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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
SOUiet Ambassador Declares
WarDanger Greater Than Ever

PHILADELPHIA, May 27.-Alex-
ander Troyanovsky, Soviet Ambas-
sador to the United States, speak
ing as the guest at a dinner given
by the American Russian Institute
for Cultural Relations with the
Soviet Union, at the Bellevue STRAIT
ford Hotel here Friday night,
stressed the growing acuteness Of
the threat of world war, and en-
phasized the consistent struggle for
peace waged by the Soviet Union.
I'VE sincerely want to obtain gen.
eral disarmament for all countries, :"
he said, Every agreement based
on the idea of disarmament will find
support in the Soviet Union"
Pointing to the breakdown of dis
armament proceedings, the open and
deliberate preparation for war, the
whipping up of jingoistic national
passions, he characterized the pres
ent world situation as even darker"
than he indicated several months
ago, when he said that the ghost
Of war was lowering over the world"
1--WE cannot know precisely where
and in what form the bloody con-
flict is likely to start We do not
know what pretext will be chosen
for the beginning. Perhaps false
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
Criticize Failures in
Work Among Negroes
and Peasantry

most revolutionary ally of the prole-
tariat was sharply pointed out.
The central slogan launched by
the Central Committee and con-
flrmed by The Congress, was that of
the preparation for and organization
of taking over the land and its dis
tribution among the peasants, agri-
cultural workers and soldiers; the
organization of Peasant committees
as we'll as the strengthening of the
Party organization among them.
No less sharply placed was the
question of winning over the Negro
masses. The Congress severely criti-
cized the tendency to hide the face
of the Party before the Negro masses
and the resistance to bringing into
the Party Negro workers and peas
ants who showed a desire to enter
the Party (Oriente). Other concrete
acts of white chauyinism, open ex-
preston of right opportunism, we're
exposed, which consisted in resisting
struggle against discrimination of
Negroes, their segregation in the
parks and main streets as in the
South Of the United States. Espe-
cially did the Congress point out the
necessity of greater classification
of the Negro question as a national
rather than racial question, typi-
fed in the slogan for self -determin-
alton of the Negroes in the Black
Belt of Oriente province.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28

telegram, or some incident like the
Sarajevo murder. Or perhaps no
pretext at all.
About $50 guests sat through a
dinner in honor of Troyanovsky,
and at $50 several hundred others
crowded the balcony of the Ball
Room at the Bellevue to hear Troy
anovsky. He was preceded by Josef
Hoffman, director of Curtis Insti-
tute, who played several pieces on
the piano, DR.. Wilmer Krusen,
former Director of Public Health in
the Mackey Administration here,
and by Professor H. w. L. Dana.
Dana spoke enthusiastically of the
tremendous advances made in the
Soviet Union ION the cultural
front"
While teachers all over the world
remain unpaid, and there is general
retrenchment in education, the
Soviet Union has reduced illiteracy
from rs per cent to less than 20 per
cent. There is a great thirst and
hunger for culture, for the culture
of all the world, and there is evil
denced greater familiarity with
American poets and writer's in the
Soviet Union than we often find
here"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
Steel Workers! Prepare
the Strike!

THE fact that the N.R.A. is an organ of
4 finance capital designed to throw the
burden Of the crisis of capitalism entirely
on the backs of the toiling section of the
population and that Section IA of the
blanket code is slick piece of demagogy,
which never has and never will give work
ers the right to organize and strike, is revealed
agan-ths time at meeting of members of the
American Iron and Steel Institute
Here the heads of the big steel trusts stated in
unnistakable terms that their policy is of the
open shop and company union. And the policy of
the steel barons is the policy of the government
no matter what hypocritical promises government
spokesman make to the workers.
w A. Irving, president of the U. S. Steel; Eugene
G. Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel, and T. M.
Girdler chairman of Republic Steel confronted with
workers organizing in their plants for strike an
nounced in chorus that they opposed to all
unions but company unions
Indeed Mr. Girdler declared that Republic Steel
is mot going to deal with the Amalgamated or
any other professional union if we have to
shut down"
Only three months ago the U. S. Steel announced
that it would not allow the workers to hold cleo
tions in the plants.
Workers in the steel mills should now see clear
~ that Section IA is a false promise made by
jecsevelt the steel bosses spokesman-a promise
signed to prevent militant organization and ac-
ion by pinning the hopes of the workers the
,apitalist government
the way to win your demands is to organize in
Id mills. The only way to win your demands is
Prepare mass strike of all steel workers. and
aah with mass picket lines, close the mills until
% dem ands are granted.
f-garizs rank and file action committees in
az DEP ment of the steel mills.
Build up a strong rank and file opposition inside
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
Cuban lid Holds
First Convention
81 Delegates at Secret
Meet Hear Patterson
Special to the Daily worker)

