The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1933, Page 8

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Anti-Lynch Conference THE bloody orgy of lynching now raging throughout the country, the hideous lynching of George Arm- wood in Maryland, the legal murder of Euel Lee, the more than forty reported lIynchings this yesr, the sinister preparations of Alabama lynch officials to hand the Scottsboro boys and their defendants over to a lynch mob on the eve of the new trials, all sharply emphasize the need for united, vigorous action of all elements opposed to oppression of the Negro masses. It is achieve this purpose that the Public In- quiry and Lynching Conference, Which opens in Baltimore today, was called by the Leazue of Strug- gle for Negro Rights, ternational Labor Defense. The Public Inquiry wilt be presented with a mass of unanswerable evidence exposing the complicity of Gov. Ritchie and other Maryland officials in the lynching of Armwood. More, {t will receive the reborts of careful investigations of | lynchings in Tuscaloosa, Ale., and other parts of the Country. These investigations give irrefutable proof of the participation of State and County officials, gov- ernors, judges, sheriffs, etc., in organizing and carry- img out the lynchings of Negro victims. All of this factual material and concrete evidence will be placed before President Roosevelt, backed with the force and determination of white and Negro work- ers who demand the enactment and emforcement of the ‘Bill of Civil Rights presented by the Scottsboro marchers and ignored by both Roosevelt and the U. 8. Congress. » The unmasking of these officials strikes smash- ing blow at the theory advanced by the ruling class, ational Association for the Advancement of Col- | People, and other white and Negro reformists, lynchings are spontaneous, are due te ignorance and are initiated by the white toilers. The evidence will include facts om the economic backg) i of the lynch terror, the brutal exploitation of Negro and white toilers, the swindling of Negro ceoppers and share oroppers by the white landlords. ‘The Anti-Lynching Conference should give direc- and leadership to this indignation. Every work- ‘S organization, every worker, every honest in- must be mobilized in a nation-wide struggle hing. The fight against lynching is at ame time » fight for the national liberation of Negro People, for full democratic rights for Me- ‘ves all over the country, and for self-determination Negro majorities in the “Black Belt.” Support the Baltimore Public Inquiry and Anti- Lynching Conference! Defend the Negro masses! Defend the innocent Scottsboro boys! The Roosevelt Farm Program| historic Farm Conference which is now fn 3es- ne People’s Auditorium, Chicago, faces the of, fighting the Roosevelt farm program, a pro- am which is deliberately directed to protecting the and investments of the Wall Street. mono- polle: the expense of the impoverished and middle | farmers city proletariat. ‘The Roosevelt farm program ts a deliberate at- | tempt to drive a wedge between the exploitéd wage s in the countryside, to keep them from struggle against exploitation. on, Rooseyelt’s entire AAA Wall Street program, a program to protect reet_ mortgage holders. velt has set aside $2,000,000,000 ostensibly to mortgage ridden farmers of their debt It is in this way that Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture describes the Roosevelt “re-financing” program In actuality, the $2,000,000,000 for “re-financing” will go not to the farmers, but te the mortgage holders, for whom Roosevelt has provided a plan whereby the Wall Street banks, insnrance companies, cte., can protect themselves against loss by exchang- ing their uncollectable mortgages for guaranteed Gevernment bonds. As for the vast majority of ruined farmers, they are either inelegible for the Government loans, or else, the government loans merely postpone their bankrupt- cy, and add to their already intolerable debt burdens. Roosevelt comes before the farmers with @ pro- gram to “remedy” the capitalist curse of “overproduc- tion” in the face of want and hunger.