The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1933, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, ? MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1933 Daily, Worker “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 daily, except by the Comprodaily Publishing 0 East 13 N, ALgonq Daiwork 1: Ri n 4-7955 Cable Addre Washingten 3B 14th end G. &t., Washini D Subscription Rates Ry Mai: (excep) Manhattan and Bronx sar, $6.00; 6 months, $3.50 $2.00; 1 month, 78 cents Foreign and Canada ear, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3:00. By Car Week ents; monthly, 75 cents. MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1933 The Admiral Calls for War talk the way the Four- strument of European ned—and the brutally danger of is beautifully age shown by th Power Pact w: empty ‘peace’ peace” at the time i frank 4 s of Rear Admiral Bradley Fiske re- | of the Four-Power Pact between ermany and Ital for the violently anti-Bolshevik National the radio Saturday night, Admiral predicted that these four nations against the Soviet Union trument which makes it threat of Com- to overwhelm Europe. ‘omed the re-arming of Fascist Ger- potential dike against the red This links up very neatly with Memorandum presented by the London Economic Con- proposed that Germany be given back Corridor, reimbursing Poland for the loss slice of the Soviet Ukraine. onal warmaker Fiske wants an anti- because Russia is threatening the of social and political life in he very existence of the Soviet Union, where the workers rule, threatens the very foundations of capitalist oppression, in Europe as throughout the world. Therefore Fiske openly proposes joint war against the Soviet Union, saying “The only way to stop the spread of Communism is to meet force with force.” Now how is Europe going to stop it?” he went on, because it is a tide of Communism Hu ern abe the notorious ent at The Four-Power Pact seems the immediate answer, | with Japan assisting on the eastern side. Such a war Je, is in fact more than possible.” Admiral xe gives the show away. at He ADMITS that the antagonism of the capitalist owers to the growing Soviet Union and to Com- munism is far stronger than any dissensions between them, cither between the United States and Japan or between France and Italy. ‘The Four-Power Pact isan actual instrument which makes it possible for Germany, France, Italy and Britain to resist by force the actual threat of Com- munistic Russia to overwhelm Europe,” Fiske re- peated. Fiske’s call to war against the Soviet Union is a summons to the real opponents of imperialist war— the working masses of America and all sincere fighters against war—to join up for a resolute, unflinching Struggle against the imminent danger of war, and for the defense of the Soviet Union A Strikebreaking Speech HE prese: normous strike wave against the N. R. A. codes is causing the ‘Roosevelt government and the employers serious worry. It is true that they promised the workers full right to “collective bargaining.” But to promise the work- ers is one thing, and to see the workers take the ise seriously is another. reason for the anxiety of the government is to seek. A leading financial writer imthe capitalist press gave the answer a few days ago, when that the present strikes against the ing deeply into profit in the Jast few days, Roosevelt and nson have ‘openly tried to break large kes against the N.R.A. codes. n Roosevelt yesterday tried to get the striking coal Miners of the United States Steel mines to go back to Ww by dangling. before them a promised gift in the of a “code.” And Johnson spoke worriedly about the that the ccal sirike is causing the N.R.A. And to complete the concerted attack on the strik- ing workers, William Green yesterday took his part in this trio of strikebreaxers. He has a different part to play. To maintain his hold over the workers, Green appeared-before the workers yesterday as the fervent defender of the “right to strike.” But his entire speech is a deliberate attempt cripple and nullify that right in actual practice. Green and his fellow bureaucrats of the A. F. of L. léadership haye not only tried desperately to stop all Strikes against wage cuts and exploitation, but they Rave foully signed away even that precious “right” to strike to which they give such hypocritical ‘lip service. IAYS Green for example, to the coal miners in the supplementary wage agreement which he signed Only a week ago “A strike or stoppage of work on the part of In the light of such an agreement, what becomes the mine workers shall be a violation of this agreement.” of the coal miners’ right to strike? And to doubly guarantee that the theoretical “right te strike” will be abrogated in