The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1934, Page 6

SS Page Six Daily - MERTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. ALgonquin 4-795 4 9 P Building We 705, Cheago, 1 Subscription THURSDAY, MAY 10, Alabama Strike Struggles URDEROUS of the controlled iron ore mining companies thugs Morgan- have been unleashed in an effort to crush the strike of the Alabama ore miners Two Negro strikers have been shot down and killed in cold blood. A coal miner was killed earlier, on the picket line. National Guard troops, called t by the agent of the steel trust and jailer of the Scottsboro boys, Governor B. M. Miller, are pot g their machine rs, Ironically, these troops were guns at the str I uest of the A. F. of L. misleaders. atings, arrests and called at the req A reign of terror, with raids shootings have been let loose. The eight thousand ore miners struck against a wage vas embodied in the N.R.A. wage scale recently announced by President Roose- Finding that the ore miners would not accept velt the “no strike” orders of the federal government, an attempt is now made to drown the strike in blood The strike of the ore miners follows closely on the heels of the strike of 21,000 Alabama coal miners, who were betrayed back to work with only slight concessions, by the N.R.A. decisions, and by the secret agreement negotiated by William Mitch, district president of the United Mine Workers of America. The officials of the U.M.W.A. and of the International Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union, working hand in hand wiht Roosevelt and the NRA. followed the strategy of delaying the ore strike as long as possible, of keeping the steel work- ers at work and thus divide the struggle of the workers for higher wages and better working con- ditions. It is not accidental that the two miners murdered on the picket line were both Negro workers. The bloody terror of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company (Morgan controlled), the coal operators and steel trust, comes down with greatest force against the Negro miners and steel workers. The employers, backed by government rtoops and N.R.A. decrees, through perpetuation of the Jim-Crow, through a -bestial terror especialy directed against the Negro workers, aim to divide the strikers, and to maintain a reserve of cheap, Negro labor. The Jim-Crow policies of the leaders of the U.M.W.A. and the International Mine, Mill and Smelter Work- ers Union give aid and comfort to this smashing attack of the employers on the strikers. The N. R. A., which reduced the wages of the ore miners, gave the official backing of the federal government to the wage differential, to the main- taining of a loWér wage scale to the Southern ore and coal miners than is received by the miners of the North. The employers, while trying to divide the workers, North and South, are themselves united and largely identical. The Tennessee Coal and Iron Company is part of the steel trust, and is Morgan controlled. Finance capital holds both the Northern and Southern coal mines and steel mills in its grasp. As long as lower wages for the South are maintained, the workers of the North will have their wages beaten down to lower levels The heroic ore strikers are defending themselves valiantly against the bloody Alabama terror. THE influence of the Communist Party is more and and more being felt among the workers of Ala- bama. The call of the Communist Party for mil- itant mass picketing, for abolition of Jim-Crow on the picket line and inside the union, for the spread- ing of the strike, against secret negotiations of of- ficials leading to compulsory arbitration by the N. R. A. boards, and for broad elected strike com- mittees, etc., is finding an increasing response from the miners, who note the lessons of the betrayal of the coal strike by Mitch. Especially did the tremendous May Day dem- onstration of the workers of Birmingham, held de- spite great terror, stimulate the strike of the ore miners. The main task of the strikers now is to organize rank and file opposition inside the A. F. of L. mine and ore unions, to guard against be- trayals of the officials, and to enforce these militant policies in the unions. Workers, North and South! Defend the heroic strike of the Alabama ore miners! Send protests against the bloody terror to Governor Miller at Montgomery, Alabama, and to City Commissioner W. O. Downs, City Hall, Birmingham, Alabama. Demand an end to the arrests and raids on strikers and Communists. DEMAND