The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1933, Page 1

Tomorrow the “Daily” Will Print Three Unpublished Let- ters of Vanzetti to Prof. H. W. L. Dana Dail (Section of the Communist International ) C America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper Vol. X, No. 200." New York, N. Y., under the Paper Concessions or ...? | } AS agreement has been reached in the dress strike in New York, involving ) f tens of thousands of workers. On paper it would appear that the dress / makers have won important concessions in higher pay, better conditions \ and union recognition. 4 But the real test is yet to come. First, we must ask, how was this agreement won? Was it won by the secret negotiations of Dubinsky and Zimmerman, together with the enemy of the workers ‘ex-Police Commisisoner Grover Whalen at the swanky New York hotels? Not at all. Even Whalen admits that. From the very beginning, the LL.G.W.U. henchment were praying for the NRA officials to come in in order to save them from a real strike which could lead to a smashing vic- tory. They attempted to evade a general united strike proposed from the very beginning by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. Yet, we have Whalen’s own words—the words of the chief negotiator—that it was the fear of the Communists, of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union that forced them to make concessions. eae er eS yes praised Dubinsky and Zimmerman for their patriotism—patriot- ism of the kind of Lewis and Green when they broke the miners strike. Whalen said, “By recognizing the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union the manufacturers and jobbers would have a strong weapon to be used against Communist workers who have been trouble-makers in the industry.” Why are Communists trouble-makers to bosses like Whalen? Because they have been in the front lines preparing and leading struggles for wage increases. With Communists out of the way, through maneuvers with Dubinsky and Zimmerman, this brutal clubber of the unemployed, hopes that the paper agréement can be thrown into the waste basket. E touched the nub of the whole question when he brought out the role of the militant Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. It was the fear of the leadership of the NIWIU that gave the workers this agreement. And it will be only by intensifying the struggle advocated by these leaders—yes, by building the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union into a powerful organization—that the paper concessions will be turned into real money in the pay envelopes. We have had agreements of the Dubinsky brand in the past. Where did they lead? To the present sweat shop conditions. What guarantee have the dressmakers that Dubinsky and Zimmerman are not putting over another fast one? The only gurantee the workers have is their own militant organization in the shops. 'T is up to the workers to fight to make the present paper concessions real concessions. And that is just what Dubinsky, Zimmerman, Whalen & Co. do not want. The dressmakers should look with the gravest suspicion on this great chuminess of Dabinsky-Zimmerman with the very ex-police commissioner whose thugs have clubbed the skull of more than one dressmaker for fight- ing on the picket lines. On Monday, before they go back to work, every dressmaker should de- mand the organization of their own shop committees. In each individual shop there should be organization to see that the concessions are carried out, to see that no worker is victimized. Only in this way will the demands be insured not by the words of a slugger like Whalen, or the bosses’ tools like Zimmerman and Dubinsky. Arcee all, the dressmakers should demand the right to belong to unions of their own choosing. This means particularly building the very or- ganization that Mr. Grover A. Whalen fears—the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. It means strengthening the left opposition in the LL.G.W.U., strengthening the “trouble-makers’—that is, the “trouble- makers” for the bosses who with the help of the I.L.G.W.U. think they have granted only paper concessions. The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has proven itself the force that compelled concessions, that aroused and organized the militancy of the workers, that stands for a united struggle of all workers. That is the real road to wiping out the sweat shops in fact and not on paper alone. 5 a A Task for Party Units. E have had many, and very helpful letters from individual workers. They have not only told us how to improve the Daily Worker, but they have sent in subscriptions, placed bundle orders and contributed toward a sustaining fund for our paper. This we greatly appreciate. We urge all our readers, scattered throughout the entire country, to continue and increase their efforts, jointly with ours, to improve and build “Amer- ica’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” (in English). But as mucn as these comrades can do, it is not enough.’ Very favor- able sentiment for the Daily Worker has obviously been created by the changes already carried through. This sentiment will increase as we— with our readers’ help—further improve the paper. —'s lS But sentiment, comrades, is not enough. Circulation is what counts. | This can only bé increased: substantially and quickly 4y collective work, by the systematic and sustained work of the numerous workers’ organi- zetions. COMMUNIST PARTY units, sections and districts are, in the first place, responsible. They have the task of securing subscriptions, ordering bundles, building up carrier routes, developing daily sales at concentra- tion factories, setting up Daily Worker Volunteer groups, ete. They are also mainly responsible for developing the interest and activity of other workers’ bodies sueh as factory groups, trade union locals, workers’ clubs, and workers’ fraternal bodies. We suggest, therefore, a point for the agenda—the Daily Worker—at every unit meeting this week. We urge the units, furthermore, to divide their discussion into the following three parts: 1) Shortcomings and suggestions for improving the “Daily”. 2) Daily increase by unit effort in factory and neighborhood sales. 3) The units’ aid for a permanent sustaining fund. *. * . IMMEDIATELY following these unit meetings, and on the basis of the unit discussions, we urge every unit organizer to send a letter to the Daily Worker, direct, giving us the unit’s views of the paper and telling us exactly what the unit intends to do to build and secure the six-eight page “Daily”. i A rise in circulation, comrades, is already under way. A. serious, sustained effort by the Party units can quickly double and even triple our circulation. Let’s have such an effort. } Planning New Deceit delegation of American socialist leaders has left to teke part in the special Congress of the Second Socialist International which opens in Paris this week. < This Congress of the Second Socialist International meets at a time when its leading Socialist Party, its most advanced section, th. Social- Democracy of Germany has surrendered to Fascism. This cpumpling of the German Socialist Party has brought tbout a crisis in the councils of the Second International. The socialist leaders must now find new methods of maintaining their influence over the workers, new methods, particularly, to stem the streaming of the soci- alist workers into united actions with the Communists. ‘The New Leader, leading socialist paper, says as much, when it writes that the Congress “will undertake the task of re-examining socialist methods and deciding what new lines may be required in the battle as it has shaped up since the growth,of fascism.” And toward what will these “‘new lines” be directed? Toward the question of participation in capitalist governments, and toward the ques- tion of fighting the united front with the Communists, says the New Leader. “ It is therefore, obvious that the basic social-democratic tactics which have brought the workers to so many defeats will not be re-examined and changed. The worship of capitalist legality, the treachery of the “lesser evil”, the betrayal of the United Fror‘—t>-s- will not be altered. ee . ‘The “Daily Worker” will report the Second International Conference. | Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, MONDA Y, AUGUST. 21, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents of Reds Paper Concessions Can W. U. united general strike to wipe out sweat shop and slave conditions. In his speech to the LL.G.W.U. leaders and the dress manufactur- ers, organized in the United Associa- tion of Dress Manufacturers, Grover Whalen admitted that the pressure of the Needle Trades Workers Union, and the fear of Communist strike leadership in the garment industry had a lot to do with the concessions won in the strike. The wage agreement drawn up and approved by the general strike committee of the I.L.G.W.U. at the Rand School on Saturday, provides wage increases for all workers. As drawn up the wage agreement provides the following rates: Guaranteed Minimum Wage Scales for Workers on Dresses Selling for $3.75 or Less. New York City Cutters .... «$45 a week Operators ... -75e an how Examiners .. $20 a week Pressers . 85c an hour Finishers Cleaners . Samplemakers * Out of Town $45 a week -63e an hour Cutter . Operators . Examiners Pressers . Finishers .. Cleaners .. Samplemakers Guaranteed Minimum Wage Scales for Work on Dresses Selling for More Than $3.75. In New York City Cutters .. .$45 per week Operators . .90c per hour | Examiners $21 per week | Pressers ‘ $1 per hour Drapers . -$27 per week Finishers $22 per week {Cleaners ... .