The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1935, Page 1

\\s¥stematic denial to Negro citizens of their constitutional right to sit 2 juries, Liar Hear Which Controls Newsin U.S. for | York American, the same bit | to newspapers in every corner Besides his newspaper ch: owns huge newsprint mills in| Canada. These mills supply all his poisonous publications with paper. | Hearst has real estate holdings in| practically every country in the world, In addition, he owns mines in California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Mexico. In Mexico, | especially, his mine interests are) tied up with the holdings of Mor- gan and Rockefeller concerns. Profit $80,000,000 In one year, Hearst’s business en- | terprises have netted him a profit | of eighty million dollars. He is the wealthiest of the capitalist prop- aganda mill owners. Hence, it is not surprising that Hearst should serve as Wall Street’s chief spokesman in the present intensive and nation- wide drive against the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. However, the papers receiving | their news from the Hearst services | are not the only ones involved in) the campaign against the militant workers and their organizations. EVERY CAPITALIST NEWS- PAPER IN AMERICA IS WORK- ING WITH HEARST. THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT EVERY CAPITALIST NEWS- | PAPER SERVES THE SAME WALL STREET GROUPS WITH WHICH HEARST IS ASSOCIATED. | Hearst’ sends his lies through Universal Service and International News Service. Bankers Run News Agencies About 1,600 other capitalist dailies receive their Wall Street propaganda | through the Associated Press and} the United Press. | The Associated Press is headed by | Frank P. Noyes, a director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- pany. Sitting with him on the board | and governing the policies of one of | the largest corporations in the world are representatives of Mor-} gan and Rockefeller concerns. These | Morgan and Rockefeller men all} work for their common interests. | THUS NOT ONLY DO THEY) DICTATE THE OPERATION OF) THE INSURANCE COMPANY BUT THEY ALSO INFLUENCE THE| TYPE OF NEWS DISSEMINATED THROUGH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. E { The same men act as directors of | other powerful Wall Street concerns. | $80,000,000 aY ear; Tie-Ups Exposed Owner of Immense Propaganda Ma- chine Biggest Agent of Wall Street, By JAMES CASEY (This is the sixth and concluding article of a series on Hearst.) Hearst sends his lies daily to more than two hundred | newspapers in the United States. For example, when Hearst prints a slanderous story about the Communist Party or the Soviet Union in his New| st Makes All Sources of Its Fascist Aims | | of journalistic filth is wired of the land. | ain and his two international | news distributing organizations, Hearst owns ten radio sta-| | tions, news reel services and five magazines, all of which he uses to promote Wall Street’s moves toward a fascist dic- tatorship in America. Hearst alsog$——H\——— The United Press is headed by Roy P. Howard. Several years ago, Howard was characterized by for- mer Ambassador Gerard as one of the sixty-three rulers of America. Howard is also the president of the “liberal” New York World-Telegram and through this and other news- Papers is an active member of the Morgan-Rockefeller saturated As-| sociated Press. | All of the four news services, joined by common interests—the strengthening of Wall Street rule—| always operate in closest harmony. WHEN, THEREFORE, HEARST CONDUCTS A VIGOROUS “HOLY | #2inst the oppression of their} CRUSADE” AGAINST THE COM- | country by the Japanese imperialist | MUNIST PARTY AND THE SO-} VIET UNION, HE REFLECTS THROUGH HIS SENSATIONAL METHODS THE WHOLE WALL| STREET NEWS CAMPAIGN THAT | Is FINDING LIGHT IN THE) COLUMNS OF EVERY CAPITAL- | IST NEWSPAPER IN THE LAND.! The issue here is plain—the same | interests join in the same drive to! tighten class rule. | | Capitalist Papers Lie 1 Under the circumstances, it is im~- | Possible for the readers of these} newspapers to learn through the | about the Communist Party or the) Soviet. Moreover, it is impossible | for these readers to learn the truth | about Wall Street’s program for) wage cuts, company unionism, de- | and imperialist war. | IT MUST BE STRESSED HERE | THAT THE SAME FINANCIAL! GROUPS THAT CONTROL THE) SPreading throughout the Japanese- | | CAPITALIST PRESS AND THE) Manchurian armies and all Japanese | | WASHINGTON ADMIN ISTRA~ | officers have been orderéd to keep TION ALSO CONTROL THE careful watch over the moods of | STATE LEGISLATURES. IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT | THE NEWSPAPER CAMPAIGNS | ARE ACCOMPANIED BY ACTION | IN THE LEGISLATIVE HALLS OF THE DIFFERENT STATES TO BAR THE COMMUNIST PARTY FROM THE BALLOT. The current terrific drive against