The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES

Fighting in Spain
Cuban United Front
News from China, Japan
NEITHER the state of alarm
~ nor the heavy concentra-
ton of assault troops in Ma
drid and other parts of Spain
could halt the united front.
Socialist and Communist.
demonstrations on Monday.
against the threatened executions
of the Asturias revolt leaders.
In dozen places in the heart of
Madrid workers gathered. At Plaza
del Angel and Cuatro Caminos
police fired at the workers. One was
killed, eight wounded.
The fascist Lerroux- Robles gov
eminent is becoming increasingly
nervous. The Supreme Court has
before 1t decision on the death
penalties against the Socialist and
Communist leaders, Gonzalez Pena,
Teodomiro Mendez, Luis Garcia,
Anibal Roces and Manuel Lopez.
In the United States the Socialist
press recently has heen silent on
the threat of death against the So
cislist leaders in Spain. Socialists
United Action in this country now
can help save our Spanish brothers
from the executioners bullets! To
hesitate is dangerous!
WORKERS and peasants in Cuba
W are rallying behind the $50, 900
students and teachers in their po-
htical strike against the Mendieta
regime. Monday night a huge deli
egate meeting was held in Havana
where the "frente comun" Omitted
'front.' between workers, peasants
and students was established. The
objective is the end of the Mem
dleta- Batista regime, the With
drawal Of the death penalty in the
sugar fields and mills, civil liberties,
protection of the workers living
standards.
Present were representatives Of
all trade unions and delegates from
the famous Realengo 10 Soviet in
Oriente province. In Camaguey,
the strike is assuming the aspect
of civil war.
Never before in Cuba has there
been such united and powerful rev.
olutionary action And the struggle
is only beginning.
A PRIVATE letter from China in-
a forms us that the Red Army in
Saechuan province is advancing
both from the North and South. The
important city of Luchow on the
Yangtze has been captured. In
Anwhei and Honan province. the
anti-Japanese vanguard is moving
Northward against the Japanese
invasion. Chang Kai Shek is franz
tlcally rallying his forces for
new assault The new anti-Red
headquarters are now established
at Ichang on the upper Yangtze,
with supplementary bases at Han
kow and Chungking, Szechuan.
GLOOMY news on the economic
u and financial situation in China
fills the Japanese press. 4China is
on the verge of bankruptcy as q
result Of the long financial panic,
which has prevailed since last
year" writes the special China COR
respondent of the Osaka Mainichi.
/ Banks are closing Industries are
tied up. Peasants cannot get loans
to purchase seeds or other neces-
stiles to begin the spring planting.
After a conference between Chang
Kai Shek, Finance Minister H. H.
Kung, and T. " Soong, it was de-
eided to initiate the currency by
100000 through the Commune
cations Bank.
1T was also decided to plead with
Wall Street and London, as well
as with Tokyo, on Bonded knees,
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concessions in China which will
further enslave the Chinese people.
AS between the advance of the Red
Army and the threatening economic
and financial crisis, Chang Kali
Shek willingly chooses the golden
moose of imperialism with which to
strangle China.
THE 10000 Tohoku province girls
1 who were sold into slavery in
Japan went either into the houses
Of prostitution or the factories. The
Japan Weekly Chronicle now re-
ports that those in the factories
are suffering worse fate than the
prostitutes. At the Sano Mill.
Osaka, where 500 of the girls we're
SENT, they are forced to work 10
hours day and to sleep next to
their machines. At the same time
they do not get enough food to
keep them on their feet. Its not
much use trying to convince the
world how we'll the girls are treated
in the first class mills" comments
the Chronicle, when this sort of
slavery still goes on with irn-
punity."
Minister Kidnanpd