* He’ ‘proposes to subsidize the destruction of ‘acreage, to ‘send prices upward, and make the city consumers pay for the whole process by higher living costs and process- ing taxes. This is the essence of his farm program—finance the destruction of agricultural production by levying an enormous sales tax on farm goods, to be paid for by the consuming masses in the city. But this enormous sales tax, amounting to $900,- 900,000 a year, never reaches the tenant, small, ruined farmers, for whom Roosevelt claims it 1s intended. gram is burden: the acreage reduction program! ‘The crops upon which? they depend for their livelihood are destroyed! | In Texae slone, officials have admitted, over 200,000 tenant farmers have already been driven off the land as * result of the Roosevelt acreage retiuc- tions. And finally, the Roosevglt price-raising program not only still further curtails that market upon which the farmers depend for the sele of their products, but also catches them in the deadly scissors of rising otices for manufactured goods which they must buy. ‘The het result of the Roosevelt program ts pau- perleation, ruin, and proletarianization for the vast masses of small farmera, o 8 8 WHAT ts the way out for the ruined «mall farmers? | How can they end the yoke of mortgage debts, heavy taxes, starvation prices and extortionate costs? Only by forming « united fighting front with the agricultural laborers, and by winning the middle farm- ers as allies, only by forming a united front with the Proletariat of the cities, What class can lead the oppressed farmers in their fight against the Roosevelt Wall Street farm program, against the whole system of Wall Street robbery? Only the proletariat, the most revolutionary class in modern society, led by the Communist Party, the lynching and the hideous | with the support of the In- | which they are members, and the leadership of | cities and the ruined and impoverished | farm pro- | ruined farmers im mase struggles, cam successfully lead the ovpreesed farmers ont of the yoke of debt slavery. The Chicago Farm Conference must cement this iy with the proletariat, under the leadership of 6 proletariat Jed by the Communist Party, for the abolition of the entire system of capitalist robbery and oppression | ———SS Decreeing Starvation RESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in his speech to five hun- | dred state and local officials, again sets forth his determination to break all promises made to the un- employedp and immediately to cut two, million job- less off of the relief lists. and. put them-on forced labor. Roosevelt, during his campaign, repeatedly promised to see that all unemployed received. unem~ ployed relief, and favored unemployment insurance. Roosevelt promised at the beginning of the NRA. that the Public Works Program (a part of the N.R.A. program) would put six million Jobless to work within a few months. Instead, mass lay-offs have increased. Industrial production has gone down, with seventeen million workers stiJl] unemployed. In order to cover this up, Roosevelt now claims that it does not make any difference how many have been put back to work. | “The number has been estimated variously at from three and a half to five million,” he says. “The actual |. figures make very little difference.” In this curt and | nonthalant manner does Roosevelt dismiss his broker promises. Roosevelt's latest speech, which in essence is a declaration of further relief cuts, admits the failure of the Public Works Program of the N.R.A. This pro- gram set aside $3,300,000,000 which was supposed-to go for “public works.” Instead, the bulk of this money was put into. war preparations, which employed only 8 few thousand workers, Now, $400,000,000 of this same Public Works. Fynd, which has not benefited the- unemployed, is used as @ pretext to cut two million off the relief lists under cover of making a new promise that the fund, which it is clear is not aiding the unemployed, will supply jobs. It is clear, from the past broken promises and practices, that Roosevelt intends to rob the unem- ployed of even the miserable relief that they are now getting, giving only « few forced labor jobs. Roose- vyelt brazenly admits that no new funds are to be put into. unemployment insurance or relief, declaring, “This $400,000,000 {s not going to cost the Federal Government any.more money, because we are taking it. out of the large public works appropriation of $3,300,000,000." oer 8 8 OOSEVELT then sugar-coats the bragen relief cut with honeyed words about the “mental good” of the unemployed. Two million jobless workers, he says, | are getting no relief because they were “too proud to ask for assistance.” Roosevelt thus dismisses with s wave of the hand the millions of unemployed, not on relief lists, hun- | dreds of thousands of whom have faced police clubs and arrests, in demonstrations demanding relief... The millions of desperate and starving who are*getting no relief, got no relief because the state, local and federal government, busy spending war funds, busy with graft, and refusing to tax the rich, denied them relief. The unemployed workers must