The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1935, Page 2

tne jin full by the Committee's report. fy i, 2 By *ary of Agriculture Wallace, Page 2 Southern Labor Heads To Meet on Georgia Troop Terror TEAR AND HUNGER INCREASED DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935 NAUSEA Provide Hunger GASES ARE HURLED Poles For Aged AT MILL § ATLANTA, Ga., Jan, 18—Aroused against the use of| troops in the Ro of L. labor offici called, for Saturday and Sund. George Googe, chairman ganization Committee of the South, declared that the conference will launch a most “vigorous drive to haye Southern representatives in Congress vote for social security bills.” Whether any concrete steps will be taken in face of the present terror against the unions, was not made known. Tear gas and nausea gas bombs Were used against strikers today by Special deputies brought in to re-/ Place the National Guardsmen at the Richmond Hosiery Mill today, when pickets masssed to prevent | the night shift of scabs from going into the mill, During the hearing before Judge Underwood, many testified that strikers had not committed a single act of violence. Governor Talmadge, who claimed that the martial law proclamation of last summer was not yet revoked, and: therefore he Was justified in sending troops, wrote to the judge that “release of the Strikers will be disastrous and lead to rioting and bloodshed.” Three automobiles carrying strike- breakers to the Daisy Mill, one of four plants of the Richmond Hosiery Mills on strike, were fired upon from ambush yesterday. It was not learned who fired upon them, but the automobiles turned back. The militia has been withdrawn forthe present, but the sheriff is endeavoring to stop mass picketing. The workers are especially incensed at the way the National Guard was used to place a large number of strikebreakers in the Rossville Mill before its task was considered fin- ished. An hour after the departure of the militia a brick was hurled through a window of the Rossville mill. Cabinet Sired Wagner Bill (Continued from Page 1) when unemployed come under the scope of the administration’s plans, the committee report recommends that “extended cash benefits seem to us far less desirable than work benefits.” The committee recom- mended that after an employee “has exhausted his contractual Tights,” he be placed on the lists as entitled to work relief when and if such work relief is available. The entire plan is suggested as “frankly experimental.” The ‘Works Program” The present army of unemployed will be accorded work relief under the plans of the Roosevelt adminis- tration. The outlines of this plan have already been given by Federal Relief Administrator Harry L, Hopkins. Wages are to be at rates lower than in private industry, and the full meaning of this can be seen in th recent abandonment of the 30- cent an hour minimum rates on the Telief projects. Although unem- ployment estimates run from the A. P. of L. estimate of 11,459,00 to the Pen and Hammer survey of Nearly 15,000,000, this works project ds drafted to give jobs to not more than 3,000,000. “We regard work as preferable to other forms of relief where pos- sible,” the report states. “While we favor unemployment compensation in cash, we believe that it should be provided for limited periods on a contractual basis and without gov- | ernmental subsidies. Public funds | Should be devoted to providing work, rather than to introduce a re- lief element into what should be | strictly an insurance system.” Here is contained the kernel of the new “work division” set up of the FERA—jobs at less than wages im private employment for only a limited time and the total abolition of Federal aid to local relief. Federal Relief To End Further on the report states that “it would be desirable to extend Federal loans at low rates of in- terest to States and local govern- ments for employment purposes. To the bankrupt cities and States with their antiquated welfare laws, this Means a complete withdrawal of | Federal aid from the field of relief. | “Unemployables,” that vast army Of destitute sick, aged and otherwise | incapacitated groups of workers | ‘who have been abandoned accord- | ing to the announced policy of the Federal government, are dumped onto to bankrupt municipalities. starvation policy is condoned “Unemployables” Abandoned i 2In forty-three State legislatures will “have met and adjourned, most of | them without any provision for | these “unemployable” destitute workers. | One lady and four old gentlemen Who have never known hunger sub- mitted the report. They are Secre- | tary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Attorney-General Cummings, Secre- all embers of the Roosevelt Cabinet, FERA Director Hopkins. | © TRIKER le hosiery strike, a conference of A, F.