The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 20, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1934 Daily, (UNTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ULS.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “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. Y. Telephone Algonquin 4-795 4. 1 year, 0.75 cents. Tet r, $9.00 $6.00; 75 cents. 0; 6 months, 75 cents. ——== THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1934 Fight the New Drive Against the Jobless HE policy which the leading Wall Street industrialists expect the Roosevelt gov- ernment to workers was made clear by them yester- day in the reports which have come from pursue towards the jobless their secret conference at White Sulphur Springs. It is the British “dole” system which all the various ups among them have finally agreed on. That is what they will propose for Congressional action and to Roosevelt. The advocacy of this viclous system, known in Britain as the “Means Test,” is full confirmation of the fact which the Daily Worker has been hammer- ing home ce the National Association of Manu- facturers two weeks ago revealed its concerted drive to smash all relief appropriations in every section of the country. The “Means Test” system of the “dole” is per- fectly adapted for this latest brutal drive against the unemployed. The “Means T involves the dropping of every worker for all relief unless he can prove, after going through a delik tely prolonged and humiliating cross-examination, that not a single member of his family, however distant, has any means of support. If a single member of the family is unearthed with some kind of starvation income somewhere, then all relief is shut off! This system dooms millions of workers to abso- lute destitution and starvation. It will act like a whip to drive hundreds of thousands of workers and their families to levels of misery which have never been seen before in this country. This new proposal of the industrialists is the first on which they have achieved a “united front” down in White Sulphur Springs. Leading mo- nopolists and bankers like John J. Raskob, Owen D. Young, Henry L, Harriman, Silas Strawn and others are now whipping other reactionary meas- ures into shape for immediate action. The millions of jobless, the millions more work- ing at precarious jobe for starvation wages, must form their own united front. This is the only way to beat back the approaching attack of the capi- talist monopolists now laying their plans for Con- gressional execution. The National Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance to meet at Washington January 5 to 7 is the place where the working class will weld its own united front against the employers. Against the vicious British “dole” system, with its brutal and humiliating “means test,” we de- mand the Workers’ Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill, which provides for Federal social and unemployment insurance at not less than $10 a week for every jobless worker in the country, to be paid for by the government and the bosses! We demand the 30-hour week, with no cut in pay! We demand that the rich be heavily taxed, that the government stop all payments to the bankers, and that all war funds be turned over for the welfare of the jobless and their families! We demand the right to organize and strike for better conditions! Answer the miserable “dole” proposal of the in- dustrialists! Support the National Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance! Relief Needs and the National Congress ‘WO weeks remain and the historic Na- tional Congress for Unemployment In- surance will convene in Washington. Every indication points to this coming congress as the most tremendous united front move- ment yet launched in the United States. These two facts alone should galvanize every member of the Communist Party into instant action. The central immediate task in the congress preparations is the local fight against the continu- ous attacks on the unemployed in every locality. Relief rolls are pared; minimum FERA wages have been abandoned, a blow which is especially aimed at the Negro masses in the South and which at the same time rebounds as a threat against the very bread and butter of 2,000,000 other workers. Side by side with the Roosevelt relief retrenchments has gone a continued wave of terror against the job- less. Into this struggle must be brought the full forces of the workers’ groups that have signified their sup- port of such a struggle by the constant campaign they have waged for the enactment of the Workers’ Bill. The Communists in the trade unions, in the fractions and in the leadership of the unemployed organizations must swing into action all these forces —uniting the movement behind the program of the National Congress for immediate relief needs and for genuine unemployment insurance. The question facing the employed and unem- ployed