fight against all attempts to cut them off of the relief lists. Now Roosevelt is going to do the unemptoyed ® big favor. Those two million unemployed workers who, through organization and struggle, have forced the authorities to put them on the relief rolls and give them @ small allotment of relief, are going to be cut off the relief lists. ee Fete Nga relief is bad for the unemployed, Roosevtlt tells . “Two million are today on what we might just ag well call frankly the dole. When any man or wo- man goes on a dole, something happens to them mentally and the qufcker they are taken off the dole | the better it is for them for the rest of their lives.” With unprecedented brazenness, Rodsevelt takes two million off of the relief lists, takes even 4 shred of | security against starvation away from them, puts the unemployed on forcéd labor, and says he does it for their “mental good.” ‘The seventeen million unemployed workers demand above all, security against starvation, an assurance that they and their families will have food, clothing and lodging. The unemployed workers must not allow Roose- velt’s talk of their “mental good” to rob them of relief. Roosevelt, for campaign purposes, recognized before election the right of all unemployed to such security. Now the unemployed demand of Roosevelt adequate unemployment relief and the enactment of the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Green on Recognition |R.. WILLIAM GREEN, who fought bitterly against recognition of the Soviet Union, now, when recog- nition appears about to be arranged, takes occasion | to voice justification for his policy. Speaking in the name of the fascist-minWed offi- claldom of the A. F. of L., William Green replies to a statement made by Walter Duranty, New York Times correspondent, in which he declared that Green was 12 years behind the times. This infuriated Mr. Green. In these 12 years, during which Green, Gompers, Woll, Morrison, and the other labor lieutenants were betraying the rank and file of the A. F. of L. and vituperating the Soviet Union, the workers’ fatherland has advanced tremen- dously. It has become # power that.must be reckoned with even by: the foremost imperialist country. | Above all, despite the official resolutions of the | A. Fo of L. paynch-bellied bureaucracy, local unions by the hundreds have voted for recognition of the workers’ fatherland. ‘Today, when hundreds of thou- sands of A. F. of L. members are suffering from un- employment and starvation, feeling the. strikebreaking deeds of their own leaders through the N.R.A., their sympathy for the Soviet. Union has grown by. leaps and bounds, On the contrary, they are driven off the land by | Ce knows the growing profound sympathy among the A. F. of L. rank and file for the: Sovigt Union, where the workers rule and where Socialism is. be- ing constructed. He also knows that it was the deep crisis of American capitalism that forced steps towards recognition, because during this. very. crisis the U.S. SR, had strengthened itself tremendously. Now in his furious hatred of the successful pro- letarian revolution; enraged at the futility of his past deeds among his own rank and file, he vents his venomous bitterness against Communism and in de- fense of capitalist hunger institutions, Shee SP eat R more than 12 years,” he declares, “the American Federation of Labor (he means, of course, the well- | ald, strikebreaking bureaucracy) has served as a line of national defense against the assaults of Communism. That line of défense has never yet been breached; it stands as an impregnable bulwark both in opposition to Communism and in defense of our nation’s free institutions and democracy and of freedom.” In this report, every worker can read what Green considers the basic role of the A. F.‘of L. officialdom, namely, to act as the bulwark for capitalism against. the hungry millions, against the workers on strike for higher ‘pay, against the revolutionary ‘workingclass seeking to end capitalism and all its rotten institutions of hunger, forced labor, war, fascism and the degrada- tion of the workingclass, It is a justification of sup- Party of the proletarian revolution, united with the port for all the war moves against the Soviet Union. Soviet Gold Bonds Very Popular As” | | USSR Forges Ahead | Chase National Bank’ Agrees to Handle | Bond. Purchases | NEW YORK—It is causing a good | |deal of cothment in financial cir- | cles here while most bonds, includ- ling the bonds of the United States | Government, are falling in price, the | Soviet Govérnment 7 per cent.Golq | Bonds are finding a ready.and rap- | | idly increasing