The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1933, Page 6

Page Six Goxtead Party BEA | “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Published daily, except Sunday, by the Comproda. Go:, Inc., 50 Bast 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. ‘Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7955. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, ¥. ¥ Washington Bureau. Room 954, iéth and G. St., Washington, D.C Subscription Rates: $2.00; 1 Canada: 1 lishing National Press Building, i year, 96.00 By Mail: (except rs 75 cents. 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, Manhattan, 6 months, By Carrier: Bronx, Fore year, 99.00 5.00; 3 mont Weekly, 18 cent and $3.00 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1933 Death | to the Lynchers! AST night, gro worker, Euel Lee, aged 60, was strangled to death by the official govern- ment machinery of the § e of Maryland. It was the Internatic Labor Defense that snatched him i execution two years ago. It Beubbornly: fought the case thri through the Sup € Yesterday it wa nor ie backed up by his friend Roosevel with the cold, murderous cynism of a vet e oe e final cnaee Verdict in words of class and white, in this country He doomed the Negro worker these words “There has been too much delay in this Euel lee case. Even if the Circuit Court is wrong, 1 will not interfere. Bo it was as an impatient lyncher, eager for the Blood of the innocent Negro worker, that Gov. Ritchie gent Lee to his doom. His innocence no more concerned the Governor than it concerns any typical lynch mob. Euel Lee to die, with ily Worker )W Ritchie has been confrented by with the names and addresses of the leading state @fMfeials who led the lynch mob that tortured, hanged, and burned George Armwood a few days ago. Ritchie, who, in the execution of Lee, revealed the Jynch lust that runs in his Southern bourbon veins, is now the judge of his fellow lynchers who roasted George Armwood to death! Ritchie cannot hide the hideous fact that the of- ficial machinery of the United States government is part and parcel of the whole lynch system. He is now confronted with the names of his official fellow lynch- ers ‘And he does nothing! He has not lifted one finger to remove his State Attorney, who promised the lynch~ ers that they would have their victim! Ritchie has murdered Lee. Now he sits in judg- ment on his fellow lynchers! A lyncher judging Iynchers ‘The mass fury of the Negro and white masses, the hatred and anger of every decent, human, person in the country, must rise immediately to confront the Iynch Governor Ritchie with the cry that must not cease for one moment~TH® DEATH SENTENCE FOR THE L TERS! The names the lynchers are known. The Daily ker has named them! Governor Ritchie must be forced to arrest them at once! His hand must be ACT forced by a torrent of protests and telegrams! ynchers! Capitalist Journalism N, organized, of berate and persistent conspi2cy silence! Typical capitalist journalist distortion and Gishonesty! Ac uous suppression of nm vital to the in- terests of 3 fessional man, This is the onl, largest newspa events of the ing Nazi meeting in New York. Before th embled could but ill conceal t Samuel Ur thencity of tr Daily. Worker, the official Cit: Eyen ing, it w Daily Worker feature o: And yet wor , small farme: the country! y one can describe the way the New York Ci handled the ing on the plans for the com- ntellectual, pro- , in ecerit he: politicians, who tonishment and chagrin, had to concede the au- er intercepted bj shocking contents into rec that was on in the long, detailed r pus ter Untermyer’s reading of the by far the most sensational aot once every New York newspaper printed of the entire hear- sports that ing—not New York pt for a passing mention in the 8, was this most sensational incident of the hearing given any publicity! Not once was the account given of the withering attack made by Robert Minor, Communist candidate for, Ma: scist given any space in the cap’ press! The New York Evening Post—so conscious of its onnection with the “better sort of people”—printed not a single solitary word. The editorsof the Post faked the story of the hearing by omitting the whole Daily ‘Worker Nazi letter incident from its news reports, The tabloids, the Mirror, the Daily News—all these Peddlers of filth and poison, all so hungry for news Sensation—all silent. This was one kind of sensation they didn't care to handle for their working class readers ‘The World-Telegrar eritically virtuous, so “liberal’—it, too, sank to the tabloid depths of deliberate lying by concealing from its readers the blazing incident of the Daily Worker letter. Like all so-called