actual practice, Green's coal agreement states “There shall be no suspension of work on ac- count of such (i. e. wage) differences.” And thus, Green’s “right to strike,” becomes in the ‘e0al agreement that he gave the miners a guarantee ef the open shop, and justification of strike-breaking! In action, Green and the A. F. of L. leaders have ruthlessly carried through fhis strike-breaking. They tried to stop the Pennsylvania miners from striking. They tried to stop the textile workers from striking. -» And now that the miners have swept over their Teactionary leaders in the mightiest strike wave in our history, Green seeks to crawl back into the favor of the workers who would not let him betray them, by declaring himself proud of their “magnificent mil- itancy.” Behind such praise lurks the dagger of strike- breaking. Green warns the unorganized workers to “nse calm judgment and great caution in resorting to strikes without organization ., .” This treacherous advice only conceals Green’s fear in the face of the fact that thousands of workers have organized strikes with rank and file leadership, that these workers have taken the struggle against Capitalist exploitation into their own hands! * He warns the unorganized workers to use “calm judgment,” And this warning reflects his fear that the mass of aito- steel and textile workers are getting out of the control of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats. He fears the growing influence of the policies and leadership of the revolutionary Trade Unity Unity League, which is Organizing in action strikes against the slave N.R.A. codes, He is afraid that the masses of unorganized work- ers now rising into action will not take seriously his tecent arrogant claim that he and his fellow bureau- to difficulty” | ave an exclusit American labor movement He sees these w sweeping into enormous actions, and he tries to poison their with doubts and irresolution. Green's treacherous warning is ainged actions of the coal miners who marched ritory of the steel mills in an action of s e right to the lead: strike fighting anger t the recent o the ter- idarity with the steel wor Green's warning the ruling class employers in the face of a mi is only an echo of the fright of rch not only of coal miners to other coal mines, but coal mins ers to another vital section of American industry— steel! REEN warns the workers that they must “¢: cipline early and learn their lesson well. The entire industrial picture is changing, requiring new ideas, new methods, .. .” What does Green mean by “discipline? nothing more nor less than submission to the strike- | He means | breaking agreements signed by the A. F. of L. leaders | and the employers. His words are aimed at the A. F of L. textile and coal workers who have trampled on the sell-out agreements handed down to them by their A. F. of L, betrayers. own proletarian discipline, but it is of a kind that en and his colleagues fear and hate Green warns the workers that they must use the strike “only as a means of last resor' He urges them to rely upon such instrumentalities as the National Labor Board of the N.R.A. He urges thém to submit to its compulsory arbitration “without resorting to the necessity for strikes,” And in his effort to ture the workers away from king, Green goes on to promise the workers that they can get better results from the N.R.A. Labor Board than by striking “A settlement of differences arising between employers and employees within the domain of judicious, just and fair determination is product- ive of better results than if reached upon the field of industrial conflict,” says Green. It is thus into the trap: of compulsory arbitration that Green is trying to lead the workers, while he talks hypocritically about the “right to strik And every worker knows what capitalist-minded Labor Boards do to workers out on strike—they assas- sinate the strike! Green talks about the theoretical “right to strike,” Byt for him and his colleagues there is never any “necessity to strike.” strike” is a cloak for actual strike-breaking. The Green talk of the “right to’ | The striking workers have their | | | | | | REEN'S attempt to stifle the rising strike actions of | the American workers takes place on the eve of the coming A. F. of L, Convention. It is therefore the signal for the policy that the A. F. of L. leadership will try to foist upon the worker delegates there. Against this attempt to betray the workers into giving up one of the mightiest weapons that they possess in their fight against the employers, there must be organized in every A. F. of L. local a rank and file opposition to Green’s strike-breaking. Green’s attempt to protect the workers from “cut- ting deeply into the