alike was phrased cogently in the leading editorial of the Daily Worker on Dec. 4: “The amount of relief the unemployed get, the question of action on unemployment insurance, the whole problem of what the Roosevelt regime will or will not do for the unemployed depends on the nature and extent of the fight carried on by the unem- ployed”—and should be graven in the minds of every Communist. An intensive campaign must be waged daily at the relief stations against any attempt to further slash relief, for Winter aid, and for general relief increases to meet rising costs of food and neces- sities. The broad support rallied behind the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance is a clear indication of the mood of the masses for struggle. This broad support and the local struggles are the main foundations of the great National Congress and are the central points around which the Con- gress deliberations will revolve. The tasks here and now in each locality are tasks which must be waged with the best forces of the Party leading and organizing the struggles for immediate relief needs. ‘ Worker | Levine and Thomas HEN Isaac don Levine, a fascist writer for William Randolph Hearst, and an open supporter of the campaign of assassi- nation, sabotage and destruction in the Soviet Union, appeals to Norman Thomas, for a united front, we must point out that Norman Thomas hastens to reply. On Dec. 12, 1934, Levine addressed an open letter to Norman Tho: in the New York Times. It took Thomas just two days to answer. When the Com- Party appeals to the National Executive munist nst the slaughter of 5,000 Spanish workers (So- cialists and Communists) by Spanish fascism, no answer is forthcoming to date. Only a general reply is given that the matter will be taken up as a na- tional issue some time in 1936! Levine wants Thomas to lead a united front protest against the execution of the Czarist and fascist scum in the Soviet Union. We must also point out that the same Levine in the Harst press of Dec. 2, 1934, openly approves of the assassination of Comrade Kirov. He furthermore predicts in- creased assassinations declaring, “They have now struck a blow at the inner camarilla as a warning to the Stalin regime . . the aim of all these (coun- ter-revolutionary) groups have certain demands in common, and the world is apt to hear more and more from them.” The targets of the assassins, aided and abetted by Levine, “are Stalin and his associates,” he de- clares. * Levine, enthusiastically supports such Czarist elements in the U. S. who issue the “Fascist,” ex- tracts of which were published in the Daily Worker yesterday. The “fascist” calls for assassination, terror, sabotage, pillaging, dynamiting and any form of murder and destruction to stop the advance of Socialist construction in the USSR. To a “lover of liberty” of this stripe Norman Thomas answers: “As a Socialist and an interna- tionalist, however, I have in speech and writing, with great emphasis, made plain my condemnation of these wholesale executions in Russia without trial, or at least without trial that has been re- ported to the western world.” Thomas does not protest against the Czarist assassins, against the assistance given them by American capitalism, and fascist forces throughout the world. He does not protest against Algernon Lee's united front with forces calling for the slaughter of the leaders in the land of Socialism. He takes the trouble to reply to an openly admitted fascist calling on Thomas to form a united front. But the fact that such despicable Czarist and fascist agents as Levine, and other white guard dregs, become the most enraged and aroused over the executions, the fact that the leading scab forces in the United States are the most fervent in dis- approving and fearing them, should be the guid- ing light to the American workers. To All Workers and Farmers in Uniform ROM the horrified opinions expressed in the Dickstein Committee, anybody who tries to remind soldiers and sailors that they are sons of workers and farmers in the armed forces of Wall Street imperial- ism is committing a crime. ‘We can well understand why the rich parasites of this country, preparing a new world slaughter, do not want the boys in the army and navy to know for whose profit they are to be asked to lay down their lives and get an “unknown soldiers” monument in return, if their corpse is unrecogniz- able. After all, the final bulwark between capitalist barbarism and the Socialist society is the armed, open brutal force of capitalism. And the capitalists know and fear most the contradiction that these armed forces are composed of the sons of the toil- ing masses. For the soldiers and sailors to know the true significance of the class struggle and the role they are called to play would be indeed disastrous —to the parasitic rich, to the bloodsuckers of the toiling masses, to the war-mongers, to those who rake in 39,000 