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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-16
Soviet Red Army Is Workers, farmers Army

ticular White Guard blackguard
the Bath by George Windsor and
given pension by the French gov
eminent.
Many of Churchill's gifts to Denikin
gifts made at the expense of the
British workers-found their way in
to Red hands, through capture or the
desertion of the White rank-and-fie
The ending OF the first war of inter-
vention was followed by the Polish
War, in which France took the lead
ing position among the imperialist
powers that had preyiouss,y kce, &C.
cupied by Britain.
A Toilers' Army
Today the Red Army is well equip
ped, well trained, well clad and well
fed. 1t regards itself not as Rus
sian Army, but as a toilers' army.
How it is constituted, how ranker
rises to become Commander, how
discipline is maintained, these were
the kind of questions to which the
delegation wanted answers.
So after going through the Mu-
scum and having lunch, the delega-
ton adjourned with young Lieu
tenant General, and about 20 other
Commanders of ranks between Col
onel and Lance Corporal. They were
free to address their questions to any
individual they chose. But 1t took
them some time to get over their as
constituent at the free and easy way
in which Corporal and General min
gled with ane another.
First of all, how is the Army re-
cruited? 1t is considered an honor
for any toiler to bear arms in defense
of the Workers Republic, and to toll
ers this privilege is restricted.
No person coming from the ex-rul.
ing class can serve in the Red forces
But all toilers are liable to military
training Of IS months duration. Those
who wish to remain in the Army OF
show special aptitude are sent to trair
to become Commanders.
Drawn from Ranks
There is direct, unimpeded patti
from Private to General. The entire
commanding staff of the Red Army
the Red Navy and the Red Air Force
| is drawn from the ranks of the work
ers and peasants.
| Women play big part In certain
branches OF the Red Army. The del
egates closely questioned one smar
young woman Commander. She wa
the daughter OF a locomotive engin,
driver. and had been for three year
a student at the military chemica
academy. In regard to her rights ant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-16
$4,000 Bolivians
Slaughtered in
AnglO-U.S. Fight
Chaco War Rises, AS
Inperialists Talk At
Montivideo

LA PAz, Dec. 15.-Whne the Monte
video Conference is going on with
barely concealed antagonisms between
Great Britain and the United States
dominating the procedure, open war
fare between Bolivia and Paraguay
has broken out with renewed force.
This armed conflict reflects the eco
nonic warfare of the United States
and Great Britain, the United States
supporting and aiding Bolivia, and
Britain helping Paraguay.
Along the Chaco front, where the
two armies are now fighting, more
than $4,000 Bolivian soldiers were
wiped out two days ago, according
to dispatches from Paraguay.
The Bolivian Government is calling
16-year old boys to the army, 1t was
reported yesterday.
The dispute is over boundary line,
which covers important Oil lands,
for which the Standard Oil Company
of the U. S. is struggling against the
British oil monopolies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-16
Anniversary Issue to
Have Special Articles
on Capitalist Press

'sMy Experience With the Capt.
talist Press" by Marguerite Young.
of the Daily Worker Washington
Bureau, will be one of the special
features in the 24-page Tenth An
niversary edition of the Daily
Worker.
In this article Comrade Young
tells how she saw news suppressed
or distorted while she was a staff
correspondent for the Associated
Press, and later as feature writer
for the liberal New York World
Telegram.
The Anniversary Edition, which
will appear in "a pages, will con-
tain a history of the Daily Worker;
an article on the World Commu-
mist Press; the struggle against
fascism; the Daily Worker and the
Crisis, and a large number of other
articles of vital Importance.
Sixteen pages of the Anniyer-
sary issue will be the form of a
magazine supplement.
With orders for more than 100,-
900 copies already received, present
plans call for the running off of
a total Of 100000 Of the Anniver-
sary Edition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-16
Students Circulate
10000 Petitions for
Abolition Of ROTC

