The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily PRTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PA: QWorker U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST THTEREATIONAL) “America's Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC. 5¢ East 13th Street. New York, N. ¥ Bronx No Provocations Can Halt the March of Working Class Unity Against Fascism! (Continued from Page i at the Its the between So- But this is ote of provocation that was sei he Garden, who from the very first, sought to the spirit of unity that was growing between the Socialist and | Communist workers, stirred by the flaming heroism | Of the Austrian workingclass. The workers at Madison Square Garden sought anity. That is why thousands of Communist and Socialist workers believe in unity with their very Socialist workers dropped their tools at 3 o'clock and fame to the meeting even though “they were not in- vited.”. The Communist and Socialist workers believe in unity with their very heart’s blood. It is the so- eial-fascist, leaders who hate and fear this unity. Why else did the Socialist leaders give the New Work ruling class police the orders to search all work- | ers who entered the Garden “for Communist litera- ture”? Why else did Algernon Lee, Socialist chairman, fhe man who warned the United States government not to recognize the Soviet Union, why did he send into that vast workingclass audience, seeking for unity, the poison of his reiterated warnings “against dis- rupters”?, when it was obvious that hatred of the | “disrupters” was directed against the reactionary- fascist Woll? Why did the Socialist leaders use the New York Tuling class police thugs to assist them in stripping all workers of their banners, upon which were the Slogans of hatred for fascism? What does it mean to ‘strip the workers of their banners? Does it not ‘mean to throttle their voices, to cripple and castrate their demonstration of anti-fascist hatred? At a meeting called to protest the police brutality amd reaction of fascist police, what does It mean for the Socialist leaders to use the notorious New York Solice to institute a systematic searching of the pockets of entering workers? Is it not to emulate the very ‘ascist police whom they are supposed to fight? Is s way that they strive to foster the tles of pro- | letarien comradeship among the Socialist and Com- saunist workers? This is the way, deliberately chosen, by the list leaders to foster suspicion, Dl-will, enmity, | ff fricton between Socialist and Communist ‘AS it in the interests of unity, that Frank R. Crosswaith, Negro Socialist, spat at the audi- ence: “Communists are pigs who will always remain pigs, because it is in the nature of Communists to be pigs. | Was it of the Communist workers in the heart | of the South daily braving lynch terror in the fight for Negro rights that Crosswaith was speaking? Was | it of the white Communist workers who everywhere | are the first to leap at the throats of the jim-crow op- Pressors and lynchers that this Socialist leader was | speaking? Was it of the white Communist workers all over the world whose mighty and incessant fight for | the Scottsboro boys has stayed thus far the hands of | the lynch executioners that this Socialist leader was Speaking? Was it in the interests of proletarian unity, of workingclass unity in the fight against jim-crow op- | Pression and lynch terror that this Socialist leader was speaking? With Matthew Woll, jimcrow head of the jim- row, Negro-hating labor bureaucracy of the A. F. of I, the Negro Socialist Crosswaith could form a united front, with the man whose labor fakers are part and parcel of the whole system of jimcrow op- Pression of the Negro masses, But the Communist workers, who stand at the head of the fight for the Mberation of the Negro people, Crosswaith condemns and curses as “pigs.” The Communist workers at the Garden were vent- | ing their hatred for the ‘ikebreaking Woil, and their indignation that Socialist leaders had dared to insult the working class, Socialist and Communist workers alike, by ng him to the platform while the work- ers of Austria at the very same moment were being murdered as a result of the treachery of precisely such labor fakers as Woll. Upon the heads of the Socialist Party leaders, the Less, the Pankens, the Crosswaiths, the trade union officialdom, the Dubinskys, the Schlossbergs rests the blame for the disorder at the meeting. For it was they who tried to bring the hated Woll on to the platform of the workers as a “leader” against the Austrian Fas- cist terrorism! EF e was upon Hathaway that the Socialist officials and rade union bureaucrats vented their hatred of the | thousands of workers in the Garden who would not let them praise