The daily worker., 1932-11-24
Westphalia
Gain or
Dusseldorf
STRIKES IN GREECE


shoremen have been out on strike
in Kalamata (Peoponnesus), and
their strike was supported by soil
darity strike of workers in other
trades, who also set up demands Of
their own. AS a result the employ
ers caved in and all the workers
have won their demands.
The custom tailors are on strike in
Athens, demanding wage increases.
Endeavors to bring in s5rikebreakers
broke down completely owing to etIl-
cient picketing and shortage OF
scabs. The boot. and shoe workers
are also on strike for wage increases
in Athens.
The cu1rant packers in PiraeuS,
the port of Athens, have lost their
strike. The strike of the canal work
ers on the Corinth Canal, which has
been going on for week. has now
ended with a partial victory.
The working class is at last begin
ming to meet the capitalist "depres-
sion' challenge-waves Of strikes are
Breading over one country after an
Hher. Germany, Belgium, Swedish,
pain, England, and now far-off
Greece. The proletarian answer to
wage-cuts and starvation must be
mass action-the strike.
During the fifteen years Of its eX-
istenca the Soviet Union has made
enormous progress in conquering the
disease and filth that characterized
the CzariSt regime. In 1917 there
we're only 487 medical aid stations in
factories throughout Czarist Russia.
The number has grown to 4,609 by
1881, while in the current year it
reached 5,506, an increase of nearly
1,100 per cent. In 1917 the urban
clinics were equipped to handle 25,
100000 patients annually; in 1882
they were able to treat 1885, 900 900
patients per pear. The correspond
ing growth for rural clinics was from
100000 to 159,O0O,o0o patient capa
city.
In all capitalist countries, expendi-
lures for public health are being cut
ito economize." In 1918 Czarist Rus
sia budgeted 12s,0O0,O00 rubles for
public health, while the current bud
get provides for the expenditure of
l&5, 100000 rubles for that purpose,
Fl re again, the basic difference be-
tV#en two worlds is in sharp relief
insufficient provision for the sick in
the capitalist world and unparalleled
Growth of medical aid in the Soviet
Union.
COMMUNIST SAILOR SENTENCED
BERLIN, Nov. 2 (By MaiD Petty
Officer Kurt Spital Of the German
navy was tricd yesterday by the
German Supreme Court in Leipzig on
charges Of high treason. supporting
an organization hostile to the state,
refusing to obey orders Of his su-
perior officers, and long list of SIM
liar off2nseS. The trial was held
secretly. Spital is said to have been
in touch with the Communist Party
and TO nave organized Communist
propaganda in the German navy. He
was found guilty, sentenced to three
years at hard labor, dismissal from
the service and the loss of all civic
rights for period Of six years.
The imprisonment of this courage
Gus anti-militarist will not dampen
tbe Communist faith against i'm
rialist war, even in the armed
rces of the capitalist nations, where
ch work is fraught with danger. II
Is in the exposed positions that dan
eer is met, ana there always will be
Communists ready to meet it.
AMNESTY CAMPAIGN WINS
PARTIAL VICTORY
ATHENS, Nov. / (By MaiD The
amnesty campaign waged by the
workers and peasants of Greece un-
der the leadership of the Communist
Party and the Greek section of the
International Red Aid has succeeded
In securing the release of three inn
prisoned workers who were elected
10 parliament while still in Jail. Two
other workers who have been on the
run for months, and who were also