The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1933, Page 10

Ray TA. “Amesien's Onby Working Claes Baily FOUNDED inh Oo, tee, B hed Ms teen Ne ton ee Telephone: Abgonquin 4-V905, Cable Address “Patwork,” New Yost, #. * Washington : Room 94, National Pree: Buitéing idth and & Waters D.C. Subscription Rates: pt Manhattan and Brong year 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 78 conte Beons, and Cemade: 1. year, e800. 3 mouths, e00. 18 cents; monthly By Mail: biaiced 6 months, Py Manhattan, & months, 7% conte. By Carrier: Weekly, “OOTOBER 28, 1983 SATU RDAY, Vote Communist! HE threat of more wage cute for city civil service em- 4 ployees is looming again. ‘That is not surprising. t, which every capitalist newspaper has deliberately suppressed, that the present Uniermeye a greem actually guarantees that the next capitalist mayor of the city—no matter who it is—will have to raise the subway fare, slash wages, | © and cut retief payments even more than the Tammany hack, O’Brien, has done Robert Min e Cc ndidate for Mayor, -) who has, day in and day out, shouted that the whole c upt machinery of each and every n, to LaGuardia, to the provisions of the with the Wall Street usion and petty personal backbiting y campaign has descended is only a ed that in ali the circus now developing in the New York City clection campaign, the real issues vital to the welfare of the workers, have been very neatly burics. While McKee calls La Guardia a liar, and LaGuardia feteliates—both with equal justice—the fundamental of bread, rent the jobless, lower taxes, relief for ® have been completely lost sight of. Tt is not an a nt that is happening. It is the dominating purpose of the election to get a loyal Servant of the Wall Street banks into the mayor's chair —to the workers it realty matters very little which one is finally chosen—and then the capitalist city govern ment can go ahead with its program of putting over more taxes, increasing the subway , cutting wages of tiyil service employees—all to protect the Wall St. bank loans. Robert Minor, the Communist candidate, is only one who has consistently, day in and day out, fought to bring into the light of day the tie-up of the city Of Wall Street | Minor has asked the question: Why should the workers and their families starve, when the Wail Street banks are choking with hundreds of. millions Of dollars in their vaults? Why must the City pay Over $100,000,000 to the bankers every year, while the telief to the jobless, starving workers is crt to the bone? Minor, the Communist candidate, is the only one “Ao has shown that O’Brien, La Guardia, and McKee, every one, has direct ties with the Morgan-Rockefeller- Wall Street crowd that will destroy the five-cent. fare after the election ~ What about relief? La Guardia has promised his banking supporters that not one cent more will go to relief payments. McKee has not even bothered to open his mouth on the subject at all. He has confined Himself t6 making promises to end BOSS: rule~pro- mises so ridiculous and so funny in the light of- the Obyious fact that he is the cheapest kind of office boy for the Tammany Boss Flynn, that even the cap- italist press is ashamed to print them too often. Only Robert Minor, of all the candidates, has definitely declared that the present Untermeyer tax agreement will inevitably be repudiated by the workers. He is the only one who has declared that. the huge plunder that Wall Street banks get out of the City must be stopped at once. Feed the starving jobless by levying heavy on. the rich— is what Minor has proposed! Make the bankers pay for the suffering of the work- ets. Let them pay the rent of the workers. Let them the taxes Provide for unemployment insurance for all unem- ployed workers! ~The rotten stock structure of the subway companies milst be torn to lec cept fare, Mir STo vote fo means to vote against the Un- | termeyer robbery taxes, to safeguard the five-cent farce from the Wall Street bankers, to increase relief pay- ments, to end the Tammany police brutality against strikers on the picket lines. A yoie for Robert Minor is a vote for the interests of ‘the working cless! Vote Communist! A Bank’s Ambassador it comes to Cuba, the real capitol of the United ' States is situated at 18 Pine Street, in the Wall eet financial section, New York. Before Sumner les sailed for Cuba to act as Roosevelt's Am- for Yankee imperialism, he called at. that Ss for instructions at the Chase National Bank. Mbassador would think of representing American ts in Cuba without first ascertaining the wishes Chief plunderers of Cuba. ‘will probably never know the numiber or eon- of the hurried and hectic conferences held by Welles with the Chase Bank officials in Havana