The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 6, 1934, Page 6

Page Six 4- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1934 Dail & ' WEDTERL One SOTRIETTT PADTY BSA (SECTION OF CONMHMNIST MITEREATIONN) yQWorker “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 18th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. iT ddres ‘Daiwork New York, N. Y. Wecninnton muiest Room 954, National Press Building. n c. at ti 1 7910. l4th and F St., W ton, D. Telephone: Na ional Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 705, Cheago, Ml. Telephone: Dearborn 3931 Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except nhattan and Bronx), 1 year, 96.00 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 month, 0.75 cents. Manhattan, Bronx eign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 8 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1934 Towards Victory in the Strike HE textile strike is gaining tremendous momentum. On a strike front of about 1,800 miles over 300,000 workers of a total of 658,200 are already out, according to the estimates of the United Textile Work- ers officials. The Associated Press, which gets its figures from the bosses, claims around 200,000 are out. From these figures and facts arise the most im- portant problems facing every member of the Com- munist Party in the textile areas. The first real day of the strike saw about half of the workers out. But the movement must go on now more swiftly. Mills must be shut down rapidly and the strike made one hundred per cent effective. How can this be done? Certainly itis not. suffi- cient for Gorman and company to burn up the telegraph wires. The job must be done in the. mill towns and at the mill gates. ‘ In many sections of the country. the textile workers are taking a leaf from the experiences. of the great coal and steel strike and the auto strikes. ‘They are not only throwing mass picket lines around the mills only partially shut or slightly affected, but they are sending out flying mass picket squadrons and motorcades from mill.to mill, utilizing pickets from mills that are shut tight to help the workers at mills that have not yet been completely pulled out. Over this wide area from the extreme North in Maine to the South in Georgia and Alabama every district of the Party in the textile region, every section, every unit, every Party member and sym- pathizer, must immediately be plunged into the chief task—closing down every textile mill in the country. Every unit of the Party should immediately pick out the weak spots, assign itself specific mills and work and carry it out with the greatest boldness, firmness, determination and energy. It is in this way that the Communist Party will help the textile workers increase the picket lines and the whole fighting ability of the textile strikers and win vic- tory in the strike. Francis T. Gorman, in his Washington office, declares that by the end of the week at least 85 per cent of the industry will be “tied up tight as a drum.” This can be made a reality only by the most persistent action of the textile workers them- selves, by the most intensive organization and ac- tivity, not in Washington, but around the mills in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ala- bama, Georgia and elsewhere And that is now the. chief role of the Communist Party in the textile areas. Where the battle is sharpest, and most difficult, where the greatest ‘work must be done, that is where the forces of the Communist Party must play the most important role. We must make it clear to the textile workers that the Communist Party membership is the most determined fighter for the effectiveness and victory of the strike, and that can be done only by the most energetic work. In this respect, the Daily Worker can play a tremendous role in the strike. Up to date, it has not been sufficiently utilized. Since the beginning of the strike an additional 10,000 copies of the Daily Worker have been ordered and distributed in the strike regions. This must be greatly multiplied. Not only does the Daily Worker carry the best news on the strike, but it is the most effective agitator and organizer in the interest of the textile workers. It must become one of the most powerful Weapons of every Party member working in the textile strike. N6t a single Communist participating in the strike should go out on the picket lines, or among the textile workers without copies of the Daily Worker. What the Daily Worker can do and say to the textile worker about the whole significance of his struggle, the forces involved, and the tasks of win- ning the