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Page Two Prosecutor Tries To Inject Race Hatred In Trial Ot Victory Negre’s Testimony Brings Out Clear Cut Char- acter of Vicious Frame-Up By A. B. (Special to the DETROIT, Mich., June MAGIL Daliy Worker) —Simply and unfalteringly James Victory, Negro gas station worker and world war veteran, framed on a charge of attacking and robbing Mrs. Carl Kaye, Southern-born white woman, today told in court the story of his life and gave an account of all his ments on the eve of Satur- day, May 12, when the crime is alleged to have been committed Victory’s testimony, given under the questioning of Maurice Sugar, noted labor attorney, retained by the International Labor Defense, move- Was one of the high points in a} trial remarkable for the complete- ness of the defense and the clear- eut character of the frame-up against him. Son of a full-blooded Indian farmer and a Negro slave, Victory told how he went to work at the age of seven. At 13 he was already a tinmer at the McKeesport Ti Plate Mill, McKeesport, Pa., wo ing there continuously for 10 years till he was drafted in the army. He | saw action on three fronts, the Ar- | gonne Forest, Chateau Thierry and the Hindenburg line, and went over the top three times His account of his movements on the night of May 12 corroborated in every detali the testimony of about 15 him. In relating what happened to | him after his arrest May 14, he told how a detective at the Con- nors St. Station had pointed a gun at him and threatened him, though he dixin’t even know what he had been arrested for. At the main po- lice headquarters a detective had said to him: “You black son of a bitch, if you don’t tell the truth, | Tl whip your head.” Attorney Sugar placed nine char- acter witnesses on the stand, most of them white, who testified to the high reputation Victory enjoyed in the community in which he worked. | Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Frank Schemanske, in cross-exami- nation, made several attempts to discredit Victory’s character, but failed. He tried to introduce the element of race prejudice by asking whether Victory hadn't once asked @ white woman whether she wouldn't hire him to clean her apartment. This question was ruled out when defense attorney Sugar vigorously objected. The prosecu- tion’s last stand proved to be a} boomerang. Schemanske called two dicks in an effort to disprove state- | ments of Victory and James Spain, Negro defense witness, that they had been terrorized by detectives. Sugar ironically asked one of the dicks “The police never point guns at prisoners, do they, they never in- timidate or beat them up, they never swear at them, do they?” The large crowd in the court- room laughed outright. “omorrow Sugar will make his plea, with Schemanske allowed a rebuttal, after which Judge Stein will charge the jury. The jury con- sists of six men and six women, largely middle class in composition. (Classified) NICE bright room all improvements one or two, 317 E. 18th St. Apt. Second Ave. Call all week 11-B, near Advertisement Carpenter Local Union 2090 hereby notifies all carpenters who have dropped out of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and also all carpenters who have never belonged to the Brother- hood that for the next two months they may join Local Union 2090 for the sum of five dollars initiation fee. Office of L. U. located at Labor Temple, 247 E. 84th St. N. Y. C., open every day from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Meetings of Local are held every Thursday at the same ad- fress. WHERE Our Comrades EAT RAPOPORT'’S DAIRY 4nd VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 93 Second Ave. N. Y. City BERMAE’S Cafeteria and Bar 809 BROADWAY Between 11th and 12th Streets — WORKERS WELCOME — NEW CHINA CAFETERIA Tasty Chinese and American Dishes PURE FOOD — POPULAR PRICES 848 Broadway tet. 13th & 14th st. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-3 P.M WILLIAM BELL————, OFFICIAL is OF THE ; Optometrist ire. 1 106 EAST Ith STREET Near Fourth Ave., N. witnesses who preceded | = Hatters To Talk Greenspan, Member Of Proletpen, Dies | Was Contributor to the| “Morning Freiheit” | NEW YORK.