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‘resounded with their testimony. -ists, ete., for those are strictly part ‘LOS ANGELES HOLY DOPERS GATHER LUCRE Bryan Bug Bites Hard in “Holy City” By FRAPIESA LOS ANGELES, July 22.—The sea- son of religious revival is on. As the Mecca of grafting preachers, this city is in a unique position. The au- thorities put no restraint on the fak- ers who impose on human creduilty. Miracle Tricks. Wonderful feats are performed by those whose business is to delude. Miracles are made to order. Incurable diseases are cured overnight. The dead might be brot to life, if dupes desired. And the evangelists would say, simply: “No trouble at all, sir.” In the eastern cities the vagrants would not be allowed to operate. Pub- lie indignation would force the police to act. But in this town no religious imposter is discouraged by the law enforcers. All that the police insist upon is the license money. That helps the taxpayers. Once it is well in hand the faith healers can fleece the gul- libles until the cows come to church. There is absolutely no censorship of miracle tricks. Building a Temple. One of the great achievements of the religious traffic is the building of a temple by a female evangelist who began her career of saving souls four years ago. It is claimed that the temple cost was $1,000,000 and it prob- ably does represent on investment of $100,000. The holy lady who built it is of Scotch pedigree. Thomas Carlyle de- clared that all Scotch healers were quacks, That is a clew. This sainted person went from town to town in California perfroming miracles. Children came to her on crutches and went away in perfect physical condition. Grown folks also acted. There was never an exposure of preliminaries. She grew wealthy and decided to build a temple in Los Angeles. Her vultures, male and female, plucked the public. The temple was built. She Reforms. Having arrived, the saintess gave up her healing business. It was too risky. She dedicated hreself to converting horse thieves, pickpockets, etc. Scores testified to their utter depravity and to final salvation by her. The temple It also re-echoed the.sacred dame’s de- nunciations of Bolsheviks, Commun- of her trade. “After the temple was built, a skeptic visited the lady. Mistaken for one of the gang, the visitor was invited to sit at a table with the saintess and her mother. There was on the table a bottle of gin, cigarettes, etc. The saintess drank, smoked and conversed in unmistakable Hollywood English. Her mother did likewise and made one remark which removed doubt from the skeptic. Addressing her daughter, she said, in a bantering way: “It is a shame how you take money from the dubs!” One of Many. There are hundreds like the one in- dicated in this city. They are acces- sories of the game. It is their part to drug the people. Any Communist who has the slight- est doubt that “religion is the opium of the people” might profit by a visit to Los Angeles. The scores of evang- elists’ tents, dwellings in which re- ligious preaching is carried on red- hearted Rosicrucian shrines, etc. etc., will soon testify convincingly that the public is being shot full of mental dope. Psychists, psychologists, spiritual- ists, fortune tellers, clairvoyants, mediums, etc., work without restric- tion so long as they have licenses. Any faker appears to be welcome. Still, there is no reason to despair. A Workers Party is on the job at 204 South Spring street. It will prove an effective antidote for the drug of the paid preachers, Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two will ‘make a better Communist of you. i EIS RII in AS SS a ca STEN SF ES ci ee iF aE ERR Nc etn ORE oa . : THE DAILY WORKER CAPITALIST LOBBY CROWS OVER LABOR’S POLITICAL WEAKNESS; SLOW WORK A FELONY IN IDAHO By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, July 22.— The manufacturers’ lobby says the state legis- latures of this country did what it asked them to last year for the most part. The lobby organization is known as the National Industrial Council, a fed- eration of national, state and industrial associations, organized under the leadership of the National Association of Manufacturers in order—its litera- ture states—-‘to foster constructive industrial legislation and to oppose en- actment of class laws.” “Splendid Opposition to Class Laws.” In a summary and review of state legislation of 1925 distributed to its members, but not to the press, the association boasts that “the 1925 state legislatures were marked with jan) an- + ticipated degree of conservative ac- tions. The net results to manufac: turing industries, with exception of a few states, were most satisfactory, altho the major reason for this was the splendidly co-ordinated opposition to class laws presented by the officers and members of state industrial bodies affiliated with this council.” Again the report proudly says: ‘‘En- actment on such matters as ‘liberal- izing’ amendments to workmen's com- pensation insurance laws, delimiting hours of labor and fixing minimum wages and maximum hours for wo- men, old age pensions, special indus- trial regulatory