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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Chinese Red
Army Makes
Great Gains
Expand Soviet Districts
Despite I,O0O,O 900
Kai Slick Army


SHANGHAI, May 14.-Ssnsational
victories were achieved by the Red
Army of China in three provinces.
Szechuan, Human, and Hupeh, &C
cording to reports received from
Hankow yesterday.
Under the leadership of Com
mander Ho Lung, the Red Army of
Szechuan, the far western province
Of China, made surprise march
/ to Human Province, and then back
again into the extreme Southeast
ern portion of Szechusn. There the
Red Army captured two Hsien
County seat cities, Kungten and
Pengshui.
Two foreign missionaries, subsi-
died by the imperialists and aiding
the armies of the Kuomintang, we're
seized and are now being held by
the Red Army They are Rev. How
ard Smith, American missionary of
the American Christian Alliance,
and Miss Helen Clark, a British
agent. The missionaries usually act
as spies for the butcher Chang Kali
Shek, informing them of the move
ments of the Red Army, and are
responsible for the execution of
Chinese workers and peasants who
rebel against their landlords and
exploiters.
Dramatic victories were also
achieved by the Red Army in East
ern Hupeh Province, just North of
the Yangtze River There another
Red Army captured the important
cities of Lotien and Kisnui. Another
Red Army of 10000 men marched
from Kiangsi into Human, capturing
the city of Yungshin.
These victories are being made
despite the fact that Chang Kali
Shek, with the support of the war
lords in the South, and in other
provinces, has modified over 1,000,-
900 men, well supplied by the i'm
perialist powers.
The victories in Eastern Hupeh
Province are driving the Kuomin-
tang and their imperialist hackers
into a frenzy, because they fear that
the Red Army will control an i'm
portant sector of the Yangtze River
and will interfere with the ship
ment of troops and munitions to
help the Kuomintang in it's anti
Communist drive.
Disruption is taking place in the
anti-Communist forces in the Prov
ince of Human. Troops of the gov
ernor of this province, Ho Chen,
came into armed conflict with SOL
dierS of Chang Kai-Shek'S forces.
An effort is being made by Chang
Kai-Shek to GUST Ho Chen, and
send him to the Province of Hupeh.
A special trip was made by Fin
ance Minister H. H. Kung, an agent
Of American imperialism, to Chang
sha in order to confer with Ho
Chen to avert disaster for the
Kuomintang in this province.
In order to counter-act the effect
of the great victories of the Chinese
Soviets in the three provinces, the
Kuomintang authorities here have
issued reports that the gains made
by the Soviets were offset by defeats
inflicted in Fukien Province.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Special to the Daily Worker

MOSCOW, May Is (By Radio -
Under the Second Five Year Plan a
flood of all sorts of goods, foods and
manufactured commodities, is pour
ing into the stores here, insming a
great increase in the standard of
living of the workers in the Soviet
Union. A great strengthening of
the collective and state farms, and
steady increase in production
have accompanied constant in
crease in the turnover of commodi-
ties.
Under the Second Five Year Plan
retail sales in state and cooperative
trade have mounted rs per cent.
The first quarter of the current
year brought an increase in retail
turnover here of approximately "a
per cent. The purchasing capacity
of the broad masses rises daily.
Toilers are becoming consumers,
and demanding assortment and
quality in their purchases. For
tunately, their demands can be well
considered, for the deficit in goods
has been much lessened.
Considerable rise is noticeable in
the trading of the collective farm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
BerlinFactOry Vote
Shows Rising Fight
Against Nazi Rule
Only 1870 Say eyes
to Nazi-Imposed
Council List
By Burck

BERLIN. Elections to the "con-
fidence council" of the important
f factory, the Siemens- Schuckert
Works in Berlin. show a tremen-
dous decline in Nazi influence, and
a growth of struggles of the work
ers against Fascism. 1t was at this
plant where Hitler initiated the
Tabor battle" fraud last year.
Out of 5000 who were entitled to
vote, 5000 abstained from voting
entirely; 400 voted for the Commu-
mist Party of Germany or the red
trade union ticket; 300 took ballots
and returned them blank; 300 de-
faced or spoiled their ballots delib-
erately, and only 500 voted yes" for
the fascist list.
Only 10 per cent in this factory
where Hitler himself concentrated
voted for the fascist slate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16

