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Evening star., 1933-07-09
KANSAS BUSINESS
WELL ON UPGRADE
Wheat Crop Damaged, but
Farmers SpecuIations May
Make Up Losses.
BY CLIFF STRATTON.

TOPEKA, Kans., July 8-Kansas,
leading wheat State of the Union, is
short on wheat this year; short on
stock water for cattle: droughtS are
burning up the pastures and firing"
the corn crop: but business is on the
upgrade just the sama.
In Topeka last month more low
priced automobiles were sold than in
June of 1929. Sales Of higher-priced
cars were not so large Retail dry goods
stores and department stores report
volume of business for May was S per
cent above May last year and on a
higher price level. For June the retail
trade was IA per cent above June of
All Crops Short.
All crops are short, but confidence in
the future is growing steadily Shawnee
County-Topeka is the county seat as
well as the capital city Of Kansas
marketed 100000 of funding bonds this
week, bearing Az per cent interest.
They sold at premium of $33.6l a
thousand.
Trade conditions over the eastern
two-thirds of the State are reported
similar to those in Topeka The west
ern third of the State. where wheat Is
the mainstay, is holding its own-it
might even have a boom by Fall. In
fact, the southwestern counties of the
State would be destitute this Winter, in
all probability, but for the 100000, 900
wheat subsidy to be paid wheat growers
by the Federal Government under the
domestic allotment plan.
The State administration Is straining
every nerve to put money into Western
Kansas. Gov. Landon has directed
Harry Darby, State highway commits
sioner. to spend as much of the S10,-
1000 highway fund from the Federal
section Of the industrial control act in
Western Kansas as possible. The first
contracts for this section Of the State
will be let next week.
The wheat market right now is pour
ing paper profits" into the destitute
southwest at a great rate also. Dodge
City. Hutchinson, Garden City and a
number of smaller cities have gone wild
over the bull market in wheat. Where
the growers get the money the local
bankers cannot understand, but the
wheat belt is playing the wheat market
instead Of growing wheat this year.
Have Made Thousands.
So far the small-town SPECTATORS, all
Of whom apparently are buying long,
have cleaned up thousands of dollars.
II the price continues to go up, South
west Kansas, in spite of a wheat crop
failure-in spite of windstorms that left
four counties bare as the Desert of
Sahara"-may make more money from
speculating in wheat than it has the
three past years from growing wheat
that is, If the wheat market continues
to 60 up.
Every county, municipality and school
district went on a cash basis July !.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
BY T. w, b. ANDERSON.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHOENIX, Ariz. July s.-Arizona 9.
may be among the first of the States to
recover from the depression and her re-
covery doubtless will be effected without
relying upon the States major indus
try-copper production.
With more than 10000 young men
from Texas, California and Arizona,
comprising this States complement of
the Civilian Conservation Corps under
the $12,00o,0 900 appropriated to Arizona
for reforestation work, the several forest
areas present busy scenes. Ten million
dollars of the appropriation will be
spent in national forests and 100000
on Indian reservations, the latter work
being directed largely to arresting ero-
sion.
Five thousand Arizonans are looking
forward to employment through the
$1,000, 900 Appropriated to this State
through Ee1kral. aid relief for highway
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26
USSR DEFINES AN
AGGRESSION STATE

GENEVA May 25.-T'he Security
Commission of the Disarmament
Conference has adopted for discussion
today a formula for defining an "ag-
gressor" which is based on the sug-
gestions presented recently by Lit
vinov, Soviet Foreign Commissar, and
which goes very much further than
the definition proposed by Norman
Davis two days ago.
The Soviet formula, presented by
Valerian Dovgalevsky, lists the fol-
lowing acts as constituting aggression;
the declaration of war; the invasion
by armed forces Of the territory Of
another state with OF without a de-
claration of war; an attack by land,
naval or air forces; a naval blockade
or support to armed bands formed
within the state which have invaded
another state or refusal to deprive
such bands of protection. The Soviet
delegation also made clear that in its
view aggression could not be excused
or justified in any instance by poll
ticsl, military seonosnAc- 81 etssr con-
stiMatieQA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26
Tammany GreetS Weidemann
with Blood!

