The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1934, Page 2

ake eg ILY WORKER, NEW YORK; MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1934 ' SOVIET PAYROLL TO GO UP 4,200,000,000 ROUBLES ON JAN. 1 10,300 Retail Stores To Be Added toChain Spanish Revolt As Huge Pay Increases Decreed as Bread Prices Are Equalized anc 1 Below-Cost Sales to Workers Are Abolished By Ver (Special to the Daily n Smith Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 9. (By Wireless).—The wages and pen- sions of Soviet workers wil 1 be raised by 4,200,000,000 [Rail W Sears’ Strike Aided Bread Cards Go tvs tievr W Effected Despite Anarchists MADRID, Dec. 9. — The usual vigor and solidarity of the Spanish railwaymen in the recent revolt against fascism is now verified by |further details of their activity on the second day of the. armed strug- gle. ) Every depot went on strike, and | rubles and the retail trading network will be extended by | the strike was 100 per cent effective. 10,300 new stores on the first day of 1935, according to the| at the North Station in Madrid | decree published yesterday by the Council of People’s Com-/95 per cent of the railwaymen | missars, following the decisions re- cently concluded at the plenum of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union. The decree provides for the uni- versal trading of baked bread, flour and cereals in the state cooperative shops. Substituting the present high commercial prices and too low card system prices there have been established fixed single zone retail prices. Eight zones were introduced for which the decree established prices on baked bread, flour. cereals, macaroni, beans, rice and bran. In connection with the abolition of dual prices and the establish- ment of a single retail state price on bread, there must result some | advanced the Wagner-Costigan bill| engines, etc, to prevent scab Work.| which was launched Saturday by raise of prices on bread compared with existing ration prices. Accord- ingly, the wages of workers, em- ployees, the scholarships of stu- dents and the pensions of those re- ceiving social insurance have been raised for 1935 by rubles. The Finance Commissariat and the All-Union Central Trade- Unions have taken into account the price privileges established for the different groups and categories of workers under the old card system in distributing the wage increases. Furthermore the decree also raises the delivery prices on agri- cultural raw material as well as on furs, fish, ete., in accordance with delivery zones. The decree orders the extension of the retail trading network on the sale of bread by 10,- 300 stores by Jan. 2, 1935 and to ex- tend bread-baking and to increase the production of bread-plants and bakeries by 10,750 tons daily by the same date. Advising the local Soviet author- ities and the trading organizations on their uninterrupted sale of var- ious assortments of baked bread, the decree simultaneously warns the Home Commissariat to conduct a decisive struggle against any at- tempts of, speculators or their in- termediaries to utilize the abolition of the card system for the purposes of speculation. Steel “Sees Dodge Election In Two Mills By TOM KEENAN PITTSBURGH, Dec. 9.—Reiterat- ing the position of the steel trusts toward any attempt on the part of the National Steel Labor Relations Board to hold elections in major steel mills, R. E. Desyernines, coun- sel for the Carnegie Steel Company, refused to allow an election either the Duquesne, Pa., or McDonald, Ohio plants of Carnegie in filing am amended brief with the Board in Washington Thursday. The hearings on petitions of Amalgamated lodges for elections in both mills had been reopened to permit introduction of testimony by the union to show that Carnegie Steel Company transacts business of an interstate character. William Spang, president of the Duquesne lodge, testified that in his own knowledge the company shipped steel regularly to Detroit, exhibiting an order from the Chev- (ation - Wide Drive Against Labor Is Cited WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 9.