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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-12
TERRA TIGHTENS
URUGUAYAN HOLD

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, April II.
Gabriel Terro, now dictator of Uru-
quay, has appointed new "Deliber-
alive Assembly" to replace the elected
Congress which he threw out last
week. OF the 80 members, Terra will
personally appoint 81, and the other
48 will constitute fake opposition
appointed by his former supporter in
the Congress, the Socialist" Luis
Alberto de Herrera. The Catholics,
the Batlista ca eper pink majority OF
the social-refoi hists). and the Com
murists, will be completely excluded
from the Assembly Terra will thus
be supported by 3 majority of his
friends picked by himself, opposed by
minority of his near friends, picked
by former ally, while his enemies
Will be entirely ui1represented. Thus
dictatorship arrives, as the last sta~s
Of constitutional democsnsg - !.
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to the hundreds Of agricultural uni
yersitieS and research institutes, end
the tens Of thousands of special rural
schools training the peasants to use
farm machinery and to apply meth
DDS of scientific farming and socialist
business management.
Interest Not Separated.
Nor can one draw dividing line
between the industrial and the
agrarian policy Of the Soviet govern
ment. The entire program of the
Five-Year Plan and the further pro
gram of characterization and develop
ment has for its sole airn--the rails
ing Of the material and cultural nv-
ing standards Of all the toilers OF
ire Soviet Union, peasants and
workers alike. The vast increase in
the output of the so-called light in
dustries" producing articles Of con-
sumption, makes it possible for the
peasants to lead a better life, to dress
better, to furnish their homes better
than before. This improvement is
continuous, and the use of manufac-
tured articles in the villages is grow
ing daily as the peasants acquire a
taste for better living.
Considering the backwardneSs OF
old Russia, considering the fact that
the millions of the Russian peasants
used to lead q life Of misery and
could not afford leather boots OF
shoes, but we're forced to go bare
foot or wear home made "lapti'' Ozark
sandals) and home-spun coarse
clotheS-the improved standards OF
living brought about q demand for
manufactured goods that is not easy
to satisfy.
Supply Still Behind
Despite the enormous increase III
the output Of such goods, the supply
cannot as yet catch up with the de-
mand. The Soviet Government Is do
ing its utmost to develop still further
the manufacture OF articles Of daily
use, and the workers in the cities are
alive with the spirit Of cooperation
between the peasantry and the pro-
Ietariat.
The city workers push the produc-
ton of goods needed by the peasants
whether that be tractors and spare
parts or shoes and kitchen utensils
More than that, the workers send
their best mechanics, their best ad-
ministrators, their best shock-brig.
aders to the villages to teach the
peasants how to use machinery, tx
help the peasants erect farm houses
or power stations.
Those Who Work Now Rule
In fact, when we speak of the So
Wet Government, we really speak Of
the government Of workers and peas
ants. There is no other government
in the Soviet Union, and there is ne
contradiction between the interests o!
the Soviet Government and those o.
the Soviet toiling masses. Capital.
lists, manufacturers bankers, land
lords and grain spectators have Ions
been abolished in Soviet Russia. The
country belongs to those who work
and the government is government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-12
IRISH RAILWAY
STRIKE GAINING
WIDER SUPPORT
Refo11nist TU Leaders
Call Strike Illegal

DUBLIN, April 1.-THE unofficial
strike of the southern railwaymen
called at midnight yesterday against
threatened wage-cutting and for an
increased wage has successfully stop
ped all rail service out OF Dublin,
though the stoppage in the south Of
the Free State is as yet only partial.
1t is expected to be complete by
tomorrow, and may spread to the
north if the workers repudiate the
settlement made at the Belfast Con-
ference. The southern railway
workers are fighting not only the
companies, but also their trade union
leaders, who have refused to sanction
the strike,
The workers will not let the strike
be throttlsd by this corrupt buroc-
racy, but on the contrary, are plan
ming to extend the strike TO other
forms Of transport. Frequent service
by buses relieved Dublin yesterday,
but there is hope Of a sympathetic
strike by the busmen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-12
DEMONSTRATING
COMMUNISTS WIN
CZECH ELECTIONS

AUSSlG, Czechoslovakia,
March % (By Mail). - The
Communists gained an abso-
Lutte majority victory in the
municipal elections held in
Zach, big German-speaking
village, near Deutsch-P ravno.
