The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1934, Page 8

Page & DAILY WORKER. YEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER §&, 1934 a Daily, GHWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SEC! Only 10M OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Te ALgonquin 4-795 4. e D. South Wells § Subscription Rates: Bp DECEMBER 8. 1934 The War Danger Grows wet seems to be now the main focal point of the war danger in Europe, Jugeslavia and Hungary, is only one of the mendous pressure of symptoms of the the capitalists for war. It is ironical that the first sparks of the oncoming criminal imperialist war, seem to arise at almost the precise spot where the last world slau 1. The danger of a new bloody world slau not interred with the corpse of King the charges of complicity in the assassination by Jugoslavia ag t Hungary, and the brutal on of thousands of Hungarian citizens from siavia are but the surface fireworks of the imperialist. contradictions. Fascist Germany s been trying to provoke just such a war as seems to be in the making in Jugoslavia and Hungary. First: it was the slaughter of Dollfuss, plotted by the Na Then the assassination of King Alexander, in which the Nazis undoubtedly had a hand. Furthermore, the Nazf butchers have been plot- ting the armed seizure of the Saar. The world crisis of capitalism has reached such that every attempted “solution” immediately runs into the paths of armed conflict. The rot- ting, decaying system of capitalist slavery can hardly budge without setting off the whole moun- tain of explosive contradictions and war prepara- tions. It is instructive for us to note that on the very hat Hungarian citizens were being ousted from Jugoslavia, and troops crossed the Hungarian border, the Roosevelt government made a definite war threat to Japan over the renunciation of the Washington naval treaty. day In Europe and in Asia, the whole capitalist world is plunging to war. Even if they are able to smooth over the particular bitterness on the Jugoslav- Hungarian border, the war danger will not be lessened by a single jot. It will continue to grow more intense, and will sooner or later explode the whole world into the most barbarous conflict hu- manity has ever known—unless the proletariat by their revolutionary action can stop the warmakers. Despite these constant threats of war hovering over the workers of the entire world, the Socialist International has refused an international united front against war and fascism. And in the United States, Norman Thomas, aiding the right wing, has known how to make the best use—against the united front—of the proposal for the Socialist Par- ties in each country to take up the question in- divid But the danger of a new slaughter grows more ominous and only the united action of the workers, of all anti-war forces, against im- perialist war, acting now, can stop the bloodthirsty rulers from plunging the world into an ocean of butchery. Real Progress Toward Unity OLLOWING as it does so closely on the - heels of the recent meeting of the So- cialist Party Executive Committee in Boston, the signing of a united front agreement by five leading Southern state organizations of the S. P. takes on extraordinary importance. Surely this news of joint action against the ¢€ommon enemy will send a thrill of joy through the hearts of all class conscious wor! And certainly, the united front call, signed by five leading Socialist Party workers, urging the Swift welding of the working class united front all over the country, will meet eager and happy re- Sponse everywhere in the ranks of the working class. The Daily Worker, as the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, hails this swiftly growing unity, hails it as another of the steps which must finally bring the whole Socialist Party into a united front of struggle against capi- talist reaction together with the Communist Part; The joint agreement, very correctly and just is an agreement honestly and sincerely entered upon by tvo groups, having programmatic differences on basic questions, but nevertheless determined not to let these programmatic differences stand in the way of an immediate struggle on the specific issues concerning the masses right now. On certain issues, h as the fight against war, against fascism, for defense of civil rights, against wage cuts, for relief and unemployment insurance, for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and Hern- don, against the Roosevelt A. A. A. and N. R. A. Wall Street program, there can be no two ways of thinking as far as the working class is con- cerned. These are the immediate issues on which every class conscious worker wishes with all his deepest instincts for united action