the militant workers ‘has been launched after many vain efforts on the part of Wall Street bankers | (Continued on Page 2) Many Workers A call for further intensification | of protest against the invasion of Abyssinia by the Italian Fascist government was issued yesterday by Italian, Negro and other working class groups, under whose joint | auspices a “Hands Off Abyssinia | meeting” will be held on Sunday. The meeting will be in the New ®tar Casino, 107th Street, near | Park Avenue. | Speakers representifg many or- | ganizations, including the Commu- nist Party, will demand the imme- diate withdrawal of Italian troops | from Abyssinia and the cessation of | Italian and French plans for the| enslavement of the only indepen- In ‘Hands Off Abyssinia’ Rally Groups to Join dent nation in Africa. Preliminary meetings -were held Daily,.Q Worker | CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) NATIONAL EDITION Vol. XII, No. 40 7,000 REBELS JOINED BY 600 OF PURSUERS Tension Rises in Whole Japanese Command on Mainland SHANGHAI, Feb. 14 (By Cable). —Two thousand Manchurian sol- diers mutinied today at Sinchow, rebelling against vicious mistreat- ment by their Japanese officers and forces. The mutineers fire-trap barracks and in disciplined marching order entered a town on the border between Mukden Prov- ince and Jehol. A punitive expedi- tion of four thousand Japanese- Manchurian troops, accompanied by bombing planes, were sent against the mutineers, Of these, however, 600 immediately deserted to the rebels. The mutineers raised hurried | news stories or editorials the truth | fortifications, engaged in a fierce} struggle with enemy troops, and hurled them back to Sinchow. The | Japanese forces lost three officers | and 173 soldiers. The mutineers | nial of relief to the jobless, fascism | captured five light artillery guns, 20 machine guns, and 300 rifles. Nervousness and tension is Manchurian units under their com- mand, Soviet Envoy Hits Japanese Provocation (Special to the Daily Worker) TOKYO, Feb. 14 (By Cable). — Soviet Ambassador to Japan Yu- renev today delivered to the Jap- anese government a strong protest against the lying anti-Soviet speech made by Saito, Japanese Ambassa- | dor to the United States, at Chicago | on Feb. 9. Speaking at a meeting | of the Council for Foreign Political | Affairs, Ambassador Saito, among | other misstatements, declared that destroyed their | > % Manchuria Troops NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935 New York, N. ¥., un Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at der the Act of March 8, 1878 ee s — Militant | Striker of Local 32B 2,000 ARE STILL OUT Settle With Members | Workers Move to Reject Arbitration Board Decisions Despite the continued insistance yesterday of officials of the Building Service Employees International Union in disclaiming responsibility for the splendid strike of building service workers and a conscious ef- fort. on their part to discourage its spreading, the militancy of the workers on the job is growing. The strike action of the workers, taken in spite of the pleas of the Officials for patience pending the publication of the decision of the |arbitration board headed by Major Henry H. Curran, has already |brought settlement in numerous | | buildings affected. Win Union Recognition The strikers succeeded in forcing Sidney Bernstein, of the Kaye Realty Corporation, to settle with | the union on the basis of union rec- | lognition, the 48-hour week and |higher wages. This settlement in-| volved the seven skyscrapers owned | by the company in the Madison Square area, | Close to 80 buildings in Harlem | | settled with the union, according to | | David Ritchie, member of the Ex-| ecutive Board of the union, at the | | Harlem Center of the union, 200! West 135th Street, on the basis of adherence to the decision of the| arbitration board. While other owners were calling |the union for settlement, close to 2,000 workers were out late yester- | day, members of the union declared. i Owners Hiring Scabs Preparing for the possible spread- ing of the strike, realty owners were | | hiring scabs through numerous pri- | | vate agencies. Following the lead of Walter Gor- don Merritt, notorious openshop \lawyer hired by the Realty Board | |on Labor Relations for the arbitra- | tion proceedings, owners took the Position yesterday that the report | f the Curran board is not con- | sidered by them as binding, but) “merely advisory.” Enraged by the confidence in the in Harlem, in Italian working class | the imperialist drive by Japan into | 4¢cision of the board on the part neighborhoods and other parts of | Manchuria in 1931 was.