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La gaceta., 1934-04-14
PROPOSITION DE LEY PA
RIA la SUBASTA DE FIN
GAS RUGIICAS

Madrid, abril IA las Cor
ties ha sido cresentada una pro-
pc5ici6n de ley que Sc refiere a
las subastas de fincas rdsticas,
y dice: "Alarmados por ell gran
nj nero de subastas en- fincas
rusticas que con gran frecuen-
ella publican los peri6dicos Off
ciales, como consecrencia de eje
cucilneS en- momentos de gran
crisis economical y de de.valo-
,rizaci6n de la prOpiedad, dando
lugar con clio no solo a que los
propietarios pierdan sus fincas
por yalor muy inferior al pac-
tado Ell las eScrituras de c0nsti
tuci6n de cr6dito, los diputa-
dos cue suscriben proronen que
durante ell plazo de un ano, a
partIr de la fecha de la aproba-
ci6n de esta ley, los procedi-
mientos judiciales de apremio
que motiyen la venta de las fin
cas- rdsticas en- pdblica subasta,
quedaran en- suspense a partir
del mCmentO en- que la lev per
mita o autorice a los acreedo-
res para incautarse de la adj
ministraci6n de la finca, aten-
diendo con sus productos al pa
20 de intereses, contribuciones
e impuestos. Durante igual pla-
70 los propietarios 0 acreedores
Iy los criditos que hUbieren que
dado cancelad9s con ejecucio-
mes precedentes, podran recu-
perar la finca enajenada abo-
nando ell precio de la e%njena-
La gaceta., 1934-04-14
CONGRESS- DE QUIMIEA

Madrid, abril 14.-El noveno
Ccngleso International de quiz
mica 'rura y aplicada, termin6
aqui su ssesiones, acordando We
rificar su veniiera convention
81 Roma I'll 1897.
Mas de cien delegates oficla-
les Y cerca de mil ex~traoficia-
les, mandates por 25 pafses,
concurrieron a las sesiones.
FL professor Alexandra Silver
man, de la Universidad de Pitts
burFh, present6 un notable es,
critic sobre las causas de la 9pa-
lescencia en- ell CRYSTAL.
La anterior co1,ferencia Sc
habia verificado en- Washing
ton ell ano 1912.
La gaceta., 1934-04-14
In los LovaL KNIGHTS

Ell programa para la function
social que la Secci6n de Socia-
bilidad yerificara en- los salones
de los AguiIas de ORC, el dfa IS,
es el siguiente: Sinfonia per
Virtudes Gutierrez; Estreno de
la comedia en- I'm acto FL Sexo
D6biI', en- la que toman parte
Srtas, Lourdes Vazquez, Espe-
rama Rua, Sres. Severino Mar
tinez y Severino Quintanilla.
Otra comedia en- IN acto, eel
Primer Rorro', por las Srtas.
Consuel3 Perez, Teresa Fran
60, Mercedes Gonzalez, Seyeri-
no Quintanilla, Enrique Santos
Q Higinio Fernandez. Las va
riedades estan a cargo de las
Srtas. Flora Fernandez y Es-
trella Perez.
La gaceta., 1934-04-14
UNA CARTA DEL DR., JOR-
GE "A. TRELLES
(Vjenc de la 1a.)