against a united enemy. well as the telegram sent by Francis Henson, secretary of the Revolutionary Policy Committee, to Clarence Hathaway, have an added importance as a commentary on the action passed by the S. P. Executive Committee in Boston Friday. The S. P. Exec 1 > Committee last week passed a resolution endor g the united front “in prin- ciple,” but actually hampering the united front by deferring all action on it until 1936, two years from now! This action ted out by Comrade Hathaway in his articles in the Daily Worker, only rve to emphasize that the majority of the leaders the Executive Committee have no real desire for bu the united front, and are interested only in hindering as much possible all progress toward it Further, in this week's issue of the New Leader, Norman Thomas approves the action of the S. P. Executive Committee, of which he is the leading member, stating editorially the statement handles the problem as well as it can be handled in view of the present situation, the renewed bitterness of the Commu- nist attacks on the Socialist Party and the labor movement, and the manifest desire of the ma- jority of the Socialist Party to close discussion on this issue. . . . a majority which desires no negotiations on the united front and an end of the waste of time on the discussions of it.” (Our emphasis.—D. W.) Now here is the blunt issue. Can the majority of the workers of the Socialist Party accept this plain- ly stated hostility to united front action by Norman Thomas and the Executive Committee members? We do not believe that Thomas is right. We do not believe that the class conscious workers of the S. P. consider it a “waste of time” to build the united struggles of the working class against capitalism and capitalist exploitation. On the contrary, we are firmly convinced that the majority of the workers of the Socialist Party desire heart and soul for unity with their class comrades in the Communist Party, whatever dif- ferences divide them. And the action of the five Socialist Party state organizations is the most eloquent political com- ment that one could make on the statement of Thomas and the resolution of the S. P. Executive Committee! It is indeed precisely the kind of commentary which class conscious ‘kers everywhere will hail with particular satisfaction at this moment. These, then, are our conclusions—Hail the pro- gress toward the united front! Go forward over all obstacles to build this unity! Follow the stir- ring example of the five Southern states! Press forward with united front proposals to every So- cialist Party local and state group! Socialist Party workers! Class comrades! weld our class unity let our enemies fear! as se: in lilding as As we The United Mine Workers’ Elections HE conference of rank and file miners in the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, held at Arnold City, Pa., last Sunday, decided to participate with all energy in the national and district elections now being carried on in the U. M. W. A. This rank and file gathering, with local unions from the Pitts- burgh area represented, called on U. M. W. A. members throughout the country to pile up a huge vote for the rank and file candidates in both the international and district elections. John L, Lewis has arbitrarily and illegelly ruled most of the candidates for international office off the ballot so that he could steal the election. But the rank and file candidates for delegate to the next A. F. of L. elections are on the international ballot. Therefore the miners can participate in the most energetic campaign to elect those few candi- dates not ruled off the ballot by the Lewis machine. The rank and file conference correctly decided that to accept Lewis’ provccation and to koycott the union election because of Lewis’ ruling would be to play into Lewis’ hand and to allow him to suppress the rank and file without any protest cam- paign. They correctly decided that the rank and file movement can be built up and strengthened in the course of the elections. In the U. M. W. A. district elections, such as Pittsburgh district, where the rank and file slate is on the ballet and endorsed by many loeal unions, the Lewis machine can be ousted and a heavy ma- jority vote rolled up for the rank and file can- didates. In the course of the election campaign, the rank and file conference decided, the membership will be mobilized for the fight for a special convention, which the membership is demanding. The whole program of the rank and file, including the demand for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, for all the economic demands including higher wages and shorter hours, and the demand for no discrimination against Negro workers, will be put forward in the election struggle of the rank and file miners. The fuilest participation of the miners in the election for those minor offices for which the rank and file got on the international ballot, and in the district elections to elect the rank and file candi- dates, will strike a blow at the Lewis machine, and Strengthen the whole rank and file movement. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. ADDRESS... attacked during this time. The im- possibility of suppressing the armed | Struggle against the present im- erialist regime in Manchuria is due, according to this newspaper, to the armed resistance of a con- | siderable section of the population, especially the peasantry. The “North China Daily News”) reports from Harbin that a group | of Partisans, 10,000 strong, has | been formed on the banks of the | Ussuri River, and has proclaimed | M st ch bins Rebels Press WaronJjapan SHANGHAI, Dec. 7—The Chi- nese press here continued to print Teports on the movements of the rebels in Manchuria. jan independent republic. Cannon Especially sharp conflicts have |and reserves of ammunition have taken place near Tunchua, in the lenabled this group to repulse all east of Manchuria. In October |attacks by the regular troops. The alone the insurgents made 158 at- | Partisan troops have amalgamated tacks in this district, in the course |all the units which have been fight- of which 337 Japanese were killed. jing in the Manchurian army for ‘The summer operations of the |the last three years, and have been | , This is the second fire this year at this aerodrome, where the main air forces of the Nanking government are concentrated, FRENCH FIRE ON JAPANESE PEIPING, Dec. 7.—An incident reported from Shanhaikwan throws the spotlight on the domineering methods used by the imperialists in China, and on the antagonisms in the imperialist camp. The commander of the Japanese military mission has protested to the commander of the French gar- rison of Shanhaikwan against the “unlawful crossing of the Man- churian frontier by French troops on Noy. 13, and the firing on a Japanese patrol by these trcops.” According to the Japanese press, Japanese troops against the rebels, writes the “China Weekly Review,” ended in victory for the Partisans. In actual fact there is not a single town, not a single railway Jine in Manchuria safe from the | activity of these heroic insurgents. ‘The most important centers, as Mukden, Harbin, Chanshun, were : , |of Manchukuo. destroyed a } seevral arousing the rebellions in the army FIRE DESTROYS NANKING PLANES SHANGHAI, Dec. the aerodrome in Nantshang has aeroplane halls ‘and some dozens of war planes, | \the Japanese government is ex- itremely perturbed at this “unlaw- ful crossing of the Manchurian frontier by French troops,” since the incident again raises the prob- lem which confronted the English in July, of “the right of foreign treops to hold maneuvers on Man- churian territory,* ‘ 7.—A fire at she it | Party Life | Work in Roumanian Fraction Discussed By the Secretary In the Party Life column of the | Daily Worker, Noy. 26, Comrade )P. |Party fraction in the Roumanian N. discusses some failure of our | “HALT!” | Workers Club and the Roumanian I, W. O. Branch No, 4502. There is no doubt that our frac- | tion in these organizations is very | weak, | We failed really to penetrate the | |ranks of the Roumanian workers. | | We failed to recruit members into the Party. We failed to build the | above-named organizations, and to | develop their initiative. | } In some of our work we were |most tactless. We treated these organizations as Party units, we have not yet learned to educate non-Party workers. We do not try to explain things to them in such @ manner as to make them active. And we do not clearly understand that our task is to educate and jlead the workers and not “control” | them, 1 A new worker that comes into the I, W. O. or in the workers club ber. Because we refused to see this lin the past, we have narrowed the | base of our club and of the I. W. O. | | branch; in a way we have isolated | jourselves from the Roumanian | workers in this city. And at the |same time we have tolerated wrong jacts on the part of some fraction members. A comrade took money from our club and from the Daily Worker, and we failed to’ expose him. Not only this; we allowed him to re- cannot be treated like a Partymem- #l main in our club long after he was expelled from the Party. This re- | sulted in our losing some of the confidence of the members of the club. Some comrades to this da) continue to befriend this element. Such a non-proletarian attitude | makes a very bad impression on the workers. Another bad mistake some of us make is an attitude toward new workers that they are