The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1933, Page 6

Page Six Deily,.qorker “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1984 Published datiy, except Sunday, by the Comprods ishing | o., Inc., 50 Bast 13th Street, New York, N.Y. | Telephone: Algonquin 4-7985. Cable Address: “Datwork,” New York, x Washington Bureeu: Room 94. iéth and G. St., Washington, D.C, Subscription Rates: Manhattan and hs, $2.00 year, $9.00; 6 months ational Press iding By Mail: (except 6 months, $3.50; 3 mo Foreign and Canada $3.00 By Carrier: 46.00; $5.00; 3 months, 8 Week ents; monthly, 75 cents. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1933 St. Nicholas Arena, Tonight! oe S mee st anothe! ing at the St. Nicholas Arena is not} meeting.” It is of the utmost’ impor Party member and to every active worker mass organizations. the N.R.A.; a detailed Sunday speech sevelt’s Above within the working class movemer + tactics of the | Commun unionists will | be explain No a no active trade unionist; no} tion can afford to miss | Browder and C. A. Hath- ll be held at ST. NICHOLAS ARENA | TONIGHT. Be on time! Come without fail! | . o U-S.; Japan, U;S:S:R: HE lik the Un no one to ean occur in the the v The attitude of American capitalism, which Roosevelt carries out faithful nd with a thicker layer of dema- gogy than Hoover aged, remains precisely the same. | It is expressed with crude frankness in an editorial | in the Duluth News-Tribune of October 16—a newspaper | which is a part of the chain owned by Paul Block, pub- The meeting at 8 P.M inauguration of diplomatic relations between ted States and the Soviet Union must lead} e that any fundamental change will or | ntagonism of imperialist America to | st fatherland rite re American does not wish to see war be- Russia,” this editorial says. “If, how- state should arise, he hopes that Japan will a lesson that will forever after keep it anovoi mountains . , The American wish Japan to quit pin-pricking the United States, ¢ they do not object to Japanese expansion along nable and legitimate lines as indicated in these | phs.” | HE competition of Japanese imperialism to American | exploitation of China and other areas of the Pacific is one occasion for the race in naval building on| ented scale on which Washington and Tokyo | ga unp have emb But if t Soviet workers | could rob the a, and re-enslave its workers in capi exploitation, that would be “reasonable and legiti- Mate” to the American imperialists, “who hope that Japan will the Soviet a lesson.” Thi a complete statement of the international intrigues of Wall Street diplomacy, but it expresses in a ceude and open way the undying class antagonism which is the motivating force of all capitalist mancuvers with | respect to the Soviet Union. Recognition of the Soviet Union will give Wall Street some badly needed trade, but it does not make Wash- ington a friend of the Soviet Union, no more than is bloody Hitler, whose government also recognizes the Soviet Union. There is only one force that can work against war, and for the defense of the Soviet Union, the workers’ fatherland. That is the unending, militant vigilance of the working class, whose program of struggle against war is crystallized in the organization of the American League Against War and Fascism. Another Roosevelt Speech “tole after Roosevelt finished his radio speech last night two things happened One is that the prices of commodities leaped up- werd again. The stock market boomed as Wall Street @pevulators reaped golden harvests. ‘The other is that the value of the dollar on the fpmturnational markets sank, iind in these two immediate consequences of the Rotsevelt plan to buy more gold, to inflate the cur- Fency, the toiling work-rs and farmers of America can See what Roosevelt has in store for them. j Further cruel cheapening of the dollar, further slashes in REAL wages, further rises in the cost of living. An intensified, bitter strife for foreign markets, in- ternational currency war against rival imperialist | ‘powers that can only lead to another world WAR! T does Roosevelt's program of rising prices mean for the American workers and farmers? It means masked robbery and increased exploitation. For the workers it means that their meager wages buy less and less. For the farmers it means that they must pay more for their supplies, machines, clothes, etc. The workers and “-rmers have already had a bitter taste of this Roosevelt plan. In the last “ve months, Roosevelt hes jerked up the cost of food by 20 per cent! But wages, even according to the most optimistic re- Ports of Roosevelt’s Department of Labor, have not risen more than 7 per cent. The Roosevelt program of “rising prices has put over a uniform, masked 13 per cent » wage cut on the entire American working class! But