profits’ that the N.R.A. ‘codes be smashed by the workers themselves. are intended to guarantee to the employers, must Dooming to Begging ‘ACED with rising resentment against his food de- struction program while millions of unemployed Starve, Roosevelt has been forced to promise winter relief. Roosevelt now makes the same promises to the un-' employed as he has made to the employed. In the factories his “recovery”» program spells wage cuts—to the unemployed it means further starvation this winter. The announcement yésterday that seven hundred million dollars will be appropriated for winter relief, gave at first the impression that Roosevelt designated funds in addition to what has already been allotted. This is fraud. What is actually happening, is that Roosevelt has merely promised to use $330,000,000 from the $5,000,000,- 000 fund appropriated for relief By Congress last spring (a fund that should have been spent a long time ago). The balance is to be made up from existing relief funds of state, county and municipalities. In other words, contrary to the implication of Roosevelt's speech, not one cent is being added to the funds already designated for relief! But, Roosevelt intends to go further. He wants to eliminate the word cash from the vocabulary of the jobless. A meagre food basket, insufficient to hold out for a week—this is his relief program. A basket of pro- visions totally inadequate—and a bushel of coal. But how about rent, medical needs, clothes, etc.? These are of no concern to the capitalist government! ‘It is a program that reduces the millions of unem- ployed workers to abject beggary or a starvation diet. * * . HE unemployed rightfully demand a definite income to assure all needs for themselves and theiy fami- lies. But such assurance cannot come from a starva- tion food basket, but through Unemployment Insur- ance. This will give the unemployed an income to pro- vide for foods clothing, shelter any other minimum needs, Despite his election promise to grant unemployment relief, Roosevelt gives the excuse’ that there are no ‘ funds. This is not so. The present administration au~ thorized $736,000,000 through the R.F.C. for loans to banks and railroads. It appropriated close to a billion dollars for the army and navy. But it will make no appropriations for the workers, unless compelled by the organized force exerted by our class. By their organized strength the workers can force the adoption of peels a Insurance, Invervention Poison Eo Oriente Province in Cuba nas come a piece of news that is terrifying the American agents of Wall Street imperialism in Havana, And that is the news that the sugar mills and plantations in this province have been_seized by armed bands of Cuban and Negro workers united in revo- lutienary solidarity. The seizure of the mills was terrible enough to the American imperialist, exploiters, But that they should have been seized by Negro and whites together—this is truly terrifying to the imperialist rulers! For in Cuba, as tn the United States, the American imperialist rulers try to sow race hatred and division among their exploited slaves. In the present fight of Wall Street against, the revo- lutionary uprising of the Cuban workers, the American press is resorting to its usual lynch provocations, to its old, stale, disgusting lies aboyt the “honor of white women.’ The dignified New YoPk Times carried the lie that in Oriente Province, where the majority of the population is Negro, “white women are terrorized, and dare not leave their homes for fear of being attacked by Negro men.” ‘The poisonous “rape” talk means that the American destroyer anchored near the seized Oriente sugar mills owned by Percy Rockefeller and Vincent Astor, is getting ready for a slaughter of the Cuban workers. Such talk means that the San Grau Government is preparing to repeat the 1919 massacre of revolting Negroes, This vicious race hatred poison must be imme- diately answered by the American white and Negro workers together, united in their demand for the im- mediate withdrawal of the American battleships from Cuban waters, that all American intervention in Cuba must be stopped | has been greeted with tremendous) | The crew of the balloon was in con- EAGL wy eyictieee FB? 99 WILL DO HIS PART! Soviet Balloon Breaks Record in Flight Hailed. by World’s Scientists Will Reveal Stratosphere Secrets and - Air Data, Experts Say | Burek ee | | | 12-Mile Rise i By VERN SMITH (Mescow Correspondent MOSCOW, Oct. 1.