THE IM- MEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF THE NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS AND MURDEROUS COMPANY GUN THUGS. The Vets Are Fighting-- Give Them Aid! MUHERE is an important, immediate job for every supporter and sympathizer of the veterans’ fight for their Three-Point Program. This is, to send telegrams, letters, and calls to Roosevelt, and the local Con- gressman and Senator, NOW, demand- ing full aid and co-operation with the present Bonus March, which will culminate in the Vet- erans’ National Convention opening on May 10. At the same time Roosevelt and Congress should be deluged with wires and letters de- manding the passage of the veterans Three- Point Program for the payment of the bonus, the repeal of the Economy Act, and the passage of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Rill, om ttre. the Vets ere powsing into Weshineton in an immense mass movement against the brutal Wall | & { | | | Street program that Roosevelt has handed out to hem Every day new contingents are arriving 3,000 veterans have already arrived vets at Washington have ra them food, shelter, and full of their own camp, as prominent stree' must go ahead to new have forced t concessions g sfations on the most Now the} vets is of tremendous signifi- one of the sectors of the whole working t of the cance class against the hunger drive of the “New Deal The Roosevelt government has, with un- 1 flung upon thousands of v , while i fattened the pockets of the V Street bankers. The Communist Party, through its Central Committee has issued a stirring call for active and unqualified support of the veterans movement. It is the only Party that is side by side with the vets in the fight for the Three-Point Program. The other Parties are on the side of Wall Street. Wire telegrams in support of the vets! We are fellow fighters against the financial robbers at Washington and Wall Street! War Debt Maneuvers N THE bitter battle for world markets, for military supremacy, for colonies, each of the imperialist powers now plays its trump cards. The Roosevelt govern- ment has begun a new offensive to force the payment of war debts. But the bar- rage of Congressional and Presidential fireworks over the Johnson Bill, declaring those powers who do not pay war debt installments in default is the camouflage that covers the most intricate maneuvers of the Wall Street government to wring concessions frem its chief imperialist com- petitors. The sharpest contradictions brought out in the war debt discussions is that between the United States and Great Britain. These two imperialist robbers are fighting for world financial, commercial, colonial, and military supremacy. At the same time, the Roosevelt government utilizes its imperialist debt maneuvers against the Soviet Union, which is the only government in the world paying all of its debts. The whole capitalist world is in default on its debts. Its credit system is undermined. The Soviet Union is not in default and has met and is meeting all its obligations. While making its main attack against Britain, the Wall Street government makes a flank attack against the Soviet Union in connection with the corrupt Kerensky loans. The Roosevelt government at this very moment, when a world trade war is going on, when all of the capitalist robber powers are rushing their arma- ment building, when the Far East is ablaze with war maneuvers, utilizes the question of war debts to weaken its competitors. It uitlizes the war debts to force market concessions from them. It forces a crisis in the question of international finances in order to gain advantages for the American bank- ers, for the American munitions manufacturers, for the American exploiters. The present feverish crisis in war debts is the thermometer showing the rising danger of war. It has reached an extremely dangerous point. The debts owing to the United States govern- ment, amounting to $22,000,000,000, represents one of the main pieces of plunder that American capi- talists got out of the last imperialist slaughter. The other imperialist powers have been fighting against the payments of these debts; and as the world capitalist crisis intensifies, as the struggles between the powers is aggravated, the war debt question continues to arise each time in a sharper and more critical form. . . . 