capitalist journalist virtue, ft skated warily away from this damning truth when i€ was revealed by a working class paper, the Daily Worker And the Evening Sun tried another way of lying. It mentions the letter. But in @ veiled, obscure way, and without mentioning the Daily Worker as the dis- eoyerer, and without giving any clue to its devastating contents. The New York Times, proud purveyor of all the news that’s fit to print, printed thousands of words in a six-column report of the other details of the hearing. But this is what it gave to the most spectacular event ofthe afternoon: “Mr. Untermeyer alse read from a much-diseussed letter published some weeks ago in the Communist Daily Worker, purporting to be stolen original of a communication from Mr. Spanknoebel’s office in New both here and abroad _ York to a secret office in Berlin, reporting on the progress of the formation of storm troops and sug- gesting a method of smuggling certain persons into the United States to assist in the work here.” Out of six columns—that ts all! Not a word about the tie-up of Van Der Lubbe with the Nazis in the present Reichstag trial. Not a word about the rest Sed extraordinary contents of the letter! A short igraph—and it passes quickly on the complete re- porting of O'Brien's speech. _ The way the Times mentions the incident is only @ more refined method of suppression of the vital im- Plications of the whole incident, “hae incident is a lesson that must be carried to every part of the country. Tt reveals that the capitalist press, whatever their @ifferences may be, whether dignified, or tabloid, or so sensationally and hypo- | | wholes. radical, or reactionary, whether Democrat or Repub- lican, whether sensational or austere and respectable— all of these papers, because they are ai bottom CAP- ITALIST PAPERS, stoop to the vilest kind of lying and suppression, when it comes to matters vital to the interests of the working class! Certainly, the secret Nazi letter is of the greatest importance to the welfare of the toiling masses of this country. It is of the greatest importance to the wel- tare of every honest person interested in maintaining the ordinary democratic rights from the cultural and Political reaction of Fascism. The Nazi letter reveals Fascist plots in this coun~ try! It reveals insanely savage plans to infect the jailed Communist leaders of Germany with syphilis germs! It reveals the illegal presence in this country of Nazi spies! But because the capitalist press is aware that only the working cl: led by the Communist Party, is really honest in its fight against the spread of Fas- cism in this country, and because despite all its pro- testations to the contrary, it fears and hates the rise of the working class struggle against Fascism, these papers carried LIES to their readers. Only the Daily Worker, paper of the working class and the Communist Party, dares to tell the truth about contemporary events. Only the Daily Worker is free from the rotten cap- italist poison which drips in every column of every capitalist paper in the country. It is for this reason that the workers and farmers, as well as every honest person who fights for honesty, and progress, must give their energy to support the Daily Worker in its fight against capitalist lying. The capitalist papers must be driven out of the ranks of the workers. The Daily Worker must replace them in the homes of the working class! A Damning Document AMNING, unanswerable proof that Bloody Machado was the paid executioner for the Rockefeller Chase National City Bank, the U. S. State Department, and the American parasitic investors in Cuba, is now avail- able to every worker. ‘There is now made public astounding documentary evidence of Wall Street’s rapacious and bloody rule in Cuba that ranks with the Tanaka document telling of Japanese imperialism’s lust for colonial plunder. In the secret letter of James Bruce, Rockefeller- controlled Chase National Bank official, brought out at the Senate financial hearings, Tuesday, we have proof that the Hoover state department and the Amer- ican bankers paid Bloody Machado heavily for his rule of murder and plunder in their interest. Machado was told how to run Cuba for the benefit of Wall Street ‘The blood of hundreds of Cuban workers shed by Machado is smeared thick and heavy on the hands of the United States State Department and the officials of the Chase National Bank. The role of Roosevelt's Ambassador, Sumner P, Welles, about whom the capitalist press has been studiedly silent lately, is clearly reflected in the deeds of his predecessor in 1931, as exposed in this document; a confidential report, which runs riot in its story of ale