The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 28, 1933, Page 6

Page Six = Pebtiched by the Comprodatiy Publishing Ce, Inc, dally except Sunday, at 59 B 18th Bt., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7955. Cable “DAIWORK.™ Address and mail ehacks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. T. | | | | | | ichael Gol Our Subway. The newspapers report that the Moscow subway will be running by ne: spring. WI does that make one 2 Why does it make one han a Wall Street patriot just collected a hundred ars on somebody else’s feel better who has so crazy about ral I don’t think} ork up any personal New York subway. my torture chamber, masses twist and groan as in Dant fe: In the ghastly flicker a on New York wage- slaves travel back and forth, crowded nfamously by a greedy corporation. There is nothing too nasty that one might no’ against the New York subway. It is noisy, dirty and} vile. The London subway is cleaner and quieter, the Paris metro is more comfortable. I have travelled in| both, and though pleased by the con- | trast with New York, felt none of this heart-throb that I feel when 1} read the news of a Moscow subway. | Dear little subway, I feel like pat- ting you on the head. You are a} new-born Soviet baby. You are the) flowers that bloom in the spring. You are like a big strike victory. Your wheels make finer music than any| symphony orchestra. You are mine you are ours! | Now isn’t that foolish, like a love to a subway? Very few New Yorkers who hate subways will ever| understand such an emotion. So let}! me explain There is no private ownership in he Soviet Union. This subway, like all the factories, public utilities, land belongs not to profiteers but | totter and ‘9 the people. More than that, this subway is another step along the way toward the time when the Soviet Union will be a land of mass luxury. Everyone in America who wants a new life in which there will be no vich or poor, no war or classes, is glad whenever the Soviet Union makes a step for- ward. Thousands and thousands of people all over the world are glad to hear that Moscow has a new sub- way, and feel as personally proud and subjectively happy about it as I do. “es, It’s our subway. An Affair With Some Motor Buses. I made my first trip to the Soviet Union in 1925, and saw the first motor busses running up the Tver- skaya Boulevard in Moscow. There were six of them, bright tan mon- Sters imported from England. Every- one on the streets gazed upon them proudly, and I, too, was filled with the emotion I now feel about the subway It’s a feeling Americans ought to understand. We had it in this coun- try when the first transcontinental railroads were built, when every Am- erican still felt that unbounded pos- sibilities lay before each individual, when there were still millions of acres of free land. The pioneer spirit is dead now in America; one finds it Dimitroff Domina tes Expelled Members of Y.P.S.L. Tell Why'| They Joined Y.C.L. Describe Fight for United Front Actions; Call | YPSL-SP Leadership Anti-Workingclass | NEW YORK.—Expelled from the Young Peoples’ Socialist League for | fighting energetically for united front actions of the unemployed, against | war, and for the release of Tom Mooney, a number of leading members of | the Y.P.S.L. who have joined the Young Communist League have adopted a statement of their position, 8H | The statement, adopted at the time | periences as we did, to act similarly | of the recent national convention|to help build a mass revolutionary | of the Y.P.S.L., held in Reading, Pa.,| youth organization in the U. S. represents not only the views of the| through the Young Communist | expelled members, but also of the | League four Y.P.S.L. circles in Chicago whose | We call upon all members of the charters were revoked by the Yipsel| y.P.S.L. to carry on the fight for officials. the united front | The statement follows (Signed) | We joined the Y.P.S.L. and the | George Smerkin, former national sec- | Socialist Party years ago, believing retary, Y.P.S.L. | these to be working class organizd- | tions, Our first attempt to demand | participation in the class struggle | brought us into sharp conflict with the party leadership, which as soon as it heard us demanding strike. ac- | tivity and mass struggle, character- ized us as “cancerous growths.” We believed in the necessity of the united front of struggle, and fought for it. We carried out our principles in action, and found that | in the course of such action, we al- ways had to face the united oppo- sition and sabotage of the leaders | of the S.P.