The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1935, Page 6

ecm ne Page 6 DAILY WORKER. W YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1935 Daily,QWorker AONTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST BARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST I¥THRMATIONAA “America’s Only Working Class Day Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” York, N. ¥. Washington Bureau; Room 954, National Press Building, (4th and F St., Washington, D. C. Telephone: National 7910. Room 705, Chicago, Ml. Midwest Bureau Telephone: 101 South Wells St Dearborn 3931. Subscription Rates: tan and Bronx), year, 96.00; $2.00: 1 month, 0.75 cents. Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.9, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00 ts; monthly, 75 cents. year, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents. Weekly, 18 By mall, 1 By Saturday Edition Carrier TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1935 Two Congresses! HE Federal Reserve reports. that for the first nine months of the year, the biggest capitalist corporations reaped a harvest of profits 70 per cent higher than last year. : This cold percentage, startling as it js, conceals the hundreds of millions of dollars of new, fat profits which the Wall Street monopolies wrung from the labor of the American working class through the intensified wage slavery of the Roosevelt N. R. A Seventy per cent more profit, more dividends, more golden gravy for the handful of parasites who control the country’s industry, thanks to the activi- ties cf the smiling hypocrite, Roosevelt. Is there a worker in the country who does not know from his own daily position how much misery, starvation and slavery have gone to make up tt seventy per cent leap in capitalist profit during the last nine months? Mountainous profits for the parasites—misery and insecurity for the millions whose toil created these profits! Such is the situation today as two Congresses make ready for their opening sessions, the Congress of the capitalist legislative agents, and the National Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance which ovens in Washington on January 5. The vast majority of American people, the toil- ers, will get nothing from the first Congress but new taxes, new oppression, and new robbery, if Roosevelt's program goes through. The immediate needs of the millions of workers and ruined farmers will find their voice only at the second Congress, the working class Congress. Here ™the demand for immediate cash relief, and above all for a Federal program of unemployment and social insurance, to be paid for by the government and the capitalist class, will be raised as the most crying need of the vast majority of the population. Roosevelt's program gives the rich more mil- lions in profits! The working class, the jobless and the employed, must now unite its strength to wrest from Roosevelt and his Wall Street masters an im- Mediate program of unemployment insurance which will guarantee every single worker of the country against the ravages of the capitalist crisis! These millions in profits must go to unemployment in- surance! On to the National Congress for Social and Un- employment Insurance on January 5-7! ‘Severing on the Saar ITLER trots out one of his outstanding Socialist supporters in a final desper- ate effort to influence the Saar population to vote for annexation to Fascist Germany in the January 13 plebiscite. And who should this gentleman be? None other than that foremost German Socialist leader, Karl Severing, who was so vehemently de- fended by the American Socialist “New Leader.” against the charges made by the Daily Worker. Karl Severing, according to Havas cables from Cologne, has openly adopted the Nazi slogan on the Saar, urging the Saar population to vote for annexation by Fascist Germany. Certainly this is enough to disgust every honest Socialist worker. Severing is a close friend of Abe Gahan, of the Waldmans and Oneals. They so “Warmly defended him when the Daily Worker pointed out that Severing some time ago had de- clared his support for. Fascism and was writing a book showing why he favored Hitler. His American friends came out in his defense when the Daily Worker nearly a year ago pointed out that Sever- ing was getting a handsome pension from Adolph Hitler's government. * * * WARL SEVERING, Socialist leader, represents those in the ruling clique of the Socialist Party of Germany, who fought tooth and nail against the anti-Fascist united front proposed by the Com- munist Party of Germany before Hitler came to power. ‘The Socialist “New Leader” and the Trotzkyite Militant.” now the “New Militant,” always took the cide of the Severings in detending the Socialist Teaders in Germany from the historically proven accusation of the Communists that it wasithe So- Cialisi leaders’ policies in Germany up to the advent to power of Hitler that paved the way for German fascism. From a source which hates Communism we get the admission that it was the Socialist leaders in Germany who helved pave the way for Fascism by fighting against Communism and not capital- ‘sm. Hamilton Fish Armsirong, editor of Foreign Affairs, writing in the New York Sunday Times, de- Clared: “People never have realized that just after the war the Socialists were Europe’s bulwark against Communism.” (Yes, against the proletarian revolu- - tion!