| Is of fourteen Southern States has been lay at Nashville, Tenn. of the A. F. of L, Labor Or- Kidnap Trial Evades Real Issues (Continued from Page 1) Langer was only a worker. Scores of them are murdered every year. One more or less didn’t perturb the Attorney General of the State of New Jersey. A Publicized Trial The alleged murderer of the mil- lionaire’s baby is on trial here to- day. Hundreds of representatives of the capitalist press have focused the eyes of the world on this small county seat, with its 2,000 inhabi- tants, as the defendant, an adher- ant of the murderous Hitler, lis- | tens to the verbal pillow-tossing of opposing lawyers. The Nazi's lawyer is Edward J. Reilly, a lieutenant commender in the U. S. Navy, a former Secret | Service agent of the United States |government, who numbers among his clients the fascist Art Smith, Khaki Shirt leader, Augie Pisano, accomplished mur- derer and all-around gangster of |Brooklyn. Reilly has defended more than 1,000 murderers, none | of them poor. The Nazi’s prosecutor is Attorney General Arthur Wilentz, a lackey |of Frank Hague, one of the most |notorious of the American political |hi-jackers, who differ from the Al |Capones only because they commit |their thieveries with the open aid of the police instead of with their | seeret connivance. | Why the Publicity In the minds of both the defense |and prosecution attorneys the fate of the Nazi defendant is unimpor- tant to the main purposes of the trial, which are: to use the proceed- jings as a distraction to the millions of Americans who are desperately |fighting starvation; to shield the name of the popular super-sales- man of imperialism from the scandal that is deeply imbedded in | the murder of his child; to keep jisden the evidence which proves that the Nazis have gathered their |forces to free their colleague; and to provide the capitalist newspapers |with a relatively inexpensive meth- od of increasing their circulation. The proceedings of any of the jeourt. sessions here are relatively jinsignificant to these primary ob- | jectives, No one doubts any longer | that the Nazi was connected with |the kidnapping—one only wonders | who is guilty with him. One can jlearn nothing at the trial except |that both defense and prosecution jare trying to hide the defendant’s jaccomplices. Not a day passes | without some revelation that the opposing attorneys are indulging in a staged-wrestling match in which the only loser will be the workers who will not be able to get an in- sight into the events behind the scenes, | Today's disclosure had to do with |the establishment of the corpus jdelicti. It was necessary for | Wilentz to prove that the body |found in a shallow grave near the |Lindbergh home was really the | body of the aviator’s child and not | the body of some other child that |had been placed there to hide the whereabouts of the child who was alleged to have been murdered. If Wilentz couldn't prove the body found in the grave was the body of the Lindbergh baby his legal case against Hauptmann would col- lapse. The Question of the Body But Reilly isn’t permitting Wilentz to be overcome by the diffi- culties of proving that the body is the body of the Lindbergh baby, although only last week he threw a figurative bomb into the prose- cution’s camp by proving that the body found in the grave was two inches longer than that of the Lindbergh child. When Reilly's as- sistants begin to press the State's witnesses by hinting broadly that | the body found in the grave is ac- tually the body of a child that had | been incarcerated in a nearby orphan asylum, Reilly instructs them to drop the point. He is content, he says, that the State’s witnesses are truthful. Bu his chief assistant, C. Lloyd Fisher, is not content. When Reilly makes his log-rolling move, Fisher, in a white rage, grasps his overcoat, almost runs out of the court-room and doesn't return until the Nazi de- fendant, losing control of himself ‘the intervening period, about |for a moment, calls a State witness|the only correct means to a liar and then pleads to be com- forted by his hot-headed junior at- torney. And what about the hole in the baby’s skull which the County physician said looked as if it had been made by a bullet when he saw it the day the hody was found? He never said it was a bullet hole, he protested: “It merely looked like a bullet hole,” This trial merely looks insane. Actually it is a typical trial in a capitalist court with the principals |only slightly exaggerated for pur-|tive in the recent strikes, those poses of emphasis. | ment, Old Age and Social Insurance | and Little | (Continued from Page 1) Wagner declared, “the bill rec- |ognizes that, because of divergent business problems in different sec- of the country, each state should be free to enact | employment insurance