the last bloody gasps of the Machado regime. probably never learn how closely Welles, fol ces in order to guarantee the five- leres. er regime in replacing Machado by Cespedes, recipient of Chase National Bank graft; nor hi Bank-Welles secret relations with the Grau San Martin government. ners . we do know from the Senate testimoriy—teati- ly reeking of an orgy of graft, bribery, corrup- urder for the profit of the Rockefeller-con- Chase National Bank—that Mr. Welles before for his counter-revolutionary and impe- om role in Cuba, stopped at the Chase | the government with the Morgan-Rockefeller banks | DAILY WORKFR, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1933 gestion” “that our Havana Chase National Bank office would be very happy to be of any assistance possible to him. We do know the Rockefeller bank was bribing Ma- chado, Cespedes, and held the financial control of the | Machado regime in the palm of its hand. This Ambassador, who went to Cuba through the | portals of the Roekefeller bank, the bank that filled ita coffers with gold at the expense of wholesale mur- der of Cuban workers and peasants, at the expense of mass starvation of the Cuban people, is today Roose- velt’s representative in Cuba. No wonder the Senate seeks to bury in secrecy and silence the most flagrant and lurid of the Chase Na- tional Bank depredations in Cuba for “fear of riots in Cuba.” But the facts whi be made known to the Cuban masses, é Anti-Imperiatist League of the United ‘States, who for years has been fighting against Yankee im- perialist domination in Cuba, exposing’ precisely such deeds as are now proved by the documents taken from the files of the Chase National Bank, is sending de- legation to Cuba. This delegation will demonstrate ite solidarity. with the revolutionary masses of Cuba, struggting for Nber- ation from Yankee imperialism. One member of the delegation, a member of ths National Students League, has already left for Cuba. The rest of the delegagon will sail from New York on Thursday, November 9. Organized by the Anti-Imperialist. League, this del- egation, representing the trade unions, the youth, pro- fessional workers, and the Anti-Imperialiet League, will tour the island bearing greetings of solidarity to the masses of Cube. It will report those facta which the Roosevelt. government is trying te suppress on the raps and robbery of Cuba by the Wall Street bankers. Upon its return the delegation will give first hand accounts of the Cuban revolutionary struggles. All workers’ organisations should participate in the activities of the delegation. All organizations should immediately- adopt formal greetings, to be personally delivered to the Cuben masses by the delegation. Every worker and every organization should. set behind the petition addressed to President Roosevelt, demanding the withdrawal of warships from .Cuba, evacuation of ths Guantanamo naval base, and annul- ment of the Platt Amendment. A Red Sunday, November 5-6, has. been set aside for the specific purpose of securing several hundred thousand signatures to this petition in New York. Raise funds and forward them immediately to the Anti-Imperialist. League to make the delegation pos- | sible. There shall be large mobilizations for the mass farewell meetings to the delegates, to be held in Brooklyn and New York on November 8, on the eve of their departure. | Now, more than ever, the Cuben rfasees require your support in. their fight against Wall Street; SE Another Marked Card S frre bakit CAMPS”—this is the latest marked card | to be turned up in Roosevelt’s “New Deal.” } According to Harry Lb. Hopkins, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator, the “homeless unemployed” — “anyone who hasn’t lived in one state for a year’—are to be herded into such camps. Yes, literally herded! ‘The unemployed are not to be hired to work in these camps as boys were “hired” last year to enter Roosevelt’s reforestration camps. No offices are to be | npened to receive applications from workers desiring such “jobs.” A more selective method will be used. | Workers will be sent to these “transient camps,” Hop- king admitted, by the “railroads; police and sheriffs.” In other words, any militant worker, any worker who fights against the miserable starvation conditions | now haunting the more than fifteen million unem- | ployed, may find himself classified as “homeless.” He may find himself in the custody of a policeman, a sheriff or a railroad: merece and on. his way to a “transient camp.” ‘Once thete he must work. ‘He will receive no com- pensation above what the Administrator terms s | “minimum care” standard, or in simple language, starvation rations. Forced labor camps, yes! But these are more than forced labor