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The Bismarck tribune., 1932-12-06
Strange But True
News Items of Day
(By the Associated Press)
Nose for Chops

Chicago-"Shoes" has a nose for
pork chops, but that's not helping
Mrs. Kristie Hojek get back the
$l,071 three Negroes took the other
night. Her son, William, borrowed
Shoes" large and sleuthy-looking
police dog. William let "Shoes" take a
sniff of the pocketbook the thieves
threw away after removing the
money, and then set out on the trail
OF the culprits. The trail led to
several houses. in the neighborhood.
Each time there was commotion and
bitter protest. The neighbors COM
planned Shoes" was not following a
pocketbook trail, that each and every
time it was the scent of frying pork
chops that attracted him to a house.
Police politely suggested that per-
haps Shoes" had no license to hunt
thieves. William is thinking of TAX
ing Shoes" off the case altogether.
The Bismarck tribune., 1932-12-06
Beating the Gun

Uniontown, Pa.-Stern officers
OF the law gasped as they saw
Frank Bonati and Joseph Anyone
driving through this city in a car
piled high with liquor. Pre-pro-
hlbition trademarks flashed
from cases stacked on the run
ning-board. Bonati and Anyone.
VINO made no pretense at secrecy.
expressed surprise as the officers
seized the car containing about
zoo gallons of liquor, and march
ed the owners off to Jail. "Why."
the prisoners clamore I'VE
thought they just repealed that
VolStead business"
The Bismarck tribune., 1932-12-06
Wanted to Romp on White
House Lawn; CleveIand's
Wish Fails to Come True

The wish had been made for
Franklin Roosevelt that he
might never become president OF
the United States. And ten
arcy of the white house seemed
a remote possibility indeed dur
ing the family's early days in
Washington -. The following
article, second of a series of IL
dealing with the Rising Roose-
velts, takes up the intimate, au-
thentic story of the next First
Family of the Land.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-05
tn. NEUBAUER (Berlln).


The world crisis Of capitalism has again over
thrown one Of the strongest citadels of interna-
tional finance capital, War Kreugers world trust
The suicide Of the trust king on March 18th in
Paris only Sealed fate which could no longer
be averted.
The Kreugef trust was Of the type OF those
gigantic financial capitalist undertakings which
are characteristic Of the imperialist phase Of
capitalism It arose out Of hundred various
judicially independent but intarconnected COM
panies which drew their profits from all capital
list countries. Matches ore, wood pulp, tele-
phones-that was the producniaol. .gdlnetainoaiy
phones-that was the productional basis Of the
Kreuger trust upon which he erected the vast
network Of his financial businesses monopoly,
loans, banks The capital in the hands Of War
Kreuger amounted in all TO more than 1000
Yniliomss
The IKreuger trust is relatively stil very
young; 1t was founded In 1917. What distin-
glrished 1t from others was an enormous ac-
tivity In, all spheres, an extraordinary aggres-
siveness towards all its competitors, and an in
satiable lust for expansion-qualites which pro-
NOTED Its development by leaps and bounds.
The foundation capital OF the Kreuger match
trust, the "Svenska Tandstick A. b." was As
million Swedish crowns Its present day capital
amounts 20 $50 million crowns In the year
1928, according TO the annual report, IL had $50
match factories in IS different countries and
employed more than 10000 workers; in the
yeaY 1880 IL had over $50 factories in 43 diff
ferent countries. In the year 1880 the trust
acquired match monopoly in five countries,
in return for which it granted loans amounting
to 17e million dollars and itself took up loans
TO the amount Of 200 million crowns.
The initial basis Of the Kreuger trust was
relatively very small! the match production Of
q small country which plays no role in che con-
cert Of the big inper1aEst powers, and which
can place no navy nor army at the disposal
Of its financial and industrial magnates in sup
port OF their plans Of conquest What Sweden
could not give Kreuger found through his close
connections with the finance capital Of the lead
ing imperiaIist countries, especially the U.S.A.,
England and France He built his trust on the
broadest international basis and created for him
self not only firm positions on the stock ex-
changes Of New York, London and Paris, but
also firm connections with the governments Of
these countries One can therefore not speak
of a "Swedishtrust" In the same sense as one
speaks OF U.S.A. trust or of an English OF Ger
man trust. Kreuger's world trust is interna-
tional in special sense; the main supports
Of his power lie outside Sweden
The collapse OF the gigantic Kreuger trust is
a symbol of the tremendous collapse Of the cap
italist system. For nearly two years past the
Kreugee shares were among the gilt-edged Sc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-05
Collapse ofthe KreugerW World Trust