collected by the committee are used
exclusively for Communist Party
victims and denied to victims be-
longing to other political groups
and the committee concluded that
Mr.. Music did not have in hand
such charges or proof, and therefore
requested Mr.. Music to print re-
traction in Labor Action
1.-The committee presented to Mr.
Music a cablegram which had been
received from the International
Committee in Paris and which read;
March "a, 1884
Socialist ComptrolIers Thiel-
rooy and Van Kieft Concluding
After Thorough Examination Book
and Activities that Funds World
Aid Committee Have Been Ad-
ministered with Absolute Impair
TALLY Stop Forwarding Minutes
"Lord Marley, Ellen Wilkinson,
Jourdain, Treasurer
''Mr. Music stated that before a
retraction could be printed he would
have to consult his committee.
From a letter which the Ma
tional Committee has since received
from the International Committee
at Paris we quote the following: AS
the main principle of our policies we
must state that we are pledged to
a non-sectarian relief work among
all victims Of Hitler fascism without
any kind of discrimination.
1.-The funds which are distributed
off and on in foreign countries to
refugees are given Unfortunately
to working class and anti-fascist
emigrsnts. Distributions are TAX
ing place to workers sent to us by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
More Debt Slavery for
Small Home>OaUners

ROOSEVELTS latest housing plan is
~ like his much-touted Home Owners
Relief Corporation, which was to have
stopped the foreclosures on small homes.
This plan has been in operation for
many months But foreclosures are still
continuing at the rate of 10000 a month.
The new plan is all in the interest of
the mortgage holders and the money lenders the
banks
The plan simply provides that the u S. gov
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Soviet Ship Enbarks All
OF Chelytskin Expedition

dogsleds arrived on board. In the
evening all the Chelyuskin expedi-
ton members, and one passenger
already on board the "Smolensk"
Immediately proceeded to Provid-
ence Bay.
There, before going to Vladivo-
stock, they must take the airplanes
on board. Information received by
radio from the Soviet icebreaker
"Krassin," states it is going to meet
the "Smolensk." 1t entered Soviet
waters in the Bering Sea, having
sailed $4,000 miles from Leningrad.
The feat of the "Smolensk" in
Lawrence Bay once again illustrates
the courage and daring of Soviet
seamen. No one ever came to Law
renee Bay so early in the year be-
fore.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Capitalist Newspapers
and a Free Press

THE suppression by the Western Union
L Company of vital strike news sent from
the Birmingham strike area to the Daily
Worker is fascist-reactionary blow at
basic democratic right-the right to free
press.
Here is a Wall Street monopoly, made
powerful through its ownership of the telegraph
lines of the country deliberately acting as the GEN.
sor Of news vital to the struggles of the working
class.
Here is the power of the money bags the power
OF capital, acting as reactionary agent in the
choking of the facts of the Birmingham strike
against the steel Trust coal companies.
1t is obvious that here the basic issue of
free press is Immediately involved.
And yet the entire capitalist press of New
York. with the sole exception of the New York
Herald Tribune, which gives small item-the
entire capitalist press has refused to print one
word of the entire matter
The Daily Worker supplied every capitalist
paper in New York with the facts The capitalist
press ignored them.
What then becomes of their vaunted pride in
a free press? Only few weeks ago. the capitalist
press was loud in its reclamation of its determi-
nation to maintain "free press" against any eff
forts to organize the industry through codes unions
ETC.
When it is question of fighting for the open
shop against giving decent standards of work to
the newspaper workers. then the capitalist press
beats loud tom-tom for the "free press"-free
to exploit its workers to the limit.
The free press" of the capitalist papers is
revealed to be hypocritical shbboleth to conceal
its utter servility to its ruling class masters who
own and control them. The capitalist press can
watch with perfect equanimity it seems the brazen
censorship and suppression of working class news
by Wall Street telegraph monopoly.
THIS is not matter that concerns the Daily
Worker alone. 1t concerns everyone in the
United States interested in fighting the menace of
approaching fascist reaction. 1t concerns every
liberal element in the country interested in main
tanning the right to criticize the rulers and their
government. 1t concerns the preservation of basic
democratic rights against fascist oppression.
1t is precisely by such incidents as the West
ern Union censorship that American Fascism ad-
vances. 1t is only in resolute resistance to every
instance of reactionary oppression that the ad-
vance of American Fascism can BE- stopped. To
refuse to fight precisely these Slight" encroach-
ments on democratic rights, while talking vaguely
of fighting Fascism is to play right into the hands
of Fascism.
Now it is the Communist press that feels the
hand OF reactionary censorship. Tomorrow it will
be every paper, every organization that offers the
slightest criticism Of the ruling Wall Street
fnanciers.
1t is the clear duty of every supporter Of a
free press uncensored by Wall Street monopoljes
or agencies 10 join the fight of the Daily Worker
against censorship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16

