The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1933, Page 6

| Speed up, are still there, } in Ambridge re-establishing organization in all plant: Page Six DAILY WERKBER, NEW YORK, MO. AY, OCTOBER 16, 1933 Dail Ceontrel < “America’s Only we Newspaper’ FOUNDED 1924 Porty UGA. g¢ Class Daily Published daily, exce odally Publishing ©o., Inc., 50 East N Teleph ALg n 4 Building, Subscription Rates $6.00 By 6 m Mail x Wereien $3.00 By Currie ! Action storie Time for Congress aking on the To figh to defend the Soviet Un ol t The hen esolutions must been 1 o The events of » days, the final collapse of the fu nd itical Geneva Disarmament Confere away of the Hitler Fas- cist gove' officials by Jap- anese war alarms, all herald the « of the whole Versailles post-war system he approach of another world imper- rnment war nition plan’ and pe Union which in the famous jet Union ig magnifi- t be made yess mus’ ne fight against the war sll attempts to weaken ss pledged them- action a nt st war and Fas- center and industry, industries, to prevent war, paying » to labor, war veterans, unem- organization: on the greatest importance. ( i firmly that “its struggle to the extent that it checks the imperialist only and 1 heart of all struggle against to put Into action anti-war activity intensified a hun- nbining all who it, must be of the the to in: Wer and Fas- eople who oppose front of the approach- ious Error ‘ n on Saturday conta lipped throu enough by many on or any variant fully cultivated contempt for ro people, it > db; the ) reflects effort to k I iN ses divided. The D W 1 of fundamental policy, ney 1 of such expressions in its columns; vy in this case this error was com ising off nsive of the the Ambridge I Americ an of workers ir i the « massacre by the Steel trust stand as a ark, One ha: news reel of the open: c oired by the bravery, the ination of these steel str In y stood their ground while the gunmen m ed up to them brandishing | their machine in ery faces of the strikers, Sheriff O'Laughlin ordered the pickets to disband. With one pierc they cried: “No!” Only when guns opened them short range did they Bivé way. / tnessing what happened to the front ranks, ks did not disperse, Finally, at the Spang ant plant, the bloodthirsty gun- mefi-were met with a solid wall 1 of human flesh, and they virtually had to cul and shoot their way through before the picket linc way. They gave way with rage in their hearts, cursing Roosevelt, and ve promises of right of or- @anization, bitterly cursing Pinchot’s promise of | *protection” io peaceful pic pouring out hateful €pithets against the governr t of the steel trust. HE workers in Ambridge who experienced the fas- ¢ cist slaughter, who suffered death threats and slug- gings for days, returned to the mills undaunted, with their exempl: bravery a lesson to all workers, Their heroism was organized and inspired in them by the militant leadership of the Steel and Metal Workers Union. The desire to rebuild that union, to strengthen organization for futu victorious strug- @les will never be shot out of the Ambridge workers, The conditions which caused the strike, the steel Code with its low wages, long hours, backbreaking The desire of the workers to organize and fight is there more than eyer. The task is to develop methods for carrying on the str uggle. In the days of the worst terror, union leaders were with the to greater efforts haye to accomplish Now that work will go ahead speedier, Massacre only steeling the work for the tremendous task they Against the powerful steel trust The Ambridge workers haye won a foremost posi- tion in the eyes of the militant workers of the whole country * “Wholeheartedly” +ALIZED class collaboration, so much iam Green and other A. F, of L. leaders as the of all that is holy the workers in the has now developed into collaboration with the to crush the tremendous strike wave ed by for NREA,, government rocking the country. the The N.R.A. was designed originally to prevent growth of the strike movement, expressing the w ers’ growing discontent with four years of crisis, misery, wage cutting. The plan was for Roosevelt with his corps of y skilled Wall Street propagandists, like General to promise the workers that the government its codes, would raise the workers’ standard of living. Meanwhile, the leadership of the A. F. of L., through the National Labor Board, and other instruments valuable to-the exploiters, was drawn : to the Roosevelt government to use all their ces to keep the workers from struggling They did not stand for the slave codes. he workers, by over a mil~ lion, in active, militant strikes, took the offensive against the bosses’ program of fastening coolie levels of living on them. Despite all the pressure of the A. F. of L. officialdom, despite all the attempts of the N.R.A., the courts, the police, and the gunmen of the big trusts, the workers struck, and are still striking by the hundreds of thousands. or does that tell the half of it. Millions more workers were and are seething with strike sentiment, especially in the basic industries like