The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-10
International
Notes
Bg ROBERT HAMILTON

uOlng CfllS is JIle rising wave Oh anu
lmperialist feeling in Southern Ire
land, coupled with the growing
movement among the working class
against unemployment and wage
euts against oppressive taxation and
rents among the poor farmers Of the
country.
In order to combat this movement
effectively, De Valera and his Fianna
Fail party are trying to cloak them
selves in the mantel of patriotism"
and -Britishism. This effort is
given the lie however by De Valera's
sentences of militant anti-British
boycott organizers to jail for inter
lering with British trade.
At the same time, Mulcahy, lieu
tenant of ex-President Cosgrave (the
frank supporter of Britain's imper-
laism in Ireland), is deserving his
former chief and organizing what he
calls party of Irish union to effect
the unity" Of a free Irish nation.
This again, as even prevail st.
New York Times" admits, is but a
reflection of the leftward trend
among even Cosgrave's adherents.
Now Mulcahy appears on the scene
trying to steal De Valeras national
lSt thunder and weaken the militant
struggle for Irish freedom now being
Eaged by the Revolutionary Workers
Groups with the assistance of the
left elements in the I. r. A., the
irish Republican Army.
1t is the latter two that have or
ganized the Boycott British League
md are waging determined battle
against British rule, no matter
whether unconcealed or under De
Valera mask. The impending for
nation of the Communist Party of
Ireland will lend unreasonable
strength to the growing movement
Tor true Irish freedom-free from
Britain as well as from native Irish
capitalist and landlord exploiters.
NAILS DONATE 100000 TO
DUKE
WEIMAR, Germany, Dec. "a. (By
naiD The Nazi Government OF
Thuringia, which refuses to appro-
pirate a cent for the destitute I'M
employed of that State, has agreed
10 pay 100000 marks to one of the
former minor rulers of the country,
the Duke of Altenburg. The Thur
ngian towns and cities are practic-
lily bankrupt because of the finan-
tial strain on their resources, but the
the state government is unwilling to
furnish any support for unemploy-
ment relief, instead appointing die
tatorial commissioners to rule cities
that cannot meet their relief obliga-
lions. For the spendthrift princes
and dukes, however, millions are al
ways available.
CULTURE IN THE SOVIET UNION
A random QUESTIONABLE among
workers in the Stalinsk metallurgical
plant revealed that SO per cent of
them possessed from 100 to 500 books
each. Out of 20 men questioned, IA
spend three to 20 rubles month for
books. A large majority of the
workers are studying in various
Courses, some in regular schools
while others take lessons at home.
Compare this outlay for cultural
purposes in the Soviet Union with
The amount the average American
S able to spend for books, and you
see another reason why it pays for
the working class to rule.
GIANTS OF THE FIVE YEAR PLAN
Under this heading we shall print
at intervals short descriptions of the
new industrial giants built in the
Soviet Union which are as yet merely
names and nothing more to the
American workers.
The KuZnetsk plant, under con-
struction in Western Siberia near the
Altai Mountains, is located near
naines where 400 billion tons of coal
twice the coal that Germany has
st its disposal and six times the
resources of the entire Donetz Basin
guznetsk coal is of higher quality
than the Donetz product and
cheaper.
OF the four blast furnaces at the
F,uznetsk, each with a capaci ty of
I 900 tons daily, two are already
thnctioning.
The open hearth shop consists of
b. Is furnaces. Soviet construction is
! proud Of the fact that no other met
allurgical plant in the world has
! furnaces of equal size. The open
hearth shop will lhave an annual out
put of 1,450,000 tons of steel. The
rolling mill is equipped to produce
100000 tons of finished goods annu-
ally, including 5000 miles of rail-
road rails. Coke is being produced
by four batteries of 81 ovens each.
The Kuznetsk plant is being built
according to the last word In mod
ern technique. All heavy work is
done by machinery. The machinery
for charging the blast furnaces is
largely automatic, operated by one
worker. The plant has its own huge
power station with a capacity of
100000 XIV.
FIRST TUNNEL OVEN IN EUROPE
FOR SOVIET UNION
The first tunnel oven in Europe for
annealing high-voltage porcelain in
sulators has been built and put into
operation at the Proletarian Plant,
Leningrad. The oven Is 400 feet
long and has capacity Of q tons
l.of porcelain per day.
l.
AHOOVER'S HEART
BLEEDS FOR VETS