The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1934, Page 10

Page Ten Daily,QWorker ANTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ESA (SECTION OF COMMUNIST /NTERNATIONAL) “Americas Only Working Oless Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 196 Published daily, except Sunday, by the Comprodaity Publishing Co., Inc, 50 East 13th St, New York, M. ¥. Telephone: Algonquin 4-7954 Cable Address: “Dalwork,” New York, % % Washington Bureau: Room 934, MNaticoal Bees Suiting, ith and F. St, Washington, D. O Subscription Ratest By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bronz), 1 yeas, $0.00; 6 months, $8.50; 2 months, $2.00; 1 month, % cents Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, #400; 6. months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 76 cents, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934 —————————eeaaaaeeeeeeeEeETzC*=ES= How to Fight Racketeering peal D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., the exalted philan- thropist, was shown to be fully acquainted With the A. F. of L. and contractor racketeering that went on at Radio City to the tune of millions of dollars. These facts were brought out in the first of a series of articles on racketeering published yesterday in the Daily Worker. It is the purpose of the Daily Worker series to tear off the lid that covers the whole rotten mess of racket- eering in the A. F. of L. unions. Recently, William Randolph Hearst, himself a skilled user of gangster and racketeer methods, began a fake series of articles in the New York Journal, purporting to expose racketeering. Prom the very first, as the Daily Worker pointed out, Hearst’s task was to shield the higher ups. Wile printing the more sensational details of racketeering, the New York Journal attempts to whitewash those really responsible. The New York Journal has bigger game, however. William Randolph Hearst, through his columnist and political puppet, Senator Copeland, is attempting to use this “exposure” of racketeering in order to put over @ program of anti-labor legislation, He wants to place the bosses directly in control of the unions. He wants to make them fascist unions. This type of legislation is agreeable to the top bu- reauerats of the A. F. of L. who are now working with the Roosevelt government and the Nathonal Labor | Board to break strikes. a SS aie Sti geese ae ole he reece and file who are now being bled white by the whole rotten system of racketeering. Hearst is speeding the development of fascist mea- sures. To achieve his end he follows the slimy dema- gogy of all fascists. He tells the workers it is in their | interests. He offers the workers fascist control of their unions in order to rid the untons of racketeering. The racketeering terror will be displaced by fascist terror. Out of the stinking mess of racketeering now, the poisonous plant of fascism is arising. It is the task of all workers to fight both. By in- creasing the real struggle against racketeering, con- nected so intimately with the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, by building up the rank and file opposition, powerful steps are also then taken against Hearst's efforts to sivangle the independence of the trade unions and make them adjuncts of the capitalist state. ‘The Daily Worker will do all it can to expose the whole intricate system of racketeering and all its tie-ups, wherever it leads. Tt is up to the rank and file in the trade unions to lead the fight against racketeering. car ae aa 3 fs FIGHT calls for a concerted attack not only against the racketeers in the union, but for build- ing up a rank and file opposition that will be able to protect all the interests of the union members. ‘The rank and file oppositions in fighting against racketeering can not succeed if they do not force out | the bureaucrats responsible for this racketeering, if they do not win greater democracy for the member- ship. Above ail, the victory against racketeering will be won in the degree that the unions can be made to | become the real fighting organizations protecting the economic interests of the workers, improving condi- tions, beating back the bosses’ attacks against living | standards, and rallying all the workers in them to a fight for higher wages and lower hours. For Communists the situation demands greater emergy in penetrating the ranks of the A. F. of L., leading the rank and file opposition groups, building up the united front against the racketecrs and in the in- terests of the workers. Comrades, Act Now! §S these lines are written our comrades Paul and Gertrude Ruegg may be dead, tortured to death by that monster butcher, that foul, fiendish paid execu- | tioner for the slave-holders in China—the execrable Chiang Kai-shek. For the past twenty-three days Paul Ruegg, for- mer secretary of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secre- | tariat, has been on