—J. Greenspan, al ented Jewish proletarian poet, aged | 32, died Tuesday at 9 p.m. of cancer after a prolonged illness. | Comrade Greenspan entered the ranks of proletarian writers eight years ago and had very soon after- | ward won the recognition of the Jewish revolutionary masses. He also showed great ability in the field of literary criticism. During all these years Comrade Greenspan was a contributor to the Morning Freiheit, Hammer, Signal and other | revolutionary publications. For} some time he was also on the edi- torial staff of the Morning Freiheit. He was a member of the Prolet-| | pen (Jewish Revolutionary Writers’ Union). He was co-author of a column of verse. He also made a masterly translation into the Yid-| | dish of the play “Gods of Light- ning.” A book of his latest works| is soon to be published by the) Proletpen. | His body will be at the Workers’ | | Center, 50 E. 13th St. N. ¥., at 10} a.m, today. The funeral will pro-| ceed from the Center at 1 p.m. | SLES ‘Taxi Leaders’ Trial Stopped by Judge; Continues Today NEW YORK—The 57th St. Mag-| istrates court was packed with taxi-| cab drivers and fleet owners yester- day morning when Judge Greenspan called the case of Samuel Orner, Joseph Gilbert and William Gan-| | dali, leaders of the Taxicab Drivers) Union of Greater New York, charged | with disorderly conduot and ob-| structing traffic for holding a meet-| ing\in front of Arthur’s 23rd Street | garage to protest against the firing of a union man. The judge adjourned the case} until 11 am. today on the grounds| that the court was filled with hack-/| men and that he did not want to be “intimidated.” Before the case was adjourned, Joseph Gilbert read the bosses/| paper, the Taxi Weekly, and pointed) out that the fleet owners, through their paper, were deliberately incit-| ing the police against union men. The Taxicab Drivers Union urged) drivers to be in court today. ‘Terms With Bosses, NEW YORK.—With the hatters’ | strike still going strong, the strike committee’ decided to accept an| | invitation of the hat manufac- | turers association to meet in con- | ference to discuss the demands of the workers. The meeting on Monday, which made the above decisions, also de- cided to call a strike relief con- ference of all labor organizations | in the city of NewYork, Thursday, j at 8 p. m., at Beethoven Hall, 210 E. Fifth Street. | Local 8, United Hatters of Amer- ica, has addressed a letter to all trade unions in New York, urging them to send two delegates each | to the conference. New England Farmers Demand Release of Thaelmann, Bloor HILLSBORO, N. H., June 26. — More than 75 farmers and their familes gathered here and passed resolutions demanding the release of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the erman Communist Party. and | Mother Bloor, now jailed in ~oup | City, Kansas. | Farm youth participated in s} tts, and speeches were made by flba Chase, Lewis Feur and John Korpeka, stressing the need for unity of workers and farmers in the fight against Wall Street. Steps to join in the fight for the Unem- ployment Insurance Bill and the Farmers Relief Bill were taken. A mass poem was read. The Daily Worker gives you full news about the struggle for unem- ployment insurance. Buy the Daily Worker at the newsstands. Three cents a copy. Dr. Maximilian Cohen Dental Surgeon 41 Union Sq. W., N. Y. C. | After 6 P.M, Use Night Entrance | 22 EAST 17th STREET Suite 703—GR. 17-0135 | DR. EMIL EICHEL i DENTIST ' | ' .» New York City) | . ATwater 9-8038 Hours: 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. 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TONIGHT—5:30! Some Vital Questions To Norman Thomas On The Milwaukee Strike (Continued from Page 1) power at its command on the side of the strikers. One would expect that a Socialist Party administratian, an administration which was elected as representing the interests of the working class of Milwaukee, would throw its support without any hesitation against the employers and in the interests of the striking workers. Certainly, there cannot be any doubt that if the Socialist Party Mayor and his administration were to act in this way, then the strength of the companies would be broken, the terrorism of the com- pany thugs completely defeated, and the strike would sweep quickly forward to victory. Certainly, it must be clear to every worker that if the Socialist Party administration of Milwaukee were to exercise all its powers to give full protection to the strikers on the picket lines, if this administra- tion exercised its legal power to swear in defense groups from the ranks of the pickets, if the administration would put its relief ma- chinery at the complete disposal of the strikers, then surely the em- ployers would be quickly brought to their knees. In short, if the Socialist Party officials running the Milwaukee government were to act now in the interest of the striking Milwaukee workers, these workers would