The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1933, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1933 “America’s Only Working Class Daily, Newspaper” FOUNDED 1984 Published save Sunday, by the Comprasalty Pubiishing d., Inc., eK 18th Street, New York, ¥, % ‘Telephone: Algonquin 4-796. able Address: “Datwork,” Mew York, K. ¥. es eau: Room 94, National Press Buflving, ith and G. Washington, D.O. Subscription Rates: By Maik: ( Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, 96.00; 6 months, $2.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 78 cents, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 16 cents; monthly, 78 cents. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1933 ————oOoOoOOOOOeeee—— Sniping and Shooting Y A DIVERSION movement, petty sniping at a few | peanut business men who cut the workers wages | too close to the bone under the N.R.A., Roosevelt now is striving to deflect attention of the workers from the vicious. the country. His talk about invoking penalties against N.R.A. violators, “most of them small merchants and oper- ators of little shops,” is to shield the wholesale kill- ing of coal and steel strikers by the big corporations. “Shot by order of the Blue Eagle,” is the epitaph that can be enscribed on the graves of scores of work~- murderous attack on strikers throughout | ers murdered for striking for the right to organize, | for higher and for improved condition in the four months since the N.R.A. was passed. At this very moment, heavily armed gunmen of the | steel trust are roaming Fayette County, Pennsylvania, shooting men, women and children, dynamiting homes | and cars with the full support of Roosevelt and the N.R.A. administration. The U. 8. Steel gunmen have Roosevelt's orders to send the miners back to work, his. declaration “I am impatient with strikes!” how to interpret General Johnson's threat: will not be tolerated!” “Strikes ND these miners are striking for recognition of their | They were promised this right in a thousand | lying speeches ranging from Roosevelt to his Fascist | union. labor lieutenants Green and Lewis. In Ambridge, an organized steel trust fascist army, stirred to murderous blood lust by speeches about pre- serving the Blue Eagle and against strikers, mowed {| down a picket line, leaving dead and wounded strewn on the streets fox blocks. Martial law rules in Indiana and New Mexico against coal strikers who are fighting for higher wages and union recognition. Two stiikers were shot dead in Philadelphia when they sought to prevent scabs from entering a Blue Eagle, starvation-wage shop. Police, company gunmen, state militia becoming the executoss of the N.R.A., with Roosevelt, Johnson, Green and Lewis as its administrators. : The Roosevelt-Wall Street regime is active on the firing line against workers who strike. In the attacks against striking workers, the N.R.A. is showing its fascist teeth The future will see a heightening of the fascist trends of the Roosevelt government. In Washington now talk is rife that Roosevelt is about to issue a strong edict making all strikes illegal. This will be the opening of a free field day for all the armed forces of capitalism to use Ambridge and Fayette County as @ model, Every striker shot fs a bullet aimed at the work- ingclass in its fight for omganization and better living Standards. The N.R.A. is being unmasked as the desperate @ffort, through the most bloodthirsty means, to save decaying capitalism at the expense of the entire workingclass, employed amd unemployed, those at Work and those on strike. IN THESE attacks, the A. F. of L. officialdom load the guns and do all they can to disarm working- class organizations by strikebreaking. The answer of the work must be more power- They know | tul organization, preparations for greater struggles to | win their righ In the struggle for the most ele- mentary needs and rights of the workers, it becomes ifereasingly clear that the Roosevelt government Projects itself into the struggles against the workers, and that in fighting for higher wages, lower hours, and right to form unions, the workers come into clash with the capitalist state. With fascism becoming the | Method of the capitalist dictatorship, every strike be- comes a struggle for civil rights and the right of or- | ganization, A united front of all workers is the best means of resisting these attacks. It was to block the efforts of united struggle, to strengthen the fascist strike- breaking hand of the government, that the A. F. of L. leaders in convention flouted and fought against every effort of the A. F. of L. rank and file for a united front. In this fight, the Communist Party, boldly and clearly exposing the N.R.A. for what it is now proving itself to be, leads in rallying the workers not only for the most determined struggle for their every day | heeds but for the more important and ultimate strug- Ble