—D. Ww.) We call on every honest Socialist, when his lead- ers try to hide the crimes of their prototypes in Germany with the cry that it was the action of the Communists that brought on fascism, to ask them: “Is it the program of Karl Severing, pensioned Tackey of Hitler, former outstanding leader of the ‘Sccialist Party of Germany, who helped Hitler “tome to power, or the policy of the party of Ernst ‘Thaelmann, imprisoned leader of the Communist. arty, who is now being tortured and threatenesi With death by the Nazis, that paved the way fo: Hitler? New Year’s Greetings HE Daily Worker sends New Year Greetings to the workers of mill, mine d field today—to those whose sweat and produce the wealth of mankind, the erapers and streets, the needs and s of civilization. those who live on relief or starve with- that miserable dole, the Daily Worker greetings. ‘ coal miners now on strike in the anthra- jn Pennsylvania, th Dailv Worker greetings. heroic textile workers who battled the | machine guns and lie-smoke screens of the New Deal as well as against their own treacherous of- ficialdom, .the Daily Worker sends its greetings. To Tom Mooney, Warren Billings, J. B. McNa- mara, the nine Scottsboro Boys, to all class war prisoners who languish in the prison cells of America because they fought for their class—the Daily Worker sends its greetings, To the leader of the German Communist Party, Ernst Thaelmann, and to all the others in the clutches of the beast of fascism in Germany, Austria, Spain, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Latvia—the Daily Worker sends its greetings. To our heroic Chinese comrades, who have un- furled the red banner of revolution high among the colonial peoples—the Daily Worker sends its greet- ings. the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, led by the Communist Party and the brilliant leader of the working class of the world, Joseph Stalin; to you, our comrades who are constructing a Socialist society, the inspiration of the toilers of the world; the Daily Worker sends its greetings. To all who work by hand and brain, to all who struggle that there shall be no exploitation of man by man—to you the Daily Worker sends its greet- ings. The new year will bring new and mightier class battles, The Daily Worker, central organ of the Communist Party, pledges itself to work towards becoming a stronger, clearer voice of toil- ing America in all these struggles. Firm in the unshakable conviction that the future belongs to the toilers of the whole world, we go forward to steater struggles against capitalism and its mon- strous progeny, hunger, war and fascism. Silk Workers for Rank and File Leadership ATERSON silk workers have dealt an- other blow at the reactionary Love- stoneite machine headed by Eli Keller, which has been paralyzing their union. Through their ‘shop chairman and dele- gates they unanimously rejected the contract just negotiated by Eli Keller, manager of the union. The silk workers refuse to leave the question of wages to arbitration. They realize that it means, at best, enforcing the present reduced wages as the permanent scale. But in rejecting the contract they also show that they realize that the “Progressive” group, as the Lovestoneite renegades in the silk union call them- selves, outdoes even the openly known A, F. of L. top reactionary officials, in giving service to the bosses. The action of the workers spells defeat for the Keller clique in the coming elections of the plain goods devartment of the silk local of the United Textile Workers Union. The workers see that the continuance of the present regime is part of the plan of the mill owners to bring the conditions of the workers down to a still lower standard. The Keller regime, however, is desperately try- ing to hold office by every means. Their latest measure is to place themselves in the hands of the Socialist Jewish Daily Forward, which is an old hand at union wrecking and at mass expulsion of union members who would not submit to the dic- tates of its agents. The Forward is controlled by the right wing of the S. P. Last Wednesday's issue of that paper carries a statement by the “vrogres- sive” Lovestone group of renegades, in which the Jewish workers are called upon to raily against the “internal enemy’*As they characterize the National Textile Workers Union and Communists, now among the most active members in the union. The Love- stone renegades crawl on their knees before the Forward, which: means the Cahan-Waldman rizht wing leadership of the S.P. and have repented for having permited these workers to Join the union, declaring that they recognize the “mistake.’’ They try a last minute Red Scare stampede to confuse the members about the unioff“being in danger” if Communists take hold of it. The language of their statement is comparable only to the vicious Hearst anti-red editorials. As among the 7,000 silk workers, so among the 15,000 workers in the Paterson local of the dyers (U.T.W.U.) the rank and file is determined to con- trol their own organization. They are uniting be- hind the rank and file “Vigorito slate,” as the best way of insuring the victory they recently scored in the strike. They have endorsed the Washington Congress for Unemployment Insurance and elected a dele- gate to the Congress. At their shon chairman and delegate meetings, when the reactionary president of the local, Anthony Ammirato (incumbent candi- | date), moved for expulsion of Communists from the union, he was booed down and defeated by a unani- mous vote. The Paterson textile workers are giving an ex- ample that should inspire every rank and file group, and every worker who wants to see a live militant trade union movement. The dyers will elect the “Vigorito slate” by an overwhelming vote next Saturday. The silk work- ers will replace the present reactionary Lovestone regime with a fighting rank and flie leadership. Nothing Too Vile E COMMUNISTS have said time and time again that nothing is too vile for the capitalist class if it means the swelling or protection of their profits. Deputy Com- missioner of Public Welfare (!) Stanley Howe ‘seems anxious to prove that. The statement of Mr. Howe, Commissioner Hod- son’s assistant, that single unemployed would be compelled to accept forced labor or get off the home relief rolls is a precise example of what we mean. Coming on the heels of the declaration on “unem- ployables” made by President Roosevelt it indicates clearly the main line of reasoning all the way down the line from the While House to City Hall—to slash relief, be it at the expense of the lame and the halt, the unattached youth or the devendent old. Mr. Howe pays unconscicus tribute to the Com- munist Party when he says that “they (the Com- munists) have organized a regular educational cam- paign to teach them (the single men) how to chisel.” Mr. Howe is referring, in his own delicate way, to the struggle which the Communists and the mil- itant Unemployed Councils have led in defense of this bitterly oppressed section of the unemployed ‘These single men, who can obviously fulfill no resi- dence requirements and any of the other relief tech- nicalities, are buffoted from pillar to post. Hard labor at Greyecurt (N. Y.), C. C. C. camps, vermin- ridden flophouses—this is the lot of these workers whose only misfortune is that capitalism cannot use them in its factories. Despite the edicts of this puny martinet, who obeys the Great White Father in Washington with such alacrity, the Communist Party will go forward in its struggle to defend the rights of the single un- attached and the “unemployables’—the greatest sufferers of the scourge of unemployment. The best answer to both Howe and Roosevelt is to unite every pcsstble force in the drive to elect. mass delegations to the National Congress for Un- employment and Social Insurance in Washington, dan, 5, 6 and 7, 4 Party Life | | Workers’ Response | To Fighting Fund An Inspiration | (\N Monday a worker came into the | District Office of our Party to donate $1 towards the “Red Fight- ing Pund” of the Communist Party. We could not understand how this | worker knew of the “Red Fighting Fund,” especially when many Party | members profess ignorance on the | subject. We asked him how did he happen to know that the Commu- nist Party had such a fund and he replied that he saw it in that day's ‘Morning Freheit.” No publicity had been given to the “Freiheit” on this fund. How- ever, we find that they had made a summary of a letter of Charles Krumbein, District Organizer of the Communist Party, to the member- ship in the New York District in their weekly Party column. It did not take this worker a long time to realize the importance of the “Red Fighting Fund” in this period | of increasing fascist terror against | the American working class and it was with great enthusiasm that he came over to the Communist Party office to give his contribution to this emergency reserve fund of the Party that