market. ‘The news: of. the remarkable « tri- | unphs of Soviet. Socialist industry | jand. agriculture, the~ launching of | = Second Five-Year Plan, the | unusually high liquidity of Soviet | finances, and the record of the So- | viet Union for prompt payments of | |all its obligations, culminating with | |the: present ~negotiations going . on | toward Soviet recognition by «the | United States, -all have resulted in new bursts ‘of ‘popularity for the | Soviet Gold- Bonds, As a result..of the growing de- mand, the Chase National Bank of New York, one of the largest banks |in the world, has agreed to -act ‘as | paying agent for the Soviet, bonds. Guaranteed. By Soviet Union The new Soviet Gold Bomds have | |behind them the strength and hon- | |esty of the Workers’ Republic. They | pay interest.at seven per cent.’ Both principal ahd. interest are <payable | jin dollars in New York, based on a definite weight of gold, thus prox! tecting against the inflation of Pinot dollar. | Also important. from a \ worker's | | of the U.S‘S.R. agrees to Tepurchase | | these bonds-at par on demand :at | any time after one year from date | of purchase. No less important is a He lea funds raised by the bonds are uséd to maa ae ‘up tie | cialist farms”.and factories,of . the | USSR. Interest and principal are | payable at the Chase National Bank | of New York, which acts as ‘the/| paying agent of the State Bank of the USSR. The Chase, Bank | also acts as the agent in connec- | tion with the one-year repurchase | agreement, | Further information about these bonds may be obtained from ‘the pore American Securities Corpora- jon, Dept. A, 30 Broad’ St.,. New York City. 4 | Rift Widens Over War Lords Control Of Fukien Province. Japanese ~Imperialists!! ‘Have Eye On Bigger Slice-of China ~ NANKING, China, Nov. 17.—Kuo- mintang officials here are greatly purturbed over the separationist movement in Fukien provifces, which is undermining Chiang Kai Shek’s tule, They fear a new militarist war |that may weaken the anti-Soviet | war. Fukien province recently was the scene of great advances made by the Red Army from Kiangsi province, under the leadership of Comrade Chu Teh, chairman of the military coun- cil of the Central Soviet districts. Nanking government officials de- |clare that General Tsai Ting Kal, head of the 19th Route Army, which |Tules Fukien, favors an alliance with Chiang Kai Shek. American imperialists here claim that the Fukien separationist move- ment is inspired by Japanese inter- ests. The Japanese have a strong foothold in Fukien, especially around | Foochow. ‘The Japanese own For- mosa Island, which is off the coast |of Pukien, Recently the Japanese have been making aerial surveys of | Fukien province, and have an eye on this territory in the process of the further dismemberment of China. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1933 “TEA IS SERVED, SIR!” | Helping the Daily Worker through bidding for~ the original drawings of Burck’s cartoons: Group of Architects, New York, wins yesterday's drawing with a bid of $8. Other bidders, Unit 14, Sec- —By Burek | J.PT MORGAN tion 7, Detrott,: $0; Goldstein's Ibewe. party; Philadel- phia, $5.88; J. Kline, Brockton, Mass., $3; J. L. Deob, $2. Total to date, $165.13. - Ukrainian and Riise White Guards Mobilize jor War Againgst U.S.S. R. By LISTON ™ M, OAK The Ukrainian National Associa- tion, organized by the remnants of | Union, (wuuseaae and who |Petlura’s pogrom gang,.who are now | German Nazis. and other fascist | States, pat both’ in Europe and America. |holding throughout the United States ‘These org sony protest’ meetings against the Terog- | are working for thousands of Russians, Jews and |imperialist intervention in the Soviet |others of Russian birth or extraction, are* cooperating with the | who are-.working in the United | protests vigorously _ against | the slanders of these ‘emigre of former | Ukrainian nationalists and White Japan Asks USSR To Destroy Its Border Defens But Japanese Army ] Rapidly Preparing For War : TOKIO, Nov. 17.