'HE Roosevelt government is insisting on the pay- ment of the war spoils in order to be able to subsidize the big American bankers; to speed the war program, and at the same time cripple its competitors. It wants to use the war debt issue as a means of forcing tariff agreements, favorable to the American exploiters. It wants to force war alliances. Every step of the Roosevelt government around war debts is in the interest of finance capital, in the interest of strengthening the enemies of the American workers, the Wall Street exploiters. The payment of war debts, in whatever form, to American capitalism will not help the Ameri- can workers or farmers, Through the N.R.A., and through the A.A.A., the Roosevelt government has already increased the profits of the American bankers and other exploit- ers at the cost of lowering the standard of living of the American workers. The collection of the war debts, or the advantages that Wall Street hopes to gain by its maneuvers around them, will aid the powerful trusts of Morgan, Rockefeller, Mellon, give them greater force in smashing down the wages of the workers and the living standards of the farmers. It will bring war closer, with the Roosevelt government ready at any moment to plunge the American workers into a new world slaughter to collect its booty of the last imperialist war, 'HE American workers and farmers must demand the annullment of the war debts. Nor is that alone sufficient, as the liberals in the United States want the workers to think—that with the cancella- tion of war debts comes, the millenium, capitalist prosperity. Along with the cancellation of war debts, the American farmers must demand cancellation of their mortgage and other debts. The American toiling masses are not interested in whether Wall Street receives the war debts or its pound of flesh in connection with them. The American workers and farmers are interested in obtaining unemploy- ment insurance—to come out of the swelling profits of the big trusts, the exploiters. The American workers and farmers are interested in fighting against the huge Roosevelt war budget. The World War veterans are interested in seeing that the hundreds of millions that Roosevelt can find with- out the slightest difficulty for battleships, bombing planes, for the army, should go to the vets in back pay, or as it is popularly known, “the bonus.” We must demand: Annul the war debts and the war budget. Adopt the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598)! Cancel the crushing debt burden of the American farmers! Fight against all the war maneuvers of the Roose- velt government, no matter under what guise they are made! Join the Communist Party | 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please sond me more information on the Comma- mst Party. NAME... ADDRESS. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934 Soviet-Polish Pact Bolsters Peace Policy Signed at Time When Imperialists Menace With New War (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 9 (By Radio) — On the occasion of the signing of Soviet-Polish extension of the to the non-aggression pact cently, the Soviet pr: comments on the significance of this step To the basic protocol, a conclu- sive protocol is attached stating that | neither contracting party is bound) by any statement capable of contra- dicting the decision of the Riga peace treaty, particularly its third clause which stipulates that both the U. S. S. R. and Poland re- nounce all claims to territories situ, | ated on the other side of the Sovie Polish frontier established by the) peace treaty. | “Pravda,” organ of the Commu- | nist Party of the Soviet Union, in| an article devoted to the signing of | this protocol, writes that in this has| been realized the Soviet Govern- {ment’s proposal prolonging for ten \years the existing non-aggression pacts between the U. S. S. R. and its western neighbors. The basis of the peaceful rela-| tions between the Soviet Union and the Baltic States, and also be:ween the U. S. S. R. and its greatest Western neighbor, Poland, has been strenthened and consolidated, says Pravda. Beyond all doubt the initiative of the Soviet Union has been success-| fully realized, and will serve the | cause of strengthening the peace in| Eastern Europe, consolidate the in- | | dependence of the Baltic States. | Will Be Hailed By U. S. S. R. Working Masses | “The prolongation for ten years | of the non-aggression pact between | the Soviet Union and Poland,” says | | Pravda, “will be met by the great | satisfaction of the working masses | of the Soviet Union and the whole | world as a new factor for consolida- tion of peace in Eastern Europe. “The value of this pact is im- measurably growing with the sharp aggravation of imperialist contra— |dictions which menace a new war.