davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24

CONTINUED on Page 10Y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24

Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
japanese War
Dept Writes
US. New Note
Both Powers Rapidly
Arm for War Over Rob-
berry of Chinese People

TOXIC. May "a virtual war
council here decided today that the
United States note to Japan con-
tanning covert threat of armed
conflict would be answered by For
eign Minister Koki Hirota shortly.
Westminster Yanagawa of the
War ONCE, after visit to Vice
Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu of the
Foreign Office, decided that Secre-
tary Hulrs note would be replied to.
Nichi Nichi, leading japanese
newspaper, which expresses the views
of the War Department, and the
imperialist forces behind it. stated
editorially today that Japan would
make it clear that she will insist on
her interests in the Far East" and
that Japan will claim priority in the
Orient because of her special in
terests.
There is a fierce discussion, how
ever, in the cabinet over the tone
Of the proposed ncps. Several days
of conversation will be necessary
before Foreign Minister Hirota will
send the note to Secretary of State
Hull.
In the meantime. because of the
extreme tension, war preparations
both in Japan and the United States
are being rushed with top speed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
The Path of Renegades

n A meager struggling group that did
not show a combined strength of 200,
the Lovestoneites and Trotzkyites, rene
gades from the party of Lenin, tailed sol
EMMY behind the Socialist May Day
demonstration. the last contingent in the
march.
In this physical location there is an
ironic comment on the political relation of these
two renegade groups to social-Democracy
For as certainly as the tail of COW is posterior
to its rump, so are Trotzkyists and Lovestonites
the political hangers-on of l-reformism
1t is the iron Logic of their political renegacy
that finally brought Loves5one and Cannon as the
colleagues Of such reyolutionares" as Judge Jacob
Panken, Norman Thomas Louis Wsldman and
James Oneal on the reviewing stand at Madison
Square
Side by side with these Social Democratic gentle
men, whose ties with the capitalist state power
runs in thin but continuous thread through the
American Federation Of Labor bureacracy through
the NR.A. Labor Boards, straight to the heart Of
the Wall Street dictatorship at Washington sat the
redoubtable Trotzkyites, who are more left" than
the Communist International and the Lovestonites
whose brief history has already revealed them as
the eager fig leaf of A. F. Of L. bureaucracy
1t was with this Social-Democratic love feast
on the reviewing stand at Madison Square that
these renegades were effecting their real United
Front" while more than 100000 workers were
making the earth shake with their tread at Union
Square!
The descent is swift. From renegacy from the
party OF Lenin, from the role OF opposition" to
the swamp of Social-D Democracy, the path is in
evitable and inescapable
Operating in the name of Communism" the
historic function of these renegade groups is to
act as shield for the treachery of Social Democ-
racy. At given historic point the renegades and
the Social-Fascist leaders meet in their common
development toward counter-revoution. Two
days ago they met on the bandstand at Madison
Square.
The Comintern marches forward the general
staff Of the world revolution under the banner of
Lenin carried high and unsuIied in the hands of
Stain, flesh and blood of Lenns Party, leader of
the world proletariat
The renegades cling to the filthy skirts of So
cal-Fascism. They are not "oppostions" to be re-
futed They are class enemies to be destroyed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
FRIDAY. MAY 4. 1884
SAGE Ernst Thaelmann

MAY DAY in Germany within and out
I'VE side the very Nazi goose-step parades,
emphatically showed the bloody rulers that
down below, in the ranks of the workers
and farmers, clear struggle against fas-
cism is ready to burst.
The Communist Party of Germany
stands out as the leader of the growing
mass fight against fascism in Germany.
This has driven the NaI executives to
unbounded rage and fury.
A new murderouS law has been passed,
a terrorist act that opens the Nazi flood
gates of the most vicious and bloody at
tacks against Communists and militant
workers. A fiendish pogrom against the
Jews is on foot
Chained to his cell, beaten and tortured,
our heroic comrade, Thaelmann, as a result
of the new hellish terror law, stands in
imminent danger of execution by Nazi axe
men,
Right now his tormentors are increas-
ing their torture.
Thaelmann, Torgler, and other Com
munists are in the gravest dangers.
There must be action-now-im
ately A shower of protests must be sent
to Germany, to Hitler and Goering. The
American workers must raise their voices,
organize their forces now, to save the life
of Comrade Thaelmann.
Every workers organization should
wire protests to the German Envoy in
Washington, Workers delegations in every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
ArgO FaScistS Fire
Hall in Attempt To
Halt May Day Meet
Workers Answer With
Open-Air Meeting
Near Hall
midwest Bureau Daily Worker,