pudiera alcanzarme algun gol-
pc. me retro enseguida hacla ell
escenario donde me quedo per
plejo contempIando la escena,
completamente nueva para mi,
de los reSultados de la eXacer-
baci6n de las pasiones huma-
mas, cuando a solo un paso de
mi, veo a I'm hombre que voci-
feraba mi nombre: "Irelles IS
el que riene Ia culpa. Irelle5 Is
Ell productor de todo."-gritaba
a la Junta mi d~etractor. No pu-
de por menos que tocar violenta
mente ell hombro de aquel que
me atacaba tan gratuita como
despiadamente, sin tener en-
cuenta mi conducta de cordial
dad anterior.
Mi atacante Sc volyl0 alrado,
y 20 solo me circunscrlbi enton-
ces a defenderme.
Creo que 10 que ocurrio en-
momentos de febril acalora-
miento no puede bajo ningun
concepto constituir motive de
violentos agravios, nj de inusi-
tados rencores. Adn no logro
comprender la conducta del Sr.
Maxine Delgado; pero tengo la
certeza que a estas horas, ell ST..
Delgado, a quien 20 considera-
ba amigo, y que solo pude reco-
mocer en- ell ultimO momento,
con la mente mas serena, habra
recapacitado de la injusta i'm
putacion que me hacia y Sc ha-
bra dado cuenta de mi verdade-
IA conducta, la cual nunca fue
nj incitadora del tumultO Y nj
siquiera participants de las al
garadas y que Sc s%uscitaron esa
noche en- dicha Junta.
De mi conducta caballerosa y
de mi actuaci6n son testigos
mas de medic millar de perso-
mas, asi como ell propio Presi-
dente Sr. Valdes Generique, su
cunado, y con clio me basta pa
ra mi satisfaction y tranquil
dad.
Como es solo mi prop6sito la
aclaracion de los hechos, y de
ningdn modo la proVocaci6n de
nuevos medicines, nj de cOntro-
versus de ningun genera, que
va de por 81 debe bastar con la
malhadada desgracia ocurrlda,
lie ruego, estimado amigo Man
teiga, que acepte listed las gra-
cias mas sinceras por la publ
caci6n de esta, y PUNTO FL
NAL.
DR.. Jorge A. TreLleS.
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n HONORES A LOS
AVIADORES DEL SOVIET

Moscu, Abril IA Los siete
aviadores que rescataron a 101
cirdadancS rusos de sobre los
hiel $ flotantes del Artic0, van
a recibir honores e~specia1es por
recommendation de Jose Stain,
cue ha creado para ellos ell titu-
10 de Heroes de la Union So
Wet"
Ademas de csc titulo, a los pi
lotos y sus mecanicos Sc les ha
c0ncedido la Orden de Lenin Y
el sueld9 de I'm ano.
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Centre ASturj0H0
la e ~directiVa.


La compania que actda en- ell
teatro del Girculo Cubano, ceIe-
bIafa su funcIon manana do
mingo en- el teatro de la ayenida
Nebraska.
Subira a escena la comedia
en- dos actos, "EI Novio de Do
ma Ines.
Rita Montaner acompanada
del pi%anista Rafael Betancourt,
presentara I'm exquisite progra
ma.
Hara su debut ell duo interna-
.cional Spaventa-Moya, los Qua
les en- union de Rita y Rafael
Betancourt, ejecutaran la can
.ci6n Ell Nudismo en- la Haba-
ma" de la que es autor el profe-
sor guitarrista Roberto de Mo-
va. Spaventa estrenara 81 tan
60, "Te fuistes... ja... ja... que
te vaya bien'.
Els function corrida a % cts.
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L. b. II. Club

En- junta celebrada por los
miembros de este club, Sc acor-
do celebrar un bale de invi-
taci6n en- ell Forest Hill County
Club, en- fecha pr6Xima.
Tn programa de canciOnes a
,mericanas, tangos y rumbas Sc
ha confeccionado para csc festi-
val.
Dos reputadas orquestas han
sido contratadas.
Figuran como madrinas las
Srtas. 10 Granda, Alice Diaz V
vi Valdes.
Hizo su ingreso en- este CLUB
la Srta. Alice Diaz. Despu6s de
la junta hubo una animada $50
cial hour.
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Acldrdci0n

Aclardcj6n
Ell DIR. Ismael Angulo, nos
manifesto que carece de fun
damento la version que Sc ha
extendido sobre la sociedad que
6l organizara en- union de los
Ores. J. Silveiro y G. Roig.
Por ahora no ha proyectado
NADIA q csc respecto y nos pjde
10 hagamos p1blico.
Complacidos.
Cesar Rircr0.
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consecutivos. como miamhro

consecutiyes, como miembro
de la camara de los comunes, re
presentando a Carnarvon.
Ell primer ministro no concu-
rri6 a la session de csc dfa pres
Sc encuentra en- su hogan de
Surrey, escribiendo sus memo
r.as &c la guerra.
La primera vez que Sc lie eli
gi6 diputado tenia 27 amos de
edad.
La gaceta., 1934-04-14
CITACION

