The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1934 Daily CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. ALgonquin 4-795 4. Telephone “Press Building, National 7910. 705, Chieago, IL Subscription Rates: except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $3.51 3 m hs, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. Bronx, Canada 1 year, y, 18 c $6.00; $9.00; "$3.00. 75 cents. 6m WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1934 The Crime Crusade RESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S verbal attack on “crime” has more to the surface. That reeks with more crime sudden it than American capita and bloodshed than any other country no- It would be difficult for a crook appears on body will deny like nuel Insull as much loot anywh here in the home of the New Deal. for instance, to get away with re in the world as he did right Certainly it would have been more difficult to fix a jury and a court as the recent Chicago court was surely fixed. Roosevelt had nothing to say about that. Bui his speech before the Attorney General's Crime Conference he seemed to get hot and both- ered about crime in general. So has Mr. William Randolph Hearst—and both for the same reason, Hearst is carrying on, in cooperation with the criminal pervert Adolph Hitler, the most vicious campaign against the Communist Party in the United States. At the same'time, Hearst camouflages his anti- labor drive by shrieking against “crime.” His aim is to get the government to increase its police and suppressive power—not against the criminals like millionaire robber Insull, and other racketeers, graft- ing bankers, crooked capitalist politicians, and their lesser fry, the gunmen—but against striking work- ers, against militant trade unions, and against the Alabama Sidesteps “A Negro juror in Jackson County would be a curiosity, and some curiosi- ties are embalmed, you know.” That was the blatant admission and savage lynch threat of the Alabama rulers, expressed editorially in the Jackson County Sen- tinel, published in Scottsboro, Ala., when in 1931 the International Labor Defense militantly chal- lenged the Alabama lynch courts on the exclusion of Negroes from Alabama juries, and specifically from the grand jury which indicted the nine inno- cent Scottsboro boys and the petit juries which sen- tenced eight of them to burn in the electric chair. That was in 1931. Since that time, however, the Alabama lynch rulers and their courts have been forced on the defensive by the mighty world- wide n fight against the lynch verdicts, against the violation of the constitutional rights of the Ne- gro people and the whole monstrous system of Ne- gro oppression and persecution. Already in the Decatur retrial of Heywood Patterson, the lynchers had forged the names of Negroes to the Jackson County jury list. And this week, we find Alabama Attorney Gen- eral Thomas E, Knight, Jr., denying in his brief to the U, S. Supreme Court, filed in answer to the brief of the LL.D. attorneys for Clarence Norris, that Negroes are excluded from Alabama juries because of race or color, This is the same gentleman who in the Decatur retrial of Patterson contemptuous- ly referred to the, Negro lad as “that thing over there” and argued that no Negro—no matter how educated or intelligent—was fit to sit on an Ala- bama jury. Knight’s attempt to cover up a fact once proudly admitted by the Alabama lynch rulers provides further confirmation of the Communist analysis that the fight for the lives and freedom of the Scotts- boro boys is inextricably connected with the strug- gle for Negro rights, for Negro liberation. The mass fight, which has forced the Alabama rulers on the defensive, should be supported by every sin- cere opponent of Negro oppression, Sales Tax Robbery HE latest capitalist robbery of the people is the sales tax, the tax that literally reaches into the pockets of the poorest sections of the population and robs them of their pennies. nickels and dimes. The bankers are forcing the idea of the sales Le elt napneaiee tn kas arrange- | {ments committee, undaunted by the tax in municipalities all over the country. The | struggle and organized a mass pro- |3, in the name of the United Action |Committee Against High Cost of| | Living. |tepresenting individual housewives, | | ALL QUIET ON THE BALKAN FRONT | Party Life | | Communists’ Tasks | |In the Struggle | On the Sales Tax | HE foremost issue confront- | ing all workers today is| the struggle for unemploy- ment insurance and against} the increased attacks upon! the standard of living of the| |masses through wage cuts |and rising cost of living. The masses are now in a fighting mood and it is the task of all Communists and class-conscious workers to take the | foremost position in this struggle. | | Last