-Y.P.S.L. | Describe Sabotage. | | | This was, true, for instance, in the great Oct. 31 hunger march in| Chicago. At first, the party leader- | ship, stunned by the magnitude of | the 50 percent ‘relief cut, allowed the | central committee to go on record; for united action to defeat the relief | cut. Immediately, however, they be- gan to maneuver in an effort to sabotage the struggle. | for a united May Day, and particu- larly the “Free Tom Mooney Con- gress,” the S. P. acted similarly. It National Secretary of the S. P., spoke in a manner not unlike an agent provocateur when he accused Mooney of the advocacy of dynamite. Because of the fight which we car- ried on for the united front, we were expelled. We appealed our expulsion to the national coavention; but here also the leadership (Umansky-Mc- Dowell) maneuvered and prevented the Chicago delegation from getting a hearing. Not only that, but they also consistently prevented discus- | sion of any sort on principle and | deliberately filibustered throughout. In the course of our development, we studied the basic principle of both socialist and Communist movements, and, as militant young workers, im- mediately took our position as against the reformist policies of the social- democracy. The betrayal in Germany by the S. P., their capitulation to Hit- ler, and similar tactics now being followed by the Social Democracies | of Austria and elsewhere, convinced | us of the fundamental errors in so- cial-democratic policy. | Today, in spite of the fact that | the official resolutions of the S. P.- | Y.P.S.L. criticize the N.R.A. to some extent, in practice the S. P. is sup- porting this anti-working class measure, as is fully evidenced by the burning only in Moscow. ‘The Soviet Union also was a be- leaguered fortress of the working- class. It was blockaded, invaded, torn by civil war and sabotage. The capitalists of the world tried to crush this big strike, but failed. And then inte this hungry, blockaded, bleeding world came messengers of peace and i—six motor busses. there is a crisis everywhere in the capitalist world. Building is at a standstill, and has been for years. But the Soviet workers bold- ly go ahead and build a subway; they are building Dnieperstroys, dams, Stadiums, schools, apartment houses. Not for sentimental reasons, of| Course. They need a subway, yet) somehow the thing becomes a symbol, | like everything in the Soviet Union, | transfigured by the light of a great goal. | Street Cars. Now that I have written my love letters to the Moscow subway, let me say I am also glad because when I visit there again it will not be neces- sary to travel in the street cars. Our Subways are crowded, but Moscow’s Street cars overtake and surpass us on that score. The city has grown too fast, and transportation and housing have not been able to keep up. Moscow street cars, however, are infinitely more interesting than our gloomy subway. One is always sure to wander into a furious political and philosophical debate on wheels. Somebody steps on someone's corns, there is a growl, and then the whole car joins in a discussion of surplus value, the poetry of Biedny, British imperialism, the latest play at the Mayerhold theatre, and so forth. It’s great. It’s educational, The Russian worker is really an intel- Iectual in overalls, and has an Elizabethan gusto for every form of physical and mental adventure. Yet, will I ever forget the time I Was pushed around in one of the siveet car jams? It was a bitter cold day, about thirty below, and I was trylng to keep warm. But there was @ sudden rush for the door at a street stop, I was shoved on and out, and found myself on the pave- ment, with my overcoat flapping Open to the breeze. Every button had been ripped off! Extraordinary, and Thad no safety pins, and didn’t know anybody in Moscow owning a needle, thread and buttons. So hooray for whe new subway! Down With Subway Brutes. Milwaukee Leader and the Jewish | Daily Forward. Socialists in most places are openly building up the strength of the reactionary A. F. L.. | leadership, and have abandoned all criticism of them During our united front actions, we learned that the best fighters were the members of the Young Com- | munist League. On every battle | front, in every class fight, we found that those who were the most sincere, courageous and effective fighters were the Young Communists. As a result of all these experiences, we have come to certain definite con- clusions: 1) That the leadership of the S. P.