The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1934, Page 6

Daily »-QWorker | Roosevelt’s Hunger Decree “WAM bean conan rary sa stevon or communist urenaanonas) | PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S new nove on the unem- “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” “ FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY We 01 Bur - ith and Fst. pices Seger, | Midwest Bureau St, Room — 705, Chicago, Ti. Te Dearborn 3931 Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Mar § months, $350: 3 m Menhattan, Br. $ months, 5.00; 3 3 $3.00 By Carrier: Weekly, monthly, 18 cents 78 cents. MARCH 32, FRIDAY, 1934 The Socialist ‘ This Week! 18 & classic issue that thas issued this week on the events at Madison Square Garden. One i ssistably reminded of the comical Windy fulminations of the two editors in the “Pick- Wick Papers” of Charles Dickens. But one reads further and it becomes a serious matter. Here are some samples “Before the meeting had opened, these ghouls, Mike swine irampling a flower garden, began their hideous performance. Joy possessed all but the Com- memists...that proletarians attacked by Fascists had M@aplayed such sublime courage...’ Or this: “Like a bolt of lightning that clears a marky atmosphere this ghastly debauch bronght retribution. Everywhere the Communists were branded as moral Jepers. And what do civilized communities do when Teprosy is detected? It ts isolated; it is quaran- ‘Or this: “They came to the meeting with knives, scissors, Backjacks, stink bombs, bottles, hisses, boos, yells, and”...and... what do yon think, most terrible of all—‘literature!” But the Socialist editor of the New Leader prob- ably felt that he still had some steam left in his orca and so he took a leap into the air with “What is this thing that emerged at the Garden maceting? It is the pathologic spawn of the depres- sion.” These are only samples of the issue. It is Uterally filled with such things. It would take s volume to Tefute each single misstatement of fact, each distortion and hilsquotation. But the New Leader does not stop at wild and judierous rhetoric. It goes further. It spills deadly Politics! poison. Listen to this: “They hunt in packs... Lenin taught them that lying, intrigue, and crmning are Commmmist methods.” Or this: “Yn their brief tenure of power in Bavaria and Hiiigary they needlessly shot thousands of human beings. The working class victims of the Cheka and GPU. reveal the sadist soul of this hateful thing...” “And finally: © “Stalin may spend more millions upon them in thi; Yountry, but they are henceforth Ishmaels, branded as moral lepers, unfit to associate with _ Who would want to see the ghouls of the Gar- the Socialist “New Leader” the Austrian situation and Senee “dem as masters of the United States transforming it igito 2 prison, crushing every organization of the Workers. ..etc., etc.” Wifere it is no longer funny. Here the New Leader i$ betforming a political.task. The task-is to repeat ti@-yvicious slander of professional “red baiters,” of tie’ Basleys, the Gr Whalens, the stool pigeons of the Department of Justice, the police of the Red Squad aud Matthew Woll. It is no wonder that the So- Gialist Jeaders found Matthew Woll a fitting guest of hhotior/at the anti-Fascist meeting at the Garden. Woll specializes in this kind of anti-Soviet traffic, this kind Of teactionary. provocation against the working class. 1 thie-edicors of the New Leader think that by these Tantings that they can divert attention from the yicious--hooliganism that characterized the assault the Socialist and trade union officials against Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker? Do think that by these rantings that they can make. the. work- (ets forget that the Socialist leaders ordered the-cap- | alist police to frisk and search every worker enter- ingathe Garden? And. with what malice do they desecrate the heroic Soviets. of Hungary and Bavaria, when the Working class smashed the bourgeois dictatorship and seize «power, only to be crushed in a sea of. blood [yi the coalition of the White Guard reaction and Social-Democracy! It was Social-Democracy that fed the counter-revolutionary assault inst the heroic Bavarian Soviet in 1921, slaughtering thou- ‘sands of workers, and it was Social-Democracy that fielped the beast Horthy strangle the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government in Hungary. Now they gloat over if, while the proletariat of Austria is paying In bitter. sacrifice for the fact that Austrian Sccial- Wemiceracy crushed the attempts to set up a Workers’ and Peasants’ Soviet in Austria! With what ugly hate do they defame Lenin, revo- dutionary genius of the proletarian revolution, beloved of the working class of the world. i the ludicrous slander of “Moscow “Stalin millions...” Could Ham Fish