The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1933, Page 6

SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, 7¢ excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City, Foreign and Canada: One year, $9; € months, $5; 3 months, 9, > Pablichel by the Comprodaity Peblishing Co., Inc., datiy except Sunday, at 00 &, Page Six ath St., New York City, N. ¥. ‘Telephone ALgonquin 4-7955, Cable “DAIWORK Address and mall chacks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, New York, N. ¥ Contre SEPTEMBER 13, 1933 ANTI-WAR CONGRESS COMMITTEE DEMANDS U.S. HANDS OFF CUBA SAG ean U.S. Fascist Danger, Socialist Leader Says Panken Confesses Desire to “Prevent Revolu- tion”; Other Delegate Admits Socialist Parties SHARING THE SEAT! - ALL FEDERAL OFFICES TO j FORCE WARSHIP RECALL —By Michael Gold Our Own Flesh and Blood Declares Cuban Crisis Most Urgent Concern | of Congress—Calls on All Supporters “which js the newspaper most val- uable. interesting and necessary t 5 wb m 2 the American working ¢ to Wire Protest to Roosevelt Will Repeat 1914 Betrayals out a doubt, the Dail EE SRS CA ee RS re: here on ds the sw NEW YORK.—Calling the Cuban crisis the most urgent concern of By MH of the merged natic the United States Congress Against War, the arrangements committee for ESTERDAY morning, a leading Socialist delegaie to the recent Paris tang Conference of the Socialist Second International stepped off the boat, and delivered to the assembled capitalist reporters a condensed report of what he had done at the Paris meeting. He declared: “I made it clear at the International Conference that we are not concerned in America with the ¢—————————.___ fear of Fascism. We are an inter- national country, and not a na- tional, and that is our guarantee the Congress, representing 109 organizations with over 700,000 members, yesterday called on all workers, farmers, and other supporters of the Con- gress to demonstrate and picket before all U. S. government offices. The Congress committee issued ae = statement declaring that Americ: Many Mass Meets for Cuba Protest s way about often it is yet I would I say abc battleships and marines in Cuban on the | waters are forcing the will of Amer- more exciting | ican business interests on the Cuban fight against Fascism and the War Danger. The leading Socialists of | the world gathered there. bulleti itely tlefield e epic poetry of not rs in jail or e Daily Work- A Comparison That May Be Odious sensational- going tabloid | war, to demand the called to pass general resolutions in | favor of peace, but to mobilize the mass of American workers, farmers, and farmers, upon all opponents oi withdrawal of United States warships from Cuban We must act now.” The United States Congress Against War opens in New York Sept. 29,/ with two mass receptions to the del- Imperialist Group | support of the revolutionary Cuban masses, and in protest against Amer- | meeting, | The mecting will aid the Cuban | | Young Communist League by raising | Paris Police Club 5 City Suicides in One delegate from the Paris Confrence. Now listen to another, delivered last York City. He said: “At the Paris Conferences, I saw the leading European Socialists, Between these two reports, one can get a illuminating picture of where the Socialist leaders of the Second International now stand. ative than a mountain of | people Rene against Fascism, I differed from ne wspape! Any class fight- | “The Cuban crisis is the most some of my colleagues, as they in- And out of that “emergency” wer needs constant direc’ | urgent concern of the United States : sisted that we stress revolution | conference, from which the Social- is to be brane ee Congress Against wart aS state- a @ in ew or while I contend that democracy | ist workers of the world, oppressed h le and | ment says in part. “The 2,000 or more hould be used as a weapon to | by capitalist exploitation and ‘fe= eir daily struggle: | delegates coming from every section) __ Bess , preveie pevalitlia”” ti [geelenshey: teerocianis ware to-havewes J ye reminded f Jnited States hav n 7 is me ees ne 4, 4 Salist S mission, | ett oe ates have not