The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1933, Page 6

Page Six Dail Dety BEA “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Published daily, except Sunday, by the Comprodaily Publishing 50 East 13th Street, New York, Nv Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7955 “Datwork,” New York, ¥. ¥ Washington Bureau: Room 954, National Press Building, 1th and G. St., Washington, D.C. Subscription Rates: By, Mail: _(exce] tan and Bronx), 1 yeer, 96.00 6 months, $3.50 5, $2.00; 1 month, 75 cents. Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00 6 months, $5.00; 3 months $3.00. By Cartier: Weekly, 18 cents; mgnthly, 75 cents MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1933 What About It, Mr. Dickstein HE exposures of Nazi activity in the Yr fir nade public by the DAILY new notorious secret Nazi letter, begir are finally to force the United States gov- and it list press to sit up and take Publi tt House Committee on Immigration on the subject of Nazi plotting in this country will begin on November 14, it was announced today b; uel ein, Chairman of the Com- mittec The Commi will no doubt expose what the ly Worker has fully exposed already. It will un- able to prove what the Daily Worker proved with the publication of the secret Congressional Committee must do more than th The stage of merely exposing Nazi activi- ties is now passed. The Da Worker has already Iaid all the facts before the American working class. Something more must be done. The intimate financial links between Hitler and the leading capi- talist financial money masters of Wall Street must new be exposed! Worker has already given the lead in this as it gave the lead in the revelation of the HE Dail matt Nazi plots. The Daily Worker has shown that Albert H. Wig- gin, former head of the Rockefeller Chase National Bank, has secret conferences with the German fascists, and that in a secret meeting here in Wall Street, he urged American financial support to the Hitler regime! Grover Whalen—The Daily Worker proves that this high official of the Roosvelt NRA has fingers in plans to ¢ Nazis in this country. Ralph Easley—The Dai Worker proves that this teh “red-baiter,” high up in the circles of the capi- employers, is actively assisting the German in their plots in this country. ng officials of the A. F. of L., Matthew Woll, and Ellis Searles—associated with Easley on the Na- tional Civic Federation, professional red baiters—what ut them and their connections with Nazi propa- ganda in the United States? Hamilton Fish—Member of the House of Repre- sentatives, also associated with Easley on the National st the Civic Federation, and a notorious “red-baiter’—what about his silence on Easley’s Nazi connections? What ab all this, Mr. Dickstein? e workers of the United States want to know al connection of these native capitalist exploiters with their fascist colleagues of Germany. The workers want to know all about the direct tie-up of ti tionary Wall Street rulers of America with cher fascist Hitler in Germany. the The nt to bring to light the obvious class unity between the hated fascist murderers of Hitler, murderous exploiters cf Wall support them! DAILY WORKER..NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1933 school child and to employ all New York teachers, unemployed or unappointed. All vacant apartment houses to be thrown open to the unemployed without charge. Universal free and adequate medical and dental service to all school children and to the families of unemployed and low paid workers. The abolition of all fees and charges to unemployed and their families in all hospitals, clinics, etc. The city government to assume obligation for all medical charges of private physicians in the homes of unemployed and low paid workers. Free hot nourishing lunches; shoes, books and school supplies to'all children of unemployed and low paid workers. No tuition fees for workers in institutions of higher learning. Full support of the demands of the war veterans for the full and immediate payment of the ‘bonus by the Federal government. No discrimination against Negro veterans. crimination against unmarried veterans. Immediate moratorium on payments of mortgages by poor and unemployed home owners;*the absolute | stopping of all sales or seizures of homes or fore- No dis- closures; for a moratorium on taxes on the homes of unemployed workers. ‘HE Communist Party undertakes to mobilize the workers on a national scale for a system of unem~ ployment and social insurance by the United States gov- ernment, guaranteeing