immediately wrest from the employers the demands for which they are fighting. But exactly what is the Hoan administration of Milwaukee doing? In this strike it is doing exactly what every capitalist mayor is doing in every capitalist city of the country. It is doing what the “liberal” La Guardia is doing in New York, what the Republican Rossi is doing in San Francisco against the striking longshoremen. The Socialist administration of Milwaukee is using the govern- ment apparatus, the police, the courts, to break the strike of the Mil- waukee workers in order to protect the profits of the employers. It is therefore high time that Mr. Norman Thomas, recognized leader of the so-called “new left,” National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, answer a few pertinent questions. The workers of Milwaukee and of the whole country have a right to know what Norman Thomas has to say about the following: 1, Do you approve of the strike-breaking actions of Mayor Hoan? 2. Do you believe that the workers of Milwaukee are fighting for just demands and deserve the whole-hearted support of the Socialist Party administration? 3. Do you believe that it is the duty of a Socialist administration, of officials elected on a Socialist Party platform to protect the property and interests of the employers, and to act as strike-breakers? Are you not aware that it was precisely this policy of the German and Aus- trian Socialist parties that made possible the victory of fascism in these countries? 4. If you approve of the actions of Mayor Hoan will you state so publicly, or do you wish your silence to be considered as support of his policies? ‘ 5. If you disapprove of the actions of your colleague, Mayor Hoan, will you state so publicly, and will the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, which you control jointly with Mayor Hoan, take action against the Socialist Party administration of Milwaukee for its strike-breaking actions in the present strike? Perhaps the answers to these questions have already been | given by the Socialist Jewish Daily Forward, which stated that at the Detroit convention it was the “Old Guard” which won the vic- tory on every question that really counts, on the N. R. A. codes, on the relations of the Socialist Party to the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, etc. Very cynically the Socialist Daily Forward reveals the nature of the new “left” leadership by stating that whatever its victories at the De- troit convention, they mean little, for they concern only the “abstract, and distant future.” In addressing these questions to Mr, Norman Thomas, perhaps we should understand that the events of the Detroit convention merely reveal a division of labor between the Thomas fac- tion and the Waldman-Oneal faction, the better to placate the Socialist Party rank and file. The Communist Party will continue to mobilize all its energy to give every possjble support to the Milwaukee strikers. We appeal to all workers, to Socialist workers, especially to the Socialist workers in Milwaukee to join with us at once in the organi- zation of the widest possible united actions to assure victory to the Milwaukee strikers now struggling against the exploitation of their- capitalist employers, Sean Murray Sails for Ireland (Continued from Page 1) masses. They are beginning to un- derstand what the Irish who have climbed up into the ruling class in America have done by way of using their hatred of English imperialism to bind them to the service of the American imperialists. “A great beginning in organizing growing class-consciousness among the Irish workers of the U. S. has been made in the building of the Irish Workers’ Clubs. These can become the centers of political and social enlightenment.” The Irish revolutionary then spoke about the sharp polit- s ical situation to which he is return- ing in Ireland. There the forces of Fascism, aiming to become the Irish armed defenders of British im- perialism, are gathering, while at the same time the workers are seeking powerfully to organize themselves into militant trade unions, and a whole section of the Trish Republican Army has split off and ‘formed a militant, anti-im- perialist wing. “To carry on the revolutionary struggle in Ireland, we need espe- cially to have a strong press,” he said. “We must have the greatest support for our paper, the Irish Workers’ Voice. This has already been clearly seen by the revolution- ary Irish workers in America, and they have undertaken to raise here in America a $2000 fund for the Irish leader Workers’ Voice. “Chiselers!” Says