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an 0 ae Pot Oe we ee J { S"months, 9802 v- f t Page Siz ¢ peer “Amentea’s Only Working Cinsa Dadly, Newspaper” FOUNDED 102% Sunday, by the Gon tee hs Btrest, Few York, ‘Tetephone: Algonquin 47065. Cable Addres “Dalwork,” Mew Yost, M. Th Typghtaston, Room 254 Mationst Th emt G ‘Washington, D.C. Subscription Ratest Manhatten and months, $2.00; 2 mont Manhattan, Bronx, Foreigm and Censdat 6 months, 98.00; 2 months 96.00. By Carrier: Wovitly, 18 cents; monthly, 18 coats Pemtintosers Prem uikaing, ah ss 1 year, 90.00; THURSDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1083 The Negroes’ Enemies HES week sees a utilization of all efforts and every p the Negro masses for the old hat always have been associated the Negro force to lire parties—the parties t with the persecution and oppression of People. The } York Amsterdam ways pretended to expre : struggles of the N has come didat is the savior of the known fact that La ber. of the party white cleansing of jim-crowed on Mothers on tt sons, murdered News, which has al- viewpoint on the mst their oppressors, ardia, Fusion can- ppear that La Guardia > People, despite the well- ardia is a Republican, a mem- ver, who instructed the lily- Republican Party, and who ships the Negro Gold Cross igrimages to the graves of their nerican imperialism. rdly of all the efforts to confuse and mislead tt ‘0 Masses is the method resorted to by Joseph McKee, who has always been a member of Tammany, and has openly boasted of the fact that he was an organization man in politics, never once raising his voice against the increasing attacks on the Negro People, against discrimination, segregation, lynching, etc. Now, this same McKee, who even last week refused to join in the protests against the legal lynching of Buel Lee in Maryland, attempts to use the actions of muel Leibowitz as an attorney in the Scottsboro e to win support for himself. In this he is aided by Leibowitz himself, who shamelessly attempts to ex- ploit his reeord in the Scottsboro case to trap the Me- sro masses Into the camps of their enemies, ie eros ae maint She, Becttaboro: loyal Sworn. the hands of thetr executioners? What is Leibowitz? Decidedly not! 2s was the International Labor De- fense, with the backing of the Communist Party. The International Labor Defense initiated the mass and legal fight to save the nine innocent boys, when the Scottsboro boys were entirely unknown, when there Was not yet a Scottsboro case in the sense tn which it is known today fo millions of Negro and white toilers throughout the whole world. The ILD. fought the case for two years before Leibowitz appeared on the scene. It was only early this year that Leibowitz was brought in as an attorney of the LL.D., and then only on the condition that he carry out the policies of fhe ILD. It was the LL.D. which militantly raised the challenge to the whole vicious legal system of the South, by which innocent Negroes are deprived of their constitutional rights and railroaded to death through the lynch courfs. It was the ILD. which challenged the systematic exclusion of Negroes from petit and grand juries, as it had done before in the Buel Lee case in Maryland. Prior to Leibowitz’s entry into the Scottsboro case, Leibowitz never was associated with the struggle for the rights of the Negro Peopie. He entered the case solely because of the national prominence attached to the case as a result of the world-wide protest ac- tions organized by the I.L.D. and the Communist Parties of the world. The Daily Worker has no Intention of quarrelling with Leibow on that ground, but every sincere Aghter for the rights of the Negro People must pro- test against the attempt of McKee and Leibowitz to exploit Leibowitz’s connection with the case to deceive the Negro masses into voting for representatives of the same white ruling class who legally murdered Huel Lee, framed up th ottsboro boys and who even now are preparing a new lynch trial for the boys un- the cattle ir The most der the direction of the Ku Klux Klan Judge Calla- han, in the lynch-infested town of Decatur, Ala. ‘VERY honest worker must denounce Leibowitz’s let- ter, appearing in this week's Amsterdam News, asking the N asses to support McKee on the grounds of Leibo' ivities in the past, of my direct interest in the downtrodden and the unfortunate Masses of our people. The Scotisboro case is symbolic of the struggles of the Negro People as a whole. The country is liter- ally dotted with Scottsboro cases. Everywhere the Ne- gro People are di inated