the Wolls, the LaGuardias and the Roose- velts as the new knights against Fascism. Hathaway, they say, wanted to “seize the meet- ing.” Already, in an official statement they have declared that “the Communist Party deliberately planned to break up the meeting,” But this is only a shameless slander to excuse their gangster brutality against Comrade Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and one of the ontstand- ing leaders of the working class in America. Hathaway rose to go to the platform precisely to save the meeting, to keep it from breaking up. He went te the platform te ask for permission te speak for one minute, to plead against the provocations against unity, to plead for order, for working classe unity and solidarity. Hathaway strove to dissipate the poison of sneering and provocation spread by the speakers, to urge the workers not to be provoked, by making a short plea for real solidarity in order that the meeting could go forward. Hathaway knew who was on the platform. He knew that these trade union and Socialist officials had long experience in the corrupt gangsterism of the trade unions. He knew that they hated him, and that he was risking bodily harm in going up to the platform. Yet he went up alone, simply and earnestly, asking | that chairman, Algernon Lee, grant him one moment to lend his influence to restore order to the meeting and cement its unity, realizing that this unity alone can defeat Fascism. : But they met him with Fascist viclousness, with fists and flying chairs, slugging him with gangster brutality. ‘They showed in this flare-up of gangsterism that al- ready in their blood is the same Soctal-Fascist brutality that has forever branded their Social-Democratic col- Severings, and the Grsezinskis, who drowned the prole- leagues in Germany, the Noskes, the Scheidemanns, the tarian revolution in blood, The Socialist Party leaders have already seized upon the Garden meeting to drive deeper a wedge of disunity between the Communist and Socialist workers. Unity, they tell the Socialist workers, is impossible with the Communists. But we must not, we cannot, permit them te succeed in driving us apart. The working class can and must unite. That is the only way it will defeat the menacing monster of Fascism in this country. That is why the Communist Party, in the latest statement of its Central Committee, printed in the Daily Worker of Saturday, strives with the profoundest sincerity, with the most earnest eager- ness for the precious unity of the working class. Communist and Socialist workers! We must not let the Social-Democratic leaders who try to break our unity trap us into their provocations! Let us be on guard against all those who talk spitefully against the “possibility of unity,” all those who de- clare that unity is impossible. These people are enemies | of the working class. goon workers! se The menace of Fascism in America & Qo, 2 ® in the shops, in the factories, in the day to day, hourly fight against the capitalist employers’ attack, in the fight against the NRA slave codes, against the Rooseveli jingoism and NRA strikebreaking, that we, Communist and Socialis workers must bind with hoops of steel our firm, unbreakable, working class United Front against the capitalist exploiters. We repeat, Socialist and Communist workers! We belong together side by side in the life and death struggle against Fascism. It is true that we have differences. The workers who follow the Socialist leaders do not yet agree with us that their path is the path of the preservation of capitalism. But all workers are our proletarian class comrades. The great- est patience, the greatest sympathy and understand- | ing must go into the most detailed discussion with our fellow workers on all the questions that are knock- | ing at the minds of the Socialist workers, ‘We appeal to Socialist workers to write to us, to lay frankly before the working class, the dfffer- ences, the objections, the questions that divide us. ‘We a ppeal to them to refuse to accept the provoca- tions of the Lees and Pankens against unity. We | appeal to them to awaken to the terrible meaning of the road which European Social-Democracy has al- ready taken, the road which has led to Hitler and Austrian Fascism, DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19. 1934 12 Must Die for Each Dead Nazi, Roehm Orders Mutiler Order | | Savage | Reyeals Deep Fear of Anti-Fascists | | | | BERLIN, Feb. 18.