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

il Page 6 Daily, EPRTRAL OBCAM COMMUNIST PAR Only U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Daily Newspaper” Working Class FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥ ALgonquin 4-795 4. New “America’s Telephone Cable Ad Wash THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 6, 1934 Protect Your Civil Rights! hgadapeibed of the growing fas- cization of the bourgeois governmental apparatus, the Alabama cities of Birming- ham and Bessemer, feudal fiefs of the steel barons, have passed the Downs literature ordinance, prohil ng the possession of radic: e by workers. Under this notorious law Negro and white workers already have been convicted, while others are facing prosecution for po ng copies of the Communist, theoretical organ of the Communist Party, although the maga- passes through the United States mails. zine freely ‘These attacks on the workers are supplemented and the terroristic activities of the revived incited by Ku Klux Kian and the newly created White Legion and other fascist instruments of the bosses, In Sacramento, eighteen militant workers, ar- rested during the vigilante raids on the West Coast last Summer, are now being tried under the Cali- fornia syndicalist law, and face long prison sen- tences for their working-class activities if convicted. In Portland, Washington, two others, including irk De Jonge, Communist candidate for Mayor in ions, have been sentenced under the nist Party, which is legally on ms in that State. ile directed parti ly against the Commu- y. as the devoted vanguard of the working , these attacks are aimed at the whole work- ing class, as the Daily Worker has always pointed out, and as shown in the frame-up and arrest in ship in the Com the ballot in ele Birminghem of Leo Carter, business agent of the A. F. of L chers’ Union, and the mass arrests and police 1 Ku Klux Klan raids on the homes workers. pread drive to destroy the civil rights menaces the entire organized labor movement and the whole working class. It is a challenge to all sincere workers to immediately forge the proletarian united front against Fascism, despite all obstacles thrown in its way by the A. F. of L. bureaucrats and the top leadership of the Socialist Party, which at the recent Boston confer- ence of its National Executive Committee again shelved the proposals of the Communist Party for a united front struggle for the interests of the working class, Build the united front! Demand the release of the Alabama and California de- fendants and the repeal of all anti-working class laws, the criminal syndicalist codes and such laws as the Downs law. Recovery!--- For Whom? HE “Proposed Platform of Recovery” of the Nationai Association of Manu- facturers summarizes the sharpened and more open anti-labor platform first an- nounced hy President Roosevelt in his no- Strike speech of Sept. 30. This platform, now submitted to the convention of the National Industriel Council in New York, is @ compicte program for lowering the standards of living of the workers, saving and increasing the profits of the employers and robbing the workers of their elementary rights. In a word, this pro- gram, which heralds a step toward fascism, calls for a “reorganized” N. R. A. which will smash the rising tide of radicalization of the workers and save the de ng capitalist system, WI! are some of the proposals of the manu- factu: on how the government shall conduct itself. These are: (1) Outlawing of strikes. “Prohibit sympathetic or general strikes," “Protect men in their right to work” {in other words, abolish the right to picket]; (2) a call for an intensified government wage cut- ting drive, in the following words: “Industrial strife stimulated by misinterpretation and misrepresenta- tion of the resp rights and’ privileges of em- Ployes and employers, AND THE THREAT OF ARBITRARY DETERMINATION OF WAGES AND HOURS WHICH IGNORE ECONOMIC POS- SIBILITIES, PREVENT RECOVERY.” (3) Running throughout the entire program is the demand for cutting down relief to the unem- ployed and denial of unempioyment and social in- surance. “Balance the federal budget,” the govern- ment is told, “and permit cutting public expenses to fit reasonable taxes.” “Relief must not bankrupt the government. ... Make progress toward prompt balancing of the budget by rejecting payment of the soldiers’ bonus until due.” (4) A whole series of proposals are made, aimed to smash the real trades unions and establish the company union as the only “bargaining agent.” “Refrain from policies which attempt to force men into labor organizations,” the manufacturers order. “Encourage local settlements of disputes.” That is, encourage company unions and reject the “outside” unions, the real trade union movement. The manu- facturers