The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1933, Page 6

Page Six Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Ith St N.Y Address and mail ch New York Cit Telephone ALgonquin 4-7955, acks to the Daily Worker, Co., Ine., daily except Sunday, at 5¢ % Cable “DAIWORK.” 50 E. 13th St, New York, N. ¥. Communist Parties of 1ael Gold——_ Work? | | Nira Will | Tee atten gine go of pa | am i sed as well as amazed | the Blue Eagle emblem of| everywhere in evidence,| can flag is conspicuous for ce, except at rare intervals.” , who belongs to the Na- y of Puritan Descendants wants something to “Would it not be t on done abouit it 2 Scripps editor did not answer} hetic plea, but we will sub-| Brother Lamb, we would ad-| vise you to read H. L. Mencken’s| n Mercury for September, in| ‘ou will be told, in your own} , What is going on, le called, “Long Live; meaning the new dictator, Fellow-Puritan Lamb, we} ing in the dawn of a Fascist) p, in which the old flag again be used. We would to get busy at once if you! and wish to save its life, | Blue Eagle Economy The big taxpayers and bondholders Constantly press for so-called econ- omy in gi ment administration. Ti is one of chief forces that} takes for fascism in any land. | In Chicago these crusaders have| just won a great victory. They have| Managed to get 1,200 teachers fired and a cut for the others.| Schools for the masses are an ex- pensive luxury, say the Big Shots.| But we know a better way to econo-/| mize. Fire all the big bondholders, | My Mule Moe | Moe, that free-thinking mule of| Mine, is glad to see that Charlie Chaplin is about to shave off his| moustache, so as not to be mistaken! for Hitler. Moe is having his rear @nd shaved for the same good reason. | The Gal With the Rising Faith | Sweet Alice Hughes had a lot of} Nasty things to say Cuion 2 bout the Soviet visit. She's a pps paper men-| s its expert in Soviet gossip and New York fashion notes. | Mistress Alice thought the Soviet) Union vulgar. She had no faith in it... Nobody was chic and there wasn’t seany “freedom The little gal pre- fers New York. She can mix with] the parasites here, and gush about! them as she did in one typical story:| /*There’s nothing like a Bergdorf Goodman fashion opening for reviv-| ing sagging spirits. Orchids, jewels,| perfumes, furs and rich trains of vel-| vets and satins flash back and forth) dm such profusion that spectators are| Mnspired by a rising faith in the up-| tir. This store’s presentation is like} no other.” Well, whatever anyone says about ‘the Soviet Union, nobody there has a rising faith in orchids, furs and rich! trains of velvet while other human beings must sleep in the old park, after her r the S School is Opening | "¥ School begins again for the kid »afrom six to sixteen. One feels sorry orthem. What a tough world these} ids have been born into. And what) @ ot of rubbish they have poured] {nto them. There isn’t a thing you (can do to help them except tip them| 0% as to what the world is really| ‘Wke. I wonder whether teachers this| Pterny will have the audacity to tell| “American workers kids that old fairy-| tale. I mean that one about every| ~ American boy having an equal chance ~te-make a million dollars and to be| President. ‘ Inflation = All this talk of Nira inflation seems =o have gone to the heads of the| (ainderworld. Some of the boys are} *trying to muscle in on the big money | Tacket, a tremendous increase in| counterfeiting being reported. They'll kidnap the Blue Eagle yet. A Puzzle © Figure this one out: A report from} Missouri says that the farmers take the money paid them by the govern- wapaal to plow under cotton, and use this money to buy fertilizer for the} femainder of their land. Toward a| “Planned economy by F. D. R. + i God Bless Aimee | Aimee Semple McPherson, the} _@vangelist has at last found herself. After many years of fooling around \b | in many parts of |Park Hall, aweecanPTION BATES: By Malt ove. Canada: One yeor, 99; MASS ACTIONS CALLED IN U.S. AS TORGLER TRIAL OPENS THIS THURSDAY Demonstrations, Mass Meetings, Wednesday and Thursday in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland NEW YORK.—Mass actions in prote: of four Communist leaders in Germa been proven before the whole world to America. trial of the Communists, ns on Wi J On Wednes- 1 be held at s i one -air meeting at the e at 6:30 pm. r demonstration is called y at noon, in front of. ate, 17 Battery Dahlberg, writer | William Pa | Goldstein, Buitenkamp Fred others will speak. | All downtown organizations will| meet first at 10 a.m. at Seventh St.