camps. They are prison camps! They can be cotnpared only-to the vicious turpentine camps of the South, to the murderous concentration camps of Nazi Germany, to the cruel-prison colonies of Fascist Italy. They are a further step by the Roosevelt regime toward Fascism in its desperate effort to get out of the crisis at the workers’ expense. * Py ITH cynical contempt, Roosevelt already laid the basis for sucha step. in his radio speech last Sunday. He-spoke of “several million” unemployed “who worked occasionally, when: they. felt; like jt, and-others who preferred not-to work at all.” With this vile statement he showed not only a heartless disregard for the en- forced suffering ofthe jobless workers, but a vicious desire to arotise those swith jobs against. the unem- ployed, as “people too: lazy to work,” as hoboes, or as tramps. Now he proposes to turn’ the unemployed ¢ oyer to the tender mercies of the “railroads, police.and. sher- iffs,” and of his brutal prison camp kéepers. ‘In this way Roosevelt hopes to reduce the cost to the capital- ists of caring for the unemployed, and dispose easily of those who resist the carrying through ‘of his hunger Program. ‘ And he hopes. to win popular ‘support’ for these detestable plans by turning His propagarida machine loose. on the job of picturing the unemployed’ “as “criminal” elements, or at best “worthless vagrants.” * so-called, “Transient camps” should be tought relentlessly. by every worker, sapere as well as unemployed: Every workers’ chase yi iad ly adopt resolutions of protest against these camps, send- ing tn such resolutions. for publication in the workers’ Protest demonstrations should be organized in every city against prison camps, against forced labor, for adequate relief, and for unemployment insurance! ‘The Unemployed Councils should be built into power- ful, mass fighting bodies in the course of the struggle for these demands. ' The ranks of the workers should be united—em- ployed and unemployed, A. F, of L. memibers, Commu- nists, Socialists and non-Party workers—in the fight against forced labor and for jobless insurance. Now, comrades, is the time to act. Build and strengthen the unemployed movement. Close your ranks. Refuse to go further in a game where the cards are stacked against you. . Disrupter Expelled from Jobless Council | mae: | of Silk Strikers NEW KENSINGTON, Plan Huge Protest Meet Against Arrest Pa.—-As @ re- YOU CAN’T FATTEN THE BIRD ON RED HERRING! —By Burck Million More Republic. slogan, “A million’ hew soldiers for the Chinese Red Army,” the Chinese Soviet districts are-carrying out a recruiting drive to-sinash the sixth anti-Communist campaign, and to win new territory for the Soviets. Already in this city.alone, four new | divisions, of 10,000 each, have been recruited. The Red ‘Trade Unions Jaffa Police Kill 10 When Arabs Protest Zionist - Oppression JERUSALEM, Oct, 27.-Ten Arabs and one policeman killed, and many injured, as police attemp*sd to break up a demonstration ©: Arabs in Jaffa, in protest against the Zion- ist campaign to drive the Arab farm- ers from the land, Supported by the British imperial- ists, the Zionists are buying up land and driving away the Arabs. Steel-helmeted policemen opened fire as the Arabs attempted to march through the streets of Jaffa in pro- test against the imperialist-Zionist attacks on them as a national mi- nority. Red Volunteers Flock 1 to Chinese Red Army | | | | | Quotas Over-Fulfilled in Campaign to Enlist). Red Fighters SUI KIN, Central a tneae. Bovis Soviet, have raised two divisions of workers. (By Mail}-— Under the} Another division is composed = agricultural workers, and the fourth | of apprentices and artisans. | For the first time in Chinese his-| tory, the wives and mothers of work- | ers and farmers are urging their) men-folk to enter the Red Army. The | job of a’ soldier has been tradition- | ally regarded as the lowest occupa- tion which a Chinese could take. But | the fight of the emancipated masses | of the Chinese Soviet districts against the armies of the Nanking butchers | has. completely changed all that. In| the Red districts today to join the! Red Army is recognized as a high ‘honor. In the Soviet districts of Kiangsi) Province, the Young Communis League has organized a division, to be called the International Division of Young Communisis. At a single mass meeting in Pao Hsien, a small city, 700 joined the Red Army. Within two days, 1,560 more volunteered in this town. In the town of Ka Hsien, the quota of | volunteers was doubled in the first month, Practices abandoned since the! feudal days before the 1911 revolu- tion have been revived by the Kuo-} mintang government in an effort to Have You a Burck |, In Your Home? NEW YORK,—Jacob