The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1934, Page 8

Page. 8 Daily, AWorker ADOTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTEREATIONNAD “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 5@ E. 13th | Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4 Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New Y! u. | Washington Bureau: Room 954, National Press Building, l4th and F St., Washington, D. ‘elephone: National 7910. C. Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 706, Chicago, Ml. Telephone: Dearborn 3931 Subscription Rates: 2; By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronx) year, 96.00; 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Can: 1 year, $8.00; | a , $3.00, | eekly cents; monthly, 75 cents. | Saturday Edition: By mail, 1 year, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents, = | ——— SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 22, 1934 Pay Tribute to Kirov! Answer Terrorists! UNDAY’S memorial meeting for our slain Comrade Kirov should be a | mighty mass demonstration against all the fascist terrorists who seek by murder and sabotage to impede the rapid advance of Socialism in the Soviet Union. The meeting, scheduled for 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union, in the St. Nicholas Arena, 69 West 66th Street, should see a great outpouring of workers come to pay their tribute to our comrade who was assassinated. , The Russian white guards and fascists, assisted by a Socialist leader, have already held their meet- ing condoning and encouraging the assassination bands. ; We must give them our answer, by a mighty mass rally in support of the Soviet Union in its crushing blow to those desperate enemies who by assassination hope to ,help the fascist war plots against the workers’ fatherland. All out to St. Nicholas Arena on Sunday night. Honor our fallen comrade! Give your answer to the fascist butchers and their anti-Soviet plots! The Wall Street Program N THE way he is handling the proposed program for recovery, which was pre- pared by a secret conference of the coun- try’s industrialists, Roosevelt is once again showing himself an exceedingly astute agent of Wall Street’s monopolies. Yesterday’s press made a deliberately large splash of the way the economic proposals of the industrialists were “rebuffed.” The purpose of all this side-show is quite ob- viously to try to impress the population with the subterfuge that these powerful Wall Street indus- trialists have little to say in the White House. What makes the whole spectacle even more ridiculous is the fact that Roosevelt, while he stages this “rebuff,” is actually preparing to carry through most of the policies which the indus- trialists propose. He has already made it clear that he will “revise” the N.R.A. in precisely the direction which the industrialists now demand, in the direction of more direct control of the gov- ernment agencies by the monopolies, Roosevelt may easily make a grandstand play now of refusing to see the industrialists’ spokes- man; but what of the private meetings he held all last month and this with the biggest Wall Street industrialists and bankers in the privacy of the White House? What of the visits of James Rand? Of the utility magnates? Of Brown, Morgan agent in Johns- Manville? Of the du Ponts? And who knows what other secret meetings not given to the press? And What of Roosevelt's representative in the secret conferences at White Sulphur Springs, Shepard, of the N.R.A. Advisory Board? Who is on the industrialists’ committee which Roosevelt “rebuffed”? Owen D. Young, Irenee du Pont, John J. Raskob, Silas Strawn, and others of similar stripe. Are not these the very Wall Street monopolists who have been the inspirers, guides and executors of Roosevelt’s whole N.R.A. program? Roosevelt's “rebuff” is a shoddy piece of trickery intended to hide the fact that he is and always has been in direct contact with Wall Street and its agents from the day he entered the White House, . . * Oo THE open shop drive and the drive against wages, Roosevelt and his spokesmen, Moley, Rich- berg and Roper, already gave the National Manu- facturers’ Association convention, two weeks ago, ample pledges that the administration Places all its resources at Wall Street’s disposal. And was it not Roosevelt himself who sounded the opening of the wage-cut drive with his speech on the “costs of the housing program”? Where Roosevelt and the industrialists differ somewhat is on the method of tricking the masses. The industrialists’ program is the Roosevelt pro- gram—minus the Roosevelt honied words, minus Roosevelt’s demagogy. It is the Roosevelt program in its nakedness! Roosevelt, as the head of the capitalist state Power, has the task of blinding the masses, of keep- ing them in subjection through illusion, through trickery and maneuvering. Therefore, he cannot openly accept the open brutality of the industrial- ists’ plan, for example, to instantly drop everybody DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1937 4 from the relief rolls on the basis of a “means test.” The Roosevelt government is fully aware that this plan, enforced