The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1934 Daily, QWorker | TEWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) | “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 3¢ E. 13th | Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, x. Washington Bureau: Room 954, Na 1 Press Building, i4th and F St., Washington, D. C. Telephone: National 79 Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 708, Chicago, <Sepnone: Dearborn 3981 Subscription Rates: sy Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00 @ months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.7% cents Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00 & months, $5.00; 3. months, $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents Saturday Edition: By mall, 1 year, $1.50; 6 months, 78 cents. MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1934 . Nothing New! HE Roosevelt Advisory Committee on Economic Security has ended its in- quiries—and its labors have brought forth a scheme substantially the same as the | Wagner-Lewis Unemployment “Reserves” Bill. The actual act to be presented to Congress during the coming session has been left up to the pill-drafting committee of Congress, but the gen- eral principles proposed are all contained in the | Wagner-Lewis Bill, except for a nebulous “aid and grant” plan to be addended. The scheme proposes a 3 or 4 per cent tax on payrolls, and the government would “subsidize the insurance in States setting up funds of the stand- ards in the Federal act.” Thus the brain-child of William Green of the Americen Federation of Labor, Walter Teagle of the Standard Oil Company, Gerard Swope of Gen- eral Electric, and other industrialists and bankers | on the Roosevelt Advisory Council, is shown to be | a scheme to deny all benefit payments to the present unemployed, to agricultural workers, in the vast numbers of which are almost the eritire Negro popu- lation, to domestic and professional employes and to transportation workers. It is not a system of un- insurance, but the fake “reserves” | employment scheme. Seven dollars a week is the benefit set up by | the gner-Lewis Bill, and a complicated provi- sion allows up to $15 for a favored few. “aid and grant” the Advisory Committee urged —and a tax on payrolls. Under such a system, the paramount questions arising in the minds of the workers are “Who will pay?” and “Who will benefit?” The impost will come directly out of the workers’ wages and by added prices on all goods—direct and indirect tax imposts on the wages of the workers! This barefaced robbery of the workers through a fraudulent scheme must be countered by the widest propaganda for the Workers’ Bill and broad- est mass representation possible at the coming Na- tional Congress fer Unemployment Insurance—a mighty historic event that will make its decisions reverberate in the councils of the Federal legisla- tive bodies. While the Roosevelt regime evades the granting of real unemployment insurance, it hacks away at relief standards, keeping at the same time an ever closer ear to the ground to sound out the reactions of the masses. Witness, for example, the contra- dictory maneuvers in Cleveland where, on the one hand, it is forced to increase relief, but at the same time dooms to starvation the sick, aged and the blind. In such a light, the pious mouthings of Federal Relief Administrator Hopkins, who spoke in New York Saturday on “Federal Relief and the Yuletide Spirit,” is a mockery of the mass misery of millions. Taken in their entirety, the workings of the Roosevelt-inspired committees have as. their sole objective the denial of real unemployment insurance. The plans of the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance, on the other hand, will place the demand squarely before the owning class and their government—real unemployment insurance for all workers te be paid by the bosses and their gov- ernment. Elect delegates to the Unemployment Insurance. National Concress for The Anti-Communist Drive HE House Committee on un-American activities, which has been dabbling in | the exposure of Nazi and fascist activities in this country, is now turning its main attention to its real work. The committee will enter on Monday into “investigations” of ‘““Com- munist activity.” What is it that the Congressional Committee is already contemplating? A Federal drive against the Communist Party, with Congressmian McCor- | mack, chairman of the committee, already pro- | posing a Federal registration system for all “radi- cal propagandists.” This drive against the Communist Party by the | House Committee supposedly fighting fascism comes very nicely timed with the call by the U. 