been! Y.C.L., Students, Anti ‘That is one report of a Socialist | ceived revolutionary, Socialist, guid- ance in their fight against capital- ism, comes this miserable cynically | hopeless prediction that the Social- nis is what the f i f Plan Protests Thursday night by Edward Levinson - and all peace-loving people agains’ Ss { ursday night by ; , 5 si 7 and what the| setual measures of war. — at a meeting of Socialist City del- | istJeaders of the world are again ois attempt | “We therefore call upon all workers} NEW YORK—-A mass meeting in egates at the Burnside Manor New | Preparing to repeat the notorious | treachery of 1914, | Out of this conzerence which was | “to fight Fascism,” comes Panken, Shouldn't be | Waters. We call upon all supporters | rach bits os f % geri be & French, Belgian, Spanish and Eng- | the Socialist leader, who sees in the f you offered a | Of our Congress to wire immediately | “Stem secon O° the Xoung Com- lish, with their kid gloves off. I | United States a happy capitalist the choice he Empire | t© this effect to President Roosevelt. | munist League, Thursday night, Sep- came away with the conviction | paradise, where Fascism is iorevcr ose, quite ly, her own as *- | Ave, A number of street meetings will breaks out, Socialis! ‘arties | “tds © situation that deserves b! eee Petes ee rore, all 80V-| be held and thousands of leaflets dis- 5 | will be part of the war machinery | pretty caretul thought from every ¥y ; | tributed in preparation for the mass | | of their governments, | worker, partfcularly the workers in | the. Socialist Party, who sincerely believe that their leaders are aim- ing at a real struggle against the | coming imperialist world slaughter, egates, in St. Nicholas Arena, 69 W.| funds for the publication of a youth nov ea 5 66th St. and in Mecga Temple, 135| Paper in Cuba, or. er e ense . . The recent international Socialist | who ‘sincerely believe that their W. 55th St. Congress sessions will| The Anti-Imperialist ue has | ornin 0 ice e ort Conference at Paris was a hastily| leaders are putting up a fight be held Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 in St. called a mass meeting for tonight, at | 5] convenéd “emergency” conference, | against Fascism. Nicholas Arena Chinese Anti-Red | 8 o'clock, in Park Palace Hall, 2 W.| 110th St. Robert Dunn, James W.) | Ford, William Simons, Frank Ibanez | and M. Lamar will be among the| | Protest Meeting — 'One Paroled from Jail, Commits Suicide, 60 Hurt, Many Jailed ; i called, the Socialist leaders said, to| ‘Austria to Become | WoO: things stand out in Panken's | statement. He does not believe | tee Fc Because He Can't Find Job [that it is necesstry to tight aguinst ding of smut | | Fascist seaction in this country, Lik Grav e. But who lt see Brooklyn Chapter of the Na- | at Huge Protest | a rs | because. “we are an_ international ional Forces Ready To Fall Back to Sea Student League will hold a protest meeting at Brighton Beach Ave. and 7th St., Brooklyn, Thursday night. Gathering PARIS, Sept...12—More than 60/ lyn, New York and vicinity by police NEW YORK—Five suicides in one morning were reported in Brook- stations yesterday. James Labratte, 39, unable to get a job since he was released from The National Student League will Were injured and a large number in| Prison, ended his life by taking poison at his home, 511 Sccond Avenue, | ;at 8°30 o'clock, Among the speakers | will be Mike Gold, William Simons, | against the forthcoming “trial” in ‘in Los Angeles, Calif. parole from Clinton prison where | he had served four years and two! Completely Fascist, Dollfuss Announces Men Stand Armed | country.” And he is opposed to a workers revolution—he wants to use | “democracy” to “prevent: revolution, And there is nothing in the make- up of the American Socialist leader- 3 ‘ ee: 4,1 | hold a symposium on the Cuban sit- | Jail today after the Paris police last | ———---—— —~@where he lived with his mother! ,, : : »» | : : Canton General Will uation in its headquarters, S89 Siem | Right attacked an anti-Fascist over- | Plan Hunger March 24 15-year old son, Parliament Dead, ie