demand that “employer and employe be free to bargain collectively or individually in. such forms as are mutually satisfactory to them without coercion from any source.” The employers must approve the “brrzaining agent’—there must .be freedom for the company union, which vests in the employers the sole right to hire and fire and dictate Wages and working conditions to the workers. “Do not deprive individuals and minorities of the right to bargain for themcelves.” (5) The manufacturers propose to increase sales taxes which fall on the workers and decrease taxes on the employers. This is the program of the manufacturer and the ‘ederal government—wage cuts, company unions, outlawing of strikes, increased taxes on the workers, cuts in unemployment relief and union smashing. * * . OES this program mean that the present N. R. A. has not served the employers, or that the manu- facturers’ program is in contradiction to the policies of the Roosevelt government? Not at all. The present N. R. A. has attempted to outlaw strikes through Labor Boards and compulsory arbitration, ich illiam Green and the A. F. of L. leaders helped to set up. The present N. R. A, has Strengthened the company unions, has made the minimum wage the maximum \age and has in- tensified speed-up, and through its Labor Boards ¢ ' DAILY WORKER, defeated the de is of the workers in such industries as steel, auto, textile, etc. The employers and the Roosevelt government are still not satisfied with the increase in profits of the bankers and manufacturers under the N. R. A They want to smash the rising strike wave and the struggles of the unemployed. They want to get out of the crisis at the expense of the workers. There- fore, they launch a stronger, more open, drive against the workers. They tighten up the screws on the workers In Harlem | President Rooseyelt himself announced this in- ——_ tensified anti-labor drive in his Sept. 30 “no-strike” | BY FRIEDA JACKSON, Unit 424 | speech. In this speech, Roosevelt announced all of b' faaia does the Communist Party these anti-labor measures which are now crystal- want from the unemployed lized in the manufacturers’ program, He announced a free hand to the employers in increasing profits, declared the N. R. A. should be organized, a new basis found for wages. He spoke against strikes, and for less government spending (for the unem- ployed) The policies of Roosevelt are the same as those of the employers. Roosevelt now, as in the past, represents the employers. The new needs of the employers are being fulfilled by Roosevelt. The anmti-labor drive of the government goes forward— wage cuts, company unions, no strikes, union | smashing, cuts in unemployment relief, denial of unemployment insurance and denial of the elemen- tary rights of the workers. This is the program of Roosevelt and of the bankers. The broadest united front of the workers—espe- cially the Socialist and Communist workers, and workers in the trades unions—should answer the attacks of the Roosevelt government. The broadest united front in all localities should be achieved against wage cuts, for adequate unem- ployment insurance and relief, against the com- pany unions, for all the elementary rights of the workers to organize, to strike and to picket. Defeat the bankers’ program of Roosevelt! Forge the united front of all workers and farm- | ers for better conditions and for their elementary rights! Only the Beginning AYOR LA GUARDIA of New York yes- j 2 terday morning signed the Sales Tax Law and, thus, with a single act reached into the pay envelope of every single work- ing class family in the city to the tune of $40,000,000 for the next twelve months, LaGuardia could have easily added $180,000,000 } to the income of the city by stopping the payments | to the Morgan-Rockefeller banks. He could have | added another $25,000,000 by abolishing the high- | Way robbery of the reserve fund set aside for the | bank loans. This is what the Communist Party | proposed—to make the rich, not the poor, pay He chose instead to put the screws on the poor- | est sections of the population, on the $10 and $15 @ week pay envelopes, on the struggling working class families, to whom every cent of sales tax will add new miseries of deprivation and hunger. The resistance to this infamous tax robbery to | pay the Wall Street banks must not stop now. On the contrary, now that it is signed and its effects begin to be felt, the whole toiling population of the city must be aroused and organized to new mass protest and mass actions. In this fight against the Wall Street tax pro- | gram of LaGuardia, the Communist Party must take the leading part. It alone can bring together all the elements of the population under the fight- ing leadership of the workers. Right now the New York Communist Party