ignoramuses, Comrades either show toward work- ers an air of superiority or one of condescension. We can not win the confidence of the workers that way. Instead we must win the workers by example in activities and by real leadership. The letter in the Party Life col- umn bears strong evidence of hav- ing been written by a certain Party member, but under an assumed name. To this Party member we say: It is easy to stand on the sidelines and criticize; but that is not enough for a Communist. He must roll up his sleeves and help improve the work, especially where he sees weak- nesses. You tell us that demonstrations should have been held in front of the New Yorker and Washington Hotels, where the Roumanian pa- jtriots celebrated the Roumanian bourgeois independence, on May 10. But, comrade, have we concentrated | sufficiently to draw in the 250 to 300 Roumanian workers in New York City into our organizations. Do the 23 members that we have in our club, and the 36 members in our I. W. O. branch (most of them being members of both organiza- tions) indicate that we have? Is the fact that we have only five members in the fraction proof that we have reached the Roumanian workers in this city? Do you really | believe that in the face of these circumstances we coud have held two deimonstrations—one in front of each of the above-mentioned hotels, and by such demonstrations increase our prestige and the pres- tige of our Party among the mem- bers of our organizations and among the workers in general? Isn't it true that had we tried to carry through such a demonstration with the small forces at our com- mand we would have lost not only our and our Party’s prestige, but we would have also lost some of the new and raw elements in our club and I. W. O. branch, because we could not have mobilized an im- pressive number of workers for these demonstrations? In our I. W. O. branch we have to a certain extent been able to make the turn, and, as a result, we have in the past year succeeded in more than doubling the membership. We must continue to work along these lines, never losing sight of our duty to get these workers to respond to the calls of our Party, and their duty in the class struggle; and we must do this by convincing these workers, and never through pres- sure. In closing, I would like to ask Comrade P. N. to get in touch with us; for surely the place of a com- rade that sees all of our short- comings is to work with us and help us to eliminate them. On the other hand, we may be able to elim- inate some of his shortcomings, as the proposals in the article are not all in accord with your activities in these organizations. And if the | writer is not a Party member, it can be seen from his article that he knows enough to be one, We invite him into our Party and frac- tion, and let us work together with one thing in mind: to penetrate more and more among the Rou- manian workers, so that before long we will be in a position to carry out and to successfully fulfill all of the suggestions in P. N.’s article. G. Fraction sat Secretary. Ttalian Anti-Fascists Get Heavy Sentences ROME, Dec. 7.—A trial of 12 anti- fascists, charged with having built up revolutionary organizations in Muggia, Rovigno, Monfalcone, Tri- este and Spezzia, has been held here before a special court. One of the defendants, who had already served a term of imprisonment, imposed by the Special Court, and who im- mediately resumed his revolutionary | work as soon as released, was sen- tenced to 16 years hard labor. The other defendants reecived sentences SOMETHING UP HIS SL HITLER (Note: The following article was written before the German-French agreement was published. This does not change the fundamental situation, the preparation of Hit- ler for the armed seizure of the Saar in connection with the plebi- seite, described in the article.) By PAUL GREEN AC THE Saar plebiscite approaches, Hitler is using all the demagogy at his command to bring about the return of the Saar under his bloody reign. For the last few weeks we have read that Hitler has declared for peace’ Only the other day he sent his own henchman Herr von Ribbentrop to France in order to again reassure the French Goy- ernment of his “hands off” policy in the Saar. In an interview given to Bertrand de Jouvenal in “Le Petit Parisien” Herr von Ribbentrop said: “Any fear of an incident provoked in the Saar from the German side is utterly unfounded.” Devastating Accusation Let us see what Hitler’s actions | are in the Saar. Conjointly with his declaration for peace, the Saar Governing Commission made known in its last report to the League of Nations a most devastating accusa- tion based on documentary evidence against the German Government and the “German Front” (the Nazi branch in the Saar). This report and the conclusions drawn there- from were approved by four out of the five members constituting the Commission. The one who refused to sign is a Saarlander and a mem- ber of the Nazi Party. The follow- ing are the conclusions of the Governing Commission in the Saar, as obtained from the Mancheste: Guardian Weekly: 1) That the German Front is a continuation in the Saar of the Nazi Party. 