The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1935 Daily QWorker CUETRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONRS ) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 56 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4 54 Cable Address: ‘Daiwork,” New York, N Washington Bureau Room i4th and F St., Midwest Bureau Telephone: Dearbor: 1. Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except M and Bronx year, $6.00; on ear, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents. MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1935 eae A United Front for Insurance Program on his elt is starting action latest “social security” program wit a rush. Of course, this program will give the | millions of jobless workers and millions | more of employed even less “social security” than they have now And just how much “social security” the Amer- ican working class h: nown by every worker who daily faces either the starvation of unemploy- ment, or the terrible prospect of losing one’s job at any moment depending on the whim and needs of the employers. As usual, the Roosevelt security” plan, when examined closely as outlined by government spokesmen, turns out to be not only an immense gold brick as far as any reel, immediate benefits for the 15,000,000 jobless and the working class are concerned. It is, actually, nothing but a scheme to drive millions of families off the Federal relief rolls, to smash all Federal relief appropriations and restore the miserable inadequacies of local relief, and to set up an army of forced laborers to act as an instrument to drive all wages down all over the country. ‘social his national But JOOSEVELT made much ado about program for national “social security.” what is his real program? It turns out to be nothing but the passage of Congressional measures to authorize support for LOCAL LEGISLATION BY THE STATES! The Federal government will not give the masses a single direct cent for “social security” under | Roosevelt’s so-called unemployment insurance and old age pension plans! The New York Times, organ of the Wall Street capitalists, makes no bones about this: “In no event will unemployment insurance be used as a term to cover cash benefits paid to those currently unemployed . . . old age pensions will be instituted without heavy cost to the Fed- eral government by placing them on a contributory | basis . . whatever is enacted by the Federal government will represent an effort to encourage | and correlate the work of the states.” | It is to this miserable fraud that Roosevelt’s grandiose “social security” talk boils down! | Meanwhile, the real work of driving the jobless | intg forced labor camps at starvation wages will | move rapidly ahead! Is it not clear that the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill now being discussed at the National Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance in Washington must become the rallying point of the fight for a real relief and unemployment in- surance program to be paid for by the bankers and | employers? From Roosevelt and his Wall Street government, | the jobless and their families, the millions of ex- | )ploited workers of America can never expect a single benefit. Only what the mass power of the workers forces from Roosevelt and his Wall Street masters | will be granted. Build the united front for the | workers’ unemployment and social insurance pro- gram! Caught with the Goods | HE Latvian ambassador, examining the facts in the assassination of Kirov, and | the implication of his Leningrad Consul General Bissnieks in the crime has ad- | mitted that the action of the consul “was not activity of a diplomatic type.” In other words, the gentleman was caught with the goods! He was the organizing link for the German Fas- cist government and the pay-off man for the spies, saboteurs and assassins sent into the Soviet Union to stir up war provocations. As “Izvestia” and “Pravda,” Soviet newspapers, point out in editorials, extracts of which are pub- lished in the Daily Worker today. the guiding hand of the whole assassination plot was the Nazi gov- ernment of Germany. Driven to desperation, Hitler has dotted all Europe with assassinations in an effort to explode the world into a new bloody war. First, it was the murder of Dollfuss, in an effort by the Nazis to seize Austria. When this failed, the Nazis through their Hungarian agents assisted the assassins of King Alexander in an effort to draw the Balkans into a war. And when all this failed, they utilized every counter-revolutionary force they could contact, in order to strike a blow against the Soviet Union, in order to give the signal for war against the work- ers’ fatherland. . ’ . IT any wonder that the capitalist press, and their Trotzkyite assistants, try