The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1934, Page 5

‘CHANGE “WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN EVERAL million readers of “Liberty” recently were given a picture of the Communist movement in the rm of a short story entitled “Comrade Wendell.” It is an example of the kind of poison that is distilled every day and every minute in the bourgeois press. It’s the kind of stuff. that would make the average Soviet worker student gaze up with an incredible stare. The perpetrator of “Comrade Wendell” is the creative artist named Eric Hatch, described by the editors of Liberty thus: “Slightly educated in private schools; engaged in the banking in- vestment business, 1918 to 1927; and then was made a member of the firm. He retired in 1928 to devote his time to writing. He houseboats in the summer, and winters abroad.” A Realistic Picture this splendid equipment Hatch is, of eourse, enabled to de- W scribe contemporary life with genuine insight, as his story, “Com-. rade Wendell,” reveals. Here are some excerpts: “Toya Viadimir was mildly surprised to find marching beside her &@ young man in a suit of clothes that looked as though it had cost some one a great deal of money... . She turned and smiled at him. He immediately raised his right hand high and cried, ‘Recognition for the workers! Boooooo!’ . . . ‘What's your name?’ ‘Toya Vladimir. Coun- ¢il Number Four, City Communist League. Booooo!’ ‘What party are you?’ ‘Workers, of course.’” It seems that the rich fellow had seen the demonstration from the window of the Racquet Club and decided to see life among the Reds. The girl took him for a demonstrator. Then: “Things happened. The police, who of course had orders not to hurt any one if they could help it; closed in.... In less than thirty seconds from the time the brick went through the window the splendid display of brave workers for the Cause had syddenly turned into a group of very frightened and rather pathetic men and women fighting each other to get out of the milling, trampling cro So! The police “had orders not to hurt any one ff they could help it”! ‘Then—‘Wendell looked away from the fallen enemy and saw that ‘Toya had tripped and was lying in the street, with those frightened people trampling her.” ‘What followed is, of course, easy to predict if you know the tech- nique of “short story” writing in Liberty. “Please take me home,” she sald in a voice so low and pathetic that it was difficult for Wendell to think of her as a ‘fighter.’” And, naturally, Wendell took her home—on the Hast Side, of course. He called a doctor friend who treated Toya. After a while “he put his arms around her. ‘I’m sorry,’ he said, ‘the doctor will be here in a minute.” Later Toya, it seems, became talkative. “Too bad we lost the riot,” she said. How accurate! Imagine a Communist talking about losing “the riot”! What followed can easily be predicte®: “For a week Oliver nursed Toya and her ankle. . He bought her lovely expensive things to eat and told her he'd stolen them from Delmonico's, . . . Fach day he grew to love her more and more; but considering he had her in the position of what an olden melo- drama would have called at his mercy, it didn’t seem sporting to make love to her.” Wendell Wasn’t “That Kind” HIS Wendell guy seems to have been a noble, sensitive person. For, writes the Liberty author, “Toya had been so shy at the first sug- gestion that he even be in the room while she was in bed that his Puritan instincts had taken the situation quite out of his hands. ‘The more intimate they became, the more he leaned over backward to keep any possible suggestion of sex out of their relationship. He would tell her how he felt about her when she was well.” Then Wendell learned all... . “Her parents lived in Vermont and were prosperous farmers. Her name was really Toya Barnard. She had come to New York to study music and had got interested in what she called the ‘Movement,’ and so she had practically given up her music to work for the Cause. Apparently the excitement, the oratory, and the mob spirit had swept her off her feet. She became fanatic.” Now for the denouement: The girl rapidly got well. free.’ ‘Free?’ She looked down. taking care of me!’ “Oliver came close to her and put both hands on her shoulders. “'Free to tell you I love you,’ he said.’ “You will marry me, won't you?’ “She raised her head now and looked into his eyes. There was love in her look—deep love. “Til be glad to live with you, Oliver, because I do love you, but I can't marry you.” Later, however, it appears that Wendell, the pent- house ascetic, cured the girl of her “free-love” notions, for the story ends'on a happy note: “You lousy capitalist! I love you so!’ “Wendell smiled faintly. ‘Comrade capitalist to you!’ he said. “Then he sank down and let his head rest against her.” . . . . Life as It Is Lived we that’s enough I guess, to give you an idea of the tripe that goes for a description of the life of a girl Communist. At any rate, here's one fellow, this Eric Hatch, who's certainly no “Artist in Uniform"—writing what some unimaginative Red Dictator tells him to write! He writes about Life as it actually lived, and from the heart. Incidentally, Liberty magazine pays three cents a word! . . . . “Oh, my darling,’ he said, ‘now I'm ‘I didn’t know you felt like that about Wanted—A Cure for Wanderlust! PEON Cleveland comes a letter and a request for advice. I’m afraid that I must call on the readers of this column to suggest a solution to the problem. It's from a 22-year-old boy who writes: “I am sending you this letter because T have a distinct problem to discuss. I hope you will give me whatever guidance you can toward the solution of this problem. “T am 22 years old. A year and a half ago, I joined the LL.D. This “was my first step in the labor movement. Six months later T was ap- proached to join the Party. This I did. I have never regretted it. The - More politically developed I become the more my hatred of capitalism grows. I try to be a good revolutionist. This is where my problem arises. “I have been out of school for seven years. I have been employed most of the time. For the last year I have been unemployed. Pre- vious to this past year, there has been a short period of time when I was unemployed. During this time I hitch-hiked extensively and I have Spent a good portion of this past year on the road. Perhaps I have become imbued with the wanderlust, but for the past three years I have - found it difficult to remain in one place very long. I stay a few months - in one place and then I become restless. I like to stay a few months in each place and then move on. I feel that if I could find a good comrade, I would settle down in one place. But when I come to a city IT am usually broke and pretty much down at the heel, so to speak. T don’t think I'm a spectacle to attract a girl’s affection. So much for that. “T have been in Cleveland for the past four months, I do as much organizational work as possible in the short time I stay in a city. The way I understand it, the Party does not encourage constant transfer- ring from one place to another. I do not want to be dropped from the rolls of the Party. Please advise me as to what course I should take. “Comradely yours. “J. RY \Stories of Workers! Lives in “Anvil,” | vil” is very encouraging. New sub-| r \ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1934 GR See Edited by Conroy THE ANVIL, edited by Jack Con-/| roy, May-June issue. Cae aes | | Reviewed by | LEONARD SPIER i bay evergrowing maturity of American proletarian literature is reflected in the steadily improved contents of the little magazines which are managing to survive their eternal depression. Particularly is this so of the “Anvil.” Not alone are new writers appearing, but the “veterans” too are rapidly findirg| themselves and are turning out bet-| ter work than so short a time as & year ago. The May-June issue of the “An- sanatorium where he is staying at present. of the Reichstag Trial. ferred to the trial. “Now that you are free and have it was possible at the trial. jects are tackled, demonsivating | that working-class stories need not} suffer necesaritly from lack of variety, For example, “Collar,” a story which happens to be one ot | Joseph Kalar’s best pieces, is a psy-| chological study of a “straw-boss”| who has been given “the bounce.”