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Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-19
OP EN LETTER
TO THE PEOPLE OF IMPERIAL VALLEY:
Anril 12. 1894.

The Board of Directors of the Imperial Irrigation District
has the purchase Of diesel engines at cost Of
been made with the of competing with The Southern
Serras Power Company the distribution the cities
The equipment in question will not have the capacity to
entirety Brawey alone but is
posed to over only o fG I sSss e
tered residential sections. The duty Of distributing
both the fa and the ean business its terri
tory is rejected
The diesel engine contract hurriedy and secretly
tered into without securing the approval the who
will have pay the equipment without opporu
nifty for public discussion the justification of the project
The established practice of for competitive bids
and the usual provisions of the law relating thereto ignored
Notwithstanding that the purchase of the largest in the
history of the District
No attempt made the approval of the District
Securities Commission of California although advised
that such expenditure within the jurisdiction of the
Commission
No consideration whatever given the position of The
Southern Serra Power Company with its millions of dollars
vested the service of the Valley including the communities to
be served by the engine Not only the Company g
nOred in the matter but far has been unable to
copy of the contract
The complete project including transmission and distribu
pp s M @ s 3sf s e ar f
enter into competitive business at time the District unable
to meet it's bond and interest obligations and has hun
dred of thousands of dollars of unpaid warrants outstanding
some of them several years old.
While the obligation the the project will fall
lands the service be rendered by proposed
plant will be confined to limited section of two cities embrac
ing but small part of the total population of the Valley
1t has been represented engines will be
capable serving standby for AAmerican Canal power
This claim wholly unsound the proposed diesel engine units
entirely small to standby for hydro electric de-
veopmen of the size that will be involved with the bringing of
power the AAmercan Canal This that the entire
proposed diesel engines will have to be written
off the date AAmerican Canal available The
developed the Canal will not only be far cheaper than
that by diesel engines but greatly of the total
demands of the Valley
We satisfied that the proposed project only
nomca unsOund but there has been lack of legality i'm the
step far taken for its authorization Many stOod
have invested their life savings enterprise which has
pioneered the service of the Valley period
eighteen years. during which time service has been constantly
improved and rates progressively decreased We
steps such stockholders this matter
believe that in doing will also be protecting
of every taxpayer of Imperial Valley.
THE SOUTHERN SIERRAS POWER CO.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-19
RIVER READINGS

GRUWELL ON VISIT
B. M. Gruwell, formerly district
of schools for Ell
Centro, was visitor at the court
house today.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-19

The Point Land company is set
ting out 35 acres of hops near Up
per Lake, Lake county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
For Services Rendered p

JACOB PANKEN has again been made
q judge-this time, not by "a popular
mandate of the people" but by appoint
ment of the Mayor, Mr.. La Guardia.
His salary will be $4,000 a year-for
ten years. After that most likely, he will receive
pension for life. Not bad, for Mr.. Panken!
But political appointments come in exchange for
services rendered, :.
Panken gets judgeship from La Guardia But
before that La Guardia got something from Panken
II What?
Panken has been La Guardias strikebreaker He
served La Guardia well in the taxi strike. He has
been La Guardias "go-between" in all the major
labor struggles, aiding La Guardia in putting over
the bosses wage-cutting, union smashing policies
The Socialist Party "od guard" of which Panken
is prominent member, has likewise rendered
services to La Guardia. They have boosted his
political fortunes in the city They are aying them
selves with the Mayor in his third Party ambitions
They aid him in cloaking his banker dictated poll
cies with liberal" and even socialist" phrases
Truly valuable services!
In return, Mr., Panken becomes Judge Panken!
for ten years! at $4,000 per year! with
a pension for life to follow!
Judas Iscariot has raised his price But he's
still Judasl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
who Are Bread SnatcherS'?

MAYOR LA GUARDIA on Tuesday at
Iil tackled those who resist the sales tax
as Dread snatchers."
The Daily Worker somehow fails to get
the mayors point.
The sales tax will yield from $4,000
900 to S500O0O00. This will come in the main from
the workers the small consumers.
AS a well-known Congressman once said La
Guardia by name "A sales tax is odious. To
say that the tax is equitable is ridiculous family
spending $1,000 for subsistence . will pay $3.50
tax. E. Such a burden is out of all proportion"
We agree with this Congressman-as against the
mayor
The bankers, the manufacturers the department
stores are the benehciaries under this tax. The
masses of the people, including the small merchants
are the losers.
Most important, it is not tax for the unem-
ployed. 1t is tax for the bankers. They will re-
ceive $180000000 out of next years budget. If these
payments were stopped the city would have more
than four times the amount to be derived from the
sales tax The unemployed could then be given
really adequate relief.
The bread snatchers" it seems to us Mr.
Mayor, the bankers! You are merely their
sniveling tool!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
THE CIRCUMFERENCE PACT