8. Cham- ber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers for the outlawing of the Communist Party. It comes timed with the whole new reaction- ary drive of the Roosevelt government, which is now moving forward to execute the latest wage- cutting, open-shop policies of the Wall Street mo- nopolies. The Dickstein investigation of the Nazis thus turns out to be only a ruse by which the main guns can be turned against the Communist Party, the leading fighter against fascism and capitalist ex- ploitation. If the Communist Party is outlawed and its | activities seriously hampered by the Dickstein Com- mittee, then the advance of fascism will proceed without any obstacles in its path. For the Commu- nist Party. as the revolutionary party of the work- ing class, is the leading organizer of the mass fight ageinst fascism. The Dickstein Committee, like all capitalist groups allegedly “fighting” fascism, wages a sham battle against fascism, only the better to wage a real fight against Communism, the true enemy of fascism. And it is significant that the first witnesses in this new “Red baiting” investigation will be Wil- liam Green and Matthew Woll. Is not this a united front of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats with the most reactionary sections of the Wall Street ruling class? Does, not this show the role Green and Woll are playing in organizing the new Roosevelt wage-cut drive? It is the solemn duty of the whole working class, especially of the Socialis; Party and trade union members, to rally to the defense of the Communist Party against the new “Red baiting” of the Dick- stein Committee and the A. F. of L. bureaucrats like Green and Woll. For the blows that are aimed against the Com- munist Party are aimed at the whole labor move- ment, ‘ 4 A The NRA Auto Hearings UTO workers’ testimony before the N. R. A. hearings in Detroit revealed the most terrible conditions of speed-up, low wages, spy tems, company union- ism and black list. Employes of all the big auto companies testified to these inhuman condi- tions. The employes of the Ford company showed that Ford is the greatest bloodsucker in Detroit. A number testified they were better off on relief than on the auto companies’ payrolls. These conditions were brought about largely through the treachery of these same A. F. of L. leaders—William Green, Collins, Dillon, etc. The rotten conditions have come about under the re- gime of the Auto Labor Board,. which was set up March Green's support. At that time, when the auto workers were ready to strike for their demands, Green and company prevented the strike, helped Roosevelt, and the companies set up the Auto Labor Board, and thus defeated all the auto workers’ demands. Now, when the auto workers clearly see that the Auto Labor Board is responsible for the company union’s growth, for blacklisting, speed-up and low wages, these A. F. of L. leaders have been forced to “attack” the very board which they helped set up. But what do Green and Dillon propose in place of the Auto Labor Board? Not strike preparations, last with | not a united front of the auto workers to fight for | their demands—but another “impartial” board set up by Roosevelt. These A. F. of L. leaders are trying to do over again what they did last March—to keep the auto workers from preparing a strike for their demands, to keep the auto workers satisfied with Roosevelt’s employer controlled boards, to maintain their faith in the federal government, whose boards have brought the auto workers to their present deplorable state. ‘ ¥ 4 'HE rank and file auto workers demand the thirty- hour week without reduction in pay, higher wages, union recognition, an end of the killing speed-up. They demand the passage of the Workers’ Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill. These demands cannot be won through N.R.A, “investigations” or framed-up “elections” which fa- vor the company union. These demands cannot be won by reliance on Roosevelt’s Auto Labor Board, or any similar board of Roosevelt, which claims to be “impartial,” but which is controlled by the companies. The demands of the auto workers can be won only through preparing a strike. The immediate task of the auto workers is to achieve the united | front of all auto workers, to achieve rank and file control of the union, to build the union to a 100 per cent organization. The building of the united front of all auto workers to fight for these demands; the prepara- tion of strike for these demands—this is the only road whereby the auto workers can change the in- humen conditions brought about by the employers through the government Labor Boards, Spreading Confusion ENERAL SMEDLEY BUTLER, who re- cently made some illuminating