The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
On the
World Front
Plan VS.. A.A.A.- MIRA.
Warships Near Yemen
MussOlini Cuts Wages
Self Consuming Cows
BY HARRY CANNES

WHILE the imperialist coun.
" tries are wracked with
trade wars, are loading the
backs of the working class
with heavy war expenditures
from the Soviet Union comes
news of tremendous gains of
Socialist construction.
The Daily Worker has already
published the startling fact that
by May l, 100000 acres vert
planted this year in the U.S.S.R. as
against 65,000000 acres last year.
Roosevelt, through the AA.A., cuts
acreage planted in the US, and
through the MIRA. slashes the abil-
ity of the workers to buy whatever
is harvested. In the Soviet Union
the workers and farmers look for
ward assured Of an increased stand
ard of living, Of rapid development
towards a well-to-do life.
Other achievements of the prole-
tartan dictatorship under the Sec
ond Five Year Plan as we'll. are
revolutionary encouragement to the
whole world proletariat.
The output of heavy industry ex-
ceeds that of the same period Of
last year. Here are some outstand.
ing examples;
Coal mining industry has sur
passed 1888 by 30 per cent; the
oil industry by 1853 per cent; pig
iron by 60.7 per cent; steel by 49.2
per cent; rolling mill products by
AIS per cent; motor trucks by IS
per cent; tractors by 59.2 per cent.
The whole list is too long to
mention here. But the sum ano
substance of it all is that Socialism
is rapidly advancing, that every day
makes life look brighter in the Soviet
Union, just when it begins to look
darker and darker in the capitalist
world, with war drawing nearer, and
the proletariat being made ready to
be plunged into new world
slaughter so that Mr.. Roosevelt or
Mr.. Hirota, or Mr.. Chamberlin, or
Mr.. Hitler agents of their class,
the capitalist class can obtain more
markets and colonies to enslave
more people and make more profits,
so that capitalism can be held on
the brink of its doom just little
longer.
ONCE our last writing on the i'm
y perialist depredations in South
Arabia, where the British imperial
ist lion is in the process of swal-
lowing and digesting the little coun-
try of Yemen, We have obtained
some more interesting facts. We
get them from Colonial Newe,'
bulletin of the International Secre.
tariat of the League Against I'M
perialism and for National indie
pendence.
The last news received was that
Ibn Saud, British tool, well armed
by his hackers, with his fierce
Wahabi warriors, had overwhelmed
the troops of the Imam of Yemen,
and had captured Sana. British
battleshipS rushed to the scene and
landed troops and marines at Ho-
deida, the port of Yemen on the
Red Sea.
Now what was not clear was the
purpose of MuSsolini's war dogs
who were standing nearby waiting
for the event. 1t seems that a few
years ago Italy concluded an agree
ment with the Imam Yahya of
Yemen. Italy was granted practi-
cally a trade monopoly in return for
supplying the Imam with aero
planes and munitions of war.
italian merchants were estab-
Iished in Yemen and Yemenis were
recruited for the italian forces in
Ssmoliland just across the Red Sea.
All this did not fit in with the
British war plans in the Near, Mid
die and Far East. Near Yemen the
British have the naval base of
Alden, which controls all European
trade to the Far East through the
Suez Canal.
Through Ibn Saud, ruler OF
Saoudi Arabia, they put forward
territorial demands. Now the war
is on and the British are grabbing
new colonial territory in Arabia in
their efforts to make all of Arabia
vassal OF English imperialism.
Only the briefest notice, and no
comment, appeared in the italian
Fascist press announcing wage cut
for all government employees,
Wages were cut in the following ra-
ito: per cent for those earning 500
1000 lire pei month; 8 per cent for
salaries from 1,000-1 500 per month;
10 per cent from 100000, and Il
per cent for those receiving salaries
exceeding 1000 lire per month.
in DENMARK, the Socialist gov
! eminent has discovered a new
wrinkle in cooperatives. A cooper
alive for the destruction of cattle
has been organized. The beasts are
converted into albumen cakes and
fed to other cattle to be destroyed,
and in turn made into albumen
cakes. The press report transmit
ting the story to us comments:
THE herbivorous COW is transformed
into carnivorous animal so that it
can consume itself, while human
beings, lords of creation, stand by