The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1935, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, VEW YORK. THURSDAY, JA VUARY 17, 1 Workers’ Bill! FightLaunched In Richmond New Britain Workers to Government Hear Report on Na- | tional Congress | RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 15.—An overflow meeting jammed the True Reformers’ Hall here last Friday, to | hear the reports of the delegates to Cuban Masses Struggle Against Semi-Sla very Threatens ‘Harvest of Blood’ to Stop Strikes GAS FOR CUBAN TOILERS By J. Rojas HILE the toilers and white- collar workers in the cities are | striking for better conditions and the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Congress in Washington. Over a hundred workers were un- | able to gain entrance to the hall, where vivid reports were given by William H. Friend, Casper Jones and David McGraw. All the speak- against the repressions of the Men- dieta government, all eyes in Cuba are turned toward the countryside which is preparing for its annual sugar harvest (afra). Sugar is the keystone of the whole economic and political set-up of this Yankee semi-colony, To speak of the eco- | jnomic trend in Cuba means to ers called on the workers present | speak in terms of sugar—the price to spread the united front for the jof sugar, the number of tons of Workers’ Bill and to bring the ques- | SU&@r which will be produced, the United Fight For Social Bill Pushed inOhio AFL GroupsRequestFull Reports on Washington National Congress CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 16.—The Ohio Federation of Labor is com- pleting plans to introduce a State bill for insurance that embodies many of the features | of the Workers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Act, H. R 2827. The Cleveland Sponsoring | , Committee for the National Con- gress for Unemployment Insurance has proposed that a joint measure be worked out with the A. F. of L. in order to unite all the forces in! Ohio in the fight for genuine unem- | ployment insurance, | unemployment tion of its endorsement up in their organiations. William Friend, Unemployed Ne- gro and Communist Party candi- date for Congressman in the last elections, and W. H. Norman will be the principal speakers at a Lenin Memorial meeting to be held in the same hall at 8 o'clock Sunday evening, Jan. 20. The meeting has been organized by the Communist Party of Richmond. New Britain to Hear Report NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Jan. 16.— Paul Wicks, delegate to the Na- tional Unemployment Insurance Congress, will be the principal speaker at a meeting to be held here Thursday night, Jan. 24, at 7 o'clock at the Central Junior High School. Wicks was a delegate to the Con- gress from Springfield, Mass., and will give a complete report of the decisions and program worked out in Washington. Painters Back Fight NEW YORK.—Local 848 of the Painters’ Brotherhood unanimously endorsed the program of the Na- tional Action Committee of the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance at their last meeting. The meeting, after hearing the reports of its delegates, Mark Jack- son and Louis Weinstock, again en- dorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, and pledged to co-operate with the Na- tional Action Committee in the fight for the Workers’ Bill. Jobless Mass Arrests Made In Cineinnati CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 16.— Twenty-five unemployed workers were arrested here Monday. For the past two weeks the city and re- lief authorities have resorted to mass arrests in an attempt to stem the growing militancy of jobless. Over forty arrests have taken place at the relief stations. Thousands of workers have been thrown off relief since the first of the year and are literally starving. Disease is spreading through the working class districts. As a result the workers are rallying around the Unemployment Councils and are carrying on a stubborn struggle for their lives especially among the Ne- groes in the West End where the situation is the worst possible. The officials are attempting to break the growing unity between the Negro and white workers by be- ing a little more polite to the dele- gations from the districts where the white workers live but the Councils have met this situation by sending delegations with representatives from all sections. A mass demonstration has been called by the Hamilton County Un- employment Council in order to ef- fectively combat the terror and to demand the release of Arthur Faulkner, organizer of the North Side Council, wh is being held un- der $1,060 bail for sentence, and the release of all other unemployed workers. The International Labor Defense raised the bail for Faulkner and is appealing his case. Telephone Protests Restore Prison Rights To Jobless Leaders LOS ANGELES, Calif, Jan. 16. | —James McShann and Joseph Toth, jailed unemployed leaders, have been restored to full prison rights as a result of a deluge of tele- phoned protests against their con- finement in solitary. The two workers were sentenced to two years for leading unem- ployed struggles for relief. Mc- Shann, & Negro worker, is still ill as a result of a brutal beating administered by poitce at the time of his arrest. He has been denied medical attenton by his jailers. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. “Philadelphia, Attention! All organi- mations are asked to keep Friday, Feb. 22, open. The LL.D. is giving on that day its third Labor Defender Concert and Dance.” Rehard B. Moore will speak at a) meeting of all I.L.D. activists on Thursday, Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m. at 49 N. 8th St. All officers end active mem- bers must be present. Chicago, Ill. Election Rally. Concert and Dence at 2739 W. Division St., Saturday, Jan. 19, 8 p.m., Theatre Collective. Good orchestra. Good food. Adm. 20c. Aus- pices, Sec. 9 C.P. Alfred Hayes will speak on “Poetry and Revolution” at the John Reed Club, 505 8. State St., Saturday, Jan. 19, 8 p.m. , Due to the Lenin Memorial Meeting the lecture on “Dynamite in the Saar” at the Pen and Hammer Ferum, 20 B. Ontario St., scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 20, 8 p.m., nas been pestponed to the fellowings Sunday, Jan, 27, same tims end place. Superior, Wis. Cemm. 13 Peb.S ¢: Vasa He: t! nt Jchn Ave. Good program, refresh- ments, dancing. a BS number of days duration of the zafra. This years’ zafra begins about the ;Middle of January, Because of the new low production quota fixed by the New Roosevelt Reciprocity | Treaty (1,902,000 tons), it is cers tain that this year’s zafra, which in the majority of centrals was about \45 days last year, promises to be even shorter, since some 400,000 tons from last years’ quota still remain unsold and thus will fur- . |ther reduce the actual quota of the 1935 harvest. The dire meaning ;of such a short harvest can be | understood only when it is remem- | Cuban toiling population has prac- tically no other means of subsist- ence during the whole year than what it can eke out during the few days of harvesting. Bourgeoisie Are Fearful The Cuban bourgeoisie, in the complete service of Yankee imparial- |ism, is well aware of the desperate state of the masses and of the in- |flammable situation which their Plight may ignite at any moment, |especially in the interior. They see the rapidity with which the condi- tions for a revolutionary situation are maturing in Cuba. It is for this (reason that they are bending every effort at this time toward the prep- jaration of the violent crushing of the strikes which will surely arise |during the zafra, as they did last year. “There will be a harvest or there will be blood.” This was the state- ment of the government as an an- |Swer to the bloody battles and he- roie struggles of the peasants and |sugar workers during last years’ | jarvest and is indicative of the only |solution the government has to of- fer to the serious situation of the Cuban toiling population. It is at this time that the “con- versations” in the United States embassy between Ambassador Caf- fery and his favorite, Col. Batista, and the Wall Street puppet Presi- dent Mendieta become more and jmore frequent. |more arms and soldiers and for the |conversion of the sugar cenirals jinto military entrenchments become |more and more unrestrained. The |military budget has already far surpassed the butcher Machado himself and the number of armed men, officially given at approximately 14,000 men has actually been raised to almost double that amount (excluding the ordinary police force and the pri- vate police of the big Yankee sugar companies). Batista has announced that the recently established ‘‘se- cret service” of the army will be widely used against the Commu- jnists during the zafra. “Cuban Cordiality” The efforts of the goverment to pacify the various groups and pai~ ties of the capitalist-landlord op- added impulse. With the slogan of “Cuban cordiality” as the basis of jits appeal, the government is seek- ing to convince these groups that they ought to abandon all anti- Mendieta activity in the face of this “national emergency” which the struggles of the toiling masses dur- ing the zafra are likely to inten- sify. At the same time, the National Sugar Workers’ Industrial Union, /affiliated to the C. N. O. C., and the \revolutionary orgnizations under the leadership of the Communist |Party, are preparing to lead and |develop support for the struggles of |the sugar workers in the coming \zafra, which, from all indications |will outdo the last one as a harvest Blagoi Popoff, one of the de- fendants in the Reichstag Fire World Youth Committee Against War and Fascism.