The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1934, Page 6

POR ONE: Page 6 BAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1934 Daily ,.QWorker CHWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U “America’s Only Working Class Dally Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address Daiwork, New York, N. Y. Washington Burea 954, Ni 1 Press Building, ¢. National 7910 708, Chicago, Ml. ————————————— WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1934 (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERNATIONAL) except anhattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00; $3.50; 3 $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. n, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Weekly, 18 ce monthly, 75 85. 2: By mail , $1.50; 6 , 75 cents. —=————————————— | Answer the Counter- Revolutionists NOGETHER with the news of the execu- tions of 23 more white guard assassins and terrorists in the Soviet Union, the Daily Worker today publishes revealing extracts from the Russian Czarist organ, the “Fascist.” The “Fascist,” published in the United States by dregs of the white guardist emigres, openly boasts that it, and its associated organizations throughout the world, work for the sending of armed groups into the Soviet Union to assassinate Communist leaders and to sabotage Socialist con- struction. When 103 of their members are caught in the crime, after the assassination of Comrade Kirov, when the workers’ fatherland treats them as they déserve for trying to bring back the hunger regime of the Czar with its degeneracy and misery, no wonder a yelp is let out here by all foes of the vic- torious workers’ revolution. What is most despicable, however, is the as- sistance of the Socialist leader, Algernon Lee, given to these white guards in their “protest” after they so openly boasted of their murder deeds, and their criminal objectives in the Soviet Union. It is not surprising further that these white guard terrorists should penetrate into the Trotz- kyite and former Zinoviev groups. These degenerate elements recognize in these groups a common aim of advancing the cause of counter-revolutionary resistance to Socialist advance in the US.S.R The Trotzkyites bitterly assail the construction of Socialism in one country, furiously slander the stalwart and brilliant leader of the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin, as well as the Communist Party of the U.S. S.R. They thereby give heart and en- couragement to all capitalist forces willing to use any instrument against the workers’ fatherland no matter what spurious banner it gives itself. The main activity of the Trotzkyites has been to work up a counter-revolutionary lynch spirit against the proletarian leaders in the Soviet Union. Nothing likes company better, without being concerned about its origin, than the counter-revolu- tion against the Soviet Union. These forces travel down the same road no matter what songs they whistle to keep up their courage. And when one of their murder detachments finds it has reached a blank wall, why should there be any howling ex- cept from those who are grieved to find their plans have gone awry against the fortress of the world proletarian revolution? We urge all our readers not to fail to read the editorial from “Izvestia,” also published on our first page today. “Izvestia” declares that no cow- ardly shot, no terrorist efforts can stem the glorious and rapid advance of Socialist construction and its extremely happy phase now unrolling in the Soviet Union. Against the united front of counter-revolution, which aims above all to stop the success of Socialist construction and its revolutionary inspiration to the workers of the entire world, e working class should weld its united front against reaction and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The united front of counter-revolution, stretch- ing all the way from the Japanese imperialists to the German fascist butchers, on down to the Rus- sian white guards, the Trotzkyites with their unholy alliance of J. P. Cannon and A. J. Muste in this country, and the Socialist Algernon Lee, should be answered by the revolutionary workers in this coun- try and the friends of the Soviet Union by a united front for the defense of the Soviet Union. A New Deportation Drive. | IHE employers are striking new blows against the foreign-born workers in this country. A new wave of deportations is rising, with the Roosevelt government taking the lead in spreading terrorism among militant foreign- born workers. Since the San Francisco general strike more than 20 workers have been deported as a result of their militant activity in defense of the welfare of the workers against the employers. Almost