Thwarting the Vaccinations the
Department with Washington embassy
Germany yesterday
the envoy Wedemann
America
demonstration the
the North Lloyd 58h Brooklyn
their banners and pacads dnounng the Hitler regime demanding
the release of the of the Hitler
of action for the fighting organizations the German working
The attack the demonstration
mounted police and patromen York. Unfortunately smuggling
Others scattering
with blood capitalist fitting
stained representative of fascist Germany
machine leading
pretended indignation against
antSemc atrocities of the Hitler police
only OPP
ponents of everything that Hitler stands
Fourteen workers arrested during the brutal
the ntWdemann demonstration of them
of felonious assault The of these IA
ing this in the Magistrates Court
Avenue Brooklyn.
The workers of New York City must regard obligation
of proetarn solidarity
judges that these fourteen
workngcs against barbaies
of Wall Streets police henchmen.
Weidemann spirited by the
dog But the indignation
Wedemann workers
unqualified opposition Wdmann
which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26
SEES NEED FOR
DEFENSE CORPS
Worker Tells of the
Police Attack

NEW YORK-The following letter
was brought into the Daily" yes
terday by worker who had just
left the Anti-Fascist demonstration
against Weidemann:
I just came back from the Anti
Fascist demonstration and I saw the
brutality of the police. Defense
less women were beaten with clubs
raining on their heads. White
glove fists of the blue coated Am
erican fascists found their mark
on the bodies of men and women
and young men and girls without
discrimination. Police with billies
sIanming left and right--on the
legs and necks Of the workers.
A stool-pigeon In grey suit and
wellfed body took pride in point
ing out workers for arrest and
indoor" beatings. Unconscious wo-
men were trampled upon. To offer
assistance to a woman or man
brought down by the clubs of the
police meant sure beating.
Need Defense
Unless our demonstration are
prepared better from the point of
view of organization and num-
Der we will meet the same fate
wherever and whenever we demon
strate. am sure had there been at
least 1000 workers this would not
have occurred with such losses on
our side. The police found it easy
to disperse and beat up so few
workers.
Only by increasing our number
will we be able to beat back the
fierce inhuman attacks of the po-
lice thugs. The formation of de-
Tense squad of the most fearless
and self-sacrificing comrades and
workers must become the order of
the day.
We will go forward and we GER
tainly won't forget. M. b.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26
BOURCEOISIE
LEADS CUBAN
REBEL BANDS
Exploiting Discomfort
of Oppressed Cuban
Peasantry

HAVANA, May 25.-The rebel forces
operating in outlying provinces Of
Cuba are reported to be concentrat-
ing in the Trinidad Mountains in
Central Cuba. Government sources
estimate the rebel strength at some
5000 men, well-equipped and armed.
Federal troops are meeting with
repeated failure in their attempts to
encircle the rebel forces, who break
through the Gordon and stage spec
tacular raids on isolated villages and
towns, seizing SUPPLIES and munitions
from the Federal posts stationed
there
Although the insurgent troops are
largely made up of revolutionary
peasants, who are rebelIing against
the terrific oppression of the Ma
chado regime, most of the rebel bands
are under the leadership of bourgeois
landowners, who hope to overthrow
Machado and set up another bour-
geois representative in his place.
While the rebels were cIashing in
the outlying provinces with Machado's
troops, the bourgeois opponents of
the Cuban regime. including the Ma
cionalistS, the MarianistaS, and the
representatives of the A.B.C. secret So
ciety are reported to have agreed to a
truce on terrorism" awaiting action
by American Ambassador Sumner
Welles, agent of United States i'm
perialism in Cuba. They hope that
Welles will depose Machado, and
allow the establishment of another
President, drawn from the anti-Ma-
chado bourgeois camps
The only organization really fight
ing intransigently for the independ-
ence Of Cuba, both from Machado
and from the yoke of Yankee imper-
ialism, is the heroic illegal Communist
Party of Cuba, which is leading
strikes in the sugar mills and plan
tati2ns, and has considerable influ-
enoe among the workers in the big
cities of Cuba, as we'll as among the
peasantry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26
BY ROBERT HAMILTON