revela- tions of how and by whom fascism is being organized in this country, spoke on Friday at the Mecca Temple in New York City. And this speech revealed that despite his start- ling revelations on the fascist plots in this coun- try, Butler himself is playing his own special part in strengthening the rule of the Wall Street mo- nopolies, who are the organizers of the advance of fascism. Butler’s whole line in this meeting is that the danger of fascism comes only from outside the . White House and the Federal government. He urged his audience to trust the government as the bul- wark against fascism, and as the instrument to bring about social change. Doesn't this serve to prepare the way for fascism in America, through concealing its main source, in the Roosevelt gov- ernment? “How will you fight fascism?” he was asked. And he replied, “You have the right to vote and you can vote men into office who wiil fight it for you. The worst thing in the world is to get rebellious about it and fight it. Just keep on as you are going.” Now what is this if not the most valuable kind of service to the organizers of fascism? If Butler's advice is taken then fascism will have no trouble in advancing itself. If the masses depend on “voting against fascism,” then fascism, which is the most brutal advance of the Wall Street monopolies, will take power in no time. Notice that Butler specifically advises the people “not to get rebeilious” about fascism—that ts to say, not to fight it in mass demonstrations, mass protests, and strike actions, the only way that fas- cism can be stopped in its advance. What is this if not giving fascism a helping hand in this country? Did not the misleaders of the Ger- man and Austrian people also advise them to “vote against fascism” by voting for Hindenberg and Doll- fuss, both of whom ushered in fascism? Butler also showed himself to be a subtle propa- gandist for imperialist war. Desnite all his “radical” speeches about war as a “racket” for the capital- ists (in which he is right as far as he goes), Butler proceeded on Friday to warn his audience that the way to fight imperialist war is “to vote in support of your Senate. They'll do it for you.” Now it is clear that this kind of stuff has its important function in keeping the masses from fighting the war-makers in the only effective way, by mass actions, by strikes against war shipments, etc. Watch out for this Butler. He is serving capital- ism and fascism in his own way. 39,231% War Profits MAGINE Mr. Pierre S. du Pont’s em- barrassment when the fact was brought out that on one government contract his war munitions firm made 39,231 per cent profit ! Karl Marx has said that for 331-3 per cent profit almost any capitalist would sell his grandmother. For thirty-nine thousand two hun- dred and thirty-one per cent profit, he has no com- | punction whatever in having several millions of workers slaughtered. We can well understand that when the Senate Arms Inquiry brought out the fact that the du Pont firm got a return of nearly $2,000,000 on a $5,000 war investment in the Old Hickory powder plant that Mr. Pierre S. du Pont’s face got “crimson with feeling.” An assistant United States attorney general, in office at the time this thirty-nine thousand two hun- dred and thirty-one per cent profit was made de- clared his attempts to prosecute this robbery were blocked at every avenue in the government, The main purpose of the Wall Street govern- ment, whether under Wilson, Hoover, Harding or Roosevelt, is to protect the interests and profits of the big trusts and the richest exploiters. Was Insull punished? Is Weirton Steel, Budd, or any other auto manufacturer in the slightest threatened by wilfully violating the demagogic “rights” Roosevelt promised the workers? | Party Life | | Youth Movement And Problems In Farm Regions IN SOUTH DAKOTA the Party has led successful struggles for the The | | burning needs of the farmers. Party led the struggle against evic- tions which climaxed in the well known Sisseton trial to the victory of the farmers. In the course of |these struggles the Party has grown to about 200 members and_ built functioning section committees and a functioning District Committee. | There is a mass farm movement | with as many as 900 members in |the U. F. L, in one county. In jother words the Party has already a mass base. Last spring there were 200 mem- | bers in the Youth Sections of the U. F. L, a regularly appearing mimeographed farm youth paper with a circulation of as much as 800. We had two functioning units of the Y. C. L. with a membership of 25. Here we thought the farm youth movement was going to grow and with it we would build the Y. Cc. L. into the political leader