of the Saar must rely upon them
selves and continue for the protec-
ton of their own lives, families and
homes to carry on their united
struggle against Hitler.
1t would be of interest, however,
to mention the reasons which
prompted both sides to sign the
Saar agreement. AS far as the Hit
Ter government is concerned, it is
confronted, on the eve of the worst
starvation winter Germany has ever
seen, with its most fateful isolation
among the imperialist powers. The
debates Of the British House of
Commons and the menacing tenor
of the war speeches of Winston
Churchill and Stanley Baldwin have
clearly shown that even Britain. a
potential ally on the anti-Soviet
front, is not willing to support Hit
Ter in war against France. Hit
Ter has to get credit and co-opera-
ton from his fellow imperialists.
He must consider returning to the
League of Nations, in spite of the
demagogic agitation he has carried
on against the same institution
previously to his exodus from the
League, endorsed allegedly by forty
million votes. To pave the way
back to the League, Hitler needed
the Saar agreement with France as
the first step to his submission.
1t is not less interesting to con-
slider the French motives for the
agreement. The French fascist or
carnations have long striven to
find another alternative to the for
eign policy of the recent French
government of rapprochement with
the Soviet Union. A German pact
on the Saar can be considered from
this viewpoint as the first step to-
ward general agreement with
Germany, sanctioning the German
rearmament on the basis of a Hit
lerite guarantee for the Versailles
frontiers.
Needless to say, that if those at
tempts to find "a new foreign pol
icy" for French fascism would turn
out successful, the Hitler Rosenberg
Plan of armed aggression against
the Soviet Union, would find the
support of the fascists of France.
Here lies one of the most serious
aspects of the German French
Pact on the Saar.
The Soviet-French protocol signed
after the Saar agreement, and re-
affirming the peace aims of the
Soviet-French cooperation, was a
blow to the German fascist efforts
to destroy the Soviet's peace moves
not only in France but through the
Eastern Locarno security pact.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Fight Wall Streets
NeeV Program

THE new drive of the big industrialists to
cut wages still further, smash the trade
unions and the closed shop, increase hours
of work, is confirmed once more by the
latest speech of Alfred P Sloan, Jr., presi-
dent Of the J. P. Morgan auto monopoly General
Motors Corporation.
Sloan, addressing the Illinois Manufacturers As
ISOLATION repeats the points made in New York at
the national Convention of the National Manufac-
turers Association and the enlarged Congress of
American Industry
These points agreed to by Roosevelt's spokesman,
Roper and Richberg as follows: l, The lower
ing of wages to increase productivity 2. free
councils Of workers" to bargain with their employ
ers as against the closed shop; g. an increase in
working hours and productivity; 4 spreading work
to provide the largest total of wage payments"
It is clear that this is the program of Wall Street
monopoly in the present period which it expects to
put into effect with the full cooperation of the
Roosevelt government in the coming months.
This is made clear by Sloans jublant remark
that the magical possibilities of planned economy
no longer cast the spell of yesterday which is only
Sloan's way Of greeting Roosevelts recent changes
in the MIRA. codes which permit the monopolies to
take more direct control of the codes without any
needless interference from bureaucratic hindrances
Taken together with Richberg's call to the in
dustrialsts to go ahead full speed" Sloans speech
is a warning to the American working class that it
may expect new attacks on its living Standards
that the Wall Street industralists are determined
to restore profits by smashing the real wages of the
workers.
The cry of more productivity" only means the
warning of new speed-up in the factories at lower
wages.
The employers are making no bones about their
plans 1t is the duty Of every ss-6onscious worker
in the trade unions, especially, to work for the
building of strong united front of all workers in
every factory to defend the needs of the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13

