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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Democratic Club in
IN. Y. Elects Three
to FSU Convention
Over 800 Credentials
Already Reported
Signed

NEW YORK-Three members OF a
Democratic club in New York City
have been elected as delegates to the
first national convention Of the
Friends Of the Soviet Union. to be
held in New York City, January 265h.
9th, and 18th, at the New Star
Casino, 10Th st. and Park Ave. These
delegates have already sent in their
credentials.
A minority group in an American
Legion Post, have elected delegates
to the F.S.U. convention after Bit
ter fight within the membership, dur
ing which time chairs and heads
alike were broken.
Herbert Goldfrank, acting national
secretary of the F.S.U, reports that
already over three hundred creden-
tials are in the offices of the FISH,,
with between 50O-1 900 delegates ex-
pected. Eighteen states are thus far
represented and two foreign coun-
tries, Canada and France.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Workers Defy Nali
Terror to Honor
MurderedLeaderS
Place Wreaths on Graves
of Karl Liebknecht and
Rosa Luxembourg

SAARBRUCK, Jan. 5 (By MaiD-.s
Defying the Nazi terror, thousands
OF Berlin workers carried out a SEMI
legal mass demonstration at tha
graves Of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa
Luxembourg last Sunday, Feb. %, tbs
annual anniversary devoted in Ger
many to the memory of the dead.
The "Weitfront'' reports that tbs
workers formed a slow and endless
procession past the cemetery where
the two reYolutioraries, murdered by
Social Democracy, are buried. Again
and again women and young people
left the procession to place fiowera
and wreaths on the graves. The Nadi
Storm Troopers Immediately swooped
on the graves and took away the
wreaths, but did not venture any ar
rests.
Similar Actions Throughout Country
Throughout Germany, this years
comnemoration of the dead was con-
verified by countless thousands into q
revolutionary honoring OF working
class victims. The grave of the young
worker, Erwin Mye:r, lured into a
forert and brutallv murdered in
April 1888, was visited, for instance,
by 16 men in Storm Troop uniforms,
who laid wreath on the grave. One
made an address honoring the muir
dered worker as a self-sacrificing
fighter for the interests Of the work
ing class against the Nazi terror. AS
they left the cemetery, IL Of the
group were arrested and taken to q
concentration camp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Clinton High School Delegates
Vote to Oppose Al US. Vars

NEW YORK-One hundred dele
gates representing classrooms and
clubs in the De Witt Clinton High
School supported resolution today
at an Anti-War Congress held in the
school, that: Whereas any war the
United States may conduct, would be
opposed to our interests, as students
we the delegates present here will in
no case support the United States
government in any war it may con-
duct"
One Of the main points on the
agenda was to plan for an inter
high school anti-war conference to
cake place some time during Easter
week. A committee was elected to get
in touch with the various other high
schools in the city in order to make
preparations.
AT this meeting it was also re-
solved.
1. To go on record against all I'M
perialist wars.
2. To go on record for the aboli-
ton Of the Reserve Oficers Training
Corps.
). To demand all R.OTC. funds
be appropriated for educational pur-
poses; for scholarships, for needy
students.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Hail Achievements and
Program of New Five
Year Plan

like our growth in the last three or
four years, and three and a half
years is just moment in history. We
achieved all of this because we are
led by the Party OF Lenin and Stain.
Through them we built this factory.
Cheliabinsk and Magnitogorsk also
are good, but our factory"
Another rather old man got up: 81
was with Epstein, our reporter. in the
ranks of the Red Army in 1919. Once
when the temperature was 80 below,
took him on a motorcycle--he was
commissar-to meeting of $500
sailors. There was some trouble. We
had only bast shoes and no good
food thought would never get him
there alive. thought he would freeze
to death. But we got there, and he
explained everything to the Baltic
fleet men. and the next day they
started to the front.
Great Image of Dimitroff
Epstein rose to conclude. Two
questions were fired at him.
What about some more new work.
ers houses? There aren't enough"
He said millions of rubles would be
spent for workers homes in 1884.
How is it with Comrade Thael-
He said that, of course,
life was in danger, and
described the world demonstrations
for his release and the release of the
Leipzig defendants He described the
great image Of Dinlitroffp looming
over the world from the prisoners
bench in Leipzig.
That is an indication Of the broad
interests of the Soviet Union workers.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Fight ImberialiSt War!