‘‘a measure | the union officials, hundreds of the city yesterday afternoon and | of self-defense, because the U. S.;™Members of the union voiced the evening. A series of such meetings will be held between now and Sun- day. Speakers at Sunday’s meeting | will include Tom De Fazio and_| Joseph Magliacano of the Italian — Bureau of the Communist Party. | James W. Ford of the Central Com- | Portsmouth Treaty, since the inva- Wednesday night James J. Bam- mittee, Communist Party, and Harry | Gannes of the Daily Worker staff. | Richard B. Moore, National Field | Organizer of the International La- bor Defense, will act as chairman. | Hearing Today On Scottsboro (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Argu- ments in the cases of Clarence Nor- ris and Heywood Patterson, Scotts- boro boys, are scheduled to begin tomorrow before the Supreme Court of the United States. By agreement among the attor- neys for the defense, the arguments | will be presented, in both cases, by Walter H. Pollak, Osmond K. Fraenkel and Samuel S. Leibowitz. The facts will be presented by Lei- bowitz, the law by Pollak, the re- buttal by Fraenkel, Pollak and Fraenkel are being re- tained by the International Labor Defense, which led the mass fight that brings the famous cases again before the Supreme Court. Pollak is the lawyer who successfully argued the plea on which the highest court first sent the cases of these and five of the seven other Scottsboro boys back to the State of Alabama for retrial, Then the Supreme Court overturned the convictions on the technicality that the Negro lads were not properly represented by adequate counsel. This time, following the second sked to overturn the sentences spe- ifically on the ground that they are oe because they were! optained through the deliberate and | Mine Writ To Be Fought PLYMOUTH, Pa, Feb. 14.— | Persheski of Larksville, striking miner picketing the Woodward Mines of the Glen Alden Coal Company, was killed and Luckas, another picket, was seriously | wounded today, when William and Frank Tribendas, both scabs, opened fire upon them, | WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 14.— Although the injunction issued by Judge Valantine declaring the strike of Glen Alden Coal Company min- ers illegal takes effect tomorrow, (Continued on Page 2) President Roosevelt has secured another victory for the program of the employers, His wage cut- ting works bill has passed the Senate Appropriations Committee. As the works bill goes to the floor of the Senate, it gives President Rocsevelt dictatorial power to fix wages on all work relief. Since Roose- velt has made it clear he will insist on a wage on work relief below wage scales in private industry, and with an “average” wage of $50 a month, the works bill now carries out all the wishes of the employers to cut wages. The millions of unemployed are demanding un- employment insurance. Instead, Roosevelt has given them, through the works bill, drastic relief cuts, S. R., having broken the Portsmouth Treaty (!) was inciting China to | actions directed toward driving for- | eigners from China.” In his protest, Ambassador Yu- renev pointed out that there was no doubt about who had broken the sion of Manchuria was in itself a flagrant violation of the chief basis of the Treaty. It did not require the U.S. S. R., Yurenev said in effect, to arouse, the Chinese people against the ter- rific devastation and slaughter per- | petrated by Japanese imperialism. Roosevelt Reported In Bonus Compromise WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UP).— President Roosevelt is considering | a soldier's bonus compromise pro- | posal calling for payment of the long-sought $2,015,000,000 in yearly installments of $400,000,000, Con- gressional leaders close to the White Houes said today. Their five-year installment plan, as discussed with Democratic lead-_ ers, would enable needy veterans to) get funds at once. Inasmuch as the | sum total of all Adjusted Service Certificates are due in 1945, the sug- gested compromise would permit writing off of the debt five years ahead of time gether. Roosevelt, th: he deny unempl forced labor, and starvation “wages.” Wagner-Lewis Bill denies the millions of unem- ployed any benefits. Under the works bill, if it passes the Senate, those on work relief will be cur- tailed, and masses of unemployed denied relief alto- double edged attack on the workers. ‘Not only does not only does he drastically cut relief funds, but he also lowers the whole wage level of the workers. By cutting wages on work relief below the present wage levels in private industry, Roosevelt lowers the whole wage standard of all workers, lopinion yesterday of rejecting the | report unless it meets favorably the main economic demands of the union. | Bambrick Justifies Delay a membership meeting of the union | brick, president of the union, jus- | tified the delay in the decision of | the arbitration board on the basis of his rejection of some “dangerous formulations” in the agreement. Efforts of members of the union | to get the