- Y.P.S.L. is definitely anti-working class in character. That the true revolutionary or- ganizations are the Young Com- munist League and the Communist Party. That, therefore, the place of every sincere young worker is in the ranks of the Young Communist League. On this basis, we, the left-wing Chicago delegation, take our decision to join the Young Communist League en bloc, We are confident that the circles which we represent will approve our decision and follow us into the Young Communist League. We further call upon all young workers in the country, who are or will be going through the same ex- the overcrowded street cars in Mos- cow. And the situation is being met. But what excuse is there for the hor- rors of the New York subway? The private profiteers who own the subway travel in fine automobiles and taxis. The subway is for the proletariat and white collar wage slave. Twice a day over a million New York workers must spend 30 to 40 minutes in this hellhole, at least an hour a day. Tired at night, they must fight their way into the station, then be shoved like cattle into the stockyard pens. Have you ever seen a big beefy subway thug throw himself on a crowd of passengers, pushing with shoulders and fists to make them fit into the cars? It is one of the atroci- ous sights of this wonderful city. It makes everyone's blood boil, but after your blood has boiled futily a hun- dred times, you accept things as hopeless. But it is not hopeless. The way to get decent conditions in the sub- way is for the workers to form their self-defense corps, stand « off these brutes, then kick out the Tammany and capitalist grafters who profit by 2 3 There is a good social reason for this crowding; in other words, vote for Bob Minor for Mayor, Sol Larks, former national director. | YP.S.L. Sylvia Arnstein, Junior director, Chi- cago, Y.P.S.L. Goldie Gatzuk, delegate, Chicago, Y.P.S.L. Sue Gold, delegate, Circle 1 Nathan Friedman, dlegate, Circle 1 Harry Lidz, delegate, Circle 4 Diane Wolman, delegate, Circle 4 Guardsmen’s Pay in Michigan Is Cut Men in 125th Infantry Have Shown Militancy (By a National Guardsman) DETROIT, Mich.—Members of the National Guard, who always find themselves called on to break strikes Circle 7, In ‘connection with the struggles|when workers are fighting against) | wage cuts and for better conditions, found their own pay cut” by 57 1-2 | per cent. Members of the 125th is well known that Clarence Senior, | Infantry, were informed by their of- | |ficers that they will have to train /48 nights during the year and be | paid for only twenty-four. Pre- viously they were given one dollar for each night of drilling, now they will get eighty-five cents for alternating | evenings. This is the latest of petty rob- beries against these men. At each drill, officers force them to stay a half hour overtime. Pay checks are usually six weeks late. Bills for cleaning clothes and equipment must be paid from their own pockets. During the summer traingng at Camp Grayling, additional deduc- tions from our pay was made. Each one had to pay $1.50 for insurance. The officers collected $2 per man for a mess fund The Michigan National Guards- men have shown on previous occa- sions that they can be militant. During last year's encampment at Camp Grayling their pay was also jreduced from $30 to $22.50 a month. When Governor Comstock came to |review them, he was booed, the men |shouting, “We want our full pay |back.” This resulted in the rapid |rescinding of the pay cut. The fact that the guardsmen are used against the workers, is becom- ing clearer to a number of the men. They see the bosses government cuts their pay, just as the boss cuts the wages of his workers. ‘The demands of the men are: No cut in pay $1 for each for forty- jeight weeks a year; payment to be |promptly every three months; no charge for cleaning equipment and clothes; and the government to pay for insurance. 9 Prisoners Shoot Way Out of Indiana Prison MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Sept. 27.