insurance. to- the amount: of average wages of all unemployed workers; insurance against old age and disability, the entire cost to be borne by the government. and the employers. In the absence of the system of social insurance by the Fed- eral government, we propose that the city government of New York should endorse the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. The Arab Upsurge | Arab masses of Palestine, groaning under British | imperialist oppression, have once again taken the | revolutionary path of sharp open struggle against their British oppressors and their capitalist-landlord Zionist agents. Particularly at this period, when Fascism in other countries has taken a violently anti-Semitic character, | it is important to make clear the revolutionary sig- nificance of the Arah upsurge in Palestine, which al- ready has its repercussions as far east as Bagdad, and the relation of the Jewish masses to these events. Around Baufour’s swindling slogan of “Palestine, the national home of the Jewish race,” the British im- perialists have with macchiavellian cunning employed the national feeling of Jews in all lands to consolidate British power in Palestine, and to make it a British colony and a strategic. base against the Soviet Union. The capitalist Zionists are the willing tools of the British imperialists for the oppression not only of the Arab masses, but equally of the masses of Jewish work- ers and peasants in Palestine. | The struggle of the Arab masses is in every sense a revolutionary struggle against British imperialism, and against their own native Arab exploiters themselves serving the interests of British imperialism. It is of the greatest revolutionary significance, as the fore- runner of the coming revolution of the masses of India, Egypt, and the other colonies and semi-colonies of the British empire. Even the dispatches in the capitalist press make this clear, when they report that the leaders of the Arab upsurge declare themselves to be: struggling not against the Jewish people, but against British imperialism and its agents, who use the Jewish immigration as a wedge of imperialist oppression. we have the British instantly mobilized their armed forces, and especially their air forces, and armed and deputized the British residents of Palestine to resist the Arab demonstrators? It ig of course to protect their exploitation of the rich resources of Palestine. But it is also for a much * The British know well the profound influence which any anti-British action in Palestine will have upon the innumerable millions who lie groaning under the Brit- ish heel in immense areas of Asia and Africa. ‘The. geographical situation of Palestine, lying be- tween Africa and’ Asia, the gateway to the East, makes it a strategic key to all the British. aims in the our desire to the more significant purpose. ns, if you realiy nt to ers destroyed, you must show fascist butch: Wall A modern naval harbor has been built: at. Haifa. A railway line connects Haifa with Bagdad; an im- mense and highly developed network of. airlines con- nects London, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, and India. Mod- ern roads run from Palestine to~the ofl centers’ of All these connections converge on Iraq, Per- sia, and the northwest frontier of India, which are the bases for Great .Britain’s coming war on..the Soviet’ Union, and for further: colonial plunder. * | ‘HE British and the national-chauyinist Jewish capi- } talists of all lands will exert every effort to mobi- lize the Jewish masses against an “Arab pogrom.” They will utilize the pogroms of the Nazis to whip up Jew- ish ‘sentiment in the interests of British imperialism iE: Rockefeller link with the fascists! | ¢ link to Hitler! Expose how | tler! | % tt Dickstein? | East. | Our Demands for the Jobless! ice | |3¢ PHE Communist Party in the New York City elec- | hy tions, pledges itself and all of its candidates when | Mosul. | ® Selected to © work to the bess of its ability to |, > parry out ollowing platform within the halls of the Assembly anic chamber and to rally @ Mdroad mass movement in the shops and on the na ing = lief for all unemployed without | % ate of $7 per week to each unemployed 5 per week for each depend- ent under fc ge. This 1 to apply also to all single Uriemployed workers ing. [Full union wages { h ne with month guaranteed *= All relief allowa “fs to race, national Soot sale dal part-time workers. inal offence Public works on au ext ediately tary and unsafe Ymauguration of a v tment houses tenement rentals coverii Sthool-building program