floor at the meeting, which was expected to take a strike vote, were met with autocratic re- | fusal. A member of the union, | Peter Darck, was thrown out of the meeting bodily when he requested | the floor to make a motion. Considerable dissatisfaction was expressed by the men at the proce- | dure followed by Bambrick in hay- | ing Darck ejected and in denying members the right to make a mo- | tion at a union meeting. The com- plete lack of democracy in the union, they felt, was a serious detri- | ment to the growth and strengthen- ing of the union. While making speeches and talk- ing for strike action, union officials, | | particularly M. Logan, secretary of | the Harlem Council, was heard dis- couraging strikers who came in re- Porting that they were successful in calling other workers out on strike. AN EDI Roosevelt's rough the works bill, has made a loyment insurance and dirsct relief, | date for Governor (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents UNION FOE HEADS WORK RELIEF bs Mutiny, Repel Japanese Elevator LEGISLATOR SEEKS |H.R.2827 BANK GROUP TO FORCE THE C. P. Total Cost BACKS F.D.R. OFF STATE BALLO + Assemblyman Streit Sponsors Bill Raising Communists—Protest Campaign Under Way See Editorial on Page 8 By Simon W. Gerson A move to force the Communist Party off the ballot, upon which it was officially placed in the 1934 elections, is Metal, Radio, Domestic under way in New York Stat tion of a series of amendments to the Election Law, this fact | was officially confirmed by S. Howard Cohen, Commissioner | of the Board of Elections, in a tele- phonic conversation with the Daily Worker this week, Assemblyman Saul S. Streit, Tam- many legislator from New York City, introduced the amendments last Monday in the State Assembly. The major point in the proposals made by Assemblyman Streit is that parties must have received 50,000 votes for their candidate for Gov- ernor in the 1934 elections in order to be placed on the ballot officially. Otherwise minority parties must ob- tain 50,000 signatures. Israel Amter, Communist candi- in the recent elections, received exactly 45,878 votes, according to the certified totals issued by the Secretary of State. The law, as it now reads, requires, only 25,000 votes for a party to be placed on the ballot without ob- taining signatures. This require- ment had been met by the Com- muntst’ Party: in” the~ gubernatorial elections of 1932. over 70 per cent in the votes re- FDR EXPANDS WAR PLANS Administration Asks for Five Billions for ‘Defense’ WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 14.— Moving rapidly to build a war ma- chine second to none in the world, the Roosevelt government today prepared a program for Congress that will cost another two billion dollars for immediate war prepara- tions. This is an addition to the two and a half billions that have al- ready been spent for war vessels and bombing planes during the past eighteen months. Work Relief Funds Used | Many millions for the war pro-| Speaking before 8,000 workers at gram will come out of the public) works allotments, it was announced. About half a billion will come from the work relief funds. Protection from an ai attack, strengthening of the shore estab- lishments on the West Hawaii, Alaska and the Panama Canal, modernization of army equip- ment, increased personnel and a treaty strength navy appeared the administration’s aim. The contemplated defense expen- ditures include: Regular navy appropriation, $489,- 870,000. Regular army appropriation, $361,- 050,000. Army modernization and me- chanization, $405.000,000. Fora navy of treaty strength,| $321,000,000. Wilcox Air Base Bill, $190,000,000. Navy public works allotment, | $38,000,000. Army public works $20,000,000. 68 Ships Being Built The navy has under construction sixty-eight vessels. including two aircraft cerriers, three heavy cruis- allotment, (Continued on Page 2) TORIAL It is significant that Roosevelt one after the other, to the letter, of the Chamber of Commerce and the Manufac- in their conference at Wuite turers’ Association Sulphur Springs. They called for ployment insurance, and Roosevelt concocted the fake Wagner-Lewis Bill, which bars the unemployed from benefits. They called for denial of the bonus, and Roosevelt fought to deprive their back pay. They demanded Roosevelt complied. set a low wage on work relief so that they can cut wages in all industry, and Roosevelt hastened | to carry out his masters’ commands, An increase of | Coast, | They instructed Roosevelt to e. Signalized by the introduc- ceived by the C. P. was a feature of the recent elections. LaGuardia Present at Birth Originally suggested by James J. Dooling, head of the Law Commit- tee of Tammany Hall, at an open meeting of the New York Board of Elections at which Mayor LaGuar- dia was present, the proposal is known to have the backing of