CHICAGO, May 3. - Fascist in
cendiaries made a vicious but un-
successful attempt to smash a
workers May Day meeting in Argo,
ILL.,, Sunday, by burning Copolis
Hall, where the meeting was to be
held.
Fire, started by unknown persons.
broke out near one of the exits of
the hall between 2 and 4 am. on
Sunday, and damaged the building.
The fire department then occupied
the hall and refused to permit the
meeting to be held there.
Argo workers, reused by this ter
roristic act, went through with the
meeting out of doors, near the hall.
One hundred and fifty workers
heard speeches by Wells, of the
Food Workers Industrial Union,
which is organizing the workers in
the Argo Corn Products Plant; Wit
tenberg, of the International Labor
Defense, and Armstrong, of the
Communist Party.
Police and American Legionnaires
had modified to intimidate the
workers. but at the meeting Sun
day neither gang appeared. appa
rentIy because they knew the hall
was to be fired and expected there
would be no May Day meeting as
result.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04

LONDON. May ga serious clash
over markets, and an impending
trade war was seen in the meeting
of Walter Runciman. President Of
the British Board of Trade, and the
japanese Ambassador to England,
Tsuneo Ma1sudaira, which takes
place today.
Recently an agreement was made
with Great Britain ard japan on
Japanese textile exports to India
but the understanding fell through.
The meeting between the President
of the Board of Trade and the Jap
snese ambassador follows cabinet
session last night. MI. Runcinan
was instructed to inform the Japan
csc representatives that Britain
was prepared to declare a trade war
with Japan unless she yiel to the
British demand to partition world
markets on the basis of reduced tex
tile exports"
The Japanese have been under
mining British markets, especially
in textiles in India, Africa, China
and Latin America.
At the same time, Runciman will
take up the setting of quotas for
japanese exports to the British
Dominions.
Increase War Danger
The sharp trade war following on
the heels of the Japanese manifesto
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
Three Years Of the Spanish Republic

became the strongest faction, This
occurrence can be partly explained
through the campaigning of the
relative majority, partly through
electioneering terror, selling of votes,
miscounting, and finally through
the campaigning of the Rights, y
particularly in the villages,
LerrouX is paving the way for
open fascism. Already the ques-
ton of the reform of agrarisn re-
FORM" in particular the question
Of reapportionment of a part of
confscated parcels of land, has Of
f1cially been repudiated. The re-
apportionment of church possessions
and the reinstatement of its super
visional rights are forecast. AM
nesty for the minister of the mon
archy as well as of the insurrec-
zionist monarchist generals is being
prepared. The price of bread and
other food stuffs were raised at the
demand of the landowners At the
end of February the so-called left
radicals" (Barrios) were ousted
from the cabinet.
The government exercises repres-
sive methods and terror. First it
declares "a. state of alarm" and
later announces "a state of siege"
Locals of the Communist Party and
the revolutionary trade unions were
closed down, their newspapers pro-
llibited. For capital crimes, capital
punishment was instituted. General
strikes were declared illegal. AL
ready court-marshals are being in
PRODUCED.
But the most important hindrance
to the development of revolutionary
strike movement is the split in the
working class. The socialist and
the neutrality-suspicious. leaders I'M
dernine and disintegrate the revo-
lutionary mass movement.
This is the situation in which
the Communist Party, which grew
from 800 members in the year 1881
to 10000 members, and the revo-
luticnary trade unions, which num-
Der approximately 100000 members,
must combat the offensive of fas-
cism. Among the masses there is
an elemental drive for the united
front, which, in MANY places is car
ried out along with the local leaders
of the socialists and anarchists, or
over their heady
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
One Million Troops
In Desperate Drive
On Chinese SOyietS
Chang Kai Shek, U. S
lmperialists, Mass
Against Reds