a hunger strike. Lying in his filthy, | medieval dungeon, nearer in appearance to a skeleton than a human being, his body burning with fever, doc- tors have given him but a few more days at the utmost to live. His wife, Gertrude Ruegg has fasted for fifteen ays. “She is dead-white and very weak,” declare cable dispatches from Shanghai. FOR three years they suffered the tortures of the _Gamned — the tortures that only the scoundrelly Chiang Kai-shek could devise after the studied and brutal murder of tens of thousands of Chinese workers, peasants and students. Three years spent in the vilest living tomb of this cut-throat who has bled the Chinese people of three billions of dollars in graft—as admitted by his closest croney, Wang Ching-wei—before Wang Ching-wei be- came chairman of the Executive Yuan, the window- dressing for the Soong dynisty of which Chiang Kai- shek is the head. In this foul, stinking, dirty, disease-ridden prison where our comrades Paul and Gertrude Ruegg are now perhaps breathing their last, waiting for that interna- tional voice of protest which alone can save them, they ligve been given the most profound example of the devotion of their Chinese fellow workers who by the ens of millions understand why these two European are being harried to their death by the des- c ag ‘eae Chiang Kai-shek, a aa prison 20 Chinese girls, factory workers, students, imprisoned for their revolutionary activity, bd Bone on a sympathetic hunger strike demanding ase of their comrades. * i, . > ) tad Chinese girls are virtually pledging their lives dn the fight for the freedom of the Rueggs. __, Here is an act of solidarity that can not fatl to moye every worker into immediate action. Let the action of these Chinese comrades be an iration for the most immediate, the most resound- Protest we can raise. The time is extremely short. » Seconds count. Our comrades are on the point of death. Once vee rit were saved only by the quickest in- action. Then they hung on fe ‘slenderest thread. SUR aes to the Chinese Ambassador to the United ) up to you now to act post haste. Wire immedi- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1934 States, Dr. Alfred Sze, in Washington. Tell him of the burning protest of every workers’ organization in the United States. Tell him that every worker de- nands the immediate release of Paul and Gertrude | Ruegg. Tell him—let him inform his master, the butcher and murderer Chiang Kai-shek—that the American workers will hold him and his capitalist- landlord government responsible for this foul murder, if the Rueggs die. Tell him that the American work- ers will never forget this deed. Comrades, act now! Against the War Makers! i Fass NOTE of approaching imperialist war is rising | 4 steadily in the capitalist press. Six U. S. Naval planes sweep over the Pacific to Hawaii, and the capitalist journajist hirelings gush over the “epic flight.” But the Naval Commander of the planes mentions quietly that the planes could have flown another 1,200 miles—in the direction of Japan. Hawaii is a strategic naval-military base for opera- tions—against whom? The significance of the flight is not lost on the Japanese imperialists. | Meanwhile the special Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker reports that “Pravda,” organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, reveals that the Japanese war machine is extending and consolidat- ing its war base in Northern China, moving toward the Soviet borders, with desperate and headlong speed. It prepares openly for intervention, building airplane bases and military highways right up to the borders of the Workers Fatherland. At the same time, the capitalist press carries scare stories from the League of Nations Labor Office at Geneva about the ruthless Japanese drive against Britain and U. S. imperialism for the markets of In- dia, South America, and Latin America. The Inter- national Labor Office at Geneva reveals that Japanese imperialism, with the aid of the depreciated yen, is wresting the textile markets of India from Great Britain, and the markets of South America from Amer- ican imperialism. Already the sound of jingoistic anti-Japanese haired snarls in these “scientific” studies of the British- dominated League of Nations report. * * ° 1 RESOLUTION printed in today’s Daily Worker of the 13th Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International which has just ended, states: “In the present situation all the capitalist coun- tries are developing their war industries to an un- precedented degree...the furious struggle for forcign and colonial markets has already assumed the form of an actual economic war... the growing uncer- tainty of the bourgeoisie as to the possibility of find- , ing a way out of the crisis only by intensified ex- | ploitation of the toilers of their own countries, has led the imperialists to put their main stake on war. The international