—The deadly fear | | of revolutionary workers which the Nazi storm troop command feels is | attested by a savage order issued by | Captain Roehm, Storm Troop chief | of staff,.ordering the murder of 13| anti-fascists= every time a storm/ trooper is: killed. An official order signed by Roehm | says in part: | “I am_ ready to assume respon- sibility for actions on the part of | Storm Troopers which are not in accordance with legal regulations, but are actuated solely by service im the interests of the Storm Troopers, “Under this heading there comes for instance. the atonement for the murder of a Storm Trooper. In such a case the competent Storm Trooper commands that up to 12 members of the hostile organiza- tion responsible for the murder are te be executed. This execution is to be commanded by the leader, and to be carried out immediately with soldierly discipline.” ‘Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement Signed (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Feb. 18. (By Radio).— The Anglo-Soviet trade treaty was signed at the British foreign office Friday by Ambassador Maisky and trade representative Ozersky for the} Soviet Union, and Sir John Simon, foreign minister, and Walter Runci- man, chairman of the Board ot Trade, for Great Britain. eee Soviet Gains in Deal LONDON, Feb. 18.—The official text of the British-Soviet trade treaty will not be published until Tuesday, | but its general terms were made known here yesterday. Both countries agree to full most- favored-nation status for each other's exports. The Soviet Union declares its intention to use the proceeds of sales in Great Britain for imports from that country, and a separate clause provides for s gradual in- crease in imports from England so that in 1938 the Soviet Union will sell to England only ten per cent more than it buys. At the present time, Soviet exports to England are 70 per cent higher than its imports from there, The British government gives the Soviet government credit {factlities equal to those it gives any other nation, and guarantees diplomatic immunity to Soviet trade representa- tives. The agreement can be de- nounced by either side on six months’ notice, The agreement must be ratified by the British parliament before it be- comes effective. League Official Wants Army for Order in Saar GENEVA, Feb. 18.—Nazi terrorism in the Saar region was reported to a special League of Nations committee here yesterday by Geoffrey Knox, League Commissioner for the Saar, who demanded a League army to “restore order” in that region. ‘The Saar, rich coal and iron basin, is supposed to vote next year whether it wishes to join Germany or France. The Communist Party of the Saar, resisting annexation of the region to either imperialist nation, is fighting for its demand of autonomy for the Saar. TACOMA TO PASS QUOTA TACOMA, Wash.—We are enclos- ing money for two new yearly subs to the Saturday edition of our Daily Worker, Our Unit here will endeay- or to surpass our quota of new subs &s soon &s possible, AND THE ee % The following story by Johannes | R. Becher, one of Germany’s most beloved proletarian writers who people; the railings on the gallery disappear under people hanging over ing matches—the Sportpslast offers all that—this kettle for 12,000 human escaped the Nazi murder net, de- seribes 2 united front meeting held in the Berlin Sportpalast, where Social-Democratic leaders, acting in ‘unison with Greszinski, Social- Democratic police chief, attempted to break up a huge mass gathering ‘o workers similar to the recent Madison Square Garden meeting. ‘The story is reprinted from “Mur- der in Camp Hohenstein,” 2 book oi short stories giving “A Cross Cur- vent of the Hitler Regime,” pub- lished in the United States by In- fermational Publishers, ae ee 6 ~ By JOHANNES R. BECHER time we had not quite filled the Sportpalast. We had not been able ( eonduct any proper publicity for our "final meeting.” Only the evening vetore, the rumor was that it was forbidden, then it was suddenly per- ‘nitted, but we no longer had time t@ insert notices in the press, and the Juiicliy was left in the hands of the wVarate wards. There were empty _and there was nothing to do ut it, but when the band struck With our battle marches, the room q@ivered with enthusiasm and the #aps-filled up. JOUF Comrade Pieck was to speak. y was asking what would come of it—but vere now standing firm on our prepared not to yield one step, @ meeting takes place on the ipalast, the whole region around is in commotion. mi lies this colossal hall, holding, | it is quite full, around 12,000 r them; the orator speaks and draws together into one mass these 12,000 | People, and there is a crackle of ex- clamations, and finally the crowd bursts out—into the night, in great throngs along Potsdamer Street, into the Potsdamer side streets—a flood that often becomes dangerous. Then motor-car omnibuses and trolley cars stick in the mass of human beings like corks, cannot move forward nor backward, and the coursing flood | bursts past them, The