The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 Daily ,<QWorker | CEWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTPRHATIONAA) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 | PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE *'* OWN COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 B. 18th | problem am DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1587 ‘Educated’ Anti-Labor Magistrates AYOR LA GUARDIA has presented his “solution” for the unemployment ong the college graduates and y Limbach | | | World Front} | —— By HARRY GANNES -——' | Party Life| g |Party Recruiting Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. profes college La Guardia proposes that ates take the next examina- | Weaknesses Shown In Two Letters The Truth About Abyssinia | British-Italian Pact } | Why the War Starts Now Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥. The few selected college gradu- | wor HAVE written many times in : Washington Bureau: Room 954, National Press Building, would put on the police force iW TALIAN Fascism is march- ; i4th and F St., Washington, D. C. Telephone: National 7910. sagan torah = this column about recruiting, re Fi sem . 3 Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 708, Chicago, Mil a period of training, be used a the ail that it ing into Abyssinia, clearing Telephone: Dearborn 3931 to enforce s gotten out against strikers, | 8Md the attention that it is neces- the way with its bombi Subscription Rates: to send une! joyed demonstrators to jail, and to |Sary to pay to the workers whom E. é £ ae br ng if Bee et (etch Manbatian and: Bronx], 1 year, 4.9; | throw into their fellow white collar workers, | we contact. Evidence still piles up planes, hoping to turn this VP ths, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 mont cents. : fies ede Ti. Eechitex “atinx, ‘veren aua censes: “1 year,, 9000; | such ax the strikers at Ohibeoh’s depériment store, {in the offide of the Genital Ocul. | Ethiopian country into a new j 6 months, $5.00: 3 months, $3.00 ‘ who are now ng arrested by the score, tee that the comrades in the dis- Manchukuo, By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cel monthly, 75 ¢: 4 BAL PRES meen at th | Saturday Edition; By mail, 1 year, $1.80; 6 mo 75 cents Guardia prefers to shut his eyes to © |tricts are not paying sufficient | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 26, 1934 Unity of the Unemployed HE New York Post, a “liberal” capitalist newspaper, is forced into a position of recognizing the power behind the Work- ers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill and the historic National Congress for Unemployment Insurance which will meet in Wash- ington on Jan. 5. Dec, 24, the “The American people are at last In a leading editorial on Monday. Post declares they reaching the stage where are willing to fight for social security... . On this question the masses of the people are moving beyond their leaders with accelerating rapidity xpression of the public desire,” the Post con- tinues, “will shortly be provided by the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance. All shades of political opinion, labor organizations and other interested groups will be represented.” In its comment on the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, and after setting forth its provisions, the Post states that “the bill that the American people will accept will have to be cast in some such forthright terms as these.” ‘OMPARE this with the campaign of the Socialist New Leader in consciously sabotaging the united front behind the question of unemployment insur- ance or with the despicable role played by the rene- gades from Communism. While the New Leader is compelled by the very pressure of its membership and of the members of the Socialist-controlled unemployed groups and trade unions to tip its hat to the drive toward unity, its maneuvers are transparent, The continuous ap- peal for unity made by the National Unemploy- ment Councils have met with complete rebuff on the part of the leadership of the Workers’ Unem- ployed Union. Yet in the name of “unity,” David Lasser, So- cialist leader and chairman of the Workers’ Unem- ployed Union and of a “National Provisional Com- mittee,” in a leading article in the current New Leader, wherein he writes of unemployment in- surance among other things, makes not one men- tion of the united front behind the Workers’ Bill and the National Congress. On the most burning united front issue before the working class, the question of unemployment. insurance, the New Leader, which is dominated by the right-wing of the Socialist Party, has main- tained complete silence and sabotaged the drive behind the National Congress. Norman Thomas, who at the first National Youth Congress gave lip service to the Workers’ Bill, has capitulated to the right-wing of the Socialist