THE INCREASINGLY sharpening situation in Cuba
the open war preparations OF imperialit Japan
against the Soviet Union and the admission of the i'm
perialists that war imminent this spring; the ship
ment Of U.SA aeropanes and munitions to the Far
East in the present war on Soviet China, and the
landing of U. 8. marines in Foochow Province; the
hundreds Of millions Of dollars appropriated by the
Washington Government for war purposes while mil
lions Of workers unemployed and starving calls
immediate action the part Of all workers. farmers
and their organizations
The mass demonstrations throughout the country
organized by the American League Against War and
Fascsm to back the United Front Committee going to
Washington on January 20 to demand the withdrawal
Of troops from foreign territory to demand Stoppage
Of appropriations and the transfer of these funds
to the unemployed must be sharp and decisive.
NOW Is THE TINE TO ACTl Defend the Soviet
~ Union. Stop the murder Of Chinese workers and
peaSants Demand the withdrawal of U. s. battle
ships from Cuban waters and marines from China!
All war funds for the unemployed and for ma
tionsl system Of social insurance.
Central Committee, C. P. U. S. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
n, r. A. justification

IN HIS New York speech to the Retailers Association
General Johnson fumed and rosred with his usual
Jury. But after 1t all over the hard facts of
economic reality stuck out through his verbiage just
the same
"The NRA does not help the monopoles to drive
ou5 their monopoly competitors yelled the Gen
eral getting purple in the face.
But a mountain OF facts, admitted by such small
business Senators as Borah and Nye proves the OPP
pcsite. It is as clear as day to anyone who has
watched the NA codes in action that they are full
filling their purpose Of protecting monopoly profits by
making 1t impossible for the small non-monopoly
producers to underse their Wall Street monopoly COM
ett.crs
Il is as clear as day that no small producers can
survive the MIRA tells them that they can no longer
sci below certain price set by the biggest companies
in the industry in trade agreement. The rising num-
Der Of failures and bankruptcies among small retailers
proves that.
The MIRA, codes are designed to fix prices 50
that the big monopolies maintain their plumber
OF the masses through eXtortonate monopoly prices
Else, why is johnson hysterical when anybody
suggests that the antitrust laws be reviYedP
To conceal the fact that the MIRA. is not only
designed to speed up the process of classification but
is knitting huge chunks of the hides of the masses
through rising prices, johnson gave the ridiculous
spectacle Of pleading with the assembled retailers For
Gods sake do not raise prices"
And at the same time Roosevelt is sending prices
upward through imitation, and the codes are jackng
them up through agreements
Thanks to the Roosevelt MIRA, the cost of food
for every working class family is now q per cent
higher than last year And all other commodities show
similar advances in the first six months That is why
the Wall Street corporations report prof increase
OF $50 per cent over last year!
The rapidly accumulating evidence Of current eco
nomic developments confirms the analysis of the NRA
made by the Communist Party and the Daily Worker
that the N.R-A. is the instrument of Wall Street by
which finance capital spreads its grip into the remotest
corners Of the nations economy, driving out the non
monopoly producer and brings the whole country I'M
der the direct sway Of Wall Street monopoly capital
All Of JohnSons roarings cannot hide that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Workers, Peasants Dis
cuss c. P. Congress
Turnout Country
BY VERN SMITH
Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent

Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent
MOSCOW, U. S. S. r., Dec. %
(By MaiD The Communist Party
is the power house turning out cur
rent that electrifies all the Soviet
Union with mass enthusiasm for the
building Of Socialism. 1t is recog-
nized as the unfaltering guide, the
leader, the planner, the constant
friend of the masses, sprung from
their midst, embodying the very best
Of the workers and peasants, the
vanguard fighting for the new
society. Its roots are buried deep
in the factories and collective farms;
each of its units is center of &C
tivity and leadership, surrounded by
an active corps of voluntary non
party assistants many times out
numbering its own constantly grow
ing membership.
The congress of the Communist
Party Is the huge, democratically or
ganized leadership of that Party, with
delegates from all over the U. S. S.
r., from all the basic organizations
Of the Party. The Seventeenth Con-
gress Of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union will meet In Mos
COW. Jan. IS, and will critically and
ruthlessly survey its achievements
since its XVI congress held in 1890,
and discuss the tasks Of the second
five year plan. Since the Conmu-
mist Party is the recognized and
trusted leader of the masses, mil
lions of workers will fling themselves
into the struggle for the Party Line
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Nazi Police Seize
Goods Of Refugees
frOmMurderRegime
Socialist Leaders Who
Paved Way for Fascism
Also Lose Property

BERLIN, Jan. 19.--Nazi secret po-
lice today confiscated the furniture
and other belongings Of Alfred Kerr,
writer and essayist, now refugee
in Paris; Stefan zweig, author Of
"The Case OF Sergeant Grischa," and
Willie Loew, of the Red Front Fight
ers.
The police also seized the property
Of the Social Democratic leader, Otto
Wells, who surely deserved better
treatment from the Nazis on account
Of his stalwart services to the Fas-
cist reaction in defeating, with other
Social Democratic leaders, the general
strike called by the German COM
munist Party at the initiation of the
Nazi regime. The property Of Math-
ilde Worm, a Socialist Deputy, was
also seized.
Copies OF Erich Maria Renarque' s.
negel 1.-THE Way Back" were ordered
confiscated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Marking Prepares
Attack ON Canton
Troops in Fukien
Move to Bride II b e ]
General in North
China Civil War

SHANGHAI, Jan. 10 - Marking
troops are reported concentrating at
Foochow, North Fukien, for an attack
on the forces of the Canton regime,
engaged in a race with Marking for
control Of South and Central Frilsien.
The 18th Route Army is retreating
toward South Fukien following the
sell-out to Marking by the Fukien
secessionist leaders, and may join
forces with the Cantonese. 1t is also
feared by the imperialists and their
Kuomintang agents that the rank
and file of the army, bitterly dissat-
isf1ed with their traitorous officers,
may go over in body to the Chinese
Red Armies operating on the western
borders Of Fukien.
The Generals Civil War in North
west China is reported to have halted
temporarily, with Marking enlissaries
Offering substantial brides to the rebel
generals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Italian Railway
Workers Lose Jobs
Under Fascist Rule
Suffer Wage Cuts, Fierce
Speed Up and Brutal
RECOMMENDATION

PARIS, Jan. 19-An idea of the
situation Of the railway workers in
fascist Italy, where mass firing,
speed-up, wage cuts and regimenta-
ton Of the toiling population are the
orders Of the day, is given by few
figures taken from the Bulletin of
the International Committee of Rail
waymen."
While in 1922 there were 235, 900
railway workers, today there are only
$4,000. Hence 10000, in round figures,
have been fired during these last ten
years. Of these, 10000 were dis
charged in 1930-31 alone, and $500
in 1888.
The management Of the italian
railways have thus contriyed to
squeeze tremendously more work out
Of their workers. According to official
statistics, the number of men en-
ployed per kilometre of track dimin-
ished from 10.7 before the war to SO
in January 1882. If the compari-
son is made with the years 1921-22-
at that time about 1914 railwaymen
were employed per kilometre of track
lit will be found that the work per-
Torrance has been intensified by
about 40 per cent.
The railwaynen are subject to a
discipline much more strict than in
military service. The entire abolition
Of allowances for rising prices, and
the reduction Of wages, have cut
down the income Of the railwaymen
to one-half.
This is the manner in which the
workers and employees Of an under
taking under the direct control OF
the fascist Cooperative State" are
exploited and oppressed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