leads in the struggle against fascism. | Workers Ready to Respond This is no single and isolated in. cident. Very often we find workers | ready to respond to calls of the | Communist Party when they un- derstand the importance of the fund for which they are requested to contribute. We have had very good experiences with the collec- | tion of the “Red Fighting Funda” | until now, although the plan is still in its infancy. We already know of workers who want to contribute | | regularly every week to this fund. | Contrast. this healthy reaction on | the part of sympathetic elements to} | our Party with the attitude of some | | of our Party members who have not as yet taken this “Red Fighting Fund” in the proper spirit. Two per- | | sonal letters were sent to the Party |membership in the New York Dis- | trict. One by the Finance Depart- ment of the New York District, and one by Charles Krumbein, District Organizer. Both letters dealt clear- ly with the reasons for the estab- lishment of this “Red Fighting Fund” now. Both letters gave a} concrete easy plan on how to carry | this out in the Party with the least | possible difficulties. One dollar to be collected by every party member | every two months or thereabouts for this purpose. However, in spite of all the discussions, trials and per- | suasion, the “Red Fighting Fund,” | | Which should normally bring over | $700 a week, is only bringing in about $180. | This indicates that not all Party members in the New York District | have understood that this is one of ; the most important tasks they have been assigned to by the Party. Not | all Party members have responded as enthusiastically as many non- |Party members when they hear of | the purposes of the “Red Fighting | Fund.” | More Discussion Needed Perhaps the fault does not lie} with the Party membership, It may to a great extent be ascribed to the lack of discussion in the units and | sections on this vital weapon of the | Party. Section organizers should} take this matter up with their unit funetionaries. Unit functionaries | should see that a discussion on the | importance and the purposes of the “Red Fighting Fund” takes place in the unit. We are positive that when this is understood by our Party membership we will not have to | coax them into doing this work but | on the contrary we will have many/| requests for a regular booklet every single week instead of every two | months as it is already the case with a few comrades who have al- ready gotten wonderful results on the “Red Fighting Fund.” | We also believe that those com- rades who have secured such good |Tesults should write in their ex- | periences so that others may from them. DISTRICT FINANCE COM. gain | | . | Guidance Needed for New Shop Unit I would like to have my letter| printed in the Party Life Column, as I think it would be beneficial to my unit. Nine months ago, during the longshoremen’s strike, the raiding of | the Communist headquarters, the | jarrest of our comrades, made me| want to be in the fight against capitalism, so I joined the Com- munist Party. | I was placed in my shop unit 11A. Our meeting went along fine until our unit organizer became sick. I was elected organizer in his place. The Communist Party made a drive | and we recruited eight members into | the Party from our shop. The meet- | ings were dead. I went to a shop | conference meeting and explained it all. A leading functionary of Sec- tion 1 was to conduct our meetings. I told Comrade B, to come, or take | care of it, he promised week after | Week, but the new members began to lose interest. They complained nothing was taken up. AS we are | all new members we could not help ‘it. I went to the District office and told my story. They said they would take care of it and nothing was done. I don’t know what to do. We started from a unit of day and night workers, seven in all. Today |we have grown to 22. We were to | get our section letter at the Freiheit | office, but they could not find it, | and we had to have meetings with- | out a letter. This matter must be stopped now, or it will be too late. Comradely yours, B. Organizer Unit 11A. Do the Reds intend to kid- nap President Roosevelt? The Da‘ly Worker tells you all about the “kidnapping” plans! Read the Daily Worker if you want to know what lies behind the Dick- | Piedmont, where half of the land | where the peasantry is exclusively | | “TO OUR GOOD HEALTH” by Limbach By Andrea Marabini With the end of the twelfth year of fascist dictatorship the toiling Italian peasantry is now literally plundered and seized with inex- | pressible misery. Thousands upon thousands of small property owners, who had painfully built up their | small plots, have been forced to sur- render their land and become agri- cultural laborers. According to the