or Waiaien say more? @¥ DOES the New Leader write this way? has it so utterly lost its head, so that it cannot ec the absurdity of this frertzy? is because the New Leader is unwilling to face | political issues involved in the Austrian crisis the Garden affair. It is because the New Leader ng through seizing on the turbulence at the to break the movement toward unity with munist workers which is growing among the So- “workers. The Socialist Party in California is "split on the question of United Front, with en- ls breaking away from the top leadership. Socialist leaders think that they will be able their deadly silence in this week’s New Leader Bauer's statement by raising a hue and cry antastic provocation. But the very frenzy of their only bares more nakedly their crass evasion ngle important political issue raised by the ‘Austria and Germany. this issue of the New Leader that one can its purity that Social-Fascist reactionary that. was responsible for the indignation ers at the Garden. ; workers! Let the officials clasp hands and Huey Long. We will clasp the proletarian unity in class struggle against that Woll, LaGuardia and Long stand for. aise the banner of eternal honor to our heroic in Austria, betrayed by their leaders, but al, the menace of fascism cannot yithout working class unity. That is a his- Unity must not be broken, The Com-~- y urges all workers to ignore the provoca~ vhy king class Yew Leader’ ---| of | BY THE! | | ployment problem is an admission of the failure of the government to either reduce the ranks of the sixteen million unemployed, or to grant to them se- curity against starvation, Roosevelt's note, divested of rhetoric, puts forward jovernment toward the umemployed workers: 1). A claration that the liquidation of the C.W.A. will be carried through, and that no more appropriations will be made for relief to the jobless; 2) A declaration in principle against granting any unemployment in- surance, and the breaking of all campaign promises of Roosevelt regarding security to the workers; 3) The setting up of huge.sections of the unemployed as categories of vagrants, of jobless who have “no hope” and the institution of the principle of forced labor. The plan tends to reduce the wages of the entire working class by creating huge forced labor armies at starvation ‘wages.” The $950,000,000 appropriated by Congress at Roose- velt’s request was declared, at the time of passage, to be just enough to liquidate the C.W.A. jobs by May 1, and to “taper off” the C.W.A. projects. Now this same $950,000,000, according to Roosevelt's new plan, is to be made to last for 15 months. Roosevelt divided the unemployed into three categories, and then declared, “The administration will be guided by these groupings in expending the 950,000,000 recently appropriated by Congress.” The money appropriated to “taper off” the C.W.A. will now be stretched to last the 16,000,000 unemployed for 15 months. ot et aa Ae DAY Roosevelt says in his rew note, “Direct relief as ‘such, whether in the form of cash or relief in kind, is not an adequate way of meeting the tices of able bodied workers. They very properly insist upon an opportunity to give the community their services in the form of labor in return for unemployment bene- fits.” This will be the only form of relief, according to Roosevelt, because “The Federal Government has no intention or desire to force either upon the coun- try or the unemployed themselves a system of relief which is repugnant to American ideals of individual self rejiance.” Roosevelt declares that direct, cash relief, will not be given. Instead forced labor will be the only form of relief to jobless in the cities. But even this forced labor relief will be limited to the $950,000,000, and will be limited to six months, “Work will be given to an individual for a period not to exceed six months.” eo a eee the “rural distressed,” Roosevelt makes it clear that “no encouragement of an extension of com- petitive farming is contemplated.” This in itself ts an admission by Roosevelt of the deepgoing extent of the agricultural crisis, that agriculture will not stand the strain of additional competition. The program proposed for the unemployed in rural areas is the old chestnut of Hoover, diversified farming. In rural com- munities the jobless will not necessarily get any wages. “work for wages from relief funds is not an essential part of this phase of the program,” says Roosevelt. ‘The program in rural areas calls for “building or re- building to provide adequate farm homes”; provision | of seed and stock “for other than commercial pur- poses,” and part time employment “in small industrial enterprises,” and jobs on highways in parks and forests. ‘This program is a “substitute for direct relief,” According to this analysis of Roosevelt, there is ho hope for the millions