week the Sales Tax Bill was| jPassed by the Fusion-Tammany | Board of Aldermen and Board of} Estimate, La Guardia had expesssed every intention of signing the Bill) on Wednesday, Dec. 5, The Daily| & | Worker had urged all workers to take immediate action in protest | against the sales tax which places | an additional burden upon the al- | ready impoverished masses. A few comrades in Bensonhurst | took the initiative to involve the masses in our neighborhood in this test meeting for Monday night, Dec. Out of this meeting we hoped to, build a strong united organization |workers, professionals and small | business men, as well as the numer- lous social, and who religious organizations share this mutual need—namely, in- | */5 surance against the lowering of our ¥ standard of living. Because of the lack of time, prep- arations for the meeting being in- jitiated on Thanksgiving Day—four |days before the mass meeting—com- rades and mass organizations could | not be contacted personally nor could many be involved in the actual prep- | arations for this meeting. | The small group of Party and| | bes fraternal and political sid Hf Burck will give the oiginal drawing of his cartoon to the highest contriputor ezch YOU CAN DO IT, TO! 0! M. Kutas .. by Burck aut bey day towards his quota of $1,000. $ 29.50 |World Front —— By HARRY GANNES New Soviet Encyclopedia Tooth Powder and Mensheviks On “White Horses” T IS not very often that we review foreign books in this column, especially en- cyclopedias. But we have just read enough of the trans- lations of five volumes of the “Krokodil” encyclopedia, pub- lished in the Soviet Union, to know that it is necessary to review it for the political education of our read ers. “Krokodil” is described as a hue morous weekly, but often manages to be highly political. In many cases, because of the ine volved and intricate nature of the subject dwelt on, illustrations are used to help the reader out of the maze of abstractions. Since we can= not reproduce the pictures, we will have to quote only from those defi- nitions that more or less explain themselves, Each volume is carefully planned, as for example Vol. IV, which deals with “ ‘Literature’ to ‘Pluto’.” The “Krokodil” encyclopedia has a faint resemblance to some of the methods of treatment in Johnson's dictionary, as, for instance, when he defined the word “patriotism” as the “last refuge of a scoundrel.” All manner of scientific, techni- cal and biographical subjects are included. For example here is how the subject of chemistry is treated, with particular reference to “pow- der, tooth—teeth of a German citi- zen, after a ‘quiet’ session in a police court.” is = * INCE agriculture is of vast im- poztance in the Soviet Union, “Krokodil” has something to say on the subject, not in the least hiding various difficulties confronted, “Strawberries” are thus defined: “Grow on bushes and rot in freight cars. Strawberry jam in jars is la- belled black curzant.” Instead of using whole pages to describe some countries, “Kroko- dil's” encyclopedia tells more of t ! } Communist Party and Socialists. recent Congress of American Industry held in New lack of time, worked with zest and| No betting allowed in this competition, but Burck Arrow Club . 2.00 Switzerland in the following few : acca “Shak Boome an York outlined a plan for a Federal sales tax to | fine cooperation. The hall was hired,| wagers he'll reach 80 per cent of his quota by the Previously Rec'd. 673.41 Saree ae the National Geographic f To those who may bel ee sa Wael 16 call be laid on top of the local sales taxes. |a leaflet drawn up and 5,000 copies} end of the week. That means cartoon-admirers Cae eed : ne cnet a ae and & reel interest in wiping out crime, we war! But this wholesale robbery is meeting with [ready for distribution Sunday morn-| must raise $100 in the next few days! Total . eee $704.91 tees quote from Vol. V.: “Switser- attention to the fact that Roosevelt himself con- caaitadcie: ling, with a secon’ leafiet ready for | I—famous for its cheese, cows nected crime with unemployment and starvation in capitalist society. At the same time, he declared that a struggle against “crime” was the most important need in maintaining the “stability” of the present order. Here we must keep in mind what the bosses, the parasites and exploiters mean by “crime.” They consider it a crime for the workers to struggle for higher wages, for unemployment insurance — and they act accordingly by shooting down strikers and other militant workers. But when it comes to real criminals, we find that the most important ones are protected by the capital- ist government all the way from the smallest city of- ficials up to the State Department in Washington— and at various times, at least, by the White House itself as under