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Evening star., 1934-05-14
GOVERNMENT UNITS
UNDERGO TRANSFERS
Rearrangement of Location of
Some Activities Are in
Progress Today,

A number Of minor moves, rearrang-
ing the location of Government ac-
tivities, were in progress today, under
direction of the Division of Govern
ment Space Control, Buildings Branch,
Interior Department
Into the Architects Building out of
the Navy Building is going the branch
OF plan and design of the National
Park Service. Likewise, the overflow
of the engineering group of the Ma
tional Park Service is going into the
Architects Building. Also into the
Architects Building. which is located
at Eighteenth and E streets, is going
the office of Assistant Director Conrad
L. Wirth of the National Park Service
from the Interior Department.
This morning the overflow Of the
Federal emergency relief group of Ad-
nir1istrator Harry L. Hopkins is shift
ing from the Walker johnson Building
into the Architects Building. The
Architects Building has recently been
vacated by number of organizations.
including the Federal Radio Commits
sion, which has found space in the
new Post Office Building.
Supplies and files are being moved
today from the old Post Office Building
to the departments new structure
across Twelfth street to the west. The
date when the new Post Office Depart
ment will be occupied by Postmaster
General Farley and his associates is
as yet indefinite.
Evening star., 1934-05-14
LIZARD FOR D. C. zoo
DIES ON WAY HERE
Another Rare Giant Dragon Rep
tile Is Being Held in
New York.

One of two giant dragon lizards
consigned to the Washington Zoo died
en- route from Vancouver to New York
by train last week. The other one
is now at the Bronx Zoo pending
completion of negotiations to bring
1t here.
DR.. William M Mann, director of
the local Zoo, inspected three of the
giant lizards in New York last week
end. A number of scientists and ami
nal experts went to see the neWcom-
ers, which are almost unknown in the
United States.
The lizards were trapped by two
biologists in the isolated volcanic Is
land of Komodo. Some of the
dragons" attain a length of feet,
although the one which probably will
come here is only feet long.
DR.. Mann is still negotiating with
the biologists for a specimen, and
was uncertain when the weird crea-
ture might arrive here. A few
dragons" have been brought to this
country in the past, but their death
rate in captivity was unusually high.
Evening star., 1934-05-14
First Lady Back
On Air for Money
To Aid Charities

Mrs. Roosevelt has resumed speak
ing over the radio in commercial pro-
grams, for which she is paid, she ex-
planned today, because there seemed
no other way Of raising money for
the educational, handicraft and
health projects in which she is inter-
ested Last week the $1,000 she earned
was sent directly to the headquarters
of the American Friends Service Com
mittee in Philadelphia.
Part of this money is going for a
project IN Reedsville, w. Va, to start
modern. progressive school with a
farm, a nursery school and a domestic
training course attached to it. The
rest of the money Mrs. Roosevelt an
ticipateS making from future radio
contracts will go to other projects of
similar nature. She does not know
how much money she will be given
nor to what particular project the
money will be allocated. Last week
she broadcast for about six minutes
She expects in her future broadcasts
to talk from 10 to Is minutes. 1t is
not necessary for her to discuss the
products that are advertised She is
allowed to speak on any subject she
chooses.
In order to allow the Friends
Service Committee to do certain
things that would be useful" she said
today, Il decided to do a number of
radio talks, the proceeds of which will
be paid directly to the Friends Serv-
ice Committee, to be used for educa-
tional work, for the furthering of
handicraft work and for certain
health work they have started in diff
ferent mining centers"
Mrs. Roosevelt will visit Reedsville
and Tygeit Valley, w. Va, on June z.
She will be accompanied by Repre-
sentative Randolph of West Virginia.
She will be particularly interested in
seeing Miss Elsie Clatt, who has been
running a school in Kentucky and
who will head the Community Rural
School of this project.
Evening star., 1934-05-14
us, WILL EMPLOY
JOBLESS ACTORS
Work Will Be Given 1900
to Entertain Camp
Workers.
Now the Government has come to