—Editor. | The Bulgarian Government has |recently been publishing “sensa- tional” reports on the “exposure of a great Communist plot.” In con- nection with this “plot” over 350 | bered that a large part of the | Cuban soldiers being trained to the type used against American worker being mobilized to attack starving sugar y action for better living and working conditions. of hunger and blood for the work- ing masses who carry it through. |. During the harvest, class forces in |Cuba come into sharpest play. And this year, the class war is sure to rage violently between the hun- |dreds of thousands of toilers who !cut and grind the cane and thy Yankee and Cuban magnates who jmake their profits out of it. This year a new economic factor enters the scene. Through the revised | reciprecity treaty, the bankers and. Sugar magnates (mainly, of course, American), who own Cuba’s sugar, |have received a gift of over $40,000,- 000 from the Roosevelt government (This $49,000,000 is calculated as the annual total which will be di- | verted from the U. S. custom re- | ceipts by the decrease in the duty | on Cuban sugar from 1.5 cent per use American made tear gas guns, The whole Cuban army is ers who are planning strike evitably place on the order of the day the task of seizing the mills and the application of the slogan for “workers’ and peasants’ con- trol.” In past struggles of this na- ture the workers took over the mills, cut and ground the cane and them- selves undertook to sell the sugar. In one such central, “Cacocum,” they actually managed t sell their ugar, Low Quota Threatens Cultivators The low quota threatens the pea ant cane cultivators, e ct with further destruction because the Centrals, requiring only a lim- ited amount of cane, will first grind the cane which they grow most cheaply on their own lands by wage labor (the so-called “administra- tion cane”) and then the cane of j1b. to .90 cent]. It is this $40,400,- | these “mill colonos” who rent their |000 allotted to the sugar companies |!and from the Central and are bound which constitutes the much hailed | bY contrac! to it (by contract and “liberal” feature of the reciprocity | bY oppressive debts). The cane of The Cleveland A. F. of L. Mem- bers League for Unemployment In- surance has asked for a detailed re- port on the National Congress for Unemloyment Insurance. It has called all of its local union dele- gates for a special meeting to be held here on Friday, Jan. 25, at the Painters District Council Hall, 2030 Euclid Avenue. At this meeting the plan to umite all the forces in Onio behind the fight for genuine unem- ployment insurance will be intro- duced. | Language Groups to Meet The Ohio Asso: on for Unem- ployment Insurance: through its Bohemian section, has called a mass meeting of its total membership of 140 branches in Cleveland to hear | a report on the Washington Con- gress this Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock, Jan. 18, at the Bohemian National Home at East Forty-ninth Street and Broadway Avenue. The Italien United Front for Un- employment Insurance involving some 60 lodges of Sons of Italy and other fraternal groups have called | a broad conierence for Sunday, Jan. 20, to hear a detailed report on the Washington Congress and work | out plans to broaden the movement | for the Workers Bill H. R. 2827. | Church Groups Visited The St. Stannlaus Polish Catholic Church of Cleveland, with a mem- hgrship of over 10,000 and reported to be the largest in the country, heard a report on the Washington | Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance, Sunday, Jan. 13. The priest of the Church appealed to its mem- bership to attend and listen to the Expenditures for | record set by the | position have of late taken on an; treaty, the independent colonos, those who! report Approximately 400 were LMS: " 2 sit own land and present | The Cuban sugar workers, are, of LON cent see theit on pes ‘ soning tie willing to see. their | Of those “mill colonos” whose con-| In agreement with the Church bosses pocket this amount while | *#cts offer less advantage to the! officials the Congress delegates plan | |they suffer semi-slave conditions, | CO™Panies, will be left for the last, to report to cvery Polish church in| They are steadily preparing their \forces to fight for wage increases md the eight-hour day. The workers’ demands will be based on the $40.000,000 reciprocity boodle and the increased cost of | living, which has resulted from the depreciation of