steel, coal, aluminium, stockyards. Not only were the workers striking for economic demands, for bread, for higher wages, against the murderous speed-up, for shorter hours, but they were striking for the right to or- ganize and against government attempts to impose slave conditions on them. It was here that we saw the Roosevelt regime drop its flimsy mask of the “friend of the forgotten man” and come out in the person of armed strikebreakers. The Ambridge massacre is not an isolated instance. It is the nub of the Roosevelt policy of supporting the steel trust in smashing the rising. struggles of the workers. It is the opening wedge of the fascist trends of the Roosevelt attacks against the workers. The government of Wall Street, graced by the per- son of Roosevelt, now steps immediately into every strike situation, and against the whole strike move- ment in the United States today. UT the workers reacted quickly. phat nae is IS in this light we must scrutinize the role of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, and the latest pronounce~ ments of William Green. For the past week it has become crystal clear that the Roosevelt regime was preparing to show its iron fist against the workers. General Johnson’s declara- tion that strikes would not be tolerated was followed by the revelation by William Lockey, financial editor of the New Work Times, that Wall Street had ordered a more drastic and “big stick” policy against aggres- sive labor. This followed immediately after the shoot- ing of strikers on the West Coast, in Ambridge, and after the attack on the 14,000 Weirton Steel Co. strikers, How deep and thorough are these preparatioris against the workers can be further seen by Governor Pinchot’s order to the miners to return to work, delivered by the state troopers, with the threat: “He means this!” On top of all these preparations to “shoot strikes out of existence,” we get the thrust of William Green as a sort of capping climax to the A. F. of L, Conven- tion: “We join wholeheartedly with the desire to avoid stoppages of work,” chimes in Mr. Green, In short, the A. F. of L. officialdom, entrenched in government office, in the service of the govern- ment of the powerful bosses and trusts, announce that they will join in the campaign against the work- ers struggling for union recognition, for improved working conditions, and against N.R.A. slavery. Green continues: “I think we have’ made it plain many times recently that the American Federation of Labor is seeking to curb hasty judgment in the mat- ter of strikes and that the strike should be used only as a last resort.” That must warm the cockles of the heart of every gunman of the steel and coal trust waiting for the order to shoot down strikers. 0% THE same day that Green blessed the Roosevelt regime’s strong measures to smash down on the growing strike struggles, oily Miss Perkins, secretary of labor, said that the great mass walkouts, the tre- mendous picket lines, the bloody battles for higher wages and union recognition “weren't strikes at all.” Why did she say that? For the same reason that Philip Murray of the U.M.W.A. told the 100,000 strik- ing miners that their strike was a rebellion against the government. Every effort of the workers under the N.R.A. to organize, to improve their living con- ditions, because it hurts the capitalists, because it interferes with profits for the parasites, becomes im- mediately a tussle in which the government steps out openly as the chief agent of the masters. Be- cause the strikes bring forward the ‘struggle for the workers’ most elementary rights they are not “strikes.” They are outlawed. They are beyond the pale of civilization and can be shot down without the slightest compunction,. This should sear into the mind of every worker to what a pass the struggle for the most elementary needs of life and work have come to. In this situation we must definitely brand the role of the A. F. of L. officialdom. They are now the chief strikebreaking instruments of the government and the bosses. They are the reverse side of the medal. of the militia, police, and coal and steel trust gunmen shooting down pickets. Their role is not only to keep the workers from striking, but by all means to bolster up capitalism and in this critical situation preserve the rule of the big bankers’ and industrialists. As the struggle grows sharper, the A, F, of L, leadership will become more and more openly fascist. a? ven Saeaew ees ‘HOSE with their ears close to Wall Street, that is, | close to the real rulers of the United States, as for example James McMullin, in his October 12 column | in the New York Evening Post. “News Behind the | News,” have the following to say about the A, F. of L, officialdom: “Strange as it seems, many persons in Wall Street favor allowing the A, F. of L, to go right ahead and organize up to the limit without employer resistance.” Why? In order to preserve immediately the open shop and ultimately capitalism, for as the same writer puts it: “Open shops are easier marks for Communist and other radical propagandists than a shop fully