situation bears.all the features of the eve of a new world war.” prepare for the imperialist war leap. In this world struggle for markets, it is the toiling masses of Great Britain, Japan and the United States who will be sent to slaughter one another so that their own imperialist exploiters can wring super-profits from the wage slavery of the working class and the impoverished peasantry. This war will mean agony and suffering | for the masses. It will mean gigantic profits for the | Wall Street exploiters. The fight against the Roosevelt war plans means | the organization of bitter resistance to every single | War move, every action and utterance of the Roose- | velt government leading to war. An intense spotlight of exposure must be trained on every slightest war steps of Roosevelt to enlighten the masses as to where the Roosevelt government is leading them. | | | | British, Japanese and U. 8. imperialism begin to | | | | On the Recruiting Drive ‘ SEE no hope outside of the Communist Party.” The | writer of these words, in Wednesday's Daily Worker, | was for thirty years a member of the Soclalist Party as well as a member of the church. He joined the Communist Party during the Recruiting Drive of the Party, now going on. The disillusionment of large numbers of members of the Socialist Party and of the American Federa- | tion of Labor with the treacherous policies of their | social-fascist leaders, is growing. The sharpening of | the crisis has radicalized masses of workers. The fact | that in seven months the N.R.A. has not only not | bettered the wages and working conditions of the workers, but on the contrary, brought further wage decreases, speed-up and unemployment, is not lost on these workers. Their social-fascist leaders, the Greens agd Thomases, continue to support the N.R.A., or, at | most, under pressure of their membership, suggest mild “reforms” and make a gesture toward mild “criti- cism” of the N.R.A., while at the same time support- ing the basic features of Roosevelt's Hunger Program. | Pee pie wea one was never a more opportune time for our Party to conduct a Recruiting Drive. What is to prevent our Party from strengthening its ranks by bringing into the Party these workers who are dis- illusioned by the betrayals of their leaders? What stands in the way of taking into the Party these work- ers, who in many cases are themselves taking the initiative and looking for entrance into the Party, or who are groping toward the revolutionary Party of the workers, trying to find the working class solution to the crisis. One of the walls which stands between these ra- dicalized workers and the Party is the failure of mem- bers of the Party to approach the members of the social-fascist organizations in the course of the daily struggles of the workers, to approach them to fight with the Party for all of the demands of the working | Class. The sectarian fear of approaching new workers to fight with and join the Party, has kept more than one worker outside of the Communist Party. This sectarian approach, based on the opportunist idea that the masses are “backward” and “not ready for the Communist Party,” does not take into account the tremendous radicalization which has accompanied the sharpening of the crisis of capitalism, oe eee: i tae recruiting of masses of these new elements, es- pecially those workers in basic industries who be- long to social-fascist organizations, is necessary if the Party is to lead the decisive struggles of the workers which are at hand. As the mood of the masses, af- fected by the crisis, swings to the left, “new” parties like the Musteite “Workers Party” are being organized to prevent the workers from coming into the Com- munist Party, At the same time the fascist attacks of the government on workers’ organizations are in- creasing. It is all the more necessary to build the Party of the workers, the Communist Party, into a mass party which leads all of the struggles of the workers against capitalism, The Recruiting Drive of the Party in the month of December showed that even the little attention given to it by the Party members has brought definite results. During the month of December, 2,104 mem- bers were recruited into the Party. This is an in- crease of about 25 per cent over the previous months. ‘The recruiting drive is extending through the month of January and into February. With renewed efforts of every Party member, and with an energetic ap- Proach to the most active and militant members of the organizations led by the social-fascists, these re- sults can be far exceeded in the coming month, Nanking Advance in Fukien, Uniting the So. China Warlords |Generals’ War Expected | to Spread; Foochow } Under Fire SHANGHAI, Jan, 12.