The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1934, Page 6

a Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1934 Daily, QWorker CHNTRAL ORGAM COMMUNIST PARTY ULS.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE ing? Will we have to wait ten years to find out ose facts? It is now revealed munitions so, that in 1925 the duPont pany sent boatloads of war supplies to Manchuria. But what about today? It is a fact that the du Ponts, as w as every bombing plane plant in the United Stat sends ten times more COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5@ E. 13th | 2™munition and war supp! to Japan and to oie “New York: N. ¥, Chiang Kai-shek than ever was shipped under the sheets am ; Hoover regime. Why not some light on this sub- Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. psa Press Building, Mr. Irene du Pont speaks about “violation” of National 7910. | the Versa treaty back in 1926 when the arms 705, Chicago, Tl. | manufacturers in the Allied countries supplied Ger- id ib ti Rates many with war materials. But what about now? s eee a at ets AUN SR es The General Motors Corporation, for example, x month. '0.75 cents a Morgan concern, has increased its business in “ = =o year, $9.8; | Germany 102 per cent in 1934 over last year. And 3’ months 75 cents. ear, 81.50; 6 months. y, 18 75 cents. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1934 F. D. R. Pledges New Anti-Labor Offensive TIS no ordinary gathering of capitali that we are witnessing now at the Con- gress of American Industry now meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria to present a series of proposals to Congress in January. What we see there now is the most formidable mobilization of American in trial 1 for the greatest anti-labor offensive since | ring the war. | out of the U. S. see there is the grim preparations for | muniticns } of trade unions, the crippling of strikes anti-strike laws, the cutting of all relief appropriations, and the girding of Wall Street monopoly capital for the execution of a policy of in- creasing political reaction. And the patron saint of all this Wall Street mobilization is Roosevelt. It is Roosevelt who invited the Wall Street mo- nopolists to outline the program which they wished the administration to put into effect in the coming months, It is Roosevelt who has sent his spokesmen to the Congress for American Industry to pledge the “co-oper: n” of the government in the new anti- labor offensive of the industrialists. It is M Roosevelt's spokesman, who pro- claimed as the slogan of the Congress the drive for profits and the preservation of capitalism, who bluntly defined the New Deal as the bulwark of capitalist expioitation It was Roosevelt's right hand man, Richberg, who yesterday told the Wall Street exploiters that they have nothing to fear in their new offensive as far as any hindrance from Roosevelt is concerned. On the contrary, he made it very plain to them that Roosevelt is bursting with eagerness to fall in with any plans that the Congress of American Industry may approve 'HE plans for the new drive are now complete. First the Bankers’ Convention in Washington. Now the industrialists meeting in New York. And hovering above it all the Roosevelt government pledging aid and co-operation. The Congress of industrialists has laid its plans. It knows that the New Deal has given them fat profits, that it has accomplished this at the expense of the masses. It also knows that the New Deal Policies, at the same time and by this very token, has intensified the crisis, that the crisis is heading for new plunges downward. Above all, the assembled industrialists are aware of the steady march of the spirit of proletarian class struggle which every day carries the radicali- zation of the American working class to new levels. Tt is this rising proletarian menace to their whole system, as the New Deal promises are revealed in their ruling Class rottenness, that the Wall Street in- dustrialists are mobilizing to meet with fascist ie- action. The monopolies are girding to smash the living standards of the masses to new depths of misery and starvation. And Roosevelt is pledged to assist them and carry through their policies. That is the brief, harsh meaning of Moley’s and Richberg’s speeches. 