curities of the international money market. In
the year 1880 the chief company "Aktie-Bola-
get Kreuger och Toll" paid 80 per cent div
idend, and even in the year 1881 the dividend
amounted to 20 per cent. It is true, at that
time rlmors were already current that the real
situation of the trust in no way justified the
high dividend and that Kreuger paid out 20 per
cent only because he wished by every means to
maintain the reputation of his trust.
The first rumors that the Kreuger trust was
in serious difficulties came in the Summer of
1881. War Kreuger made an indignant denial
Of these rumors, but he was unable to dsipel
the feeling Of mistrust. The Kreuger shares
lost so per cent and more Of their value Cat
times SO per cent? on the international Ex-
changes. Kreuger was compelled to sell the
81. M Ericsen Telephone A. b. whose capital
am nted to 100 million crowns. He endeavored
once again. however, to conceal the real posi-
ton Of his trust when, In January, he announced
the requirement Of the North Swedish BoIiden
Gold Mine which, It was alleged, would bring
him in $4,000 dollars worth Of gold per month.
But this transaction instead of having a re-
assuring effect only called forth fiercer criticism
Of his expanSioned policy, and after a brief rise
the value of Kreuger's shares sank more per-
ceptibly. The collapse Of the gigantic trust
could no longer be prevented; and in order not
W CapcIl6LlCe OA44S 4tdI 6AItuScE AuGQ d pullSI
into his heart.
Immediately after the end Of the World War,
War Kreuger set out to conquer the world mar
ket for matches His first attack was directed
against the Japanese, who were ousted from
the Indian market and attacked in their own
country. The second conquest was the US.A.
market. Here, however. Kreuger encountered
the capital power Of the stronger Rockefeller
group; he had to come TO an agreement with
1t, and in 1928 founded together with Percy
Rockefeller the International Match Corpora
ton" with foundation capital Of 2s million
dollars. and 1880 million dollars Of shares
without voting rights The third stage Of the
Kreuger expansion was the subjugation Of the
Japanese match industry in 1924, after the COL
lapse Of the Suzuki" concern, and at the same
time the penetration Of the "Swendska" into
the Chinese market. In 1927 Kreuger pene-
trated England and founded the British Match
Corporation with share capital Of million
pounds, swallowed up the English rival firm
Of Bryant and May and secured for himself the
market of the British colonies. About this time
Kreuger captured the Belgian match industry
and acquired the majority of the German match
factories He secured the German market by
the conclusion of the match monopoly, which
the finance minister, Hilferding granted hmi
in return for loan of 500 millions.
Finally, about rs to 30 per cent Of the world
production Of matches was in the hands of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-05

Workers should know something about the
workings Of the Reconstruction Finance Corpor-
stion which was hurriedly get UP q few weeks
ago by the Wall Street government 10 save
banks and corporations from the further as
saults OF the growing crisis 1t was established
to provide two billion dollars worth Of govern
ment money and credit chiefly to bankers and
large corporations.
Let us examine briefly the work Of this RE
election Romance Corporation" as some one has
called this Hoover-Wall Street measure for
pumping confidence into the shaking capitalist
structure. Note the operations in only one field
that of railroads
To date nearly so railroads have asked FOR
help from the Reconstruction Finance Corpora-
ton, the amounts requested already aggregate
about s36o,ooo,ooo And already the Board.
headed by Charles Dawes has approved advances
TO is OF the roads, some Of the benefciaries be-
ing four Of the Van Sweringen roads; including
the Erie and the Nickel Plate, in addition to
the Southern Pacific the Southern the st. Louis
and San Francisco, Central Of Georgia, Western
Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Minneapolis, st. Paul
and & 8 Mazssi Chicago snS xOthSsssaga. SnR
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-05
Bv CYRIL BRIGGS.