2) That severe and continuous pressure is exercised by it on the population of the territory. 3) That the so-called “Ordnungs- dienst” set up by it, the aims of which, according to a reply by the Front (German Front-P. G.) to questions of the Commissions, are to ensure proper discipline in the Party and to prevent excess of zeal and interference with political op- ponents, is in fact a sort of secret police, watching the members of the party and even its leaders, and is constantly on the alert and ready to intervene in the streets. (Emphasis ours—P. G.). 4) That the Front practices sys- tematic spying on authorities and political parties in the territory. 5) That a large number of cases have been discovered of collusion between the Front and Saar officials. 6) That the German government systematically interferes in the territory and supports and subsi- dizes the Front to which it gives | When Burck was informed that not a single contribution supported the art department, WRIA cass BSS sa ne WER SRS *- Burck will give the o izinal dzawing of his eartoon to the highest contributor each day towards his quota of $1,000. EEVE spirits sank—bui his PLANS SAAR PUTSCH tomorrow—you'll see!” he exclaimed. Total to Date . By Burck it only for a moment. “Wait till oes 8608.48 orders and instructions through an intermediary, whose title is “Saar- vertraunnsmann Herr Regierungs- rat Watermann” and whose address in 36 Hildebold Platz, Cologne, this in spite of the undertakings given the Council of the League by the German Government on June 4 last and of an official declaration by the Chief of the Front that it was “an independent organization uncon- nected with any German authority.” The German Front The “German Front,” as this new Nazi Party in the Saar is called, is a camouflaged name of the old National-Socialist Party in the Saar. This report says, as was pointed out so many times in the Daily Worker, is the same Nazi Party as that in Germany. The report says that it is supported and subsidized by Hit- Jer and his financial oligarchs— Roechling & Co. The “German Front” has a cash | fund of 1,500,000 francs. It receives | and follows the terroristic instruc- tions from the Third Reich of Hitler. In other words, the Nazi Party in Germany, the National- Socialist Party in the Saar, the “German Front” are one and the same thing. The United Front of the Socialist and Communists in the Saar, which tens of thousands of Catholic work- ers have joined made uneasy about the result and, as a consequence, he sent one of his emissaries to the Pope in Rome to get him to inter- vene in the Saar for his benefit (Hitler's). What methods Von Ber- gen, the German emissary used to obtain the Pope’s blessings we don’t | know, but fascist methods are the same all over. Now if that were not enough to prove Hitler’s pacifist intentions, here is another incident. A courie> belonging to the “German Front” stopping in a village near Merch- weiler for a drink left behind him by accident some documents. “The documents,” says the Manchester Guardian Weekly, “include a letter from the Chief of the German Front ‘Motorcar Service’ to the local heads of the service throughout the Saar requesting them to send in 10 days complete lists of owners of cars in their districts, with full specifi- cations.” The letter explains that the cars would be needed not only for transport of ill and isolated voters but for ‘transport of prison- ers,” “traffic control,” and “reserve purposes.” The document was for- warded to the Saar Gove: xing Com- mission. . “Pacific” Activities Such activities Hitler calls pacific. The falsification of the ballot list, the terror inflicted upon the work- ers, the raids on the worker's unions, the Catholic unions in- cluded, all that occurring in the Saar terzitory at the hands of Hit- J ded Cafes Send Protest On Scottsboro HAVANA, Dec. 7.