—Soviet airmen | upper air in the giant stratosphere balloon “Stratostat, U.S.S.R.” to set a| new world’s record for altitude. of the Daily Worker.) | soared nearly twelve miles into the | Printers Win 9 Day) Strike in Syria Under Communist Leadership After striking for nine days, during which time Beirut was without any newspapers, the printers here have won a great victory. Most of their de- mands were granted, they will be al- lowed to organize a trade union, which the French colonial authorities had denied them, and all arrested strikers will be released. The strike was under the leadership of the illegal Communist Party of Syria, and the strike victory had raised the Party’s prestige tremendously. | * The huge turnip-shaped bog carrying a spherical, airtight aluminum| jpRUSALEM, Palestine, Sept 3. gondola rose from the Moscow airport and reached a record-breaking height | (By After »- within less than. two hours. soaring in the air for eight hours and fifteen minutes the giant balloon, 200 feet high, alighted gently at 5| pm, on the bank of the Moscow River «mst of the Koloma industrial works. About 2,000 workers and collective} farmers from ‘the adjacent country-} side assembled {6 greet the “Strat-| ostat.” George Prokofieff, commander) of the balloon ¢rew, climbed to the top of the gondola and gave the workers his impressions of the flight. The successful-12-mile record flight enthusiasm by the whole Soviet) Union. The official, barographs. in- dicate that Prof. Auguste Piccard’s previous stratosphere record had been beaten 36 minutes after the start.| stant radio communication with Sov- iet air officials on the ground, notify- ing them by radio when they reached the peak of the flight. Reached: 63,000 Feet The peak height reached by the} balloon was 118 miles or over 63,000] feet. Ernest Birnbaum and Consten-| tine Godunoff, the other two aviators; in the record-breaking balloon crew,} reported that the lowest temperature | registered outside the balloon was 89} degrees below zero, while the balloon- ists inside the air-tight gondola, sweltered in their fur-lined flying] Brazen Japanese Employers Protest: Soviet Wage Rises SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.—Wage increases for. harbor workers in Vla- divostock, Soviet Pacific port, have led to violent protests by Japanese shipping capitalists, according to the “Japan Weekly Chronicle.” ‘The arrogant Japanese imperialists, | who ship their goods through Vladi- vostock, have. the nerve to call the wage raises given the Soviet workers “fllegal” and .“exorbitant,” although officially raised by Soviet authorities on Soviet soil. Japanese workers will now under- stand what Japanese diplomats mean when they speak of the “menace of Soviet rule.” It means a “menace” of wage increases: in this case, a 33 percent rise retrocative for the past six months. its ina temperature of 86 degrees.| At..the top altitude reached, the} outside air pressure dropped to less} than one-fifteenth of the barometer) reading at ground level. The bal- loon carried enough liquid oxygen in the airtight gondola which. was fitted with nihe plate-glass windows for) observations, to keep the baloonists| alive for 40:hours. Flight Made For Science The. flight, which was made for) scientific purposes and not to es-! tablish any height records, according) to the aviators, proved the correct-| ness of all the preliminary computa- tions. It also demonstrated the pos- sibility of establishing regular scien-} tific observations in the stratosphere, | the layer of ultra-thin air above the. ten-mile height level. Prokofieff stated that he was cer- tain that the flight may be repeated under. winter conditions. Balloon. All Soviet-Made The whole stratosphere balloon, the apparatus and all the instruments used, manufactured in Soviet factor- ies, demonstrated their excellent workmanship and quality. « The aviators said that they suc- ceeded in fully accomplishing the outlined program of scientific ob-| servations during the flight. They} added that they felt excellent throughout the flight. and stated that they were quite ready to repeat the performance. Other Soviet Balloon Ready To Rise The civilian stratosphere balloon huilt by the Leningrad Aviation foeiety is all set to go uv from Mos- cow ‘morrow or one of the follow- ing days in an effort to add to the} scientific knowledge gained by the | “Stratostat, U.S.S.R.” flight. U. S. Scientists Hail Flight | WASHINGTON. Oct. 1. — record-breaking Soviet stratosphere} flight is of extreme importance, U. S. Weather Bureau scientists said to- day, adding that much valuable data was available at such a high altitude. The flight. may answer important questions in the field of pure science, such as measuring the so-called cos- mic rays and changes in the composi- tion of the atmosphere. Rear-Admiral, King, chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, called the flight “a very marvelous perform- ance.” He added that the flight re- cord would be sent, no doubt, for con- firmation to the International Aero- nautic Federation in Paris. Mail).