In the province Of Hupeh, Central China, the
Chinese Red Army is carrying out successful
campaign against the Kuomintang betrayers OF
China The frontiers of the Honan-Hupeh-
Anhwei border Soviet districts have been con-
siderably extended within the past five months
New sections Of the worker peasant masses have
been liberated from tins 'lody Leudal-captaEsG
rule OF the Kuomint2n2 OILS OF the imperialisJ
powers A Red iron ring is being steadily forged
around the important industrial and strategic
city of HankOw.
So serious is the threat to the Kuomintang
and its imperialist masters that the League of
Nations Commission has been forced recently to
expose the true role OF the League as organizer
OF the robber war gainSt China. The Commits
sion, ostenSiby sent to the Far East to "investi-
gate" japanese military activities in Shanghai
and Manchuria is now instead investigating the
international conditions in Central China, where
the rapid growth of the power Of the Chinese
Soviets is threatening with destruction the last
vestige of Kuonlintang control and influence in
Central China,
In addition to the second Red Army Corps
under Ho Lung, whose victories were related IN
the previous article, q large Red Army force Oh
900 men, under Kwang Chi-sun, is also con-
yavgng on HanSow from the northeast. This
force has captured Hwangan and Hwangpei On
January 10, an advance guard OF 1000 Red
troops occupied the railway line near Hongtlen,
q small town ten miles north OF Hankow
From the South Tuan Ssh-chens with Red
Army group of over 5000 men is advancing He
hss lately captured Paichow, town about 30
niles from Wuchang. Kung Ho-chung With a
f2-ce of 5000 is operating in southeastern Hupeh,
On the Wuchang- Changsha Railway
The Red Army in the Honan- Hupeh-AnhBei
border Soviet districts now totals over 10000.
Comrade Kwong in an article in the China
Forum reports that they are well organized and
equipped They have an arsenal manufacturing
rifles and ammunition. They are the largest and
strongest Red force in Hupeh, and no Marking
troops in recent times have dared to attack
them The civil Soviet administration is firmly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-05
THE GROWTHO OF THE SOVIET
POWER IN CHINA

established in 200 districts cutting across the
border lines of the three provinces.
The Red suppression" campaign is making
little Roadway, both by reason Of the strength
Of the Red Army and the fact that the Nam
king officers cannot trust their suppreSSing
troops to fight against the Red Army. Tens OF
thousands Of Marking troops have deserted to
the Red Army
Units Of the Marking 69th and 18th divisions,
sent against the Soviet districts turned their
arms against the Kuomintang and irnperiahsts
and joined the Red Army. The Kuomintang
then sent another group of the seth Division
against the Red Army, but these also joined the
Red Army. A part of the 18th Division followed
their example.
When the Red Army group OF Kwang Chi
sun was beseging HWangpei then held by the
Marking 3Oth Division, two brigades of the Both
Division went over to the Red Army One Of
the brigades of the 18th Division also joined
the Red Army, while Sun Lien-chung's Goth
Division of 10000 men went over wholesale to
the Red Army. In addition there have been
growing number of revolts among the Marking
troops. And the unrest is growing. On April
l, Peiping dispatch admitted:
Unrest in army ranks is spreading rapidly,
and complete breakdown of some Of the best
known army corps in China Is expected"
Less and less can the Kuomintang rely on
its main support, it's armed troops
In addition to the Red Army operations
around Hankow, there is Red Army drive to
the eastward from the Anhwei border. Red
Army group of 10000 is now in the vicinity Of
Luan, and threatening Kuomintang communities
lions on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway This
group is reported using Chang Chia-stai as base
of operations The suppression" troops of Gen.
Sung Sfih-ko is planning to evacuate Hochu,
leaving only two regiments to oppose the adj
vancing Red troops, Evidently Gen. Sung Shih-
ko has no faith in his ability to hold his troops
against a Red Army advance. The Shanghai
press fears that with the fan of Hochu to the
Red troops the districts of northern Anhwei
would be affected, with the masses rising In re-
volt against the Marking butcher government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-05
The Uprising in Salvador and Our
Immediate Tasks
demonstrations, etc.).