'HESE developments mean that the American la- bor movement, that the American working class, and especially its revolutionary vanguard, the Communist Party, are confronted with the life and death job of mobilizing the great united front of the working class for defense of daily standards and for a counter-offensive against political reaction. It is every trade unionist, every militant worker, every Socialist Party worker, every jobless worker, who is menaced. They unite against us. uniting against them For a united front against the New Deal! De- fend the organizations of the working class and the right to strike! Against fascism! We can only answer by Armaments and Roosevelt | JAR secrets coming out at the arms in- quiry in Washington are more im- portant for the light they throw on what the Roosevelt government is undoubtedly doing now than on what was done in the past. It is revealed, for example, that Herbert Hoover, when in office, always consulted the arms manu- facturers when the question of “disarmament” con- ferences arose. Yet the war construction program under Hoover was only half the size of that under the New Deal. It is a fact that the arms manu- facturers are making twice as much profits now than they made during the last term of the Hoover regime What arms manufacturers is Mr. Roosevelt con- the major part of this business is armored tanks, motor trucks for the army, and other butcher sup- plies for the Hitler gang. Why not some light on the present day war preparations? At every step of its investigation, the arms in- quiry has sought to hide the role of the Roosevelt government in war preparations, its heavy contribu- tions to the arms manufacturers. Here are some facts that do not even need in- vestigation. The Roosevelt government is spending more for war preparations now than at any time in the history of this country except during the days of actual warfare in 1918. The bulk of this money goes into the pockets of the big arms manufacturers whose profits are mounting sky-high. Under the Roosevelt regime the duPont corporation was able to declare an extra dividend a few weeks ago thanks to the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by Roosevelt for war preparations. More arms are being shipped to China now for use against the Chinese Soviets than has ever gone for the Orient. Shiploads of war ave these shores every day for Japan, to help the Japanese militarists arm for war against the Soviet Union The arms investigations give only a slight inkling of what is going on now under the New Deal. The Class Enemy Gets Answer Wee the desperate hand of the class enemy in the Soviet Union struck down the beloved leader of the Leningrad proletariat, Sergei Kirov, the dictatorship of the proletariat answered by a crush- ing blow to those who believed that by murder and terrorism they could weaken in the slightest the mighty onrush of Socialist Gevelopment. Sixty-six White Guard wreckers, saboteurs, spies, and enemies of the working class were sentenced to death and executed following Kirov’s assassination. Let the capitalist press howl against the “red terror.” They are used to seeing American workers murdered in cold blood when they strike for higher wages, for more bread for their family. We do not see them at all concerned over the sixty strikers killed by the gunmen and police of the big trusts under the N.R.A. There was not even a shudder of moral indignation in the reptile press when sixteen textile strikers were slaughtered recently. When nine were shot in the back, General Johnson smiled approvingly and Sloan, head of the Textile Insti- tute, declared he could find no tears to shed. Those executed in the Soviet Union crossed the border into the workers’ fatherland from Poland, Finland, Latvia, with the express purpose of trying to wreck the advance of Socialist construction. They came in with money and plans for murdering the workers’ leaders, We can well understand the sympathy of the capitalist butchers for these victims of stern pro- letarian justice. It is on them that they pinned their hopes for aid in the event of a war of inter- vention against the workers’ fatherland. The putrid remnants of the black days of the Czar, in a final dying effort, like the flicker of a candle as it sputters to its end, tried to vent their rage. Though it cosi the life of a sterling bolshevik, it is less than futile in impeding by a fraction the steady onward march of the victorious Soviet: pro- letariat. The dictatorship of the proletariat, with its democracy for those who toil, showed its stern face and its mighty fist to the class enemy. Every Amer- ican worker who has felt the club of the police, who sees his brothers shot down on the picket lines, who knows his brothers have been sacrificed in war for the profits of Wall Street, who labors under the terror of the steel and coal spies and the stool pigeons in the other big plants, will understand the necessity of dealing with these rats in the Soviet Union in the manner they were dealt with. One Thousand Dollars a Day! r THE next eight days $8,500 must reach the Daily Worker to put the $60,- 000 drive for funds over the top. So far, with the home-stretch reached, only six districts have fulfilled their quota. One thousand dollars a day must be raised to success- fully wind up the drive. The Daily Worker urgently needs this $8,500. The readers of the Daily Worker, and workers’ organizations cannot afford to let the funds raised fall short of the amount needed. The $60,000 must be raised by Dec. 15! Sary expenses must be met. If the necessary $1,000 a day is to be raised, every district and every organization must at once fulfill its quota. Rush funds to the Daily Worker! Fulfill all quotas! Visit organizations every day and every night during the coming week. All funds on hand should be rushed in at once. Check up on every organization and see that it at, once completes its quota. Get individual contribu- tions and collections at organizations to put the Daily Worker Drive over the top. Raise the $80,000 before Dec. 15! Neces- 20 Movement Makes Gains In Sloveni “SRAM, Yugoslavia, Dec. 6—The Jommunist Party of Yugoslavia has recently gained great influence among the workers of Slovenia. It is thanks solely to this sym- pathy on the part of the masses that the activities of the Party are able to increase steadily in spite of the great sacrifices demanded. The police are doing their utmost to liquidate the Party. In two years there have been 10 trials in Slo- venia, with more than 200 de- fendants. However, in spite of the many arrests the organizational ap- Paratus remains intact. The illegal printing office of the Party com- | , mittee has been working for four | years | At the funeral of a police official |the Party organization distributed |leaflets. The next day all known | workers’ functionaries and Commu- | nists were arrested, and detained | for five days without any reason |being given, During these days agitational work was of course car- Tied on as energetically as before, and the police action was a fail« | ure. Spivak Leaves Today ‘For Mid-West to Talk ‘On Anti-Semitic Plots John L. Spivak, whose series of articles in the New Masses “Plot- ting America’s Pogroms” attracted York today to speak in the Mid- West on anti-semitism, He will speak in Chicago on Sun- day at the Hotel Sherman, Ran- dolph Street at Clark, at 8:30 p.m, Llewelyn Jones, critic and writer, will be chairman of the meeting. On Sunday afternoon Spivak. will speak at the Milwaukee Auditorium at 2:30 pm., in Milwaukee. In Detroit, on Monday, he will appear at the Maccabee Audi- torium, 5050 Woodward at Putnam, at 8:30 pm., and in Cleveland on Tuesday he will speak at the Engi- neers’ Auditorium, Ontario and St. Clair, at 8:30 p.m. Spivak has invited a number of leading Chicago industrialists and heads of organizations involved in his series to meet him in Chicago at a press conference to be held be- nation-wide attention to the wide | fore the meeting, at which he will revival of anti-semitic propaganda ;Sive them an opportunity to reply in the United States, will leave New | to his charges publicly, | | Party Life | 15 Longshoremen | Recruited to Party In Competition ECTION One, Three “and Seven| recently entered into a pact of socialist competition in waterfront | recruiting with the object of en- rolling 40 new longshoremen into| a | THE MAYOR SIGNS THE BILL “The Daily Worker did more to influence me in this decision than any other agencies.”— Guardia, after signing Sales Tax the Party by Jan. 21, Lenin Memo- | jrial Day. A good start towards| reaching this quota has been made, | |with a total of 15 longshoremen| having been recruited in the first |few weeks of the drive by Sections | |One and Three alone. These 15 new |Party members are excellent ele-| |ments—Irish, Americans, Negroes, | |members of the I. L. A, militant {workers with contacts annd prestige jon the docks, | A Test of Section Leadership | } | To develop these 15 new long- | shore members (as well as the| jothers to be recruited) into capable and devoted Communists, into lead- lere among the dock workers, means taking a serious step forward in |basic concentration work in this |District—marine work. | Will we prove able to keep all of |these proletarians in the Party, to} |develop and utilize them for fur- \ther extending our Party's base | among the New York longshore- jmen? This is a test for Sections jOne, Three and Seven, a test in| constructive Party leadership, the} results of which should be of in- |terest and concern to the entire District. A Few Points from Recent Work ‘ERTAIN lessons and experiences from working with the new long- shore Comrades and Nuclei can al- ready be cited, as follows: 1) Because of the constant shift- jing of the working time of the long- |shoremen, the question of holding |regular nucleus meetings, of getting full attendance at these meetings, is an exceptionally difficult one, and |requires for its solution, the highest \degree of organizational leadership | and attention from the leading Sec- tion comrades. Also this makes it extraordinarily important that the} nucleus meetings are most. thor- oughly prepared, that they are ed- ucational, constructive, down to earth—and short. Special efforts! have to be made to impress on the new comrades the absolute impor- tance of attending unit meetings. 