The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-13

International
Notes
by GEORGE BELL

AS part Of the Second Five-Year
Plan, the Soviet Government is pro
iecting the erection Of the largest
power plant in the world, with more
than twice the available power Of
Niagara Falls. The plant viii be
built on the Angara River, which is
the outlet connecting Lake Baikal
with the Yenisei and the Arctic
Ocean. The annual available power
output will be more than twice
The total annual output Of
Germany and the Soviet Union
together, and more than twenty
times as great as that Of
Dnieperstroi, big as the latter is. The
transmission lines, over extremely
long distances, will be operated at
the unprecedented voltage of 100000
volts
Three kinds Of coal deposits are
available in the region: high-vola-
tile, brown and high hydrogen CON
tent coal. The region has rich min
eral deposits close to the projected
power plant: iron, silver, gold, lead,
molybdenum, zinc, copper, tungsten
and aluminium.
Sidelight On Fascist Germany
The Berlin Commissioner of Police,
Melcher, has suppressed "Volldanpf,"
the organ of the revolutionary rail-
way workers, for a period of two
months, even forbidding publication
Of his reasons for this act of press
terror.
From July % to Sept, IA, 1882, no
less than 63 newspapers and maya
zines, almost all of them Communist,
were suppressed by the Reich and
Prussian Governments.
Two hundred italian Communists.
imprisoned in the Civita Vecchis
penitentiary, are on a hunger strike
Their hunger strike is a protest
against the latest chicanery Of Mus
solini-Italy; while imprisoned in
other jails, they were indicted for
the crime Of Having organized the
Communist Party among Communists
sentenced as political prisoners" The
comrades charged with this plot were
concentrated in the CiVita Vecchia
penitentiary to serve three months at
solitary confinement on bread and
water without any exercise or read
ing matter.
The French Communist Party IS
doing instructive work in anti-mili-
tarist propaganda. During the huge
army maneuvers held last month in
Champagne (along the German from
tier) the masses responded to the
Communists call so effectively that
the air maneuvers at Dion were 9.
complete failure. At Marseilles, the
mas sprotest was so violent that the
| air maneuVers had to be held in
| quaSi-secrecy, instead of furnishing
an elaborate militaristic display. The
| Communist protest at Rheims, al
though not as successful as in Dion,
did prevail upon the population, to
| keep the city lighted at night, thus
multiplying the results of the mimic
night air raids. The General Staff
had planned for general civic par
| ticipation in the maneuyers, but the
Party's agitation in the factories was
/ 81 tllSCJiNe lildJ LIlt Quail CdnSQ Oh
their general mobilization plans due
to the workers hostility.
|
After the appointment Of Paul
Boncour, chief French delegate to the
League Of Nations and at present
Minister of War in the Herriot Cab
met, as Governor General of Indo-
China a year or two ago, the French
Socialist Party was forced by rank
and file protests to eXpel him for
mally from the Party. But this was
only camouflage-today this Minister
Of War is still one of the editors and
directors Of a French Socialist
weekly published by two regional So
cialist Federations: Progress du Tarn
CT dc PAveyron!
Comment on the high morals Of
Fascist leaders: Stephan Heller, one
Of the prominent leaders Of the
Christian Party and of the White
Terror in Hungary, is now on trial
on charges Of embezzlement and
fraud in the Criminal Court Of
| Budapest