The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 8, 1935, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JAN Daily <QWorker CRWTRAL ORCAM COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST IwrERMATIONAL) Only Working Class FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Sete Address Washington B “America’s Daily Sewspaper” lath and F Washington, D. ©. Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St Telephone: Dearborn 3931 Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manha and Bronx), 1 year, 96.00: 4 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.7% cents Bronx, Fi and Canada: 1 year, $9.00 $5.00: 3 months, $3.00 Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 76 cents. tion: By mail, 1 year, $1.80; 6 months, 75 cents TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1935 Communists Are Prepared to Join Labor Party Movement “MHE Communist Party is a Party of La- bor, of all those who toil. And it is not an ineffective party. In comparison to its membership and vote, it is the most effective party that ever existed in the ed States. A vote for the Communist Party deeply; just think, for example, how much be to ‘persuade’ even the present < to adopt the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill tomorrow, if they had been frightened to death by the ghost of a few million Communist and by a greater mass strike votes last November movement, by greater street demonstrations, by growing mass organizations, ‘But the Communist Party is a particular kind cf a Labor Party. Our program goes far beyond Unemployment Insurance, which after all is only an emergency measure. We propose a revolutionary solution of the crisis of capitalism, by abolishing the whole rotten capitalist system, by setting up in its place a socialist system which would put everyone at work, not at the New Deal slave-labor, but with the most modern machinery producing the goods we all need for our own use and not for capitalist profi We propose to travel the same road already shown by the glorious victories of the R' work- ing class and with rapidly expanding the socialist system. It is unfortunately true that the millions now preparing to break away from the old parties are not yet prepared to go the whole way now with the Communist program. “We Communists are often accused of being ‘un- realistic’ and ‘sectarian,’ because we bring forward such a far-reaching revolutionary program. But we are convinced that our program is the only realistic one, the only program which can solve the problems now vexing humanity. We are sure that all of you, ail the broad masses, will be convinced in the not distant future, by experience. We do not propose to ‘make a revolution’ by ourselves, as the fantastic lies of the Dickstein Committee and Hearst tell you, not by absurd conspiracies, not by ‘kidnapping the President,’ not by bombs and individual terror, all of which we denounce as police provocations, but only found in Roosevelt’s message a away from the “financial few” order.” But Mark Sullivan, who is to throw dust into anybody's speaks honestly than Coughlin. Tt was as if Roosevelt came to the parting of the ways,” Sullivan states, “and he definitely took the right.” So where Coughlin pretends to see a left turn to new social order, Wall Street sees exactly the op- €, @ more open support for Wall Street capi- talist rule! Does not this show what a despicable role Cough- lin is ing his service to Wall Street, helping the Wall Street monopolies and Roosevelt to put over their reactionary program in the name of a new social order”? Coughlin's job is to give the workers the idea that Roosevelt's Wall Street program is a “radical” program—so that t Wall Street program can be put into effect without the opposition of the workers who will suffer by it new social no obligation much more Coughlin brought out his familiar idea of “bank- ers’ credit” versus “Congressional money.” But this is also a typical Coughlin trick. Because all this phoney money that Coughlin wants Congress to print will sooner or later all find its way right back into the hands of the banks just as before. The printing of new money will not be a bless- ing for the masses—it will be a curse! For this in- flationary currency will send the cost of living sky- rocketing to new heights and will bring misery and starvation on a scale that will make even the pres- ent misery look small. And the Wall Street specu- lators and bankers will reap a harvest of gambling profits! is the leading “left” salesman for elt’s Wall Street program. He is an enemy of every worker in the country, who is all the more dangerous for his “radical” talk. Roosevelt’s Budget HROUGHOUT the course of the Roose- velt regime there has been a wide gap between his promises to the masses and his actual program. This divergence be- tween glowing promise and empty deed is again sharply brought out in his budget