$15 per week Samplemakers . -$30 per week Monday afternoon a general mass meeting of strikers is to take place at the 71st Regiment Armory to ap- prove the agreement. The conference of representa- tives of striking shops which was held on Saturday afternoon, Aug- ust the 19th at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St., after discussing terms of the settlement made by the Whalen commission has decided to call upon all dress strikers to remain in the halls until the price committees settle prices witit the employers, that guarantee the increased minimum scale provided in the settlement. Representatives of nearly 400 shops, including 112 shops striking under the leadership of the Inter- national, participated in this con- ference. Altogether there were 835 delegates. The conference was held under the auspices of the strike committee of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Uniqn. All speakers stressed the fact that in order that this agreement shall not remain merel; necessary that al strikers be as- sured first by their price committee that they will receive the benefit of increased prices, according to the settlement. Whalen Says Fear Forming Shop Committees and Building NTWIU and Left Opposition in ILGWU NEW YORK.—After secret conferences of the dress manufacturers, I. L. G. W. U, leaders and ex-police commissioner Grover A. agreement to end the dress strike was drawn up granting, on paper so far concessions in the form of wage increases and recognition of the I. L. G. The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union led 15,000 strikers under its banners, and had called for a® on paper, it is; Forced Dress Wage Rise Be Made Real Only by Whalen, an Heat in Bethlehem Steel Mill Kills JoeBlack, Laborer (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) SPARROWS POINT, Md.—Last week, Joe Black, laborer on the CB gang, died. He leaves his wife, who also works in the house of an Open Hearth foreman, Mr. Baker. Both Joe Black and his wife lived where his wife worked. Their life was a life of servitude, a slave’s existence. On a hot, very hot day . .. when a lot of new white workers couldn't stand the heat on the Open Hearth Floor, Joe Black was called out of the labor gang to work on the Open Hearth Floor Number One. Other men went home and said to hell with the furnaces, so Joe Black was made to go up or lose his labor job. In Sparrows Point if some colored men quit, they “don’t have to come back to work the next day.” Four others besides Joe Black were taken off the “checker job” to .work on the OH floor. Joe Black's last pay was 28 cents per hour and they asked for 3rd helpers’ raté of pay on the OH floor. Mr. Baker wouldn’t give it to them. It is understood that even though the men were working on the OH floor, the charge was made against No. 62 Furnace checker Job. Joe Black complained of being sick and overheated, but they say he was scared to quit, was very worried, didn’t want to lose his job, so he kept on making furnace bottoms. The bosses stood around gleefully, preparations for the “heat” (next batch of steel) will go on, no mat- ter how hot it gets. Bethlehem Steel profits will keep on. The Wall Street boys want their profits. What does it matter??? ... what is a worker's life when there are so many unem- ployed. . .. Labor is cheap. KEEP THE FURNACES GOING, DAMNT! KEEP THE FURNACES GOING! HURRAH FOR PROFITS! Joe Black finished up at 3 pm., and turned himself into the dispen- sary very faithfully after the day’s work. He didn’t go on the company’s time, but on his own time. He was sent home .. . or rather to Mr. Baker’s home, where his wife works. Later on Mr. Baker brought him back to the dispensary, but it was too late. . . . JOE BLACK DIED AT 9 P.M. ‘Famous Runner to Be Evicted in Medford MEDFORD, Mass.—Jimmy Henni- gan, famous marathon runner, has just two days left before he is evicted from his home at 40 Everett St. Hennigan, who has of late been do- ing his running looking for a job, is now finding out that the bosses are only interested in his running and not in his livelihood. Hennigan, who is world famous, finds it impossible to get a job in order to sustain himself, his wife and six children. Jim Gralton Deported from Irish Free State, Gralton ‘Arrives inNew York Communist Organizer Greeted at Pier by Delegations NEW YORK.—Deported by the (Irish Free State he helped to estab- lish, Jim Gralton told his story yes- terday to the delegation of the Irish Workers’ Club and the Marine Work- ers’ Industrial Union which met him as he got off the S. S. Brittanic. “They decided not to put up any longer with my organizing the County Leitrim peasants and they handed me the deportation oraer the day after my father died. ‘Undesirable alien to -be deported for the good of the country.’ I made up my mind to put up.a fight-and-went from farmhouse to-farmhouse staying four or five days at each place, walking at night. Re- gular underrground rairead. The authorities got me a week ago last Friday and shipped me off. There were no charges against me and I got no hearing. They just took my money to pay for the passage and shipped me off.” Jim Gralton went back to Ireland @ little over a year ago to help run the small County: Leitrim farm which his 75-year-old father and mother could no longer handle. Immediately he joined the Communist Party and led an action to reestablish an em- ployee evicted from the Earl of King- ston’s estate. “We stuck him back and he is there yet,” Jim says, “there's plenty of guns | in Ireland.” Crew Brought In to Break Ship Strike Joins Picket Lines BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 