Now the Government has come to
the aid of the actors!
Plans for a Nationwide dramatic
project, expected to give work to
1900 unemployed actors and direc-
tors for a period of five months, were
announced today by Harry Hopkins.
Federal Emergency Relief director, and
Robert Fechner, Emergency Conserva-
tion Work director.
The project not only will give en-
ployment to the actors, but also will
furnish entertainment for the 100000
tree troopers Of the Civilian Conserva-
tion Corps who are distributed
throughout 1,468 camps.
To demonstrate what jobless actors
and directors can do, Otis Skinner will
bring a troupe of them here Thursday
to present THE Patsy" in the Ma
tional Press Club Auditorium at $50
pm The performance will be given
before newspapermen and their
guests.
Among those who will take part
in the play are Harriet McGibbon,
Edna Archer Crawford, Ruth Lee,
Robert williams, Joe Medallion, An
thony Baker, Charles Seay and Will
liam Melville Skinner will give a
brief explanation of the project before
the play, and will deliver a radio
broadcast at $50 that night.
Evening star., 1934-05-14
|CKES HITS STATE
POLITICS ONP. WA.
Interior Head Says He Will
Select Inspectors
Personally.

To keep the more than 1900 p w.
A. projects out of local politics, Sec
retary of the Interior Ickes today told
a conference of his field forces that
he personally would appoint all State
engineer inspectors.
II know that some of you think the
State engineer should make these ap-
pointments." the public works ad-
ministrator said. Il don't agree with
you there for this reason. The re-
sponsibility for carrying out this work
is going to be in Washington. The
man who makes the appointment will
be regarded as the man to whom the
service is to be rendered. We want
to diSassociate just as far as possible
the responsibility from other service.
We want every engineer to feel the
responsibility of the administration
here in Washington"
Secretary Ickes said that he would
consider recommendations from the
States, but refused to relinquish his
appointing power.
State engineers from every State.
Including Abel Wolman and J. A. An
derSon, State engineers for MARYLAND
and Virginia, respectively, are holding
a tWo-day session with attorneys and
inspectors in charge of P. w. A. field
forces in every district to outline pro-
cedure under new phases the P w A
program is entering. Col. Henry M
Waite, deputy administrator, is in
charge of the program.
Secretary Ickes stressed the need
OF getting all projects started as
quickly as possible.
Let us bend every effort in order
to get all the men to work as fast as
possible" he said. This is a money!
spending program. We don't want to
build in 1885 what we can build in
1884. Speed is the thing from now
on"
Evening star., 1934-05-14
Reich Has Canning Code.

Germany's fruit and vegetable
canning industry is to operate under
a marketing code, and the general
opinion in the trade is that the new
regulations will help the larger man
ufacturers while jeopardizing the busi-
ness of the middle and small sized
plants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13
1.-THE Lmperialist Preparations for a
New World War

The growing uncertainty of the
bourgeoisie as to possibility of finding
a way out of the crisis only by the
intensified exploitation of the toilers
Of their own countries, has led the
imperialists to put their main stake
on war. The International situation
bears all the features Of the eve Of
a new world war.
Soviet China Big Factor of World
Revolution
u The flames of a new world war
are faring up in the Pacific. The
japanese nilitarists, spurred on by
the profound internal crisis which
the bourgeois-landlord monarchy is
undergoing, are continuing the pred
atory war against China and with the
aid Of the Kuomintang are subjugat-
ing Northern China and are prepar-
ing a blow against the Monaghan
Peoples Republic. British imperial
ism is stretching out its hand to the
South Eastern provinces of China,
Tibet, Szechwan, while French i'm
perialism is stretching out its hand
towards Yunnan. The fascist mill
tary clique Of Japan is acting as the
battering ram against the anti-im-
perialist and agrarian revolution i'll
China. The American, Japanese and
British imperialists are behind the
Kuomintang in its sixth campaign
against the only peoples government
in China, against the Chinese Soviets.
The victories Of the Soviet revolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13

