The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 25, 1934, Page 6

RS Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1934 Daily <QWorker FONTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC,, 50 E, 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Gable Address New York, N. Y. Washington B' (4th and PF St., Wi Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Telephone: Dearborn 3931 Subscription Rates: “Daiwork, Room Press Building, mn and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00; $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. Canada: 1 year, $9.00; and 00. ; monthly, 75 cents year, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents. By n TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1934 The Gilt Is Wearing Off the New Deal GROUP of liberal social investigators, A headed by Dr. Harry F. Ward of Colum- bia University, declare in a report just issued that Roosevelt’s New Deal policies are bringing new degradation to. the masses, new profits to the Wall Street employers, and are rapidly paving the way for fascism in this country. The clever mixture of social promises and re- actionary economic policies whieh characterize fas- characteristic of cism all over the world is also Roosevelt, the report, issued in the name of the Methodist Federation for Social Service, states. “The same mixture is in the minds of Mussolini and Hitler”’ Dr. Ward says. Quoting Moley’s recent declaration before the National Association of Manufacturers, “Basically, the New Deal Was an effort to save capitalism,” the report finds “that this is the purpose of fas- cism elsewhere. Mussolini talked about giving capi- talism a transfusion of blood. Hitler is less articu- late, but big business subsidized his movements when it was waning, by way of heading off Com- munism.” Coming from a group of liberal investigators this conclusion is of great significance. For it was the liberals who swallowed Roosevelt's honey with such complete abandon and faith when the Communist Party alone of all political groups was stressing the fact that Roosevelt's New Deal was a Wall Street trap for the masses. The report of Dr. Ward indicates that the gilt is rapidly wearing off the New Deal. The reaction- ary capitalist reality, pointed out by the Commu- nist Party from the beginning, is showing itself to ever increasing numbers of people. It is now eighteen months since the New Deal began in a cloud of the most rosy promises ever made to a toiling population made wretched by four years of capitalist crisis. And now we can estimate the results in cold economic figures taken from the capitalists them- selves, To quote from the report just issued by Harry F. Ward in the name of the Federation: “The price of retail food is 28 per cent higher than the low point reached in April, 1933. “1934 corporate interest and dividends will probably reach over $6,300,000,000, tripling the total of 1913, “Net profits of 506 companies rose from $157,- 000,000 in the first six months of 1933 to $408,000,- 000 for the same period this year. Thus, the New Deal has accomplished its major purpose thus far, to grind more profit out of the masses by intensifying the exploitation of the masses. This reactionary economic policy has been, and Is being, increasingly accompanied by growing fas- cist measures of repression, violence, strike-breaking, and attacks against the Communist Party and the labor movement as a whole. The warning of the Communist Party that the menace of fascism comes right from the White House must be sounded through the whole country. Every liberal group, every group of honest persons realizing that the reality of the New Deal is the trend toward fascist reaction and imperialist war, must be brought into one mighty united front against these two monsters bred by capitalism. Dr. Hearst’s Lynch Drive Penetrates Schools HE flood of fascist filth which the multi-millionaire William Randolph Hearst has let loose in his newspapers all over the country against the Communist Party is now penetrating the schools. Hearst, like a well-trained follower of fhe Hitler- Goebbels methods, is sending his agents into the schools with the purpose of drumming up a nation- wide anti-Communist lynch hysteria. New York readers will remember the recent bullying “Red scare” attack which Hearst launched against the New York schools in an effort to pave the way for more wage cuts in the school system. But Hearst’s fascist plottings are not going with- out resistance. A group of university professors, headed by Dr. George S. Counts of Columbia Uni- versity, has just requested the Dickstein Committee investigating “un-American” activities to open a drastic inquiry into Hearst’s under-cover campaign to foment a typically fascist “Red scare” in the schools. The low, degraded