The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
On the
World Front
War Symptoms
SandinO's Murderer
Never Saw a German
Britain's alarm"
By HARRY CANNES

THE whole Far and Near
L East is ablaze with trade
wars and intensive drives for
colonial plumber. Every inn
perialist conflict is weighed
down to the breaking point. Every
day is a whole epoch of war moves.
On one day. notes fly between thu
U. S. and Japan over who shall dis.
member most of China. The mex
day Walter Runciman, president
of the British Board of Trade, hands
the japanese ambassador an ulti-
matum declaring Japan must estab-
lish trade quotas suitable to the
British, limiting experts of textile,
beer, and other goods to India,
Malaga, West Africa and other
British colonies.
The trade war between the United
States and Japan, on the one hand,
RACES in China and Latin America;
and with Britain, on the other. in
Latin America, and most of the rest
of the world.
But it is only the beginning. Every
note, every ultimatum, every threat
is accompanied by the building Of
new battleShips, air fleets. armies.
These are all symptoms that the i'm
perialist bandits know they cannot
solve their crisis without plunging
the working masses into the blood
lest imperialist war.
"TRABAJO," Communist organ of
Costa RIGA, throws some new
light on the murder of Augusta C,
SANDING, former inSurgent leader in
Nicaragua, who wavered between
fighting and compromising with
American imperialism. SANDING and
five of his followers were slaughtered
by the Nicaraguan National Guard,
organized by the United States State
Department and American marine
officers. 'The Yankee minister to
Nicaragua personally directed the
assassination of Sandino," declared
Col. Ferreti, one of Sandino's aides,
who saw his comrades fouly MUIR
dered, but escaped to Costa Rica. Il
say that the United States Minister
is the real head of the Nicaraguan
National Guard" Ferreti declared,
land together with President Mon
cada, the one chiefly responsible for
the cowardly assassination of my
unforgettable chief and companion"
He goes on TO relate; From my
hiding place ] could see the United
States minister come to inspect
the house of SaIvatierra IL
minutes before the attack. After
the shooting, he asked: Us it all
dOne?" Then he surveyed the
cOrpses of SANDING and his follow
ers, and left apparently satisfied.
remember perfectly when the
guards opened ranks they said:
Here comes the American minis
ter; make way for him!"
In an article wrote in the Daily
Worker at the time SANDING was
slaughtered I said the real details
could be learned only from the
American Minister to Nicaragua.
"UUNG Sc TSUNG HUA," (Red
IL China, official organ of the
Central Soviet Government of China,
reports tremendous campaign is
being developed in Chinese Soviet
territories for the freedom or Ernst
Thaelmann, leader of the German
Communist Party, and other victims
of the Nazis, and to help the fight
against Hitler. Though faced on the
North and South by over 10000 900
Kuomintang troops, financed by
American, British and Japanese i'm
perialism, the Chinese Red Army
never forgets the fight for the re-
lease of Comrade Thaelman.
Three hundred and fifty Ernst
Thaelmann brigades, 220 Dimitroff
Brigades, and 100 Torgler brigades
were formed in the Red Army Of
China. All the soldiers of the Red
Army have decided to contribute IA
cents of their daily food allowance
for the political prisoners in Ger
many.
An old woman in Huangpo, In
the Soviet district, gave her old
silver headdress, worth So, for the
defense of Comrade Torgler, say
ing: although I have never seen
German comrade in my life, /
nevertheless will give you my
headdress that wore at my we'd
ding as sign of protest against
fascism and in the spirit of inter
national solidarity"
THE news that Thaelmann and
i other Communist fighters now
face the gravest dangers because OF
the new vicious laws will undoubt-
edly have tremendous response in
Soviet China, with tenfold increase
in activities. In the United States
our campaign has Jagged. We who
have seen German comrades GER
tainly cannot be outdone by our old
Comrade in Huangpo. In New York
the main concentration this week in
the fight for the release of Comrade
Thaelmann will be the anti-Nszi
torchlight parade through Yorkville,
the Nazi stronghold, which takes
Place Thursday, May 10th at 7 pm.
The parade assemblies at Karl
Schurz Park. 86th Street and Avenue
A, and should be tremendous turn
out.
YEMEN, the little Arabian country,
i is writ large in the capitalist
news today. The New York Herald
Tribune headlines its story; "Tbn
Saud RoutS Yen1en's ARMY. Alarms