Wnlle the diplomats OF the capl-
talist world, assembled in Geneva, are
playing the year-old farce called
Disarmament" the world trade war
continues undated.
With the London World Economic
Conference less than three weeks off
the big industrial powers are making
a scrap of paper of the So-called
world tariff truce" employing I'M
Seemly haste in raising tariff barriers
everywhere and concluding preferen-
tial trade treaties with every possible
country.
The United States abandonment OF
the gold standard, with the ensuing
depreciation of the dollar, was the
signal for the latent economic war
breaking out openly into the sharpest
struggle for trade.
Britain Adds New Treaties
With five new trade treaties already
signed within the last few weeks
Great Britain yesterday added a
sixth country, Iceland, to the list OF
markets she is endeavoring to close
to foreign competitors, especially to
American foreign trade.
According TO this latest trade trea-
ty Iceland agrees to take at least n
per cent of its coal imports from Eng
land, giving Britain reduced rates on
a large number of other important
industrial products In return, Brit
tain agrees not TO raise the existing
duty on Iceland fish exports as well
as frozen meats.
America Counter Attacks
The United States in turn is start
ing a vigorous counter offensive to
secure closed markets for American
exports. In negotiations with Brazil
it has succeeded in securing prefer
entail treatment 'in connection with
the service of loans and the DISPOSE
ton of exchange under exchange
control" according TO the official
statement Of the Brazilian represen-
tatiyss jp Washington.
: To- 4 4 sQnEheRE ~ ~ afRes-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26
MACDONALD U.S..
VISIT RIDICIJLED

LONDON, May 25-Vjscount Snow
den, ex-leadsr of the IAoor Party,
who sold out to the bankers and
rated with Macdonald to form
National Government" broke with
his old friend some months ago; but
has never attacked him with the
vituperative vindictiveness that he
displayed in his speech in the House
of Lords yesterday.
Referring to MacDonald's Ameri-
can visit, Snowden said: "He might
just as well have saved the country
expense, for the joint statement (of
Macdonald and Roosevelt) is nothing
but a repetition Of platitudes we have
heard over and over again. The re-
ference to commodity prices reveal
the ignorance CT those who made
them, In the statement it was said
that trade policies needed new
orientation ! know who drafted that
sentence. The Prime Minister draft
ed it. He is very fond OF high-sound-
ing words"
Attacking the governments tariff
policy, Snowden added, I'VE have
had some indication of what the gov
ernment's tariff policy is. The World
Economic Conference will begin by de-
nouncing tariffs, and will declare how
prejudicial they are 10 international
trade, and at the same time the
British government will be actively
engaged In making pre1nGQtt0ua 1pe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26
World Trade War Spreads AS Mock
Tariff Truce Is Ignored

ment between Great Britain and
Argentina, by which the latter binds
itself to place its foreign exchange
credits at the disposal of the Bank
of England, and is further step in
the undeclared economic war now 60
ing on in South America between
England and America.
President Roosevelt is preparing to
introduce a bill into Congress enabl-
ing him to negotiate reciprocal trade
treaties with other countries, as
Americas answer to Britains chal-
lenge for world economic supremacy.
World Textile Rivalry
International competition in the
textile market is growing increasingly
acute, as confirmed by London and
Toxic reports. The British textile
trade is finding it harder and harder
TO meet Japanese competition in the
world market.
The chairman Of the Bradford Dy-
erS Association says: Every open
market in the world is being flooded
with Japanese textile goods sold at
prices against which competition is
quite impossible" In 1918 British
cotton piece goods exported were 80
times as great as the japanese but
in the first II months of 1882 the
Japanese had orept up to so per cent
of the British totals.
Japan constitutes the most serl-
Gus menace that our textile trades
have ever known" Lister g. Co., biz
British firm warns.
The Japan seizure of Manchuria
and Jehol is resulting in the exclu-
sion of foreign competition, British
and American firms being the chief
sufferers. AS the Japanese advance
rolls closer to Peiping and Tientsin,
Japans foreign competitors in the
North Chinese market find their spe-
cial spheres of influence, such as the
giant i.sh mining interests near
Kailun, ossnnAg under Jananess dp-
s1anAx,aAian, =
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26