against, persecuted and lynched bythe par‘ of the white ruling class, Re- Publican and Democratic, of which all these gentlemen, La Guardia, McKee and Leibowitz, are a part. Did Leibowitz protest against the legal lynching of Buel Lee, against the fiendish mob lynching of George Arm- _ Wood on the eastern shore of Maryland two weeks ago. ‘Has he interested himself in any of these “minor” Scottsboro cases? The Communist Party has a record—a long-stand- ing record of consistent struggles on these issues. The Negro People must not permit themselves to be mis- Jed. They must realize that only through an alliance with the toiling masses of the country, with the Com- munist Party at their head, can they smash the op- pressive rule to which they are now subjected. Robett Minor represents that fight, Follow Lenin! “...4md I continue to insist that we ean start establishing real contacts only with the nif of & common newspaper...” —Yv. 1. LENIN. * _™ Communist Party of the U.S.A. founded the Daliy _| Worker almost 10 years ago to establish through it _Yeal living contacts between the revolutionary van- guard of the working class and the masses of the American workers, This Leninist task the Daily Worker strives to ‘fulfill with increasing effectiveness. Tt places in the forefront of its editorial policy the struggle of the workers for their day to day needs— Unemployment relief and insurance, higher wages, shorter hours, improved working conditions, higher living standards. It provides the workers not only with essential working class news, it compiles the experiences of the “Workers, drawing lessons which show the workers how best to prepare and organize their struggles. ~ It exposes the plans and maneuvers of the workers’ enemies—the government, the bosses, the A. F. of L. leaders, the Socialist and farm organization leaders, Tt undertakes to convince the workers that only by _ following the class struggle policies as SFR PREM IS RR TALI Pe =< DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1933 taught by Marx and Lenin can the workers win their simplest demand. ar a THE NRA, while the A F. of L. and Socialist leaders attempt to befuddie and fool the workers into aceepting the slave codes and Roosevelt’s infla-~ tion and war program, the Daily Worker mercilessly ae | and accurately exposes it as a program designed to destroy the workers’ rights and undermine their living standards. Through its leadership in the fight to save the 9 Scottsboro boys, Euel Lee and other victims of lynch Justice, by its relentless fight against boss-class terror and lyneh law, the Daily Worker increasingly builds up closer contact between the Negro masses and the white toilers in what must be their united struggle against their common oppressors. Its increasing role In winning the toilers for the Communist Party, the revolutionary trade unions and trade union oppositions in the A. F. of L. and the revolutionary organizations of farmers, is the best guarantee the Daily Worker is destined to play the great historical role in the leadership of the Amer- ican revolution as was played by Pravda, the daily paper of the Bolshevik Party, in the Russian revolution. Our paper, in the true Leninist sense, is estab- lishing those real contacts between the masses and | the Communist Party which guarantees victory. 0. tie Sie HALL this Leninist paper, the Daily Worker, re- main in existence? ‘This depends upon you. Within the next few weeks, the Daily Worker must raise about $20,000 to complete successfully its $40,000 drive. The success of this drive means life to our Leninist Daily Worker. Wake Up, Professor! 'HE other day we thought that General Hugh John- son of the N.R.A. reached a record of brazen false- hood when he claimed “a definite upward turn” on the same day the Federal Reserve Board issued figures proving exactly the opposite. But it looks as if the N.R.A. general has been sur- passed in the most extraordinary burst of ignorance and falsehood we have seen in a long time. From the august halls of Columbia University it comes. And the well known millionaire retired Pro- fessor of Economics, Edwin R. A. Seligman, is the author. For twenty-five years the Professor was teaching his students that Marx’s analysis of capitalism was all wrong. The Professor fervently declared that capitalism has found a way of keeping the “best features of pri- vate property” while gradually ironing out the “bad features.” And four years ago, in the middle of one of these learned lectures, the crisis descended on the Professor's head like a ton of brick. And so for