The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1933, Page 4

STR at a Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Us. In Page Fou c., dally except Sundey, at 50 €. isth St, New York City, N.Y. Telephone ALgenquin 4-783. Cable “DAIWORE.” Address and mail cheeks to the Daily Worker, S@ EB. 13th Bt. New York, N. ¥. Socialists, Goering in Secret Conference Agre Goering Will Lift Ban On Vorwaerts If Socialists Will Help Hitler COPENHAGEN, March (By mail).—The Berlin cor- respondent of the Copenhagen dz “Politiken” reports that | Capt. Goering, Nazi Min’ster, has held a conference with sev-| eral socialist leaders. Goering offered to lift the ban on “Vorwaerts”, central | organ of the German Social-Democratic Party, if the socialists | would send special messengers abroad to prevent foreign so- | ¢elalist newspapers from criticizing fascist rule in Germany. | *Politiken” states that the socialist leaders agreed to this pro- posal without hesitation BROWNSHIRT BLOWS OFF 60-YEAR OLD WORKER'S SHOULDER BLADE Typical of Countless Atrocities Committed While Fascist Ministers Say, “All Quiet” BERLIN, March 27 (By mail).—A 60-year old Communist, who pro- tsgted against manhandling of a Communist city councillor by a fascist sige trooper in the street, was beaten terribly by the Nazis. One of the Wagis then pressed his revolver against the old man’s shoulder blade and Yellied the trigger, completely shattering the bone. Then the Nazi broke all the Communist’s teeth with one blow »— - his revolver butt and also smashed , The Communist laborer Drescher, of this nose. The old man had to be | the village of Dyrotz, near Nauen, Fee have given up hope of saving his | these cases occurred in the week of | March 19-25, when “no outrages Instead of arresting the Nazi mur- | whatever occurred,” according to @erer, the police raided the attacked | Capt. Goering’s speech to the foreign Ee to the hospital, where the dov- | Was found shot dead in his flat. All | BRITISH CABINET FORCING THRU EMBARGO BILL; VICKERS (0. BACKS DOWN; BAILS THREE SPIES ~ a ~ bers of Parliament Demand to Know Why Same Action Not Taken Against Germany on Press Deal . ; | Sir John Simon Makes Open Threat of Breach of Relations With Soviet Government; Mem- | | ! MOSCOW, April & (Special Cable to the Daily Worker).—In. accordance with the statement of Public Prosec- ator Vishinsky on March 22 offering to release the British engineers ac- cused of sabotage if the Metropolitan- Vickers Company put up bail for | j them, W. H. Thornton, John Cushny and an aide, Gregory, were released yesterday as soon as their home com | pany deposited their bail. Metropolitan-Vickers had at first refused to put up the bail, trying to bluff the Soviet Government into releasing the accused men uncondi- tionally. The men released signed an agreement obliging them to leaveMos- ow and to appear before the Soviet court. LONDON, April 5.—In the House \of Commons debate on the British Embargo bill aimed at Soviet im- ports, Sir John Simon, Foreign & retary, made an open threat of break- ing off relations with the Soviet Union. Sir John violently attacked the So- viet Prosecutor Vishinsky for subject- ing Monkhouse, one of the accused | British engineers, to prolonged ques: tioning, an ordinary jure in al examinations before trial. (Monk- | house was later released on his om | cognizance). The British Government also is- | sued an official White Paper, detail- ling the diplomatic correspondence be- | tween Sir Esmond Ovey, British Am- | Public Prosecutor Andrey A, Vish- | insky, whe will conduct the case ainst the arrested spies and sabo- tagers, at a public 1 soon in Moscow. |zassador in Moscow, and his home government on the case. In a heated conference with Maxim Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Commissar, Sir Esmond threatened the Soviet Government, saying: “There appear to be good prospects of my being not | Government. | Robert Vansittart, Foreign Under- only the ambessador who opened te- lations with the Soviet Government but also the ambassador who ter- minated them.” ‘This open threat led Litvinov to re~- ply that the Soviet Government: was not going to let the course of Soviet justice be turned. aside by intimida- tions that British might be accus- tomed to use to Mexico or some other small country. Several labor members of Parlia- ment jumped to their feet asking Sir John why, if the British Government was so energetic in Moscow, it did not demand the “immediate release with- out a trial” of Harold Frazer and George