— Senator Edward P. Costigan of Colorado, in a speech before the Na- tional Conference on Civil Liberties today at the Hotel Arlington here as the best measure to be used to suppress lynching. This bill is ac- tually a weapon against all work- ing class assemblies. Mr, Costigan did not mention the Negro Bill of 4,200,000,000 | Rights proposed by the League of lack of a leading center to coordi- Struggle for Negro Rights, Although admitting a number of lynchings in the recent months, the Senator praised Roosevelt's attitude towards lynching. In opening the conference yester- day, Roger N. Baldwin, executive di- rector of the American Civil Liber- ties Union, drew a balance sheet of civil rights under the New Deal. Attacks on Labor Labor had been hit har attacks on democratic rights, Bald- win stated, but Negroes and foreign- born had been treated more hu- manely. He offered no proof to back up the latter statement. | On the subject of strikes, Mr. Baldwin said: “The record of industrial struggle in the last year and a half shows a nation-wide attack upon the rights of workers to organize and of unions to strike and picket. The list of those killed and wounded while en- gaged in peaceful strike activities is the longest in years—over 50 killed and 200 wounded, Prosecutions for | alleged offenses in carrying out peaceful strike activities have been legion. . .The weapon of the in- junction, too, has been freely used © deny wholesale the rights of blood.” strikers,” Speaking of the governmer These are the words of a Brook- | strike-breaking record, Mr. Baldwi declared: Company Unions Flourish “Government agencies have not made good the promise implied in | letter has been made the basis of a! law of support of genuine collective | contest which will continue until ; bargaining. Company controlled unions are recognized as legitimate | agencies for bargaining when they should lawed. Compulsory arbitration has been made compulsory in the coal code. The merit clause in the code promotes discrimination against union labor. All the codes are ad- ministered by employers’ associa- tions. The labor provisions are thus in the hands of hostile forces.” Colonel D. W. MacCormack, U. S. Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, spoke to the con- ference yesterday. His speech was broadcast The commissioner B adjured the American Civil Liberties Union to|my husband he is like Hitler and | get “the confidence of the people | Mussolini who yelp ‘Back into the | and above all guard against giving any grounds for the charge that instead of being devoted to the vrinciples of our government, it leans on the left toward Commu- long ago have been out-| struck work. Anarchist leaders em- | |ployed there acted as scabs, They | Jendeavored to induce the railway- | aes to resume ‘work on the grounds | that the struggle was a political one. | In Asturias all the railwaymen | joined the strike with the exception | of those aidixg in the transport of armed workers and armored trains. The government sent scab gangs to | the depots, and soldiers with a knowledge of railway work for the railway seryice. The railwaymen blew up the rails, removed parts of | The “Bulletin” of the workers | points out that the great weakness of this struggle on the part of the railwaymen, in spite of their heroic determination and courage, was the nate the whole struggle. The Unitary Syndicat del Norte now sets itself the main task of establishing trade union unity. Their slogan is now: “A trade union | section at every depot.” | The International Committee of | the railwaymen is organizing the international solidarity action for the discharged and arrested rail- |waymen, and appeals to the toiling |masses of all countries to join in| dest by the | this action for the reinstatement of | the discharged men, especially Pablo Lafuente and Moros, and for the immediate release of the ar- rested men, particularly Licio San- tiago, Antonio Romo, Arturo Jim- inez, Felix Lumbreras, Sotero Mar- tin, and Jose Lafuento. WomenJoin _ In Magazine | Competition | “Women are not stepchildren of the class struggle—but its flesh and yn woman, writen in answer to a \letter published in the Working Woman magazine of November, The Jan. 25, question raised will receive hand- some prizes, including an adjust- able heating electric iron, a linen jluncheon set, a hamper of food, a |three months initiation and dues jin the International Workers Order, |subscriptions to various publica- tions, ete. Those who wish to enter the con- |test must write a letter direct to | Working Woman Contest Edftor, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y., telling what they would do, should |their husbands not permit them to attend working class meetings. The woman from Brooklyn writes |“If I were that woman, I would tell |kitchen, you women’.” |_ The contest has brought letters from all over the country from | Women voicing the vigorous desire jof women for equality with men in rolet Motor Car Company there, nism or on the right toward fas-|the class struggle. The majority of which had been filled. The comany’s brief states that of- cism of Naziism.” He advised that no fight be made the women say that it is the wife’s | |duty to win her “husband over to an ficials are ready and willing at all| to keep the radical foreign-born | understanding of the revolutionary times to negotiate with members of | from being deported since “the pres- | movement and the woman's place any employes’ organization as rep-|ent law is mandatory, and there is|in it. resentatives of those employes in the organization, thumbing its nose to the “majority rule” principle as handed down in the Houde case by the general textile strike and head | the general National Labor Board. of the United Textile Workers, de- | The reopened hearing revealed the possible legal peg from which the steel trust will snatch a cloak of “unconstitutionality” to smother NRA. if the Board tries to force|tO the end that there may be| an election. In a long disposition, L. H. Burnett, a Carnegie official, testified that no Carneige Steel Co. employe handles either raw ore or finished steel outside the confines) Toledo Labor Council) Working class students, has received of the plants. The shipment of steel a= ore, in other words, may be an| Back Local Conference ing to vacate the premises at once. interstate transaction, but as far as ‘te employe’s activities in handling such shipments are concerned, these are decidedly “intrastate,” and as such the company will claim the|tral Labor Union of Toledo, has | Labor Board and N.R.A. have no jurisdiction in employe-employer relationships. Desvernines also indicated that should the ‘Steel Board order an election at either plant, not only will cooperation be refused in the submission of payrolls, but injunc- tion proceedings against the Board will be instituted at once by the corporation, The steel workers refuse to even consider such recognition as the Steel employers would grant, realiz- ing that acceptance would mean the strengthening of company) unions—the company union would present its own demands, the Amalgamated men theirs, and the company would grant the former, if cnly to break the A, A’s prestige With employees, ibe very large, |not the slightest prospect of its re- laxation.” Francis J. Gorman, misleader of clared that employers should “be- gin to understand the value of la- |bor organization, which is capable |of intelligent collective bargaining, brought about a more steady and jcontinuous operation of our na- tional industrial plant.” |Against War, Fascism | "TOLEDO, O., Dec. 9—The Cen- affiliated with the American League Against War and Fascism and has sent an official representative to the Toledo Conference Against War and Fascism, to be held at the ¥.M.C.A. 423 Michigan Street, Sunday, De- cember 16, 2 p.m. The action of the Central Labor Union, which usually takes a very reactionary stand on such questions lis to be attributed chiefly to the mass support which the Toledo |Branch of the American League |Against War and Fascism has |rallied within the last few weeks. The Plasterers Union here has also elected delegates to the con- ference, at its meeting Thursday night. By the enthusiastic support coming from many organizations of workers, the conference promises to Chicago Wo | CHICAGO, UL, Dec. 9—The Chi- | cago Workers School, the center of labor education, a school with 1,000 notice from the owner of the build- |The building is owned by the Flor- sheim Shoe Company, known as one of the worst exploiters of labor in the shoe industry in the city. The Florsheim move against the. | Chicago Workers School is the re- sult of a series of articles printed in the Chicago American, owned by | multi-millionaire, anti-labor,” pro- fascist, jingoistic William Hearst. When the Hearst papers through- out the country started a campaign | quote Lenin, distorting Lenin's teachings for the purpose of creat- |ing a wrong impression’ among the | masses as to what Leninism and / | Communism stand for. The sixteen best answers to the | rkers’ School Attack on Distortion Of Lenin by Hearst Brings Order for Eviction | against Communism, they began to} H. R. umes onean communst Pan BAL VOTE for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill 7598 This ballot is sponsored by the Daily,QWorker America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper 50 East 13th Street New York (Cut ont and sign this ballot today) LOT I have read the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill and vote AGAINST Vote without delay and return your ballot at once to the worker who gave it to you, or mail it to the “Daily Worker” Successful completion of the drive the Daily Worker for one million votes for the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill will serve the four-fold purpose of further popu- larizing the bill, combatting the | various fraudulent schemes now being advanced from countless sources, increasing the scope of the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance, and