the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover regimes. Very recently New York Police Commissioner Valentine declared that the gangster “Dutch” Schultz could never have remained at liberty as long as he did without the protection of city and State government officials, This is true of every leading gangster and the major organizers of crime. ‘They are intertwined with the capitalist organs of government. On Monday, for example, it was brought out be- fore the Senate Arms Committee that the Reming- ton Arms Co. sales manager stated in a letter that the U. S. “State Department was willing to shut its eyes” at graft in armament sales. Roosevelt's right-hand man, Donald R. Rich- berg, when he was still parading as a “liberal” law- yer in Chicago once put-his finger on the real “protectors” of graft—the capitalist government machine. In June, 1930, when Jake Lingle, the go-between for the Chicago Tribune and the un- derworld was wiped out, Richberg declared: “Is it possible that the people of Chicago can read their daily papers and yet remain ignorant of the interlocking relations between public utility control and corruption of government and the political protection of crime? The close relation- ship between Jake Lingle and the police depart- ment has been published in the Chicago papers. . . Surely all Chicago knows that Samuel Ettelson, Mr. Insull’s political lawyer, who is corporation ecunsel of Chicago, is also the chief operator of the city government.” The names have changed in New York, Chicago and Washington, but the fundamental relationship between the big gansters and the boss politicians have not changed. Nor can they change under capitalism, itself one of the most criminal systems against the whole working class, Roosevelt's crusade against “crime” is not aimed at the criminals, except insofar as one group of capitalists try to free themselves from a particular group of hi-jackers. It is the smokescreen for a most vicious campaign for an enlarged central police force as a more efficient strikebreaking and anti- working class weapon. Along with this campaign will go real action against the foreign born, against Socialists and Communists, against all those who do not stand for the crimes committed by the New Deal against the working class, In short, under the cry of “crime crusade,” which only indirectly would be directed against a few particularly obnoxious real criminals, the Roose- velt regime is actually undertaking further develop- ments towards fascist drives against the American working class and against the organized labor move- ment, particularly against its most militant section, the Communist Party. In New York the consumers are answering the tax by refusing to pay it. In Ohio a similar move- ment is rising, This can become an excellent mass answer to the sales tax. The New York district of the Communist Party has issued a call for a mass campaign under the slogan “Repeal the Robbery Sales Tax!” The call rips apart the hypocritical lie that the sales tax is to feed the jobless, The only way to feed the job- less is to make the rich pay heavy taxes, stop all payments to the bankers, take a 10 per cent capital levy on all big fortunes, stop all payments to the rich bondholders, declares the, Communist Party. The Communist Party is circulating a petition among the small shop-keepers against the sales tax. It is a fact that the sales tax tends to drive the small businessmen into bankruptcy, aiding the larger stores. The capitalist bankers and their governmental office boys like LaGuardia think they can plunder the masses with impunity. Show them they are wrong. Protest against the Sales Tax! Repeal the Sales Tax! Demand that the bankers and rich corporations, utilities and bondholders shell out of their profits to feed the jobless and provide un- employment insurance! Support the coming Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance to meet in Washington January 5 to 7, where the sales tax will be fought on a national scale! Why Not a Member? O YOU wish to know how and where to recruit excellent members for the Com- munist Party? Read this letter which ap- peared in yesterday’s issue of the Daily Worker on the workers’ correspondence page, written by an electric welder in a Staten Is- land shipyard: “I am writing to you in the hope that you will publish the reaction of the recent ‘Sisco’ strike upon one of the welders. “I admit that, had one of your men entered our headquarters in the early days of the strike, I would have been one of the first to throw him out, But, as the strike went on, I became dis- illusioned. I saw A. F. of L. leaders working in harmony with Powell to break the strike. I also watched you Communists. “Your sympathy, encouragement and advice upheld cur morale during those