whole region around the Sportpalast hums. The beer halls full, the windows occupied with curi- ous onlookers, police at the Eck on balconies, city dwellers strolling on the roof and looking down into the valley of asphalt. At the corner of Buelowstrasse the press really breaks | Joose, down Potsdamer strasse one route to the Sportpalast is obviously , Shown (across Potsdamerplatz they even go in closed ranks, with flag- | Staffs on their shoulders, in spite of the fact that it lies within the mile | limit; on Potsdam bridge stands a sign within the mile limit; on Pots- | dam bridge stands a sign with two | police, “Attention! Mile limit!”) But | they also come from Nollendorf Platz, bicyclists ahead, announcing & greater troop to come; even as far | away as Wittenberg Platz you can | see clearly that something is doing | today in Sportpalast. Also from Schoenenberg a whole flood is rolling in here; the street corners are swarming with people; the police have let down the storm straps on their shakos—they are in the war zone; unceasingly small police cars and police wagons go whirling by, It was our “last meeting.” Bicycle racing, ice carnivals, box- beings. Queens of Beauty are crowned, and the Canadian ice hockey team beats Berlin 19-4. The gallery railing is covered with black; organ music and trumpet blasts; this time it is a religious spectacle on Good Friday. The Sport Palace eats everything; it has a good stomach, it digests the Salvation Army and the memorial celebration of Skagerak, (the battle of Jutland). It delights in a display of horesmanship, at which Hindenburg and the Crown Prince appear in the box of honor; the floor of the Sport Palace is strewn with sand; the cavalry of Friedrich the Great, the Ziethen Hussars, ride at full charge, in the midst of snorts of applause. A Sport Palace can stand a lot, and it hasn't yet fallen in ruins, Ox pee you may remember what happened that time when the So- cial-Democratic Party invited us to a “discussion’ in the Sport Palace. By five o'clock, that is, three hours before the beginning of the meeting, three-quarters of the hall was al- ready occupied by Reichsbanner men. Our comrades stood many deep in the streets and side streets. The only ones admitted were those who presented a membership book in the Social-Democratic Party. Then Greszinski, the Social-Democratic Police president, loosed his squads with rubber clubs and drawn pistols into the waiting masses, tore apart the dammed-up throng, who knocked each other over, bloodily trampled each other; he drove them into the shop windows, jammed the house en- trances with them bruised flesh, from which eyes stared forth, with deadly terror — Go ay Bi REFORE, COMRADES... faces; that-was the discussion to which the-Social-Democratic Party leadership gave us such a friendly invitation, ae oe spine of the Sport our am in, red bunting, which winds Loc oaR a @ half circle around the platform. A warm red wave of flags—and in us rises a warm red feeling; we stand, we sing the International. I am well to the front, perhaps twenty paces from the platform, and ce observe everything quite well, =. At a dong table facing the plat- form Social Democrats and non- yesterday. Schlombach, clad only in a night- shirt, saved himself by a leap from the window; the bandits let go a few shots after him and he was wounded twice in the arm. But the murderers and incendiaries asserted that Schlombach. had set fire te his house himself and had inflicted the shots on himself,, and Schlombach was further taken into custody for having been attacked by the Nazis. Comrade Pieck now greets the comrades at Schlombach. At his left, a tittle way behind the speaker's stand, sit the detective in- spector and a police lieutenant. Both in official cloaks. The police lieu- tenant, a young fellow with smooth shaven skull, has laid his shako on the table; he wears a stupid but inquisitive look. His whole face runs out to a sharp point in his nose. The tor, with a scar across his cheek, is considerably excited even at the beginning of the meeting. He Mayor LA GUARDIG Socialist Workers, Join Us ina REAL United Front Against the Fascist Menace!—by BURCK Socialist Brands Action of 8.P.Heads at Garden Meeting (Continued from Page 1) | cialist leaders are lying. Can any-| one believe that Clarence Hatha- way wished to signal for a breakup} of the meeting when he came to the | platform? Can anyone be so made | to believe this when it was Hath- | away who at the Bronx Coliseum | meeting gave an eloquent and plead- | ing appeal for working class soli- | darity and specifically for main- | taining order at the Madison Square | Garden meeting at all cost | “A committee of the Y. P. S. L.