Padmore, alleged Communists and British subjects arrested sum- marily by Nazi special police in Ber- iin. Tories Hiss Sir Stafford Cripps, former Solicl- tor-General, was hissed by the Tory | majority of the House when he at- |tacked the cabinet for the tone of their language towards the Soviet He lashed out at Sir Secretary, for telling Soviet Ambas- sador Ivan Maisky that “the Metro- politan-Vickers charges were s stage performance and a very bad one at that.” He added that “if the de- mand for liberation of the men with- out a trial had been made by the United States Ambassador on behalf of a United States citizen in this country, you would be the first per- sons to resent it.” | It 1s practically certain that the | Conservative majority of the House | of Commons will pass the Embargo Bill tomorrow, empowering the Brit- | ish Cabinet to prohibit the import | of all Soviet goods into Great Brit- | ain and to impound all Soviet funds | on deposit in Britain. Persia Follows British | A report from Bagdad states that Persia is planning to follow Britain’s lead and prohibit all Soviet imports, with the possible exception of Soviet oil, which has a natural monopoly in the North of Persia. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company is making active preparations to take away the Soviet Persian market, sending large shipments of oil from Abadan through Basra and Bagdad | to Kermanshah. | This dispatch from Mesopotamia | throws a glaring light on the true} motives of British diplomacy in the | Moscow sabotage case. Now that | Persia has come to an agreement | with the British oil trust on the oil | concessions, Great Britain is putting | pressure on the Persian Government | to join in the anti-Soviet embargo | campaign. Britain is trying in this | way to set up again the old econo- mic barrier all around the Soviet frontiers, which now already covers the Manchurian, Persian, and Brit- ish trade frontiers. By NATHANIEL BUCHWALD (European Correspondent, Daily Worker) Gommunist’s house, and confiscated | an old copy of the “Welt am Abend”! Xs proof of high treason. Kil Woman Communist The “Vossische Zeitung” of March 94 reported that 2 woman Commun- | ist had been shot dead by special Mazi police in Gladbach-Rheydt, While another Communist was seri- eusly wounded. On the same day Comrade Erich Lange was shot by @pecial police in Gelsenkirchen. 5 More Murders ~-On. March 22 the same newspaper teported the following cases: Wil helm Wenzel, Communist, was shot and killed by special police in Essen STORM TROOPERS AND POLICE RAID JEWISH WORKING CLASS DISTRICTS correspondents in Berlin. Over 100 Communist officials have IN turning the leaves of my note- |4 book to find certain needed data, | been arrested in Bremen. The Bre- | have found an entry made some men police announce that they dis- covered and confiscated an illegal | Communist newspaper. are opening a concentration camp for those arrested outside the city. Workers Discharged Members of factory councils in Bremen suspected of Communist af- fillations have been fired on the ground that Communist activity is being carried on in the factories, The Hitler Cabinet has issued a decree authorizing all employers to fire workers “whose attitude is hos- | Army men near windows. ‘These not | tile to the State.” Streets Closed, All Stopped and Searched; Foreigners Arrested and Disappear BERLIN, April 5.—Nazi special police, assisted by a large detachment of regular policemen raided the poorer Jewish quarter, near Alexanderplatz yesterday. Streets were closed, pedestrians were stopped and searched, and all houses were searched for arms and revolutionary literature. All those be the search. T! i he concen- tration of the fas ive against the Jewish work: and the poorer middle-classes. No raids have been made in Grunewald or West End, the sections where the wealthy Jewish bankers and industrialists live Because of their appeal to the Hit- | ler government prot Persecution of Jey and Musicians in Germany, the Nazi cabi- net yesterday le the pl: sempositions on the radio | tee signers of the protest Ayturo Toscanini, Walter Damrosch Serge Koussevitzky and other world- famous musicians Charge. ‘The Pan-German Press Service, a news agency run by the Nazis charges that the United State: Slate in Berlin is “an atrocity lie factory”. This endeavor to suppress authenticated reports of Nazi attacks om foreigners has led American Ci sul-General Messersmith to protest energetically to the Hitlerite Foreign Office. “Harold Frazer, British subject, has