of overthrowing capitalism and its murderous rule. ‘The Communist Party is leading the struggle for united resistance of the workers, To lead this united front it is necessary to build the Communist Party. To speed this fight, to win thousands of workers who are learning bitter lessons from the murderous attacks of the N.R.A., it is necessary to strengthen the ranks of the most stalwart fighter against capitalism and in the interest of the working class—the Communist Party. —e—— A Banker Testifies VEN the bare scratching of the surface of banking conditions in the Chase National Bank, a Rocke- feller-controlled institution, by the Senate Banking and Currency Committee revealed some startling facts about Albert H. Wiggin, former head of the bank and chief Wall Street financial agent in dealings with the Hitler fascist regime. Wiggin testified how free-handedly the bankers hand out millions in loans to their friends for stock gambling purposes, sucking huge profits and salaries at the very moment the banks report “losses.” Wiggin, who was able to draw $800,000 in salary and bonuses alone, while workers and farmers lost $4,000,000,000 in bank faflures, 1s one of the main defenders of German fascism in the United States. Recently the Daily Worker exposed Wiggin’s speech at a secret Wall Street conference. Wiggin, chair- man of the American Bankers Committee on German Joans, gaye a solemn warning to all bankers: They must support Hitler to the full as a bulwark against the world sweep of Communism. “The greatest danger to the world today,” he said, “is the possible overthrow of Hitler, since that would mean the sweep of Communism over Europe.” al, Saas ae « sweep of Communis:i would wipe out fascism and the possibility of bankers like Wiggin coining hundreds of millions out of the sweat and toil of the Working masses. Wiggin and his class have a link of gold with Hit- Yer fascism. For capitalism there is no stronger tie. .. The Chase National Bank, formerly headed by Wiggin, is linked up with hundreds of the largest corporations in the United States today, many of { whom under the N.R.A. are slashing wages, grinding down the workers, and smashing strikes. Now Wig- gin has retired, and for the privilege of having drawn millions before he is given the retirement wage of $100,000 a year. Hundreds of thousands of workers im the corporations under the control of this bank who have been “retired” to the bread lines are refused unemployment insurance or relief, because the Roose- velt regime wants te protect the profits of Mr. Wiggin | and his associates, . IN ONE instance, as a “friendly” act, Mr. Wiggin handed Gerhard M. Dahl, his associate in the Brooklyn-Manhattan ‘Transit, $5,000,000 for stock speculation and carried him along when half the sum was lost. The same bank foreclosed on thousands of ea homes of workers when they didn’t pay the mortgage | arrears. ‘The bankers of “democratic” America, like Wiggin, find the fascism of Hitler necessary to preserve their fortunes, and are rapidly dropping their democratic mask at home to preserve their system of sweating more millions out of the American workers. The rich parasitic bankers who earn fortunes even when they no longer have connections with the banks, the ones who profit from the miseries of the American workers, are naturally the most fervent supporters of Hitler’s murder regime. They are the worst enemies of Communism because the Communist Party is arous- ing the working class to replace the rule of the bank~ | ers with the rute of the workers and poor farmers. Facts and Figures IGURES do nof lie, but liars figure. How well this proverb suits the purpose of the Roosevelt govern- ment statisticians. Figures do not lie, but govern- ment officials figure. The “recovery” program has to be inflated with figures of increased production—increased re-employ- | ment—and a decrease in unemployment. It is to the labor secretary to whom the task of keeper of the statistical department is assigned, and, at regular intervals, we are assured with new figures that “recovery” is making a steady climb upward. On Tuesday, Francis Perkins announced at her regular press conference that more than 620,000 work- ers left the ranks of the unemployed and were placed on jobs during the month of September. On the very same day the house organ of U. S. capitalism, “The Wall Street Journal,” printed in an editorial on its first page that: “Statistics of ‘unemployment’ are notoriously incomplete and unreliable.” These statistics are not “unreliable.” They are adopted to suit the purposes of the Roosevelt ad- ministration, just as the “prosperity around the corner” facts of Hoover were adopted to suit the former ad- ministration. os ee ee iF WE are to accept the bright picture painted by | the first lady in the Cabinet, then we ought to observe a steady rise in production and a simultane- ous increase in store sales. Let us