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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31
City Finances

TODAY the Government of New York City put
through typical capitalist city transaction.
1t will borrow 100000 from the Morgan Rookie
Teller clique of Wall Street banks.
What are they going to do with this money! They
could pay the rent of several thousand workers fam
lies who face eviction
They could feed several thousand starving and I'M
dernourished workingclaSs children. They could do
lots of things with that money.
But actually the City is borrowing this money sole
" to pay the whole sum back the very next day rs
interest payments the bankers loans! The City
b borrowing from the bankers to pay the bankers!
That's how the Untermeyer tax agreement works in
actual practice.
Every capitalist candidate has given his pledge to
carry out this agreement. La Guardia Mckee and
OBen have pledged to continue this cynical robbery
of the Citys population to pay the Morgan Rockefeller
bankers their fat profits.
The Socialist candidate, Solomon, has de-
clared that he would break this rotten and infamous
contract with the Wall Street bankers. He actually
praised the original Untermeyer program being
very very good program
Robert Minor, the Communist candidate for Mayor
alone of all the candidates, has definitely declared
that he would tear up the Unteneyer tax agreement
the first day he took office He alone would put an
immediate stop to this capitalist robbery Of the City
to pay the Wall Street bankers. He would levy taxes
the rich He would take 1919 Of the huge fortunes
of the rich by a capital levy,
A vote for Minor is vote against the bankers! It
Is vote to end the Untermeyer tax agreement,
agreement that taxes the workers
and small home owners wage cuts for the civil
service employees, and the end of the ve-cent fare
Vote Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31
Mutineers of Dutch
Navy to Go on Trial
LID, Calls for Protest
kilograms to Envoy

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 30.-Trial of
$40 Indonesian and Dutch sailors Of
the Seven Provincien," Dutch bat
tleship, who participated in mutiny
in the Dutch East Indies last Feb
ruary, will open at Surabaya, East
Java, Dutch East Indies, Tuesday.
The International Roode Hulp Il.
L. d. Of Holland is leading an in
ternational campaign of protest for
the release of these prisoners. Work
ers are called on to send protests to
the Dutch embassy and consulates.
They have been held In quaran-
tine hospital on the island of Onrust,
near Batavia, which has been turned
into a concentration camp, and most
of them, 1t has been learned, have
been attacked by the beri-beri, a
dietary disease which threatens to be
fatal to them, aside from the pun
ishment that awaits them from the
military court.
The mutiny. which was on the
part Of the participants a sort Of
general strike and not in any sense
an armed rising, was smashed by a
bloody aerial attack upon the Seven
Provincien,' in which is Indonesian
and three Dutch sailors were MUIR
dered.
Even the report Of the military
committee of inquiry is forced to adj
nit that the wage reductions against
which the strike was called at per
cent for Indonesian sailors, IA per
cent for the Dutch Sailors "is in
finitely worse lowing to the low level
Of the original wages than its per-
centage-high as it is-would sug-
gest."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31
Chinese Red Army
Moves to Wanshien
Marking Govt in Sc
we're Financial Crisis

SHANGHAI, Oct. 30.-With the
Red Army of China approaching the
important city of Wanhsien, the rich
merchants, landowners, usurers and
gentry are fleeing to Ichang and Han
kow, reports here from the upper
Yangtze River state.
The huge anti Communist drive led
by Chang Kai Shek is unable to
stem the advance of the Chinese Red
Army on almost all fronts. At the
same time, the Marking government
is faced with severe financial crisis.
The catastrophe crisis that has grip
ped China for the past two years
has been further intensified by the
wholesale graft Of the Chiang-Soong
regime, and by the heavy expendi-
lures in the futile campaign to wipe
out the Soviet territories.
T. v. Strong, finance minister, has
offered his resignation, but whether
in or out of office. as the richest
banker OF the country, he will control
government finances.
In order to bludgeon more millions
from Wall Street, T. v. Soong has
invited the English banker, Sir Ar
thur Salter, and Dr.. Louis w. Rajch-
man, both League of Nations repre-
sentatives, to come to Marking to
discuss finances.
The aim Of this move Is to get
an addition to the s50,000,0o0 loan
granted by the Roosevelt regime.
The financial difficulties, resulting
mainly from the heavy graft levied
by the Chang Soong dynasty, will
help to undermine the anti-Soviet
campaign. The first to feel the eff
feet will be the Marking soldiers, who
will not be paid. This accounts for
Chang Kai Shek's orders to pro
coed slowly" against the Red Army.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31
First Burck Original
Goes to Highest Bid
In Daily Fund Drive