been arrested by Nazi special police and taken to an unknown desti Con tion. Frazer was employed by a Ger- s including | 1500 JAM UNITED FRONT MEET IN BALTIMORE AGAINST NAZI TERROR not in possession of double identification cards were arrested. | emptied in @ man news agency, but was recently discharged on the ground that he was a Communist. | _The Nazi police also arrested T. C. Catchpole, an Englishman, interna- | tional secretary of the Society of Friends (Quakers), after searching his home for five hours. After vig- orous protests had been made by the British Consulate the police released him Pierre van Paassen, European cor- respondent for Canadian newspapers, ais for having reported fascist outrages against Jews. According to the Kassel “Rassen- Beobachter”, Nazi daily, reports that a Jewish shopkeeper, named Eich, living in the town of Slatov, was ar- | rested for insisting that the body of | a Jew had been defiled by fascists | in Koenigsberg. In revenge a Nazi gang immediately shut up all the Jewish shops in Slatow. Capt. Goehring, Nazi Interior Mi- | nister, yesterday issued an order for- bidding all foreigners to leave Ger- y without special police permis- | sit Permission will be refused to any foreigner “if there is danger that the person leaving Germany will ad untruthful news abroad”. Several Hundred Demonstrate in Stamford: More Workers’ BALTIMORE, Md Here Monday night, to protest against ‘The meeting was of a broad, united front ¢ by representatives of militant workers B. Elton Trueblood, secretary of the Hom tion, acted as Speakers were Paul ( Commu the League for Industri and Rey. Peter Ainslee, of the tan Tempie Erwin, the first speaker, a well- known Socialist, concentrated his en-} tize speech against dictatorships general, “regardless of where and b; whom,” and in defense of “democ racy.” It was perfectly obvious that he was aiming at the Soviet Union. He did not say a word against the Hitler regime as being the bloody elass dictatorship of German ind. tial and financial capital against the workers, Cline, following Erwin out tl» class character of the fascist dictatorship and showed how the tfeacheries of the socialist leaders paved the way for the Hitler regime He called for a broad united front of workers, intellectuals, Jews and all opponent of fascism. Cline wa Styen a big ovation On Saturday a over 250 workers was held in front of the German consulate. The de- Monstration was preceded by a pa tade with placards through the main section of Baltimore, Speakers were pointed | demonstration of | Groups Protest \ capacity crowd of 1,500 jammed the Alcazar Hall haracter, having been sponsored | groups, intellectuals and liberals, wood Friends, a Quaker organiza- the Hitler fascist regime in Germany. n, of the Marine; 1 Union, and Paul} mmunist Party. A hich attempted to enter the consulate to present a protest re- | Solution was barred by the police. eS ae | Stamford Demonstration | STAMFORD, Conn. — Despite the heavy rain, several hundred workers attended a protest meeting against the Hitler terror, held Saturday night on the Town Hall steps. The demo- tration was called by the Commu- Party with the support of other workers’ organizations. When the meeting was half way through, the workers decided to pile into the town hall and finish it there. The police chief was immediately summoned, but when he sized up the crowd, he decided not to interfere. Protest resolutions were adopted against the Nazi terror and for the release of the nine Scottsboro boys. volutionary Workers of the U. S. A have adopted a vigorous protest reso- lution against the fascist terror in The police | | 1982, American trade declined 33 per j Tt. will be noticed that England has . me ve Estonian Workers | NEW YORK—The Estonian Re- | | time ago. At the time I intended to | work up the notes into an article, but a correspondent’s note-book, like | the road to hell, is always paved with | good intentions. So here is that entry | “in the raw” | “Morning in a Soviet smoker. V | crowded. People going to work. Pe: | ants with sacks sprawling over bench. | Workers headed for nearby hig fac- tories, textile, steel. Many well-dress- jed and shaved. Windows open | Rather novel. Explanation: two Red afraid of fresh air. They'll bring back to village good health habits and modern standards. How carrier of culture. Conversations worker speaks to deaf companion, Joud—about a mutual friend, from same village. Now factory foreman after three years work. Has house, several hens near factory. Planning buy