widening the influence of the Daily Worker among the working population, While serving this manifold pur- pose, the campaign will unify the expression of the millions of work- port of the Workers’ Bill through and other organizations. In bringing forward this cam- paign, the Daily Worker urges that every worker Bill as counterposed to other meas- ures parading under the name of “unemployment insurance.” Stripped of their verbiage, every | measure thus put forward, with the |exception of the Workers’ Bill, ex- |cludes whole basic sections of. the toiling population from benefits. on the side of peace, | der as long as possible the rapidly | perialist war. pact. This had a sobering effect pact. spots throughout the world. plain that it will speed its naval ers who have signified their sup- | endorsement in their trade unions | familiarize himself | with the provisions of the Workers’ | (Continued from Page 1) ing the war intensions of the various powers, by throwing its force and power, its might and strength to do everything it can to im- pede war. The Soviet Union acts to delay and hin- But, as Comrade Stalin has declared again and again, the main bulwark of peace supporting the Soviet peace efforts is the revolutionary action of the proletariat in the imperialist lands, fighting against the plots of their own war-makers. The Soviet Union, demonstrating again its fight for peace, at the very moment when war seemed certain to break out in Central Europe, re-affirmed with France its adherence to the Eastern Security which sought by this major stroke of armed conflict to cancel the significance of the Eastern security In dealing with the war danger on the Jugoslav- Hungarian border let us not forget the other danger Recently the Roosevelt government made it quite bloody show-down with Japan over who shall con- trol and plunder the Chinese markets. One Million Ballots | AN EDITORIAL |Thus, while all of the present un- | |employed are excluded under these | measures, they hit with double in- \tensity against the Negro people, ; under provisions excluding the agri- | ; cultural workers, since the vast majority of the Negro people are | employed in one or another farm- ing task, In its short 32 lines, on the other hand, the Workers’ Bill, in language that every worker can understand, |sets forth four basic principles: 1—Benefit to all unemployed | without exception, without diserim- ination, 2—Payments to become effective | immediately. 3—Administration by workers, 4—The full cost of this protection | to. be made a general charge upon industry and government. None of its funds to be raised by direct or This is the Workers’ Bill, which | |Aflords a measure of security to all | \ Workers and which has received the Support of millions of workers and |farmers, Clip the ballot printed |daily in these columns, Obtain ad- ditional ballots for your union or jother organization, Mail the signed | ballots at once to the Daily Worker, |50 E, 13th St. Unite in Support of Soviet Peace Policy— The Bulwark Against War AN EDITORIAL Hitler is still Soviet Union. approaching im- end. If ever there mass and unite war, that time war NOW can the toiling masses hope to stop the war mongers. on those forces and Communist tion of the unit Socialist Party. the war clouds war arms for a jother imprisoned anti-fascists, indirect taxation on the masses. {to pay for them. | from serving on the jury. Saar, for the annexation of Austria, and against the However bitter the conflict between Japan and the U. &., the Japanese don’t for a moment stop their war preparations against the Soviet Union in Man- churia, receiving material and financial support from the chief imperialist foe, Wall Street, for this clearer that only by a revolutionary struggle against dreadful and rapid onward sweep of the imperialist. That fight needs the united support of all work- ers, all forces against war and fascism. Its central bulwark must be the united front of the Socialist an obstacle to the struggle against war is the rejec- But despite this action, now more than ever, with must strive to.make the united front against war and fascism a living reality in this country in order to speed the world fight against war and reaction. Finnish Police Slay Woman | Swedish Press Reports Confirm Stories of Fascist Terror STOCKHOLM, Dec. 9. — The Scandinavian press confirms reports of the new wave of fascist terror in | Finland. “Socialdemokraten” cor- roborates the story of the murder |of the wife of the mechanic Rask. | She was arrested at the same time | as the secretary of the Anti-fascist | League of Finland, and was re-| ported by the police to have com- mitted suicide. “Socialdemokraten” states