NEW YORK.-On the heels OF
General MacArthur's statement OF the
inadequacy of the present army staff,
10000 petitions were being circulated
among college students this week
urging the President and Congress
to withdraw the appropriation made
for R.O.T.C. The petition was sent
out by the Student Committee OF the
American League Against War and
Fascism.
The petition will be delivered to the
President and Congress by a delega-
ton of several hundred students ana
faculty members on Dec. 28. The
delegation is being selected on each
campus.
During the past two weeks students
have been expelled from two high
schools, Manly H. s., Chicago, and
the South Philadelphia H. s., for OPP
position to war preparations.
The petitions read:
I'VE, the undersigned students, de-
mand the immediate withdrawal Of
that appropriation to the War De.
partment which is used exclusively
for R.O.T.C. activity and propaganda
in the schools and colleges OF the
United States.'
Because:
81. In a world where the masses
of people are striving for peace, the
R.O.T.C., as an instrument OF the
War Department, ,inculcates q vicious
spirit Of nlilitarism among the stu
dents.
"2. 1t is an item In the war prep
aration of the United States.
IS. While millions Of dollars are
wasted on the R.O.T.C., education 10
masculated in the interests Of econ
omy.
Therefore, we insist that R.O.T.C.
funds be turned over for the payment
OF unemployed teachers and expan-
sion of the educational facilities Of
this country"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-16
Delegates Report
Monday on Months
Tour Of the Soviets
3 Workers to Speak
on What They Saw
in the u. S. S. r.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Three work
ers, delegates from the Friends of
the Soviet Union, who toured the
workers Russia as guests of the
Russian trade unions, will report
to the American workers on life in
the Soviet Union, on Monday night,
at the Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and
18th ST., Manhattan.
Hays Jones, New York marine
worker, Tom Austin, a Minneapolis
tool and die maker, and John
Geraghty, California metal worker,
were the three delegates.
They toured the vast country
where the workers rule for over
a month, from as far north as
Cheliabinsk, Siberia, to as far south
as Kazan. They saw collective
farms, huge and modern up to the
minute factories, schools, museums,
art institutes, children's nursuries,
restaurants, theatres and movies,
everything that would give pic
ture of life in this new country.
They are filled with enthusiasm
and pride for this workers land.
The American delegation saw the
huge AMO works in Moscow which
had just produced its 35,000th
truck, and afterwards wrote that
the sheet metal and metal stamp
ing departments were efficiently
run, and they could find no fault
with it.
They said that not only are the
plants up to date, and that the
workers running the plants know
their business, but that work in
the plants, and around the plants,
is what made them realize that they
were in country foreign not only
in language, but in ideas.
''In America we've got to keep
our nose close to the grindstone.
Here, the workers work, but not
hectically, not at the terrific rate
of speed that they do in American
plants. The workers of Russia have
a tremendous feeling of power.
They know that this country is
theirs, and that they are building
for themselves. Even the kids in
the streets know this"
The delegation will give full and
complete reports of what they saw
in this land where the workers and
farmers are the rulers at the meet
ing on Monday, at 8 p. M, Irving
Plaza.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-16