Burck, our staff cartoonist, threw his crayon |into the ring yesterday by taking | up the challenge of Michael Gold, Dr, Luttinger, Edward Newhouse }and Helen Luke to be the first to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive. When reminded of the two-and- half week advantage which ‘Spihach” and “Literature” have j over him, Burck expressed full | confidence that he would be able |to overcome the handicap. His |technique in accomplishing this | will be to sell the original draw- |ings of his ¢artoons appearing jeach day to the highest bidder. | The one who sends in the larg- jest contribution to Burck’s credit ;on any one day WILL RECEIVE THE ORIGINAL DRAWING OF |THE CARTOON APPEARING | THAT DAY. | Do we hear any bids? | | | | smash the power of the Red forces. It is sending criminals from the prisons to colonize any district which is won back from the Reds, and the infamous Pati-Tsia system of rettibue tion hes’ Been revived; on the «advice of the foreign advisers. s is the system of organizing families into groups of ten, called Pau, and Paus into aggregates of five, called Tsia. If any member of any of these families is accused of revo- lutionary activity, ‘the whole Pau- Tsia, which may consist of 200 to 500 persons, is punished. DEFENSE Buigarian Communist defendant in t witness into e’ ae building, Berlin. Italian Anti-Faseis | Savage Sentences Strike, Win Pay Increase ROME (By Mail) — —The strength of anti-Fascist activity in Italy is t | tified to by the severity of. senten | passed on discovered anti-Fascists in recent weeks. Twelve years-in prison was im- posed on Gaetana Chiarini by a spe- cial tribunal on Sept, 23, for organ- izing a Young Workers’ Center in Verona.- Twelve years wes also the sentence of Natale Colarich, who with four others was charged with organizing anti-Fascist groups in Gorizia, Pola, and Trieste. The others, Clemente Purger, Martino Montagne and two others, received sentences ranging from six to eight years. Eraldo Venezia and Saverio Mosca, charged with “being members of 2 subversive organization,” were each sentenced to five years on Sept. 22. Two thousands women workers of a shoe factory in‘San Agostino, near Niguarda, who had been receiving 4 to 7 lire a day (about 60c to $1) struck against a proposed wage cu’ The cut was withdrawn the same day. They then demanded an increase in wages, which they won within an- other half day, In Niguarda the owners of a machine works, having decided on a wage .cut, did not dare impose it. Instead they closed down the works, and later rehired the workers one by one in lower categories, at corre- spondingly lower wages. \Strikes Face French Premiers’ Wage Slash! Plan to Pay for War PARIS, Oct. 27. — Widespread strikes of civil servants, teachers, and other ‘government employees are ex- pected as Premier Albert Sarraut is preparing to call for sharp slashes in the pay of government workers to make up a $333,000,000 deficit in the budget. He also announced that he would carry out his predecessors’ policy with respect to debts to America, and would also refuse to enter into any Separate discussions with Germany on the question of disarmament. N THE second anniversary of the robber war of Japanese imperial- ism against the Chinese people, any. account of its events cannot but re- veal their exact dove-tailing with the “Tanaka Memorandum” of 1927. This was a document never supposed to have been made public. Indeed, Jap- anese government officials deny that such a document ‘ever’ existed, that it is; as published by_the revolution- ary press, “a forgery.” If so, the Mikado’s generals have: been letter- perfect in carrying out this “forgery” in every detail. The invasion of Manchuria - was, when begun two years ago, excused as due to an “attack by Chinese” who “happened” to become suddenly hos- tile. When Japanese troops advanced northward beyond the Chinese Fast- ern Railway, their officers “explained” that it was “just to repair a bridge over the Nonni River.” When they swarmed Southward across the Great Wall and into Jehol, Tokio accounted for this by saying that. the Chinese had “provoked” the sensitive generals commanding the invaders. All ape peared to be “unforeseen accidente Events Follow Tanaka Plan. But astoundingly enough, each and every movement, tine seizure of rail- ways, the building of new ones be- tween certain cities. the establish- ment of the fake “independent” gov- ernment of Manchukuo, even. the tactics and the hypocritic excuses given, were, one and all, laid down in this supposed “forged” document, written years before! In the face’ of these cold facts, éan Japanese imperialism still deny>that, in 1927, Baron Tanaka, thet *Premier, out- lined, in a secret Memorandum ad- dressed to