Dis- trict has the duty of examining the provisions of the Sales Tax to determine where its levies will be most felt and begin to organize mass actions against it For it is a dead certainty that the $40,000,000 sales-tax robbery is only the beginning of more tax robbery. There is still the subway tax and the wage tax, that are being considered by LaGuardia. If the present sales tax meets with no resist- ance, these new tax robberies will swiftly be applied by LaGuardia in his capitalist loyalty to his Wall Street masters who are well pleased with the way their tool in the City Hall is protecting their fat investments. Fight the Sales Tax robbery! Fight the whole LaGuardia Wall Street tax program! Make the bankers and the rich pay! No taxes on the poor, heavy taxes on the rich! NRA In Cotton Garments HE case of the 36-hour order in the cot- ton garment manufacturing industry is one of the most glaring examples to show the hollowness of the so-called N.R.A. concessions to labor. A ruling by the President reducing hours from 40 to 36 per week, without a decrease in wages, for the workers in the industry was made last August. This was to go into effect on Dec. 1. Instead, however, manufacturers in the industry are flocking to add their names to injunction pro- ceedings which have been initiated to restrain the administration from putting into effect the execu- A temporary stay on the decision has already been granted to several companies, and now hundreds have joined, and, by merely donating $200 each toward a million dollar fund to fight the decision, these companies become beneficiaries of the stay. In the meantime 200,000 workers in the industry continue with the $13 minimum rate, which has really become a meximum, in full effect. While the bosses are trying to prevent even this concession to the workers, a study of labor efficiency in the cot- ton garment industry, made in the early part of this year by the Cotton Code Authority, revealed that although there was a reduction of hours to 40, there was even a slight decrease of the number of workers in the industry. This is because’ there was an increase of 32 per cent in the productivity of the workers, due to startling speed-up. A study of 672 plants showed an increase in the productivity | of operators by 37 per cent. Profits of some of the outstanding companies showed a rise of as much as 400 per cent, as in the case of the Cluett-Peabody Company, and 600 per cent in the Manhattan Shirt Company. Roosevelt signed the order to reduce hours in August, because 200,000 cotton garment workers were talking strike. A strike date was in fact set for the first week of October. What Roosevelt | Sranted was far below what the workers asked. They got no wage increases, no end of speed-up from Roosevelt's decision. The President’s move was a maneuver to head off the strike. In this he was helped by Sydney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and “Labor’s rep- resentative” on the National Industrial Relations Board, who hailed the President’s order as a great victory for labor. Now even the one meager con- cession Roosevelt gave them to prevent the strike has been snatched away by the injunction. The cotton garment workers who see minimum reduced still further by incressed ¢ iving Should be able to see that preparation of { actual strike action under rank and file control will be decisive in forcing gains, and not to lay hopes on the court dickerings of the N. R. A. officials, tive order. jour theoretical |member must keep in mind that we | Party Lite Unemployed Work After Elections struggles? Whet has been wrong in our past work, and what is our task | in the future? | The aims of the Communists in unemployed work is to lead the| workers in struggle for their imme- | |diate needs and to win unemploy- | |ment insurance, therefore the mem- | |bers of the units must become the | \driving force in all struggles in its |vicinity and in every unit through canvassing must learn who is unem-| |ployed in the block, who gets relief, | who doesn’t get any because of a fluky excuse of the Home Relief Bureau. Yes, we must also know who jis a Democrat or Republican, in other words who is a sympathizer jto our movement. Plenty of canvass- | Jing is done by our Upper Harlem| junits but not systematically enough | |to make any reliable estimates. For | jinstance, my unit, 424, is carrying | | out effective open-air meetings, good leducational progaganda, but has never yet worked out a plan, has |mever chosen a point around which | |to concentrate. Comrades go can-| |vassing without knowing where the | |concentration point is supposed to | be. | Now, after the election campaign our activities must be intensified, The struggle for the Workers’ Un-| jeeniogmen and Social Insurance | Bill must be brought to the