as laid down at the Seventeenth Con-
greSS.
This will give some idea OF the
reasons for the enormous, au-pervad-
ing interest of those masses Of work.
ers and peasants in the Party Con-
gress.
An indication of the reaction of
those masses, of their love for the
Party is shown by the nationwide
Seventeenth Party Congress March, "
the attempt at every plant and farm
to present this congress with a re-
port of the yearly plan Of produc-
ton fulfilled, more, to present it with
gifts to the country" in the shape
Of thousands and thousands Of tons
Of steel, coal, Oil and manufactured
goods over and above the plan.
The workers, the masses of non
party workers, along with the Party
members, are now engaged in every
plant and on the kolkhozes, the COL
lective farms, in holding political
meetings, to discuss the political
situation and the production plan.
They discuss even, and particularly,
the foreign political and interna-
tional situation. They are concerned
with the Leipzig trial, with the con-
ditions of their fellow workers in
capitalist countries, with the progress
Of the world revolution, with the
war danger.
How Workers React
I have just come from one OF these
political meetings, held by the tool
department of the First State Ball
Bearing Plant. The whole $4,000
workers were not assembled in one
meeting, such meetings were held by
each department, rather small meet
ings Of several hundred workers each,
in which everybody who wanted to
talk could get chance to speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

4. To oppose the use of Science
Laboratories, Art classes, ETC., as q
means of propagandizing for war.
S. Whereas academic freedom is
essential for us to conduct our prop
uganda against war, we therefore de-
mand academic freedom in all edu-
cational institutions.
6. We protest the expulsion of the
students from the City College of
New York and the High Schools in
New York City for fighting for the
abolition Of the R.O.TC.
7. Whereas the Platt Amendment
is an instrument of provocation for
war, we go on record as opposing the
Platt Amendment.
8. We go on record as demanding
academic freedom for students in
Germany to allow them to freely eX-
press their opinions on war and FaS-
cism.
9. We resolve to join with the
Youth Section OF the American
League Against War and Fascism.
1t must also be pointed out that
the N.S.L. and Y.CL. played an i'm
portant part in organizing the con-
ference and in interesting the student
body in the anti-war movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Tredding the Same Road

TWO DAYS AGO William Green A. F. of L. chief
who has been doing every thing in his power to use
the NRA machine to break strikes and tie the trade
unions to the government N.R.A. machine pretended
to get all excited about Hters latest pronouncement
making every German employer master in his own
house.
Today, associate OF william Green on the
N.RA Labor boards and close colleague of the A.
F. of L. and Socialist trade union leaders DR. Leo
Wolman, OF Columbia University issues the following
statement the same event:
Labor in this country in pressing for broadened
and strengthened provisions for wages and working
hours in NRA codes is laying itself liable to dan
gers involved in making the State an indispensable
party to all labor contracts"
So the danger Of Fascism in this country accord
ing to this NRA labor" advisor, according to this
friend" of the organized workers. this colleague of
William Green lies in the resistance of the workers
to wage cuts and starvation conditions in the facories
1t is in this cunning way that liberal serves his
capitalist employers.
Wolman uttered word Of real truth in his
statement. He said:
'The first step (tOward the present Hitler regime
and trade union debaele-Edl was taken under the
previous Socialist government :"
This Is certainly true. It was the Socialist trade
union leaders who warned the workers against putting
up any resistance to the capitalist offensive Did not
the German Socialist leaders describe the Bruening
wage cutting DEGREES "piece of Socialism,
And does not Norman Thomas tell the workers
not to fight the wage cutting NA. codes because we
now have state capitalism? And because the MIRA
"opens up the road to peaceful transition to Social
ISM?
Wolman knows that the workers are beginning to
see the NRA for what 1t is--as the opening wedge
in the growing Fascist reaction in the Roosevelt gov
eminent And he rushes to warn them against resist
ance!
The Womans the Green's the Thonases are now
treading the same road their German counterparts
They pave the way for the Fascist reaction in their
own country under the guise Of opposing it in an
other.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Intense Interest Sweeps IT, S r. As Party Congress Nears