—The text of a letter sent to the Scottsboro boys by 123 political prisoners in Castillo Principie, the biggest jail in Cuba, was made public here by the Defensa Obrera International, sister organ- ization of the American Interna- tional Labor Defense. The letter, translated from the Spanish, reads: “We comrades in this -ell, placed here because of our struggle against | the imperialism that rules our) country, join the international pro- | test against the frame-up of which | you are victims, The memory of ranging from two and one-half to seven years, the Chicago martyrs is still fresh in our minds and we will develop every * struggle with-all the strength of our | Organizations until you are free and \safe in your homes. | “Do not be frightened by the terror {which is used against you. The work- ers of the entire world are backing you. Revolutionary greetings from 125 prisoners in ‘Camara’ Cell, Cas- | tillo Principe, Havana, Cuba.” BUENOS AIRES, Argentine, Dec. 4—Sixteen writers, artists, lawyers and intellectuals have directed a telegram to President Roosevelt, de- manding the immediate release of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys, lit was made known today by the Socorro Roja Internacional, sister organization of the American In- ternational Labor Defense. At every affair, concert, dance, ask the chairman to make an ap- peal for the Daily Worker, and raise funds for the financial cam- paign, ler’s bloodhounds, Hitler calls paci- | fic. But the workers in the Saar! | are organized and they are organized | | under the banner of the United | Front of the Socialist and Com- munists who aze fighting for the “Status Quo,” and for a free Ger- many. In spite of the reports of the bourgeois press the United Front is making tremendous gains. It has in its midst all anti-fascists, the Catholic workers included. In spite of the terror, in spite of the millions of marks being spent by | Hitler in the Saar thousands of misguided workers who had pre- viously belonged to the “German Front” (the Nazi branch in the | Saar) are flocking to the United Anti-Nazi Front. Meetings and | demonstrations are being held and one can hear the t:ue voice of the Saarlanders in the heart of these meetings. Andre Viollis in a leading article written for “Le Petit Parisien” about, the Saar situation says: “I attended many | meetings, especially at Neunkir- chen, . . a city of mines and metal- Jurgy. . . It used to be a fief of a a certain Mr. Stumm, powerful steel magnate, a friend of the ex- Kaiser Willhelm II, who used to reign by terror. . . Neunkirchen has become one of the citadels of the advanced parties and of the Anti- Hitler fight. In cities or villages, elsewhere, the situation is the same.” Everywheze, men, women and children march and assemble under the following slogans and banners: “Freiheit;” “Rot Front”; “Al votes against Hitler Germany”; “Nothing for Hitler, all for liberty”; “Save| Thaelmann.” Viollis describes the | different meetings. He says that} at a meeting “as soon as Comrade Pford, the leader of the Communist | Party in the Saar appears the faces of the people brighten up.” He re- | lates an interview with Max Braun, the leader of the S. P. in the Saar. | He asked Braun what hopes he had for the plebiscite. Braun answered: “The brown terror from the other side of the Rhine has | transformed the Saar. The move- | ment [the anti-Nazi movement and for the “Status Quo’—P. G.] 1s growing to-day from the ve-y depth of the masses. We see it by the enthusiasm witn which we are received in the smallest villages where we never penetrated before. There are also those who keep silent because they are afraid, but who will vote against Hitler just the same.” His hopes are high and heze he gives “a very modest estimate,” | | | L World Front | ||__By HARRY GANNES The Nazi Earthquake Some Animals Thrown Up Australian Incident HE new earthquake that seems to be shaking the Nazi superstructure tosses into the air all sorts of animals. Not only strong-arm men like Heimuth Brueckner, gov- | ernor of Silesia, are given the boot, but the exodus reaches the sacred precincts of Nazi “culture.” Wilhelm Furtwaengler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Ore chestra; Hans Knappertsbusch, di+ rector and Erich Kleiber, conductor of the Munich state opera find that they can no longer play in tune with the Nazis. But the list grows every day. It is a sort of “dry purge,” following the June 30th bloody cleansing. On Dec. 6, Gottfried Feder, the very founder of the Nazi party, who first enlisted Hitler himself to join the gang of cut-throats now ruling Germany, was ousted from both the party and his well-paid government Position. Feder was the drafter of the Nazi party program, and its chief “eco nomic theorist.” Just before him, Count von der Goltz, Commissar of Economy, was persuaded to quit by means of the dry road. This ceaseless bubbling and boil- ing of the Nazi cauldron arises from the subterranean fire sweeping among the masses in Germany. . 