fore-| front. We are the only political} |party that works and lives among | ene masses after election day. This} we must make clear to the unem-| ployed workers who follow the lead- | | sees g td ek jership of the Unemployment Coun-| “% j cils. | | Nevertheless, questions are asked | |in the locals, what is the council, a ;part of the Communist Party or a |non-partisan organization? I am) sure that if our tractions would ‘work properly in these locals many |of these confused questions would | |be eliminated. From 135th Street up to 155th Street, from 5th Avenue to Edge- jcombe Avenue, there are only 12,000 | |heads of families who are getting | |relief at the 135th Street Home Re- \lief Bureau, Thousands of unem- | Ployed in the territory of the Upper | Harlem units are denied relief. By proper systematic canvassing, we can |organize these workers, into unem- \ployment locals and build a powerful Communist Party not only at elec- tion time but at all times to fight for immediate needs, freedom of | the Scottsboro boys, against war and fascism and for the overthrow of the bosses system. | Harlem Unit Concentrates on Unemployed | |] WANT to tell you something about |* our unit. We have 21 members. | Six of these comrades are doing un- lemployed work, some are in the| I.L.D. and some in the L.S.N.R. We comrades who have been as- \signed to do unemployed work con- | sider that this is a very important | task. About four months ago, our| unit was assigned to work in Local} |6 of the Unemployed Council. It jean be proven that there our unit | did some good work. On the other hand our unit could have done much mpre, if all our Party members had taken their assignments more seri-| jously. We recruited more than 30} |members to the Party from this} Iecal. Our discussion in this local | was always appreciated by these workers, Although we have tried to keep Party discussions from the lo- cals, these new comrades demand to hear political discussion. This also helps to develop our local to @ great extent. We also talked very often about the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill. As members of the Communist Party we must concentrate now on unemployed work. We shall not find out mistakes by talking, but by do- jing work among the unemployed. Then we shall have something to talk about. I would like to say a few words about our unit during the election campaign. We circulated about 550 platforms. We realize that this number is insufficient. But on the other hand, we had very good turn- outs for Red Sundays when we sold Daily Workers and Liberators. Last night we raised $10.00, our full quota for the Daily Worker. We hope that other units followed this good ex- ample. Aside from this we have fallen down on the Daily Worker, taking about 50 copies a week. The unit buro realizes that it is not in this way that the Daily Worker will be made into a mass paper. Com- rades of Unit 422 let's erase this black mark from our record. ‘We have been doing splendidly in the sale of literature. For several months our unit has bought more than $7.50 worth. We buy seven Communists, seven or eight Party Organizers, one Inprecorr, etc, In the last few weeks this record has been spoiled to some extent. Our comrades must realize that now that the election campaign is over, we must buckle down to serious read- ing. It is only through reading that and practical ex- perience can be combined to win the masses for our Party. Every Party have many more campaigns before us. By so doing we will become capable leaders of the great revolu- tionary movement. Correspondent, Unit 422, Harlem. Fear Drives Spanish Heads To Dissention MADRID, Spain, Dec, 5.— The militancy of the Spanish workers is mrirored in the growing difficulties of the ruling class, For the reactionaries and the fas- cists, the Lerroux terror is still’ too mild. In their fear of the masses, they are demanding not only an | on the naval race.) Jof the | and the Aleutian Islands. Burck will give the o iginal drawing of HE TAKES IT BACK! The masses are awakening! ahead of all competitors today by tracts his statement about fickleness in readers— at least he retracts it for a day. Unit 1 Paterson Unit 7 Sec. 16 . Ominous Quiet in Naval BLOWING HOT AND COLD 'W YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1934 his cartoon to the highest contributor each day towards his quota of $1,000, Group of Sympathizers .., sereeee ee 2500 Burek, charging Hyman Hirschhorn ...... oe 100 getting $59, re- Kingston & Stein’s classes of Principles of Comm. in Workers School. . 