eight long weeks. I know that all the food that came to our head- quarters came through the Communists, “Your unselfishness, your loyalty to the cause of the workers has won the respect and admira- tion of many of the striking welders, “Many of us left this yard eight weeks ago un- organized workers and firm believers in the prophets of the New Deal. Today we are, in heart at least, Communists.” This testimony to the ability of Communists to lead workers to strike victory should inspire every one of us, But something is still wrong. Why is this worker not a member of the Communist Party, where he belongs? He says, “Today we are, in heart at least, Communists.” That is not enough. Having seen the important tasks carried on by the Party it is up to him, and to other workers like him, to strengthen the Party by joining it; and it is up to the Communists who took part in this strike to see to it that workers who can now speak like this should join our ranks, Searches and Arrests 250,000 searches have taken place in| Manitarian laws. Austria since February, more than 5,000 anti-fascistS are still in prison, | to agitate for the election of a dele. | sentences of light terms of impris-| gation which may be sent to Austria | onment total more than 500 years,|to verify the qesults of the war | Waged by Austrian fascism against the working classes. The Austrian accord-| government will have no choice but ing to statistics as they stand at|to agree to such and heavy terms of imprisonment} total more than 1,500 years, present. Suppression of various rights ac- quired by the workers, the confisca- lings ($260,000,90) selonsine fF 4 | workers’ organizations, suppression 2 | of the right to form unions, dissolu- Of Austrian Workers tion of factory councils, etc. In spite Continue to Mount | of these facts the Austrian govern- | |ment seeks to appear before the VIENNA, Dec. 11—More than/ World as a country governed by hu-| The Austrian Red Aid appeals “to 50,000 workers have been arrested,| all men of feeling in every country | | since Chancellor Schuschnigg ha: To these facts must be added the} declared that he will | portunity to ‘foreigners with serious | | intentions’ to visit Austrian prisons | tion of more than 2.000,000,000 schil-| and to see for themselves the lees ~caditions in the country.” Imprisoned Rumanian | Railway Workers Face BUCHAREST, Rumania, Dec. 11— |—Seven railwaymen, sentenced to |from 8 to 15 years hard labor on a | charge of having led the Bucharest railwaymen’s strike and the barri- cade fighting in Bucharest in Feb., 1933, are to appear again on other new charges before the military court of the first army corps. This i i |4s the fourth trial of these workers investigations, | and is another step to prevent them Court for Fourth Time |distribution on Monday. The Daily Worker was notified, | carried a front page notice of this | |meeting in the Saturday issue, in| \Which all comrades and sympathizers | were urged to mobilize at our cen- ter Sunday morning for leaflet dis- |tribution and other work in. con-| |nection with the meeting. | | Sunday morning from 15 to 20) comrades showed up—only those! who had been contacted personally. | |A great deal remained yet to be/ done and the burden fell upon the | |shoulders of a few over-worked | comrades. Consequently all the |preparations to insure a successful | /meeting could not be made. On Monday a second notice of |this mass meeting appeared in the |Daily Worker (notices having been |sent to the capitalist press also, but jnot printed). That night at the meeting there were no more than |90 workers, the great majority of them the most active comrades who |always respond to such a call. The three Bensonhurst Y. C. L. units attended in a body, and gave excellent cooperation. Unfortunately it rained that night, but if that kept away the unorganized workers, for our comrades this was no excuse, Every comrade had ample time between Saturday morning and Monday night not only to make ar- rangements to come himself, but to bring his family, friends and neigh- \bors to join in a mighty protest against the La Guardia Sales Tax. Every comrade in the Party and ae organizations should have con- | | sidered it his task to involve in this protest all social, fraternal and re- ligious organizations in the neigh- borhood with whom he has any con- tact. The test of a true Communist jis how he reacts to a sudden action |of this nature. This and similar |meetings are not the business of only a few comrades. Every comrade jis responsible for their successful |outcome and the best organizational |results. | Instead of waiting to be person- | jally contacted by the buro or exec- utive members, every comrade |should heed the call of our organ, \the Daily Worker. If our anxious appeal does not reach our