robbery, swindle, bribery, torture, jailing and murder. HE American state department, Hoover's Cuban am- bassador, and the Chase Bank authorities, according to Bruce's letter, knew of the collossal robbery by Machado of $9,000,000 from a $12,000,000 pension trust fund. The whole dirty business was hushed up. In fact, it was used by the American ambassador and the Rockefeller bank to wring more thieving concessions from Machado, heavier crushing taxation against the starving Cuban workers and peasants. And how was this money spent by Machado? ft was used to pay off Machado’s sadistic Porristas, fascist murderers for the Cuban landlords and capitalists. It | Was used to smash trade unions, to jail and torture Communist Party members. It paid bribes to Machado’s degenerate crew of publicists praising Amer- | ican impefialism and slandering the Soviet,Union and the Communist Party of Cuba. The Chase National Bank missal shows that every transaction of the bank, every loan that brought mil- lions to the coffers of the American parasites, was dis~ ed with the American ambassador first. The whole vernment policy of Machado, the brutal terror against the toiling masses, was directed from the head offices of the Chase National Bank in New York, and through its agents in Havana. Res Sets te | Snatel secret letter tells of Machado’s promise to levy $10,000,000 in new, grinding taxes against the Cuban people, most of which would go to the Chase National Bank. Bruce comments on this added op- oression with the cynical remark: “The question was as to whether it was not in our interest to keep as tight a hold as we could on the fiscal policies of Cuba.” With this in mind he speaks to Machado. Machado telis him everything would be done to fill the coffers of the Chase National Bank and to smash down all opposition from the Cuban masses. “He mentioned,” writes Bruce, referring to his con- ference with Machado, “that in this last Congress there were one or two dissenting voices, but he said that in the Congress which would convene im April 1 there would not be one dissenting voice.” Then with fiendish glee, the Wall Street banker adds in parenthesis: “I suppose the two dissenting voices are already in jail.” So much for the bourgeois opposition in Machado’s parliament. But what about the hundreds of workers vho suffered the excruciating tortures in the feudal dungeons of Morro Castle? What of the scores who were tossed to the sharks in Havana Bay? What of the hundreds slain by Machado’s Porristas, paid for by the Chase National Bank’s private and government, loans to Machado and the sadist brood in his family? os Ms cee ies whole letter is a ‘sordid, vicious story of the Chase National Bank’s wholesale bribery of Machado in return for more oppressive measures against the Cuban masses to grind out of them the last ounce of sweat and blood to be turned into a steady stream of gold for the Wall Street degenerates, Along with Machado, Cespedes, who took office when Machado was driven out, receives honorable men- tion as one who is willing to receive hundreds of thousands in return for those favors Wall Street re- quires, The letters of similar kind of Wall Street’s rela- tions to the Grau San Martin government are un- doubtedly being written in these days of bloody sup- pression of the Communist Party of Cuba under the Grau San Martin regime. But these will not be unearthed by the Roosevelt regime. Nor are the most important documents of American. imperialism’s role in Cuba during Machado’s terror reign seeing the light of day even now. Bruce's letter is but a mild sample of what actually exists, Nor is Mr. Wiggin, retired head of the bank, reveal~ ing the bank's present deals with Bloody Hitler, his cynical glee over the Nazi’s slaughters in Germany, ‘The Daily Worker has already given an insight into this phase of the Chase National Bank’s filthy em- brace of German Fascism. No bloody holocaust against the working class of any country is too dreadful for these bankers so long as.their super-profits are preserved, their loans pro- tected, their investments insured, and their colonial plunder guaranteed go" “We Ain’t Invited! That’s SPONSORE GOV.RITC i Seoairt is Ureed for U. 8. Delegates to Cuban Workers Funds, Signatures to Petition: Needed, Says A. I. L. NEW YORK--Walter Rellis, stu- dent, expelled from City College for | his anti-war activities, left yesterday | for Cuba as a delegate from the Na- tional Student League to the conven- tion of Ala Izquierda, the left-wing student organization of Cuba, which takes place this week-end. He is the first of a delegation which will tour the island and bring peasants, under. the auspices of the | Anti-Imperialist League. The main; body