per cent war profits. Capitalism always wants to deprive the soldiers and sailors of not only all political rights but of the least shred of political intelligence. To do and die and not to ask the reason why, has always been the injunction of the property owners to the sol- diers and sailors. ‘The Communist Party will always appeal to the National Guard, the boys from factory, office and farm, not to shoot down their brothers on strike for higher wages, improved working conditions. The Communist Party will always appeal to the proletarian and farming class brothers in the army and navy to take a stand against the miserable op- pressive conditions forced on them, to remember they are sons of the workers, to learn from the last imperialist slaughter, and to understand for what purposes Wall Street is preparing a new blood bath for them as well as for the whole toiling population. The employers, the bankers, the rich, all the ex- ploiters of labor want unthinking, murderous robots in the army and navy. The Communist Party appeals to the intelligence and class-consciousness of the workers and farmers in uniform. Support the Students! HE center of the anti-fascist struggle in the colleges today is on the campus of City College of New.York. As a re- sult of the anti-fascist demonstration of Oct. 9, in which C.C.N.Y. students pro- tested President Robinson's welcoming a delegation of athletes from Fascist Italy, twenty-one students remain expelled, ten suspended, and the Student Council is still disbanded. Student mass meetings, petitions, delegations, and a two-hour strike drove the faculty, which voted the action, to meet again recently to “reconsider.” Although the faculty was at this meeting fully aware that the Italian students had come to spread fas- cist propaganda (a fact which it had previously denied), it voted to reaffirm its oppressive acts. When a few, quietly and scholarly, voice disagree- ment with fascism, in the opinion of the faculty, that is all right; but when great masses express their vigorous resistance to fascist propaganda, ra- tional men will not be “coerced.” Today, at 1 P, M., the American League Against War and Fascism leads a mass delegation to C.C., N.Y. to demand the ousting of President Robinson and the reinstatement of the thirty-seven disciplined students, All working class organizations should support this delegation. Go up to the City College campus, 139th Street and Convent Avenue (meet at the flagpole) today at 1 p.m. Let the C.C.N.Y. students see that the workers are with them in their struggle against the march of fascism on the col- lege campus. ittee of the Socialist Party for a united front, | Party Life | A Tailors Strike | And Some Lessons | For Communists | Communists Must Fight for Mili- | tant Policy in A. F. of L. | THE strike of the Bushelmen sec- tion of the Journeyman Tailo: local 229 (A. F. of L.) which was <e- | cently “settled” by the Detroit Re- ; sional Board carries some important lessons and information on the left | wing forces in the A. F. of L. in Detroit. | The strike started Oct. 13 and | concluded Noy. 13 with the strikers gaining absolutely nothing but | a settlement that places them in a worse position than before. A year ago a general strike took place that was bzoken by the local Regional Labor Board, which “set- tled” it by @ so-called “honor” pact ployers per week with no discrimination against union men or women. In the past year at least 20 cases of discrimination were brought to ganizer Laurence Lang, a gentleman who lives in constant fear of Frank | X. Martel, Pres. Detroit Federation Martel unless he has a few drinks This “gentleman” for ridiculed the Regional Board but | was constantly urging the workers to resort to the Regional board for a “square Deal,” and “what a deal the strikers. got.” First the demands of the workers | Were, 75 cents for tailors doing pressing or fitting work and equal pay for women doing men’s work; months with an employer he is re- | garded as a permanent employee and entitled to a certain amount of work each week. Through the efforts of Lang and some members of the strike com- mittee these demands were dropped and a demand of a six month agreement with the union was| raised as a bluff. | The strikers resisted strongly any attempts at arbitration and stated time and again that no settlement be made without the strike committee, which was com- posed of militant workers plus henchmen of Lang, with a slight majority in favor of the left wing. The employers»seeing that at that time the Regional board could not | be used got an injunction prohib- | iting picketing .at Hughes and| Hatcher, one of the two shops out | on strike. The left wing at this time) appealed to all mass organizations and the Party for aid in picketing as the confidence of the strikers was weakening and militant forces were needed. This we as Party mem- bers and as fraction members in mass