organized under established auspices,” and “They also insist that industry is in for much more trouble than it realizes, 1f it doesn’t play ball with the Federation. If we want to keep the capitalist system, we had better stop smacking its strongest shock-absorber in the eye.” Green, Lewis, Hillman, Murray, and their hench- men are the strongest shock-absorbers of capitalism against the drive of the workers for better living con- ditions, And their role now !s becoming that of fascist strikebreakers in the ranks of labor, In every strike, in every struggle of the workers for organization, in every battle against the miseries of capitalism and against the system of slavery itself, the fight must be directed with as much vigor against this scourge of the A. F. of L. leadership as against the bosses, in whose government they have become an integral part. ‘ROCSEVELT ee. oy Buca. of Jobless { | Called Ties: N we Off; 10,000 Protest Los Angeles Tragedy LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15. who were ordered to their deaths in the recent Griffith Park fire were “indigents and *paupers” and not workers for wages, local officials are seek- | | | | ing to avoid paying insurance to the Meanwhile, pending a decision o j of California, county officials have | fired 12,000 unemployed from relief | jobs in the city. | So great is the:indignation against | those responsible for the needless | deaths of the~65-unemployed work- ers that the Communist Party and) the Relief Workers Protective Union | have been able to-compel the authori- ties to take some steps to protect the relief workers’from a possible re currence of the Griffith Park tragedy. They have refused, however, to in- stall sprinkling systems in the va ous parks, citing the usual “economy alibi, | . 10,000 At Protest Meeting LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 10 Mail).—“The death of approximately one hundred relief workers who were ordered to their-death in an inferno | of flame by the flunkeys of the bosses, | is a warning to all other members of the workingelass to organize, and against the murder of our fellow Weare here in memory| of the dead, and to fight for the liy- ing.” This statement, made by Joe} Graham of the Relief Workers Pro-j | | tective Union to nearly ten thousand } workers assenibled at the Los An-| geles Plaza today in protest of the | deaths of the relief workers in Grif- fith Park meeting. Black banners were carried by the ‘ious locals of the R. W. P. U. with the words, “In memory of our | comrades and fellow workers who | | | 4 | were ordered to their deaths in Grif- | | | | } fith Park.” The meeting was opened j by D. A. Sullivan of the R. W. P. U., | who was chairman. Workers who | had been in the flames told of men being threatened with jail and loss of their jobs if they refused to enter the blazing inferno. The refusal of the county to give aid to the families of the men burned to death were exposed by Sydney of the R. W. P. U. |It is now reported the County is intending to cremate the bodies of | the workers, and is forcing the fami- | lies to pay fifteen dollars for the| | (This is the fourth in a series of articles from a special correspon- dent in Leipzig. These accounts of the activities of the revoiutionary workers were obtained and sent out at the risk of his life by a corres- pondent in Leipzig, a city swarm- ing with members of the Brown Horde, spies, police and military, during the trial of the four Com- munists and van der Lubbe in con- nection with the Nazi burning of the German Reichstag.) LEIPZIG, Sept. '25.—I succeeded in making contact with a comrade. in Leipzig who gave me infdrmbtion about the propaganda and agitat‘onal work of the Communist Party. I also asked him about the question of spies and stool-pigeonss « It must be emphasized that spying has developed in Germany to a point unequalled heretofore in history. counter = revolutionary dictatorship, they founded a.vast spy orgenization. It must be adinitted they worked in this field with consummate skill. An Army of Spies During the first few months of 1933, but especially after the Hitler gov- ernment came to power, the whole National Socialist Party became a swarming dunghill of _ stool-pigeons. In every shop, every factory, every unemployment relief office, in every house, the Nazis sniffed, inquired, and by house, they spied out the readers of the revolutionary press, They sought to find out everyone who harbored revolutionazy opinions, and all those who had hung a red flag in their win- dows on election-day. { Then, armed with this information, Deny Insurance to Kin Using the argument that the 65 unemployed (By) , Struck the keynote of the) While the Nazis prepared for their | made lists of militant workers. House | sp “BIG STICK” IN AMBRIDGE ~ty Boek COURT TRIES TO REFUTE - PROOFS OF NAZI GUILT IN REICHSTAG FRAME-UP . | | | Fire Victims 12,000 Laid Workers; survivors of the victims. mn the question by the Supreme Court cs Arabs Demonstrate in Palestine Against | | Jewish Immigration | JERUSALEM, “Oct. 15. — Several Arabs were injured in police charges | | and many were arrested when Arab | | nationalists demonstrated in protest, against increased Jewish immi-| gration. Stecl-helmeted British police pat-| rolled the sticks, ready to club and} disperse protestants. All Arab stores are closed as part of a general pro- | test. strike. 