20. — A crew recruited from New York for breaking the strike on the S. S. Dia- mond Cement, arrived here at 5:30 p. m. yesterday, but went out on a sympathetic strike when approached by strikers. Eighteen broke through the lines of police and company agents trying to herd them aboard a launch for a trip to the ship. Only three professional scabs went aboard. All unemployed seamen on the waterfront attended a militant mass meeting tonight and heard the ship strikers and the New York men pledging to support the strike to vic- tory. The demands of the seamen and dockers to be presented at Washing- ton were adopted unanimously. Ten seamen, including strikers, and New York men, were elected to go to Washington on Monday morning to | the marine hearings, — (1,800 Donner Plant Men in Buffalo, N.Y. Sign Up in Union Hold Mass Meeting to| Make Final Strike Preparations By BILL DUNNE BUFFALO, Aug. 20.—There are big developments here in the Donner | plant of the Republic Steel Company. | ‘The men of the chipping department have demanded 62 cents per hour and given the company till Monday. | In the present situation in Repub- lic Steel some 600 to 700 men in the chipping department are involved di- rectly and 2,200 indirectly in various | other departments. Friday afternoon one chipping de-| partment turn—about 200 men—quit | work in protest against the wage| *scale. The next turn met in the shop and although supposed to start work at four p. m. did not start until six- thirty. They had decided to quit with the earlier shift, but since this shift chipping department committee — elected by the whole department, and | because of the pressure of the su- perintendent who begged them to wait until Monday so he could give them an answer after getting in touch with the Youngstown headquarters of the company, they decided to work. Put Demands At a meeting later it was decided} to deliver the ultimatum to the com-| pany. The demand is for 6212 cents an hour and no tonnage rate. The Republic Steel has a company union, originally organized on the! standard steel company pattern with committeemen chosen by the com-| pany — accompanied of course with some slight pretenses of democratic elections. But recently the workers have been carrying through actual elections and have committees which represent them although still formally part of the company union. These committees have followed the organizational pattern and work on! the plan of those of the Steel andj Metal Workers Industrial Union which is very popular among the men. At a meeting late last night it was decided by these committee re- presentatives to have a settlement of | the demands by four P. M., Monday or stop work. Places for holding mass meetings are being secured for Sunday. At these meetings the final decisions and| preparations for a strike will be made if the committees meet a point blank refusal. More than 1,800 of the 2,800 workers have signed applications for the SMWIU. A number of these be-} | long to the I. A. of M, and the | Switchmen’s Union. Knowing some- thing of the extent of organization and the determination among the men it is by no means impossible that | the company will make some conces- sions on hourly wage scales or ton- nage rates, The reasons for the steel company acceptance of the Roosevelt code without union provisions is quite clear from the plant conditions as is also the opposition of the workers to it: Wages Decreases 50 Peh Cent In the chipping department of the Republic mill, for example, workers employed 120 hours over a two-week period previously earned between $60 and $80. Working time has now been cut to 96 hours and workers make only from $30 to $40 in the two-week period—and often much less than this. Roughly speaking, then only 24 hours have been cut from the work time—20 per cent—while wages actual income per worker has de- creased 50 per cent and more. had acted without consulting the) |Don’t Miss the Two |New Cartoon Strips, | | |Pages 2 and 5 Today Two brand new cartoon features | begin in the “Daily” today. | One is “Gutters of New York,” | by Bell, on page two. The other is the eagerly-awaited Quirt and Newhouse strip, “Jim Martin,” on page five. Page five also introduces a regu- | liar daily radio-column, “Tuning | In,” with program schedules of the most powerful New York sta- tions, | Johnson Stalls Marine Workers | on Code Hearing Union Mobilizes Its Delegations to Put Demands NEW YORK.