CUBA, May Is (By Cable In
spite of the terroris.ic rule of the
Mendieta-B atista government the
first National Convention of the
Cuban International Labor Defense
has just ended after a two day
session in Havana, Cuba. Held
under extreme secrecy, the conven-
ton had 81 delegates, representing
all sections Of the country.
William Patterson, secretary of
the I. l.. D. in the U. S. A. spoke
yesterday, and pledged the support
of all militant American workers
and intellectualS in the struggle
against American imperialism in
Cuba. He heartily condemned the
Platt Amendment, through which
Wall Street is better enabled to
keep Cuba enslaved.
The convention developed plans of
action against the secret and limited
aspects of the existence of the
Cuban section of the 1. L. D. Reso-
lutions were passed demanding the
freedom of Tom Mooney, and
pledging militant support in the
struggle for the liberation of the
nine Scottsboro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
BY MANUEL VALENCIA

THE Congress emphasizes the cor
rect strategy the Party followed
in roofing itself in the basic prole-
tariat of the country, particularly
in the sugar industry.
At the beginning of 1882, the
Party commenced seriously to apply
its plan of concentration in the
plantations and mills Of the sugar
industry, leading militant strikes
which produced constant armed
struggles against the rural guards
of Machado. This helped the Party
very greatly to head struggles
against the feudal remnants on the
land, struggles which eliminated in
the general strike of August, which
overthrew Machado, thus opening
the way to the agrarian anti-impe-
rialist revolution in Cuba.
The delegation of the Second
Congress demonstrated in large part
the orientation of the Party toward
the basic industries of the country,
although it reflected at the same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28

OF the masses for decisive struggles.
We must point out the weakness
of the Congress reflected in the lack
of a serious analysis of the causes
Tor the lack of consolidation of the
Soviets in the places where the high
level of the struggles of the workers
and peasants eliminated in the tax
ing over of local power (Mabay.
JaronU. We must also emphasize
the weakness of the struggle against
Yankee intervention, which reflects
not only the organizational def
cheney of the Party, but particularly
the lack of revolutionary perspec-
tive.
The Second Congress of the Com
munist Party of Cuba in taking
balance of the economic and poll
tical situation of the country which
becomes more aggravated every day,
in analyzing the period since the
overthrow of Machado placed very
sharply the question of realizing
transitory slogans: worker control
confiscation and distribution of the
land of the Yankee and native land
lords, as lever for higher struggles
toward taking over power and the
establishment OF workers and
peasants government. Discussion
around this question was very weak
in the Congress.
The great weaknesses of the Party
in the face of the problems of revo-
luton were laid bare. The danger
of setback in the struggles of
the peasants, because of the SLOW
ness with which the Party organ
ICES the agrarian struggles and the
winning over of the peasants as the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
What Are the Revolutionary Tasks II, Cuba?