now without any further ado, would rouse terrific storms of protest. Roosevelt, there- fore, is leading up to the industrialists’ relief pro- gram—im his own way, stadually and through a cloud of sweet phrases, The menace of the Wall Street industrialists’ offensive is not one jot lessened by Roosevelt's maneuvers. On the contrary, Roosevelt's maneu- vers emphasize the fact that he is part and parcel of the whole plan, and that he is moving to execute it with all the trickery at his command. The need for working class unity at the National Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance meeting at Washington on Jan. 5 to 7 is greater than ever! Rally for Unity of Black and White EPORTS from Shelbyville, Tennessee, indicate a town crazed with lynch hy- steria and violence against the Negro population. The savagery of the mob is a terrible re- minder that lynch terrorism and violence are rising rapidly against the Negro masses throughout the South, This terrorism is not something apart from | the general increase in violence against the whole working class. It is an intensified part of this rising fascist reaction whose source is none other than the capitalist state with the Roosevelt administration at its head. Three lynch leaders were actually killed and sev- eral others wounded by shots fired into the mob by National Guardsmen, and Lieutenant-Colonel John R, Stark, in command of the troops, hastens to assure the lynchers that “every shot that was fired by the guardsmen was fired in self-defense.” It would be a pitiful illusion to imagine that the sending of troops was an act in defense of the Negro prisoner or the Negro people. The mob was allowed to wreak its fury on the Negro section of the town, firing a Negro hotel and indiscriminately beating up men, women and children. The unrestrained fury of the mob in its attack on the guardsmen and the courthouse was more than the lynch-inciting press had bargained for. ‘The only reason that the troops were ordered to fire on the lynchers was that the bloodthirstiness and savagery of the mob had reached such un- bridled fury that the whole prestige of the govern- ment as well as the interests of property had be- come involved. There is no doubt at all that the capitalist court would have carried through a swift and merciless legal lynching of the framed Negro. What the mob wanted was a speedier and more gruesome murder. And this is the only difference between the court and the lynch mob. It was the “dignity of the law” that was protected—the Negro quarters were left completely at the mercy of the mob. Proof that the “protection” demanded against the mob was not a protection in the interests of the Negro population is given by the latest reports from Shelbyville, which tell of the proposed forma- tion of “vigilante” committees of the “best citizens” to “restore the processes of the law.” This is the capitalist law used against the entire working class and to rush innocent Negroes to a swift, legal murder. It is the Roosevelt government, it is the whole state apparatus of the capitalists, with their schools and press, that spills lynch poison and incitement into the minds of the white toilers to cover up the slavery and oppression that pauperizes black and white. Does not the Roosevelt A. A. A. incite lynch terrorism against the Negro croppers in the South? Do not the N. R. A. codes fasten the chains of na- tional oppression through differential wage scales? The increasing miseries cf the crisis are being used by the capitalists and landlords to incite the hungry against the hungry, the oppressed against the oppressed, the white against the black. It is only in the unity of black and white, of the working class and all oppressed groups that the chains of wage slavery and national oppression can be broken. Ohrbach- Klein Strikes Epes arrests of almost 100 pickets outside the Ohrbach and Klein department stores on Union Square and the issuance of an injunction against the strikers of the Ohrbach company, gives striking proof how alarmed the bosses are at the growing mili- tancy and desire for organization among the de- partment store and white collar workers. The Boston Store workers in Milwaukee are waging a& bitter strike. The strikers have aroused the attention of the entire labor movement to the shameless exploita- tion to which hundreds of thousands of workers in the large stores are subjected. The way the department store girls have defied the injunction, have faced the arrests, taken jail sentences only to return on the picket lines, should be convincing proof that a tremendous struggle is growing among the white collar workers, The anti-mass picketing injunction is aimed against all trade unions in New York. It must be smashed by workers of all labor organizations join- ing in a mass picket line daily, and Protesting to Mayor LaGuardia and Police Commissioner Valen- tine against the injunction, Unions and fraternal organizations should im- mediately protest the injunctions. Send funds to the strikers! Help them to keep up the fight! Send them to the Office Workers’ Union, 504 Sixth Avenue! Franco-Soviet Protocol | On Trade Negotiations | Is