The Communist Party pol
led $40 votes and Is seats
gaining 100 votes over the
recent national elections),
while the Agrarians got 1853
votes and 10 seats (they form
erly had the majority, the
United German Parties 142
votes and 2 seats, and the
German Carpathian Party got
only II votes.
This brilliant victory is
largely due to the fact that
the Communist Party has led
several successful unemployed
campaigns in this district re-
Gently.
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Two pieces of bread and a cup OF
sugared hot water 5 Centavos
Lunch, plate Of boiled mongo and
a plate OF rice centavos. Dinner,
duplicate of the Luncheon centa-
voe. What kind of food will the
prisoners get for 8 centayos a day,
minus of course the rake-off on food
supplies common in all prisons, and
the rise in prices of foodstuffs caused
by the new tariff laws
Colonel Santos, head of the Blu
reau .of Prisons, says that the pre-
sent prison appropriation would al
low only 8 centavos for food, .O13 for
clothing, laundry. etc, .0I2 centavos
day fer medicine. He boasts OF
having cut the cost OF water so per
cent. For the 1900 prisoners in the
island, $500 of whom are in Bilibid,
the budget for supplies including food
was cut from 645, 694 pesos in 1928
to 347,340 pesos in 1888. "a peso is
so cents.
IF We Could Stop Their Eating"
"Of course, we can economic in
many ways Colonel Santos says.
We can stop the prisoners from
changing clothes too often, ard per-
haps stop them from getting sick
once too often. But how we can
stop them from eating and consum-
ing food, 1 cannot tell
Says the Manila Sunday Tribune ::
Unless it is the government officials
idea to starve the prisoners an addi-
tional punishment, nobody can guess
what the intention was in cutting
down the appropriation for the pris-
oners' food this year. Especially with
the present tendency Of prices to
rise, times will be harder for every
body, and the inmates Of Bilibid will
not be excepted"
81 Cents or SIS Day
It is interesting here to note the
lavish pay and expense accounts
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given the Filipino Commissioners In
Washington, $75 q day as wages, "
plus Expenses" including accomo-
dalton in the best hotels, with num-
erous stenographers and assistants
who do nothing but draw wages.
Speaker RoXas used to get 800 a day
in per dien1s alone, besides his salary,
expenses and allowances. It's great
racket for the Commissioners who
are supposed to demand Philippine
Independence from the U. S. govern
ment, but who have sold out their
countrymen with the most infamous
effrontery. They lick the toes Of
American sugar and tobacco inter
eSts by supporting the so-called Phil
ippine Independence Bill" which
means further enslavement of the
Filipino people and further INNER
sion in the swamp Of U. S. donlina-
ton.
Protest When Quczon Comes
The Communist Party, the revo-
lutionary unions, the Anti Imperial
list League of the Philippines have
been declared illegal and all attempts
at meetings are broken up. Thirty
militant leaders languish in the jails,
while constant arrests and inprison-
ment are the order of the day
throughout the islands.
Now the lackey government Of
QueZon, the president Of the Philip
pine legislature, has prepared a
slow, torturous death by starvation
for these and 1880 other prisoners
in the Philippines.
American workers! In q very short
while Manuel Quezon will arrive in
America. Greet him with a wave Of
protest and anger. Let our solidarity
with our Filipino brothers wildly
manifest itself before the eyes Of the
foremost 1ackey of American impe-
rialisrn in the Philippine Islands.
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Party, and has proposed instead thy
Communist workers enter the s
clalist Party.
The Czech Communist Party re-
plies that the action OF the Socialist
leaders is the open rejection not only
of the Communist offer, but also OF
the unity of the working class in
general" At the moment when ths
German Socialist Party policy of tell
ing the workers that the Hindenburs
state apparatus would stop fascisrt
if the masses would only keep quiet
and reject struggle has paved the
way for Hitler, the Czech socialists
are preparing the ground for fascisns7
in exactly the same manner. Fl
The seven Socialist ministers in tht
Czech cabinet serve to 1ull the mas
sed resistance of the Czech prole-
tariat to sleep.