law.” Thus, no employer contribution is ne essary, thereby leaving the way | open for the managements to get their legislatures to pass no unem- ployment insurance statutes and take out the federal tax through higher prices and lower wages. | Concerning the time during which unemployment “benefits” are to be paid under any bill, there is noth- ing in the Wagner proposal which | would prevent employers from pay- | ing benefits for only one day or | one week. | | The victory of the bankers’ and | | industrialists’ United States Cham- | ber of Commerce and the violently | anti-union National Association of | |Manufacturers jn dictating the | {dumping of even a vestige of genu- | jine unemployment insurance into |the ocean serves to emphasize the | merits of the Workers Unemploy- | | tions Bill, now H. R. 2827. The Workers Bill, which was recently endorsed | by Representative William P. Con- | nery, Jr., Chairman of the House | Labor Committee and has the back- ing of about 2,500 A. F. of L. bodies, remains the only genuine unem- | ployment measure introduced in| Congress. The Workers Bill would give un- | | employment insurance to “‘all work- ers and farmers above 18 years of age, who are unemployed through |no fault of their own.” The Wag- jner Bill would exclude all the present unemployed. The Workers Bill would pay compensation equal | to “average local wages” which in |no case would be less than $10 a week plus $3 for each dependent while the Wagner Bill guarantees no payment. The Workers Bill would provide the money for the |payment of unemployment in- |surance, at the expense mainly of |the employer class through taxes jon gifts and inheritance and taxes }on annual individual and corpora- jand Roosevelt propose a measure ployees. The Wagner Bill would be | administered by the Labor Depart- | |ment, one of the employers’ most | jeffective anti-strike organs. The | Workers’ Bill would allow the |Secretary of Labor to “prescribe | rules and regulations” but only in “conformity with the purposes and provisions of this Act, through un- |employment insurance commissions directly elected by members of workers’ and farmers’ organiza- | tions.” As for sickness, old age, mater- nity, industrial injury or any other disability, the Workers Bill would provide compensation equal to that provided for during periods of un- employment. Under the Wagner Bill, “an employer contributes the same amount as his employees,” to quote Wagner. Under the Workers Bill women are to be paid compen- sation during the eight weeks be- fore and after childbirth. The Wagner Bill provides a mere $20,000 for each state to do with as it sees fit. No mother is guaranteed any- thing. : Wagner's “national system of; compulsory contributory old age | pensions” provides for eligibility at | the age of 65 if “taxes have been | paid in his behalf for at least 200) weeks over a 5 year period com- mencing before he is 60” if he is “no longer gainfully employed by an- other.” The pension “is 15 per cent | of his average monthly wage if| taxes were paid in his behalf for 200 weeks...” Nevertheless, Senator Wagner would have the workers and farmers believe, “If one contrasts the Economic Security Bill with the public apathy toward the unfor- tunate that predominated a few years ago, he finds it hard to realize that he is still living in the same | PUZZLE—FIND THE FRIEND OF HITLER o d .: op) 2 2) LOOKING FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLAIN OF NAZI TERROR—From Pravda, organ of the Communist Party of the U.8.S.R. Will Heed The American Workers Lenin--- Not Hearst,” Says Foster Veteran American Revolutionary Terms Lenin “The Greatest Man of Our Time”—Cites Lenin’s Lessons on Trade Unions William Z. Foster was one of the first leaders of the Revolution. tion incomes above $5,000. Wagner | American labor movement to greet Lenin after the Russian| n Consistently and courageouely Foster has up- | Which allows taxes on the em-| held the policies of Lenin in the United States. “Bill,” what have you got to say on the eleventh anni- | versary of the death of Lenin?” he > was asked. The answer was careful, confi- dent. Lenin meant too much to William Z. Foster for a snap opin- ion. “Lenin was the greatest man of our time,” he said thoughtfully. He suddenly sat up sharp. (He had been resting on a couch in his mod- est apartment in the Bronx. Cor- onary thrombosis doesn’t permit a man to be too active.) “The contributions of Lenin to the science of proletarian revolu- tion will live long after the lies of Hearst, along with Hearst, are swept into the garbage heap of history by the iron broom of the American pro- letarian revolution,” he said. “The American workers will heed Lenin — not Hearst. Particularly will they learn from Lenin how to fight the trade union bureaucrats, Bill Green, Matty