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Page Six blished by the Comprodaily Publishin, Zi St., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7 ‘ess and mail chacks to the Daily Worker, 50 E daily except Sunday, at 50 E. Cable “DAIWORK.” , New York, N. ¥. i Co., Ine, 18th § By Michael Gold — Our Journalism into a tice w theory of clear and po’ ing alive the large umnalism taken on 2 air of unreality. has been to ama- teur or the work of ci rs and pedants. Have you ever been at a © where some Pa functionary n one of the usual long, cut-an speeches, monotonous but full correct cliches, boring the crowd to tears? Then he was followed by some plain worker fron a steel mill or farm, who spoke vividly of the proletarian ies, and thrilled the crowd with 1omely truths. The pressure on the young prole- riters is to drive them not but “correctness” tain functionaries. toward the bureaucratic and unreality of cer- worker, The Lost Poets never cease regretting the ertain young writers to prole A young poet like Russak, the Paterson weaver, more promise than most r known. As Russak came i closer to the movement, d out of literature— He is now a useful the National Textile g an important job ire. a few gifted writers are million children. Of Ly small percentage n writers. What a this precious germ careful encouragement n belles lettres, the movement can never at- ny effective mass-propaganda. x-and Engels emphasized this again and again, as did Lenin. Says the Soviet c: F. Schiller in a re-. cent article. “For Marx and, Engels a Party newspaper was unthinkable without politi poems on questions of the day and other small forms of literature.” Meaning the sketch, the satire, the feuillton The capitalist. press has had a long rience in reaching the masses. We can take from capitalist technique what is valuable, and use it for our own ends. Study the tab- loids and you will see that they find to print poetry, fiction not enough to assent and then expect prole: s to fall from the sk e must be created in which such writers will feel that it is of great importance to write their best for the movement because only their best is wanted. This surely is not the situation today. Defeating the Stooges We are still living, in America, in the first primitive crude moments of proletarian literature. Impossible demands are made on the writers by comrades who_have never really given the matier a single thought. Bad and good writing are not differ- entiated. One hesitates to attack sincere ef- forts, yet are not novels like Mar- len’s “The Road” and the “S. 8. Utah,” which is running serially, a bad kind of proletarian literature to encourage? SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, 7e, excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, $5; 3 months, $8. 3 5,000 Celebrate Commun ist Party’s 14th Anniversary Earl Browder Says Real Birth of Part at Time of Commun NEW YORK.—Five thousand wor! the Communist Party, day that stands on the planks laid down by Marx and Engels is the Communist Party. The three Communist candidates for city office, Robert Minor, can- didate for Mayor, William Burroughs U.S.A. at St. Friday night heard Earl Browder, the Party’s General Secretary, point out that “The real beginning of the Communist Party was in 1848 with the | issuance of the Communist Manifesto.” | “The manifesto of Marx and Engels laid down the basic program which | has been the platform of the working © class down to the present time, con- tinued Browder. “The only party to- ist Manifesto in 1848; N. Y. City Election Platform Ratified ‘kers celebrating the 14th Anniversary of Nicholas Arena on West 66th St. started the whole program of unem- ployment insurance, A vote for Rob- ert Minor is a vote against capitalist court injunctions gotten out by the strikebreakers. A vote for Robert Minor is a yote for the leader of the demonstration workers for relief, the leader of the running for Comptroller, and Ben | demonstration of international solid- Gold for President of the Board of | arity to protest the bloody terrors of Aldermen, were given tumultous| Hitler Germany. | ovations when they entered the hall/ | and as they arose to speak. Charles Krumbein, New York district organ- |Party is part of the struggles of the | working class. Comrade Burroughs, 7 Was! of the New York} “The program of the Communist | DEFEND HEROIC COMMUNISTS BEING FRA “Oh, Can You See the Birdie?” . ROOSEVELT were —By Bure’ | izer of the Communist Party, was} another of our candidates, is not only chairman, a | herself one of the most active fighters The meeting was also a ratification | for all of the oppressed, but Comrade rally of the Communist Party election | Burroughs in her own person sym- candidates for New York City. A res-| polizes the program of the Commu- olution was unanimously passed andj nist Party for the liberation of the cabled to Dr. Wilhelm Buenger, Su-| oppressed Negro masses in the United preme Court in Leipsig, Germany, de- manding the immediate release of Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff, Popoff, Thaelmann and all anti-fascist vic- tims. Another resolution was sent to President Roosevelt demanding; that he order the withdrawal of all U. S. ships and marines from Cuba and that he abrogate the Platt Amend- ment. “The Communist Party does not represent only the workers with Communist sympathies,” said Robert Minor, after showing the betrayals of the workers by the Socialist Party. “T say the Communist Party rep- resents the Socialist workers as well | in this election campaign. The Com- munist Party,” he continued, “must and can step forward and take the lead of all the workers—of Socialist | workers, of A. F. of L. workers, Cath- | olic, Protestant, despite all of their prejudices instilled in them by the capitalist system.” The Communist candidate outlined the Party’s program of struggle for bread and relief for the unemployed, |against the “blue buzard which is \fastening its claws of company j unionism, open shop, wage-cuts and | slavery | “We face also the third party of capitalism, the Socialist Party,” he |said. “The Socialist Party is in this |election campaign only because the | Republican-Fusion group rejected |Norman Thomas. Paul Blanshard | wrote the Socialist election platform and 1s now in the Fusion camp.” | As Minor got up to speak, a Negro |child ran up from the audience and kissed him. | Earl Browder, who was the first speaker, saifl that new workers in the Party should understand that the Communist Party is “not an ac- cidental occurrence which happened | yesterday and be gone tomorrow. |The Communist Party is the flux of many generations of experience and struggle of the working class all over the world. The Communist Party | embodies the lessons of the experience of the victorous Soviet Union.” After speaking of the innumerable struggles the Party has led through- out the United States, Browder continued: “All of these things dre embodied in the municipal election campaign that we are conducting in New York. Everybod knows that a vote for Rob- ert Minor in New York is a vote for the leader of the unemployed demon- stration of March 6th, 1930, which workers of the t jit should be. But here I recall |your hero Arnold. In truth, he is too faultless, and if at last he per: | ishes, by falling off a mountaii States and so it is with the other candidate of the Communist Party— | Comrade Ben Gold. “Nobody can be under any mis- japprehension when they vote for these three candidates. They are | voting against Jim Crowism, for un- jemployment insurance, woxe in- creases, for struggles against war and for international solidarity; for the overthrow of capitalism, for the proletarian revolution, for the estab- |lishment of a Dictatorship of the Proletariat in the United States.” | Williana Burroughs, Negro teacher ousted from the city school system because of her unrelenting fight in behalf of the working class and for the Scottsboro boys, was herself ob- viously overcome by the sincere ap- plause and singing of the Interna- | tionale after the workers jumped to | their feet when she stepped to the microphone. Burroughs scathingly denounced Roosevelt's “New Deal” for the Negro | masses. “The New Deal for the Negro | workers, she said, is miserable wages, segregation being made the law of the land. We can speak of such a | thing as Negro wages, she said. The | Negro bourgeoisie, whom one would expect to fight for the Negro workers, have thrown aside all pretense of fighting for the Negro masses. They have deserted the Negro labor move- ment, they have a long list of be- trayals. In recent months they have added to this list. We have Scotts- | boro, we have Camp Hill, Tuscaloosa, |and now we have New York,” said Burroughs, citing the wave of lynch | terror in New York. Ben Gold, leader of the militant | fur workers said there are no strikes, | evictions, unemployment or people starving in the Soviet Union. He scored the support given the NRA by | the Socialist leaders. It was the first opportunity New | York workers had of hearing the mi- |litant leader of the Needle trades | workers since he was nontinated Com- | munist candidate for President of the | Board of Aldermen, and they made the most of it. Gold received round after round of applause. Carl Brodsky, manager of the Com- munist Election Campaign Commit- tee, made an appeal