The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

THE leftward swing of the
British toilers, shown in
the municipal elections, which
were a blow to the national
concentration government,
and the rapid moves towards
fascism, indicated by the
passage of the sedition Bill, are
sharpening the class struggle in
Great Britain.
In this situation, while there is
a greater polarization of forces. the
recent Southport Labor Party Con-
ference moved definitely to ths
Right.
Confronted with a series of major
problems, in view of the changed
class relations in England, the
Communist Party Of Great Britain
is calling its Thirteenth Congress.
This Congress will be held in Man.
chester February 2, 8, and 5,
1885.
The agenda now opened for dis
eusSion in the Party press and
meetings will be: ~ The United
Front; ~ The Communist Party
and the Trade Unions; ~ The
program of the Communist Party;
az Party organization and re-
cruiting; 81 World Congress Of
the Communist international.
In its statement opening the Party
discussion, the Political Bureau Of
the Party declares:
THE Southport Labor Party Con-
ference has adopted a reactionary
programme and decisions of a most
menacing character for working
class interests. Hundreds of thou
sands of militant Socialist workers
are thrown into perplexity as to
what path to follow.
THE offensive of Fascism and Of
war overhangs Britain and the
whole capitalist world. The de-
mand for working class unity, for
the united front of common strug-
gle, daily gathers force.
THE development of the capital
list crisis shows ever more clearly
the alternatives of militant advance
to the working class revolution or
complete slavery and destruction.
THE Communist Party Congress
will show the path forward for the
revolutionary solution of the crisis.
1t will set out the revolutionary
programme in plain terms"
OUR British comrades have far
" exceeded us in concrete express
sions of international solidarity with
the Spanish proletariat. They have
organized numerous mass demon
STATIONS and marches for the sup
port of the heroic fighters in Spain.
They are now preparing to load a
ship full of food for the Oviedo
workers.
MUSSOLINI and Fascism in Italy
III have met with the severest de-
feat on the battlefield Of grain. In
order to try to ease the growing
financial crisis of Italian fascism,
Mussolini proclaimed what he called
the battle of grain" in an effort
to cut down import of wheat.
Latest figures issued by Mussolini
himself show that this battle was
lost by Fascism. The grain COM
mittee reports that the wheat harv-
est this year amounted to 63,327, TOO
double hundredweight as compared
with 81,O99, 500 double hundred
weight in 1888. AS a result, it will
be necessary, either to import more
what, or force the starving masses
to eat less.
The average yield per hectare
has declined from Is double hum
dredweight in 1888 to 1913 in 1884,
taking the country as a whole.
These crops are the lowest for
years (75,000, 900 in 1892; $4,000, 900
in 1881; not until 1880 do we come
to crops as poor as those of the
year 1934.
Mussolini attributes the bad crops
solely to the drought. He passes
over In silence the drop In grain
prices, the heavier burdens on the
peasants, which has reduced their
ability to produce.
The falling off of the cultivated
area by over 100000 acres leads to
the conclusion that thousands of
peasants were forced off the land
as the result of the Fascist policy
which is running the small farm
ers.
WHEN Nazi thieves fall out, We
w som e tt m e S get information.
''Deutsche Revolution in Zurich,
organ of the ex-Nazi Strasser re-
ports as follows on the bloody peas
ant conflicts which took place in
connection with the Harvest
Thanksgiving" in Schleswig- Hol-
stein:
"The sound sense of the peas
antry rose in protest against the
unnaturalness of the Hitler system,
against regime which has proved
an utter failure, and in place Of
the swastika flags the old revolu-
tionary black flags of the peasant
people we're flown from the flag
STATS of the farms. The special
trains stood empty in the stations.
Report after report came in to the
district headquarters, to the Guard
Corps centres, and one motor lorry
after another dashed out into the
rural districts, each with its load
of heavily armed Guard Corps men.
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