to pile confusion upon confusion to befuddle the workers? Is it any wonder that the German Fascists. who are implicated up to the neck in this assassination, follow the Trotzkyite line of trying to insist that it was a “personal affair” between Nicholacv and Kirov? The Latvian Ambassador can see nothing personal in his consul’s relations with the assassin Nicholaev. AS more and more proof comes out in public about those involved in the assassination plots against the workers’ fatherland, the whole capitalist press stoops to the lowest vituperation against the Soviet Union. Not since the early days of the proletarian revo- Jution in Russia were there such streams of slanders, vilification, lies and such bitter hatred against the fortress of the world revolution as is now expressed in the whole capitalist press, from the yellow gutter sheets of Hearst to the dignified mud-slinging of the hypocritical New York Times. The. American ruling class cannot conceal its fiery hate against the proletariat in the Soviet ion when that proletariat in its revolutionary Strikes its enemies a fatal blow, The American workers, however, should see Ms through the tis brand of lies t the Amer r a decent living most elementary r: he American workers fight against bloody-handed masters own Why We Reds Want to Destroy Capitalism pesvent ROOSEVELT in his mes- sage to Congress said: “No wise man has any intention of destroying what is known as the profit motive; because by the profit motive we mean the right by work to earn a de- cent livelihood for ourself and family.” Well we reds do want to destroy the profit And we want at this time to present a We don’t know We S witni is an auto worker. whether he belongs to any political party. know what his political creed he tells the truth about ‘ofit motive, the profit system. This worker slaved for 28 years under the profit system in Detroit. Listen to his testimony, given at the open N.R.A. hearings Dec. 15 in Detroit (the “Henderson” referred to is Leon Henderson of the N.R.A.; Mr. Madden is the auto worker) “CHAIRMAN HENDERSON: Let me under- 360 for a year for each of the two experience with the F past: years “MR. MADDEN: Three hundred and sixty dollars for the entire two years. The reason, of course, for that, I cannot give because it is de- barred from the hearing. (Laughter.) ... I would like to point out, that young men are not parti- cularly interested in entering employment under the present conditions of the industry because there is maintained a penal system in the shops, a system in which men of spirit, men who would he expected to have spirit, and those are more particularly the young, practically have to hang their citizenship and their manhood and their self-respect on the gate when they go into these places of employment. (Applause.) ‘They are treated with about the amount of courtesy and consideration that they could find or perhaps less than they could find in the penal institutions. I am pointing this out as one of the effects on the workers, the young men, I know that these layoffs have forced them into bootleg- ging, manufacturing of illicit alcohol, burglary, robbery and other means, legal or otherwise, by which they could raise the necessary money to meet the requirements of youth, amusement and the things like that of life to which they are fully entitled. “On the older man the effect has been differ- The effect that I have found, I have found it to be in my own case, a deterioration physically. A deterioration which is accelerated each year, and accelerated particularly by the worry attached to the layoff itself, to the fact that one is laid off, to the fact that one cannot supply their families with the necessary things. All these things tend to tear a man down, and, of course, make him less able to perform. What he will find when he re- turns to the shops is an increased speed-up in the job he formerly occupied or held.” ent iS ANY more simple and blood-curdling accusation against the profit system possible? We don’t know whether this man ever read one line written by Communists describing capitalist democracy as just the disguised dictatorship of the capitalists. But who can tell more vividly, more dramatically of the horrors of the profit system, than this worker who relates in simple, straightfor- ward fashion his experience after 28 years of work for the auto barons? Crime—starvation—misery—war—fascism: these are what the profit system stands for. These are its fruits, which it creates each day that it continues its existence. The sweet phrases of a Roosevelt cannot obscure this fact. No conscious worker or farmer will be fooled by the President's honeyed words. The plain facts of the auto worker, Madden, hurls the lie into the teeth of the capitalist politician, Roosevelt. The