for the $25,000 election fund drive. A collection of $239.07 was made. Charles Krumbein, District Organ- izer of the Communist Party, was chairman of the meeting. The Young Communist League, |through their District Organizer, T. | Herman, brought revolutionary greet- ings to the Party on its fourteenth Anniversary. | After the meeting was over at 11.15 ™% 1g 5g ful| this can pe reconciled with poetic| enthusiastic crowds waited outside to Marlen's “The Road” is an awful) iistice only in that he was too good| cheer Robert Minor, example of everything that a book should not be—a long, windy series of discussions, with not a real per- son or bit of drama. “S.S. Utah,” though lots more real, falls into the same category. The general scheme of such novels is that a Communist engages in a running conversation with half a dozen stooges, and, working his jaw as rap- idly as possible, fells them one after the other. Is this life? Is Communism spread only by debate and argu- ment? Are not the great historic events, the. strikes and crises, the hunger and coid, the real teachers | of the working class? True, the Communist must teach his fellow workers, but he teaches them in the midst of a real battle. His victories are not the easy vic- tories of the classroom. He is not faced with stooges, in the real world, with straw opponents whom he can Knock down easily. This argufying, this dressing up of a series of edi- \for this world. It is not always bad weakness. Elsa still has traces of |Personality, although she is also | Somewhat idealized, but in Arnold | personality is lost in an abstract | tern of prinicple. | “This~ particular novel is marred | completely by this defect. Evidently |for an author to be in love with his| |hero, but it seems to me in this| case you have given way to is | pat- | Return fromLabor Cam ps “Most of You Will Find No Jobs,” Unemployed | Council Statement Points Out to Returning | Boys; Start Recruiting for New Contingents | NEW YORK.—Tired and hungry, with shouts of “We Want To Eat,” | the first detail of forced labor camp youth returned to Camp Dix, N. J. after having spent four months in forests of Montana. For nearly four | days they were crammed in trains that took them east. Demobilization is | under the supervision of the war department. “Rotten food, brutal treatment on top of the difficult work under com- | mand of military officers,” is the? | estimation of the forced labor camps! . cae by the National sccacanittise 2 Stifle Syracuse Jobless Council: the Unemployed Councils. ‘We were fed “corn willy” for two SYRACUSE, N. Y.—Spurred on by miserable relief, and the fight- weeks,” George Salisbury, one of the returning youths remarked. A disgust with the treatment received while working and spurning a chance to} re-enlist was the prevalent tone among the boys,» ing program of the Unemployed The military officers filled them| Council, many unemployed work- with propaganda that the NRA will|ers of Syracuse are beginning to give. them jobs on their return.| organize to struggle for more re- Many were glad to return, feeling|jief. This in the City famous for that the NRA has opened the opor-| i¢, «9 cent day” diet for th tunity of new jobs, but immediately | has MBNua shee a they will become acquainted that the| "employed, its poorly concealed five million jobs promised by Rodose-| @T@ft connections with ‘the New | not give them any work or relief.| York Central Railroad, “What Do You Face?” The first move of the City ad-| “what do you face when you get|M™inistration to smash the organi-| home?” is the question raised by the| zation of the Unemployed Council | Unemployed Council in its state-| was when Mayor Marvin personally | ment. It then proceeds to point out| ordered three leaders of the Un-| that the “recovery” propaganda will| employed Council deported from | not give them any work or relief.”| Syracuse. This action on the part it then proceeds, “Most of you willl of the Mayor only sharpened the find no jobs. If some of you do get Sara? ieistey minatt : | a job, you will have to work at break- workers’ deter mination to organize. | heck speed. But the great majority | Leaflets were issued by the Unem- of you will be in the same position as|Ployed Council calling workers to | hear I. Amter, National Organizer | of the Unemployed Councils. This leaflet also exposed as enemies of the workers Mayor Marvin and the chief of police. Two workers were arrested while distributing ‘these leaflets and held on $500 bail. before: NO JOBS.” The forest ‘youths are urged to The International Labor Defense is | planning a mass campaign against | “join the workers army” and join these attacks on the Unemployed their