cow. Wife working factory. ‘Now when nursery minds kids it’s all right for women to work factory,’ deaf one approves. Rolls cigarette using ma- chorka and newspaper. Diagonally across—talk about new electro-sta- tion. Listener tremendously inter- ested hear station being built in parti- cular locality. Remembers place from civil war. Inquires health Maria Pet- |rovna (companion’s wife) and ca- pacity station in same breath. Mos- cow to supply dynamo, all else local production. Maria Petrovna all well now. Two months sanatorium Cau- casus cured completely. “Girl about 17, checkered grey coat, white knit bonnet, shoes and rubbers. Obviously F. Z. U. student. Now tray- eling without books. It must be the |day of practical work. Tomorrow | books again. Old worker, grey mus- | tache, brown jacket, grey cap. Would | take him for day laborer in U. 8. | Carries brief-case, absorbed in Pray- 'da. Man stretched out on bench, | snoring. Heavy boots leave only six i} Soviet inches of bench. Woman, brown | shawl sits on edge rather than dis- turb sleeper. Looking down at feet passengers: mostly rubbers, a few boots, two pairs bast sandals: faces to matth—unshaved, bedraggled pea- sants. Air thick tobacco smoke, tat- ters conversat: ‘It’s strong, just eats my lungs, but am used to it. we'll have it ready for the celebr: tions, I don't know how, but we must... be shame not to... the pota- toes are all stor high-frequency furr n U.SS.R.” Felt hat furnishes foreign _specia’ contrast. Must be At one station shovel b s in . Car gets filed with p machorka fumes jand peasant brogue and sing-song. | Sleeper on bench is waked with jeers and protests. This crowd of peasant lads impresses one as crude ore yet | to be worked up into proletarian metal...” MEANING OF STALIN’S SPEECH Several months have passed since I made that entry. During that pe- riod I had occasion to get a closer look at the life of the Soviet workers. | In proportion as one becomes more familiar with the surroundings, one’s interest becomes focused upon details | and individuals. The full meaning of Stalin’s historic summary of the Five-Year Plan is revealed not only in statistics and percentages, but also and with particular force—in the every-day details of life, in the “byt,” as the Russians call it. Let us take a random bit of this new “byt” brought about by the] Piatiletka (five-year plan). If you| want to know what it means to the Soviet, working class and to the toil- ers of the whole world, read Stalin's | speech, study it, make it your primer and your reference-book on the meaning of socialist construction in the Soviet Union, Here 1 want to In the first article we showed that inflation is a process which is not immediately reflected in the commodity markets. We showed that the capitalist class has created all the machinery necessary for in- flation, and that the tendency to- ward inflation of the currency is manifested by the issuance of paper currency after the “emergency” of hoarding is apparently over. In this article we continue the discussion. The perspective for inflation is also | definitely tied up with the question | capitalist stabilization is ended, the of foreign markets. The leading im-| world currencies can never again be perialist powers of the world, Eng- Jand, Japan, France, and the U. S.,| are struggling more fiercely than e' for advantage in the field of foreii commerce, In this struggle the coun- | tries with depreciated currencies have | an advantage since they can produce and sell products at tower prices in- terms of more stable currencies. In cent compared with 1931, French trade 35 per cent, and, Germany's 40} per cent, while Britain and Canada| had declines of 7 and 19 per cent respectively, reflecting, at least, a) temporary advantage due to depreci- ated currencies, ‘Ths leading powers want to be the fin- ancial centers of the world at the same time that they want to beat down their competitors by inflation. been steadily piling up gold, taking advantage of the bank crisis in the U. 8., so that now England has prac- tically the largest gold supply in her history. These financial maneuvers are, of course, the reflection of the profoundest imperialist antagonism of the present period, the fight between England and America for the markets in the colonies, in South Ameriéa, in China, the Dominions and the col- onies. The capitalist press is already spec- ulating on the possibil; f Eng- land’s going back on t! Id stand- ard at the expense of Probable that Britain will apply fin- ancial pressure in this