| | There is no doubts whatever that under such conditions the prolonga- | |tion of the pact between the U. S. |S. R. and Poland will serve as a} | cause for the stabilization of peace. The sincere endeavor of the work-| \ers of the Soviet Union toward con- |solidation and development of | peaceful neighborly relations be- tween the country of Soviets and | its neighbors has acquired new con- firmation. | “The statement of the absence of agreements contradicting obliga- tions undertaken by the signatories according to the Riga peace treaty) \is extremely timely and valuable in} | connection with all possible rumors | penetrating the world press speak- ing of secret agreements of an op- posite nature. | | “The protocol concluded between | the Soviet Union and Poland, re- | ferring to the extension of the non- | | aggression pact, together with the| | statement made by the contracting parties, that they are under no obligations contradictory to the| |Riga peace treaty, is of importance | |reaching far beyond the Soviet- | | Polish relations; agd is a factor of | the primary importance to the con- |solidation of peace | “Undoubtedly, the pact signed yesterday represents in itself a new |victory for the peace policy stead- |fastly carried on by the Soviet gov- | ernment.” |Nazis Forced to Stop | |Sale of Story That Jews! “Plotted” Hitler Murder BERLIN, May 9.—After inspiring | the publication of the canard about a Jewish plot to assassinate Hitler, and that the Jews believe in ritual murders, the Foreign Office here | was compelled by world protests, to order the “Stormer” to discontinue | sale of its issue containing the Nazi} | Slander. | The special issue containing the story was well-advertised in the Nazi press throughout Germany, and) was deliberately provoking a bloody | pogrom against the Jews. 1945, re- we STUDY IT, MR. CONGRESSMAN ! pet wins rere to } | | | | Youth Mobilize Against War: Speed Naval Arms Prepare National Youth Day Race as Trade War 91 Youth Affiliation to League (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, May 9.—Reperts from Southern Illinois indicate that the Mllinois State Youth Conference Against War and Fascism will re- ceive broad support. University of Illinois students elected delegates at a conference last week-end, at- tended by 320 students. At Peoria Sunday a mass meet- ing was held and delegates’ to the conference elected. The State Conference meets at the Church of the New Jerusalem, Lemoyne and California Aves., Chi- cago, Sunday, May 13, at 9 A. M.j ieee ae LOS ANGELES YOUTH BACKS ANTI-WAR FIGHT LOS ANGELES (By Mail). Eighteen organizations were repre- sented here at the anti-war con- ference held April 28th by the Youth Section of the American League Against War and Fascism. The keynote speech cn “Economic Causes of War and Fascism” was made by Dr. Bruce A. Anthony. Plans were made for a united front conference for International Youth Day. Pape a4 YOUNGSTOWN YOUTH TO MEET YOUNGSSTOWN, Ohio, May 8. —National Youth Day demonstra- tions in this industrial city will take place May 30th at 3:30 P. M. at Watt and Federal Sts. The workers here have not forgotten the fight- {ing traditions of the first Youth Day in 1931, when the workers fought the brutal attack of the police and the Legionnaire officers. Fifteen thousand leaflets are being | distributed, with special leaflets to the workers in the Republic Steel mill. eer ae 98 DELEGATES IN NEWARK ANTI-WAR MEET NEWARK, N. J. — Ninety-eight delegates from 61 Y.M.C.A., Y.M. and Y.W.H.A. clubs, high school and college student organizations, trade Delegates in New Jersey Endorse Against War, Fascism unions, shops, Boy Scouts, Peace | Clubs, Young Circle League, Young Peoples’ Socialist League, and Young Communist League units and from young peoples’ clubs with a total membership of 3,414, met last Sunday at Dana College Dr. Harry F. Ward of Union The- ological Seminary addressed dele- gates analyzing the present situ | ation as one leading to war and in- tervention against the Soviet Union unless the young workers and stu- jdent took action against this danger. He appealed to the conference to affiliate to the American League | Against War and Fascism as the organization in which people of all lcolors, nationalities and political Jopinions could unite in common | | struggle against war. In the discussion which followed, | the keynote was