of the delegation is expected to leave New York on Thursday, Nov. 9. The Anti-Imperialist League terday issued an appeal to ali work- ers’, students’, and intellectuals’ or- ganizations to get behind the move- ment to send this.delegation. They were called on to-adopt greetings to the revolutionary Cuban masses, to be carried by the delegation; to raise funds to finance the delegation, to be sent to the -Anti-Imperialist League; and to secure hundreds of thousands of names to a petition ad- dressed to President~ Roosevelt, de- manding the withdrawal of warships from Cuban waters, the evacuation of the Guantanamo Naval Base, and annulment of the Platt Amcndment. November 5 and.6 have been set aside as special mobilization days to obtain signatures. 50 Per Cent Decline in Steel Production NEW YORK, Oct. 26—The capi- talist press has carefully buried the extremely important news that the current steel operations as reported yesterday by the American. Iron and Steel Institute are now running at | 31 per cent of capacity. This is @ 50-per-cent drop com- pared with the figures in Juy. The swift drop in steel production has erased practically-all:of the summer inflationary advance. All indications point to continued decline through- (Special to the. Ds Daily Worker) HAVANA, Oct. °23 (By Mail).— Events are developing rapidly now. The increasing weakness of the gov- ernment, already evident last week, deepens. The strike movement, re- covering from a two weeks’ slowing up, is growing tempestuously. The general direction of the struggles of ali kinds is towards another general strike, ‘The position of the government is determined by its inability to satisty the demands of any section of the population. The big capitalists and landowners do not trust it because it cannot stop the strike and other struggles, despite its violent efforts. Washington will not recognize it because it cannot institute order. The petty-bourgeois sees all its prom- ises remaining on paper, and is loudly protesting against its increas- ing misery, The students are rap- idly moving leftward, seeing that their demands have been sold out. Police Pay Cut ‘The workers, who never supported the government, are moving into more and sharper struggles. There is almost no taxation income. The government is facing the necessity of suspending wage payments. The po- licemen’s pay was cut 17 per cent, that of the officers 2 per cent. In Santa Clara half the police force was fired. ‘The ABC radical group, which for- merly supported the government, has withdrawn, It was not given enough Positions, Moreover its policies, which were strongly Inspired by Hit- ler and Mussolini, have not been en= tirely followed. It ‘was for suppres- sion of the workers’ movement with the utmost yiolence, while the gov- ernment tries to combine a certain amount of demagogy with its armed repressive measures, Reformist-Led Workers’ Strike The wave of militant struggles has reached many workers who are not members of the revolutionary unions, greetings to the-Guban workers and; JATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1938 jhad aroused Erases SummerBoom | a Dress Affair!” By Burek Barbusse to Speak for Recognition of Soviets Next Week NEW YORK.—Henri Barbusse, dis- tinguished French novelist, and Dr. Harry F. Ward, Professor of Ethics at the Union Theological Seminary and chairman of the Civil Liberties Union, are among the speakers at a mass meeting to demand immediate and unconditional recognition of the Soviet Government, at Webster Hall, on Nov. 1. Other speakers include Robert Minor, of the’ Communist Party; J. B. Matthews, national chairman of the League Against War and Fascism; Herbert Goldfrank, acting national secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union, and Lis- ton M. Oak, editor of “Soviet Russia Today,” who will be chairman of the meeting. 'New Premier er Seeks| \Wage Cuts to Meet French War Budget Inflation Predicted, Though Sarraut Disavows It PARIS, Oct. 26. — Albert, Sarraut, new French emier, who formed his cabinet today, will seck to batance the war preparati ns budget with drastic slashes in the wages of civil servants, he announced. He retained almost all the previous cabinet members in his new Cabinet, including Edouard Daladier, Premier, who fell Menday. He declared he was opposed to in- flation, and to the new taxes whi immense among the French peti and were among the immediate causes for the fall of his predecessors, Observers declared it was obvious that the budget could not be balanced through wage slashes of government employees, and predicted that he would either turn to inflation or be forced to resign. out the w of the NR. jure . to alleviate the crisis. Thousands of steei workers are being laid off. 40) Are Jailed in Cuba in Effort to Break Strike Wave Provocateurs Explode Bomb at Home of Mendieta HAVANA, Oct. 26.