by IL. IL
from the secret chambers of the
Baron Aloisi Committee, dele
gated by the Council of the League
of Nations, to make recommended
lions concerning the Saar Plebiscite
Forthcoming on Jan. 10, 1885,
German-French agreement has
emerged. In spite of the usual
sensational headlines, this agree
ment did not come as a surprise to
big business and diplomatic circles.
The tremendous advance of the
United Front among the ranks of
the Saar electorate, the determined
swing of all strata of the working
population to the united defense
front of the Saar against the on
slaught of murderous Hitler fas-
ciSm, has inspired fear in French
and German industriahst circles
that the very foundations of the
bourgeois order are increasingly
menaced by the tremendous inten-
sity of the struggle and the align
ment of the forces against fascism
in the Saar.
ROechling Is Mining Lord
Mr.. Roechling, mining lord and
heavy industrial ruler of the terri
tory, is, in spite of his National So
cialist flag-waving and patronage
over the "Deutsche Front" (the
present form of the Nazi Party in
the Saar), also member of the polit-
ically very influential leading or
ganization of the French heavy in
dustry and mining, the "Comite Des
FORCES" since the Saar mines and
foundries of Roechling are strongly
supplying the French armament
and war industries.
The very important Dillingen
Mining Corporation in the Saar has
not only prominent French indus
trialists on its board of directors,
but Is also represented on similar
boards of the Eastern French Lor-
aine Mining and Foundry Com
bineS. French and German capital
are closely associated in the Saar
enterprises. They are both con-
cerned over dangerous anti-capi-
talistic developments.
A few weeks ago the continental
press reported that the leading
French banks had already made an
agreement with the Deutsche Bank
to take over their branches and in
terests in the Saar territory and
become responsible for the neces-
sary settlements and the continuity
of the administration of certain in
dustrial investments.
Monsieur Dupuy, owner of the
Petit Parisien, one of the largest
French newspapers, openly an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Hamburg Ship Crisis
Puts Workers i'm City
On Verge of Starvation

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 12.-The re-
signation of the directors of the
"Hapag" (the Hamburg American
line) is causing much panic on the
Hamburg Stock Exchange, the in
fluential newspaper, Politiken, here
declares.
The economic crisis at Hamburg
daily reaches more alarming proper
tons and appeals to the Hitler gov
eminent from municipal authorities
and various economic bodies become
ever more urgent. According to
'Politiken," one Of these appeals,
addressed directly to Hitler, con-
tains the statement that the popula-
ton of Hamburg is reduced to a
starving condition.
In the future, "Politiken" states,
the Hamburg American line will be
directed by Na1 officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13

nounced on his arrival in New York
that he sincerely hopes that the
Saar territory would return to Ger
many after the plebiscite without
any disturbance and in an orderly
way.
1t is obvious that certain inter-
ests regardless of their nationality
prefer to see Hitler's policemen, the
S. S. and S. A., and the wage slash
ing labor front officials active for
the preservation of the order" of
the Saar, than the status quo, I'M
der which the anti-faScist move
ment would continue as forceful
and ever-growing factor in the
working class struggles for Social
list Germany.
Strong Unity
The United Front of hundreds of
thousands of miners, foundry and
steel workers, Catholic trade union
lists and farmers in the Saar is
already a tremendous generating
force against the anti-fascist move
ment, not only in Germany, but
also in France and in all of Europe.
1t seems that German and French
capitalist monopolies therefore
joined their forces to build dam
against the victorious and militant
trends toward unity and against
war and fasciSm now asserting
themselves in the Saar.
What are the main points of the
new agreement? In addition to the
usual assurances of fair play"
among the powers concerned, the
agreement provides that the Ger
man workers and farmers shall pay
900,OOO000 French francs as indem-
nifty for return of the Saar mines.
which were owned by the French
State Mining Administration
Whether this 900,000,0O0 francs will
also go to the Comite Des FORCES.
as the Saar coal went thus far, as
an indemnity for the mines de-
stroyed by the German armies in
Pas de Calais" remains to be seen.
The political part of the agreement
provides for guarantees" for those
whom the high contracting parties
term political, racial and religious"
minorities.
1t is superfluous to discuss those
guarantees seriously. They are
given by those who, according to
the revolving evidence of the Reich
stag burning and the Thaelmann
and other cases, have elevated muir
der, arson, fraud and torture to
regular governmental functions in
their two years of rule in Germany.
Must Rely On Own Strength
In face of those guarantees" the
workers, farmers and professionals
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Japanese Ambassador
Praises Hitler Regime

TOKYO, Dec. 1.-THE friendly
relations existing between Germany
and Japan are easily understood, :"
Japanese Ambassador Nagai de-
clared here in the course of an in
terview on his return from that
country.
Not only is there similarity
between the national characters
and economic conditions of the two
countries" he added, "but there is
even a resemblance between their
international situations"
Nagai hoped that Hitler would
not rejoin the League of Nations.
He considered that the present
naval conference at London was of
great interest to Germany because
of analogous demands made by
Japan for equal rights"
Nagai answered the back scratch
ing of the fascist press, which is
using tons of Ink in studies" of the
destiny" and superiority" of the
Japanese, by lavishly praising the
Nazi regime and commenting on it's
stability"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13
Party Life
Philadelphia Takes
Up Challenge On
Dock Recruiting