Generous Utilities Ae H. SCHOELLKOPF, president of the powerful Niagara Hudson Power Corporation, announced on Saturday on behalf of that company and its numerous affiliates, that he would reduce power rates voluntarily. Daily Worker readers will recall Mr. Schoell- kopf as the gentleman whose power company was exposed in these columns recently as having profited by sending double light bills to relief clients in Cohoes, N. Y. Mr. Schoellkopf is not only head of an extremely profitable utility company, but also of the apparently non-profit-making State Tem- porary Emergency Relief Administration. One can therefore look with a certain amount of suspicion at Mr. Schoellkonf’s generous offers to reduce light bills. The suspicion is deepened when we examine his proposals in detail. Mr. Scheellkopf explains his sudden conversion to rate reduction by suggesting that in New York State the so-called “Washington Plan” be used. “This,” he says, “is based on the promotion of greater use of electricity. . . .” This is precisely the point. Mr. Schoellkopf is giving away ice in the Winter. If considerably more electricity is used, then there will be a cut in rates, The essence of the whole idea is to jack up elec- tricity consumption as a whole so as not to cut the present swollen utility profits. On the contrary, as experience with the “Washington plan” has proved, utility profits will swell through increased use of power. Demagogie politicians, from Roosevelt to La- Guardia, have taken unto themselves the plumed helmets of warriors against the utilities. A legis- lative committee is investigating—sunerficially to be sure—the power companies in New York State, Recommendations for slight reductions will be pro- posed. Municipally-owned and operated power plants have become popular demands, particularly among the lower middie class and the small manu- facturers who use considerable quantities of electric power. Hence Mr. Schoellkopf’s moves, To workers, farmers and people of the middle class who make up the bulk of light consumers, the lesson should be plain. If only the threat of in- vestigation forces Mr. Schoellkopf and the great utilities to promise rate reduction, what would a genuine mass movement of consumers do? Rate-payers should organize and demand basic reductions, not on any long range “Washington plan,” but here and now, no matter how much or how little power is used. At the same time, steep taxation of the profits of the utilities, to be used for unemployment relief, should be demande: The Daily Worker will give this fight its energetic sup- port. f “TWO CONGRESSES” Party Life Er eee Political Studies For Party Members And Some Problems EADING your appeal for new Party members in the Daily Worker and also that members write relating their experiences, I to point what I} local | and hoping you will correct shall try my best think units me if I am wrong. First of all. I want to tell you how I came to join the Party. One year ago I happened to be on a local strike committee. It was a strike of about 600 unorganized glass workers. The local Party was very weak at the time, in fact the or- | ganizer was in reality the only ac- are mistakes in our tive member. His incorrect ap- proach made the red scare very successful for the company. We |got a 12% per cent raise and went back to work. Later the company fired the most militant workers as | they usually do, Of the strike com- | mittee two of us were fired. I was | included. To make it short, I heard Earl Browder speak on the Austrian | rebellion in February and in March |I was a member of the Party. other member of the strike com- | mittee also joined in the McKees- | port unit. Since that time the Party [has grown and improved many | times its former strength. We have twenty-seven members |in the Party. The Unemployed | Council local is one of the strong- jest in our district. We have an I. | W. O. and the beginning of a good steel union. I myself have taken |the responsibility of building a Y. Three of them work in the same |glass company that fired me and we expect to have a good Y. C. L. shop unit functioning very soon. Now that there is a fair move- ment here, there is a tendency of ill feeling between Party members. For example, we have as secretary @ young college graduate who has been teaching us political economy. He seems to think that all Party members and Y. C. L.’ers should | study political economy to be good |Party members. Now, he has been | teaching our very new Y. C. L. and I noticed that they were not very much interested. At a Party unit meeting, I sug- gested that we teach them lighter subjects, and our secretary, because he was very peeved, stated that the Y. ©. L, would fall apart without political economy. In plain words |I told him that he was all