| leaders who came to see Hathaway later and reported back that Hat! away attempted to quiet his com- rades, had his report squelched. | ‘When I later inquired at the Rand! School if the report of this commit- | tee had been made, I was answered by a Y¥.P.S.L. leader to the effect) that no official recognized commit- | tee was sent; therefore, no report to be divulged. | “No, the Communist Party cannot | be blamed. Its sincerity was unques- tionable. Nor can the Socialist workers be blamed. In such a sit-| uation in which there were objects flying through the air hitting them, and the majority did not know what would have really happened, it was natural for one to find himself in an hysterical state striking out uncon- sclously with both fists. No one can be blamed. “But it is certain that had our leadership in the Socialist Party, in- stead of calling a united front wi the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, to whieh | not only Communst workers ob- jected, but Socialist workers as well, called a united front with the Communists, all trouble would have been avoided. “On to the United Front, Com- rades. Madison Square Garden does not impede our progress, It hastens final action towards the establish- ment of a real united front. We cannot permit our right wing leader- ship to mock the united front now. If need be, we must drag our leader- ship with us to effect it. On to the united front, comrades!” (Signed) BERNARD MISHKIN ¥. P. S. L. Manhattan No. 10 S. P. Lancaster, Pa. (Transfer Pendng) SUPERIOR GAINS SUBS SUPERIOR, Wis. — Enclosed is check for four new subs obiained here for our Daily Worker to help put the circulation drive over the top. These are not our last new subs either, | workers which is becoming a powerful | which will open soon, will be made Worker Cuts Tongue to Protect Comrades || | LISBON, Portugal Rather || than risk breaking down under || police torture and giving the | | names of his comrades, Jayme Rebelo, a fisherman of Setubal, |) near here, arrested as leader of a Communist group, cut off his tongue with a razor blade, February 7, it is reported here. on Hamburg Socialist | Workers Fight for’ Thaelmann Defense Report Nazis Plan Big| “Show” at Trial of | Communist Leader BERLIN, Feb. 18. — Social-Demo- eratic workers of Hamburg have is-| sued an appeal for the defense of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the; German Communist Party, it has just be learned here. This appeal reveals once again the unity of Communist and Socialist reality in the course of the strugzle azainst Hitler in which the Sovial Democratic leaders have betrayed and abandoned their followers. The “treason” trial of Thaelmann, into an elaborately staged show, according to the Nazi newspaver, “Kreuz Zeitung.” Parts of it will be recorded with sound-film, and picked delegations of workers will be brought to witness the trial, The Nazis, balked in their effort to) make political capital out of the Reichstag fire trial, which the Com- munist defendants turned against them, are making elaborate efforts to stage a more effective frame-up at this trial, using Trotskyist and Brand- lerite slanders in a gigantic effort to besmirch the Communist Party. The great danger to the Nazis of attempting such a frame-up im- mensely increases the danger that they will make an occasion to mur- der Thaelmann “while trying to es*ape.”” The world protest against the frame-up of Thaeimann must be in- tensified constantly. That is the only force which can snatch Thaelmann alive out of the hands of the Nazi Powers Write Mild Note as Nazis Rally to Capture Austria England, France, Italy Cover Up War-Moves Over Austria LONDON, Feb. 1 . While Italv has massed troops at the Austrian fron- | tier, Hitler has redoubled Nezi | aggressiveness inside Austrle and in| | Germany, and Czechoslovakia is also | | prepered to hurl troops into Austria, the British, French and Italian gov- ernments have issued a joint note in which they say they atree on “the necessity of maintaining Austrian in- dependence.” The weak and formal character of the note, at the moment when the Nazis are organizing all their forces for a coup d’état which would win Austria for them reveals the deep contradictions which exist in the in- terests of the three powers, who only agree on a general opposition to Hit- ler’s aims in Austria. This joint note is a substitute for action by the council of the League of Nations, to which Austria has not made its promised appeal. The Lee zue would be forced to make a more def- inite declaration, which England and Italy do not want. Each of the capitalist powers is at- tempting to keep itself free from committing itself too sharply yet, while watching its main chance in the rapidly developing war situation which is centered around Austria. A.F.L.. Local Unions In Drive for Workers’ Jobless Insurance AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 18.