the last four years of the crisis the Pro- fessor maintained a pathetic and dignified silence about hts theories, * . UT yesterday he emerged from his comfortable re- tirement with the following propositions. Propositions one: “the depression is ending,” says the Professor. ‘ Can you beat that? Steel production just crumpled to 26 per cent of capacity and is heading downward with dizzying speed, since there are no orders on the books of the steel companies. The government reports that retail sales of the most necessary foods are lagging 10 per cent behind last year, indicating even more misery than last year. Every week witnesses the closing down of more tex- tile and auto factories, and the discharge of thousands of workers who were taken on for the temporary Sum- mer “boom.” Is it not a rockbottom fact, Professor, that the Federal Reserve Bank reported three days ago that the present mountain of “surplus” goods fs now greater than at the beginning of the Roose- velt regime? And is thie not the surest proof that the fundamental cause of the crisis has been intensi- filed? Even you yourself, Professor, have taught on count- Jess occasions that no crisis can end while capitalism chokes under the burden of “surplus” which cannot be sold to poverty-stricken workers. Haven’t you heard, Professor, that the bank crisis is growing, that production is dropping like a plum- met? Haven't you read, Professor, that the New York Times business index has dropped 50 per cent in the last three months and is still falling? ° . * | cael sees two: “the fear of uncontrolled infla- tion has little basis in fact .. . and need upset no one .. This is so impudent that even the writers in the Wall Street financial journals know better, For not only have they already admitted the cheap- ening of the dollar, but we have Roosevelt's word that we are going to have still more. Doesn’t the Professor know that the dollar has been cheapened by 30-40 per cent? Hasn’t he ever heard of the fact that the Roose- velt government has gone off the gold standard? Doesn't he know every Federal Reserve Bank report now admits that it was inflation that shot prices ‘up- ward during the summer? Can't he read in the newspapers every day that in- flation is shooting prices up still more? Does he actually think that workers will swallow his learned blarney when they can see in their own daily experience that the 20 per cent inflationary rise in the cost of living has sliced their wages by just that much? 5 . % |) pron id the Professor know that every elementary textbook of even capitalist economics points out the hopelessness of “controlling” inflation? Hasn't he ever heard of the “controlled” German inflation and the crash that followed it? Doesn't he know that as soon as inflation stops, prices start to tumble, and then sti more inflation must be shot into the arm of industry, and that this Process must go on and on until the bubble breaks? ° * . jae then the Professor winds up with the following gem: “We are in the midst of a social revolution within the framework of capitalism, which Promises lasting benefits.” ‘This is what the professor had been teaching for twenty-five years and we had thought that the crisis had taught him a lesson. But capitalist Professors are not interested in learn- ing anything. Their function was best described by Lenin when he called them “scientific salesmen of the capitalist class.” So now the Professor squeaks again of his favorite theory—the “reform” of capitalism without touching the profits of the capitalists, He thinks he can have a revolution—and still have capitalism. He wants to abolish the “evils” of capital- ism, without destroying the deep-rooted capitalist causes of these evils. But the workers and farmers of America, although they have no college degrees, know much better than that, Professor. They know that it is the private capitalist owner- ship of the means of production, the factories, ete, that produces crises, unemployment, hunger and war. And they know that the only way to solve the crisis is simply to smash the rule of the capitalist class of which the “impartial” scientific Professor is such an integral part. Grau Government Near Fall as Mass Upsurge Spreads General Strike Wide-| spread Outside | Havana HAVANA, Noy, 1.