Woll and Com- Pany, these cancers on the body corporate of labor. “Eleven years after Lenin died Leninism lives and grows,” Foster continued. “His monuments are everywhere—the wsing structure of the socialist fortress, the Soviet Union, the heroic underground work of the Communist Party of Ger- many, the united front of Socialists and Communists in France, the growing Communist influence in every country.” Foster leaned back—a bit tired. He closed his eyes in thought. Per- haps he was recalling his first visit to the beleaguered Soviet Russia in the first few years after the Revo- lution and his talks with Lenin and the wise, patient words of ad- vice that Lenin had spoken on the American labor movement... . Framed Trial Of 18 Begins (Continued from Page 1) Party, but explained the arrests with the ridiculous statement that the Communists “were about to overthrow the government.” This, despite his subsequent admission that the Communists had no arms. Fred Russ and Ray Kunz of the police “Red Squad” also admitted they had no warrants for the ar- rests they made. Communist Literature Read world.” A copy of the program of the program of the Communist Interna- tional, seized during the vigilante- police raids on the Workers School, was identified by the prosecution, which read short distorted excerpts from it. At the opening of the trial, the court refused to accept a bail bond for the release of Norah Conklin, because the bond was signed by Anita Whitney, whom the court called a fugitive from justice follow- ing the issuance of warrant for her arrest in connection with an elec- tion petition frame-up. Whitney, a candidate in the last elections, Polled over 80,000 votes. The court also denied an inter- preter for Lee Hung, one of the Chinese defendants who speaks very little English. ‘Fight Is Urged | For Workers’ Bill (Continued from Page 1) legislation beneficial to them,” Lun- deen agreed. “The Roosevelt administration’s Wagner-Lewis ‘Economic Security Bill,’ like so many of the New Deal measures, provides added security| only for the bankers and industrial- ists who are firmly opposed to the Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age, and Social Insurance Bill” said Lun- deen in beginning the interview. He continued, enthusiastically: “members of Congress are already hearing from the friends and sup- porters of the thousands of work- ers, farmer, intellectual and profes- sional delegates who rallied around the Workers’ Bill at the National Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance. This combined protest against the Wagner-Lewis Bill and the de- mand for the Workers’ Bill must be sustained. The demands for sup- port of the Workers’ Bill must roll into the offices of the members of Congress like a mighty wave. Then you'll see results. You know Con- gressmen pay close attention to their mail.” Connery Support Significant “Of course, you know that Chair- man Connery of the House Labor Committee has come out for the Workers’ Bill,” the interviewer in- formed Lundeen. “The support of Chairman Con- nery is very significant,” he replied, adding, “growing Congressional sup- port will show the workers and poor farmers that only by mass action will they get legislation beneficial to them. Otherwise they'll get what they have gotten in the past two years—more Roosevelt smiles and more flowery Roosevelt speeches about the ‘new order of things,’ the ‘more abundant life, and the ‘American plan for the American people’ while the blue eable bank- ers and industrialists will continue in power.” “Now, Mr. Lundeen, concerning this talk about the ‘American plan,’ isn‘t the Workers’ Bill American?” “If it isn’t American to support a bill demanded by millions of half- starving and hard-working Ameri- can workers end farmers who make | the wheels go ‘round, then I'd like to know what is American,” Lun- deen shot back warmly. “Is it American for the Wagner- Lewis Bill to pass the buck on un-| employment insurance to the States?” “T should say not,” Lundeen an- swered quickly. “The only way the workers and farmers of this coun- try will get real unemployment in- surance is to make the Federal government and the employers guarantee it instead of spending more money for bombs, warships and airplanes.” Shortcomings of New Deal Bill “What are the shortcomings of the New Deal Wagner-Lewis Bill?” “In the first place, the Wagner- Lewis Bill ignores the great mass of those now unemployed. Second, besides proposing no unemployment. insurance, it recommends a payroll tax which will come from the pockets of the workers and farmers and which in any event can’t be- come effective until 1936, Third, it permits the States to enact any kind of bill, for any period of time they see fit to adopt—or no bill at all. The Workers’ Bill provides a minimum of $10 a week and $3 to each dependent for the entire period of unemployment without any de- lay.” “How about the administration of the two bills?” “You know, that’s one of the Places where the Roosevelt admin- istration bill gives itself away,” Lundeen chuckled. “How?” “Why, by giving the administra- tion of the bill solely to the Depart- ment of Labor, a department which opposed militant labor during the crisis. Our bill, however, provides for workers’ and farmers’ co-admin- istration with the department of labor. And unlike the Wagner- Lewis Bill, it doesn’t provide for any Jarge salaries to officials for admin- istering something that isn’t unem- ployment insurance.” By Jay Anyan (Communist Party Organizer of Paterson, N. J.) In the recent elections of the two largest local unions of the A. F. of L. in Paterson, N. J., Green, Gorman |and Company and their local lieut- |enants, Eli Keller the Lovestoneite, and Anthony Ammirato the reac- tionary president of the dyers, were defeated. The large vote rolled up by the rank and file candidates is a | repudiation of the expulsion policy | directed by Green and his Paterson | agents. | The workers have shown that they | recognize the policy of struggle as | better living standards, and to strengthen the unions as a weapon against the besses. The rank and file victory in this important tex- tile center will also serve as a warn- ing to the National Textile Labor | Board, which is soon to report on |its findings, that the workers are |ready to renew their struggle for | the demands which caused the gen- jeral textile strike last summer, The | silk and dye workers have elected | such workers to take leadership as| | they have found to be the most ac- | agasnst N.R.A. arbitration schemes, Tasks for Textile Union Shown by Communists VICTORY POINTS WAY TO IMPROVED STANDARDS and bureaucratic control in the unions. In Local 1733 of the American Federation of Silk and Rayon Dyers, with few exceptions, the rank and file slate headed by Charles Vigor- ito, was elected. The slate consisted of those who since the 1933 strike when the union was established, have taken a leading part in build- ing it, and stood for unity with the National Textile Workers Union before it was merged into the UTW. The victory in the Plain Goods Department of Local 1716, American Federation of Silk Workers, and with the election of the entire slate of fifteen rank and file members win | by a three to one majority, consti- tutes a similar repudiation of the local agents of German and Mac- Mahon—the Lovestoneites headed by Eli Keller, and the reactionary supporters of the most conservative wing in the Socialist Party. It is a repudiation of their stand at the recent convention of the Federation and a determination not to accept @ wage cul, There is no doubt about the deter- mination of the workers to follow a line of militant action, The task now is to lose no time in putting in- to action the program uron which the new administrations have been elected. A summary of the issues which have held the attention of the membership in both unions dur- ing the recent period shows that the following should be incorporated in a program of action, and it Should be the duty of every Com- munist in Paterson and sympathize to put all energy behind it, Every shop must be made into a 100 per cent union shop, The shop chairman and shop committee should be chiefly responsible for leading a fighting policy in the shops. . In the dye shops it is to force the bosses to live up to the agreement. In the silk shops it is to put into effect the demands recently worked out in the convention of the Silk Federation. In the silk union it is apparent that this will necessitate the defeat of Keller and the others who are still in and will hinder such attempts in the shops. To initiate a broad educational program in both unions, train the active workers to take leadership in all union functions, and to give the workers such knowledge as will counteract the class collaboration ideology of the reactionaries. Lay special stress in drawing into union activity the unemployed, youth, and women, This should be especially through developing ac- tivities interesting to each and answering their needs. United action between the two locals should be developed, with the aim of establishing a united council. Such action has already been aproved at the recent convention of the silk workers. To fight against attempts of poli- ticians and lawyers who present themselves as friends of the work- ers, and organize the splendid united action which was displayed in the strikes into a campaign be- hind a united labor ticket in the coming elections. The accomplishment of these tasks will mean the raising of the standard of living of the Paterson workers and insuring a powerful labor movement. From the re- Sponse in the local elections it is evident that the workers are looking to the Communists in the unions for leadership. The Communists of Paterson realize their responsibility in this situation and will put forth every ounce of energy to make such @ program a reality, Furthermore many workers see how the Party leads in struggles and wins the con- fidence of the workers, and will join the Communist Party to help carry through the big advance. Win a Free Trip to the Soviet Union? AS JAPAN RUSHES. WAR PLANS IN 1935 Peasants Starving as Colossal Farm Debt Mounts; Sixty Thousand Peasant Girls Sold Into Prostitution in Year (Special to the Daily Worker) TOKYO, Jan. 18.