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German Socialist
Union MiSleaderS;
Sabotage Strike

BERLIN, March 18 (By MaiD.-
The "Freie Gewerkschaft," official
organ Of the German socialist trade
unions contains in its current issue a
complete and abject capitulation to
fascism. Referring to a Red Trade
Union Opposition strike call, the
paper states: "A Daily, hostile to
the workers, reports that the Ham
burg trade unions have the intention
of declaring a political general strike.
There is no truth whatsoever in this
report. The rumor is spread in Or
der to bring the trade unions into
conflict with the ruling powers"
Bid To Fascist Rulers
This betrayal OF the workers strug-
gle against fascism is followed by an
article by Leipart, head of the Ger
man reforn1ist unions, in which an
open bid is made to the fascist rulers.
The trade unions are willing to CO.
operate in any form Of statesman
ship" Leipart assures Hitler. From
the result Of these elections, we de-
duce this lesson" he continues, I'VE
must cleanse our ranks Of those ele-
mentS who, as weak-minded Worship
pers OF Muscovite slogans. -" etc.
In other words, the German re
formist bureaucracy on the one hand
promises to turn the trade union ma
chinery over to Hitler, while on the
other, it carries on the united front
by renewed campaign Of expulsion
against all Communist and militant
working class elements who resist
this betrayal.
The trade union bureaucracy is in
such an impasse that only slogans
it can issue the workers are: Don't
take part in street discussions; re-
frain from participation in crowds
| (Leipart's article
! The capitulation of the German
socialist leadership to faScism, which
the German Communist Party re-
cognized from the first, has nov
reached an open stage of betrayal
The German workers are rapidly
realizing that their only leader in
the class struggle against fascism is
the German Communist Party. The
lower units of the German Socialist
Party are forming united fighting
fronts with communist units on the
streets and in the factories in spite
of the sabotage of the official Ger
man Socialist Party.
PRAGUE, March % (By MaiD -
The Czecho-Sloyak Socialist Party
has decisively repudiated the united
front offer of the Czech Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-12
General Strike IN Cuban Cane
Fields Advancing Toward Revolt

lord clique of Menocal-Mendieta af-
filiated with the "ABC" terrorist or
ganization, which has already at
tempted to wreck the Cuban ,revolu-
tionary movement by substituting in
dividual terror for mass action, tried
to capture control OF the strike move
ment once it had started. The lead
ership however remains firmly in the
hands Of the red industrial union and
the Cuban Communist Party.
Regional Leadership.
The strike struggles were organized
by regional committees set up at the
National Conference with directions
to map out the struggle in each Sec
ton. Mass meetings we're called at
the various factories and districts to
elect fighting committees to carry on
the strike. The struggle in the sugar
mills has reached its present stage of
development partly because of the
careful preparatory organization of
the movement by the Cuban Commu-
mist Party and the revolutionary in
dustrial union.
Grew Out Of Crisis.
The steady fall in the price OF
sugar which has been continuing
since 1920 has reached catastrophe
proportions with the market price
falling to cents pound. Parallel
with this. there has been produc-
ton restriction to SO per cent of the
1929 level. Sugar is the most inn
portant industry Of Cuba--it COM
prlses 80 per cent Of Cuban exports
Thus the collapse OF sugar has rocked
the foundations Of Cuban capitalism
and American investment In Cuba.
The American sugar bsrons In
Cuba (of the billion and a hall. dol
lar American Investment in Cuba
$500, 900 900 - sunk IA Frgsrs have
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of workers and peasants, not OF capt.
talists, bankers and land barons.
1t is the kulaks that have been try
ing desperately to set the masses of
the peasants against their own gov
eminent. 1t is the remnants Of the
former exploiting classes that have
been doing their utmost to mislead
the peasants in the newly established
collective farms by the vicious preach
ing Of the idea of supposed antagon-
ism between the interests of the So
Wet State and those Of the collective
farms.
Particularly In the matter of
"kffebozagotovki" CThe State deliy-
cries Of produce at fixed low prlceS)
has this anti-Soviet propaganda been
used by the kulakS with some effect
among the backward peasants.
But in actual practice, millions of
Soviet peasants realize that they owe
their very lives to the Soviet policy
of storing State supplies Of grain
and other produce.