strike, cannot be accomplished by short contact or conversation with the workers. We cannot assume the self-satisfaction of Gorman when he says: “Victory is assured at this hour.” We know the forces involved. The textile bosses are stocked up, and have dug in for a bitter battle. The various government forces, national, state and local, have their strike-breaking forces in the field, Troops are already out in some states. The major-— ity of the strikers are not yet out. All sorts of maneuvers are being talked of, maneuvers which can only lead to sell-out arbitration. The greatest tasks lie ahead, the greatest tests of the fighting ability of the textile workers, and most especially, of the Communist Party member- ship. Victory can be assured by the greatest mo- bilization of the textile workers for a 100 per cent strike! Victory can be assured if the Communist Party, from districts to units, plunge all their forces into the struggle as they never have done before. Victory can be insured if the fighting organ of the workers, the Daily Worker, can be put into the hands of tens of thousands of strikers. The strike has had an enthusiastic, billiant be- ginning. The textile workers are fighting courage- ously and well. We must now mobilize our whole Party to speed this fight and to become an impor- tant factor in winning a complete victory for the demands of the textile workers, 4,000 Furriers Win E week. That’s how long it took 4,000 New York fur trimmers to win one of the most outstanding and sweeping strike victories of the year. Led by the Fur Workers Industrial Union, a militant trade union affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, these 4,000 workers struck shop after shop until they had completely halted the operation of 400 fur trim- ming establishments. The tie-up was so complete and the picketing $0 militant that not a wheel turned. And there were no prospects for the shops to. begin operation until the manufacturers conceded to the demands of the union. Just one week after the workers walked out, the i Fur Trimming Manufacturers’ Association agreed to grant the workers’ demands. An agreement was signed, It provided for recognition of the union, the 25-hour week, an unemployment insurance fund of 114 per cent of the weekly payroll to be paid by the bo: and administered by a commit- tee of unemployed workers. It grants eight legal holidays a year, eliminates the contracting evil and calls for an equal sion of work during four months of the slack pe! The workers are hty proud of this agree- ment. And they have every right to be so. It is a tremendous victory—the kind that can be won only through the application of militant rank and file trade union strategy and tactics. The strike was called after the manufacturers, from whom the union had previously won an agree- ment, refused to negotiate a new agreement. The bosses chose to sign with the International Fur Workers Union of the A. F. of L., a union which does not represent the fur workers and which the manufacturers prefer to deal with because it does not fight for the interests of the workers. “Naturally the manufacturers prefer to deal with the American Federation of Labor,” said Emil K. Ellis, attorney for the Manufacturers’ Associ- ation. “We entered into a contract with the A. F. of L. at the start of the year, agreeing to employ only workers belonging to its union. But we dis- covered that the left wing union still dominated the industry.” This strike victory answers the scurillous propa- ganda appearing in the capitalist pressrabout “reds seizing control of strikes.” A hired lackey of the capitalist class, Fred Pas- ley, writing on the textile strike in the New York Daily News on September 4, makes the following observation on “reds” and strikes which he and his editors no doubt think is extremely profound: “If the reds seize control, as they did in San Francisco, it is a foregone conclusion that public opinion will step into the dispute on the side of the manufacturers.” How preposterous are Mr. Pasley’s remarks in face of this sweeping victory of the left wing fur- riers union. It was not “public opinion” that broke the San Francisco strike. The reactionary A. F. of L. officials did the trick—naided, of course, by the N. R. A, the troops, police and gangsters. The furriers won their strike because Commu- nists .were outstanding in the leadership, because the strike was militant, because all questions of the strike were finally decided by the rank and file and not by a bureaucratic reactionary clique of A. F. of L. top officials, nor by N. R. A. arbitration boards. Capitalist Violence S THE