The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1934, Page 6

—_ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1934 Daily,.QWorker QRNTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY US.A (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERMATIONALD “America’s Oniy Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 19%4 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone Cable r Wash ALgonquin 4 - 7 Reject the Steel ‘Arbitration’ Board ESTERDAY the leaders of the N. R. A., Johnson and Richberg, met in New York with the company in secret conference, planning how to pre- vent the strike of the steel workers. Gen- eral Johnson has already stated what solu- tion he favors—a Steel Labor Board, and a “settlement” such as President Roosevelt put across in the auto steel hea Such a “settlement” of the question would mean that the steel workers would not gain any of their demands, and furthermore would mean the strength- ening of company unions in the steel industry. The setting up of the*Auto Labor Board by the A. F. of L. leaders, the auto companies and Roose- velt, prevented the strike which the auto workers demanded. They were rea e for union recognition, for higher wages ainst the life- @raining speed-up. But the A. F. of L. leaders together with the National Labor Board, Roosevelt and the employers, postponed and finally prevented the strike, and forced the workers to accept compul- sory “arbitration” oif the Auto Labor Board. This government board has rejected all wage and other demands of the auto workers by interminable post- ponements and delays. Furthermore, the company unions have been officially recognized by the gov- ernment Auto Labor Board. The auto workers did not get recognition but the company unions were recognized by the government board. Now the Roosevelt government proposes to put over a similar defeat on the steel workers. The belly-crawling statement of the Committee of the A. F. of L. union in Washington should arouse every steel worker to the danger of betrayal through gov- ernment “arbitration.” The Committee stated that it is working with Mike Tighe, president of the A. A., who openly opposed any strike. They say he will be present at all negotiations. They favor conferences with President Roosevelt and the employers, prais- ing Roosevelt even though he personally engineered the auto sell-out, which they claim to oppose. To agree to arbitration of President Roosevelt, of any government board, means that the steel workers will be defeated, just like the auto workers were defeated. It means company unionism, low wages and speed-up. Government-N.R.A.-super- vised elections in the mills to determine represen- tation means a victory for the company union. These elections will be dominated by the com- pany. The Committee of Ten, while openly proclaim- ing their co-operation with Tighe, reject a united front with the Steel and Metal Workers Union. The steel workers must prepare against the be- trayals now being hatched by the government, the employers, emd the A. A. international officials. The Steel workers, if they are to win their demands, must. —over the heads of the Committee of Ten and of Mike Tighe—forge the unity of all steel workers in joint, strike action and form at once joint strike committees. The Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union has pointed the way for the steel workers to win their demands—not ike-breaking govern- ment arbitration, but militant united front struggle of all steel workers, regardless of union, in the com- ing strike. “Scratch a Liberal...” “QCRATCH a liberal and find a reaction- »W ary.” Commissioner of Welfare Wil- liam Hodson, the outstanding “liberal” of the “liberal” LaGuardia administration, heaps praise upon the police sluggers of defenseless men and women who were pe- titioning for relief, for adequate food and shelter, Not content with absolving the Police Depart- ment of all blame for the brutal clubbing of work- ers at the May 26 demonstration before the Depart- ment of Welfare, Hodson, in his letter to Police Commissioner O’Ryan, even finds occasion for ac- cusing the workers of attacking the police. “I wish to express my appreciation,” Hodson says in his letter to O’Ryan, “to you and the men under your command for the way in which they have handled a very difficult problem.” In these words, Hodson openly approves of the police club- bing, openly approves of the denial of the elemen- tary right of the workers to petition. More, he