of the farm youth. Today there is not a functioning | Youth Section in South Dakota. | These youth take part in the regu- |lar meetings of the U. F. L., but there is no youth activity. — The youth paper has not come out for |four months. We have not: got a | Single paid-up member or a func- tioning unit of the Y. C. L. What are the reasons for the de. \cline? First we must remember that the Y. C. L. asa whole is very weak and that the District office is too far from mpst of the units to give the personal guidance that it should. Therefore the League needs more attention from the Party for its day to day political guidance. At this time the Party draws a young com- rade 19 years old, who has ability of leadership, into Party work. When the League protests against such actions what are the answers jof the Party comrades? “First we have to build the Party before we can build the League.” “The Party needs forces badly.” “It is better to have every Party member respon- | sible for building the League than one or two young comrades.” “There is no need for a comrade to be full time on League work when there is no League.” The last words of a leading com- rade of the Party Buro were as follows: “In outlining your youth work be careful that no responsi- bility is placed on these two (Y. C. L.’ers) comrades who are needed in Party work.” Will the comrades read Comrade Browders “Report to the 8th Na- tional Convention of the C. P.” in which he says, “The winning of the working class youth is the problem not of our youth organizations alone, but the problem of the entire Party. In the past this has not only been forgotten, but there has been al- lowed to develop a sort of organi- zational rivalry between the youth and adult organizations, a rivalry not in the sense of socialist com- petition, but of the adult trying to grab away as quickly as possible from the youth organizations every |rising young leader who ‘shows special organizational or political capacity. The idea has been that as soon as the youth movement pro- duces a leader who is ‘good enough for Party work’ that this means he is wasting his time if he remains any longer in what is looked on as a sort of probationary kindergarten. This frivolous attitude toward youth work must be eliminated from our movement.” The comrades in South Dakota seem to be developing a line in re- gard to youth work which is dif- ferent from that laid down at the 8th Convention of the Party. On that basis the League will not be built. On youth work what should the tasks of the Party be in South Dakota? First, these young comrades must be released from Party activity and be assigned to no other’ than building the youth movement. A couple of other Party members be assigned to the sole task of build- ing the League. Get these comrades together and work out a plan of how-we are go- ing to develop a broad youth sec- tion into the Farmers Drouth Re- lief Conference. We must have at | this conference a broad representa- | tion of the youth and organize a mass movement of the farm youth. Together with this struggle of the youth for relief we must build |the Youth Section of the U. F. L., revive our youth organ “The Youth Leader” and at the same time build the Y. C. L. Then we will see the League grow into a mass League that will be the political leader of the farming youth, drawing them into the campaigns and struggles of the Party. The Party will then in a short period of time. be able to draw its members and cadres from the League. E. K., -D. 0;)-¥. 6.°h., BIRMARK, XN D. The Party comrades in every dis- trict after reading this letter should examine their own relations. with the Y. C. L. to see how. their dis- trict is carrying out the decisions of the Eighth Convention in relation to building the Y. C. L. Chicago Workers To Celebrate Opening of Biro-Bidjan Soviets CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 14. — The workers of Chicago will celebrate the election of the first Jewish Soviet in Biro-Bidjan on December 23rd at the Masonic Temple, 32 West Randolph Street. Noted speakers will explain how the Soviet Union solved the Jewish question. Among them are: Robert Minor, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party; Dr, Curtis W. Reece, head of the Abraham Lincoln Center; Professor 'A, J. Carlson of the University of , Chicago; Charles Kuntz, who spent six years working and farms in the Soviet Union, especial- ly Biro-Bidjan; and S. Almazow, national secretary of ICOR. studying, | WAR—WHAT FOR! 1914 1915S | 700% | prorr | 600% enoer 500% PROFIT “WF Burck cartoon? Martin Zadrovic Y. C. L. See. 8, Unit 1. A. Seigel .. 