The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1933, Page 4

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Revolt Spreading Among _ NEWS BRIEFS Irish Worke ” “NEW YORK, July 1 richly reflecting the Irish workers and farmers, the newly formed Communist Party of Weland. youngest section of the Communist International, makes an appeal! to the workers of America for support of its struggles and of its organ, “The Irish Workers Voice.’ The “Daily Worker” urges all Am- erican workers, ard especially all Trish workers in Amexica, to respond to this call; to orgar\ze groups of sympathizers with the Irish move- ment; to organize protests agai the terror directed against. the Ir ing class; and to raise fun a powerful organ of the revolu- tionary workers and farmers of Ire- land All communications and contribu tions should be ad the Com- munist Party of 64 Great Strand St., Duk Following is the To the Workers of America The Irish Communist Party wants the help of all Irishmen and women abroad who sympathize with the Irish fight for freedom It urgently needs this help. The friends of English imperialism in Ire- land are bi night, noon and morn- ing trying to keep down the rising in- dependent workers’ movement, They are wearing many masks in an_effort to delude and betray the} People. They are trying to sow fresh divisions on religious issues among the workers. They are scared to frenzy at the| idea that the Irish working class and| their farmer allies should come to| the leadership of the fight for na-| tional independence and a united Irish nation. The Irish Communist Party is putting Connolly's interpre- | tation on Irish freedom—a free na- tion, but not for the capitalists and Jandlords; an Irish Republic with power in the hands of the Irish work- | text of the letter rs, Farmers Communist Party of Ireland Calls for Support| of Revolutionary Organ help to create this. stions for the building of rs press to fight sec- repression. Form of sympathizers with the Irish movement; organize protests among rish population against the ter- waged on every section of the advanced national and working class movemer Financial aid is urgently needed. To our friends in all parts of America we look for assistance. SEAN MURRAY JIM LA’.KIN (jum.) On behalf of the Communist Party of Ireland OFFICIALLY BAR WAR DEBT TALK AT WORLD MEET U. 8. Uses Debts to Forward Wall Street Bandit Policy LONDON Couzins of Michigan, one of the United States delegates to the world economic conference, obtained re- vision of the draft resolution on in- debtedness to exclude the discussion of war debts. This took place in the drafting committee. Such action only officially approves the course followed by the confer- ence on this question since Roose- velt definitely stated at the begin- ning that war debts would, under no circumstances be considered as a point of discussion. Use Debts for Bilateral Agreements. July 18.—Senator James | Although it has for a year and a ing class. i. half been a recognized fact that the Against the splendid rising move- ment among the Irish workers on both sides of the Boyne, the Irish ruling class answers with pogroms,|80vernment refuses to cancel them boycotts and every form of intimida-| because they are useful in helping tion and victimization. |to forward its imperialist intrigues. Connolly House, our Party head-| The debts owed by the smaller coun- quarters in Dublin, is wrecked by| tries are used to try to obtain secret gangs of imperialist hirelings. Pearse-| bilateral trade and other agreements Fall in Leitrim is burned} that coincide with the increased ag- to the ground. Every effort is being gressiveness of yankee imperialism. made to wreck trade union organiza-| With the larger powers they are tion among the miners in Kilkenny| used to try to induce its potential eis <i the unemployed workers! military rivals to cut down their if Al oab : armed forces. Thus their open dis- reer ee nttacks On Workers | cussion is barred because of their use- Sued with a peinterst Weveoees can Tyneee in secret, Cupianacy, ized through clerical circles. SU Scene ne ns ee These circles are conducting an un-| 4. fa. as the ae ae itealt de paralleled campaign of anti-revolu- coficemned it. is as déad asa door tionary propaganda, starting with the bral United Irishmen of 1798 and ending| Mail. Official adjournment will not take place, however, until the date with the Communisis of today. s * The reason for all this is the growth | Set, which is July 27. The reason never can be paid, still the Wall St. war debts owing the United States | of the popular revolt against all ves- tiges of English imperialist rule over Treland and jin opposition to the dire| poverty into which the capitalists are| port among the delegations of other’ driving ever larger masses of the Working people | Out of over 100,000 