every day another worker is seized. In two days two workers, Oscar Mannisto and Paul Kettinen, come up before the Federal District Court, where the government will attempt to railroad them out of the country. Roosevelt knows what he is doing in this terror- ism against foreign-born workers. His Labor De- partment is cooperating with the new offensive be- gun by the National Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers to split the ranks of labor and smash the labor movement. To meet this reactionary drive which helps pave the way for fascism, and for the smashing of all workers’ organizations and living standards, the Conference for the Protection of Foreign Born will be held Sunday, Jan. 13, at 2 p.m. at Irving Plaza, New York City. Support of this conference is a serious duty of all working class organizations. Funds to aid the fight against the Roosevelt deportation drive should be sent to 80 E. 11th St., Room 611, New York City. The deportation of foreign-born workers hits the wage standards of native workers, since in this way the employers seek to weaken the working class in its fight for class unity. When they can split the workers this way, they can reduce the wages of all workers, native and foreign-born. We must fight this chauvinism and this reac- tionary terrorism! Fight the deportation drive! De- fend the full rights of the foreign-born to economic, social and political equality! oo Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information cn the Com- munist Party. A Call to Socialist and A.F.L. Workers T IS particularly to Socialist Party work- ers and members of the A. F. of L. locals that we wish to address this editorial. We wish to discuss with these class brothers of ours the meaning of what is going on in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. For what happening there is a serious threat to the weekly pay envelope and the general wel- fare of every worker and worker’s family in the country. In this fashionable resort, 90 of the country’ leading Wall Street industrialists are now meet- ing in secret session, These meetings are an ex- tension of the recent meetings of the National As- sociation of Manufacturers and the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce, both together representing the big- gest and most reactionary industrial employers in the country. And though they are meeting in secret, these in- dustrial capitalists make no secret as to what they are after. As reported in yesterday’s press, they are “work- ing out a few broad principles upon which the en- tire business world can unite...and set up an or- ganization to make the weight of business una- nimity more effectively felt in the government than has been possible since Roosevelt came into power.” Big business, in short, is working for a united front to defend its class interests, with the aid of Roosevelt and Congress. And what is it that are uniting on? The press yesterday gave us the answer: “on the reshaping of the N.R.A. codes and the development of business unanimity on labor laws.” This is blunt enough. It is in line with the pro- gram adopted by the big industrialists’ Congress of American Industry in New York two weeks ago. In brief, it means that the biggest capitalist em- ployers are organizing on a program whose basis is the more open, direct control of the N.R.A. codes by the monopolies, and a smashing offensive against American labor and all the wage standards and union conditions which it has wrung from the bosses by long struggle. * . * ND this is not some distant program. It is planned for immediate execution by Roosevelt and Congress in January. What will this mean to Socialist and A. F. of L, workers? It will mean wage cuts, It will mean longer hours and more speed-up. It will mean an open shop drive that try to smash the unions and union conditions in the factories. It will mean terrorism against pickets and strikes, It will mean the introduction of stretch- out on a scale never seen before, with an end of all workers welfare provisions won through strikes. It will mean more hunger, more exploitation, more oppression. That is only too plain, OCIALIST and A. F. of L. workers! What are we going to do about this sinister united front of the employers, which menaces us and. our families? Shall we follow the policies of the Socialist Party and A, F, of L. leadership, which continue to split the ranks of the workers with reactionary “Red baiting” drives in the unions and refusals to form united front agreements with the Communist Party? Or shall we meet the challenge of the united front of the employers with our own class united front? The capitalists are meeting in their conventions. We, the working class, have our own Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance to meet in Washington Jan. 5 to 7. This Congress can become the weapon with which we begin our counter-offen- sive against the new plans of the bosses. They are organizing their wage-cutting, union-smashing drive. Let us organize our working class drive for the 30- hour week, for cash relief, for Federal unemploy- ment insurance, to be paid by the government and the bosses, for the right to organize and picket. Socialist and A. F. of L. workers! Let us defend our working class organizations, our unions and our mass organizations against the united front of the bosses, Our common interests bind us together. Our families suffer alike from the exploitation and op- pression of the employers. Why then should there be any delay in welding our united front in defense of our immediate class interests? Whatever our differences on other questions, on the immediate vital question of wages, defense of trade unions and the right to strike, on relief and unemployment insurance, we must be united. Support the Congress for Social and Unemploy- ment Insurance! Answer the new offensive of the employers! Build the united front! The Big Department Store Strikes HE strikes of retail clerks and other em- ployes of big department stores is an- other sign of the deep going dissatisfac- tion of the workers with the miserable con- ditions imposed upon them by the N.R.A. Beginning with the large Boston Store in Mil- waukee, with Klein’s and Ohrbach’s department stores in New York City, there is a sweeping move for organization into trade unions on the part of the department store workers. These strikes are the first strikes of department store clerks in recent years. In Milwaukee the workers of the city have come to the support of the three unions striking, which include the maintenance men and truck drivers as well as the clerks, They are refusing to buy in the store by the thousands. But the workers of Milwaukee are asking why it is that the Socialist Party newspaper, The Mil- waukee Leader, continues to run large’ advertise- ments of the Boston Store, which urge the popula- tion to do their Christmas shopping at the Boston Store (where scab help is now being employed and a bitter strike is on). The strikers voted overwhelmingly against ac- cepting a sell-out agreement and voted to continue striking. They took this decision in direct oppo- sition to the state officials of the Federation of Labor, who urged them to return to work under the unsatisfactory agreement. In New York, the police force of the LaGuardia administration has arrested scores of pickets in front of Ohrbach’s, and the courts have just moved for an anti-picketing injunction against the Office Workers Union, which is conducting the strike at Ohrbach’s. With the support of the local unions of the A. F. of L., and the workers who refuse to buy in these scab stores, the department store workers will win their strike. The organization of the department store work- ers is aimed to improve the conditions of workers who are among the lowest paid and those who have to work under conditions of extreme hardship. © |of NEW PIONEERS once a month, jtional approach to their parents, | this. Many comrades who are good | Party Life The New Pioneer | And the Duties |" Party Members i kee NEW PIONEER, a monthly | | Publication of the Federation of Workers’ and Farmers’ regularly, with little or no direct jassistance from our Party as such, | The present circulation of this mag- azine, which is very well liked by not only the children but also by the adults who read it, is about 14,000, distributed over 40 states. |Considering the conditions of the workers and their rapid radicaliza- tion, the figure should be much higher—50,000 readers could easily |be gained in a short time without a great deal of effort. If only 20,000 copies were sold and paid for every month, the NEW PIONEER would be self-supporting, As things are, it runs at a deficit. Last year it was forced to engage in & campaign to raise $3,000 with $1,800 was raised. This year it is faced with the same problem, and is having a campaign to raise $2,000. We are depending chiefly upon the children to raise this money, but it is very essential that the adult comrades help as much as possible. There are several ways in which this can be done. First, adult organ- izations can make collections of money and send them in directly to the NEW PIONEER. Every Party and Y.C.L. Unit can make a collec- tion of at least a quarter and send it in, If every Unit did this much, it would help tremendously. Second- ly, every Unit should take a bundle Individual members can buy copies for children they know (their own read the NEW PIONEER). Then the magazine can be used in can- vassing. Where