'HE elaboration of the plan for the third year of the Second Five Year Plan is on the agenda of the planning bodies of socialist economy. The data on the course of the fulfillment of the plan of the current year, the second year of the Second Five Year Plan, is there- fore of. interest. We have already reported the temporary results of the work of heavy industry in the Soviet Union in the first ten monthe of this year. We have now before us an EXHAUSTIVE ECO- NOMIC REPORT FOR THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS (January- September) of 1934. From this report it can be seen that the USSR. HAS GREAT PROGRESS TO SHOW ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE SECOND FIVE YEAR PLAN IN ALL THE SPHERES OF ECONOMY OF THE COUNTRY. The increase in the poduction of large scale industry in these nine months amounts to 20.2 per cent in comparison with the corresponding period of last year. the Volume of production for the same period amounts to 26.5 billion rubles. The increase of production in the branches of industry produc- ing means of production reached 25.9 per cent during this time and for the branches of industry pro- ducing articles for general use it was 11.7 per cent. The highest growth took place in heavy indus- try where it amounted to 28 per | cent and the industries producing food followed closely with an _in- crease of 23.1 per cent. THERE IS NOT A SINGLE BRANCH OF IN- DUSTRY WHICH HAS NOT GOT A CONSIDERABLE GROWTH TO RECORD IN COMPARISON WITH THE YEAR BEFORE. This can be seen from the following table: Jan.-Sept, 1934—in percentage in parison with Jan.- Sept. 1933 Branch of Industry Butter and other fai Manganese Basic Chemicals Iron Ore Glass Coke Iron Electric power Rubber . Non-ferrous metal . Match .. Machine construction & metal . Anthracite coal Slate Peat Ceme! Silk Knit Flax Crude oil . Oil products Cotton Paper Power Production i It is characteristic that the pro- duction of power in the first nine months of this year increased by 31.8 per cent whereas the total in- | crease in power production amounts | to 20.2 per cent, In this way the production of energy surpasses the growth of industry as well as other branches of national economy. The | for the whole country, ® I9I6 1917 es cee Union .. original E East Holden Total Sec. 4 Unit 61 Fordham Prog. Club Hartford Window & House Cleaners Previously received ...... by Burck 1919 _ i913 Burek will give the oigina! drawing of his cartoon to the highest contriputor esen day towards his quota of $1,000, REACHES $750 MARK Aided by the Hartford Window and House Clean- ers Union, Burck raised $21.50 today, Aren't: there other unions who would like to .win- an 1.50 5.00 Youth Club . $753.26 ‘On the Eve of the Third Year of the Second Five-Year Plan Iron Smelting The iron smelting industry as a whole yielded a total growth of 39 per ceft in comparison with last year, but iron ore showed an in- crease of 49.7 per cent and steel a growth of 42.6 per cent. Malleable iron increased by 37 per cent. If the iron smelting in September which amounted to 916,800 tons is taken into consideration when THE U.S.S.R. TAKES FIRST PLACE IN THE WORLD AND HAS SUR- PASSED THE IRON SMELTING OF THE U.S.A. (912,000 tons). This year’s results in the sphere of agriculture in the U.S.S.R. are generally known. Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather conditions in different districts of the Soviet Union, this year’s harvest, owing to the collective farm system which enables a better organization of work, is on the same level as the big harvest of last year. In this year, too, numerous trac- tors and agricultural machines were given to agriculture: in the first nine months of this year 60,500 tractors, 7,300 mowers and thresh- ers were supplied and during the three quarters of the year the agri- cultural machine construction in- dustry delivered machinery to the value of 271.7 million rubles. As far as cattle raising is con- werned the current year denotes a ‘Qurning point: the number of cat- tle has increased for the first time in all branches of cattle raising. Railway Transport Railway transport expressed in the number of tons of freight moved has increased during the first eight months of the current year by 20.3 per cent in comparison with the same time last year. The constant growth of all branches of national economy de- “| manded a further drawing in of} labor forces. In the first eight months of this year the number of workers employed in Soviet indus- jtry increased by 10.3 per cent in| comparison to the corresponding period of last year. The average monthly wages increased by 14.4 per cent in the same period of time. The renewed upswing in the .ma- terial level of the toilers and their | increased purchasing power can: also be seen in the turnover of goods in the country. The retail turnover in the Soviet Union shows an increase of 30.7 per cent in the first nine months of the current year in comparison with the cor- responding peried of the year be- fore. The foreign trade of the U.S.S.R. has a favorable balance to show for the period from January to the end of this year amounting to 129,- 701,000 rubles. The volume and the character of the extended reproduction of na- tional economy in the U.S.S.R. in the current year assures it of a new, big stride forward in the com- ond Five Year Plan. Plan for World Inflatio LONDON, Dec. 16.