unemployed in the Free State area alone not more than 20,000 get any unemployment | insurance, while in the City of Cork! @ worker with a wife ard one child| gets otdoor relief at the rate of 8) Shillings per week These conditions explain the wave| of heroic strike battles among the| Tailwaymen and clothing workers, and now the seamen and dockers. The leadership of the rising move- Ment is the burning issue. The or-| ganization of the revolutionary forces Young Roosevelt Divorced. RENO, Nevada, July 18—Charging crueliy the wife'of Elliott Roosevelt, son of the president, received a di- vorce today. Young Roosevelt left last night by plane for Chicago to meet Ruth Goggins, a Texas girl, with whom he has been running around. Details of the testimony of the former Mrs. Roosevelt) were kept secret by the court Pinchot Appoints Tammanyite. HARRISBURG, July 18. — Miss Charlotte E. Carr, former Tammany appointee holding a job in the de- partment of labor of the state of New York as assistant to Roosevelt’s secretary of labor, Miss Francés Perk- ins, has been appointed secretary of labor and industry by Governor Pin- chot. Many of Pinchot’s supporters } made a roar because he did not sive the job to someone in Pennsylvania, Business Failures Rise. NEW YORK, July failures showed a rise to 343 for the week ended July 13, as against 265 in the prevépus week, according to Dunn & Bradstreet, Inc. for the year thus far is 13,442 Stowaway Dies at Sea. NEW YORK, July 18—When the Panama-Pacific liner, California, ar- rived yesterday from San Francisco | | the purser reported that a worker, Nicholas Prazza, who had tried to stow away and get to New York, had | died of suffocation and was buried at sea ee mie Denies Election Swindle. | | WASHINGTON, July 18.—Bishop | James Cannon, Jr., of the Methodist | Episcopal church, and his secretary | Miss Ada Burroughs, pleaded not | guilty today in federal court to an | indictment charging them with vio- {lation of the corrupt practices act | Wall St. Admits Joker in Wage ‘Rise’ eS the election campaign of 1928. | Cannon collected funds and used |them to aid prohibition without | giving any account of them as re- ars by law. | Search for Kidnappers. NEW YORK, July 18.—Police have been carrying*on raids on the West Side in an announced effort to lo- cate John J. (Butch) O'Connell, nephew of the corruptionists who dominate the Tammany political ma- chine in Albany who is held by kid- | 100 _ police | searched loft buildings and residences | nappers. More than in a radius of several blocks, peneue success. |Meeting Will Prepare forAnti-War Congress NEW YORK.—The Arrangements _ Committee of the National Orgamiz- | ing Committee of the American Con- |gress Against War will meet on | Thursday, July 20, at 8 p.m., at the | offices of the League for Industrial ; but for this is because the British parlia- |DeMocracy, 112 East 19th Street. It ment is still in session and Mac- | Donald has lined up sufficient sup- countries to avoid adjournment of the world economic conference until Parliament recesses. There are many embarrassing questions await- ing MacDonald from the floor of parliament as to the causes of the failure of the conference, which he | said would start the world on the road to economic recovery, he hopes to evade. men of all other capitalist countries MacDonald faces complete failure as far as overcoming any of the ef- fects of the crisis at home and now he faces a major failure on the field of foreign policy because of inability which | Like the states- | Tequires to be strengthened without delay if the masses’ struggles are to be brought to victory over both for- eign and domestic enemies. The Irish moyement needs a strong Press, a strong party. Friends in to record any concrete gain from participation in the economic con- ference. GANDHI CRAWLS BEFORE BRITAIN Tries to Defeat Fight for Independence POONA, India, July 18.—Gandhi Greek Government Starts Suppression Drive Against W. I. R. ATHENS, July 18.—The Greek gov- ernment has opened a nation-wide Suppression against “Social Solidar- ity,” the Greek section of the Work- ers International Relief. The bureau of the W. I. R. in Saloniki was raided, |9 Smashed, and sealed up. All confer- ences and meetings of the W. I. R. are forbidden throughout Greece. In spite of this, the W. I. R. organiza- tions are carrying out their work as actively as before, several new district Organizations have been founded, and an increasing amount of relief is being collected for the strikers and their families. Anti-War Call Issued to Mine, MetalWorkers BRUSSELS, July 18—An appeal | to all metal workers and miners throughout the world to support the anti-war demonstrations on August Ist has been issued here by the In- ternational Committee of Miners and Metal Workets. “With the slogans: Against imper- falist war; Against the preparation