of unemployed in rural areas to re-enter “competitive agriculture.” Direct relief is cut off from these millions, and they are to starve on the farms, with what crumbs they can pick up from road work, from vegetable gardens, or what have you. Roosevelt puts forth the pitiably bankrupt theory of going back to the pre-capitalist days of handicraft. He again brings forward the fallacious quack “remedy” for the agricultural crisis of diversifying crops. He fantastically claims that millions Of jobless in rural areas can be put down in the middie of capitalist society to live on self-sustaining farms. This theory is suitable for Roosevelt because it necessitates only the giving of a few seeds to the rural jobless to replace real cash relief. UT the program for the third category, the “stranded population,” is even more vicious. Roosevelt char- acterizes this category as “those composing ‘stranded populations,’ i.e. living in single industry communi- ies in which there is no hope of future re-employ- ment, such as miners in worked-out fields.” Roose- velt admits that this category constitutes “a situation of substantial proportions.” He proposes “physical ransplanting” on the grounds that the areas where they live “offer neither future employment at wages jor opportunities for self-support through agriculture.” In this paragraph Roosevelt admits the viclousness, | the bankruptcy of the capitalist system in dealing with Soeialist leadership and to build the unity . the unemployed. Roosevelt admits to the permanency he unemployment problem, sees no hope for a “sub- stantial” section of the population. The capitalist eed-up, the industrial crisis, has “stranded” a large section of the. population, according to Roosevelt’s own admission, and there is no hope of “future wages.” And what does Roosevelt propose to do for these permanently unemployed victims of the anarchy of capitalist production? To “physically transpiant” them. To treat these workers from basic industries, such as mining, as vagrants, to isolate them on farms. They will be “maintain: small tracts of land” with “in- supplemented. This means that will be transported “back to the siliions of impoverished farmers are already starving. Could any program be more bank- rupt than this? OOSEVELT decrees relief cuts, forced labor, and teryation to the unemployed workers. The workers of the United States must not let Roosevelt's starvation program be put through, Over a million C. W. A. workers have already been fired. Only the most militant struggle, on the broadest united front basis, only the most intensive ¢rganiza- tion, will prevent Roosevelt’s sentence of starvation and death to the unemployed from being executed. In the face of this starvation program, it is neces- sary for the workers’ organizations, led by the Com- munist Party, to organize and carry through the fight against relief cuts, the fight for adequate cash relief, for union wages and conditions on all jobs, and for the immediate enactment of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. The united front, led by the Unemployed Councils, of the members of all workers’ organizations, must be achieved in the course of the mass meetings, delega- tions, marches, demonstrations, conferences, and fight~ ing actions on the job and in the neighborhoods. The Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H.R. 1598) will prevent starvation of millions of permanently unempioyed. Employed and unemployed workers—forge the united front in fight against relief cuts; for adequate cash relief. Only the Workers’ Bill provides a measure to defend living or wage standards. Demand union wages and conditions on all C.W.A. and relief jobs! Demand the enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance BiM (H.R. 7598) ; force your local congressmen to act for the Workers’ Bill! Down with Roosevelt’s new deal of starvation and forced labor for the jobless! For unemployment insurance at the expense of the employers and the government! For the enactment of the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill’ | economically ‘Demonstration in} ; Banized together and armed them- arux ‘WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1934 Mass at the G HL Miners. Local. main points in the future program of the Federal | Supports Fight of | | Austrian Workers) |Gillespie P. M. A. Local] | Calls on All Locals | to Endorse Stand CHICAGO, March 1.