—With Nan- king forces continuing their advance! on Foochow, Fukien Province sea- southern warlords are rapidly 2 a new alignment in a race with Nanking to control FPukien Province. Conferences in Canton} during the past few days between} Kwangtung and Kwangsi militarists| | indicate an early extension of the! | Generals’ Civil War raging in Fukien | jand Northwest China. | Nanking shells are beginning to} fall in Foochow city, but the 19th} Route Army of the Fukien secession- ist regime is still holding out at Ku- tien, 50 miles northwestward, The daring raids of Chinese Red Army forces and peasant insurrections also} constitute a grave menace to the; Nanking rear. In Western Fukien| and on the Kiangsi-Chekiang front, the Red Army is holding its lines intact despite the superior arma-| | ments of the enemy. | The men of the 19th Route Army at Foochow are preparing for a des- perate defense of the city. Behind their strong first line they are en- |trenching in a second line and | mounting artillery on the city walls. |The defense, however, is threatened | by treachery from the officers, who | jare dickering with merchants of the} | city who have offered a rich reward |for betrayal of the defense. The |Nanking government has also indi- |cated it would find positions for Tsai | Ting-kai, commander, and other of- | ficers of the rebel 19th Army if they | would surrender and repudiate their |recent denunciations of the Kuomin- |tang Nanking government as a tool |of the imperialists. | | Parisians Battle ‘Police in Attempt | toStorm Chambers PARIS, Jan. 12—Over a dozen | pitched battles occurred in the vicin- | ity of the Chamber of Deputies yes- |terday, as indignant workers and | small investors, robbed of their sav- | ings in the crash of the Credit Mun- icipal Bayonne, battled police in an | attempt to storm the Chamber of | Deputies, where the Chautemps gov- | ernment was defending itself against charges of complicity in the colossal | swindle, of protecting Serge Stavisky, | murdered head of the bankrupt bank, and of finally murdering him to pre- vent further revelations involving | high government officials. The fiercest fighting occurred in | the Saint-German quarter and along the Boulevard Raspil, where the | demonstrators used bottles, glasses, chairs, tables, sidewalk railings and branches of trees as weapons against the police clubs and guns. Police re- | inforcements were thrown around the | Bourbon Palais, where the Chamber meets, as the demonstrators several times threatened to break through the police cordon. ‘Thousands of troops are reported held in readiness to march on Paris from nearby towns. Over 400 persons were arrested yesterday and last night as the gov- ernment continued its policy of mass arrests of the indignant victims of | its alliance with Serge Stavisky, in- | ternational swindler who had oper- ated in France for over 20 years with | the protection of high government officials and the courts. GREEN GETS HIS MAN! —By Burck Dutch Envoy Fi pain Nuiie Ae Public Trial to Hit Self-Exposed by Lubbe Killing Boston Nazi Agents AMSTERDAM, Jan. 12—The sud- den execution of Marius van der Lubbe by the Nazi regime was char- acterized by Count Limburg-Stirium, Dutch Minister to Berlin, as another m‘stake by the Nazi regime in an erview published today in the Dutch newspaper “Het Volk.” The Dutch Ambassador is quoted as “deploring” the Nazi action be- cause of “the impression it is going to make and has already made in Holland. and the rest of the world. The domestic advantages of the ex- ecution, if there are any, are out- weighed by the indignation which un- doubtedly will arise in our country and abroad.” The Dutch Ambassador, whose goy- ernment tis ruthlessly attacking anti- Nazi demonstrations in Holland, is clearly afraid that the impression will be strengthened abroad that the Na- zis hurried through the execution of van der Lubbe to make sure that he would never reveal the names of his Nazi accomplices in the firing of the Reichstag, for which four Communist leaders were framed. He is alarmed at the rising anti-fascist movement in Holland and other countries around the demand for the safe re- lease and departure from Germany of the four Communist defendants, who are still held in prison despite the verdict of not guilty wrested by the world-wide protest from the Nazi court. The threat of a secret Ivnching of these defendants, sharpencd by the sudden execution of van der Lubbe, calls for a re-doubling of the world- ‘Francis Jourdain, Attorney Grigoroff, wide mass fight to save them from | the Nazi murderers. * NEW YORK.—Renewed mass ac- uons for the release of Georgi Di- mitroff, Ernst Torgler, Blagoi Po- poff and Vasil Taneff, Communist Reichstag defendants, are reported from many countries. * * * | | Protests Throughout Switzerland | ZURICH, Jan. 9—Mass demon-| swations for the release of the Reichstag defendants are being held throughout Switzerland under a united front of the Communist| Party, the Social Democratic Party, the Committee Against War and Fas- cism and other organizations. At several recent demonstrations the police issued a warning that for- eign speakers would not be allowed to address the audiences. Nevertheless, and Dimitroff’s sister, spoke in Zu- rich under the protection of Swiss workers, . Austrian Steel Workers Visit Nazi Consulate VIENNA, Austria, Jan. 9.