measures, granting special privileges to labor unions, etc. are conspicuously missing this year, owing, once again, to the effective and intelligent campaigns of opposition conducted by the various state manu- facturers’ assoviations represented on the advisory committee of this coun- ceil.” Labor Politically Weak. “Nevertheless,” the council admits, “the legislative committees of organ- ized labor in the several states did not come away entirely empty-hand- ed. Altho their victories were mighty few, as, for example, the passage in New Jersey of a law of doubtful con- stitutionality, providing for jury trial in labor dispute injunction contempt cases, the margins of their defeats were uncomfortably close in several important instances, such as the inde- finitely small vote which has tempo- rarily defeated a vicious anti-injunc- tion bill in the Mlinois legislature; the narrow escape of New York in: dustries from final passage of a 48- hour weekly working law affecting women workers. Legislation that the council is par- ticularly satisfied which includes the state police measures passed in Rhode Island, Illinois and Maine and a “prac- tical and satisfactory” workmen’s compensation insurance law which Missouri industrialists are given cre+ dit for securing in the Missouri legis- lature, Lack of Speed on Job Now a Felony. Summary of the legislation state by, state shows satisfaction, with Idaho, for broadening the Idaho syndicalism act to make mere slowing down on the job a form of criminal sabotage; gratification with California for de- feating 35 out of 37 proposed amend- ments to the Workmen’s Compensa- tion Act, the defeat being credited to the California Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation; praise for Colorado where business interests successfully op- posed a 48-hour week for cement and plaster industry workers; regulation of hours for women and drastic amendments to the workmen's com- pensation law—these listed by the council as “anti-industrial legislative” bills. A one-day-rest-in-seven bill before the state legislature of Illinois while the report was being prepared is also listed as an “anti-industry” measure, a phrase frequently used by the coun- cil in connection with pro-labor pro- posals. Prison labor gets the floor in the section on Oklahoma where the coun- cil shows its pleasure with the repeal of the law compelling the labeling of convict made products. Victory Everywhere For Capitalist Class. West Virginia stood safe for the employers, the report telling that “A long list of class legislative proposals, including anti-injunction, regulation repeal of the state constabulary act, of hours of labor of female employes, were all defeated or ‘lost’ in com- mittees,” Wisconsin's tax legislation does not please the lobbyists, but in general, taking state by state, they show how business has won over the worker. Even in Wisconsin an 8-hour law was beaten. It is an interesting report, available for its members but not in- tended for the newspapers. CHANG TSO-LIN ACCUSED AS A JAP MERCENARY Soviet Paper ‘Points Out Betrayals MOSCOW, June 18.—(By Mail.) Commenting upon the situation in China, the Isvestia points out that General Chang Tso-lin, who is actual- ly the most powerful and influential Chinese militarist, is standing aloof from Shanghai events, which open a period of new development of the na- tional struggle of the Chinese people. Chang Tso-lin, the Moscow paper goes on to say, is by no means a na- tional leader, as the English press is endeavoring to represent him. His present powerful position he acquired thanks to Japan, whose interest he has been and is systematically serv- ing. This is clearly shown by his at- titude towards the Shanghai affair and his stand in the matter of the construction of Japanese railway branches in Manchuria, indeed, these new’ lines, constructed by Japanese engineers with Japanese money, are the greatest blow to the prosperity of the Chinese Eastern Railway, whereby China's interests are violat- ed while the aims are specially serv- ed of Jupanese immigration in. Man- churia, where the Mukden warlord has already allotted lands to Japan- ese emigrants. To justify his position, General Chang Tso-lin asserts that an agree- ment on railway construction is one of China’s new internal affairs, even tho such an action did amount to sacrificing the interests of the C. h. R. and the Chinese people to those of Japan. Thus, concludes the Isvestia, thru all his conduct, Chang Tso-lin has definitely revealed himself as a politi- cian alien to the national movement in China. Write the story about your shop —Order a bundle to distribute SONS OF ITALY TORN IN FIGHT WITH FASCISTS NEW YORK, July 22.