The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1933, Page 1

i] aS i | Get Your Unit, Union Local, Branch or Club to Challenge Another Group in Raising Subs for the Daily Worker ! “Vol. X, No. 241 eu Entered os second-class matter at New York, N. ¥., Daily under the Act of March 8, 1879, (Section of the Communist International) orker Party U.S.A. the Post Office at NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 7, 1933 | America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER Eastern New York—Fair Saturday. Price 3 Conga. Ten Pages | SECRET DOCUMENT EXPOSES VAN DER LUBBE AS NAZ ‘TOOL IN MURDER PLOT AGAINST GERMAN COMMUNISTS “SPREAD THE IS AMBRIDGE WORKERS’ } ANSWER All Latrobe, Pa., |, Steel Plar Plants Walk Out; Frick Gunmen Attack Miners; Greensburgh Strikers Force Relief By HARRY GANNES (Special to the trast. Reforming their ranks, more determined than ever to extend and win their strike, steel workers are boiling @ over with anger against the Roose- velt-Pinchot regime, blaming them for the unprovoked murderous attack that took the life of a strike sympa- thizer, Adam Petesuski, pumped 14 bullets from head to foot into the body of George Maich, Communist Party member, who, together with striker Joe Grotta, is at the point of death. Fifteen are in hospitals and over forty are nursing wounds at home. All Out In Latrobe Greensburgh, Pa., the city where the steel strike first started, took up the cry of Ambridge steel workers to answer the terror by spreading the strike. Sheet and Metal Workers Industrial Union organizers and striken: of the Walworth Foundry in Greensburgh, together with striking miners were successful today in call- in’ the Railway Steel Co. Spring Works, Latrobe Foundry, Latrobe Electric, Latrobe Steel Works, Angora Drawn Metal Works, Latrobe Brass Foundry ‘and Vanadium Steel and Dynamite Cap Works. A committee of 150 strikers, repres senting the 1,000 Walworth Foundry Co. strikers in Greensburgh, went to the relief bureau today and forced the officials to fill out slips providing relief for every striker who asks for it. Nine Jailed ‘Nine strike leaders are in jail in Ambridge. Harvey O’Connor, author of “Mellon’s Millions,” whose car was séen frequently in the strike area, was arrested, and was later released on @ writ of habeas corpus. “Steel Trust Government” “Roosevelt guarantees us the right to organize,” jeered the strikers. “Pinchot guarantees us protection,” hooted the pickets. “Damn it—is this justice,” they cry. “Whose govern- ment is this?” Throughout the strik- irs’ ranks echoes the reply: “The iteel trust is government.” Deputies Get It Terror is beginning to spread to Ge coal fields ands over 1,000 shots e between Frick gun thugs at Colonial mines and striking miners, this morning. Two deputies were wounded. and no miner was hurt. But the coal strike stands solid as @ rock, with ranks not only unbroken, but a more det fighting mood than ever before. One hundred thousand miners are letting the steel trust and coal oper- ators know they are determined to get victory. Every faked report of miners returning to work, is answered by instances like 5,000.Allegheny Val- ley miners voting to stick with Frick . men until the union is recognized and 4,000 Indiana miners hooting, and jeering union leaders who even suggest considering a return to work. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 6.—“Spread the strike to American Bridge” is the cry of 5,000 Ambridge steel workers whose picket lines yesterday were riddled by a fascist brood of the Blue Eagle unleashed by the steel STRIKE”, 10 SHOOTING Daily Worker) SEND PROTESTS NEW YORK.—A sharp protest against the murderous attacks on miners and steel strikers was sent today to Governor Pinchot in Har-* risburg, Pa. and to President Roo- sevelt in Washington by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Un- ion here. The Union also appealed to all other trade unions and work- ers’ organizations to send protests. Dimitroff Expelled From Leipzig Trial For Bold Defense Courageous I Exposure of Forged Testimony Rocks Courtroom AT THE GERMAN FRON- TIER, Oct. 6 (Via Zurich, Switzerland). — George Dimi- troff, Bulgarian Communist leader, on trial for his life in the Reichstag arson trial at Leipzig, was expelled from the courtroom by force for his bold and defiant