Published in USSR (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 21 (By Wireless). Indicative of the rising exporting strength of the Soviet Union, the text of the trade protocol signed at Moscow, Dec. 9, by Commissar for Foreign Trade, Rosengoltz and Min- ister of Trade and Industry, Mar- chandeau of France was published in the newspapers today. The protocol provides that nego- tiations begin as soon as possible to | conclude a treaty concerning trade settlements and navigation, sub- stituting the provisional trade agreement of Jan. 11, 1934. In order to conclude the agreement, the following proposals were considered which could serve as a foundation: The opening of the French market to the U. S. S. R, credits, their amount, terms, dura- tion of contracts, interest—which must be defined and which is to be granted for a certain number of years and at normal interest rates, This credit is to be utilized as pay- ment on orders to be given to French industry for a period of one year. The U. S. S. Ri will grant credit to French importers. If a new trade agreement could not be concluded before Jan. 1, 1935, then the agreement of Jan. 11, 1934 remains in power during 1935 until the end of new negotiations, which must be ended in the shortest | possible time. | | Norwegian Communist Acquitted as Workers Rally Against Nazis OSLO, Norway, Dec. 21.—The Up- per Court has just given its verdict sible for the Communist newspaper, Arbeideren, who was sentenced by the Lower Court to 30 days im- prisonment for his article on a dem- onstration against the flags bearing the swastika in Norway. Numbers of workers who were called as witnesses declared unan- imously that the swastika was hated by the entire working population no difference between Communists and Socialists. The court acquitted the defend- ant. The counsel for the defense proved that the charge against his client had been made by the Ger- man embassy. ry of acquittal of the editor respon- | and that in this matter there was | Nazis Take War Vets of Honoring Ex-Soldiers BERLIN, Dec. 21.—'The fascist distribution of the “War Cross” | decorations, which began today, has taken on the significant aspect of a war maneuver. The ‘addresses of those who fought in 1918, kept in the archives |at Spandau, have in most cases be- | come invalid. It is well understood \here that any publication of the |Mames of those who took part in | the war might cause alarm abroad, and the creation of the “War Cross” furnishes the pretext for taking a thorough census of all ex-soldiers. | War equipment is being overhauled | and hordes of clerks and census- takers are constantly busy tabu- lating all reserves of individuals, ; men and women, capable of partici- | pation in war activities. The Daily Worker is the best collective organizer among the workers for better living con- | ditions, adequate winter relief, against lay-offs, wage-cuts and | stretchout. An increased circu- Jation will insure more widespread struggles for these demands, Get your friends, your shopmates, to read the Daily Worker regularly! Census Under Pretext | the workers through the bulletins, | | fighting for better conditions. Thus | | organize them around us, build up a revolutionary prestige among them | the first issue of our bulletins. Very | Party Life The Shop Paper An Organizer and Agitator By JACK CLIFFORD District Shop Paper Director Pis- trict 2 Y. C. L. INCE the Seventh National Con- vention of the Young Communist League held this past June, League has instituted another method of shop organization—the building unit. The building unit is to be organized in buildings which have at least several shops (or fac- tories) in them in which we do not have enough League members to organize shop nuclei (regardless of | trade). Even if one or more of the shops do have nuclei in them, we still organize the new recruits from the other shops and service em- Ployees into the building unit, un- til such time as we have enough members to organize shop nuclei. Need Broad Approach The comrades in these building | units naturally must have a much broader organizational approach to |the youth in the building. This | means that the comrades must use | broader methods in trying to get |them into the League. A comrade |in one trade, in discussing with a | worker in another trade, cannot just | discuss the conditions of his own | shop, but must also discuss the con- ditions of the other shop and must explain the connection between the | two, The same applies to discussing political subjects, when discussed in connection with the conditions in the shop (as they should be). One of the most effective methods of doing this, and doing it broadly and yet specifically, is through | | building bulletins and leaflets, Leatf- | | lets, however, are not issued regu- larly. In the first place, leaflets cannot contain all the news for one | shop, let alone all the shops in a building. In the second place, leaf- lets are used when there is one | specific point to be brought to the} | attention @f the workers. Regular Bulletins Bulletins, however, can be issued regularly. In the bulletin we can} explain all our campaigns and shop