wet and hoped to build a much stronger Y. Cc. L., one that will do some real work in the shop, one that will put Marxism ‘into vractice and not only study and theorize. | posed that we admit into the Party | Six women who happen to be wives of Party members and they are very active in the women’s league. One of them happens to be my wife. |He was against this, saying that we should take them in one or two at a time and teach them political economy. Now, my wife has not dry subject. Although I myself study political economy and realize that it is very good to study, I hold that political | economy alone will not make good Communists. I think that comrades like our secretary who seems to have a political economy complex | should be corrected by the District. But the District, secing that we are doing good work, thinks that we do not need their attention. Com- rades, this might appear not very important, but it is. You see there | are a few other Party members who think he is correct and there is a tendency of ill-feeling in the units. Another situation that must be straightened out is the unconscious bureaucratic methods of our organ- izer. Our organizer is one of the most active in the District and de- serves a lot of credit, but this one | fault minimizes his popularity. We |hope that he will assume a more good-natured manner, not only with |Party members, but with all work- jers. We have called him down many | times, but it’s of no use. I will look for an answer to this |letter in the column “Party Life” of the Daily Workers, Comradely yours, Ss. A., Glassport, Pa. Editorial Note E DO not think it is the inten- tion of the writer of this letter to oppose the teaching of political | economy, although this might be in- |ferred from his letter. Lenin's statement that “without revolution- ary theory there can be no revolu- | tionary practice” is one about which |there can be no argument. How- jever, we should not attempt to plunge the new Party members, | who have done no previous read- ing and studying, into a highly theoretical course in political eco- nomy. Elementary courses in funda- mentals of Communism should be | arranged, and after the comrades | have mastered these, they should be |led farther along the road of revo- | lutionary theory. | Certainly this question should not \be made the subject of controversy | and ill-feeling in the units. This course should also be fol- ‘lowed with the women who are ac- | tive in the Women’s League. They | should not be kept out of the Party until they have mastered political economy, but taken in, and trained | in the course of their work. We do \not at all agree with the writer of | the above letter, that these women ‘have not the mental capacity to | master political economy. Women have the same mental capacities as men. They only need the oppor- tunity to develop them. Linen Mill ‘Recognizes’ Strikebreakers’ ‘Union’ DUDLEY, Mass. Jan. 6—Al- though settlement of the recent strike at its mill provided for recog- nition of the United Textile Work- ers Union, the Stevens Linen Com- pany here announced Saturday, that it equally recognizes the Linen | Workers Protective Association, a | company union composed of strike- breakers, who remained at work [during the strike Company offi- cials cynically announced that this makes the plant a “union shop.” The) C. L. and have eight members now. | I also pro-| | the mental capacity to study such a| | | | | | | by Limbach | By Vern Smith MOSCOW, U.S.S.R.—Elections to the city soviet and to the soviets of the ten raions or wards of Mos- cow began Dec. 10, and most of the | biggest factories did their voting on | the 10th and 11th, Several meetings had to be held at the larger plants, so that each! shift got its chance to ballot, and| even several meetings at a time in| some plants because of the lack of halls large enough to hold the whole shift. Other meetings on a terri- torial basis are “now being held for | housewives and workers of officers and institutions not large enough for single meetings. In the Soviet {city the basis of representation for | industrial workers is the factory, so many delegates from each plant, according to the number of workers in it. The actual election meeting comes |as a climax to a six weeks’ or two months’ period of election cam- paign, in which many meetings were j held by these worker electors, and |Mmany reports heard. First, the So- viets themselves submitted to the) electorate a detailed analysis of the work of each member. Then the |members of the soviets reported at meetings held of those who elected them, and were submitted to criti- }cism and discussion, These meet- ings, or later ones, drew up just what the workers wanted them. to do in the soviets, I have just come from the elec- tion at the Trekhgornaya