that she did not commit suicide, but died of the effects of the maltreatment in prison. “Ny Dag” calls upon the workers for a mass protest cam- paign against the unbridled terror in Finland, and for a struggle for the release of Antikainen and the “Socialdemokraten” publishes the answer of the proletarian Danish author Martin Anderson Nexo to the declaration made by the warden of the Finnish prisons, Arwelo, in reply to the former protests. Nexo pointed out that Arwelo has not been able to deny the maltreatment causing the death of prisoners, nor the hunger regime in the prisons. When Arwelo stated that the: pris- oners get better food than thou- sands of Finnish workers, it is only possible to conclude that the situa- tion in Finland is horribly bad, Nexo pointed out. Central Labor Union) Backs Fight of Toledo’ Unemployed Single Men, ‘TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 9.—The Cen- tral Labor Union here promised to continue its support to the single unemployed men who struck against forced labor in the city-owned flop houses when William Patterson, local organizer of the Internationai Labor Defense appeared before them at their last meeting. j Patterson appealed for continued | aid in the case of three of the single | men who were last week declared guilty and held under $2,000 bail for ordering twenty-five cent meals in local restaurant and not being able During the struggle of the single men, about $75 was contributed by twelve locais of the A. F. of L. The trial of the three was held before a court packed with workers. Among the most outrageous acts of the court was the barring of work- ers who had struck in the historic Auto-Lite strike here last June The case is being appealed by the International Labor Defense. plotting war for the seizure of the was a time when the workers must their forces against the danger of is NOW! It becomes clearer and Parties. We can now realize what ited front by the N, E. C. of the hovering over the whole world, we | Chicago Workers School issued a | Sticker with the correct quotation | from Lenin. The sticker reads as | follows: “THE HEARST PAPERS LIE” “V. I. Lenin said: (Vol. XXIV pp. 335-36 Collected Works) “The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is not merely the use of violence against the exploiters and is not even mainly the use of violence. The economic basis of this revo- lutionary violence, the guarantee of its vitality and success, is that the proletariat represents and in- troduces a higher type of social organization of labor compared to Capitalism. This is the essential point.’ “The Hearst press deliberately distorted these words, and gave the wrong pages and volumes to cover up their despicable falsifica- The Chicago Workers School, un- der the leadership of Beatrice | | Shields, took up a campaign against | |the distortions of Leninism in the | Hearst anti-labor press. A number | of delegations visited the Herald | Exeminer arid the Chicago Evening | tion, zi “Issued by the Chicago Work- ers School, 505 South State Street, Chicago. “Enroll for Winter Term, Jan. 7, 1935. Visit our book store and library.” shops, neighborhoods, and all over the city, including some on the Hearst trucks which deliver papers throughout the city. In a series of articles the Chi- cago American attempts to incite Patriotic organizations against the Workers’ School and its third ar- ticle declares: | “Refuting the confidence of | some good citizens that ‘such things can’t be going on,’ the amazing progress in training rev- | olutionary leaders has been dem- onstrated.” They then brought pressure upon | the owner of the building where ‘th school is quartered, to serve notice on the school to vacate the |premises, The Chicago Workers | School has taken up the challenge and will fight against the eviction. j1t will start a mass campaign, in- volving working class organizations, trade unions and educational in- stitutions, and appeal to the whole Jabor movement to defend the right of the Workers School to prevent fascist Hearst to close the only | working class educational institu- ition in Chicago. | The Communist Party will fully | American offices. In addition, the! This. sticker appeared in many | support the struggle of the Chicago | be Workers School to maintain itself and to carry on its very valuable work of training workers for the class struggle, to arm them with the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, Bill Gebert, Dis- trict Organizer of the Communist Party declared, in a statement call- ing upon the whole Party mem- bership, every working class organ- ization, upon every one of those who stands against fascist suppres- sion of the workers’ rights, to rally to