| Another instance is the diverting but penetrating skit by Joseph | Vogel, called “Violets Are Blue.” At| a Hotel Blue Jay, Vogel finds a; batch of reformist delegates “gath- ered to consider advisability of pe- titioning the government to act on| behalf of the Working Class.” Com-| munists keep out, reads a large sign. Vogel catches his reformists with their pants down and tells us all) wer J it, and does make a swell job} of it. Saul Levitt contributes a subject | likewise novel. In “Below the Belt,” & worker who reguluarly visits “one| of those joints,” this time, to his| embarassment bumps into his boss | who, it seems, also likes “the look} of a whore’s legs,” discovering to his apparent surprise that the boss and he, the worker, are the same “be- low the belt.” The story is well told and con- tains many interesting asides on the life of the workers. Nevertheless, it | Teveals @ pernicious tendency which | may have been missed by the au-| thor himself. It is not the busi-| ness of the revolutionary writer to/ show how “human” the boss is as aman. His class-conscious duty, on the contrary, is to show how in- human the man is as a boss. Lev- itt’s story tends to blur the essential issue, that of the class-struggle and leads to the corroding conclusion that after all the worker and the boss are both human—all too human, ete., ete. 'HEN there is “Jesus Saves,” by | Robanoff, about a man who justifies his vicious scab actions by religion; “A Holiday in Texas,” part of a forthcoming novel by Nelson Algren, dealing with life on a Texas ranch; “Life, Death and Winter's End,” a very ambitious title for a rather disappointing sketch by Goldfarb. The most genuinely pro- letarian: story is an excellent de- scriptive narrative by Willard Maas, “Cannery Mothers,” which has as its subject the foreign-born women slaving at a cannery. Maas writes! vividly and convincingly. The story is well worth reprinting in “The Working Woman.” Among the poets in this issue are H. H. Lewis, Orrick Jones, Henry George Weiss and Norman Mac- leod, well known to readers of work- ing class. literature. MacLeod’s poem, “The Fallow Years,” however, is marred by lack of clarity and confused imagery. Outstanding for its power and simplicity is Weiss’ poem, “Lenin Lives.” Clark Mills, Frank Ankenbrank, Jr., and J. M.| school. Sherby also contribute to an ample and generally satisfying selection of verse. Embellished by line-cuts J. C. Rogers, the “Anvil” shows undeni- able advance, and supported by the workers, will, we hope, continue to} sion I had come to regard: material from various sources, to alter my standpoint: Lubbe was use of him for the purposes of their cations.” was conducted abroad in connection T asked. and at the trial I realized that much Parties, a whole mass movement, issue.” “I think,” replied Dimitrov, of the workers and also of other our fight against fascism in Germa’ due to your courageous attitude.” geois class is no longer able from social-democratic workers, themselves a question: Why has mocracy no heroic leaders? How is only one explanation: tatorship. Therefore, just like the geous lsaers.” Harlem Workers’ School Plans Summer Classes The Administration Committee of the Harlem Workers’ School has completed the summer plans of the The present successful Spring Term of this school, ending June 30th, will be followed by two lecture colrses of six weeks each. These lecture classes will be on the following nights on the following subjects: Wednesday, Proletarian Drama, given by Paul ..Peters (author of Stevedore), Mike Gold, it writer, and Charles Burroughs, critic; Thursday, History of the Ne-| WHAT S ON gro In America, given by James Al-| — len and Otto Hall, both prominent | Tuesday | labor leaders and research workers, MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Meeting at 1425/ The opening night for these lec- Ogden Ave., at W. 168th St., & p.m. Aus-| ture series wil be duly 11th. pices Highbridce Progressive Club. Help build new organization in Highbridge. LECTURE on "New Soviet Youth” to- night at 1401 Jerome Ave. cor. 170th St., Bronx, Adm. free. Auspices Mt, den Youth Br. F.S.U. Dancing to follow. SPEAKERS ON FILMS "No Greater Glory,” “8. A. Mann-Brand,” and “World in Revolt available. Phone Film and Photo League, Gram. 5-9780, 12 East 17th Bt. Political Paskoiny C, is one of the courses the Workers’ School of Cleveland offers in its Summer Term, beginning July 2nd. This course will deal with a number of topics which will prove of great interest to comrades who wish to clarify their understanding on a whole series of