challenge to the manufectured testimony intro- duced by the Nazi prosecution. As policemen led him from the court, Dimitroff shouted: “This is outrageous! The sentence is prob- ably already pronounced elsewhere!” From the very beginning of today’s session it was evident that the court's new tactics are a systematic provo- cation of the Bulgarian Communist. Judge Buenger stated that “large quantities of seditious material were found in Dimi‘roff’s lodgings. He read aloud the March 3rd manifesto of the Communist International on anti-fascist struggle. Dimitroff replied: “That is no secret, It has been published all over the world.” Seeing his argument collapse, Judge Buenger read the alleged manifesto of the Communist Party, stating that Goebbels and Goering were the real incendiaries, Dimitroff interjected: “I never heard of this. This document was not mentioned in the first protocol.” Judge Buenger contradicted him, say- ing the manifesto was in the initial protocol, Dimitroff answered: , “Then it has (Continued on page 2) Sevres Letter in Which U. S. Freunde des Neuen Deutschland” “FRIENDS OF THE NEW GERMANY~ $ BUNDESLEITUNG U.S. A. £ beg eg aber Gap tandeslestune, Being Spanknoehe) 2_gehed| 23. September 1933 Talons GRamarey 8-2889, lets dreene: EDENDE KEWTORK Usehle Borisn_tisuanderns te Biz No X Fras Schreiben_vom 5. September bed Der fufbsu der spesiellen AbtedJung kcnn nicht 20 schnell vonstctten gehen #15 Sie es wingeheny ltnisse schwicriger sind als. Sie annehmen« Wir ht und nissen uns vorsehen. raf Sauerna kommt rgeschlngenen Posten nicht in Frage, d die ung fehit. Er, ist‘besser fr die Bunaste verwendbar. ‘lin gurtick und brachte en, Bruder hau? die in Deutschland en- Electric aufzipassen, da die- xelben dort zu spionieren beagbsichtigen. Ihm hat die General Electric seine Erfindung gestohlen und er will jetzt gegen sie vorgenen, Da sein Bruder 4m Medical Center viel far uns > petan het, z.B. hat er zwei der dortigen Professoren ffir un- sere Sache.gewonnen, so bitten wir um Beschleunigung und ua Schutz far die Gesch&ftshandlungen des Senden Sie uns e: gutem Aussehen, die sehr zuverlassig und Brilder S.A.-Manner sind. Sie soll etwas englisch fliessend russich sprechen und muss unseren Agenten bei der Amtorg ersetzen. Sie soll auf der Buropa: oder Bremen als Frtseuse koumen, dann schicken wir eine andere Person mit den Schiff UE aoa peed turfick und so umghhen wir die Etawan- derungsbeh&tden und verneiden Kontrolle von Seiten Suterseyer. Van der Luebbe kann ich nicht hii unterbringen, am besten ist es wenn Thr ihn auf dem ween Rack einem anderentLande fiber Bord in’den Ocean werft. Wen wollt Thr denn an seiner Stelle in Deutschland aufh8ngen? Ich stime ganz mit Ihnen darin fiberein dass’ es.gut wire, den verfluchten Fommunisten in Leipzig eine Spritze Syphilis zu geben. Dann kenn man sogen dass der Konmuhismus von der Airnsyphilis einiger Narren kommt, wesenden eee de on be Translation of Nazis’ Secret Letter | Nazis Exboke Mike: Plots Freunde des Neuen Deutschland” tben komt Epanknoebel ins Liane Ihnen die besten Grisse. Er mBchte vom Biro der Au studenten einen Physiker 2ugewiesen erhalten, dani selbe einige kleine Auftrage erffllt. Theromin ist faul zu Viel Ggid haben, und dazu scheint er such ein halbes Juden- achwein mu sein. Der Mann verrft sain eigenes Lend und d > kOnnen wir ihm nun mal nicht trauen, trotz aller Ver nicht, Und die kleine Katja, so nennt Graf Sauerme d n tinow, ist ein dummes und eingebildetes Mfdel dic an und fir ach ganz gut gearbeitet hat aber jetzt immer weint, und daher glaube ich dass sie besser drfiben -ufgehoben wire. Sie kine far Tussiache Ubersetzungen in Frage. Teilen Sie uns mit wie es mit’ dem Hitlerbuch ist. Wir mfssen viele davon fret verteilen, wir werdem grossen Erfolg damit haben. Fs ist ein Kinderspiel aus den Amerikanern gute antisemiten zu machen. Bitte arbeiten Sie schnell in Sachen Spanner, hangt viel Ge? davon ffir uns ab. | ae ae | | Keil Ritler! | | Adjutant des i. A word for word translation of the secret letter from Walter Haag “FRIENDS OF THE NEW GERMANY” Telephone: GRamercy 5-1920 Address: EFDENDE Cable Address: EFDENDE, NEW YORK 23 Lexington Ave., New York = National Office U.S.A. At the order of the head of the National Office, Heinz Span- knoebel. 