look into the pages of the financial sheets compiling figures for the cap- italists. What have they to say? The “Financial Chronicle,” a journal for owners of big industry, reports: “As generally anticipated, orders for finished steel products were unusually light in the first week of the new quarter. Further analysis of fourth- quarter obligations also indicates that the industry's back log will be largely exhausted by the end of October.” The steel magnates confide to themselves that orders for steel “were unusually light” and that by the end of the month much of the work will be “ex- hausted.” In the auto industry production has fallen from 43,900 cars in the last week-of September, to 37,986 in the first week of this month. From Detroit come reports of wholesale lay-offs in many plants. Here is an indication of the barometer in two major indus- tries in this country. This spikes the Roosevelt pro- paganda that current strikes are responsible for im- periling “recovery.” If production indicates the gloomy side, can sales of commodities reflect the brighter side? “It’s index” (the Federal Reserve Board index of. sales), says the New York Times, “declined, however, from 77 in August to 70 per cent last month.” It is clear that the optimistic reports of Perkins are entirely at variance with the economic conditions | prevailing today. But even her own figures indicate 2 wide gap be- tween increased employment and the rise in pay-rolls. According to Perkins, employment last month rose by 3.2 per cent, while pay rolls lagged behind with 2.7 per cent. This disproportion, together with the in- creased speed-up in the factories, takes away any pos- sibility of absorbing more workers into industry. On the contrary, it can only result in greater unemploy- ment and a further sharpening of the crisis. Roosevelt's cynical grin and Perkins’ optimistic figures can no more add to employment that the stupid predictions of Hoover that “prosperity is around the corner.” The Roosevelt-Perkins inflationary figures do not give aid and comfort to the jobless. Unemployed in- surance is the need for the millions of unemployed and part-time workers. Everywhere this movement must be given increasing support. Conditions are be~ coming more and more unbearable. The workers must force from the capitalist government a guarantee of unemployment insurance to take care of the needs of a sector comprising nearly half the population of this land. Where the Cause of War Has Been Removed war danger arises inevitably out of the very nature of monopolistic capitalism, viz., the owner- ship of the means of production by a small capitalist class and a complete domination of government by this class. The imminent war danger is only another | expression of the fundamental crisis of the capitalist system, which continues its existence only at the cost of intensification of its exploitation and oppression of the masses at home and in the colonies ,and the struggle among the imperialist powers for a redivision of markets and sources of raw materials. “Only in the Soviet Union has this basic cause of war been removed. The consistent peace policy of the Soviet Union, around which the anti-war struggles throughout the world must be rallied, was made pos- sible by the revolution which overthrew the capitalist system, reorganized economy on the basis of Social- ism, and established a powerful government of work- ers and peasants. One cannot fight seriously against the war danger unless one fights against all attempts to weaken or destroy the Soviet Union. “The government of the United States, in spite of peaceful profession, is more agressively than ever fol- lowing policies whose only logical result is war, The whole program of the Roosevelt administration is permeated by preparedness for war, expressed in the extraordinary military and naval budget, mobilization of industry and man-power, the naval concentration in the Pacific Ocean, the intervention in Cuba, the continued maintenance of armed forces in China, the loans of Chiang Kai-shek, the initiation of currency and tariff wars—all of which gives the lie to the peaceful declaration of the U. 8. Government.” (The above statements are taken from the Mani- festo issued by the Anti-War Congress held in New York City on September 31 and October 1. The or- ganization formed at the Anti-War Congress is called “The League for Struggle Against Fascism and War.”) |The Order of the Blue Eagle! | | | —by Bureck | | | | | Johnson LU fe Communism Spreading | Negro Soldiers Most M ilitant; Striking Sugar | Workers Seize American Mill in Interior; | | Set Up HAVANA, Oct. 18—Agents of U. | yesterday at admissions by Colonel Fulgencio Batista, head of the Cuban | Army, that Communism was making great headway in the armed forces of | | the Wall Street puppet government, at present headed by President Ramon | Grau San Martin, following the revolutionary