did the farmer get the benefits of this rise in food prices? . Not a bit. Roosevelt’s own Secretary of Agriculture admitted na Public speech made only two weeks ago that the Roosevelt N.R.A. program has caused an 18 per cent _8ap between the things the farmer sells and the things “he must buy, effecting a deep slash in his REAL income! Roosevelt declares that the solution of the crisis lies in rising prices for farm and manufactured goods together. But both the farmer and the workers are skinned in the process. It is the monopoly capitalist corpora- tions in the middle who get all the fat gravy out of the Roosevelt price-raising program! That is Roosevelt's Teal purpose. * * > T does the Roosevelt price-raising program do A for American Wall Street imperialism? It plays Tight into its hands. When Roosevelt cheapens the dollar by buying gold, he is, in effect reducing the cost of production for the American capitalists, because they “are thus enabled to pay their workers in CHEAPENED MONEY. * Roosevelt's scheme to buy gold is equivalent to the Setting up of a financial machinery similar to the British Equalization Fund. This means intensified cur- Tency and trade wars. It is the workers and farmers of both countries who, on account of rising costs of living, will bear the brunt of the attack. _ Roosevelt robs the workers at home in order to 4 ; permit Wall Street te drive ahead im aggressive im- | pertalist expansion. { . . * | HY did Roosevelt leap into the breach last night | with his new pronouncement? | ‘The answer is simple. It is because the failure of | the Roosevelt N.R.A. program as « solution of the eco- nomic crisis is becoming more and more obvious to the | masses of American workers and farmers. | The American masses have had six months of Roose- velt’s program. And every one of Roosevelt’s rosy promises has turned to ashes! Roosevelt has not been | able to give the American workers what he promised | them—bread and economic security! That is why the coming winter brings Roosevelt | face to face with the most tremendous wave of coal | and steel strikes in a generation. That is why the farmers of the nation are at this very moment rising in enormous tides of rebellion against the Roosevelt N.R.A. program. Roosevelt’s speech last night was an attempt to | blind the American masses to the failure of the N.R.A. | His speech was an attempt to fill them with more empty hope He tried to m@ke them forget his earlier promises. OOSEVELT spoke about the N.R.A. success in giv- ing jobs. With utter disregard of the facts of his 1 Department of Labor, he claimed 4,000,000 new Ss Why does not Roosevelt give proofs for his state- ment? How does it happen that his own Secretary of Labor Perkins, who is remarkable for her fidelity to the Roosevelt ballyhoo, can claim only 2,500,000? And | she gived not the slightest proof either. | Why did General Johnson estimate 5,000,000? And | what has become of Roosevelt's own promise of { 6,000,000 by Autumn? Roosevelt's figures are not worthy of belief, dustry in declining. Where are these workers being hired? Not in steel, not in auto, not in textile, not in | railroads, not on farms, Where? Only in Roosevelt's imagination. te | OOSEVELT talks of public works. But of the total | three billjon, only a little over one billion has been | “allocated”—not spent. Of the $75,000,0000 actually | spent, by far the lion’s share has gone for WAR | PREPARTIONS! Roosevelt did not mention that. | ran Ms | Ro praises his Farm re-financing program. But he does not mention that this program has not relieved the enormous debt burdens of the farmers one bit. Roosevelt has merely transferred the mort- gage from a private mortgage holder to a government corporation. The debt, however, remains, while the mortgage holder is protected against. losses! | That is just why the farmers are now up in arms! Roosevelt tried new maneuvers. He tried to estab- lish a separation between the NRA and the rest of | his program. But every worker knows and remembers | that Roosevelt announced his program as a whole, as | @ unit. Every workers can see through the Roosevelt | attempts to back out of his promises. | Where as he denies the starving workers and their families any unemployment insurance, he is building the most gigantic war program in the history of the country. Faced with the resistance of the workers, he is driving ahead toward increasing police and state military violence against the workers. | He has spoken against strikes. He prepares for | war, for more brutal suppression of the American | toiling masses. That is what Roosevelt offered the American workers and farmers last might, Jo ca | A United Dye Union immediate task, one which affects the present ‘ike and the future interest: of the dye workers in Paterson, is