to provide fi Hitler Anti-Soviet Spokesman Put 0 Nazi Election List Hugenberg on Ticket With Hitler; Asked War on USSR “BERLIN, Oct. 29—Alfred Hugen- berg, German nationalist leader, is a andidate on the all-Nazi ticket th the German voters are called aed approve, along with Germany's ign policy, at the Noy, 12 refer- _-‘Hugenberg is the man who voiced Adolf Hitler's bid to the capitalist rs to help Germany to seize the ern section of the Soviet Union he spoke as Hitler's represen- lve at the London Economic Con- E © ‘His name is now high up on the Eonly list of candidates to be pre- *Bsented to the German voters, a list -€ headed of course by Hitler. Fa Relief allowances to be adjusted increase in the cost of workers employed on relief n $5 per day for not more 12 days work per hout distinction , religious or political beliefs, @r affiliations, citizenship or length of residence. Absolute prevention of any evictions of unemployed Such eviction to be made a and its Zionist-capitalist agents” arid lackeys. ‘The Jewish masses must not» be. deceived. The anti-Arab actions of the imperialist-Zionists are di- rected equally against the interests of the Jewish working class and poor farmers of Palestine, who would have no difficulty living in* amity with the Arabs if they could achieve national self-determina- tion and break the British stranglehold. The revolutionary working class.must welcome the struggles of the Arabs of Palestine as a blow against British imperialism, as a blow in defense of the Soviet Union, as a signal for the “inevitable coming revolu- tionary upsurge of the hundreds of millions of Great. nsive scale to be started The immediate tearing down of all un- houses and for the st program of building modern ‘maintenance. The immediate building of new schools, (Parks and playgrounds in working class districts. ‘The The Jewish ing only cost plus lor a seat for every | Britain’s colonial slaves. exploited masses have, everything to gain by joining and supporting this’ struggle, for the exploiters of the Arabs are also the exploiters and oppressors of the Jewish tollers. Only the revolutionary overthrow of. capitalism will bring freedom for the toiling. masses of all nations. This is shown by. the freedom won by the Jewish people after the proletarian revolution in Russia. Approval of this ticket, the only | choice, is thus made to seem ap- | proval by the German electorate of the Nazi offensive against the Soviet | Union, | Carrying out Hitler's policy of seeking support at home by the ges- | ture of an “aggressive” policy abroad, | Germany has now withdarwn both | from the World Court at The Hague, and from the International Labor Of- fice at Geneva, thus completing the formal breach begun by withdrawal | from the League of Nations on the | issue of disarmament. | Simon Warns Nazis ing to Nazi Germany was made yes- terday by Sir John Simon, in con- | nection with the arrest in Munich of | Noel Panter, British correspondent, | on charges of “treason.” | Simon told the German Ambassa- | dor in London that Great Britain | would not tolerate a “farcical trial.” The reference is to the Reichstag fire trial, which all of Great Britain rec- ognizes as a pure frame-up. Panter was arrested for haying sent to London dispatches deseribing the military character of a Nazi rally at which Hitler scoke LONDON, Oct. 29.—A sharp warn-| Mexican Students On Hunger Strike Use Troops to Attack 200 When They Demonstrate GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Oct. 27. —More than 200 students jailed for striking in the University of Guada- | lajara, went on a hunger strike today, after a stormy demonstration in prison. Prison furniture wey smashed after the students were arrested. Troops sent against «me stu- dents captured the university, and several students were shot defending themselyes. The first group of soldirs sent were disarmed by the students, Th students demanded the resigna- tion of the Rector of the University, Diez, who ruled the students with an iron hands. ‘Troops are patrolling the streets in anticipation of further demonstrations by the students |MORGAN’S STORM | | less, absurd though this may sound, The original of this drawing will go to the reader making the largest contribution on Monday to Burck’s credit in his effort te beat out Mike Gold, Dr. Luttinger, and Ed Newhouse, and Heien Luke, TROOPERS in the competition to be the first to raise $1,000 —By Burek in the Daily Worker's $40,000 drive. Tomorrow the name of the winner of Saturday's cartoon will be announced, including the names of