24.00 Previously “Rec'd... ..cecsscssseces 543.48 seeeee 1,00 Total crcseecerssecereeevereneees + 860248 Parleys Heralds Storm in Armament Race (This is the first of two articles 5 ea Tee By Harry Gannes N ominous quiet has fallen on the London naval conversa- tions. But that calm before the | storm will soon be broken by the | bombshell of Japanese renunciation Washington 1921 naval treaty. Not one of the powers could minimize the seriousness of the situation, the extreme danger of war, and the fact that the great- | est naval building race in all his- | tory is now on. The crux of the whole situation is not the numerical representation of the question, such as 5-5-3, or the Japanese proposal of equality, 5-5-5. The central issue is the fact that the Roosevelt regime has jJaunched the most gigantic naval building program through the N. R. A. and the Vinson Bill for the ex- press purpose of insuring by superiority of arms the seizure of new foreign markets, new colonial plunder, and domination of the trade routes, especially in the Pacific and in Latin America. The New Dealer Roosevelt, what- ever demagogy he may use to the masses about money changers and a more “equitable distribution” of the wealth, has: made a piker of the openly avowed imperialist, Hoover, in the verve and speed with which he builds the most powerful weapon of international plunder, the navy. A “navy second to none” means primarily “markets second to none,” and “colonies and sources of invest- ment and raw material second to none.” Between the Washington naval conference of 1921 and the recent bitter London naval discussions lie the era particularly of the five years of the general crisis of world capitalism. Tremendous Shiftings Tremendous shiftings have taken place on the world scene. For the purpose of the naval conflicts, the outstanding factors are: (1) The rapid development of Socialism in the Soviet Union, completion of the first and progress of the second Five-Year Plans; (2) Japanese seiz- ure of Manchuria and strangie- hold over North China; (3) grow- ing conflict between the U. S. and Britain over Latin America and the Far East; (4) re-establishment in a modified form of the Anglo- Japanese alliance; (5) perfection of the German-Japanese alliance against the Soviet Union; (6) U.S. establishment of air bases in China against the Soviet districts; (5) U. S. strengthening of war bases in the Far Fast, and particularly in Alaska | The Washington naval treaty of 1921 was a triumph for American imperialism. Strong and powerful after the last world war, with the jargest navy in the world, with blood profits soaked out of the world slaughter, it was able to force a rupture in the Anglo-Japanese alli- | ships were changed very little. ance. It forced the Nine-Power pact, insuring the “open door” in China, which meant for it possibili- | ties of dominating all of China. In the 1930 London naval con- ference, at the beginning of the crisis, the fundamental relation- What was the situation leading to the London conversations? The Roosevelt government had author- ized the building of 130 war vessels. It had used the major portion of the $3,300,000,000 NRA for war pur- poses, particularly naval construc- tion, It had passed the Vinson Bill, with over $500,000,000 additional for the same purposes. The pretext, of course, was the Japanese seizure of Manchuria, and penetration into the Chinese markets. American trade with China has been drop- ping heavily, and the Roosevelt government took the steps toward war in order to enlarge its markets for the big monopolies, in order to insure their plunder of China. To overcome this situation, and to advance its plans of aggrandize- ment, the Japanese imperialists re- | sorted to a huge naval building program, penetrated further into China. The Japanese Demand | At the London conversations, the | Japanese put forward the chief de- mand of equality of naval arma- ments. The Japanese naval au- thorities pointed out that the United States was building par- ticularly war vessels of attack, air- plane carriers, a tremendous air fleet, long range cruisers, was ex- tending its air bases for an offen- sive on the north of Japan. The American naval delegates flatly re- jected the demand for parity, de- claring that the United States in- sisted on superiority and equality with Great Britain. The British imperialists utilized this conflict for their own purposes. Previously the British had made moves for re-establishing the rup- tured Anglo-Japanese alliance. The chief purpose of the British was to act as the main world organizer of the anti-Soviet front, recognizing that these imperialist conflicts, leading to the possibility of war be- tween the major powers, weakened the war preparations against the U.S. S. R. What went on in London cannot be known accurately, as all of the delegates were sworn to secrecy, and only that was officially given out which the imperialists wanted published for the consumption of the masses. But we can get a substantial ink- ling of what was said from