methods of this multi-million- aire vulture who makes millions on the opium he peddles in his dirty press are rightly denounced by the liberal educators as similar to Hitier’s which “will reduce American universities and schools to the ignominious condition of the German schools and universities under Hitler.” This is true. Hearst’s anti-Communist campaign is a sinister menace to every standard of intellectual honesty and progress in the schools. Hearst's lynch campaign, with its lies, its distortions and gutter journalism pandering, will turn the schools into hateful prison houses of intellectual prostitution in true fascist style. Hearst’s anti-Communist incite- ments will befoul the atmosphere of every school- room, laboratory and study in the country, if his campaign is not smashed by the organized protest of the workers and intellectuals of the country. Therefore, the protest of the university profes- sors is welcome and deserves support of all workers and anti-fascists, One word of warning. The Dickstein Committee will not fight Hearst’s vicious lies. The Dickstein Committee itself has taken its part in arousing anti- Communist hysteria. The protest of the professors and all intellectuals must be joined by the mass protest of the workers in meetings and demonstra- tions. This will be the most effective way to block the rottenness of a Hearst. , ‘ Sacramento Frame-Up Must Be Defeated ALIFORNIA capitalists who used their courts to frame up Tom Mooney and keep him in jail for the past seventeen years despite overwhelming proof and of- ficial admission of his innocence are today engaged in a monstrous attempt to railroad eighteen workers to prison under the notorious California Criminal Syndicalist Law. Perjured testimony, tampering with the jury, whipping up of anti-Communist sentiment with fantastic tales of “kidnapping of a prosecution wit- ness” (later exposed as a hoax perpetrated by the District Attorney), lies about “death threats” to jurors—everything and anything goes with the degenerate crowd of stool pigeons, vigilantes and fascist agents of the bosses gathered in Sacramento at the trial of these eighteen militant workers. The attempt to railroad these workers to long prison terms for their working class activities is an attack on the whole working class. Directed first and particularly against the Communist Party in the nation-wide anti-working class campaign initi- ated by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the reptile Hearst press, the arrest and prosecution of these workers is a challenge to the rights of all workers and their organizations. The Sacramento trial is a prelude to further and sharper fascist at- tacks on the toiling population of this country. It arises directly out of the vigilante raids on workers’ organizations during the strike struggles on the West Coast—raids that were organized and designed by the bosses to throw terror into the working class and smash its struggles against the program of the Roosevelt New Deal, with its arbitration in the in- terests of the employers, its wage slashing and drive to Fascism and imperialist war as the capital- ists’ “way out” of their growing difficulties. The attack can be beaten back by a united working class, and these framed-up workers wrested from the hands of their jailers. It is the class duty of every worker, of every working class organiza- tion, to demand a halt to this frame-up and the unconditional release of the defendants. Send pro- test telegrams and resolutions to Governor Frank Merriam, Judge Dal M. Lemmon and District At- torney McAllister, all at Sacramento, Calif. The War Plans and Section 7-a HE war plans of the government, now being discussed before the Senate muni- tions committee, include the scrapping of even the pretenses in section 7-A of the N.R.A., and the dictatorship by the gov- ernment as to wages, and conditions of labor. This was admitted in testimony of War Department of- ficials Friday before the committee. The testimony of these Roosevelt government of- ficials gives additional proof that the N.R.A. as at present set up, is paving the way for fascism and imperialist war. Under the N.R.A., fascist measures have increased. The fascist company unions have grown tremendously under encouragement of N.R.A. boards. Strikes have been prevented at the terms of the employers by the N.R.A. compulsory arbitration boards. The unions have been attacked through blacklist and discrimination. The terror of national guard troops and police have been thrown against picket lines and unemployed demonstrations. War preparations have been speeded up and billions of dollars poured into them, The plans for the next war include the dicta- tion by a small government board or by the Presi- dent himself as to wages and working conditions. No “labor” representation will be allowed, War De- partment officials said. The demagogy which is now surrounding N.R.A. will be dropped, according to these war plans. Sec- tion 7 A, ambiguously worded, has been used against the workers’ organizations and in favor of the com- pany union. But Section 7A has been hailed by the Roosevelt government as guaranteeing the rights of the unions to “collective bargaining.” But in the coming war, these demagogic promises to labor will be dropped, the War Department admits. Wages will be cut and the unions fascisized at the convenience of the government, in order to make more billions in profits for munitions’ makers. “In time of war you can have only one boss,” Colonel Harris said in approval of dropping N.R.A. when war comes. The open dictatorship of the bankers and the munition makers, the open rule of the employing class is being prepared for the imperialist war now being plotted by the Roosevelt government. The demagogic trimmings of Section 7-A and the like, with which Roosevelt now covers his rule for the bankers, will be given up. Fascist terror will take its place. ‘These war preparations, which include prepara- tion for the destruction of all of labors’ rights and destruction of the workers’ organizations, must be combatted now by the broadest united front of the workers against the capitalist war preparations, From the-Workers’ Pockets HILE workers’ groups throughout the country continue to array their forces for the mighty National Congress for Un- employment Insurance, Secretary of Labor Perkins, speaking over a radio hook-up Saturday, gave the key to the plans of the Roose- velt regime in its efforts to head off the fight for genuine unemployment insurance. The chief role of the Federal government, Perkins said, will be to establish uniform rates in various state “reserves” schemes. She reiterated all the platitudes of the infamous Wagner-Lewis. Bill, and declared that in any event any projects scheme that will receive the blessings of the Roosevelt ad- ministration will give not one penny to the present unemployed. Such a scheme, she said, will only, “tide the worker over seasonal layoffs” under a “con- tractual” set-up to which he will contribute. For the aged, sick and infirm, Perkins put for- ward the Roosevelt plans to have the present em- ployed young workers “build up reserves during their working years”—a sort of mutual savings fund from which they can later draw. Clearly it is evident that any genuine system of unemployment irisurance, such as is embodied in the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, can only be wrung from the Roosevelt hunger regime by the mass weight of the workers organized behind the tremendous mass movement of the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance. The task before the Communists in the trade unions and unemployed and mass organizations must be to move these groups into united action in sup- port of the coming National Congress for Unem- Ployment Insurance, | out the plan. | Party Life | New York Section | Announces Plan | For Recruiting ECTION 10 is an important in- dustrial Section. With the ex- |ception of mine and marine, every | concentration industry of our Party |is to be found in the Long Island j territory. |_ Section 10 works on a Three Months Plan. The second Three | Months Plan is in operation for about a month. The following are | | the tasks to be accomplished by the | Section at the end of the Three/ | Months Plan: 1, To bring back all Party mem- | bers now on the rolls into activity, 2. To accomplish 100 per cent dues payment and improve greatly the attendance. | 3. To recruit 25 members to the Party each week in accordance with the quota set to us by the District, | 4. Twenty five per cent of these |recruits shall be Negro workers. 5. The Section shall set itself a quota for recruiting to the Y. C. L. and shall organize a plan of work so that this quota shall be attained | during the three months period. 6. The building of the ten new shop nuclei. | _7. The doubling of the member- ship in the already existing shop nuclei, 8. To choose a number of im-| portant factories to be assigned to street nuclei for concentration. 9. To sell @ minimum of 1,500 pieces of literature per week at the end of the three months plan. 10. To sell weekly through the units 1,500 Daily Workers. To carry out the above tasks, the | Section Plan provides for the fol- lowing: 1, Each department shall work out a Three Months Plan based on the general plan of the Section. 2. To meet with Unit Buros of the street nuclei and discuss with them: a. Their specific point of con- centration. b. Methods of work, c. Forces, d. Work in the territory. 