message to Congress Only last Friday Roosevelt spoke of launching ‘@ new order of things” which would “provide for human security.” But the cold facts of the budget, which are the test of the sincerity of his pledge to the masses, show that Roosevelt does not provide a single penny for a federal system of social in- surance to take care of the unemployed and the aged or any other social need. Instead the budget provides enormous sums for the monopoly and war aims of the American capital- ist class. For the army and navy over $802,000,000 have been set aside for the fiscal year, 1935-1936, an increase of $235,000,000 over last year’s appropri- ations. This increase of 41 per cent does not in- clude the hundreds of millions that will be spent. for C.C.C. camps or for the building of warships, which are disguised as public works expenditures. tures. As in last year’s budget only a Jittle over ten per cent will be spent directly for the unemployed. The $900,000,000 that will be spent are hopelessly inade- quate even for the 3,500,000 families who are to be transferred to jobs on public works at some time in the future. And the $4,000,000,000 that are to be used for public works will in the main be diverted Party Life Party Sections Compete in Work On Waterfront ECTIONS 1, 3 and 7 of the New York district each having water- fronts have entered into a Socialist competition pact, setting for them- selves quotas for recruiting long- shoremen into the Party and a pro- gram of Communist activity on the docks. | It is of course to be hoped that the resolution signed by representa- | tives of these three sections, and printed in the November 13th Daily Worker, will not be forgotten, as unfortunately is the case with many challenges for Socialist. competition, within the Perty. Intense efforts to concentrate the efforts of these sec- | tions to work on the docks should | result in giving our Party a foun- dation in this most basic industry | | in New York. | Nevertheless, while the resolution | outlines a series of practical meas- ures to guide the sections, the fol- lowing, from the resolution, indi- cates a wrong approach, and unless | it is corrected, much intense activ- | | ity, will still bring little result. It reads: “Once more the corrupt Ryan machine in the International | Longshoremen . Association has succeeded in putting over a sell- out agreement, which spurns the basic demands and needs of the rank and file. The agreement in- corporates none of the real conces- sions gained on the West Coast, and leaves the longshoremen in a | relatively worse position than | under the old agreement.” It is true that the East Coast} agreement does not include some of | the concessions granted on the West | Coast especially the thirty-hour week, six-hour day, and partial con- | trol of the hiring hall. But is it not |a fact that the wage scale now is 95 cents per hour, $1.35 for over-| |time, as against the previous 85 | cents and $1.25 overtime? We cannot tell a longshoreman that 95 cents per hour makes him | | worse off than 85 cents. But we can | tell him that what he gained on the East Coast, is due chiefly to the | fact that the workers on the West | Coast through a three-month strike | under militant leadership and Com- munist guidance and the General | Strike, and that on the East Coast the threat of such a strike, have | forced the increases. We can fur- ther show the longshoremen, that) failure to gain the other concessions | of the West Coast, is only due to the fact that Ryan in full co-operation | with the shipowners engineered the | recent agreement so as to rob the workers of the rest of the conces- sions which could have been easily | | won, if at least energetic measures | | were taken to prepare for a strike. | We must show the workers that it RY 8, 1938 az A WORK ar’, ¢ “CLASS BULWARK viet Textile Workers Discuss Problems At An Election Meeting By VERN SMITH (Part IL.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R—An old worker, candidate for re-election to the raion Soviet, was the second to speak in discussion of the report of Party Secretary Kogan at the election meeting of spinners and weavers at the Trekhgornaya mill. He explained that he works in the educational section of the Soviet. the school budget, and then stated: ® He gave figures on the increase in| And then, “We need newspapers’ like bread!” Everybody wants a} paper every day, and there aren't | | enough to go around. Kogan has mentioned that though newspaper | circulation was now 38,000,000 daily, | eating up all the available supply | of print paper, more millions of | copies were demanded and the! buifding of new paper mills would | have to be pushed. Nogradova | | thought it was being pushed much | too slowly, Another woman weaver praised ee | back called for three cheers for the | Soviet Power and the meeting ex- ploded into a loud “Oorah!” Then came the reading of the list of