—A resolution supporting the struggles of the Au: trian workers was passed by loca of the Progressive Miners of America at Gillespie, Tl, and an official copy | sent to every local in the union for indorsement. | The resolution, signed by Ernest Smith, the local's secretary, says in| part “that the interests of the work- | ers are the same the world over” and! “we go on record as supporting un-j} equivocally, morally, financially and! the struggle being waged by our Austrian brothers and Plan Anti-Fascist Los Angeles Mar. 14 Bethlehem Workers Hold Mass Protest Against Austrian Terror LOS ANGELES, Calif—The Provi-| sional Committee against Fascism and War, elected at the anti-Austrian Terror mass meeting Wednesday night, is sending out a call to hun- dreds of organizations for united front action against the menace of fascism, which is especially threat- ening in Southern California. They are asking for representatives to a conference at Music Arts Building, 233. South Broadway on Sunday, March 4, at 2 p. m. with the proposal of a mass demonstration against fascism at the Los Angeles Plaza on the afternoon of March 14. Oi Le ee BETHLEHEM, Pa.—A protest mass meeting, arranged. by the United Front Committee, was held here on Feb. 23, at Hungarian Hall. The meeting was addressed by speakers from Unemployed League, the Gen- eral Labor Union, the Friends of the Soviet Union, the L. I. P. A., and the Communist Party. The Socialist Party local, although sending representatives to the’ comi- mittee meeting which arranged the mass meeting, were forced to with- draw by threats of losing their char- ter. Many of their members, how- ever, attended the meeting, including some of the speakers. South African Workers Defy the Police Pick-Up and Vicious Pass System JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, (By Mail).—Mass demonstrations in defiance of the police “pick-up” were held in three sections of this city, under the leadership of the Ikaka (I. L. D.), on Dingaan’s Day, Decem- ber 16, 1933. The “pick-up” is the practice of police in picking up all native work- ers on the streets, every Saturday night, for examination of the num- erous “passes” which they are obliged to buy. December 16 was a Saturday, but with militant demonstrations going on in every native center, there was no pick-pp that night, for the first time in months. The workers or- selves with sticks and other weapons. to resist the pick-up should the police attempt it, Although the pick-up was resumed the following Saturday, the mass agitation and organization against this form of terrorization is growing, and placards have appeared all over the city bearing the slogan, “To hell with the pick-up and police brutality.” Praises Mobilization of World Mass Pressure for Release of 3 (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 1 (By Cable).—A long conversation took place here last night be- tween Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff and representatives of the Soviet and foreign press. Over # hundred correspondents of foreign and Soviet newspapers and news agencies were present. Only rep- resentatives of the German bourgeois press evaded meeting Dimitroff and his two comrades. The appearance of Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff aroused vigorous applause. Dimitroff related how he and his comrades were released. Everything occurred with extreme secrecy and haste, he said; it seemed as if they were not being released, but kid- napped. His demand that the Soviet embassy be informed was not met. “We are boundlessly grateful,” Dimitroff declared, “to the interna- tionel proletariat, to large sections of the toilers of all lands and to those honest intelligentzia who fought for our release; and, foremost, we are deeply grateful to the workers and collective farmers of the Soviet coun- try, our country. Praises Mass Protest. “IT may say with full confidence,” Dimitroff emphasized, “that if not for this wonderful mobilization of public attention to our defense, we could not have been here conversing with you now. German fascism wanted to an- nihilate us morally and physically. However, not only have these three heads of ours been saved, but the |churla can be gotten from the fol- POLLY SAYS — a erman Consulate Tomorrow! —By Burck ets eo Boy s7 Doumergue Given | War-Time Power | on Tariff, Budget Reactionary Regime in New Step Toward Fascism PARIS, March 1—Gaston Doumer- gue, France's premier of war and re- action, was given dictatorial powers over French tariffs today by both the senate and the chamber of dep- | uties, after they had given him power! to balance the budget by decree, | passing the $3,000,000,000 budget with- | out discussion. | While the capitalist deputies granted the Doumergue cabinet the samme kind of powers which were a stepping stone to fascism in Ger- many and Austria, the Communist deputies stocd in their seats, crying: “Down with capitalist dictatorship!” The whole ruling class of France, thrown into consternation by the mass opposition to fascization which was climaxed by a 24-hour general strike of 4,v00,000 workers on Feb. 12, has united to concentrate power in the hands of the Doumergue cabinet of generals and hide-bound reac- tionaries of most of the capitalist parties, The powers given Doumergue per- mit “him: to carry out the wholesale wage-cuts and dismissals to balance ! the war budget picemeal and with a minimum of publicity, in an effort to head off the organization of mass Protest against them. Chinese Masses Fight Japanese Imperialism SHANGHAI, Feb. 13 (By Mail) — A good picture of the resistance of the Chinese toiling masses in Man- lowing figures which are published by Chinese newspapers. Despite free quent “punitive expeditions” of the; Japanese army, 6,298 insurrectionary | actions took place in 1933, in which 460,000 workers and peasants partici- pated. Mexican Electrical Workers To Call Strike MEXICO CITY, March 1.