direction in jorder to restore the pound as the fixed point in international finance,, but the economic basis for the gold jof imperialist antagonism are un- Tn this struggle there are conira~| into | dictions as well as ani A Shock Brigader in the Union sketch just a single instance. It really does not matter where I begin. Why not start with the story of Marusya? Te years ago she came to Moscow | from a village all the way in the/| Saratov region. She had never been to a large city before. Her family thought they could spare her, now that they had joined a kolchoz (col- lective farm) and could manage} without her. “Were you literate, Ma- rusya?” I askekd. “I was malogra- motna” (semi-illiterate), she replied, but now she is quite a student. She| wors in the textile factory in Moscow, | attends courses in political economy, | knows arithmetic all the way through decimal fractions, is mindful of her grammar and blushes each time she | slips into her colloquial mistreatments of Russian grammar (the most com- plicated of all grammars, the despair of every foreigner trying to master Russian). Marusya does not eatn big wages, oniy about 130 rubles a month, bui she manages quite nicely on her salary. She lives with an aunt of | hers who occupies one of the new workers’ apartments built for that particular factory. She is allowed the usual rations of bread, sugar, barley, | flour, meat, fish, which she buys at} very small fixed prices; these rations she puts into the family pot, as it were. “We eat pretty well,” she tells me. As for herself she really does not eat much at home. She has her lunch at the factory dining room. She has @ choice of several dishes. A two- course lunch costs from 40 kopeks to twice the amount. Tea is free, and in the buffet she can always get some cake and sweets for a few kopeks extra. Very often she does not come home for the evening meal: her courses and nagruzka (activity in connection with public affairs—trade union, school committees, etc.) take up three, sometimes four evenings in | Trade Union Council. @ shestidnievka (six-day week includ- ing a day’s rest). “Do you ever go to theatre, Ma~ Tusya ?” Her face brightened up and her eyes beamed. She just loves the theatre. In the village they have no idea what it is like. In the workers’ club of her factory they have fre- quent performances. Sometimes a} professional company comes there to play (performances of the biggest “hits” of the Soviet theatre are given in factory clubs, generally by the ori- ginal casts). She has seen “The| Queen of Spades” in the Grand Opera House, “Hamlet” at the Vach-| tangov Theatre and “The First Ca~ valry” in the Theatre of the Moscow | arrests have not kept the heroic Communist Party of Germany A SHOCK TROOPER Marusya is an udarnitsa (shock | worker). Her winter coat is thread- bare, but she proudly displays a slip] of paper, an “order” for a new coat. | She was told at the factory store that her turn would come in about two weeks. “Have you the money to buy & new coat?” Yes, she has been sav- ing for the past three months for a Coat and some material for a new dress. In a few days she will get her month's pay. She will manage it. Marusya was considerably embar- rassed when I asked her whether she was @ member of the Party. Ii was! like speaking out openly one of her most cherished hopes. She told me| she was not ready to join the Party. She would study some more and prove her devotion to the proletariat through good work and through ful- filling her “nagruzkas.” Then she would perhaps be admitted. This, in substance is the story of Marusya— two years ago, a semi-illiterate peas- ant girl. This is—in miniature—one of the great results of the first Five Year Plan. By the millions these raw, back-| ward peasants, men and women, were | drawn into industry in the course of the four years of the “piatiletka.”| They were remolded into new men| and women. They went~through a great school, learning to master mo- dern mechanics ang. (o run socialist enterprises. As this takes place, American bank- ers are considering the idea of re- suming international gold payments in order to maintain Wall Street as the money center of the world. In order to do this, America will have to increase the inflationary pressure on the internal currency, still further reducing its gold backing. The forces doubtedly making for unsound cur- rency. It must be remembered that the stabilization of capitalism was ine dicated by the stabilization of the | leading world currencies. Now that | stable. | ‘The