Cuba's silver cur- rency They are determined that htful conditions of last year’s zafra shall not be repeated. Work- ing 12 to 24 hours a day, a cane cut- ter was hardly able to average 50- 60 cents a day and in some places, the average wage of two and three years—30 cents a day—was brought back again. The minimum wage demanded | during the last harvest was $1 a day, which athough it is low} enough, cannot compare with the miserable wages they “earned.” This, together with the usurious prices in the company stores, reduced the sugar workers to such a state of pauperization as would have been | his even if he had never worked at all, | | With the low quota fixed and the | Jack of a rise in the price of sugar | as their excuse, the companies will | attempt to further rationalize pros! duction at the expense of the pro-| ducers and will develop as their policy, the concentration and lim-| itation of production to those mills | which can produce most profitably. | This concentration will have the| | immediate effect of throwing out of | (work tens of thousands of sugar workers. Out of a total of 152 con- trals, 31 did not grind at all last year, | Already therc is activity and | struggle among ‘he sugar workers | land, if it can find a buyer at ail, will be forced to sell at the very lewest returns. Th2 Colonos Asso- | ciation is develcping a wide cam- paign at present against the milling of administration cane before that of the independent colonos. The SNOIA supports the demand of the colonos for an increase in the re- turn which the companies give them for their cane. They; demand that the colonos be given no less than 7 arrobas of sugar for every 100 arrobas of cane as opposed to the 3, 4 and 5 arrobas which they | have been getting up till now. (The colonos is paid for his cane in a Part of its equivalent in sugar. An arroba is a measure of sugar equal to 25 pounds.) American workers and farmers must rally in support of the Cuban workers and peasants in th. coming struggles! The conditions of the Cuban toilers are intimately tied up with the mis tuatici. of the American wor masses. bo: and bankers who hold Cuba in their iron, imperialistic grip are the same bosses and bankers who have forced the N.R.A. on th> Amer- ican workers, wro have reduced re- lief budgets, who have shot down striking farmers and workers. The employers who oppress the Cuban masses, and the government which shoots them down are linked with the same rich parasites who kill American strikers and force lower living conditions on the Amer- ican toilers. Every battle of the Cuban workers for better living conditions, against Wall Stre: pression, is th> fizht of the w in the U. 8, We must be ready to come to the support of the Cuban Cleveland. | Several Negro churches have also asked for particulars and reports on the Washington Congress. The Cleveland Sponsoring Com-| mittee has worked out a plan to furnish speakers on the Washing- ton Congress to any organization or group who will apply through its office at 942 Prospect Avenues, Room 369-X, Cleveland. 300 Negro W orkers In Jersey Join In Scottsboro Protest | SALEM, N. J, Jan. 16.—Three : hundred Negro workers crowded the | Colored Elks Hall here in a Scotts- boro defense meeting, held under the joint auspices of the Cannery | and Agricultural Workers Union and the Unemployed Workers Union of Salem. Lester Carter, young Southern white worker who with Ruby Bates, exposed the Scottsboro frame-up during the Decatur trial, told of the frenzied drive of Alabama au- thorities to force them to give per- jured testimony against the boys. The assembled workers pledged their support to the united front mass fight led by the International Labor Defense for the lives and freedom of the boys. A new LL.D.) branch was organized to lead the | struggle here, with 20 persons es mediately filling out application blanks, The Progressive Negro League of Darby is holding 2 Scottsboro meet- | ing at the Baptist Church, 10th and | Summit Street, Darby, this Friday ; “Whirlwind” Larson Showers “Daily” Office With Subscriptions Sweeps Windy City in Gale of Activity Sending Page 3 * [Farm Groups In Minnesota Demand Reliet 300 Attend Regional Mass Meeting in 3 Aitkin Flurry of Blanks for New Readers East and Sends Challenge to Hammersmark pape iia) thr red farmers answered th SA5hC. CeO EIA call of the united front County- His name will soon be “Whirlwind” Larson! Wide Relief Conference and ate- He is the mightiest Shock Brigader of them all—so far! [ended a mass meeting here, last 1 Any : ‘ week, in the County Court Less than two weeks of the subscription drive have readlti~ passed, but Larson—A. A. Larson, of Section 4 of the Com- State of munist Party, in Chicago—has already