The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

that the human race had no
conception of how much suf-
fering it was capable. F'ascism in
Germany does not deny starvation
faces the toiling masses this win
ter. It calls on them to consider
it noble to see men, women and
children die of hunger so that Mes
sers Thyssen, Krupp & Co. CO
mass huge profits, and so that Hi
ler's war machine can be speed
to add prolifically to the deaths
hunger.
MINISTER of Lies, Herr Goebbel
W is now undertaking the cam.
paign to glorify hunger. The
greater the distress" he declared,
"the greater will be our defiance
and our determination"
The American capitalist news
paper correspondents believe that
Goebbels radio speeches will be able
to fill the void in the workers
stomach. The British bankers, a
little closer to the inner forces OF
German fascism, believe the Com
munist Party will have something
to say about hunger this winter
and how the masses shall act IN
resisting starvation.
We quote the following from
Baron'S Weekly, a financial and
Wall Street SPECTATORS sheet, on
the class forces in Germany:
'But, as all the world knows
behind Hitler are the Industrial
lists, such as Thyssen, THAT ID,
the gentlemen who think 1t Is
noble for the masses to s4arve-H.
G.] and all around him are the
ReichsWehr. Hitler, who never
has been wholly his own man
since the day he stepped to power,
will necessarily shape his course
by the wishes Of those who alone
enable him to survive. But be-
meath Hitler Thyssen, and the
Reichswehr are the Communists,
whose secret growth during recent
events in Germany has been much
larger than the world suspects.
"The indications are then fer
an OId-faShioned grouping Of Ma
tiOnalists VERY mixed) at the top
and Communists (also very mixed
at the bottom. 1t is for this reason
that London privately fears the
collapse of the capitalist system
in Germany"
WHAT Hitler does for the finance
W capitalists in Germany, the
Kuomintang, under the leadership
Of Chang Kai-Shek, does for the
imperiaists in China.
The Communist Party Of China
calls the Kuomintang the scavenger
of the imperialists. Recent reports
on starvation in China show how
true this description is.
While on the Shanghai market
there is an oversupply of rice, 5000
peasants in Nanchuan, Szechuan
Province, live on muddy soil. The
Shun Pao, one of the leading Shang-
hal Chinese newspapers, prints a
picture showing monster crowd Of
hungry peasants digging the soil
and eating 1t. Men, women and
children, fight with one another
for pieces Of dirt to ease their
hunger pangs.
Using the soil of salt marshes as
v a condiment is an old custom in
China where so heavy a tax Is
placed on salt that some peasants
are forced to flavor their meagre
food with salt-bearing earth.
In Yangshin, Hupeh Province,
hundreds of thousands OF peasants
live on grass and the bark Of trees.
The same newspaper, Shun Pao, 8
paper censored by the Kuonlintang,
prints letter from Sfli Yin, the
present mayor of Marking municip-
atty, to his friend in the capital
of China. The letter says in part
after my tour of Hangshin I
cannot but come to the conclusion
that the district inspected by me
is worse than a hell. The total
population Of the whole hsien has
fallen off from 100000 to barely
100000. The surviving are usually
old people or children. Accounted
for by the fact that the children
are fed first and the older people
next because of filiaI piety-H.G.1
There are only few bodied
men, and they, too, are in a dy-
ing state. Houses are burned TO
the ground and oxen butchered.
The peasants sleep in the open
air and eat grass and trees rs
meals"
FROM all ends of the earth, the
imperialists and their lackeys
are beginning to admit war rushes
nearer. In the Transvaal, South
Africa, General j. c. SHUTS, Min
lister Of Justice, greeting the Royal
Navy, declared:
THE world is becoming more
dangerous. The old dream is gone.
We dreamt of peace and a peaceful
world"
The colonial lackey Of British I'M
perialism called for a bigger navy
ito keep peace"
AFTER viewing the proposals OF
Otto Bauer for conferences be-
tween Socialist leaders and the
Schussnig government, the men,
bers of the Revolutionary Socialists
of Floridsdcrf held conference.
The main question before the con-
ference was affiliation and adher-
ence to the Communist Party OF
Austria. 1t was decided that If the
Party membership, in secret ballot.