great textile strike approaches the fourth day, it is all too apparent that all the usual instruments of capital- ist terrorism are being prepared to smash the picket lines and-crush the strike. Already the National Guard has been used to attack the strikers in Georgia. Reports from New England and Pennsylvania reveal heavy mobilization of police and hired thugs. And as preparation for open terrorism, the capi- talist. press in every city is gradually sounding louder and louder the typical provocations to vio- lence against the strike with screaming headlines about “strike riots” and “bomb rumors.” Against all this advancing violence against the textile workers, the U.T.W. officials are making no real preparations for defense, * 'HE textile strikers want bread for their families and an end to the killing speed-up. In answer, the government, with its police and National Guard beyonets, is getting ready to shed the blood of the workers in defense of the em- Pployers’ fat profits and investments. The striking textile workers can meet and de- feat this terrorism. The first step is to close all the mills, making the strike 100 per cent effective with mass picketing in front of every mill. The organization of mass defense groups in- volving all workers in turn should be begun at once on every picket line. The election of rank and file strike committees to take charge of all the picket and strike activities should be started at once, Every attempt to mobilize the broadest united front on the picket lines should be begun, includ- ing the joining of the picket lines by the unem- ployed, by the families of the strikers and by all active sympathizers in every textile center. The threat of violence in the strike comes not from the workers, but from the employers and their government. The whole toiling population should be drawn in to denounce the government terrorism. The textile workers will neither be provoked nor cowed by capitalist terrorism! By discipline and unity, with the support of the entire working class of the-country, with the strike decisions in their own hands, they will sweep forward to victory over all slanders, lies, trickery, and terrorism! TheStrike Sweeps Forward! eo: the textile employers : spokes- man, says the strike is a “fizzle.” But it is a peculiar kind of strike fizzle” that has paralyzed the entire New England textile industry, is sweeping forward to close the biggest mills in the East and in the South. It is a peculiar “fizzle” that starts out, despite all the dilatory, ham-stringing tactics of the U.T.W. officials and their utterly inadequate strike prepara- tion, with 600,000 out in the first two days, and with 60,000 new strikers out within 24 hours after. The fact which Sloan, the textile employers and the capitalists are trying to hide from the strikers and the working class is the tremendous power of the strike sweep which gains, momentum every hour! The strike is spreading like wildfire! Striking workers moving in flying squadrons from mill to mill are mobilizing the workers who still remain in the mills for lack of militant leadership to call them out. And in every case the workers in the mills respond with joy and enthusiasm to the strike call of their fellow workres. The stories from the great textile centers like Gastonia, Charlotte, Fall River, New Bedford, prove that. Not only.that. Workers in the allied industries “like dye, silk, wool, cotton, and clothing are strain- ing to join their fellow workers now out. The Pater- son workers are already out, overriding all the ob- jections of their union officials. The clothing offi- cials are compelled to talk of a general strike in the industry, so great is the fighting eagerness of the workers in the unions, No defeatist lies of the employers or their hired press can talk away the growing force of the walk- out. This defeatist talk is a maneuver to demo- ralize the strikers that will be laughed to scorn by the militant confidence of the strikers and the working class. Close every mill! Form mass picket lines! Make the strike 100 per cent effective! Form united front of all textile workers regardless of union affilia- tion! Organize defense groups and relief! The strike is ‘Sweeping forward! Lies Entangle —STRAIGHT FOR THE GOAL! Anti-U.S.S.R. Press in East Japanes e-Manchurian Press Caught By Its Own Contradictions MOSCOW, Sept. 5 (By Wireless) Lies concerning a train wreck on the Southern branch of the Chinese Eastern Railway on Aug. 31, are being manufactured by the Jap- anese-Manchurian press to further its provocative campaign against the Soviet Union. -e Kokutsu, Japanese news agency