—In an effort to smash the wave of strikes, which are spreading rapidly through the island, Grau San Martin’s government has arrested 400 workers in the past two days. The police said most were Communists. A bomb early this morning dam- aged the house of Carlos Mendieta, nationalist léader, without injuring anyone. This is the latest of a series of terroristic acts by reactionaries, who are carrying out a campaign of provocations in order to spur the government to still more aggressive repression against the workers. All strikes remained solid today, and several new ones were reported. Workers at the Alto Cedro sugar mill, in Oriente province, were reported to have seized the mill and set up a revolutionary committee to run it, “Disarmament” Talks to Resume on Dee. 4 GENEVA, Oct. 26.—The steering comtnittee of the “disarmament” conference voted yesterday to resume the conference sessions not jater than Deember 4. Sine all the great capitalist powers have already declared their unwill- ingness to consider any reduction of armaments whatever, Arthur Hen- derson, president of the conference, explained that “it would be disastrous to adopt a policy which cou'd be in- terpreted as an indicatiowl of the conference’s inability to complete its task,” In the recess, the representatives of the capitalist powers will continue to seek some plan of action to keep the discussions alive without inter- fering with the unprecedented tempo of war preparations, The N.R.A. threatens to outlaw strikes. The Daily Worker fights Nazi Star Stand at of the prosecution contradicted and They are Berthold Karwahne and Munitions Boek | Shows 100 Per Cent Increase in Profits) NEW YORK.—Indicating the rise in production of war mater- ials, explosives, ete., the latest report of the E, I. DuPont De Nemours Company reveals a 100 per cent rise in profits during | the three months ending Sep- tember 30. | The Company reported profits during the last three months of ithe Roosevelt war building pro- gram of $11,981,980. This year, this munitions man-| ufacturing company showed pro- fits of $26,537,000, an increase of over 35 per cent compared to last year. Gold Price Jerked Up to $31.54; Cost of Living Advances London, Paris Prepare to Fight Back In World Money Fight WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—The in- ternational currency war for advan~ tage in foreign markets moved for- ward another step today with the Roosevelt government raising its bid for gold 48 cents above the London price, This has the effect of sending the value of the dollar down on the foreign exchanges, and commodities upon the domestic exchanges. It will increase the cost of Hving still fur- ther. ‘The speculative wave set in mo- tion by the latest Roosevelt acts still continue, with Wall Street specula~ tors reaping huge profits. It was pointed out, however, by economists, that the recent Roosevelt inflation did not have the same ef- fect as the first inflationary acts in April and May. It is now evident that the Roose- velt government, due to the fact that the summer's production has in- creased the stock of unsold commodi~ ties to a point even higher than last year, will have to increase its infla- tionary doses to a far greater ex- tent than it has given any indica~ tion. The sharp advances in the Roose- velt bid’ for ‘gold are’ ‘a sure indica- tion that it is now on a road of inflation from which it can no longer withdraw. It is expected: that: Great: Britain and France. . will . soon - -take- sharp measures to fight back the Roosevelt inflation. Talk of heavy reprisals of Britain against the United States is quite open now in London. Anti-Nazi Demonstration in Brooklyn Section 8, C. P., will hold an anti- Nazi demonstration tomorrow night at 8 p.m. at Hopkinson and Pitkin Aves. The demonstration will be preceded by & parade starting at the NRA. Fight for the “Daily” with your immediate contribution. Pennsylvania and Sutter Ayes., Brownsville, Brooklyn. ‘The most significant strike in the country today is the strike of the railway workers of the Matanzas and Cardenas divisions. The railway unions are the only large organiza- tions of any importance which have remained under the influence of re- formist leadership. These workers have organized a fight against the single tariff wage system. Their leaders, always eager to avoid struggles, have been going to the President, to the labor com-/ missions, to the army, for more than a@ month. All to no avail. ‘The pressure of the rank and file became so great that they had to call @ strike. They struck at mid- night of the 20th. On the 2st, all trains running through the state were derailed, and whole towns turned out to prevent repairs. Em-| ployees in the railroad offices and stations, as well as American Express employes, joined the strike. There is every indication that the rail men's strike will become national very soon. Marines Demand Soviet At the same moment the leaders of the railway men’s union of Divi- sion No. 2 have gone to the presi- dent and “suggested” that he use soldiers to operate trains in the strike zone! Delegations of striking workers have already conferred with the National Confederation of Cu- ban Workers (the CNOC) on ways and means of spreading and inten- sifying the strike. New strikes are developing every day in the interior, especially in the largest sugar plantations. Here the 45-day truces are expiring, and the workers see that they were sold out, Railroad and port workers struck in *Tempestuous Growth cf Strikes, Radi¢alization| «of Soldiers and Students, Leading Toward Nation- Wide Struggle sympathy with the workers of the Stewart. sugar central. Discontent is spreading within the armed forces. In Cienfucgos, soldiers were called out to fight against the! marines, who declared that when the present government was put in power they were told it would be a Soviet government. They declared! that they will fight for a Soviet gov- ernment. In the Province of Matan- zas, Communist sentiment is growing among the soldiers. The first issue o. a soldiers’ and sailors’ Communist paper, “El Sentinella Rojo,” has re~ ceived a wide and sympathetic recep- tion. Students Strike, Demonstrate The student leaders of the Direc- torio Estudiantil, who have been one of the mainstays of the government, are becoming ever more discredited among the students. The schools are to open on November 20. By agree- ment with these leaders, the tuition fees are to be the same as under Machado, The Ala Izquierda (left- wing student organization) organized a No Tuition Fees Committee which at its last meeting had the support of hundreds of students of the Direc- torio. On the 21st, the students staged a large demonstration in the Depart- ment of Education, demanding a new school building and the cleaning out of reactionary teachers. The Secre- tary of Education hid from them, whereupon they wrecked the waiting room, In Cerro, a proletarian factory sec- tion of Havane, # where schools opened October 18, Pioneers organized strikes in six of the ten schools, demanding free clothing, lunches, and carfare for workers’ children, The strike was AreCaught LyingOn AT THE GERMAN BORDER, 0 Oct. 26 (Via “Zurich) —Two star witnesses Witnesses) Fire Trial Hitler Deputies Contradict Own Statements — While Trying to Link Torgler and Van der Lubbe discredited themselves on the stan@ yesterday at the Reichstag fire trial in the Reichstag building, Berlin. Kurt Frey, Nazi deputies, brought for- ward in an Bprau tn bas establish a link between Marinus van der Lubbe, tool “~~ of the Nazis, who has admitted his © part in the fire, and two of the Come | munist defendants, Ernst Torgler and ~ Blagoi Popoff. Earlier in the session, as reported yesterday, Karwahne had testified to seeing Torgler and van der Lubbe to- gether in the Reichstag building an the day of the fire. He was unable to describe van der Lubbe’s clothing, and it was brought out that he had seen van der Lubbe, without coat and shirt, soon after he had been arrested at the scene of the fire. Contradicts Own Testimony. Van der Lubbe, confronted with Karwahne, laughed and declared he had never seen him, Judge Buenger was forced to inter- vene and mention that all previous testimony showed that van der Lubbe was not in the Reichstag building on the afternoon before the fire. A Reichstag employee, Annelise Baumgart, swore that at the time Karwahne said he saw van der Lubbe with Torgler, Theodor Neubauer, a Communist deputy had been there. Neubauer, who was brought to the court from a concentration camb, was shown to have some resemblance. to van der Lubbe. Alfons Sack, Torgler’s attorney, pointed out that while Karwahne had said earlier at this hearing that Torg- ler had been seen accommanied by» criminal-looking type, he had ‘said nothing of the kind at the first polite examination. Karwahne denied having sald any- thing about a “criminal type” until the stenographic record of his testi. mony was read, when he was" to admit he had said it. i Torgler Exposes Witness As Provocateur. Torgler took the stand asid>ex- posed Karwahne’s history as s pro- yocateur in the Communist Party un- til he was expelled in 1925. He de- clared that Karwahne had taken part in an attack on Communist