upsurge in Cuba which swept | out of office the Wall Street TS | Machado. | "The army is said to be split three | ways, with the Communist group | rapidly growing as the rank and file | | soldiers increasingly realize the} | treacherous character of the Grau) | government, The Negro soldiers, | suffering from race hatred and Ku! Kluxism, introduced into the island | by the American imperialists, are the | most militant, and are busily organ~| igmg Communist cells among the | enlisted men. They have raised the| demand for rank and file election of | the officers. The Communist strength | in the army is estimated by enemy) | Sources as approximately 1,200. | Im an attempt to block the further | spread of Communism, Colonel Ba- | tista has issued orders to segregate | the most militant enlisted men. As \a result, many Communist soldiers | have been transferred to isolated posts, | where they “are unable to make con- | tacts.” | Striking workers in the interior yes- | terday seized the American Sugar | Refining Company's plant at. Jaronu | | and set up a Soviet government of) | workers, peasants and soldiers, A | Soviet was set up a few weeks ago) |at the Centrale-Senado, not far dis- tant. Armed clashes between revo-} lutionary workers and soldiers still) loyal to the Grau regime otcurred | at Puerto Padre and Cerrazalvo yes- terday. Ten workers were captured, it is reported, and transported to | Havana under heavy guard. Soviet | balloon, was confirmed today in an S. imperialism in Cuba were alarmed In Havana, women strikers of the | Woolworth stores, an American com- pany, were attacked by police while demonstrating in Central the five and ten cent perce Fighting Bob Minor for for Mayor. Winchester Arms Shop Bulletin Irks Bosses NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The Win- chester shop bulletin, distributed in front of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., created such a stir that a@ special meeting of the Winchester Council, of ten workers and ten bosses, to discuss the bulletin and | find means to discover who supplied the material therein. Particularly the information about the horrible Rapidly in Cuban Army heck Stratosphere Park | against the Starvation wages paid by | Soff, member of the Scientific Sub-| Soviet Seiiarlists Balloon Record (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct, 18.—The height record of nearly 12 miles attained by the “U.S.S.R.,” Soviet stratosphere | Official repott issued by a commis- | sién of scientists who checked all} the instruments and records of the| | flight. | The commission, consisting of Pro- |fessor Vangenheim, chairman, di- rector of the Soviet Uniow Central Hydrometeorological Service, Pro- fessor Molchanoff, director of the| Aerological Institute, and ‘Terogane= | | Committee of the Central Executive | |Committee of the US.SR., states in| | its report that “according to an an- | j alysis of all the data on the fight, | |the maximum height reached duting | #on |the ascent of the stratosphere bal- | ‘USS.R.’ was 19 kilometers | 7 ) ais miles) above sea level.” | Now that the record-breaking as3- cent of the Soviet balloonists has been verified by Soviet scientists, the new world record will be submitted to the International Aeronautic Fed- eration in Paris for approval. 12 Dead In New Clash On N. W. India Border unsanitary conditions in the battery room, as well as throughout the rest of Winchester’s, brought forth much comment from the workers. A new issue of the Winchester bul- letin, now in preparation, be distributed to Winchester work: ers. All workers who want to send inj material for this bulletin can send | it in to the Trade Union Unity League, 70 Congress Avenue. The N.R.A. threatens to outlaw strikes. The Daily Worker fights the N.R.A. Fight for the “Daily” with your immediate contribution. will soon | PESHAWAR, India, Oct. 18.—In a jnew clash between native tribes on ithe Northwest Indian frontier and |the British occupation forces trying | |to suppress the independence move- | ment among the tribesmen, twelve | |were killed and many others wounded. | | Resenting penetration of their ter-| jaery, by British troops, a band of | Kharota and Sulemankhel tribesmen | |attacked the army post at Nimparao. |The British lost five killed and five | wounded in repulsing the charge, while the besiegers losses included | |seven dead and several wounded, \power. has been disclosed by police | nounced today. | Austrian army officers. | have been arrested on charges of |cials of the Federal secret police are jallied with the much stronger Nazi jlong, and less than a quarter of an Reichstag Trial. Centers on Brown Book Accusations Court Refuses To Allow Dimitroff To: ‘See Book’s Startling Charges Against: Nazi Chiefs as Real Firebugs : AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, Oct. 18 (Via Zurich, Switrerland).