SHANGHAI, May 3.-Over 1.0O0.-
600 soldiers have been modified by
Chang Kai-Shek for a drive against
the Central Soviet District in
Kiangsi Province. The butcher of
the Chinese people, in the pay of
American imperialism, is o NJ
Wandering every Yangtze River
vessel to transport soldiers up the
Yangtze from Hanliow to Kiukiang.
At the same time, Chang Kali
Shek is emptying the prisons of
thousands of criminals, arming
them for the war against the Chi
nese Red Army.
In the South, General Chang Fab
kwei, Cantonese war lord. has been
placed in command of the Southern
armies, and are moving northward,
having taken the important noun
tain pass at Changing, in Southern
Kiangsi.
The Shanghai imperialist and ma
tive press, while admitting the main
attack is against the Chinese So
VETS, also see an impending clash
between the Southern and Northern
forces. The South of China is I'M
der British hegemony with General
Chen Chi Tang, and General Chang
Fah-kwei in the pay of British i'm
peri&lism, while Chang Kai-Shek
is being armed and financed heavily
by the Roosevelt government.
With the defeat Of the insurgent
forces in Fukien Province early this
year, the Chinese war lords are now
contending for mastery over this
province.
In their way stands the Chinese
Soviets and its invincible Red Army.
The Sixth Anti Communist Cam
paign was decisively defeated by
the Red Army which recently to
the South of Kiangsi, near the
Kwangtung border, disarmed 5000
of Chang Kai-Sheks soldiers. At
that time, the Cantonese generals
expressed fear of the growing power
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
NGzis Preparing
dy Pogrom
To Shield Failures

BERLIN, May 3.-Further re-
Elections of the growing Difficult
ties of the Nazi regime is seen in
the sensational manufactured
story published in the special
edition of the anti-Semitic
weekly, 1.-THE Stormer," appear
ing today that Jews are plotting
to kill Hitler.
Twelve pages of this sheet are
devoted to a re-hash of the
Czarist Black Hundred fables
about Jewish ritual murders"
and a scheme of the Jews to kill
off all non-Aryans.
Along with the attack on the
Communist Party, the Nazi
bloodhounds are preparing for an
unprecedented progrom to side
track attention from the growing
misery of the German working
masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04

Autonomous Rights which was
founded in the beginning of 1888
through the fusion of whole series
of Junker, clerical, and Fascist Or
carnations. The most important
political nucleus of the CEDA is
formed by the young party of the
greater landowners, and of big
finance capital, the Action Popular
popular Action, whose leader is
Gil Robes of Salamanca.
In April, 1888 reflections took
place in numerous communities. In
September of 1888 the elections of
the so-called Tribunal for consti-
tutional guarantees were held. In
both cases the "Leftist" parties suf-
fered 2 defeat and in both cases
the right wingers, in particular, the
CEDA, gained victory. Therefore,
the reaction decided to come cut
in open attack. The Socialist min
listers were expelled from the gov
eminent and replaced by represen-
tatives of the Centrist radical par
ties, whose leader, Lerroux, stepped
to the head Of the new government.
In the ensuing parliamentary
elections strong polarization of
forces came to light. On the one
hand the Communist party scored
great advances, in that it increased
its vote from $4,000 in the year
1881 to 100000, and for the first
time won seats in Parliament. The
Left parties suffered complete de-
feat; of POI mandates they saved
only SO. The Centrist parties, in
Guiding the radicals. scored a few
gains. The Rights" with the CEDA
at the head climbed from a to 212
mandates. Of which ia fell to the
lot of the CEDA, which therefore
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
Y.C.L. Backs Youth
Anti War Meeting
Called by League