| fh down to the} tration, | Chicago Demontration | Two mass actions will also be held| in Chic On Wednesday night, | Maria Halverstadt, German teacher | and refugee from the Nazis, will speak at a mass meeting in Wicker , 2040 W. North Ave. On| ‘hursday a mass demonstration will and point of the demo: Sonsulate at 520 Michigan Ave, at 330 pm, In Philadelphia, a mass protest meeting will be held in Girard Manor Hall, 911 Girard Ave., at 8 pm. on| Thursday. | Tn Cleveland, a mass demonstra- tion will be heid in Public Square on} Thursday at 2:30 pm. After the speakers have concluded, there will| be a march to the German Con- sulate in the Midland Bank Build- ing. The International Labor Defense, | the National Committee to Aid Vic- tims of German Fascism, the local anti-Fascist united fronts, the Com- munist Party and many other or- ganizations have issued appeals for the mass support of these demon- strations, 1 ~ * « VIENNA, Sepi. 17.—Despite the Fascist terror, a demonstration was held in front of the German Con- sulate in Vienna yesterday, at which stones and bottles were hurled at the building, with shouts of “Down With Brown Murder Fascism,” and “Hang Adolf Hitler and Goering.” Several windows were smashed. The police arrested three of the demonstrators and injured several. No Arms Cut for Three Years, Is Powers’ Program PARIS, Sept. 18—No disarmament | for three years, and no halt in the armament race of the leading capi- talist powers is the slogan wn:cn the United States, Great Britain, and France will bring to the “Disarma- ment” Conference, it was indicated | today, as United States representa- tive Norman Davis arrived here for private discussions with members of the French cabinet. Instead of any pretense of redup- ing armaments, the program is for a three-year period of “armament supervision,” which is aimed at pre- venting Germany from re-arming too much. Just before he left London for Paris, Davis presented to Premier Ramsay MacDonald a secret memo- randum he had just received from President Roosevelt, outlining the American stand on the proposal, which was first put forward by France. The arms conference reopens pub- licly in a week. churches and wasting her sex-charm on a lot of deacons, she has gone into vaudeville. Three times a day she will explain the Bible to audi-| ences used hitherto to belly-dancers, | jugglers, Dutch comedians and blonde! strippers. It will be tough going, but| Aimee can beat any belly-dancer. The Lord gave her lots of It, and lots of brass. God bless Aimee on her vaud- eville tour, and may she never need a friend (male). Aimee’s Rival You can tell times are hard by many little signs. For instance, the famous Tex Guinan can’t make a nickel by running cabarets, honky- tonks and similar traps. geois boobs are broke, is up against it, But is she discour- aged? -No, no, she simply moves on. The flesh-racket is dead, so she has passed on to religion. She ap- peared recently in all her Diamond Lil makeup at Aimee’s temple in Los Angeles, and whooped it up for Jesus. It’s rumored she will open a temple | herself, with an all Follies-girl choir] to take the collection and help sin- ners (male) pray or something. Some-| times I could wish Jesus loved me| too. The bour-| and old Tex| On Saturday the Daily Worker has 8 pages. Increase your bundle order for Saturday! against the murderous frame-up ny for the Reichstag fire which has be the work of the Nazis, are planned Ernst Torgier, George Dimitrof, Blagoi begins in@é—— Torgler Kept in Chains, His Son Swears in London Gave Himself Up to Prove Innocence, cae ee LONDON, Sept. 18.—Ernst Torgler, Communist leader accused of the Reichstag fire, is constantly in chains in his Nazi prison, his 16-year-old son, Kurt, testified before the inter- national commission of inquiry into the Reichstag fire, meeting here to- day. Young Torgler said that the last time he saw his father was four months ago. The chains were taken off for the period of the visit, but the marks of them were on his fa- ther’s wrists. He said that at that time Torgler was already very thin and in a depressed condition as the | be held in front of the German/result of the tortures he was endur- ing. He testified that on the day the Reichstag burned, his father and sis- ter kept an appointment with a jour- nalist, and discussed the prospects of the coming election. He also declared that his father went voluntarily to the police station the morning after the fire, to protest against the accus- ation that he had a part in it. The commission expects to publish its complete findings, as the result of several days of testimony, before the | trial of Torgler and of the three other Communist leaders opens in Leipzig next Thursday. ILD Frees Framed Brooklyn Worker NEW YORK—Anna_ Jeller, Coney Island worker, was acquitted last week in Special Sessions Court, Brooklyn, where she was on trial on framed charges of “assault.” She was arrested June 27 at an eviction demonstration and accused of as- saulting the policeman who arrested her. The International Labor Defense conducted her defense. mere: One year, $6; six months, $5.50; 3 months, 9%; 1 month, 75, exeepting Borongh of Manhatten and Bronx, New York City. Foreign and 6 months, 95; 3 months, 98. SEPTEMBER ¥8, 1933 mericas Ask Support of Cuban Masses “WE ARE NOT INTERVENING’—Pres. Roosevelt —By Burck Record Soviet Crop Is Harvested; More Than Half Threshed By VERN SMITH. Special to the DAILY WORKER MOSCOW, Sept. 18 (By Cable).