particularly evi- dent in the speeches of a young Ford Motor Comnany worker and of a scoutmaster from Barnegat. The Resolutions’ Committee re- ported back with a militant pro- gram of struggle against War and Fascism; a resolution calling for affiliation with the American League Against War and Fascism; against terror in New Jersey; for the right of students in N. J. high schools and colleges to participate in anti- war work without interference from their school authorities, and for the holding of a demonstration against War and Fascism on Na- tional Youth Day, May 30, in Pater- son, N. J. 1 Only the extreme pacifists dis- sented on the resolution on pro- grams. The Yipsels joined them in opposing affiliation to the Amer- ican League but on different grounds. They used the old shop- worn excuse of domination by one political party (the Communist. Party). The conference, however, over- | whelmingly voted to affiliate with | the American League Against War and Fascism. : | mitted that the Japanese govern- Becomes Sharper Japanese Declare They Will Demand Parity With U. S., Britain TOKIO, May 9.—Looming above the bitter trade war going on be- tween the United States and Japan, as well as between Britain and Ja- pan, was the declaration 0 Mineo Osumi, Minister of Marine, that Ja- pan would demand naval arms par- ity at the 1935 Naval Conference with Britain and the United States. Neither of the three big naval powers, however, are waiting until 1935. All are rushing armaments, Minister Osumi’s direct demand for naval parity was made in an ad- dress to the governors of the prefec- tures of Japan here today. He ad- ment is strengthening its navy. He did not mention the Vinson Bill passed by the U. S. Congress pro- viding for rapid naval arming. Osumi’s speech was considered as an official announcement of Japan’s intentions for the 1935 Naval Con- ference. He declared that Japan would “free herself from the un- favorable restrictions contained in existing treaties.” Speaking of the military preparations of all the powers, Osumi said, “Especially in their military establishments in the Far East,” would be used as a pre- text for further Japanese arming. He declared that Japan would claim the right to increase its naval strength because of the British na- val base at Singapore. In the same breath he mentioned Vladivostok. NEW MINES OPEN IN SOVIET GEORGIA MOSCOW, May 9 (By Radio).— In the South Caucusus, the equip- ment for the new coal field of Tkvarcheli in Soviet Georgia was completed and has begun opera- tions. The mines are equipped in accordance with the newest tech- nique. (Continued from Page 1) Russian people. The exact amount | of this booty was never ascertained. | It mounted into many millions; and | this money too was squandered. | Print Rubles in U. S. | Long after the Kerensky govern- ment had been ousted, ruble notes were printed in New York on order of Serge Ughet (and paid for out |of Kerensky loans) for shipment to Kolchak and other counter-revolu- tionary forces in Siberia to pay for | the civil war against the proletarian | dictatorship. This, too, the Roose- velt government wants the Soviet | Union to pay. No wonder in 1923 and 1924, Bakhmetieff and Ughet, who ac- cupied the Russian embassy in Washington, burned and destroyed | their books of account! They wanted to extirpate forever one of the most scandalous transactions in the his- tory of capitalist government fin- ance, A particularly juicy example of the swindling practices of Messrs. Bakhmetieff and Ughet is the case of the claim for $1,340,000 of the Russian government against the Tennessee Copper Co. In 1915 the “Russian Government Supply Com- mittee,” which was the control com- mittee of the Czar, placed a contract with the Tennessee Copper Co. for shipment of picric acid, amounting to approximately $4.560,000. A first installment was paid of $1,140,000. The National Surety Co. insured delivery. The goods were never delivered. The money paid should have been used to_ offset the Kerensky loans. But Messrs. Bakhmetieff and Ughet began to & negotiate for it so they could utilize the money to help Kolchak in his efforts to overthrow the Soviet gov- ernment, An American lawyer by the name of Frederick R. Coudert, of the firm of Coudert Brothers, was hired and paid $25,000 out of the embassy funds. While supposedly acting for attorney against the surety company for obtaining return of the money paid, Mr. Coudert was also a director of the National Surety Co. Negotiations were going on when