questions impor- tant to the Communist move- ment: 1, Capitalist Agriculture; 2, Class Differentiation in Agri- culture; 2, Socialism and Agricul- ture; 4, Causes of Economic Crises; 5, Capitalist Solutions to | Economic Crises. Comrades who wish to take ad- vantage of this brief course should register immediately. WEEK-END OUTING arranged by Dress Cutters Group to Camp Nitgedaiget. $3.50 includes round trip bus fare—three meals, nights’ lodging. Bus leaves June 28rd, 11 a.m. from 140 W, 36th St. For tickets and further information call at 140 W. 36th St., Room 101. BOAT RIDE and Picnic, Sunday. June 24th to Hook Mountain on S.S. Islander. Dancing, gamés, baseball. Buffet at city prices. Tickets $1.00 on sale at F.S.U., 799 Broadway, Room 233. Boat leaves Pier A. aie Park, 9:30 a.m. Return 11 p.m. June 23rd at Ambassador rai 9875 Third Ave., celebrating 9th An- niversary ILD. Leon Blum, guest of honor. Speakers, R. B. Moore, Allan Tuab| Advice to Students and others. Entertainment. Hot supper. eke 50 cents. Auspices Bronx Sec-| and Teachers I FIRST ANNIVERSARY of the death of Rose Pastor Stokes and Clara Zetkin, Wednesday, June 20 8:30 p.m. at Victorian Room, Irving Plaza, East 15th St. and Irving Place. Speakers, Carl Brodsky, Rose Wortis, Richard B. Moore, Louis Hyman. Also Pierre Degester Quintette, Freiheit Chorus, New Dance soloists, Admission 25. Wednesday WELCOME OUR WORKERS’ DELEGA- TION. HEAR REPORT OF CONDITIONS IN SOVIET UNION BY DELEGATES. COME TO MASS MEETING AT TRVING PLAZA, Irving: Place & 15th 8t. WED., JUNE 20 at 8 p.m. Adm. 150, Auspices Friends of Soviet Union. MONSTER MASS MEETING Wed.. June ath, 8 p.m. at Aperion Manor, E. Mh St. and Kings Highway, Brooklyn. Speak- ers: Rabbi Ben Goldstein, Rev. Wayne White, Norman Tallentire, Violet Lynn, Auspices Kings Highway Br. American League Against War and Fascism. ALL of Old Unity Coopera- tive Organization called to membership meeting at Workers’ Center 35 E. 12th St. Room 204. Wed., June 20th, 8 p.m. San Francisco, Cal. KEEP SUNDAY. JUNE 24th OPEN! ALL DAY PICNIC AND DANCE IN Ras This column welcomes sugges- tions, criticisms pertaining to the work of the Workers’ School. Fol- lowing is a letter from a student correspondent containing valuable advice to both the students and teachers. Dear Comrade Markoff: A fundamental principle in Soviet Union educational practice is “Neyer do for a child that which he can learn to do for himself in order to make him independent and self- sufficient.” This principle likewise holds true in adult education. The teacher's function should be to promote self-sufficiency on the part of the student, while the stu- dent applies himself to the task of becoming independent. The in- structor should confine himself only to major principles which the stu- dent must assimulate, and at the same time master the art of their application. The greatest pre- requisite in the life of a student is to know where to locate the source for his material, and to be able to dig out with economy that which he requires from a, large mass of data on hand, For this, some theo- retical knowledge is essential, The student must set himself the task of gathering his own material, rather than depend upon instruc- ‘WILL PLAY. HOME COOKED MEALS. ADM. i5c. STARTS 10 AM. ENDS 12 MIDNIGHT. Auspices STRIKE. RELIEF CONFERENCE. Madison, Ill, FIRST INTERNATIONAL PICNIC AND DANCE, Sundar, June 24th at Eagle Park Augpices United Front Committes Against Fascism. ' Music, dancing. games. General admission: Adults 2c, children free. Ben- | tOTS. OSCOW.—Georgi Dimitrov received in the neighborhood of Moscow, | He receives very | few visits, because his time is fully taken up with work'on the book he is writing on his recollections The first question we asked him naturally re- of thinking over the whole of the proceedings, you can express yourself more freely and precisely than What is your opinion now regarding Van der Lubbe?” Dimitrov considered for a moment. “In gy opinion the trial confirmed the conclu- ing Van der Lubbe, That is quite clear to me since I have here gone through I have no reason misused tool in the hands of the Nazis, who made “What is your opinion of the campaign which “Already during the preliminary on my behalf abroad. In the meantime I have seen that in many countries, under the leadership