Party, and has used his column in the New Leader to hinder the building of the united front, slander the Soviet Union and thus widen the breach that Separates the American working class, * * * - egahaniey carries out a similar role of slander and wrecking. Thus this renegade from Com- munism writes: “What is the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance? Nothing but the latest puppet organization of the Commu- nist Party, just another name for the bankrupt Un- employed Councils. It is merely another ‘Red’ Paper organization today and can never, in the nature of the case, become anything else.” And with these words, a renegade contributes his efforts to- ward blocking the drive for genuine unemployment insurance. In the A. F. of L., Green’s whole aim has been to head off the growing revolt of the trade unions’ members, who are demanding real unemployment insurance instead of the spurious schemes which he advances. Despite the conscious sabotage, the words of the Post hold true—‘the American people are at last reaching the stage where they are willing to fight for social security and stability. The rank and file of the Socialist Party and of the A. F. of L. should cement this unity. The mem- bers of the Communist Party must bind the united front inaction wherever it has thus far been formed, and build the united front locally in every section of the country. The National Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance will be a united front in spite of the sabotage. h ave rooted in the misery and list system which he upholds, put forward the erroneous idea that crime can be shot out of existence. La Guardia, in attempting to entice college graduates and especially new members of the bar, nto the ranks of patrolmen, holds out to them the hope of becoming city magistrates. “I have an idea that I would like to appoint city magistrates from the police department,” he said in his address to 103 members of the police and fire department up for promotion. But La Guardia is taking no chances on his ap- pointments—he wants “safe” magistrates and he would put these college graduates through the mill of rigorous training in the art of sending workers to jail. “They would serve as patrolmen for a year, put in about two years in the detective bureau, six months in the Corporation Counsel's office, and about two years in the District Attorney's office. Then they should have a turn at desk duty in po- lice stations,” he says. City magistrates handle ‘labor” cases. La Guardia is following the same policy as the Department of Justice of the Federal Government, of creating well-trained anti-labor corps to be used against the workers. La Guardia’s proposal to thus create “career magistrates” is in line with the creation by his police department of an anti-strike rifle squad—the creation of “dependable” fascist bands which he can rely on to carry out orders when strikers or unemployed workers come before them. The Pope and Peace OPE PIUS XI just as avidly blesses “neace” this Christmas as the cardinals, bishops and priests of the church blessed blessed the imperialist war makers in the days of the last world slaughter. Catholic priests, Protestant ministers and Jewish rabbis then utilized the religious poison instilled into the mind of the youth to drive them into war for the holy cause of their various imperialist rulers. No one can doubt that the papacy is very nervous these days over the question of the imminent war danger. The chief reason for this is that the Catholic church makes it a practice of keeping its ears close to the mass rumblings of discontent, and undoubtedly has heard that the toilers and op- pressed are not as sheep-like this time as they were when the imperialists were ready to plunge them into the last world war. The Pope wants prayers for peace to resound through the world. We may be sure that the du- Ponts, for example, in the United States, or the Krupps in Germany, or the Creusots in France, and the Armstrongs in England, go to their churches regularly and pray for peace, not wasting a moment to speed war preparations as they never have be- fore. His holiness admits that the world is closer to a war than ever before in all history. But he is afraid of what may happen to the war-makers, not at the hand of god, but at the hand of the people. If the rulers make war, the Pope threatens that he will call on god to disperse them. But the only war-makers in all history who were ever effectively dispersed were the Russian ruling class when the proletariat and peasantry, under the leadership of the Communist Party, forever wiped out capitalist domination, In other words, the revo- lutionary proletariat brought not only peace, but bread and land to the people by transforming the imperialist war into a civil war against the war- makers, And when the Pope cries for “peace, peace, peace,” we answer, “Yes, peace not in the Latin litany, but in reality for mankind; the peace which can be achieved only by the toilers and oppressed in all countries fighting against their enslavers; the peace for which only the Soviet Union among na- tions fights for with all its revolutionary strength, the peace that can only come and be safeguarded for mankind with the end of the cause of war— capitalism. Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. NAME..... ADDRESS. Macy Store to Fire 5,000 Employees (Continued from Page 1) year of 1933 shall be laid off on Saturday night Dec. 29 in the em- ployment office. (b) People employed before Jan. 1, 1933 shall not be laid off until | after January 1, 1935. Their lay- off will be scheduled and the person called for by the employment office during the week of Jan. 7. “Their layoffs are to take place | during the day, with the individual | being paid for the full day. Every | effort is to be made to avoid the, appearance and rush of a mass lay- off.” (The last sentence is under- lined in the instructions.) | Point 3, headed “Hospital Follow Up,” shows how sincere Macy's “Merry Christmas” is. “On Dec. 6, the record office will | send Miss Simpson a list of all| people employed up to Dec. 6, who have been rated “poor risks” by the hospital, or who are on temporary O. K. This information will be posted on the Jayoff sheets and these people must be paid off. If a@hy of these people, employed be- icre Oct. 15, are very desirable, refer the person to Mr. Bemis and he will get in touch with Dr. Lake who will make the final decision as to whether the person may be re- examined or should be laid off.” “The parts in the instructions on the “hospital follow up” indicate that the medical examination must {conform to the needs of the com-, | Pany not the condition of the work- ers examined. A foot-note to the entire list of instructions on how to lay off 5,000, reads as follows: “Any person wishing to resign | must report to the employment de- |partment in the regular way. If they give notice in the employment | department before noon of the day they are leaving, the salary will be ready that evening.” | ete ae ‘Yule’ Carols Hide Rumblings of War (Continued from Page 1) | troops move restlessly toward the Saar Valley for the coming plebi- | scite, which may set off the pow- der keg of another world war. From his sheltered palace, sup-| ported by the miseries of millions of catholic workers, the Pope sounds with one voice a call for interven- tion against the Soviet Union and for peace. Everywhere, the working class pondered the wage slavery of the capitalist system, seeking for a way out of the crisis, moving steadily toward the road of proletarian reyo- lution, when the golden parties of | the kings, priests, industria landlords, bankers and parasites will | find the fate which Karl Marx long | ago predicted for them—“they will be sprung high into the air when the proletariat rises.” New York Nazi Split Bares Graft (Continued “From Page 1) make Haegele formal owner of the paper, so that now it was easy for | the Haegele group to take complete Possession. After this counter-charges began | to fly back and forth in numerous leaflets, uncovering a mess of scandal similar to the frequent ex- poses of corruption in Hitler Ger- many. Meanwhile, the Yorkville Com- mittee of the American League Against War and Fascism, in con- junction with the German Workers’ Clubs and the Anti-Fascist Action Committee, has issued a leaflet to the members of the Friends of New | Germany, in which it was pointed out that this collection of scandals | was indicative of the true “pzin- ciples” of fascism, that Haegele was only attempting to secure a soft job for himself and that the place of the German workers was not in the ranks of the agents of capitalism but with the anti-fascist forces, who fight against fascist terror and for the right of the working class. At a meeting called by the York- ville Committee of the L. A. W. F. last Friday in the Yo:kville Labor | attention to their contacts, and that | the workers still find it difficult to |Join our Party. We are printing a miner, and one a veteran, which strikingly illustrate this. One of the |aims of the recruiting drive which |to see to it that every worker who jis in contact with our movement has an opportunity to become a | member of the Communist Party. esRe ei From a Pennsylvania Miner I HAVE been trying desperately to j* become a member of the Com- | munist Party for over a month and am now further off from being a member than when I started. In the first place, I wrote to you | asking for the Y. C. L.’s address, to whom you forwarded my letter, and to write to the branch nearest me, from the same as yet Eighth Street, On Novy. Y. C. L., Box 28, Sta. D, New York, Philadelphia). | subscribed to the Young Worker, they received the letter, but stated ; the letter of Nov. 27 they did