nominees to the Soviet. It began, “From year to year we elect also | Comrade Lenin as our first deputy!” and a burst of applause interrupted | the reading. Then, amidst cheers, | Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Ordjon- ikidzie, Kalinin, Kuibishev, Kossior, | Rudzutak, Krupskaya, Thaelmann, | Bulganin, and others were elected— honorary deputies of this plant, not | Addis Ababa, World Front —— By HARRY GANNES -—— A Note on Abyssinia A Robbers’ Plan “ Silver, Gunboats in China SECRET note by Sir John Simon, British foreign minister, to Mussolini, fully approving, and giving the greatest details, of the plun- der of Abyssinia, got into the | hands of the United Press in Paris, Its contents were cabled ta the United States. But we have failed to find it reproduced in the American capitalist press. We therefore print it here. The cable was wired from Paris by Ralph Heinzen, United Press staff correspondent and reads as follows: “Fortified by England's approval sent in a message of good will by Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, to Rome, France and | Italy today proceeded to revamp the map of Africa. “Sir John’s message, sent yester- day (that is, Jan. 5) signalled to Paris and Rome that Britain has no objections to territorial changes which France is making in Africa to satisfy Italy’s demands for territory under the 1915 promise of the former allies to reward Italy for coming into the world war on their side, deserting Austria and Gere many. “London has consented to France’s giving Italy a wide stretch of land totalling 159,000 square kilometers south of Libyak, bordering Egyptian Sudan on the west. England simi- larly has no objection to giving Italy an outlet in the gulf of Aden as well as the Red Sea, arranged through France’s giving Italy a 20- mile strip of the French Somalis coast protectorate. Sa eee “RRANCE’S agreement to Italy's proposed participation in con- trol of the railroad from Djibouti to Abyssinian capital, jowever, does not mean Paris agrees to sacrifice Abyssinian independ- ence, it was emphasized in well- informed quarters. “However, there is no doubt that France's gift of an important out- let to the Gulf of Aden and a share in the railroad will greatly increase Italian influence in Abyssinia, par- ticularly since Italians sitting on the railroad board will be able to con- trol arms shipments and other sup- plies of national defense which Abyssinians must bring in by rail from Djibouti. “Abyssinia is entjrely cut off from the sea, being surrounded by | the Italian colony of Erithrea, the | French Somalis coast protectorate, | the British Somaliland and Italian with the majority of the toilers, by mass action, | when they have been convinced cf the Communist The number of school children|the improvement in the dining | cutting dows | Somaliland. lon ee = ReeegpE n program. “And we do not sit idly waiting until the masses afé-gonvinced of our program. We Communists work and fight together with all of you, among the broad masses, for all these parties’ demands, for the daily life-needs of the masses which are already under- stood. It is not an accident, for example, that it was left for us, the Communists, to formulate the Work- ers’ Bill, which is the center of the great mass moye- ment represented in this Congre: “gO ALSO, when it comes to the mass break-away ‘from the old parties, which will play such a great part in finally forcing the adoption of the Workers’ Bill. We would welcome these masses at once into the Communist Party. But we are realists. We know that for a time they will stop short of the full Com- munist program. We do not separate ourselves from this mass movement for that reason. We encourage and help the movement in every way. We call upon all of you to do the same thing. We propose that all of us get together in a great effort for unity, unity in struggle for immediate demands against the capitalists, unity upon the broad basis of the class of those who labor against those who exploit ur labor, unity of the poor against the rich, of the producers against the parasites. “We Communists are prepared to join hands, With all our force, all our energy, all our fighting capacity, with all who are ready to fight against Wall Street, against monopoly capital, in the forma- tion of a broad mass party to carry on this fight, into a fighting Labor Party based upon the trade unions, the unemployment councils, the farmers’ organizations, all the mass organizations of toilers, with a program of demands and of mass actions to improve the conditions of the masses at the expense of the rich, for measures such as the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill, the Negro Rights Bill, and i Workers’ Unemployment and Social Inst ice Bill."