in China, the partisan war in Man
churia. the growth of the revolution
airy forces in Japan and of the liber-
alton movement of the colonial peo-
pies, create new front in the rear
Of the inlperialists. The Soviet revo-
luton in China has become a big fac
tor Of the World Revolution.
UnIeashing Counter Revolutionary
War Against U.S.S.R.
D The Japanese miIitarists are
calling to the German fascists and
the British imperialists to unleash
counter-revolutionary war against
the U.S.S.R., from the East and from
the West. Pursuing policy of con-
tinuous provocation against the U. S.
S. r. and contemplating the seizure
OF Soviet territory, the fascist mill
tarists Of Japan are acting as an
outpost in a counter Revolutionary
war against the Land of the Soviets.
At the same time, German fascism is
inviting the international bourgeoisie
to purchase its natiCnal-socialist mer-
cenaries to fight against the U.S.S.R.,
intriguing with British, Italian and
Polish inlperialists (the German
Polish negotiations). The British I'M
perialists at the present time have
taken the place of the French as the
chief organizers of an anti-Soviet war
The Soviet Union has achieved con-
siderable successes in the answering
and firm policy CT peace, 1t has pur-
sued in the interests of all the toll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13
IHEoIo OF 18th PLENUN, COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL
Crisis

Ths development Of the general
crisis Of capitalism, after the end of
the relative sterilization that was
noted by the last CXID Plenum Of
the Executive Committee, Communist
international, has already shaken the
capitalist system to a far-reaching
degree all over the world.
While the Q. S. S. r., the bulwark
Of the international proletariat and
Of the oppressed nations, is develop
ing It's socialist construction and rails
ing its power to a higher and higher
level, the economy of the capitalist
world Is falling to pieces. The moose
Of poverty, ruin and hunger is tight
ening. The bourgeoisie is furiously
intensifytng its economic means Of
exploitation by methods Of fascist
violence, by robbing the toiling classes
and by predatory wars against other
nations. But at the same time the
revolutionary indignation Of the toll
ing masses and their readiness to
overthrow the intolerable yoke Of the
exploiting classes, is growing more
and more.
The tremendous strains of the in
ternal class antagonists in the CAPT
talist countries, as well as Of the in
ternational antagonismS, testify to
the fact that the objective prerequis-
ties for revolutionary crisis have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13
Summary of the 18th Plen,m Proceedings

The XIII Plenum of the Executive
Committee OF the Communist Inter
national was held in Moscow in De-
cember.
The XIII Plenm Of the E. c. c. l.
heard the following reports:
3. Report by Comrade Kuusnen on
fascism, the war danger and the tasks
of the Communist Parties.
2. Reports from the Parties
a. Report by Comrade PECK on the
activity of the Communist Party of
Germany.
b. Report by Comrade Pollitt on
united front tactics in England.
After hearing Comrade Kuusinens
report and the reports of Comrades
PECK and Pollitt, the Plenum, fol-
lowing upon thorough discussion,
adopted its thesis on fascism, the war
danger ard the tasks of the Com
munist Parties.
In connection with the report by
Comrade PECK the Plenu1n APP
proved the work Of the c. P. OF Ger
many since the coming in5o power
of the fascists, and the proposed
plan for further activity.
3 In connection with Comrade Pol
lifts report the Plenum declared
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13