sent in 21 subscrip- tions in the contest for a free trip® to the Soviet Union cition, in the Twelve of them have come in the Into the repor la‘cst batch! Ten of them are yearly subscrip- tions! subscription s from the Chicago sector are already creeping notes of tory when the subscription con- | test is mentioned. | The Daily Worker waits to hear the answer of the other Shock Brigaders in the country! We wait to see the action of the other dis- tricts in building up the subscrip- drive isits Workers Regularly “I secured these subs,” he statrs, | s a result of visiting people | regularly with the Daily Worker. | Now they want to subser’be.” te action to ree the drouth-stricken area Representatives of the Farm Bue the United Farmers’ League the Farmers’ Holiday Associa- were part of the conference alled the farmers together, to ler action to force relief for the farmers and to get feed to save jthe livestock that are starving by hundreds here Charles E. Taylor addressed the reau and tion To Sam Hammersmark, of the! tion contest! meeting, pointing out the need for Workers Bookstore, he issues a So- Prizes Are Incentives human relief as well as that of get- cialist challenge in the contest. To spend May Day in the Soviet | ting hay feed for the starving Shock Brigader Hammersmark is, Union, to watch the millions of|c@ttle. He brought out clearly the well known for his prowess In dis-| happy workers in the country of|¢rime of the officials, who are al- tributing revolutionary literature by | victorious Socialism marching down | owing people and livestock to die Personal contact But now he is far behind Larson in the subscription contest. He is listed for only one yearly subscrip- tion on the same blank which brings in the latest twelve orders from Larson. the Red Square in Moscow, hailing Stalin and the other leaders of the Russian re’ ion, is an experience that every worker should strive to win. This prize and nine ott can be won by applying onese! tively to the task of securing sub- scriptions. The second prize is a month in An Easy Winner? Will Larson walk away with the while the’ prepare Jers received his speech with thun- derous applause and an invitation Was sent to the local officials to come and state their position on the question of relief. During the interval discussion was carried on from the floor and when first prize? any workers’ camp, or $50 in cash,|the county officials took the plat- Chicago is already patting itself Workers, become Shock Bri- | 107M se ere we cee ne bees on the back for possessing him. gaders! Join the great Daily bi See » r ic of a ae Having already formally chal-| Worker subscription contest! Win | CU Officials produced cori lenged Cleveland, Chicago is out to beat Pittsburgh and Detroit, in ad- Jersey City Meeting Will Hear Full Reports On Workers’ Bill Fight JERSEY City, N. J., Jan. 16.—The Jersey City Continua- tion Committee for Unemployment and Social Insurance yes- terday announced completion of plans for holding a huge mass meeting here Friday evening. The meeting is to be held in the main auditorium at the Polish Community Center, 353 Grove Streets corner of Bay Street, and will be addressed by four of the delegates to the National Con- gress for Unemplovment and Social Insurance, a prize and help build the Daily Worker. /orkers’ Bill Receives SweepingLaborSupport In Mid-Western City WALLACE, Idaho, Jan. 16.—The Wallace Trades and Central Labor Council here, and the Legislation Committee of the American Federa- tion of Labor in Shoshone County have endorsed the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill H. R. 2827. Local unions that have recently endorsed the Workers Bill by sep- The Continuation Committee also announced that it had extended an invitation to Congressman Ernest Lundeen, Farmer-Labor Part} Minnesota, to address Priday night's mass meeting in Jersey City. It was Lundeen who presented the Workers’ Unemployment and Social |Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, on the |opening day to the 74th United pars ‘Congress: | arate action are: Kellogg local 18; Thousands of leaflets advertising | Burk local 10 and Mullan local 9 the mass meeting are being dis- | . tributed to trade unions, fraternal|f the Mine, Mill and Smelter organizations, unemployed leagues | Workers International Union. and other mass organizations in | spondence that had been carried on | between them and the state relief officials, showing that they had at- tempted to get Aitkin County rece |ognized as a primary drouth area | but had been refused or ignored by | the state officials. Governor Floyd B. Olson, Con- gressman Harold Knutson and Congressman Magnus Johnson had {all been invited to attend the meet- jing, but Olson