3. Immediately after the meeting with the unit buros, to have a dis- cussion on the plan in the units and take the necessary steps to carry The unit, in turn, works out its own Three Months Plan based on the general plan of the Section. 4. Weekly reports to the unit buros on conventration, 5. A monthly check on the prog- ress of the plan. 6. A conference of all shop nu- clei to discuss the work in the shops and the Three Months Plan as ap- plied to the conditions in the given shops. 7. Section representatives to each unit, particularly shop units, to be held personally responsible for the carrying out of the plan in the given unit. 8. Section representatives are not merely to come to a unit meet- ing and give advice, but also to meet with the unit buros and be responsible for the functioning of the unit buros. 9, Each unit to have a minimum of two open unit meetings during the Three Months Plan. Prior to these Open Unit meetings, the units shall visit all their contacts as well as issue a leaflet in the territory, At the meeting proper a comrade from the Section speaks on the role of the Party and why each worker should join it and the meetings are utilized for recruiting. 10. The Plan also calls for unit parties to which contacts are invited and where the question of recruit- ing is discussed and attempts made to recruit at these parties. 11, A monthly check-up by the Section Committee on the progress of the Three Months Plan as a whole, 12. A meeting of all fractions to discuss the recruiting drive and set quotas for each fraction. The results after the first month of the Three Months Plans indicate the possibilities of not only fulfill- ing but exceeding this Plan. For instance, in the case of literature where the Three Months Plan calls for the sale of 1,500 pieces of lit- erature per week, the amount has already been exceeded. The units which were assigned to concentrate on factories take their work very seriously and they are in front of those factories daily with Daily Workers, leaflets, etc. Some of the units, of course, have diffi- culties in the early stages of con- centration, The Bureaus of such units are called in to the Section Bureau where the problem of the given unit is discussed in detail and guidance given to the com- rades. The Section also organized a class in Party Organization, where the question of concentration, the importance of it, how, where and other phases of Party organization, is being discussed with the com- rades weekly. New Tear-Gas Apparatus Bought by Paris Police PARIS, Dec. 24.—Paris Commu- nists have announced police are fitting police cars was special tear- gas apparatus for use against work- ers’ demonstrations. After the police issued a custom- ary denial, the alert Humanite, or- gan of the French Communist Party, published a photostat of an official letter giving full details of the importation by the police of specially constructed gas-bombs from the U. S. A. A big consign- ment of these bombs has just ar- rived at police headquarters. CUPENHAGEN STRIKE LOOMS COPENHAGEN, Dec. 24.—While unrest sweeps the metal and en- gineering trades, slaughterhouse men and bacon workers are about to strike for a 40-hour week and a wage raise. What is the Jatest maneuvering of the imperialist powers? Only the Daily Worker explains what it really means. Read the Daily Worker regularly! Subscribe to the Daily Worker! Get your shop- mates to read it and subscribe! |A WELL-FILLED STOC “KING by Limbach| { By PAUL GREEN S THE economic crisis in Rou- mania increases at an alarming pace, the Roumanian government, | the Siguranza (the Secret Police), the fascist organizations of Profes- sor Cuza and Codreanu as well as the boyars (rich peasants) and the bourgeoisie are instigating a reign of terror unparalleled in the history of Roumania. The recent Skoda munition scandal, which involved the highest officials in the Rouman- jan government, the bourgeoisie and the ex-Ministers of War and Jus- tice, are also signs of the tottering regime. While the peasants and workers are destitute, the government has just Jaunched a campaign for an internal loan designed specifically for war preparations. As a piece of propaganda played up as an exam- | ple of patriotic duty, the King, his son, the Ministers and the highest functionaries subscribed to this loan, ! in order to force further taxes from! the impoverished middle class, the workers and peasants, Even this maneuver was of no avail. With the opening of the new Parliament, new military laws with regard to armament credits and the military education of the Roumanian youth have been pre- pared. The military education law is already in force. War Credits Increase While the country is bankrupt and war credits are increased, factories are being shut down and thousands of workers thrown into the streets. The great textile factory of Lugoj for example, has been closed. A strike wave is actually