other sources. It is true that the im- perialist conflicts were too sharp to have resulted in any agreement. The conference collapsed, with the conflicts more bitter than before, with threats of naval construction and war surcharging the air. Both the Japanese and the Brit- | ish put forward the argument that ' the main danger to all was the growth of Socialist construction in the Soviet Union. The British gov- ernment officials, including the ex- Socialist, Ramsay MacDonald, long before the conference, recognized Japan’s “special position” in Man- churia, The speciality of this posi- tion lies in the fact that it is chiefly @ war base against the Soviet Union. Matter Put to Roosevelt The Japanese militarists put this matter more or less openly to the | Roosevelt government, and to the | leading American bankers and mili- tarists. For example, we have the | official Japanese naval spokesman, Gumpei Sekine, writing in Current History, November, 1934, declared: “It must not be overlooked that there are active in the Orient at the present numerous baneful forces retarding advancement of civilization and detrimental to the maintenance of order. It is easy to talk of peace, but the task of maintaining peace is beset with tremendous difficulties.” The “baneful forces,” in the eyes of the Japanese military, of course, is the Soviet Union and the Chinese Soviets; and the Japanese naval spokesman talks of the difficulty of maintaining peace, especially when it is realized that to achieve its aim Japanese imperialism must cross the Soviet border, which is indeed a difficult method of maintaining peace, Another Spokesman Lest. the general phraseology of the naval gentlemen may make my deductions appear too specific, we quote another Japanese spokesman. Kei Fujioka, special correspondent of the Osaka Mainichi (organ of the most powerful Japanese trusts) on Noy. 8 had a three hours’ con- | and Bristol. He argued for their ac- | ceptance of Japan's claim to naval equality, and gave the reasons for it. Here they are: “Japan’s position has under- gone a radical change during the past decade and a half, with the steady eastward march of Soviet Ruscia, the independence of Man- chukuo, Japan’s withdrawal from | the League of Nations, etc.” | The first reason given is the | progress of the Soviet Union. Mr. Fujioka distorts the situation some- | what. Everybody knows the Soviet, Union has not marched Eastward. | It has stuck within its own borders. Socialist construction in the USSR | has marched eastward, westward, | northwa:d and southward. | The rupture of the conference prevented a maturity of these plans, but the intensified conflicts be- tween the imperialists growing out of their failures by no means lessens this danger, as we will esve- cially find out when we examine the growing economic crisis in Japan. oe ere i (A concluding article will be | published tomorrow.) intensification of the terrorist meas- ures, but the “reform” of the whole state according to their ideas. It is expected that Calvo Sotello, former Minister of Finance under the dictatorship, and now one of the leading personalities in the arty “Spanish Resurgence,” will we @ manifesto advocating a strong totalitarian state. On the other hand, it is known that Sé:cil intends initiating an enere: announce a program for this pur- pose containing the salient points | of Robles’ program in an intensified form. The reactionaries compete in reaction. Sotello is already endeavoring to gain adherents among the deputies of the Right. Primo de Rivers, the son of the late dictator, hes alco been asked to join Sotelo. He has, however, preferred to remain at the head of his “Spanish Phalanx” with paign against Gil Robles, and Gil Robles, too, is going over to the offensive for the seizure of total- itarian power.’ He has submitted to the Cortes a motion for the ac- cording of extraordinary powers to the government in economic ques- tions, and appointing a commission for state reform. Robles here takes up the same proposals made by So- tello before the Parliamentary vaca- tion. A number of Republicans and Radicals have already raised pro- an openly fascist program, tests against these proposals. | World Front i———- By HARRY GANNES -——' Anarchists in Spain An Historie Move Danger Signal & the Saar HE resentment of the Span- ish workers against the je riminal betrayals of the anarcho-syndicalist leaders in | Spain during the October up- rising is having tremendous repercussions, A special cable report from Madrid, published in yesterday's Daily Worker, tells of the resolution |of the anarcho-syndicalist trade unions in Castile, Catalonia, Ase turias, Galicia, Leon Aragon, and Andalusia to break with their treacherous leaders. This is of the greatest significance for the future of revolutionary struggles in Spain. Over 1,000,000 workers belonged to the anarcho- |Syndicalist organizations, under the leadership of the anarchists. They |have now declared they would join |the Workers Alliance, led by Social- ists and Communists. More than that, they are breaking | with their past. They have decided to join in the political struggle with the united front, supporting united front candidates, or Socialist and Communist candidates where there |is no joint candidate. This is a fun- iq |damental break with the ideas of ‘i anarchism. The anarchist leaders ' always boycotted the elections. They 5 Particularly fought against the idea 5 |of the struggle for the dictatorship (of the proletariat and for Soviets. 