encourages further brutality. Echoing the lynch statements of LaGuardia and the entire prostitute press of New York City, Hod- son continues: “We shall take whatever steps neces- sary to prevent any particular group, whether they be Communists or others, encroaching upon the Tights and privileges of the citizens generally.” “Regarding the riot of May 26,” the New York Herald Tribune states, “he knew from circulars which the Communists distributed in advance that they intended to create disorder.” If the com- missioner has such leaflets at hand, why does he not produce them—why does he not quote from them—why this sneaking reference to something which does not exist? Leaflets were distributed, of course, but not one called upon the workers to provoke violence. Hodson, beyond doubt receiving and carrying out, orders which he has received, in repeating the at- tacks upon the Communist Party and the Un- employment Councils and the relief organizations, is attempting to arouse lynch hysteria with the aim of crushing and instituting a .reign of terror against all workers who dare to raise their voices against the sub-starvation standards of Home Re- lief and work relief. Beyond doubt, Hodson, as did LaGuardia before him, ts thereby calling on the city magistrates to inflict savage sentences upon the workers arrested at the May 26 demonstration. The LaGuardia administration, its hand ex- posed by the editorials and articies in the June 2 of the Daily Worker, faced with a mobilization of jobless three times as great 2s the previous Saturday, did not dare to attack the jobless dem- onstration on June 2. Workers in the mass organizations and unions! Protest the brutality of the police and demand adequate relief. Neighborhood meetings, veterans organizations, workers clubs! The blood bath is being prepared for these who dare demand the right to live! Every supporter of civil rights, every worker, organized and unorganized, flood LaGuardia with resolutions and delegations of protest! Let La Guardia and his Wall Street masters know that the unemployed retuse to starve and will not tolerate his terror! Demand an end to terror! Demand adequate relief and the right to live! The S.P. “Revolutionary Declaration” th Conven- tion, ed, there ted one huge, dominating factor—the real, rapidly grow- , revolutionary consciousness of the ses, and a growing inpatience of the rank and file in the Socialist Party with the policies of the leadership. A frantic recognition “that the idea of storm the citadel of capitalism is rapidly matur- ing in the minds of the masses” (Stalin), and a frantic effort not to be swept aside by the rising movement of the masses, a desperate effort to forti- fy its waning prestige and to maintain its position at the head of those workers who follow it—this is what distinguishes the discussions and decisions of the S. P. convention. The adoption of the new “radical” Declaration of Principles by the “militant” group and the “Revo- Policy Committee” does not mean that the Socialist Party has become a revolutionary party. It means that the Socialist leadership has decided that the time has come when, in order to execute the old policies, the typical policies of Social-Fas- cism, it is necessary to season these policies with more “revolutionary” phraseology if the ear of the masses is not to be lost altogether. HROUGH the Socialist Party just enc just en “]WJE WILL not shrink,” declare the new “revolu- tionary leaders” of the S. P., in almost mock- t bluster, “from the responsibility of organiz- ing a government under workers’ rule.” But when will these redoubtable “revolution- aries” do this daring thing? Only “if the capital- ist system should collapse in a general chaos and confusion which cannot permit of orderly pro- cedure.” Naturally, as Lenin pointed out long ago, the capitalist system will never “collapse” of its own weight. It will have to be overthrown. To pre- serve it, the ruling class will attempt in every case to base itself on the bayonets of its naked Fascist dictatorship. While the new S. P. “revolutionaries” are patiently waiting for capitalism to strange it- self in “chaos and confusion,” Fascism will try to “restore the orderly processes” through its open, military dictatorship. IF the capitalist system should “collapse” in “chaos and confusion,” that is to say, IF the capitalists suddenly become angels and decide not to strengthen their rule with Fascist suppression, and IF “order- ly processes fail,” then our dangerous