—From the speech by Earl Browder at the N: tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance. Coughlin vs. Sullivan HE: radio priest, Father Coughlin, pulled another of his characteristic stunts in his radio speech this Sunday. Taking Roosevelt's message to Con- gress as his text, Coughlin hailed it as a pledge that “henceforth the financial privileges of the few shall disappear.” In his fanciest style, this radio priest, who has close connections with Wall Street bankers and capitalists, issued stentorian warnings to the “privi- leged’”’ that Roosevelt was ushering in a “new social order.” All this “radical” blather, mind you, is on the basis of Roosevelt's message to Congress calling for the smashing of all Federal relief for the millions of jobless! But let us see what the capitalists themselves, the Wall Street privileged, the financial cliques, think of this terrible Roosevelt message on the “new social order.” It turns out that Wall Street is highly tickled «ith Roosevelt's message, that the “privileged finan- w3i groups” are delighted with what Roosevelt is giving them in the coming year! ’ * * Herald-Tribune political writer, Mark Sulli- van, spokesman for one of the most reactionary Cliques in Wall Street, writes of Roosevelt's mes- sage in these happy words: “Roosevelt's address to Congress on Friday was by far the longest and foremost move Roosevelt has faken to the right since the administration began. . . . It contains a greater assurance to business than anything the President has so far said and done.” The rest is funny, if it were not also grimly se- to military purposes and to subsidizing capitalist contractors and manufacturers, The workers have been condemned in advance by Roosevelt; who has laid down the rule that wages on these public works jobs must be lower than wages paid by private empioyers. This wage from all in- dications will be less than eight dollars a week as part of the general campaign to lower wages which Roosevelt is actively pushing. In setting these low government wages for the unemployed he is carry- ing out the program laid down by the Chamber of Commerce and the Netional Association of Manu- facturers, The budget like all other aspects of Roosevelt's program gives the workers nothing but the prospect of increased misery. Millions of unemployed are to continue to starve. A fraction of the army of job- less are to be paid sub-existence wages on the pub- lic works program which is an important part of the military preparations of the capitalist class. The na- tional debt which will be over $31,000,000,000 on June 30, 1935, will be raised to over $35,550,000,000 plus contingent debts of many more billions by June 30, 1936. This staggering burden is borne by the masses since no attempt is made to make the rich bear the tax load. Thus the budget proves again that the Roose- velt program is for the benefit of the rich. For the masses it holds out nothing but the prospect of Jower and lower standards of living, as the capital- ist class drives for fascism and war, The struggle against the Roosevelt program must be intensified if the masses are not to be sacrificed to the greedy aims of the capitalists. Robeson on the Soviet Union HE announcement by Paul Robeson, dis- tinguished Negro actor and singer, that he plans to spend a great deal of time in the Soviet Union studying the Soviet solu- tion of the problem of national minorities and the problems of Negro culture all over the world, is an event of first-rate importance. Robeson is one of the greatest figures in Amer- ican art. But he is a Negro, And in the United States where the atmosphere of American bourgeois “art” smells of the slave-market, where the Negro people are subjected to a barbarous oppression that can only come from the brutal reaction of a capitalist culture in its decline, Robeson found that his great gifts could find no room for growth or free ex- pression, Now, Robeson has found in the Soviet Union what he, as a great and sensitive representative of his people, has always been seeking. Robeson has found that the Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government of the Soviet Union, that the pro- letarian dictatorshin, has cleansed the whole life of the Soviet Union of the filth of race hatred and oppression. In the Soviet Union, for the first time in the history of the human race, absolute social and political equality for all nationalities exists as a firm government policy. The result has been an extra- ordinary flowering of all national cultures, under the great slogan of Stalin, “national in form, pro- letarian in content.” The example of Robeson shows us the road that must be travelled in the United States to erase the hideous stains of jim-crow oppression. It is the working class, fighting for the revolu- tionary seizure of power, which alone can destroy the power of Wall Street which is the fountain-head of all race hatreds and oppression. In the oppressed Negro people, the working class of America has its most important ally. And only in the class struggle against the rule