the Kerensky government was overthrown by the toiling masses of Russia. The Tennessee Copper Co. and the National Surety Co. informed Coudert Brothers, Bak- hmetieff’s attorney, that they did not think it safe to make a settie- ment, because they had some doubt about the right of Bakhme- tieff to represent a non-existent government. Bakhmetieff, however, was in need of money to finance the Kolchak and Denikin counter-revolution. He was very anxious to get the money. He went to the State Department, and Secretary of State Colby cer- tified that Bakhmetieff still con- tinued to be “Russian ambassador.” Still the companies did not want to pay, because they knew the money did not belong to these gentlemen. Mr. Coudert arranged matters. He advised settlement for a smaller amount. Mr. Bakhmetieff wrote a confidential memo to his financial agent, Serge Ughet, stating that while it is unthinkable for a surety company to disclaim responsibility, it was better to settle for a smaller sum The surety company kept $340,- 000. Bakhmetieff and Ughet got $1,000,000. Financing Butcher of 100,000 One of the most sensational acts of Bakhmetieff was his financing of the visit of Ataman Gregory Semenoff to the United States in 1919. Ataman Semenoff, according to testimony of General Graves, head of the American Siberian ex- pedition, and Lieutenant Morrow, of the United States army, in his campaign of terrorism slaughtered 100,000 people. The matter became so scandalous that on May 4, 1919, Senator Borah in the United States Senate at- tacked Semenoff, and his protege and financer, Bakhmetieff. Borah accused Bakhmetieff, rather mildly, of being “perfectly fraud- ulent.” He declared he was dealing with a criminal, and that he had “embezzled American money.” No one in his right senses could ever cjaim the money was loaned to Rus- sia. Borah considered it was “Amer- ican money” that Bakhmetieff and | Co. used for his orgies and counter- revolutionary expeditions. It is this same “American money” that the Roosevelt government, through the Johnson Bill and Attorney General Cummings’ decision, claims the So- viet government owes, and is in de- fault for not paying. Burn Incriminating Records Borah proposed a detailed in- vestigation of Bakhmetieff’s ac- tivities, which was never—and never can be—fully made. When Bakhmetieff and Ughet finally moved out of the Russian embassy in Washington, in the dead of night and secretly, they carted away and destroyed in- criminating records—incriminat- ing not only themselves, but Amer- ican bankers who misused the so- called Kerensky loans for counter- revolutionary and other purposes. The United States government support given to Bakhmetieff was based on its activities in the inter- est of Wall Street bankers who wanted their Czarist loans paid. In June, 1919, the interest on Czarist bonds amounting to $100,- 000,000, was due. Serge Ughet, who was acting for Bakhmetieff, assured J. P. Morgan, the National City Bank, the Guarantee Trust Co., and Kidder, Peabody and Co., financiers mainly interested in Ozarist invest- ments, that he was in communica- tion with Kolchak. He assured them that they “might reasonably expect arrangements to be made for the payment of this debt as soon as the All-Russian Government was formed.” To help form this govern- ment, by financing the civil war for the overthrow of the proletarian dictatorship, the American govern- ment, intertwined with these W: Street bankers, hoped the Czarist, as well as the Kerensky debts would be paid—through Kolchak’s wring- ing it out of the Russian workers and peasants. But it was not to be. And now the Roosevelt government threatens to halt U. S.-Soviet trade unless these criminal swindling transac- tions (in which the United States government was a party) be paid by the toilers of the Sovict Union, who never saw @ cent rt it jing in Bombay, India. | movement, and the jers, working with the Gandhi- On the World Front I—— By HARRY GANNES Bombay Strike A Dying Press Nazi Murder Threats through to the American capitalist press that over 65,- 000 textile workers are strik- Bom- bay is the storm center of the Indian revolutionary workers’ strike is de- veloping despite the fact that over 80.000 workers in that city are un- 7 employed. ] Soon after May Day. when the latest news was available, it ap- * peared that there would be a gen- of eral strike of all cotton worl Bombay and Sholapur. The workers struck against A waze cut. The British and Indian exploiters are cutting the starvation