perspective for inflation is in-} timately connected with the federal budget. Despite the optimistic re- ports of the capitalist press, and the ruthless attacks upon the veterans’ compensation and the wages of feder- al employees, the budget crisis is far employees, the budget crisis is far from being solved, The deficit for the first nine months of this year is about $1,400,000,000. ‘This deficit does not include the two billion loan- ed to the RFC. hundreds of mil- lions of which have gone into loans that will probably never be repaid. The government has poured billions banks, into railroads to meet bond interest payments, and into collapsing industries. This means that the government is placing the burden of supporting the profits of monopoly capital directly upon the population from whom these enor- mous expenditures will have to be made up in the form of taxes. ‘The government is faced with the necessity of increasing its income. Being a capitalist government, it will naturally take the increased income not rom the rich nor from reduced expenditures on the army and navy, but directly and indirectly from the masses of the people. Not only will the government slash wages and vet~ erans pensions, but it will institute indirect taxation through currency inflation. The budget crisis, the wholesale support of bankrupt in- dustry endangers the stability of the currency. The necessity for larger taxes means currency inflation. ‘The fundamental causes of the crisis are far from getting lighter. ‘They are intensifying. One quarter stendard does not exist in England. ef the banks stil) are closed, come! ) BUDGET CRISIS; FROZEN ASSETS By M. HOWARD 1 pletely tying up deposits of more than $5,000,000,000. Prof. Willis, for- mer secretary of the Federal Reserve, writes: “Let us take it for granted that the depositor no longer demands cash in unusual quantities. Is it true that in that event the crisis will have been passed, so far as the banks are concerned? Certainly not, if the present bank failures occur one after another to bring the confiding de- Positor to the realization that he has again been deceived.” ‘Throughout the whole discussion of the bank orisis, the fundamental question of the real value of the bank assets remains. What does a bank do with the money deposited in it? Largely, this money is placed into loans or security investments, mort~ gages, commercial paper, etc. These are the assets of the bank. Upon what does the value of these assets depend? The value of the assets de~ pends upon whether or not these assets are proceeing income, or profit. I must not be forgotten that the assets of banks are not real capital in the same sense that means of pro- duction, such as factories, mines, railroads, etc., are capital. The assets of are nothing more or less than upon wealth that the workers will produce. To a large ex- tent value of these claims are ficti- tius because they are based solely upon the expectation of future pro- fits. The value of the assets depends upon the possibility of exploiting the workers. What has frozen the assets of the banks today? The world-wide crash of all production has made these claims upon the profits of production very doubtful. Therefore the market for these assets dries up. The banks are frozen, the bank crisis begins. ‘Thus it is obvious that what is a “sound” asset before the economic crisis, the decline in production, be- comes a “frozen” asset after the crisis. Roosevelt talks about sound assets. But these assets will be sound only if the crisis lifts, only if pro~ ductions begins, only if the capitalist class can produce at a profit by ex- ploiting the workers. The financial crisis is rooted in the economic crisis. A report issued by a gtoup of lead-| trial ing bankers submitted before the sett- ete committee on banking and fin- Sap eles “rine Dae eam at tq! ~ country’s banks with 40 per cent of | the country’s assets are in a “serious condition.” It was estimated by the National Industrial Conference Board a few weeks ago, thet 5,830 country banks in the National banking sys- tem with about seven billion dollars in deposits, had no surplus, no undi- vided profits, and only 16 per cent of their capital remaining. Numer- ically, the report states, 90 to 95 per cent of the country's banks are in a “precarious position,” and that a fur- ther decline in prices would “greatly aggravate the situation.” } Rosevelt taiks about “sound assets.” | Here is a sample of the assets of some of the largest banks in New) York, the strongest money center in | the