own com- rades through the Daily Worker, ‘how can we expect the masses to | respond ?. R. P. Organizer Unit 11, Sec. 11, Dist. 2 Italy’s Troops In Maneuvers In Erithria PARIS, Dec. 11—Intense military activity, including gun running and the assembly of squadrons of fight- ing planes along the Italian Samoli- Abyssinian frontrer in Africa, were admitted yesterday by Count Byron de Prorok, apologist for Italian im- Perialism, when he returned from a tour of Ethiopia. “It is estimated that in the Spring there will be 250,000 Italian troops, including colonials, in the Italian city of Erithria awaiting order to march,” he declared. De Prorok let the cat out of the bag when, speaking of Abbysinia’s possessing the “richest gold and Platinum mines in existence” and describing how the mines are worked “by Negro slaves in the same manner as in the time of King Solomon,” he hinted that these treasures, “if developed along mod- ern lines, would become an unbe- lievably rich possession.” Paying tribute to the “coloniza- tion” work done by Mussolini, the} ‘S| from ever coming out of the peni- | il give every op- | tentiary again. | The Roseville, Mich. Daily Worker Committee set its quota _ of $5 and fulfilled it, lital. explorer naively gave the instance of the imperialists’ having “built magnificsnt roads into the moun- tains as far as the frontier, which is | 621 miles from the Ethiopion cap- |period of one year, many of them Saar frontier, Seven Years After Canton Commune te ae oe EVEN years ago, on December 11, 1927, the workers of Canton in| establishing the Canton Commune, set up the first Soviet government in China. The Canton Commune was crushed by the joint attack of| the Kuomintang militarists and im- perialist gunboats after three days of heroic struggle. More than 5,000 Communards were butchered after the fall of the Commune, The im- perialists and the Kuomintang offi- cials, as well as the counter-revolu- tionary Trotskyites, declared that the fall of the Commune marked an end to the movement of the Chi- nese workers and peasants. Only one voice pointed out the signifi- cance of the Canton Commune as an historical act opening up a new stage in the Chinese revolution— the Soviet stage—and that was the voice of the Communist Interna- tional and the Communist Party of China, Today, seven years after the Can- ton Commune, the successes of the Chinese Soviets attest the correct- ness of that analysis. On November 7, the 17th anniversary of the Oc- tober revolution, 200,000 workers and peasants gathered at Juikin, red capital of China, celebrating their victories. From Fukien and Kiangsi to Szechuan, a front of hundreds of miles, the Red armies are suc- cessfully fighting for the realiz: tion of a contiguous Soviet district which, once formed. the Kuomintane forces will nevef be able to break through. The recent expansion of the Szechuan Soviet districts in the South and the growing partisan ac- tivities of the peasants in the North mark a further step forward of the Chinese Soviets. Soviets have been established in more than ten hsiens (counties) in Northern Shensi near the Great, Wall. nI ihe citv of Yulin, 800 workers in the munition factories are preparing to join hands with the partisans. Fitting Monument All this is a fitfing monument to the Canton Commune and the best proof of the correctness of the state- ment of the Communist Interna- tional on the Canton Commune that the Chinese masses would continue their liberation struggles under’ the red banner of Soviets. Today, the Chinese Soviet govern- ment, the successor of the Canton Commune, stands as the only leader of the anti-imperialist struggle in China. In contrast to the capitula- tion of the Kuomintang government, to Japanese and other imperialists, the Chinese Soviet government has recently sent two picked detach- ments each 10,000 strong, to march into Chekiang and Southern Anwei to fight the armed forces of Jap- anese imperialism. These deeds have become well-known to the broad masses in China, arousing them to action. In Manchuria, the people’s revolutionary government, situated at Panshi, Kirin, which grew out of incessant armed struggles against Japanese rule, has openly acknowl- edged the leadership of the Chinese Soviet Government. The People’s Revolutionary gov- ernment has two divisions of armed forces which are the center of guer- illa warfare of the Manchurian masses. Despite the shameful desertion of the Kuomintang generals, like Ma Chan Shan, Ting Chao, etc., Man- churian volunteers are intensifying their fight. Last August there were 8,807 up- risings in Kirin and Fengtien. Even the Japanese and Manchukuo pa- pers were forced to admit that the growing effectiveness of the “ban- dits” was due to the increasing leadership of the People’s Revolu- tionary Government. More