—Communist leaflets in He'wow were distributed at the Zion movie theatre here last night, point- ing out that the Beirut strike was of great importance to all Arab workers in their ‘fight against’ imperialism. The leaflet called upon everyone to contribute to the strike fund and to protest against French and. British imperialist terror in the colonies, Japan Army Asks Biggest Budget War Office Threatens) Soviet Union in Statement TOKYO, Sept. 29,—The biggest { army appropriation in the history of Japan, over $171,000,000, was asked. by military leaders » today. An official: War Office statement admitted the threat to the Soviet Union contained in the budget -ap- propriation, saying “the strength of the Soviet army made Japan unable, to rest at ease concerning her defense in the direction of the Asiatic Continent.” Japan has already notified -the great imperialist powers that it intends to increase its navy enor- mously in 1933, the year when the London. Naval Treaty expires, while fleet’ bases fortifications, air manéuvers and trial mobilizations are being vushed in preparation for a major war of aggression against the Soviet Union. Storm Troops Snoop in the Kitchens as Germans Eat Sunday’s Dinner BERLIN, Oct. 1.—All Germany will eat Sunday dinner today un- der the snooping eyes of Nazi storm troopers, , who will search all kitchens, from hotels and res- taurants to workers’ homes, to en- force the recent Hitlerite decree that Germans must eat only a 12 cent dinner, “donating” the differ-) ence between that sum and the usual cost of the dinner to the Nazi welfare fund. Cuban, Worker Wants But even if everyone of the VAN DER LUBBE FIRED REICHSTAG ALONE, HE SAYS, FRAME-UP TOTTERS Prosecution Witnesses Must Admit Communist Party Opposes Terrorism; Court Guards Threaten Dimitroff AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER The eighth day of the Reichstag fi! witnesses had testified in the Nazi (Via Zurich, Switzerland), Sept. 30.— re trial in Leipzig featured van der | Lubbe's eenfession that he burned the Reichstag alone, after various minor endeavor to build a “link” between van der Lubbe and the German Communist Party. The day's sessions opened with to Hear What “Daily” Says of Their Fight NEW YORK, N. Y.—‘I would like to have copies of the Daily Wérker in which you tell of what we haye been doing in Cuba,” writes a na- tive of Cuba from the city of Ca- majuani, in broken English to our American Daily Worker. “With the present lines I enclose to you to see if I can obtain three or four numbers of the Daily Worker, the quantity of ten cents in American money. "I will desire to get one number of the last issue and two ‘or three that mention the news that this paper cbtain from Cuba in these weeks, and of the labor of the Cuban workers. “In this town we have all the workers united in_ syndicates (unions) and in this week we united them in a Regional Federation of all workers of different industry. This town has 8,000 workers from different offices organized. “The Cuban Communist Party leads them by the National Con- federation of Workers of Cuba. The International Labor Defense (De- fensa Obrera Internacional) has a great representation here. “T close with revolutionary greet- ings.” Life on Soviet Ship | Vividly Described by American Youth “I Saw With My Own Eys What ‘Daily Has Told Us Many Times” + A young American worker, travel- ing to the Soviet Union by way of Asia, has writtena letter to a friend here telling of his experience on board the Soviet ship. “Chicherin.” The letter follows: On Board the Soviet Ship, “Chicherin” Dear Comrade— ; I know that you would like to know what is happening on this ship, but I can't tell you all—there is so much. Fifty-three men working, studying, attending Party meetings, reading, eating and trying to talk a little English makes a busy day. Yesterday I saw for the first time what the Daily Worker keeps saying on the first page. The Soviet work- ers are prepared. Twenty men marched on the top deck in military formation, donned gas masks and trotted around for ten minutes. Then came a class in gunnery. This is, a passenger boat, not a warship. Say, you should see the eats they give us—pastry and caviar every day, seven-course dinners and suppers, All the food excepting the fruits come from the Soviet and it tastes just like my mother’s cooking. I never expected such grand meals. And white bread all the time on clean tablecloths with Lenin looking down on us approvingly. In fact, every one on this ship eats from the same kitchen and the food is great. If you remember, I sent you some news about a printers’ strike in Syria. Well, they won it and it was a great victory for the Communist Party of Syria. Comradely yours. 