—A factional row between the fascist faction in the Sons of Ita%y in America and the faction headed by supreme court Just- ice Salvatore A. Cotillo, head of the New York state branch, threatens to split the organization. Cotillo declared that the head of the supreme council of the organiza- tion, John di Silvestro of Philadel- phia, is a “tool of Mussolini.” He said that di Silvestro is now trying to gain control of the Sons of Italy for ‘his fascist faction. The organ- ization has 200,000 members in this country, 35,000 being in New York state. At the convention on August 5, 6, and 7, in Schenectady, the Cotillo group will endeavor to elect Congress- man La Guardia as grand master of the grand council of the state of New York, the office which Cotillo vacates automatically, having served the limit of two terms. Cotillo opposes the fascist group on the ground that he favors ““American- ization.” He is a Tammany politician having been in the democratic party for years. Another new Sub—Makes an- Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER. | other Communist. 'NEGRO WOOLEN MILL STRIKERS TILL IN JAIL Officers of N. A. A.C. P. Refuses) Them Aid By A. WARRENO (ALN. L. C.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. July 22 After considerable inquiries, we learn- ed that a strike took place about two months ago affecting several Negro workers employed in a woolen mill at Khimency, Delaware, known as the Khimency Woolen Mills. An Official of ‘the N. A. A. C. P., whose name is Réading “investigated” the case by asking the police officials about the matter. He reported to his national headquarters that the Wil- mington branch of his organization ap- proved strikes, but was against riot- ing, the charge lodged against the vic- tims of the police. Five men Were held on this charg Here his investigation ended. He w certain that bail had been set. Employer Refused to Pay. The strike was called against employer who refused to pay wages he had agreed to pay. It was spontaneous and unorganized. After the strike started the boss hired Ne- gro scabs. The strikers were picket- ing and a melee occurred with some of the scabs getting the worst of it. Five strikers were arrested under a Delaware law against “rioting” which is a felony and punishable by a peni- tentiary sentence. Upon further investigation, the Am- erican Negro Labor Congress received the following letter from the New Castle County workhouse, Wilming- ton, Delaware: Still in Jail. “Replying to your inquiry of the 29th ult., the five men were committed here on April 20, for disorderly con- duct, having each been given a term of 30 days iif default of payment of fine and costs {amounting to $23.50. Three of these paid their fines a few days later and were released; the re- maining two serving out their 30 days. “We understand this disorderly con- duct grew out of a strike at the Kia- mensi Wollen Mills, with the details of which we ‘are not familiar.” Perth ‘Aisboy Listens to Manley Speech on Chinese Strike Move an the By JAMES SZEPESY. PERTH AMBOY, N. J.) July 22.— The Workers Party branch of Perth Amboy opened the open air season with a successful meeting Saturday night, at the corner of Division and Fayette streets, with Comrade Joseph Manley as the speaker. Comrade Manley’s speech dealt with the situation of the workers of Perth Amboy and he also linked up with that, the national and interna- tional situations. He explained the situation in China, the part the Kuomintang party and the Communist Party are playing in this struggle. . He also dealt with the Morocco struggles, and the role the socialist parties are playing in this fight as blackhearted traitors. The crowd was very enthusiastic and Comrade Manley was stopped many times during the talk by the audience with its cheering and clap- ping. Near the end of the meeting a so- cialist came there and asked the speaker “Why has Soviet Russia po- litical prisoners?” The crowd cheered Comrade Man- ley when he answered this question, and the socialist seeing that the audi- ence was with the speaker, did not bother any more. The audience cheered and clapped wildly every time Comrade Manley mentioned Soviet Russia. All the literature was sold, includ- ing the DAILY WORKERS, Young Workers, and pamphlets, The crowd numbered about one hundred, From now on, open air meetings will be held regularly. Cleveland Y. W. L. Meeting. CLEVELAND, Ohio. — The Young Workers League of the South Slavic Branch meets every first and third Sunday of each month, at 1:30 o'clock, at 5607 St. Clair Ave.—Anna Kovacic, Secretary of Y.:\W. L. i CAPTURE THE FILM! Hints-on the Use of, Out of the Use of, Proletarian Film Propaganda. By WILL] MU poe, LaSALLB characteriz- e d the press as a new major greater numerical dissemination, let| it not be forgotten that the film, thru! the medium of the visual picture, in- fluences its patrons far more 3tronely | and emphatically than does the print-| ed word its readers. He then develops the thot of the importance of technical progress in the film world finally convincing the last opponent of its value and perm- anence, We must develop the tremendous cultural possibilities of the picture in a revolutionary sense. . . the film must truthfully reflect social conditions instead of the lies and fab- les with’ which the bourgeois kind be- fuddles the workers, etc. S in many other the working class organizations were the most timid and most tardy in the effort to put this new medium to their use. The time is not so far past when social-democratic leaders, in common with bourgeois ideologists, in