France Demands Stable Currencies
France, in turn, finds its foreign
trade nenaced by the deprecated
dollar and pound sterling, and that
Finance Minister Bonnet officially
insists that ''the promise of the Lon
don Conference is mere illusion I'M
less the parley is preceded by sta
bilization of the dollar and the
pound"
At the same time, France is hold
ing a conference OF its colonial gov
errors and finance capitalists in Paris
to erect an impossible tariff wall
around the giant French colonial en-
pire, blocking off all competitors
exports
Under these circumstances, with
the big powers maneuyering for adj
vantages IN the present economic war,
which is the overture to the giant
symphony of guns and bombs in the
impending impsriahst World War,
Sir Josiah Stamps words bear quot
ing.
Sir Josiah, director of the Bank OF
England, chairman of the board Of
England's biggest railway, and noted
bourgeois economist, sees rocky
waters ahead for the London Econ
omic Conference and the capitalist
world He says:
IF 1t does not result In help
full way, I am afraid we have ter
rible situation to face
Capitalist World Plunging Into War
y The whole capitalist world is plung-
ing ahead in an open trade war,
with seething rivalries like open
wounds gaping on every frontier, and
the prospects of a new world slaughter
looming Immediately ahead. 1t will
require the most lesolute and united
action of the working class in every
imperialist country, together with all
elements sincerely opposed to i'm
perialist war, to stop the murder of
countless millions in the grandiose
lsconAagration tnat khxeA&eax the
knaassee 81 IN 1891 Z
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26

with their own affairs, and with the
affairs of no other country. If, for
example, Polish matters are to be
discussed, France insists that repre-
sentatiVes from Poland shall be pre-
sent, and the consent of that coun-
try be obtained. This reservation is
designed to safeguard Frances mill
tary Satraps in Europe, and main
tain the hegemony that France has
been attempting to build up in
Europe
No Treaty Revision
The second reservation is that the
four powers entering the pact will
have no authority to decide on ter
ritorial revision. The Versailles
Treaties must be regarded as sacred.
Here again the war gains of the
Little Entente powers are protected.
The -Four Power Pact, thus reduced
to its common denominator of fin
ancial anti-American move, and a
political anti-Soviet scheme, can be
signed by all the great imperialist
powers of Europe, since the internal
conflicts which exist in this particular
camp OF the capitalists have been left
out or CLOSED over. But leaving them
out does not solve them, and they re-
main as an inevitable source of new
assumptions.
Pact Will Bring War
Deputy Ybarnegaray in the French
Chamber Of Deputies violently at
tackled the Pact in his speech yes
terday, declaring that signing it
would be the same thing as agreeing
to treaty revision poland or no Po-
landD and that treaty revision meant
inevitable war.
The entire French press links the
pact with the disarmament discus
sions. aul-Boncour has become a
patriotic hero overnight through his
stand for the French policy Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26
5 SOCIALIST
AID TO NAILS
is EXPOSED
Unionists Tell Paris
Paper How Rank and
File Wanted Strike
LEADERS REFUSED

The Paris lie Peuple," organ of the
French reformist trade unions, is
publishing series of reports from
German trade union officials, which
give remarkable picture Of the po-
sition of the German trade unions
and the German Socialist Party. One
of these officials writes:
Last year there were two moments.
which might have become signals for
real fight against Fascism. These
instants passed without anyone max
ing use of the brilliant opportunities
they offered for a real struggle. One
was on July 20, 1882 when Paper
removed the Socialist government OF
Prussia and the other was in Novem
Der, during the Berlin traffic strike"
Another union official, member of
the Executive Committee of the Ger
man Miners Union, supplemented this
report as follows:
ut would have been possible to
unleash mighty mass movement.
After the Won Papen coup d'etat
against the Socialist Prussian govern
ment, the responsible union officials
stormed our office in Bochum, say
ing: We are ready. Our factories will
go on strike, if you only give the
word
The Executive Committee in Ber-
lin was deluged with telephone calls
and kilograms, asking for INSTRUCT
lions. 1t replied: Keep quiet. Do not
start any action on your own The
comrades who waited for orders for
a genera lstrike in the Ruhr area
maintained discipline-they didn't do
thing!"
A leading official of another union,
with more than half million mem
bers, said that his organization had
decided to call for general strike
on July 20. They had to remain pas
sive, because the German Trade I'm
ion Council did not want the strike
When asked why the Trade Unior
Council was against the idea of
general strike, nearly all the union Of
ficials interviewed said: "They were
afraid of Communism 1t SENS that
Severing Socialist Minister Of Prus-
1 ssaD csacs not want to defend his po-
! S.Ulon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26