the formation of a united union. To achieve this end it is necessary te bring together the memberships of the National Textile Workers Union, those in the dyers local of the United Textile Workers Union, and the large number of unorganized workers in the dye shops. This means in Paterson making & reality of the slogan of united front in the struggle against the bosses and the misleaders in the ranks of the workers. The National Textile Workers Union has declared that it makes the offer to merge itself into a one really big united union. By creating a union of all Paterson dye workers, one which expresses and fights for their needs in the struggle, unity for the common good of all the workers in the dye plants would be achieved in a powerful organiza~ tional form, Le a et Ae gros a union would be a rallying force in the fight for and the protection of better conditions won by the workers in struggle. Officials opposing such a policy are those not con- cerned with the interests and needs of the workers. They are those more concerned with the maintenance. of their own positions, keeping the workers divided. They are interested in their own bureaucratic unions and are servants of the NRA administration. Their, policy of working against the fullest organizational unity is of value to the bosses who fear more than anything else ® powerful united union of all dye house workers. The Paterson dye workers will best serve their class interests by aggressively supporting this unity proposals of the National Textile Workers Union. Reteeutigiieniiricpneneeeneeeeil An Intervention Signal TESTS have always led the way for advancing armies by laying down the moral preparation for war, ‘That explains the Congress of priests now being held at Vienna which has decided to raise funds “for the famine victims in Russia.” This appeal for funds (a perennial phenomenon with priests) is significantly timed to coincide with the sinister war provocations of Japanese imperialism in the Far East, the increasing menace of Fascist war preparations in the West. t comes at a time when every government ts bristling with war preparations, That is what makes it an ominous signal. ‘The | priests, who have very close connections with the | White Guard conspirators at Paris, Shanghai, etc. smell military intervention against the Soviet Union | moving closer. It will be remembered that recéntly the Pope tried a similar campaign for the “hunger victims” of the Soviet Union. But the colossal victories of Soviet collectivization, the enormous harvests and the record-breaking speed | of collection, forced him to beat an ignominious and | hasty retreat. The priests at Vienna deliberately close their eyes to the fact that the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union have destroyed all poverty and starva- tion by destroying capitalism. They have abolished unemployment and wage slavery. The workers of the world will ask these priests why they are so indifferent to the millions of actual fans victims in every country where capitalism Tules, ° They will ask why these priests persist in lying about the Socialist victories of the Soviet Union. ‘They will ask these questions because they see the sinister military intervention that so obviously lurks beneath the hyporcritical sorrows of the well fed Priests at Vienna. An important part of the fight for the defence of the Workers’ Fatherland {s the merciless exposure of the les and plots of these Priests at Vienna, SAILY WORKER, Soviet Autos Burren NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1938 ROOSEVELT: “The people are wise to the blue eagle, oh, lord, and are in revolt!”: « MORGAN “Give them another speech!” —By BURCK. The World Press on the Reichstag Fire Trial 'The Nazi Frame-Up Condemned As “Bungling and Obvious” and Trial Called a Farce by Even Capitalist Papers Even the capitalist press of the world, the class enemies of Conimunism, looking at the Reichstag fire trial, condemn the Nazis bungling and obvious From the Prager Press (Prague) to praise itself. from the anti- Communist standpoint, the fear must be expressed’ that the clumsiness of the German propaganda is fuel for the fire of Bolshevism. The attempt |to try, not the hysterical individual individual Van der Lubbe, but Com- } munism in general, has already col- lapsed.” From the Weiner Zeitung (official Dolifuss organ): “Dimitroff domi- nates the trial. The progress of the Reichstag fire trial shows even the foreign obseryer who has to depend on the officially edited reports, that the Bulgarian revolutionary Dimi- troff really dominates the court~ room. With rare verve this Commu- | nist leader understands how to bring himself to the fore through de- vastating quéstions, and to make the most serious difficulties for the trial authorities, who