of our That the campaign was a very broad one is proved by the fact that not only the workers, but also the middle strata and the intelligentsia took part in it.” “I believe,” I interposed, “that there has seldom been such a broad campaign on an international “that this solidarity proved that the masses were interested not so much in the persons of the accused. The great interest public was an expression of the satisfaction with sire to take part actively in this fight.” “I believe that this was in a very great measure “It is true at the trial I fought energetically, consistentiy, and ruthlessly right mp to the end. You speak of courage, of my heroic attitude be- fore the Court, of having ‘no fear of death.’ Do you know, that is not a personal heroism; it is at bottom an attribute of Communism, of the revolu- tionary proletariat, of the Bolsheviki. The bour- to display real courage and heroism. It is a class which is perishing and has no future.” “You probably know that in all countries a great number of social-democratic workers were roused to enthusiasm by your behavior.” “Yes, they did much to secure our release. These however, the social drawn in the wake of the bourgeoisie; by its the-~ ory and practice it is a tool of the bourgeois dic- self, it cannot have any really heroic and coura- @ft Daily Worker and other presses, To systematize, select, and co- 4 us in the , “What the opportunity and fascism, final an unwittingly political proyo- hourly, with the trial?” of the fascists. examination was being done prevented?” was set going. their leaders, already now.” fascists?” sections of the ny and the de- : in prison and o” its ranks ting on? der arrest. should ask the social de- | that? There is democracy is bourgeoisie it- What’ 8 : Doing i in ‘she Worker Schools of the U.S, ordinate the material into a homo- genous unit requires persistent ef- | fort, intensive reading and reading the same material until it becomes an integral part'of one’s self. Another important factor for the student is proper relaxation. Most worker students rush from work all tired out, hastily swallow a heavy meal, and come to class not only fatigued, but greatly distressed by indigestion, with the result that the student is in no frame of mind to properly concentrate and the teach- er must struggle to hold attention. If students were to eat lightly be- fore class, their studies would come to them much easier. A wholesome meal, salad, fruit, a glass of milk and wholewheat buttered toast, is suf- ficiently nourishing and sustain- ing. Public speakers, too, might do well to observe this rule. Though a better rule for public speakers to follow is to abstain altogether from eating before speaking. The class room should be well ventilated, free from tobacco smoke. | A poorly ventilated room is condu- cive to drowsiness and inattention. When a student‘is relaxed, in clean, temperate atmosphere, he can con- centrate with greater facility. Ac- quiring the habit of taking notes systematically, rewriting each les- |son daily several times, and speak- ing about its salient features on every possible occasion, will give the student a ready ease in the han- dling of his material. It is not necessary for students to learn the entire world history. There are altogether too many walking “dead encyclopedias.” It is far more practical to master a lit- tle knowledge thoroughly, than have a smattering of a wide range. The student must learn to weave his material into the warp of his own exverience, that it may take on the form of living, vibrating reality. A message s0 prepared and deliv- ered will readily get across, Yours, for a speedy Soviet America, JEAN DEAN, Interesting General Assembly at New York Workers’ School All students are invited and urged to attend the General Assembiy which will take place on Fri- day, June 22. This assembly will not only celebrate the conclusion of a most successful Spring Term, but will also be the scene for the distribution of the prizes to the Shock Brigaders and Shock Bri- gade Class in the successful $1,000 Drive. The drive was successful be- cause of the spirit and enthusiasm with which the students assigned themselves the task of reaching the goal—$1,000, Almost from the start the drive assumed all the aspects of a Socialist Competition, This alone assured its