the Mikado, a diaboligcal plan for bloody ‘military conquest, first of the Far East and later.of |, the whole world? Will any apologist come forward now, to claim that all Japanese military actions in Asia since September 18, 1931, occurred. by “mere chance” and were not well- prepared long before? What is important, is not limited by how far the program of Baron Tanaka has been put into effect, but how much of it remains as the present plan of action of Japanese imperial- ism, and—what the working class can do to stop it. Next Step—Against U.S.S.R. Therefore, Jet us examine the next Tstep by Fulfilled, While Workers, Peasants Bleed, Sweat, Starve eased prices and for the “Unemployment — Insurance be held Novy. 2, Thursday at in Reyburn Plaza. The ion is being called by the pyed Councils of Philadelphia object. of voicing protest be mass misery and under- of children, and to or- determined struggle for sult of his disruptive activity in the Unemployed Council, Joe Condek was expelled from the organization at a mass meeting of 200 members of the organization. Recently Condek began to associate himself with disruptive bands in the city, and worked against the inter- ests of the unemployed, and acted as a stool-pigeon for the bosses. 1m masses will be scored EASTON, Pa.—Preparations for a huge protest meeting against the ar- rest of the heroic silk strikers are being made in Phillipsburg, N. J. The meeting will be held at Cedar Audi- torium by the strikers fogether with the International Labor Defense. Two days ago, John Modney, a silk striker, was arrested by the State Police at Bath, Pa., because he ap- peared on a picket line, Bob Roberts, ination against Negroes and foreign- jone of the picket captains, was ar- Insurance. Discrim-' bo: rested by the Easton police. step of the Tanaka Memorandum’s plan, which concerns an attack of the Soviet Union and further expansion into Mongolia and China. As regards the Soviet Union, the document, after asserting that, to carry out the seizure of more territory, Japan must “in- evitably” attack the’ U. S. S. R., speaks of “crossing swords with Rus- sia on the fields of Mongolia, in or- der to gain control of the wealth of North Manchuria, 9§ part of our pro- gram of national development.” The Soviet Union with its slozan Step Infamous Japan Carrying Out Tanaka Plan in Every Detail “Anti-Soviet Scheme Is! Fee Sen pratt wee ee of “We want not one foot of foreign | soil, but will fight for every inch of our own!” has no imperialist aims. But Japanese imperialism and _ its puppet “Manchukuo,” continually tries | to represent the Soviet Union, as a “menace,” and utters hysterical cries of alarm; all to cover up Japanese preparations to attack. So far, the firm peace policy of the Soviet Union, and the vigilance ‘of the world proletariat, have defeated the provocative plans of Japanese, as well as other imperialists. But Japanese imperialism persists in pro- vocations. Every means, fair and foul, are used to draw the Soviet Union into “crossing swords” with Japan—or Manchukuo, which is the same thing. We must therefore, sound the alarm to all workers, and call for protest and resistance against the impending attack on the Soviet Union. Plans Against Chinese Masses. Concerning China, the Tanaka Memorandum said, in part: “We must pursue our own military ends . . . in order to destroy the military, po- litical and economic development of China.” At present, with the com- plete surrender of the Kuomintang to international imperialism, it is ob- yious that future attacks of Japan against the sole unifying center of the national liberation struggles of the Chinese people—the Provisional Soviet Government of China. The toiling masses must look, not fonly. back upon what Japanese im- perialists have done, but also for- ward to what they intend and plan to do, as set forth in the Tanaka Memorandum. And on this basis or-. ganize and act to prevent further enslavement of the Chimese people, and stop the planned attack on the Soviet Union! . Japanese Workers and War Two years of experience have! shown the Japanese workers the} falsity of the bourgeois promise that “war will bring prosperity.” The rob- ber war against China has brought prosperity only to the banking barons and war profiteers. To the wage workers it brought the following: Increased unemployment: Even ac- cording to government figures, which are doctored to conceal the truth, the percentage of “officially registered” unemployed, to the total number of workers, rose from 5.2 per cent in 1930 to 7 per cent in October, 1932, |or from 368,368 to 503,958. By nu- merous tricks, this government figure conceals the fact that at least 3,000,- will be directed mere. than before 000 workers, ‘or 40 per cent