avowals of the fascists themselves, in the one province of Asti almost 30 per cent. of the peasantry sorrowfully gave | up their hard-earned home and Plot in the post-war period, and another third, who have not yet| been deprived of their land, are in such straits thet sooner or later their few acres will fall to the large land-owners or the mortga- geers, In the province of Monferrato | some 40 per cent of the peasantry have recently sold some portion of their property in order to remedy their conditions. A fourth of the existing households in the province of Tortana find themselves in such | crushing circumstances that their owners are on the eve of inevitable | foreclosures. Also in the province | of Cuneo many have been forced | to dispose of their households either | in part or altogether. Deserted Farm Communities The conditions which are to be observed in Piedmont are more or less true for all Italy and signify for the hilly regions, and for the peasantry which vainly attempts to scratch a living from their poor soil, an even less favorable charac- ter. In dwelling on conditions in} lies in mountainous zones, and} predominant, we find that, as a result of the robber policy of fas- cism, thousands of peasants are be- ing forced to leave their lands with their entire families, offering them- selves as laborers or hoping to travel away to a better livelihood. Thus in hilly districts one stum- bles upon many communities whose fields have been deserted, and where acres and pasture-lands have become waste areas; one finds more rarely peasant houses that are kept in good repair and abandoned huts dot the country everywhere. Even in the larger towns one often finds deserted huts, which are inhabited in the summer until they fall apart. In a little section of the Appenines there stand more than 200 com- pletely deserted peasant homes. Twelve Years of Italian Fascism Have Driven Peasantry from Land (Tuscany) had not found it neces- sary for thirty years to make a single foreclosure because of failure out of the forty peasant families in the place. As a revelation of the impoverishment of the peasantry the following information is suffi- ciently impressive; foreclosures un- der the fascist regime increased from ures for failure to pay swelled from 100,000 to 350,0000; fascist figures ber of peasant property-holders has | decreased by about 400,000. These _ statistics are eloqyent enough, but it is not even the be-| ginning of the whole truth, since | it is generally known that the fas- | cist economists falsify statistics in order to conceal and ameliorate the heaviness and extent of the impov- | erishment of the peasantry, as well | as the subsequent proletarianiza- | tion of the poor and middle strata of the towns. Feudalism Among Tenant Peasants The situation of the Mezzadri (tenant farmers)* is no less favor- able than among the peasants. Fas- | icsm has forced new terms upon the | tenant farmers, by which all those ! considerable gains of the stubborn | agricultural struggles fought direct- | ly after the war are annulled. Since | the seizure of power by the fascists the income of the tenant farmers has decreased by more than half, as compared with the period of 1919- 20. All those taxes on the products of labor, which the large property | owner previously carried, are now | addition the new tenant laws, dic- tated by fascism, provide for all sorts labor and condemn the tenant farm- er not only to a whole series of tasks, formerly the concern of the land- lord, but to the delivery of “gifts,” in the form of a great portion of the peasant’s production, which once was exclusively the property of the peasant (eggs, milk, cheese, chick- ens, pork, etc.). Certain tenant laws | contain even such points as forbid- ding the peasant to have friendly re- lations with the neighboring popula- | tion. Apparently those times are returning with mile-long steps when the peasant could not be married without the permission of his lord. in the “Lavoro fascista” of Aug. 29, 1934: “It is a sad fact that wherever Perdisa, a fascist economist, writes | » In Casetta di Tiarra, a small vil- | agricultural economy is conducted | banks, lage, where the bailiff of Palzzuola } after the Mezzadria system, incomes | h@ven’t much confidence sink so frightfully low that the peas- ants, in spite of their century-old ties with the soil, are leaving their to pay taxes, the bailiff this year!lands to become agricultural la- seized upon the property of sixteen | borers,” Oppressive Debts The encumberance of debts of these peasants is incredibly oppres- sive. of Tuscany the burden of taxes in 41 districts rose from 69,000 lira in 6,000 to 24,000 annually, and seiz-/|the year 1926-27 to 251,000 lira in An inquiry into} the year 1931-32. the circumstances of 27 