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e if it ? fh tl a 2" foo hood echo FOUNDED wee Telephone: Algongui: 47955. Cade Addeesx “Detwork.” Mow Fret, Kw Sr Cha on : Sabscrtption Hates Pome dot Soe as Sak dS es Manbetien, Brom, F end Coneder 1 poem GROm 6 montie, 95.00, $ months 88.00. By Carries: Weebiy, 20 sects; coonltiy, 1 conte WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER a 1988 ———————————————— ee Election Watchers Needed JEXT Tuesday New Yosk City workers will have an opportunity to register an effective protest against Did party domination of the city with their program of bitter hostility the bankers. The workers will have an opportunity to cast their votes for candidat of their own class, for Commu- nist Party candidates headed by Robert Minor, Ben Gold and Williana Boroughs. There is even the pos- sibility that several Communist Assembly and Alder- manic candidates can be elected if the period is utilized for hard campaign work in districts. remaining their During the week remaining, every militant worker, every workers’ organization, particularly the trade unions, should throw all their energy into the cam- paign. Not only should the present type of election mass meetings be continued, but especially hard work should be concentrated in the trade unions, in the fac~ tories and in the neighborhoods. The election litera- ture, the Daily Worker, the Freiheit, and other Party and trade union papers should be placed directly in the hands of the workers. More efforts should be made to personally discuss the issues of the campaign with individual workers, convincing them that only the Communist Party serves their interests. Careful preparations should already be made by every Party unit and section to get out the vote in its section. We lose hundreds of votes every year be- cause workers who support our program “forget to yote,” or consider voting unimportant. Next Tuesday our aim must be to get every supporter of our can- didates to the polis This will require systematic can- yassing in every Assembly district between now and Tuesday, and on Tuesday hundreds of comrades should be at work getting owt our vote, ee Se E MUST also see to it that our supporters are per- mitted to vote and that their votes are counted. This means watchers in the election booths and a well organized apparatus prepared to receive the com- plaints of any voter discriminated against throughout the day with the facilities available which will en- able us to rush our legal staff to every section of the City at call, These steps have been taken. The steps that must now be taken are those which will guarantee a ted watcher in every booth. We urge our readers to | volunteer to serve as watchers if they have not al- ready done so, Finally, is is necessasy to gaurd against intimida~ tion. Tuesday's election will be a bitterly fought con- test. Gangster methods will be used by O’Brien to win; the Le Guardia and McKee forces will use the same methods, Stealing will take on a wholesale char- acter. We urge the workers not to be intimidated, ‘We urge the Party to prepare to protect its voicrs and its votes. This oan be dons by widely publicising the facilities a@yailable at the Communist election headquarters for the protection of the workers voting rights. By per- fecting the ties between the big legal corps already Prepared and each election booth. This means watch- | €rs, couriers, automobiles. It means hundreds of work- @fs ready not only to vote for the Party, but ready fo serve the Party, throughout election day, from the times the polls open until the vote is counted. “Moratorium on Criticism” \ECENTLY there has been some sharp criticism from. among certain sections of the bourgeoisie around the issue of how best to reach the objectives of the NR.A—how best to solve the capitalist crisis at the expense of the maases. At the beginning there was a great deal of talk about the N.R.A. leading to planned economy, to a adlution of the capitalist crisis. But this talk is be. ‘mg thrown overboard. Roosevelt himself recently de- Slared, “We don’t need any five-year plans or ten-year plans.” To understand the basic causes for this present etiticism and its objective, we must analyze the pur- Poses of the NRA, and the class interests behind it. ‘The aims of the N.R.A. were to strengthen mon- ly capitalism, through the adoption of policies in interests of the biggest capitalists and through the reation of industrial associations in which the largest, ‘trusts would