territories. As the details from the C. C. C. are being demobilized, a campaign | for 75,000 new recruits for the second | contingent has already been started. Selections will be made by the Labor Departments and the Veterans ad- with the Unemployed Councils in Council, | ministrations in each state, The following is the third article | in a series revealing the truth about the Reichstag fire, and the political background in Germany on the eve of the fire —Editor, Tired, Hungry, Youths| Gibson Says City Net Responsible for Relief Cuts Organize Families on Every Block, Urges UnemployedCouncil NEW YORK—Taking away the blame from the city for not making provisions for the 30,000 families left without food because of the closing of the Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, Harvey D. Gibson, the committee’s chairman, blamed the hungry families for not register- ing with the Home Relief Bureaus. He said that families on the com- mittee’s relief rolls had amiple oppor- tunity in the past two weeks since the announcement of the Gibson committee closing to transfer to city or others charitable relief. The whitewasiing of the city offi- cials by this “benefactor” comes on top of the numerous announcements of the curtailing of relief funds and wholesale elimination of thousands of families from the Home” Relief | Bureau rolls. The 30,000 families | | left without aid had no opportunity to register with the city, because those already on the relief rolls are being cut and evicted. “With hunger facing thousands of | families,” Carl Winter, secretary of the Unemployed Council said, intend to organize all workers in the| neighborhood to fight against hunger program instituted by the government. % “Our committees will go from| house to house,” Winter continued. | “We will get whole families to join in this movement to fight this star- vation facing the people of the city.” | A Workers Relief Ordinanze which would make it mandatory for the) city to assure every unemployed fam- | ily as well as single persons a mini- mum amount of relief in cash is urged by the Unemployed Council. For this purpose funds are be raised by taxation on bankers, large real estate holders and huge incomes of | the rich. Abandoned in Favor of Arson Frame-Up How the Nazis Planned the Reichstag Fire ? Scheme for. Fake Attempt on Life of Hitler’ Koenigsberg, respectively. What | strikes our attention at once is that no speaking dates were planned for Feb;-25 to 27, the three days imme- |you felt the need of publicly declar- | |ing your convictions, bearing witness | to them before the whole world. You | have already done this, this is al-| ready behind you, and there is no| reason to repeat it in such a form.) i: |I think that the bias should flow| WeckS Preceding the Reichstag fire, |by itself from the situation and ac- and analysis of the political situation | ‘ ~, in Germany on the eye of the fire’s tion, without any particular pointing,’ and’ that the writer is not obliged | outbreak, both offer fairly conclusive to intrude on the reader the future| Proof of where the firebugs are_to.be hie ? e 5 qe Ce of the social con-|" During the month of February the “At present a novel is read almost | Notiomany nectten Coote Nazi entirely by bourgeois circles. ‘There- ly j it. By ROBERT HAMILTON The evidences regarding the actions of the Nazis during the of strikes all over the country. It was in this emergency that the fertile brain of. Joseph Goebbels, chief Nazi propagandist, cooked up the plan of an attempted assassina- tion of Hitler or the destruction cf @ major publit building. The plan for a fake attempt on Hitler’s lifé was abandoned, as being too trans- Parent and not. having enough dra- matic value, .The Reichstag was chosen as the. building to be de- stroyed by a “Communist plot,” since it was the most: prominent building \| diately prece- ng the Reichstag fire. Nazi party, in his place. Nor did Hitie .ave any other official After this.was done, the police engagements .or these three days. staged a new “ra’d” on the Karl He wes ‘co.npletely fres—free for Liebinecht House (which, we must What? Free to devote“@ll his atten- yemember, had been seized aad sealed tion to supervising the plan for burn- up by the police weeks before) on ing the Reichstac, ready to be on the | Fbruary 24, three days before the scene and at onze announce to the fire, And this “raid,” made without world—even before van der Lubbe any representetives *of the Commu- had made his supposed “confession”— nist Party present at headquarters, that “the Communists. had burned delivered the goods. The Berlin press the Reichstag.” printed giant headlines: “Commu- Frerm Tr in_ Readiness nists Plot