The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1933, Page 4

a Published by the Comprodaily Page Four Inc., daily exeept Sunday, at 50 R. Cable “DAIWORK.” . New York, N, ¥ Publishing Co Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956 Worker, 50 E. 13th St. 13th St Address and mail checks to the Daily New York City, N. ¥ Dail er’ Party WS.A. By Mail everywhere: excepting Borough Canada: One year, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. six months, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 ea %5e AUGUST 4, 1938 Foreign One year, $9; 6 months, $5; 3 months, $3. | FASCISTS SENTENCE EIGHT MORE COMMUNISTS TO DEATH _Intens Sify Legal Murder Campaign; Kill Two in Camps Goering Orc lers * Tortu. Twelve Hamburg Workers Jail Sentences MUNICH, Aug. tenced to death in Cologne in connection with the shooting of two storm troopers. Two Communists of Hamburg have been sentenced to death in connection with the death of a police sergeant. Hugo Fedderson leader of the Red Front Fighters of Hamb' one of the two sentenced to death, was ynched in prison a few hours after he sentence of death was pro- nounced sentenced in Cologne, ‘ged with being the “in- ” two with attempted murder one with “manslaughter. and This means that the court did not even have proof that these Com- munists had any connection with the ‘event for which they are con- jemned to dea Twelve other defendants were giv- en sentences ranging from four to 15 years in prison at the Hamburg ‘rial. Reds Murdered in Camps BERLIN, Aug. 3—A Communist worker: named Ernst Walter, from Rohrbeck, was murdered in the Meissnerdorf concentration camp, near Henningsdorf. His torn and dloody clothes were sent to his wife with a note saying, “Your husband is tead.” A Polish worker in the Bornicle voncentration camp, near Bernau, was beaten to death by Storm Troop- srs. The first physician called was asked to sign a death certificate saying he had died of heart disease, but refused. A second physician was found who complied. Torture Ordered for All Prisoners BERLIN, Aug. 3.—Torture is to be the regular practice in all German prisons from now on, according to a new code of prison procedure an-| nounced yesterdav by Premier Her- man Goering of Prussia, The official notice says, “It is to be continually brought to the atten- | tion of the prisoner that he has to| atone for his wickedness against the legal order of the state. This is to be brought home so vividly by the nature of the punishment inflicted that he will feel an inhibition against | any attempt to commit new crimes.” | Death by the axe is now made ‘he official form of capital punish- ment, MORE REPRESSION HINTED BY WELLES AS STRIKES GROW Movement in Cities Is Reaching Proportions of a General Strike HAV. Cuba, Aug. 3.—So rap- idly is the ctrike sweeping over Cuba that it is bes g to reach the pro- portions of a general strike. All street car wor! here today joined the striking bus and taxi Griver At one town, Pinar Del Rio, all activity has been tied up. At Santa Clara, the street car workers went out in sympathy with the strikers n Havana. So widespread and determined have the actions of the Cuban workers oecome that Ambassador Welles has stated that he is afraid that it is rodangering the value of his “me- Giation.” In these words, Welles, the agent of Wall Street sent by Roose- velt to try to unite all the disput- ing capitalist factions into a united front against the workers, strongly hints that violent repressive meas- | ures against Cuban workers may soon be increased. In Santiago, the second largest city of Cuba, over 3,000 workers attended the funeral of Maria Luisa Lavadi, seventeen-year old girl who was shot and killed two days ago by the gov- ernment soldiers who fired into a crowd of workers demonstrating against the attempts of Ambassador Welles to bolster up the hated Ma- chado government. All attempts of the Federal troops to disperse the de- monstration were futile. Japan Protests Soviet! Arrest of Fishermen TOKIO, Aug. 3. — The Japanese Foreign Office today instructed its consul general in Vladivostok to de- mand the release of ten Korean fish- ermen said to be held by Soviet auth- orities for illegal fishing in Possiet Bay, in Siberian waters. Six boats were reported seized by | Soviet authorities. Twenty-four of the 34 who composed the crews were released. The other ten were held for trial. Spaniards Oust Clergy; | Seize Catholic .School | HUESCA, Spain, Aug. 3.