NEW YORK. - The New York
District Committee of the Young
Communist League yesterday en-
dorsed the anti-war conference
called by the Youth Section of the
American League Against War and
Fascism for May 10. 2 p. M, at the
Church of All Nations, 9 Second
Ave, The Y. c. L. urged all youth
organizations to send delegates to
the anti-war conference.
All Y. c. L. members who are
functionaries in the units, sections,
in mass organizations and belong
ing to bourgeois organizations must
attend special meeting at the Dis
trict ONCE, Friday, 7:30 p. m, to
prepare for this conference.
THE intensive preparations for
war demands that all young work
ers and organizations of which they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
British Threaten Trade Var
OUerJapanese WorIdDumping

increases the war tension throughout
the world The Japanese, at the
same time. are preparing for armed
invasion of North China, where the
British have the important hold
ings in the Kailan mining area.
The Japanese, in ORDER to attempt
to pay for the huge war preparations
against the Soviet Union, have
been lowering wages of the Japanese
workers, and dumping their goods
on the world markets below the low
est prices.
Attorney General ]. G, Latham Of
Australia made special trip to the
Dutch Indies, in order to study the
problem Of Japanese dumping"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
5000 Pioneers in
Solid Ranks March
In May Day Rally
Continued from Page y

Continued from Page y
tude over children's health is
Haunted in the faces of no fewer
than 100000 children who are at
present underfed.
The Young Pioneers know this.
They know that the only way to
really get widespread happiness and
health for all children is to destroy
the roots of the system which stunts
their growth in factories, which de-
prlves their parents of jobs, homes,
food; which forces them to live
land in many cases to die cruel
Deaths in filthy, squalid firetrap
tenementS.
The Young Pioneers knew this
when they marched, 5000 strong, on
May Day. Tremendous cheers rose
from the thousands of workers
gathered around the reviewing stand
on the north side of Union Square
when the first column of the blue
CARRIED children, preceded by their
own fife and drum corps, swept by
shortly before o'clock. The cheers
mounted as the rest of the children.
tired after long day of marching,
but proud and happy that they had
taken part in the huge celebration,
paraded past the reviewing stand,
listening to their leaders voices
thrown to every corner of the
square by the powerful amplifiers.
THEY heard one Of their own num-
Der tell their purpose in parading
that day. Another blue uniformed
Pioneer. his child-voice strangely
and prophetically magniied through
the loudspeaker, gave the Pioneer
pledge. They heard Vera Saunders,
New York District Pioneer Director,
announce that children had pulled
two complete schools out on strike
that day, and predict that many
more would strike on May First,
1895, despite the intimidation of the
school officials. She described some
of the meetings and parades and
demonstrations held in neighbor-
hoods by the Young Pioneers to mo-
billie the children for May Day,
adding that purely local school
demands had been won as result
Of these meetings in several sections
of the city.
And while the loud voices echoed
across the square, the children
marched on. AS they passed one
noticed for the first time the COM
pletely childrens character of their
ranks, their placards, their floats.
which had been constructed by
themselves, of old carriage wheels
and discarded egg-boxes. Their de-
mands flared from their cardboard
placards, painted and printed by
themselves with creyon and paint
sets which the boss class would
far rather have them use in color
ing paper dolls.
Yes, the children marched on this
historic May Day, side by side with
their elders-children of the pro-
letariat. proudly Haunting what the
Times" calls their strange en-
blems."
zone state" the Times editorial
declares, reports complete dental
survey of the school children" But
what earthly use is a dental ex-
animation on May 1 if there's no
food or only rotten unhealthful
food, all year roundp The Pioneers
knew this when their young ranks
paraded on May First. And they
pledged to double their number
during the year, to march again on
May First, 1885, bringing with them
thousands Of other workers chill
dren.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04

toward the restriction Of a number
of church rights on the question of
supervision, and to the gradual abo-
lition of state subsidies After that,
during the time of the Republic,
in the year 1881, IS million pesetas
were paid to the church. In the
year 1882, AZ million, in the year
1888, "a million. and not until 1884
were the subsidies withdrawn.
The national question is still I'M
solved, unless we consider the
granting of shred Of autonomy
in the shape of the so-called, sta
utes" to Catalonia whereby all
measures like finance. taxation. the
military, etc, continue to remain
in the hands Of Madrid. The
Basque provinces and Galicia. how
ever, are still waiting in vain for
their Statutes"
Conditions Grow Worse
At the same time the economic
and social conditions of the broad
masses of workers grew necessarily
worse in the course of the three
years of the Republic. Whereas, the
"Leftist Republican" governments
sabotaged the problems of the bolr-
geois- democratic revolution, tn e
forces of the revolution and the
forces of the open counter-revolu-
ton armed themselves for the strug-
gle. Under these circumstances the
proletariat became the focus OF all
disconnected forces under the
growth of general disappointment
with the Republic which in addition
included the petty bourgeois masses.
At the head of the Juridical par
ties is the CEDA (Conferation
de Derechas Automas) that
is, the Spanish Confederation of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04

