The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 EHETRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PANTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COM Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. NIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only 6 m TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1934 Waldman and United Front MPORTANT decisions affecting the united front have just been made by the New York State Committee of the So- cialist Party. Meeting in the Rand School, this lead- | James ing committee, headed by Louis man, | Oneal, Charles Solomon, and Algernon Lee, adopted | a re nm the united front which makes three | points | 1. Repu adopted t he Declaration of Principles jority of the party membership in ates ategorical stand against all united with the Communist Party on any question at any time, instructing all 1 Js to reject any offers of joint action with Communist workers. 3. All militant S. P. members, including those in the gr wn as the Revoiutionary Policies 1 be subject to expulsion. resolutions it is clear that the S. P. organizing its forces for a reaction- n drive against all S. P. members who h them on the united front tactic and ation of Principles. It is organizing rees to wipe out all discussion and democratic procedure in the Socialist Party, in its fight to block joint action of Socialist and Communist workers. This action means the unloosing of a persecution drive against every militant Socialist Party member who disagrees with the reactionary “Old Guard.” It holds over the membership a threat of reaction- ary expulsion measures in a way typical of the most hard-boiled bureauc: It now becomes a itant Socialist Par its tal necessity for every mil- ‘ty worker to organize the forces of those in the party who are ready to fight for the united front and for inner party democracy against the expulsion threats of the New York State Com- mittee At the same ti the splendid example of the Southern State organizations of the S. P. in form- ing, united Party, shouid be followed all over the country. It is the especial duty of all Communist Party groups in the neighborhoods and larger areas to press the united front by personal visits to the 8. P. locals, by mutual discussion, and by joint actions for the immediate needs of the working class. Now, more then ever, build the united front! ither the open hostility of a Waldman nor the evasive and ambiguous stalling of a Thomas can stop this weiding of working class unity. S. P. members! Fight the reactionary rulings of the N. Y. State Committee! The Central Task--- I THE three weeks remaining before the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance convenes in Washington, every unit of the Communist Party, all | Communists in the leadership of the un- employed organizations, and all Party groups in the trade unions and mass organizations must redouble their efforts to obtain wide representation at the | Congress. Already the sweep of the movement rallied be- | hind the Congress has assumed tremendous propor- | tions, Unification and consolidation of this move- | ment, which will mean the creation of a titanic | force to resist any encroachment upon the living | standards of the American workers, must be carried | forward side by side with the campaign for the elec- | | | | front agreements with the Communist | | | tion of ‘delegates. The mood of the workers is for struggle—the task of the Communists is to lead this struggle, unifying and consolidating it into the broadest possible channels. The unemployed struggles are at the present time the central tasks before the whole Party member- ship, and they must be waged with the best forces of Daily,.<QWorker | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1934 the Party in their proper place of leadership in action. Concretized, around the r retrenchments this means an intensive campaign tions against the nation-wide lief. nent must be brought the full sands of workers’ and farmers’ ified their support of such a e campaign they have waged for sup- on ri onal Congress is at once a challenge and a rallying force. It is directed to “all who need and the sweeping support the workers into the Muskingum County Unemployed , to give but two examples, signalizes this ives the key to the campaign which must all Communists. ide with the organizational campaign, a wide drive must be made to popularize Bill. In this connection, every effort must be made to bring forward the Daily Worker's drive to obtain one million votes for the Workers’ Bill. The success of the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance, the successes of the local ac- tions in the neighborhoods, and the fight against all cuts in relief will depend upon the effectiveness with which each Party member carries forward his prime revolutionary duty today—the fight for relief and the enactment