The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
World Front
United Front on ChacO
The Citroen Crash
c. P. of Germany Active
By HARRY CANNES
A UNITED FRONT has been
"A formed of Latin American

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trade unions against the
American-British imperialist-
provoked war in the Gran
Chaco region.
The C. n. 0. c., the Cuban
National Confederation of Labor.
under revolutionary leadership, has
entered into a united front with
the General Confederation of La
Dor Of Argentina, for common ac-
ton of all trade unions in Latin
America to stop the irnperialist
Chaco war between Bolivia and
Paraguay.
The Argentinian General Con-
federation is the only Latin Amer
lean trade union center affiliated
to the Amsterdam trade union in
tsrnational. The C.N.O.C. of Cuba,
the largest trade union center in
Latin America, follows the policies
Of the Red Trade Union Interna-
tional and is affiliated to the Latin
American Trade Union Confeder-
alton, the revolutionary trade union
center in Montevideo, Uruguay.
The CN.O.C. has cabled the
Argentinian trade union center that
it welcomes the change in the at
titude Of the Amsterdam affiliate,
and is ready to take steps for united
action against the imperialist war,
"WE are informed of your Mo-
W vember letter. declared the
C,R.O.C, in its cable reply, "ad-
dressed to the labor centers of
North, Central and South Amer
lea. We are glad to see that the
opinions of the Montevideo Anti
War Congress and the position Of
the Latin American Trade Union
Confederation on the question Of
this rObber war nave found an
echo among the fraternaI masses
of the C.G.T. The C.N.O.C., with
its three hundred thousand work.
ers, joins with the C.G.T. and is
taking steps to transform this
pledge INTO deeds. we propose
the calling of a continental con-
greSs against the war In the
ChacO and the imminent world
war"
THE Ford of France has gone
4 into receivership. This $l30,0o0.-
600 corporation, the Citroen Auto
mobile Co., had been virtually
wrecked by the crisis, but the prob
lem was to save the investment of
the monopolist Andre Citroen, and
the other big bosses associated with
him. In the ordinary course of the
capitalist crisis, firm like this,
going bankrupt and into the hands
Of the receiver, whould fold UP. A
series of explosions of this type
would tend to help temporarily to
solve the contradictions of cap
italism, only to develop greater ones
later on.
But now, under this period of
finance capital and the decay of
capitalism, these bankruptcies even
if they go through do not even
temporarily solve the crisis. And
even at that, the government of
the finance capitalists does not
want to cause any losses to the top
group OF bankers involved because
this, in the present delicate polit-
lcal situation, may have tremen-
dous repercussions.
So the government enyolves a
scheme of letting the firm go into
the hands of a receiver, and the
receivers get government funds to
keep the firm alive. In other words,
the masses are taxed, the wages of
the government workers are cut
under the cry of economy" the
pensions Of the war vets are slashed
so that Mr.. Citroen and his rich
friends will not be driven to the
wall.
At the same time, the wages of
the Citroen workers are slashed,
thousands Of them are laid off.
RECENTLY there have been mass
~ raids on German workers homes
because of the nervousness of the
Fascist rulers. The mass agitation
carried on in the factories and in
the workers neighborhoods is driv-
ing the Nazi butchers into frenzy.
They are arresting workers on the
least suspicion and sometimes only
on whims and guesses.
Factory newspapers, district and
local newspapers, the "Rote Fahne,"
central organ, the trade union
press, the women's and youth press,
continue to appear nevertheless.
The Fascist raiders have failed
to put a stop to the distribution and
publication of these papers. In
Neukolln (Berlin) there are nearly
daily raids. In the South East of
Berlin hardly day passes without
new arrests. In this quarter the
Communists are extremely active.
Very often a hail of Communist
leaflets floats over the streets. Com
munist stickers appear on the walls
OF the buildings. Last week on the
building at the corner of Adalbert
Street, a sign three feet high was
painted reading: Long Live the
Communist Party of Germany! Red
Front!'
For days there have been dozens
OF state secret police officials sta
tened at Gerich Street (Wedding,
Berlin. Their task is to attempt
to catch revolutionary workers at
their tasks of distributing Com
munist propaganda. Dozens of
private automobiles are used to
scour the neighborhoods. But the
police have little success, though
they are rounding up workers on
suspicion
The Nazi government shows its
fear over the growing activity of
the Communist Party of Germany.