— Nine long-term convicts, all armed with revolvers, crashed through the | Indiana State Penitentiary today and escaped after kidnapping a sheriff and shooting a bystander. Help improve the Daily Worker, send in your suggestions and criti- cism! Let us know what the workers in your shop think about the “Daily.” | | SUBSCRIPTION RATES, By Mail overywhere excepting Bereugh of Manhattan an Canada: One year, $9; 6 One year, $6,<@fx months. $3.50, 3 months, 82 1 month, The, Foreign and SEPTEMBER 28, 1938 d Bronx, New York City. months, $5; 3 nienths, $3. eipzig Trial, Defying Nazi Judge Wall Street’s Menagerie —By Burcek! | BwElry , Italy Proposes Doub] by French lief” Funds, Great Britain had officially sug- gested that these cruisers, of a wholly new type, be postponed pending ne- gotiations for abolishing this class of warships, but the State Depart- | ment replied that “it did not see its way clear to alter its delayed naval construction program or to suspend | the laying down of any projected ships.” The negative answer of the State! Department was transmitted to Nor- man Davis, American chief delegate at Geneva, for communication to Sir) John Simon, British Foreign Secret- | ary, Coming, as this does, at the re- opening of the Disarrfament Con- ference at Geneva, this brusque re- fusal of the American Government to stop building more warships is a} twelve-inch shell aimed at the very | core of the pretense of disarmament. Two days before the Anti-War Con-| gress opens in New York, President’ Roosevelt's New Deal Administration shows just where it stands on the question of disarmament. Italy Supports Nazi Re-Arming | At the same time, the Italian del- egation at Geneva made a proposal for increasing Hitler Germany’s arm- aments, raising the regular army strength to 200,000 men, and allow- ing Germany to double its “defen- sive weapons.” This was widely in- terpreted as a blow aimed at French) military hegemony on the European continent, and. provoked violent ex- pressions of disapproval from the French “disarmament” delegates, headed by the. ex-Socialist Paul Boncour, French Foreign Minister. Nations Re-Arming All Over Europe | Paralleling these re-armament moves in Washington and Geneva, dispatches from abroad report fever- ish efforts to-increase armed forces Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rouma- nia, while other countries, such as Belgium, Switzerland, and the Baltic states are also increasing their arm- aments under the pretext of “Nazi threats to peace.’ ‘The events in Washington and Geneva make it utterly unlikely, it is held, to expect anything but a U.S. Bans British Cut in Building of Cruisers ing German Army in Geneva Negotiations; Turned Down Delegation WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—The United States Government yesterday turned down a British proposal to delay bullding the four new 10,900-ton, six-inch gun cruisers, contracted for by the Navy Department with the mil- lions of dollars appropriated from the Public Works “ Jnemployment Re- o— farcical outcome of the present ses- sion of the Disarmament Conference. The. capitalist world plunges head- long into was as the only “solution” | for its growing difficulties. BASIS OF ELHCTION OF DELE- GATES TO ANTI-WAR CONGRESS NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—All local and national - groups of workers of a shop meet« ing for the purpo.e « egates to the Congress are eitilled to one delegate to the United States Congress Against War, convening | in New York City on Sept. 29, if their menibership is below 125; two delegates if the membership is from 126 to 250, and one delegate for every additional 250 members or major fraction thereof, Donald Henderson, Secretary of the Con- gress, stated today. All delegates and alternates must register personally on Wednesday or Thursday at 104 Fifth Ave., Room 1610, or on Friday at St. Nicholas Arena, 69 West 66th St. from 9 am. to 6 p.m. All local organizations which have elected two delegates where their membership is less than 125 should name one of them an alternate, Follow in Wake of Tampico Hurricane MEXICO, D. F., Sept. 27—One of- ficial estimate places the number of |dead in storm-stricken Tamipico at |54 and injured at more than 850. | Many more bodies are buried under the ruins of the devastated city. In a few days the horrors of the cyclone and the flood will be in- creased by hunger, thirst and the in- evitable’ epidemics. The store of and weapons by the Little Entente—| Wheat is expected to last only three dr-= more. Most of the surrounding towns are crying for aid. Many of the victims in these shore communities have been swept to sea by the floods of the Panuco River. Tens of thousands are left homeless. General Anselmo Ma- cias, director of relief work, stated that no building in Tampico