in Manchuria, notorious for its absurd attacks upon the U.S. 8. R charges that the bandits who at- tacked the train wore armbands bearing the inscription in Chinese “Friends of the U.S. 8. R.” This new invention of the Jap- anese press was preceded by fables that Manchurian bandits were op- erating’ upon the “secret, instruc- tions” of a “partisan detachment staff of the Far Eastern Red Army.” The Kokutsu agency, in reporting the victims of this particular bandit raid, carefully concealed the fact that Soviet citizens were severly in- jured. The Japanese-Manchurian press has become completely entangled in its own slanderous campaign against the U. 8S. S. R. On the one hand, the Japanese press reports that the bandits are sent secret instructions, and on the other that they are given armbands | bearing the inscription: “Friends of | the U.S. S. R.” | The Kokutsu agency must be! aware of the true identity of the| so-called “Friends of the U. 8S, S. R,,” and the reasons why they | demonstrate their “friendship” by | attacking trains on a railway be- longing to the U. S. S. R.; killing and kidnaping Soviet citizens. The real culprit, responsible for train wrecks and bandit attacks on the C. E. R., is easily found. The staff of the Manchurian guard | troops, to whom the C, E. R. man- agement addressed an inquiry re- garding the safety‘ of traffic on the Southern branch of the ralway,| found it possible not to reply to tha | inquiry. In view of this fact the manage- ment of the railway, with the ob- ject of safeguarding traffic, had to give orders to discontinue night traffic on the Southern branch. Of interest, also, is the fact that Reuters, the British news agency, has now concluded an agreement with the Kokutsu agency for mu- | tual exchange of news, taking upon | itself theerby the mission of dis-| seminating in Europe the anti- Soviet slanderous inventions of the Japanese-Manchurian agency, 150 Bulgarian Soldiers Face Court Martial NEW YORK.—According to tele- graphic reports from Sofia, on Aug. 15 of this year a new trial was begun in Plovdiy—150 soldiers were brought before the court-martial and accused of having participated in the preparation for Aug. 1, Anti- War Day, The prosecution is de- manding that death sentences be passed against all the 150 soldiers, This is an exceptional trial even for Bulgaria where numerous trials | against soldiers haye taken place. | The trial is at the same time,| however, a proof that in spite of| the horrible persecutions and the | death sentence en masse, ever larger groups of soldiers are join- ing the anti-war movement. The “unified” Bulgarian press up to now has not published any infor- mation whatsoever about this trial. In spite of the open military- fascist. dictatorship, this year the Anti-War Day in Bulgaria was very effectively conducted. Communica- | tions in the press report on meet- | ings in many towns and villages | (notwithstanding the prohibition and police attacks), on demonstra- tions (as in Khissara), and on the| mass circulation of illegal anti-war leaflets—among which there were also leaflets of the Bulgarian Red Aid (as in the town of Burgas). The most important issue of the moment is the speediest activity to save the defendant soldiers in Plov- div, as well as also all the other anti-war and anti-fascist militants who have been sentenced to death in Bulgaria, The International La- | bor Defense therefore calls upon all toilers to immediately begin protest activities in order to save the sol- diers who are in danger of death! | France Moves To Save Mines. In Saar Region | PARIS, Sept. 5.—Sharpened con- flict over the Saar between France and Germany has resulted from the French memorandum issued yes- terday, demanding a Franco-Ger- man understanding on payment for the French-owned mines, in the event Hitler is victorious in the Saar Plebiscite on January 13. The memorandum states that the French government demands pay- ment in full for the mines, and the Payment must be made in gold. Otherwise, says the memorandum, the French will not pérmit the Hit- ler government to take over the Saar no mgtter what the result of the plebiscite. ¢ PLAN RELIEF CUT IN CANADA TORONTO, Canada, Sept. Cuts of five cents a day in food lowance for each person on the re- lief lists, and a 15 per cent. cut in| both rent and clothing allowances | have been asked of all Manitoba cities by the Provincial Minister of Relief here, made direct investments of $1,154,- |Tuptcy of these banks only $415,000 by Burck Nicaraguan Canal Planned In Roosevelt War Program A Recent Naval ‘“‘Games”| Were Meant to Spur War Construction By SAMUEL