demonstrations, etc.).
g. The Manifesto doe snot propose N the
masses any definite and concrete forms Of or
ganization for the carrying on Of the struggle.
On this point, as well as on the question OF
methods OF struggle, the Manifesto contains
neither slogans Of action Committees Of Action.
Revolutionary Peasant Committees, Joint work.
er-Peasant Committees Of Action nor propa-
ganda slogans (Soviets)s The gasic task Of or.
ganizing Workers and Peasants Defense Corps
is also absent from the Manifesto.
49,. The basic demands Of the agrarian anti.
lmperia1iSt revolution are not stated with syffi-
cient clearness, especially the anti-impertalist
demands (confiScation Of all imperialist enter
prises, cancellation of foreign debts, withdrawal
of all armed and other forces Of foreign i'm
perialism, etc.,
These basic defects of the Manifesto clearly
show non-Leninist approach to the task Of I'M
folding the counter offensive Of the Salvadorean
workers and peasants against the offensive of
the exploiterS. The actual course Of the Janu-
airy events, the fact that the fight began with
the highest form of revolutionary mass struggle
(uprsing) without the previous development and
organization OF the daily struggles Of the masses
through strikes demonstrations, hunger marches,
etc. demonstrates the same basic weaknesses as
bllOS6 contained IN the Manifesto. These weak
nesses are the result Of the opportunist tenden-
cies in our midst that have a left" sectarian,
putchist approach TO the tasks OF the Com
munist Party. One Of the chief lessons OF che
Salvadorean uprising Is the great danger OF
putchist and left" sectar1an tendencies against
which we must wage the most energetic struggle
at the same time carrying on merciless fight
against the Right opportunism-the main danger
IN the present period-which hesitates to place
the Party at the head OF the masses In their
struggles against the landlord bourgeois i'm
perialist offensive.
The workers and peasants Of Salvador, under
the leadership Of the Communist Party. will
continue with redoubIed energy the fight against
the offensive OF the exploiters, learning nom the
defeat how best to prepare the fight for the
coming victory. Our comrades must bend all
their sforts to maintain the closest possible con-
tact with the masses and 10 prosecute with the
greatest energy the task Of organizing and lead
ing the daily struggles Of the workers and peas
ants for the improvement Of their conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-05
The Bankers Help Themselves

New York Central and Baltimore and Ohio.
Some Of the purposes given by the roads for
which they need these millions are-to pay oper-
ating expenses TO pay interest to bankers and
bondholders, TO pay fixed charges (another name
FOR interest TO bondholders), to pay off gold
notes (more for the bankers. In other words,
the railroads are asking their government to give
them money with which to pay off the bankers
Here are concrete examples Of the way 1t
works. The New York Central, Morgan railroad,
asks for money to pay off notes to j. P. Morgan
and Co. and other banking houses
In the case of the Missouri Pacific, involving
a loan of, $12,80o,0o0 the deal was so raw that
the Interstate Commerce Commission only with
reluctance" approved the grant to this road,
stating that II was against the use Of govern
ment funds to bail out" the banks But it
handed out the money just the same and part
Of the loan is used to pay off bank loan to
J. p. Morgan and Co. .H.'.
II is natural that Banker Charles g. Dawes
should be head Of the bankers aid corporation
He has ample experience In robbing small de-
positors. It was he who by violating even the
capitalist-made banking laws Of Illinois Yleeced
over AQQs dspcsitoD 10 the famous Lortmg bank
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-05
Significant HOkum
D JORGE

Won know about those million Jobs" that the
American Legion started out to deliver IN 1our
weeks time. Well when that time was up tney
had stirred UP something less than 3O0,OOO 500
ro!led "jobs," about 100000 being an hours WORE
fixing garage door or such. a;
The failure of it was so apparent that the
Legion wouldn't admit it, so-crylng success
at every days report" it is announced that tnS
"drive" will continue indefinitely" Naturally
if they keep going long enough, no doubt tnse
they can succeed" in getting not only million
but even five million such "jobs." But after It's
all over, there will be 100000 or more unerne
ployed just the same.
The Legion didn't even pretend TO deliver JOBS
for all the other millions besides the one mlllionO
and the whole thing is so fraudulent that some
might wonder what the big idea was in the f1rst
place.
The big idea is to get the workers to thinking
not necessarily with any basis-that the Legion
is doing something" And it is. By this swindleD
what the Legion does is to sidetrack the mass
fight for unemployment insurance and get every
worker possible to fool tricked into chasing the
Legion around looking for an hours work dump"
ing ash cans or cleaning out cellars, etc.
But there is another angle even more signinS
cant. Matte VOL, misleader of the American
Federation of Labor wrote a letter to all Central
Labor Councils urging them to form contact
with the American Legion commanders
not a minute is to be lost to get team
assignments and do your full part to win
the war against depression by putting men at
work"
What .mockery! What an insulut to the rank
and file members OF the A. F. OF L.! And TO
the whole working class! But VOL figured that
although the getting of jobs would be flop
it was scheme to get the A. F. Of L. and the
fascist Legion leaders together with the latter
in command, a line up that would be useful TO
the capitalists against the workers later on
Incidentally, someone sent us a copy Of the
Los Angeles "Citzen" which shows that Paul
one of the chief A. F.. of L. leaders
responsible for the betrayal and imprisonment
of Tom Mooney, is very active in linking up
the Legion and the A. F. of L. Workers should
know that anyone who betrayed Mooney VIII
betray them, too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-05