not | receive. I had also written to the Com- munist Party National Office in regard to becoming a member, but who told me they were informing the branch nearest me, 2202 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh—and also told me to write direct, which I did, but as yet have received no reply. My, case with the International Labor Defense is the same, and whose letter I am forwarding to you. | Here before you, you have an excel- lent view of the situation, and I must | say that we shall never establish a | tions render such services to every- | one as they render to me. I am situated in a farming and | mining district, about 80 miles from Pittsburgh and am a coal heaver |and a member of the U. M. W. A. | There also are numerous farmers’ organizations in this locality known as granges, with fairly large mem- berships, who also have their prob- lems and grievances to solve. | In a letter from the Workers | Bookshop a comrade suggests that f organize a group of sympathizers, which I would wholeheartedly do if I would receive assistance from the various organizations whose ad- dresses the Workers Bookshop sent me, and told me to ask for assis- tance in this field of work. ...1 {could be of use to the Communist | Party if they would only give me a | chance. ... I assure you that in me you will find an ardent and militant | fighter if you just instruct me as to |how to launch my attacks against | war and imperialism. (Signed) M. D. Pennsylvania, Pa. oe let ae From a Chicago Veteran | My Dear Sir: paper for a good many years, I would like to offer a little criticism of Party members’ contact with non-Party sympathizers. As I say, for about ten years I have read the Daily Worker, bought literature at different places in order to increase my little knowl- | edge of the workers’ movement, but not one man or member of the Party has ever asked me to join, in spite of your appeal for members. They will give you a slip applying for membership, but there is no follow-up to see that a fellow gets | in while he is in the notion. I know |a lot of chaps who have failed to come in because of this “holier than |thou” attitude. If these leaders would open up to us ‘and be a little | friendly toward us outsiders, we perhaps would understand them | better. This is not only in Chicago, ; but all over the country. month, my only income, but I man- age to get by with the help of a friend or two. I would like with all my heart to become an active work- er in the Party of the workers’ only hope, and if I am eligible under your by-laws I will be highly honored to be admitted to member- ship, Sincerely yours, Chicago. German Communists Hit BERLIN, Dec. 25.—The illegal dis- trict- committee of Berlin-Branden- burg of the Communist Party of Germany has issued a statement which exposes the winter relief swindle promulgated by the Nazis and calls for the organization of solidarity groups among the anti- fascist trade unionists, with the ob- ject of helping workers’ families in distress, the families of prisoners, ate. Rumanian Anti-Fascist Continues Hunger Strike BUCHAREST, Dec. 25.—Professor Constantinescu of Jassy, who has been arrested and jailed as the head of the movement against Hitlerism and fascism in Rumania. is causing serious anxiety because of a hunger- strike which he has now maintained for ten days. Temple, more than 300 workers} In snite of the legality of the pledged themselves to fight un-| pamphlets and letters found on ceasingly against the leadership of | him, the Professor has been ac- the Friends of New Germany and to expose their corruption to German workers, cused of having prepared, with the support of the Communist Party, a “revolution in Rumania.” who responded and in turn told me | but received no reply. But when Ij Soviet of America if these organiza- | As 2 reader of your very valuable | I am a veteran drawing $18 a) today letters from two workers, one | |is now being conducted should be | which I did do, but did not hear | (56 North | 27 I again wrote to the | | the other hand we have such an or- |Nazi Swindle in Relief! Soviet Union Blazed Broad Road Of Science, Research and Invention By VERN SMITH MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Dec. 25. Professor Julius Schaxel, a German now working in Leningrad labor- atories on important research prob- lems was recently deprived of his} German citizenship by the Nazi | government because he stayed too long in the Soviet Union. Schaxel then wrote a letter to the press er- plaining why he remained in the U.S.S.R. He says: “When in the spring of 1933, T received the esteemed invitation of the Presidium of the Academy of} Sciences of the U. S. S. R., I ac-! cepted it in October of the same year, with all the more pleasur2 as; I had twice previously carried on scientific work in the Soviet Union for prolonged periods of time. I had thus become acquainted by my