of Wall Street can the oppressed Negro people find the same lib- eration which the October revolution gave the op- pressed nationalities groaning under Czarist rule, is not Ryan's secret conferences | which resulted in the gains, but the willingness to struggle by the work-| ers, of which Ryan advised the) | shipowners. | | Only such positive attitude will root the Party among the workers. | Closing our eyes to realities only; plays into the hands of the Ryans. G. M. eee meee | A FEW WORDS ABOUT | LONGSHORE CONDITIONS AND RECRUITING 'HE point here is that the 10c an! hour gained by the longshore- | men does not cover the increased speed-up (and therefore decreased hours of work) and rise in living |costs during the year's period from October, 1933 to October, 1934. Furthermore, since the signing of | | the new agreement there has been still greater cutting of the size of | gangs so that the average long- shoreman is making less now than} under the old scale. The I. L. A. fakers are trying to use this 10c an hour increase as a sop to cover up their betrayal of the basic demands | and interests of the men. | Of course the Party on the water- front has repeatedly stressed that | the 10¢ an hour increase was won ‘as a result of the great West Coast struggle and the bosses’ fear of mili- | tant action in the Atlantic Coast | ports, and that more could have been gained if the Party and the militant elements had been stronger on the waterfront in New York. ‘The main line of the Party and the \rank and file movement has been |to prevent the wiping out of this | wage gain by trying to organize and ‘lead the concrete struggle against speed-up (raising the demand for | larger gangs, smaller drafts, etc.). | It is in place here also to report | that the recruiting pact of the three waterfront Sections has not been/ | forgotten, but is being carried out. | The result is that of the quota of 40 | longshoremen set to be recruited by | January 21st twenty-six have al- | ready been enrolled, Section 3 hay- | ing fulfilled its quota of 15. A com- | plete report of the results and les- |sons of the recruiting competition | between Sections 1, 3 and 7, among the New York longshoremen will be submitted shortly after Lenin Me- morial Day. —P. Cc. Longshore Work Committee, } New York District. ‘Teachers Hail Saar Struggle For Status Quo Hailing the Saar Freiheitsbund— “The Liberty Front”—for its cour- ageous struggle for the status quo, |and addressing Max Braun, the chairman of the League, and Fritz Pfordt, the Unemployed Teache:s’ Association sent the following cable: “Dear friends, “The Unemployed Teachers’ Asso- ciation sends you its sincere greet- ings and pledges of solidarity in your struggle for the Status Quo. “We hail the United Front of | Communists and Socialists and hore soon to see its pzactical success in che overwhelming vote on Jan. 13 | for the Status Quo. | while in the raion rose from 34,000 in 1931 to 52,000 in 1934. The number of schools increased from 31 to 49. The number of teachers rose from 1031 to 1436, and the percentage of those with highest education in- creased much more. “Several of our schools received prizes for ex- cellent work,” he said proudly, and then, the deputy merging with the worker, since, like ‘all deputies he continues to work in the factory holding public office, he launched into a fierce criticism of the quality and amount of dye sup- plied the plant, and demanded that all deputies take up in the Soviet at once the necessity of sufficient good dye for Trekhgorka. When you remember that all other depu- ties have the same daily intimate knowledge of the needs of industry and of its workers, you begin to see something of the firmness and efficiency of the Soviet’ form of gov- ernment. Best Shock Worker One of the best udarniks, or shock workers, the woman spinner Murashova, took the floor. She also, like Kogan, commented with satisfaction, “Now it is the turn of light industry!” And then went on to ask, “How are we answering the country’s call for good woven ma- terial?” She told of regular courses of in- struction in the spinning mill on \saving raw material, avoiding spoil- age, etc. She told of the success- ful fight to learn the spinning of a specially thin yarn. She praised the new machines going in, which are so nearly auto- matic that the department can take its real periods without shut- ting down the machines. And then she wound up with a descrip- tion of the leadership and help in this department by the deputies to the Soviet, and declared with fervor: . “We elect our state power our- selves, Let us love and respect our power. Let us+treat Soviet depu- ties properly, and not give them some other social work to do that will interfere with their duties as deputies!” Nogradova, & woman weaver, spoke. She is a member of a bri- gade that watches over the “Out of School Combinate for Children,” which is a sort of playground, chil- dren's