parts of the var machine OF inner
ialisIn.
In addition to increased agitation. ?
the Communist Parties must by all
means in their power ensure the,
practical organization Of mass action
Increasing the work among the rail-
waynlen, Seamen and harbor workers,
preventing the shipping Of arms and
troops, hindering the execution Of
orders for belligerent countries, Or
ganizing demonstrations against mil
itary maneuyers, etc. and must in
tenSify political educational work in
the army and in the navy.
The XIII Plenum of the E.C.CL.
calls upon all the workers and thI
toilers Of the world, elf-sacrificingly
to defend the U.SSR. against tbs.
counter-revolutionary conspiracy Of
the imperialists, and to defend the
Chinese revolution and its Soviet
power from imperialist intervention.
c. Against Social Democracy and For
. United Front from Below.
In their fight against sociaI-demo-
cracy, the Communists must prove to
the workers that the new bankruptcy
Of Sociai-democracy and the Seccnd
International was historically i.,vi-
table. While carefully exposirg to
the masses and refuting the typo-
critical and treacherous sophistrlaa Of
social democracy, the Communists
must win over the Social-democratic
workers for active revolutionary
struggle under the leadership of The
Communist Parties.
The XIII PIenum of the E.C.CI.
fully approves the appeal for united
front issued by the Presidium Of the
E.C.CIr and the position OF the Poll
tical Secretariat E.C.C.I. in the cor
respondence with the British Iade-
pendent Labor Party. Social-dal.lo-
crazy, which split the working class by
its treachery at the time of the III
perialist war and the October Rsvo-
luton, has in all countries, in Sc
cordance with directives Of the Second
International, refused the offers II 1ta
by the Communist Parties for united
working class action, and saootsged
the united anti-fasciSt and ant-wac
movements created in Amsterdam
and Paris, and in the face of fasc,sm
and war, strived to deepen the split
in the ranks OF the proletariat.
The XIII plenum of the E.C.CI.
calls upon all Sections OF the Com
munist International persistently TO
fight for the realization Of united
militant front with the social-Gemo-
cratic workerS,-in spite OF and
against the will of the treachercu,
leaders Of social-democracy.
The Plenum fully approves the
resolution of the Presidium Of the
EC.CI. Of April /, 1898, on the situ-
alton in Germany and the political
line pursued by the Central Commit
tee of the Communist Party OF Ger
many, headed by Comradc Tl'aol-
mann, before and at the time Of tile
fascist coup. The Pienum notes the
heroic Bolshevik struggle waged by
the Communist Party Of Germany
against the fascist dictatorship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13

on the grounds Of the Interests of
socialism" In England the National
Labourites, in conjunction with the
Conservatives, are pursuing the pred
atory policy of British imperialism;
the Labour Party, deceiving the work
erS by It's pSeudo-opposition to the
government, is striving after minis
terial posts in order to continue,
what, in fact, is the same imperialist
policy. The French Socialists las
well as the social democrats of
Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, etc., carry
ing out the sacred unity of the ma
ton" under the slogans of defense
Of democracy" and defense against
German fascism," actively participate
in the preparations for war against
Germany. The German social-demo-
crazy openly voted in the Reichstag
for the national front OF German
fascism, which is preparing for a mil
itary adventure.
At the same time, the Second and
Amsterdam Internationals are adapt
ing their policy to the situation of the
eve of war, trying to safeguard the
interests of their own bourgeoisie and
to ensure that the main blow will be
directed at the U.S,SR.; they hypo-
critically ask this by expressing readi-
ness to reply to war by general
strike and boycott, but they declare
in advance that they will do SO only
against the government that will be
declared the aggressor by the League
Of Nations. They pretend to be lead
ing boycott against goods from IA
scist Germany, but they prosecute the
workers who really carry out this
boycott. Under the slogans of paci-
f1Sm and of a fight against war and
fascism, they act as pioneers in work.
ing up public opinion in the capitalist
countries in favor Of counter -revo-
lutionary war against the U.SS.R.
The bourgeoisie wants to postpone
the doom of capitalism by criminal
imperialist war and counter
tionary campaign against the land Of
victorious socialism. The great his
torical task OF international Commu-
nism is to mobilize the broad masses
against war even before war has be-
gun, and thereby hasten the doom
of capitalism. Only Bolshevik strug-
gle before the outbreak Of war for
the triumph Of revolution can assure
the victory OF a revolution that breaks
out in connection with war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13
m.-The Tasks of the Communist Parties

In the conditions Of the maturing
of the world revolutionary crisis, when
the bourgeoisie is trying to divert the
ferment, the discomfort and the in
dignation Of the masses into the
channel of fascination and war in
order to strengthen its dictatorship,
the main task of the Communists is
to direct this mass movement towards
the fight for the overthrow of the
dictatorship of the exploiting classes.
A. The Fight Against Fascist theology
The Communists must:
Daily and concretely expose chau-
vinism to the masses in every coun-
try and oppose it by proletarian in
ternationaHsm; in the imperialist
countries come out determinedly for
the independence of the colonies, for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13