ing the recent months, the period of
the party cleaning)
81 worked at many factories be-
fore the revolution" said an old man.
Those factories, were most of them,
to be sure, only little bigger than
this room. They we're foul with dirt,
dangerous, dark.
1.-THE Party led a revolution, and
the Party led us to this Socialist con-
struction. Now we have here g fac
tory of our own that is BIZ and
light and a comfortable Place to
work. We old ones find this new,
but we are already getting used to
it. We are learning to use it." Voice
from the audience. MASTERY well,
we are learning about that, too. The
whole brigade takes part in noon
hour discussions on elimination of
waste. We are placing personal
responsibility on those who work at
each machine I suggest a slogan
for the Seventeenth Party Congress,
Eliminate waste, and master the
machineSn"
Showing the World
Another spoke: Our achievements,
we see, are not only our victories,
they inspire the workers of all coun-
tries. They are also lesson to our
enemies. We know how the capitalists
love us, and they know all right how
we love them. But they have to take
the Soviet Union, the fatherland Of
the workers, into consideration. Bour-
geois writers used to say, All the
world is warmed by the Western SUM-
but now they have crisis, and the
Gun is in the East. Those we send to
school are faithful to us, they come
back to the factory and help the rest
Of us. Even the United States, which
grew faster than most capitalist
countries, never had anything to show
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Fist Fight in French
Chamber of Deputies
on StaUisky Scandal

PARIS, Jan. 19.-Yesterday's ses-
sion of the French Chamber of
Deputies broke up in an uproar, fol-
lowing a fist fight precipitated by
Education Minister Anatole de Mon
zie, furious against exposures in the
Chamber connecting him with the
Stavisky scandal, involving looting Of
$40,000,000 from small investors, and
insurance companies and unemployed
workers who had pawned their last
valuables with the bankrupt Credit
Municipal Bayonne, headed by Serge
Stavisky.
The Minister Of Education struck
Deputy Phillip Henriot, following a
four-hour speech by the latter in
which he exposed the completely OF
high government officials in the Sta
visky swindle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Porto Rico Strike
and Boycott Force
Gas Price Reduction

PONCE, Porto Rico, Jan. 1.-THE
combine of major oil companies in
Porto Rico, consisting Of the West
India, Shell, Pyramid and Texas COM
panies, were forced to reduce their
exorbitant price Of 25 cents gallon
for gasoline when, for four days, theV
car owners Joined the boycott of theseI
corporations, started by striking taxi.
drivers, and refused to permit any
automobiles to run.
The organizing committee Of the
Communist Party in Ponce, Porto
Rico, took a very active part in the
organization and the carrying out Of
the strike and boycott.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
FRANCE DENOUNCES GERMAN
TRADE ACCORD

PARIS, Jan. 1.-THE French Gov
eminent officially denounced the
French German trade agreement to-
day.
The action followed failure Of Hit
Ter to reply to a French trade ulti-
matum to Germany demanding with
drawal Of a Nazi decree limiting
French imports into Germany. The
new Nazi import regulations went
into effect today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Japanese Ship Takes
Big Load of Asbestos

BOSTON, Jan. 19.-Longshoremen
report that Japanese ship, berthed
at the Mystic docks here, has taken
on As carloads of asbestos for ship
ment to Japan.
Japan has been buying steel, iron
and war materials in the United
States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Mussolini's Agents
Shoot Anti-Fascist
Shipowner in Rome

PARIS, Jan. 19.-Cesare Fremura,
executive in an international shipping
combine and widely known in Italy
as an anti-fascist, was murdered re-
Gently in his Office by Mussolini agents
Fremura, because of his power and
Importance in international shipping
circles, had been unmolested through
eleven years of anti-fascist activity,
but evidently with the terrific sharp
ening of the difficulties of fascism
and the growing rift in the blackshirt
camp, it was considered better to dis
pose of him at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Transport Strike
Completely Ties
Up Dublin Traffic

DUBLIN, Ireland, Jan. 19.-Dub-
lin transport workers came out on
strike 100 per cent strong yester-
day, completely tying up the street
car and bus services.
The Free State Government an
nounced drastic wage cuts yester-
day for civil service employees
throughout the Free State. The
cuts range from 2 to IS per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
British Govt. okays Sterilization

LONDON, Jan. 19.-Hitler's steril-
ization policy received the official
sanction of the English government
when the Ministry Of Public Health
recommended the right of volun-
tary sterilization for the physically
and mentally unfit"
The members Of the ministry were
unanimously agreed that sterilization
for mental detectives, persons suffer-
ing from mental disorders, ETC., should
be regarded not as a penalty, but as
a right"