all ser- iousness proposed to boycott the films because of their competition with the theater, their flattening of public taste and destruction of liter- ary standards. Only after the war were timid attempts made to put the film into the service of working class propaganda. In various countries workers’ organizations arranged “Bet- ter Movie Nights” in which, besides the showing of educational and cul- tural films, criticism of current en- tertainment films was given. In 1922 in Germany the A. D, G. B, (All Ger- man Federation of Trade Unions) tried, thru the establishment of a “Peoples Movie,” to produce and ex- hibit socialistic working class pic- tures. The attempt was unsuccess- ful, but it was later repeated by the A. G. D, B. in the production and dis- tribution of the film “The Smithy,” which, however, also failed of mass in- fluence. izations and even the Communist Parties and groups have most effective means of propaganda and agitation unopposedly in the hands of their enemy. The bourgeoisie, and especially the extreme ‘nationalists and militarists very early recognized the significance of the film as a propaganda weapon, and constantly and most extensively put it to their service. Particularly instances, motion | In the main the labor organ- | jthat July 25 and 26 would see left this | ENZENBERG. “Revellie,” etc., dier,” “Ash Wednesday,” “The Tragedy of Major Redl,” large number of prejudice building films directed by European and Amer- ican producers against Soviet Russia For example the film “Death Strug- |gle” (Todesreigen) produced in Ber. lin, which for months in practically all German cities conjured up on the screen the most unconsciable con coction of invention and fantasy of terror and horror on the part of the Soviet government against the Rus- sian workers and peasants. In sev eral industrial centers the workers became so enraged at this calumny that, as in Leipsig, they smashed up the projectors and burned the films. The attitude of these workers is en- tirely understandable, but it recalls its precedent in the early days of cap italism when the workers, feeling their livelihood threatened by the new machines smashed the new tools and set a red cock on the roof of the man- ufacturer, Only later did the tarians learn that it does no good to destroy machines, but that what con- cerns us in the conquest of those ma- chines and their application in a man- ner useful to the workers. Under- standable tho the action of the Leip- sig workers, it shows no workable power, The same can be said of the|are typical examples of this tendency, | film, which, in some countries, hasjand it would be very interesting to already achieved a greater sign fic-|establish statistically in how many ance than the press itself. The total| theaters, during the few weeks before attendance in the movie theaters of|the presidential by tions these and England, France and the United|similar films were shown to the pub: States is perhaps even today greater | lic, cea ueh iw atbae ye weve ea aa OW far film is exploited for defi ‘Oval {ew Balun wah Beantol’the nite political ends is shown in the { Their {thousand poods each, prole-: | poods will be re | i b| | | Page Three SOVIET RUSSIA'S FLAX SEED AREA DOUBLE IN YEAR Need 60,000 Tractors; So Import Two-thirds NEW YORK, July 22.—-A report is- sued by the Central Bureau of the So- ciety for Technical Aid to Soviet Rus- sia contains the following interesting account of tremendous agricultural gains made by Soviet Rt : Increases in Flax Area. the seeded ar is twice as 1 now almost ec of flax e as last nis year Moscow and is eeded area in prewar times. It is expected thi: ar that the market will consume 12,000,000 poods of flax. The grain elevators in the ports of the Soviet Union of Moscow are now control of the state bank. now exceeds the pre more than 2,700,000 poods. The construction of a new grain elevator in Nicholaeff will be this It will have a 500,000 poods. the capacity figures by under war completed year, capacity of 2, Reconstruction of Grain Elevators, North Caucasia new grain eleva- tors, each with a capacity of from 60 to 100 thousand poods. In the Urals nine elevators are being constructed with of from 100 to 150 The Production of Hemp, =. To date 1,700,000 poods of hemp has An additional 700,000 dy by the end of the present agricultural year, The pro- ad potion. ot hemp in the previous year wv 939,000 poods. Ukrainia and constructing are a capacity been prepar remedy with which to meet the evil. | se Soviet Russia Needs 60,000 Tractors. Not the destruction of tools and tech- nical equipment, but their conquest and their turning to the use of the labor movement, for the idea-world of Communism. One of the most pressing tasks confonting Communist parties on the field of agitation and} id 4 | two-thirds will be imported. propaganda is supremely the conquest of important this ruling class, we must wrest it from them and turn it against them. Predicts Earthquakes. ROME, July 22.