of genuine unemployment insurance. The New Deal Makes New Millionaires HE figures just made public by the Bureau of Internal Revenue on the na- tional income are grim commentary on what the New Deal has meant to the rich and the poor. The Roosevelt New Deal has made the rich richer and the poor poorer. It has effected a ruthless re-distribution of the national income in favor of the handful of Wall Street capitalist parasites who dominate the country through their monopoly grip on industry. In the first ten months of the Roosevelt New Deal the number of capitalist parasites with incomes of more than one million dollars a year more than doubled, from 20 to 46. All income groups above $25,000 a year increased. All income groups below this figure, especially in the lowest brackets below the $5,000 a year level, dropped sharply. Corporations showed profit increases of 35 per cent, while wages dropped by almost a billion dollars. How miserable appears the hypocrisy of a Roosevelt in the face of these cold figures on wages and income, the New Deal hypocrisy which pro- claimed as its slogan the “wider distribution of in- come.” While Roosevelt was ladling this “social reform” and New Deal syrup, his N.R.A. codes and his en- tire economic program were ruthlessly slashing into the pay envelopes of the working class, the $2,000 and $1,000 a year class who make up the vast major- ity of the people of the country. At the same time the millionaires, the capitalists, the employers, bankers and landlords, the idle coupon clippers and dividend collectors were reap- ing a golden harvest of new profits! Thus Roosevelt’s New Deal drove, and is still driving, an iron wedge that deepens the abyss that divides the wealthy from the poverty-stricken masses, The drop in the actual income of the class below the $5,000 a year level is not fully revealed in all its brutality by the figures of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. For while the actual dollars and cents in the pay envelopes was being cut, Roosevelt’s N.R.A. codes and his inflation policies were driving prices of necessities sharply upward! During this period the retail ptice of daily foods leaped 28 per cent upward! The cost of clothing, coal, light, shelter, rose rapidly, also slashing real wages and purchasing power. Thus, the Roosevelt New Deal ground the masses deeper into the swamps of starvation and want than even .the latest income figures show. The “Jiberals” will no doubt look dubious, And Norman Thomas will no doubt proclaim that the N.R.A. “has failed.” But the Communists alone drove home the truth which new gapes from the government reports— that the Roosevelt New Deal has succeeded! It has succeeded in what it set out to do—to tighten. the grip of the Wall Street monopolies on the coun- try’s wealth and income. The Roosevelt New Deal every day stands more and more naked as the ruthless program of the Wall Street monopolies and the capitalist para- sites. The whole working class and toiling popu- jation must unite against it as the class program of their class enemies. *| as strengthening and building the Coughlin Has Secret Ties to Wall Street (Continued from Page 1) orator denouncing “unjust capital- ism,” a gentleman known to the world as Adolph Hitler. But ady we know certain def- inite things about the Wall Street groups who are paying for the tune which Coughlin sings. We know that Coughlin’s name has appeared even in the capitalist cently revealed them. This means | fai that Coughlin has excellent connec- tions with these groups, that he has been in touch with them, and was| probably even approached by them as Butler was approached. The fact remains that Coughlin saw no necessity for making public! what he knew of the fascist plots | being hatched with his knowledge, | When questioned on these secret | cturers in the country. The Ben- dix tie-up is with the aviation in- dustry, and with the auto plants that are most quickly turned into war production. Secondly, the Bendix interests are tied up with the General Motors group. And it is a remarkable fact that Party Life District Nineteen Makes a Review |Of Its Past Work District plenum, atteded by Dis- | trict Committee members and active Party members in the basic industries and leading trade unions and mass organizations of District | 19, was held in Denver during the | past week to review the work of | the Party in District 19 in regard | to the carrying out of the tasks | Jat the | March, The analysis of the work of the} Party during this period showed | | considerable shortcomings in spite | of the gains that have been made. | The major shortcomings were found | to be due to organizational weak-| | nesses, so the slogan, “Strengthne the Organizational Front,” became the slogan of the Plenum, and was | the basis for the various proposals | worked out by commissions on | trade union work, unemployed