Murcer, Arson, Sabotase, At.other highly significant fact. On Poisoning 23 Fart of Plan for Revolt! | Fet. 27, the day the fire broke out, Foreign and IN FIERY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) repeatedly charged the German gov- link him with the Reichstag arson Writhing under Dimitroff’s flery ex- posure, the Nazi judge threatened to expel the Bulgarian from the court- room. Denied Choice of Counsel The judge grew especially stern when Dimitroff said that “2,000 Bul- garian Communists were innocently murdered” by the fascist regime of his own country. “You assert this without proof,” the judge shouted angrily. “If I had free choice of counsel,” the Communist replied, “I would have supplied proof. But you ham- per me in my defense. I never be- fore knew the attorney you assigned me. The eight lawyers I suggested were rejected.” The judge made no effort to hide his irritation at the fact that Dimitroff was conscious of the fact that he was transforming the Nazi court into a forum for exposing the murder reg- imes of both Germany and Bulgaria, at the same time putting forward boldly the program of the Commu- nists. Speaking in the manner of an ex- perienced mass orator, Dimitrofi fre- quently turned to the audience in the courtroom when he made his most telling points. Sofia Charge Is Provocation When Justice Buenger repeated the charge that the Bulgarian Commu- nists were responsible for the burning of the Sofia Cathedral in 1924, Dimit- roff retorted heatedly that it had long ago been proved an Act of pro- vocation, and added: “Things like that are being done in Gerinany today.” In a courageous speech which con- sumed nearly two hours; Dimitrofft proudly described the Bulgarian workers and peasants insurrection of 1923. “I only regret,” he told the Nazi court, “that at that time we were not yet genuine Bolsheviks and therefore could not carry out our task. We have learned, and the struggle of the Bulgarian proletariat continues.” The Stambulisky government had terrorized the country, the Bulgarian Communist charged, and “had bes- tially murdered 20,000 peasants and workers.” Denying the accusation that the Bulgarian Communists were respon- sible for the Sofia Cathedral fire. Dimitroff declared that he was in Moscow at the time. When the judge quoted the Bulgarian Minister of the Interior to the effect that the cath- edral outrage was a result of a “cons- piracy of an organized Communist band,” Dimitroff chalenged this ener- getically and declared that the firing of, the cathedral was a provocation against the Communist Party of Bul- garia, “I am not a terroristic adventurer,” he said. “I am a supporter and an admirer of the Bolshevik Revolution and I am working for the dictator- ship of the proletariat. But I am against individual terroristic actions and ‘putsches,’ not because of sen- timental considerations but because our policy and program demands other action. “The burning of the cathedral was an act of provocation against the Bulgarian Communist Party which the government exploited for its own terroristic regime.” It was at th's point that Limitroff declared: “Things like that are be'ng done in Germany today.” ‘When the presiding judge asked Dimitroff whether he considered that the ends justified the means whether legal or illegal — Dimitroff said. “Of course! All means—legal or illegal—are justified in the struggle to bring about a proletarian revolu- 100,000 Children Face Shut Schools, Ohio Survey Shows CLEVELAND, Sept. 24. — Be- | cause the town councils are more anxiovs to pay off bank loans than to get children into the schools, more than 50,000 children in Ohio will find classroom doors closed when they return to school in the next few days, it was announced here yesterday. Funds are on hand to operate all the schools in the State for only two more months the Governor an- nonnced, School officials declared that in all probability 100,000 school chil- dren will be forced out of the schools by Christmas. Sentence Aged Man ernment with a frame-up attempt to MED BY NAZI HANGMEN! DIMITROFF ASSAILS NAZIS DEFENSE SPEECH tion in Bulgaria.” When the judge denounced he characterized as Dimitroff’s “ risive manner,” the defendant age gressively replied that the Nazi judge might find it understandable # he knew that he, Dimitroff, has spent “six months in confinement, five. of | which were spent handcuffed and during which time I could not sleep, I naturally’ sound excited and pos- sibly use expressions which are not “‘permissableé’.” Although speaking in imperfect German, Dimitroff electrified the courtroom with his bold and clear- cut declarations. His testimony was in sharp con- trast to the senseless