—While constant increasing shipment of troops and’a forees to Manchuquo near the Sovi border, Foreign Minister Hirota: he today ~“suggested” to the Sovi Union that it dismantle all its fort fications. ‘This provocative request was mac | by Hirota to the Soviet Ambassad: Yureheff during the course of diy Jomatic conversations. Hirota said that the treaty betwee jJapan and the Czar after the 19% Russo-Japanese war provided { such non-fortification. The Japanese minister, howeve said nothing about the rapid wer preparations the Japanese are er gaged in at the very Soviet. horde They are constructing special mil tary railways, establishing air base constructing ammunition dumps, ar doing everything necessary for an a’ tack on the Soviet Union. British May Offer Arms Concessions To Nazi German Japan, Switzerlanc Increase Military Budgets LONDON, Noy. 17. — Sir Joh Simon, British Foreign Minister, wh left, today for Geneva to bolster u the collapsing “disarmament” con ference, will not stop off in Paris t consult with French government .of ficials as originally planned. Thi change in program is due to the in sistent demands in the conservatiy press that the National governmen adopt a policy of concessions to Ger mény’s demands for arms equality. Berlin dispatches report that th Nazi chiefs have: hailed this mov with enthusiasm, but at the sam time have decided to increase thei nition of the, U.S. 8. R,, one of them’ in Washington Square ‘today, dorséd and’ supported’ by. Matthew | Woll, Representative Hamilton” Fish, | \and ‘Ralph. Easley of. the National Civic Federation. » This’is proved by | definite evidence in the possession of | the Friends of the: Soviet Union. The parent organization of the Ukrainian National, Association. with its headquarters at Lwow, Poland, is responsible for the recent brutal | murder of Majlo, Secretary of the Soviet legation there, These Ukrain- jan nationalists, like the “Russian ite _ Guards, boast. of «their levements” in assassination and | Sabotage. Against Soviet Ukraine For many years, this parent or- - |ganization has been acting in the interests of the Polish Government and assisting in its terrorist activites aganst the peasants of the. Eastern part of the Ukraine. It is well known that this organization acis wholly in thé interest of. Polish imperialism and its chief aim is to organize an invasion into Soviet Ukraine. ‘ In the United States, the Ukrain- ian National Association cooperat- ing with various other White Guard- ist organizations, including the or- gan of ‘the’ Russian “Socialists,” No- , voye Russkoye Siovo, are now carry~ ing on an intense campaign against the recognition of Soviet Rv sia. The organ ‘of the Ukrainian National As- sociation “Svoboda” is announcing a | series of meetings to be held throughout the country to protest against the.recognition of. the Soviet Government and incidenally aiso to collect funds to finance white guard- | ist. bands which. are now massed on | the Manchurian border, ready to help Japan in an invasion of Soviet Russia, Cooperate With Nazis ‘There is evidence that the Russian | and Ukrainian reactionaries who are attempting to prevent the success- ful consummation of recognition ne- Tzarist officers, Russian capitalists, | soliciting funds. from American capi- ‘talists with. the avowed. purpose of lorganizing sabotage against the sec- {ond Five-Year Pina. |. Advocate Murder, Wrecking | Arson, wrecking and assassination | |to. be followed by imperialist inter- | |vention are advocated by the “Bul- | Hetin of the Central’ Committee of \the Brotherhood of Russian Truth,” |as well as by The Fascist, the Rus- \skaya Gazeta, Rossiya Novoye, Rus- skoye Slovo, all White Guard and Menshevik organs in the United States. Their plans include the or- {ganization of an armed uprising against the Soviet Government, the assassination of Soviet officials | both ‘inside the Soviet Union and in capitalist. countries, a widespread espionage: system, the fabrication of |forged documents and other meas- jures intended to involve the Soviet Government in conflicts with other governments. “The Brotherhood of Russian Truth” has recently been joined by the newly-formed. “general staff of Russian Fascists,” which is a sub- sidiary of the ROND—the Leazue |of Russian Nazis. Their activities have been intensified by. the pros- | |pect of early recognition of the So~ jviet Government. Pretending to | speak in the name of “tens of thou- | | sands of Russian-American citizens,” they Have sent telegrams to the President. of the United States in | opposition “to négotiations with So- viet. murderers,” imploring the | United States Government “in the jname of Christian ctyijization” to abandon negotiations with Litynoff. |And after! recognition, they will 'at- |tempt to disrupt normal ‘diplomatic relations, as they did in Great Brit- lain and elsewhere, through forged ‘documents: and*other measures. | ¥.S.U, Calls for Protest | The. Ptiends, of the Soviet Union, ‘including * “among ” their _ members Guard Russians. The Friends of the ig en- landlords and aristocrats, are openly | Soviet Union calls upon all American | workers, farmers, intellectuals and professional people to rally tothe defense of the right of the Soviet |workers to continue peaceful So- |cialist construction without interfer- ence. |- ‘Join the demonstration » against the White Guards, Saturday Nov. | xBen at 10 am. at Wi | Square. United Front Against War Pledged at Youth Armistice Day Meet CHICAGO.