and Knutson sent | their regrets, while Johnson did not even reply. A telegram was sent to the Governor demanding that he declare an embargo on the ship- ment of hay out of Aitkin County juntil the needs of the resident |farmers have been met, and that |he declare the county as a primary drouth area so that necessary feed can be secured out of Federal ap- Ppropriations. Mrs. Fred Natus of Lawler and L. P. Jénsen of Giese, both of whom were active in organizing the meet- ing, took the floor time after time to expose the inadequate reliéf that was being distributed, and have been in the foréfront of the strug gle of the farmers’at all times. Mrs, Natus, without, telephone or car, or- ganized six township\.meetings and went on foot to attend them. The meeting ended ‘with the farmers more determined than ever to force the relief officials ¥o_1 ognize their demands and to cal the word back to their respecti townships. For readers who cannot take a yearly subscription to the Daily | Worker, there is the Saturday sub, 52 issues. Become one of the | New readers during the Daily Worker circulation campaign! Hudson County. The committee in charge of publicity has also directed an appeal to unorganized workers, | as well as to teachers, doctors, den- | tists and other professionals. It is expected that this mass meeting will be one of the largest ever heid in Jersey City and preparations are being made for an overflow crowd. Speakers will be Jack Rose, of Newark, presiding as chairman; Gregor McKenzie, Frank Stanley, Dick Stanton, Jr., Socialist, and Leslie R. Hurt. McKenzie, Stanley, Stanton and Hurt were deegates to the National Congress for Jersey City. Hurt was on the delegation of six that called at the White House. Gregor McKenzie headed the delegation that called upon Congressman Mary T. Norton, N. J. Miss Norton told the delegation she would not give her support to the Workers’ Bili, but would follow the Presi A recent news item in the Jj Observer creates the im- SPEAKERS: EARL BROWDER General Secretary C. P. U.S. A. Manning Johnson Chorus of tralto @ PHILADELPHJA, PA. 7 MEMORIAL MEETING Friday, January 18, 1935 ARENA, 45th and Market St: Nationally known Negro Labor leader 200 voices @ Dance Group @ Madam Sue Smith McDonald, Negro con- Pulger’s Red Popply Orchestra Adm.: Reserved cea! $1 & 75¢.-General Adm.: 35c.-Unemployed Lic. Trial, is now a member of the | jand colenes (peasants) to force | workers, to help them win their these mills to grind during this| strikes and revolutionary battles harvest. Such truggles almost in-/ against ¢ :r comraon enemy. | Reichstag Trial Hero Urges Fight Against Bulgarian Terror By BLAGOI POPOV |have particularly attracted notice) the Plovdiv tria. were publicly ex-, ' because of their anti-fascist and|ecuted in the city of Haskovo. The Government has publicly executed evening, with Carter and William | pression thet, in a letter to a Hud- Powell, district field organizer of the son County unemployed organiza- LL.D., as the main speakers, | tion, she favors the Workers’ Bill. Barbusse Browder Dunne Gold Hathaway Hughes Lamont North CHAPTER. FOREWORDS by Borisevygrad.—Against ninety anti- | fascists. Thus we learn that the banned Workers Youth League and the | strike struggles, have been subjected | | to a regime of terror. In a period of three months over 809 persons, | among them many soldiers, have| been arrested. The arrests may be | divided into three groups. There are about 109 persons in the first group: children of 13-17 years of| the six soldiers sentenced to death, two in the city of Plovdiv, two in Stara Zagora, and two in Haskovo. It hopes to even more intimidate the tie anti-fascist and 4n! ir masses of these cities. Death Sentence Passed Svilengrad. — Against fifty-seven anti-fascists. Village of Dalkoki (in the Stara Zagora region).—Against sixty anti- fascist peasants. Pleven.—Against seventy. Lovech.—Against thirty anti-fes- cists. | tess demonstrations have been car- Persons, among them 175 soldiers, age and 15 men and women, among| These conditions have been ex-| Varna-Russe. — Against twenty were arrested in the city of Has-| them many anti-fascist intellectuals | isting for the last three months in | anti-fascists of both cities. kovo. such as Doctor Tatarov. In the sec-| Haskovo. But only after a long, Besides this there are daily re- | The aims < the Bulgarian Goy- | ond group there are about 350 per-/ silence does the government “ex- | ports of new mass arrests. Recently ernment in spreading this terroristic sons, chiefly tobacco workers, who pose” this supposed “Communist | over 100 students and 150 railroad report are very transparent. The | are imprisoned i1 a tobacco factory | plot.” In other words, the military