— The reaping of the record Soviet harvest is now completed in all sections of the Soviet Union, ex- cepting in some parts of the Urals, the far eastern regions of Siberia, and the extreme north, due to nor- mal differences of climate. There has been an intensive cam- paign in the Soviet press and other channels to hurry the’ threshing and stacking to save all the grain from the weather. It was reported on Sept. 10 that nearly three-quar- ters of the grain was either stacked or removed to shelter, and nearly half of all that was reaped was already threshed. i The winter sowing is also pro- ceeding better than last year. Call Cuban Workers Pay Demands “Peril To Ameican Lives” (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Sept. 18.—Evidence |; of preparation for the landing of U. S. troops to drown the Cuban workers’ and peasants’ struggles in blood are multiplied, as every re- fusal of American capitalists and| their agents to accept the workers’ demands for a $1.00 a day wage is described as a’ situation which “endangers the lives of Americans.” All. capitalist-landlord elements in Cuba, from the Grau San Martin government which uses left plirases to the Havana capitalists and the parties of Menocal and Mendieta, who are for an open armed attack on the workers, are today calling the Cuban masses’ struggles for a living wage a “provocation for the landing of U. S. troops.” Meanwhile U. S. Ambassador { | Welles has been conferring with Grau San Martin and the reac- tionary Student Directorate, and San Martin has been conferring with Menocal and Mendieta, openly reactionary political leaders, on a united front against the workers. The response of the workers a constantly heightened anti-in perialist front. Five thousand workers crowded every inch of Cuba’s largest theater in the reeent anti-intervention conference. Sim- ultaneously, a youth conference was held of delegates from unions and factories, at which three del- egates were elected to go to the Soviet Union. The anti-intervention conference determined on a general political strike and a boycott of all Am- erican goods. as a first action against. the landing of American troops. An immense opposition has de- veloped against the government's National Bank of New York, to its payment of $50,000 to the Chase order to pay $327,000 more before the end of the month. A Youth Conference against in- tervention is called for this week, and on Sept. 25 there will be a national youth demonstration against intervention. is AGAINST Grip of workers and farmers of America), reads as follows: “To all toilers and oppressed peo- ples of Latin America! “To all workers, farmers and anti-imperialists of the United States! “Brothers, sisters, comrades! “Thirty Yankee warships are the harbor of Cuba. Dozens bombing planes are being held readiness in Florida. Thousands of marines are being concentrated in Quantico, Virginia, for the invasion. With their hands not yet dry of the blood of the Nicaraguan and Haitian masses, the Wall Street bankers and their Washington goy- ernment are preparing a wholesale slaughter of the Cuban people who are rising ever more against the barbarous system of colonial ex- ploitation and oppression. “Intervention is a fact. The war- ships are in the harbors of Cuba. Deeds speak, even though the “Rev- olutionary Junta” now in power and the whole camarilla of bour- geois landlord groups and all of the lickspittles and lackeys of Yankee imperialism, shout loud that “there shall be no intervention,” in this manner trying to lull the vigilence of the masses and to weaken and disrupt the anti-inter- vention battles. Intervention Now “The Wall Street sharks main- tained the bloody regime of Ma- chado for eight years. There was no intervention when he slaughtered hundreds and thousands of workers, peasants and students. There was no intervention when he aided the Yankee bankers squeeze the last drop of blood out of the people of Cuba. But there is intervention now, when the fight fo the masses, led by the working ciass and its Communist Party and the Confed- eracion Nacional Obrera de Cuba, having caused the ousting of Ma- chado, is now assuming ever