her pay she was In the same position
as men doing the same work. She
was a fully qualified chemical en-
gineer, and held rank equivalent
to Captain.
Seeing that there Is sex equality
in the Soviet Union and men are
obliged to serve in the Red Army, why
is compulsion not applied to women
also?" asked one delegate.
Not even all men are taken, it was
pointed out to him. Only those who
are toilers and who are physically fit
to serve. We have population of
men sufficient to defend us from our
enemies. But those women who are
strong enough and who wish to serve
in special branches can do So"
win women serve in the trenches
in the event of WARP" asked the per-
sistent delegate.
The young General replied: sour
women, ! am confident, would fight,
If it we're necessary to do SO, on the
same basis as our men, to defend the
Workers Fatherland. They have done
SO before, during the Civil War, when
thousand of women performed yeo-
man service in the fighting line.
"Women In our country particle
pate in everything on the same basis
as men. But we think we have
enough men to defend us against all
corners; il necessary, however, our
working and peasant women will
be with u.s."
The delegates were very interested
in the, way in which discipline is
maintained in the Red Army. The
contrast between the rigidly imposed
discipline from on high which is the
rule of capitalist armies. and the self
imposed discipline of the Red Army
struck them forcibly.
Freedom Off Duty
On duty the Red Army soldier SAL
utes his Commander and obeys his
order unquestioningly. Of duty there
is no salute-and Private and Com
mander mingle as freely as any other
two citizens OF free Soviet Republic.
In the uniform of Commander and
Private there is no distinction, ex-
cept in the badge denoting the grade
of commandership which the wearer
has reached.
Such a thing as an Oficers "bat-
man" is unknown. The severest pun
ishment is meted out to any Com
mander who uses his position to get
the Private to perfor''l personal serv-
ices. A Cavalry Officer has a Private
whose duty it is to groom and looA
after his horse, but that is all.
AS 1t was put to the delegation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-16
No Glass Distinctions
Permitted in Ranks;
Part Of the Masses
BY r. BISHOP


NaI,oeOm -o1le ol Ilie liiosV m
CetesCllle Gays spent py tne D.iIisll
woiAels oelesaelolA W Ciie oovleI
o.lion was wlen tney, III company
WIN an tne oCller ioreleil oeiesaeioils
VISITED tl,e MOSCOW fouSe OIL Viie rSeo
ARMY mere Ciiey loulio a1l Amy
wlele ponticS are elicourageo, ho1
olscolraseo, where tiie solulets ate
1auslit 70 Ctinlk lor themselves anu
NY regard themselves 60 iiieie auVo-
fnaCa.
mere Cney 1ouno CoHlnlahoe,S-as
an RANKS ABOVE private are calieo-
VINO ilao II almost every case sprung
from 1ne ranks OF tle working class
OF peaSantry ana whose guloing star
was SOCIALIST constructioii anu lilIer-
national WorKlng-ciaSs soiloarity.
closest Contact
mere taey louno an ARMY OF tne
1oliers VINO are KEPT III cne closest
conoact win tne WORKERS ana peas
anus from wnom they sprang.
In capitalist countries everything
Is aone TO Keep tne army ana tne
.oiiing masses apart-ih tne Sovlet
Union everything IS done 70 Drins
>tnem CLOSELY together so tnat 'ney
may the Detter iignt tneir common
Dattie against worio capitalism an"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-16
Also Great Cultural
Force; Soldiers Get
Political Training

"If Private cleans a Commanders
boots for him, the latter Is brought
before disciplinary court; If his
wife cleans them for him, it goes on
the wall newspaper OF the barracks"
Disciplinary courts exist to which
a soldier of any rank can take any
other Red Army man whom he &C.
cuses of an abuse of power, and on
these courts the private soldier is
fully represented. The Privates who
sit on these Tribunals are elected at
full general meetings of the men.
Delegates were very anxious TO
clear UP the point as to what per-
centage Of Communists were in the
Red Army. Some of them had read
that only Communists were allowed
in.
Even in the Commanding ranks the
percentage of Communists is only IS.
In the ranks the percentage Is about
60 per cent at time of entry, and
about IS per cent at rehabilitation.
The increase being due to the fact
that with the elimination Of illiteracy
which the Army classes ensure, and
with the cultural and political eauca-
ton that is provided, large numbers
Of non Communists see the necessity
Of applying for membership Of the
Party under whose leadership the
great task Of Socialist construction Is
being carried through.
Wherever soldiers are in barracks,
arrangements are made for the work
ers in nearby factories to visit them
and for worker and Red soldier to
fraternize to the utmost. These visits
are returned by the Red Army men,
who bring their xest to. e1lliven the
social evenings run by the factory
workers. ,....,-...,..-,. 1880
What a striking contrast this Is te
the capitalist countries where every
thing possible is done to keep the sol
diers and the workers apart, to pre-
vent them fraternizingl
The Red Army h toilers' army
AN army Of workers and peasants
In more than name. That Is why
the Soviet not only does not fear,
but encourages the naingling to-
gcther Of workers. peasants and
Red Soldiers.
These are the toilers who, in tl1ei
respective spheres. will defend tn
Soviet Union against all its enemies
whether within or without its borders
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-16
Workers I 0rtured,
Murdered in the
Prisoners Camp
G. P. Works Heroically
to Organize Fig hit
Against F'ascism