McLevy of Jobless (Continued from Page 1) the City Hall. Giving various reasons for non-payment, “because there were chiselers and duplica- tion’ of lists,” he said it would have been some time before the workers would have been paid. Under the cross-examination of Kuntz, who asked: “Did you say to the men at City Hall that they would not get anywhere with a Communist demonstration?” Mc- Levy answered: “I don’t recall, but, if I did say it, I meant it. They had remained unpaid about two weeks. The city had no funds out of snow shoveling appropriations and there were many duplications on the lists that we had to eliminate to protect the people. “Although I knew that a delega- tion had been elected by the men at this time I did not consult the delegation. Other groups had come in, I gave them answers to the best of my ability,” McLevy continued, “and they left satisfied.” “Without money?” Kuntz asked. “Certainly, without money,” Mc- Levy emphatically replied. “Krieger was speaking to the men,” McLevy said, “when I came, preceded by policemen. I ordered Krieger off the stand and ex- plained why they were not paid. Krieger then got up and called them to remain for their pay. I again told the men they would not be paid, and Krieger again at- tempted to speak.” McLevy then said that he ordered the police to disperse them. When asked whether McLevy had directly told the crowd that Krieger had never worked a day in his life, McLevy replied: “I have never known Krieger to work,” and that “Krieger simply came to the City Hall to agitate the workers whether he was interested in them or not,” Throughout his testimony, Mc-| Levy referred constantly to unem- ployed workers who were employed by- the city as snow shovelers as “chiselers.” To the reason that the men were not paid for their work, and that some remain unpaid to this day, McLevy continually raised the charge of “chiselers” and duplication of lists, using the same name-calling of unemployed which } has been a prelude to attacks upon the jobless by the liberal La- Guardia Administration and Roose- velt. Following McLevy’s testimony, another cop, Captain O'Connell, showed how McLevy had given or- ders to the police which had precipitated the attack upon the unemployed. The remainder of the trial was a parade of police witnesses called by prosecutor Swain. A new note was injected when the prosecutor tried to show that Kreiger, while under arrest, had called upon work- ers to come to another meeting and to bring arms. Kreiger is now charg- ed with resisting arrest and with disorder, charges carrying as much as a two-year jail sentence. Capt. O'Connell set the tone to the entire trial when he said that Kreiger was arrested as a criminal and would be treated as a criminal. Five cops said that Kreiger slipped and was not knocked down. One de- tective admitted he kicked Kreiger while he was on the ground. An- other captain stated that there was not enough clubbing. Witnesses called by Juntz gave this testimony: J. Moros, unemploy- ed painter, had pay due. He was paid June 25 for work done in March. He graphically described police brutality. Mr. Russo, unem- ployed artist, stated that cops kicked and clubbed him because of this demonstration. He has joined the Communist Party. Trial adjourned to 10 a.m, tomorrow, Sow Gains Shavea 4h Celina (Continued from Page 1) your district. already passed. Your district’s qui tember Ist! . . Remember, ten days of the intensified drive have ota must be reached before Sep- Changes in Circulation by Districts Since May 31 Present Present Total Monday to Increase or Percentage DISTRICT Saturday Friday —‘Decrease over of Circulation Circulation May 81 Quote 1. Boston ....2....006 1736 959 —%8 2. New York City .... 17038 14088 294 29 3. Philadelphia . 3558 2047 281 28.1 4, Buffalo 810 489 — 40 5. Pittsburgh 1094 623 157 52.3 6. Cleveland 3323 1544 — 64 7. Detroit 4007 1608 198 19.8 8. Chicago 4913 3305 —358 9. Minnesota 1697 106 91 30.3 10. Kansas City ...... 427 236 — 1 14, North Dakota .... 526 234 1 12. Seattle 1441 791 62 113 13. California 1502 863 — 88 14. Newark .. 1359 1014 63 10.5 15. Connecticut .... 124 352 — 2 16. North Carolina , 193 ‘141 37 37.0 17. Birmingham ... 300 224 — 88 18. Milwaukee 819 441 31 15.5 19. Denver ... 731 407 93 46.5 20. Fort Worth 209 100 12 16.0 21. St. Louis .. » 342 268 51 34.0 “ 22. West Virginia ..., 138 85 4 53 23. Kentucky .. 73 56 — 46 24, Louisiana 101 17 —- 5 25. Florida .. 201 192 35, 43.8 26. South Dakota 171 31 Foreign 564 325 TOTALS ......... 