S. P. r-r-revo- lutionaries will come forward and “not shrink” from doing something or other not very clearly defined. Very coolly and contemptuously, the New York Times, organ of Wall Street capitalism, whose in- stinct for detecting its friends and enemies has reached a high degree of sensitivity, states of Norman Thomas’ new declarations: “There is always much virtue in your ‘if, and there may be a good dea! in this particular one. Doubtless the resolution will undergo a lot of metaphysical explanation until it seems not to amount to much.” So American capitalism by the S. P. “revolutionaries,” * * not exactly terrified * HE infallible revoluticrary touchstene of all par- ties, policies and leaders, is the question of the seizure of power, and the dictatership of the pro- letariat, the question of Soviet Power. And on these two questions, the program of the new S.P. “militants” stands nakedly exposed, despite all the blustering verbiage of the Thomases, Kreu- gers, Hapgoods, etc., as typical Social-Fascist re- formism. They will, after all their IF’s are satisfied, “not shrink from setting up’—what? A “government under workers’ rule.” What kind of government is this? Will the working class ever forget that the German Socialist Party crushed the proletarian revolution in 1918, also to set up the Weimar Repub- lic, which they also described as “a government under workers’ rule?” From this vague form of government which can easily conceal a typical bourgeois government, lea’ ing the capitalist state intact, they will not “shrin But from the proletarian dictatorship they “shrink” in utter fright. In this “revolutionary” declaration of the new S. P. leaders we have all the requisites for a theo- retical defense for the support of advancing Amer- ican Fascism. i * * * cr IS the increasing interest of the masses in the question cf the seizure of power that determines these new “revolutionary” phrases of the S. P. lead- ers, This, too, is thoroughly appreciated by the capitalist press, the New York Times stating: “One understands the pressure to which Mr. Thomas was subjected. There has been a steady push of the younger and more radical elements in the Socialist Party against what they think to be an ‘obsolete ideology’ . . .Mr. Thomas, ap- parently felt compelled to go along with them. . .” This is both sympathetic and accurate. * * * 'HE Convention revealed how close are the ties of the Right Wing leaders with the apparatus of the capitalist State, through its connections with the reactionary A. F. of L. bureaucracy. The speeches of Waldman and others revealed a desire to be- come even more openly part of the bourgeois state apparatus throuzh the Labor Boards, etc. And it is revealing as to the character of the new “reyo- lutionary” leadership that it uttered not one word of criticism of these opinions. The Fascist speech of Sharts of Ohio did not shock the leadership, But it pointed the path on which the leaders are all traveling, from the Wald- mans, to the Centrist Thomas, and the “left wing” Kreugers and Matthews—the road already trod- «hn by the Wels, the Leiparts, the Severings, the Bauers and the Adlers. , The working class of the United States faces the question of the revolutionary way out of the crisis, of preparation for the seizure of power, of the path to Soviet Power. The Communist Party alone leads the advance along this path. The Socialist Party leadership is dedicated to stemming at all costs the real smashing of the bour- gecis State power. That is why the revolutionary working class must understand the purpose of the “left” maneuvers that were carried through at Detroit, so that the influence of the Socialist Party leaders can he destroyed, as a prerequisite for the overthrow of capitalism and the setting up of Soviet Power. Death Ray Machine! PREPARING THE Jos: Exhibit Is Halted by U. S. Officials Gov't Wants It Kept a | Secret for Use in Imperialist War OMAHA, June 6.—Army officials intervened here today and pre- vented the exhibition of a powerful, death-dealing ray machine at the National Inventors’ Congress, Full | details of the machine are unknown, jas the inventor, Dr. Antonio Lon- jgoria, of Cleveland, complied with {the orders of the federal govern- {ment that his machine be not ex- | hibited and held for war purposes | only | According to A. G. Burns, presi- dent of the congress, who saw the {machine in action, it looks some- thing like a motion picture pro- jector. When the rays are turned onto a living object, it is killed instantly. Mr. Burns said: “Dr. Longoria turned the ray on rabbits, | dogs and cats. They fell over, in- stantly killed, their blood turned to |water. The same thing happened | to pigeons. They fluttered to the | ground and were dead when picked | FOREIGN BRIEFS] BERLIN, June 6.