time all the weaknesses of the Party
among certain other sections of the
basic proletariat, especially the rail-
road workers. Of the 81 delegates,
43 were workers. Of these, three
were sugar workers, nine tobacco
workers, six transport workers, two
metal workers, and the rest were
from light industries. There were
only three peasant delegates which
demonstrates the serious weakness
of the work of the Party in the
countryside.
Although insufficient, the presence
of IA Negro delegates indicated a
more effective understanding of the
Negro question in the ranks of the
Party.
The Second Congress severely cri-
ticized the weaknesses of the Party,
especially of the grave mistakes of
August, 1888, which would have been
disastrous for the revolutionary
movement without rapid correction.
In the report of the Central Com
mittee, as we'll as in the political
theses, these mistakes were under
lined and characterized as social
democratic theory of the lesser
evil The mistakes consisted in
calling upon the workers during the
general strike of August to go back
to work because sit was necessary
to choose between Yankee interven-
ton and weakened Machado."
The Congress pointed out the
necessity of an irnplacable struggle
against the remnants of this theory,
which still persists, as well as against
the vestiges of anarco-syndicalism,
which is an obstacle to the winning
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
Oil, Fruit Companies
Behind U. S. Treaty
With Colombia Cow

WASHINGTON, May 27. = The
reciprocity treaty between Colomb-
bia and the United States, now
awaiting approval by President
Roosevelt, was drawn up solely for
the protection of American oil and
fruit companies which have vast
interests in the South American
republic, according to Senator Hat
field.
L have reason to believe" he
said, that the pact of reciprocity
was made to protest oil and fruit
interests in the United States which
have large concessions in Colombia,
by exempting them from the addi-
tional impost upon petroleum and
fruits which these interests send to
the United States markets after
producing them cheaply by means
Of starvation wages"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
Peace Talks
Stir BlOOdier
W ar in ChacO
Over 5000 Killed In
Battle Initiated By
Imperialists

BUENOS AIRES, May 25.-The
greater the hypocritical peace"
moves made by the Roosevelt and
the British government, through
arms embargoes," the more fero-
cious and bloody becomes the fight
ing in the Chaco region between
Paraguay and Bolivia.
Fighting at the behest Of the i'm
perialist robbers, these two Latin
American puppet powers took the
peace" maneuvers correctly as a
symbol for more intensified war
fare.
In the last six days there has
been almost continuous fighting
with great loss of life, when before
the peace" maneuvers there had
been very little fighting, it having
reached a stalemate.
Bolivian officers claimed that in
a recent attack by the Paraguayan
army, which was repulSed, over 5000
were killed. The Bolivians claim
they took 1000 prisoners.
The Santiago, Chile, newspaper,
Ell Impartial" declares editorially
that the United States war NUM-
lions manufacturers have been prof
iting heavily by supplying both
Paraguay and Bolivia with arms.
The Morgan concern, the Curtiss-
Wright aircraft company has sup
piled fighting planes. Besides, ma
chine guns, Winchester rifles and
ammunition, gasoline, uniforms, lub-
ricating oils, bombs an other sup
plies have come from the United
States.
Britain, through the Vickers-
Armstrong Co., has supplied modern
arms and artillery for the Bolivian
army. War materials, also, have
come from France, Csecho-slovakia.
Holland and Norway in smaller
quantities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
100000 SPANISH FARM WORK.
Frs PREPARE STRIKE

MADRID, May 27. - The an
nounced strike of agricultural work.
ers on June S was the occasion of
mounting alarm here last week, as
indication grew that the strike would
involve over one million workers.
The new Municipal Enclosures Law
has increased the misery of the
landless peasant by cutting off his
access to supplementary strips, and
grazing privileges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
INVESTIGATION TABLEn

PARIS, May PA motion to
force investigation of arm of fas-
cist groups in France, by Communist
Deputy Ramette, was tabled Friday.
Ramette pointed out that Commu-
nlsts were not armed, but that the
Croix de Ecu and other fascist
groups were making no secret of
their progress. When the resolution
was tabled he declared that Com
munists would know how to arm
when the right moment came.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
Farmers Force Release
Of Comrade from Jail

HILMAR, Calf, May 25-Mass
action by the United Farmers
League and a rank-and- COM
mittee this week forced the release
from Jail of j. E. Mount, local
farmer arrested in connection with
his eviction from a house owned by
him.
More than 100 farmers and work
erS responded to U. F. L. leaflet
to find the owner had that morn
ing been arrested and was being
held in jail on a warrant of in
vestigation."
A committee of five farmers vol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
FASCIST RoUMANIA?