rule. It sought to raise prices and to in- @rease profits. All of these aims in the interest of the most powerful of the capitalista were to be achieved at the expense of the workers, the farmers, nd also at the cost of sections of the petty bourge- _ This program has been partially realized. Roose- ‘welt has raised prices. He has raised profits and hes Bitterly increased the ferocious exploitation of the ican workers. <In the process, however, the crisis has been inten- sified, because the advantages gained by the big trusts hhas been at the expense of the impoverishment of the f capital. An effort was made to prevent sharp this imperialist method of solving NRA to the workers and loyal service to | | | line of attack. To head off the discussion seething below, they come out openly with it, making the basic point of the discussion the question of putting through their methods of solution of the crisis without a further deepening of the discontent among the masses, without creating a further upsurge of the masses against the whole program of finance capital. As Walter Lippman puts it, the bourgeoisie decided | te “lift the moratorium of criticism” against the N.R.A. Ons of the main differences expressed among the bourgeoisie is the danger of demagogy at this time, the danger of promises, as a stimulus to mass strug- gies. Many of them are opposing the wild promises made by the Roosevelt administration spokesmen, in- aisting on a more cautious program of promises, while at the same time utilizing and sharpening the attack against the toiling masses begun by the Roosevelt tegime. . e@ second basic question of difference centres around the program of inflation. ‘The capitalists as a class, at this time, benefit heavily from inflation. At one fell swoop, inflation slashes the real wages of ‘the workers, it lowers costs of production, without a direct cut necessarily in money wages. It raises and has raised profits. It reduces the income of the farmers. By raising prices of manu- factured goods more rapidly than farm products, it strengthens the hold of the monopolists. Inflation gives the big monopolies a powerful weapon for win- ning markets away from their imperialist rivals. At the same time, the immediate interests of cer- tain sections of the bourgeois makes them raise the question as to whether there should be inflation now or not at all. Those with fixed incomes are against it. ‘Those concerned only immediately with refinancing and flotation of bonds and loans and the exportation of capital are hesitant. ‘Those who stand to lose im- mediately by inflation are against, even though the exploiting class as a whole in the long run stand to gain heavily. Others who are for inflation, differ on when, how fast or what methods of inflation should be carried through. Certain methods of inflation, such as credit inflation, would benefit one group and be harmful to others. ‘These conflicts, growing out of the intensification of the crisis, the struggle over immediate advantege of the'various groups within the bourgeoisie, lead them to sharper attacks against the workers, the unem- Ployed and poor farmers, e % so-called “moratorium on criticism,” no matter how sharp it might sound in some capitalist quar- ters, does not mean an abandonment of the program behind the N.R.A., or the basic aims of the bourgeoisie proposed in the NRA. ‘They may make tactical changes. They may even change some figures inthe present administration. But the basic line of the American exploiters, their line of inflation, of fascization and of a rapid move to war remains and is strengthened. Any modifications that Roosevelt may make in his program will not be in the direction of slowing up the drive to reach the objectives of the N.R.A., but will lead to a speeding up of inflation, of the attacks against the whole toiling population and the petty bourgeoisie, of fascization and direct steps to war. Sctntngienenicae’ oo Chicago Farm Conference 18 now two weeks before the Farmers Second Na- tional Conference to be held at Chicago on November 15-18. From all indications over 1,000 farmer’ delegates from every corner of the country will gather at this historic Conference to formulate plans of action in their fight to save their farms and land from the banker mortgage sharks, thetr families from misery and por- erty. Té is a fundamental of Marxism-Leninism that the proletariat will not succeed in its fight against capital- ism, unless it succeeds in establishing # fighting alli- ance with the