—A large | erowd seized the Roman Gatholic} r@minary here today, and drove the} bishop and his clergy out with curses | when he protested. The city coun- cil wants the buildings for a Ait «ch and the clergy have gin fougl§ against it AY —Six Communists have beens GE NERAL JOHNSON re for All Prisoners; Get Long POWERS TO WARN NAZIS AGAINST: AUSTRIAN RAIDS RIDES vies “PEACE” GENERAL JOHNSON Joint Protest Planned by England, Franze, | Italy NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—Dis- patches from London and Paris today indicate that the British,“ French and Italian governments are preparing to send a warning to the German gov- ernment over the growing Nazi cam- paign in Austria. The three governments will in- struct their Ambassadors in Berlin to inform Adolph Hitler that the garded as a breach of the Four- Power Pact. The Fri ench govern- Nes ment characterized the ation as “grave and danger Colonial Toilers to Pay, Although these powers are friendly to the Fascist measures of Chancel- lor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria, they |are sharply opposed to fon of Austria and Germany, ich is the |goal of the Nazis. MANILA, P. ie "Aug. 3.—Working with U. S. Army officers, Governor | General Frank Murphy has completed } Ww Nazi planes have been making daily trips over Austrian territory, : Gropping Nazi propaganda leafiets| ‘2 be paid for by the tollers of the islands. He will request $625,000 from the Philippine legislature to buy planes and to build an airport at Manila. Twelve more airports are to be built | attacking Dollfv tlundreds of Nazi Jagents have swarmed into Austria |.and taken vart in terroristic acts and | i organizing Nez! groups, although | he Nazi party is outlawed in Austria. During the great Saizburg festival, which is usually hea patronized by Germans, the Nazis carried out an | the future. effective boycott, and Nazi planes| ‘The air force 1s to be a part of dropped thousands of leaflets over|the Philippine constabulary, and to the crowds during the festival. |be used for the suppression of the kd | Philippine workers and peasants, but the airports and fleet are a part of the American war preparations in France Protests Kidnapping Aug. 3—The French am- eri : F be TIO Germany Finnesis Pans | the Pacific, for which the colonial cet, has made a sharp protest to the tollers of the islands are to pay German government t the re-| the costs. cent kidnapping by Nazis of three French citizens in the Saar district, who were taken into Germany. MARTIAL LAW IS ON IN NICARAGUA Nazis Give Lie to British LONDON, Aug. 3.—The British government is aroused over the offi- Sal denial in een MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Aug. 3.— | Prussian Prem: request to buy 25 to 50 high- aevend Martial law again rules throughout Nicaragua, and especially in the cap-| British airplanes for “police pur- poses.” ii ital of Managua, as the result of a} The request was made officially,’ jovi¢i si Aten Va = nid tenes be Cazes “On. ue errific explosion which destroyed ground that it was an infraction of | the leading arsenal and most of the the Versailles treaty. The British | government’s ammunition supply. | charge affaires in Berlin made a | The cause of the explosion has not | formal protest. ie only report 0! ‘ ‘ ihe aac in the German press is been ascertained. Eresident Sacasa an official denial that the incident | declared a state of siege “for pre- took place, caution,” * he said. in various parts of the Islands in | | by fascist Germany against the So- | vest on our collective. paign to “raise funds for ‘their relief.” | against the Soviet Union and to dis- | credit the great influence of the Ger- | | man Communist Party. In order to carry it on, the Fascist | press is publishing forged versions of | official Soviet decrees, It printed a forged version of the July 14 decree of the Council of Peoples Commissars and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on the final plans for deliveries of grain. This decree begins with the | words, “In view of the already evi-| dent good prospects for the crops.” | The version published in Germany | begins, “In view of the great want,” | and makes similar changes through- | out the text. | One of the letters of protest, signed | | by all the members of the collective | farm in the village of Friedorf, in the | Volga German Republic, follows: _ “We have heard with the utmost | indignation of the slanders spread | viet Union. It is asserted that we | are persecuted here, and live poorly. | This