—With the mass | unrest of the Cuban masses develop- ing toward a complete general tie-up of industrial activity outside of Ha~ vana, the Grau San- Martin govern- ment appears today to be close to its fall. Only in Havana, where the mass | arrest. of workers’ leaders, and the terror which is launched against all open activities of the workers, has the general strike called by the National Confederation of Labor been less ex- tensive than had been expected Reactionary forces, i with the fajlure measures to crush the ma: and resistance of the workers, are maneuvering to. take. advantage of the insecurity of the Grau govern- ment to establish what they hope will be a firmer government. Carlos Men- | dieta, Nationalist leader, is men-} tioned as a possible successor as pres- ident. No capitalist government, however, | would be able to establish a firm rule by capitalist means, with the mass revolutionary upsurge at its present level. The breakdawn of Cuban econ- ernment to Wall Street, and the ac- tual bankruptcy of the public treas- ury make it clear that only a workers’ and peasants’ government will be able to meet the necessary demands of the masses and establish a stable re- e. U. S. Warships on Watch The 30 gray battleships of the Wall Street government shift silently day by day from one port to another, maintaining their constant threat, concentrating at the points where the workers’ mass actions reach the highest point. ‘The main demands of the general strike are for freedom for all politi- cal prisoners, for the right to strike, to meet, and for freedom of the press. Col. Fulgencio Batista, chief of staff, visited Matanzas, where the railway strike is continuing, and where a number of sugar mill strikes are in progress. He issued orders to the army to use all violence necessary to smash the workers’ picket lines and mass meetings. Army Unrest Grows Unrest, however, is deepening in the army, and substantial sections of it are radicalized. The “Red Senti- nel,” a revolutionary soldiers’ publi- cation, is being received with ap- proval by the rank and file of the army. The appointment of a large number of Machadista officers by the Grau government is serving to in- crease the spirit of protest among the soldiers. ’ Unprecedented militancy is being displayed in all the workers’ strug- | gles. In Ranchuele, workers of the | Santa Maria sugar central organized a demonstration and attacked a mili- tary train which was carrying their arrested leaders to Havana. They nearly succeeded in’ rescuing their leaders from the army escort. The betrayal of the students’ in- terests by the leaders of the reac- tionary Directorio Estudiantil, the chief supporters of the government, is being recognized by ever larger sec- tions of the student body. At a meet- ing called by the “Committee Against Tuition Fees,” organized by Ala Iz- quierda, the left-wing student organ- ization, speaker after speaker de- nounced the government and the Di- rectorio leaders. The meeting decided unanimously to demand free tuition, and announced that if the govern- ment does not open the schools by Noy. 20, the students themselves will, France, ‘Trebles Duty on Brazilian Imports PARIS, Nov. 1.—France took a fur- ther step in its economic warfare with Brazil, with a decree which trebles all duties on imports from Brazil. ‘This is declared to, be in retaliation for # Brazilian decree last week which raised the tariff on imports fram France. This decree, in turn, was a counter-measure to the deci- sion of the French government to seize all proceeds of imports from Brazil, and apply them to unpaid debts of Brazil to French holders of Brazilian securities, omy, the huge obligations of the gov- | | among the features of the even Young Metal Worker Elected to Go to Cuba Fifteen Organizations Prepare Greetings to| Cuban Workers; Symposium Friday, Dance Satur: NEW YORK—Joe Th metal worker elected bs mates of the Crom his shop- the youth trade union member the American delegation to Cuba. He has been endorsed by tt ith Committee of the Trade Uni Council, and by shop and ganizations. All youth o7 have been ‘urged to r cover the expenses of 1 A Cuban dance will bo held Sat: urday, Nov. 4, to raise .fv fo: this delegate. It will be held at the Anti-Imperialist League Hall, 33 E.