you go canvassing with the Daily Worker, take a few copies of the magazine along for the children. They will like the mag- azine, and you will have an addi- who will often organize for the needs of their children sooner than for their own needs. It should not be necessary to say that every child of every Party member and every child of a mem- ber of a mass organization should be a reader of the NEW PIONEER. However, figures and other evidence prove that it is necessary to say Communists in other respects fail to fulfill their Communist duty when it comes to their own children. They fail to realize the importance of the working class education of the child in our society, where from his earliest years he is given educa- tion against the working class in the schools, movies, newspapers, books, ete. The Boy Scouts at the present time have a membership of almost a@ million boys ready to carry through the program of the ruling class at all times. In the last war the Scouts sold Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps worth more than $2,000,000.. The Scouts are now engaged in a recruiting cam- paign. They have the full support of the ruling class, naturally. The Pioneer organization is very important for the working class. Yet we continually neglect it. Be- side every branch of every mass or- ganization there should be built a | Children’s | |Organizations, has been coming out, which to pay off its debts. About | children, if these children do not, | TAKING A LEAF FROM HITLER’S BOOK | | | Leon Lifshutz .... Boston District Banquet Total ... Robert Burleigh Previously Rec'd, . by Burek Burck will give the o iginal drawing of his cartoon to the highest contributor each day towards his quota of $1,000, Contributions received to the credit of Burck. . 2.00 . 768.76 $776.76 By Harry Gannes A reading of the English lan- guage imperialist press in China ‘and Japan shows that the foreign! military advisers and financial back- | jers of the Chiang Kai-shek anti-| Soviet war are bitterly disappointed | ,and fearful over the outcome of | Chiang Kai-shek’s “victory” in} ‘Kiangsi province, | The carefully laid plans of Chiang} Kai-shek, abetted and aided by {American imperialism, Italian and German fascism, have not only gone awry but have proved to be a disas- trous boomerang. Chiang Kai-shek has been en-| deavoring to encircle the central) Soviet district with a ring of steel) fortresses, of over 800,000 soldiers, | and 300 bombing planes. His aim) jwas to draw the iron chain tighter) jana tighter, and finally to strangle | ithe Chinese Soviets. i But this strategy of the Kuo- mintang butcher, assisted by the | Junior Branch of Pioneers. This is a simple task to accomplish. | want to be organized and educated in the ideas of the workers—that is, if we approach them before the schools, etc. have alienated them from the working class. There is Such @ thing as leaving it until too late. _ The NEW PIONEER is an organ- izer and educator of workers’ and farmers’ children. Yet we con- tinually neglect it. We do not’ spread it, even though the task of Spreading it is so easy. Let us stress again that it is a good magazine, generally conceded to be the “best in our movement.” Children like it, Yet many children of our class- conscious parents don’t even see it! Surely this negligence is a criminal thing, arising from a lack of un- derstanding the political importance of Preparing our children to fight with us and not against us. Let us correct this attitude, com- rades! Let us organize Junior Branches in every mass organiza- tion. Let us buy the NEW PIO- NEER, give it to our children, take it with us when we go canvassing, and, until such a time as the maga- zine through our work will have become self-supporting, let us sup- port it financially as a valuable in- strument in winning the working class children for the working class. 8 Red Leaders Imprisoned At Nanking LL.D. Opens Drive To Asks for Protest Yu Chi Chuan and the seven anti-imperialist fighters held with tured in prison and face grave dan- ger of execution, according to in- formation received yesterday by the International Labor Defense. Yu Chi Chuan, Tsao Sung Hsu, Lin Tze Min, Lin Sung Wu, Lin Yu Ying, Chen Sui Yang, Wang Chin Sen and Chen Yu Lung were arrested on April 26 and turned jover to the Kuomintang hangmen by the English settlement police. Although they were tried and sen- tenced by a Chinese court, the pros- |ecution was represented by a lawyer of the English magistracy in Shang- hai. Brutal Sentences The most brutal sentences were handed down to the prisoners, Tsao Children of class conscious parents | Perialist bandits, plus their millions Save Them from Death; , him in Nanking are still being tor- , best military experience