of intervention against the U.S.S.R.; Against fascism, and for the defense and protection of the Soviet Un-| jon, miners and metal workers must mobilize all pits and works for the| fight against the manufacture of munitions, against armaments, gainst jingo propaganda and prepa- | aration for war,” says the appeal. | |ers of India from overthrowing Brit- | S abjectively pleading with the earl Willingdon, BMtish viceroy of In- dia, to listen to the peace proposals of the All-India Home Rule Con- gress now in session. The viceroy has refused to hear Gandhi unless he openly disavows the civil disobedience campaign. Gandhi feels that the differences with the British imperialist rulers | here are so sight there should be) no misunderstanding. i “The viceroy’s refusal,” said Gan- dhi, “has caused a vegrettable and) dangerous situation. “I do not know any civilized states that refuse to| discuss peace with rebellious sub- | jects.” Gandhi's ,rebelliousness consists 1n | striving by every means to keep the 300,000,000 poor peasants and work- ish imperialism by revolutionary means. ¥ The civil disobedience campaign | consists mainly of the boycott against British eotton goods, oppo- | sition to the British tax on salt and a few other minor pin pricks at tne British. Four Anti-War Meets in Southern California LOS ANGELES, July 11.—Anti- | and above classses, Chylodayo (the | tative of the court, not only during; will take up the agenda for the Con- gress, and the program for the open- | ing mass meeting in Madison Square | Garden. 18.—Business | The total | Canada: |The Boss Raised Our “Yes,—But PricesWent Up 40%.” Wages 15% Today, Mary.” 1 | | | AUGHING up their sleeves, the | stock market gamblers and Wall | Street financiers are having a good| time over the “high wage” propa- ganda of the steel trust, auto, textile and other bosses. The Wall Street parasites find the steel code very amusing and one of the best jokes on the workers. Raises and Cuts That the propaganda about wage increases is a lot of noise to cover} up the low level to which wages have | dropped is admitted by the financial | writer of the New York Herald Trib- une. Writing for the benefit of stock | gamblers, he says: | “The great fanfare which attends | many announcements of wage in- | creases becomes a little tinny when | some of the cases are analyzed. It | 1s already an old story for a con- | cern to announce a 20 per cent in- crease, while previous reductions | may have totaled 40 per cent. Yet the attention given the increase an- nouncements is liable to lead to | the false idea that purchasing pow- | er is being restored to 1926 levels at the same pace that commodity | and other prices are returning. Ob- | viously this is not true for already many prices are at 1926 levels while | was remarked yesterday that some it is doubtful if pay rolis are near such marks. Wages that are being | increased are being distributed among smaller working forces than | existed in 1926.” | He does not add, of course, that) with the price of bread, other food- | stuffs, rent and clothing going up-/ wards, the worker is now in the same| position as he was with the 40 per) cent wage cut. | Amusing Codes ‘THER financial gamblers find the | wily tricks of the steel trust act- | | ually amusing. They admire the way} the steel trust tries to put over its! open shop, company union idea, under the guise of the industrial “re-| covery” act. | Read this explanation of how the/ bosses, with the help of the industrial | “recovery” act are able to dress up| the old open shop and company) | union idea in a new dress with the| blessing of Gen. Johnson and Bill! Green: “Wall Street has found amusing industries, noted in the past for their rigid adherence to the open shop principle, have now embraced the udministration’s viewpoint as to collective bargaining. The steel code, for example, contains this phrase: ‘For many years the mem- bers of the industry have been and now are prepared to deal directly with the employes of such mem- bers collectively on all matters re- lating to their employment. The principles of collective bargaining, under which certain members of the industry have dealt with their employes, are embodied in employe representation plans which are now in force at plants of the industry generally. This paragraph was puzzling to some readers in Wall Street, who remembered that it was only last month after the passage of the Industrial Recovery Act, that several of the largest steel produc- ers formed company unions for the purpose of meeting the require- ments of the act.” The “right to organize’ under the| act turns out to be the right of the| | big trusts to drive the workers into| their company unions. material in some of the codes, par- ticularly in clauses dealing with col- lective bargaining of employes. It ij (Speech of Comrade Haku Sano in the Tokio Court on July 14, 1932, on behalf of 184 other “accused” Communists. - Comrade | Sano is a gifted leader of the Japa- nese Communist Party and the |.In tarietlaonn H ETAOINUNUNUN | International Communist Move- ment.