own personal experience with the tremendous development of cultural forces which was a result of the October Revolution under the dic- tatorship of the proletariat....Fur- thermore. precisely for my specialty, biology, there are opportunities for development here both in the field of theory and practice. such as nowhere else in the world.” Writes from India From Baroda, India, H. G. Naik, professor of chemistry, writes to the Soviet press to thank the Trade Unions of U. S. S. R. for mking it possible for him to visit the Soviet Union. and says: “T feel that real education in my life, late as it is, has begun with my visit to your country. ... The greatest facilities given to your countrymen for the development of science and consequently industry and agriculture, for education and, consequently, culture, and the re- actions of all these on the social order are touchstones of the bril- liant work and colossal progress which he who runs may read.” These are the two latest of many foreign scientists who have paid tribute to the work of Soviet. science, and to the opportunities placed in the way of scientists here to do their work. The opportunities, indeed, are un- limited. Every few days there is announced in the press some new institute for the special study of some particular problem in science, either applied or pure. On the one hand we have such an institution as the Pulkhovo Observatory which is working to finish a plan made in agreement with all other observ- atories in all countries to photo- graph every inch of the sky in order to observe star movements, and on ganization as the Research Insti- tute of Communications, which has just announced the perfection of the first Soviet-made stroboscope, A stroboscope, the announcement States, is an instrument for ob- serving a rapidly revolving shaft as clearly as though it were standing still, not in motion at. all. Ranking from the “hut labora- tories” installed now on a number of collective farms, and the labor- atories in most big factories of the Society of Inventors, which now has about 800,000 members, there is a growing network of laboratories and institutes, Min by the main produc- tion trusts, run by the Peoples Com- missariats, run by colleges and technical schools, or existing more or less independently under the Commissariats of Education of the various republics of the Soviet Union. Unlimited Facilities The demand for scientific work- ers, and the facilities placed in their hands seem almost unlimited. The results appear in such concrete form as the solving of the problem of creating synthetic rubber, which created a huge rubber manufactur- | The very best of the old and new | country that had lagged far behind ing industry in the Soviet Union; in such useful forms as the devel- opment of hinged two-piece ball —| bearings for the main shafts of tractors, with enormous saving of formerly wasted time during which tractors were dismantled to change such bearings. These are but two of the more than 90,000 patented in- ventions recorded last year, and in addition to that there were here over 400,000 workers’ suggestions in factories, some of which led to the invention of totally new machines. At the top of the Soviet scientific structure is the Academy of Sciences. It moved during the sum- mer of this year from Leningrad to Moscow. New premises covering 1,250 acres are to be built for it. scientists belong to it; to be in- vited to become a member of the Academy is, of course, one of the highest honors in the field of} science that anyone can have. At a recent social evening ar- ranged between the members of the Academy and their new neighbors, the workers of Lenin raion, or borough, in Moscow. Academician Gubkin took the floor and re- marked: “How did it happen that the America and the rest of Europe in its development is now on the heels of and already in some ways surpassing the leading industrial countries of the world?” Then he told how, before the Rev- olution, the Academy, consisting of but 20 scientists, kept these men in classical calm behind the walls of their laboratories, cut off from the rest of the World. Whereas now ever 100 members of the Academy are leading as many different ex- Peditions and branch stations of the academy in all the most distant as well as the nearer and more popul- ated parts of the Soviet Union, mix- ing with people of all races and occupations, tying their work up in- timately with the work of the masses, Arctic Investigation I myself, while on a trip last summer north of the Arctic circle in the Kola Peninsula. bumped into such a branch of the Academy, housed in a lone building on a wind- swept Polar hillside, where a group of scientists were industriously and successfully studying and providing plans for the useful development. of local agriculture and mineral wealth, and at the same time doing a lot of “pure scientifi-” investiga- tion