The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1934, Page 7

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 2%, 193 ~~ 2 WManK Page Seven ~ Writers--There Is No CuLTuRE AGAINST FASCISM Middle Road Today! & “I ask you, Mr. Chief Justice, to tell me the coun- | try where fascism is not wild and barbarous.” _ out of fear of its own impotence. » standpoint of economic and social “class relations, nor . in property. 'RNST THAELMANN is in the Troops to demolish the working- class cadres, he is facing daily tor- ture. Aside from this, 300 anti-fas- | cists are being held as hostages against an expected ‘outbreak of il- legal activities and labor strik A letter has been intercepted, stating that these 300 prisoners will be shot as soon as the renewed anti-Nazi opposition has begun. Among these hostages are Carl von Ossietzki, writer and’ pacifist, Klaus Neu- Krantz, author of Barricades in Ber- lin; Ludwig Renn, writer; Theo- dore Neubauer, eminent: journalist, and erstwhile deputies in the Com- munist fraction of the Reichstag. These and others are already near death as the result of truncheon and torture-bruises. There are 200,000 men and women in .concen- tration camps. Three thousand anti-fascists have already been as- sassinated. The Volksgericht, the so-called People’s Tribunal, has been estab- lished. This is a-new landmark in the Brown Terror. These Guillo- tine Tribunals, composed of five Nazis, who are selected on the basis of a long and uninterrupted fealty to the National Socialists, have been set up according to districts in the cities and pravinces. It consists of a president who appoints the de- fense and the prosecution, besides two other Nazis. The defendant is tried and in secret, without the Tight, to choose his attorney. The Guillotine Tribune has been instructed to dispose of all political cases within 48 hours to three days. The Nazi government will not hazard another Leipzig affair. It has discovered that its sleazy theat- rics, its genre of Semple McPher- ‘son “showmanship, proved its un- doing against the brilliant and fear- less Dimitroff. From the judgment of the Volks- steh auf!” However, the workers literal-minded Storm Troopers, For weeks later | the entire Wedding district rever- brated with: “Hitler verreke! Prolet steh auf! Prolet hau’ zu” After) two weeks the Hi . Wessel film, having the opposite effect than in-| tended, was interred., | The struggle of the German work- | ers, of all anti-fascists for the un- conditional release of Ernst Thael- | mann concerns the American intelli- | gentsia, the writers, professionals, | students and journalists, more deeply than they ‘know. If Ernst Thaelmann dies at the | hands of his torturers, the Nazis will keep their guillotines going day and night, and our own meager lib- erties will die with him, The National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism calls upoh the intellectuals, the profes- sionals and the students to send protests to ‘Paul Von Hindenburg ‘in Berlin and to Hans Luther in Washington and to demand that} Ernst Thaelmann have the right to choose a foreign defense attor-| ney, that physicians be permitted to see and éxamine and tfeat his wounds, and that the trial be pub- lic. | Demand that the Volksgericht be ! abolished and that the 200,000| prisoners in concentration camps | be released. . * . | 'T IS time forthe intellectuals to| know that they must take sides. | Either they must shamelessly sup- port the owning class, the entre- preneurs, the industrialists through- out the world, or they must take their stand with the toilers of the) world. War and fascism and the; armament manufacturers have proven that all nationalist boun-| spectacle in Germiany today. The best minds of German culture are im- prisoned in concentration camps. Klaus Neukrantz, von Ossietzky, and other men of letters, are dying in Nazi dungeons. The enlightenment which German art and science brought to mankind is being extinguished. The cultural heritage of centuries is being beheaded by a band of madmen. Germany is rapidly becom- ing a cemetery of culture. The bright stream of - German learning is being dammed and polluted by the fascist dictatorship. | ee Science is harnessed in the if service of these destroyers of humanity. It is being ,..) used not to cure disease but to brew new poisons for the next war. The purpose of Nazi “art” is not to cre- ate things of social beauty, but to aid the military staff in reproducing scenes on the battlefield. The fascist penmen are degenerate poetasters whose function is to glorify the gruesome deeds of the Na- zis. The “guardians” of German letters are thugs whose duty is to wipe out