have already have had enough trouble with that strange | individual, Van der Lubbe. The change in the trial ordered by the chief judge represents—as those who understand German procedure rec- ognize—a severe injury to the trial, since the examination of accused in the presence of trial witnesses, is a violation of judicial procedure.” The Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Cou- rant (Rotterdam):'“A public prose- cutor in retreat. At this momen any- one in the court-room would have the impression that he was witnessing a public prosecutor in retreat.” The Temps of Paris: “Panknin a provocateur. ‘This Panknin made more and more the impression that Cars, Trucks, Triumph in Severest of Road Tests By VERN SMITH. Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent. MOSCOW, Sept. 30 (By Mail). — Not even the flight of the stratostat, whose amazing record ascent of over 60,000 feet drew all eyes to the sky for part of this morning, could keep those eyes off the street traffic this afternoon. Cars and trucks shoved through ever denser masses of pe- destrians and street cars moved end to end, on the way to Moscow's Park of Culture and Rest. Autos and trucks and buildings along the way carried red slogans, “Greetings to the Heroes of Kara-Kum,” “Welcome the Victors of the Kara-Kum Desert,” “Welcome Back the Moscow-Kara Kum-Moscow Endurance Run.” A great celebration to hail the ex- pedition was to.be held in the Park. It was re-entering the city it left two | months and twenty-six days before. Twenty cars and trucks of Soviet manufacture, with types of three im- ported foreign makes (standard in their field) going along for compari- son, had left Moscow to travel by way of Samara on the Volga (good roads so far) then over mountains, old watercourses, former caravan routes and sand hills to Tashkent in Central Asia, then straight across the track- less Kara-Kum desert and through the narrow strip of watered land | along the Eastern shore of the Cas- | Plan Sea to Krasnavodsk. There they | were ferried by boat over the Caspian to Baku, and sent to brave the Cau- casus, steepest mountains in the European part of the Soviet Union, and so Northwestward to Moscow again. It was an amazing endurance test even if undertaken without scientific | control and merely as a sporting spec- tacle, Scientific Test of Soviet Motors. But there was scientific ‘control. Not only were the cars and trucks of Soviet make. to be compared with the foreign makes, but every car car- ried some special bit of mechanism to be subjected to this rigorous trial frame-up. Here are some of the comments in the world press: : “German propaganda is accustomed But in the case of the Reichstag fire trial . . . it has had | little luck. Indeed, & he was a provocateur or a police stool-pigeon.” LEcho de Paris: “Sensational Ex- | posure of Spies. The sensation of the forenoon was the testimony of a wii- ness who said that among the terror- ist elements of the workers of Neu- koelln (proletarian district of Ber- lin—Ed.) ‘agitating for acts of. vio- lence, a man named Haman was és- pecially prominent—who was later exposed to be working together with the Hitlerite Storm Troopers.” Chicago ‘Tribune: “Accusation against spy makes impression on all. A daring Communist accusation that Nazi agents provocateur had mingled with Communist workers in Berlin, in order to incite them to terrorist acts, created a sensation. . .’. This accus- ation, in the heart of Nazi Germany, impressed everyone in the court- room.” From the News Chronicle (Lon- | don): “The real rascals are kept in the background. This trial resembles @ melodramatic installment story in which the solution is continually postponed and the real rascals are Kept in the background.” From the Manchester Guardian: “Dimitroff’s defense hindered in ev- ery way. If the treatment of Dimi- troff is justifiable according to Ger- man law, then this law makes possi- ble grave injustices to accused per- sons. Dimitroff now has. no. attor- ney defending him, and is hindered in every way in his own self-defense. One can no longer say ... that the Tom Mann to Visit Mooney and Billings Mass Pressure Forces Extension of Stay NEW YORK—Tom Mann, 77-year- use the extension of his stay in America, won by the pressure of masses on Washington, to visit Tom Mooney, Billings and J. B. McNa- mara in San Quentin Prison, it was announced yesterday by Donald Hen- derson, secretary of the American | League Against War and Fascism. Word arrived from the warden at San Quentin'that the two imprisoned Yabor leaders, who have been: behind bars for the last 17 and 22 years, respectively, will be permitted -to see Tom Mann, who is very anxious to talk with the two staunch fighters and bring his greetings from the English masses to them. Mann has | for