2) Dock conditions and ‘issues should be briefly discussed at each meeting, with constant stress being laid on the fact that solid personal contact on the job coupled with agi- tation and action around small |grievances is the basic approach to winning the masses of longshore- men. The leading comrades must give the utmost possible help in working out the detailed steps and special forms for carrying through jthese small actions. 3) Special stress must be placed jon carrying through systematic po- |litical training of the new comrades through nuclei discussions, through special study groups, through the Daily Worker and assigned pam- phlets for reading and through per- sonal attention. Failure to politi- cally develop the new comrades {means that we will eventually lose} most of them! | 4) It is very important that close jcomradely relations be established between the leading comrades and |the new members, drawing out their |questions, criticisms, personal and \home difficulties, etc., thus making possible a concrete and flexible ap- proach to each new member on his assignments and development. Steps must also be taken to draw the new comrades in socially. 5) The “outside” comrades at- tached to the nucleus must be care- ful not to swamp the new unit with |their own proposals, discussion, ini- tiative, etc. They must patiently let the new comrades discuss problems and run the meeting, only taking the floor to suggest or advise when absolutely necessary. 6) Special care must be taken not to swamp the new members with too much work or inner meetings, thus cutting them off from their contacts, their friends, and their personal obligations. However (in closing), we urge that the comrades in waterfront concentration work—above all the |longshoremen themselves — discuss the points raised here and then send in their own suggestions, criti- cisms, experiences, etc., for the Party Builder and the Party Life Column. Let us resolve not to lose a single one of these newly recruited 15 longshoremen from the Party. If we can carry through this resolution we can be quite certain of success in fulfilling our entire quota of forty by Jan, 21, By P. C. ‘Labor Front’ Head Ousted, Says Report ZURICH, Dec. 6.—A report from Berlin published in the Basle Na- tionaler Zeitung declares that the “leader of the Labor Front,” Ley, has already been eliminated by the German industrialists. This report is confined to a great extent by the fact that the news- paper of the Labor Front, Der Deutsche, is no longer to appear daily after Dec. 31. It is stated that Ley’s “inspection tour,” ar- ranged to last till the beginning of next February—a very lengthy tour of its kind in any case—is intended to conceal Ley’s dismissal from the public until after the Saar plebi- scite. The National Zeitung points out that this development would represent a victory for Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Finance, and the employers’ associations backing him up. That there is more behind this struggle of cliques than merely the STAGE WHISPER! “A dollar is better than nothing,” was Burck’s comment, “but if readers who collected funds tor this department would only send them in now, in- Bill. cneigsean ETS WD 10 Burek will give the o 1zinal drawing of his cartoon to the highest contrinutor each day stead of waiting t G, Frank . Total hold a candle to me!” Previously Rec'd. . | | i | | towards his quota of $1,000, i | 0 coliect more, my rivals couldn't -$ 100 - 602.48 ++ $603.48 By Harry Gannes (This is the second and concluding article on the navy arms race) OTH in Japan and the United States, the race for naval arms is inensifying the economic crisis. When it is remembered that a first line battleship or plane carrier costs from $70,000,000 to $80,000,000 in the United States and about half that in Japan, it is realized that a race for supremacy in these arms puts @ reavy drain on a financial system already terrifically battered by the crisis. In the first instance, the economic crisis speeds war preparations, par- ticularly the naval construction