—Orders were | issued yesterday specifying the |amount of rubber that can be used | |in the manufacture of tires. The | | war-time metal spiral tire was re- |called, but it was denied that the | present shortage due to the embargo on imports will necessitate the war time expedient. | CUT ITALY’S WHEAT IMPORT ROME, June 6.—Italy’s “battle of | wheat” by which fascism has sought to make the nation self-sufficient in respect of that cereal at the cost |of doubling the price of bread, re- | sulted in a further decrease in the amount imported in the month of |May, 1934, as compared to May, 1933, it was revealed today. The Ministry of Agriculture did not emphasize the fact. that 245. | 000,000 bushels of maize were im- | ported in May, 1934, as against 85,- 090,000 bushels for May, 1933. SPANISH FARM WORKERS STRIKE MADRID, June 6—An agricul- } tural strike began yesterday with |police terror facilitated by decrees | banning all efforts to induce work- ers to join the strike. The government was active all day minimizing the strike but ad- mitted that 2,000 men and women ;had quit their jobs in the berry |fields in Madrid Province, though they were earning eight and nine |pesetas (barely over a dollar but |considered high pay) a day. Nearly half the villages of Ma- |laga and Cordova were 'on strike, |the government admitted. Clashes and arrests occurred in Jaen and Madrid Provinces, BRITISH ARMS FIRMS NECTIONS LONDON, June 6.—A Laborite to- day charged that a former military secretary in the War Office was closely associated with certain arm- aments manufacturers, being the chief stockholder in a bank that had, in 1929, purchased an arma- ment firm. A. Duff Cooper, parliamentary secretary of the War Office, replied that the man was no longer in the | War Office and refused to open an | investigation, CON- NANKING BUYS PLANES SHANGHAI, June 6.—The Nan- king government's purchases of acroplanes totaled $2,075,000 from November 1933 to March 1934, it was revealed today. In round figures $240,000 worth were supplied by Germany, $500,- 000 by Great Britain, $875,000 by the United States, and $460,000 by Italy. MARTIAL LAW IN CUBA EX- TENDED HAVANA, June 6.—Martial Law and government by decree due to expire today, was extended another three months when the government prolonged the 30 day suspension of | constitutional government decree of | March 7th for 90 days dating from today. WORLD WHEAT DOWN ROME, June 6. — The Interna- tional Institute of Agriculture |estimated the spring and winter |wheat crop for this year at 585,000,000 bushels against a ten year average of 860,000,000 bushels. Drought throughout the world has affected the wheat estimates, it was explained. Ae SRT Ee By Burck 8,000 Krupp Workers Vote Opposition to Nazi Rule BERLIN (By Mail Via Under- ground Route).—Recently gathered additional information on the Nazi “confidence council” factory elec- tions show some facts on the up- surge of the anti-fascist front. At the Krupps Works in Essen, 8,000 spoiled ballots were sent in, with slogans against the Nazis, many demanding the release of Thaelmann. Out of the 2,200 men employed by the Tramway Co. at Increased bincieadl For Relief in N. J. Plan Forced Labor at 10 Cents an Hour By a Worker Correspondent NEWARK, N. J—The State Emergency Relief Administration reports reveal tlat in the largest ciues of the state, the number of persons receiving relief at the ond of April incre2sed over the previous month, These show: April Newark Jersey City Paterson ‘Trenton 14,464 Camden 28,252 Elizabeth 6,244 4,788 Increases in several counties show. Camden County, 31 per cent; Essex, 67 per cent; Hudson, 27 per cent; Mercer, 18 per cent; Union, 16 per cent. In the whole state, in the latter half of April, 117,796 families com- prising 457,086 persons, received re- lief. This was 39,670 more persons than in March. The cost for each family in April was $19.20, or $4.95 a person. In Essex County month, 22,000 families representing 93,000 individuals were on the re- lief lists. Beginning June 4, a new scheme had been concocted in an attempt to still the growing protests of the workers in the county. A new “work-for-relief”’ plan to employ about 12,000 is to be started. In addition