many years carried on a struggle in England for the liberation of all class war prisoners and has taken a special interest in American victims of capitalist justice. Upon his arrival in America for the anti-war movement, one of the first inquiries made by Mann was: “How soon will we be able to get Mooney out of his dungeon? He is in there because he was with us and fought against the last slaughter match.” While on.the coast Tom Mann will address mass meetings 4% Seattle and San Francisco under the auspices of the anti-war movement. manner in which this. trial is being conducted is fair,” ‘ From Le. Peuple (Paris):.. Today +. « everyone is convinced that this miserable Van der Lubbe is: only a Passive and pitiable tool in: the hands of his executioners. Doped with drugs, stupefied by. hungér and. torture, he would give his signature to anything one wanted.” * old British militant labor leader, will | ¢, Giant Counter Rally for Nazi Meet; Fake O’Brien BanExposed Workers’ Court to Pass on Reichstag Evidence in Central. Opera House Tomorrow Night-~< = { NEW YORK.—An urgent warning that Mayor John O’Brien’s so-called ban on next Sunday's Nari meeting at the 165th Regiment armory does not mean that the Fascist meeting will not be held was issued yesterday by the New York Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism. Preparations for a monster counter demonstration are being made at New Group Formed to Cooperate With NY Marine Workers All. Are Invited to ‘Join; Soviet. Movie © Will Be Shown _NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—A_ provi- sional committee of workers, profes- sional people, intellectuals, office workers, etc. to be the adjunct to the International Seamen’s Club, 140 Broad St., N. Y. City, his been formed to co-operate with the club in es- tablishing a meeting place for sea- men. .This new group should appeal strongly to all those who. are inter- ested in developing the spirit of in- ternationalism, and the struggle against the shipping of war muni- tions. As a beginning toward the building of a library for the Seamen’s Club, the Committee will show the famous Soviet movie, Potemkin at 8:30 p.m. this Wednesday night, Oct. 25. Ad- mission will be 30 cents. All persons interested in forming a vital link with the workers in the munitions and marine industries are invited to join the committee which meets at the Broad Street headquar- OTS. Contributions of a book case, cloth- ing, books, etc., are sorely needed. Barbusse to Speak for John Reed Club Will Talk at Mass Meeting in Irving Plaza Oct. 29 NEW YORK.—Henri Barbusse, world-famed writer and fighter against imperialist war, will be the main speaker at a symposium on Eu- ropean revolutionary literature to be held under the auspices of the John Reed Club and Clarte, French work~ ers’ club, next Sunday evening, Oct. 29th. The meeting will take place at Irv- ing Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., at 8:30. Other well-known writers expected to participate in the symopsium are Michael Gold, Joseph Freeman and Joshua Kunitz.’ Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Frank, Malcolm Cowley, Gran- ville Hicks, have’also been invited. Barbusse, who recently came to the United States from Paris to attend the American .Congress Against War, is the author of several books which place him among the first rank of world revolutionary writers. His book “Under Fire,” was denounced by the French’ military authorities for its terrific indictment of the World War. The book was widely read, however, and was awarded the Goncourt prize. “Under Fire’ has since been trans- lated into 20 languages. | | Win Gruelling Mountain, Desert Run i | of desert sands and mountain heights. Electrical and rubber “gadgets” and variations in constraction © were watched all the way and their. per- formances charted. Probably the most interesting was .the thorouth workout given huge balloon tires of Soviet made synthetic rubber. Tires of various sizes also were compared with each other on all the various types of roads, and on no roads at all. The Moscow-Kara © Kum-Moscow run had five main purposes, as ex- plained at the Moscow celebration to- day by Mirietsky, commander of the motorcade that made the trip. First, it was to ascertain the qual- ity of Soviet cars—and the Soviet made autos and trucks were found in every respect as good as foreign makes and in some ways better. Secondly, it was to test out the electrical equipment of the cars. This also was found satisfactory. Thirdly, it was to give a most rigorous and grinding trial to the Soviet synthetic rubber, and, Miriet- sky reports, “Our synthetic rubber wes found to be fully as good as imported natural rubber.” What this means to a country that hitherto had to pur- chase abroad all of this substance so necessary to modern, and_ especially electrical and automotive industry, is beyond estimation. 