— The Union of Electrical Engineers issued a warning yesterday that a general strike in the industry would begin March 10, shutting off all light and power in a dozen important Mexican cities, if the Wall Street-owned Elec- tric Bond and Share Co. failed to meet the wezkers’ demands. Brown Book of Terror Barred in Jerusalem JERUSALEM, March 1.— The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror, the scathing indictment of the Nazis, has been barred here un- der the ordinance “forbidding the defamation of foreign princes.” Assistant District Commissioner MacLaren issued the order barring the sale of the book. The gov- ernment’s interference with the sale of the book is understood to have followed a protest lodged by the German Consul General here. One | Spanish Cabinet Resigns; Greater Fascistization Seen Move Aimed to Fortify Reactionary Forces in Government MADRID, Mar. 1.—The reactionary Cabinet of Alsis-dro Lerroux- sud- denly resigned today. This move is interpreted here as a step toward further fascization of the Sremish Government, which has already taken away all the gains won by the workers in the past three years, and been facing a mass upsurge “anda “series of gigantic strikes. The resienation of the whole Cab-' inet followed the threat of resigna- tion of the only two members who opposed the governmeni’s plan to amnesty all reactinary - monarchist political prisoners, and to restore cer- tain privileges to the Catholic clergy. On U. S. Advice, Nazis Bid for Press Favor BERLIN, March 1. — Advised by American publicity experts on the best way to win the favor of foreign mewsmener _corresnondents, _ Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propa- ganda, held a reception for the for- eign press here yesterday. He was accompanied by the Papal Nvreio, Foreien Minister von Neu- rath, the American, British and other ambassadors, as he went around | shaking hands with all the news- papermen, and then made a state- ment urging them to look on the Nazi regime with greater friendli- ness. The capitalist class plots cur des- truction through imperialist war. readers for our Daily Worker, our powerful weapon in the struggle for a Soviet America, provocation of German fascism directed toward the annihilation of many thousands of workers has been paralyzed. “Exactly a year ago the fire broke out in the Reichstag, and, at the same time, the version that Commu- nists has set fire to it. A year has passed, and although fascist Ger- many is entirely a prison isolated! from the whole world, no one in thinks now any more that the Reichstag was fired by Com- munists. Even among the Nazis there are such who are convinced that the fire was the work of fascist leaders.” “And who do you think sei fire to the Reichstag?” a correspondent for an American newspaper asked, Nazi Higher-Ups Guilty “The future supreme court of the German proletarian dictatorship will ascertain that with full exactitude,” replied Dimitroff. “My personal opinion is that the organizers of the fire should be sought in the ruling! circles of German fascism. “We were acquitted, but not re- leased. We were transferred _to the Berlin catacombs by the German secret police. I must confess,” Dimi- trof said smilingly, “that it wouldn’t be bad to see the worst enemies of the German working class in these catacombs!” Death or Lifelong Infirmity Dimitroff described the conditions under which he and Popoff and Taneff had been confined in the cells of the catacombs. They were completely deprived of daylight, al- ways in utter damp. To be in these cells for several months, he said, would mean to perish. It means either that one dies or becomes an invalid for life. This is the definite objective pursued by the Nazis in Placing prisoners in these cells: death, or capitulation to fascism. “Foreign correspondents used to come around sometimes and ask, ‘Aren’t you tortured, beaten?’ What could we answer . . . No, we are not beaten, no, we are not ‘tortured’— as if confinement in these damp pits weren't complete enouvh torture!” “We left Germany,” Dimitroff con- tinued, “with the greatest hatred | toward German fascism, but the greatest love and ardent sympathy Communists. Under the conditions ; of our strict isolation we couldn't know precisely what they were suf- fering and now they were struggling. | But prior to and during the trial, we felt that the great German Com- munist Party was standing firmly at its post. “The loyalty and devotion of the Party was reflected in the statements of trial witnesses, workers brought from concentration camps. “The struggle whic was carried on for our release must continue, for the release of thousands of prole- jails.” Renk and File at Odds With Nazis According to the observations of Dimitroff, tremendous changes have occucred in the general frame of mind of the large masses in Ger- many. There is a substantial differ- ence noticeable between the rank and file and the heads of the Nazi lead- ership. Koenigsburg, an official of the secret police, and Heller (former Secial Democrat) on parting with ' Dimitroff, expressed the wish that Dimitroff “retain an unbiased atti- in the Soviet Union.” troff answered, “but I do not hide toward the German workers and; “9S tude in statements to the press while | Will Hold Anti-War Pittsburgh Conf erence Calls March 3rd | Demonstration protest azainst war prenaretions in |the schools has been called by the New York Teachers’ Anti-War Com- jmittee. The meeting, to be held on | Friday, March 2, at 8:30 pm. at Washington Irving High School, will be addressed by Mrs. Annie E. Gray, Director of the Women’s Peace So- ciety; Herman Ms-Kawain, of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; | Irving Adler, Secretary of the Teach- ers’ Anti-War Committee, and Jo- seph Budish, expelled student of City College. War posters will be on dis- play, and slides of actual war scenes will be shown. The Anti-War Group, of which Professor Margaret Schlauch is chair- man, counts among i's members Pro- fessors George 5S. Counts, Sidney Hook, A. Berry Bureum, Goodwin Watson, Edmund de S. Brunner, H. W. L. Dana, Corliss Lamont and Harry Elmer Barnes, as well as teach- ers from the elementary, high and private schools of the city. It has been in existence since May 19, 1933, when it was set up at the Teachers’ Anti-War Conference in Community Church, In October, 1933, after ner- ticipating in the United States Con- gress Against War, it affiliated with the American League Against War and Fascism. * ae Det Many Oreanizations In Pittsburgh Meeting PITTSBURGH, Pa—A city-wide conference was held by the Pitts- burgh Committee of the American League Against War and Fascism, at | which delezates representing all forms of organizations, whose interests in one way or another are in the inter- ests of peace or in the fight against Fascism, were present, Approximately 150 delegates were present at the Irene Kaufman Settle- ment on Sunday, Feb. 25, revresent- ing 50 organizations as well as in- | dividual groups, This conference was called in preparation for a protest parade and demonstration to be held Saturday, March 3. The parade will start at Fifth Ave. and Dinwiddie St. at 1:30 p.m. and march to West Park, Northside, A resolution to be sent to the Aus- trian Ambassador in Washington, D. C,, condemning the actions of the Dollfuss government against the workers, demanding that the terror as a guest of the German Soviet ‘% vernment.” press put a number of questions to Dimitroff: “What do you think about Goering?” was one of these questions. “YT expressed my opinion of him,” Dimitroff answered, “in personal meeting in court. I have nothing more to add to that.” “What do you plan to do here?” he | Upon the request of those present, Dimitroff, who until then had spoken German, began to speak in Russian, replying expressively and with much force: “A Soldier of the Revolution” “What will Ido here? That's quite clear. I am a soldier o fthe prole- tarian revolution, a soldier of the Communist International. I spoke as such at the trial. I shall do here my duties as a soldier of the prole- ' tarian revolution. and will continue to do them until I draw my last breath.” | York Times asked Dimitroff to give a “brief formulation” of his opinion of ‘he trial. i “To put it briefly.” he said, “the trial was a provocation, as was the firing of the Reichstag. The trial was intended to screen the real in-| cendiaries; they wished to lay the blame at ano*her man’s door. How- ever, according to the laws of dia- lectics and the laws of the class struggle of the proletariat, the trial was turned into its antithesis. The outcome of this anti-Communist process was & colossal anti-Fascist demonstration. It was a most shame- the fire they had to Mass Meet, March 2 NEW YORK—A mass meeting of| ‘teachers, parents and students to ILD Organizes Relief Drive for $3,000 in U. = | Paris Commune Heroes Join International Relief Body PARIS, M Relief Commi for the victims of Austrian fascism and their dependents has-been