is an impudent lie, and only aims at discrediting the Soviet Union. “We have commenced the rye har- Anyone see- | ing us at this work would be con- vinced of the absurdity of the idea of our being persecuted or living in | Poverty. Our collective has 4147 hec- | tares arable land, 2460 hectares be- | ing under wheat and 1089 under rye. 41.4 hectares fall to each collective This campaign of the Hitler government is an attempt to incite to war farmer. The machine and_ tractor station supplying us has put two mowing machines and five tractors at our disposal for the harvest. Be- sides this we are working with 8 sheaf binding machines and 14 harvesters. “All the men and women collec- tive farmers take part in harvesting the crops. We know that we are working for ourselves, and that the kulaks and non-workers have dam- aged and still damage the collectives. This year we shall bring in no less than 20,000 cwt of grain from our | fields. Of this we shall deliver up our quota to the state, pay our debts (advances for seed, prepayments on butter), settle with the MTS, and add to the funds for teachers, schools, creches, and incapacitated. When all| this has been paid, no less than 12 kgs of grain per working day will fall to each farmer. This must surely convince everyone that we are not poor.” The letter goes on to describe the} progress made in livestock breeding, and to detail the plans for investing this year's surplus in new buildings, dairy equipment, ete. The cultural opportunities offered the collectives, the disappearance of illiteracy, are enthusiastically detafled. The help given by the state is emphasized— besides the loan of machinery, etc. this collective alone received 995 cwt. seed advance this year, Sosiatint Paper Fears “Chaos and Bloodshed’’ After Overthrow of Hitler Fascist Dictatorship "HE Socialist leaders of Germany supported the reactionary capitalist governments of Bruening, Hindenburg and Von Papen because, as they said, comared to Hitler's open Fascism these capitalist exploiters were a “lesser e.i In this policy of defending some of the leading representa- tives of ti apitalist class because they were “not so bad” as Hitler, a policy that led to the vicipry of Fascism, the German Socialist leaders had the full support of the leaders of the American Socialist Party. Now that this policy of the “lesser evil” has borne fruit in the Fas- cist dictatorship of Hitler, what do the leaders of the American Socalist Party think of that bloody fascism for which their colleagues prepared the way? This week's “New Leader,” the leading organ of the American Socialist Party, gives the answer, and illustrates remarkably the shameful lengths to which the Socialist leaders can go with their “lesser evil” strategy. The New Leader states: “If Hitler goes, there will be chaos and much spilling of blood. Out of it may come freedom—or possibly an even madder dictator- ship than today’s under Goering and his depraved creatures.” So these are the alternatives that the Socialist leaders are holding up before the workers after the overthrow of the Hitler government! Either “freedom” or an “even madder dictatorship.” . . . 'HEN the German workers begin to deal death blows to the Fascist dictatorship of Hitler, the Socialist leaders will warn the workers of “an even madder dictatorship,” and urge them to establish again that “freedom” which they promised the workers in 1918 with the Weimar Re- public, What is this “freedom” which the Socialist leaders hope for as the blessed aftermath “after Hitler?” It is nothing more nor less than the “freedom” of capitalist “democracy,” that capitalist “freedom” which the German Socialist leaders told the German workers in 1918 was more de- sirable than the proletarian revolution, the proletarian dictatorship. It is that capitalist freedom in the name of which the Socialist leaders, Scheide- mann and Noske, shot down the German workers who were fighting for the establishment of the Soviet Republic in Germany. It is what Marx called the “swindle of bourgeois democracy.” This “Freedom” of bourgeois democracy only served to fasten upon the workers the chains of wage slavery just at the moment when the work- ers were preparing to break them. This “freedom” brought the German workers starvation, unemployment, crises, and finally Fascism. | The Socialist leaders crushed the Proletarian Revolution because they wanted “democracy,” the capitalist “democracy” that led to Fascism. | What has the Proletarian Revolution brought