33 Irish Republicans Jailed in Belfast Raid | BELFAST, Ireland, Oct. 15. — | Houses were searched all over Bel- st today and 33 men were arrested by Ulster authorities on charges of Rep-blican activity in Northern Ire- | land, The total number of alleged Irish | | Republican Army members now in |, | custody was raised to 50. Armored | cars and police and detectives in| trucks took part in the citywide raids. | | | ashes of their kin. The best-rev d speech of the} meeting was made by Pettis Perry,| | militant Negro leader, recently re-| leased from the San Bernardino County Jail. | Lawrence Ross, speaking fo Communist Party, said “the offi are saying the Communis S are in- | volved and in the leadership of what | they call riots before welfare o! | fices. It is a lie to call them riots; | they are demonstrations to force the | | charity officials to give relief to the | | starving.” | The demonstration ended ba a | militant note when Hariy, Rice, 1 3 of the Los Angeles Ae ed, | called pon all workers to support the Hunger March on Novy. 7, i the} ‘Defeat Japan Plot |by the recent United States Con- |sound with redoubled force through- he ar against the Against U.S. S. R.! War Congress Calls to Defend Soviet Union NEW YORK.—The renewed mil- itary aggressiveness of Japan in Manchcuria, and the Japanese in- spired plots to have the Manchu- kuo puppet government seize the Chinese Eastern Railway, make more vitally urgent than ever _be- fore that the workers of the Uni- ted States be on their guard, to foil interventionist plans against the Soviet Unoin by the big capi- talist powers. The warning issued gress Against War held in New York City, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, in its manifesto to the people of the| United States puts this sharply be-! fore the American masses: The rise of Fascism in Europe, | and especially in Germany, and the sharpened aggressive policy of Japanese militarism, have | brought all the imperialist antag~ onism to the breaking point and increased the danger of war of intervention against the Soviet Union. One cannot fight seriously against the war danger | unless one fights against all at- tempts to weaken or destroy the | Soviet Union. | In view of the black clouds of | an intervention war by Japan loom- | ing on the horizon, this call of the Anti-War Congress must re-| greatly out the United States. The delegates to the Anti-War , each in his own organi- zation, in his own home town, must |lead in the organization of effect- ive action against the threat of | ‘oviet Union, | ‘Italian Court Jails 8 Anti-Fascists for Total of 116 Years ROME, Oct. 15- —Bight Commu- | nists were sentenced to long prison terms by the Fascist Tribunal for the | Defense of the State on charges of plotting ““to establish a proletarian dictatorship.” Armando Atiolini and Giulo Tag- liarini were sentenced to 18 years each; Aldini Grisenti to 16 years; Arturo Pedroni and Ascanio Fon- tanese to 15; Ubalio Vispi-to 12; and Desidero Cugini and Piero Pergetti w 11 years each, Goering Set Fire Steel Back Orders ‘PlungeDownward to ‘Break Thru Bottom, Retract Damaging Fire Chiefs, Under Secre Secret Police Pressure, Admissions Made After Reichstag Blaze AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, Oct. 15 (Via Zurich, Switzerland) —The | German Supreme Court made frantic efforts at today’s session of the Reichs- tag fire trial to discredit the proofs adduced by the “Brown Book” that the Nazis plotted the burning of the German Parliament building. ° House Inspector ee on Swedish Court Jails Editor for Charging Socialist Government | Protects Hitlerites) Against Arson Charge} (Special to the Daily Worker) | STOCKHOLM, Oct. 4. (By Mail). —Carl Johansson, managing editor of “Ny Dag,” central organ of the Swedish Communist Party, was! sentenced to four months in jail| by the Stockholm District Court} yesterday because the newspaper | had pointed out in a series of ar- ticles that the Hitler govenmen with Goering and Goebbels inspi ing the plot, was the real culprit in | the Reichstag incendiary fire. | This verdict of a socialist court, handed down at a time When the whole world is convinced of Goer- ing’s guilt, has been met with in- dignation in all circles of the Swed- | ish people, ‘“Foenstret,” a liberal | bourgeois Weekly, writes for in- stance: | “It is seldom that a criminal could hold his head any higher than the managing editor of ‘Ny Dag’ in this case. This opinion of ours is supported even by the reports of the London counter-trial printed in the pro-Nazi ‘Allehan- da. Even this pro-Nazi peri- sail reports that the evidence s together into a chain of con- nee proofs, ending with the resounding accusation of Moro- Giafferi (famous French lawyer) in the giant Paris protest meet- ing: ‘You, Herr Goering, are the ela