—The} steel workers of the large metal shop “Steg” sent a delegation to the Ger- man Consulate. The Metal Workers’ Action Committee addressed itself to the four defendants, stating that: “We Social Democratic workers are closely watching Leipzig protest and farce of a trial and demand your euke | Mayor's immediate release.” Meeting Once Stopped, Called. for Sunday BOSTON, Mas. Jan, 12—Deter- mined to expose the connection be- tween the local police, the courts and the White Guard Ukrainian societies with the spread of Nazi propaganda here, workers will hold a public trial Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at Welling- ton Auditorium, Wellington Hill St., Mattapan. The trial, sponsored by the Boston | branch of the International Labor Defense, was originally scheduled for last Sunday, Jan. 7, but police pre- vented the workers from entering the meeting place, Dorchester Manor. | Subsequently a delegation visited the office and protested the action of the police. How the Nazi consul of Boston, Kurt Von Tippelkirch, aided by David K. Niles and Rabbi Levi of the Ford Hall Forum, are fostering the growth of Hitlerism here will be revealed by six anti-fascist workers, arrested on Dec. 19 when they demonstrated be- fore the German consulate demand- ing the release of the four Commu- nist defendants in the Reichstag frame-up arson trial. GREEK STRIKERS SEIZE FACTORIES ATHENS, Jan. 11—Haying been refused their demands, striking to- bacco workers in the town of Pigos, Southwest Greece, have disarmed the factory guards and occupied a number of factories, (Continued from Page Five) i cern yourself with your own defense, if you wish to do so, otherwise you will not have sufficient time.” VAN DER LUBBE HAD ACCOMPLICES I have already stated that I agree with one point made by the prose- cution. I regret that I can now con- firm my agreement with this point. I refer to the question of whether Van der Lubbe carried out the fire alone or whether he had accomplices. | Prosecutor Parisius has stated here that the fate of the defendants de- pends on the decision of this ques- tion. My reply to this is no, a thou- sand ties no. The prosecutor has made an illogical deduction. I he- lieve that Van der Lubbe did not indeed fire the Reichstag alone. On the basis of the decisions of the ex- perts and the material on the court proceedings, I have come to the con- clusion that the fire in the plenary hall was of a different nature than that of the restaurant, the lower floor, and so on. Van der Lubbe has spoken very little here in court. He remains silent even now. Van der Lubbe had other accomplices. And the decision of this question does not determine the fate of the accused. Van der Lubbe was not alone, but neither Torgler, Popoff, Taneff nor I was with him. On Feb. 26 Van der Lubbe met a man in Henningsdorf and told him of his attempts to set fire to the City Hall and the Palace. This per- son told him that all these attempts had been mere “child’s play” and that the real thing to do was to set fire to the Reichstag. Simple Van der Lubbe might not have known that at the time he was making awkward attempts to start @ fire in the corridor and the lower floor, the other unknown man was preparing the fire in the plenary hall with the aid of the inflam- mable liquid about which Dr. Schatz has spoken here, MEPHISTOPHELES HAS VANISHED And here sits the foolish tool, the poor-spirited Faust, and Mephisto- pheles has vanished. An alliance was concluded in Henningsdorf between Van der Lubbe, the repres-ntative of | political insanity, and an agent of Dimnitroff’s Maste rly Speech in ‘the Nazi Court political provocation, an enemy of the working class. Dimitroff was interrupted by the Presiding Judge. Dimitroff: Prosecutor Werner stated here that Van der Lubbe is a Com- munist. He went on to say that even if he is not a Commumist he com- mitted the crime in the interests of the Communist Party and in league with it. This is a false argument. Who is Van der Lubbe? Is he an anarchist? No! He is a declassed worker, a rebel lumpen-proletarian. But he is certainly not a Communist. No Communist in the world, no anar- chist in the world would have be- haved in Court as Van der Lubbe has behaved. Anarchists perpetrate sense- less deeds, but when brought to trial they answer questions and explain their purpose. Had a Communist done such a deed he would not have kept silent in court when innocent men were sitting on the prisoner’s bench. No, Van der Lubbe is neither a Com- munist nor an anarchist, he is a tool which has been misused. This per- son, this absused weapon which has been used against the