in existence all over Roumania. Strikes in the chemical, matallurgical, textile, food and clothing industries, are being waged against slashes in salaries, for the 8-hour workday, for the tight to organize. ‘These strikes result practically always in clashes with the police and the ruling class, All sorts of terrorist methods are being used to kill the initiative of the heroic Roumania workers. In spite of this terror and in spite of | the Reformist treacherous leaders, who work hand in glove with the Minister of Labor, the united front of the rank and file is waging a fight to the finish. In the different provinces of Rou- mania, the peasants not only are destitute, but those who own some Jand are requested to prove their richt to the property. In the ‘new Dobrodgea, the prov- inces of Caliacra and Durostor for eXample, the big landowners helped to pass such a law. They even in- voked the old Musulman law of 1878 (these provinces belonged to the Turkish empire before 1878), Most of the peasants in these prov- inces are Bulgarian and as a con- Sequence are unable to prove theit rights through legal papers. Even when they can prove it, they are forced to relinquish one-third ot their property. is Terrer Reign Opened In view of the quickening tempo of the upsurge of the Roumanian masses a reign of terror has been inaugurated all over Roumania. On Nov. 15, under the pretext of seiz- ing terrorists connected with the Marseilles assassination of the Yugoslav King Alexander, 12,000 people were arrested. The Sizur- English Paper Describes; Rapid Rise in Standard. Of Living in U. S. S. R. (Special to the Daily Worker) LONDON, Dec. 24 (By Wireless). —The British Weekly, The New, Statesman and Nation, in its latest issue publishes an article from Mos- cow by Louis Fischer, the well- known American journalist, regard- Terror Stalks Roumania Sinks Deeper As Crisis anza (the Roumanian secret police) hypocritically stated that this re- sulted in the arrest of “seven no- torious terrorists.” To this day no names were given out as to these seven terrorists. It is a well-known fact that the Croatian Oustachis in Roumania are closely allied with the Roumanian fascist league “Gar- da de Fer” which in turn is very friendly with King Carol. What these arrests signify is ap- parent. By these arrests the Rou- manian government expected to de- stroy and undermine the anti-fas- cist organizations. Reports have been received that all over Rou- mania this terror is increasing. At Cluj six young Communists were brought to trial on a frame up. At Braila a poor peasant was beaten and his property confiscated because he was unable to pay his debt. The populace was so aroused that a real battle ensued between the -police and the people. At Chisanau (Bes- sarabia) raids jare being conducted regularly on radical newspaper of- fices. In spite of this terror the anti-fascist movement is becoming ever stronger. In Bucharest a meet- ing under the auspices of the “united front” was held, in spite of the police attempt to disperse it. The well-known anti-fascist leader, Professor Constantinescu of Jassy, was enthusiastically acclaimed. At Doftana, where the political prisoners are incarcerated, the situ- ation is very desverate. The most barbaric treatment is being inflicted upon these heroic workers. Clothing and blankets which were sent to! them were confiscated. Doftana is situated in the mountains where the cold is very extreme. Even the food is being returned without any; explanation whatever. Minister of | Justice Antonescu himself said: Not Allowed to See Son “With the measures taken the prisoners will not last through the winter.” It is reported that the 70-year old mother of the journalist, S. Foris, visiting her son at the Doftana prison, not only was not allowed to see Foris, but was bru- tally beaten and thrown out. The upsurge of the masses has taken such a turn that even though strikes, demonstrations and mass meetings are actually forbidden, they take place nevertheless, and fights and riots actually occur in the streets. Under the heroic lead- ership of the Communist Party (il- legal), feeling has grown so bitter against the government and the bourgeoisie that 32 organizations having the slightest taint of radi- calism have been closed. Especially is the terror greatest in the cities and industrial and mining centers. At Ploesti, one of the petroleum centers, possibly the largest, workers are being tortured to death. We received the follow- ing report from Ploesti: “The fol- lowing workers—T. Avramescu, G. Avramescu, R. Petrescu, Yon Chili- anu, Aurel Rottenberg and his wife. Nicolai Baesan, Trutza, his wife and two brothers, Vasilescu and many other workers were arrested and horribly tortured. They were so butchered that a doctor had to be called. Comrade Rottenbere’s