4 The action of the anarcho-syn- dicalist trade unions sounds the death knell of the anarchist lead- |ership's grip over a decisiye section of the Spanish proletariat. The heroic workers of Spain are learn- ‘ing fast, and are acting still more rapidly. . < re \]]JHEN the general strike took place throughout Spain, the anarchist jleaders in Barcelona sabotaged it precisely because the general strike jled to the armed struggle for the dictatorship of the proletariat and for the national independence of | Catalonia. The anarchist leaders not only jealled on the workers not to go out jon strike, not to fight for the pro- lletarian dictatorshiv, but availed themselves of the offer of General Batet, hangman of the workers, to address an appeal over the military radio to the workers urging them to % give up their fight. | Now the Spanish workers are \clearing up the putrid rubbish of one of the greatest obstacles in their path to victory. The united front, firmly formed on the barricades, is | now being sealed by the full entry of \the anarcho-syndicalist workers jalong with the Socialists and Com- munists, | The burning desire for the united front is spreading among all work- ers, Socialists as well as anarchists, in the United States the Socialist Party leaders work in various ways to biock the united front, which the | workers in every country who have more direct experience of fascism, have formed despite all tricky meneuvers and ail obstacies, In this respect, we urge all our |readers who can reach the place, to jhear Clarence Hathaway, editor of |the Daily Worker speak on the | united front, and the recent action \of the Socialist Party N. E. C. in the |United States. Comrade Hathaway ‘speaks at Irving Plaza, 13th Street jand Irving Prace, Thursday at 8 |Pp.m., December 6th. | ae) | NJEW danger signals have arisen for \** the workers and all anti-fascists |in the Saar, Hitler, in order to in- ‘sure his domination in the Saar, in ‘order to move all of his apparatus jof torture into this territory, has signed an agreement with France. 4u¢ agreement provides that the |German fascist government, in the ‘event the van. 13 plebicite turns out in favor of the fascists, shall pay | the French capitalists $59,000,000 for their properties in the Saar. 1 | In order to garnish this deal with } some palatable demagogy, Hitler also \included some phrases about | “equality of races,” “protection of the rights of non-voters,” etc. The main aim, of course, is to placate Frenci imperialism. Hitler teels that he can maket he Saar and German masses pay whatever price he has to fork over to the French, ———) Ce —] } H i ' it hh * jan diet, he Ark BS to any ig he lorder to gel tentacles on eo versation with U. S. Admirals Jones |Saar, The Saar is a declalve’ burn> ing question for German fascism. Another reason is to try to placate the masses in the Saar, Catholic, Jewish, French who fear Hitler's rule. What does an agreement or promise mean to a Nazi? Once in control of the Saar the Hitler butcher machine will go into action. Socialists and Communists will be slaughtered wholesale. All those who resisted fascism, will get the ‘equality of the concentration camps and of fascist blows. The united front in the Saar, due to the French imperialist actions, aiding Hitler, is mow faced with a more desparate fight. It is not only the question of the Saar. If Hitler siezes the Saar, it means that Ger- ‘man fascism will try some new ad- ventures, feeling. strengthened by swallowing the Saar’s war indus- tries. We here fighting against German fascism must feel that our battle front is the Saar. We must do every- thing possible to help our comrades there. We must arouse the Amer- ican werkers to the danger in the Saar, urge them to pass resolutions for the status quo, against Hitler, collect funds to help the united front in the Saar, and do everything possible at this end to help our brothers at this storm center against German fascism. FALLS BEHIND LEFTY! Gannes loses fourth place today to Little Lefty, though he gets $18, mer> than any other feature except Lefty and Burck. a a)