success. There will be a varied and in- teresting program. The well known American String Quartet will ren- consisting of a vegetable | Thaelmann Must Be Freed!” Dimitrov Says in Interview conclusion, draw from this?” “One of the most important conclusions is that only in the common fight along with the Commu- nist workers can the social-democratic workers suc- cessfully conduct the fight against the bourgeoisie. Up to now many of the social-democratic workers have not gone further than to sympathize with us. But sympathy is not enough; verted into an active fight against the bourgeoisie into a united fight conducted by the socialist, christian, and non-party workers, together with the Communist workers. But you can tell your workers one thing: To fight against fascism means | at the same time, and before all things to fight against fascism in their own country. There is no denying that every country has its own Hitler, Goe- ring, and Goebbels in embryo, merely to rally one’s forces and to wait for a defi- nite moment to strike when it is already too late. Tn Holland, too, the fight must be conducted, One must fight against all symptoms of fascism; daily, in the factories, unemployed, at the meetings, one must bar the road “You are convinced, “We shall see to that. what can one do directly in your opinion, must one it must be con- It does not in the streets, among the “Yes, certainly! If the social-democratic workers in Germany had, workers, proceeded against fascism in good time, step for step, if they had not so blindly then we should certainly fascist dictatorship now. should be a lesson to the workers in all countries. But one must draw the lesson from this example together with the Communist followed have no The German example for the German anti “Hundreds and thousands of the best workers and fighters of the German proletariat are today in the concentration camps; their lives are in constant danger. This applies, before all, to the leader of the German revolutionary work- ing class, Comrade Ernst Thaelmann. T shall never tire of repeating that it is a matter of honor for the proletariat of all countries to do everything, to exert all its forces in order to free the leader of the German working class, Ernst Thaelmann, from the hands of the fascist hangmen.” “Have you any idea of how Thaelmann is get- “I saw Thaelmann three times while I was un- On two of these occasions he did not see me, but a third time, in October, when the trial had been transferred to Berlin, he recognized me. | I saw him from the corridor in his cell. | him, and he replied. He was in good spirits in spite of the rigorous imprisonment. garding his treatment is very serious.” “What do you think will happen to him?” “They will undoubtedly attempt to destroy him physically and mentally. that it will be much more difficult to secure the re- lease of Thaelmann and the other German com- rades than it was to secure our release.” T greeted The last news re- One must bear in mind (To be continued.) NIKOLAI BATALOV Noted Soviet artist, who plays the role of the strike leader in “Mother,” now in its fourth week at the Acme Theatre. The picture was screened from Maxim Gorki’s famous novel | and was directed by Pudovkin. TUNING IN| 7:00-WEAF—Baseball Resume ‘WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Prick WiZ—Amos ‘n’ Andy—Sketch WABO—Morton Downey, Tenor 1:18-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music ‘WJZ—What Are the Prospects?— Howard P. Jones, Secretary, Na- tional Municipal League; Professor T. H. Reed; Frank Morse, Banker WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7-30WEAF—Brad Browne and Al Liewel- lyn, Commedians WOR—Footlight Eechoes WABC—Serenaders Orchestra 1:45-WEAP—-The Goldbergs—Sketch WJZ—Grace Hayes, Songs WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Reisman Orch. WOR—Variety Musicale WJZ—Life Is Too Short—Sketeh WABC—Concert Orch.; Prank Munn, Tenor; Muriel Wilson, 8o- prano 8:20-WEAF—Agnew Orch WOR—Minevitch Harmonica Band WJZ—To Be Announced WABC—Lyman Orch.; Vivienne Se- gal, Soprano; Oliver Smith, Tenor 9:00-\WEAF-—Ben Bernie Orch. WOR—Brokenshire Orch WIZ—Alice Mock, Soprano: Guest, Poet; Concert Orch. WABC—George Givot, Comedian 9:30-WEAF—Ray Perkins, Comedian; Gale Page, Contralto; Stokes Orch; Trene Beasley, Songs WOR—Michael