itself was left unharmed. Goldschmidt Assails Nazi Rule; Hits the Reichstag Frameup Exiled Professor Says| Hitler Rule Increases Unemployment NEW YORK, Sept. 27—In a bit- ter arraignment of Hitlerite rule in Germany, Prof, Alfons Goldschmidt | predicted that the anti-Fascist forces within Germany, if aided by the in- | tellectuals of the outside world would | bring about the overthrow of the | Nazi regime, at a dinner in his jhonor given at the Hotel Lissmore here last night by the American Committee Against Fascist Oppres- } Sion in,Germany. | Dr. Goldschmidt, who was dean of ‘the economics department of the University of Leipzig until 1920, later teaching at. Cordova, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, pointed out that ;the theory of Fascism “is nof re- | volutionary as the Nazis claim) It aims rather at maintaining the jexisting economic system. The gov- ernment and economic organization of the German Fascists are the cen- tralization of reaction and bank- ruptecy.” Nazis Use Clubs for Economic Distress He added that the Nazis in Ger- many know no remedy for the fright- |ful economic distress in the .country but “race brutality «and clubbing down the working-class and its de- fenders.”| He pointed out that Na- tional Socialism means: 1, Increasing unemployment; 2. Intensification of antagonisms be- tween town and country; 3. Inten- sification of class antagonisms; 4. Fictitious unification, that is the centralization of bankruptcy. Attacks Reichstag Frame-up Prof. Goldschmidt asked drama- tically “Why are they beheading workers—they who claim to be a labor party? Why did they stage the terrible burning of the Reichstag, | unprecedented in the history of |frame-ups, which they are now con- jtinuing with an equally horrible judicial farce? Why do they call for war against the Soviet Union, which is building up its economy and its civilization in peece? “Because they are merely brutal and hot strong. Because they can- not give Germany’s working people even enough of the bread which the German peasants produce in excess,” In closing Prof. Goldschmidt ap- Pealed to the intellectuals of Am- erica to fight for the “true op- pressed Germany” against the Hitler rule, TURNS COURTROOM INTO FORUM, CHARGING NAZIS WITH MUZZLING DEFENSE Charges Van der Lubbe Is Silent Because “Of Crime He Has Committed Against World Proletariat” (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, Sept. 27 (yia Zurich, Switserland).— The fifth day of the Reichstag fire trial before the German Supreme Court in Leipzig was again dominated by the challenging offensive of George Dimitroff, Bulgarian Communist leader, and one of the chief defendants in the trial. shadowed the court’s endeavor to get van, der Lubbe, Nazi tool, to confess that he was a Communist and plotted the fire “as part of a Communist plot to start a revolution.” Van Der Lubbe on the Stand While the worid press believes that van der Lubbe is dying, Presiding Judge Buenger insists that van der Lubbe is capable of following the proceedings of the trial. Van der Lubbe was examined re- garding three fires hg is alleged to have started before the Reichstag fire. Judge Buenger’s method is to present van der Lubbe with a fin- ished statement, requiring only “Yes” or “No” answers. Van der Lubbe’s replies are inaudible, but the inter- preter states “Yes” or “No” alter- nately. . Judge: “Why did you fire these buildings?” Van der Lubbe: “My own ideas.” Judge: “What were your reasons | for doing it?” Van der Lubbe: “I didn’t myself at the time.” Judge Buenger’s shameless efforts to induce van der Lubbe to say that the reason for his firebug activities was to “arouse the workers” cul- minated in the question: “You said, did you not, that your object was to arouse the workers struggling for freedom?” Ans.: “No.” A Forged “Confession” « The judge then read a political confession allegedly made by van der Lubbe on April 23 while in cus- tody. The Fascist hand of the con- fession’s real author could be recog- nized, the otherwise confused docu- ment designating the proletarian revolution alternately as “advancing development” and as “the destruction of the capitalist system.” Van der Lubbe declared that he acted alone. Presiding Judge Buen- ger made repeated and desperate ef- forts to get the defendant to make a@ great Communist declaration but van der Lubbe refused. The judge asked van der Lubbe’s Official physician, Dr. Schuetz, to persuade him to speak. Dr. Schuetz, obviously a