work, organizational, agit-prop and agra- rian. The Plenum disclosed that the fluctuation in District 19 was bad during this period. The average | dues payments at the time of the | district convention in March was | approximately 500, and at the pres- ent time the average dues paying membership of the district is 550, yet during the period from April 1 to November 1, a total of 457 new members have been recruited. Of the 457 new members re- cruited, 91 have been recruited from | the A. F. of L., 64 of these being | miners in the U.M.W.A. Approxi- | mately the same amount have been | recruited from the N.M.U.; but | District convention last aside from mining, which is the ma- | jor concentration work of two sec- tions, very little work has been done toward turning the face of the Party to the trade unions. Par- | ticularly Denver and Salt Lake sec- | tions have been weak in carrying | on planned opposition work within | the A. F. of L, Some progress has been made in both of these sections, but it has been done by various individuals in a more or less hap- hazard manner. A District Trade Union Depart- | ment was established at the plenum to coordinate the trade union work on a district scale, and all sections are to establish such a department | at once. The first task of the sec- tion trade union departments will | be to check up on each member | eligible to join a trade union. | The trade union commission | | worked out a plan of colonization | |for the Northern and Southern | Colorado coal fields. This plan calls | for a conference in Denver of un- | | employed miners who are Party members or Party sympathizers to | make assignments of these com- rades to the coal fields to ‘rustle” for jobs. The four concentration points in District 19 are in mining, agricul- | ture, trade union and R. R., and| unemployed. Particularly in agri- | | culture the objective conditions in the District were never better to | build a broad movement among the doubly exploited agricultural work- ess, particularly the Spanish speak- ing beet laborers. In this connec- tion definite plans were worked out by the Agrarian Commission to lay a basis for real progress in this | | phase of Party activity this coming | | spring. Considerable stress was laid on the necessity of a general tighten- ing up of the Party apparatus, de- veloping of initiative in the lower | organs of the Party and a close | check-up on fraction work, as well | | |mass orgenizations, and the devel- | | opment of educational work. C. 1, Dist. 19. | | Success Wins Soviet Farmers To Collectives | (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Dec. 10 (By Wireless). —“The growth of a prosperous cul- tural life among the collective farm- j ers is the best agitation for col- | lective farms,” Pravda, organ of the | Communist Party of the Soviet Un- | ion declared yesterday. | Even according to the incomplete |data of the Commissariat of Agri- | culture, the writer points out, in the | first nine months of the current | year 60,000 individual farmers en- interviews with these capitalists, “Coughlin’s burning denunciations|tered the collective farms of the Coughlin makes light of them, and |of “unfair capitalists” never touch | Leningzad region, 71,000 entered the justifies them by saying that he was “getting advice from his good friends.” The kind of advice that} this must be needs hardly to be} guessed at. iaries! And so the starved, exploited, debt-ridden masses look to him with press as definitely linked with the Wall Street industrialist group known as the Committee of the Na- tion, the Rockefeller group around the Chase National Bank and the Equitable Trust Company, and the J. P. Morgan group through a young millionaire James H. R. Cromwell, step-son of a J. P. Morgan partner, E. T. Stotesbury. In addition, Coughlin’s name has been definitely | associated with two leading Wall Street financiers and brokers, George Leblanc of the Equitable trust Com- Pany, and Robert Harriss, a mem- ber of the New York Stock Ex-| change. in Wall Street. Nation. “dope” column run in newspapers |lionaire | who will deflect away from them italist hatred which threatens more It is illuminating to examine the and more to overwhelm them and capitalist connections of Coughlin | their system of private profits! as they lead through the indus- | trialists in the Committee of the|exploited and the exploiters. Both look to him with hope, the What is this program of Father . This committee, formed by a lead- | Coughlin for which the Wall Street |ing group of industrial capitalists | capitalists are willing to pay and as- interested in pressing a program of |sist, and to which the capitalist-hat- inflation as a means of raising prices | ing masses are so eager to listen? and increasing profits, is headed by| What is the secret of this “anti-| such figures as James Rand, of the |Remington-Rand arms Early this year, the