understood, will make the North
Eastern attempt again, has not
able record of achievements in the
Arctic. In 1892 he commanded the
expedition of the breaker Sibir-
iakov which, for the first time in
history, completed the North East
ern passage, Leningrad to Vladi-
vostok, in one navigating season. He
is known as one of the foremost
mathematicians of the Soviet Union
where he is professor of mathe-
MATES in the Moscow State Univer-
sity. In addition. he is also chief
editor Of the great Soviet Encyclo-
pedia, Of which nearly half of the
sixty-four volumes have been issued.
Ushakov, who was in charge of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16

the work of rescuing the 1O1 sur
vivors of the Chelyuskin, most of
whom were stranded on the ice
foes for two months, has headed
several expeditions of exploration
and study in the Arctic regions,
particularly an exploratory mission
in the region known as North Land
which covered two years, 1930-31.
He had charge of an expedition to
study and colonize Wrangel Island
in 1926.
Professor Schmidt has received
the Order of Lenin and the Order
of the Red Star for his Northern
work. He is married and has one
son, Vladimir. who is in the sixth
grade of a Moscow school,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Especial to the Daily worker)

MOSCOW, May IS, (By Radio :
The Soviet steamer "Smolensk" is
taking aboard the rescued members
of the Chelyuskin arctic expedition
at Providence Bay. They arrived
yesterday from Lawrence Bay where
there was still another small group
of the crew of the Chelyuskin.
Stopping miles from the shore,
where the ice is piled up, closing
the entrance to Lawrence Bay, the
steamer made its arrival known to
the Chelyuskin crew by sirens and
volleys of shots Then a group left
the steamer to meet the Chelyuskin
crew and direct their course through
the ice jams.
Within three hours, the first three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Chicago Cops "Out"
To Youths Who Call
For Parade Permit
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)
CHICAGO, May 15.-The Mayor
and Chief of Police Of Chicago
lodged a committee Of young
workers who went Monday to de-
mand a permit for the National
Youth Day Demonstration, May 30.
Flunkeys in Chief Allman's Of
flee were forced to grant an APP
pointment for the committee to
meet Altman on Wednesday.
The delegation that went to the
City Hall Monday will see ALL
man Wednesday, and will also pre-
sent its demand to the City Coun-
Gil the same day.
The parade on National Youth
Day will start at 47th st. and
Halsted, in the Stock Yards dis
trict.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Chicago Workers
Prepare To Greet
Murray, May Is
Irish Communists Leader
To Speak at Mass
Meeting Friday
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)


CHICAGO, May 15.-Irish work
ers of Chicago are preparing for the
visit of Sean Murray of the Com
munist Party of Ireland. A great
mass meeting will be held at 2911
w. Chicago Ave, May 10, at which
Murray will tell of the struggles of
Irish workers and peasants.
The opportunity to hear this rep
resentative of our new brother
Party is one that will attract hun
dreds of non-Irish workers. The
Irish Workers Club, under whose
auspices the meeting will be held,
calls on every worker and sympa-
thizer to attend the meeting.
On Saturday. May 10, a banquet
for Murray and Bob Minor will take
place at Crawford Hall, 4o03 Roose-
welt Rd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16