10,000,000 households of those. still employed does so, the money col- lected through this once-a-month Sunday fast will provide food for less than three per cent of Ger- many’s unemployed army, statis- ticians figured out here. What the Nazis Do to Men Who Know Too Much By ROBERT HAMILTON Although the Nazi leaders had kept their plans:,for burning the Reichstag as secret as possible, some individuals—in the confidence of Nazi headquarters or able to learn the truth about-the Reichstag fire through their official position—had to be muzzled. or-put out of the way to keep the Goering-Goebbels scheme from disclosure. ~~ Dr. George. Bell, former member of the Nazi General Staff and in- timate of Capt- Roehm, and othar highly-pleced: Fascist leaders, knew van der Lubbe very well. The latter told him all about the connections he had formed with Nazi circles in Berlin and Munich, Dr. Bell Lets the Cat Out of the Bag Although Dr.° Bell had been hos~ tile to the Nazi Party for more than a year he still had his intimates within the Party who kept him in- formed of what was going on. He knew exactly what had taken place when the Reit was burned. Four or five days after the fire, Bell be~ trayed what he knew about it to a politician inthe People’s Party. The politician wrote to some of his friends, telling them what Bell had revealed to him, regarding the real incendiaries. One of these letters fell into the hands of Dalueges, the chief of the secret police. ‘This letter cost Bell his life. He had fied to Austria, fearing he would be murdered the unscrupulous Nazi overlords. But on April 3, two automobiles filled with depend- able storm troopers crossed the frontier from Munich into Austria and drove up to the little inn where Bell was hiding in the village of Kufsteig. They tried to kidnap him and take him back to Nazi-land. When he refused to go they shot him dead. One mouth shut forever. A Fortune-Teller Predicts the Fire Hanussen, a famous fortune- teller, said in a seance the day be- fore the Reichstag fire: “I see a great house burning.” In the issue of his weekly following the fire, Hanussen wrote that he had known in advance that the Reichstag was going to be burned, but he could not speak openly of. it. Now, Hanussen was an intimate friend of Count Helldorf, head of the Berlin Nazis, and other Fascist officials. It is clear that same leading Nazi must have tipped Hanussen off before the Reichstag fire, which enabled him to “foresee” it. Hanussen must have known a great deal. Hanussen Taken For A Ride The Jew Hanussen did not live of trees along a village road near Berlin. He too had been taken for a Nazi ride. Two mouths sealed forever. a Dr. Oberfobren’s ‘Memorandum Of the three men’ who Knew the secret, of the, Reichstag fire — Bel, Hanussen and Oberfohren—Dr. Ober- fohren was the most dangerous. Bell was a political adventurer; Hanussen was a charlatan fortune-teller. But Oberfohren was an influential poli- tician, head of the Nationalist de- puties in the Reichstag. To weaken the Nazis protect, ‘his own party against its allies’ ef- forts to smash it, Oberfohren wrote a memorandum exposing the Nazis’ plot to set the’ Reic! -on fire. This memorandum appeared in the rea eis Guardian on April 26 an . ‘Oberfohren’s “Suicide” Ten days later, Dr. Oberfohren was ae eke dead in be apartment. Hitler_government issued a re- port that Oberfohren had committed suicide. -In reality he, too, had been murdered by. the Nazis. All three men who knew too much would never talk again. % A Fire-Chief’s Suspicions When Berlin’s fire chief, reaeyA long enough to enjoy the rule of Hitler, which he had desired so fervently. Se AF Ble ee fornd riddled with bullets in a clump arrived at the blazing ominous night of Feb. 27, he ordered that a city-wide alarm be sent out || . I that the fat onee, and ent fire-departm' been summoned much foo late. Goering expressly forbade him to issue the general alarm, saying: “Fight the fire with the apparatus you have here.” Gempp also told his fire depart- ment subordinates that when inspect- ing the burned Reichstag, he had noticed huge quantities of unused incendiary material lying around— enough to fill a truck. ‘ How Goering Shut Up Gempp Goering’s answer was to suspend Gempp and place him under charges of—corruption. Goering did not have the courage to deny Gempp’s ac- cusations, printed in the Saarbru- ecken “Volkstimme”; his only answer Gempp and place him under charges of — corruption. Gempp weakened under the pressure put on him and nearly four months technical pedal idee i tho |gade elements to set up an further testimony regarding the al- leged "arson conversations.” Binge, a prosecution witness, while detained. ‘ in prison by the Nazis from March * 10 to July 12, made statements which he now withdrew on the stand. He admits talking to van der Lubbe, but denies the utterance ascribed to him: “This=boy is all right; we can use him.” Judge Buenger insinuatingly asks: “Perhaps you forget, but didn’t you really hear revolutionary talk?” Witness Denies. Nazi Charge. Binge states that van der Lubbe did not give the impression of being a Communist. Incensed’ at Binge’s refusal to testify as the Nazi court wishes, the attorney-general threat< ens him with legal prosecution. Jahnicke, another prosecution wit< ness, states that he is # Communist, but left the Communist Party in June 1932 for personal reasons._ He describes details of the Neukoelln or- ganization of the Communist Party where terrorist acts were’ never dis. cussed. Jahnicke adds that “ele« ments inclined to terrorism were in+ structed that the Communist Party was opposed to individual terrorism.” Van der Lubbe “Not a Communist.” Jahnicke “says that he-had asked van der Lubbe. if he was a member of the Communist Party. Van der Lubbe answered: “Not of the Com- munist Party but of the A. A. U. (Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union).” Judge Buenger asks: “What organization is that?” Torgler exxplains that the A. A. U. is an anarchist-syndicalist, group. ' Jahnicke declares that van der Lubbe differed from tie Communists in being undisciplined and foggy in his jdeas. In reply to Torgler’s question as to the Communist Party’s attitude toward terrorism, Jahnicke states that the Party rejected terrorism during the latter: half of 1932 and 5 in January-February, 1983. ae Panknin, the next witness, wearing a storm trooper’s badge, confirms Jahnicke’s testimony. Dimitroff then asks Panknin why as “a good Ger~ man” he didn’t inform the police after hearing this incendiary talk. Panknin replies: “I didn’t take the conversation seriously.” ss Van Der Lubbe On Stand The thitd phase of the trial begins with van der Lubbe’s examination on the stand, with the prosecution ask- ing him how he entered the Reich- stag and set fire to different parts of the building. Judge Buenger begs van der Lubbe to “talk frankly.” Van der Lubbe grins and nods. He says that on Sunday, Feb, 26, he strolled through Berlin, reaching Hennigsdorf in the evening, where he registered under his right name with the police. He stayed overnight in the police night ' lodgings. This is obviously a clumsy police alibi to prove that van der Lubbe did not spend the night with Nazi friends of his. Van der Lubbe adds: “T went to Spandau early next morn- ing, and left Spandau at 8am.” Judge Buenger: “Do you admit firing the Reichstag on that very day?” Van der Lubbe only nods. Judge Prompts Dutchman Though van der Lubbe had told his story up to this point con- nectedly and clearly, the judge fears he will fails to continue in that role and returns to the old-method of presenting detailed questions requir- ing only “Yes” or “No” answers. He tells van der Lubbe to interrupt him if the description he reads is “incor= rect,” but van der Lubbe never in- terrupts as the presiding judge de- scribes van der Lubbe's second-story entrance into the Reichsteg through a window. , nie The judge adds that van der Lubbe set fire to the building all alone, ap~ plying the match at ten different spots within 20 minutes, Van der Lubbe confirms the judge’s whole statement, and Buenger adds that the description read by him tallies with police reports of fire. Prosecution Drops Arson Charge The prosecution thus teoitly drops the arson indictment against Torg- ler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff and now accuses van der Lubbe alone of the actual firebug act. cal 3 Police Threaten Dimitroff - _Dimitroff rises and tries-to speak to the newspaper men covering the trial, but policemen drag him back and threaten to beat him up is he doesn’t shut up. ie Judge Buenger then “announces that the trial stands adjourned unt}! Wednesday, Oct, 4. ‘ Workers’ Enemies Exposed’ - now been expelled from the of the Party for open and fl violation of the basic principles and discipline of the Party. He has been found guilty ing and refusing to carry instructions, of carrying on cipled and disruptive activities Jim Connelly Branch of the nape tional Labor Defense, and of splite ting the branch and utilizing rene- | i tion organization in the Lower Bronx, cipled careerist and ideologiaclly con~ fused petty-bourgeois element, Louis A. Baum has found his place in the ranks of the renegade counter-revo- & lutionary Lovestoneites, All_workers are warned Gee his slanderous disrupt in the servos ‘of the elage eoemy,