vast masses of small farmers and agri- cultural laborers, unless it succeeds in at least neutral- izing the strata of middle farmers. ‘This defines the vital necessity for the Communist Party in all its districts to give the closest attention and energy to the preparations for the Conference. Arrangements for sending delegates and housing them must be taken up with the greatest energy. The Party must show itself as the leader in the farm- ers’ struggles against monopoly capital. That the millions of small dirt farmers are begin- ning to see through the false promises of the Roose- velt government is evident enough from the present strike of the Western farmers against the Roosevelt N.R.A. farm program. The Roosevelt farm program has turned out. to mean nothing but subsidies to the rich farmers, and heavier mortgage burdens, slashes in real income for the vast majority of small farmers. Such misleaders as Milo Reno are trying to break the present farm strike by warning the striking farmers against picketing and “disorder.” He pleads with the farmers to stay at home. He never urges the farmers to organize mass actions to stop foreclosures, or to de- fend their farms. But the rank and file farmess are breaking away from this leadership. The Rank and File Farmers. The rank and file farmers, over the heads of their officials of the old time farm organizations, such as the Grange, the Holiday Association, the Farm Union, are themselves electing delegates to the Chicago Con- ference despite the efforts their leaders to stop it. The Party mast give much more attention to work among the farmers than it has in the past. Specifically, it must see to it that Communists are sent into the rural districts to assist in forming farm committees, assist in the election of farm delegates to the Chicago Conference, and to lead the farmers’ actions against the mortgage holders, etc. The cry for cancellation of taxes and mortgage debts grows louder every day, and is carried out by the farmers themselves in their own mass actions. The United Farm League has organized many ac- tions that have prevented farm foreclosures. Every- where the farmers are striking back at the capitalists and the Roosevelt government which rob them. ‘The Communist Party supports and will actively participate in this Conference. It must show the farm- ers that only mass struggles, led and directed by the farmers themselves, can win thetr strikes and stop foreclosures. It must point out te them that, just as mass struggles alone can win them temporary relief from éapitalist robbery, only the unity with the proletariat for the revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist system can provide a permanent solution to their problems. It must point out to them the lessons of the Soviet road to collectivization. Soviet Workers Eager| The Editorial Offices of the Daily Worker: ‘for News from U. 8. of vthe workers in the United States, which facts are of great in- terest to our readers. The workers in the Soviet Union are keenly interested in what is on in the capitalist countries, Reeieciariy the United States, the of capitalism. ‘They Fy reer'y read the Daily Worker to about the conditions of the si g arin workers. [PR pe eae =ey Hf Pac shown by a ‘etter from the|pages of the Daily Worker. This is once Dear Comrades The readers of our magazine, “The Workers and Peasants Cor- respondent” have for some time been carrying on friendly corres- pondence with the readers of your Daily Worker. It has come to our notice that the letters of our read~- ers are often to be found on the Be. ers and Peasants Correspond-| sides this, your newspaper consist- ip Moscow, which we print ently makes clearer the facts con-| cerning the condition of the lives ! For this reason, we once again beg of you to continue sending your newspaper to our address, in order to give our readers in the Soviet Union the possibility of regularly acquainting themselves with the material found in the pages of the Daily Worker, and to keep them informed concerning their corres- pondence found in the columns of your paper, With comradely greetings, Helping the “Daily” | by Helping Yourself to an Original Burck A Daily Worker affair at Com-| rade S. Green's home enabled said | comrade to -claim ownership of yesterday’s original Burck cartoon, entitled “Morgan's Storm Troop- pera Five dollars was the highest bid for this drawing. Other bids: F. Videnik, Osage, W. Va., $1; Unit No. 23, Section 5, also $1. Total $7. Previous total $10.11. Total) to date $17.11, Some days “a low bid may get| | the drawing. Don’t hesitate to bid | even small sums, because even if | YOU don’t get the picture, WE get | the money! What are -we.bid for today’s cartoon? | Light Industry of | USSR Projects Huge. Year-End Program MOSCOW, (By Mail). — The plan for light industry. for the fourth quarter of the year has been pub- lished. In the fourth quarter of the year light industry will manufacture finished goods to the value of 2,393,- 400,000 roubles, 429,600,000 roubles more than the third quarter. The production of cotton goods, ready- made clothing, Bodts and shoes, wool- Jen and woven goods, will be co’ siderably increased: The production, also, of glass and crockery, will be increased. ~ In the fourth quarter light indus- try will supply to the country 790 million metres of cotton stuffs, to the value of 803,300,000 roubles, 265 mil- lion metres more than in the third quarter. It will supply 35 million metres of woollen materials, to the value of 178 million roubles, 21 mil- lion roubles more than in the pre- ceding quarter. Ready-made clothing will be man- ufactured to the value of 467 million roubles, 96 millioh Youbles more than in the third quarter. Eighteen mil- lion pairs of shoes will be supplied two million pairs more than in the third quarter. The production of woven goods will be considerably in- creased. There will-be 59,800,000 pairs of stockings and ‘socks, 6,200,000 sets of under-linen, and two million wool- Jen suits. have no basis in fact. ‘Calls 5. Vent Plan Chief Fact of History Today Barbusse, Strong, Speak Anna Leuise Sirong secretary of the Feliow seeretary of the Fri 's of the Soviet Anna Louise Str ong, Henri ma are ip of Reconciliation; Dr. Harry F, Ward, chair- iberties Union, and Herbert Goldfrank, acting national k on U.S.S.R. Tonight ; Robert Minor; J. B. Matthews, + Union, will speak at a mass meet- ing in Webster Ha!! tonight, called by the Friends of the Soviet Union, to demand immediate unconditional perdeoe of the Soviet Union. Moscow Daily | News Co-Editor, Tells of Soviet Achievements “By LISTON OA NEW YORK.—"The future his vote much space to the N between the pound and the doliar. the Five-Year Plan and the agr three outstanding YO) ssociate 'ed- | itor of the Moscow Daily News, spoke | with earnest conviction. had | been asked her opinion of the N.2 4 ,} but instead of an- ta : | She swering she inter- viewed the inter: viewer. “I've been back from the So- viet Union only a week, You know more then I do about the N.R.A. Tell me what is happenirig.” She is cautious, this veteran journalis and author of score of books and = pamphlets, and One | hundreds of mag- : azine articles | about the Soviet Union and the Chi-| nese Revolution. She spoke with scorn of the many | lies about the Soviet Union which | are current—stories of starvation, can- | nibalism and infanticide, of impend- | ing collapse of the Soviet govern- | ment, circulated by those hostile to the workers’ state and the opponents | + | of recognition, Yes, she said, she} would gladly speak Wednesday sie | for the Friends of the Soviet Union | at the mass meeting to demand im-| mediate and unconditional recogni- | tion, at Webster Hall, and she would | tell New York workers that she has just come from a tour of the collec- tive farms and that these slanders | ploitation. n, writing about this era, will not de- nor to the League of Nations, nor the war He will write about ian revolution in Soviet Russia, as the ents of this epoch, the turning points in the economic and political history of the world.”e—— the world crisis, “Of course, there still remains poverty and suffering in the U. S. S. R.,” she said. “The remnants of capitalism and tsarism haye not all en eliminated. The greatest. agri- cultural re ution in history could not possibly have been accomplished without sacrifices on the part of those who carried out this tremenodus | change, and suffering, especially on the part of these who opposed it. ‘The workers and peasants of Soviet Russia haye been willing to go with- | out comforts, to undergo hardships, to put over their plans; they are building a Socialist society for them- selves and their children, in which there can be no poverty and no ex- And they are succeeding. | This is the greatest service to the world’s workers that the worke¥s and peasants of the Soviet Union can per- | form.” Anna Louise Strong gives a con- tradictory impression of age and youth strangely commingled. Her hair is white, her body snows the effects of a long and strenuous life as a revolutionary writer, in all the coun- tries of the world, wherever wars and revolutions and struggles of the workers were taking plac>. “The Soviet Union is not a workers’ paradise—not yet. Socialism is net built in a day and not without con- | stand struggle. The U.S.S.R. is a giant struggling througa a swamp, brushing aside those who would impede his progress, always overcoming diffi- culties, making steady progress to- ward his goal.” Millions Celebrate 15th! Year of Youth Organization By VERN SMITH (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct, 31 (By Cable).