organizations failed to do, This left the breach for Lang to reintroduce the question of arbi- tration. However, the left wingers were able to keep the sentiment in favor of a settlement only when | voted by the membership. | The employers, sensing this and thru the aid of stoolpigeons who | informed them of the left wing} raising the slogan of a sympathy strike in all shops, began to capit- night before the sellout some of them were ready to sign with the union. Some of the members of the members, despite the orders of the | fraction, would not bring the ques- tion of a settlement before the open membership meeting, but consist- | ently collaborated with the faker | Lang and even exposed new mem. bers of the party to Lang, placin these workers in a position tha‘ meant their expulsion. was not taken by Lang because the members of the union were solidly behind the left wingers. Tuesday morning, Noy. 13th, the strike was settled by the regional board despite everything that the left wing could do. The settlement was as follows; A new honor “pact” between the union and the em- ployers association stating that there will be no strike for a year; and in a period of 6 months if the union wishes to raise the question of wages they must give the Re- gional board 10 days notice. Then the union representatives will meet with the employers. If no agreement, can be reached then an outside “neutral arbitrator” will “consider” the case and give a decision that is binding to both parties. If certain members of the left wing group who were party mem- bers had followed the line of the leading comrade in the strike com- mittee the sellout would not have been accomplished, but instead a vic- tory that already was in sight would have been won. : What thas now happened? ‘The workers realize that the strike has been sold out, their faith was in the strike committee, that could have been controlled by the left wing, if one comrade whose voice and vote were the instruments that placed the strike in the hands of the strike-breaking Regional Board had not followed out the line of che faker Lang, a line which is spelled “sellout” and no strike at any Well, the comrade who is guilty may see the mistake she has made in not being strong enough to resist the demagogy and trickery of the A. F, of L. misleaders, and fight for the line of the party. A. F. L, Fraction. Detroit. 6 F.E.R.A. Strikers Get Jail Terms in Colorado DENVER, Col., Dec. 19—Six of the 16 workers arrested here during a strike of relief workers in October and charged with “rioting” were given sentences of from two to six months in jail, and $200 fine each. The others were acquitted. The In- ternational Labor Defense is appeal- ing the sentence. Two of the striking workers were shot by police, who attacked their picket line, The sentenced workers are Jobes, Golden, Brown, Anderson, Couth and Preston, between the union and the Em-| Association which called) for 70 cents an hour and 44 hours} | the attention of the local union or- | of Labor. and will not interview | under his belt. | months when the recent strike took place | also if a worker was employed three | |* bun Rengo, reports from Shanz- ulate to the extent that on the| strike committee who were party | This step’ | | By WAN MIN HE Japanese news agency, Shim- ai Nov. 14: “The increasing main fighting forces of the Chinese Red Army on Nov. 10 abandoned Juikin —up to now the capital of central Soviet China—and took their posi- tions in the direction of Szechuan. The surrender of the city followed in conformity with a previously prepared plan, whereby all admin- istrative buildings and military quarters, including the central bank | and the Military Academy, were completely evacuated. The strategic points of Juti and Hweichang, west of Juikin, still remain in the hands of the Red Army.” Although not yet confirmed by | our own sources of information this report from an agency of Japanese | imperialism may be considered as | very likely true. These strategic Measures of the Red Army of China are neither startling nor un- expected for us, since this step, 60 loudly proclaimed in the dispatches lying before me, had been long fore- |seen by the high command of the Chinese Red Army as.an essential condition arising out of new condi- | tions of struggle The first circumstance from which springs the new tactics of China’s Red Army is the struggle gainst the new military plan of Ihiang Kai-shek and Seeckt in heir sixth expedition against the Chinese Soviets. The chief substance and purpose |of this new military plan may be summarized in this, that Chiang |Kai-shek and Seeckt, through Jarge-scale aerial and artillery bom- bardments, hand in hand with a gradual advance and the building ‘of fortifications, aimed to drive the , Red Armies further and further out |of the huge areas now under their jurisdiction and attempt to press | them into small zones, in order to encircle the Soviet