| 10th St., under the sponso: of the Youth Section of the Trad Union Unity Council: A Negro j band and the Red Dancers will Fifteen organi: branches, represent bers, have forwa solidarity to the Cuban masz Anti-Imperialist League of to be delivered perso delegation which sails for Nov. 9, Among those who have thus far pledged their solidarity are the In- ternational Labor De! the In- ternational Workers Order, the America Alliance of Chinese Anti Imperialists, United Counc o Working Class Women, D: Com~- mittee of Russian Organizations of Chicago, District 2 of the Commu- nist Party, Chinese Branch of the LL.D,, and the Middle Bronx Work- ers Club, The delivery of these gr working class and peasant tions in Cuba, struggling 1 against the strikebreaking G Martin Government, will inspire nev strength in them, and wil serve a8 | a tremendous source of new revolu- | tionary energy, sued by the In addition to the forwarding of greetings, organizations throughou the city are preparing | to thousands of signatures to a petition | addressed to President Roosevelt de- | manding the immediate withdrawal | of warships from Cuban waters, nulli- fication of the Platt Amendment, All- \ secure | op will be | of | |W, reid a statement is-| Yarnell, the base is now capable o' ui-Imperinlist, League. | taking care of all the oil, food, am- - of | Munition and other requirements of | | enlargement Jay to Raise Funds al base. Next Sunday is set aside a Red Sunday for obtaining thou- is of signatures to this petition. To help cover the expenses of the trade union members of the delega~ tional Committee for the Di th New » 66 School for Social Re- W. 18th St., this Friday sy Beals, author of cuba,” will speak on ne © Across the Sea;” Manuel , exiled correspondent of “El Havana daily, will speak on ‘Cuba's Negroe: Manuel Gomez will speak on “Sugar Talks,” and | Waldo Fra novelist, will speak on “When Big Business Rules.” Robert Dunn, chairman of the Anti- Imperialist League, will be chairman. A mass send-off meeting. for the delegates be held in Park Pal- ace, Harlem, Wednesday, Nov. 8, the jnight before the delegation leaves. |A simiiar meeting will be held in Breoklyn at the same time, U.S. Spends $10,000,000 on Hawaii Naval Base HONOLULU, Noy. 1—Pearl Har- bor, the naval base of the Hawaiian Slands, must be developed until it can be used as a base for the whole United States fleet, Claude Swanson, Se y of tho Nayy, announced on his recent visit here. A development program involving $9,894,000 is now begun, the money coming out of the “public works” fund, This includes an item of $380,- 009 for an ammunition depot. An- other $3,000,000 is being spent to edge the harbor, in order to per- mit the biggest warships to enter. According to Rear Admiral H. E. he whole U.S. fleet, and only needs of ‘its basin to ac- | comodate the whole fleet. Has your unit, club, union, LW.0. Branch, your organization held a collection for the Daily Worker? and evacuation of the Guantanamo Help save our “Daily.” nse of Political Prisoners is hold- | y |ing a symposium on “Cuba Revolits,” William Liebowitz Wins Burek Cartoon in Tuesday’s Bidding The winner of Tuesday's original “I Don't Want Your Old Books,” is William Leibowitz, of Brooklyn, N, Y. He won with a $10 contribution. Sec- } tion 2, Unit 12, came second with a $9 contribution. A group of architects rallied to the support. of art and revolution with a contribution of $4.90. The sum total for today is $23. Yesterday's total $17.11, Total to date $40.11, Burek is contributing the original drawings of his daily cartoon to the one who makes the largest contribu- | tion for that day in his name to the $40,009 Daily Worker Drive, ‘Arab Anti-British Upsurge Spreading Through Palestine |Martial Law Meets General Strike of Arabs | JERUSALEM, Nov. 1—With mar- | tial law clamped down by the Brit- ish authorities throughout Palestine, | and 2 general strike of Arabs hold- | ing firm in the cities, mass demon- strations against British imperialism in Palestine continued today. Arab capitalists helped the British assistant district commissioner in breaking up an Arab demonstration at Tulkarem. A large crowd demon- | strated in sympathy with the Pal- | estine Arabs at Amman, capital of Transjordania. A big demonstration has been ar- ranged for Friday in Bagdad, Irak, and all markets were closed today ; in Damascus in protest against the murderous attacks of the British on ; the Arabs in Palestine. All Arab papers in Palestine have the British maintain the strict censorship which was imposed along with military rule. With the exception of seven Jews slightly injured last week when a crowd attacked a bus near Jaffa, not a single Jew has been molested throughout the six days since the British fired on the first Arab de- monstration, murdering ten Arabs. Broad Cultural Gains Greet Soviet Anniversary By VERN SMITH (Special to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Nov. 1 (By Cable). — ‘Throughout the Soviet Union, the in- | stitution of “cultural marches,” by which the leading groups of workers stimulate the raising of the standards of living and the level of culture, are reaching a