stanmering and contridictions of Van der Lubbe, the Nazi tool. Drawing a sharp line of demarca- tion between Communism and indi- | vidual terrorism, Dimitroff presented a sharp and lucid analysis of the Communist position. Although warned by the presiding judge, Dimitroff de- clared that “Iam here to defend Communism” and proceeded to a fiery annihilation of the Bulgarian fascist government, as well as an attack on | Nazi police methods. | His impassioned condemnation of | Bulgarian fascism was calculated to force his hearers to make a compari- son between fascism in Bulgaria and present-day Germany. Dimitroff de- scribed the bloody suppression of the Bulgarian workers’ and peasants’ re- volution of 1923 and told how he was later forced to flee Bulgaria, He vividly described his life as a per- secuted refugee. At one point in the hearing the | judge tried to taunt Dimitroff with the fact that the couple with whom he had lived had tried to commit suicide. “Believe me,” the defendant re- marked, “I, too, would have com- mitted suicide if I did not heave such strong nerves. Being handcuffed for five months—during which time I could hardly sleep—is no laughing matter.” : “Because T am a convineed Com- ing of the Reichstag.” As the hearing opened yesterday morning, a sensation was caused in the courtroom by the announcement by Dr. Alfons Sack, Nazi lawyer ap- pointed to carry through @ mock de- | fense for Ernst Torgler, leader of the Communist deputies in the Ger- man Reichstag, that Torgler’s aged and infirm mother had made her way from Berlin to see her son. * Tears filled the eyes of the German Com- munist leader as his mother took her place in the courtroom. Hays Offers Evidence An offer to present the-findings of the International Commission of Jurists was made to the court yes- terday by Arthur Garfield Hays, American lawyer, and one of the group of attorneys who examined evidence on the “Reichstag fire at hearings in London, just prior to the opening of the Leipzig trial. The In- ternational Commission not only ab- solved Torgler and his Bulgarian comrades of all complicity in the Reichstag fire plot, but on the con- trary, charged that the Nazi were responsible for the crime. Hays at the same time offered to bring forward witnesses who “for po- litical reasons are fcarful of reveal-~ ing themselves if the witnesses were assured of protection in the future” Papoff Also Aggressive Blagoi Popoff, 31-year-old Bul- | garian worker, another defendant, followed Dimitroff. In a vein similar to that which characterized Dimit- roff's declarations, Popoff traced the history of the Bulgarian revolutionary movement. “Unable to speak German, Popoft ‘was given an official inter- preter, but’ the Bulgarjan repeatedly charged that his testimony was be- ing distorted by the court attendant. Popoff ridiculed the prosecution claim that‘he had maintained rela tions with the Nazi provocateur, Van der Lubbe, during the summer ot 1932, and offered to present a P ment from the German Embassy in Moscow showing that He had spent that summef.in Moscow.and in the Crimea. He said that he visited Ber- lin for the first time in November, 1982.0: US He proudly ‘admitted membership in the Communist Party of Bulgaria, but vigorously denied that he was ever involved’ in’ terroristic activities of any kind. While in Berlin, he-safd, he spent his time as en active re- volutionary among the Bulgarian re- fugees and‘ took no part in German politics, Aes i Popoff caused a great stir in the courtroom when he declared in a loud voice that the Berlin police | chief had tried to force | olutionary activities. r Although Popoff’s rooms in Berlis fore a Sociglist-biased novel achieves its purpose, I believe, if it conscien- ners in proletarian fiction. It should | “ously describes the class relations, |breaks down conventional illusions be severely discouraged, I think, be- ‘athe ® |about them, shatters the optimism cause it is a form of self-deception | | ahd the wrong pattern of life for|°! the bourgeois world, instills doubt Communists to follow, jas to the eternal domination of the existing order, although the author But Engels has said something a r historic that ought to be re-printed | ‘es not offer any definite solution os does not even line up openly on here Here is an extract from a é rs letter he wrote in 1885 to Kautsky's|®"Y particular side, mother, a well-known Socialist nov-|, This historic letter in full 1s con- tovials in a fictional guise, is the usual serious blunder of all begin- it: tained in International Literature, | The Biks oe torah published in Moscow, if fo. 2, 1933, Al i “Your characters have generally n article commenting nly Hitler, Goering