La Concordia &c Tampa eta
a junta general para el lunes 16
del corriente a las 8 p. m. en- e,
,lugar de costumbre.
Asuntos de suma importan-
ella exigen la mas puntual asis-
tencia.
La gaceta., 1934-04-14
NUeUd Mesa

Anoche fueron cloctos para
regir los destinos del Souvenir
Social Club los senorcs: AIber-
to Falcon Pres5dente vice, Be
larmino Llano, Secretalia Srta.
Ofelia Rodriguez; vice Cesar
RIyero; Tesorero, Armando We
ga; vice, Sam CiaravelIa.
Muchos exitos lie deseamos a
la nueva directiva.
La gaceta., 1934-04-14
En- eli Stella

I'm CT SGclIiG
Esta noche Sc estrenara EN-
ell teatro Stella de West Tampa
la simpatica obra "Delirio de
Artista por la compania Iris
que dirije Ramon Guzman.
En- ell ndmero de variedades
tomara parte ell duo Spaventa-
,Moya, que por Ultima vez Sc pre-
sentara en- la barriada oeste.
Spaventa-Moya tr%abaiaran
ell domingo en- ell Centre Obre-
70, donde ell ST.. Guzman estre-
ma la obra n. r. A. de asuntos
s0ciales.
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SOCIALES
En- La COlu1nnG

En- La C0Ium7aG
Los miembros del Castillo
Ponce de Leon, de los Caballe-
ros del Aguila de Orc, trabajan
sin descanso en- favor del picnic
que celebraran en- ell parque de
La Columna.
Han sido contratadas las or
uuestas Los B0hemios, La TrO
pical Y Mano Sanchez.
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NOtd de dueLO

NORA de dtiGJO
En- la noche de aver dej6 de
existir en- la clinica Ell Bien Pd-
blico, ell Sr. Belarmino Vallejo,
antique residente de esta oca-
lidad vecino del nGmero 24011a
de la avenida Michigan, y MEM
bro distinguish del Circulo Gu
banO.
El Circulo permanecera ce-
rrado hasta despues del sepelio
que Sc verificara esta tarde a
las cinco.
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Un0 iu1ltG

Una juatG
Por orden del Presidente Sc
eta a los hermanos de la Sec
ci6n de Sociabilidad, de la Lo-
gia Loyal Knights of America,
para ell domingo Is, a las 8 p.
m. en- el lugar de costumbre.
Sc ruega la mas puntual asis
tencia.
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ci6n mas los intereses y costas
ocasionados'.
Firman la proposition los d.
putado3 Francisco de Paula Sa-
linas, Baquero, Nayajas ! Pc
reZ ROzas.
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DR.. JNam SIreirO

1T. W"W
Notable cirujano que presta
sus servicios en- ell Sanatorio del
Centre Asturiano.
BESIDE hace dias guarda ca
ma, en- su Residential.
Hacemos votos p9r ell pronto
restablecimiento del distingui-
do gaIeno.
La gaceta., 1934-04-14

Londres, abriI 14.-El pasa-
do martes David Lloyd George
cumpli6 Al amos de servicios
La gaceta., 1934-04-14

"A AMOS EN- Ell PARLA-
MENTO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Georgia Supreme Court
Puts Appeal Motion
on Its Calendar

ATLANTA, Ca, Aug. 20 = The
Georgia State Supreme Court, sit
ting in special session, today or
dered the motion of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense for a re-
hearing of the appeal in the An
gelo Herndon case to be filed for
the next regular session of the
court some time this fall.
This decision assures the defense
an opportunity for hearing on
the motion to reopen the appeal
on the grounds that new constitu-
tional questions were raised by the
Supreme Court itself in its deci-
sion upholding the sentence of
Herndon to eighteen to twenty
years on a chain gang on charges
of "insurrection.
While this development is purely
a technical step in court procedure,
it presented an important new OPP
portunity to press the mass fight
for Herndons freedom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Tn aelmann
Signs Painted
On Nazi Ship
Anti-Fascist Slogans by
Seattle Workers De-
nounce Hitler

