The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07


DECENT weeks have shown
IL an increased rehabilitation,
a heightened militancy of the
workers in many countries Of
the world. At the same time,
the Infatuated ruling class is
beginning to exhibit its
bloody fangs. In Chile, a general
strike has been declared in sup
port of a peasants revolt Gold
and coal miners are already lining
up with the peasants against the
government troops.
A whole series of bitter strikes
are on in Cuba, with general po-
litical strike in Manzanillo demand-
ing the release of 95 political pris-
oners who have passed their 225th
hour on hunger strike. Strikes
are expected today In Havana.
IN HOLLAND, the unemployed
l militantly demonstrated at AM
sterdam against the cut in their
relief; and they were met in the
style of Mayor LaGuardia and
Governor Merriam Of California.
The police fired at the hungry
workers, killing one and wounding
dozens.
Brazilian lockers and seamen
struck two days ago and tied up
the British owned Companhia
Navacageo Lloyd Brazilier, and the
Brazilian goyernment-owned line.
The battle lines are being drawn
tighter everywhere.
HAVING defeated the strike of
IL 10000 cotton mill workers in
Bombay, British imperialism sought
its revenge against the strike lead
erS. Comrade Ranadive, secretary
of the heroic Kirni Kashgar (Red
Flag Union was arrested on the
charge of a seditious speech deli
vered at Chowpaty, and sentenced
to two years imprisonment. 1t is a
f1fty-fifty chance, under the deadly
conditions of an Indian prison,
W h Ell h e he ever will come out
alive, if he is forced to serve his
sentence.
What was his crime? The repre-
sentative of British Justice in
India, in rendering his Judgment
on our comrade declared: TN the
beginning the accused had said
that by holding this meeting the
hungry workers, the starving work
ers, were declaring war against I'M
employment, against capitalism and
against imperialism"
Since" said the Judge, the
speech was addressed to "a hungry
and ignorant crowd of unemployed
workers" in the time of agitation
and unrest, it was sedition.
If the same speech had been
made, say to group of well-fed
Ramsay MacDonalds, Purcells and
Hendersons, it would, of course, not
be sedition.
THE Bulgarian fascist government
makes a good deal of money!
from the manufacture of dope. tt
is not generally known that Bull
garian drug factories manufacture
four times the worlds legitimate
requirements of the powerful drug,
heroin. There are ten huge heroin
factories in Sofia, and leading gov
eminent officials own them. Rus
sell Pacha, Egyptian delegate to
the League of Nations Opium ADJ
visory Committee, declared that M.
Karagyzoff, former chief of police
of Sofia (torturer of Communists)
operates one of the largest fac
tories; and M. Parlapanoff, head
chemist of the institute of Public
Health, owned another.
Where does the drug go? Japan
takes most of it, but it is not all
used in Japan. Japanese imperial
ist acknowledgements force it on
the Korean, Formosan, and Man
churian masses: No Japanese agent
goes into Mongolia, Chahar, SIN
kiang, or any other province where
the japanese militarists are carry
ing on their intrigues, without his
supplies of heroin. The tribal lead
ers, the princes and feudal lords
are doped, and dream of war very
much as the Japanese want them
to dream.
THE japanese imperialists cease
lessly plot for war against the
Soviet Union, and while they trans
form Manchukuo into an armed
camp, they have few more cards
up their kimona sleeves. Recently
liberation" congress was held in
Kobe, under Japanese patronage.
Turko-Tartar- Mohammedans from
the Chinese border states near the
Soviet Union, as well as deposed
feudal princes from Soviet Turke-
stan were present.
With japanese funds and arms,
central organization is to be set
up to direct all political, cultural,
and religious activities" of all Tar
tars, Turks, Bashkirs, Uzbecks, Kir-
ghizes, Sarts, etc. now living in
exile throughout the East.
The main point of attack is the
Chinese province of Sinkiang,
which is inhabited mainly by Mo-
hammedans, and borders the Soviet
Union. While the British, too, are
plotting to seize this territory, al
ready having appointed a 'Moslem