conditions (in this case the existing conditions of the various shops in the building and the conditions of the service employees). We can teach our aims and principles to and we can rally them around us in | we can educate the youth in the various shops and among the serv- | ice employees in the class struggle, for our League, lead them in their struggles by giving fighting direc- tives, and bring them into the union and League. It would be comparatively simple to get information from the young! workers in the building for expose articles, by making friends with the service employees and getting them to tell of their conditions (which they will do if they know we work in the building), by speaking to other young workers in the elevator, ete. | The elevator men also hold key propaganda positions, as they know and speak to all the workers. We must take great care with often, by issuing an unattractive bulletin, with poor articles, we turn the youth away from us, instead of drawing them closer, and it often takes a long time to overcome this. | A neat first issue (the succeeding | ones should be even better) with articles explaining who we are, tell- | ing about conditions and giving the correct interpretation, as well as suggestions on how to improve them, will immediately give us prestige, eyen though the young workers may not at first agree with our policy and mistrust us. In the bulletin we must discuss the economic conditions in connec- tion with our political campaigns | (elections, war, the use of police! and national guards in strikes, etc.), and the connection between the government and the bosses. In this connection we should use the Soviet Union as a contrast, and explain to| the youth why they cannot be eco- nomically secure under the capi- talist system, and why it must be! overthrown and the dictatorship of the proletariat set up. However, we must not make the stupid mistake of going to the other extreme and forget the economic questions. These are two parts of the same question. ‘We must guard against becoming abstract. Every article, every de- mand, every suggestion must be practical. We must give real ex- amples and real explanations. In this way we will be able through the bulletin to rally the youth around our banner. Naturally, we must not make the bulletin our only activity, but must make it one integral part of our activities. The bulletin must be fol- | lowed up with action on the part of our League members, speaking to the young workers about the | League and the bulletin in connec- tion with their shop, speaking to them about the demands in the bulletins, inviting them to our open meetings, discussing with them more in detail how to better condi- tions in their shop, getting them to fight for better conditions in an or- our | |as compared with the preceding 'VEN the Institute for Economic | German economic conditions, can no longer dispute the fact that mat- ters are going from bad to worse. According to the figures given in) the last weekly bulletin of the In- stitute, though industrial produc- tion has increased by about one- fifth in the third quarter of 1934 as compared with the same quarter of 1933, it has remained stationary quarter of the current year, with | a tendency to decrease. The index figure of industrial production was 87.9 in the second quarter of 1934, and 87.8 in the third quarter. The output in production goods | shows a slight increase. (It is a well-known fact that they must be classed in the main under the head- ing of armaments.) The output in goods destined for direct consump- tion has dropped. The Institute for Economic Re- search further states that thé in- vestments, especially in the substi- tutes industry, have increased. The output of investment goods in the heavy iron industry and machine industry has fallen off. The non- ferrous metal industry has also suf- fered a decrease. The output in textiles declined 8 per cent from July to September, 1934, The motor-car industry and the paper industry show a falling off, and production and employment in the cotton mills continued to decline in October, 1934, as reported by the federation of German cotton spin- ners. Trade Difficulties “The difficulties in foreign trade have increased,” states the fascist Institute for Economic Research in the third issue of its quarterly bul- letin for 1934. Exports, the total | value of which amounted to over a billion marks, are 13 million marks higher in the third than in the sec- ond quarter (of course, with a con- siderable proportion of armament exports), but are 20 per cent short of the figures for the third quarter of 1933. Imports have dropped 8 per cent during the last quarter. The total value of exports in July- September, 1934, was 1,005.4 million marks and the total value of im- ports 1,057.5 million marks, so that there was an excess of imports over exports of 52 million marks, That the excess is no greater is due chiefly to the curtailment of the imports of raw materials. Owing to this curtailment of imports of raw materials and to the “as- sisted” exports of machinery and chemicals, the October returns show an export surplus of 16 million marks. The first