to the workers in the | Soviet Union? It has destroyed capitalism, and with it unemployment, crises, and wage slavery. And in the words of Lenin, it has brought “a million times more democracy—real proletarian democracy—than can ever be found in a bour- geois republic.” ‘y } HAT kind of governntent is this that is more cruel, more savage in its | repression of the workers than the present murderous regime of Hit- PLAN AIR FORCE Vol ga German Farmers '81 ANTLAITLER Protest Nazi Slanders for War Preparations | Anti-Soviet Forgeries Are Exposed by Work- ers in Volga Republic; Tell of Progress | MOSCOW, August 3—A flood of letters and telegrams, which of course OMe Men and women have gone on are not published, there, have been sent to Germany by Soviet German | a plan for a Philippine air force } farmers in the Volga German Republic, protesting against the Fascist cxm- | STRIKERS TRIED High Treason Charged for Jan. 30 Action STUTTGART, August 3.—Eighty- | trial for having organized a general | political strike on Jan. 31, against the accession of Adolf Hitler to the chancellorship the day before. The si in Mossingen, an in- | dustrial center, closed a large num- ber of factories. Militant picket lines were established in front of three big weaving mills. The strike was smashed by the police. The leaders | charged with high treason; jare charged with specific acts; 40 are | charged with inciting to insurrec- tion. French Report Defeat of Moroccan Tribes | PARIS, Aug. 3.—An overwhelming French offensive is approaching the | “pacification” of the anti-imperial- ist tribes in the mountains and de- serts of Morocco, according to re- ports of the War Ministry today. | The Moroccan tribesmen, men, of the strike are | several | | | | | | | have reported enthusiastic anti-war | face of energetic attempts of police | the meetings. COMMITTEE CALLS’ FOR INTENSIFIED ANTI-NAZI DRIVE: | for Victims of Fascism NEW YORK. — An appeal was issued today by the New York Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German Fascism for intensified activity in the closing four days of anti-Fascist week ! of protest, defense and relief for vic- tims of German Fascism. Most of the 375 organizations which have pledged themselves to carry out {the drive will not report on the} results of their work until the end of the week, but the reports which | have been received so far do not |indicate activity equal tothe urgency of the situation. | Fired to activity by the news of the | beheading of the four Altona Com- | munists on Tuesday, increasing danger to Thaelmann, Torgler, and the many other Commu- nists and other workers in Nazi pris- ons, many workers have taken up the drive in the past two days, but still more workers are needed, the | Committee said. Reports from nounced the pr the Committee added th: espite this, the larger cities are lagging. Chicago established its united front months ago, yet has not remitted a single dollar. Cleveland | (and Philadelphia are subject to the same criticism. Detroit has remitted neapolis, St. Paul, Denver, Washing- ton, D. C., and other cities have failed to make remittances or to es- tablish a protest movement in com- parison to the possibilities that exist in organizing broad united front movements from below. posed to postpone the city collection week to Aug. 14 to 21. Cleveland in- tends to get into action this same week. Cincinnati will have a city- | Funds Badly ‘Needed |: and the ever-/| several cities an-| aration of enti-/| , but the statement of | only $24, Boston $68, Buffalo. Los} Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Min- | “The Minneapolis united front pro- | wide tag day Aug. 13, Passaic reports | that its united front has disappeared. | St. Louis. arwounces city collections for Aug. 12, 13. Dallas. Texas, writes it is getting jinto action, Trenton and Newark have decided to inaugurate a collec- tion week, dates not yet specified. San Francisco is being awakened by |the I. L. D. In Philadelphia the Jewish united front failed to co- | women and children, have fought for | their freedom for ten years against | a series of French armies, each more | powerful than the last. General Andre Huro reported that | the artillery of the! Foreign Legion had shattered the Tizier Ouzine peak of .the Atlas mountains, a strong- hold of the tribesmen. Three weeks ago Sidi Ben Ahmed, chief of the Moroccan rebels, was killed. | Three columns of French forces, coming from different points, finally met, splitting the Moroccan