Found Help In Famine
Countless number Of peasants used
to perish in frequent famines under
the Gzarist regime. When the Boil
sheyiks assumed power in 1917, they
found the country depleted, agricul-
ture as well as industry In a state
of collapse. The Soviet Government
then had no grain stores 70 fall back
upon in case Of emergency. The IA
mine Of 1920 took thousands upon
thousands of lives. The famine play
ed havoc with the peasants also the
next year, for the fields in the Strlck-
en- areas remained unsown for lack Of
seeds.
In 1881 some areas in the Soviet
Union we're again stricken by disas-
trouS crop failure. But no peasants
in those districts died of starvation.
Aid was organized quickly. The So
Vet Government used its States stores
81 grain both to help feed the popula-
ton in the affected territories and
what is just as inlportant-to help
them SOW their fields for the next
crop.
Also last year there we're partial
crop failures in a number of districts,
and again the Soviet government
came forward with loans Of grain to
the stricken peasants.
The Soviet Union needs its State
stores of grain just as the masses of
the Soviet Union need the Soviet
Government and the leadership of the
Communist Party which shapes the
policy Of the Soviet Government.
In a word, the Soviet Government
is the only government in the worlc
which really helps the farmers Of its
country to get on. The Soviet re-
gime is the only political system that
really is based on the interests of
the masses of workers and working
farmers.
Union means two things: It means
the rule Of the toiling people plus
modern science.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-12
Rr ANGEL L. MONnEIAR.

The Associated Press reports that
two discriminatory bills to prevent
the marriage Of Filipinos and white
persons have just been passed by the
California Legislature and sent TO
Governor Rolph for approval.
For over a decade, American land
owners and businessmen Of the State
Of California have been fighting say
sgely to legal1e public racial discrim-
nation. The XII Klux Khan repre-
sents the people Of wealth and stand
ing in parts Of California, it is striv-
ing its utmost to create new racial
divisions among the workers in order
to prevent q unified working class
struggle against boss oppression.
This bill, If approved by the Gov
ernor, will force the Filipino race into
the same segregated position as the
Negro race.
This bill legalizes racial inferiority;
1t is an attempt to isolate Filipinos
from the rest Of ths workers Of the
world.
Haywood Patterson was sentenced
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A Government That Actually Helps the Farmers

agricultural products are at such
low level that the peasant cannot
even obtain the worth of his la
hor. He mortgages his land to the
landlord or the bank, but he has
nothing to pay interest with. He
has not yet settled his previous debt
to the landlord or bank from whom
he bought his plot of land. The
interest on these debts keeps
mounting, the government raises its
taxes, but the prices of grain and
other farm products sink lower
and lower.
"In the end, the authorities ap-
pear, attach his entire property and
sell it at auction. Left without
shelter and without work, because
due to the crisis 1t Is impossible to
find work either in town or in
country, millions Of toiling peas
ants with their families, with their
small children go begging"
No Soviet peasant has to beg for
a living, unless he prefers begging to
working. No Soviet farmer has to
fear the auctioneer, for the land OF
the peasants is not mortgaged and is
theirs as long as they are willing to
cultivate it. No Soviet farm has to
worry about disposing of its product.
There is always a ready market for
them. The government gets a small
portion of the crop at low prices, the
rest can be sold at profitable market
prices in any quantity.
Easy Credits.
The Soviet farmers, too, borrow
money in order to extend their bust
ness, to erect new farm buildings, to
buy farm and inventory, etc.
But the money is advanced by state
banks on the easiest possible terms !;
and if it should happen that because
Of crop failure or another such
misfortune, the collective farm is I'M
able to meet its payment on time,
the state bank will not pres
the debt, but, on the contrary, Will
advance further credits and in every
way help the farm improve its posi-
ton.
This is not all. The Soviet govern
ment has invested billions of rubles
in agriculture for the purpose of inn
proving the farms and the economic
condition of the peasants. Vast
quantities Of agricultural machinery
including 10000 tractors, have been
made available to the collectivized
farms. $500 Motor-Track Stations
have been established in all parts OF
the country, each MIS-. supplying
machine-service to all the collective
farms Of its district.
A Premium on Good Work.
In return for this service the col
lectiYe farms used to pay small fees
on a per-hectare basis Now the Mo
tor Tractor Stations will receive a
small percentage OF the crops they
cultivate. The change has been made
for the purpose of furnishing to the
personals of the Motor Tractor Sta
tons an added inducement to dc
their work efficiently and to get the
maximum yield from the land they
cultivate, in other words, a premium
upon good work.