—Editor.) Tv. Comrade Kokurio will make refer- ence later to thegfalse evidence in the| Court last year. I dwell briefly on| certain points. Your court is a class | court. This has been absolutely clear | from the beginning of the trial. The class court is a weapon in the hands | of the reactionary bourgeois-landlord | classes, by means of which these classes try to legalize their position as exploiters and bloodsuckers. Bourgeois upholders of the law de- clare that all are equal before the law. But in society where one class exploits the other, there exists only formal, and not true, equality. And it would be self-deceit to assert that | actual equality really exists. The dif- | ference between the lives of the rich | and those of the poor is too great. | And the law cannot, to the slightest degree, either augment or mitigate this difference. Consequently the court cannot destroy this existing so- cla] inequality. The court declared that it had put the Communist Party in the dock. But the Communist Party cannot be put on trial. The Communist Party is an enormous world-wide organiza- tion. It exists in over sixty coun- tries of the world; and in Japan ft is steadily increasing all the time. In reply to our assertion that the Court is not an institution standing over court of the Mikado) and a represen- this trial, but also in the course of examining other cases against Com-| munists, is making use of new tac- tics. It is now behaving towards us as though we were ordinary crimin- als. This is an expression of the re- venge which the bourgeoisie feels to- wards the working class, Judge Ogo- nuki has made use of a new term— “tncorrigible criminals.” If the word “These demonstrations against war|war conferences in preparation for must at the same time be demon-| the big anti-war demonstrations on trations against exploitation in the| August 1 are being held tomorrow mines and factories, for better|in Los Angeles, Hollywood, the Bay wages, for shorter hours.” Caies, and Pasadena, The confer- are called by the Anti-wa ence of Southern California, Youth Anti-War’ Conference, the Los Angeles American Commit- tee Against Fascism, and the Pero- ples Conference Against Hitler At- rocities. LAWYERS TO AID TORGLER PHILADFLPHIA, Ps.—Th> Law- yers Commitice for the Defense of Politice] Priscners, formed for the purpose of aiding the victims of Ger- man Fascism, has issued a call for aj) meeting Wednesday at 8:15 at the} Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, to discuss plane to send a lawyer to Germany to aid Torgier and others framed for the Retchotag ftes. The calls were issued to all work- ers, fraternal. religious, cultural and | social organizations, asking that delegates be elected and sent to the losal somferenses, sf “criminal” can be used towards a Communist, then at any rate it would Haku Sano Exposes Terror in Japanese Work 13 Hours a Day, Prohibited to Read Literature Prisons; Inmates. regime certain of our comrades be-| come depressed and begin to waver.| But it would be wrong to take this as} a sign of weakness in our ranks. On! the contrary, the estimation you have made in this connection is only proof of your desire to justify the system} of terror in your prisons and to keep} the Communists as long as possible | in confinement. You declare that) the workers join the revolutionary | movement out of a feeling of hero- ism, and that the intelligentsia do 50 | for sentimental reasons. This is not) true. Life itself thrus, the advanced section of the working class into the revolutionary movement. They go forward led by revolutionary theory. Revolutionary theory and practice forges stoic Communists from among the workers. The intelligentsia join the revolutionary movement not for sentimental reasons, but because life compels them to do so. A large sec- tion of the intelligentsia is now be-| coming proletarianized. And so the best of them self-sacrificingly take the side of the revolutionary move~ ment. These honest intellectuals re- ‘fuse to play the role of lackey for the bourgeois-landlord ruling classes, and so join our movement. In discussing the question of white’ terror, the Judge declared: “Your) tellectuals in the Party’s ranks. To iron discipline is worth nothing if| bs more exact, our Party was pass- the members of your organization| ing through the “yamakovism” and divulge all the truth when they are| “fukumotoism” periods. But thanks threatened with torture.” In these} to the pressure brought to bear in- words the Judge confirms the fact of| side by the working class, and thanks SNR de <a. { SCRIPTION RATES: Mail everywhere: One year, 36; six months, $5.