Fascist tool, stated that van der Lubbe’s speechlessness was a “deliberate defensive trick at the orders of the Communist Party.” This assertion was refuted by the four Communist defendants’ bold and defiant attitude. Bulgarian Communists Shunted Out of Proceedings The three Bulgarian defendants are being providec with a brief and totally inadequate tianslation of van der Lubbe’s examination, Popoff concluded that the Bulgarians are not charged with participation in the first three arson cases, which Judge Buenger confirmed. Dimitroff Seizes Offensive George Dimitroff then stepped forward, turning the proceedings into a trial of the Nazi murder plot, de- claring: “Wan der Lubbe seems to have spoken energetically enough in his examination before trial, but he is silent today. If van der Lubbe really is normal as the psychiatrists assert, there is only one possible hypothesis for me.” Judge Buenger angrily interrupted: know Write to the Daily Worker about every event of inter- est to woi.ers in your fac- tory, neighborhood or city. BECOME A WORKER COR- RESPONDENT!L ° By ROBERT HAMILTO! v. The night of the Reichstag fire every German radio station broad- cast the news that “a certain van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist, had been caught as he attempted to flee from the burning Reichstag build- ing. He has already made a com- Plete confession of his complicity in settling the Reichstag on fire,” Who is this unknown figure, whose name now features the front page of newspapers all over the world? Marinus van der Lubbe was born, the son of a small shopkeeper, in Ley- den, Holland, on January 13,’ 1909. At the age of sixteen, van der Lubbe became a worker in the building trades, but had to quit after an ac- cident which made him half-blind for life. He was always ambitious and seeking prominence, and in 1925 he joined the Leyden branch of the Young Communist League. He re- signed in January, 1929 because he was not given a leading position, re- Joined, and resigned again in De- cember of the same year, owing to a dispute with the Y. ©. L. over leaflets which he wrote and dis- tributed over his-own signature. He joined the League again in 1930, but was no longer..trusted and took no active part. The question of his ex- Pulsion was raised in April, 1931, and van der Lubbe immediately resigned, this time for good. From that time on he had no con- nection whatever with the Y. ©. L. or the Communist Party, and at- tacked the Communists at every opportunity, After his accident van der Lubbe could not go back to his trade and tried to earn his living as a tem- porary waiter, as a hotel porter, selling potatoes, and working on a ferry. In 1920 he went to Calais, France, and when he -returned to 1» said that he had tried to swim the Channel. Detailed inquiries in Ca- lais fail to reveal that he ever made the attempt, but his boasts on his return are characteristic of his out- look. Inquiries into’ his life in Ley- den have definitely established that van der Lubbe is homosexual. This may seem unimportant, but it is of great significance for’ his later his- tory. i through Germany and while there, in April or May, 1931 he met Dr. George Bell, according to the testi- mony of one of Bell’s friends. After returning home, van der Lubbe again started out for Germany, in Sentem- ber, 1931. He was arrested at the frontier town of Gronau for selling postcards without a license, fined and released. In Munich, van der Lubbe visited Dr. Bell, The most important acquaintance made by him in Munich was Captain Roehm, Hit- ler's chief of staff, In 1932, the Munich Post and other papers pub- lished leifers from Roehm to young men, from which it is clear. that Roehm is also homosexual. Bell kept a list of these young men, to use it as a weapon against Roehm if any conflict developed. Van der Lubbe’s name was on this list. From that time on van der Lubbe was in. regular communication with his Nazi friends. His friends in Leyden testify unanimously that he received many letters from Germany, and that he always tried to hide these letters from his Dutch friends. In June, 1932 he was again in Ger- many, and spent a night at Soerne- witz, where he was seen in the com- Pany of local Nazi officials. The official ‘who reported van der Lubbe'’s stay in Soernwitz, disap- from sight ‘after the Reich- stag fire. % Who Is the Mysterious Dutchman, Van der Lubbe? Mentally Unbalanced Young Hollander Had) Intimate Personal Relations With High Hitlerite