created in Paris by the International Red Aid, parent body of the Inter- national Labor Defense. an Three members of the Paris Com- mune of 1871, Andrieux, Repiquet, Philippe, and Mme. Stenzer, of a German Communist y murdered by the Nazis, and Mme. Willard form the nucleus of this committee, which will be™inter- | national in scope. | The International Red Aid Has al- | ready given this committee 10,000 | francs to be distributed among the | widows and orphans of the Austrian | ; killed in the recent fighting. | wor! | The International ’ Juridical, Asso: _ | ciation is organizing a delegation of te Austria te defend rought before the fas- ist tribunals for their part in the recent struggles. The International Red Aid has contributed 5,000 francs to this commitiee, and issued an ap- peal to all organizations to follow its mople, March 18, which is International | Day of the Red Aid throughout) the world, has been designated as a, day of special collections throughout the world for the relief of the victims of Dolifuss fascism. A Women’s Commitiee has also been set up to cooperate with the In- ernational Relief Committee. United States I. L. D. Organizes Campaign NEW YORK —An appeal to al toilers and sympathizers in’ the United States to contribute furids for the relief of the victims of the bloody Doilfuss dictatorship in “Aus- tria was issued today by the Inter- national Labor Defense. “The heroic workers of Austria, trampled under the heel of the Doll- fuss fascism, disarmed and betrayed ‘by their leaders of the Social Demo- | cracy, call to the workers of America, Socialist, Communist, and non-Party, for help,” the I. L. D. call says. “Rally to their aid!” Nation-wide Campaign At the call of the Internationa) Red Ald, the I. L. D. is organizing a nation-wide campaign and collection of funds for relief to the destitute victims of Austrian fascism, to the families of the thousands who! were killed, to the thousands of wounded, the thousands in jail, the thousands of women and children without work or bread in Austria. A minimum quota of $3,000 to-be collected immediately in this coun- try through the I. L. D. has been set. Every cent collected will be for- warded to the European Bureau of the International Red Aid in Paris, for aid to all the victims of white terror in Austria without distinction as to political or trade union affilia- tions or tendencies, it was announced. No money will be deducted for ex- penses connected with the collection. The I. L. D. campaign on the broadest united front basis for moral and material support to the Austrian victims will be closely connected with the international Thaelmann week which it is organizing in this country March 3 to 10, and with the celebration of the Paris Commune, March 18. At all Paris Commune meetings special collections will be taken for the victims of Austrian fascism. lawyer Send to the Daily Worker, 30 E- 13th St., New York City, names of those you know who are not read- ers of the “Daily,” but whe would be interested in reading it. | ? be immediately stopped, and that all political prisoners be immediately re- _ leased, was unanimously adopted. by the conference, ie Dimitroff Describes Long Battle in Nazi Court and Dungeons Says “German Commu. Representatives of the Rea nist Party Stands Firmly at Its Post” .. diaries were Communists; but. the trial itself disproved this legend.” “Moscow On Earth” ._ “Why,” queried several bourgeois foreign correspondents,” did Goering promise to settle with you; but didn’t?” Fee: Dimitroff shook his shoulders. “Things are not done as one. wishes. Goering expressed the intimate of the fascist leaders, but then an in’ernational proletariat. Th as one says, Moscow on earth... . .” Upon the request of the ‘foreign correspondents Dimitroff described _ in detail the conditions of his con- finement prior to the trial. months he and Popoff and were handcuffed and in foot which were never removed, dey or night. The unbearable pain made it tarlan prisoners now held in fascist; The representative of the New impossible to sleev. The jailens fixed the handcuffs stiffly for the precise purpose of causing pain. this, false renorts were circulated im the bourveois vress that the treatment of the three prisoners during their confinemen* had been “humane.” However, even these tortures before the trial could not compare with the moral torture to which nltroff, Popoff and Taneff were ected after the trial. The lively conversation was Inter Tupted at this point hecause, the late hour and the fatigue of the three Bulgarian Communists, in the course of one day, “{ shall be very, unbiased,” Dim!- ful failure for fascism. By means of themselves carried from a ‘fas hoped to persuade prison into their now-native Soviet my hopes of again visiting Germany; the German nation that the incen-| country. Stores 4 o