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 20.-The
port Of Seattle woke up Saturday
morning to find huge Free Thael-
mann" and "Rote Front" signs
painted on the sides of the North
German Lloyd steamer "Schwaben, /"
and Nazi officials of the vessel
foaming at the mouth with i'm
potent rage.
Other signs painted along the
sides of the Nazi vessel by indignant
Seattle workers denounced the Nazi
butcher regime in Germany for its
savage persecution of workers,
honest intellectuals and Jews.
Seattle workers had daringly car
ried out their determination that no
Nazi ship or official shall visit
Seattle without meeting with the
indignant protests of the working
class against the Hitler murderers,
and had visited the vessel in a row.
boat to paint the sogans and dis
tribute literature among the crew.
Two of the crew, who were off by
themselves, returned the Red Front
salute of the visitors. Others
eagerly accepted copies of Der
Arbeiter"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Hearing Ordered in Hermdon appeal;
Masses to Rally in Bronx Tomorrow
Sacco-Vanzetti Day to
Be International Day
of Struggle

NEW YORK. - The monstrous
legal murder of Sacco and Vanzetti
still fresh in their memory, thou
sands of New York workers will
mass in Bronx Coliseum, East 177th
Street, at fremont Avenue tomor-
row night, on the seventh ami
versary of the electrocution of these
two working-c lass heroes, to carry
forward the mass fight to rescue
Angelo Herndon and the Scots
boro boys from the murderous claws
of the same ruling class which
sacrificed Sacco and Vanzetti on
the altar of greed and exploitation.
Outstanding leaders of the rev.
dictionary movement will partici-
pate in this commemoration meet
ing and mass welcome to Angelo
Herndon, another hero of the
working class, temporarily rescued
from torture and death on the no.
torious Georgia chain gang. Hern-
don, who will be the main speaker,
will be greeted by Clarence Hath
away, editor of the Daily Worker;
Harry Haywood, national secretary
of the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights; Ben Gold of the Needle
Trades Union; Bob Minor, veteran
Communist leader; Ben Davis, edi-
tor of the Negro Liberator and
Herndon's defense attorney; Gil
Green Of the Young Communist
League, and Ruby Bates. courage
Gus Scottsboro defense witness who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Youth Rally
To Back Bronx
Bread Strike

NEW YORK-Daily picket lines
in front of Grossfeld's Bakery, be-
tween DAILY and Vyse Avenues on
both Street, are evidenced Of
workers determination to keep
bread prices down and prevent them
from rising to the impossible N. r.
A. code levels.
Encouraged by the partial victory
legalizing consumer picketing in the
decision forced by mass pressure
and militancy from Judge Hopted-
ter las safety valve in these
troubled times" the Neighborhood
Committee, which is leading the
fight, points out that the limitation
of picketing hours is violation of
the workers rights and a trick
which aids the bakery bosses. The
committee plans to expose this and
fight to legalize picketing at all
hours that customers come to buy,
from Z am. to II pm
Every night hundreds of workers
throng the corners and cheer the
speakers of the Neighborhood COM
mittee. These rallies almost reg
ularly eliminate in enthusiastic
mass picket demonstrations of
hundreds of workers, young and
old.
On Thursday, August %, $50 pm.
mass youth rally to support the
bread strike will be held by the re-
Gently formed Provisional Youth
Section of the Neighborhood Conn
mittee. Children are planning
roller skate parades with signs and
other actions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21

reformist leaders [Comrade Ordoqui
is a railroad worker himself. They
have declared themselves already,
under the pressure of the masses,
in favor of a solidarity strike, but
with definite aim of passing over
the economic demands Of the rail-
road workers themselves. Their aim
is to limit the strike purely to a
sympathy strike, so they can call
the railroad workers back, without
a fight for their own demands.
Parallel to this movement of solid
arity of the Cuban workers we see
the preparation of the port workers,
especially of Havana, preparing for
a general strike for their own de-
mands, the chief of which is the re-
duction of the loads.
Our perspective is, with the ty-
ing UP Of all the ports, we will find
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
New York Challenges Entire
Country in 500, 900 Driue
Prepares Raise $4,000 Before the Remaining Districts Match
This Amount Comm Announces