of the im- ‘of dollars, has been defeated by the ‘Chinese Soviets. The iron ring has ‘been pierced in three points, and | it lies broken, embracing an empty | void, while the Red Army marches | onward to greater assault against | the Kuomintang, against imperialist | and native landlord capitalist rule | in China. | Was Strategic Move In this respect, we must point out | that failure to understand the Strategic move of the Chinese So- viets, has led some friends of the Chinese people into very grave and dangerous errors. While in reality attempting to expose the lying statements of Chiang Kai-shek, the New Masses in its latest issue has been unconsciously too much influ- ‘enced by his official news agency. \Denying that Juikin, capital of the central Soviet district had fallen into the hands of the Kuomintang, the New Masses in an editorial de- clares: “Had this been true it would have meant a serious if not a disastrous blow to the Red Army.” What is the actual situation? The jtaking of Juikin is confirmed and is not “a disastrous blow to the ‘Red Army.” Quite the contrary. The effective carrying out of the new strategy and tactics of the Red Army of China has proved to be a disastrous blow for the sixth anti- Soviet campaign of Chiang Kai- shek. This is flat-footedly admitted by all outstanding imperialist spokesmen in the Far East. Before quoting from the press of the enemy, we want to refer to a brilliant article, entitled “New Con- ditions and New Tactics in Soviet China,” by Wan Min, member of the Executive Committee of the |Communist International. This ar- ticle will be published in full in to- morrow’s issue of the Daily Worker. Comrade Wan Min declares: Followed Pian “According to the Japanese news agency, Shimbun Renbo, which re- ports from Shanghai, Nov. 14: ‘The increasing main fighting forces of the Chinese Red Army on Noy. 10 ® f Chiang Kei-shek Drive on Soviets A Boomerang Against Imperialist abandoned Juikin—up to now the capital of central Soviet China— and took their positions in the di- rection of Szechuan. The surrender of the city followed in conformity with a previously prepared plan, whereby all administrative buildings and military quarters, including the central bank and military academy were completely evacuated.... Al- though not yet confirmed by our own sources of information this re- port from a Japanese imperialist may be considered as very likely true. These strategic measures of the Red Army of China are neither startling nor unexpected for us, since this step, so loudly proclaimed in the dispatches lying before me, had been long foreseen by the high command of the Chinese Red Army as an essential condition arising out of new conditions of struggle which continually stipulate new tactics.” The main objective of the Red Army was to pierce the Kuomintang iron ring in the South, and to join with the forces of the Red Army in Szechuan, with the aim of con- centrating the largest forces in that territory, extending the Soviet dis- tricts, tranferring the central So- viet district to a territory a hun- dred-fold more favorable for its suc- cess, This aim is being achieved. Even Chiang Kai-shek is forced to admit it. The Chinese Revolu- tion. now has a more powerful, a more impregnable base, insuring the final victory of the Soviets over all of China. At the same time, the Red Army pierced the Kuomintang armed forces in Fukien Province, march- ing to Northeastern Fukien “and Southeastern Chekiang Province, Another army smashed its way through Hunan Province, marching in the direction of Szechuan. While still another army in Kweichei joined forces with the Red Army in Szechuan Province. Defeated Chiang’s Plan Instead of, as Chiang Kai-shek planned, encirclement in Kiangsi Province, the Red Army spread its forces over a territory ten times Jarger than Kiangsi, penetrated more deeply into China, completely set at naught the carefully worked out military plans of Chiang Kai- shek, The successful carrying out of the tactics of the Red Army under the new conditions has presented Chiang Kai-shek with greater dif- ficulties by far than he faced when he first began his anti-Communist drive. Proof? It is so voluminous we will have to content ourselves here only with the choice bits of evidence. First a Reuter dispatch published in the North China Daily News, Shanghai, Nov. 8, from Nanking, which gives it an official stamp: “Kealizing the disastrous con- sequences if the Communists were to succeed in entering Kweichow, thus joining forces with the Reds in Szechuan, the government is Urging the southwest forces and Hunan troops to rush reinforce- ments to the Hunan-Kuantung border to check the escape of the Communists.” On Noy. 13, Chiang Kai-shek had to admit that the “disastrous con- sequences had been realized.” In a public censure of General Pei Chung-hsi of Kweichow Province, Chiang Kai-shek berated the Southern war lord for failing, with 1,000,000 men, to stop 60,000 soldiers of the Red Army from entering Kweichow and passing into Szechuan. ~ The British-owned Japan Weekly Chronicle (Nov. 15, 1934), published in Kobe, sums up the whole situation: “The Nanking government is finding the suppression of the Reds a little beyond its power. It is a queer war that is now being fought in South China, for, despite occasional successes, the Nationalist troops appear to be no nearer the achievement of their task than they were at the be- ginning. In fact there is every likelihood of the present cam- paign resulting in a strengthen- ing of the Communist regime.” This is what the New Masses in its editorial did not see, and there- fore was unable to explain to its readers the significance of the present course of events in China. Mechanical View The mechanical view that a de- feat in one sector can be considered an irretrievable blow to the Chi- nese Soviets is to underestimate the force and the power of the Chinese revolution, and its leading power, the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army. The imperialists, who not only wish for the destruction of the Chinese Soviets, but who leave no stone unturned to insure this con- summation, are still forced to ad- mit, even with the capture of Juikin that “the present (anti- Soviet) campaign (is) resulting in a strengthening of the Communist regime.” The die-hard North China Daily Perialism) in the latest editorial, “The Red Outiook,” on the Chinese Soviets to reach this country de- clares: “Successful though recent drives in Kiangsi have been, they have resulted in sweeping the Reds from that province into others. ... At best, however, they have merely given the retreating Red forces from South Kiangsi a passage into Szechuan by way of Hunan. It seems probable that with the eventual filtration of the defeated (!) Kiangsi Reds into Szechuan, the story of Juikin may be repeated in T’ongkiang, where last year the Szechuan-Shensi Provincial Soviet was duly estab- lished. The Chinese government is, therefore, likely to be faced with an exceedingly stubborn problem in Szechuan. The proy- ince, heavily taxed for several decades ahcad, is an easy prey to Communist propaganda.” There is no joy in Kuomintang- imperialist China over Chiang Kai- shek’s “victory” in Kiangsi Prov- ince but only wailing and gnashing of teeth. Sung Hsu received a sentence of 12 years, Lin Sung Wu seven years ,and Chen Sui Yang six years. Sim- ilar sentences were given the other prisoners. In the Nanking prison, jwhere they have been held ‘since \their arrest, the eight Chinese mili- tants have been subjected to the ‘most inhuman treatment. | The eight Chinese anti-imperial- ists were arrested for their partici- pation in the anti-Japanese boycott and for having initiated the move- ; ment for armed self-defense against the invasion of Japanese imperial- ism as set forth in the manifesto they stood for the defense of Shanghai against the Japanese. For these crimes, Chiang Kai-shek and the imperialists are now threaten- ing to execute the eight militant fighters for the liberation of China. Another Group Herd Another group of Chinese mili- tants is being held in the prison of the International Settlement in Shanghai. One of these, Pen Chen- Sen, died early in November from the suffering and torture he was forced to undergo in prison. His funeral on Nov. 12 was made a of Madame Sun Yat Sen, In 1932, { gigantic demonstration against in- | ternational Kuomintang. A committee for the defense of both groups has been formed in China and is leading a militant pro- ; test provement in their defense, | The International Labor Defense yesterday appealed to all organiza- tions to wire their protests on the brutal treatment and threatened execution of these Chinese militants ;to Chiang Kai-shek, Nanking, China; to Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese Embassy, Washington, D. C., and to the Chinese Consulates throughout the country, imperialism and the News (spokesman of British im-, | World Front —— By HARRY GANNES ——' “They Eat Even Tree Bark” Starvation in Japan Peasant Mother’s Advice N THE question of starva- tion in their own lands the \imperialists mutually ac | comlmodate each other. The ¢ | American boss press prints | nothing about the devastating ‘famine in Japan, of which |there is voluminous pictorial, sta- | tistical, oral and written evidence. |The Japanese press, likewise, doesn't |say much about the hunger of the junemployed in the United States. For a long while, the Japanese press tried to hide facts of