the other bidders. By KARL RADEK I wish to remind ‘you of the thesis| which the initiators of the Reichstag | ttial attempted to utilize to prove | their point. The thesis itself was} rather stupid but very simple—the | 1 ty f the German st | Contre nist Pattee chad resolved to| Wnatic, could doubt that this is a who knew the truth. instigate a proletarian uprising and | the Reichstag was to| Zt is not even worth denying. n D Oe a tee Ee for seed revolt, | Necessary however to discover whence | this delicate situation, to put it Now this is~ absurd in the first place because Germany is not a land of wide open spaces, forests and no-| madi¢. peoples which must give the signal for battle by lighting fires | from the hill-tops.. It is absurd also) because before propounding it some sort of proof ought.to have been ob- | tained to show that the Central Com- | mittee of the German Communist | Party consideréd the moment ripe for | revolt. But such proof was not and} could not have been obtained. The pamphlet’ written by that/ Baltic scoundral, Ehrt, and published | by the .Nazi police authorities, in- dicates three different dates on which the uprising was to have taken place, purported to have been fixed by dif- ferent Communist -leade The lat- est date cited by Ehrt, was March 5. But why should it have been} necessary to give-the signal on Feb. | 27 for a revolt that was to have} taken place on Match 5? Neverthe- it is doubtless very €onvincing to the | man in the street whose knowledge of revolutions. isbased chiefly on | opera-bouffe and~comic farces. thesis at the trial.; It appears that the Central Committee of the Ger- man Communist Party, working un: derground at thettme, entrusted the preparations for the fire to Torgler, the chairman of~the Communist group in the Reichstag | “The “leader ofthe Communist | group in the German parliament was | at that time. the-only member of | the Party who still functioned legally. Spies followed-His-every movement. | He it was, then, who must have en-/} gineered the burnifg of the Reich- stag. Is.it necesSafy to dwell upon the utter idiocy of:such a hypothesis? And what does”’Forgler proceed to do? Whom woes ‘Torgler, a leader ofan important political party with 15 years organizational experience and a tried membership, choose for the task of setting fire to the Reich- stag? A half blind: Dutchman, hobo- ing through Germany. Who can believe stich nonsense? And how does.he’set about it—this “flying dutchman” who has been se- lected as the organizer of such a difficult business as the burning of the Reichstag which is guarded from within and without? He makes his way to the labor exchange, we are told, where he “converses with the unemployed about the necessity of burning the Reichstag. Why does he. talk to them about it at all, especially on the street where he is surrounded by strange that there must have been some Police agents among the unem- ployed? Who Could Swallow That? Having spread the news about the burning of the. Reichstag, he goes off to spend thé night at a flop house, maintained by the police. In other words, a party with five mil- lion electors, an illegal organization, could not find ong night's shelter for the man to whom they had entrusted such a delicate anid responsible task. Who could swallow that? A few hours before the fire broke out the incendiary himself purchases the charcoal and carries it through the town to the Reichstag. Arriving at his destination this half-blind man suddenly turns acrobat. He climbs up the wall onto a balcony on the first floor and for the next 30 minutes he runs up and down, tearing down curtains, pull- ing off tablecloths in the dining room, setting fire to the soft and hard chairs, breaking glass, starting Stage Directors Fail }s However, we. shall see -how the fascist regisseurs ‘failed with their Stage Director s of Leipzig Frame-Up Flop; Radek Refers to Nazi Book Exposed by Daily Worker in Today’s Issue tale worthy of the madhouse itself. | It is| it comes and how it originated. | Nazis Feared Press Comment” | These fantasies are the result of | the serious position in which the true] organizers of the fire. found them- | selves. To begin with, immediately | after the fire, the official press of | German Fascism let the cat out of} ng | the bag. It was incapable of giving | a satisfactory reply to the innumer- able questions ich arose to how the incendiary or incendiaries’ man- aged to penetrate into the Reichstag | building without attracting attention. | Since at that time the Fascists had | not yet gained control