bass r New All-Time Low Level Reached During March Bank Crisis NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Indicating the utter failure of the Roosevelt N.R.A. to bring any permanent re- yival in heavy industry, the index of unfilled steel orders of the United States Steel Corporation, continuing the downward plunge begun in July, swept downward to a new all-time record low, in September, it was re- ported by the U. S. Steel Corporation. The September figures of unfilled orders on the books of the Steel Cor- poration are now lower than at any time in the history of the industry, having broken through the levels veached during the March bank crisis. All indications point to unprece- dented decline in steel preduction this winter, with resulting lay-offs of thousands of steel workers. Steel Worker, Jobless for 2 Years, Suicide ALIQUIPPA, Pa.—Sam Velosky, 58, | jobless in this Jones & Laughlin Sieel Co, town for two years, committed suicide by hanging. The Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. has spent a fortune to keep this town fortified against every attempt to organize the steel workers slaving in the mills. ‘The Rules of Illegal German Workers Combatting the Widespread Nazi Spy System 9 EE IRM DPE RIL. Work and How the Shield the Active Anti-Fascists the Nazis organized raids, and sent hundreds upon hundreds of anti- fascists to the concentration camps. After the burning of the Reichstag | i} | jby the Nazis, the spying activities ; Multiplied. | “Planting” Compromising Evidence | A comrade, for example, was sure {he had nothing compromising in his | room. He waited without trepidation for the ‘ch that was sure to come. ;And then, in the course of this search, the storm troopers “discov- ered” some compromising package in a corner somewhere, planted. there either by thomselves or by an accom- plice. The comvade was arrested. the workingclass sections and storm troopers dug out snds of gardens, and ‘discov- red” arms, ammunition and pieces of machine- -2uns, | ganizations, certain Nazis were as- signed to pretend to be revolutionary workers. They won the confidence of workers whom they later denounced. And if by chance the police found a weapon in a comrade’s house, he was sent to the storm troop barracks for ecial torture. Neighbors Denounce Revolutionaries A special chapter could be written on “our dear neighbors.” Often, work- ers were denounced as “reds” by their neighbors of purly personal reasons. A few visits to such and such a work- er were enough to cast suspicion on To learn about the Communist or-| you. Ii was even risky to listen to the radio in a family circle, and espe- cially if the Moscow broadcasts were permitted to come over the air and into the room. It is known that the peice know the location of every radio capable of receiving messages from Mescow. Such _ information would bg impossible to obtain without the denunciations of neighbo; The activities of the Nazi spy or- ganization has cost ten thousand workers their freedom, That is why our comrades} made every effort to be sure that if one of them should be captured, a whole group should not fall into the hands of the police with him. vointionary Precautions We have already described the functioning of the “grouns of five.” A whole list of rules of conspiracy, of Jaws to guarantee the life of the Party and diminish the number of victims of the terror have been drawn up. Any comrade who, in the course of his work, does not take sufficient pre- cautions is considered as an invol- untary assistant to the police or as an agent provocateur, In the su- preme interest of the work of the party, he is eliminated. Communists do not greet each other on the street, and do not walk to- gether, unless it has been decided that they are to work together and The solidarity which unites the workers in this perilous work and safeguards the militants is worthy of record, A Party member was going up the stairs of a house to visit a comrade. Half-way up, a woman worker stopped him. “The police are up there,” she told him. Another comrade walked into the the home of a storm treoper who had the same mame as an anti- faseist worker, but who lived in the apartment below. Fortunately, this Nazi was opposed to the politics of his chiefs, who had disappointed him. Our comrade bad an hour's | conversation with him, at the end | of which the Nazi assured him that “he wasn't a stool-pigeon, but the next time he'd better waich he didn’t mistake his floor.” Workers Protect Anti-Fascists In the workingclass quarters, it is now possible, using the proper meith- ods, to distribute propaganda material without being denounced. In the fac- tory meetings it happens that anti- fascist workers make speeches, criti- cize, make appeals—and the brown- shirted guards do not denounce them. On the one hand, then, we note a daily improvement in the illeval methods of the Party. On the other we see the formation of a sort of invisible ring of symnathy around our comrades, which protects them in their work. ‘That is why the police are so jumpy. Not a day passes that the revolu- tionary