wife, unable to stand the tortures, took poison and is at present in a hos- pital in a very critical condition,” To give a fuil account of the hor- Tors and cruelty from which the population suffers would require ing the abolition of the bread-card,. system, the lowering of commodity hundreds of pages, but these few examples we gave you will suffice to paint the situation existing in fascist Roumania. The picture would be incomplete if we did not men- tion the activities or rather the treachery of the Reformist leader- ship in Roumania. Not only are they blocking the advance of the united front (as the Waldmans, the | Lees and the William Greens are doing in the U. S.) but they are actually working hand in glove with the government. At the recent Roumanian A. F. of L, Congress, admittance was refused to the dele- gates duly elected by their respec- tive unions. These delegates came to the Congress with resolutions for the adoption of the United Front, for a program of struggle for imme- diate demands and against war and fascism. Instead of admitting these delegates, who expressed the will of the majority of the rank file, they, the Reformists, formed a congress of cliques instead of a congress of rank and file delegates. Instead of admitting the general council of the Unitary Unions (legalized after ex- treme battles), the “Liga Muncii” and the anti-fascist National Com- mittee; instead of admitting the! delegates from Bessarabia, repre- senting some 20,000 workers, they were happy to receive the Inspector General Georgian, who greeted in the name of the Minister of Labor the Congress of “authorized” repre- sentatives of labor. The general report was made by Mr. Mirescu. This representative of “authorized” labor had the impudence “to deny the aggressive character of the strike wave” now going on in Rou- mania, He had the shameless au- dacity, in speaking of the 1933 rail- way strike when hundreds of work- ers were shot down and hundreds are still in prison for hundreds of years, to say that only seven work- ers had been killed. The fact as stated by us was even admitted by that bourgeois politician Dr. Lupu and by the press. In spite of the terror, in spite of the sabotage and treachery of the Social-Democrat and the Re- formist leaders, the united front is gaining momentum, Already the “Liga Muncii” (the Labor League), the anti-fascist organizations be- longing to the Amsterdam-Leéyel Committee, and the Unitary So- cialist Party have signed a united front pact. Also the different associations of office, stores and bank employees have organized a Committee of United Action. This united front came out in the streets and cele- brated the 17th anniversary of the October Revolution. This in itself is an_heroic action on the part of the Roumanian workers, for while the police and the army descended “en masse” on the workers’ quar- ters and clubs, 7,000 strong demon- strated at Bucharest before the railway shops Grivitza, renowned for the heroic battles of February 1933. There the Roumanian prole- tariat showed they would not be defied by any enemy of the working class. The Roumanian proletariat has proven that. in spite of the World Front —— By HARRY GANNES Hearst’s Venom Defending All Foes of the Soviet Union OMING to the defense of the Zinoviev-Kamenev group who were arrested in the Soviet Union, as well as to the white guardist assase sins who were executed Py Hearst’s fascist seribbler, Isaac don Levine, opens up one of the vilest attacks on the workers? fatherland ever to appear in print in the United States, Levine is particularly happy over the events in Manchuria, where the Japanese militarists have long been f |Planning war against the Soviet ' | Union. In this war (for which he blames Stalin, very much in the manner of the Trotskyites) he sees the downfall of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the end of the fortress of the world revolution. Levine's special story, which Hearst publishes along with the news that Japanese troops have sure rounded a small Soviet border guard, is first rate publicity for the Jap- anese imperialists and their war plans in Manchuria. Imagine the putrid imagination of the man when he declares that Stalin, and the leaders in the Soviet Union, are planning war against Japan in Manchuria in order to } avoid civil war in the Soviet Union, Sls 9) ae | gescer ated Stalin is responsible for the transportation of 250,000 Jap= anese troops into Manchuria to wrest Manchuria away from China? Un- doubtedly Stalin caused the eco- nomic and financial crisis in Japan which drove Japanese militarism in desperation to seek new conquests by war. What is more, Stalin is responsible for the starvation of the peasants in Japan, because the Jap- anese imperialists are spending bill- ions of yen for their war