country. The Corn Exchange | Bank is tied up in frozen real estate loans to the extent of 110 per cent of | its capital, Manufacturers Trust is similarly involved to the extent of | 119 per cent of its cavital. National banks do not reveal their real estate | Joans, but their situation is probably worse. Is it any wonder that in New! York City, the best market for real/ estate mortgages in the country, more than 20 per cent of the mortgages, totalling more than thres billion dol- lars, are in default? Such is the character of the “sound” assets. The clinching tacts which demon- strate that the bank crisis has not been solved are as follows: ‘The Controller of the currency still permits hanks to list their assets at values arbitrarily chosen by them- selves rather than «.t present market values. Under such a system it is obvious that many a “solvent” bank ds really bankrupt. And even more significantly, the Controller has announced that he will not require National Banks to issue quarterly statements of condi- tion at this time. State superintend- ents of banking are also omitting the customary calls for such state- ments. One could hardly need more conclusive proof than this govern~ mental unwillingness to permit the condition of the banks to be known at the present time. The solution of the bank crisis is dependent upon a rise in prices. In the complete brig miags A As aime recovery, it is ‘will have to resort to cur- Yeney infistion if the mounteine - U & the | cheaply, novelists are driven into ex- GUBSCRIFTION BAPESE: By Mail everywhers: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 2 months, $3; 2 month, Ty exeepting Borough of Manhattan ard Bronx, New York City. Foreign snd Canad: One year, $9: 6 months, $5; 7 wenths, $8. Rote Fahne Sold by Thousands in | Spite of Terror - German Communist Party Underground: Plunges Into Great Activity in Factories BERLIN, March 27 (By mail). —Bloody terror and mass y from organizing proletarian resistance to fascism. The Hitler government is already alarmed at the steady flood of illegal leaflets, which are chiefly circulated in the working-class dis- trict . by Communists were ats The workers of Berlin enthus-| rested, and 300 more Communist iastically greeted the reappear- | Workers were jailed in Leipzig. The ance in defiance of the suppression | coe arrested 1m: LAIbEie now, 1 700. 2 edict, of the “Rote Fahne,” which is|~’ £ 4 tar | Socialists Surrender. j to pe published regularly once 2/ while the Communist Party con- f ahi uy | tinues its undaunted fight against The first number, containing fout | ty. wascist murder gangs, the Social- PRS S | Stuttgart 270 Mnley oa einetiee bes aoa Ss are voluntarily giving up all re ated?” while another article dealt | Stance. | banded of its pwn accord, while thel ae cowardly (and treacherous | “Reichsbanner” now has also decided ae ces the f Wels and | ‘0 liquidate, in spite of the Soci tea jan S Ee rahe ists’ pompous phrases of what th vam hice would do “if Hitler ever dared to at- i Workers Write tack the workers’ organizations.” ; Several columns of the “Rote| At the last meeting of the Retch- Fahne” were filled with details of|stag fraction of the Socialist depu- the Nazi atrocities perpetrated on|ties, a resolution was submitted te class-conscious workers. Many big| the effect that Socialist deputies factories contributed workers’ corre~| should no longer take part in the spondence, telling how the fight | Reichstag sessions. against Fascist terror developed in! Reports from Saxony state that the workshops. | numerous locals of the Social Demo- The street units of the Party, espe- | cratic Party have decided to diss & cially those in the proletarian dis-| band, the members declaring thag tricts, are issuing their own papers,| they are giving up all political ace which are circulated in thousands of | tivity. Thousands of Socialist offis copies. cials, city councillors, magistrates Meanwhile police raids are con-|and the like have resigned thrir tinuing throughout Germany. In! functions and left the party. 31 ORGANIZATIONS IN CONFERENCE q FORM NATIONAL COMMITTEE at | RWS \ For Broadest Possible United Front to Collect \ and Send Funds to Germany; Send Investigating Committee Also The “Iron Front” has dis-| with the cow ‘ on NEW YORK.—The provisional National Committee for Relief of the victims ef German fascism met Tuesday night, took steps to set up headquarters, to issue a manifesto and plan of work, and to secure af- filiation of ether organizations, A cablegram from Paris was read telling of forwarding of 1,000 pounds $3,420) to the International Com- mittee in Paris by the committee in England similar to the one just formed here, + * * NEW YORK, April 5.