—A week of celebration of the 15th anni- versary of the Young Communist League reached its climax Sunday with the opening of the eighth plenum of the Central Committee of the Y. C. L. of the Soviet Union, in the Bolshoi Theater -in Moscow. A feature of the celebrations, in which millions of young workers throughout the Soviet Union took part, was a relay race from Lenin- gtad to Moscow, finishing in Red Square last Saturday, in the presence of the massed and physical culture clubs, the leading offi- cials of the Communist Party, the Comsomol (Y¥.:C. D.y the government and the trade untons. Honor Torgler, Dimitroft At the plenum; attended by the young shock brigaders of the Y, C. L. and delegates from the collective farms, George Dimitroff and Ernst | Torgler, Communists who are con- ducting a heroic defense at the Reich- stag fire trial, were elected honorary members of the presidium, along with | Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovitch, Voro- | shilov, Kalinin, ‘Telman, Gorki and Krupskaya.. Kaganovitch, Molotoy and Andre Marty, the French*Communist leader | of the Black Sea mutiny French fleet Fefore: Odessa, represen- tatives of the workers’ organizations, the collective farthers, and the Pio- neers, greeted the Young Communist le. All speakers stressed the fighting international ‘spirit ‘of the League, and the tremendous tasks before the Sane Young Communists in the building of Socialism. Announcement was made that a Palace of Youth is being built in Moscow, and houses of culture for youth in Kharkov, Tiflis, Tashkent, Magnitogorsk, and a number of other cities. It was also announced that the Order of Lenin is to be awarded to the outstanding leaders of the Y.C.L. and to the best shock brigade workers in the plants and farms. Stalin’s Greetings ‘The Soviet press prints the formal greetings of Joseph Stalin to the ~ Honored by Soviet — Youth ia oe Ernst Torgler, German Commu nist leader, elected to honorary presidium of Soviet Young Com- munist League Plenum, Soviet Y.C. L. Hails Its Anniversary Soviet Leaders Greet Young Builders of Socialism ¥.C.L. on the occasion of its anni- versary: “To Comrade Kasaryov, Setretary of the Central Committee of the Len- inist Comosmol of workers and peas- ants, organizer of our glorious revo- lutionary youth, on the day of its 15th anniversary. “I wish it success in training our youth in a Leninist spirit, in the spirit of relentiess struggle with the enemies of the workers, and in strengthening the international fra- ternal ties of the workers of all the world, of all languages and races. “The young men and women shock brigaders of the Komsomol covered themselves with glory during the per- iod of construction of new mills, fac- tories, mines, railroads, state and col- lective farms. “Let us hope the Komsomol shock brigaders will display even greater courage and initiative in mastering the new technique in all branches of national economy, and in strength- ening the defensive ‘power of our Jand, navy, and air forces. “During the 15 years of its exist- ence, it has boldly carried forward the standard of Lenin, successfully rallying to it millions of young work- ers and peasants, both men and women, “Let us hope that the Leninist Comson9! *ontinues to hold high the banner of Lonin, and carry forward with honor to a victorious end the great struggle for the final victory of Socialism. Long live the Leninist Comsomol; long ‘live the Central Committee of the Leninist Comso- mol.” \Big List of.Class War Dimitroff 26,093 Murders Is 6-Month World Toll of White Terror Victims Reported by Red Aid NEW YORK—A huge growth in| white terror the world over, as fas- cist dictatorships grow, the crisis of capitalism deepens, and imperialist war and intervention against the So- viet Union is prepared, is shown in statistics received by the Interna- tional Red Aid. The figures ave com- piled from information received from I, R. A’ sections all over the world. In 46 countries there were, in the first six months of 1933, the tables show, 26.093 workers murdered by the white terror; 99,182 seriously wounded; 12,291 injured in othe: ways; 143,271 arrested; 974 deported or exiled and 155,618 raids on work- ingclass homes reported. 