—The startling feature of yesterday’s hearing in the trial of the Communists Ernst charges of having conspired to burn van der meeke half-witted Dutch tool Secret Nazi Army Exposed In Austria Troops, Commanded By Army Officers, Drill In Secret VIENNA, Oct. 18.—The existence of a nation-wide Nazi military organ- ization, plotting a coup to seize investigations, the government an- Although officially outlawed, the |Nazi storm troops are actively drill- jing, no longer under the leadership of civitians, but commanded by Several subaltern army officers, | complicity in these plots, especially |in the Linz garrison, but the higher- up officers are being shielded by the government to avoid a major poli- | tical scandal. The widespread ramifications of the secret Nazi organization are shown by the fact that many offi- avowedly or secretly Nazi pathizers, The Dollfuss regime, working as it is for a Fascist dictatorship of its own, finds it almost impossible to combat the scarcely concealed Nazi movement for a Hitlerite dictatorship sym- forces of Germany. “Brown Book” Out in Tiny Ilegal Edition, Circulated in Germany BERLIN. — A German edition of the famous “Brown Book of the) | Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag” has been issued and wide- ly circulated in Germany in a spe- nes format suited for illegal distribu- The book of 254 pages is printed by a special process on extra-thin ndian paper, in a volume three} estes wide, four and a half inches | inch thick. Its circulation is being pushed by the illegal German Red Aid (I.L.D.), which in spite of the terror and il- legality has maintained an active dues-paying membership of more than 70,000. Paris Delegate Speaks | In Baltimore Thursday | BALTIMORE, Oct. 18,— Clemens Strauss, delegate from the National |Lithuanian Youth Federation to the World Youth Congress Against War and Fascism recently held in Paris, will report on the Paris Congress at Lithuanian Hall, Hollins and Park Streets, here, Thursday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 P. M. Strauss and John Orman, General Secretary of the National Lithuanian Youth Committee, will tour the Shenandozh and Wilkes-Barre dis- ‘tricts, beginning Saturday, Oct. 21. First hand description of the al concentration camp at Dachau is given in a pamphlet by Hans Beim- ler, former Communist . Reichstag deputy and one of the few who ever escaped from @. Nazi camp. The pamphlet is printed in English and published by the Foreign Workers’ Co-operative Publishing House of Moscow. It is a vivid document, but at the same time it ts more than just a record—it is also @'call to battle. And in this lies its value. Hans Beimler was the leader of the South Bavarian District of the German Communist, Party. When in March, 1933, the Bavarian People's Party surrendered»the government to the Hitlerites, thé order was given to arrest immediately all the active Party membefs. “This was done, though the Fascists failed to arrest them all. The Communists succeeded in car- rying on their activities underground, and that fact made the Brown Shirts more inhuman in their treatment of those who fell into their hands. Beimler describes his own experience with them. “Suddenly an automobile stopped in front of my house, from which six troopers, wearing civilian clothes, jumped out and arrested me and a friend of mine, who was then in my room. I was immedi- ately identified and led away to the headquarters of the Munich police, The. first question they asked me was:’*What are you do- ing in the Party? “‘T am the secretary of the Party’s regional committee, and I am a deputy of the Reichstag, I an- swered. ‘T haye been for the third time elected by 60,000 Munich workmen’ To this they replied: ‘We'll make you forget that you ever were a Reichstag deputy.’ ” A Nazi Torture Room ‘Tortures followed immediately the above deposition, and here is how Beimler describes them: “After the deposition we climbed up to the second story, where a tall trooper with a voice of a beast gave the command: ‘Take off your Communist Deputy, One of Few Ever to acupa From Dachau Camp, Describes Hitlerite Torture Regime A Nazi Concentration Camp from the Inside _ the lower part of my bedy.hang- ing down. The commander or- dered: ‘Lie full length on. the table!’ Then he caught me by the head with one hand, closed my mouth with the other hand, and ordered: ‘Give it to him!’ “The Brown Shirts commenced beating me mercilessly and con- tinued until I was rendered un- conscious. I cannot remember whether I received 60 or 70 or even more blows with a rubber club, but they did not stop beating me until I lost consciousness. “When I came to myself, I was standing on my knees near the table, all in sweat. I was unable to keep myself on my fest, but one of the bandits cried out: ‘Hurry up, dress yourself, and be quick about it,’ and he was going to beat me again if I hesitated. I nearly cried from pain when my clothes touched my flesh. Everything was dark in front of me, but T succeeded in dressing.” Beimler was then thrown into cell No, 14, which he had to share with many others, Every day some new people were brought in. Some would be led away to the Dachau, Concen- tration Camp; others would come to take their places. Without an ex- ception, they were all beaten up and bruised. But all of them, Commu- jist youth and veteran Communists, | non-Party workers. and peasants who | opposed fascism, both young and old, pea the treatment to the very end. The fascists arrested a number of Party members who were working in a factory hear Munich. Among them were many young Communists. They were led along with the others to the torture cell and endured, as a beginning, 19 blows over the heels with the rubber club. After this punishment they asked one of the young Commu- nists whether he was still for Com- clothes.” “They laid me on the table, with munism, to which he replied that | he would have thought himself very ‘ weak in his convictions if he were to throw them away after only 10 blows. ‘This incensed the Brown Shirts | to such an extent that they started to beat him up again. And when they repeated the question, he an- swered that they could beat him to death, that he would die for the Soviet Star. At this, they beat him .up so mercilessly that he nearly died. There were many such cases, but this one will suffice as an example of that true heroism which the Communists have shown in the prison cells of the third Reich, With a number of others, Beimler was led from the torture cell to ie Dachau concentration camp, More beatings. They beat him when he was brought in and on the way to the cell, and then again till he Jost. consciousness. After beating him up once more, the commandant brought Beimler a rope, told him to climb up to the ceiling and tie the rope about the beam. It was at his disposal, the commandant said. But Beimler. remained firm in his decision to | endure it all to the end and make no use of the rope. Endures At All Cost Beimler was waiting further de- velopments. He knew the attitude of workers and his own Party comrades | toward suicide, that they regarded it as an act of cowardice, at any rate, an unreyoluifonary act. His decision, therefore, was to endure to the end at all costs. But the torture from that time on assumed a more excruciating char- acter. Six bandits broke into his cell and while four were beating him the other two mocked him with the cries “Rot Front,” “Long Live Mos- cow,” “Hail Thaelmann,.” Writhing in pain Beimler attempted to turn on his back; they beat’ him over his hands and feet so jong that he had Each one of these sadists admin- istered not less than between 40 or 50 blows. But that was not enough, ‘They made him stretch, first his left hand, and then his right hand, for more beatings over the palm, wrist, fingers, until. his. hands swelled up so much that for a long time he could grasp nothing with them, The doors to the cell would often open and the commandant would peep in to see whether the rope had not yet been used. Once the commandant seemed to have lost his patience, and remarked: “I'd like to know how long you will still hold out, you cowardly swine.” Thus 14 days and nights were passed by Beimler in the concentra- tion camp at Dachau. At the end of the 14 days, Beimler was given an ultimatum to end it all by five o'clock the next morning. And if he was not going to do what was expected of him—‘use the rope”—it would be done for him. But Beim- ler succeeded in escaping. While he managed to escape the hands of the executioners, 50 other revolutionary workers of Bavaria were murdered in Camp Dachau. Revolutionary Work Continues Wherever the German proletarian lives, there, deep underground, goes on revolutionary. work, Thousands of revolutionary pamphlets are being ‘published and distributed. Nuclei meet secretly, and already echoes of the underground revolutionary work are being heard on the street. The ground is shaking under the feet of the fascist rulers. The brown terror, that bloody companion of the fascist dictatorship, is not able to arrest or change the course of the revolution- ary upheaval. Beimler’s litile book, which gives a picture of torture and cruelty in- flicted on the revolutionary prole- tarians in the Dachau Camp, is a tortures nor the murders of the Fas- cists will succeed in breaking the staunch and courageous revolution- ary proletariat. The fundamental problem before the Nazis, as dictated to them by the capitalists and land- lords, is the destruction of the revo- witness to the fect that neither the | | Torgler, Georg Dimitroff, Blagoi Popoff and Vasil Taneff on tramped-ap the Reichstag together with Marinus of the Nazis, was the fact that inter- ~®national pressure has finally forced the German Supreme Court to bring up the damning charges against the Nazi overlords contained in the “Brown Book.” The