climax in preparation for the celebration of ‘the sixteenth anni- versary of the revolution on Novem- ber 7. . On these “cultural marches,” volun- | teers from the cities and from the machine and tractor stations travel to the collective farms and the less advanced corners of the country. They help in the repair of the col- lective farm dwellings, stimulate the cleaning up of everything, the land- scaping of the countryside. They come to the collective farmers | to install radios, equip Red corners, libraries, kindergartens, clubs, nurser- ies. They stimulate the local popu- lation_to do the same, encouraging competition for the best apartment, club, barn, ete. Press House Repair. | There is a similar movements in the ! big factories, dormitories, apartment houses. House repairs in preparation for the winter are especially stressed at this time, and Pravda, the central organ of the Communist Party, de- voted yesterday's leading editorial to the question of the preparation of all workers’ houses for the winter. “A leak in a worker's house injures pro- duction just as would a leak in a Spreading Means of Culture, and , Improving Living Conditions factory roof,” it s Gorlovka, Tula, and Yaro’ reported in the lead in these ties, but the movement is nati wide. In Gorlovka, 1,190 apartments are being repaired, and the whole population supplied with fuel, In Yaroslavl the workers in a few days repaired 500 dormitories at~ tached to the rubber combine. A no featur2 in the Donetz Basin is city committees to organize the residents of all hou to renair them, and special commission* the repairs and to of the expens2 the Soviet jail mect, and what share the factory, mino, or collective farm administration, Unions Inspect Housing. The All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions has instructed all its local organizati to insr the heuses of all wi 's and d. ine if they are in condition for winter weather. This cammrirn fs to ke eon~ cluded with'n a month, beginning October 25. “Let us make every house, court- yard, and staircase sneak for itself on the great proletarian holiday,” says Pravda, The Commissariat of Health of Soviet Russia, summarizing the re- sults of a contest for the best nursery, reports that four million children used thy orjes in the first nine menths cf t year in the Russian Soviet Republic. Tiree million, eight mundred and fifty thousand village hildren also patronized the nurser- ies. New workers’ houses, street car lines, and water supply systems are being rushed to completion in many Cities before November 7. Foy ex- ample, the new city of Dniepetrovsk is now providing 41,000 cubic meters of water, sufficient for everyone in the city. Speolal Advantage fer Shock Brigaders, The Central Control Commission of the Workers’ and Peasants In- spection has decreed that special con- sideration shall be given to shock brigaders, including spe7i better meals, @ special supply cf cles of common use, Including food: h arrantements whereby t crder them and have them d: to their homes; also special faciltiies for tailoring, shoe repair, etc. This is to be a permanent arrangement, and an Indication of the rising liv- ing standards, but it is Just before the sixteenth @ | Workers of Factories and Farms Lead in the! as a further subject of celebration. Everywhere new schools, palaces of culture, and clubs will be opened on November 7. For example, a new hospitel with 2,000 beds is to be opened in Baku; the workas of the Gorki Molotov factory 1a a new school for 1,000.students. with a sporis | stadium, ambulatery, kindergartens, nurseries, new dining hell. Many cullurel exhibitions are being opened in preparation for November 7. For example, fifty exhibitions are open in Tiflis, under the s!o7an, “Eliminate the last vestiges of illiter- acy among the railroad worker.” in Samara there are exhibitions of tie Products of all local factories, Art and Science Exhibiticns. In Leningred there has opened an exbibition under the auspices cf the city theaters, showing the 16-year his- tory of the Soviet motion pictures. ; In Kirgizie, painters have opened an exhibition of national art. The Leningrad All-Union Academy ot Science has organized scientific ex- hibitions for workers’ clubs, traveling exhibitions for the villages, and redio talks on sciences, Scientists cf the Acacemy are on a visit to the Baltic navy, to concluds an agreement for mutual patronage. The Mo-cow Theater of the Revo- lution and the Subway Construction Organization Nave entered into an drawing of Burck’s cartoon called, | Dimitroff Again Expelled