—The A. F. of L, Federal Rubber Workers’ Union sponsored the meeting here at which Louis Weinstock of the A. F. of L. Rank and File Trade Union Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance was the principal speaker. The A. F. of L. union salled the meeting for the purpose of securing action on the Workers Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill (H. R. 7598) and the othe~ demands of the A. F. of L. rank and file. Weinstock is to speak at meetings arranged by A. F. of L. Kenosha, Wis., other cities. The A. central body is locals in Chicago, Milwaukee and F. of L. the butchers, meeting in Great Falls, Mont. United Paris Workers In Big Funeral ‘For Six Victims Masses March to Bury Workers Doumergue Police Killed PARIS, Feb. 18.—Workers of Parts, thousands upon thousands, marching under a sea of banners to revolu- tionary dirges played by many bands, yesterday tock their six Communist | dead, murdered Feb. 9 by the Dous | mergue government, to Pere Lachaise | Cemetery. | The police who murdered them did |not dare show: themselves on the streets as the gigantic cortege wound 4 | The six wete buried in Pere La- ~ | | through the city. | chaise Cemetery, not far from the wall which. still bears the bullet | marks of the “massacre of French | Workers after the Paris Commune of | 1871. ‘Belgian King, Brutal ‘Slave Owner, Army Executioner, Dead ‘Congo Slave Master Had | Revolting Regiments | Shot in Back in War BRUSSELS, Feb. 18.—King Albert of Belgivm. one of the eareatest s'ave- | owners of modern times, was in- | stantly killed yesterday when he fell | while climbing, a mountain near | Namur, Belgium. | King Albert nersonally owned vast | tracts in the Belgian Congo, where | thousands of slaves worked on rubber | plantations under conditions of such | extreme brutality that his African slaye-holdings are a by-word | throuthout the world. During the world war, when he commanded the Belgian army, sev- eral whole retiments were murdered at his orders, by shooting in the back, for refusal to fitht against their Ger- man fellow-workers. He was 59 years old. His throne and slave-holdings are inherited by his son, Leopold, 32 years old. To Export 1,000 Tons of Cotton for Gunpowder 1 NEW YORK.—An unnamed Euro- >ean country is seeking to buy 1000 tons of cotton for war explosives. The R. D. Whitmore Co., 117 E. 30th St, New York, has just sent # circular to domestic dealers in raw cotton, follows: “We have just received # cable our principals abroad inquiring cotton linters suitable for gunpowdi manufacturing. They are inquiring for approximately 1,000 tons for livery beginning April.” British Fascists Bid bs For Farmers’ Favor fae t LONDON, Feb. 18.—British Black Shirt fascists, seeking to utilize the discontent of the British farmers te build their orzanization, are taking part in the “tithe war.” black-shirt gangsters were they were guarding livestock selzed by bailiffs for the tithe, which is a state tax for the support of the church. The Black Shirts did not resist when police seized them. a3 Cc. ©. C. MEN QUIT IN SUB-ZERO WEATHER ¥ LORETTA, Wis. — Thirty-three youngsters in Civilian Conservation Camp 648 quit the Roosevelt forest army when Lieut, M. B. Fierke or- dered them to do extra work in ® gale with the mercury 15 below zero. A hundred others are reported to quit if the army officer's unrea- sonable work requirements are not modified. Most of the boys in the camp are from the Milwaukee area, How the Social Democratic Police Chief Broke Up A Berlin Front Meeting At the Berlin Sport Palace _ has in front of him some sheets for; away right through the shears; the; been planned, of a criminal provoca-| his pocket; it smells of a dance, ki notes and is twisting a pencil around’ speech runs on. his fingers; it is evident that he has| instructions, cost what it may, to dis- solve the meeting as soon as pos- sible, and without fail, before the concluding . He is fidgeting about with his instructions. Comrade Pieck speaks in language.” I am delighted to see with what life and persuasive power he can talk in this language which has been forced upon us. He brings in pic- tures and comparisons that every- one can understand; he makes refer- ences which the law cannot touch but which every one of us can grasp; he says, “Our speeches will not be broadcast by radio, and so our mouths, comrades, so you yourselves must become transmitters, which send their waves everywhere and are not Hable to interference.” . 