Washington turers, Vincent Bendix, multi-mil- capitalist” program of Coughlin which has the covert support of the capitalists themselves, and for which manufac- industrialist interested in| they are willing to shell out good all over the country intimated that large auto-part factories, | ani a . “a certain Wall Street crowd is’ Bendix Aviation factories, Lessing in the |money? What is the secret of the trick greatiy interested in Father Cough- | Rosenwald of the Sears-Roebuck|by which this radio priest whose jin.” The columnist obviously knew stores, T Sexauer, an agent of the The evidence, | Borden monopoly in the Dairymen’s Waereot he spoke. |gospel is the fight against poverty jand whose activities, at the same now, is too unmistakable for any|League, and other Wall Street in- time, involve the expenditure of doubt. dustrialists. Coughlin has been caught in secret | conferences with L Rand is the contact man in the the millionaire group with the White House, his/| | millions of dollars whose immediate | ;source is a mystery? What is the secret by which this step-son of E. T. Stotesbury, J. P. visits to Roosevelt being regular and |capitalist-supported priest manages Morgan partner. He has been ad-| frequent. mittedly in secret conference with} |to delude millions into believing him In this tie-up two things stand |their leader against unemployment, Leblanc, with Harriss, and other Wal! out as significant. It is peculiar, for starvation, low wages, evictions, fore- Street men. Coughlin has admitted example, that Coughlin’s financial |closures, and horrowing insecurity, quite boastfully that he knew of the connections are with that section in Wall of American industry close to the military-fascist plottings the curses of capitalism? | We shail try to find the answer in Street and the Army six months be- | war industries. The Rrand tie-up is|the following articles. fore General Smedley Butler re- with one of the leading arms manu- 0 be continued tomorrow) ;General Motors or any of its sub- farms of the Western region, and | about 100,000 joined the farms of | the Gorki region. The number of i individual peasant holdings amalga- And the millions of ardent hope as a deliverer, as do| mating with the collective farms of workers who listen to Coughlin will|the Wall Stret capitalists look to form their own opinion as to what/him with equal hope as the man advice an alleged foe of the cap- italists wants from “his good friends” | this great mass tide of anti-cap-| the Gorki region in the course of | two years has increased from 45.5 | per cent to 68.4 per cent. In the | Ukraine 400,000 individuals entered the collective farms. “Many individual farmers who even recently wavered,” Pravda con- tinues, “have now definitely con- vinced themselves of the advantages of collective labor. This year in the Moscow region the majority of the collective farms received over 10 pounds of grain cultures alone per working day. Thus the achieve- ments of the incoming collective farmers have been remarkable in the majority of regions. 5 “White Russia organized 428 new [collective farms in July, August ;and September. Over 100,000 indi- vidual farmers entered White Rus- sian collective farms during the last nine months. By Jan. 1, 1934, 50 per cent of the peasant farmsteads were collectivized in White Russia, farms already embraced 61.2 per | cent of all farmsteads. A number of |Tegions are already reaching the | state of complete collectivization. | Concentrate on raising funds to | complete the Daily Worker drive | by Dee. 15. Visit mass organiza- tions in your territory and ask for special collections from the mem- | bership, laid down in the resolution adopted | |How senseless it is to speak of a| |was only one member and one can- |didate of the Communist Party, one while by October 1, the collective | | THE FIRE FIGHTER Burck will give the oiginal drawing of his cartoon to the highest contriputor esch day towards his quota of $1,000, the Daily Worker. Sturgeon Unit Dist. 9 Previously received PROOF POSITIVE Prospective contributors who feel they haven't a chance to win Burck’s original powerful cartoons can be reassured by today’s record. So dig in, help Total by Burck Burck and yourselves! | soeeS 3.00 | 67041 - $673.41 A SOVIET VILLAGE ELECTION | By L. F, BOROSS \{N NOVEMBER 8, the second day! of the celebration of the revolu-| tion, the Soviet elections took place | in the villages of the borough of! Gulinky. The village Soviet of 13) members was elected. The elections! |were preceded by a detailed re-|didates, it is a matter |porting campaign. All the members| fraught with great personal danger jof the village Soviet had to give an} |account of their work. The outcome \of this reporting campaign was that the work of nine of the members| of the old village Soviet was ap-| proved, whereas, in agreement with the general feeling, four of the former