3 Keep Absolutely Secret! September 23, 1933. Uschla Berlin Alexanderplatz 812 No. X In reply to your letter of September 5th: The development of the special division cannot take place as rapidly as you desire, since conditions here are more difficult than you suppose. We are being watched and must be careful. Count Sauerma is out of the question for the proposed position, as he lacks experience. It is better to employ him for the Bunaste. Count Norman returned from Berlin, bringing his brother with him. Dr. Spanner asks energetically that the General Electric representatives in Germany be watched, as they intend to carry on espionage there. The General Electric stole his invention, and he is now going to take steps against them. As his brother in the Medical Center has done a lot for us,—for instance, he has won two of the professors there for our cause,—we request that Dr. Spanner’s business affairs be speeded up and given protection. Send us a young jady of good appearance, who is very reliable; it is best if her father and brothers are S.A. men (storm troopers). She should speak some English and Rus-— sian fluently and must take the place of our agent in the Amtorg. She should come over on the Europa or Bremen as a hairdresser, theh we'll send another persori back: to of the “Friends of New Germany” to Berlin, which is reproduced above, Germany on the ship, thus evading the immigration author- ities and avoid a check-up by Untermeyer. I cannot find a place for van der Lubbe here; it is best if you throw him overboard into the ocean while en route to another country. Whom do you intend to hang in his place in Germany? I agree with you entirely that it would be good to give the damned Communists in Leipzig an in- jection of syphilis. Then it can be said that Communism comes from syphilis of the brain. Send us a new code; we believe that the old code can be read by Untermeyer. Spanknoebel has just entered the room and sends you his best wishes. He would like to have a physicist assigned by the Office for Exchange Students, to do a few little jobs for him. Theremin is lazy and wants too much money, and what is more, he seems to be half a Jewish swine himself. | The man betrays his own country and therefore we cannot | trust him, despite all assurances. And the little Katja | that is how Count Sauerma calls Konstantinov—is a dumb and conceited girl, who is doing good work on the whole, but is always crying now; therefore I think she would be better taken care of over there.- She could be used for Russian translations. Let us know how things stand with the Hitler book. We must distribute many of them free; we'll have consid- erable success with it. It is child’s play to make Sood anti- Semites out of the Americans. Please work fast in the Spanner affair—lots of money for us depends on it. Heil Hitler! (Signed) W. HAAG, Adjutant of the National Leader. (SEAL) Friends of the New Germany. National Intelligence Office, U.S.A. iA FL. OFFICIALDOM AT CONVENTION REFUSES 10 SUPPORT STRIKING MINERS ? Peek Suny, of Philadelphia Cleaners Local Introduces oSlidarity Resolution By BILL DUNNE (Special to Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 6.— The high point of the proceedings today was the reading of the resolu- tion introduced by Reuben Suny, del- egate from the Cleaners, Dyers and ters and Pressers Union No. of Philadelphia, calling for sup- of the striking miners and cen- of union officials in attempt- ing to get them to go back to work introduce the resolution. Delegates shouted, “Let's hear it read” Suny handed it to Frank Morrison, secre. tary of the A. F. of L., who consulted Shouts of “Let's hear,” con- unanimous introduction of the docu- ment. ‘ Block Consideration The moment the reading stopped, Charles P. Howard, delegate from the ‘Typographical Union and member of the Resolutions Committee, shouted, “T object,” to the head of the I. T. U., therefore, goes the credit for being the first to block the consideration of the vital subject matters of this resolution by the convention. Green, himself a member of the U. M. W. of A., made haste to recognize Howard, Green thus Placed his O, K. on pre- venting the protest against what amounts to the use of Civil War methods against striking miners and steel workers which fill news poligone of the capitalist press. The Resolution The' resolution reads: “Resolution on support