pro- gram of the leading imperialist pow- ers. And the tremendous cost of the arms race aggravates the eco- nomic crisis, leading to a vicious circle, with war always hovering above as a “solution.” Budget Deficit Grows While the Roosevelt government seeks every means of cutting down direct unemployment relief, in order to save taxation and profits for the big trusts, the budget deficit is in- creased by $1,000,000,000 a year to pay chiefly for the war preparation, and naval arms building. Congressman Vinson has already announced that with the collapse of and London naval conversations, de- spite the huge funds already pro- vided, expenditures will be made up to the limit in order to provide Wall Street with a navy sufficient to in- sure its plunder in the Chinese mar- kets and Latin America. Knowing that the economic and financial crisis in Japan is extreme- ly severe, Roosevelt uses this fact to gain the whip hand in guafan- teeing the U. S. naval superiority in the Pacific. The result, however, is a sharpening to the uttermost of the conflict fast approaching the break- ing point. That the very bitterness at Lon- don itself, the inability to encompass the arms race within treaty camou- flage, creates the situation where the powers may not even wait for their building program but decide the issue sooner or later by war, is recognized by the leading naval au- thorities. The Roosevelt government, for example, has its navy actually on a war footing now, with the entire fleet in the Pacific in order to threaten Japan. Aerial war demon- strations are carried on in Alaska, and preparations for war are going on at a feverish pace in the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. Since the U.S. takes it for granted the Washington treaty will be denounced, it has al- ready undertaken a heavy fortifica- tion building program in Hawaii, Corregidor (Philippines) and Guam. These facts have led the prom- Economie Crisis Is Intensified By U.S.-Japan Naval Arms Race inent British naval expert, Hector | C. Bywater to declare: | “The whole question of world disarmament has reached a crit- ical, perhaps a crucial stage, and upon the decisions taken in the next 12 months may depend not merely the continuation or end of the system of. regulating compe- tent forces by negotiation but the maintenance of peace itself.” Game of Alliances At the London conversations, be- sides discussion of equality of arms, there is going on a game of war al- liances, maneuvers, pressure and a thousand-and-one shiftings involv- ing the complicated maze of impe- rialist contradictions. We will not deal with all of them here. The} British imperialists, for example, utilize the U.-S.-Japanese antag- onisms for their own interests. They throw their main weight behind Japan to help cripple their chief rival, the U. S., in Latin America and in the Orient. At the same time, they make a pretense at siding with the U. S. on certain issues in order to gain greater advantages from Japan in its critical tussle with Wall Street. The Japanese, on the other hand, use every weapon available to force arms concessions. They haye or- dered their puppet government in Manchukuo to declare a monopoly on oil, using this as a bargaining point with American oil companies, to get them to bring pressure on their government for naval conces- sions in return for the Manchukuo oil markets. In Japan the financial crisis has reached a very crucial stage. The last budget which was passed by the Cabinet recently amounted to over 2,000,000,000 yen, leaving a deficit of about 1,000,000,000 yen, and forced the resignation of Finance Minister Sadanobu Fujii. Big War Budget . Nearly three quarters of the bud- get goes for war expenditures. The problem was whether to pay for the increased war expenditure by tax- ation or by a new bond issue. The amount of government bonds issued yearly in Japan since the seizure of Manchuria in 1931, reached the colossal sum of 1,000,000,000 yen yearly, and the government fears that with further issues the whole securities market will topple. Minister Fujii proposed a 30,000,- 000 yen additional tax on the cor- porations, They fought against it, and with the support of the mili- tary, forced Fujii to quit. Korekijo Takahashi, 79 years old, was recalled as finance minister. But. the crisis was by no means allayed. The Japanese stock market is now in about the same state that the New York stock exchange was in the days of the 1929 crash. We | conditions. The editorial is headed: quote from a recent editorial in the Osaka Mainichi admitting panic “Keep cool,” and says: “At the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the shares, with the