Section Committee, Section
District 2
New York, N. Y.
Dear Comrades:
The Section Committee of Section
of Philadelphia, has taken up the
challenge of your section for a So
cialist competition in recruiting
longshoremen into the Party. We
accept the number of ten longshore-
men to be recruited from the Phila-
delphia waterfront by Lenin Mem
orial Day.
We recognize the need of building
our Party among the basic section
Of the working class, to establish
the influence of the Party amongst
the masses of longshoremen, as a
prerequisite for successful militant
struggle. To this end the Section
Committee has worked out a plan
until the Lenin Memorial meeting
which includes:
l. Organization of shock brig
ade, consisting of the Section Or
ganizer, two members of the Sec
ton Committee and two other COM
radeS to be responsible for the con-
centration.
2. The concentration units to as
sign comrades to sell the Daily
Worker and other Party publications
on the waterfront regularly and to
canvass the territory where the
longshoremen live.
3. All the longshore contacts to
be supplied with the Daily Worker
for one month free of charge, or
language papers, and pamphlets
such as the West Coast General
Strike, Why Communism, etc. These
contacts to be visited regularly in
their homes and Efforts made to re-
cruit them into the Party.
4. One Red Sunday during the
drive in which the entire Section
membership will canvass the ter
ritory where longshoremen live.
5. Weekly open air meetings on
the waterfront with leading COM
radeS of the District to speak; the
regular issuance of the Waterfront
Worker" and a weekly forum near
the waterfront.
We have already recruited one
longshoreman and we are confident
that through these activities we will
surpass the number of ten. We
will send in reports on the progress
of the drive every two weeks to the
Daily Worker.
Fraternally yours,
Section Committee, Section /,
Philadelphia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-13

the abolition of private property as
the only solution to the crisis.
Leads to Monopoly
Coughlin cunningly attempts to
confuse the workers by saying that
the Communists want common
ownership of all things" such as
homes, beds, clothes, SutoS, etc. But
this is fraud. The Communist
Party demands the common own
ership only of the means of pro-
duction, of those instruments of
production which the capitalists use
in this country to exploit and
plumber the workers. It is cap
italism, not Communism, which
makes the worker propertyless and
poverty stricken. 1t is Communism
which will give him a full life.
Coughlin is fond of denouncing
the wicked men who have cencen-
trated wealth into their hands" In
this way he hopes to blind the work
erS to the real economic basis of
capitalism. Tor it is not the per-
sonal "wickedness" of any single
capitalist that has caused the mon
strous concentration of wealth in
this country.
1t is the very nature of the sys-
TEN itself, based on private prop
erty, that inevitably gives rise to
concentration and monopoly. In his
great work, Capital" which every
worker should read and study, Karl
Marx, the founder of scientific So
cialism and the organizer of the
world revolutionary movement of
the working class, showed how priv
ate property, no matter who owns
it, must inevitably give rise to con-
centration of capital in the hands
Of few powerful capitalists. The
Rockefeller monopolies, the Nor
gan monopolies, the Mellon mon
opolies, the DUPONT monopolies are
not due to the personal traits OF
these capitalists. They are due
solely to the fact that modern in
dustry in its vastneSs and complex
ity, with its ruthless competition
inevitably creates monopoly.
Change the owners of the mon
opolies, and will you change the
monopoly? The monopoly will still
exist, no matter how wicked" OF
how good" the monopolist may be
Coughlin's ideas of wicked men
only serve to block a real fight
against the economic basis of mon
opoly.
Naturalization" of Industry
Coughlin bangles the idea of ma
tionalization" before the workers as
"a seeming attack against the priv
ate capitalists and the power OF
Wall Street. But naturalization
under capitalism does not take one
cent of profit from the capitalists
does not diminish their grip on the
country's life by one iota, nor does
it solve a single contradiction Of
capitalism which has plunged the
whole capitalist world into the pro-
foundest crisis in history.
What is the process of "na-
tionalization" which leaves priv
ate property intact? 1t is merely
the process whereby the govern
n.ent buys certain industries from
their private owners in Wall
Street. How does the government
pay for these industries? BY is
suing government bonds to the
private owners in Wall Street.
So instead of having certain in.
dustries owned by private capital.
lists directly, we have the Fedora
government running the industry
but the same clique of private cap.
italists and banks holds the bond
upon which the industry must pa,