Communists, could never have had anything in common either with the Chairman of the Communist group in the Reich- stag or with the Bulgarian Commu- nists. RECALLS GOERING'S ANNOUNCEMENT I wish to recall here the announce- ment of the fire published by Goe- ring on the morning of Feb. 28. This announcement pointed out that Tor- gler and Koenen had run out of the Reichstag building at 10 in the eve- ning. This was circulated throughout the country. . It was also stated that the fire had been carried out by the Communists. Yet Van der Lubbe’s movements in Henningsdorf were not investigated. The man with whom ‘Van der Lubbe spent the night in the police refuge in Henningsdorf was not searched for. Presiding Judge: When do you in- tend to finish your speech? Dimitroff: I should like to speak for another half hour. I must ex- press my opinion on this subject. Presiding Judge: You can talk end- lessly. Dimitroff: The question of Hen- ningsdorf is extremely important. Vashchinski, the man who spent the night with Van der Lubbe, has not been found, and my suggestion that he be sought was considered point- Jess, Had Van der Lubbe spent the time in Henningsdorf in the company of Communists, the matter would have been cleared up long since. Gentlemen of the Court! No one was interested in finding Vashchinski, search was made along false lines, the incendiaries were sought not where they were to be found, but where they were not to be found. ‘They were sought in the ranks of the Communist Party. This was wrong and moreover gave a number of peo- ple an opportunity to make their es- cape. So it was decided that since the true culprits had not been found, others had to be taken. Presiding Judge: I forbid wou to speak thus. I give you another 10 minutes, Dimitroff: I have the right to sub- mit proposals with regard to the ver- dict. The Public prosecutor in his speech considered all the evidence given by the Communists as unre- liable. I take a different view. I could not say, for instance, that all the National-Socialist witnesses were liars, I that among the mil- lions of National-Socialists there are some honest people. Presiding Judge: I forbid you to make such attacks. Dimitroff: Did not the National- Socialist Karwane claim that he had seen Torgler together with Van der Lubbe in the Reichstag? Did the National-Socialist Frey not affirm that he had seen Popoff with Torgler in the Reichstag? Did not Helmer, another National-Socialist, state that he had seen a Van der Lubbe with Dimitroff? And was all this acci- dental? Dr. Drescher, who is one and the same person as Zimmerman of the “Voelkische Beobachter,” stated that Dimitroff is the organizer of the attempt to blow up the Sofia Cathe- dral, which was disproved. Presiding Judge: Their identity has not been proved. Dimitroff: I am perfectly certain that Drescher and Zimmerman are identical. Presiding Judge: I rule this out of order. It has not been proved. Dimitroff: Police officer Meller read a Communist poem published in 1925 by Communists. I will take the lib- erty of quoting from Goethe. [Dmii- troff read a poem by Goethe, ending with the words: “To suffer or to win, to be a hammer or an anvil.”] The working class of Germany did not understand this wisdom either in 1918 or in 1923, or in 1933. The Presiding Judge again inter- rupted. Dimitroff: Herr President, much has been said here regarding German laws. I should like to express my opinion on this question. Current Political situations and ruling ten- dencies are always undoubtedly re- flected in court decisions. NAZI VIEW OF LAW The National-Socialist viewpoint on Jaw was given in an interview by Kerrl, Minister of Justice, published in the press, In that interview, the Minister of Justice stated his view on the conception of objectivity and stated that jurisprudence cannot ad- here to the principle of “dead” objec- tivity. The National-Socialist con- ception of law in the opinion of Kerrl repudiates the principle of “liberal” objectivity. The Presiding Judge interrupted Dimitroff to remind him once more that he must finish and submit his proposals with regard to the prose- cution’s demands. Dimitroff: Law is a relative con- ception, Herr President. Presiding Judge: Of course, but you must submit your proposals. Dimitroff: The chief public prose- cutor declared that the Bulgarians must be acquitted for lack of evi- dence. I don’t agree with him. This does not remove the suspicion from Massacre of Cuban Negroes Planned By Wall Street Agent Caffrey Trying to Split Workers; Students Battle Police (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 12—A mas- sacre of Negro workers is planned by reactionary elements, under the close leadership of Jefferson Caffrey, Presi- dent Roosevelt's personal represen- tative, in an attempt to break the united front of the revolutionary workers and peasants. The preparations are aided by the Grau regime, which has been