club and gymnasium run for children who want to go somewhere when the school day ends and be- fore supper time. “We Need Newspapers” There are 2,000 children of Trek- hgornaya mill workers, she said, and only 600 of them regularly at- tend the combinate. This is prin- cipally because the mill can pro- vide it with only limited premises. She demanded that the Soviet see that additional space is given so that all 2,000 can come at once. She says the money was already voted, but “seems to be tied up somewhere.” She wants the Soviet to investigate and cure other com- plaints. There are still, in this fac- tory of over 6,000 workers, 34 il- literat “It is a disgrace.” The fault is mostly because the mill ad- ministration assigned such dark. uninviting rooms as class rooms for classes to liquidate illiteracy. Some- thing has to be done about it. Furthermore, the Trekhgornaya mill, alone of the large factories in (Signed) ISADORE BEGUN Chairman, Executive Board.” Moscow, has no club building of its own, That also is a “disgrace.” rooms, where almost all the work- | ers eat at least one meal a day, at reduced prices, as in all other | factories. But still, things could be more improved. “The country de-| mands the best material in the world from our looms,” she said, | “and we have the right to demand | the best meals in the world.” She | also raised the question of public dining rooms in all apartment houses, in addition to the dining rooms at the mill. A woman dyer spoke, telling how her department entered Socialist | competition against waste, and} made a saving of 140,000 rubles. “We are electing the best udarniks to the soviets,” she said, “They w have to work a lot. We still ha dirt and confusion enough. But we Pledge that with the help of the| Party and the soviet deputies we will overcome them by the time of the meeting of the Seventh Con- gress of Soviets.” And then she added, “I'm sorry that Kiroy won't be able to see it.” Kirov Honored Several of the speakers had men tioned Kirov, whose assassination | | by the class enemy ten days before | had shocked every worker in the Soviet Union. The meeting had opened with the whole crowd stand ing in honor of Kirov. After the discussion closed, a motion was read, pledging to carry out the line of the Communist Party for which Kirov stood, and demanding strict punishment of those who plotted his assassination or any other terrorist act against the Soviet Government. It carried with a roar, unanimously. After the discussion stopped, linin, Molotov, Kaganoyich, and others. A worker from the First State Ball Bearing Factory in Mos- cow greeted the Trekhgornaya workers, “a. message from one fight- ing factory to another—elect your best to the Soviets.” There followed the reading of part of the instructions to the new deputies, which they riust carry out or be recalled. In the prelimi- nary meetings at which these in- structions were drawn up, there were 4,500 separate suggestions from the workers of Trekngorka, many of them duplicated, of course. |The meetings had accepted as part lof the categoric orders to the new deputies, 8° of these. The others are referred to the deputies or to the unions, or the mill manage- ment, to help guide their work. They fell into four main general | groups. The first group was on| improvement of the textile industry. The second group was for imme- diate local improvements, such} things as car service, substitution of metal tubs for wooden in the Jaundry rooms in apartment houses, etc.» The third group was to bring pressuze on the admin- istration to improve certain things in the way of living conditions, for example more clerks in the Workers’ Supply Department stores (ORS stores) so as to expedite trade there. The fourth was generally political, demands foz better protection of the country, more watchfulness of the class enemy, etc. The instructions had been much debated in previous meetings, and @ general unanimity df opinion ar- |rived at. At the electicn meeting they were adopted without a dis- senting vote. |risen and nominated another, or |for public office have to be made greetings wére sent to Stalin, Ka-! At this point somebody in the its list of worker deputies. Other Plants Do Likewise | Other plants all over the Soviet | Union were doing the same. Prob- | ably Stalin has been elected in this manner to every Soviet in the whole country. | Then the list of deputies to the! Moscow Soviet was read—many of | them were workers here for long! periods, 20 years or more. After the list was read, the chair- | man called loudiy and distinctly, | Pausiug an appreciable time for an , OM any one present who wished to propose the withdrawal | of any name from the list. No one did. the chairman called for | nominations of additional names to} the list. This is one of the demo- | cratic features of the soviet elec- tion law. Not only could anybody | have nominated an opposition list