The original drawing of Saturdays
cartoon, you Can't Fatten the Bird
on Red Herring" goes to group of
comrades who are going to fight 1t
out among themselves for final pos
session. Their contribution was SSH.
The Pen and Hammer Club was run
ner-up with contribution Of S..
Better luck the next tine). Total,
SOIL.
Bids for Mondays cartoon of Nor
gan's Storm Troopers" will arrive
with Tuesdays mail. The winner Of
this original Burck drawing, and the
names of the other bidders will be
announced in Wednesdays paper.
What are we bid2 What Is the
bid for today's drawing? Going,
going for the third time -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31
Drum Head Trials

TOR more than ten weeks coal miners on strike In
Gallup New Mexico have faced the gistening bay
onets that symboized martial law Their children
have been ridden down by the cavalry. Their leaders
have been thrown into military stockades and starved
when they refused to dig latrines
No brutality no knavery too low for the mill
tary rulers, headed by General Wood in effort
10 es the strike led by the National Miners Union.
1t the MIRA. administration, clothed in the uni
fo.l Ct militia officers failed to break the miners
So-<r.T. When victorious settlement was forced
ID o. m.2a. it so enraged the strkebreaking military
u ct thy decreed drum head trials for the strike
-rt Roberts, NMU leader and George Kaplan
I.-- nal Labor Defense organizer we're tried
The l@gss were majors, captains and lieutenants
I.5 g2-a denied all civil rights. The very officers
~ a the smashing up of picket lines, the officers
Woo t-clnplcd down s5rilzc-s children we're the
who ne cd sentence the strike leaders.
THE paIalty for leading the strike despite martial law
six months in the panitentiary.
When Herbert Benjamin, leader of the unemployed
In many national struggles and hunger marches,
TO Gallup in the course of tour across the country
for the Unemployed Councils he was Immediately
clapped into the stockade His crime greeting the
strikers the of the unemployed and organized
workers throughout the country.
The militaryis particularly hatred against Benja-
min was expressed in the extraordinary drum head
trial accorded him. Ben janlin had committed the
heinous crime of escaping from the military torture
barracks to get away from the brutality and the
forced hunger
He made defiant defense And for all this he
sentenced to year in the state peniten-
tiary at hard labor.
All of these leaders by in the penitentiary.
Their fate is in the hands Of Governor Hockenhull.
From every part of the country should loud
protest raised against this military frame-up and the
drum head strikebreaking trials
Every workers organization should send inmediato
Geographic protests to Governor Hockenhun Santa
Fe New Mexico. Demand the release of Roberts
Kaplan and Benjamin! Demand the withdrawal of
the troopsi Let your voice be heard now!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31
Close Cooperation of Workers. Peasants and
Soviet Power of China Is Secret of
Success Against Kuomintang

tilling their farms. etc.
AFTER the twelfth plenum OF the
n Communist International, the
mistakes and shortcomings of the
land law and labor protection law
were remedied. Each peasant has
been given definite piece of land,
which is no longer to be divided.
AS regards the labor protection law,
it is no longer enforced as mechani-
cally as before. A definite change has
been wrought also in the field of
economic policy. For this reason, the
sowing campaign Of this spring has
passed rather successfully.
Production columns, shock brigades,
sowing columns, were organized and
the practice of revolutionary compe-
tition was introduced. There are 243
production co-operatives in the CEN
trail Soviet territory, and go in the
Huan-Kiangsi district. OF special
Importance is the change of methods
employed to find means for the main
tenance of the Red Army. Formerly,
the Red Army had to supply itself at
the front. by confiscating the proper
ty Of the landlords and gentry, and
If this was insufficient, the interests
OF the middle peasants sometimes
suffered. Now 1t is the government
which bears all the expenses.
There can be no doubt that the
perfection Of the Soviet machinery
resulted in a change in economic pol
icy, and aroused much enthusiasm,
and a readiness to fight for the So
Wet power among the masses. Only
in this way have we succeeded in de-
feating the Kuomintang.
THE working class of the Soviet ter
i ritory, led by the red trnde unions,
played an important part :, this VIC
tory. 1t is well-known that in the
Gays of Li-Li Hsiang there were no
trade union organizations on the ter
ritory Of the Soviets. At the present
time there are already 100000 or
ganized trade union members in So
Wet China. There are unions Of farm
workers, unions in the different in
dustries, unions of coolies, unions of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31