at Nazi Paper’s Command | “PVE SUPPORTED YOU BIRDS LONG ENOUGH!” —By Burek Goering “Too Busy” to Testify at Trial for Fire He Caused \Unbalanced Criminal Is Witness Against Communists (Special to the Daily Worker) j AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, 'Noy. 1 (Via Zurich, Switzerland)— George Dimitroff, fiery Bulgarian Communist defendant at the Reich- stag fire trial, was dragged from the courtroom by Storm Troopers again today on order of the presiding judge. The trial went on without him.in the Reichstag building, Berlin. The judge's action was in response to a complaint made in this morne ing’s issue of the “Voikische Beo= i bachter,”. the official organ of the Nazi government, that Dimitroff was not being handled with sufficient by the court. Dimitroff Ordered Out the ccurt opened to- Soon, after jailbird, who Torgier, leader deputies in the ed him $14,000 eu the Reichstag Communist eg, had offc 3-in 1932 to s of the prosecu- 5 Dimitroff's exlama- ing in Nazi depue bring in a thief!” eprimanded Di him to be silent! uture. “The Beobachter can be sa ied a * was Dimitroff’s an- purple with rage, Xe p excluded e taking mounced in the court ‘today, despite the fact that both are closely. conn: d with the events around the fire, and Goeri bern a the world of being the insiigato: of the has accu throughout fire. The court explained that they were “too busy with the coming ref- erendum.” A journalist named Zimmermann, employed by Alfred Hugenberg, na- tionalist leader, was the latest of a long series of witnesses which the prosecution has been “discovering” in the course of the trial. Mose of the prosecution’s witnesses in recent days have been Nazis and criminals, all of whom are supposed to have suddenly remembered their evidence and “vol- unteered” it to the prosecution in the course of the trial. This series of surprise witnesses reveals the des- perate efforts of the prosection to manufacture new frame-up evidence as its case continues to collapse daily, despite the exclusion of most of the witnesses called for by the defense. Zimmermann, who “offered his evi- dence” to the prosecution only on Sept. 30, when the trial was well un- der way, said he had met Torgler shortly. before the fire, and that Torgier had said: “The atmosphere is getting thick. Presently there will be a beacon light which will drive the rulers of Germany to their mouse holes.” Rising from his chair, Torgler de- clared with passion, “Does this jour- nalist think me a fool? Does this petty German nationalist dream that a leader of the Communist Party would discuss Communist Party se- crets with a writer for the Lokal An- zeiger?” A criminal named Kunsack, just released from jail where he had been sent for’embezzlement and immoral ity, was brought to the stand to assert that he had been present at a Come munist Party conference in Duessel- dorf in 1925, where ten Communists were ‘present, including Van der Lubbe, sthe young Dutch tool of the Nazis, who was arrested at the scene of the fire. He declared that Lubbe was solemnly introduced to the con- ferente, although he would’ be only 16 years old at that time. Show, Witness Mentally Abnormal He then told a fantastic story about a midnight meeting in a forest in 1930, where Torgler stressed the necessity of blowing up and burning public buildings. Alfons Sack, attorney representing Torgler, showed by court records that Kunsack is a mentally abnormal criminal. He brought out a letter which Kunsack had addressed to tae court, begging to have his sentenco eancelisd,in return for giving this ev- idenc3,"and at the same time askiug for witness fees. “Heil Hitler” Shout AT? N.Y. Nazis as New Rally Is Promi y Js Promised NEW YORK.—A thousand New ‘k Naz's and sympathizers shouted “Heil Hit in Turn Halle, 85th St. and fexington Ave,, Tuesday night, as speakers announced that within the next, two weeks an ‘important annotincement” would be made re- garding the holding of a mass Nazl rally imiNew. Yor! Dr. Ignaa T. Gvich!, Harlem Hos- surgeon and president of the ‘Frieads-ef New Germany,” the offie cial Nazi organizetion in America, pledged bimsclf to carry on the work begun by Heinz Spanknochel, Hitler envoy,.who has been driven under- froundias a result cf protests initiated by the: Drily Worker's exposures of his activiticn, cures have al- i1 Vaslem to a 2 jramadiate i’ Peony « Bariem. “I, sted by (be League ct Struggle for Negro Rights. A serics of mass meetings in Harlem have been arranged to inyolve all the resi- dents of that district in the protest movement eee ih ria a Pony —?