at- tempting to mislead the Negro work- ers into support for its recent edict against the employment of foreign born workers, a measure which has succeeded to some extent in splitting the ranks of the toilers. With the Cuban Communist Party and revolu- tionary trade unions successfully exe posing the anti-labor character of this measure, the reactionaries, die rected by Roosevelt's agent, now plan a blood bath against the Negroes, who comprise about one-fourth of the population and have taken a leading role in the agrarian, anti imperialist revolution. re mae Y Cuban students last night chased and disarmed a policeman who open- ed fire with his revolver on a de= monstration of 300 students com- memorating the death of Julio Mella, Cuban revolutionary leader murdered by Machado assassins in ‘Mexico. The policeman was taken to the police station where the students de- manded his prosecution on a charge of attempted murder. The precinct chif attempted to sidestep the issue with a statement to police and sol- diers in the station that the Com- munisis and the Ala Izquierda, left student organization, were responsible for bombings and individual terror. This was vigorously denied by a spokesman for the students, who clarified this issue to the soldiers and policemen, exposing the responsibility of the Grau government and the counter-revolutionary ABC student organization for these terroristic acts. Yesterday afternoon, 3,000 students and striking teachers marched on the presidential palace to present the de- mands of the teachers. The police tried to stop .the march, but were pushed aside. Walter Relis, a delegate from the National Student League of the U:S., was arrested on a trumped-up charge of taking military photographs but was immediately released when the Students Institute of Havana sent a delegation to the Chief of Police declaring if he was not freed within half an hour they would hold a demonstration before the police sta- tion. Chicago Anti-Nazis on Trial Saturday CHICAGO, Jan. 12—Janet Heitler, secretary of the Chicago Pen and Hammer, an organization of scientists and professional people, comes up on trial Saturday, along with 35 other workers and intellectuals, arrested at an anti-fascist demonstration here some weeks ago. . Judge Dunne will be the trial judge. A sentence of 60 days in jail and a fine of $500 for each defendant has been threatened. Jersey Professionals Protest A protest movement among profes- sional people, organized by the Pen and Hammer, is under way, the New Jersey Social Research Association and the National Bureau of the Pen and Hammer having already adopted and sent telegrams of protest to Judge Dunne. - The International Labor Defense, which is in charge of the case for the defendants, urges all organizations of workers and professionals to wire pro= tests to Judge Robert Jerome Dunne, Room 805, 11th and State St. Station, Chicago, Til. 160 Delegates to F'S.U. Convention NEW YORK—The Friends of the Soviet Union report that over 160 delegates have already sent in cre- dentials to their first national con- vention to be held in New York, on January 26th, 27th and 28th, at the New Star Casino, 107th St and Park Ave. In an early summary of the cred- entials, the F.S.U. reports 25 from A. F. of L. locals, 30 from the So- cialist Party, Workmen’s Circle and Young Peoples Socialist League branches, and a substantial number from organizations such as the Trade Union Unity. League, peace organiza~ tions and workers’ clubs. Thirteen states are represented by the delegates. All organizations supporting the convention are urged to send the credentials of their delegates im- mediately to the F.S.U. at 80 East lth St. e Housing quarters are urgently needed for the delegates to attend the convention. Those who can ar- range to accommodate a delegate or two during their three day stay in New York, are urged to write id F.S.U. or phone STuyvesant 9- German Workers : Fight Army Drill us. No, during the trial it has been shown that we had nothing to do with the Reichstag fire, and there must be no room for suspicion. I am making the following proposal con- cerning the formulation of the ver- dict: To regard the accused as inno- cent and the indictment as in- correct. This applies to all—Torg- ler, Popoff and Taneff. To regard Van der Lubbe as a weapon = work- to prove that the Reichstag was fired BERLIN, Jan. 10.—Kighty-six of the 98 sewerage workers in the Wil- mersorf-Berlin area have been ex- pelled from the Nazi Union for re- fusing to participate in the forced military training. * Recently when the announcement. of the regular Sunday” drill was made one cf the workers forward and declared thet the men needed their free time for rest. The boss said the drill was. a national necessity and added that any one who did not wish to take part should step out, First twelve men, then 30 and finally 86 were out of the line, leaving only 12 ae