and Frick as azi ministers. The Nationalists possessed close contact with Presi- dent von Hindenburg and practically controlled the Reichswehr, Ger- many’s army, besides having a huge private army of their own, the Steel Helmets. The elections in Lippe-Det- mold, one of the minor German states, had shown that Hitler could not win an absolute majority in the approaching Reichstag elections on March 5th. Goebbel’s Brilliant Idea Something had to be done to nul- lify the veto power of the National- | in_all Germany, * "| Tons of Incriminating Documents Firing the Berlin Chief of Police | Found in Karl Liebknecht Hcuse As part of the preparations for the| Catacombs!” fire, a new raid had to be made on Goering announced that these doc- the Karl Liebknecht House in Berlin,| iments would be published at once national headquarters of the Com- to prove the need for suppressing the ar pentane Ridin the building) Communist Party throughout Ger- seized by the police nearly| many, It is significant that not a @ month before, innumerable police single one of the supposed “dozu- eunicatinn, eae oo eter: ine ments” has ever seen the light of pobre aia Posey se day in any~-publication whatever. y Hitler Leaves the Fire Date Open inal police couldn’t find any such Corroborating evidence of the Nazi material, the Nazis had to get a Police chief who. would “find” them, | leaders’ part in the fire plot is found even if he had to manecune ‘ae in the plan for Hitler’s speaking been drawn with your usual precision on it by F. Schiller would be a com- se old Hegel would say. That is as plete education for anyone trying to get straight on the realities of prole- tarian literature. It certainly de- stroys a lot of bunk and inflated ideas, of indiyidualization. Each person .is @ type, but at the same time a com- Pletely defined personality, ‘this one,’ ist ministers and establish a pogrom atmosphere throughout he counry, as a setting for crushing the Com- munist Party and paralyzing the growing resistance of the German working class, expressed in a wave evidence. Goering, the Nazi head of| campaign, published on Feb. 10 by all the storm troopers of Berlin were confined within their barracks, ready for,a sudden call. A storm trooper who fied from Germany at the cad of March reports in the Paris “In- transigeant” that the storm troops were called out around 10 p.m. with ithe cry “The Reichstag is on fire!” | Certain storm troopers were at once detailed to run through the streets of Berlin spreading the news that he Communists had set the Reich- stag on fire. And any newspaperman who dared to deny of even to doubt this charge was clapped into jail, so that only the Nazi frame-up version was al- for Saying Nothing WEIMAR, Germany.-If you are stopped in the street and are asked if you believe the Nazis themselves “set fire to the Reichstag” and you give no answer, you are liable to a jail sentence in Nazi Germany. Dr. Fuchs, once a_ professor of theology, was sentenced by a special court ‘to a month’s imprisonment for having allegedly declared in a pri- vate conversation that he did not believe the Communists had any- thing to do with setting the Reich- stag on fire, Dr, Fuchs is an old were thoroughly searched by the po- lice and his host questioned, no tract of evidence linking him.up with the Reichstag fire was found, the defend- ant pointed ‘out. ‘ Taneff, the third Bulgarian revolu- tionary jailed»with Torgler in con- nection withthe frame-up arson charges, is expected to be questioned on Monday after the prosecution con- cludes its examination of ‘Dimitrott Court officials declared—with how much truth itis not know that Van der Lubbe, the Hitlerite -provacateur who is a -co-defendant:with Torgler the Prussian police, transferred and demoted Dr. Melcher, Nationalist head of the Berlin police force, and appointed Rear-Admiral von Levet- £ zow, an influéntiai’-member of ‘the’ 4, in Breslau,’ Berlin, Hamburg and the Nazi election bureau. It shows lowed to be spread-over the radio that Hitler speaking on Feb. 23 in Frank-| same night, and in all the newspapers furt, on Feb. 24 in Munish, on eb. 28} the next morning. in Leipzig, and on March 1, 2, 3 and| (Tomorrow—Goering, Heines and ] ‘Their Gang.) 7 ¢ against him because when she asked him whether he perhaps believed man, and is no longer acting as/ and his Bulearian collcagues, refused teacher or as reverend. to take food: Upon the request -of The woman brought charges| his lawyer, the court assigned a phy- sician to watch the: imbecile who is being utilized Nazi in ” by te that the Nazis themselves set fire to} their attempt to execute the Com- the Reichstag, “he gave no answer.” munist leaders nie tape om ’