4 Fourthly, geologists and engineers were corried along to map the route across the Kara-Kum desert and as- certain whether a railroad can be laid from Tashkent to Krasnavodsk along this route. The scientific corps | accomplished its task. Record Desert Crossing. Fifthly, another crew of scientists, agricultural experts and_ botanists, studied at first hand the possibilities of planting to new products wide sec- tions of this hitherto wasted desert, and startling programs in this di- rection are to bs exp2cted soon, When the trip was planned, 13 days were set as the time needed to cross the Kara-Kum. The exp-di- tion actually made dt in: six and a half days, exactly half the estimated time. Furthermore, when the cars reached the big industrial city of Baku, after crossing the desert and comopleting aver half (and the hardest half) of their ‘trip, a careful check- up was made in the big machine shops of the oil capital, and every one of the Soviet cars was found “in con- dition to finish the run and render many more thousands of miles service after that”) 2 %°0%? * $ The expedition was able to report in Moscow at” end of tHe run that there was not one serious accident or breakdown. of cats or persons; every car and every man. travelled every inch of the way. “Some. have said’ we ‘should . firs build roads, and. then develop an’ au- tomobile to roll over them,” said Khalesky, of the Revolutionary Mili- tary Council, greeting the 20,000 Mos- cow workers assembled today. at.the meeting in the Park to welcome the expedition back: “But this would develop neither roads nor cars,” con- tinued Khalesky, who then went on to point out that wherever an auto~ mobile goes, it spreads culture and “emands for good roads. » Synthetic Soviet Rubber a Success, The experisrice of the expedition bears this out, and adds another fac- tor. In.such a huge country as the Soviet Union, with its varied geology and climate, the sort of road needed has sometimes to be found out by actual experimenting. . For example, even before reaching ent, the expedition ran into territories between Aktyubinsk and Irgiz where there are patches of ground mixed with salt. In dry weather this can be crossed anywhere, but with the lightest rain- fall, the dirt and salt mixture be- ‘comes something like glue, and sticks all over the cars, clogging wheels and transmission. In these small areas ¢ salt poh, drainage and planting of some thick-rooted is neces- sary to build a good Fa ‘ The new super-balloon tires of synthetic rubber, especially when partially deflated to broaden their tread, can carry a very heavy load over desert sands. But it was found that the tires when so used fling up much sand and dust onto the ma- chine. In this case it is not a ques- tion just of better roads, but of’ slight changes in the design ‘of the fenders @nd mudguards of cars intended for ‘use in the desert. Prove Soviet Industry Has. Overcome Chief > Difficulties . easily solved problems But po one-could. sit in the enorm- today. and expedition was to be judged by only such immediate re- edema areca ni AMS ers. em- phasized. and, the .crowd responded heartily to their sentiments, that the Kare-Kum .crossing symbolized, and proved, a new turning point in victori- ous Socialist: construction." Greatest Difficulties Overcome. Difficulties are ahead, yes, and no one denies them. : But, “This expedi- tion shows that in building the. auto- mobile industry, in mastering its technique, in’ learning how to run the factories. we have created, the greatest difficulties lie behind us,” said in varied , words, but. the same thought, Mirievsky, , Khalesky, and the other principal speaker, Kamin- sky, representing the Executive Com- mittee of the Moscow ‘District’ Soviet. Into these speeches: ‘occasionally ‘ept another note, a note of intense satisfaction to the proletariat of the Soviet Union, and to the world pro- letariat, facing an. essentially hos- tile set of capitalist governments. “The victories of the automobile in- dustry here are not {solated and inci- dental, they are part of and symbolize the victories of the: First Five Year Plan as a whole, and the beginnin; of the Second Five Year Plan, Al- though once we might have had to face armed invasion with our bare hands, but. now we have the means of defense,” a ‘The Kara-Kum run was a success, but they do not let things stop there. One of the chauffeurs, banqueted in Moscow, was asked by somo of his welcomers: “Well, now you can take ‘a_rest?” He answered in surprise, “Rest? What are you talking about! Now we have to carry potatoes in Moscow!” That is the spirit of the personnel ® the call of the New York Committee, which has been endorsed by the American