8 @ IMARDE PIECK has been speak- ing a quarter of an hour. He turns again to the comrades of Reichsbanner man Schlombach and speaks of the great, mighty united front of all workers; he speaks out beyond the limits of the hall, into the distance, to all Social-Demo- | cratic workers and Reichsbanner comrades. ‘The inspector drums with his fin- gers: He is drumming out his own drum fire, for he must dissolve the meeting whether it is legal or not. He sits there tensely and looks for a place where he can cut short the speech of Comrade Pieck. He has laid his pencil down and spreads his “slave speeds up. Unceasingly his brocd, high back there keeps on talking; another chance is lost. How harm- lessly he speaks; what can you do about it? The inspector picks up his pencil again, notes down some- thing of no importance, begins to draw. “A child’s he-d,” he thinks. He has drawn a fighting-rod with a fish on it; just so he is floundering et the end of his instructions. The words glide rustling by him like a black ugly ribbon. Again the shears! Quick! The ribbon flutters on gaily in the wind. Not to dissolve the meeting means loss of rank, a break in his career. Damn it! How his su- periors will mop the floor with him-— and his comrades. . . . He bumps his back; it is exercise hour and he is’ the “frog,” plump! he can feel his’ fellow-scholars jumping over him. The pencil dances, There, now he has got it! The speech, broad and grinning, right before him! Stand up. Too late! Got away again, Laugh- ter. There he sits, Failed, He howls, “I won’t play any longer,” and throws the net away, because his fellow-scholars are laugh- ing at him because he has let the butterfly get away again. His father is threatening him. “Bad marks. Had to stay after school. Flunk your exams.” He turns to the police lieutenant, who is smiling; he has nothing to do with the affair; he affably leaves him sitting. Now it comes again. He has half- risen, ready for a spring, his right grasped fingers out like a pair of shears, The thread runs and runs; where can he cut off the word? The thread slips hand has already the chair back, Comrade Pieck is speaking of the attempt on Hitler’s life that had Comrade Pieck, tion against the Communist Party. . « “They are planning unheard | of murder, slaughter, terror. . . . The inspetcor snaps at the word, has jumped up, but now applause sets in, an enormous pressure, that forces him helpless back again on his chair. There he sits again; he can hang on to his thin pencil but to nothing else; he is sitting alone, solitary, and is supposed to dissolve the meeting, that is, fight against thousands. * To be sure, he remembers, outside there are also standing thousands, ruber clubs, pistol barrels; they will come to his help in time. But how far is that? and he springs up again —and again sinks before the pres- sure of the applause. Comrade Pieck Is saying, “I am coming to the conclusion.” Conclusion! Conclusion! Conclu- sion! There the butterfly is fluttering off high into the blue, never to be seen again . . . flunked his exam. Comrade Pieck speaks without wavering. Sentence by sentence he draws toward the conclusion, As on | @ flight of stairs. He is climbing up | tthe conclusion. He is talking like a straight road; you can see the end, ee eg Palen porns ; ceasingly. | Comrade Pieck crushes the sheets |of notes together. Nonsense! there isn’t any snow there, there isn’t any snowbal, and you can’t so simply let fly a ball from your hand at the broad back oat S con- clusion, talking on. He sees the hat lying on the chair beside whirl through out ie j gers, His handkerchief eine out of wipes off his sweat. Comrade Piec! too is wiping the sweat off his fore- : head, he is hot from speaking, at his last breath. .« - “We will not be satisfied with less, we want to have enough here and now to eat our fill... .” : “Yes, eat our fill. . . .” The in- spector stands up. “And therefore, comrades,’, . .” A little pause. Comrade Pieclz raises his arm, “And therefore, Comrades... .” ‘The whoie gathering stands, raises the right arm with him—a deep- Once again a little tiny laugh. Into this hush the inspector up desperately, head foremost, as if rom a fifth story or from a bridge... Steps forward to the stand. “The meeting is dissolved!” Comrade Pieck: . $ “I am through.” And therefore... , There is no further need of The police lieutenant puts shako. lubs in 8 Begg z ae Policemen with s1 ch drawn pistols step out from background. On the gallery, boxes, below in the pit, at the all the streets full of police, The band strikes up:, ‘The International! We stand firm and sing, All the verses. We press the back with our singing. ‘Then we quietly separate. “And, therefore comraeds i ewe Rr: | press it our bo it may forever cling tou, cs + Tr i { 4 e& to Eighteen of Sir Oswald beacpd Sy ey Wortham, Suffolk, yesterday, wacre ek Yeapn * > i * ae ~