the defense of the Workers’ School. “Florsheim, who ordered the evic- tion of the Chicago Workers School, ! is one who subsidizes the anti-sem- itic activities which weré exposed by John Spivak in the New Masses and the Daily Worker,” the state- ment said. “Smash the fascist plot against the Chicago Workers School. “Make it a part of the daily struggles of the masses. “Make it part of the election struggles. Anti- Fascist No Mercy | for Armed Enemies of Workers, Says Press of USSR | Papers of Countries From Which Executed Ter- rorists Were Sent into Soviet Union Renew Campaign of Li (Special to the MOSCOW, Dec. 9 (By W ies and Slanders Daily Worker) ireless) —Under the headline, “The Anti-Soviet Vipers Are Hissing,” an article’in yester- day’s Pravda, organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, dwells in detail on the anti-Soviet lies and slanders lately spread in connection wit ith Kirov’s assassination by a ms large part of the capitalist. press, Hillsboro 15 Are Cheered In Courtroom) (Special to the Daily Worker) HILLSBORO, Ill, Dec. 9.—Work- | ers attending the hearing of 15.) Teaders of the unemployed for) criminal syndicalism were driven from the courtroom by Judge Mc- | Williams’ order here on Friday after they applauded the argument of defense attorney Ben Thall for a motion to quash the indictments, John Adams, Frank Prickett and | John Jurkanin, three of the defen- | dants, were forcibly dragged to jail when they protested the dictatorial | conduct of the judge, Their mili- tant protest, however, and that of other workers in the courtroom, resulted in their release fifteen minutes later. Judge McWilliams also rescinded his: order - barring spectators from the court. | The motion to quash the indict- | ments was denied after the defense | rested its argument without rebut- tal, Judge McWilliams, in denying the motion made a speech of ful- some praise for the Roosevelt-New Deal administration, saying, “The government is doing everything it can, People are living in heaven now compared to the time of the American Revolution.” The trial date was set for Jan. 7. | A motion for a bill of particulars Was denied to the defense. “You all know pretty well what you are charged with,” Judge McWilliams said. “You will have to take things’ as they come down here.” This statement is taken by the defen-’ dants and other workers here to_ be an implication that the fascist methods used by the court thus far in the trial will be continued. The prosecution here is being | aided by A. D, Dennison of Dan- | ville. Dennison is reputed to be a coal company lawyer. Mussolini Seizes Funds in War Plan (Continued from Page 1) of foreign credits is the significance of the impending devaluation of the lira. This is seen by the finan- cial experts of Europe as an early move to meet the coming inflation of the gold-bloc countries, among whom is Italy’s imperialist rival, France. Thus the Italian worker and peasant will be beaten down by mounting food prices and lowered. wages and salaries, ADDIS ABEBA, Abyssinia, Dec. 9.—Native forces of Italian imper- jalism have advanced seventy-five miles into Abyssinian territory from the border of Italian Somaliland, it was reported here today. Armed with tanks, artillery and planes, the Italian forces attacked a joint Brit- ish-Abyssinian commission engaged in surveying grazing land and after the battle pushed still further. into Ethiopian territory. The border attack is the second in as many months, the last incursion having taken place on Dec. 5. Ital- ian .imperialism has long coveted the. rich territory owned by the despotic Emperor Haile Selassie and is anxious to add to her account of colonial exploitation as much of the soil and population of Abyssinia as she can grab. Akron Rubber Firms Balk Poll of Workers (Special to the Daily Worker) AKRON, O., Dec. 9.—Claiming that elections to determine employee representation is unconstitutional, the Goodyear and Firestone Rubber Companies have refused to yield their payroll lists so that the Labor- Relations Board could conduct the poll scheduled for Friday. The Na- tional Labor Relations Board at Washington immediately announced that it will take no action to en- force the élections until the courts review the case, Following the example set in the Weirton case, the two companies appealed against the decision of the Labor Relations Board, in the Cin- cinnati District Court, automatically. staying the elections. Twelve thou-. sand workers in the Goodrich plant and 9,000 in the Firestone plant were to vote. $ The sentiment against the :om- pany. unions in the plants is over- “Only by mass mobilization of the workers for the defense of. the Chi- cago Workers School can