In establishing the Motor Tractor
Stations, the Soviet government gave
the farmers not only modern farr:s-
machinery, but also an army of farm
experts who teach the colhozes how
to cultivate their land and how to
run their business. Actually, every
MIS-. is an agricultural college for
the Soviet farmers, this in addition
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HAVANA, April 1.-THE m a s
strike in the Cuban sugar mills and
plantations has already spread to six
provinces and is taking on an in
surrectionary character. The 10000
workers involved in the conflict have
organized into picket corps and self
defense groups against the terror and
military repression which the Ma
chado imperialist government is WIS.,
iting on the strike movement, These
corps are of proletarian and poor
peasant composition. Hacians, Span
iards and Cubans are fighting side
by side In the ranks Of the strike
movement; a workers militia is de-
veloping.
Rises Toward InsurrectioD
The movement has grown to such
mass proportions that the Machado
government is being forced to aban-
don its old weapon Of individual as
sassination. Entire regiments are be-
ing sent into the strike area; per-
secutions and firing on the defense
corps are taking place. The workers
are meeting this repression by seiz-
ing and taking over the factories in
certain instances; in others, the red
flag with the hammer and sickle is
being flown over the mills. The sugar
strike is the core Of q vast move
ment Of economic conflict which is
sweeping Cuba, is involving the
middle and poor peasants, and is
necessarily developing to g politica
and discretionary lcyel.
Red Union Leaders
The strike movement was prepared
at National Conference OF worker,
in the sugar industry called at tl1s
initiative of the Sugar Workers IN.
dustrisl Union. Tbs bourysois-lar.d.
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before the Japanese assault. Sue
cessful thanking advances occurred
simultaneously from Hsifenkow and
Chiehlin. The immediate object Of
today's drive was TO bring the ma
tural line Of defense formed by the
triangle between the Ivan River and
the Great Wall under Japanese con-
troll. With this achieved, the line Of
military advance into Tientsin and
Peiping is clear.
Rumors that the japanese Cabinet
will resign, because 1t differed with
the War Office on the desirability of
an advance beyond the Great Wall
at the present juncture, are current.
The Ssito Cabinet, should It fan, will
be replaced by another emergency
dtctstortal government more strongly
chauvtnist In charectee.
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Will recognize the Japanese controlled
Manchukuo Government in return
for a japanese agreement to abolish
the unequal treaties.
It is reported that year ago
Chang Kai-shek made deal with
the Japanese in order to get back
into power. During these conversa-
lions, he is said to have stated that
he preferred Japan to the Soviet
Union as neighbor.
Japanese Advance,
CtiANGCHUN. Manchuris, April
liza Japanese offensive, backed by
heavy artillery and airplane squad
rons, opened on q 200-nlile front this
morning, driving the Chinese defend
ing armies In q disorierly retreat
through the Ivan River Valley. The
city of Lwaengkov, last Chinese
stronghold on the Great WAL, SeA
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attempted several restriction plans
in order TO save their dwindling pro-
fits. With the collapse Of these plans,
the capitalist way out is taking the
form Of ever sharper wage cuts at the
expense of the plantation workers.
At the same time, the semi-slave
Semi-feudal conditions of plantation
work are being used as basis for
renewed exploitation.
Terror RACES.
The Machado Government at
tempted to crush the Red Trade I'm
ion movement by falling three of the
Rest known revolutionary working
class leaders in Cuba. Jorge A. Vivo,
well known international labor leader,
Joaquin Ordoqui, head of the red OPP
position in the railroad unions, &C.
sar Villar, General Secretary of the
National Workers Confederation OF
Cuba, along with many others have
been imprisoned.
The Anti-Imperialist League, the
I. L. D., and IL other organizations
have demanded the release of these
comrades, and demanded information
concerning their fate from the Gu
ban Consulate. The Consulate has
not replied.
Must Have World Wide Support.
These leaders of the Cuban revolu-
tionary working class will be assas-
sinated by the Machado butchers un-
less international mass action of the
working class is modified. A mass
protest demonstration before the
Cuban Consulate, II Battery Place,
has been called for II a. m, Satur-
day, April 18th by the Communist
Party, the Anti-Imperialist League,
the YCL, the T.U.UL., and eleven
other organizations s..,s,zssasvssxA