head- quarters in Hanover and given in- formation about the Communist Party to reactionary papers. ‘The court and prosecution strove to save Karwahne from exposure by declaring that the matter was in- admissible, since it referred to eVents in the distant past, buf Sack de- clared that the court had admitted evidence regarding the insurrection in Bulgaria in 1923, The court took a recess to discuss the question, then ruled that Torgler could ask Karwahne about these facts. Karwahne virtually admitted Torgler’s charges by refusing to an- swer whether they were true or not, George Dimitroff, Bulgarian Com- « munist defendant, asked Karwahne if it was not true that the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national had expelled the whole Katz group to which he belonged because of its anarchist machinations, ~-Kar- wahne ‘declared that the group had withdrawn from the Comintera, which is a lie, Dimitroff was forbid- den to ask him any further questions, Second Witness Contradicts Self Kurt Frey, the other Nazi deputy, said that he accompanied Karwahne on the tour of the Reichstag when they saw Torgler. He said he did not recognize the first person they saw with Torgler, but that the sec- ond was Popoff. At this preliminary examination, however, he said the exact opposite— that he recognized Van der Lubbe, but not Popoff. He said Popoff wore a hat. , Asked if he wore spectacles, he said’ no. Cuban Struggles Approaching New High Levels nearly 100 per cent effective, and the worker parents supported it com- pletely. The Cuban “Soviets” We have noticed in one of the | items in the Daily Worker an ex- | planation. of the “Soviets” in Cuba as forms of revolutionary strike com- mittees, While it is true that what existed here was not a real form of Soviets, it was more than revolution- ary strike committees. For example, the “Soviet of Mabey” seized the municipal administration, distributed land among the peasants, and armed the workers. In other places where these committees were not even called Soviets, they also placed special taxes on the rich, seized the local papers, organized de- tachmente for special revolutionary defense, ete. All these measures, however, are taken in the course of the fight for immediate demands, and not with the view of permanently seizing power. This is where these committees lost their character of Soviets, since these are either organs of struggle for Power, or organs of power. Communist Party Influence Grows All indications point to the fact that in the next round of nation- wide struggle which is rapidly ap- proaching, such shall be the aim of these committees. ~ It can be said that the Communist si Kidlen Meagan re reget ae Cuba today which controls large con- centrated masses of workers, Pie sants and city poor. Of the other groups, the Directorio Estudiantil has little support, the ABC radical has no deep roots, the ABO has some sympathy but no organization among the masses. The army remains the mainstay of the government, and Popoff, however, always wears spec= taeles. The only time he did not wear them was when Frey confronted him after Popoff’s arrest. ‘The scene Frey said he saw was reconstructed at the spot where he said it occurred. The time of day and the light was the same, and jt was clear to every one that a man with a hat over his eyes could not. be identified in the way Frey said. The court adjourned until Friday. Writers, Artists. to Welcome Barbusse NEW YORK.—Delegations from all the groups of revolutionary Writers and artists in New York and the vicinity will be present to pay honor this Sunday evening at bg Fines Hall to Henri Barbusse, famous novelist and fighter Bei imperialist war, who will lecture on ‘War and Literature, ~~ ‘The mass meeting {s being held under the auspices of the John: Reed Ciub and of Clarte, French workers’ club. All workers and intellectuals are invited. Other speakers at the meeting, which will be ii the nature of a symposium, will include Corliss Lamont, formerly osophy at Columbia. Michael Gold, Daily Worker ist, and Joseph Freeman, editor of {, the New Masses. a * The meeting will be one of: the last at which Barbusse will speak before he leaves f@r France, where he will continue the anti-war work he interrupted for a brief period to carry on the same. struggle uby helping to make the American Anti= War Congress the tremendous sues cess it was. The mass meeting will begin at 8:30 sharp at Irving Plaza, 18th st, and Irving Place. ’ be upon its being won over depends the future development of the revolution- ary movement in Cuba, at least in part, Has your unit, club, union, LW. Branch, your organization held = collection for the Daily Worker? Help save our “Daily.” Se