'VERY section of te Nazi super- structure is swaying and crack- ing—the church, the instruments of culture, the Storm Troops, and the Schutz Staffle, the leading Nazi cadres. The chief reason, of course, is the sharpening of every contradiction of German capitalism, due to the catastrophic economic crisis. The masses are going hungry while Hit- ler prepares for war. While wages are slashed wholesale, the Krupp arms firm can report its greatest profits for many years. No wonder Hitler's economists are forced to quit. Having kicked away the chief props of its mass support in the last bloody purge, Hitler finds the conflict among the remnants of these forces still left in the Nazi ranks grows sharper and sharper. The clashes among the various sec tions of the bourgeoisie grows more intense, as the crisis intensifies. Hitler is striving to keep the vari- ous conflicts from cropping out more intense as the crisis inten- sifies. Hitler is striving to keep the various | conflicts from cropping out more drastically and violently now, hop- ing for a favorable outcome for Fascism of the Saar plebiscite. He feels that with the seizure of the Saar some pressing problems may be solved temporarily. But regardless of how bitter the inner conflict of the Nazis may be- come, no matter how the whole structure shakes, it will not toppple of its own weight. The worse con- ditions become the closer will the Hitler regime draw to war. Only the organization and prepa- ration of the masses for the revolu- tionary overthrow of the fascist dic- tatorship, as pointed out by the Communist Party of Germany, can defeat and destroy German fas- cism. The Communist Party of Ger- many has just issued an open let- ter to all workers on the question of the united front, developing the broadest mass actions in the fac- tories, shops and in the Labor Front against the fascists. “The joint struggle against fascism and the capitalist offensive,” says the open letter, “must become the unit- ing bond to which the differences of opinion which still exist must be subordinated.” . ‘HE danger of war is particularly acute now on three fronts. First there is the Saar, with the Nazis, despite hell and high water, pre- paring for armed seizure. Next there is the growing conflict be- tween U. S. and Japan over naval armaments, which means domina- tion of the Pacific colonies and markets. Norman H. Davis has issued an open war threat to the Japanese. Third, there is an ex- tremely bitter conflict between Hungary and Jugoslavia, that is not disconnected with the Nazi's war preparations. The war spirit is being whipped up in both Jugoslavia and Hungary over the deportation of thousands of Hungarians from Jugoslavia. The last word on the assassination of the tyrant king Alexander has not been said, and it will be said with the mouths of oe according to his own statement. “We have on our side,” he says, “30 per | cent of the United Front; 28 ser, cent of the Catholics and those who | came to us from the ‘German’ Front’; 5 per cent francophiles . . ./ and already we have more than 50! Per cent on our side.” Nazis Impose Severe | Sentences on Workers | BERLIN, Dec. 7.—Two function- aries named Olbrisch and Brassat have been sentenced to three and two years hard labor respectively for illegally continuing the work of the district committee of the Ber- lin-Brandenburg section of the} Communist Party of Germany. . The Berlin Assize Court has esn- tezced a worker named Wepler to seven years hard labor for helping to rebuild the organization of the Communist Party, and two other workers named Kreuzberg and | Tiege to five and four and a half years for the same offense. The Hansa Special Court has! | sentenced a worker named Knopfel | to six years hard labor for carrying on a messenger contact with ref- ugees in Denmark; three other de- fendants received terms of four years each, five two to three years | cannon. * HE struggle against war and fas- cism has caused a constitutional crisis in Australia. When Egon Er- win Kisch went to the Australian congress against war and fascism, he was prevented from landing by the authorities. But the higher courts declared that this move was unconstitutional. The constitution provides, in good imperialist spirit, that only immigrants from Asia can be prevented from landing. Because of this, the government has announced that it intends to have the constitution altered as a result of the Kisch affair in order to prevent revolutionists from land- ing in Australia.. It is, however, likely that it will find difficulty in executing this in- tention in the face of the wide- spread movement among the people against reactionary measures that was considerably strengthened by precisely this case. ON THE VERGE Were it not for the serious and sympathetic comrades in Branch 167, I. W. O., Gannes would have nothing today. Study group T. W. 0. Bro 187. Previously Rec’ Total ..seeccsereeeess + $349.63 Peewee