saults refuse to bulge.
The truce previously reported seems
to have been an agreement solely
between Marking and Japan, but the
North Chinese forces refuse to ack-
nowledge Markings right to nego-
tiate an armistice.
The general trend of development
is that the Chinese generals and mi
litarists are ready to submit to Japan
for a price-while the rank and
file troops are continuing to fight
indomitably. The resultant confusion
in the Chinese, ranks, precipitated by
Markings betrayal Of national de-
tense, is making resistance to the
japanese advance extremely difficult
however.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26

security first" at Geneva. lie
Temps writes that France is expect
ed to sacrifice her policy regarding
security and accept words as COM
pensation for extreme disarmament"
France is playing a complicated
game. She wants two things at the
same time, while the other powers
insist that she can only have one at
the expense of the other. She wants
to keep unchanged the European
status quo, she wants no revision of
political boundaries, no reduction of
her huge military machine; but at
the same time she wants English as
sistance in her financial struggle with
the United States, no re-arming of
Germany, no greater Germany" and
no interference with her European
allies, Poland Roumania, and the
other Little Entente countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26
S p A r K S

THE capitalist press talks about
Roosevelt exposing Morgan. In
stead Morgan is exposing the Roose-
welt administration.
TAKE look at the pictures which
L the newspapers are printing of
the Morgan investigation. Did you
ever see such alteration and worship
as is depicted OH the countenances
of these Senatorial knights?
THEY look exactly like some small
1 time racketeers privileged to get
glimpse of Al Capone, the big
boss.
MORGAN sits back and grins, while
Ill the Senators tell him how rich
and powerful he is.
AND doesn't Morgan know it He
II could buy out Congress ten times
over without noticing the difference
to his income.
AND then he probably would charge
II it up as income-tax losses. And
the government revenue agents
would accept his statements with
out examination"
VWHEN the stock market crash came
W in 1929, the Morgans had already
sold most of their common stock.
On the day the crash came, Morgan
was on the high seas on the way
to his quiet farm in Scotland
Meanwhile, the little fellows were
being aayed and stripped of their
life savings.
1T now comes out that the sanity
l Calvin, so honest, SO incorruptible,
so homely in his philosophy, was
writing articles for the nations
school children on honesty and hard
work, and working your way up to
the top, he was getting nice hot in
side market tips from ]. P him
self.
AND Cal, obliging fellow that he is,
II took the job of Chairman of the
National transportation Committee,
which was supposed to be an i'm
partial committee of students of
public affairs, and which issued an
elaborate report proposing more
wage-cuts for the workers on the
Morgan railroads. Honest Cal!
WE wonder if this will get into the
w history text books of the schools.
What's your guess? You're right.
Expected ambassadors, dignified
~ bank presidents, leading states
men, pure national heroes like Indy
all got their share.
AND Charlie Dawes who told ths
n Chicago teachers to go to he'll
when they resented three years of
starvation-at the same time that
he was being fed from the golden
Morgan spoon.
IT'S not any senator's that Morgan
is afraid of. And he is right. For
from them he has nothing to fear.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26


The Kuominchun armies, formerly
commanded by Feng YuHsiang, are
taking part in the front-line resist
ance to the japanese advance, al
though General -Chu-Kuo, whose
army is entrenched between Lutai
and TangkuA north of TientSin, is re-
ported preparing to sell out to the
Manchukuoans, betraying his troops
desperate battle.
Practically all the Marking forces
have been withdrawn from the battle
line already by General Ho, Chang
Kai-Shek's War Minister, ann most
of them are already south of the
city itself, but the North Chinese
troops facing the fierce Japanese as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-26
EYE-WITNESSES
TELL OF BLOODY
POLICE ATTACK
Cops Cheer Hitler AS
Workers Bleed;
Denied Aid

NEW YORK. - The following
are three eye witness accounts of the
anti-fascist demonstration told by
workers who we're at the demonstra-
ton:
81 was in the crowd when the at
tack came" a shoe worker told the
Daily" A police captain, a squad
of cops and a mounted cop came
over. The captain said Break
them up :"
'"There were detectives dressed like
workers among us. They started slug
ging. One hit me-"
"a girl was knocked down, I tried
to help her"
Il was helping a girl who was ly-
ing on the ground, cop came up
and hit me all over my stomach. He
said somebody hit him with stone,
I saw him look all over for a stone.
AT last he found one and then they
grabbed a worker"
Il have never seen such brutality
in my life"