icnatipaeteplba apace tes The Mak : Ave., Friday evening, September 15,/10W meeting near Wagram Hall. | 8 He was recently released on, & Chief 140,000 | cubbings that the workers of Mil- : Make Stand in The meeting was called to protest 3 ; Says leI as k ing: e waukee have received from the police (of the Socialist Mayor Hoan are a Seaport FOOCHOW: Sept. 11. — General Tsai Ting-kai, commanding the 19th Route Army, has been forced to abandon all serious resistance to the Chinese Red Army in North Fukien province, and to make his stand in Oakley Johnson and Frank Ibanez. | Leipzig, September 21, of Ernst Torg- | “ \ler, George Dimitroff, Vassil Taneff | (months. He left a note saying jand Blagoi Popoff, Communist lead-| 2 that circumstances make it im- LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 12- No Warshi S Onl Jers accused of the fire set by Nazis| possible for him to go straight and ps, IV | which burned down the Reichstag on| A county hunger march’ for October | rather than cause his mother fur- | gelbert Dollfuss yesterday announced | wae’ tubine” beat tne blessings of 5 | February 27, | 2 will be planned at a United Front) they grief, he was “taking the|that the future form of government | American capitalism, the long, mur- Tugboats in Cuba, | yerhe hall was jammed with 6,000] easiest way out.” His mother sup- | of Austria must be a Pascist state On| qerous guns’ of the American im- ae grim.forecast of what the Socialist VIENNA, Sept. 12.—Declaring that‘ jeaders can do along the line of | parliamentary government in Aus-| “preventing revolution.” | tria is dead forever, Chancellor Ex-| “Even while this Socialist delegate n00n. On Times ha Relief Cut 40 P. C. Conference whieh is scheduled for} Sept. 17. Arrangements to call the! this fortified seaport, under the guns | Persons, and thousands more at- ous | Ported the family by doing clean- the Italian model. | sifti their of American, Batis, Japanese, ie e 7 | vempted to hold an overfiow meeting | Conference was made at a previous / ihe ake . | The announcement was made while | bossa: ig iy gree shad of the ag. a claim ell | Chinese gunboats. | outside, when the police charged. At | S@thering where delegates represeni-| '8- ote ans 140,000 Austrian troops, police, and | - ite: 4 nage “He gt Ne ES nce oc wan. SAYS Roosevelt Aid| sstte” mse, iad |fa'iao wskes'ee’ pct” | «saan Aan lan ee uta, een ad as ‘i in the tem-| ance is still offered by the govern- ferri and Henri Torres, two of| Relief to the jobless is now 40 per , Hanging himself with his trouser, against threatened Nazi aggression | Bip chideous, ene Gane mache ° ple of obiective for one of its|ment troops to the Chinese Soviet President “Too Busy” pees best-known lawyers, read| cent Jess than it was last June. About | Belt from a billboard on Queens | from across the German border. | heads and faces of striking workers chief wim of com- | forces which are besieging Kienning, ) Y | documents proving that the Nazis a half million people are dependent | Boulevard, James Carlson, 50, of| The announcement does not indi- | could’. he hekae te Paterson, Soe 100 miles northwest of here, the back | had set the fire for which they have Street Forest Hills, | cate any striking change in Dollfuss’ So Louis H. Howe, secretary to Pres- viete and of the epoch. 1 i - ; on county relief, yet the charity lists | 75-87 113th ‘4 r | Tt gives more coverage to historic | Of the government resistance is brok- Getting Fish to | Put the Communists on trial for their | sre being cut daily. Vodunittea i aniailer ok | point of view, since he has been rul-| Jersey, Utah and Fennsylvania, ner American |en, and the Fukien hinterland is vir- See Delegation ares. a [noticed the body and not Ing as a Fascist dictator since the| Let it not be thought that the So docu- | tually in Communist hands. { eas 8 Sa I ti to TT il lice, y eae Siecle Bee ti a ne ialist rigid one A bests deers . io Machi 1 ts A . $ iJ came to power wit he help of the | “prevent rev ion” ror ; Golithe swale wean, set orien cae ORR ete ee war Mass Protes sin hyestigator ells Leipoe the Social Democratic leaders who called; In 