leading issues as the center have been slumping for some days, and even talk of a ‘security panic, is heard... . The general sentiment has grad- ually been sinking, with discon- | certed selling accumulating in the market on the least pretext and creating a situation beyond con- trol.” | In this situation, the Japanese | military is preparing for a fascist government in order to carry through the war program—with its main objective against the Soviet Union. Further Penetration Seen The Roosevelt government, on the other hand, has been preparing for @ more drastic penetration in the Latin American and Oriental mar- kets, against Japan, not only by its war moves, but by a virtual eco- nomic war conference. The Jap- anese Rengo news service declared on Nov. 9 that “all important Amer- ican diplomats in the Far East and Latin America, except Joseph C. Grew, ambassador in Tokyo, are re- turning home to confer with Pres- ident Roosevelt about the future of the New Deal and international re- lations, and probably will discuss the pushing of the movement for reciprocal trade pacts with Latin American countries to recover the markets lost to Japan.” | Thus the naval conference bres- | ages a new drive for world markets, with war as the decisive factor. The Roosevelt government is taking every step to prepare for this war, increasing the tax burdens on the impoverished masses in order to pay | for the naval construction program | it thinks necessary to satisfy the colonial and foreign market desires of the big trusts. As the naval race intensifies, as it must, greater taxes will be thrown onto the backs of the toiling masses, and all relief al- lotments will be cut still more dras- tically. Despite all of Roosevelt’s talk about a housing construction program, we may be sure that the only construction program that will get the requisite money. will be the warship building projects. The struggle against the danger of war must hit at all of the gigantic expenditures for naval construction, demanding these funds’ for relief and unemployment insurance. In fighting aga‘ast the new burden- some tax program on the masses, | we must demand an end to the) naval construction race. In the field | of naval arms, Roosevelt is follow- | ing the wishes of the most warlike, | the most imperialist of the Amer- | ican ruling class. effort to get rid of the drunkard, Ley, is universally admitted. The industrialists intend combining his removal with an intensified attack on the German workers. The with- drawal of Der Deutsche as a daily paper is characteristic of these in- tentions. The role of the Labor Front is to be even further de- graded. It is to be given as its sole task the organization of the “Power Through Joy” movement—and even this only within confined limits, The last appearance of a trade- union organization is to be taken away from it. The capitalists de- mand from Hitler that the co- ordinated organizations should be deprived of the last spark of a possibility that their members Kirov’s Death A Great Loss, Says Dimitrov (Special to the Daily Worker) W, Dec, 6 (By Wireless). Dimitrov, hero of the Reichstag fire trial and member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, writing in memory of Sergei Kirov, assassi- nated leader of the Leningrad pro- letariat whose funeral takes place | today, writes: | “This scoundrelly murder of a workers, might organize the resistance of the | model Bolshevik, one of the best colleague of Stalin, is a blow not only at the great Soviet fatherland but also at the entire international | proletariat. Together with the Bol- | Sheviks and toilers of Leningrad and the entire Soviet Union, I am pro- foundly grieved at this heavy loss of the Communist Party of the So- | viet Union and of the Communist International. The memory of Com- rade Kirov, his wonderful example of a revolutionary Bolshevik-Lenin- ist, will inspire the millions of pro- letarians in the capit countries to a still more coura; struggle for the victory of the proletarian | revolution, for the defense of the fatherland and the toilers of the whole world, for the final liquida- tion of the class enemy.” World Front ——By HARRY GANNES -——' “Keep India Forever” Forging New CRains On Chiang’s “Victory” “M\0 KEEP India forever,” as Stanley Baldwin put it, the central council of the Con- servative and Unionist Asso- ciations, which have a major- ity in parliament, voted by 3 to 1 to adopt the government’s new scheme for India. There were 1,700 delegates prese ent when this matter was discussed and voted on Tuesday. The report thereby adopted is called by the British Daily Worker “one of the most monstrous docu- ments ever issued in the bloody