Mezzardri- themselves announce that the num- | families in another district revealed that in the time from 1925-31 cred- its had shrunk from 35,000 to 9,000) lira, while the burden of taxes had climbed from 39,000 to 125,000 lira. In the community of Marradi (Ro- magna) the Mezzadri peasants in 1932 received no income at all, while their taxes amounted to 2,200,000 jira. In Pallazuola (Tuscany) the indebtedness of the Mezzadri-peas- ants reached 1,500,000 lira. The great accumulation of debts of the Mezzadri-peasants is a gen- eral phenomenon. The smaller lease-holders share in the same fate, and they are almost completely drowned by constant ad- ditional taxes, lease-holders’ ground rents and interest charges on usur- ers’ money, to which they must have recourse, if they are to obtain at least the most pressing necessities of life. While the sharp agricultural crisis reacts with ‘cruel swiftness upon the continually declining prices of farm products, taxes in the period of fas- cism, according to Mussolini him- | self, have risen five-fold; among the saddled upon the tenant farmers. In | hill-peasants’a seven and eight-fold j rise in taxes has taken place. Even more tragic are the circum- of compulsory services and unpaid | Stances of the numerous peasants hae ba a of the province of Venice-Giulia. | Their miserable economic situation, which is like that of peasants of other provinces of Italy, is consider- | ably intensified by their terrible na- tional oppression since the time of fascism, Despotism and persecu- tion against the Slovenian peasants have assumed the most hateful forms of national subjugation any- where. * Mezzadri are known in Italy as peas- ants who have no property of their own and who have obtained a land-settlement land-owner against the fu- ture pay! of helf of their harvest's ; in addition they. must pay certain taxes.” A similar form. of pay- , inherited from feudal days, still ex- ists in East Prussia. Such peasents are known there as deputies or, in German, deputanten. Nazi Organizations Built by Fascists In South America BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 31.—Nazis in South America are making great efforts to win over the South Amer- here. They are attempting to stir up public opinion against France on ‘the one hand and against the United States on the other. A strong Nazi organization exists in the Argentine; it is concerned chiefly with military preparations. The organization is in close touch with Berlin, whence it receives money, instructions, and instructors. lican countries, it is reliably reported | Nazis to Patrol Roads Leading to Swiss Line ZURICH, Switzerland, Dec, 31—| ‘The roads in German territory near Basle will henceforth, in accord- ance with a new regulation, be | patrolled and guarded by detach-} ments of the Storm Troops and the | Special Guards. Moreover, the con- | trol system for boats passing be- | tween the Swiss and German banks | of the Rhine is to be tightened up. It is expected that there will be military occupation of the frontier after the beginning of next January. German Youth Denied | Relief for Fighting The same sort of activity is being carried on by the Nazis in Brazil, though here they stress the im- portance of winning over public opinion more than in the Argen- tine. Four newspapers exist in Paraguay which are directly con- nected with Minister for Propa- ganda Goebbels of Germany. The stein commitice’s revelations! Subscribe to the Daily Worker! fascist and anti-semitic movement in Chile is supported by Germany. Against Forced Labor MANNHEIM, Germany, Dec. 31. —One hundred and sixty-seyon young unemployed workers haye been deprived of relief as a result of their refusal to be led as “agricultural helpers” (without pay). They are reported to have declared, |\Cuban Woman Lawyer For J. L. D. Imprisoned After Scottsboro Rally HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 31—Cfelia Dominguez, lawyer of the Ciban International Labor Defense, and |secrotary of the Union of Radical ‘Women, was arrested here last week and imprisoned in the women’s jail at Guanabacca. She had been fol- In one zone of the province | \lowed by the police since Nov. 27, \when she addressed a Scottsboro | protest meeting at which one worker | Was murdered and many wounded | | by the Mendieta police. Ofelia Dominquez has taken an active and leading part in the Cuban workers’ movement, both in organizing and providing defense |for working class victims of the Wall Street puppet government. Have you heard Mr. Oswald | World Front |I——By HARRY GANNES -— | 168,000,000 Unemployed | The Only Hope of China | A Letter from Mexico | .HE Associated Press in | Shanghai has just discov- | ered there is “acute want and | Widespread privation among China’s crowded 400,000,000 