commercial employees and other
unions in all the Soviet regions. In
July, August and September, 1882,
the trade unions OF Kiangsi modified
5000 workers into the Red Army. BY
May LIST Of this year another 10000
workers Joined the army.
The workers raised the productivity
of labor in the war factories and
thereby helped the Red Army fight
ing on the front. Thus the ammuni-
ton plant in the northeast OF
Kiangsi used to produce only 5000
cartridges; during the fifth campaign
it turned out 5000 cartridges daily.
In western Fukien the paper manu-
facturcrs sabotaged the order to in
increase production and export paper
into the Kuomintang territory on the
basis Of commodity exchange. The
workers themselves took up the strug-
gle for an Improvement OF output.
This resulted in an unusual produc-
ton boom in the given Soviet regions.
rHIANG KAI-SHEK, who surrend-
y cred Manchuria, Jehol and North
China to Japan, has been forced to
discard the lying slogan Of a Stub
born defensive fight against Japan"
and openy decared that anyone dar-
ing to speak OF the fight against
Japan will meet with a severe PEN
atty. "Our entire struggle now Is
directed against the Communists" he
said.
Tho yy,orr;v,+oy,o hos ora,f, ynohi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31
5000 Declare No Nazis
Shall Meet in N. Y.

NEW YORK. - Seventy-five police
and detectives, with 100 national
guardsmen in reserve, were stationed
in the 10th regiment armory, 25th
st. and Lexington Ave-, Sunday night,
while 5000 workers demonstrated
outside in answer to the Nazi chal-
lenge to the workers of New York.
The workers gave thunderous ova-
lions to the oft-repeated statement
of various speakers that the workers
would not permit any Nazi meetings
in New York. A collection was taken
for the aid of victims of Hitler's ter
ror regime.
After an hour and a half of mill
tant speeches by speakers of various
workers organizations, the chairman,
Pauline Rogers, secretary of the New
York Committee to Aid Victims Of
German fascism, which called the
demonstration, adjourned the meet
ing, which turned into a spontaneous
parade, pushing aside police inter-
ference, and ending in Union Square
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31

Speed Fire Trial to
Pass Sentences On
Eve Of Nazi Voting
Witness Arrested as
Nazi Perjurers Go
Free

AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER.
Oct. 80 (Via zurich) An obvious
attempt to speed up the Reichstag
fire trial with the apparent purpose
of passing heavy terror sentences on
the eve of the Nov. IL referendum
could be noticed by all at today's
session of the trial in the Reichstag
building, Berlin.
A sensation was caused by the ar
rest on charge of perjury of a
minor witness today. This arrest is
in striking contract to the open and
evident perjury of whole series of
Nazi witnesses who have contradicted
themselves and each other on vital
points throughout the trial.
A man named Soenker, at whose
home Vassil Taneff stayed, testified
that he had known Taneff in
Bucharest, had met him accidentally
in Berlin, and offered him room,
not knowing he was Communist
Tell the truth" Taneff said to
the witness. "You have nothing to
fear"
Witness Is Arrested
Taneff then testified that Soenker
had not known him previously, that
he had been introduced by one Peter,
a friend of Popoff.
Soenker finally admitted this, ex-
planning he was afraid to be involved
in the affair. Judge Buenger halted
thu YNrNaondf,,pre 10 O,,rsa. l,s
date arrest for perjury.
Soenker was followed on the stand
by Detective Bunge, of the special
committee investigating the fire,
whose testimony demonstrated that
Hans Weberstedt, Nazi press bureau
chief, had perjured himself on Sat-
urday.
Weberstedt, whose Identification"
of Van der Lubbe and Taneff as hav-
ing been seen with Ernst Torgler was
not made until month after the
investigation into the fire began, had
explained that he had tried to tell
the inquiry commission about it, but
that they had refused to listen.
Bunge declared positively that this
was not so.
Dimitroff Demadns Inquiry
Judge Buenger, who had just or
dered the arrest for perjury of Seen
ker, declared: "Bunge must certainly
be mistaken"
George Dimitroff, one OF the four
Communist defendants, demanded
again that the court call the Off
Gals Of the police shelter in Hem
ningsdorf, where Van der Lubbe
spent the night before the fire, to
learn what company he had there,
and how he spent the morning of
the fire. Again the prosecutor COM
batted the suggestion, declaring it
was useless"
Another Nazi deputy, named Rup-
zen, then took the stand, and re-
fused to reply when Dimitroff asked
him to what party he belonged.
"Are you ashamed to answer2"
asked Dimitroff.
Again Judge Buenger turned on
Dimitroff and ordered him to be
silent.
IT meant no insult" was Dimitroff's
reply. "This is a political trial, and
must defend myself against polit-
ical accusations by political argu-
rnents."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31
Hard to Hide