scandal in that state. Dawes later put over the
j. p. Morgan and Co. Dawes Plan" in an eff
fort to save Morgan loans at the expense Of
the German masses.
To date the Finance Reconstruction Corpora
ton has made 5s7 loans to banks and trust
companies, Is TO building and loan associations
10 to insurance companies, 10 to railroads, 2 to
joint stock and land banks, to mortgage loan
companies and one to live stock credit asso-
citation.
These are the institutions that capitalism is
trying to save in the crisis. Meanwhile the same
Congress, controlled by the same banks and rail-
roads, refuses to vote a nickel of relief to the
millions Of unemployed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-05
Unity? Yes-For Struggle

From Comrade Morton c. out west we get
a letter all to the good except for one point. He
asks us to eliminate the squabble between the
that 'the gap between industrial unionism ana
I. W. w. and the Daily Worker" on the grounds
Communism" isn't so much.
We would formulate that last remark differ
entity. Industrial mionism and Communism are
not opposed" at all, but quite harmonious. Yet
when it comes to the so-calIed industrial union
lists" Of the L w. w. that's where the rub comes
in All Communists are industrial unionists, and
indeed the Communist movement the world over
and right here in the United States has made
something Of better Job of organizing indus
trial unions than the I. W. w. has done.
And why Is that? Because the !. w. w. lead
ership insists on adding something to Cor more
exactly taking something away frorn) that in
dustrial unionisn, behind which they hide
various lot of fatally erroneous theories ana
practices which defeat the struggles OF the work.
ers not only in the revolutionary aim supposed
held by the L w. W., but even the job Of building
industrial unions.
All Communist workers stand ready to unite
with workers who are members Of the I. W. W.
in the Job of building industrial unions. But
for what are such unions to be built? just to
look at and admire, or to struggle against cap
italism?
The !. w. W., by insisting on its anarchist-syn@
dicalist errors: that there is mo need for
political party Of the working class mo need"
to overthrow capitalist class government, mo
need" to establish working class government,
"no need" for the dictatorship Of the proletar1aGe
and in one breath both to affirm that the indus
trial union alone is Sufficient to put end to
capitalism and to state in contradiction that the
industrial union must be neutral in the strug-
gle for government power between the working
class and the capitalist class-actually places
itself on the side of the capitalists against the
workers.
And the workers Of this country have, logically,
given their answer to the anarcho-syndicalists OF
the l. w. W. by leaving it, to such point that
there is nothing particular left of it to unite
with Incidentally, the members Of the I. W. W.
once voted on referendum to join the Red Inter-
national Of Labor Unions, but the anarcho-
syndicalist leaders rendered false report OF the
votes, just like the good old-fashioned A. F. OF
L, oficialdom, and thus they, not the Commu-
nists, are responsible for any honestly revolu~
tionary rank and file I. W. w. members remain
ing outside the revolutionary trade union move
ment.
But such workers are always welcome TO the
ranks Of either the Red industrial unions OF the
Trade Union Unity League, or, If they have laid
aside their mistaken neutrality-suspicious. ideas,
to the Communist Party, without prejudice OK
recrimination. Indeed many former I. W. w.
occupies responsible position in the Communist
Party, and is lighting for industrial unionisn1
far more effectively than in the I. w. w.