1918 in Germany, the Socialist ratte cations are being thrown up ovsside SPS in Cuba; they're just tugboats. St Mother to Get Ready — william Brodsky, 37, him a “lesser evil,” compared with| government of Noske, Ebert and Ve spectable historian, this collect Tommsen of our neriod was ca t in a whole series of anti- Soviet li forgeries and slanders by no less than Walt Liopmann. It has f printed distorted and malic of Commu- nist: evenis i But let us forget this also thov know ex- actly hey do. Being truthful about Communism would help it along. So good old Grandfather Times cannot help occasionally slip- ping out of his old-f: loned garden of neutrality and tearing off the other capitalist were-wolves on a lying and slandering raid against the working class A Piciure of the World But here is the New York Times of September 9th last, an average} day typical of our period. On the first page of this immense 30-page paper, one finds next to the mast- hhead, a box with the words, “All the | the walls. This is no threat to the Red armies, which did not plan on taking Foochow itself, but only to establish their power in the rich farming regions of the province, in which they are fast succeeding. African Negro Court Flogs White Offender; British Send Marines CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Sept 12.—Turning the tables on the British oppressors of the South African Ne- groes, a native court in Bechuana- land is reported to have ordered a white man flogged after his having made repeated assaults on Negro women. Vice-Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans 1s on his way from here to Serowe, cap- ital of Bechuanaland, with 100 ma- rines and 100 sailors to make an “in- vestigation. ident Roosevelt, answered a delega- tion which went to Washington Mon- day to protest against U. S. interven- cion in Cuba, William Simons, secre- tary of the Anti-Imperialist League, and member of the delegation, said yesterday, Howe told the delegation that Am- bassador Sumner Welles “took no sides” in Cuba; that the American government would recognize any Cu- ban government that “maintained order”; that the administration had convinced the representatives of Latin-American nations of its “good intentions.” | The delegation answeved that they | spoke for the Latin-American mass- | | es, not for their puppet governments: | that the whole record of the United States in Cuba since 1898 was one of | intervention; that the United States government would not allow any gov- ernment to be set up in Cuba which | it did not approve. | President Roosevelt, who was “too ”,| busy with the codes” to see the dcle- Spain Against New Crowds ‘Demonstrate Opposition to Lerroux MADRID, Sept. 12.—Singing the “International” and shouting, “Down with Lerroux,” thousands demon- strated here yesterday as Alejandro Lerroux, reactionary Repunncan, at- tempted to form a cabinet to succeed Premier Azana. _ Police charged the demonstrators in Madrid, injuring several. In Bar- celona, capital of Catalonia, 300,000 demonstrated at a celebration in memory of Juan Casanovas, national hero, and cheeved denunciations of Lerroux. For the Eviction NEW YORK.—Aiter having fi " | off, Klein, a cotton goods worker, was finally evicted from his home at 707 E. 181st St., Friday. The investigator from the Home | Relief Bureau came to Mrs. Klein (without a rent check) and told her to get her four children and the fui- niture prepared for being thrown oui on the street. Klein has been un- employed two years. Buffalo Unemployed Get Relief Increase | BUFFALO, N. Y—As a result of the strike of 3,500 relief workers, led the City Welfare was forced recently to give a 5 and 10 per cent increase war veteran, committed suicide b; inhaling gas in his furnished room: at 50 Lexington Ave. Several days | his gas and then his electricity shut | ago he wrote to his wife that, “it Reactionary Chief ‘is best for you and the children.” | A wife and three children were left behind when William Scocolick, 55, hanged himself by a rope at- | tached to an over head beam in a cellar at 149 Sanford St. The fa~ | mily lives at 784 Halsey St. Out