23,870 Murdered In China Germany's figures, incomplete and | including only those instances of white terror reporied in the press, show 1,500 murders of workers; 83,000 seriously wounded; 100,000 arrests, | and 150,000 house searches. | In Jugo-Slavia, to which Be American government wants to de- port Frank Borich, secretary of the| National Miners’ Union, 16 workers) were murdered, 38 wounded, 148 in-| jured in other ways, and 820 arrested, and 420 house searches. Bulgaria, to which the “liberal” Frances Perkins wants to deport) Todor Antonoff, murdered 32 mili-| tant workers; severely wounded 19, | and arrested 3,400. | 300 Murdered In Japan Other figures show that in Japan, | where only 20 workers came to trial in those six months, 300 were mur- dered and 2,067 arrested. Mexico's reactionary government murdered 36, wounded 204, arrested 10,504, and brought to trial only 103. Most workers arrested in Poland are never tried. but are allowed to rot in jail until tortured to deati. Austria's Dolfuss government ar- rested 10,000 workers, and brought none to trial. These workers were sent to concentration camps similar to Hitler's in Germany. Since that time the number of such arrests has tremendously increased. Britain Ready for Money War Against, Roosevelt Inflation Cut in Buying Power of Workers Can Be Met by Higher Wages WASHINGTON, Oct, 29.—The fail- ure of the fourth successive inflation- ary shot of the Roosevelt gold buying program to drive the dollar down on the foreign exchanges in the effort to give American imperialism an advan- tage in the fight for. foreign markets is ccusing ill-concealed dismay in of- fie’ quarters here. For four successive days Roosevelt has jacked up the domestic price of gold, so that today the Roosevelt price as contrasted with the world price is $ However, the foreign imperialist rivals of the United States, have been buying dollars at a rate fast enough to prevent the dollar from sinking too low, as Roosevelt intends it should. Great Britain, particulariy, has been taking financial measures to counteract the Roosevelt infla- tionary measures. The threat of another explosion of financial war between these two imperialist rivals wes openly .erpressed today in the leading British newspaper, the Finan- cial Times, which states: “To permanently depreciate the | doliar, the United States will need regularly to maintain the outflow of dollars sufficient!y to more than ‘ offset international demand. “Probably comoetition with our deep'y interested and = stilfnllv manoged exchange equalization fund may give American arthom'tics somethine. to think about.” It is obvious that Roosevelt will soon have to intensify his inflationary measures in the fight against British imperialism: This will cause the rzal wages and the buying power of the Arherican workers to drop still further, unless they fight for higher wages to meet the rising corts. HELPS “DAILY” ‘The Women's Council of Stamford, Conn., sends three dollars, with the request that it be listed in the “Daily” “as an example to the other members of our organization and to encoureze them to continue their efforts to raise funds.” RIGHT-WING SHOP SUPPORTS THE “DAILY” and Suit Mfg. Co., Inc., in Baltimore, have raised $7 for the “Daily Work- er.” The sop is controlled by the International Ladies: Garment Work- STAMFORD WOMEN’S COUNCIL fe edmin "The workers of the Progress Cloak | ers Union, a right-wing union. chairman . Even the shop ‘chipped. in 50 centa, Nazi Seeking to Link With Fire Names Wrong Man Convict from Prison Says Torgler Tried to Bribe Him in 1982 to Set Fire to Reichstag Building MOSCOW, Oct. 31 (By Cable)—The German government has been compelled to rescind its decision to exclude Soviet correspondents from the Reichstag fire trial, it is announced today. Representatives of Izyestia, organ of the Soviet government, and of Tass, official Soviet News Agency, take thetr place at the a bord) of the trial for the first time, #time the Soviet At the same government. ane nounced it would permit the return of the German correspondents ex- pelled from the Soviet Union in re« ply to the intolerable conditions im- posed by the Nazis