this fight successful * whelming, and the demand of Rub- ber Workers Union affiliated with the A. F. of L. for an election is especially the Polish, Finnish; Lat- vian and German fascist newspa- pers, as well as a part-of the Brit- ish conservative press. “The anti-Soviet slandering” in- yentions are mostly making their way. in from Latvia and Finland, jand partly through Poland,” Pravda writes. “We know through ‘the ver- dict of the Military Collegiuni of the Supreme Court. in Moscow and Leningrad that White Guards have been penetrating the U. S. 8. R. through: Finland, Latvia and Po- Jand, with instructions: to organize terrorist. acts. We are faced with the coincidence of the source of the organization of terrorist acts against the U. S. S. R. and at the same time a slandering anti-Soviet campaign. The same’ dirty hands are doing one and same dirty~busi- ness and it is clear to us why part of the Finnish, Latvian “and Polish papers have undertaken ‘the task of supporting the act of Kirov’s mur- |derer by their Savage barking. Those Behind the Murderer “The anti-Soviet lie-factories in Latvia, Finland and Poland have for long served as a haunt and a school for, White Guard bandits and ter- rorists, By the scale of the boldness and cynicism of these lies we can judge of the plans and intentions of their inventors, They wished to re- inforce the effect of Smolny (where Kitov was murdered) by thousahds and millions of times. The enemies of the working class, who sent the murderer, exposed themselves and failed in their calculations. The powerful unity of the Soviet toilers, their unanimous outburst of indig- nation, their firm stand around the Party and the government, fhime- diately ‘nullified the slander.* ‘The assassin’s bullet. struck a man who was dear to the whole country; but it left the steeb armor of proletar- jan ‘unity unscratched, They must not: be deceived because the revolu- tionary: proletariat,: -cool-headed, keeps itself in hand. Behind: it is the resolve to finish off the enemies of the working class by every means which the dictatorship of the pro- letariat makes available to the toile No Mercy for ‘Enemies “There is not, and there will not be, any mercy for those who lift an armed hand against the toilers of the Soviet country. The revolu- tionary proletariat answers the treacherous blow in the back by a shattering blow at all traitors, all bandits and those who screen and inspire them. . . Those who send these criminals across the frontiers, who arm them for murder, who in- spire them through the press and simultaneously spread slandérous rumors must not complain of the harshness of proletarian defence. The struggle against these’ bandits is the struggle for the peaceful la- bor of workers and collective farm- ers, is the struggle for peace.” “Our enemies have miscalculated,” the Soviet Government organ, Iz- vestia, wrote yesterday. , “Even the half blind could see ihe great expression of solidarity that was exhibited not only by the work- ing class, the leading class. The collective farm peasants, the Soviet intellectuals of all kinds, all these categories of the toilers of the Soviet Union were firmly, .strongly fused with the proletariat. and mourned Kirov.as a common hero, a hero of the country. 5 bi Fight for Peace “The determination ruthlessly to repulse and crush counter-revolu- tion is in present historic conditions the other side of the determination for peace, because the shot at Kirov means an attempt to disrupt the cause of peace. ‘ “-“The insane ‘correspondents’ of some organs of. the capitalist press, beginning with the fascist Angriff and its Hungarian lackeys and end- ing in the Finnish and Swedish papers, compete in the invention of provocative ravings, repeating the anti-Soviet inventions which they plotted during the blockade and in- terention period. “But they are too. closely en- grossed in their ideological course towards medievalism. Alt magic including the magic of words, is an inefficient method in an age of radio and aviation. They cannot confuse a single serious person. But. it incautiously discloses what. these ‘gentlemen want. The workers of all countriés and’ all who stand for peace and real culture have ex- pressed their solidarity with the toilers of the Soviet Union. The demonstrations of unity and power will show the whole world how great is the strength of the toilers of the Soviet Union, how enormous theit organization. sy “In the sorrowful moments of the last farewell at the coffin of Kirov there sounded the oaths of loyalty | to the Party, the oaths of struggie. All forces are mobilizing. around Stalin, around the first commander now before the Labor Board. Aef the great proletarian armies,”