—At a United Front meeting on Armistice Day, called by the Chicago" Youth Committee against War and Fascism, speekers from the Civil Conservation Corps, University lof Chicago League of Nations Asso- ciation, Girl Scouts of America, Young Peoples Socialist League and the Youth Peace Council pledged their support against war. > | Five hundred workers Attended the feesens and . loudly. applauded the | speakers in their denunciations of | war and fascism. Mortie Fine, of the | Young Communist League, spoke about the necessity of a united ac- | tion as a basis, of carrying out a real struggle against’ war. Lonny Wil- liams, a Negro worker from Detroit, who attended’ the Paris Youth Con- fefence Against’ War, told of the tasks that e@mfront the youth all over the; world in ‘their struggles against war. From LW.0, Schoot ‘The Downtown School No. 1, In- ternational Workers Order, despite its own financial difficulties, sent in | $4.50, the third contribution by this school since the start of the $40,000 Drive. demands* while declining to ‘stat whether Germany will. return.*to th Geneva conference. Announcemen of the British change of program ha received a hostile reception in th French press and official circles whiel are opposing any concessions te Ger. many. ¥ * ¢ @ Increase Swiss War Chest GENEVA, Nov. 17. — The Swis military budget was increased b $39,000,000 today, as Switzerland be: gan overhauling its military machine in preparation for new war detlarec inevitable by many sisi cox servers, * 8 «6 Japan’s Largest War Budget TOKYO, Nov. 17—The Jay Cabinet began consideration ot & draft military budget wl is the second largest in Japan's Armaments expenditures are slightls Jess than last year’s, when the 1 tarists put over a huge budget the army and navy, but oth are the largest since 1921. ‘Tt is estimated that the govern- ment will face a deficit this year of 701,000,000 ‘yens (154,921,000). to be met by loans which will further di- vert capital from productive industry thereby intensifying the devasting crisis which has rocked the founda- tions of Javanese cavitalism. The debate in the Cabinet is featured by attacks on the Soviet Union anc declarations that Japan must build up a huge air fleet against the Soviet Union. $39.53 AT CELEBRATIONS NEW YORK.—At the 16th Anni- versaty of the Soviet Union in San Francisco, $27.33 was raised for the Daily Worker, and $12.20 at the cele- bration in Sacramento, Calif., making it a total of $39.53. At a similar ¢elebration in Lincoln, Neb., $4 was raised and additional funds for the Daily Worker are pledged shortly. By HARRY GANNES UGH the. hysterical din of the Nazi shouts of victory in their election hoax can be heard the courageous and powerful voice of the German revolutionary _ proletariat. The startling fact in the Nov. 12 super-farce in Germany is not in the tremendous” vote claimed by. the | Nazis. Not even the most reaction- ary of the American ruling class has been fooled. by “that. But what stunned them most, what speaks with the most forceful and telling eloqu- ence is the way the doctored figures of the “election” results published by the Nazi butchets themselves contain | proof that the revolutionary ‘masses, | headed by the Communist Party of Germany, made an undying record of their fighting spirit and -courage. They braved the greatest threats of Nazi vengeance, with {ts almost certain and swifp retaliation either by the lash, the coneentration camps, the ax or the gallows to-fling-in the teeth of the Nazi dictators the chal- tae ot wien maga to. ane dea’ At the Sword’s” By History nowhere draconian measures as. taken by the Nazi sadists_ to’ prevent even the smallest echo of: discontent to come to light. The’ Nazis ents dicated the method. of voti the point of a sword. "They dragged the electorate to the polling places in the very cars that carried camps, The very threats reported by foreign correspondents speculating on the Nazi methods to ferret out dis- senting voters was re-published in Germany to whip up-more dtead and frightfulness among the wayward. The Fascist hangmen. made it a ecu Sie ; Nazi’s Election Fraud Fails to ‘Gag the Voice of Revolution thousand-fold clear through. their stupendous propaganda machjne that to vote otherwise than as they in- dicated was to write your own prison sentence or death warrant; and that such a deed made the culprit, prima facie, a Communist. Not to vote was demonstrative testimony of voting against. For the Nazis supplied pury suasive fascilities for voting. The lame, the halt, the blind, the very victims of the Nazis blood-lust in the foulest dungeons, weve forced to vote. One had to be undergoing a severe operation, or suffer unconsciousness or approaching death to escane Nazi suspicion. 