litera- ture. “When I hear the word culture I —Dimitroff. . Nazi Columbia House, awaiting a| were rather and | { Secret trial e Volksgericht. Inj realistic and threw down bricks, ) 3 | order to wring secrets from Thael-| chamberpots, and altogether effec- | LTURE IN :CHAINS—this is the prime my pistol,” said Hans Johst, one mann that will enable the Storm] tive missiles, injuring scores of} of the leading Nazi rhymesters. Men of learning and science! Nazidom is a menace to world culture. It would pillage the creative treasures of the past. It would convert present-day Germany into a cultural wasteland. We must build a mighty barrier of protest in the path of these fascist bar- barians. We must fight to preserve the cultural inheritance of centuries. We must slash the chains that bind German intellectuals and the leaders of the prole- tariat, who alone can save and enrich the cultural gifts of humanity. We must intensify the international storm of de- nunciation which freed Dimitroff, save Ernst Thaelmann, and Ernst Torg- ler, leaders of the German masses, We must snatch them from these execu- tioners. Lovers of culture and humanity! Halt the fiends who would behead the German proletariat, the standard-bearer of prog- ress. - CULTURE AGAINST FASCISM! FREE THAELMANN! —John Reed Clubs of the United "States. STORM OF PROTEST ;/’” —By Bard The degradation of Germ nder Hitler so complete that one*is tempted to give up pr testing against the daily assaults on civilization p petrated by the German rulers. But we must guard against this hopeless feeling. The human spirit still lives, although in my, in the German lands. We must not tire in defense, however impotent it seems, Thaelmann is a great symbol of that still living spirit: So long as he survives, the German people— oppressed and degraded—is not d Therefore, the degenerates who rule will, if dare, destroy him, And therefore we must not let them dare; we must not let Thaelmann die. —Waldo Frank. seems Drawing by HUGO GELLERT. THE INTELLECTU. ALS SPEAK ham, a tricky exploitae the German’ people. Only m can oppose this Hitler can ignore the Thaelmann’s release. He dare id of the working class of the —Genevieve Taggard. ion of Thael- tellectual in hreatened exec . The demand for ly stated. I enth Stice m of the John Reed*Clubs gericht there is no higher appeal.|daries are geographical fictions | | * * ‘i i This Guillotine Tribunal is the in-| strategically employed to prevent! | . ‘ Rann Wile Protest of artists and strument the Nazis are going to) the toilers of one country from| If the National Socialist govérnment of Germany writers. Granville Hicks employ for the annihilation of 2,000} stopping the oppressions and. ex-| | executes Thaelmann for a crime of which they were e ey * 3 Comntunist functionaries. hausting exploitations of the work-| | not able to prove him guilty, they will, themselves One of the greatest leaders of the world prole- It is altogether “evident that. the Nazis are alarmed. Heightened ter- ror can only mean increased oppo- ers, the brain and hand workers, | of , another. Fellow-writers, there is no middle | be convicted of a crime which history will not for- get. One cannot appeal to the sense of decency or honor of the government which has already so out- tariat is being threatened and tortured in a Nazi dungeon. The murderous German fascists want to sition. i 4 nn mery wi ‘i course today. The tragic and har- | i : kill Thaelmann. Every worker, artist, scientist * 2 * raged the opinion of the world, but it might act as rowing era in which we live will Saiar SSS" | phen eg back, during the making | rorce ifr willy, nilly, to take Boy a slight. deterrent if they knew that public’opinion |” *inker, should join.in a.giganfic cry.of protest—a 4 of the Horst Wessel film, the|and if we continue as by-standers, in other countries is still conscious of their actions. ray e uch deafening strengvit bing it ae sage: deification of a classical pimp, the] and ref recognize the relent- z he Nazi jon must be mobilized to and refuse to —George Soule. force the release of Thaelmann. Nazis got another jolt symptomatic of anti-fascist opposition, The. pic- ture was being produced in Wed- ding, the workingclass district, and the tenants were asked to partici- pate. The intention of the Nazis was to reproduce Communist dem- onstrations against the fascists and | to show the brutality of the Marx- ists so.as to arouse German movie audiences against them. The workefs in Wedding were in- structed to throw down from their less direction of history we will be caught and trapped by the mount- | ing reactionary forces, and like our unhappy writers and intellectuals abroad, -be