its struggle for united front on
the basis of concrete demands, draw
ing in the workers who still support
the Labor Party and the Trade
Union bureaucrats, at the same time
exposing the maneouTes of the
leaders of the Labor Party and In
dependent Labor Party.
3. With regard to the third point
on the Agenda, the Plenum decided
to call the VII Congress of the Co.
mintern during the second half Of
1884.
The Plenum carried out supple
mentary elections to the Presidium
and approved the financial report of
The E. c. c. I.
The Plenum also issued an appeal
on the Fascist Terror to the workers
of all countries.
All decisions were adopted by the
Plenum unanimously.
The thesis and decisions Of the
XIII Plenum of the E. C. G. I. are
to be published simultaneously with
this announcement.
Political Secretsrist of the L. c. G. ]
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13

forces of revolution and the mobi-
hzation of the military fascist forces
on the eve Of great class conflicts.
In Spain there is the clash between
revolution and counter revolution. In
the U.S.A. there is q wave OF mass
strikes of the workers and indigna-
ton among the farmers against the
bourgeois program for overcoming
the crisis. In Germany, the revolu-
tionary hatred OF the proletariat Is
growing at the present moment in
less open forms. There, enormous
revolutionary energy is being accu-
mulated among the masses and a
new revolutionary upsurge is already
beginning. The strained situation in
Germany sharpens to the extreme
the class relations in the .neighboring
countries-in CEecho-S IOvakia, Aus
tria, the Baltic countries, as well as
in the Scandinavian countries, in
Holland, Belgium and in Switzerland.
In Poland, the mass strikes OF the
workers are accompanied by big revo-
lutionary actions in the Polish rural
districts. In Bulgaria, in spite of the
terror, the majority Of the working
class solidly follow the Communist
Party. In Ru1nania, there is a big
strike Of raiIwaymen, with barricade
fighting.
At the same time, the main strong
hold Of the world proletariat, the
powerful Land of the SovietS, the
land of the victorious working class
which is making the present year in
to the last year of economic diff
culties, raising the well-being of the
toiling masses to a new and higher
level by its great socialist victories,
serves as an inspiration to the toll
erS Of all countries in their revolt
tionary struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13
N.-The Tasks of Mass Work and the
Strengthening of Communist Parties

The fulhlment of these fundamen-
tai tasks demands the genuine reor-
ganization of the whole Of the mass
work of the Communist Parties, es-
pecially the work in the factories and
trade unions, which still represents
their weakest sector. In the situation
when the toilers are in a state Of
great fernent, the Communists, while
taking into account the moods OF the
masses, must formulate slogans and
demands in such a way as to make
them arise from the present level Of
the movement; at the same time they
must show the workers the revolu-
tionary way out. This means:
(a) That the content and language
of agitation and the press must
henceforth be addressed to the broad
est strata of the proletariat and the
toilers, showing the face of the Com
munist Parties in both agitation and
in mass actions demonstrations,
strikes and other mass actions).
(b) Securing within the shortest
time possible decisive turn to the
work in the factories, concentrating
the forces of the Party organization
in the decisive enterprises and raising
the political level Of the leadership
given by the factory nuclei to the
daily class struggles.
(c) Putting an end to the opportu-
mist, defeatist neglect Of trade union
work and in particular work inside
the reforrnist trade unions and the
mass fascist and Christian trade
unions, in accordance with the direc-
tives given by the XII Plenum Of the
E. c. CT. on WORK inside the trade
unions.
cd Really developing mass work
among the unemployed, carrying on
an untiring fight for social insur-
ance, for all kinds of municipal re-
lief.
(e) Intensifying revolutionary work
In the rural districts, opposing the
landlord-kulak slogan Of a united
countryside" by the class slogans of
the toilers and by the agrarian pro-
gram of the Soviet revolution; at the
same time, developing the fight for
all the partial demands Of the pea
santry, at the same time opposing
the kulak demands which conflict
with the interests of the proletariat
and the village poor; obtaining a
foothold Grade unions of agricultural
workers peasant committees) among
the farm laborers, poor peasants and
the semi-proletarian elements of the
villages; to win over the basic masses
of the small and middle peasants.
% Increasing the mass work among
women at the same time promoting
and training even now, a body Of
active Party women, who, during the
war, could in q number of cases re-
place modified comrades.
/ (g) Putting an end to the narrow
ness of the Y.C.L. and really turning