to the food basket, hand- out, the workers are promised 1z cents for each working hour. Workers will be required to work five consecutive eight-hour days, after which they are to get $4 in cash. ‘Each worker is also promised from six to ten days work during the month. in the same} Essen, 1,800 crossed out the ballots, showing their disapproval of the} entire Nazi slate. | At the Portingssiepen mine, 400| voted “yes,” and 700 ballots were| deliberately defaced. The Felton and Guillaume iron and steel fac-| tory in Cologne employs about 1,970 | workers. Of these 903 voted “yes,” and 352 crossed out the whole list. | Three hundred tore up their bal- lots and 370 wrote “libellous re-j) marks” on the paper against the Nazi hounds. Sixty-seven per cent of the wor! at the Accumulator Works, | Cologne-Ké voted against the} Nazi list. Of 1,200 workers em- ployed at the R. Wolf Machine} Works in Magdeburg, only 42 Der cent valid votes were counted. In many Hamburg factories the voting was against the Nazi slates. For example, 83 out of 117 at Ma’ hacks; 43 cut of 62 at Delle & Co,; j 117 out of 171 at Zeiser’s; 73 cut of 124 at Michaelsen’s; 167 out of 228 at Heidenrich & Harbeck; 213 out of 361 at the Noreer Shipyard. In the mangement office of the Hamburg elevated lines, 240 out of 450 votes, mostly office workers, were against the Nazi slate. |'Lewis, Strikebreaker, Rewarded by Gov't Joh) at Geneva Labor Office GENEVA, June 6.—John L. Lewis, | President of the United Mine Work- ers of America, was today rewarded for his strikebreaking by being | named United States observer to the International Labor Office. Other observers named were S. A. Hanna, Chief Statistician of the Depart- ment of Labor and Elmer S. An- drews, New York State Commis- sioner of Industry. Tag Day in Cleveland for Delegate to World Meet Against Fascism CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 6,—The Women's Committee Against War and Fascism will hold a tag day rally here Friday night, June 8, at their headquarters, Room 406, on Prospect Ave. Instructions will be given for the city-wide tag days on Saturday and Sunday, June 16 and 17, to raise the fare of the Cleve- land woman delegate to the Inter- national Women’s Congress Against, War and Fascism, to be held in Arctic Hero, Schmidt, Visits Stalin, Other Leaders, in U. S. 8. R. MOSCOW, June. 6 —By Ratio). —Professor Otto Schmidt, head of the rescued Cheiyuskin arctic expe- dition who just returned to Mos- cow, was received yesterday hy “°3 Stalin, Kaganovich, Voro- shilov, Ordjonikidze, Kuibisheff and Tagoda. In his conversation with these leaders of the Soviet Union, Pro- fessor Schmidt related the cpisodes of his two months’ stay in the are- tic, and his eventful journey to the Soviet Union. The conversations |lasted for over an hour. Mass Picket Line At Garside Shoe Watson, Scab Agent, Direcis Police NEW YORK—Three hundred shoe workers demonstrated yester- day in front of the Garside Shoe Co. in Long Island City, where a strike is in progress for the last four weeks. The notorious scab agent of the Board of Trade, Watson, is direct- ing the police force. But, they found it a hard task to stop the workers from preventing the scabs from entering the factory. They celled out more police, who chased the workers for more than an hour. In the last few days more scabs came out of the factory. Produc- tion in the shop is paralyzed, since all of the skilled mechanics are on strike. The United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union is calling upon every shoe worker to come in the mornings and evenings to the Gar- side shop and in this way help them win the strike and drive out the Boot and Shoe scab agency. Rae ae The United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union is calling two im- portant meetings for today at 5:30 p.m. at the union headquarters, 22 W. 15th St., N. ¥. C., one of women members to take up the question of establishing a women’s. depart- ment and to elect delegates to the Women’s Anti-War Conference, the other of young workers. CELEBRATE LOWER COFFEE CROP RIO DE JANEIRO, June 6,—The Department of Agriculture celeb- rated the announcement today that this year’s coffee crop will be only 15 million (132-Ib.) bags or half Paris in July. x that of last year. @ i Socialist Heads Ape Otto Bauer, Offer Dictatorship By PAUL GREEN ‘HE assassination of Ion Duca |4 (prime minister of the Liberal Party of Rumania), the trial of the fascist leaders responsible for the crime, and