workers in Sophia were arrested on | hangmen government of Sophia’ because the prisons are overcrowded. and legal authorities needed more | suspicion of being Communists. needs a justification for executing |The third group of about 200 peo- | than three months in order to fab-! There are also an increasing num- | | the six anti-fascist soldiers of Plov- | ple, chiefly soldiers, are imprisoned ricate the desire@, “documents,” the | ber of sentenced revolutionaries who | div, for whose Telease numerous | in barracks under the most severe “plan for an arnied uprising.” | have supposedly “fled.” In order to_ anti-fascist organizations, revolu-| supervision of officer-guards. Sev-| The trials of anti-fascist soldiers | cover the murders the government | tionary as well as pacifict, with mil-| eral pajsoners of the last group and | and anti-war elements are still go- | press publishes reports on the find- lions of members, as well as prom- | the tobacco workers, Trajko, Chris- j ing on. On December 14th sentence | ing of headless human bodies as) inent personalities in France, En-| tov — a member of parliament, two of one to twelve years’ imprison- | well as human heads. This is proved gland, and all other countries have non-commissioned officers, two sol-| ment were passed on forty anti-fas-| by a case in the Plovdiv region. | fought. The blood-stained King/diers, and two workers have been | cist and twenty-five soldiers of the | Despite the horrible terror and the} Boris and the Prime Minister of! murdered. The bodies of the mur-| city of Stara Zagora. | tortures the workers of Bulgaria will | Bulgaria, Lord Kimon Georgiev. | dered were not turned over to their! On December 13th there began | not giv up Jheir anti-fascist and want to depict themselves as the families, They were buried in the| before the military court of Has- | anti-war struggle. This they have | “victims” of the “exposed plot”) prison courtyard in order to keep kovo a trial of thirty-eight people.| shown in their long determined which had planned an attack upon | secret their torture and their bestial | chiefly soldiers. The prosecutor has | struggle which they have unceas- _ their lives. murder. Thus the arrested women | demanded. sixteen death sentences. | ingly carried on since June 9, 1923, Cites Terror ‘e | were raped in the presence of their) Other political mass trials are | the day of the first military-fascist What actually happened in the husbands and comrades. In order | still in p .ccss or are coming up| coup d’etct in Bulgaria. | city as Haskovo—the “center” of| to intimidate the prisoners and to soon, fov example in: | The Red Aid of Bulgaria is mak- | this supposed plot? | obtain from them the desired con-| Sephia—Against forty workers,| ing tie very greatest efforts to or- | The city of Haskovo has been cut fecsions as well as to still further among them editors of the revolu-| ganize the legal and mass defense of from the outside werld for sev- terrorize the inhabitants of the cit: tionary workers’ press. of the accused, to save thoze sen- eral months. The inhabitants of! on the 8th of December two soldic: Novesccltsi (Sophia region). — | tenced to death and to aid the ot ‘the city, chiefly tobacco workers who! who had been sentenced to death in Against twenty five anti-fascists, tured and their families, | ried out in many cities and villages | racks. Peasant Youth League, the largest and most influential youth leagues of Bulgaria have proclaimed a united front and have published a joint appeal for united anti-fascist struggle. Despite bloody police attacks, pro- DELUXE EDITIO HUN in Bulgaria. In Haskovo the wo- men, mothers and sisters of the murdered and indicted soldiers and other prisoners organized a stormy demonstration in front of the bar- This demonstration could only be broken up by arms. The workers of Bulgaria have also not forgotten their persecuted bro- thers in Spain. Thus from the 10th to the 16th of December they organ- ized a Solidarity Week for the vic- tims of Spanish Fascism. Only through the mighty develop- ment of an international protes: movement will it be possible to save the anti-fascist soldiers, sailors and anti-war fighters in Bulgaria more than 100 of whom have been sen- tenced to death, and to free all im- prisened anti-fascists. | Just as we, the accused in the Leipzig trial with George Dimitroff, the great anti-fascist fighter and leader at the head. have been saved by a great international anti-fascist struggle, so the victims of blood- ained Bulgarian fascism can and must be saved, REV Limited! so Orders are now POSTPAID Strachey Waldman Young GER ond OLT: Cartoons by BURCK Autographed! being taken—Ready February 1. ONLY 100 COPIES AVAILABLE! Ce ee