The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25

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In Thaelmann's City
EOR the protection of STAN
L dard Oil Conlpany's in-
terests in the Chaco war,
President Roosevelt rushed
through Congress an farms
embargo" r
The purpose of the emil
barge is to keep weapons from thdt
forces opposing Wall Street and
supporting British imperialism, and
to supply weapons to those siding
with the yankee Imperialism. The
President himself has the right to
declare where arms shall be trans
ported.
Why he was given this power was
explained in the Daily Worker in
previous editorials, news stories,
and in this column. But hardly
have we seen such open admission
Of the factors behind one of Roose-
velt's war movies as that in the New
York Times Of Wednesday May 23rd.
The Times Washington correSpon-
dent wrote, Just before Roosevelt
was given embargo" power on
arms:
1t was considered probable that
the haste displayed in the past
few days by the administration
has been due to the expectation
of a Paraguayan victory in the
extensive fighting around Fort
Ballivian and Fort Canada. This,
in the opinion of experts here,
would open the road to the Para
guayan troops to the oil fields
and refinery of the Standard Oil
Company of Bolivia" lone of
Rockefeller subsidiaries. H. G..
CEVERE epidemics of typhus and
" malaria are raging in the Belgian
Congo, in the Urundi and Katange
districts. No news of this fact APP
pears in the capitalist press in this
country. Because of the terrific
economic crisis, caused by i'm
perialist exploitation, the Negro
masses in the Belgian Congo are
so undarnourished that they are
easy prey to disease. At the same
time the Belgian government has
cut down funds for hospitals and
medical necessities. Instead, it Is
fighting the plaques with soldiers.
Army forces are thrown around
infected areas, and those trying to
escape to non-infested districts are
shot down like wild animals,
Last winter a series of upriSings
occurred in the Belgian Congo. The
BWaka Ngombe and Banza tribes in
the Libenge district rose up against
their oppressors, but their move
ment was quickly suppressed. The
revolt began in the village of Duna,
under the influence of witch doc
tors, but it had nothing at all to do
with sorcery. What the natives
fought was high taxation, wide
scale unemployment, starvation, and
the scrip system for their work.
The Congo is a vast territory of
$4,000 square miles, and is espe-
cially rich in minerals. There are
great diamond and gold deposits.
The Negro tribes are treated in
the most bestial manner. Now in
the midst of the deadly typhus and
malaria plague the only medicine
they get is machine pun bullets.
FACTS coming from Baden, Ger-l
many, show that the mine dis
aster at the Buggingen potash mine.
which resulted in So miners being
buried alive was due to the GRIM
insl negligence of the Fascist labor
/ policy. Explosions such as occur in
coal mines are unknown in potash
mines. A report of the Nazi mining
authorities admits that the fire in
the drift was caused by short cir
cult. Under ordinary circumstances
no one, or very few would have been
injured. But due to the driving of
the workers by the HitleriteS, due
to the leader principle" giving the
boss absolute power, all safety pro-
visions were done away with. The
workers had only one means of
escape, instead of the usual double
exits which exist in such mines.
The fire blocked their way, and
they were burned to cinders. 1t is
solely due to the oppression of the
Nazis, to the tremendous power Of
life and death they have placed in
the hands of the bosses, that such
small accident could result in
almost one hundred miners being
murdered. The murderers are Hit
Ter, Goering and Ley.
HAMBURG, the home city Of
III Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned and
tortured leader of the Communist
Party of Germany, has been espe-
cially hit by the economic crisis
which was intensified by Nazi rule.
Not long ago at a meeting of one
of the Hanseatic shipping associa-
lions it was admitted that the
economic crisis in Hamburg was
catastrophe, and utter economic
doom faced the port if more trade
could not be obtained.
Now the Nazi state governor and
regional leader of Hamburg, Kauf-
mann, has issued an appeal to the
youth entitled "the national duty
of youth" The purpose of the APP
peal is to get 5000 young workers
to quit their jobs and voluntarily go
into the Hitler labor camps so that
starving adult workers can take
their jobs. The appeal, Of course,
will not be left at the voluntary