than ever, the idea of combining the anti-Japanese struggles with the fight for rice and land has pene- trated the minds of toiling millions in Manchuria. Recently a conference was held in Kirin, attended by leaders of volunteers in Kirin and Fengtien. The conference mapped out a pro- gram of unifying the command of volunteer forces. Amid the tremen- dous ovation of the local popula- tion. Yank Shin-Yu. the lesder of the People’s Revolutionary Govern- ment and a Communist, was elected as the commander in chief of the consolidated forces. It is quite clear that the Chinese Soviet Government is not only morally helping the armed struggles of Manchurian workers and peas- ants against Japanese domination, but is actually giving leadership to them. That is why Japanese im- perialism has been insisting that all Chinese forces in North China should be withdrawn and sent to Central and South China to fight against the Chinese Soviets. Chiang Kai-shek has carried out this order faithfully. The evacuation of 140,- 000 troops from North China has already begun. But this treacherous act has further aroused the indig- nation of the Chinese masses. The soldiers in North China began to organize to resist the order of evacuation. and the manifesto ini- tiated by Mme. Sun Yat Sen, call- ing for a national revolutionary war against Japan, has been circulating in the barracks since it reached China, A number of mutinies have taken place in the Kuomintang ar- mies, especially among Sun Tse Yuan's troops stationed near the Great Wall. Chiang Kai-shek barely escaped death when several discon- tented soldiers made an attempt to bombard Chiang’s train in Shansi on Nov. 7 during Chiang’s recent trip to North China. It is precisely because Chiang Kai-shek has been completely exposed as a traitor of the Chinese nation that the Chinese Soviet government, and its Red army, as the only leader of the anti-imperialist movement is in- vincible. But in addition to this, there is another fundamental reason which convinces the Chinese masses that Soviet power is the only solution to their problems. Despite the im- perialist-Kuomintang military cam- paigns, the hunger blockade set up by the Kuomintang around the So- viet district, the living conditions of the toiling masses under the So- viet rule has been improved. In the city of Tingchow, for instance, the textile workers have been able to increase their wages from ten dollars a month to 35 dollars, Simi- Jar increases have been effected by the workers in other industries. The eight hour law has been strictly en- forced. A system of unemployment insurance has been established. The peasants have expropriated the property of the landlords and suc- ceeded in increasing their produc- tion 15 per cent (Central Soviet Districts). Cooperatives, schools and hospitals have been multiplied. Mass trade unions protect the daily in- terests of the workers and serve as one of the important pillars of So- viet power. In the central Soviet district alone, there are 110,000 trade union members. Ninety-five per cent of the workers have joined the trade unions. Outside of the Soviet Union, there is no other place which has attained such a record of mass trade union membership. What has been achieved by the Chinese Soviets is only a beginning of the partial realization of the pro- gram of the Chinese Soviet Govern- ment of complete overthrow of the imperialist - Kuomintang rule and victory of Soviet power throughout China. Yet these achievements of the Chinese Soviets have already forced their enemies to recognize the existence of a modern state, the Chinese Soviet Republic, in the heart of China. which has become “a rival 'to Nanking authority” (Lyt- ton Report, League of Nations). The oppressed masses in the Far East are looking toward Soviet China as their beacon of hope. It Js quite significant that the chair- men of sessions of the All-China Second Soviet Congress held in Sui- kin last February were Korean, For- mosan and Javanese delegates. The successes of the Soviet movement jn China will not only increase the confidence of the colonial masses, but also workers in the capitalist countries in their ability to over- throw the power of their exploiters and establish their own power—So- viet power. Herein lies the international sig- nificance of the Chinese Soviets and the reason why American imperial- ism is giving all kinds of assistance to Chiang Kai-spek, the murderer of the Chinese masses. Let us answer the attacks of the imperialists and the Kuomintang with a mass campaign in the U. S. in support of the Chinese Soviets to smash completely the sixth anti- Communist military campaign and for the final victory of Soviet power in all China, which will mean a powerful blow against the imperial- ist war danger in the Far East. Reichswehr