forces in two and giving the French reason to expect an early complete victory. and no decision was reached. The I. L. D. is awakening the New Haven field.” Angeles, 1,000 in a pouring rain in “AN EVEN MADDER DICTATORSHIP” In the Name of “Democracy” They Fight Revolution | Communist Party Leads Str - Leads Struggle Against Fas- cism and Fight for Proletarian Revolution which the Socialist leaders now paint in such a terrible light! The rule of the workérs themselves, the abolition of exploitation, poverty, unemploy- ment and crises—is what the Socialist leaders fear! Do noi the Socialist leaders, from Kautsky, Vandervelde, Otto Wels, and Bauer, to Norman Thomas and Morris Hillquit, denounce the Soviet Union for its “terrorism!” Do they not continuously whisper in tones of fright of the “excesses” of the Workers’ Fatherland! Do they not warn the workers of the “Asiatic dictatorship” which, to their capitalist-loyal minds, threatens the capitalist “democracies of the West?” It is of this that they speak when they find even Hitler preferable to that “even madder dictatorship” that may come when Hitler falls. First they supported Bruening—because Hitler was “worse.” Then it vas Von Hindenburg—because Hitler was “worse.” And then the junker- militarists, Von Papen and General Schleicher. And now they have found something “worse” that Hitler—the Pro- letarian Revolution! So swift has been the degradation of the Socialist leaders! ° ° . E meaning of the New Leader's latest pronouncement on German Fascism, a pronouncement in which it finds itself in agreement with its colleagues of the whole Second International, is only too clear. It simply means that Social-Democracy, the Socialist Parties, still stand ready to serve the capitalist class by deflecting the workers from struggle against Fascism, from struggle for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. When the time comes, anti it is not a matter of the far future, when the German working class will be faced with the vital question of the seiz- ure of State power, the Socialist leaders will again, exactly as they did in the historical infamy of 1918, attempt to save capitalism by pleading with the workers, not for the establishment of a Workers’ Soviet of Germany, but for the restoration of the very same capitalist democracy. A “free- dom” and a capitalist “democracy” that permitted the German bourgeoisie to recover its strength after it had almost passed from the stage of history under the blows of the workers in 1918. It is this “democracy” which Jed to Fascism. The history of Germany of the last fifteen years is precisely the his- tory of the enslavement of the German workers in the name of “freedom ,and democracy.” ler that the social fascists speak of? What do the Socialist-leaders have in mind, when with their eyes on Hitler’s butchers, they warn the workers of an “even madder dictatorship?” From the previous action’ and words of the Socialist leaders, the an- swer is only too clear. They have been for years warning the workers. against “ali dictatorship,” lumping together the proletarian dictatorship with the Fascist dictatorship. But now with the full Fascist dictatorship before them, they still warn the workers of an “even madder dictatorship.” What fearful dictatorship is this that the New Leader dreads that will come after the naked, ruthless dictatorship of the German capitalist class | as examplifi oi in the rule of Hitler? It is Cy 4 Essiaorstup ofthe WonKeEs, the Pipttornip of the Proletariat ‘The Communist Party alone has fought consistently, day in and day out, against the capitalist dictatorship, whether in its “democratic” form or its Fascist form. The Communist Party alone has organized the work- ing class for revolutionary struggle against Fascism, so that today it is the only organized force fighting fascism jn Germany. The atrival of the bloody Fascism has not changed the role of the Socialist leaders. Their main fight is still against the only weapon that can smach Fascism—the Proletarian Dictatorship! In the name of “free- dom and democracy” they mre preparing themselves again for another world-historic betrayal. Only the Sevolustodiary unity of the workers steadily advancing, in their daily struggles against Fascism, toward the Proletarian Dictator- ship, can counteract it, \ operate in a mobilization meeting | Workers, Farmers Pledge to Fight War in Many Aug.1 Meet: 10,000 Demonstrate in Detroit, 7% 000 in Chicago; Cops Attack One Meeting, Ku Klux Another NEW YORK.