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, The excepting Borough of Manhattan and Grom, New York City. One year, $9; 6 months, $5; 3 months, $8. Foreign and JULY 1, teas sy pare. EXPOSE NAZI PLOT TO _ LYNCH COMMUNISTS AT __REICHSTAG FIRE TRIAL American Campaign for Protest, Relief Week Starts in S everal Cities | Lovestone Renegades Collecting Steal Title, Form Fake Organization | Gobi PARIS, July 18.—The complete plans of Herman Goering and Withetye bels, Nazi leaders, for the lynching of the Communist leaders accused of the Reichstag fire are revealed by “L'Humanite”, central organ of the | Communist Party of France. Unable to make a case against GERMAN LLOYD WORKERS FORCED INTO NAZI UNION Fascist Organization Is Imposed on Local Employees NEW YORK, July 18—The New York office of the North German Lloyd steamship line has organized its. 175 employees into a Fascist of- | fice council, in accordance with the | Nazi Labor Law. Hanz Schuengel, resident director of the line, said that American em- | ployees were not obliged to join the employees organization. It is ob- vious, however, that it will become jincreasingly difficult for American | {employees to do their work while | | they stay out of the German Fas- | cist. organization. All German workers are compelled All the proceedings of to belong. the organization are secret. | Austrian Communists ‘Spread Three Issues of Illegal Newspaper | VIENNA, July 18—Three numbers ‘of the new illegal newspaper of the Vise derniotne Party of Austria, “Die Wahrheit” (The Truth), have ap- peared, and been videly circulated. |The paper has eight pages, and its | fine technical quality testifies to the | efficiency of the Communist under- | ground organization. The paper reports on the labor | movement and the Communist Party | matters which the legal newspapers | are not allowed to mention. It reports | that a leading Social Democratic | functionary in a provincial town put himself at the disposal of the Com- | munist Central Committee to carry jon the illegal Communist work after the Communist functionaries of the town had been arrested. “Die Wahrheit” contains a running analysis of the measures of the Doll- | fuss government, and contains news | | of the successes of socialist construc- tion in the Soviet Union. |Nazis Neglect Safety Devices; 4 Miners Die BERLIN, July 18.—As a direct re- sult of an order by the Prussian Director of Mines, Wienacker, sus- pending all sfrety inspection in mine pits, four miners are dead and elev- en seriously injured. They were caught in a coal dust explosion in all the tortures and bestial punish-| ments that are meted out by the) class court. In our ranke there may be people who give away: the secret} affairs of the Party, but this does| not mean that one can talk about! the lack of discipline and weakness in| the Party as a whole. Our Party im- poses the corresponding disciplinary | penalty upon all those who betray Party secrets. The Japanese Communist Party was founded in July, 1922—on July) 15th, a memorable day for the Party. | Tomorrow, by accidental coincidence, | we shall celebrate the tenth anniver- sary of the foundation of the Japa-| nese Communist Party. The prosccu- tion has distorted the history of our to the guidance of the Communist International, these mistakes were quickly corrected. From that mo- ment and to the present day, the his- tory of our Party has borne the stamp of revolutionary tradition. Our Com- munist Party has always stood at the head of the working class, even when it had a membership of not more than 100; it has always main- tained and still maintains an indis- soluble link with the working class. It is difficult to estimate to the full the enormous role which the un- swerving direct leadership of the Communist International and the close link with fraternal parties in | China, Korea and Formosa, have | played in the work of strengthening Party by declaring that it has been | our party. If we look ten years ahead in existence since 1925. When you| into the future, we can say with con- Jook back and return to that memo-| fidence that in Germany, where a rable day there is much to be re-| revolutionary crisis is ripening today, membered. There was a time when! there will be a Soviet Government, there were deviations in our Party.