—Acceleration in the preparations for war and terrible misery among the peasant population were Japan’s outstanding features for 1934. According to official statistics, the Japanese economic outlook is a rosy one. This official optimism is provoked by incredibly large profits Zinoviev, Kameney Get Prison Terms (Continued from Page 1) persons who in the course of many years repeatedly betrayed the in- terests of the party and hypocrit- ically repented only to resume afresh their struggles against the Soviet power. Now they are re- duced to a miserable bunch of rogues who long since became de- generate in their final ruin. They made fresh attempts but were caught, “We declare there cannot be mercy for those who put the revolver in the hands of the murderer of our dear Comrade Kirov.” The workers in the Lenin plant declared: Caught Red-Handed “Zinoviev and the other counter- revolutionaries were caught red~ handed and are beginning to re- pent. Now they will deceive no one any more. The “Moscow Center” cf the Zinoviev-Kamenev group is responsible for Kirov’s death to no less a degree than the ‘Leningrad Center’ whose hands are stained with the blood of our Comrade Ki- Tov.” The resolution of the workers of the Kirov plant, the former Red Putilov works, demand that the proletarian court apply the severest punishment to the bourgeois degen- erates who wrenched Comrade Kiroy out of the Leninist ranks. Professor Knippovitch, prominent scientist whose fiftieth anniversary of scientific activities is being celebrated throughout the entire Soviet republic, said, in one of his many meetings: “Long ago we experienced the ex- tremely heavy feeling for the great loss, and a feeling of great repulsion and indignation connected with the treacherous murder of Comrade Kirov, But still heavier is the con- sciousness that this is the work of persons who once belonged to the Party and betrayed it, and then repented, only to continue their dirty work, We know our duty and will fulfill it to the end. (Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Jan. 18( By Wireless) —Forced by the weight of the evi- dence to admit their crime against the working class, the Zinoviev, Kamenev and the other seventeen despicable counter - revolutionists tried with them deserve only the wrathful contempt of the whole working class, declared “Pravda,” central organ of the Communist Party here in an editorial today. “They were obliged to admit that the poison of the Zinoviev under- ground, counter-revolutionary cess- pool used white guard methods of struggle against the Soviet govern- ment. As a result, an open terrorist, frame of mind arose, was strength- ened, and resulted in the atrocious murder of our Comrade Kirov. “The culprits of this crime, which stirred not only the Soviet country, but the workingclass of the whole world, appeared before the prole- tarian court in all their loathsome nakedness. They are cursed by the toilers everywhere. ie the counter-revolutionary white guard emigres fascist hang- men applaud the Zinoviev dregs. It is not accidental that this miser- able, despicable heap of rouges in their struggle against the Party, against the Soviet government, against the collective farm system, against socialism, plunged into bloody white-guardism. Evdokimov Statement “Deadly” “The accused Evdokimov’s state- ment was more than enough to con- firm all the charges. Evdokimov's statement is deadly. “This document is deadly, not only for himself, but for-all his con- temptible companions in the dock. Their counter-revolutionary activi- ty did not cease a single moment. ‘The estimation of the decisive vic- tories of the Party and the Soviet government by the Zinoviev coun- ter-revolutionary group did not differ from the white-guardists and fascists. See Evdokimoy’s statement pub- lished in yesterday’s Daily Worker. “The members of the Zinoviev counter - revolutionary group con- sidered that the Party would en- counter insurmountable hinderances with collectivization and rejoiced beforehand. “We, equally, with the interna- tional counter-revolutionary black- guards waited for failures. We lived in hopes of these failures,” declared