of all workers, are’ unemployed today in Japan. Further, there is no unem- Ployment or other social insurance, and though the government is to spend 1,300,000,000 yen ($1 at current rate equals 3.84 yen) for this year, it appropriates only 7,000,000 yen “to aid the unemployed!” Wage Cut Lower Wages: Government sta- tistics admit that since the war be- gan, the actual wages paid in money have been reduced 12 per cent. But this is only a part of the wage re- duction suffered. There was an ad- ditional indirect wage cut against all workers, by inflation, of 11 per. cent in only the first year of war; through higher ‘prices. Figures are lacking for the second year of war, but prices of food and clothing have tremendously increased. In one month alone, Jan- uary 1933, food prices rose 8 per cent! Women’ workers, of whom there are Proportionately many, were cut in Wages ‘more than the men. More, women labor in Japan is actually en- slaved, kept in barracks under con- tract with parents. And the highest wage for women in textile mills in January 1933, was a miserable 77 sen nts U. S.). The’ highest {Ned shipbuilders) of only 66 cents, U. S. “all Conditions Worse No reduction in hours: The usual work-day \i#. 10 to 11 hours, often ertime is not pair for in many “War Ras’ not’ shortened the Speed-up:. War has. intensified speed-up gs a killing pace, especially in war supply plants, marine trfns- port, ete, |) No. rest days: The vast majority of workers work every day. There are no “days of rest” in Japan for workers. No “Sundays,” no five-day week, War has brought. no change— no rest day the year round! Forced coilections: Besides “fines” frequently taken from workers wages, the bosses and reformists have used the war to compel workers to con- tribute from their miserable wages “for national defense.” Much of such funds went into grafters’ pock- ets who did the collecting. No collective .agreements: Even where there ‘are reformist unions (only 8 per cent of the workers are organized), the bosses deal with work- ers “Individually,” The war has-not ! changed this, are treated as “police questions.” Since war began, at any hint of dis- content in munition plants, police with machine guns are posted within the factories to watch every move- ment. In short: The robber war has brought more hunger, worse slavery! Two years of war have added a hellish burden to the always miser- able existence of the toiling peasants of Japan. The feudal landlords, al- lied with the financial oligarchy, with their underlings of usurers, kule’’s and speculators, after unloading the burden ‘of crisis on to the peasant toilers, added the. unbearable burden of - war—the . sacrifice of blood and ever mounting taxation. Hundreds of thousands. actually starve. Famine conditions, with whole families living on grass and leaves, widely prevail. Landlords have raised rents 15 per cent each year. And thought food is higher in the cities, the prices paid the peasant grower are less than ever, when the tax-gatherer leaves any- thing to sell. Rent, for which land- lords are refusing ‘to take produce and demand cash, takes 25 per cent of the peasant’s crop. $ia Year to Live Taxes—and since everything is taxed, the government even making the peasants pay special taxes to pay the police for terrorizing them--the existing taxes are constantly in- creased. Taxes of al kinds, includ- ing support of the robber war, take 50 per cent of the toiling peasants’ crop.- The average toiling tenant peasants therefore has only 25 per cent of his crop, approximately 25 yen in value (about $7 in U. S. money at current rates), to live on, per fam- ily per year. If he borrows money, he cannot repay, with interest at around 12 per cent and even multiplied by usu- rers’ tricks—and whatever he owns is seized. Debts of the yeoman-ten- ants are three times that of the kulak per “tan,” and the total peas- and debt is now estimatedat 5,500,000,- 000 yen. The grown son is carried off to war, to “save the empire;” he young daugher, a mere school girl, sold (quite legally!) ‘into slavery at a factory or prostitution in the “yoshiwara,” by contract. .The small owner holds to his land to the last, but when he sells it, pressed as he is, he gets much less than its value. Bent and worn‘ with unending and unpaid toil, starved and terrorized, the war is the last straw. No won- der that we read the following sig- nificant line written by a peasant of the Tokio prefecture: “Every day the police arrest hunger rioters in }our village.. But every day, too, some Policeman disappears.” Organizers Receive |Women Shoe Workers) DIMITROFF MAKES NAZI WITNESS’ EVIDENCE A FOR HIMSELF | Smashes Force of Evidence About His port When Nazi From Austria Is Put On Stand te AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, Oct. 2 27 (Via Zurich). —George Dimitrodf, Pass- a he Reichstag fire trial, brought Judge Buenger to his feet, roaring with rage, as he turned the evidence of a Nasi nee in his own defense at toda, The witness was Stefan Kreyer, Nazi leader of session of the trial in the y Austria. Earlier in.