vari- ous anti-labor and fascist elements in the State. This was virtually ad- mitted by the Albany correspondent of the New York Times. Reporting the introduction of the amendments by Streit, he wrote: “In the face of demands that the Communist Party he forced off the ballot by raising the re- quired number of votes cast for its candidate for Governor in the Jast election from 25,000 to 75,000, the compromise measure fixes the required number at 50,000.” (Feb. 12). While the Major political parties | (Continued on Page 2) FASCIST LAW HIT IN OHIO Bills for Repeal of Law Against Workers Of- fered in Legislature By Sandor Voros (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 14— Two bills for repeal of the Ohio criminal syndicalism law have been | introduced in the State Legislature |by State Senator McIntyre and Representative Zona, under pressure of labor organizations. The intro- | duction of the bills follows a fas- cist attack by the “Secret Seven” of the Cleveland Chamber of Com- merce, directed against the Com munist Party and the entire work- «ing class and aimed to smash the | growing strike struggles here, The “Secret Seven’s” report is | based on five years of admitted spying on workers, teachers, edi- tors, professors, clergymen, lawyers and social workers. The report pro- | Poses the strengthening of the criminal syndicalism law, prohibit- jing of radical newspapers from the | mails. prohibiting of advocacy of ; overthrow of government and en- largement of the Department of | Justices forces to investigate Com- munists. Company Unions Praised Thanking William Frew Long, manager of the Associated Indus- tries and nationally notorious strike-breaker, for his advice and co-operation, the “Secret Seven” hoes : | Praises company unions and raises | the alarm over the growing influ- |ence of Communists among rank and file workers of the American | | Federation of Labor. Raising a |scare of “possible Communist in- surtection” and civil war, it assures \the Chamber of Commerce that Cleveland authorities are com- (Continued on Page 2) has carried out the instructions Can there be denial of unem- If there were the Roosevelt's g the bosses, the li big business dire the veterans of relief cuts, and of doubt. the projects is to Computed | Owners of 80 Buildings, Requirements to 50,000—Seen as Attack on Unemployed Have Lost 61 Billion in Wages, Expert Shows | HEARING Workers’ Unions Endorse Bill (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 14.— On the basis of 14,000,000 ployed, the annual cost of the Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R 2827, would amount to approxi- mately $12,590,000,000, according to estimates prepared by the Research section of the Inter-professional Association for Social Research and presented today to the House Labor Sub-Committee. Albion Hartwell, executive secretary of the association, appeared for his organ-; ization. The Labor Research Association estimates over 17,000,000 were un- employed in November, 1934, in- cluding those on work relief. The total loss workers sustained in wages and salaries during the first four years of the depression, Hartwell reminded the _sub-com- mittee; totalled *$60,900,000,000, ac- | cording to official statistics. “It is | with these huge losses sustained by —| American workers during these four union rates on the years that the costs of security pro- | ( State Rests In Trial of 18 In California By Michael Quinn (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb, 14.— |The prosecution abruptly rested its case yesterday afternoon in the criminal syndicalism trial here of the eighteen worker-defendants. The plans of Neil McAllister, spe- |cial prosecutor, to call Captain Hynes of the notorious Los Angeles “red squad” as an “expert” on Com- munism were suddenly abandoned for fear that cross-examination by Leo Gallagher, International Labor Defense attorney, would bring out the vicious anti-labor activities of Hynes and his “red squad.” Hynes has sat with the prosecution throughout the trial, giving whisp- pered directives from time to time. Gallagher immediately moved for month's continuance, declaring that the lynch-incitement cam- paign worked up in the local press precluded the possibility of a fair trial for the defendants. The mo- tion was brusquely denied by Judge Dal M, Lemmon, presiding at the trial in Superior Court. Trostkyite on Stand Norman Mini was the first de- fendant put on the stand. A rene- gade from Communism and a Trotz- kyite, Mini's defense is being con- ducted by Albert Goldman, Trotz- |kyite attorney. Mini, responding to leading questions by Goldman, re- peated the attacks on the Commu- nist Party and on the other de- fendants contained in his stool- pigeon statement of last August to \the prosecution, although declaring he “repudiated” that statement. He said he made his statement