the acoused Evdokimov, “This group waited for failure, Then they knew there would be no failure, For this reason they were urged on by blind hatred and wrath against the Party leadership, against Stalin's genius, the con- tinuer of Lenin's work. Aided Enemies of U. S. 8. R. “The Zinoviey counter - revolu- ENTER THE DAILY WORKER SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST realized by the armaments and tex- tile industries which have profited by the inflationist “war revival.” But in spite of various measures, the trade balance has remained stationary, The exportation of gold reached a very high point owing to the extensive purchase of raw ma- terials from abroad and the devalu- ation of the yen. As Japanese exports depend on foreign raw materials, the policy of dumping and boom reflect an un- healthy economic situation and a heavy fall in the national revenue. The most important article for Jap- anese export, raw silk, lost many of its former markets, which caused a serious depression in Japanese ag- riculture. The bad rice harvest in fifteen districts of northern Japan makes the rice crop the worst in trenty years. The Japanese official- dom admits this frankly and in great consternation. Farmers Starve While waiting for the relief which never comes, farmers and their families are starving. Along the mountain passes across the center of Japan, along the single narrow-gauge track through the mountains, children beside tne trains begging for bread, for any kind of food. Vast regions have been brought to the verge of famine. Two mil- lion peasants are literally starv- ing. Sixty thousand peasant girls were soid in 1934 to houses of Prostitution and to various fac- tories, in order to pay something on the colossal tarmers’ debt, which amounts to 10 billion yen —$8,000,000,000, In spite of this the budgeted ex- Ppenditures for 1935 surpasses those of 1934. Friction between the lead- ing groups in Japan as to the budget ended in a compromise, giv- ing unheard-of advantages to the military concerns and leading to even greater chaos in public finance. Foreign policy has shown no ten= dency during the past year to aban~ don or even to abate Japanese ag- gression, The measures taken by the Japanese authorities in Man- churia are openly directed against the Soviet Union. Negotiations with the United States ended abruptly @s soon as Japan published her dec- laration on April 1, proclaiming China as her exclusive domain and refusing to allow the mixing of any other foreign powers in Chinese af- fairs. This polidy found its logical conclusion in Japan’s demand for naval parity, faced as she was with the unprecedented war preparations of American imperialism. Hence the denunciation of the unfavorable Washington Treaty. If one adds to this the breaking off of negotiations with the Soviet Union, the interminable maneuver- ing in regard to the Chinese Eastern Railway, the arrests of Soviet citi- zens in Manchuria, and constant incidents on the frontier provoked by the Japanese, Japan's foreign policy in 1934 bodes no good for the future. To any survey of Japan in 1934 must be added the fact which even the official press has not been able to conceal—that hardly a day passes that the discontent among the population does not make itself felt in some way or another, by means of strikes in armaments factories, Peasant attacks against the land- owners, disturbances among the students, and the growing strength of the Communist Party. A very significant fact is the growing num- ber of arrests for “political of- fenses.” The entire Japanese press affirms that the year 1934 was the year im- mediately preceding the “national crisis of 1935-36." Thus one sees the external and internal diffi- culties which Japanese imperialism has encountered—difficulties which reached the climax of the lull before the storm in 1934. Subscriptions are the backbone of the Daily Worker. Become a Daily Worker shock brigader. So- Meit for subs. tionary gang actively assisted the enemies of the U.S. 8, R. to prepare war against the Soviet Union. “The bandit fascist dogs raised their arms against our Comrade Kirov. They were educated and demoralized by the traitors and be- trayers of the Zinoviev counter- revolutionary gang. These traitors and betrayers covered themselves with Party cards and utilized the high title of the Party membership for their criminal anti-party aims. “Evdokimoy's statement convicts the whole criminal group. It nails them to the pillory of shame. “The circle of their crimes was completed, but the counter-revolu- Soar gang will not escape this “The curse of millions of work- ers have fallen upon this criminal gang, The whole country demanded severe punishment. The proletarian court will hear this voice, and wih take it into consideration in its sentences.” Se To