of work for a long time, Mrs. Caroline Reese, 48, was found , hanging from a beam in the clothes | j closet of her home at 661 Pros- | pect Place, Brooklyn. ; e TRENTON, N. J. — Frank) by the Unemployed: Council, against | Brower, 86, an inmate for 13 years | Switzerland, Premier i forced labor and for increased relief, of the Odd Fellows Home, com. | Yesterday declared the continued al- mitted suicide by slashing both | wrists and his throat with a razor | | Nazi Fascism. Invasion Pians Charged VIENNA, Sept. 12—Germany is preparing an armed invasion of Aus- tria, with the help of the German Minister to Austria, the “Reichspost,” | official organ of the Austrian gov- ernment, has charge of. ‘The Nazis are building an army of Austrian Nazis in Bavaria for this purpose, the paper declares, and have also organized sabotage of the Aus- trian government's plans for electri- | fication of the railways |New King! Renewslraq Allegiance to Britain BAGDAD, Sept. 12.—In the name of King Ghasi, who succeeds his father, King Feisal, who died in Sashid Ali Beg legiance of the government of Iraq to the British Empire. Iraq, while nominally free, has Scheidemann shot down the Com- |munist workers of Berlin quite as efficiently as the Kaiser did. In_ 1931, at Vienna, thé German Socialists boasted that “Germany is not Italy.” They supported Hinden- berg as being. “preferable” to Hit= ler. And let it not be forgotten thay. the Socialist leaders all over the | world, including Norman Thomas in this” country, gave their whole- hearted approval io this policy, Thomas hailing Hindenberg as a “great democrat.” Now Hindenberg embraces Hitler jin public, murmuring ‘hopeiully ot | the return of “my master, | the | Kaiser.” It is obvious that Panken is now | doing in this country what his So- | clalist colleagues have done in Eu- | rope..He is playing right into the |hands of advancing capitalist Fas- | cist. reaction by declaring that the | Workers in this country do not have | to wage daily, active, struggle , News that’s Fit to Print.” This has | disdains to answer Lloyd George been the proud boast of this paper | who had attacked him in his me- for some 40 odd years, but nobody! moirs as an egotist. “Mr. L. George's against the forces of capitalist re- action, against the growing menace. “ on all grocery orders, |and then jumping from the third | turned over its rich oil fields to Great | With the sharp increase in prices, story of the building. | Britain, as a source of fuel for the : however, this relief increase is en- | cgi ag mesos ae 2S \Brilish’ navy, and Great Britain of Fascist reaction. gation, was actually meeting @ dele-| Lerroux, who is oe eee Lene dy Lge & March, one of Spain paved oe lant stuffed tarpon, and as anti- | i has yet been able to explain what! utterances are beneath contempt.”| intervention aeeektion left ‘ite | Bonen Oe ee ae the words mean. They probably | Correct, but so are the Kaiser's ut-| White House, a platinum blonde, | is opposed to even the pedi a of have some vague appeal to suburban | terances beneath contempt. | “Miss America,” was being ushered | carrying out the land reform program fathers with 16 yearold daughters.| Next column: Paris offers to pay | ia. | which was made by Azana, Who can tell about these mysteries? | 10 per cent on its debts to America. | Anyway, next to this assurance of| (But it wants 100 per cent of the| ~ purity, is the Blue Nira-bird, with | Czarist debts from the Soviet Union.) | another assurance, “we do our part.”| And the Spanish Premier resigns as And if you analyze this slogan, it| polls show he is defeated; another means as little as the other. Who is| crisis, to decide whether the Spanish doing what part, and for whom? Is| republic is to retreat backward into _ Peace : it something patriotic, or is it the| conservatism, or is to complete its; BERLIN (By Mail).—Summarizing ~ vulgarity of a new Florida boom? | social revolution now or at the cost | Pee fa ee A creamneg| ‘3 The first page of an: ri joods! 