uprooted refugees or prisoners in concentration camps. The same holds true of our siu- dents and youth. The future lies} in the palm of your hands, if you} will but close that palm and raise jit vertically. Unite to save the life |of Ernst haelmann and all anti- fascists, and unite to save your-/ windows papier-mache ‘ fiowerpots upon the passing Storm Troopers and to shout. “Nazi verreke! Prolet selves! . —Edward Dahlberg. -A German Refugee Editor, New Republic . . * Thaelmann is in danger of the death verdict within the next ten days because he is a rep: tive of the power of the working class of the world In this crisis we see that Hitler’s emphasis on na- This page has been pre- pared and edited entirely by the John Reed Club of || New York, which acknowl- edges the co-operation of the Daily Worker in fur- nishing this space for its appeal to all sincere and AM U —John Howard Lawson. tellectual must cry out against, t and torture of Ernst Thaelmann. —Albert Maltz. SEMENTS LAST 3 DAYS! ~ Clarence Hathaway US VANDERBILT, JR., AND OTHERS IN “HITLER S REIGN OF TERROR” COMMUNISTS, SOCIALISTS and LIBERALS UNITE TO FIGHT FASCISM! a honest intellectuals to unite special addeaMfay Day Celebration “NEW A eals F or Action hard ML ues Sveraeacnal ME 1 : uth STREET and : workingclass in saving || ACME THEATRE (Union sovane a Thaelmann. This page will }| ~~ ia r Spa \T’ does so-called German Na-| Europe have passed? Why do they ‘i a be issued as a separate || 1 ——__—____— tional Socialism mean from-the|behead and shoot . workers—they|and blinded, filled with myticism Nanny “alee for wide dis! RoBE RTA ae MUSIC science? It means: growing unpro- ductive burdens; rising unemploy- ment; intensified antagonism’ be- tween town and country; aggra- vated class contradictions; fictitious unification, called ~Gleichshaltung (coordination); ‘ie., centralization of bankruptcy. t The weaker German fascism, the) Stronger the terror and the more) greedy the drive for expansion. Fascist German economy is a war who claim to be a “labor party”? Why was my friehd Theodoro Les- sing shot? Why did they shoot my friend, Wilhelm Spiegel? Why is Thaeimann to be sentenced to death? Why all this torture and the Nazi’s hypocritical denials? Why did they burn and suppress our books? Why did they stage the frightful Reichstag Fire, unex- and the spirit of the goose step has followed them. Because the scien- tists, the writers, the artists, en- gineers, doctors and lawyers out- side Germany do not take a resolute stand on behalf of the cultured Germany which has been trampled under foot and which was their teacher. Because even refugee Ger- man intellectuals merely look out for themselves and do not defend the lives of their brothers in Ger- many. I know the reasons, the excuses, early. German Bolshevik While a Haymarket martyr defied capitalism in a Chicago court- room (I speak as the representative of one class to another”), ahother German leader was born to the workingclass in Hamburg. Son of a blacklisted laborer, Ernst grew up in ports and ships. His shoulders widened in proletarian labor. He joined the Social Democrats at sixteen. He saw class lines JEROME KE! tribution -among intellec- tuals and workers through- < & OTTO E | NEW AMSTERDAM, W. 42d St. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2.30 RBACK Evgs. 8.40 -HIPPODROME OPERA le ser na Director TopA¥ Mat., 2:30...11 Trovatore out the country. Bundle or- ders should be sent to the club gt 480 Sixth Avenue, New York, N. Y. | WALTER HUSTON in Sinclair Lewis’ | IDODSWORTH Dramatized by SIDNEY HOWARD | SHUBERT, W. 44th St. Matineés’ Wednesday and Sati TONIGHT MME, BUTTERFLY Sunda; AIDA — 25¢. 55e-83e-99e incl. —| —HIPPODROME, 6 Ay.443 St. VAn 3- ne Evs. 8:40 Tell your friends and shopmates about the Daily Worker. Let them | read your copy. Ask them to sub- economy. It cannot be otherwise. iri It must-expand outward, because it the embarrassments well enough The next three decades Thaelmann led strikes demonstrations | _S°T?