the splitting tactics
syndical Socialist moved with rapid
Recently government preparing
monarch
while
the
draped itself with the mask of Left" republican
working with the guidance of the Com
growing gaining entering into
battles Recently Barcelona 100000
following article reviewing
years the republic particularly timely.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04

THE 14th of April, the three-year
mark was passed since the
Spanish monarchy fell and the re-
public was instituted. 1t was bap-
tized in its constitution as "the Re-
public of working men of all classes"
Until about the end of 1881 the
ruling classes. the upper bourgeoisie
and the big landowners utilized the
petty bourgeois parties, in particu-
lar the Social Democratic party, as
instruments of power, whose main
goal was to prevent the upsurge of
the masses. The new upswing of
the revolutionary movement of the
large workers masses in city and
province, and their disappointment
in the republic which also included
the city Electromagnetic, forced
the ruling classes to change tactics.
At the end of 1881 the so-called
Juridical Republican parties stepped
out of the government, as the radi-
Gals did under the leadership of
LerrouX, who represent the interests
Of finance capital and the foreign
concessionaries or as the Progress
sives under the leadership of Ia
mora, who represent the capitalist
landowners, or as the Conservatives,
under the leadership Of Maura.
There only remains in the govern
ment the 'leftist Republican par
ties; Socialists, Radical Socialists.
Republican Action. Catalonian
Right, Galician Republicans.
Reaction Strengthened
These parties, in power until Sep
TENDER, 1888, contributed little or
nothing towards the solution of the
problems of the bourgeois demo-
cratic revolution.
On the principal question, which
is agrarian, they confined them
selves to the acceptance Of a re-
stricted agrarian reform, through
which, by the end of 1888 only
10000 hectares of land were expro-
priated from the mobiles in favor Of
5000 peasants. In Spain there are
212 million andless agricultural
workers, and from / to IL million
poor peasants. At the same time,
peonage in small hamlets remained
untouched.
With regard to the Catholic
Church the government only under
mass pressure took action toward
the dissolution of the Jesuit order,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
Campaign on Foot
To Boost Daily to
$4,000 Circulation
(Continued from Page y

tConttnHed from Page l
Convention of the Communist
Party held in Cleveland, is the
weakest sector in our battlefront
against capitalism.
With the broad masses of workers
surging into strike action against
the Roosevelt wage cutting pro-
gram, the need to reach the work
ing class with our revolutionary
message through the Daily Worker
Is imperative.
PLEDGE BY CHICAGO
In accordance with the decision
reached at the Eighth National
Convention to boost the circula-
ton to $4,000 by the end of this
year, Chicago District pledges to
triple its Daily Worker circuIa-
ton by Dec. 81, 1888. Sales of the
Daily" will be developed at all
concentration shops, stockyards,
railroad yards.
The mass sale of the 24-page May
Day edition provides fertile field
for gaining more readers and sub
scribers. Follow up those who re-
ceived a copy of the May Day edi-
lion for regular subscribers.
ACT AT ONCE!
A statement by the Central
Committee of the Communist
Party on the campaign to expand
the circulation to $4,000 will ap-
pear very soon in the DAILY"
Individual workers and their or
ganizs tions are asked to mobilize
their forces at once and to start
the new campaign Immediately.
Districts, sections, units, trade
unions and mass organizations!
Build up sales of the Daily Worker
among your memberships, organize
sales of the Daily Worker in shops,
at factory gates and at busy inter
sections where workers go to and
from work.
BY entering Fundamentally into
the campaign, the circulation of the
Daily Worker can easily be in
creased to $4,000 by the end Of this
year. Do your revolutionary share
TO hasten the establishment of a
Soviet America by helping to at
least triple the circulation of our
Daily Worker in your territory.