Of New York, to throw all of their energy and en-
thusiasm into the $4,000 drive.
We pledge ourselves to raise $4,000 of the
$4,000 and challenge the rest Of the country in
Socialist competition. In doing sO we shall make
every effort to be first to fulfill our half Of the
entire amount needed.
The District Committee calls upon all Party
Units and Fractions to at place the Daily
Worker drive first on their order Of business, to
Immediately plan and energeticaly push this drive,
making use Of all material received to date.
FULL ENERGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE NEW YORK DAILY WORKER!
DOUBLE THE CIRCULATION OF THE
DAILY" BY JANUARY!
REACH THE MASSES IN THE SHOPS,
TRADE UNIONS AND MASS ORGANIZATIONS
WITH THE DAILY WORKER FINANCE DRIVE!
MAKE OUR DAILY" THE SHARPEST
WEAPON IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR
AND FASCISM!
UTILIZE OUR DAILY" AS THE RALLY
ING VOICE IN THE FIGHT FOR A SOVIET
AMERICA:
CELEBRATE THESE Is YEARS OF COM
MUNIST LEADERSHIP AND STRUGGLE BY
AIDING OUR PARTY AND ITS OFFICIAL
ORGAN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21

sympathy and solidarity in the port
workers of the United States and of
the whole Caribbean areas, solid
arity which we always are assured
of receiving from our brothers of
other lands under the heels of
yankee imperialism.
All these strikes are finding a
fertile soil among the broad popula-
ton in Cuba The petty-bourgeois
are showing support to the strike
movement. The gasoline consumers
are protesting against the exor-
bitant prices and taxes charged by
the U. S. oil trusts srd the Men
dieta government. They are forced
to pay as high as AZ cents gallon
The Chase National Bank gets is
cents of every gallon sold in order
to pay the interest on the graft
loans advanced 10 the bloody but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
New Terror
Threat Made
By HI
See editorial on mage 6

BERLIN, Aug. 5.--A threat of
greater terror in view of the huge
opposition vote against Hitler was
made today just before Hitler left
for one of his numerous rests in
the Bavarian mountains.
with customary Nazi speed"
Hitler declared, every force would
be used ito win over the last rem
nants of our people to Nazi So
cialism."
Privately many Nazi officials
have admitted their disappointment
and fear on the outcome of the
Sunday plebiscite, which despite the
most thoroughly organized terror
campaign resulted in the heaviest
opposition vote since the seizure of
power by the Hitler dictatorship.
The opposition vote to Hitler
doubled over the November plebis-
cite on foreign policy. What the
actual voting was, however, will
never be known as the official fig
ures are issued by the criminal Nazi
Ministry of Propaganda. However,
even the manipulated figures issued
by Goebbels shows a tremendous
rise in the fight on fascism. More
than 100000 voters stayed away
from the polling place, and nearly
1000 900 spoiled" their ballots,
which in most instances meant the
writing in the name of Ernst
Thaelmann, imprisoned leader of
the Communist Party of Germany.
The election figures as issued by
the Nazi ministry of propaganda,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Metal Workers Strike
In Brooklyn Factory

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Workers in
the Quantiproducts Machine Corp,
BAL seth St., which Il working on
war dept. orders, went out on
strike under the leadership of Local
301 of the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union.
The strike occurred when Mr..
Bergman, owner of the factory, re-
fused to deal with the Shop Com
mittee and the Union representa-
tive, claiming that he wanted proof
that they represented the men. He
refused to listen to the workers
demands.
The strikers demand ten cents an
hour increase in pay, time and one
half overtime, division of work dur
ing slow season, and all grievances
to be adjusted with the shop COM
mittee and the union representative.
The company is now making gun
trainers for the government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21

The demands of the workers is
for three months back pay. The
widespread character of this strike
is shown by the fact that the mes
senger boys and all other employees
have joined the struggle. The
depth Of this new wave of strikes
is characterized by a great SYM
pathy and solidarity movement on
the part of the railroad workers in
clear across the island from Oriente
to Pinar del Rio.
The revolutionary opposition
groups in the railroad trade unions
are displaying great activities to
cement this solidarity with the COM
munication workers and lead it into
a united and broadened strike
movement.
A symptomatic factor is the DEM
agogy of the railroad trade union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21