court's refusal’ to allow the defendants to read the’ Brown Book into the record, as Dimitroff dé manded, is an unprecedented viola- tion of the principles Of evéh” bour- geois justice. In consequence, the defendants are left in ignorance. of the main topic of the entire’ court proceedings, not knowing the proofs of their innocence contained in the Brown Book evidence, a Dimitroff protested _ energetically against the Court’s order and: de- manded that he be given at. least some information as to the details of the Brown Book assertions, Dr. Teichert, the so-called defense counsel, insolently declared that he had already read the important pas- sage of the book to Dimitroff, which he denied, sarcastically adding: “Thank you for your. assistance.” Not a Single Defense Witness Called ‘Yet Attorney-General Werner began by taking up Dr. Techert’s demands for corroborative eviderite..” These dee mands were not made at Teichert’s own. initiative, but ‘under the pres- sure of the Bulgarian Communist. de- fendants and world public opinion. Werner moved the rejection of these demands. Techert protested; ‘The court announced that it would rule on the matter later. Up to the pres- ent not a single defense witness has been summoned to the stand. There is the danger that the court may refuse to subpoena the defense wit- nesses under the prosecution's prese sure. One of the first. prosecution wite nesses called to the. id, an exe pert, testified that tHe. panelling and wooden furniture if the Reichstag session chambers weéredlmost wholly hardwood, and it was {impossible for | them to catch fire so. quickly in so short a time and with the incendiary methods described by van der Lubbe, This puts the in a highly questi: of their expert witnesses is to testify that van der. Iubbe could have fired the without large quantities of inflammable ma- terial and the aid of several per- sons, but the Nazis—afraid to raise the issne of “who helped van der Lubbe?”—are trying te maintain that he set the gtatit bullding: fire himself. : . Who Is “Great Unknown’ The officials controlling the exita and entrances to the Retchstag were next on the stand. Dimitroffsasked @ question that placed the court in a highly unpleasant: position: “Whe is the unknown who left the: Reich- stag hastily shortly before 10-p.m.—- after the fire had broken out—on the night of the fire, showing the official at, the door a deputy’s identification card, which was examined by the police lieutenant stationed “at the door?” The witness repeated the statement made by the other Reichstag offi- cials, that the man ‘was unknown to him. The court was annoyed at this testimony since it is obvious that no investigation has been made of his identity. Master mechanic Mutzka, next to testify, also declared that thé. unhder- ground pasage connected the éngine room of the Reichstag with Goer- ing’s residence. This passage was used often. In the day time it was impossible for anyone to pass through the passage, as workers were always around, The doors to the engine room were locked at 9 p.m. on the night of the fire. The Oberfohren Miechorandiem AttorneyrGeneral .Wertier, then an- nounced the “refutation of the Ober fehren Memorandum.” This” memo- randum stated that the incendiaries entered the Reichstag throwgh the subterranean .passage, Jed by Heines, Schulz, and Heldorf, prominent Nari leaders. It asserted that the idea originated with Goebbels’ and: was -e- ecuted at Goering’s orders: The picked storm troopers employed had inspected the premises:the previous day, had entered with van der Lubbe and then returned through the un- derground tunnel aftenssetting. the fire, leaving van der Lubbe’in the building. Judge Buenger stated. that ‘‘the in- nocence of Heines, and Hell- dort is proved by. their: written. de: nials.” (}) He annown 4 he proposed to call all three.as \esses, as well as Goering ahd Goebbels, “thus refuting the outrageous asser- tions of the Brown i.” X Dimitroff Demands wn - Book Dimitroff intervened again, stat- ing “the Brown Book has . been mentioned in court. fou oe Heats: any the defendants have not This is an incredible eel I demand a copy.” Judge Buenger, Vefiihcrasset seeking a pretext. to”shut him na forbade the term “incredible,” but Dimitroff loudly emphasized his right to speak thus. JudgeBuenger again threatened him withexPulsion from the trial. Attorney-General Werner _ rejected Dimitroff’s demand for ot the Brown Book, sa} the authorities only.’ Anti-War Mass. Meetia PHILADELPHIA.—A “large meeting to hear the revorts<of; the Youth Delegates to the, Workt“Con- ference Against War and ‘Fas¢ism, held in Paris, bas ‘been arranged, by the Philsdsiphia Youth Anti-War Committee, for tonight, 8 o'clock, at 913 Arch St. There, rat ta a@ report lutionary workers’ movement. But to turn on his stomach again. this effort will fail, from delegates to the’ U, S. Congress also. Admission UES. a