of Arctic climate, electrical earth cu:rents, radio effects, and other things. Gubkin called for still closer re- lations between the scientists of the Academy and the toiling masses. For the scientists of the Soviet Union nothing but good can come of such an alliance. The workers’ state cheerfully finances such scientific stations and expeditions. It finances and helps to organiz> expeditions, not only like the ones that scour the Pamir mountains and bring back hardy frost. resist- ing vegetable growths, but the ex- Peditions that have unearthed the palaces of Genghiz Khan. The So- viet scientist is not, like his con- temporary in capitalist countries, dependent on the good will and caprice of some rich philanthropist for the sometimes very large sums needed for expeditions and investi- gations. Not only special expeditions but the regular construction work of the Soviet Union is made to serve the scientist. During the digging of the Moscow subway, archeolorists were attached to the job and so many objects of ancient culture were found that a special exhibi- tion is now being arranged of them, to be called “Moscow Old and New.” Ancient Memorials canal. Already a certain Professor O. Bader has been placed in charge | of twelve ancient memorials, burial | grounds and dwellings, of men liv- ing on the border line between the old and new stone age—these mem- | orials having been unearthed by the excavations for the canal. Lovett Fort-Whiteman, American | Negro who has been doing scientific work in the Soviet Union for a number of years now, remarks, in a press article describing these finds, that the Soviet anthropologist is happy in not having himself bound down like anthropologists abroad by preconceived, un- scientific racial theories, such as the Aryan theory of the German fas- cis The same thing applies to other branches of science. There is in the) Soviet Union, for example, no sus picion of new inventions, no theo: of a “Moratorium on Research and Invention,” such as is gaining favor among the capitalist masters of England and America. Neither is the Soviet scientist hounded out of his job because of his personal politics, as the Ger- mans chased Einstein away. Like all other Soviet citizens, the scient- ist is free to work and to live and be happy, whatever his opin- ions in religion, sociology and poli- tics, as long as he does not actually engage in counter-revolutionary plots. The famous case of the psychologist Pavlov, who is given every possible facility for his valu- able experiments, is provided with premises, laboratories, assistants, mechanisms, and all the expensive animal and physical necessities his work reguires, might be cited as proof of this last statement. For Pavlov is not only so religious that he crosses himself whenever he! passes a church, but. is notoriously reactionary in his political opinions. Scientists Honored The working. masses and the} workers’ state not only give fresdom and facility for scientific work, but highly honor successful scient- ists, and care for their families after their death, care for them, too, in old age. On the fiftieth anniversary (Nov. 20, 1934) of the scientific work of the Academician agronomist Will- iams, the Peoples Commissariat of Agriculture voted to organize in his name a new agronomical and soil museum, to establish five scholar- ships in his name, to reprint all his books, to get out an almanac de- voted to his work, to present him personally with an automobile, and to spend 100,000 rubles on a jubilee celebration in the place where he lives. The Commision for Aid to Scien- tists works divectiy under the Coun- cil of Peoples Commissars of the; U. S. S. R., and takes special pains to see that scientists get dwellings, pensions, food supplies, ‘medical care, subscriptions to foreign litera- ture and periodicals, etc. The com- mission operates sanitoriums and rest homes for scientists at Peter- hof, the Crimea, Teberde, Essen- tuki, Sochi and on the Volga. It has turned the palace of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna in Lenin- grad into a permanent home for aged scientists, where the old men live in rooms carpeted with Per- sian rugs, with furniture of Kare- lian birch and mahogany, decorated with masterpieces of painting and sculpture. They live-on their pen- sions, but some of them continue working, from choice, because they feel, as do most’ of even the older generation of scientists and, of course, all the younger ones, that the Soviet state and socialist society has done so much for science and The same thing is happening in the digging of the Moscow-Volga scientists that it deserves even the You will not find the real story behind this sudden imperial- ist thrust of Mussolini on the Afrie can continent in any of the capital- ist newspapers. They try to make it appear as a border incident, a mis- understanding over a boundary