-the trial, jan attempt had been made. to ime | peacin Dimitroff by showing that the passport which he used in Germany a forged one. When Dimitroff asked Kroyer if he Ss awere that Nazis in Austria work rry false passports, and ered with the police, no reply but the roated q What has this got to do with the Reichstag fire?” The pre- siding judge was forced to call | Kroyer to order. Eyeing the Nazi contemptuously, Dimitroff continued that He had nd intention whatever of comparing ; Nazis with Communists. They were jat opposite poles. He had only wanted to show that working ille- gally and having false passports was no specialty of Communists. (Note: in European countries every, person must have a passport and be regis= tered with the police), The judge losing his head, roared at Dimitroff, in an_ indes for this man all the hypocr Nazi court and government. Kroyer was the companion of Ber= thold Karwahne and Kurt Frey, Nezi witn: who Wednesday tangled themselyes in contradictions attempi- ing to prove they saw Torgler with van der Lubbe on the afternoon of the fire. yer’s testimony differed in many from that of both the others, who had already contradicted themse and each other. Austria Bans F.S.U. for Exposure of: Anti-Soviet Lies Appeal Made to Send Protest Telegrams - to Embassy... © NEW YORK.—The Friends of the | Soviet Union received yesterday a report from their International Bur- eau in Amsterdam that the Austrian section of the F.8.U. has been. out- lawed by the Dolfuss government, This is one more indication of the growing strength of fascism in Aus- ia, Vienna was the source of the most recent world-wide campaign of slan- der about “starvation, infanticide and cannibalism” in the Sovfet Union. Cardinal Innitzer of the Catholic Church there was the “discoverer” of this sad state of affairs in the work- ers’ land, where they have .just har- vested the biggest crop in=their his- tory, where there is work for every- one and where no one goes hungry. Th fascists combined with the Chris- tian Socialist Party in Austria to demand the suppression of the Friends of the Soviet Union there, who exposed Innitzer’s lies.and ral- lied the masses of Austrian” workers to the defense of the Soviet Union. The American Friends of the So- viet Union have called upon all their branches, and other organizations, to send telegrams and resolutions of pro- test to the Austrian Embassy in Washington, and to local consulates, demanding that the right of the F.S.U. in Austria to work legally be restored and that no_ suppressive measures be used against, it. The international secretary of the F.S.U., Walter Stoecker, is still in jail in Germany, and the F.S.U. in that country has been outlawed, de- spite which it still manages to carry on, under great handicaps, the work of spreading the truth about the So- viet Union, thus counteracting 2A some measure the vile. slandérs against the U.S.S.R. by Hitler and his murderous Nazi gangs, Call Chicago Youth Conference to Plan Anti-War r Congress CHICAGO.—In pre preparation for a broad youth anti-war congress in Chicago, a conference of rapresenta- tives of all youth organizations, fe- gardless of their religious or. political beliefs, has been called for Wednes- day evening, Nov, 1, by the Chicago La cian Youth Committee Against ar At this conference, which. has been endorsed by Henri Barbusse, chaire man of the International Committee Against War, delegates from the World Youth Congress Against War and Fascism, held in Paris in Sep- tember, will report, as will-delegates from the recent United States Oon- gress Against War. This conference will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, at ¥.M.C.A. Central College, 19 South LaSalle St. The headquarters of the SA Committee are 208 N. Wel a 310, telephone Dearborn 9533. youth orgenizations are urged to send delegates to the conference. pee erat Manifesto Adovted in Springfield SPRINGFIELD. Mass.—The rank and file membership of the Socialist led Unemployed League forced adop- tion of the manifesto of the United States Congress Aga'nst War, despite the opposition of Raymond . Dow, pees of the League, at a. meeting iy ‘and other leaders objected. to the pavagravh calling for demonstra- tions, nicketing aud strikes as weapons against war, Despite the adoption of hg beta hy a large Hie e “Springfeld Union” reported th following day that Hie ae wed been tabled, oe