freedom, but the struggle against
the fascist bands of Wall Street
who want to decapitate the revolu-
tionary Cuban workers in their
fight for better conditions and
against American Imperialism.
In Cuba at the present time, we
witness, on the one hand, the dis
indignation of the Mendieta gov
eminent as shown by the exit of
two ministers of the Menocalista
faction, the struggle of the ABC
agents against the Mendieta gov
eminent, and the inability of the
government to cope with the grow
ing economic and political crisis. On
the other hand, We observe a new
wave of militant strikes in the CEN
tire of which is the workers of the
communication, telephone, tele-
graph, radio and postal WORKERS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
JAPAN PREPARES TO SEIZE SOVIET ROAD
U. S. Crop Limitation Will Continue Despite Food Shortage
Veteran Hangs Self
After Vain Efforts
to Get City Relief

NEW YORK.-Carmelo Fazze-
ma, jobless World War veteran,
hanged himself on Saturday af-
ter four months of futile effort
to get help from the Emergency
Home Relief Bureau.
Fazzena applied for aid in May
and was put off with promises of
investigation from week to week
until his brother-in-law James
Augusta, BIT E. 1O8th St., took
him to Mayor LaGuardia's office
to make a complaint.
Mayor LaGuardia told Fazzena
that he could do nothing, but re-
fer him to the Department of
Public Welfare. At Commissioner
William H. Hodson's Office he
was again referred to the Pre-
cinct Bureau at 102d st., which
had denied him relief.
He made a final visit to the
Bureau Office last Friday and
was turned down. His brother
ln-law discovered him hanging
in his home on Saturday morn
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
NRA Board Attempting
to Foist Company Union
on Minneapolis Drivers


MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Aug. 20.-
Recognizing that the election order
OF the National Labor Board to de-
termine who represents the truck
men is a move for a company union.
drivers on strike are up in arms
against 1t.
Donaghue, Federal Conciliator, is
attempting to get consent Of leader
ship Of local STA to this election
SO that it would look fair. The local
Is directing an appeal to the Central
Labor Union for two-day general
strike in support of the drivers,
which the CL.U. has so far ignored
The Trotskyite leadership is fol-
lowing the old line of bargaining
with the A. F. of L. bureaucracy,
instead Of making an appeal to the
rank and file in unions and organi-
cations and getting action over the
heads of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy
A military order to close the
market area till after election is in
effect, mainly to prevent the drivers
from any action during the period
OF preparation and holding of cleo
lions.
The Communist Party states that
all talk and all appeals to leader
ship Of CL,U. and State Federation
of Labor Convention, who are con-
trolled by the political machine of
the Farmer-Labor Party and strike
breaking Governor Olson, means
only fooling the drivers and workers
in Minneapolis and creating false
hopes that by these means effective
action can be secured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
lspeclsI 70 the DALE workerl

tcpeclai TO the Daliy NorkefJ
MOSCOW. July 20 (By
wireless). = Japanese impe-
rialism is preparing to seize
the Chinese Eastern Railway,
owned jointly by the Soviet
Union and Manchurian au-
thorities, by armed force,
Pravda and Izvestia, Soviet news
papers, charge.
The Soviet Union has repeatedly
offered to sell the railroad to the
Japanese, whose armies dominate
Manchuria. and the puppet govern
ment Of Manchukuo, but the jap
anese have refused the final, low
offer of the Soviet Union, moving
rapidly to armed ventures.
TASS, official Soviet news agency,
yesterday published an annihilat-
ing rebuff to the Toxic disrupters
on the negotiations for the sale Of
the GER.
TASS declared the Japan-Man-
churian authorities are attempting
to lay responsibility upon the U. S.
S. r. for suspension of negotiations.
However. the entire world is able
now to judge who really is respon-
sible for this suspension. who it is
who manifests an unyielding atti-
tude and aggressiveness.
As is clear from the published
TASS report, the USSR., during
the whole time of the negotiations
manifested a far-going compliance.
Suffice to say that while the U. s.
S. R., during the negotiations, re-
duced her demands for redemption
of the GER. from 250000,0O0 gold
rubles, or 625,000,O00 yen, repre-
senting the real cost Of the railway,
to 160,000,000 yen, or about 56,000,-
900 gold rubles, the Japan-Man-
churian side raised its offer Of 5O,-
100000 to 120,000,00O yen, or alto
gether by 100000 yen.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
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