| and its influence on Western Europe It was at the time when there was a/ Will be immeasurably great. In the ; dead,” predominance of petty-bourgeois ii TOWARD I MASS Comrade Editor: Many workers approach us, asking for a copy of the Open Letter of the Communist Party of July 13th. It is |a fact that many non-Party work- ers are interested in this letter. As outlined by the letter, the im- perative task of the Party is toreach the broad masses of the American toilers, We firmly believe that the puMtish- ing of this letter in the form of penny pamphlet, like the Fight for Communism in Germany, would help have been more suitable to use the expression “political criminals.” The “Sncorrigible criminals”—is an expres- sion of the desperate effort being made on the part of the rwing classes to reduce the Communists to thé level of ordinary criminals. ‘The Japanese prisons are weapons of terror; 13-hour working day; it is| prohibited to read books (except re- actionary and religfous literature); heavy punishments, ete. It is quite possible that in consequence of long} has already been prblished os 1 years snent the yoke ef this | attempt to introduce this new term—| to make clear the revolutionary posi- | tion of the Party, for the way out. Connect the New Recovery Act ‘with the depreciated value of the} dollar, and its effect upon the work- ers. Expose the slander of the Bors| on the so-called failure of Com- | ism and the G. P. in the United | States. G. MEISTLE, MORT SHER. Cy oa | Bditor's Note>—The open letter | Fi Pemnbiet snd mer he expured -2{/ ‘ MPROVED WORK — Discussion on the “Open Letter” your District, or directly from the Workers Library Publishers, 50 E, 13th St., New York. Comrade Editor: ‘We welcome this open letter to the Party. It is a good answer to the many who were pained: “Why can’t our Party rise to the level of the German Party, not to say of the Party of the Soviet Union?” Let us greet it as the first real step to the creation of a real mass Bolshevik Party in the Urited States. Our Party membership must under- stand—no more ar of difficul- ties. We must surmount all difficul- ties. Get into these big shops, where workers work at 100 per cent speed-up in production and with wag cuts of 60 per cent, Carry on in these shops 100 per cent organization work for the struggle. To those workers who, are now backward in their political, thinking, our Party shall become known as their leader, and friend. ‘This will be a hard task. But the only one that brings victory. DAVID Seb tinot, * a say | East, through the heroic, revolution- | | ary movement of the Chinese masses, a Soviet Government will be estab- lished over vast territories; from which } all the imperialist oppressors will be banished once and for all. In India a victorious revolution will free the country from the chains of British | Government will also be established in Japan. Today in Japan all the premises for Ne revolutionary crisis are growing. | Side by side with the cruel economic crisis there has already begun a coun- ter-attack of workers and peasant masses. However, there can be no victorious revolutioa without a strong Communist Party. There have been examples in the past of objectively favorable revolutionary situations which did not, however, bring in their train victorious revolutions. In West- ern Europe in 1848 and+in Tsarist Russia in 1860-70, there were revolu- tionary crises, but the revolutionary movement of the day was unsuccess- ful, because of one subjective fact— there was no strong Communist Party. Our main tasks today are the fol- lowing:— ‘ To overthrow the monarchy. To destroy the private ownership of the land by parasitical landlords. The seven-hour working day and radical improvements in the living conditions of the working class. Our task is to overthrow the mili- tary-police monarchy and convert the imperialist war that is taking place into a civil war. Our revolution is imperialism. And, finally, the Soviet | the yard. Such explosions almost never occur above ground. The safety laws provide that coal dust must be removed constantly, but the neglect of inspection resulted in an immense accumulation, which ex- ploded. Nazis Honor Killers | of Walter Rathenau | WEIMAR, Germany, July 18—The \Slayers of Walter Rathenau, Ger- ;man Foreign Minister, in 1922, were ‘honored today by thousands of Storm Troopers, led by Captain Roehm, chief of staff, and other high Nazi leaders. A tablet to their memory was unveiled at Saalek castle, where the two slayers com- mitted suicide when faced with capture after the murder. The Nazi | leaders who spoke at the unveiling referred to them as “our glorious and as “protagonists of the Storm Troopers.” Berlin Digs Gasproof Cellars for Next War BERLIN, July 18,—Germany’s en- ergetic preparations for war are fur- ther revealed by an order to house owners, under the “work provision scheme,” to begin at once to establixh bomb and gas proof cellars in eveiy house. Major Losper, leader of th: Greater Berlin provincial group oc”! the National Aerial Defense Federa. tion, at the inauguration meeting oi! the organization demanded that every municipal district of Berlin be sup- refuges. Berlin Storm Troopers Rebel Against Hitler BERLIN, July 18—The Storm ‘Troops of North Berlin at a stormy meeting shouted down their leaders and openly rebelled against Adolf Hitler’s order suspending action on