eminent stands ready to guarantee 20 per cent Of
the loans of any private investors on building jobs.
If any small home owner can find sufficient
curity to obtain a loan, not to exceed $1,000, then
the government will be so kind as to guarantees
such loans, up to a limit Of s200O1000o. For all
this kindness, the poyerty-stricken, debt-ndden,
small home owner will be charged at the rate Of
per cent
Thus the debt burdens of the small home
owners will be increased, not lessened. The
small home owner will get a lOan-but he has to
get good security first! And he is already up to
the neck in mortgages and debts; he is already
virtual bankrupt. OF what earthly such
loans be 10 him? How viii he be able to get
any Of these mythical loans?
What the small home owner needs is not more
debts but to get rid of his present debts.
And Roosevelt comes to laid" the small home
cwner-with the chains Of new credits He aids
the small home owner by guaranteeing the invest
ments of the mortgage investors and bankers, the
very Ieecnes who are bleeding the small home owner
to death!
ROOSEVELT wants to restore building he says
II But how? By making the bankers pay? BY
pouring government funds into public housing
projects to provide healthy homes for the millions
who now live in dismal squahd dwellings? Oh
not at all
Roosevelt hopes to revive" the building in
dustry by making the workers in the building trades
accept more wage cuts so that the real estate in
vestors can turn their pretty profits again.
The New York Times Washington correspond
emit Arthur Krock makes the wage-cutting aspect
of the Roosevelt housing plan" quite clear.
" existing labor costs must be adjusted
downward before the project have wide
cess" he states bluntly
The meaning Of this is unmistakable-let the
investors make money through lowering wage costs
in building construction.
For the small home owner? More debts, if he
is lucky enough to get loan at all.
For the workers in the building trades? More
wage cuts, speed up, and worse conditions Of work.
For the real estate investors and building sup
plies corporations? Guaranteed investments and
new profits from high prices.
That is the set-up in the latest Roosevelt
blessing for the small owners
real program for the small home owners
would be to cancel the intOIerable mortgage bur-
dens that are breaking their backs and robbing
them of their life savings A real home program
would be to pour the RF.C. billions, not into the
banks, railroads and the machine, but into
public works home building project with no debt
interest slavery for the small home owner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
ChelyuSkin Leader
In Westinghouse.
Continued from Poge u

sor with a bunch of peonies pre-
sented to him by the ladies of the
Embassy staff, the group left for
the Embassy on Sixteenth Street.
where the scientists will meet the
press late this afternoon. Tomor-
row afternoon they will be Ambas-
sador and Mrs Troyanovsky's guests
st an informal gathering.
Professor Schmidt who, IL is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16

DUT our heroic brother Party faces
y not only Chang Kai-Shek's
armies, but has to contend with the
support to him of all the imperialist
robbers, particularly U. S., japanese,
British and French scoundrels. AS
Chang Kai-Shek proves more anf
more incapable of stemming the ri4 /
ing red tide throughout China, til
imperialists go into action thenlf
selves on the Yangtze River and
elsewhere. We must come to the
aid of our Chinese brothers in their
battles, by preventing our exploit
ers from shipping munitions Ito
China, to be used against the Chi
nese masses. We must arouse lChe
broadest mass support for the Chi
nese Soviets, demanding the i'm
perialists keep their hands off!
IN NEW YORK CITY there is an
active group, the Friends of TN
Chinese People, at 1853 West 23lk
ST., that is rallying support in thu
country for the Chinese Soviets. [
They publish an excellent monthly
mimeographed magazine, &c hina
Today" We have just received the
May, 1884, issue, which deals with
such subjects as: Soviet China to
date" Japan in North China"
The National Question in China"
and Students Movement in China
The price is 10 cents per copy. N
Evening star., 1934-03-18
BY ". BOYCE MORGAN.
NSTALLMENT ".