—Prof. Bendani, some of whose earthquake predictions! have been fulfilled, today predicted more shocks of importance. “Two earthquakes are imminent the night of July 25 and 26 in Alaska and dur- ing the day of July 30 in the Japan ese islands,” he said. bd two} propaganda | weapon until now the monopoly of the} | would Aor tee to plans of experts the U. S. S. R. will need during the next thre yea at least 60,000 tractors: 5,000 in 19 8,500 in 1926; 15,500 in 1917; and 31,000 in 1928. Soviet fac- tories will be able to furnish not more than one-third of this, number and In 192 the U. S. S. R. imported 805 tractors; in 1923, 1,375; in 1924-25, over 4,000. But due to the demand it be possible this year to sell from 10 to 12 thousand tractors. The National Commissariat of Agri- culture has called a meeting of all leading officers of the agricultural de- partments thruout Russia. The meet- ing will be held in the last days of Jy y, in Moscow, and it will work out id consider plans for a more profit- able exploitation of the forests thruout | all republics of the Soviet Union. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two. will make a better Communist of you. WISCONSIN FEDERATION TRAVELS far-reaching exploitation of the film took place during the world war, par- ticularly by England and France which spent tremendous sums on film propaganda against the Central Pow- ers in allied and neutral countries. Germany tried in vain to beat the op- 1 special film center for the purpose j 9Pened in 33rd annual convention at Lake Geneva, July 21. of pushing nationalist films to fan he war spirit. These films received \ittle distribution outside of Germany ind Austria. But it is beyond argu- ment that the war and incitive films} 4) when directed against well-organ-+ contributed very heavily to the crea- tion of the chauvinist insanity in the war, and the post-period showed con- tinued use of the films for the pur- pose. HILE in England and France a whole row of pictures proclaimed the military victory, the German pro- ducers were more concerned with awakening a faith in the possibility of rebirth of the “good old times” of Germany's “greatne A typical ex- ample of this series is the picture “Frederick, The Great,” which was mightily effective along this very linc in petit-bourgeois and “spiessbiirger- lichen” circles, In considering the development of the German film industry it is inter- esting to note the reflection of the cur- rent. political tendencies. During the mounting wave of the monarchist ‘ovement which culminated openly in the election of Hindénberg there was 1 decided increase in the product on ind release of monarchist and militar- st films. The pictures, “The King’s Grena- AROUND IN SAME OLD CAPITALIST CIRCLE OF POLITICAL IMPOTENCE (By The Federated Press) -Increased strength is reported to the ponent at this game, and even created | {¢legates by the officials of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor which LAKE GENEVA, Wis., July 22. “No notable boom has taken place, but most of the substantial organizations record a consistent increase in membership,” declares the general executive board. “As in past years, efforts of employers to lengthen the work day, reduce wages and impose less favorable conditions have been uniformly unsuccess- ized groups.” Twenty locals have affiliated since the last convention, three withdrew, and one disbanded. Private Dicks Ruled Out. Company unions are condemned in a warning against company-controlled roganizations of workers. A triumph against private detective agencies is recorded in the fight to prevent the notorious Howard Russell detective agency. The Wisconsin industrial commis- sion refused Russell a license as an employment agency on the ground that “the conduct of a private detec- tive agency specializing in industrial {work renders the character of the applicant unfit to engage in the busi- ness of an employment agent.” Wisconsin labor, like Minnesota and other states, feels compelled to report that “the 1925 legislature did not prove to be the progressive body that was looked for by many after the elections were announced last fall. Many who were brot forward as pro- gressives during the campaign turned out to be the opposite.” Nevertheless some legislative fruits were reaped including ratification of the federal child labor amendment, regulation of child labor on farms and in fruit-crowing, regulation of private detective agencies, old age pensions at the option of the counties, tax exemption for labor temples not run for individual profit, home rule for cities, increased exemption under State income tax law and taking the shackles off the state-owned life in- surance company. No Labor Party in Sight. In the field of political action, Pres. Henry Obl, Jr., of the federation, and Secy. J. J. Handley, who were sent as delegates to the abortive third party conference in Chicago, Feb. 22, urge that until a labor party is formed that labor pay the “closest attention to the proposed make-up of our legislative and judicial bodies as well as execu- tive offices in nation, state and com- munity, by fostering co-operation be- tween those forces which are sincere in the promotion of labor's program.” The Lake Geneva convention is ex- pected to continue for four days. Three German Fascists on Trial Before Soviet Court There is now proceeding in Mos- cow the trial of three German fas- cists (Hackenkreuzler).. who, on their own confession, came to Rus- “sia with the express purpose of carrying on espionage and to assas- sinate the most prominent members of the Soviet government, including Stalin, Trotsky, and Kamenev. It should be mentioned by the way, that these assassins are receiving the sympathy and support of the _, Social democratic press of Austria ~ and Germany, which only recently were calling on the workers to com- memorate the anniversity of the death of the socialist martyr and victim of fascism, Matteotti. We give below an extract from the leading article of the Prayda of oneal ote June 26, dealing with this trial.