on the basis of his reading of Marx and Lenin, adding with rehearsed brag- gadocio that he has since “dis- covered” that the Communist Party Continued on Page 2) | a (Continued on Page 2) | Workers Must Defeat Roosevelt’s Wage-Cutting Bill—Demand H.R. 2827 further doubt in the minds of the workers that Roosevelt and his entire administra- tion are the instrument of the employers, whose sole aim is to increase profits for the employers and beat down the living standards of the workers? any lingering doubts but that overnment is the government of latest act of Roosevelt in putting ctly in charge of passing on all works bill projects should remove the last shred The chairman of this committee to select be General Robert Wood, head of (Continued on Page 2) unem- | ~ SLAVE PLAN Sears Roebuck Chief Heads President’s New Committee WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 14.— President Roosevelt, today openly and firmly placed big business in the saddle to dictate the work relief set-up under the $4,880,000 works relief bill over which Roosevelt has demanded di rial powers. The bill sets an average slave wage of $50 a month for labor on the proj- ects. As the bill went through, Roosevelt. has been given the power to set the slave wage rates Roosevelt announced today that he had appointed General Robert | E. Wood, president of the union- smashing Sears-Roebuck Co m- pany to head the advisory com- mittee which will “advise” him on the allocation of the projects. Other members are being picked from the business Advisory Council jaf the Department of Commerce, | Secretary of Commerce Roper said after he and General Wood had conferred with Roosevelt. Bankers in Group This group includes such men as Morgan, Rockefeller, Sloan and Owen D. Young, the financial and monopoly dictators of Wall Street Roper said that “The administra- tion is delighted to have this type of service from business men to help on allocation of funds.” The Roosevelt machine rushed the works bill through the Senate Ap- Propriations Committee yesterday after attaching the anti-labor Rus- sell amendment to it. This amend- ment, which is a total denial of forthcoming projects, reads: “The President is authorized to fix the rates of wages | of all persons compensated out of |funds appropriated by this joint resolution and may fix different |rates for various types of work, which rates need not be uniform throughout the United States.” Even the employer press admitted today that this was “a defeat for labor.” William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said that the substitute measure was “unacceptable and unsatisfactory to labor.” | Tightens Grip | In forcing through the amend- ment which grants not even “pre- vailing rates” in industry for the re- lief workers, denying in every in- stance the local union wage scales, Roosevelt, who has consistently de- manded dictatorial powers of admin- istration of the fund and all its pro- visions, will have in his hands the living standards of the 3,500,000 families to whom the bill applies. Immediately that the bill was pre- sented in the Senate, motion was made which automatically sent the bill over until tomorrow. Although the bill today was not technicaly before the Senate, Senator McCar= ran of Nevada served notice that he intended to push for the enact- ment of the “prevailing wage” clause. This clause, however, does not guarantee union scales, since in some sections of the country, no- tably the South, $50 a month or less is termed the “prevailing wage.” z More Troops Leave Italy ROME, Feb. 14—In full war equipment, 15,000 Italian soldiers are ready to leave from Sicilian ports to Eritrea and Italian Somall- land, it was officially announced to- Gay. The first detachment will sail Saturday. It is known, however, that tens of thousands of soldiers are sailing every day, though not Officially reported. Mussolini's spokesmen, after the meetings of the Fascist Grand® Council and the Supreme Waf | Council declared that these troof |movements do not “necessari | Mean war,” but insisted that Italian |fascism would maintain its aims toward Abyssinia. No settlement of the negotiations, between the Abyssinian charge d’af- fairs and the Mussolini government has been reached. Mussolini is dragging on the conversations in order to put his army in a position |for a major drive against Abys- | sinia, | The Italian government has de- |nied that it mobilized 250,000 sol- |diers for war in Abyssinia. Yet all | visitors to the leading cities in Italy |Teport war-like scenes everywhere. |In Rome several thousand troops, | with full war equipment, arrived from the northern industrial cen- ters. | The Fascist Grand Council is ex- | pected to conclude its meeting to- night, following which a statement | of Mussolini’s policy regarding Abys- |sinia at this time is expected for | publication,