The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-27
World Front
by HARRY CANNES -
Two Ring Navy Circus
KuOmintang Disappointed
Australian Elections


THE naval arms confab is
l becoming a two-ring circus
of death riders. Besides tn,
three big navy powers, who
seem to agree less as they talk
longer, France and Italy have
entered the fray in their own
particular manner. Mussolini soma
time ago announced that his gov
eminent would build two $4,000 ton
battleships, the total cost to Ds
around s70O0o,O0O to s30Ooo,0OO.
Now. when talk OF naval disarTnas
ment' is on, Mussolini set an exc
ample Of the type of "disarma~
ment" desired by the imperialists.
by laying the keels of the two bait
tleships.
That gets the French admiralty
to studying. The two battleships
would give Italy supremacy in the
Mediterranean and in the North
African colonies. So the French
navy officials propose the building
of three battle cruisers of 10000
tons each. which would give them
an edge Of 10000 tons over Italy.
The cost would be well over $780,
900 900.
But every time the imperialist
poker players bid their battle chips
across the conference tables, the
wages Of the workers are cut in Or
der to pay the gigantic sums.
THERE is one little item on the
1 background of the bitter naval
discussions in London, not brought
out by the capitalist press. and
that is Fascist Germany's role be-
hind the scenes. We quote from .
capitalist press dispatch which we
have not seen published in any
paper:
French navel experts see another
reason for construction of the
projected battle-cruisers revealing
they have learned Germany intends
to support the theory of navy
equality which they declare Berlin
encouraged Japan to present at
London"
GENERAL days ago We pointed out
y in this column that Chang Kai
Shek's hopes of coming before the
NTH Kuomintang Congress on Mo-
Vember IL and reporting victory
over the Red Army in at least one
province would be shattered. Yes
terday we read the following in a
cable from Shanghai to the New
York Times:
The Marking standing commit
tee OF the Kuomintang Executive
Committee decided today to post
pone the fifth Kuomintang Con-
gress scheduled to open at Marking
on Nov. IL, because of the desire to
complete the Communist and ban
dit suppression before the meeting.
The fifth plenary session Of the
Central Executive Committee has
been called for December $40 at
Marking. "
But If the Kuomintang Congress
is to meet at all, it will have to
meet with the bitter knowledge that
Chang Kai Shek could not deliver
the goods in the Soviet territories.
As a matter of fact, as the date
n for the Congress approaches the
Red Army is increasing its drives
against the white armies. The Red
Armies in Honan and Kiangsi
province, 10000 strong, are making
a terrific drive against the Kwang-
tung forces of General Chen Chi
Tang. This by the way, though it
came over the wires to all capitalist
papers, as far as we could discover
in the New York papers, was pub
lished only in the Daily Worker.
OUR brother party in Australia
v put up brilliant election cam
paign, and last month made huge
gains in the Federal Elections. The
program of the Communist Party
of Australia was brief and clear
cut. They put forward the most
pressing immediate demands of the
workers, and the central point Of
the program was Soviet power. The
Party received a total of SO, 400
votes. In New South Wales the
Party gained a 100 per cent in
crease and in Victoria q 300 per
cent increase over the federal cleo
tions of 1881. Can we do as well
in the present elections with even
more favorable conditions for our
Party?
Commenting on the Australian
elections, the Workers Voice" says:
Although the increases regis
tered are pleasing in themselves,
everyone who took part in the cleo
ton campaign knows that the real
influence of the Party is much
greater than is shown by the vot-
| ing.
Thousands of workers in each
electorate have expressed their APP
prevail of our policy, but, because we
have not thoroughly combatted the
illusions held by these workers, they
voted for the Labor Party as the
lesser of two evils
1--WE have to take lesson from
these facts and intensity our work
to show the workers that the Labor
Party is not the lesser evil but
that it is the main bulwark OF
capitalism.
Contributions received to the
credit of Harry Cannes in his So
cialist competition with Del, Mike
Gold, the Medical Advisory Board,
In the Home, Jacob Burck and
David Ramsey. in the Daily Worker