BERLIN, DEC. 15.-Ten Ger
man Communist workers have
been sentenced to die at the
hands of a Nazi executioner
for an alleged attack on Maxi
Storm Trooper. The Mani Judge.
in handing down the decision said:
"The evidence has shown that
two of the ten workers took part
il the shooting of the Storrt
Trooper. The others had Moth
ing to do with il. But they are
guilty because they wished the
deed done"
BRESLAU. Three eorpses,
bound with rope and weighted With
stones, were just found by work.
ers in the F'iltz Pond near Schneie
berg. One of the bodies was iden-
titled as the body of Communist
Trade Union fraction leader, Hoob.
a Comrade who had suffered Nazi
fortunes for many days before he
disappeared.
BERLIN.-The miner, Theodore
Hebers, was riddled with bullets in
the concentration camp near Essen,
He was one of the leaders in the
Ruhr Valley uprising in 1920. The
Nazis said that he twas trying to
escape"
BERLIN. - The following In
stance is reported by the illegal
G ON munist Press circulated
throughout Germany:
In the East section Of RerIin a
group Of revolutionary workers had
balloons made, to which they affixed
sponge soaked with alcohol. They
set fire to the sponge, and let the
balloons rise into the air, where they
could be clearly seen burning In
the night.
As the flames reached the string.
one by one thousands of Comma
mist leaflets began to drop down
upon the city, where they are
eagerly seized by the workers.
DUSSELDORF.-After being Ia
the hands of the Dusseldorf Police,
the Communist worker, Janek, died
from torture and wounds. His body,
turned over to his family, with the
words che killed himself" was
marked with burns and bruises
BRANDENBURG. - (From
Concentration camp. Part of a
letter struggled out of the concen-
tration camp here states the fol-
lowing: "Even after we are freed,
we cannot leave at once, because
we must wait for the laundry to
wash all the blood from our clothes.
They have to use lysol to remove
the blood-cakes from our shirts"
FRANKFORT. - Konrad Lang,
prominent German Communist
leader in the Landtag, died in the
concentration camp here from the
torture and wounds at the hands
of the Nazis.
BERLIN. - In the station near
Neukoln, the body of Max Lukas
was found, mangled and beaten.
The Nazi police announced the
murder as having been done s'By
hands unknown" 1t is well known,
however, that Lukas was a marked
man by the Nazis because of his
outspoken comments on the Fascist
officials in tha factory ,vhara he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-16

his taking them off.
Protests should be addressed to
Pedro Arcaya, Venezuelan Embassy,
Washington, D. c., from every meet
ing of working class organizations in
the United States, and especially
from every demonstration against the
Leipzig frame-up on Dec. 10Th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-16

Tenth Anniversary issue OF the
Daily Worker, Jan. 6. "a pages.
Articles by leaders Of Communist
Party, U. s. A.; greetings from
leaders Of the world Communist
movement; special features by
staff members. Rush your orders.
Evening star., 1933-09-07
Worlds Wheat Agreement
Called Diplomatic Triumph