people.” But what this imper- ialist news agency is worried about is not the distress among the Chinese workers and peasants un- | der Kuomintang-imperialist rule, but the undeniable fact that condi- tions now are reaching catastrophic | heights with the perspective of tens | of millions starving to death—and tens of millions more refusing to starve by joining the forces of So- viet China. | What the Japanese newspaper, the Osaka Mainichi, some time ago Predicted for China after the an- nouncement of the capture of Juikin, capital of the central Soviet district in Kiangsi province, is now admitted by the Associated Press. | Butcher Chiang Kai-shek, instead | of consolidating his rule, instead of destroying the Soviets and the Red Army, has plunged China into deeper chaos, has brought greater starvation to the millions of Chi- | nese workers and peasants. |. Under imperialist and native | landlord-bourgeois rule China has | always been a country of chronic starvation. But the past few years™ have plunged the majority of the | Population into the danger of im- |minent starvation. The rice crop | last year was a failure. All of the | reserves have been gobbled up by | Chiang Kai-shek and his class of | landowners, usurers and native | capitalists, Not only that, the peas- jants are head over heels in debt and cannot pay for the imported rice. On top of this, the Roosevelt | government, which readily sent to help Chiang Kai-shek kill off the population in the Soviet areas, did Chiang Kai- shek a dirty turn by raising the price of silver. . | bombing planes rd 'HE inflated price of silver in the MU. S. is draining China of its |silver, despite embargo. This has jcaused a run on the Chinese because the business men in the | Paper money. The result is a vir- | tual money panic all over China, with disastrous consequences on the [badly shattered economy of the country. What with the usual high prices | due to scarcity of food, the hoard+ | ing of silver is driving prices to im- possible levels, With the banks en= dangered throughout China, the badly shattered entire economic system is still further endangered. The speculators, and the imperialist bankers, of course, reap their usual fortunes out of this unheard of mis- ery of the Chinese masses. They smuggle silver out of the country to get the benefit of Roosevelt's in- flated prices. Conditions are so frightfully bad for the Chinese masses, that the Associated Press gives estimates of “unemployment” as high as 168,< 000,000, or about a little less than half of the Chinese population. The only hope of the Chinese masses is the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army. Only a destruction of native landlord-bourgeois rule in China and the death grip of imperialism can save millions of Chinese from death by starvation and 400,000,000 from imperialist slavery. 22s E have just received the follow- ing letter from our brother Party in Mexico: “The Communist Party of Mexico has struggled to liquidate all weak- nesses in its work, following the line drawn by the Communist In- ternational of becoming a mass party, able to lead the economic ‘and political struggles of the toil- | ing masses of the country and pre- | paring them for the final struggles for power and the establishment in Mexico of a Workers’ and Peasants’ | Government. But to achieve this it lis urgent for our Party to broaden | its work. For a number of years, |as you must be aware, our Party } has worked illegally, a condition | which frequently impedes broader | activities. “To achieye our above stated aim, we have decided that, at the same time we carry on our work on all tasks, to increasingly utilize the paper ‘El Machete,’ the central or- gan of our Party, that owing to our financial situation comes out only every ten days with great sacrifices being made. The possibilities of our paper are thus limited, as the voice of our Party, in every fight, reaches the struggling masses | greatly delayed. This makes it im- | possible to broaden and much less | to consolidate our influence among | the masses. “We have, therefore, decided to strive in making our paper a weekly, which will already be a step forward and above everything | to assure its issuance. With this aim in mind we are trying to raise the necessary funds to buy a print- ing press and are thus calling for help from all Mexican Communists but also from all revolutionary Mexicans in the United States. “We think that not only the ‘Communists, but all revolutionary workers, understand perfectly well that only with the aid of all and improving our work can the Com- munist Party of Mexico carry om the tasks assigned by the Commu- nist International. le “We are confident of your help to obtain a press in the “Rather prison than agricultural help!” 2