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ditions of the marine workers by cutting down their wages and throwing them on the streets to starve; and whenever the workers attempt to fight back, the reformists unite with the bosses in breaking the strikes.

How this attack is affecting the colonial workers and how the forces of imperialism are used to bring down the wage standards of all the workers (those of the imperialist countries as well as those of the colonies) was clearly brought out by the representatives of the Negro workers and the Chinese, and the English representative who related the conditions of the Indian seamen. The Seamen and Harbour Workers' International therefore decided to help the West African and West Indian seamen and dockers to organize strong unions by establishing seamen's clubs in Dakar, French West Africa, Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Jamaica and Trinidad, in the West Indies.

The Negro Seamen and dock workers in these ports are invited to write to the Negro Workers Committee, 8 Rothesoodstrasse, Hamburg, or to the Seamen's Minority Movement, 233 High Street, Poplar, London, for full information.

10. Profits from the Colonies.

According to the British Financial Journal, the "Economist", in the 12 months, June 1930 to June 1931, 2,053 companies made a total profit of £187,583,541. Of this total 61.2 per cent, of £114,731,214, was paid out in ordinary dividend. The average rate of these dividends was 8.4 per cent.

Now we would like to ask the question: From where did the bulk of the profits come from? The answer is: From the colonists —— India, China, and Africa, where hundreds of millions of coolies and "niggers" are made to toil from morning until night to supply super-profits for the British bankers, absantee [[sic]] landlords and parasitic dukes and lords and their idle women.

11. Negro Lawyer sees Communism as the only Way to Freedom.

"Soviet Russia is the only country that offers liberty and equality to all people, black and white. When I go home to America I will tell my people, the Negroes, that their salvation lies in Communism."

This from an interview appearing in the Moscow News of September 17th, 1931, with Raymond Pace Alexander and his wife, both Negro attorneys from Philadelphia. Alexander is further quoted in the Moscow News as follows:

"There has been a tremendous Negro movement toward Communism in the past few years. Our people have been coming to us, asking us questions about socialism and are anxious to know if the Soviet government in Russia was as it is painted. I came to find out, so that I could give them first hand information.

"I shall tell them that Communism offers the only government of the masses."

"Why did I come to Moscow?" continued Alexander in the Moscow News interview. "I would go to the Antarctic circle to see the breakdown of the abominable system which holds the Negro in social and economic bondage."

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander were fascinated with the Museum of the Revolution. They want a museum like it in the United States to show the struggle of the Negro people towards freedom and equality.

12. Women Out to Fight Taxation.

A delegate conference of working women from all parts of South Africa was recently convened in Johannesburg. This conference was called in order to unify and consolidate the sectional struggles of women taking place in all parts of the

country, and to organize a permanent organization of struggle for the working women of South Africa.

Mass meetings at factories and in residential areas were held to popularize the conference which took place as an answer to the new government measures forcing the women of South Africa into position of serfs by compelling them to carry passports and other tax papers.

The conference expressed its determination to mobilize all of the native women of South Africa to follow the heroic example of their class sisters in Southern Nigeria, who refused to pay taxes and organized a demonstration of 30,000 against the British tax collectors.

13. Three Negroes on Delegation to Russia.

Among the foreign workers' delegation which visited Soviet Russia to witness the 14th anniversary celebration in Moscow on November 7th, were three Negroes from the United Staates.

One of the Negro Delegates is a marine worker, Morris Wikman, of New York, a member of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Another is J.W. Jones, of the bituminous coal district of Pennsylvania, who was elected by the striking miners. A third is a steel worker from Gary, Indiana.

The delegates will spend about five weeks in the Soviet Union, visiting the chief industrial and agricultural areas and observing the great progress that is being made under the Five-Year-Plan of Socialist Construction. The Negro delegates will be given special opportunities to study the situation of the formerly oppressed national minorities and to compare the freedom they have won with the persecution of the Negro people in the United States, Africa, and the West Indies.

The Friends of Soviet Russia, which organized the foreign delegations, would like to organize a group of African and West Indian workers for a similar trip to Russia, but the British, French, and other colonial governments don't want the Negro masses in the colonies to know the truth about the Soviet Union, so they will not grant the natives passports. The workers must first of all organize labor unions and demand the right to travel wherever they want as free human beings. Write to the international office of the Friends of Soviet Russia, Dorotheenstrasse 77, Berlin, or to the British section, 7 John Street, London W.C., for information about trips to the workers' republic.

14. Negro and White Workers on Strike

The ports of Galveston and Houston in the State of Texas, America, were completely tied up when white and Negro longshoremen, organized and unorganized, stuck solid in a strike against a wage-cut.

The majority of longshoremen in these ports are Negroes. Over 4,000 walked out when the steamship lines posted a cut in wages from 80 cents to 65 cents an hour on the expiration of the agreement with the International Longshoremen's Association. The shipowners immediately began hiring unorganized Negro and white workers to scab but this force walked out 100 percent when they learned of the strike.

15. 30,000 Haitians Stranded in Cuba.

More than 30,000 Haitians who were brought to Cuba previous to the year 1928 to be employed in the cutting of cane and sundry labour in connection with the manufacture of sugar are to-day considered as a public charge and the Government will immediately take steps to have them returned to their native land.