48005 31206 672 3.4% * * * EDITOR'S NOTE: The first column shows the total circulation by districts of the Saturday edition. subscriptions. day to Friday editions by districts. This figure includes bundle orders, newsstand sales and The next column shows the average daily circulation of the Mon- The discrepancy between the total circula- tion, as shown in these two columns and the total dally press run as shown in the “ear” Special o: The press run eont: n the front page is due to the fact that the préss run included large lay bundle orders, whereas the table contain only permanent orders. unsold and returned copies, the tables only paid circula- tien. The following is the rule in regards to the column “Increase or Decrease”: It the total permanent daily increase in » district is 200 and besides this the district boosted its Saturday circulation by 600 the figure in the column would be 300 being the increase per day added to averaged over the week, the Saturday increase divided by 6, or The 9th Year of the International Labor-Defense By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER IN its nine years of life the I. L. D. has been of real service to the working class. Its militant mass campaigns over these years in sup- port of innumerable class war pris- oners have not only been an invalu- able aid in defending these prison- ers, but they have also done much to educate the workers not only re- garding the poisonous workings of capitalist class justice, but also the whole capitalist system of exploita- tion. Still greater tasks will confront the I. L. D. in the future than in the past. As capitalism deeper into crisis and the capital- ists turn more and more to fascist methods of violzace and: persscu- tion against the workers this will sinks! © inevitably mean more and more ar- rests of militant fighters. Hence the building and strengthening of the I. L. D. becomes of major im- portance to the effective struggle of the working class. McNamara and Schmidt The I. L. D. now has many cases to occupy its attention, what with the Scottsboro boys, Mooney, Hern- don and the many others, but there is one case that will have to be attended to much more energet- ically than in the past. This is the McNamara-Schmidt case. This case grew out of the bitter labor struggle in Los Angeles in 1910, As a result of the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building both men are doing life sentences. McNamara has already done 23 years and Schmidt 18. McNamara is the oldest political prisoner, in point of time served, of any in all the world. It is a great tragedy that these prisoners have been so much _ne- glected by the working class. They were betrayed and forsaken by the A. F. of L. leadership and even the revolutionary movement has not done its duty in mobilizing the workers for their release. McNamara’s plea of guilty has been greatly misunderstood. It was not his plan, but was put over in spite of his objection. In was in reality a brave, if mistaken, act. McNamara made it in the full be- labor movement and many mili- tants from disastrous blows. Dur- ing his many years in prison, Mc- Namara’s conduct has been splen- didly uncompromising. He has clearly demonstrated himself to be one of the very bravest and finest personalities ever produced by the class struggle in this country. It is an honor to fight in defense of such @ courageous proletarian battler as McNamara. Let us, therefore, from now on begin to rally the masses for the release of McNamara and Schmidt. We must force open the prison gates for these class war prisoners. To lead in this work is one of thé lief that he was thereby saving the \ 4 many great tasks confronting the LL.D Nazi Prosecutor ‘Tries Discount Plot To Kill Thaelmann (Continued from Page 1) world, Werner pretends that pres- ent Nazi intentions are to give Thaelmann a public trial, and to permit him to choose his own de- fense. On this latter point, the Nazi prosecutor synically adds “sub- ject to the judge’s approval.” Forced to reckon with the world- | wide conviction that the Nazi chiefs |have already ordered the passing of |the death sentence against Thael- mann, the Nazi prosecutor evades |the issue of the planned murder of Thaelmann, with the deceptive statement that crimes of treason “such as those Thaelmann are punishable prisonment for ten yeai Interview Is*Maneuver ‘The Werner interview is clearly intended by the fascist wire pullers to overcome the error in stage man- ith im- ago when Goebbels’ press gang let the cat out of the bag with flaring headlines: “Thaelmann’s bloody responsibility proved” eae! Eggeling, Hathaway at Thaelmann Meet Tonight BROOKLYN.