—A conference composed of various national workers’ organizations and important New York organizations has just concluded its deliberations, Initiated by the Workers’ International Relief, the representatives present stated their aims to be: 1, The organization of the broadest possible united front movement composed of workers’ organizations of all tendencies, and liberals, intellec- tuals, educators, professionals, farmers and poor middle class. 2. For the purpose of making wide collections of funds for the relief of the victims of fascism in Germany, and to send a representative com- mittee to Germany to investigate conditions and report back. } } 4 \ Thirty-one organizations sent representatives, among them the Workers’ International Relief, the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, the International Workers’ Order, the Shoe Workers’ Industrial Union, the Trade Union Unity League, etc. A provisional national committee was named, the aim of which will be to establish a national movement in aid of victims of the fascist terror. Other national organizations, such as the Socialist Party, A. F. of L. unions, Arbeiter Kranken und Sterbe Kasse, etc., will be requested to join. ‘The various protest conferences dy organized, such as the German conference against fascism in Germany, the Jewish conference, the Youth, Cultural conferences, have been addressed to attach their representatives to this relief campaign. The provisional national committee calls upon ali industrial and farm~ ing centers to initiate their local movements for the relief of victims of German fascism. One central workers’ relief campaign is the objective, and organizations as well as sympathetic individuals are requested to write for directions and information to the provisional national committee or the W. I. R., 146 Fifth Ave., New York City. NAZI EXTERMINATION OF CULTURE By MALCOLM COWLEY.. ] In the midst of the political ter- ror in Germany—the murder of Com- munists by the hundreds, the arrest and torture by thousands and ten thousands of the bravest representa- Against all the arts of bourgeois life, Hitlerism has leveled an attack. But against proletarian culture it is waging a war of extermination. For ten years proletarian culture has flourished in Germany. In spite of tives of the proletariat—The Daily | being underpaid, half-starved, thrown Worker has not neglected the other | out of their jobs, the German workers side of the picture. It has not failed | have brought forth their own books, to say that the terror against the | magazines, newspapers, plays, moving workers is also a terror directed) pictures. They have formed their against civilization itself. | own associations for sport and ex~ What form of cultural activity has| reise in the open air, built play= failed to suffer at the hands of the | 8ounds for their children. brown-shirted yahoos? Schools have) Now all this is being suppressed closed; teachers discharged because with special violence. Women are Writers Victims of Fascist Terror i | LEFT TO RIGHT: Fredrich Wolf, jailed; Egon Erwin Kisch, escaped | to Czecho-Slovak'a; Erwin Piscator, in Soviet Union; Erich Weinert, jailed, of their political opinions, or their, being told to get back into the kite race, or simply because they sprang|chen. Workers’ co-operatives are be from the working class; actors for-|ing closed under cover of the oam~ bidden to walk on the stage, play-|paign against Jewish department wrights denied the right to produce) stores. The Hitler terror against the their plays; orchestras silenced, news- | working class is also a terror directed a papers muzzled, lawyers and doctors | against fresh air, sunlight, liberty and forbidden to practice—everywhere in| friendship. It is indeed a brown ter- German cultural life today, from the | ror—like a murder committed in Berlin Opera down to the schoolhouse | Victorian parlor, behind closed blinds, 4 at the cross roads, Hitlerism is| I recommend these facts to the at« spreading its brown poison. tention of these Americans who are Artists are beaten in the streets| wavering in their allegiance. ‘They because they paint modern pictures,|/are afraid of Communism because architects imprisoned for designing | they think the workers aré too coarse houses in which workers can live|to appreciate their delicate dreams. Neds here is what capitalism hes