textile factory, 6,400 workers, in the Kras- no-Presnaya raion of Moscow. I |sat through the election meeting of the spinning and weaving and calico printing departments’ morn- jing shift, The meeting began at 2 p.m. in the factory’s own theatre located near the plant and near the big colony of new apartment houses in which the employes of this fac- tory live. Shows Realism The first thing, and a very sig- nificant thing for it shows the real- ism of the Soviet worker, and the knowledge that he runs industry through his soviet government, was the mingling of production cam- paign and election, The whole raion was decorated (ike the other nine raions) with street banners proclaiming the con- struction and industrial output suc- cesses so far achieved and announc- ing the plans for the future. Work- ers left their looms and spinning frames, formed in column and pre- ceded by bands of music, marched singing from the plant to the meet- ing. They bore huge red signs: “Elect the best to the Soviets!” and they carried also great wheel- shaped frames displaying the new materials their plant is producing. The bulk of the Trekhgornaya plant production now is composed of 76 new sorts of beautifully patterned cloths, manufacture of which began only this year. The long procession wound its way, singing the “Premoria Par- tisans’ Song” and other revolution- ary and popular airs, every one ex- cited and laughing, band music and accordion music bursting forth every little way along the line, and with the flaunting rainbow of fine woven cottons above them. Many of the women and girls wore handker- chief head dresses made of the latest product of Trekhgorka looms. Poured Into Theatre They poured into all doors of the theatre, and filled it in a few min- utes. Admission was by presentation of the election notices prviously sent to each elector by the election com- mission. Once inside music and_ singing continued, and a couple of girls, un- able to retrans their high spirits, climbed to the stage where the pre- sidium and the members of the elec- tion commission sat, and performed a lively jig, to the great apprecia- tion of the audience. All around the balcony of the theatre ran a sign: “Under the Banner of Soviets We Won the Oc- tober Revolution —Long Live the Soviets, Bearers of Leninist Pol- icies!” Finally the chairman rang for order. The meeting was opened by a representative of the electious commission, He announced that in these departments, 1,738 workers had the right to vote. Every worker here over the age of 18 votes, since in this plant there are no capital- | ists, former members of the Czar’s police, or priests, or others of the small number of disfranchised peo- ple. There were present 1,707, most of those absent being ill or away because of other grave reasons. Therefore the atindance could be considered practically 100 per cent. The floor was given to Kogan, woman member and one of the sec- retaries of the Moscow Committee of the Communist Party. Here, again, the fact that the worker runs industry, and that his interest in government is the same as his interest in a correct opera- tion of industry and the building of socialism came to the front. For Kogan spoke for two hours, not on what would be called politics in America, but on the achicvemenis, and failures in some cases, of the city and raion soviets in carrying out the industrial and construction Progam, and on the plan for the future. She mentioned that un- employment “has been forgotten— it doesn’t exist.” She told of the threefold increase in the payroll since 1930. She pointed to the liquidation of illiteracy. She cen- sured the slow development of the Moscow coal basin. the Trekhgornaya mill as one of the best in the fight for quality: “We want our women to be one hundred times better dressed than the women of capitalist countzies.” She showed how correct it was to develop heavy industry first,. and then light industry. Now it is light industry’s turn, and it goes forward on a sure basis’ of a big function- ing heavy industry, supplying it with machinery, She showed that one sixth of Moscow floor space was now in new houses built while the outgoing Soviet deputies were in office, but that it is not enough and the house building program must occupy a central place in the minds of the incoming deputies: “We de- mand thet ou: living apartments shall eventually become a hundred times more beautiful and more com- fortable than those of capitalist countries!” Kogan explained the abolition of bread rationing, due to the successes in industrialization and agriculture, she told of the problems of public feeding, for 2,400,000 Moscovites, ex- clusive of children fed at school, now eat in factory dining rooms and similar institutions. She p'edzed a remedy fo> the shortage of