Bartlett, Tenor: String Trio WJZ—Duchin Orch.; Edward Davies, Baritone WABC—Himber Orch. 9:45-WOR—Pauline Alpert, Piano 10:00-WEAF—Operetta—Bitter Sweet, With Gladys Swarthout, Soprano; James Melton, Tenor WOR—Eddy Brown, Violin WJZ—Symphony Orch.; Jacques Gordon, Violin WABC—Conflict—Dramatic Sketch 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. F. Reed WABC—Troopers Orch. 10:30-WOR—Johnston Orch.; Dave Vine, Comedian WABC—Melodic Strings Rdgar der Beethoven's quartet in C Minor. The musical part of the program will also include Rose Renard, so- prano, and Leonard Rerudke, ac- companist.. The Workers School of New York, or Charles Krumbein, New York District Organizer, will address the students, ~~~ suffice | then, that fascism can be | But at the same time | A, Markoff, director of | | posit branch ae ioe 2 cd “Brains Behind Barbed Scientists rv. Erich Baron Mr. State Attorney's Coun- cillor, Dr. Mittelbach Berlin Police Headquarters, Sec- tion I. Z. 218. With reference to the prisoner Erich Baron (at present in the prison at Lehrterstrasse 3). Filed by the daughter of the pris- oner, Marianne Baron During today’s visiting period I found my father Erich Baron in an altogether terrifying mental condition—a consequence of his being an utterly nervous indi- vidual, mentally as well as physi- cally, simply ineapable of offering resistance. Consequently, I earn- estly request that he be released from confinement. Since, in this case, protective arrest has cer- tainly not been decreed as a strict measure of punishment, which it has turned out to be in my fa- ther’s case, resulting in probably serious internal injury for his whole lifetime, (and since) with the present overburdening of the officials, the announced investiga- tions have not led to any final re- sult—therefore I file the urgent plea for liberation, or at least temporary leave of absence from imprisonment, for my father in order that he may himself repre- sent his interests before the prop- er authorities. I, as his daughter, place myself at the disposal of the police as a hostage, and request to be im- prisoned in place of my father until his case is cleared. Suspi- cion that he may attempt to flee, or any kind of political activity on the part of my father, is out of the question, and on account of my incarceration alone would be completely impossible. I ask once again most urgently that this ap- plication be granted. (Signed) MARIANNE BARON. Berlin-Pankow, April 12, 1933. Kavalierstrasse 10 ee ee The Police President, Berlin, Section I. (Seal of the Police) Berlin C. Alexanderstrasse, To Miss Marianne Baron, Berlin-Pankow, Kavalierstrasse 10. Following your application of 12, 4, 1933, concerning your father, Erich Baron, I have caused the appropriate prison doctor to ex- amine whether he is able to bear imprisonment. Reasons for (his) release in consequence of any newly-developed inability to bear imprisonment do not exist. Pur- thermore, the investigations are continuing. (Signed) DR. MITTELBACH. State Attorney's Councillor. LA. The Police President, Berlin, Section I. (Seal of the Police) Berlin © 25, Alexanderstrasse 3-6 To Mrs. Jenny Baron Berlin-Pankow, Kavaliers Strasse 10. Honored, and dear Madam: In the enclosure, I respectfully take the liberty of transferring to your, with the expression of my personal sympathy, the papers left behind by your husband. (Signed) DR. MITTELBACH State Attorneys Councillor ee, a German Bank and Discount Company (The “D. D. Bank”) Cable Address: Deutjura Telephone No. Al Jaeger 0018 Postal checking account: Berlin 1000 Mrs. Jenny Baron and Miss Marianne Baron Paris, France. 6 rue Blaise- Desgofte, 3-6 .. Referring to your advice of 27, 5, 1983 In answering, please refer to: Legal Department Schn. Berlin W 8, June 2, 1933. To your communication of the 27th instant addressed to our_de- (H. 3 Berlin-Pan- kow, Breitestrasse 8-9) we re- spectfully reply that, to our re- gret, we are not in a position to carry out your order to execute a letter of credit of 500 marks for each of you (total 1,000 marks), the same to be charged against your joint account car- ried. in our above mentioned branch. At the end of May of this year, on the basis of the Law for Seizure of Communist prop- erty of May 26, 1933, at the in- stance of the Secret State Police of Berlin, the