- RED and Tom could scarcely control
their jubilation as they hurried down
- the trail toward their bug" They had
left their tools behind at Grandpa Jen-
kins' shack, promising him that they
would be hand bright and early
the next morning.
Fifteen dollars worth of gold today!"
crowed Fred. "Can you imagine that? And
Dad told me that all the proSpectors who have
been mining placer gold during the last couple
Of years have averaged less than a dollar
day, and most of them haven't made ex-
penses."
That's because they didn't have Grandpa
to tell them right where to go TO work., Tom
said. "And, boy, when We get down to bed
rock tomorrow we're going to strike it rich
In spite Of their high spirits they remem-
bered their promise to Grandpa jenkins not
to tell where they had been what they had
found. Only to their parents did they give
any hint that their days work had not been
entirely wasted.
But that evening Fred went down to his
fathers store to help unpack some merchan-
disc that had arrived during the day. AS he
was leaving the store later that evening he
saw Buzz Crowder loaf1ng IN front Of the pool
room. The moment he saw Fred, Buzz
Strengthened up and hailed him.
Hello, Fred" he said walking and
Have any luck today?"
What do you mean any luck?" Fred spared.
"Oh, saw you and your buddy going out
with prospecting outfit this morning, and 1
Just wondered If you'd hit pay dirt" Buzz con-
tinued smoothly.
CRED eyed the man closely. How much did
] he know? There was the suggestion Of
mocking smile about Buzzs mouth that Fred
did not like.
"Well, guess Tom and I won't be buying
any expensive cars yet awhile" Fred said,
forcing a laugh.
"That so? Too bad" Buzz went ON. Me
and my brother has been doing little pros
pectin', too, and it looks pretty good. Well,
I'll be seein you"
Buzz turned, staggered over to the pool room,
and disappeared within it. Fred gazed after
him for a moment, and his face was worried.
What was Buzz driving at? That remark
about the prospecting he and his brother were
doing sounded very pointed.
Fred walked home slowly, puzzlng over the
incident. But he had been able to arrive at,
no explanation by the time he dropped off to
sleep, to dream of finding golden nuggets as
big hens eggs.
Fred and Tom almost beat the sun up the
next morning. They cooked their own break
fasts and got early start out to Grandpa's.
They took no food along today for Grandpa had
invited them to come back to the cabin and
share his beans and bacon.
Again they parked the bug" by the bank
at the end of the trail, and once more
Grandpa was waiting for them when they
reached the cabin. With his gruf good wishes
to speed them they gathered together their
tools and started again for the gulch.
THEIR muscles were sore from the exertion
Of the day before, but even broken legs
would hardly have held them back now The
gold fever was in their blood, and their one
Evening star., 1934-03-18

In the sentences below if you look hard you
will find the name of State and the name Of
o country What are they?
He hid honeycomb in the cellar.
When had pulled the zippers I answered
the doorbell
There Is vowel left out of the sentences
below. II you discover what it is and put it
in its proper place, the sentences will make
sense!
Observation-Disclosures
altsslstthecntestfrurschl.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Too Steady

'That new clerk you've got seems 10 be .
steady young fellow"
Yes, If he was any steadier he'd be abeo-
'uteiy motionless."
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Horizontal.

Horizontal.
I. Whirls.
S. Consumed.
6. Initiate.
8. Spinning toy.
9. Cooking utensil.
IL. To strike on a door.
IA. Not in.
Vertical.
1. Animals on a farm.
2. Energy.
3. Short sleep.
4. Particle of fire.
S. Near.
z. Half an EN-.
10. Sightseeing trips.
II. Negative.
IS. Central time (Abbr.).
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Biblical Name

Mstress-And what's your babys name,
Mandy?
Colored Maid-Hallud! We named him from
the Bible
Mistress -Hallud2 I never heard that be-
fore.
Maid-Oh yes'm. Amt you never read,
"Hallud be Thy name?"
Evening star., 1934-03-18

Sierra" Is a Spanish word and forms two
sides of this weeks word triangle The second
word is the of Asiatic country. the
third is a kind of cheese the fourth Is the
edge. the fifth is Egyptian god. Can you
finish ito
Evening star., 1934-03-18
::5: Sff GfRfS 8S4S FHGf %Sf @
PUZZLES

A TOP is great for spinning, but did you
n ever try to work a crossword puzzle on
onef II you haven't now is your chance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-08-03
Staten Island Bus Men
Strike For Higher Pay

New York.-One hundred bus driv-
ers Of the Staten Island Coach Com
pany struck when officials Of the COM
pany refused their demand for a pay
increase of 121 cents an hour. The
six lines Of the company were COM
pletely tied up and 10000 commuters
from Manhattan travelled home by
other transportation services.
The drivers have been receiving so
cents an hour for an eight-hour day.
Originally, the operators demanded
an increase of 25 cents an hour. After
this demand had been rejected by the
company, the drivers appealed to the
Regional Labor Board, whose execu-
tive secretary, Benjamin Golden, sug-
gested an increase of 1917 cents an
hour. This compromise was accept
able to the drivers, but it was rejected
by Samuel HI. Serena, president of
the company.