of striking Pressers Union No. 18233: Whereas, tens of thousands of mine workers fre on strike in Pennsylvania, Vir- ginia~West Virginia, Indiana, Ilinois, Utah, New Mexico, etc., for union ree~ ognition, against the anti-strike and compulsory arbitration supplementary agreement to the coal code, and for a higher wage scale and better work- ing conditions than the low standard stipulated in the code, and “Whereas, the private gunment of the’ coal companies, superintendents, ete, have shot and killed a number of striking miners and wounded many others, and “Whereas, police, troops and other armed forces of Government agencies are being used against strikers and pickets to the benefit of non-union coal operators, such as, the Frick (U. 8, Steel) interests, and “Whereas, the entire American La- bor movement will benefit by a sweeping victory of the miné workers and such victory would strengthen greatly the movement now under way miners submitted by Delegate Reuben Suny of Cleaners, Dyers, Spotters, for organization of the steel workers and other workers, “Therefore be it resolved, that the 53rd Annual Convention of the Am- erican. Federation of Labor declares its support of the miners heroic ef- forts to regain a decent standard of living and freedom from company domination, that the convention censures any and all union officials who call upon the mine workers to return to work without guarantee that their demands have been granted, that the convention urges all affi- liated ‘National and International Unions to give the greatest possible moral and financial support to the decisive battles now being waged by the mine workers, Many delegates came to Reuben Suny and said the treatment of this resolution was a shame. Farley Speaks © James A. Farley, Roosevelt's Post- master General, in a speech to the A. F. of L. convention today, displayed the callous crust that fits him for the post of generalissimo of the reaction- ary forces of his party. In face of the most widespread murderous as- saults on striking workers since the late N.R.A. Flops, We Will tines Dictatorship | or Communism,” Says Uhief Strikebreaker war, Farley said: “Organized labor can make a mighty contribution to the success of the recovery movement by continuing fo exhibit recognition of the patriotic cooperation of the great majority of the employers of labor.” In the Parley-NRA jargon, the shooting down of striking workers is obviously a great patriotic enter- prise. At an official testimonial dinner last night given to Edward F. McGrady, delegate from the petting pressmen and assistant secretary 0! Jabor, which was attended by 400 honored guests, he said, during the course of his speech. “If the NRA flops, we will have either a dictatorship or Communism.” “You Have It” Johnson struck the same note and said, “We must have the help of labor.” Green oe “You have it.” ‘The speech of Father Haas, from the National Recovery Board to the convention this morhing was in the same key. He said: “If the NRA fails, something else with a different name will succeed it. That something else, be it dictatorship or not, will have to start from the same principles,” It is admitted generally here in the inner circles that the NRA canndt last longer than the end of December in its present form. Daily its crisis be- comes more apparent as prices rise and both strikes and their militancy increase. It is clear that the more and more open utterances of the con- vention speakers on this’ question from Perkins to Haas are moral pre- paration for an extension of the dic- DEMAND FREEDOM FOR TORGLER AND COMRADES; DRIVE NAZIS FROM U. 8. Torgler and Co- Defendants to Be Inoculated With Syphilis—Unknown Victim: to Hang for Van Der Lubbe | Rally Wednesday at New Star Casino Against Murder and Espionage Plots of Hitler’s U. Ss. Agents NEW YORK. —The Daily Worker today makes public incontrovertible proof that the secret Nazi or- ganization in the United States is plotting with Nazi headquarters in Berlin to do away with Marinus van der Lubbe, half-witted Nazi tool in the Reichstag frame-up case against the Communist leaders on trial in Leipzig. In a secret document, which is in the possession aily. Worker, the Hitlerite leaders in Amer- ica also disclose their espionage activities in Amtorg, Soviet trading organization in New York, together