BUCHAREST, Roumania, May 81.
With King Boris in all-day SEES
sion with Premier George Tatarescu,
following consultations with out
standing leaders of political parties
and a rumor that Marshal Avarescu
had been offered the leadership in
fascist Cabinet, coup was ex-
pected within the very near future
by informed observers here.
The coming visit of Louis Bar
thou, French Foreign Minister. Of
fered a clue to the political oriental
ton Of the new Roumanian govern
nent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
Nazis Ban Catholic
Sports in Bavaria

MUNICH, May 81. - The pro-
scribing of athletic activities and
the wearing of uniforms and badges
by the members of Catholic organi-
cations in Swabia, as was announced
by Karl Wahl, Bavarian State
representative in that district, fol-
lows hard upon the similar action
taken by the Munich authorities
three weeks ago. In Rosenheim,
Upper Bavaria the same orders have
been published.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
Send 10000 in Ukraine
To Farm Universities
Especial to the Daily worker

Especial to the Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, May 81 (By Radio)-
Ten thousand workers on the kol-
khozes collective farms of Soviet
Ukraine, beside the usual number,
will be sent to study at agricultural
universities, in order to insure more
skilled cadres this year. The gov
eminent decision was met with
great enthusiasm by the men and
women of the Ukrainian kolkhozes,
and many animated discussions and
plan meetings were held.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28

the Amalgamated Association Of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers to head the strike movement and prevent
any attempts at betrayal on the part of the on
Gals
Unorganized steel workers, join the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union
Steel workers! Unite your ranks! Workers of the
SMWIU. and the A. A. Prepare to striks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28

unteered to go to the county seat
where Mount was held and demand
his release. The authorities. in the
face of militant rank and file &C.
ton, were forced to give Mount I'M
conditional release, without charge
or bail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
Over 1S9,795,OOO
Acres Now SOWn
In Soviet Union
Great Advances Made In
Planting Last Year;
Exceeds Plan
by Burck.


V0poOIaI 70 VHt Daily WVTkeTI
MOSCOW, May Is (By Radio =
Over 189,705, 900 acres of land had
been sown by May goth under the
second Five Year Plan as compared
to 157 500, 600 acres at the same time
last year.
In Moscow. Gorky, North Cauc-
asus, Azov, Black Sea regions; in
the Chuvash, Dagestan, Moldavian
autonomous republics and in White
Russia, the sowing has been COM
pleted exceeding the plan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
DOESN'T WANT THAELMANN
PROTESTS

LONDON, May 27.-For the Sec
ond time, the German ambassador
here last week refused to see a dele
cation that came to the embassy to
protest against the torture of Ernst
Thaelmann, leader of the Commu-
mist Party of Germany, imprisoned
in Nazi dungeon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
End Congress of Cuban
Co m m u mist Party
Outlines Program

The following is the second
article on the recent historical
second Congress of the Communist
Party of Cuba, which took place
after the overthrow of the rule of
Butcher Machado. The concluding
article will appear tomorrow
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Rooms at Y.W.C.A.
Sought by 2l,125
For Blossom Fete
Offices Used as DOrnli-
tories at E Street
Branch.