—Conversa- ' f financial London yesterday. Industrialists | ie iniusinti wont: of the cop talist countries held their parley in the light of the following recent de- yelopments: 1. A strong upswing in British industrial stocks has set in, with J | the greater sgnificance of ap- proaching war overhanging this ominous “rise” in production. 2, The presence for several days tions held to prepare the ground for|in London of Hendrick Colijn, world inflation under the guise of| Premier of Holland, and the state- “stabilizing” the chief currencies in| ment by the Dutch Finance Minister Europe and America were reported} Oud, immediately after Coljin’s re-| English imperialism for world trade. A short time ago the Presidum of the Central Executive Committee finally approved the plan which has been elaborated in all its details by the State Planning Commission for the development of the national economy of the USSR. for the Second Five Year Plan—1933-1937. Soviet Architecture | An architects’ conference took | | place in Moscow a short time ago ‘which decided upon the following | agenda for the first Architects’ Con- gress to be convened at the begin- ning of 1935: 1—The tasks of Soviet’ architec- ture, 2.—The architecture of the Feder- ated Republics. 3.—The architectural educational | system and the training of highly skilled builders. 4—The planning towns. ‘5.—The building and the planning ‘of the collective farm villages. 6.—Statutes of the Soviet Archi- tects’ Union. The conference decided to or- ganize an All-Union architectural exhibition in Moscow within the ; near future. | No “National Minorities” In all the districts of the Soviet Union, and not only in the autono- mous republics, the toilers of any | nationality who are in the majority in a given locality or district form their national local Soviet which looks after the economic and cul- | tural needs of the local population. | The language of the nationality in j question is the dominant language jin this area and in the work of all j the bories of the local Soviets. In | Soviet Ukraine, for example, there are 1,133 such village Soviets and district Executive Committees j among which there are 170 Polish, 113 Jewish, 94 Moldavian, 47 Bul- garian, 31 Greek, 12 Czechoslovak- jian, 2 White Russian, etc. Besides ; that, one Swedish and three Al- banian village Soviets are now be- ing formed in the Ukraine. In this way the Soviet Ukraine creates all the necessary conditions for the economic and national development jof all the nationalities that live there. New Collective Peasants | The re-elections to the Village , Soviets are taking place in the So- viet Union hand in hand with an increased infiux of indivdual peas- ‘ants into the collective farms. This influx had already commenced in the summer months when the suc- cessful struggle of the collective farms against the drought had | demonstrated all the merits of the collective farm system in a particu- larly striking manner. In the Kiev ‘district alone (Ukraine). 87,000 | Peasant households joined the col- jective farms during the past few of socialist | supply of power is thereby increased | ing year, the third year of the Sec- | months. (To Be Concluded Tomorrow) turn to Holland indicates that while Britain is anxious for the standard- zation of international exchange, it is afraid of being left behind in any inflationary race and is utilizing Holland in an effort to influence the present negotiations among the gold-bloc nations. 