Montana labor news., 1933-02-16
REVOLTS SWEEP
WORLD AS HUN
GER GROWS

NEW YORK-(FP)-The first half
of February not only was marked by
the continued downward spiral of EN-
ployment and farm prices in America
but was marked by worldwide re-
volts in such varied spots as American
farms, Dutch battleships in Java, Lon
don, Uruguay, Rumania, Cuba, Ger
many and Turkey.
Natives at the Surabaya naval sta
ton in Java revolted when their pay
was cut II per cent and 425 were ar
rested. A few hours later 400 natives
mutinied on a battleship, arrested the
nine Dutch officers aboard and set sail
to release their comrades at Surbaya.
Other ships set out to stop them
wondering what the overwhelming
majority of native seamen would do
if ordered to fire on their race.
In the United States several farm
ers who tried to scab on a farm strike
were wounded but the main interest
continued to center on the stopping
of foreclosure and tax sales. Hun
dreds of farmers met in 22-below-zero
weather in Minnesota and waited
grimly for one person to dare to bid
-. co.-. -, ,,vLsnA fhat.s hof.
had lived 81 years. None dared. In
dozens of other places throughout the
country sales foreclosing farm equip
ment were turned into "Sears-Roebuck
sales" by the buying in of horses at
10c a head and cattle at sc a head.
A new technique included the drop
ping of a hangman's moose down from
the barn loft in the center of the
crowd. The farmers have shown very
clearly, under the leadership Of local
Committees of Action, that they will
not allow their neighbors' chance to
live to be legally but dishonesty
taken from them. No official has yet
dared to use violence to dispense farm
ers and what would happen if one did
is not clear.
In Rumania strikes against Amer
lean oil companies caused revolts and
King Carol put his country's capital
and important other sections under
martial law. Perhaps to defend the
action against press attacks, it was
intimated that a Communist revolu-
ton impends.
Some 100000 workers staged the
| biggest labor demonstration London
has ever seen in protest against the
record of the reactionary Macdonald
government on Feb. 5. For hours
great masses of industrial and farm
workers marched through Picadilly
in what was called Britain's greatest
demonstration for a century. The
100, 900 marchers modified by the La
Dor Party, the Trade Union Congress
and the cooperative movement were
cheered by a crowd fully as great whC
listened to former cabinet ministers OF
the soapboxes.
In Germany the spirit of revolt has
been growing rapidly since Adolpf
Hitler became chancellor. A Social
ist mayor who arrested a Fascist fol
attacking and severely beating !
Reichsbanner Socialist army MAJ
and had released him after question
ing was shot to death-in the back
by an assassin who called out NOV
for the reckoning" as he fired. Tn
deaths have mounted almost daily a
the revolt against Fascism grows ant
Communists and Socialists battle HIT
ler's storm troops. "Is it the begin
ming of the revolution?" everyone Il
asking.
In Cuba the fight against tn
Machado dictatorship has grown t.
such an extent that the most conser
vative of American papers are ad
hitting that scores have been kille'
by the secret police and hundreds hav