thea- tres and clubs, mentioned that Mos- cow grew by one million inhabit- ants during the last four years, and generally went through the whole. program of building socialism, with occasional reference to some de- mand that the Trekhgornaya work- ers had made and which was cither fulfilled or not fulfilled. In gen- eral they were carried out. If not, she told why. * After Kogan finished the chair- man called for discussion, and 61 voters asked for the floor. A girl political instructor in one of the departments of the mill told of the great gain in political con- sciousness of the non-party worke:s, who debate such subjects as “Why the U.S.S.R. Was Asked to Join the League of Nations,” etc., and give the general answer, “Because we are strong now.” (To Be Continned) She praised | An Election Meeting in a South African Soviet Textile Factory Officials Ban Marx Writings JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 6.—The ; Communist Manifesto, the declara- | tion of the rights of workers and | their revolutionary aims written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, has been banned in South Africa, | The ban was first put into operation | recently when a traveller was found | with 24 othe: books, it was not al- | lowed to enter the country. | The ban was placed under an ad- | ditional clause to the Customs Act, which had been rushed through the South African Parliament in July, enabling the government to prohibit |and indecent literature.” Previously the government had been stopping from time to time the introduction into the country of such publications as the “Labo: | Monthly,” “Moscow News,” etc. This | measure was challenged in the courts, which held that under exist- ing law the government had no power to stop such publications. | Hence the amendment. As soon as this was passed, the Citizens’ Righis Committee organized a deputation representing the Federated Trades and Labor Councils, the Labor Party and the Communist Party to visit | the Minister of the Interior, asking him to guarantee that the amend- ment would not be operated against permitted in Great Britain. The Minister replied that owing “to the feculiar race question existing in South Africa,” he could give no such guarantee. Security Need Shown in Talk By Van Kleeck WASHINGTON, D, C., Jan. 6— Security of livelihood must be made the leading aim and obligation of the American nation, Mary van Klecck, noted social worker and chairman of the Inter-Professional Asseciation for Social Insurance, declared in an address on Saturday to the National Congress for Un- employment and Social Insurance. The cbjective and test of all eco- nomic policies, she said, is this se- curity of livelihood for the toiling population. The government and the economic system must bear this responsibility. Miss van Kleeck dwelt upon the larger issues before the National | Social Insurance. She pointed out | that while the Congress of workers | must put -orward a program for an unemployment and social insurance pregram, they must also concern themselves with the wider program of economic security for all workers and their families. © | It was in the light of this objec- tive—"“of a people’s movement for security,” she asseried, that the should be understood. In her address, which was full of hard common sense she dealt with the new principles introduced by the Workers Bill: workers’ control over the administration of the bill; income taxes on high incomes as the source of funds; and compensa- tion for all forms of security, espe- cially that arising out of mass un- employment. Miss van Kleeck concluded by say- ing that the demand for unemploy- ment and social insurance must be followed by steps toward increasing the productivity of the nation as the basis for increas2d employment. But the policies of teh Roosevelt regime are in the opposite dircc- tion, she said, towards restricting production, destroying crops and But the policies of the Roosevelt, | to have a copy in his luggage. Along | | the importation of “objectionable | working class publications that are | Congress for Unemployment and} immediate details of the program | | World Front] | . —— By HARRY GANNES -——! Horse Deal Over Ethiopia | Pay Off to Mussolini | Defenders of Kweiyang NE of the most vicious | “ pieces of imperialist horse- trading is now going on at the | expense of the Negro people |in Abyssinia. This deal is hav- ing its repercussions through- | out, the world. | Foreign Minister Laval of France is in Rome, arranging the details, | while Mussolini’s army is in Abys- ia (also known as Ethiopia), and his military supply ships are rush- ing war eauipment through the Red Sea with British and French acquies- ; cence. Laval’s purpose in visiting | | Mussoiini is to draw Italy, formerly } | the most