WEINMAN The Roosevelt administration used the recent naval maneuvers as @ lever for raising Wall Street's naval strength. All of the war “games,” practice engagements and “defenses” were deliberately de- signed to make it appear that the U. S. Navy was inadequate for pro- tection against invasion. Thanks to the cooperation and publicity fur- nished by the capitalist press, the Way was paved for Navy-Second- to-None Swanson to embark on a schedule of twenty-four new war- ships for 1936, including an aircraft carrier, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines, Passage of the entire fleet through | the Panama Canal was one of the chief spearheads in the campaign for gigantic armaments. The Navy Department boldly broadcast its plan to transfer the whole fieet| from the Pacific to the Atlantic in| 48 hours. Now, no one in the Navy’s| Intelligence Office believed that the} immense chain of vessels could be | shoved through the canal in 48 hours. In fact every well-informed professional militarist knew it was impossible. New Canal Wanted Why then did the Navy set itself this herculean task? The answer is simple. Because the test required considerably more than the sched- uled 48 hours, as the naval authori- ties foresaw, the jingoists in the Roosevelt administration were able to raise a howl for the improve- ment of the Panama Canal and the construction of a canal through Nicaragua. In a frenzied effort to~mobilize a maximum force on an interna- tional scale for the swiftly ap- proaching imperialist war the Roosevelt, regime has ordered “full speed ahead” to fulfill a three- cornered scheme that has been Scores of years in the making. The U. S. Army has completed plans, first, for a third set of locks through the Panama Canal at a cost of $140,000,000; second, the transformation of the Panama Canal to a sea level canal at an expense of $1,000,000,000; third, the construction of a canal through Nicaragua from Brito to Greytown at a cost of $722,000,000. Canals Meant For War Use While army officials try to hide behind a fake need for a canal on a business basis, they cannot con- ceal the fact that traffic through the Panama Canal in 1931 amount- ed to 50 per cent of capacity. Today canal traffic is far below the 1931 level. Since the Nicaragua canal will meet no commercial require- ments, why are the army and navy men rushing plans for construc- tion? The U. §. Army Interoceanic Canal Board in a report to Con- gress answered the question bluntly, declaring that “national defense (read imperialist war) affords an impelling reason for a second isth-| mian canal. The prospective theater | of operations of the future naval operation of the United States can- not be confined to either the At- Jantic or the Pacific Oceans. . .. It is necessary that our naval forces have sure oceanic passage through the American isthmus.” Canal Site Chosen in 1825 Besides, the professional war makers add, the Nicaragua canal will cut the present sailing time by one and one-half days, In ad-| dition a second canal will insure | continued operation during war in| the event of one canal being wrecked by an air raid or an earth- quake, The present drive towards realiz- ing the plans for the Nicaragua canal is not new. As early as 1825 an American company contracted to build a canal through Nicaragua. In 1849 an American diplomat ac- quired exclusive canal rights for the United States. Since then hardly a presidential administra- tion passed without making some move to forward the Nicaragua canal project. Acquired Naval Base In anticipation of the outbreak Strategic Importance of Two Canals in Case of War Is Cited perialism in 1914 saddled Nicaragua with a treaty providing that the United States would pay a paltry $3,000,000 for, first, exclusive pro- prietary rights in perpetuity for the construction of an interoceanic canal; second, a 99-year renewable lease on the Corn Islands for naval stations; and, third, the right to establish a naval base on any ter- ritory bordering on the Gulf of Fonseca that the United States may select, Former President Zelaya, oppos- ing the canal agreement, soon dis- covered what other Latin American politicians have learned. Wall St. organized and financed a revolu- tion to oust Zelaya and install a pliable puppet. The American ma- rines were sent against Sandino principally to safeguard the canal for American imperialists. Under the veil of the “good neighbor policy” Roosevelt is only advancing American-Nicaragua re- lations of the past century to the logical conclusion of bearing fruit. At this very moment U. S. Army surveyors and engineers are busy