The Y. w. c. A. branch at 614 E
street reported last week that offices
had been used as dormitorieS in order
to care for the crowds of girls seeking
rooms during the Cherry Blossom Fes-
tival. The Elizabeth Somers Residence
at 1104 M street also reported over
crowded conditions. Girls were ap-
plying all during the week for jobs,
friends and rooms.
Inquiries for rooms from LIPS per-
sons were received during the Cherry
Blossom Festival period, at the serv-
ice Office of the Y. W. G. A. at Seven
teenth and K streets. More than 500
persons in addition were granted in
terviews.
House parties are being scheduled
for each weekend through the Spring
at Kamp Kahlert, maintained by the
organization on West River, 81 miles
from Washington. Included in the
camp are cabins for business girls and
women. as well as Juniors. Sixty girls
from Gallaudet College will spend
their Spring vacation at the camp
next week.
The camp will open its season to-
morrow. Conducted trips are now
being planned to st. Marys County,
where much of the tercentenary cele-
bration of Southern Maryland will
take place this Summer.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
MACON OVER TEXAS
FLASHES ALL WELL
Dirigible on Way to Miami
Passes AuStin-Favored by
Weather Conditions.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
AUSTIN, Tex, April 21-The dir
igible Macon flew over Texas capital
shortly before pm Central Stand
ard Time) tonight. It's radio said
"Alls Well"
DALLAS, Tex, April 81 CP-Fa-
vored by clear skies and perfect flying
conditions, the Macon, which left her
mooring mast at Sunnyvale, Calf,
yesterday with crew of 19 officers
and 80 men, traversed Arizona and
New Mexico and headed into the
mountains east of El Paso, on her
way to Miami. The Macon followed
the line of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road, then the dirigible continued
East, between towering mountains
until she reached Van Horn, beyond
which the rugged plains region.
slashed by occasional river gorges, ap-
peared.
In her trip through the mountains,
the air cruiser encountered none of
the difficulties met by the Inflated
Akron, when she few Westward over
the same route nearly two years ago.
The Akron, confronted by cloud banks,
which covered the jagged peaks of
the Guadalupes and other ranges, was
forced to fly back and borth for hours
seeking a gap where there was some
visibility.
Finally, the Akron climbed high
and flew blind across the mountains,
reaching El Paso safely and continu-
ing on to the West Coast.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
S. A. R. WILL CELEBRATE
FOUNDERS DAY TUESDAY
Army Month Also Will Be
Marked at Meeting-3o-Year
Members to Get Citations.

Founders day and Army month will
be obServerd at meeting of the Dis
trict of Columbia Society, Sons of the
American Revolution, Tuesday at the
MayfoWer Hotel.
The first part of the meeting, which
will be presided over by DR.. Clifton
P. Clark, president of the society, will
be devoted to a celebration of the
founding of the organization in April,
1890.
Eighteen members of the society,
who have completed 80 years of mem
bership since the last meeting, will
receive citations. They are James A.
Bailey, DR.. Joseph B. Bayne, DR..
George M. Beckett, David w. Bell,
Lieut.. Col. Earl Briscoe, DR.. Louis D.
Carman, Henry P. Du BoiS, Horace
M. Fulton, Col. Alonzo Gray, Judge
Isaac r. Hit, Cliff M. Lewis, William
R. MacGill, Col. Louis NJ Maus, Ed
ward w. Parker, Louis D. Scisco, Will
liam H. Somervell, j. Mcdonald Stew
art and Charles Meg. Sweitzer.
The Army month program will con-
sist of musical selections and speeches.
The meeting, which will start at 8
pm, will be followed by a luncheon
and dancing.
Evening star., 1934-04-22

to provide method of adjusting the
compensation of the lower paid men
referred to in the Presidents second
letter. We were willing to do this
with a profound hope that a continu-
alton of national recovery should be
such as to justify this action. The
Presidents proposals have been re-
peatedly rejected by the representa-
tives of the employees.
I'm this connection they have re-
ferred to certain increases in wages
tain industries. In general these in
dustries had reduced wage rates much
more than 10 per cent. The railroads
were among the last, if not the last. of
all large employers to obtain the bene-
fits of even the 10 per cent reduction.
Railroad earnings in the United
States are better than in the first part
of 1898, but the gross earnings in
January and February of this year are
S30,000,000 less than for the first two
months of 1882, which in turn were
far below 1881 on the basis of which
year the deduction was first agreed
upon.
while it is impossible to make def
mite commitments, it Is a fact that
as earnings improve. expenditures for
wages and materials will increase with
direct benefits to the employees and
other industries. If the 10 per cent
deduction be not continued for the
remainder of the year, such ex-
penditures will of necessity have to
be drastically reduced in substantial
amounts"