of the entire press it would have been rather| awkward for them to have come out y ut the half | sca the wall into & building | so stron the Reichstag. } The Fascist feared that one of the | many ho were familiar with | the ii the Reichstag build- | Jing might have drawn attention to} the existence of a secret passage | leading to the house of Goering,| President of the Re’ ag. Such a statement specially as at| enburg and his group were still in power and were waging uggle for supremacy against Hitler and Goering. Hugenburg was | supported by President Hindenburg whose attitude was not yet'clear, It| ertain at that time what | 2 attitude Reichswehr would adopt. | On: March 1, 1933, an item ap-| peared in the “Vossische Zeitung,” | alleged to emanate from government | sources. The text of the item was as follows: “Moreover, the other participants in the fire could have made their exit from th> “.eichstag fhrough the undergr<und passage in which the heating system of the Reichstag ’- installed, and which connect the building with the house of the Presi- dent.” Who Gave the Information? Now this item could have been given to the press either by the Fas- cists themselves in order to show that they had nothing to hide—were indeed assisting in the investigations, —or it is just possible that the in- formation could have come from per- sons belonging to Hugenberg’s group, | away | che information to the press? produced a/c The Fascists are now having a tough time trying to wriggle out of mildiy, since Goering’s house is guarded by Storm. Troopers who would have denied entrance to any- one save National Socialists or their associates. But no matter how they try to dodge and evade the issue, the or- ganizers of the Reichstag fire cannot wipe out the existence of these un- derground, passageways. The pas- ist and there is no getting from it. . But who submitted Why does its author not figure in the trial as a witness? Avoid Real Issues These are the questions whieh the Leipzig trial will not raise, although the editors of the “Vossische Zeitung” are no doubt in a position to divulge the source ‘of ‘the information. ‘The organizers’ of the Leipzig trial are, of course, avoiding these ques- tions like the plague for they are weil aware: that the slightest men- tion of them is fraught with serious consequences. The Leipzig trial is opting exactly the same position Van der Lubbe who prefers to ate the impression of a half-wit rather than raise ‘the’ veil behind which the true criminals are con- cealed. It is this very impossibility of ap- proaching the truth about the fire that has given rise to all that is so incomprehensible in the Leipzig trial. : $ Haunted by the fear of making some incriminating slip, the court is obliged” to. twist like an eel and to compel Van der Lubbe to act the part of a half-wit. Press Publicity Defeated Plot Had the world press not grasped immediately the: significance of what had taken place in Berlin, ‘had it not at once started’ a widespread campaign in the matier, the ¢ase wonld have ended quite simply: Van aer Lubbe would have “committed suicide in prison.” ‘But the import- ance attached by the world press to the burning of the Reichstag pre~ vented Van der Lubbe from taking his own life. Fortunately, there appeared on the scene some Bulgarian revolutionaries who happened to have been arrested at the time. Having locked them up, the Fascist police concocted a brilliant plan. In 1925 -a cathedral ‘Hays Holds But S in which he declares his firm opinion fire trial, are innocent, | given in London before the interna- tional commission of jurists, who heard many witnesses who dare not return to Germany. In spite of his three weeks’ obser- vation in the court in Berlin, how- ever, his previous experience in at- tempting to be recognized as a de- fense attorney, and in spite of the fact that Leo Gallagher, San Fran- cisco attorney, and three other for- eign lawyers were expelled from Ger- many for protesting against the un- fairness of the trial, he adds: “T believe they (the four Commu- the fire in fifteen places at least. No one. except verhaps an escaped nists) will be acquitted.” Even the corresnondent of the New. Communists In Arson Trial Innocent people? Surely he must have realized | ays. Nazi Court Will Free Them, Thus Diverting Mass Defense Actions NEW YORK.