higher forms of struggle for bread, land and freedom. “This fight places the private in- in of in “Grow Up to Be Fighters,” Red’s Last Words to Children Another Altona Hero Makes Guard Pay As He Faces Axe Karl Wolf, shemaker, stood be- fore the axemen’s block in Altona, August 1. The executioner said with a sneer: “Have you any last wish?” “Yes,” answered Wolf. “I want to give myself a good stretch.” The executioner grimly complied with this simple wish. Wolf stretch- ed his arms to the full. Then, with a smashing blow, he drove his fist at the mouth of a Storm Trooper, knocking out his teeth. This is how one of the four be- headed Communists of Altoona faced his executioners. Seventy- five political prisoners had been brought to the scene of execution to witness the judicial murder, and it is from them that details of the last moments of the four Commu- nist heroes have been gathered by the International Red Aid. August Luetgens, the leader of the four, marched to the block, and just before his head rolled he shouted: “I die for the proletarian re- volution.” Mother Learns of Death from Radio So did Bruno Tesch, the young- est, a 19-year old plumber. The Nazis had not notified any- one of the date of the executiun, rightly fearing a tremendous re- volutionary demonstration among the workers of Altona, The mother of Bruno Tesch was listening to the radio, knowing nothing, when suddenly, the loudspeaker an- nounced that her son had been murdered. She rushed into the street, and 50 women gathered under her leadership and marched through the streets, arousing the workers. For days thereafter, in Altona and Hamburg, workers gathered in crowds in the streets, although dispersed again and again by the police. August Luetgens, one of the mur- dered Communists, joined the re- volutionary movement when he was in the German navy during the war. He was sentenced to 15 years’ penal servitude under the Socialist regime, for revolutionary fighting at Wilhelmshaven in 1919. He escaped in 1920. Later, when freed by a general amnesty, he took up again the workers’ fight, and with his three murdered comrades was a leader in the defense of the Altona workers against the Nazi invasion, for which he was condemned. Last Letter to Children On the eve of his death, he wrote the following letter to his children: “Dear Children: “When you receive this letter, ‘your father will be no more. He will have been wiped out, ac- cording to the verdict. We will Never see one another any more. “But when you grow up ani study world history, then 1 will understand what your fathe~ was, and why he fought and died. How Germ>-> Cormmuni<’ igrenders Masha 7 haguat 155 2 Tsan the Nazi Hea dman’s Axe y Ascot AERA. Ie Zale Pe Lt a (insert) Luetgens, his wife and children. ‘The letters of August Luetgens and his widow, and (Altona Hero’s Widow | Calls Workers to Take Up Fight | Then you will understand why your father had to act as he did, | and not in any other way- | “Good-bye, and grow up to be | fighters. | “Greetings From Your Father. ! “Dear Lisa! As I told you, you are free; be happy, Farewell! | “To mother, Willi, Herbert, Herta and Rheinhold my last good-bye. “From August.” Liese Luetgens, h’s widow, has ddressed an appeal to workers | throughout the world to take up the fight for which her husband died. Her letter follows: Appeal of Liese Luctgens “Moscow, August 7, 1933 { “To the. working class of the whole world! “Today I received * band, August Luet letter to me and his two children | before his execution. I see trom his letter that just as he lived as a | revolutionary he aso gave his life for the cause of the proletariat. “A crime and judicial murder rom my hus- ns, his last .|has been committed against him and his comrades by the bloody geng of cr'minals and murderers who today still govern Germany. ‘1 ecll upon the whole working class jand ail those onpressed and i threatened by Fase’sm to protest and develop a revolutionary mass struggle, in order to finally, through the absolutely necessary united front, destroy Fascism and take revenge for the tens of thousands of innocent class fighters who were murdered and tortured. “A-ording to my husband’s last wish I shall bring up my children as iighters in the class struggle, and I myseif too shall continue to fight with all my power for the lib- eration of the working class, for the victory of Communism. “Working women! Let us join as courageous fighters the great re- volutionary army of freedom which is forming itself for the strugyle against Fascism. Let us be coura- geous fighters of the revolution, like August Luetgens and the many other heroes of the proletariat whom Fascism murders. Down with the murderous Fascist terror! “Red Front! On the barricades of the class struggle, for the dic- tatorship of the proletariat! “Long live the proletarian re- yolution! “Red Fross? MANIFESTO CALLS FOR FIGHT OF ALL WORKERS INTERVENTION Struggle of Cuban Masses’ for Right to Live le Fight of All Toilers Against Imperialist Wall Street , | NEW YORK.