VESTERDAY the Federal Reserve Bank at Washing
ton let the MIRA cat out of the bag
Its latest monthly economic report distinctly states
two things which give the direct lie to the recent
bayhoo speeches of President Roosevelt and confirm
the Communist analysis of the fleet of the MIRA on
the economic crisis.
The bank report states:
"The decline in industrial activity during the
past two months has come in large measure In
the industries in which expansion previously had
been most rapid. 1t has also been marked in
industries in which processing taxes codes have
become effective recently"
For the past two months there has been
reaction In industry from the exceptionally rapid
expansion Of activity during the Spring and early
Summer months"
THE N.A thus has not only failed to stop the down.
ward rush of the crisis, but has, in fact made the
crisis worse That's the first thing the Federal Re-
report aditssx months after the Daily Worker
and the Communist Party have been making the very
analysis of the MIRA.
And the second thing the bankers report admits is
that the recent squirt of Roosevelt prosperity" during
the Summer months hollow, false and rotten in
nationary BOOM" not based any sound foundation
Of actual buying by the ultimate consumers but based
solely on the historical speculation based on fears Of
further Roosevelt inflationary increases In prices
Even the Federal Reserve Bank can no longer hide
the fact that the MIRA has actually made the crisis
worse by causing artificial piling up manufactured
goods on top Of the previous mountain Of unsod sur
plus goods Overproducon" in the face Of the pow
erty OF the masses the basic cause Of the crisis has
been intensified by the NRA.l
go, at last the truth hammered out day IN and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31
Soviet China Gains Strength Resisting Marking

Editors NOte.-The sixth anti
Communist campaign of the Chi
nese Kuomintang government
against the Soviet districts, which
now cover a sixth of the area Of
China, and embrace population
Of 50,00O,G00, Is now in full swing.
The largest army the Kuomintang
has ever sent into the field is oper-
ating with bombing planes, poison
gas, and modern artillery, with the
help Of many American, British,
German, and other foreign military
experts, and sustained by huge
loans, among them a loan Of $780,
000,090 from the American govern
ment.
The following IS an extract from
report on the situation within the
Soviet territories, and the prepa-
rati0ns to resist the Kuomintang
offensive, and go over to the coun-
ter-Offensive, to win new territory
for the Soyiets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31
By KON-sIN

THE authority Of the central gov
l eminent of Soviet China is grow
ing day by day. A cleansing has
been carried out in all the Soviet in
situations, and the counter-revolu-
tlonary elements have been expelled
from the apparatus. The workers and
peasants are being drawn into the
work of the Soviets. In the Soviet
apparatus there are on the average
30 per cent of workers. Sympathy to
the Soviet power is extremely great.
In the central district, the workers
voluntarily buy bonds in the loans
which the government issues and IN
dertake to distribute these bonds.
Many workers give up their bonds,
returning them to the government,
saying: 1--WE do not want to consider
our government to be debtor to us"
The friendly relations between the
Red Army and the population have
become even more close than they
were before. In the central Soviet ter
ritory women frequently accompany
their men in the recruiting cam
paigns of the Red Army dor instance
in the district of Shanghai, singing
the song Everybody into the Red
Army" Families compete with each
shoes for the Red
Army. In the rear, the masses are
giving every possible assistance to
the families OF the Red Armymen,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31

District Is, c. p, Milwaukee,
writes, eve were slow in starting,
but we are speeding up to make the
Daily Worker $4,000 Drive q
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-05
Sanitation Problem
Is Worry at Tampico