—A second telegram from the Marine Workers Industrial Union, demanding a hearing on the | Marine Workers’ “codes” was sent to | Gen. Jehnson, Thursday. The first | message sent two weeks ago, brought | back the meager answer that no date has been set nor demand made for) codes from the industry. He has not | answered the second. The M.W.1.U. telegram to Johnson | informed him that a delegation was | being sent, and demanded that a hearing be. given them when they arrive in ‘Washington next Wednes-/ day, Aug 23. In spite of Johnson's statements that he had not called for codes for | the marine industry, the papers re- port that such action had been taken. The M.W.LU. pointed out in its telegram that thousands of marine workers had endorsed the M.W.LU. demands and were ready to support them. | At present the shipping industry is | trying to evade the demands of the | workers for decent working hours and conditions and decent wages. The} shipowners claim that their “‘confer- | ence agreements” govern the industry and wages and hours are limited | under the Shipping Act of 1928, and the Seamen's Act. Since those’ laws are flagrantly | violated, with no effort on the part} of the government to maintain them, | the pretense is ridiculous. Delegates to present the demands will be elected at mass meetings of seamen, longshoremen and har- borworkers this week and will go to Washington to present the demands to the NIRA executives. Behind this campaign, the M.W IU. is organizing the seamen and other marine workers to fight for the | demands in the “code” if the gov- ernment and the shipowners do not come across with them. The “codes” call for a minimum yearly income for A.B.’s of $625 a year, for ten months of work, andd proportioned wages for other seamen. When this is not reached, the gov- ernment and industry should make up the difference. They demand an 8 hour day, 40 hour week, and crew | schedule applicable. A ship committee on every ship and the right to strike to enforce the demands of the work- | ers are also included. For longshoremen a minimum of 30 hours pay a week is demanded, and a maximum of 40 hours work, with | restoration of the 1930 scale of wages, and the right of local unions and dock committees to limit the size and weight of sling loads. Towboat- men are making similar demands under the “codes.” | signed to mislead the workers. | Coneral Roosevelt OK’s Steel, Oil, Lumber Low Pay Republic Steel Workers Fight PayCuts of NRA;Prepare Strike Deaf to Workers’ Demands; ScabShop Policy Is Approved Big Trusts Write Own Wage Terms; Codes to Run 90 Day WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Before going to his 1,000-acre farm in Hyde Park, New York, for a week-end va- cation, President Roosevelt in a few hours disposed of codes covering working conditions for millions of | workers in the steel, lumber and oil industries. Not a bit of attention was paid to what the workers themselves said. Final action was taken between the big bosses themselves, General John- son and President Roosevelt. All these codes are to run for 90 days, when the bosses can modify them. A big point taken up was the open-shop. A victory for the scab shop was won by the big trusts. The way the thing was worked out is de- The lumber, steel and oil codes copy Sec- tion 7 (a) of the NRA. This section guarantees the open shop and the right of the workers to join their own unions. Open Shop Dominates But in practice, the open shop dom- inates, as is shown by the statement of Robert P. Lamont, representative of. J. P. Morgan and the big, steel trusts at the steel hearing. ‘The agreement for the open shop and company unions, not protested by William Green, and agreed to by Johnson and President Roosevelt, is being circulated to all steel workers. It is undoubtedly similar to the open shop agreements in lumber and oil. In the words of Mr. Lamont it is | as follows: “qt should be distinctly under- stood, however, that the omission of the Section (on the open shop) does not imply any change in at- titude of the industry on the two points referred to: that the indus- try believes that the employee rep- resentation plans (company unions) now in effect at its plants are de- sired by its employees; that the members of the industry will na- turally do everything in their power to preserve the satisfactory rela- tionships now existing with their employees.” Rush Coal, Auto Codes Within the next 48 hours, Genera Johnson is preparing to rush throuth similar codes for the coal and auto- mobile industries. Sharp clashes took place around the writing of all the codes, not 80 much on the question of wages, hours or unions, but on the question of which of the big trusts would gain by the price-fixing arrangements. This was particularly seen in the oil industry. The oil code, which will be directly under Rosevelt’s control, says very little about wages and hours, except that hours are to be on the 40-a-week minimum, with plenty of exceptions. ‘The main points in the oil code’ deal with such matters as control of crude petroleum production; limiting output to benefit Gulf Oil, owned by Mellon, and Standard Oil, owned by the Morgans. The smaller operator® (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Writing Exposure Editor's Note——The following cir- cumstantial account of the burning of the Reichstag by the Nazis was written by a bitter enemy of the German Communists, Ernst Ober- fohren, leader of the German Na- tionalist parliamentary fraction. He paid with his life for writing this article. Soon after he had writ- ten it, he was found murdered in his home, and the Nazi authorities gave out the usual announcement that he had “committed suicide”. Oberfohren’s authorship is vouched for by the “Manchester Guardian”, for which he had also written