Rochester Times Union sees - triumph
for the principles Of international CO.
operation" and the Gary Post-Tribune
holds: THE agreement Is designed to
stabilize world production to . point
which will give growers everywhere .
decent profit. II it shall help to assure
that for the American farmer, We shall
have taken q long step on the road
back to good times"
Extraordinarily good news" Is seen
by the Des Moines Tribune with the
implication that I'VE acknowledge our
intimate and vital involvement with
sion that Russia "is. made . full party
and relinquishes her freedom Of action"
How the acreage feature will be ad-
justed to the production appears to be
in the lap Of the GODS" thinks the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram. but that
paper agrees that "the incident Is valu-
able In that it is the first agreement
Of . number Of nations since the day
international trouble set In" The Oak
land Tribune remarks, Just what the
conference will be able to do toward
stimulating consumption as the price
goes up Is q question" The Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin advises, Human In
telligenee cannot foresee what may
farmers gamble with climatic, insect
and disease conditions
"As matters stand" AYERS the Provi-
dence Journal, "the way seems clear to
have the worlds wheat business thor.
oughly regulated for an indefinite time
to come. Any country, to be sure, can
withdraw from the arrangement on
short notice. But there Is no reason to
believe that, having 20 deliberately
entered into q pact that required many
months of labor and an infinite amount
Of patience to complete. any nation viii
lightly repudiate its bargain"
Evening star., 1933-09-07
Arkansas' Plan.
From the Abiline Reporter.

From the Abiline Reporter.
Arkansas is seeking q solution Of the
bank robbery problem by approaching
the task from q new angle. It proposes
to take the profits out of bank rob-
berry,"
Banks Of the State have been ordered
to keep not more than one per cent Of
their deposits In the form Of cash. II
the days run Of business brings In
more than the one per cent limit, the
excess must be placed Immediately un.
der time lock. While this Is being done,
the doors of the bank must be kept
locked or two armed guards placed On
watch. The question naturally arises
what . bank would do, say. II 1t passed
its one per cent limit at 10 o'clock
In the morning Under the ruling the
excess would have to be placed In thu
vault and the time lock turned On.
What would the hank do with the
money that came In after the vault
was locked? Probably keep It under
guard until the following day when
the time lock could be worked.
The Arkansas plan may seem q
bit farfetched, but 1t has Its practical
side. Insurance companies have re-
fused to insure deposits In the State
against robbery, but one large COM
pany Has notified the banking authors
ties that II the new plan q put into
effect It Will again write policies.
Why not discourage the bandits7
After ell, It u Just plain horse sense
to prevent hold-ups rather than at
tempt to run down the bandits after
the robbery has been committed 81
Evening star., 1933-09-07
Mad arshfoss thus grows s.vhssr and

Mad arehfoss thus grown tighter and
ttghte4.
In the presence Of such Develop
ments, coupled with the Anglo French
italian combination pledged to thwart
Nazi designs against Austria. Il u easy
to understand the dulcet tone adopted
by Chancellor, Hitler at Nuremberg,
despite the known longinss Of his
idolatrous cohorts for . -bellicose note.
The impressive military setting was
well designed for an outburst Of furcf
teutonicus before the brown-shirted
legions aligned In battle array In their
serried tens Of Thousands. Having con-
quered and suppressed the domestic
enemy, the ,embattled minions Of HIT
lerism painted for marching orders
against the external foe. not literally or
right away. but as Inspiration for future
action on "der Tag" What the 10000
picked storm troopers and 2so.ooo
sympathixing civilians heard. instead.
was . cringing peace speech delivered
ct the end Of . four-hour parade.
"The world must not think" cooed
Hitler, that we have the slishtest
wish to win added laurels on the
battlefield. No war could bring US
greater honor than we gained In the
World War. when We held out four
and-a-half years against the entire
world. Our only dishonor came at
home, and that has now been wiped
out"
The swastika Napoleon seems sud-
denly to have seen the light. With
Eastern and Western Europe federated,
or about to be, in an anti-Nazi bloc
spreading from the Baltic to the Adr1-
attic, 1t docs credit to Hitler's political
wisdom that he appears to realize how
futile are NaM designs against the
forces now linked to oppose them.