League Against War and Fascism, the ‘National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, the Communist Party and many other organizations. © “Already the’ Nazis are beginning to maneuver,”’ says a statement by Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary of the National Committee. “They will visit O’Brien to secure his agreement that the German. Day Nazi celebra- tion should--be allowed if Heins Spanknoebel, Hitler's chief in this country, is withdrawn as a speaker. “Even if the. German. Antbassador, Hans Luther, is also withdrawn as a speaker, the so-called German Day celebration will still be Fascist from beginning to end.” Victory for Workers Mayor O’Brien’s partial opposition to the Nazi meeting, however, is a direct victory Yor the anti-Fascist forces in the United States, Wagen- knecht said. Thte anti-Fascist work- ers have defeated the Hitler agents in Milwaukee;~ Newark, Rochester, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and | else- where, where Masses of workers suc- céssfully interfered with attempts to raise the flag of the bloody Nazis. The New York meeting is the Nazi's attempt to offset these de- feats, and it thus takes on a na- tional character. It is obviously be- cause of the fatespf so many previous Nazi meetings, and because of the immense pressure of protests by the anti-Fascist. y es, that O’Brien saw his chance to make political capSal out of a pretended ban on the New York meeting. The Nazi meeting is called for next Sunday evening in the 165th Regiment Armery, Lexington Ave, between 25th and 26th. Sts. Counter-Trial Tomorrow Along with the plans for a counter- demonstration of anti-~Fascist forces which would destroy the-effective- ness of the Nazi meeting, plans are going forward full Yor the Workers’ Court»hearing of evidence on the Reichstag fire trial, this Wed- nesday night at 8 o’clock in the Cen- tral Opera House6th St, at Third Ave. “ a Pe » David Levinson, Philadelphia I. L. D. attorney who was barred from the Leipzig trial Where he went with a power of attorney to defend the three Bulgarian Communists, will act as chajrman at- the Peoples’. Trial, and read the prologue to the trial proper. Among the working class leaders who will take part in the trial are Max Bedacht, who will play the role of Torgler; I. Amter, who will repre- sent. Dimitroif; William Patterson, who will presidé "as judge; Robert Minor, as foreman of the jury, and Joseph Brodsky as defense .attorney. Bill Gropper, revolutionary ‘cartoon- ist, will make sketches a8 the trial proceeds. : ve Worker Jurymen Elected Among the organizations which haye elected representatives to sit on the Workers Jury are the following: Trade Union Unity Council, repe resented by Henry Shepard; German United Front, by Rena..Stamms; Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, by Ferguson; International Workers Ore der, by Sadie Duroshkin; Unemployed Councils, by Richard Suliivan; N, Y, Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, Pauline Rogers; the Needle Tradés“Workers Industrial Union, the Shoe Workers and Marine Workers Industrial Unions, the John | Reed Club, United Council of Worke ing Class Women;. and. other organ- izations will -have their delegates elected within the next day. Grau Sends Troops as Cuban Workers Plan General Strike HAVANA, Oct. 23.—A trainload of troops left Havana for the interior last night as a new geperal strike against the terror instituted by the Grau San Martin regimne became in- creasingly likely. x } Workers in Matanzas and Carden: have voted to»walk out in support of the striking» railway,.workers of the United Railways. Other railway workers were reported ready to join the strike. vin Bakers, tobacco workers, milk dis- tributers, and other union’ workery) continued on. strike. Manuel Gon. wales, a strike-breaker’ during th waterfront. strike im Havana, w found dead in the Cerro.suburb Sate MEGA. by , Many. Pledge Support of Workers’ Delegates from America .to Cuba NEW YORK—Organizations with & membership of 246,833 have pledged support, for sending a workers’ delee gation ‘to carry grectings to the Cu> ban workers» the Autt-Imperialisk League announced yesterday. ‘The first contribution for the- ex- enses of the delegation was $2.65 from the tetror-riddenyhungry work- ers of Tampa, Florida, The organ- izations which, have already given their suppopt).sya. the, International Lahor De“éag>,, Paioongt'aual . Work- ers’ Order pNos: and Ohicazo Dirtricis), United) Coueih of Work ing Class Women, Disérich Commit- tee of Russian Organizations of Chicago, Itetian Workers’ Center New York, All-American Alliance of of this expedition, and of the Soviet These are only two examples of the Proletariat Chinese Anti-Imperialists, ©, P. Unit 3, a c. P, Unit 11, Sec. 7, New District»