The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-04
On the
World Front
- By HARRY CANNES
A Nazi Boomerang
Yemen the Unhappy
On the High Seas

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ln the Nazi hounds in German
Hitler standing before the gre.
mass of workers at Tempelhof fiei
could see in the faces of hundred
Of thousands before him their Bit
ter and burning hatred of fascism
Throughout Germany, in millions
of leaflets, in hundreds of secret
meetings, the voice of the Com
munist Party Of Germany wa
heard in no uncertain terms. q
May Day the fiendish Nazi Grim
inalS made a torch Of the gres
hall in Augsburg as signal for
new campaign of the most ferocious
terror against the Communist Party
BY the light of the burning blaze
the Nazi hangmen wrote a new
law decreeing trial by executioners
and death for the slightest offense
against the Hitler regime. The
Communist Party, daily declared
dead by the Nazi press, now by
every act of the Nazi regime, By
its own admissions, becomes the
greatest menace to the further ex.
istence of the fascist regime, already
rocked to its very foundations.
In all of this storm of fury anc
rage our comrade, Ernst Thaelmann
languiSheS in chains in the Naz
dungeons. The new law tries tt
avoid anoth3r Reichstag fire tria,
and another Dimitroff. The Nazis
want to rush through the persecu.
ton and the execution of cur Com.
rade Thaelmann hoping thereby tt
stop the onward march Of the Com
munist Party Of Germany.
ALL the lying speeches OF great
a economic advances of fascism in
Germany fell on ears made deaf
by increasing hunger. Altogether
writes the New York Times Berlin
correspondent, F. T. Birchau. "the
laws establishment at this time
lends strength to current reports
that, despite the great popular dem
onstrations there is a rising feel.
ing of unrest, skepticism and dis.
content, especially in the country
districts"
Not only among the workers. but
IN the countryside, on the estates
OF the big junkers, among the po,1
and middle peasants, the rising
revolutionary storm against fascisr
is gaining terrific momentum.
And yet at this time, in the in.
terest of preserving capitalism, in
the interest of providing finance
capital with great profits, the Naz.
dlctators are preparing a slash in
wages for the whole working class
Prices are rising rapidly. The
amount of food consumed by the
masses is dropping heavily. The
best indicator in Germany is the
consumption of fats, which since
the Nazis' seizure of power dropped
25 per cent.
Against the growing mass dis
content, ready to burst into major
actions against fascism, the Times
correspondent writes the Nazis are
considering more rigid control
over the populace, and this would
call for some counter irritant to
provide an excuse"
ut may be for that reason that
one is again beginning to hear a
great deal about increasing,
though invisible Communist ac-
tivities."
Fire and murder are the MAJ,
counter irritants. Another Reich
stag fire and wholesale headchop-
ping, the first of which will be oul
Comrade Thaelmann unless the
mighty voice of the world revolu-
tionary proletariat SO forcefully ex-
pressed on May Day is modified
for the mightiest protest demand
ing the freedom of our heroic
fighter, Ernst Thaelmann.
ARABIA FELIX" the garden
IA spot of Arabia, the country OF
Yeman, long successful in resisting
British imperialist invasion, is now
threatened with the chains of
colonial slavery. Imam Yahya of
Yemen, the feudal ruler of that
country on the southern shores OF
Arabia, is dead and British-fin-
anced army, under the leadership
of the British tool. Ibs Saud, il
advancing on Hodeida, the capita,
of Yemen.
For many years the British i'm.
perlallsts have sought to sieze Ye.
men, in order to consolidate Their
military and naval base at the
southern tip of the Red Sea. Near
Yemen, the British have a power
full oil and coaling base at Alden,
which controls all of the traffic
coming through the Suez Canal.
They have made repeated attempts
by wholesale bombardment of the
seacoast and wanton slaughter t.
subdue Yemen, to add it to Alden
Yemen is a very small country,
situated on the plateau of Ell
Jebel, the most fertile part of
Arabia, where grain and coffee are
grown. But for the British it
is the key to the domination of
South Arabia and STRENGTHENING
Of its military link for control of
the Far East.
In the drive on Yemen, the Brit.
ish utilize the fierce Wahabis war.
riors, equipping them with tn,
most modern armored cars, equipped
with radio so they they can re-
ceive instructions from the British
general conveniently situated out
of line of fire.
On hand, too, is one of those
scientific" men, the explorer II. st
j. B. Philby, who, on the pretext
OF preserving the culture ano
relics of ancient civilization, maps
out the paths for the armies of the
imperialists that forever wipe out
the culture Of the colonial peoples
replacing it with the chains of alb
ject slavery.