Training Speeded To Build Up Big Army Reserves LEIPZIG, Dec. 11—New recruits for the Reichswehr are no longer obliged to take the oath which binds them to service for 12 years and are now being enrolled on trial for a to be immediately ordered to the greatest possible number of men. The first group of soldiers, in the Third Battalion of the llth R. I., have just finished their year’s train- ing at Leipzig, and on Nov. 8 they took the oath for four years’ serv- ive. At the same time they were asked to give back their equipment, which means that they will remain in active service, without uniforms. The same day they were dispatched te an unknown destination, having arranged to cease all correspon- dence for several weeks. According These measures are being taken to insure the rapid instruction of the i }to the soldiers themselves, they were being taken to the Saar fron- tier, German Girl Domestics Forced To Work Free MANNHEIM, Germany, Dec. 11. —The Nazi press has announced that young girls wishing to work as “pupils” for learning household management had no right to ask for wages, but might be given pocket-money. The “Hakenkreuz- banner” of Mannheim states that “it is for each mistress of the housc- hold to decide whether she will rive! the young girls an allowance,” but adds that such an allowance “is seldom given,” _ cs with bells on and politicians. At times, these items mix their func- tions. There has been no report of cheese being made out of cowhells, but a lot of mooing was heard dur- ing the period when the U. S. S. R. was entering the League of Na- tions.” Referring back to Vol. I, it is in- teresting to note that the very first item deals with a religious subject, “Amen,” which is defined: “A re- ligious slavonic word meaning truth, This word cannot be attached to any Shimbun Rengo Agency dis- patch (Japanese official news serv- ice).” * * ed gs Vol. V, under the sub-heading “Ww,” there is a very appropriate subject recalling the fact that Gen- eral Smedley Butler revealed that he was approached by Wall Street bankers to be the fascist chief to ride to Washington on a “white horse.” “White Horse,” in “Krokodil’s” encyclopedia is treated as follows “Mythical means of transportation which the white guards at one time hoped to use in riding into Moscow after their victory over the Bolshe- viks. Having lost to the Bolsheviks, they waved their hands at the white horse and changed to white taxi- cabs on which they work nowadays in Paris and other European cities as chauffeurs. Always willing to re- ceive a tip. They are very lonesome and dream of restoration. Let them continue to dream peacefully, Please don’t disturb them, would-be taxi- riders.” Since our space is limited we will refrain from further comment, trusting to our readers to get a com= pleter idea of the scope of the sn- cyclopedia by the following two defi- nitions chosen at random: San aa 7 ENSREYIRS special variety of political corpses. They exist in some cheap foreign tombs from where they attempt to overthrow the Soviet power. During the past years, the monolithic ranks of the party of the Mensheviks numbered eight, of which eleven are in the centzal committee while the rest are guests of the porter of the palace of the League of Nations as repre- sentative future owners of former Russia. At times may be found ii the lobby hall of the Second Inter- national where they receive free tickets to the buffet and are al- lowed to vote during the intermis- sions between sessions.” hanae Seat “(QCTOBER—the only month which can come any time in the year in any country. October in the Slav language means leaves falling. That's an old definition, for other things fall in October besides leaves, Leaves may fall but will appear again six months hence, while any- thing else that falls can’t be re- stored. A very serious month. “Some astrologists claim that Oc- tober helps Saturn or Venus. Again these wise men are ancient in their suppositions. The battleship Au- rora helps October, whenever needed. In the Roman calendar Oc- tober was the eighth month. In bourgeois calendars it will be the last. “The complete history of October has not yet been published, but two important chapters, “The History of the Civil War” and “History of Fac- tories and Plants,” ave already com- ing into the limelight. Other de- tails of October can be gotten at all construction jobs, collective farms and newsv2per files between 1917 and 1934.” CONTINUE YOUR SUPPORT! Followers of World Front made a valiant attempt to put Gannes in line with the top-notehers, and should continue at this pace even though Gannes happens to be sur= passed toccy by three others. Section 4 ..,..... +S 17.60 Louis Glassman . 1.00 Jules La V~rnis . AZ Lawrence, Moss. . 2.00 Previously received . 349.63 Total ..-.seeuue =