adventures in Manchuria and against the Soviet Union. If Stalin would only be more lax in the protection of the workers’ revolutionary victory, if he would only be less relentless in the con- struction of Socialism, and the building up of the mighty arm of the workers’ defence, if he would only be less persistent in the Soviet peace policy and its victories, Jan- anese imperialism wouldn't have to use so much of its money and arms to try to destroy the workers’ father- land. Everything. would be much simpler and easier — for Japanese imperialism. The culprit and plotter is Stalin —howl the Levines, the Trotskyites, the Algernon Lees, the Abe Cahans, and the Russian Fascists in this country. The venomous attacks against Stalin and the other Communist leaders in the Soviet Union are re- verting to type of the earlier days of the revolution when any lying story, any diseased imagination, was utilized against the bolsheviks. oo ee Gam HAT is fundamental in the whole situation? The capitalist world crisis is getting worse, its contradic- tions sharper, and a new imperial- ist war looms closer and closer. The war incidents explode in Europe with the regularity of a roman candle, Every imperialist antagonism is be- ing pushed to the breaking point. The conflict between American and Japanese imperialism has never been so bitter, nor so dangerous. Further= more, German fascism is rapidly ap- proaching a new catastrophe, while Japanese imperialism is also on the verge of an inner explosion. Every capitalist power feels ex- ceedingly nervous in this situation, They have the fear that their whole system is on the edge of a volcano, And while they are driven to daggers points against one another, they see the Soviet Union growing stronger, Socialism advancing more rapidly, the conditions of the masses in the Soviet Union improving. In this situation, by a major stroke, by a drastic move, they try to turn their mutual conflicts, their dangerous antagonisms into the channel of common action against the main world culprit for imperial< lists — the victoriously advancing workers and peasants in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Gang hues NY conflict working against the Soviet Union is grist to the im- perialist mill. Whether it is the assassination plots of white guard- ists, Russian fascists, or spies of German fascism, Roumania, Poland, or Finland, or the desperate and corrupt dregs of the former Zinoviev faction who resort to assassination of one of the best defenders of the So- viet Union, like our Comrade Kirov, makes no difference to the Japanese imperialists. In the general con- fusion, in the hub-bub of lies which are rammed down the workers’ throats in the capitalist countries, the imperialist robbers feel that they can attacks with the workers thrown off guard. ‘That is the purpose of Levine’s article. He wants to point out to the American capitalists looking for more blood-money, that the best bet is war against the Soviet Union. He tells them that the destruction of the Soviet government is a push= over and that the Japanese militar- terror prevailing there, they would not cease fighting until the last vestige of the Roumanian bourgeoi- sie has been destroyed and in its stead the red flag of the Roumanian Soviets adorns the whole of Reu- mania. in the standard of living.” In con- cluding Fischer remarks on the prices and the increasing production | strengthening of Soviet currency. of manufactured goods. “All this,” writes Fischer, “in a} concrete incontestible form is wit- ness to the-agricultural and indus- trial successes of the Soviet Union. People living in this country or visit- ing it can with their own eyes ob- 30,000 FACE LOCKOUT COPENHAGEN, Dec. 24. — The lockout of 30,000 Danish metal workers before the new year looms as the joint Employers’ Association acts to try to break the illegal strike at Jensen’s Silver Works. Workers serve a rapid daily increase in the volume and kind of goods sold in Stores, just like the rapid daily rise at one of the big ship-building yards, says the Exchange Telegraph, are threatening to strike. 4 U ists are really doing pioneer work for the agents of capitalist civiliza- tion against the red barbarian who insists on improving the condition of the masses of the toilers in times as critical as the present. And it is no wonder that the heaviest and most poisonous attacks from the vilest fascist sources, from the most stubborn enemies of the Soviet Union, should be leveled chiefly at our comrade Stalin, just as they were leveled primarily against Lenin in the first and cru- cial days of the proletarian revolu- tion, The more desperate the situa- tion of world capitalism the greater will be the venom directed against the outstanding revolutionary lead- er of the world proletariat, Joseph Stalin, -