—Workers and farmers from many parts of the country demonstrations on August 1, in the and reactionary hoodlums to disrupt bre ieneantt L aio netastis in Detroit, 7,000 in Chicago, 5,000 in Los ~© Boston. Ku Kluxers raised a burn- jing cross while the residents and pasar farmers of Camp Kinder- nd, Hopewell Junction, N. Y., were holding their Saas “war necting. 10,000 Deena in Detroit, DETROIT.—Ten thousand Detroit | workers joined in a militant parade and demonstration against imperial- ist war and fascism on August Ist, | Gathering at 6 p. m. at two concen- | tration points, Perrien Park on the | East Side and Clark Park on the ; West Side, where short meetings were | nda, the workers paraded through the streets of the city to Grand Cir- |cus Park, where the main demon- stration started at 8:15 p. m. | Thousands of workers, including many Negroes, greeted them from | the sidewalks as they marched with | banners and placards raised high, |singing revolutionary songs. | Young Socialists Join in Chicagé. | CHICAGO.—Seven thousand Chi- |cago Negro and white workers, ine cluding many socialist workers, pledged themselves to struggle against | war and against the National Re- | covery Act as a war measure in the August Ist demonstration here. They also resolved to support ‘the | numerous strikes now being carried | on in Chicago, and to build the trade unions and carry the anti-war strug- gle into the shops and factories, Bill Gebert, Williamson, Wells of the T. U. U. L., Kling of the Y. C.L, | Larks of the Young Peoples Socialist League, Gardner of the W. E. S. L,, | Osby of the League of Struggle for | Negro Rights and others spoke, Se Pe LOS ANGELES.—Meeting for the | first time in three years without a bloody attack By the Los Angeles |‘“red squad”, five thousand workers | demonstrated against war, against the Roosevelt New Deal, and against Fascism in the Plaza, August 1st, The right to meet was won from the new mayor, Shaw, through mass pressure under the leadership of the United Committee for Struggle Against War. Representatives of the Communist and Socialist Parties and of many workers’ organizations spoke. bt ee Boston Workers Meet in Rain, BOSTON, Mass.—Despite a pour- ing rain, 1,000 workers demonstrated enthusiastically on Boston Common August Ist. A resounding reception was given Bill Dunn of the T.U.UL., Weiss of the Y.C.L., Blanc of the I. L. D., and other speakers, . * * SPRINGFIELD, Mass—The Anti- War Conference held two August Ist demonstrations here, one in front of the East Springfield plant of Wes- | tinghouse, a large factory which turned out machine guns during the last war, At an evening demonstra- tion on the old post office corner, many members of the Unemployed ague (Socialist), which had re- fused to send delegates to the con- ference, were among the demon- strators. | WATERBURY, Conn.—Mass_ re- sistance of the Waterbury workers made the police retreat after they had attempted to break up the Au- gust 1st rally on Waterbury Green near the Soldiers’ Monument, The police attempted to reach the speak- ers’ stand ‘to arrest Ray Shilepsky, Y.C.L. speaker and Joe Milton, but the crowd rallied around them, cry- ing “Let Them Speak”, and the cops were not able to get near, whe sie ‘ SCHENECTADY, N. Y¥.—Despite a severe rain, 150 workers assembled in Crescent Park on August Ist, dem- onstrating against war and Fascism. Great indignation was expressed against the proposal to build a new armery here, while relief fay the un- employed is being cut. _ 8 @ GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y. — Despite the attempt of the son of the local newsvaper publisher to disrupt the meeting, 150 workers, including many glove and leather workers who are now on strike, demonstrated on Aug. 1st. Speakers exposed the National Recovery Act. Telegrams of protest against Fascism were sent to the German embassy. Pe ee DALBO, Minn.—Many Minnesota farmers gathered here Sunday, July, 30, in an anti-war protest meet which was held despite a temperature of 102 degrees in the shade. As '® result of the meeting three workers including two members of the Sott- alist Party applied for membership in the Communist Party. wititne ie PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — Many fishermen and summer reeidents joined in a mass meeting against war on August 1st in the Town Hall, under the auspices of the American Committee for Struggle Against Ws H. Jones of the Marine Workers as dustrial Union called for of the fishegmen, “