members of the village Sov- iet were no longer put forward as candidates. Two of them were rejected by the| peasants because they had an in-| different attitude to the duties} which they undertook, the third be- cause he drinks too much and be- cause his personal life is not such as is worthy of a member of the village Soviet, and the fourth asked not to be re-elected on account of his poor health. In their places four. new people were proposed from among the collective peasants. “dictatorship of the Party” over the masses can be seen from the fact that among the 13 newly elected members of the Soviet there member of the Young Communist League and the other ten members of the Soviet are non-Party people. Only the chairman of the Soviet gets a salary and all the others work | gratis, | peace agone) ‘HE elections took place in four election meetings with the par- ticipation of 97 per cent of the electors. This one figure alone) shows how greatly collectivization has increased the interests of the village population in social ques-| tions, in questions pertaining to} their self-administration, The four villages of the borough have 1,269 inhabitants. Of these 615 are of electoral age (over 18). The rest are children. adults 612 have the right to vote and only 3 persons who are not toil- ers have not got the right to vote. These are two priests and the wife of a priest, whose occupation the Soviet Constitution does not con- sider as socially useful work, But condition for the right to vote. Economically, the four villages embrace three collect've farms, approximately 18 individual peasant |ing a rather large Soviet farm. In this case only collective peasants were elected, among them the chair- man of one of the three collective farms and all the others are field workers, stablemen, etc. About half of those elected are women. The village Soviet of 13 was elected al- most unanimously by 85 to 97 per cent of the electors. Keen ballot- ing developed around one of the candidates who was not elected. Strunin, the district director of the Soviet farm, was voted down by 2 big majority after a few men and women agricultural workers, who work under him, gave the following characterization of their chief in the open election meeting: he manages idiligently, but he is not in touch with the masses as he ought to be, jand is therefore unworthy to be a member of the village Soviet. oS |P Of the 615) socially useful work is a necessary! \families and one district compris- | 'HE voting on district director Strunin furnishes a_ striking lesson on the character of Soviet elections. In capitalist countries if @ railwayman or a government em- loyee comes out in favor of any- one else but the government can- that is for them. In the capitalist coun- tries where the laboring masses are materially dependent upon the bourgeoisie, this dependence is util- ized by the capitalists and their parties during elections. In the Soviet elections, this material de- pendence upon the capitalists or upon the people who are put for- ward by them is completely lacking. But besides that there is also some- thing entirely different at issue here. People are not only elected in the Soviet elections. express their opinion of the candi- dates, critically throw light upon their personalities from all sides. They at all times have the right to withdraw the mandate from an elected candidate even in the period between elections. Besides that, an elected member of the Soviet cannot do as he likes, cannot act according to his own sweet will. He has not the poss- ibility of promising something to the electors, and then, after being elected, doing something entirely different than what he had prom- ised. He doesn’t have to promise anything at all. For the electors give him strict election instructions to which he must adhere if he does not want to lose his mandate. Every elector has the right, even though he was not elected, to ALSO CO- OPERATE AFTER THE ELEC- TIONS, with the approval of his fellow-workers, or his collective farm, and if he does help along \in the work, he also has the right to TAKE PART IN MAKING DE- CISIONS on the affairs of the Soviet. The act of electing is itself but the beginning of the political ac- tivity not only of those who have been elected but also of the electors |themselves. Besides the 13 elected members of the Soviet there are in in Gulinsky an additional 78 col- lective peasants, workers on Soviet farms and individual peasants— among them 48 women—who also make use of their right to daily help in the work and to make de- cisions on Soviet matters. Inso- far as they are members of a col- lective farm or workers on a Soviet farm they periodically report be- fore the peasants of their collective farm or before the workers of the Soviet farm regarding their activity as volunteer members of the de- |partments of the Soviet, and take \instructions from