3. Under the pretense of a wil- lingness to join the so-called “gold- bloc.” American imperialism is carefully laying plans for the fur- ther devaluation of the dollar, as part of its intensified struggles with | Dreserve Ethiopia very |the lion does the lamb after it has World Front —— By HARRY GANNES -——' Singapore and Abyssinia Why the Feverish Activity? “Labor Herald” on Royalty ‘Apes and navies are par- ticularly active these days in colonial spheres. Musso- lini’s troops recently killed 100 Abyssinians on the border of Italian Somaliland, Africa. The British are now conduct« ing gigantic, though secret war maneuvers, in Singapore, the $150,- 000,000 naval war base, guarding the imperialist trade routes to Australia, Hongkong, Shanghai, and Japan. Why all the sudden activity? As the general cavitalist crisis grows in the imperialist homeland, the pressure for greater colonial plunder becomes overpowering. Mussolini has long had his eyes on Abyssinia, the last remaining independent Ne- sro country. But Mussolini is not alone in coveting this important African territory. The British have for many years been trying to get their clutches on Abyssinia where the waters of the Nile have their source and where the British feel they must. control in order to in- sure the huge irrigation projects in the Sudan cotton areas. The French, the Japanese, and the Americans, likewise, have _ been striving to gain advantage here too. Rid $a nat 'HE Japanese hold out the lure of “preserving the independence” of Abyssinia against the white imperi- alists, and undoubtedly they would much as been swallowed. French imperialism has the edge on others because it controls the only railroad connecting Addis Abeba. the capital of Abyssinia, to Djibuti, the seaport in French Somaliland. The French get tribute from every piece of goods shipped into the country and all commodi- ties sent out. For man years now Mussolini has been building up his armed forces in Africa with the express purpose of taking a good slice of Abyssinia and annexing it to the Italian colony in Somaliland, hae ae WRITISH war maneuvers in Singa- pore signalize a more intensified drive for the Far Eastern markets, efforts to extend colonial control over Siam, over a greater share: of South China, Malaya. Despite the various diplomatic flirtations and rapprochement between Japan and British imperialism when it comes to thwarting American imperialism’s aims, Singanore is a thorn in the side of the Japanese navy. So when the British began their maneuvers a number of mysterious spy raids were made by the ever- present Scotland yard men in Singa- pore. Now it is common knowledge in Singapore that many scores of veople have been quietly butchered because they were merely accused of being spies. The nervous British lion guards the secrets of Singapore with greater ferocity than any other of his many war moves. The mystery of how the Javanese business man Y. Nishimura died in Singapore while in the hands of the British Scotland Yard men, on the charge of -spying. has not been cleared uv yet. Two causes were given for his death—first. heart dis- ease and next, self-administered poison. _The spy fever, which is alweys a sign of intensified war preparation, spread to Tokio, where the too gal- Jant Lieutenant Tessier Ducros, as- sistant naval attache of the French embassy was accused by the Japa- nese of gathering naval information from Japanese women. RITISH stockbrokers, writing to their clients, expressed great re- lief that the “Daily Herald.” organ of the British Labor Partv dwelt so fully and servilely with the recent roval wedding. In fact. one brokerage firm, Vick- ers, Da’ Costa &-Co., No. 1 Throg- morton St., London, in a private circular letter to its clients, de- clared: “As regards the political situa~ tion in this country, we would liké to call attention to the ‘Daily Herald, which paper has the greatest circulation of any daily paper in this country, and is the organ for the Socialist and Revo- lutionary Party. Today’s issue con- tains probably more photographs and reading matter relating to the happy Royal Wedding than any ether paper in the country, which gives foreign Socialists, Commu- nists and other revolutionaries a proper idea of what the Socialistic spirit in this country is lik~.” Not at all gentlemen. It gives those who would trouble themselves to see the idea that the Labor Party Jeaders are doing all they can to divert the growing revolutionary sentiments of the British masses. The Hendersons, Citrines and others are trying to instill in the workers scme of the licksvittle reverence for loyalty that so distinguishes Messrs. MacDonald, Henderscn, Thomas & Co. 87 MORE NEEDED A good jump toward Gannes’ $500 quota. Is there $7 among pros- pective contributors who will put World Front among those who have reached their goal? Film & Photo League Press League . 75.00 Pon & Hammer Ecenomic 13.00 Section 3 ..... . 5.00 Business Staff ... » 2.00 Editorial Staff . 2.00 Leo Sheines 80 Section 4 .. » 115 Fordham Prog. Club . 5.00 Mrs. A. Sklar ..... - 5.00 Charlie Wanderbar . . 90 J. 8. Miller ........ ‘ . 1.00 Previously received Total .. - A single unit in the Harlem sec- tion, N, ¥. District—Unit S. G. 4 raised $210.12 for the Daily Worker fund, and expect to raise an additional $10. Has your unit fulfilled its auota? Pony