the famine, at its worst in the Tohoku district. But failing in that, it has now come out with some of the truth. On one day we see a picture in the Japanese press (Osaka Mainichi, ;Nov. 21, 1934). We see the re- production of a photograph with |the heading: “They eat even tree bark.” Below, the caption reads: \“Starvation has caused the people of Tohoku to seek anything that may. be called edible. It has now become a common practice to scrape | off the bark of trees, as here shown, pound it into pulp, and mix it with something else (perhaps the good wishes of the Osaka Mainichi—H. G.), just to keep their stomachs filled.” The American workers are get- ting their stomachs filled with Roosevelt's promises, which are even less edible than the scrappings of the tree trunks. | In later issues of the Osaka | Mainichi there are more pictures of people tearing at tree trunks to keep themselves alive. Pager tea; |THE pictures, like the one I have before me now, are ghastly. One woman is shown furiously hacking into the tree bark to get at some of the pulp. Another, weeping bitterly, stuffs some of the scrappvings into |her mouth. On her back is an emaciated infant. Another child, with that aged, pinched look of starving children, | The government, considerate of | the morals of the people, has pasted up posters throughout the district | saying: “Don’t sell your daughters!” |More than 30,000 have already been |sold to houses of prostitution, now frequented more than usual by the ‘rich landlords, who have come to enjoy the new crop that has come {out of the starvation of the peas- /antry. | “Amanojaku,” the Walter Wi chell of Japan, describes the c: S /of the girls of the Tohoku district to the brothels. “Ruthless famine | forces many districts to become idesolate, deprived of all budding ‘girls,” he headlines his column, Then he becomes noetic and touch- jing: “ Deserted Village’ by Gold- smith in touching Tableu Vivants.” Amanojaku goes on to say: Palin Sire | “WHEN told to accept the life of shame in the hell, the girl usu- ,ally nods her assent—but not with- jout tears and inward bleeding. A country lassie has her sense of modesty and pride. “Tt is when the girl packs up her ; few things and is about to bid fare- well to her parents and her little brother and sisters that the most unimaginable thing happens, “Her mother, with her eyes swollen from weeping all night, and ever so sad to see her daughter taken away from her, holds the child in her arms and whispers in \ her ear: ‘Don’t return to this cursed place if you can help it!’ ” Life must be indeed bitter for the Japanese peasants if a mother tells her daughter a house of prostitution lis better than slavery and starva- ‘tion for the rich landowners. , In preparing war against the So- | viet Union, the Japanese imperial- ists, the rich landlords and indus- , trialists, are insuring greater starya- | tion for the Japanese workers and )peasants. The Japanese war budget lis the largest in all history. Taxa- | tion is increasing, and the rich ‘landlord transfers it to the peas- ants, depriving them of every grain of rice, of all hove of paying of his debts. It is this dual effect of the Jap- anese war plans, the constant need for enlarging its war machine, and \the impoverishment of the masses, ‘that speeds the day of war. Jap- anese imperialism is in a race with | War and revolution. The imperialist j masters want war—in order to stave off revolution. But they will not be able to escape revolution of the starving, oppressed masses. The Communist Party of Japan, | despite ferocious terror, despite over | 7,000 of its members suffering in fiendish prisons, is striving, fighting |day and night, to rally the forces of the Japanese proletariat to end such horrible starvation, such ter- Tible war moves that result from the ‘rule of the Japanese war lords. : Women’s Delegation | Visits the Saarland SAARBRUECKEN, Dec. 18—The |delegation of nine women from 'Metz and Orne Valley, which ar- rived in Saarbruecken on Nov. 30 ‘and which was organized by the Women’s World Committee against War and Fascism, has gone on to the mining district of Merschweiler. ‘Some members .of the delegation are remaining in Saarbruecken. | The delegates are visiting families, , Will speak at room meetings, and show the courageous Saarland anti- jfascists that they have allies in | other countries. The Dutch dele- gate, Lie Tilieme-Mejnen, a pecifist, has just arrived. She attended a United front meeting of the Young _ \Communist and Young Socialist Leagues in the evening, an event unknown in her native country, where the Social-Democrats have rejected the united front proposals. Have you sent your dollar bill to put the Daily Worker over the top | in the financial campaign?