them. Where in the whole world can agricultural laborers do what the men and women agricultural la- ‘borers can do in Gulinsky? They can, without incurring the slightest unpleasantness on that account, openly recount their director's mis- takes to his face, in the election meeting, and say to him: “We do not need you in the Soviet.” After all, they are the rulers. Wwe the election of the deputies was over, and the list of the | elected was announced, the election meeting proceded to consider the so-called election instructions of the electors. The election instructions of the previous election mainly re- volved around economic questions The electors fully | farms and the the building of of the collective | villages, such as | Stables, various establishments, | school questions, the building of roads and such like. During the) reporting campaign the electors as- | certained that their desires had in} the main been fulfilled by the vil- | lage Soviet. There was sharp criti- | cism only on one point: the road| building was not carried through | with the necessary vigour. But the NEW ELECTION INSTRUCTIONS SHOW how very much the standard of living and the needs of the pea- last elections. This time the elec- | tors made the following demands: The village Soviet must see to it that through the appropriate agro- nomical measures the harvest yield of the three collective farms should be increased in the course of the twenty double centners per hectare. By the next elections there should no longer be any thatched cottages; they want to have all the roofs! | covered with tiles. A branch of the veterinary clinic | to be established in the village. A landing place for aeroplanes is to be built and also a stadium. The women demanded the open- ing of a “model” government de- partment store. 4 The young people demanded the promotion of skiing and football. The building of a new fire station was requested and the extension of the four-year school into a seven- year school, as well as the repair of | the school building. The hiring of a dentist of their own without fail. An improvement of the material provisions for the medical personnel (two women doctors, a nurse, etc.) of the village hospital and of the children’s welfare centze. These demands were all raised at one of the four election meetings. In the other meetings other elec- toral instructions were most likely also given. Equipped with these election in- structions, the new village Soviet begins its work. The electors them- selves, also, see to it that their instructions are cazried out. For it is not the purpose of the electoral law in the Soviet Union to give the electors the ILLUSION that once in four or five years he “has a say” in state affairs and then kept away from any real decisions in the mat- ter. On the contrary, it has the task of seeing to it that in practice the electors day by day decide, con- i trol and supplement the work of the | elected state organs of the toiling people. / i The Soviet is not so-called “rep- resentation” of the people. The RULING people does not allow itself to be “represented” by anybody. It ITSELF carries out its will. The Soviets to which the people send their best sons and daughters are precisely those organs through which ‘it make its will known and carries it out not only during the elections but EVERY SINGLE DAY. That is also. the essence of Soviet demo- eracy, the only real democracy of the toiling millions. But this de- mocracy can only be realized when, with the help of the dictatorship of ; the proletariat, all those people who have an interest in again havine masters and servants, exploiters and exploited, are excluded from’ this democracy. | German Communists Gets Long Sentences On ‘Treason’ Charges HAMBURG, Dec. 10.—The Han- seatic Court has just passed sen- cused of “high treason.” These workers were found guilty of having organized a communication system |between the Communist Party head- quarters in the Wasserkante region (ve-established in April, 1933) and certain local groups, and of having been in touch with Communists in tence on a number of workers ac- Denmark, The latter had given | fascism, |power has not moved—except with World Front i———By HARRY GANNES -—— “Enormous Force for Peace” The U.S.S.R. in Action How Its Policy Works O amount of confusion nor babble of chauvinist war cries could cover up the pow- lerful peace role of the Soviet | Union in the recent Jugoslav- |Hungarian near-explosion, We want to point out em- phatically that this was not an iso- lated instance of the war danger. It is a small mosaic that fits into a whole dangerous pattern of war. The key to the puzzle is German which since it came to the aim of war. First it was the slaughter of Dollfuss. Then the as- sassination of King Alexander. In each case, the aim was to add fuel so that the blaze of war could be the hotter and the razing of past peace treaties