—A stirring appeal to the workers and farmers of the Americas, and especially to those of the United States, struggles of the Cuban masses, is made in a manifesto issued yesterday, signed by the Communist Parties of ten countries of the Americas. The manifesto, showing the connection between the struggles of the Cuban masses and the struggle of@ to support the terests of the imperialists and the native bourgeoisie and landlords in great danger. Workers through or- ganized struggle have won great increases in wages, amounting to 50 to 100 per cent. Peasants and agricultural workers have seized land in some instances. Serious breaches have been made in the barbarous system of countryside exploitation, which was primarily preserved and strengthened by Yankee plantation and sugar inter- ests and the native landlords, Dis- NEW YORK. — On Wednesday, September 20, Negro, white and Cu- ban youth will unite in a mighty pro- test. meeting against American iuter- vention in Cuba, to be held at the Cuban Center, 1415 Fifth Ave. Be- fore the meeting, two parades will be held, under the auspices of the Har- Jem Section of the Young Communist League. At one of these the workers will méet at 131st St. aud Lenox Ave., and will march up to 133d St., across to Seventh Ave., down to 116th St. across to Fifth Ave., and then into the hall. While this is going on, work- ers from Lower Harlem and York- ville will meet at 110th St. and Fifth Ave., and march straight to the hall, ——— ss satisfaction within the rank and file of the hitherto servile Cuban artied forces has instilled terror in’ the hearts of the imperialist ex- ploiters and oppressors and of their native allies. Intervention comes to drown in blood the struggles of |thé:Cuban masses! Must Aid Cuban Masses “Brothers, Sisters, Comrades: 4m this historic moment when the Cuban masses are faced with the- tremendous display ‘of armed force of the imperialist bandits, you must. come to the aid cf the Cuban people. Its fight is the fight against the same Yankee imperial- ist. rule of oppression by blood and ivon.as keeps in subjugation mil- lions of white, Negro and Indian workers and peasants and entire peoples of Latin America. It is a fight against the same enemy who has yesterday drowned in blood the liberation struggles of the Nicaraguan, Haitian and Santo Doiinican peoples, who caused the murder of the people of Mexico in numerous interventions, who has implanted a military rule over the people of Panama and who has under the pretext of fighting for freedom robbed Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands from their peoples. It is a fight against the horror of the war in the Chaco, between Bolivia and Paraguay, in- stigated by the Anglo-American rivalries. It is a common enemy. Unite to fight against it! Appeal to U. S. Workers, Farmers ‘The same Wall Street bankers and their Washington Government of the ‘New Deal,’ who send war- ships to slaughter the people of Cuba, are those who exploit and maintain in hunger and misery the workers and farmers of the United State: They have used the low standard of living of the Cuban people as a whip against the United States toilers. “i now they succeed to drive the Cuban workers and_peasanis back into previous conditions of hunger and misery, then they shall attack even more energetically the living conditions of the toiling masses of the U. S. A. and use the defeat of the Cuban masses to further increase the brutal regime of colonial oppression of the peo- pes of Latin America. .S"Workers and farmers of the Uniked States: Come to the support of fhe Cuban people. Defeat the plans of your bankers. Fight to stop the sending of warships. De- mand the withdrawal of ships al- ready in Cuba waters. .“Toilers: Raise high the banner of protest. against the planned mas- sicre! Organize militant and power- ful demonstrations in every cit; and tillage! Demonstrate befor: thé American embassies! Deman the’ immediate withdrawal of all Yankee armed forces from Cuba! Demand the abrogation of the Platt Amendment! Build a powerful united front of all exploited in the Antericas! Through powerful united struggle defeat the murderous designs of the Imperialist masters! Support the forces of the rising revolutionary struggle of the Cuban masses! _ “Long live the workers, peasants and soldiers Soviet government of Cuba! “Long live the liberation strug: tin peoples! with imperialist op. 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