—Theodor Eggeling, German anti-Nazi sailor rescued from a Nazi ship by the Interna- tional Labor Defense, will speak at a “Free Thaelmann” meeting to- night, 8 o'clock, at Queens Labor Lyceum, 785 Forest Avenue. The meeting will also be ad- dressed by Clarence Hathaway, edi- tor of the Daily Worker, and Otto Durick. It is called by the Anti- Fascist Action Committee. . 8 Anti-Nazi Pickets On Trial This Morning NEW YORK.—Three girls and five boys, all members of the Young Communist League, arrested Tues- day while picketing the Nazi Con- sulate, 17 Battery Park, will be tried this morning in First Division Mag- istrates’ Court, Center Street. Seven are charged with “disorderly con- duct and obstructing traffic.” The eighth is charged with “interfering with an officer.” All workers are urged to pack the court. Dt Protest Meeting in Harlem Friday Night NEW YORK.—A Free Thael- mann, anti-Jimcrowism meeting will be held this Friday evening at 125th Street and 7th Avenue by Unit 418 of the Harlem Section of the Communist Party. Speakers at the meeting will point out the con- nection between the fascist terror against German workers and Jews with the lynch terror and discrimi- nation against Negroes in this coun- try. The meeting will serve to spread the mass fight against Har- lem and other employers who re- fuse to hire Negroes. ere € Parade and Demonstration In Astoria Friday Night LONG ISLAND CITY.—A Free Thaelmann parade and demonstra- tion will be held in Astoria, L. 1., Friday night, starting at 7:30 from Jamaica and Steinway Aves. The demonstration is called jointly by the American League Against War and Fascism, the Communist Party, Sect. 10 of the International Labor Defense, the National Student League and a number of other or- ganizations. Bi at ae 3 Anti-Nazi Youths Held in $3,000 Bond BROOKLYN.—Three members of the Young Communist League, ar- rested in connection with the Free Thaelmann campaign, were ordered held on $1,000 bail each by Judge Sabatini. Williamsburg workers are holding a_ series of 13 open air meetings this week to protest this vicious attack and to further push the campaign against the Nazi murderers and their supporters in this country. mean Carpenters’ Local, A. F. L., Demands Thaelmann Freedom (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, June 27—The follow- ing resolution demanding the re- lease of Thaelmann and to be sent to Hitler was adopted by Carpen- ters Local 504 of the A. F. of L.: “We, the members of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 504, as- sembled at our regular meeting Monday, June 25, 1934, protest against the imprisonment and brutal treatment of Ernst Thael- mann and the anti-fascist prison- ers in Germany. “We demand the immediate and unconditional release of Ernst Thaelmann and the anti-fascist prisoners. “We demand the abolition of the murderous ‘People’s Court,’ which offers no defense whatever to anti- fascists. “We demand a public trial for Thaelmann with lawyers and wit- nesses of his own choice.’ We de- mand safe conduct into and out of Germany for such lawyers and wit- nesses, “We demand that physicians se- lected by his friends be permitted to treat Thaelmann. “We demand that committees from other countries be allowed to visit him. “We further demand that all ter- ror against anti-fascists in Germany be immediately stopped.” Harvard Anti-Fascist Students Sentenced; Appeal Planned (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass. June 27.— Seven anti-fascists who demon- strated at Harvard, Thursday against Hanfstaengl were sen- tenced to thitry days by Judge Green in East Cambridge District Court today. Two girls, Nora Burke and Shelah Shugru, were fined fifty dollars. Sentences are being appealed. Hearing on the appeal of the workers and students sentenced for participating in the demon- charged against | agement committed several weeks | | stration against the Nazi warshij “Karlsruhe,” has been set for ne; Monday in the Charlestown cor A demonstration to demand freedom of Thaelmann and local anti-fascist defendants been called for Monday. Se eS Free Thaelmann Demon- stration in Philadelphia Saturday PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—Pla cards demanding the freedom ‘Thaelmann, cessation of the perseej cution of Jewish people and antt. iv fascist fighters, flashed from aléiiy most every subway and “el” trai today, brining the message of anti-fascist fight to several hune dred thousand Philadelphia worke ers. Saturday at 6 p.m., a huge Fre@! Thaelmann demonstration will be held at Germantown and Lehigh