on Soviet corre | spondents in Gerinany, including the arest of Soviet writers in Leipsig in the early days of the Reichstag fire trial, . eee Perjurer and Criminal On Stand AT THE GERMAN: FRONTIER, Oct. 31 (Via Zurich, Switzerland) — Another obvious perjurer, and a criminal brought from prison to tell a story so fantastic that the de- fendants did not bother even to cross-cxamine him, wera the Nazi trump cards at today’s session of the Reichsiag building, Berlin, Err Droescher, assistant to Hanz Weberstedt, chief of the, Nazi press bureau, who has testified to seeing. il Taneff with ~ Brnst Torgler in the R: stag the after- noon of the fire, took the stand in an attempt to show that George Dimitroff was also in the Reichstag shortly kefore the fire. Droescher ec he had seen Dimitroff talk with Torgler, and that he recognized him as the man charged with i ting the cath- edral explosion in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1923. The ‘public records, and all previous testimony at the «trial, show that Dimitroff was not in Bulgari: at the time of the ‘cathedral fire, and that the man accused by the Bulgarian authorities is Svefan | Dimitroff, who is no, way con- nected with George Dimitroff. Convict Tells Tall Tale “Weberstedt and Droescher have obviously arranged between them- selves, the one ‘to identify Taneff, the other to identify me,”-commented Dimitroff. The judge sharply or- dered him to be silent. Gustav Lebermann, who is sery- ing a sentene> for theft, was brought to the court to testify that in Janu- ary, 1932, Torgler had urge@ him to burn the Reichstag, and that in March of the same year Torgler again approached him and two others with the same suggestion, offering 14,000 marks reward. He said he had not informed any- one of this until the middle of this month, Torgler calmly expressed his aston* ishment that such a witness should be called before a court, and Alfons Sack, his attorney, did not bother to cross-examine the man. Dimitroff, with unconcealed dis- Bust, declared: “This is the climax of the prosecution’s case!” Withdraw Lubbe Identification The Reichstag elevator operators, who had identified van def Lubbe at the preliminary examination as a |man they had seen in the Reich- stag, took the stand to withdraw their identification, saying they were no longer sure. Schatz, an expert on. combustibles, who testified some days ago, took the stand once more to say he is now sure that a highly inflammable sub- stance called santagol had been used, He declared he is now certain that he has found seven traces of this fuel. Schatz is an intimate ‘of Wil- helm Goering, Nazi leader, and an exe pert in the bomb department of tho Ministry of Aviation. Lubbe Sought Airest Earlier Police Commissioner Bunge, who arrested van der Lubbe at the | scene of the fire, testified that the young Dutch tool of the Nazis had made no effort to escape. “Van der Lubbe said he would have let himself be captured even if he could haye got away.” He added that the young Dutchnian appeared entirely intelligent when arrested, in contrast to the stupefied appearance which he makes at the trial. Evidence of two waiters and the owner of Ashingers’ ‘restaurant, wher Torgler had testified he went soon after eight o'clock on the night, of the fire, at a time before the fire had started, was given. A student named Perl, who worked as a regular assistant of the Com- munist Party in the Reichstag, tes- tified that he had arrived at the Reichstag at 2 o'clock on the after- noon before the fire. carrying a pack ago. He hes a stviking-resemblance to van der Lubbe. British Raid African ion Office West. Africa (By Mail).—British polices have raided the office of T. T. A. Wallace-Johnson, meneoval.. secretary’. of the African Workers’ Union of Nigeria, here, and seized all the files of the organiza- tion. Wallece-Johnson, who has been known in America as organizer of a protest mover?nt in. British West Africa around the demand fo¥tthe release of the Scottsboro boys, has also been an Iindefatizeble fichter aecinst the enormities of the Brit~ ction, In West Africa, | taxstion has been growing by leaps and bounds, and unemployment has swollen to unourecedented figures, laying the burden of the crisis on the exploited native population, nation Urton. ‘ ob that the a ity of the mestbers are une employed, Through Comrade Mf.” “Silverstein, the group pledges further support and challenges the other left-wing sections of the I. L. G. W. U, to beat their record in the drive, *