Tampieo. Mexico. Oct. S. - @ ~
Problems Of relief and sanitation
arising from . hurricane 10 days ago
and subsequent floods became In
creasingly serious Thursday and Of
ficials planned to order evacuation Of
1000 refugees to tighten the task Of
caring for more than 1000 additional
homeless.
Medical authorities awaited arrival
from Dallas Of an emergency chlori-
nation apparatus they hoped could
make possible q pure water supply.
FOOD supplies ran low. but . train
with provisions was expected Thurs
day from the United States.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-05
Headache Is Boon
In Fan Dance Case

Chicago, oct. 5.-R-The pain
Juror Joseph +. Meyers says he had
In his head may have been just =
headache to him, but to Sally Rand,
the fan dancer. it may prove to be an
asset.
IT suggested the possibility that she
may receive Z new hearing on .
charge Of giving m indecent exhibi-
ton, for which she recently was SEN
fenced to q year in jail and to pay
fine Of 5000.
The headache entered the litigation
Wednesday when Attorney Samuel
Berke filed m affidavit BY Meyers.
q member Of the jury that convicted
Mis- Rand. saying he wished 70 acquit
her, but was overwhelmed b. the Or.
guments Of the other jurynen and
WAS anxious to get out q the jury
chamber because q his aching had
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-05
Vacancies Announced
At Local Army Post

Vacancies at Fort Lincoln for II
men between 10 and IS years Of age
have been announced by Colonel w.
G. Harris, commander Of the 18th In
fantry, q. 8. army. All men inter-
ested and eligible may apply In per-
son ct post headquarters. Fort Lin
coin. Eligible men win be selected In
the order In which they report.
All applicants must be physically
sound. Men having . high school
education and those having q trade
will be given preference. All under
q years old must have parental con-
sent In writing II order to enlist,
The enlistment period Is three years
the government to furnish clothing
food. shelter and pay. To start. pay
Is $2l.O0 per month, less Is per cent
national economy act deduction.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-05
Debt Discussions
Opened at Capital

Washington, Oct. 5.-(ReFinancial
spokesman Of two governments gath
cred to discuss around a treasury con-
ference table Thursday the $9,658, 900,
600 owed the United States by Great
Britain.
Representatives Of the London gov
eminent sought to press Britain's de-
sire to end payments on war loans
which, under the 1922 funding agree
;nent. stu have 81 years to run. They
we're Sir Frederick Leith-Ross and
T. K. Bewley.
Undersecretary Dean Acheson Of
the treasury and Frederick Lvesey,
assistant economic advisor to the
state department. received the visitors.
Acheson and Livesey opened Discus
sions with full knowledge that con-
gress-which has the final say on any
debt changes-flatly opposed cancel
lation or reduction. Sterilization Of
the pound and dollar were forecast
for consideration before the meetings
are over.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-05
Youth COnfesses to
Stealing Army Guns

Wahpeton. N. D., Oct. 5.-lRe Joe
De Arment, charged with stealing
rifles from the National Guard arm
DRY here in September, was ordered
held to federal court trial when ar
raigned before United States Com
missioner 0ustave Schiller here
Thursday. The charge Is grand lar
ceny from the federal government.
De Arment has confessed to steal
ing the rifles from the armory and
that he sold them to two Strangers
for SO. The strangers he refused to
name. even Thursday, when advised
that he might expect clenency II he
revealed identity Of the two men.
The strangers" are believed TO be
the men who robbed the Pipestone
National bank Sept. 80. The car used
In the robbery, with two Of the rifles
stolen from Wahpeton, In It, was sub
frequently found ut Watertovn, 8. D.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-05
LANCER Moratorium
is Declared Invalid

Fargo. N. D, Oct. S.-R3-0over-
nor william hangers debt morator-
ium was held void BY Judge n. J..
Englert. Valley City, IN an action ap-
pealed to Cas- county district court
from Justice court In Fargo resulting
from the mortgage foreclosure ON .
Fargo home.
The Judge held, however, that un-
der present economic conditions the
mortgage holders should give the de-
PENDANTS IN opportunity to attempt
to refinance their loan through the
home owners loan corporation.
The action WAS brought In Justice
court by the tnterior Lumber Com
pany against Agnes Anderson and Al
fred J. Anderson. Fargo, to have the
defendants ousted from ! house upon
which the plaintiff had foreclosed !
mortgage and acquired : slaeFiffs
doed. II