pay of the Indian workers in order ] ARDLY a word en ) } |to compete with Japanese textile ; imports. The London Daily Worker de- clares that: “The strike movement in India is deveioping to an ex- tent which may even surpass the great strike movement of 1928-29 which stirred up the whole of In- dustrial India.” The Indian reformist labor lead- National Congress, are doing all they can to avert a general strike, helping the police terrorize the workers. Many workers were in- jured when police armed with lathi (staves) attacked their picket lines. The strikers, however, did not fol- low Gandhi's non-re: nee policy and put at least three of the cops in the hospital. res aes?) N MORE than one occasion chief Nazi Propagandist Goebbels has exhorted the Nazi press to increase its circulation, but to no avail. Shot through with the stultifying, cor- roding Fascist propaganda, it is dying on its feet. Over 400 papers have already gone out of existence. Monday Goebbels again tried to pump a semblance of life into the Nazi-stifled press. He declared the German legal press would be permitted to express its free opinion—provided it does not conflict with the opinions of Say Hitler, Goebbels or Goer- ing. On a previous occasion, Goebbels made the same speech. The Nazi journalists Ehm Welk made some very mild “criticism” in the news- paper “Gruene Post,” and the next day found himself in a concentra- tion camp. On Monday he was re- leased. While the circulation of the Nazi press shows such tremendous sink~ ing spells, the illegal revolutionary. anti-fascist press is growing by i leaps and bounds. r Last December Goebbels de- | manded the Nazis use all their force | to increase the circulation of the | Nazi press. Though the “Voeikischer Beo- bachter” gained 20,000 subscribers since December, all others re- corded heavy losses. “Angriff,” in the same period, lost 34,000 sub- seribers; the “Berliner Tageblatt,” 10,000; the “B. Z. am Mittag,” 8,000; the “Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung,” 2,000; the “Lokalan- zeiger,” 4,500; the “Tag,” 2,000, the “Nachtausgabe,” 3,000; the “Boer- | senzeitung,” 1,000; the “Germa- nia,” 1,000; the “Deutsche Zei- tung,” 5,000, and the “Frankfur- ter Zeitung,” 3,000. A number of these papers are considering clos- ing down altogether. The “Deut- sche Tageszeitung,” has already declared that the July Ist issue will be its last. oo es ECENTLY, Butcher Goering’s spe- cial newspaper, the Essen “Nae tional Zeitung,” published a blood- curdling threat of the most draconic measures against Communists that should arouse every worker to the grave dangers facing our Comrade ‘Thaelmann and other imprisoned anti-fascist fighters. | The prime minister | states that he will not shrink from making an example of those ele- ments who are still, in spite of their better judgment, continuing to slander the state and to stir up rebellion, and will stamp on the head of the bolshevist serpent by placing these elements against the » a The article then quotes the pas- sage of Goering’s speech, kept se- cret by the German News Bureau, given on the occasion of the trans- ference of the State Secret Police to Himmler: : : “When we were out at the front during the frightful world war, it was necessary to stake human lives to conquer some small por- tion of the enemy trenches, in or- der that some strategic success might be gained which was insig- 4) nificant in comparison with the whole, and whose importance was seldom fully realized by the plain soldier whe had to risk his life. But the responsible leaders of the army were aware of this impor- tance, and did not shrink from the responsibility of risking human lives for the purpose of attaining the great goal. And we, who are f responsible for the maintenance of the state and of our magnifi- F cent realm, are we going to hesi- tate in treading underfoot those creatures who are endeavoring to overthrow this realm? No, we shall not hesitate, we shall tread them underfoot, relentlessly, we shall not persecute or torture anybody, but we shali shoot them.” And in order to leave no doubt that this mass murdering is to be- gin at once, the leading article adds: “These are hard words which have \ been pronounced by the prime mins ister, and they are not only words for if we know the prime minister, his words are synonomous with the coming deed. . . . We are fully con- vinced that the prime minister Her+ mann Goering has not preached te deaf ears his renewed declaration oY war against the enemies of the °