Districts on all | sides, and then destroy the troops of the Red Army. This, then, is the chief object of the sixth cam- paign of Chiang Kai-shek’ against the north-central district, against which alone over 76 divisions of regular troops have been pressed into service, almost all of the bat- talions under the personal com- mand of Chiang, and over two- thirds of the officially registered divisions in all China (which em- brace 99 divisions altogether). Foreign Experts Guiding military operations and war-technique in the battle against the central Soviet Districts, soli- cited by Chiang Kai-shek and | placed at his service by the im- | perialist powers, are hundreds of German and Japanese military ex- ‘perts, not to mention hundreds of ; American and Italian aviators. Despite all this, in the course of a single year’s. heroic. armed strug- gle, the Chinese Red Army has won mighty victories over its opponent, as, for example, in the battles in the central-north district. Chiang Kai- | shek’s army lost over 100,000 men, 45,000 to 50,000 killed, 40,000 to 50,000 wounded and 12,000 to 15,000 in prisoners. The Fourth Corps of the Red Army in Szechuan-Shensi was swelled from 15,000 to 100,000 men, etc., but as a result of mili- tary and technical weaknesses (lack of airplanes and armored trains) it was unable to smash through the fortified fronts of the enemy quickly enough In order to render altogether in- Chiang Kai-shek and Seeckt for the complete surrounding of the Cen- tral Soviet Districts and the anni- hilation of the ranks of the Red Army, and in order to be able to establish all the necessary condi- tions for wringing a decisive and | full victory over the sixth campaign against the Central Soviet Districts, ‘as well as to create favorable pre- liminary conditions for furthering the ultimate victory of the Soviet effective the carefully laid plans of | “Tell us what you know about Communism, Mr. Plushbottom.” “It aims to undermine the seat of our government!” y Burck New Conditions and New Tactics Of the Red Army in Soviet China the Communist Party of China and the Red Army, it was months ago | decided to call new tactics into play. | Position Shifted The first practical application of these new tactics was expressed in the successful shift in position and line of march of the Seventh Army Corps of the Red Army from the Central Soviet District toward the provinces of Fukien and Chekiang, which, as is well known, by dint of the entire strength of the Seventh and Tenth Army Corps of the Red Army, as well as the Red Partisan Troops, succeeded in a new exten- sive Soviet and also Partisan dis- trict on the borders of the provinces | of Fukien, Chekiang, Kiangsi and | Anwhei. The second practical application of these new tactics may be un-| derstood from the fact that in Au- gust of this year the sixth Army Corps of the Red Army undertook an expedition away from the Cen- tral Soviet District toward Hunan and Kweichow Provinces, through which, as may be known, a direct connection might be struck be- tween the Second Army Corps of the Red Army of Ho-Lun and the | Sixth Army on the one hand, and | also the Second, Sixth and Fourth | on the other hand, all of which cre- | ated afresh new favorable condi- | tions for the struggle of all the) great battalions of the Red Army from Kiangsi and Fukien to Shensi | and Szechuen. Main Forces Face West The third practical application of this new tactic is the most recent change in position of the main fighting forces of the Red Army away from the main points of sup- port in the Central Soviet District toward a westerly direction, and, ac- cording to Japanese and imperial- ist sources, toward the Province of Szechuan, The dispatches of Kuom- intang and imperialist newspapers subsequently report that the greater part of the fighting force of the Red Army, under the command of Com- rades Mao-Tse-Dung, Tschu-Dai and Pej-Dej-Chuje, has already vic- toriously broken through the power- ful Hunan-Kwangtung front, has annihilated many divisions of the Kwangtung and Hunan troops and now is on the advance toward the east and central districts of Kwei- chow. 4 In the light of these new tactics the leadership of the Communist Party and of the Red Army recog- nized that the surrender of partial, or even considerable stretches of ter- ritory was necessary. The temporary loss of a few Soviet cities is without doubt, from our old point of view, a grevious blow and a regrettable damage. But it was for that reason that the Chinese Red Army not only embraced new extensive territories but also created a basis for wresting such new powerful victories for the Soviet. revolution in China as will Place all previous achievements in the shade. Enemies Were Aware Our enemies are also aware of this, and it is no accident that when the newspapers of the Kuomintang, The sheet, Osaka Mainichi, com- ments on the occupation of Juikin by the Nanking troops in