Officials Wholly Subservient In the fall of 1932, van der Lubbe spoke at a number of meetings in Amsterdam and the Hague, vigor- ously attacking the , Communist Party. A doeument cited by the “Brown Book” proves that van der | Lubbe also spoke for the Dutch Fas- cists at a Fascist meeting. Another document shows van der Lubbe'’s behavoir at. a meeting of. striking taxi-chauffeurs at the Hague. He attacked the Communists and tried to Hg the taxi-men to terrorist acts. Lower middle-class in origin. van der Lubbe, after finding no place for his anarchist trends in the Commu- nist Party, tuned to the Fascists, He was back in the fold. In the middle of February, 1933 van der Lubbe went to Germany for the last time. In Berlin he met the Nazi friends whose acquaintance he had made through Dr. Bell. On February 27, van der Lubbe was ar- rested in the burning Reichstag. ‘Van der Lubbe had been in and out of the Communist movement in Holland up to April, 1931. ‘The men who ‘were carrying out the orders by Goering o His “Benefactors,” Van der Lubbe Ready to Act as Tool in Framing Communist Leaders lieved that this was enough to en- able them to place the guilt for burning the Reichstag on the Com- munists. Van der Lubbe’s homosexual rela- tions with leading Nazis and his financial, dependence on. them made him ot lent and willing to play the firebug’s part. The fact that van der Lubbe was a Dutchman was also an advantage. It enabled Goering and Goebbels to picture the burning of the Reich- stag as an international plot. That is why this psychopathic, half-blind, 24-year old Hollander was chosen as the tool of the Nazi incendiary plot. That is why he was left deliberately behind in the burning building after Heines, Schulz, Count Helldorf and the other Nazis escaped through the tunnel to Goering’s house, Van der Lubbe, the little Nazi leaders’ little “sweetheart,” was the final chain in the cunning Nazi frame-up to prove that “the Communists were planning to burn, murder and wreck all Ger- many.” (Next — How the Nazis framed Torgler and the Bulgarians.) Dimitroff’s masterly use of irony and straightforward attack upon the Nazi tangle of lies far over- @— “Raise no. hypotheses!” Dimitroff then demanded: “Ask van der Lubbe why he answers ‘Yes and .‘No’ alternately.” The judge refused to allow the question, how- ever, fearing’to expose the whole fabric of Nazi trickery at the trial. Dimitroff, undaunted, continued: “Ask him who helped him, if he even even heard ‘the name Dimitroff.” Judge Buenger replied that van der Lubbe had: already denied that he had confederates. Dimitroff persisted, asking: “Did van der Lubbe read and sign the stenographic reports of his examin- ation by the examining magistrate?” Judge Buenger: “This question is not admitted.” Dimitroff: Has van ‘der Lubbe spoken to anyone except the ex- amining magistrate about these arson affairs?” Judge: ‘What is the object of that question. It is inadmissible and su- perfluous.” Disregarding the judge’s efforts to shut him up, Dimitroff turned . to van der Lubbe, and shot this ques- tion at the stupefied Dutchman: Dimitroff Accuses Van Der Lubbe “Why don't you speak? Are you bowed with a sense of guilt be- cause of the crime you have com- mitted against the world prole- tariat?” Dimitroff’s resolute pursuit of the hidden tangle of intrigue behind van der Lubbe’s faked testimony caused the whole judges’ bench to withdraw for a consultation on how to muzdle the courageous Bulgarian Commu- nist, and ways and means of pre venting Dimitroff and the other de- fendants from shattering the already tottering indictment. 7. Court Tries to Silence Dimitroff When the judges filed back into the courtroom, Judge Buenger an- nounced that Dimitroff would not be allowed to ask any more questions, “as they were purély ‘ Communist agitation.” Dimitroff replied: “T protest,” after which Buenger hur- riedly ‘adjourned proceedings until Wednesday to give the Fascist court time to consider how to save the situation for: the ,Nazis, whose web of lies is being ripped wide open by Dimitroff’s and Torgler’s bold stand in court. 2AAAAA., New York RED PRESS BAZAAR SRO Rite ® Daily Worker © Morning Freibeit @ Young Worker . Friday, Saturday, Sunday OCT. 6, 7, 8 Madison Square Garden MAIN HALL ADMISSION Friday and Sunday... .35¢ Saturday .... Lit. Fund .. Total for Sat. Ss; . 50¢ . With Advance Ticket Obtainable Every Organization, 10 Cents Less At ‘The Door. 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