and boundary lines the greater, Ce eee 'O far as the Soviet Union is con- cerned here is the situation: The U.S.S.R. went into the League of Nations to utilize the imperialist conflicts to the last ounce to aid the preservation of peace. The Sov- iet Union had entered into a secur- ity pact with France, in order to bolster peace. The workers’ father- land, realizing the aims of Fascist |Germany, still further proposed an Eastern Locarno pact (open to all East European countries) in order | to strive to prevent a bloody change of the border of those countries constructed after the Versailles treaty, ‘The German Fascists, viewing the progress of these peace moves, strove to overcome them. They tried first by seeking to build up an anti- Soviet war block, using Poland as the buffer and Hungary as a tool. They financed and plotted the assassination of King Alexander, to precipitate a rupture between France and Jugoslavia, and to speed war among and against the little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia). Suite 'HEN on the Saar question, in order to give the impression that a new rapproachment had been reached between France and Fas- cist Germany. Hitler completely agreed to all of the French terms in the Saar. This was followed by the bitter conflicts inspired in Hungary and Jugoslavia. When the war danger was at its height here, the Sovict Union and France re-emphasized their peace pact by signing a supplementary document (later joined in by Czechoslovakia), declaring that no other agreements would be made that would be inimical or against the spirit of the Soviet-French se- curity pact nor the aims of the Eastern Locarno security pact. This had a tremendously sober- sants have been increased since the jing effect on the war-made forces. For once, the American capitalist press began to talk about the “peace efficacy” of the League of Nations. We want to quote just one of these expressions and indicate the means by which its true significance next few years to an average of ‘is distorted. For example, Edwin L. James, writing in the New York Times of Sunday, Dec. 9, declares: “Since the League of Nations was organized it has not better shown its possibilities for good than in the Jugoslav-Hungarian quarrel. A dispute which once upon a time probably would have led directly to war is now, it is hoped, spending itself in words across a tabie in Geneva on which the spotlight of world publicity is directed. In the mere system by which this is being done re- sides an enormous force for the preservation of peace.” But this pundit of Wall Street for- gets to mention that all this “change” came about only when the Soviet Union—the land of the victorious proletarian revolution— was invited into and accepted mem- bership in the League of Nations. Nor were the words that passed across the green baize tables the force that brought about a tem- porary halt of the war moves. It was first of all the mighty power of a Socialist fatherland behind the peace efforts of the Soviet Union, the Soviet peace treaties and pacts, plus the readiness of the Soviet Union to defend itself against any attack by its effective Red Army. And furthermore, there is the revo- lutionary proletariat and the op- pressed people of the whole world standing behind and fighting along with the Soviet Union in its efforts for peace and against the imperial- ist war plotters, It is these relationships that im- pel the capitalist journalists to re- mark about the “change” in the League of Nations. But they do not see, and cannot see, what the lead- ers in the Soviet Union point out time and time again. No amount of striving for peace can change the fundamental fact that capital- ism breeds war and will sooner or later plunge the world into a new bloody slaughter unless it is itself crushed by the revolutionary pro- letariat. The Soviet Union strives for peace to help the proletariat strengthen its forces so that if and when the day of war comes the workers can answer the exploiters by effective revolutionary action. On Behalf of World Front “The inspiring letter published in this column last week from a Mexi- can comrade who sent $1 collected among the poor peasants, should serve as an incentive to other workers to aid the ‘Daily’ in this vital campaign.”—Harry Gannes. Total to date $349.63 {refuge to fugitive German Commu- nists and had provided material for illegal activities in Germany. Among the sentenced workers are the elderly Karl Sifferlein and his two sons. Sifferlein was sentenced to six years imprisonment (he is 64 years old); three others have been given four years of imprisonment each; “ three others, three years; one, two and a half years, and another twa years. Remember to bring the question of the Daily Worker financial campaign to the forefront during a strike struggle, relief demonstra- tion, or other working class action, Ask for contributions,