a leading article and writes that the Red Army has not been beaten, that, after the evacuation of Juikin, it utilized the contradictions between the Nanking and Canton govern- ments, hurried ahead of the Hunan troops, and after a swift march found itself at Szecchuan, in order to join the other division of the Red Army in establishing Szechuan as a basis for operations. Protection Against Invasion The second circumstance, from whence springs the new tactics of the Red Army, is the necessity for national protection against invasion, especially on the part of Japanese imperialism, in connection with the latter’s new armed offensive against Inner Mongolia and North China. As the whole world knows, the Cen- tral Chinese Soviet Administration at the beginning of 1932, that is, during the heroic defense before Shanghai of the 19th Route Army, had declared a holy national-revolu- tionary war of protection against Japanese imperialism. Chiang-Kai- Shek and Wan-Tsing-Wai on the one hand fell on the rear of the 19th Route Army and the Shanghai workers and persuaded them to re- treat, while on the other hand, with armed fist they held the Red Army at a distance from the big cities on the western bank of the Yangtse River, preventing its advance and hindering the conduct of the war against Japanese imperialism. As the only people’s army, the only national-revolutionary under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Soviet regime, full of im- patience and enthusiasm, the Chi- nese Red Army is anxious, as swift- ly as possible to carry. out its glor- ious mission—the prosecution of the war against Japanese imperialism and the rescuing of the Chinese na- tion from the fate of complete col- onial slavery. This is also the rea- son that the Red Army itself, as well as the entire Chinese people, considers that the struggle against the anti-Soviet campaigns of Chiang-Kai-Shek is the struggle for immediate means for carrying on the war of the armed Chinese nation against Japanese imperial- ism. Today Japanese imperialism, with the aid of the national traitors un- der Chiang-Kai-Shek, Wan-Ting- Wai, Yan-Yun-Tin and Chuan-Fu, is driving on with open war prep- arations toward the occupation of Chahar, Sinkiang and North China, Carefully considering the difficulties of carrying a war against the force of the Japonese occupation, as well as against Chiang’s fortified strong- holds in North-Kiangsi, and with a view of carrying this war in Cen- tral and North China, the Soviet regime and the Red Armies have resolved to advance strong military fighting forces near the 7th and 10th Army Corps as first line troops for the purpose of accelerating the conduct of this sacred war against Japanese imperialism in North the imperialists and the White-; China. Guardists publish their accounts of the “victories” of the Nanking The third circumstance out of which the new tactics of the Red | World Fron) ——By HARRY GANNES -—- | Hitler’s Moral Raids | Anarchism in Spain | Missionaries and Gunboats |S) HE morai turpitude mas} with which the pervel! Hitler now covers his politicd terrorism against his ow? duped followers must seert particularly degenerate to hia former loving followers. A one fell-swoop Hitler orders the art rest of 600 Nazis, some of them for} merly high in the councils of thé brown-shirted butchers. Hitler telly the German people that the reasor} for these arrests is to carry out hit! Promise to German mothers thai, their boys can enter the Storm) Troops and come out with virginalj purity. Nobody with the slightest con-! sciousness of what is happening in Germany will any more believe this| bed-time story than they did Hitler's, Sodom and Gomorrah apology when} | he butchered his former pals by the! | hundreds on June 30th of last year. | German fascism is breeding con-i | tradictions so rapidly it’s hard to; keep up with them. There is not the t | Slightest possibility of solving the |catastrophic economic crisis, and © | Hitler’s efforts to plunge the world |into a new slaughter is being con- | | fronted with obstacles in the form ; |} Of the Soviet Union’s peace policy | | and peace alliances. | 8 ITH each backward step of Ger- man economy, another section of the German fascist mass forces rot and have to be lopped off if they are not to infect the whole structure and cause its speedier death. Even the highest brain centers show signs of the disease with Krupp demon- stratively quitting, and Thyssen leaving for a health trip to Latin | America. This should not be con- sidered as any fundamental dis- agreement between finance capital ,ism and the fascist butchers, but the spreading of rifts to certain sec- tions of the top, because of the in- ability of Hitler to even pretend to solve the crisis. The top stratum of | the Hitler regime, by its deeds, is | already beginning to express its fear of a revolutionary eruption, \ ep et A process of disintegration is going on in