survey and grazing rights. Because the Abyssinian troops resisted the murderous advance of Italian fas- cism’s colonial army, Mussolini's Progress is not as rapid as he expected. The present colonial adventure of Mussolini has its origin in an agree- ment between British and Italian imperialism made in December, 1925. At that time Great Britain and Italy agreed between themselyes that they would support each other to secure for the British the right to build.a dam at Lake Tsana, the | Source of the Blue Nile. The British required this dam in order to turn tens of thousands of acres of desert land into cotton-producing area, so that it would be less and less de- pendent on American cotton, But Mussolini, of course, got his consideration for this little piece of imperialist bargaining. In return for Italian fascism's support to the British imperialist aims of pene- trating Abyssinia to control Lake Tsana, Mussolini was to be sup- ported in his robbery of Abyssinian territory—in precisely the place where the Italian army is now marching—for the purpose of build- ing an Italian-owned railroad be- tween Eritrea (an Italian colony) and Abyssinia. Raw ae BYSSINIA at that time protested to the League of Nations. Great Britain replied that no encroach- ment was intended, and the matter was dropped publicly only to come out now with the war-like actions of Mussolini's troops. It is very clear indeed that Mus solini would not undertake his pres« ent aggressive actions against Abys- sinia without the consent of British imperialism. The two robber powers are preparing for the rape of Abys- sinia and the division of the spoils. Recently Mussolini's troops, heavily armed with the most modern weap- ons of war, preceded by bombing planes, made an attack on the Abyssinians. They defended them- selves until the last ditch, causing the death of 60 of the Italian troops, wounding 400, though the battle cost 100 Abyssinian lives. The matter then came up before the League of Nations. The ques- tion arose on whose territory. did the fighting occur. Now there hap- pened to be a map in the League of Nations press room made in 1897 by the Italian Geographical Society, which showed Ualual, the spot in- vaded by Mussolini’s bandits, well within the Abyssinian frontier. pene ie HE ITALIAN delegates stormed and demanded a more “authen- tic? map. So they got hold of a |map made up by Mussolini’s cartog- raphers in 1925, at the time the British-Italian agreement was made for the rape of Abyssinia. And this map, too, showed the territory vio- lated by Mussolini’s troops was 100 miles inside of Abyssinia. Italian fascism, in other words, had already encroached one hun- dred miles into Abyssinian territory. Mussolini has decided that maps are more accurately drawn with bombs thrown from fighting planes, and machine-gun fire. In recent years, new imperialist factors have entered the struggle for the control of Abyssinia. Japan- ese imperialism, which thought nothing of setting the style in mod- ern colonial thievery by its seizure of Manchuria, entered the Abys- |Sinjan scene as the savior of the colored races from white imperial- ism. Japan began to maneuver with the Abyssinian ruling class in order to gain advantage against the osher imperialist robbers, who were better situated territorially to seize Abys- sinia outright. At one time American imperial- ism, under Hoover, also was playing the game of “protecting” Abyssinia, in the interest of Wall Street. rise ali 'HE RECENT action of Iatlian fascism seems to indicate that some inside dirty deals have been made, not unconnected with the sharpened naval rivalries. Japanese imperialism seems to have lessened its propaganda in and around Abys- sinia, in return for British naval support against their common foe, Wall Street, and are conceding to Italy and Britain a dominant hand in Abyssinia. Mussolini, with the growing acute- ness of the economic and financial crisis in Italy, finds it necessary to undertake some war adventures to stave off internal conflict. Mussolini believes now is the time for a wholesale raid on Abyssinia, for the seizure of its rich and undeveloped natural resources (including gold, oil and other minerals). British imperialism has given him the sig- nal for the carrying out of the 1925 agreement, which was never voided, and tens of thousands of Abyssinian people are slated to be butchered, unless the Italian fascist plot for colonial aggrandizement can be stopped by the revolutionary strug- gles of the workers throughout the world. CORRECTION In the editorial in the Daily Worker of Monday, Chauncey A. Weaver of Des Moines, Iowa. was referred to as president of the American Federation of Musicians. Weaver is not president but a mem= ber of the executive committee of the union and was a delegate to tha American Federation of Labor cone last ounce of strength in return, vention in San Francisco,