in Nicaragua, Actually 19 different canal routes have been considered through Mexico, Costa Rica, Pan- ama, Colombia, and Nicaragua. But the period of deliberations is over. The Roosevelt administration has definitely determined to build a canal from Brito to Greytown. It is certain that F. D, Roosevelt will meet ahy resistance with bayo- nets after the manner of his name- sake and predecessor Theodore Roosevelt, who raped Colombia of the Panama Canal and then “told Congress about it.” It is equally certain that Nicaraguan workers and peasants will put up the same stiff fight that they showed under Sandino’s leadership, but this time there will be no Sandino to mis- lead them. Now they are prepar- ing to follow a genuinely anti-im- perialist and revolutionary leader- ship, the leadership of the Com- of the World War, Wall Street im-munist Party, Banks Received Billions in Aid (Continued from Page 1) 000,000 in the preferred stock of banks with weak capital structures in order to protect the capital in- vestment of the stockholders. In addition the R.F.C, has made direct loans to industrial cor- porations for industrial purposes amounting to $20,000,000. Under Roosevelt the bondholders and stockholders of railroads have received benefits amounting to $421,000,000 with only 14 per cent repaid to date, the report showed. Bank Insurance iJ Speaking of the much-vaunted insurance plan to protect bank depositors, the Richberg report de- liberately evades any mention of the information made . public by Controller O'Connor to the effect that more than $2,500,000,000 of small bank deposits have been per- manently wiped out by the capital- ist_bank crisis. Richberg contents himself with mentioning that at present four small banks with a total deposit | liability of only $1,410,000 are now) getting insurance payments. Of the | total deposits involved in the bank-| Textile Strikers Win Back Relief (Continued from Page 1) away from the Bibb mill number 1 at Macon, Ga, Atlanta Mill Offers Raise ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 5—The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills here today offered a 10 per cent pay rise to its workers in an effort to stem the rapidly growing strike sentiment. which is spreading throughout the entire «district. An army of spies and _ stool- pigeons has been let loose among the workers in an effort to stop the persistent organization of the union which is going on. The greatest terrorism against all union activities exists in the company mill village nearby. C. P. Issues Strike Bulletin DANVILLE, Va., Sept. 5—The tex- tile workers in the large Riverside and Schoolfield mills yesterday re- ceived copies of the bulletin issued by the Communist Party urzing the workers to join the nation-wide textile strike. The bulletin, which will be is- sued regularly every month as the that many workers here are embit- tered by the treachery of the U.T.W. officials who sent the workers back to the mills after the last strike with no demands won. It urges the workers to elect their own rank and file strike committees to prevent this from happening again, and calls for immediate strike action in on strike, Tear Gas in Augusta AUGUSTA, Ga., were used against the workers. More State Troops Called COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 5.—Ad- the governor of South Carolina, Bayonets Used On Strikers textile workers. | Eight Jailed in Macon | MACON, Ga., Sept. has been paid back to the depositor, or Jess than 30 per cent, . shop paper in the mills, points out to open the solidarity with the other mills out Sept. 5,—The strikers militancy flared high here today following a police attack in which tear gas and smoke bombs ditional state troops were called out against the strikers here today by GREER, S. C., Sept. 5.—Troops with fixed bayonets charged work- ing men and women here who were trying to spread the strike of the 5.—Eight | Workers were arrested and over twenty warrants were issued for the arrest of other union workers fol- lowing a clash which developed | when the manufacturers attempted mills, On the | World Front By HARRY GANNES. | Seven Speeches; One Letter from Fascist Germany The Nuremberg Congress VERSHADOWING every thing, overshadowing Hit- ler and his seyen scheduled |speeches at the Nuremberg | Fourth Congress of the Nazis, | will be the spectre of the | 7,700,000 officially admitted | opposition votes to fascism in the plebiscite, Even in the ranks of the decle mated Storm Troops the class bate tle against fascism is shaking the Hitler regime, and leading jto enlarged repetition of bl 30th, . EVEN speeches by Hitler body else will not be feed the starving millions i many this winter. An inkling™)° what the German masses face th..