with plots for infecting the Communist defendants in Leipzig with the-deadly germs of syphilis. They reveal that some other man is to hang in place of Van der Lubbe, after he is condemned by. the Leipzig court, that: he is to be shipped out of Germany in fulfill- ment of the Nazi bargain with him—but that he will never reach his destination. Marked “absolutely secret,” signed by Walter Haag, Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command in America, addressed | to his superiors in Berlin, their letter tears the last veil of pretense from Hitler’s hangman’s regime, and damns it~ before the whole world. Leiter Confirms Daily Worker Exposures The Daily Worker has published a part of the inside story of Hitler’s Nazi organization in America. One article was published on August 26, another on August 28, a third avas published yesterday, containing the names and acts of the signer of this letter, of the persons referred to in it, and of others. No fact of these statements, obtained from a member of the New York Nazi organization, has ever been challenged. From the same source the Daily Worker today ree , produces one of the letters which the captains of passenger | The Communist Party, New York district, cails all workers, students, and intelectuals to a mass meeting of protest against the murderous Nazis of New York, and against the Leipzig frame-up, in New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., Wednesday, October 11, at Op. m. C. A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, will be one of the speakers, ships of the German lines carry from the New York head- quarters of the Nazis to their bloody-handed masters in ‘ Berlin. ) Staring out of the middle of the letter is the world- infamous name of Van der Lubbe. “I cannot find a place for Van der Lubbe kere; it is best if you throw him overboard into the Ocean while en route to another coun- try,” writes Walter Haag, the New York Nazi, from his office in the Hotel George Washington, “Whom do you intend to hang in his place in Germany?” From the day of the Reichstag fire, the Communist Party has de- ; clared that the wretched young Dutchman found at the scene of the fire { was a tool of the Nazi leaders. The proceedings in London and Leipzig have given the whole world evidence that this is true. Another to Hang In Place of Dutchman This damning document acknowledges it over the signature of a Nazt chieftain. It equally declares that the decision in the farcical “trial” now going on in Leipzig was made long ago. Van der Lubbe will be sentenced, but he will not hang. Another wif hang in his place! Haag asks with brutal curiosity who this hapless “other” will be. He reveals in the same moment with’ stark brutality at what price the Nazis value their stool-pigeons and tools. The Nazis of Berlin thought Van der Lubbe might be shipped to America, as an easy way to fulfill their bargain with that miserable wretch. But the New York Nazis can’t © be bothered—“throw him overboard into the Ocean,” writes Haag. “I agree with you entirely that it would be good to give the damne@ Communists in Leipzig an injection of syphilis.” Ernst Torgler, George Dimitroff, Blagoi Popoff, Vassil Taneff, the heroic Communist fighters of Leipzig, the dauntless men who under the shadow of death have turned their “trial” into an international indict- ment of Hitler and all his crew of murderers, on the bench in judges” robes, in the seats of the government, and in the Nazi torture ehambers— these are the “Communists in Leipzig.” To Incculate Commanists with Syphfils What does this mean if not that the Neais know they cannot, be- / fore the whole world, condemn these valiant working-class fighters to the hangman in the face of the evidence, but that instead they will—or perhaps already have—condemned them to a slow and loathesome living death by the most horrible disease a fiendish imagination could choose? “Then it can be said that Communism comes from syphilis of the | tatorial powers of NRA agaifist the! ° working class. . 4 | The convention 1s being used as a| sounding board for this policy. brain,” writes this degenerate, maniacal Neutenant of Hitler. Note also the plots of this organization which carries on its horribla, work with the full protection of the United States Government. to smug , eniaet om Page 2, 4 aay _