bitter antagonist of French i | policy in the Balkans, closer to | French interests. To do so he has | to offer a consideration. The con- | Sideration is to be the bleeding body |of Ethiopia. | In return for Mussolini’s approval ) of blocking German Fascism from | penetrating into Austria, and in fur- |ther consideraticn of Italy's relin- quishing its ambitions in Jugoslavia, | France's ally, Laval is to confirm his | promise to Italy that she can take a good slice of Ethiopia. It will re- | quire a fairly large slice, too, for Mussolini to give up his appetite in | Europe and the Mediterranean area, and it seems as if this has been j granted to him through agreement of Britain and France. Pee pig — i sigeesees is the last remaining in- |* denendent country ‘n Africa, one of untold undeveloped wealth. It is ; now the intention of Italy, France |and Britain to carve Ethiopia to bits, leaving to Mussolini’s gunmen the job of making the first raid. Mussolini has already begun his invasion of Ethiopia, but it seems {now as if plunder in that country will begin in carnest after certain recent conversations between Mus- solini and the British and French | Tepresentatives, Not a gun can be run through the Red Sea to Italian Somaliland, which borders Ethiopia to the north, | without the British gunboats know= | ing about it. With their navel base at Aden, Arabia, directly across from Djibouti, French port of entry f |into Ethiopia, the British know every move made by the other pow- | ers in Ethiopia. With Mussolini's grabbing of ter- ritory in the North, the British rob- bers can sate their desires in the upper Nile reaches around Lake Tsana, Ethiopia, the French can also pick up some crumbs around French Somaliland. bo 2 NM ‘HUMANITE,” central organ of the Communist Party of France, | dealing with the situation in Ethi- opia some weeks before Laval went to Rome, declared: “Today it is probable that a free | hand has been given to Italy by France in Abyssinia. “Mussolini has always declared that the peace treaty of 1919 al~ Ways dealt meagerly with the ‘vice torious’ Italy. France and England, he says, grabbed the former Ger= man colonies. “It seems that they are going to grant him some part of French Somaliland, that small colony on the Red Sea, of which the capital is Djibouti. This grant will permit Italy to adjust its difficulties of \ communication with Abyssinia, and that is to say in plain language, to assist Italy in its systematic rob- bery and pillage of Abyssinia.” + 2 8 ~ USSOLINI'S desperate straits and his absolute need for plun- der, at; whatever cost, is iue to the undeniable economic and financial crisis of Italian Fascism. The fi- nancial crisis in Italy is worse than in any other capitalist country in the world. pe he vec | P\URING the past fiscal year, the Italian government had a deficit of 4,000,000,000 lire. Wages and sal- aries were cut, but army, navy and - air expenditures were increased. “How this deficit will be met,” wrote the Herald Tribune Rome | correspondent at the time the finan- cial report was made, “remains a | Mystery.” Mussolini's army is now ‘attempting to solve that mystery \by an imperialist gangster raid on the wealth of Ethiopia, at the cost | of slaughtering tens of thousands of | Negro People. * « | } 'HE Kuomintang butchers in the province of Kweichow are just as much afraid of their own troops as they are of the Red Army which is advancing on the capital’ of Kweiyang. With only 20 more miles to go, the Red Army is certain to take the city, as the local garrison | has openly declared it will not fight |egainst the Red Army, unless it gets |tts back nay. Even if these enthu- siastie defender mercenaries do get their money, they are not apt to risk their skin too dangerously against an army of workers and peasants they don’t seem to have much interest in fighting. taking like measures for “the ‘immediate purpose of maintein= ing profits by raising prices and | by making government funds avail- |eble to sustain interest on bonds and property returns.” She made a plea for united ac- tion to win the program drawr up by the National Congress. This was no paper program that had been worked out, she said. “The Amerie can people and ezp2cially the worke ers have been drawing together durs ing these years of insecurity and distress, and the basis is thereby laid for united action in which workers in the professions shall contribute out of their technical knowledge to make this movement sound for the development of the United States, and workers in all industries and farmers should test in their own experiences the cone clusions of the scientists and teche nicians. This is a task not for one group, but for the nation as a whole Jed by organized workers, induse trial, agricultural and professional,”