® wal otheriee cy ub. ft a a But Tsay to you The cause of campaigns labor batts, ee ey WORKERSLABORAT ORY THEA tempt to repeat the war concentra-| “JIG SAW | tion of 1914-18, It is nothing new; it represents, no. change in the economic structure, no change in Even its organization is an initation and continuation of an already old process. The rapidly cooling Hit- Jerite enthusiasm means’ nothing in this regard, Hitlerism is. the endeavor to re- vive barbarism in*the 20th century » Why are they destroying the means of existence of the Jews? Why do they proclaim the suprem- acy of the so-called Aryans in the typical land of race mixtures, through which all the peoples of reause they are half-educated and ~ ampled in the history of provoca- tions? Why do they call for war against the Soviet Union, which is building its culture and its eco- nomic system in peace? Why are they trampling German science under foot? Why are they crushing all life out of the German lan- guage? Why, why do they do all this? ecause they cannot give bread to the toiling people of Germany. Be- therefore envious of every cultivated and independent spirit. And what is more: because a sec- the German workers of hand and brain’ is your cause as well! The Hitler regime will be smashed by fought enemies inside and out, scorned bribes and capitulations, its own inner contradictions and by the revolutionary forces which’ are growing stronger day by day, espe- cially in Germany itself. When it, will smash?—That depends on the heroic fighters within Germany and upon , the extent of the support given‘them by the outside world. I appeal to the intellectual workers of America! Unite and defend the oppressed workers and intellectuals of Germany. tion of the German people, despexate —Prof. A. Goldschmidt Fill This Blank and Mail at Once! _| 10 THE GERMAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON, D. C. I demand these rights for Thaelmann: 1) Free choice of defense attorneys (including foreign attorneys). for defense witnesses and attorneys. to get Thaelmann, to get Thaelmann, Workers’ League EXTRA! By Workers’ Laboratory Theatre : : : : : ; ‘ refused to leave his workers behind: ere “ es 1—“HOLLYWOOD GOES RED” 2) The right to send in a foreign doctor to immediately examine Ernst Thaelmann een ls ales tiki ak it esettarle WORE Dance Festival Kykunkor 5h Ue: COMME ee and other prisoners whose health is shattered by torture and the life in prison. 4 s eS by y the leaders must be near the party and near the masses. ds = W. 43rd St. Native African 3—POLICE! POLICE! For the immediate release of all political prisoners in Germany. ‘They threw him into the torture dungeons of Columbia House, | TOWN HALL, w. gsrast. Opera 4—“DIMITROFF” gts s his cl eing, > a a extey WHITE Co. NAMB i efor heit apa aia Gi rend enor dee 0 Ait ue Cleat eee SAT. EVE., JUNE 21]/) soy sears Now! HUNDREDS TURNED AWAY LAST TIME! a to guillotine him. | E ape a shies oe ies ‘Be. 25¢e, 35c, 8c, 99c (no tax) * 5 : m Sale a orkers lance aw. 5 E19 LT, PERG A 0. 3 3 3 Sas dinjain 4.6 \5.s'die oth vous SPROBEISSION so cn neve ene oven un'ee). Workers) a0 of puitase, SANE THARLMANN) |] teague, 80H. 11th-t.; Workers ||] 3°E Win Si,” New atecten “at's 5TH AVE. THEATRE j f ‘ x 27th St., Workers Book Store, 50 E. Broadway at 28th Street Safe conduct In the war he passed forbidden leaflets to his fellow-soldiers, campaigned for revolution until he was caught and thrown into prison. From 1919 he led the Hamburg workers. After '23 he headed the Communist Party of Germany. Followers of the swastika plotted his murder. house in 1922. Wary Social Democrats, reformists watched him closely, kept him out of their unions because he fought for the unity of the workingclass. They bombed his Communist deputy in the Reiclistag, in 1930 he wrote the charter for the freedom of the German people: a After the fall of the reign of capitalism, we Communists will establish the rule of a Soviet of workers and peasau(s, a rule of the immense majority of the German people, as against igi’ putty ot infamous parasites. In '32 he opposed the Lesser Evil in the election caiabeas: saw the Junker-Militarist open the door to Hitler, beheld the madman unleash a hundred thousand madmen —Alan Calmer. * A comefy by. DAWN POWELL with ERNEST TRUEX—SPRING BYINGTON ETHEL BARRYMORE Present a Setond Evening of Revolutionary Drama Theatre, 47th Street, W. of Broadway Evgs. 8:40. Mat. T! nd Sat. 2:40 EUGENE O’NEILL's Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE ty COHAN 3 GUILD evscvsiststharesate 0 MAXWELL ANDERSON'S New Play “MARY OF GUS Se with HELEN PHILIP. HAYES: Thea., 52d St., W. of F ALVIN gy.g.20 Mat.Thur.Sate? @ Guard Duty @ LaGuardia’s Got the Baloney @ Charity @ Shock Troupe on Parade TONITE at NEW SCHOOL AT 8:30 P. M. 66 WEST 12th STREET All Seats Reserved . Tickets 35¢e, 50c, 75¢ Workers Book Shop, 50 East 13th Street and New School |) THE THEATRE UNION Presents = The Season's Outstanding Dramatic my stevedore CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 St. Eves, 8:45. Mats. Tues. & Sat. 2:45) B00-40¢~-600-75e-$1.00 & $1.50, No Tax | 10 Groups in Socialist Competition at_the Dance .Book Shop, 50. East 13th Street 1 June 3rd---A Greater NEW THEATRE NITE Stars of Broadway, Harlem and 14th Street Four (4) New Revolutionary Plays AsadadaHortons 13th St., Theatre Box’ Office.