all the “socialist measures” previous- ly promised.. ‘The meeting unani- ; mously passed a resolution demand- ing the immediate commencement of the “socialist four-year plan,” and | elected a committee to communicate | wit all the other Storm Troop divi- siom# in the country to draw them into ation “for socialism,” in spite of the most energetic efforts on the part the people’s revolution, for rice, for] of their chief, Ernst, and plied with bombproof underground | Torgler, Dimitrov, Popov, and Taney, € in spite of an immense and carefully j built frame-up web, Goering and Goebbels have arranged to turn the forthcoming trial into a mob raid and | lynching. “L'Humanite” says: | “The monstrous plan of Goering and Goebbels is confirmed from the most reliable sources, “At the trial, during a pretended | ‘re-enacting’ of the Reichstag fire | which was actually set under the directions of Goering), a great ‘mass demonstration,’ assisted by Storm ‘Troops, is to take place. The mob is to | invade the Reichstag and murder the Communist leaders, and Van der | Lubbe, the provocateur, who is also to | be put on trial. | “With this well-organized ‘spon | taneous’ lynching, the government will put an end to the trial, of which it is afraid, despite all its assurances |and frame-up preparations.” peihe 'Fascist Chief Promises Hatiging for Reds BERLIN, July 18—The Nazi de- termination to put the arrested lead- ers of the German Communist Party |to death is emphasized by a speech of Dr. Pfundtner, Secretary of State of the Prussian Ministry of the In- | terior, made at the Administration Academy in Berlin. It makes all the more imperative the greatest inter- | national mass pressure for the release | of Comrades Thaelmann, Torgler, Di- | mitroff, Popoff and Taneff. Dr. Pfundtner said: “Before the 5th of March, the state government had taken its measures against the Com- _munist Party of Germany and against Marxism, It may be assumed that, |on the basis of these measures, the participants in the burning of the Reichstag will shortly be sentenced to death by hanging.” The capitalist press of other coun- | ties has completely confirmed the declaration of the Communist Party of Germany that the Reichstag fire was set by the Nazis, under the direc- tion of Herman Wilhelm Goering, Minister of the Interior. | Form ManyCommittees for Anti-Fascist Week NEW YORK.—Nation-wide prepar- ations for the National Week of pro- | test, defense, and relief,in support of | the victims of German Fascism, Au- gust 7 to 14, are being made, and local committees have been set up in many cities, with others rapidly being formed. This was the announcement today of the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, with headquarters at 75 Fifth Avenue, New York, which issued the call. The committee is headed by A. 2. Muste, and has on its national board Dr. Harry A. Warwick, Alfred Wagen- knecht and J. B. Matthews. It is the American section of an international committee, headed by Lord Marley, of Tondon, England, and Professor Fran- cis Jourdain, of Paris, ‘ The week of August 7 to 14 is to be the culmination of an intensive drive, beginning at once, to raise funds for relief of victims of Fascism. The drive will be combined with mass meetings of protest and a nation-wide cam- paign against Fascism in all forms. Renegades Attempt to | Disrupt Relief Work NEW YORK, July 18—~An at- tempt to distupt the Work of the National Committee to Aid the Vit- tims of German Fascism, by the Lovestone group here has been ex= posed in the revelation that Love- stone has formed an “International Relief Association,” operating under the initials I. -R. A., ostensibly to collect relief for victims of the Brown terror, The disruptive nature of the move is exposed by its deliberate choice of a name whose initials are “I. R. A.” and its use of these initials. The I. R. A. (International Red Aid) is the parent body of International Labor Defense, has been conducting & campaign defense and relief of the of Hitler’s terror for months. A national week of defense and relief has been set for Aug. 7 to 14, In @ statement issued today the International Labor Defense warned all workers, sympathizers, and their ‘ organizations, that this Lovestone “T, |R. A.” hs nothing to do with the fees hee Red Aid, and is formed only to disrupt defense relief activities. “ Call ‘Anti-Fascist Meet in Cincinnati Thursday CINCINNATI, July 18.—A mess demonstration and mobilization for Anti-Fascist Protest and Relief Week, Aug. 7 to 19, will be held in Cincinnati Thursday, July 20, at 7:30 p.m, on the | City Hospital Lot, 12th Street and Central Avenue. The demonstration is called by the City Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism, organized by the Workers Interna. tional Relief. Ge to see every subseriber when kis ge Ss Stans aL ee Se . on WL $ 3 * bs ace |