* winter is outlined by the New York Times Berlin financial corresponds ent, Robert Crozier Long, in an article in Current History entitled “The Real Crisis in Germany.” | There he speaks of the onrushing | inflation which would “cause a na- | tional panic,” resulting in the urban | population “suffering doubly— thru | shortage of food and thru loss of employment.” “Drought,” he says, “has reduced the German crop of 1934 to 75 per cent of 1933,” and “Nazi policy aggravated this trouble by making it difficult to import food | and fodder from abroad.” By way of the Saar, we have just received an interesting letter from a German worker about how the Communist Party conducted its | propaganda in Berlin against Hitler in the plebiscite. We quote the let- ter in full: oheg Het 3 “NO FOREST of flags could weak- en the tremendous impression made by the brilliant activities of anti-fascist workers in every part of Berlin, and especially in the workers’ districts. “In spite of the innumerable patrols sent out by the police, Storm Troops and Guard Corps, | the anti-fascist workers were inde- jfatigably at work during the last | few nights before the plebiscite. In | hundreds of places the fences, pave- ments, and house walls have been | painted with red lettering: ‘No votes |for Hitler, the. murderer of the workers!’'—‘A vote for Hitler is a vote for the catastrophe!’ — ‘Red Berlin gives its reply to the bloody chancellor: No! No! No!’—'The Red Front Fighters League Lives!’ — ‘Release the workers’ candidate for the presidency, Ernst Thaelmann!’ —Release the political prisoners!’, and many other slogans. In some places there were even red ban- ners with anti-fascist slogans. The whole city was covered with stick- ers, which were continually being removed, but as continually reap- peared, instigated a savage hunt for the bill-stickers and painters (our com- rades were joined by many social democratic workers in this work, which was carried out with the ut- most daring). The emergency squads dashed through the streets in the police lorries, with drawn revolvers and carbines, and fired on workers whom they suspected of having posted bills. Many non- participant passers-by were injured by this wild firing. “During the night from Saturday to Sunday, large detachments of police, Storm Troops and Guard Corps held the streets. They pushed their way into the workers’ houses in Wedding, Neukolin, Friedrichs- hain, Lichtenberg, etc., and arrested thousands of workers. Soe Feb “WHE pressure put on voters in Berlin, and according to our information in all other parts of the country, is beyond description. Early in the morning the drive com- menced by the Storm Troops, Guard Corps, and Hitler Youth, against the non-voters. These bands march- ed through the streets everywhere, shouting in chorus, threatening slo- gans against the ‘traitors’ to the state and the nation who remain at home, or vote with ‘no. They even made ‘tests,’ unexpectedly en- tering houses and demanding to know if and when the inhabitants had been to the poll, One of their slogans, shouted in chorus, was: ‘Listen, Communists and Marxists! To the wall with traitors to the people, the No voters.’ “Large bodies of selected Storm Troopers and Guard Corps stood in front of all the polling booths. When workers arrived, the Nazis told them: ‘You needn't think that you can yote a single ‘no’ without our knowing it. We shall arrest all you swine if there is as much as one ‘no’ vote cast in our polling booth.’ “In many districts we organized our own illegal control system, and kept a close watch for falsifications. Our calculations enabled us to as- certain that this time three to four times as many ‘no’ votes weze cast as at the last election. It is inter- esting to note that many workers remained in the polling cell for several minutes, careless of the Nazis waiting outside, and wrote down sentences on their voting pa- per, stating the real opinion of the people with regard to the Hitler dic- tatorship. When the Nazis noticed that this was going on, they spied on the voters through holes in the curtains. In some cases workers were arrested and maltreated after leaving the polling booths. A char- acteristic fact is that foreign re- porters were refused admission by the ‘protective guards,’ who made threatening observations against the foreign press. “Mass arrests have also been made in most of the cities of Gere many, in Hamburg, Essen, Dorte mund, Ludwigshafen, etc.” “The police and the fascist bands ; °