hise tory of British imperialism.” Here are the main provisions for future British rule in India: All of the armed forces are placed unreservedly in the hands of the British governor-general. Relations of India with all other powers are controlled by the British overlords. The British imperialists retain com plete control of British Baluchistan, one of the gateways for attack on the Soviet Union. Under the pretext of “safeguarde ing of financial stability and credit,” the entire economic life of the coune try is under the domination of the British slaveholders. Recognizing that this document, which is intended to shackle India more firmly to the British impe- rialist chariot, the report provides for the most drastic attack on all revolutionary forces. The British rulers are given absolute fascist rights, the right to use any branch of the government against all those who resist British rule. This pro- posal runs: “For the purpose of combating terrorism the governor should have power to take under his own control any branch of gov- ernment which it is necessary to use for that purpose.” 'VERYTHING is done to perpetu- ate conditions of the Indian workers, described as follows by the report. of the Indian League Dele- gation when they visited Poona: “On less than one acre of ground at least 500 humans and a num- ber of cowS, calves, goats, etc., were accommodated. The mud huts were roofed with old kerosene oil tin sheets, tatch and all sorts of scrap material, and the walls were about four feet high. There were no win- dows and no sanitary arrange- ments. . . . practically every infant under three years was drugged with opium. “Delhi, the imperial capital, beat every record. We passed through alleys where we could not breathe on account of the stench; we called on a few railway workers who lived in what were literally boxes with- out windows or any other opening whatever for ventilation, the ‘front door’ being rows of planks. “The man inside sits up all night as there is |no .room for him to stretch himself out, We did not measure these places, but we would judge them to be about three feet by four or 4% feet each. Imperial Delhi staggers the imagination. “The people are in the constant grip of moneylenders and landlords, “In the agricultural areas the huts are built chiefly of a mixture of mud and cow dung, are small and without ventilation or sanitation.” This is what the British overlords want to keep in India “forever.” But neither their new chains nor their fascist terror will keep the In- dian masses enslaved. ean ie yee Japanese imperialists are very much worried by Chiang Kai- Shek’s reported “victories” over the Chinese Soviets in Kiangsi. After the Kuomintang’s reported capture of Juichin, capital of the Central Soviet Government in Kiangsi, the Osaka Mainichi, commented gloom- ily: “The Red troops have never been crushed. . . .the communist troops have escaped without suffer- ing any serious losses.” They go on further to point out that Chiang Kai-Shek’s reported “victory” does not in the least save the Nanking regime from the rapid- ly worsening crisis which threatens to overwhelm it. “The economic structure under the administration of General Chiang,” they write, “at the same time, although undoubtedly affected by the world-wide economic despon- dency, may be saitl to be bordering on total collapse. . ... Thus, General Chiang, successful as he has been . is turning the society under his ade ministration into a hotbed of com= munism.” They go on further to point out that behind Chiang Kai-Shek stands the capitalist powers, particularly the Roosevelt regime, “Two inter- esting features are observed. One is the establishment of the fact that the communist armies in China will be always combatted by the inter- national capitalistic organization, Behind Chiang Kai Shek may be noted the assistance rendered by American arms manufacturers or merchants on condition of China’s purchasing arms.” WHERE ARE THE SERIOUS THINKERS? Is Little Lefty going to be allowed to put a column like World Front in the back row? Gannes is $17 be- hind Lefty in total contributions in the drive. Mr. and Mrs. Stillman ....$ 50 Previously received ........ 347,78 ste conan eeemeeees $348.28 eee eR eS eT r leaders of the Party, the ideal ex- ample of a proletarian master of culture, has been killed. With my whole soul I share in the grief of the Party and the grief of ail hon- est workers. I cannot help saying Total Maxim Gorky, world famous So- viet writer, also writes: disciples of Lenin, and the closest i that this success of the enemy be- speaks not only his own “A wonderful man, one of the best | but also our insufficient vigilance,” os