finally, their acquittal, revealed to the Rumanian masses the sinister and tacit understanding existing between the Rumanian fas- cist leaders and the government. From the king down, passing through the channels of the army staff, the courts, the boyars (rich landowners), the bourgeoisie, the church, and last but not least, the Secial-Democratic leaders, we find a network of forces which have one common aim—the subjugation of the working class and the destruction of its militant leaders. Hitler and his cohorts have in- jected their poisonous virus into the provinces of Transylvania, Banat and Temicoara. These provinces were annexed to Rumania through the Treaty of Versailles. The Ger- man population constitutes a large minority, amounting to about one million. In November, 1933, the German minority party, the Na- tional-Socialists, polled 62 per cent of the vote. In Bucovina, another province of northern Rumania (also obtained by the Treaty of Versailles), the Hitler forces use a somewhat differ- ent method of propaganda. There the population consists of Ruthen- jans, Jews and Rumanians. Since the Ruthenians are not satisfied with the status quo, the Hitlerites promise them an autonomous state under the aegis of Germany, In Rumania proper, fascism con- centrates its forces on two camps— anti-Communism and anti-Semit- ism. They have had no difficulty in penetrating the antiSemitic camp since the ground had already been prepared by two outstanding anti- Semitic organizetions, first League for the Defense of Christi- anity whose leader Cuza, Fer”, ¢ Both/ organizations are today di- rectiy affiliated with Hitler\s Na- tions, are /being to Berlin by © Cod- the is Professor gnd second the “Garda de e Iron Guard) under the lecderfiip of Cornelius Codreanu. Fascist Party. Frequent trips reanu and their henchmen in order to better develop the technique of fascisation. The “Garda de Fer” (the iron Guard), originally a military organ- ization, was transformed into a po- litical one by Codreanu in 1931. He recruits his members from the stu- dent body of the university and, like Cuza, from the Boyars and the big financial groups, as well as from the bourgeoisie and small peasant Jandowners. The latter have been very badly hit by the depression. They cannot sell their products and are obliged to borrow heavily. We read in “L’Europe Nouvelle” that “for a tract of land of 10 hectares (25 acres), the debt of the Rumanian peasant in Bucovina reaches 21,000 lei (almost $200) ‘per hectare. The “Garda de Fer” obtains money from the bourgeoisie, from the big landowners as well as from the Rumanian government. When Codreanu built the Casa Verde, he received moncy from all these sources. This house is used by these Fascist organizations to store up munitions; it is to this house that kidnapped workers are breught to be tortured to death. oes SNELL SE Ever What Are the Fascist Forces in Rumania? The Communist Party Is Gaining Leadership in Struggle the judges, by the army general staff and by the government. In spite of the fact that the organiza- tion was dissolved by law, it con- tinues its criminal activities with the full knowledge and support of the government. Grigorovici and other leaders of the Social-Democratic Parity of Rumania heve requested an audi- ence with King Carol and. are cpenly offering thier services for a dictatorship, similar to that offered Dollfuss by the Austrian Social- Democzatic leaders. “L’'Europe Nouvelle,” a French bourgeoisie weekly, in a reeent ar- ticle discussing fascism, reluctantly admitted that “the workers and poor peasants of Rumania have not responded to the fascist propaganda of the Garda de Fer or the Social- Democrats. On the contrary (the article goes on to say), the workers and poor peasants are flocking meze and more to the Communist This is well known by the king, by forces, | On the | World Front By HARRY GANNES —— Nazi Inflation What Will Result Thaelmann’s Grave Danger ERMANY is the land where inflation in 1923 reached its extreme degree, and now with a new, virulent dose certain, the Nazi butchers are becoming uneasy. The 1923 inflation not only drove the workers to starvation, but virtually wiped out the middle class, the forces upon whom Hitler now dee pends for his mass support. The cunning . Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi 7 fimance expert, iz is against infla- tion like the Plague. But not even the Nazi god, Wotan, credited with special skill in magic, can turn Hitler's prom- | ises to gold. The relentless ticker tapes in Wall Street reel off the news: “Mark down sharply in exchange here; laid to fear of German currency crisis.” They go on to particularize: “The Reichsbank's gold reserves have continued to drop, which led to a widespread expectation that a German currency crisis was devel- oping.” Still this alarming news is only a symptom, a surface indication of a deeper economic crisis racking the very foundation of German fascism, | It will cause disintegration in the mass petty-bourgeois base on which fascism has its shaky foundations, It will more openly demonsirate to these duped masses how fascism acts as the most brutal, most chau- vinistic dictatorshp in the interest of finance capital and against the great majority of the people. We can be sure that silent though the Nazi press now is on inflation it will break the news, as it usu- ally does, with a gory spectacle like the Reichstag fire or the Leipzig trial. E, Thaelmann * 8 . re “confidence council” elections in the shops showed that the majority of the workers were more actively moving into the fight against fascism; now greater sec- tions of the petty-bourgeoisie will break away from Hitler. The leader of this growing upsurge, on the ad« mission of the Nazis themselves, and recognized by the world capi- talist press, is the Communist Party of Germany, whose leader, Ernst Thaelmann, is a hos:age in the bloody grip of the enraged and maddened fascists. The latest news from Germany leaves no doubt that the Nazi fiends are planning the murder of Thacl- mann in an effort to terrorize the anti-fascist masses in Germany. Theelmann to the Nazis is the live ing symbol of the heroism, the une daunted fighting spirit of the revo- lutionary party in Germany, and in their insane fury they want to de- stroy him, hoping thereby to de- liver a severe blow to the rising anti-fascist struggle. The Nazi bloodhounds would have no hesitation in tearing ‘Thaelmann limb from limb immedi- ately, except that they wish to pre- pare the world bourgeoisie, their allies, to be able to justify this ; Plotted murder. But they do not want to wait much longer. They have laid all their plans. Thael- mann is systematically beaten and tortured in order to break him down with the hope that he will be rendered incapable of turning his trial into a pillory for the Nazis. gene ECAUSE even the evidence which the Nazis have manufactured will not suffice for a death sen- tence, the newly established “Peo- ple’s Court,” in reality a Nazi court martial, has the job of whipping the Thaelmann trial through. Only a tremendous world cam- paign, supporting the growing struggle within Germany against the plotted murder of Thaelmann, can save our comrade’s life. The Nazis are extremely sensitive to world public opinion, no matter how much they may appear to flout it with their bluff and bragging man- ner for the amusement of the Storm Troopers. The secret Fas- cist police report, recently pub- lished in the Daily Worker, tells how the Nazis list and record every protest received from every part of the world. The protest campaign in the past has been carried on persistently, but with not sufficient force to meet the danger. Ernst Thaelmann is in daily, immediate danger of death, and all possible means must be used to save him from the Nazi lynch court. All forces that were active in forcing the release of Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff must now exert even greater efforts to save Thaelmann from execution, The fight for Thaelmann means the fight for freedom, peace and so- cialism. Thaelmann is fighting for freedom for all—everyone must fight for Thaelmann'’s freedom.” It is especially necessary row to arouse the A. F. of L. locals, to reach new millions of workers who in sentiment are against fes- cism, but who kaye not been drawn into the active campaign against the bloody deeds of Hitler. It is necessary to win over to some form of immediate action all sympathetic forces, farmers, in- tellectuals, members of the middle class, students, in the fight to save Thaclmann and all the other anti-fascist fighters in Nazi dun+ geons, Every Consulate in the United States, every official Nazi agency as a Hitler bureau must bs made aware of the growing, nation-wide campeign in the United States against Fascism and for the free= dom of Thaelmann, Let the whole country ring with the mighty, growing protest came- paign against fascism! Save Ernst ‘Theelmann| Tin ERS eee Sareea caean Sue cee ee rT a6