2 | a r i i picture of its world, ‘The New York| “Mexico asks four nations to appeal | fre on February 27, for which sour AS Trial of Communists Nears, Defense Makes Public Part of Mass Times has the best of first pages| to Cuba against a violent revolu- | Communist Seon ae ee wae at : . . . . daily, and reading Saturday the| tion: next column Six: American ae eri Lara eh scary = of Evidence Showing Nazis Set Fire Oth’s headlines is to live vividly in) Sugar Mills in Cuba seized by the| tovat tater peice tas mama ; all the horror and chaos of the| workers; Secretary of War Swanson | 4 Ra NageY capitalist nightmare: on gunboat off Havana; the mod- erates seek a Coalition cabinet in % submitted a challenging series of | vg | questions to the Nazi prosecutors.|to the Dutch embassy for an inter- : r The questions follow: preter? oe a grafting tax program, and is being | Cuba; also Senator Berenger of) Challenging Questions Van der Lutbe a Nazi fought by other capitalists. Yes, France, a big shot, “says war is sure) “Can Attorney General Werner, or| ‘That in the middle of 1932, accord- Tammany even suggests a capital|if Austria becomes part of Germany. | Vogt, judge of the court of inquiry, ing to the Mayor-of. Sonnewitz and levy, and it alarms the bankers,! ‘This is the first page. News of | deny that: others of that town,-van der Lubbe though the city bonds go up. Roose-| wars and revolutions and taxes., “Not only the Communist Party of| called himself an- adherent of the velt, in the next column, appeals “for | Seemingly neutral news, yet slanted,| Holland states that van der Lubbe | National Socialist.Party? People’s help to relieve the needy.” | of course, as all human thought in-| Was expelled from the party as pro-| “That on the day of the burning “The President and his wife, starting| evitably must be. And the slant is|Yocateur in 1929, but van der Lubbe of the Reichstag no. meetings were formed federation of all unemployed | send in your suggestions and criticism! | several air bases. Ireq is @ strategic | that: Penken is So certain of the / organizations intends to fight for | Let us know what the workers in|point for an attack on the Sort io al of any danger of Fascism, I bes Lo lS NO SEEING : sags Miata ae eA N 2 ———-— |NRA slave codes, is developing | in- id ll > i 4 il | cfeasingly Fascist tendencies. ‘The Red Aid Cha enges Prosecutor to Deny Nazi Fire Guilt Sx, woop it ttn a i. “ eo — be ii proportions, the increasing use Hitler's life or something similar, in| egies, the ever-i i 4 order to create a real pogrom atmos- | oneas of the Slate peer By "teak “That Hitler, appearing on the ine necessit izing Newta tata Y 21 y of organi the scene of the fie, declared, ‘This is & oes in a daily fight for elemental Tammany is trying to jam through | of the building personally on the day | diaries must have had the keys, and| we must crush the murderous pesti- | a” day . of the fire, and made inspections usu- | that no traces of the incendiaries ied | lence with an iron fist’? and Gay out organizes the workers the National Socialist Party, and had) “That Bell, subsequently murdered | ‘Volkischier Beo¥achter,’ ond the edi- covilalisy “democracy,” that swindle’ \) | in his possession the keys of the sub- | by the Storm Troopers, appeared at | tors of this paper discussed the jac: behind which the employers and i greater relief increases, | your shop think about the “Daily.” Union. at the moment when the | fleliberate strikebrea'cing of the the Communists shortiy before the | of blind, patriotic jingohm © and phere for the election’? | strikes, to defend and guarantee | God-given signal. If it has been done | civil rights, for the right to atribe, | ally carried out by other officials;|to the rooms of the Communist ‘That Hitler personally edited the | “0% these struggles. |terranean hea.ing passage leading the editorial office of the “Vorwarts” ‘that, just before the burning, Goering | Well Street rule the Working class are an exact American. | tirely wiped out and the newly-| Help improve the “Daily Worker.” | maintains there a standing army and| ,AP4 it is not without stznficance yelt. government in applying the | Roosevelt government, the instant yi election. Hither a feigned attempt on! hysteria. in