the ranks of the anarcho- syndicalist trade unions in Spain following the betrayal of the anar- chist leaders. Anarchism is dying a violent death being stoned by the bitter criticism of the proletariat who were misled by it. The Daily Worker has already published the news of the anar- chists in Castille cutting all connec- tions not only with their leaders but with their past anti-political philosophy. Just recently we re- ceived a clipping from El Diario of ‘Madrid containing an interview with |an un-named anarchist leader. The said anarchist leader of the Con- federacion Nacional de Trabajo (National Confederation of Labor, or more pupularly known as the C.N.T.) admits that his organization is torn with dissension and the rank and file are no longer content with the anarchist slogans of “Politics is oppression.” | Asked if the anarchists were about to abandon their non-political credo, he hemmed: “It is still early, per- haps, to make predictions on the matter. In any event, discussions on the subject in our circles are fierce and continuous. What I will volunteer is, that that proposal is the center of controversy and even angry discussions.” 'HE anarchist leaders’ boycott of the election last November helped the Lerroux-Robles fascists to gain a parliamentary majority; and their sabotage of the general strike and armed uprising of the workers, aided | the same fascist forces to drown the workers’ revolutionary struggles in a sea of blood. | The C.N.T. is one of the largest trade union organizations in Spain having around 1,000,000 members, and this development among the rank and file is one of the most im- portant for the future success of the proletarian revolution in Spain. Me oe 'HE Roosevelt government has sent a gunboat to Wuhu, Anwhei province, in order to show the mis- sionaries that God is protecting them against the Chinese people. The , U.S.S. Panay, which has to its credit the slaughter of hundreds of Chi- nese workers and peasants, under command of Lieut. Commander E. , H. Jones steamed down the Yangtze ‘from Hankow to take on board the 20 missionaries and their families who consider working in the vine- yards of the Lord unsafe for the present because the vineyards are full of starving Chinese peasants. If we know the chivalry of U. S. navy commanders in China at least a score of innocent Chinese workers and peasants will pay with their lives for the death of two mission- aries. It is not clear even yet who killed the two Stams, as the last re- port merely said the ones responsible were “bandits,” while Chiang Kal Shek’s official name for Communists is “red-bandits.” Missionaries and gunboats are imperialist twins in the eyes of the Chinese masses. and recruits, This was also the basis for the shifting of the strongest troops of the Red Army out of the Central Soviet Districts in such a troops, as for example, the occupa- | Army have developed is the necessity way as to break through the various tion of the old Soviet capital by white bandits, in the same breath a pessimistic note creeps into their perspective of what Chank-Kai- Shek will do next. Thus, for instance, the Shanghat correspondent of the Shimbun Ren- go Agency, parallel with reporting the occupation of Juikin, announces that the undertaking of operations against the Red Army in the neigh- borhood of Juikin alone cost the Nanking regime approximately one billion chinese dollars, It was necessary to conduct five campaigns against the Soviet dis- trict, in which at one time 600,000 men were mustered into service in of overcoming the physical difficul- ties of the Red Army in Central Soviet China. Its continual military operations, extending over many years, the incessant enemy bom- bardment by airplanes and artillery, the direct raids of the white bandits and the strong economic blockade on the part of Chiang-Kai-Shek and the imperialists had, in spite of the support of the population, brought about a series of material difficulties, | especially the lack of ammunition as | well as certain living necessities. Experience has shown that a change in the line of march of the Red Army toward new districts has \revolution under the leadership of the field, Or take another example: always been accompanied by a rapid swelling and increase of munitions fortified fronts of the enemy, in order to conduct their military op= ,erations from more favorably sit= , uated provinces. : | These new tactics of the Red | Army, which grow ever stronger un= ‘ der the new relationships of the im- mediate struggle, have resulted, as partially carried out in the last four tc five months, in considerable new successes. With the correct and sub- sequent carrying out of these tactics by the Red Army in the future not only will they serve finally to beat back this 6th campaign of Chiang- Kai-Shek but will raise to a pow~ erful plane our common fight to win the decisive victory of the Soviet revolution all China.