in advance, but here, right at the election, any individual could have several, or a full list of deputies. And the mecting would have voted on them all individually, those re- ceiving the highest votes getting the offices. In America, nominees ahead of time, and in most cases either by “established” parties, with big votes in previous elections, or by means of a long and expensive petition circulation for a certain number of thousands of signatures of qualified voters, In another election meeting 1 have just seen, of 2,089 workers of the "Red Rose” silk mill in Moscow, workers did rise in the sudience and nominate three names. These were automatically added to the list, and discussion as to their merits followed right in the elec- tion meeting. At the Trekhgornaya. mill meeting no new nominations were made. The list has already been thoroughly dis- cussed, each nominee had had to give an account of himself at open meetings, and everybody was sat- isfied. The nominees were put to a vote which was unanimous. After that the whole crowd, with the workers of many other factories joining with them after their plants had voted, went down to the square before the Moscow Soviet building to demonstrate their solidarity with the government they had just chosen. Through half the night, cheering throngs of voters paraded past the Moscow Soviet. English Workers Plan’ Big Concert to Help. Scottsboro Defense. LONDON, Eng., Jan. 7.—A large concert has been organized here by the London Scottsboro Committee ; to raise funds for the defense of the Scottsboro Negro boys. The funds will be sent io the Interna- tional Labor Defense, which is con- ducting the appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court for the reversal of the death sentences imposed on Clarence Norris and Haywood Pat- terson, two of the boys. The appeal of the Scottsboro mothers for support to the LL.D. in the fight for the lives and freedom of their boys has also been issued because of \a general money panic. to a large number of Women’s Co- operative Guilds which have re- sponded very favorably “Pr-mier Pierre-Etienne Flandin and wval, on the latter’s return from Rome, are to visit London Jan. 20 and report in detail on the Franco-Italian arrangements in Africa and for central European cooperation.” Never was a piece of imperialist | robbery so openly arranged before- hand. ae te HE Saar, 10w it seems, has as many foreign correspondents re- porting the events up to the pleb- iscite as there are assigned by the American press to the Lindbergh case, that is, about 500. But even at that no clear picture was given by them on what hap- pened Jan. 6 at the Nazi and anti- Nazi demonstrations. All of the cap- italist reporters declared that the Nazi demonstration numbered from 100,000 to 150,000 marchers, while the few who do give figures for the anti-Fascist united front say around 90,000 marched. Our own corre- spondent in the Saar, whose special cable was published in yesterday's Daily Worker declared that the fig- ures in reality were just reversed— 150,000 anti-Nazis and 90,000 Nazi followers. The fact remains that the cap- italist press, which previously was certain of a huge vote for return to Fascist Germany, is now expressing more and more doubt as the date of the plebiscite gets nearer. a ete « 'HE Roosevelt government has de- cided to continue patrolling the Yangtze river in China with its gunboats. Admiral William H, Standley, chief of Naval Operations, in his annual report declares: “China continues in a state of dis- ruption with internal strife includ- ing Communist and bandit active ities engaging the wholesale atten- tion of the Chinese government forces.” And to help the butcher Chiang Kai-shek, the U. S. Navy will keep its gunboats running up and down the Yangtze river. Pace! Bee ORE recent reports from China emphasize the growing currency crisis. Silver is becoming scarcer, export of the metal due io higher prices in the United States. The stocks of silver in Shanghai by November of 1934 had dropped by $200,000.000, a decrease of 130 per cent. Many bankers in China have suspended the payment of silver altogether. Banks collapse in Shanghai at the rate of about ‘four a week. Banking circles are talking about In China, silver must be paid on demand, when bank notes are presented to the issuing bank. There are $700,000,000 in bank notes circulat- ing in six provinccs along the Yangtze, and a run on the banks, which have available only $200,000,- 000 in silver, would be disastrous. | Nanking i; negotiating with the Roosevelt regime to change its silver policy in order to avoid a smash-up in the whole banking structure of China and the intensification of the economic crisis which is resulting now from the hoarding and ex- porting of silver. Every reader of the Daily Worker should send his own greet- ing and get a greeting from a friend, on the Daily Worker's Eleventh Anniversary! er