Aves., in the heart of a local Nazi community. Arrangements have been mad for an anti-fascist broadcast ove WPEN Tuesday and Thursday | nights at 8:30 o’clock. Speakers will be F. Hellmann and Harry Wicks. The Free Thaelmann Committee of the John Reed Club has ar- ranged a symposium on fascism for Sunday night, July 1, at the club headquarters, 136 South 8th St. Delegation Visits Nazi Consulate A delegation from the District Committee of the International Workers Order called on the Nazi Consul here Tuesday with a reso- lution protesting the Hitler terror and demanding the freedom of Thaelmann. The Consul refused to accept the resolution, because, he said, it was not written in “polite language.” The delegation retorted that this language was the only kind available when dealing with murderers convicted before world opinion. So far 19 branches, youth and adult, of the I.W.O. have sent protest delegations. Danger Acute, Says Thaelmann Lawyer (Continued from Page 1) Torgler, and the other Reichstag defendants. You can force the re< lease of Thaelmann—but there is no other way.” Dr. Rosenfeld explained why he has come to America. “I came to act as a witness or expert on the state of justice in Germany,” he said. “I have been sent by the International Inves- tigating Committee in Paris, which is cooperating with the International Committee to Aid Victims of Ger- man Fascism. “T shall participate in the meet- ings of an investigating commis- sion, consisting of prominent law- yers and others, which has given itself the task of finding out what is actually happening in Germany. “I shall show before this commis- sion why the Hitler government has appointed the so-called ‘People’s Courts,’ which will begin to function on July 2, with Ernst Thaelmann as one of their first victims. I shall show that Thaelmann and all those who come before this court are in extreme danger of their lives.” Dr. Rosenfelt, a member of the Social-Democratic Party since long before the war, was expelled from the party for voting as a Reichstag deputy against the building of the first German cruiser. After being for a period a member of the So- cialist Labor Party, he resigned from that, and now claims no party affiliations, He was one of those disbarred, deprived of citizenship, and of all property soon after the Nazis came to power. Since then he has lived in Paris, conducting a press service in French and German _ reporting events on Nazi Germany. « we ae NEW YORK—Aaron J. €utler, attorney, will act as master of cere- monies at the pubile banquet in Hotel Gotham Thursday night in honor of distinguished European and British witnesses who are to testify before the American Inquiry Commission which, on July 2 in the N. Y. County Lawyers’ Association, 14 Vesey St., begins an investigation of conditions in Hitler Germany. Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, former Min- ister of Justice of the State of Prus- sia, will discuss succintly the new “People’s Court” law by méans of which prisoners are to be rushed to execution, chief among them being Ernst Thaelmann, leading anti-fas- cist fighter, and Ernst Torgler, ac- quitted defendant in the Reichstag fire trial. Arrangements are being com- pleted to broadcast the program. Board Aids Thugs In Dockers’ Strike (Continued from Page 1) picketing on Friday and the im- mediate calling of a general strike. Two locals of the A. F. of L. have already endorsed the general strike call. The Central)Labor Council at its last meeting was forced to hear and discuss proposals for the gen- eral strike offered by the Unem- Ployed Citizens’ League. Roy Hudson, speaking yesterday at Local 3876 of the I. L. A. in Everett and at meetings of long- shoremen in “Seattle, was received with great applause. He warned the men to beware of Ryan’s agree- ment. The longshoremen supported Hudson's call for a national unity conference of marine workers to be held in Baltimore, Sept. 1 and 2. At both meetings at which Hud- Son spoke resolutions weré adopted demanding the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned German Communist leader. The longshore= men sent a delegation to the Ger- ton: Consul to present the resolu- BENJAMIN SPEAKS IN BROOKLYN Herbert Benjamin, national ot of the Unemployment Councils, will speak at a mass meeting to protest bru- tality and for H. R. 7598 at the Young Men's Hebrew Association, Broadway and Rodney Strects, Brooklyn, tonight, 8 p.m. Keep informed of the world-wide struggles by the working class cism and war by reading the Daily Worker. Buy it at the newsstands. Three cents a copy, t