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the Budget. All business firms and shops closed their doors in sign of sympathy with the demonstrators and trade was at a standstill in St. George's. The Government was compelled to cancel its plan in order to prevent a general uprising. Workers in the other Islands must follow this example.

3. Industrial Progress in Russia.

In 1913 Russia occupied the fifth place in the world output of iron and steel. In 1931 the U.S.S.R. is surpassing Great Britain and Germany, and in 1932 it will surpass France and occupy second place —— next to the U.S.A. Tsarist Russia produced in 1912, 3,500,000 tons of iron and 3,400,000 tons of steel. The Soviet Union produces in 1913, 8,000,000 tons of iron and 8,800,000 tons of steel. In 1932 it will produce 17 millions tons of steel and an equal amount of iron.

Coal. In the output of coal, Russia occupied in 1913 the fifth place in the world. In 1930 the U.S.S.R. excelled France, in 1931 it reaches the level of Germany, and in 1932 it will occupy the third place after the United States and Great Britain.

Oil. In 1912 tsarist Russia produced 9,100,000 tons of oil. In 1931 the U.S.S.R. output is 27,600,000 tons. The Soviet Union has carried out its five-year program of oil production in 2½ years and is now occupying the second place after the United States. Soviet output of oil is still increasing and nearing the first place in the world.

Electricity. In 1912 Russia produced 1,945 million kilowatt hours. In 1931 the U.S.S.R. produces 12,700 million kilowatt hours and is about to occupy one of the leading positions in the world.

Agricultural machinery. The U.S.S.R. will occupy in 1932 the first place in the world in the production of agricultural machinery, leaving the U.S.A., Canada, France and Germany way behind.

4. Negro Worker Praises Soviets.

Robert Robinson, a West Indian Negro worker who is employed as a mechanic in the Stalingrad Tractor Plant in Soviet Russia, is spending his vacation in France and Germany. He speaks very enthusiastically about the Soviet Union and the building of the Five Year Plan and has the highest praise for the treatment of Negro workers by the Soviet workers and officials.

Robinson is the worker who was attacked by two white Southern Americans, Lewis and Brown, while in Soviet Russia. These two men were arrested, tried and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment by the Soviet court, but as they later apologized very humbly to Robinson, the sentence of one was changed to deportation and the other was pardoned and allowed to remain.

This is how the Soviet workers defend Negroes and all other oppressed peoples. Race prejudice is not tolerated in Soviet Russia where the revolution has abolished all forms of colour and national distinction.

5. American Bank for Liberia.

The Firestone Rubber Company has further strengthened its financial hold over Liberia by establishing a Bank in Monrovia in place of the British Bank of West Africa which was forced to close down because of the increasing influence of American imperialism in the country. The manager is Peter Davidson, a white man, formerly connected with National City Bank, the same New York bank which stole all of the gold out of the Bank of Haiti in 1915. While United States marines guarded the streets, the porters took the bags of money on board an American ship.

Liberians, look out!

6. Increasing Unemployment.

To save themselves from difficulties, the capitalists are attacking the workers. Lowered wages and unemployment have curtailed working-class consuming power, but every cut in working-class standards has been inevitably reflected in lowered production and lessened trade, leading to still further increase in unemployment. This is the vicious circle.

Great Britain has nearly 3,000,000 unemployed, France has over 3,000,000, Germany has 4,484,000, while America has even more than 12,000,000.

Not only those countries, but also countries such as Holland, Switzerland and the Scandinavian nations which have hitherto been considered sound.

7. Demonstrations against Starvation.

Over 30,000 white and coloured workers demonstrated in New York in favour of unemployment benefit.

10,000 workers attended a similar meeting in San Francisco. This demonstration was attacked by the police and many workers were injured. The police made a number of arrests.

Mass demonstrations are now becoming a daily feature of life in Great Britain. All over the country, the masses are demonstrating against wage reduction and for relief.

More than 150,000 workers and unemployed participated in the demonstrations in Glasgow, while many more thousands accompanied the marchers along the route.

Two great demonstrations of over 100,000 workers took place in London. All the traffic in the center of the city was held up. The police tried to break up the meetings that were later held in Hyde Park, but without success. After the meeting, many thousands proceeded to the prison where Hannington, the leader of the unemployed, and others were serving sentences, and demanded their release.

Big demonstrations were also held in Manchester, Derby, Rochdale, and other cities. Colonial workers, follow your British brothers —— Demonstrate!

8. Labor Shortage in Soviet Russia.

2.000.000 industrial workers are urgently needed to complete and man important industrial units under the Five Year Plan. The building trades alone is in need of at least 500.000 workers. Walter Duranty, the Moscow correspondent for the "New York Times", writes that

"in this period of world wide economic distress, when unemployed are numbered by millions in every large industrial country, there is no unemployment in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. On the contrary, there is an actual shortage of labour everywhere, from factory operatives and construction gangs to white collar clerks and movie actors, which is reckoned at fully 2.000.000 today."

This is the difference between Capitalism and Socialism.

9. New Organizations for Negro Seamen.

At a recent meeting of the Executive of the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers, held in Hamburg, and attended by delegates from England, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, China, Greece, Spain, Italy, and a representative of the Negro Workers, the question of organizing the Negro and other colonial seamen and dock workers was discussed and decide upon. The meeting pointed out how the capitalists and shipowners were attacking the conditions