— Editor. eee |E declarations made yesterday by one of the three accused German fascists, who have come to Russia in order to murder leading personali- ties of the Soviet power and of the Communist Party, have opened up stich a panorama as to the morals of the monarchist conspirators that even the most unbridled Communist phan- tasy could scarcely find better argu- ments against the bourgeoisie. ' Herr Ditmar who has become peni- tent, has, already before the court be- fore witnesses and in the presence of his fellow prisoners, made came statements, whole bourgeois and social de, mocratic prose of Germany for long endeavored to prove that the Moscow trial is only a frame-up, that the accused are not fascists and white guardists, but uoble minded young scholars, young scientists who have journeyel to the barbaric country of red discoveries, red feiry tains and ved mivacles and who have been cap tured and held in prison, that th young scholars are innocent and that only the Moscow Tchekists can as- rt that they are familiar with poi- sons and pistols, rules of conspiracy and other far from innosent things, The accused Ditmar has shown how mendacious and hypocritical this con- cern of the German press, particular- ly of the fascist wing of the counter- ‘revolution, has been, Monarchist spiracies in Germany, espionage bas among the working class, penetration he Sa pan iibeln. lace ITE samen a Aicemeemane into the Comnshiah Party ‘by agent provocateurs, service in the Berlin po- lice presidium, relations with princes, counts, barons, etc.; fascist organiza- tion “consul,” drowning of the revo- lutionary attempts of the German pro- letariat in blood, unsuccessful provo- catory attempts to. sneak into the Russian Trade Mission in Berlin and, finally, the adventurous journey to Russia for purpose of carrying out murders—these are all links in the chain of crimes of the counter-revo- lutionary cliqués, who are stained with the blood of the German people and who were ut to stain them- selves with the blood of our best men of the Soviet r crimes ofithese people against the German proletariat were not Judged by our court, this must be the ‘German Soviet Republic. affair of the proletarian court of the In spite of the fact that the threads of the crime lead in a most striking manner to the portals of the Berlin police presi- dium and to a whole number of highly placed personalities of the German oligarchy, we will not break out into hysterics over Germany. We shall so- berly weigh everything up and we know that there are firmly rooted eco- nomic and political reasons which in- duce us to value peaceful relations with the German republic. But we must candidly assert that the mon- archist and fascist circles resort to means of warfare which arouse th greatest indignation and abhorence in our country. It would be wrong for our people to tolerate such things, just as is proletarian: court could eae eat not overlook these murderers, who were only prevented from carrying out their intended acts of murder thanks to the watchfulness of our comrades. And this court will pro- hounce its judgment with no uncer- tain voice, if the course of the pro- ceedings should demand it, if the re- sults of the preliminary investigation and Ditmar's credible statements are not refuted. UR court is not employing forged Zinoviev letters, as is the habit of the civilized forgers of Great Britain, nor false quotations as did Puinleve’s only a few days ago, who brot forward @ mass of his own inventions and aft- erwards declared with a genial smile over these same words and inven- tions: “Se nén e@ vero e’ ben tro: vato!” “If it is not true then it is a | good invention.” Our court does not need such half-witted provocateurs as Felix Neumann, but prefers to deal with objective data, with genuine documents and statements, not of its agents but of people who came here on the orders of the fascists, Our authorities do not think of ar ranging raids upon the German em- bassy as did the German police upon the Russian mission in Berlin—this same police who are deeply involved in the affair of the accused fascists —for we are for peace, for peaceful relations and their extension, for wa are not given to hysteri: monarchist and sociat cemocratic ers of the Berlin police. Our cout will soberly weigh the matter calmly determine the punishment be borne by each of the accused,