ten months of 1934 show a total excess of imports over exports of 251 million marks as compared to an export surplus of 573 millions for the same period in 1933, This is a very serious situ- tion for a country such as Ger- many, whose economic welfare is so largely dependent on its ex- port trade. The scarcity of raw materials due to the curtailment of imports is a further factor tending to worsen German's economic and financial position. Germany’s finances are in a bad way. The total budget of the Reich shows a deficit of 18 million marks for the first half-year of 1934. This is not much, but expenditure usu- ganized manner, and getting them to join our Young Communist | League. | We must also, in our discussions and through bulletins, take advan- tage of every gain which we make in any of the shops, explaining why | the gain was made and how to fol- low it up and win more concessions from the employers, also using it as an example for the other shops, And (this is also very important) explaining to them that they must be organized to keep from losing concessions gained. In New York, in Section 2 Y.C.L, we have several building units al- ready organized. Let these units be the first to start issuing bulletins for their respective buildings. The! comrades will find, as many of cur! Y.C.L. and C.P. units have already found, that, by correct application, ally increases in the second half- year, and it is also during the lat- ter period that the transfers to the states are made. Besides, the com- paratively favorable figure given above is the result of a rapid in- crease in the taxation burden of the masses and the Reich budget is en- cumbered by the tremendous lia- bilities devolving on the following years. Furthermore, the expendi- ture for the Labor Service already amounts to 177 millions, i.e., 50 mil- lions over half of the yearly esti- mate, which is 250 millions. For the “work provision” swindle, for which expenditure was foreseen to the ex- tent of 362 millions for the whole year, 503 millions have already been spent in the first six. months of the year! The financial position of the municipalities is desperate. The Reichsbank holdings of gold the bulletin will be of tremendous value in their activity. and foreign exchange, which dur- ing recent months had increased by ' ® NAZI DIFFICULTIES GROW a few million marks, have just suf- Research, the beauty parlor for | fered a decrease of 4.5 millions ow- {about 300 assembled at the closed | ing to the payments made on Ger- | man trade debts to Britain as pre- | scribed by the Anglo-German com- | mercial agreement. Unemployment Figures As to the unemployment figures, the official faked statistics have be- come very modest indeed and do not go beyond the statement that unemployment has dropped to 2,- 268,000 in October (i.e., has decreased by 13,800), According to the health insurance figures, the number of workers employed is supposed to have risen from 15.5 millions at the end of June to 15.6 millions at the end of September. Everybody knows how these figures are pro- duced! Hours are shortened without a corresponding increase in wages, unemployed men are put to work and wages all round are hardly higher than unemployment pay; un- der the new labor legislation, men under 25 are dismissed, sent to do task work as “land helpers” in the rural areas, but are registered as employed, while unemployed men are put to work to take their places in the shops. Men doing task work for unemployment benefit are also registered as employed. Unemployed men who are disallowed benefit are struck off the lists of the labor ex- changes and cease to figure in un- employment statistics. This is how the brown unemployment figures are cooked, Discontent Increasing 4 Wise discontent among the work- | ers is increasing. The attacks of | the employers, the wage cuts, the | curtailment of the social services, the heavy taxes, the “voluntary con- tributions” rackets, the rise in food prices, the fascist labor legislation —all the measures by which Hit- ler vainly attempts to remedy the crisis according to the wishes of big! business—have increased the oppo- | sition of the workers. A wave of resistance has com- menced in the shops. At Siemen’s the workers’ united action has in nearly every department beaten back an attempt to cut wages by means of a cut in piecework prices. In one department a wage increase was won. At Bemberg’s in the Wupper valley the workers of the largest department elected a dele- gation of six (four of whom were Storm Troopers) to interview the manager about wage cuts. The delegation saw the manager and protested against the cut. The manager snapped at the four Storm Troopers and refused to hear the delegation. The department immediately stopped work. After an hour the management climbed down and said it would communi- cate with the authorities. A fort- night ‘later the management at- tempted a fresh attack. The work- ers in the twisting department again stopped work and demon- strated in all the other depart- ments, Communist mobilization and the formation of a united front in this struggle led to a victory. The strike lasted only an hour and a half: then the management re- voked its decision. At the Stuelken shipyards in Hamburg the management ruled that an hour lost through com- pulsory attendance at a speech made by Hitler should be made.up by starting work an hour earlier on one of the following days. The | watchword given by the Commu- nists, “No man comes in earlier than usual,” was unanimously fol- lowed by the entire staff of 700 men; not one of them came in eatlier, and the impression made | by this unity of action was so great that the management refrained from deducting the hour’s wage as intended. In Velbert (Rhine district) the management put the harvest festi- val badge into the pay envelope of each and deducted the correspond- ing amount from his wages. The men marched together to the man- ager’s office and insisted on being given their money. Only a very few men did not join in this action ‘and the next day three neighbor- ing shops followed their example. meeting; of 5,000 men employed gates of the factory, shouted: “We | don't want to hear all this rot!” | forced their way through a cordon | of firemen and a cordon of police, and despite the attempts of the | management to intimidate them by threatening to take their names, | they made the doorkeepers open the | gates. Another 1,000 men joined them and the meeting was attended | by not more than 900 to 1,000 men in all. Resistance is on the in- crease among the women as well as | among the men, and the young | workers of both sexes are active in | the struggle against the new labor | legislation which prescribes the dis- missal of all workers under 25 from the factories and their deportation to rural areas for agricultural task | work, Hitler’s Mass Basis Shrinking Discontent has spread to the ur- ban middle class and the peasants, and is rife among the adherents of the Nazi party and its auxiliary or- ganizations themselves. Discontent | is showing again; despite all purg- | ings, among the working-class mem- bers of the Storm Troopers. Hit- | ler’s mass basis is shrinking. The growing economic difficulties and the increasing opposition of the masses runs parallel with the sharpening of the antagonisms with- in the bourgeoisie itself. These an- tagonisms center around the dis- tribution of profits and subsidies, | world, | tatorship World Fron: ——— By HARRY GANNES — Some U.S. S. R. Statistics Serap Ships Mass March in the Saar que only statistics the cap talist press has been prin ing these days from the & viet Union is the number « white guard assassins, spic and saboteurs who were e> ecuted. They believe that by harping o the abstract idea of the ruthle: executions of enemies of the work ers’ state they can befuddle th fundamental issues of aims, pur Pose and the real significance o this deed of the proletarian dicta torship, These enemies of the workers state were executed because the! wanted, by assassination, sabotage and destruction, to impede the de velopment of Socialist construc: tion. For example, why doesn’t the capitalist press, publish such facts as the following to show what the proletarian dictatorship has done, and what those executed wanted to stop? In Sept. 1934, the output of the blast furnaces of the U. S. S. Ry exceeded that of the United States, The Soviet Union has taken the lead as the largest producer of agricultural machinery throughout the entire world. In other words, the Soviet Union is producing the largest amount of machinery for the creation of food for the masses, and the greatest abundance of food becomes a matter of the immediate development, a matter of course, i bs U. S. S. R. takes the first place in the world in the pros duction of books and newspapers. In 1938, 48,000,000 volumes were printed, and 11,000 different papers published, totaling 38,000,000 copies. Those who were executed want to drive the Soviet Union back to the days of the Czar, when over 80 per cent of the population were il- literate and only knew of the ukases of the Czar when they felt the knout. Last year, 1,980,000 persons were sent to health resorts, to sanatoria, and rest homes in the U. 8, S. R. The Soviet works and factories possess the largest number of up- to-date machine tools in the world. The U.S. S. R. records the great- est increase of population in the While in capitalist coun- tries, the population figures slow down, due to the decay of economy (unemployment, hunger, disruption of family relationships), in the So- viet Union births increase, because of the constant improvement of the conditions and means of life. B= the capitalist press is not in- terested in telling the workers these facts. It is not interested in | telling the workers how this was achieved, by the violent, revolution- ary overthrow of Czarism and the stern action of the proletarian dic- against its enemies, Though the proletarian dictator- ship is not merely violent action against its enemies, never does it lose its ability to strike swiftly and hard against those desperate ene- mies who believe they can aid the imperialist war plots by a few well- placed shots. Baie an Tr British government has de- vised a plan for the destruction of outwarn and overproduced ships, and to produce newer