ipport of the NRA. <- Hitler Personally Involved | capitalist profits—all these indicate tag building shut off certain parts | were locked, showing that the incen- by Communists, as I believe it has, | 45), And the Communist Party day in that this inspector was a member of | Reichstag fraction? ‘article on the fire in the Berlin| Panken’s compliments to American from the Reichstag to the residence u#hing and offered to|c2manded especially ceremonious | with the iron hand of capitalist die- | after the by of the president of the Reichstag, make a statement about the Reichs- oaths from reliable members of the | tatorsh: mobilization, “puts individual aid beyond the government's.” Back to the old Hoover policy of no federal aid to the unemployed, only this dis- gusting charity appeal, this hypo- critical sob appeal to the poor to help those even poorer (thus saving | the rich.) Feisal of Iraq dies sud- denly in Berne, the Arab king who was England's puppet; his son, the mew King, a little dark-skinned British gentleman educated very eerefully at Harrow. Former Kaiser the obvious bourgeois yearning for | Himself, in his deposition made before | held in the Reichstag buicdings, and Jaw and order; for law and order that gives businessmen cheap, stable government and low taxes, that stops revolutions before they get into the lets the unemployed starve on char- ity doles, rather than give them the federal aid society owes them. I shall continue with this theme W, comparing the Daily ‘Worker with our scholarly and Pompous foe, the New York Times, the state councillor of justice, Vogt, in the presence of an interpreter sent | | for from the Dutch embassy in Ber- | | lin, stated that he had no connection | | with members of tne German Com- | | hands of the working class, and that | munist Party, and aid not hold Com- | | munist views; that the judge of the | court of inquiry refused to record this | statement, which was not recorded | until the Dutch interpreter refused to | sign the protocol under those circum- stances; that since this hearing the court of inqury has not applied again therefore no meetings of the Com- munist Reichstag fraction? “That Ernst Torgler, alleged to have cooperated with’ van der Lubbe in setting the Reichstag on fire, was having his supper “uv Ashinger’s res- taurant in the Friedrichstrasse at a | quarter past eight on the evening in question, and remained there until after the time when the fire broke out in the Reichstag (10 o'clock)? Only Access Through 's Home “That the inspector of the Reichs- \Goering, on the other side of the Street; that this passage is the only means of entering or leaving the building without coming in contact with the watchmen? Fire Onief Dismissed “That the fire brigade director, Gempp, and his c¢:puty, who con- ducted the work of extinguishing the fire, were suddenly dismissed after they had observed that the fire had been laid in 27 different places by , tag being set on fire by National So- cialists, but was refused a hearing | by the editors? | Fire Was Expected “That this seme Bell, shorily before the fire, hinted to the Legation See- retary of the Foreign Office, Prince von Waldeck-Pyrmont, that some- | thing special was going to happen on | | the night of Feb, 27 at the Reichstag? “That former Secretary of State | justice resign suddenly—an extremely | Planck stated a week before the fire, Storm Troopers and Guard Corps? Documents Disappear “That a secret agent of the police stole important documenis deeling with the background of the Re tag burning, and the Siate lice has promised a large reward, even exemption from punishment, for the return of these documents? “Why did three state councillors of rare occurrence—'in accordance with obviously technical experts, that doors | ‘I know for certain that the Nazis will | their own wish,’ as theh official notice important for the extinguishing work | carry out a great provocation against | stater |counte-pat of the German Social- | ict retreat before, and support of oncoming Fascist erence to fight war. ‘ Ti is something for Socialist work-" to think long and earnestly ati = \ ex's