4,000,000 Stay Away Yet 4,000,000 staved away from the polls. Another 3,346,362 went to the Polls and voted against the Nazi list —though they were specifically told this was forbidden and a punishable | j deed. ‘According to the Nazi’s own re.” sults (about which we will have something to say) 7.8 per cent of those. voting, voiced their. rebellion boc gress the Nazis; another 10 per aes Sates aes 3 by not voting at 4 vote as’‘te! ed at the end of thé gallows halter, or | Total victims | to their death or to concentration | ¥ 42,975,009 4 qgattinhe advantage of the universal |’ opposition of the German. people tothe Vergailles yoke, the Nazis car- ried ona campaign of the _ most demi agogic kind, twisting an affirm- ative vote, to, the. plebiscite to mean support to rs struggle for national liberation from the burdens of the robber-treaty,: and support for the policy of the Hitler government. Yet. part’ ‘there were over 2,000,000 votes’ against ott "750,000. “spoiled”? What teles of heroism these bear tell! How, many thousands ee such slogans of “Down with the Hitler murder regime! Long livé ‘the Oi nist Party,” “For a Soviet bsg ee “Release the brave Dimitriff, ff and Pop- |pott,” will be Known only’ to the Nazi scoundrels, whose venounous ‘eyes must have flashed the bitterest anger when they read them. “ So far as thé accuracy of the court |is concerned, we call on another Wall Street hired witness to testify.” ~ “For the first time in a ‘Nazi elec- tion,” cabled the ae York are Berlin Correspondent, Frederic Birchell,” despite the simolicity of this oné, returns were incomplete at midnight, nor are they complete now. “This may be due to the fact that the results, instead of being given to the publie direct by the Federal brag 30 eebeceg 4 gg Sntoysh the government provaranda Bureau), a circumstance, that , it has given rise to some unfavorable com- ments. Thus, the final figures, pregnent with a lusty revolutionary voice. as they are, contain only so much of it as the Nazi publicities thought prud- ent to issue. 4 Again, we have this same corres- pondent’s estimation of the audacity of those voting in the shadow of the Hitler torture chambers. “Tt aoa Cais hd for Loe i breed Nt) recently been Zz |with’ rumors of secretly numbered ballot papers, and other devices for detectiny the’ unpatriotic’ and Nazi vengence is no joke.” ‘These elections whith were prom- ised. to the world to show the mighty unity of the German people behind the mouths of the American well wishers of, the chief assailant of world Communism. ‘We will quote from, two editorials taken from the two most reactionary newspapers in New York, both closely identified with banks that finance and support the Hitler terror. Under the title of “The Great Ger- |man Echo” (Nov. 13), the New York ‘Herald-Tribune, editorializes:, @ars and anether the same thing by turning tive ballots. ~ second the Nagi regime, turned to ashes in| the for a list of your own Shea ‘More than 3,000,000 defective were cast. Nor even the most willing could see in the Nazi elections force \ wha‘ ~ Hitler wanted him to see.. They cowd only hear the groans of the tortured, squeaking of the Nazi propa- ganda and organizational Jugernaut, And behind all this, those not sc Self blinded could see that Hitler with all these trappings hide the deepen- ing crises, the Nazi failure to carry out its promise to free Germany from the: ‘robber-peace of Versailles, te free the peasantry and petty bour- geoise form crushing burdens and debt. ‘The most effective answer t Hitler's election fraud was alteac given before it took place by t) Communist Party of Germany.” Now these burning words must be read with the emphasis given te them by the courageous millions whe endorse them: “We know that this band of peers as, : thelr “plebiscite” on Ne “is the express‘on of Loci” au is an attempt to J public opinion; is ft the electors, falsifi ‘ot tion results, is the anr of the right of combination. d meetings won by the workers, ® brutal mockery of every tration camns an] the ie eee “Hitler's ‘plebiseite’ is the’ contemptible and fraudulent neuvre in ordes to maintain t enslavement of the people. true plebiscite aqainst Versailles .and the capitalist robbers a our own country will take. the hour of the revolution tube nies