agitators do not succeed in doing their duty right under the noses of the police, who, in despair, the stand, testified that everything was normal and in order on the day of the fire.” Scranowits lives in the Reichstag and has all the keys to the building in his poses- sion. It is likely, therefore that he was initiated into the details of the Fascist incendiaries’ plot. When Judge Buenger questioned him on suspicious citcumstances sur- | PoUneene the fire, Scranowitz ex- | citedly replied: “That’s a liet”~* Fire Chief Contradicts Nazi Witness The next witness, Fire Brigade Chief Klotz, testified that the -first fire alarm was turned in-~at 9:15 p.m. The first fire apparatus reached the Reichstag at 9:24.. When Klota reached the building be found an- other detachment of fire-fighters al- ready there. > This evidence contradicte<Thaler's testimony that “at 9:17 the “fire brigade arrived and put out ’the ‘fire at once. Then it departed and the bystanders all left.” Continuing, Klotz testified “A column of hot air, almost of flame, emerged from the session chamber. The chamber was enveloped in smoke and flames,” Repudiates Own Assertions In a state of considerable: excite- ment Klotz denied the statement of an eye-witness who testified at the London counter-trial that “at 11 p.m. on the night of the fire Klotz. said he had removed large quantities of combustibles from the Reichstag chamber.” ies Klotz said that it was ble to enter the burning chamber at 9:30 p. m. Klotz's testimony makes it still more mysterious why the official “Prussian Press Service” reported on Feb. 28, the day after the fire, that fires had been set throughout the Reichstag building, from the ground floor to the dome, with tar and torches. The evidence offered by the Nazi prosecution’s own witnesses contradicts and entangles the Nazis’ own official reports of the fire, Presiding Judge Buenger. ‘then called other witnesses of minor im= portance, after which he announced that George Dimitroff, able and in- trepid Bulgarian Communist leader, would re-appear in court at Moriday’s hearing. Dimitroff's reappearance has ob- viously been forced by international pressure. The letter from the four foreign lawyers has been success~ ful, although the lawyers them- selves have been expelled and ar- rested. The next witness called was Fire Brigade Chief, Buhle, who was the first fire official to arrive at the blazing Reichstag. He testifjed.that all the doors were locked and the firemen had to force their way into the building through the windows, The draft produced through the broken windows enabled the fire to spread rapidly. Ex-Chief Gempp Takes Stand Gempp, Fire Chief of Berlin, who was discharged by the Nazis im- mediately after the fire and brought up on charges of malfeasance in of- fice, was the next to take the stand. Judge Buenger immediately. asked Gempp if he had stated—at a-con- ference with fire inspectors and brigade chiefs after the fire — that the fire department had been noti- fied too late, and that Prime"Minister Goering had forbidden him to ‘send in the city-wide alarm. Buenger also asked him if he had stated that 20 Storm Troopers were already at the fire scene when- the fire apparatus arrived, and-that he had found large quantities of in- cendiary material distributed every- where throughout the Reichstag building. Gempp be8an by saying that he had been examined by State Commis- sioner Lippert and the Secret ‘State Police, not by the o examin- ing magistrates. He declared that he had told both authorities that the statements attributed to him ‘were “utter nonsense.” Gempp now declared on the stand that he saw no combustibles nor any storm troopers around. He: testified that he reported to Goering, who ar- rived at the fire 15 minutes later, and that, Goering told, him to “do his duty.” The former Berlin Fire Chief then said that he observed traces of fire leading to the session chamber, and had the impression that the iire had heen cptariedewik gasoline or benzine. strange smell in the Reichsing “confirmed his supposition, This testimony is very significant, because Police Lieut. Lateit also mentioned such a smell on the stand Wedne: -but expr repudiated this testimony in Fri- day's hearing. Dr. Teichert again showed that the “defending counsel” awaken to action only when they hope to refute the testimony of the “Brown Bgheees the Lendon counter-trial. Teithert asked whether it was true that the reports regarding Gempp’s assertions were spread abroad by the Social-Demecrat Ahrens, who. was Fire Commissioner of Berlin at: the time of the fire and atte [> the fire conference mentioned above as an expert. Teichert moves ‘that Abrens be called as a witness. Gempp, continuing his testimony, then declared that he noticed ‘some sort of torch-trand behind’ “the specker’s dais. Though Gempp>-was examined by the Secret Police, this statement was never followed)up.. The hearing was jhe adjournee to Monday. some that this is necessary to their work on the particular occasies have no other alternative but to offer wawnete Om Cay Fighting Bob Minor for Mayer,