—Arthur Garfield Hays, New York liberal attorney, issued a statement in Berlin Saturday, reprinted in the New York press Sunday, that Ernst Torgler, George Dimitroff, Vassil Taneff, and Blagoi Popoff, Communist defendants in the Reichstag In his statement he summarizes the evidence so far in the German trial, and the evidence »— York Times feels compelled to com- ment on this that “despite this sum- mation of the case, the jeopardy of the defendants cannot be overesti- mated.” ‘The role of the liberal Hays thus becomes that of an assistant prosecutor, who establishes a reputa~ tion as a “defender” ‘of the de- fendants, only to use his influence to ivert the world-wide mass protest against the pre-judged frame-up. Hays is the man who played the same role at the Decatur trial of the Scottsboro boys, declaring that Judge Horton, the chief lyncher of the De- catur eourt. was “a fair judge.” “Flying Dutchman F ails,” Says Radek has been blown up in Bulgaria. Ger- man citizens were aware of this event. It remained only to link the Bulgarians with the Reichstag fire to give them a world significance. But here the fascists again met with failure. True, they did manage to bar from the trial free-lance lawyers who could have revealed clearly the fallacy of the whole case. But instead of these lawyers, there was Dimitroff. The Fascists saw at once that Dimitroft would smash all Van ‘der Lubbe’s evidence and Van der Lubbe might have begun to tell the truth. There was nothing for it but to order Van der Lubbe to play the fool. Van der Labbe Feigns Idiocy ‘That is why we are now witness- ing scenes unprecedented in the his- tory of legal trials... Van der Lubbe sits feigning sleep and instead of | putting him questions and compell- ing him to reply, the Judge reads him the evidence written in excel- lent German ‘by the investigator— evidence alleged to hzye been given by Van der Lubbe whose German is very poor. Van der Lubbe raises his head from time to time and mum- bles: “yes,” “no,” “perhaps.” And the sum total of this farce is called a trial. On the whole the trial is being very unpleasant for the Fascists. But unpleasant or not, it is too late to change matters. Under cover of the Reichstag fire, behind the scenes of the brilliantly lit courtroom, the Fas- cists are ré-arresting thousands of Communists, murdering tens of thou- sands of, workers and terrorizing the whole country. A bad trial, but a good pogrom, seems to be their ob- ject. Let the psychologists of the press rack their brains over the strange behaviour of Van der Lubbe. It is a most engrossing subject and will divert attention from the real issues. The gentlemen who guide the destinies of Germany know from history that unpleasantness has never yet caused a government to fall. That is why no matter how distasteful this trial may be to them, the Fascists will be saying to them- selves: “What is a little unpleasant- ness more or less—it is unavoidable in such an important business.” The most important outcome of the Leipzig trial is the warning which it provides the working classes of the whole world that they must not be deceived by a single word or ac- tion of the leaders of Fascist Ger- many. Such mistrust at a time when the world is shaken by epoch mak- ing events, will undoubtedly seal the fate of German fascism. From “Pravda,” offieial organ of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union. General Political Strike to Begin Tonight in Cuba HAVANA, Oct. 29.—A general poli- tical strike against the suppression campaign of the Grau San Martin regime begins at midnight Monday. The decision was made at an all- night secret conference of delegates of the Confederacion Nacional Ob- rera de Cuba. While the stated time for the strike varies from 48 to 72 hours, the leaders of the various strikes are empowered to continue them indefinitely if their demands are not accepted, Soldiers continued rounding up all known leaders of the working class. Among the strike demands are for hands off all workers’ organizations and leaders, withdrawal of all troops from strike areas, against all terror against the working class, against the deportation of non-Cuban lead- ers. ‘The strike is expected to tie up all transportation and industry in the island. A strike of electric power workers impends, which would cut off the electric supply. | |their own testimony, NAZIS DAMN OWN WORDS IN FIRE TRIAL |Fail Again to Link the Communists With Van der Lubbe AT GERMAN FRONTIERS Oct. 28 (Via Zurich). —Further Nazi witnesses contradicted which was moreover riddled by the evi- dence of other witnesses, as the court continued its unsuccessful efforts to link three of the Commu- nist defendants with Van der aber | Nazi tool, at Saturday’s séssion o: | the Reichstag fire trial, Reichstag building, Berlin. At