full! amount of the money to your credit, was con- fiscated. Most. respectfully, (The Stamp of the German Bank and Discount Co.) ese 'HIS is an interchange of official documents in Hitler's Third Reich —the tragic course of which finds its significant conclusion as, expressions of personal regret. the widow and orphan of a man driven | to death while in “protective ar- rest,” are robbed of their last penny. | On the 26th of April, 1933,—t with | Wire”-German Writers, Persecuted {same day that the State’s Attorney found no cause to release from pris- on a man suffering from critical iliness of mind—Erich Baron, the editor, with a last effort of will tied a noose and hanged himself. Ha | was 51 years old. He died with the plea that his family and friends might forgive him, since he no longer felt capable of carrying on the fight for his life. What was Erich Baron's crime in the eyes of the dictators of the |Third Reich? For a generation he ised his voice in the socialist ess for a better human order— las editor of the Social-Democratis Brandenburg Newspaper,” as head of the Workers’ and Soldiers’ Couns cil of the city of Brandenburg in |1918, as feature writer of the Ber- lin newspaper “Preiheit,” central organ of the then Independent So- cialist Party. INCF 1922, Erich Baron was gene eral secretary of the Society of the Friends of the Soviet Union (F.S.U.). In the illustrated maga- |zine, “The New Russia,” which he |edited, he supplied incorruptible testimony of the socialist upbuild- ing of Soviet Russia. He was tire- lessly active in forming and strengthening cultural bonds bee tween western Europe and the so- cialist sixth of the world. During the past nine years many hiin- |dreds of people sat in his office: architects, whose untraditional at- titude hampered them from using their great talents in Germany; | engineers, chemists, scientists, | whose abilities were lying fallow, and who wished to place them- selves at the service of Socialism. |To all of them, Erich Baron was |friend and advisor. He made known to the literary community of Berlin many great writers of the new Russia, and was an upright jinterpreter between the new life in new Russia and the Western Euro- pean spirit. In the Third Reich there is no |place for such a person. Dr. Goeb- bels’ Ministry for Propaganda, with its white-guardist experts. has drawn nightmarish, lying pictures of the Soviet Union. In its money- collecting scheme known as “Broth< | ers in Need,” ostensibly for the ben- | fit of German-speaking settlers on |the Volga, the Propaganda Ministry makes use of photographs taken | during the Russian famine of 1921; |it does this in order to keep within |bounds of law and order the real hunger in a bogus socialist nation (National “Socialist” Germany), by means of bogus stories of hun- |ger in a really socialist nation | Erich Baron was imprisoned on |the morning after the burning of |the Reichstag. We shall never be able to learn what horror finally |caused his voluntary death. Was it | bodily torture? Was it the mental | torment of hard solitary confine- |ment, absolute separation from the | outside world for an indeterminate period? The mouth which could | tell us and accuse the tormentors, jis silenced for ever. Erich Baron, |—-one of the many done to death | behind the impenetrable prison | walls of the Third Reich, Hitler's | Germany | (TO RE CONTINUED) 1 | The Daily Worker's Weekly Film Guide Worth Seeing | || MOTHER—Splendid film of 1905 | Revolution—best in town. HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD — || Banditry glorified, but go and | see how it’s done. || TELL-TALE HEART—Excellent || British version of E. A. Poe. VIVA VILLA—Lively mixture of || distortion and reality. || WORLD IN REVOLT—Except in || America, of course. Confused | newsreel compilation. TWENTIETH CENTURY—John | Barrymore at his best. | WONDER BAR—AL JOLSON, || LITTLE MISS MARKER — | Shirley Temple—child wonder. SUCCESS STORY — From John Howard Lawson's play of same name. MEN IN WHITE — From the Group Theatre's play of medi- cal profession. CATHERINE THE GREAT — Featuring Elizabeth Bergner— Banned by Nazis. Stay Away S. A. MANN-BRAND — Vicious Nazi poison. I BELIEVE IN YOU—Anti-labor with a vengeance. STAND UP AND CHEER—Stu- | pefying N. 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