggles of the Filipino workers for bread, land and freedom and will ruthlessly ex- pose the representatives of U. S. imperialism in the P. I. and their worthy co-workers and lackeys, who lick the boots of the oppressors of the Filipino people, ress in this election campaign, with an understanding that election re- sults cannot be ted from the success of the Party in its day-to- day work throughout the year, in carrying through the main mass tasks in shop, A. F. of L., unem- ployed, Negro Rights, etc., and thus hoods, on the basis of wards and precincts, with the street nuclei concerned, calling special meetings of the workers who voted Commu- nist, issuing neighborhood papers, getting acquainted with every work- er in the block, etc. All shop papers shall carry an analysis of the elec- fulfilling our central task of over- | tions. coming our isolation from the de- cisive strata of the toilers. 3. To immediately seize hold of the burning local and state-wide political issues and develop a real mass follow-up campaign. 4. To intensify the Party Re- cruiting Campaign; especially among all the Red voters. 2. To recognize the defmite prog- 5. To follow up in the neighbor- 6. Prepare now for next, year’s local mayoralty and councilmanic elections, connecting it up with all of our mass work and in this way, bringing forward our next candi- dates. 7. To intensify all phases of our mass work, as outlined in the Dis- trict Control Tasks, whose fulfill- ment is not keeping pace with the elapse of control periods. The District Plenum. emphasizes that while considering all the weak- nesses in the election campaign and its relation to our still weak con- nection with the main strata of the working class; nevertheless, the Party has conducted a better elec- tion than heretofore, and has definite to show. The possibilities in the light of our an- alyses, all re-emphasize the need for quickening the tempo in the fulfillment of our main control tasks. .. . The election results give us every opportunity to fulfill every with huge Lenin Memorial meetings through- World Front |—— By HARRY GANNBS - A Letter from Mexico Help for the “Daily” From a Spanish Prison ROM a former student in one of the political econ- Jomy classes I used to teach \for the Communist Party Na- tional Training School, I have |just received a letter on the conditions of the Mexican peasants. This comrade, a Mexican worker, who was brutally beaten in a Southern state, sentenced to a heavy prison term, and then de- ported, is now a teacher in a Mex- ican farming village. I quote from his letter. “The Mexican peasants here work the land from sun-up to sun-down for twenty-five Mexican cents a day (about 8 U. S. cents) and three litros of pulque (a Mexican brew). Their jacales (huts) are made under the trees out of pencas de maguey, and a whole family sleeps, eats and cooks outside. “Their food consists of pulque, some nopales azados, and tortillas when they have money to buy corn. Hundreds of children die every year from malnutrition. They sleep throughout their whole life on the cold floor. They have to resist the terrible cold with only a long pair of pants and a thin shirt. They never have any shoes. They do not own a piece of land, because the new landlords that the ‘revolution’ made got it for themselves. “Yet fascist attacks here in the country are growing every day under different forms, aided by the government's demagogy. When a \seasant starts organizational work to protect or demand land, or bet- ter wages for the peons, they are murdered like dogs in their own miserable jacales. The casiques (local bosses), backed up by the government officials, have terrorized the peasants to such an extent that they do not even talk to them, “IN THE radio speeches and the capitalist press, the government representatives cry that the Mexican ‘revolution’ has distributed the land to the peasants and has bettered the conditions of the peons and workers. But the facts are that dozens of our best comrades are sent to the Islas Marias, a Pacific Coast penal island, when they fight for better wages and better living conditions. “In some places where the peas- ants have gotten land, not given to them by the landlords, but as a re- sult of their militancy, they are or- ganized in ‘ejidos.’ They are under the domination of a casique, and are forced to obey his command, attend all sorts of fascist demon- strations that the government lead- ers call. is taken away from them. But this is not all. The most important fact is that the ejidatarios are organized into a fascist army, based on the kulak peasants. They are given a 30-30 rifle and a horse, and they are told that they are to ‘defend the land,’ though in reality they are utilized to defend the landlord- capitalist government of Mexico. “I am sending you a money order for $2 (7 pesos, 12 centavos). One dollar was collected here among the poor peasants who make 25 Mexican cents a day—slaving away the whole day under miserable con- ditions. They send this money to help our Daily Worker in its finan- cial drive. I know this is a very in- significant sum, but yet it is the help that comes from these com- rades in the struggle. Please credit it to your column. With revolu- tionary greetings.—J. N.” OCIALIST and Communist pris- oners in Linares (Jaen), Spain, held a meeting and sent the follow- ing letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Spain: “At a meeting held by the whole of the prisoners in Linares prison, the bulletin issued by the C. C. of the Communist organization was read aloud, containing the report of the proposals of the Communist International for a solidarity action for the workers and peasants of Spain. “After a discussion, taken part in by many of the prisoners, it was unanimously resolved that the C, P. of Spain should send revolution< ary greetings to the Communist In= ternational and express appreciation of its courageous stand for solidar- ity with the workers of Asturias, Catalonia, and the whole of Spain, We are in full agreement with the C. C. and C, I. in their struggle for the liberation of the oppressed of the whole world. “Long live the Communist Inter- national! Long live the C. C. of the C. P. of Spain! Long live Soviet Spain! Long live Soviet Russia and Soviet China!” Signed by the So- cialists, Communists and non-pos litical prisoners in the prison of Limares (Jaen), me ae Socialist deputy, Ramon Gon- zales Pena, who fought side by side with Communists on the barri+ cades in Asturias province has just been arrested. He is charged with having taken a leading role in the Asturias Soviets, and faces the dea’ penalty. He led the miners of Ab= Jana in their armed struggles against the Lerroux-Robles fascist regime, , | Several members of his family, who were sheltering him, were also ar- rested, Socialist members in the U. S.t Every day more Socialists and Coms munists who fought side by side in Spain are being arrested or killed, They look to us for united action in their behalf. Why was your N.E.C, silent on joint action for our Spans ish brothers? i ON HIS HEELS! Gannes’ record today may be good, but Little Lefty is fast catch= ing up to him. Lefty is only $3 be= hind World Front in total contribus If they refuse, their land_ | |