the opening of the Saturday session, Walter Oehme, a bourgeois newspaper man, testified that he interviewed Ernst Torgler between 3 and 4 o’clock on the day of the fire, at the time that three previous Nazi witnesses had said they had seen Van der Lubbe and Popoff with Torgler. He established the time because he had to file his cor- respondence for a Vienna paner before 4:30 each day. 7 He said that Theodor Neubauér, Communist deputy, and Wilhelm Kuehne, Communist Party - secre- tary, entered while he was inter viewing Tor-'er. \ Judge Gags Dimitroff Jakubovich, former secretary of the Social Democratic Party, testi= fied that he was in the Reichstag until 4 on the day of the fire, an saw Torgler repeatedly. He men- tioned his own slight resemblanée to Van der Lubbe, and-said it might haye been him that the three Na: witnesses saw with-Torgler. : The three Nazi witnesses, wahne, Frey and Kroyer, declared they could not have confused him with Van der Lubbe. Sack asked the court how it happens that these three Nazis, who had previougty been so uncertain in their identifi» cation, were now so sure. George Dimitroff_ commented: 3 “Tt looks very suspicious that three witnesses are all from the Same camp.” 4, “Silence! That’s enough,” roared Judge Buenger. ‘ Teichert, attorney for two of the Bulgarian Communists, quoted fr the minutes of the preliminary ine quiry and the previous sessions of the trial to show the contradictions in their attempted identification of Popoff. Ex-Major Hans Weberstédt, chief of the Nazi press bureau, took the stand and said he had noticed a smell of benzol coming from the Communist Party. rooms in ‘the Reichstag on the afternoon before the fire. rm Seeks to Involve Taneff He naturally also saw the two “unknowns” with Torgler. When He had faced the prisoners, however, it was Vassil Taneff whom he said he recognized as having spoken to Van der Lubbe. He also said he had seen Van der Lubbe carrying a box into the Reichstag. . Taneff, who was thus brought into the case for the first time sin¢e the trial began, calmly stated to the court: “This witness is in error.” Attorney Teichert called atten- tion to the fact that Weberstedt had previously said Van der Lubbe was bare-headed, and spoke of his light bushy hair, whereas now he says he wore a cap. Weberstedt added that he had seen Taneff in the Reichstag on previous days. This is clearly im- possible since Taneff did not arrive in Berlin until three days before the fire. “This witness is either in error, or he is deliberately lying?’ Taneff declared. “I had just arrived in Germany, and knew no German. How could I have been speaking with Van der Lubbe?” 3 When Dimitroff challenged We- berstedt’s badly cooked up evi- dence, the Nazi declared pompous ly, “A German officer does not lie.” _A chauffeur employed by the So- cial Democratic Party, named Gutsche, testified that a case of wine had been delivered to his par- ty on the afternoon of the fire, suggesting that it was the men wha brought it in who were “mistaken” for Van der Lubbe and Taneff. Explains Communist Position Theodor Neubauer, Communist deputy hrought to the court from a concentration camp, having had no chance to communicate Torgler since before the fire, cor- roborated in detail the testimony of Torgler, Oehme, and ethers regard- ing the events of the afternoon be= fore the fire. % Neubauer was questioned re- garding the meaning of an artide by Torgler in the “Rotwaeler,”.a Communist publication, concerning mass action. ‘ “Mass action refers to. strike preparations, the paralyzing of fae- tories, and later, possibly, 4 general strike. It does not mean individdal actions, or actions against individ- uals,” he said, adding that a general strike had sufficed to halt the Kapp putsch in 1920. ae “Is this strike action not a pre liminary to civil war?” asked the prosecutor. ad “That depends on the counter= action of our class enemy,” am swered Neubauer. in the Did you receive instructions from Moscow?” asked the judge. + “No,” answered Neubauer. “We received instructiéns from the: cen- tral committee of the Communist Party of Germany.” Pa A Mrs. Feldman, a Reichstag em= ploye, then took the stand aad she saw Torgler at 2:30 on the of the fire with an unknown per= son, whom she said she suspected was Popoff. 2 Even the presiding judge It compelled to comment that she sai this at her preliminary examinati “This is no isolated case,” @e- jclared Dimitro?f. “She had im- proved her memory in these seven ae : S Once more the judge turned,’ Dimitroff and roared an order him to be silent, xs a