other articles exposing the Nazis. It has been widely circulated throughout Europe, and was reprinted in Amer- ica last week by the “New Republic”. Nationalist Leader Paid With His Life for Hitler-von Papen Cabinet Four Communists, Ernst Torgler, of Secrets of the leader of the Communist fraction in the Reichstag, George Dimitroff, Blagoi Popoff and Vassil Taneff, Bul-; garian Communists, will go on trial for their lives in September on framed-up charges of having set the Reichstag fire. Recent news from Germany in- dicate that it is planned to try. still other German Communists on the same framed-up charges. se 8 By ERNST OBERFOHREN. Several weeks before the Reichs- tag fire Goebbels believed it neces- sary to find evidence in the Karl Liebknecht Haus, the national head- quarters of the German Communist Party, to prove the criminal inten- tions of the Communists and to show that a Bolshevist uprising was imminent and had been narrowly averted. Under the administration Enemy of Communists Reveals How Nazi Leaders Planned Reichstag Fire failed to locate the desired evidence. Goebbels therefore decided that Ber- lin must have a new chief of police, a man out of the National Socialist ranks. Von Papen was reluctant to consent to Melcher’s dismissal, for the man. had always served him faithfully. The proposal of the Na- tional Socialists that Count Helldorf be appointed in his place was reject- ed by the cabinet, which finally com- ‘ised on the more moderate Ad- miral von Levetzow, who, though he belonged to the National Socialists, still had intimate connections in German Nationalist. circles. ‘To smug- gle the desired evidence into the Karl Liebknecht Haus was a simple mat- ter. The police had the plans of the building and were familiar with the lay-out of the cellar.. The necessary documents could easily be © pianted there. From the start Goebbels recognized the wisdom of emphasizing the auth~ enticity of the “concealed documents” by some overt act. All arrangements were made. On February 24, the police broke into the Karl Liebknecht Haus, which had been closed by the of Melcher the police had repeatedly authorities several weeks searched the premises, carted away | masses of material and padlocked the | building. On the same day the authorities announced that highly treasonable material had been dis- covered there. Von Papen Wanted Better Forgeries. ‘On February 26, Conti, an official government news service, described the plans cf the Communists in great detail. It is unnecessary to repro- duce the exact wording here. Its lurid style must have started even an unthinking reader. It told of secret passages, automatic doorways, mys- terious hiding places, catacombs, un~- derground vaults and other equally sensational discoveries. To apply the terms “catacombs” and “underground vaults” to the cellar of an office building was fantastic on the face of it. It was significant also that the official party headquarters should before, | of have housed several hundred pounds of highly incriminating evidence in easily accessible compartments, ma- terial which gave the particulars of their plans for the coming revolu- tion, and that these plans should have fallen at once into the hands ludicrous was the announcement that, the Communist Party and its sub- | sidiary organizations had led a sec- ond, illegal existence in the cellars of their own headquarters. The searching of the Karl Lieb- knecht Haus meanwhile had precipi- tated a lively quarrel in the coalition government. Von Papen, Hugenberg and Seldte, indignant over the use of so obvious a fraud by the govern- ment, insisted that the alleged docu- ments were such obvious forgeries that they could not possibly be made public, The whole matter, they said, should have been arranged with mucit more finesse and they pointed to the notorious “Zinoviev Letter” as a shin- ing example. German Nationalists and Steel Helmets ridiculed the idea that anyone would believe that the Communists had established illegal | headquarters in the Liebknecht Haus. Surely it would have been more the police. Even more! plausible to have discovered the se- * | Nationalist leeders. Shows Nationalists Anger That Nazi Plots Against Communists Were Not Clever Enough; Tells How Nazis Carried Out Fire Plot cret hide-out of the Communists in some other part of the city. The documents were published over their protests. The Nationalists were forced to accept the situation and to vote, much against their will, for more stringent measures against the Communist Party. But they balked at any proposal that would eliminate the Communists from the elections cn March 5, They wished under all circumstances to prevent the National Socialist Party from receiving’ an ab- solute majority in the Reichstag by outlawing the Communist Party. Gcebbels and Goering were out- raged by the behavior of the German They demanded the suppression of the Communist Party. To lend plausibility to the incriminating evidence, faithful Nazi followers had already fired public buildings at strategic points through- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) eneet