and more ef- the economic measures to be taken, the best methods of holding down the dissatisfied masses, the extent | of social concessions to be made to | them, the influence the several | groups have on the machinery of | the State, etc., etc. Thus, for in-| stance, the journal “Die Deutsche , Volkswirtschaft” published an arti- cle inspired by German exporting | interests; the article contained a violent attack on the autarchy policy and demanded that the “dis- turbance of the equilibrium of for- eign trade and exchange” be ended, ie. that foreign trade be promoted and an open inflation policy adopted. It has recently become known that General Fritsch, Head of the Army Command, is the author of a memorandum addressed to Htler. The memorandum never reached Hitler, having been kept back by ! General Blomberg, who wished to avoid an exacerbation of the situa- tion. The memorandum deals with the menace of Communism and the dangers inside the country in ese of war, and states that under the present political conditions nearly half of the army would be required at home to keep down the enemies of the existing order. Considering the present feeling among the mass of the population it would be very dangerous to give out arms indis- criminately, as one could never know against whom such weapons would be used. The German Labor Front, Fritsch | goes on to say, has been a failure and he demands that social-demo- cratic officials be called upon to collaborate, in order to reconcile the workers with the Hitler regime, de- feat the inner enemy, ie., Commu- nism, safeguard the capitalist sys- tem and strengthen support for a war policy. The threats uttered by Hitler, Goebbels an the beginning of this month mainiy refer to the dissension existing in- side the fascist camp itself. The Church dispute has also in- | The Catholic creased in violence. and Protestant workers, aroused to action by their growing poverty, ' are putting up a fight also against» the religious oppression they are subjected to by Hitler. They are supported in this by such clergymen | as are in close contact with the workers, differences in the camp of the bourgeoisie, the antagonisms be- tween the Catholic and Protestant Church leaders on the one hand! and Hitler, Goebbels and Rosenberg on the other are also growing more acute. The heaviest burden, the night- mare of the fascist dictators, is the Saar problem. The unity of ac- tion of the Saar workers against adventurist policy which is charac- terized by their criminal catchword re-union with the Third Reich of In an arms factory at Suhl the German Labor Front had called a Hitler is developing well; feeling in favor of a vote for the status quo! Darre at | fective merchantmen, capable of assisting in its war plans. The gov- ernment has granted British ship- owners $50,000,000 for the purchase of ships to be scrapped. In addi- tion, another subsidy of $10,000,000 has been set aside for the smaller tramp ship owners. The scheme provides that the ship owners are to scrap two tons of old ships and build one ton of new ones, This plan will serve the dual purpose of increasing the effi- ciency of the mercantile marine, and of creating a new war auxiliary. ‘The scrap itself, also, is a very valuable war material which is either stored for war purposes, or sold to Japan or Germany, to help them in their war plans against the Soviet Union. a ae ake ‘HE United Front against Hitler in the Saar is planning for a huge pre-plebicite anti-fascist dem- onstration, on Jan. 6, 1935. It has decided to call on all the people in the Saar opposed to Hitler's bloody rule in the Saar, and for the re- tention of the status quo (League of Nations rule) to join a gigantic mass march to Saarbrucken on that day. The plebicite commission has been requested to grant permis- sion for this demonstration. All forces opposed to Hitler, ree gardless of their political or religi- ous affiliation, are being called on to make this march the mightiest of all demonstrations to swing the plebiscite against fascist rule. on Jan, 13 is on the increase and Hitler is seriously troubled by the prospect of losing the game in the Saar. The fascists are quite aware that the loss of the Saar would be a terrible defeat for them; they know that such a result would lend support to the anti-fascist strug- gle of the German working class, open the.eyes of the workers who up to now had been influenced by the propaganda of the Nazis, s' a decisive blow at Hitler's prestige { and considerably sharpen the ten- sions existing within the bourgeoisie and between the fascist leaders. This is why Hitler is speeding-up armaments. This is why Hitler is so desperately anxious to escape from his international isolation by In connection with the | ftesh concessions. This is why he formally renounced the Austrian Anschluss; he hoped thus to win Mussolini's support for his Saar scheme, Despite all such efforts, the in- ternational situation holds out lit- tle hope to the brown dictators, | Hitler, Goebbels and their satellites are desperate, and in their despera- tion are prepared to embark on an of “better an end with horror than a horror without end” 7 « ¥ ri